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taken, or as the case may be. I am obliged to close, as the steamer is of It is now five o'clock, and the French ships have hauled out of harm's way; I may say given it up—not game to land. The town is very much knocked about. Such a display of lubberly conduct as the French have shown to-day is beyond belief ; their steamers running foul of different ships—from bad management the line-of-b a ttl e s hip s p resen ti ng their bows and sterns to be raked, and their bad gunnery has made us laugh. Little do they know the feeling against them among our men; could they be let loose the Cra pauds would rue this day! We despise them for their conduct to• day, in firing at a defenceless town, as much as we laugh at their lubberly way of going to work. CAPTAIN WARNER AND HIS DE STRUCTIVE POWER. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—I now proceed to comment upon Sir C. Napier's reports, in the House of Commons, of interviews be tween him and myself, and conversations thereat, so widely away from what actually occurred, that I can only impute the variations to forgetfulness or confusion of mind on the Gallant Commodore's part. All the world knows that Commodore Napier is apt to take credit to himself for having by his single arm won every victory in which he has taken part ; but up to the period of his speech in the House of Commons, I thought him a frank and fair mali. Sir Charles stated, in the House, that " Capt. Warner had told him that he could blow to pieces all the ships in Portsmouth Harbour, from the back of thelsle of Wight." I can only account for this extraordinary misrepresen tation, so calculated to excite the laughter of a popular assembly, and uttered, no doubt, for that purpose, to Sir Charles having mixed up in his mind some reports made by my constant calumniator Captain Pechell, who is re ported to have said that I had boasted of being able to fire through the Isle of Wight, and sink all the ships in Portsmouth Harbour ! An assertion quite as true as Captain Pecheli's other statement in the House of Corn mona—that I had said I could blow up the rock of Gibraltar ! What really passed between Sir Charles Napier and myself, upon the occasion to which he refers, is as fol lows ; and I beg to prefix to my report that I am in a condition to confirm it substantially by two witnesses. Sir Charles Napier observed that the constant com plaint against me was that I would never come to the point, but always receded from any tangible proposi tion. I asked Sir Charles to make some proposal, and he made the following one :—The Government to furnish a line-of•battle ship, and anchor her at the back of the Godwin Sand, out of the ship track, which I was to de stroy by a projectile, from a distance of five miles. I expressed my readiness to accept this offer, if Govern ment would guarantee me 300,0001. if I accomplished the deed. Sir Charles exclaimed that if he could do as much he would have three millions, and that I should be a great fool if I acted without a guarantee ; for I should certainly be robbed if I did, as all inventors had been before me. I said 300,0001. would satisfy myself. The above proposition was put into writing, signed by myself, and was emphatically pronounced by Sir Charles, to be " something like business." This pro position was carried by Sir Charles to Sir Robert Peel, who referred him to Sir George Cockburn, who, as usual, threw cold water upon it, and expressed, accord ing to Sir Charles Napier's report to myself, something very like an intention of keeping me in the back ground —an intention which I hope, by the powerful aid of the press, to frustrate. Sir Charles stated in the House of Commons, in his usual fashion of playing first fiddle, that he had offered me a ship to be anchored off South Sea Castle, and that he had offered to insure me a hand some remuneration in the event of success, but that I had not accepted his offer. Not a word about the written offer carried to Sir Ro bert Peel and Sir George Cockburn. In the House Sir Charles joined the ranks of Lord Ingestre's opponents, and ridiculed, in unseemly language, that Noble Lord, for whose disinterested conduct in advocating and sus taining my cause I can find no words sufficiently expres sive of my gratitude—but he did not repeat the terms in which he spoke of Sir Robert Peel and Sir George Cockburn, neither will I encumber your columns with them. But I will, in the face of the world, for what is pub lished by the press of England is read by the whole world, and that there may be no further mistake, misun derstanding, or misrepresentation about the matter, re peat the offer I instructed Sir Charles Napier, in terms of his own dictation, to submit to her Majesty's Govern. ment. IF THE GOVERNMENT WILL ANCHOR A LINE-OF BATTLE SHIP AT THE BACK OF THE GODWIN SAND, OUT OF THE SHIP TRACK, SO THAT NO HARM MAY HAPPEN TO PASSING VESSELS, I WILL FROM ON BOARD ANOTHER SHIP DESTROY HER AT A DISTANCE OF FIVE MILES. I AM WILLING TO TAKE ON BOARD THE VESSEL IN WHICH I OPERATE GENERAL SIR GEORGE MURRAY, CAPTAIN VISCOUNT LORD INGESTRE, R.N., CAPTAIN DICKENSON, R.N., AND CAPTAIN HENDERSON, R.N., WHO SHALL HAVE EVERY OPPORTUNITY OF INSPECTING MY MODE OF OPERATION, AND SATISFYING THEMSELVES THAT ON THIS OCCASION I USE A PROJECTILE. THE KIND LIBERALITY OF MY FRIENDS ENABLES ME TO EXHIBIT THIS EXPERIMENT WITHOUT ASKING THE GOVERNMENT FOR A SHILLING TOWARDS IT. IF I FAIL I AM TO RECEIVE NOTHING BUT RIDICULE OF WHICH I HAVE RECEIVED QUITE ENOUGH TO SATISFY ANY REASONABLE MAN ALREADY. BUT PREVIOUSLY I REQUIRE A GUARANTEE FROM HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT FOR ITS PURCHASE OF MY SECRET FOR 300,0001. IN THE EVENT OF MY DESTROYING THE SHIP, AND SATISFYING THE FOUR ABOVE-NAMED OFFICERS OF THE FEASIBILITY AND PRACTICABILITY OF MY PLANS. Lastly, I invite Sir Howard Douglas, Sir Byam Mar tin, Sir George Cockburn, Colonel Chalmers, R.A., and Commander Coffin, R.N., to attend in another vessel and watch proceedings. I am, Sir, your very obedient servant, London, 20th Aug., 1844. S. A. WARNER. IPSWICH, AUG. 12.—The late severe gales have caused very considerable loss of life and property on the southern and western coasts. Intelligence has just reached this place of the total wreck of a schooner called The Whim, Thonne, master, with all hands. The ill fated vessel belonged to this port. The fact was com municated to the owners by means of a letter addressed to the postmaster by Mr. Lambert, keeper of the Lizard light, who says:—" On Friday night the wind blew a strong gale from the S.E , and between twelve and one o'clock on the following day it shifted to W., blowing very severely. A vessel was wrecked outside a high breaker, called the Smaller Gull rock, in Kynan's cove— s very dreadful place for any vessel to get into, being full of rocks. She was so entangled by her chains, that the hull has not come ashore. She was laden with malt and beans. Some of the cargo has come ashore; also her stern and the stern of a small boat corresponding. One body has been washed ashore, a fine youth, about 17 or 18 years of age, with light round features, no beard, and about 5 ft. 6 in. high. Every respect has been paid to the remains. On Saturday I went to Ky nan's cove to ascertain the position of the wreck. I saw the sternboard of this vessel—she is called The Whim, and gilt on her boat's stern is the name ' John Thonnes.' The whole is a total wreck." It has been ascertained that the crew consisted of the captain, the mate, Robert Upsam, two seamen, named Jolly and Dean, and the lad whose body has been cast ashore. The captain and mate have left wives and families to deplore their loss; the sailors were single men. I understand that the ship and cargo were insured. Kynan's cove, the scene of this, as of many former disasters, lies within a short dis tance of the Lizard light. It is considered by nautical men as the most dangerous point of the coast for vessels to approach when driven landward by stress of weather. —Norwich Mercury. At Wivenhoe, the storm of Saturday last raged with great fury. The " Prince of Wales," a fine vessel of 243 tons, taken as a prize during the war, was wrecked on Saturday afternoen on the Mouse sands. The vessel was under the command of Capt. Brown, and was on her way for the port of London, when she struck. The " Hope," under the command of Capt. Powell, came up, and succeeded in saving the captain and crew. A vast number of vessels have been obliged to take shelter in the different harbours along the coast, having many of them received damage which will for some time pre vent them from sailing again.—Norwich Mercury. THE TWELFTH OF AUGUST.—Monday last was an admirable day for those who wished to enjoy the recrea tion of the moors ; the birds, we understand, are nume rous, and afford much sport. On Saturday last Mr. Justice Coltman arrived, from Warwickshire, at the Oaks, Turton, to enjoy the hospitalities at the residence of H. Ashworth, Esq., and two or three days upon the moors.—Bolton Free Press. GAMEKEEPERS AND THE GAME•LAWS.----A bulky return of all inquests held by the coroners of England and Wales, since the year 1833, upon the bodies of gamekeepers, and the number of persons convicted of offences against the game-laws during the year 1843, &c., has been printed by order of the House of Commons —having been moved for by Mr. Mainwaring and Mr. Bright. A summary being given of the latter branch of the return, we are enabled to state, for the informa tion of our readers, that the gross total number of culprits convicted of such offences in the various coun ties of England during the year 1843 amounted to 4,402, of whom 144 were convicted at the assizes, and 4,258 at petty and quarter sessions. In Wales 127 were convicted—namely, 8 at the assizes, and 119 at quarter and petty sessions. It follows, therefore, that the grand total number of convicti ons b oth in England and Wales, during the past year, amounted to 4,529, of whom as many as 4,377 were convicted at courts of quarter and petty sessions. LATE COACH ACCIDENT.— A gentleman, on whose a ccu r a cy we can rely, has favoured us with the particu lars of the accident to the Prince of Wales . coach ; they are briefly as follow:—Friday last, on the Colchester side side of Cobdock-hill, near to Mr. Josselyn's, the axle of this coach snapped close to the nut, causing the wheel immediately to come off. The coach, however, proceeded on three wheels for upwards of 300 y ar d s , t h e coachman and front passengers being ignorant of the circumstance. Suddenly a loud scream was uttered by a lady who was endeavouring to jump off the coach, and which she at last effected, although a young gentleman who accompanied her did all he could to prevent o il. w The coachman pulled up as quickly as possible, doing so the coach dropped downupon the arm a of the axle, causing several passengers to fall off We are glad to state that no injury whatever was sustained by those who thus fell. Of the lady who threw herself off we are sorry to report that she sustained a severe contusion of the right hip and elbow, with fracture of the leg. Her medical attendant (G. G. Sampson , Esq.) informs us that her case is going on favourably. The painful nature of the accident is added to, from the - - fact that the lady (Mrs. Roper) with her husband and `heir way to Bungay, to visit the lather -of- who is seriously ill. Ipswich Expre ss . Visa. left town yesterday for Lincoln shire. Now ready, in 2 vols., small Svo., 21s. bound, IV I N R IN ITALY. By Mrs. ASHTON . YATES. Mrs. Ashton Yates has published other journeyings and records of travel of considerable liveliness and interest. The volum s beforo us are not less agreeable reading. The book Is instructive as well as pleasant. Reading and observation are nicely blended in it, and the writer gives every evidence of a tasteful and accomplished woman." —Examiner. Also just published, by the same Author, AN AUTUMN IN SWITZERLAND. SECOND EDITION, in 1 vol., 10s. 6d. bound. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great MarNorough-street. THEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM, LATE ENGLISH O[ ERA- HOUSE. Under the Management of Mrs. KEELEY. Another great Achievement Successfully Triumphant !! I To attempt to eulogise the gorgeous splendour of the New Extra va ganza of Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, or New Lamps for Old Ones," would be a work of supererogation ; the Manage ment, therefore, contents itself by simp l y stating that it will be repeated every Evening THIS EVENING, AUG. 21, Will be repeated a New Drama, entitled MARTIN CHUZZLE. WIT. Principal characters by Messrs. R. Younge, F. Vining, Emery, F. :Mathews, A. Wigan, Meadows, Kinloch Turner, Stanton, J. W. Collier, Yarnold, Sanders, and Keeley; Miss For tescue, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. A. Wigan, Mrs. Woollidge, Miss Groves, Mrs. Usher. Miss Turner, and Mrs. Keeley. To conclude with an entirely Original, and much bettor than New, Grand Operatic, Romantic, Melo-Dramatic, Burlesgre Extra vaganza, founded on the celebrated Eastern Pale, in the Arabian Nights' Entertainment, entitled ALADDIN AND THE WON DERFUL LAMP; or, New Lamps for Old Ones. With very extensive New Scenery, Machinery, Dresses, &c. Principal cha acters by Mrs. Keeley, Messrs. F. Matthews, Turner, A. Wigan, J. W. Collier, and Keeley; Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Woolli ige, Miss E. Chaplin, Mrs A. Wigan, Miss Turner, Mt s James, Miss Carson, Miss Hunt, Miss Reede, &c., &c. PRICES OF A DlillSblON.—Balcony Poxes. 41. ; Upper Boxes, 35.; Pit, 2s.'; Gallery, 6d. Second Price—Balcony Boxes, 2s. ; Upper Boxes, is 6d.; Pit, P. Private Boxes on the it•-or,•my Tier Pholding eight persons), Tao Guineas. Private Boxes on the Second er (holding eight persons), One Guinea and a-Hal& Private Boxes on the Pit 'Pier (holding six persons), One Guir ea The Box- dice is open from Ten to Four o'Clock, under the di ree tion of Mr. Grogan, late of Covent-garden Theatre. Powerful Attraction at ASTLEY'S ROY AL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS. Proprietor a, d Manager, Mr. BATTY. First Week of the Eppgensent of the celebrated Mr. Carter, the Lion King, with his splendid Collection of Lions, Tigers, Leopards, &c.—Chlaese War—Corps of French Equestrian Artistes—Mr. Batty's b autiful Stud of Trained Horses—New Scenes in the Circle, forming a Combinztion of Novelties unequ lied in one Evening. THIS EVENING. AUG. 21, Will be repeated the Eastern Spectacle of MUNGO PARK; or, The Lion Tamer of the Niger. Karfa, the Arab, Mr. Carter, wh ?real he will introduce his beautiful performance with his trained animal , , lions, tigers, &c., in the cage, and on the open stage drive a in harness. Combats with the monarch of the forest, and other new extraordin ry feats. N w Scenca in the Circle by the British and Foreign Equestrians, M lle. }Wine, toe French rider. trained steeds, &c. To conclude with an entire new E tuestrian, Military and Naval Spectacle, entitled THE CHINESE WA it; or. The Conquests of Amoy by British Arms. New Scenery, Diesses, Appointments, &c., to realise the recent triumphs of England's Army and Navy. Feast of 250 Lanterns. Acting and stage -+n snager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. Box-office open from Eleven till F.ve. Lessons in thu Art of Riding by Mr. R. Smith. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE Positively the last Ten Nights of the Opera Season. THIS EVENING, AUG. 21, Will be performed Rossini's Fairy Opera of CINDERELLA ; or, The Little Glass Slip;:er. Supported by Miss Romer, Miss Betts, hiss E. Terry, Miss I'earson, Messrs. D. W. King, Leffler, E. L. Hime. S. Cowell, R. Honner, &c. Conductor, Mr. G. Stansbury, with double Band and Chorus. After which, a New Operetta, written by J. B. Buckstone, Esq , and compo ed by E. Htzwilliam, Esq., entitled a SUMMER NItIITT'S LOVE, supported by all the Vocalists. To conclude with THE WARLOCK OF THE GLEN. Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box office, from Eleven to Four. STRAND THEATRE. PHIS EVENING, AUG. 21, Will be performed MARTIN CHUZZLEWIL Young Martin huzzlewit, Mr. Rinoe; Otil Martin Chuzzlewit, Mr. Ayliffe; Jonas Chuzzlewit, Mr Attwood; Montague I Mr. Roberts; Tom Pinch, Mr. Biddies; Mr. Pecluniff, and Mrs. Sairey Gamp, Mr. H. Hall; Mary Graham, Mrs. Coleman Pope. After which, a New and Original Burlesque, entitled THE WON DERFUL LAMP, in a New Light, bein t an Illustrated Version of Aladdin. Abanazar, Mr. Paul Bedford; Aladdin, Mr. Wright ; Princess Badroulbadour, Miss E. Stanley. To conclude with Selby's Farce of THE NEW FOOTMAN. Bobby Breakwinchw, Mr. Attwood; Polly Picnic, Miss Carter. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. On MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, and T .-lURSDAY, throughout the Season, the Gardens will open with the following attractive Novelties : THE PICTURESQUE GROUNDS—FEEDING OF THE ANIMALS-UNRIVALLED MENAGERIE. MODELS of VENICE and LONDON in the OLDEN TIME, Painted by Danson and Telbin. The sensation caused by this unrivalled production is beyond all former precedent; the artist, the amateur, the casual observer are all struck with its extraordinay beauty and fidelity of deltnea tion,,.d -re unanimous in pronouncing it the most wonderful ex hibition ever witnessed. To view it only as a vehicle for the terrific display at Dusk is unjust; it should be seen in the calm stillness of the quiet Evening, with its Towers and Steeples reflected in the spa cious Lake, to be Maly appreciated. The Evening PROMENADE CONCERTS on Mon 'aye, Tues days, Wednesdays, and Thursdays comucted uy Mr. Godfrey, are upon a scale of more than usual excellence; nut words fail in doing justice to the awful representation of THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON. Its fearful :..h.iracteristics are truthfully pourtrayed, but at the same time so beautifully blended with the Wonders of the Pyrotechnic Art, ►hat delight is predominant over terror; and the Thousands who nightly crowd the Gardens hail it with acclamations, and admit that L'outhby, the Unrivalled Pyrotechnist has achieved a matchless triumph. The tial dens and Zoological Collection are in the most perfect state, And combining so many and interesting features, are by far the most attraltive lounge in or near the iretroi.oli% Doors open at Nine—Feeding ot the Animals at Half-past Four— Concert at Half-past Five.—Conflagration at Dusk. Admittance, One Shilling. EGYPTIAN HALL, PICCADILLY. IMPORTANT NOTICE. ONE SHILLING Admission to V THE NAPOLEON MIT ,EU3I, the most magnificent and extensive Coils:Alen of Histo deal Curiosities and Works of Art ever known to have been formed `iy One Person, during Twenty-five years of elaborate research, at a ost of 60,000 guineas, and to completely illustrate, in the most in 'tructive and interesting manner, the most important part of Euro pean history, viz.—CHARLES 1., OLIVER CROMWELL, and LOUIS XIV., to the deaths of GEORGE 111., and the EMPEROR APOLEON, in 1821. This unique Museum has been vigited often, luring the last and present year, by the Royal Family, the Duke of Xellington, the Foreign Princes, Ambassadors, and their Ladies, tiso, many thousands of thu Nobility and Public ; and the Pro 'victor has recently been able to inci ease, by several very fine *tures, &c.. his previous almost inerelible number and variety of NESS., Works of Art, and a multitude - A valuable Relies, and other curiosities, in this most instructive and. as hundreds have said it ought to be, a Nationa: Museum. vary thousand have Inspected it, and THIRTY PRINCIPAL EDITORS of the PUBLIC`, PRESS lave stated that It ought to be.seen by every one. The price of admis 'ion is reduced to ONE SHILLING. The NAPOLEON, MUSEUM is to lA. seen only at the " Egyptian fall," Piccadilly, daily ft om Ten till Dusk. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, Atm 21. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 52 ; Highest, 74; Noon, 60, BAROMETER, 29.87.—Wm, N.W. NOTE.—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the reezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is signally placed opposite 30, and rain at 29. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS D \ Y. ' , finning ...::0 minutes after 6 I Evening ...56 minutes after 6 pi 113,, On - thi the-afferer, Mat 110 e 1 , --,i; • • TtA: 4l ' 11,74 , • sc ot E 51 h # • k 45: ;111 *V ' -**l , ss , ~-4111111. L. . f , f! • 1 11 7 , 7*, it 0 It SECOND EDITION. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 21, 1444 J' tititill 11 (,--z , - itIV . , LONDON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1844. The calm which has followed the noisy and multi tudinous meetings of the members of the Repeal As sociation, since the imprisonment of Mr. O'CONNELL and his friends, is a remarkable feature in the present times. But a few months ago all Ireland was in com motion, nothing but separation was talked of; now we have only the echo of the mighty sound. The Tories, of course, rejoice in this. They say, " it is their thunder," but they are grievously mistaken if they imagine that the wrongs of that country are to be hushed by State prosecutions, or the spirit of liberty which animates the people is to be put down till their grievances are redressed, and they are placed on the same footing with Englishmen and Scotchmen. We have said all along that Mr. O'CONNELL committed a great blunder in resting the salvation of his country on the repeal of the union, and every man who wished well to Ireland saw with regret that the false policy which he adopted only became more ruinous by the attacks which he made on the Saxons, on almost every man of note; in England and Scotland, and, above all, on the men who bad done and suffered much for his country. The Whigs and the Liberal party, and among them we include many Tories, paved the way for Catholic Emancipation, and it required only the finishing stroke of Mr. O'CONNELL to make it complete. But what would have been the state of the Catholics at the present time, if the House of Commons had not been divided against itself, if CANNING and CASTLE REAGH, and many others of the same party, had not fought as manfully for emancipation as the best Ca tholics ? WOUld WELLINGTON or PEEL have yielded if the Legislature had been as unanimous on that point as they are on the question of repeal ? Ireland is a populous country, it contains many brave men— men fit for the highest offices in the State and the army—but it is now what it has ever been, only an appendage of Great Britain, and could not exist with out her. To carry a repeal of the union with out the consent—nay, we may say, in direct opposition to, the universal national will in this country, and in opposition to a vast majority, too, of the influential classes in Ireland—is an utter impossibility. Great Britain would sacri fice everything to:avert such a calamity. No foreign war could terrify her into such an act of suicide — even the French and Americans united against her, would only rouse the energies of the people, and make them strive for the integrity of the empire as they would strive for life. It is true that in times of difficulty Ireland has obtained a partial redress of grievances, but the abatement of these grievances was advocated, not by Irishmen alone, but by many of the first statesmen, and by a large proportion of the people of England.ls there one Englishman or Scotch man that advocates repeal ? We can make allowances, for Mr. O'CONNELL. His cry for repeal was only the effect of despair. He had tried every legitimate means in Parliament to raise his country to the level of Great Britain ; he had made motion upon motion, and sometimes succeeded in the Commons, but in the Lords his applications were invariably rejected with insult. • The Tories came .intolpower, Orangemen were selected to rule over Catholics, every place of ' trust, of emolument, and honour, was given to the enemies of seven millions of people, and he then broke through the rules of prudence, and, as the last hope, demanded repeal. Had he taken any other subject; had he taken the gorgeous Church, with 600,000 Protestants, or the poor Catholic Church, the only guardian, friend, and protector of the native popula tion, without a penny of tithes or public money, yet administering consolation, and performing every ' religious rite and ceremony to a population more than ten times as numerous, the case would have been different. But these are only a few of the real grievances of Ireland, and had Mr. O'CONNELL chosen any one of them, or of twenty others that he could have easily discovered, he would have found support both from Saxons and Celts. He has lost a fine game. In a fortnight we believe he will be set at liberty, and we trust he will then pursue a course in which all the friends of independence and the integrity of the empire can join with him. We can find nothing in the intelligence from Mo rocco which has any tendency to modify the suspi cious complexion attaching to the proceedings of the French in that territory. But the general tenor of all the advices which have yet reached Paris or London from the scene of action is well calculated to confirm the gravest apprehensions we have from time to time intimated of the duplicity that has suggested, that conducts, and that will attempt to vindicate, these hostile operations of the fleet and army of France. As events evolve themselves, we shall become sensible to all the extent of Sir ROBERT PEEL'S credulity, and the moral effect of Lord ABERDEEN'S unmeasured compliances with the craftily-insinuated wishes of the French Cabinet. The Earl of MINTo has read his memorable lesson to our own Government on the enormous disproportion of our naval force to the exi gencies of the present juncture just in time to prelude the bombardment of the walls of Tangiers by a head strong young gentleman, of whose good faith and honourable dispositions towards this country her MAJESTY'S Government have not hesitated, up to this moment, to profess their intimate conviction. 'What ever was wanting at the time to give effect to our ci-deviint head of the Admiralty's masterly expose of the condition of our navy, has been since contributed by the evidence of significant facts. Among the vessels of many European nations which witnessed this holiday display of French aggression, as neutral sirctators, was one English ship of the line—" the" Mediterranean "Fleet," probably, to which Lord MINTO so happily alluded the other day. Flushed with a pardonable vanity, and in the dangerous ex citement of a somewhat equivocal success in his debiit as a bombardier, the young French Prince, according to the Spanish papers, is determined to give a series of these impressive demonstrations, to which the affair of Tangiers is to serve only as an introduction —and our flag, we presume, is to have the honour of giving additional "eclat." " Tangiers has been bombarded," says the Heraldo, " and the Prince DE JOINVILLE is preparing to attack Mogadore and the other forts on the coast of Mo rocco lf, ere the Prince again sailed from Cadiz, he did not receive satisfactory intelligence, he would proceed to bombard Mogadore, Sallee, and La rache, but without effecting a landing or taking pos session of any point on the coast." This nautical Prince is coming out formidably indeed ; and our own relations with the African ally, whose disgraces and humiliation we witness in a single man-of-war, as if we were attending the French Prince as part of his squadron of honour, must be allowed to be most in telligible and edifying. What can it all mean ? There are two or three preliminary actions in this strange embroilment which have never been publicly stated or recognised. In the first place the account of the grievous injury or insult offered by the Moorish authorities to the authority and flag of France have been proclaimed only in such vague and declamatory terms as leave anything and everything to surmise— little or nothing sufficiently tangible for discussion. In the second (as we observe some of the French journals themselves complain), what the nature of the ultimatum addressed by the Prince to the Emperor on the part of France really is, has never yet transpired. Not even the heads of it have been made known ; and at this moment the French public are as profoundly ignorant whether the rejection of the terms which it may have comprised afford a sufficient justification for the hostilities which their officers have precipitated, as we are. Then as to the " brilliant affair" of Tangiers, of which they speak with so much unction, it would appear to have been a display involving somewhat less of personal exposure or peril to the blockading force than a military sham-fight on a great scale, if we may judge by the relative casualties generally re corded of such exhibitions and of this bombardment. The largest number reported by the French accounts of killed and wounded, together, on their part, is but twenty-five ; the lowest—(and this is given on very respectable and disinterested authority) —announces that the destruction of two boys of their fleet was the whole extent of the French loss. Leaving this bombardment of Tangiers to make all the noise it will do, we recur to the conduct of our Ministers, with respect to the general policy adopted by the French Government, in their dealings with Morocco, as a very much more important topic. When Sir ROBERT PEEL was appealed to, at the close of the session, he declined any statement of the views or opinions of her MAJESTY'S Government on the subject. He treated the questions put to him as if they were urged in the worst possible taste—were inopportune, and even offensive. He talked as gin gerly of the conduct and objects of France in the matter as if we had not the shadow of a reason for impugning, or even suspecting them. In short, both Sir ROBERT PEEL and Lord ABERDEEN seem still afflicted with the same fatuity as they, when members of a former Government, and their successors in office assuredly were, on the military seizure and territorial occupation of Algeria. Even the Duke of WELLINGTON could assign no better vindication for his political friends and colleagues, who had allowed themselves to be entrapped into a belief of the assur ances of the POLIGNAC Administration that France would not occupy, than to predict that Algeria would prove the grave of many French armies if the design of occupation were once carried out. It was early in July, 1830, that Algiers surrendered to Marshal BOURMONT. It was during the close of that session of our Parliament, and again in the commencement of the next, - that these abrogations of the French Cabinet were formally announced by her MAJESTY'S Cabinet Ministers ; and it was in May, 1834, that the French Ministers informed the two Chambers that the French Monarch meant to occupy and retain permanent possession of these African dominions. In vain had it, meanwhile, been represented to our Government by many intelligent and leading Members of the Houses of Peers and Commons, that we were suffering France to lay stealthily the foundations of a Mediterranean influence and force, which in a few years even our possession of Gibraltar and of Malta would not countervail. These remon strances were entertained with as much apathy and coldness in 1830 and 1834, as their renewal was greeted with three weeks ago by Sir ROBERT. His short speech, on this last occasion, was so inane and unmeaning, that it is to be hoped he will, in the re cess, read up (as is his wont, touching subjects for the abrupt agitation of which he is not prepared) a little information on the geographical and political bearings in which the progress of French "acquisi tiveness" on the African shores of the Mediterra nean, assumes really some sort of importance. He may find, too, that it would have been an object of no little moment for the possessors of Gibraltar to have made some effort to secure the protection of even so inconsiderable a town as Tangiers, seeing that from it, as well as from Tetuan and Larache, we derive large supplies of bullocks, grain, and other indispen sable provision stores. There are such things, too, as extensive British commercial interests to be secured against the threatened annihilation of Mogadore—if larger political considerations cannot move the very comprehensive mind and independent spirit of our Premier. As far as we can judge at present, we are compelled to say that the course which Louis Pm turn has adopted in this instance cannot be regarded by honest men without the severest reprobation. Both his French MAJESTY and M. GUIZOT, his Minister, with the largest professions of a love of peace upon their lips, and the most philosophical appreciation, in theory, of its infinite blessings, are really playing a double game, and fomenting and aiding the war craving of the reckless masses of the French people. It is at all times at once a violation of the received maxims of State policy adopted by every Cabinet in Europe, and a signal indecency on the part of the French Government in respect of Morocco, as a Power with which we have diplomatic relations, and extensive trading intercourse, to commit to a Prince of the blood—a very young one, too—the conduct of an armament with such a destination, and under such circumstances, as this expedition against Morocco. Nor is it possible to run away from the suspicion that such a charge would never have been confided to such hands by a man of Louis PHILIPPE'S extraor dinary sagacity and cir:umspection, if he had not reasoned in his own mind, after this project, as an ex cellent means of propitiating the extreme movement party among his subjects, with whom he is so un popular, without at once breaking through all " his pledges and responsibilities to the Government and people of England." "If" (he must have argued) " these hostile demonstrations produce the effects w e desire and anticipate, they will not only establish my popularity with my people, but will secure to my children and successors the permanency of the throne I shall leave to them. If, on the other hand, these demonstrations fail, the British people and all Europe will readily accept my plea of having been committed by the rashness and presumption of a giddy boy." Heartily do we trust, that if this notion be a well founded one, such tortuous policy on this, as on all other occasions, may be destined to signal and disgraceful failure. That it will ,be, we little doubt, for another reason. The French cannot conduct successful colonisation anywhere; and whilst there is this national disability about them, so long will they furnish a long and melancholy fulfil ment of the Duke of WELLINGTON' S prophecy. Al geria will be a grave—a charnel-house, which they will yet be too happy to abandon ; hut which they will not have left until some of the bravest blood of France has moistened its arid plains, and the most honoured bones of its commanders and its soldiery be bleaching among its rocks and mountains, on its sands, and among its creeks and bays. The Marshal BUGEAUD himself, instead of infusing into the bar barised minds of the Moorish and Arab population a respect for the rights of humanity, and the civilising influences of modern European government, disgrace, his profession and dishonours his country by the reck less adoption of all the exterminating processes of Arab warfare. He borrows from their ignorance and ferocity the dreadful scourge of his rehzias, his expeditions of pillage and murder with fire and sword. He adds the curse of famine to the sterility of a burning climate, and enhances by the wanton sacrifice of all husbandry and tillage, their labour, and their products, new desolation to the deserts ! Here is the key to the elevated, national, and high principled career he is pursuing:—"Ali that we know," says the Correspondent of the Times (from Oran, under date of the Bth instant), "of Marshal BUGEAUD is, that he has advanced beyond Ouchda a considerable distance. On a former occa sion he had advanced, and burnt and destroyed every thing before and around him within a circle of some forty square leagues (!) The Marshal will certainly advance upon Fez, and then proceed with all haste to Mequinez, where it is pretended that the negro guards protect a treasure of some 11,000,000 of dollars. Madrid journals of the 13th have been received, and contain the long-talked of decree for suspending the sale of church lands. It is given in the Gazette in these words : " Art. 1. The sale of the property of the secular clergy and of religious communities shall be suspended until the Government, in accordance with the Cortes. shall determine on the most suitable course to be pur sued. " Art. 2. The revenues of the said lands are to be appropriated to the support of the secular clergy and of religious communities. " Art 3. The Minister of Finance is charged with the execution of the above decree." This decree has caused great dissatisfaction among all classes. Original purchasers begin to fear fo] their property, and even the clergy receive the boon with a bad grace, as it deprives them of the admi nistration of the property. True it must be sanc tioned by the Cortes ; but that is a matter of no diffi culty. The elections are going on in favour of the Government, few Opposition candidates dare show their faces, and, in all probability, the next Cortes will be the most obsequious assembly ever sum moned. Madrid Bourse on the 13th.—Three per Cents. for 60 days, 27k ; Five per Cents. for 60 days, 20 k ; Floating Debt of Treasury, 56k at 60 days. The bombardment of Tangiers has caused a great ferment in Paris. The war party believe they have now all but gained their point —a rupture between England and France, for Morocco and Otaheite are utterly lost in the stirring scene. The recollection of the Republic and the Empire alone pervade the spirit of " Young France," and " Down with the English" is the: watchword of the enemies of peace. Louis PuiLirrt has raised a storm which it will be difficult to allay, and which may excite anxiety in the stoutest breasts. The Government writers begin to see the danger of playing fast and loose, of exciting the passions of the !people at one time to war, and at another of telling them it is all a false alarm. The leading articles in the Globe and the Journal des Debats of Monday, are sufficiently pacific. If we are to believe them, Lord ABERDEEN and M. GuizoT regard the commotion in both countries with the utmost composure, and have no doubt that'good faith and justice will re-adjust all differences. we will hope for the best, but certainly during the last thirty years political affairs have not assumed anything at all like such an alarming attitude. It is needless to quote from the Opposition journals, for they con tain only a repetition of false statements, calumnies against England and her agents, and the usual ap peals to the youth of France to prepare themselves for the contest. It will ,be sufficient, therefore, to quote from the Ministerial journals, to show the pa cific tendency of the Government. The Journal des Debats thus adverts to the wicked schemes and base, lying rumours put forth by the Opposition papers : " We cannot too earnestly warn the public against being misled by the exaggerations which are resorted to in order to excite it. It is everywhere repeated that affairs are daily, and in all parts, assuming an alarming aspect, and this alarm has reached the Exchange and depressed the funds. If the cause be sought for, it is only necessary to read the Opposition journals, and it will be at once seen that the public mind cannot help being alarmed on daily finding in them rumours of the most apochryphal nature, all indeed equally de void of foundation. Some find the cause of this fall in the still problematical abdication of the Pacha of Egypt. We cannot speak seriously of those who issue their prophecies in Latin verse, or of those who announce that Count Nesselrode is gone to England, to offer Queen Victoria 800,000 men in the name of the Emperor Nicholas. We are curious to know where his Imperial Majesty of All the Missies is to find his million of men ; and we confess that we are no more disturbed by this perspective than by the famous Irish brigade which Mr. O'Connell placed at the disposal of the Duke de Bordeaux. Neither oan we find any terri fying symptom in the Marsellaise played and sung by the boys of Paris colleges at the distribution of prizes. All this may alarm the old women who read the Gazette de France. They do not fail to spread other reports even more grave, but which are equally untrue. They state that the news o f th e attac k upon Tang i ers was carried to. London by pig eons , an d t h at, on i ts arr ival, the Eng lish fund s f e ll 2 per cent. Now, the accoun t s received yeterday from London show that the news from Mo racco had scarcely any influence whatever on the funds, and, therefore, that all which had been said on the subject was misrepresentation. It has also been an nounced that the Chambers were about to be con voked, that the absent Ministers had been recalled, and that the Cabinet was come to an extreme crisis. We are not surprised that these reports should create some uneasiness; but we are astonished that they should have found any b e li e f . T here is noth i ng a b so l u tely within our knowl e d ge w hi ch can afford the s li g ht es t justifica tion for the alarms which have been spread abroad. The events which have passed within these last few days have nothing in them that has not been foreseen. That there are important questions remaining to be solved nobody can deny. But matters of equal consequence have heret o f ore been brought to a happy conclusion. It is a great point, a p o i nt o f the most vital importance , that the two Governm en t s w hi c h h ave to d i scuss these subjects of high interest ar e b ot h an i mate d w i t h t h e most concilia tory dispositi ons , t h e most am i ca b le i nten tions. When on each side th ere i s a s i ncere des i re to a tt a in a solution equally pacific an d honourable, it is impossible tha t i t should not be att a i ne d. W e repeat, t h ere fore, that no faith should b e g i ven to any one of t h e re p or ts put forth only for the p ur p ose o f exc i t i ng alarm. It is useless to seek for unkno wn causes to account f or the uneasiness which has been man if este d . Th e G overn ment conceals nothing. All facts are made known, and in them we can find nothing o f a nature to j ust if y th e fears ;which have been expres se d on t h e state o f pu bli c affairs. ' The Globe, in the same manner, attempts to prove that the danger is past : " 'lt cannot be denied that the situation of affairs be tween France and England has been singularly s.ggra vated during the last few days.' Such is the beginning of an alarmist article published by the Presse, whereas precisely the contr ar y i s t h e rea l state o f the case. Onr assertion will not sarprise an y p erson s, but those who are not in the habit of reflection. It is impossible, in fact, for any man of common sense, who shall have re flected only a quarter of an hour on what is passing not to be of our opinion. We assert that, ,within a few days, the situation of affairs between France and England has become slightly improved. There are two affairs on the Lapis—that of Morocco and that of Otaheite. What was he doubt, nay, the fear, that might arise in the minds of the partisans of peace relative to Morocco ? It was that England should protest against our attack upon the forts of that country. Assuredly, that would not have stopped the Prince de Joinville, but it was a grave difficulty, with war, perhaps at the end of it. The Opposition proclaimed loudly that England would not permit us to bombard Tangiers. Some Conserva tives might suppose that she would protest against such an act. There was, therefore, incontestably, some days back, a plausible motive for fearing, if not a rupture, at least an alteration in the friendly intercourse between the two countries. But the bombardment took place in presence of English men-of-war. The act which could have excited the uneasiness of the friends of peace, was lccomplished without any kind of opposition on the part of the European Governments, who were present, by their vessels, at this solemn demonstration. Is it not evident that the persons who entertaine 1 fears have now in uneasiness the less T How could the Presse declare that in this respect the situation of affairs has become worse ? The truth lies quite the other way—the situa tion is much better, since it is now known de visu, that England does not contest, in any respect the legitimacy ~f our demonstration against Morocco. Let us now ad vert to the affair of Otaheite, Let the first speech of air Robert Peel be borne in mind—a speech which, we acknowledge, might inspire the partisans of peace with serious alarm. We inquire if, from the time that that speech was delivered—which, we repeat, was of a nature to create alarm, had it not been , xplained by Lord Aberdeen,—all the circum stances ralativo to the affair of Otaheite have no )ecome less grave and less alarming ? Have not the facts become better known ? Can it be really supposed that the two Governments do not appreciate them better present than a few days back ? What then remains ? the recriminations of the journals and Methodist meet ngs. The English journals laugh at the Methodists, ind men of sense laugh at the journals, which, though leclaring that a war between France and England on account of Mr. Pritchard would be a ridiculous war, do sot the less persist on both sides of the Channel, in pre -ensions which would bring about this ridiculous war. the two countries are opposed to a ridiculous war, and md the two Governments will never wage one of that nature, Therefore, it is true to declare that the gra vity which could appertain to the affair of Otaheite when the facts were but imperfectly known, and which an English Minister spoke of without being well acquainted .vith them, no longer exists at present, when the facts ire cleared up and better understood, and subjected to the judgment of calm and kindly-disposed minds. Thus, In the midst of all this tumult excited by the press of the ;wo countries, the two men least anxiously occupied about it—they at whose feet this tempest of the ink-bottle wastes is strength—are Lord Aberdeen and M. Guizot. The rea son is, that they are well aware that all that is required to resolve the affair of Otaheite honourably and pa,cifi !ally, is good faith a n d j ust i ce ." _ _ _ Marshal SOULT, summoned from his country seat oy command of the KING, had unexpectedly arrived ►t Paris, and by a Royal ordinance, issued on Mon lay, was restored to his functions as Minister of War. The French funds again fell considerably on Mon lay, and towards the close of the Bourse the Three ,)er Cents. were quoted at 80f. 15c., and the Fives at 119 f. 75c. The following are additional extracts : " The ordonnance for breaking up the Polytechnic ichool is severely censured by the Opposition journals. The Debats has an article on the subject, which is an amplification of what it said yesterday. Whilst it ap- Jroves of the conduct of the Ministry, the Debats speaks vith indulgence of the pupils, and expresses a hope chat they will be allowed, under the reorganisation of the school on the improved basis, to resume their studies, and have an opportunity of pursuing the career for which they were intended, and which they would other wise have compromised by an act of imprudence. The Globe says :—‘ The Polytechnic School is broken up. supposing even—which is not the case—that the Go vernment had committed an abuse of power in the Aioice which it made of an examiner, the pupils ought aot the less to respect the decision of the Government. It was the Chambers, and not the school, whose busi ness it was to call the Ministry to account for its con .luct in this affair. We deplore the ruin of their Jrospects, which now affects three hundred young men, tnd we feel in particular for their families, who thus re ceive a sad return for the sacrifices which they have nade. But the Government could not hesitate. If the Polytechnic School, after such an act of insubordination, had not been broken up, it only remained to do one hing—to break up the Government.' " The Constitutionnel says :—" It is stated as certain •hat Marshal Soult, invited by telegraph to return to Paris, replied by the same channel, that he had resolved ro resign his portfolio, and that means might be taken to replace him. The nomination of M. de Mackau as ?rovisional Minister of War, therefore, must have been the result of this declaration ; but, at the same time, an orderly officer was sent from Neuilly to St. Amens, to entreat the Marshal not to persevere in his project." It is probable that the report given by the Constitution nel had no other foundation than mere speculation as to the motive of the ordonnance, dated the 17th, by which the portfolio of the Minister of War was confided par in terim to the Minister of Marine. At any rate, it is quite certain that the Marshal does not retire. It would ap pear as if the mere idea of such a report being propa gated had sufficed to induce Marshal SOULT to resume his portfolio, for the Moniteur of this day contains a Royal ordonnance, dated the 18th, which says : " The interim of the War Department, confided to the Minister of Marine by ordonnance of the 17th, ceases from this day, and Marshal the Duko de Dalmatie re sumes the signature of his department." THE BOURSE—MoNDAY, AUGUST 19. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. rrench Five per Cents 120 15 .. 120 25 .• 119 60 .. 119 60 Four-and-a-Half ..• • 112 75 .. 112 75 • • 112 75 .. 112 75 Four per Cen.s. lO5 105 .. 105 .. 105 Three per Cents••••• 80 70 .. 80 70 .. 80 15 .. 80 15 Bank of France. 3025 •.3025 • • 3020 ..3025 CORO Bank, 5,000 f. Sharesso6o .• 5060 —5060 ..5060 Belgian Bank. • 660 .• 660 • • 660 660 Belgian Fives,lß3l. 1840:•• ••• • • • 1041 .. 1041 • • 103+ • • 1031 -Vanish Active •••••• •• • • • • 30 .. 30 .. 30 .. 30 Portuguese Five per Cents • • 44 • • 44 . • 44 .• 44 Neapolitan •• • ...... . 97 80 .. 97 80 .. 97 50 .. 97 50 Roman .• • • 1041 •• 1041 .. 1041 .. 1041 . _ . RAILWAY SHARES. Versailles,R.B.— •• •••• •• •• 365 • • 365 • • 365 .. 365 L. 13 •••••• • • • • • • 225 .• 226 25 .. 222 50 .. 223 75 Rouen•• • 957 50 .. 958 7i .. 950 .. 950 Rouen to Havre •• 755 • • 735 720 .. 740 Orleans 951 25 .. 965 25 ..1940 .. 940 Strasburg to Bale•• .• •• •• •• 236 25 .. 236 25 .. 232 50 .. 232 50 Avignon to Marseilles.• •• •• 735 .• 735 720 .. 720 RAILWAY SHARES FOR THE ACCOUNT, 31sT OF AUGUST. versaffies, R. 8.• • •• • • • • • • • • 3G5 365 362 50 .. 362 50 L.B.•••••• •••• •• 227 50 .. 227 50 .• 222 50 .. 223 75 Rouen•••••••••••• 958 75 .. 960 .. 947 50 .. 947 50 Rouen to Havre.• ••••• • • • • • 732 50 .• 732 50 .• 720 .. 720 Orleans .......•••• •.•••• •• 955 • • 957 50 .• 937 50 .. 937 50 Strasburg to Rale • • • • • • • • • • 236 25 .. 236 25 .. 230 . 232 50 Avignon to Marseilles ••• • • • 750 • • 750 .. 735 735 COLONEL STODDART AND CAP TAIN CONOLLY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,—ln the letter which Dr. Wolff was forced to write at Bokhara, and which you had the goodness to insert at my request, the King of Bokhara proclaims to the world that he put to death Colonel Stoddart and Captain Conolly in the month of Sarratan 1259. The Christian date is not given in Dr. Wolff's letter, but for the information of the public I inserted within brackets what I had calculated as the English date. I committed a blunder. The correct date should be July (Cancer), 1843. Thus one very important fact appears. At the time I proposed to her Majesty's Government to proceed at my own cost, and on my own responsibility, to Bokhara, to attempt the release of Colonel Stoddart and Captain Conolly, these wretched men were ac tually alive! Trusting you will have the goodness to insert this letter, I have the honour to be, your obedi en t servan t , JOHN GROVER, Captain Unattached. Army and Navy Club, Aug. 20, 1844. BRITISH NORTH AMERICAN BANKS. Account, showing the whole Amount of the Debts and Assets of .the Bank of British North America, at the Closeof the Year 1843 ; showing, also, the Amount of its Notes pay able on Demand, which had been in Circulation during every Month of that Tear; together with the Amount of Specie and other Assets, distinguishing each Kind, immediately available in every such Month, for the Dis charge of such Notes. (Published pursuant to Royal Charter of Incorporation.) DEBTS. Sterling. ASSETS. Sterling. Circulation... £117,379 18 2 Specie....... £121,005 5 6 Other Liabili- Other Assets 1,593,675 6 1 tie 5........... 565,877 15 5 Total . .. £683,257 13 71 T0ta1....£1,714,680 11 7 1843. Notes in Cir- Specie. Notes of other culation. Banks. Halifax Cur- Halifax Cur- Halifax Cur rency. rency. rency. £ s. d. £ s. d. s. d. January 145,615 15 0 142,928 12 11 27.787 3 9 February 135,552 15 0 147,656 12 10 28,392 1 3 March ... 127,126 10 0 17 2,642 7 2 32,037 1 5 April 130,905 5 0 153,150 16 10 32,118 9 3 May 135,781 15 0 125,228 3 8 30,476 1 2 June 141,047 0 0 146,502 10 3 34,965 11 8 July 136,291 5 0 157,596 11 2 28,564 12 6 August . September 143,132 0 0 162,839 1 5 26,415 3 5 October November 157,201 10 0 129,887 2 6 25,781 11 10 December. 154,636 5 0 136,567 18 4 37094 9 9 By Order of the Court, G. DE B. ATI'WOOD, Secretary. - - - - MARMAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—The marriage of Capt. R. Bernal, M.P. for Wycombe, and Miss Cathe rine Isabella Osborne, sole heiress of the late Sir Thomas Osborne, and daughter of Lady Osborne, was solemnised yesterday at St. George's Church, Hanover-square. The Rev. Lord Augustus Fitzclarence officiated at the cere mony, in the presence of a numerous circle of the rela tives and friends of both families. The fair bride was given away by her uncle, Rear-Admiral the Hon. Gran ville Proby. THIS DAY S NEWS. MONEY AND COMMERCIALNEWS. There was rather a heavy market for Cotton at Liver. pool yesterday, the sales being 2,000 bales only, but at previous rates. Shares were languid at the following quotations :—Birmingham and Gloucester, 112; Caledo nian, 4/ ; Chester and Birkenhead, 31+ ; Chester and Holyhead, bit ; Dublin and Cashel, 6/ ; Grand Junc tion, 219 ; Ditto, Halfs, 109/ ; Great Western, Fifths, ; Lancaster and Preston, 39 ; Liverpool and Man chester, 203 ; ditto, Quarters, 50 ; London and Birming ham, 2221 ; Manchester and Birmingham, Quarters, 51 ; Manchester and Leeds, Quarters, 51 ; Mi !land Counties, 109 ; North Union, 1284 ; Scottish Central, 24 ; Trent Valley, 10k ; Ulster, 371 ; Paris and Lyons, 21. 10s. We have no late arrivals from any quarter to-day. The decree of the Spanish Government suspending the sales of national property, has at last come to hand, and we must say excites a feeling of very general disgust among those who were credulous enough to attach any sanctity to Peninsular State finance documents, however solemn in form and guarantee. The preamble of reasons assigned by M. Mon is, of course, only what might be expected, and will fail to exonerate either himself or or those associated with him in the Ministry, for such an act of wanton bad faith. Once in the ascendant, the Spanish clergy are not likely soon again to lose ground, and we may bid adieu to liberalism and reform for many years to come. A sug gestion, however, has been thrown out which may de serve attention, and that is whether the present decree is not a mere political ruse to influence the elections, as the suspension of the sales must be acquiesced in by the Cortes. Still, it should be borne in mind that if the mem bers are returned under the influence of the decree, they will in all probability be inclined to vote for its confir mation. The public securities are not so fiat as they were yes terday afternoon ; but it must be observed, that although the Bears may not be successful in reducing prices to the full extent of the first blush, when they make any sudden assualts upon the market, they generally effect some permanent reduction upon previous rates. Hence it is that Consols now realise only 981 4 for Money and Time, the Government broker having purchased at 9811 to the extent of 5,000/. Exchequer Bills brought 71s. to 745. premium, being somewhat firmer. East India Bonds, under 1,0001., are 945. prem. Bank Stock has been steady, at 199 k-. The New Three and-a-Half per Cents. are. 101+ to 101 ; the Reduced, 102 1 1 ,- to 101 i ; and the Three per Cents., 991 to +. The Foreign Stocks rule heavy. Spanish have been 22 to for the Active, and 32i to 33-k for the Three per Cents. Portuguese Converted are steady, at 44 1 4 ; and Mexican heavy, at 35+. Colombian remain at 13i; Bel gian are worth 102 i ; and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 61 to 61i. The Railway Shares have been tolerably good, and with a moderate business doing. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Bank Stock 199% 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 3 per Cent. Consols. Annuities 9 83(,14% 3% per Cent. Annuities, 1818 lOl% 336 per Cent. Reduced Annuities lOl% 102% 1017 New 3% per Cent. Annuities IOI%M 101 Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860 l2 7-.6% India Bonds,l,ooo Ditto under 1,000 94 Consols for Account Exchequer Bills, l%d. 136 d 1,000/. ........ ..•••••• ..... ••• ••••••• .... 72 73 pm. ............ 72 Ditto ....... ••••... ..... 72 pm. Ditto Advertised FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Belgian Bonds, 5 per Cent 102% Columbian Bonds. 13% Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent. ........ 3.5% Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent. Ditto Converted a 44 4 14 Spanish Bonds,. Five per Cent 1840 22 Ditto for the Account Ditto Three per Cent. Ditto for the Account 32% 33% 33 Dutch 2% per Cents 61%% Dutch 5 per Cents. lOO% PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. • RAILWAYS. PAID. Pal SHARE. Birmingham and Gloucester lOO .........112 Bristol and Exeter 7O 79% ... to Bristol and Gloucester Chester and Holyhead 5 ......... 6% Dublin and Cashel ... 2% 6%% ... to Eastern Counties Ditto Perpetual 5 per eent l3s. 4d.... Ditto Ditto (No. 2) ...... ... ........ ' Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O .... ..... 66% Ditto 4 Stares Great Western Ditto % Shares ........... .......... 50 London and Birmingham. lOO 224 Dit o % Shares London and Blackwell 16% ...... 7% ..... to London and Greenwich London and Croydon Lynn and Ely 1 1,4...... 4% Manchester and Leeds 7O ..... ....125 Midland Counties lOO "...MCI. ... . . to 109% Newcastle and Darlington Junct South Eastern and Dover .... ..... 32% Ditto New Trent Valley Whitehaven and Maryport Narmouth and Norwich lB ... 29 to York and North Midland Ditto Selby Scrip Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen 2O 37% MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, AUG. 20.—The market continues good, and a considerable amount of business has again been done. Blackburn, Burnley, and Accaington, 2i- ; Lancaster and Preston, 39 ; Lyme and Ely, 5i ; Manchester and Leeds, Quarter, 104 ; Man• chester, Bury, and Rossendale, 5* 4 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 544- ; ditto, Quarter, 5f ; North British, 565. ; Sheffield and Manchester, 83i 83 ; Trent Valley, 10 ; Boulogne and Amiens, 10s. prem. ; London and Greenwich, 9. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN-EXCHANGE—WEDNESDAY. Since Monday the arrivals of English Wheat have been on a very moderate scale, and we had scarcely any fresh samples of that grain. The finest parcels com manded a steady sale, at full prices. In other kinds, only a moderate business was doing. Fine Foreign Wheat was held at full ',prices, but the business doing was by no means extensive. Barley and Malt moved off slowly, at Monday's quotations. The Oat trade was very steady, and full prices were paid in every instance. Beans, Peas, and Flour, ruled about stationery. ARRIVALS. 3,500 Barley. Oats. Flour —qrs. 1,650 qrs. 2,270 sacks. 3,510 —. 17,310 Ma1t. r71 2%10 qrs. The supply of meat was only moderate, while the de mand was steady at full prices. Beef, from 2s 6d to 3s 6d ; Mutton, 2s 8d to 3s Sd ; Lamb, 3s 8d to 4s 8d; Veal, 3s 6d to 4s 4d ; and Pork, 2s 6d to 3s 10d per 81bs., by the carcase. Wheat. fr gish 1,210 qrs. Foreign LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, AUG. 21.—Wind N.W., light breeze, and cloudy. DEAL, AUG. 20.—A.m. Wind, N.W. by W. P.'_►l. W.N.W.—Arrd. Courier, Thomson, Bahia ; Hanford ham, Quebec. Sld. John, St. John's, New Brunswick. PORTSMOUTH, AUG. 20.—Wind W.N.W. to N.W.— Sld. Tudor, Calcutta ; Northumberland, Cape and Madras. COWES, Auc. 20.—Arrd. Joseph Duncan, London, for Berbice, with stern damaged, having been in contact with the Indus, from Hull to Africa, which has put in here, with loss of jib-boom ; Halifax packet, London for Swan River. PLYMOUTH, AUG. 20.—The Forth has come into the pool to discharge. GUERNSEY, AUG. 19.—Part of a stern•board, with " Norma " in white letters on a black ground, supposed to have been part of the word Normandie, and to come from the vessel lately wrecked on the coast, has been picked up. PWLLHELI, AUG. 19.—The smack Jane and Ellen, of Barmoutb, from Carnarvon to Southampton, in leaving Portnillean yesterday, missed stays and went on a reef of rock, and is expected to become a wreck ; cargo ex. petted to be saved. The wind is variable from S.W. to N.W., with very unsettled weather. A number of vessels are riding in Studwell Roads. LOWESTOFFE, Auo. 19.—The Caroline, Bakman, from Memel to Rotterdam, struck on the Lencon during a heavy gale yesterday, and fell over on her beam ends ; crew saved. LIVERPOOL, AUG. 20. —Wind N. W., fresh.—Arrd. Gardner, Parrington, Mobile ; Laurence Copeland, Baker, Apalachicola ; Agent, M'Auley, Miramichi ; Caithness-shire, Richebucto ; Anna, Quebec ; Highland Mary, Montreal. Sld. Science, Calcutta. olf, Dee, Africa. ICHABOE.—Arrd. John Walker, Liverpool ; Cathe rine M'Donald, Barbadoes ; Brutus, —. Her Ma jesty's steamer Thunderbolt, Favourite of Glasgow, and Sylvia, to sail June 25 ; Cleofrid, Lines, July 10 ; and Satisfaction, about July 20—about 49 sail in all. BANKRUPTCY.-(THIS DAY.) There were a number of cases on the paper this day before Mr. Commissioner Fane and Mr. Commissioner Fonblanque, btit none of those which were heard con tained one feature of interest to any excepting the par ties immediately concerned. GUILDHALL.-(THIS DAY.) A poor half-starved looking man was placed before Mr. Alderman John Johnson on a charge of having this morning broken one of the gas-lamps in Fleet -street. The poor creature, to inquiries from the worthy Al derman, said that he was starving, as he could get no work, and that he broke the glass to get into prison. Alderman JonNsersr—Have you applied to the union ? Prisoner—l did last night, and they refused me relief. Alderman JOHNSON—What is your trade?—A glazier. Alderman JouNsoN—Have you ever been in prison ? —I am just out of Tothillfields, where I was sent for begging. I cannot starve. The Alderman ordered that he should be taken to the West London Union. INCENDIARISM.—On Friday last a fire was disco vered to have broken out in a straw stack on the pre mises of Mr. Samuel Wm. Bacon, of Bull's Bridge farm, Hempstead, contiguous to a barn and extensive outbuild ings, but from the prompt and energetic assistance of the labourers and others present, was speedily extin guished. Sarah Jubson, aged 15, maid-servant in Mr. Bacon's house, was apprehended late on Friday night by Superintendent Oakley, and taken on Saturday before W. H. Layton, Esq., who remanded her to Dunmow station.—Essex Herald. _ _ ANGLING.—Last week was the best of the season for anglers. Sir Richard Sutton, Bart., caught 50 sal mon and grilses—one day's take in the Inver, amount ing to 9 ; another day at the Beauly 5, one of the fish weighing 171bs. J. M. Campbell, Esq., land 15 from the Laxford ; Colonel Hay 5 ; and from the Kirkeg Mr. Maxwell took 8. In the Ness, Sir H. Meux, Bart., Richard Arabic, Esq., and other gentl emen h ave taken Lome grilse.—Ross-shire Advertiser of Aug. 16. TRIAL OF BELANE Y. THE STEPNEY POISONING CASE. CRIMINAL COURT.—(THIS DAY.) OLD COURT` [ Mr. Commissioner; Bullock took his seat in this • Coin t shy rtly after nine a'clock, when the prisoners for , trial during the day were arrainged at the bar. Among - them was James Cockburn Belaney, the surgeon, who . pleaded Not Guilty, in a firm voice, to the charge of ; poi oniug his wife, Rachel Belany. The prisoner is by , no means a good-looking man, but has a morose and t sullen appearance. At ten o'clock the Judges, Mr. Baron Gurney and Mr. Justice Wightman, took their seats on the bench, when Belasey was again placed at the bar, and given I in charge to the jury by the Clerk of the Arraigns. He t was accommodated with a seat, and appeared to view the whole of the proceedings with great apathy. • The Solicitor-General, Mr. Bodkin, and Mr. Cham bers conducted the prosecution on behalf of the Crown ; and Mr. Erie and Mr. Clarkson appeared for the pri soner. , The SOLICITOR-GENERAL, on opening the prosecution, said that it now became his duty on the part of the Crown to state the serious and grave charge which existed against the prisoner at the bar, and in making • that statement he could not but feel the great respon sibility that devolved upon him. The prisoner at the bar was charged with occasioning the death of his wife by poison. New, in stating this important and solemn charge to the jury, he must take care on behalf of the • Crown that every fact, and the conclusions to be. drawn from those facts, should be fairly and fully stated to the jury, in order to enable them to form a correct and deli berate judgment on the case; and, on the other hand, he must be cautious that no facts and no circumstances should be unfairly pressed into the case against the prisoner, that no inferences should be rashly drawn to his prejudice, and that, in short, the whole trial should be conducted in that fair and impartial manner which always characterised the proceedings of the courts of I justice in this country. The case that he had now to lay before them was strictly one of circumstantial evidence. There was no doubt of' the death of the wife of the prisoner, and that , it was occasioned in consequence of her taking a quan • tity of prussic acid ; but the important question for the , jury to determine was, whether it was taken by mis take, in consequence of the prisoner having incautiously and inadvertently left it within his wife's power ; or • whether he was guilty of the serious offence of wilfully 1 administering it to her. The jury on coming to a con - elusion upon the facts submitted to them, must apply • their minds and exercise their reasoning powers pre cisely, on this most important occasion, in the same way as they would in the ordinary concerns of life, they would draw those conclusions from the facts which the facts ordinarily brought to their minds, and if upon the consideration of those facts they entertained any doubt, they would give the benefit of it to the prisoner. They were not, however, to be ingenious in suggesting doubts which would not occur to them in judging of the ordinary concerns of life. Having made these preliminary remarks, he would now proceed to state the circumstances of the case shortly to the jury. The prisoner at the bar was for some three or four years before the year 1843 in practice as a surgeon in North Sunderland—he was not practising under any diploma, and he was net able to state whether he had an extensive practice. The de ceased was the daughter of a Mrs. Skerrett, a widow lady. residing in North Sunderland. She was possessed of copyhold property, and had also a leasehold interest in some lime-works. On the Ist of February, 1843, the prisoner married the deceased, and he then gave up the practice of a surgeon, and went to reside with his mo ther-in-law, carrying on, and managing for her the business of the lime-works. Mrs. Skerrett did not long survive the marriage of her daughter ; she died in the July following. Upon the death of the mother the pri soner's wife came into possession of the copyhold. property, and also of the mines and lime-works, and the prisoner entered into partnership with a person named Robson in the mines. In 1843 Mr. and Mrs. Belaney attended a Court of the Lord of the Manor. She was admitted to the copyhold land, and surrendered it to the use of her husband, the prisoner. They con tinued to reside in North Sunderland till May in the present year. In the course of that month Mr. De laney signified his intention of bringing his wife up tg. London, leaving her there, and proceeding himself on an excursion up the Rhine. On the 31st of May two wills —mutual wills, were drawn up ; one by the wife, leaving her property to her husband in case she should die first, and the other by the husband, the prisoner, leav ing his property to her in case he should die before her. The execution of these wills were witnessed by a farm steward, and a shoemaker. The prisoner and his wife came up to London on the 3d of June, and on the following day they went in company with a person named Hobson to the house of a Mrs. HeP pingstall, in Green-street, Mile-end, and hired for three weeks two rooms, a front and back parlour, one of which was made into a bed-room. At about half-poeS four o'clock on that day, Mrs. Belaney appeared to be ie perfect health. She and the prisoner dined together, tval friends dining with them. They went out in the evenings; stating they were going to the Pavilion Theatre, an they did not return till twelve or' one o'clock on the fol.- lowing morning. On Wednesday, the next day, Mr. ; Belaney ordered his wife a black draught ; the persons in the house shortly afterwards heard Mrs. Belaney sick, and she remained in the house ill the whole day. On Thursday she seemed to be perfectly recovered ; she went out with her husband at ten o'clock in the morning and did not return till fivo o'clock ; they remained up till twelve o'clock ; she ap peared extremely cheerful and amused herself by playing the piano. On Friday she was also apparently in ex.- • cellent health. It might be right here that he should stop the thread of his narrative for the purpose of stating that on Thursday the prisoner at the bar went to a mir k geon of the name of Donoghue, at Stepney, whom he had known for three or four years. He told hin: that , he was in the habit of taking prussic acid medicinally , , and he requested him to get him some, as he himself could not get it genuin e ; b es id es th a t he ordered some ascitate of morphine and some other drugs. An ounce bottle of prussic acid, together with the other things he had ordered, were sent to him accordingly . He (the Solicitor-General) now came to the fatal day, Saturday, the Bth of June. Between six and seven o'clock in the morning of that day Mrs. Heppingstall , the landlady of the house, heard the prisoner and his wife conversing cheerfully together. About seven o'clock the prisoner rung the bell, and ordered a tumbler of hot water and a spoon to be brought to his room. About half-past seven o'clock he was in the parlour ; the ser vant was then dusting the room. He desired her to leave off, as he wanted to write some letters, and stated that he would ring when he wanted breakfast. In about * quarter of an hour afterwards the prisoner called for assistance. Mrs. Heppingstall ran up stairs ; and she there found Mrs. Belaney on the bed lying on her back, insensible, with her eyes closed, and something like foot' coming from her mouth. Mrs. Heppingstall said to the prisoner, "For God's sake, do something !" the desired the servant to go for hot water ; an d the feet of Mrs. Belaney were put into st pan of it. Mrs. Heppingstall said she had se en her own girls in fits, but she had never seen on n like that, to which the prisoner replied, " It is no fit-- u' :,. is a disease of the heart, of which her mother died twelv e months ago." He had a lancet in his hand, and observed that he would have bled her, but there was no move ment merit of blood in the heart. Mrs. Heppingstall then sa id " Won't you send for a doctor 2" to which the prisone r replied that he was one himself. Ultimately, however , medical man of the name of Garratt was sent for, bu upon his arrival Mrs. Belaney was no more. When Mr' Garrett came the prisoner asked him the cause of death , to which he replied, that it might be a disease of the heart. The prisoner said, " Very likely, as that was the disease of which her mother died 9 months before. Mr- G* then said that there must be a coroner's inquest, and tll prisoner at once assented to it. That inquest was he I ,`: on the 10th of June, but it was adjourned in order t he, a post mortem examination might take place. That examination was made by Mr. Garratt and a gentlem an named Furney, and from that examination it was ascer tained that in the stomach there was a sufficient quel l : tity of prussic acid to occasion death. The heart, he% ever, was found to be in a perfectly healthy state. 10 (:) ,,7 0 nine on the evening of the post mortem examinatio c n:A l prisoner, in company with some other persons, wi ns upon Mr. Garrett, to ask the cause of death. That we tleman gave him an evasive answer, the parties I !,v .at away, and the prisoner called again. He then said _; i „, he had been in the habit of taking prussic acid sae . % einally ; that he had had a bottle out of which he CO not get the stopper, that in endeavouring to do so ii s h broke the neck off ; th a t upon doing so he po ur e n the prussic acid into s o me wa ter in a glass that sve, s s i ee the bed-room, and that while he went into the osS room to get a bottle to put the acid in, be hel o , shriek, and that upon hurrying into the bed-room , _ ale Belaney said to him, " Oh, dear, I have taken of that hot driek, give me some water." T h e pe iso E s n s era upon being asked what he had done with the bottle, 00 1 , 3. that he had got rid of it in some vacant gam s Such was this sad transaction, and such the i!e_e :ao , given of it. Now, if he was correctly informed, e ti n r e J t o f would hear from the medical men that the i rg t hat prussic acid was to cause a shriek, and ti;:it w , arna the shriek volition ceased altogether ; and if tha. seinee y case, it would have been impossible for Mrs. pa to have said what the prisoner had stated se'i after she had taken the prussic acid. Added te !t t : he was informed it wa s the o pinion of medical men rg if proper remedies h a d b een em pl o yed, the lic e i l, wes er. Belaney might have been saved. The Cases n isre into was not to be left here—there were other partiCtus-enable which it was necessary he should go, in order to n , cas e. the jury to form a just conclusion in this imports :seer. After the apprehension of the prisoner, it w as h Sun , ' tamed that he had wr itt en t o hi s friends Nort rea d. derland, and some o f t h ose l etters h e would no w. a$ The first was dated on the sth of June, and Iv ° follows : "Euston Hotel, London, Jun e 5, 18445'50 "Dear Sir, —We arrived here yesterday even in g Mrs and sound, although to-day, I am sorry to „e, f p:' s su ele Belaney is rather unwell. The fatigue of travcl.l.,nn a distance, no doubt, to a constitution delicate live was sure to tell a little upon her ; and I think h er _ sl ; at er to bear up and carry all before her, has been g' than her strength was equal to. However, I in a day or two, after a good rest, she will all be ri 7' o again, and we will be able to proceed to Ar . li what, my brother's. She does not think very meet' to be e n. as yet, she has seen of London. That is easy han d, to on the one _nzi counted for, she not being over well,. seen al °b.:" enjoy anything ; and, on the other, having 5, A to.day, nothing of lessintert but crowded streets.. about fro °1 trustlbhiat leave this hote nd as I will be place to place, you had better dire in crro n i with to rev. bookseller s who I hayea arranged - lett.eir:otoonact tip t , lette 'Pri`( afte r of th ~ • has ; 111. c ow( be th e s t o be deaf} s t „ kii a 0 h, Tt Conte k 1 Ito rL 1 110 1 ' ter lls '