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‘Vill be repeated a New Drama, entitled M A lITIN CHUZZLE- Vi• tr. Principal characters by Messrs. R. lounge, F. Vining, Eery, F. Mathews, A. Wigan, Meadows, Kinloch, Turner, Stanton, J. W. Collier, Yarnold, Sanders, and Keeley ; Miss For rescue, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. A. tVigan, Mrs. Woollidge, Miss s4rove, Mrs. Usher, Miss Turner, :Ind Mrs. Keet.. , y. 'Co be fohowed by an Apropos Bagatelle, called POLKA MANIA. I haracters by Mr. F. Matthews, Mr. Wigan, Mr. heeley, Miss 1 1 .1oolgar, and Mrs. Keeley. To i".;odclude with a New Doirestic Drama, entitled THE MO MENTOUS OUESTION. Character by Messr4. Diddear, F. J. W. Collier, Miss Fortescue, and Sirs. A. Wigan. PRICES OF' AOM ISSlON.—Balcciy Poxes. 4 t.; Upper Foxes, 3s. ; Pit, 25.; Gallery, rid. Second Price—Balcony Boxes, 2s. ; pre Boxes, Is tid 7 Pel l'it, P. Private Boxes on thealoiny Tier (holding r eight persons),' Tito Guineas. Private Boxes on the Second Tler (holding eight person.), One Guinea and Private Boxes en the Pit Tier (holding six persons), One Quires. The Box.otfice is open front Ten to Four o'Clock, under the direc ting) at Mr. Grogan, late of Covent.garden Theatre. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARIA • Proprietor .and Manager, Mr. BATTY. Great Success of the Chinese Feast of Lanterns, and New Military in Naval Spectacle. Tills EVENING, JULY '26', Will be repeated an ensirc new Military and Naval Equestrian entitled THE CHINESE WAR; or. The Conquests of Amoy by British Arms. New Scenery, Dresses, Appointments, ire., to realise the recent triumphs of England's Army and Navy. Feast .1:24 Lanterns. New and unequalled Scenes of the Circle—Extraordinary Feats 't Horsemanship by Monsieur Louis Tournaire, Sig. German!, LS Petit Isabelle, Mr. Newsome, with Mr. R. Smith's highly trained Steeds. After which, the old English pageant of THE SUMMER'S MORN of 1686; or, the White Wreath and Flitch of Bacon. To conclude with THE GREAT STEEPLF-CHASE; or, Eng. kind's Harvest Home. Acting and stage.manager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. DAYIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. THIS EVENING, JULY :26. T),c Grand Opera and splendid Spectacle have attracted the greatest ' ' . • • overflow ever remembered, increasing nightly. Second Week of the Opera Season, commencing with Be Clblimo composition, LA SONNAMBULA. Powerful Operatic Company—Miss Romer, Miss Betts, Miss Pearson, Mr. D. W. King, Mr. Leffler, Mr. E. L. Ilime, 3lr. S. Cowell, and Mr. O. Stansbury, t7onductor. Increased Band and etlic:ent Chorus from the Theatres Royal To conclude with an entirely new Aquatic Spectacle, introducing Three Scenes of Rca! Water, entitled THE MOUNTAIN CATA. k ACT ; or, The Enchanter's Spell. Places and Private Boxes to be had of:Mr. Kerschner, at the Box_ office, from Eleven to Four. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. THIS EVENING JULY 26. In c•nsequence of the rapturous reception with which it has been hailed, and the decided and deserved success with which it has been crowned the entirely New Verion, in Three Acts, of MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT, in whicii Mr. Oshaldiston, Mr. Seaman, Mr Dale, Miss Vincent, Miss Arden, and the combined talent of the Company will perform. After which, THERESE, THE ORPHAN OF GENEVA. Tberese, Nisi. Vincent. To conclude with TIIE CARMELITEi ; or, The Convent ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. Daylight View of LONDON in the OLDEN TIME! Painted by Danson and Te lbin. The sensation caused by this unrivalled production is beyond all termer precedent; the artist, the amateur, the casual observer are all struck with its extraordinary beauty and fidelity of delinea tion, and are unanimous in pronouncing it the most woruerful ex hibition ever witnessed. To view it only as a vehicle for the terrific vtisplay at Dusk is unjust ; it should be seen in the calm . stillness of the quiet Evening, with its Towers and Steeples reflected in the spa ciolls Lake, to be fully appreciated. The Evening PROMEN ADE CONCERTS, on Mondays, Tues. days, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, conducted by Mr. Godfrey, are uoon a scale of snore than usual excellence: but words fail in tieing justice to the awfid representation of THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON. Its fearful characteristics are truthfully pourtrayed, but at the same time so beautifully blended with the N% ()riders of the Pyrotechnic Att, that delight is predominant over terror; and the Thousands who nightly crowd the Gardens hail it with acc!arnations, and admit that Southby. the Unrivalled Pyrotechnist, has achieved a matchless triumph. Ths Gardens and Zoological Collection are in the most perfect state, and combining so many and interesting features, are by far I the most attractive lounge in or near the metropolis. ceding of the Animals at Five—Concert at Slx—Conflagration at Dusk. Admittance, One Shilling. EGYPTIAN HALL, PICCADILLY. IMPORTANT NOTICE. ONE SHILLING Admission to THE NAT OLEON IW ECM, the most magnificent and extensive Collection of Mato 1-,cal Curiosities and Works of Art ever known to have been formed I , v One Person, during Twenty-five years of elaborate research, at a of 60,000 and to completely illustrate, in the most hi ructive and interestins , manner, the most Important part of Euro veen history, viz.—C.ll7llll,ES 1., OLIVER CROMWELL, and JUIS XIV., to the deaths of GEORGE 111., and the EMPEROR 11POLEON, in 1521. This unique Museum has been visited often, it•iring the last and present year, by the Royal Faintly, the Duke of wellington. the Forei„Tit Princes, Ambassadors, and their Ladies, !Ow, many thousands oi the Nobility and POlic ; and the Pre view' has recently been able to Increase, by several very fine I 'dares, his previous almost incredible number and variety of iqSS., Works of Art, rind a multitude of valuable Relic', and other elriosities, In this most instructive and, as hundreds have said it •• , :ht tone, a National 3fuseunt. Many thousand have inspected it, evi TIIIRTY PRINCIPA 1, EDITORS of the PUMA() PRESS in eve stated that It ought to be seen by every one. The price of admis• limn la reduced to OST: sit ILIA NG,. The NAPOLEON MUSEUM is to be seen only at the "Egyptian Psli," Piccadilly, /Ally from Ten till Dusk. THE WAATTIER.-SuN OFFICE, .luLy 25. TRiutmositTEß, Lowest, 59; Highest, 79; soon, 77. BAkONIKTER, 30.05. Wrin, S. E. Nirrr,.—The number :32 on the Thermometer denotes the "=-ing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is ually pieced opposite 30, and rain at 29. H1(111 WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE vas DAT. 1 4 oriting ... 21 minutes zfter 10 I Evening... !'. minutes after ii. perpetuate those evils which Lord LYNDHURST had so ably exposed on the introduction of his Bill. Lord BROUGHAM defended the Bill, which, after sonic discussion, was read a third time. The House adjourned at Half-past Eleven o'clock. The Commons met at twelve o'clock, when Mr• EWART gave notice that he should this clay put a question to Sir JANIES GRAHAM, relative to the re mission of the capital punishment on DALMAS. The report of the Poor-law Bill was brought up, and several amendments were proposed, but they were rejected by large majorities. The further con sideration of the report was deferred till the evening sitting. The House met again at Five o'clock, and after a few petitions had been presented, the House went into Committee on the Controverted Elections Bill. The principal clauses were agreed to, and the House resumed. Report to be received this day, at twelve. The order of the day for the further consideration of the Poor-law Amendment Bill was read, when some amendments were adopted, and the Bill was or dered to be read a third time this day. A number of Bills were read a third time and passed, the other orders of the day were disposed of, and the House adjourned at Half-past Twelve. and destitute pauper labourers is now established around the very employers with whose interests, in a healthier condition of circumstances, and under a better system of management, their own would have always been identified. Day by day the condition of one or both parties deteriorates; and their interests, appear to the moody and jaundiced reflection of the starving cottager, surrounded by the family whose sole dependence is on the wages of his labour, to be directly opposed. The landowners would really do well to balance the utmost profit they can derive from a mere incidental increase of their rentals, (through the folly or thoughtless ness of competing parties who are ready to pay absurdly exorbitant rentals, or to subscribehto yet more absurdly exorbitant terms of agreement with them, in order to hold under them as tenants), against the certain influence which these causes exercise on the crime of incendiarism. The only true method that can ever be successful in extinguishing its suicidal firebrand, is, for the landowner to treat on terms of liberality and consideration with the tenant-farmer, contenting himself with a smaller but a more equi table and safer rental; and for the tenant-farmer to discharge his duty to the labourers and others whom he employs, by paying them such just and fair wages for their services, as shall not drive them, in the paroxysms of their unsatisfied hunger, or of their angry disappointment, to the concoction of schemes of vengeance and destruction against the property, the homes, and even the persons of those who should consider themselves the natural friends and protectors, not the spoilers or defrauders, of the industrious poor. .: , * i: -: 4-- 4 ' *6 , c ,„,...... 4 , ~.• , '7 - ;.- Z --x.;.=':!. AIL ;4,• - .... _ ~..... . , ~..•.__ _ .. . Rx• nos ... '', ..<12^5304` ii ' #, r. —,------ : " • s\—..., NEW NAVAL NOVEL BY THE OLD AILOP.. Just ready, in 3 vols., post Bvo., rr H E VIC T 0 R Y; OR, TILE _WARD-Ropm MESS. By 3/.. If. B.VitkER, " THE OLD sAILOR . . , Hen!! Collntrit, Publisher, 13, Great. Nfarllo.loNlt-Arcet NEW EDITION OF cOLON EL HAWKER ON SHOOTING. On the let of Alignt will toe pnbliAlied, Kw.. dl cloth, the Ninth NS'CRUCTIONS.to YOUNG SPORTSMEN, 1 in all that reht,s to 61:NS and SIIOOTIN - 0. By Lieutenant. Colonel P. HAwKER. I.'urieuteil, enlarged, and improved, with Eighty-five and Woodimt4 by Allard anti Bran ton, from Drawings by C. Vat* " The very bet hook we kave on the ,ttbject."—Ulackwood. "Colonel Hawker expomuh , the whole rationale of shooting with clearnes ,, , fulnePs, and vivacity."—Edinburgh Review. London : nr.vit, Green, And Loughran:. HER MAJES rrs THEATRE. RE-ENGAGEMENT OF SIONOR MORIANI. It is respectfully announced that in consequence of the great buc ress which attended his farmer Engagements, a Renewed Engage ment for Four Nights inure has been effected with Si;. Moriani. TO. NI 0 RRO W EVENING, .1U EV '27, Will be performed 'by desire) Donleetti's Op.T, LUCREZIA BORGIA. latcrezia Borgia, MaTiasne t.rtsi ; Favatiti ; A Iphonso, Lablache; thibetti, Signor Paltoni ; : Wolf°, Sig. A. ; and Gennaro, Signor Moriaiii. Between the Acts, a Divertisse vent, in which Millie. Cerito will ap ear. ro conclude with the new Ballet Divertissement, by M. Perrot, entitled LA PAYSANNEGIItANDE DAME. [The Principal Characters by Mdlle. Fanny Disler, M. Perrot, and M. St. Leon. Applications for Boxe,, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box Office, Opera Colonnade. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. ltdlle. cEraTo resp,ctfully Informs the Nobility, Patrons to the opera, her Friends, and the Public, that HER BENEFIT will take place ON THURSDAY NEXT, AUG. 1, When will be performed Rossini's Opera of IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA. Characters by Madame Grist, Madame Bellini, Signor Mario, Signor Lablache, '! , ignor F. Lablache, and Signor Fornasari. To be followed by ON DINE. Outline, Mdlle Cerito After which, LA PAYS t. NNE GRANDE DAME, in which Mdlle. Fanny .lisler wil: appear. To be followed by the Last Act of Donizetti's Opera, LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR. Lucia, Madame Persiani; and Edgardo, Signor Moriani. In the course of theliveniti, the . admired vivertissemcnt, by M, Perrot, entit!ed UN BA L SOUS LOUIS XIV. In whi:h will be introduced a variety of Dances and Pas de Carac. tete. Mdlle. Fanny Ehisler will appear as a Cavalier of the Court of Louis XIV., and will dance with Mdlle. Cerito the admired " Minuet le IA Cour and Gavotte ;" Toy:include with the celebrated Ball Scene of ALMA. Alma, Mdlle. Cerito. - - THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET MR. BENJAMIN WEBSTER, LESSEE THIS , JULY 26, Will be perform ed the EVENI Comed N y G of THE BUSY BODY. Sir Francis Gripe, Mr. W. earren; Marplot, Mr. Charles Mathews ; Miranda Madame Vestris • Patch, Mrs. Humby. To Wald.' will he added the new Farce, entitled THE MIL- I !NEWS HOLIDAY. Sir Simon Sparkes, Mr. Buckstorie; Mr. Fcnnywig, Mr. Strickland; Fanny Thompson, Miss Julia Bennett ; Miss Potts, Nlrs. lltnnby. In the course of the Es cuing, Mr. John Parry will sing " Fayre Rogamondc." To conclude with MARRIED LIFE. Orchestra Stalls, Ss. ; Boxes, :is. ; Pit, 3s. ; •25.; Upper sliery, Is. Half-price—Boxes, 3s. ; Pit, 25.; Gallery, Is. ; Upper Gallery, 6d. Doors opened at Half-past Six, and the Performances crmericsice at Seven. Tickets and Places to be had of Mr. I. T. Archer, at the Box rierice, from Ten till Five. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING, JULY 2C, Will be performed the Opera of LOVE IN A VILLAGE. Young Meadows, Mr. ; Hawthorn, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Rosetta, Miss Grant; Lucinda, Miss Somers. After which, a Monologue, called A NIGH' OF SUSPENSE, by Mrs. Stirling. To conclude witiva New and Original Burlesque, entitled THE 'WONDERFUL LAMP, being an Illustrated Version of Aladdin. Alianazar, Mr. Paid Bedford; Aladdin, Mr. Wright; Princess Padroulbadour, Miss E. Stanley. rHEADIE ROY AL LYCFUM, LATE ENGLISH OPERA. . , HOUSE. Under the Management of Mrs. KEELEY. The Adventures of " Martin Chuzzlewit" having, on each repre sentation, been received with every possible mark of public appro. bation by the most fashionable and crowded audiences, and having been pronounced by the unanimous voice of the publie press to be one of the most interesting Dramas ever produced from the works of Its celebrated Author, a repetition of its performance will take place every evening till Wither notice. Tlll6 EVENIN(4 JULY t-? 6. tralta tilt LONDON, I:1w A JULY 26, 1844. The Earl of RADNoa gave notice that he would this day put a question to Lord WHARNCLIFFE, re lative to the opening of letters at the Post-office. The County Coroners' Bill was read a third time a id passed. Lord BRoucinAM preSCDtCd a petition from his fel low-subjects, the negro merchants, planters, and la bourers in Trelawney, Jamaica, against the reduc-. Lion of the duty on sugar. The Gaming Suspension Bill was read a third inn!, and passed. Lord ABERDEEN laid on the table the latest in t:•uctions given to the officers engaged in suppressing he slave-trade, and gave some statistical details o f he number of slaves imported into the Brazils and :Tiba, which showed that there had been a great de tease lately. The Earl of I.IIINTo, Lord COLCHES rR, the Earl of CLARENDON, and the Earl of HAD INGTON, wade some remarks in reference to these ,tructions, expressing their approbation of the plans lupted by the Government for suppressing this , yrrible trade. Lord BROUGHAM moved that the report of the ;ommittee on the Insolvent Debtor Bill be taken Ito consideration, and that the Bill be read a third il tie. Lord COITENItAM opposed the third reading, and, t a speech of some length, said, the Bill would Upwards of half a century has now elapsed since the death of BURN!_g, and so far is the poet's fame from having been in the slightest degree dimmed by age, that every year it seems to have acquired additional lustre. While the sardonic school of BYRON, the chivalrous and picturesque school of SCOTT, the me taphysical school of COLERIDGE and SHELLEY, the milk-and-water school of HATLEY, and the ultra pastoral school of the Cockney THEOCRITUSES ; while all these various schools of poetry have risen, flourished, and in a great degree passed away, BURNS, like those "dead and sceptred sovereigns," of whom `MANFRED speaks, still continues to "rule our spirits from his urn." The cause of this potent spell which he exerts alike over our reason and our sensibi lity is obvious enough, and may be ex plained in a few words. He was a profound and impassioned student in the school of Nature. lie was not influenced by nice rules and regulations, nor carried away by subtle theories. He had no faith in the pedantic dogmas of scholars and critics, but looked to his own heart as his surest and safest guide, and drew thence his inspiration. In all the poems of BURNS we see how exclusively he consulted his own ardent impulses, and what entire and noble confidence he had in them. Whether frolicking with his strapping " queans" among the barley-rigs; giving utterance to devotional sentiments in his " Cotter's Saturday Night," or to patriotic sentiments in his " Scots wha hae ;" conjuring up alternately images ofghastly horror, wonder, and broad humour, in his unequalled " Tam O'Shanter ;" or pouring forth touching and mournful ideas in his " Lament for Glencairn "---no matter what the theme on which BURNS expatiates, still we find Nature his sole prompter, and his own manly heart his sole inspira tion. Perhaps of no other poet in the language can it be said with so much truth as of BURNS, that there is not one false, or maudlin, or unhealthy sentiment in his works. IVe allude here exclusively to his poems, for his prose letters, in the midst of many beauties, contain passages of dreary bombast and tinsel sensibility. But regarded solely as a pest, he stands forward in our literature, the best because the truest intepreter of Nature we have had since the days of SHAKSPEARE. Hence the emotions which he pourtrays find an echo in the hearts of universal hum unity ; and it i s th e surest proof we know of, of a man's healthy condition of intellect, that he is able fully to appreciate the works of BURNS. We have been led to these reflections by the public announce ment in The ,Sll7l of yesterday, of a grand festival " in honour of the genius of the poet," which is to be given " On the Banks of the Doon" on the 6th ofAugust next. At this festival, which will of course be attended by immense numbers of BURNS' admirers, the Earl of EGLINTON will take the chair, and Professor WIL - SON—of whom, in his own peculiar walk of intellect, Scotland has quite as much reason to be proud as of BURNS —Will officiate as Vice-Chairman. We can imagine the high and pure gratification that will be felt by all who are • present at this festival, and the delight and admiration with which they will listen to the copious eloquence of CHRISTOPHER NORTH poured forth by the banks of that stream which BURNS has rendered immortal. It is the first time we believe, since his death, that a public compliment on so magnificent a scale, has been offered to the memory of the author of " Tam o' Shanter,"—thai bold, warm-hearted, strong-minded Ayrshire peasant, whose independent spirit poverty could not crush, and whose frank, cordial nature the world's neglect could not chill nor pervert—and we take for granted, therefore, that the festival will be attended by all classes of his countrymen, and that the Scottish peasantry will have their representatives at this national gather ing, as well as the aristocracy and the gentry. The "Causes of Incendiarism," to which we have lately adverted, in a few articles devoted to a retro spect of the melancholy outrages that have disgraced some of our eastern counties —are well touched by a " Correspondent," who dates from Norwich. It is impossible to approach such a subject without pain —difficult to discuss it without the hazard of doing harm by such a discussion ; yet it is one as impracti cable for us, as public journalists, to pass by unno ticed, as it would be impolitic not to denounce such crimes, were it practicable to be silent on the fact of their existence. In this conviction we proceed, with out further hesitation, to remark upon our Norwich Correspondent's communication. It is so recently that we took occasion to express our concurrence in the manly views of the actual con dition of our agricultural-labour population, with those avowed in the Hon. and Rev. Mr. €4ODOLI`IIIN OSBORNE'S letter to the Duke of RICHMOND; that we shall not use any argument, or employ any statis tical authorities, to prove the allegation that our land owners and farmers are too much addicted to pay their out-door servants very inadequate wages. We are confirmed in this belief by the still later declara tions of the Times on this subject. They bear out Mr. OsnoaNE's charge that your great farmers and herders of stock have not a single animal to whose lodging, training, apd management, they do not devote more pains, expense, attention, and solicitude than they will manifest on behalf of their poor labourers, &c. Sir H. BANBURY spoke, therefore, on a pre sumption but too we►l founded, we fear, when he said, in other words, that the want of kindness and per sonal consideration in the masters had generated a dangerous, though smouldering, feeling of discontent in the men, to which feeling, it was to be feared, that much of the late deplorable increase of the crime in question was to be traced. Our Norwich friend in sending us specimens of " a clause or two," incorporated into agreements which are now insisted upon, in his district of country, " by the largest landowners, Whigs too," beforehand, from tenant-farmers about to occupy under them, shows, in the first place, how severe is the pressure of the terms of these clauses, superadded to the higher rents which the competition for farms has a tendency to secure to the landowner, and the greatly increased burthen of the tithe, in many instances, under the operation of the last Commutation Act. Thus operated on by what he quaintly terms " the stress of landlord-and-parson circumstances," and the competi- tion we have just adverted to, these tenant-farmers— especially the one to two hundred acre holders—re sort to all sorts of means and contrivances, in their turn, to screw the excess of the rent, tithe, rates, and taxes which they stand at, out of the wages they pay to their unfortunate labourers. The first result of the system so adopted is a most fatal and but too ob vious one. It becomes an element of their calcu- lation as to the expenses of the farm they are about to occupy, under this competition-excitement, that a portion of their labour will be done by single men, at a cost just half of what they will have to pay to married labourers. It is abundantly clear that the money profit of such practice—from which no benefit, in the true sense of the word, can be said to result to' any one —centres finally in the landlord who encourages this reckless, Irish sort of competi tion for the occupation of his farms. But the immediate consequence obviously is this, in a district of labour already redundant in amount and underpaid in wages, —namely, to encourage and foment improvident marriages. It is the surest means for the unmarried labourer to increase his earnings, to induce some female to unite her destiny to his already hopeless condition. In this way a generation of improvident, discontented, . A report prevailed at Paris on Tuesday that the - Government had received accounts of the bombard , ment of Algiers, and that fresh troops had been or dered for the coast of Morocco. Towards the even , ing, however, it was ascertained that no intelligence of the kind had reached the French Government. . According to the latest accounts from Morocco, the British Consul was still with the EMPEROR, and was using his influence for an amicable arrangement of the differences between the two countries. We find the following article in the Courrier Francais, the first part of which we believe to be perfectly true, and the other a tissue of wicked falsehoods : "The letters of our correspondent at Gibraltar announce to us a pretty sharp disappointment occasioned to the Go vernor, Sir IL Wilson, by dispatches brought by a c o ur i er , who came from Madrid to Gibraltar in 43 hours, a thing never before accomplished. These dispatches, sent by the English Ambassador in Spain, are relative to the affairs of Morocco, and our correspondent, who is perfectly well placed to receive good intelligence, assures us that they enjoin Sir R. Wilson to use all his influence to determine the Emperor Abderrhaman to subscribe to such conditions as shall be de manded by the French Government. No person at Gibraltar for a moment doubts that Sir Robert Wilson has been the instigator of the foolish manifestations of Morocco against France. It is to him that belongs the honour of having raised this grave question, for Abd-el-Bader would not have suf ficed. In the space of two months he has on four occasions quitted the seat of his government to repair to various points of the Moorish territory—Tetuan, Malilia, Tangiers, and El- Araich. He had caused himself to be openly accompanied in these excursions by the Consul of Morocco and the principal Moorish merchants established at Gibraltar. Everywhere he set himself up as the protector of the Emperor and the enemy of France. He lavished his British shakes-of-the hand on the Arabs, and cordially sympathised with their audacity and their hopes. It was in English that the first preaching up of the holy war against the Christians of France began in Morocco." This journal adds, that the conduct of Sir ROBERT WILSON in this affair is in conformity with all his previous proceedings, and then goes into a long his tory of his political and military life, every act of which is represented as being characterised by hosti lity to France. According to the Presse, the French Consul at Mogadore was lately obliged, in consequence of the public excitement, to remain a whole week shut up in his house, without daring to venture out. A body of 15,000 Kabylcs entered the place, and went to inscribe their names with the Kaid as being ready to defend the town in case of its being attacked. They wished immediately to take possession of the town, and in that case the Europeans would have been all lost. The Kaid, however, had sufficient address and influence to induce them to withdraw, on his promise to call upon them at the first moment of danger. The French Funds fell considerably on Tuesday, owing partly to the reports respecting Tangiers and to extensive purchases by a large capitalist. The Three per Cents. closed at 81f. 70c., and the Fives at 121 f. 70c. The following are additional extracts from the papers : " The principal merchants and traders of the city of Paris met on Monday in one of the halls of the Tribunal of Com merce, to arrange the preliminaries for the annual election of judges. The Prefect of the Seine, having taken the chair, addressed the meeting in a long and able speech on the busi ness of the tribunal, and on the general state of the com merce of Paris. The number of causes decided by the Tri bunal, said the Prefect, from the Ist July, 1843, to the same date in 1844, was 43,104. The number of failures within the jurisprudence of the tribunal was 630 within the same period. The Prefect then noticed, in terms of warm encomium, the efforts made by the manufacturers of the department of the Seine to enrich the Exhibition of National Industry with products of a nature to ex• cite public admiration. He went so far as to say that Paris is to be regarded as the first manufacturing town in the world; for if, said he London finds in its port and its position a commercial superiority, Paris, by the variety of its products, their amount of value, and the importance of the exports to the whole of Europe, and, indeed, the whole of the world, may claim the first rank.' The Prefect took occasion, when alluding to the national exhibition, to correct a very exagger a t e d s t a t emen t as t o th e number of strangers who were attracted by it to Paris. Several of the Parisjour nals had given the number of visitors at 300,000. The Pre fect declared, from the police returns, that the number had not at any time exceeded 70,000, and that the average num ber of visitors is 40,000. In the course of his speech the Pre fect gave an account of the finances of the city of Paris. He stated that there had been a considerable falling off from the revenue of the octroi duty. The speech concluded with an enumeration of the many improvements and embellishments of the city, effected by the municipality, and, as the head of it, the Prefect took a just pride in pointing out these changes to the public." The Obserrateur de Trieste gives intelligence from Greece, to July 6. The elections were to commence next day at Athens. The Trieste paper states that the Duchess DE PLAISANCE was spending large sums of money, in order to have Opposition Members elected. It is supposed that the Ministry will have some difficulty in securing a majority in the Chambers. Fresh troubles were spoken of in Acarnania, but no details are given. A letter from Rome, July 11, in the Augsburg Gazette, says : " The conduct of Lord Seaton, Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands, as well as of the military commander, Major Frazer, during the expedition of the Italian refugees, has given rise to numerous communications between the Italian Government and the Court of St. James's, it being sused that they might have prevented the expedition. Thereater discontent is felt here at what has passed, because the Cabinet of London had solicited the intervention of the Pope, to calm the agitation of men's minds in Ireland. The agent of the refugees at Corfu is an ex-Dominican, who has betrayed the order to which he belonged ; he lends his house to the refugees, who hold meetings there. The Am bassador of Spain, Castello d'Ayenza, arrived yesterday. Count de Trapani is exclusively occupied with his studies, and lives retired from society. M. de Pietro only set out for Lisbon to-day, M. Capaccini, who is still at Lisbon, will be, it is said, received cardinal." THE BOURSE—TUESDAY, JULY 23. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French Five perC3nts— •• 121 80 .. 121 80 • • 121 70 •• 121 70 Four-and-a-Half-- 113 .. 113 .. 113 .• 113 Three per Cents •• 81 95 .. 81 95 .. 81 70 82 10 Rank of France ..... .......3120 ..3130 .•3120 —3135 Lafiltte Bank, 5,000 f. Sharesso7o • • 5070 • • 5070 —5070 Belgian Bank ..• •••••• • •• •• 670 .. 670 •• 670 •• 670 Belgian Fives, 1831 — 1840 •••• • • •• 1054 .. 1054 1054 .. 1051 Spanish Threes ••• • • • •••••• 331 .. 331 .. 331 .. 331 Active •••••• • • •• .• 301 •. 301 .• 301 •• sot Passive . 54 .. 51 .. 51 .• 5/ Portuguese Five per Cents• • 45 .. 45 .. 45 .. 45 Neapolitan • 98 90 .. 99 .. 98 90 .. 99 Roman .. .. 104 •. 104 .. 104 .. 104 RAILWAY SHARES. Versailles, R.B • •••• 390 .. 390 390 .. 390 L.B•••••••• • • 243 75 .. 245 242 50 .. 245 Rotten 987 50 • • 990 .. 987 50 .. 990 Rotten to Havre 760 761 2:5 .. 760 .. 761 25 Orleans 985 .. 986 25 .. 985 .. 985 Strasburg to Bale .. • . Avignon to Marseilles— .• 766 25 .. 766 25 • 766 25 .. 766 25 RAILWAY SHARES FOR THE ACCOUNT, 31sT OF JULY. St. Germain Versailles, R.B. ......... • 400 .. 400 • • 383 75 .. 383 75 L.B. Rouen.. •• • ...... ••• •• •••• 987 50 .. 990 •• 987 50 .. 990 Rouen to Havre 762 50 • •• 762 .50 .. 761 25 .. 761 25 Orleans . Strasburg, to Bale.. •.•• • • 241 2:5 .• 241 25 .. 240 .. 241 25 Avignon to Marseilles• ••• • • 765 •• 766 25 .. 765 • • 766 25 Madrid journals of the rith have been received Great preparations are in progress for the genera] election. The Glubo states that a grand electoral meeting of the partisans of the Government had just been held, at which a Central Committee of thirty-one was ap pointed. Among their names are those of M.M. DE SOMORUELOS, GARELI, ISTURIZ, LA RAGOSAL, BRAVO MURILLO, CASA IRUJO, SALAMANCA, CARRIGUIRI, CASTRO Y OROSCO, TASARA, PENOFIELD, SABATER, BURGOS, FONTAOS, JUAN SAN MIGUEL, LOPEZ, BALESTERO, &C. The Progressistas were equally active, and have de termined to contest the principal cities, among others Madrid, Cadiz, Saragossa, Barcelona, Corunna, Malaga, Seville, Burgos, Valladolid, Caenca, and Carthagena. Accounts had been received from Havannah of fresh disturbances at Matazens. In one of the letters t is absurdly stated that Mr TURNBULL appeared to (From The Sun of Last Night.) The general appearance of the Cotton market at Liverpoel was the same. Prices were firm, but the article was very freely offered. The sales were 6,000 bales, of which 300 American were for exportation. The sales included 150 Egyptian, at 6kl to 7d, and 500 Surat, at 3d to 34d per lb. The re s t was American, at 34- to 6dd per lb.—A. good demand was expe-. rienced for Shares in all the leading lines, and a large busi ness was done. Birmi ng h am and Derby, 71.4 ; Ditto and Gloucester, 1041; Eastern Counties Registered, 14i ; Ditto Greenock Preference, 42s ; Lancaster and Carlisle, 4i ; Liver pool and Manchester, 230; London and Birmingham, 227 ; Ditto, 32/. Shares, 381; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 27 • Man chester and Rossendale, 744- ; North Midland, 100 ; Sheffield and Manchester, 78 • South-Eastern, 38,1 ; Trent Valley, 12i ; Paris and Lyons, 2/13s 6d; Paris and Rouen, 38 ; Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux, 21 6s 6d ; Tours and Nantes, 19s. Au attempt is being made to induce parties in the City to invest capital for the completion of the Illinois Canal; the inducement being, that if this work is accomplished the interest upon the capital already advanced, and to be sub scribed, will be regularly paid. lc o question, it may be a good scheme on the part of those who have already advanced cash upon the security of American bonds and shares, especially the creditors of Illinois to get others into the boat with them. But the Yankees are not a set of people to let a good thing pass out of their hands, and if the canal will pay such splendid profits as are anticipated, the contractors would be the last people in the world to give others an advantage. There are plenty of bona fide public works in this country, secure against the chances o repudiation, to which those having money at disposal, might direct attention, without placing it in jeopardy, simply be cause 1 or 2 per cent. is now offered by Americans or others for it. There are accounts from Buenos Ayres this morning, but there is no intelligence worth notice, either in the letters or papers. A slight re-action has occurred in the quotations of the British Securities to-day, a large speculative operation hav ing been connnenced for a re-action in prices. While, how ever, money is so abundant as it is at the present moment, all such attempts must fail. The case would be very different if Stock was plentiful. On the con trary, it is as scarce as ever, if, indeed, it be not more scarce than ever before remembered. Consols for Money have varied from 994 to 99i ; and for the Account from 993 to 9n These quotations show that Money Stock has a preference as to price, over Time bargains. A good deal of business has been done in the Three-and-a-Half per Cents. Exchequer Bills have advanced to 80s. premium. The Commissioners bought 10,000/. Consols at 99 g . Buenos Ayres Bonds have improved to 37. Brazilian Bonds have been flat, at 834; and Mexican at 36-1-. The high price of 20 per cent. above par has been paid for Russian Bonds—the Five per Cents. In other Bonds there was no business done this morning. The advanced prices of y es t er d ay o f R a il way Sh ares has scarcely been maintained this morning, the Great Western and one or two others excepted. In other Shares the busi ness done has been trifling. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JULY 24.—We have a buoyant market, and an increased demand for shares gene rally. London and Birmingham, Quarters, 27; Manchester and Birmingham, 54, cum quarters ; Sheffield and Man chester, 77,1 ; South Eastern, 38q ; Trent Valley, 9i i ; Hud dersfield and Manchester, 225. 6d. to 235. 9d. prem. ; Dub lin and Cashel, 4, 7 i ; Manchester and Buxton, 365. ; Man chester, Bury, and Rossendale, 4/ i ; Blackburn and Preston, 3i. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bask Stock, . ............. 209 I Indian Stock 3 per Cent. Red 3 per Cent. Cons. 1: 1 0 01% . ; DI ;Portuguese, ttp i r tttt 00 t iu, 0 ttgtN PA uepe , 55e n wnire d ,a1c5e1ipe. . nt. . t.t . 0. . r.. .............. e " ...n... ..... t... ................. 28 :::. :94 133.7p p0 m t . . 99. X Ditto Old Annuities ... 3% per Cent. Red 103% Ditto New Annuities ... New 3 , s i per Cent. ....... New 5 per Cent. Ditto 500/ Long Annuities to expire Jan 1860 t ' D p C r i Fo t u t nU s o s s , oN i D a l spnef,ferrrpAee Deferred.,.,,,,,"" Act 99'/ q . .n . ..t .. .............. 99 ... 'A i O..."36:l4l:!Russiap, 5 per Cent 12 9.16 Bank Stock for Acct.... Oct. 1859 12 5 . 1 1 4 6 I India Spanish, S t oc s p e k f r o rc A e1 e r it .. ...................— .... ...._ Jan. 1860 Austrian, 5 per Cent } D .r i e t n to c , h l s e p tal er l: Belgian, 5 per Cent Brazilian Bonds Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cen F t Claim, 6 per Cent liez c in n t t .. ....... . — f f. 1 - 2° c : Colombian, 6 per Cent _ ;Dutch, 2 Cement ..., .. 617 i Ditto, 1824 _ ; Di!to, 5 per........ 102, Cuba Bonds , 3 n pe ds, r 6 C pe en r t Cent Greek, 1845, 5 per Cent — ;Exchang e ..... ...... ....... c .....c Mexican, 5 per Cent . . —c 3 h French, SHARES. Peruvian, o, 6 p er tr2s C e , n o t . 1, e , 1 r B3 C 7 e . 1.1. t Birniingliam and Derby, .£:(/0 paid. .......................... 49 Birmingham and Gloucester (100 LI Ditto, New Shares, 17% paid .................. Bristol and Gloucester, 30 paid .. . ••••••-.. 264 Dublin and Cashel, 23i paid ....................... ... Great Western (75 pai ) .......................... ..... j 6, Ditto Half Shares, 50 paid. .......................... 85 London and Birmingham (Stock) ................... Ditto, New Thirds, 2 paid ...... ...„„ • .............. :38% Ditto New Quarters ( paid) ....................... 27,fi London and Greenwich (12t. 158. 4d. paid) ......... London and South Western (411. 6s. 10d. p a i d)... 81% Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) . .................. • 114 Manchester and Birmingham ......................... Ditto, Quarter Shares paid)............... Northern and Eastern (4apaid) ........................ Ditto Scrip (15 paid) ..... ............................... . 24 Ditto Quarter Shares (12% paid) ........... South Eastern and Dover (33 is 4d paid) ....... 37 Ditto New Shares, 4 paid ....... .................. . 11 Thames and Medway, Ll 9 53 8d paid ............... Yarmouth and Norwich (18 paid) .............. 8 1 ,4 York and North Midland (50 paid) ..................... 108 Orleans, Tours, and Bourdeaux, 1 paid ............ Paris and Orleans (20 paid) ............................. 28N. CLOSE OF THE SESSION.—It is expected that the re gular business of Parliament will have been disposed of g to ue t d he ; but the session 25th of August. by the end of th e first week in August. Th e Parliament 1, 311 1 1 1 1 b n e ot c , o h n o ti l n ve u v e e d r, by be ad t jrn h o e u np m r e o u ro t The purpose of this arrangement is to afford time for re - ceiving the reports of the Judges, and making up the judgment of the House of Lords upon the writ of error brought by Mr. O'Connell and his fellow-prisoners...— Herald. ARRIVAL OF THE QUEEN DOWAGER.—W ooLwIcrt, JULY 25.—The Bl ac k Eagle arri ve d at our yard this morning at eight o'clock, and came alongside the wharf, having on board her Majesty the Queen Dowager and suite. Her Majesty looked well, and sat on the deck until half-past eight, when she disembarked, and imme diately proceeded to town. The landing was strictly private ; not an y o f th e m ilit ar y authorities were pre sent, the guard of honour dispensed with, and Commo dore SirfErancis Collier, the Superintendent of the Dock- Yard, was the only party to receive her. A foreign steamer proceeded up the river with her Majesty's luggage. ARRIVAL OF SIR ROBERT AND LADY SALE.— LtmE REGIS, WeoxEsnar.—On Monday, Major-General Sir Robert Salo, Lady Sale, and their widowed daughter, Mrs. Sturt, and child, arrived at Swanu's Bank House Hotel, in this town, accompanied by Sir Francis Ford, E.I. C.S. ; Capt Scober, ditto; Captain Ainslie, 21st Fusiliers; Mr. Robin son, 7th Dragoon Guards; Mr. Remington, sth Bombay Cavalry. The Gallant General and family and friends were landed by a Cowes pilot-boat, the True Briton, Indiaman, being wind-bound in the Channel. As soon as their presence became known, the Nobility and Gentry of the neighbour hood, and the inhabitants of Lyme, vied with each other in offering their congratulations, while the church bells poured forth their merriest strains of harmony to welcome the Gal lant Veteran and his truly courageous lady to their native land, after so many gallant actions and " hair breadth scapes by flood and field." 'They left for London on Tuesday morn ing, amid the cheers of a great number of persons who assem bled to witness their departure. MORTALITY or TAILORS.—In the registered causes of death of 233 persons, entered during 1843, in the eastern and western unions of the metropolis, under the general head of " Tailor," no less than 123 are registered as having died of disease of the respiratory organs, of which 92 were of con sumption ; 16 diseases of the nervous system, of which eight were of apoplexy; 16 of epidemic or contagious diseases, of whom 11 died of typhus; 23 of diseases of uncertain seat, of whom 13 were victim s o f dropsy, eight of diseases of the digestive organs, and s i x of " heart disease, " whilst, of the whole, only 29 died o f o ld age. " A MISTAKE.—It is well known that on Monday last, at an early hour, the King of Saxony intimated his intention to visit the theatre in the evening. After din ner his - Majesty and suite stepped into a carriage, when the postilion, instead of driving to the Theatre Royal, as he was ordered, trotted off to the Amphitheatre. The King, the Ambassador, the Baron, and the Doctor, all alighted. The servants attended his Majesty into the passage, and the party ascended the stairs. They were utterly astounded at the freezing coldness of their recep tion, for his Majesty had al rea d y had an interview with Mr. Clark e , and had not failed, we feel convinced, to admire the suaviter in modo of that well-bred gentleman. But here all was cold neglect. Arrived at the top of the stairs, they were turning to the boxes, when they were at once brought to a dead halt by an individual who barred their further progress, and saluted their ears with a loud exclamation of " Check, Sir, check!" " Check?" said one of the suite, " what, are we not expected?" The check-taker stared, bht repeated his demand, and concluded by pointing out the place where money was received. The possibility of a mistake was readily sur mised, and a few brief inquiries showed the party that they had been. set down at the wrong theatre. They quickly passed over to the patent establishment, where they wtra received with all urbanity.—Liverpool LAW AND POLECE. At the Lincoln assizes, William Markham, aged 37, was charged with having, on the 30th of May, at Tathwell, feloniously shot at Jacob Gainsley, with intent to murder him. There were other counts charging him with an intent to wound and main. The prosecutor is the keeper of a toll bar near Louth, and on the evening in question was within the same reading his Bible, when Markham entered and asked for a biscuit. He soon after quitted the place, but returned, and taking down a pistol from the mantel-piece, levelled it at the prosecutor and fired, the ball happily missing him and lodging in the wall. The defence was, that the man at the time he committed the act in question, was not in a right state of mind. The jury retired, and after a long con sultation, returned with a verdict of guilty of shooting with intent to kill. Sentence deferred. The Ipswich assizes commenced on the 23d. The calendar is very heavy, and contains the names of fifty prisoners, the majority of whom are charged with arson; of these 11 can neither write nor read, 9 can read and write imperfectly, and 8 are under 17 years of age, two of them being mere children. At Guildhall, James Richard Downes, an attorney's clerk, was charged with various acts of fraud and embezzlement by his employer, Mr. Sagwell, of the Temple-chambers. It ap peared that he had defrauded Mr. Bagwell of several hundred pounds, besides throwing his business into confusion. He was committed on three charges of embezzlement. John Le Grand, who has hitherto passed as an importer of and dealer in French goods, was finally brought up on a charge of being concerned in an extensive burglary com mitted on the premises of Mr. Charles Banks, lace-manu facturer, of Lawrelice-lane, on the 24th of December last. The prisoner was fully committed. COI7IM-PASHZONABILE. ' The Duke of Wellington will give a grand concert of vocal and instrumental music on Wednesday evening next at Aps ley House, to which are invited their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, the Hereditary Grand Duke and Duchess of Mecklenburg Strelitz, and four hundred of the e lite of the haut ton. The entertainment, it is understood, is given for the purpose of introducing Lady Charles Welles. ley, after her recent alliance with Lord Charles. The Duchess of Sutherland and family are about to leave Stafford House for Trentham, and after the marriage of the Marquis of Lorn and Lady Elizabeth Leveson Gower, the Duke and Duchess go to Dunrobin Castle, N.B. The Duke of Somerset entertained at dinner on Wednes day evening, at his mansion in Park-lane, the Duchess of Hamilton, the Countess of Lincoln, the Earl and Countess of Dunmore, Lord and Lady Blantyre, the Marquis of Huntly, Lord Seymour, the Earl of Besborough, Viscount Melbourne, the Hon. Mr. Cowper, and the Hon. Alr. Stewart. The Duchess of Somerset received a select circle of friends during the evening. The Earl of Zetland has arrived at his seat in Scotland from Aske Hall, Yorkshire. The Countess had previously arrived at Kerse House, - from Yorkshire. The Earl of Wilton has taken Banstead Cottage, near Ryde, for the season, which his Lordship and family will occupy early next month. The Earl and Countess of Sefton leave Croxteth early next month for the Highlands, for the shooting season. Lord Frederick and Lady Augusta Fitzclarence and suite arrived at the Clarendon Hotel, on Tuesday, from Wiesbaden, where they made a brief sojourn, en route from a tour in the south of Europe. Wednesday the Dowager Duchess of Bedford gave her con cluding fete champetre for the season at Bedford Lodge, Camp den-hill, on which occasion her Grace was honoured with the presence of a very numerous assemblage of the aris tocracy. The Marquis of Bristol is daily expected in St. James's square, from Brighton, and after remaining some weeks in town repairs to Ickworth Park, near Bury St. Edmund's, for the autumn. THE SUN, _LONDON, FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 26, 1844 be the instigator of those conspiracies, and that he had reserved for himself the situatior of chief of the black republic. On the Madrid Bourse the Three per Cents were quoted at 26i, at sixty days; and tie Fives at 201, for cash. We are glad to see that a new asylum for infant orphans has been established in - the City on the most extensive and liberal principles, There is to be no religious distinction. The children of misfortune, of whatever creed, are to be received into the same asy lum, and the hand of charity is held out to the Church man and the Dissenter alike. This is the way to re concile contending creeds. Why should Christians quarrel with one another in distress ? Why should religious dogmas, of which the children know no thing and the fathers little, stand in the way of cha rity? The supporters of this institution, called the New Asylum for Infant Orpha ns , deserve the support of all charitable men. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. CIYT, TIIISItSDAY EVENING. The English Stock Market leaves off rather flat, but this is rather the effi3ct of speculation than anything else, as the latest money bargains were at 991' buyers, and those for time at 99: : sellers. Exchequer Bills were 795. premium ; and ',.\;ew Three -and-a-Half per Cents. 102 8 to -- ln Spanish there were no further operations, and prices remained almost nominal. Mexican Bonds were 36f to ; Colombian, 141 toy ; Buenos Ayres, 36 to I; Belgian, 1034 to 104 k ; and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 61.,;. The additional transactions in Railway Shares hare been these :—Birmingham and Derby were 291; Green wich, 54 ; and Thames and Medway, 9i to 4 discount. Birmingham and Gloucester, New, 8 3 - ; Great West ern , 591 to 61 ; Birmingham, Thi r d s , 361 ; Ditto, Quart er , 25N ; South-Western, 45 / I to e ; Manchester and Leeds, 44 ; Manchester and Birmingham, Quarter, 3} .f ; Northern and Eastern Scrip, 94 ; South-Eastern, 4' to ; Ditto, New, 7,1 to i; Yarmouth and Norwich, 101 11-; York and North Midland, 58 ; Orleans, Tours, and Bor deaux, 11 ; and Paris and Orleans, ltq 1-, premium. London and Westminster Bank Shares were 64 prem. The Committee of Spanish American Bondholders decided to-day on calling a general meeting of their con stituents. ;SUMMARY OF NEWS AND Ott t~ Optitton. " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. The King of the French went on Monday to St. Cloud, to inspect the works going on at that residence. 11i5 Majesty will in a few days come to the Tuileries, where the Royal Family will stay during the, fetes of July. An excursion of some days to the Chateau of Bizv is spokcu of; and it is said that afterwards will take place the journey to Eu. The Chamber of Peers have adopted the Central Railroad Bill, by 69 rotes to 25. The Deputies on Monday were occupied with reports on petitions, which were generally without in terest. As the hon. members adjourned without any day being fixed fur their next sitting, their labours for the session ma-v be looked on as terminated. The electoral College of Besancon has just returned M. Magnoucourt, the Conservative candidate, to the Chamber of Deputies. M. Magnoncourt had 175 votes ; his opponent, M. Couvers, had 14-S. 31. Didelot, Procureur-General at Amiens, a Conservative, has been elected for the college of Epinal, in place of the late 31. Con`-. Letters from Bologna of the 16th of July mention that an other of the political prisoners, named Joseph Gardengbi, who was condemned to death by the Military Commission for the part they took in the insurrection of last year, has been executed. A landed proprietor of the name of Mivelli has been sentenced for ten years to the galleys, for granting an asylum to one of the principal conspirators. This is the seventh of the political prisoners who has been shot in the back, that being the death of a traitor according to the Ita lian laws. " The squadrons of all the Powers of Europe," exclaims the Eco dcl Commercio, " are hastening to the coast of Mo rocco, and Tangiers is about to resemble a port of Palestine in the times of the Crusades. God grant that we may not act a most ridiculous figure there :" General San Miguel and his brother have been imprisoned (without accusation or trial), the one in Bilbao, the other in Majorca. A dreadful fire took place on the Ist inst. at Drontheim, in Norway. Several streets and 12 public edifices are stated to have been burnt to the ground. A similar disaster occurred at Cronstadt, in Transylvania, on the night of the 30th ult.; more than 90 buildings were destroyed. It is stated also, in a German paper, that the fine market-place of Marienburg has been burnt down. • During the last month the consumption of meat in Paris was 5,295 oxen, 1,023 cows, 6,773 calves, and 31,930 sheep, being 747 oxen, 352 cows, and 3,710 sheep less than during the month of June, 1843. The consumption of the first six months of the present vear was 39,293 oxen, 7,049 cows, 38,511 calves, and 224,099 sheep, being 616 oxen and 3,740 calves more, and 1,452 cows and 9,526 sheep less than in the first six months of 1843. In weight, upon the aggregate, there was a reduction of 78,320 kilogrammes, or 174,7501 b. English. An explosion of gas, the consequences of which were frightful, took place on Monday evening, at the porter's lodge of No. 25, Rue Neuve St. Jean, Faubourg St. Denis. A vent having opened in the pipe supplying the wine-shop in the same house, the porter, whose lodge is very dark, took a lighted candle too near to it, and the gas caught iire. Two children of the unfortunate man were killed, and his wife so severely wounded in the leg that she was necessarily carried to the hospital. AXIS cErmurmous. --- A delegate meeting of the operatives of Lancashire was held at Manchester on Monday, for the purpose of devising means to promote the further progress of the Ten Hours Bill. There were delegates present from Manchester, Bol ton, Bury, Preston, Wigan, Ashton-under-Lyne, Chawbent, Hindley, Oldham, Stockport, Norwich, &c. Each delegate was requested to give a report as to how far the working classes were prepared, by organisation amongst themselves, to give effect to the declaration of the House of Commons— namely, that the factory day shall commence at six o'clock in the morning and cease at six o'clock in the evening. A splendid monument to the memory of the Earl of Lei cester has just been completed at Mr. Hall's. marble works, Derby. It consists of a mass of richly-sculptured Gothic tracery, forming a cinque-foil arch, resting on buttresses and columns, and open foliage capitals, and surmounted by a pe diment and pinnacles, ornamented with panels, crockets, &c. Within the niche formed by the columns and arch stands a massive tablet containing the following inscription, with the capital letters illuminated :—" To the revered memory of Thomas William Coke, Earl of Leicester, born May 5, 1754 died at Longford, J une 30, 1842. , Complete arrangements have been made for the grand national archery fête which is to come off early in the next month at Knavesmire, near the city of York. A grand stand will be erected on the ground, and every facility afforded to the visitors to witness the sports of the day. Amongst the competitors are the "captains" and most practised members of the principal archery clubs, metropolitan and provincial. The name " Wellington" is about to be inscribed on the four sides of the base of the Wellington statue, in the City; and " the 18th June, 1815," on the upper edging, under the fore-feet of the horse, and also under the hinder feet, accord ing to the original directions of the Committee. DUTCH MAIL. A3I3TEIMLNI, JULY 20.—1 t appears from the annual re port of the affairs of the several provinces of the kingdom that the population on the l st of January, 1844, was 2,953,618 ; 1843, 2,927,343 ; i ncrease, 2 6,275. 12 marriages and 36 di vorces. Of t h e divorces 29 were in North and S outh Holland. The popula tion of which is about a millio n . Tonhere the we 1 were in of 18J4 THE HAGUE, JULY 23.—The negotiations for the exchange on sale of the inscriptions in the great book of Belgium to the amount of 80 millions of florins took place at Amsterdam on the 19th, in the presence of 31r. Van Hall, Minister of Finance, and of Messrs. Read and Fock, Commissioners appointed by the King. The Minister of Finance laid. on the table a sealed note containing the minimum at which his Excellency had decided that the tenders should be accepted. There were 160 tenders, part of which offeved to exchange Belgian in scriptions for the equivalent of Netherlands inscriptions, at 24 per cent. The sealed note having been opened, it ap peared that the minimum ihred by his Excellency was 61 per cent. The Minister having retired for some time with the Com missioners, to deliberate, it was declared, in the name of his Excellency, that 320 lots were disposed of, to the amount of 20,000 florins each, making in all 6,420,000 florins. Of these lots, 266 were for payment in money at 61 per cent., and 55 in exch ange f or i nscriptions at 2L- per cent. Te 160 tenders being opened, it seems that there were offers for 716 lots, of which 385 were rejected as being below 61 per cent. VISIT OF THE KING OF IHE FRENCH TO ENG.. LAND.--It is well known that King Louis Philippe has pro mised to pay her Majesty a visit this autumn. It Is now understood that his Majesty will embark at Treport, in the month of September, for this country. His Majesty will be accompanied by two ships of 74 guns, and four or five steamers, and will land at Portsmouth, whence he will pro ceed by railway to the station nearest to Windsor. His Bla jesty will remain eight days at Windsor, and will not visit London.—Herald. ANOTHER ROYAL VISIT. —We understand that his Royal Highness Prince Frederic William Louis of Prussia, brother of the King, and heir apparent to the Prussian throne, is expected on a visit to her Majesty in the early part of next week. On account of her Majesty's expected ac couchement his Royal Highness will take up his residence at the mansion of his Excellency Chevalier Bunsen, the.Prn !..11 a Minister, who returned on Monday last from Berlin; ^ for the especial purpose of receiving the Prince in Pr:do-terrace. His Royal Highness, we understand, will pr. :,,ably be present at the Goodwood races.—Post DREADFUL SUICIDE or A rzstALE.—On Tuesday female expired, at the GreenwDiballich un'i wiry th e un f ortunate young named Hannah , .aed ehteen, precipi tated herself from a second-floor wir.dow ig of a house near the Magistrate's Police-office, Woolwixh, on Saturday last, and received such injuries, that Serg e Ant Perry, 8 R, and constable Gladwin, 122 R, immediately 'sent off for Surgeon Stuart and Mr. Waters, the relieving e4cer, who both most promptly attended; the former, aft sr dressing her wounds, advised her removal to the union, ''..fhich was done by his order. The un fortunate deceapd 'RAS subject to fits of aberration of intel lect, and in One of those ele destroyed her life. Yesterday morning, the Lord Mayor, accompanied by the Chairman of the Navigation Committee, and attended by the Water-Bailiff, the City Solicitor, and the Under-Sheriff, inspected the steam-boat piers above bridge (i.e., above London-bridge). They disembarked at Blackfriars-bridge, and minutely examined the con struction of the pier. His Lordship examined persons who were present at the time of the accident, as to the inimediate cause of the disaster. It was quite manifest to the Lord Mayor that the planks connecting the dumb lighter with the shore had been of a thickness quite in competent for the purpose for which they were laid down, and that the lighters themselves, and in fact all portions of the structure were highly dangerous. The result of his investigation of the Blackfriars-bridge pier most powerfully confirmed the truth and necessity of the observations which he had made on the preceding day in the Common Council, when the subject was so pro perly introduced and handled by several of the members of that body, and he had himself asked why the Com mittee which had ineffectually represented the con demnation of the pier to a former Chief Magistrate, had omitted to make a similar representation to him. The Lord Mayor and the City Officers, after having examined the Blackfriars-bridge pier, attended a Com mittee at the Guildhall, and orders were issued to the Water-Bailiff and Clerk of the Works, to set off from London-bridge and proceed up the river, and to compel the owners of all piers immediately to put them in a condition for the safe and convenient embarkation of passengers by steam-boats ; and in the event of hesita tion in complying with the regulations, the Lord Mayor declared that he would sign warrants, which the City Solicitor bad prepared, for removing with a sti ong hand every pier not rendered conformable with the rules. Blackfriars-bridge pier, it appears, had been pre sented two years ago by a conservancy jury as unsafe, and the parties engaged in keeping it in use were informed that it would be removed, under the au thority of the Court, but intelligence having been re ceived, that the proprietors were poor watermen, thrown out of employment by the introduction of steam navigation on the river, the pier was permitted to remain, upon an assurance that it should be rendered per fectly safe and secure. The manner in which that pledge was redeemed the late melancholy event demon strates, and the Lord Mayor commented in strong lan guage upon the readiness with which such a pledge was received, and the carelessness with which it was ever afterwards treated. At the last Court of Conser vancy, a very intelligent jury presented several of the floating piers as offerin g o b s t ruc ti ons at a certain state of the tide to the free navigation of the river. They, however, accompanied their presentment with a state ment that "in the absence of better constructed per manent erections for the, accommodatfon of persons landing from, and embarking in steam boats, the continuance of some such piers was a neces sary evil, but they represented that measures should be taken by the Corporation, as conservators of the river, to compel the proprietors of all temporary piers to render them now more firm and safe for passengers, and that they should be provided with coloured lamps at night, so placed as to show the position of the piers, and to define their limits." t appears that the Navigation Committee, in concur rence with the Lord Mayor, have been for some time engaged in making arrangements to give effect to these recommendations of the conservancy juries, and it is to be hoped that a calamity so deplorable will quicken the speed of the authorities, and lead to an early consumma tion of such an important object. At a Court of Common Council, held on the 16th of December, 1841, Mr. Jonathan C. Prior, the Chair man of the Blackfriars-bridge Committee, whose unwearied attention to the duties of that office, and ability in completing the repairs, entitle his opinion to great respect, said, in recommending that Mr. Walker's plan of erecting a pier on the Bridewell side of Black friars-bridge, the Court could not forget that already three or four deaths had taken place in consequence of the wretched awl badly -managed construction at present in use. It was quite impossible that the Corporation should allow such a melancholy appeal to pass unnoticed. So long as that bungling piece of work was in existence, the lives of the public would be in constant jeopardy, and it therefore became the duty of the Court to inter fere without delay, for the sake of humanity." Sir Peter Laurie supported Mr. Prior's view of the subject, and dwelt most particularly upon the security of the lives of the public, with reference to the pier. On the 20th of January, 1843, Mr. Prior, in bringing up the first report relative to Blackfriars-bridge, con cluded his remarks by "urging again upon the Court not to lose sight of the necessity of remedying the existing evil at the bridge, but at once to cause the present dis graceful landing-place to be removed." Mr. Anderton also rose and said " he regretted that a committee which bad so admirably performed its duties should be dis solved before they had carried their plan for establishing a better and safer landing-plan e , and it would be most satisfactory to know that the committee, to whom the keeping up of the bridge devolved, would not suffer the question to rest." The public will see from the above quotations from the speeches made on the subject of the danger, the lamentable evidences of which have so recently been manifested, that some of the members of the Corporation did not hesitate to speak aloud their apprehensions. Dispatches were sent off from the Colonial-office to the Governors of Gibraltar and the Mauritius. ACCIDENT TO THE EARL OF MORNINGTON.—We are sorry to find that the venerable Earl of Mornington met with an accident onWednesday, at his residence at Twickenham. His Lordship missed his footing in descending a stone staircase, and rolled to the bottom, where he was taken up severely bruised, but happily no bones were broken, and it is hoped that his Lordship has suffered no internal injury. The vene rable Earl is now in the eighty-second ye ar o f hi s age , an d his frame has been somewhat shaken by this unfortunate ac cident. His Lordship's numerous friends will, however, be happy to learn that the results of this misfortune are not likely to be so serious as might have been anticipated. EXTRAORDINARY AND SHOCKING ACCIDENT:— On Tuesday morning a tine bull, the property of Mr. Hough ton, of Upton, near Aylesbury, was proceeding by the first train, which leaves that town at seven o'clock, when about two miles from Tring, a spark flew from the engine, and fell into the truck in which the ball was; the straw immediately ignited, and completely burnt the interior of the caziiage to charcoal, singeing the poor animal exactly as one - would a bacon hog, large pieces of his flesh were burned off, :Ind one of his eyes completely destroyed. The poor creat are was brought back to Aylesbury by the ten o'clock train, and was taken to Mr. Lepper's, the veterinary surgeon, whe re he re mains without any chance of his recovery. What makes it more distressing is, that he was a noble animal pr oceeding to the Royal Agricultural Society's show at South ampton, and was the only specimen sent from the Vale of A ylesbury More or less rain has fallen every twenty-four hours since the date of our last, St. Swithin's d: y. On Sunday it rained nearly the whole day, and agaii t during a portion of the night ; and from the embrowi se d and swollen state of our river, it is obvious that thi an der, or some other showers, must have been still heavier up the country. In fact, with the exception of passing sl :his to lay dust and freshen the blade, the soil is now staff ,ciently moistened to carry the farming community over harvest. Where strongest and best, the crops have been p artially lodged —an evil very little dreaded at one time. In sc ime rare ' instances they are so completely flattened, that • they can hardly regain the perpendicular, even under tl se influ ence of favouring breezes. Still we hope the I .est, now gnat harvest is so close at hand, and grain char , ging co lour in ever direction. The pastures, aftermaths , turnips and potatoes,' have been greatly benefited within t the last ten days, from the alternating effects of sun'ihine and shower, and from the favourable accounts recei'ved from the south, the trade in cattle, so long marred b y intense drought, will speedily revive.—D lan/ries Couri. 'r. THE WEATHER AND CROPS IN THE N ORTH.— During the last fortnight, in the counties of Cumbe sand and Westmoreland there was rain almost every day a' nd night, but the last few days have proved unusually hot and clear. On Monday and Tuesday the thermometer was up as high as 76degrees in the shade. The crops of grain have made won derful progress, so much so indeed, that some odd fields of barley are already assuming a golden hue, and are of the best quality. Wheat and oats also look remarkably well and flourishing, The hay harvest is now at its height in the above counties. • - HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. The performances last evening were for the benefit of Fanny Elssler ; and, as might be expected, the house was crowded in every part long be:bre the rising of the curtain. The oper a was La Gazza Lad; a, with Grisi as Ninetta, Favanti as Pippo, Fornasari as Fernando (Ni netta's father), and Lablache as the Podesta. Of the Ninetta of Grisi it is unnecessary to speak. Who has not seen—who has not admired—this most perfect specimen of domestic tragedy? Equally un necessary is it to speak of the Podesta of Lablache ; the simple announcement of the fact that Lablache per sonated that worthy magistrate is sufficient to assure every one that the Podesta was the most humourous and laughter-moving of Dogberries. Mademoiselle Favanti appeared for the first time in the character of rippo, and we sincerely congratulate her on her success in the part. She is gradually acquiring more confidence in her powers, and consequently that occasional incorrectness of intonation of which some of our contemporaries have complained, is rapidly disappearing ; in fact last night, nothing of the sort could be discovered. Her Pippo was an admirable performance, both as re garded acting and singing. She was deservedly encored in the exquisite morceau in the second act " Pegno ado• rato," and, encouraged by the applause which she re ceived, she repeated it even more effectively than she had given it in the first instance. In the duet which follows, " Mi cadono le lagrime," her fine contralto tones told admirably, and formed a most effective support to Grisi. Of the Ferdinand of Fornasari, it is impossible to speak in terms of too high praise.. Never were the agonies of a father more pathetically depicted ; in the scene in the last act, in which he breaks from the soldiers to take a parting embrace from his daughter, his acting was heart-rending. Not only is he the best Ferdinand on the stage ; but we are inclined to believe that Ferdinand is his best character—at all events, it is entitled to rank with his Belisario and his Loustalot. We have mentioned one encore ; the only other encore of the night was the exquisite trio in the first act, " Oh Nume benefice," which was beautifully given by Grisi, Fornasari, and Lablache. Grisi, Favanti, Fornasari, and Lablache were called for at the fall of the curtain, and received with the usual honours. Between the acts of the opera we had the divertissement of Un Bal sous Louis XI V., in which Elssler and Cerito danced the minuet de la tour, Elssler personating the preux Che valier, and Cerito looking bewitchingly prudish in her powder and hoop, as a dame of the seventeenth century. After the opera Cerito danced the Gitana, as she alone can dance it, and was of course encored ; and then came the new divertissement La Paysanne Grande Dame, in which the acting of Fanny Elssler, as the peasant girl suddenly transformed into the fine lady, was the most arch and espiegle that can be imagined. The scene in which, dressed for the first time in grand costume, she runs round the room, looking over her shoulder and admiring her train, is one of the richest things that can be imagined. Her pas with M. St. Leon and Made moiselle Plunkett and Barville was wonderful; she outdid herself in her performance of those rapid steps—feet twinklings they may be justly called—for which she is so celebrated. She was encored, as a matter of course, and the stage, for a moment, assumed the appearance of a parterre, from the number of bouquets that were showered down upon her. The divertissement, how ever, flags towards the close, and requires some judicious pruning. The audience became very impatient at the commencement of the ballabile in the last scene. The ap pearance of Fanny Elssler, however, in a very picturesque national costume, completely restored them to good humonr, and her pas La Bearnoise brought the diver tissement to a triumphant conclusion. The greater part of the audience, which was a very fashionable one, re mained until the conclusion of the performances. COURT CIRCULAR, WINDSOR, THURSDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albert took an airing this morning in a pony phaeton and four. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the rrineess Royal, and the Princess Alice, accompanied by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton were taken out in the forenoon in an open carriage. Sir Robert Peel left the Castle this morning for town. The Marquis and Marchioness of Douglas ' and the Earl and Count ess d e G rey a l so t oo k their departure from the Castle to-day. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent left Frog more Lodge in a carriage and four at half-past nine o'clock this morning for her residence, Clarence House, St. James's. The Royal Duchess returned to Frogmore Lodge in the evening.. Her Majesty and Prince Albert took an airing in a a pony phaeton, the Prince driving, in the afternoon. The Hon. Miss Liddell and the Hon. Miss Paget, Maids of Honour in Waiting, followed in an open carriage and four; and the Equerries in Waiting on her Majesty and the Prince, Colonels Arbuthnot and Bouverie, attended on horseback. The royal party returned to the Castle soon after six o'clock. The Royal Family were taken airings in the pleasure grounds of the Castle in the afternoon. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, accompanied by Prince Edward, of Saxe Weimar, arrived about half.past nine o'clock yesterday morning, at Marlborough House, from tfie Continent. Her Majesty landed at Woolwich. Her Majesty was attended by Earl Howe, the Marquis and Marchioness of Ormonde, Lady Georgina Curzon, Sir Andrew Barnard, Sir David Davies, and the Rev. G. Hudson. The Duchess of Gloucester, the Duchess of Kent, and the Duke of Cambridge, visited her Majesty at Marlborough House. Yesterday was the birth-day of the Duchess of Cam bridge. The Royal Duchess received congratulatory visits at Cambridge House from the Queen Dowager, the Duchess of Gloucester, the Duchess of Kent, and Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar. The Members of the Corps Diplomatique, and a number of the nobility, called and left their names for the Royal Duchess. The Duchess of Gloucester dined with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge yesterday. The Duchess of Kent arrived at Clarence House, from Frogmore, about half-past eleven o'clock, yesterday morning. The Royal Duchess paid a visit to the Queen Dowager, and afterwards proceeded to Cambridge House, to visit the Duchess of Cambridge. Her Royal High ness left town, on her return to Frogmore, about five o'clock. Sir Robert reel arrived in town yesterday, from Windsor Castle. THE DANGEROUS PIERS ON THE RIVER. DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZES AT THE GOVERNMENT SCHOOL OF DESIGN. Yesterday, the annual distribution of prizes to the pupils of this valuable Institution took place in the great room of the establishment at Somerset-house. The hour fixed for the business of the day was four o'clock, and by that time the great room was filled almost to suffocation by the pupils, and a large assemblage of Members of Parliament, artists, and other distinguished personages, amongst whom wee several ladies. The walls of the room were covered with paintings in fresco, drawings, :models, and other works of art, the pro ductions of the students, most of which possessed a very high degree of merit. Amongst the visitors present we obs,trred the Earl of Westmoreland, Lord Dalhousie, Lord Colborne ) the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P., President of the Board of Trade; Mr. Wodehouse, M.P., B. Hawes, EM., M.P., T. Wyse, Esq., M.P., .11. G. Knight, Esq., M.P., R. M. Milnes, Esq., M.P., Sir R. Westmacott, R.A., C. S. Cockerel], Esq., R.A., W. Dyce, Esq., W. Etty, R.A., J. R. Gar diner, Esq., J. F. Gibson, Esq., W. R. Hamilton, Evq., J. G. S. Lefevre, Esq., Apsley Pellatt, Esq., A. Poynter, Esq., &c. Lord COLBORNE having briefly opened the proceedings of the day, called the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone to the chair, for the purpose of distributing the prizes. Mr. GLADSTONE, before proceeding to distribute the prizes, made some very gratifying observations upon the progress which the school of design, manifested by the production s of the pupils, had made within the comparatively short per iod since its establishment, and expatiated upon the import; int and useful results which must accrue from it to the exte n aive manufactures of this country. A debt of gratitude was due to the Government under whose auspices this great e_ c.- periment of superinducing an excellence in the ornament 4 arts, upon the proud pre-eminence which this country alreadY enjoyed in those more purely of industry and ingenuity; and. for himself and his colleagues, he was happy to be able to) declare their warm and anxious interest in its success, aardi their determination to lend it every co-operation in their power.-(Cheers.) The Right Hon. Gentleman also passe d a high compliment upon the exertion of the Council, and )1 Mr. C. H. Wilson, the director, to whose zeal, talent, an '.d discretion so much of the success which had attended the 01 jects of the institution was due. This compliment was rd i sponded to by loud cheers from the pupils, re-echoed by man. y of the general company. The distribution of prizes then took place ; the following if ; a list of them :- Arabesque in fresco, being an original design-Mr. Silal Rice. 5/. ss. Arabesque in fresco secco-Mr. George Stewart. 5/. ss. Arabesque in oil-Mr. Adam E. Vindon. 5/. ss. Arabesque in oil-Mr. F. R. Russell. 3/. 3/. Design for paper- hanging-Mr. Walker. 2/. 2s. Composition of ornamental from natural flowers-M r. John Brown. 31.35. Design for a glass chandelier-Mr. J. Stradwick. Si. ss. Designs for dinner service in porcelain, equal merit, tr% so prizes-Mr. George Wallis. 5Z ss. Ditto-Mr. W. C. Wilde. 51. ss. Design for a sideboard-Mr. John Phillip. 21. 2s. Design for a carpet-Mr. J. R. Harvey. 3/. 3s. Design for a silver candelabrum-Mr. John Struc wick. Si. ss. Design for silk hanging-Mr. John Brown. 31.35. Coloured designs-Printed druggits-Mr. W. C. Wild-6. 3/. 3s. Ditto-Printed druggits-Mr. J. R. Harvey. 31.35. Best specimen of ornamental modelling-Mr. H. Arn :- stead. 3/. Class drawings, Ist prize-For an outline drawing-M r. W. Scott. 11. 10s. Ditto, 2d prize -Ditto-Mr. J. George. 1/. Ist prize, best shaded drawing from the flat-Mr. Josef fh Phillips. 2/. 2d Ditto, equal merit-Mr. J. Pringle. 1/. Ditto, ditto-Mr. Short. 1/. Ist Prize, shading in chalk from the round-Mr.W. Gleadrell. 2/. 10s. 2d Ditto, ditto-Mr. L. C. Wyon. 2/. Prizes for the best grisaille drawing-Ist, Mr. E. Arnold. 2/. ; 2d, Mr. Lewis Walker. 11. 10s. Best coloured drawing in tempera from flowers-M r. F. Stnallfield. 2/. Best copy of arabesque in colours-Mr. Lainson. 2/. 10s . - Ist Prize-Best chalk drawing of the human figure-; 11r. F. R. Russell. 2/. 10s. 2d Ditto-Mr. George Stewart. 21. JUNIOR CLASS. Ist Prize-Drawing of a Mask-Mr. A. G. Gandie. 1/. 10S. 2d Ditto-Mr. J. Browne. 1/. FEMALE SCHOOL. Best design pattern for lace-Miss Dixon. 3L Zs. Design of flowers from nature-Miss R. Dimsdafe.. 11. Is. Best chalk drawing from the round-Miss Emma Angell 2/. 2s. 2d best ditto-Miss E. Channon. 1/. Is. Best design ornament for engraving on wood-Mi. Is Alt' gusta Colchester. 21. 2s. 2d prize -Miss Bragg. 11. Is. For best drawing for lithograph-bliss Clark. 2/. 2s. 2d ditto-Miss Bridges. U. Is. , THE SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY LINE FROM ASHFORD TO CANTERBURY; RAMSGATE, MARGATE, AND WHITSTABLI4 AND FOLKESTONE HARBOUR. Yesterday a special meeting of the shareholders in the , South-Eastern Counties Railway was held at the Board-- room of the London-bridge station, for the purpose or adopting means to raise, pursuant to au Act of Parris— . ment for that purpose, a sufficient sum of money to en-• able the Directors to make a line of rail from Ashford to' - Canterbury, Ramsgate, and Margate, and also from' Canterbury to Whitstable. The other object of thee meeting was to raise, pursuant to the powers granted by' " the same Act, the sum of 66,0001. to complete a branch- - line of railway and approach to Folkestone, to execute' certain works in the Folkestone Harbour, and to make • certain alterations in the work of the Maidstone branch line of railway. The CHAIRMAN (Mr. W. P. Richards), having entered at great length into details of the financial state of the Company's affairs, said that what they met that d ay 0 carry out was the intention of the Company from th: very first commencement, because they felt convin cal that it would become the grand medium of transit i 1 tween this country and France, and he might indeed sale a great part of the north of Europe, and it would aLte diminish the expenses of every mile on the whole line. A SHAREHOLDER wished to know how, and frolo whom, the money was to be raised, as in several iv' stances applications were made at first to some lasr bankers, and the shareholders were excluded? The CHAIRMAN said the course proposed was to raise the money by publi c t en d er , as i t cou ld b e t h us obtaite at a lower rate of interest. The shareholders woaltly °- course, have a preference. In reply to another question, he also stated that,. Et"' cording to annual instalments proposed to be paid liquidation of the liability of the debts of the Compan:lir the whole would be cleared away in the year 1853. Mr. CARDWELL, M.P., then addressed the meeting great length, and said that the Company proposed _.. have two stations for those towns—one at Lon e r s bridge, and the other at the Bricklayers' Anne; ~,i an d also to adopt every means to afford convenience." comfort to the public. Those lines must he suc,ce ssfut the Two resoluti ons h av i ng b een passed ado:ptinq above two p ro p os iti ons , t h e meet i ng separated, afte r vote of thanks to the Chairman. NOVEL SALE OF P INE A PPLES .—Th e noop Ot hao the sale of a l arge Auantit3, of foreign grown pine apples already appea re d in this journal, but it was not antic that such luscious l uxur i es , w hi c h h ave hi t h er t o on ly g."'l2in the tables of the wealthy, would have been thus placed wit the reach of the poorer classes by the novel mode of have e a considerable numbers exposed in barrows, and he w ' ,.. ry through the streets or sale in the same fray as it is custonaa be to see cherries and cocoa nuts, but with the addition that t ie public ears were s a l u t e d with the extraordinary cry Of apples, a penny a slice." BA IT