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" ',tr.__ 1-r f .t,-743t.n• LONDON : WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1839. The long Session, of which we believe every i , ody was tired, is at an end. Her MAJESTY, per lorming on this, as on other occasions, a work of grace, released the wearied Senators from their at tendance, and her people from the irksome task of daily looking to the Parliament for bread, and ever receiving a stone. The Tories are delighted that their presence is no longer necessary to save the tate, and the Ministers are delighted that they lave got rid of such troublesome opponents. There was a general hope when the Session com nienced, and general joy now that it is over, and nothing worse has come of it. The Speech is, we believe, quite equal and even superior to what was expected. Lord PALMER STON'S foreign policy has in truth done more for it than any other part of the Administration ; and the peace between Holland and Belgium, the prospect of a satisfactory settlement of the affairs of the East, the reconciliation effected by our means be tween France and Mexico, the Convention for set tling the dispute with France as to the fisheries, the attempts to fora: a general league for the sup pression of the Slave Trade, the diplomatic relations with Teheran, and the passage of our army across the Indus, occupy three-fifths of the speech. The measures to improve the police, the reduction of the Postage di/6es, and the conversion of un funded debt into stock, with a few words about the Chartists, complei;e the document. Though the grace is trifling, we are glad that her MAJESTY was advised to say that it was " with great, pain that I have found myself compelled to enfotce the laws against the Chartists." We de mur, indeed, to tl to assertion that " they no longer concealed the des ign of resi s ti ng by f orce t h e law ful authorities," ibr we have not seen any evidence of any such intension, except in so slight a degree as not to merit notice in her MAJESTY'S speech. When they were beaten, indeed, they turned again; and if the people displayed that kind of spirit oftener, and cartied it syste inAticany out, it would be more to their ad vantage. A few boasting persons have talked very broadly, but the instances of resisting lawful au thority were few and far between. Probably the Ministers had more information on this subject than has reached the public, and a Committee to inquire into the Chartist riots, might reveal as formi dable a conspiracy as that of the Ribbonmen in Ireland, with these differences that there are no secret oaths in England, and the Go vernment has properly laughed at the tales of the Orangemen. But whether the Minis ters had any secret information of the designs of the Chartists or not, we are pleased to see that they do not, like some Journalists, mock at the misguided efforts of the people to get rid of misery, the existence of which no man can doubt, while the laws being a continual subject of dispute, the Chartists are no more to blame for not knowing them than Lord LYNDHURST or Colonel SIB THORP. With the close of the Session, too, the Cabinet has undergone a considerable modification. Sir GEORGE GREY and Mr. LABOUCHERE, who probably expressed an inclination to retire that he might fix himself in a higher place, are to be mem bers of the Cabinet. Mr. SHIEL also seems to have gone back that he might jump the further, and gave up his place of Commissioner of Green wich Hospital to become Vice-President of the Board of Trade. We have never heard that Mr. SHIEL has attended to commerce, but his genius may make him equal to every thing, and we certainly wish that he may be more assiduous than old GEORGE RosE, and more a master of his business than Mr. HuslcissoN. To the new as well as the old Ministers the prorogation of Parliament leaves a clear stage. Their opponents are not now facing them, and we should rejoice to see them surpassing the hopes of their friends, and disproving the ca lumnies of their enemies. The Gazette of last night announces that Mr. SPRING Rice is at length elevated to the British Peerage by the title of Baron MONTEAGLE Of Brandon, in the county of Sligo. It also an nounces that the °ince of Chancellor of the Ex chequer has been conferred on Mr. F. BARING, who has been sworn a member of the Privy Council. By our Parliamentary Report, it ap pear; that new writs were yesterday issued for Tip perary, in the place of Mr. SIIIEL, whose accept ance of the office of Vice-President of the Board of Trade we have elsewhere mentioned ; and for Manchester, in place of Mr. PouLETT TIIOMSON, who is going out as Governor-General to Canada. His place in the Cabinet is to be filled by M. LABOUCHERE, and Mr. LABOUCHERE iS to be followed as Under-Secretary of the Colo "ILI Ivy Mr. VERNON SMITH. It is also reported that M r . C . W OOD i s to succee d M r. B ARING at the Treasury, and that Mr. MORE O'FERRAL is to succeed Mr. C. WooD at the Admiralty. Several of these changes were announced in the Morning Chronicle on the sth 0 f Au nist as fol lows :— ,x .‘ The following changes are confidently spoken of as likely to take place at the lctt Thomson, the President 0; theof the Session. Mr. You ,,f Board of Trade, to be appointed Governor-General eers Rice to be called to the flouseExoef:Panada. andMtro. be s u Spring c. eceded as Chancellor of th e Sec c p o i s f Suit t iu tb er Baring. Mr. Charles Wood to the Admiralty for a higher app o intmenet ._and to be suc ceeded by Mr. E. J. Stanley, Secretaryof the ireasury.,, Mr. STANLEY has not been removed from the Treasury, and we know not if Mr. `Noon' s erim vaf to the Treasury, supposing it to b e true, can be regarded as a higher appointment. With these exceptions, our Contemporary' s information was correct, and the contradiction which we, in comm on with some other Journals, were instructed to g i ve to it at the time, we are bound to admit was incor rect. The fact, we believe, was, and we see no reason for mystifying or concealing it, that the ar rangements, though then contemplated and talked about, were not completed, and it is very generally desired that such arrangements should not be made the topic of public discussion till they are finally settled. Hence the assertions of the Chronicle were contradicted. Our Contemporary claimed no authority for his assertions ; he said the appoint nic;)ts were conedently spoken of, and the :contradiction mighthave been given Ifffrent term s . U nthe in very goestionably lano.n. , oe used 1 n The Sun was no t w h at we think it ought to have been, but the ChrOnicle is totally mistaken in fancy ing that there was in any quarter a design to ob tain an advantage over it, or that any weapon was directed against it. There was, undoubt edly, a desire to keep the public, if possible, ignorant of arrangements: which were then not finally settled ; and of: which the Chronicle had published an account. But there was no desire to deceive or delude, or still less betray any parties or persons. We certainly, in common with two Evening Contemporaries, inserted the contradiction, which we received from autho rity, as no doubt the Chronicle knows, and believed to be accurate. Looking back at the whole transaction, while we regret it, we can not think it of the vast importance the " truthful" Chronicle wishes to make it appear, whose excellent and virtuous indignation might sometimes find (perhaps in its own columns) mat ter equally worthy of its exercise. It is not only in what may be called diplomatic points, or to keep the public in ignorance of changes not yet finally decided on, that the Press is tampered with, and made knowingly and unknowingly to send abroad s t a tements that are not strictly true. The quarrel between the Bishop of EXETER and Mr. HEAD is a very pretty quarrel, as Sir Lucius O'TRIGGER says in the play, and if we interfere in it, it is not for the purpose of preventing the com batants from fighting it out, but to let the public know exactly how it stands. We cannot say that we are sorry to see such disputes. On the contrary, we believe they augur well for religious rreedom, indi cating, as they seem to us to do, the inroads which the great Protestant principle of private judgment is making upon that Popish spirit which is the actuating principle of all established or state sys tems of religion. The fact is, that the seeds of Dissent are widely sown in. the Church. The party which claims the title of evangelical, par excellence, is not only already very numerous, but is daily on the increase. They are a generation of zealots—some people call them fanatic;;—who do not rest satis fied with the beggarly elements of doctrine to be found in rituals. They are for going to the foun tain head and drinking the s./ream pure as it issues from the rock, and before it has passed through the corrupting channels into which it has been diverted by selfish system-mmigers. They are con stantly giving wings to their imagination, too, and do not readily submit to :have those members clipped by which they range through regions where they fancy that important clivcoveries are still to be made. Thus there is a continually increasing pressure against the barriers fixed by ecclesiastical authority, which will eventually burst them, and give the human mind in this corner of Christendom something like a fair chanc e for emancipation from priestly thraldom. We have already stated, that one of the knotty points at issue between the Bishop and the Rector of Feniton is, whether the'rite of baptism produces, in the person baptized, that instantaneous and total change of nature from sinfulness to righteousness commonly called " regeneration," or the new birth. The Bishop maintains the affirmative of the pro position, the Rector, the negative. The one ap peals to the book of Common Prayer, the other to the word of GOD. Mr. HEAD, in performing the baptismal service, omits two or three words which he holds to convey a doctrine -unwarranted by, and contradictory to, Scripture. PHILLPOTTS gives him to understand that if he persists in this course he will first suspend, next excommunicate, and then depose him from the ministry. We regret it is not in our power, for want of room, to give the charge and the counter charge at full length ; it would, however, be cruel to our readers not to give them a taste of these singular documents. We shall therefore make a few extracts for their especial edification. 'The Right Reverend Father in GOD, full to over flowing of the milk of human kindness, purified and sanctified by the spirit of the Gospel of CHRIST, alludes to the backsliding of his brother in the Lord after the following meek and humble fashion : That any one, after having engaged that he would use the form of words, and continue to enforce them, could yet deny that regeneration was given in baptism, might appear incredible; and although the experience.of the last 200 years proved the contrary, still he lamented to say that these errors not only continued to our times, but were to be found in this diocese. There were persons who erro neously took upon themselves to garble and omit expres sions in administering the sacrament, which they were too tender to use, but not too tender to promise to use. He would recommend to 'uch to read attentively the injunction contained in the third canon of our Church. 1 any such person persisted in this error, he was in the first instance to be suspended ; and should he after a month persist, he was then to be excommunicated. If after an other month he still persisted, he was then to be deposed from the ministry, That was the law, and if any acts of the kind were proved, however painful it might be, he should enforce it. The pugnacious Rector of Feniton, nothing daunted by this " commination," takes pen in hand and vindicates what he has done in the most spi rited manner, showing, first, that his interpretation of the meaning of baptismal regeneration is sup ported by the Scriptures ; and secondly, that he is justified, in an ecclesiastical view, in omitting expressions conveying an unscriptural doctrine. After informing the Bishop that were he to tell a Jew what he tells the Clergy of , the Diocese of Exeter, that the sacraments" are not mere signs, but effectual means of receiving the grace of rege neration," the said Jew would be perfectly justi fied in replying, " I cannot find this doctrine in MOSES and the Prophets, therefore I reject it ;" and that a Gentile is justified in rejecting it for the self-same reason, 'Mr. HEAD proceeds to quote largely, from the Old and New Testaments in corro boration of his views of the nature of baptism. He comes to the following conclusion : Baptism, in short, as a general institution, is to be considered with especial reference to the abrogation of Jewish exclusiveness, and as operating as a constant me. morial that every political, ceremonial, and outward ob stacle to Gentile worship is taken away. To believers in the promises, indeed, it testifies moreover that their personal guilt is put away for ever; that they are buried with or separated unto Christ; that they are washed by regenera tion, and watered by the Holy Ghost ; and that the Triune God of Israel is their God for ever and ever, according to the tenor of the covenant of grace. And to the Gentile world it testifies that God has " cleansed" them. How did he cleanse them? Not by taking away their original sin, as has been absurdly represented ; not by altering their nature ( which both before and after baptism remains enmity itself with God, Romans viii.) but by the removal of the ceremonial obstacles which had been cast in their way. And when did he " cleanse" them thus ? Doubtless when he gave the commandment, "go and baptize all nations." Of the remedy which Mr. HEAD recommends for the evil of this unsound doctrine we are afraid the Bishop will not approve, any more than he will of the syllogism with which the rebellious Rector clenches his proposition. With reference (says he) to the laudatory manner in which your Lordship speaks of the baptismal service, and to the efficacy which your Lordship seems to attribute to it in giving understanding to the simple and light to the ignorant; I beg leave to repeat what I have already pub licly and respectfully submitted to your Lordship, that it would be advisable to call a convocation to expunge the errors from that service, for this reason :—Whatsoever ob scures the boundless grace of the great covenant is clearly forbidden iii Scripture—Acts xxvi. 22. Gal. iii. 15. Rev. xxii. 18, 19. The doctrine contained in the baptismal ser vice, that infants are regenerated by outward baptism, ob scures the grace of the great covenant :—Therefore the doctrine contained in the baptismal service, that infants are regenerated by outward baptism, is clearly forbidden in Scripture. . _ _ The impugner of the orthodoxy of the Prayer Book then passes on to the second head of his dis course, which we like much better than the first. It contains some home truths, and as these are things which Bishops and Clergymen seldom hear, and seldomer speak, we shall make our extracts as copious as possible :- 1"ho clergy are justified in omitting parts of the Baptis mal Service in an ecclesiastical point of view, on this prin. L; le. " Nothing is required of any man" (accordi ng to ip. the sixth article of the Protestant Church of England), "that it should he believed as an article of faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation," which is not " read in holy Scripture or proved thereby." The doc trine abovementioned is not " read in holy Scripture, or proved thereby :" therefore the doctrine aboverrentioned i s :tit re qu i re d of any man that it should be believed, &rt. To which might be added—" All erroneous and strange doctrines contrary to God's word" are, according to the or dination vows of Church Ministers, to be " banished and driven away" by them: The doctrine abovementioned is an erroneous and strange doctrine, contrary to God's word : Therefore the doctrine abovementioned is to be " banished and So much, mybyChurch Ministers. my Lord, for the justifiableness of our pro ceeding an ot.iew. in ecclesiastical as well as in a Scriptural point that I pass to some more eloquence cantina:ter the Church." Therefore that I is not true, my Lord, of your Lordship's observations. It your Lordship's elor s e l s a e n n d t e slandered or sufficiently ffir e v i i e l n i vilified "baseness ," which even strong colours, m ust belong to somebody els e , I ne ver " slandered the Ch urc h , " or an in it ; and I wish I could say that nobody i n ity had svee.rems to i ns i nuate , slandered me. Moreover, I never, as yo ur L ordship a sserted the human, or denied thedo I den divine i ns ti tut i ons of the Christian Ministry. Ivo r " evil servants" may, by concession, and by that eve rirtueon f . an outward office, be called " Servants of Christ,' Matt: xxiv. 48, 49. What I said was to the effect, that any men, even poor uneducated men, preaching in the obscurest dissenting chapels, if they be taught of God to preach the true Gospel, belong as much to the Christian ministry, as any Churchman or diocesan Bishop in the empire: and this Ido not allow to be wicked error,' but. maintain it to be an obvious truth. As the churches of Christ are continually in the New Testament spoken of in the plural number—so there are undoubtedly true and apostolic churches of Christ in this empire, which have no connection with the Established Episcopacy. The doctrine, whether it be asserted or insinuated, that our Church is the only apostolic Church in the empire, is an indication of a national approximation to Popery." Mr. HEAD follows up this onslaught upon the apostolical pretensions of Mother Church by point ing out some highly instructive instances of contra diction between the Articles and the Canons : I beg leave to pass to another subject. If your Lord ship means to assert that I am in the receipt of emoluments which do not belong to me, it is an unsupported assertion. Those who understand the Thirty-nine Articles (which hap pen to be sounder than many a Churchman wishes them to oc) may easily find that they fully bear me out in the principles which lam supporting. Tnese principles are, that our rituals require reformation ; for which reforma tion the 6th, 19th, 20th, 21st, and 34th articles make abun dant provision. Wbich deserves " excommunication" the most—he who cordially and strictly adheres to the whole doctrinal system of the Thirty-nine Articles, rejecting a few phrases in the rituals which cannot be reconciled with that system ; or those who adhere to the latter, and reject, and even preach against the former? This question I ssould suggest to such of my brethren as disapprove the principles which I have avowed ; whom I would also affectionately- remind of the impossibility of reconciling the doctrine, that we are " re generate by means of outward baptism" with the eleventh article, which teaches that we are "justified by faith only." Evil," as the Stith article foreboded, is ever - "mingled with good" in the visible Church. Suffer me to observe that much " evil " may be found in those Canons to which your Lordship alludes. The most superficial observer can hardly fail to ob serve, that the Canons contradict the Articles in a very material point. Let us hear the Articles. "It is not lawful for the Church to ordain anything that is contrary to God's word written, neither may it so expound one place of Scripture, that it be repugnant to another As it ought not to decree anything against the same (holy writ,) so besides the same ought it not to enforce anything to be believed for necessity of salvation. "—Article 20. " General Councils . . . . (forasmuch as they be an assembly of men whereof all be not governed with the spirit and word of God) may err, and sometimes have erred even in things pertaining to God. Wherefore things ordained by them as necessary to salvation have neither strength nor authority, unless it may be declared that they be taken out of Holy Scripture."—Article 21. " Every particular or national Church bath power to ordain, change, and abolish ceremonies or rites of the Church ordained only by man's authority, so that all things be dour to edifying."—Article 34. Let us bear, on the control.), the Canons. " Whoso ever shall hereafter affirm that the form of . . . Common Prayer and the administration of the Sacraments . . con taineth anything in it that is repugnant to the Scrip tures, let him be excommunicated ipso facto, and not re stored, but by the Bishop of the place, or Archbishop, after his repentance, and public revocation of such his wicked errors."—Canon xi. Here is a manifest contradiction. "We have done our best," sayS the spirit of the Articles, "to produce a Prayer Book free from error. We do not pretend to be quite infallible. We admit that in Churches in general, and in ours in particular, something may remain, through human infirmity, which may require alteration. If so, let it be corrected. At ail events let it not be bound upon the consciences of men." No," says the spirit of the Canons ! " Whoever shall presume to affirm that our Prayer Baok contains " ANY THING" that demands alteration—there is but one word fur him. Let him be excommunicated ipso facto. What do I care for reasoning ? What do I care for texts ? My mode of convincing the minds of men, is, first to suspend —secondly, to excommunicate—thirdly, to thrust you out of the ministry. Don't tell me of the sufficiency of Bcrip tore, or of the sufficiency of covenant grace. Excom munications and anathemas are the proper arguments to support true religion and liberty of conscience." Let it be distinctly borne in mind that the Articles are of more ancient date and higher authority as to matters of faith, than the Canons, as the sth Canon itself acknow ledges. Therefore, though it may be said of the Canon which your Lordship quotes, "this is the law" of King James and his Bishops in 1603, yet " this is not the law " contemplated by the reformers who set forth the Articles in the preceding ceritury,.to which Articles the sth Canon itself appeals, as to an adequate authority. The elsk,rate attempts, the interminable struggles which individuals in the Church have made, from time to time, to explain away the force of the Articles, have not been sufficient to make their wish pass into a "law." They have however availed to give a just handle to reason ing nice to observe, that the honour and supremacy which in the 6th Article we ascribe to the Bible, is only a pre tence to enable us the better to enforce human traditions contradictory to the Bible. We quite agree with Mr..IIEA D in thinking that something should be done without delay to reconcile the discrepancies which he has ao vigor ously exposed in these important matters. We are, however, apprehensive that in the struggle which an attempt at reformation would give rise to, the " Articles" would find themselves no match fo: the " Canons." Canons, as the Rector of Feniton may find to his sad experience, are formidable engines, charged, as it appears they are, with the sharp-shot of " suspension," " excommunication," and " deposition." The Rev. Gentleman winds up the whole with an attempt to defend his continuing within the pale of the Establishment, and receiving the emoluments of his office, while differing from her doctrines, and refusing to comply with her ceremonies, ac cording to the appointed methods. For my own part, I do not coincide in opinion with your Lordship as to the nature of the pledge which I made to the ecclesiastical authorities at my ordination. I neither discerned nor suspected the artifice and iniquity of the declaration of conformity in Charles the Second's Act, that antichristian snare, intended to make us pledge ourselves to exalt the vain traditions which are to be found here and there in the Prayer Book above the Bible, in spite of our previous declaration to the contrary. Having previously, by subscription to the Articles, promised to make Scrip ture my paramount guide, I am justified in throwing off, what I never intentionally took upon myself, the intoler. able yoke of a declaration which militates against that promise. In short, I consider my ordination as a more honest, liberal, consistent, Protestant, and holy engagement than the Parliament of a libertine and popish King wished it to be. On taking orders, I felt perfectly justified in believiag that the ecclesiastical authority did not require me to make any declaration inconsistent with my subscription to the 6th Article; nor was I at that time aware of the unscriptural expressions in the Baptismal Service which I since have been compelled to perceive. If I rightly understand your Lordship, you signify to me, that having made this discovery, it now becomes my duty (in your opinion), voluntarily to leave the minis try. I, on the contrary, not perceiving any solid foun dation for this suggestion, and conceiving the evil com plained of to be not irremediable, humbly suggest to your Lordship (in perfect accordance with my ordination vows, and with the Articles which I have quoted), that a coup cil of the Clergy should be called to rectify or expunge what is unscriptural in our services ; and that the Legisla ture should be petitioned (for what an Act of Parliament has done an Act of Parliament can undo) to modify the rigour of the declaration of conformity, which rigour was prompted by an evil motive, was directed to an evil end, and produces, to this day, evil results. I affectionately commit you, my Lord, to the bound less grim of God. I fervently pray for the welfare of your immortal soul; and that it may please the Almighty to illuminate you with true knowledge and understanding of his word; that both in your preaching and living you may set it forth and show it accordingly." In the closing prayer of the Rev. Rector we cordially concur. Sure we are there is no man who stands more in need of the prayers of the Clergy than the Bishop of EXETER ; but as to the argument which precedes it we are bound to say that, so far from satisfying us, it is, in our opinion, utterly untenable. The world will suspect that Mr. HEAD values his benefice more than truth— that he is trying hard, to serve Gov and MAM MON at the same time. He ought to know that this is impossible. The high tone which he assumes, the lofty principles which he professes, ought to have elevated his mind far above all consi derations of a worldly nature. The question is not, as he would fain put it, what the Church has power to do in the way of alteration and accommodation to his views, but what the'Tule of the Church, which he has sworn to obey, equally i s. His way is clear—his path straight. If he cannot conform, he must, as a conscientious man, withdraw. The accounts from the Spanish trontier continue to represent the condition of the Carlists as in the last degree desperate. On the evening of the 20th inst. General ELIO abandoned all his positions at Esteban, where he was endeavouring to bring the Anti-Marotists to terms, in order to defend Estella, threatened by the unexpected approach of General Dolt DIEGO LEON. The report of the defeat of CABRERA, and the capture of Tales by General O'DONNELL is likewise confirmed by the follow ing telegraphic despatch received by the French Government on Sunday : General O'Donnell defeated Cabrera en the 13th with considerable loss. On the 14th he made himself master of the fort of Tales, after which he returned to Valence. The Carlist Chi e f Arevalo has made an excursion from Chelva into the plain of Beuol, which he has pillaged. The operations of Valdez in the mountains are paralysed by the drought. The population is suffering greatly for want of water. The prevailing impression among French officers on the Spanish frontier is, that were the Govern ments of France and England now to come forward, and guarantee to the Carlist officers their present rank in the army, and to the Basque population such a portion of their freros as would not inter fere with the establishment of a national sytem of ) THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1839. commerce, the war might be put an end to in a week. In the desperate position in which these men are placed, and knowing well the character of their enemies, they will rather be cut in pieces than trust to the mere pledges of ESPAItTERO, or his nominees the Spanish Ministers. His Excellency LUIS G. CUEVAS, late Mexi can Minister of Foreign Affairs, has published an " Expose" of the late differen:es between the Governments of France and Mexico, " with a view of proving by unequivocal facts," to quote the lan guage of this document, " the prudence •and mode ration of the Mexican authorities, and the unheard of injustice of the French Government." It is 'bather to gratify public curiosity, than to excite any strong feeling respecting a question already settled, that we attempt to g i ve an o utline of the statements made in the official address of - the Mexican Minister ; the more especially as we regard the publication of such a docu ment, under all circumstances, as extremely i m p o liti c . Recriminations between Sovereign States are never attended with ally benefit, and when made by ex-Ministers, after the ratification of friendly treaties, are offences against the general peace. We are therefore of opinion that if the pa, triousm of his Excellency Senor Luis G. CUE VAS was equal to his diplomatic vanity, the " Ex pose before us would have been allowed to slum ber among the archives of the Foreign Office, instead of following upon the heels of Treaties of Amity and Commerce between the Governments of Mexico and France. With these preliminary remarks we return to the official " Expose" of the Mexican Minister. Senor Luis CUEVAS commences his " Expose" by referring to documents already published for an account of the origin of the French claims upon Mexico at the period of his comieg into office, which was in April, 1837. He goes on then to state that he dreaded nothing more than a rupture with France, and did ail in his power to prevent it, but that the French Government was so biassed by false reports of French residents, th it it would not so much as listen to him. These residents repre sented the Mexicans as a barbarous people, void of every sentiment of justice, humanity, and civiliza tion, and to his inexpressible sorrow he, found that their reports were believed in France.' - His first step was to send Senor G.a.!itito Minister Plenipo tentiary to the Court of France, su pplied with documents disproving the reports of, the French re sidents, but the KING refused for several months to receive him, or to take notice of his papers. In the mean time the Mexican Minister offered repeated explanations to Admiral DEFFAUDIS, but they were not accepted ; and on . the 26th of March the Mexican Government received the ultimatum of the French Admiral. This appear ing to his Excellency inadmissible, he prepared an answer to it, which met with the unanimous appro bation of the Mexican representatives, the purport of it being, that the French ships of war should leave the coasts of Mexico before any lie _ eotiations could take place between the two Governments. The result was a mutual deurind of passports on the part of the French Charge d'Affaires and the Mexican Minister, and the declaration of a blockade on the part of France. Senor CuEv s here enters into a long statement of the retaliatory measures which Mexico might have adopted, such as issuing letters of marque, and seizing the persons and properties of the French residents ; but such was the forbearance of her Government, that none of them was put into exe cution. On the 27th of October Rear-Admiral 13Auntst succeeded Baron DEFFAUDIS as com mander of the blockading squadron; and, as Minister Plenipotentiary of France, consented to withdraw the ultimatum, and to settle the question by honour able negociation. As this realized the political fore sight of the Mexican Minister it was exceedingly agreeable to him, although his modesty was such that it required all the authority of the PRESIDENT to induce him to represent the Republic as Minister Plenipotentiary at Jalapa. There he met with Admiral BAupt sr, and, in order to terminate the differences, agreed at once to deliver up a sum of 600,000 dollars, although perfectly satisfied that the claim was unjust. On the question of forced loans, the Mexican Miinster con fesses that_ he was loath to yield, although he -acknowledges the practice to be both arbitrary and oppressive, but the French Admiral would listen to no equivocating apologies. At this point Senor CUEVAS enters into a long detail of the futility of many of the claims for compensation set up by French subjects, and, forgetful of what he had before stated, attributes the blockade to die arrogance of Baron DEFFAUDIS and the French Legation. He then endeavours to prove that a Government so unsettled as that of Mexico, cannot o i p m u m la e r ii e s m e eiun injury S ha e s no b r ee e n u in E fi v ic A t s ed ne o x n t i‘ c i o e m xi p c l o ai b n y s be held responsible for losses i ncurre d b y f ore i gners that i n P the blockade—that in the seven months previous to November last, 5,900: besidesoooof the permanentdollarsat least injury done s the i ßeu blicommerce. He says that s were several of to o foreign e fthe northern ports have been reduced to a state of ruin ; that various Mining Compan 7 es • Dave ; and that, to add to the er incurred edies agprat ruinousucereadand calamity, dss theires several Mexican argoes confiscated. He likewise adds that , both in Mexi co an d Bu e no s vessels public w Ayres, French agents have been, and are, at work, exciting insurrections against Republican institu tions. And, finally, this expose, which is dated the 10th of January 1 839, concludes with imploring the people of Mexico to continue to re sist French injustice ; and with submittiog to the verdict of a not less august tribunal than the whole world, the conduct of his Excellency the Mexican Minister. Such is the extraordinary document which is now given to the world, after the ratification of treaties of friendship and commerce between the Governments of France and Mexico—a document which can have no other effect than to neutralize the benefits which might be expected to flow from these Treaties. Perhaps it may yet be made appear that the Mexican Minister never intended this expose for publication in the event of the restoration of peace on honourable terms between the two Govern ments—that the world is indebted more to ac cident than design for its inauspicious appearance. We shall rejoice to learn that such is the fact ; but whether or not, we think that its publication calls for the severe reprehension of the present Mexi can Government. We will further observe, in conclusion, that though exceedingly long and ver bose it is by no means a well digested state paper, and substitutes throughout the vaguest assertions for statements requiring the strongest and most irre fragible proofs. One thing, too, is not a little re rnarkable—the friendly mediation of England is not once alluded to from the first line to the last So much for Mexican gratitude. tcityto Neste, e left 't , Bourdeaux a lt er hi s There is no political news of any moment in the in the presence of th e French journals of Monday. On the 24 th the Duke and w D a u y e f i r l e o s m s ofl utt ORLEA NS RoyaI Highness had laid the foundation stone of the Rail Bishop of the diocese and a vast concourse of citizens of every rank and profession. 'f he Commerce publishes a letter from Posen, of the 16th inst., which states that every regiment cautoned in Poland has sent a detachment of picked men to re present it at the camp of Borodino. The Emperor NICHOLAS will take the command, having under his im mediate orders Field-Marshal; PASKEWITSCH and WILGENSTEIN. "It is thought," says the writer, " that such an immense concentration of troops to one place must be for some political purpose, and that the mystery will be revealed after the review. This is the more probable as private letters from Russia have long ago said that these troops were to keep the west of Europe at bay whilst Russia invaded Turkey." On the other hand the Augsburg Gazett e states that the formation o f a camp at Borodino has been counter manded by the EMPEROR, but that the troops are to hold themselves in readiness for immediate service. Let ters also have been received from Warsaw, which state that the EMPEROR had ordered an extraordinary levy throughout Poland of 6 men out of every 1,000 to re cruit the army of the Caucasus. In fact nothing is left undone by the Imperial Government to denationalize the The Journal des Debars says—" That a letter received from Vittoria, from a person worthy of confidence, states that Don Carlos and his whole family were proceeding to France. This at present is not the (dot, as the above information comes from Madrid of the 18th inst. This important evert would have been announced by the telegraph." The Journal de Rouen contains the following letter from Havre, describing the effects produced in that town by the reduction of the sugar duty :—" The news of the reduction of the duty on sugar has been received with the greatest enthusiasm by all classes of our population. Not only were ail the ships in the harbour gaily dressed, and the houses adorned with tri-coloured flags, but the labour- ing class, whose work was diminished by the smallness of the cargoes of ships from the colonies, paraded the streets in great numbers, preceded by a tri-colourcd flag, with a sugar cane surmounted by a nosegay, below which was beet-root, covered with crape, with this inscription Death to the beet•root.' " A Parisian engineer now at Cherbourg, transmits the following statements : " The works at the port of Cherbourg commenced in 1782, are scarcely half completed. The dyke on which twenty-seven millions have already been expended, will re quire nineteen millions more, and the sums still wanted to complete the establishments of the Naval Arsenal are estimated at forty-three millions. Thus at least sixty-two millions must be employed in finishing a port which its situa tion renders of such iinthense importance to the future pros perity of the French navy. Continuing to apply every year, as has been done for the last five years, 1,200,000 francs (the remainder of the sum allotted to the port of Cher bourg, being required for the current expense of keeping the works in repar), more than fiFty years must elapse before France can enjoy tee fruit of the enormous sacri fices imposed on the country for the erection of this port. Surely it would be better in every respect to allot a sum for the work, by means of which the whole might be finished in ten years. " Cherbourg is the only port of France in the ocean which cam, keep England in check, and one day, perhaps. command it. Napoleon was sensible of this, and more was done in the last five years of his reign than during the whole of the restoration and the reign of Louis Philippe. Napoleon is the author of the plans now in course of cxc cut•on. Seven or eight hundred workmen are now em ployed. There ought to be 10,000."—Commerce. BOURSE.—PAicis, MONLJAI, Alio 26. t irst Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Price Price srernin ._, per . cots l:3 70 ... 113 75 ... 11,: 70 ... 1 , 2, 70 4 iatr t enti lO3 10 ... 1 , 3 lti ... 10s 10 ... 103 10 3 per Cents So 90 ... 'til oio ... be 65 ... 8 thi Bark ot mince 3705 —.3793 —3705 ...27;15 ! , :rlitte 141 , -k >,010::f.: , h 53:5 —.5335 ... 5325 —5225 Bel. ran 5 per Cents 10:1"., ... 103 3 4 , ... lirszy, .. .1r334 oeigizin 3 pert tints 7l 80 ... 71 80 ... 71 8) ... 71 60, Bank 7rs ... 76 s ... 705 ... 7t 5 Giuli0.-- ...... Spanish Ac ive -..014 ... 21N ... 12. , A ... 21g Passive 4 1,, ... 4 , 4 ... 454 ... 4 , 4, 1 New ;,.., ferrea Portu , uese 3 per Cents Nea 011tati Roman llr:Ns ... if 4 ... 103% ... 182% RAILWAY SHARES. Versailles, rz B 605 ... cur) ... 59 - -, ... .95 LB. 335 .. 335 ... 32S 75 ... 330 1-lavr . Str.-istittry to Bate 3)2 50 ... 315 ... 312 50 ... 315 Montpellier to Cette :380 ... WO ... 3 , 0 ... 580 AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, Aro 17. Five per Cents. Metalliques Fora per Cents. Three per Cents. S.ink Shares —,lo.e. , ,e , nerne Ze:tung, August 23. Letters and papers from Madrid of the 19th inst. have been received. The Gazette of that date con tains despatches to the Government from Generals ESPARTHEsO and O'DoNNELL—the former recounting his victorious march from Amurrio to Vittoria, with the loss of only twenty killed, and sixty.six wounded ; and the latter announcing the defeat of CABRERA, and the occupation of Tales by the Queen's troops, but with no details of the engagement save that it lasted for sixteen hours. With respect to the Ministerial question it is reported that the Regent has declared that there must be no modification of the Cabinet—the Ministry must go out, or remain in together. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TIVELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, TUESDAY.—The Cotton .Market has been quiet to-day, but Friday's prices have been obtained. The sale, 2,500 bags to the trade. The Independence, packet ship, from New York, of the 'kb inst., expected to get up the next tide, Accounts from Liverpool state " That there is every retlson to believe that the Chartist sedition has been ter. ininwed by the firmness of the authorities and the punish. meat of the leaders. THE FUNDS. The Queen's Speech, oi; its bring perused by the citi zens and speculators in the Funds, was looked upon as mere bAgAelie, and scarcely noticed. It had not the least Effect on the Funds, and it was generally anticipated in the course of the morning that it would be of little im• port. We have the arrival this morning of the packet ship, Independence, from New York of the 7th inst., off Liverpool ; but the papers from the United States are not expected until the afternoon. The exportation of the precious metals from the port of London for the week ending on Saturday last, consisted, according to the official returns, of 642 ounces of gold bars. shipped to Hamburg, and 2,000 ounces of gold coin to Hamburg ; 50,000 ounces of silver coin, of which 10,000 were sent..,to Hamburg, and 40,000 to Gibraltar; and 11,993 ounces of silver bars to Calcutta. Sonic improvement took place in the Foreign Ex changes yesterday, particularly that on Paris, but the transactions were not to any great extent. We have few arivala this morning. The Report that the Bank had given notice to the discount brokers of an intended stoppage, or restriction of discounts, is not true; on the contrary, discounts arc obtained with the same facility as before. Consols opened this morning at the leaving off price of yesterday. Money 911 i; for the October Account 92k; Exchequer Bills, 12 14; Bank Stock, 184 185; biota Binds, 5 10 ; India Stuck 246 247. In the Foreign Market as yet no advance has taken place in the Spanish Stock, although the news from Spain is of a favourable nature for the cause of the Queen. Spanish Active may be quoted 20i ; Portuguese same as they closed, 281 ; Three per Cents., 18i 19 ; 77- 781-; Columbian, 301 31 ; Belgian, 102:i 1031; Mex ca 27 fa ; Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents., 53i 54 ; Five per Cents., 103 f 1. Money can be obtained on first-rate bills of the discount brokers at 6 per S cent. ; on the Stock Exchange, from 5 to 6 per cent. for the October account, on Exchequer Bills 6 per cent. en.ICES OF STOCK'i THIS flank Stock lBoi 5 3 per Cent. Red. 9l; 2 114 ; 3 per Cent. Cons. 90 8 54 3', per Cent Ditto Red. 99% New per Cent 98%% New 5 per Cent. Bank Long Annuities toexpire Jan. 5, 1860 l4 5-16% Oct. 10, 1859 Jan. 5, 186(1 Jan. 5, 1880 April 5, 188(1. Jan. 5.1870 PRICES OF FOREIGN FU NDS Austrian Bonds Belgian Bonds Ditto Account Brazilian Bonds I)itto Account Buenos le7wtes Bonds DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. India Stock Ditto Bonds ' 12 8 pm. South Sea Stock Old Annuities New Ditto 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 Exch. Bills, Xl,OOO 14 12 pm. Ditto • 500 _. 15 13 pm. Ditto Small 2O 15 13 pm. Ditto Commercial — par. Ditto Advertised Bank Stock for Account ... 18414 India Stock for Account ... Consos for Account 91%14 THIS DAI AT ONE O'CLOCK. Peruvian Bonds Ditto Account Portuguese Bons. Ditto New Bonds Ditto Acc..unt 28% Ditto, 3 per Cent. ...... 18% ._____ ,„ ....... . . •' Ditto At ',mut — I Ditto Account Chilian Boni,. D tto Accot, t Columbian Bonds — . Ditto Account — Ditto Account — , Ditto Metallic Columbian Bonds, 1824 30% 1 Spanish Bonds .23% - i Ditto Account — Ditto Account Danish Bonds Ditto Account , Deferred 94 Greek Bonds French, 5 per cent. — f. —c. Ditto Bonds, 1825 — -- 4 per cent —f. —c. Ditto Account Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent. —.— Exchange. —r. —c. Ditto Account —! Dutch, 2l per cent. — Ditto, 6 per Cent. — ' Ditto Account 51% Ditto Account Neapolitan. Ditto Acc0unt........ ...... PRICES OF SHAKES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. 934% Brighton Railway London and Blackwall Railway l3 cendon and Greenwich Railway Company so *.'orthern and Eastern Railway Company 25 N ,ri h Midland Railway Company 75 Mexican and South American COURSE OF EXCH Amsterdam C.F. JS 7 Oitto, at sight ...... 12 4 Rot terrion °U. 12 74 Antwerp... ilainl,urg. A1t0n , ,.... Paris, 3 drys' sight i'is 40 Ditt0....... ........... 3 Ms 25 70 Marseilles. Sourdeaux Frank flrt on Mains, Ex. M. 151% 1- Yeterslitugh, ruble... 3 Us 3B Berlin Vienna, efiefitive f1...3 31 lO 8 Trieste ditto lO 11 Madtld 37 Cadiz.... ....... . ............ 3:11). - .t. . Bircelona ... Seville 36S, .NGE, YESTERDAY. I.llbraitar 4B Leghorn 30 CO Genoa .. Milan Venice 47 Naples Palermo per oz. 120 Lisbon 54% Orono Rio Janeiro 2B Bahia 27 Buenos Ayres New York, 21 days' sight Philadelphia 46 PRICE OF BULLION, per OZ. Portugal Gold, c0ni.....40 0 0 Foreign Gold, in bars... 3 17 9 New Doubloons . ..... 0 0 0 New Dollars 0 4 IN, Silver in Bars HALF-PAST ONE. The letters from Liverpool state that on the 12th inst., at 2 p.m., in hit. 45, long. 49, the Liverpool steamer, from the above port to New York, was spoken with by the Orpheus, arrived this day. To-morrow is settling-day in the British Funds, and on the following day the Foreign Funds, for which the brokers are adjusting their differences. Money commands in the Foreign Market about ten per cent., but little business has beet► doing in the course of the morning in either of the markets. . Baron Anselni M. Rothschild arrived last night from Paris. Consols may be quoted at present 918, for the Account, manic for money. Exchequer Bills 14 12 prem. ; India Bonds 12 8 prem. ; Bank Stock, 184. 185. In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active improved to 20ai ; Portuguese, 28 c; Three per Cents. 18j ; Colom bian, 301- 31 ; Brazilian 78 ; Belgian 1031; Spanish Drferied, 9g-; Du'ch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 54k; Five per Cents. 103L1. • CORONER'S INQUEST. THE LATE FATAL STEAM-BOAT ACCIDENT NEAR WATERLOO•BRIDGE.--Yesterday afternoon the inquiry into the circumstances attending the death of Henry John Hay, aged 18, who, together with another youth, named James John Rogers, was unfortunately drowned by being run down by the Starlight steamboat, on the evening of the 14th instant, was resumed before Mr. Higgs, at the Savoy Palace Tavern, Savoy-street, Strand. This was the third inquiry, and the interest attend ing it did not seem to have decreased in any way. There certainly were not so many persons present, which was owing to the arrangements made by the Co roner, who, to prevent the recurrence of any such dis graceful scenes as occurred at the last inquiry, had ex pressly ordered that no watermen or others who were not concerned in the inquiry should have admittance. Mr. Cattarns, the solicitor to the Iron Boat Company, and several of its Directors, attended, as did also Mr. Clarkson, on the Company's behalf. Some five or six witnesses were examined, from whose testimony it appeared that no blame could attach to the Steam-boat Company, and the Jury accordingly returned a Verdict of " Accidental Death," with a deo dand of Is. on the steam-boat, and Is. on the wherry. It is understood that Mr. Labouchere does not vacate his seat by his promotion to the Presidency of the Board of Trade. This appointment will give very general satisfaction. VICE-CHANUERY.-THIS DAY.) His Honour the VICEZHANCELLOIL sat in his pri vate-room to-lay at Lincoln's-inn, for the purpose of haring any matters that might press. The Court dis posed of several motions totally devoid of public inte rest, and upon the case of— TALBOT •V. THE EARL OF SHREWSBURY, which was appointed specially for to-day, being called on, at the request of the parties his Honour agreed to hear it in private. We are therefore, prevented from giving the facts to the public. METROPOLITAN POLITICAL SUMMARY. (FROM THE MORNING PAYERS OF THIS DAY.) The Morning Chronicle of this day, referring again to the trite subject of Lord Lyndhurst's Anti-Ministerial Phillipic on Ft iday night in the House of Lords, enters into a course of argument, the object of which is to show that that Phillipic told rather in favour of, than against, the Government :—" Suppose all his Lordship's allega tions," observes our Contemporary, " against the Mel bourne Ministry substantiated ; let it be that they are as feeble as he contends ; as contemptible ; as devoid of the confidence of Parliament and the country : what follows, but that they must inevitably have been superseded hut for the Tories being more feeble, More conteMpti ble, and more thoroughly destitute of the confidence of Parliament and the country ? No such Ministry as Lord Lyinihurst described could possibly stand against an opposition, even though it were much !ess formidable in numbers and adventitious aid , than the Tory faction, had that oppas,itien oven et all re spectable in ability, character, and public c it'll keno. The Learned Lord's argument was in r. slay OA* ugliest comPa• rative compliment that could be pa d to the present Admi nistration. It put in the strongest vices not the at:salute m. rits of Violate s, but t .ree of I), rs , inal qualification bich they possess, and of oubl:e confidence which they , thjoy, as ci m r d with the fit , lon for i e Lerd Lynd husst acts is advecate. Acece ding to hi:. ehowtog, Minis ters live no one thing to support them on the eminence they occupy, save the iev'neible repugnance of th e people for Toryism ; and that suffices. To a °amain extent we agt ee with Lord L) nd urat. We beli ,to that there is in the country dissatisfaction enough with the Whigs to turn them out, were it not for the apprehension of their being succeeded by the Tories. Syirptonts have not been wanting that they would not have survived, no, not for one calendar month, the decline of that apprehension. Had twenty members of the House of Commons coincided in Lord Brougham's theory on this subject (his theory of Friday, we mean, not that of Monday), the doom of the Ministry must have been inevitably sealed. Only let it be believed that more good can be squeezed out of Toryism than is conceded by the Whigs, and the question is de cided. But people do not believe even in their capability of yielding good to pressure." The Morning Post thts speaks of her Majesty's speech : —" Yesterday her Majesty in person prorogued Parliament. The Speech from the Throne upon this occasion consisted of little more than a mere recapitulation of such important occurrences, foreign and domestic, as have taken place since the commencement of the Session. It presents no topic for remark, all the subjects to which it alludp hay ing been already, and many of them very recently, dis cussed. What will chiefly excite attention is the very large proportion of the Royal Speech devoted to matters remote from the business of legislation, a circumstance from which it might confidently be inferred, if we had no other proof of the fact, that the Legislature, whese labours her Majesty was closing for the present, had afforded an extraordinary example, perhaps of industry, perhaps of patience, perhaps of perseverance, perhaps of wisdom, but certainly of barrenness." The Tunes comments on the Queen's speech in the following terms:—" The first portion of the speech, till the House of Commons is addressed, has excited our laughter, as it will that of every rational person who duly considers it. England has nothing to do exclusively with ' the topics to which it relates. Her Majesty rejoices 'that a definitive treaty has been signed between Holland and Belgium'—' th A concord prevails with regard to the affairs of the Levant' (Query Ist—Does it ?)---' that France and Mexico have been reconciled' (Query 2d Have they ?)—' that differences between this country and Persia have not yet been satisfactorily adjusted' (Indeed ?) —` that military operatiOns are begun in India' (Query 3d—When will they be ended ?) On reading this wild trash, who is there that will not ask himself, Where am I ? In Holland or Belgium ? In France or Mexico? -In Teheran, or some other city of Persia? Well, but something has been done in the Slave Trade, ayd with that certainly we have some concern ? No, nothing done ; but much money wasted, and something still attempted. Her Majesty, as she is made to tell us in her Speech, will continue to pursue with perseverance the negotiations in which she is engaged, to persuade all the Potters of Christendom to unite in a general league for the entire extinction of the Slave Trade.' Let srammarians study the wonderful phraseology of this sentence—she will continue to pursue with perseverance the negotiations to persuade.' Unhappy Majesty f England, engaged in so Sisyehean a task ! On this Slave Trade itself, if the attempt to abolish it has been honourable to the humanity of England, as no doubt it has, in how many ways has it been deeply injurious to our domestic concerns I Ultimately, however, in the last clause of the first section of time speech, her Majesty comes to the internal state of the country—to that which really interests Englishmen ; and here she might have expatiated with joy and triumph !—here she might have put forth the full merits of her Whig- Widical Adminis tration, and offered them to the devout homage of her sub cis ; she might have said that 'she observed with much pprobation that the attention' which tier Ministers and their adherents had bestowed in exciting agitation of every kind against the established institutions of the country in Church and State, had in truth had their natural results —had led to their necessary consequences—and that tumult prevailed in the most consolatory degree throughout the , most populous districts of the realm—that houses were fired—God's temples invaded by tumultuous mobs—and that those who were unjustly subjected to legal process on account of these proceedings, had it only to allege in their excuse ; that they had been excited and egged on to th-se acts by the very Magistrates who were now scrutinizing their conduct, the minions of the Ministry, to whom, also, they owed their appointments ! This would have been just subject of boast to an Administration like the present. But instead of this, the speech tamely, but ungratefully, says that methods have been taken even to repress that excess of zeal which owes its origin to the Queen's advisers themselves. The portion of.the speech addressed to the Commons is absurd to a degree of which no precedent can be found. The new Post-office law, the effect and working of which, by the way, no one can pos sibly foresee ; and—hear it with astonishment ye men of pounds, shillings, and pence, east of Temple-bar—the late nearly abortive attempt to fund Exchequer-bills ! If' Mr. Spring Rice would wish to commemorate this last act of his imbecile administration, why not take some title in dicative of the fact, instead of invading, as we see by the Gazette he has done, the heraldic rights of the Marquis of Sligo by assuming the title of Monteagle." The Morning Herald observes, in the course of a lead. ing article on the subject of her Majesty's speech : " When her Majesty, addressing the Lords and Commons, says, The public business having beer, brought to a close, I have now to perform the satisfactory duty of re. leasing you from your long and laborious services.' We wonder what " mischievous wag" in the Cabinet contri buted this passage to the Queen's speech. It is too terse and humourous for the author of the protocols. Had Lord Glenelg not been unceremoniously thrust out by his colleagues, we might have been disposed to attribute it to him in the unwonted animation of a waking moment. It reminds us of the dry joke perpe trated by a learned but somewhat facetious Judge, on one of the last summer circuits, who, at a 'maiden assize, ' when of course the grand inquest were called together only to be discharged, said very gravely, My Lord, and Gentlemen, two minutes since I had the honour to charge you; now I have the pleasure to discharge you, and the country is very much obliged to you for your long and laborious services.' There was this difference, however, between the two cases. The Grand Jury did not pretend to do any business, but the grand inquest of the nation were upwards of six months exceedingly busy in doing nothing. When the Queen's Cabinet, in composing the Royal speech, plagiarised the address of a Learned Judge of ass i ze to the Grand Jury of Huntingdon, they ought to have had the manliness to ac knowledge and the candour to quote their authority. To withdraw attention as much as possible from the frightful state into which the domestic concerns of the nation have fallen under Whig sway, the speech is chiefly occupied with allusions to our foreign relations—because, we sup. pose, it is thought people understa. ad less about them." The Morning Advertiser obsery es, with regard to that part of the Queen's Speech, which relates to the constabu- Lry force :—" We should have been much better pleased if the ' cordial assent' expressed. in reference to 'the . Bills for the establishment of a more efficient constabu lary force, and for extending and invigorating the civil power throu;:hout the country,' bad' been accompanied with the expression of a hope that, at its . .next assembling, Par liament would make such just and well-ordered concessions to public opinion as would secure the , public pence without the investment of any extraordinary powers in the con stituted authorities." THE MARKETS-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. The arrivals. of all Grain have been short this week, but the weather being so remarkably fine renders the buyers indisposed to purchase. The few sales of Wheat that have been made do not quite support lilonday's currency. All other Grain re mained as last stated. The Flour trade very heavy at previous prices. The duty on Foreign Wheat is likely to be lower. ARRIVALS Wheat. Ba d "'y . Oats. fqour English .. 1,390 qrs. --qr6. 415 irs. 2,290 acks Irish 3 ,75 iJ killed small , Foreign - brig. Eo countryf HALL. - • •and prices rather lower. Beef 3s. 23. to -trade middling, 3s. 10d. ; Mutton 3s. Bd. to 4s. ; Lamb 4s. Bd. to ss. 2d ; Veal 3s. Bd. to 43.4 d. ; Pork 3s. 10d. to 4s. lid. ; Irish as. 6d. to 3s. Bd. Poultry in large supply, and dull demand-p r i ces Supplies NofEt"oirvGn AkiTliEed -3kiNeaDt lamer D ; rather lower. Fowls 2s. 6d. to 4s. ; Grouse 2s. to 4s. ; Chickens I s . 3d. to 2s. ; Turkey Poults 3s. to ss. 6d. ; pi geons 3d. to 6d. ; Ducks is. 6d. to 2s. 6d. ; Leverets 2s. to 4s. ; Quails 6d. to Is. ; Rabbits 6d. to Is. each ; Geete ss. to 6s. 6d. ; Eggs ss. tid. to 6s. 6d. per 120. CITY FISH MARKET. Supplies fair, and so was the demand; prices steady, Turbot ss. to 18s, ; Cod, Is. 6d. and Bs. ; good Salmon, Is. 3d. to Is. 6d. ; Soles, 93. to 3s. per lb. ; Lobsters, 10d. to 3s. 6d.; Oysters. 12s. to 40s. per bushel ; Whiti ngs, 3d. to 6d. each; and Haddocks, 63. to Is. each. TEA SALE-THIRD DAY. About two-thirds of the Tea put up continues to find buy ers. Prices are much the same as those obtained in the market previous to the commencement of the sale. The at tendance good. The West Pennard cheese, intended as a present to the Queen, and made on the anniversary of her Majes ty's coronation, weighs 10 cwt. E l : V 1 1 ] N 1 1 7 I) Tio 2i • COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen went in state yesterday to the House of I Lords, to close the Session of Parliament by a Speech from the Throne. The State procession was formed at Buckingham Palace in the following order :—A car ridge drawn by six greys, conveying Col. Master, Mr. Blackwood, and the Hon. Heneage Legge, Gentlemen Ushers ; and Mr. Seymour Sadler, Exon of the Yeomen 01 the Guard. A carriage drawn by six bays, conveying Capt. Seymour, Groom of the Robes.; Ma;ter Chichcs ter and Master Wemyss, Pages of Honour, and the Silver Stick. A carriage drawn by a set vf bays, containing the Honourable Colonel Cavendish, the Clerk 'Marshal, the Honourable William Cowper, Groom in Waiting ; Col. Buckley, Equerry in Wait ing ; and Master Cavendish, Page of Honour. A car riage, drawn by a set of bays, conveying Lord Hill, Gold Stick in Waiting ; the Earl of Ilchester, Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard ; the Earl of Surrey, Trea surer of the Household ; and Major-General Sir Henry Wheatley, Keeper of the Privy Purse. A carriage, drawn by six black horses, conveying Lady Lyttleton, Laity in Waiting ; the Duke of Argyle, .Lord Steward ; and Lord Lilford, Lord in Waiting. The Queen's Marshalmen, two and two ; the Queen's Footmen in State Liveries, two and two ; a party of the Yeomen Guard in their Coronation costume. The State Coach, drawn by eight cream-coloured horses. Her Majesty, taking the arm of me Lord Cham berlain, left the State Apartments, ha r train being c,,rried by ilfasi;r Cavendish and pastes' Chichester, th , 7 Pages of Honour in Waiting, and desounded tne •Gtand Staircase, pre'ce'ded by the Master of the Horse, the Lord in Waiting, and the Master of the Hoosehold. ' Her Almje,ty entere 11,12 State Coach twenty minutes before two o'cLek. 11,%.•• Majesty wore a splendid sire et, necklace, and ear:itigs o f di amon d s . The Duchess of Sutherland, Mista'ess of the Robes, a rid the Earl of Albemarle, Master of the Horse, sat op - posite to the Queen. The Band of the Queen's Guard, who were on duty on the Palate Lawn, played God save the Queen," anti continued playing until the Royal Cortege had passed under the Marble Arch. A party of the Life Guards escorted the procession. The Crown was conveyed from St. James's Palace to the House of Lords in one of the Royal carriages, in charge of Mr. Martins, Gentleman Usher in Waiting. The Queen returned to Buckingham Palace at a quarter past three o'clock. Her Majesty was received, on alighting,. from her carriage at the gland portico, by the Lord Chamberlain and the Master of the House hold. Viscount Melbourne bad an audience of her Majesty yesterday. The Royal dinner party at the Palace last evening included Viscount Melbourne, Viscount Palmerston, Lord Holland, Sir John Hobhouse, the Right Hon. Pouiett Thomson, and the Hon. Colonel Cavendish. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has left town for Portsmouth. FASHIONABLE lIN T.ELLIG.ENCE• ARRIVALS. Viscount Strangford, in Harley-street, from the Conti nent ; Sir George and Lady Crew, from ditto, en route for their seat in Derbyshire ; Earl and Countess Kit, noel and family, in Green-street, Park-lane, from Paris, en ro. , de for Dupplin Castle, Perthshire ; Captain Sir Thoma. l Cochrane, from the Continent ; Admiral Coffin, from ditto ; Sir Hanson Berney, Bart., from a Continental tour ; Lady Coutts Trotter, and family, in Grosvenor svare, from the Continent ; Lieutenant-Colonel Jones, Equerry to the Duke of Cambridge, in Piccadilly, from the Pier Hotel, Ryde, Isle of Wight ; Lord Templetoun, in Berkeley-square, from a tour ; the Swedish Charge d'Affaires and the Baroness Rehausen, in Half Moon street, from a tour ; the Right Hon. Sir Charles Vaughan. in Berkeley-square, f om a tour. DEPARTURES. Lady Dover and her son, Viscount Clifden, from Dover House, Whitehall, for Liverpool, en route for his Lordshilis scat, Gowran Castle, county of Kilkenny ; the Dowager Lady Cooper, for Waterloo-crescent, Dover; Lieut.-Col. Best, for ditto ; the Dowager Lady de Clifford, on a tour ; Lord Fitzgerald, and Vesey, from Whitehall-place, on a continental tour; Mr. Spearman, Assistant Secretary to the Treasury, and family, from Grosvenor-place, for Ger many ; the Countess of Cardigan and suite, for Paris; Sir William and Miss Follett, from Duke -street, for the con. tinent ; the Attorney- General of Ireland and Miss Brady, for Dublin; Mr and Lady Georgiana Codrington, for the Isle of Wight; Lieut.-Col. and Mrs. Johnson, for Ryde, Isle of Wight; the Archbishop of Armagh and the Ladies, Beres:ford, from Charles -street, St. James's, by the Bir mingham Railway, for the Archiepiscopal Palace, Armagh; the Hon. Mrs. Leigh, for Warwickshire ; General Brad. thaw, for Tunbridge-wells.. CHANGES. The Dowager Countess of Liverpool, on the Marine parade, Dover, from a tour ; the Earl and Countess of Gioia - I:el, at the Royal Hotel, Kingstown, from their seat ; the Right Hon. Witham Gregory and Miss Gregory, at ditto ; Cotztlt Krasinski, at Birmingham, from Devon shire. ' • the Hon. Vernon Harcourt, at ditto ; L,rd Segrave, from Puolc, Dorsetshire, on a cruise in his yacht, in the Channel ; Sir William and Lady Jolliffe, at Cowes, Isle of Wight, from Merstbam, Surrey ; Earl Craven, at Eglin toun Castle, from Coombe Abbey ; Countess Runaigny, at the Royal Chateau d'Eu, near Dieppe, from Pans; the Marquis and ti ,rchioneis or Londonderry and Ladv Fanny Vane Stewart, at Eghtitoun Castle, from Wynyaril Patk, Durham. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. EGHAM RACES-TUESDAY. These races, without laying claim to a first-rate character, take place in so delightful a neighbourhood, and are, in all their details, so well cenducted as seldom to fail in attracting a fash ionable company ; in general, too, they are well attended by the middle classes, but wet weather, by an unlucky fatality, so fre quently prevails at this period, that the one-horse-shay and pc" destrian species are, to use a vulgar phrase, choked off. For tunately !or the meeting now under notice, the weather was favourable, and as the list boasted unusually full entries, the visitors were numerous, and the" lessees" of the various booths and stands were enabled to turn their speculations to profitable account ; on many occasions within our recollection they have had a sorry time of it. We have already mentioned that the assemblage was numerous ; it was also fashionable, moat of the gentry resident in the neighbourhood, and many front town, having participated in the amusements of the afternoon. Be sides others whose names we were unable to ascertain, there were present—Lord Uxbridge, Lord Waldegrave, Lord Cla rence Paget, Sir William and Lady Lumley, Sir Gilbert Heath cote, Lady Constance Paget, Lady Eleanor Paget, Lady Frances Hotham, Hon. H. Hous, Hon. W. Fitzroy, Hon. Petre, Hon. F. Berkeley, Captain Paulet, Captain Peyton, Captain Seymour, Captain Duff, Captain Bulkeley, Captain Gardner, Mr. Culling Smith, Mr. Shelley, Mr. Mitchell, Mr. Hawker, Mr. Crommelin, Mr. J. L. Wellesley, Mr. V. Dolphin, Esc. The bill of fare was more productive than of old. Formerly, the Cup, the Two-Year-Old Stakes, and a sweepstakes or plate, in heats, were considered sufficient for the public appe tite; but as this appears to be a growing one, the steward thought fit t o gra tify it with a double allowance of "heats." To what extent their good intentions were realized the follow ing return will show : Sweepstakes of 20 sovs each, h ft, for two-yr-old colts, fist 71b, . . and fillies, Bst 41b. Half a mile. - Three aubi- Sir . G. Heatheote's c Sophocles, by Laurel... (Chapple) 1 Lord Albernarks's b f Clove Mr. G. Bulkeley's borbr f by Emilius, out of Christabel 3 Betting-7 to 4on Clove, sto 2 asst Christabel filly, and 5 to 1 agst Sophocles. Sophocles made all the running, and won easily by a length. The Gold Cup of 120 sovs (in specie), by subs of 10 soya each, the second to save his stake. Three-yr-olds, 7st ; four, Bst 71b ; five, 9st ; six and aged, 9st 31b. Mares and geld ings allowed 31b. The winner to be sold for 6001., &c. Two miles. Twelve subs. Sir G. Heathcote's Valaincourt, 3 yrs Duke of Richmond's Mos, 6 yrs Captain Cardnor's Toothill, 6 yrs (Chapple) I 3 Betting-6 to 4on Mus, and sto 2 agst Valaincourt. flue made all the running, Valaincourt lying second and Toothill third, till they reached the distance, where the two latter at tempted to get up. Toothill failed:but Valaincourt succeeded , was in front in a few strides, and won cleverly by a length ; the pace moderate. Plate of 401., given by the Members of the western division of the country of Surrey, added to a Sweepstakes of 5 sovs each ; three-yr-olds, 6st 121 b ; four, Bst 71b ; five, 9st; six and aged, 9st 31b. Mares and geldings allowed 31b. The winner to be sold for OW., &c. Two-mile heats. Nine subs. Mr. J. Sadler's Deceit, 3 vrs Capt. Williamson's Trie Drama,a, 3 yrs 5 1 3 Mr. Turner's b m Isabella, 4 yrs ... 2 7 2 Mr. Monk's Nominee, 3 yrs Mr. Webb's Willesden, 6 yrs 8 8 5 Mr. Smith's ch c Caligula, 4 yrs Mr. .1. Day's b f Science, 5 yrs 6 2 dr Mr. Munro's b g The Bravo, 6 yrs Mr. Messer's b g Dr. Wynn, 5 yrs . ............. 7 4dr First heat-3 to 1 agst The Drama, 7to 2 agst Deceit, and 4to 1 agst Isabella (taken). Deceit made all the running and won cleverly. Second heat-6 to 4 agst Deceit, 4to I a pt The Drama, and 4 to I agst Science. Dr. Wynn cut out the work to the last turn, where Tlu; Drama and Science went past him ; a good race between the two mares was won by The rrama by half a length. . bird heat,Even on Deceit, and 6 to 4on her agst The Drama. A good race for tne last three parts of a mile, but won cleverly by about a length. The Runneymede Stakes of 5 sovs., with 30 added ; three-yr olds, 7st 61b ; four, Bst 41b ; five, Bst I Ilb ; six and aged, Wt. Mares and geldings allowed 31b. The winner to be sold for 1001., &c. Three-quarters of a mile. Six subs. Mr. W. Sadler's Specimen, 3 yrs 0 2 1 1 Mr. Turn er ' s b f M aid of the Mill, 4 yrs Mr. Goodman's bl c Pluto, by Actsean, 3 yis Mr. A. Gurney us b c May the First, 3 yrs 0 0 dr Mr. Goodwin's Huckster, 5 yrs Captain Pettat's Caliph, aced 0 dr Capt. Gardnor's br cby Reveller—Scurry, 4 yrs 0 dr Mr. Balchin's. Lady Agnes, 4 yrs, weighed but did not get to the post in time. Four beautifully-contested heats. Our introduction was written previous to the Runneymede Stakes, after the second heat - for which a heavy shower came on and effectually dispersed the company. NEW PUBLICATIONS.—We are requested to state, that Mr. Bentley, Publisher in Ordinary to her Ma jesty, New Burlington-street, will publish during the pre s•:!r.t month, the following new works :-1. Victories of the Biits;sh Army, by the author of " Stories of Waterloo," " Wild Sports of the West," &c., 2 vols. Bvo., with cha racteristic illustrations, and portraits. 2. M. de Beau mont's " Ireland ; Social, Political, and' Religiutts," edited by W. C. Taylor, L. L. D., 2 vols, small Bvo. 3. New volume of " The Standard Novels," comprising Mr. Theodore Hook's " Jack Brag," complete, for six shillings. Agents for Scotland—Messrs. Bell and Bradfute, Edin burgh ; for Ireland—Mr. J. Cumming-, Dublin.. Orders received also by all Booksellers. INCORPORATION OF MANCHESTER.—The case of disputed Coronership, involving the question of the validity of the Manchester charter of incorporation , was tried at Liverpool on Monday. The verdict was in favour of the validity of the charter, but a bill of exceptions was tendered, and the matter will be argued in a superior Court.