The Sun. — London, England, 1844-08-28 00:00:00

NEW WORK BY MRS. GORE. THE POPULAR MEMBER. By Mrs. GORE, - Anti or of " Mothers and Daughters," " The Dowager," " The Ambassador's Wife," &c. In 3 vols. post Bvo., IS NOW READY AT ALL THE LIBRARIES. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. TiIEATICE ROYAL LICEIJ3L__I ATE ENGLISH OPERA- 110LTE. -- Under the Managemcnt of Mrs. KEELEY. Another great Achievement Success'' , .lly Triumphant !!! To attempt to eulogise the gorgeous splendour of the New Extrava ganza of Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, or New Lamps for Old Ones," would be a work of supererogation ; the Manage ment, therefore, contents itself by simply stating that it will tie repeated every EvernTlg ! THIS EVENING, AUG. 28, Will be repeated a New Drama, entitled MARTIN CHUZZLE. WU. Principal characters by Messrs. R. Younge, P. Vining, Emery, F. clathews, A. Wigan, Meadows, Kinloch Turner, Manton, J. W. Collier, Yarnold, Sanders, and Keeley ; 'Miss For rescue, Miss Woolgar ' Mrs. A. Wigan, Mrs. Woollidge, Miss Groves, Mrs. Usher, Mi ss Turner, and Mrs. heeley. To conclude with an entirely Original, and much better than Neer, Grand Operatic, Romantic, Melo-Dramatic, Burlesque Extra. vaganza, founded on the celebrated Eastern Pale, in the Arabi in Nights' Entertainment, entitled ALADDIN AND THE WON DERFUL LAMP; or, New Lamps for Old Ones. With very extensive New Scenery, Machinery, Dresses, &c. Principal cha racters by Mrs. Keeley, Messrs. F. Matthews, Turner, A. Wigan, J. W. Collier, and Keeley; Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Woolli I ge, Miss E. Chaplin, Mrs. A. Wigan, Miss Turner, Mr s James, Miss Carson, MiFs Hunt, Miss Reede, &c., &c. PRICES OF ADM ISSIO N.—Balcony Poxes, 4;.; Upper Boxes, 3e. ; Pit, 2s.'; Gallery, 6d. Second Price—Balcony Boxes, 2s. ; Upper Boxes, is. 6d.; Pit, Is. Private Boxes on the Italviny Tier (holding eight persons), Tx o Guineas. Private Boxes on the Second Tier (holding eight persons), One Guinea and a-HalL Private Boxes on the Pit Tier (holding six persons), One Guinea. The Box...iitice is open from Ten to Four o'Clock, under the di tee. lien of Mr. Grogan, late of Covent-garden Theatre. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OE ARTS. Proprietor and Manager. Mr. NATTY. Nightly overflows 10 the wonders to the wonders of Mr. Carter, the _ . Lion King—Mr. Batty and Trained Steed Beda. THIS EVENING, AUG. 2s, Will be repeated the Eastern Spectacle of MUNGO PARK; or, The Lion Tamer of the Niger. Karla, the Arab, Mr. Carter, wh 'rein he will introduce his beautifu Iperformance with his trained animal., lions, tigers, &c., in the cage, and on the open stage drive a lioa in harness. Combats with the monarch of the forest, and other new eitraordin ry feats. Entire Change of the Scenes in the Circle. • . To conclude with an entire new E luestrian, Military and Naval Spectacle, entitled THE CHINESE WAR; or. The Conquests of Amoy by British Arms. New Scenery, Dresses, Appointments, Ac., to realise the recent triumphs of England's Army and Navy. Feast et 2;.0 Lanterns. Acting and atarte.m.inager, Mr. W. 0. Broadfoot. Box-office oven from E►even till Fie. Lessons in the Art of Riding by %Ir. It. Smith. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Last Nights of the Opera Company. THIS EVENING, AUG. 2 , , Will be performed LOVE IN A VILL kGE, supported by Messrs. K;ne. Venter, Neville. Vale, Johnson, Miss Romer, Miss Betts, Mrs. W. Daly. &c. Atter wh,ch, a New Operetta, written by .7. B. Buckstone, Esq., and compa•ed by E. , itzvrtlliam, Esq.. entitled a SIJMNILIt - ND HT'S LOVE, supported by all the Vocalists. To conclude with TriE WARLOCK OF [HE GLEN. Places snd Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box. office, from Eleven to Four. S ['RAND THEA'Fitr. f HIS EVENING, AUG. :TS, Will be performed MARTIN CH UZZLE Wll. Young Martin Chuzzlewit, Mr. R.moe; Old . Martin Chuzzlewit, Mr. Ayliffe; Jonas Chuzzlewit, Mr A ttwood; Montague Tigg, Mr. Roberts; Tom Pinch, Mi. Biddies; Mr. Pecksniff, and Mrs. Sairey Gamp, Mr. H. Hall; Mary Grabam, Mrs. Coleman Pope. To be followed by THE SPITALFIELDS WEAVER. Mr. Simmo,s, Mr. Wright; Adele, Mrs. Montgomerie. After which, a New and Original Burlesque, entitled THE WON. DERFUL LAMP, in a New Light, bein r an Illustrated Version of Aladdin. Abanazar, Mr. Paul Bedford; Aladdin, Mr. Wright; Princess Badroulbadour, Miss E. Stanley. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATR Two entirely New Pieces, and numerous additions made to the Com; any, including Mr. J. Hudson Kirby, Mr. Binge, Mr. T. H. Lscy, Mr. Aldridge, Mrs. W. West, &c.. &c. THIS EVENING, AUGUST t2I, . _ Will be performed a New ~ p. e ratic Romance, entitled LA CATARINA or, The Diamonds of the I town. Henriques. Mr. T. H. Lacy; Rebelledo, Mr. Dale; Mugr.oso, Mr. Aldridge; Diana, Miss Hamilton: Catarina, Miss Vincent. After which, the laughable Farce of NO. Sir J Doubtful, Mr. Seaman • Hurricane, Mr. James ; Frederick, Mr. Binge; Lady Doubtful. M. s. W. West. To conclude with JACK AND THE BEAN-STALK ; or, The Lad that knew how many Beans made Five. Jollibuffa, Mr John Herbert ; Jack. Miss Vincent. Private l amily Boxes, £1 Is Od. and XI Its. 6.1. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICA L 0 A RDENS. On MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, and T rtURSDAY, throughout the Sca,on, the Gardens will open with the following attractive Novelties : THE PICTURESQUE GROUNDS-FEEDING OF THE ANIMALS-UNRIVALLED MENAGERIE. MODELS of VENICE and LONDON in the OLDEN TIME, Painted by Danson and Telbm. The sensation caused by this unrivalled pro inction is beyond a, folmer ..tecedent ; the artist, the amateur, the casual observer are all struck with its extraordinay beauty acid fidelity of delinea tion.....d re unanimous in proi.ouncing it the mote wonderful ex hibition ever witnessed. To view it only as a vehicle for the terrific display Dusk is unjust ;it should be seen.) the cairn 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 Mon 'ays, Tues days, Wednesdays, and Thursdays cont.ucted Uy Mr. Godfrey. are up - ti a otale of more than usual excellence; ~ et: words fail In doing justice to the awful representation vt THE GREAT FIRE OF VAN DON. Its fearful racteristics are truthfully pourtrayed, but at the same time so beautifully blended with the Wonders of the Pyrotechnic " Art, 'fiat delight is predominant over terror; and the Thousands who nightly crowd the Gardens hail it with acclamations, and admit that :::outl.by, :he Unrivalled Pyrotechnist has achieved a matchless triumph. The hardens and Zoological Collection are in the most perfect state, mid combining so many and interesting features, are by far be most attrsetive lounge in or near the tretrompli 4. Door's open at Nine—Feeding of the Animals at Half-past Four— Concert et Half-past Five.—Conflagration at Dusk. Adnuttance, Omo Shilling. EGYPTIAN HALL, PICCADILLY. IMPORTANT NOTICE. ON E SHILLING Admission to THE NAPOLEON MU SEUM, the most magnificent and extensive Colle.cflon of Ilisto rtcal Curiosities and Works of Art ever known to have been formed by Wu 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, via.--CUARLES 1., OLIVER CROMWELL, and LOUIS XIV., to the deaths of GEORGE 111., and the EMPEROR ,NAPOLEON, in 1821. This unique Museum has been visited often, ''daring the last and present year, by the Itoyal Family. the Duke of Wellington, the Foreign Princes, Ambassadors, MA their Ladies, also, many thousands of the Nobility and Public; and the Pro , prietor has recently been able to inciesse, by several very fine pictures, 8c.7.., his previous alino3t int re.lible number /ma varlet) 01 curiosities, in this most ...i!ructive and. as hundreds have said it ought to be, a Nationa: Museum. 5 1 ..ry thousand have Inspected it, and THIRTY YRINCII'AL EDITORS 'ii the PUBLIC I'RESS have stated that It ough to be seen by every oee. The price of admis lion is reduced to ONE SHILLING. The NAI.OI,EON MUSEUM is to Le seen only at the Egyptian flail." Picea uu y. daily ti om Tea till Dusk. THE WEATHER.-Suzi OFFICE, Am 27. - - - - T.IERMOMETER, Lowest, 51 ; Highest, 64; Noon, 63. BAROMETER, N.W. NOTE.—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the frAezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is ulually placed opposite 30, and rain at 29. HIGH WATER AT LONDON.BRIDGE THIS DAY. Moriung ...52 minutes after 1 I Evening ...15 minutes atter 2 k 7" r • 4 p ". avi •ts 4 ,.' • 4- V, -• , 1 - P.ir ks H • :, 4 1 .ft . t ki d oS oir /n 4 1, Sl at' r • r• - • Inman 2int4 LONDON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1844. The collision which, sooner or later, will take place between England and France, cannot be disguised. The Courts of the two countries are on the best terms ; they are intermingled by marriage; they have, we believe, a real affection for each other, but public events and public feelings overpower all private relations, and unless some other line of policy is adopted by Louts PHILIPPE, there will be a general European war. This is a frightful prospect. All the arts of peace—all the communication between the two countries, the intermarriages, the friendly bonds of peace, and the community of feeling which prevailed between France and England on the accession of the Citizen King, will be abruptly destroyed. England would regret such a Consummation as much as France. She would undergo at once a vast change. Commercial transactions now in progress would be interrupted; speculations of vast extent, and of high importance to the country, would be arrested; France would suffer in a ten-fold degree; and all the ener gies of the two countries would be directed only to one object—mutual destruction. History has shown that, after great victories, the two countries retain nearly the same relative position. Is there any prospect that a fresh war would produce any other result? England at no period of her history was ever more powerful than she is at the present moment. The nations of Europe and Asia admit the fact. Is France half so powerful as she was under NAPOLEON, when England, with crippled resources, set him and the whole Continental Powers under his control at defiance ? We have no wish to boast of our strength. Our only object is peace, and we trust France will not consider a brief statement of facts a bravado. Our navy is not mere helpless now than it was in the days of DUNCAN and NELSON. We have no mutiny at the Nore : there are ships in English harbours more nu merous than all the ships of the world besides. We have sailors too, in abundance ; and we fear officers, also, that are too eager to enter into a deadly con test. France, without a commercial navy, cannot supply the Royal fleet with men ; a great victory, in the words of the Prince DE JOINVILLE, would de stroy the navy of France, and what then would be the result of a defeat ? But a new force has sprung up since the battles of the Nile and Trafalgar. Steam has produced wonders, and we ask the French, if any country in the world, or all the countries to gether, could muster such a steam fleet as England ? We have steamers of the first class, both in tae royal and commercial navy, that could in a few months be adapted to every warlike purpose; and those which could be put to sea—for we put river steamers out of the question—would, under proper management, be competent to capture every merchantman and every privateer that would venture from the ports of France. We do not put forth this statement as a boast. We mention it as a fact which cannot be disputed, and which is even ad initted fig - the Gallant Prince who is bombarding the towns on the Morocco coast, and exciting, we hopein ignorance, the most warlike feeling among both men and officers in the English navy. The cir cumstance is to be regretted, but who is to blame ? We have in no instance interfered with the interests of France. England had a just war with China, she avenged her wrongs, made peace with that coun try, and claimed no exclusive advantages. France was placed on the same footing with England at Canton, Ningpoo, and the other three ports, opened for the first time by British enterprise. Has France acted in the same way in Africa ? or can she com plain that England is alarmed when French guns, heard at Gibraltar, are battering down the forts of a friendly Power ? The affair of Otaheite is a mere farce, but we may ask what right had the French to take possession of an island which had been virtually under English protection for fifty years, and expel a Consul or a missionary, we care not which, in a most ignominious manner ? It will be recollected, too, that the Prince DE .JOIN VILLE seized a pilot on board of an English vessel of war in a most unceremonious way in the Gulf of Mexico, and England was satisfied with a very slight apology. These are facts which the writers in the National, and Commerce, and Constitutionnel should remember ; and they should remember, also, that with the exception of the accidental death of a French fisherman on the coast of Newfoundland, for which England made every reparation, they cannot bring one charge of aggression, or conquest, or insult, com mitted in :any part of the globe. Louis PHILIPPE deserves every praise for the admirable manner in which he has restrained the belligerent disposition of the French for fourteen years, and thereby preserved the peace of the world. He has been aided by the Governments of England during that period, and England is still anxious for peace, but it must be a peace with honour. We cordially hope that the two countries will see their interests in a true light, and not headlessly rush into a war which would benefit neither, and throw the whole of Europe into confusion. In the press of other matters claiming our early attention, we have found but little time, hitherto, for the perusal in detail of Sir JAMES GRAHAM'S Bill , " foe the better regulation of Medical Practice throughout the United Kingdom." But we have mastered its contents sufficiently, to pronounce an opinion upon its general bearings, and to be enabled to indicate some features of palpable inconsistency, unfairness, and inexpediency. The Bill, in its pre sent form, is certainly one of the worst specimens of the excess to which the genius of central legislation may carry its advocates. In their laudable endea vours to abolish the evils of that partial, interrupted, and local law-making, which has so much marred many institutions derived from our ancestors, that were of the very wisest kind in princi ple, they are apt to produce a species of mischief at the least as much to be de precated. From a scheme, defective by the num ber of its jurisdictions or the conflicting character of the powers which these exercise, they are prone to pass to a system, more or less impracticable from the limi tation of its faculties, to a range of operation by no means co-extensive with the multiplied and varying demands on their exercise, and only to be set in mo tion from a single centre. The result of these sacri fices to the one element of consolidation may be de fined, in a word, as a defect of adaptation. There are infinitely more demands, or more classes of demands to be met and satisfied than machinery, of this centra lised character, can adequately treat. But the 13111 in question has more specific vices, besides this ge- neric one. Its enactments are tyrannous as well as invidious. They throw a degree of imputation on the skill, competency, and character of vast bodies of a liberal profession, who will vainly plead against the requi sitions of some of the clauses before us, touching pro bationary examinations in some cases, certificates in others, &c., &c. ; the best of testimonials, supplied by the terms of their professional experience and prac tice, and the esteem and confidence wherewith they are regarded by their patients and connexions. The capital error of the Bill appears to us to be this— that it proposes, for the future, to treat with indiffer ence, or absolutely to reject, the positive evidence of merit and theoretical knowledge, implied by the previously-passed examination of the successful can didate for a diploma or professional status in medi cine, or surgery, (under the practice which has for many years past obtained in London) ; and to substitute in place of this qualifying title a new species of certificate of registration, to be granted by use ci uwsny -contrived councils, ale creation or which would appear to be the real and paramount, though but incidentally avowed, object of this Bill. From one or two circumstances of primii facie suggestion, as the Bill is printed, we should infer that Sir JAMES GRAHAM must promise himself a long tenure of office. Thus, it is carefully stipulated that " the Secretary of State for the Home Department shall be President of the new Council ;" and again, that " he shall be empowered, from time to time, to nominate one of the members of the Council appointed, as aforesaid, by her MAJESTY, to be Vice-President of the Council." Here are two of the favourite, besetting, aims of all Sir JAMES'S measures in his official capacity, developing themselves even in this embryo of a Legislative Act, which cannot be born till next session. Sir JAMES'S vanity and love ofpower are to be tickled by the occupa tion of the President's chair; his love of patronage to be gratified by the nomination of some toady, probably, whose hand even now perhaps is dimly traceable in the concoction of the Bill—to that of Vice-President. What business with, or relation to, or affinity for, the presidency of a medical board (unless it be an indo mitable passion for opening letters) a Home Secretary of State can find in himself, we are quite at a loss to determine. The preceding clause, 9, may perhaps furnish some clue to this puzzle in clause 10. By clause 9, the salaries of the mem bers of council and other officers are to be determined by the Treasury. Qy. ? Will the president rank as a member of the council ? Will the Treasury, in that case, overlook the " equitable claim" of their good colleague, the Home Secretary ? The author of " Corn and Currency" must have fretted his very soul out, under the compulsory though silent sanction he was compelled to give to the. Premier's monster-blunder, his Bank Charter Bill. In the course of his new medical studies, possibly the notion of a presidential salary may have flitted before the forecasting mind of Sir JAMES in the type of an " emollient lenitive." But we will not travel further, on the present occasion, into the detail of the clauses. A medical friend complains to us, with much show of reason, that the general scope of the preamble it self is distinctly and most iniquitously favourable to the success of medical empiricism and quackery, and is signally calculated:for the discouragement of regu larly educated and duly qualified practitioners. It withdraws the protection hitherto afforded to the public from the reckless audacity, the mischievous ignorance, and the unhesitating presumption of the former class of medical " professors." By repealing, at one swoop, all th© salutary restrictions heretofore im posed upon them, inadequate as even they have proved for the purposes of a sufficiently stringent control— the health and lives of the public have been set up as a free mark, as it were, for their fatal experiments. But Sir JAMES (who certainly has no reason to be well pleased with his present standing in their estima tion) distinguishes between the public and the public servants. The " gentle public" are to supply open, un- restricted, moor-shooting to these unqualified gentry, who may wound, or bag, or scare, or destroy just as many victims as they please. But the army, the navy, the East India service—public hospitals, infirmaries for the poor, &c.,—these are street preserves, into which the empirics, who are thus let loose on society at large, may by no means trespass. Enough for them, we should suppose, that they are left, by _ _ ... implication, the honour of being doctors of the public! What guarantees are to be exacted from those gra- duates who, under subsequent clauses, are to qualify before the new board, as licentiates in medicine and surgery, or as surgeons, after rigorous examination, we find shadowed out in clauses 13, 14, 15, 16, &c. But they who are still to be authorised to practise —on the public—minus the honours, advantages, and emoluments accruing from the registered certificates of which they will be deficient, for aught that we can see to the contrary, will not be troubled for any guarantees at all as to their education, skill, or proficiency ! They may deal with the most complicated diseases of the digestive organs, although the previous extent of their medical or pharmaceutical education may have been limited to ascertaining the different intensities of a solution of an ounce of Epsom salts and an ounce :of jalap ; their experience of cerebral sensitiveness, to the vary ing effects of an ordinary narcotic draught, and a concentrated preparation of morphine. The utmost amount of their physiological iesearches may not have possessed them of the important distinctions be tween muscular contraction and vascular irritation ; but they will deal, at a moment's notice, with cases of organic derangement that may require all the patho logical learning of a second HUNTER to detect, or all the surgical skill and precision of a BRODIE or a LAWRENCE to operate upon. Now it is very certain that nothing has more tended to improve and advance the medical sciences—to extend the range and instruct the enterprise of opera tive surgery—than those more modern restrictive Acts which have been passed during the last seven or eight reigns with the avowed and wholesome purpose of dis couraging the irresponsible practice of incompetent ernpirics. The education which it was, by reason of those Acts, incumbent on the regular practitioner to acquire, has necessarily become a very expensive and elaborate one. The vast amount of talent, care, and research which has been devoted, year after year, to perfect this scheme of edu cation, has prodigiously facilitated the most re markable and precious discoveries of modern days, in all the higher branches of chemistry, of anatomy, physiology, and surgery, and therefore, in the appli cation of therapeutical agents. But in exact propor• tion to, and coincidently with these advances in the great march of all medical science, have been the increased sacrifices of time, money, and application, the additional severity of intellectual discipline and ex tensive study, which medical students in all classes have made and given to the completion of their curriculum. By what magical sympathy is Sir JAMES GRAHAM induced to give to quacks,—who have little or nothing of this preparation, these qualifications, that knowledge, those laborious studies—to justify their empirical practice—the advantages, the legitimate advantages, that should justly and exclusively remain with men who have adequately prepared themselves for the able and conscientious discharge of the in valuable and most responsible duties to society, which it is the honourable privilege of their profession to render ? We have received Madrid journals of the 19th inst. The QUEEN, with her mother and sister, was ex pected to enter the capital on the 20th. According to the Heraldo, the Moors were busily engaged in repairing the fortifications of Tangiers, which were said to be defended by fifteen hundred infantry while there were four thousand cavalry around the town. The English Consul had returned from Gib raltar and resumed his official duties. The Three per Cents. were done at 27 1-16 for cash, and 27-1 at sixty days; and the Five per Cents, at 20f at sixty days. We regret to find, from the Paris papers, that the same hostile feeling towards this country still pre vails, with little prospect of abatement. On the pre sent occasion we admit that the French have grounds of complaint, but they ought not to confound the feelings of one anonymous and indiscreet writer with those of the whole English nation. To impute any thing like cowardice to the French people, only shows a want of common honesty, a wilful departure from truth, and a malevolent spirit. Ninety-nine Eng lishmen out of a hundred admit the bravery of the French to the utmost extent ; and, if proofs were wanting, it is only necessary to look back to the great victories gained by their armies, not under NA POLEON only, but under every French General, over the best troops of almost every Continental State. The editors of French papers have no occasion to re but the charge, and they would have acted wisely had they treated it, as it deserved, with contempt. The details given in the telegraphic dispatch from Marshal BUGEAUD are very meagre. lie states that 800 of the Moors were killed on the field of battle, but does not give the number' of the French killed, nor any idea of the forces under his command. This battle, unfortunately, will only render peace more diffi cult. It will make the French desirous of further suc cess, and exasperate the fanatical Moors. No addi tional intelligence had been received from the French squadron, though accounts from the south of Spain announce that the firing of cannon had been heard in the direction of the Straits of Gibraltar, and that Larache, and some other small places along the coast, had been bombarded. A letter which ap peared in a morning Contemporary, stating that the Emperor .1. a....cctiod to all the dr: - mands of the French when the Prince de JOINVILLE commenced the attack on Tangiers, has called forth remarks from several of the papers. The Journal des Debats which has access to authentic information denies the statement. " We know not," says that journal, " if this letter be authentic, but in any case it is a tissue of errors more evident the one than the other. Every one now is aware that the EMPEROR refused four out of the seven conditions submitted by Spain ; and as to what concerns the reclamation of France, it is only neces sary to remind the reader that he demanded the dis missal of Marshal BUGEAUD, whose presence on the frontier no doubt was very galling to him. There fore, either the letter in question is apocryphal, or the person who wrote it was singularly misinformed. We have reason, on the contrary, to believe, that the reports of the English Consul himself contain conclu sions quite opposed to him, and it was only after being convinced the EMPEROR was seeking merely to gain time, that the Prince de JOINVILLE resorted to sum mary measures. It is also right to observe, that the news received a short time previous to the action of the 6th, announcing as certain the conclusion of an accommodation, was communicated to the French Consul at Gibraltar by the English Governor, and thus transmitted to the French Government; and, nevertheless, the news did not emanate either from the Commander of the French squadron, from the Consul-General of France, nor, as we believe, from the English Consul-General." The French Funds were more firm on Sunday. At TORTONI'S considerable business was done, when the Three per Cents. were quoted at 80f. 70c., having risen about 35 centimes since Saturday. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—Observing in yesterday's paper that my pri vate Circular has found its way into your columns, with an introductory remark giving me credit for what I am not entitled to, I beg to mention that the public is mainly indebted, in the first place, to the exertions of Mr. Waghorn ; and, in the second place, to the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, for the establishment of the overland com munication with India. My only merit is the ga thering together the authentic information which my letter contains, and circulating it among my friends. Knowing its value to the public, I am rejoiced to see it obtain more extensive circulation through your columns, yet I should be sorry for any one to sup pose that I laid claim to a distinction I am not len titled to.—l am, Sir, your very obedient servant, ALEXANDER F. RIDGWAY. 42, Leicester-square, 27th August, 1844. TRAVERS TESTIMONIAL. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SER,—Parrnit me to suggest, through the medium of your valuable columns, to the subscribers towards a memorial to the memory of the late John Travers, Esq., that if the funds collected for that purpose were to be appropriated to the erection of additional " Reform Alms-houses" (with a suitable tablet), or in increasing the comforts of the present and future inmates of that valuable institution, instead of applying them, in any manner, to the " City of London Schools," it would be a far more appropriate testi monial to the memory of that staunch Reformer and truly benevolent man ; and I know of many who would cheerfully subscribe in the former case, but not in the latter.—l. am, Sir, your most obedient servant, W. A. A., AN OLD REFORMER. Moorgati, Aug. 27, 1844. ANOTHER MONSTER TRAIN.—The cheap Sunday excursion train on the London and Brighton Railway, on Sunday last, exceeded in magnitude all the other monsters with which this railway has of late teemed. No less than 78 carriages, containing 2,123 passengers, left London-bridge in the morning, and after spending the day in Brighton, returned in the evening. In order, however, to avoid the inconvenience experienced on former occasions from the delay in providing a large number of passengers with accommodation, the train was divided into three portions, each of which was dis patched as soon as full. By this arrangement the earlier part of the train was in Brighton before the time an nounced, while the rest were not more than half an hour behind time ; whereas, on the previous Sunday, the whole number were delayed upwards of two hours and a half. The passengers spoke highly of this ar rangement. We have reason to believe that an action for breech of promise of marriage has been already commenced by a beautiful and accomplished young lady, possessing landed property in one of the midland counties (Leices tershire), against a wealthy young nobleman, who has recently entered into the holy bonds of matrimony. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY MORNING. AUGUST 28 ? _ 164,4. MONEY AND COMMERCIALNEWS. CITY, TUESDAY EVENING. Stocks cloSe steadily. Consols were 99 for Money and Time; the former sellers. Exchequer Bills main tained the rise to 755. to 775. prem. The New Three and-a-hlalf per Cents. were 1024 to ? 3 - ; India Stock was at 232; and India Bonds were93s. to 955. There was a rise in Spanish Stock, some parties hav ing purchased to complete their accounts by settling day. The Five per Cents. were 22i. -I, and the Three per Cents. 331 to I. Mexican were firm at 35i. Belgian improved to 103 i. Dutch Five per Cents. were 104. The additional transactions in Railway Shares have been these :—Birmingham and Gloucester, 84; Ditto, New, 104; Chester and Holyhead, 2; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 151 ; Great Western, Half, 334 k ; ; Ditto, Thirds, 34; South-Western, 43* to 43i; Croydon, 5* ; Manchester and Leeds, 52; Ditto, Quarter, 9; Manchester and Birmingham, 12; Ditto, Quarters, ; Newcastle and Darlington, 28i ; Northern and Eastern, Scrip, 10k; South. Eastern, 4i to i; Ditto, New, ; York and North Midland, 55; Ditto, Selby, Scrip, 34; and Paris and Orleans, 17 to 17i prem. Blackwell, 9i to 1- • Brighton, and Greenwich, 4* discount. British North American Bank Shares were 7i to 7 dis count ; and London and Westminster, 7 prem. The Exchange on Paris and Trieste was barely so good; nor that on Leghorn. On Amsterdam it was higher, and much the same on Madrid, Lisbon, Bum burgh, &c. The following is the official return of the exports of bullion from the port of London for the week ending Thursday last:— Silver Bars to Harnburgh St. Peters burgh £3,400 „ Coin to Rotterdam 12,000 „ Gold Coin to Port Philip (From The Sun of Last Night.) The prices of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday did not undergo any alteration, and a fair business was done. Exporters took 1,000 bales, and the total sales were 6,ooo—viz., 600 Surat at 21d. to 3id.; 150 Pernam, 51d. to 6.; 100 Maranham, sd. to sid.; 200 Egyptian, 6id. to 7±d.; and the rest American, 31d. to skd. French Railways were more in demand, but Birmingham, Mid land Counties, and Eastern Counties were dull. Bir mingham and Gloucester, 1071; Chester and Birken head, 314 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 67; Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton, 17; Great Western, Half, 83 ; Lancaster and Preston, 39; Liverpool and Manchester, Half, 53 ; Ditto, Quarter, 35; London and Birmingham, 220; Midland Counties, 106; Preston and Wyre, New, 37; Sheffield and Manchester, 84k; Lyons and Avignon, 11. 18e.; Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux, 1/. 165.; Lynn and Ely, 3i. A plan for the formation of a railway to connect the metropolis with Richmond has been announced, and at a meeting of the principal tradesmen of the latter, held a day or two since, it was unanimously agreed that the line would be highly advantageous to the town, as well as to those places through or near which it will pass, such as Barnes, Wandsworth, Putney, &c. It is intended that the railway shall be formed on the Surrey side of the, river, and to be connected with the Hunger ford Suspension-bridge. A most easy and rapid com munication-will thus be formed between the west end and that delightful and favourite place or resort. There is not a single colonial arrival of any importance to announce this mornin g . The Stock Market has been in a very active condition this morning. Consols for Money and the Account have reached 981 1 „ but are now a shade lower. The Commissioners bought 5,000/. Reduced Three per Cents. at within per cent. of par. Money is more plentiful, and the premium upon Exchequer Bills has advanced to 765. The Three-and-a-Half per Cents. have b e cn in good request. A 1 ":11 in Belgian Bonds to 102;1 has just occurred. Dutch Stu,' kis rather heavy. French Three per Cents. have advanced a trifle, but Portuguese Stocks are cheaper than yesterday. L 7 i nanish Consols remain at about 224 d ; the Three perat 3 3 / 8 ' • and Mexican at 2. "nts. 35i 4 . There was a fall in the London and Birmingham, i n the Birmingham and Gloucester, in e Brighton, and most of the other Railway Shares this morn;.7. A good deal of business has been done. PRICES OF BRITISH k UNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK (From the Official List.) Bank Stock... ......... ................ 199% 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities ..... 995(%%ii 3 per Cent. Consols. Annuities 99 98% 3% per Cent. Annuities, 1818 95% 31'I per Cent. Reduced Annuities 11% New 3% per Cent. Long Annuities, Expire Sts Jan. 1860.,.. ....., l2 9- 63 Ditto 30 Years, Expire 10th Oct. 1859 .... 12% Ditto 30 Year;, Expire sth Jan. 1860. India 80nd5,1,000.... ..................«....«.».«...... 93 Consols for Account . ....... ....... 99% 99 India Stock Exchequer Bills, I%cL 134 d. 10001. 00000 —...........•••••— •............ 74 76 pm. Ditto 5ma11....... ..... .....• --..».«.».. 74 76 pm. Ditto Advertised PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent 114% Belgian Bonds, 3 per Cent ll/25i Mexican Bonds, 1837. 5 per Cent. .... ........ Ditto Deferred Stock. I 5 1( Ditto D,:bentures Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent. Ditto Converted 43% Ditto for the Account Spanish, Bonds, , Five per Cent 1840.... ..... Ditto for the Account ..... .................... Ditto Three per Cent. ••"..... ..... ...........••••• Ditto for the Account. 33% Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent 42 Ditto Deferred French Rentes, 3 per Cent Exchange Dutch 214 per Cents ...... -...... .......... --- Dutch 5 per Cents .... ..........................„ 100,u% New Loan. 5 per Cents. (1837) riticES Or stlititEs A. oz‘z u - cLocii.. RAILWAYS. PA/D. Pea RIIARE. Rirmlngham and Gloucester lOO .... ..... 109 .. to c4ester and Holyhead 5 ... ..... . tiA i ii ... to Dub lin aisd Cashel 234 7!I Eastet.'t Counties ..............,,.....23 .... ..... Ilie% Ditt o New Registered,..... si. o s. Bd . Edi n b urg h and Glasgow ~„„...... SO Di tto s,y-ares Great Wester: l Lancaster and Carlisle. ........... ... 5 Loudon arut.Birmingharn. ......... 100 2!B Ditto New Thirds 2 365i Dit o lA, Shares London and - Blackwall.. ............. 16% London and Brighton . .......... .... 50 ..... London and Greenwich ......... ... 12N L o ndon and Greenwich (Preference) ISX ...... 2.: % to -. London and South Western ...... 41% Ditto Eighths Lynn and Ely 1iA........ 3% ...... to Manchester and Birmingham Ditto % Share., 2 ..... .... 5 Midland Counties Newcastle and Darlington Junct. 21 North British 2% ...... 3 ... ...... to Trent Valley PRPyaaoorli;iikessinta,,aon:;ndds:oNosozriauhlreeatvahnrnyeeDss.ll.d. Midland .. ....... ..... ...... 2502210500 : 303 ( 577 :7 2 : . . . ... ... • .. • : ... • .. to 000 : ____- 18Ni to MANCHESTER STOCK EXCRANGE, AUG. 26.—There is no material change in prices, but stock is more freely offered.—Bristol and Gloucester, 541 ; Blackburn, Burn ley, and Accrington, 2 9-16 ; Bristol and Exeter, 804 ; Churnet Valley, 3s. prem. ; Huddersfield and _Manches ter, 2i 7-16 ; Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester', It prem. ; London and Brighton, Eighths, I Is. 3d. prem. ; Manchester, Bury, and Rossendale, 5 7-16 -I; Manchester and Birmingham, 531 ; CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock . ..... ..... ....... 1549% Indian 5t0ck......... ..... -- 3 per Cent. Red 89% Ditto Bonds 93 pin • 3 per Cent. Cons. 1 . 1} 4 per Cant. Red ION Ditto New Annuities ... New 3% per Cent. lOl% Ex. Bills, 1,0001. 1%d... 7 pm. New 5 per Cent. .-- Ditto 5001 Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small 75 prn. Jan )860 12% Bank Stock for Acct.... Oct. 1859 12% Consols for Act.... ..... 99 Jan. MA... ...... FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per Cent Portuguese, 5 per Cent ...... Belgian, 5 - per Cent lo3k Ditto, New Ditto.... ....... ... Brazilian Bonds — Prussian, 5 per Cent .....».. -- -- !Russian. 5 per Cent.... ..... -- - 'Ditto, Metallic.... ..... ...... Colombian, 6 per Lent „„ — Spanish, 5 per Cent 22% Ditto, 1821........ — Ditto, 3 per Cent...—. cßhuteiniaonsyperersc, 6 en pr Cent... Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent — 'Ditto, Deferred ..... .......... Danish, 3 per Cent Greek, 1815, 5 per Cent — Exchange --f, —c. ..... ..... ... • 37 I;texican, 5 per Cant _._-_ Dino, 6 per Cent., 1837 ....... ,Dutch, 2% per Cent..., dl Peru.lan. 1825, t 3 per Cent.. -- ) Ditto, 5 per Cent lOOl,B SHARES. - Bi n r:r i f t n o g , h N am ew an s d ha G u l ,s o , uc n es x te pa r, ( i 1 d 00 . r . 2 .. 7 t l Chester and Holyhead ( 5 paid) Edinburet and Glasgow, 50 paid Great Western (75 paid) Ditto Half Shares, 50 paid 83% London and Birmingham (Stock) Ditto, New Thirds, 2 paid London and Blackwall (161, 13s. 4d.) 7% London and Brighton (50 paid) London and Greenwich (121. 15s. 441 paid) ..... DIU°, Preference or Privilege, X; 8 17s 'd paid 4 2 Ni London and South Western (411. Os. 10d. paid) B5 London and Croydon (Trunk)...,,,, ........ ... Ditto, Scrip, 10 paid lB % Manchester and Leeds (70 paid, 11 Ditto, Quarter Shares ( 2 paid) 52 Manchester and Birmingham ........ ..... ..... ...." Ditto New Quarters ( 2 paid) 4% Newcastle and Darlingron Junction. 2I paid 49% 37 South Eastern and Dover (33 2s 4d paid) Ditto New Shares 4 paid York and North Midland (50 paid) ..... lane and Orleans (20 paid) COURSE OF EXCHA . Amsterdam CF. 12 5 Ditto, at sight l2 3 Rotterdam 2U. 12 5 Antwerp Hamburgh M.B. 13 13f Altona - 13 14 Paris, 3 days' sight... 25 60 Ditto, 3 months 25 85 Marseilles Bourdeaux 25 DO Frankfort on Maine l2l Petersburgh, 3Us 37 Berlin 7 Vienna, effec. ft. 3 M 952 Trieste, ditto Madrid ' 37 Cadiz . 37 Bilbao 36 Barcelona 36 Sevilla — :17% GE.—(YESTERDAY: Gibraltar Leghorn 3O 50 Genoa 25 85 Milan Venice 47 Naples 394 Palermo, per oz llBk • Lisbon s4k Oporto s4h Rio Janeiro 23 Bahia 23 Buenos Ayres NewYork,2ldys sight Philadelphia PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ. Foreign Gold, bars..l.3 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin 3 17 5 New Doubloons-- 0 0 0 New Dollars 0 4 10h Silver in Ba. 0 4 11 BOULOGNE AND CALAIS.—The number of persons who passed to and from France via Boulogne during the week ending last Thursday, was 3,367, and via Calais, 500. The numbers during the corresponding week of last year were, Boulogne 2,446, and Calais, 696. DEVIZES.—With the exception of a few drops of rain on Tuesday we have had a week of uninterrupted fine weather, and harvest work has made great progress. Should the remainder of the week continue dry the wheat crop throughout the country will generally be secured on Saturday night. That the crop will be most abundant is now beyond a doubt ; the quality also is very fine, but the colour of the wheat has beea slightly injured by the rain.— TVdtshire Independent. A PLEASING RETROSPECT.--A life of a Wesleyan minister, written by himself, whose scenes of labour were in Lincolnshire, from the year 1780 to 1822, con. eludes his account of them by stating :—" I have en joyed in my ministry 2,028 Sabbaths ; read the Scrip tures, two chapters for each day, 36,500 times; preached 8,112 sermons ; occupied fifteen pulpits ; and ridden 117,000 miles; and my salary never at any time amounted to 50L per annum." SUMMARY OF NEWS AND Vutlit eptnton. " Who runs may read." ronExart. The Court of France has gone into mourning for eight days for her Imperial Highness the Grand Duchess Alexandra of Russia, whose mortal remains were to have been deposited in the Imperial family vault on the 16th inst. Accounts from Gibraltar announce that a heavy can nonading was heard on the coast of Africa on the 12th, which was supposed to be the Prince do Joinville bom barding Azzila ; and more cannonading was heard at Cadiz, in the same direction, on the 14th. According to letters from Constantinople of the 7th inst., Sir Stratford Canning has obtained satisfaction for the insult offered by a Russian pilot to the British flag. The pilot is to be punished in an exemplary manner. Letters have been received from Athens of the 10th, when Greece was perfectly tranquiL An amnesty had been granted to all those who were engaged in the in surrections during the months of May and June last, with the exception of General Grivas and eight others. The elections were still going on. According to the Paris Reforme, officers of engineers and of the artillery had been sent to inspect the bat teries along the coast, and place them in a proper state of defence. The Grand Duke of Hesse has issued an ordonnance, declaring that in future the Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse is to have the titlo of Royal Highness. An article in the Journal des Debats announces that, notwithstanding the bad weather, the crops have pre served a good appearance throughout Normandy, and promise an abundant produce. The Queen of Wirtemberg arrived at Frankfort on the 20th, and left on the following day for the banks of the Rhine. The King and Queen of the Netherlands were expected to arrive on the 23d, on their way to Weimar, to be present at the baptism of the son of their daughter, the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Saxe Weimar. The reigning Duke of Saxe Meiningen is amongst the last arrivals at Frankfurt. The Imperial Court of Russia has gone into mourning for three months, for the late Grand Duchess Alexandra. Great preparations are at present making at Milan for the forthcoming meeting of the Italian scientific con gress, which it was feared, owing to the recent political movements in Italy, would not take place ; but the Pre sident, Count Borromeo, has just issued his official an nouncement, stating that the opening is fixed for the 12th of September, and is to take place this year at Milan. The savans will hold their morning sittings at the Palace Brera, and for t their evening meetings the Palace del Marino has been put in readiness. The re union is to continue until the 27th of next month. The opening of La Scala was postponed from the 17th to the 21st instant. LAW AND POLICE. At the Central Criminal Court, Henry Brown, 41, Emma Brown, 16, and Elizabeth Jones, 23, were in dicted for feloniously making counterfeit shillings and sixpences, and also for having in their possession moulds calculated to make counterfeit coin. They were all con victed, and Mr. Baron Gurney sentenced the male pri soner and Elizabeth Jones to be transported for twelve years ; and Emma Brown was ordered to be kept to hard labour for six months. Thomas Corby was indicted for feloniously forging an acceptance to a bill of exchange for 61., with intent to defraud William Franks. The jury found him not guilty, as it appeared that the acceptor had authorised the prisoner to use his name, and the acceptor's wife had received a portion of the proceeds of the bill. The Recorder sat in. the New Court, where John Mullett, convicted of horse stealing, was sentenced to be transported for ten years. A domestic servant, named Elizabeth Hughes, was convicted of robbing her master, and sentenced to be imprisoned for a year. In passing sentence, the Re corder remarked upon the great number of cases of rob bery by domestic servants in the calendar, a crime which must be suppressed by the intervention of the law. William Fisher, convicted of stealing a pipe of port wine the property of his employer, was sentenced to fif teen ,ears !ran- portation. a :::hterman, aged 20, for stealing 38 gal- John Riley, ions of brandy, on the th of August instant, the property of the East and West India ouipany, was sentenced to be transported for ten years. A the evening sittings, before Mr. Commissioner Bullock, Mary Ann Smith, aged 20, and Charlotte Wil liams, alias Mary Ann Smith, were convicted of stealing 35 handkerchiefs, value 405., the property of Elizabeth Knox, there being a former conviction against Williams. The jury found them guilty, and the Court ordered Smith to be confined for six month, and Williams, other wise Smith, to be transported for seven years. Harriet Thomas, a young woman who has frequently been in custody, was committed from Guildhall by Mr. Alder man Brown, charged with stealing a diamond pin from Mr. Gray, a merchant, of Dublin. She had snatched the pin from his breast on Ludgate-hill. Mr. Gray wished her to be summarily punished, but the Magistrate re fused, and bound Mr. Gray over to prosecute. A very respectably-dressed man, habited in full black, and white cravat, and who gave the name of Frederick Grosjean, a tailor and draper, living at 99, Quadrant, was brought before Mr. llall, the chief magistrate, at Bow-street, charged with having caused an obstruction in front of St. Paul's church, Covent-garden, by collect ing a crowd, and refusing to withdraw when requested icy the pollee. The defendant, .ho had attracted a crowd by preaching in front of the church, was admonished and discharged. John Smith was convicted from Clerkenwell on seve ral charges of robbing furnished lodgings. At Queen-square, John Jones, a labouring man, was charged with wilfully breaking one of the gas lamps in Maram-street, Westminster. The defendant, who had been refused a night's lodging at the station-house and at the workhouse, said he was two hundred miles from home, and had not tasted food for two days, and being unable longer to walk the streets, had broken the lampsin the constable's presence, :n order to be taken up. Mr. Burrell said that persons could T.'ot be allowed, because they were in distress, to destroy tl:e property of the parish contractor, which offence subjected him to a penalty of 51. Defendant must pay 7s. 6d., amount of damage, or be imprisoned for ten days. The :Tan appeared very thankful, and was locked up. Several vendors of fruit and toys were fined for ob structing the Knightsbridge foot pavement, by placing their baskets thereon. Mary Anne Jones was remanded from Marylebone, on a charge of having " stolen" a silk umbrella, the property of Miss Maria Louisa Riviere, the proprietress of a school for young ladies, at 25, George-street, Camden town. The prisoner had called at the school on a rainy day, and stated her intention of placing two young ladies there, and on her departure had borrowed an umbrella, which, it is needless to say, was never returned, and the address which she had given Miss Riviere could not be found. John Blake, John Rogers, and Sarah Smith, charged with having been concerned in stealing furniture, &c., to a considerable amount, the property of Mr. John Dyke, Park-place, Paddington -green, were remanded. At Lambeth-street, Saul Fichell, a German Jew, was charged with robbing his employer, Mr. Adolphus Lip man, outfitter, 86, Pearson -street, Ratcliff highway, of one gold and nine silver watches, value 351. The pri soner owned having taken the watches, and said he was instigated to it by a person who was a notorious coiner, in Rosemary-lane. lie was remanded to give time for the apprehension of his accomplice. A respectable-looking man, who gave his name Chas. Stevens, but which, it is known, is a fictitious name, was committed, from Worship-street, for one month, for , ae having deserted his w if e . At Union .l e Hall,JCwhaesekc,hcaorlgleedctwinigth-celerarkbeiznzlitng the nganßermondsey, s employment of Messrs. Taylor and C o ., v i negar ma k ers , Lo of several sums of mon e y f rom hi s employers, and was remanded. George Bonchee, a m em b er o f t h e swell mob, was charged before Mr. Broderip, at the Thames Office, with assaulting Mrs. Elizab e th C oo k, a l a d y residing at,Mus well-hill, Hornsey, with intent to commit a felony. The prisoner had attempted to pick her pocket on board one of the railway Gravesend steamers. A policeman said that robberies had been very frequent among the pas sengers in the steamers between London and Gravesend, and the swell mob took advantage of the crowded state of those vessels occasioned by the cheap fares. Ile was committed. COUILTIMSZIONditiaI. The Prince of upon his visit to the York race , course on Thursday, was received at the Grand Stand by the Marquis of Normanby, who accompanied his Royal Highness on to the course, and subsequently partook of a dejeuner with the Prince, at the residence of General Brotherton, the commanding officer of th e t roops sta tioned in that city. The Earl and Countess of Wilton have been entertain. ing during the past fortnight a distinguished party at their villa residence, Binstead, near Ryde, amongst whom may be mentioned the Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburgh Strelitz, the Duke and Duchess of Beau fort, and Lady Augusta Somerset, Baron Nieumann, Lord and Lady Robert Grosvenor, Lord and Lady Ash ley. Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, the Countess of Jersey, and Lady Clementina Villiers, Lord Charles Manners, &c. The Noble Earl and Countess are going to Bad minton next week on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, to meet the Prince of Prussia and a select party. The Earl of Yarborough and the leading members of the Yacht Squadron have arrived at Plymouth from Cowes, and proceed on a cruise to other western ports. Lord and Lady Francis Egerton have arrived at Buxton, on a visit to Lady Charlotte Greville, from Worsley Hall, Lancashire. The Austrian Count Anersperg and his son have re turned to the Clarendon Hotel, from York races. The Marquis of Douglas, accompanied by the Marchioness (Princess Mary of Baden), has arrived at the Clarendon Hotel, Leamington Spa, where they pur pose remaining for a few days, and thence proceeding to Hamilton Palace, North Britain. The Earl of Bessborough and Ladies Ponsonby have arrived at Bessborough House, Kilkenny, from Caven dish-square, at which seat the Noble Earl and family have made arrangements to pass the autumn. The ar rival of his Lordship at his paternal estates was welcomed by his tenantry with every possible mark of esteem. Count Nesselrode, and his daughter the Baroness Seebach, accompanied by the Countess of Stockelberg, proceeded from Brighton on Saturday on a short visit to the Duke of Norfolk. M. Kisseleff, the Russian Charge d'Affaires at Paris, left Brighton on Saturday for Dieppe. The Marquis of Conynghain arrived in Harwich harbour last we, k, from the Isle of Wight, in his splendid yacht the Flower of Yarrow. Lords Cranstoun and Gardner are among the distill- guished tourists to the Cumberland and Westmorland lakes. Their Lordships enjoyed a few days' sport on the moors. near Brough, when OR a visit to the Rev. Mr. Barham, M.A., at Appleby Castle. Viscount Sandon and family are at present staying at Burnt Norton, near Chipping Campden, Gloucester shire. Colonel and Baroness North and Miss Doyle have re turned to Arlington-street, from their villa at Putney hill, where her Ladyship has been residing for the last three weeks. The Baroness and family will leave their mansion in Arlington -street this week, for Wroxton .Abbey, where extensive alterations are going on. Sir Edward Kerrison, Bart., M.P., and Lady Kerrison are surrounded by a select family circle at Oakley Park, the Gallant Baronet's seat, near Eye. The Earl and Countess of Meath have left town for the Continent, intending to pass the winter abroad. Viscountess Ashbrooke and the Hon. Miss Flower left town on Wednesday last for a tour in Germany. DUSCarakalllllol7ll. On Sunday, in Smithfield market, between four and eight o'clock in the evening, there were no fewer than 37 preachers haranguing large mobs of persons, some of whom attentively listened, but by far the greater num ber reviled. A Parliamentary return has been published, showing the number of schoolmasters in Scotland who have vacated their berths in consequence of the late secession. The amount is stated to be 92, and several are still un der suspension for having joined the seceders. The number, it may be observed, is very small, considering that there are 12,000 parishes in Scotland, with each one schoolmaster at least, and many of them two. It appears from a Parliamentary return, that for the half-year ending the sth of July last, the total quantity of refined sugar exported from the United Kingdom as merchandise was 112,242 cwts., and the amount shipped as stores 4,853 cwts. The exportation as merchandise in the six months was, from London, 92,328 cwts. ; 19,752 cwts. from Liverpool ; 41 cwts. from ports on the Clyde ; and from other outports 121 cwts., making the total 112.242. The Earl of Stradbroke has been appointed Vice- Admiral of the coast of Suffolk, an office which was pre viously held by the late Marquis of Hertford. The Noble Earl is visiting his estates in Ireland. The Palace of Holyrood is now to be thrown open to all visitors, on payment of a small fee, namely, one shil ling for a party of six. This is not by way of admission money ; but merely to remunerate the servants for their trouble in showing the different apartments A model farm has been established at Berry Pomeroy, on the estate of the Duke of Somerset. General Goldie having resigned the Speakership of the House of Keys, at the Isle of Man, last week, Lieu tenant Taubman was chosen to the office. The 72d Regiment, stationed in the county of Lime rick, are daily expecting the route for Cove, to embark for Gibraltar. DR. WOLFF'S IMPRISONMENT AT BOKHARA. Captain Grover has communicated to us the fol lowing account of Dr. Wolff's imprisonment at Bokhara : The last letter written by Dr. Wolff, while at liberty, was written at Bokhara, on the 16th of April, before he entered the city. He had no writing paper, and this letter is written upon scraps torn from his memorandum-book. A Turcoman had just arrived from Merv, bringing him a lamb as a present, and he took advantage of his return to send a few hurried lines. He is surrounded by people of Bokhara, Kokan, and Taschkand, and, therefore, says his information may be depended upon. He trembles somewhat for Stoddart and Conolly, for they are not seen at Bokhara, and the person alluded to in M. de Ghersi's dispatch, he has ascertained to be a Persian, and the European young man with him is an Italian watchmaker, named Giovanni. However, he says, "nobody has witnessed the execution of Stoddart and Conolly, whilst Youssaf Khan, &c., were publicly executed. The Khaleefa (Holy-man) of Merv, tells me positively that Stoddart was alive. Ido not feel much apprehension for my own safety, but should I be detained, pray get the Queen herself to write a letter to the Ameer, for he felt deeply offended that his letter, which he wrote by Stoddart to the Queen, was answered by the Governor-General of India. Get also the Em peror of Russia to write. Whatever happens pray take it as coming from the Lord. Did not our Lord suffer ?" The man sent by the Assef-ood-Dowlah to com mand the escort which was to protect him against the Turcomans, turned out a great scoundrel, and the Doctor was obliged to ap peal to the Turcomans for protection against his escort. Between them, however, the poor Doctor was plundered of everything, and, on entering the city, he was deserted by all except one man, named Hussein, and he was looked upon as a man whose d.)orn was sealed. When, however, the King ordered Nayeb to receive him into his house the scene changed, and all predicted that danger was over. He was in troduced to the King, kindly received, and he plainly told the object of his visit. The following day the King's Chamberlain, accompanied by the Comman dant of the arsenal, ordered him to write in their presence the letter in which the King de clares that he put Stoddart and Conolly to death in the month of July, 1843, and of this letter he had to make a translation in Persian. He was then told that he was free to depart. The letter having been dispatched to Captain Grover, the Doctor received an intimation that he would be de tained. Having a slight fever he wished to be bled ; this being communicated to the King, permission was refused, the King saying that bleeding was not good for him. Dr. Wolff had recovered Co. lonel Stoddart's " official seal." The Doctor writes, ,L pray for me, and thank God with me, that he bath At first he wore his cl e r g y man ' s hitherto helper. _ me." robes, and rode about:.he town un a tt en d e d, w hi c h , h e says, the Russian Ambassad ot ; who had just left, wa s not allowed to do. In another letter; he says he has adopted the Bokhara dress, but does not say 7hether this was done from choice. On the Bth June he writes two lines to Colonel Shiel, in which he says, that in spite of all the pro mises of the King, he is now a prisoner at Bokhara, and that he has not the least hope of being soon re leased. ONE WORD TO CAPT. WARNER. Sia,—Your deeds in the Press have of late cer tainly been very great; your challenge in the daily papers, which is now before me, is a curious spe cimen of evasion or want of straightforwardness. You say that at five miles' distance you will destroy the largest vessel across the Goodwin Sands, without having had any previous communication with her, but you do not say that you will have no communi cation with the position the doomed vessel is to occupy. Why should you know where the vessel is to be before you go to it ? Why do you fix the position across the Goodwin Sands ? Because, if ignorant of the place, you could not previously set your trap to catch the mouse ; and secondly, if in deep water for five miles, your line of communication would sink too deep, perhaps break by its own weight, and your doomed vessel escape destruction. The Goodwin Sands would, however, support it near the surface, and ensure the explosion. What wonder is there in this ? Why could you not have said a hundred miles at once ? Because that would have divulged your means of communication. Now, Sir, I could blow up St. Paul's (God forbid I ever should), and be in Manchester at the time. There is nothing to be wondered at even in that; but I must fiat lay my line communication. All these things were practicable before you, Sir, commenced studying the subject. But are they applicable, economically applicable, to the practice of war? Certainly not. If a squadron lay in an enemy's harbour, can you blow them up ? Yes, you will say, but you must lay your trap first! And, query, is there not equal danger in laying the trap as to the mice, when caught ? Will you, Sir, engage to go on board a Government vessel without knowing her destination ? Will you, on being con veyed to within five miles of an object, whether ship or fort, without any previous communication with that object or the position it occupies —will you then blow it up at the moment of command ? I fancy I hear you say, No, that is not your mode. Now, Sir, the darling object of your dreams for years past can be done, and by means, the a ppli ca ti on o f w hi c h is perfectly simple, and which you, Sir, cannot accom plish. There is an individual who will perhaps be shortly called upon to prove this position, and that person would have no objection to go on the vessel prepared for you, and with a piece of ordnance of long range, if allowed to have one shot at the doomed vessel, and almost at double the range the piece is usually effective, will so far destroy the doomed vessel as to leave you, Sir, nothing to do. That person, too, will perform his experiment before assembled thousands. No trickery will be resorted to—all will be plain and above board ; and, what is infinitely of more value, the means are not onlyap plicable, but easily adaptable to the present engines of warfare, can be managed with perfect ease and safety by those already in the employ of ordnance, and more economical than even the present admitted system now generally practised. Again, the main secret can be kept from others by Government, whilst yours, Sir, could not be kept six hours ; indeed, I may say it is well known (at least inits general principles) even now, and as a discovery for general application, not worth one farthing. I wish for no better position than to prove yours an infernal of little use. As I have no doubt th e wor ld w ill soon be acquainted with the comparative effect and value both of your invisible and my visible means, I shall at present leave the subject, remaining, yours, re spectfully, CRITO CURIOSA. Manchester, August 26. THE LEVANT MAIL. From Beyrout our advices are of the 3d inst. Pacha returned there on the 2d, after completing; disarmament of the population of Tripoli, an° establishing order and tranquillity in that talc . Twelve of the most influential inhabitants had arrested by his orders and sen t t o p r i son . The rn° l " , , taineers of Beisciarre, who had assumed a hostile!, titude, had returned to their duty, the Pacha thought proper to suspend the collection of the 0; until their claims should be examined. The OttO so fleet, with the exception of two ships of the line tioned at Tripoli, was still lying at anchor in roads of Beyrout on the 25th ult. The British r ; gate Tyne sailed from Beyrout for Alexandria the 31st. Our private correspondence from Alexandris f :, the 7th inst. an nounces th a t M e h emet Ali, $. having received a v i s it f rom hi s son, Said Paha , r „t followed him from Alexandria to Cairo, had conse°,, to receive Ibrahim Pacha, and had subsequently ,' sented to resume th e a d m i n i s t ra ti on o f af f a i r s and return to Alexandria, w h ence a s t eam -b oa t had, l dispatched on the 7th i ns t., w hi c h was to Highness at Atfe. Much apprehension was fe"., Alexandria that the inundation of the Nile du ll ' this year would not be sufficient to produce r; crops. No case of pla gue h a d b een reporte d for s co ° t days. The Geyser was wa iti ng a t Al exan d r i a to 4 vey Lord Ellenboro ug h t o M arse ill es. Hi s Lnr"' was expected to arrive at Alexandria in a few dat t Our letters from Jeru sa l em o f th e 18th ult."P' that a very considerabl e sensa ti on st ill ex i s ted tu ,2 '"' amongst the French a n d o th er Ch r i s ti an populltl‘ on account of the murder of the French Consul'so vant (mentioned in one of our former letters). It even said that the Consul was so alarmed at the c :`,4 pearance of affairs, that he would write to his pi : vernment to supply him with means of protenti° the French now in his neighbourhood. • 0 11, Our letters from Con s t an ti nop l e o f th e 7th ill s state, that the intelligence from Alexandria had Po , duced a lively sensation in the Turkish capital. 04 Ministers immediately met in council, at the seat of the Grand Vizier, and the result of their "` t ; beration was, that Masloum Bey, the Minister il Justice and Chargé d'Aff a i res o f M e h eme t Ali, si' ° re ; repair forthwith to Alexandria to inquire into the situation of affairs. Masloum Bey acco rdingkr, barked on the 7th i n th e French steamer to cu lnl ,;ict important mission. The last packet from 'a— conveyed to Constantinople 227 other Albanian P: it soners, among whom were several chiefs, Wh ° °. so, thrown into prison to await their trial b e f o re the j perior Council of Justice. The R uss ian stes l ;l Polar Star had arrived with th e f am ily of Al. C, 0 41 cazy, former resident Minist e r o f R uss ia at itt" t y where he had resided for some time. A libel olio, Minister of Finance having been received by Levant packet, and profusely c i rcu l a t e d in Consl'i,co tinople, Baron de Bourqueney h a d g i ve n perrn't ore , to the Ottoman police to examine a ll the brOtfi r , arriving by the French mail, an d t o s eize su b it might disapprove, of a political character. I se Our naval intelligence from Malta is to the 30 inst. Beyond the arrival of the t wo D u tch frifoci . the Rhin, having on board his Royal Hi g hness fro o Henry of the Netherlands, and the Jason, both,le Tunis, there is, however, little to communicate. J. are both performing quarantine. Her Majesty's steamer Acheron returned to p , the 13th inst., from Toulon, where she had d obliged to put in, in consequence of the violentr-ty of wind she encountered. She was ten hours t r ,4 full steam from this port to Toulon. The sea do t over her in a fearful manner; at one time she "'" I ,,V inches of water on her decks. Sh e got undert" i S of the islands of Hyeres, f or s h e lt er f ro m the lud . the gale. The Acheron was the bearer o f the received at Malta on the 4th, from Alexandri%ori, communication whatever was allowed w ith the gt) The quarantine flag was hoisted on her arriv .3 4 : the Captain, with Mr. and Mrs. Carter Smith, with the dispatches. After waiting an hour ist d ip‘ lon, the Acheron returned to Malt a . O n leavil ii t l took no mail, and several letter s s en t by her ', l deP hope of being landed, were brou g ht b ac k t o the se on the return of the steamer to this port. ;11 1?0' The Oriental arrived this mornin g , and will port to-night, for Alexandria. 100' The Sydenham had been sent f ro m Bare fli t Marseilles, with dispatches by a Queen's mess e . n n tiler b The Tyne and Belvidera had arri ve d o ff Ale from Beyrout, but havi ng exc h ange d s i gn als w i ft , Geyser, put back again for the port they had le j o ni,° The Polyphemus leaves to-day f o r the o ot ., Islands and Greece, with mails; and the Ache' Gibraltar, with the intermediate L on d o n mail' „ 1 The Orestes was at Argostoli, an d about Le, ceed to Samos ; the Medea at Corfu, Sn' Virago at Athens, and the Beacon at Poros. eo ctr The news of the bombarding of Tangiers r Malta on the morning of the 15th. The following is the dispositi o n o f the fleet , Mediterranean station : Malta Harbour—Ceylon, G, beari ng the r i l d Sr r o ,; Rear-Admiral Sir L. Curtis, Lieut. R. steamer Locust, Lieut. Commander J. Lunn ; Lieut. W. Hoseason. On Surveying D u ty—B eacon, C omman der 1 1 1 Gibraltar—Caledonia, 120, C a pt a i n A. n. 1 , r o ' Albion, 90, Captai n L oc ky er , C.B. ; Forma 11' Captain G. F. Rich ; SVarspite, 50, Captain I %ld Wallis; Scout, 18, Hon. J. R. Drummond; '0,44 Commander John Duflil; Vesuvius, C0r 11 2 1 ,0 4 Ommanney; Sydenham, Li eu t. C omman der livirect4' Pirxus.—Savage, Lieut. Bowker ; Virag ° ' mander G. G. Otway. Cil be Coast of Syria.—Tyne, 26, Captain Wr cock ; Belvidera, Captain Hon. G. Gray. Chalcis.—Snake, 16, Hon. H. B. Deyereul c : r , Alexandria.—Geyser, C om m an d er Carpen' e A ptie s ' Corfu.—Orestes, Commander Cannon; Commander Warden. Constantinople.—Devastation,CommanderP.l PRECAUTIONARY MEA.Sl.lo',ilieti We have been informed, and are mos t gr 3 o ftPi [earning, that measur es o f m ilit ary precaution o pt usual kind in fortified towns have lately bee n w or6 in this invaluable fortress. To vvhateYer I ,Tts'lo, nience such a measure may subject the InlAir,[l. l cew t , this island, it is, nevertheless, called for 1 1„b"t tt s[ stances. There cannot be a shadow of (10 " 4 . to g r [ e i r whenever France considers hostilities abou' de ;o' l , place with England, she will attempt a coup i' l ' , on Malta. It is not for us to point out the 13 ,;(1/‘' A nerable point in either harbour, nor the raea ßs ne venting a furtive nocturnal entrance of the I or the other, and of securing the entrance in tite d letta, in C3se of an attempt of the troops I°et 4oPe rs* * , : the other cities and r;Ubarbs. These are In s ' are not bound to deal with, andwhich. 0 , e e l those who have the responsibility of keep co lst session of the place have already to 5 in all their details. It is sufficient for u' ia rr peat—we will do sothousand times if nee; that France has commenced naval an d tie' 1 1, operations, incompatible, if carried out, wit h 0 0 , terests of Englendt that a similar courgrortfie,P, taneously pursued by Spain, and come of the n ob ;fj O f Powers, the former confessedly under -v,r e nt iori t. ,[ fluence, la of a nature to show a common im e throwing down a formidable barrier to Fren ch WO h tion to the westward. In Tunis we hoe a ;kffilt:4;„ Consul insulted—the Bey inti m idated- 4 9t irr t party conciliated—with a contemporaneous ly fOt e , up of parties within the Lland of Malta. „ t rio . 3 we have the opening act of a new le ren eh We have also a pamphlet which, boyish as 4 i yt if I '4 however cov e red up with hyp o th ese s, is e ir ,v l " c iic e : 4n to tended to heighten the moral infltkenee of F rl i ej o4,, to weaken that of England, with Powers " d to ir e the maritime superiority of either Power, al' or ho timidate those in the united lriegioin or perc'y engaged in the pursuits of maritime c d9 te j eP°A Whether these demonstrations will be s C4esist` 2 .11 . a ord , now, or, being found too premature, Olt, `. from till a future period, we neither kn°",„ p ers ls . 4 This we know, that whenever they may, Llnistretige in England has the power, and her lo rn ;iie to " e ; will, no doubt, have the firmness, succeso i f t he . 1; sist them. To talk of Br tish commerce % r ite° e , i 4 being a vulnerable point now that st ° are in use is ridiculous. Was it a te cied vulnerable point in the last war, when PV yt oer sailing vessels ? Certainly not. But a S' c e l o yeo ° fr . I protect a merchant fleet better than half a tv O ff ing vessels. Neither can France pli ed °P land fu r? an equal number of steam-vessels with Er ) if y i n sti 3 o , manned ; but she would have to combat she p o tish sailors, with sea-sick soldiers ; nor ca 3y, uu, b i e perse her guerilla steamers over the u ce co brist' ll y, accompanied by transports loaded with u c ,. matter, whereby to produce the steam ti 1, 0 ,1 Be all this, how ev er, as it ma y, the Di an +, wat io ll ou rs ought in the meantime to be most diligeni3J to against surpri se; an d w h en our neigh to Pu t . p g attempt to scour the ocean without coals, ..yore practice the scho o lb o y exerc i se s of fightingtv;io away, joining, and disuniting forces, they n the Pe at find that there is nothing new in this hist°l;t• trary, it is as old as the first details oftfl_ nde d lig the play-grounds and warfare. But single: are t ing is nothing when powder and fire - armsowy den, means of offence. No man can carry B t i . out 0.3 with him, nor can any depot be safe wi l f teato ,Ve,r iod sembled force ; and, in this respect ° t l / 1 o f she cannot carry with her a supply, for J may, by analogy, be compared to an orde r t° time, of what she is most in want of in sure her efficiency.—Malta Mail, — 111 ",: n v lens ip. .:0a.....0•r0e.n•mrm.•••• •••r.•w0..•0• TRIPOLI, JULY 22. The British Consul-General , ten days 516- l e tter / patched a courier to Malta. However, let were permitted to be sent by that conveyance' 1/1 . 0010 to keep 0 affairs in the mountains have been settledhf bloodshed : a demonstration was sufficient people in order. The differenc e had been sett le dirv , the old Barachala, colonel of the irregular c e il v t : and attached to the present Governu3ent,