The Sun. — London, England, 1834-08-16 00:00:00

NEW AND FORMIDABLE ENGINE OF DESTRUCTION. We were yesterday favoured by Charles Toplis, Esq., of the Museum of National Manufactures, Leicester square, with a private inspection of a warlike engine, re cently invented by him, which for its formidable powers of destruction appears unparalleled in the history of civilized countries. According to the views of the talented inventor of the death-dealing machine, it is calculated to prevent nations from engaging in war, by rendering armed multitudes powerless against any people disposed to defend themselves ; a few men being competent, with this auxiliary power, to annihilate the largest army that could be collected. The engine is so portable that without its casing it may be carried by two men, and, mounted upon its proper carriage, it may be moved with celerity into any situation where horses or men can go. It is ready for action in a moment, and can be made at will to pour out, for any desired time, a continuous stream of bullets, which can be directed towards any point or object, with the same facility as the stream of water from a fire-engine, and with perfect pre cision, whilst the men who direct it are sheltered in entire security. Before we had an opportunity of examining this terrific engine, we must confess that we were rather sceptical on the subject of the extraordinary powers attributed to it by the inventor ; but the distinct explanation given by Mr. Toplis of its mode of action, the simplicity of its construction, the facility with which it is worked, and the perfect adaption of all its mechanical arrangements to the purpose intended, completely removed our doubts, and satisfied us that a few such implements, properly managed, would soon effect the destruction of as nume rous an army as Napoleon marched into Russia. With respect to the principle of the machine, we shall only ob serve that the propulsion of the balls is effected by the agency of the gases evolved during the gradual combustion of gunpowder, and that the application of this power is so entirely at the command of the operator, that the discharge of the balls can be suspended or renewed without A mo ment's loss of time. The apparatus has been examined by Dr. Birkbeck, and other scientific gentlemen, who have given a decidedly favourable opinion of its efficacy ; and Mr. Toplis, the inventor, looks forward with so much con fidence to the moral influence which this new and mighty power must exercise upon the world, by rendering war a trade too dreadful to be undertaken, that he has denomi nated his engine " the Pacificator." RIOT AT STROUD. A serious riot took place at Stroud on Tuesday, the second day of the polling in that district, and much injury was done to the George Inn, a Blue house, in the way of breaking the windows, and damage to the doors. It appears from the reports in circulation that the Blue party had hired a set of well-known boxers, who had been brought from Gloucester and various other places for the purpose, by their presence and disposition, to intimidate the electors from coming up to record their votes in favour of Mr. Leigh, whose stronghold and chief dependence Stroud was. The presence of those followers infuriated the electors, whose indignation burst forth into a state of wild and angry disorder. The tumult increased on the boxers having the audacity to present themselves at the windows of the George Inn, which induced several respectable men of the Yellow party to offer themselves to be sworn in as special constables, to preserve the peace, on condition that the boxers should be removed from the vicinity of the polling-booth by the Blue party. This was not done, and a general attack was made with bricks, &c., on the George Inn, with a view of getting at the boxers. The attack was resisted, and brick-bats were flying in showers, one of which unfortunately struck Mr. Marling, a county magistrate, on the face, and knocked out two of his teeth. It is generally believed the injury was unin tentionally inflicted on Mr. Marling, as he is much respected by the people in his neighbourhood. The rioters, in their attempts to enter tne inn, are said to have been repeatedly repulsed with pitchforks. They ultimately put the boxers hors de combat by making them take to their heels, to the swiftness of which they are said to be indebted for their escape, with the exception of one, who is reported to have got a severe pummelling. The cavalry of the town, and of course of the neighbouring districts, were called out ; but " rumour, still busy with her thousand tongues," says that they were Yellows, and indisposed to act with vigour against the men of their own cause. Several gentlemen got severely bruised in the conflict. HIGH. %ATER. AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning.— ..... .33 minutes after 0. 1 Evening...—. 2 minutes after 1 MURDER IN CORNWALL. A most horrible cold-blooded murder was perpetrated in the parish of St. Martin's, near Looe, Cornwall, on Thurs day morning, by John Henwood. It appears from what we can learn, that this young man is an only son of a respecta ble farmer, and from his youth up has been of a perverse, stupid, sullen, wayward disposition. It appeared that on the day in question, the son had been at work in one of his father's fields, preparing lime for manure ; even this he did not choose to do as he ought. His father, on going his rounds on horseback remonstrated with him in a mild man ner. Shortly after this the son left the field, and pro ceeded home, a distance of at least three-quarters of a mile. He then coolly took up a jug from the kitchen dresser, and went and drew himself some cider, which having drank, he replaced the jug in its former place, and went up stairs to his room, when he was heard opening his trunk, and from which it is expected he took some powder. He then went to the ox-shall, where was a fowling-piece, and which he must have loaded, for the shot-belt was found near the spot. From thence his footmarks were traced by the side of the hedges of three fields and an orchard, until he arrived at a turning in the lane through which he knew his father would come ; and there it is sup posed he had not been long before his victim—his venerable parent—must have presented himself. At this place, which is near half a mile from the house, the hedge is rather high, and here he rested the fowling piece, in order to take a more deliberate aim, as is 'shown by the marks there. The poor old gentleman received the charge in his left breast, four of the shots going through his heart ; and several shots penetrated the neck of the poor animal he was riding, which immediately galloped off for the farm, where its sudden appearance, together with its state, was the first stimulus to a suspicion of the cause ; when a search was set on foot, and the venerable man found wel tering in his blood. The inhuman son was instantly sus pected, which suspicion was confirmed by his absence. Search was then made for him, but to no purpose. On Friday afternoon he presented himself to Mr. Jewry, a farmer, who was with his people cutting barley in a neigh bouring field, at the sama time asking for some cider, for he said he was thirsty. He then expressed an intention to go home and see his mother, but this farmer Jewry dissuaded him from, desiring him at the same time to accompany bim to his (Jewry's) house, and he would give him something to eat and drink, which he did. In the meantime the farmer sent one of his servants for a constable. The farmer ventured to ask him where he had secreted himself, when he said, " In the copse close by," and about three fields from where he confessed he shot his father. Soon after this the constable arrived, and he evinced nothing more at his presence than if it had been any other person. He then asked where the gun was, and the powder-horn, when he described the spot (near a hedge) without the least hesitation, where they were both found. His uncle then asked him, " Why he had done so to his poor old father ?" and he replied, " I ought to have it long before." A coroner's inquest has since been held upon the body of the deceased, and a verdict re turned of wilful murder against the son, John Henwood. The Coroner having issued his warrant for commitment, the prisoner was taken to Bodmin gaol.—Plymouth Journal. THE CII URCH.—(From a Correspondent.)—Many are the aspirants after ecclesiastical and political promotion who must be sadly disappointed at the unexpected resignation of Lord Grey. In the Church we have heard the names of. Archdeacon Glover, Dr. Card, and Dr. Arnold confidently mentioned as likely to have obtained valuable pieces of pre ferment from the late Premier ; and it is supposed that the two Episcopal translations so generally anticipated on the first opening being made for them, will not take place, now that the wheel of political fortune has undergone another change. Dr. Ingenheuse, the learned chemist, had his coat lined with pockets of all sizes, wherein, in his latter years, when science had become to him as a plaything, he carried about various materials for chemical experiments ; among the rest, so many compositions for fulminating powders, in glass tubes separated only by a cork in the middle of the tube, that if any person had only ran against him, he might have blown up himself and the Doctor too. Among the varieties of timber trees discovered by the settlers in Southern Africa, is one used by the missionaries for the manufacture of household furniture, of a saffron colour, and called "sneeze wood," from the effect of its pungent scent when newly cut, and which, among other good proper ties, is said to possess that of repelling all noxious vermin from its neighbourhood. It is singular enough that some of the Canadian timber imported into this country is described as having a directly contrary effect. In Melton Mowbray market on Tuesday last, but ter began to be sold at Is. 4d. per pound in the morning, and in the afternoon was sold for 4d. only, owing to the heat of the weather. It was stated, at the close of the market, that some sold at 31d. per lb.—Nottingham Review. THE MOORS.—AII our accounts from the Moors agree in stating that game is plenty ; but the birds being re markably shy and strong upon the wing, there has not been so much slaughter as was anticipated. A party of four gentle men who left Paisley on Tuesday, in a drosky, to have a day's shooting in the neighbourhood of Mearns, on their return home met with a serious accident. The horse, some how or other, took fright, and setting off at full gallop, the vehicle was up set on a heap of stones in the vicinity of Pollocktown. The consequence was that the travellers were all more or less hurt —one of them very severely. —Glasgow Courier_ LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 16, 1834. It would seem from the conflicting statements made by the ATTORNEY-GENERAL and Mr. LYNCH ill the House of Commons yesterday respecting the busi ness in the Court of Chancery, that the proverbial uncertainty of the law follows the members of that pro fession out of the precincts where it is believed to be con fined. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said that there was no arrear whilst Mr. LYNCH asserted that there was a heavy one. This is apparently an awkward discrepancy between the legal Doctors, but we are happy to learn for the credit of both that it can be easily reconciled. The statement of the ATTORNEY GENERAL applied to that branch of the Court in which the LORD CHANCELLOR presides, and that of Mr. LYNCH, applied to the other branches of the Court. The arrear, however, is not very alarming, even there, and it is admitted to have arisen from an increase of business, rather than from any want of industry or zeal on the part of the Judges. In the LORD CHANCELLOR'S court the suitor has certainly no reason to complain of delay, for his Lordship at the end of June found himself so far advanced in his paper, that the first appeal ripe for hearing had been set down so late as the 21st of April preceding, and only sixteen appeals subsequently, of which there was, perhaps, not one in which the parties were prepared for an immediate hearing. The number which has since been set down before the LORD CHANCELLOR shows that this expedition has had the favourable effect that might have been anticipated on the confidence of the public. The celebrated appeal of the Macedonian suitor for ustice, from the will of PHILIP drunk to the judg- meat of PHILIP sober, notwithstanding the stigma which it cast on the moral character of a royal judge, was an act of extreme prudence and timidity compared with the ruinous rashness of appellants from the judg ments of inferior courts to the supreme jurisdiction of the House of Peers. It is true that PHILIP, besides being King, was High Priest of Macedonian morals and their opposites, and that were he to baptize the act of the appellant a crime, none dare gainsay the inflic tion of punishment ; but the supreme judges of Great Britain and Ireland, punish as effectually with less trouble, and fewer pretensions to unlimited power. Only substitute the word purse for person, to create an accordance between the ancient and modern form of expressing the dearest object of human sympathy, and the most absolute prince of antiquity failed in punish ing reflections on his judgments with half the severity with which Peers visit the delinquency of discontented suitors. The costs of an appeal from the inferior courts to the House of Lords are enormous, and we shall shortly have occasion to show that such costs are not the expenses attendant on a re-consideration of the grounds of judgment, but a penalty upon those who question the perfection of the laws. The speech of the LORD CHANCELLOR in the House of Lords on Thursday last, on introducing a Bill for improving the appellate jurisdiction of that supreme court of judicature, was a luminous exposition of the manner in which Peers are wont to discharge their judicial functions. By the common law, on which the system of appeals is founded, the Peers are all pre sumed to be present in cases of appeal ; but, by an order of the House, in hearing appeals, the Lord Chancellor and any two Noble Lords constitute a Court, and, save when a Peer is concerned, a greater number seldom put themselves to the inconvenience of attending. Now there are appeals which cannot be heard in fewer than four or five days, and as the co occupiers of judicial benches with the Chancellor are not bound to attend a moment longer than they please, the LORD CHANCELLOR states it as a common occur rence, that he is assisted by two Peers in hearing the Appellants one day ; the next, two others attend to hear the Respondents', the following two others are present during the Appellant's reply, and on the fourth, two Peers, knowing not an item of all that went before, assist him in pronouncing judgment. Can there be anything more absurd than this in the present compli cated state of society, and the tenures by which all hereditary property is held ? But what renders it most ridiculous is the fact, that most English appe • als are made from decisions in the Court of Chancery. Now, can there be a greater want of sympathy with the plaints of the people--a greater mockery of a ju dicial prerogative than to sanction an appeal from the Court of Chancery, and afterwards leave the merits of the appeal to be considered by the CHANCELLOR himself. This is not all illustration of the appealing from PHILIP drunk to PHILIP sober ; but from PHILIP in the judgment seat to PHILIP on the throne. Now this must often place the LORD CHANCELLOR in a most painful, as well as a most questionable situation. Should the Peers who assist him in giving judgment in the House of Lords, but who had not heard a word of the former evidence, have received any undue bias before entering the House in favour of one of the parties before the Court, it is an hundred to one, but the CHANCELLOR's opinions will be regarded by them as the obstinate de termination of a Judge to ratify his own errors. Is it not, therefore, unjust to the LORD CHANCELLOR, as well as to the Appellants, to permit the continuance of such grounds of suspicion where the welfare of the fountry, and a respect for the laws, demands that none should be allowed to exist ? The object of the LORD CHANCELLOR'S Bill is to secure the attendance of the late and present Lords Chancellors, the late and present Lords Chief Justices of King's Bench and Common Pleas, in the House of Lords during the hearing of all future appeals to the judgment of that House ; and unless the Peers can prove that, with their other divine prerogatives, they are indivisible, we know not under what pretence they can oppose it. They must certainly show, or endeavour to show, if they oppose this Bill, that, although like the stars, they outshine each other in glory, yet wherever there are two or three of them assembled together in a judicial capacity, there is the unerring wisdom, as well as the supreme power, of the whole manifested. They must convince the world that their Lordships' House resembles the tripod of the Pythoness, inasmuch as the sitter upon the one, or the occupier of a Bench in the other, were alike under the influence of a divine spirit whose impulses were irre sistible. If the woolsack and the Benches of the House of Peers communicate to the Supreme Judges •f the land a Sybil's necessity for truth-telling ; and if they are acte:l upon by scarlet cushions- in the fashion of the worshipful wearers of the collars of justice, no longer in vogue among the ermined fra ternity, why then there can be no reason why the light of modern times should be reflected on the tapestried records of the fate of the Spanish Armada. If un erring wisdom, most comprehensive legal knowledge, perfect acquaintance with all facts, arguments, and illustrations, are intuitive in the Peers, or any two of them, why then, best declare it at once, and we shall he among the very first to repudiate an innovation which is only required to secure the proper admini stration among men liable to err, but tremblingly alive to the danger of its commission. In speaking of the House of Commons the LORD CHANCELLOR incautiously made use of a form of expression which seems to have given offence to some of that body. We are satisfied that nothing was more remote from the intention of the Noble Lord, than the idea of speaking in any disrespectful way of an Assembly for which he has constantly professed the most affectionate regard. His Lordship doubtless, impressed at the moment with the consideration of the importance of the reform he was advocating, and bearing in mind the fact, that unless the ap pellate jurisdiction of the Upper House was im proved, the whole business of appeal would be brought under the notice of the Commons by peti tion, as begins to be the case at present, rather in cautiously adverted to the very suspicious position in which they would stand, as the appellants would be their own constituents, whose interests they would feel themselves obliged to support. There was un doubtedly bad taste in adverting to the Lower House at all on such a subject, and yet there was a con nection between the House of Commons and the principle of the Bill on this very point, which would have warranted a delicate allusion to it. We shall take an early opportunity of stating more fully the provisions of this Bill, as it relates to the Vice- Chancellor's Court. The extraordinary Tribunal of Russian Generals and Polish Magistrates after, it should seem, a full year's deliberation, have pronounced judgment of death on all the heroes engaged in the late Polish revolution. This decision, we presume, has been come to in order to keep in countenance the spirit of NICHOLAS'S famous Manifestos, which, it may be remembered, overflowed with professions of justice and clemency, and in which he always addressed him self to the' Poles, like a fond father addressing his erring children. It is a curious illustration of the nature of Russian policy, that the St. Petersburgh Cabinet, from the days of CATHERINE the Second down to the present time, has never perpetrated any act of more than ordinary atrocity, with out prefacing it by professions of more than ordinary justice and moderation. Thus when the first partition of Poland was resolved on, the foreign jour nals in the interest of CATHERINE assured the world that nothing was further from her intentions than such a vile proceeding—that she held it in the most vir tuous abhorrence, and would sooner die than be guilty of injuring the interests of her friend King STANIS-. LAUS. So when it was determined that the Russians should pass the Balkan, march on Adrianople, and by means of tribute money, and what not, reduce Turkey to a state of all but hopeless dependence, the St. Petersburgh Gazettes and the Allgemeine Zeitung made a point weekly of falling into extacies of admiration at the moderation which Russia dis played, and the marked absence of all ambitious spirit that characterised her councils. Thus too, in the late Polish revolution, when the St. Petersburg Cabinet had decided on its course of action—on hunting down the patriots like wild beasts—tearing the child from the mother's breast, and the husband from the wife's em- brace, Manifestos were issued month by month, week by week, insisting on the EMPEROR'S clemency—that he had been long and cruelly maligned by the slanders of a fiendish press; for that §9 far from desiring to per secute his misguided Poles, his Imperial bosom over flowed with pity and affection towards them. In his very last Manifesto we remember these express words, " Poles, rely on my justice and clemency, and fear nothing." Fortunately, the majority of the pa triots who know well the peculiar signification that justice and clemency bear in the Rus sian political dictionary, heeded not this insi dious profession, but escaped to a foreign country and are safe ; one, however, who by his remaining behind, would seem to have relied on it, is condemned to suffer death. This too credulous patriot is VINCENT NIE- AroJowsici who now calmly, though worn down with griefs and years, awaits the stroke that shall dismiss him to join the shade of his illustrious prototype Kos c usxo. Our readers will find some particulars re specting this black affair in another part of The Sun. We have received the Paris Papers of Thursday, with accounts from Madrid dated the Bth inst. The only news in both countries at present is to be gleaned from the discussions •in their respective legislative Chambers. In the French Chamber of Deputies, the Address in answer to the Speech from the Throne was adopted without almost any discussion ; nor do we see any reason to be surprised at it, though the French journalists, and a morning contem porary, teem with wonder at such a remarkable event. The Address •we gave some days since, accompanied with a remark that the only .point worth noticing in it, was a determination on the part of the Chamber to pursue a rigid course of economy. There were only two amendments proposed, and both were rejected without a division, though brought for ward by friends of Ministers. The Paris Journalists are of opinion that Ministers would have moved the rejection of several clauses in the Address, had they not feared to peril their strength on the first onset. We really cannot see any reason for their having come to any such conclusion. The Address was as meagre a do cument in its way as could well be conceived, and so happily general in its details that any ministry in Eu rope might adopt it without a fear, on their leaving of fice, of being detected in a breach of having neglected to observe it. Our arrivals from Spain are confined to a report of Toreno the Finance Minister's speech in the Cham .ber of Procuradores or Deputies, on the 7th inst., when introducing his budget and plan for li quidating the national debt, the principal fea tures of which we dwelt upon in our article of yes terday. The Speech was a very clear, able, and in telligent exposition of the financial state and resources of Spain, and will not fail to attract attention at the present moment. There is no doubt of the Spanish finances being in a flourishing condition in a very short time, if the pledge which is now given to the public creditor be faithfully redeemed. The only account on which any reliance can be placed, respecting Don CARLos and his misguided followers, is the following telegraphic despatch from the Moniteur, dated Bayonne, August 12th : " El PASTOR writes from Villa Franca, under the 10th, , that the whole faction of Navarre, Alava, Guipuscoa, excepting the battalion of SEGA S TIBELZA, which is in the valley of Bastan, has proceeded to wards Onate, being accompanied by the Pretender. Rom', is at Alzazua. The insurgents, united for the fist time, wish to protect the arrivals by sea, or to attempt a general engagement. • The frontier of Spain is covered with emigrants ever since the alarm at Eli sondo." Letters from Constantinople state that the British fleet, on the 20th of July, was cruising off the Dar danelles, and that the plague was raging with great violence at Constantinople. We cannot help thinking that the Government has made a great mistake in interposing between the Lon don and Westminster Bank and the Bank of England. The question presented by the Bill brought in by the former was—Whether this Bank should not be allowed to sue in the name of its officers, as all other Joint- Stock Banking Companies have been enabled to do ? That it should not have this facility, is contended for by the Bank of England, upon the ground that it interferes with its exclusive privilege. How it does interfere, the Bank of England has not condescended to state. But whether the granting this facility did, or did not, interfere with the exclusive privilege of the Bank, is a point which has been raised for the deci sion of Parliament, and by the course which the Government has taken, it has prejudged this question; but, as it appears to us, neither this, nor any other question brought before Parliament, ought to be pre judged by the Government. • Out of evil, however, cometh good. Hardship and injustice have, in the mean time, been done to the London and Westminster Bank ; but the attention of the public will be thereby so much the more strongly directed to the operation of the exclusive privilege said to be attempted to be infringed, and a foundation will be thus laid for its abrogation some ten years hence. This exclusive privilege has created a distinction between banks of issue and banks of deposit which could not otherwise have existed. Issues are, in truth, a consequence of deposits, and bankers' notes are only a way by which depositors may be conveniently en abled to make use of their deposits ; and why should they be prevented from making use of their deposits in any way they please ? The amount of issues made by bankers is small compared to the amount of the deposits made with them. From returns now periodically made to Parlia men,t, it appears that the total amount of notes issued by the Bank and bankers in England is under thirty millions, but the total amount of deposits made with the Bank and bankers, probably exceeds three hundred millions. When so much apprehension has been ex pressed about the amount of issues, it is singular that no danger ever appears to have been apprehended for deposits, and yet by the very terms of the exclusive privilege still enjoyed by the Bank, the security for de posits made with any other Company than the Bank, in the metropolis and sixty-five miles around it, is limited to the security of six persons, though but for this exclusive privilege depositors might have the secu rity, perhaps, of six hundred' persons. This exclusive privilege of the Bank, moreover, is the cause of over-issue. Bankers beyond the pale of it cannot over-issue, not merely because bankers beyond t h e pale can put forth their notes only by discounting hills of exchange, or by temporary accommodations to their customers, or by cash credits, but no Banking Company beyond the pale keeps the notes of another Banking Company, as bankers in the metropolis keep the notes of the Bank of England. The notes of the bankers beyond the pale are immediately sent by the bank which receives them, to the bank that issues them, o r a stated time is fixed for their regular exchange. So if there were more than one Banking Company issuing notes in the metropolis, such two or more Banking Companies would send in the notes of the other for payment, and any of them over-issuing would imme diately pay the penalty of its over-issue. The profits of the Bank of England being in pro portion to its issues, it is impossible to believe that it does not always issue as much as it can ; and the amount of Exchequer Bills now mistalingly kept afloat enables it to issue to any extent it pleases, and, by the sale of the Exchequer Bills, to contract the currency at once to any extent it pleases also, and the contraction is always more immediate and abrupt th'an its expansion. Over-issue in modern times produces the same effect as debasing the coin did in ancient times ;`and the con traction of the currency produces the same effect now that the correction of the debasement formerly did. The exchangeable value of the currency is lowered in the one case, so that the prices of all commodities rise, and the exchangeable value of the currency is raised in the other case, so that the prices of all com modities fall. Great Britain, like every other country, purchases gold and silver with commodities ; and Great Britain having always a greater quantity of commodities to give in exchange for gold and silver than any other country, can always command a greater quantity of gold and silver than any other country. In Great Britain, therefore, there never could be a scarcity of gold and silver, in the natural course of things ; nor could there ever be a scarcity of money, if bank-notes were always, as they ought to be, of the same ex changeable value with gold and silver. But the Bank by its over-issue lowers the exchangeable value of its notes, and when the exchangeable value of its notes is again raised, by their being called in through the sale of Exchequer bills or otherwise, then there is what is called a scarcity of money ; but, in truth, it is not a scarcity of money, but a compulsion of those who have engagements to make good, in a more valu able currency than that which prevailed at the time these engagements were made, to sell with a loss, or to pay an extravagant premium for the loan of money, in order to save them from doing so. Such is the situa tion of the City at the present moment, and such it-ever must periodically be, so long as the Bank retains its exclusive privilege. Vice-Admiral the Hon. C. ELPHINSTONE FLEM ING is appointed Commander-in-chief at the Nore, vice Sir RICHARD KING deceased ; and Captain ALEXANDER ELLICE is appointed to command his flag-ship, the Ocean. Rear-Admiral Sir THoMAs HARDY removed yes terday from his official residence in the Admiralty, where he is succeeded by Sir WM. PARKER. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY. (FROM LLYOD'S.) DEAL, Amis.'. 15.—Wind N.E., fresh breezes all the day. —Sailed for the River, the Zenobia, Owen, from India, for London; and his Majesty's ship Vernon, for Sheerness. The Osbert, barque, from London to Bermuda, and his Ma jesty's ship Athol, for Sheerness, remains. PORTSMOUTH, AUGUST 14.—Wind E. to N. N.E., fine.— Arrived the Medea, Stromberg, from Uleaborg. FALMOUTH, AUGUST 14.—Wind N., fresh breezes and fine. PLYMOUTH, AUGUST 14.—Wind N.N. W.—Arrived the Salamanca from Messina. WIGHT, AUGUST 14.—Arrived off port, the Henry, Bunney from New South Wales, sailed 14th March. PENZANCE, AUGUST 14.—Arrived the Mary and Eliza, Tragarthen, from Trieste. BRISTOL, AUGUST 15.—Arrived the Lady Frances, Smith, from Archangel. ARERYSTWITH, AUGUST 13.—Arrived the Lavinia, Blackett, from Quebec. LIVERPOOL, AUGUST 14.—Arrived the Emma, Smallbridge, from Antigua ; the Blake, Thompson from Quebec ; and the Neptune, Ahrent, from Wiemar. ABERDEEN, AUG. 13.—Arrived the Albion, Pegg, from Restigouche. SCARBOROUGH, AUG. 14.—Arrived the Merchant, Chap man, from Archangel. SHIELDS, AUG. 14.—Arrived the Diamond, Chase, from St. Petersburgh. YARMOUTH, AUG. 14.—Arrived the Jessie, Davidson, from St. Petersburgh. COWES, Auo. Is.—Arrived the Baring Brothers, Hinck ley, from Havannah. HARWICH, AUG. 15.—The smack Favourite, of Greenwich, was totally wrecked on the sunk sand yesterday morning— crew saved. CORK, Ana. 13. Arrived the C as t or , Q uerr ip o l, from .- Leg horn. The Maria, Ruyter, from Havannah to Bremen, came in contact with the Dalmatia, Wi nsor , f rom O sten d to St. Übes, the 13th instant, off Beachy Head, and sunk—crew saved. The Nandi, from Liverpool to Rio Janeiro, on shore on Arklow Banks, is full of water, and will be lost. The Julius, from Demerara, is supposed to be off the Wight ; and the Brothers, Davis, from Madeira, is off Brighton. THE MARKETS--(THIS DAY.) COVENT GARI There was a great supply at thi was dull at barely last week's pric s. d. to s. d P.itatoes (cwt.) 4 0 7 0 Ca` bages, White (12) 0 10 2 0 Ditto Red 3 0 5 0 Cauliflowers 1 0 2 6 Horse liadish(bundle) 3 0 5 0 Celery 6 6 1 0 Carrots .12bunches) 3 0 6 0 Turnips Coleworts or Greens 1 6 • 2 6 Young Onions. 1 6 2 0 Turnip Raddishes 0 10 1 6 Leeks 0 9 1 6 For. Grapes (per lb.) 0 8 2 0 English, Forced .. 2 0 5 0 Pine Apples (lb.) Cherries Filberts Sea Kail (punnet) Sinai! Sallad Peaches 3 0 5 0 Nectarines 3 0 a 0 Green Gages 1 0 1 6 Cucumbers (brace) 0 1 0 4 Melons (each) 4 0 11 0 DEN MARKET. is morning's market, but the trade TS: -- s. d to B. d. Spinach (half-sieve) 0 6 0 8 Cabbage Lettuces 0 10 1 (1 Green — Pease I 6 3 0 Broad Beans 0 9 1 Fretwh Beans 0 9 1 6 Gooseberries 2 6 4 0 Currants Apples 2 0 5 0 Pears Common Plums 2 6 5 0 Onions 3 6 5 0 SevilleOranges(loo) 0 14 0 Sweet Oranges 5 0 10 0 Lemons ....... Walnuts Raddishes (12 hands) 0 3 0 6 Span. Chesnuts (peck) 4 4) 5 0 French ditto French Walnuts .4 0 6 0 Spanish tiazienuts 4 0 6 6 Brazilian Nuts 2 U 4 0 Cos Lettuces (per score) 1 0 1 6 Mulberries (pottle) 0 8 1 0 Raspberries 0 6► 0 9 HAY MARKETS —tA CUM H BE. Coarse heavy Lowland M ea d ow ay .E 3 15 to £4 0 New Meadow Hay 4 5 4 10 Useful Old Ditto Fine Upland Meadow and Ry e . grass Hay 5 10 5 13 Clover Hay 4 5 6 0 .................................................. Oat Straw. El 10 to .£1 12 j Wheat Straw 1 14 1 16 t per Load of 36 Trusses BLAND. SMITHFIELD Coarse heavy Lowland Mead ow H ay £s 15 to .£4 0 New Meadow Hay 4 5 4 15 Usefil Old Ditto 4 IS 5 5 Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay Clover Hay (extra fine) .6 6 Generally ~ ..... 4 5 6 0 Oat Straw .. x 1 12 toil 14 1 Wheat Straw ... 114 1 16 J PRICES OF STICKS THII Bank Stock ..... .„ ..... - 3 per Cent. Rcpt. 3 per Cent. Cons.: ........ per Cent 4 ... - Ditto Red. ;.... '9 Neivl34 per Cent. 9 6. 34 „ Assented 9• 1 14 4 per re.,, awn Led 10IK Pan .ongAnnulties to expire Jan. 3, 1863 17y7.46 Oct. 10, 1859 Jan. 5, 186 , Jan: 5, MA) April 5, ISSO Jan 5;.1870 - - PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian Bonds lOl Belgian Bonds 9 9 ,, Ditto Account 9B N Brazilian Bonds 794 Ditto Account 781( Buenos Ayres Bonds 304 Ditto Account... Cliillian Bonds 32q, Ditto Account 32U Columbian Bonds D34 Ditto Account Columbian Bonds, 192-1.. ...... Ditto Account .32% 2 Danish Bonds THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Peruvian Bonds Dit . o Account —.... ........_ Portuguese Bonds Blyi, Ditto Account 84% Ditto New Bonds ..... .....84 3 1 4 si Ditto Account 8134 3% 4 3N Prussian Bonds lt 156 Ditto Bonds, 182. Russian Bonds, 182:2 lO6l Foi Ditto Account 106% Ditto Metallic Spanish Bonds 46 5 1 4 5 Ditto Account 46 % 55i 6% 5 Ditto Bonds, 1&33 44% Ditto Account 44 % French, 5 per cent. —f. —c. 4 per cent. —f. —c 3 per cent. —f. —c. Exchange —l. —c. Dutch, 254 per cent. Ditto Account Ditto, 5 per cent IV.; Ditto Account 08% Ditto Account Greek Bonds Ditto Bonds, 1525 34 Ditto Account Mexican Bonds 5 per cent 32 Ditto Account 32 _ 0 • Ditto, 6 per cent. 42% Ditto Account 42!4 Neapolitan 9414 PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. £9 1 I 3; at W. pm.) lOU 7 Alien Mining Company :lo Mexican Mining C Anglo Mexican Mining Company (iss. a, Liolanos Mining Co m p an y l5O 115 Brazilian Impurial Honing Co. (issued at 5/. pm.) 20 "7q Ditto Macaubas Coca°. Ditto Scrip lO 13 Ditto St. John del Rey .. lO 514 Cata Bran a Mining Company British Iron Company 5O 30 British Coprr Cump ny Columbian Mining Compmy (issued at 5/. pm.) 5 334 11% English Mining Company l23‘ 1 ,,( Hibernian Mining Company ... 10 3% Mexican Mining Company 4914 4 Re 1 del Monte Mining Co., Registered 6.3/. 10s. 6d. Ditto Unregistered Unittd Mexican (issued at .21. pm.) Ditto Subscription Ditto New Scrip . London and Birmingham Railway Company l5 London and Greenwich Railway Company 7 Australasia Bank .131 , ,i ;4 4 Australian Company Canada Company General Steam Navigation Company London and Westminster Bank National Provincial Bank of England Provincial Bank of Ireland Bin Doce Company Van Dieman's Land Agricultural Col 26% 18 13 5 15 25 onipany lO COURSE OF EXCEL Amsterdam C.F. 12 5!;, Ditto. at sight Rotterdam" 2U. 12 5!4 Antwerp l2 5 Hamburg M. 8.13 13 A lima l3 13 Paris, 3 days' sight 25 4 . . ... Ditto 2 Us. 25 7' Bordeaux Berlin Frankfort on Maine, Ex. M 152 Petersburgh, ruble 3 Us. 10 Vienna, effective 11 2M. 10 1 Triest^ ditto lO 2 Madrid 35% Cadiz l'ii Bilboa 16 W I Barcelona Seville 3 0% Gibraltar ... 47 NGE, YESTERDAY. Leghorn 4EN Genoa 2.5 70 Milan 3l Venice 47 Naples 40% Palermo per oz. 121 Li-bon 564 Oporto 57 Rio Janeiro 37'4 Ban is 3l Buenos Ayres Dublin, 21 days' sight ll4 Cork l% PRICE OF BULLION, PER OZ. Portugal GGld, coin £0 0 0 oreign Gold, in bars 3 17 9 New Doubloons We; Dollars Slivers tars, standard 0 5 0 PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, AUG. 13. 3 per Cent. Consols 9 % Grand Canal Deb.. 6 per cent. 914 Ditto Reduced — Ditto, 4 per cent 62 31:; per Cent. Stock 97N Itbernian Lank 224 Ditto New, 1830 IV% City of Dublin Steam Co. lOO 3 , 4 per Cent. Debentures l/01i National Insurance Company Bank Stock • Royal Canal Stock Grand Canal Stock 25 per cent M A ILS. Arrived. Due. Arrived. Due. Arrived. Due. 41 America 0 1 France 0 I Lisbon 0 0 Brazil 0 0 Guern. &Jersey 0 0 Malta 0 0 Buenos Ayres... 0 0 Hamburg 0 0 Mexico .. 0 0 Carthageoa 0 0 Holland 0 0 Ostend 0 I Dublin 0 0 Jamaica 0 0 Sweden 0 0 Flanders ... ..... 0 0 Leeward Islands 0 1 Waterford 0 THE SUN IS NOW THE LARGEST DAILY PAPER IN LONDON. _ k ~ • , • . ~ - . ~." •,,,, , s 44 . `. t . 2 9. 70:: ~...a..,...,,,,,.,i=c„,_ Z 1 ,'-uTtx. DAN AT ONE O'CLOCK. New 5 per Cent. India Stock 42595¢ Ditto Bonds l9 18 pm. South Sea Stock 14 2 34 Old Annuities New Ditto • 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1151— Exch. Bills, £I,OOO 4O 42 pm. Ditto 500 4l 43 pm. Ditto Small 4l 44 Pm, Ditto Commercial pm Ditto Advertised ,13ank Stock for Account '224 r Innis Stock for Account C,onso:s for Account. 9oii THE S HUN GERFORD. Coarse Meadow Hay £3 10 to £3 :5 New Meadow Hay Useful Old Ditto 4 0 4 10 Fine Upland Meadow and Rye grass Hay Clover Hay 4 0 5 15 Oat Straw .Z 1 10 to £1 12 1 Wheat Straw THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE 0' CL 0 CK. The following information from Mexico has been received at New Orleans : " Tampico, June 21. " The news from Mexico is satisfactory. Santa Anna is triumphant ; the Priests and Aristocracy will provide him with all the money he requires. Puebla was attacked by the Go vernment troops ; the result was not known, and the defence was very obstinate. A conductor, with 500,000 dollars, is on its way to Vera Cruz ; and a much larger and general one was to leave at the end of the month. We are perfectly quiet at present. " All the States are turning in favour of Santa Anna, and even this place will not desert him. In a short time all will be quiet." Consols, which left off yesterday 901 for the Account, opened at the same price, and are at present 90# I. The King's Speech has not had any effect on them ; indeed, little notice is taken of it in the City, it being of a tame description. Spanish has receded 1 per cent. from 46} 4 to 454 46 ; Portuguese, 834- t. Toreno's expose of the Spanish finances has had a consider able effect on the Spanish and Portuguese Stocks. This morning the Spanish receded to 45A but are now 451 to 46 ; Portuguese receded to 834, an d are now 834 to 84. 4, HALF-PAST ONE. The chief operations in the funds this morning are in Spanish and Portuguese Stocks, which still continue very heavy. The speculators are now anxiously waiting the result of the debate in the Spanish House of Deputies, respecting the Cortes Bonds. The loan of four millions, required by the Spanish Government, has also had the effect of depressing the Spanish market. The receding of Portuguese Stock is attri buted to that Government also standing in need of a loan. Consols are steady at 90# for the Account, with little doing. No fresh arrivals. THREE 0' CL 0 CE. Console for the Account, 9O FINE ARTS. OCAS HASTINGS FROM THE PIER R - A well-executed lithograph of a bold and strike' The ships drawn up high and dry upon the 53 1: a groups of sturdy fishermen towing in a boat, wb ie , e; „ in effectual to h the landscape. eadagainstthewaves—the bru;ite with the picturesque houses on the beach, give i and spirit • LITERATURE. n v THE NEW BRITISH PROVINCE v' SO U AUST RALIA. L e o x n p d r o e n ss , io C n . 0 1C f n o ig u h r t, o L p l i t ndgioante.:tfrethet e,10183 merits of In the e little work, we would be distinctly understood to of question of the advantages, or statedisadvantages' 11 .., Australian emigration precisely in th e same :tei we find it. There is an awful responsibility contra:i of , b w e h s a t te e v n e d r ea is v d o o u n rs e t o o f fiotrswaarudtbaorsse,heme which, desPgube grave of the hopes and happiness mofaytbtouursnan7isti':: low creatures : and, therefore, till t he South cog' Company's plans are more fully developed our , ‘.e urea tiously abstain from either recommending a. to emigrate, or from starting any objections to a w of whose details we are entirely unacquainted. 0..9 " I. All that part of Australia which lies between the , f ` out be the 141st degrees of east longitude, ant between th e o • h the ii to e ppOeuenebdaleinentanLoandf everya Tropic of Capricorn, together wit , t he ..A Southce nt th er et Australia, o, a is doaetnrhde other rd t erected d cl l a ri Colony.netdod, a 1 1, 8 . i t r h i t i s h P respect ro Vr g e o ) v i) r ) oentt ' I . ,I tO " aeel 3r ei Comm ll i . ss A io l n l e t r h s e si l t a t n in d g s i w n it L h o in ndo h n e above limits are - f 2IN , em ent 0 are . p ace under the mana, tail, " allplr.ivTatheepreroips property o in ne an w y ay of i ri th w e h s i a e i h d every lodo ; iri n d a i ra vid el7 l , l: r el . ;: i for the same in ready money. " IV. Subject to the above condition, and to the a ece r oef i . ` previous surveys, every one shall be free to acquire . 2 P r s ita o ,7 . perry in the said is i, we lands,Twelve and Shillings w whichith without r limit acrei a s t 0 shallu ant I ti e b e 0" nrios.:e:dev V eti.r T asi h su e eb i l o. owest price at public land ever this Colony, tb rs a re" obb which the higherercl oo t i o vr el t ro h wt e he a e bo ppr v riid e ccee p o r if o s v t i ao. s i b o bl n ei cs :Ccagnolidi7alui Commissioners irvii °s l og of any intended change . in the price, ancleo,f. the Pe VII. All sales to he conducted in public.. be fa t : II ~ articles of the Constitution of South Aus tralia ' I' i°' no: be " VIII. The foregoing provisions declared to b and 0 0 changed without the authority of Parliament. ~„ isle e,41) , lia ` l ' an l IX. . ah T al h l a f t or tl ai ie a l-h E ol m e iogfrtahtieonmoFnuenydobatiawinesclhand t P e . c ita lo r ti l 7. a ' th ; the Commissioners in conveying poor la'bourers to th:, o s ot e' Emigration X. All the poor persons taken to the colony by, n e the .. _ ee Fund, shall be, as far as it is possible to r rep err eo , I , t , lon, young adult persons, of both sexes in an etlitt., P tio ol l XI. T abe h yc e orua Commission f Public Lands' and E.ra i r — ; Pu r ' i f n fi oe w ne e e ld oryn io anticipate the sales of land, by reee . i c tia, i ,cole i is t 'in fr r a l e o m a a n i public land of the Colonemploy such loan or loans veying selected labourer ) ; ; to thecoloi i tile ' y. As a work full of useful, practical knowledge' lume before us deserve praise. emigrants r d o a nr tot s loans, intending to b e ::cabrueYd on in e e l cco. 0 5° 1 •bo In the case of Major General Ouseley; : I ' w 31 e 1 7,, e , Thursday evening, at a late hour, found guilty , a a E el v e! sex Sessions, of an assault on Villiers Pearce, and to to pay a fine of 100/. to the King, and to find stir`ibego6? the peace, the money was paid to Mr. Chesterton,,:fter tbe,o of the House of Correction, within half an itn i ur t h ba lbs i to,r neral had been received into that prison ; an d l a n d th ie been perfected before the Court by Mr. Laitou o acc iti e ' cot ney, each becoming bound for his keeping ti le , P r e s oaa l „ each, and the General having entered into his I' pir nizance in 500/., he was, at half-past 9 o'clock that Ala charged out of custody. A ide ob. On Monday morning last, at Paris , ';;rid,', ( l . wa g 111 c op It mont St. Jean, son of the put of 1815, Municipality. A few hours afterwardsy he was s n ti r r e r t i% r nv e. his friends, among whom was the Marquis de dr e p who had been one of the witnesses, when he sudk ell ' s of il y down in an apoplectic fit ; a minute afterwardseuseene,,ebr;gt He was to have been married this morning in th where his funeral obsequies will now be perforfn Paper. 1 11 6 :el DEATII FROM HEAT.—On SattlruaYilettstw woman, called Jackson, aged 84, while mpleYeaandlt a fi-31d at Selby, fell down of e ;5 0 in a state insens; death diatcly on being conveyed home, she expired; b er aie r.-' sidered to have arisen from the heat of the Well' ' 8 04 burgh Paper. he rb f t; The heat has been quite oppressi sre t no individual remains in town who can possiblY g e .00; H ) q,j the country, or down to the sea. The thermoraeteate, $ ranged from 75 to 80 in the shade. In the United pe ' t ier thislfe C su an m a m d e as n_ als E o, d u in n b u u s r u g al h ly p h a o p t er 7eather has been e 1) 1 ` ' OS" LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, 'I L .01 . 7,0 4 ' AUGUST 14.—We rath e r have had more doing 1 ", 00 0 _ market to-day ; the transa c ti ons are from 2,500 te," ; P 'j „ to ; at 11V. to 13d. for Pernams lold. to 100' letn i" ; 11V. for Maranhams 81d. tolol 0 for New r 9 1 11 for Boweds ; 17d. to 18d. for Sea Islands' ab THE HARVEST.—There was a nutnerou'atbles :Ince of reapers at the Cross yesterday morning' 9 , 1 1 3 10itt the wages were good, a number remained unhired• 0 2 5 f eo generally were 2s. per day, but some were eligage a u ; 0 ' to go a little distance. There were also some hire.- t; 1 hour, to work when it is dry.—Glasgow Courier. bil Ott IV THE HA RVES T.—ln consequence of Ow; ter wet weather experienced in this neighbourhoe"to be " o v illr greater part of last week, fears were beginning n icl h e h o . r at ,' tamed that the progress of the corn harvest wo--1, rially impeded. The sudden and very favourab, 1,00 however, which took place on Friday has dissipated ta e l or i at c h to and the farmers are now actively engaged in Ice 13°1 crops, which are spoken favourably of, in referee n rb quantity and quality.—Nottingham Review. f a a n , o THE HARVEST.—To an abundant pro( l° ,,, a se ii'd class of grain, a gracious Providence is now affor d ' r ptee .rs ' of suitable weather for securing it. In the t w i e ; „ s t 1 '; 1 10 weeks a good deal of rain has fallen, and the ea l i t tle ' has been saved with some difficulty but w hilst li t ' the he V material damage has been sustained t the corn urqsa'ad the tatoes have derived incalculable benefit therefr° m „', / ,4. 0 0, e unpromising aspect is exchanged for an abundant s "riion harvest is now progressing rapidly, and the CO"'tit ac h es present weather for another fortnight will e nable T ip th en turists to store their produce with little expense anj at iagt possible order. The cyder growers are also eai nn i rita' least an average . erop of apples.—North Devon 'l °l 10'1 „ af, one THE CROPS, &c.—lf promise of peac e „ e e' o ne delight a nation, perhaps no autumn in remerabranl,c; tbet, forth a more joyous prospect of these blessings , ~t ' fs i citis a n„'l which has just commenced. Our political and Pl a .- ri tiin e ' s t phere seem equally calm and settled in the o' of barb the under a bright sun and smiling sky, the work °`,, a tt °,, tb proceeding with unwonted celerity. The greate r a ror wheat and barley crops in this neighbourhood ar_ t e e - r s °,' ba d stook, and before the end of the week many c1„,°,7 - 0 01° 5 grain w ill be safe under " thack and rape." pe rs , o i oS ripened so rapidly and equally, that a scarcity 0 ' " ca re ' K O' most every where experienced, and harvest wag quently high. The hiring market held at the W f - d iffci - for been pretty numerously attended, and although i t : a ll th a e 6 a ,; ascertain the bargains made with the shearers' t o mers, we believe they give generally from ls. 4 " . 4 0 1 4' per day, with the addition of one two meals. In S, A tbe good shearers are receiving as high as2s.6d. P er Ihe 'u .:l lli : Glasgow the prices run from ls. 6d. to is. 8.• 1,1 bl - weather continue fine, the greater part of the c re ' o 9 dit' °° quarter will be cut down and secured in excellent c° the end of this month.—Edinburgh Paper.. areg t i .S lb ° BROOMIELAW BRIDGE.—It wives sure to acquaint our readers, that the c ontra us ct' is Anaftbif wearßr o o i m e d i e l e a x w e r t i ßridge, ns,oo m b p y l e ttehde on i r a T b u le esd ar ay ra t n h ge e bridge. It was only about the Ist of April , IS"' ef to ° w hole 1 4 6 4 o f commenced operations. Since that time the ready abutmentsspringing gd thew i n g- w arches.al ls, haveTbe bfeoerlsicacrardostlesotelbcoe pillars,leve the building of this great work, together yi d ' tbe en illic tb preisarations already made, almost insures to th e i a .d bl o te , certainty of this important thoroughfare being OP, e end of next year, which will be one y-ear within te e t heir time, and cannot fail to prove highly advantageous to o rj°ct't and tho se I prietors in Jamaica -street, Eglinton-street, nag,. besides allowing the trustees to levy toll °Pe n ick' 411 earlier than they had anticipated.— Glasgow Clzr° , " f the SUICIDE BY A SOLDIER.—A soldier:l,ooc beo Royal Irish Dragoon Guards shot himself at tb gr ade , la c , Tuesday ; he was on the stable loft, dressed for P f p rio is he committed the fatal act with his own carbil;e' ,i t h $ st fb e the muzzle of the carbine against his side, alla , er. which he had attached to his foot, ll d the trigg wee pu e st se ball passed through his heart, and his death was 111 ci —Cork Constitution. rtirr e P art s °c t SINGULAR FA C T.—A circunistance ;oler few days since, which shows the great dread th e s'l ° a l 0 of the finny tribe have of their larger brethren.ike, so, 00 about half-a pound weight was pursued by a P out cloy escape his voracious jaws, actually leapt two fee t ho , water into a boat belonging to Mr. Port, of the So lnes se upon-Trent, in which were two of his men who wi tbe, scene. That frightful disease, the cholera , has `l,,,bittot; last fortnight, made dreadful ravages among the the village of Barking, in Essex. About ten oWi l isc, i fe fisherman, named Curtis, embarked on board tb,e hi p ile smack, belonging . to Mr. Plough, leaving behintt.,': his i te t and four children, besides a fifth, a daughter w hicl etto , a . i ere had had previous to her marriage ; and on his to the voyage, he found that his wife and her five Aiserdte dead and buried, and that in two days the dreadful " of f, which they fell a sacrifice had carried all of them. in disease had been principally confined to p ersons cumstances, but of those it has been most unsPa w . , a n many instances has carried away two, three, '`) members of families.