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THR NEW NOVEL. Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 Vols., PARSONS and WIDOWS. BY THE AUTHOR of " PETER PRIGGTNS," &c. . Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. TO-MORROW EVENING, AUG. 10, Will be presented (for the first time in this country)_ RicCi's New Opera, ent i tied CORRADO D'A LTA M RA. Delisia, Grist ,• Isabella. Madame tlellini ; Margarita Madame Dal FinH ; Bonello, Mdlle. Favanti ; Roggero, Sig. Mario;. Canoelliere, Sig. Dai Fiori ; Gifted°, Sig. A. Giubilei ; Corrado, Sig Fornastari. Between the Acts a Divertissement, in which Mdlle. Fanny Elsaler will appear. To conclude with the revived admired Ballet of LE LAC DE FEES. The principal Characters. by Mdlle. Cerito, Mdlles. FerdL nand, Barville, Madame Copere, M. Gosaelin , and M. St-Leon. Applications for Boxes, *tans, and Tickets to be made at the Box Office, Opera Colonnade. v...•••••••••••••••••• 01 HER MAJESTY'S THDATRE. LAST NIGHT BUT ONE OF THE SEASON. Madame PERSIAN' respectfully informs the Nobility, Subscribers to the Opera, his Friends, and the Public, that HIS BENEFIT Will take place ON THURSDAY NEXT, AUG. 15, • When will be performed Mozart's chef d'oeuvre IL DON GIOVANNI, by Madame Grisi, Mdlle. Favanti, and Madanie Persians ; Signori Fortiasari, Lablache, F. Lablache, Galli, and Mario. In the course of the Evening, Selections from a Favourite Opera, in which Sig. Moriani will appear. And other Entertainments, in which ladlie. Fanny Elssler, Mdlle. Cerito, MM. Perrot and St. Leon will appear. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box office, Opera-colonnade. Doors open at Seven; the Opera will com. mence at Half -past Seven. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. MB. BENJAMIN WEBSTER, LESSEE FOR ONE NIGHT MORE. THIS EVENING, AUG. 9, Will be revived Mrs. Planche's Drama of THE RANSOM. The President Montesquieu, Mr. Howe; Durvalle, Mr. Higgie ; Edward, Mr. Brindal ; Estelle, Mrs. L. S. Buckingham; Gertrude le Blanc, Mrs. W. Cliilbrd ; Pauline. Mrs. E. Yernold. After which, the Burlesque Opera of NORMA. Polio, Mrs. H. P. Grattan; Norma, Mr. Paul Bedford; Adalgisa, Mr. Wright; Oroveso, Mrs. Fosbroke; their origina 'parts. In the course of the Es mine, Mr. and Miss Marshall will dance the fashionable Polka; and Mr. John Parry will sing " Fayre Bosamonde." Te be followed by the new Farce. entitled THE MILLINER'S HOLIDAY. Sir Simon Sparkes, Mr. Buckstone ; Mr. Pennywtg, Mr. Strickland; Fanny Thompson, Miss Julia Bennett; Miss Potts, Mrs. Humby. M. St Leon will perform .'on the Violin, " Frat , cesca Valse Brit. liante," composed by himself. A Concerto on the Flute by Mr. Saynor. To conclude with the Farce of HOW TO PAY THE RENT. Mr. Miller, Mr. Strickland; Morgan Rattler, Mr. Hudson; Mrs. Conscience, Mrs. Stanley. THEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM, LATE ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE Under the Management of Mrs. KEELEY. Success, Brilliant and triumphant ! The" Adventures of Martin Chuzzlevrit" having, on each repre sentation, ueeu received with every possible mark of public appro bation by the most fashionable and crowded audiences, and having been pronounced by the unanimous voice of the publie press to be one of the most interesting Dramas ever produced from the works of the celebrated Author, a repetition of its performance will take place every evening till further notice. THIS EVENING, AUG. 9, Will be repeated a New Drama, entitled MARTIN CHUZZLE. WIT. Principal characters by Messrs. R. Younge, F. Vining, Emery, F. slathews, A. Wigan, Meadows, Kinloch, Turner, Stanton, J. W. Collier, Yarnold, Sanders, and Keeley ; Miss For tescue, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. A. Wigan, Mrs. Woollidge, Miss Groves, Mrs. Usher, Miss Turner, and Mrs. Keeley. To conclude with an entirely Original, and much better than New, Grand Operatic, Romantic, Melo-Dramatic, Burlesque Extra. vaganza, founded on the celebrated Eastern Tale, in the Arabian Nights' Entertainment, entitled ALADDIN AND THE WON DERFUL LAMP ; or, New Lamps for Old Ones. With very extensive New Scenery, Machinery, Dresses, &c. Principal chit , iacters by Mrs. Keeley, Messrs. F. Matthews, Turner, A. 'Wigan, J. W. Collier, and Keeley; Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Woolli ige, Miss E. Chaplin, Mrs. A. Wigan, Miss Turner, MI s James, Miss Carson, Miss Hunt, Miss Reede, &c., &c. PRICES OF ADMISSION.—BaIcony Boxes. 41.; Upper Boxes, 35.; Pit, 25.,• Gallery, 6d. Second Price—Balcony Boxes , 2 s. ; Upper Boxes, Is 6d ; Pit, is. Private Boxes on the ri 'loony Tier (holding eight persons). Tao Guineas. Private Boxes on the Second Tier (holding eight persons), One Guinea and a. HalE Private Boxes on the Pit Tier (holding six persons), One Guinea. The Box-ottice is open from Ten to Four o'Clock, under the direr,- tion of Mr. Grogan, late of Covent -garden Theatre. Continued Attractions and Overflows at ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. BATTY. Tills EVENING, AUG. 9, Will be repeated an entire new E suestrian, Military and Naval Spectacle, entitled THE CHINESE WAR; or. The Conquests of Amoy by British Arms. New Scenery, Dresses, Appointments, kc., realise the recent triumphs of England's Army and Navy. Feast of 250 Lanterns. New Scenes in the Circle by the Unequalled Corps of British and oreign Equestrians—the Anti iodean Professors. To conclude with THE GREAT STEEPLE-CHASE; or, Eng land's Hirvest Home. Acting and stage.msnager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. Box-office open from Eleven till Five. Lessons in the Art of Riding by Mr. IL Smith. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Last Fourteen Nights of the Grand Opera Company—First Week of Cinderella, and an entirely New Piece. THIS EVENING, AUG. 9. Will be performed Rossini's Fairy Opera of CINDERELLA ; or, The Little Glass Slipper. Supported by Miss Romer, Miss Betts, Miss E. Terry, Miss Pearson, Messrs. D. W. King, Leffler, E. L. Rime, S. Cowell, It. Honner, &c. Conductor, Mr. G. Stansbu r y , with double Band and Chorus. Te conclude with an entirely New Drama, entitled GRAM A CHREE MOLLY. Embracing the whole strength of the Company. Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Sox office, from Eleven to Four. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. MODELS of VENICE and LONDON in the OLDEN TIME. Painted by Danson and Telbia. The sensation caused by this unrivalled production is beyond all former precedent; the artist, the amateur, the casual observer are all struck with its extraerdinay beauty and fidelity of delmea. tion,itud ,re unanimous in pronouncing it the most wonderful ex hibition ever witnessed. To view it only as a vehicle tor the terrific display at Dusk is unjust; it should be seen in the calm stillness of the quiet Evening, with its Towers and Steeples reflected in the spa cious Lake, to be fully appreciated. The Evening PROMENADE CONCERTS on Mondays, Tues days, Wednesdays, and Thursdays conGucted uy Mr. Godfrey, are upon a scale of more than usual excellence; but words fail in doing justice to the awful representation of THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON. Its fearfhl characteristics are truthfully pourtrayed, but at the same time so beautifUlly blended with the Wonders of the Pyrotechnic Art, that delight is predominant over terror; and the thousands who nightly crowd the Gardens hail it with acclamations, and admit that Soutliby, the Unrivalled Pyrotechnist has achieved a matchless triumph. The thrdens and Zoological Collection are in the most perfect state, and combining so many and interesting features, are by far the most attractive lounge in or near the metro:colic Feeding of the Animals at Five—Concert at Six—Conflagration 4 Dusk. Admittance, One Shilling. lONVAY INDIANS. UNPARALLELED EXHIBITION EACH DAY OF THIS WEEK. The party of Fourteen lOWAY INDIANS, with their Interpreter, from the Upper Missouri, near the Rocky Mountains, in America, having arrived In London, are giving their NATIVE DANCES, Songs, Games, &c., in CATLIN'S INDIAN COLLECTION, Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly. Their modes and their history Hilly explained by Mr. Catlin, from the platform. This is the party which has been drawing such vast crowds to see them while in New York, and they are accompanied by the Head Chief of the Tribe, " The White Cloud." The party consists of every grade of Chiefs, Medicine Men, Warriors, Women, and Children, in splendid costumes, the youngest of which is only six months old, and carried upon its mother's back in the oradle. The public will easily decide that these are by far the wildest and best representations of the Red Men of America ever seen in England ; and their stay in London at present must be limited to a very short time, as they are on their way to the Continent. Each day of this week, the hours from half-past Two to Four iu the day, and from Half-past Eight to Ten evening. Doors open half an hour previous.—Admission, One Shilling. EGYPTIAN HALL, PICCADILLY. IMPORTANT NOTICE. OITE SHILLING Admission to THE NAPOLEON MU SEUM, the most magnificent and extensive Collection of Histo rical Curiosities and Works of Art ever known to have been formed by One Person, during Twenty-five years of elaborate research, at a cost of 60,000 guineas, and to completely illustrate, in the most in structive and interesting manner, the most important part of Euro pean history, viz.—CHARLES 1., OLIVER CROMWELL, and LOUIS XIV., to the deaths of GEORGE H 1., and the EMPEROR NAPOLEON, in 1821. This unique Museum has been visited often, daring the last and present year, by the Royal Family, the Duke of Wellington, the Foreign Princes, Ambassadors, and their Ladies, also, many thousands of the Nobility and Public ; and the Pro prietor has recently been able to inn ease, by several very fine pictures, &c., his previous almost in, redible number and variety of MSS., Works of Art, and a multitude 11 valuable Relict, and other curiosities, in this most instructive and. as hundreds have said it ought to be, a Nations: Museum. Mary thousand have inspected it, and THIRTY PRINCIPAL EDITORS 'V the PUBLIC PRESS have stated that It cugh - to be seen by every oue. The price of ads:da tion is reduced to ONE SHILLING. The NAPOLEON DiUSEUM is to be seen only at the "Egyptian Hall," Piccadilly. daisy tt oin Ten till Dusk. THE WEATHER.—Sum OFFICE, Ana. 9. TaamtaxErzu, Lowest, 49; Highest, 69; Noon, 67. BAROMETER, 29.85. WD7D, W. NOTE.—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the freezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is usually placed opposite 30, and rain at 29. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. morning ... 46 minutes after 9 I Evening ... 25 minutes after ?A • . ,•,' '''''',... . 4- LA I 4 4 A 3) '__ • . ( It k 41' k , '4,, , , z'aEt ;L. • 17 Aikik , •+. .s"_ ~ 1 ,prz —Ay, Av..-> ir . e,- - . 4 ~; c. ''' >i' . - ~., • Y.. w '*-2 , 4".!•',7 I ik . "' _,,,,, ( - ) .1a10 , i - 4• ' '`,, 0, 't : ' Zu? At* , SECOND EDITION. ( 0 17 cen t -us :)4.11ut LONDON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1844. On the Marquis of NORMANDY presenting a peti tion from Leeds, drawing the attention of the House of Lords to the efforts of the Protestant Missionary Society for the last fifty years in the island of Ota heite, and • complaining of the violation of the law of nations by the French authorities, the Earl of ABER DEEN said he would say no more on the subject than was absolntely necessary, but he must, at the same time, state that though Mr. PRITCHARD was divested of his official character, he was no less entitled to the protection of his country. He still believed that moderation and justice on the part of the Govern ments of England and France, would disappoint the object of the war parties in both countries. A brief conversation took place about Spanish finance. The Earl of ABERDEEN seemed to have great confidence in the honour and ability of Senor MoN, the Chancellor of an Exchequer which is empty ; but we doubt much if one Spanish creditor agrees with him. The Poor-law Bill was read a third time, and passed. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE gave notice that he would this day make a motion relative to the pro gress of the Houses of Parliament. On the motion of Lord WHARNCLIFFE, a discussion took place on the amendments of the Commons to the County Coroners' Bill, and, on a division, the numbers were equal—fourteen on each side. The question was decided in favour of the non-contents, and the amendments were rejected. After passing some Bills of little interest, the House adjourned till Half-past Three this day. In the Commons, the amendments made to the Merchant Seamen's Bill by the Lords were agreed to. AiNaP t iliep.toi:f .' question from Mr. WYSE, the 4 /141Paiar19+3C - thelxcnEc t una said it was not his 40intfoil_lo cfiz;*itt- the return of Stamps issued to i "bi inliT:l4Ltial \llow9f) per. Dr. BOWRING said he '''',L ;..: ,s.:=: ;``~. el 5 would bring the i subject before the House next Session. Mr. WAKLEY hoped the return would never again be made, as by these returns the grossest frauds were committed on the public and on adver tisers. A brief discussion took place between Mr. T. DUNCOMBE and Sir JAMES GRAHAM, relative to the affairs of Guernsey ; but the main facts being purely personal, it was of no interest to the public. Sir J. GRAHAM obtained leave to bring in a Bill for the alteration of the law of settlement, the main object of which was to repeal all the laws on the subject and begin anew, and that birth only should give a settlement. The measure was received with general approbation. The Lords' amendments to the Poor-law Bill were brought up and agreed to. The House adjourned at Nine o'clock till Half-past Three this day. We really know not what to make of this wild out cry in France about the Otaheite islands, and the public seem to be in the same predicament. What would the French be at ? Do they wish to go to war with England ? Without the possibility of a doubt, that is the great object of the Opposition papers, and we regret to say also of some of the most influential men on the Opposition benches. It is a strange mania. We have not offended the French in any way. We have not interfered with their occupation of the islands in the Pacific. The British Government have assented to all their plans of colonization in that dis tant region ; they have allowed them to take posses sion of an island which is associated with the early re collections of the present generation, from the inter esting accounts given of it by missionaries who established themselves there forty-five years ago, and when the natives rebel against this usurpation, and fight against the French, England is denounced as the cause of all the mischief, and " one PRIT CHARD," as M. D'ALTBIGNY designates him, one of the oldest settlers, and almost up to the moment of his arrest the British Consul on the station, is treated with great indignity. No proofs are adduced that he was an active party in the insurrection, yet, when our Government complains of this strange proceeding, the whole of the Opposition press of Paris become furious at the presumption of Englishmen. It is painful to witness such an exhibition. It is lament able to see a powerful nation planted in the heart of Europe, which has such means of doing good, and which can afford to be magnanimous, thus im pelled by blind rage against a neighbouring country, anxious to live with it on peaceable terms. Is France still to be the general fire-brand, and the world to be thrown into commotion to gratify the vain aspirations of Republicans and the hopeless worshippers of the Bourbon dynasty ? We confidently trust that the rational men of France will take a different view of the question, and not rush headlong into a scheme which cannot benefit their country, which would entail great calamities on the human race, and would, to a cer tainty, end as most wars with this country have ended. Great battles, of course, would ensue, and vast destruction of property and human life, and when ex haustion took place both parties would sit down quietly to arrange the differences, and probably leave off precisely as they began. The nation which commences such a terrible contest incurs a fearful responsibility in the eyes of all Europe, and it would be well for it first to consider whether it can justify its conduct, and whether in these days it is not more honourable to settle disputes by calm reason and judicious negotiations, than by an appeal to the sword. Lord ABERDEEN last evening justly observed that it mattered little whether Mr. PRITCHARD had or had not resigned his official duties. He was still a Bri tish subject, and must be protected. Sir ROBERT PEEL has not altered or in any way modified his expressions which have given such offence to the 'War party in France; and we therefore presume that the British Government have just grounds for demanding reparation, and that they will not be deterred from their course by men who are equally enemies of England and their own Sovereign. These are not times in which England can afford to compromise her own distinguished reputation for public faith with the great public of the civilised world. Politieal accidents of a rare and perilous character, although they have fallen out in a season of profound peace,—and even the mere onward march of political institutions, irrespective of those accidents—have lately developed, in intelligible characters, in some of the continental Governments, those feelings of ill will, of envy, of impatient displeasure at her prodi gious eminence among the nations which want but the encouragement of a few favouring circumstances to become an embodied confederacy against her. Wise and expedient as it is in a State to overlook, oftentimes, hostile tendencies in the deportment of its neighbours, where those tendencies have not yet— though sufficiently intelligible—assumed a tangible character of implied or overt offence; there is equal wisdom in watching vigilantly their bearing in all its details ; and still more, in its retaining its own vantage ground of greater frankness and honour in discharg ing all the functions of its own Government. It would be in vain to deny that neither France nor the United States have shown any great in disposition, of late, to a war with us, on pre texts of a character the most false—or on pretensions the most egregiously absurd in law and equity—or on misunderstandings originating in their own unreason able jealousy and suspicion. Hitherto it has provi dentially happened that these dangers have been dis sipated before arriving at a dangerous maturity. France indulged her fierce resentment at Lord PAL. MERSTON'S so-termed scheme of "isolation," till her naturally companionable disposition, we suppose, re conciled her to the resumption of amicable relations with her allies. Neither the Syrian question nor the Gambia disputes, nor the brilliant termination of our differences with China, finally precipitated France into those extremities which the acts of her Minis ters, the clamours of a war faction in her Legis lative Chambers, and the aspirations of a large combined section of her Republican and her Liberal parties, sometimes appeared to hare rendered inevit able. On the other side of the Atlantic—the fron tier misunderstandings consequent on the troubles in Canada, the affair of APLEou, Boundary disputes, the new Federal Tariff, the Texas annexation, and the Oregon Territory questions—although they fell —like ignited shells—one after the other, among the councils of the two Powers, have been successively extinguished, or postponed, or thrown over; happily without that destructive explosion which has so often been at hand. But these frequent hair-breadth escapes from the calamities of war should remind us that the elements of the storm which has passed over us without bursting, are still careering about the political horizon ; and that since no man can tell whether they will be presently dissipated, or may yet reunite and assail us with their tempestuous visi tation, it becomes us to have all our preparations completed and ready. Among the most enduring and certain of the resources on which, under Providence, we can at all times rely, is that national good faith whose moral influence on the opinions and the friend ship of other kingdoms, in the unhappy event of an European war, will be worth more than the accession of foreign fleets and armies to our own materiel and force. Under this conviction of the sound policy—(to put the moral duty on no higher footing)—of maintaining, in all departments of the Executive, as well as of the Legislative, this principle of good faith inviolate to the utmost possible extent, we have remarked with pain (as we intimated in a former article) the per vading tone of the Commons' Report on the Post office. The Department of Posts is the most sacred trusteeship which the confidence of its native subjects, and the necessity of their foreign correspondence, devolve upon the State. It would be difficult to estimate the extent or degree to which the reputation and influence of Great Britain have been carried, in the estimation of other countries, during the last half century, by the general credit which has been given to her for the integrity with which she has adminis tered this trust—of a delicacy, and yet an import ance so difficult fully to appreciate, so much more diffi cult adequately to describe. There was something of the venerable distinction of our hereditary " German faith" about the unhesitating confidence with which from one end of Europe to another —nay, from the remotest corner of the habitable world with which even the relations of our unlimited commerce have ever connected us—any man has been, heretofore, will ing to confide, under his own seal and superscription, the most momentous communications that could effect his fortunes, honour, liberty—even hislife. From the odious, but admitted espionage which polluted the Post Bureaux of Frame, and so many other States, the experimental appeal to the sacred inviolability which presided over that of England had long passed into a proverb. We are compelled to admit that " the Committee of Secrecy," appointed by the Commons, have rudely, but pretty effectually, dispersed to the winds all the romance of this im pression ! Yet we trust that the power of public opinion, here, will henceforth embody and consecrate as an administrative fact, that inviolability which now turns out to have existed, hitherto, as a theoretical rule indeed, but subject to very grave, though not numerous, practical ex ceptions. The Secret Committee set out by pro proposing, "in preference to discussing the purely legal question, how far the statute of ANNE, in recog nising the practice, on the part of the Secretaries of State, of issuing warrants to open letters, rendered it lawful for the Secretaries of State to issue such warrants—to give the history of this practice." We will not go to the extent of differing " toto ccelo" from the Committee in their appreciation of the duty they had to discharge to the House ; but with all deference, we submit that it was more than this bare legal question they had to inquire into. The terms of their appoint ment regard an inquiry-1. Into the state of the law-2. Into the mode of exercising the authority given under that law—and 3. A state ment of their opinion and observations there on." Now we care, for the present purpose, as little for any law, which in terms can authorise or sanction so vile and dangerous, and dishonest, a practice as the opening of sealed letters in her MA JESTY'S Post-office, as that noble and distinguished judicial authority which intimated the other day that an action could be brought for every letter so opened, to which specifically and separately, the warrant issued did not apply. But we do care much—and it im ports the honour and good faith of this country much —to see how a Secret Committee of the House of Commons express their "opinions," and to note their " observations " on this practice, as well as this sta tute law. And what are the words in which they discharge themselves of this part of their commission ? The concluding paragraphs of their report, which should embody both " opinions" and " observations," . so far as its nicely-balanced negatives and affirmatives leave any positive result to be examined, does not even denounce the practice upon principle ! Upon grounds of expediency the Committee more than jus tify it, as their , own language will show. From the time of the EDWARDS, to the appointment of Sir BRIAN TUBE as a quasi Postmaster-General, in 1533, and thenceforward through all the remaining period of the reign of the TUDORS, the STUARTS, and the Com monwealth, the reigns of WILLIAM, ANNE, and the first two GEORGES; we would, against our prepossessions that no compromise of a great principle can ever be admitted in cases of this sort—concede, for the sake of argument, the plea defensive set up by the Commit tee. This regards the incessant State perils, demand ing extraordinary facilities of information for the Executive, of frequent disputed successors ; the Crown's jealousy of appeals to, and communications from, the intriguing Court of Rome ; the unprin cipled, struggles for the control of the balance of power between HENRY, CHARLES, and FRANCIS ; the subsequent religious and political feuds of the reigns of MARY, ELIZABETH, the STUARTS, and the Commonwealth; the claims of the Preten ders under ANNE and the GEORGES, &c. But we never can allow the equal cogency of these " reasons of State" after the accession of GEORGE 111. The French Revolution, indeed, and the attempts of the successive Governments which wielded the resources of France, to the rupture of the piece of Amiens, suggested other views of the question to a suc cession of English Ministers of all parties, who used this power unhesitatingly. But even they had some show of reason, which the present Govern ment, or any of its predecessors since the accession of GEORGE the FOURTH, cannot pretend to. What if continental Sovereigns, our allies, have reason to be lieve that discontented subjects of theirs who have sought the asylum, and receive the protection of this country, are combining and plotting to dethrone them or prejudice their power ? That is no sufficient reason for our violating, in their case, that principle of our common law, which holds no man amenable for opinions not published, or for acts, though calculated to prejudice such foreign potentates in alliance with us, so long as they are not overt ones, or are not otherwise in violation of the QUEEN'S peace or the laws of the realm. When was it ever heard that a department of the English Government should volun tarily convert itself into a detective police commis sion, for the behoof, or at the request, of a foreign Power ? We blush for, and we protest against, such a conclusion on such a subject, as the Committee records in these sentences : "If the result of this inquiry had been such as to im press your Committee with a conviction of the im • portance of the frequent use of this power in the ordinary administration of affairs . . . they would have been pre pared to recommend some legislative measures for its re gulation and control ; and it might not be difficult to de vise regulations which would materially diminish the objections to its exercise. " It is, however, on the other hand, to be considered whether any legislative measure of this kind might not have an indirect effect in giving an additional sanction to the power in question, and thereby possibly extending its use. " Under these circumstances, it will be for Parliament to consider whether they will determine upon any legis lative regulation, or whether they will prefer leaving the power, on its present footing in point of law, in the hands of the Secretary of State, to be used, on his responsi bility, in those cases of emergency in which, according to the best of his judgment, its exercise would be sanc tioned by an enlightened public opinion, and would ap pear to be strongly called for by important public in terests." This doctrine and this " opinion" are not English, nor common law; nor common equity; nor common sense. Intelligence has been received from Madrid to the 2d instant. The troops were again under arms on the night of the Ist instant, but the cause is not as signed. More arrests had taken place. Barcelona papers of the same date have been received, but they bring no additional information respecting the con spiracy which was said to be in contemplation in the garrison. MADRID Bouass, AUG. I.—Three per Cents. 27 for cash, and 271 at 60 days. Five per Cents. not quoted. The accounts in the Paris papers from Morocco are, on the whole, more favourable ; and it was gene rally anticipated that the EMPEROR would accept the ultimatum of France. If we are to believe the Globe, a Government journal, however, he is prepared to go further, and turn his arms against ABD-EL-KADER. "Without having lost anything of its gravity," it says, "the affair of Morocco has assumed quite a new appearance. The Emperor Muir ABDERRHAMAN, seeing himself blockaded by sea and:seriously menaced on shore, has finished by perceiving that his situation was very critical ; and what was difficult to be fore seen, he has suddenly taken an energetic determina tion, and has declared war against ABD•EL•KADER. A considerable army, commanded by his son, is already in full march against the Emir. On his side ABD-EL-KADER informed, it would appear, of the de signs of the EMPEROR with regard to him, had already taken a similar resolution. At the head of as many of his partisans as he could get together, he has him self taken a hostile attitude in regard to the EMPEROR, and has arrested and put to death two couriers charged with orders for different points of the empire. It is therefore untrue, as stated by several journals, on the faith of the Semaphore of Marseilles, that the EMPEROR, yielding to a national and religious move ment, had himself preached a holy war. The good intentions of the Emperor of MOROCCO were never i doubtful, and he was confirmed by England in the justice and moderation of the demands of France, and of the necessity of yielding to them." The other papers make no allusion to such an event, but the following statements in the Journal des Debats lead to the belief that affairs are in a fair train for settlement :—" The Governor of Tangiers has published an edict forbidding any insult to be offered them, but such edicts are quite insufficient against the passions of fanaticism. The English Consul is still up the country, endeavouring to see the SULTAN and his Ministers, that he may urge them to accept the ultimatum of France. The English Vice-Consul remains at Tangiers, but all the families of that nation have taken their departure. This general retirement of the Europeans has as tounded the Moors, and made them reflect on the THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 9, 1641, consequences of a final rupture. The correspondence of the Sud, of Marseilles, announces that an armistice had been concluded on the 19th ult. on the frontier. The Hakem, or Civil Chief, of Ouchda, is said to have proposed to Marshal Bu- GEAUD to occupy the town with some of his troops as a protection, but that the Marshal declined this, unless the Hakem would engage to keep the town supplied with provisions from the tribes of the Angad, who were to undertake the transports from Tlemcen to Ouchda, on being assured of clue payment. The new Caid, SIDI-HA3nDA-BEN-ALI, had written to the Marshal offering his aid in establishing peace and order, to which the Marshal replied by an invitation to him to come to the camp of Lalla Maghreina to a conference. As this intelligence is certainly pacific, the withdrawal of the Consul .General may appear strange ; but we have already explained in our yes terday's account the causes of these two different po sitions, which otherwise would appear contradictory. The SULTAN arrived on the 12th at Rabat, on his way from Morocco to Fez or Mequinez. He must have received the ultimatum relating to ABD-EL-KADER, sent by M. DE Niox, who is naturally charged with the whole of the diplomacy." The Opposition journals continue their attacks on England, but it is not necessary to give publicity to their unmeaning abuse. It would appear from the following article in the Courrier Francais, that the French Government will make the following con cessions to England, relative to the Otaheite affair, though from the words with which the article con cludes we can hardly consider the writer serious in his remarks ;—" It is affirmed that Ministers have come to the resolution of disavowing M. D'AUBIGNY. The terms of the disavowal are not yet decided upon, and are to be the object of a deliberation between such of the Ministers as are at Paris. M. GUIZOT is to draw up the disavowal, and the Moniteur is to insert it as soon as it shall have been approved of by the English Government. As for Captain BRUAT he is to be recalled, but that recal is to be dissembled by means of a command which is destined to reward his docility and discretion. In the Ota.heite affair M. BRUAT ap pears to have been selected as the instrument of the Cabinet against Rear-Admiral DUPETIT THOUARS. We know not to what extent the rivalry of an officer of merit against his superior has been turned to account; neither do we know whether he have or have not acceded to the Ministerial in trigues ; certain it is that it is not deemed prudent to be severe towards a confidant ; were it not for this circumstance, he would have been as culpable as M. D'Aunicair, and, like him, disavowed. It is hereby seen why the Otaheite affair costs us but two dis avowals and one recal, instead of three disavowals. GOD save the QUEEN." The Moniteur of Tuesday contains an ordinance countersigned by the Minister of Agriculture and Commerce, the object of which is to continue the different ordinances successively published in the course of 1842 and 1843 on the subject of tariffs and custom-house duties. The Ministry announces, be sides, the intention of submitting hereafter to the KING another ordinance, comprising, with other new dispositions, the articles of tariff inserted in the pro ject of law, and the establishment of which will answer to the wishes of several important branches of in dustry and commerce.! THE BOURSE—WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French Five perC:nta 120 55 .• 120 85 .. 120 60 .. 120 83 Four per Cents. lO6 .. 106 •• 106 •• 106 Three per Cents... •. 81 45 .• 81 60 .. 81 45 .. 81 60 Bank of France 3095 —3095 ..3095 "3095 Laffitte Bank, I,ooof. Shareslloo —llOO • .1100 ..1100 Belgian Bank ....• ...... 675 .. 675 .. 675 .. 675 Belgian Fives, 1831 lO4 .. 104 .. 104 .. 104 1840 1842..•....• 1081 .. 108 .. 108 .. 1081 Spanish Threes .. 321 •• 321 .. 32f •• 321 Active ..... 301 •• 301 •• sof .. 30 1 Passive ....•• •• bi • • 51 •• 5: .. Portuguese Five per Cents.. 42f •• 43 •• 421 •• 43 Neapolitan . 98 75 .• 98 78 .. 98 75 .. 98 75 &Man ....... •• • ..... •. • • 104 .• 104 .. 105 k .. 1031 RAILWAY SHARES. Versaillea,R.B 378 75 378 75 .. 378 7 5 378 75 L. 8............. 237 59 .. 238 75 • • 237 50 .. 238 75 Rouen Rouen to Havre. Orleans 968 75 .. 968 75 .. 968 75 .. 968 75 Strasburg to 8a1e..... 235 •• 236 28 .. 235 .. 236 25 Avignon to Marseilles-- 760 .. 760 • 760 •• 760 RAILWAY SHARES FOB THE ACCOUNT, 15Tit OF AUGUST. •• .• L. 8.. ..... 238 75 .. 238 75 .. 238 75 .. 238 75 Rouen •• • Rouen to Havre •• 750 .. 750 .. 750 .. 752 50 Orleans ••• • • •• •• Strasburg to Dale— •• •• • • .. 235 • • 236 25 .. 235 . • 236 25 Avignon to 3furselllea•• • • .. 760 .. 760 • • 760 760 THIS DAY S NEWS. THE QUEEN AND THE INFANT PRINCE. The following bulletin of the Queen's health was issued this morning:- 6 , Windsor Castle, August 9, 1844, " Eight, A.M. " The Queen has had another good night. " Her Majesty and the infant Prince are doing well. (Signed) " JAMES CLARK, M.D. " CHARLES LOCOCK, M.D. " ROBERT FERGUSON, M.D." MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool, yesterday, were large, but prices underwent no chance. Exporters took 1,500 bales, and the total sales were 8,000 bales—viz., 800 Surats, at d. to 3/d. ; 200 Egyptian, at 61d. to Bd. ; 120 Pernam, at 6d. to 6-id. ; and the rest American, at 3/d. to 50. —Shares were much the same : Bir mingham and Gloucester, 112; Chester and Holyhead ; Eastern Counties, 12i ; Ditto, Perpetual Seconds, 20s. ; Grand Junction, New Quarter, 13 • Ditto, Quarter, 541 ; Lancaster and Carlisle, 44 ; Liverpool and Man chester, 233 ; Ditto, Half, 1154 ; London and Binning ham, 228 ; London and Brighton, 474 ; Manchester and Birmingham, Quarter, 9/ ; Midland Counties, 108 ; Ditto, One-fifth, 31. 6s. 6d. ; North British, 24 ; Shef fieldand Selby, 32 ; Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux, 1/. 15s. Th There ear lV e la a n e c co h u es n t t e 854 ; S out h-E as t ern , 39 ; York s r, from Germany which state that New Brunswick will cease to be in the Zoilverein after the Ist January next, as its conection, while Hanover keeps aloof, is considered to be highly detrimental to the interests of its subjects. Stocks are quiet this morning, but continue to wear a firmer appearance than in the earlier part of the week. There will probably be a good deal of general business done in the heavy stocks, as they close for the calcula tion of the quarter's dividend as early as the 29th inst., and do not re-open till October 11. Consols have been 99 to 99i-- for Money, and 99k i for Account. Bank Stock is firm at 200 k, and South Sea Stock at 116. EX chequer Bills are 755. t 0.775, pm., and India Bonds 95s.pm. The New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. realise 1014 to i , the Reduced 1021 to I, and the Three per Cents. 99i to 100. The Foreign Bonds have been very inactive, neither the correspondence between M. Mosquera, the represen tative of New Granada, and the Committee of Spanish American Bondholders, in which any answer as to the amount of funds in hand, is declined, nor the unfavour able advices from Madrid having stimulated business in Columbian or Spanish. The latter are heavy at 22* for the Five per Cents., and at 32-k for the Three per Cents. Portuguese Converted are flat at 43i ; Mexican realise 35.1 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. obtain 62A- to I. The Railway Shares generally are firmer at the rates subjoined. BRITISH:FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the 014cial List.) Bank 5t0ck.,..... .... . . ..... .......... .......... 20034 S per Cent. Reduced Annuities 3 per Cent. Consols. Annuities 993434 911 334 per Cent. Reduced Annuities .... ....... New 334 per Cent. Annuities ....... ....•• 101%7%% Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860......... 12 -lb 9-16 Ditto 30 Years, Expire 10th Oct. 1859 .....„..«. n% India 80nd5,1,000... .... .. .......... ................••••• -- „, Ditto under 1,880............. ....... -.....••••••••• South Sea Stock ll6 Ditto Old Annuities Bank Stock for Account ...... 2OO 34 Consols for Account _1) 9%% Exchequer Bills, ' Ifici. I%d• look•• .. ••.. ••-•.. .•«.»..... ........ — .•«.»..... 75 77 pm. Ditto Snialr...... ........ Ditto Adverti; .. ed......... . FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent. ...... ...... 4..... 35% Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent. Ditto Converted — Ditto for the Account 43% Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent 1840.- ..... l. Ditto for the Account ..... .......... ....... ..-- 22 % Ditto Three per Cent. .............. 3 ' 2 % Dutch 234 per Cents. 6l %s Dutch New Loan: S per Cents. (1837 r lOl% 101 5 peCents.... .... .. .......... ... ...... PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. PAID. Pea SMARR. Birmingham and G10uce5ter......... 100 Ditto New Dublin and Cashel Eastern Counties ..«.„.............• 23 ....•••• 12%4... to 14 Edinburgh and Glasgow ...........• 50 Great North of England. 36 Great Western .... ....... ............. 75 ..„ Ditto Fifths l2 ..N..... 25 Hull and Selby Lancaster and Carlisle. London and Birmingham. Ditto 14 Share. , London and Brighton . —... ..... 5 0 to London and Greenwich (P re f e rence) 1814 .••• 1201 Manchester and Leeds. 7O Ditto % Shares .. to —, Manchester and Birmingham ... 40 ••••••••• 5 4 36 Midland Counties lOO ••"""' 108.... ..... to 109% Birmingham and Derby l OO 81 .o. Newcastle and Darlington Junct. -1 0 42 North British 236 Northern and Eastern 45 •••••„•• to Ditto 4 Stares Norwich and Brandon South Eastern and Dover ....« Ditto New ..... ... . ........... 50 '1 to 3254 york and North * Midlan ' d .......:. ••••••••• o— ci, Ditto Scarboro' Branch ........ 2 % .••••• '' 7ll to Paris and Orleans. .... ....•...•....... 2 0 Rouen and Havre. .....................1 10 JOINT STOCK BANKS. Commercial of London MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, AUG. B.—There has been but little done, and prices remain much the same as yeste'- day. Blackburn, Burnley, and Accrington, 1 ; Eastern Counties, 12A ; Lancaster and Preston, New Shares, 1 ; Lynn and Ely, 2i •, Manchester and Birmingham, Quarters, ; Chester and Wrexham, 2h. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS D A Y.) LONDON, AUG. 9.—Wind this day at noon, moderate, westerly breeze and cloudy. DELL, Aua. B.—Wind W.S.W. to W., fresh and squally. —Acrd. Florence, Davis, Medina. OFF DOVER.—Victoria, Schroder, Rio for Hamburgh. PORTSMOUTH, AUG. B.—Wind W. N.W. and W., hard and squally.—Sld. Der went, Hobart Town. FALMOUTH, AUG. B.—Wind W., strong breeze and squally.—Arrd. Racehorse, Punchard, Rio, leaky, and will come to the pier to have it stopped (sailed June 15). ILFRACOMBE, AUG. B.—Augustine, Newport, for Malta, towed in dismasted, and with other damage. BRISTOL, AUG. B.—Arrd. John Cabot, Holland, Africa. MILFORD, AUG. 7.—Put back, Catharine, Ichaboe, with mainmast sprung. A number of coasters have arrived to-day with broken spars. CARDIFF, Auc. 7.—The Betsey, Milton, of Shields, has been beached, to be examined. ABERYSTWYTH, Auc. 6.—Wind blew aheavy gale to day from S. to S.W. Two sloops have driven on the beach. TENBY, AUG. 6.—lt blew a gale from W.S.W. and N.W. the whole of last night, and it still blows hard from W.N.W. The Terrier, from Newport to Wexford, the Harmony, Triggs, the Friends, Berry, and the Alliance, all of Bideford, were scuttled on the beach at Caldy Island, but were got off with little damage. The William and Elizabeth, Popham, is lying in Caldy Roads, with mainmast cut away. The stern of the Breeze, of Waterford, and a mainmast, &c., have been towed in here. The Union, of Kidwelly, from Bristol, is ashore on Pen dine Sands—crew saved. A large brig has just come into Caldy Roads dismasted. The Cobrero, of Sunderland, from Swansea to Cuba, has justbrought up in the Caldy Roads, with only foremast and bowsprit standing. Part of the sterns of two vesssels have been brought in here, one marked Breeze of Waterford ; also two booms, beloning to a schooner and a smack. Much wreck is floating in the Channel. SHEERNESS, AUG. 7.—The Falcon, from Montrose to London, is ashore on the Shoebury Knock Sand, and takes a heavy list every tide. The Highlander, Blues, from Archangel to this port, in taking the harbour last night, during a heavy gale from the east, got ashore on the Annot Bank, and is expected to become a total wreck—crew saved. MUMBLES, AUG. 6.—Three deck beams, marked "38 tons register," were picked up in Longland Bay, sth inst. LIVERPOOL, AUG. B.—Wind W.N.W., fresh.—Arrd. Racoon, Anderson, New Orleans; Parthenon, Woodbury, Slaranham; Montezuma, Lover, New York. Off, Bridget, Mauyn, Equity barque, and Grace ship. A hurricane, veering from S.W. to N.W., was expected (28th ult.) by the Parthenon, arrived here. OFF SOUTHWOLD, AUG. B.—Winlington Park, offend from Harwich, towed in with loss of foremast, &c. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN-EXCHANGE-FRIDAY. Since Monday, scarcely any fresh arrivals of English Wheat have taken place for our market. The stands were scantily filled with samples of both Red and White, while there was rather more business doing in the article, at full prices. Foreign Wheat was held with more firm ness, but there was not much passing in it. The supply of Barley was only moderate, while the sale for it was inactive, at late rates. Malt moved off slowly, at pre vious quotation. There was rather more demand for Oats, and the best feed were 61 per quarter higher. Beans, Peas, and Flour as last quoted. ARRIVALS. Wheat. Barley. English 2,950 qrs. 40 qra. Irish.. 2BO 1 Foreign 11,400 40 8 3. Malt, 3,510 qrs. SMZ'rlariEiL3i. Oats. Flour 650 qrs. 2,770 sacks. 17,390 2,530 —. Although the supply of Beasts on sale here was by no means extensive, we have to report a very dull inquiry for Beef, and Monday's quotations were with difficulty supported. We had on sale 30 Oxen and Cows from Rotterdam, and 100 Scots from Aberdeen. Prime old Downs were scarce, and in demand, at full prices. In other kinds of Sheep very little was doing. The Lamb trade was extremely heavy, and the currencies had a downward tendency. The number of Calves was good, yet the Veal trade was active, at fully late rates. In Pigs very little was doing. Mulch Cows sold at from 161. to 191. 10s. each. Per Sibs. to sink the effal. s cL to s. d. s. d. to I. d. Inferior Beasts 2 4 2 6 Secondqualityclitte... 3 0 3 4 Second quality ditto 2 S 210 Coarse.woolled ditto.. 3 6 3 2 Prime large Oxen 3 0 3 i Southdown Wethers 310 4 0 Prime Scots, &c. Large coarse Calves 3 4 310 Large Hogs 3 0 3 6 Prime small ditto 4 0 4 4 Small P0rker5.......... 3 s 4 0 Suckling Calves, each 18 0 34 0 Quarter old Plgs,eachl6 0 20 0 Inferior Sheep SUPPLY AT MARKET. Beasts. I Sheep. I Calves. I Pigs. 11,240 396 260 NEWOATZ AND MEADZNUALL. We had only a moderate supply of meat, yet the demand ruled heavy, on the following terms : At per stone, by the Carcase. s. d. to s. d. s d, to s. d. fleet, 2 2 2 4 Mutton, Inferior 2 4 2 8 - middling .....«» 2 6 2 8- middling 210 3 2 prime large 210 30- prime ..... 3 4 3 6 - prime small ...... 3 2 3 4 Pork, large 2 6 3 6 Veal •••••••••••••••••••••••• 3 4 4 4 3 8 4 0 Lamb, 3s Sd to 4.0 d. BOROUGH HOP IVILORIMIC. The accounts from Sussex and Kent mention that a great deal of damage has been done to the hitherto good grounds by the late gales, and that those which were blighted have become generally much worse. The demand is steady, and Sussex and Wealds are producing higher raft's. The duty is estimated here as fullovv ;- Kent, 84,0001; Sussex, 17,000/ ; Worcester, 16,000/ ; Farnham, 9,0001 ; Kingdom, 3,000/—or a total of 129,0001. The annexed are about the quotations:— Weald of Kent Pockets, 61 4s to 61 lOs ; Mid Kent ditto, 71 to 91 15s ; East Kent ditto, 71 to 9/ ; Choice ditto, 101 to 11/ li s ; Sussex ditto, 61 to 61 108 ; Mid Kent bags, 7/ to 815 s. COLONIAL SuGAR.—The demand for British Plantation has been moderate, but on the average at rather easier rates. The sales have been about 1,450 hhds this week up to last evening, including 150 hhds Barbadoes at 64s 6d to 67s for fine strong yellow, and 57s 6d to 58s for low. REFlNED.—Standard Lumps have been at 75s to 75s 6d per cwt. EAST INDIA.-5,986 bags Bengal were mostly taken in, a part selling at 53s 6d and 58s to 61s for low to bright yellow and mid white ; damp and washed, 57s to 51s ; 2,017 bags Manilla were taken in at 18s 6d for sound. Mauritius has been quiet ; fine at 63s to 68s. FOREIGN.-2,600 boxes fine yellow Havannah sugar sold at 21s 6d for the Mediterranean. COFFEE.—There has not been much doing in British Plantation; 267 casks 74 barrels Jamaica at auction were partly taken in at 65s to 88s for fine ord to mid, the rest selling at 25s to 105 s. In Ceylon there have been moderate sales, but prices are scarcely so high; 1,900 bags Ceylon sold at 83s to 90s for pea berry, at 70s to 70s 6d for low mid, and at 54s 6d to 55s 6d for good ord. In Mocha 108 Brazils were taken in at 68s for low mixed greenish yellow, 415 bags East India went at 27s 6d to 28s 6d for Padang, and 101 bags La Guayra were bought in at 32s to 32s 6d per cwt. riNEs.—Messrs. Keeling and Hunt have sold from eight to ten thousand this week at very full rates, and the quality has improved. First class 2s 6d to ss, second Is 10d to 2s 6d, third 8d to Is. To-day 500 are being shipped to Paris, and 300 to Hamburgh. There are fur ther sales next week. Coco A.-291 bags, 8 brls Trinidad, went at 34s to 45s 6d per cwt., otherwise very little has been done. RlCE.—Privately a moderate demand exists, mid and good white has been at 11s to 12s for Bengal. SALTPETRE.—BengaI has been taken at 25s to 27s for 8k and 2i lbs refraction. SPlCES.—Pepper has been rather more in request at fuller rates, Penang at 2P to 2P, and Malabar at 3kd to 3id. Cassia Lignea has been sold at 60s to 61s 6d for good mid fair. COTTON.—A good business has been doneatfirm rates. RUM.—This article has been very firm, proof Lee wards at 2s 31d to 2s 4d, and Jamaica 30 to 37 over at 3s 4d to 4s 9d per gallon. TOBACCO.—Last month's total sales were about 1,000 hhds ; prices on the whole being steady, though in some instances rather easier. WooL.—There have been 29,083 bags Colonial and 2,777 bags Foreign offered. The finer combing flocks have gone at high rates. The condition of th© Wool was good, and also the demand. Australian super comb. ing, is 8d to 2s ; ditto clothing, is 8d to 2s ld ; ditto average, is 5d to is 7d i Cape super combing, is 7d to Is 10d. TEA.—There has been a steady demand, at fuller rates. Common sound Congou lld to llid. Deliveries are good. TALLOW.—The market is quiet. P.Y.C. 41s to 41s 3d on the spot. LEAMINGTON, WEDNESDAY, AUG. 7.—The grati fying intelligence of the safe accouchement of her Ma jesty, and the birth of the infant Prince, was received here last evening, and hailed with every demonstration of loyalty and rejoicing. The bells of the parish church rang out their merriest peals ; and at a grand gala, which had been previously announced to take place in the Vic toria Gardens, the conductor of the fete, with great spirit and liberality, introduced several additional sources of attraction appropriate to the occasion, the illuminations and fireworks being altogether of a splendid description, and the attendance highly fashionable and numerous. Among the latest visitors to the Spa are Lord and Lady Byron, Lady Montagu, Hon. and Rev. H. Bertie and Lady Georgiana Eertie, Lady Howard and Hon. Mr. Howard, Hon. Fitzroy Petre, Laurence Peel, Esq., and Lady Jane Peel, Sir Richard Ottley, Major Ogle, Rev. C. Isham, &c. Bell's Life in London of Sunday next, Aug. 11, will contain full Reports of the Bloodstone Trial, and of the Qui Tam Action against Lord George Bentinck, at Guildford, Engraving of the Goodwood Cup, and the usual matchless variety of Sporting Intelligence—Turf, Aquatic, Cricket, &c. Price of Bell's Life, 6d.—Office, 170, Strand. Bell's Life is published in time for all the Saturday afternoon Railways. We regret to announce that Ben Morgan, the celebrated Irish vocalist, expired on the 4th inst., at King ston, in Surrey, after a long and painful illness. Perhaps no man ever enjoyed a higher reputation as a singer of Irish comic songs than poor Morgan. He possessed a rich brogue, and a vein of quiet humour, which imparted an especial charm to all his efforts. We are sorry to hear that Morgan has left a widow totally unprovided for. The Hon. G. H. Nevill died at his seat, near God ston, on Monday, in his 84th year. Ho was only brother to the late and uncle to the pre:ent Earl of Abergavenny, and married Ilth May, 1787, Caroline, daughter of the late Hon. Richard Walpole, by whom he has left issue the Rev. Henry Walpole and Mr. Reginald N. Walpole. ACCIDENT AT BIRMINGHAM.—At Birmingham, on Tuesday, Mr. Johrißiches, builder, and a labourer in his employ, were killed by the fulling of a wall, in a house in which Alterations were going on. QUEEN-SQUARE.-(THIS DAY). Louisa Manning, a pretty, showily-dressed young wo man, who has been frequently committed to the House of Correction, from this office, for disorderly conduct in the public streets, at unseasonable hours, was charged by p.)li , ,nnn J 13 , • - ith th, I , I: he found the defendant in Queen's-buildings, at three o'clock this morning, in the society of four or five men, who were very noisy and riotous. He ordered them to move on, and they all complied with his request except the defendant, who went a short distance forward, and began shouting and laughing in a manner altogether so different from what he had ever heard before from " female lips divine," that ho cautioned her as to the consequences of a repetition of such conduct. The defendant, however, persisted in disturbing the peace of the neighbourhood, and many of the inhabitants threw up their windows to ascertain the cause of the noise in the street. Finding his remonstrances of no avail, he tried to take the defendant into custody ; but this was no easy matter, as Miss Manning threw herself on the pavement, and resisted his efforts and the com bined efforts of others who came to his assistance, with so much determination, that they experienced more than ordinary difficulty in conveying her to the station-house. The defendant simply admitted the truth of the con stable's statement, and was committed to her old quarters for the space of ten days. James and Lucy Orchard, a young couple, were charged with pawning a pair of sheets, the property of James Bagley, a publican, carrying on business in the Grosvenor-road, in whose house they had occupied an apartment since Christmas. The defendants admitted that they pledged the sheets, but not with a felonious object, as they intended to redeem them in a few days. The woman was discharged, but the man was re manded until Tuesday, to give the police time to make inquiries respecting him. He was said to be a suspected person. LAW versus JUSTICE. A case of some interest to mercantile men was re cently decided, in the Court of Session, at Edinburgh, the particulars of which are briefly as follows : Two merchants, of this town, shipped a cargo of iron, at Newport, Monmouthshire, on board a vessel bound for Quebec. About three-fourths of the cargo belonging to one and one-fourth to the other. Ac cording to the protest, " the vessel, while proceeding on her voyage down the river Usk, came to the ground among stones, and took a heavy list almost on her beam-ends. Next flood she righted, the pump was sounded, and four feet water found in the well. Got a kedge run out, hove the vessel off a few yards, when the kedge came home. Let go the small bower-anchor, but it did not bring the vessel up. She again took the ground and lay fast, all exertions to get her off proving unavailing : hove up the anchor and found that one of the flukes had broken. A survey was held on the vessel, and the cargo ordered to be immediately discharged ; extra hands were employed to bale and pump out the water, and they succeeded in getting the vessel into a place of safety, where they scuttled her to let the water out." It is usual to insure iron and other heavy goods " free of average, unless general, or the ship be stranded." In the present instance the shippers claimed as for a strand, which was instantly allowed by the London underwriters, with whom the smallest portion of the cargo was insured, the larger portion having been insured in Glasgow, where three-fourths of the underwriters, in value, also admitted and paid the claim, upon a certificate of the late Mr. Lorimer that it was a strand ; but the remaining underwriters, who represented 4001. on the Glasgow policy, re fused, on the plea that the vessel was not stranded. A suit was instituted against them, and the case tried in an inferior Court ; and after various appeals from decisions there, all of which were in favour of the de fendants, the verdicts of the Courts below have re cently been affirmed by the Supreme Court against the plaintiff, with all costs. The Lord-Ordinary pronounced his decision "not without hesitation." Three of the upper Lords con curred that there was no strand, but Lord Moncrieff, one of the ablest judges on the Bench, " was inclined to hold that that the vessel was stranded," at least, when she took the ground on the second occasion. The plaintiff in the case considers he has gone far enough, although he sees no reason to be satisfied with the justice of the decision. He apprehends that, were he to appeal the suit to the Privy Council, and gain it there, he would be a farther loser ultimately. The intention in giving publicity to the matter is, that merchants generally may be aware of the risk to which they are exposed in shipping iron at Newport or other places in the river Usk, the defendant's plea having been based on the fact that this is a tidal river, while, as underwriters, they absolutely demanded and obtained a higher rate of premium for alleged addi tional risk. MONUMENT TO THE POLITICAL MARTYRS.—We observe with much satisfaction, by an advertisement in to-day's paper, that an admirable site for the monument to Muir, Palmer, Gerrald, Skirving, and Margarot, has at last been obtained on the Calton Hill ; and that the foundation stone is to be laid by Mr. Hume, M.P., on Wednesday, the 21st inst. To the 3001. originally contri buted to the Edinburgh monument by the London Com mittee, 3001. more is to be added from the same source, in consideration of the conspicuous site which the Edin burgh Committee has been so fortunate as to obtain ; so that the monument will probably be raised nearly 120 feet high. From the North Bridge, the Mound, and many other places, it will be seen to great advantage, towering above every monument or building in its vicinity, the symbol of the victory of liberal principles over the old Tory persecuting spirit—the triumph ofj us tice over injustice. The foundation of such a monu ment should not be laid in silence, with none for attend ants but the members of the Edinburgh Committee. Every citizen who loves liberty and detests persecution should be there ; an oration should be pronounced by some able and zealous Reformer ; and the occasion should be improved in every possible way to advance the cause of freedom, civil and religious.—Scotsman. v ~ The Gloucester Musical Festival is fixed for the 24th, 25th, 26th, and 27th September. A guarantee fund has been raised. Sir John Guest, Bart., M.P., has lately received an order from Russia, for 50,000 tons of ir on , f or th e pur pose of being employed in the construction of railways. SCARCITY OF CLERGYMEN.—The clergy at Ox ford were so scarce in that city on Sunday morning last, that not one was in attendance to perform the service in the morning at the church of the populous parish of St. Clement's, and consequently a large congregation, after having waited half an hour for his reverence, was obliged to leave the church, not the least mere edified by their long sitting. FATAL ACCIDENT AT LONDON-BRlDGE.—Yester day Mr. Payne held an inquest at the White Lion, Talbot court, Gracechurch-street, on view of the body of John Tibbs, aged twenty-nine, a cooper, residing at No. 14, York-street, 'Commercial-road, who was drowned off London-brillge Wharf, by falling off the temporary pier for the passage of persons to steam boats. It appeared from the evidence, that on Tuesday evening about six o'clock, the deceased was sitting on a bridge on the south side of London-bridge, that formed a com munication from the wharf to a lighter. He was appa rently in a state of intoxication, and swinging backwards and forwards, when he suddenly fell into the river. Ile was got out with the drags in about five minutes, and was taken to Mr. Fuller's, surgeon, King William-street, who used the usual means to restore animation for above half an hour, but without effect. Verdict, " Accidental Death." STATE OF TRADE.—Our market is still firm. In yarns there is a good business doing, and for such as can be delivered immediately rather higher prices are obtained ; but most of the spinners are stated to have little on band. In goods, too, the demand continues to be extensive, with some tendency upward, especially in 7-Bth printing cloth. For 40-inch shirtings the lower prices current before the arrival of the Indian mail are offering ; but sellers are generally firm, and show no disposition to submit to this reduction ; and, on the whole, very little business is doing in goods for the India market.—Manchester Guardian, Aug. 7. . . . ANOTHER MONSTER TRAIN.—A special pleasure train of the Manchester and Leeds Railway left Wakefield for Hull on Monday last, consisting of ninety-seven carriages, with the extraordinary, and we believe unprecedented, num ber of 4,000 passengers, composed of the "Ancient Order of Foresters," other lodges, and their friends. Not the slightest accident occurred, and the parties returned at night within half an hour of the appointed time, the whole highly de lighted, and grateful for a cheap and pleasant trip. HOP INTELLIGENCE.--CANTERBURY.-1 he weather of the past week has been very squally, which has proved injurious to the hops, by the winds bruising the bine, and shaking the burr off, as well as the cold re tarding the advance of others. The duty has, conse quently, receded. It is to be hoped that a succession of fine weather will retrieve the apparent injury. General accounts speak of the extensive damage occasioned by the high winds and cold wet weather, some grounds being strewn with burr, the poles broken, and a depre ciation to the extent of full 30,0001. in the duty.— Kentish Observer. - - CHINESE EPICURISM.—Dogs are fatted and eaten in China as a delicious food, and are always found at the tables of the great. Horseflesh, rats, and mice, are stan dard articles of food, and sold publicly at the butchers' ; a fact which reflects credit on the taste and good sense of the Chinese, for there are not more cleanly animals than those existing. Bird's nests are another article of food ; but neither mud nor sticks enter int) their com position. The nests are found in the rocks along the coast of Tonquin, &c., &c., and are built by birds resembling the swallow. They are constructed, as is supposed, of a small species of sea-fish, cemented by a glutinous matter exuding from the bird itself; and when usually formed resemble the rind of a large candied citron. Bear's paws form another favourite dish. They are rolled in pepper and nutmeg, and dried in the sun. When about to be dressed they are soaked in rice-water to make them soft, and then boiled in the gravy of a kid, and seasoned with various spices.—Frosn Captain Piddiny's Chinese Olio and Tea Talk, No. 15. lAN ELEPIIANT AUCTION.—A number of persons were attracted to the St. Katherine's dock-house on Tuesday to see "Tom Thumb sold by auction." This novel kind of lot turned out to be an infant elephant just arrived in the John Bartlett, East Indiarnan, and of such miniature proportions as to have received the above popular cognomen. He is of the highest caste, is only twenty months old, and probably the most dimi nituve example of Isis colossal race that has yet reached this country. It was purchased by Mr. Warwick, the late superintendent of the Surrey Gardens, for'the new Zoological establisbment at the eastern part of - London, near the new Victoria park. SUMMARY OF NEWS AND I)ltbitr et e tt ,.. f 4ti jQpp 1l , "//1) in r.,(171 POSLIIXOIe. Tht King of the French received on Monday evening the P(oe's Nuncio, the American Minister, the Belgian Chargt d'Affaires, Counts Mole and de Nce, M. Debel leyme, and Generals Schneider and Hecquet. The Duke de Nemours arrived at Besancon, from Paris, of Tuesday. The King of Saxony has," says the Constitutionnel, "acceptel the invitation of the King of the French to visit Fraice on his leaving England." The Almiteur publishes the Strasburg Railroad Bill, adopted by both Chambers in the course of the session ; also the I3tll to grant a sum of 4,662,000 f. for the con struction of three steamers to ply between Calais and Dover; and, lastly, it publishes a Royal Ordinance granting a supplementary credit of 500,000 f. for the en couragement of maritime fisheries. The Berlin journals give the following relative to the late attempt to assassinate the King of Prussia:- - " Tschech has undergone his first examination. He de' Glared that he had entertained the idea of vengeance from the month of April last, since which time he had frequently practised pistol-shooting. One of the balls, after passing through the King's cloak, struck against n button of his uniform, from which it glanced off, and thus saved his Majesty's life. Tschech could not come prebend bow the first ball could have missed, for he was perfectly composed when he fired, and had his left aro on the carriage window at the time, to render his sire still more steady." A letter from Stockholm, July 27, states that the Budget has just been presented to the Diet, and that the demand for the Civil List is 65,000 crowns less than under the reign of the late King. The expenses for the army and navy are, however, more considerable than before. We learn from Warsaw, 26th ult., that the Vistula has overflowed its banks, and caused very great damage in the lower part of the city. The road between Frage , and Warsaw is intercepted. The. river rose eighteen feet above its ordinary level. Accounts have been received from Riga, from which we learn that, on the 24th ult., in consequence of and' den and extraordinary floods, the Dwina, driven by a violent storm of wind from the south-west, came down with a torrent of such irresistible force, that sixty-five barges and other craft were forced on the bridge, gnu" carried it away with most of the vessels bel ow it, until the vast floating mass was stopped by the sand banks The larger vessels escaped with slight damage, but nearly all the smaller craft were sunk. This accident has occasioned a temporary suspension of the navigation of the river. The president of one of the courts of justice at Ambert having forbidden the members of the bar from appearing in moustachios, as being a mark of disrespect to the magistrates, and an insult to the dignity of a court of justice, two members of the bar at that place, named Imbardis and Pacross, appealed to the Court of Cassation, which decided yesterday that the tribunal had the power to forbid such a practice, and to pass censure on those members of the profession who faile' 4 , to pay attention to the reiterated remarks of its preside nt on the subject. A fire broke out in the afternoon of the 2d inst. at S A t" James's (Manche), which could not be got under un' gh the next morning, by which time 107 houses had been burnt. The St. Petersburgh journals state that, on the 26th of June, a conflagration occurred at Old Con s tantinOt which destroyed upwards of 350. houses and six syn c gogues. Six men lost their lives. Brunswick, it is said, withdraws from the Prussic ° Customs-Union at new year, 1845. It seems that Bruer wick, when it joined the union, reserved to itself the option of declaring at Michaelmas, this year, of either fixing its junction with the union for an unlimited tifne, on giving notice at that date, or of entirely withdrawi lit % at new year, 1845. LAW AND POLICE. At the Warwick Assizes William Warner, foretell a clerk in the Birmingham Town and District Comps was charged with stealing twelve 1001. notes. pleaded gUilty. Sentence was deferred. An action was brought at Guildfc.rd by the Rev. 311 .: Palin, the Hector of Stifford, in Essex, against the 1 14 ,,'' Mr. Gathercole, the proprietor and editor of a newspeP e .7 called the Church Intctigencer, for a libel p u blished, that paper. The counsel for the defendant offers verdict for 405., which was accepted. At the Westminster Sessions, John Lee, a well-know: thief, who was convicted at these sessions of s tealiug L purse and money, the property of Baron Paravac l `7, and sentence deferred, was brought up for judr e° and sentenced to ten years' transportation. John Brookes, aged 19, a proficient in the art of " 64 ,,: f traction," and a well-known character, was indicted wo stealing a handkerchief, value one shilling. The th e _. ‘ was clearly proved against the prisoner, and the PI found him guilty. The Chairman, in passing sentel l ,, c g said it was high time to clear Westminster of the kil o of thieves that infest the parks and other places of s resort ; it was therefore incumbent on the Court to C o . a severe sentence, which was that he be transported s the term of ten years. Augustus Halifax, the young man who was on Sa tiir _ A day last examined at the Mansion-house upon the cbsTo of having uttered a forged cheque for 65/, p ur portiag 4 , be drawn by Mr. Edward Western, o f G rea t Ja 1:13 ,,,: street, Bedford-row, upon the hou se o f Si r E. C. Halifax, and Co., was fully committed. AL 7.44r. - yiebohe Police-court, William Dunn Idg . charged with having robbed his master, Mr. Bonittald merchant residing at No. 4, Old Cavendish-stree t, o c property to a considerable amount. The evidence ic e io to show that the prosecutor went to Paris a few we% ) ago, leaving the prisoner in charge of his house. `', l , his return he found that he (prisoner) had abscondeti, and had stolen from different apartments numerous 111. 4 cles of wearing apparel, and a box containing a quo of emeralds. He was committed. C 073 74.1r-FILEMIONAI37.24. Lord Frederick and Lady Augusta Fitzclarance Miss Fitzclarence have left the Clarendon Hotel, for th seat, Etal House, near Coldstream. rfr The Duchess of Richmond and family w ill l e ave r° land-place on Saturday, to join the Noble Duk e Gordon Castle, North Britain. v,ortj The Duke and Duchess of M ar lb oroug h, w ith — g be Alan and Lady Louisa Churchill, have arrived at Noble Duke's shooting quarters in Perthshire. ad The Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry , — f a Lady Alexandrina Vane, are about to leave town Wynyard Castle for the season. pt Lord Rodney will entertain a large p ar ty o f frien d s Berriogton-hall, during the Leominster races. , : . t ia. Baroness and Colonel North ent er t a i ne d guished party at dinner on Thurday, at their man 91748 Arlington-street. Amongst th e c om p an y were the y ens and Duchess of Leinster, the Marquis and M a rcl3iol i re of Londonderry, the Earl and Co un t ess o f Westal ° o land, Lord Frederick Fitzclarence, and Lady At i g r u ,4, Fitzclarence, the Earl of Lincoln, Sir G eorg e Alt; Sir Willoughby Cotton, Sir Robert an d L a dy Sale, w;;e1 General Eden, Colonel and Lady Pemberton, Kerr, Mr. St. Aubyn, Colonel Hay, Captain an d f or Burns, and several families of distincti on em barkeVos terday morning at the Blackwall Pi er on beerubo General Steam Navigation Company's steam s hip for Antwerp. .IVUSCEL26III.NzorrB. Mr. Benbow has been returned for Dudley by 11 jority of 213 over Mr. Rawson. ls According to a return moved for by Mr. llo rc s:0 March last, there were 3,352 persons confined for for in England, of which number 1,469 were in prison t ba debts under 101., exclusive of law costs. In 18 42 „ 0 0 expense of prisoners confined f o r d e bt i n Englano;i o ; the several counties 8,478/. 16s. lid., a n d in the folle k ", o r year, 9,585/. 15s. 9d., making in the t wo y ea r s , ill ' tf p land alone, a charge of 18,6171. Bs. 6)d. on the coari e r Several plans have been submitted to the get r° 4 9 V , litan Commissioners for the i m p rovemen t s in , minster, such improvements having for their obie e 'o4 removal of the offensive houses in the Almon* 03 the more effective ventilation of the neighbourboo d t.,,o. the entire change of the ch arac t er o f its inhsbnho One of the most practical plans brought befe r %ter authorities would place the west front o f Westralroif Abbey in the centre of on:: side of a square, and t o ad. open this magnifieent facade to a new street to be the opposite it, and leading to Buckingham Palace, dew e n_ vista of which the latter Edifice would be likewis e ,; 3 s,o The Haymarket Theatre, though closed for the lay Of was opened last night for the benefit of the Sf re per Dancers and Teacher s o f Dancing. Th e bill $ ll sented a melange, aff o rdi ng something relatable ? e t _ tastes—there was the play, A Cure fir Love, the t he ing of M. St. Leon, from the Italiar Opera-hou se ' s/3 0 farce of Blue Devil s , an d th e h umot r o u s extraveg.„ e st of the Flip-Flap F oo t man , i n w hi c h Mr. Wieland ce " iD through his strange evolutions, and lept the audie° a roar of laughter. 5, 1130 During the month of July, in th; present yearNolitx Irish reapers arrrived at Liverpool Ty the City of J' e jest Company's boats. In the correspending month 0 . .. 1 if ea year there came 3,800. Some thusands have al' in England by way of Wales. I THE FUNDS—(CLOaNG PRIG BRITISH FUNK ~... Bank Stock 200% India Stock. ...... . ... ... st y 90.- 3 per Cent. Red 99% Ditt Bonds ............" geS 3 per Cent. Cons. ..... 336 per Cent. Red 102% Diti New Annuities ..• el pi* New 3% per Cent. lin% Ex.3ills 1 mei. iNd ••• ^7 Pe r " New 5 per Cent, - -lit° gOOL. ........ ...... ~, o p Long Annuities to expire ttto Small. .......... ... n ,,f4 Jan 1860 l2 9..16 Bat Stock for Acct... S::.;. ii, Oct. 1859 12% !Cowls for Act. ..« ..... Jan. 1860 lima Stock for Acct.. FOREIGN ENDS. ...... Austrian, 5 per Cent .....«.. :Pouguese, 5 per Cent ..... .... Belgian, 5 per Cent ....... ..... , Dio, New Ditte........." ...... Brazilian bonds B4 Prssian, 5 per Cent ......... ..... Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent 35 Risian, 5 per Cent.......... ...., Chllian, 6 per Cent ....... Colombian, 6 per Cent Ditto, 1524 Mo, 3 per Cent ...... .......... ...... Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent — ,Dto, Deferre6.....••••••': ....0 . _t. f. --c" Danish, 3 per Cent Greek, 18.5, 5 per Cent — , B2hange ... ........... .......„. ...c. Mexican, 5 per Cent Ditto, 6 per Cent., 1837 'ltch, 234 per Cent.....,1712 Peruvian, 1525, 6 per Cent — 'LA°, 5 per Cent ..... ' iv SHAPs. Bristol and Gloucester, 30 pai ........................ 55 5 Chester and Holyhead ( 5 pai, .•.........•.......•"•' 195 Great Western (75 paid) ............................ „, Ditto Fifths, 12 paid . ...... .......... .................. Hull and Selby, 50 paid ..... s ......................... London and Birmingham ((St ... ............ "*. 7,10 London and Blackwell (161.1. 4d.) .................. 48 % London and Brighton (50 pal , ...... ......... r.;: .... 87., London and South Western 41. 6s. I . otl. pa 1 " 1 :: 190 London and Croydon (Trunic ................ ••• " 1.0 Manchester and Leeds (70 pa) .................. .7 4 04; Ditto, Half :•hares : 0 paid. ....................... 110 Midland Counties (100 ' paid) .............. .......... ...... s g. Northern and Ea,tern (45 pa) ..... ... .............• 10 Trent Valley, 2 paid ........... , . ... .................... I li% York end ... Orleans, Tours, and Bourdex, I paid ....... . k re' A sergeant of the 15th egiifent, this 'we e a ci ceived information that he Is been left several thou)* pounds by a deceased relati.--13anner "fr. sp The agzt Tw o . yr fillies (to s Lord Cl Duke U. lion. G 'Juke o Bettie kgst Sy 5 to 1 a 'V rier )ti r " la Lo rcl E mt. e a Mr. j . M r , sa of 3 be s Mr. 1 Mr. Al Mr. s Lo rd Mr. Mr. Mr. N Th, Beggs Um Alosql APPLE aged, 5 yrs, Yrs, 7 101b 71b_, Yrs, 4 The ( Th e : r l / 4 be la, Ad