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Now ready, in 2 vols., small Svo., 21s. bound, A WINTER IN By Mrs. ASHTON YATES. ITALY. " Mrs. Ashton Yates has published other journeyings and records of travel of considerable liveliness and interest. The volumes b. fore 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 jdst published, by the same Author, AN AUTUMN IN SWITZERLAND. SECOND EDITION, in 1 vol., 10s. 6d. bound. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great MarlWrough-street, THEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM, LATE ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE. Under the Management of MI s. KEELEY. Another great Achievement Successfully Triumphant !!! To attempt to eulogise the gorgeous splendour of the New Extrava ganza of " Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, or New Lamps for Old Ones," would be a work of supererogation ; the Manage ment, therefore, contents itself by simply stating that it will 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 baton . than New, Grand Operatic, Romantic, Melo-Dramatic, Burlesque Extra vaganza, founded on the celebrated Eastern Pale, in the Arabi in Nights' Entertainment, entitled ALADDIN AND THE WON DERFUL LAMP; or, New Lamps for Old Ones. With very extensive New Scenery, Machinery. Dresses, &c. Principal cha iacters by Mrs. Keeley, Messrs. F. Matthews, Turner, A. Wigan, J. W. Collier, and Keeley; Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Wools I ge, Miss E. Chaplin. Mrs. A. Wigan, Miss Turner, bit s James, Miss Carson, Miss Hunt, Miss Reede, &c., &c. PRICES OF A MlSSlON.—Balcony Poxes, 4i.; Upper Boxes, 3s. ; Pit, 25.'i Gallery, 6d. Second Price—Balcony Boxes, 2s. ; Upper Boxes, Is 6d.; Pit, is. Private Boxes on the Halo my Tier (holding eight persons), Ta o Guineas. Private Boxes on the Second Tier (holding eight persons), One Guinea and a-Half. Private Boxes on the Pit Tier (holding six persons), One Guirea, The Box-office 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 and Manager. Mr. BATTY. First Week of the Engagement of the celebrated Mr. Carter, the Lion King, with his splendid Collection of Lions, Tigers, Leopards, km—Chinese War—Corps of French Equestrian Artistes—Mr. Batty's b autiful Stud of Trained Horses—New Scenes in the Circle, forming a Combination of Novelties unequ lied in one Evening. THIS EVENING. AUG. 21, Will be repeated the Eastern Spectacle of MUNGO PAIK; or, The Lion Tamer of the Niger. Karfa, the Arab, Mr. Carter, wh..re.n he will introduce his beautiful performance with his trained animal., lions, tigers, &c., in the cage, and on the open stage drive a no i in harness. Combats with the monarch of the forest, and other new extraordin ry feats. N, w Scenes in the Circle by the British and Foreign Equestrians, M Ile. Heline, tne French rider. trained steeds, &c. To conclude with an entire new Equestrian, Military and Naval Spectacle, entitled THE CHINESE WAR; or. The conquests of Amoy by British Arms. New Scenery, Dresses, Appointments, &c., to realise the rccent triumphs of England's Army and Navy. Feast of 250 Lanterns. Acting and stage.m tnager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. Box-office open from Eleven till live. Lessons in the Art of Riding by Mr. R. Smith. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY 'THEATRE. Posit vely the last Tell Nights of the Opera Season. THIS EVENING, AUG. 21, Will be performed Rossini's Fairy Opera of CINDERELLA ; or, The Little Glass SliKer. Supported by Miss Romer, Miss Betts, Miss E. Tarry, Miss Pearson, Messrs. D. W. King, Leffler, E. L. Hitne. S. Cowe I, R. Honner, &c. Conductor, Mr. G. Stansbury, with double Band and Chorus. After which, a New Operetta, written by J. B. Buckstone, Esti , and camps ed by E. ritzw,lltam, Esq., entitled a SUMMEtt NlfiHrs LOVE, supported by all the Vocalists. To conclude with TttE WA ttLOCK OF FHB GLEN. Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box office, from Eleven to Four. STRAND THEATI rHIS EVENING, AUG. '2l, Will be performcd MARTIN CH UZZLEWII. Young Martin Chuzzlewit, Mr. Rtnoe; Old Martin Chuzzlewit, Mr. Aylifle; Jonas Chuzzlewit, Mr A ttwood, Montague Tigg, Mr. Roberts; Tom Pinch, Mr. Biddies; Mr. Pecksniff, and Mrs. Sairey Gimp, Mr. H. Hall; Mary Graham, Mrs. Coleman Pope. After which, a New and Original Burlesque, entitled THE WON DERFUL LAMP, in a New Light, twin; an Illustrated Version of Aladdin. Abanazar, Mr. Paul Bedford; Aladdin. Mr. Wright; Princess Badroulbadour, Miss E. Stanl.:y. To conclude with Selby's Farce of THE NEW FOOTMAN. Bobby Breakwintbw, Mr. Attwood ; Polly Picnic, Miss Carter. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS On MONDAY, TUESDAY. WEDNESDAY, and 'Fri URSDAY, throughout the SeaFon, 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 Telbtn. The sensation caused by this unrivalled pro.luction is beyond VI fowler k necedent ; the artist, the amateur, the casual observer are all struck with its extraordinay beauty and fidelity of delinea tion....td re unanimous in prohouncing 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 seenin the calm stillness of the quiet Evening, with its Towers and Steeples reflected in the spa cious Lake, to be fully appreciated. The Evening PROMENADE CONCERTS on Mon lays, Tues days, Wednesdays , and Thursdays cont.ucted uy Mr. Godfrey. are up n a scale of more than usual excellence; ',tit words fail In doing justice to the awful representation of THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON. Its fearful •:k iracteristics are truthfully pourtrayed, but at the same time so beautifully blended with the Wonders of the Pyrotechnic Art, next delight is predominant over terror; and the Thousands who nightly crowd the Gardens hail it with acclamations, and admit that :2outliby, ..he Unrivalled Pyrotechnist has achieved a matchless triumph. The Widens and Zoological Collection are in the most perfect state, and combining so many and interesting features, are by far the most atirs , :tive lounge in or near the iretro,:oli4. Doors open at Nine—Feeding of 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 THE NAPOLEON MU SEUM, the most magnificent and extensive Collactic% of Histo rical Curiosities and Works of Art ever known to have been formed by One Person, during Twenty-five years of elaborate research, at a cost of 0,000 guineas, and to completely illustrate, in the most In structive and interesting manner, the most important part of Euro pean history, viz.—CLIARLES 1., OLIVER CROMWELL, and LOUIS XIV., to the deaths of GEORGE 111., and the EMPEROR NAPOLEON, in 1821. This unique Museum has been visited often, during the last and present year, by the Royal Family, the Duke of Wellington, Di - Foreign Princes, Ambassa.l.os, an.l their Ladles, also, many thousands of the Nobility and Public ; and the Pro prietor has recently been able to 1n23 ease, by several very fine pictures, &c., his previous almost lucre-11bl° number and variety of lits:4.l. ' Works of Art, and a multitude If valuable Relict, and other curiosities, in this most untructive and, as hundreds have said it ought to be, a National Maseum. blary thousand have inspected it, sad THIRTY PRINCIPAL EDITORS 11 the PUBLIC PRESS have stated that it ough to be seen by every one. The price of adanls thin is reduced to ONE The NAPOLEON MUSEUM is to be seen only at the Egyptian Hall." Piccadilly. daily ti om Ten till Dusk. TO CORRESPONDENTS. The details given in a letter by a Correspondent, relative to a police case heard 2nd decided on the 15th of list month, are no doubt of a very painful character, Ind mug excite general sympathy for the unfortuna! e woman, but it is difficult to give advice in such mattes s. If she really is afraid of violence, however, from the party when he is released from prison, let her apper r before a magistrate and make oath to the fact, and I a will protect hen The decision of which he complair s, strange to say, is of very common occurrence, while many persons are transported for much smaller crimes. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, Ana. 20. T. tHRMOMETER, Lowest, 60; Highest, 71; Noon, 71. BAROMETER, 29.95.—WEND, W. Narx.—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the reezing point. and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is trivially placed opposite 30, and rain at 29. HIG .1 WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE TUIS D Y. Morning...:'o minutes after 6 I Evening ... 56 minutes after 6 ....., ,.. . ‘ tp ,....,,. , 111 , I * it t i : l if , '''': tt:MA : ' •-Z , / t, lIVI , e 'k:N l , 44 ''i 04 " D E 4 - yam`. -......' ,,,.; ' "'"*...,--- .'..trkb . . , , .0 ( k ''- • 1 ".. ' k •''' --i"..••••• , •- a , actics4lllllll,,taiet*::. - '-':-."-- ..... A •' '' --- 4.. - iliertniaff ann. 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 by made on the *cons, of almost every man of note it, England and Scotland, and, above all, on the men Who had 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 Emancipati on , and it required only the finishing stroke ofMr. 1 ..., .' ...ONNEL L 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 ZEAGII, 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 i n 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—even the French and Americans united against England, 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 .t EN \ . iNat4,,not by Irishmen We can make ,_-- -sta n, and by a large proportion of the / 46 3 C-!..' -: - ' , 4,E larm.ls there one Englishman or Scotch 1,/ ... :, , 1 ta.ktkat, ates repeal ? yemany allowancesofthe ....10 , a ,...,: / ..,.., \\....., .. ~........., ~.:,..„,, N _, ~... THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGTTSP 21., 1644 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 into power, 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, thy,' conducts, and that will attempt to vindicate, these hostile operationsf the fleet and army of France. As events evolve ttmselves, 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 spectators, 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 Herald°, " 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 given on very respectable and disinterested authority) —announce s 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. lie 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. Ile 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 annihil a ti on o f M oga d ore — i f 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 Pax- LIPPE has adopted in this instance cannot be regarded by honest men without the severest reprohbis Minister,ation.Both his French MAJESTY and M. Graz() T , 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 Louts PHILIPPE'S extraor dinary sagacity and cinurnspection, 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 we 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 ; but 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, disgraces 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 :—" All 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. A Morning Contemporary observes, with reference to the game-laws—" There is every reason to believe that another session will not pass without a complete revision of these laws. We may also add, that since Sir JAMES GRAHAM has been at the head of the Home Department, the evidence on which committals and convictions for poaching have been founded has, in every case of alleged severity, been required by him from the convicting and committing magistrates. On every account it is most desirable that the admi nistration of the game-laws, during the approaching autumn and winter months, should temper mercy with justice; and a broad distinction be taken by magistrates between poachers from necessity, and poachers from idleness and confirmed vicious habits." There is both good sense and good feeling in this last remark of our Tory Contemporary, though we doubt much whether his suggestion will be acted on by our provincial magistrates, many of whom—if not the majority—are ardent sportsmen, and, regarding poachers as criminals of the blackest die, look on them NNW' the same sort of shuddering horror with which ST. DUNSTAN—AS the old legend tells us— iooked on the Devil. We must confess also that we entertain strong doubts as to the probability of the game-laws being subjected to a searching revision in the course of the next session. That their exceeding rigor may be partially relaxed, and the amount of their notorious injustice be diminished, is likely enough ; but when we bear in mind of what class of men the major portion of the. House of Commons is composed, and consider the power which they have in their hands, when united in a body—as they would probably be on this question—we are far indeed from anticipating that any very important altera tion will be made in the game-laws. At least two-thirds of the country-gentlemen in Parliament—who, whatever other good qualities they may be endowed with, are by no means remark able fur the possession of " absolute wisdom"—at least two-thirds of this non-sapient fraternity, cling to the despotic, feudal laws which regulate game, with the same desperate tenacity with which they cling to the laws which regulate the price of corn. In their partial eyes, each of these oppressive statutes is a miracle of senatorial sagacity—the most glorious monument of the wisdom of our ancestors ; and to subject either to a process of sweeping revision, they world look on as one of the most unconstitutional acts; possible—an act calculated to draw down the vengeance of Heaven on this offending country, and make it a byeword and a mockery among nations. As a parson sticks to his tithes, and a placeman to his sinecure, so does a sporting country gentleman stick to his game-laws. He thinks of his preserves and plantations—his moors, his marshes, and his stubbles—and is impressed with a sickening apprehen sion that all would be rendered wholly valueless, whether for - the purposes of profit or amusement, were the present statutes which regulate game once to be subjected to a rigorous process of amendment. We anticipate, therefore, a fierce opposition in Parlia ment to any measure which Ministers may bring forward for an alteration in the game-laws--unless, indeed, it be of a tame, inefficient, milk-and-water character; but we trust that they will not allow themselves to be brow-beaten by the interested hos tility of sporting members, but carry out their scheme in a bold, independent, impartial spirit, such as the importance and necessity of the subject demand. Few things indeed require the prompt and serious attention of the Legislature more than the game-laws. They are the origin of half the crimes that are perpetrated in the agricultural districts ; they sow the seeds of ill-will between the landholder and his tenant-farmers; they fill our poor-houses with paupers, and our gaols with criminals ; they people our convict-ships, and send constant supplies of wretched victims to our penal settlements ; and finally, they put the torch into the hand of Swing, and light up county after county in a broad, destructive conflagration. How many a poor, simple-minded peasant who might otherwise have been a useful and . creditable mem ber of society, may lay his utter ruin at the door of the game-laws—laws the justice and common sense of which, he, in common with thou semis of other people, could never be brought to com prehend ! If the Legislature had always been as scrupulously attentive in providing for tha amuse ments of the poor, as it has been in providing for those of the rich ; if the peasant's common land had always been as jealously guarded from invasion as the nobleman's or squire's preserves, we should not now have witnessed the ill-omened spectacle of a sullen, discontented, alienated peasantry, who, instead of regarding their superiors as their benefactors, re gard them only as their oppressors. Madrid journals of the 12th inst. have been re ceived. Their contents are not without importance. In one of them, the Eco del Comercio, we find some explanation of the mysterious concealment of the pro ceedings previous to the bombardment of Tangiers. Mr. HAY, the British Consul, had made an arrange ment with the Emperor of MOROCCO, but that did not satisfy Marshal BUGBAUD and the young Prince. The following is from a correspondent of that journal, dated Gibraltar, the 7th inst. : " The Emperor Muley Abderhaman had accepted the proposals conveyed by Mr. Hay, the English Consul at Tangiers, and consequently the differences between the Courts of Spain and France and Morocco were consi dered as adjusted, but, yesterday, in virtue of orders re ceived from Marshal Bugeaud, and even before Mr. Hay had returned from Mogadore, the Prince de Joinville opened the fire against Tangiers, and effected with his whole squadron a bombardment which lasted some hours. After a vigorous defence, the batteries of the town were completely destroyed by the French squadron. The other squadrons took no part in the bombardment. It is affirmed that the Belle P..ule frigate has rather se verely suffered, and that the crew was saved in the boats of the other ships. At half a league from the place 12,000 Bedouins awaited the landing of the French troops, but it did not take place yesterday. Mr. Hay arrived hither last night, at eleven o'clock, in the Eng lish steamer, the Vesuvius." Letters from Cadiz slte, that after the bombard ment of Tangiers, the squadron under the command of the Prince DB JOINVILLE proceeded to Cadiz, where they arrived on the 7th, in order to repair the damage they sustained; but they were soon to bom bard the other towns on the coast of Morocco. There had been some disturbances at Madrid, but they were speedily put down. The Three per Cents. were done at 27 13-16 at 60 days, and the Five per Cents. at 19k. It is a singular circumstance in the policy of the French Government with regard to Morocco, that though accounts are published of the attack on Tan giers, of the destruction of the forts, and of the small loss sustained by the French, only two boys having been killed, that the public have received no information on authority relative to the conditions of the ultimatum and the reply of the EMPEROR. There is a total blank between peaceful negotiation and the bombardment of one of the principal seaports—all that the French authorities deign to communicate is, that the answer was not satisfactory. The French justly complain of this hiatus; but the English have more reason, for on the nature of the negotiations and the terms proposed and rejected, rests the important question—on what grounds did the Prince de JOIN.- VILLE make such a sudden and destructive attack upon a town belonging to a Power in intimate alli ance with England ? The Opposition papers espe cially reprobate this strange course of proceeding. " While every bulletin," says one of them, "from the army of BUGEAUD, however long or unimportant, have been given at length in the Moniteur, the circum stances which preceded and accompanied the bom bardment of Tangiers are most briefly mentioned." " Many things," says the National, " remain to be explained, in order to render the preceding dispatchEs intelligible, and to account for so prompt a transition from peace to war, and it is natural that the public should be anxious to know the exact amount of our loss, and what measures were adopted towards the town after the bombardment." The Constilutionnel makes similar remarks, and adds, " there are many families waiting with anxiety the return of the casualties and rumours of all sorts, which the silence of the Government unfortunately tends to confirm.'' The only article put forth by a Ministerial paper, to clear up the mystery, appears in the Globe; but it, in fact, gives no information whatever, while it accuses the EMPEROR of a design to protract the negotiations till the French fleet should be driven off the coast by the equinoxial gales; but this is mere conjecture, and the public will not believe one word of it while the full details are withheld. These are the remarks of the Ministerial journal : " It was evident that the Emperor of Morocco wished to gain a month more, and reach the season of the equi nox, when it would be impossible for the French squad ron to remain on the coast of Morocco. The Prince perceived the snare, particularly when he found that an evasive answer was returned to two important points in the ultimatum—namely, the dissolution of the body of troops stationed on the Algerian frontier, and the settle meet of the boundary question. The discussion relative to Abd-el-Kader, and the objections made by the Em peror with regard to the place of his banishment, con vinced M. de Nion that he was not in earnest. How do you wish me to expel the Emir,' observed that Sovereign, to the French negotiator, when you found it so difficult yourselves to drive him out of Algeria ?' " In the meantime the greatest preparations are in progress for continuing the war with vigour. Several vessels in the harbour of Brest are to be put in requi sition, and in a very short period there will be a French force on the coast of Morocco sufficient to put a itop . to all commerce. The Constitutionnel says the next place to be attacked is Mogadore : "After the operations against Tangiers the squadron was to have proceeded to other ports as far as Mogadore. At the latter point the difficulty of attacking will be greater than at Tangiers. The pass which leads into the roads has, it appears, not depth of water enough for ships beyond the size of brigs. It is probably owing to this circumstance that the port of Brest has been ordered to hasten the arming of the three g un -b r i gs , L a Vi g i e L'Alonette, and LaTactique. A corve tt e d e c h arge i ; very shortly to leave Toulon, and join the squadron, with war ammunition, to replace that which has been ex pended in the bombardment of Tangiers. Two more steamers, one of 320 and the other of 220 horse power, have also been sent to the Prince de Joinville, and it is also said that the steam-frigate Montezuma, which is coining from Rochefort, will join his squadron." The French funds, in Consequence of the alarming state of affairs, still continue depressed, On Sunday the Three per Cents. were quoted at 80f. 70c. It appears that the Government have at length re solved to curb the restless and mutinous boys of the Polytechnic school. Their last offence was refusing to be examined by a professor of the name of DMIAMEL on the ground that his appointment was not regular. The KING has, therefore, by the follow ing decree, dissolved the school : " On the report of our Minister the Secretary of State for the Department of Marine and Colonies, act ing ad interim as Minister of War, and considering the acts of disobedience and disorder which have lately taken place in the Polytechnic School, we have decreed as follows : " Article 1. The Polytechnic School is dissolved. " 2. The chiefs, administrators, professors, exa miners, and officers of the school, will preserve their titles and e moluments. " 3. An ulterior ordinance will regulate the reorga nisation of the school. 44 4. Our Minister the Secretary of State 'for the De partment of the Marine and Colonies, directing ad interim the War Department, is charged with the execu tion of the present ordinance. " Given at Neuilly, on the 17th of August, 1844. " LOUIS PHILIPPE.' PORTUGAL. We have received advises from Lisbon to the 14th A series of illegal acts on the part of the Govern ment prepared the way for the promulgation of an ordonnance on the 9th inst., signed by the Queen, and countersigned by the Ministers, which is thus characterised by an ex-Minister of Portugal, the Viscount Sa du Bandeira :—" This decree, abrogat ing the constitutional charter, places the nation in a similar situation to that in which it stood in 1828, in consequence of the destruction of the fundamental law of the state." Senor Cabral has thus openly, it would appear, assumed the legislative attributes of the Cortes—the power of making and revoking laws ; and it re mains to be seen whether the Sovereign of Portugal will continue to sanction her Minister's assumption of the whole powers of the State in his person, or whether the representatives of the people may not assemble, and proclaim her Majesty's unfaithful Minister an usurper. —Chronicle. SOUTHAMPTON, AUGUST 20.—The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Montrose, Captain R. W. Evans, arrived this morning at nine o'clock, from the Peninsula, bringing all the Peninsular mails. Her dates of departure are as follow :—From Gib raltar, August 11 ; Cadiz, August 12; Lisbon, August 1 4 ; Oporto, August 15 ; and Vigo, August 16, at noon. Ships of war lying at Gibraltar —Her Majesty's ships Caledonia and Formidable, and her Majesty's steamer Vesuvius. Vessels passed off the Rock of Lisbon—The Liver pool steamer, on the 14th ; the Royal Tar, on the 18th, in the-bay. Specie on board-8 packages of specie ; full cargo of fruit, 7 head of cattle. Passengers -28. Two French war steamers are at Cadiz, taking in coals and.provisions for the French fleet at Mogadore. The Montrose brings a few interesting facts re specting the bombardment of Tangiers. Prince de Joinville alone discharged 3,000 shots. The Moors returned the fire with a rapidity which astonished their enemies. The Suffren received 40 shots; in her side. The Moors fought their guns as long as they were serviceable. Her Majesty's steamers Hecla and Vesuvius were quietly looking on the whole of the action, as well as the American frigate Columbia. The town itself has not suffered. The Portuguese Consul's house having been abandoned by thrJ persons in charge, is the only one which has been injured. The destruction of the works is not so .complete as had been represented ; many of the guns have been found still serviceable. There are 23,000 troops at Rabat, and 1,500 cavalry at Tangiers. The free communication with Tangiers, since the Prince left, is re-established. FRANCE AND MOROCCO. The line which this country has to pursue towards France, under present circumstances, is a delicate one, but not the less clear and straightforward for being delicate. We have to be spectators, and spectators only at present, of a quarrel which is going on be tween two independent kingdoms ; but we must be, at the same time, in a state of readiness to act, sup posing we should be called upon, i.e., supposing this quarrel should take a turn which involve our own interests. Perfect quietness and neutrality up to this point, but armed quietness, armed neutrality— the position of a watchful stander-by, ready to strike a strong blow the very first moment his own rights should be infringed---this is the situation in which we now stand to our French neighbours in the Med i terranean. But matters have not come to this pass yet; nor should a state of preparation for striking a blow, should it be wanted, make us at all fussy and anxious to strike it. We should not be one bit the more bel ligerent, either in temper or conduct, because we should be prepared for war. Watchfulness is not a shadow of an excuse for irritation and interference. So long as we are at peace with France, and France does nothing to violate that peace, so long we ought not even to expect that she will violate it. We should have a friendly expectation that France will act fairly, till she shows by her actinns that she does not; and all that we should attend to is to be ready to act, supposing this just expectation on our part should be deceived. The French have bombarded Tangiers, but they have not taken possession of it. This is the distinc tion which should decide the question of our inter ference. The bombardment and the occupation of a town are totally different things, though some alarmists would make us believe they wore the same. We may permit the one, but we should on no account permit the other. We expressly guarded our selves, in our remarks on this subject the other day, against being supposed to allow the smallest concession to France, with respect to the occupation of Tangiers, or of any other port of the Emperor of Morocco's dominions. Some of our Contemporaries are far more generous and bounteous in their concessions on this head than we are dis posed to be, and seem ready to give up the whole empire of Morocco to France, if she would like to have it. We think differently. The possession of such a line of coast as that of Morocco would give France a preponderance in the Mediterranean that would be quite incompatible with our interests. And we seriously assert, that any attempt on the part of France to take possession of it would be as respecta ble a cause of war as almost any that has ever set na tions together by the ears. But France does not occupy either Tangiera or any any part of the coast of Morocco as yet, and she will not be allowed to do so. Our Government have, we have no doubt, not failed to intimate their objection to even a temporary possession of that town by the French. The Prince de Joinville has indeed bom barded it, and it is difficult to see on what principle of international law he could have been prevented. But the French bombs are the only French occupants of the place as yet ; and the Emperor of Morocco has only got what he deserved—a good peppering for his obstinacy and unfairness. And peppered he pro bably will be till he comes to terms. France is whip ping his Majesty into better behaviour, but she has not yet picked his pockets or stripped him of his criat : she is the disciplinarian hitherto, and not the high way robber. If she should assume that vocation it will be time for us to interfere.—Times. COLONEL STODDART AND CAP TAIN CONOLLY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sla,—ln the letter which Dr. Wolff was forced to write at I3okhara, 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 12.59. 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. . _ _ Thtis 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 obedient servant, JOHN GROVER, Captain Unattached. Army and Navy Club, Aug. 20, 1844. MONEYAND COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TUESDAY EVENING. Speculative sales were made this afternoon in Consols, which caused the market to close heavily, the rates being 981 for money, and 98a for time. The New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. declined to 101 ; and the Reduced to 102 ; the Three per Cents. being 99i C also. Spanish Ac tives a n d e a r Deb o r ei e g n n t I Le a s r N k v e e t r e do c ont n i n e u a e t 111. flat tives were 22h• ; and the Three per Cents. 33 to *. Co lombian steady at 13: 4 1 Venezuela we r e 41 t o 1. The additional transactions in Railway Shares have been these :—Birmingham and Gloucester, New, 101 : Bristol and Gloucester, 15 ; Chester and Holyhead, 11 ; Dublin and Cashel, ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, New, 3/ ; Hull and Selby, 161 ; Birmingham, 1241 ; Ditto, l'hirds, 36k ; Brighton Loan Notes, ; Greenwich Preference, 38 ; Lynn and Ely, 31 ; Manchester and Leeds, 53} ; Ditto, Quarter, 8} ; Manchester and Bir mingham, 144 ; Ditto, Quarter, 31 ; Northern and Eastern, 13.; ; South Eastern, 5k ; Yarmouth and Nor • with, 11 to 4; York and North Midland, 57 ; Ditto, Half, 281 to 22 ; Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux, 1; Paris and Orleans, 164 ; Paris and Rouen, 171 to 17; and Rouen and Havre, 8} premium. Brighton have been 2i ; and Greenwich, 34 discount, There was an advance generally in the rates of the foreign exchanges, usually quoted under this head. The following is the official return of the exports of bullion for the week ending Thursday last : Gold coin to Rotterdam 380 ounces. Silver coin to ditto Silver coin to Hamburgli (From The Sun of Last Night.) There was a quiet market for Cotton at Liverpool yes terday, the sales being 4,000 bales, of which 1,000 were for export, prices being rather in favour of buyers. —There was a dull market for Shares, and in some in stances at rather lower rates. Birmingham and Glou cester, 1131 ; Caledonian, 4 ; Chester and Holyhead, 64 ; Dublin and Cashel, 61 ; Grand Junction, 2191 ; Ditto, Quarters, 541 •, Great Western, Fifths, 24i ex div. ; Lancaster and Preston, Quarters, 101 ; Liverpool and Manchester, Halves, 991 ; London and Birmingham, 321. shares, 38 ; Lynn and Ely, 41 ; Midland Counties, 109 ; Sheffield and Manchester, 84 ; South-Eastern,l2t; Trent Valley, 10 ; Ulster, 374 ; Paris and Lyons, 21 ; Paris and Orleans, 37k ; Rouen and Havre, 18i ; Or leans, Tours, and Bordeaux, 30 s . The dates from Jamaica are to the 24th July. The subject of obtaining a full supply of hill-coolies con tinues to attract, it would appear, very general interest. An authorisation to raise a loan of 500,000 k for this great object has, we believe, been resumed. The Corn wall Courier, of the 18th July, reeeived at the Jamaica Coffee-house this morning, upon this subject states : " Were this island (Jamaica) peopled in proportion to its extent, prosperity would attend every effort that is made to improve its culture, labour would be at com mend at a moderate rate, and an increased .demand would exist for the luxuries as well as the necessaries of life. There would be also an increased consumption of British manufacture, as well as of American goods." No doubt any step in the right direction to render labour adequate to the wants of the planters would be most beneficial ; but without the sanction of the home Government, and, indeed, its guarantee for re payment, it is questionable if so large a boon as half a million could be raised here upon the security of any of the. West India Colonies. The House of Assembly had been prorogued to the 20th of this month. Meetings continued to be held in the Colo nies to protest against the Government measures connected with the reduction of the duties on foreign sugars produced by free labour. The quotations of sugar in Jamaica and other colonies had advanced, more rain having fallen than was required in moist districts. A strong phillippic is inserted in the Falmouth Post at the mode in which too many of the planters and over seers lived. " If," says our authority, " they were to commit their houses to the keeping of vir tuous wives, instead of profligates, wo should soon see the effects of so desirable a change by the in creaseiden- tified with o f the i respectableateres families,interests of the c o h ln w y o _qu w dis tant period, in wealth, i n t e lli ge nce, and happy contened ness, with the farmer s o f G rea t Britain." colony—equal, no ld theyal, There are accounts from Hayti of an unfavourable tenour. The island was in a most disorganised condi tion, and it is asserted that French vessels of war were hovering about to take the people under the protection of the King of France. The Haytians are said to hate the French. The Victoria left the St. Katherine's Dock for New York yesterday afternoon with 50 cabin and 150 steerage passengers, and a fair cargo. On Saturday a dinner was given to Mr. Voy, pilot, by the captains of the London line of packet ships, and presented him with a service of plate, value 50 guineas, as a tribute of respect for his good conduct, having piloted their ships for the last 24 years successfully. The Funds have been pretty steady this morning. Consols, for money, have been sold at 981 to ; for the account at 98-li only. The Commissioners took 5,000/ Consols at 98i. Exchequer Bills, Canadian De bentures, and the other Securities, were ratherthigher than yesterday. The Foreign market has been in a quiescent state to day. Spanish Actives are at 221, and French Three per Cents. at 80f. 25c., a fall of about per cent. The only alteration in the other Foreign Bonds is an improvement in Brazilian, which opened at 83k, and are now at 84k. The tendency of the Railway Share Market has been upwards, but the variations were but slight. Provincial Bank of Ireland pre at 20/ premium. PRICES OF BRITISHrUNDSAT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Bank 5t0ck....•.• *** ..............•........... 00000 ••• 1994 4 199 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 3 per Cent. Consols. Annuities 98 30t 3% per Cent. Reduced Annuities lO2 A New 33y per Cent. Annuities Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860.. ...... 12)4 7-. 9-16 Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan. 1860. ..... South Sea Stock Ditto New Annuities - 97j4 Consols for Account ........... ................ India Stock Exchequer Bills, Il(d. I)4d 1,0001. ..... •••••••••••••• ..... .—.. •••••••••••• 73 74 pm. 5001......... ........... ..... •........• 75 74 pm. Ditto small:"... ..... •••••••••••• 73 75 pm. Ditto Advertised...." PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. ... .... ........... Ditto New Bonds, 1829 and MO. 82% Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent b,... .—. Dittu for the Account Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent.... ... Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent 1840 . ....... Ditto for the Account French Rentes, 3 per Cent Exchange Dutch 2% per Cents til%%% Ditto for the Account. Dutch 5 per Cents.. .• ..••••••••••••••••••••• ..... •••••• 100%1i% New Loan, 5 per Cents. (1837) PRICES OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. RAILWAYS. PAIL PER SWUM Birmingham and Gloucester lOO .........1124 Bristol and Exeter - 70 7934 ... to 80 Bristol and Gloucester 3O 55% ... to Caledonian Eastern Counties ........... 23 ~ . ..... 12 ... to —. Ditto New Registered........... 81. 6s. lid. Edinburgh and Glasgow ... ..... ... 50 Great North of England Great Western ... ..... . ...... ....... 75 135 Ditto )4 Shares Ditto Fifths l2 24% •.•••• to Hull and Selby . _ _ 65 London and Birmingham...„ 100 .........223% - to 235 Ditto New Thirds 2 3B ..... to London and Blackwall.... ....... ... 16% London and Brighton .. ... ........ 50 London and Greenwich............ 12% London and South Western ...... 41% Ditto Eighths London and Croydon Lynn and E1y... . Manchester and Leeds 7O 124 ........ to 125 Ditto % Shares 3O .. 52% Dit o .1.4 Shares Manchester and Birmingham ... 40 Ditto 4 Shares 2 Y 54 to Midland Counties . .... . ........ ...... 100 Birmingham and Derby lOO ........ 81 Newcastle and DarhngtonJunct. 21 North British Norwich and Brandon South Devon South Eastern and Dover 3254 3-N4 ... to Ditto New Trent Valley 'Yarmouth anti Norwich York and North Midland ......... 50 lOB Ditto Shares Orleans, Tours, and Bourdeaux to Paris and Lyons Paris and Orleans JOINT STOCK BANKS. Provincial of Ireland. _ _ Union of London MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, AUG. 19.—We have had a good market to-day, and a considerable busi ness has been done. Blackburn, Burnley, and Accring ton, 2 ; Churnet Valley, 3s. prem. ; Eastern G ran des, Perpetual, No. 2,20 s. ; London and Brighton, Eighths, 13s. 9d. to 12s. 6d. prem. ; Lynn and Ely, 41. 193. to Si. ; Manchester and Leeds, 122 ; Ditto Half Shares, 51i ; Manchester and Birmingham, 544 ; Ditto, Quar ters, 5} ; North British, 2 15-16 to i ; Trent Valley, 10. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS . Bask Stock l, 9 Indian 5t0ck............... 3 per Cent, Red 99% Ditto Bonds .......... ..... pm. 3 per Cent. Cons. ?% per Cent. Red lOl Ditto New Annuities ... 97n New 3)4 per Cent. lOl Ex. Bills, 1,0004 13{,d ... 74 pia New 5 per Cent. — Ditto 500/ Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small 73 pm. Jan 1860 l2 9-16 Bank Stock for Acct.... Oct. 1859 — Consols for Act. Jan. 1860.............. 12 IA India Stock for Acct 2e2% F 0 ttEIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per Cent ...... — Portuguese, 5 per Cent ..... 81 Belgian, 5 per Cent — I Ditto, New Ditto ......... ...... Brazilian Bonds 84% Prussian, 5 per Cent Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent... Russian 5 per Cent — Chllian, 6 per Cent .......... Ditto, M etallic ...... Colombian, 6 per Cent Ditto, 1824 'Ditto, 3 per Cent Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent Ditto, Deferred Danish, 3 per Cent Greek, 1825, 5 per Cent— — Exchange ... ........... ... —f. —c. Mexican, 5 per Cent Ditto, 6 per Cent., 18 37 ' 'Dutch, 21% per Cent.... 61 Peruvian, 1825, 6 per Cent — , Ditto, S per Cent .........100% SHARES. Birmingham and Gloucester (100 paid) 1123( Ditto, New Shares, 173 paid Bristol and Gloucester, 30 paid Chester and Holyhead ( 5 paid) Dublin and Cashel, 23,; paid Eastern Counties (23 paid) ... ..... Ditto Registered (816 s 8d paid) Ditto Perpetual, 5 per Cent., 13s 4d. paid,Ne. 1 Ditto ditto, paid. No. 2 Edinburgh and Glasgow, 50 paid Ditto Quarter Shares (12 3{ paid) Hull and Selby, 50 paid 66 IA London and Birmingham (Stock) Ditto, New Thirds, 2 paid Lonion and Brighton (50 paid) Ditto Loan Notes, 10 paid London and Greenwich (12t. 15s. 4d. paid) 9 Diito, Preference or Privilege. XiB 17s 2d paid t 2 I li Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) Ditto New Quarters ( 2 paid) Manchester and Birmingham Ditto, Quarter Shares ( 2 paid) Northern and Eastern (45 paid) South Eastern and Dover (33 2s 4d paid) ..... -814 Yarmouth and Norwich (lid paid) York and North Midland (50 paid) lO7 Ditto Half Shares (25 paid) Orleans, Tours, and Bourdeaux, 1 paid Paris and Orleans (20 paid) Paris and Rouen. 20 paid Rouen and Havre, 10 paid iB4 COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—(YESTERDAY.) Amsterdam CF. 12 44 Gibraltar — Ditto, at sight l2 2 Leghorn 3O 50 Rotterdam 2U. 12 5 Genoa 25 85 Antwerp Hamburgh M.B. 13 13f Venice .. .. Altona l3 14 Naples 394 Paris, 3 days' sight... 25 60 Palermo, per oz llB4 Ditto, 3 months 25 85 Lisbon 544 Marseilles Bourdeaux 25 90 Rio Janeiro 23 Frankfort on Maine.. 121 Bahia 23 Petersburgh, 3 Us... 37 Buenos Ares — Berlin 7 NewYork,2ldys sight Vienna, effec. 11. 3 M 952 Philadelphia — 1 rieste, ditto Madrid 37 Foreign Gold, bars. £3 17 9 Cadiz Bilbao 36 Barcelona 36 Seville Portugal Gold Coin 3 17 5 New Doubloons 0 0 0 New Dollars 0 4 10 Silver in ears 0 4 114 At a dinner given on Saturday last, by the captains of the American New York and London line of packet ships, to Mr. Joseph Voy, pilot of Gravesend, Captain D. Chadwick, of the Wellington, on behalf of himself and his brother commanders, presented Mr. Voy with a handsome service of plate, value fifty guineas, as a tribute of respect for his uniform attention as pilot to their ships, having conducted them successfully from Gravesend to London for the last twenty-four years. BRIGHTON, MONDAY.—The Baron and Baroness Seebach and Count Dmitry Nesselrode arrived last night by the last train from London, on a visit to Count Ne.sel rode, at Pegg's Royal York Hotel. Baron Seebach took leave of the Baroness and his father-in-law this morning, and proceeded by the nine o'clock train to Dover, on :his return to the Continent. The Bareness will commence sea-bathing forthwith, and, is e understand that Dr. Franz has also recommended her to take equestrian ex ercise on the Downs. Count Nesselrode rode to the Dyke on horseback on Saturday, and in the evening Dr. Franz dined with him at the hotel. The Magnet steamer arrived at the Chain-pier this morning, about one o'clock, from Dieppe. Among the passengers was M. Kesseleff, the Russian Chargi d'Affaires at Paris, who imme diately proceeded to the York Hotel on a visit to Count Nesselrode. The fortunate change in the weather, and the de lightful sunshine of the last few days, have revived the harvest operations with great spirit. Carting wheat was resumed on Saturday, being continued in many places to a late hour at night, and yesterday a very large breadth was cleared. The grain, of course, is rather discoloured, but the damage is not so great as was feared, and the gloomy apprehensions which prevailed at one period last week are now dispelb.d. At Braintree market, on Wed nesday, as much as 41. advance over that day fortnight was asked for old wheat, but not more than 50s. was rea lised.—Essex Herald. RAILWAY TRIP TO LIVERPOOL.—OR Monday even ing, at half-past nine o'clock, a special train of forty two carriages, containing 1,075 passengers, started from the station at Euston-square to Liverpool, the fares to and from being 30s. each. The passengers may return at the end of seven or ten days, and will have the oppor tunity of visiting several interesting places in Lancashire, as well as in England and Scotland, the fare to Glasgow being reduced to ss. Trips to Wales and Ireland, as well as to Fleetwood, will form part of the engagements for these holidays. 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 Jobson, aged 15, maid -servant in Mr. Bacon's house, was apprehended late on Friday night by Superintendent Oakley, and taken on Saturday before W. IL Layton, Esq., who remanded her to Dunmow station.—Essex Herald. CLOSE OF THE PITMEN'S STRIKE.--NEWCASTLE UPON-TYNE, SATURDAY.—The strike of the pitmen in the counties of Northumberland and Durham is now at an end, the whole of the collieries, with very unimportant exceptions, having engaged all the workmen they re quire on the terms and conditions offered by the coal-owners previous to the sth of April, when the strike commenced. The Durham pitmen were the first to give way, and several collieries on the Wear and Tees resumed work early in the week. The Tyne pitmen seemed inclined to hold out longer, but the determination of the owners to engage other men if their old workmen held out longer than yesterday, of which due intimation had been given by placards plentifully posted in the district, at once de cided the struggle in their favour. The coal committee, which has sat weekly in Newcastle during the progress of the strike, have called for returns from each col liery, showing the number of hewers employed before the strike commenced, the number intended to be employed this year, the number of men now engaged who had been previously employed as heweri in these counties, the number of strangers employed who had previously resided in the district, and the number introduced from a distance. These returns will ba not only interesting, but exceeding), valuable, from the practical illustration they are calculated to afford of the impolicy of strikes, and the injury they inflict even on the men themselves. After the men had signed the monthly bond, orders were immediately given by the colliery agents to replace their furniture in the houses they had previously occupied, and such a " shifting" has perhaps never been witnessed before in this or any other part of the country. It is to be hoped this prac tical lesson will not be lost or disregarded in future years. SUMMARY OF NEWS AND Publtc Optitton. " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. bl On Saturday the King of the French, accompaniea Count Montalivet and three Generals, left Neuilly.L" Versailles, and returned in the evening, when his jesty received at dinner the Grand Duke of Hesse, Pasquier, and the Ministers of Sardinia, Sweden, Pi tugal, and Saxony. The King, by royal ordonnance, has dissolved ' Polytechnic School. By another ordonnance, of , same date, the Minister of the Navy and Colonies, A ar °. miral de Mackau, is entrusted, ad interim, with the partment of War. .The Government, it was said, had received fresh n e _l 6 . by telegraph. Marshal Bu gea ud h as l e ft S a l a Algol; for Fez, which he will slowly approach. The Prince Joinville has orders to bombard all the towns on 1 "" , coast, but not to remain before any of them longer two days. It was reported at Oran that Abd-el-Kader had 1 1 the Moorish army, and had gone to the western Vir g the Moorish territory. ,t of The Constitutionnel mentions a report that a Pr - 0 the Moorish troops had entered the town of Tangler e d soon as the French cannonade commenced, and destroy er the houses of the consuls, beside s c o mm itting other cesses ' • but the report was not believed. The Madrid Gazette, of the 12th, states that the 1 311 1 of San Fernando was only to advance 50,000,0 0 °,j reads for August, because the Minister of Finance Pj j considered that sum sufficient for the wants of Government, and that the proceeds of the taxes collo;i by the Bank in July last, had amounted to 57,544 s reels. MAW AND POLICE. There were fifteen cases heard on Monday in the of Bankruptcy, before Mr. Commissioner Fonblanqn In one of them the bankrupt was opposed on the gr o of having vexatiously defended an action. In the COf;i of his (the bankrupt's) cross-examination, it aPPe : 4 that the Learned Counsel, who w as sever ely pro'"" him, had actually signed the plea on which the dell was mainly grounded. The Commissioner smiled , A. Counsel blushed, and, ultimately, the bankrupt wee p 0 35, The Central Criminal Court resumed its sittings, W ;;• the Recorder having addressed the grand jury.P„ h o .- ceeded to dispose.f some cases of misdemeanour. s'" - 0 ( Richard Downee, for embezzling money, the propertY„ t , his master,was sentenced to twelve months' i m prieouw'" In the New Court, William Warmington, a s-, °1 ,4 1 1 was indicted for a felonious assault on Catherine IN s ; te Ile was convicted of a common assault, and sentencedll be imprisoned a month. Charles Daniels, for stela', three halfpence, having been previously convict felony, was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonnien r i e e -Maria Lewis and Harriet Smith were indicted re , stealing six yards of printed cotton, value 51., the_ . „l? perty of W. Webb. The evidence was conclusive ar b ' - ul both prisoners, and they were pronounced G il r o y It was then proved that Lewis was convicted of fel t ° in this Court last April, hence she was now sentence" to seven years' transportation ; and the other prison er three months' herd labour in the House of CorrectinT er e The Middlesex Sessions commenced on Monday be e Alr. Serjeant Adams, the newly appointed assist s l o judge. This was the first Session under the new A nt ' , the better administration of criminal justice in Middl eso e The calendar was exceedingly light ; it contained 0 " 0 names of twenty-four prisoners for trial, sixteen of p were indicted for felony, and the remainder for ass sl4 and misdemeanours. tte 4 A fisherman, named Janes White, was conunl from Brentford for a gross outrage on two children. At Bow-street, Michael Read and Jane Furphfl e d • brought before Mr. Hall, the former charged wil" 1 ; • riously and cruelly stabbing James O'Flaherty, Nt pair of scissors, and the latter with being in his comP s r le aiding and abetting him. Read was remanded, in 0 no . to give the prosecutor, who is severely injured, or 1 ,1; 0 , portunity of recovering sufficiently to appear against ;tea Patrick Larkin, a letter-carrier, was fully cononi i for stealing 7801. from letters at the Post-office, Mrs. Pelham, accompanied by her legal adviser, Ws' 0 . on Mr. Burrell, at Queen-square, for the purpose Sate' tradicting the statement made by a Mrs. Bird, on at e day, to the effect that Wilson Pelham, who had al*lv o f passed as Mrs. Pelham's son, was, in fact, the sl ere , Mrs. Bird, who had been kidnapped from her. . te . Pelham distinctly denied the truth of Mrs. Bird'S 21 " Inca. John Merry, charged with stealing two silver sP °°°' was remanded for a ortniht e 4 Mr. Maltby, the ( Magistrate at Marlborough' s b tre ile fined Isaac Sorrell, a coachman, 3/., for having' e n' driving a carriage up Oxford-street, assaulted two b tlemen, by striking them with a whip. t oth Three women, named Buckley, Pierce, and Theme 0 0, were charged at 'Lambeth-street, before Mr. S nr e i f e with robbing a captain of a vessel of a 51. note and t h w oo se sovereigns. The robbery had been committed in - es' of ill-fame. After a considerable time having„t e i li trate pended in the investigation of the case, the 0-“'"fsCor committed Buckley and Thompson to the House Ti o rectiou for two months, and Pierce was discharg ed ' s e re note was returned to the captain, the Magistrate °LA ing A he richly deserved to lose it. coarse vulgar-looking woman named Eliza 1 ‘ t Djt was charged at Worship-street, with robbing 4 , Henry Barnes. The prisoner had stopped the Prty tutor in Shoreditch under pretence of a s king her 1/ and accompanied him a short distance until sitein e l ! h e tall man to whom she said all right and bolted. h e prosecutor was then attacked by the man whn ia shook off ; and starting in pursuit of the prisoner, clot tured her. She was remanded in order to give tiale the capture of her accomplice. • 0 0 A gentleman named N\ alker applied to the regi s n ar for assistance, in precuting the enlargement of a gf" he man named White from a lunatic asylum, in wl" te r had been incarcerated by th e authorities at the Ch ar ro . house. Certificates from various medical men wer e Poe duced, testifying to Mr. White's perfect sanity. mstrate told him h e must sue o u t a w rit of liabe e ttb William Postlethwayte charged at Union.hall, attempting to violate Mrs. Eliza Augusta - Townse ndt remanded. At the Thames-office, Mr. Kennedy, clerk to the' 60 of Ditehburn and Mare, iron steam-boat budd ers s r Blackwell, made application to Mr. Broderip for a era ted rant to apprehend ten apprentices who had ans' o e. themselves trent their employ without leave. The rants were granted. COIL If ALT —rasHlO N Ma' Lord and Lady Charles Wellesley left town oe day by the two o'clock train, for the Reading staP°lo the Great Western railway, for Strathfieldsay, t. ° ,4 of the distinguished circle invited to meet the Pil e — Vi Pru, r s co Viscount Sandon and family with a party o. frt dBD, have arrived at Burnt Norton, near Chippers Ca'' where they intend staying a month or two, • ed‘ t The Prince and Princess Radzivill and suite ari l/ con' the Brunswick lletel, Jermyn-street, from the tinent. re The Marquis of Worcester was expected to ex l.l town yesterday from Wales. e The Earl and Countess of Orford are resi di Wiesbaden for the summer. A i Viscount and Viscountess Emlyn have er rive ,ise d Cawdor Castle, North Britain, on a visit to Le r " Lady Cawdor, from St. Leonard's, near Windsor- l eft The arrivals at Leamington Spa have lately be c ' . an numerous, and comprise many families of re e .,,writ affluence. Among the most recent are Viscount P.,,`", r oef M.P., and Viscountess Newry, Lord and Lady A P„ica• Lord Calthorp, Lord Blayne , Lady Montagu, 1 4r, f i plceo uterine Tollemache, Lady enlock, Lady bir b b i s oes Lady Farquhar, Hon. Mrs. Sneyd, W. B. W ri gigkie r Esq., M.P., Colonel Fielding, Colonel Maxwell, sc. Best, Captain D'Eyncourt, R.N., Sir Richard Ottiel' AILISOZI46./13731101716. op d frel The Great Western steam-ship, which se" -- „11 4- Liverpool on Saturday for New York, carries °- passengers. 101 0 1' 0n Saturday afternoon the Prince of Vi r e• -ia : a ge • with steamer, Captain John St e vens, on her CO London, while coming into Greenwich, ran e re l 6 siderable force against the pier, when one of t" . ° ,oenc e who was holding out the fender to prevent the " to th e of the concussion, was thrown off the vessel o %oo' pier with such force, that he received a com P e e; th e ture of the thigh. The paddle-box was sta ve 1 ' O3 OrP wheel doubled up, and the shaft and machinery damaged. ifig , an! Camberwell fair commenced o n M o nday ree riL i c ief e a finer day for the amusement of the holiday, o f the was never seen. The shows were numerous Or oily he:, first-rate order, embracing every natural cur i a l 'ro d tween the torrid and frigid zones. " Or i F sn ive P re r ; Thumbs," and " Unquestionable Ojibbeways Vit t servation," are in great abundance. The vish"t ore'" very numerous, and throughout the day the be l prevailed. • tie° c e e The Local Committee of the British Aso° pO ll/1 issued circulars from the " Museum, York," to 0 1 4 hald t. the forthcoming meeting of the Association , o r, whicr o in that city, commencing on the 26th Septee' b r o l year is six weeks later than the time appointed for meeting. vieg en The Governorship of Dumbarton Castle h l" , , no doe abolished upon the demise of General Lord tote ? the 01' the governors house and premises fall jet ° , wish A Ordnance I and the intention is there to e e ' s litary prison for North Britain. aehe llhiP f The Bishop of London has conferred th e P r enno gb, of the Charter-house on the Rev. Folliett ibbe' parish,llord O a n x d fo t r h d e , a ß n e d v. F S eil W o w al o d f e A g r i a l v s e o , icilusrcatoeueegf Old to succeed Mr. Baugh at Ilford. I ke" vet° among ermid l zoie t indtg 7 r i y l o l na b s e uc h ini e ad a ra r ay d c, t 7, i with aths re gr e t that those more immed at i o a fi te t Grace has always been s ubject , less t° 5 4 ' more or , s ole., attacks of this • comletely he kind, which he accounted for w,7 _ r iot that in the Horse battles h s a usp d osed the mar of the artillery in his " , ; i a t r :: ;:0 1 g b e i: general health appeared but this last produce loyfadbeoauftnsehims: peearusoerii.vTasii eranged or impaired the auricular l'etarriike him attack was so decided as alolost.t° 000 G u a rp a de f sa;, r wen t aeandnddaaalttlottehgneodtuhegdehrthhtelencirnabpinet, an $ ,i yet II his advanced age the slightest symptom 0, " r e- Adler ment cannot but be regarded with uneasiness .--.,-- ham Looker-on. is el Mackerel have been so abundant at Brighton - . l t ipl. that some very fine fish were retailed at twelve', Sb i ' • . 11 WEST INDIA PINE ArPLEs.---YesterdaY, -Ivo id sand more of this fruit were sob' by Mr. Adll'o- Pudding-lane, Monument -yard. The fruit was lk The cellent quality and realised from 2s to 55• " C S. thio pine apple season in the Bahamas, from ‘ole"Zi. 0 fruit was brought, continues from June till Septat7 n - I L that further importations may be expected tho 1"""