The Sun. — London, England, 1844-07-15 00:00:00

EWS ~~♦ ely delivered gon. had just b ee, ' ing that the a dead chili, Embassy i" uF sn listingai su the tank "" Affairs. -ocates of ti' e Gamier, P• :ion. o the Chatty Th e repor t iostile to the Reform Big The NeePer n of Messrl• at the reP? r4 7 to give bull 7110 fortner l f i at the Inv Cunard , r a month• tesday eau: led Franct v ot es. , Ple n tenced bU t h e questio n the Swedish, )ns preen ° the colour he Gering n anufactur eu in America. Lmotion Vai of M. Livr tleman le 3-flannel* event• nce havi li g he militia"' nd, and and Joseph Cant, of Jo' lord of the Keen, 1 : 1 11 s sentence. l o g, on Lb ° arrison, 13 9 f the shore half of the been inall; ironer 1 0 : t, and OP he jury re' ntenced to a the CO' 'ht, master and fitt e d le in reads' br his.3 o : ill erablir s • a cess Alia hich verse Lxony, I the Du" last eve' entertain' ,night, ° l inst., tile 'bed port Vhitebal 1. Barone t A v itabiler morelandt 3rownlonr, - ary Aga r ' arrington, ,ady Fr° - I. Was, ve-squar e ' A nuive; noble Ear' :d the 2a eir RoYs i and the ;klenburg Countess ,unt and d a select itsbridge• en Wood' and the endid err to their idge , the ►uke And is enter 'chess of ;hess and i n Kern? with Ills circle at .usual as a yell ling the ie Nag [ative to sarah, filer an d culars of videnco r a fef 1 ," with ury severelf s out of Horti- L.l, and► m etier d cow: ck, and uch de, were al. cotton millio o d there 3spond ras the Drepa ra ie Grei Friday o have might lock by lutions .eed to, a state High the eight ported nnum► 'no ef for the nd of d, and id 17• Kourds have taken up arms to resist the pay- Iner,t of the taxes, which, on account of the decrease of Turkel,ula, become e l and more brdensome in Asiatic The same causes led to u a movement of the laountain tribes in Lasistan, so that the communication be tween Turkey and Erzerouni is now interrupted. The dif „,.Lerences between Turkey and Persia are in the same state as ColonelTarrant, who has visited the frontier dis tricts in dispute between the two countries, has returned can Bagdad to Erzerouui. The conferences will become more act ive, but the end of the negotiations seems to be remote, as laeither the Porte nor the Persian Sovereign are at all dis 1308ed to make any concessions.—Allgemeine Zeitung, July 10. AFFAIRS OF PORTUGAL. 1 415130 N, JULY B.—With regard to the project of loan which ' wins one of the conditions on which the tobacco contract is to be auctioned, it would be very unjust for capitalists to termit themselves to be prejudiced by the recent conduct of j ) ,Din in annulling a similar contract. While in Spain the tobacco revenues were for the first time let out to contrac wre, having previously been collected by the State, in Portu gal contractors have always had their management. But :De faith of contracts has here been, for the most part, faith fully observed, and the principal and interest of a debt thus lecired upon the tobacco revenues themselves would be in violably secure under all Governments. The break-down of t heir tobacco enterprise in Spain gives probability to the sup- Position that Messrs. Rothschild will successfully compete for this contract in Portugal. The financial prospects of the !:21intry never assumed so definite a shape as at present. ~ f ive pe r cen t. re d uce d i n th e ex p en dit ure o f the State, and D Per cent. added to the great bulk of its income, which will 4 13 e, immediately carried into effect, and is sure of approval in t he Cortes, amounts to a substantial increase of one-tenth in the entire revenue ; and the additional half per cent. in the dividend on the foreign debt, payable a year hence, becomes : 4811 y practicable. The receipts of the Lisbon Custom-house .or the year ending the 30th of June, 1843, were 1,974 i contos, and those of the year ending the 30th of June, 1844, have been 2,259 contos, showing a clear gain to the revenue in t ills single branch to the extent of 284 contos, or 64,2971. ' A I comparative maps which have been presented to the Queen, the receipts of the Sete Cases (Excise) for the past Yom' exceeded those of the previous year by 67 contos, and the receipts of the Oporto Custom-house exceeded those of the previous year by 283 contos, being a gain to the Trea li"' of about 79,0001. The entire Customs and Excise re teipts of Li s b on and Oporto exceed those of the previous year .3' the enormous amount of 634 4-5 contos, or 143,4641.—an lacrease owing almost entirely to a vigilant superintendence ,r s 'ervading every nook of these establishments. This im- Frovement will aid materially in carrying out the new finan cial projects. The Queen has come in from Cintra. Senior Cabral's operations against the newspaper press are 'Pr as follows :—ln the jury list which he has made out for these three months, and which is composed of seventy indi- Victuals, figure fifty-nine Government employes. A full exer tise of the right of challenge cannot fail to leave a majority oap/oyes on the jury; and the Opposition papers, which doubtless all be immediately tried, have every chance of being convicted, and mulcted in heavy fines besides incarce ration. If this does not gag them, a Star Chamber is next to be substituted for a jury selected fairly from the country, the li said Star Chamber to be composed of judges and official per "lc This is the undoubted arrangement by which freedom of thought is to be cherished in this land of liberty. the Tojal is on the point of concluding an operation with e Bank for the advance of sufficient money to cover the . 14 ` l tPenses of the State till the meeting of the Cortes. A dispatch from the Portuguese Plenipotentiary in Rome „ a nnounces that the Pope has consented to the entire sup kijession of the dispensed holidays in Portugal, to a diminu tion in the number of those which must still be strictly ob 'erred, and to a transference of the festivals of the patron taints of churches in all cases to uti e the Sundays. The requisite f will be immediately forwarded. The grape crop is so advanced that its quality for the taming season may with tolerable safety be predicted. The We ather for many weeks past has been at times broken, and "'most always cloudy, while the heats have been very mode rate. If the advent of the genuine summer is much longer ti b e'ajed, the grapes will be seriously injured ; but it is pro :Die that we shall have suflicient heat for the purpose of ;getting, and the fine weather seems to have now set in. e fruit is fully formed, and all that is required is sun to orell it with succulent juice. Th e commerce of Oporto and Lisbon was never in a state of greater depression than it is at present. Outrages against p r operty are now of daily occurrence throughout the wine l' il tricts of the north of Portugal, and the robbery of churches . again resorted to. There are likewise numerous commer el'll failures. The extensive and respectable house of Martin tdDouglas has failed at Lisbon and Oporto to a large amount. a y were general merchants, and established some time p . '"'e a foundry at Oporto, which is said to have chiefly in oeved them. Amongst the other failures are two very bad Domingos sde Almeida Ribeiro has had his failure pro kneed fraudulent by the Tribunal of Commerce, and J. i,..,aPtista Medico, who fled from the town a few days since, ;Qehted to the merchants there some 40 cantos (near 10,000/.), Z,Porsued to Vigo, but was found to have sailed for Eng ta in the packet. The depression in the wine trade is t e nse, and unless the tariff convention is concluded with ngland, the ruin of the export trade is expected. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. U NIVERSITY OF LONDON (Somerset House). M.A. EXAMINATION, 1844. Branch IL—Mathematics and Natural Philosophy. ' l43 tilmits—Rev. Professor Heaviside, M.A.; George 0 B. Jerrard, Esq., B.A. George Jessel (Gold Medal of the value of 201.), Uni versity College. 13raneli lll.—Logic, Moral Philosophy, Philosophy of the bli n d, P o li t i ca l Phil osop h y , P o li t i ca l E c onomy. 'XA DIINERS—Rev. Henry Alford, M.A. ; T. B. Bur b eh atn, Esq., M.A.; Nassau W. Senior , Esq., M.A. 44ustace Rogers Conder (Gold Medal of the value of 201.), Spring Hill College. Henry Brown Creak, Spring Hill College. tXAMIN MATRICULATION, 1844. Eng—ln Classics, Rev. Dr. Jerrard; T. B. Burcham, Esq., M.A. In Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, Rev. Professor Heaviside, M.A.-, George Jerrard, Esq., B.A. In Chemistry, Professor F.B.S. First Division. Anthony, Daniel, Homerton College. Arlidge, John Thomas, King's College. Bagshawe, John Bernard, St. Mary's, Oscott. Ball, Richard Dechamp, Private tuition. Barden, Patrick Edward, Carlow College. Bridgwater, Thomas, King's College. Chisholm, John, Stonyhurst College. Colfox, William, University College. C onnor, Albert Wentworth, Carlow College. woke, Robert Thomas Elsam, King's College. -adwards, William Finch, King's College. Gibbs, John George, King's College. Gull, Walter Battershell, King's College. Greenwood, George, King's College. Griffith, Samuel, Merchant Tailors' School. nabershon, Samuel Osborne, King's College. Rahn, Jonas Charlesson, University College. hAtlley, Robert, Manchester New College. toward, Charles, University . College. Jackson, Edward Steane, University College. Jaques, Edward, King's College. Knighton, George Wallis, Stepney College. Lewis,s, John, Lancashire Ind e p en dent College. J-J Leyson, University College. Long, Robert Weaver, Private tuition. Mayer, William Joseph, Stonyhurst College. Palm er , Edward, University College. Perie ra , Louis Anthony, Stonyhurst College. Porter, George, Stonyhurst College. „des John Charles, St. Edmund's, Ware. '°sher, Henry Gladdisb, University College. Rusht on illiam, University College. Salter HenryH , Hyde, Private tuition. Sibree, John, Spring Hill College. Southwell Benjamin, Spring Hill College. Sprott, James, King's College. Statham, Sherard Freeman, University College. Stowell, William, University College. trowbridge, Charles, Stonyhurst College. I ,..„,hiirston, Charles Bosworth, King's College. vvhitty, Stephen James, St. Mary's, Oscott. Wilks, Samuel, University College. Second Division. Armytage, Alfred, University College. Fak e r, John Deane, Private tuition. John, Horncastle Grammar School. Bealby, William, University College. Alest Robert, Homerton College. foyers, Henry, Horncastle Grammar School. Maziere John, University Collee. 'inon, Gustavus Matthews, Private tuition. Carver, Edmund, Private tuition. Chignell, Thomas William, Homerton College. Cooper, Frederick John, King's College. bavis, John, Private tuition, P,,,awson, Benjamin, University College. ''vans, Charles James, Sedbergh Grammar School. P armer, John, King's College. tlallwey, John, Stonvhurst College. -I .jesley, Th o mas Willam, King's College. il,tighes, John Saunders, Carmarthen College. 'lig°, Charles Sayer, Private tuition. ~ m eson, William Tanner, University College. I ,,'"Quoiti, James, St. Edmund's, Ware. -41-onley, John, King's College. - V a ligham, Charles William, King's College. Palmer,4+7, William, King's College. , Hamilton Charles, University College. orter, Charles William, Stonyhurst College. reed, Martin, University College. id, John, King's College. 3 1 14, Thomas, Stonyhurst College. s a is"irY. Scovell, Private tuition. uearman, Charles James, Private tuition. I nner, George Robert, King's College. S tink, Joseph Parker, Cheshunt College. Henry, King's College. N i ;l ntlikr, James Edwin, Homerton College. Edward, Stonyhurst College. llliams,'Morgan, Homerton College. Matheson,proceeding to the the M.P., who is the remainder of f • - •qt paired off for 48 ,,. or his health, 11. „l an d, M.P. k„"°.„.n, with:Alderman Cop , - lohn Dalrymple, M.P., for '-qu, for the rest Wigtownshire, has th e With Mr. C. Leslie, M.P. for Monagb.- s eson. (IV a meeting of the Council of the Royal Colleges eonsof England on Thursday last, Sir Benamin Brodie, Baronet, was elected president, and Samuel . 15 tesi c i r and William Lawrence, Esqrs., .were elected vice - b ants of the college for the year ensuing. AltTy - p ROCRSSIONS IN IRELAND.—A Bill was nothZ On Saturday haying for its object to continue for '444'j Year the existing Acts against party processions in I . 1 14 114"; JUNE 27.—The tra nqu illity of this city worillot been interrupted. All the manufactories . are in full Pima ccount of the approaching annual fairs of Brunn ,13t t ,, ~GELERT, NORTH WALES, JULY 12. is t hi g l it 'LY the King of Saxony, and suite, arrived here as kaje;ttront Aberystwith, an(' slept at the Goat Hotel. His 15148.. scends Snowdsn this morning, and afterwards her bod y his route to Bangor and Chester. , h ° l : l 3* of a north o f England seam an , name d Satur'N er•t,3- `-arophell was recovered from the Th ames , on ` 4 , having fallen into the river from his vessel, a elt now lies at Limehouse Church, awaiting an s LATER from the UNITED STATES. LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY EVENING. The royal mail steamer Acadia has just arrived, having left Halifax on the afternoon of the 3d, anp Boston on the Ist, having therefore made the passage from the former place in nine and a half and from Boston in eleven and a half days. She brings eighty passengers. The news by this arrival comprises only four days, one of which was Sunday, all the previous dates having been brought by the Garrick and the Roches ter packet ships yesterday. The political intelligence is destitute of interest, and the following are the only extracts of importance from the papers : On the 6th June, the British barque Dominican, Capt. Salter, from London for Jamaica, was wrecked on the Folle, a coral reef in the vicinity of Aux Cayes, about twenty miles distant from the port, and was found to be totally abandoned. It is supposed that her crew and passengers took to their boats, and attempted to proceed on to Jamaica, being afraid to land at Aux Cayes, as they knew the island to be in a state of insurrection. Nothing had been heard of them when the packet left. The Dominican had a valuable cargo of dry goods, liquors, &c. Among her passengers was a Mr. Field, lieutenant of the royal artillery. Mr. President Tyler has surprised Isis countrymen by entering the married state, having espoused a Miss Julia Gardner, eldest daughter of the late Hon. David Gardner, of Long Island. The ceremony was strictly a private one, not more than a dozen people being pre sent in the church. MONEY MARKED', NEW YORK, JUNE 29. (From the New York American.) The excessive heat of the last few days, which has driven many people from the city, and the general stag nation incident to the season, have produced a pause in the speculative spirit that for some weeks past gave ani mation to our Stock Market—and what are called " fancies" have suffered consequently a decline. The stable and dividend paying stocks remain as before, with rather a tendency to rise. Money continues abundant. Exchange on England is dull at 9i prem. ; and coin remains, therefore, without any demand for exportation. We have the accounts, usual at this season, of partial failure of the Wheat crop, and of damage to the growing Cotton crop, but they amount to little or nothing. It is indisputable that the yield of wheat will be immense ; and coming, as it will, upon a market already glutted, the prices can hardly fail to go lower. Some of the new wheat of North Carolina and Virginia is already in market, and several thousand bushels have been sold there at from 87 to 90 cents the bushel. The State of Pennsylvania, it is now hoped and be lieved, will restore herself speedily to the rank of solvent States. We borrow from a contemporary, the Republic, this statement : " The State interest, which falls due on the Ist of August next, will, by the terms •of the appropriation law, be funded in a stock, and the succeeding six months' interest on the whole debt, due February, 1845, will be paid in cash ; so that from August, the large debt of Pennsylvania may be considered active." Certainly it is that no State in the Union can more easily than Pennsylvania meet all her obligations ; and, inasmuch as all branches of industry are flourishing there, we cannot doubt that the ability to be holiest will be seconded by the will and the deed. The adjournment of Congress puts an end, for a time, to all political agitation as connected with foreign affairs— and the opinion now seeming general that Mexico will not consent to any negotiation for the acknowledgment of the amexation of Texas to the United States, that project may be considered as less formidable than here tofore. There are rumours of the President's purpose to call an extra session of Congress, and as agitation is the chief hope of those who favour annexation, they will endeavour, doubtless, to promote the call. We do not think it will be made. SALES AT .THE STOCK EXCHANGE, JUNE 29. 3,000 Ohio Sixes, 1856 10,000 Indiana Dollar Bonds, 25 yrs 45 50 Shares United Service Bank 100 Do. Vicsburg Bank 50 Mechanics' Bank. . 500 Farmers' Loan 50 Stonington Railroad 15 Erie Railroad 86 Syracuse and Utica Railroad 150 Reading Railroad 65 Canton Railroad 75 Mohawk Railroad 6O 100 North American Trust.. 20 Ohio Life and Trust. 100 Paterson Railroad .. 520 New Haven Canal.. . 7i . 1051 . 38 . 43 97i 81 32 50 Long Island Railroad 100 Harlem Railroad 25 Norwich and Worcester Railroad DIVIDENDS. —The Bank of America has declared a dividend of 3 per cent. for the last six months, payable July 6th. The North River Bank, 31 per cent. payable July 8. The Tradesmen's Bank has declared a semi-annual dividend of 5 per cent., payable on July 1. PHILADELPHIA, J UNE 28—P. M. The Stock operations to-day were spirited, and to a larger amount than on yesterday, and prices were pretty well sustained. Pennsylvania Fives declined and United States Bank about 50 cents. a share ; 2,000 dolls. Pennsylvania Fives sold at 751 ; 2,000 dolls. at 751 ; and 14,000 dolls. at ; 5,000 dolls. Tennes see Bonds, 861 ; 2,000 Philadelphia County Fives, 94 ; 1,200 ditto, Sixes, 1011 ; 30 shares Girard Bank, 11 ; 400 ditto, at 104 ; 59 Wilmington Railroad, 211 ; 100 United States Bank, 7 1 4 ; 20 Commercial Bank, 52. At the Second Boar& 3,000 dolls. C. and Delaware Canal Loan at 641 ; 7,000 dolls. Pennsylvanian Fives at 754- ; 6,000 Reading R. Bonds at 72 ; 2,000 dolls. Ken tucky Bonds at 104 i ; 4,000 dolls Pennsylvanian Fives at 751, s. 5 ds. ; 1,500 dolls. Wilmington R. Sixes, 1858, at 84 ; 300 shares Girard Bank at 104 ; 200 Wilming ton R. at 21, s. 5 ds. ; U. S. Bank closed at 7i ask e d ; Girard Bank at Hi a 10, 1 4 - ; Wilmington R. at 21* a 211; Reading R. Bonds, 72 ; Pennsylvania Fives, 75 4 1 a 751. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, SUNDAY.—This morning the Queen and Prince Albert, the Duchess of Kent, the ladies and gentlemen of the royal suite, and the household, at tended Divine service at the private chapel in the Castle. The Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay officiated. Her Majesty and Prince Albert walked this forenoon in the pleasure grounds of the Castle. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, were taken airings in the morning. Yesterday forenoon her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Princess Royal, went to Adelaide Lodge, in a pony carriage. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess Alice were taken an airing yesterday morning in an open pony carriage. His Royal Highness Prince Albert visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent yesterday afternoon at her residence, Frogmore Lodge. Viscount Jocelyn arrived at the Castle yesterday, on a visit to the Queen. _ _ The royaldinner party at the Castle yesterday even ing included Viscount Jocelyn and the Hon. Augustus and Mrs. Liddell. The Duke of Cambridge honoured the Duke of Wellington with his company to dinner on Saturday, at Apeley House. In the evening the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge honoured the Italian Opera with their presence. The Duchess of Cambridge, the Princess Mary, and the Grand Duke of Mecklenburgh Strelitz, attended Divine service at Grosvenor Chapel, South Audley street, yesterday morning. The Duke of Cambridge, attended by Major Stephens, attended Divine service at St. Peter's Church, Eaton-square. The Commissioners for promoting and encouraging the Fine Arts in the rebuilding the Palace of West minster had a meeting on Friday, at Gwydyr House. The Commissioners present were the Duke of Sutherland, Viscount Palmerston, Lord Colborne, Mr. Gaily Knight, Mr. Benjamin Hawes, Mr. G. Vivian, Lord Mahon, and the Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay. Lord Stanley left town on Saturday, for Tunbridge Wells. A meeting of the Commissioners for the government of Pentonville Prison was held at the Council-office on Saturday. The Commissioners present were Lord wharncliffe, the Duke of Richmond, Major Jebb, Mr. Craufurd, and Mr. Russell. - • Dispatches were received at the Colonial-office on Saturday from the Governors of New South Wales and the Mauritius. FIRE IN THE WEST INDIA DOCKS. -On Satur day considerable alarm was created in the vicinity of the West India Docks, in consequence of a fire breaking out on board the barque Hand, 150 tons burden, Captain Chambers, laden with guano, and lying in the South Dock of the West India Docks, Poplar. The first dis covery was made shortly before one o'clock, at which time the flames were raging fiercely in the forecastle, and for some time the entire destruction of the ship ap peared inevitable, The necessary intelligence was promptly forwarded to the different engine stations. In the meantime, several persons connected with the docks attempted, by means of buckets of water, to subdue the flames, but, owing to their increasing vigour, it was soon seen that, without the aid of the engines, the fire never would be extinguished. A couple of the Dnck Company's engines were, therefore, got into operation as early as postible, and water in copious streams was poured into that part of the vessel in flames. Notwith standing the fire continued to take its course completely round the forecastle, destroying, in its progress, the whole of the contents. Several of the brigade engines, with Mr, Crookland, the foreman of the district, were inge scene, the and also Mr. Connorton with early in reaC/1.. the West of Englai:Ll firemen and engine. With the as sistance of the briglido, the engines of the dock-yard got the flames so far subdued by half-past two o'clock, as to allay all apprehensions of their further extension, and in entirely ex the course of another hale 11011 F 0-py won/ tinzuished. TaArALGAB•SQUARE.—The Earl of Lincoln and Mr. Young have Introduced a Bill to provide for the care and preservation of 'Trafalgar-square, in the city of Westminster. It enacts, that Trafalgar-square, and all the works now being, or which may be hereafter erected thereon, shall be vested in the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, her successors and heirs, as part and parcel of the hereditary possessions and revenues of her Majesty in right of her Crown, within the ordering and survey of the Court of Exchequer. The care and man agement of the square, and of all the works therein, are vested in the Board of Woods and rprefts, At the present time passengers Are conveyed from Newcastle to London, by steam=boat, at the ;ate of two abillln• • gs per head 1 - - THE RYTT, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING JULY 15, 1844. LITERATURE. DIARIES and CORRESPONDENCE of LORD MALMESBURY. 2 I'd,. Ba ley, London, 1844. James Harris, the first Earl of Malmesbury, who was engaged in the public service of his country, chiefly on foreign embassies, for upwards of thirty years of his life, was the son of the well-known author of" Philosophical Treatises" and of " Hermes," and was born at Salisbury in the year 1746. His father, who was Secretary and Comptroller of the Queen's Household, sat in Parliament till his death in 1780; and it is related that when he first took his seat in the House of Commons, John Townsend asked who he was, and being told that he had written on Grammar and Harmony, replied, " Why, then, does he come here, where he will hear neither ?"—an apt and ready sarcasm, worthy of Selwyn, or even Sheridan. The interest which the elder Harris's literary talents had obtained for him among the leading men of the time, enabled him to launch his son early into public life ; and the latter's own undoubted abilities, combined, with sound practical sense, perseverance, and inflexible integrity, such as was by no means common among the statesmen of his earlier years, raised him subsequently to the highest diplomatic distinction. "Of his boyhood," says his biographer, " I can give no anecdote but the following one, which was related to me by his kins man, Lord Shaftesbury, and proves him to have been a bold and ace,ve lad :—As Mrs. Harris was walking ith some friends, before her house, in the Close of Salisbury, she descried a person climbing up the spire of the cathedral, and having obtained a glass, the better to observe so perilous a feat, imme diately dropped it, with the exclamation—` Good Heavens, it is James ! ' The astonished lady had identified her only son upon the apex of the tallest steeple in Great Britain !" In due course young Harris was sent to Winchester, and afterwards to Oxford, where he contrived, with exemplary dili gence, to learn just as much as gentlemen commoners usually learn at the Universities—that is to say, nothing at all. In the autumn of 1767 he was ap pointed Secretary of Embassy to the Court of Madrid, and having, during the absence of the Ambassador, undertaken upon his own responti bility, the affair of the Falkland Islands, on which, it may be rememembered, one of Johnson's finest pamphlets was written—he conducted it with such temper and firmness, as at once established his diplomatic reputation, and obtained him the post of Minister at Berlin. At this period Frederick the Great was in the full vigour of his genius, and Lord Malmesbury's Diary and Correspondence furnish us with some amusing accounts of his peculiarities, which, however, we must receive, cum grano salis, for his Lordship's journal clearly shows that he entertained no very favourable feelings towards this illustrious Monarch. As an instance of his meanness, he tells us that at the festival given in honour of the Prince of Dessan's marriage, " all the apartmeWs except those immediately dedicated to supper or cards, were lighted by one single candle! The supper itself was badly served and without dessert, the wines were bad, and the quantity of them stinted." If we remember rightly, the chief cause of the vio lent quarrel that took place between Frederick and Voltaire, was the disgust of the former at the latter's parsimony. The King had. thought fit, in one of his economical moods, to curtail his philosophic' . guest's daily allowance coffee, - on which the latter • in -revenge- pocketed all the royal wax-candles on which he could lay his hands, and was in consequence denounced as an in grate and a. thief! Lord Malmesbury insists much on the fact of Frederick's cruelty ; adding that " the most ferocious and brutal are sure of promotion with him." It is not thus that history speaks of him. He was a stern man and an inflexible disciplinarian ; but he was generally just, and could be at times even magnanimous, and was certainly anything but cruel in his conduct towards his subjects, or his death would not have been so universally lamented by them as we all know it was. On quitting Berlin, Lord Malmesbury was appointed to the Court of Catherine the Second, at St. Petersburgh, and his correspondence at this period is full of interest. As a matter of course, he saw much of the famous Prince Potemkin, and bears testimony to the wonder ful, and almost tyrannical influence which he exercised over the mind of his Sovereign. Favourite after favourite in turn gained the affections of Catherine, but Potemkin never once lost his ho'.d on her regard. She consulted him on all cases of emergency, endured his bold plain-speaking, and even submitted to his bullying without a murmur. this is scarcely to be wondered at, when one con siders the character of the two individuals. Both were sagacious —determined unscrupulous - aid both were equally devoured by ambition. In the nature of Potemkin Catherine could not but recognise the reflection of her own ; she knew, too, that their interests were in common; that he, deprived of her countenance, would be reduced to a mere cypher, and that she could find no one else in her dominions so fully capable of sympathising with, and carrying out, her vast projects of territorial aggrandisement. While Trsident at St. Petersburgh, Lord Malmesbury, among other noted statesmen of that time, saw a good deal of Count Cobenzel, of whom he never speaks otherwise than with respect. The Count, however, was a very overrated diploma tist, and history has long since reduced him to his fitting level. He was familiar with all the forms of Court etiquette, and a devout idolater of royalty; but there was nothing lofty or sa gacious in his views ; nothing bold or decided in his character ; he was a mere political petit-maitre ; and when some years afterwards he had to transact diplomatic business with Napoleon, his utter want of skill, spirit, and efficiency were at once made apparent. The volumes before us close with the particulars of the split between the Whigs in the memorable year 1793, when Lord Malmes bury, who had then returned to England, joined the party who, with Burke and several others, seceded from Fox. His Lordship gives many curious and amusing personal details relative to this secession ; but we prefer quoting his graphic sketch of Frederick the Great:— " The chief amusement of the King of Prussia is playing on the flute, which he does in a masterly manner. I had an opportunity of hearing him for a long time, as I was waiting in his antechamber, to be presented to him. Though no person is ever permitted to be present at his concerts but the performers, and some very few others, yet so afraid is he of playing false that when he is to try some new piece of music, he shuts himself up some hours beforehand in his closet to practise it, and even then when he begins it with the accompaniments he always trembles. He has a very fine collection of these instruments, and is particularly nice in the keeping of them. He has appointed a man who has nothing else to do but look after them, and preserve them dry or moist as the season requires. They are all made by the same man, and he pays a hundred ducats for each flute. In the last war, when he distributed false money to every one, he took care that his flute-maker should be paid in good coin, fearing that otherwise he would im pose upon him, and give him bad instruments. " Great contradictions in the character of this mo narch—profusion of expense in some articles, and the most niggardly economy in others. As a proof of the first, the sum of money sunk in erecting the Chateau Neuf, near Sans Souci, where every room is fur nished in the most expensive manner, and that not in taste, but with leads of gilding and tawdry furniture. This edifice is his own architecture, and I think will not do him honour. It is built of the most flaming coloured brick, intermixed with stone pillars and niches, which are crowded, not with single statues, but whole groups, and these not after antiques, but according to the fancy of the workmen The disposition of the rooms in the inside is very bad, full of doors—four in the room de signed for his bed-chamber. One would imagine that in his buildings he has imitated Louis XIV. Like him, who preferred the bottom of Versailles to the terrace of St. Germains, he has given a preference for the situa tion of this new palace to a marshy meadow, before the side of a hill close by—like him, he has instituted Une Ecole Militaire, an ll3pital des Invalides,' &c. As proofs of his meanness, one might cite the smallness of his pay to all about his court, and employed by him; but above all, the economy that is attended to in all manner of festivities given at his expense. On these occasions, he suffers no one to interfere, but orders everything, down to the quantity of wax candles, him self. I had frequent opportunities of observing this at the feast given in honour of the Prince of Dessau's marriage, at which I was present. All the apartments, except those immediately dedicated to supper or cards, were lighted by one single candle. The supper itself was badly served, and without dessert—the wines bad, and the quantity of them stinted. I asked, after dancing, for some wine and water, and was answered, The wine is all gone, but you may have some tea.' It must be observed, that these are not public entertainments where all mankind is admitted, and where these sort of restric tions are allowable, but those to which only people of a certain rank, foreign ministers and strangers, are suffered to come. I saw the King myself directing his servants in the lighting up the ball-room, and telling them where and how they should place the candles. While this operation was performing, the Queen, the royal family, and company, were waiting, literally in the dark, as his Majesty did not begin this ceremony till supper was finished, and no one dared to presume to give orders to have it done. When I was to be presented to him, his Grand Marechal, by mistake, carried me into a wrong room in the great apartment, instead of that appointed by the Kiug upstairs in his own. When he passed by, he would not suffer me to be presented that day." WRANGELL'S SIBERIA AND POLAR SEA, Madden, London, 1844. The expedition to the Polar Sea, of which the nar rative is contained in this duodecimo volume, was undertaken in 1820 and the three following years, by Admiral Wrangell, of the Russian navy, and the work is now brought out under the superintendence of Lieutenant-Colonel Sabine, R.A. It is an in teresting record of privations and difficulties in the regions of intense cold and barrenness, manfully struggled against and finally overcome, by a hardy band of adventurers ; but in other respects it can scarcely he called an attractive work, for we know almost all about the Polar Seas that we are ever I,ikell to know, considering that nature seems to have fixed there an insuperable barrier against the pro gress of further discovery ; and were it not sc, still little public interest can attach to a region which can never be rendered available for useful purposes, and where the scanty population are in that state of irreclaimable barbarism that they may almost be said to be aliens to the great family of human nature. The author's narrative of his second journey on the Polar Sea is the most entertaining, because it is the most fruitful in point of incident, and con tains among other piquant particulars, one or two curious descriptions of bear-hunts on the ice; one brute was killed after a desperate struggle by the lance of a Cossack, and it was found that he measured above nine feet from the snout to the tail, and was so heavy from excessive fat that it required more than twelve strong dogs to drag him along. 'We close our brief notice with the authors descriptions of a night's bivouack on the Polar ice : The day was now so far spent, and both men and dogs were so wearied by their exertions, that we deter mined to stay where we were for that night. The tent, before described, formed the centre of the little camp ; four smaller tents, or pologi, belonging to the merchant Bereshnoi, and to the richest of our drivers, were pitched near it ; and the sledges were drawn up, so as to form an outer circle, within which the dogs were tethered. This arrangement afforded entire security from any unforseen attack by bears, for they could not approach the camp without bein g discovered at some distance by the keen s cen t o f th e dogs. The weather was beautiful, and we availed ourselves of the bright evening twilight to warm Ourselves before lying down to rest, by practising shooting and throwing spears at a mark. A piece of ice was made to represent the bear, certain spots on it were marked as the eyes, the nose, and the heart, and whoever hit one of them obtained a right to join in the next bear-hunt. During these exer cises some of the party were engaged in repairing the damages which the sledges had undergone among the hummocks ; others in skinning and cutting up the bear which had been killed and preparing supper, &c. In doing this, the greatest frugality was observed in respect to wood ; the care of the fuel was entrusted to one of the Cossacks, whose duty it was to see that the least pos sible quantity was employed in boiling the tea and soup, to extinguish the fire the moment the cooking was over, and to preserve every fragment of wood, or of embers, for the next day's use. We were no less careful in respect to provisions." FOREIGN Q UARTERLY REVIEW. No. 66. Chapman and Hull London, 1844. 9 The modern Fsench novelists, more especially Balzac and George . Sand, are discussed at some length in the opening article in this Number. The Reviewer is an ardent admirer of Sand, and under takes to defend him--or rather her, for though as suming a man's name, the author is a female—from the charge of immorality in her numerous works of fiction. The defence is more ingenious than suc cessful, for few who have read " Jacques" can hesi tate to pronounce it an immoral production. Of Balzac, we are told, " there are few Frenchmen who write so incorrectly, none more detestably. Not to speak of his neologisms, nor of his use of active verbs in passive tenses, his style is crabbed, prolix, startling, and affected. French, in his hands, is no longer the light, idiomatic, easy, pointed, bril liant language we know it, but unwieldy, unintelli gible, and perverse!! These are great drawbacks to a novelist's popularity; but then, to make amends, Balzac possesses infinite vigour and minuteness of description, and a knowledge, of character unsur passed; if equalled, by any of his contemporaries. The " French and English Bar" furnishes an admir able sketch of the celebrated living advocates, Dupin and I3erryer, the latter of whom is the most eloquent, earnest, and intrepid lawyer in France. In the article on the " German Newspaper Press," the Reviewer 'remarks that this press is without in terest, without influence, without character, without sympathy, and is wholly devoid of all external autho rity. The article is written with ability, and to all appearance, in a strictly dispassionate spirit. In the " Anglo-Indian Army" we find, inter alia, a digest of the late memorable proceedings of our troops in the Affghanistan campaigns. Of the few remaining articles, the most entertaining is the quizzical notice of M. Alfred Michael's " Narrative of a Visit to England." COLLOQUIES CHIEFLY ON POETRY. Orr and CO., London, 1844. "A few months ago," says the author of this work, " L as a printer, commenced undesignedly and with out manuscript, a page whimsically headed Collo quies on Poetry.' The one page germinated and be came two hundred, forming an unpretending volume, the first, it is presumed, that since the birthday of typography, has ever been mentally and mechanically the exclusive work of one individual unassisted throughout by copy, and subject moreover to con tinual disconnecting contingencies, comprehensible only to such as are acqua i n t e d with the fitful routine of a provincial jobbing-office." A volume produced, under the circumstances here stated may certainly be deemed a " Curiosity of Li terature" as remarkable as any recorded by D'lsraeli ; but it is something better than a mere curiosity, for thougluthe author's manner, as might be expected, is throughout his "Colloquies" studiously involved, and not always in strict accordance with grammatical propriety, yet his matter is frequently very good, and in the instance of his observations on the poetry of Wordsworth, show that he is a just and subtle thinker, and by no means deficient in critical perspicacity. A TRIP TO ITALY. Mitchell, London, 1844. In this slender octavo volume we have an account, by a barrister, of a trip made to Italy during the last long vacation. The author quitted England by way of Southampton, whence he embarked, per steam, for Havre, and thence for Rouen, of whose fine church of St. Ouen, which is the admiration of every tourist in France, he gives a brief but vivid descrip tion. There is nothing in his account of his Italian trip which demands particular notice. He travelled, with scarcely one exception, over perhaps the most hacknied ground in Europe, and adds little to our stock of information respecting the towns, and cities, and picturesque landscapes which he visited. He narrates easily and Veasantly enough, but his obser vations are all exceedingly superficial ; and his work is better suited to please a private party of friends, than the public at large. WILLIAM CAXTON. C. Knight, London, 1844. This is a biographical memoir of the celebrated printer, William Caxton, of whom it may be remem bered, Jonathan Oldbuck, in Scott's " Antiquary," was so enthusiastic an admirer, and whom he was so proud to claim as his ancestor. The memoir is very minute and circumstantial in its details; is em bellished with several apt wood-cuts, and forms the first volume of Mr. Knight' s " Weekly Volume for all Readers." HISTORY OF CHINA. Vol. I. Allen, London, 1844. Mr. Thornton, the author of this work, of which the first volume only is as yet published, has under taken a most difficult task in attempting to give an account of China from the earliest records down to so late a period as the treaty with Great Britain, in the year 1844. He is, as we learn from his prefa , le, a decided believer in the authenticity of the earliest Chinese chronicles, observing, in justification of his theory, that " there exists (and, according to the na tive authors, always has existed) a Tribunal of His tory in China, the peculiar functions of which are to record the events of each reign, and to protect these records from sophistication ; and instances will be ob served in Chinese history of attempts made by legi timate Princes, as well as usurpers, to falsify the annals, which have been defeated by the honesty of the, guardians." In the more civilised periods of the world's history there Might, unquestionably, exist a Chinese tribunal of the nature which Mr. Thornton describes, but the Chinese annals pro fess to reach back to the very infancy of mankind, and surely there could be no native chroniclers at that pri mitive and benighted period ! The volume before us commences with the year 2205, before the Christian era—an epoch whose annals must surely be apochry phal, if not altogether fabulous —and concludes with the Tcin, or seventh Chinese dynasty, A.D. 420. The volume evinces a' world of curious and frequently entertaining research ; but the last half of it is the most useful and instructive, because there the histo rian is treading on somewhat firmer ground, and is not so frequently compelled to resort to the aid of speculation and conjecture. The work is embellished with a map of China on a most enlarged scale, and drawn up apparently with the most scrupulous regard to geographical accuracy. ROMAN REMAINS IN THE ClT Y .—L as t wee k , i n the course of some excavations which are being made in Huggin-lane, Upper Thames-street t for the formation of a sewer, the men discovered an ancient Roman wall, about thirty yards from Upper Thames-street. It extended about 50 feet up the centre of the lane, and was about 4 feet wide, about 3 feet from the surface, and 6or 7 feet deep It was composed of flint stones, bricks, and mortar, irregularly intermixed, and so firmly cemented that an iron wedge was obliged to be used to separate the mass. A few days pre vious, while digging in Bread - street-hill, an adjoining thoroughfare on the west of Huggin-lane, leading out of Upper Thames-street, two other Roman walls, of a similar construction, about 5 feet from each other, were found, and . which form a junction with the wall Huggin-lane. These two walls, which front the river, it is supposed, extend a considerable way westward, as when the earth was opened to make a sewer, last year in Fye-foot-la ne , th ey reac h e d there ; ar.d as some remains of a Roman wall, within the last day or two, have been met in Peter's-hill, several hundreds of yards westward. A greatnumber of red R oman t il es were found, some of which had inscriptions on them, from whi c h circumstance it is concluded by a ntiquarians who have visited the spot, that at this locality, about 1,700 years ago, there was a Roman temple. Amidst the gravel, which was a few feet from the surface at the end of Bread-street-hill, were the ruins of what appeared to have been a first-rate Roman mansion. There were, throughout a distance,- et several feet, fragments of walls, many pieces p' whiph beautiful fresco paintings on them, CM Ona of tliaiit the honey-suckle flower wee distinctly trcPti, Tbare Were also a few pieces of Roman teggelato pavement, besides which were some Roman and silver cows, ono of which'lyf : q. of the reign of Vespasian, - • BIRMINGHAM ELEC TION. RETURN OF MR. SPOONER. For some days past nothing else has been talked of either in the, public streets, in places of business, or in private s.iciety, but this election. There seemed, from the first, to be but one opinion as to the result, in tie event of the three candidates going to the poll. The announcement of Mr. Sturge's de termination not only to proceed to the poll, but to keep it open to the last, filled Mr. Spooner's friends with delight, and struck the supporters of Mr. Schole field with dismay. Mr. Sturge himself never dreamt of success, but conceiving that he had preferable claims to Mr. Scholefield, having been in the field several years ago, and retired in favour of Mr. Muntz, to prevent a diversion in the Liberal interest, considered himself unfairly and unhanisomely treated by Mr. Scholefield's friends, in putting that gentleman forward to oppose him. The intense interest felt in the result of the election was strikingly exhibited by the aspect of the streets this morning. Every where the eye was attracted by colossal placards, issued by the various candidates, and in every corner of the town were to be seen small groups of persons talking over the all-engrossing topic. The polling booths were crowded by the friends of the several candidates a considerable time before the proce,s of polling commenced. At eight o'clock, when the poll opened, many of the booths, seventeen in number, were literally besieged by the more zealous supporters of the respective candidates, all eager to record their votes, in the hope that others would be induced to follow their example, and that con sequently a favourable start would be made in favour of their side. From eight in the ulorning till three o'clock, when the constituency were pretty nearly exhausted, cars were to be seen flying about in all directions, hurrying to the poll those of the electors who pre preferred to be conveyed by such means, to the more common-place mode of transit, namely, that of walking. The conflict might be said to have fairly commened with the opening of the poll. From that hour all was bustle and excitement in every part of the town, and the constest was carried on with remarkable spirit until two o'clock, when despair began to take pos session of the friends of Mr. Scholefield. The state of the poll had by that time, as will be seen by the figures which follow, assumed an utterly hopeless aspect for them. The following is the state of the poll at the various hours from eight in the morning till four in the afternoon : HALF-PAST EIGHT O'CLOCK. Spooner Scholefield Sturge NINE O'CLOCK Spooner Seholefield Sturge TEN O'CLOCK TWELVE O'CLOCK. Spoorer Scholefield Sturge Spooner Scholefield Sturge ELEVEN o'CLocK. Spooner Scholefield ONE O'CLOCK Spooner Scholefield Sturge _ 255 - Two o'CLocx Spooner Scholefield Sturge . 281 - THREE O'CLOCK. Spooner Scholefield Sturge CK—CLOSE. Sturge FOUR o'C Spooner Scholefield Sturge 345 Mr. Scholefield's committee gave Mr. Spooner three more votes than reported by his own friends. Throughout the whole day the best feeling prevailed in the borough, but it was not a little remarkable to oh serve the impression amongst the working classes in favour of Mr. Spooner. There can be no question that Mr. Scholefield's defeat is in a great degree to be attributed to the disunion created in the, Liberal ranks by the condnct of Mr. Sturge; but still, as will be seen by the numbers polled by Mr. Spooner, the opinions which he represents have made a great advance. At the first election, when Mr. Spooner started, he polled only 940; at the second, 1,800; and now his third and successful attempt, 2,101. After the state of the poll had been declared, Mr. SPOONER presented himself at one of the windows of the Public• office, and was received with a burst of enthusiastic cheers from the electors, who occupied the whole of the street in front of the building. When the acclamations had subsided, the Hon. Gentleman said, he thanked the electors sincerely for the honour which they had conferred. It was a common adage, " When rogues fell out, honest men came by their own."— (Laughter and cheers.) This had been verified by the result of the contest which they had that day brought to so glorious and triumphant a close. He could only thank his numerous friends, canvassers, and agents, for their incessant exertions in his behalf. He was well aware that me❑ were too apt to attribute such effects to the personal claims of the individual in whose behalf they were made ; but in this instance he was satisfied it was not the character of the man, but the cause in which they were embarked that had contributed to their sue cess.—(" No, no," and cheers.) He believed he had been merely the humble instrument in achieving a victory, the benefits of which he sincerely trusted would be sensibly felt by the borough which be now had the honour to represent.—(Cheers.) He hoped they would permit him to offer to the Conservative electors of Bir mingham his congratulations on their having achieved a share in the representation of the borough, to which they were justly entitled, and which ought never to have been refused, and which he boldly affirmed would never be rescued from the party into whose hands it had now been committed.—(Loud cheers.) He had also to con gratulate them that the name of "Radical Birmingham" had been extinguished, and that the Whig faction, who had so long attempted to govern the town, had been brought to its proper level.—(Hear, hear.) They had suffered, most justly suffered, the defeat which they merited, and which invariably attended all wrong headed politicians, who foolishly led men to lengths which their judgments condemned.—(Loud cheers.) Mr. Spooner, in continuation, observed that as there were many present who had not had an oppor tunity of hearing him express his sentiments on the pre vious day, he would repeat what he then said, in order that there might be "no mistake" in the minds of any of his supporters as to his political opinions. The lion. Gentleman here entered into a recapitulation of the leading topics of his speech at the nomination, and pro ceedel to say, that so long as the present Government adhered to the spirit of the Constitution—so long as they carried out those principles which had placed them in power—so long might they depend on his support ; but he hesitated not to say that a devialion from that con stitutional course on the part of her Majesty's Ministers would meet that opposition from him which he was sure his constituents would wish him to offer.— (Cheers.) He was free to confess that events had lately taken place in Parliament which were not cal culated to raise that House in the estimation of the country. There had been two or three Ministerial measures which had been handled and dealt with in a manner unworthy of the men who had the conduct of them, and unsatisfactory to the country at large. Twice or thrice had the House of Commons come to solemn decisions on the most important national points, and as often, at the bidding of the Miilister of the day, rescinded those decisions and exhibited a weakness and imbecility unworthy of the British Senate.—(Hear, and applause.) The Hon. Gentleman, in conclusion, complimented the Mayor for the firmness and impartiality which he had exhibited in the discharge of the onerous duties of his office, and which was worthy of all praise ; and retired from the window amidst loud and enthusiastic cheers. Mr. SPOONER subsequently addressed a meeting of the non-electors in the large room of the Public-office, and on his return to his bank in New-street was loudly cheered by the populace. Neither of the other candidates made their appearance at the close of the poll, nor was any public demonstra tion made by their friends. Indeed it is reported that Mr. Sturge left town by the 2 p.m. train for Gloucester, and " has not since been heard oft" The official declaration of the poll will be made on Monday, at 12 o'clock, but we need scarcely say that it will not affect in the slightest degree the final result, CAPTAIN ,WARNER'S SHELL.—Consi derable interest has been excited during the last week among naval and military circles, by an intimation, very generally circulated, to the effect that a trial of Captain Warner's newly-invented explosive power, for destroy ing ships, fortresses, &c., would be made off Brighton Chain Pier on Saturday. The experiment was an nounced to be upon a very large scale. Mr. Joseph Somes the eminent ship-owner, who is believed to be somewhat sceptical as to the action of Captain Warner's formidable missile, having granted a large ship of be tween 300 and 400 tons burthen, named the John o'Gaunt, for the purpose of being experimentalised upon, a considerable number of scientific gentlemen, and some noblemen, who have manifested an interest in the invention, including Viscount Ingesti'e, Lord Loftus, and Lord Longford, left town on Saturday morning, for the purpose of being present at th e promised trial, Captain Warner - having engaged by the discharge of a single shell to blow the ship into a thousand pieces. On arriving at Brighton, however, the company were greatly mortified at finding that, owing to the prevalence of a strong westerly wind, and the absence of any steam tug to contend against it, the John o'Gaunt had not been able to make Brighton; nor, from the best informa tion that could be obtained, was it supposed that she had been able to reach Dungeness. Under these cireum stances a postponement of the experiment was absolutely necessary, and the company returned to town not a little chagrined at the disappointment they had experienced. A large number of military officers who had been pre sent at the review were to have gone down by the two o'clock train, and a special train had been engaged to convey them home in the evening; but fortunately an express which was forwarded to London by Captain Warner, arrived in time to prevent their leaving town. It is now expected that the experiment will be made on Tuesday. Frequently, since the establishment of the low rates of postage, it has been found that letter bags, on being opened at the Post-office, emitted a stench scarcely en durable, but as nothing appeared on the face of the let ters or parcels to account for this strange circumstance ; the cause remained unknown until within a few days back. The discovery took place in this ways find we have positive authority for stating the fact :—A packet was posted in country town, addressed to a surgeon ihen London, the envelop es of which, on its arrival at t General Post-office, having been almost destroyed by a quantity of blood haying oozed out, it was carefully , ex awined, and found to contain a portion of a human body, evidently forwarded for the purpcses of dissection, The ?Men - tie - a of the authorities was immediately called to the shocking fact, and we understand that measures have since been adopted to prevent any recurrence of so dis ^-i et ng an outrage on public fe e li ng , and :;o:;o abuse of the facilities of comm un i cat i r - g •- rOSS an rookitle.44.-Observcr. Afforded by the A PREMIER'S MODEST I. RAILWAY BILL. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sra,—Our glorious Dictator, Sir Attila Mar plot, improves daily ! every evening's discussion in the House, develops some new virtue—some cap tivating grace. The latest gem which has turned up from the exhaustless mine of his merits is—his astounding modesty ! _ At file fag-end of an exhausting session to a fatigued remnant of legislators, he brings forward a Bill founded on an enormously voluminous report of packed evidence (see Mr. Russel's speech), the said Bill affecting only some seventy millions of invested capital, and an equal amount purposed, or expected, to be invested in like manner. Some of the Members, i4verting to the immense 'importance of the question, request an adjournment, that they may have a little more time to consider it ; and this modest Minister (this Cabinet Cymon!) actually snubs the parties in the manner which Dr. Birch may be supposed to assume towards his refrac tory school-boys preparatory to a horse-ing ! ! ! The cool insolence with which Ministers and Mem bers now assume the right of meddling with the private enterprises of the British people, is really exemplary. A few weeks since Lord Ashley proposed to regu late the hours of labour of half a million of opera tives. Sir Attila Marplot has just passed through the House a Bill shackling the whole currency of the empire, and now he modestly proposes to transfer (in effect) to Government the management —nay, almost existence—of railways (ride the able comments of the Times of Tuesday,) and actually hectors at Members who dare to ask a day or two to consider his exqui sitely modest propositions. Ile has lately adopted a new trick— -(is there not a character in one of Dickens's works named " the Artful Dodger ?")—this is, to request that the House will be so polite as to suffer his Bills to be read a second time (almost as a matter of form), and to take objections at the next stage. Now 1 have always un derstood that the passing the second reading of a Bill sanctioned its principle, and that future opposition was understood to be limited to matters of detail ; so that his request is, " declare that it is right to limit the profits on railways, and you can afterwards decide if we shall insert 10 or 11 per cent." COMMON SENSE. P.S.—Another beautiful specimen of Sir Attila's modesty is to be found in his justification of these enormous grasps at power : " What motive," says the bashful Minister, " can Government have, except the desire to benefit the public, in bringing forward measures unpalatable to great and powerful bodies ?" " What motive," might Caesar have said, " can I have to desire to be made perpetual Dictator, and absolute disposer of the lives and properties of the Roman people, except a desire to benefit them ?" Johnny is certainly tolerably thick-sculled, but does the " bashful Baronet " really think this will pass? CRIME IN Famsen.—Ninety-five parricides in ten years! This is the progress of morality since it has been attempted to render it independent of religion ; this is the progress of what M. Guizot, in his doc trinary neologism, would call laic morality. We may, at the same time, be permitted to believe that the Pro 7 cureur-General alluded only to such parricides as have been condemned, and by public punishment have satis fied human justice. How many have escaped the . axeof tbe law? Ninety-five condemnations imply m o re than ninety-five,• accusations, and it would be very rash to conclude that every one .of those who lave been ac quitted was innocent. It is not enough, then, to set down the number of.parricides in ten years at_only.ninety five. Still this number was sufficient to alarm the people, ordinarily so frivolous, who seek in the Court of Assizes and the scenes it discloses for emotions and ex citement. It has become the topic of conversation in every society, and is commented on with strange feel ings. The application of extenuating circumstances to the case of Rousselet, an application which is badly understood, or not at all comprehended, seems to have added to the general terror. People ask them selves, why was this indulgence granted to a man who had not only acknowledged his guilt, but who publicly detailed all the circumstances of his crime, and hoped to find exculpation by making a charge of complicity, which was not only denied, but was legally proved not to have existed ? Was the jury wanting to the law ? Was the law wanting in justice ? We repeat these questions which we have heard put—but who can dare to answer them ? There are frequently, in the administration of criminal justice, mysteries so profound that every man of true conscience must humble himself. before them. However, amidst all the uncertainties, there is one fact, unfortunately, but too certain—the constant and almost regular increase in the number of crimes since 1130. This is a subject of painful reflection, not only for the men who govern, but also for those who, through the press, have influence over the public mind. It would be well to search out the causes of the evil thus spreading over society, and the means by which its progress may be stopped.— Quotidienne. ABUNDANCE or MONEY.—A feature in the state of the Money Market, as respects the transactions of the present week, is that the Reduced Three per Cent. Annuities have touched par, while the Three per Cent. Consols have realised—the half-yearly dividend included —lOO4. Such is the abundance of money, notwith. standing the various and increasing means of employ ment aftbrded by the railway and other companies, now so numerously brought before the public, that almost any amount of stock, probably hundreds of thousands excepted, would meet with immediate purchasers, if offered in the open market. The statement we made on this day week, that the surplus revenue of the financial year ending on the sth of April last, about 600,000 L, would be applied in diminution of the Funded or Unfunded Debt, appears to have been very nearly correct. - A much larger sum, however, is to be ex pended in the cancellation of Exchequer Bills than was anticipated. It appears by the notice from the Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury, that in the quarter ending on the 10th of October next there will be applied to the purchase of Stock, in aid of the Sinking Fund, 23,856/. 17s. 4d., and in taking up Exchequer Bills, made out in pursuance of the Act Sad George 111., 500,0001. Inclusive of the sums received as donations and bequests, the total to be invested in the way just stated will be 527,4031. 4s. 2d., being one-fourth part of the income of the United Kingdom shove the expendi ture in the year ending the sth of April last. The daily purchases of stock in recinction of the Debt will be soon over, but the investnionts by the Government brokers for the Savings' Banks and the Courts of Chancery and Bankruptcy form in the aggregate too formidable a sum to induce Bear speculators to operate with much con fidence. In short, this class of operators are becoming gradually almost extinct, though extraordinary political events would doubtless resuscitate them. The principal transactions in the British securities this week have not ranged higher than from 15,0901, to 40,0001. or 50,000/. —Observer. A.PPREHUNNON Or A GANG or. CorxEßs.—lnfor- Illation having been received by the police that a gang of coiners were in the habit of assembling together at a house situate in Half-moon.alley, Miltell-street, St. Luke's, for the purpose of manufacturing counterfeit c o i n , an d that in order to elude the vigilanep and suspicion of the police they carried on their illicit trad e on S un d ays, I nspector Penny, Redman 224, And Sergeant Brennan, 20 G, determined on visiting the place yesterday morning at eleven o'clock, for the purpose of making a capture of the delinquents, and being given to un derstand that they would have a desperate party to en counter, they armed themselves, in order to prepare for re • sistance, On their arrival at the house they were arranged so as to make a safe capture, and acting upon the information they had received, cautiously proceeded up st a i rs t o th e second floor, whore they overheard voices and parties at work, evi dently coining. 'The door was barred and fastened inside, but the officers instantly burst through, and discovered a man sitting before a large fire with a plaster of Paris mould excel lently executed, for the purpose of making sixpences. A woman and a girl were also in the room assisting in the manufacture. The woman screamed and the girl fainted away. The man, however, smashed some moulds under his feet, and swallowed several counterfeit shillings that had been fresh made, and by which he was nearly choked. The officers, finding they had a desperate character to deal with, commenced securing him with handcuffs, but he fought, bit, and kicked at them like a madman. The officers searched the room, and found plaster of Paris mouids, Queen's metal, pewter, tin, salt and water, SCiseers, and all the implements applicable to the purpose of coining, and also a quantity of base coin newly made, with " Gets," all of which were so hot that Inspector Penny's hands were much burnt in seizing them. The officers took possession of everything in the shape of evidence, and secured the priscatere, in spite of considerable opposi tion from the snob that had assembled, The male pri soner gays his name Henry Brown, the elder woman Emma l3rnwn, and the girl Eliza Jones, it appears that the party had for some time past oco4pled the apartment in the above house, and numerous persons of suspicious character were in the habit of visiting their place, no doubt for the purpose a purchasing and manufacturing base coin. Sergeant Brennan was very severely injured, in consecinenoe of the extreme violence and resistance of the male prisoner, who is known as a perfect adept in the nefarious traffic for which he was apprehended. MOORISH DESIONS.—Th e Emperor of Morocco is raising troops in Europe. Already the Brussels journals announce that several scores of Braves Beiges have been en listed, and are on their way to Abd-01-Rahman. We need not French soldiers to destroy these paltry mercenaries. Let the Government hi re half the number of Dutchmen. But there is a nation of much greater importance, which is busy in the Aeld against us—a nation always perfidious and ready to wreak against France its diabolical ill-will, We need not spy we allude to England. A well-informed correspondent from London writes—" War will be declared next month." I have this intelligence from the most positive authority. All the gun-makers of London are busy preparing arms mense provisions of lead and powder are makin(ii CiAilY, I myself went with Sir Bouledog (a ylngooxßa:lft her of the Upper House) to inspect , which he selected two formidald Mitrum of nig, and aeons, asked for what purpose, ho ;*eilliQd with calmness I - . My . good frien OS d 8, Iw4 A party are off to the M oors. " T he day is fixed f thQ 14h of August, h a lf the young aristo crats pi' pngland. have given themselves rendezvous in Mo- Kcge j and this is our ally—this is the entente cordiale, this is England, In a word. W e summon the Minister; we adjure the insulted nation ; we recal the wrongs of eight centuries of hatred ; we demand, is this true ?—The National (translated by Punch). 'We announce with much pleasure the abolition of slavery in the British settlement of Hong-Kong. The ordi nance issued for this purpose has appea r ed i n th e Hong-bong Gazette.—.4nti- Slavery Reporter. A GENUINE Bum..—An Irish papor lately gave an account of a duel, and announced the result of the meeting in these words:--" The oho party was severely wounded the chest : in =' t 4.0 the Bled in the air," que4-; who 7:minded the sufferer? Mr. Bunn left Lgndon last evening for Italy, to make engagements Pox the ensuing season at Drury-lane ROYAL COMYIISSION OF FINE ARTS. The final meeting of the Commissioners of Fite Arts for the present season took place, on Friday last, at Gwydyr house, Whitehall, when the opinion of that body on the merits of the respective artists emitributing to the exl►i~i tion of fresco paintings now on view in Westminster Hall was formerly pronounced, by the selection of six from among their number, whom it has been determined to commission to execute works on given subjects for the decoration of the new Houses of Parliament. The Commissioners present were :—Viscount Palmerston, Lord Mahon, Lord Colborne, Mr. Macaulay, Mr. G. Knight, Mr. Hawes, and Mr. Vivian. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, the president, and the other absent Commissioners, having previously recorded their opinions in favour of the artists selected, no difficulty arose from their non-attendance; and some preliminary business having been transacted, the names of the successful competitors were declared as follow : Charles West Cope, Hyde Park-gate, Kensington-gore. John Calcott Horsley, 1, High-row, Kensington Gravel Pits. William Dyce, IA, Royal-terrace, Adelphi. Daniel Maclise, 14, Russell-place. Fitzroy-square. Richard Redgrave, Hyde Park-gate, Kensington. William Cave Thomas, 27, Baker-street, Portman-square. Mr. Cope, the first-named gentleman, r e ce i ve d a first class prize f 3001. for his cartoon of " The First Trial by, Jury," in the exhibition of 1843. He has only one subject , in the present exhibition, a fresco, marked No. 53 in the catalogue, and entitled " The Meeting of Jacob and Rachel." Mr. Horsley received a second- class prize of 200/. in 1843 for his cartoon of " St. Augustine Preaching to Ethelbert and Bertha, his Christian Queen." He has two frescoes in the present exhibition, the one No. 9, entitled "Prayer," the border to which was designed and painted by Mr. Owen Jones, and the other, No. 63, entitled "Peace." Mr. Dyce's name did not appear in the catalogue of the Cartoon Exhibition last year, but he has an exquisite sub ject' among the frescoes now exhibiting. It is marked No. 66 in the catalogue, and entitled " Two Heads from a Com position respecting the Consecration of Archbishop Parker in Lambeth Chapel, A.D. 1559." Mr. Maclise, the well-known artist, contributes to the pre sent exhibition a magnificent fresco, thus unpretendingly de scribed in the catalogue—" No. 74. The Knight." Mr. Redgrave, a name also not appearing in the catalogue of 1843, is the artist of No. 51 among the frescoes now ex hibiting. It had excited considerable notice, and is entitled " Loyalty "—Catherine Douglas barring the door with her arm to withstand the assassins of James I, of Scotland. Mr. Thomas was a successful competitor in 1843, having received an additional premium of 1001. for his cartoon of " St. Augustine preaching to the Britons." He contributes to the present exhibition three subjects, a cartoon, a fresco, and an oil-painting, respectively marked—" No. 52. The Throne of Intellect ; ' "No. 54. Philosophy ;" "No. 55. The Throne of Intellect." It is understood that the commission to each artist will be to execute a cartoon upon a given subject, to be afterwards transferred to fresco in the usual manner, for the decoration of the interior of the House of Lords. The six subjects are, it is supposed, intended to fill the six panels, forming the in terior of that apartment. One most important feature is decided upon by the Com missioners —viz., that they are not to be bound to adopt the work of any one of the above six individuals, but that artists generally are invited to compete, on the full understanding that the best executed subject will be selected. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. . Poirrsmotrrx, JULY 14.—The Cornwallis, 72, Captain Richards, flag of Vice-Admiral Sir William Parker, U.C.8., is expected to arrive in England about the 12th proximo. She left Madras for Ceylon en route on the 18th of - Mav, and was accompanied as far as Trincomalee by the Pilot; 16, = commander W. H. Jervis. She was to touch at the Cape, St. Helena, and Ascension. She has supernumeraries from . the squadron on the station she has left, and will be paid off . at Plymouth it is confidently calculated upon. The Queen, 110, Captain Sir Charles Sullivan, Bart., was paid off, all standing, on Thursday. She will be rec9mmis sioned after the stripping of the Camperdown, which will oc cupy the crew of the latter about a week ; the bfficers and crew will then be transferred to the Queen, who - kill trailt stripping,:and get her into dock for overhaul and refit: . The Childers, 16, Commander Wellesley, was paid off. on Thursday. The crew received their wages at the Pay-office ofthe royal dockyard, as in the case of the Wanderer. She- •. was dismasted - on Friday morning, preparatory to entering dock for repair. ' The Isis, 44, Captain Sir J. Marshall, 8.C.H., is ex pected home from the Cape station early in October to be: paid off. The Lightning steam-vessel. Master Commander William Roberts, arrived from Sheerness on Wednesday, and sailed on Thursday evening for Chatham, with the marines from the Queen. The Vindictive, 50, Captain J. Toup Nicolas, was at Val paraiso on the 16th April, awaiting the arrival of the Carys fort, 26, Captain the Right Hon. Lord George Paulet, from Mazatlan, with 2,000,000 dollars aboard, which would be transhipped to the Vindictive immediately on her arrival, when she (Vindictive) would sail for England. The Dido, 18, Captain Keppel, is expected in England in November to be paid off, orders for her return having been sent out to her on the East India station by the last over mail. The Fisguard, 42, Captain Duntze, was at Callao on the 24th of April, all well. The Prometheus, steam sloop, Commander J. Hay, ar rived at Gibraltar last, f rom T ang i er, on the 24th of June. She made the passage from this port to Tangier in six days. She left Gibraltar on the 26th ult. for Ascension and St. Helena. Strong winds have been blowing the last few days, upon. this coast, which yesterday increased in violence, and towards; night were very severe; the water rose and dashed over the ramparts of the town during the night with fearful rapidity; the wind continues blowing this morning if possibl e w ith greater force, due west. The Resistance troop-ship is refitting iu harbour. The Nautilus, 10, Lieutenant-Commander W. Tringharn, came into harbour from cruising off the Sussex coast, and was paid wages on Thursday. The Collingwood, 80, Captain Eden, flag-ship of Rear- Admiral Sir George Seymour, will leave the harbour for Spithead on the 20th inst. Tio Alligator troop-ship, Master-Commander J. N. Ring, was at Singapore on the 12th of April. The Larne, 15, Commander Brisbane, was at the Cape Verde Islands on the 15th of April. The Spartan, 26, Captain the Hon. C. G. J. B. Elliott, ar rived at Jamaica from Port au Prince on the 2d ult. The Rapid, 10, Lieutenant-Commander G. C. Earle, sailed on a cruise from Sierra Leone on the 21st of May. No commissions have yet arrived for the experimental brig squadron. There are some fine specimens of the genuine tar anxiously on the look out for the hoisting the pendant. In Harbour—Queen, Collingwood, Victory, Excellent, Childers, Rattlesnake, Resistance troop-ship, and Echo steam vessel. In Dock—Victoria and Albert, Prince Regent, Rodney, Scourge, Pantaloen, Waterwith, Lily, Wanderer, Athol, and Seaflower. DIWONPORT JULY 12.—The St. Vinc en t, 120, CP..ptain Rowley, arrived from Spithead yesterday morning. She will here receive her final orders. The Adventure transport, Mr. Roskilly master, sailed for Woolwich and Deptford on Sunday, with Stores. The Swift packet, 6, having refitted, sailed on Saturday for Falmouth. to take out the next Brazilian mail_ The Sinbad lighter sailed on Wednesday for Portsmouth and Deptford, with stores. The Madagascar, 44, Captain Foote, is daily expected here from the Coast of Africa. On arrival it is expected she will be ordered to refit, and be forthwith dispatched to augment the squadron off the coast of Morocco. In Harbour—San Josef and Confiance. In the Sound—St. Vincent. PROMOTIONS. Lieutenant—Charles H. Douglas (1839) to the rank of commander. APPOINTMENTS. Captain —W. F. Martin, of the Camperdown to the Queen. Commander—l. W. Morgan, to the Queen from the Cain perdown. Lieutenants—A. S. Robinson, to the Porcupine, H. Stokes, to the Tartarus, W. G. Kemsworth, to command the Cres- Cent, vice Donellan, promoted; H. Loring, W. F. F ea d , M. 11. Rodney, C. J. F. Ewart, T. C. 0. D. Whipple, to the Queen; R. Hall to the Queen. Surgeons---J. Robertson (b) to the superintendence of the William Jardin convict-ship; J. Acheson, M.D., to the Vic tory; R. H. Brown, to Haulbowline Hospital, Cove; W. Bruce, .MD to the Queen. Mates—T. P. Cooke, to the Collingwood ;G. Bellis, to the Resistance troop-ship ;J. Simpson, E. H. Blake, G. M. Jack son, and A. P. Arkwright, to the Queen. Chaplain—G. R. Lewin, to the Queen. Assistant-Surgeons—H. Trevan and James Fisher, to the Queen ; John Belcher, to the Virago. Masters' Assistants—M. H. Fowker, to the Victory; G. Beckett and R. T. Browne, to the Collingwood ; J. M. Bushell, from the Tartarus to the Porcupine. Second Masters—J. G. Anderson, to the Queen; F. Fig den, J. North, W. Wilson, and J. Hancock (all acting), to the Queen. Naval Instructor—G. B. Barnes, to the Queen. Paymaster and Purser—T. Jennings, to the Queen ; G. Dowell, to the Apollo. Naval Cadet—W. L. Gordon, to the Porcupine. Midshipmen—R. G. Pochin, to the Resistance ;a. C. Byng, to the St. Vincent; the Hon. J. Byng, to the Excellent. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—As the readers of your paper of the 9th inst. must have been led by your report of the inquest on the body of a child, who was drowned on Saturday last, to a very erro neous estimate of my conduct, I must beg you will do me the justice to insert this positive refutation of the waterman's evidence. When the child was brought into my house, there were not the slightest indications of life remaining. Myers's assertion that the heart was beating is a gross falsehood, for the child was then quite dead. I made use of no such ex pression as " be off with you ;" but I said to the man (who. was in a state of intoxication), " close at hand is Charing- • cross Hospital, where hot-baths and everything necessary im these cases are always in readiness--run thither with the child as quickly as you can ;" at the same time I dispatched with him an assistant, to inform Dr. Golding, and, if neces— sary, to aid in the measures adopted for resuscitation. Tni taking these steps I conceived that I was pursuing the bes means that humanity and prudence could suggest, tlit. hos pital being within two minutes run from my residence, a space of time infinitely shorter than must be consumed in agry private house in getting together and preparing the requisite. utensils and auxiliaries, which at an hospital are cr; ns t a no r ready; affording, therefore, more effective Yuconis for the re storation of life in cases of emergency the. efforts can accomplish wh en they h 4" 7. the best directed -. 0 been delayed. I remain, Sir, vourol 'Lent servant, 369, Strand, July 11,18i'" JAMES SCOTT. BUCKINGHAM. • JULY 13.—The Duke of Buckingham gave a granii enter tainment yesterday at Stone, to the judges, magistrates, • clergy, and to the counsel on the Norfolk Circuit. Above one hundred persons set down to a sumptuous dinner. The gorgeous display of gold and silver plate was truly magni ficent. Amongst the company were, Baron Alderson, who introduced a Prussian judge, the Hi g h Sheriff of the C;tiinty, Lords Brougham and Nugent, the Bishop of Lincoln,-Sit- • Thomas Aubrey, Bart, Chairman of the Quarter Sesition%; Sir J. Chetwode, Sir Harry Vesey, the Mayor of Bucking,. ham, &c. Justice Williams was detained in Court tit aidle hour, and was prevented attending the banquet, This morning Baron Alderson proceeded to Bedford, to, open the Commission. J u sti c e Williams is likely t o b e de-- tamed in Court the whole of the clay, was Baron Alderson of , in passiugSWee 0:b t l :John Flolhro - ,A; w ho . - f,cic of wheat, said that i n tory it we tAis convicted setting f I all cases of arson,. yi t ieve 4e N a evidence was clear and sie/ie.:- 4 ion to transport for lif e . The i e jire 7, 41 c 4 '"l' arson on the Cir cu it, and particularly' id 01) , ‘. • A.Norfolk, and Cambridgeshire. On the 17th and 18th of this month a temperance and peacft festival will be held in the Park at Hartnell-house) neat: Aylesbury, the residence of D r . L ee . A l arge compan y is ex pected. . - ~~ 1 and tiff to ticles. Nard6 Con rraed with onsi in in c 0 0 raziL at' a air hop' the the t• SPY ,ho of en no