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13, Great Marlbo rou gh-street. THE„„ FEW 'HISTORICAL -ROMANCE of Es Anal( ' .3 ..NIELLO. Edited by HORACE SMITH, q., , K 44 Brambletye House," will be ready at all the Libraries en 1 Wednesday, July 27. 1 ",,* Orders received by all Booksellers. Hew,' ' burn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborougln-street. HAMBURGH, JULY, 1842. S MAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA, AND 'HIS MAJESTY THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA, 4% 71 ' c AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED several DIS fiIaUTIONS of MONEY DIVIDENDS, by which L iIkGE FORTUNES may be obtained. HEINE BRO INIERS, at HAMBURGH,' now Selling Genuine and W 4RRANTED SELECTED BONDS for the sa+d LISTMII3U PIONS. Persons desirous to pwrchase may receive, PREVIOUS to giving any order, the PROSPECTUS with full PARTI CULARS, upon addressing, WITHOUT DELAY, a line to HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH. As we receive frequently appIicationsCERTIFICATES, we must boc t , vhserve, that a CERTIFICATE is QUITE DIFFERENT from a BOND, and th at there i s a great di'- ference again between BONDS and SELECTED BON DS —the SELECTED BONDS ONLY TAKING PART IN rim DIMIBUTION WHICH FOLLOWS THE SE- A-ECTION,, and which should never be overlooked, being of Lbe greatest importance. TH F.ATRE-ROYAL, ENGLISH OPERA-HOUSE. THIS EVENING, JULY 25. Lbe pies nted, the New Drama called THE LONE HUT. Prler.apal Characters by Messss. 0. Smith, Diddea W. H. Bland, and .Harley, Miss Murray, Miss Crisp, and Miss Faucit. "Lts which will be added, the Farce of DEAF AS A POST.— Tklatrain Sappy, Mr. Harleai Sally Maggs, Miss Murray. Niter which, the New Burlesque • allet, called GS IZELLE:— Characters by Signor Oxberrin; and Madile. Louisotta Fairbro, Ts conclude Willa the DREAM AT SEA.—Characters by Messrs. Oxberry, W. H. Bland. and 0. Smith ; Misses Pincott and Faucit. Boxes, .4s. Pit, Qs,. Gallery, is. Doors open at half-past Six commence at Seven; Half.price, a Quarter before Nine. Private Boxes to be hail of Mr. Grogan, at the Private Box-office ; and of Meaer,. Andrews, Mitchell, Sams, and Baily, at thrit Libraries. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. IS NG, . Will be represen: THIS ed D EV EN I enizetti's Opera of JULY THE 2S LOVE SPELL, supported by the First Vocalibtti of the Day—Miss Homer, Mr, W. Mee-risen, Mr. Leffler, Mr. J. Webster, Mrs. Serle, and Miss E. Terrey, Conductor, Mr. G. Stansbury. After which, Shakspere's Tragedy of MACBETH; with all Locke's splend id Music, sung by the entire Opers Compauy, Pla•oes and Private foxes may be ad of Mr. J. Kerschner, at the 1' 1t (Mice, from Eleven till Four daily. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. ortAism FLORAL FETE. TO-MORROW, TUESDAY, JULY 26, The ROYAL SOUTH LONDON FLORICULTURAL SO. CIETY will hold their SECOND SUMMER SHOW for 1842, in the ahove admi ra bly a d a p te d G roun d s, on t h e same sca l e of splendour that has always distinguished these popular Fetes. SEVENTY PRIZE` of SILVER CUPS, GOLD and SILVER MEDALS, and the LINNEAN MEDAL, Will be awarded to the succes fui Exhibitors. Besides , he Exhibition of Floral and Horticultural products, which from the fineness of the season and other favourable circumstances, is confidently expected to be unusually rich, varied, and extensive, the whole of the popular Entertainments for which this Establish. meat is so 'widely celebrated, will be given en a scale of grandeur eclipsing +el previous efflarts. Admission One Shilling. Gates open at One Ooncert at Six. Fireworks at half-past Nine. The Ev sling Fetes, with all the usual attract,ions, every Monday, Ttwidlyl vin and Thursday. Open from Ten flle Morning. Feeding Lour Fie o'clock. All Advertisements of a Disgusting Character, or Immoral Tendency, are excluded from the Columns of "The sun." ArA , AWAit S ) AL—a, • ° 117 3- Irtit; Ats,ll '• • • , , t!c LONDON : MONDAY MORNING, JULY 25, 1842. Mr. COBDEN alluded, on Friday night, to the veto lately pronounced by Mr. President TYLER, to the ordinance recently issued in France, relative to the duties on linen-yarn, and to the convention which that country has formed with Belgium, as good reasons why the House of Commons should now inquire into • the distress of the country, and the means of relieving . it. On all hands the distress is admitted to be great; on all hands it must be agreed, as we have an abun ' 'dance of manufacturing power, that the distress arises from the want of markets ; and by no person can it be denied, that our protective system, by the example it has set, and by the immediate effects it had on the United States, Prussia,.and France, has limited and curtailed our markets. By now inquiring into the effects of our laws, in excluding us from foreign markets, we should probably arrive at the conclusion, that to open our ports to the raw, produce of the United States, would be the .certain means of securing that market for our manu factures. All the Western States, which have a pre •, ▪ ppnderatmg influence in Congress, would be favour fr,;, ~able.to a low tariff on manufactures, were their agri cultural pro Ince admitted freely into England. That is WhiCh is susceptible of proof, and as Mr. TYLER'S veto leaVei the whole. question open, it would be only y;•)1 - 11 - • I ..prudent in England now to make such alteratious in her laws as would insure a revision of the United Mates tariff favourable to the trade with this country. We hope that Mr. COBDEN, who has started this topic; will not lose sight of it, but will take other means and opportunities of bringing it before the House of Coin mens. The Parliament of England has yet a noble opportunity by doing justice to our own people, of promoting the prosperity and civilization of the western world, its well as the happiness and glory of Britain. MADAME D'ARELAY'S DIARY, VOL. IV.—We are requested to state that the fourth volume of Madame D'Arblay's Diary and Letters is published this day by Mr. Colburn, of Great Marlborough-street, and may now be had of all booksellers. Mr. Colburn has also just. published :-1. Lord Londonderry's Steam Voyage to Constantinople by the Rhine and Danube, in 1840-41, 2 vols., Bvo., with illustrations.-2. Mr. Vigne's Travels in Kashmere, &c., with observations on the late and now passing events in Affghanistan, 2 vols., Bvo. with a valu able map and 22 illustration s .--3. The Life of Admiral Keppel, by the Hon. and Rev. Thomas Keppel, 2 vols. 8 vo., with portrait.-4. Dr. Granvill e ' s S pas o f England and principal Sea-bathing Places,cheaper adition,in 2 vols., either of which can be had separately, price 12s. each, with map, and upwards of 50 illustrations.-5. Lady Blessington's Idler in France, second and cheaper edition 2 Vols., 16s. bound ; and 6. Lieut.-Col. Napier's Excur sion along the Shores of the Mediterranean, 2 vols., small Bvo. It is rikmoured that the resolutions to be proposed by Mr. Roebuck on Thursday will not affect the seats of John Hobhouse, Mr. C. Russell, Major Beresford, Mr. Attwood, Mr. B. Cochrane, &c. ; but certainly, if ever mcri deserved to be expelled the House of Commons, they deserve it. They have done all they could •to make representation a mere farce. • They have bartered away the rights of the people. We are afraid, however, that Mr. Roebuck will not go the length of trying to make an example of them, but will content himself, as we hear is to be the case, with bringing forward next session a Bill to reform the representation, grounded on the cases of grom bribery which the' Hon. and Learned Gentleman has most distinctly brought before the public. Mr. Vincent is still going about, we see, promoting the cause of popular representation. "On Tuesday evening," says the Derby Reporter,;" the Lecture Hall, Derby, Was crowded by the middle and working classes, who were anxious to hear Mr. Vincent, one of the champions of the Complete Suffrage movement set a going by Mr. Sturge, and other middle-class pro perty men. On and about the platform we noticed many middle-clas s men, who joined heartily -in the applause which many of Mr. Vincent's arguments elicited. The meeting seemed to excite great interest." Meetings of the distressed shopkeepers continue to be held throughout the reanufa:Auring districts. At such,a inee tipg, held at Burnley, on this day week, when the suffering shopkeepers, who have, heretofore stoo d : 4 oof f ro m the suffrage question, came to a reso lution to exert themselves to procure for their unrepre serned. - fellow, countrymen an organic change in the , rep, esentative system. So out of distress will grow some Steatineasure o f Parliamentary Reform, Yesterday morning, about seven o'clock, a fire was discovered to be raging with great fury, in the fore cabin of the Jasmine steamer, Capt. Bagott, lying cff Searle's boat-house, Stangate ; every assistance was rendered, and with great exertions the flames were got under ; the whole of the cabin was, however, burnt out. FIRE AND EXPLOSlON.—Yesterday morning, about nine o'clock, a fire, caused by an explosion of some , chemicel preparation, broke out on the premises of Messrs. Reece and Co., Chemists, No. 168, Piccadilly. It appears that a lad was engaged in the front kitchen, compounding somechemical preparation, when it suddenly exploded, by the force of which the windows of the kit chen were blown out, and the place set on fire, which was, however, fortunately extinguished, before any very great damage was done. The boy was severely injured by the violence of the explosion. HORRID AND WANTON BARBARITY. —On the night c ommitted an atrocious outrage. eaurp:nlegsse,vaveradl of Wednesday, or early yesterday morning, some person, still bleeding, an g i , ma appareu ls veer% undetected, i s n h g ee t p o v i a r z . in j g oh i n n so P n l , u f m arm stea e d r. - marshes. near Woolwich, belong fyn found h Y e e m s t :s r t . them with their e d x a c y ru m ci o a rn ti i n n g g algyoinngv_dotwhnreeanodf t. tails cut off, and having their backs and sides inhumanely mangled. One of the poor sheep had a shtalder completel separated from its body, as cleanly and dextelfilltsly es although an experienced butcher had been at work. A short time before this barbarous occurrence, it is supposed the same individual endeavoured to burn the farmer out by setting his premises on fire ; but the incendiary managed to escape so as not to leave the slightest trace by which he could be detected. Decisive measures are in operation for the apprehension of the offender, and it is to be hoped a reward of 20/., which has been offered, will ensure his detection. Mr. HAwES is, undoubtedly, a very rising man, but we believe he has not, yet been in the Cabinet. The House of Commons was somewhat surprised, therefore, on Friday night, to see him rise after Sir ROBERT PEEL had appealed to her MAJESTY'S late Ministers, to express their disapprobation of motions of adjournment, and hear him do as Sir R. PEEL wished, COURT CIRCULAR. and oppose,.with as much vehemence as if he were a Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the proximate Prime Minister, the motion to adjourn the Queen and Prince Albert and the Hereditary Prince and Princes:; of Saxe Cobour g G o th a , on S aturday morning, House. He was. quite sho c k e d a t hi s H on. F r i end think-rinces ing of resisting th e w ill o f a ma j or i ty, which, accord- at Buckingham Palace. Her Majesty and his Royat Highness Prince Albert, ing to Mr. Hawes ; struck at the root of a representative accompanied by their Serene Highnesses the Hereditary Government—the guarantee of all our liberties. We Prince and Princess of Saxe Cobourg Gotha, left Buck feelingham Pa!ace, at three o'clock on S a t ur d ay a f ternoo n. feel ourselves b oun d t o assert, t h at w h en a House ourselves co m p e ll e d t o diff er f rom M r. H i IVES, and in an open carriage and fo ur , escorte d b y a party of of Hussars, for the terminus of the Great Western Rail . has been collected as the present House of way at Paddington. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince Commons has been, by notorious bribery and cor- Dowager Wales and the Princess Royal, accompanied by the Lieutenant -Colonel ca E rria u g e t r e r ruption—when it is not a just representation of the ee ee v and in people—when it is engaged in measures pregnant with Waiting on the Queen, and Colonel Bouverie, Equerry q in mischief to the public—when it is intent only on Waiting , - on the Prince, followed in another carr i age . voting' away th e pu bli c money, and refuses The Queen and Prince Albert were conducted to the ,cieeti(irlroln-Imnllolf)ytitlheesLtoorled St,t,eitsilaerdi,,rtihneceLotrhdeey,hiact:beethi:min rity of the H o u se o f Commons to redr ess th e pu bli c gr i evances , the mino 'will not do berlain, and Lord Colville and Captain Francis Sey its duty if it do not obstruct such a Go- moor, the Lord and Groom in Waiting on his R.yal Highness,. and were handed to their carriage by the vernment to the extent of its means. As to aerepre , Master of the Morse. sentative Government being the guarantee of our Lady Caroline Cocks and the Hon. Miss Derereux, liberties, when we cease to guarantee them ourselves by the Maids of Honour in Waiting, Viscount Sydney, !Lord in Waiting, Captain Hood, G room i n Waiting, and our flivn opinions and ou r o w n d ee d s , if necessary, the Baron de Brenden s t e i n Aide-de-Cam to the Prin c e aer.,t not look to the Howse of Cothmons to secure them. ; of Saxe Cobourg, prec e d e d' tier Majesty to P the Railway 'We are well a ware th a t a ll t h ose gent l emen who terminus. The Royal party left by a special train f or : expect to form part of an administration at any time, the Sloug!) station. IHer Majesty has been graciously pleased td appoint are as jealous of the authority of the Government .11fr. Partride-e Y her Portrait Painter Extraordinary. His when they are in opposition as when they are in office. Royal Highne'ss Prince Albert has conferred on him a They regard that authority as a joint property, of similar honour. Di Her Royal highness the Duchess of Kent attended which they may by and by have the usufruct ; and service ialnee yesterday D i in t n li d e ns c h ‘ a v p a e s l however heavily . or disastrously it may weigh sineltn.ocnLady n r Charlotte n. on the people, they defend it in hope of soon being ing on her Royal Highness. ealed on to wield it. In truth Mr. HAwEs spoke as His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge paid. a if he expected so on t o b e sen t f or to f orm a Ca b inete hto Park .Dkueliess of Gloucester, a t h er res id ence i n not to be one of it s sub or di na t e mem b ers. D oes he e g k s Cabinet Council was held on Saturday- afternoon, at aspire to cut out Lord JOHN RUSSELL, who has fled the Foreign-office. It was attended by Sir Robert from the Parliamentary battle, and catch the Treasury Peel, the Duke of Wellington, Lord Wharnclitie, the stair when Sir ROBERT PEEL casts it away ? What I Dulceo u Earle t l h e ec hl o n t e . e e l l b n e r rd n e f en ria Lo l cd Stanley, Sir party Mr. HAWES is to lead we are net aware, but James E dwa rd inatdtbull, and Earl of Rip ' oi 4 e .c l l. l7C e 'o r 'ut ‘3 lcil ir certainly the Liberal party is not likely, after his sat two hours and a half. exhibitioe on Friday evening, to place itself under A Deputation from the merchants, planters, and his guidance. others, and from the C o l on i a l S oc i ety, h a d an i nterview on Saturday with Sir Robert Peel, at his official residence in Downing-street, on the subject of Cinnamon Duties. The Deputation consisted of the Right lion. Lord Beaumont; Sir G. de H. Larpent, Bart., Chairman of the East India and China Association ; Mr. Samuel Greg son, Deputy Chairman ; Mr. John Scott, of the firm of tss:4. Scott, Bell, and Co. ; Mr. William H. Thomas, of Messrs. Boyd and Thomas ; Mr. James Cook, of Messrs. Trueman and Cook ; Mr. John G. Frith, of Messrs. Elliott, Frith, and Co. ; and Mr. Charles E. Layard, of Ceylon. Despatches were received at the Colonial, office from the Governor of Gibraltar. WINDSOR, SUNDAY.—Her Majesty and Prince Albert, the Prince and Princess of Saxe Coburg, the Prince of Wales, and the Princess Royal, and the Royal Suite, ar rived at the Castle a few minutes after four o'clock yes terday afternoon, from the Slough station, escorted by a party of the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards. The illustrious party afterwards went out in pony phaetons and on horseback into the Great Park. This morning her Majesty and Prince Albert, the . Prince and Princess of Saxe Coburg, and the Roy a l suite, attended Divine service at the dhapel Royal, St. George's. The Rev. Mr.. Knyvett took the first part of the service, and the Hon. and Very Rev. the Dean and the Rev. Mr. Canning officiated at the altar. The Dean preached an excellent sermon front the 60th verse of the 119th Psalm, "I made haste, and prolonged not the time to keep Thy commandments." A~~ (ts LITERATURt. The CASTLES and ABBEYS _of ENGLAND- Part VI. Mortimer, Landoa, 1842.- In the Part before us we have copious and minute details respecting the Castle of Kenilworth, and the visit of Queen Elizabeth to this fine old baronial edi fice, at the period of its greatest splendour, when the famous Earl of Leicester was its owner. Sir Walter Scott, it may be remembered, has turned this visit to excellent account in his admirable romance of "Kenil worth," and, if we may judge from the various en gravings given in the present Part, his sketches of the Castle, as it stood in the sixteenth century, are as cor rect as they are vivid and picturesque. The building, it seems, is one of great antiquity, having been founded in the reign of King Henry the First, by Geoffrey de Clinton, Treasurer and Lord Chamberlain ; it is now, however, in the last stage of decay, and even the bed of its once extensive grounds is but a rushy swamp. The engravings illustrative of the, Castle are executed with great skill and apparent fidelity, and the letter press descriptions, by the editor, Doctor Beattie, are concise and pertinent. STONEHENGE. 3 Vols. Bentley, London, 1842. In this romantic story, which it is plain to see, is the result of no little' research and pains-taking, an attempt has been made to pourtray the domestic manners and usages of the Romans, in the days of the Emperor Nero ; the characters and persecutions of the Christian converts during that sanguinary period ; and their mode of secret worship, while exposed hourly to the prying eyes of their enemies in the Imperial city. Sketches also—for the most part vivid and accurate—are given of the social life of the Britons, and their mysterious Druidical rites, per formed in the chief temple of their priests, Stone henge, whence the tale derives its title. The hero is a young man namen Pudens, son of the Arch-Druid, but who has been torn from his parents in infancy, and educated in Rome. Unconscious of his parentage, he feels all the contempt of a Roman soldier for the British barbarians, but having unexpectedly en countered his father one night in the neighbourhood of Stonehenge, the secret of his birth is revealed to him, and then he decides on taking part with his op pressed countrymen against his former friends and associates. Accordingly he accompanies the Arch- Druid to the capital city of the British King Ar viragus, near the site of modern Bath, by whom he is hospitably received and introduced to his daughter Roscrana. Soon afterwards the King's troops are de feated with prodigious loss by the Roman General Suetonius, and Roscrana is taken captive, and, on the General's recal to the imperial city, she accompanies him as a sort of hostage, and is lodged at the house of the philosopher, Seneca, of the luxury and magnifi cence of whose palace we have a very graphic descrip• tion. Pudens, too, after various changes of fortune, finds his way to Rome, where he contrives to renew his acquaintance with Roscrana, and to become inti mate with Lucan, Martial, and many of the eminent poets and historians of that day. Ultimately both he and his " lady love" are converted to Christianity, chiefly through the instrumentality of St. Paul, who is then preaching the Gospel at Rome; and in due time they return to Britain, just in time to receive the blessing, and close the eyes of King Arviragus. From this sketch, slight as it is, it will be seen that Stonehenge possesses many striking points of interest, and will be sure to please the better educated class of readers, if only by reason of its antiquarian know ledge, the strength and simplicity of its languar, and the familiar acquaintance which it shows with the rich stores of classical literature. Had some of its descriptions been abridged, or stirring incidents sub stituted for them, we think that the tale would have been improved —at least as regards its ad captandum qualities ; for in one place the narrative actually comes to a dead halt, while the author is cataloguing, with the minuteness of an auctioneer, the furniture, busts, paintings, &c. of Seneca's palace. But, despite these drawbacks, Stonehenge is a very superior work, the production of a thoughtful and cultivated in tellect. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JULY 25, 1842 ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTI- TUTION. Amongst the many inventions of modern genius, there are few, perhaps, which claim more deservedly the atten tion of the public generally, from the extreme simplicity of its manipulation and its general utility, than that branch of the photographic art called " calotype." This branch, which was discovered by Mr. Fox Talbot, in Eng land, synchronous with the daguerreotype process, in vented by . the French chemists Messrs. Niepse and Daguerre, in France, differs only from the latter in this, that the ealotype delineates upon paper made sensitive, whilst the daguerreotype delineates upon metal rendered sensitive. We attended a lecture upon this subject, delivered by Dr. Ryan, at the Polytechnic Institution, a few days ago, and, as the calotype process is at once simple and interesting, we make no apology for presenting our readers with a brief outline of the learned Doctor's lecture. The lecturer commenced by directing the attention of his audience, first, to the chemical action of light upon the colours of plants and animals, contrasting especially the dingy whiteness of the animals and birds of the polar regions, with the gay and luxuriant plumage of the " minions of the south ;" and, secondly, to the action of the sun's rays upon certain chemical compounds. He then proceeded to trace the history of the art of " pencilling by means of light," from its first dawn among the alchymists, through its various grada- tions—enumerating the experiments of Wedgewood and of Davy, resulting in failure, from their inability to fix the picture—the more successful attempts of M. Niepso and M. Daguerre—and finally, the discoveries of our coun tryman Fox Talbot. After contrasting the calotype with the other photo graphic processes, and especially pointing out its appli cation to the arts and sciences, and its use to the botanist, the meteorologist, the traveller, and the anti quarian, Dr. Ryan proceeded to prepare the " sensitive paper," which was done in the following manner. Having chosen good post paper, of an even texture, he brushed one side of it carefully over with a solution consisting of 100 grains of crystallized nitrate of silver in six ounces of distilled water. The paper was then carefully dried between blotting paper. It was next dipped into a solu tion of 500 grains of iodide of potassium in one pint of distilled water. Upon taking it out it was washed well in distilled water, and again dried. In this state it is called " iodized paper," and may be kept any length of time, as it is not yet very sensitive. To prepare it for the reception of images, the " iodized paper" must be brushed over in the dark, with a mixture of the following solu tions, A and B:—Solution A consists of 100 grains of nitrate of silver, dissolved in two ounces of distilled water, to which is added one sixth its volume of pure acetic acid. Solution B is a saturated solution of oxalic acid in distilled water. Equal volumes of the two mixtures are put into a glass, and applied by means of a brush to the paper, which is afterwards washed with distilled water and dried. In this state it is ready to receive impressions of objects, and is so sensitive, that if held to the light it imme diately becomes black. After exposing it to the action of light, with the image either reflected upon it, or placed in contact with it, for a few seconds, it is removed, and if examined will present no trace whatever. It is now again brushed over in the dark with the mixed solutions A and B, and then placed upon a tin vessel containing hot water, when the picture begins to develope itself. When it is sufficiently developed—as it will be in the course of a few seconds—the further action of light is arrested by brushing the paper with a solution of 100 grains of bromide of potassium in eight ounces of dis tilled water, and afterwards washing and drying. In conclusion, Dr. Ryan pointed out the difference between " negative" and " - positive" pictures, and stated, that, although the first taken in a camera was negative, having its lights and shadows reversed,yet by placing the picture so taken in contact with sensitive paper pre pared by the old," photogeni-3" method, or, as recom mended in the calotype process, and exposing it to light, a positive copy could readily be obtained from the nega tive original. _ _ We cannot conclude, without remarking on the very able manner in which the Doctor made his lecture com prehensible to the meanest intellect. Avoiding all fami liarity, he was free with his audience ; his object ap peared to be to make himself understood by every one. The process is a very beautiful one, and by it the most delicate'tracery of artificial productions, and the most exquisite shades, and lights, and tissues of natural ob jects can be copied with unrivalled accuracy. The works of the calotype process may, in fact, be termed natural copies, and they are so far superior to those produced by the pencil and the brush that a mag nifying power applied to them, instead of exposing de fects and blemishes, serves only to heighten their beau ties, and to detect new and more charming resemblances of the original. THE QUEEN'S THEATRE., We are happy to say that this very agreeable little theatre improves daily in the character of its representa tions, and after a long absence we must express our sur prise and gratification at the performances which we wit nessed there on Saturday. In addition to the usual com pany, with Mr. J. Parry at its head. Mrs. Honey, and Mr. Collins, are engaged for a short time. - The lady is too well known to need any comment from us, save that she is dashing, gay, lively, and as handsome as ever. Mr. Collins is an importation from thsa Emerald Isle, and is • most admirable in Irish characters, in which poor Power was vii inimitable. We were very much pleased with his impersonation of the character of Sir Patrick nipo, in " the Irish Ambassador. In addition to the Irish Ambassador, the performances consisted of two pieces, called Kate Careless and Juan in Love, in both of which Mrs. Honey appeared. We cannot aftbrd time or space to refer at length to the rest of the company ; we wish, however, to offer our !need of praise to Mr. J. ' Parry, Mr. Moss, Mr. Manders, Mis Rogers, and Miss Wrighten, who were all exceedingly good in their respec tive parts. The house is a comfortable one, and a great deal of new and excellent scenery and decorations have been added. DR. REID ON THE ADAPTATION OF BUILDINGS TO SOUND. The intimate connexion between respiration in the form of speech, ventilation, and the com munication of sound, as they relate to the archi tectural modifications of buildings, occupied Dr. Reid's attention, on Wednesday evening, at Exeter Hall. He proceeded to show that, owing to the con struction of some rooms in which an aggregate of one thousand persons might be present, the speaker's respiration, instead of being overcome, was aided, while in others, of large dimensions, he was compelled td draw in so copious a volume of air, that his breath Wa3 often gone by the utterance of a few syllables. This was entirely dependent upon architectural struc ture and organization, which was in some cases so de fective. and opposed to the laws of sound, that public men were sometimes entirely exhausted by speaking in some of these buildings, and were only recovered by wine. - Nothing so reduced the strength of an in tellectual orator as the compulsory modulation of the breath, from these circumstances. In a still atmos phere, remarked the lecturer, the voice could be heard at a distance of two and three miles, sometimes even ten. The latter fact had been proved in towns where the watchmen have been hoard to call the hour. The shrill call of the fisherman has travelled to the ear over water a distance of five miles, namely at Edin burgh, from the neighbouring island of Inchkeith, which is situated at that distance from the city, and the roll-call from thence has been heard at a distance of twenty miles. On the authority of Admiral Stod hart, cannon were stated by Dr. Reid to convey their sound one, two, and three hundred miles. " Music on the water," had long been remarked upon by the poet and sentimentalist for the beautiful sense with which it came upon the mind of the hearer, but this pleasurable feeling arose, not from associa tion, but from a physical reason, which was this, that the pure flow or vibration of sound was not broken by any sinister expression or reverberation, as in the case of an echo, which marl the sound. Purity and beauty of sound was not to be found in the grand crash of the orchestra, but in those specific kinds of intonation, where the air was correct and the sound precise. Purity of sound differed from mass of sound. Dr. Reid next divided rooms, as the recipients of tone, into the silent and sonorous. The former were those which probably had trellis-work or other openings, by which the sounds escaped or were diffused. In the sonorous rooms, a sound developed very frequently lasted for five seconds : this fiat sound would be clearly defined, but the second would lack clearness, being accompanied with the echo of the first, and the third and succeeding, multiplying on themselves these reverberative tones, finally caused the speaker's voice to grow more and more unintelligible. These facts, thus noticed, l ea d t o th e economy of co n structing rooms, as also the economy of ventilation. Variou s diagrams of buildings, constructed on Dr. Reid's principles, so as to allow of the amplest ventilation, and at the same time to be preservative from their configuration of the finest sounds, were finally exhi bited and satisfactorily dilated on by the skilful lecturer. POOR-LAWS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,—Having seen an observation in your paper (at tributed to Mr. Ward, M.P.) to the following effect, that the New Poor-law tended to raise wages, because " if the farmer offered the labourer only 7s. a week, which was insufficient to his maintenance, he, the labourer, could get more by threatening to throw himself on the parish." I beg leave to inform Mr. Ward that this is not prac tically- the case. In the first place, the labourer knows that, if he does not accept of the low wages offered (in the present superabundant supply of labour) there, are others who will. But further, the farmer having offered him work, though at the low price of 7s. a week, the Guar dians and Overseers will consider him as unwilling to work, though able to obtain it, and will refuse him relief, and if a farmer, or a host of farmers, a whole county of them, offer 1,000 labourers 7s. a week (though not want ing more than 800) the labourers must accept it. It is the interest of the farmer to give the 1,000 7s. a week, rather than give the 800 he actually wants Bs. 6d., though each labourer should do only three-quarters of a day's work ; and the surplus 200 labourers have not the option of going to the parish, that the 800 may obtain the Bs. 6(1. wages. because the parish will not weive them : so than the New Poor-law does not, in effec,., enable the labourer to obtain a fair, or in any way a better rate of wages, tha he otherwise could.—Your constant. reader, Fulham, July 23, 1842. A. A. THE POLISH NATION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. London, July 23, 1842. SIR,—I take the liberty of sending, and beg your acceptance of, a copy of the address of the General in-Chief of the Polish Army, expressive of the grati tude of the exiled and oppressed people of Poland, for the generous sympathy of the British House of Com mons, on a recent occasion, in the manifold wrongs inflicted upon Poland.—l have the honour to be, your most obedient servant, (Signed) GENERAL SOLTYK. TO THE MEMBERS OF THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT. On a recent occasion Sir Robert Peel, the illustrious head of your Administration, expressed himself in the following terms : " I am convinced that after all the blood and treasure which must be expended in carrying out such pernicious policy, it would be found that nationality, if it may . be crushed, would never be extinguished ; that its spirit survived amidst every oppression in lands however dis tant and obscure ; and that though the unfortunate na tives might be transported into strange climes, it would be seen how strictly true it was in this and all other cases Ccelum, non animum mutant.'" It is this feeling which animates the whole Polish na tion, and it is in her name, as General in-Chief of her army, invested provisionally with the power of President of the National Government, that I address myself with confidence to the British Parliament to express her gra titUde and her hopes. The forms of your Honourable House prevent us fr om ex p ress i ng i n a manner more congenial to our feelings, the deep sense we entertain of your generous sympathies on behalf of the Polish nation. The good wishes expressed for the nationality of Po land on this memorable occasion have touched the hearts of her sons and console them in their misfortunes. They know how good wishes may be changed into representa tions, and representations into solemn protestations, and how the protest a ti ons o f G reat B r i ta i n are never made in vain ; they will be heard from one end of the universe to the other, and teach an important lesson. What a great nation wishes for she knows how to ac complish ; may. England support us, and by her aid render the holy cause of our country triumphant. It were vain to speak of the means employed by the Government of Russia to convert fifteen millions of Poles into so many Russians. That end she shall never ac complish while there is a God above, and a free people on earth. The people of Poland have experienced terrible vicis situdes. They who from infancy have imbibed the love of country, and who have often and but recently armed in defence of her liberties and rights, are now constrained to suffer in silence every hardship and outrage, and have only the courage of resignation to appose to the power of their oppressor. One thought, however, at all times consoles and sus tains them. It is that these hardships and outrages may yet be serviceable to their holy cau-•e, and give birth to the conviction among the independent nations of the earth, that the acknowledgment of the ancient rights of Poland, and the restoration of a great and independent nation, would for ever put an end to this deplorable con dition, guarantee the stability of the States of Europe, and maintain a peace founded on justice and the rights of nations. Representatives of Great Britain ! It was worthy of you, it was worthy of the great nation you represent, to place yourselves at the head of this noble movement, and to show by the accomplishment of a great act of justice, that if you are jealous in maintaining your own liberties, you can at the same time acknowledge the rights of others and succour the oppressed. (Signed) RYBINSKI, General-in.Chicf of the Polish Army. Paris, 14th July, 1842. I, the undersigned, certify the foregoing to be a faith ful translation. (Signed) GENERAL SOLTYK. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. (From the Hampshire Telegraph.) PORTSMOUTH, JULY 23.—The Sulphur, surveying ship, Captain Belcher, arrived on Tuesday, after a toil some expedition of seven years on the west coast of North America, the South-sea Islands, the coast of China, and other places. Her crew have been particu larly healthy, and she comes home loaded in an extra ordinary manner with vegetable, animal, geological, mi neral, and zoological specimens ; sh e h as some p l ants running up her hatchways, twenty feet in height, for some of the public gardens. She sailed on Thursday for WoolWich, to be paid off. The Wellesley, 72, Captain Thomas Maitland, ar rived at Plymouth on Tuesday, from the East Indies. Shc brought home Captain Butterfield (late of the Fam tome), and invalids, and part of the crew forMerly be longing to the Alligator—she left Chusan on the 3d of February ; Singapore, the 7th March ; and the Cape of Good Hope, the 19th June, all well. She will be paid off at Plymouth. The Albatross, 16, Commander Yorke, sailed on Tues day for the North American station ; she takes out several officers and upwards of eighty supernumeraries for the 1 Sydenham steamer, and other ships ; she is to call at Ply Mouth. The Satellite, 18, Commander Gambier, sailed on Monday for the South American station. The Alban steamer arrived at Gibraltar from Ply mouth, on the 7th inst. The Formidable ' 84, and Bel videra, 36, sa il e d f rom Gib ra l tar on t h e 4th ; the former for Cadiz. The Lizard steamer sailed the some day for Malaga. The Resistance troop ship, arrived at Quebec, from England, on Oe 25th June. The Samarang, 26, and Orestes, 18, were undocked this morning. The Tortoise store ship, Captain Wood, left Hobart ToWn, for New Zealand, on the 9th March, for masts for the. Navy. The Beagle, surveying ship, Captain Stokes, sailed at the same time, to survey Bank's Straits. The Monkey steamer is ordered to the Downs, to assist in towing Mr. Bush's Cassoon: The Driver, steam frigate, Commander H armer , ar rived at Simon's Bay, C ape of Good Hope, on the 13th of May ; she would have to go to Table Bay for coal, and would proceed to China, about the 24th. The Nautilus, 10, Lieut. Commander C. J. Paulson, arrived on. Friday, from off Brighton, where she has been to protect the mackerel fishery, the season for which being now over. The Wolverine, 16, was at Simon's Bay on the 14th May. The Pique, 36, was taken out of dock into the basin on Wednesday. The ship, George the Fourth, is daily expected here from the River to carry the St. Helena regiment to its destination. The Malabar, free trader, from Bombay, sailed on Tuesday. • The Childe Harold, Indiaman, for Bombay, arrived yesterday, and sailed this evening. In Harbour—St. Vincent, Victory, Excellent, Royal George, Pique, Nautilus. Raven, Seaflower and Sylvia (cutters,) Echo (steam tug), Diligence (naval transport). At Spithead—Cleopatra. PLYMOUTH, JULY 21. The Belgian transport, Ma cassar, sailed for Singapore on Thursday last. The Philomel, 10, Commander R. J. Sulivan, sailed on Satur day for the Pacific, on a survey of the Falkland Islands. Mr. Henderson, Second Master Attendant, with a party of men, proceeded the same day, in the Hatnoaze lighter, for Greenock, to bring the Spiteful steamer to this port. The Wellesley, 72, Captain Maitland, arrived on Tues day from the East Indies. In Harbour—Caledonia, San Josef, Actaeon, Wolf, and Confiance steamer. In the Sound—Wellesley. PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS. PnomoTioN.—Assistant Surgeon—Ebernezer Robert son, late of the Benbow, to the rank of Surgeon. APPOINTNENTS,—Commander G. A. Frazer, to the Comet. Lieutenants—W. C. Alexander, to the Cleopatra, vice Pyne ; Augustus Lavie, to the Isis • B. Young (addi tionll), to th e St. Vi ncent ; Alfred kortrigh:, to com mand the Columbia ; G. Blane, to the Royal Naval Col lege, for study. Master and Pilot—G. J. Hodges, to the Satellite. Second Master—Mr. John Way, to Meteor ; Mr. E. 11, Rowe, to Comet. Master's Assistant—Mr. 0. A. Winstanley, to the Dee. Assistant Surgeon—J. N. Derriman, to the Sea• flower. Mates—W. J. Lower, to the Thunderer ; E. Tumour, :o the Seaflower. Midshipman—G. J. Colville, to the Carysfort. Volunteer Ist Class—G. J. Malcolm, to the In constant. PRIMROSE-HILL.—On Saturday a meeting of the rate-payers of Marylebone, appointed as a Committee to assert . and maintain the public " right of way" over Primrose-hill, in, the direction of Kilburn, and which has recently been obstructed, assembled, accompanied by the Members for the Borough. Sir B. Hall, and Commo dore Sir Charles Napier, at Primrose-hill, for the pur pose of viewing the spot and " right of way" in dispute. After some discussion, Sir Benjamin Hall observed that the course he would recommend the rate-payers to adopt would be at once to call upon the Vestry to direct their surveyor to make a survey of the boundaries of the parish at Primrose-hill, and define it and the ancient footpaths by laying down a course of stones where they went. Having'done this, he .would, with his Hon. Colleague, be most happy to ac company a deputation to the Commissioners of Woods and Forests, and seek their aid, as they had now pur chased Primrose-hill for the use and recreation of the r.ublic, in also preserving the right of the public to the means of gaining free access to it. Sir C. Napier •coin cided in what had fallen from Sir B. Hall; but observed, that if the rate-payers of Marylebone had a right to the road in question, and which he felt convinced they had, he thought they would be perfectly justified in at once destroying the obstruction. It was ultimately agreed to carry out the recommendation of the lion. Baronet, Sir B. Hall forthwith, and the meeting separated. GOSSIP OF THE OBSERVER. -A report is pre valent among the fashionable circles, and which we notice only because we cannot deem it otherwise than a most malignant calumny upon the distinguished Lady who is the object of it. We notice it, in order that an authorised contradiction may promptly follow our allu sion to it. The lie goes that Lady Augusta Gordon had missed some jewellery, and that the possession of this jewellery had been traced to the possession of a Countess, the daughter of a personage now holding the highest Cabinet appointment, and the grandniece of the most illustrious man of this age. She is the wife of the most honest and single-minded Member of the House of Peers. We pray him to authorise us to contradict the report, and aid him to trace out the calumniators. THE . GOOD 4511ii;;;;.-- ---- 1535.—Paid 14s. Bd., the expense of bringing a heretic from London, and for one and a half load of wood to burn him, 2s. ; for gun. powder, ld. ; a stake and staple Bd."—Records of the Corporation of Canterbury. DOVER CHURCH-RATE CASE. (From the Dover Chronicle.) Our readers will recollect that, in December 1840, Mr. D. Palfrey of this town was cited to appear in the Arches Court, Doctors' Commons, for refusing to pay four Church-rates and two Cemetery-rates. The admission of the libel, as far as the Church-rates were concerned, was successfully opposed by Mr. Palfrey's counsel ; but as far as related to the Cemetery-rates, no opposition was offered. The payment of these rates was recommended by counsel for Mr. Palfrey, and they were paid accordingly. On the 11th of January last the question o f cos t s was argued before Sir H. Jenner Fust, who con demned the churchwardens in the costs of the four Church-rates, and Mr. Palfrey of the two Cemetery rates. Mr. Palfrey's Proctor's charge was £76 1 10 Taken off in taxation '2B 13 4 47 8 6 Churchwarden's Proctor's bill Taken off in taxation l2 7 2 ACCOUNT BETWEEN PROCTORS. Abbott Dr. to Farquhar Farquhar to Abbott Balance 4 9 7 D. Palfrey, Dr. to Farquher—Bill _Additional Bill 8 0 3 Received of Abbott.. 84 2 1 4 9 7 79 12 6 Mr. Palfrey to Mr. Chalk, Solicitor £95 3 1 As this appeared a much larger sum than ought to be charged to Mr. Palfrey, he petitioned the Judge to revise the taxation of the costs ; and having re solved to prosecute the petition in person, he has been obliged to attend the Court seven times. The Judge on Monday last expressed his surprise that Mr. Palfrey should have so much to pay, but declared that he could not reverse his judgment, and that he had no evidence before him that costs had not been taxed agreeably to the custom of the Court. Mr. P. complained that he had been prevented producing such evidence, by the taxed bills having been refused him by the Registrar; but to no purpose. The late contest has cost as follows : Preparing petition, copies of same for each Proctor, &c. .£4 0 0 Two Extracts from Vestry-book Mr. Palfrey's Travelling and Living Expenses in Seven Journeys to London l3 2 8 Mr. Farquhar's Bill 79 12 6 Mr. Chalk's Bill, a £ll2 13 4 SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. IPSWICH RACES--.TUESDAY. WEDNESDAY. The South Shropshire Hurdle Stakes of 3 sows. each, with 20 added. Heats, once round and a dis. over three hurdles. Mr. W. Pugh's Habberley, 12st.. kl‘lr. Pugh) 4 1 1 Mr. Minton's Kitty, 12st Mr. Giles's Masterman, 12st 3 2 3 Mr. Nock's Lancet, 12st LANCASTER RACES.-- , WEDNESDAY. Handicap Sweepstakes of 15 soya. each, 10 ft, and five only if declared, with 701. added. Two miles. (Seven Subs.) Mr. Tokes' Ermengardis, 4 yrs, 7st 91b Mr. Meiklam's Wee Willie, aged, 9st ..... Mr. Smith's Candide, 3 yrs, 6st 21b Won by half a neck. The Maiden Plate of 50/. Two mile heats. Mr. King's br fby Mnley Hoch, out of Lillah, 3 yrs ... 1 1 Mr. Johnstone's Iby Voltaire, out of Wagtail 4 2 Mr. Hayes' Nicholas Nickleby, aged .. Mr. J. Smith's Candide, 3 yrs .. First heat, won by a head ; the second, by half a length THURSDAY. The Cup Stakes of 10 sous. each, p.p., with 30 added. Two miles and a distance. Lord Stanley's Pagan, 4 yrs walked over. Her Majesty's Plate of 100 guineas. Two mile heats. Mr. Kitchen's Priscilla Tomboy, 3 yrs, 7st slb ...... I I Mr. Tokes' Ermengardis, 4 yrs, 9st llb ........... 2 2 Mr. Mciklam's bc by Physician—Solace, 3 yrs, 7st 51b 3 3 _ . Won easy. Handicap of 5 sots. each, with 20 added, for the beaten horses. Heats, one mile and a distance. Mr. Meiklam's Wee Willie, aged ( Templeman) 1 1 Mr. Hutchinson's Maria Monk, 5 yrs 2 2 Won by a neck. GOODWOOD RACES. The following are the names of the horses arrived, or on their road to Goodwood :—All Fours, Knight of the Whistle, Mar shal Soult, Mehemet Ali, Dilbar, Y. Petuaria filly, Peter the Hermit, Attila, Armitage, Elopement, Meteor, The Ladye of Silverkeld Well, The Castor, Envoy, Monzeda colt out of Miss Craven's dam, Tyrolian, Dr. Caius, Pharold, Aristides, Johnny, Welfare, Gunter, c by Eli:, out of Partiality, Vulcan, Tupsley, Retriever, Robert de Gorham, f by Actaeon, out of Corumba, Fireaway, Rover, bro. to Plenipo, eh g by Plenipo, out of Bangtail, Aspatria, c by Velocipede, out of Guerdon, Snowdrop, Adela filly, Trampoline filly, Dark Susan, Hydaspes, Rory O'illore, Mingrelia, Pickwick, Fitzroy, Bar rier, Defier, Bastille, ivlarmercus, Una, Auckland, Candahar, Sleight-of-hand, Evening Star, Van Amburgh, Hyllus, Tri dent, Little Wonder, Clementina, Hopeful, Mary, Knights bridge, the Golden Rule, Policy, Lucy Banks, Vibration, Paul Potter, c by Augustus, G!enury, Pocohontss, Belgrade, Daddy Longlegs, Curryrombe, rcanus, Mid dleham, Charles 12th, Arnagill, Studley, Royal Prium, Vakeel, Cecil, Cameleon, Cornuto, Remnant, Windsor, Ni cholas, Helpmate Glance, Discord, Passion, Thistle, Whipper, c by Sultan t,ut of Victoria, c by Bay Middleton out of lar gelma, Warden, Waheb, Wiseacre, Mr. John Day's St. Lau rence, Jack-in-the-Green, Sultana, The Squire, Man Friday, Arctic, Messus, Garry Owen, Seahorse; Murat, The Tiger, Sis. to Ferneley, Delusion, Bosphorus, Abydos, Celia, c by Beiram dam by Emilius, The Corsair, Bolissima, &c. &c. Handicap for the Chesterfield Cup—Hyllus, 6 yrs, lOst— Sleight of Hand, 6 yrs, 9st 101b—Little 'Yonder, 5 yrs, 9st 91b—Van Amburgh, 4 yrs, 84 121b—Dr. Caius, 5 yrs, Bst 121b-slus, aged, Bst 101b—Priam, 6 yrs, Est 71b—Bellona, age , l. Bst 71b—Garry Owen, 5 yrs, Sst 41b—Fitzroy, 5 yrs, Bst 41b—Johnny, 5 yrs, Bst 21b—Belgrade, 4 yrs, Bst 011,—Re triever, 6 yrs, 7st 91b—Zeltnira, 5 yrs, 7st 911, (paid)—blaek Beck, 5 yrs, 7st 91b—Prince Caradoc, 4 yrs, 7st 91b—M. Soult, 4 yrs, 7st 91b—Rory O'More, 6 yrs, 7st 91b—Mustapha, 4 yrs, 7st 21b—Envoy, 3 yrs, 7st 21b—Pharold, 3 yrs, 7st 21b— Una, 4 yrs, Ist 21b—Policy, 3 yrs, 7st 21b—Adela (filly) 3 yrs, 6st 141b--Celia, 3 yrs, 6st 131b—Lucy Banks, 3 yrs, 6st 1311, Bracelet, aged, 6st 121b—Baleine (filly) 3 yrs, Est 101b—Cle mentina, 4 yrs, fist 121b—Cerito, 4 yrs, Est 101b—Vakeel, 3 yrs, 6st 101b—Seahorse, 3 yrs, Est 101b—Elopement, 3 yrs, 6st 81b— Rover,3 yrs, Est 71b—St. Jean &Acre, 3 yrs, 6st Olb —Saros, 3 yrs, 5g 10Ib—Norma, 3 yrs, sst 7 1 b—Rhodanthe, 5 yrs (paid) LATEST BETTING AT ST. JAMES'S. THE Goonwoon STAKES.-5 to 1 agst Knight of the Whistle (t); 9 to 1 agst Helpmate (t) ; 9to 1 agst St. Law rence; 1 1 to 1 agst Welfare (t); 14 to 1 agst Tupsley ; and 14 to 1 agst The Corsair (t). THE Goonwoon Cur.-4 to 1 agst the Squire (t); 9to 1 agst Marshal Soult (Q.; 9 to 1 agst Charles the Twelfth (1) 12 to 1 agst Middleham (t) ; 12 to 1 agst St. Lawrence (t) 13 to 1 agst Belcceur (t); 13 to 1 agst Fireaway (t) ; 15 to 1 agst Policy (t) ; 200 even on Marshal Soult agst Charles the Twelfth (t) ; 15 to 1 agst Charles the Twelfth winning this and his match. The Toulonnais states from Algiers, July 10, that in the night of the Rth, Ben :Fa.lem fell upon a tribe which had made its submission to the French, and cut off the heads of the men, and conveyed the women and children to the mountains. This account, however, does not appear to come from an authen tic source. PHOTOGRAPHY.--This art is daily improving, and it furnishes, probably, the best means of procuring a memento of those whose f ea t ures are wort h y o f remem There is no political news ofinterest in the French brance. Mr. Beard has lately been making portraits of papers received this morning, especially as the Re such diminutive size that they may be set in bracelets, genet question ex c it es no i n t erest on t hi s s i de of the lockets, and e v en i n s i gnet r i ngs . H owever indistinct Channel. Duke The of MoyrnosE presided at a these may appear to the na k e d e y e , th ey a ll possess the advantages of being absolutely correct as copies, so that public meeting of the British residents in Paris on any degree of distinctness may be developed in propor- Saturday for preparing an address of condolence to tion to the magnifying power employed whenever we the K choose to resort to the aid of a l ens . KING on the lament e d d ea th o f th e D u k e of The rate-payers of Lambeth have just received a ORLEANS. The meeting was most respectably at notice from the collector, requiring payment of a poor- tended, and an address unanimously agreed to. rate of ls. 6d, in the pound—the second of that amount A letter from Mostaganem, of July 21*, in the Con this year ; a highway rate of 4i-d. in the pound ; a stitutionnel, states that Abd-el-Kader lately appeared sud church-building rate of 4d., and a burial-ground rate of denly in the midst of the tribea of the bul , :d-Chegara, Id. On an assessment of 401. this will amount to who have submitted. He was recognised by some Arabs 41. I Is. Bd., and when collected .will produce 50,0001. who were guarding their flocks, and who immedi a t e ly The poor-rate includes the police (5,0001.) for the half- took to flight, spreading everywhere the alarm, that the year, the county (3,7241.) for the same period, and in- Emir was come to ravage their tribe. Before they had terest and part of principal of money borrowed for fin- communicated their alarm to the Kaids, the Emir arrived proving the workhouse, &c. in the Douars, and asked to see the Chief, Sidi Ould SUICIDE.—On Saturday night, a most determined Abd-Allah. He immediately came forward, and was act of self-destruction was committ e d by Wm. Fernley, surprised to find in the mouth of his ancient master butler to Mrs. Lane Fox, at her resid e nce, 36, Curzon- words of kindness and friendship. Without appearing street, May-fair. It appears that about ten o'clock the offended by the submission of the tribe, Abd-el-Kader female domestics, hearin g th e r e p or t o f fire-arms, became inquired if they were pleased with the French alliance. alarmed, and, on going into the butler' s room, discovered He added that the will of Arbi, the name by which the the deceased sitting upright i n an arm c h a i r , hi s left Arabs designate the Most High, ought to be respected ; cheek and the roof of his scull completely blown off; in that the Prophet had appeared to him in a d ream , his right hand NN as firmly clenched a double-barrelled to recommend him to leave some repose to his pistol, both barrels of which appeared to h ave been re- children, in order to re-commence the struggle at a later re cently discharged. The deceased, who had been indis- period, with a greater chance of success ; that, copse posed for two or th ree d ays prev i ous l y , was b e t ween sixty quently, the war would cease in every quarter, and that and seventy years of age. he authorised his faithful tribes to profit by the aid which INTERESTING RELIC.—On Thursday morning, a the Christians were simple enough to afford them ; that, piece of wood, addressed to the Lord Steward of her Majesty's as for him, he was protected by the Most High, and. Household, was landed at the Woolwich Dockyard from the could repair every where without escort, and free from Rhadamanthus steam-vessel, and forwarded yesterday as a pre- danger. He then asked to see the Chief's children, and sent to her Majesty, at . Windsor Castle.. It is said to have courteously saluting those standing round, lie turned his foamed part of the identical tree on which Alexander Selkirk made ' his notches to calculate time, and on which hi s p arrot ernande perched horses head to th e Ch e liff, exc l a i m i ng, " I t i s on this during his long solitary residence in the i s l an d o f J uan side that will first resound my cr ie s o f war ;" t h en dis p z. He was, as is wellAnown, the he ro o f De Foe's Playing that dexterity which has gained him th e titl e o f interesting tale of Robinson Crusoe. the first horseman of the Regency, he caused his horse The elections of the Judges and Supplementary to take prodigious bounds, and disappeared. Judges of the Tribunal of Commerce were completed yester. A letter from Ricey (Aube), July 13, states that day, and the Tribunal is thus constituted for the ensuing year : on the proceding day the elect r ic fl u id p asse d t h rough —President, M. Lebobe; J u d ges , Me ssrs. Bertrand, Taconet, the house of M. - Gerard-Verdin. of that place, but with- Moinnery, Banda . , Meder, Fran co i s G a ill ard, Chevalier, out injuring any person. It entered by a wire, which Ouvre, Lefebvre, jun., and Auzouy ; Supplementary Judges, was attached to a tube placed outside on the chimney, to Messrs. Barthelot, Rodier, Cornault, Rousselet-Charlard, Leon prevent smoke. It passed through the rooms below, and Grimault, Beau, jun., Chatenet, sen., 43ratien Milliet, Henry, sen., Araude, Germain Thibault, Lamaille, Ledagre, Letellier, entering the salle-a-manger, where the cloth was laid, Charles Leroy, and Selles.where M G d V d•was i the and me. erar - er in arrant ng A toll collector of Vauxhall-bridge was on Friday dessert, passed through the wall above the glass, and covered this lady with plaster and d us t. Th e ti me -pi ece fined Si., a t Q ueen - square, fur exacting one penny from on the chimney3';vas not stopped, or injured. The moment a corperal e f t h e 60t h . The defendant was instructed to only after the ma s t er o f t h e h ouse came i nto t h e room, and allow soldi ers en route to go through free, according to the Bridge A c t ; b ut the Mutiny Act, amended to was astoni s h e d an d near l y su ff ocate d b y t h e sme ll of 1842, provides th a t a ll so ldi ers shall pass toll free, wise- sulphur. Th e e l ec t r i c fl u id, pursu i ng i ts course , next they on actual d u ty or not. entered a nei g hb our i ng h ouse , w h ere i t s li g htly b urn t th e DEATH OF MR. DWIN.—Mr. Edwin who a few calf of th e l eg o f a man name d B uot , t h oug h w ith out i n E, yearn since obt a i ne d some ce l e b r i ty as a s i nger, at the any way i n j ur i ng hi s trousers . metropolitan the a t res , exp i re d l ate l y at New Y or k. On Sund a y as some p ersons were walking in th e Plain An order was i ssue d on T ues d ay t h at no more boys s lain bet ween V aug i rar d an d P e tit-Montrou ge , th ey of the first or second class should be entered, either in , heard the report of fire-arms in the direction of the the flag-ship or ordi nar y, or any s hi ps fitting out, till Ver,aill es R a il roa d. Th e y p ro ceeded to disco ver t h e muse of the shot, and found an individual stretched life further notice. Th e b o y s at p resent i n t h e serv i ce will less on th e groun d, w ith a horse-pistol grasp e d i n hi s be taken care of, and on a s hip b e i ng p a id off, they will be re-entered on board the flag-ships in ordinary. 3 ' This date must be wrong. 42 18 11 HIGH W ATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. oorning ..... 35 minutes after :S I Evening 49 minutes after 3, g ‘21,31, liirronb'EPittton SUN OFFICE Three o' Clock. All parties are obliged to admit that Mr. Roxnucx has clearly established all the charges of bribery and corruption advanced by him, when moving for his Committee, against the boroughs of Harwich, Not tingham, Lewes, Reading, Penryn and Falmouth, and Bridport ; and the bitterest opponents of the Hon. I and Learned Gentleman are compelled to acknow ledge that he has done so less offensively to indi viduals than was supposed possible from the na ture of the investigations upon which he entered. Mr. ROEBUCK exhibited throughout the greatest firmness, as well as the greatest moderation. The taunts and jeers by which he was constantly assailed appear to have no more ruffled his temper, than water would the plumage of a swan. Strong in the cause he had undertaken, and sure of his ground, he felt, or appears to have felt, that the greatest vengeance which he could take upon his assailants, would be by drawing up a Report, in which personal feeling would find no place, and in which something like an excuse would be found for the conduct of persons who had treated him with marked discourtesy and dislike. " The inquiry," in the language of the Report, " was not a judicial one; the Committee were not called upon to decide upon the legality or illega , lity of the proceedings of any party, or upon the guilt or innocence of the transac tions in which any of the parties implicated were in volved in connexion with the alleged compromises and bribery practised in the boroughs comprehended in the order of reference. They understand their duty to have been to elicit and lay before the House, faithfully and clearly, all the facts of the several cases, rather with a view to expose the evils of a system, than by any direct expression of their own opinion to inculpate individuals, or di rectly to lay the foundation for any legislative enact ment with respect to the particular 'boroughs in ques tion." The just and proper inference from this is, that Mr. ROEBUCK did not consider the system of corruption, which he exposed in the case of the six above -mentioned boroughs, at all confined to them, and he is quite right. Bribery has become the rule, and purity the exception, in nearly all the smaller boroughs in England, Wales, and Ire land. The whole system is one of fraud, of collusion, of corruption, of perjury, of drunkenness, and of vice. Nor is bribery confined to the boroughs. In one shape or other it prevails everywhere. What are the Corn•laws but bribes to the great agri culturists ? Brewers are bribed by imposing a prohibitory duty upon foreign wines ; cattle rearers are bribed by a heavy import duty on meat ; and landlords are bribed by every device to maintain unjust monopolies and high rents. This is the result, in a great measure, of the narrowness of constituen cies, which places it in the power of wealthy candidates to buy oft; at nearly any price, the whole of the electors. Deeply reflecting men in reading this Report, cannot but feel a powerful sense of national humiliation. Religious men will find in it much to abase their spiritual pride in the efficacy of the Established Church as a repressor of the most corrupt practices, on the part of her professed children and champions. They will find the rich, the powerful, the well-informed, and the externally pious aristocracy of wealth and sanctity leagued and banded together for the unlawful purpose of imprinting upon the soul of some poor ignorant wretch the burning brand of per jury. They will find the WALTERS, the BERES FORDS, the BAGSHAWS, the Tory ATTWOCDS, and such other heroes of Anglican orthodoxy, pouring corruption like a tide over every constituency in which electors are to be found ready to sell their country, their souls, and their GOD for a handful of sovereigns. The Journal du Havre, a French Paper, states that according to the latest accounts from the United States the harvests there are so abundant that after supplying the wants of the inhabitants there will re main for exportation six millions of barrels of flour, each barrel weighing two hundred pounds. Now were England to abolish the Provision-laws this flour would be sent to this country, partly to pay the State debts, and partly to exchange for Yorkshire broad cloths, Sheffield cutlery, and Staffordshire earthen ware, thus giving employment to an immense number of our starving poor. On the part- of the United States too, there would be an end of the proposed Tariff, which threatens to throw two-thirds of our future trade with that country into the hands of smugglers. We shut our ports against the staples of the United States, wheat, barley, beef, pork, butter, hides, wool, and timber, and yet express surprise at the blindness of the Americans in retaliating upon us our miserable system of commercial policy. That system is every where shutting the ports of the world against us. It was shown by Lord PALMERSTON, in the de bate last week, upon Mr. DUNCOMBE'S motion, that our restrictive system for benefiting the landlords at the expense of every other class deprived us of a pro. fitable and constantly increasing trade with Sweden, Prussia, the whole circle of the German commercial union, and we might add of Spain, Portugal, and, to seine extent, of Belgium. The question now is, shall we abandon that system and give life to our people, c r adhere to it, and kill them off by starvation ? Americans offer them abundance of food in exchange for their manufactures. Operatives of England, how long will you submit to see your children dying with hunger around you, to gratify the avarice of men who have the cruelty to shut out from you the food which the nations of the world are willing to exchange for the productions of your skill and industry ? hand. The man was carried to the Morgue, 0 41 soon recognised as a shopkeeper at the Barrier S4'res. He was a marr i e d man , with children , : oing a good business. No motive can be assigned the rash act. BOURSE—PARIS, SATLnDAY, JULY V. n i First Highest Lowest Price. Price. Price. p French 5 per C en t s 117 35 ... 117 40... 117 25.... ,0 4i per C en t s 105 50... 105 50... 105 50... i c i 4 per Cents 100 90... 100 9,3„. 100 9 0 .•• 71 3 per Cents 77 35._ 77 35 . ... 77 30... 1 4 Bank of Fr ance 3 10 17 2 5 0 . .... 3 100 17 50. ..... 3 1020 175 ..31 7 141 ; Laffitte Ba n k I,ooof Belgian Bank 77') 50... 772 50... 772 50 ... os 1 Belgian Fives lO3 ... 103 ... 103 ••• 10 1840 lO3l ... 1031 ... 103 i • " 0 Spanish Active 22i ... 22i ... 22i "' t), Neapolitan. lO3 60... 105 60... 105 50... 1 0 Roman RAILWAY SHARES , f 4 Versailles, R.B ...... L.B 93 ... 95 ... 92 50... 5 10 Rouen Orleans. _ 548 75... 551 25... 548 7 6 ." 01 .. Strasburg to Bale 200 ... 201 25... 200 *" HAMBURGH BORSEN HALLE, JULY% i o pil Bills Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank Shares - 1130 j ai Anglo-Russian Loan 111934 , Russian 5 per Cent., Ist series, Certificate lo2k , Inscription, Ist series Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co., 3d and 4th ' frni Series 99 i.lli Ditto in Certificates ps pot New 4 per Lent. (1E40) 89., .60)1 Dutch Actual Debt, •.% per Cent. ......... Ditto 5 per Cent. - .• Polish Bonds New Tickets ,... jrB ; . $ l, Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent. Spanish, New 5 per Cents. • IS EXCHANGES ON LONDON. HAMBURGH, JULY 92.. -13 9, Two months II lli• PETIERS2URG, JULY 15.-Three months, 35% pence. STocKnot.st, JULY 15.-Seventy.five days, J. 6. RIGA, JULY 16. -Three Months, 38 1 4. FIREMEN, JULY 15 -Two months, 6 15. VIENNA. JULY 12.-Three months, 9. 44j.i. PRUSSIAN FUNDS.-BERLIN, MX 19..„ 0 41 Bills. S O St. Schuld Sch., 4 per cent. Prussian English Bond, 1t 4 30, I per cent 1t..2 34 ylli Exchange on London - - Prussian State Gazette, July 20. Madrid Bourse, on the 15th.—Five per Cent° cash. The Chamber closed on the 16th. gr MONEY and COMMERCIAL l ~,ry g i b CITY, QUARTER TO T-";:01 The amount of business in the English Funds tot" been rather more extensive than o f l ate ,' an d in I I several purchases for investments, specul ators for a "'A inclined to operate. Consols have a d van ced t„, ° o - 04 for Money, and 91 for the Account ; Th ree per ii i , duced, 91i- 911 ; Three-and-a-Half p er Cents. _,,1 100 i Wu 1004 ; New Three-and-a-Half per Cents., 1 Bank Stock, 167 ; Indi a St oc k, 2481 2491 ; Excher l ' 0 Old, 46 50; New 46 48 premium. itli° Prices of Foreign Securiti e s are fi rm , an d 1 1, 100 same as on Saturday; transactions to-day have bee% t y Dutch Two-and-a-Half per C e nts. b 1 JA 51%; al l per Cents. 101 1 /,. 11 0411 Mexican Bonds are quoted 36%. The inquiry for Railroad Shares has improvedt4 but few are offering.—Great Western, New, 62 ; S° elf ern New, 7/ 8A ; Brighton, 33/ ; Blackwell, % t ill , and Birmingham, 186 ; Quarters, 47; Yo r k and i, j land, New, 36 ; and Edinburgh and Gla sgow , IsTert,, r''i The Bonds, quoted to-day, are—Colombian, 2 ,- 1 , 07 guese Three per Cents.,l9i; and Spanish Five ; per 'do, During the present excitement consequent Won tor sion of our linens from France and Belgium, it Me e eating to note the state o f ou r trade with th e forn , e 99 , es for the last six years. The number of yards of linen to France in 1835 was 1,247,901 ; i n 1836 it was , 1, 4 in 1837, 3,368,388 ; in 1838 7,633,291 ; in 1839, v 4 and in 1840, 6,792,485. Th e quan tity o f yarn iil i, i 1835 was 2,384,6781b5. ; in 1836 4,012,1411b1. ;, f 9 7,010,9831bs ; in 1838, 11,485,6801b5. ; in this 14 12,259,2541b5., and in 1640 13,137,3671b5. 1 1, 11 ,/ be seen that three-fourths of the whole tpleo,""yd latter article which has been annually exporten,.„o shipped to France. The only merchandise refi t that country upon which retaliatory duties 5, t i placed appears to be wine and brandy. Of fd mer the receipts have increased from 2,089,6 c-a 04 in 1835, to 2,963,475 gallons in 1840, and the 'Ur i 352,158 gallons, in the first-named year, to 546,615 1 0 10 j Fortunately, neither of these articles form any per! 41 cessary consumption of the people in general, and be 9 fore well afford to pay any tax which may 19 while the exclusion of theirs will b e a far re°' ,, ;49 injury to that nation, than will the ,P g of of our linen bet° us. Of the nine millions of gah, ° . ° ool l annually returned for consumption here, upwards °, l . 0 it , lions are the produce of Spain and Portugal, alr h tbe, t il expected that such measures will be adopted wit fr e Spanish Ministry and with Portugal as may prove"' impolicy of her present proceedings. .i. 0 0 ' PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY A RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Shall' te .' Edinburgh and Glasgow Ditto New ...... .............. ... 3 Great Western Ditto New London anc Brighton ... .. 50 London and Blackwell London and Birmingham 90 lBO ..." to ''' . Ditto i Shares South Eastern and D0ver......... 50 Ditto Scrip York and North Midland SO --, ..--: to / 0 0 Ditto New Shares.. .. 20 .... 3 6 ''" The iII V L. ..,' .. Tr! 1 Y 2 3 . -- MANCHESTER STOCK .c..EC.ANGE, ....--' i ether Y` for Manchester and Bi rn ii ng h am co n tinues; al jay no alteration. The sa l es are — Bolton. Prestoo , to verpool and Manche s t er , Q uarter Sh are, .42.; 1,8 0111 Prestrai, Three-Quarter Shares, 201. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. 1 Bank Stock Ditto Bonds ....... • Ditto Old Annuities Ditto New A nn uitiesi . 4 4 Ex. Bills, 1,00(4.- 9 1 0 Ditto 5001... .• ' s er ,o Ditto Small ...". • Bank Stock for Aocct."" India Stock for OPP" 9 11 Consols for .Acct. 1 FUNDS. Portuguese, 5 per ce nt 'Ditto, New Ditto ...... Prussian, 5 per cent. / Russian, 5 per cent...." / Ditto, Metallic .... / Spanish, 5 per cent...." / Ditto, Deferred French, 5 per cent Exchange French, 3 per cent a Dutch. 2i per cent..!" .. 1 0 iDittc, 5 per cent. .• S . SHARES 49 Birmir.ghtm an 1 Glouceiter Railway (100 p) Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) .....• Litto New Shares ( 3 paid .... ............ Great Western Railway (65 paid) ........... Ditto New Shares (50 paid) London and Brighton (50 paid) London and Blackwall ( paid) ••••• ej London and Birmingham (90) Ditto Quarter Shares (25 paid) Ditto New Shares ( 2 paid ) ........ London and South Western (4116 s 10d pd) 41 Northern and Eastern (45 paid) North Midland Railway (100) Ditto Half Shares (40 paid)... . ..... South Eastern and Dover (60 paid) ............ Ditto Scrip. (10 paid) ............ „,• 1 si - lc and North Midland (50 paid) ... ...... . 3 6 Ditto New Shares (20 paid) 3 per Cent. Red. 3 per Cent. Cons.... 3i per Cent. lied... 1001 New 3i per Cent,: looi N.,w 5 per Cen'., • Long Annuities to expire Jan. 1860 ...... 12i Oct. 1559 Jan. 1860 FOREIG Austrian, 5 per cent. — Belgian, 5 per cent Brazilian Bonds... Bucno s Ayres 6 per cent. Chilian, 6 per cent Colombian, 6 per cent — Ditto, 1824 2ll Danish, 3 per cent Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Mexican, 5 per cent 36i Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Peruvian, 1825, 6 per et. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DA: I . i ) CORN EXCHANGE. - - • fib or Last week's mar als of English Grain were very large of Foreign Wheat and Oats • the fig' or ply of English Wheat was g ood b u t m oderate q' ot oil ls Corn. A speculative demand f o r E ng li s h • Wit o li I ported the prices of last M on d a y, b u t i n Foreio, l of o was done that previous terms could n o t b e DOP l t i t illf, Barley, Beans, and P eas , as l as t re p or t e d. Oat dr Is. per quarter decline from last quotations. •.)T 0 , varied in price, with a limited sale. i:,,!of ARRIVALS OF GRAIN IN LONDON DURING LA O II, I Wheat. I Barley. oata. ‘,,, 40 I 5,370 q ra. I,MO qrs. 3,547 qrs.l • , ; 1 ;/ - 3,066 4 06 5,005 42,493 . ~ 0 y y, ARD OF SFIP - ' !ily Beans, Small(new)...”l.,,Y . - Tick ( new )........ ~, f 4/' --(old) •.........1444t - Harrow (ncw) ! ...,, ,I. old)." ....' 0 .4 , ,,. Brank . . ... ...........;..."....;. 0 01 , Oata,Feed .". 0 .1 '' p '........-••••••••••• New ao ~ ..11. Poland ;« 1 14.;,r New ,.......2'00. -- Potatoe ,•ffire'iso ......____ ~.,„ ........ 0 , 0 , - Scotch O4 -_', - Irish 15e, - English Irish nreign num; OH B, Wheat,Red (old) s. —s. ---. White (01d)..... —a. - Iled0841) 50s. Ms. Fine 551. 60s. Superfine 625. t 3s. —VVIllte(I841) 525. 545. ---... Fine 60s. 635. Superfine 665. 68 s. —Foreign free 525. 725. tyc 38s. 40s. 265. 325. -- Grinding .'fis 30s, Malting 303.325. Malt s6s. 60s, - Fine New 625. 645. ~ Grey, New 10s. 3 , 411 Flour Town (per sacdtdol Maple New Is. 345. Seconds. .... . . 9*' White 345. Wis. ---- North Countryol — Ss -- Boilers ais . 39a.1 Bran - #10; SMITHFIELD. •;• • tbe The supply of Beasts was moderately gookyrl trade was brisk, with some slight improvemenPin is tbe e for prime qualities. Of Sheep the supply 1 1 #;' 1 111 short, and prime fully realised last week's priefe, supply of Lambs was unusually large, and Pf lower. The best quality of Veal was in- , z l 'i*i about 2d, per stone advance. Pigs moved ollv!7pso i, with little, if any, alteration. Beasts, 2,4111. 0 6 j -O,P Lambs, 29,600 ; Pigs, 368 ; Calves, 176. 1 16 2d' ' to 4s. Bd. ; Mutton, 3s. to 4s. 4d. ; Veal, 3s. to 5 Pork, 2s. 4d. to 4s. fid. ; Lamb, ss. to ss. 2d. COLONIAL MARKET. r e Not much business done, but firmness prevailed rally,:and no goods were pressing for immediatC o „ r 6cerf the Relined Sugar market some parcels .of - lp for goods were disposed of at last week's ratesr export rather more money was given for Duaofile -265. 6d. being paid in many instances. The Pur.7,4401 of Colonial Wool went off with much better 4) 1 . 1 " - vi es was exhibited on the opening, and prices bav, e ! il 'fbic h instances recovered the fall of ld. to lid. .per 1,1 was then established. The quarterly sale of ; fate' Indigo still progresses, and will occupy 'pint' part of this week. Bengal sorts sold. on r - rho the good and fine qualities at 2d. to 4d. axiYaurli*ro s last sale's prices, and th e i n f er i or a t a bove p l 9l': t ° and Kurpah aro in high request at last sale zfri oe sts 6d. per lb. advance. Up to this time ab0ut.9,708-400 have passed the hammer, and nearly 8,0 0 . been actually sold. TEA MARKET. There were many inquiries after C0ng0u.4:t416.0.4 us9ful sorts, and, as the quantity offered 0 . 0 , 1 g01 1, small, extreme prices were given. CoropooY!_` - '- .4 0. to Is. 81d. to ls.•81-d.; middling and good ditto, r • 2s. 2d. per lb. - remain T2 quoted, _ L L a s O b W e f.O MA 1U t ET. With a ivery-dullvery-dulllla market, and supplies were coming in freely to_7;,._tpet as well as South America. Fine P. Y. C. 7 ad„..pet c4wBst. The and erithdeelibevst e S s okutehepall. American sm 475. to k. ,1 The prices Pease, z 3 iiz~F RR rp --- r s tyini 3J :F9 4 •eii ‘r !.IS if? A , - ' 1 a e il • . , , . 0~, ~i ~ . r .4 4; ~ ........... `:?, hart t • I 1 s~ t -~ ~ y.-.. a ~~ C '1 . •1 '1 1 4 1