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NEW HISTORICAL ROMANCE. Just ready, in three vols. post Svo. A R THUR ARUNDEL A Tale of the English Revolution, BY HORACE SMITH, ESQ., Author of " Brambletye House," &c. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Now ready, in 2 vols. small Svo., price 245. bound, REVELATIONS OF RUSSIA; OR, THE EMPEROR NICHOLAS AND HIS EMPIRE IN 1844. B " One who has seen and describes." " TOt ou tard tout se wait."—Maintenon. These volumes proceed from the pen of one intimately conversant with the subject, and an eye-witness to much that he describes. They will lead the reader through startling disclosures regarding the reign, acts, and character of the Emperor Nicholas—the nature of his government—the secret police, or Russian inquisition—the op pression of the nobility—tke more than West Indian slavery of the peasantry, and the unparalleled persecution of Roman Catholics, United Greeks, and Jews. They will also be found to contain mi nute and ample details on the naval and military force of the Russian empire ; together with a full account of the general conspiracy of the Russian Nobility against the Imperial Government. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. LAST NIGHT BUT TWO OF THE SEASON. THIS EVENING, AUG. 13, Will be performed (by special desire) Donizetti's Opera of DON PASQUALE. Worina, Madame Grisi ' • Ernesto, Signor Mario; Dr. Malatesta, Signor Fornasari ; and Don Pasquale, Signor Lablache. To conclude with the revived admired Ballet, arranged by Mdlle. Cerito, LE LAC DES FEES. The principal Characters by Mdlle. Cerito, Mdllee. Ferdinand, Barville, Madame Copere, Gosselin, and M. St. Leon. . — Ricci's New Opera of Corado d'Altamura will b• repeated on Sa turday next. Applicatiens for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box Office, Opera Colonnade. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. LAST NIGHT BUT ONE OF THE SEASON. Madame PERSIANI respectfully informs the Nobility, Subscribers to the Opera, his Friends, and the Public, that HIS BENEFIT will take place ON THURSDAY NEXT, AUG. 15, When will be performed Mozart's chef d'oeuvre IL DON GIOVANNI, Madame Grisi, Mdlle. Favanti, and Madame Persiani ; Signori F winasari, Lablache, F. Lablache, Galli, and Mario. After which, Selections from the new Divertissement, entitled LA ANDIE, iiitrylucing the Redowa ; or Original Polka of Bohemia, by Mdlle. Cerito and M. tit. Leon. To Ye followed by the Last Sctne from Donizetti's Opera, LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR. Edgardo, Signor Moriani. To conolude with (last time) LA ESMERALDA. La Esmeralda, Mdlle. Fans, Elsaler Phoebus de Chateaupers, M. St. Leon; Piarrspriwire, M P errot. _ _ . Applications fin' Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box. office, Opera-colonnade. Doors open at Seven; the Opera will com mence at Half-past Seven. THEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM, LATE ENGLISH OPERA. HOUSE. Under the Management of Mrs. KEELEY. Another great Achievement I Successfully Triumphant l! To attempt to eulogise the gorgeous splendour of the New Extrava genre of " Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, or New Lamps for Old Ones," would be a work of supererogation ; the Manage ment, therefore, contents itself by simply stating that it will be repeated every Evening! THIS EVENING, AUG. It. Will be repeated a New Drama, entitled MARTIN CHUZZLE. WIT. Principal characters by Messrs. R. Younge, F. Vining, Emery, F. Mathews, A. Wigan, Meadows, Kinloch, Turner, Stanton, J. W. Collier, Yarnuld, Sanders, and Keeley ; Miss For escue, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. A. Wigan, Mrs. Woollidge, Miss Groves, Mrs. Usher. Miss Turner, and Mrs. Keeley. To conclude with an entirely Original, and much better than New, Grand Operatic, Remantic, Melo-Dramatic, Burlesque Extra. vaganza ' founded on the celebrated Eastern Tale, in the Arabiin Nights' Entertainment, entitled ALADDIN AND THE WON DERFUL LAMP; or, New Lamps for Old Ones. With very extensive New Scenery, Machinery, Dresses, kc. Principal cha racters by Mrs. Keeley, Messrs. F. Matthews, Turner, A. Wigan, J. W. Collier, and Keeley; Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Woolli I ge, Miss E. Chaplin, Mrs. A. Wigan, Miss Turner, MI s James, Miss Carson, Mira Hunt, Miss Reede, &c., &c. PRICES OF ADMISSION.—BaIcony Boxes, 41.; Upper )ilexes, 95.; Pit 2s.'; Gallery, 6d. Second Price—Balcony Boxes, 2s. ; Upper R'xes, Is. 6d.; Pit, Is. Private Boxes on the 11,1 cony Tier (holding eight persons), Two Guineas. Private Boxes on the Second 'tier (holding eight persons), One Guinea and a-Half. Private Boxes on the Pit I'ler (holding six persons), One Guirea. The Box-office is open from Ten to Four o'Clock, under the di rec. tion of Mr. Grogan, late of Covent-garden Theatre. Under the especial Patronage of h.r Majesty the Queen and Prince Araert, and honourd be the presence of His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, Prince Mecklenburgh Strelitz, and distin— guished assemblage of Nobility. Triumphant Success of ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. BATTY. THIS EVENING, AUG. 13, Will be repeated an entire new Eruestrian, Military and Naval Spectacle, entitled THE CHINESE WAR; or. The Conquests of Amoy by British Arms. New Scenery, Dresses, Appointments, kc., to realise the recent triumphs of England's Army and Navy. Feast of 2SO Lanterns. Splendid acts of Horsemanship.—The Dance of the Polka. To conclude with THE GREAT STEEPLE-CHASE; or, Eng land's H irvest Home. Mr. BATTY respectfully acquaints the Nobility, Gentry, and the Public, that having just returned from the Continent ; and, notwith standing his present unprecedented success and overflowing houses, he is ever anxious to produce novelty, to render this Establishment pre-ensinent, and the first in Europe for its unequalled and extra ordinary productions, he has succeeded in forming arrangements with the following first-rate French Artistes, in addition to his present Talented Corps of British and Foreign Equestrians :—Madame Lezette, Madame Heline, Madame Philipe, M. Pierre, M. Georges, and M. Ferdinand Sc;nidt, from the Circle Olymp'que, Parts, Ham. burgh, &c , and who will appear in their various and novel Scenes of Equitation. Acting and stage manager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. 1 DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. .Last Eleven Nights of the Grand Opera Company—Second Week of Cinderella. and an entirely New Piece. THIS EVENING, AUG. 13, Will be performed Rossini's Fairy Opera of CINDERELLA ; or, The Little Glass Slipper. Supported by Miss Romer, Miss Betts, Miss E. Terry, Miss Pearson, Messrs. D. W. King, Leffler, E. L. Hime. S. Cowell, R. Honner, &c. Conductor, Mr. G. Stansbury, with double Band and Chorus. To conclude with an entirely New Drama, entitled GRAM A CHREE MOLLY. Embracing the whole strength of the Company. Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box.. ottce, from Eleven to Four. STRAND THEATRE. PHIS EVENING, AUG 13, Will be performed MARTIN CHUZZLEWII. Young Martin Chuszlewit. Mr. Ileum; Old Martin Chuzzlewit, Mr. Ayliffe; Jonas Chuzzlewit, Mr. Attwood; Montague Tiag, Mr. Roberts; 'Tom Pinch, Mx. Biddies ; Mr. Pecksnift; and Mrs. Sairey Gamp, 111 r. H. Hall; Mary Graham, Mrs. Coleman Pope. After which, a New and Original Burlesque, entitled THE WON. DERFUL LAMP, in a New Light, kin; an Illustrated Version o fAbanazar, Mr. Paul Bedford; Aladdin, Mr. Wright ; .Princess Radroulbadour, Miss E. Stanley. To conclude with Selby's Farce of THE NEW FOOTMAN. Botby Breakwinclow, Mr. Attwood; Polly Picnic, Miss Carter. UNPARALLELLED IN THE ANNALS OF EXHIBITION! IN HONOUR OF HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN DOWAGER'S BIRTH-DAY. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDEN S. THIS DAY and TO-MORROW, August 13th and 14th, 1844, a GRAND FETE nud FANCY SALE, for the BENEFIT of the SAINT ANN'S SOCIETY SCHOOL, will take place in these Gardens. The unequalled Menagerie ; Grab:! Modelled View of London in the Olden Time ; celebrated Russian Family Kantrowitz, from St. Petersburgh, in characteristic costume, will sing a selection of their national airs. The FANCY SALE, arranged in a beautiful Marquee, at which Several Ladies of Distinction will preside. Blight's admired brass hand. Herr Meyer, the Magic Sifileur, will go through his wonderful performances. The beautiful Model of Venice. The Promenade Concerts, with a most unique selection. The whole to conclude with the unrivalled representation of the Fire of London, with additional and electrifying effects. Doors open at One o'clock, announced by a Royal Salute, and the National Anthem. Kantrowitz Family, Three and Five. Kerr Meyer, at intervals. Promenade Concerts, at Six. Conflagration, at Dusk. Admission, Ono Shilling. EGYPTIAN HAIL, PICCADILLY. IMPORTANT NOTICE. ONE SHILLING Admission to THE NAPOLEON MU BEUM, the most magnificent and extensive Collaction of Histo rical Curiosities and Works of Art ever known to have been formed by One Person, during Twenty-five years of elaborate research, at a cost of iio,ooo guineas, and to completely illustrate, in the most in structive and interesting manner, the most important rt of Euro pean history, viz.—CHARLES 1., OLIVER CROMW pa ELL, and LOUIS XIV., to the deaths of GEORGE 111., and the. EMPEROR NAPOLEON, in 1821. This unique Museum has been visited often, during the last and present year , by the Royal Family, the Duke of Wellington, the Foreign Princes, Ambassadors, an .1 their Ladles, .also, many thousands of the Nobility and Public; and the Pro- Victor has recently been able to inciCASC, by several very fine Octures, Fie., his previous almost incredible number and variety of ,b 4115., Works of Art, and a multitude If valuable Relict, and other euriosttin ,, , in this most instructive and. as hundreds have said it ought to be, a Natioua: IMiseurn. Miry thousand have inspected it, and THIRTY PRINCIPAL EDITORS of the PUBLIC PRESS have stated that it ought to be seen by every one. The price of admis- Han is reduced to ONE SHILLING. The NAPOLEON MUSEUM is to b^ seen only at the "Egyptian Piccalilly , daily ii om Toa till Dusk. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, Auc. 12. rinotsiomETEß, Lowest, 47 ; Highest, 69; Noon, 67. BAROMETER, 29.48.—WLND, W. Marx.—The munber 32 on the Thermometer denotes the freezing point, And 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is voually placed opposite 30, and rain at 29. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE T 1 !S DAY. Morning ... 11'2 minutes after 1 I Evening 41 minutes after 1 •ae:•• • . ' ). ;• • • '„k.,,,T11.. i • .t- 'i I ( • • "mg- ,11 0: .-,-.-.-fir..„„lN• , ;,,,_,.. ~, , 1116,,.,_ 1.1 . ' ii• 1, - . ~, OM ~.., - AttECilip ' ' 4 r • ato p' . ~., ;.. 3 . 14 - iiiiit ' ',. Yl.l___ . ' .: ,3 .'••• * ''. - kei.P. , ,,'• A• " t, WV •I. - .‘ Ss .. -• "... . infaltivx LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1844. 'The great meeting at Alloway Kirk, to honour the Inenwry of BURNS, deserves a few brief remarks. It was honourable to the people of the United Kingdom, for men, and women too, from England and Ireland, were present to celebrate this great national tribute to the most remarkable poet of modern times. There could not be a better proof of the irresistible force of genius, than the fact that a peasant wrote songs in what has been called the Doric tongue, but unintel ligible to Englishmen and Irishmen, and in time they were c ompelled, by the beauty and vigour of his poetry, to learn the barbarous language, and sing his divine airs with all the enthusiasm of nationality. No man ever wrote so many songs destined to immor tality, and if,we except the beautiful odes of HoaAcs, none have been so generally diffused over the habit able globe. In India, America, in nearly all the islands of the ocean, and now even in China, the songs of BURNS form a necessary accompaniment of every festival, and the "Banks and Braes of Bonny boon," " Highland Mary," and " Scots NNla hae wi' Wallace bled," are as well known and as much admired as on the banks of Ayr. Such a man was worthy of a nation's gratitude, and nobly was the tribute paid. The crowds who thronged to celebrate the festival far exceeded expectation ; and at the head a them was appropriately placed a chief whose family sold domains BURNS has rendered immortal. None could be better fitted for the chair than the proprietor of the " Castle of Montgomery," and in justice to nobility, no one performed his part better than the Earl of EGLINTON. His speech was by far the best that was made on the occasion. It contained notning extraneous. It was all directed to the main object of the day. It glowed with pa triotic feeling, and embodied sentiments which will only make the world regret that present heir to that illuArious family did not live in the time of BURNS, to screen him, as he would willingly have I done, from the pangs of poverty, and rescue Scotland from the disgrace of allowing the first poet of the age to pass his latter days in an ignoble employment. The speech of Lord EGLINTON was all good, but the following passages deserve particular notice, and will thrill the heart of every Scotchman : "Oh that he could have foreseen the futurity of fame created for him this day, when the poet and the historian, ,the peer and the peasant, vie with each other in paying their tribute of admiration to the humble but mighty genius of him whom we hail as the first of Scottish poets. Such a foresight might have alleviated the dreary hours of his sojourn at Rlossgiel —might have lightened the dark days of his pilgrimage on earth. Well does he deserve our homage who has portrayed the Tottar's Saturday Wight,' not in strains of inconsiderate mirth, but in solemnity and truth, who breathed the patriotic words that tell of the glories of our Wallace, immor talising alike the poet and the hero ; he who could draw inspiration from the humble daisy, breathed forth the heroic words of The Song of Death,' strains, the incarnation of poetry and love, and yet of the bitterest shafts of satire and ridicule —obeying but the hand of nature, despising all the rules of art, yet trampling over the very rules he set at nought. At his name every Scottish heart beats high. He has become a household word alike in the palace and the cottage." These sentiments, though expressed in glowing language, are only matters of fact, but they do not come up to the truth. The words of BURNS make every Scottish heart, it is true, heat high ; but what heart do they not move ? His words are sung on the banks of the Ganges, of the Indus, and the Mississippi ; his fame has extended over the world, and his songs of liberty hold out hopes even to the most wretched slave. Scotland may well be proud of a " ploughman" who has spread her fame far and wide, and made a rude and uncultivated language familiar to every civilised nation. Returning to the " Report of the Commissioners of Revenue Inquiry," to which we directed public at tention on Saturday last, we shall again address our selves to some of its more remarkable features. We have no doubt that all who have perused the "report" itself, will have arrived at the same conclusion with ourselves ; namely, that for many years past the revenue of customs has been annually defrauded of hundreds of thousands of pounds, through the com bination or conspiracy of certain officers of the Crown this department of its service, with private importers or their agents. It is to be ob served that whatever the meagre extent of the knowledge which the public, as yet, possesses of the evidence which has been takea by three examining parties—(namely, the Board of Customs itself—sub ordinate officers, under them, delegated to conduct particular investigations and to report the results thereof to that Board ;—and this Commission of Revenue Inquiry)—that evidence clearly implicates to a vaguely surmised, but formidable extent, many parties who had not yet been subjected to interroga tion, and many more who have been dismissed some time since, but against whom the witnesses produced before the Commisioners of Inquiry seem to be capable of affording cumulative evidence. The Commissioners of Inquiry after setting forth thei r desire "to inquire r urther into the manner of conduct ing that part of the business of the Customs more im mediately in connexion with the two first heads of fraud, which are therein described, and which is con ducted by the Searchers' Department,' " remark that their previous Report (of 22d May last) was de voted exclusively to the subject of fraudulent impor tations of silk, lace, gloves, and fancy goods. It is a melancholy confession which they are called upon to make—that sufficient disclosures had been already made to them, to prove that paid officers of the Go vernment had been easily induced to facili tate the designs of the fraudulent trader in his attempts to cheat the Revenue, "by every mode of deceit, and every description of falsehood." The Commission were forced, " very early in their inquiries, to feel a distrust of the in tegrity of the officers and of the efficiency of the system. The previous high character and estima tion of an officer appeared to be no guarantee for his honour and integrity." They had ample reason to arrive at these conclusions. In turning their atten tion to the "Gauging Department and the system pursued at the dock warehouses," they deemed it highly probable, from some remarkable evidence brought before them, that " the practice of serious frauds in regard to spirits and wines" was continued, and the admission (in a particu lar case detailed in their former report) of cigars as marble, in St. Katherine's Docks, " demonstrated that the revenue was liable to fraud in the docks as elsewhere." To show the wholesale character of the frauds so successfully practised— with the aid of the Custom-house officers—on the revenue, we will now briefly note a few instances. JOHN WYCIIERLEY (whose case we noticed on Mon day) being on duty as a weigher on the Custom house-quay, in May, 1840, was employed under Mr. LANG, a landing-waiter (since dismissed), in opening the outward case of what was apparently an article of furniture. On a landing-surveyor's coming up, LANG told him there was nothing in the asserted book-case ; but after his departure, the case was opened in LANG'S presence, and t hy his desire. There were in it fifteen packages,—" sixteen or eighteen inches in length, of proportionate depth and breadth ; and they were subsequently placed in five or six baskets with locks. WYCHEELEY, who watched them until after office hours, feared to seize them without orders from LANG, though he suspected something wrong. On the following morning they had disappeared, and were never brought to charge. It has been subsequently ad mitted by LANG himself, " that these goods were clandestinely introduced with his aid on that occa sion, and Mr.SID - NEY HARRIS, his near connexion, and then a landing-waiter, though now superseded," confirmed this statement. Now, this middle state of condemnation, this purgatory between the two extremes of un questioned tenure of office, and penal dis missal from it, we cannot understand. On what principle do the Custom. house authorities pro ceed in such matters ? To us it appears a clear ques tion of " guilty or not guilty," which they have to determine with regard to such offenders. If the offence be established against them, turn them off, at least, finally and distinctly. If the offence be not established, the accused parties ought not to be sub jected to the disgrace of suspension. At the end of April last, " Two men in the employ of Messrs. Hall, warehouse men on Custom-house Quay, gave information, on oath, before the Surveyors-general, of numerous transactions in which, with the aid of the officers, the revenue had been defrauded for several years preceding. In conse quence of this, several officers were suspended early in May, including Messrs. Sidney Harris and Grayson, landing-waiters, the former in the receipt of a salary of 3501., the latter of 2501. per annum. After being sus pended five or six weeks, withont admitting their guilt, these last-mentioned officers, on the 13th of June, and subsequently, fully confessed it, and detailed, on oath, a long series of fraudulent proceedings, in which they and other officers had been concerned." GRAYsoN, it seems, lays on Corns, a landing waiter (one of the discharged), the having first tempted him to pass goods improperly ; but fully ad mitting his own culpability, he claims the merit of " not having carried to a greater extent his roguery." And with some reason, as the Com mission think, seeing that " from his peculiar situation, and the confidence reposed in him by his superior officers, there was little limit to the frauds which he might have committed. It would appear, however, from the declarations of one of the Messrs. lIALL's men, that IN MANY HUNDRED INSTANCES packages of goods were taken away without payment of duty, and without knowledge of the officers." We must refer the reader to the extracts from the " Report," which we shall publish, for the mystery of the enor mous frauds perpetrated by means of " dummies" as they are termed,—some of the packages from their magnitude called " cottages," being as large as a waggon could hold. " Lace, gloves and silk were most frequently the for the p urpose of con tentsfrau- of the packages thus fraudulently i n t ro d uce d. pßarnaiyadwyas, h fo o r le e v d er b , y w su as bs ' er d i o p n ti e on ;' and a joi n t- s t oc k com dulently importing tobacco from Rotterdam ; and thr ee hogsheads, in the early part of 1841 (about 3,400 lbs. weight), were passed as cheese, though they were examined by a landing-surveyor, one or two rows of cheese being placed at the top of the cask. The sub scribers to this project cleared about 501. each ; but the undertaking was stopped, from the jealousy Jf other traders, who found it might interfere with their own illegal importations. But, he adds, after this case, they deemed their operations ' quite a certainty.'" Clock faces, the duty upon which is 20 per cent. ad valorem, were passed under entry at half the real num bers in the packages or case, as 200, for instance, instead of 1,000. FOOTE, a landing-waiter, now dismissed, is accused of having, while on duty at St. Katherine's Docks, "purloined thousands of cigars, distributing them amongst his friends, and amongst the Custom-house officers, with great liberality." Another delinquent got into the clutches of one of the fraudulent traders thus :—A bacon dealer lent GRAYSON 701., and having him thus in his power, forthwith made arrangements with him for fraudulent importations through his connivance. A person was dispatched to Hamburgh, who sent over a large quantity of the drug, coculus indicus, in 49 packages, purporting to be, all of them, flax. In reality seven only were flax ; and all were successfully passed as flax, at the duty of ld. per cwt. on flax, instead of 2s. 6d. per lb. on the coculus indicus. The loss to the revenue by this little ope ration was 5291. In 1841, barrels of snuff were passed by GRAYSON and FOOTE, in league, as barrels of pork. The loss to the revenue may be inferred from the fact that these two worthies received 1201. between them from the importers —men, doubtless, claiming for themselves the character of "highly re spectable" tradesmen. But FOOTE, and BULLET (another landing-waiter), are said to have netted by a few similar operations, in part of 1842, in warehouses and on quays on the north side of the river, between 5001. and 1,0001. In most of these cases it was pretty certain that if the packages had been tested by the " spit," the fraud would have been detected. But the Austrian sentinel, in Tekeli, does not more carefully abstain from thrusting his bayonet into the miller's sack which contains the melodra matic hero, than the " weighers" seem to have eschewed the notion of passing the spit into bales and packages belonging to their friends. Hsums, another officer, admits to have accomplished in six or eight months of 1840, frauds on the revenue to the amount of 5001., by passing wines and spirits either short or under improper descriptions of quality— tobacco as marble, and silk as specimens of natural history (!) He received for his own services 801., and was enabled to carry on this system of deception through the remissness of the landing surveyors ; for in three months he was not visited by one of these functionaries more than twice ! In 1841 and 1842 this same adroit gentleman "passed improperly to a large amount, and for ample remuneration, stained paper, damask curtains, silks, and wines, either by aid of the rough book system, or by omission of entry of small boxes, either large ones or by short entries, or by omitting any examination whatever," of the packages passed. Here, for the present, we once more pause ; much marvelling what the system can have been,—how worked and looked after by local and other subordi nates,—how checked, controlled, or investigated by the superior authorities, under whose general juris diction it has been placed—which could be thus easily, perpetually, impudently, and notoriously per verted to the robbery and spoliation of that revenue, which its multiferious and very expensive machinery was devised to protect and extend. The Journal of the Two Sicilies of the 27th ult. pub lishes the second judgment of the military court, sitting at Cocenza, which was pronounced on the 24th. This sentence includes the foreign refugees who embarked in Calabria on the IGth of June last. Seventeen have been condemned to death. The KING ordered the sentence to be put in execution regarding the most guilty parties; consequently nine were executed on the 28th. The following are the names :—Don AT TALIO BANDEIRA, D. EMILIA. BANDEIRA, D. NICOLA. RICCIOTTI, D. ANACARSI NARDI, D. DOMENICO MORO, GIOVANNI VENERUCCI, GIA.COMO ROCCA, FRANCESCO BARTI, DOMENICO LUPATELLI." Fifteen executions have now taken place on ac count of the Calabrian revolt, several of whom be longed to the higher ranks in society. Three were Venetian noblemen. The two brothers, BANDEIRA and Moao, were lieutenants in the Austrian navy ; M. NARDI was an advocate from Modena, and Ric- CIOTTI was an officer in the army, who had distin guished himself in the Peninsular war. Madrid journals of the 4th have been received. More arrests had taken place, and executions also were anticipated. Discontent had begun to appear among the troops, and eleven officers of one regiment had been discharged from the service. Though the capital apparently was tranquil, great despondency and uncertainty as to the intentions of the Govern ment prevailed. The Finance Minister, Senor MoN, had arrived from Barcelona, and made an arrange ment with the Bank of San Fernando for another ad vance of money for the month of August. The Three per Cents. were done at 271 at 60 days ; the Five per Cents. at 20 9-16 for cash, and 19- at 60 days. The debate in the House of Lords on Lord MINTO's motion, respecting the navy, furnishes a fruitful topic for discussion in the Paris papers, which turns chiefly, however, on the Otaheite affair. The Opposition journals, as well as those of the Go vernment, have, from what occurred in the House, found out the error into which they had been led by a Tory London paper. The remarks of the Duke of WELLINGTON and Lord ABERDEEN leave no doubt that reparation must be made for the outrage com mitted on Mr. PRITCHARD. The Siecle thus com ments on the debate :—" Every word spoken this sit ting contains a proof of the of England to wards France, and a design to humiliate us, whether in peace er in war. Under an appearance of modera tion, Lord lIADDINGTON makes it clearly understood that he watches us, and that he is ready for whatever may arise. As to the Duke of WELLINGTON, he speaks as if he were always assured of having a Spanish army under his command, or a Prussian army on our flank to change our victory at Waterloo into a sanguinary defeat. This ardent rivalry of the two first nations of the world could have' been pre vented, but by a deplorable system of foreign policy, interests have been brought together which ought to have been kept apart, and the maintenance of a peace equally desirable for the two nations, will become every day more difficult. The bending of the knee of M. GUIZOT will only render more intolerable the pride of the British aristocracy." The Conimerce regards the misunderstanding be tween England and France in a very serious light, and justly asserts that as a hostile fe cling prevails on both sides, the least spark will cause a terrible con flagration. Now, we ask who is to blame for this bad feeling? Is it not the Opposition journals of Paris, who at intervals for the last threeor four years heaped every abuse en " Perfidious Albion," and even tha t abuse made little impression on the people of England till the late outrage committed on an Englsh subject at Otaheite. "The English Ministers," says the Commerce," seek as much as they can to calm public opinion indirectly by their journals; but as far as they are directly and personally engaged themselves, they are compelled to obey it. This is a novel situa tion which merits to be studied with the greatest care, and which ought to be well understood. For the first time since 1830 it is not only the two Go vesnments, but the two nations which are opposed to each other. The two Governments, it is true, still take each other by the hand, but the two people cast looks of defiance and anger at each other. Such a state of things is assuredly very serious.Yhen a mis understanding arises between Governments, the changing a Minister often suffices to restore harmony; but when that misunderstanding has made its way into the hearts of the people, no one can foresee the issue of it. Although on former occasions, important subjects of dispute have not led to collision between the English and us, no one can deny that war might not arise out of the most insignificant affair. This new state of public feeling in England is, in our opi nion, the most important feature of the case. Although it is only now in its infancy, and is only shown by trifling circumstances, it is nevertheless very visible to those who are acquainted with the country, and attentively watch what is going on. France must be acquaintedto her." Our duty in to p o o r i d n e t r it n o o u t t to be taken un prepared. The Ministerial journals take a more favourable view of the affair, and one of them seems to infer that our Government is inclined, for what reason we cannot see, to throw the blame on Mr. PRITCHARD. " We find ourselves," says the Journal des Debats, " called upon to declare that we attach no impor tance to this debate, in which Lord ABERDEEN, the THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 13, 1644. natural organ of the English Government in what relates to foreign affairs, took no part. The Duke of WELLINGTON, who did make some observations, would perhaps have done better had he abstained from speaking. He declared that he would not enter upon the question, whether Mr PRITCIIARD had or had not merited the treatment he had received. Un fortunately this is the whole question, and until this is decided, until we know from which side the eccen tricities came, we confess we cannot judge of the right claimed by England to a reparation. Lord HADDINGTON, the First Lord of the Admiralty, seems to U 3 to have taken a much better view of the matter, in saying that when agents of a foreign Go vernment go beyond their instructions, recourse ought to be had to their Sovereigns ; but the right of intervention did not Lelong to the agents of any Go vernment, who would in such case have the faculty of engaging their country in wars, the consequences of which could not be foreseen. We conceive that these words clearly imply a condemnation of ➢lr. PRITCHARD and his eccentricities." The same journal gives the following amusing description of the Opposition press of the two coun- tries : " Both Lord Aberdeen in England and M. Guizot in France are accused and convicted of having sacrificed the honour of their respective countries. To gratify M. Guizot, Lord Aberdeen sinks England deep in hu miliation, and M. Guizot, who is resolved not to owe anything to his Lordship, passes his life in dishonouring France. Lord Aberdeen faints with fear at the very name of France, and M. Guizot hides his head with the same feeling, if England puts on the slightest frown. Lord Aberdeen has caused Lieutenant GraT to be con demned by a court-martial, and the whole English navy shudders with indignation. M. Guizot will disavow Cap tain D'Aubigny, and in the meantime the French press hastens to throw a veil of mourning over the tricoloured flag. Lord Aberdeen is rampant and imbecile —M. Guizot a coward and a traitor. The first receives de grading kicks without a word, and thinks only of satis fying the outcry of the French, and the second is ready to deliver up to England both Calais and Havre. This is textually what is issued on both sides of the Channel, to the great satisfaction of the English and French patriots." The Ministerial journals consider the intelligence from Morocco of a very favourable character, as far as regards the dispositions of the EMPEROR, but bane doubts of his abilility to carry them into effect. The disposal of ABD-EL-KADER forms the great difficulty. If we are to believe some of the papers, he has been already disposed of. " The son of the EMPEROR," says the Journal de Paris, " irritated at ABD-EL KADER'S resistance to the orders of his father, and alarmed at the ascendancy that Arab chief was ob taining over the people, is said to have dispatched to him an emissary, who has shot him point blank. This news, strange as it appears, has obtained some credence. It is said to have been communicated by a letter from Algesiras." Accounts from Lalla Magrina announce that Mar shal 131.TGEIED had quitted the army on that station, and given the command to General LAMORICIERE. The greatest activity prevailed there, and other places along the coast, for carrying on the war with vigour. The Marshal evidently puts little faith in the peace able dispositions of the EMPEROR. Preparations were also in progress at Toulon for reinforcing the squadron under the Prince DE JOINVILLE. THE BOURSE-SATURDAY, AUGUST 10. First highest Lowest . _ . Price. Price. Price. Price. French Five perC - ,r.tB•• 121 20 .. 121 30 .. 121 10 •• 121 10 Four per Cello. •• 105 75 .. 105 75 .. 105 75 • • 105 75 Three per Cents••• 81 65 .• 81 75 81 50 81 60 !ARIBA Bank, I,ooof. Shareslloo —llOO •• 1100 ..1100 Belgian Five 5,1831......... 104 .. 104 .. 104 .. 104 1840 105: .. 1051 1041 •• 1011 1842 ........ 108: .. 1081 .. 108; •• 1081 Spanish Pa55ive................ 5 : • • 5; .. 5t Portuguese Five per Cents • • 43 4 3 1 • • 4 3 • • 431 Neapolitan •••• •• • • •• .. 98 05 • • 9 8 20 • • 9 8 OS • • 98 20 Roman •••• • • • 103 f .. 103 k • • 1051 .. 103: RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain .• .• .• •• 887 50 •• 587 60 .. 887 50 •• 887 50 Versailles, R. 8... ...... 380 • • 380 • • 3 80 • • 380 L. 8.•..• .• ...... 237 50 .• 237 SO .. 235 .. 235 Rouen•••.•••• Rouen to Havre. Orlc.ins •...••.••.. •••••• 972 50 •• 972 50 .. 970 .• 970 Strasburg to Bale 238 75 •• 238 7S .• 237 58 .. 237 50 Avignon to Marseilles.• •• • 760 •• 760 • 760 .. 769 RAILWAY SHARES FOR TIIE ACCOUNT, IST OF AUGUST, Versailles, R.B.•= ..... 380 • • 380 .. 380 .. 380 Rouen • • .. ITottcltollavre•••••••••• .• 753 75 •• 753 75 .. 748 75 .. 748 75 Orleans .• • • • • • • • •• • . • • 972 50 .. 972 50 .. 968 75 .. 9GB 75 Strasburg to Bale •••••. 237 50 •. 238 75 .. 236 25 . 237 50 HAMB'URGH MAIL. OFFICIAL. BERLIN, Auc. 9.—"1 cannot quit the soil of my coun try, though only for a short time, without publicly ex pressing in my own name and that of the Queen the deeply felt gratitude which fills our hearts ; it is excited by the innumerable proofs of affection to us, both verbal and in writing, which we have received, and were called forth by the attempt of the 26th of July ; that affection which loudly greeted us at the instant of the crime, when the hand of the Almighty averted the deadly shot from my breast. Looking up to my heavenly Preserver, I proceed with fresh courage to my daily work, to com plete what is begun, to carry into execution what is pre pared, to combat evil with increased certainty of victory, and to be to my people everything that my high vocation lays upon me as a duty, and which the love of my people deserves. (Signed) " FREDERICK WILLIAM. "Erdmansdorff, Aug. 5, 1844." Accounts from Erdmansdorff of the sth say that their Majesties the King and Queen were perfectly well, and intended to set out on the 6th, in the morning, for Ishel. The Queen will remain there for some time, but the King, after stopping only one day, intends going to Vienna, and to be back at Erdmansdorff on the 17th of this month. HAMBURGH BORSENHALLE, Also. 9. Bills. Money. Austrian 5 per Ceuta. Bank Shares 1650 Anglo-Russian Loan Russian 5 per Cent, Ist series, Certificate.— 105 115% Inscription, Ist series Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co., 3d and 4th Series ..... - ................................» 9B Ditto in Certificates ... 98% New 4 par Cent. ( 1840 ) 60% 90% Dutch Actual Debt, 23{ per Cent, ......... Ditto 5 per Cent, - Anglo-Danish Lean, 3 per Cent......„....., Spanish, New 5 per Cents. ........ ......- ....... Polish Bonds — -- New Tickets PRUSSIAN FUNDS.-13aaraN, Ana, 8. Bills. Money St. Schuld Sch., 4 per cent. Prussian English Bonds,lB3o, 4 per cent. Exchange on London Prussian State Gazette, Aug. 9. AUSTRIAN FUNDS..-NIENIVA, JURY 27. Five per Cents. Metalltques ' cs 110 h Four par Cents. ••••..w. ....... «0w... *4. 104 % Three per Cents •••• 774 Bank Shares .... .................. ...........„. Allgemeine Zeitung, July 27. BELGIAN FUND3.—BaussaLa, Ana. 12. Actual Debt, 2}4 per Cent., — Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent 1034 Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent. ....... so _ Three per Cent — ---Thirty-seven Millions, ditto ....-- --- (1840) lO4 4 Loan of City, 1832, Four per Cent. IO2Z Society of Commerce, Four and &Half per Cent. Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent 644 Issue of 1841... ... . ............... . ....... ..........“• • - -Brussels Papers, Aug! 10. CABINET COUNCIL.—Sir Robert Peel, the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, Sir James Graham, and the other Cabinet Ministers who are in the country, return to town this day, for the purpose of attending a Council, to be held at the Foreign-office at half-past three o'clock. The summonses for holding :Cabinet Council to-day were issued on Saturday evening. JOINT-STOCK CoMPANIEs.—Capt. O'Brien, private secretary to Sir James Graham, has been appointed, under the provisions of the Joint-stock Companies Act (recently passed by the Legislature), to the office of Principal Registrar. THE NEW N OVEL , " P ARS ONS AND WIDOWS," BY THE AUTHOR OF " PETER PRIGGINS."—Of country cler gymen we already possess in works of imagination several exceedingly interesting portraits, from the racy sketches of old Father Chaucer's Pilgrimage to Canter bury, to the highly-finished picture in Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wakefield, but they form a class of society affording many varieties--the social, the intellectual, the witty, and the humorous, are sure to be found in their ranks, and their sayings and doings would furnish a rare ban quet to any wayfarer anxious for that great attraction to sign-boards, " good entertainment." At least, so it appears, thought the clever author of " Parsons and Widows," and in the three amusing volumes he has provided fur the reader there is ample evidence he thought right. He has taken off the roofs of parsonage houses and rectories as easily as the Devil on Two Sticks did the dwellings of the Spanish laity, and let us into the many pleasant secrets they concealed. The widows, too, a section of the great female family, who, time out of mind, have been peculiarly famed for knowing what they are about, are also made to contribute their experience for the reader's amusement. In short, " Parsons and Widows" may be considered, for bath sexes, one of the most attractive novels of the season. ILFRACOMBE, AUG. 10.— DR. PusEY.—This cele brated divine, with his family, has been sojourning some time at this delightful watering-place. lie is announced to preach the charity sermon in aid of the national schools of that parish to-morrow. An overflowing congregation is anticipated, the town being full of fashionable visitors, and curiosity on the ti p toe to hear the Rev. Do c t or ' s first sermon since his suspension by the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford. ARRIVALS AT ILFRACOMBE.—Dr. Pusey and family, the Hon. Mount Stuart Elphinstone, Countess Selkirk, Lady Catherine Douglas, Lady Sherbrook, Capt. Capel, 12th Royal L ancers , an d the Hon. Lady Emily Capel, Lady Elizabeth Wells, Miss Wedderburn, James ste phen, Esq., Under Secretary of State for the Colonial Department, and family, Capt. Bradley, Mrs. Bradley, Lieut. Robinson, R.N., and family, F. G. Mogg, Esq., Miss Naylor, Mrs, Turner, Bliss Turner, Miss Ains: worth, F. T. White, Esq., and family, Rev. Wild and family, Lieut.-Colonel Seymour and Miss Seymour, Mrs. Elmer and family, T. liading, Esq., and family, Mrs. M'Taggart and family, Mrs. David Smith and family, General Bradshaw, Lieut.-Col. Macfer6on, &c, MOVE Y AND COMMERCIAL NEWS!: CITY, MONDAY EVENING. The English Stock Market closed rather firmer this afternoon, Consols being 99 to 1 for Account, and 99 to i for Money. India Stock improved to 284. There was no alteration in the heavy stocks. The Foreign Bonds continued as dull as in the morn ing. Spanish Actives were 221, and the Three per Cents. remained without the slightest alteration. Portuguese Converted touched 431 to 44. Belgian were 1031, and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 611 to 614. The additional transactions in Railway Shares have been these :—Birmingham and Gloucester, New, 10 to 10. ; Dublin and Cashel, 3i ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, Quarter, 31; Great North of England, 7; Great Western, 611 to 62 ; Birmingham, 1301; Croydon, 5i ; Man chester and Leeds, 50 ; Ditto and Birmingham, 14i- to 15 ;'Midland, 9 ; Newcastle and Darlington, 21 to ; Northern and E a ste rn S cr ip, 11 ; Di tto Q uarter, 4 ; Norwich and Brando n , 10- to 11 ; South-Eastern, 5- ii . ; Ditto New, 81 ; Trent Valley, 71 ; Whitehaven an d Maryport, i. ; Yarmouth and Norwich, N ew , 121 ; Y or k and North Midland, Scarborough branch, 221 ; and Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux, .?,- premium. Caledonian have been 11, ; Eastern Counties, 10,1 to :-1 ; and Brigh ton, 1 discount. North British were at par. Australasia Bask Shares were 10, and London Joint-stock 4 prem. (From The Sun of Last Night.) Sales to a moderate extent were effected in Cotton at Liverpool on Saturday, and there was a steady feeling. 4,000 bales changed hands at previous rates. On the whole business was rather heavier in Shares, but Birmingham were in demand, and French were in rather better request. Birmingham and Gloucester, 112; Dublin and Cashel, 6 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, Quarter, 16;.1 ; Lancaster and Preston, Quarter, I.i. ; Liverpool and Manchester, 234; London and Birmingham, 232; Ditto, Quarter, 27;4 ; Midland Counties, 1081; Sheffield and Manchester, 86; South Eastern, 39; Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux, 2. There are no arrivals to-day. The Funds have opened to-day rather flatly, and in the absence of any activity. The wet weather, of which a continuance might damage the condition of the crops, is assigned as the cause of the heaviness ; but, at the same time, the Otaheite business is another. Consols for Transfer have been 98i to 99k, and for Time 99 to f, there having been one or two bona fide sales of Stock. The Commissioners have taken 10,0001. at 99k. Bank Stock is worth 200 to 200 i. Nothing has been done in India Stock. Exchequer Bills have been at a decline to 755. and 745. premium, indicating a slight increase in th e d eman d f or money. East India Bonds have been steady at 96 prem. The New Three-and-a-Half per Cents, have been worth 1011 to 1011, and the Reduced to 1021 1021. The Three per Cents. have been 99r- to 99:1. A quiet business has been done in a few of the Foreign Bonds at about Saturday's quotations. The advices from Madrid are of rather a more satisfactory character in re spect to the bank of San Fernando continuing its advances, bat there is no change in prices. The Three per Cents, are 33, and the Five per Cents. 22/. Portuguese Converted are dull at 43 : 1 . Mexican Bonds realise 35 to 36, Colombian 13a to and Bra zilian 84f. Belgian are s t ea dy a t lOn, Russian at 1201, and the Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. at 61k to f. There has been very little doing in Railway Shares, but the quotations generally are about the same, being supported. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (Front the Official List.) Bank Stock 200% 200 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 3 per Cent. Consols. Annuities 99% 98% 91134 3% per Cent. Reduced Annuities 102%% New 3% per Cent. Annuities 10 1300434 Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860 1204 India Bonds,l,ooo 96 Ditto under 1,000 Bank Stock 200 Consols for Account Exchequer Bills, I•Xd. 134 d 1,0001. 5001 '77 74 pm. Ditto Small ...... 74 76 pm. Ditto Advertised FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Belgian Bonds, 5 per Cent lO3 Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. Columbian Bonds. 133434 Mexican Bonds, 1637, 5 per Cent. . ........... Ditto for the Account Portuguese Bonds ' 5 per Cent. Ditto Converted 43 Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent l2O Spanish, Bonds,. Five per Cent 1840 Ditto for the Account Ditto Three per Cent. ....... 33 Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent 4111 Dutch 231 per Cents 61% Dutch 5 per Cent 5........ ............. . ......... New Loan. 5 per Cents. (1837)........... PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE. Birmingham and Gloucester lOO ......... 11331... to Bristol and Gloucester Chester and Holyhead 5 54% ... to Dublin and Cashel...". ........ ..... 2 34 64 % ... to Eastern Counties - Ditto New Registered 81. 6s. M. Ditto Perpetual 5 per cent l3s. 4d.... —. Ditto Ditto (No. 2) — Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O 65 to Great North of England Great Western Ditto % Shares Lancaster and Carlisle London and Birmingham. London and Blackwall Lendon and Brighton . ....... ....... 56 London and Greenwich London and Croydon Midland Counties lOO . ..... ... 109 to 108% Birmingham and Derby........... 100 Norwich and Brandon South Eastern and Dover Ditto New York and North Midland Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen 2O .... ..... 38 Rouen and Havre. JOINT STOCK BIN'S. London Joint Stock London and Westminster PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, Auo. 10. 3 per Cent. Consols Throe and a Half Stock ......• Ditto New, 1830 lO2 3% per Cent. Debentures 94 Bank Stock .... . _. . . .. _. . Grand Canal Debentures, 6 per Cent. Royal Canal Stock 4 per Cent. Ballast Office Debentures 95% 4 per Cent. City Debentures .... _ LAST PRICES OF SHARES. RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE. Dublin and K. Road Drogheda'Ditto 6O 74% Dublin and Cashel ditto 6 1 Hibernian Bank 25% Royal Bank National Insurance 25 Patriotic ditto Mining Company of Ireland... 7 Wicklow Copper Mines City of Dublin Steam Company Ditto Ditto 5O Ditto Difto, 1836 . ' 5O ... ..... .50 British and Irish Steam Company Steam Ship Building Company ....1 50 MANCHESTER STOCK Excit,t-Nor, AUG. 9.—We have had a firm market, and a good inquiry for stock. Barnsley Junc tion, 655. 6d. ; Blackburn, Burnley, and Accrington, 1 13-16 ; Chester and Birkenhead, 31i ex div. ; Ditto, Half Shares, 15„ to 1,-; Eastern Counties, Perpetual, No. 2,20 s. ; Man chester and Leeds, Half Shares, 50; Manchester and Bir mingham, 54i to 1; Manchester and Buxton, 375. ; South- Eastern, New, 12g. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock 2OO ;Indian Stock 284 3 per Cent. Red 99.X Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent. Cons. 2% per Cent. Red 102% Ditto New Annuities ... g e w 31,4 per Cent. lol% Ex. Bills, 1,000/. 1%d... 71 , can- N ew 5 per Cent. — Ditto 5001 Long Annuities to expire Ditt o S ma l l 76 pin. Jan IWO 12% Bank Stock for Acct.... 200 Oct. 1859 Consols for Act. Jan. 1860 lndia Stock for Acct.... FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per Cent ...... — ;Portuguese, 5 per Cent ...... Belgian, 5 per Cent 103% Ditto, New Ditto — Brazilian Bonds — ;Prussian, 5 per Cent — Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent... ;Russian 5 per Cent — Chllian, 6 per Cent — ;Ditto, Metallic ....... ........... Colombian, 6 per Cent Ditto, 1824........ — Ditto, 3 per Cent — Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent — Ditto, Deferred .......... ....... Danish, 3 per Cent — French, 5 per Cent...—. —1•• —c. Greek, 1825, 5 per Cent — Exchange —f. —c . Mexican, 5 per Cent ...... ... French, 3 per Cent. —l. —e. Ditto, 6 per Cent., 1837 — Dutch, 234 per Cent...... 6114 Peruvian, 1825, 6 per Cent T Ditto, S per Cent .........101 SHARES - ------...--- Birmingham and Gloucester (100 paid) 11334 Ditto, New Shares, 173( paid Caledonian, 5 paid Dublin and Cashel, 2 % paid Eastern Counties (23 paid) i. l2 Edinburgh and Glasgow, 50 paid Ditto Quarter Shares (12% paid) ... l6 Great North of England, 100 paid Great Western (75 paid) London and Birmingham (Stock) ',onion and Brighton (50 paid) London and Croydon (Trunk) 19% Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) Manchester and Birmingham Midland Counties (100 paid)......... ..... ........... Newcastle and Darlingron Junctio n . 21 p a id 425{ North British, 234 paid 2K Northern and Eastern (45 paid) Ditto Scrip (15 paid) 2,3 Norwich and Brandon, 4 paid South Eastern and Dover (33 2s 4d paid) Ditto New Shares, 4 paid Trent Valley, '2 paid 934 Yarmouth and Norwich (18 paid) Ditto 'dew Shares ( paid) York and Scarborough Branch (2% paid) Orleans, Tours, and Bourdeaux, 1 paid .....„ l% TORYISM-CHARTISM. DEMOLITION OF MANUFACTURES —EXTINC TION OF COMMERCE—EXTIRPATION OF POPULOUS TOWNS, AND FINAL TRIUMPH OF FEUDAL BARBARISM. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR, I beg to hand you the following choice ex tracts, if you please, for publication. The spirit of the contents of either ought not to be lost. The co incidence and identity of expression is perfectly na tural ; and, indeed, they tell their own tale too well to need any explanation of their meaning from me. They are brief; notwithstanding, however, they speak volumes. I should have judged both extracts to have been an emanation from the same guilty or disordered brain (From the Standard, London Tory Newspaper, May 22, 1844.) " England would be as great and powerful; and all useful Englishmen would be as rich as they are, though one ruin should engulph all the manufacturing towns and districts of Great Britain." (From the Northern Star, Chartist Newspaper, August 10, 1844.) "Large cities are the curses of civilisation! God made the country: man made the towns! Oh for some Titus to pass the ploughshare over them! Oh for some Cincinnatus to lead us back to nature and the plough!" There, working men, of London, of Birmingham, of M anc h es t er , o f L ee d s — o f the whole United King dom—what think ye now of your boasted leader ? If you know him not now, take him and hug him to your bosoms until he has drained your heart's blood! Never more complain. am, Sir, very respectfully, Birmingham, Aug. 10. JOSEPH LANDER. The Chevalier Bunsen embarked on Sunday morn ing on board the General Steam Navigation Company's steam-ship, Earl of Liverpool, for Ostend. GERMAN PAPERS. FURTHER ACCOUNTS OF THE GREAT FLOODS IN POLAND. HAMBURGII, AUG. 9.—The accounts received from Poland give most deplorable descriptions of the damage done by the inundations of the Vistula and other rivers. The Elburg Gazette of 29th July says that there had been incessant rain for more than six weeks, and the damage already done was immense. The Prussian Gazette gives fearful accounts from Schwetz, Kulm, &c. From Schwetz, it is said, on tl; e 30th of July:--." Our town, situated at the junction cf the Schwarzwasser and the Vistula, generally suffers every year from high water in the spring, and at mid summer, when the snow and ice in the Carpathean is melted ; at these seasons we have sometimes inundations of the lower grounds which cause much loss and dis tress, but we have never witnessed such scenes as yester day and to-day. The water is rushing in torrents through the streets, and in most parts of the town only the roofs of the houses are visible, from which the inmates are in vain calling for help. The rain is pouring down in tor rents, and our town is a river. In the neighbouring villages the inhabitants on the roofs of their houses are anxiously looking for assistance, which we cannot give them. JULY 31, 8 A.M.— Most of the houses have been un able to withstand the elements which undermine them. The chimneys fall, the walls burst, on every side are cries of distress and the crash of falling houses, the in mates of which are difficult to save. Thousands are in imminent danger ; but the common distress excites the humane to do everything possible to relieve it. The want of provisions is severely felt. The bakers' ovens and the shops of the tradespeople are all under water. JULY 31, 10 P.M.—The water does not rise higher, but a furious storm rages, which drives the water in vast waves against the houses, the foundations of which are already shaken, and threatens the whole town with de struction. One-third part of it is already laid waste, and lies in ruins beneath the waves. The account from Kirlin says that the Vistula had risen to a greater extent than at any time during the last hundred years. It is impossible to say how many thousand villages may be inundated by the mighty river in its longs course from Cracow to Dantzic. Above and below Calon 100 towns and villages are as in a sea, and the inhabitants have been forced to take refuge on the roofs, on trees, or on some neighbouring hills.—Hata burgh Papers, Aug. 9. BERLIN, AUG. I.—Accounts from Poland confirm the statement relative to the very rigorous measures adopted on the frontiers. The Jewish recruits are in part incor porated in the regiment, but it is said that they give the drill sergeant infinite trouble. A special order of Prince Paskewistch says—" The evil (in the smuggling) must be cut up by the roots, and especially the system of bribing be put an end to. That it is resolved to effect the object, though it is well known what obstacles are to be overcome. In addition to the frontier inspector, a new officer has been created, that of a con troller-general of the frontiers, with very extensive powers, and various inferior officers. He is constan_tly moving from place to place, and has authority to re move at his discretion the Russian officers on the frontier to other stations, or entirely dismiss them. The following is a characteristic trait of Tschech : He lately asked a bookseller whether he would be willing to publish his very interesting memoir of his life. The bookseller, to whom he was a total stranger, replied, that in the first place he must see a specimen of the work before he could decide. Itis said that Tschech, the day before his criminal attempt, sent him not merely a specimen, but the whole manuscript, and with a note to the effect that " the bookseller should not allow himself to be sent out of the way, even if the next thing he heard of him should be that he had died in prison or on the scaffold." Almost at the same time as the MS., the news of the attempt on the King's life reached the bookseller, who, it is said, has thought proper to send the MS. of Tschech to the Criminal Court of Berlin. MAGDEBURG, AUG. 3.—Yesterday evening nine more Russian directors from Poland were brought from Posen to our citadel, which makes the total number at present here 36. POSEN, JULY 29.—The Chapters of Posen and Gnein received the day before yesterday the answers respecting the choice of an Archbishop. Of the six Candidates proposed by the Chapters the King has struck out two, viz., Brodzis Zewski, Suffragen Bishop of Guesen, who distinguished himself in the late religious controversies, and Dombrowski, Suffragen Bishop of Posen, who is one of the youngest Prelates, and owes his rapid promo tion to the favour of the late Archbishop Dunin. The remaining four, designated as personie grater, are all men of merit. The clergy are said to be much satisfied, with the King's decision. It is expected that the 'e.)o tion, in which the two Chapters join, will take plad,liti: fortnight. THE DUNCOMBE TESTIMONIAL A large and respectable meeting of the electors and inhabitants of the borough of Finsbury was held last evening, at White Conduit House, to consider the best way of forwarding the Duncombe Testimonial, so as especially to mark their gratitude to their inde pendent and indefatigable representative, Thoinas Slingsby Duncombe,Esq., M.P. Ai seven o'clock, W. gicnoisoN, Esq., the eminent gin distiller, was called to the chair. He briefly ex plained the objects of the meeting, and after highly extolling the talents and patriotic c.mduct of Mr. Duncombe, called upon the meeting to contribute towards the testimonial. Mr. R. MOORE (the Secretary) read letters from gentlemen who, from various reasons, were unable to attend. N. HEWETT, Esq., rose to propose the first resolution, which he supported by an able and eloquent address. The resolution was to the effect that they, the electors and inhabitants of the borough of Finsbury, express their high admiration of the conduct of Mr. Duncombe, whose energetic and (Its interested exertions in the House of Commons de mand their warmest thanks, and something more. W. BALLS, Esq., seconded the resolution, which was supported by J. P. BARNARD, Esq., and carried unanimously. W. ROGERS, Esq., proposed the next reso lution, which was seconded by Mr. SAVAGE, sup ported by Mr. M'LEoD, and carried unanimously. It was to the following effect :—" That this meeting learns with pleasure that a large portion of our coun trymen have already originated a subscription for the purpose of enabling them to present to Mr. Duncombe a testimonial of public gratitude for his public ser vices; and, as the immediate constituents of that gen tleman, we feel it our duty to be among the foremost in promoting and adding value to the projected testi monial, by immediately opening subscription-lists in Finsbury, and to take steps to render the testimonial worthy of the borough, and the acceptance of its re presentative. Mr. CAMERON then addressed the meeting, and warmly eulogised the conduct of Mr. Duncombe, and detailed the most prominent acts of his life. If six millions of men subscribed but one penny each, so large a sum as 24,0001. might be raised towards the testimonial. After earnestly calling upon the meet ing to support the object of the meeting, he concluded by moving the next resolution, which had reference to the collection of the fund, and placing the task in the hands of those gentleman who signed the requi sition. Mr. KNIGHT seconded the resolution. He said he was a Chartist—(Cheers)—and was one of those who commenced the opposition in that borough to the noxious Masters and Servants' Bill, which was so strenuously opposed by Mr. Duncombe in the House of Commons.—(Cheers.) The resolution was carried unanimously. Mr. BURBIDGE moved that the chairman be re quested to act as treasurer to the fund. Mr. KNIGHT seconded the resolution. He de scribed himself as a working man, and as a stanch friend of the working classes. He as warmly eulo gised the conduct of Mr. Duncombe as the speakers who had preceded him. This resolution was also carried unanimously. The SECRETARY then read a list of the subscrip tions collected in the room during the evening towards the testimonial, at the head of which was the name of the Chairman for 261. 55., which, by the close of the meeting, amounted to a considerable sum. A vote of thanks was passed unanimously to Mr. Rouse for the gratuitous use of the large room in which the meeting was held, and also for the use of committee-ro o m s , &c. A vote of thanks was then passed to the Chairman for his able conduct in the chair, and the meeting separated. Tin CAMERONIANS.—The arms, accoutrements, &c., of this distinguished corps were inspected on Wed nesday by Major-General Sir Neil Douglas, K.C.8., commander of the forces in Scotland. It was intended to have paraded the regiment in Bruntsfield Links for this purpose, but in consequence of the boisterous s t a t e of the weather in the morning, the inspection took place within the Castle. The weather having cleared betwixt twelve and one o'clock, numerous parties proceeded to the Links, but were disappointed.—Scotsman. A new corvette has been ordered to be built at Chatham, upon the plan of the Earl of Dundonald, to be called the Challenger. Length 134 feet, breadth 37 feet 6 inches, depth 17 feet 6 inch es , t onnage 810 tons. Below the water line she is to resemble the Janus war steamer (also built upon the plan of Lord Dundonald), that is, both ends perpendicular and alike. This is to try the effect upon a sailing vessel, as well as upon steam. The Janus has not yet been tried.—United Service Gazette. SUMMARY OF NEWS AND PubUr eptnton. " Who runs may read." POZEIGN. Tl,e Revue de Paris states that a private letter has been re Tived from Venice, which announces that a Maga' 'title marriage has taken place between Mademoisel le, the sister of the Duke of Bordeaux, and the son of the Duke de Blacas. The Duke de Nemours is at present on a tour of in; spection of the army in the provinces. He has receive; addresses from the authorities of Besancon, and :limos* every other town he has passed through. The addressee are all very loyal*. The Moniteur publishes the Bill for granting cre di t of 5,800,000 f. for the fortifications of Havre ; also, the' which allows a sum of 700,000 f. for converting 450,0 00 flint-lock muskets into percussion ones. A letter from Gibraltar states that " all the works of the fortress were suspended, in order to embark the In . " tillerymen on board the flag ship of Sir E. Owen, t ° complete her full war complement." '1 tic increased consumption of oysters in Paris hse induced the Municipal Council to vote a sum of money r o r the erection of a market for the sale of them in th e Rue Montorgueil. During the last month the consumption of meat Paris vs as 6,109 oxen, 1,225 cows, 7,196 calves' 0 5 38,539 sheep ; being 730 oxen, 127 c a l ves , and 3,2 k sheep more, and 222 cows less, than in July, 1843. , From a return made by the custom house a t Grenobl e kr the first six months of the present year, it apPen ti that 5,660,800 leeches have been imported into France. The imprudence of carrying an umbrella during I/ thunder-storm was exemplified a few days back. T i f,„ . workmen were overtaken by a violent storm nest Schlidt, in Switzerland, and covered themselves with umbrella. It acted as a conductor, for the electric fill running down the stick, killed the man who held it, se" injured the other, though but slightly. The Cologne Gazette publishes a letter from Athena , of the 21st of July, in which it is stated that, in th e course of the elections, forty lives have been lost. It If supposed that the Government would be in a minority fifteen or twenty. The Augsburg Gazette of the sth has the following' —" It appears that the King of Prussia was Ined bruised by the ball than was at first supposed. Doct°' ,, Schvenlein, though declaring that no danger was to he apprehended, ordered leeches to be applied. His MV jesty, instead of proceeding immediately on his journey' has been compelled to stop at Erdmansdortf." According to a late census, it appears that there 1 04 . 80,000 labourers employed in the mines of Prussia. Th; annual revenue arising from them amounts to sho e 5,000,0001. LAW AND POLICE. At the Hereford Assizes on the 9th of Aught, Thomas Tedstill for maliciously maiming a bullock, tn property of Mr. John Scarlett, of Luton, was sentenen to twelve months' imprisonment with hard labour. LT; Chief Justice Tindal, in passing sentence, animadvert e" strongly upon the brutality of the prisoner, who was o r wards of seventy years of age. At the same assizes, Edward Gaveston and Richer a e Wilcox were convicted of breaking into the cottage °,`; poor labourer named Hope, and stealing nearly all t m,, r property. They were sentenced to be transported w 15 years. Four men, named Taylor, were also sentenced to 1 5 years' transportation at the - same assize; for hous e " breaking. At the Wells Assizes George Garland, who was OIL i• tally indicted for setting fire to a dwelling-house (7, 8 longing to S. Saunders), persons living th e rein et t" time, was acquitted. In the case of Hewitt v. Davies, at the same asei i f,:i which was tried before Mr. Justice Wightmsn, a sPe c. s . jury gave a verdict for the plaintiff, with 20/. damag e , The action was one of assault. The plaintiff wss„A brewer and the defendant was an attor ne y, who o "i i seized the plaintiff violently by the collar, and W u ' him out of the office. Benjamin Ryall and Charles Bidgood were on tba same day, and at the same assizes, convicted of the O r slaughter of John Bunge. Sentence was postponed. COUN.T-PASELIONAI3363I. The Princess Sophia is at present on a visit to he f illustrious relative the Duchess of Gloucester, at gew,'„ t The Duke of Beaufort left town on Saturday moll' for the Isle of Wight. The Marquis of Worcester r e, mains in town on duty with his regiment. tie The Duke of Cleveland has left town for Raby Cas Durham, where his Grace is gone for the grouse sh oo ing on the moors in that district. Sir James Graham and family left town early e ll Saturday morning for Netherby, Cumberland. ip Sir Thomas Fremantle has left town for his seat Buckinghamshire. the The Duke and Duchess of Leeds and suite left ip g Clarendon Motel on Saturday, for his Grace's sp°r t o seat, Mar 'Lodge, near Newhaven, Aberdeenshire: 1:i. the grouse shooting season, which commenced yester,4 The Duke and Duchess of Bucclench left 1g° 11 7., it House on Saturday last, for L eam i ng t on Spa, "pot Lady Anne Scott, who is residing there for the of her health. ideshy, Lord and Lady Wor s l e y h ave arr i ve d at Pr's ,„ - Yorkshire. 4 ,40r,.0.114 Viscountess Palmerston are about to ;4 - 41etarrttire for Germany this day. We 1010 ,tislai;id'tlie able Viscount purposes to extend his t F fai as Vienna, and it is probable will not return 1" this country before Christmas. sad. The Dowager Lady Holland r ec eived Viscount o n Viscountess Palmerston and a select party to dialle r Sunday evening, in South-street. The Countess of Clare, Lord Beaumont, the gsrla j , de Terranova, Mr. Newdegate, M.P., Mr. and P air Hartopp, Lady Palk, and several other families of tinction, are still residing at Mivart's Hotel. The Dowager Countess of S e lki r k an d L a dy Cathe r r t: Douglas have arrived at St. Mary's Isle, Kirkcudbrig from Devonshire, after having resided several wee l libe Ilfracombe and other watering-places on that coast- e , ntr Noble Earl has but recently retur ne d f rom the ‘i ° nent, and left last week to meet his mother previou s going to his shooting box at Gilder mor y, P e rthshir e iol The Earl and Countess of Arundel and Surrey . 0 4 family have joined the family circle of the Duke ; i d Duchess of Norfolk, at Arundel Castle, The DLit% of Duchess of Bedford hare left the c as tl e a fter a several days. A vril l The Earl of Munster has gone to S co tland, an $ visit the Earl and Countess of E rro ll a t their Be l Aberdeenshire, in the course of the autumn. 1.0 The Earl of March and Lord Templemore hav e t to town for Gordon Castle, N. 8., to join th e c ircles bli c lr assemble on visits to the Duke and D uc h e ss of ." mond for the shooting season. so il Yesterday his Excellency Count Nesselron e a suite left Ashburnham House for B r i g ht on , in e r `Robl a take a course of sea baths. On Saturday, the s td Count, accompanied by his Ex ce ll enc y the "'wit Brunnow, went to Richmond, paying visits t u ,_ ago , Royal Highnesses the Duke and Du c h ess of Catilur at Cambridge Cottage, and her Royal Highness Duchess of Gloucester, at Kew Palace. 00 1 Viscount and Viscountess Villiers, at the close o ur o f week, took their departure for Ger man y, on a W t old about four months. We hear th e N o bl e Viscoun 4 toa l Viscountess purpose going to Vi enna , t o v i s it Prin ( ' bre' Princess Nicholas Esterhazy. Viscount Villiers is ther of the Princess. as Lord Frederick and Lady Augusta Fitzclarel o osof the Hon. Miss Fitzciarence hav e arr i ve d a t Etal r oil/ near Berwick-upon-Tweed, and shortly go to Al o ther,' to visit the Countess of Glasgow, h er L a dy s hip' r ° The Lord Great Chamberl a i n an d L a dy 1 0 1° 10 De Eresby, with the Hon. A. an d H on . bills oodl.s loughby, after an absence o f more t h an tw elve ''' r i n er abroad, during which peri o d th ey have resided , 13 O WO pally in Italy, have returned t o this country by 0 of France. MISCELLANEOUS. Societi At the annual meeting of th e R o y a l Botanic o th e of London a ballot for ne w F e ll ows t oo k place, w" e i . , the Duchess of St. Alban's, the Marquis of Westralro te i,so" Earl of Auckland, Lord Beauvale, Lady BuxO n 'oo ol ‘ Kyrlo Monay, Lady Hume Campbell, Hon. DI Gsg e ' erell, Sir Heury Oxenden, Sir T. Rookwoo 94 4 James Matthison, Esq., Robert Henb ur le J. G. Frith, Esq., and 47 oth ers , were added to ti : ups- The present state of th e r i ver hull reminds ° l . bitants of olden ti mes , as it i s li tera ll y cov ered / 11th fro; eels, insomuch that people can cross it by Passi,%s sip ene sloop to another. At th e same t i me the u" - o at excessively crowded, and many vessels are Vil e gssr the roads. The gr ea t es t activity prevails at al l t " ofand wharfs. tile° of The White Quaker s h ave su dd en ly made ho d, from from Waterford ; th e y are near l y ext i n ct es " religionists. s Selge From the second report of the House of %ra of the Committee "on the progress of the buila, lll l r /4°,i; Houses of Parliament," which was laid on t" e s a of 1,4 ' ships' table on Friday, it appears that " inl te t oss new House of Lords being covered in by Christ his oe' as was stated to be practicable by Mr. Barry' l ec tioo;.,4 dence last year, it is now only in course of,r a r ieumin At the next annual meeting of the Royal 4 7, 5 101k 0 s Association, which is to take place at Shr e , he vsr l ' o f addition to the prizes given this year to o wne r ill classes of cattle, prizes will be given to tu° l , r ises " sheep best adapted to a mo un t a in district. „eds. also be given for the best essays on certain 6 11 % 1 .1-11 It has been rumoured that the pensioner: s ;ste °l navy and marines are to be enrolled on the sfin _A to b ° t a shitsservice fC w h i e l l l se b a e H s o el s e p c i t t e a d l. f lr r V om e shall be b hea r l e; .p etl; s4 :e t: t o confirmedin our expectation that the officers aPP ° v o f tlie Royal Marines. Such an arrangement will i"r h 'l e. Admiralty an opportunity, which they have t h ec as ti s o u n c . h_ac u k n n it o ed wl s ed e g rv e i d ce cl G ai a m ze s sired, to reward meritorious officers of . the cs;rfinsiLjelphierati ,_ fr We ek lw The Hon. Lady Stanley was visited last soar, Haggerstone, Northumberland, by Sir W. M asbe lialler ley, Bart., and Mr. and Mrs. J. Stanley (nes s,„nt. Gazette. their Lora"' r" rand), who have since arrived at Garviemore, the . o ' l "i n ., ing quarters engaged this season by Sir Willi!al l ii i s t be verness-shire. Viscount Maidstone s hortly J°' party for the shooting season. st. A Ives, CHEAPIuntsB, SHAVE. — cce The d union at that place last week. After allovvi?g_cititiitip value of the combs, and a penny ahead for hag' the barber has to shave eight persons for a pen"P „ v ice tebnydethr:fgat;ahradiiradroestosorefri: and Duchess of Buckingham, will attain his niajiebrslteci The Marquis of Chandos, only son of th. o e; if ve the 10th of next month, when the event will begin arioes by splendid festivities at Stowe. The poor of _P.O3,e -are invited to a dinner, under tents, %%hen rusour e o at ments will be provided for them, and the P as ru io p. Stowe will be brilliantly illuminated on the Qcc 1 BI te: th