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SHEPTON MALLET, SOMERSETSHIRE. 111 ALFORD returns his grateful thanks to the • numerous Families who have honoured him with their pa tronage, and to his Commercial Friends and the Public generally, for the kind support which he. has received from them daring the eight years that he has occupied the George Commercial Inn ; and begs to inform them that he has taken and entered on the HARE and HOUNDS COMMERCIAL HOTEL and POSTING HOUSE, which be has newly fitted up for their convenience. T. A. assures his friends that nothing shall be wanted on his part . that can conduce to their comfort and accommodation. He trusts that strict attention, combined with moderate charges, will secure . him a continuance of their favours. Excellent Stall Stabling, Lock-up Coach-houses, &c. &c. The • Posting establishment conducted on the usual moderate terms. Good ' Post-horses and careful drivers. Coaches to and from London leave • the above Inn daily, Sundays excepted. Now ready, in 2 vols., small Svo., 21s. bound, WINTER IN ITALY. By Mrs. ASHTON YATES. Also just published, by the same Author, AN AUTUMN IN SWITZERLAND. SECOND EDITION, in I yol., 10s. 6d. bound. Henry Co!burn, Publisher, 13, Great Marllsorough-street. INTEL SON D I N N E R. " PRANDIUM"—PUBLIC NOTICE.—BRAND-ED. The Operatives of the metropolis, the people, &c., are requested to bear in mind the fact that prior to George the Third's reign all the Parliamentary enactments, &c., as recorded, were in the Latin language, the which, jesuitically admits of two interpretations, namely, an English and Latin signification " fair to the ear, but false to the eye*" From which circumstance, the unremunerated Masons of the " Strike," will now learn (vide undersigned letter in the " Morning Advertiser" in reference), also that the free land allotted'on which Nelson's pillar stands, was granted by the present Greenwich unaudited and irresponsible trait over 3,000,000 sterling yearly from (possessing of) all the charities of England• for the "relief of the sick, hurt, and maimed in conformity with this Act, appertaining by its verbiage to the " trade, navigation, and naval strength of Great Britain" as proclaimed under the 2d Queen Anne, The Act of 1703 provides, under its Commission, that " a refreshing Prandlum, genus zoms," as the girdle of yearly Investigation, should have place by free Representation Parliament, as the " refreshing at noon-day ;" not as belly cheer for the gross body, but as food for the mind's eye of posterity. Thus ! the discerning will view the hypocritcal intent, " Dinner-prandi" of the Greenwich pensioners friends disposed of, as further made apparent by the "status." pence, 'collected as a Prandium, otherwise " doticum est mane" mark, or nuptial grace endowry, as footing money received by those pensioners deputed by the " trust fit Ito bring in the monies" as the " Com mission decrees," and the said dinner humbug defines under the fol lowing, as in 1753 scratched on the base of the effigy in St. Paul's Churchyard : " Queen Anne she's gone, and left us in the lurch, Her face against the Brand Ey'rie-shop,t her hack against the church." The aforesaid, explains the reason for the undersigned demanding, on the part of the public, if the word DINNER was to he understood in the knife and fork acceptation of the word, or the Latin significa tion. The. ; Chairman Sir Edward Codrington was dumb-foundered, and hence " the disturbance to the clique" in a cleft-stick, men tioned in yesterday's London papers. CHARLES H. ACKERLEY, 5, Swallow-street, Quadrant, Author of the Wonderful " Lamp of August 3, 1844. Life" in this, our day • The charities of Ireland in "Ki!mainham Hospital "—those of cotland in the " MAlnen Hospital" Edinburgh—un-audited now 140 years, consisting of several millions sterling. t The letter (P, mutata in B as cognate to the metro-pole Ey're " Cour de Justice ambulante"—ancient justice-shop of the Charing cross array. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE THIS EVENING AUG. 3, Will be performed Donizetti's Opera, entitled DON PASQUALE. Norina, Madame Gfisi ; Ernesto, Signor Mario; Dr. Malatesta, Signor Fornasari ; and Don Pasquale, Signor Lablache. Between the Acts, a Divertissement, in which will be introduced the admired Pas de DeuX from ' 1 Les Houris," by Mdlle. Cerito and )I. St. Leon. To conclude with LA ESMERALDA. La Esmeralda, Mdlle. Fanny Elsaler ; Phcebus de Chateaupers, M. St. Leon ; Pierre Gringoire, M Perrot. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box Office, Opera Colonnade. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Sig. MARIO respectfully informs the Nobility. Patrons to the Opera, his Friends, and the Public, that HIS BENEFIT will take place ON THURSDAY NEXT, AUG.!, When will be performed (by desire) Bellini's ,Vera of I PURITAN'. Elvira, Madame Grisi; Giorgio, Signor Lablactic; Attn. o, Signor Mario; and Riccardo, Signor Fornasari. To be followed by a Divertissement in which hi dile. Cerito will P rr 3a i t r he course of the Evening, Selections front a Favourite Opera, is which Madame Persiani and Sig. Mario will appear. To c nclude with LA ESMERALDA. La Esmeralda, Mdlle. Fanny Elsaler ; Phoebus de Chateaupers, M. St. Leoa; Pierre Gringoire, M. Perrot. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. MR. BENJAMIN WEBSTER LESSEE LAST FOUR NIGHTS OF THE PRESEN C SEASON THIS EVENING, AUG. 3, - Will be performed Sheridan's Comedy of THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL. Sir Peter Teazle, Mr. W. Farrcn ; Charles Surface, Mr H. Holl ; Lady Teazle, Mrs. Nisbett. In he course of the Evening, Mr. John Parry will sing " Fayte Rosamende." To be followed by the new Farce, entitled THE MILLINER'S HOLIDAY. Sir Simon Sparkes, Mr. Buckstone ; Mr. Pennywlg, Mr. Strickland; Fanny Thompson, Misa Julia Bennett; Miss Potts, Mrs. Humby. To ronclude with A KISS IN THE DARK. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. WEBSTER, LESSEE, And Last Night of the Sea.on. WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 7, Will be performed Shakspeare's Comedy of THE TAMING OF THE SHREW. Petrucio, Mr. Webster; Grumio, Mr. Buckstone ; Christopher Sly, Mr. Strickland; Katharina, Mrs. Nisbett; Bianca, Miss Julia Bennett. In the course of the Evening Mr. Webster will deliver a Farewell Address. After which, THE TRUMPETER'S DAUGHTER; or, Love and the Polka. Phillipot, Mr. Webster; Madelon, Madame Celeste; who will dance the celebrated Polka, Mr. John Parry will sing oue of his celebrated Buffo Scenes. To conclude with THE MILLINER'S HOLIDAY. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX. FOR THIS NIGHT ONLY. FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE CHORAL DEPARTMENT. THIS EVENING. AUG. 3, Will be performed Donlzetta's Opera of DON PASQUALE. Principal Characters by Mr. Allen, Mr. 13urdini, Paul Bedford and Mir Grant. After which, A GRAND CONCERT. To conclude with a New and Original Burlesque, entitled THE WONDERFUL LAMP, being an Illustrated Version of Aladdin. Abanazar, Mr. Paul Bedford; Aladdin, Mr. Wright; Princess Badroulbadour. Mi.. F stanteh USE. Under the Management of Mrs. KEELEY. - • The ' 6 Adventures of " Martin Chuzzlewit" having, on each repre. sentation, seen received with every possible mark of public appro. bation by the most fashionable and crowded audiences, and having been pronounced by she unanimous voice of the public press to be one of the .noet interesting Dramas ever produced from the works of the celebrated Author, a repetition of its performance will take place every evening till further notice. THIS EVENING, AUG. 3. Will be repeated a New Drama, entitled MARTIN CHUZZLE. 'WIT. Principal characters by Messrs. R. Younge, F. Vining, Emery, F. Plathews, A. Wigan, Meadows, Kinloch, Turner, Stanton, J. W. Collier, Yarnold, Sanders, and Keeley ; Miss For. "Pewee, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. A. Wigan, Mrs. Woollidge, Miss flreves, Mrs. Usher, Miss Turner, and Mrs. Keeley. To be followed by an Apropos Bagatelle, called POLKAMANIA. 'Characters t'y Mr. F. Matthews, Mr. Wigan, Mr. Keeley, Miss Woolgar, and Mrs. Keeley. To conclude with a New Domestic Drama, entitled THE MO MENTOUS QUESTION. Characters by Messrs. Diddear, F. 1 Wining, J. W. Collier, Miss Fortescue, and Mrs. A. Wigan. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. BATTY. Great success of the Chinese Feast of Lanterns, and New iillitar7 and Naval Spectacle. THIS EVENING, AUG. 3, Will be repeated an entire new Eiuestrian, Military and Naval Spectacle, entitled THE CHINESE WAR; or, The Conquests of Amoy by British Arms. New Scenery, Dresses, Appointments. &c., to realise the recent triumphs of England's Army and Navy. Feast Of 250 Lanterns. Dance of the POLKA, by Mdlle. Cushnie and Sig. Milano. New and unequalled Scenes of the Cire e—Extraordinary Feats of Horsemanship by Monsieur Louis Tournaire. Sig. Germani, La Petit Isabelle, Mr. Newsome, &c. ; with Mr. R. Smith's highly trained `teeds. After which, the old English pageant of THE SUMMER'S 'HORN of IMO; or, the White Wreath and Flitch of Bacon. To conclude with THE GREAT STEEPLE-CHASE ; or, Eag land's livvest Home. Acting and stage.manager, Mr. W. a Broadfoot. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. THIS EVENING, AUG. S. The Grand Deere and splendid Spectacle have attracted the greatest overflow ever remembered, increasing nightly. Last Week but three of the Opera Season, commencing with FRA DIAVOLO. Powerful Operatic Company—Miss R enting w Betts, Miss Pearson, Mr. D. W. King, Mr. Leffler, Mr. E. L. Hime. Mr. S. Cowe'l, and Mr. G Stansbury, conductor. Increased Band and em. Chorus from the Theatres Royal To conclude with an entirely new Aquatic Spectacle, introducing Three Scenes of Real Water, entitled THE MOUNTAIN CATA. RACT ; or, The Enchanter's Spell. Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box. office, from Eleven to Four. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. Daylight View of LONDON in the OLDEN TIME Painted by Danson and Telbin. The sensation caused by this unrivalled production is beyond all *inner precedent; the artist, the amateur, the casual observer are all struck with its extraordinay beauty and fidelity of delinea. tion, and ore unanimous in pronouncing it the most wonderful ex hibition ever witnessed. To view it only as a vehicle for the terrific display 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. cious Lake, to be fblly appreciated. The Evening PROMENADE CONCERTS on Mondays, Tues. days, Wednesdays , and Thursdays concucted by Mr. Godfrey, are up^n a scale of more than usual excellence; but ,•ords fail in doing justice to the awful representation of THE OHBA f FIRE OF LONDON. Its fearful characteristics are truthfully pourtrayed, but at the same time so beautifully blended with the Wonders of the Pyrotechnic Art, Mat delight is predominant over terror: and the Thousands who nightly crowd the Gardens hail it with acclamations, and admit that Soutbby, the Unrivalled Pyrotechnist has achieved a matchless triumph, The Gardens and Zoological Collection are in the most perfect state, and combining so many and interesting features, are by far the most attrarstlye lounge in or near the metropolis. Feeding of the Animals at Five—Concert at Six—Conflagration at Dusk. Admittance, One Shilling. EGYPTIAN' HALL, PICCADILLY. IMPORTANT NOTICE. ONE' SHILLING Admission to THE NAPOLEON MU SEUM, the most magnificent and extensive Collection 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 east of 80,000 guineas, and to completely illustrate, in the most in structive and interesting manner, the most important part of Euro pean history, TiZ.--CIIARLES 1., OLIVER CROMWELL, and LOUIS XIV., to the deaths of GEORGE ILL, and the EMPEROR NAPOLEON, In 1821. This unique Museum has been visited eften, during the last and present year, by the Royal Family, the Duke of Wellington, the Foreign Princes, Ambassadors, and their Ladies, also, many thousands of the Nobility and Public ; and the Pro prietor has recently been ablo to increase, by several very fine t etn r". See. his previous almost incredible number and variety of Sik , Works of Art, and a multitude nf valuable Roller, and other cusioeities, in this most uistructive and. as hundreds have said it ought to be, a National. Museum. Mary thousand have inspected it, and THIRTY PRINCIPAL EDITORS of the PUBLIC PRESS have stated that it ough' to be seen by every oae. The price of adads- Hon is reduced to oyz The NAPOLEON MUSEUM is to be seen only at the " Egyptian PleoadIllY• daily from Tea till Dusk. THE WE ATHER—ST:3N OFFICE, Aua. 2. rinciatomirrals, Lowest, 46; Highest, 67; Noon, 67. BAROMETER, N.N. Nogg.—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the freezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is a•nally placed opposite 30, and rain at 29. IGII WATER AT LONDON-RRIDGE TUN DAY Morning ... minutes After 4 Evening s minutes after s ' 4 • Owl:AILS .1( 7) 1 1 -7 .11 A aim% . it 111r 7w Zr • 'Aiot , Ve" inti Milt /111`14 LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 1844. In the House of Lords the new " Knackers' Bill" was read a second time, and ordered to be committed on Monday. This was done on the motion of Lord BeAumorrr, and he was followed by the Bishop of LoNnoig, who presented petitions from Sir HAR COURT LEZs and others against the repeal of the penal laws relating to Catholics. What misery mad Orangemen and Jesuitical Bishops cause in this country ! Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition from Lord DuNnoNALD, stating that he possessed a secret for a destructive engine, surpassing any of the implements of war known, and prayed to be admitted into compe tition with other inventors. The Metropolitan Buildings Bill was passed. In answer to a question from Lord BEAUMONT, relative to the execution of a Maltese at Tunis, Lord ABERDEEN said that person had been guilty of two murders. On reference being made to him by the Tunisian Government, he said he could not interfere; and if it had been left to him to say whether the law should have its course, he would have answered in the affirmative. On the order of the day being read for the third reading of the Rajiv; ays Bill, the Bishop of LONDON moved an amendment on the sixth clause, in order to prevent third-class trains travelling on Sundays, Good Fridays, and Christmas-days. This horrible motion was justly condemned by Lord BROUGHAM, Lord MONTEAGLE, and the Marquis of CLANRICARDE; and the Duke of WELLINGTON, seeing the state of affairs, made a retreat, and moved that the debate be adjourned till Monday. It was accordingly ad journed. Lord IVIIARNCLIFFE moved the third reading of the Unlawful Oaths (Ireland) Bill. This led to some discussion, in the course of which Lord CAMPBELL made this just remark :—" The Catholics and Protestants of Ireland should be put on an equality, and until they were so, there would be no lasting peace or tranquillity in Ireland." The Bill was then read a third time, and the House adjourned at Half-past Ten o'clock. The Commons met at Twelve o'clock, when several Bills were passed. A new writ was moved for Dudley in the room of Mr. IlAwKss, who had accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. The House went into Committee on the Insolvent Debtors Bill. Several Members previously had objected to the Bill being brought forward at such a late period of the session, but the opinion of the House was against them. Nearly all the clauses were agreed to, the report was received, and the Bill was ordered to be reprinted and recommitted on Mon day, to enable the Government to make alterations in accordance with the suggestions of some Members. The Art-Unions Bill was read a third time and passed. After some other business of little import ance, the House adjourned at Half-past Seven. The spirit which animates the Bishop of LONDON will be the death of his order. There is no redemp tion for the bigoted and selfish race which he repre sents. At the crisis of the Reform Bill, the Episcopal Bench was all but overturned, the men with lawn sleeves and black aprons scarcely dared to appear in the streets, and were hooted even in sacred temples by the religious people of England. They succumbed for the time, but when the storm was over they ap peared in their true colours. Whenever any benefit was to be conferred on the working-classes, when education for the million was proposed and measures for the relief of Dissenters were introduced into Parliament, the Sacred Bench was crowded to excess to advocate bigotry, and trample upon the rights of one half of the nation. They are the most selfish and intolerant class in the whole community. Merchants and traders, and men of experience in every other rank of life, listen to reason, and submit patiently to the plans of Go vernment, however injurious to their individual in terests, because they know everything would be thrown into confusion if they rebelled against the decisions of Parliament. The Bishops, however, take higher ground. They set Parliament at defi ance, and rest on what they call their divine autho rity. The Railways Bill affords a remarkable instance of the presumption and despotic character of the Church. A clause allowing trains with third class carriages to travel on Sunday, was carried in the Commons by a large majority ; the Bill was sent up to the House of Lords, with that clause, and the Bishops without a moment's delay put their heads together to oppress the poor man. The Bishop of LONDON last night moved the reiection of that with to prevent. railway companies from carrying third class passen gers;; all he a wanted was to release:the Government of this Christian country from the necessity of enforcing travelling on the Lord's-day. The conduct of this man is beyond endurance. If it is a sin for the poor man to travel on a Sunday by railway, is it not a still greater sin to allow the rich to go by what the Bishop, we suppose, would call a sa cred train ? The first and second class carriages may be filled to overflowing, they are to be allowed to pass; but the third class is prohibited because it is the Lord's-day. The nobles, the wealthy mer chants, the squires of England, and the whole bench of Bishops, may travel by railway on Sunday ; but the poor man must remain at home; he must not enter a third class carriage, because he would bring down upon the land Divine judgment by such an outrageous profanation of the Sabbath. Though he is pent up all the week in some noxious cell ; though ho is anxious to see his friends on the only day that he can spare from his heavy toil ; though he has no other means (wit.h the exception of steam-boats, and these the Bishop would also forbid) for inhaling the fresh country breeze, he is to be debarred from this harmless and healthful re creation, on the plea that the Sabbath would be pro faned. We say, Down with these hypocrites—these oppressors of the poor—these men who, in the words of our Saviour, " Strain at a gnat and swallow a camel." The rich have all the seven days of the week for travelling or amusement ; the poor man has only one ; and, though he should be as pious as the Bishop of LONDON, and go to church in the forenoon, like a good Christian, he must be chained to his house for the rest of the day, and look forward in gloomy anticipation to the renewal of his labours on Monday. His family too are to be chained with him. His wife and his children, who we know, if the Bishop does not, submit to many deprivations during the week for one day of re laxation, must be confined to the smoke of London, while the Archbishop of CANTERBURY and the Bishop of LONDON are travelling in their chariots, or regaling themselves and their friends at country seats, provided for them by the very people whom they would crush to the dust. The public cannot submit to this glaring tyranny, this mockery of religion. The Duke of WELLINGTON, as will be seen from the Parliamentary report, took time to consider. 'Why did he not show his usual decision ? Why did the Hero, who fought the battle of Waterloo on a Sunday, not act in accor dance with his own unbiassed opinions, and set his face, like a good and a great man, against the en croachments of the Church and the oppressor of the poor ? We have devoted a considerable space to our report of the proceedings yesterday at the Westminster Court of Sewers, which we think will amply repay our readers for the time it may occupy in its perusal. The subject, it will be seen, relates to the large sum of 41,6491., the amount of work done by the contractors for the Eastern and Western divisions of the Westminster Sewers since Michaelmas, 1841. Mr. LESLIE, one of the Commissioners, declared that a gross fraud had been committed on the public, and that Mr. BENNETT, whose tender was ac cepted by the Court of Sewers in July, 1841, as the lowest tender, was not so in reality. lie made the surveyors read over various items from the rejected tender of Messrs. BIRDS, comparing each item with BENNETIS', in which it was shown in every case cited, that the public has by the manoeuvre been compelled to pay an increase of price, varying from five to ten, twenty, fifty, sixty, and even one hundred per cent. more than they should have done ! The con clusion of the scene was probably unparalleled in any Court in this country, for after such documentary evi dence, which cannot err, had been read, the Court re solved that Mr. LESLIE had not proved his case! We may safely affirm, that not a single reader will coincide with the Court--the case is made out beyond the shadow of a doubt, and we who are rate-payers in the districts think and feel that a Court so exhibit ing itself ought to be buried in one of its own sewers. The bueiness of dog-stealing, as carried on in this mighty metropolis of ours, where talent of every sort abounds in profusion, is, if we may believe the Report of the Parliamentary Committee on the sub ject—not so much a trade s science—and a science, too, that requires, on the part of its professors, the utmost tact, readiness, self-possession, and knowledge of character. A man may be a very excellent lawyer, who would make a very indifferent dog stealer ; but the latter, if he be an adroit prac titioner, is already in possession of many of the re quisites that tend to establish the reputation of the former. The legal system of " refreshers" seems to be thoroughly understood and appreciated by the honourable and ancient fraternity of dog-stealers. An experienced professor purloins one of those inoffen sive quadrupeds ; straightway negotiations are opened for its recovery, but the sum being deemed insufficient, its abductor makes a point of forgetting to return it— in the hurry and multiplicity of business, how could he be expected to remember such a trifle ?—and it is not until his memory is jogged by a " refresher" in the shape of an increased offer, that he recall the whole circumstances of the case, and returns the kid napped animal to its legitimate owner. The negotia tions respecting these " refreshers" are sometimes very edifying, and if they do not come up to the just ex pectations of the professor, he pockets the affront, but, as a matter of course, the dog is stolen again. Cap tain ALEXANDER, as appears by the Report, has paid at various times not less than twenty-two pounds—his Royal Highness the Duke of CAM BRIDGE, not less than thirty pounds—and Miss BETHBLL not less than ten pounds, for the recovery of their canine property ! Mr. BISHOP, an intern gent man, whose evidence is well worth reading, has given the Committee some curious particulars eluci datory of the science of dog-stealing, and mentions, in particular, the case of a lady whose dog was twice stolen, restored, and re-stolen, which so alarmed her sensitive nature, " that she has since then left Eng land"—adds the deponent—" and I really do believe for the sake of keeping the dog. She has left the country because she could make more of a certainty of keeping the animal in foreign parts than in Eng land, if that was not the sole cause of her leaving. She prayed for the time to come when she might leave this country, which she has done, and taken the dog with her !" This excess of sensibility is really very touching, and we can imagine the holy fervour with which the fair peti tioner offered up her prayers to Providence for the preservation of her four-footed favourite. But con ceive a lady self-exiled from her native home on ac count of a pet lap-dog ! Separated by seas and con tinents from her friends, her relations, her acquaint ances—and all by reason of her nervous apprehensions for the safety of "Beauty," "Chloe," "Fanny," or whatever else may be the dog's patronymic ! This solicitude may possibly appear to many of our readers exceedingly amiable and virtuous, but to our thinking, it savours not a little of the maudlin. We would far rather see a tear drop from a fair lady's eye for the sufferings of the poor and the friendless—and more especially for the helpless, over-tasked, under-paid, and under-fed milliners apprentices, than for a mere lap-dog, however exemplary the qualities possessed by this darling quadruped. And here, while on the subject of dog-stealing, we cannot but express our astonishment that the, professors of this science have yet been pted to vat i y their practice, and turn.`is their''' attention ) man-stealing. •s Much might be,, v done in t .. 'ts line, and a very handsome colilpetency achieved by it, if carried on with dtKskill and spitit. Imagine, for of t._ 1 instance, Sir J. GRA44.t kidnap from Downing.. street by a_partY,' , ingenioua r ,, ractitioners, and safe locked IR a scil shed, till eward was adver tised for his 'recoveVi! Can anytne doubt the im mense sums. , that *Old be immolately offered by, . •• his anguishodcolleagues• for his ra/som ? Why, the very pauper, in the 4nkip workhouses throughout the kingdom would, in. the iexcess of their gratitude, subscribe each his mite ; and the remainder of the demand would no doubt be cheer fully made up by Messrs. DUNCOMBE and MAZZINI ! We throw out this suggestion—having no immediate intention of acting on it ourselves—for the benefit of expert practitioners in dog-stealing ; for they may rely on it that were they to enlarge the sphere of their operations, and experimentalise on the Home Secretary instead of on ladies' lap-dogs, not twenty-four hours would elapse from the period of the Right Honourable Baronet's " a ,n' r ti_ction, but the following advertisement would newspapers :—" Lost, - stolen, — Or striFel, "0 AO middle-aged gentleman, answering to the name of GRAHAM. Whoever will restore him to his discon late owner, Sir ROBERT PEEL, shall receive a reward of ten thousand pounds, payable out of the Income tax. N.B. The last time the missing individual was seen in public, he was peeping into a private letter at the General Post-office." Verbum sap. Surely it is an augury that we have fallen upon evil days, when it is impossible, in our opulent and magnificent metropolis—to say nothing of the empire at large—to raise a subscription fund of sufficient extent to defray the expenses of a monument to the memory of NELSON. The whole range of our heroic history does not present one name, perhaps, asso ciated with more chivalrous daring, more tran scendent success, or more signal achievements in the service of his country, than that of our "great Admiral." At a time when our military pretensions were humble, indeed, by the side of those of continental Powers, whose armies, under the chief command, as it may be said, of a single captain, occupied the entire Continent in mili tary possession ; when the moral impression and phy sical efficiency of our soldiery abroad were, as yet, in an inverse ratio to the enthusiasm and energy of the warlike spirit excited by the common danger in all ranks of our people at home; NELSON was the greatest among the great commanders who vied in elevating our naval renown to a point of unapproached supremacy. In 1798 he dealt, on the Bay of Aboukir, a mortal blow to the naval power of Republican France. In 1801 his consum mate conduct and impetuous bravery annihilated the navy of the most formidable competitor we could have grappled with for maritime empire,— namely, Denmark. In 1805 he closed his mortal career, a career of daring intrepidity and successive triumphs—by extinguishing, in a single action, the combined fleets of Imperial France and of Spain. We select these three epochs of the brilliant story of his eventful life, (crowded as that is with a hundred episodes of stirring interest, not less glo rious to the dauntless bravery of this wonderful man,) because they mark the periods at which the British nation are most indebted, under Providence, to his genius and his valour, for its escape from the degraded state of all the other kingdoms of Europe. If NAPOLEON could have wielded, with the military resources, the naval armaments, also, of the great Powers of the north and south, whom he successively conquered, and rendered subservient to his own policy of aggrandising France at the ex pense of all her allies; Great Britain must have become a mere tributary—a province —a dependency of the new empire which he founded in defiance of every obstacle. At this time of day it can scarcely be necessary to expatiate on the irretrievable calami ties—social, moral, and political—the i ne ff acea bl e disgrace—theies—ocal irreparable injury to an anc i en t si Power of the first rank, and force, and dignity, if it fall into the rear of Euro pean nations, and be blotted out from the list of independent and permanent sovereignties• And if this be true of any State, with how much force does the reflection apply to the case of Great Britain, which, even forty or fifty years ago, had a larger inheritance of renown and strength, of wealth and power, of sacred recollections and brilliant des tinies to forfeit, than any other independent Power in existence ? Associating these considerations with the name of NELSON, we have, from time to time, expressed our sorrow and astonishment at the apathy—not to say the ingratitude—of the public in permitting the progress of such a memorial as that which has been erected to his honour in Trafalgar-square to languish for the want of pecuniary aid. We have lived to see the funds raised for so sacred a purpose indebted mainly for even their present amount to the munificence of a FOREIGN Potentate ! We have lived to see the hand— and we will not shrink from doing it all honour for its liberality on this occasion, of the Autocrat of Russia opened heartily and generously in the work of con tributing to an imperishable record of the great hero and the saviour of this country. We have lived to blush for the unpatriotic parsimony of those in high station—the royal and the noble favour ites of fortune, who, from their abundance, could not THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUSN 8, 044 spare so much to this offering in honour of British heroism as probably the cost of the jewelled souvenirs lavished by them on some ridiculous freak of nature like an American dwarf. Nay, while the palaces of royalty and the saloons of our ducal aristocracy have been freely opened to receptions of unbounded hospitality and gracious courtesy to the Yankee mi crocosm, her MAJESTY'S Ministers deny even the use of the mere area of Trafalgar-square to the truly na tional purpose of giving a banquet—not at the public expense, not at any charge to the Crown, or to the Government—to the few gallant veterans, the surviving comrades of the great NELSON, who fought and bled with him in the estuary of the Nile, at the entrance of the Baltic, on the rocky shores of Teneriffe, or in the tempestuous sea that breaks upon the Cape of Trafalgar ! We can scarcely believe the evidence of our own eyes, or suppress the expression of our indignation, when we read the statements de livered at a meeting of the " subscribers to the fund for the dinner which was to have taken place in Trafalgar-square," held on Thursday, at Willis's Rooms, Sir EDWARD CODRINGTON in the chair. The whole affair of the column which is, and the banquet which is not, has been throughout an insult to the illustrious dead ; a disgrace to the nation ; an insufferable slight upon the veteran pensioners who were to have paid, in the manner proposed, their last public homage to the immortal commander whom they served ; which will associate mingled emotions of anger and contempt with the name of the present Government in the bosom of future generations, to whom the glory of NELsoN will be as a sacred relic of an age of heroes. In the first place the beautiful shaft of the Corinthian column was actually robbed of twenty feet of its length, in order to dissipate the fears of Lord MONTEAGLE, and other abettors of Mr. WILKINs's monstrosity—the National Gallery—that it would give an effect of in significance to the elevation of that edifice. As if anything could elaborate the meanness, or exaggerate the ugliness of that disgraceful enormity. In the second Sir ROBERT PEEL, the other night, stood sponsor for this inconceivable violence on the beautiful design supplied for the shaft (by Mr. REPTON we believe), by quoting the sagacious opinion of some professional authorities whom Government had consulted, "that if the pillar was built of the intended height, it would be dangerous." How exalted an idea this ex-officio arbiter of art—this presiding genius of all Committees for building, decorating, and painting all kinds of public works—must have of the the masonic skill of our builders—of the experience of our contractors—of the strength of stone, and the endurance of bricks and mortar—to be coaxed into a fear, that in a city which has boasted for 170 years of such a column as the Monument, 160 feet above its pedestal of 42 feet—a column so much lighter and shorter than the NELSON pillar, as ori ginally designed, could not be erected with safety to the vicinity ! Apprehensions, these, consistent enough in the patrons of Sir JOHN SOANE'S uphol stery-like architecture, or Sir ROBERT SMIRKE'S end less and monotonous copies of the most tame and in sipid Greek examples yet extant. But to the business of Thursday. The ancient friend and comrade of NELSON, Sir E. CODRINGTON, apprised " a very thin meeting" that the permission originally accorded by the Woods and Forests to employ the area of Trafalgar-square for the projected dinner having been withdrawn, all that remained for the Committee to do was to explain the reasons of their failure to carry out the design of their appoint ment, and to dispose of the subscriptions. In the outset of the arrangements, Sir ROBERT STOPFORD, Governor of Greenwich Hospital, had given per mission for the attendance of the Trafalgar men; and Lord LINCOLN, on the part of the Woods and Forests, had granted the use of the square. This last had since been, after various postponements to the anni versaries of the battles of the Nile, Copenhagen, &c. withdrawn by Lord LINCOLN, who apprised the Chairman that his reason was the fear of the walks, terraces, &c. sustaining injury. But the contractor for the walks himself offered to make good any damage they might sustain; (trumpery specimens of unsightly asphalte as they are after all.) Then followed the usual, well-understood, official trick of bandying the Committee from one department to another, between the Earl of IIADDIRGTON and the Earl of LiNcoLN i the former, at least .% Whig gia TAPA !Wry. ta • tO AAAAAA ugau L to interfere." (Why should they—in relation to so insignificant a dead servant of his country, as NELsoN ?) Lord LINCOLN, at last, reite rated his refusal, not thinking " Trafalgar-square a suitable place for such an entertainment—on account of being situated in such a densely populated part of the metropolis, where some disturbances might be likely to ensue." " Trafalgar -square not suited," indeed, for a commemoration of NELSON ! What are this egregious young Lord's notions of suitableness and appropriate adaptation ? And the vicinity is too " densely peopled," is it ? Would this profound Com missioner have the companions of NELSON regaled in holes and corners, as if it were some paltry, petty, shuffling affair of managing a sham election for a ducal pocket borough ? Densely peopled ! "In GOD'S name," we say, " would that such a banquet could be given in the presence of ten millions of his and our fellow countrymen, that they might impress their children and their connexions with the honour rendered to one of the most devoted and disinterested champions of their country's greatness! And, finally, this Lord of a peaceful bureau in Whitehall-place is afraid of " dis turbances ensuing" among the people, should these gallant tars be assembled at a banquet t o t oas t t h o memory of NELSON. Well there might be popular manifestations of scorn, and displeasure, an d di sgus t, at the unaccountable possession of power by a Go vernment which can be thus oblivious of the undying claims of NELSON'a renown upon his country's grati tude, and thus impertinently offensive in disparaging, by anticipation, the conduct of those whom he had so often led to victory and honour. But if they had arisen, they might have been changed to merriment by the mere mention of these freaks of Sir ROBERT PEEL'S cautious Government, and poor Lord LIN COLN's cautious Commissionership. We have only patience to add that, of the 4081. subscribed for the dinner, the balance in hand, after deducting expenses, cost of medals, &c. (a balance of 3471.) was ordered to be divided among the Pensioners, their widows, &c., to whom the dinner was to have been given. would soon arrive from England, and burn the French ships at the islands. Proclamations announcing these fine things were placarded; And, as soon as they appeared, the inhabi tants of the peninsula of Taisraba, either more credulous or more courageous than the rest, took tip eztris. I:he go • vernor himself got on horseback, and endeavoured to pi down this revolt at its commencement, but the insurgents marched on Papeiti, and were constantly increased by mal contents from the neighbouring islands. The chiefs who were most devoted to us then declared that their wives and children would not be safe, if they remained longer near us. Whilst the Governor was endeavouring to put down the insurrection which was extending round the island, and approaching towards the centre of our establish ments, news was brought that 3,000 armed men were at about three hours' march from Papeiti, which they proposed to take and burn. The rain fell in torrents, which circum stance would tend to baffle part of their plans, but it would also render it difficult for our troops to use their fire-arms. The Commandant of the Society Island, M. d'Aubigny, was informed of this intended attack, and at once declared the bay in a state of siege; the other energetic measures taken under the circumstance, and executed with vigour, proved to the insurgents, and to those who incited them, that they had no mercy to expect from us in case of a sanguinary struggle. In the afternoon of the 3d of March we expected to be attacked ; all our measures of defence had been taken, the plain of Papeiti had been cleared of all the trees which might impede the firing of the soldiers and the marines who had been landed ; at five o'clock in the evening Mr. Pritchard was at the landing-place ready to escape in an English boat to the Cormorant steam-vessel, when the , chief of the police arrested him as the instigator of the disor ders. He was immediately placed in confinement in a blockhouse, and the Commandant d'Aubigny, in an order of the day, declared that his head and his property should be guarantees for what might take place. On the 19th of March, the day on which I write, we are still on the defensive, but tranquillity appears assured. The Go vernor has returned from Calaraba ; Pritchard is exiled, and the English steamer has been requested to keep at a dis tance. Queen Pornare is still here on board an English cut ter, and must at length despair of ever returning with her perfidious advisers to this land which she has so foolishly abandoned." We apprehend that not much reliance can be placed on these assertions. Sir ROBERT PEEL would not have denounced the conduct of the French autho rities, in regard to the English Consul, as " a gross outrage, accompanied by a gross indignity," without information on which he could implicitly trust. Most of the papers refer to the unfortunate acci dents which occurred on Monday. Those of the Opposition blame the police for allowing such vast crowds to assemble in one spot, and assert that the numbers killed and wounded are far more numerous than the authorities are willing to admit. A Toulon letter states that the vessels which are to proceed to Cherbourg, in order to escort the KING to England, will be the Ocean, commanded by Admiral PARSEVAL, and the Inflexible, by Captain GRAEB. Another letter says that twenty squadrons of ca valry, and twelve battalions of infantry, are to be successively embarked for Algeria. The Journal des Debate has a long article on the state of crime in France, in order to show that a great moral improvement is going on throughout the country. The following extract will he read with interest : "The account of the year 1841 shows a considerable dimi nution in the number o crimes compared with the four pre ceding years. This decreasing movement has continued during the year 1842. In 1840, the number of defended causes tried by the Courts of Assize was 6,004 ; in 1841, 5,528 ; and in 1842, 5,104, showing a reduction of 900, or nearly a sixth part during the two years. Another progress not less remarkable•is that, in 1841, the decrease only bore on attempts against property, the number of crimes against the person having on the contrary increased. But in 1842 both crimes had decreased in nearly equal proportions. A third result still more striking is, that the number of pri soners comprised in the cases tried in 1842 was but 6,953, being 509 less than in 1841, and 1,273 less than in 1840. It will be necessary to go back to 1834 to find so small a num ber of persons accused of crimes. The cause of this ameliora tion is the power given to the jury, by the law of 1832, to find extenuating circumstances. Whatever may be the particular instances of abuse which arise from this system, its salutary effects must be admitted to be incontestible. It is this tempering of the law which quiets the consciences of the jury, at a time when everything is decided and regulated by a middle course. It is a support given by the law to the mildness of our manners, to that sentiment of humanity which inspires us with a feeling of invincible horror for irre parable rigours, and tends more and more to substitute tem porary inflictions for capital or perpetual punishments. Thanks to this expedient, justice is less rigorous and less pitiless, but at the same time more sure and more firm." THE BOURSE-WEDNESDAY, JULY 31. According to accounts from Madrid of the 25th ultimo, an alarming commotion took place in the capital on the previous night, but the cause of it is not explained. The whole garrison were suddenly summoned to arms. The Puerto del Sol and Post office were occupied by regiments of cavalry and infantry, and patrols and picquets watched every part of the capital, through the streets of which the authorities, civil and military, had been seen hasten ing with great anxiety. Some reports state that all this display was in consequence of a communication from NARVAEZ, that a republican plot was about to break out—a very probable occurrence. Private letters announce a probable change of Ministry, and the downfal of the Dictator. One of them thus con cludes :—" Be assured that though we have had several years of civil war, the revolution has not commenced." The Bourse was closed on the 25th. First Highest Lowest Price. Price. Price. Price. French Five perCznta.• l2l 50 121 60 .. 121 80 121 55 Four per Cents lO6 50 .. 106 50 .. 106 50 106 SO Three per Cents... 81 85 •• 81 85 .. 81 80 .• 81 85 Bank of France.. ..... 3llO ..3115 .• 3 1 0 5 ..3105 Lafiitte Bank, 1,004. Sharesll2o • • 1120 —lll5 ..1115 B,ooof. BharessoBo —5OBO ..5075 ..5075 Belgian Bank ..• • • • • • 675 .. 675 • • 675 .. 675 Belgian Fives,lß3l 1840 •••••••• 1051 .. 105; .. 1051 .. 1051 1842 .• •••• 1081 108 g .. 1041 .. Spanish Active 3Ol .. 301 .. 301 .. 301 Neapolitan.— ..... • • • 98 95 .. 98 95 • • 98 95 .. 98 95 Roman ....... ...... ..•• • . 103/ .. 103/ .. 1051 .. 103/ Dispatches and private letters have been received from Otaheite at Paris, giving numerous details of the disturbances there, and the expulsion of Mr. PRITCHARD, the English Consul. The contents of the dispatches had not transpired, but nearly all the let ters throw the blame on the English. The remarks of the writers, however, and the conclusions to which they come, must be received with caution. They betray a strong feeling against this country, and absurdly assert that our Government attaches great importance to the occupation of the islands by the French, and infer that underhand means are adopted to deprive them of the protectorate. They throw the entire blame on Mr. PRITCHARD, and assert that he had formed a plan for a general insurrection against the French. The following is an extract from one of the letters, dated March 19th, and in the state ments which it contains most of the other writers concur : " If we wanted any proof of the great importance attached to Otaheite by the English, we need only refer to the at tempts made by them to impede our occupation, since we took possession of th e i s l an d. M r . P r it c hard, the missionary, who acted as English Consul, at once protested against our occupation. This example was soon followed by Queen Po mare, and she withdrew to an English vessel, to remain un der the protection of the English flag. An insurrection, of which Pritchard was the ringleader, was then organised. He represented the French to the natives as an insignificant people, whom a great chief had long led to victory, but that the English had at last placed that great leader in chains, to preTent further disorder. He declared also that a 'rut fleet PROMISSO Y NOTES. (From Last Night's Gazette.) An account of the Average Aggregate Amount of Promis sory Notes payable to bearer on demand, which have been in circulation in the United Kingdom, distinguishing those circulated by the Bank of England, by Private Banks, and by Joint-Stock Banks, in England and Wales, by the Banks in Scotland, by the Bank of Ireland, and by all other Banks in Ireland, and of the Average Amount of Bullion in the Bank of England, during the four weeks ending the 20th day of July, 1844, pursuant to the Act of 4th and sth Vic toria, cap. 50 : ENGLAND. Bank of England £21,448,000 Private Banks Joint-Stock 8ank5...... . .. 3,340,326 SCOTLAND. Chartered, Private, and Joint-Stock Banks 2,903,322 IRELAND. Bank of Ireland 3,440,700 Private and Joint-Stock I3anks Total Bullion in the Bank of England .. £15,485,000 JOHN THORNTON. Stamps and Taxes, Aug. 2, 1844. Tll/1 AUCKLAND STEAMER AND LORD ELLEN BOROUGH.—The steamer Auckland will, we hear, leave Bombay for Calcutta to-morrow or Thursday with the view of conveying to Suez the late Governor-General, and remain at Suez in the event of the New Governor-Ge • neral arriving overland at that juncture. We have heard on what we consider to be good authority, that direc tions were given to have the steamer in question in readi ness some days before the arrival here of the London mail of the 6th of May; if so it is evident his Lordship must have " smelt a rat," though in all probability it was not expected to be so near. Under the circumstances of the case we think some other vessel might have been chosen for the sad office of conveying to Suez the ex- Govarnor-General than the one enjoying the patronymic —Auckland. We understand that one of the great gun, taken at Hyderabad is to be sent in the Auckland, to be placed in some conspicuous place in Calcutta.—Bombay Courier. CRICKET.—COUNTIES Or BERKS AND BUCES.—This important match, which has created so much sensation in the two counties mentioned, commenced on Thursday in the Brocas, Eton ; the county of Bucks having on their side Messrs. Hilly-er, Filch, and Drew, from the Marylebone Club ; and Berks Messrs. Lillywhite, Dorrinton, and Martin. gale, also from Lord's. The assemblage throughout the day was great, and the play, which was unfortunately much in terrupted by frequent showers, commenced by Berks taking the bat, the whole eleven being got down for thirty-one runs. The odds were then three to one in favour of Buckingham shire, who commenced play with Hyde and Smith ; but the same fatality befel this party, they having on the summing of the score marked only forty-seven, when the wickets were struck for the day. The game will be resumed at ten o'clock this morning. SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION.—Thursday morning a fire broke out in a long range of buildings belonging to Messrs. Norton and Son, wheelwrights and waggon-builders, Grange-road, Bermondsey. The fire origins ted in the paint warehouse, through the spontaneous ignition of a quantity of lamp-black. There being a large supply of s pirits of turpen tine, and other equally inflammable articles there, the pro gress of the flames was rapid, and in the b rief space of ten minutes the fire had broken through th e roof, and the greatest fears were entertained for the safet y of the whole of the surrounding buildings. Notwithstandii lg that there was a good supply of water, the firemen could not prevent the almost total demolition of that portion of tl se premises where the flames commenced. About two hout:s previously a fire broke out from the like cause, in a large s tac of tan standing on the premises of Mr. Bottom, tan-dryer„ situate in the Willow-walk, Bermondsey. THE LATE ATTEMPT AT MURDER IN HOLBORN.— Mr. Smith is progressing most satisfactorily, and all dangerous symptoms have disapppeared although the bullet has not as yet been extracted. 1 5n Wednesday, it having been ascertained that it was located on the right side of the spine, an attempt, with every hope of success, was made to remove it, but in consequence of the weak state of the patient the open hors were com pelled to desist fro m p ersever i ng i n the experiment for the present. RAILWAY SHARES. Versailles,L.B.•••••• •••••• 243 75 .• 243 75 .. 242 75 .. 242 73 Rouen to HaTre • •• ••...... 760 .. 761 25 .. 760 .. 761 25 Orleans .... iirasbttr g to Bal e• •• • .. .. 238 75 RAILWAY SHARES FOR THE ACCOUNT, 2n OF AUGUST. VernAlo , - , T1:9. DTez 50 98'4 00 38 Rouen to Ilavre•• •• .•• ••. . 761 25 .. 761 25 .. 760 .. 760 Orleans .. Strasburg to Bale-- •• •• 248 .. 240 .. 238 75 .. 940 Avignon to Marseilles-- 766 25 .• 767 50 .. 766 25 .. 767 50 THE BRAZILS.—Her Majesty's packet Express, Lieut. Herrick, arrived at Falmouth at midnight on Wednesday; from Rio de Janeiro, June 13; Bahia, 22 ; and Pernambuco, 28. The packet next from hence had not made her appearance at Rio. Passengers : —The Count George (Austrian Chargé d'Affaires), Miss Champness, Mr. W. 11. Houghton, Mr. Crop, Mr. Laye, Mr. Walter (Consul at Bahia). On freight, about 6,0001. in gold and diamonds. There is no news. The Princess Royal (transport) arrived from England on the 3d of June, with stores for the squadron. The Growler was to leave for the coast of Africa on the 13th of June. ATTEMPT ON THE LIFE OF THE KING OF PRUSSIA. HAMMTGIL JULY 30.—Tho Berlin Papers bring more particulars relative to the attempt on the life of the King of Prussia. Their Majesties arrived about noon on the 26th at Frankfort-on. the-Oder, where they stopped for a short time, and arrived in the evening at Christianstadt, and at seven in th e morn i ng o f t h e 27th proceeded on their joarney to Erdnaansdorff. We learn from a letter of the King's own band, dated Frankfort, that his Majesty was perfectly well, and we h ave t h e more pleasure in communicating this int e lli gence s i nce it appears that his Majesty was actually struck by one of the balls, which, thanks to God, only grazed his breast, where it has left a red spot. When the inhabit ants of Frankfort wereinformed of the King's providen tial escape, they assembled in crowds to welcome him, and resolved to offer thanksgiving in the church. The Q Pr u i e u e s n ia , n too u , N z i e - a i s te well, publishes oblis t t h e o s ugh deeply affected. in itsofficialp art, The twoi addresses to the King, dated the same day on whi c h the atrocious attempt on his life was made. One is from the Chief Burgomaster, the Burgomasters, and Mu nicipal Council ; the other from the other Magistrates. They both express in the warmest terms their abhor e n ce of a crime of w hi c h th e Prussian territory offers no pre vious instan ces ; th e i r j o y at their Majesties safety, and the grateful feelings towards Divine Providence for its manifest interposition. His Majesty, who appears to be in the most perfect health, and in good spirits, received the deputations from his loyal capital with the Queen at his side, in the most gracious manner, and replied with visible emotion to the address of the Burgomaster in pre senting the address. The concluding words of his Ma jesty's answer were remarkable, and will be deeply im pressed in the heart of every Prussian :—" Nothing can shake my confidence in my people, and, least of all, such an attempt. My relation to my people remains as before. I lay my head without apprehension in the lap of any individual." The person who presented the petition to the Queen is the daughter of the assassin. FOREIGN STOCK LIST.—We have received the fol lowing note from " A Constant Subscriber to TM Sun :" " The Editor of the Commercial and Money Department of The Sun newspaper will please cause the Closing Prices of tht Foreign Funds to be quoted more accurately. There are frequently mistakes. The enclosed paper will point out two. " August 2, 1844." We wish our Correspondent had informed us on what authority he makes the corrections. On referring to Wetenhall's List, reckoned the most correct, and used by nearly all the daily papers, we find that the quotations given in The Sun are according. to copy. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, ac companied by Colonel Jones, visited B r i g ht on on Th ursday. His Royal Highness remained at the York Hotel, and, at his departure, was pleased to express his approbation for his en tertainment to the spirited , proprietor, Mr. P egg . THE WEAT H E R IN 6COTLAND.—Within the last few days we have had frequent and copious showers of rain, accompanied with great heat—the thermometer ranging from 7 0 to 80 degrees. The crops, as might be expected, continue to make rapid progress.—Giusgew Constitutitmal, July 31. BRUSSELS, JULY 30.—A letter from Verviers of the 29th July, says, yesterday about two o'clock in the morning M. Louis Gouvy's manufactory of cotton-yarn at Et Valli was reduced to ashes. The fire broke out in the ground floor, and in two hours the whole establishment was destroyed, only some bales of cotton were saved. The building and its contents were insured. The loss is estimated at 100,000 francs. We regret to add, that two workmen, brothers, who lived in the manufactory perished in the flames.—The papers contain long articles on the differences with Prussia, in consequence of the heavy duty imposed on Belgium, now in the territory of the States of the Customs Union.—lt seems that the English swindler who pretended to be a banker, embarked at Ostend on board a steamer for London, six hours before the police officers arrived there to arrest him. A COINCIDENCE.—" The dictatorship of Napoleon," says the Courrier Francais, "lasted fifteen years. The restora tion lasted no longer; and persons who are superstitious in numerical cycles will remark that the Government of July has nearly arrived at the fatal moment in which the tail of the serpent approaches its gaping mouth. We, however, believe, and we desire to believe, in the continuation of the destinies of 1830. Our opinion is, that France has no longer to educate the Government by revolutions, and that in place of expel.ing her governors she ought to reform them. The people have no longer reason to break, destroy, or expel. Sufficiently strong to penetrate with their spirit what has been termed the superior regions of power, they preserve and modify, they perpetuate and renew; such at least is the Utopia of which the realisation appears desirable to us," MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS. Crf Y, FRIDAY EVENING. The closing quotatiOng of Consols vp - zye about the same as those paid in the morning, viz., 991 I. The heavy stocks 'ld not rally, and Exchequer Ma receded to 78s. and igs: premium. Sparish Five per Cents. werq last marked 221, and the Three per Cents. 33+ to Chilian were 105 to French Three per Cents. 82, and Dutch Two and-a-Half per Cents. 611 4-. The additional transactions in railways have been theseißristol and Exeter, 10 1 4 • ' Ditto and Gloucester, 16 to 16i ; Chester and Holyhead, ; Dublin and Cashel, 3* ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 15 4- ; Ditto Quar ter, 341 ; Great North of England, 1 ; reat Western, 63/ ; Ditto Half, 34 • Ditto Fifths, 134- ; Hull and Selby, 13 ; Brighton L oan Notes, 21 • Greenwich Pre ference, 2 ; Manchester and Leeds, dalf, 191 ; New castle and Darlington, 194- to 20; Northern and Eastern Scrip, 11 ; Trent Valley, 71 to I' • York and North Midland, 62 ; Ditto Half, 30 to 1 ; Ditto Scarborough Branch, 21/ ; Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux, 11 ; and Paris and Rouen, 18/ premium ; Blackwell, 9/ ; Brighton, I ; and Thames and Medway, 9/ discount. The exchanges were a little flat this afternoon, except on Antwerp, Hamburgh, and Frankfort. (From The Sun of Last Night.) A fair quantity of Cotton was sold at Liverpool yesterday, and prices were firm. Sales, 5,000 bales, viz., 300 Surat, 3d. to 3/d. ; 100 Egyptian, 64d. to 7d. ; 120 Maranham, 5/d. to 6d. ; and the rest American, 4A. to 64d.—Shares were generally good. Bristol and Gloucester, 55 ; Caledonian, 3/. 16s 3d. ; Chester and Birkenhead, 294 ; Eastern Counties Perpetual, 20s. ; Grand Junction New, Quarter, 394 ; Liverpool and Manchester New, 35 prem. ; London and Birmingham, 2304 ; Ditto, 32/. shares, 384 ; Manchester and Birmingham Quarter, 5/ ; Manchester and Leeds, 116* ; Midland Counties, 107 ; Paris and Rouen, 384 ; Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux, 2 1-10th ; Sambre and Meuse, 2 11-20ths ; Tours and Nantes, 234. The accounts from India attract the chief attention this morning, and as it is evident that Lord Ellenborough was still going on with his belligerent policy, his return is considered likely to be very beneficial in once more turning the atten tion of the inhabitants to agricultural and internal improve. ments, the very objects which his Lordship professed to have almost exclusively in view. The markets of India and China were not very active, but a moderate business was doing. Complaints were made at Calcutta of the delay in the arrival of the outward mail, and the additional expense to which the parties receiving letters were subjected, owing to the defective arrangements of the London Post-office. We trust that arrangements since made here will obviate this. There are advises to June 13 from Rio de Janeiro. The new tariff, it seems, was still expected to come into operation in November. The political state of the country was mere composed. The Stock Market looks flat again to-day, and the price of Consols has declined again about 4 per cent. A few sales continue to be made at intervals by the speculators for a fall, and those who apprehend the carrying of their operations still further. Consols for Money are 994 *, and for Time 994 4. The Commissioners have pur chased 10,000/. at 995. Exchequer Bills are quiet at 78s. premium, and India Bonds at 975. premium. Bank Stock is worth 1994 to 200$. The New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. are 102 to 1014; the Reduced, 1024 to 103; and the Three per Cents., par to 1004. The Foreign investments have been without any buoy ancy. Spanish Five p e r Cents. realise 224 to 4; Mexican, 36$ to 36 ; Colombian, 144 it; 134 ; and Brazilian, New, 82. Austrian Bonds are ful at 116; an d Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 611 to 4. The market for Railway Shares has been well supported ates below again, and there is a good business doing at the given. Erratum in yesterday's List.—Read London and South Western 8744 to 88. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, AUG. I.—We have had a quieter market, and prices are nominally the same as yesterday :—Eastern Counties, perpetual, N0..1, 345. 4d. ; Do., do., No. 2,20 s. 4d. ; Huddersfield and Manchester, 265. pre mium ; Manchester, Bury, and Rossendale, 5 and 5 1-16 ; Manchester and Birmingham, Quarters, 5 9-16 and 11-16 ; Manchester and Buxton, 365. ; Preston and Wyre, five per cent. graduated, 241 ; Manchester and Liverpool District Bank, 104. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. ---___ Bank Stock - 2004 Indian Stock 3 per Cent. Red lOO% Ditto Bonds 97 pm• 3 per Cent. Cons. 9% per Cent. Red lO3 Ditto New Annuities ... New 3% per Cent. lO2 Ex. Bills, 1,0001. I %cl ... 76 pm. New 5 per C0nt..... 000000000 .• Ditto 5001. •••••••••• 00000 76 pm. Long Annuities to expire Ditto 5ma11.... 000000 .... 76 pm. Jan. 1860 l2 7.16 Bank Stock for Ac ct.... Oct. 1859 l2 7-16 Consols for Act...« ..... 99% Jan. 1860 l2 5-16 India Stock for Acct.... FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per Cent ll5 Portuguese, 5 per Cent — Belgian, 5 per Cent - Ditto, New Ditto... ........ .... Brazilian Bonds ...... . . Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent — !Russian, 5 per Cent............ -- Chllian, 6 per Cent .... ..... Colombian, 6 per Cent Ditto, 1824 16•00 0414.4•41.141••••••••• - , Ditto, 3 per Cent 33 Cuba Bonds, iper Cent...... Ditto, Deferred ... l2 Danish, 3 per Cent — French, 5 per Cent. I. —c. Greek, IS'S, 5 per Cent — Exchange .. . ..... ..... —lr. —c. Mexican, 5 per Cent Ditto, li per Cent., 1837 — !Dutch, 2% per Cent...... 61% Peruvian, 1825, 6 per Cent , -- _, Ditto, 5 per Cent .........101% SHARES Bristol and Exeter (70 paid) 256 . )! Bristol and Gloucester, 30 paid Chester and Holyhead ( 5 paid) .......... ........... Dublin and Cashel, 234 paid -g Eastern Counties (23 paid) Ditto Registered (Si 6s 8d paid) Edinburgh and Glasgow, 50 paid Ditto Quarter Shares (12% paid) Great North of England, 100 paid Great Western (75 paid) Ditto Half Shares, 50 paid B4 Ditto Fifths, 12 paid Hull and Selby, 50 paid 63 London and Brighton (50 paid) ... ........ Ditto Loan Notes, 10 paid 12% London and Greenwich (122. 15s. 4d. paid) Diito. Preference or Privilege, X; 8 17s 2d paid 20N, Manchester and Leedszo paid ) .......... .......... Newcastleliii , 1 ' an ar ingron unction. 21 paid yi 9% Northern and Eastern (45 paid) Ditto Scrip (15 paid) 26 Norwich and Brandon, 4 paid 14% South Eastern and Dover (33 2e 4d paid) ..... Ditto New Shares, 4 paid Thame, and Medway, £l9 5e 8d paid lO Trent Valley, '2 paid 9% York and North Midland (50 paid) ll2 Ditto Half Shares (25 paid) :......... York and Scarborough Branch (23 4 paid) Orleans, Tours, and Bourdeaux, 1 - paid Paris and Rouen. 20 paid COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—(YESTERDAY.) Amsterdam CF. 12 44• Gibraltar Ditto, at sight l2 14 Leghorn 3O 50 Rotterdam 2U. 12 5 Genoa 25 85 Antwerp Hamburgh M.B. 13 134 Venice 47 Altona l3 13 Naples 394 Paris, 3 days' sight... 25 60 Palermo, per oz., llB4 Ditto, 3 months 25 85 Lisbon 54 Marseilles 25 90 ' Oporto 54 Bourdeaux 25 90 Rio Janeiro 23 Frankfort on Maine.. 121 Bahia 23 Petersburgh, 3 Us... 37 Buenos Ayres — Berlin 7 NewYork,2ldys sight Vienna, effec. fl. 3 M 952 Philadelphia — Trieste, ditto Madrid 37 Foreign Gold, bars..£3 17 9 Cadiz lililbao 36 New Doubloons.-- 0 0 0 Barcelona 36 New Dollars 0 4 10 Seville — Silver in Bars 0 4 114 SUMMARY OF NEWS AND Vubltt eptition. " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. After the fireworks on Monday evening, the King of the French and Royal Family returned to Neuilly. The number of exhibitors to whom the King preisentect the order of the Legion of Honour on Monday was 31 • gold medals 126 ; honourable mention, in consequence of their having in 1839 obtained the gold medal, 142 ; silver medals 426 ; honourable mention 424 ; bronze medals 386 ; honour able mention 197 ; making the total number of honotul conferred 1,732. Lieutenant-General Jacqueminot, Commandant of the National Guards of the Seine, having receive d a InOnth't leave of absence from his Majesty, to repair to the bathS of Ems, the command has, during that time, devolved on General Carbonel, head of the staff. The consecration of Mgr. des Eesarts, Bishop of Blois, too k place in the Cathedral of Saint-Louis, a few days back, in the presence of a great crowd, and upwards of four hundred of the clergy. The ceremony was performed by the Bishop of Belley, assisted by the Bishops of Mans and Orleans. ril e Archbishop of Tours and Mgr. Depery, lately appointed Bishop of Gap, were also present. . It now apars that the number of persons wounde d and bruised on M onday evening, at the entrance to the Ch ru ' oP4 Elysees, amounted to fourteen. Of these nine were able return home after being bled and otherwise attended to. The steam-frigate Labrador. left Toulon on Thursday W' for Port Vendres, where she is to receive a squadron of ear valry for Africa. A telegraphic dispatch was received at Paris on Tuesday' from Montpellier, announcing that the six o'clock train front Montpellier to Cette, on arriving on Monday, near the Ville neuve station, ran in upon some waggons that had s to pp ed there. The shock broke the chains which held the carriages, and they ran off the rails and were overturned. Three per sons were killed, and four others were injured, but none of them seriously. An accident took place at Mention the 21st ult. Too great a quantity of stones having been placed on the scaffolding, the new barrack now in course of construction, the whole gave way, and the workmen were precipitated to the ground with the falling mass. Not less than thirteen men were severely injured or killed. A man named Grisard was found guilty of usury by the Correcti6nal Tribunal of Paris on Tuesday, and condemned to pay a fine of 2000 f. and costs. There were numerous com lainants again:3 him, the chief of whom was Count L eon, natural son of the Emperor Napoleon. A letter from Luxeni!iourg states that,durine the last visit of the King of the Nether;:inds to that city, a deputation of the Jews of the province paid him a visit of congratulation. when M. S. Hirsch, the Grand Ra;2bi, expressed to his Ma jesty the gratitude felt by himself And his co -religionists towards the reigning dynasty, for the con2plete emancipation they had received, alluding at the same tiine to the oppres sion which the Israelites still suffered in Germany. The King received the deputation in the most gracious manner, stating that he was happy in having so many Jews in his service. and that they had always shown themselves most fizithful and loyal subjects. LAW AND POLICEI. Mr. Joseph Ady, charged with one of his old tricks, al ) ° " peered before Sir Peter Laurie, at the Mansion - h ouse + t answer for it, but, with his usual dexterity, escaped scot-free' At Guildhall Michael Magnier, a City policeman , brought up for re-examination before Aldermen Char an Gibbs, charged with having entered a house on his bear, thl street-door being accidently left unfastened, and .assault` _ a Emma Moody, a girl about 18 years old , whom h e sleeping in the parlour. Alderman Challis ordered him ''' pay a fine of 51., or be imprisoned for one mouth. man who gave his name George Brown, but whose real namd ray, one of the most notorious dog-stealers 'in Lon e don, :_ was e N,,,,,:ed at Marylebone with stealing a dog , tb :nd assaulting the police. Mr. Long re; .owner unknovinf the owner had been present, but .t a t. marked that he 1041, 1 with the prisoner for the asslio' he was not, he should (le.:- He felt bound to inflict the Lighest penalty, viz. 51., or tira months' imprisonment. At Union-hall William Dawson and John Anderson, ti fo we ll-known thieves conn ected with the Rent - street gall: were fully co mmitted on a charge of stealing a huge qutuiti 7 . of plate from the dwelling-house of Mr. White, 13, Warwies, place, Peckham-rye. At the Norwich Assizes Robert English , aged 20, was i,„ll' dieted for wilfully and maliciously setting fire to certain Asc.!' and premises, the property of John Hogg , with inten t to 1"' jure James Smith. He was found guilty. The Insolvent Debtors' Court was occupied the great er part of Thursday with the case of John Lun d, a g ainst who'" a remand was prayed, on account of certain damages deal in, action for trespass and false imprisonment. A great litigation, of a painful c haracter, had taken place, which it f: not necessary to publish. Mr. Commissioner Nicho ls thoug h; that as there was not the slightest malice proved against t! A insolvent, there was no case for a remand . He was discbargv" forthwith. 001711T—resinowaxx.s. The Duke and Duchess of Richmond ent ertained the f° I ; lowing party at Goodwood, during the race; :—Duke a n d Duchess of Bedford, Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, Earl ! ri n d Countess of Eglintoun ; Marquises Exet er, Normanb i ,,, Worcester; Earls Glasgow, Verulam , Stradbroke, and lyn ; Lords Paget, Macdonald, William Lennox, Maidsoll G. Bentinck, and Stanley ; Baron Brunnow ; Ladies E. 10 3-Z . Construice Paget, Hon. G. and Mrs. Anson, Right Hon. 'lf and Lady 2 ",,cmes Byng,Hon. H. Rous, and J. Mostyn S J. Shelly, Sir W. W. Wynne, Sir R. W. Bulkeley ; Messrl ► G. Payne, Houldswo:th, Sanf ord Graham, J. Stanley, J. F ee Bowes, Percy Williams, C. C. Grevilleown for Hatfield H ouse ; The Marquis of Salisbury Las left t In the course of the ensuing week the Noble Marquis Ire to Scotland. The Marquis and Marchioness of Dow* have gone 0 11 v i: continental tour. They proceed direct to Baden-Baden the Rhine. arat Earl and Countess Cowper and family have left L.-- for Panshanger for the season. The Earl and Countess of Granville next week lee re , Bruton-street for the Duke of Devonshire's marine :esidec Kemp-town. Viscount and Viscountess Leve.son ,Te ster at Kemp-town. day departed on a tour of the German spas. and - rh A e d E e l a e rl N a vi n l d lie C n ou le n a t ‘ e , s e s to o w f nJfeorrse,ov,sttaetrnideyLFaadrieks on Monda~l The entertainment to their_ Royal Highnesses the Duke au' Duchess of Cambridge and the Hereditary Grand Duke an Duchess of Mecklenburgh Strelitz, announced for the Du' inst., is now postponed to Wednesday, the 7th. The Lord Chancellor of Ireland (Sir E. Sugden) and 142 and the Misses Sugden, arrived at the York Hotel, Albemal' ti % street, on Thursday, from Boyle Farm, Thames Ditton, to to present at the marriage of his Lordship's son and priN secretary, Mr. H. Sugden, with Cookson. The It e Master of the Rolls is.keeper of the seats pro tem. during Noble and Learned Lord's absence from keland. Lord Rokeby, the week after next, wiLl leave gorit 3o House, for the Continent, and will pass the rill'iter abr °ad i,.o o Lord and Lady Willoughby De Eresby and familYof arranged to remain on the Continent until the ea:rlY p a " next spring. eral Lord and Lady Poltimore are at Florence, where t. -el L ora Buller, her Ladyship's father, has arrived. The Noble and Lady propose residing in Italy until the ensuing aln l ' CELLAPT E 0 178 • ‘1,90 The half-yearly meeting of the proprietors of the Leti- t , and County Bank was held on Friday, at the establislua, e b , in Lombard-street, and was very numerously attended. t. t , report was read by the secretary, from which it appeared tn e notwithstanding the depression in the value of money. W e ,/ 0 was, after paying all expenses, a profit on the half - y e 3,878/. 6s. ld. In consequence of the great increase of b ug e( ness, the Company had made a call of 51. per share, in o',dt, to have a -more extended capital. From the balance she the 29th of June, it appeared that the paid-up capitAl, w ;;;s 125,8001. ; amount due to customers, 1,054,735/. ; '',es gross profits for the half year, 28,943/. 15s. Bd. The reP", b - e , was adopted, and thanks were voted to the officers of Company. In pursuance of the Act for the Registration of Voters, it.r. list of householders entitled to vote for Members; of Par ll ;, nient in the different cities and boroughs throughout ~ land and Wales, have been exhibited at the church doers oo every parish. The number of names upon the lists ai - e rl ze . numerous this year than in any since the pass'ng of tb e c e form Bill. This is owing to the decisicn of Chief J0 5 ',0 Tindal, that lodgers paying rent at 10-. per annum s et entitled to vote for Members of Parliames.t. In the To' b- Hamlets, Westminster, and the wards of Cripplegate W it out, and Farringdon, several hundred lodgers have avai l ' themselves of this opportunity. A few nights ago some villians entered the foundry of i g r ; Silas Harris, in the Grove, Southwark, and took two br, s t ; cocks out of the iron liquor vats, and destroyed 4,00°' r)-( weight of iron in a liquid state, worth 2001. The work "0 destruction is believed to have been done by some of the I li , '§ who struck for wages a few weeks ago. A reward of 5 i - - offered for the apprehension of the parties. eioa° A letter from Gibraltar Bay states that the opera-we against the wreck of the American frigate Missouri are g ° , l l; on well, and that it was expected that she would be o..floa'a two or three weeks from the 21st of July. The work ir, ss r most arduous one, operations having to be conducted unu, g e c ie burning sun with the thermometer at 125, and in the si'" varying from 95 to 110. The Chevalier Bunsen, immediately on the receipt. dispatches from his Government, relative to the atrocs*.t., attempt to assassinate the King and Queen of Prusssia, ' he r • town for Windsor, for the purpose of communicating t° Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert the lut e gence that had reached him. HER MAJESTYS THEATR.; r ito An overflowing house assembled on Thursday tog reett' e l i iel on the occasion of her benefit. She is one favourites of the public, and none are more entitled t r g,,,, s fref favour. From her first appearance at her Majesty's A" - A ric . the carried away the votes of all its frequenters—and rerriof able as were her first pas on our Italian stage, eveT . , V De r she has appeared since that time she has presented I°. eye dancing striking improvements—and, what is still 1 1 6 essential to maintain the highest position—novsiT ct of the Bbl dancing is characterised by youthful buoyancy, ru°"%ers.`. unaffected grace. Marvellous as are her feats theY, r ia6 no effort—each step appears unpremeditated and the 01100.5 of the inspiration of the moment—and so devoid of ssT s of to that they are unforeseen. Dancing generally addresses such the senses, and not to the understanding, and the value o ' 4 c on dancers asCerito is, that they throw into the shade all les t r io t of mendable attempts in the art. Their influence is like co bs the unrivalled romances of Walter Scott, which at 0 % 00 41 nished from circulation the grosser novels that Pee y o iglat , usurped public favour. The entertainments of thelslerf, besides all the favourite pas of Cerito and of Fanny , 0 D included the whole of the Barbiere, and the last seci , IA Lucia. In the Barbiere, Fornasari was much indisg °i . i . e i did not betray it, either in his acting or singing ; 01; appeared as youthful in person as in her voice Marie,_t of his most Criumphant inspirations ; and Lablach.e,_, C OIL moment convulsing the public with laughter, exc l '„ e _n, stant enthusiasm of applause. Then followed Perm 14,; r isu p ' , ing forth a flood of musical embellishments. A , " ,i r g se B 1 % 6' it seems as if Era Poco were written for him t viatbete is quite appalling, and fearfully true to nature.l_,ion _ d not a subscription night, several persons of distil c i ; tv sv oi . present, including their Royal Highnesses the i ' u o l ess, t , Duchess of Cambridge, the Grand Duke and' ots [ - ore Mecklenburgh-Strelitz, accompanied by Lady f j ouu" o .. merset ; the Duchess of Somerset, the Marquises_ ..feetu i " derry and Clanricarde, the Earls of Pembroke and):01.001114 land, Count Anthony ' Esterhazy, Lords Lilford, and Ranelagh ; Lady S. Stewart, &c. —. Great rejoicnZga took place on the estates of Si f bis ___,----,-1 c Vc!" ward Kerrison, on the occasion of the w arrior cr 0 4 _. a eldest son with Lady C. Strangways. The farme r* _ ii al inhabitants on the estates subscribed a considerable Pore for the poor, who sat down, above 0110 thOUSalla f !,, no st parish and hundreds in others , _to a Good dinner 0 V O O beef and plum pudding. In the evening the danc e ;.:o 0 the village green to the music of a village ban d ' `; is f ''' were fired, flags were displayed, and the bell ri i ir 'yft merry peal. The Lieutenant- General and his s 4 town yesterday for Oakley rikrk, SUll9l4' 4., walk th e to o k Ti the _ • ack" Rail 1:I, kajl noon ap p tea