The Sun. — London, England, 1844-08-17 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. LAST NIGHT/pe cial OF THEDesire.) SUBSCRIPTION. (B THIS EVENING, AI/G. 17, Vi RI be performed Bellini's.ceiebrated 01 era, I PURITANL Elvira, Madame Grisi; Giorgio, - Signor Lablache; Arturo, Signor Mario; and Riccardo Signor Fornasari: Between the Acts the admired Ballet Divertissement, Entitled LE DELIRE D'UN PEINTRE. Stephan.", M. Perrot; Blanche D'Oriedo, Mdlle. Fanny Rissler. To conclude with a selection froth the admired Brelet 13iverti.se. went LA VI V A NDIERE. La VivanEliere, Mdlle. Cerite. • • Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box Ott oe, Opera Colonnade. • HER MAJEBTY't THEATRE. It is respectfully announced that ONE FAREWELL NIGHT will be given on TUESDAY NEXT, AUG. 40, When wit be pertotmed Rossini's Opera (compressed into One Act), IL BARBIEHE DI SIVIGLIA. Characters by Madame Grist, Sigtioililario, Signor Lablache, Sig nor E Lablache, and Signor Fornasari. • The National Anthem will be subg. by the whole strength of the Operatic Force of the Company. .. To be 1 . ..80wed by the Last Scene from Donizetti's Opera, LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR. Edeatdo, S•gttor Moriani. Atter which, the Third Act'pf ROSSIIIN 0, era, LA CENERENTOLA. *--- In the course of the ,Evening, UNE BA L SOUS LOUIS XIV. In which will be introduced a variety' of Dances and Pas de Carac tere. Mdlle. Fanny El s aler will appearM a Cavalier of the Court of Louis XIV., and w ill dance with Mclße. Vet ito the admired " Minuet de la Cour and Gavotte." To which will be added, - Selectio , s from LA ESMER ALDA. La Esmeralda, Mdlle. Tanny Elssler ; Phcebus de Chateaciper , , M. St. Leon; Pierre .40ringolve, M. Perrot. - To conclude with Selections acorn the Ballet entitled ALMA ; ou, La Filly du Feu. Principal Dancers—Mdlle. Cerito, M. St Leon, and M. Ferrot. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to, be made at the Box. offio_t, Opera-colonnade. Doors open at,Seven ; the Opera will com. .mence at Half -past Seven. THEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM, I ATE ENGLISH °VERA HOUSE., Under the Management of Mrs. KEELEY. Another great Achievement Successfully Triumphant !! I 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 wilt be repeated etery Evening THIS EVENING,. ,tOG. 17. 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 fescue, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Mrs. Woollidge, Miss Groves, Mrs. Usher, Mi ss Turner, and Mrs. Keeley. To conclude with an entirely Original, and much batter than Noor, Grand Operatic, Romantic, Melts-Dramatic. Burlesque Extra vaganza, founded on the celebrated Eastern rale, in the Arabi in Nights' Entertainment, entitled ALADDIN AND THE WON DERFUL LAMP; or, New Lamps for Old Ones. With very extensive Nev , Scenery, Machinery. Dresses, Sic. Principsi cha tacters by Mrs. Keeley, Messrs. F. 'Matthews, Turner, A. Wigan, J. W. Collier, and Keeley; Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Woolli iv e Miss E. Chaplin, Mrs. A. Wigan, Miss Tarn*, hli s James, Miss Carson, Miss Hunt, Miss Reede, &c., &c. PRICES OF A DiIIISSION.--11alcony Poxes. 4+.; Upper Boxes, 35.; Pit, its.*; Gallery, 6d. Second-Price —Balcony Boxes, 2s. ; Upper Boxes, Is 6d.; Pit, Is. Private „Boxes on the ii sic my Tier (holding eight persons). Tao 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 Guinea The Box- Ace is open from Ten to Four o'Clock, under the direc tion of Mr. Grogan, late of Covent-garden Theatre. Under the especial Patronagz of h riolaiesty the Queen, and Prince Albert, and honourd by the presence- of Isis Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, Prince Meeklenburgh St elita, and distin guished assemblage of Nobility. Triumphant Success of • ASTLF.Y'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS. Proprietor and Manager„ Mr. BATTY. THIS EVENINGOAU G. 17, Will be repeated an entire new-E itiestrian, Military and Naval Spectacle, entitled THE CHIN ESE WAIL lor. Appointme The Conquest s nts, Ike ot Amoy by British Arms. New Scenery; Dresses, ~ to realise the ri cent triumphs of Englaridlis Army and Navy. Feast of 250 Lanterns. Selendid acts of Horsemanship--The Dance of the Polka. To conclude with THE GREAL: STEEPLE-CHASE; or, Eag. land's H ,rvest Home. Mr. BATTY respectfully acquaints the Nobility, Gentry, and the Public, that having just returned f om the Continent ; and, notwith istanding Fir present unprecedented, success and overfiow:ng houses,' he is ever anxiou to produce novelty, tO render th.s Establishment pre-enrinent, and the first in Europe for its .unequalled and extra. ordinary productions, he h is succeeded in forming arrangements with the following first-rate French Art' tw in addition to his present Talented Corps of British and -TO-reign Fquestrians :—Madame Loretto Madam .: I leline, Madame Philipe, M. Pierre, M. Geor g es, and M. Ferdinand Semidt, from the Circle Olymp . que, Faris Ham burgh; &c and who will appear in their various and novel S cenes of Equitation. acting and stage.m stinger, Mr. W. I) Broadfoot. Box-office open from Eleven till Lve. *Lessons in Ow Art of Riding by Mr. R. Smith. • D A VIDGES ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lut Seven - Nights of the Grand Opera . Company—Second Week of Cinderella. and an entirely New Piece. THIS EVENING,AUG. 17, Will be performed Rossini's Fai-y Opeta of CINDERELLA ; or, The "Little Glass Slip, er. Supported by Miss Romer, Miss etts, Mis E Terry, Miss Pearson, Messrs. D. W. King, Leffler, E. L •Hinie. S. Cowe 1, R. Honner, &e. Conductor, Mr. G. Stansbury, with double Band and Chorus. Te conclude with THE . QUAKER. Lubin, Mr. E , . L. Hime ; Steady, Mr Leffler • Gilli Miss Bette. Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, a' the Box. ;Ace. fro - n Eleven to Four. STRAND THEATRF, THIS EVENING, AUG. I7 , Wallbeilirformed MARTIN CHUZZLEWIf. Young Mar"in tt list:lewd, Mr. R moe ; Old Martin, Chuzzlewit, Mr. Ay ide; Jonas Chuzzlcwit, Mr At"wood, Montagu e lig& Mr. Bober's; Tom Pinch, Mx. Bideiles; Mr. Peckiniff, and Mrs. Sairey Gump, Mr: H. Hall; Mary Graham, Mrs. Coleman Pope. After whic h, a New and Original Burlesque, entitled THE WON. DERFUL LAMP, In a New Light, bein x an Illustrated Version of Aladdin. Absnazar, Mr. Paul •Bedfilyd ; Aladdin, Mr. Wright ; Princess Badroulbadour, Miss E. Stanley. • To conclude with Selby's Farce 'of THE NEW Bobby Breakwinthw, Mr. Attwood; Polly Picnic, Miss FOOTM Carter. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. On MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, and T i U RS DAY, throughout the Seas.cm, the Gardens.will open with the following attractive Novelties :- - - THE PICTURESQUE GROUNDS....-FEEDING OF THE ANIMALS--UNRIVA I LEVMENAGERIE. MODELS of VENICE and LONDON. in the OLUEN TIME, Painted by Denson and Telbtn. The sensation caused by this unrivalled production is beyond all former precedent; the artist, ther.arnatenr, the casual - observer are all struck with its extraordinay beauty and fidelity of debnea tion,,i..o re unanimous in proi.ouncing it the most wonderful ex. hibition ever witnessed. To view %eerily as a vehicle for the terrific di.p'ay at Dusk is unjust ; it should besieenin the calm stillness of the quiet Evening, with its Towers and-Steeples reflected in the spa.. eons Lake, to be fully appreciated.' The Evening PROMENADE CONCERTS on Mon 'ays, Tues days, 'Wednesdays and Thursdays coni.ucted try Godfrey, are up n a scale of more than usual eNcallence; lint tvords fail in doing justice to the awful representation bf THE GREAT FIRE OF .LoNDON. Its fearful .racteristics are truthfully nourtrayed, but at the same time so neautifully blended with the Wonders of the Pyrotechnic Art, 'oa' delight is predominant over terror: and the Thousands who nightly crowd the Gardens hail it with acclamations, and admit that .2rattldiv, :he Unrivalled Pyrotechnist has achieved a matchless triumph. The 'liidens and Zoological C.al scion are in the most perfect iitate, .oiri combining so many and interesting features, are by far the most at ri,tive lounge in or near the sr etro,soli... Doors open at Nine —Feeding of the Animals at Five—Concert at Six—Contiagration at Dusk. Admittance, One Shilling. EGYPTIAN HALL,,,PICCADILLY. IMPORTANT NOTICE. ula PI SHILLING Admission to THE NAPOLEON DIU nEUM. the most magnificent and o.4ctensive Cellactlon of Histo rical Curiosities and Works of Art ever known to have been formed by Use Person, during Twenty-live years of elaborate research, at a Cost of tio,ooo g uineas, and to completely 'illustrate, lit the most in structive and interesting manner, the meat important part of Euro pean histery, viz.—CHARLES _.CiEIVER CROIIIWELL, and WINS XIV.. to the deaths of 0E4110114 111., and the EMPEROR NAPOLEON. in 1821. This unique Museum has been visited often, daring the 'as` and present year, by tbAjloyal Family, the Duke o. W.elllngton, the Foreign Princes, art!, their Ladle', also, many thousands of the Nobility and Public; and the Pro prietor has recently been able to 1 ease, by several very fine pictures, agc.. his nrevions almost int number and variety of I(Ss., Works of Art, and a multitude at valuable Relic., and other curiosities, in this most •ais , ructive tind-, as hundreds have said it etai,ht tn be. a Nationa: M iseum. 2. 4 :a.y thousand have Inspected it, and THIRTY PRINCIPAL EDITORS the PUBLIC PRESS have stated tha' It clash to be seen bYevery one. The price of ad Hen Is reduced to ONE SHILLING. The NA PoI.KON MUSEUM is to seen only at the' Egyptian wall." Picea] in r. daily om Ten till Dusk. THE WEATIIER.—Srm' byncE, AVG. 16. DIERNOMKTER, Lowest, 50; Highest, 65; Noon, 64 BAROXETER, 30.—W13gt), W.N.W. Pi-OTE.—The number 32 on the Whermometer denotes th. reez*ng point. and 55 temperate. In Barorn.Lets fair is smelly placed opposite 30, and rain at 29. MO t WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE TT.HS DA Y. Morning 45 minutes after 3 Evening ... 5 minutes after 4 , . c . * 4_ _, tte., .." Y Velso, .. .Ai I. ' -,.....*,,. ,•*e.:7--.."-, 4 .4.,-• ~1- 1' - ...r •-, Is , kV.-- , ,0-4,•,;.- r ;-. • ) I.l'N '''' - ' .. ati mr ",• , •>''' ''''. ...,„ ...• . . i 1-, , r . m 0 s , „1:....- 4, 4 j , , cr. „.,,,,r , ~ __ -• ' 'V. rafintiliff Ai LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 1844. BOMBARDMENT OF. TANGIERS. The following appears in the Journal des Debats o Thursday morning : "PARIS, AUGUST 15 "We are assured that Ole Government received last night the following important news from the coast of Africa. "The answer to the ultimatum sent to the Em peror of Morocco by the Pr i itla:Admiral, command—, ing the French fleet, not having appeared satisfactory, his Royal Highness the Prince of Joinville had com menced his fire against the advanced works which protect the place of Tangiers. The works had been destroyed. "The European quarter of Ahe town had been spared. "The English Consul, Mr. ummond Hay, had found refuge on board of the S hip of the French Ad miral. "We can add to the above that the bombardment commenced on the 6th, at seven o'clock in the even ing. The telegraphic dispatch. which announces this fact was intercepted by the bad weather, but it ap pears as if Mr. Hay had been in some d anger , as th e dispatch says—' Mr. Hay was saved.' 46 Th e outer works were completely destroyed, and the bombardment of the town wAS still going on when the accounts came away." This is an event of the most serious importance. Whether it has arisen from the obstinacy of the Moors, or the eagerness of the _young French Admiral to have a little amusement oppo.site Gibraltar, matters not much. The simple fact that the bombardment of a town belonging to an ally is heard by the garrison of Gibraltar, together with another fact of equal con sequence—namely, that we have no fleet in that ''N F. W S kitimitAtitt) act as a check. cannot fail to cause the 1 ': -. 1. "7--3104414fits,nsation both in this co untry and France • ';-' --.r: :: * `ir e ; \ t suspend our judgment till we know the 4 e . -11 t - ---:-., , _ p i ultimatum which the Emperor refused . \ - \ 7 ,, ' :-•,--_:—'- --- f 7:-• , . - 5,.. i - --- k . - ,L...11. e 1i : t0t a S dat all comprehend ; the p olic yof Loris M. GuizoT. They wish to live in gl tid —they , profess that the great THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 17, 1844. objects of their government are the maintenance of I peace all over the world, while in almost every quarter of the globe emissaries are sent forth to ex cite disturbance. The islands of the Pacific Ocean are, at the present moment, in a state of the utmost confusion, caused by the French. The whole Medi terranean coast of Africa is up in arms against France, if we except Tunis. Egypt is in a state of the utmost uncertainty. The old brave man has given up the reins of government to his profligate son, who is sup ported by the French, and, in case of a war with England and France,he would at once declare against England. But these petty Powers on the African coast are nothing in the scale. They are mere ad juncts to the relations between France and England. The proceedings of the French in that quarter, how ever, show what is their intention. LOUIS PIIILIPPE is anxious to live at peace with England, yet JOINVILLE, and BROUAT, and D'AUDIGNY, are doing everything in their power to excite the English people against the French. The bombardment of Tangiers is .a novel feature in a period of peace, and it is the more remarkable that it takes place when the Sovereign of France is about to pay a friendly visit to the Queen of ENGLAND. We are at a loss to understand the policy of the King of the FRENCH. He professes to be on the best terms with the English Government, while every measure he takes is in direct opposition to his profes sions. lie is encouraging the opposition journals of France to excite the people against England ; he is encouraging his spn. _to attack an ally of England ; he is making great demonstrations along the Mediter ranean shore, all injurious to the trade and influence of England ; yet his Government professes that their only object is to preserve the peace of the world. We are reluctant to express any unfavourable opinion of Louts PHILIPPE, but at the same time we must state that his present policy is likely to bring on an universal war, and destroy all the glories of his peaceful reign. It is becoming a question of daily increasing in terest, " What limits do our Ministers intend to assign to the uncertainty, the timidity, and the vexations of their scheme of colonial government ?" The very genius of mismanagement appears to have established itself in some of the bureaux in Downing-street — Jamaica languishes under the want of coloured free labour. It is agreed, on all hands, that the only effi-, cient course which can be taken to relieve her from thin condition of agricultural paralysis into which she has fallen, owing: to the almost entire withdrawal from work of the emancipated black population, is for the Crown to sanction and encourage the immi gration of labourers accustomed to tropical heats, and exposure to the varieties of climate which these gene rate. Two plans for drafting such immigrant labour into these islands are proposed to the Colonial-office ; the one, by importing native coolies from Bengal ; the other, by inviting free Africans from the British settlement at Sierra Leone, or the countries in - its vicinity, on that part of the African coast. The Colonial-office halted so long before it could bring itself to approve either the one or the other of these experiments, that the resident planters and owners in our West India Islands were compelled warmly to remonstrate on the unnecessary aggravation of their sufferings which ensued from this postponement of a remedy. The plea of difficulty in dealing with a proposition of so much novelty, was answered by reference to the fact of the successful issue of such a system of coolie immigration in the Mauritius and in Demerara. When, at length, permission to adopt it in the case of Jamaica had been coldly and tardily conceded, the permission was found to be clogged with so many obstacles and restraints and vexations, that it was almost useless to those for whose welfare it was intended. With the fortune of every other boon which Sir ROBERT PEEL'S Government has ever granted, this, also—there is too much reason to fear—will have been yielded too late. It has been so ungraciously and so long withheld, that it has not been productive, as yet, of anythini,iike the degree of alleviation which must have been experienced from its earlier concession. But if Jamaica an other of our West Indian possessions have reason to complain of the supineness, or the wrongheadness of the Colonial Department in one particular, some of ' our new establishments in Australia, in the Pacific, and in parts of the world somewhat less remote, have equal grounds for considering themselves aggrieved. I by a course of action on the part of the Colonial Minister that is neither protective, nor conciliatory , nor just; but that it is calculated, on the contrary. to exhaust the energies of the colonies which it con trols, in unsupported efforts to consolidate their own strength and resources ; and to involve them in un seemly squabbles with the Government of the mother country. In this latter category we may include the noble island of Ceylon, and the important islands of New Zealand. Our present business is with the latter. _ _ _ In the whole history of our colonial settlements, we know of none which has been treated by the present Government—and, We must add, by its predecessors —with more of neglect and apathy at one time, more of disingenuousness and fatuity at another, that, New Zealand. Neither the Government of Lord MELBOURNE, nor that of Sir ROBERT PEEL, seems to have ever made up its mind to the policy which it became this country to adopt towards these fine and improvable islands. If other States—Holland, for example—had been disposed to contest our possessory title, British Administrations seem to have gone out of their way to afford them means and opportunity for doing so, by the indifference and indecision with which, during a very long interval after the disco veries of Coox, acting on the hints of TASMAN, they regarded all propositions for settling and cultivating these two islands of New Zealand. No jurist, we apprehend, can feel any substantive difficulty about the soundness of our preferable title to them; but Lord JOHN RUSSELL himself always appeared as disinclined to raise this preliminary question as Lord STANLEY seems to be. Why, we are at a loss to di vine. If these Ministers have acted upon principles of supposed exposed expediency, they have been egregiously deceived.. Their forbearance has only opened a door for the sub-negotiation, if we may so call it, of French and other land speculators with native chiefs who were already in immediate rela tions of amity with, and dependence upon, us. Had we stated more broadly, from the first, our preten -dons (which cannot be questioned, so long as all the precedents are to enure, that are relied on, by European nations for the right of territorial occupation in newly discovered tracts of waste or savage country), there would have been such an ascertained proprietary principle established by the Government, as against all incomers, as must have preventei those conflicting claims in respect of lands, conceived to be already ceded or transferred, by sale and purchase, to the New _Zealand Company, which resulted, the other day, in the bloody conflict of Wairau, and the death of Captain WAKEFIELD and many other English settlers. It is clear, from the circumstances of that disastrous ren contre, that the native chiefs had either never parted with the lands they were required to surrender to the parties who should purchase them of the New Zea land Company, or did not understand the delegated title of a private corporation holding under the Crown to which they* themselves acknowledged a willing allegiance. Now, instead of repairing this anomalous and dangerous state of things, the Colonial Department, and her MAJESTY'S Government in general, seem pre-occupied by a taste for per forming the comedy of She Would and She Would Not. They will not exercise that right of sovereignty which consists in giving titles to parcels of the soil set out for sale to British subjects ; hut they will not, on the other hand, repudiate the fact of that sovereignty. How grievously this feeble and injudicious waver ing must operate on the interests of the New Zealand Society, was very forcibly demonstrated at a special Court of the Proprietors, held yesterday, at their house in Broad-street buildings. The report read to this meeting by the secretary contained the following passage :—" We are prepared to issue orders for land in any' of the' settlements, not doubting ourselves, after the award of the tribunal to which the questions between this Company and the Colonial-office were referred, that you may safely rely on the justice of her Majesty's Government and Parliament for ob taining, sooner or later, the grants from the Crown to which the Committee of - the House of Commons has declared you to be entitled." We fear that this is a begging of the question. What is the value of de- Clarations and recommendations of Committees of inquiry appointed by the House of Commons, when the Government, at pleasure, treats them in that "manner so Tartarly," which is adopted in defiance of the affirmative report on the Danish claims, for example ? But that to talk thus is but to beg the question is virtually admitted in the very next lines of the report itself—" But, at the same time, the extreme injustice which you have suffered in being encouraged to subscribe a large capital, and to lay out more than half a million of money, in colonisation, without having yet obtained a secure title to one acre of the land which the Crown engaged to grant to you in con sideration of your outlay for public purposes, teaches us a caution which we are desirous of impressing upon all who may apply to us for land orders. And this, we believe, will be done most effectually by our refusing.to guarantee any other title than such as the Company may obtain from the Crown ;"—when the Crown is disposed, that is, to give such title to the Company. Now, where is the evidence of the wish, the contemplation, or the readiness of the Crown to do so ? If the Company have vainly sought, hitherto, to establish an equitable right to such a title, by an expenditure of more than 500,0001., do they expect to wring it from the moral or political con scientiousness of the Government hereafter, by de clining to go a step further in the same direction—a direction so convenient and irresponsible to that Go vernment, so onerous and dangerous to the Com pany ? " - We propose," the report proceeds, "to attach to every land order a condition to the above effect. In this way, every applicant will be made fully to understand that on the question of the pro bable or certain justice of the Crown, in its dealings with the Company, he judges for himself, and must rely on his min judgment." How many "land orders" the Company can expect to be applied for by men who have that ominous presumption laid be fore them, of " the probable or certain justice of the Crown," which the Crown's refusal to guarantee the title to a single acre of their lands to a body which has invested more than 500,0001. in the purchase of them, we leave it to time to develope. But we would counsel the Company to proceed for their just and equitable demands by some more urgent and cogent process than this passive, and hitherto most unlucky, reliance on the " probable or certain justice of the Crown." The Dublin Evening Post of Tuesday, in an article suggested by the close of the session, observes of Sir R. PEEL :—" It is certain that this Minister is by no means a favourite with his own party. He has disap pointed them sorely ; and they apprehend that worse remains behind. They would revolt to-morrow if they could find a leader. We learn, in point of fact, that something of the sort is contemplated ; but we doubt the power of the majority, though not their disposition. A House of Commons that allowed it self to be dragged in the mire of the Factory Bill, and a House of Lords whose last act was that of dis gracing itself by reversing its decision on the Irish Law Bill at the beck of the Minister, are not persons likely to adopt a manly course of action. For our own part, we have little hope that such a blessing is in store for the country as the removal of her MAJESTY'S Ministers. At the same time, we repeat it, there is a very prevalent opinion, even in their own ranks, that the present Administration is approaching its terminus." Pre valent as may be the the opinion of the ricketty state of the PEEL Cabinet, there is, to all appearance, but little foundation for it. The Premier, notwithstand ing that, on three or four very remarkable occasions during the session, he has been severely tried, has contrived with his usual tact to stani as fast as a rock, and has maintained his reluctant majorities undiminished. We say reluctant, because there can be no doubt that the support given to him by some of his adherents has been most unwillingly given, and wrung from them solely by the grinding pressure of necessity. Not a few of those who sit on the back seats of the Treasury bench, and cheer with apparent cordiality every smooth clap-trap that falls from the lips of the most specious of Prime Ministers, would gladly compel him to abdicate and raise a RICHMOND or a BUCKINGHAM to the vacant helm, could they, by so doing, establish on a more safe and solid basis the old-fashioned principles which they have so much at heart, and which they cherish just in proportion to their antiquity and utter uselessness, as bibliomaniaes cherish old editions, and virtuosos old porce- But cheerfully as these more bigoted ain. Tories—who are constantly haunted by the threatening phantom of free trade, and never retire to bed but to dream of Mr. COB DEN—cheerfully, we say, as these bigoted but timid men would oust Sir ROBERT PEEL, and substi tute some Minister more devoted to the interests of monopoly, they know full well that it would be the height of imprudence to do so ; that no Tory Go vernment could hold together for a single week that had not the Tamworth Doctor for its head; conse quently—however painful and humiliating be the necessity—that they must still continue to submit to his sovereign will and pleasure ; to swallow, and, if possible, digest his most unpalateable measures ; cheer his most obnoxious sentiments ; and— hardest task of all -- force a laugh at his worst jokes, at the imminent risk of suffoca- T wice or thrice during the session, the more desperate of the Tory squad have given evidence of a discontented and rebellious disposition ; on one occasion, indeed, they broke out into open tion. mutiny; but a word—a glance from the Premier sufficed to restore instant subordination among their ranks ; and now, he is more absolute, and they are more dependent, than ever ! IVe agree, therefore, with our Dublin Contemporary, that at the present moment there is not the slightest prospect of the downfal of the PEEL Cabinet. It is as fixed as Mount .Etna. The apathy of the people on all political matters, and the manifest indifference —might we not add, contempt ?—with which they regard the twe great antagonist parties of the State, tends not a little to confirm the stability of Government ; and, indeed, we can see no very urgent reasons why they should be removed, for opposed though we are to them on many points of their policy, it is but common justice to state, that they are as liberal as the motley and wayward cha racter of their supporters will allow them to be, and have lately evinced a disposition to put the helm about shift the sails, and make a tack in the direction of free-trade. Madrid journals of the Bth have been received. It would appear that the delay in publishing a decree for suspending the sale of national property arises from a disunion in the Cabinet. A meeting took place on the 7th to consider the question, but the re sult was not known. On the Bth the Three per Cents. were done at 27.1 cash; 28 fur 60 days; and the Fives at 20 for 60 days. The French papers of Wednesday do not contain any news of importance, and it is singular that the Government papers in general make no comment on the extraordinary telegraphic dispatch from Alexan dria, published in The Sun of Thursday. The writers in those journals that advert to the retirement of MEIIEMET Au seem equally puzzled with ourselves rs to the cause of this event. The Opposition journals of course look to it with hope, because it may lead to the re-opening of the Eastern question, and to their darling object, a war with England. The National alludes to the abdication in these terms : " Four years ago, this news would have produced a deep sensation in Europe. Now, it is merely a feeling of deep curiosity which is excited. Why is this abrupt and unforeseen withdrawal ? What has taken place ? Is it the effect of a spontaneous resolution, or the resuit of some violence, either domestic or public ? However the matter may be, this resolution explains itself suffi ciently by the situation of Egypt. It is not a govern mentban banks s which of the Nile, Mehemet b A tit l i a h n a d im e m o n e s n t s i t e u t s e p d e c o u n l a t t i o h n e in all the agriculture, industry, commerce, riches, and life of a whole people, for the profit of one man I A man might support all the burden of such an enterprise, so long as he remained in the full en joyment of his physical, intellectual, and moral strength; but when these faculties become weakened, the task is found to press on him too heavily, and, if he has not the wisdom to leave it, he falls, crushed beneath its weight. What will be the fate of Egypt after him? Will Ibrahim succeed without difficulty to the Government, and, if he does so, will he preserve it? The treaty of 1840 en sures him Egypt ; but, if he has no other title, the future fate of himself and family cannot admit of doubt. The authority of Ibrahim will also meet with an obstacle amongst the subjects of his father of a personal charac ter. His enemies have affirmed and repeated, on all occasions, that he is only the adopted son of Mehemet Ali ; and this opinion, which has been widely circulated in Egypt, has been generally accredited.- It is_ doubtless a calumny; but persons well acquainted with Egypt , and, Mahometan countries are inclined to think that this calumny will have disastrous consequences for Ibrahim. At all events, the fate of Egypt is again put in hazard— the Eastern question is again thrown open for Europe." The following remarks appear in another Opposition paper, the Courrier Francais:— " What are we to think of the termination of a career so illustrious and so eventful ? Mehemet Ali finishes, like Charles V. It has been given him to astonish the world to the latest day of his existence. A soldier of fortune, he became Pacha of Egypt and Syria, and, twice conqueror of the Sultan, his master, he in 1840 reached the highest pinnacle of his glory. Arbiter of the fate of the Ottoman Empire, he then divided Europe, and held it in suspense. The world was about to be come embroiled for or against him; the whole diplomacy of Europe was occupied with his affairs ; and, after having carried his intrepidity to the utmost extent of his strength, he bent before the decree of fate, preserving to his family the hereditary government of a country, in which, but forty years before, he had landed as a simple adventurer. Is it from an impulse of paternal foresight that he thus abdicates ? Is it only to secure, during his lifetime, to his heir the peaceable transmission of his authority, and to assist him, before closing his eyes, in the establishment of his dynasty, which internal rivalries, complicated by foreign intrigues, might probably disturb after his death ? Has he only wished to disconcert the projects already founded on his hesitance ? We think not. For the last four years Mehemet Ali has bitterly felt disgust at his re stricted position, and regret at his forced want of power. With a soul panting after movement and activity. he can no longer do anything—his career is closed ; Egypt is to him only a prison, on all points of which he is nar rowly- watched. Men of his character consider them selves as fallen when they can mount no higher ; and as he despairs of being able to add to his grandeur, and does not feel inclined to engage in a mad struggle, he retires from the world. Whither does he retire ? From being a Pacha he becomes a Marabout ! He goes to Mecca—to that city which gave birth to Mahomet is retired to end his days, the most illustrious of the living children of the Prophet—the last grand Pacha of the Mussulman world, to whom it was given to wield with eclat for the last time the shining sabre of Islamism." Several other journals assume a warlike attitude, and call upon the Government to increase the navy, and, above all, the steam navy. The Quotidienne, a Carlist journal, while professing to show that the curious article in the National, published yesterday, is not quite correct as to the,comparative strength of the English and French navies, at the same time shows as pugnacious a spirit as its Republican Contem; porary. One remark will make the naval officers and the gallant tars of England smile at the vanity of the writer, who ought to know, from experience, that the reverse is the fact. " Our officers," he says, "less numerous than the English, are generally more able men, and better instructed in naval tactics, and ou r gunners are superior to those of our neighbours. Still, somehow or other, his courage fails, and he asserts that as France can no longer reckon on the aid of other naval Powers, it would be unwise to enter on a maritime struggle. The following extract from the article contains some details of interest to an English reader : " Certainly, if France were in a regular normal state, we should fully agree with our Contemporary, but unfor tunately such is not the case. We have, it is said, 24 sail of the line and 80,000 seamen, whilst the English have only 90 ships of war and 150,000 seamen ; their armament and their manning are carried on more slowly than ours, and, after all, the first events of a war would be in our favour. Such is the argument, in reference to which we say that, in the first place, the English have 120 sail of the line, and not 90 ; and their number of seamen 200,000, and not 150,000 ; but the question does not relate so much to the amount of their effective forces, for those forces would not be immediately available at the moment of a war, but to this fact that, because the English have a stronger navy than ours, their commerce has also a greater confidence in their naval power ; and if there were an appearance of war the English mercantile marine would continue its opera tions, whilst ours, less assured, would suspend theirs. The consequence of this would be, that our merchant men at sea at the time would be alone exposed to the risk of capture, but no others would leave our ports; whilst the English shipowners would continue to cover the seas, and use every effort to escape the incon venience of a naval impressment. This state of things would, necessarily tend to bring the naval forces of the two countries more on a level; almost the whole of the seamen of France would necessarily become available to man our navy; whilst the English fleet could only have a part of her 200,000 men at command. Our light armed vessels would also have great chances of success, and the commerce of England would suffer immense loss, almost without any compensation. Our officers, less nu merous than the ',English, are generally more able men, and better instructed in naval tactics, and our gunners are superior to those of our neighbours. If our ship builders do not pay sufficient attention to the counsels of experience, particularly in the construction of steamers, it may be said that our vessels are generally sound and well found; the English fleet is no longer better ma naged than ours, perhaps not so well; for, on both sides of the Channel, the principal officers have been renewed within the last forty years, and ours have made real pro. gress during the peace. Military reasons may thus per mit the possibility of a struggle, but political reasons, which prevail over all others, do not permit it to be thought of." The Presse, on the other hand, sings in a higher strain, and manfully contends that France, even in steam warfare, is fully a match for England. It thus boasts : " Whai' is necessary to constitute an imposing steam navy ? Money, iron, coal. France is the richest coun try in the world in these articles. Its credit is solid, its minerals are abundant and excellent.; it has, besides, able and capable engineers, practised workmen and mechanics, and, in short, everything neces nsspaaritzdtnoi.d bring the treasures bestowed by manufactories,Nothing i nto ioperation ea nti owanting but energy and perse verance to give us a steam navy able to sustain with honour comparison with, and, in case of necessity, a contest with. that of England. According to a state ment which has been recently published, England has in steamers 15,000 horse power. France would have more than 18,000 horse power if she were seriously to put in force the law of 1842 with respect to our effective marine. On the other hand, in augmenting our navy, we have little fear of going beyond our means of man ning it, for everybody knows how few sailors it requires to man steamers. Our maratime population would then be sufficient, for all events." THE BOURSE—WEDNEsDax, AUGUST 14. -- First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French Five perC3nts 121 40 .. 121 45 .. 121 30 121 40 Four per Cents. Three per Cents Bl 55 .. 81 60 .. 8 1 5 5 .. 81 60 Bank of France••••• •• ••.•• 3085 ..3085 .•3075 ..3075 665 .. 665 .. 665 .. 6 65 1047 .. 105 .. 1041 .. 105 1842 •••••••• IN .. 108 .. 108 .. 108 BelgianL a Belgian f I Itt e B F a niv 5,000 f. Sharesso6o —5060 ..5060 ••5060 Bank , -- 40 S pan i s h Threes I 8 * ••••• 327 .. 327 321 .. 327 Neapolitan ..... ••••• •• • •• 98 75 .. 98 75 .. 98 75 .. 98 75 Roman •• •• • 101 .. 1041 .. 104 .. 1041 RAILWAY SHARES. At. Germain ..... ••••••• •• 885 .. 885 .. 885 .. 885 Versailles, R.B. •-•••• • • • • • • 375 .. 375 .. 375 .. 375 L•B•• •• •• •• •• •• 235 .. 235 233 75 .. 233 75 Orleans •• •• "•'• '• '• "•• •• 967 50 .. 970 .. 967 50 .. 970 Strasburg to 8a1e..., 237 50 •• 238 75 .. 236 25 .. 238 7 5 Avignon to Marseilles...." 760 .. 760 • 760 .. 760 RAILWAY SHARES FOR THE ACCOUNT, 15in OF AUGUST. St. Germain Versailles, L. 8.•. ••• 235 .. 235 •• 233 75 .. 233 75 Rouen •• •• Rouen to Havre.. ........ Orleans ••• •• •• •• ..... • •••• 970 .. 971 25 •• 968 75 .. 968 75 strasburg to Bale•• •• HER MAJESTY'S AUTUMN EXCURSION. — Orde rs royal have been given for the immediate equipment of the steam yacht Victoria and Albert. She has accordingly been masted, kc., and received on board her fuel. Her captain, Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, had arrived from Cowes (where he has taken temporary lodging), for the purpose of hastening her outfit ; and the yacht will in a few days make a trial cruise, having been furnished with new engines and boilers. Rumour states the sth of Sep tember as the contemplated period of her Majesty's em barkation for summer cruising. The iron steamer Dwarf, Lieutenant Chamberlain, from her mat' size and light draught of water, is selected as a tender to the yacht, to convey her Majesty up narrow rivers, or where the Vic toria couldnot,by possibility reach. Brighton Gazette. NEW INSOLVENT ACT.—We have recei ved a co py 'of the following Circular, which Lord Broug ham has sent to the governors of all the prisons for de btors " i ß h r e o s u tgoh informam, 14 t the h gaoler August, 1 of and, through hi m , the debtors, that his las t Circular ap plied to cases which require the interposition of the Court of Bankruptcy. But persons confined for debts not exceeding 201., exclusive of costs, may apply at once, by petition or motion, to the Court by whose process they are confined, and that Court will immediately order their release. Persons whose debts are of a greater amount, must petition the Bankruptcy Court in the man ner formerly directed." BELGIUM.—It is interesting to observe, in the Belgian papers, the announcements of cheap travelling to England, as if a trip to London were as usual a summer occupation with our continental neighbours as it used to be with our country neighbours at this season. We are informed that in Cologne, Aix, Herbesthal, Ostend, Antwerp, and Brussels, passengers may be booked through to London, at one fare, by single tickets. From Cologne to London you may be booked for 31. 10s. first class, and 21.,75. second class. To Aix la-Chapelle the price is the same. There is also this additional advantage to travellers on this route, that if you wish to stop on the way, you may do so as often as you please; the ticket given you lasts a month, a certain portion being cut off at each principal stopping place. Booked through from Cologne to London, how English. —Railway Chronicle. pretty M correct t 'f s o k u e n t c s h . — 0 Tf thehe following intended t ou willr3 throughbe fuon d a the next provinces by various singers a nd instrumentalists : Grisi, Favanti, Mario, and F. Lablache, will take the mwiildilapnrodcacenddi‘n,cosrttvih,earrdsnc,ounties, and they will also visit Dublin. Persiani, Orsini, Salv i, Puzzi, and Fornasari, attakCinheglßteanthha,m&e., in v their ek. route; s they give two concerts i vori, Miss Lucombe, Miss S. Flower, Mrs. C. Harper, and Lavenu, are traversing Kent and Sussex, and they will pay a visit to the eastern counties. De Meyer, with the Misses Williams and Mr. Hayward will take Manchester and that neighbourhood. Mr. John Parry is engaged to sing at the Theatres Royal Bristol and Liverpool, also at several of the principal towns of South Wales ; he will join the Persiant party at Bath, on the 28th instant. Mr. Wilson goes east, west, north, and south, and finds a welcome everywhere; he was so hoarse at the, Burns Festival that he could not sing a note. Mr. H. Phillips starts this day, we believe, for America, with a view of giving his vocal entertainments, which cannot fail of pleasing Brother Jonathan.—Dramatic and Musical Review. FLANDERS and HAMBURGH MAIL I , newt THE RHINE, AUG. 6.—We have received a confirmation of the very welcome news that the German Diet at Frankfort, conformably to the reso lution of November, 1837, is now engaged in ea tending the law concerning the rights of authors and publishers, and will endeavour to bring about a con vention on literary property between different nations, for which purpose negotiations are opened. with Eng land, France, and Belgium. BERLIN, AUG. B.—The notion that Tschech is out of his mind seems to gain ground, and in fact many circumstances of his previous conduct cannot be otherwise accounted for. ST. PETERSITURGH, AUG. 3.—An Imperial Ukase of the 27th of last month to the Directing Senate, orders a general levy of recruits in the western pro vinces of the empire of five men from every thousand. It begins on the Ist of November next, and must he completed by the Ist of January, 1845. The commercial treaty between England and China seems likely to have a considerable effect on the course of the inland trade of Russia. The orders for the next fair at Nischerie-Nowgorod are much less considerable than in preceding years. Many of our manufacturers find it necessary at present to act according to the decreased demand. Rain, violent south-west winds, and storms of hail, continue with scarcely any interruptions, and greatly impede the harvest, which is already begun. A few days ago the environs of our city were visited by a most furious hailstorm, so that all the splendid fur niture of the steamer which plies daily between St. Petersburgh and Peterhoff was dashed - to pieces, the steamer compelled to stop, and the passengers with difficulty found refuge in the cabin. The hailstones were of the size of pigeon's eggs, and some even of hen's eggs. SCHWERIN, AUG. 7.—lt is said that our Govern ment has entirely given up the idea of joining the Customs Union ; but that it will make proposals to the State for a change in the system of taxation. The inland tolls which impede the communication, and the collection of which is very expensive, will probably be abolished, and the import duties on foreign articles be considerably modified, in particular the exemption of the nobles from the payment of customs, be much restricted. BRUSSELS, AUG. 14.—The measure by which a higher charge is made for the license to travellers, to German merchants and Belgium,- has....been partly caused by the Prussian Government itself. Before the ht of January, 1844, Belgian commercial travel lers in the States of the Customs Union, paid only 13 dollars (about 50 francs) for their licenses. Since that time they have taken a license at 60 dollars, which is about 250 francs. In order to make the Prussian Government return to a stem recipro cally favourable to the commercial intercourse of the two States, it has been necessary to raise, in propor tion, the license to German commercial travellers. It is to be observed that , the licenses previou ly given them in 'Belgium, cost in general only 6Q fr ncs, and that no measure of this kind afforded a reason for the charge made Ey Prussia on Belgian travellers. The King, who left his seat at Ar&nne yesterday morning, arrived at Brussels at half-par - five in the afternoon. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. The Moniteur of Thursday contains the following TELEGRAPHIC DISPATCH. " PERPIGNAN, AUG. 13, FIVE O'CLOCK, " The Prince de Joinville to The Minister of Marine. " Before Tangiers the 7th. " On the 4th instant, a reply to the ultimatum of M. DE NYON was received, but was not of a nature to be accepted. " On the sth, I was informed that M. Hay was in a place of safety. " On the morning of the 6th, I attacked the for tifications of Tangiers. Eighty pieces of artillery returned the fire. In about an hour their fire was silenced, and their batt cries dismantled. Our loss in men is trifling, and the injury sustained of little consequence. " The quarter inhabited by the European Consuls has been respected. " A true copy. (Signed) "Baron De MACKAU." Our accounts from Madrid of the 9th instant are unimportant, and we hear from Barcelona, under the same date, that the Ministry was again menaced in its existence by a court camarilla. From Constantinople they write, on the 27th .ult., that the cordiality which had hitherto pre vailed between the English and French Ambas sadors at the Ottoman Court had been of late some what impaired, and that they now opposed each other in almost every question under negotiation. Our Alexandria letter of the 27th ult. confirms the account of the resignation of the Pasha " without naming his successor, or giving any other reasons than that there must be a traitor in his family, and that he will discover him and take his head, or retire to Mecca." Early in the morning the Pasha started for Cairo alone. Ibrahim had decided that the Government should be carried on, as usual, in the name of Me hemet Ali, until further intelligence could be ob tained from his Highness. Our Malta letter, of the sth instant, state that the Pacha had adopted that resolution in consequence of the discovery of some treasonable intrigues of Abbas and Sheriff Pachas.— Times. COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT. (PROM OUR OWN CORRESFONDRNT.) COWES, AUGUST 15. ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON INTELLIGENCE, ARRIVALS. Auc. 9. Psyche cutter, B. H. Jones, Esq., South ampton, and sailed the 10th for Plymouth. 10th. Charm, ditto, Sir Wm. Gallaway, Ireland. 11th. Kestrel ketch, Commodore Lord Yarborough, Dartmouth ; Syren cutter, Sir T. Wilson, London ; Charlotte, ditto, Hon. W. H. White Hedges, Ireland. AT AND ABOUT THE STATION. Kestrel, Commodore Lord Yarborough. Schooners—Galatea, Xariffa, Ariel, Georgian, Flint, Brilliant, Hawke, Camella, Gem, Fanny, Zephyretta. Cutters—Pearl, Phantom, Sparrowhawk, Ann, Alarm, Charlotte, Plebe, Emerald, Petrel, Rein Deer, Syren, Seaflower Whim, Aurora Corsair, Nymph, Dream, Witch, Osprey, Snake, Ariadne, Flower of Yarrow, Fanny, Ganymede, Naiad, Charm, Owen Glendower, Noran, Spider, Medina, Adelaide,' Wave, and Dove. Yawls—Breeze, Claude, Eagle, and Stormfinch. The Galatea is in the harbour, getting in a new bow sprit and reshipping her mast ; it is a curious circum stance, that on her bowsprit and forestay going during ing the match on Tuesday the foremast jumpped out of the step and fell on the mainmast. That so large a spar, the weight of sails, and rigging on it, should have taken such a spring, is one of the most surprising circumstances at tending this match—the next is, that the Georgian should have won the cup. In the match on Wednesday a man was washed over board from the Gnome, but caught the main -sheets, which he held by and was towed after the vessel. On Captain Morgan attempting to put the helm down he called out to him not to mind him but to keep the yacht on and win the cup ! Talk of dying game after this. He was then about two fathoms astern of the yacht, the wind blowing a gale. They, however, succeeded in hawling the brave fellow in. Mr. Condy, the marine painter was on board, but too ill to take a sketch. " Craven" was also on board, and acted, we are happy to hear, the part of a sailor. NAPLES, JULY 30.—(Extract from a Private Letter.)—The season has not yet commenced here, but the arrivals are by far not so numerous as those of last year at this period. The King and Queen are at Cas tellamare, where Prince Charles of Prussia, with his august consort and family, who arrived - here yesterday in a Sardinian steamer, has taken a superb villa, and where they intend residing fur some time. The King of Ba varia, on his return from Palermo, stayed a few days in this city, and then left for Rome. The favourite project of an illustrious personage, backed by the Duke de M—, for uniting the youthful Count Trapani and Queen Isabella, is hardly more talked of, as the objec • tion to this union is known to emanate from a highly powerful quarter ;. and, while various journals announce Count Trapani in Spain, he is quietly pursuing his studies at Rome, and lives in a retired manner. The theatres have been well attended of late, the Del Fondo has just produced a new mythological ballet, entitled La .Nascita di Flora, composed by Salvatore Taglioni, in which the giovinetha, Louisa Taglioni gained much applause. The mise en scene was excellent, and the whole was highly successful. Donizetti is daily expected to ar rive from Milan. Ms Roberto Devereaux has pleased here. Mrs. Bishop performed the part of Elisabetta, and, although it is of a character suited to her voice, she acquitted herself tolerably well in it.— Post. INFLUENZA AMONGST CATTLE.—The epidemic which has for the last eighteen months prevailed so fatally and extensive amongst cattle, chiefly attacking the hoofs and lungs, and early destroying the supply of milk, has not, during the last summer, diminished in its influence, although a better mode of treatment has greatly lessened the mortality. During the late hot weather the cowkeepers just around the metropolis have been severe sufferers, and no change of pasture or stalls has had any effect in removing the disorder. Many of the cattle coming to Smithfield-market are similarly affected. _ ----- In — the garden of W. Grimstone, Esq., of the Herbary, Highgate, is now to be seen a pea-plant in full bearing, which was produced from one of three. peas, taken from one of the vases recently extracted from an Egyptian sarcophagus, and where, according to compu tation, the vases with their contents must have remained for no less a period than 2,844 years. • MONE YAND COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, FRIDAY EVENING. Stocks closed much the same as in the morning, Con sols being 984 s for Money and Time; if anything prices were slightly firmer. New Three-and-a-Half r er Cents. were 1018. The Foreign Market was dull. SpaAish Actives brought 221, and the Three per Cents. ',33+ to t. Rus sian were 1204 to 121. Colombian ware fi rm at 1 3 8. The additional transactions in BAilway Shares have been these :—Birmingham and C:toucester, New, were 10k; Chester and Holyhead, 1 .; Dublin and Cashel, 4 ; Great North of England, 10' 4: ; Great Western, ex div., 591 to 601 ; Ditto, Half, e; div., 314 to 32; Hull and Selby, 14 to ; Birmingham, ex div., 123 to 124 ; Lynn and Ely, 21 to 4 ; Manchester and Leeds, Half, 20 ; Newcasle and Darlington, 24 ; Norwich and Brandon, 11 ; South-Eastern, 5.1 7 to 8 ; Ditto, New, 81- ; Trent Valley, 8* to ; Yarmouth and Norwich, 101 ; and Paris and Rouen, 18 premium. North British were at par. Asturian Mining Shares were 2 prem. The exchange on Amsterdam was a shade higher this afternoon ; on Hamburgh and Trieste barely so good ; and on Antwerp, Paris, and Frankfurt, about the same. (From The Sun of Last Night.) The Cotton market at Liverpool yesterday was steady. Sales, 5,000 bags, all to the trade. Shares were gene rally dull, except Midland Counties, which were in in creased request. Blackburn and Preston, 78 ; Dublin and Be !fast Junction, 34- ; Ditto and Cashel, 68 ; Edin burgh and Glasgow, 651 ; Glasgow, Paisley, and Gree nock, 12* ; Manchester and Leeds, Quarter, 10 ; Man chest'.m and Birmingham Ditto, 58 ; Midland, 1081 ; Nort'n British, P., ; Sheffield and Mancester, 831; South- East wen, 388 ; Ulster, 37+ ; Paris and Lyons, 21. The accounts that have been received this morning relative to the financial affairs of Holland for the first six, months of this year, are anything but satisfactory to. - the bondholders here, a very large diminution of re ceipts having occurred as respects exports as well as in imports. The only ship arrivals to-day are from Buenos Ayres, but the dates are old. From the Cape of Good Hope papers we gather tht following:— " The exports and imports of the Eastern province for the first quarter of this year, compiled from the official returns, show abundant reason for congratulation. They exhibit a healthy state of affairs, and a proof of undi minished, or rather of increased energy and enterprise, which are most cheering ; while at the same time the) afford the best and most indisputable proof of the capa bilities and steady progression of this division of the colony. The following brief analysis will be decisive proof of this :—The gross amount of im. ports is, we find, 38,7301. ; of exports, 35,6451. From the former, however, must be deducted the sum of 4,8011. for goods warehoused, and which may probably be re-shipped hereafter for another market. Hence the result will leave a surplus on exports for the quarter, amounting to 1,7161. ; thus leaving the large military and missionary expenditure, as well as many private incomes drawn from foreign sources, entirely un touched in our account current of trade with the parent country. We may safely challenge any other British possession to exhibit an equally healthy state of affairs, or one which affords a more telling example of indv..t r y, en t er p r i se , an d per severance, than is here exkibited. The items afford abundant testimony to this. Thus, the article on which there is the greatest increase, is precisely that which de mands the greatest shrhre of attention from the producer, and which may be considered as the chief staple of the colony. We refer to wool. The value of that shipped in the corresponding quarter of last year was 9,9971. in the present case, 20,246 L, thus showing an increase on the quarter of no less a sum than 10,2491., arising in part from the increased value of wool, and in part from the the large quantity actually exported." There is in many quarters a feeling prevalent, that the repudiating States of America will be shamed into an honest course of action. And it is satisfactory to find that the value of American shares shows signs of re .. suscitation from the extreme points of depression that have long ruled in this market. It may be added that waive of the largest holders look with confidence to the ultimate liquidation of their claims. The Commissioners bought 10,0001. Consols at 988. The market is heavy, money being rather more in re quest. In the morning the price for Money was 984. and for the Account 98i. Now, 98 1 buyers is the gene ral value. The other stocks are dull. The premium upon Exchequer Bills has declined to 735. There has been a good deal of business done in the Dutch Funds this morning. The Two-an- a-Half per Cents. at one period were sold at a fall to 611, and the Five pet Cents. are now only at 1004 ,• Spanish Bonds have re mained at 221, the Three per Cents. at 331; Portuguese Converted are at 431-, ; the Five per Cents. Mexican at 35 1 ; and Brazilian at 844 A° Railway Shares continue rather dull. Birming ham are down to 1231 and 1221 premium, but this is ex dividend. Generally prices seem steady. PRICES OF BRITISH }UNDS AT ONE ()'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Bank 199 U% 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 3 per Cent . Consols. Annuities. .... , ........ 90 % 3% per Cent Reduced Annuities lot New 354 per Cent. Annuities.--...... ....... 101 )4 South Sea Stock...-- ............. 3 per Cent. Annui ties,... 1751 Consols for Account zeliwriiiitr Bills, 97% in 3%% I%d. 1 %el. ............ 75 73 pin. Ditto Small.. ...... 73 p m. Ditto PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Belgian Bonds, 5 per Cent 10334 Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent. .... 3534% Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent—. ............ , ~. Ditto Converted — Ditto for the Account, 43% Spanish Bonds,. Five per Cent IMO ........ Ditto Passiveßonds. ' 54% Ditto Deferred 12% Ditto Three per Cent. ... ..... --,—.--... 33% . Ditto for the Account Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent 42 Ditto for the Account Dutch 2% per Cents 6l %WAN Ditto for the Account, 61%4 Dutch 5 per Cents •••••• •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Kn.% 100% New Loan, 5 per Cents. (1837) ......... PRICES OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. RAILWAYS. PAIL PER SHARE. Birmingham and G10uce5ter......... 100........113% 14 to 1214% Ditto New ........ . ................... 1'7% ' 8 Brighton, Lewes, and .......... 5 Chichester and Brighton Dublin and Cashel 2} Eastern Counties .„........... 23 .... ..... 1.4 8 to Edinburgh and Gasgow ...... SO Ditto U Stares Great North of England. Great Western .. _ ..• _ . .... .... to ..- Ditto 54 Shares London and Birmingham. lOO 22254 ...... to 22356 London and Blackwall 1654 London and Brighton 5O to Ditto Loan Notes .... 10 London and Greenwich London and South Western London and Croydon Lynn and Ely.. Manchester and Leeds 7O l2B to Midland Counties lOO ......... 1085(..... to 109 Newcastle and Darlington Junct 21.......„ 44 North British Nerthern and Eastern 45 5814 to Trent Valley York and North Midland .......• 50 .... lOB Ditto % Shares Ditto Scarboro' Branch 254 •....• 24% Orleans, Tours, and Bourdeaux 1 MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, AUG. 15.—There has been an extensive business done to-day, owing to a better supply of Stock, at rather lower prices :—Black burn and Preston, 71 ; Blackburn, Burnley, and Ac • crington, li; Bristol and Gloucester, 55 to 541; Churnet Valley, * prem. ; Dublin and Cashel, 68 and 61. Bs. 9d. ; Huddersfield and Manchester, 48s. 9d. ; Lynn and Ely, 3* to 1 ; Manchester and Leeds, Half Shares, 50; Man chester and Birmingham, 541; Ditto, Quarters, 5i 5-16; Manchester and Buxton, 375.; North British, 2, ; Shef field and Manchester, 841 to 84 ; Paris and Lyons, 495. and 2i ; Lancaster Canal, 39i. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bask Stock 1 , ,9N Indian Stock. ....... ---- ------ Red 3 per Cent.99s'4 Ditto Bonds — pm. 3 per Cent. Cons. 3% per Cent. Red lOl% Ditto New Annuities ... 97% New 3% per Cent. lOl Ex. Bills, 1 , 0001. I%cl ... 73 pm. New 5 per Cent. - -Ditto w. .............. 75 pm. Long Annuities to expire Ditto 5ma11........., .... 75 pm. Jan 1860 — Bank Stock for Acct.... Oct. 1859 ll Console for Act. 9BX 12 Jan. 1860.•.....•• •...• lndia Stock for Acct.... FOREIGN FUND& Austrian, 5 per Cent ......... Portuguese, 5 per Cent — Belgian, 5 per Cent ..... ....... Ditto, New Ditto — Brazilian Bonds .....„.».».. I Prussian, 5 per Cent Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent... 'Russian, 5 per Cent l2l Chllian, 6 per Cent .... ..... ... 'Ditto, Metallic Colombian, 6 per Cent ...... 13% Spanish, 5 per Cent.... ..... Ditto, 1824..„.... — ,Ditto, 3 per Cent .......... Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent — ;Ditto, Deferred l2 Danish, 3 per Cent .... ....... . i French, 5 per Cent. —f —c. Greek, 18,5, 5 per Cent...—. , Exchange .... ........ ...... —f --.c. Mexican, 5 per Cent Ditto, 6 per Cent., 1831 — Dutch, 2% per Cent.... 61 g Peruvian, 1825, 6 per Cent — 'Ditto, 5 per Cent ....„...1003/4 SHARE& Birmingham and Gloucester (100 paid)» ...... 112% Ditto, New Shares, 17% paid Chester and Holyhead ( a paid) Dublin and Cashel, 2 % paid Great North of England, 100 paid Great Western (75 paid) Ditto Half Shares, 5 0 paid B2 Hull and Selby, 50 paid 64% London and Birmingharn(Stoei) ...ondon ant. , ~_ , , M an chester and Leeds (70 paid) Ditto, Half Shares, 30 pa id 5O Newcastle and Darlingron Junction. 21 paid 45 North British, 2% paid Norwich and Brandon, 4 paid ..-..... 15 South Eastern and Dover (33 2s 4d paid) ..... .... 38% Ditto New Shares, 4 paid Trent Valley, 2 paid lO Yarmouth and Norwich (18 paid) York and Scarborough Branch (2% paid) Paris and Rouen. 20 paid COURSE OF EXCHA] Amsterdam CF. 12 41 Ditto, at sight l2 2 Rotterdam 2U. 12 5 Antwerp 25 85 Hamburgh M.B. 1313# Altona l3 14 Paris, 3 days' sight 25 60 Ditto, 3 months 25 85 Marseilles Bourdeaux 25 90 Frankfort on Maine l2l GE.—(YESTERDAY: Gibraltar — Leghorn 3O 50 Genoa 25 85 Milan Venice ... Naples 39i Palermo, per oz llBl Lisbon s4i Oporto s4i Rio Janeiro 23 Bahia 23 Buenos Ayres NewYork,2ldys sight Philadelphia PRICF.B OF BULLION, PER OZ. Foreign Gold, bars. £3 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin 3 17 5 New Doubloons..... 0 0 0 New Dollars 0 4 lOi Silver in ears 0 4 1 15 - _ Petersburgh, 3Us 37 Berlin 7 Vienna, effec. fi. 3 M 952 Trieste, ditto Madrid 37 Cadiz Bilbao 36 Barcelona Seville ....... BANK OF ENGLAND. Quarterly Average of the Weekly Liabilities and Assets of the Bank of England, from the 18th day of May, 1844, to the 10th day of August, 1844, both inclusive, published pursuant to the Act 3 and 4 Will. IV., cap. 98. LIABILITIES. ASSETS. • Circulation .......£21,324,000 Securities £22,908,000 Deposits 14,090,000 Bullion 15,579,000 £35,414,000 11, Downing-street, Aug. 1, £38,487,000 ;, 1844. COURT CL RCULAR. WINDSOR, FRIDAY.—The Queen is progressing most satisfactorily. His Royal Highness Erinc e Albert walked this morning to Frogmore Lodge, and visited her Boys Highness the Uuchess of Kent. The Royal Family were take." out this morning on ponies and for walking exercise. In the after' noon their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess Alice were taken' a carriage airing, + and her Royal Highness the Princess Royal walko in the pleasure grounds. The Mayor of Windsor, Robert Blunt, Ysq., hat l the honour of being introduced to Prince Albert th" morning, and presented a loyal and dutiful address ' congratulation on the birth of a Prince, froan the mayor, corporation i and burgesses of Windsor. His Worship was mom; graciously received. His Royal Highness Prioce Albert drove out in A carriage this afternoon, attent. led by Colonel Bou.verie• Equerry in Waiting. Among the nobility and genirr who. called to' day to make inquiries after the health of her Majestp were the Earl of Lucan, the Rev. Wm. _Brown, Recta= of Horton, and Mrs. Brown, Admiral Sir Charlet Rowley, and Major Anderson. The Eastern Terrace of the Castle will not 10 opened to the public until further notice. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent is es p:cted to dine at the Castle this evening. s His Royal Highness Prince William of Frai l spent several hours yesterday visiting and inspecting a number of the principal edifices of the metropoliP His Royal Highness, attended by his Excellency Chr valier Bunsen, Prussian Minister, Count Konigsmarkf and other gentlemen of his suite, and also by Captsil l Meynell, Groom in Waiting to her Majesty, went io the forenoon to Whitehall-stairs, and embarked in • royal barge, which conveyed the Prince and his suit. down the river to the Thames Tunnel. His Royal Highness, after inspecting the Tunnel/ viewed the Docks, and then proceeded in one o f tbi Queen's carriage to the Bank of England. T he ro l ls party was conducted through the different departments of the Bank. The Prince and suite, after viewing*. different courts and offices, partook of a ddeune: His Royal Highness also paid a visit to the Towel of London, and before returning to the Legation lyes to inspect the British Museum. His Royal Highness Prince Edward of SBO Weimar paid a visit to Prince William of Prussint at the residence of the Prussian Legation, in Carlton' terrace. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess °I Heredita: Grand Duke MP Cambridge, and the ,ei ,atary Duchess of Mecklenburgh Strelitz, dined with 1 361 Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, nn Thursday, at the residence of the King of Hanover+ at Kew. Yesterday afternoon their Royal Iligt nesses arrived at Cambridge House from Kew. the evening the Duke and Duchess of Cambridg e !, and the Hereditary Grand Duke and Duchess 1)* Mecklenburgh Strelitz, dined with his Royal fl! ness Prince William of Prussia, at the residence his Excellency the Chevalier Bunsen, on Carlton' terrace. Lord Granville Somerset left town on Thumb/ evening for Tunbridge Wells. Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening fri the Colonial-office for the Governor of Jamaica, al Also for the Governors of the other West colonies. SPORTING INTELLIGENC• , TUNBRIDGE WELLS RACES. --(CozicLuDEP.) THURSDAY. The Manor Plate of 501. Heats, one mile and a ha l Captain Little's Dahlia, aged (W. Balchin) 1 1 Mr. Dockeray's Molly Mogg, 3 yrs 0 0 Ur. Coleman's Lufra, 3 yrs 2 0 n Mr. Wilson's Dart, 5 yri -d Cale& Auld Lang Syne, 4 -s Lori, ..)aledon's nti, g Syne, yrs 0 a t Ar. Wilson's Creeper, Aged Nir. Drawbridge's Rob Roy, 5 yrs LAO The Stewards' Stakes of 3 soya , each, and 30 46 one mile and a half, were won in two heats, by ,•, E. R. Clark's Young Lochinvar, 4 yrs (W. B* 1 0 5 beating Mr. J. King's br f by Pincher, dam by R ow ' 4 yrs, and Mrs. Smith's Queen of the Chase, 3 yr s .. The Free Handicap Plate of 201. for tbe bold horses, one mile and a dis., were won in two beittst_. l l \lr. Anderson's Chance, aged (Bell), beating Auld 3 0 " Syne, Rob Roy, and three others. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGFrNCE' UNIVERSITY OF LONDON . 44. 0 / FIRST EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OFtBACIIELOP MEDICINE-4844. ~,,i, The following Candidates have passed this Eolw tion FIRST DIVISION. Bompas, Joseph Carpenter, University College. Cadge, William, University College. • Colborne, William Henry, University College... •-. Copeman, Arthur Charles, King's College. , • ' Duncan, Peter Martin. King's College.: - • Elam, Charles, Leeds School of Medicine. Evans, David Peter, King's College. - Fotherbay, Henry Isaac, Guy's Hospital. Greenwood, William Henry, Guy's Hospital Grimsdale, Thomas Frederic, University College. Hicks, John Braxton, Guy's Hospital. tre e 4 Mason, Thomas Peter, Original School, Peter 4 Dublin. Matthew, Charles Reeve, University College. Ody, John, King's College. • Radcliffe, Charles Bland, Leeds School of )Medicine• Houghton, James John, King's College. Wiglesworth, Henry, University College. SECOND DIVISION. Coweell, Charles, University College. Drury, James Samuel, adjoining St. George's Hose Elliott, John Alex., adjoining St. George's Hosp itab Martyn ' Patrick, School of Physic in Ireland. Mason, John, King's College. Monckton, Stephen, King's College. Morris, John Griffith, University College. Ramskill, Jabez Spence, Guy's Hospital. Ricards, John 8., College of Surgeons in Ireland. Mr. Lewis Goldsmith, of Paris, who has bee : o o labouring under an attack of paralysis in the 101 l 0. and hand, arising from a cold, and not the resul t of ;V plexy, as erroneously stated by a Contemporary, is , quite convalescent. . - fl# INTERESTING RELIC. — At tbe 'Conference. ts, Wesleyan body, now sitting at Birmingham, th e re f President, before quitting the chair, made an ilit_emo ing statement. He held in his hand a small Pifer Bible, which, with its case, had belonged to Nir• ley, and which Mr. Wesley had been accustomed 1# ;n his field and out-door preaching. It was print. ,169, Deane, and was given by Mr. Wesley, in the year m i i i i e' to the late Rev. henry Moore, who, in his t he it to the Methodist Conference, to be keP the President for the time being. It is supposed t 9 'lO the same Bible which the artist had before him viijo' painted the likeness of the venerable founder of Di e oil' dism, kept in the Chapel-house, City-road. Sot ference in the apparent size will be observable, 1311.00 is ettributahle to its having been rebound ; se, became necessary in Mr. Wesley's lifetime, font freent use which that devoted man made f it. for almost needless to say, that the Conference m os, " dially accepted this interesting bequest. —D°" Gazette. 4.30 SHRIMPS.—The office of shrimps, says a vir i r ho t o f , the Penny Cyclopcedia, seems to be analogous tO ( jet some of the insects on land, whose task it is nor, away the remains of dead animal matter after the 11 and birds of prey have been satiated. If a dead Os ill' tho or frog be placed where ants have access to it, eiti,ol sects will speedily reduce the body to a closelreedilf skeleton. The shrimp family, acting in hosts , as sPi'lo i remove all traces of fish or flesh from the bones ° dead animal exposed to their ravage. They a re, in t wit ir the principal scavengers of the ocean ; and, 1 1 34 01 standing their office, they are deservedly and prized as nutritious and delicious food. ; of tbe IMPORTANT Disc OVERY.—The attent on iron-masters has been attracted to a process of eeicelle'e able importance lately introduced into their ma nu i The application of electricity, to supersede severs ill be expensive processes, has, it is stated, been tried...ol°f Welsh and Derbyshire furnaces with satisfactorYfoa foa It appears that the costly fuel and labour re(1 111 0 0 ,, 'the purification of the ore from sulphur, phosPhera &be' subtle elements, create its high market value, O ro ces; being all electro-negative, have induced then ew.4 f ro , whereby the impure stream of metal after tl°,`!„ l te d 1 9 0 the blast is in its moment of consolidation sub; powerful voltaic battery, which so disengages "' the y ! s c i, components that in the process of puddling is st~u readily extracted. The London blacksmiths, Itod have tested this iron after a single reheating, the Or o nounce it the best metal in the market. 1 3 Y,_ process an experiment was tried by Dr. Ure, t)oredettA a soft rod of iron was held in contact with n co O !: red heat, and that gentleman is understoo d tO 14f/ to st ee that in a few hours the metal was converted lu re of Should these facts prove what they seem , they fironeb lated to affect most seriously this important b o our trade.—Newcastle Advertiser. A / /r:451 :1' PREMISES SET ON FIRE IN DESTROYING to NEsT.—On Sunday evening, about six o'el o e, l ‘.,d e olit r , house upon the premises of Mr. Bolger, of Ct . tt .l ,„ o rt j, was discovered to be on fire. Assistance qn;cl4o3crep ing, a stack of straw standing otherwise the barns and other buildings. inusL d n ir ' ec ti rib e a prey to the flames, the wind blowing in e• 0. d increase the devastation. Inspector BurtomutotetL, near was speedq.se fal to police force, observing the fire at a distat\l'os.lbPe to the spot, and, from information he o btain duced to take into custody J o hn and Charle e -uj s b o f - 0 former seventeen and the latter fourteen y_r They were examined before the Rev. theAlo npdrai prisoners n t e h r e s wasp's nest, when the fire they had It'nn'7 o ,, t roit_;';s Bodger's outhouse increased beyond thir; for trTo I s l t ig at h e t d H t o h n a . t Lord they I',,e,terreealasboloVie odniLlo9%lo roa ignited the building. They were committedeleisenar, the assize, but it was understood would be f 01 ..!".4 procuring bail. hetT loss will not be gre Chronicle. t • The Pr ese- Bodger is insured in he Essex Economic.---ta'n or THE EMPEROR OF MOROCCO.--- a merchant peror of Morocco was originally a e a t he c'„lce d 5 00 0 1- Abd-el-Ka er, fu That very son is now with Holy War W oce , ,„ t d o or h e i , m and n tphreefperreevnicoeustoEhrnispseorlio,r ~bheaqudweaaatn a vee p, Emperor not proclaim the throne, and n w d il proclaimpl ace th h i i s ra ' s ‘ therefore, in a cleft stick, and has no help on the t there. The "Thliteii:xihrierirertarco,Collsc the tvh P“. Ch Ch 4 , 1 'api his .th ( las in' et