The Sun. — London, England, 1839-08-08 00:00:00

, EV 14 NING EDIT ION day was about as extensive as the day before, and the prices of some descriptions improved a shade, while others receded a trifle; upon the whole, the general aspect of the market continues much the same as for some days past. The foreign 'exchanges appear to have taken rather a more favourable turn, and the rates of bills on England hare declined a little, closing yesterday at 4,87 to 4,88 dole. (91. to 10 per cent. the pound sterling). Bills on France, 5,121 to 5,15. RATE OF SALES AT THE STOCK EX- CHANGE, J 90 Shar es U n i te d States Bank uLY 18. 1 do. Bank of New York 20 do. Merchants' Bank 200 do. Phcenix Bank 40 do. North River Bank 20 do. Commercial Bank 7 do. State Bank So do. Mechanics' Bank Association 3 5 do. Back of Commerce 30 do. Delaware and Hudson . 60 do. Ohio Life and Trust 63 do. Kentucky Bank 30 do. Canton Company 10 do. Mohawk Railroad 5 do. Boston and Providence Railroad 10 do. New- York, Providence, and Boston Railroad 215 do. Haarlem Railroad THE M 98 63 90 .05; - Aaarr.—Cotton.—Some small sales for ex. portation continue to be made at previous prices. Flour is dull at prices last quoted. Grain.—P It kinds are with out cha nge. - The sale of stocks at the brokers' board indicate about the same prices, on an average, as yesterday. Some time since Lord Brougham complained thatth the Bi s h ops had made a tool of him. The Bishop London may with more justice complain that the Corporator* of London have made a tool of him, at Whose instigation he has opposed the Blackwall Rail uway Bill, b ecause, forsooth, it was intended to use that il way (as all ot h er ra il ways, an d Bi s h ops ' carr i ages !well, are used), on Sundays, which intention has 4 1 7 ever been abandoned in deference to the Bishop, d thethe bypocritical clamour of the pious jobocrats of they City,, It seems the Bishop was not advised that eojected to steam-travelling on Sundays, only wh y n - it might injure their own monopolies, ore_nd_ered very lucrative by their own encouragements t t Sunday travelling. They never told the Bishop i at t hey, the Corporators, have considerable property - 11 Wharfs, which are let on convenient terms to Alder 11)ten A and Com mon C ounc il men (mem b ers of their own ° u3'), and wh i ch enjoy a great portion of the steam 11 "llation of t h e r i ver; bringing immense revenues to the pi o us Corporators, especially by Sunday travelling, becausethe multitude who toil for Bishops and Copora• for s a can only l eave t h e i r i n d ustry to get a l i ttle purer o i r r on Sundays. It was feared that if the passengers' h a 1411 part of th em , p re f erre d ta ki ng t h e stein -oats from the terminus of the railway, there would Le 1. 7 n 'any threepenc es an d s i xpences l ess exac t e d f rom Sundayere by eonscientious Corporators, who are horrified at ; it travellin along Fenchurch-street, but delight oftt when it is g along Thames-street or Fish-street-hill. r ely the Bi s h op w i ll indignantly renounce t h e a lli ance of these au d acious hypocrites! The whole secret of the ?PPosition of the Corperators to this railway is found cMorthe injury w hi c h i t m i g h t d o to some o f t h e Poration wharfs, by causing goods and passengers to b e land e d at Blackwall,; instead of being carried up the More crowded p arts o f t h e r i ver , a t grea t r i s k an d de lay' it i s calculated that a saving of from 20 to 40 minutes will be made in the journey, a very important matter to industrious people, but of little consequence C Io e idlers e n who spe n d th e i r t i me i n s t a t e b arges an d i n p i g Pageants. :ONEY AND COMMERCIAL NE WS CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK We have received New York Papers to the 20th July From , the pape r o f t h e 19t h J u l y, b y t h e pac k et s hi p C am. n r 'dge, we ext ract t h e f o ll ow i ng : `aomparative Statement of Arrivals, Tonnage, and Pas. aengers, at the Port of Quebec, to the 11th July inclu sive, for the years 1839 and 1839 Vessels. Tonnage. Passengers. 1839 - 555 ... 173,865 ... 4,987 1838 ••• 534 ... 171,907 ... 1,721 Store this year 21 1,958 3.266 The Philadelphia Correspondent of the Commercia, Advertiser writes " That the Bank of the United States has issued a circular, calling in 20 p er cen t. ever y 60 d a y s on stock and accommodation bills. This will have a bad effect on stocks. Money and buyers are scarce—stocks and sellers are exceedingly abundant. LIVRRPOOL COTTON MARKET, WEDNESDAY.—WC have bad a fair demand for Cotton to-day. The sales amount to 5,000 bales, 700 of which have been taken for expos t, and the remainder by the trade at full prices. The failure of the Bank at Liverpool is not thought of much importance in the city, it being to a small extent. THE FUNDS. Consols, which closed yesterday at 92/ sellers for tho Account, opened this morning with rather an improvement, and may be quoted 92/ if ; A.l..ney, 911 92 ; Exchequer Bi g. 5 7 ; Indi a B on d s, 15 17 ; B an k S t ti e k , 186 187 ; India Stock, 251 i 252 1 . - In the Foreign market most of the prices are nominal as Yet, Spanish Active, 194 i ; Portuguese, 301 i i ; Three per Cents, 19 4 I ; Brazilian Colombian, 32/ i; Mexican, 281 29 ; , 7st 7 94; Belgian, 103 A-; Dutch Two-aucl-a half per Cents, 542- 55 ; Five per Cents. 1031 i• PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock.. ...... '. ........ . -- 3 per Cent. Red ' ..... India Stock — 3 per Cent. - 4 Ditto Bonds pm. . Cons. 92 2 7 ,i, 2, South Sea Stock lu2 4 i 17' per Cent. ..... -- ......../... --- Old Annuit i es — N D itto Red. 1009974 100 .4' too New Ditto ew 3% per Cent ........994 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 ew 5 per Cent. Rank Long Annuities toexpire ' Ditto 500 _l_! 7 P.l. .Jan. 5, 1860. 14.7.465{ Ditto Smali lO 9 pm. Oct. In, 1859 l4 5-16% Ditto Commercial — par. Jan. 5, 1660 — Ditto Advertised 0 10 . Jan. 5, 1880 Bank Stock for Account ... 18654 APril 5 1880. --India Stock for Account ... Jan. s , 1870 --Cousos for Account .... A .. .. 92 S. ttICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAI AT ONE o - CLOch. Han B on d s Peruvian . Bonds Ust lalfitan Bonds itto Account ariaillan I.lit Bonds „to Account "cLenev Ayres Bonds Ditto Account Ditt: Bonds it o.a r o l Bonds onds, i 52.2... Ditt of ,, .. P-- : lunbiAa A ncc cc rl o ou u nn n dt t s Ditto Account — Ditto Metallic -''llinbian Bonds 1894 Spanish Bonds but. A . . . Danish . ccount Ditto Account. —anish Bonds Ditt „ o Account Deft ned —' Dit,, tt• liond;lBE% 4 per cent. —f. --c• to A u , -- ....... --- —e---, ---- 3 per cent. f. —c. ' l ,- l ean Z o nd n s t 5 r Cant. _ ' —____ Exchange. —t —c. uitto Accourit Pe Dutch, 2!•6 per cent. 54 34 Ditto, a 54 Tt i Ditto AC Per Ceti .... ...... Ditto Account -,itto Account d z . per I !f ia 74 B, -titan. ..... .. ................. Ditto •PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. P Shale. *teat IhihtWeatern Railway Company 65 t9)4 (”.6 lopc'n Railyay and Birmingham Railway Company ,441 141% 2 and Croydon Railway Company l4/.164. ed. U HALF-PAST ONE. tz , rn e cop y t h e following from the Boston papers received ning unt t— dstoivvlTra-ra of THINGS tst. MIS SI SSIPPI.--" Every thing hears the aspect o f g l oom in the Mississippi. The oward tendency of the Cotton Market, the extreme rnc scar city of money, joined t o th e con f use d state o f t h e cur eiY. i makes o ur prospects for getting out of debt look i g a . : °ll l in the extreme. N otw i thstanding the recent Re ssues of the Union Bank, amounting to nearly four millions of dollars, the Cuurts are still crowded with suits. I am and of frame id that the whole Stat e w ill h ave to c h ange h an d s , beco the property of its creditors." (Extract of a letter from Gambia, June 13.) " The war at the Rio Nunez is still carried on among the natives, and the trade is entirely stopped. African produce is still very scarce, and high all over the coast. Hides are bringing 12d. per lb. (none in the market), Coffee 15 cents. per lb., Ivoiy 16 cents. to 1 dollar. The sl ave trade is lessened consequence of the vigilance of the British men-of-war." The private letters from New York state that money commands there from 1 to 1; per montb, and business very Very little business has been done in the course of the morning in British funds ; the speculators are waiting the breaking up of the weekly meeting of the Bank Directors as a report p reva il s they are going to issue a notice fixing the price of the dead weight. Some fear is enterta i ned that the hail storm of last night has done some damage to the corn, which will have an effect on the corn market this morning. Consols, at present, 924 Account ; Money 92. Exche qu!r 13116, 7 s; Sauk Stock, nothing done. in the Foreign Market Spanish, 19k Money ; Portu guese l "r. 30; Three 79; Du tch p c u ents., ; Colombian, i nothing doing; Brazilian, Two-and-a- Ha fper Cents., 54i; Five per Cents 103tch Mr. Rice, we believe, is the only person in the House of Commons who, after the exposures which took place in the Committee on the Shannon Navigation Bill, would have hesitated to abandon a measure so generally and so justly condemned, not by one, but by all parties and sec tions of Parliament. The Bill, however, has passed the House of Commons, and new clauses have been introduced, the effect of which, to any one who will take the trouble of reading them, is obviously no other than to increase the patronage and powers of jobbing, with which the scheme is already overloaded, by giving the Treasury and the Commissioners discretionary privileges which the original Bill did not confer. In any person but Mr. Spring Rice this conduct would have surprised us. We must confess, however, that the knots ledge we possess of that gentleman does not admit of our being in the least snrpriscd at any thing he may choose to attempt to do during the time the financial affairs of the country may still be doomed to remain under his mismanagement. Let us look for a moment at the case as it lies before us. Whigs, Conservatives, and Radicals unite in condemning and opposing it. The number of those who rose from be hind Mr. Spring Rice's back to criticise and censure the undertaking, both on principle and detail, far exceeded the number of those who sought to resist it from the Op position benches. Mr. Rice is reminded that he has had now for a series of years a sinking revenue and an in creasing unfunded debt; he is warned, he is entreated, to fling no more Exchequer bills upon the market, which is sinking daily under the effects of the reckless issues he has already made, he is properly warned of the fatal consequences that must ensue from the wild improvidence of an Admi nistration which persists in adding to the public debt with out a prospect of lessening the growing demands for money from every quarter of the empire; but it is in vain; he knows that the crooked Administration, of which he is a convenient instrument, depends for its exist ence upon lavish patronage and successful jabbing in Ire land; he has, moreover, a strong personal interest in the passing of the measure, and lie pushes hardily on with O'Connell for his backer. who, while the cunning Pun chinello in front smirks, juggles, and dissimulates, roars out behind with the voice of a highwayman, Your money, English ninnies ! More money, I tell you, or repeal !" The personal part of this question, as it regards Mr. Spring Rice, strikes us as bring peculiarly indecent. We do not think there is an English gcrelernern in the House who would consent, upon any terms, e: for any money that could be offered, to become himself the propossr of a Bill, foremost among the especial objects of which is the im provement of his own estate by means of the public motley. No English gentiemun, we repeat, would commit an act of that kind. How stands it, however, as ith Mr. Spring Rice ? Stung, to) doubt, by the remarks which his con duct in this business has provoked out of doors, and feeling the necessity of saying something upon a subject so gene rally canvassed, he confesses that his estate runs alone the course of the proposed imp rovements i n t h e Shannon for a mile and a half or two miles, and that some thousands of pounds, of the half million voted, are to be expended upon piers and quays at Tarbert, which is also his private pro perty ! He protests, it is true, that the benefit about to accrue to his own property weighs nothing with him— credat Judwus—and pitifully adds, that he is to be called upon to contribute 4,0001. to the works ! But what an admission have we here ! What language is this from the lips of a Cabinet Minister, whose peculiar pro vince it is to ensure a proper application of the public money I Is it not a direct and positive appropriation to his own uses of all the money above the 4,0001. already al luded to? Let the scheme be covered, glossed over, and mystified as it may be; turn it and hoist it in every con ceivable manner and shape, it is no longer possible to con. ceal or remove this most disgraceful' fact—that we have here a Bill brought in by the Finance Minister for spending the public money upon the improvement, amongst other things, of his private property in the county of Limerick And what a spectacle is this I—what an en couragement to political adventurers—what an ex ample to the rising horde of Irish statesmen, who in fest the Government offices as thickly arid coarsely as gad-flies fasten upon garbage, each frothy pre tender, big with his untold acres of patrimonial bog, and volumes of mortgage-deeds not worth the damaged parch ment, which is at once the record cf his necessities, and the index to his patriotism—that patriotism which subsists upon corruption, and if it has not the Exchequer to plunder, expires of starvation ! The grossness of the job was minutely exposed by Mr. Ellis, the Member for Newry, who went through the various schemes it embraces with considerable ability, and showed, by an unanswerable reference to facts, that the costly machinery it will entail is not only quite unnecessary, but directly subversive of the policy of other Acts of Parlia ment introduced by the very same sapient legislators. For the Whigs instituted the present Board of Works in Ireland, stating, as their reason for creating that establishment, that it would be an advantage to the public service, and economy to the resources of the nat on, if the various Boards of Public Works in Ireland were consolidated. This is the language of the Act I and 2 William IV., c. 33, passed in 1831, at the instance of Mr. S. Rice, and which Mr. Ellis read from the preamble of the Bill to the Right Hon. Gentleman. Now, two of the Commissioners appointed under that Act, Sir J. Burgoyne and Mr. Ott ley, have been serving for the last two years as Shannon Commissioners also, and, as their reports indicate, have ta kers part in the many inquiries which have been instituted, and are perfectly well acquainted with the various works which it is now proposed to execute; they may, in short, be called their author. Looking, then, at the objects con templated by the Act of 1831, and the different reports and plans of the Shannon Cunimissioners, with the sq; na tures " J. Burg()) ne" and " T. Brooke Ottley" appended, there is, we venture to etliim, no fair-going ur disinterested person in the country who would not say that the present Board of Works in Dublin is precisely the fit authority to superintend the execution of works planned and determined by two out of the three Members of which it is con , poscd. But to that, the obvious and businesslike course of proceeding, there was this objection in the eyes of Mr. Financier Rice—it created no new places, and admitted of the exer ciso of no new patronage! It was, therefore, unscru pulously repudiated, and power is taken to appoint new Commissioners, with the usual train of secretary, solicitor, engineers, officers, servants ad libitum, for whom, more. over, provision is to be made, not out of the large sum already voted, but by an additional estimate annually. Mr. Ellis. in our opinion, deserves the public thanks for the information he has brought to bear upon this question, and tlie discrimination with which he has sought to turn it to account. The way with all jobbers is just that which it is now attempted to play off in the Shannon scheme. They set out web declaring that one found sum,which is generally named, will answer every purpose; but at the same time they open a small loophole, which is afterwards to be en larged as may be tuund expedient, until the actual expen diture is made to treble and quadruple the original estimate. By this process, as the returns Mr. Ellis has the credit of having produced prove, no less a sum than eight millions eight hundred thousand pounds of' English money has been expended on public works in Ireland; and what is there to show for it? Ab'olutely nothing. The whole has been squandered in the most flagrant political bribery. The abject Member of Parliament, ready at all times and ore all questions to move and vote at the nod and beck of the Irish Government, obtains large sums for the nominal improvement of the place he sits fur, and nume rous situations fen his cousins, friends, and supporters, un der the Boards and Commissions called i nfo ex i stence to carry those improvements into effect. On the (Alit"- hand, the place which returns a Member who occasionally pre sumes to think fur himself gets a diminished allowance with great difficulty, while the Opposition Member receives not a farthing. Let Galway, with its tens of thousands for docks—Limerick, with its hundred thousand for bridges, navigations, roads, and every conceivable object—let Kerry and Tralee, with 130,00 N —bear witness to the extent of this system of foul corruption : while Drogheda, with far superior claims as to site, commerce, and security, is refused moderate assistance ; and Belfast, decidedly the first town in Ireland for wealth, enterprise and character, cannot procure the small sum of 50,000/. to finish a railway to Lisburn, approved by the Board of Works, and upon which its merchants have already expended 130,0001. Mr. Ellis, in his opposition to so obnoxious a measure, had intended to divide the House on the third reading, but Mr. Rice dexterously gave him the slip. So that the Bill passed, and standsifor a second reading this evening in the House of Lords, who, we trust, will repudiate the job. RUSSIAN IMPERIAL BANK OF COMME RCE. Under our present difficulties with respect to the cur rency, all that passes among foreign nations connected with that subject acquires an importance which it cuuld not under other circumstances, possibly possess, and to collect therefore everything of the kind which occurs must be, in the end, a most useful public service. With this view arc submitted, in addition to the modifications in the Russian monetary system recently announced, the following ukase, issued to the Directing Senate of St. Petersburg ti by the Emperor : "Upon the proposition of the Minister of Finance ex amined in the Imperial Council, we order as follows :—ln order to increase the number of the representative signs of money easy of transport, there shall be established, commencing from the Ist of January, 1840, in the Impe rial Bank of Commerce, a particular bank (caisse) of de_ posit for silver monies, according to the following disposi tions:— " 1. This bank shall receive in deposit whatever sums of silver money may be offered. "2. That the specie thus deposited shall remain un touched, and separate from the funds of the Bank of Com merce, under the responsibility of the said Bank, and under the care of the especial Directors, chosen among the members of council of credit establishments. This specie shall not be employed for any other purpose than the reimbursement of deposits. "3. In exchange for sums deposited the Bank shall deliver notes (billets) to be called " notes of the Deposit Bank," and which shall be, until further order, of the value of 3,5, 10, and 25 silver rubles ; it it shall be found expedient, there may hereafter, after mature deliberation, be emitted notes of 1, 50, and 100 silver rubies. " 4. Th ese notes shall be prepared alter a speciald e sign, with th e s i gnatures of the Deputy-Governor of the Bank of Commerce, of one Director, and the Cashier; and on the reverse sha.l contain an extract from the regulations concerning the deposits of nset a li c mo ney. The Minister of Fi nance shall cause designs to be prepared fur these notes, and transmit them afterwards to the Directing Senate, i a a nd al t l h t e be F ienna mticaele as well as to a ll t h e Ministers, the Boards of Direction, Oreffinii teh ces;Tahnegse buildings.edesinsshall be placarded "5. The notes of the deposit batik shall circulate t n i t o 7 B 6:y , whetherad with of o n t d a i v g i i d o u , 4 i s n throughout the empire the same, and qual . with silver credit establishments, as reciprocally awithall P t?' the ' C a r ' o Crown and transit- the procall of the CG own and credit establishments with itidi Y viduals, and of the latter between each other. 6. On presentation of the notes at the deposit bank, the corresponding quantity of silver money shall bo delivered to the bearer, without any deduction fur the exchange and custody, LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) DEAL, AUG, 7.—Wind W. S. W., squally.—Arrived the Warrior, Douthwaite, from Ceylon; Highbury, Falconer, Grenada ; Eden, West Indies. PORISNiOUTH, AUG. 7. Wind W. to N.W. LtvEaroot, AuG._7.—Wind N. W., fresh.—Arrived the Matthew Plummer from Pernambuco ; Advertture, Maran. ham ; Memphis, Nichols, New York, sailed 18th ult. ; Cambridge, Barnsley, Do., sailed 19th ult. ; Palmyra, Custin, New Orleans; Swanton, S.vanton, Do. ; Senator, Me, Do. ; Herald, Adam, Do. ; Alibosh, Chase, L'harleston ; Ellen, Cobb, Mesborough ; Admiral Ben how, Quebec. Off port, Miss Bliss, from New Orleans ; Virginia,, Do. PLYMOUTH, Aucusr 7.—Wind S.W. by W.—Arrived the Courier, from Stettin. FAL MOU'l 11, AUGUST 6. Wind W. S. W. to S. W., fresh.—Arrived the Harriet, Pepper, from Terceira; Per sian, Fisher, Odessa. Sailed, the Governor Reed, Mason, for Bermuda. SCILLY, AUGUST 3.—Sailed the Rose, Richards, for Gibraltar. Off port, the Fortune, Peterson, Pernambuco. BRISTOL, AUGUST 7.—Arrived, the Hibernia, Fowler, from Quebec; Indemnity, ditto. Sailed, the Lotus, Samp son, for Quebec ; Lunt, Byes, Richebucto. MARGATE, AUGUST 7.—Off port, the Heiress, Randell, from Stettin, with cargo shifted. COWES, AuGusr 7.—Arrived the Julius and Edward, from Batavia ; Mary Ann, Bahia ; John Lawson, Ray mond, ditto. GLOUCESTER, AUGUST 6 —Arrived the Buchanan, Bowen, from Alirarnichi ; Thomas Wood, Cooper, Odessa. NEWPORT, AUGUST 7.—Arrlve.l the Elizabeth, Town. send, from Prince Ethkard's Island. CARDIFF, AUGUST s. —Arrived the Ann and EM.TIA, Gray, from Miramichi. MARYPORT. AUGUST 6.—Arrived the Frederick, Fan shaw, from Memel. TEIGNMOUTII, AUGUST 7.--Arrived the Hope, Symons, Mhamiehi. BRUSSELS, AUG. 4.—Their Majesties thc King and Queen arrived at Mons this morning. The King pro ceeded immediatey to Murimons, and the Queen to Laeken, where she was expected to dinner. STOPPAGE OF A BANK AT LIVERPOOL,— LivERPooL, TuEsoAv.—Considerable excitement has pre vailed here throughout the day in consequence of the an nouncement of the stoppage of the Phoenix (Joint-stock) Bank. This bank originated in Liverpool at the time of the failure of the Northern and Central, and the projectors of it considered that, by its establishment, they might secure the connec. ion of the Northern and Central in this town. The paid-up capital, however, was only about 80,0004, and that amongst about 150 shareholders, and it is reported that the Phcenix Bank has made more bad debts than the amount of its paid- up capital. In consequence of the failure of this bank large quantities of hank stuck have been thrown upon this market ; and, in many in stances, the shares are offering at great reduction in prices. This event, coupled with the late restrictive operations of the Bank of England, will cause difficulty amongst the trading population of Liverpool. THE NEWCASTLE CIIARTISTS.—In addition to the true bille found by the Grand Jury against Bron terre O'Brien, James Ayre, Thomas Devyr, William Tho mason, and Juhn Mason, which we announced last week, ti ey subsequently found bills against John Bell, the fore= man of the Northern Liberator printing.office, for prin ting a libellous handbill ; and against Mr. Robert Blakey, the proprietor of the Northern Liberator, for a libel pub. lished in that Paper. The parties have all put in bail to answer the charges at the next assizes, with the exception of Mr. O'Brien, who is in a distant part of the country. The Chartists appear quite chap-fallen at the determina tion of the authorities and the inhabitants, and there is no ' , doubt but many of them. will now settle down into rational and reasonable men.--Tyne Mercury. The officers of the Animal's Friend Society last week caused Wm. Merriavel to be fined los., by Mr. Je remy, for having cruelly kicked a truck dog ; and W. and R. Owen and Joseph Putter also to be fined, the first 405., the second 35., and the third 145., by Mr. Traill, for having cruelly beaten an ass. They were all committed to prison for fourteen days in default of payment. The proprietors of the Great Western steamer, it is said, will shortly commence to atild a vessel Wilhelm will astonish the whole world. She is to be made of iron, and will be about two thousand tons ! with engines of a . thousand horse power. ORN AVERAGES. GENERAL AVERAGE PRI ob F BRITISH CORN, 2, I.til),ernESad For the Week ended Aug. _up from the Returns of arm 'fawns in Englaihl and the Inspectors in the ultferent Cities Wales, per Imperial Quarter. Wheat . 7 1,. 3d. 1 Oats ......... 275. 34 . Barley 3es. 7d. I Rye ......... 47d. ga . I Beans....re 40i. thi. ase ......... 41s. Bd. IMPERIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGES or , IBeans ......... 40;. 9'. PRECEDING. 275. 2d. 14 E ra WEEKS W heat..... Cgs. ‘2.d. I Oats Barley ......... 31 b . 3cl. I Rye ......... 40s. sd. DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN. .......... - 14; 4 d . Wheat......... 13s. Ad. Oats ... 6s. 31. I Beans .. , . ~ R Ba rley ......... 4s. 104. I Rye.. 33. 6d. Pease .. . THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) HUNGERFORD MARKET. Turbot ss. to 103. lbs. and 21s. Good Salmon Is. 3d. t o 6d. Per lb. Oysters dearer. Lobsterseach, and gher. Soles lO y d. to 2s. 6d. per pair.. For Butchers' Meat tthe demand Was to a fair extent, and prices steady. Beef 7d. 80° 8 0. Mutton 76d. to Elid. Veal Bd. to 9d. Pork 7d. to . per lb. BILLINGSGATE MARKET. the 3Th_ ere Were good suppli es , b u t s l ac k demand. Prices much anie as at Hungerford. There were but m HAY MARKETS. ric es moderate supp li es , ye t t h e d e mand was good. P much as before. TEA SALE—FOURTH DAY. Prices continue firm at the sale, but the frade do not pur hase freely. About half the quantity which has passed the sale has sold. THE COLONIAL MARKET. The public sales are principall Dru • but very little Colo y g s , nial produce is announced. British Plantation Sugar is rather Quiet, and in prices linports are not heavy. .''' no material cha nge has taken place. The iss...._ THE JOB " 7. The notes thus reimbursed shall be preserved apart, and in case they should still be fit for use, may be issued anew against deposits of specie, or in exchange for old and worn-out notes brought into the bank. "8. The remittance of deposit bank notes by the post shall be effected on payment of an insurance rate accord ing to the amount transmitted, and of the postage of the packet containing it. (From the Times.) " 9. In case of forgery of the said notes, the same laws shall become applicable as are in force relative to the imitation of State papers. . . OBSERVATION. —No change is made in the regulations concerning the acceptation of the precious metals in tire shape of bars or plate, presented to the Bank of Commerce, to be kept in deposit. " 10. For the management of the affairs of the deposit bank, as well as those concerning the deposit of the precious metals in ingots and plate (article 9). there is formed in the Bank of Commerce an office of administration for the deposit bank, the account of the personnel and expenses of which is hereto annexed ; this special office, placed under the care of the governor of the batik, and under the more immediate direction of his deputy, shall be composed of a first and a second director, of two directors elected by the commercial community, with the fixed number of clerks ; the expenses of this office shall be defrayed out of the profits of the Bank of Commerce. "11. The Minister of Finance is charged with drawing up the detailed regulations for the internal order of writ ings and accounts, as well as for the guardianship of the funds, and in general fur all the operations of the deposit bank and its administration. The Minister shall take as the model for these regulations those which are in force in the credit establishments, previously communicating and acting in concert with the Controller of the empire, and shall ultimately communicate the dispositions so drawn up to the council of the credit establishments. " 12. For the verification of the operations of the de posit batik there is established, besides the internal control, a superior control on the part of the council of the credit establishments, and for the conservation, intact, of the de posits; this council shall every year select from among its members, one deputy of the nobility, and one of the com mercial community, who shall take part in the monthly revisions of the funds and returns, and assist in unforeseen revisions. The operations of the deposit bank shall con stitute a portion of the accounts rendered of the Bank of Commerce. " The Directing Senate will take the necessary steps for carrying the present into execution. NICHOLAS. " St. Petersburg, .July 1, 1839." METROPOLITAN POLITICAL SUMMARY. The Times of this morning contains an elaborate leading article on the sutject of Tuesday night's Irish debste in the Lords, the object of which is to show, that Lord Nor manby's defence of his system of policy in the sister-country was wholly unsuccessful, and that Lord Brougham's attack on certain portions of it, was altogether as triumphant. Speaking of the prerogative of mercy, our Contemporary says :—" This prerogative, like every other, is intrusted to the Sovereign, not as a plaything to be tossed about at his whim and fancy, nor even as a source of gratification to his kindly feelings, but as an allowance in order to the regulation of public justice, which, like the sun itself upon the dial, needs some correction to fulfil the true result." The Morning Chronicle, in the course of an article strongly vituperative of Lord Brougham, for his speech on Tuesday night, and as strongly in defence of Lord Nor manby's Irish policy, observes as follows :—" In England, where the persons in gaol for crimes are generally de praved in character, and held in aversion by the rest of the community, the course pursued by Lord Normanby in Ireland might be attended with great mischief; but Lord Normanby had to deal with people, the victims of a diseased social system, rather than criminals in the Eng lish sense. Wishing to work on the kindly feelings of the Irish people, he knew that the liberation of the prisoners in question would enlist in favour of the law Oct merely the individuals themselves, but all their kindred and con nections, and that the latter would view themselves as in sonic sort responsible for the conduct of the men who had had been so mercifully treated. He has not been disap pointed. It has become a point of honour with the Irish peasantry not to disgrace their benefactor, and Ireland is at this time in a condition to spare troops for England." The Post, with reference to the discussion of Tuesday night in the Lords, thus speaks of Lord Normanby's system of Irish policy, and the Government defence of it The substance of the defence set up for the huge wrongs and ridiculous affectations that have been substituted for government in Ireland may be stated in two words—mon strous impudence. The Whig creatures who have gone over to Ireland in official situations (apt scholars for such a school) have, in the matter of monstrous impudence, be come indeed hybernis ipsis Iwberniores. Nothing has been too flagrant for them. They do the grossest things imaginable in behalf of the faction of the priests, and in palpable hostility to all that bas ever been respected in England as law, justice, and prudence; and when they are called to account for such conduct they reply with as matchless intrepidity of face, a n d as s h ame l ess au d acity o f tongue, as if the whisky of Irish bogs were more than native to their throats, and the water of Irish streams less than native to their skins." The Morning Advertiser, in a leading article suggested by Tuesday night's debate in the Lords, speaks of Lord Normanby's Irish political system in the following terms : Ireland, and the Irish, required to be treated as a con valescent, who, having escaped the severest paroxysms of his complaint, is hot strong enough to be treated as an en tirely restored man. Lord Normanby has done this well ; and the result proves the wi:dom of his treatment ; and it he have deviated somewhat on this side or the other of a rigid rule or an established practice, it is not for the Le gislature of a great State to deal with such deviations in the spirit of a quibbling lawyer; but viewing the scope of tie policy, and the disinterested and successful exercise of it, to sanction the result as we are accustomed to do when a great Admiral or a great General secures a signal victory by a departure from his orders." The Morning Herald, speaking of the Birmingham Police Bill, says, •• Every true Conservative ought to raise h:s voice against the monstrous innovation. There may be traced, it is true, a disposition ou the part of the Home Secretary, to conciliate—so far as the general Consta bulary Bill is concerned—the country gentlemen, by leav ing in their hands, in the first instance, the levying and marshalling of the constabulary forces to be employed. But a new arrangement will soon be deemed expedient. The Govereei-ent Commissioner will represent that with the aid of sub- Commissioners like himself he should be able to discharge his duties more efficiently; and the Govern ment will, gradually, consent to swell its patronage by adopting the suggestion of its servant 1" TIE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, U 39 BIRMINGHAM WARWICK ASSIZES. no riot at the time I read the Riot Act. I mean to say I saw no blows struck. Smallbrook-street is a quarter of a mile from the Bullring. Philip Henry Muntz, a magistrate for the borough of Birmingham —I was in the Bull-ring several times during the day and night of the sth July. I was not there at the time Mr. Alstpn read the Riot Act. I requested him to read it. The general impression among the Magistrates was that as the riot, had c on ti nue d f or 24 hours, it was necessary t o read it again. Every half hour I went out there was' a great crowd. I was there between nine and ten, but at that time the people had almost cleared the Bullring. The avenues were very much cr ow d e d . Wherever the troops took up a position the snob collected around them outside. There was some shouting, but I saw no stones thrown. On several occasions afterwards, in the course of the night, when I went out w;th the police, we were pelted with stones. About ten o'clock I went to Smallbrook street and Egbarton-street with the police. There were ag ood many people about, but not a dense crowd. They retreated before the police, occasionally throwing stones. When we got to the open space opposite Worcester street the military w ere requ i red. I was myself struck two or three times with stones, and heard the police say they had been struck. There was comparatively much less disturbance, and worse than during the whole of the day, and much fewer people. Some of them came out of the windows. I saw one brickbat thrown out myself. John Menbinick, of the Metropolitan Police, was on duty in Smallbrook street on the night of the sth, and saw the prisoner there about twelve o'clock. There were several persons sc a tt ere d a b out i n a ll directions. When I first saw him he was with three or four others, walking. He pointed at me, saying, " I'll settle him— I'll settle the fellow." I immediately ran at him, and collared him. Before that time, I bad been struck several times with stories. I asked him what he got in his hand, and he replied, " Nothing;" and put his hand into his waistcoat. I then took trom the hand that was in his pocket this dagger (producing one). When I took him to the Police-office, he said, " Never mind if I get trans ported; it is a glorious cause, and ti - ill be the means of many more leaving the country." Cross-examined by the prisoner —There were a good many people in the street when I took you. I said when I took you, " You must be a blood-thirsty lot, that would carry such instruments." LITERATURE, MORTALITY AND CRIME IN GLASGOW Mr. Symons, in his work on " Arts and Artisans at Home and Abroad," draws a frightful picture of this city—the first in importance in Scotland. and situated in the centre of a district long celebrated for the Pres byterianism and piety of its inhabitants. He seems to attribute this lamentable state of society in a great measure to the use of ardent spirits. By a recent cal culation, he says, it appears that the quantity of spirits consumed in England is seven pints and one-ninth per her head per annum ; in Ireland rather more than thirteen pints ; and in Scotland twenty-three pints per head per annum. Disease, crime, population, and com merce culminate at Glasgow. After describing a hunt after a housebreaker, with a superintendent of police, through one of the most pestilential and dirtiest districts in the town, he adds— " I frequently visited other parts of this district, accompa nied by my friends Bailie Campbell, Lawrence Hill, Esq., Dr. Cowie, &c., and they were alike impressed with myself as to th e f ear f u l ev il of such a nucleus of crime, filth, and pestilence existing in the centre of the second city of the empire. No pains seemed to be taken to purge this Augean pandemomium. The clergy visit it, if at all, during the day, when three-fourths of the inhabitants are prowling about the streets, or the suburbs. Many of the houses are condemned by the Court of Guild, as dilapidated i • and re main most inhabited, standin thre nevertheless. These are w the the b for where th ey are condemne a d, no ays rent can be e n f orce d . Hogarth conceived nothing which ex ceeds the picture the whisky and pawn shops exhibit late on a.Saturday night. I I h o s t i v i e er d 4 w i s e e l t s o h n ou t l h d i , s b r e e c v a o u lt s i e ng a v p e i r c tuerxetseonmsiev extensive h i n a s t p l e o c n t g io e n r than of the low est di str i cts of other placesy, both here and on the Continent, never presented anything one-half so bad, either in intensity of pestilence, physical and moral, or in extent proportioned to population. " I have named spirit-drinking ; it is the great proximate cause of this dreadful evil. Every tenth house in Glasgow was a spirit shop at the last census ; and in the artisan dis tricts the proportion must have been one to seven I The tee-total societies are making most strenuous efforts for the salvation of the working-classes, and, on the whole, I am disposed to consider them the most effectively useful body now in existence in this country. " The extent of crime is further developed by the police cases. It is no unusual occurrence to lock up 160 to 180 persons in one night. " In point of population, Glasgow bas increased with greater rapidity than any other city in Europe. A century ago it contained 17,000 souls, and now numbers 253,000, being an increase of fifteen-fold in one hundred years. Whilst London, Manchester, and Birmingham, doubled their aggregate population in twenty-five years, viz. be tween 1811 and 1836, Glasgow doubled its population in less than twenty. This increase is in a great measure the result of immigration, chiefly of females, both from the High. lands and from Ireland, which has outstripped even the im mense increase of local industry." The rate of mortality at Glasgow has increased at a frightful speed, within the last sixteen years. In 1822, the population being 151,440, the deaths were 3,408 or 1 in 44.43, while in 1837, with a population of 250,000, the deaths were 10,270, or 1 in 24.63, nearly as great as during the cholera year. The mortality in Middlesex, including London, has been estimated at 1 in 41, and the rate throughout England averages lin 51. From these facts some idea may be formed of the extent to which fatal disease has arrived in Glasgow compared with the rest of the em pire. The most fatal diseases are fever and small-pox, and from a tract published by Dr. Cowan, a medical practitioner at Glasgow, it appears that in - Manchester, containing nearly the same population, and resembling Glasgow in the kind of manufactures carried on and the density of the population, the annual average number of persons treated in the Fever Hospital for the seven years ending 1836 was 497, while in Glasgow it was 1,842. In 1826 the number treated in Manchester Hospital was 780, and that of Glasgow 3,125. In this tract Dr. Cowan adds— " The first point that attracts our attention is the rela tive mortality of the two sexes, and certainly it is very re markable. The total mortality of the males is 1 in every 6 121-163 th, while in the females it is only 1 in every 11 21-101 th. " In the males the mortality is 14.83 per cent. " In the females ... 8.92 ... " At the age of 15 the mortality is very nearly the same in both sexes. " At the age of 30 the mortality of the males is more than double that of the females. The rate of mortality is greatest in females at the age of 45. " The mortality of the Scotch arid Irish was precisely the same, while that among the English, if any inference can be drawn from such a small number, was considerably less.' " " As regards small- pox : " The first remarkable feature is, that out of 95 pa tients, there were only f our nat i ves o f Ireland; and that out of 91 natives of Scotland, 70 were Highlanders, and 21 natives of the Lowlands. A very large proportion of the Highlanders were from remote islands, and all of them, without a single exception, had recently arrived in Glasgow. " Fifty-five of the patients had apparently been vacci nated and forty never had this operation performed. " No death occurred in any individual who presented the appearance of having been properly vaccinated.' " The average annual number of persons carried off tiystnill-pox in Glasgow for the three years ending with the year 1837 was 467, or about 9 per week. " Dr. Cowan is not ill justified in his belief that Glas gow exhibits a frightful rate of mortality—a rate which, it is believed, is unequalled in any city in Great Bri tain,' or, he might have safely added, in Europe." I attribute," says Mr. Symons, " a very consider able portion of this mortality to the growing pestilence of spirit drinking. Nor is the evil confined to mere spirit-drinking, opium contributes largely to the mental devastation of the artisans of Glasgow. Laudanum in an adulterated state is largely consumed by the labour ing classes, and by many of the middle classes also. There is scarcely a chemist in Glasgow, who cannot corroborate this statement. The lesser expense with which the effect of intoxicating liquor can be produced by means of laudanum, is the chief cause of recurrence, in the more advanced stages of depravity, t o thi s f ata l drug. Well may crime have arrived at its climax in Glasgow!" The following scene, drawn from real life, is after the manner of Sir Walter Scott : " In one of these places (which he visited with the sta• perintendent of police), a young girl, fresh in crime, at tracted the practical eye of the superintendent. Who are you, lasse ?' he inquired, and the girl turned her bead away, and tried to hide her face ; while her female companions looked on with the brazen.facedness which a month's practice in profligacy aptly teaches. Her story was soon elicited; she was fresh from the Highlands; Glasgow was a mine of wealth ; she came to seek service and high wages ; she obtained a miserable place, was turned out for some trivial fault, was thrown on the town, was starving, and was there. And there she must remain, like tens of thousands before her, and tens of thousands to come, till her brief career of vice, drunkenness, disease, and starvation, exhaust their rapid rotation, and end in death. A dozen sometimes in a day of these poor things,' said Captain Miller, ' come to me to beg for honest employment; but what can I do ? the factories are all overstocked, the benevolent institutions would not contain one-hundredth of them; besides, they have no characters, and if they bad there is no employ ment.' I thought of the Corn-laws, and the sympathy for West Indian slaves, and Polish patriots, and heathen er rors, and the refined feeling which teaches English religion to shun the pollution of a regard for prostitutes. We may Samaritanize all respectable sinners, and Christaiaize infi dels, and shed the softest tears of pious compassion over the frailties of patrician adulteresses—and all this in per fect accordance with orthodox Christianity ; but the very idea of common low.lifed prostitutes—the mere mention of the duty of extending a hand to uplift from a worse than Juggernaunt destruction, the millions of our fellow country- women, who are immolated, soul and body, in the centres of civilization—most of them helplessly im molated—is a solecism in the morality of the respectable world, which very few Christians have the courage to commit. The number of women who perish by such a mode of life in this country exceeds that of any other country in the whole world, by at least three to one in proportion to the population. It is a flagrant stigma on the Legislature, that it has neither the courage nor the Christianity to take up this matter, and devise a national resource for these persons." J. T. Harrison—l live in Moore -street, and was acting as a special constable on the sth July. I was on duty in Smallbrook-street, where there were some people. I saw the last witness take bold of the prisoner, who said then, " You —_, I will settle you." The prisoner, in his defence, said he was passing through Smallbrook-street, on his way home, when, on passing near the police-station, one of them sprung out, struck him with his staff, and laid hold of him, saying, " There's one of the —." If it had not been for some people that interfered they would have killed him, for they were in a fair way for it. The Learned Judge summed up the evidence, and the Jury returned a verdict of Guilty. Joseph (venus John Fussell was indicted for maliciously and seditiously inciting the subjects of her Majesty to riots, tumults, and disturbances. The prisoner pleaded not guilty. Mr. WADDINGTON said he would offer no evidence, and the prisoner was consequently acquitted, and ordered to I be discharged. Henry Wilkes was indicted for a misdemeanour. The prisoner applied for leave to traverse till the next Assizes. The COURT said he had a right to traverse if he wished. Mr. WADDINGTON said there was no objection to his standing out on his own recognizances, and as he appeared to have some influence with these disorderly persons at Birmingham, it would depend in a great measure on bis own conduct whether he would be brought up for trial at the next Assizes. William James and George BeEt were indicted for a riot at Birmingham on the 15th July. No evidence was offered on the part of the Crown, and the prisoners were acquitted and discharged. Henry Wilkes was indicted for breaking and entering the dwelling house of James and Henry Bourne, on the 15th July, and stealing therefrom a large quantity of tea, &c. There was no evidence offered, and the prisoner was acquitted and discharged. The indictments against John Gaven and John Bird, for breaking and entering the dwelling house of Elizabeth Martin, were not prosecuted, and the prisoners were ac quitted. At five o'clock—Only one case remains to be tried. The sentences will be passed to morrow (this day). CA _lsToß.—The crops of corn in the neigh bourhood of Caistor look very well, and are lately tench improved; the quantity of rain on those hilly wolds not being too much yet. The Wheat fields look particularly well ; Beans not so good ; Barley and Oats my be a fair produce. —Hull Observer. LERWICK, JULY 23.—The following vessels have landed their Shetland men and proceeded home, all from Greenland :—Gleaner, Anderson, 2 fish, 200 seals, 25 ton ; Commerce, Martin, 4 fish, 1,500 seals, 50 ton, of Phd. ; Monarch, Marshall, 4 fish, 1,660 seals, 50 ton ; Resolution, Hogg, 2 fish, 22 ton; Eclipse, Gray, 9 fish, 1,700 seals, 80 to 90 ton ; Mary, Cumming, 1,200 seals, 14 ton ; Perseverance, Oysten, clean ; Union, Stephens, 1 fish, 500 or 600 seals, 26 ton.—Hull Observer. TELEGRAPHS TO SPURN.—We learn that this project is progressing. A meeting of the Committee was held on Thursday; Mr. Hassal was appointed chairman, and Mr. Stocks, jun., secretary and treasurer. Lieute nant Watson reported the result of 25 day's observations he had caused to be made three times a-day between the Pilot-office and Killingholmne at Paul, and that he would be very soon ready to fix the semaphores. It was agreed to proceed forthwith in the entering of vessels on the books, and preparing codes of flags, so as to enable out ward bound vessels to be telegraphed on their return ; and under the hope that the project will be liberally supported. A strong feeling was expressed that the intelligence com municated should he made so public, that every person interested in the fate of ships' cargoes or the sailors might have the benefit of its communications.—Hull Observer. THE PENALTY FOR A KISS.—John Sampson, .was charged by Jane Baker with an assault. Complainant stated that on Tuesday she was going down Green-lane, when she saw defendant, who had employed her husband, near his new house. ' She said to him, " Your are getting on nicely with your new house," to which he replied in the affirmative, and invited her to view a pantry which he said he had built 'himself. Upon a second invitation she went, when he pushed her down a step, shut the door, and kept it Est with his foot whilst he took liberties with her. She " skelled out," and his son came in, when he ordered her away. Cross-ex amined by defendant.—You took me round the neck and would kiss me ; I cried out as hard as I could, so that a neighbour heard me ; when you saw your sor, you turned as white as a corpse, and afterwards confessed, in the presence of my husband and your wife, that you did kiss me." Defend ant said that complainant went into his new house to see it; he said to her " Here's a nice place I have built; let's have a It'ss in my new house, Mrs. Baker." He therefore took and gave her a kiss, and thought neither good nor bad would conic of it. Complainant indignantly repelled the sup position that she was a consenting party to the kissing, saying she never gave such an old man liberty to take that freedom. Mr. Parker said defendant must pay for kissing, as that against a woman's will was clearly an as sault. He was tined 2s. 6d. with ss. 6d. costs, to teach him to make less free in a new haus: in future. Defen dant : Very will, sir, but mind you, I should not have gone to Mrs. Baker's house—she came of her own free will to mine. tie then left the Court, complaining o the hard ship of a man having to pay so mu c h f or a kiss.—Hug Observer. EGYPT. &ilia, London, 1839. This volume, which is one of a series, to be pub fished periodically, under the title of " Popular Geo graphies," contains a familiar description of the land, people, and produce of Egypt, with, in addition, an ex cellent map of the country, and upwards of fifty pass able wood engravings. The work is, of course, for the most part, a compilation. and we arc glad to see that the soundest authorities only have been referred to. HEMA S'S WORKS. Vor,. Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1839. The present volume of this elegant edition is em blished with a beautiful engraving of " Our Lady's Well, near St. Asaph," re-executed by Kcrnot, from an original design of Mrs. Hemans. The Poems com prised in it are some of the authoress's best ; among them, we find her animated drama, the "Siege of Valencia," and her " Sceptic," which first introduced her to the notice of Mr. Gifford, of the Quarterly Re view. The present re-publication is got up with re. markable neatness. LIFE OF NA POLEON.—PART Thomas, London, 1839. The present Part commences with an account of the famous battle of the Pyramids, when the flower of the Mameluke Cavalry—the finest horseman in the world._ was utterly destroyed by the furious attacks of the victorious French ; and concludes with the famous Eighteenth of Brumaire, when the last vestiges of re publicanism disappeared, and France was subjected to the grinding, military despotism o f t h e Consulate—a period at which it may be remembered niers concludes his history, as being the closing stage of the revolution. The embellishments to this Part are numero us and well en graved, from the w e ll-k nown designs of Horace Vernet. 1 I 1 1 3 ON. EVEN [NG E .. . course of her preface, that the , sill Qrity of her v erses ~, were penned a t a ver y early agf-Intendingajiigek,i sume, by such statement, to apologikgf - orre,ir,iip: ae i - fectio ns . Sh e nee d not have beenlitfia PlAliettrifet on the subject, fnr her poems have talent enough to cause them to be generally admired by all who have an ear for the melody of rhyme, and can appreciate just and feel ing sentiments, expressed in appropriate language. As ( a specimen of Mrs. Richardson's powers, we quote the three first stanzas of a poem entitled, " My sin Fire Side." Oh I my ain fireside, mean I bid you adieu ! How aft ha' I sat, cbeer'd by friendship an' you ; When the tales o' our country, had warm'd ev'ry heart, The glow o' pure love ! ga' a charm to each part ; And the wild flow o' fancy, would roam far and wide ; But return'd with delight, to my ain fireside. My ain fireside, my ;tin fireside, But return 'd with delight, to my ain fireside. When I gaze wh ere my father, and sister ha' been; The tear 0' remembrance, flows f ast t h o ' unseen ; Oh I memory, tho' pleasing, you're painfu' to me,-- Those days they are gane—l those friends cannot see; Yet the spot where they liv'd, and the home where they died, Makes the sigh ,mair intense, at my ain fireside. My itn fireside, my sin fireside, Makes the sigh mair intense at my ain fireside. For the heart that once leapt at a sister's embrace, In the cauld arms o' death finds a last resting place; And her soul bath forsaken its tenement here, For its oan native clime, in a heavenly sphere; Ia a mansion of clay 'twas too bright to reside I But bas left me to weep by my ain fireside. My ain fireside, my ain fireside, But has left me to weep by my ain fireside. CHILD'S PICTORIAL BIBLE. Thomas, London, 1839. _ . A useful idea well worked out, so far as the text is concerned, but the illustrations are very ordinary speci mens of engraving. COURT CIRCULAR. Her Majesty rode out on horseback yesterday afternoon, attended by the Hon. Miss Murray, Baroness Lebzen, Miss Qizentin, Marquis of Headfort, Colonel Buckley, and Sir Willium Lumley. Viscount Melbourne had an audience yesterday of the Queen. The Earl of Surrey, Viscount Melbourne, Hon. Charles Howard, and the Hon. William Cowper, joined the Royal circle at dinner last evening at Buckingham Palace. The Marquis of Headfort and Sir William Lumley have succeeded Viscount Torrington and Mr. Rich as the Lord and Groom in Waiting on her Majesty. The Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe Weimar visited the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge on Tuesday at Cam bridge House. A Cabinet Council was held yestorday afternoon-at the official residence of Viscount Melbourne, in Downing_ street. It was attended by Viscount Melbourne, Marquis of Lansdowne, Viscount Duncannon, Lord John Russell, Viscount Palmerston, Marquis of Normanby, the. Chan cellor of the Exchequer, Earl of Minto, Sir Jobn Hob house, Lord Holland, Mr. Poulett Thomson, Viscount Howick, and Lord Morpeth. The Council sat three hours. , His Excellency Andrew Stevenson, the American Mi . nister, transacted busin'ess yesterday at the Foreign Office, end afterwards with the Chancellor of the Exchequer. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY—Ava. 7. MURRAY V. WALTER—THE "TIMES" NEWSPAPER. This case came before the Court upon appeal from the decision of his Honour the Vice-Chancellor dismissing the plaintiff's bill with costs. The facts of the case were as follows. Some y ears s i nce , M r . M urray, w h o was t h e editor and manager of the foreign department of the Times newspaper, had assigned to him, by the proprietors of that establishment, for his services, one-sixteenth share in the property of that paper. Those profits were enjoyed by Mr. Murray up to the time of his death, and after his de cease, by his widow. By the deed by which the interest was conveyed, it was stipulated that the proprietors should be at liberty, upon certain notice being given, together with a sufficient compensation. to re-purchase the share. That notice was given a short time ago to Mrs. Murray, accom panied with an offer to her of 2,000/. down and 1001. a yesr for her life. This offer not being considered as sufficient by Mrs. Murray, she filed her bill for ihe pur posei of having an account ta k en o f t h e ' pro fi ts of the Times newspaper, and also for an inspection of certain documents connected with that establishment. Upon the cause coming on before the Vice Chancellor, his Honour ordered the bill to be dismissed with costs, and from that decision the present appeal was brought. Mr. WIGRAM and Mr. ROMILLY appeared for the plain tiff', and Mr. K. BRUCE, Mr. JACOB, and Mr. .1. BAcuN for Mr. Walter. The LORD CHANCELLOR gave judgment, affirming the decision of the Vice-Chancellor, ordering the bill to be dismissed with costs. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. ROME CIRCUIT:—.CROYDON, AUGUST 6. DENCH U. WEBB. CIVIL SlDE.—This was an action brought by the plaintiff, an upholsterer, at the west end of the town, to recover from the defendant, Maria Webb, also sued as Anne Angerstein, the sum of 671. being the balance of an account for goods sold and delivered, and for labour done. The defendant pleaded infancy and that the goods were not necessaries. Mr. PETERSDORFF appeared for the plaintiff, Mr. SHER for the defendant. 1 Mr. PETER S D OEFF b r i e fl y a dd resse d t h e J ury, and said that his client was an u ph o l sterer , carry i ng on business in Seymour-street, B r y anston - square , an d he had first bad dealings with t h e d e f en d ant i n t h e year 1837. She re presented herself as the lady of Colonel Angerstein, and her appearance was that of respectability, and was such as, in his opinion, should justify the plaintiff in furnishing her with the articles he had sent in, which were only such as befitted her station. The bill originally amounted to 170/. but a considerable portion had been paid, which re duced it to 671. which was the sum now sought to be re covered. His client admitted the infancy of the defen dant, and the only question for the Jury to decide was, whether the goods were necessaries or not. A number of witnesses were called to prove the delivery of the goods, and to say whether they cocsidered they were necessaries, when _ _ Mr. PETEKSDORFF submitted to the Court that there was sufficient evidence to go to the Jury. Chief Justice TINDAL—You have not given us the slightest proof that these articles were necessaries. Damask goods and sofas of such a description would not be neces sary for a young female in the defendant's station. If ou press me, the case shall go to the Jury, but my opi nion is, that there is no case whatever made out. Mr. PETERSDORFF said, that after such an intimation from the Court he could not press the case further. The plaintiff was accordingly non-suited. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. WORSHIP- 7 STREET. CAUTION ;TO DISORDERLY " GRNTLEME."—On Yester day an unusual number of disorderly " gentlemen" were brought before the Magistrate, for disturbing the repose of the more sober part of the community, and " making night hideous" with their noisy and mad-brained freaks. Mr. GROVE, in disposing of the several cases, took oc casion to apprize " each bold bacchanal" that by the new Bill, which only a« aired the Royal assent to become law, Magistrates would be empowered to send tippling:gentle men to the tread-mill for a month ; and that he should certainly exercise that power, in all cases where the de grading propensity was habitually indulged in. SOUTHWARK ELECTION.—The coalition be• tween the Tories and Radicals, in the above borough, with the view of securing the return of Mr. Walter, the Tory ex. Member for Berkshire, in the event of Mr. Daniel W. Harvey giving up his seat, is, it is understood, likely to be broken up, as a third candidate, a Member of the late Parliament, is now in town, and ►s about to start in the Radical interest. BUDS OF HOPP. Mitchell, London, 1839. There are several pleasing poins in this unassuming little volume, evincing much grace and buoyancy of fancy, and considerable facility of versification. The authoress, a l a d y named Richardson, statesin the SUPERSTITIOUS MODE OF TRAVELLING.- one evening as our party (in India) were strolling on shore after the day's journey, we observed a native of moat filthy appearance engaged in what appeared to us a very extraordinary process, He repeatedly laid himself on the ground at lull length, making at the same time a mark in tne sand close to the crown of his head ; then rising he placed his fe e t by t h e sa id mar k , an d l ay d own again as b e f ore . Thi s process h e m i g h t cont i nue ail infinitunt for aught we know, as we saw no end to it each suc cess i ve pr o stration gaining one length of his body to the southward. We addressed him and pilgri m age to inquired his object. Ile returned no answer, nor did he appear to notice us; we then made the sam e i nqu i ry of sonic natives who were watching him, not wi t h curiosity like ourselves, but with the most profound respect and re verence.manner the Juggernaut , n e , hitherwas a h d e e v was ou t i Fakeer naki ag hiso n way his i n the described, namely, measuring th e whole distance length of his body. He haadndalaresacillye thhaudsontrlayvealhloedatmfeoarer hope was entertained of tnan three hundred miles ; hisy journey.—Menzoirs of a hundrozi miles further to go, ever ~ prosperous conclusion to death at the Great Wester P Cadet. man met with his at about two O'clock. FATAL ACCIDENT. A • n Railway on Monday afternoon He was a sawyer, resident in the town of Maidenhead, and having a brother to see him from London, they went together to wait on th e s l o p e o f the ernb,itikment to see the train pass by. The unfortu nate sufferer fell asleep, and on being suddenly roused by the • noise of th e approaching train and the whistling of the engine, apparently unconscious of his situation, moved nearer to the centre of the line instead of receding from it, when one of the iron carriage steps caught his head, as • he was in the act of lifting it. He died instantly, . DUNFERAILINE.—The real physical force prin ciple is progressing in Halbeath, a colliery in this neigh bourhood, with a vengeance. One of the overseers, the same who was beaten and stoned so unmercifully a, few weeks back by th e colliers, was again, some nights ago, twice shot at while in bed, the balls, two in number, pa ss _ ing through the door of the case of an eight.day clock, which was standing at the head of the bed, and striking within a few inches of the man's head. A chang e o f over. seers took place some time ago. The new ones, i n at tempting to eradicate some abu ses which had crept in of their predecessors, have thus during the time down the vengeance of these lawless vagabonds. It is said that between them than one bun - dr - id Ina sixty guns are ready to be used in favour of the pbysical force movement. A reward of 70/. has been offered for the apprehension of the perpetrators o f this intended murder, but as yet nothing has —.Stirling Observer. RIOTS. WEDNESDA At the sitting o f t h e Court this morniag,Y EVENING, John Drinkworth, James Rhodes, Eleazer Hughes, and Thomas Salter, who stood indicted for a riot at Birming ham on the evening of the 4th of July last, were placed at the bar. Mr. MILLER, who appeared cn behalf of Salter and Hughes (also indicted for an assault on the police) .sdid that he had an humble application to make to the Court on their behalf. I t h aving been decided by his Lordship and the Jury, that the meeting of persons amongst whom they were was an illegal assemblage, they were anxious to express their contrition for the offence, and to make every attonement in their power by pleading guilty, and throwing themselves upon the clemency of the Court. Mr. liatouv, on the part of the Crown, said he had no objection that the clemency of the Court should be ex tended to S a lt er , and he thought the ends of justice would be answer e d b y passing upon'him a nominal sentence. He would say not hi ng - as to Hughes, but leave the matter for thei r L or d ships ' consideration. The two othe r p r i soners, Drink worth and James Rh o d es, then withdrew their plea of not guilty, and pleaded guilty. The four pri soners were then ordered to be removed from the Bar. John Smith, William Cliff, fed Thomas King, were then placed at the liar upon an indictment which charged them with a riot at Birmingham on the 4th of July. The prisoners, who had previously pleaded not guilty, withdrew their pleas and pleaded guilty. Mr. BALGUY said lie had no wish to press for punish ment upon the prisoners Smith and Clift, and would re commend to the Court to inflict upon them merely a nominal punishment, as he believed they had not been guilty of actual violence. But he would leave the ease of King in his Lordship's hands, as he had a bayonet in his possession and stones in his pocket. King said he had taken the . bayonet for his own de fence. Several witnesses were called, who gave Clift, King, Hughes, and S-ilter, good characters. The prisoners were then removed. ACQUITTAL AND DISCHARGE OF DR, TAYLOR. Dr. John Taylor was then placed at the Bar charged with a riot at Birmingham on the 4th of July. Mr. BALGUY said in the exercise of the discretion vested in him, he should offer no evidence in the case of John Taylor. The Jury then returned a verdict of acquittal, and Mr. Taylor withdrew from the Bar. John Ingram, a boy of about twelve years old, was then I indicted for a riot at Birmingham on the 4th of July. Mr. BALGUY declined to offer any evidence, and the Jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty, and the prisoner was ordered to be discharged. Edward Browne, one of the Birmingham Delegates, was then placed at the bar, charged upon three indict ments with using seditious and inflammatory language, and also fur a misdemeanour. Mr. MILLER said the prisoner had been indicted for two different transactions, one of which occurred on the 21st of March, and the other on the 15th May. Three indict ments had been returned against him by the Grand Jury, two of which referred to the two days in question, and the other to something that had occurred on the sth of May. With respect to that indictment he would be entitled to traverse, as he was not committed on it, and he could know nothing of the depositions until the indictment had been read to the Court. His application was, that the prisoner might be permitted to traverse all these indict ment till the next Assizes. Mr. BALGUY had bad no objection to the application. Mr. MILLER hoped the bail would not be excessive. Tie prisoner family. risone rwas a householder of Birmingham, and had a large After some discussion between the Counsel on both sides Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE fixed the bail at SOL personal then sb indicted to plead for a surety,aridtwdocmolelaattse.ral securities; of 40/. each, in each of the three indictments. George to MILLER thei L ; Ealkt sth of Baker July. Mr. ce r p risoner h n Tallow guilty. B e h a d, i t a pp e ared, struggled very hard when appreh e nd e d, an d one o f the police constables was slightly hurt, an d i n en d eavour i ng t o secure him necessarily u se d such a d egree o f v i o l ence a s severely punished the prisoner. nr Tallow wcre l : He understood Tatlow was for some time insensible, and his right arm was so much injured that he had been since unable to use it. Mr. BALGUY could not interfere on behalf of the pri soner Tatlow. He would leave his case to the decision of the Court. George Julian Harney, one of the Delegates of the General Convention, who was out on bail, was then called and surrendered. The prisoner was indicted for using se ditious and inflammatory langucge. Mr. MILLER said the prisoner wished to traverse, as be had an undoubted right to do, till the next Assizes. Mr. Justice LITTI.EDSLE directed that the bail should be, as in the former case, SOL personal surety, and two col lateral sureties in 401. each. Mr. MILLER would only trouble the Court with one more application—it was that Dr. Taylor, who had just been acquitted, should be discharged. Mr. BALGUY said Dr. Taylor had been at liberty for some time. Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE said as soon as the verdic't was returned, he had given directions that he should be dis charged. George Baiter was then indicted for a riot at Birming ham on the sth July. Mr. BALGUY having briefly stated the case, John Allen, of the Metropolitan Police, deposed that he was on duty in the Bull-ring on the sth of July. There -tits a large concourse of people in it, and there was much riot and tumult. I was stationed in front of the public office to keep it clear. L saw the prisoner Baker at the bottom of Moore-street holding up his hands anldtToaohdekdrlseloismisi ing the mob. He told them not to run away from the d D ie r r a s g w oo , L e s, at bu th t a t t o ti ts e n d d ri : i rr g t t o he th m e o ir b e a o w u a n y tr . y. into custody and searched him, and found upon him the dagger I now produce. There was a cork on the point for 4 sheath, and be said some one had put it into his pocket. Cross-examined by the prisoner. —.I want to ask the witness whether I was drunk or sober ? Witness. —You were sober. It was about half-past eight in the evening. The prisoner was about three yards from the end Of Moore -street, when he addressed the mob. I found the dagger in his left hand trowsers pocket. He did not abuse me nor show the dagger to me. Prisoner —My Lord, he swears that when he took me it was half -past eight, now it was only half-past six. Witness__ It was half -past eight to the best of my knowledge. I went on duty at seven. Cross-examin e d by the Looter-1 was 30 or 40 yards from the Public Office, and was about three yards from the prisoner when I heard him speak. Wm. Charles Alston, Magistrate of the borough and county of Warwick, examined b y mi t . HILL. 1 passed through the Bull-ring in the morning, and also in the ' evening of the sth, about 8 o'clock , or a quarter to 8. The Bull-ring inure particularly seemed to be in a very disturbed state. The people were distributed about every part of the Bull-ring, and there might be from 1,000 to 2,000. There was nothing going forward in the way of business. The shops, or at least part of them, were closed. I can not say I saw any of them open. I did not report what I had seen till some time after, but reports were made by the magistrates themselves, who had been to see the state of the Bull-ring-. They were under great apprehension of a repetition of what occurred, and in about an hour they ordered the Bull-ring to be cleared by the military and police. I went myself into the Bull-ring ebout 20 minutes past 9. The Bull-ring seemed to be not riotous, but in a crowded state. Before I went into the Bull-ring there had been a consultation of the Magis trates, and it was determined to road the riot act. Prisoner declined to ask the witness any questions. The prisoner, when called on for his defence, said—My Lord, I had business near the new church, and then in Colemore-street. I went down Bull -street, which leads from Colemore-street to the Bull-ring. I saw a great number of people pushing about. I passed through the crowd, and went to the corner of Moore -street, where I saw a few people, about eight or ten, standing together. I knew a few of them by sight, and they knew toe by sight also. They said, " Where are you going ?" I said lam going home. They said, " Don't go yet." I said I must go ; I have some boys to instruct at seven o'clock, and moreover the town is in a curious state, and I shan't stop, I then lifted up my hands, and put them on two persons' shoulders to whom I was talking, and said, " You may stand your ground, but I won't." I then went up Moore street to go home. I was collared by two policemen. That was 100 yards from the corner of Moore -street, near the public office. I was then taken into the chain.room, and I was desired to strip. When I unbuttoned my coat the instrument was found hanging down here (point ing to the inside of the skirt of his coat), not in my pocket, my Lord. I took it out myself end laid it on _ . . . the table. Hall, the officer, was present, and he picked it up and asked me how I came possessed of it. I said it was not mine ; "it don't belong to me—sume one has put it about my person." Witness then took it from from Hall, the officer, and Hall desired him to take care of it. That is all, my Lord. Mr. Justice . LITTLEDALE then summedluptoathye Jur e y n charged i . st p i r ll i6 they one r were on l y to con night h e be Having stated what the prisoner had said i n hii defence, he observed that even if they did not believe th e . tate _ merits of the prisoner, still it di d nut appear th at t h ere had been sufficient evidence given to show that t h ere h a d s be d eenr that ar with io w t. ith oAvvolhjteilr(7houirgbvehn offences, still charged, namely. th e t a ki ng part in a riot, and of that it appeared to him they had not sufficient evidence. The Jury immediately acqu itted the Prisoner. James Pomeroy was indicted for a riot at Bir m i ng h am on the sth of July. Mr. BALGUY stated the case, and said he was happy to July, at night. The ththeeßiot,inform them that the present was the last case on the part letnheavenues were densely of the Government which he should feel it his duty to lay before them. Having stated the factsyo,fttohehacvaese fol lowing witnesses were examined Charles James Alston—l found it necessary from the crowded. state af d d . 1 partrh Bull-ring The noise s n oi aboutse clear,ha oati half-past . b tumult m se t t u nsh l t was so great that I could hardly make myself heard. There was a great deal of shouting and hooting. I went to the police-office where 1 found a division of the military; I took them to the streets in the neighbourhood of the Bull-ring, f or the purpose of dispersing the people. The crowd did not disperse. They shouted and threw stones. Immediately after throwing stones they ran away, and when we retired they returned, and that state of things continued till one o'clock in the morning. Cross-examined by the Prisoner—lt v ra3 night that I read the Riot Act. Some of on Tuesday the military and police were there at the time. At least two thousand per sons must have been there collected. I read the Riot Act Church : -1 - saw - Tfs linifeirthroliiniat the time I read the Riot Act; I saw, on the right-head of...St...Mar.in's I-. A POTTEEN SMUGGLER'S DARLINT.-A man who was known to have a large mountain farm and extensive homestead in these hills, was observed very fre quently to ride into the town of ; and he never made his appearance without a woman, supposed to be his wife, jogging steadily and uprightly on a pillion behind him. He was tall and gaunt in look; she large and rotund, and encumbered, as is the mode of all country wives, with a multitude of petticoats : they always rode into the yard of a man who kept a public house; and before they alighted off their horse, thet gate was carefully shut. It was known, moreover, tha this publican acted us factor for this farmer in the sal° of his butter ; and so for a length of time things wen t on in a quiet and easy way, until one day it so hap pened (as indeed it is very common for idlers in a very idle country town to stand making remarks on the people as they come by), th a t th e gauger, the innkeeper, and a squircen wer e l ou n g i ng awa y their day, when the farmer slowly paced by, with hi s everlasting wife behind him. " 'Well," says the squircen, "of all the women I ever saw bumping on a pillion, that lump of a woman sits the awkwardest; she don't sit like a natural born crathur at all; and do you see how modest she is, what with her flapped down beaver hat, and all the frills and fallals about her, not an inch of her snort face is to be seen, no more than an owl from out the ivy ? I have a great mind to run up alongside of her, and give her a pinch in the toe, to make old buckram look about her for once. " Oh, let her alone," says the innkeeper, " they're a decent couple from Joyce country. I'll be bound, what makes her sit so stiff is all the eggs she is bringin' in to Mrs. O'Mealey, who factors the butter for them." There was, while he said this, a cunning leer about the innkeeper's mouth, as mock' as to denote that there was, to his knowledge, how ever he came by it, something mysterious about this said couple ; this was not lost on the subtle gauger, and he thought it no harm just to try more about the matter ; and so he says in' a frolicsome way, " Why, then, for cur'osity sake, I will just run up to them, and give the mistress a pinch—somewhere; she won't notice me at all in the crowd, and maybe then she'll look up, and we'll see her own purty face." Accordingly, no sooner said than done : he ran over to where the farmer was getting on slowly through the market crowd; and on the side of the pillion to which the woman's back was turned, attempted to give a sly pinch, but he might as well have pinched a pitcher; nor did the woman even lift up her head, or ask " Who is it that's hurting me.? " This emboldened him to give another knock with his knuckles ; and this assault he found not opposed as it should be by petticoats and flesh, but by what he felt to be petticoats and metal. This is queer, thought the guager ; be now was more bold, and with the butt-end of his walking-stick he hit what was so hard a bang which sounded as if he had stru c k a t i n pot ; " Stop here, honest man," cried the guager. " Let my wife alone, will yon, before the people ?" cried the farmer. " Not till I FCC what this honest woman is made of," roared the guager. So he pulled, and the farmer due: his heels into his colt to get on, but all would not do ; in the struggle down came the wife into the street; and as she fell on theipavement, the whole st reet rang with the squash, and in a moment there is a gurgling as from a burst barrel, and a strong smelling water comes flowing all about; and flat poor Norah lies, there being an irruption of all her intestines; which flowed down the gutter as like potteen whiskey as eggs are like eggs, 'file fact was, that our friend from the land of Joyce had got made, by some tinker, a tin vessel with head and body the, shape_ola-wonsan, and dressed it - out — tta a." P - roPii - Cotiniry dame; in this way he carried his darlint behind him, and mado much of her,— Otway's Tour in Connaught. I an :ould nints kets, ;din ,man 9 of irinf can-