The Sun. — London, England, 1825-08-17 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS. The Moniteur of Sunday, Aug. 14, contains in the official part, a very long ordinance relative to the schools of hydrography, and the reception of captains of merchantmen. Three other ordi nances fix the number of these schools, the pay, and (be uniform of the Professors and Examiners. To each ordinance is subjoined an injunction by. the Dauphin, as Admiral of France, to the Com mandants, Civil- and Military Officers of the Ma xine, and all %slim .it-s.o.ncerns,.. to. aen tire - said ordinance carried into ex e cution. . • (Aron-Official Part.) . . . PAW ; -AUG. 13. The dispatches brought•by La Bearnaise COn 'gren the news announced by.thu.telegraph. • The intentions of the King , have been corn• pletely ful filled : 150 millions are sec ured to the ancient colonists of .St. Domingo, and our com merce will enjoy in that island advantages double those granted to the most favoured nations: in a -word; the ordinance of the King has been ac cepted with respect and gratitude. President Boyer was making the necessary Pre parations that. the ordinance might be registerkl in the Senate with suitable solemnity. • In the 'evening, of thevBth of July, the‘day on 'vhi(-.11 M. Derville, Captain of La Bearnaise, quitted Port-au- . Prince, he discovered the French squadron, . co mposed of two ships-of- the 4ine, teven . frigafes, and three corvettes.,M. de l\iakau had. been detached from this squadron in' the Circe frigate; to carry the ordinance to Port-au- Prince. .He is daily expected at Brest. , Telegraphic dispatches from Toulon announce that the Galatke frigate sailed from that pOrt the 9th of thii month, having on board' Sidi Mah tnuud, to carry him back to Tunis. The Tonhe schrioner arrived at Toulon 'on the 10th. It: has lately been employed in conveying M. Blot, of the-Institute, to various parts of the Mediterranean and the Adriatic, to make astro, nomical and physical, experiments relative to the measurement of the earth, The Journal ,de Paris announces that the shop of M. Barba is -shut up, and that his licence (brevet) has been withdrawn. (From the Etoile; dated Monday, Angust 15.) The Augsburg Gazette contains the following news from Constantinople, 20th July fc The Porte has received recent news from the Morea i -con; firming the events near the Mills of Napoli di Romania, and the retrograde march of Ibrahim Pacha-to the envirom of Tri polizza. According to these accounts, hii loss was trifling.— The report of the capture of Missolonghi is not confirmed. I t could not be believed that that important place could be taken without the co-operation of a fleet. " Letters from Trieste of the 29th July, in the same journal' say, that in-the latest accounts' from Missolonghi the Capitan Paella had appeared before that place on the 7th July. The Saraskier Redschid Paella, who was a Viarhori, was to have - advanced to the walls of thee - fortres The Greek accounts. re. present his army as very weak, and do not exPress the smallest fear for Missolonghi, notwithstanding the arrival'of the Capitan Pacha. It is said that Ibrahim Paella had set fire to Argos.— , - Meantime Hussem Bey has landed at"Navarin with 3 or 4,000 r.-_en, who immediately took the road to Tripolina." The Trieste Gazette also speaks of the capture of Ibrahim Pacha, adding, however, that this news needs confirmation. The proclamation of Colocotroni., and the conduct of .General Roche, oia.y have given rise to this report. IFrorwthe Journal de Parls of Sunday.) . . -• • . -"PAuts,..Aua. 13. It seems that the heat has been excessive at Guadaloupe, and favoured the development of the yellow fever. - A letter from Point a Petre, of the .15th of June, says, that disorder -rages with-great vio lence, and almost all the Eurepeans sunk under The mortality is said . to be greater•than in _•.l-816. • The Quotidiene announces to-day, that several bankers went on Monday to the Minister of Fi vance to back the inscriptions which. they hair deposited to support their applications to convert their renles in case those inscriptions were . not already converted. -His -Excellency.! •was.obliged. to comply with their demands, and the inscriptions in the ,5 per cents. were imme diately delivered to them. It is assumed that they amount to-10 millions. This is entirely false. The state of tho trans fe-rs,- which will be immediately published, mill show the truth. PeopVe will then be 'able to judge of the good faith of the Quotidiezie. The first charge is—Disobedience of orders, and conduct un— becoming an officer : the specification alleges that Captain Porter, in violating the territory of his - Catholic Majesty, the King of Spain, by landing troops, in a hostile manner, and by committing' divers acts of hostility there, acted in contraven tion of the Constitution of the Urited States, and of the laws of nations, as well as in opposition to his instructions. The second charge is—lnsubordinate conduct, and conduct unbecoming an officer; and the various specifications em braced in this charge allege, that he has written and sent letters of a disrespectful character to the President of the United. States and to the Secretary of the Navy, by which he has violated the respect due from officers to the head of the department, and Las deranged the discipline of the navy—that he has published a pamphlet of the proceedings, before such publication was authorised by the Executive—has given to the world partial and incorrect statements of the proceedings.; 'and has also published officialtommunications to the Government, and correspondence of an official character, and orders and in- structions • which he has received from the department. • NEW YORK, JuLT .15. DEPARTURE OP GENERAL - LA FAYETFE. General La Fayette left this. city. yesterday morning. Agree ably to orders, the troops of the first hrigade.of Artillery doing duty with muskets, :about 800 in number, formed in line in front of General La Fayette's quarters, at six o'clock, unit's the command of Colonel Muir. , Between six and seven o'clock the General' presented himself 'at the door,, when he was sa luted by the troops. The line then wheeled into open columns, and proceeded up Broadway anti down Barclay-street, to the Hoboken-ferry, the General in his carriage, attended by the Mayor and the Recorder, with the Committee of Arrangements and several of the members of the Common Council, with Ge nerals Morton and Benedict and . their suites, followed in car riages:. On the arrival of the troops at the feiry, they were halted and formed into line. The General descended from his carriage, and followed by the gentlemen who had attended I him. went down the line and ,was 'saluted. He was, at his particular request, introduced to each officer as he passed, and - taking them affectionately by the *hand; bade them farewell. Upon his entering the landing _place of the ferry, crowds of individuals pressed forward to take 'once more by the hand the man who had long been the object , of their -affectionate regard; and the affection displayed cn the occasion made it a scene solemn and interesting, and one which will long be remembered by those who witnessed it. - The General and the . gentlemen who attended him entered the steam-boat, and on leaving the wharf a salute was fired from the battalion of artillery. Thus, for the present, 'has terminated the visit tons of the illustrious guest who was.endeared. to us by'the devotion of his youth and his fortune to bur country, in the hour of her adver sity ; a visit, unparalleled in history ; honourable to the grati tude of the country which gave the invitation, as well as to the. individual to . whom it was given. Nor will it,: in-our opinion, be without a moral use in the world. -It will teach to succeed ing times the fallacy of 'the remark, that virtue is not but a name (as in a moment ddespondency was declared by Brutus), but that it has an .intrinsic worth, and will be made.sacred by a nation's gratitude and a - people's love. It was noticed as a circumstance bOnourable to the feelings of our citizens and their just views of propriety, that, though an immense concourse of persons were present at,the General's departure, and though upon all former occasions they, had been accustomed to greet him with loud and hearty - cheera,--Yet on the present occasion a profound and solemn silence prevailed. Jur.Y.l9. Letters from the Pacific announce that the island of.Chiloe still adheres to- Spain. The Government of. Chili has invited that province to attach itself to the Republica but the Gover nor, in reply, says he has communicated. the invitation to 1.", e people, and taken their sense upon it, and. they have.deter mined to adhere to Spain. The Archipelago of Chiloe is a dilater of islands in a large gulf or hay at the south extremity . of Chili. It consists of 37 islands, 32 of which are inhabited. Chiloe, the principal island, is between lat. 42 deg. 13 min. and 43 deg. 47 min. S., and is about 120 miles long. It is separated from the main land by a channel 'little more than a mile wide. - . _ A letter from a respectable source, dated Valparaiso, March 17, and pnlilished in the National Infclligencer,' says— , " I believe a thousand Men (enemies) might' march from Conception to Coquimbo. They have not.a real in the Trea sury, nor know how or where to ',;et any, and their paper is at 50 per cent. discount. Of ' course they pay nothing to ' the few. troops they hi.ve,• and they are daily deserting and forming banditti' in all parts of the country. There is a man called Pincheyra, who has now about a thousand men, and is a k ind of successor to Benivedes. His men are of all classes, In dians, Spaniards,Citilenos, &c:, all well mounted. They live in the valleys and defiles of, the Cordillera, and make occasional incursions into the loWer country, in the piovince of Concep tion, and even on this side the _Mande, destroy ,-the , villages, kill the men, carry Off the women (you see : the fellow has a taste), cattle, .&c., and. lay waste the whole country.. Less than two years ago, this fellow had not two hundred men, and instead of crushing him at that time, the Government,. truly Spaniard-like, set abbot to buy him .over,-or rather buy some one-to.hetray.,him. Now, after lie has destroyed perhaps a half million of, property or more, they are about Sending an army to fight him—who - will half go over to. him, and the other half run away. God knows how these people have kept toge ther under such governments as they have had. We long ago thought they could not pozsibly manage worse, and.any change Must be an improvement; but they have a strange faculty of disappointing-all calculations of that-kind." - - JULY 20.. . • CANAL LOAN.-190,000 of the 6 per cent. loan of 270,000 dollars, advertised for by the Comthissioners of the Canal Fund, was taken on Friday, at. par, .by the State and Me-. chanics' and. Farmers' Banks, Albany • and the residue was subscribed on behalf of the SChOol itind, that amount of monies belonging to the School Fund'being in the treasury un productivz. '-WASHINGTON, JULY 15. THE " COMMUNITY " MANIA.—If appears that Owen is to have a rival in his Community ,system ' • an association modelled on his plan,. has been formed in Cincinnati, who have purchased. a tract of land of upw4rds of 700 acres, in Greene county, Ohio, including the Yellow Spring, 64 miles from' Cincinnati, and • three from the Little Miami Falls, for the purpose of establishing a Community agreeably to the plan of -Robert Owen. A constitution has been adopted, and it is-said the. Coitmunity has already commenced operations. •FOUCIIE'S MEMOIRS. • • • The Memoirs. of TpuntiE :have again became the subject of .trial before one id the Tribunals at Paris.. The cause was heard on Saturday. last L vhe.l% M. COUTUMF., the , Advocate for the Pub. ; lisher,and Editor, .argued.in favour of. their au - . thenticity. He maintained that the possessor was wellaware of their being genuine, and deli vered them to the Editor with the following in structio:'s:— , ) "A manuscript confided to s friend previous to setting out on the embassy to —,--- with a recommendation not to publish it until after his death. His falfily and his children .have no knowledge of it. . For certain reasons it-is necessary they should • remain in ignorance of it. , • " M. —, who 'is in possession of the manuscript, must keep the secret. The tng is agreedepon between - them. " The manuscript; will by published ; without any alteration, save the addition of some notes relatiirc to times ::nd circum stances. The body of the work will, remain unaltered. " The Embassy is but an honourable exile. He (Fouch4) is . fully aware that he. will neverAturn to France.. The manu script was partly written in -Yropcnce, in the Chateau of Fer riercs, during his mission. . " All objections against the probability of the Memoirs being authentic will be answerediti the advertisement. . • " The , manuscript, which is very illegible, requires-being corrected and set in order;"• • A. distinguished Parisian Advocate,M. Bett - YE,R I was engaged on •the same side, but no decision • was pronounced, and. the cause was. postponed `.for eight days.---(Journal des Debats.) - - • II kmrsitt E .AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.--At the .. - general Annual . Meeting of Oils Society for the `Exhibition'Of S tock; -Distribution .of Premiums, .&c., Sir TiloMa S BARING,, Bart. M.P. was una nimously re-elected President, as was also J. DUTHY, Esq. Secretary, and B. WINTER, E•q, "flreastirer,, for the ensuing year. • AMERICA. PHILADELPHIA, JULY 19. The following are the charges against Com modore PORTER, now- on his trial at Washing- .on sQuur AMERICA. Vron: the* Sire York Evening Post, July . 16 .1 The latest accounts from Rio de la Plata represent the state of the matters at Buenos . Ayres as likely to involve the Bra zilian Emperor in a struggle with the patriots; the issue of which, especially if it is true, as is said, that Bolivar is at the bottom of the late - revolt, appeirs to be no way doubtful. The Liberator is believed to have an understanding with Buenos Ayres, and to hive induced the latter to cause a rupture with his imperial Majesty, in order that he (Bolivar) may have a. 'lea for marching from one end of Brazil to the other, and es tablish a Republican Government... The northern provinces, where discontent was prevailing, were expected to revolt on hearing the intelligence-front the - river . Plate. It can scarcely be expected, after the rapid progess.whio liberal opinions have made in South America, that the patriots will lay dOwn their arms until they-have rootad out every vestige of former tyrAnny. 'Democracy and Royalty are so incompatible, that they -cannot exist long in each others neighbourhood. The French Commissioneis in Peru and Chili have been or dered by the respective GM,ernments of 'these Republics to leave them in hours. The one is.. accused of having in tetfered in•coneerns of importance, and endeavoured to over throw the Government ; the other of openly applauding, at the bar of Congress;tbe cries of the disorderly, who had called for a dissolution of that body. It will be recollected that we some time ago published an article, accusing the French Govern ment of having spies in Colombia and .Peru, whose object was to effect a counter - revolution in f avour of ro y alt y . This change was afterwards denied in the Paris Ministerial Papers, although, from the facts whicli have since transpired, there never was any reason to doubt the correctness of die in • • fontation. Intelligence.of.a late date has been., received at Baltimore from Al exico and Peru. It was healthy and tranquil at Tam pico and Vera CrtA. Gen. Rodil was in possession of Callao on the Ist April. The Peruvian squadron, .consisting of one frigate, two sloops of war, and A , gun brig completely manned and equipped, had sailed from Guayaquil to assist in the blockade of Callao. MR. ELLISTON. TO THE EDITOR, OF THE SUN. Sitt—As the account of the -cause of my father's illness in your Paper of Saturday last may unnecessarily alarM some of his friends and relatives, it is.my duty to inform you that his present severe indisposition has not been produced by any disorganization of the inside, which in every appearance, and from every movement, is perfectly in full vigour; his me dical advisers at present pronounce his disorder to be the effect of an unusually relaxation of the nervous system, occasioned by severe and intense anxiety during the pressure of business with which he has lately been surrounded. I am, Sir, your most obedient servant, WAI. GORE ELLISTO N. .13, Addington-place., Ramsgate, Aug. 15. From the LONDON GAZETTE, Aug. 16. BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED. T. Barnes, Dennington, Suffolk, merchant. A. Strachan, Liverpool, master mariner. BANKRUPTS. W. Forster, Philpot-lane, wine-merchAnt, to surrender Aug. 30; at ten, Sept. 13, at eleven, and 27, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. Attornies, Messrs. Barrow and Vincent, Basinghall-street. G. Walker, Wollaston, 'Northamptonshire,' butcher, Sept. 7, at six, 8, and 27, at eleven, at the Hind , Inn, Wellingbo rough, Northamptonshire. Attornies, Messrs. Hodson and Burnham, Wellingborough ; and Mr. Hodson, St. John street-roacl, Clerkenwell. J. Masser' York, tailor, Aug. 30,31, and Sept. 27; at eleven, at the Sand Hill Inn, Colliergate, York, Attornies, Mr. Capes, Holborn-court, Gray's Inn, London; and Mr. Hinds ley, jun. Yoilc. R. Hooton, R. Richards, and W. Wilkes, Bordesley, Aston, Warwickshire, iron manufacturers, Aug. 25, at six, 26, and Sept. 27,'at eleven, at the Royal Hotel, Birmingham. Attor nies, Messrs. Tooke and Carr, Gray's Inn ; and Mr. Barker, Birmingham. J. Baker, Bath, carpenter, Aug. 25, 26, and Sept. 27, a twelve, at the Angel Inn, Attornies, Mr. Makinson; Middle Temple; and Mr.•Hellings, Bath.. DIVIDENDS. . • • Aug. 30, IV. Marsh, J. H. Stracey, and G. E. Graham, Berners-street, bankeA—Sept. 10; J. Edmans, Warwick-lane, cheesemonger—Sept. 9, E. Jackson, York, goldsmith—Sept.6, J. -Bramwell, 'Leadenhall.street, hatter—Sept. -6, S.,Davies, Great Sarrey-street, Blackfriars-road, dealer in druc , s—Sept. 12, S. Butt, Motcombe, Dorsetshire, cheese dealers=-Aug. 25, H. Caton, Yeovil, Somersetshire, draper—Sept. 9, W. Gilli brand, Bolton-le-3loors, Lancashire, plumber. • , . • CERTIFICATES—SEPT. 6. M. Hime, Liverpool. auctioneer-4'. Beesly, Bedwardine, Worcestershire, glove manufacturer—J. H. Browne, Clapham, Surrey, linen-draper—T. Yates and J. Yates, Bolton-le-Moors, Lancashire, cotton •spinners--W. Mansel, Grove-lane, Cam berwell, Surry, picture dealer—S. Robinson, Fenchurch-street, London, stationerr-R. Uphill, West Lydford, Sotnersetshire, apothecary.R. Fuller, Reigate, Surrey, .coal-merchant. - PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. S. Hepper and Co., Doncaster, hatters—W. Hall and R. Roberts, Holbeck, Leeds, joiners—J. Best and Co.; Sheffield, file thanufaCturers, so far as regards J. Best—J. Emanuel and Co., -Bevis-Marks, Saint Mary-Axe, silversmiths—J. Gill and .R. Searle, Horrabridge, Tavistock, Devonshire, -woollen ma nufacturers—G. Bradshaw and J. Massey, Wigan, Lancashite, hat manufacturers—J. Cossins and •J.' Goss, Weymouth, sur geons.—W. Troby and J. Crawley, meat salesmen, London— J. Banks arid Slater, Cuddington, Cheshire, millers—T. Ostle and Co., Mary-port, Cumberland—J. Bremner and Co., Manchester, cotton manufacturers—S. P. Biceand C. Thomas, Basinghall-street—E. Smith and Co.,,Houndsditch, tailors— , P.. Stanlpy and Co., as far as regards R. Stanley—J. Day and r.. Robinson, Quadrant, Regent-street, man's mercers—J. ; Bawdon and IV. Deighton, Yotk, cork-cutters. COMBINATION IN SCOTLAND. • (From. the Glasgow Chronicle.) . Clyde Iro.n.works have ceased, working for the last five weelcs, in consequence of the colliers' cOmbination: The furnaces produce about 100 tons of pig iron weekly, or 5,000 tons •a-year, and. it. requires about 20,000 tons of coal to melt the metal., -It .was therefore . considered by the combination the Most vulnerable point to attack first, as it was calculated that Mr: Dunlop virould at once comply with their demands rather than stop his :extensive ironworks. The principal causerof dispute was, that, the_ colliers wished to alter the mode of mea surenient, and to give Mr. Dunlop only 12 cwt. instead of 13 cwt. to the , carc•as' formerly. As Mr. Dunlop considered his measurement as fair.as that of any other coal work, he resisted .the demand.. About ten weeks ago his Hamilton farm collieri sent to him a -long roll of 'imaginary grievances and new• mands, which he peremptorily refusing to Accede to, they-all struck. The work has since .been stopped, and the colliers turned out of th6ir. houses. The whole of Mr. Dunlop's colliers, amounting le about 390, also 'followed the example, and. there -being no coal to carry. on the blast furnaces, from the short. sopply, put up by the colliers, in a week after,the strike, the iron-stone miners, lime-stone w o rkers, furnace men, labourers, &c., were thrown laic to the amount of 300, making in all 600 men, without including their families. What makes the case.peculiarly hard is, that Mr. Dunlop's men were quite averse to strike. A general meeting of combined col liers, consisting of about 2,000, was however held in the vici nity. to . decide.whether Mr. Dunlop's men should, continue any longer to work to him upon their old terms. To their credit, every one of his men voted against striking, being perfectly sa tisfied with thc,:r employers terms. They were, however, out voted, And obliged to submit to the general body, and present their grievances. 'They have since been supported by the com bination. They say that they receive 10s. a week, and so much for their sons, according as they could work. There are 3,000 colliers .around Glasgow . ; it only requires about is. weekly frordeach to defray the'expence of the idle hands. The colliers thrown idle were perfectly able, if they chose to work full time , to make Gs. 3d. a day, and when they wrought only four days a week they made 20s. This is owing to the great increase of prite.they have successively obtained, as they now get 220. for digging a cart Of coals, the former price-of which was 14d. A report.is -made every-fortnight by the delegates of the state of the coal-hills, and if the coals are accumulating, the grand com mittee at Shettleston - order .the various coal-works to pia cut •onlY a certain quantity till the stock is diminished. The con sequence is, that the collier's, on an average, work only three fifths of their time, and inst, ad of puttLig out 50 hatches, first reduced it to 40, and-then to 32. At this season' of the year there is generally 50,000 tons (or about a fifth: of the consump tion of.Glasgow).on the principal coal-hills, to meet the addi tionaldemandinwinter ; but at 'present there is no stock on hand; the colliers refusing to put out more than what is required fur • immediate consumption.S. Mr. Dunlop is- confident of being able . to fill his works with new hands, but he is as yet'rather averse to do this; as his old workers have been about the place-from their infancy, -are much attached to him, industrious and well behaved, and never made any complaint till misled by others. It is a melancholy picture of the times when such a large body of workmen are so infatuated as to strike at the dictation-of others. Instead of indUstriously working, they are now to he seen playing at cards, or loitering away their time in other frivolous amusements. Mr. Dunlop has several hundred houses in the-form of squares for his workmen. He charged 74d. a week for the rent of an apartment-.lofeet by 15, and containing two beds. Those who wish an additional room half the above size, with one bed in it, pay one half more.— The colliers object to pay any rent whatever, and-this also forms bne of their list of grievances. Mr..Donlop is-determined not to yield to any of their demands, as from the price of iron fall. ing it is less profitable to manufacture. He is employed in repairing his furnaces and other necessary improvements. , He employs more than 50 horses driving the iron and lime-stones. .It takes about 40,000 tons of raw.material to make 4,000 of pig iron. Above 20,000 tons of coal,were formerly sold, besides ,the supply required for the consumption of . the works. The iron -works, which are beautifully situated on the banks of the Clyde, have at present a gloomy and ruinous appearance, very unlike the vivacity and briskness which has Ao lon g distinguished them. It is a great number of years since they stood still. The inhabitants of Glaagoa wi ll miss the finely I illuminated horizon which the flames created, particularly in a " dark night; and which served as a cheerful beacon• to the tra veller in the surrounding districts. It is the intention of- the he combination, if they succeed against Mr. Dunlop, to str against the rest of the coal-masters, one by one, till they get them all completely under their Contrail as•to measurement and price., The grand stand is determined to be made during next winter, and great apprehensions are entertained that the community will at that time suffer severely for want of coal. Last winter the combination was not so Well matured. Next -season there will be no stocks of coal at the pits, and a great rise in. price may therefore be expected. It is absolutely necessary , that immediate steps should be taken on the subject, or public works and private families will suffer serious inconvenience from ,• the want of fuel, or be obliged to purchase it at an •enormous rate. This will cause the cyes.of the public to be more fully opened to the evil consequences of combination ; and the col : Hers, by overdoing the thing; will. probably Wing the) house About their ears. - , .- , EXPLOSION OF POWDER-MILLS IN FRANCE. • The Journal d'lndre and: Loire contains the following details of the horrible accident which happened at the powder-mills-of Ripault, three leagueS from Tours At five minutes after one in the afternoon one of the ‘workshops where the powder is corned blew up.at the very instant twelve of the. workmen were returning into it after dinner. Theie twelve unfortunate men are almost all . fathers of families ; their limbs ' were scattered abroad . to great distances ; some were found among some poplars 150 paces off. The explosion was so loud that it was heard at more than six leagues from "the place. The shock was so great that the doors and windows were shaken by it at Tours, and even some panes of the glass broken.—" This building, which contained three thousand weight of pow der, has entirely disappeared, and it is with dif ficulty that the foundations can be discovered. — A magazine in which 25,000 weight of, powder was deposited, and which was at a distance of about 100 paces, has been much damaged ; the roof has entirely given way under the fall of the beams and other parts of the ruin. The shock was, so felt there, that all the powder was shaken out of the barrels in which it was contained. — The persons employed abOut the Ripault maga zine, full of courage and devotedness, hastened immediately to pump upon the magazine ; and it is perhaps tb this act of devotion that may be ascribed the preservation_ of that _magnificent establishment, the finest of its kind, perhaps, which at _present exists in Europe, The imagi nation is startled at the bare thoughts of the ca lamities which might have followed the explosion of these twenty-five thousand weight of powder. —The other T workshops and magazines of Ripault, have:. suffered' considerably in con. quence of the explosion ; the dwelling houses of M. Robin (the Chief Commissary), and of M. the Lieutenant-Colonel Petit: de Chastenay (the Inspector), are no longer habitable. The roofs are totally destroyed, not one of the window frames has escaped damage,. and - every window pane is reduced to dust. In all likelihood the occasion of the explosion will never be known. — Some attribute it to a very slight cause : the door of the workshop being open, it is thought that some grains of sand, agitated by (he wind and rubbed One against another, may have - produced a spark which would haVe occasioned the explo ision. Two persons only—one a soldier stationed at Ripault, have been seriously wounded by the alling ruins of the building." IRISH MINING. .WrcriLow.—An LAG.A.Nunx ,COUNTY alarming rumour having hesen in circulation yes terday,that part of the above mine, which has, for some time, been wrought with great ad vantage by " The :Alining Company of Ire hind," had fallen in upon a number of miners, we inquired as to the fact, and learned . that the Company's 'Mine inspe'ctor having given orders to open, enlarge, and timber an old level, six men were so employed, in three divisions of two men each, -relieving each other at intervals of eight hours ; two of these men having been a few yards in advance of the new timber, were, on Wednesday, about two o'clock, enclosed by a falling in of part of the level's roof. At five• o'clock the relief corps discovered their Situation, and gave - the alarm, which brought to the spot in a short time che Company's Inspec tor and their Mine Agent, with a great concourse of' miners and labourers ; all of whom exerted thernselVes to the utmost throughout the night and the foll Owing day, when, about nine o'clock in the evening, the men- were released without any other injury than what may. have arisen from. having been confined thirty-three hours .with out food. Much praise is due to the Irish miners from Glemnalor, who repaired to Linganure the moment they heard of the. accident, and con tributed in an essential manner to the release of their English.brethren ; and when.Mr: Dodd, the Company's inspector, offered theta remuneration for their services, it was unanimously rejected, the Glenmalur men declaring, it was not- for the sake of money they exerted themselves.—(Dublin Evening Post of Saturday.) PRICE OF STOCKS THIS BAN k Stock 229 3 per Cent. Red . 3 per Cent. Cons.... 894 :t 3. per. Cent. Ditto Red 9Bg* 4 per Cent. New lo3i Bank bong Ann. 22} 5-I6ths India Stock Ditto Bonds 46 pm; South Sea Stock DA Y AT ONE O'CLOCE . . Old Annuities ............... --* I New Ditto • , ....- \EL Bills 10001. lid. .. 113,0 Ditto 5001. lid ...... 20 2 2 Ditto small Lid Ditto Commercial :.:: . -''' 1 Bank for Act. - ............... .r• , I India for Acct.. ... ...... ..- ....... Cens. for Opening 891 90 Of PRICES OF FOREIGN F Austrian Bds, 5 per cen t Brazilian lids 1825 ... 44 dis. NOS AT ONE O'CLOCk• Neapolitan Scrip ......... ... Peruvian Bonds . . .......... -**" Do. Seri ip ..... , ....... . . , ..... .... Buenos Ayres Bds Milian, Bds, 6 per cent .-:. Prussian, riper cent. •-.;.. ; . -' Colombian lids, 6 per ct — Ditto New .................. ; . Do. do. 1824 B4k Russian, New, 5 per ct..... j-711 Danish, 5 per cent. Do. Scrip 4i. dis. ' .1823 .. . ... . .... . 179) e .....c. Greek Bds Do. Scrip, 1825... 1211 12. dis. Exchange ... —fi " - c , Mexican Bds - 3 per cent. ..- — 1 - c , Do. Scrip 1825 3d dis. ---- Exchange ... — l. • "- Neapolitan, 5 per cent. ... - PRICES OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. Sh ar e'er 0 . . Anglo.Chilian Mining Company . • Bolatios Mining Company . -350 r Castello and Espirito Santo Brazil Mining Company ....f i t_',liilian and Peruvian Company . . ~ ............. jo . General Mining Association. , . ........ . .... , . .i k Baytian Mining Company Potosi La Paz and Peruvian Mining Association ~ Mill. • r u. Royal Trish : Mining Company i Protector Fire Assurance Company - 'P 9 • Anglo Mexican Mint Company ............. .....••• 14 f British Rock and Patent Salt Company .. ... . .... . .... 48 I/ French Brandy Distillery 'Company -- - ...: .17 18 1 6 i 1 ,..,i i General Stqam Navigation Company • . _ , 4 5 I , Imperial Plate, Glass Company , , 3 1 London, Gibraltar and Genoa Steam Company - - 7 ... " - 91 9 Mexican Company New Corn Exchange Provincial Bank of Ireland - z • _ ___ • . • gi ihamesantlititirieSteam Packet Company ..... 7 ...... FOitEIGN MAILS. ARRIVED. DU °. 1 rgh Holland - .I!GU WATER 'AT 1,01)ON BRIDGE TO-310 10-- , Morning, 41 minutes after 4.1 Evening, 3 sninuteaft. THE SUN . SOLES! QUI - k DICERE YALSIIIiI AUDE-ir ? LONDON; l e YVEDNESD# EVENING, AUGUST 17, J-5;-' • s..+gwr ---.'— '.---" , . 1 .......5mvam 5.•- 0 1 Such extracts as the French Papers of n ut Su t I afford will be h e in another column, b "be contain no very interesting news. Surtrial - I se^ a holiday, there, was no 'Change, a nd 0/ quently no list of the price of Stocks. ...___—.. m .--______ The Joint Stock Companies, which we" sp o of time back daily springing up around us, 1 131e i ll oo , produced any sensible effect upon the /16t pr Many of them have passed away as the a nit' ' rn io x speculation subsided, and many more have j `.o, into oblivion, the natural receptacle for su eb r i 1 , designed and badly arranged plans. These 11°11' f h el f patties, however, were, at the time °' I t 0 introduction to thenoti ce c oor l-r. of the -s, in ion only observed upon as gambling sPeell-e; tho and in order to determine the nature O. liability the different members of tbe ; c ie'l curved. But there is another point 0 ' re , e in which many of them deserve _ t° . b w oe garded, but which, nevertheless, seems t°' c t , O t been entirely forgotten ; we mean O e e o; they are likely to produce on the coiu,,,-erei GO O' the country on the one hand, and the W r3 ,,,0 1 ' dition of the people on the other; a P°l"t °I I 1) 0° of the utmost ti a 1 f 1 importance to the n on 3°l t he that deserves the highest ' consideratieo•e oe cb Statesman. The companies tO w hi V or f ''' especially direct attention, are the gold and silver mining assoc i a tions• rich''tile i We are amongst those who think th at pejo') of a nation consist not in thequantity of Chet. 0 0 ° metals she has at her command,but ill the n , ill ° tity of labour her people are able to P erf°r . ¢ Ol4 Oa' ' 1 given time, and for this simple reaso n / g oV' e r and silver can only be regarded value ais..a.retetut:‘...tl4"o.opo,.ieitlio‘e commodities, and possess no intrinsic ootli'' themselves any more than a bale of eut t°l3 g ,,(1 0 The only difference is, that they tri o v j the most general medium of exchange' j e bsOr so y a bale of cotton which will bring, Ott. e% 10 ° , w ill, , a certain quantity of gold an d silver , . OW manufactured state, bring not on ly t hos O . but an additional quantity a lso, a nd for , ail' nation will replace its orig inal °°- 9/1 , 4 0 dil raw material on which its lab eu- S' • s„, 3 , plied, and all over and above th at : s l ;3ll ll3( s ' o real gain, which it is evident is Were - , a be rt 00' I , ' portion as labour is besto‘ved• " 1- " 1 . 00 il i le g whether the cotton goods had been g l 4 r it.l A r ao) 0 0 change for the precious m etals, e trade i ti' $ c article available to the purposes °` . ~ to a loe thus the gain is always in P r°P- fil e d '°' g e labour. - - ,idet p - ~5 • If, then, labour is to be c°".-- let " o re' foundation of the riches of a nuti°ll' o f th e ' of how the introduction of large 113455e ,i . be 1 11 ; - tli e cious metals is likely to affect it' 0 0 r i: 6 t he d e V tllB V ' '. labour is always in proportion to demand is always in • ; to ,• . Oa prdpo ° , tile r c ol l of the first necessaries of life, 11 r tis e Je t o; Or Irl C her is again regulated by the valu e i.he • o f o r 1... - n ' De modity given in ex-change 11 it '''' to get at the value of labour, THE WIFE OF VIVO HUSBANDS. The sailing mas ter of a ves,sel belonging to a port on the east coast o f Scotland, was, on a voyage to the Me diterranean, captured by the Algerines, and detained In slavery for eleven years ; five of these employed at hard labour, with a bullet Illbs. weight fettered to one of his ankles,,,-till happily released from so painful a situation in consequence of the cele brated chastisement inflicted on these barbarians by Adm. Lord Exmouth. Rettirning to his native town, sufficiently.disguised in tattered apparel, a toil-worn Countenance, and unshorn beard, he learnt that his wife, after passing 10 years in supposed widow hood (ship, cargo, and crew being conjectuied to have perished at sea,) had married a second husband; and that a son, left apprentice to the book-binding business t now 'kept a bookselling and stationery shop, in which he was assisted by .a daughter. The liberated captive sought out and entered the shop, and on pretence of being recommended to a bed, invited himself home with them in the evening, and there found his Jean and her new husband, enjoying themselves around the domestic hearth. After some circumlocution and preparing the way, he inquired (nam ing his wife) if such a woman still lived in the place, and if she did, he had some intelligence of her husband to communicate. The question, under the present circumstances of the family, rather alarmed than pleased, and , caused the stranger to be looked upon with suspicion, as meaning to impose on them. At length, assuming the well-known kink and tone of undiminished affeet don, he appealed to his Jean if she did not recognize him under all his concealment. The appeal was not made in vain ; theyecog nition was on both sides tender and affecting. On being asked td which of the two husbands she chose to attach hersellohe " wife of two husbands" emphatically exclaimed that Willie (the first husband) had been the bethrothed of ' her youth, her first love, and the parent of her children, and now that lie was,.as it were, restored to her from the dead, her choice was to be his for life and death. The second husband having had it put in his Option, by the real gudeman, to appropriate what lie could justly claim, acted extremely honourable, choosing nothing save a gold watch lie himself had presented to the supposed widow when he wedded her, and on its being restored, left the house, town, and that dis tiict of country, never sihce having been either seen or heard of. The prominent actor in this little interesting drama has now a vessel of his own, and is occasionally in the habit, in pursuabee of his marine occupation, of visiting the . port of Perth, and tells the tale of his romantic adven ture as it really occurred, with an amusing pleasantry and original simplicity. - Perth Courier.) In the Transactions of the Royal Society of' Edinburgh it is stated that Mr. PRENTICE, in the neigh bourhood of Kilsyth, was the first person who planted po tatoes in the open field in Scotland. He died in 1792. It was recently announced to the lieges of Perth, - by hand-bills, that " the . Duchess of Athol' starts from the Dukes -Arms, in Dunkeld, • 3 • 3, every lawful evelying, at s ix o ciock.