The Sun. — London, England, 1839-06-27 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION IELGIAN AND DUTCH PAPERS• BRUSSELS, JUNE 24.—We are able fQrnvilly to contra dict the statement of the Journal de Commerce d'Anvers, risiecti• g; n affray et Ve Jon een the inhabitants and tie Belgian troops, whom the people wished to hinder from retrw.v . ng the garrison from the ramparts. Nothing ti the kind took place, and the report must have been in v3t,ted in pure malice.—lndependent. At two o'clock in the afternoon of the 22i1 the B dgian cal u: - s were din forts Lillo and Li,flienskock, two of cur gantoats were in the road of Lillo in the morning ; the Dutch ru--n-of- war have dropped down the river to nuth. AbISTERtA7.I, JUNE 24.—We learn from London that the English Cabinet has received a note, in which the Dutch Government proves the invalidity of the declaration made by Lord Palmerston on the exchange of the ratifications. In this note Baron Vaitolk Van Soelenpestt observes that a promise made by King William to Queen Victoria, that when all the arrangements were made with 13.21gium he would attend to the wishes of that Princess, and sell his property about La. kin to King Leopold, could not give the English Government any right whatever, arbitrarily and contrary to the 16th article of the treaty, concluded and ratified by England unconditionally, to make an excep tion, to the article, and require that the sequestration on the property of the King should not be taken off till he had agreed with King Leopold about the sale. The Dutch Minister for Foreign Affairs says that his Sovereign might justly consider himself as authorised, by so unexampled a proceeding, to declare himself absolved from all the obli gations arising from the treaty ; yet to prove his desire to have every difference settled, and to testify his 1N i sh to ob lige Queen: Victoria, his Majesty has resolved not to make any use of his right, but to comply with the wishes of the Queen, that is to say, when the Belgian Govern ment shall have fulfilled its obligatiims, and have executed the 16th article of the treaty. Without any reservation the Du'ch note adds, that if According to Lord Patmerston's declaration, the Belgian Government shall determine not to tape off the sequestra tion of the K property about Laeken, King Leo po'd will only have to thank himself if his wishes are not gratified, since King William will not treat for the sale of his own property till he is put in legal possession. This note of the Dutch Government is written with great force of reasoning, combined with modera'ior, and his rights and dignity are asserted in a masterly manner, yet without offence to any one. Our correspnient adds, that the conduct of Lord Palmerston is greatly blamed at London. He tells us, too, that Lard Palmerston intended to ratify the treaty with the reservation which is new ex hressed in his declaration, in which case Belgium would ave done the same, and it was because they were not sure at Brussels whether the other Plenipotentiaries would re ceive such a conditional ratification, that the sending off the Belgian notification was so long delayed under the pretext that the seal was broken, and that it was not sent till Lord Palmerston had informed them that Prince Ester hazy had positively declared he was not authorized to ac cept the ratification with such reservations on the part of England and Belgium —Handlesll id. DUTeti FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, JUNE 24 Money. Bill,. Actual Debt, 2. per Cent Ditto, ditto 5 per cent. Amoit Syndic, 4I; percent... . .. Ditto, ditto, 3Yi per ce -t Commercial Company, 4 1 4 per cent lB9 180 y., Ditto (1532 and 1833) 5 per cent. Ditto 1437. 5 per cent. Loan 1537, 5 ver cent. Exchange on London, One month l2 0214 Two montha BELGIAN I UNDS—Bn 'SSM.S, JUNE ::4 Actual Debt, '..!Y per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent. 1 1 Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 3 per Cent. 7l Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent %OA Society of Commerce, 4 5 per Cent ll9 Batik of Belgium, 5 Per Cent 7 75u National Society . —Brussels Papers, June 25. PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, JUNE 21. 11111 s. Money. St. Schuld. Sch., 4 per cent. -1021 i 103 1 ,i Prussian English Loan, 1830, 4 per cent. 103!, 102 N kac cha n g e on London, three moneas ... 6 21% —Prussian State Gazette, June 21. MNEMONICAL CONVERSAZIONE, BY M. GUSTAVE ADOLPHE BASSLE, AGED THIRTEEN YEARS. Master Gustave Adolphe Bassle, of the Hague, aged thirteen years, desirous of proving to the British public the almoit incredible results which he has obtained, and which any one may obtain in a short space:of time, by Mnemonics, ventures to take upon himself to give a ready answer to any question addre.sed to him from a programme, con taining more than 20,000 facts on subjects the most diffi cult to be acquired and retained by the memory, and which a person with the most retentive memory and the most assiduous application could not acquire without the aid of the system. SUBJECTS OF THE VARIOUS QUESTIONS WHICH MAY BE ASKED. IN HISTORY.-Ist. A great number of dates and facts of Ancient and Modern History. All the grand epochs oi Universal History.-2. The most remarkable epochs 01 Sacred History, of the Histories of Egypt, Assyria, Ba. bylon, Lydia, Syria, Media, and Persia; 500 important events of the History of France, and more than 400 re. markable epochs of the History of the Netherlands ; a succinct account of each period in particular.-3d. The names of the Kings of Rome, and the dates of their acces sion to the throne.-4th. The succession of the Kings of France, with the number and order of each in the general series and in that of those of the same name, and the dates Of their accession to the throne; the successor and prede cessor of each King in particular, as well as the principal 'facts of each reign and its duration.-sth. The Kings of England with the same details as for those of France.- B th. Names of the Counts of Holland as well as the Stadt holders, with the dates of their accession to power.-7th. The memorable battles recorded in Ancient History, in the History of France, the History of the Netherlands, &c., &c.-Bth. The date of the decease of several great men, he-, •&e. IN GROORAPHY.-Ist. The great divisions of the Earth, the limits and population of the five parts of the Globe. 2.. Tte division of Asia into 11 countries, and that of Africa into 16.-3 d. Thelgeneral and particular division of America. —4th. The extent and division of Australia.-sth. The division of Europe into 19 countries.-6th. The names of the five great Oceans, and of the countries which they se parate.-7th. The names of the 3 great and 11 smaller seas of Europe ; —of the 12 gulfs ;—of the 15 principal straits and their situation ;—of the 64 islands with their capitals;—of the peninsulas ;—of the 17 principal capes; —of the isthmuses; -- of the 17 chains of mountains and o the principal mounts among them ;—of the volcanoes; — of the 25 principal lakes ; of the 42 great rivers of Europe and the names of the countries which they traverse. The latitude, longitude, and population of the capitals of Europe, as well as that of a great number of cities and geographical points on the globe. The division of the kingdom of the Netherlands, the names and situations of the principal cities in the same, to the number of 152 ; the height of the principal mountains and of several cities on the Globe above the level of the sea ;—A comparative statement of itinerary measures, &c. &c. IN COSMOGRAPHY.- I st. A table of the principal ele ments of the solar system ;-2d. The names of the planets, their distance from the Sun, the duration of their revolution round the sun, their rotation and their size, compared with that of the Earth ;-3d. The 12 signs of the Zodiac cor responding with the 12 months of the year ;-4th. The di vision of the surface of the Globe into circles, and the ex tent of those circles ; sth. The names of the grea er and smaller circles, description of each, the Zones, Tropics, &c. IN MYTHOLOGY. —The names and attributes of the principal Heathen Deities—of the eleven great Deities admitted by Jupiter to his council—The manner in which the King of Gods and men holds council ;-21. The names of the principal Demi-gods and Heroes ;-3d. Of the nine Muses with their attributes—the Graces—the Fates—the Furies—the Syrens—the Hesperides—the Gorgons—the Mineides—tbe Harpies—the Judges of Hell—the Winds —the Rivers of Hell—the seven Sages of Greece—the twelve Labours of Hercules—the seven Wonders of the World, &e. &c. IN CHEMISTRY.—The specific gravity of Elastic Fluids, of Liquids and Solids, as given in the Annuaire du Bureau des Longitudes a Paris. These, to the number of 150, are calculated in decimals to ten thousandths. IN NATURAL HISTORY.—The names of the three king doms of Nature, and the division of each in particular. IN INVENTIONS AND DISCOVERIES.—A great number of remarkable inventions and discoveries the most useful to mankind. IN NATURAL PHILOSOPHY AND OTHER MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS.—Ist. The velocity of sound, light, &c.-2d. The specific gravity and properties of solids and of air ;- 3d. The height of several remarkable edifices in the world; -4th. The problem of the knight in the game of chess resolved, showing how it can be made to pass over the 64 squares on the;chess-board in 64 moves ; —sth. The duration of life in France ;-6th. The reward of the in ventor of chess in corn, amounting to 18, 446, 744, 073, 709, 551, 615 grains of corn ;-7th. Conjugal statistics : —.Bth. Singular name of a Javanese Prince ;-9th. Series of letters corresponding to the figures of the Proportion of the Circumference to the Diameter, &c. CALENDAR.—Ist. The day of the week on which fell the Ist of January from the commencement of the Christian era till the adoption of the Gregorian calendar ; --2 d. The same from that time till the year 2400, or to the most remote period ;-3d. The same for any day of the month in any year, whether common or bissextile. PROPORTION OF THE CIRCUMFERENCE TO THE DlA myree.—The following numbers will be repeated, back wares, forwards, or in any order, and the places of any figure taken at random, for instance, of the 17th, the 95th, the 113th, will be given as soon as asked :- 3,14159265 3 58 9 7 9 3 2 3 8 4 6 2 6 433832795028 8 4 1 9 7 1 6 9 3 9 9 3 751058209749 4 4 5 9 2 3 0 7 8 1 6 4 0628620599862 8 0 3 4 8 2 5 3 4 2 1 1 7067982i4808 6 5 1 3 2 8 2 3 0 6 6 4709384460955 0 5 8 2 2 3 1 7 2 5 3 5 940812 8 4 8 0 2. EXTEMPORE ESSAYS. —Having answered the questions -comprised in the above table, Master Gustave Bassla will make an extemporaneous application of the method of Mnemonics to such particulars as may be given in writing by the audience. Numbers composed of as many figures as may be thought proper, will be learned by heart and re peated by him in a few minutes. The complete programme of the particular; above-men tioned, in which every question is followed by its answer, will be distributed at the doors, in order that each indivi dual may have it in his power to select the questions and judge of the correctness of the answers. Master Gustave Bassle will answer all the above ques tions in four languages : in French, English, Dutch, and German. Master Basle intends to communicate his method to a limited and select number of young persons of the Metro polis. With this view he will (assisted by his father) give a Course of Lectures on Mnemonics (the art of assisting memory). The day, place, and time, and also the Public Lecture, will be further announced in the Daily Papers. The programme may be had gratuitously of Ackermann and Co., 96, Strand; and Effingham Wilson, 3, Sweet ing's-alley, Royal Exchange. - - HER,. MAJESTY'S LEVEE. Her gajosyss and suite arrived in three of the Royal carriages `fit. James's Palace shortly before two o'clock yesterday wsl,er escorted by a party of Life Guards, from Buckh ,g) lam Palace. The Queen was attended by the Countest-: - ..• of Burlington and Lady Lyttelton, Ladies in Waiting ; I ,04 Gardner, Lord in Waiting; Hon. Wil liam Cowper, 'Groom in Waiting ; Colonel Wemyss, Equerry in Waiting ; Mr. Cowell, and Master Cavendish Pages of P Lottorir in Waiting. Her Majesty was received ou t lier arr• ha l :by the Lord Chamberlain and the Master Df the Ho rse. Soon after two o'clock her Majesty, attended by her stn.'e, entered the Throne Room, and held a Levee. The IT° wing foreign presentations to her Majesty the Queen too k pizee4 in the diplomatic circle : L e Ba•Yiti. de Valois, officer in the King of Wurtemburg's service, by Count Mandclsloh, the \Vurtemburg Mi nister. Colon el frchard Wright, Adjutant of the General Staff of Ecuad icr, by M. Moreno, the Buenos Ayrean Minister. M. P: Albertini de Cimitile, Lieutenant de la Garde dc sa 'll , loeste Sicilienne, Le Chevalier Martusculi, de la G ird e d'Honncur du Roi, by the Duc de Regina, Sicilian Cba rge d'Affaires. M. de K: issileff the Russian Charge d'Affaires, by the Secretary o,if State for Foreign Affairs. Le Barons de Meyendorff, Chamberlain, and Consciller D'Etat of the Emperor of Russia, and Le Comte Andre Sehouvaleff„ officers in the Imperial Guards, by M. de Kissileff, etc . Russian Charge d'Affaires. The Cht.vit icr de Wiebeking, Privy Councillor to the King of B: ( var"a, by Baron de Cetto the Bavarian Minister, and the C '3,evalier Rebello de Carvalho, to take leave, having bee a appointed Secretary to the Portugese Lega tion at Ma( lrid. At the E entree Levee the following presentations to her Majesty to( tic place : Mr. Arti tan. Aston, upon his appointment as her Ma jesty's Envc Extraordinary to the Court of Madrid, by Viscount Pa ti nerston. Mr. Mori r, her Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary to the Swiss 0.3 ifederation, on his return on leave of absence, by Viscount 3 Palmerston. The Masts of the Rolls of Ireland, by Lord Morpeth. The Earl c f Clarendon, on his marriage, by the Earl of Verulam. Mr. Henr y Buiwer, on being appointed to her Ma j'st)'s Seer tt ary of Embassy at Paris, by Lord Palmerston. The Hon. Mr. Bloomfield, on his appointment as Se cretary to I a.2r Majesty's Embassy at St. Petersburg, by Viscount Pa Itnerston. Mr. Edwk a Hobhouse, on his appointment as one of her Majesty's Gentlemen Ushers, by the Lord Chamberlair. Mr. C. Len Wilson, by his father, the Lord Mayor. Mr. Edward Lawford, by the Lord Mayor. Mr. C. Hoyt, ard, by Lord Morpeth. The Levee a •as attended by the Austrian Ambassador ; the Wurtemberl -, Buenos Ayrean, Danish, Bavarian, Sar dinian, Hanovet ian, Spanish, Mexican, and Saxon Mini sters ; Baron de Bourqueney, French Charge d'Affaires ; Baron Rehausen , Swedish Charge d'Affaires; Baron Wer ther, Prussian Cbarge d'Affaires ; Commander M. Lisboa, Brazilian Change d'Affaires ; Baron Bentinck, Nether lands Charge d'Affaires ; Prince J. Soutz), Grecian Charge d'Aff ; Due de Regina, Sicilian Charge d'Affaires; Benjamin Rush, Secretary, and Mr. M. R. Singleton, Attache to the Legations of the United States ; Mr. Webster, of the Senate of the United States ; the Chevalier J. de Sandoval, Attache to the Spanish Legation ; Prince Doria Pamphili, the Archbishop of York, the Bieaop of London, the Lord President, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Secretaries of State for the Home, Foreign, and Colonial Departments, the Pre sident of the India Board, the Chief Secretary for Ire land, the Lord Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, the Master of the Horse, the Captain of the Hon. Corps of Gentlemen at Arms; Viscount Combermere, Gold Stick in Waiting; the Captain of the Yeoman Guard, the Vice-Chamberlain, the Master of the Rolls of Ireland, Sir Edward Disbrowe, her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of the Nether lands; the Master-General of the Ordnance • the Treasurer of the Household, the Comptroller of the Household ; Mr. Stanley, Secretary of the Treasury ; Mr. Backhouse, Under Secretary of State ; Mr. Maule, M. P., Under- Secretary, Home Department ; the Lord Mayor, Hon. Edward Butler, Lieutenant of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms ; the Master of the Ceremonies, Sir William Woods, K. H. ; Garter, King-of-Arms; Sir Thomas Reeve, Standard-bearer of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-al-Arms; Sir George Houlton, Ensign of the Yeomen Guard ; Colonel Cavendish, Clerk Mar shal, Silver-stick in Waiting ; Hon. Captain Poulett, R. N. A. D. C., in Waiting ; Colonel Sir Robert Gardiner, Aide-de-camp to the Queen ; Colonels Wyn3ard and Le Conteur, Aide-de-camp to the Queen ; Major Hyde, Assistant Master and Marshal of the Ceremonies; the Lord Mayor's Chaplain, Mr. James Bunco Curling, Clerk of the Cheque to the Hon. Corps of the gentlemen at Arms ; Captain Pechell R. N., and Colonel Sir Horace Seymour, Equerries to her Majesty the Queen Dowager; Mr. Samuel Hancock, Exon in Waiting ; Mr. Arthur Blackwood, Groom of the Privy Chamber; Lieut. Colonel Wright and Colonel Sir George Hoste, Royal Engineers, Gentlemen Ushers to her Majesty the Queen Dowager ; Captain Green, Gentleman Usher in Waiting; Mr. Albert William Woods, Portcullis Pursuivant of Arms; and the following— UKE—Rutland. MARQUlSES—Westminster, Abercorn, Tavistock, Cam den, Londonderry, Douro, Exeter, Tweeddale, Bristol, Normanby. Eanns—Burlington, Lovelace, Devon, Cadogan, Win terton, Bruce, Clare, Winchilsea, Warwick, Cardigan, Ducie, Morley, Powis, Darlington, Scarborough, Glen. gall, Hardwicke, Clanwilliam, Beverley, Listowel, Jer myn, Beauchamp, Mayo. VISCOUNTS Povverscourt, Chelsea, Strangford, Bo vingdon, Southwell, Templetown, Eastnor, Falkland, Alford, St. Vincent, Folkestone, Lake. LORPS—Glenelg, Lovat, Sondes, Dunsany, Frederick Beauclerc, D.D., Harry Vane, I3arham, Somerville, Edward Howard, Littleton, Clements, NN illiam Powlett, Harewood, Faversham, Willoughby, Broke, Bayning, Methuen, Caring-ton, Glenlyon, Calthorpe, J. Somerset, Belhaven, De Ros, Brooke, Augustus Loftus, Morpeth, Milton, Dunglas, Portmen. BlSHOPS—Carlisle and Nova Scotia. COUNT—De Morel de Champemont. RIGHT HONOGRABLES —G. A. Dawson, Sir R. Gordor, Sir J. Becket, Sir E. East. HoNourtanLEs—Francis Charteris, George S. S. Jen ningham, Captain Cavendish, W. Temple, Alexander Stewart, L. M. Wilkins, Chas. Howard, E. 'Most} n, R. S. Carew, J. Bruce, Rev. H. D. Erskine, Rev. N. Gren ville, Spencer Lyttelton, Dean of Norwich, Wm. Cost, Rev. A. Cust, Capt. Cust. BARONETS—John Croft, K. C. G., John Yarde Buller, Richard Bulkeley Phillips, Francis Burdett, William So merville, Thomas Dyke Acland, George Tuite, George Chetwynd, Charles G. Stuart Menteath, John Chetwode, W. Medlycott, H. M. Vavasour, Robert Sheffield, Henry Marsh, R. Rycroft, D. J. Norrey, J. Edwards, H. Fleet wood, M.P., G. Staunton, E. Filmcr, R. Howard, W. Middleton, M. Ridley. KNIGHTS—Raymond Jarvis, De Lacy Evans, T. French, M. P. REVEREND DOCTORS —D'Oyly, Holloway. REVEREND MESSIEURS —John Jennings, Janies Carver, Wm. Canning, J. Rowlands, W. Harrison, Henry Buck ley, Granville Stuart Menteath, Calvert Jones, F. W. Holmes, B. Layard, G. G. Stonestreet, Thomas Clayton Glynn, A. Mangin. DOCTORS—Twecde, T. Murray Peters, Tarral, Sidey, Tweeddale, Brander. MESSIEURS.—W. Fletcher Norton (of Elton), Askew, Gurney, A. E. Chalon, R. A., G. Lort Phillips, Wise, Sanderson, M.P., Massy Dawson, Burgess, Seymour, Chas. Fredk. Huth, R. Archer Houblon, Newdigate, B. Gurdon, Neeld, M.P., Chichester, M.P., George W. Hope, Edward Wilson, Blair, Stafford :erningham, W. Irby, Goulburn, Edward Bligh, Ward, Drummond, John Neeld, M.P., Stanley, H. G. Ward, Tumor, Thos. B. Roupell, Milnes, M. P., Lambert, Pettigrew, Stephen Digby, Cunliffe Lister, Busfield, Saml. J. Brown, Jas. Lean, Ord, M.P., Escott, Burroughes, M.P., Boultbee, Gustavus Smith, Stuart Wortley, C. Stansfield, M.P., Vignoles, T. F. Kelly, IL H. Williamson, John Johnson, C. L. Phipps, Alston, M.P., Thiselton, Wilbraham, NV. Childers, M P., R. F. Gordon, T. F. Hobhouse, M.P., Greene, M. P., Marton, M. P., J. L. Pennefather. C. Hyde, Macguire, T. Raikes, Edward Hobhouse, F. Wil mot, R. Tindal Porter, Lockyor, Fenton Scott, F. Bud dleston, A. Yates, Wm. Porter, W. NV. Brown, T. Bland, Dashwood, Shaw, V. Smith, M.P., W. Evans, W. Nicol, Pakington, M. P., W. Young, Plumptre, M.P., Trant, Gorden Campbell, Broadley, M.P., J. L. Wilmot, C. Buller, M.P., Christopher, S. Motte, H. Stubber, J. Monier, G. Pryme, M.P., C. Wynne, E. Williams, Bailey, M. P., Vigors, M. P., R. M'Cormick, D. Jones, Calthorpe, S. Galbraith, R. Currie, Grant, Hepworth, J. 0. C. Read, S. Scott, T. S. Cocks, jun., Hawes, M.P., T. S. Carter, B. Hughes, M.P., H. Ricketts, R. Neave, C. Bruce, Strutt, Ponsonby, Symons Woodall, T. C. Anstey, Estcourt, W. Heneage, Pigot D. C. Smyth, Egginton, B. Beaumont, Waddington M.P., E. B. Clive, J. Wright, S. Gregson, C. F. Hig. gins, East, M.P., Evanson, Robert Owen, Eyre, Hind ley, M. P., Fitzpatrick, M. P., Grattan, Cam ick, M Carrick, G. Irwin. ADNIIRALS—Sir E. King, Sir A. Farquhar, Hollis, Sir J. Wells, Sir T. Briggs, Sir T. Dundas, Sir W. Lake. CAPTAINS—Rodney Mundy, G. Evans, Inglefield, M. Grant, W. H. Henderson, Kingcome, Burnett, T. Dickin son, Strong, Maugin, Rochfort, Sir J. Stirling, C. F. Dale. COMMANDERS—John Reeve, J. S. Foreman, Larcom, J. L. Parkin, Castle, H. Murray. LIEUTENANTS—J. F. L. Wood, W. James, Kynaston Corbet, H. Dunlop. GENERALS—EIIice, Callander, Sir Patrick Ross, Hill, Hon. Sir NV. Lumley, Sir F. Mulcaster, Lord E. Somer set, Sir W. K. Grant, J. Goodfellow, Sir C. B. Vere, Vincent, Sir T. Dallas, Lord C. Manners, Elphinstone, Count F. Rivarola, Sir Thos. Montresor, Sir T. Hawker, Hon. H. Murray, Shuldham, Sir G. Anson, Sir W. Eustace, Andrews, Wright. COLONELS —Armstrong, Graydon, Wyndham, Robbins, Butter, Lambert, Salwcy, M.P., Sir H. Macleod, Purvis E wart, Townshend, Bunbury, Darner, Thomas, C. Ken. nedy, Reeve, Aitchison, Buller, Trickey, Clarke, Fer. guson, Sir B. Carmac, Llyellyn. MAJORS— Hope, Power, C. Townley, Hon. G. tarot tesley, Sir W. Lloyd, Irton, Symons, Ramsay, Allen J. W. Henderson, Irving, F. B. St. John. CAPTAINS —Mathew, M.P., C. Lewis, Boulton, H. A. Jackson, Bryan, Margary, Weir, Mackenzie, Parsons, Brand, M. Taylor, Shaw, Childe, W. Ridley, Winnington. M.P., J. Gray, Hill, A. Boddam, F. Villiers, Moorsom, H. Wilson, Sampson. LIEUTENANTS—CharIes Ellice, Tuite, George Tuite Dalrymple, Fitz Roy, Frith, Somerset, Hon. C. Grant ham Scott, Boyce H. Combe, B. Granville Layard Greene, Francis Seymour, Le Mcswier, Fred. Henry Lang, Thorndike, Somerset, Stracey, Cuddy, J. S. Shoett, Percy, Grant, Trelawny, H. Delamain, E. G, Bryant, William Lindsay, G. M'Call, W. R. Lewis. CORNETS—Anson, George Lloyd, Monro, Francis. ENSIGNS—WaIter Prout, Edward Warwick Harvey, Sydenham, Ross, B wart, Henry Coote, J. Buttler Fel- THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, JUNE 27. 1839. lowes, Wedderhurne, Thos. Cochrane Inglis, Charles, Lygon, Cocks. The following► Noblemen and Gentlemen presented ad dresses to the Queen :. The Marquis of Normanby—From the inhabitants of the city of Glasgow ; from the borough of Ashburton; from the town and county of Sligo; from the parishes of St George and St. Thomas, in the city of Dublin ; from the parish of St. Michan, in the city of Dublin; from the parish of St. Mary, in the city of Dublin ; from the pa rishes of St. Nicholas Without, St. Luke, and the Bishop and Deans Liberties, in the city of Dublin; from the pa rishes of Layd and Ardelines, in the district of the county of Antrim called " The Glens ;" from the Union of the parishes of Boystown, Kiltale, and Derpatrick, in the county of Meath, Ireland, expressing gratitnde to her Majesty, for her Majesty's firmness displayed in the main tenance of her Royal prerogative on the recent occasion. Mr. Fitzpatrick, M.P. for Queen's County, and Mr. Grattan— From proprietors, clergy, freeholders, and inha bitants of the Queen's County, expressive of their admira tion of her Majesty's firmness in resisting on truly Consti tutional grounds those demands which sought to trench on her Majesty's undoubted prerogative, and praying her Ma jesty will be graciously piteasetl to continue her confidence in her present Councillous. The Duke of Rutland—From 3,768 inhabitants of the borough of Leicester, assuring her Majesty of their devoted attachment to her Throne arid person, represent. ing their sorrrow at the frustration of her Majesty's late endeavours to form an Administration, which should merit the respect of the people, and humbly imploring that her Majesty's Councils may be directed by Ministers who will maintain the ;Established Church in all its rights and integrity, resist all further innovations of the Consti tution, and vindicate the just rights and commercial privileges of her Majesty's subjects. Lord Clements—From the inhabitants of the parish of Kiltubride, County Leitrim, expressing their admiration, gratitude, and attachment; congratulating the Queen on the firmness with which her Majesty has repelled the late attempt made to change the Royal Household by that party which they fear, because of the injuries which they inflicted on Ireland while in power, expressing their con fidence in her Majesty's present advisers, and imploring Heaven to bless her Majesty. Viscount Powerscourt —From the Bath Church of England Lay Association, praying her Majesty to be gra ciously pleased to rescind the Order in Council of the 10th of April last, with rtiferenee to National Education. Lord Sondes—F.-orn 1,015 of the inhabitants of Great Yarmouth, e4pressirag a want of confidence in her Ma jesty's present advisers, and imploring her Majesty to sum mon to her counseln those Conservative Statesmen who enjoy the confidence: of the nation. Lord Glenelg—From Inverness and Inverness-shire, congratulating her Majesty on the return of her present Ministers. Earl of Devon—Feom Exeter, praying for increased means of religious instruction in the colonies. Viscount Strangfore—From clergy, magistrates, gentry, and inhabitants of the borough of Hythe, representing their utter want of confidence in her Majesty's present advisers, and their conviction that their whole course of policy has tended to endanger the security of her Majesty's possessions abroad, and to alienate the affections of her people at home. The Earl of Bea - achamp—From the inhabitants of Kid derminster, assurin g her Majesty that the address from the Town Council of that Borough lately presented to her Majesty, did not express the sentiments of the majority of its inhabitants, and deploring the recent failure in forming an able and effeient Administration, and praying that her Majesty may select Ministers who will support inviolably the Reformed Church, and resist the scheme of education recently proposed by her Majesty's present Ministers ; signed by 4,023 inhabitants, including 206 burgesses. Earl Jermyn—From 474 burgesses and other inhabitants of Bury St. Edmunds, expressing want of confidence in her Majesty's present advisers, and humbly praying that her Majesty would be graciously pleased to call to her Councils those enlightened Conservative Statesmen who enjoy the confidence and respect of the nation. Lord Belhaven—From the Presbytery of Stirling, to stop the running of the mails on Sunday. Sir William Somerville—From the town of Drogheda expressive of admiration of her Majesty's firmness on a re cent occasion, and humbly thanking her Majesty for re calling to her Councils her present Ministers. Mr. Chichester, M.P.—From Bramton and Hearton, in favour of her Majesty's Ministers. Sir Francis Burdett—From Derby, earnestly entreat ing her Majesty to call to her counsels Statesmen of ac knowledged experience and wisdom. The Earl of Hardwicke—From the town of Cambridge, humbly praying her Majesty will be graciously pleased to call to her counsels the Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel. The Earl of Powis—Front the Ministers, Magistrates, and inhabitants of Welch Pool for preserving the educa tion of the young in the hands Gf the parochial clergy. Also, from the County of Montgomery, in favour of the Welsh Church. Robert Owen—From the Congress of the Delegates of :he Universal Community Society of Rational Relig,ion- ists, soliciting the Government to appoint parties to inves tigate measures which the Congress proposes to ameliorate the condition of society. The Earl of Winailsea—From the Council of the City of Rochester, deploring the present unsettled state of her Majesty's dominions, and fully concurring in the public announcement of her Majesty's present advisers, " That the want of confidence of a great proportion of the Commons House of Parliament rendered 4 it impossible that they should continue to administer the affairs of her Majesty's Government in a manner beneficial to the country ;" earnestly beseeching her Majesty to call to her counsels those eminent Statesmen who have avowed them- selves prepared to maintain the integrity of the Protestant Constitution. Also from a meeting in Exeter Hall, pray ing her Majesty to dissolve the Committee of Privy Council appointed for the purpose of promoting Public Education. Mr. Stuart Wortley—From the inhabitants of the Bo rough of Wakefield and its vicinity, praying that her Ma jesty will be graciously pleased to summon to her counsels persons who have the respect and confidence of the nation. Mr. Gustavus Smith, Justice of the Peace for the County of Devon—From inhabitants of Honiton, County of Devon, expressive of their loyalty, and thanking her Ma jesty for her firmness on the late trying occasion. IMPERI AL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS, JUNE 26. There being only thirty Members present at Four O'Clock the SPEAKER declared the House adjourned till Tomorrow. Mr. OswALn was in attendance, to take the oaths and his scat for Glasgow, but could not do so in consequence of there not being a sufficient number of Members in at tendance to cons:itute a House. SHIP PROPELLER COMPANY. ERRATUM. In the short conversation which took place in the House of Commons on Monday evening on the second reading of the Ship Propeller Company's Bill, we regret that the observations of Mr. Bro therton were most indistinctly heard in the gallery. We believe the following to be a more accurate sum mary of what fell from the Hon. Member than the re port published : Mr. CAY LEY moved the second reading of the Ship Propelling Company's Bill. Mr. BROTHERTON opposed the second reading of the Bill, considering it to be a measure that was extremely injurious to a most worthy individual. The short facts of the case were these, about five years ago letters patent were obtained by a gentleman named Bennet Woodcraft, for an invention of which the object of the present Bill was to deprive him. It was impor tant, therefore, that the House should not lend its sane- tion to a Company having such an object, The inven tion, for which Mr. Smith had obtained a patent, was precisely the same as that which had been patented by Charles Cameron about ten years ago, and it would therefore be impossible to support the validity of Smith's patent. Under such circumstances, looking upon the Bill as a means for upholding an invalid patent he should move that it be read a second time that day three months. Mr. CAYLEY had no connection whatever with the Company, and scarcely knew if the Bill had been placed in his hands. The House had probably already heard of the application of the Archimedian screw to steam vessels, which he understood had been investigated by many naval men, and the Board of Admiralty, who had all expressed themselves favourably of the invention. It did not interfere in any way with Mr. Woodcroft's patent, and even if it did, the House was no tribunal to try the merits of the two inventions. Parties had sub scribed a large sum for the purpose of obtaining the present Bill and establishing a Company, and if there was any undue interference with Air. Woodcroft's pa tent he had his remedy in another Court.—(Hear.) Sir C. BURRELL supported the Bill. He be lieved the invention would be a great improvement in the navigation of the river, as by it all swell was done away with, and the consequent danger to small craft, and loss of life, avoided. He did not profess to know much about the invention, but from what he had heard of it he had no doubt it would be found to be a decided im provement upon the present system. Mr. BROTHERTO N said he would be prepared to prove (if the House allowed him) that the present plan was inferior to that of Mr. Woodcroft, and that the Lords of the Admiralty had given Mr. Woodcroft a written opinion that they considered his invention an " ingenious improvement" upon the screw propeller. Mr. BENETT contended that the House had no- thing to do with the merits of rival patents. lie under stood that there were two patents existing for the appli cation of the Archimedian screw to steam-vessels. The present Company had purchased the other, and rejected Mr. Woodcroft's patent, and hence the opposition of that gentleman to the present Bill. Mr. BROTHERTON said he was instructed by Mr. Woodcroft to say that his patent had never been offered to the Ship Propeller Company. Captain A'COURT eulogized the invention of Mr. Smith, and supported the Bill. The amendment was then withdrawn, and the Bill read a second time, and ordered to be committed. In the Common Pleas, in the case of Oakley v. Cloud, the jury found a verdict for the defendant_. Damages, One Farthing. Mr. Pease, M.P., was obliged to leave his Par liamentary duties, on account of the alarming illness of his brother, Mr. Edward Pease, whose decease has since taken place.—Durham Chronicle. THE AMERICAN COTTON SPECU- LATION. ( From the Manchester Guardian of Wednesday.) The New York packet ship, George Washington, which arrived at Liverpool on Monday, has brought over to this country a curious document, in the shape of a circular, alleged to have been issued by, or under the sanction of, the Bank of the United States, to the different parties, factors, planters, and others, interested in maintaining the prices of cotton. This circular, or alleged circular, has attracted so much attention, and given rise to so many remarks, both in this town and Liverpool, that we shall, no doubt, stand excused by our readers for transferring it to our columns, and ap pending a few remarks. It is to the following effect : New York, June 16th, 1839. You have, doubtless, received the very unfavourable advices by the. Great Western, in relation to the Cot ton Market. These advices, it is apprehended, do not disclose, even to the full extent, the dangerous situa tion in which our great staple is placed. The diminished demand for yarns and cotton goods on the Continent, the short harvest of the last year, the shipment of bullion from Great Britain, and consequent rise in the rate of interest by the Bank of England, must all inevitably tend to a greater and more accele rated decline in prices, if some steps are not promptly adopted to prevent the remaining stock of cotton now in this country from being offered for immediate sale in the European markets. If the consumption of raw cotton in England had only diminished some 10 or 15 per cent., still, in conse quence of the now clearly ascertained deficiency in the last year's crop, which has fallen nearly as low as the lowest estimate, past prices would not only have been safe to the shippers, but profitable ; and hence they are not obnoxious to the charge of unwarrantable specula tion, which so often deprives the spirit of rash commer cial adventure of all just claim to sympathy. This extraordinary falling-off in the consumption of the raw material is, perhaps, not a little aided by a de termination on the part of the English spinner to have the residue of the crop at his own price, under a belief that, as the great and tenacious holder of the last year is out of the market, there exists no serious difficulty in his way, by working short hours for a few weeks, to ac complish this desirable end. It becomes necessary, therefore, to supply the absence of -that"great protector by some co-operation among individual interests. Now, it is quite obvious, that but one of two modes would be likely to counteract the result that must otbenc;:e inevitably flow from the causes just indicated. The first would be to organize, through the aid of the Bank of the United States, and the banks in the principal emporiums of the different states, a combina tion sufficiently powerful to advance a sum on every bag of cotton on this side of the water, which would ensure its being kept in this country for three months ; the other scheme would be to concentrate in one house, in Liverpool, the whole or the greater part of the cotton now to go forward, by an arrangement for unfailing, ade quate, and collateral aids, sufficiently powerful to enable the house in question to hold over until a greater part of the present stock of cotton in England is worked off at advanced price ; a result which the successful execu tion of this plan would inevitably secure. The first scheme, however, is liable (notwithstanding its direct and immediate power to produce the desired result) to the conclusive objection of arresting all our foreign exchange operations, which might hazard the ability of our Banks, even in the Atlantic States, to continue specie payments ; whilst the last project would be entirely free from this objection, as it would at once augment the current of exchanges, and enable us to weather the crisis, which the first plan would be but too apt to produce. These views are the result of a conference which, yesterday, was held with one of the most influential and intelligent merchants of Philadelphia, in conjunction with commercial gentlemen of equally high standing from other portions of the union. It is, therefore, announced to you, on the best autho rity, that an arrangement has been made, by which an advance of three-fourths (on what may be estimated as the present market value of cotton, say 14 cents) will be made on every bale in this country, at our principal shipping ports, to all holders, if they desire to avail themselves of this advantage. The consignments are to go forward to Humphreys and Biddle, who, sustained by adequate means on both sides of the water, will be able to bold on until prices vigorously rally. If the usual casualties of the season render a short, or anything under an average, crop probable, this plan must result in great profit to shippers, and bene fit to our country. If, on the other hand, the autumn should disclose the promises of an abundant harvest, the large stock of cotton which Messrs. Humphreys and Biddle, in case the shipments are made to them, would hold, would probably induce the great and power , ful interest which sustains them, to enter the market in the United States early in the autumn, by ad vancing on the first quarter of the new crop, in order to retain it on this side of the water for a rea sonable period, so as to make the final result of the short crop of 1838 entirely safe to all American shippers and holders. A. copy of this circular is enclosed to the principal cotton factors, and shippers, and presidents of the banks in the louthern -- ettlesT - to tvnom,wan 'tat puper---xtere- rence, it is suggested, in case the advance on the ship ment to Messrs. Humphreys and Biddle should not cover the full convenience of the shippers, that the institutions over which they preside do afford, on good personal security, the residue of the accommodation which may be required. Your hearty co-operation in this plan is solicited for the purpose of saving the interests of our great staple, which must end in establishing, not its speculative value, but its fair price according to the just relations which supply and consumption should bear to each other. An agent, empowed more fully to disclose these views, will be in your city in a few days, on his way south, and will be prepared to carry them fully into effect. P.S.—From the most authentic sources of informa tion, you may take the following as the probable and entire stock of cotton in the United States, of the crop of 1838, on the 15th day of June next ensuing, either actually present in depot. or to come forward from the interior markets : New Orleans ...... 100,000 bales Mobile Florida 12,000 South Atlantic States 30,000 New York 75,500 At unenumerated p o i nts 12,000 275,000 bales Of this amount the manufacturing establishments of the United States will require at least 75,000 bales be fore the new crop comes forward, l'Eaving about 200,000 bags for foreign export. It ought to be remarked, that the bales this year are about 15 per cent. short weight, from the now general use of smaller compressing boxes, with a view of rendering the cotton packages more portable. N.B. For obvious reasons, it is not desired that this private circular should appear in the public prints ; make otherwise what use you please of it. The first question that will present itself to the mind of every rational man who reads the preceding address will be—can this be a circular issued by or under the sanction of the United States' Bank ? It will be seen that the letter itself nowhere speaks of the Bank as being concerned in the accommodation proposed to be offered to the co tton-holders, but we find the Liverpool Albion and the Liverpool Standard both speak or it as having been un questionably issued by that establish ment ; and the Liverpool Times says—" We were at first disposed to consider it a hoax, which was also the impression of some persons more competent to form an opinion than ourselves ; but from the quarters from which it was received, this can scarcely be the case." We find also in the Liverpool Standard a copy of a letter purporting to be addressed by a house at New York to a mercantile house at Liverpool, from which the following is an extract ; " New York, June 7, 1939. " The accounts per Great Western were of the most disastrous kind for the cotton interest, and have had their effect here • but there are causes oper a ti ng i n this country tha t will be developed before the Great Western's return, which will reinstate confidence, and she will carry out as good accounts of the state of things in this country as before. The truth is, the United States' Bank has again come forward to relieve the dealers and holders of cotton, both in this country and Eng land, and will control what balance there is in this country, at all events, and operate on your side to an extent to affect your market, and give it stability. She has given a pledge to hold from 200 to 400,000 bales of Cotton till the 15th of October next, if necessary, to effect such an object. This, with our 400,000 bales short crop, will leave you a light stock on sale on your s id e . There are other houses on your side who will do the same ; and I have no fears but, ia the end, all will come out right. The Great 'Western, to sail, on the 13th, will carry out all the particular s of this arrange ment, and will probably reach you before this does. By her I will give you my views more at length." It is tolerably clear from what we have quoted, and f ro m a variety of individual opinions which have been communicated to u., that the impression at Liverpool is in favour of the genuineness of the circular, and that it i s generally believed to have been issued by or under the express sanction of the Bank of the United States, and that it indicates an immediate return by that establishment to the policy under which it acted when the ordinary channels of commercial intercourse be tween England and the United States were broken up by the financial convulsion of 1837. It may b e a little presumptuous in us to set ourselves against the general opinion in Liverpool, where the means of information upon all matters con nected with the United States are so far superior to any that can ex i s t in this town ; but still we cannot sihelp g saying, that we consid er t h e a ll ege d cir cular being ot neither more nor le ss t h an a c lumsy f abr up for the purpose of imposing upon dthue cin E g ngl merchants and manuf ac t urers , an d in• c a atn them sh to stand out for, or to giv e , hi g h er prices for cotton than the state of the market would other wise afford. And we are assured, in fact, that several of the first Liverpool houses are in possession of letters of the latest dates, from correspondents of the highest commercial importance in New York, which make not the slightest reference to any such document—a thing quite inconceivable, upon the supposition that it is authentic. We think, indeed, that on looking carefully over the letter, our readers will not find a single topic in it treated in the way in which it would be likely to be treated by an officer of the United States' Bank, or by any party who was in a condition to afford assistance to the holders of cotton. The tone throughout is that of parties soliciting rather then offering to afford accom modation ; and the document bears every appearance of having been written by some such person as Mr. Vin cent Nolte, whose circular, on the prospects of the cotton crop, we presented to our readers a few weeks ago. The mere fact of the circular being unsigned, and the am biguous allusions to [the United States' Bank, are, in our opinion, quite sufficient to show that the letter is nothing better than a hoax, concocted just in time for the sailing of the packet, and intended solely for the Liverpool market. Since the above was written, we have heard it alleged that the circular emanates, not from the United States' Bank, but from an association of merchants at New York, who, it is said, are in a condition to make the pecuniary advances required for the purpose of protecting the holders of cotton. That the circular may have emanated from a few merchants at New York is sufficiently probable ; but we rather think they will prove to be merchants who are rather in need of assistance, than in a condition to afford it. The New York merchants, if we are not mistaken, have quite enough to do in order to meet their present engage ments, without making advances upon the remaining. stock of cotton, for the protection of speculative bankers in the Southern States. And, if they were in a condi tion to afford assistance, they would assuredly set about it in a more business-like way than by issuing a circular like that which we have laid before our readers. We imagine it will be found that the following ex tract from the New York Morning Herald of the 4th instant, takes a more correct view of the real position and prospects of the American cotton market than could be gathered from the alleged circular of the United States' Bank, or the association of New York merchants. " At the south, and also at the south-west, the banks are in a most precarious position ; their assets are chiefly dependant upon the state of the foreign markets, the accounts from which are such as to cast great gloom over all those connected with that section, and to cause great apprehensions for the stability of many of the banks. They are al:owed to have resumed too early, even had the state of our foreign trade continued pros perous; but, as it now stands, the planter has received payment for his cotton in the bills of banks which have directly or indirectly held the cotton on speculation, depending on the sale of stocks to sustain themselv es . This resource has failed ; not only are farther sales cut off, but the holders in London show a disposition to withdraw their loans, even at a decline in the price of the securities ; at the same time, the crop is unsold and must continue so until the affairs of the continent have revived so far as to admit of a demand for yarns, or the raw material fall so low as to induce spinners again to come forward. Up to the present time, the receipts of cotton, thus far, as compared with last year, are less by— - 311,246 bales, equal to 15,562,300 dollars. The exports are less by .. 334,7(34 18,338,300 do. Making an over stock 0f... 53,518 2,675,900 do. " This large overstock has been held chiefly on specu lation. The favourable point for sale is past, and the general opinion in Liverpool at the latest dates was, that a decline of at least 23. per lb. or 20 per cent. must be submitted to before sales would proceed to any great ex tent. This deduction from the amount held will be a loss of Add the diminution in receipt And we have an amount of ...... 16,097,480 " This sum forms an immense reduction in our means of paying for foreign importations. The defi ciency thus far has been met by the exchange drawn against stock sales, which have hitherto been sufficient to keep sterling exchange below par, or about 1,070 against England. Latterly, however, the market there has been more dull, and the rate for sterling bills has fre quently touched a point so high as to create uneasiness. Tnis feeling has heretofore been much relieved by the confidence entertained in the maintenance of the price of cotton, and the hope that should the stock sales not revive, that article would furnish the means of keeping the balance of trade nearly equal. This hop e i s b ecom i ng illusive, and those southern institutions who have been making ads ances to large cotton dealers, as for instance, the Citizens Bank of New Orleans, which institution has a large amount of 5 per cent. sterling bonds in the London market, pending sale, will be involved in serious difficulties. The cotton cannot be sold unless at a loss, nor will the bonds find sale. In this predica ment, the banks of the south have no other resourse than to curtail their liabilities to the utmost of their power. At New Orleans the banks have been much benefited hitherto by the specie arrivals from Mexico ; on the 27th, there was an arrival of 29,497 dollars to r different firms in that city. The fact is well known in London, that the chief resource of the southern in stitutions is the cotton, therefore the state of the mar ket there has a great influence on the bonds of such institutions ; another fact which has gone against them, is the fact sometime since mentioned in the London Post, that the interest of the Mobile city bonds, dated February, 1836, for ten years, at 8 per cent, had not been paid. This was calculated to excite sus icion and now that the rate of interest is improved in London, capitalists are less likely to run any risk in purchasing American securities, at least for the present." (From the Liverpool Courier of Wednesday.) An unprincipled combination has been set on foot amongst the cotton holders of the United States. It is nothing less than an attempt to monopolise all the cot ton on the other side of the Atlantic, for the express purpose of raising prices in this country. A circular announcing this intention will be found in another column. The attempt will be as futile as it is infa mous. There is, we believe, already cotton enough here to supply the manufacturers, at the rate at which they are now working, till the close of the year. Long before that time the new crop will fall in : the new crop pressing upon the old stock will create a difficulty in withholding supplies from the market such as r.o contrivance of grasping selfishness will be able to over come : and thus prices, instead of being raised, will stand a fair chance of being still further reduced. COURT SCANDAL. (From the Morning Post.) The manner in which affairs at Court are now managed affords, we think, much ground of mixiety, and some ground of serious complaint, to the female nobility of England. It is their duty, as it must be their wish, to grace with their presence any public scene in which her Majesty appears. In the natural order of things, the beauty and grace of the Royal and the Noble fair would, upon all such occasion s , mutua ll y s h e d lustre upon each other, captivating Ly their mingled power the hearts and warming the devotion of all mankind. This picture is an engaging one. But, u n f or t unate l y , i t h as no ot h er original than what exists in the imagination. The reality approaches daily more nearly to the reverse of this. The incident we are about to narrate would seem to make it a matter of doubt whether, while the Court remains what it is, the female Nobility not immediately connected with it can venture, without imprudence and danger, on the same race-course with their Sovereign. At the last Ascot Races we have reason to believe that the Duchess of Montrose and Lady Sarah Ingestre received an intimation that her Majesty was impressed with the idea that they were among the persons who had hissed at a moment when no sounds but those of applause, gratulation, and loyalty ought to have been heard. It was, we believe, further intimated to the Noble Ladies we have mentioned that the Royal ear had been abused to the effect already stated by Lady Lichfield. The Ladies, who had reason to think that they had been thus unjustly and ridiculously ac cused, applied immediately to thei asupposed accuser, who denied that she had made any such communication. On being urged to give this denial in writing, she declined to do so without first consulting her Lord. But, on the application being renewed at a subsequent period, her La dyship, as we understand, explicitly and in 'writing denied that she had given utterance to the calumny in question. Here the matter stood, until, from some incidents con nected with the late ball at Buckingham House, the two Ladies thus impeached saw reason to believe that the erro neous impression communicated to her Majesty at Ascot had not been entirely removed. It was an impression, how ever, which they could not permit to remain without em ploying every means of removing it ; and accordingly the Duchess of Montrose went to Buckingham Palace and re quested an audience of her Majesty. After waiting for a considerable period (two hours, as we have been informed) her Grace was informed by the Earl of Uxbridge that she could not be admitted to an audience, as none but Peers or Peeresses in their own right could demand that privilege. Eler Grace then insisted upon Lord Uxbridge taking down in writing what she had to say, and promising her that the communication should be immediately laid before her Ma- jesty. In this state, webelieve, the matter remains substantially at the present moment, although it has taken a new form, the Duke of Montrose having, we understand, thought it necessary to open a corresponience with Lord Melbourne upon the subject. If Lord Melbourne is to be appealed to on every differ ence amongst Court Ladies he will no doubt soon resign the Premiership. The Tories, by setting their women at him are going the right way to attain their objects. At the same time the country is in a peculiarly proper condi tion to make the sway of the Ladies easy. They can lead the Chartists with silken bands.l LIBERTY OF THE PRESS.—The proprietor of the Pilot perseveres in protesting against the justice of the sentence under which he is now suffering► in Kilmainham prison. He asserts that in him the Press is persecuted, whilst he himself is the victim of grievous and unheard-of persecution. Mr. Barrett maintains, and we arc disposed to concur with him in opinion, that if a case like his own had been tried before a British Jury, there would have been a verdict of acquittal, or, if not, the fine of a mark and instant discharge would have been the sentence of a British Court, and that would have been justice. LITERATURE. CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY AND ETHICS, sr ISAAC WATTS, D.D., Selected and Arranged, with a Memoir of the Author, by JOHN 12 MILES, Author of " Scripture Geography." Tegy and Son, London. This is an excellent selection from the works of this voluminous, agreeable, and Christian writer. It consists chiefly of discourses on the most important doc trines and tenets:of Christianity, and the consolation which pure and undefiled religion affords in health, in sickness, and in death, together with extracts from his " Ethics," the great object of which is to paint virtue in the most attractive colours, and make vice 4ppear dark and unlovely. The works of Watts are known to every English reader, and it might almost appear a work of supererogation to quote them ; but the following extract contains so much good sense, and shows a mind so imbued with the virtue which it incul cates, that it cannot be too often placed before the eyes, not of the proud only, but of those who, either as re gards mind or property, are superior to their neigh bours : " HUMILITY. —This is a lovely virtue. It is beautiful and becoming for a man to divest himself of all affected gran. deur, and not to exalt his head above his neighbour. 0 that we were all clothed with humility. It is an ornament that becomes sinners well. " How unlovely a carriage it is to boast ourselves of any superior quality we possess, or to assume lofty airs, because we have more money than our neighbours To aggrandise ourselves in our own esteem, in our own language, in our behaviour, because we fancy ourselves to be better dressed, or better fed than our fellow-creatures, and if we have a little honour put upon us by the provi dence of God, it is a criminal vanity for us to grow haughty and insolent upon that account. lam in pain whenever I hear a man treat his servant as he treats his dog, as though a poor man were not made of the same clay, nor born of the same ancient race as his master—as though Adam, whose name is Dust, was not our common father, or a lord had not the same original as other men. " Hew graceful and engaging is it in persons of title and quality to stoop to those that are of mean degree, to converse freely at proper seasons with those that are poor and despicable in the world—to give them leave to offer their humble requests or sometimes to debate a point of im portance with them. Not all the dignity of their raiment can render them half Po honourable as this condescension does; for nothing makes them so much like God, the high and holy one, who inhabits eternity, stoops down from heaven to visit the afflicted and to dwell with the poor.` In these times, when such a heat has arisen about education—when the Church claims the superintendence of the education of the youth of England—and when some of the heads of that Church, and many of the in ferior Clergy, are verging towards Puseyism, or Popery, it may be interesting to point out, on the authority of Watts, the course which the same Church pursued more than a hundred years ago, as a warning and an ad monition for the present day. At, that period the Clergy of the Church were strongly imbued with hatred towards the Hanoverian succession, and in favour of the Stuarts, so bigoted to Popery ; and, as appears from the subjoined statement, endeavoured to take advantage of their po 6ition, and instil into the minds of youth their treason able and all but Popish doctrines. About the year 1728, a strong feeling prevailed in favour of charity schools— particularly among Protestant Dissenters. The Church followed the example, as she does now, and many institu tions were formed by persons of the Established Church, to which several Dissenters subscribed largely ; but at last they found by sufficient experience that the children were brought up in too many of these schools " in prin ciples of disaffection to the present Government, in bi goted zeal for the word CHURCH, and with a violent enmity and malicious spirit of persecution against all whom they were taught to call Presbyterians, though from many of their hands they received their bread and clothing." The attempt to convey a political bias to the popular mind under the mask of charity was hap pily discovered, and the exposure served to place in a stronger light the claims of the Dissenters to the gra titude of the Monarch as his stanchest adherents, and to his protection from the repeated persecutions of the dominant hierarchy. The Memoir of the Author is drawn up with care, and the more important incidents of his life are selected from the best authorities. One of these authorities is Milner, and he mentions with proud satisfaction, in al luding to the vast sale of Watts' Hymns, that the most popular books in the English language have proceeded from the pens of Non-Conformists, and in proof of this he instances the " Pilgrim's Progress"—the " Saint's Rest," by Baxter—the " Rise and Progress of Reli gion," by Doddridge—and the " Robinson Crusoc" of De Foe. QUARTERLY RE VIE W—No. 127. Murray, London, 1839. Mr. Prescott's history of Ferdinand and Isabella— one of the ablest historical works that have appeared of late years—furnishes the text of the first article in the present number of the Quarterly Review—an article which is written with singular spirit and eloquence, and with a thorough understanding, and hearty love, of the subject. In the course of it, we meet with several clever sketches of character, foremost among which we may place the account of the famous Ca7dinal Ximenes, of whom Robertson, in his Charles the Fifth, has given us merely a meagre outline. Columbus also is a well drawn portrait, not adding much, it is true, to the amount of information we already have on the subject of one of the master-minds of the fifteenth century, but detailing facts in a very picturesque, and even dramatic, manner. The following is the Reviewer's account of Columbus's first great expedition. It is a graphic and spirited piece of writing : Columbus returned to Court, rejected but not dejected; his earnest self-confidence, if it could not ensure convic tion, obtained respect from Isabella ; there seas a sympathy in their kindred minds ; she supplied him in the meantime with a home and maintenance. After seven long >ears of hope deferred, the good Prior comes in person to plead his cause. Isabella is convinced, while all around are in credulous—she pawns her jewels to defray the expedition. We have stood upon that bridge at Pines from whence Columbus, retiring for ever, was recalled. At the age of fifty-seven, and older than mere years, he prepares for the voyage : in these days of a north-western steam trip, we cannot understand what must have been the awful launch ing into the unknown deep, which no ship had traversed, from whence nought but tempest.wrecked fragments had drifted back. They embark in open-decked caravels ; the desponding crew bid the living world farewell—they ven ture on the waste of waters ; the trade-winds, which waft them rapidly from Europe, seem to oppose return; the needle, their only guide, varies ; clouds assume the shape of headlands; the mirage of the deep mocks their land sick eyes ; they mutiny, when on the verge of the dis covery, from intense nostalgia. Columbus had set his life upon the cast; another day of trial is granted. Ile keeps the night-watch, for he has forgotten sleep ; when, sweeping the horiron, his anxious eye first catches the flicker of a light—'tis land. To him was reserved the first sight of his new world, the eternal monument of his fame. The great ocean secret was now solved ; the rising sun revealed verdant isles sleeping in innocence and beauty on the crystal waters; the despised foreigner in one moment was worshipped by his mutinous crew as a demigod; they fell at his feet, now the dispenser of honour and fortune. The characters of Ferdinand and Isabella are brought out in glowing colours ; but the Reviewer is rather too indulgent to the latter, and seems to look on her sanction of the atrocious Inquisition—one of the great est and most wholesale curses that ever yet afflicted humanity—as quite a venial error, to be overlooked in consideration of the sincerity of the Royal bigot. So was Ravillac sincere when he murdered Henry the Fourth of France, thinking thereby that he was ad vancing the hest interests of religion, yet he would be a venturous historian who should attempt to justify the regicide on that account. The sagacious and reflective character of Isabella, who in many instances showed herself in advance of her age, leaves her, in our opinion, without excuse for her conduct as respects the Inquisi tion. The last sad years of her heiress Jane are thus described : Poor Joanna La Loca, Crazy Jane, the heiress of Isabella, was born to vast dominions and slender intellect. Her cloying fondness for her handsome husband defeated itself; Philip had mi.rricd for her kingdoms, not her per sonal charms, and (like her niece, our Mary) she was by nature melancholy and ungracious. lie became wearied, neglectful, and, by insensible degrees, unfeeling his un disguised infidelities alienated her affections, without de stroying the abstract remembrance of her former love. She shed no tear at his untimely death ; but sank into a moody imbecility, Soothed by music alone, all her occu pations were merged in watching the remains of her hus band. She had formed a vague idea, from some monkish ale, that he would b e res t ore d to lif e - -an d f e d on a h o pe which, if realised, would have converted passive sorrow into active misery. She travelled by night, in order that no female eye m i g ht b e h o ld the coffin. On one occasion, having entered a monastery, as she supposed, upon find ing it t o b e a nunnery, she hurried out into the open country, encamped, and during a storm, when the torches were extinguished, opened the coffin to verify the existence of the mouldering corpse—jealous as when, full of beauty, it was her life and joy—' A sad remembrance fondly kept.' She obstinately declined all state affairs, which were carried on in her name. She pined sullenly, and, never telling her grief, for forty-seven long years immured herself in a convent, dead to the world, watching from her window the coffin of her husband, which was purposely so placed in a chapel. Alluding incidentally to Mr. Prescott's opinions re specting chivalry, the Reviewer observes, " We differ entirely from his view of the empty decorations, the stars and garters of an order of nobility. Such empty decorations appeal to that desire, which is instinctive in the good, to be pre-eminent among men." This is sheer sophistry—or rather an ingenious begging of the question. Great men are not spurred on to great deeds by the hope of obtaining stars, garters, and such like showy baubles, but from a lofty wish to leave an un dying name behind them. Vanity and self-conceit may be delighted with the distinction of a bit of riband at the button-hole, or a coronet on the brow, but real magnanimity is quickened to exertion by a far worthier ambition. Conceive Milton " scorning delights" and " living laborious days," with no other aim in view than the privilege of wearing a garter round one of his knees! The Earls of Bath and of Chatham were much greater men as plain Messrs. Pulteney and Pitt ; and Lord Brougham, we doubt n o t, h as lived, like them, long enough to regret that he ever hid his head in a coronet. It was not the desire for a star or a garter that won the battles of Blenheim or Ramilies, for Marlborough, who had the true elements of greatness in his nature, was made a Duke against his inclination, well-knowing !hat he was quite as renowned without, as with, the ducal dignity. The Reviewer's opinion is, on the whole, favourable to Mr. Prescott's history, but he objects to that gentleman's would-be witty notes, which he insists arc exceedingly vapid, adding, with singular elegance of expression, " notes intended to enliven the somewhat unavoidable gravity of history must be neat and terse ; they should run by the side of the narrative like some mountain streamlet, the cheer ful, fresh companion which borders the dry high-way, where the sparkle of wit, like the sun-beam, may dance lightly on the crisping ripplets, gladdening but not overpowering." If Mr. Prescott have failed in the task of annotation, he has at least the conOlation of reflecting that a far greater historian was equally unsuc cessful. The notes to Gibbon's " Rome," which are in- :ended by their epigrammatic point to relieve the. solemn, uniform pomposity of his text, are but very so-so matters, mistaking obscenity for wit, and affectation for sarcasm. It was his admiration of Voltaire's light, terse, sparkling style, that seduced the staid Gibbon into this folly, who, though a master of grave, formal, and, apparently unconscious irony, .was every way dis qualified for the brilliant, rapier play of wit. The greatest fault we find with the article on Mr. Prescott's history, is the exceeding tone of adulation in which the Reviewer alludes to the aristocratic classes. He speaks of them with awe, as if he esteemed it the most glo rious earthly distinction to be one of the patrician fra ternity. Thus be commiserates America in the most condescending style possible, for being " unfortunately deprived of the high-standing example of an order of Nobility !"—unhappy wretches, what morals can our transatlantic brethren possess under such untoward circumstances'—and speaking of titled drollery, falls into raptures with the " light, hair-trigger repartee, the brilliaecy of high-bred pleasantry." The exact amount of splendour which " patrician pleasantry" developes in private society we cannot undertake to specify ; this, however, we can say without fear of con tradiction—namely, that when permitted to escape in the form of a Parliamentary speech, a pamphlet, a novel, or an article in the " Keepsake," it is apt to be of the dullest and tritest character imaginable, made up almost exclusively of conventional common-places unintel ligible ten miles be) - and Hyde Park Corner. " Poems," is a brief, favourable notice of a little volume which we reviewed some mouths since in The Sun. The Reviewer's praise is grea t, but not undeserved. " Oliver Twist" is a lively, off-hand .aort of criticism on Boz's, as yet, ti:tf d'alare. The incidental hits, in the course of this notice, at the st ,,:ooth, con fectionary style" of our fashionable nova'lists, at as ap posite as they are pointed. Not less clever are t he Reviewer's sarcastic allusions to those fribbles amort . the middle classes—things of double-distilled, qu'n tessential gentility—who object to Oliver Twist that it is " a low book." Terence's sentiment, " homo sum, nihil humani a me alienum puto," is a noble answer to readers of this class, and may well console Boz for their vulgar objections. " Popish Persecution in the Tyrol," though there are passages in it in which we coincide, yet breathes much of the fierce, intolerant spirit that characterised the Quarterly Review in the days of old Gifford. " Russia, Persia, and England" is an elaborate essay, whose object is to show that from the professions of the Russian Government we can de rive no security for the future. This article is ingeni ously argued, and states, after narrating at some length I the late affairs in the East, that if we assert the good faith of the Emperor and his Cabinet, we must deny his authority, and even his influence in his own empire, and regard his opinions and the professions of his Cabinet as inconsequential, and that if we attribute to him autho rity, we must question his good faith. " The House hold and the Ministry" is a long story about nothing. The hacknied cry of Bedchamber influence, &c., is again raised, for no other reason, that we can see, than to comfort Sir Robert Peel and the Tories in their pre sent affliction. This is amiable, but truth should not be sacrificed, even to promote a benevolent end. Well aware that facts are against him, the Reviewer has re course to all sorts of evasions and perversions, which, however they may tell with his disheartened party, will be received with contempt by all other classes of the community. We have read this sophistical diatribe with some attention, and can honestly say that it seems to us to have neither beginning, middle, nor end. It is as rambling, incoherent, and illogical, as one of Lord Stanhope's best speeches. Of the two remaining ar ticles, the most interesting is " Sporting in Southern Africa," which teems with exciting incident. scientific improvement, will enjoy a rich treat to-morrow, The admirers of genius, and the friends of at Willis's Roc , ms. Master Bassle will exhibit his extra ordinary powers of memory to a numerous assembly, in the presence of his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex. The following is the testimony borne to the merits of Master Bassle by Dr. Macfarlan, of Glasgow : " College, Glasgow, Nov. 29, 1838. " Having had repeated opportunities of witnessing the Mnemonic performances of Master Gustvve Adolphe Bassle, in both the city and College, I feel coned on to express the admiration and astonishment in7pirid by the extent and accuracy of his memory. The readint:” and, precision with which he answers an immense variety' Historical, G cowaphical, Chronological, and Numerics. questions, are truly wonderful, and indicate the possession of a method of recollection not usually known, and pro bably peculiar to himself. The success which has attended his efforts in the cultivation of his powers in this depart ment, appears to involve results far more important then the gratification of even an enlightened curiosity. In a scientific point of view, they seem calculated to throw light on sonic of the most striking operations of th e h uman mind, and it is not at all improbable that the application of his method, when explained, may lead to important disco veries in the art of voluntary remembrance. " D. MACTARLAN, D. D. Principal of Glasgow Col." The Duke of Wellington s Campaign in the Peninsula is most graphically described by Lieut.-Colonel Landmann, the celebrated engineer. Under the title of " Picturesque and Historical Observations on Portugal, ' he describes, only as an eye-witness can describe, the whole of the series of splendid victories achieved by the British Army under the Duke of Wellington. The work is most elegantly got up, and embellished with 7.5 most beautifully coloured plates. It should be on every E ng _ lishman's drawing-room table, and its price being only five guineas, must secure it an extensive sale. EXTRAORDINARY PASSAGE FROM DUBLIN. —llcr Majesty's steam boat the Merlin made the passage yesterday from Dublin in nine hours and forty minutes. His Danish Majesty's corvette Flora, C. C. Baludan, Esq., commander, sailed from Leith Roads on Thursday, on a cruise in the North Sea, previous to re turning to Copenhagen. The extreme politeness and gentlemanly deportment of the officers of this fine vessel will be long remembered and duly appreciated by the numerous visitors who inspected her, particularly that of Mr. Walterstoff, the First Lieutenant, whose urbanity and kindness extended to the humblest individuals who visited his vessel.—Edinburgh Advertiser. THE CHARTIST WHISTLE.-An ingenious little plaything under this name has been sold freely in this town during the last faw weeks. It is made of tin, and in , the interior is formed a small reservoir fcr flour or ink, or some other dust or fluid ; the blow-pipe communicates with the reservoir, and of course the inexperienced ope rator t i i s , e s u a r t e te t m o p receive t w li e th contents e in h T i s h e e yes s t t h l e e it m s e o l - f is a practical joke, and a very good one. The ingenious mechanic, however, who invented it, no doubt intended it to convey an important moral lesson, viz that the leaders of the Chartists are throwing dust in the eyes of their followers, in order to secure sonic advantage to them selves. We understand one of the whistles was exhibited to the bench of magistrates the other day. The name was stated—but the modus operandi was not. One of the worthy ju;tices, eager to hear the terrific sound, imme diately put it to his lips, and as quickly received part of an ounce of flour in his eyes. It is unnecessary to say, that the incident was too much for the gravity of the Court, and it was some time before it could be sufficiently restored to allow of a dignified procedure with judicial business.—Bradford Observer. On Saturday last Mr. Heweston, fisher, accom panied by Robert Taylor, went to examine his hang er channel net, in the Solway Frith, and while thus engaged they observed a large sturgeon swimming about ; they waded in beyond the middle in the hope of throwing a noose over so tempting a prize. In this they partly suc ceeded; but unfortunately the sturgeon, on finding itself entangled, struck poor Taylor with such force that he in stantly fell, was carried away and drowned, before his employer could render the slightest assistance. Next day Mr. Heweston secured the same fish, along with a smaller one. The larger one, when taken out of the water, mea sured eight feet and a half in length, five in girth round the thickest part, and weighed twenty-five stone. It was retailed at the rate of 4d. per lb.---Dunfries Courier. ESCAPE FROM NEWGATE.— On Tuesday morning Elizabeth Norris, aged twenty, made her escape from the gaol of Newgate. She was tried last Friday and convicted of uttering base coin, when she was sentenced to a years' hard labour in the House of Correction. It appears that she availed herself of the bustle which gene rally happens during the session time, in visitinghours, and slipped out of the Court, and being in her own clothes, and most likely provided with a bonnet by some friend, she made her exit with a crowd of visitors, without attracting the attention of the turnkey at the outer wicket. Last week, as a gentleman was fishing in the Wye at Nlonnington, be perceived a very large salmon in a shallow part of the stream, basking on the gravel; of course be immediately hastened to secure so desirable a prize, and managed to get hold of the fish, plunge his knife into its back, and after a severe struggle landed it. The salmon weighed nearly 301bs.—Hereford Times. DREADFUL DEATH OF A CHILD BY BURN !NG. Tuesday night an inquest was held on the body of Phcebe Hinds, aged eigh t years. It appeared th at, on Saturday evening last , abo ut six o'clock, a great li g h t was , th p e all-ni windowsallEast, and upon of th e J ews ' a neighbour, who lives imme diatel y o pposite, going to the observedsynagogue, t issue s t. from Abs n o Albans-place, e p a of e e first landing, he found the unfortunate child enveloped in flames. She was taken down stairs, and with the assist ance of some persona who had gathered round, her clothes were cut off. She was conveyed to the Charing-cross Hospital, when it was found that her body was burnt in every part, especially the back and chest. No surgical aid was of the least avail, though all that could be done was resorted to. The deceased was much in the habit of being at the synagogue, playing with Mr. Kersel's chil dren, and the accident happened throug h the d eceased endeavouring to lift th e kettl pp e from the fire. Verdict-. " Accidental Death." EIVENING EDITION. t he )1a the tie his f it. had met t in rent )rier ) ght i s at rials 1 he iher r It, that he cop ,tbe wise rs to Se -100 im's vs. ; then now and son rhet gry, Sere is- Ile ,nd lee ~.~~~a: ~k