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EVENING EDITION. Captain Gaskin further informs us, that there were four or five parties of them, from 10 to 20 in each party. That none of the parties, save that mentioned in the above ex tract, were taken. MONTREAL, FRIDAY, Are. 2.—We understand that E. private of the Grenadier Guards, named Daniel Haylock, yesterday threw himself into the river from a raft in front of the barracks. Some of his comrades who happened to be near at band, attempted to save him, but without success. PIRACY AND MURDER. —A dreadful case of piracy and murder occurred on the 14th ult., near Havannah. A Spanish coaster was on her way from Havannah to Trinidad de Cuba, laden with slaves. The slaves mutinied, murdered the captain, officers, and crew of the vessel, together with twenty. six passengers—men, women, and children. A Spanish vessel of war has been sent in pursuit. THE BANK OF THE UNITED STATES. We learn that the Bank of the United States has de clined receiving the deposits of all brokers. An extra ordinary move this, and calculated to be attended by no very agreeable consequences. We may mention that since the establishment of a branch of the United States in New York, the notes of the institution have been kept at a par in that city. Hence the brokers made use of them very freely as remittances to their New York corres pondents. Now, however, under the new arrangement, they will be compelled to forward specie, which specie they must obtain from the Philadelphia Banks. The re sult will Le to drain our banks to a considerable extent, for the benefit of New York.—Bicknees Reporter. TREASURY NOTES. Treasury Department, Aug. 1, 1839. Amount issued under the provision of the Act of October 12, 1837, viz.:— Dollars. Dollars. 10,000,000 00 Or that issue there has been redeemed 8,627,105 46 Leaving outstanding In lieu of those redeemed there has been issued un der Act of May 21, 1838 5,709,810 01 Of that issue there has been 4,776,45 0 42 redeemed Leaving of that issue out -933,359 59 standing Aggregate of fist and se cond issues outstanding The issues under the pro visions of the act of the 2d of March, 1839, amount to Of that issue there has been redeemed •• 3,100 00 1,306,254 13 3,8.54,176 21 Making the agreement of all outstanding 5,160,430 34 LEVI WOO )BUIZY, Secretary of the Treasury. NEW YORK MONEY MARKET, Ava. 7. This is packet day. Exchange on London has fallen. There are plenty of sellers on London at 109 to 1091, and but few bui erg. Some of the bill brokers, whose operations are unusuaily large, have not negotiated a bill. &mac descriptions of stocks were a little higher. On the whole Vac symptoms in the Money Market to-day were a little more favourable. The rise on the article of flour has been about 75 cents in three wctlis. This may surprise some, but it is not an uncommon occurrence at this period of the year. We bay" recently travelled 200 miles on the Western Canal, at d in 4,1! aat distance did not meet a boat laden with a b rrel o' flaw-. TJe millers are doing very little at this tit,,; in inanu'an.uring. They have worked up all their old wheat, and are working oft their stocks of flour now at market. There is a good deal of old wheat in the hands of the farmers, whose griping cupidity would not let them accept 175 cents a bushel. Now the millers will not give over a dollar. But none, however, is coming to market. The farriers are too much engaged in securing the present crop on the ground to think of anything else. Ic is stated in one of the New Orleans Papers that the Secretary of the Treasury is preparing there a considerable amount of specie to be shipped for New York, so as to reach this city in October. An injunction has been laid on the Middling Interest Bank of Boston by the State Commissioners, prohibiting the circulation of its notes. The bank has a large circula tion,t ut it is believed that its bills will be redeemed. Mr. John M. Fiske, the President, has publishcd a card stating that the causl of the injunctions was in consequence of ...Ale Middling Interest notes having been refused at the counter of the Suffolk Bank, and pledging himself that tie issues of the bank shall be fully redeemed. The Kilby Wink of Boston his resumed the payment of its notes in sprcie. The stock of cotton at S teannah on the Ist instant was 2 240 bales Upland, and 157 bales Sea Island ; holders were shipping the balance of their stocks generally, instead of off,ring it in the market. RATE OF SALES ON TUESDAY AT THE STOCK EXCHANGE. 122 Shares Del. and Hudson Canal 6B 10 do. State Bank 1044 12 do. Atlantic Bank, Brooklyn 96 50 do. Bank of Commerce 984 10 do. American Exchange Company 824 88 do. Ohio Life and Trust 100 do. U. S. Bank llO/ 50 do. Kentucky Bank 774 85 do. Canton Company 344 50 do. Paterson Railroad 52 10 do. Stonington Railroad. 245 do. Harlem Railroad.. 46i 25 do. Vicksiturg 33; 30 do. Syracuse and Utica R. R llll 100 do. Dry Dock Bank 2 do. Bank of New York 50 do. Mechanics' Banking Association Boi 17 do. Manhattan Bank __ . to do. Utica.. THE BOSTON AND LIVERPOOL STEAM SHIPS. -Mr. Cunard, the enterprising proprietor of the line of steam ships to run between Boston and Liverpool, via Halifax, his arrived in town. He came passenger to New York, in the British Queen. He has determined, as we are informed, that the large boats of his line shall run, between Liverpool and Boston, merely stopping at Halifax some hours, to discharge freight aid passengers. Of these boats he has four now build ing at Glasgow, each of 1,260 tons, with engines of 460 h irse pawer. They are upwards of 200 feet long, and 34 feet aide. He has two smaller boats building, for the purpose of keeping up a communication between Pictou and Quebec. Mr. Cunard's line is to commence its trips on the lit May next. In point of steam ships we shall then stand oi a par with New York. We shall have four, and for some time to come she is not likely to have a greater num be r.—Boston Atlas. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. TO-NIGHT (THURSDAY'. Will be presented an entirely new and original Nautical Drama of intense interest and embracing effects of the most startling description, entitled BEN BOATSWAIN ; Or, SAILOR'S SWEETHEARTS. Ben Bowling, Mr. T. P. Cooke. After which the popular Drama of MY POLL AND MY PARTNER JOE. Harry Haulyard, Mr. T. P. Cooffe. To conclude with the Old English Drama of THE LADYE OF LAMBYTHE. Eva, Mrs. Vining. Katherine, Miss Grant. Lucie, Miss Martin. Walter More, Mr. E. F. Saville. Wilbert, Mr. Dale. John the Jester, Mr. Smith. PERU. THE PERUVIANS AND THE BRITISU...-.ThO Buenos Ayrean British Packet of the 18th May contains a letter born the Prefect of the Peruvian Republic to the English Vice-Consul at Way, in which it is stated that his autho rity will no longer be recognised, and his acts as Vice- Cunsul of her Majesty will not be respected ; in other words, his passport is tendered to him, This arose from an interference of the Vice-Consul in behalf of Santa Cruz and some others who were inimical to the Peruvian Go vrrnment. Sixty soldiers were brought by his order from a British vessel of war, who came armed, and, in opposi tion to the Peruvian authority, took those persona from a place cf confinement (so we judge from the communica tion), and carried them on board the vessel. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. Under her MAJESTY'S IMMEDIATE PATRONAGE. THIS EVENING, AUGUST 29, GRAND PROMENADES NIUSICALES ET CHAM- _ PETRES, By the unrivalled Band of this Establishment, Conducted by Mr. Godfrey. Exhibition of the Wonderfully-intense and beautiful new Light KONIXPHOSTIC, Under the superintendence of Mr. H. Carter. And the ERUPTION of MOUNT HECLA. Admission One Shilling. Feeding Hour Five o'Clock—Concert at Six. In compliance with the incessant requests to secure places for viewing the Eruption a number of reserved seats have been erected, which may be engaged by previous application at the Walworth entrance. COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON INTELLIGENCE, SAILINGS. AUG. 23d, 430 A. M.—Ariel schooner, Almon Hill, Esq., for Havre. Light airs S. W. 24th, 10 15 A. M.—Wanderer schooner, Earl of Durham, for Guernsey; Aurora cutter, William Beach, Esq , for Weymouth. Fresh breeze W. S. W. 11 40 A.M.—Dolphin schooner, G. H. Acker!, Esq., for Plymouth and other western ports ; Kestrel yawl, Commodore Earl of Yarborough, for Torquay, Plymouth, Cadiz, and Gibraltar ; Cynthia cutter, Richard Frankland, Esq., for Torquay and Plymouth. 4 A. M.—Reindeer cutter, John Moore, Esq., for Tor- quay and Plymouth. Light breeze S. %V. 27th, 7 P. M.—Miranda schooner, Alexander Murray, Esq., M.P., for Cherburg. Light breeze W. N. W. 26th, 11 A.M.—Edith cutter, Joseph Ewart, Esq., -for Plymouth. __ I A.m.—Harriet schooner, John Beardmore, Esq., for Plymouth. 3 p.m —Will-o'th'-Wisp, Sir Robert Harland, Bart., for Ipswich, left for the season. ARRIVALS. At:a. 22d, 8 P. M.—Naiad cutter, William Delaficid, EN.. from Brest. Light airs S. S. E. 27th, 10 a m.—Miranda schooner, Alexander Murray, Esq., from Cherburg. 7 P.M.—Wanderer schooner, Earl of Durham, from Guernsey and Cherburg. Fresh breeze N. W. YACHTS AT AND ABOUT THE STATION. Emeurtaters—Nautilu s Vampire, Elizabeth, Theree, Hebe, Id, Earl St. Vincent, Mary, Breeze, Albatross, Naiad, Phebe, Spider, Sapphire, Amulet, Heron, Gany mede, Giaour, Schooner Julia, N Ruby, Midge. orna, Wanderer, Miranda, Miuhief. The Earl of Durham, who arrived with his family last evening, left this morn i ngf for Southwark House, on a visit to T. Thistlethwayte, Esq . It e is rumoured that his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex is about to pay a visit to Cowes for the benefit of his health. A number of yachtsmen are leaving season ( Septem great many families are daily arriving for th e bathin;g and a bee and October). An accident, which appeared likely to be attended very serious consequences , befel the lady of the Rev. Atkinson on Tuesday afternoon : returning from .a in her pony phaeton the pony shied, and d as h e d off at lilts' utmost speed, and when opposite the direction -post on thp Newp)rt.road, upset the carriage, throwing the lady out, and breaking the carriage ; she was conveyed h ome in another carriage. On inquiry this morning, we are happy to bear she received no very serious injury, and that no bones wer e broken. Newpoar.—Three American gentlemen, driving from this town to Cowes on Saturday evening, were greatly el, rmed at perceiving a large body of fire and smoke traversing a field in advance of them at a rapid rate ; after a minute's reflection, they drove towards it, when it proved to be a waggon loaded with wheat, drawn by four horses; the latter being frightened, bad ran away : they were with difficulty stopped, taken out, and with the assistance of the strangers the waggon upset, but not till nearly all the sheaves were destroyed, as well as the body of the waggon. How the accident originated is not known ; some assert that it was from the axle not being greased, and driving hard to get the corn housed : others, particularly the females, that it was a judgment, in tile shape of a Lucifer, for the farmers using the scythe and raking the corn—we hope and believe the latter statement is not the correct one. LONDON: THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1839. The Wiltshire Independent stated a few days ago that the condition of the agricultural labourers in that shire was not at all improved by the high prices of agricultural produce. But the paragraph is worth studying, and therefore we insert it We regret to state that the condition of the agricultural labourers in Wiltshire is but little, if at all, better than it was in the winter and spring. Bread, made of smutty wheat and of barley, with very low wages, was their por tion then; now, notwithstanding the impetus that has or should have been given to agriculture by the high prices resulting from the Corn-laws, 'pretty nearly the same des cription of food, and the same rate of wages prevail. We have now lying before us a loaf of bread, part of the store of a labouring man in one of the Southern parishes of this county, which, although neither so black nor so bad as some we had occasion to notice early in the spring, is nevertheless far from good, and in our belief unwhole some ; it is made from wheat which, in addition to being smutty, has also been further injured by being mow-burnt. For this very ordinary wheat, the consumer, who is a thresher with a large family, four of whom are quite young, pays 7s. a bushel : the earnings of this man are only Bs. a week ; wiLh such wages how.can ho procure better food ? It must not be imagined that this is a soli tary instance; many more might be recorded from the same neighbourhood. _ _ _ As one reason alleged in favour of the Corn laws is the benefits they confer on the agricultural labourers, some further evidence of the same cha racter as that supplied by the Wiltshire Independent may be appropriately produced. In the House of Commons, on the 15th ult., Mr. WAKLEY stated, that in Devonshire wages had not been raised by the rise in the price of corn, and that notwithstand ing that rise no allowance had been made to the labourers except a little sour cyder. In the Fifth Annual Report of the Poor-law Commissioners, to which we have already adverted, and from which we have extracted one important illustration of the mode in which the Corn-laws . injure the health of the people, we find the following confirmation of Mr. WAKLEY'S assertion and of the paragraph of our Contempora►y : " At a meeting of the guardians of the Newark Union, on the 12th of Novembe r, 1838," says Mr. Hall, an A ss i s: taut Commissioner, " I first heard that barley was begin ning to be mixed with wheat in the bread consumed by the independent labourers; it was soon afterwards apparent that this practice was extensively prevalent. The diet of the inmates of the workhouses, and that portion of the diet of the out-door paupers which they procured in the shape of relief in kind, now exhibited a strange contrast to the food of the industrious and independent man and his family To many guardians it was evicknt that their practice in this respect involved an inconsistency and a departure from sound principle, which it was desirable to remedy ; but it Grantham Union did not appear easy to bring about the change. At length, on the 14th of February, the Board of Guardians of the to attend , than hich no Board that it is my duty discharges its administrative functions with greater ability and consideration, entered the following re• brought forwEtrd solution upon the • `" On t h e minute-book question of the alteration of the bread being last meeting, it wain pursuance of the notice given at the Rutland, seconded 3 1 3 mously resolved, Th y at this Boa Gregory ' proposed Gre by his Grace the Duke of ( 2 1' mixed barle y consun a . rd considering that during corn, independentthe Esci. an dunan - the present high price of brea d la bourers are generally consuming and wheaten barley wheaten flour, whilst bread made wheaten bread is only distribyutednto gso that both to diminish the , bread or the paupers receiving desirous to t t o he re relief in this Union, and being labourerssum resume the 1 consumption of wheaten flour , and the paupers may the sooner be ' EAST INDIA ELECTION. COLONEL SY K ES respectfully entreats those friend who have kindly promised him their votes, and who have recently changed their abode, or may now be absent from home, will do him the favour to inform him of the address to which they wish their proxy papers to be sent. Committee Room, London Tavern, Aug. 26, 1839. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., MORTON OF MORTON'S HOPE. AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. ILLUSTRATED WITH TWO ETCHINGS BY BUSS. THE SEPTEMBER NUMBER OF COLBURN'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE AND HUMOURIST, EDITED BY THEODORE HOOK, Esq., Contains, The Planter's Birth-day. By The Fuegians. the Editor. A Morning Conversation in The Widow Married. By Mrs. Berkeley-square. Trollope ; with Two Illustra- Sketches of Illyria, Italy, and tions by R. W. Buss. the Tyrol. By the Rev. Isaac Moss. By Douglas Jer- G. R. Gleig. rold, Esq. The Life and Times of Peter A Stir among the Letter Priggins. Writers. Close of the Monsoon. 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The SECOND EDITION will Contain the Closing Prices of the British and Foreign Funds, Railway and other Shares, and all the latest Political and Commercial News occur ring in London, or arriving from other parts, up to the Hour of Post. Subscribers in the Country will thus constantly be put in possession of News full Twelve Hours, and en Saturdays, Thirty six Hours earlier than usual, by ordering the Latest, or, SECOND EDITION of " THE SUN." S UN-OFFICE, 112, Strand, London. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning...... 35 minutes after 5. 1 Evening ... 1 minutes after 6. • - . 7 14 F 'A= ) 11& - • 4, 4!) - . ITT 3 A It THE SUN, LONDON, THURgDAi, A consumption of wheaten broad s direct that the breald giVeirt to the paupers shall be of a quality similar to that now ge nerally consuming by the independent labourers in the district of this Union. "' In this passage there is a volume of instruction. Grantham is chiefly an agricultural district, and the words independent labourers mean agricultural labourers. The agricultural labourers of Grantham then, were forced by the high price of agricultural produce in last November to have recourse to a worse species of food than they had been accustomed to use. They were compelled to deteriorate their dear and wholesome wheaten bread by a cheaper and less wholesome grain, which in its unmanufac tured and unfermented state is only used as the food of cattle. That is a distinct and undeniable fact, proving that the agricultural labourers of that spot were injured by the high price of agricultural pro duce. But we find throughout the Report evidence that this high price was " a source of difficulty and distress" to those labourers. Colonel WADE, an Assistant Commissioner, says of the southern counties, that " there were subscriptions among the rate-payers instead of an increase of wages," so that the agricultural labourers who are to be be nefited by the Corn-laws, were only saved from still greater distress than they endure, by charity ; the rate-payers being agriculturists also, took that means to prevent raising the wages to a sum cor responding to the rise in the price of food. Sir JOHN WALSHAM, another Assistant Commis sioner, states, " that the poorer classes o f t h e North have experienced difficulties from the dear ness of flour and oatmeal." We are entitled to con clude, therefore, that the fact so distinctly ascer tained, of the agricultural labourers in the Grantham Union, was common to the agricultural labourers throughout the kingdom, all of whom suffered dis tress, and were forced to live, if possible, worse than before, in consequence of the high price of agricultural produce during the last winter. We have no doubt that all the manufacturing labourers suffered to some extent from the same cause, but we have no such distinct evidence that they were driven to use, as the agricultural labourers were, a worse description of food. But after it was ascertained that the agricultural labourers of Grantham were driven by the high prices to use barley instead of wheat, it was perceived how incongruous it was to allow the inmates of the workhouse—destitution being the test of relief—to have a diet superior to that of the " industrious, and independent man and his family." Accordingly the Guar dians of Grantham passed a resolution to make the bread given to the paupers at least as bad as that generally consumed by the independent agricul tural labourers. By the rise in the price of agricul tural produce, therefore, the test of destitution itself became lowered, or worse. A man must be unable to get barley bread before he can ask relief ; and if the price had driven, as the Corn-laws tend to drive, the agricultural labourers to use only lumpers for food, the impossibility of procuring lumpers would become in England, as in Ireland, the " test of destitution." It is perfectly clear, therefore, with workhouses administering relief on that test, and with Corn-laws forcing up the price of agricul tural produce, and impelling the agricultural la bourers to descend from wheat to barley, and fro ii barley to potatoes, particularly under an unre stricted system of competition with the lumper-fed peasantry of Ireland, that the standard of subsis tence, to say nothing of comfort, amongst the agricultural labourers of England is becoming, and must become, lower and lower, till they are reduced, if the grinding system be continued, to the very lowest condition to which human nature can be degraded by scoutdrel laws. The volume of instruction is not, however, yet read through. It is an admitted fact that the high price of agricultural produce, which forced the agricultural labourers to use barley bread, tended to raise the rent of the landlords. Farms rose from 10 to 20 per cent. in the market. One of the argu ments in favour of the Corn-laws is, that they keep up the incomes of the landlords, and enable them to give more encouragement to our manufacturers, though perhaps they live or travel abroad. Thus the law which forces the poor man to descend from wheat to barley, and from barley to lumpers, enables the landlord to sport an additional carriage, to keep an additional opera danseuse, to travel with greater magnificence through France and Italy, and to buy more costly pictures and more elegant statues. It is quite in keeping that those who make such scoundrel laws should enforce the exaction ; as they are not likely to find others heartlessly despi cable enough to be competent to the cruel task. His Grace the Duke of RUTLAND, a great landlord, and a great stickler for the Corn-laws, therefore, very properly moved at the meeting of the Grantham Board of Guardians, that the test of destitution, when prices were high, and his agri cultural labourers could command only barley bread by their wages, should be made worse. He pro posed that the bread of the paupers should be made at least as bad as the bread of his labourers. Glorious are now the occupations of England's land owning nobility I They make scoundrel laws to starve the people, and they preside at parish boards to carry them into execution. Erewhile when they robbed with the strong hand, somewhat after the fashion of TURPIN, like him, they had some of the generosity of the fighting-man and the bold thief in their composition. They gave to the poor ; they were generous with the spoil ; and if they plundered pedlar merchants, and knocked on the head usurious Jews, they distributed largesses amongst their folio wers, and won the fa vour and cheers of the commonalty. They plunder still, it is true, but they go more cunningly and cowardly to work, and plunder by means of laws. Thereto they now add the worst vices of the worst pedlar merchants and worst usurious Jews, whom their ancestors made a merit of plundering, and they preside at parish boards to make the poor diet of the wretched pauper still poorer. Taking his Grace the Duke of RUTLAND, the owner of Belvoir Castle--and he is not the only Duke who presides at parish boards—as the type of England's pre sent nobility—remembering that they are the authors of the Corn-laws, there exists not, in this age of civilization, another race of men so thoroughly mean, despicable, and degraded. As some of our Liberal Contemporaries, our Li beral Ministers, and many of their Liberal supporters have begun to advocate summary jurisdiction by one Magistrate without appeal, an increase of the army, an extension of the police, and to place above all other duties the preservation of political order and the observance of political obedience, we hope that they Will carry these principles out, and revise their teaching and their latigua , Te. Hitherto they have asserted that " liberty lends to life its lustre and perfume ;" let them henceforth Write " Volice," instead of liberty. The " Liberty of the Press" has been a standard toast ; henceforth let that be changed to " Summary jurisdiction," as infinitely preferable to preserve the peace and happiness of society. The Whigs were accustomed to drink " The People, the source of all power ;" we hope this will be altered into " Obedience to a police the first of all duties." " Freedom of industry" was a cherished hope, now let the Liberals substitute for that " Labour according to law." That every man's house was his castle, and that he might do what he liked with his own, were sentiments once admired by the Liberal party, but now it is thought preferable that the houses of publicans should be accessible to the police, and a poor ma❑ who can buy or breed a dog, must not yoke it to a truck. There are a multitude of other similar alterations, which we hope will be made, hut these few specimens may suffice as an illustra tion of what is required. As the present possessors of the name of Liberals, who seem all to have run wild after the interminable systems of meddling adopted on the Continent, have not yet setticd amongst themselves how far liberty should be sacrificed to political order, devised by a few and for the interest of a few, we respectfully request them to take this question into serious consideration, and define the line where liberty becomes criminal, and where political regu lation must be substituted for it. At present there is great confusion on the subject, and a Libe ral Minister, or a Liberal Member of Parliament, sometimes Pronounce s in the same breath a glowing eulogium on liberty, and on a law which puts an end to it. A Liberal Journal, too, shall have one leader expatiating on the advantages of extending the police, and another abusing the Tories as the corrupt rulers by terror. A defin►tion would prevent con fusion, and the best possible public instructor would either cease to praise freedom, or cease to then call for laws which subvert it. If freedom be such a bad thing as Ministers Members of Parliament, and Liberal Journals im ply it to be, by their eagerness to get rid of it, let that be shown, and the moral judgment of the corn= munity on this important point, on which, according to them, it has so long gone astray, may be rectified. This is due to the rising generation. Young men are ardent, and, like SOUTHEY and a score or two more apostates, very apt to be enchanted at the name of liberty. A reform in the language of the Press, such as we have indicated, may save many youths from the double danger and disgrace of first running counter to the principles of order, and to the advice of their more prudent parents and friends, and then of changing to the side of regulation, persecuting those who have not, when young, gone so far as they have towards licen tiousness, and who in mature life object to fol low them in the paths of tyranny. The Press has not yet lost its privilege of being the instructor of the people, and consistently with this character it is quite unworthy of the Liberal Press to write a word in favour of liberty, while it is ad vocating scores of measures each of which is a fetter for some of its magnificent limbs. Their liberty reminds one of the caricature of a free-born Englishman with a . padlock in his mouth, great burdens, inscribed priest-craft, law-craft, and State craft on his shoulders ; his legs bound so that he can hobble along, but not run away ; and his hands tied so that he can toil, but not knock any person down. Another advantage will result from our recom mendation. At present the so-called Liberal party are without aim or object. Now if they can only settle the value of regulations as compared to liberty, there will be, as it appears to us, some tangible objects for the Liberal party to aim at, and they may perhaps succeed in rallying Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S fol lowers and the followers of Mr. FEARGUS O'CON NOR under one and the same standard. Then they may all march togethei to put down the Tories, and give all influence and power to our political drill -sergeants. The clergy are making large use of the admis sions of their opponents. Lord BROUGHAM, in 1820, was pursuing objects which made him dread the hostility of the priesthood, and he then stated, that to the " poor man a religious education may be said, without a figure to be everything." The Bishop Of WINCHESTER Says, after Lord BROUGHAM, " a religious education is everything for a poor man ;" crowds of priests echo the cry, the laity believe secular things as well as spiritual, on the assertions of the priests, and a religious education being thus proved to be everything . to the poor man, a great multit u d e i s reso l ve d to assist the priests in giving, as the one thing needful, and ad mitting no other instruction, education to the poor, which shall be dirocted and controlled by the priests. So Lord JOHN RUSSELL lately s tated that large masses of our population were " unhappily neither receiving in schools nor in pl.aces of worship that religious and moral instruction which is necessary to knit together the inhabitants and classes of a great_ country." The Reverend and eloquent Mr. CLOSE, at a meeting at Cheltenham to promote the extension of the Church, pounced on this sen tence, and very appropriately asked if it be not a scandal to leave large masses of the people without that number of priests who, according to Lord JOHN RUSSELL, are the instruments, by their doc trine, of knitting together the inhabitants of a great country. Religious education is of great value, says Mr. CLOSE and his friends, to the State as well as to the poor man, for it knits the classes together and preserves social harmony. Can any thing so much deserve encouragement ? Mr. MAT THEW HENRY, writing under the fear of Popery, and looking on the Church of England as standing between him and the Inquisition, pronounced an eulogiutn on the Church which Mr. CLOSE quoted as the invaluable testimony of a conscientious Nonconformist to the utility of the Church. But if MATTHEW HENRY had lived to see the Church more corruptly Papal in principle than the See of Rome itself, and had witnessed it standing in the way of all civil liberty instead of promoting it, for which MATTHEW HENRY prized it, he would have given a very different character of it. That the clergy can seek after such crutches, and can rely on them to keep them upright, is for us a sign of their lameness, and that they are conscious of their own defects. We shall quote a proof of the assertion. At the meeting at Cheltenham the Rev. FRAN CIS CLOSE said that— Referring to the second Report of her Majesty's Com missioners appointed to consider the state of the Esta blished Church, be showed from that document, to which Lord Melbourne and Lord John Russell had both affixed their names, that the growth of the population had been so rapid as to leave " a vast proportion of the people" des titute of the opportunities of public worship and Christian instruction, even when every allowance was made for th e exertions of those religious bodies which were now in con nection with the Established Church. Taking into ac count all that had been done, and was now doing by individuals, by Diocesan Societies, and by the Church Building Commissioners, he came to this conclusion, that the voluntary principle had not overtaken the want, but had been outrun by the growth of the population. i In the met ro p o lis, in 1841, there wou ld i n a ll pro bability, by be 600,000 souls, for whomnoch 2o urc9hp,orovo ; provi sion have ßi ion r w m o i u n l g d hamllo 13 , e 0 e 0 n 0 ;mi dmlnc in Liverpool, 220,000. R e f er - e Refer ring to the statement which he had already made in refer. once to the Church statistics of the metropolis, and other light which Dis e subject, th e Rev. populous a u p t l h a o c r e i s tle a s nd h a d t o th th ro e w a n d u d p it o io n n t a h l Chairman demanded, how any reasonable man could say, that the voluntary principle was sufficient. " Surely upon that vaunted principle, whether as ex erc i sed by Churchmen or Dissenters, Ichabod,' might be written—. Thy glory is departed.' , who h a v e b een i n the institutions ttfreiotutiiogneserof this c ountry w i t h reve rence, admiration, and awe , think when tkey visit their shores, and find by inquiry on the spot, the actual, the ano • malous state of things? Surely they must think they have fallen upon degenerate days. Now, had not the Reverend Gentlemen al allowed his eloquence to run away with him, he' would have remembered that in these degenerate days England not only enjoys the benefit of large voluntary contributions to religion, we are inclined to say almost unexampled contributions, but it has had undisturbed the benefit of a numerous, opulent, and learned Hierarchy. Her Universities have been maintained in vast wealth ; in every parish there is at least one priest, in many there are more than one. In all her Cathedral towns there are superfluous priests, and it is while England pos sesses a most extensive and the most opulent priesthood which now exists in Europe, that the gross neglect and the alarming social evils have grown up with which Mr. CLOSE reproaches the State. Such reproaches cannot be made to Ger many, where the priesthood is about one-tenth as opulent as the Anglican priesthood, and where their exertions are hardly assisted by any voluntary aid. There no population has grown up discon tented with the State, untaught in any schools, and unconnected with any clergyman. It i s on l y i n England, with Universities almost exclusively de voted to the Church, such as only exist in Spain and Italy, and with a most opulent - Hierarchy that such a state of things exist; it is in England with a Church domineering over weak Monarchs and unwise Statesmen, not in Germany, where the Church is completely the servant of the State, that the most deplorable moral and poli tical anarchy, as described by Mr. CLOSE, has arisen. Of that fact Mr. CLOSE and his coadjutors are aware, and having no merit to boast of, they hunt up the forgotten testimony of MATTHEW HENRY, and console themselves by the flattering sentences of Lord BROUGHAM. What the voluntary principle can and does effect in this country, may be seen by referring to an article we insert from the Christian Spectator, giving an account of the receipts or gatherings of various institutions in this country, and never was there a more magnificent sum collected from the best but much abused feelings of mankind. These vast contribution s , however, most of which find their way into the hands of one body of priests or another, does not satisfy the insatiable rapacity of this order of men, and their perpetual cry is, Give. They call on the State to give ; they summon in dividuals to give, and they hold out their hands and their hats and their anrons, crying, Give. While their professed master would not worship Satan for the whole world ; they adore only Mam mon, and complain of their GOD that he never gives enough. The wealth of the whole world would not satisfy them, for their desires, partaking of their spirituality, are without bounds or limits. The list of contributions to charitable purposes is equally remarkable as an example of the munificence and the credulity of the people, and of the calum nies of those whose avarice and ambition no gene rosity can satisfy. The shameful course which the Morning Post has pursued in the affair of LADY FLORA HAS TINGS has been g enera ll y an d j ust ly c ondemned by the real friends o f t h at L a d y. N o t only has this GUST 26, 183(:). emArse been reprobated by the Liberal Press, but the leading Journals of its own party have loudly protested against it, as they saw that the interests of the party could not fail to suffer from the syste matic attacks made upon the QUEEN, under a pre text too flimsy to resist the glance of the most superficial observer. The Morning Post, how ever, fancying that it had got a good opportunity of gratifying its spite against her MAJESTY and the Ladies of her Court, would listen to no remon strance either from friends or foes, but has gone on from day to day in its own way—parading the ex aggerated wrongs of Lady FLORA HASTINGS before the public, usque ad nauseant ; and, equally regardless of truth, of decency, and of the memory of the . deceased, making these wrongs a handle to serve its own base purposes. It has, in short, so completely overdone its task, that it has I not only greatly diminished the sympathy which the melancholy circumstances of this unfortunate Lady's case had excited in the public mind, but, by a natural re-action, has called forth remarks on the conduct of the deceased which her friends must wish had never been made. Our readers will find, in another part of The Sun, an article copied from a Contemporary, and written in a tone which has been provoked by the injudicious con duct of the journal which has, unhappily, taken the memory and reputation of Lady FLORA HAST INGS under its especial protection. We hare in serted it in our columns, not because we concur in all the reflections which it contains, but that those who call themselves the friends and defenders of Ie departed Lady, may see the effects of their im prudence. Our Contemporary, it will be seen, animadverts severely on the posthumous letter of Lady FLORA, which has been published, applying to it the epithet " coarse." This, we think, too harsh an expression. We will not say that it was characterised by coarseness, but this we will assert, that if any one supposed Lady FLORA HAST INGS to have died of a broken heart, the letter in question must hare completely dispelled the illusion. The following account of the appearance of the plague in Silistria, is extracted from the German Papers re ceived last night BUCHAREST, JULY 18.—Positive information has been received here, that the Oriental plague has really ap peared in Silistria. On the 7th of July a Turkish woman died of it; on the 9zh a servant girl; and on the 11th a Turkish boy. Several members of the family of the latter are taken ill. The time of quarantine has been increased from seven to ten days in the lazarettos of Gallatz and Tournul. The disease is said to be in a mild form, and as the Pasha of Silistria has had the patients removed to an hospital out of the town, and most strictly enforces all measures to prevent the propagation of the disorder, it is to be hoped it will not spread.—Allgemeine Zeitung, Aug. 23. There is no domestic news of interest in the Paris Journals of Tuesday. The following telegraphic dis patches were received by the French Cabinet on Monday night : " Bayonne, Aug. 23, Half-past Two P.M. 'IIIE GENERAL COMMANDING THE 20TH MILITARY DIVISION TO TIIE MINISTER OF WAR. " Maroto and Don Carlos have moved in the direction of Bilbao. Leon on the 16th burnt the crops in the en virons of Allo and Dicastillo. A great many houses were destroyed. This was the cause of the retreat of Elio. The revolted battalions were on the 22d at San Esteban. They are traversing the Buten." " BAYONNE, Auo. 25. —Don Carlos has arrived at Alsa sua. The revolted battalions are marching on Ulzama, hoping to be joined by the other Navarrese battalions." Letters from San Sebastian of the 23d instant state that ESPARTERO entered Durango on the morning of the 21st, and that the Carlists had totally abandoned the province of Biscay. The strongly fortified posts of Areta and Avacaldo were deserted by the Carlirts with out firing a shot. In fact, the war is now regarded as at an end, provided the QUEEN'S Government ,knows how to avail itself of the present peaceable disposition of the people. The Apostolical faction cannot hold out for a week after the Marotists are detached from Don CARLOS, and the promulgation of a general amnesty. The Courrier Francais draws the following far from flattering picture of the way in which French trade is at present conducted : " Habits of piracy and fraud have been introduced into French commerce, once famed for its honesty. M. Du chatel, when Commerce Minister, was obliged to denounce in a public circular the shameful tricks practised by French traders in South America. A day or two ago the Bor deaux Papers published a letter from Martinique, com plaining of the way in which the flour sent from France was adulterated. The English buy our wines at Bordeaux, and supplant French wine merchants not only abroad, but even in Paris. Cloth we can no longer sell abroad, since it is known that French manufacturers send cloth without solidity, and fraudulent measure. Every where and in every branch French reputation is discredited by greedy men, anxious merely for momentary gain. France keeps only the commerce of mode and fashions. The speech of the President of the Tribunal of Commerce proves how low commerce is fallen. The dividends in bankruptcies have been but 15 per cent., on an average for the last two years. In 496 bankruptcies the primitive capital was not more than six millions of francs, or 2401. per individual ; whilst the debts incurred amounted to 40 millions of francs. Thus the average that each of these persons, with a capital of 6,000 francs, continued to spend was 11,300 francs each year for six years." A letter from Toulon of the 23d of August, says:—. Yesterday and today orders for further armaments have been received here. The Alger, the Marengo, the Majes teux, and three other ships of the line, which are not yet designated, are to be armed on our part. The telegraph has been constantly at work yesterday and to-day. The maritime authorities have received by this means the most pressing orders. An unexampled activity is observed in the Arsenal and in the naval offices. The Alger is going to be brought into the basin. The Thetis frigate, the arming of which is nearly completed, has gone to anchor in the roads. The insurrection in the Carlist camp continues to make some progress, Elio having been forced to go to meet Leon who threatens Estella. The positions which he quitted have been occupied by the insurgents of Vera. The Car lists have abandoned Durango. Maroto has caused the Intendant-General of the Police to be banished. We announced yesterday that Prince Aletternich had recovered. To-day we learn the contrary. The following is the bulletin of the 18th of August : " The fever is mild. The Prince had passed a quiet night, and the regular course of the disorder gives grounds to hopo a speedy crisis." It is said that the Prince has already received the sacraments.— Constitutionnel. VIENNA, AUG. 19.—My last favourable report of the health of his Highness Prince Metternich was as it seemes rather premature. He had yesterday the fever during the whole oft he day, which however en-led with a perspiration. since which the noble patient feels to day much relieved. The physicians flatter themselves that the perspiration may have been the crisis of the dis order, and that the latter may be considered to be abating, but this is not positively affirmed, as it cannot be ascer tained till to- morrow. I am able to assure you that Lord Beauvale, and also the Count de Aulaire, have received from their respective Courts, full powers to confer together, with Prince Metternich, respecting the affairs of the East. Count Clam Martiniti, the European chief Aide.cle- Camp, returned from Carlsbad the day before yesterday. BOURSE.—PAms, TUESDAY, AUG. 27. that Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Price. Price french 5 per Cents ll2 75 ... 112 75 ... 112 70 ... 1 2 75 3 per Cents SO 95 ... 80 95 ... 80 85 ... 8) 85 Bank of trance 2795 ...2793 ...2795 ...2795 Lai - 01W Batik I.ooof. Sh lO6O ...lOW ...1060 —IWO .5,000 f. Sh 5222 50 .`h .5222 50 ...5222 50 ...52 50 Belgian 5 per Cents 103% ... 103% ._ 103% ... 103% Bank 770 ... 770 ... 770 ... 770 Spanish Acive. " ... 211,4 ... 21 ... 21 1 ,i Passive 471 ... 4% _. 4% ... 4';'l, ';ea , olitan Roman ll l /1, ... 102 3 4 ... 102% ... 102311 RAILWAY SHAREn. St. Germain Versailles, rt. B 572 50 ... 58.) ... 572 50 ... 57.3 LB. 327 51 ... 330 ... 323 ...:127 50 Havr, Montpellier to Cate 3BO ... 300 ... 3,0 ... 381 Strasburg to Bale 3lO ... 310 ... 3t2 50 ... 305 Seyssel (A) ne..LettAN k.UNDS-13auatiELii. AUGUST 27. Actual Debt, 25y per Cent. llothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent 1 Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 92 3 per Cent. ...... .. 71% Loan of City, 1832,4 per Cent Society of Commerce, 454 per Cent ll5 Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 744 National Society Brussels Papers, August 27. DUTCII FUNDS.—AmsTmitoam, AUGUST 26. Money. Bills. AEllial Dlbt, 2% per Cent Ditto, ditto 5 per cent. Anion SvntlicMi per cent...... ............ Ditto, ditto, ny6 per cent BO4 81 Commercial Company, .1,.> per cent 172 1: 7 1•X Ditto (I5:12. and 1d33) 5 per cent. Ditto 1537, 5 per cent. Loan 1537, S I , er cent. Exchange on London, One month l2 02‘, Two months —Dutch Papers, August 27. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNa, AUo !.9 Five per Cents. Metalliques Font' per Cents. Three per Cents. Bank Shares 1539 —4llgemeine Zeitung. August 21. PRUSSIAN FUNDS.— BERLIN, Auousr 22. _ Bills. Money. St. Schuld. Sch., 4 , ' per cent lO3 103!,4 Prussian Engiish Loan, 1830, 4 per rent. 103!6 102 i Mc/1.-Inge on London, three months.., —Prussia's Slate Gazette, August 23. Letters from Constantinople the 7th inst., have been received, but they merely confirm the news previ ously communicated from the East, namely, the ac ceptance by the Porte of the mediation of the Five Powers, and the continued tranquillity of the Ttirkish capital. The Madrid Gazette of the 21st instant contains a Royal Ordinance announcing the resignation of Senor ZIMENES of the Finance departm:,,nt and the appoint ment, ad interim o f S enor F rthoz as his successor. The Chancellorship of 11 .1 e Spanish Exchequer is at present an aff a i r o f trust. considerably more trouble than A BrusF dig paper of Tuesday an Majesties states that the depar ture , of their Belgies for England, which was to nave taken place on Monday, has been put off for the present. The Queen of the FRENtiI ttnd her daughter, the Princess CLEMENTINE, were expected tC arriVe at Ostend on Monday. We have received a very long letter from a friend of Sir JOHN MILLEY DOYLE'S, with an ample manifesto setting forth his political principles, and a note appended conveying the modest request that we will assist Sir JOHN by inserting the document. The very first arti cle of this profession of principles convinces us that it may be interpreted to mean anything. It appears in deed to be a lame copy of the famous Tamworth manifesto, which promised to redress all proved abuses, and introduce all necessary reforms. What, for instance, could prevent Mr. Manners Sutton, the Tory candidate, from i subscribing to the fol lowing' clause, which s the Gallant Knight's political creeo, according to the testimony of his friend CommtNus ?—" I ani a steady ond unflinching advocate of Reform, where Reform is needed," but not the advo cate of change or revolution, under the idea that altera tion means improvement. Do es Sir JOHN , b y . this mean Tones to divide also the Tory interes t ? The one! are not so easily gulled, we think, and are no doubt highly de lighted to find that he comes forward without the slightest chance of producing any other result than da maging the interest of Mr. GissoN. CORN AVERAGES. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITIW-I CORN, Fer the Week ended Aug, 23, 18:30, made up from the Returns of the Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in Engl4lld and Wales, per Imperial Quarter. Iliheat 7ls. Id. Oats Oarley IMPERIAL AGO REG ATE AVERAGES OF THE P: X WE TES PRECEDING. Wheat ... ... ... 70s. IH. I Oats 41s 41s. Id. d. Barley 3ss. e.d. Rye DUTIZS ON FOREIGN CORN. ‘Vheat IN. &I. Oats Barley 4s. 10d I . Rye EV o:NING EDITION. GENERAL CONVENTION. At ff ettestints- of the General Convention, held to-day (Thursday, August 29), at the Arundel Coffee Holm-, Strand, Jon` Pti.Otii in the chair, it was resolved that it be recommends tsk the several constituencies Convention, to be throughout the country, to R .,i 4 up their respective Delegates to a special meeting of 413,.. in order to held on Wedneiday next ( S,Ttember 3d), : take into consideration and d e c ide u p on d C 0... : a view "Se of Pro ceedings to be recommended to the country. wit. to facilitate the enactment:of the People's Charter; and also to appoint a council to sit during the adjournment .of the Convention, to carry such plan into effect. As the objects contemplated in this resolution are of the utmost importence, and es the Convention will pro bably be adjourned within ten days from the present time, it is earnestly hoped that the invitation now made to the several constituencies will be acted up on . JOHN FROST, Chairman. T. R. STUART, Secretary. THAMES HAVEN DOCKS AND RAILWAY. The annual half-yearly meeting of the Directors and Proprietors of the Thanaei Haven Docks and Railway Company, was fixed to take place this day at the Lon don Tavern. At half-past twelve, there not being a sufficient number of Shareholders present to form a meeting, The CHAIRMAN (Mr. EISDALE), said the meeting, in pursuance of the provisions of the Act, must stand adjourned till that day week. A conversation took place between some of ale Pro prietors and the Directors, in the course of whici Mr. Potter, one of the Deputation from the Lancasiiire Shareholders, stated that the Manchester Proprietor; thought the speculation an excellent one, but that it would be advisable to suspend all proceedings until the state of the money market and commercial business generally was more favourable.—The meeting then ad journed. LONDON AND BLACK WALL RAIL WAY COMPANY. A very numerous meeting of the Proprietors of this Corr:nal took place this day at the London Tavern. ROuttr, Esq., in the Chair. A most sa:sfactory report was read, stating that the Railway would be ;menerl to the Minories in March next ; and that the Act haw beers amended in the last Ses sion, so as to permit of the extension of the line to Fenchurch.street ; also allovviils the ,Directors to borrow 200,000/ A resolution, confirmatcry o, e this permissio n was passed, and a vote of entire coetide,-.lce in the Direction.—A full report will appear to-morrow, THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) HUNGERFOfiD MARKET. Supplies fair, and the demand moderate. Turbot, ss. 20s. ; Cod; Is. 6d. to 10s. ; Soles, 9d. to 3s. per pair ; good Salmon, Is. 6d. per lb. Butcher's Meat in good supply, but the demand languid. Beef, 7d. to 8 d. ; Mutton, 7,c1. to ; Veal, Bd. to 9d. ; Pork, 7d. to 8 1 / d. Of Vegetables the supply was good, and the demand in proportion-prices stationary. CITY FISH MARKET. Supplies good, and the demand fair-prices much as last quoted. Turbot ss. to 20s. ; Cod Is. 6d. to Bs. ; Soles 9d. to 3s. per pair ; Lobsters'lod. to 3s. 6d. ; Oysters 12s. to 40s. per bushel ; Whitings 3d. to 6d. ; Haddocks Bd. to is. 2d. HAY MARKETS. Supplies good, and demand brisk; prices steady. New Hay, 60s. to 70s. and 755. ; Old, 80s. to 90s. and 955., and higher ; Clover, 80s. to 110 s. and 115 s. ; Straw, 365. to 40s. and 425. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) DEAL, Ace. 28.—Wind S. W. LIVERPOOL, Ace. 28.—Wind W.—Arrived the Are thusa, Kinnaird, from New Orleans ; Shakspeare, Hender son, from Charleston. Off port, Higginson, from Bom bay ; Grace, from Quebec. Sailed the Chandos, Stothard, for Jamaica ; Dublin, Schofield, for Baltimore ; Silas Richards, Webb, and Shakspeare, Britton, for New York ; Benjamin Hart, Collett, for Montreal ; Ferside, Craig, for Dalhousie; Brenda, Simpson, for Halifax; Bess, Martyn, for Labrador. PORTSMOUTH, AUG 23.—Wind N. to W. S. W.—Ar rived the Ontario, Huklestone, from New York ; Ariel, from Dantzic. PLYMOUTH, AUG. 29.—Wind N.W.—Arrived the St. Jean, Rea, from Nantes. FALMOUTH, Aye. 27.—Wind N. N. W. to N. W., fresh. —Arrived the Irish Lass, Grandy, from Bahia; Racer, Pridham, from Port-au- Prince.—Sailed the Palemon, Biggs, for Riehebuclo ; Albion, Harrison, for Miramichi. Off port the Vasco de Gama, Valentine, from Bahia; Brothers, Holmes, from Odessa. DARTMOUTH, AUG. 27.—Off port, the Constitution, New York; Jean, Christie, Odessa; Superb, Virginia. COWES, AUG. 28.—Arrived the Caroline, Jacobson, from Batavia; St. tieorge, Sourabaya. GUERNSEY, AUG. 25.—Arrived Ariadne, from Dantzic. JERSEY, AUG. 26.—Arrived the Anna Augusta, Baus man, from Dantzic; Apollo, Labrador. Sailed Symmetry, for Gibraltar. BRISTOL, AUG. 28.—Arrived the Arid, Darling, fro:n Odessa. Sailed the Hope, Fitzgerald, and William Wal lace,_ Wilson, for Miramichi ; Hibernia, Fowler, Quebec. GLOUCESTER, AUG, 28.—Arrived the Maria, Suvert, from Memel. Sailed the William and Elizabeth, Taylor, and Alehymist, Wells, for Miramiobi. MONEY.AND COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. We have arrivals this morning from New York, by the Packet ship Independence, to the Bth inst., as well as New York Papers of the same date, which do not bring any political information of importance. In respect to commercial affairs, the private letters from Philadelphia of the 6th inst. state that business was very dull, money tight, and di:counts at the rate of 1 per cent. per month. The Exchange comes from New York 9to 9/. Bank Shares 100 to 110 k. This being settling day in the British Market, the brokers and jobbers are occupied In arranging their various iceounts, which are generally expected to go off well, as the extreme fluctuation is not more than about 11 per cent. It is a Bull account, the Contango, or Continuation, being full per,cent. Consols, which closed yesterday at 91a 1 both for Ac count and Money, opened this morning with an improve ment, and may be quoted at present 91i 92 for Account ; Money, 91/ 4; Exchequer Bills, 13 15 prem. ; India Bonds, 5 10 prem.; Bank Stock, 18411851 ; India Stock, 247 249. _ _ _ In the Foreign Market Spanish also improved, closed at 201 21 ; at present 2lk 2-; Portuguese, 281 29; Brazi -ian, 78k ; Colombian, 314- ; Mexican, 27i 28; Belgian, 1021 103 k; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 541; Five per Cents., 1031 k. The Montreal papers received this morning to the 2d August state—We have received favourable accounts of the crops from all parts of the province ; in some places the wheat is a little affected by the rust, but the general promise is of an abundant harvest. For the past week or ten days the weather has been very hot. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT 0142 O'CLOCK. Sank Stock . 185 4 sli 4z 4 India Stock - 3 per Cent. Red. .... ...... - ..914% Ditto Bonds ... pm • 3 per Cent. Cons. 91% 1 A % South Sea Stock. 'S;, per Cent Ditto Red. 99 5 Ti_l2% 9 New Ditto ... ._ W.,:r Ne7ll l ,,iTier Cent "984;% New 5 per Cent. - ilank Long Annuities toexpire Jan. 5, !SG() l4 5-16 3 „! Oct. 10, 1659 l4' Jan. 5, 186(1 - Jan. 5, 1880 - April 5, 1680 - 1 ...... 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 Exch. Bills, ..f.1,(:00 1 4 12 pm. Ditto... 5OO ... 11 IL pm. Ditto Small 2O ... 14 12 pip Ditto Commercial — par Ditto Advertised pm. Bank Stock for Account ... India Stock for Account ... J. 5: 1870 Consos for Account 92 11 2 PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds _lt J Peruvian Bonds Belgian Bonds Ditto Accolin, '➢razilian Bonds Ditto Account - Ditto Account 23% 914 Buenos i.• nes Bonds Ditto At ..ount China?) Don. s I) tto Accon, t Columbian Bonds — Ditto Account — Ditto Account —l Ditto Metallic — Columbian Bonds, 1824 3!% Spanish Ilonds— ........ .. ....21UN Ditto Account — Ditto Account 21 , ,i 1 Nl4 Danish Bonds Ditto Accounc —l Deferred t4reck Bonds — I French, 5 per cent...—. —f. —c. Ditto Bonds, 1825 — -- 4 per cent. Ditto Account — -- 3 per cent. —f. —c. Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent — , -- Exchange. —l. —c. Ditto Accounc — I Dutch, 2 1 ,4 per cent. Ditto, 6 per Cent — Ditto Account 5l Ditto Account Neapolitan lOl Ditto Acc0unt.............. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. Oreat Western Tlailway Company 6l London and Birmingham Railway Company ... 9(1 142 X, 3 Louden and Southampt0n:.,... Ilri nchestar and Birmingham Railway l5 7N, Australasia Ba k National Bank of Ireland Provincial Bank of Ireland '2s 45 HALF-PAST ONE. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, WEDNESDAY.—The de mand for Cotton to-day has been to a fair extent, and pr ices continue steady. The sales to day were 5,000 bags, 1,000 of which are for export. The Great Western steamer, from Bristol to New York, was spoken with on the 26th inst., at seven A. M., in lat. 50. long. 10.12, wind N. W. moderate, by the ludependence. We hear by private accounts from Canton, that one half of the opium wrq to be given up on the Bth of April, and the other half on the 30th April. The settling of the British Account is going off well, although money is exceedingly tight in the House. There does not appear to be any change in the state of trade at Manchester this week, but the demand foryarn continues good, and an extensive business has been done at the rates current last week; there is no change in the prices. We just hear of a failure in the British market, but one scarce worth noticing, being of the small fry. Consols at present 91i 92 for the Account; Money, 91i ; Exchequer Bills, 14 12 premium; Bank Stock lower, 184. In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active continues im. proving, and tiny be quoted 211 ; Portuguese, 28 . 1 29 ; Colon.bian, 34; Belgian 1031 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents 541. The Royal William stea m-vessel, which arrived at Leith at noon on Saturday last, was delayed on Wednes day night by a dense fog, which rendered it unsafe to pro ceed down the Thames beyond Woolwich till daylight next day. A singular occurrence took place on board this yes. sel during the latter part of thc voyage. A poor woman , named Currie A!,httlan, with her son, a Child about two Year! ni age, came on board the vessel as a deck passenger. She appeared very unwell, and the steward of the second cabin kindly permitted her to sleep in a vacant berth in the ladies' cabin. At about half-past one o'clock the ladies were alarmed by the crie s of the p oor w oman , who was in the last w stakeas on of pregnancy ; fortunately, Mr. A. Gill ot, surgeon, board the steamer, and pro m p t l y attended a s on the occasion, and in a short time welcomed to life " the ocean c hild," a fine girl, who, with its mother, are doing well. The father of this sea-born girl is a private in the Royal Artillery, at present confined in a Lunatic Asylum in London. The passengers on board the steamer made a hberal subscription for the poor woman. The kind atten tion of the captain and the steward of the second cabin is entitled to the highest praise. —Edinburgh Courant. HARVEST.—The reports to-day add little or nothing to what was previously known respecting the state of the crops. All accounts concur in describing the wheat as promising pretty well, but the writers state what is evident to everybody, that without a succession of some fine sunny days there must be a deficiency in quantity, as well as much deterioration in quality. THE TOURNAMENT. Eglinton Castle, Ayrshire, Monday Evening. The weather has been remarkably fine up to this even ing, and all the arrangements are going forward admir ably. Messrs. Pratt have arrived from town to superin tend the fete. Prince Louis Napoleon, accompanied by Viscount Per signy, arrived at the Castle last evening. Lord BurgLfrsh arrived this morning, and Sir Hugb Campbell, Hon. James Macdonald, Hon. Cecil Forester, and Mr. Ricardo have also arrived this afternoon. I understand that Mr. Campbell, of Saddle, will not be able to take part in the lists as the Black Knight, from a severe attack of bilious fever. It is said there is to be a rehearsal to-morrow of the procession, but I am unable to supply you with a pro p ramme, for I believe it is not yet determined in what order the Knigh:s, Esquires, &c., appear in the cavalcade. There are several Knights non est, but herewith I send you a list of the Knights, Esquires, &c.:— King of the Tournament—The Marquis of London derry. Esquires—Colonel Wood, Mr. Irvine. KNIGHTS. ESQUIRES. S Lord A. Seymour, Mr. Grant,Mr. Earl of Eg1int0n...... . G. Dundas. $ SirC. Kent, Mr, F. Cavendish, Mr. Marquis of Waterford L. Ricardo. Pages—Lord John Beresford. Mr. M. White. Earl of Craven Earl of Cassilis Viscount Alford Hon. Mr. Cust, Mr. T. 0. Gascoigas Viscount Glenlyon Sir David Dundas, Mr. J. Balfour. Hon. Capt. Gage Hon. Mr. Jerningham Capt. Stevenson, Mr. G. Campbell. Captain Fairlie 1 Pettat, Mr. Cox. Sir Fred. Johnstone Visct. Drumlanrig, Hon. A. Villiers. Sir Francis Hopkins . Captain Beresford Mr. Charles Lamb Mr. C. Boothby Mr. Lechemere . Mr. Corry, Mr. J. Horlock, Mr. J. Fane. The Duke of Beaufort, Sir Frederick H. Bathurst, Lord Cranstoun, Mr. Campbell, and the Hon. Captain Maynard, have declined. After some exertion I have obtained the " Regulations for the Tilting," which are as follows :- Ist. No Klii,..oht can be permitted to ride without having on the whole of his tilting pieces. 2d. No Knight to ride more than six courses with the same opponent. Particular attention is most earnestly requested to be paid to this injunction, for the general good and credit of the Tournament. 3d. It is expressly enjoined by the Earl of Eglinton, and must be distinctly understood by each Knight, upon en gaging to run a course, that he is to strike his opponent on no other part than his shield, and that an atteinte made elsewhere (or the lances broken across) will be judged foul, and advantages in former courses forfeited. 4th. Lances of equal length, substance, and quality, as far as can be seen, will be delivered to each Knight, and none others will be allowed.--Morning Post, DUTCH PACERS. THE HAGUE, AUGUST 25.—Yesterday being his Ma jesty's birth-day, on which lie completed his sixty-seventh year, was kept here, and doubtless in the whole kingdom, as a festal day, with the earnest prayer that our beloved Sovereign may live to see many returns of it. AmrrEttneat,l AUGUST 26.—We receive from all the towns and communes in the kingdom great and small, the most pleasing , details relative to the celebration of the King's birth-day. About one hundred persons made A trial yesterday of the iron railway to Haarlem, which was entirely satisfactory. MAEsTiIIeGT, AUGUST 23.—A royal ordinance of the 1 ith inst. directs that an ofteial journal of Limburg shall be published, in which all ordinances and decrees relative to that province shall be inserted. This and other measures make us fear that Limburg is to have an admin istration quite distinct from that of Holland, and thus will be no iced to it only in name, which would certainly be a deathblow' to the prosperity of the province. r eee:ye from the Hague a confirmation of our state ment that unforeseen obstacles, wholly independent of po litics, prevent Count bus de Ghissignies from being Am bassador from Belgium to t;:e Court, and that Prince Jo seph de Chemay will fill that pos.: . ZEALAND, AUG. 22.—We are glad to hear that the o.r -rison is to be increased. Wensaw, AUG. 15.—The Prince Governor of the king dom set out yesterday for Borodino, and will be absent for some weeks. LORD LYNDHURST AND THE MAYOR or BOLTON.-The eanduct of the Mayor of Bolton during the late riots, and his former political character, appear to be subjects of general inquiry in the daily papers, and in some of the provincial press. There is evidently a wish, on the part of some individuals who have been the origi nators of the numerous calumnies that have already been published, to convince the country and the House of Lords that the Mayor of Bolton is, and has been for some time past, a Chartist, and that his conduct, whilst in office, has tended to create rather than allay political excitement. Nothing can be more erroneous than an opinion of this sort; for, as is well known to the inhabitants of the town, the Mayor, since his election to office, has carefully ab stained from mixing himself up with politics, and has even, in many instence , , incurred the displeasure of the Radicals and Chartists, for not lending them that aid they expected from him. On Friday evening last, in co nsequence of the various misstatements that have been made, a meeting of the Aldermen and Council of the borough to,sk place, and the following resolutions were agreed upon, 31r. Al derman Mangnall being in the chair :—" That we, the Aldermen and Common Councilmen of the borough pf Bolton, have seen with surprise and indignation the false and calumnious charges brought by Lord Lyndhurst, in the House of Lords, against the Mayor and Magistrates of this borough for their conduct during the late disturb- ances, the whole of which charges are either gross misre presentations or totally without foundation.—That this Council most cordially approve of the conduct of the Mayor and Magistrates of the borough during the late trying period, for their humane and just, yet firm and con ciliatory proceedings, and this Council looks back, with unrningled satisfaction and pleasure, to the fact that the late alarming commotion was put an end to, and order restored, without the loss of a single life.—That a me morial from this Council be presented to Lord John Russell, requesting that a full and searching investiga tion may be made into all the circumstances connected with the late disturbances i, this borough, in o rder to show the falsehood of the chargei made by Lord Lynd hurst."—Manchester Guardian. CHINESE ART.—An artist named Sunqua, of Canton, has executed on rice paper a series of six pictures designed to illustrate the evils of opium eating. They form a sort of counterpart to the " Rake's Progress " of Hogarth. The first represents a young and wealthy mer chant, surrounded by all the elegant liexuries of life; near him is an attendant preparing for his use the fatal drug. In the second, he is seated on a sofa, cooking; his companions are dancing girls, musicians, and nonrteons, among whom ho is squandering the riches bequeathed ts^ him by his father: already he gives tokens of that ener vated character of mind and body which the use of the intoxicating matter never fails to produce. In the third, his countenance is described as haggard, and betokens misery; he is moping and wretched; stretched on a couch, with his pipe lying by his side. His frame and in tellect are both prostrate. His wives enter, behold his emptied money chest, and stand frowning with indignation and astonishment. In the fourth, his houses and lands have all vanished; he is stretched on a cold floor, upon a ragged mattress; disease has been added to poverty he is without shoes, atfd breathes with difficulty• In the fifth he is described as scraping together a few poor coins, with which he is about to hasten to one of the houses of vice, to buy the stuff which the still wealthy' opium cater or smoker has rejected. In the sixth of the: series, he is described as the confirmed sot, sitting on s. broken chair; his miserable wife and squalid child are be side him, labouring to earn for him and for themselves the' means of prolonging a miserable existence. These pro ductions are valuable, as indications thst a pernicious and ruinous habit is becoming unpopular in Chiva.—Art- Union.