The Sun. — London, England, 1834-08-02 00:00:00

OPENING OF THE FRENCH CHAMBERS. (From Galignani's Messenger of Thursday. ) The commencement of the Legislative Sessions being ap pointed for to-day, the necessary arrangements were made this morning for his Majesty's proceeding to the Palais Bourbon to open the Chambers in person. The hour fixed was 1 o'clock, some time previous to which detachments of National Guards and troops of the Line took their posts in the usual manner at each side of the bridge and the quays by which the cortege was to pass. Great crowds, notwithstanding the fatigues at tendant upon the prolonged amusements of the public fetes, which have scarcely passed, assembled from all quarters to view the procession, among whom were numbers of well-dressed persons, with, of course, the usual compliment of ladies. The terrace in the gardens of the Tuileries, and most of the windows commanding a sight of the cavalcade, were also filled With company. The weather, which had been threatening during the morning, cleared up towards 1 o'clock, and turned out remarkably fine. Precisely at the hour arranged the King mounted his horse, and, acconipanied by a numerous staff, left the Palace. The Duke of Orleans, Marshal Gerard, Marshal Lobau, and other distinguished officers, were close behind his Majesty. The acclamations with which he was received during his progress to the Chamber were loud arid general—indeed more so than we have usually remarked them on similar occasions. His Majesty's arrival at the Chamber was announced in the usual manner by the dis charge of artillery. The general arrangements of the Chamber were the same as upon former occasions, the throne being surmounted by a splendid canopy of crimson velvet, with gold fringe tassels and cords, and crowned with tri-coloured flags. Similar standards, surmounted by the Gallic cock, were placed on the sides. A stool, covered with crimson velvet, for the Duke of Orleans, was placed on the right of the throne, and one for the Prince de Joinville on the left. The seats of the Minis ters were on the upper step leading to the throne ; those on the other steps were appropriated to the Marshals and Admi rals of France, and those on the right and left of the latter to the Members of the Council of State. The benches on the right were reserved for the Peers, and those on the left for the Deputies. At 11 o'clock the doors were opened to the persons favoured with tickets, and the galleries gradually filled. The ladies were in general well dressed, but their at tire was little distinguished by elegance, differing in no re spect from what is every day met with in the public prome nades. The tribune of the Royal family, in the first row on the right, was distinguished from the others by crimson velvet ornaments. From about half-past 11 the Deputies began to arrive, and took their places. At a quarter-past twelve the Council of State entered the Hall. The Peers began to take their seats about half-past twelve. The Ministers entered at one o'clock. In the tribune of the diplomatic body, which arrived at five minutes before one, we observed the B r iti s h, R uss i an , Austrian, Prussian, and Spanish Ambassadors, and the Mi n. sters of nearly all the other foreign Powers. The Queen, with the Royal Family, , arrived at five minutes past one. His Majesty, accompanied by the Duke of Orleans, the Prince de Joinville, and a numerous staff, and preceded by the Grand Deputations of the two Chambers, headed by their respective Presidents, entered the hall at precisely twenty minutes past one o'clock. His Majesty, who wore the uniform of the National Guards, was greeted with shouts of Vive le Roi 1 and having taken his seat on the throne, with the two Princes on his sides, and the Staff-officers ranged behind him, covered himself, and pro ncuiced, in a firm and audible voice, the following speech : " Messieurs the Peers, and Messieurs the Deputies,—lt is ever with a lively satisfaction that I come among you. I feel happy, above all, in seeing you around me at a moment when the national suffrage has manifested itself with so much éclat. " It has consecrated that liberal and moderate policy which the Chambers have, in previous sessions, so loyally maintained. It is the policy of the charter. France wants repose under the guidance of the tutelar institutions which her wisdom and courage have preserved untainted. My Government has exerted itself to respond to the national expectation, and success has not failed to attend our perseverance. " Wherever any criminatattempts have raised a deplorable struggle, the national cause has triumphed. The National Guard and the army, whose noble devotion you will appreciate as much as I do, have repressed disorder with as much energy as fidelity ; and the peaceable execution of the laws passed in the last session has shown the impotence of the perturbators, and restored confidence in the public mind. "We now gather the fruits thereof. Our industry and our commerce increase in activity. I have viewed with happiness the results of it in that exhibition which has shown how many triumphs are assured to us, how many hopes we are justified in conceiving. " They will be realized through the benefits of peace, under the direction of an active and providing Administration, through the influence of wise laws, which, in seconding the progress of our agriculture and our industry, will open new outlets to our commerce ; and I have every reason to hope, that the ever-increasing prosperity of the country will allow us to provide for the public expense with the ordinary resources of the state. " The laws relative to finances shall be submitted to your deliberations, at the period fixed by the rules of the Admini stration. " The laws rendered necessary for the execution of treaties, and those which will be required for the accomplishment of the promises of the charter, shall be again presented to you, in the course of the present session. " I have to congratulate mself with regard to the state of the relations with foreign powers. " The internal dissensions which disturbed Portugal have reached their end. I have entered into, with the King of Great Britain, the Queen of Spain, and the Queen of Portu gal, a treaty which has already produced the most salutary in fluence towards the re-establishment of peace in the Peninsula. Always intimately united with England, I am engaged, in con cert with my allies, about the situation of Spain, where new difficulties have arisen, which call for serious attention on the part of the Powers which signed the treaty of the 22d of April. " The state of the East is tranquillizing, and everything pro mises that the peace of Europe will not be disturbed. " I rely, gentlemen, and I shall do so on every occasion, on your loyal assistance. I acknowledge no other interest, I en tertain no other wish, but those of France. To secure the sta bility of our institutions, to rally round the throne and the charter all good Frenchmen, in repressing with equal firmness the isolated or combined attempts of adverse factions--such is the only aim of all my efforts ; and my most agreeable reward will be that affection of my country, the testimonies of which always excite in me a profound sympathy. The speech being concluded, shouts of Vive le Roil burst from all parts of the Chamber, which his Majesty acknowledged by rising and repeatedly bowing. M. Thiers, Minister of the Interior, then rose and read the formula of the oath to be taken by the Deputies, when each rose, and, holding forth the right hand, declared ,' Je le jure. The number of Deputies present was about 270, and that of the Peers about 70. M. Cormenin, who within a few days published a letter against the political oath, was present, but did not answer when his name was called. M. Persil, Minister of Justice, then rose and announced that the session of 1835 was opened, and that the Peers and Depu ties would assemble in their respective Chambers to-morrow at noon. His Majesty retired at a quarter to two o'clock, amidst loud acclamations. The Duke de Nemours was not present, he being at the camp of Luneville. On the return of the cavalcade, the reception of the King was equally warm as when he proceeded to the Chamber, and the Queen and Princesses, who followed in one of the Royal carriages, were also greeted with repeated cries of Vive la Reine et la Famille Royale 1 The cuirassiers and cavalry of the National Guard, who formed the guard of honour, looked extremely well, and by their splendid appearance added greatly to the effect of the procession. His Majesty looked in excel lent health, and seemed much gratified with the manner in which he was received. The Constitutionnel has the following :—" The caresses at St. Petersburgh, and at the Russian Embassy in Paris, have of late re doubled. Count Pozzo di Borgo has renewed his visits to the Tui leries, and Marshal Maison is now admitted to all the family par ties of the winter and summer residences of the Czar. This two fold occurrence took place about six months ago; but since the treaty of the Quadruple Alliance, a slight coolness has been ob served ; at Ilse present moment, however, the principle of August 7 is once more the object of caresses, notwithstanding the violent attacks inflicted upon it by the German Papers. The cause, should it be inquired, is no other than a wish of preventing a joint expedition of France and England to the Dardanelles ; it is simply because much apprehension is entertained at this intimate union of the two great flags coming into contact with the rude fleet of Russia, which, by a foolish vanity on the part of Peter the Great, was led to try its strength against the most glorious navies in the universe. Persons, who are well-informed on this subject, have no longer any doubt but that a great contest is about to take place in the Black Sea between the combined fleets. The Russian squadron has troops on board, to be disembarked as occasion may require ; we repeat that the English squadron has also taken on board not only its full complement of marines, but likewise land forces at Malta and the lonian Islands. The Pacha of Egypt will soon declare himself. The Russians, under the pretext of protection, will occupy the Dardanelles. It is high time for the combined fleets to act vigorously." We learn that bands are being formed in Upper Catalonia, in the direction of Olot, which are commanded by Carlist refugees who have escaped from the depots in France. Other refugees have pe netrated into Spain through the valley of Audorr a , i n the neigh bourhood of Seo d'Urgel. Some insurgents have endeavoured to stir up the people to revolt at Arbeca, in the district of Lerida ; and in the arrondissement of Tortosa, upon the Ebro, a corps of insur gents has made its appearance, upon which the Captain-General of Catalonia sent a General at the head of a brigade to oppose their further progress. The Augsburg Gazette of the 27th inst. contains the following from Rome of the 10th The protracted stay of Don Mig ue l at Genoa, inasmuch as he had given notice to our Government of his early arrival, has created much astonishment. It now appears as if he would not come to Rome before the autumn. Many, indeed, think, he wishes to let the hot season pass away, but many also give far different reasons, some affirm that the suppression of all the convents in Portugal, and the seizure of their property, h a ve hausted th e p a ti ence o f the Papal Chair ; and it is expected tha.t hist the thunder of th e V at i can w i ll be hurle d aga i ns t Don Pedro and Ministers. In su c h a case , it Npuld be prudent that Don Miguel should not be at Rome, at leastThot at the moment when the ex communication is pronounced. I give you this explanation of the affair, without vouching for its accuracy. Certain persons flatter themselves by representing that such a measure is impossible, and ground their opinion on the personal inclinations of the Pope, as well as the necessity of yielding to the spirit of the age, and not to excite the Powers ; others again argue how little the spirit of the Roman Church has been studied, which never suffered itself to be discouraged under the greatest misfortunes. They should only re collect Pius VII., who did not fear to excommunicate Napoleon. even in the plenitude of his power." (From a Morning Paper.) sts, JULY 31.—The celebration of the three " glorious days" passed off peaceably enough, as far as public order was con cerned, but never was the population of Paris in such a bustle as during the present anniversary of the memorable days by which July, 1830, was closed. Sights and out-door diversions of various kinds were provided in abundance for the populace, and all the world seemed to have turned out into the streets each day from the hour of sunrise. There was a grand review of the National Guards on the Boulevards, as usual, theatrical performances gratis, illumi nations of the Tuileries-garden and the public edifices, a concert in the open air at the former, attended by as many thousands as chose to walk into the garden, and a grand display of fireworks. In fact, there was more than enough to afford inducements for indulging in the taste of being away from their homes, and lounging on the places of public resort, which is peculiar to the Parisians of all ranks and stations. Though the three days have gone by, the street attractions of the week are not yet ended. To-day the crowd has gathered along the quays from the Pont Royal to the front of the Chamber of Deputies, to view the royal cortege to the Chamber, where the King opens the new session in person. You will receive with this a copy of the speech which his Majesty delivers on the occasion. It will be late, however, by the time that the official copy will be printed, so that I fear I shall not be able to give you to-day an account of what may be said or thought of it generally. In the mean time, it is expected that the tone of the speech will be highly pacific, and no one, not. even amongst the most sanguine specu lators in Spanish stock, seems ' to look for anyallusion to an in tention of sending an army into Spain to uphold the rights of Donna Isabella. On no day has the mania of speculation in the stock above named been more clearly demonstrated than yesterday. An article appeared in the Courrier Francais ' stating that, according to let ter from Constantinople of the sth, a Russian naval and land ex pedition had arrived at two Turkish ports of the Black Sea, and that the troops were expected shortly to arrive in the Bosphorus, from whence a sufficient number wiz to be sent on to garrison the fortresses of the Dardanelles, the wle to remain in the straits of the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles until it should please England and France to cease making threatening demonstrations in the Ar chipelago. Considering the importance of such an announcement, and the source from which it came, one might have supposed that it would have created a powerful sensation at the Bourse. It did not, however, produce any such effect, nor did any body there seem aware that it had appeared in any of the morning papers. The only inquiry, the only thought, was about Don Carlos and the Spanish Regent's speech at the opening of the Cortes ; the only question was, whether France would be compelled to interfere with the internal concerns of Spain, and at what time. People seemed to think there was nothing on earth but Spanish affairs to talk of, and Spanish stock wherein to exercise the industry of buying and selling. That stock underwent again some extensive fluctuations, owing to the nature of transactions in it. French stock fell also in consequence of some heavy sales. With regard to the Turkey news, it turns out to have been a false alarm ; but there is but too much reason to expect that the Russians may soon make their appearance again in the neighbour hood of the Turkish capital. We have no further intelligence to-day from the northern pro vinces of Spain, nor does it appear that the contents of the Spanish Regent's speech were, up to this day at noon, known to any but the members of the Cabinet Council, who have chosen to keep the knowledge of them entirely to themselves. The despatches from Madrid in which the speech came, and which were announced by the Bayonne telegraph of the 28th, ought to have reached Paris yesterday morning. The length of our legislative session will probably depend on the discussions relative to the address. It is extremely doubtful whe ther the Chambers will remain open after the voting of the ad dress, as the whole of the deputies who have come from distant parts of the country are anxious to return as soon as possible to their homes. A sufficient number to constitute a Chamber has complied with the Ministerial invitation by attending, but it would require more urgent business than is now in prospect to keep many of them in Paris at this time of the year after the address has been voted. The presence of one half of the deputies, that is 230, is required to fain a Chamber ; and of the 252 who are now in Paris, if 23 only were to absent themselves, no business whatever could be gone into. FRENCH FUNDS.—Psats, JULY 30. Five per . Cents., 106 f. 10c. 105 f. 75c. f3oc. Four per Cents., 94f. Three per Cents., 76f. 20c. 75f. 90c. ac. Bank Actions, 1,76 cf. Rente de Naples, 93f. 25c. 92f. Sec. Roman Five per Cents., 94 Bente d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 34 314 35 Rente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 39% 37% 394. Royal Spanish Loan, 74 7334. Rente Perpet. d'Espagne. Five per Cents., 59% 57%. Belgian Loan, Five per Cents, 93 EXCIaNGE ON CoNnos. One month, paper, 25f. 2754 e. ; money, 25'. 27%c. Three months, paper, 25f. 173 e. ; money, 25f. 15:, CoNrs Authentique. FRENCH FUNDS.—PARIS, JULY 31. Five per Cents., 105 f. 90c 75c. 90c. Four per Cents., 9-If. Three per Cents., 75f. 60c. 75c. 50c. Rank Actions, 1,760 f, 1,755 f. Rente de Naples, 92f. 70c. 93f. 92f. 90c. Roman Five per Cents., 94. Rente d'Espagne, Five percents., 35 34% 35%. Rente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 38% 37% 3914. Royal Spanish Loan, 73%U. RentePerpet.d'Espagne, Five per rents 57% 56%% Belgian Loan, Five per Cents., 98 98 % ssi• EXCHANGE ON LONDON. One month, paper, 24. 274 c. ; money, —f. Three months, paper, 25f. 1714 c. ; money, 25f. 15c. —Cours Authentique. UNIVERSITIES' BILL. MINORITY IN THE LORDS, AuG. 1. On the Bill "to remove certain Disabilities which prevent some clauses of his Majesty's subjects from resorting to the Univer sities df England, and proceeding to Degrees therein." DUKES. VISCOUNT. LORDS. H. R. H. the Duke Leinster (Duke of) Segrave of Sussex Holland Stafford LORDS. Brougham MARQUISES. Howden Lansdowne Godohpin Westminster Ducie EARLS. Stourton Melbourne Tavistock Mulgrave Foley Leitrim Elphinstone Radnor Somerhill (Marquis Albemarle of Clanrlcarde) Sefton Cadogan Charlemont Gosford Auckland Minster (Conyngham) Duncannon Torrington Solway (Queensberry) Poltimore Mostyn Lynedoch Howardof Effingham Cleveland Sundridge (Duke of Argyll) BISHOPS. Chichester Derry FOR. Grey Meath Sutherland !PAIRED OFF. i AGAINST. I Mansfield j j Westmeath St. Vincent ST. LEONARDS ON SEA. A sea wall is contracted for here, to be built of the cliff rocks, which is to extend from White Rock Priory and join the wall already built at St. Leonards, a distance of a mile and a half, for the purpose of forming a promenade. To attain a sufficient breath, a considerable part of the cliff must be taken down, which will produce excellent stone of any dimensions, and make a most substantial wall, that will withstand the vio lence and raging of the winter's storms for a long succession of years ; the rubbish will, of course fill up and make the road. It will be, probably, the most extensive promenade possessed by any watering place in Great Britain. It is intended, when the cliff has been taken down, to build a line of houses from White Rock, Hastings, to St. Leonards, which will make it a most beautiful promenade, probably rivalling any on the sea coast. The stone is already being prepared, and it is said that some hundreds of men will be employed in the work. It is to be regretted that their operations were not begun a few months sooner, before the south-west gales commence, which are so prevalent upon the south coast of England ; however, having all the materials of building on the spot, a rapid pro gress will of course be made. The sea beach at Hastings, and all the coast to Beachy Head, inclines to the eastward, the same as at Brighton ; in order to stop the beach, they are building at the east part of Hastings an extensive sea groyne, like that at the eastern part of Kemp Town, which will effectually protect the wall, and consequently all the houses that are to be built, although the stone of which the wall is to be built, might be quite sufficient of itself, yet, the accumulation of beach caused by the groyne will be of great use, by preventing the sea from breaking against the wall in stormy weather, while it will effectually protect the town of Hastings, and perfectly secure all property situated near the sea. ARRIVALS AT EWAN'S ST. LEONARD'S HOTEL. N. • (“A (), ••• The Right Hon. Lord and Lady Amherst, Lady Sarah Amherst, Countess of Plymouth, Mr. and Mrs. Cathbut and family, Mr. and Mrs. Sidebottom and family, Mrs. and Miss Freeman, Mrs. Bee cham, Mr. W. Jones, Mr. and Mrs. Mocatta, Mrs. Leslie and family, Mr. Abbott and friends, Mr. May, Mr. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Warner and family, Mr. and Mrs. Quilter, Mr. Sydney, Mr. Richardson and family, &c. &c. The Right Hon. the Earl of Carlisle and the Hon. Captain E. G. G. Howard have joined the Countess and family, who are still sojourning at the above hotel, with many other families of distinction. His Grace the Duke of Devonshire and suite have left the above hotel for London. ARRIVALS AT THE SOUTH SAXON HOTEL. Rev. Mr. E. and Miss Parker, Mr. Kingstone, Mr. and Mrs. Cowing, Mr. J. F. and Miss Vandercorn, Mr. and Mrs. Hawes; Mr. and Mrs. J. Gordon, Mr. Masterman, Mr. Trollop, Mr. Ranger, Mr. Foord, Mr. Sheridan, Mr. and Mrs. Wollett, Mr. Winchester, Mr. Wigney, Mr. and Mrs. Williams and friends.— Brighton Gazette. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. GOODWOOD RACES. (THURSDAY'S RACES CONCLUDED. ) A Plate of 501. given by the City of Chichester. T. Y. C. Capt. Berkeley's Goldfringe, 3 yrs., 6st. 21b. ...( S. Day, jun. ) 1 Lord Tavistock's Faunus, 3 yrs., 7st A Plate of 1001. given by Lord G. Bentinck ; the winner to be sold for 100 sovs., &c. ; if for 500 sovs., to be allowed 71b. ; and if for 200 soya., 121 b. King's Plate Course. Mr. Farrall's Kate, 5 yrs to be sold for 2001., Bst. 121 b (Farral) I Mr. Scott's Barney Bodkin, 4 yrs. (for 200 sovs. ), Bst. 51b Mr. Gully's Lady Fly, 5 yrs. (for 200 sovs. ), Bst. 121 b Lady Fly made running till round the last turn, where Barney Bodkin took it up, and led till near the Stand, by which time he had shot his bolt, Kate then came out, and won by two lengths. FRIDAY.-The King's Plate of 100 gs. ; 3-yrs.-old, 7st. 41b. ; 4-yrs., 9st. 21b. ; 5 yrs., 9st. 121 b. ; 6•yrs. and aged, 10st. 41b. Over the New King's Plate Course, about three miles and a furlong. Lord Chesterfield's Glaucus, 4 yrs walked over. The Duke of Richmond's Plate, value 100 sovs. Last mile. Colonel Peel's Nonsense, 4 yrs., Bst. 101 b 1 A Cup of 100 sovs., given by T. P. Cosby, Esq., Steward, added to a Handicap Sweepstakes of 10 soya. each, for 3-yrs.-old and upwards. Last mile and a half, Cup Course. Mr. Keat's Baleine, 4 yrs., 7st. 81b Colonel Peel's Nonsense, 4 yrs., Bst 2 The Racing Sweepstakes of 50 sovs. each ; for 3-yrs.-old colts, Bst. 71b. ; andjfillies. Bst. 41b. Last mile. Drawing Roopn Stakes Course. Lord Jersey's Glencoe, 3 yrs, 7st 41b 1 Mr. Sadler's Defensive DOGGETT'S COAT AND BADGE. The annual contest for the coat and badge beq uea th e d b y Dog gett, the comedian, took place ye s t er d a y. Me contest laid between six young watermen just out of their time, three f rom a b ove b r id ge and three from below bridge. The match was in former times one of much interest, and as rowing then was, it was usually well at tended. Its interest has nearly grown obsolete, and none of the crack galleys or light wherries belonging to gentlemen attended yesterday; it did not draw so many boats as are usually out when there is no wager on the list. The six men started about an hour and a half before flood, and after labour against tide, which it is even painful to witness for such an extraordinary distance, Tomlin son, of Whitehall, was declared the winner, the second man being a few lengths astern. LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 2, 1834. The Bill for the admission of Dissenters to the Universities was, as might have been anticipated, thrown out last night in the Lords by a great majo rity—the numbers for the second reading being 85,and those against it 187. The total number of Peers is 430, but as a considerable proportion are minors, or otherwise incapacitated from voting, either in person or by proxy, about one half of the House may be said to have voted against the Bill. Such is the course which the Lords have pursued on almost every liberal measure introduced in the late or the present reign. They resisted them at first by great majorities, and continued to resist them till public opinion or expediency rendered it necessary to grant much more than was originally demanded. The history of the Test and Corporation Acts—of the Catholic Relief Bill—and of the Reform Bill, affords three lamentable instances of the folly of resisting demands alike sanctioned by the voice of the people, and the dictates of reason and justice. A judicious and moderate concession at first would have satisfied the community ; but in hardly any one in stance have the House of Peers had the good sense and discretion—we will not say generosity—to adopt such a course. They have unfortunately listened more to the advice and the cheers of men blinded by bigotry or self-interest than to th e ca l m arguments a nd the prophetic warnings of di s i n t ereste d part i es —and the invariable consequence has been defeat. It is to be seen, after these striking examples, whether the high Church party will not learn wisdom from expe rience, and concede in time what cannot eventually be resisted. This is the course evidently recommended by the Government, and for the sake of the Universi ties and the security of the Established Church, we trust it will be adopted. The more judicious, we may say, the great body, of the Dissenters, would be satisfied with such a change in the system of education as would enable them to study at the Universities, and - take degrees, without any intention of claiming a share in the emolument, or taking any advantage of such a concession for the purpose of de stroying the Established Church. Experience shows that this can be granted without any danger to the Protestant religion. In the Universities of Dublin and Edinburgh, and all the Scotch Universities, education is open to every sect,—tests only are required of the professors, and what injury has the cause of religion suffered by this. Would Ireland have been a whit more Protestant if Ca- tholics had been debarred from Trinity College, and could Scotland have been more Presbyterian had every student been obliged on matriculation to sign the Con fession of Faith ? The fact is, all this outcry about tests, and the necessity of preserving the English seminaries as theological schools, is made only for party purposes. Even many who oppose the claims of the Dissenters, and among the rest Mr. STANLEY, admit the fact that theology is not taught in these schools. The arguments of the Bishop of EXETER and others, founded on the charters granted to the dif ferent colleges, are worse than defective—they injure the cause, because history proves, beyond a possibility of doubt, that many of the charters were granted by Catholic kings—and thaCParliament in its supremacy, had altered the nature of the institutions to suit the change of the times, and general wants of the people. We confidently hope that by next session the heads of the colleges will have introduced such changes as will render the interference of Parliament unnecessary, and in so doing they will act prudently. If they fol low the advice of such a thorough-going partisan as the Bishop of EXETER, and refuse all concession, the voice of the country, as expressed' through the House of Commons, will in a few years decide the question. A Morning contemporary, of high Conservative principles, calls attention to the curious circumstance, that on the division which took place in the House of Lords last night on the Dissenters' Bill, the number of the majority against the Bill corresponded exactly with the number of proxies given against it. The curiosity of this circumstance is something more than arithmetical ; and the feelings to which a due con sideration of it will give rise in the minds of the reflecting portion of the people, will not be of a kind the most favourable to the legislative proceed ings of the Upper House. We will not attempt to trace how a discovery so novel has been made ; but people now-a-days are beginning to think that a Lord who knows nothing whatever of the merits of a par ticular question before Parliament—who is enjoying the sunny skies of Italy, or invigorating a frame wasted in dissipation, in sailing a barge by moonlight, over the cerulean bosom of the Adriatic, and who neither knows nor cares for the opinions of his coun trymen—is a most unfit person to pronounce an opi nion respecting it. We go further than this ; and, were the country of our mind, such an insult to the judgment and the feelings of those Peers who attend to their Parliamentary duties, would not be tole rated for one week longer. What can be more provokingly unjust, than that some two or three dozen of lordly loungers, who would think their noble fingers contami nated beyond the possibility of purification by coming in vile contact with Parliamentary Papers, should, by means of an absurd privilege, possess the power of nullifying the labours of the most able statesmen in the British empire ? Can there be folly greater than that of leaving the most important affairs to the decision of those who are notoriously known to be ignorant of them, and who care so little for preserving the appear ances of a decorous respect for the opinions of those wlio do know, as wilfully and insultingly to absent them selves from all discussions on such subjects ? What would these Lords themselves say, were the judges in our law courts to pronounce judgments after this fashion ? Who would talk of the glory of the British Constitution, were it a feature in the executive Go vernment, that all judges should have the privilege of either attending their respective courts or not, just as they thought proper ; and that, previous to the coming on of any trial, they should write theirjudgments, to be read in court as their final verdict, after an examination of witnesses, gone through a thousand miles from them, and to which they never paid the slightest attention ? And in what consists the difference between allowing such a privilege to the legislative judge more than to the executive ? Is it not clearly in this—that the legislative privilege is much more dangerous than the supposed executive ? Is it not evident that the executive func tionary could only injure individuals,—that his igno rant verdicts would only involve the fate of parties whose appearance as the objects of prosecution would leave their innocence at least questionable ? But not so the proxy of the absent Peer. Not so the privi lege permitted under the sanction of the British Constitution, to the legislative judges of the land. Their sentences affect the lives and liberties and properties of millions of British freemen. They may blight the blooming hope of a powerful nation, at the very moment they are recklessly indulging in the most degrading pursuits in a foreign country. The absurdity of allowing peers to vote by proxy arose out of the presumption, that all influence in the state not derived from the suffrages of the people was represented by land, and that the peers sat in Parliament as representing themselves and their own properties ; and that therefore they were no more bound to consult public opinion, than are individuals in the management of their private affairs. But this barbarous jargon is no longer intelligible. Did Peers only vote by proxy on questions including no interest save their own, we should have no objection to their so voting ; but it is quite a different matter when they presume to judge for the country. Voting by proxy is an insult to the House of Peers itself, as it assumes no information to be acquirable within its walls — it is an insult to the House of Commons, the deliberations of whose Members are thus sum marily disposed of without the decency of an enquiry into their merits—it is a gross outrage on the feelings of the country whose affairs are thus shown to be of so little account, that an essenced fop may dis pose of them while soliciting a partner for a dance at Almack's, or reclining in a gondolier during a carnival at Venice --and it is an impious assumption of those gifts which Heaven only bestows on the industrious, whether of low or lordly descent. There must be an end put to this system. Peers must descend from their cushions in the clouds, and look about them as beings of this world. They have had their day as an assembly of Gods, and they themselves must, as men, rejoice that another is now dawning upon them, whose divine rays have already stripped them of all claims to the sanctity of purely celestial essences, incapable of error. They must put their house in order in good earnest, by abolishing many of its absurd privileges, of which there is none more ridiculously wicked and injurious to the country than voting by proxy. The Irish Tithes Bill passed the Committee of the Ftouse of Commons last night, and the report there on was ordered to be brought up for further considera tion on Monday next. Mr. LITTLETON moved the insertion of a clause in the Bill, to the effect that it might be lawful for the Commissioners to inquire into, and annul agreements entered into between tithe owners and tithe-payers, under the sanction of an Act passed in 1823, wherever it appeared that unfair means had been adopted—such as giving credit on notes of hand, to induce the tenant to enter into a ruinous engagement. The clause was strenuously opposed by Mr. GOULBURN, Mr. SHAW, an d Mr. °Y;but, we ar e h appy to o b serve, ultimately passed without a division. Th e Bill may now be sa i d to be b F e ß law, as it is not expected that the Peers will be so regardless of their own interest, as to peril the peace of Ireland for the purpose of annoying the Government, or realizing their own prophecies respecting the insuffi ciency of a coercion bill without powers for stifling the groans of the people. We trust it will work well, or at all events that, after being supported by the majority of the Irish Members, including the Learned Member for Dublin, it will be allowed a fair trial. The expresses from Paris, together with the whole of the French Papers, contain little more than opinions upon the KING'S Speech, and ac counts of the happy termination of the " Three days." The " Speech" in particular, is the subject of a hundred conjectures among the coteries, who in their own opi nion, share among themselves the wisdom, and a knowledge of the diplomatic cunning of half- the Ministers of Europe. By some it is condemned as too pacific—they are outrageously angry that war was not instantly declared against the Spanish insurgents under Don CARLOS, and that the Chambers were not in formed what course the Government intended to take re specting the meeting of the Northern Despots at Vienna, and their recent conduct in relation to the liberties and independence of the Helvetic Republic. Others again, who are opposed to the establishment of a Constitutional Government in Spain, are alarmed, or feign to be so, for the peace of France, in consequence of the King's declaring the state of affairs in Spain to merit the serious attention of the qua druple alliance. For our own part, we . are well satisfied with the KING'S Speech. It is true that it contains but little information on several great questions, which we should be glad to see touched upon in such a document ; but on the other hand it breathes an honest determination to preserve the peace, and maintain the independence of France. The allusion to the alliance with England, is as flat tering to us as it is honourable to the Ministry of both countries. We expect arrivals from Spain by Monday. We have great pleasure in informing our readers that public dinners were given within and around London yesterday, by several patriotic societies, in honour of the Emancipation of the Slaves in our West India Colo nies. Of these, the most worthy of notice was that at the Crown and Anchor, which was honoured by the presence of several members of the Govern ment, many Members of Parliament, and a number of-highly respectable gentlemen, who were more or less instrumental in forwarding that glorious triumph of Bri tish greatness and glory. The chair was filled by the Earl of MULGRAVE, the late Governor of Jamaica, whose zealous exertions in the cause of the unfortunate negroes have endeared him to every lover of liberty. All partizanship, all political hostility, was for gotten in the glory of such a festival. Owing to our having received the Queen of SPAIN'S speech as we were going to press, we are obliged to postpone the literary notices till Monday. TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF CUMBERLAND. Sin,—This is the first of a series of letters which the events of the last few days will induce me to address either to your Royal Highness, or the others with whom you act. The present is merely introductory, and in it I shall there fore confine myself to the particular circumstances which give rise to this correspondence. A Bill is rapidly passing the Commons with all but uni versal approval, to settle, and for ever and in peace, the greatest of all our national grievances —the Irish Church question. It bids fair to pacify at length that portion of the empire, and to leave the Legislature at leisure for working all the good which men can obtain for their coun try by salutary and safe reforms. Your party will not hear of it, and you have resolved at your late meeting to muster in force, and to throw out the Bill. Sir,—lt is a measure most favourable toithe Irish church. All her friends feel and know it to be so. All agree that if it be lost the Irish clergy must either starve or collect their tithes by the bayonet. All concur in the wish that this greatest of benefits should be conferred on Ireland and her church. But you and your coadjutors think you see an opening to office by rejecting the measure. You hope the Ministers will resign, as unable, without the Bill, to keep Ireland quiet, and unable without it to govern their fellow subjects, as you and your friends would do, by a military force. You will find yourselves mistaken in this speculation. But I will admit for a moment that it may succeed, and that you and they should be installed in office during the recess—and I am to inquire what will be the consequence? You will govern Ireland by force--you will try by force to put down all the political agitations of England and Scotland, as well as Ireland—you will dissolve Parliament, and you will try by all the means of intimidation and cor ruption to obtain a bare majority in the new elections. But then what will you do ? Besides giving away a few Bishop rics and Stalls, making a few Peers, promoting Sir James Scarlett to the Exchequer, and securing Lord Lyndhurst a pension of 5,000/. instead of 4,0001. a year, and letting some hallotozen resignations of Scotch Judges be given in, and their successors be named, what else and what more can you hope to do ? Your greatest possible success at the elections, with all the resources of the H o lme ses , an d the Buchans, and the Grants, and the Twisses, will not obtain beyond a bare majority—and how will this serve you ? To keep office a week after the new Parliament meets seems impossible. But you vainly think that a bare majority will enable you to alter the Re form Bill and that is your great object. That is the even ing vow and the morning prayer of every Tory. That is the darling wish of each Conservative heart. To that note every chord of all your sympathies vibrates in harmonious response. Any thing, every thing, must be attempted to get rid of the, Reform Bill, and you care not how soon you are again consigned to the shades of opposition,: so you can during a nine months' reign bring forth some mitigation of the direful lot to which Reform has doomed you and your hopes. Sir,—You are a bold man and a blind man too— and if boldness and blindness can govern Englishmen in the 19th century, you would assuredly succeed in your favourite projects. But I know my country too well to feel one moment's solicitude on this head ; and I shall devote myself to the discussion of your schemes in my other letters. In the meanwhile, I warn all Reformers—all who value the present improved constitution of Parliament, and all who would avoid plunging the country in confusion, to be on their guard against you, Prince Ernest, Duke of Cumberland, Chief of the Tory Oppositi on . M ove anot h er step, an d you will give a signal which will reach the farthest ends of the land. All will unite and form themselves into associations to preserve the Reform Bill, and protect it from the common enemy. Even the Political Unions will be once more on the alert—Clubs every where will be formed to see that the voters are registered ; and the House of Commons, before it rises, will address the Crown not to grant any pensions during the Parliamentary recess. I know what you are about, Sir—who are your a d v i sers — an d w h at are th e prices you pay them with. Happily, the House of Commons can frustrate your designs, and the people can punish you—if they be true to each other and to themselves. BRUTUS. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT, THIS DAY, SATURDAY', AUGUST 2. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair at twenty minutes past twelve. CHURCH TEMPORALITIES (IRELAND). On the motion of Mr. LITTLETON, the House went into a Com mittee of the whole House on the Church Temporalities (Ireland) Bill, Mr. BERNAL in the Chair. Clause 22 was agreed to. Clauses 23 and 25 were omitted, and the other clauses of the Bill were then agreed to without any observation. On the motion of Mr. FFRENCH, a clause was introduced for the purpose of legalizing the tender of rent by the occupying tenant to the Bishop. Colonel PERCEVAL then rose to move the amendment of which he had given notice, for the purpose of limiting the emo luments of the Solicitor of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. He could assert, from the very best authority, that the emoluments of the solicitor would swallow up the revenues of one or two of the suppressed bishoprics.--(Hear.) He had already moved for a return of the number of offices held by this solicitor, and although that return would not take ten minutes to make out, it had not yet been made. He understood that this gentleman was solicitor to the Board of Education, to the Charities Commission, and other public bodies, and he trusted no objection would be made to his amendment. VV Lord ALTHORP expressed his cordial concurrence in the amendment of the Hon. and Gallant Member: The amendment was agreed to without any observation. The House then resumed and the report was ordered to be to ken into further consideration on Monday next. Mr. BERNAL brought up the report of the Committee on the Post Roads (Ireland) Bill. Mr. CHARLES WOOD brought up the report of the Com mittee on the Bank of England resolutions, which was agreed to. Mr. BERNAL brought up the report of the several Commit tees on the Customs Duties Bill, the Almanack Stamps Repeal Bill, the Militia Ballot Suspension Bill, and the Bayswater Sewers Bill, which were ordered to be taken into further considerati on Monday next. NORFOLK ISLAND. The House then went into a Committee on the Norfolk Island Bill, which passed through the Committee, and the Bill was or dered to be read a third time on Monday next. EXCHEQUER BILLS. The House then went into Committee on the Exchequer Bills' Bill. The Bill went through Committee without any amend ment, and the report was ordered to be received on Monday. REGISTRATION OF VOTES (SCOTLAND). The Registration of Votes (Scotland) Bill was then read a second time, on the motion of the LORD ADVOCATE, and was ordered to be committed on Monday next. PENSIONS CIVIL OFFICES. The House then went into Committee on the Pensions Civil THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 2, 1834. PRICES OF STOCKS THE Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red. 4l;2i IA 3 per Cent. Cons gOli% 3 1 . i per Cent. — Ditto Red.' td, J ki New 3% per Cent r Assented 4 per Cent Dissented lOl Rank LongArnuities to expire Jan. 3, 1860 17 5 16 ....... Oct. 10, 1839 l7q Jan. 5, 1860......17 1-16 16 13-16 Jan. 5, 1880 April 5, 1881 Jan. 5, 1870 PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian Bonds lOl4, Be'Man Bonds 9844 Ditto Account 98% Brazilian Bonds' 7114 Ditto Account 79% Buenos Ayres Bonds 32 Ditto Account Chillian Bonds 'll Ditto Account 3l Columbian Bonds .1914 Ditto Account 29% Columbian Bonds, 1821 .32 1K Ditto Account 31N Danish Bonds ' 7 5 1,E Ditto Account Greek Bonds Ditto Bonds, 1825 Ditto Account - Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent 32 Ditto Account 32 Ditto, 6 per cent. 4 1 ,4 Ditto Account 424, 1 )4 Neapolitan 94% THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK, Peruvian Bonds .......... '.-IN Ditto Account 27% Portuguese Bonds B5 Ditto Account 85% t u itto New Bonds B6 itto Account B6ii% 6 1 ,4 ssian Bonds II 1 If, Ditto BOnds, 1822 lOl Russian Bonds, 1822 lfitiii Ditto Account 10614 Ditto Metallic Spanish Bonds 47% 7 8 7 1 4 Ditto Account —.47 % % 7 B'* 75 Ditto Bonds, 1833 ' 445. J)itto Account 43 4}4 French, 5 per cent. .. —f. —c. 4 per cent —f —c. 3 per cent. f —c Exchange -f. —c. Dutch, 24 per cent. 5 1 14% Ditto Account Ditto, 5 per cent t 8l Ditto Account QBI4 14 33% PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share, ' Alten Mining Company £9 1174 Anglo Mexican Mining Company (iss. at 5!. pm.) 100 7N Bolanos Mining Company l5O 115 Brazilian Impvrial Mining Co. (Issued at 5/. pm.) 20 vs 34 9 Ditto Macaubas Cocae. 2O 21 Ditto Scrip lll 13 I)itto St. John del Rey Cata Bran a Mining Company British Iron Company 5O 30 British Copper Comp any Columbian Mining Company (issued at Lk pm.) 53% 11 % English Mining Company 126 22M Hibernian Mining Company Mexican Mining Company 49M 6 Red del Monte Mining Co., Registered 63/. 10s. 6d. Ditto Unregistered 35 United Mexican (issued at 21. pm.) Ditto Subscription Ditto New Scrip . London and Birmingham Railway Company l5 London and Greenwich Railway Company 7 Australasia Bank Canada Company General Steam Navigation Company National Provincial Bank of Englath Provincial Bank of Ireland Rio Doce Company Van Dieman's Land Agricultural Ct 13 15 • 23 )mpany 10 COURSE OF EXCH2 Amsterdam C.F. 12 5% Ditto, at sight Rotterdam 2U. 12 5% Antwerp l2 5 Hamburg M.B. 1312% Altona l3 12% Paris, 3 days' sight 25 4i. Ditto 2 Us. 25 73 Bordeaux 25 80 Berlin Frankfort on Maine, ELM 152 Petersburgh, ruble .3 Us. 10 Vienna, effective fl 4 M. 10 1 Trieste ditto lO 2 Madrid 3(1% Cadiz 37% Bilboa %TA Barcelona Seville 3(i Gibraltar 47 48% .... ....... .. 25 70 NGE, YESTERDAY Leghorn Genoa Milan Venice Naples 4034 Palermo per oz. 121.. Lisbon 53 q Oporto 5 3 14 Rio Janciru 37% Ba' is ... 31 Buenos Ayres Dublin, 21 days' sight 144 Cork IS PRICE OF BULLION, PER OZ. Portugal Gold, coin £0 0 0 Foreign Gold, in bars 3 17 9 New Doubloons New Dollars 0 4 10% Silvers bars, standard 0 5 05 PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, JULY 3 , 1. 3 per Cent. Consols 91% Grand Canal Deb, 6 per cent. 91 Ditto Reduced 9l Ditto, 4 per cent - 3!4; per Cent. Stock CS., Hibernian Bank - Ditto New, 1830 - 31 per Cent. Debentures 9l National Insurance Company - Bank 5t0ck...... City Debentures, &per cent... - Royal Canal Stock Grand Canal Steck - pe- cent. - HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TOMORROW. Morning 17 minutes after .0. I Evening 49 minutes after 0. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We have received a letter from Leicester, on the subject of a National Testimonial to Earl Grey, which shall be attended to. ,THE SUN IS NOW THE LARGEST DAILY PAPER IN LONDON. • n. Lat DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK New 5 per Cent — - India Stock 2653 Ditto Bonds IS 15 pm. South Sea Stock 10'2% Old Annuities — New Ditto per Cent. Annuities, 1151 — Exch. Bills, l £l,ooo ...... 16 48 47 pm. Ditto 500 47 49 pm. Ditto Small 47 49 pm. Ditto Commercial 49 51 pm. Ditto Advertised — pm. Bank Stock for Account 2'2l India Stock for Account Consols for Account 91 904 47% lfiy 124; 42% 2% 9% Offices Bill, through which it passed, and the report was ordered be received on Monday next. TURNPIKE ROADS (IRELAND). lit. Mr. LITTLETON brought in a Bill for regulating the turnP re d roads of Ir e l an d, w hi c h was read a first and second time, an d orde to be read a third time on Monday next. SOUTH AUSTRALIAN COLONIZATION. On the motion of Mr. CHILDERS, the House went into Con y mittee on the South Australian Colonization Bill. In reply to a question from• Mr. H. HUGHES, tioas Mr. SPRING RICE sa id t h at many of the valua bl e sugge.s f of the Hon. Memb er f or E ssex h a d rece i ved the best a ttention ti ° o the promoters of th e Bill. H e part i cularly alluded to t h a t po! o ° ., of his suggestion s w hi c h recommended the limitation o f territ .; in the colony. ,_• 110 . a t Mr. TOWP.R. opposed the Bill, b ecause h e f oun d, o n 10 ' 1 5o the preamble, it stated that there were a number of cap italists that ' it were anxious to emig ra t e , an d t h erefore i t was prof''' . b" should be enacted, &c., b u t t h at was i mmed i ate l y f o llowed a number of clauses rel a ti ng t o paupers. He was much a fra id that parishes might beco me large purchasers of land a o f the Bill, and force their paup ers to emigrate. The great eau s t ' lie distress amongst the a gr i cu lt ura l l a b ourers of E ng l an d was the great influx of Irish labou r e rs . H e wou ld h ave no o b jec tion to 1 5 Bill, if confined to Irela n d, w hi c h was proved to have a s ar Y o u e, population • if it relieved that count r y it would, at the sam e f o r relieve England, but he was certain that there was no need - of 1t .Ids that country. He th en move d th a t i n t h e 1 7 t h c l ause , the w o v b i, 4 , G rea t B r it a i n " b e struck out. He was determine d to d duty by divHUGiding the House upon amendment. Mr H.HUGHES could not t agree with those who matter a speculation, for he had not changed his opinion O' o t making many inquiries upon the matter, and he found it was a ; ce p disinterested scheme upon the part of its promoters, He had ho t many of the parties who were waiting to embark, and they o s given the case every consideration amongst them. There warder. possessed of 10,0001. which he was willing to embark in the w i t e taking, and he was not a young man, but one well versed in ways of the world. Mr. RUTHVEN suggested that there should be some c f introduced, by which the Crown would come into possession ° rights given by the Bill to the Company, unless there had be l l' s , defined population taken out within a given time, as we t , of within the same time, there was not a certain portion land located. He would support the- Bill in the Committee•ko The Amendment was then put, and negatived without a div i , s os The remaining clauses were then agreed to, and the report ordered to be brought up on Monday. The House then adjourned. calle:liitohuet LORD HOLLAND'S PROTEST AGAINST V I S REJECTION OF THE UNIVERSITY BILL• Because, it seems to me unreasonable to confine the acader' ll sc i, honours of a National University, or the degrees in arts and ences (unconnected with Divinity) confirmed thereby, to the ni ,i s e bers of any particul ar c h urc h. A n d i t appears yet mo re un ci ,i. and unjust to bar all su c h access t o k now l e d ge ( not purely ecab-101 astical or theologi ca l) as a N at i ona l U n i vers i ty is, °agora to affold, against tho s e w h o canno t consc i ent i ot oLY pine assent to the numerous propositions contained in the i rl'i rt •l f Articles. Excellence - in the learned and liberal professions o d por and medicine in no degree d e p en d s upon re li g i ous b e li e f, an re' vidence not having annexed the avowal of any peculiar tanets 1 / can ligious matters as the condition of attaining human knowl eclg e ! ion se discover no motive of prudence or duty which should ind aCe authority to impose any. VASSALL HOLI:4,IO' BRUSSELS PAPERS. BR uSSE ts, JULY 30.—The official financial document publil ci3 .ll7 in the Moniteur this morning is of great importance. First et i t i o , it proves that the new l aw on th e exc i se o f brandy made le 01 country more than ans wers th e expec t a ti ons th a t were enterta ti o of it. The produce of this exc i se d ur i ng th e h a lf year tithole just expired much exc ee d s th e h a lf o f th e est i mate f or the - year All thee adopeted other in the indirdec buget t taxes of wayshow a s and mea considerable increa se ' and as there are three months of w i n t er , and commercial s , l o o y tion in the first as well as in the se c on d h a lf o f eac h yea r, We t he confidently expect, that unless unforeseen events should occur , 0 receipt of the second half year will be in the same proportiells of that of the first. This will ma k e a sum o f near l y four Tilliforte, francs above the estimate of the bud ge t on th e i n di rec t taxes the r Such results should make us thi n k ser i ous l y o f al °. o ur reduction of the taxes, for it is not necessary to nla' e d i tt ire provinces pay more than is necessary for the exP en ,taal of the state ; it is hardly possible t o e ff ec t re d uc ti ons i n the — oc es expenditure, especially in the war department. While the fl l , l .er t• of the country are in so prosp erous a con diti on , i s it not at, t he breaking to see our Legislature e n t er , as it h as j us t d o ne, je" tit dangerous career of commercial prohibitions which roaY. t n ot future time endanger the s e sa ti s f ac t or y resu lt s ? Is deplorable to see the Government abuse the complaisance oil', the opinion, which in such a state of actual p rosper ity forge.; ova future ; abuse, we repeat, this complaisance to rob us one l o ver of our constitutional liberties, and thus accu mu l a t e new storms, to the country for a time, when but for that we s h ou ld o nly h ay o pt continue the progressive amelioration so happily commenced by late revolution. t the From the official statement of the Moniteur it appears t, ,n: B 3 amount of receipt of the indirect taxes for the first half of v.OO 26,706,569 francs, the half of the estimate for 1834, was 25, - A n ",,,ps francs. Though the estimate assumed an increase in the ,_" o ay and Post Office, the very great reduction in the duties on utro the (estimated at three millions below the receipt of 1833), le d , direct expectation of a falling off in the gross amount of all the 01 be co taxes, whereas the receipt for the first half of 1834 r 613.• 27,149,545 francs, presenting a surplus of 1,864, 54 '"' b 0s above the estimate. Th e revenue o f th e P os t Office alone 5 ipt , diminution of 47,512 f, 35 c . b e l ow th e estimate ; th e actual r ace o ,ols however, is 140,555 f rancs a b ove t h e rece i pt of the first s ix ' ni of V IENNA, Courrier Belge, July 31. ^l,nt• JULY 22.-5 per Cent.,Metalliques, 96% ; pet 88% ; Bank Shares, 1241.--Allgemeine Zeitung, July 27. • MIDDLESEX SESSIONS-(THIS DAY•) 9 MR. GEE'S CASE.—The Chairman addressing himself t° las t Jury, said there was one observation which he had intended bis night to have made in passing sentence, which was, that ' n a b opinion, and he had the autho r ity to say that ' in that of the irlo-iy generally, Mr. Gee was fully acquitted from all the charges ° management of the property of Mrs. Canning, which was sligo to be imputed to him in th e cross - exam i na ti on . He w°u . a s further and say, that he had most properly discharged his dutYiest solicitor, and: not only w a s th ere no t th e s li g ht es t imputation t he ing on his character, but the greatest credit was due to him f or ts of course he had adopted, with a view to th e secur i ng the intere st the children, and protecting the property from waste. Mr. BODKIN thanked the Chairman on his behalf. fel / Mr. PRENDERGAST, as counsel for the prisoners :A h v;s s bound to say he h a d learnt from several quarters that Mr. a most respectable and honourable practitioner. The expenses of the - prosecution were allowed. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS (FROM LLOYD'S.) fifel DEAL, Auc. I.—Wi n d S., li g ht. — A rr i ved from the and sailed, the John and Francis to Liverpool ; the Br e Os' , Wells, for Quebec ; the Canadian, Morgan, for Quebec ; retto, Jun., Saunders, for London, from Calcutta. o f PORTSMOUTH, AUG. I.—Wind E. S. E.—Sailed the Pul e Bedford, Bower, for Calcutta. PLYMOUTH, JULY 31.—Wind variable. FALMOUTH, JULY 31.—Wind N. E., light breezes. TOPSHAM, JULY 31.—Arrived the Jane, from Mirs,mic" l Cro P wn, Archer,from Memel. „ ic y. ENZANCE, JULY 31.—Arrived off port, the Woodman, . 1 " from Newfoundland. PADSTOW, JULY 31.—Arrived the Louisa, Henson, from r ilfa michi. BRISTOL, AuG. I.—Arrived the Midas, from Odessa. TO LIVERPOOL, JULY 31.—Arrived the Superior, Tyson, &oat 00 0 Orleans ; Fame, Davis, from Savannah ; Iris, Zaracondagt li ' Salon ; and Maria, Wallis, from Griefswald. from fis t. TusicAl, JULY 31.—Arrived the Ch es hi re , Campbell, tit:6" badoes. MARYPORT, JULY 31.—Arrived the Sa ra h an d Mary M' ohibald, from Quebec. 0 1 HULL, JULY 31.—A rr i ve d th e Liddl e, C ooper, from 0 and garls Ann, Keighley, f rom Ri c h e b ucto ; M axwel l , Start, an" 4. Wells, from Archangel ; and Earl of Errol, Kitchell, from "•-- THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE 0' CL 0 C, 16 11‘ 5 We are still disappoi n t e d w ith respect to t h e Queen of 101 l speech, which is so anxiously sought after by our City spat it in the Spanish Stock. It is certainly rather extraordinarY_, i v& has not made its appearance ere this, but by the express re‘ e , th e this morning from Pari s , it a pp ears th a t no cour i er h a d reacf' f the French capital from M a d r id on th e d ay o f the depa.rtartoio estafette, and it was imagined that the Carlists were in Po"" of the main roads leading to Bayonne. is r( 11 0 The King of the French's speech, as we announced our City article, is pacific. We have no further arrivals ° consequence—not even a single ship letter has come to hand' yeste f spy THE FUNDS. A , co tirl Consols, which left off yesterday at 90 3 / 4 % for the ''';fe opened at the same price; Spanish, 47% Portuguese, HALF-PAST b the We have no f ur th er arr i va l s to the present hour, althong is" Queen of Spain's speech is looked for in the course of the cl!' l ,',l, indeed a report prevailed on 'Change that it had been recel;o l , consequence of which Spanish Stock went up to 48, since ° r i de has declined to 47%76. Our endeavours to trace the abn_v e i YO ' to any authentic source have failed. Portuguese Stock 0." 4 00 0 Consols may be quoted 90 3 M%. There has been some b u doing in the above Stock. THREE a CLO Consols for the Account, 9011 E FUNDS.-CLOSING PRICE BRITISI Bank Stook 0 20% 3 per Cent Red. 9114 3 per Cent Cons 9oii 3 52 per Cent. 3% per Cent. Red 994 New 3% per Cent 98% 4 per Cent. Assented lOOl4 Dissented 101% Long Annuities to expire Jan, 1860 17% Oct 1850 17 15-1 S Jan. 1860 17 FUNDS. • a 54 India Stock ........................ 15 rn Ditto Bonds .... .................. „orb, South Sea Stock ................ Ditto Old Annuities ............. Ditto New Annuities .......... P o . Ex. Bills, !WM_ ............ , a Ditto Ditto 1.1501. . • .................. Bank Stock for Act.•••-•' ...... ;104 India Stock for Opg. ............. Consols for Opg, ................ tleß FOREIGN FUNDS. (TO 86 4 Austrian, 5 per eent IC2U Portuguese! Bonds, 5 per .. ,pst .... ily Belgian, 5 per cent 9844. 1 Ditto, New Ditto. ............ 1 Brazilian Bonds Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent Chaim), 6 per cent 3 337 2 Dittoßu Prussian.ssi n hl e t os a n l P i s c r. ................ .......................... • .................. Columbian, 6 per cent Ditto, 1824 3136 Ditto, 1823 ................................ Danish 75 French, 5 per cent. ......... if A Greek Bonds, 1825, 5 per ce,,t 363 Exchange ............... .. ••• ...So N Mexican, 5 per cent., 1825 32 French, 3 per cent ................ ~ 4 , 11 Ditto, 18-25, 6 per rent 42y4 Dutch, 2- per cent. ....... 0•... '''' Peruvian, 6 per cent WINDSOR, AUGUST 1. On Tuesday evening, in addition to the compalli the Castle, the following persons had the honour d the Royal table :—the Provost of Eton, Sir William all _ gt Gomm, Lady and Miss Gore. His Majesty returned to the Castle shortly before i l s 2 r - isi night, accompanied by Sir Herbert Taylor. 49° 11 ,, 0 11 ; from St. James's, the King stopped at Holland 1 -I ° us r li psi j i sington, where he honoured the Noble Earl with his e 0 .5 at dinner. A select party had been invited to meet I/1 jesty, who left at ten o'clock for Windsor Castle. W e b delivere On the Th at the o f the f raallife3 QU