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11.,1 .H . .a . TO PROPRIETORS OF CONCERT ROOMS AND OTHER - S.—Wanted to purchase a rat nbcr of Beaches, suitable for a Concert-room or ExtlPAtion-room. Address, Ir. Flelschat;sin, Scarborough :tote, Leeds, Yorkshire. Scarboron;h Dote',August 23. 1856. PRINCE'S CLIJ B.—RACQUET and TENNIS COURTS, Hans•place,Belgrave-square.—Gentlemen desirous of becoming members are rerptested to communicate with the secre tary, at the club, who will furnish every information. FOYAL PRIM MS'S INF ATM!. This Theatre will Open for the &mon on Monday neat, September the Ist, when will he presented (first time under the present manage ment) Sherldan's tragic play of PIZARRO. Bona, by Mr. C. Kean ; Elvira, by Mrs. C. Kean. After which will be produced a new petite comedy, in two acts, entitled, OUR WIFE. Books of Sheridan's play of Pizarro, as arranged for representation at the Royal Princess's Theatre by Charles x ean, with Historical Notes, are now ready, and may be had at the stage door of the theatre in Oxford-street. Price ls. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the Management of Mr. itnekatonc THIS EVENING, SECOND LOVE. Followed by The Spanish Dancer'. After which, MY WIFE'S DAUGEITER. To conclude with THE POSTMAN'S KNOCK. ROYAL THEATRE ADELPIII. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. Directress, Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, RELAND AS IT IS. Followed by DOMESTIC ECONOMY. To ooncludo with IRISH ASSURINCE AND YANKEE. MODESTY. STR %ND TrIEATRE. Manager, Mr. T. Payne. THIS EVENING, TUE MISTRESS OF TILE MILL. Followed by "TENT HOUSE IN INGIT STREET." Messrs. Stuart. Cooke. Rail Potter, and Klnloch; Mrs. Woollldge, and Miss Isabel Adams. After which, THE FLOWER GIRL OF GHENT. To conclude with THE STATCE LOVER. Commence at half-past 7. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Leasea and Manager, Mr. Alfred Wigan. THIS EVENING THE GREEN-EYED MONSTER. After which. MEDEA. To conclude with SITOCRING EVENTS. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Lessee and Ms.nater, Mr. Wm. Cooke. Shakspeare's Richard the Third illustrated. THIS EVENING, The highly successful production, Shakspeare's RICHARD THE THIRD, with equestrian effects unprecedented, imposing tableau of the " Death of White Surrey," Rattle of Bosworth Field, &e. After which, The ACTS of HORSEMANSHIP in the CIRCLE. To conclude with a round of varied entertainments. Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager. Mr. W. West. Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooke, iun. HIGEI WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAT—Morn. 57 min. aft. B—Evening 43 min. aft. 9 Tab-Mointow—Morn.2B min. aft.l9—Evening 15 min. aft 11 THE WEATHER—Sus °FMB, AUGUST 25. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 6 t —highest sines noon yesterday. 61—lowest this morning and during the night 66 —this day at noon. B ARoIaTZB, 30—falling; WlND—S.W.—Light, with dull weather and slight rain. STAMPED EDITION OF " THE SUN." The latest Edition of The Sun, Stamped, in time for Post, may always be had from half past 5 till 7 o'clock every evening. Subsbribers in the Country will please to observe that the heading " THIRD EDITION" is always to be seen on the papers containing the latest news. If any difficulty be experienced in obtaining that Edition, a communication to The Sun Office will remedy it. ' Sun Office, 112, Strand. • t ! l t `- 41 0% 1? )' Zjie 4 ' LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 25, 1856. While the dungeons of Naples, and the cruel ties of King Boats A, their keeper, are engaging the attention of the French and English Govern ment; a cry reaches us from some well nigh for gotten victims of oppression in the pestilential prison, 6,000 miles distant, to which a pitiless policy years ago consigned them. The parties to whom we refer are Europeans—Frenchmen—and their prison is the island of Cayenne. What sort of a place that is may be imagined when we state the name given to it by these exiles—it is the " Island of Despair !" If our Government doubt the propriety of the designation they have only to refer to the Emperor NAPOLEON, who is per fectly informed on the matter, having sent the miserable wretches there, and being accountable for their treatment. It is well the cry in ques tion did not reach Europe sooner, for if it had what a telling argument BOMBA. might have made of it against French interference, and what a taunt for the British Government ! What political sympathy these men may fairly elaim from Englishmen we are not prepared to say. It may be none. The voice 'lf humanity, however, pleads very powerfully on their behalf. Whatever they are or are not, they are men—not a few of them educated gentlemen—and their cry is very heartrending. The reader has but to turn to another column to be assured on this head. There he will find a letter from Louis BLANC, through which they are suffered to speak. The cruelties known to have been perpetrated in French Guiana on the poor exiles have not, we are now told, ceased. To have them transported to a pestilen tial island, far away from friends and home, is not enough, nor to keep them when they are there either—though years have elapsed, and an admir able occasion for showing them mercy has pre sented itself—they must be made to endure all that brutal malice can inflict. They are " un speakably tortured," and that "on the flimsiest pretences ;" and have the mortification to reflect that, confiding in the specious promises of their Imperial gaoler, the people of this country and other European countries believe them to be com paratively free, and enduring no other pangs than those of enforced exile. Let the poor wretches speak for themselves. They are not criminal convicts, but political prisoners —men who never were tried at all, but were condemned and expatriated wholesale. "Out of five men lately arrested for some talk it had been the fancy of the overseer to invent, two were tied to a stake and dealt with as the most vile criminals. As they were reluctant to submit to an ignominious punishment, soldiers were called for, who, rushing upon the victims, bruised them with blows, tore off their beards, and, reckless of the shrieks With which wild beasts would have been moved, b ound them with cords so fast us to make the blood gush ! To relate all we suffer, is more than we can possibly do. Our cheeks kindl e with shame, and our hearts are bleeding. Suffice t o say, that while the French Government has its clemency cried up everywhere—there are Frenchmen in Guiana who do gasp for life. Nor are they allowed the so journ of the Island of Despair, humble as it is ; barbarous administrators drag them violently on the continent, to compel them to a labour of eight hours a day in the marshy forests, from which Pestilential vapours are continually rising. We refused to submit to this outrage upon laws, to this mur d erous attempt ; we claimed prom i sed liberty. The answer is death—a magnanimous answer after the birth of a Prince. Is there, indeed, for us any other prospect but imminent death. With no proper food, no garments, no shoes, no wine since February last, is there any chance that we should long be able to bear both the influences of an exhausting toil and a deadly climate ? May public opinion be moved at our misfortunes, and ener getically rise against deeds so well calculated to bring to shame a nation reputed the most en lightened and civilised in the world." To which we say—Amen ! The Emperor outdoes the King ! and, disgraced as the Neapolitans are, the French people are more so. What !men, scholars, gentlemen, who have had no trial, and whose offences are of a political nature, have to " gasp for life" in the " Island of Despair," and "be compelled to labour eight hours a day in the marshy forests, from which pestilential vapours are continually rising I" The barbarity of such treatment is an outrage on every notion of civili sation—a libel on savagery itself. IA there no taker of King BORBA. or King OTHO by the beard to whisper as much in the car of the little man, our ally, at the Tuileries When are we to get rid of the German Legion ? We repeat the interrogatory which we last week exhibited, and to which the public generally will require a decided answer. Our own militia has been disembodied with a prudent regard to ex pense. English, Irish, and Scotch have been sent to the right about. There is no thought as to their sufferings, or the danger to the country from having such large bodies of men wandering about without any ostensible means of subsistence, and far too many of the number exasperated at the cheese-paring economy (perhaps breach of faith would be a„ more correct expression) that kept back a portion of the bounty that had been fairly earned. The Government, however, appears to have but little regard for English feelings or English opinions. Are there not the prisons, the hulks, even the gibbets to repress crime, but the dear, very dear, Germans must not be exposed to temptation. The German Legion is therefore kept together, while its discharged members have liberal gratuities, sufficient to keep them out of the way of tempta tion by enabling them to emigrate, if they think proper se to do, or to start them in some busi ness by which they may earn a respectable live lihood, should they be pleased to settle amongst us. It is useless to affect ignorance of what is gene rally rumoured. It is more than hinted that a high personage has by no means abandoned the desire that led to the enactment of the Foreign Enlistment Bill—that, in fact, H.R.H. the Prince Consort desires to retain in this kingdom a chosen body of his countrymen, who shall eventually supersede the Guards in their especial functions. That such was the original intention at the time the bill was brought forward and hurried with reckless haste through both Houses is but too pain fully notorious. When, however, the voice of public opinion had clearly and distinctly pronounced against the project, the Ministers renounced the scheme, and emphatically pledged themselves against garrisoning England by foreign merce naries. A limited number only were to be allowed while preparing for service abroad. Now there can be no possible occasion for their services. The War has been brought to a termi nation. A Peace, which the Government affects to believe to be a permanent one, has been patched up. The German Auxiliaries (!) should have been the first to be got rid of. If there could be any doubt on other matters the gross insubordination displayed on several occasions, both at Shorncliffe and Aldershot, and the ill feeling displayed towards the English regiments, should have decided the question ! But no; they are still kept on, while the QUEEN'S loyal subjects are discharged under peculiarly unpleasant cir cumstances. It is not merely a matter of s. d. There were formerly loud complaints against standing armies, even of our own fellow-subjects, which were regarded as completely opposed to the true spirit of the British Constitution. Even as it is the army is only maintained from year to year, and a Mutiny Act must receive the Legislative sanction every session. Such is the judicious jealousy with which Parliament and the country regards a matter by which the power of the Crown may be enhanced to an extent incon sistent with the liberties of the people. But never before was there an attempt to maintain a standing foreign legion in time of peace. H.R.H. may be better versed in the German than the English system of government ; but there is no such excuse for Lord PALMERSTON, once regarded as the English Minister par excellence. Not withstanding the unconstitutional interference to which he is subjected he is the party really responsible to the nation, and who must answer for any evil consequences arising from what is considered to be his advice and his po licy. It would be far better for his own reputation that he should respectfully tender his resignation to his Royal Mistress than sanction that of which, in his breast and conscience, he cannot approve. It is not prudent to exasperate the people to permit them to see how greatly they are disregarded, and how far their interests are postponed to those of the more favoured race. We will not consent to be treated as a conquered country, or submit to a peaceful invasion scarcely less galling than that of the Norman adventurers to our Saxon forefathers. The time is rapidly approaching when Hor. Gentlemen will have to answer to their consti tuents and to render accounts of their respective stewardships. It would be well if some expression of feeling were manifested on this interesting and important subject ; that it should be shown that England is to be for the English, and not for the Germans ; and that, although we may be com pelled to submit to a few cormorants, we will sternly and steadfastly resist the genera/ handing over of the loaves and fishes to any considerable number thereof. We are still able to defend ourselves, and will not have men brandishing arms in the piping times of peace which they took care never to di s pl ay in the face of an armed enemy. •""lk !~ '_ ~." , THE SUN, LONDON, MON OAT EVENiNG I AUGUST 26, 18t;r. I hibition of poisons, poisons will be kept in surgeries, and it should be remembered that it was from a surgeon's assistant PALMER got the first parcel of strychnia, and from a surgery DOVE got ' what sufficed of that deadly medicament to destroy his wife. The druggist, however, must sell poison unless the public are to be delivered over to the dispensation of Dr. MORRISON or Professor HOL LOWAY. The great majority of people cannot afford to call in the attendance of a doctor in every case, or in anything like every case, in which the use of drugs which, taken in excess provepoisonous, is according to our present notions deemed neces sary. They must have these drugs, and, setting the claims of the great body of druggists aside, they will have them. The tyranny involved in the prohibition would be intolerable. Of course, when thus speaking, we confine ourselves to such poisons as preparations of opiuin and the like, pro scribed in works on domestic medicine and by the patticoated doctors, so to speak, of tradition. A geoddeal most always be left to the druggist's care anddiscretion. There can be no objection, however, to making the sale of such powerful medicines as strychnine, veratrine, morphia, (Sze., penal, unless the party requiring any one of them pro• duce a certificate of approval by a medical man. So far as our knowledge extends, the public are greatly indebted to the class of well-educated druggists for the care and judgment they con stantly manifest for their protection. The great drawback to confidence in the efficiency of such discretion is the extensive sale of drugs by incom petent persons. Having thus cursorily noticed this important subject, we pass on to another immediately connected with it, viz., the necessity there exists for the public being duly informed of the measures to be adopted iu cases of poisoning, supposed as well as real. The first thing that should be done is to send for a doctor. As, however, considerable delay, and that at the most critical period, may take place before his services can b 3 made available, the heads of families should make themselves acquainted with the symptoms produced by the various poisonous drugs in use, and the most approved means of counteraction. In most cases there will be little difficulty in ascertaining what the poison taken really is; so that, save in cases of secret poisoning with intent to kill, there need be no delay in the exhibition of an appropriate remedy. A broad sheet now lies before us which may be recom mended as furnishing much useful information, both as to the symptoms produced by a number of well-known poisons, including strychnine, ie., and the treatment to be adopted in each case with the unfortunate patient, the object of the author being not to supersede the employment of a medical man, but to prevent that waste of time and opportunity which render too often his services comparatively valueless. One caution he particularly enforces, and, as it cannot be too extensively circulated, we repeat it for the benefit of our readers. Until putre faction commences there is no absolute proof of death—not even a cessation of the beating of the heart. So long as the mus3ular irritability of that organ is not exhausted there is ground for hope ; and until the death of the patient is beyond the reach of doubt, no effort for his restoration should be given up in despair. The contents of the broadsheet are enriched with notes by " an eminent physician." * Poisons : their Effacts and Antidotes. By E. A. J. T►mothy. 11. 11. Calling and Co. RE.VIEW OF THE OERIMAIV TROOPS AT DROWNDOWN BY THE QUEEN. I On Saturday afternoon her Majesty and Prioca Albert, ace onpanied by the Prince of WaPes, the Princess Royal, and a few more of the Royal family, cr slid from Osborne to Browndown, to review the troops of the British Foreign Legion, encamped there. Her Majesty arrived at the beach at Browndown at about half-past four o'clock, and was received by the Lieuten ant Governor, Major-General Breton, commandant of the camp, Colonel Wooldridge, by a number of the offi cers of the staff and garrison, and a guard of honour from the 22d Regiment, with its band. Two of the r ,jal carriages were in waiting for her Majesty's use, in one of which her Majesty and Prince Albert took their seats, and in the other H.R 11. the Princess Royal took hers. Her Majesty and H.R. U. Prince Albert were in plain clothes. The road from the beach to the camp, about three quarters of a mile in length, was guarded by the 22d Regiment and a detachment of the Legion. The troops to be reviewed were drawn up on the Down in line, two deep, and presented a fine soldierly appearance. They consisted of the Ist and 3d Regiments cf the Brie ti-h German Legion, numbering about 2,000 men. Her Majesty drove in front of the lino, accompanied by the officers in attendance, the bond of each regiment playing appropriate tunes. Afterwards the troops formed in open column, and marched past the Queen in quick and slow time, and no body of troops could have presented a finer appearance. Some other evolution took place, after which her Majesty and the Court went over the cxnp, the troops being drawn up in companies in front of their respective encampments ; her Majesty and suite walking round the whole of the camp and entering some of the tents to view the accommodation, &e. This be ing c)ncluded, the Queen, the Prince, and the Court drove to the new forts constructing near Browndown and made a lengthened inspection of them. The royal party then returned to the beach, and re-embarked on board the n'a'ry, at half-past six, under a salute from the ships at Spithead. LATEST NEWS. AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE ARABIA. LIVERPOOL, MONDAY. This morning tho Royal mail steam-ship Ara- bia, Captain Stone, arrived off Point Lynas. She was to leave Boston on the 13th inst., with the mails from the United States and British North America. BERLIN, Aua. 22. The Indicateur Officiel of St. Petersburg an nounces that the Imperial Court will leave for Moscow on the 26th, will make its solemn entry on the 29th, and that the coronation will take place on the 7th September. HAMBURG, AUG 22. The cholera has broken out with great severity at Stockholm. It is said that General Bodisco, the Russian military envoy, is one of its Bust victims• MADRID, Ana. 22. Prince Adalbert arrived here yesterday evening, and was received with great state. The nuptial ceremony will take place on Monday next, the 25th. The Gazette publishes the decree defini tively disbanding the National Guard. The Go vernment will render an account of this measure to the Cortes at its next session. The Paris correspondent of the Times (second edition) says : " With reference to M. Hubner's arrival at Na ples, whence it is said that he will proceed to Gaeta, where the Court at present is, AO _Nord of yesterday has a correspondence from Vienna, in which is repeated the statement made some time ago, that he is charged with a non-official mission— its object, the amicable arrangement of the Neapo litan difficulty. The Belgian paper says that Austria will certainly not press upon King Ferdi nand reforms whose concession would be the signal for similar demands addressed to Austria herself for her kingdom of Italy, and for the duchies at tached to her by dynastic ties. I think we may fairly accept the natural inference from this that the Italian subjects of Austria are not much better off than those of Naples, and that reform is nearly as much needed in the north as in the south. The Nord proceeds to make the following highly pro bable estimate of the extent to which Austria is disposed to interfere : " All that our Cabinet (that of Vienna) desires, is that King Ferdi❑and should make some conciliatory ad vances, take some step calculated to efface the deplorable (facleeuse) impression produced on the Western Cabinets by the tone of the last reply to the notes of France and England. In a word, it is an affair that must be stifled as soon as possible, and without wounding the rights or dignity of anybody. That is the substance of the mis sion which Baron Hubner is at this moment charged to fulfil at the Court of Naples, and whose success no one is better fitted to ensure.' " FRANCE. PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING. The Moniteur of yesterday has the following : FUNDED CREDIT OF FRANCE-LOAN OF TWO HUNDRED MILLIONS. The third quarterly drawing for 1856 of the lots as signed to the funded bonds will take place on the 22d of September next, at the company's office, Rue Neuve• des-Capucines, No. 19. The Ist prize will bo for 100,0001. The 2d prize „ 50,000 f. The 31 prize 20,000 f, Thereupon will commence the drawing of the bonds entitled to reimbursement. The subscription to the bond of 100 C., with 4 per cent. interest and with chances in the lottery, is opened in Paris, at the office of the company, and i❑ the depart ments at the offices of the private and general receivers of taxes. The bowls subscrited for before Sept. 15 will share in the drawing of the 221. Interest will be due to the subscribers from the actual day of payment. Paris, August 23. The Governor, Count CR. DE GERMINY. A decree in the Moniteur makes five promotions to the rank of officer, and 12 nominations to that of knight, in the Legion of Honour, among officers of the army and gendarmery. Another decree confers 19 military medals on as many non-com missioned officers and privates in the gendarmery. The Moniteur publishes the official return of the receipts of the customs for the month of July, which amounted to 16,490,427 f., being a decrease of 16,424,153 f. as compared with the corresponding month of last year. The total amount of the re ceipts for the first seven months of the present year was 100,522,394 f., or 20,698,989 f. less than in the corresponding period of 1855. The articles which have shown the greatest falling off, during the portion of the year that has already expired, are coffee for 4,964,693 f.; raw wool, 3,226,363 f.; foreign sugar, 12,170,856 f.; and portable liquors, 994,319 f.; those which mark an improvement are corn, 1,093,558 f. ; raw cotton, Q12,192f. ; bar iron, 732,300 f.; coal , 546 373. . . BOURSE, Aug. 23.—The following were tho last quotations : Cash. fr. e. End of Month. 1.4 per Cents 95 10 —f. —c. 3 per Coats 7i) 75 70 75 New Loan 7O 80 Bank Shares 4,150 Roman Credit Mobilier 1,620 Austrian Belgian Five 5......,. Spanish Threes Piedmentese(s)...... 91 -- Home Debt ILLILWAYS-PCR CASH. 33 83 44i _ fr. c. _ fr. e. Orleans .....;,.. 1,412 50 Wostern 965 Northern .1,057 50 Strasburg Lyons ...,.,1,422 5J New Ditto neditorranean l,BlO Grand Central Lyons Geneva BO5 Teste Cette .. 791 25 Austrian Coin. B3O SPAIN. Our accounts from Madrid are of the 18th inst.l An officer of the staff had arrived the day before at Madrid, who was said to be the bearer of im portant despatches from the Captain-General of Barcelona. Catalonia was perfectly tranquil. The Clamor Publico states that, before the close of the month, the Government will have come to an understanding on all the questions connected with the political re-organisation of the country. The Madrid Gazette publishes the following, dated Lisbon, 12th inst. : " During the recent riots, a great affluence of coun try people was observed in the capital. Emissaries had been sent to different points, and it is now well known that a revolutionary movement was cc ntemplated. The rioters having announced that they would be joined by the labourers employed on the railways and in the manufactories, the Governor had caused certain posi- tions to be occupied by the troops. The attitude of the latter deterred many from joining the groups. The Captain-General deserves the greatest praise ; by his prudence and coup d'ail he defeated the designs of the seditious. The re organisation of the Municipal Guard and the dismissal of its Commander-in-chief were con sidered indispensable. That corps costs the State 4,347,826 reals per annum, and might be replaced by the troops of the garrison by g,ranting the men a trifling additional pay. The King is of opinion that regiments should not remain more than one year in the same town. All the corps of the army would accordingly in their turn benefit by the measure." The Madrid journals of the 19th have arrived. The Gazette publi s h es a b an d o of the Civil Gover nor of the province of Madrid, depriving the al caldes of the power of delivering permissions to carry arms, and declaring that the applications for them must be transmitted to his office with de tails respecting the personal character of the appli cant; their mode of life, &ix. The Espana says that the question of the recognition of the Queen by Russia not being yet settled, it is probable that no Spanish ambassador will be present at the coro nation of the Czar. New sergeants have been ap pointed to the regiments which took part in the pronunciamento of Saragossa. At Saragossa, Ma laga, and on the Pyrenean frontier large seizures of smuggled goods had been made. One of the journals, in recording the seizurel, says that smuggling is the great cause of insurrection in many provincial towns. It was said that Marshal Narvae z was a b ou t to receive a pass port authorising him to reside in any part of Spain he might think fit. A deputation had ar rived from Barcelona to give the Government an account of the state of the province of Cata lonia. Orders had been sent to the Governor General of the Balearic islands, to dissolve the national guard. It was reported, says the Espana, that Mr. (Away, secretary of the English legation, is abont to b© appointed minister plenipotentiary in Mexico. The same journal states that the state of Portugal is not satisfactory, and that there is agitation in the army. A. letter announces the departure of the ex-Minister of the Interior, M. P. de la, Escosura, for France. A letter from Vienna, in the Cologne Gazelle, rays :—" We ]earn from a good source that Russia will not consent on any condition whatever to the cession of Bolgrad." The Military Gazette of Vienna says :—" The officers charged with the mission of examining the improvements effected. in England, Belgium, and France in engineering and artillery arms have re turned here, and it would appear from their report that the superiority in these arms is on the side of Austria." The German Journal of Frankfort, of the 21st, says :—" Baron d'Ostensacken, Count Pallor', and the young Count do Nesselrode, have arrived here from St. Petersburg." General Count de Kielmansegge, formerly Mi nister of War at Hanover, has just expired in thr t city, aged 79. The King of Greece arrived at Darmstadt on the 19th, from Ludevigshov, iu company with the Empress-Dowager Caroline of‘ Austria. Their Majesties are on a visit to the Court of Hesse. The Fadrelandet of Copenhagen, of the 18%, says :—" Mr. Buchanan, the English Minister at our Court, who had been summoned to England to give some information to his government on the subject of the Sound dues, re turned to his post the day before yesterday. We are informed that ho has brought with him the pleasing intelligence that the British Government is disposed to accept the proposition of capitalisa tion made by Denmark. Mr ' Buchanan, who in returning to Copenhagen passed through Berlin, states that the Prussian Government also adheres to the proposal of our Cabinet. The powers most interested in the question—Russia, Sweden and Norway, England, and Prussia—are thus agreed on the point of accepting the Danish proposition ; if to this it be added that the United States have made offers to the same effect, there is every reason to hope that the commerce of the world will be soon relieved of one of its most heavy charges." THE PENINSULAR MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, SUNDAY NIGHT. By the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-ship Tagus, Captain Cristian, we have dates from Gibraltar, 16th ; Cadiz, 17th ; Lisbon, 19th ; Oporto, 20th ; and Vigo 21st inst. The Tagus brings 29 passengers, 450 boxes of oranges, a cargo of fruit, and a small quantity of specie. Accounts from Gibraltar state that Prince Wil liam Adalbert of Prussia was rapidly improving. The wounded officers and men were in a favourable way to recovery. Exchange on London at 90 days was quoted 51k. Spanish pillared dollars, per cent. premium. Her Majesty's steamers Cyclops and Vesuvius left Gibraltar on the 16th. Her Majesty's ship Leander arrived on the same day. .J he French steamers of war Prince Jerome and Magellan were at Lisbon on the 19th. Bills on London continued scarce upon the Lis bon Exchange, and the transactions were conse quently trifling at 54j for three months. Bills on Paris were quoted 5.28 , Amsterdam, 401 ; Hamburg, 48 • and Genoa, 5 to 6 2 ; Portu guese Three per Cents. were again looking up, and the demand appeared greater than the supply at 45 to 45i ; Bank of Portugal Shares, 495 to 497 milreis each ; and Oporto Bank Stock, 18 to 20 per cent. premium. The following is extracted from our Lislion letter of the 19th : " I am . happy to say several Sundays and holydays have now gone by without any renewal of the bread riots, although the bakers still keep away from the corn market, business must therefore resume its usual course, as the stock of flour in the hands of millers and bakers is nearly exhausted. Among other classes confidence has fully revived, and n 3 one fears a repetition of the riots, now that the authorities have shown themselves resolved to put them down. Cases of cholera have greatly decreased here, and accounts from Madeira, of the 14th, are also more encouraging. At Cintra several cases have appeared, and three deaths are reported among the royal servants at the palace where the King is residing. Nothing particular has yet resulted from the police examination of the late riots. Twelve of the artil!crymen are to be tried by a court-martial on ac count of the occurrences at Beleem." COURT CIRCULAR. OSBORNE, Atm. 24. The Duke of Cambridge left Osborne yesterday tn,raing for London. Major-General Breton, commanding the South- WestJrn district, arrived on a visit to her Majesty on Friday. and rtturnod to Portsmouth yesterday. The Queen and Prince, with the Prince of Wales, and Prince Arthur, landed at Browndown, near Gosport, yesterday afternoon, when her Majesty inspected the two battalions of the British Gorma❑ Legion encamped there. Earl and Countess Vane, and Colonel the Hon. C.B. and Mrs. Phipps had the honour of dining with the Qleal in the evening. THE COIMT.—The Queen will leave the Isle of Wight f-r London immediately after the celebration of Prince Albert's birthday on the 2Gth, which the Court has hitherto kept at Osborne-house. Instead of leaving London for Scotland on Wednesday morning next her Majesty will remain in London all Wednesday, whoa she will receive Count Creptowich, who bas been at the Russian Embassy some days, and other Foreign Mitis tens, and will transact all business of importance pre vious to her departure for the north. The Royal party will leave London on Thursday morning, the 28th of August, by the Great Northern Railway, and will stop that night at the Palace of Holyrood. The Earl of Clarendon will be the Secretary of State in attendance upon the Queen.--Observer. THE QUEEN'S ARRIVAL IN YORK.—Her Majesty will arrive in this city on Thursday next, at 12.43 p.m., en route to Balmoral. The royal family will take luncheon at the Royal Station Hotel. Messrs. H. and G. Brown have received orders for 1,000 yards of elegant tapestry carpeting to be used on the occasion at the railway sta tion.— Yopkshire Gazette. We are sorry to learn that her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester has been again suffering from in disposition. Her Royal Highness was better yesterday. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge arrived Without at all sharing in, or wishing to per- at hisnoon fresiderom o nc b e in St. James's Palace on Saturday after 'gnate the foolish panic, owing its origin to the His Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar, it may be well to draw g, poisoni n recent cases of o w f ho s has vi be r el on a v t isi t t he to u his father, the d Duke t ßernard attention to the necessity f or adopting some mea- Thur ' sda ' y from eiar kolland, andghuaes, s a i r n r c ly e e l e f r t n te jlen the sures for the protection of the public against the P N i i i ress and family circle assembled at G o rdo n C a stle, administration of powerful p o i sons by evil-di. , .- 'The Earl and Countess of Shaftesbury are at present posed, non-professional individuals. The subjec!-, making a tour in France. The noble earl and her lady ly difficult to deal e sh ei ip eg ar e e le e e x t rcted to return to England early in the en undoubtedly, is one exceeding with, and accordingly demanding much considera- EARL or CARDIGAN.— The Leeds Intelligencer states tion. Do as we may poisons will always b e t t l l i r e at rf o a n ,l S e a f tu t r h d e ay st n e e e x k t, E a x t e t i h a e ng b e an i ci e u eLteetdosbewgitieve the nin e within the reach of the intending poisoner. Sup- superb sword will be presented to will h i b s e co m u a n n ty y . d i s,i.ihne everything th a t can b e p l ace d in the category of noble ivtieeEh.etti 1 .1.0,1111wb1e earl will. durin g hi s v i s it t o L ee d s , b e the guest of N E e 0 1. P i n . g poisons by the druggist, a measure which nothing is given by the Journal de but the extremest ignorance and folly could seri- Bercy as the approxi ma t e quantity of spirit contained in I v u m r e (ju o e f d t y he l b 4 est o k h n e o m w p n e w e in e es l : l7 B o n e r e d s e ta au e x tla l3 l se . r E ce r n e t ;. °ltaly contemplate, the safeguard of the public Tegetable 1 tignan Lunel, would be very far from complete. 11 ; Cota g ßolie, 12 ; White Constantin, 10 Hermitage, and mineral poisons are to be had independent of 2 1 7 4 l i t k d ay ditto, l 121 t .Madeira, 20 ; t M o alaga, 17 P t o b r a t i any trade agency, and were they no`, what is to the difference of a single degree however, o f latitude, re an aspect protect the public against " the surgery ?" So more i or less favourable, may, or a system of cultivation more and does, modify the above re. long as tho,'practi ce o f me di c i ne i nvo l ves th e cx- s o u r its ess intell ig e n t ( au jnctn ie THE NAVIGATION OF THE NILE. A. letter just received from Berlin, dated Aug. 23, says : "Sims particulars have reached me of the attempts made by a Prussian sulject, backed by the Prussian Con sul in Egypt, to resist tha Viceroy's plan of making the Navigation of the Nile a monopoly for the advantage of a favoured few, may be interesting to your readers. Shortly after his attaining to his Viceroya!ty, Said Pasha. con ferred on certain favourites the exclusive privilege of forming a company for the steam navigation of the Nile ; these parties scld their privilege to divers merchants in Alexandria for 2,2501., and these latter at once brought out a company, the shares of which were all greedily bought up in a fortnight. Atten tion being hereby drawn to the circumstances under which this company claimed the exclusive right of navigating the Alio in future, numerous protests were published against the power claimed by the Viceroy to confer on others !a privilege which was not even vested in himself ; and among these pro testors the most numerous and energetic were Eng lish merchants, but whose efforts were paralieed by the untoward circumstance, that our Consul-General at Alexandria differed from them in opinion and upheld the Viceroy's claims, Inquiries made by various parties received for answer that the Government would not allow any private person to ply a steamer along the Nile, and that every precaution would be taken both at Damietta and at Rosetta to prevent any attenrt of the kind. On this a Prussian, of the name of Leffler, purchased a steamer for the purpose of bringing the question of right to as issue, and steamed and towed from Cairo to Alexandria under the Prussian flag ; but on his arrival there, the angry remonstrances of the di rectors of the embryo privileged company prevailed on Said Pacha to forbid him expres dy to continue his excursions, and to give strict orders to all autho rities concerned to prevent his passage by force. Under these circumstances there was no alternative left but to yield as regarded the trips of the steamer ; but BAron von Penz, the Prussian Consul-General there, has delivered in a formal protest to the Viceroy, and forwarded a statement of the case to Herr von Wildenbruck, at Constantinople, with the request that Le will move the Sultan to command Said Pasha in future to permit every European to navigate the Nile and the canals of the country without let or hindrance. And thus the matters rests at present. The decimal system of weights has just been adopted throughout the whole of the Prussian monarchy, as it had before been in the German Association, and in se veral States of the south of Germany. All the preparatory operations being terminated, the works of the additional fortifications to be erected for the defence of Alessandria commenced on the 18th. FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Saturday evening Mr. A. S. Thornton, of the firm of Thornton, Firth, Homan, and Co , was thrown from a phaeton, in the village of Al triucham, near Manchester. The unfortunate gentle man sustained' a fracture of the skull, and we learn by electric telegraph that he expired yesterday morning. On Saturday morning early, the house of Mr. Wyld, geographer to the Qeeen, in the Strand, was entered and robbed. The thieves must have had a geographical taste, as they stole several large globes and atlases, and a large bundle of acceptances, bank-books, &c. The police seem to have lacked their usual vigilance, as the globes carried away must have filled a large van, and some time must necessarily have been occupied in ab stracting the property. TIIE SEES OF LONDON AND DIIRHAM.—It has been frequently but erroneously stated that no instance is on record of a Bishop of London or Durham voluntarily re signing his see. This, however, is not strictly true ; at all events, so far as concerns the latter bishopric. We find it recorded that Nicholas de Farnham, who was elected Bishop of Durham in 1240, resigned the bishopric again in 1249. It appears that, owing to his advanced age, he had been from the first unwilling to undertake its duties ; but he sur vived his resignation no less than seven years, as he died in 1256. The terms under which he resigned, and the precise amount of his retiring pension, we need scarcely say, are not recorded. RETURN OF A FREE SOILER FROM A SLAVE STATE.— The last American mail brings the news of the election to Congress by Missouri of Mr. F. P. Blair, the first avowed opponent of slavery extension yet elected from a slave state. He was opposed, moreover, by a regular democratic pro slavery candidate, and by a candidate of the American party. Mr. Blair, shortly after the Pitts burg convention, wrote an able letter indorsing the prin ciples of that body. His denunciation of the repeal of the Missouri compromise act, his reprobation of the party in power, and of the excesses of its " Border Ruf fian" allies in Kansas, exceeded in vigour and intensity the language of any so called fanatics upon slavery topics at the north. THE AGAPEMONE.—The followers of Prince, of " the abode of love," have commenced a sort of mission for the diffusion of their doctrines. Their first meeting was held at Bridgwater, and was convened by a placard thus worded :—" The Agapemone—the Testimony of what God has done to redeem the earth will be publicly made known at the Clarence Hotel, come and hear," &c. The "missionaries" were three pervert clergymen, the 11 , e S. Starkey, Rev. S. Thomas, and R ev . J. Cobb. 'their discourses were in ono strain, pointing to Prince a! the Messiah, and urging the people to prepare for his judg ment. The preachers were listened to with impatience by the auditory, and au attempt was made to draw them into discussion, but they refused to hold any argument. THE STATB OMB, The following is an extract from a letter dated Lucknow, June Iv : " The late native officers of the Oude Govern ment draughted into the commission have proved a failure. They are quite incompetent to perform the duties required of them, and have one and all expressed their desit e to be otherwise provided for, and it i 3 in contemplation to place the - in in appoint ments tor which their previous career fits them. The Toolshupoor Rajah showed significant tokens of insubordination and disaffection, and several dacoities occurred in his territory. His rabble re tainers—ruffians of the worst character—had large claims of arrears against him, and being unable himself to pay he let them loose ia his villages. A force was sent which did its work without firing a shot. The Rajah fled, and Wingfield rapidly pur sied and captured him. His forts are occupied, his rabble followers p tid up, and his country will now be settled and a handsome allowance given him. The clever and admirable manner in which Wingfield has effected this will gain for him great and. deserved praise. Ile is decidedly our best offi cer. Had the Rajah succeeded in getting away his followers would have kept us in hot water all the rains, and the example might have been fol lowed by others. As it has happened the lesson read to all malcontents is most salutary. The complete discomfiture and easy capture of a Rajah against whom the King's forces could do nothing, and who constantly defeated him—who for three years has defied all authority—have so strongly manifested our power, and futility of any attempt to oppose it, that I am quite certain this bloodless campaign will be the first and last one. All the rest of Oude is tranquil. The large Talookdars are paying up and discharging the large bodies they were compelled to retain in their own defence, to protect them from the rapacity of the King's Anvils. People are re turning to the houses and lands from which op pression and insecurity of life and prospects had driven them ; and everywhere there are the most willing obedience twd tillblllinZiOVl to otir authority. The lull and absence of incident, indeed, are so won- derful as almost to seem like the power of magic, and ono might be inclined to believe that it was the slumbering which precedes the burst of a vol cano ; but there is such a cheerful resort of all classes to our officers, and such a complete adop tion of our system, that am constrained to believe that it is real, and that the people really hail us as their deliverers. All claims against the late State have now been adjusted ; and though tl.• sum has been enormous, yet this act of justice and the means it has affords a the people of comfortably settling themselves have very largely contributed towards the attainment of the present state of tranquillity, and it is parhaps a fortunate circum stance that the dawn of our rule has been ushered in by so large a measure of justice. There is but little crime. This city is profoundly tranquil ; still the elements of mischief are in existence, and, if stirred up, we might even now be placed in an awkward predicament. We are daily becoming stronger, and iu another month our police will be efficiently and completely organised. The re venue is coming in. Of the rubbee demand there is only 18 per cent. balance in Luck-- now. G- s division is heavily in arrears ; but that part of Oude has for years never paid revenue without coercion. Christian's division, Khyrabad, is working like the machinery for the administration of an old settled province. This has been brought About by the unprecedented exertions of our officers. " All have been exposed to burning heat, and have identified themselves with the interests of Government. I wish my Lord Albemarle and some of those gentlemen in the Lords and Commons who assimilate the work and duties and responsibilities of median officials to those of colonies resembling this country in no one particular had been with Wingfield, or any deputy-commissioner, during this season, and I am sure they would maintain unbroken silence hereafter on Indian topics. " The poor King has bitterly rued the day he quitted Lucknow. He has had to pay 56,000 r. for his passage down in two steamers, and the Peninsu lar and Oriental Company have called upon him to pay 75,000 r. in fulfilment of an agreement made with them by Captain Bird on the King's part ; and I believe he has been warned of several claims which are likely to be preferred against him if he ever sets his foot iu England. Aghai Ali Khan, of Sultanpoor, has been called upon to make good 25,000 r. He and the Minister were the worst of all the harpies who preyed on the kingdom. A board of works has been organised, but it is not yet in 93eration. "The troops, including her Majesty's 52d, are all exceedingly healthy. We have early and heavy rains. The river is quite full. We are enjoying exceedingly pleasant weather for the time of year. The city is undergoing cleansing and ventilation, and is already much improved. Our judicial duties ere daily becoming heavier, but more regular and less miscellaneous, and when we get the establish ments settled I hope our courts will be in regular working order. At present the revenue occupies an undue but unavoidably large share of attention." LEVEE 01? THE QUEEN OF OUDE. SOUTHAMPTON, AUG. 24. The mayor of this town, Richard Andrews, Esq., the Marquis of Conyngliair, Lord Francis Conyngham,R.N., the Hon. Mr. Talbot, tee Earl of Hard wicke, and Lady Emily Yorke, visited the Princes of Oude at the Royal York Hotel hero on Friday, and a large number of resi dent nobility and gentry of the neighbourhood expressed a wish to visit the Princes, the latter held a levee yes terday. The Queen Dowager of Oude als3 received a limited number of ladies. The time for visiting the princes was fixed at half-past 3 in the afternoon, and that for the Queen mother at 4 o'clock. Soon after 3 o'clock unusual bustle was observed at the hotel. The crowd before the building became greater, and there was much excitement in the interior. A notice was affixed bo the inner doorway, written in Hindostanee and English, that gentlemen were not allowed to enter. Gold and silver mace bearers stood inside the door to guard the entrance. Messre. Brandon, Rogers, and other interpre ters were also in attendance, and none were allowed to pass in but the nobility and gentry. The reception was held at the upper part of the hotel, where the princes re side. Oriental servants were stationed along the stair cases to show the way to the reception-roam. The visitors passed by the apartments of the zemindars, jagheedars, and other native gentlemen who have accompanied the royal family of Oude to this country. At half-past 3 the reception took place, Major Bird acting as mater of the ceremonies. On entering the reception room the two Princes of Oude were seen standing at the further end, dressed in a magnificent costume. The heir apparent had on a cloak of scarlet and gold. His head-dress consisted of a eerie. netted-shaped cap of rather large size, the most promi nent ornament of which was a string of large precious , stones projecting from the cap. In his hand be held a sohnitarlsheathed in a magnificent scabbard. His uncle, ' the brother of the ex-king, was dressed in a blue and silver cloak, with head•drees of the same materials, and of a fez like shape. By the side of the heir apparent were two gigantic Nubian eunuchs and two ()Uler officers of state. Two officers of the royal suite stood by the side of the Prince's uncle. Major Bird led each visitor forward, and mentioned the name to the Princes ; the visitor bowed and retired to the other end of the room. As soon as the room was full of visitors, the Princes sat down on a sofa, and the vi s it ors on c h a i rs . Amongst the visitors so introduced were the Earl and Countess of Hardwicke, the three Ladies Yorke, Vie count Royston, Admiral Avscough and family, Sir George Wombwell, General Sir George and Lady Pot luck, the mayor, high sheriff, and some of the magis trates of Southampton, and a number of gentry of the town and neighbourhood. Sir George Pollock entered into conversation with the elder Prince. Several of the higher order of officers of state mingled with the visitors. The gravity of the Orientals and the p ro f oun d h omage which the dependents paid to the Princes were strikingly peculiar. After the visitors had been sitting for a short time the Princes rose, and the former then stood up, made their obeisance, and retired, after which other visitors were admitted. Both of the Princes appeared remarkably affable, and their countenances seemed to indicate an amiable disposition. Soon after 4 o'clock about 30 ladies of Southampton were admitted into the presence of the ex-Queen. Mrs. Brandon, an English lady who long resided at Cawn pore, in Oude, and who accompanied the Queen to this country, acted as interpretess. When the visitors entered the apartment, the Queen was sitting on a sofa, attended by eight native ladies, one of whom held over head a species of fan. H e r Majesty was dressed in splendid shawls, but her head, neck, an d one arm were uncovered. Her hair was cut rather short and brushed back over the head a la . Chinoie. Sh e wore two massive earrings, but no other e avveller9 about her head. Her features bear a striking resemblance to her grandson's, the heir apparent to the Oude throne. She is a stout good-looking personage ; is not very d ark, and appears younger than she really is. She has a pleasing voice, and from her features and manners w ou ld appear to possess a kind and affect ionate disposition. She re ceived her visitors affably, and seemed gratified. She pathetically lamented to the Countess of Hardwicke, one of the visitors, and of whose high rank she seemed to be aware, that she could not spea k to her i n the Eng li s h i eng u see. The interview lasted about a quarter of an hour. Tue visitors saluted her by making an obeisance, and then stood roun d h er. D ur i ng the i n• terview the Princes of Oude entered the apartment, and sat by the side of their parent. The native ladies were dressed much like the Queen. There are three native physicians attached to the royal family and suite of Oude, whose names are Huk keem Mahorneaud Mueieeb, Hukkeciu Alleeoon Zulu men., and Hukkeem M eer Shoo j ah Hoosia i n. The pay of the moonsheis, or wr it ers i s 501 . a mont h . Th ere are five in the suite whose names are Musseehooddeen Khan Bahador, Mahummud Bakur, 0 wladallie, Kum ruoddeen, Koothoodden. Two of the officers of the Indus (the steamer in which the royal family of OieTe came to this country) had their cabins towards the forepart of the ship. Against the door of one of these cabins the chief eunuch one day erected his screen, and brought the ladies of the suite to enjoy themselves away from their cabins. Suddenly the eunuch heard a slight noise in the officers' cabin ; he !bi $Ol Itiktixt tha fray Wit* iiodiali4 4 and the Wilder was itnpri;onoi ler two hours. "'Had tie door not been locked, the officer, on leaving the etbin, would have stopped into the centre of the harem. THE TRADE OF HULL SINCE THE RES TORATION OF PEACE. _ - (From the littll Aclvertiscr of Saturday ) To look at our docks now, and to Lave looked at them but a few short months ago, will be enough to satisfy everybody that a wonderful, and, indeed, an almost miraculous, change has taken place in the town since the news of the withdrawal of the British fleet from the Black and the Baltic Seas first reached our shores. We were wont to lament, in the time of war, over the depressed and barren appearance of trade. Our docks wore nearly empty—our quays almost unoccupied and unused—and people every where were indulging gloomily in the poverty and wretchedness of the times. Poor labourers hankered, and pined, and sickened at the leanness of trade, and scarcely knew how to obtain 0 needful support for themselves and their own. Now, however, a brighter day has dawned upon us. Peace prevails, and in her train follow the richest blessings of our land. The ill omens of the past have given place to prospects which grow more and yet more cheering, and to those practical and unmistakeable bene fits which time alone can prove. And few towns there are, we feel convinced, who are better able to appreciate the advantages of the return of peace than the trading community of this populous and flourishing port. Peculiarly privileged as it is by its contiguity to the ports in the Baltic, the stoppage of that important source of commercial revenue exercises one of the most powerful influences upon the whole of the trade of the northern counties. Now it is again thrown open, and the ships and the steam-boats ply in swift succession to renew their relations with an old friend, and to engage once more in that kind of speculative industry which re• quires extraordinary aid, not only in ships, but in labour and in capital, whereby we perceive in the strengthening of those bonds of amity and commerce the foundation of that which will untimately tend to the well-being and prosperity of both nations. Apart from all this, how ever, should we be inclined to form merely a moan and selfish estimate of the advantages which accrue from 01711 foreign relations in this respect, we need only look abroad in the town, and on every hand we perceive the fruits. Whether it be in the minor improvements of property, or in the general and consequent revivals of trade, and the decrease in the price of provisions, we will not stop to inquire. But in directing attention to the subject we will regard the shipping interest as of pri mary importance in this matter, and will, therefore, confine our attention to it. A s we have just observed there has been a remarkable increase in the number of home arrivals, the number of vessels which have entered our port during last week from foreign ports being 143, with a total registered tonnage of 34,916. These have arrived chiefly from ports in the Baltic, and the cargoes which they have brought have been of the most useful and valuable description, consisting of linseed, wheat, oats, flax, bones, timber, rape cake, &c., to the extent of about 3000 tons. On Sunday last there was a large increase in the arrivals, no leas than 31 vessels from foreign ports baying entered this port during the day, bringing their cargoes from St. Peters burg, Constantinople, Uleaborg, Wyborg, R:ga, Arch angel, &c., with an immense quantity of linseed, barley, timber, and Is , nee, wool, deals, and iron ; in all, about 9000 tons. On Monday, between 20 and 30 vessel arrived, principally from the before-named foreign ports, with similar cargoes, to the extent of about 5000 tons. On Tuesday 37 vessels arrived ' • eight were f rom S t . Petersburg, and the rem a i n d er from other Baltic ports, with linseed, cast iron , and timber, & c . O n Wednes day there were about 40 foreign arrivals from Peters. burg, Wyborg, Christiania, Riga, Corsoer ; and Dant zic, &c., with wheat, barley, linseed, timber, deals, and iron • and on Thursday an d y es t er d ay t h e num b er was considerably augmented. Or, if we take the article of linseed alone, we shall find that during the past month s from July 30th to August 19th, there has been inns ported--into Hull no less than 132,984 qrs. and 1868 bags from the ports of St. Petersburg, Konigsburg, Dantz4. Riga, &c., the quantity en t ere d f rom th e s hi p on Wednesday last being 14,201 quarters. The quan tity of linseed imported during the quarter ending June 30th was 68,156 qrs., and of other seeds, including cloverseed, muetardseed, rapeseed, and tares, 9,831 cwt. and 6,637 qrs. So that, taking the quantity of linseed for the quarter, we have an average for each of the thred preceding months of 22,652 qrs., and a return for the month just passed of 123 , 984 qrs. and 1,833 bags ; thus showing an increase of 110,332 qrs. and 1,851 bags in the importation of linseed alone. This must, indeed, be a very gratifying circumstance, and, moreover than this, we find that the north-eastern ports of Newcastle, Sun derland, Hartlepool, and Middlesborough present highly encouraging returns of the increase of exported and im ported merchandise. There can, indeed, be no doubt but that the re-opening of the Baltic ports especially has been to the northern ports a subject of momentous im• portance, and that since the time ' , of peace an increased and largely increasing trade has been the result. THE lIIREWSBURY EARLDOM AND ESTATES. s- In proof of the serious intention of the Ingestre family to assert the claim of Earl Talbot to the Earldom of Shrewsbury, it may be stated that on Monday last Viscount Ingestre, in the name and on behalf of his father, who is abroad, went, accompanied by the solicitor of the family and a friend, to Alton Towers, and made a formal demand of possession of the mansion and estates, allegin g that Lord Talbot is th e l ega l h e i r. Lord Inges tre was informed that the trustees under the will of the late Earl had taken possession, and he was accordingly refused admission into the house. Should his Lordship establish his claim, the disentailment by the late Earl would be nugatory, and the valuable estates attached to the Earldom in Staffordshire, Shropshire, Cheshire, Ox fordshire, and Worcestershire, o f th e va l ue of 35,000/. a year, as well as the high honours connected with this most ancient and distinguished house, would become the inheritance of the Talbots. Had the earldom been ex tinct, the Earl of Derby would have been the Premier Earl of England, and the Earl of Cork the Premier Earl of Ireland. The solicitor referred to (Mr. R. W. Hand, of Stafford) inserted in the Stafford county paper on Saturday the following notice to the tenantry of the late Earl of Shrewsbury : " Gentlemen,—The agents of the late Earl of Shrews. bury have circulated among you a letter, signed by Mr. Sergeant Bellasis, one of the late Earl's trustees and executors, in which it is stated, That his Lordship hav ing executed a disentailing deed of the Shrewsbury estates, and so placed them at his own disposal, has, by his will, devised them in trust for Lord Edward Ber nard Howard, the second son of his Grace the Duke of Norfolk.' " The 'Shrewsbury estates' by act of Parliament were annexed to the Earldom of Shrewsbury, and entailed on the heirs male of the first Earl of Shrewsbury, and by the same act every person succeeding to the earldom is restricted from alienating or disentailing the estates. The late Earl of Shrewsbury had no power to disentail the estates annexed to the title by act of Parliament. That entail could only be destroyed by another act of Parliament, and none such has ever been passed. By the numerous deaths of the Earls of Shrewsbury and the failure of their issue male, Earl Talbot, of Ingestre, in the county of Stafford, has succeeded to the earldom of Shrewsbury and the estates annexed to it, and so soon as Parliament shall meet his lordship will establish hie claim to that title. "It is my duty on behalf of Lord Talbot, to warn all the tenants of the Shrewsbury estates' not to pay any rent to Loid Bernard Edward Howard. or any of his agents, or otherwise to acknowledge his claim to the estates, as the successor to the earldom is entitled to the rents from the day of the death of the late Earl. "Had I known the names and addresses of the tenants of the 'Shrewsbury estates' I should not have adopted this public mode of giving them the above notice." DEATH OF THE HON. SIR W. TEMPLE, . 11.0.8. We regret to announce the death of the Hon, Sir W. Temple, brother of Viscount Palmerston, the late Mini ster Plenipotentiary at the Court of Naples. The me lancholy event took place at 9 o'clock a.m. yesterday : at his temporary residence in Do venstreet, Piccadilly. To say that Sir William's death was sudden would be scarcely true, for when he left his diplomatic post at the clo3e of the past month his health was in a very pre carious state, and since his arrival in London, a fort. night back, from Naples, no perceptible change had taken place. On Thursday evening last he was able to take his accustomed carriage drive, and was able to re- ceive a visit from Lady Palmerston on Saturday after noon, previous to her leaving town for Brocket-hall, and late in the evening Viscount Palmerston also called on him, and remained until an advanced hour. Until half an hour before his death, at the hour before named, the deceased was in full possession of all his faculties, and then expired in perfect calm ness, without the least apparent pain. Viscount Pal. merston was immediately apprised of the mournful news, and instantly afterwards repaired to his brother's lodgings. The deceased, the Hon. Sir William Temple, was second son of Henry, second Viscount Palmerston, by Mary, only daughter of Mr. Benjamin Mee. He was born the 19th of January, 1788. He was unmarried. He was brought up to the diplomatic service, and was first attached to the embassy at the Hague in 1814. The deceased, in September the same year, went in an official capacity to the Congress of Vienna, and shortly afterwards was appointed Secretary of Legati on a t Stockholm. He filled the same position at Frankfort from July, 1817, until November, 1823, wh en h e went as Secretary of Legation to Berlin. In January, 1828, he was appointed - Secretary of Embassy to St. Peters burg, and afterwards was precis writer to his brother, Viscount Palmerston, from January, 1831, to Sep tember, 1832. On the 18th of that month, in the same year, he w i as appointed Minist er to the Court of Dres den, and n the, following No v . E nvoy E xtraord i nary and Mi n i s ter Plenipotentiary to the Court of Naples, the duties of which high office he discharged up to the last week of last month, when ill health compelled him to relinquish his diplomatic functions, and return to his native country. His departure from Naples was uni versally regretted, more especially as it was feared his shattered constitution would not hermit his return. . Sir Win. Temple was nominated a Civil Knight Grand Cross of the Bath in March, 1852, for his diplomatic services. c... t FI