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EVENING EDITION, TREA SURY CHAMBERS, Saturday night, Aug. rO, 1839. IT having bten determined by the Viscount elbourne and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, subject to the approval of Parliament, that a funding of FOUR MIL LIONS of EXCHEQUER BILLS IN THREE PER CENT. CONSOLIDATED ANNUITIES shall take place, notice is hereby given that all persons who may be desirous of contracting for the funding of the said amount of four millions of Exchequer Bills now outstanding, dated in the months of March and June last, charged on Aids and Supplies, may deliver in proposals in sealed tenders on Friday the 16th inst. at the Treasury Chambers, at ten o'clock of the forenoon, containing the terms on which they are willing to enter into the proposed contract. It is proposed that the contractors shall deliver up the Ex chequer Bills to be funded by the following instalments, viz. : A deposit of 201. per Cent. on the execution of the Contract on the 16th August. £2O per Cent. on or before 27th September. 20 per Cent. on or before Bth November. 20 per Cent. on or before 20th December. 20 per Cent. on or before 31st January, 1840. It is further proposed that the Exchequer Bills shall be funded in Three per Cent. Consolidated Annuities, the interest on such Three per Cent. Consolidated Annuities to commence from the sth July, 1839. Subscribers completing their whole payments, on or before the 2d January, 1840, will be entitled to the first half-yearly di vidend on the said Consolidated Annuities, at the sth January, 1840. Subscribers not paying up the last instalment on or before the 2d January, 1840, will be entitled to a year's dividend on the Three per Cent. Consolidated Annuities at the sth July, 1840. Subscribers will be allowed to pay Exchequer Bills in ad vance, and to receive the interest upon the amount of Ex chequer Bills for the first instalment from the date of the bill up to the 16th of August, sad upon the amount of bills for each subsequent instalment from the date of the bills up to the day when the instalment would have become due. Scrip receipts will be issued by the Bank in the usual manner. The parties must' state the a mount of Exchequ B er ills pro posed to be subscribed by them, and also the amount of Stock in Three per Cent. Consolidated Annuities, which they are willing to receive for every 1001. of such Exchequer Bills. On the morning of the bidding, the Chancellor of the Exchequer will lay on the table, previously to opening the tenders, a sealed paper, containing the greatest amount of Stock that the Viscount Melbourne and the Chancellor of the Ex chequer would feel that they should be justified:in acceding to ; and in the event of the amount of Stock asked for in the several tenders exceeding the amount specified in the sealed paper, the sealed paper would, in such case, be opened, and the amount of Stock in it declared. AT the MEETING of the COUNCIL of the GENERAL CONVENTION, met at the Arundel Coffee-house, in the Strand, on Saturday, August 10, 1839, Moved by Mr. CA IC FENTER, seconded by Mr. O'BRIEN, and unanimously carried, That this Council h.s read with indescribable surprise and indignation the language stated to have been employed Isy Lord John Russell in the House of Commons last night, in which he imputed to the Chartists, as a body, the intention of taking the property of others to enrich themselves, an imputation which this Council repels, in the most unqualified terms, as a base calumny upon the people called Chartists— an imputation coming with a peculiar bad grace from a man whose family has been enriched by property plundered from the poor, and retained only by the aid of a large standing army and rural police; a man who is the apologist and upholder of a sys tem by which the industrious classes are deprived of the fruits of their labour for the aggrandisement of a base, oppressive, and truculent aristocracy. 4 - . ANDS IN NEW ZEALAND 41 The DIRECTORS of the NEW ZEALAND LAND COMPANY hereby give notice, that Orders for Land may be purchased at their Office, which will entitle the holders thereof to select Country Sections, either at the Company's principal Settlement, or at Ilokianga, Kaipara, tianukau, the islands of Wai-heke and Paroa, the borders of the Thames, or any other part of the territories already purchased by the Company, as soon as the same shall he surveyed. The holders of such Land Orders will also be entitled to claim from the Company a pas sage to New Zealand, free of cost, for themselves, families, and servants, to the extent of 60 per cent. of their purchase money. Further particulars as to the terms of purchase, may be ob tained on application to the Secretary. By Order of the Directors, JOFIN WARD, Seeretary. New Zealand Land Company's Office, No. 1, Adam-street, Adelphi, 23d July, 1639. THE NEW NOVEL. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols. itt R S. GORE'S COURTIER 1. OF THE DAY'S OF CHARLES H. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. GENERAL CONVENTION. THE following ADDRESS is recommended by the COUNCIL for ADOPTION at the GENERAL PUBLIC MEETINGS to be held in the ensuing week, when it is also to be recommended that the Address shall be signed as numerously as possible, and FORWARDED WITHOUT LOSS OF TIME TO THE COUNCIL, AT THE ARUNDEL COFFEE HOUSE, STRAND : We, Your Majesty's loyal subjects, had reason to hope that the mild spirit of the age had rendered obsolete all those san guinary laws which, in other reigns, had subjected offenders to ignominious death for comparatively trivial offences. We re gret, however, to learn that three of Your Majesty's sub jects have been recently convicted under an old Act of Parliament, which appears to have escaped the eye of the Legis lature in, its revision and repeal of barbarous enactments ; we canivil. avoid believing that had those crimes been found upon calendar of a general assize, and not treated as political offences, that they would hare been more mildly construed and the punishment, even after conviction, would not have amounted to a sacrifice of life. Under these circuits stan-es we humbly and respectfully appeal to your Ma ie,ty, that you will be graciously pleased to exercise your Royal prerogative. by extending the royal pardon to Francis Roberts, Joseph Howell, and John Jones, lately convicted and sentenced to death. at the assizes of Warwick. We beg most respectfully to direct :tour Majesties attention, to the unfavour able circumstances, under which the prisoners were tried, being committed for a mere riot, and afterwards being capitally indicted. JAMES BRONTERRE O'BRIEN, Chairman. T. R. SMART, Secretary. Proposed by FEI RG US O'CONNOR, seconded by W. CARrEN• TER, and carried unanimously. HIS Majesty the KING of PRUSSIA, having AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED DISTRIBUTIONS of MONEY PREMIUMS, which (though they are NO LOTTEP.IES), offer many possi bilities of obtaining LARGE FORTUNES, HEINE BROTHERS at HANIBURGH,______ are NOW SELLING SHARES for the said DITRIPIU TIONS. Persons desirons to pnrehase may receive, PREVI OUS to giving any order, the PROSPECTUS and PAR TICULARS, upon addressing, WITHOUT DELAY, a line to HEINE BROTHERS at HAAIBURGH. P.S. THE NEXT DISTRIBUTION contains Portions from NINE POUNDS TEN SHILLINGS and upwards, to TEN THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED POUNDS. A RISE IN THE PRICE of the SHARES for the NEXT DISTRIBUTION will very soon take place, there being only few of them on hand, and nearly all cleared off. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. The SUCCUS of the old English Drama, entitled the " Ladye of Lambythe, or a Bridal Three Centuries Back," has been fully confirmed by the acclamations of approbation and de light that have accompanied each representation, and the cheers of crowded audiences at the falling of the curtain. TO-NIGHT (MONDAY) Will be acted the Old English Drama of TIIE LADYE OF LAMBYTHE.• Eva, Mrs. Vining. Katherine, Miss Grant. Lucie, Miss Martin. - - Walter More, Mr. E. F. Saville. Wilbert, Mr. Dale. John the Jester, Mr. Smith. After which, PETER BELL; Or, The Murderer of Massiac. To conclude with (for six nights only) Buckstone's popular Drama, THE DREAM AT SEA! RAILWAY COMMUNICATION AND LATE NEWS. 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We call attention to the draft of a petition to her MAJESTY in another part of the paper, in favour of mercy to the three men left for exe cution at Warwick. The petition is re spectfully worded —earnest in a cause for which t h e Whig Government has acquired immortal honour—and contains three important statements which cannot fail to have due weight in the quarter to which it is addressed. No doubt the convicts were guilty of a great crime, but the law and the spirit of the age are now satisfied with secondary punishments for crimes as great as theirs —only one life was lost, and that not in conse quence c,f the offence, for which the punishment is still capital. The meeting at Manchester in 1819 was the primary cause of great loss of life; HENRY HUNT was indicted as the active agent in getting up the meeting, and was sentenced only to imprisonment for two years and-a-half. The great body of the people, too, participate not in the mad and reckless spirit which instigated this destruction of property at Birmingham. Nay, they generally denounce the wickedness of such lawless proceed ings, if we except the language used by a few cow ardly lead ers , °c' a ll in their power to excite the people toi • via ence—who then skulked away The Factory Bill, after three or four years' dis- into holes and corners, and are now csilent, eussion, was aaa i n put off, about a week ago, for or to save themselves,o reprobate the very acts another Session. Such a waste of the time of the which their languag e was calculated to accomplish. Halature is of itself enough to call attention to i The infliction of ca • pital punishment could not, Hole on w hi c h suc h pleadeterring a Bill proceeds. But therefore , be justified on the of the i - in additi on t h a t t his subject has Chartists. It is said, if these men eseapth? c ‘v *he H ouse o f C omm ons almost 1 v i c ts who suffered f or th e r i ots at Nottin e g:ham and since it was first brought l Bristol were murdered ; but notwith s ta n di ng the TON ROBER T P CEL , we begin : assertion of the Duke of WELL ING the - loss , a prop er on e for legislation. of life and property at Birmingham was absolutely ne e , th e result of much sue- i nothing compared with the loss at Nottingham HIGH WATER AT LONDoN BR/ D (--- -- I'o-mortROW Morning lB Minutes after 4. Evening ... 34 minutes after 4. ~ A. C LONDON : MONDAY, AUGUST 12, 1839. cessive legislative tinkering, is acknowledged by all parties to be lamentably defective. It seems to serve I no other purpose than to give good places and good salaries to a few political partizans, who might otherwise want the means of extravagance, and to give no inconsiderable quantity of vexation and trouble to factory owners. It is no protection or service to factory children. The numerous abortive attempts to improve it, demonstrate, we think, rather the unfitness of the subject for legislation, than the inability of our le gislators. Occupations, which, like those of the soldier of a standing army, or the Registrar of a Court of Law, wholly originate from legislation, may, in all their minute details, be regu lated by the legislator ; but occupations which wholly originate from commerce, and division of labour, like banking and spinning cotton, cannot be so regulated. An Act of Parliament to settle whether children shall work 45, or 48, or 60, or any other number of hours in a week, seems to serve no other purpose than to give a legal sanction to ex tracting as much toil as possible from their little sinews and bones. To descend to the minutes of prescribing how many hours they shall play, and how many they shall be allowed to employ at meals, how many farthings per week they shall give the shoolmaster, leaving them so much less, or more, to give for lollypops, seems to us something like a farce, and, however bene volently intended, to be wholly and completely beyond the scope of legislation. In fact experience shows so many more instances of failure than of suc cess, in law-making, that we are rather inclined to circumscribe than enlarge the operation of the law maker, and would confine him as much as possible to protecting life and property against acknow ledged crimes, instead of encouraging him to interfere, after the manner of China, with all the business of life. Every day ought to convince every observing man that the more Government interferes the more its interference becomes necessary, and that if it undertake to prevent children being overworked in factories, it is equally bound, and people call on it to do so, to take the same care with regard to adults in all the situations of life. The demands of the Chartists for less work and more wages, come, on the principle of interfering with the ordinary busi ness of life, within the legitimate scope of le gislation, and they are amply justified by the Fac tory Act, and the declaration in Parliament that every person ought to have at least 3001. a year. On this subject it was well laid down by Lord EL LENBOROUGH, in the debate on the Jamaica Bill of July Ist, as a general principle worthy of atten tion— " It had been said by a high political authority that sla• very, even if it commenced at the extremities, was incon ceivably rapid in its progress, and was certain before long to rerch the heart of the empire. He might add, that it was the very essence of arbitrary (meddling) Government, when it was once commenced, to create necessities for its continuance." But what Lord ELLENBOROUGII said of the principles of slavery and of tyranny, is equally true of the principle of benevolence. If the Legislature interfere with the people on that principle, though it begin at the extremities, it will soon reach the heart. It creates necessities for its continuance and for its extension. If it interfere with factory children, why not with boys and girls who work in coal mines? If it check their labour, protected in houses, how can it look on unpityingly and see the children of the peasantry exposed to storms and rain, watching the mountain flocks, or toiling through the heavy soil, picking up stones and weeds, when they should be sporting on the green or gathering wild wood flowers. In fact, we see already more benevolent legislation carved out for the Parliament, carrying its operation into every part of life, than it could accomplish for several Sessions if it did nothing else. The Factories Bill will again be brought forwardnext year. One measure has just been passed to direct seamen how to load their ships ; another is demanded to prevent them blowing themselves up. Mr. WAKLEY has extended legislative care to boys stealing a ride behind a car riage, and some other person has undertaken, by Act of Parliament, or a clause in the Police Bill, to teach the owners of dogs humanity Because all these measures, and all measures of this kind, lie beyond the province of legislation, such laws are not likely to be successful, and every year, just as it is with the Factory Act, some Lord ASHLEY, some Mr. WAKLEY, or some Sir JOHN REID, will come down with new measures, and bore the Government and the Legislature to embody their sentimentality into new restrictions. Such a pros pect should make the Legislature reflect and pause ; it makes us recur to the wisdom of the last century and of the beginning of this, which seems now for a season to be forgotten. One of the great and leading features of the work of Dr. SMITH was to deprecate the interfe rence of the Government with trade in any of its branches, which interference he demonstrated was injurious in all its ramifications. It is of no use telling us, as excuse for further interference, that Legislature has already interfered, for that, on Lord ELLENBOROUGH'S principle, is a proof that the first interference was injudicious, since it compels further and continual interference. It has created its own necessities for going on, till it will extend to every employment and every domestic relation,— till men will neither be able to cultivate the ground, nor bring up their children, except as the State directs. Dr. Smith's celebrated maxim was— " The statesman wbo should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, would not only load himself with a most unnecessary at tention, but assume an authority which could safely be trusted not only to no single person, but to no council or senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dan gerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and pre sumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it." In the same spirit, and with equal truth, Dr. FRANKLIN said, "if we may judge by the acts and edicts, all the world over, for regulating commerce. an assembly of great men is the greate,:ii Government on earth." But all the wi.f.oom of these great men is now for gotten, and our legislators and would-be legis lators are convinced that they cannot by any pos sibility interfere injudiciously with the varied and complicated businesses of life. The hasty, off hand conclusions of our unreflecting men of routine, men of the counter and of the red tape, are allowed to have far more weight than the deliberate convic tions of those great philosophers. The public mind seems incapable of appreciating them, and prefers SPRING RICE 10 ADAM SMITH, and Lord ASHLEY to Dr. FRANKLIN. Those lights of the last age are but as babes in wisdom and sagacity compared to Sir JOHN REID or Mr. BRISCOE. That we shall do any good by now reminding our readers of the earnestness with which those great writers deprecated the perpetual interference of the Legislature with the business of life, and of the contempt they exhibited for that " greatest Go vernment upon earth," we cannot possibly expect, but in the present disposition of the people and Parliament it is our duty to try, and therefore we ' have submitted these few observations to our readers. tiLIE s UN, and Bristol, and the plea that the punish ment for an offence is to remain t!apito.l 1 because others have suffered for it, is the plea, not of civilized Christians advancing in improvement, but the plea of barbarous tyranny, following out its vindictive spirit under the cloak of justitet The Government admit by their own acts that severity . is not the best way to prevent crime or reconcile the people to the law—they have found the beneficial effects of Lord NORMANBY'S humane and conciliatory administration of justice on the Irish, and they cannot fail to see the policy and the humanity also of applying the same prin ciple to the equally kind-hearted and grateful, though at present misguided, people of England. An act of mercy like this, for which petitions will be sent up in hundreds, would do much to strengthen the hands of Government, and recon cile the excited multitudes in the middle and northern districts to existing laws. The full execution of the sentence would do more than excite sympathy—it would excite the worst feelings against the SOVEREIGN and her advisers, who had remitted punishment even for murder, but who would not listen to the voice of mercy in be half of men led astray by wicked demagogues and convicted of crimes infinitely less atrocious. Since writing the above we see from our Bir mingham Correspondence that the greatest excite ment prevails in that quarter on the subject—the excitement will spread over the country, and stern severity on the part,of the Home Government is all that is wanting to raise these unfortunate convicts to the rank of martyrs. We have already called the attention of our readers to the ridiculous position in which the House of Lords has placed itself by its proceed ings on the question of the Portuguese Slave Trade. Anything more eminently absurd than the conduct of that body of Gothamites, it is hardly possible to imagine. The slave trade was the very last ques tion which men endowed with a particle of common sense would have chosen as the subject of a party contest, for there is no point of policy on which men of all parties, out of doors, are so unanimous as on the absolute necessity of putting an end to the horrible enormities of that daily increasing trade. We did not expect that in the considera tion of that or any other question the Lords would give- much weight to the arguments derived from humanity and justice, which might be brought to bear upon it. Their starvation laws, and other enact ments of the same heartless description, forbade us to entertain any hope of that kind ; but we did think that they would not have been guilty of committing an act of gra tuitous, wanton, and wide-spread mischief ; an act, in short, from which no possible benefit could result to them, but which, from the universal con demnation which it calls forth,_ must seriously da mage any little character they can pretend to. Their excuse—what an excuse I—is that they did it . . because the Duke of WELLINGTON desired them So the Noble Duke, as his intellectual faculties decay—and every day affords new proofs of that fact—is to be installed thinker-general for the irresponsible branch of the Legislature ! Lord BROUGHAM next night did all he could to undo what these sagacious Senators had done. He bam boozled them into the belief that they might with out the least inconsistency, vote the address to the QUEEN proposed by him, which address, be it re marked, pledged their Lordships to do the very thing that they had solemnly decided not to do. We are far from blaming the Learned Lord for having recourse to his unrivalled power of mystifi cation on this occasion. His Address was one of those happy contrivances happily executed, which must elicit unqualified approbation. But the Lords are not yet entirely out of the scrape. They have a more humiliating process to go through still ; a considerable quantity of word eating remains yet to be accomplished. It would be observed that on Thursday night Lord PAL MERSTON brought in the same Bill which has already been so cavalierly rejected by them, and that the Standing Orders of the House were suspended that it might pass through its various stages in double quick time. Sir ROBERT INGLIS, Sir THOMAS ACLAND, and other Tory chiefs, strongly supported the Bill. The former Gentleman, who is perhaps the honestest man of the party, compli mented the Noble Secretary on his admirable speech—" A speech," observed Sir ROBERT IN GLIS, " more worthy of the subject than that of !he Noble Lord he thought had not been heard in this House, at least of late years ;" and he emphatically added, as well he might, that "it was important not to delay a measure which affected, as he believed, 300,000 persons every year." He also expressed a hope that the Bill might be agreed to unanimously in the other House--a hope which, notwithstanding the hitch occasioned by the " untoward affair" of Thursday last, we have no doubt will be realized. Lord PALMERSTON'S speech unquestionably deserves all the praise bestowed upon it by the Hon. Baronet, and we strongly recommend it to the consideration of every person, whatever be his politics, who feels an interest in the question of slavery. Many readers, we doubt not, will find in perusing it that they have been labouring under a most miserable delusion in supposing that there has been any mitigation of slavery generally, or any diminution of the accursed slave trade, in conse quence of the emancipation of the Negroes in the British Colonies. The truth will be found to be directly the reverse. Does it not make one shudder to think that since Portugal engaged by a solemn treaty to put an end to this abomination, a million of human beings have been stowed away into slavery under her infamous flag, of whom 120,000 perished under the indescribable horrors of the middle passage ! I This is the way that Portugal has fulfilled those engagements which she entered into with this country, and for entering into which we have paid her, one way and another, two millions of sterling money. And yet men have been found in the British Senate who refused their con sent to the legislative measures necessary to com pel this mean, treacherous, and contemptible Power to do that which she has bound herself to do by treaties purchased with so much gold ! Such men are a disgrace to a Legislative Assembly. The state of affairs in the East excites the live liest interest in the French capital. In general the Journals cordially approve of a decided energetic line of policy, as at once the safest and most digni fied ; but there is little agreement among them as to the exact course which France ought to take, or what should form the precise aim of her interference. Viewed in any light the question is surronded with the greatest difficulties. Most of these are so ob vious that it almost seems unnecessary to point them out ; were it not that their enumeration may indicate more clearly such as are more remote. In the first place, suppose a Treaty of Amity concluded between the SULTAN and MEHE MET ALl—Egypt and Syria made over peace ably to the VICEROY, with the right of here ditary succession in his family .= -the payment of an annual tribute—it is evident that this is a viola tion of the integrity and indivisibility of the Otto man Empire, and leaves the SULTAN in a position which the Representatives of the Great Powers repeatedly informed the Divan would not be sanc tioned by their respective Courts. Turkey would soon find not a vassal but a rival in Egypt ; and by intrigues at Cairo, Russia would more effectually than ever direct her destructive attacks against the defenceless Government at Constantinople. ME ' HENIELALI may restore the Turkish fleet,but he can not restore the national confidence, destroyed by its betrayal to him. He will always appear as a con queror ; and, though be may abstain from marching upon Constantinople, the people will attribute his conduct to the prudence he has all along shown in avoiding a collision, not with Turkey, but with her European allies. A treaty with him is, therefore, equivalent to the establishment of a Throne in Egypt ; for if, hereafter, on any pretext, he refuse to pay the tribute, the SULTAN will be unable to compel him ; and, should he continue to pay it, so trifling an addition to the finances of the Ottoman Empire will neither add to its strength nor secu rity. Besides, MEHEMET ALI can easily represent it to his own subjects, as a religious tax paid to the supreme Caliph of Islam—a tax which, in the most flourishing state of Mohammedism; the Caliphs of Granada, t a he S nd Syria,ele iriffs of were e ßarbary, accustomed and to rem l a t ns of Egypt to the Caliphs of Bagdad, then the Sovereign Pontiffs, for the maintenance of their ecclesiastical state and authority, and the enabling the Faithful to perform the pilgrimages to Mecca and Medina. On the other hand no assistance which it would be expedient to place at the disposal of the ONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 12 . SULTAN would enable _hi to l of his accession to the throne signed pardons, commute MEI' ALI, And re-estabiisn the pOw ' ef . iit iti%l , tllns; or diminutions of punishment to 719 persons con to, depose MEHB demned to imprisotiaielit l ' s. torioos offenses. Tins ;s Ottoman sceptre over Syria and EaYPt. lay : wisely and well done. By clemency titiW will tlie . Combined English and French fleet might lazy KING . regain the ground he has lost in the all..cCon of Aleiiandiia in tiiiiis and kindle a 'vat of eßtertni, . ~,... lns suhoet3. The Duke and Duchess of OLILEANS hatioli in 3} rig ; but every person iniist be aWife have 81A tint du s tour .that such a proceeding would utterly extirpate the : Duke will visit Africa before his return to Paris, it is seeds of the civilization which the Viceroy is so said his Royal Highness pants to " cover himself with laudably employed in planting in his dominions ; glory," and therefore has gone to break a lance with and that, over and above its injustice, Turkey would ARD-EL-KADER. be prevented fro m p rofitin g by it , in conse q uence BOURSE.—Pams, SATURDAY, AUG 10 . ?int Highest Lowest Last of the exhauste d state of her int ernal resources. Price Price. Price Price French 5 per Cents l:2 50 ... 112 55 ... 112 45 ... 1 2 45 Thus, whether there be peace or war, the in- 4 per Cents lOO ... 106 ... 1.6 ... 100 dependence of Turkey is seriously m naced, e 4 per Cents 3 per Cents lO3 ... 1.3 ... las ... 103 89 50 ... SO 50 ... 80 45 ... 8 i 45 and the solution of the main quest ion rendered Rank of trance Laflitte Bank LOOK sh lO6O ...lON ...1060 ...0 6 9 a matter of the greatest difficulty. The Journal 5,000 f. Sh 5220 -.5225 ...NV) ...5213 des Debats does not hesitate to avow the con- 13 te elf a a n n sper t Cents ion4 „. 10z! , 4 ... 10a% ... 100" 772 50 ... 772 50 ... 772 50 ... 77/ N viction that the proper settlement of the ques- :14,Anish Passive 4 14 ... 41 4 ... .“,i ... 4% 4eapolitan tion would be to set aside ABD-UL-MEDJID, ' RAILWAY SH'ARES• and elevate MEHEMET ALI to the Ottoman St. Germain Versailles ,N. B 642 50 ... 6 42 50 ... 640 ... 640 Throne. We a re p reci sely of the same o p i- LB :340 ... 340 ... : 1 37 50 ...:'4O 980 ... 981 ... 1:80 ... 980 nion, were such a settlement possible ; but then Havre trasu rg to Bate 327 50 .. 327 50 ... 327 50 would France and England unite in a war with ' Slontpellier to Cette ' 390 32 50 ::. ' 39 4) ... 390 ... 39•' ;,0 MEHENIET ALI against Russia? MEIIEMET ALI is the only man capable of resuscitating the Ottoman Empire ; he alone is able to cope with the Cabinet of St. Petersburgh ; but it would be neces sary in the first place to prevent Russia from over whelming him before lie could establish his autho rity on the shores of the Bosphorus. How is this to be done ? Moreover, Austria would join Russia in attackin g , and probably wrest ing from Turkey most of her remaining • pro vinces in Europe, and hence the project of the Debats—excellent in itself, and no great violation of a principle in a countr y where the sword for time immemorial has regulated the succession—is rendered, by the presence and the designs of Russia and Austria, utterly impracticable. `tic fear too that there does not exist between the Governments of France and England that mutual confidence which would ensure them a decided and undisputed preponderance in the East. The footing which France has already gained in Africa renders much of her solicitude about Egypt liable to strong sus picion. This is a further drawback, and must have the effect of greatly weakening the combined action of the Cabinets of St. James's and the Tuileries. It is useless now, however, either to remonstrate or to suggest. We must confine ourselves to calmly watching the development of events big with consequences affecting the welfare of three quarters of the globe. CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) CHARGE OF THE RECORDER -THE ALLEGED MURDER AT UXBRIDGE. The Session re•opened this morning before the Right lion. the Lord Mayor, Alderman Copeland, the Recorder, Mr. Sergeant Arabin, and the usual civic authorities. The Recorder, in charging the Grand Jury, said he did not think it necessary to advert at length to many parti cular cases, for though not a few were of a very serious nature, the major portion of them were not so intricate in practice, or so difficult in law, that they might not be left to their ordinary experience. There were two cases only on which he deemed it right to offer any particular ob servations, these were the charge of murder, at Uxbridge, on the inquisition before the Coroner, and a charge of killing by poison. As to the latter case, in which a hus band was accused. of having poisoned his wife, if there was sufficient evidence to show that he wilfully administered that which he might reasonably suppose would endanger life, the offence amounted to murder. If, on the other hand, he administered, ignorantly, something injurious, and which exposed life to peril, it might then become a question whether there was not such a degree of negligence as would in law amount to criminality and render him re sponsible, though not for murder. Ile (the Recorder) did not, however, apprehend that, in this case the Grand Jury would return a bill for manslaughter. The great question was whether it would be made out to their satisfaction that the wife died by poison administered by the husband, though it might not be the poison at first imagined, viz., arsenic. There was satisfactory evidence that he admi nistered a large dose of cream of tartar, the effect of which would depend much on the quantity administered and the state of the woman, she being then pregnant. There were all the usual indications of the presence of arsenic ; but the surgeons had not been able by their tests to discover any actual quantity of that poison. Under these circumstances if it were found that the husband had administered the ' cream of tartar and that moreover there were the indica- Letters and papers from Madrid of the 3d inst. have been received. On the 31st ult. the army of the north consisted of 84 battalions of infantry, 28 squadrons of e cavalry, and 45 corps of volunteers, in all 98,958 men, together with 4,403 horses, 533 piecs of cannon, 114 howitzers, and 43 mortars. The Carlist army opposed to it was composed of only 40 battalions, 8 squadrons, and 28 volunteer corps, in all 32,060 men, with 890 horses, 36 pieces of artillery, 9 howitzers, and 7 mortars. In Arragnn and Catalonia the QUEEN'S troops bore the same proportion to the Carlist forces. And EsPAR.- TERO has not advanced a furlong for the last three weeks ! The success of the Exaltado candidates has rendered a dissolution or a change of Ministers im perative. tions of arsenic, it would bethe duty of the Grand Jury to put the case in a train of further investigation, by return. ing a bill for murder. The other case was that of a boy 15 years of age, committed by the Coroner for the murder of a youth by whom he had been struck in a quarrel respecting the purchase of some fish. The deceased had weighed some fish for the boy, who refused to pay at the price proposed, and he received from the deceased more than a single blow ; retreating, and appearing to be much irritated, he dared the deceased to repeat his blow, inti mating that if he did, he would get something in return. After serving another customer, the deceased came up to prisoner, pursued him, as though to strike him ; having seized him by the collar, a scuffle ensued, in which it seemed that the prisoner, with a knife, struck the deceased the wound of which he shortly after expired. Now, before the petty Jury, there were several questions which might arise. First, whether the blow was struck in a transport of passion, while smart ing from the blow which the deceased had given ; or whether there were signs of the prisoner's having made a slight provocation the pretence for using a deadly weapon. The law did not so far indulge the infirmity of human nature, as to allow a person having received a slight assault —especially when it was the ordinary case of boys fighting —as a reason to justify the use of a deadly weapon. In this case it would seem, that after the prisoner had received one or two blows, and retreated, he dared the deceased to ' strike him, telling him that he would get something if he attacked him again. These words were equivocal, and the Grand Jury would perhaps feel inclined to affix to them the milder interpretation. They might merely signify that the prisoner's blood was up, and that, whether a match for deceased or not, he would stand up against him. On the other hand, they might imply, that he then had meditated the use of the deadly instrument. The Grand Jury would bear in mind that when in cases of this nature witnesses differed somewhat in their accounts of the trans action it did not always follow that that was any substan tial contradiction, but only that the attention of different persons was more particularly called to different parts of the affair. Thus, in the present case, one of the witnesses stated that the prisoner had received three blows before he struck the fatal wound. This was important in the pri soner's favour, as increasing the provocation he had received. In ordinary circumstances of a quarrel the use of a knife was not justified, except by a very serious blow. He (the Recor der) might probably, without trespassing on the province of the Grand Jury, express his opinion that under the cir cumstances (whatever might be the result on the trial be fore the Petty Jury), it would be best for them to put the matter in a way for further inquiry, by returning the bill for murder. At the trial the case would roceie, under the direction of one of her Majesty's Learned Judges, the most siftin g investigation. Although, however, thus inti mating his (the Recorder's) opinion that it would be the safest course for this more minute inquiry, the Grand Jury were at liberty to use their own free and unbiassed judg ment on the question. The Court then proceeded to swear in Common Juries. A petition of the Brandy Traders of the Depart ments of the Gironde, the Charente, and the Charente Infericure, to the Chamber of Deputies, praying the Government to take some steps to obtain a reduction of the import duty on French brandy in England, is the subject of various politico-economical strictures in the French Journals of Friday and Saturday. Th e petition did not arrive in Paris in time for presentation before the prorogation of the Chambers ; but Marshal SOULT, to whose care it was addressed, was pleased to forward the following communication to the petitioners, in the name of the French Government : PARIS, JULY 20, 1839. Gentlemen,—The facts and considerations set forth in the petitions of the manufacturers and exporters of Cognac brandy, which you had been commissioned to lay before the Chamber of Deputies, and which I had the honour to receive through your communication, have served to con firm the opinion I previously formed of the importance of those interests on behalf of which you require a reduc tion of the excessive duties imposed by England on our brandies. His Majesty's Government, anticipating your wishes on this subject, has proposed to the English Government to renew the negociations which had been opened in Paris at the commencement of the present year, between the Com missioners appointed by both countries, with the view of ascertaining what changes might be introduced into the Custom-house tariff, so as to give a progressive develop ment to the intercourse, both as to commerce and naviga tion between France and England. I have no reason to suppose that the British Government would refuse to take these proposals into consideration, and you may rest assured that we shall continue to make energetic remonstrances in that quarter, in order to obtain a considerable re duction of the duties upon brandy imported for British consumption, as the chief recompense for the favours which we in our turn will grant with respect to English produce; for it is scarcely necessary for me to observe that this question cannot be viewed in an isolated form. Whatever difficulties may arise in the adjustment of na tional interests which may be affected by any arrangement between France and Great Britain, be assured that those you represent will be considered by the King's Government as entitled to the highest degree of solicitude and attention. (Signed) MARSHAL SOULT, Duke of Dalmatia. The Courrier Francaia has some very just strictures on the tenacity with which every class of traders in France cling to monopolies, which, in their short-sight edness, they fancy of . benefit to th emse l ves , w hile, with the inconsistency of injustice, they perpetually urge the Government to break down such as seem to promise an equal protection to others. " The agriculturists in the centre and north of France," says that journal, " set their faces against the importation of foreign corn ; those of the west declare against the admission of the cattle o of u th aren Switzerland, xiu G s m ton y, and Belgium ; those of the sell their wines, but will not sao Germany, allow the introduction of wines from Spain or Italy, on pay ment of a moderate duty. Our iron-founders derive enormous profits under the existing system, and demand the maintenance of a protecting duty of 100 per cent. The manufacturers of cloth and cotton goods, who are so proud of the progress they have made, have not the courage to affront foreign competition even with the advantage of a duty of from 25 to 30 per cent. ; no thing but p r ohibition will satisfy them." It is only when ruin stares them in the face that monopolists can be made to perceive the fallaciousness of their system. And even then, their ignorance or their selfishness is such that they petition barely for such a modification of the system as promises to give relief to the branch of trade in which they are directly interested. All the brandy-growers care about is the consumption of brandy ; and the corn monopolist is regardless whether the country flourishes or declines, provided he can com pel the people to starve or eat dear bread. From the East no additional news was received in Paris up to post hour on Saturday, except the following extract from a Toulon letter of the Bth inst. : " Admiral de la Susse has arrived, and will hoist his flag on board the Montebello, which will immediately sail for the Levant. The Santi Petri is busily employed in taking in large stores of provisions and water, and will also sail shortly. The Alger is fitting out with all possible expe dition. Admiral Lalande has received orders to join Ad miral Stopford in preventing the Egyptian and Turkish fleets from entering the Dardanelles, and to place their own fleets before Constantinople, in case Russia sends her fleet from the Black Sea into the Bosphorus. There is little fear of the ships now in the port of Alexandria quitting their moorings, but all letters from the officers of Admiral Lalande's fleet concur in expressing a conviction that the Russian fleet will pass the Bosphorus, and in a few days be at anchor in the Sea of Marmora. Several ships of war of the smaller classes a re being equipped as cruisers, and will be sent to the coast of Catalonia. The Etna steamer has been sent off with urgent despatches for Ad mirals Roussin and Lalande." The Commerce has a letter from Jassy (Moldavia) of the 20th ult., from which we take the following ac count of the disposal of the Russian army in that quarter : The Russian army has taken its position near our fron tiers, and is stationed in the following order:—The Kischnew, Ismail, 6th corps, commanded by Genera l Lieders, and composed of two divisions of infantry and one o as av f calry, w i t h a proportionate supply of artillery, h its quarters at and Kilia ; ten Cossack regiments, under theiorders of Ataman Wasilewski, arc can toned at Skulany, and along t he Pruth ; a division of infantry of the 3d corps of the ar m y is at Dubassary; eight regiments of Lancers, under the command qua rtered ßar on Ac and Bender ; and three divisions of infantry and one of ca valry, with the reserve artillery, commanded by General Baron Rudiger, are stationed between Kiew and Kami- enick- Podolski . The pontoons are lying at Ismail, o ne-half of : a th e e ., m ha a v r e e i be taken to the island of Su lina ; so that the divsion of the army under General Liede rs may effect a junction and c ross the Danube in 24 hours alter the recpt of orders. b Large rep sto are re s d for pKr oilvi o i n s m s , a f j o t a a g n e d , a K n i t s m c h u n n e i t ei v A Russian n , flotilla, composed of light vesse ls, has anchored at the mouth of the Danube. Great events are fast approachince Sngtourdza . The Russian Consul has already advised Pri and the Boyars of Moldavia to a ddress a memorial to the Emperor Nicholas, for the purpose of showing the alarm ing state of the Ottoman Empire, and of . soliciting the immediate protection of Russia; but Prince Stourdza rejected this proposition, alleging that such a step would wound the susceptibility of the Sultan, who is the Sove reign of Moldavia and Wallachia. From this you will judge of the efforts Russia is m aking to obtain the protec torate of the two principalities, no doubt with the view o f seizing on them , in case of a n y break up in the Turkish empire. This includes all that appears to us of any interest in the French Journals. The Moniteur contains several Royal Ordinances, giving effect to various laws passed during the late Parliamen tar y Session. The same Journal announces that the KING, on the anniversary CORN AVERAGES. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN, For the Week ended Aug. 10, /KW, made up from the Returns of the Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in England and Wales, per Imperial Quarter. Wheat 7ls. 3d Oats Barley 3Bs I 7d. Ry e IMPERIAL AGO REGATE AVERAGES OF THE EIX WEEKS FRECNDING• Wheat 695. 2(1. I Oats Barley 33s. 3d, I Rye DUTIES OW FOREIGN CORN. Wheat l3s. Sd. I Oats 3s. 6d. 165 3d. Pease Beans... ...... 91. 9s. 641. id. B ar l e y 4s. 10d. Rye THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY. CORN EXCHANGE. In the preceding week the arrivals of English Wheat and Flour, also of Foreign Wheat and Oats were considerable. This morning the fresh supplies are small. The extreme fine ness of the weather has occasioned a very dull Wheat trade at Is. to 2s. per quarter reduction, for both English and Foreign, from last Monday's terms. In Barley and Beans little is doing, with short quantities at market. New White Pease came dry and fine, and sell at 445. per quarter. The great quantity of Foreign Oats for sale, duty paid, has reduced their value full Is. per quarter since this day se'nnight. Flour is very heavy, no sale, and ship parcels rather lower. New Essex Whet, dry and heavy, has sold at 765. to 80s. rarcEs ON BOARD OF SHIT Wheat, Red (old) -s. s Beans, Small (new) 436.416 ----White (old) -6. s. (old) 465.185. ----Bed (1838) .66. 60s. - Tick new . ..... 33s 36. ---- Fine 635. 665. ---- Superfine ...... f6s. 68s. - Harrow (new) 156.385. ----White (1833)....6'-s. f 46. ----- Fine 6 ,lt. 725. Brank - -. Superfine ...... 745. 765. Oats, Feed ---Foreign free 60s. 765. 40s. 425. - Poland I Ll Y ar r ley 3os. 376 New °46.286. -- Grinding 30s, :316. - Potatoe 284.303. -- Malting Malt 565. 65s - Scotch 106.32s - Fine New tads. 70s - Irish 22s ... 245.268. Pease, Grey, New 365. 386. Flour Town (per sack)... 605.62,. - Maple New 376. 40$. - Seconds 52!.566. - White 40s. 425. --..- North Country ....Ms 591. -- Boilers 425. 446. Bran B4 9,, SMITHFIELD MARKET. There was a good supply at market, and the trade has become more brisk for all descriptions, with an advance of 4d. per stone on the prices of this day week for the finest descriptions of Beef and Mutton. Fine young Veal also partakes of the same ad vance. In Lamb and Fork no alteration can be quoted. Beef, 3s. id. to 4s. ed. ; Mutton, 4s. to ss. ; Veal, 4s. to ss. ; Pork, 4s. 4d. to ss. 4d. ; Lamb, ss. to 6s. Beasts, 2,619 ; Sheep and Lambs, 26,780; Pigs, 410 ; Calves, 188. BILLINGSGATE MARKET. Oysters, 15s. to 40s. per bushel ; Good Salmon, Is. to Is. 6d. per lb. ; Lobsters, 9d. to 3 s . each ; Soles, 6d. to 2s. 6d. per pair ; Cod, Is. and Is. 6d. to ss. and 6s. each ; Whitings good and cheap, say 3d. to Bd. for large ; and Haddocks, 6d. to Is. and Is. 2d. each. HOP MARKET. The market continues inactive, and prices are but nominal. The duty is 200,0001. The accounts from the hop-grounds still speak favourably of the growth of the Hop plant. TILE STATE OF THE LONDON MARKETS FOR MERCHANDIZE GENERALLY. As might be expected from the state of the Money Market, there is but very little business passing in any department of Merchandize. Purchases are limited to the bare necessities of those who make them, and prices are mostly inclined to droop ; still very few actual declines take place. Amidst all this con tinued pressure for money, which we have now had for so long a time, it is remarkable that we have not hal a failure of any consequence. LLOYD'S SHIPPIN G.-(THIS DAY DEAL, AUG 10.—Wind, W. S. W. 11, Wind, N. N. W. Arrived the Charles Haller, Hopper, from Calcutta; Prince George, Friend, Metis. Sailed the whole of the outward-bound, except the Charles Durham, Ceylon, and the Anne, M‘Kenzie. LIVERPOOL, AUG. 10 AND 11, Wind, N. N. W.—Arrived the Sarah Johnson, Brown, from Barbadocs—sailed, 10th ult. ; Ci'y of Perth, Antigua—sailed, 10th ult. ; Barba dian, Ilutehins, Martinique—sailed, 10th ult. ; Gannet, Cameron, Liverpool; Rowe, Bahia—sailed, 28th June; liwkinson, Tacker, Bonny; Mary Anne Hutton, Gale, Dalhousie ; Hants, Neel, Montreal; Flora, Haughton, Smyrna; Sirius, Quebec; Promise, Shearer, Quebec; Franconia, Blake, New Orleans; Oceanus, Stettin ; Earl Gray, Moorsen, Calcutta; Amelia, Dantzic; Henrietta, Dantzic; Alcyone, Augusta, Quebec; Balmarnock, Me diterranean. PnyNtourn, Ace. 11.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrived the Ludovico, Alto, from Memel. Sa iled the Industry, Gil pin, for Quebec. Royalist, Suvard, Denia. POOLE, AUG 9.—Arrived the Virtue, Schultz, Memel. PLYMOUTH, AUG. 11.—Off port, the Brothers, Robin son, M.ramiehi. F A LMOUTII, AUG 9.—Wind W.S.W., fresh breezes. 10.—W.S.W. to W., fresh breezes.—Arrived the Luc cella, M'Lcllan, from Virginia ; Miguara, Memel; Pigeon ' acket West Indies, sailed from St. Thomas's, 2d ult., Cape Hayti, 10. Off port, the Arc turus, from Quebec. Sailed the e Harveit Home, Thompson, for Miratnichi. Opossum packet, Brazil ; Reindeer packet, Halifax. ONEV and DIAL NEWS CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Arrival this morning, two Preneh, two Ostend, oae Dutch mail. A mail has also arrived from Alexandria and Lisbon, by the Iherk, sailed. from Alexandria. July 14, Malta 2:51.11 July ; Gibraltar, Ist August ; Cadiz, 2d August ; Lisbon, sth August; Oporto, 6th August ; Vigo, 9.11 - Augtist. A ;INA Arrived froze: Jamaica by the Pigeon—sailed from St. Thomas, July Hayti, lOth July. We have received Jamaica paper. to the 6th July:— " We lately alluded to the proceedings which had taken place in Spring llill plantation, in the pariah of St. George, and to a rumour that a detachment of troops was to be sent to Mullet-hall, to he in readiness to aid the civit authorities, should the conduct of the labourers on the for mer property render it necessary to call them iu. " The inhabitants of Spring Hill, our informant states, have for some days shown a determined resistance to the payment of rent, and to the execution of any civil process so far beck as the 27th of April last ; in consequence of a previous resistance to the constable, who had his staff wrenched from his hand, the Magistrates ordered him, in conjunction with the constables of Annatto Bay, to pro ceed to the Spring Hill to execute the warrants. They were altogether resisted. On Tuesday the 25th the Custos attended at the Court House, and swore in a number of special constables to assist on the occasion. Oa Thurs day the day appointed, the constables proceeded to Spring Hill. At first they met with no resistance. but no sooner had the constables entered a house and made a levy than the people made their appearance in great num bers, and commenced a violent attack. Mr. Hewit was knocked down by a blow on the head. The constables received blows and cuts, and the whole party were obliged to retreat from the property without being able to appre hend any one; and while they were retreating amidst a shower of stones the people gave three cheers. Thus the civil force has been beaten off, and the parish is in such a state that some of the Queen's troops ought to be stationed in it. Such is a short sketch of the condition to which this parish is reduced. " STATE OF THE WEATHER.—The Colonies to the wind ward, and especially the smaller ones, suffer often and very severely from drought. Granada is now suffering from it. The Gazette of this island says:—` The effects of the dry season, which has been of rather long continuance, are beginning to he severely felt, and we understand that the stocks on the estates in different parts of the Island arc suffering severely from the want of fodder, and that se veral valuable heads of cattle have already fallen a sacrifice to the prevailing drought.' " STATE OF THE COUNTRY.—We cannot refrain from congratulating the country on the beautiful and improved state thereof. " We understand that the calendar for the ensuing Ses sions of the Supreme Court of Judicature, up to the pre sent time, only contains three cases, and those not of se rious character. " LABOURERS.—There seems to be some desire existing to introduce Maltese into the island, as labourers. " A fire has occurred on Ben Air estate, which has de stroyed a store ; the loss does not appear to have bee,: very great." Sr. CHRISTOPHER'S. —There has been some sparring in this island between the Council and Assembly and the Governor• General Sir Wm. Colebrook. We think the latter in error. The Governor-General Sir Wm. Cole brook has, it appears, returned a Money Bill, passed in St. Christopher's, and sent,by him to Antigua with certain amendments, which he desires should be made to it. The Council and Assembly deny his right to do thi The de bate in the House of Assembly was very warm ; some of the Members advocating the same line of conduct as has been adopted by the Assembly of Jamaica to suspend all Legis lative business until they had remonstrated with the British Government, and ascertained what their rights and privi leges were in future to be. Sir William Colebrook, in his reply, says :—" The Bill having been forwarded by an express boat, with your letter of the 17th April, and the former Tax Bill being about to expire, I took the most effectual course to meet your wishes, that the Act might be promptly passed, by stating in my letter of the 19th day of April, the objections applying to the Bill; an imme. diate amendment of which would obviate the necessity of its disapproval, and the reference of a new Bill to me." His Excellency also added :—" I consider it incumbent on me to pursue the course which is calculated to obviate the inconvenience which would result from the rejection of every Bill which may be open to amendment." TRlNlDAD.—Considerable dissatisfaction prevails in this island with regard to a change which has taken place in its Government, and efforts are being made to induce the Home Government to alter the arrangement alluded to. A memorial to her Majesty on the subject has been got up. DEMERARA.—.TiIe accounts from this colony are by no means flattering. It appears that the seat of Government is likely to Le changed from George Town, Demerara, to New Amsterdam, Berbice. TOE/100.—We find from the Gazette of the Island, that Sir Evan M‘Gregor met both branches of the Legislature on the 22d May. His Excellency delivered a short address to them expressive of his entire satisfaction respecting the policy pursued by the Lieutenant-Governor; his gratifica. tion in learning of the harmony subsisting between the Council and Assembly, and the peaceful and industrious disposition of the recently emancipated classes in general. ST. LUCIA.—Our last communication from this Island shows that matters were in a very satisfactory state, the Governor had proceeded on a tour through the unsettled districts. BARBADOEs.—THE Citors.—There will be, we are as sured by a gentleman well acquainted with the state of the country, a considerable falling off in the crop of sugar, principally from the unwillingness of the people to carry on the manufacture. The Pigeon brings a freight of 28,000 dollars. The Lisbon mail does not bring any political news of importance. Extracts will be found in another Fart of the paper. Exchange on London 56i; Ex-paper Money 57 per cent. discount. The various tenders for the 1,400 contos loan aro at this very moment being opened by the Minister of Finance. Her Majesty and her august Mother attended:divine see- vice yesterday morning, in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. Thackeray, from Deuteronomy, chap. viii., verse 11. The prayers were read by the Rev. Mr. Packman, the Le3sons by the Rev. Mr. Haden, and the altar service by the Rev. Messrs. Packman and Haden. The chaunt was Cooke's—the Te Deum and Jubilate, in F. (King). The Sanctus and Re- sponses (Davy), and Th i Anthem " Thou, 0 God, art praised in Sion," (Dr. Greene) was sung by Messrs. Hawkins, and Hobbs. Sir George Smart presided at the organ. The Dean of Hereford was the Deputy Clerk of the Closet in Waiing. The Royal Suite consisted of the Countess of Char:,smont, Lady Charlotte Dundas, Hon. Miss Paget, Hon. Mi s s Anson, Hon. Mrs. Brand, Marquis of Headfort, Sir William Lumley, and Colonel Buckley. Her Majesty and suite returned in three carriages to Buckingham Palace. The Queen held a Court on Saturday afternoon at Buckingham Palace. The Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe Weimar had an audience of her Majesty to take leave. Reshid Pasha, the Turkish Ambassador, had an audience of the Queen, to announce the accession of the new Sul- • tan. His Excellency was accompanied by Mr. Salame her Majesty's Oriental Interpreter. Count de Pollen, the Sardinian Minister, had an audience of the Queen to take leave prO tempbre. His Highness the Grand Duke and their Excellencies were respectively introduced by Viscount Palmerston, G. C. B , her Majesty's principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by Sir Robert Chester, Master of the Ceremonies. Viscount Palmerston had an audience of the Queen. Her Majesty was attended by the Countess of Cherie mont, Lady in Waiting ; Marquis of ;needled, Lord in Waiting ; Sir William Lumley, Groom in Waiting ; and Colonel Buckley, Equerry in Waiting. His Highness the Grand Duke, attended by his-Cham berlain, M. de Wagner, and Count de Beust, afterwards went to the apartments of the Duchess of Kent in the Pa lace, and took leave of her Royal Highness. Viscount Melbourne had an audience of the Queen en Saturday. Her Majesty honoured Sir David Wilkie, R. A., with a sitting on Saturday, for her State Portrait. The Duke of Sussex, the Duke and Duchess of Cam bridge, accompanied by the Princesses Augusta and Mary of Cambridge, visited her Majesty yesterday. The Queen, accompanied by the Duchess of Kent, ho' noured the Italian Opera with her presence on Saturday evening. The Royal Suite included the Countess ef li Charlemont, Lady Charlotte Dundas, on. Miss Pag et, Hon. Miss Anson now, Mrs. Brand , Duke of Arg y ll, Earl of Uxbridge, Marquis of needled, Sir William Lumley, and Colonel Buckley. The Duchess and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge attended Divine Service yesterday morning in the Royal German Chapel. The Sermon was preached by the Rev. D. Kuper. Miss Kerr and Baron Knesobeck were ill waiting on their Royal Highnesses. The Heredibory Grand Duke of Saxe Weimar visited and took leave of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge on Saturday, at Cambridge House. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon at the Foreign Office. It was attended by Viscount Me l ' bourne, Marquis of Lansdowne, Viscount Duncannon, Lord John Russell, Viscount Palmerston, Marquis of Norman* the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Earl of Minto, Sir John Hobhouse, Lord Holland, and Lord Morpeth, T he Council sat two hours. Mr. William Young, of Halifax, N. S., had an inter view with the Marquis of Normanby on Friday at the Cole' nial Office. Mr. Dunn had an interview with the Noble Marquis on Saturday. THE FUNDS. In consequence of a notice from the Treasury to the Bank of England, for the funding of four millions of Ex chequer bills, which was sent to the Stock Exchange, it had the effect to cause Consols to recede per cent. ; they closed on Saturday at 92 for the Account ; Money, 911 *, and opened this morning at 91' for Account; Money, 911 +. In Exchequer Bills there has been a great fluctuation ; they left off on ;:. , aturday at 1 3 prem., and have been done this morning at various prices, 5 10 20 pm. In India Bonds nothing doing. Bank Stock, 185 187 ; India Bonds, 248 250. In the Foreign Market, Portuguese, 30k; Three per Cents, 191 ; Spanish Active 19k S ; Belgian, 1031 ; Brazilian, 784 79 ; Colombian, 314 321 ; Mexican, 28k; Dutch Two-and-a-half per Cents, 54i i; Five per Cents., 1038 I. An India mail has arrived ; the letters arc not later than the overland despatches received last week. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red. 9IN% 3 per Cent. Cons. 3!‘ i per Cent . —' Ditto Red. 48 N I, I l iii New 3 per Cent New 5 per Cent. Bank Long Annuities toexpire Jan. 5, 1860 l4 7-16$<, Oct. 10, 1859 l4 5-16 Jan. 5, 1860 Jan. 5, 1880 — April 5, 1880 Jan. 5. 1870 — PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS' Austrian Bonds — Belgian Bonds Ditto Account 13frazilian Bonds Ditto Account Buenos Ayres Bonds Ditto Account Chilian Bonds Dan Account Colombian Bonds — Ditto Account — Columbian Bonds, 18 . 34 ..... Ditto Account 32%% 2, Danish Bonds Ditto Account I Greek 80nd5......... Ditto Bonds, 1825 Ditto Account — Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent — Ditto Account ......... Ditto, 6 per Cent Ditto Account 23NiXt S Neapolitan. — PRICES OF SHARES THL India Stock Ditto Bonds '2o 10 pir. South Sea Stock = Old Annuities New Ditto 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 Exch. Bills, £l,OOO 14 8 9 pm. Ditto 500 ... 10 14 pm. Ditto Small 1 b 11 pm. Ditto Commercial — par. Ditto Advertised Bank Stock for Account India Stock for Account Consos for Account 91%%%% LIDS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK Peruvian Bonds Ditto Account Portuguese Bons:s Ditto New Bonds Ditto Account Ditto, 3 per Cent 1 9 14 Ditto Accouht l9h Prussian Bonds Russian Bonds, 1822 Ditto Account Ditto Metallic Spanish Bonds 19% Ditto Account. Passive Deferred B:4 French, 5 per cent. —c. 4 per cent —F. _C. 3 per cent. —C. Exchange. —f. —r. Dutch, 214 per cent 5 t Ditto Account ,f o ,r Ditto, 5 per cent Ditto Account.... ...... I a S DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. 65 Great Western Railway Company. Ditto New . 2 pm. Brighton Railway N rth Midland Railway Company 75 70% PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS. DUBLIN, AUGUST S. 3 per Cent. Consols - Grand Canal Deis. f percent. - 3, 2 per Cent. Stock DDitto Reduced - Hibetnian Bank - Ditto New, 1830 ..... .. 99% City of Dublin Steam Comp. - 3},', per Cent. Debentures... 912% National Insurance Company - Bank Stock 191% City Debentures, 4 per cent. - Grand Canal Stock - Ballast Office Debentures, 4 - Royal Canal Stock - per cent . HALF-PAST ONE. We have receive 3 Barbadoes Papers to the 23d June. His Excellency the Governor of Jamaica has again pro rogued the Legislature to meet on the 25th inst., instead of the 21st May. We have received late Bermuda papers. Agriculture is occupying at last the very B,n-ions attention of the public authorities and the most respectable inhabitants. The Antigua Register of the 11th inst. mention: a severe shock of earthquake having been felt on the 9th, and a slighter on the 11th. We have received the Gibraltar papers of the Ist of August ; they are void of interest. Private letters received this morning by the Lisbon mail state that a report prevailed there that the Cortes would nut meet again, and that an absolute Government was talked of. It was also reported, that if the Slave Bill passed Lord Howard de Walden would receive his passport. The chief topic of conversation in the City this morning relates to the funding of the four millions of Exchequer Bills, which is expected will cause money to be stilll scarcer. This morning 6 per cent. was offered to a first rate Bank to discount undeniable bills, which was refused. Tradesmen's bills w;th commission command 10 per cent. Consols have rather improved since the morning, w h en they were :911, at present 91} Account ; Money, 91. 4 , Exchequer Bills, 10 14 8 9 prem. ; India Bonds, 20 10: prem. ; Bank Stock nothing done. In the Foreign Market little doing, Spanish Active 191 ; • Portuguese 30 ; Three p er Cents. 194-; Colombi an , 32 , lower; Mexican 28, lower ; Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents. ; Five per Cents. 103 a. T HE Mowts.—We learn from a correspon dent in Sutherland that the moors were never in finer con dition for the sportsman than now. The birds are fully stronger than they wer at the end of August last year, and coveys of eight or ten are very common. In some parts of the country the dryness of the season led to more extensive heath-burning than usual, and this may have de creased the number of grougt in certain localities; but, on the whole, there will be excellent sport, and game of first rate quality.—lnverness Courier. THE LATE SULTAN'S BED.—A correspon dent writes from Constantinople, that on visiting the lace of the late Sultan he found the Cabinet in which his Highness died so small that it would scarcely contain an European -1 -1 - ,I V EN IN COURT CIRCULAR. ii.DITJON• FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE• ARRIVALS. Lord Francis Gordon, in Wilton - cresc ent, from Wind' nor ; Sir Harry Verney, Bart., from Claydon House, Bucks; Lord Edward Howard , i n H y de Park- p lat of e, from_ the Duke of of Norfolk's , Arunde l Castle ; the Marquis . Westmeath and Lady Rosa Nugent , from a tour ; Lord Montagu, in Hamilton-place, from Ditton Park, of Windsor ; Mr. Holland, M.P. from the Conqueror Hote l, , St. Leonard's on- Sea ; Mr. John Campbell, in New street, Spring-Garden's, from Birmingham; Lady ne CotLte is ham, in Bruton-street, from Brighton ; Lord de l and Dudley, in New Burlington-street, , from. Penshurs Kent ; Mr. and Mrs. Gilfillan, at t he Burlington Hotel' Cork-street ; Mrs. Lambert, at ditto ; the Earl of El' in Hill-street, from Shirley House , ne ar Croydon; In° Hon. Eliot Yorke, M. P., at Lord 1-11;rdwicke's, ° Norfolk: street, Park-lane, from Cambridgeshire; Sir Henry an Lady Pynn, at the Brunswick Hotel, Hatiover-square, from Paris ; Mrs. Box and family, at Marshal l Thwar t son's Hotel ; Lay, Esq., at ditto ; Tickle, ,11;5t1.9 ! ditto; Mr. and Airs. Jones, at ditto. DEPARTURES. Sir Samuel Hardware, from Portland-place, for Hendon Hall ; the Hon. Edward and Mrs. Petre, from the Burling , ton Hotel, Cork-street, on a visit to Lord and ady L o vat, - at Beaufort Castle, Inverness-shire ; CaptainL Macdonald i and Major Frazer, for their grouse-shooting quarters in the Highlands ; Sir Joseph and Lady Graves Sawle, for their scat in Devonshire ; Lord Chelsea, from the Claren don Hotel, fur Ireland ; Mr. and Lady Harriet Ellerton,' for Kelham House, near Newark ; the Marquis and Mar chioness of Abercorn, for Bentley Priory, Stantiore ,• the Dowager Countess and Lady Fanny Cowper, from Mad dox-street, on a continental tour ; the Duke and Duebess . of Montrose and family, from Belgravc-square, for Bucha nan House, Dumbarton, N.B. ; Mr. and Mrs. Otway Cave and family, from Thomson's Hotel, on a conti nental tour; General Sir Moore Disney, from Upper Br)ok-street, for the German Spas; Sir Robert Camp bell, Bart., from Argyle-place, for Antwerp, en route fur the baths of Wiesbaden; the Earl and Countess of RoseberP and the Ladies Primrose, from the Terrace, Pi c cadilly, on a visit to Lord and Lady Waterp ark, at Doveridgc Hall, Derbyshire; Colonel Bulkeley H u g hes, M. P., for Car, • J. R. Ormsby Gore , jun., E sq ., ;rol Portland-place, for Porkington Hall, near O swestr y ; Lor d Alford, for Grantham Lincolnshire ; the Earl of Chiches ter, for Stanmer Park, Sussex; Sir George and La d y Clerk and family, for Pennicuick House, North Britain Lord Ingestric, by the Birmingham railroad, for Earl Tal bot's seat, Ingestrie Hall, Staffordshire ; John Bridge' Esq. , from Marshall Thompson's Hotel, Cavendish-squ are; Buckworth, Esq., from ditto; the Dean of Ossotf, from ditto; the Lady Falkiner, from ditto, for Chelten ham ; Mrs. Charles Hodson and family, from ditto. CHANGES. The Countess St. Martin de la Tour, at the Reg ent Hotel, Leamington Spa, from a tour ; the Countess me lett, at Beauchamp House, Leamington Spa, from Hint° St. George, Somerset; the Lord Bishop of Worcester* for Hartlebury Castle ; Sir John Mordaunt, Bart., N l -, P " at Walton Hall, from Warwick; the Marquis and Altlfr, chioness of Douro, from Dalhousie Castle, Mid LothilOP Yester House, Haddington. DEATH OF JACKSON.--Mr. John Jackson, the celebrated jockey, died at Northallerton ors Mondre last, at an advanced age. Jackson rode the winn er of t Doncaster St. Leger on eight several occasions. • 1 Eight hundred emigrants from Great Brits arrived in New York on one day, early in July. Durin!;, the month of May the number of emigrants arrived in Ne' York alone, was—from England, 3 , 555 ; fr om France 1,320 ; from other ports, 325. The Earl of Aberdeen has left Argyll ells ° for his seat, Haddo House, Aberdeenshire, for the autumn' Lord Haddo remains abrcad. A party of noblemen and gentlemen, includi n g Earl Craven, Lord Forester, Lord George Bentinck, Mr. George Payne, and Mr. Stanley, have taken Winnington Hall, near Barnard Castle, Durham, the property of M r. Bowles, for a term of three years. The moors a re extol.' sive and well stocked with game. The Duke of Sussex and Lady Cecilia Under wood intend leaving Kensington Palace on the 19th /11' stant, it is said, for the scat of Mr. Thislethwaite, iA Hampshire. Lord and Lady de Samaurez have left town for their residence at Dheltenham, where they intend passing several months. ENGLISH OPERA.—Another novelty, named Snap-apple Night, or, A Kick-up in Kerry, was pro duced here last Saturday night. The piece is well fin:" with melodramatic incidents, and was favourably receiven• THE CHARTISTS.— (From the 31 a ncheste r Guardian.) —W. Benbow, who has lately published an ad dress to the working classes on the subject of the " na tional holiday," was arrested on Saturday, on a charge of sed:' tion, and was to be examined in the course of the day; and John Livesey, a young man dressed as a mechanic' and charged with having guns, pistols, &c. in his poss es ; sion for sale to the Chartists, was held to bail to aPp es " the same day before the Magistrates. The Carlisle Journal states that Wm. Thomp son, gun-maker, at Birmingham, has been committed for trigl by the Magistrates of Stockport, on a charge of " illeg ally disposing of arms, combination, e.nd conspiracy." We understand from a gentle man e very v v a ? qualified to instruct us, that this is not the first time t - „ c Bank of England has received pecuniary accommod atic ; from the Bank of France. It has been customary, sinc e the peace of 1815, for each establishment to assist ti , % other. For instance, when gold has been in e xcess London, and in pressing d eman d i n P ar is, the former n c , v h c hesitated to reliev e th e l a tt er . On the other side favour has been r e t urne d i n lik e m an ner, and, in the s ang metal, by the Bank of France.—Liverpool Mail. n LUNGS OF LONDON.—Kensington Gar u e- : consisted originally, as we are told by Pennant, of ° ; ?, i l, twenty-six acres. Queen Anne added thirty acres, were laid out by her gardener, Mr. Wise; but the P rinc: in pal additi o ns were made by the late Queen, who to ok near three hundred acres out of Hyde Park, which vcc r i e f laid out by Bridgeman. They are now three and a ba d s miles in circumference. The broad walk, which exic_nia om the Palace along the south side of the Gardens, i''oo the spring, a very fashionable promenade, especially the Sunday mornings. Kensington Gardens have been subject of several poems, one especially by Tickell, er, which we would here insert some extracts did spac a E c c ee mit. The present extent of these gardens is smiles/ 1 ' 0 . 3 about three hundred and thirty-six acres, with eight ac - o f of water, occupying a circular pond to the we s ,%, - 0 the Palace—an ugly edifice, as all our metropoit 0 , palatial edifices are — but unpretending enough , n or, g u it like its precious colleague in St. James's Park , "e the superadd impudence to vulgarity. The view fromi s centre of this broad walk, exactly in front of the Palaccibe one of the finest afforded anywhere in the vicinity °t . a metropolis. The trees, drawn up in close column liscag rifle brigade of his Majesty the Emperor of Brobdigrid, —the vistas between, extending far away '9 into the she re distance—the verdure of the sward, which is here ( ? e t luxuriant and unbroken than in the parks—the air o f alto and seclusion seclusion that is breathed over the scene, mak e a ff o rd gether superior to anything the vicinity of towns can to the eye, wearied with an universe of brick and mo , rtar. Blachwo(id's Magazinr. —OOO