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EVENING EDITION f borough,, and the Marquis of Lansdowne joined in it. The - ! was read a third time, and, divers riders and amend• ments having been introduced, was passed. On the motion of the Marquis of LAN SD OWNE, the Sheriff,' Exception Bill was read a second time. The Bi z h o p o f LONDON w i s h e d t o giv- notice that he Wa s opposed to the Registry of Births' Bill, now before the House. On the Report o f the Prisons' Discipline Bill, The Duke of RICHMOND proposed a clause, Pro ,iding that no books should be introduced into any prison, ZeePt such as were selected by the Chaplain or the Visiting Justices.— Agreed to. The Assessed Taxvs Bill was read a second time. Esrl of CHICHESTER moved the second reading of the Prisoners' Trial Bill.—Agreed to. The House adj3urned at a Quarter past Nine, until Thursd Y jua STEAMERS ; A-WEEK, From alongside St. Katherine's Steam Wharf. leave sell-known fast and favourite Packets will le ave the above Wharf as follows : t „WATER WITC, Tuedays ; VIVID, Thursda; WIL p ' - ' I FORCE, Satur H days ; s at - Eight o'clock in the ys Morning d reel 'elY ; and will return from Hull every Monday, Wednes ay and Friday Afternoon, at Four o'clock. FARES. caPberl3 Water Witch and Vivid, Saloon, 10s. ; Bed, :23. ; Fore n, I, ) er Wilberf orce , Saloon and Bed, 15s. ; Fore Cabin , 33 . „r or furth er part i cu l ars , apply at the Company's Office, 41, 4 i i th-street-hill, or at the Wharf, where Carriages and Horses:for kor P n al in e o. nt should be sent not later than half-past Six in the O bserve.—l n addition to the acknowledged and established aeuPeriority of these packets, in respect to safrty, speed and ac- Zatrnedation, they are the only packets on the Hull station embark - and land passengers, horses and carriages, at all rn" of the tide, at a commodious wharf in London, thereby ap nea the danger, confusion, and inconvenience, from the "steamers or boats of any description ; and the in -Jterabi • e , rr . e inconvenience consequent, upon sending horses and 'ages for shipment to the wharf the day before sailing. EDWARD ABELL, Agent. 41, F ish -street-hill, July 23, 1839. " V WORK BY PRINCE NAPOLEON LOUIS BO- N ow NAPARTE. `.;u3r, and to be had u t all Booksellers, in Svc). 10s. 6d., 2-‘` ts IDEES NAPOLEONIENNES. Par LE PRINCE R e NAPOLEON LOUIS BONAPARTE. nrY Colbur Publisher, Great Marlborough-street. T D R. LANG'S NEW SOUTH WALES. A l n Two vols., sma ll B vo ., with Map, price 21s. boards. N HISTORICAL and STATISTICAL ACCOUNT of NEW SOUTH WALES; Both as a Penal Settlement, and as a British Colony. S en . BY JOHN DUNMORE LANG, D.D. 'or Minister of the Scots Church, and Principal of the Set Australian College, Sydney. °nil Edition, bringing y down the History of the Colony to - the end of 1836. Smith, Elder, and Co , ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. The New Play of Tortesa having attracted crowded audiences on each representation, it will be acted This Evening, and To-morrow, baing Mr. Wallack's last nights of performing in Englan4. THIS EVENING, JULY 24, Will be repeated the New Play, in Five Acts, called TORTESA, TIIE USURER. Tortesa, Mr. Wallack ; Zeppa, Mrs. Henry Vining. To conclude with, THE BRIGAND. Alesandro Massaroni, Mr. Wallack. ______ ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. Under her MAJESTY'S IMMEDIATE PATRONAGE. TO-MORROW EVENING, June 2.5, GRAND PROMENADES MUSICALES ET CHAM- PETRES. Exhibition of the Extraordinary newly-discovered Light KONIAPHOSTIC, Under the superintendence of Mr. H. Carter. Colossal Panorama, Modelled View of Mount Hecla, by Ranson, during the Day, and at Dusk the Terrific Representa tion of an Eruption of that Volcano. Feeding Hour Five o'clock—Concert at Six. Admission One Shilling, TO CORRESPONDENTS. We cannot use the communication of La Vigie. " 17: r* WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO.NIORROW Nor • 12 minutes after 1. I Evening ... 41 minutes after 1. `", t u 4 Zle nl_l/. ~ff~~~ + 2 LONDON: WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 1339. Lord ELLENBOROUGH brought under the notice of the Peers, last night, the condition of the Hill Coolies who have been carried to Demerara, and who are said to die there very fast. Lord BROUGHAM adverted to the destruction of life on the voyage, and spoke of the blood-guiltiness of those who are concerned in this nefarious traffic. That is becoming indignation in the Lords, and we humbly share their feelings. To them it must be a great consolation to know that, on this subject, they are not partners in the crime—they do not ordain it —it does not grow out of their enactments, but from th e avarice o f other men—and they have only meddled with it to suppress it. We have the same consolation touching the Corn-laws, the victims of which are as numerous, and they die as cruel deaths, as those of the slave trade, and of transportation from Bengal to Demarara. On this point, and on many other great sufferings which grow directly from their Lordships' ambition or avarice-dictating laws, they can have no such consolation, and well would it be for them were there a Lord BROUGHAM in the House to tell them, as there are scores of men telling it to the multitude, that the blood guiltiness of dooming thousands of the people to the long lingering death of starvation belongs to the Legis lature of Great Britain. A debate subsequently took place on some questions put by the Marquis of LONDONDERRY concerning the war in Spain, which is remarkable for an able and elo quent speech made by the Earl of CLARENDON, lately our Ambassador at Madrid. We shall, perhaps, here after advert to this topic, and only say now, that the questions of the Noble Marquis were properly an swered. The power of Magistrates became a subject of con versation in the Lords as well as the Commons, and Viscount MELBOURNE advised their Lordships not to trust legal opinions given in debate, and not, therefore, to trust the ATTORNEY-GENERAL'S op tion delivered in the House of Commons. The LORD CHANCELLOR wisely would give no opinion, and took time to inquire. On the judgment seat his dictum .can only be questioned by an expensive appeal. Tile Reduction of the Postage was partially dis nssed, and warmly espoused by the Duke of Rim atom:). We do not rely much on the estimates men tioned in the debate, and shall not therefore quote them. The Canada Government Bill was read a second time, and is to be discussed on going into Committee. Several other Bills were forwarded without discus sion, and their Lordships adjourned, at a Quarter past Nine, till Thursday. In the Commons a brief notice was taken by the ATTORNEY-GENERAL Of Lord DENMAN'S ignorance I of law. joAtiN RUSSELL tdiscussion ensued on the prop r i e ty of Lord proceeding with his Birmingham re solution befor e the other business, which, by the almost utranimous feeling of the House, he was allowed to do, thougliit was predicted th a t a ft er he had got the vote for money, the Hou s e which would be counted o u t, actually occurred. Mr. LEADER wished to resist the Noble Lord's course, but was not supported by the Hous e , which went into a Committe e , voted in a hurry 10,000/. to establish a police force at Birmingham, and allowed a Bill to be brought in and read a first time, to carry the vote into effect. It is curious, so recently as this town received a Charter, that no regulati on was then made by which a rat e could be raised f or police. Mr. ATTWOOD stated that there w a body o f S tree t Commissioners, amounting t o 100, who could could do it, and why they do not was not explained. It is probable, however, that all the inhabitants do not agree, and that the Street Commissioners and the Cor poration are, like the Chartists and the middle classes, at open enmity. No valid objection was made to the grant, indeed all parties seemed to concur in it. wh en 311411 we see a I;ke unanimity in reir essin g a single grievance? After Mr. EWART had obtained some returns rela tive to our trade with Western Africa, and the House had hea r d M r. F RENCH move an Address to her lAJEST Y , to take measures for providing railway communicati on the House was counted out at Ha — Past Eight o'Clock. 'he friends of Constitutional liberty in Spain will derive much valuable information from the excellent s P'eeh of the Earl of CLARENDON in the House of Lords last night, respecting the present state of the Peninsula, and the relative positions and prospects Of the belligerents. His Lordship's statements and opinions .erive great weight from the admirable way in which Christino s and Carlists represent his having dis charged the important functions of Ambassador at the Court of Madrid, during a period of almost unex- THREE DAYS ampled difficulty. We shall take the earliest conve nient opportunity of adverting at some length to some very important inferences which may be drawn from last night's debate upon this momentous question. The reader will be both instructed and amused by the little conflict of opinion which was mani fested last night in the House of Commons between the highest law authorities in the land. Lord Chief Justice DENNIAN volunteered an opinion in the House of Lords on Thursday night concerning the jurisdiction of the County Magistrates within the borough of Birmingham ; and having, as he said, looked into the law and formed a deliberate opinion, which he thought it his duty to express for the be nefit of the public, he declared that County Magis trates had no concurrent jurisdiction in Birming ham, or in any borough possessing a chartered Ma gistracy. Lords BROUGHAM, LYNDHURST, and WYNFORD, with the LORD CHANCELLOR, were all present when Lord DENMAN stated this to be the law, and he appealed to those Noble Lords for his correctness. Not one of them contradicted him, and Lord BROUGHANI who spoke after wards, confirmed, as we believe, the statement of the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE. A Morning Journal of yesterday, more learned in the law than he is, flatly contradicted him, and cited several cases to show that the CHIEF JUSTICE did not know what the law is. In the House of Commons, last night, the ATTORNEY-GENERAL took the same view as the Newspaper, and asset ted that the opinion of the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE was not correct. He was of opinion that the County Magistrates have a con current jurisdiction within the borough of Birming ham, and he supported his opinion by learned legal arguments. Here, then, we have two of the highest legal authorities in the country, each declaring that the other does not know what the law is on a matter which, the number of cases cited shows, must be familiar to legal men. We arrogate to ourselves no title to settle the difference between these legal divinities, but, like Mr. HUME, we wish it should be settled, if possible, by a declaratory law, though it is probable that the two conflicting lawyers would each interpret that in his own peculiar manner. We advert to this difference for a totally different purpose from that of presuming to decide it. A very short time after the ATTORNEY-GENE RAL had done proving that the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE was ignorant of the law, the Birmingham question came under discussion, and Lord JOHN RUSSELL went into an argument to show that, touching the question of lawful meetings, the people ought to have known the laws, and on the unlawfulness of the meeting at Birmingham he ;rounded his defence of the first attack of the Ma gistrates on the people, which has already led to the burning of three houses in that town, and to the lestruction of property to a considerable amount, while the probability of what it may lead to is ter rifying both Houses of Parliament out of their wits. Lord JOHN RUSSELL expects the people to be better lawyers than the ATTORNEY-GENERAL and he LORD CHIEF JUSTICE. They must know the law, though SirJ. CAMPBELL or Lord DENNIAN, both of whom have studied it all their lives, is profoundly ignorant of it. Not knowing the law, for which they are to be punished—though the equally ignorant lawyers ate highly honoured—they felt indignant at being illegally treated ; and out of their ignorance of law, and their indignation at the Magistrates, who, knowing the law, acted according to its dictates, have arisen the calamities of Bir mingham, and the threatened calamities of the empire. Now, it strikes us as a very curious subject for reflection—at least it ought to be to those who are about to adopt new means of coercing the people into obedience to law—that such an unknown thing as the law, which is anything and everything that the passions, and interest, or the ignorance of those who interpret it choose to make it—that such a law is an amazingly unsafe and dangerous staff on which to rest the peace and tranquillity of this great empire. That which is to be the guide of men—that, which not to obey is to deserve punishment—ought to be as clear and bright as noon-day, not so obscure that the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE and the ATTORNEY GENERAL cannot tell whether it be dark or day _ _ light. Such an exposure of the doubtful nature of law, while the Parliament was engaged in passing other it easures to enforce obedience to it, is calcu lated to excite painful reflections, we think, in our legislators. The public must now begin to share the alarm for the future tranquillity of the country which was last night so openly expressed in the House of Commons. A considerable number of motions, and amongst them one to take into consideration the case of Messrs. LOVETT and COLLINS were all postponed to allow Lord JOHN RUSSELL to bring forward, out of order, his motion to provide for the tranquillity of Birmingham and the country. The case was considered so urgent that Whigs, Tories, and Radicals, all ran to the same conclusion, and only five, in a House of 151 Members, thought it was proper to stick to the old rule of redressing grievances before voting money. The Members of all parties joined in the same ci ) It was necessary to provide for the public tranquillity—it was the first duty of the State to protect its peaceful subjects ; and so the usages of Parliament were departed from, a resolu tion to grant money passed, and a Bill brought in and read a fist time. Not only is the danger now become menacing, but Sir R. PEEL observed that he thought there had for some time been indications which might have enabled Ministers to have brought forward such measures before the 23d of July. From the concurrent testimony, then, of words and things, it is at length plain that the condition of the country requires the most serious and earnest attention of the Legislature. That is a doctrine we have long preached, but we much fear that those who have at length opened their eyes to the danger, like men just aroused from sleep, will not be capable of accurately appreciating their situation. Sir ROBERT PEEL, for example, was eloquent on the necessity for protecting the people ; but how comes it, then, that he has no compassion, no sense of duty, for Messrs. LOVETT and COLLINS, who have been more harshly treated than any inhabi tant of Birmingham, by Sir ROBERT PEEL'S in strumentality, for he contributed to make the law under the authority of which they were treated like felons? Sir ROBERT PEEL, with other Tories, opinions, erroneous and mischievous though they be, will in the end be fatal to the public peace. The discreditable part played by the Duke of WELLINGTON in the House of Lords, when the late disturbances at Birmingham Ivete, for factious purposes, made tho subject of discussion in that House, has been charitably imputed to the effects of that decay of the mental faculties which is the natural concomitant of age. This decay, no doubt, manifests itself at different periods of life according to the constitution of different individuals. In men like the Duke of WELLINGTON, whose position necessarily leads to an extraordinary expenditure of mental energy, the decline may be reasonably expected to commence at an earlier stage than it does in those whose mental powers have not been kept, like his, almost constantly on the rack, but who have been lucky enough to jog on through life without any great wear and tear of the inward man. We are, therefore, by no means surprised, however we may regret, to find that the DUKE at seventy-one is not so vigorous either in mind or body as he was at forty or fifty. It is no disparagement to him to say that he has not been made an exception to an universal law of na ture, nor can we at all perceive the wisdom of the course pursued by some of his would-be friends, who not only stand up for the unimpaired vigour of his faculties, but bellow forth all sorts of factious motives against those who hint that " his vigorous judgment has begun to fail him," that he has become " feeble in mind and obstreperous in temper." We are among those who think that there is some foundation for these assertions. When the Duke of WELLINGTON stated in the House of Lords that the riot which lately took place at Birming ham, and which ended in the burning of two houses and the destruction of a trifling amount of property, without the commission of a single act of personal violence by the rioters towards any inhabitant of the town, was Characterised by greater atrocities than he had ever known to have been per petrated by an infuriated soldiery after taking a town by storm, all men, must be convinced that, whatever faculties may remain entire in his Grace's mind, memory at least is not one of them. This, however, is not the only instance of late which has given evidence of the Duke of WEL LINGTON'S declining powers. No one could wit ness the exhibition in the House of Lords, when he undertook to explain the transactions that took place with reference to the formation of a Tory Administration, without being painfully impressed with the idea that time had begun to tell very sensibly on his intellectual frame. Since these observations were put into type, the eminent person to whom. they refer has reiterated the extraordinary statement which called them forth. The Noble Duke, irritated, as is but too plainly evident from the Speech delivered by him on Mon day night, at the animadversions made on his strange conduct, has stood forward with his usual gallantry, though not with his usual prudence, to justify his former " exaggeration, " and even, " as he has gone so far, to go a little farther." In the prosecution of this--it must be confessed—most chivalrous purpose, he insists in language, if possible more emphatic, certainly more vehement, than that which he had employed on the previous occasion—that the Birmingham riot surpassed in the excesses of which the rioters were guilty, everything that had taken place in any of those towns which he " had ever known or seen taken by storm." Now we give the Duke of WELLINGTON credit for the utmost sincerity in what he has thus so so lemnly advanced and repeated on this subject. We believe him utterly incapable of stating a deliberate " exaggeration ;" and therefore when, with this belief strong in our minds, we look at the following description of the scenes which accompa nied the storming_ of Badajos—an exploit which is by some esteemed one of the most meritorious ever performed by the Noble Duke—penned by an en thusiastic admirer •of his achievements, the gal lant historian of the Peninsular war—we find it utterly in vain to attempt to resist the conclusion, that the Duke of WELLINGTON'S faculties are in a state very different from what they were even a year or two ago. - " Now," says Colonel NAPIER, gg commenced that wild and desperate wickedness which tar nished the lustre of the soldier's heroism. All, indeed, were not alike, for hundreds risked, and many lost their lives, in striving to stop the violence ; but the madness generally prevailed, and, as the worst men were leaders here, all the dreadful passions of human nature were displayed. Shameless rapacity, brutal intemperance, savage lust, cruelty, and murder, shrieks and piteous lamentations, groans, shouts, imprecations, the hissing of fires bursting from the houses, the crashing of doors and windows, and the reports of muskets used in vio lence, resounded for two days and nights in the streets of Badajos ! On the 3d, when the city was sacked, when the soldiers were exhausted by their own excesses, the tumult rather subsided than was quelled." The irrelevant and incoherent matter with which the Noble Duke followed up this notable compa rison of his, might, were it worth while, be adduced as of itself a sufficient proof that his mental orga nization is undergoing a somewhat rapid process of decomposition ; but such evidence is really quite superfluous. We have had suspicions for some time that the privilege of franking letters, which Peers and Com moners prize for itS honour as well as its profit, would be a formidable obstacle in the way of the Penny Postage Bill, and these have been unfortu nately confirmed by some casual observations of Sir ROBERT PEEL and Sir ROBERT INGLIS on Monday evening. They of course disclaimed any wish to retain it for their own advantage— for what then do our readers. imagine x For the sake of the poor, whose comfort, well-being, and protection plausible hypocrites profess to have so much at heart I The wealthy, overgrown Church Establishment is supported by these men, because it is the poor man's Church ; the conduct, however absurd or mischievous, of the hereditary collective wisdom, is defended, because the Peers are the tribunes of the poor ; and the privilege of franking is to be claimed, because it is for the benefit of the poor. Had this argument been suggested by some of the hereditary tribunes, no surprise would have been evinced, but to have it gravely put forward by the leader of the minority in the House of Commons—the proximate Prime Minister—and that, too, without exciting ridicule, would appear incredible were it not given distinctly and unequivocally in the Parliamentary Report, in these words :—" It should be recollected also that the privilege of franking would limit, to a certain extent, the correspondence of the lower classes, for that privilege was greatly exercised in favour of those to whom even a penny would be an obstacle in corresponding with their friends." This sentence requires no comment nor refutation. Perhaps it would be impossible to men tion any privilege, or right, or even law, bad as many of our laws are for the poor, which could not be more easily defended on the same grounds. This shows how far selfish interests Hill pro cure favour for the most absurd arguments. It shows also to Mr. SPRING RICE what sort of ob• jections are to be started by the friends of the poor in another place, and it ought to teach him, if he is really sincere in his professions to carry the mea sure, to contrive some plan by which Members of both Houses may be allowed to retain this all but empty honour. Two shillings a day for each Mem ber would not cause much defalcation, and he had better lose the difference than lose the Bill, par ticularly when he is gravely assured that it is all for the good of the poor. has a feeling for only one class of persons ; and the duty of protecting that other and numerous class, of whom Mr. LOVETT and Mr. COLLINS are the champions and representatives, never enters his head. They may be starved by Corn-laws, and cut down by dragoons, if they meet in numbers to show their resentment at the scoundrel treatment they receive; and Sir ROBERT PEEL will encou rage the dragoons in the work of slaughter, and hasten to pass more severe laws to insure obedience to the starvation code. Now the energy of the newly aroused, sleepers seems to us to be wrongly directed, and we apprehend far worse effects from their activity than from their repose. It is neither to be denied nor concealed that what the newly provided force is to effect, is to put down a certain class of political opinions. They are not our opinions, and therefore we can with the more firmness stand up against this new species of per secution. What is complained of is the opinions of certain demagogues which the Magistrates of Birmingham sought to put down, and what they are to be armed with a new police to put down, are certain opinions. They may be erroneous, though they cannot be more so than those of the Tories ; they may be mischievous, still it is impossible for them to be more mischievous than those enter tained by the aristocracy, the consequences of which the country is now suffering under most grievously. Those opinions, however, are to be put down by the Magistracy, and for this the n ew police force . is to be created. Now the persons pro• fessing those opinions, and who possess no inconsi derable power over the masses, may, for aught we know, and certainly we apprehend it, be driven by thisshowy will of vigour in commencing persec ution into a corresponding and counteracting vigour. We hope the be more prudent, but if they are not more prudent than the Birmingham Magistrates and the terrified Parliament, the most disastrous conse quences will undoubtedly flow from that newly awakened vigour which may be more fatal than sleep. At this moment the peace of this country rests on t h e d eterminat i on o f numerous bodies of men, driven almost to despair ; and while we see our Legislators and our Magistrates continu ally led astray by their passi ons it is difficult to be lieve that the classes who are in poverty, and who believe themselves injured and outraged, will be more discreet than the easy classes. We dread that the avowed measures of coercion to put down THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 1839. The Report of the RODEN Committee, which was to crush Lord NOR.:MANBY, has now been pub lished for some time, and the public, nay even those who got up this party inquiry, seem to attach little importance to the result ; and for the best of all reasons, declamatory accusations cannot gainsay facts. The present state of I re l an d prov e s th e judicious and impartial administration of justice, which the accused Nobleman commenced, and which his . - upright and high-minded successor is carrying out to the full extent. s ‘ u v c n c i e lethe "s r u r rp rn ii g oeed ruffians" were charged with exciting the people to rebellion, and Lord NORMANBY der,ounced as encouraging breaches f the ',by indiscriminate remission of punishment, peace Ireland at the present moment is the most peaceable portion of her MAJESTY'S dominions. The Twelfth of July—a day, in the old times, of riot and bloodshed—has passed al- Tory m ost without notice ; 5,(100 or 6,000 troops have been spared to p resery e the peace in England. There have been no riotings and no sack ing of towns there are no physical-force Chartists—no rebellious words or deeds against the New Poor-law, and scarcely even any complaints against grievances from which England and Scot land are free, but which still press heavily upon the long-suffering and patient Irish. Never had men areater cause for triumph than Lord NORMANDY and Mr. O'CONNELL. While Great Britain is in a state of ferment from one end to the other, Ireland takes advantage of it in the language of Scripture by returning good for evil, and thereby " heaping coals of fire upon the heads of her enemies." The defeat of the Turkish army in Syria, which was announced in our editions of yesterday even ing and this morning, principally occupies the attention of our Parisian Contemporaries. In the French evening journals of Monday, however, we find a careful abstinence from the recommendation of any definite course to be pursued by the French Government. This indicates a wise discretion on the part of the press, as the news received is not sufficiently explicit to warrant the enunciation of a decisive line of policy on the part of France and England. Now is the time to keep an eye upon Russia. If she be suffered to come to the aid of the SULTAN, it will be the jobber entering the unprotected house in the assumed character of a special constable, armed for the preservation of property, of which he has resolved to deprive the unsuspecting owner. The following additional intelligence from Con stantinople, by way of Vienna, appears in the co lumns of the Temps of Monday We have received a letter from Vienna which an nounces some chang©s in the Ottoman Ministry, and which contradicts the statement of the Presse of the violent death of Said Pacha. " Huitreu Pacha, who was President of the Council of State, becomes Grand Vizier or First Minister; or, ac cording to the Royal Almanack, absolute Lieutenant of his Highness for Political and Military Affairs. " Khalil Pacha (first son-in-law of the late Mahrnoud) is to be Seraskier, or Commander-in-Chief, having the direc tion of the Ministry of War. " Nehjib Effendi has the direction of the Materiel of War. " Said Pacha, second son.in-law of Mahmoud, Minister of Commerce. " Reouf Pacha, President of the Council of State (in the place of Hustreu Pacha, appointed Grand Vizier). " Saib Effendi is charged with the execution of the judgment and acts of the authorities. " Chekeel Effendi, Director of the Affairs of Commerce with Europe. " Maltir Bey, Director of Public Affairs at the Foreign Office. " Two new places are created for Reza Paella, named Marshal of the Seraglio, and Ali.Nedjih Bey, lntendent of the Sultana, mother of Abiul-Medjid, the present Sultan. The other Ministers and public functionaries are to be preserved." Of domestic news we find nothing of any inte rest in the French Journals. From the Spanish frontier accounts were received of an engagement between an English and a Spanish vessel on the coast of Valencia, where the English vessel was endeavouring to land a contraband cargo. The re sult was not known. The Madrid Journals received are of the 15th instant. The Gazette of that date states that twenty Carlist horsemen had seized the Madrid courier at Ariza, and carried away all the letters of which he was the bearer. By the Hamburg mail we have received news from Hanover, which will be read with con siderable interest. The " pear" is fast ripening in the capital of King ERNESI AUGUsTUs of moustachioed an d Orange memory. When the SO VEREIGN of a country, so noted for the almost servile loyalty of its inhabitants as Hanover, begins to look to his guards for personal protection, it needs no ghost to tell us that great indeed must have been the provocations received by the people :-- HANOYRII, JULY 15.—The Landdrost V. Dackenhau sen has (by superior command) required the members of the Magistracy, who have signed the protest addressed to the German Diet, to declare whether the signatures were really theirs, a question which surprised the Magistrates, and to which they answered that the signatures were certi fied by a Notary. M. Von Dackenhausen added that in this case proceedings would be immediately instituted against those mernbys. A Member, (the same who is supposed to be the author of the protest) said that if cni mi:ial proceedings were intended the Court of the Land drost was not the tribunal before which the Magistrates were bound to defend themselves. All the copies of the protest have been, where they were found, confiscated. several hundred copies were in circulation. HANOVER, JULY 16.—The _Hanoverian Gazette of to day contains a proclamation relative to the representation addressed on the 15th of last month by the Magistrates of this capital to the German Diet. The proclamation, in the first place, gives the representation of the Magistrates at full-length, and adds—•` This representation (not that we would anticipate by our decision the judgment of the com petent tribunals) comprises the following offences which arc liable to criminsl punishment : '• I. The crime of violation of the respect due to our Royal dignity. .; 2. Caluinnies against our Government. "3. Public outrage against our Government in general, and especially against all our Ministers, and likewise of the Members of the Assembly of the Estates, particularly those of the Second Chamber." " This representation contains further an attempt to sepa rate us from our Cabinet in order to impress the erroneous notion that the measures taken by our Cabinet had not our approbation. though our Cabinet order of the 11th of No vember, 1837, sufficiently shows that the decision of the &flails that came before our Cabinet proceeds from us. We hereby expressly declare that we have allowed such a sepa ration of our Cabinet from us. " We do not intend to suffer the offences that have been committed to pass u npunished. We have maturely con sidered what measures should be taken in this matter. Our resolution is confined for the present to two mea sures. First—We have resolved to refer the matter to the competent tribunals, that t h ey may d ec id e as la w a nd jus tice prescribe, and sentence the guilty to the punishment which they deser ve. Secondly—We have thought it ne cessary for the general interest (with the reservation of further measures) to pronounce the provisional suspension of the Director Rumann from the important office confided to him, because he has not only signed the above representation, but has entirely lost sight of the duties incumbent on him as Director of the Board of Ma gistrates." though directed he d b e y s suspended Director A - HisMajesty thenr will the of the man ner6l of the Constitution; that not t. doubt that the loyal inhabitants will be convinced that any violation of their rights is far from his mind, he yet takes the opportunity to declare that the abovt, • is by no means meant to infringe these rights. ll,s Majesty is persu a d e d th a t the great majority of the citizens will duly appreciate his conduct and • • intentions, and disapprove the proceedings of the Magistrates. HANOVER, JULY 17. —Conformably with the proclama tion of yesterday, M. Hagemann, High Bailiff of Wining son, was to be introduced this morning to the Magistrates to take the place of M. Rumann, till the return of M. Hecliger, the Director of the City Tribunal, who is the person that is to hold the office. The Magistrates, however, resolved-to petition the King to revoke his resolution suspending M. Rumania, and the appointment of another in his stead as contrary to section seventy-seven of the Constitution; .accordingly the Syndic is the person who in such circumstances should have the direction of the affairs of the city. The Magis trates sent a deputation to the Landdrost, requesting that the introduction of the new Director might be de layed, and then all left the Town-hall. Instead of this a great number of the principal citizens assembled, and re solved to support in person the petition to the King. An express was sent in all baste to the King, who was at Nlontbrillantra, to inform hiniof these events. Meanwhile the crowd of citizens so increased, that the Landdrost, Von Dackenhausen, could scarcely make his way through with M. Hagemann. A scene of extraordinary confusion en sued, M. Hagemann attempted to address, but was not heard, and pulled down from a chair on which he had mounted. While this was passing the deputation was received by the King, who consented that the Syndic, M. Evers, should have the management of the affairs of the city and not M. Hagemann. The citizens on this assem bled before the residence of M. Rumania, whom they heartily cheered and then went quietly home. While the deputation was gone the citizens in crowded grown, with the Burgher corps in glieen u iforms in front, stood in the Leinen Strasse, opposite the Royal Palace, in perfect silence and without committing. any di sor d er. Th e guar d of soldiers, w ith their muic as usual, passed through the crowd. In the afternoon all the posts were strengthened, and the officers ordered to remain in their barracks ready to act at a moments notice. The Magistrates have ad dressed a proclamation to the citizens, and it is hoped that no farther declarations will take place. We hear that M. Von Schele bad a strong guard last night. Hamauae, JULY 19.—The St. Petersburg journals of the 131 h contains t h e programme of the ceremonies en the marriage of the Duke of . Leucht en b erg, w hi c h was to ta k e lace on the following_daj,...__ Hambu r g Papers, July 19. Pace H AMBUItu uvitsEN HALLE, JULY 19. Bills. Money. Austrian 5 per Cen ts. 1522 1518 Bank 5hare5........... An lo. Russian loan Ist Russian 5 per Cent.series, Certificate inscription , Ist Series__ 102% hr 2 Russian 5 per Cent. Hop. and Lo. 3d and 4th Se its Ditto in Certificates VOA, .2Y4 pe Cent Dutch Actual 53% ... per Cell. Ditto ..................... I Polish Bondi New ticket .............. .. . Anglo. vanis h oap„ . 3,l•T* Cent 71% 71k Norwegian Loan. Cent........ EXCr''='S 0 C LONDON. H AMB URG, JUL Y 10.77, q " . 5 , t. ----Two mo nt h s , 13 4g, PETRRSBU R GH, JULY CHRIsTIANIA„ Just 10.7 ihre e months, 4.1 116. STOCKHOLM, JULY !'): —Sevonty.five days 11. es `riEitLlN, JULY 16 .- 7 ree 1 h month % 6. 21%'. THE COURT.—The second week in August has been named ns the probable period for the removal of her Maje and Court , but we can positively state that e ven the sty m embers of the Household arc at present ignorant of the day on which it may pl ease the Queen to leave town fo r Windsor, THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. The smallness of supplies and continuance of changeable weather occasions the factors to demand higher prices for most articles. A few sales of good wheat have been made to needy :buyers at is per advance on Monday's terms, but higher rates bare not been obtained for any other description of corn. Flour as last reported. ARRIVALS. Wheat. I Barley. F'..‘o4ra. 9.1 l qrs. Oats. Flour. English 470 Ira. 5,412 aciss Irsh - I I 1,1:20 Foreign NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. A large supply but little demand; Poultry rather lower. Beef, 3s. 2d. to 4s. ; Mutton, 3s. 2d. to 4s. 2(1. ; Lamb, 4s. 4d.to ss. 2d.; Veal, 3s. Bd. to 4s. Bd. ; Pork, 3s. 6d. to 45. 10d. Geese 4s. 6(1. to 6s. ; Turkey Poults, 4s. to ss. ; Fowls, 3s. to ss. ; Chickens, Is. 6d. to 2s. 6d. ; Rabbits, is to Is. 3d.; Leverets, 3s. to 4s. ; Ducks, 2s. to 3s. ; Pigeons, 4d. to Bd. ; and Quails, Is. to Is. 6d. Eggs, 4s. 6d. to ss. 3d. per 120. 5,413 brls. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS• CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, TUESDAY. We have again to note an improved demand for Cotton, and an ad vance of d. to -id. per lb. on yesterday's prices. The sales are nearly 5,000 bags, 400 have been taken for export, and 200 for speculation. We have received Launceston papers from Van Die men's Lath to the 2d of April. A public meeting of Colonists inhabiting the northern division of the island of Van Diemen's Land was held at the Court-house at Launceston, on the 27th of March. Moved by Capt. Wood and seconded by Henty, Esq. " That a petition to her Majesty the Queen, from whcse Councils it is most likely t ny measure for altering the existing system of secondary punishment would proceed, presents the most expedient course Er the colonists to adopt on this occasion. That, in furtherance of the last resolution, a petition to the Queen be adopted by this meeting. The petition contains a very long string of resolntions, the first stating that the petitioners have heard with concern that the Sclect Committee of the House of Commoas, ap pointed to inquire into the system of transportation, have concluded their Report with certain resolutions, of which the first is as follows : " That transportation to New South \Vales and Van Diemans Land should be discontinued as soon as prac ticable." " Second—That the petitioners humbly beg to express it as their conscientious opinion that the resolutions of the Committee are, as respects this colony, founded on evi dence at once partial, incomplete, and in many instances wholly unfounded on fact." Markets.—Wheat at Sydney per bushel 123. 61., ditto at Derwent 13s. to 143. ; Barley, English, 6s. 6d„ ditto, Cape, 9s. ; Oats, New South Wales, ss. to 6d. ; Maze, 10s„ Potatoes, 10s. From Hobart Town Papers received to the 30th of March : SOUTH AUSTRALIA. —We have received South Au3tra- Tian Papers to the 2d of March. Mr. Eyre had succeeded in reaching Adelaide by a journey overland from New Scuth Wales, with a flock of 1,000 sheep, the loss in the route being no more than 1 per cent. Captain Hart had also arrived over land from Portland Bay with a herd of 1,000 cattle. Other importations of sheep and cattle had also reached the colony, and several more were expected. We have received Sydney intelligence to the 12th March. Apprehensions were entertained that the drought that had existed for so long would be productive of the most sei ions consequences. THE FUNDS. The Bank Directors met sesterday, and bad long dis cussions, but upon what subject is still a secret, and on their breaking up no notice was issued. All is yet surmise as to their future operations. There was decidedly an improvement in the rates of the Foreign Exchanges 3eiterday, although not to a great extent, and a good deal of business was transacted in them on Change. Consols opened this morning at the closing prices of yesterday, 92k -I for Money ; 92k 4 for the Account. Exchequer Bills 16 18 nominally, and done at 12 for Bank notes ; India Bonds 0 3 26 ; Bank Stock 189 190 ; India Stock 253 254. In the Foreign Market the speech of Lord Clarendon has not hail much e&ct as yet on Spanish Stock, which closed at 19,1 ; at present may be quoted 194- ; Portu guese closed 34i-, at present 341 -i, Three per Cents., 21;i i; Brazilian 78 79 ; Colombian 332 33 ; Mexican 2t4 ; Belgian 1024 31 ; Buenos Ayres 18 20 ; Danish 75 76 ; Dutch Two- and-a- Half per Cents. 5.48 5:5 1 - ; Five per Cents. 103 a i. PRICES or' STOCKS THIS DAY AT ON O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red 92. Ditto Bonds pm. 3 per Cent. Cons. 91% US * ) South Sea Stock lO2 3 per Cent Ditto Red. 997 9 110 New Ditto New 21 2 per Cent ... ...... 9014 % % 3 per Cent. Annuities, 175 1 New 5 per Cent. cask Long Annuities toexpire I Ditto 500 ... 13 11 pm. Jan. 5, 1500 l4 S—IC% 5-16 Ditto Small l2 15 pm. Oct. 10, 1859 l4 3-16 , Ditto Commercial — pm. Jna. 5, 1160 —l Ditto Advertised _ _ pm. Jan. 5, ISSO — Bank Stock for Account ... -- April 5, 1830 .---1 India Stock for Account ... Jan. 5. 1570 —l Consos for Account 92% PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCE Austrian Bonds — Peruvian Bonds — Belgian Bonds Ditto Account Ditto Account - Portugue,e M0.:3 Brazilian Bonds Ditto Account Ditto New Bonds Ditto Account 34% Buenos Ayres Bonds Ditto Account ......... Chilian Bonds . _ Ditto, 3 per Cent. Ditto Account Prussian Bonds D.tto Account Russian Bonds, 1522 Columbian Bonds — Ditto Account — Ditto Account — Ditto Metallic...." ......... Columbian Bonds, 1811 —; Spanish Bonds ... 19'. Ditto Account ...." ......... 32ii , Ditto Account. Danish Bonds Ditto Account ..... ......... ---, Def. rred BN Greek Bonds. 1 French, 5 per cent........ — f. —c. Ditto Bonds. 1823. —l ---- 4 per cent. ...... —f. —c. Ditto Account - Mexican Bonds, 3 per C en t ! --- --- E 3 rch ' ln e g n e L . —f f. . —c c : Ditto Account — i Dutch, 2% per cent 543( Ditto, 6 per Cent 28 14'4 : Ditto Account Ditto Account Neapolitan. — Ditto Acc0unt........ PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid Per Share, Great Western Railway Company 65 Ditto New Brighton Railway London and Croydon Railway Corn. N .ith Midland Railway Company Provincial Bank of Ireland OF EXCH Amsterdam C.F. 12 5V Ditto, at light Rotterdam 2 U. 12 6 Antwerp... Hamburg. M.B. 13 12' Altons Rah, 3 days' sight 25 30 Ditt0....... ........... 3 Mc l5 ( . 0 Map:eine; Bourdeaux Frankfort on Maine, ELM. 152 I .'etersbutgh, ruble... 3 Us. 10% Berlin Vienna, effective fi,..3 51. 10 5 Trieste ditto lO 6 Madrid 37 Cadiz. 374 • Bilboa Barcelona Seville 3ll 3 pm. 12 (IA pany l4l. ISs. 6d. 65 25 '.NGE YESTERDAY. flibra.itar 4B Leghorn. 30 30 Genoa 25 70 Milan , , Venice Naples Pa'er.no . ......... oz l2O Lisbon Orono 5 4 34 Rio Janeiro 27% Bahia 27 Buenos Ayres — New York, 21 days' sight Philadelphia 4O PaicE OF BULLION, per OZ Portugal (1011, 0 0 Foreign Gold, in bus... 3 18 0 New Doubloons 0 0 0 New Dollars 0 4 !ON Silver in Bars 4 -1 3 ,4 5 BOURSE.—PARis, MONDAY, JULY 22. First Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Price. Price French 5 pet Cents 4V, per Cents lO5 SO ... 105 SO ... 9'5 80 ... 105 80 4 per tents lO2 .!,0 ... 162 70 ... 102 50 102 70 3 per Cents Bank of france 2730 ...2750 ...2750 ...2750 Lallitte Bank I.ooof. SO.— 1055 ...1053 ...11 1 55 ...1055 5,000 f. Oh 5205 ...5210 ...5210 Belgian 5 per Cents 102!4, 102 3 4 102!sc ... 102% 3 per Cents 72 30 ... 72 30 72 30 ... 72 30 Bank Spanish Ac ive `lea olitan Roman lOl% ... 102 ... 101 N 102 RAILWAY SHARES. 675 ... 672 50 ... (75 370 ... 355 ... 367 50 975 ...975 ... 975 340 335 ... 337 LO ... 415 ... 415 ... 415 HALF-PAST ONE. Versailles, B. B 675 ••• L B. 3 55 ••• Haar, Strasburg to Bale ,„. 337 50 ... Bordeaux to La 1 este ...... ... 415 The Batavier has arrived, bringing Dutch papers to the 23d initant. The prices are rather higher, Two-and-a- Half per Cents. 55 ; Five per Cents. 102. There is no political news of consequ:lice. Money was plentiful at Amsterdam. Discounts at the rate of 21 to 21 per ann. A report prevailed that an overland express had arrived from India with accounts that the trade with the Chinese has been stopped ; but upon inquiry we find it not true, and that no overland express had arrived. Fifty thousand Exchequer Bills were sold in the course of the morning by the Government brokers ; they were done at one period at 10s. premium. Consols arc not quite so good as in the morning, and may be quoted, 92k for the Account; Money, 91i 92; Exchequer Bills 12 14 10 12 ; India Bonds, nothing done ; Bank Stock, lower, 188 187 k. In tha Foreign Market little doing. Spanish Active, 191; Portuguese, 30-; Three per Cents. 2q7; Colom bian, 32h ; Mexican, 28i ; Dutch Mc-and-a-Half rer Cents., 55k. THE CARDIGANSIIIRE BOROUGHS.—The Tivy- Side " Medical Board" have been for some time busy in endeavouring to get up a Conservative opposition to Mr. Pryse Pryse, the sitting Member for these Boroughs. We are informed, that having fruitlessly hawked the prof fered honour amongst the Cardiganshire Squires, they hove at last succeeded in obtaining a patient who will bleed freely, in the person of a Mr. Scandret (or Scandrett) Harford. We have been endeavouring to find out who this gentleman can be, and we learn that he is a Saxon from Bristol, a partner, or in someway connected with the firm of Miles and Company, in Corn-street, Bristol, and that on the failure in trade of Mr. Hart Davies, a few years ago, he somehow or other became possessed of part of his estate at Lampeter. That he pro fesses Toryism is to be assumed, because otherwise the medical gentlemen would not have been so eager to feel his pulse ; but beyond this the sum total of his character both public and private is—a blank I Then this is the man who has been selected to sever the ties between the head of the House of Gogerddan (the descendant of our Princes) and his constituents and relatives—ties which more than a quarter of a century have hallowed with a sanctity which ought to know no change—indeed, because no change is to be found in the man, save the greyness which has silvered his locks. Year after year has added to the debt of gratitude which the constituents of this good old man owe to so faithful a servant. and is this the way to repay it, now that he is almost spent in their ser vice ? Shame on you, burgesses of Cardigan ! Shame on you, burgesses of Aberystwith, &c. 1— Welshman. HAYMARKET THEATRE.—Tuesday night, after the farce of My Wife's Dentist had paved the way to the good humour of the audience of this theatre, a new comedy, from the pen of " Buckstone the ever busy," was pro duced and acted with unqualified success. It is entitled Single Life, and in it the author, who formerly illustrated Married Life with equal whimsicality and effect, avows his desire, " by pourtraying some of the vagaries of court ship, to prove that the democratic regions of celibacy have their bickerings, as well as the most loyal of the United States." The method he takes to effect this is by consti tuting five bachelors the lovers of five spinsters, and build ing equieoque and contrariety upon th e p eculiar characteris tics of all the attached parties. We have not room to go into all the mysteries of the plot. NATIONAL CONVENTION. _ On the motion of Dr. FLETCHER, Mr. Lunen took the Chair. Mr. BURN was appointe3 Secretary for the day. THE SACRED MONTH.. Dr. FLETCHER, as the Chairman of the Committee appoint e to report on the arrangements for carrying into ope ration the Sacred Month, stated that the Committee would not 'come to any conclusion until the adjourned debate on the question had been decided. ADJOURNED DEBATE. The motion and the amendment having been put from tl e Chair, and no member thing to address the Chair, it was prc posed, in consequ ence o f no p erson rising to address the Cor venton, that they should adjourn for an hour. Dr. M`Do U A Lt. objected to their adopting such a course. Mr. 13uatv was of the same opinion. He did not see why they should accommodate any party. He thought the discus sisn ought eithe r t o k o on, or the question should be deter nun d. Mr. JAMES TAYLOR believed, with respect to keep ing th sacred month, that the Convention had placed them elves with res; eet to the people in a wrong Fos;tion. All those who had fixed upon the day for keeping the sacred month had stated their opinions of its impractica- Li In the present state of things, if their constituents had been led astray on this subject, it was the fault of the Conven tion alone; they had called for evidence on the subject, and upon that evidence they had . come to the determination that it was impracticable. Their constituents ought to be informed of what that evidence consisted.—( Hear, hear.) Unless the minds of the middle classes could be worked upon as to the necessity of refraining from work for a certain time, in order to coerce the Government or influence them, it would have no effect. If this was not accomplished the attempt to cease from labour would produce a bloody revolution.—( Hear, hear.) He thought the Convention ought to be guided by the evidence they had received, and they ought to put forth some resolution showing their determination to act upon that evidence. It had been said they had the confidence of the people, if they had they were in a most responsible situa tion ; and he hoped, therefore, that in the important discussion they were ncw engaged in, they would lay aside all personali ties. as in the adoption of that course alone beneficial results might be expected. r. OsISOR NE would vote against the motion of Mr. O'Brien, and the amendment of Mr. O'Connor, because he believed in the first place it would unsettle the public mind and throw di , repute at the Convention. He thought the adoption of the holiday would have a beneficial effect on the minds of the work ing classes, because it would show the worthlessness of pro perty when its great creator, labour, was withdrawn front it. WoondousE believed that they had made a serious mistake in not appointing a committee, for he believed if that course had . been'- -adopted they would have been prepared to have 'fixed the 12th .if August or the commencement of the holiday. He should vote for the amendment of Mr. O'Connor. Mr. O'CoNNOR would propose that the call of the Conven tion should take place on Wednesday next, instead of Monday week, as he had previously stated. Air. 31A itsDEN opposed the motion and the amendment. Dr. FLETCHER did not consider the people were prepared for the sacred month, and as evidence of that he might refer to letters he had received from those parts of the country he re presented. Dr. Fletcher then read two letters, from which it appeared that, although that pa. t of the country was prepared for the holiday, yet they were of opinion it would be useless to attempt it unless they were supported by every other part of the country. Mr. KNOX would vote for Mr. O'Brien's motion, because it was in nccordance with his own opinions and those of ins con stituent s. Mr. PITKEITHLEY thought the Convention ought not to be biassed by one constituency or :another, or by one indivi dual or another. The only consideration which ought to in fluence them, was that which would be lead to the accomplish ment of Universal Suffrage, and the bringing into operat►on the People's Chart-r. Notwithstanding what had been stated by several Members of the Convention, he did not b lieve that a half or a third of the working and middle classes were prepared for the holiday. He thought if they adopted the holiday at the present time, they would give their enemies a triumph. Mr. LEESOM had been requested to inform the Convention that it was the intention of 'Mr. Harney to be in his place in the Convention to-morrow, to point out to it the situation of the North of England with reference to the National Holiday. NA ith respect to the subject now under consideration it was his determination to give his most strenuous support to the motion and amendment, as he believed one and the same end was intended by both, namely, to negative what the Convention had already agreed upon. It was his firm belief that if the resolution was rescinded the Convention would no longer be capable of carrying on its business. The resolution hail been carried by a majority, andought to be sustained. He believed the people were much better prepared for the holiday than their leaders. The people were better prepared than he expected they ever would have been, or would be by delay. It had been said that the effect of the holiday would be to cause a bloody revolution. Why, Universal Suf frage would naturally, when it w•as obtained, create a revolution, but it would be a moral one. He was con vinced, if the Convention did its duty to the people, they would do their duty to them. It was not any member of the Conven tion that could stop the present movement, but they could stop the effusion of blood.—( Hear, hear.) He had only the good of the working classes at heart in all that he had done, and with them he was determined to live or die.—( Cheers. ) (LEFT SITTING.) METROPOLI rAN POLITICAL SUMMARY. The Morning Herald of this day, commenting on the the proposed Birmingham Police force, observes :—" This experiment will, in all probability, cost the country dear, and the country gentlemen more especially, will yet see cause to regret their support of the scheme."—The Times, in the course of an article on the Penny Postage measure, strongly recommends the repeal or the equalization of the duties on steam and animal power.—The Morning Adver tiser remarks, with reference to the late outrage of Char tism at Birmingham, " its violent exhibitions are its weak est ; the power most dangerous to be evoked, is the cool, calculating resolve of those who, while condemning this outrageous proceeding of action, approve of the sentiment which dictates it."—The Morning Chronicle in a leading article on last night's debate in the Lords, speaks of the Earl of Clarendon's speech on Spanish affairs, as being " full of sound and enlarged views, and breathing the very spirit of constitutional freedom."—The Morning Post is quite in raptures with Sir IL Peel's speech last night on the proposed increase of the Police force, observing that " it took by far the soundest and most statesmanlike view of the subject." RIOTS IN NEWCASTLE. EXAMINATION AND COMMITTAL OF THE RIOTERS. MONDAY, JULY 22.—This town was in a state of grea excitement all day yesterday, and towards evening an at tempt was made to create a disturbance in Sandgate, by two men, who collected a great crowd of people about them, and endeavoured to incite them to acts of mischief. The police on duty in the immediate neighbourhood, finding themselves unable to apprehend the leaders, or suppress the tumult, despatched information to the princi pal station, whence a strong detachment of the reserve corps issued, and succeeded in taking the two men into custody. After a vigorous resistance, they were safely lodged in the gaol, and nothing further transpired during the night to interrupt the tranquillity of the town. This morning these two men, whose names are Michael Cover and Christopher Hart, were brought up before the Magistrates at the Police Court, and summarily con ictcd of an assault upon the policemen in the execution of their duty. Respecting the rioters who had been apprehended on Sunday morning, and during the course of which day the Magistrates held a private consultation, and having deter mined to hear the case against them, they were brought from the prison under escort of a strong detachment of the police force. The Mayor, Ma. Alderman Roeley, Mr. Nichol, Mr. Plummer, and Mr. Loraine, having taken their seats upon the bench, the prisoners, nine in number, the others having been disposed of among the disorderlies, seve rally answered to their names as follows :—Archibald White, Peter Flanagan, John Southeron, John Thompson, William Campbell, Peter Divine, Peter Brown, Barnard Flanagan, and Thomas Owen. They were severally charged with riotous proceedings, and with obstructing the police constables in the execution of their duty. Owen, the last named prisoner, was also charged with having in his possession an unlawful weapon. Cuthbert Ridley, the policeman on duty at the head of the Side when the riot commenced, detailed the whole of the circumstances as recorded by us yesterday, and his tes timony was confirmed by that of other policemen who were examined, and by several inhabitants of the town. From the evidence, which we do not think it necessary to give at length, it appeared that about 12 o'clock on Satur day night, Southeron, one of the prisoners, was going down the Side on his way to Gateshead, in company with his brother, who had recently come to the town, and whom he was accompanying home to his lodgings in Gateshead. When at the head of the Side they saw a great number of persons collected together, one of whom struck at South eron and dared him out to fight, and Southeron was obliged to strike in self.defence. Ridley, the policeman, came up just at the time, and took Southeron into custody, and then the people cried " Down with the b--" (meaning the policeman), " We'll do for them to-night." Several xpressions of similar import were used, and the mob at length overpowered the policemen and other farce who had come up on hearing Ridley spring his rattle. The rest of the proceeding has been already told. Southeron's statement having been confirmed, and it having appeared that he made no resistance on being taken into custody, the Magistrates directed him to be discharged. Peter Flanagan was summarily convicted, and fined 20s. and costs. and in default of payment was committed to the House of Correction for one calendar month. The case against Peter Brown was disposed of in a similar manner, the prisoner being fined 10s. and costs for assaulting the police. and in default of payment com mitted to the (louse of Correction for 14 days. t take Barnard theirF 1 trialan a g hiroarn riot,an d Jaonhdn wanton Thompson des t w r Li e e r e t i n of committed p ro. o r p e e m rt a y n a d t ed th , itonfeathsees them,pargisaoinbnaletrsthwere named Leslie, a police constable, who was tine e at e on A e ss o iz f es the an p d rin t c h i e pa r l es w t tend from the injuries he had received, not being present. the lras act at The Mayor pointed out thegreantilitmyp, r a o n p d ri e st x y pr o e f s e s o ed nd t u h e e t iu ho of which the prisoners had been g w N a la s y t o a r k , e l n , determination of the Magistrates to act promptly in all cases of this kind that might be brought before them. police, and he was heard to exclaim, go, and the Mayor at the head of One of the prisopnieerese(oPf entreirekDaistinteh)e etif:ethirioeawdingof lithe him, let us scalp him." them.tc‘ ieTyhsettrraceteDetthnefr havingombeen him, a thrown similar a t one o f Besides the pike found on the person of Owen, and which was with instrumentdiffi the' foundas policemen.n Three of the prisoners had the appearance of respectable mechanics, and the others were stonemasons, or persons of TChartists intend t o h o ld a meet i ng i n t h e F ort h to inoriwevening, and d ue precaut i ons are b e i ng ta k en to have that class. ol t e he military and the police in readiness to act, upon a moment's warning, in case any disturbance should take place.— Times. THE PRINCE OF CAPUA.—M. de Berardi has again left Rome for England, by way of Naples. He is said to be charged with a mission from the Prince of Capua to that city, the object of which is to bring about an arrangement with the King and his Royal Highness. ITHE CAUSE OF POLAND. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. San—We have read over and over again the able articl3 inserted in your Evening Paper of the 13th inst. about the Poles, and the late grand meeting held in favour of the cause of Poland. As it shows that you are a true advocate to the cause of our unfortunate country, we cannot but be most sensible of this new proof of sympathy on your side. But as that article may create a supposition that the Polish Refugees are indiscreet intruders in the political affairs of this coun try, we hope you will allow us, Sir, to make some remarks on the su bj eet . W e agree with you that it is mostindecent for any foreigner to interfere with the affairs of the country which gives him shelter and subsistence and whic h of all other countr i es i s most likely to assist us , in obtaining the very object o f our d earest expectations namely, rega i n ing the e indepe n d ence o f our country. But w e tu:nte tnat our political conscience as a body, i s f ree f rom the reproach of any i nd i scret ion in this respect. In two only instances the name of a Pole was mixed up with your domestic concerns. The first was that of Shoultz, WOO was rei orted to have been a Pole, and hanged since for the part he bad taken in the troubl es o f C anada ; but we beg to remind the public that before he left N ew Y ork our brethren from America reported him themsel ves to your Government as a Russian agent; neither could he speak .tie Polish lrnguage, and the 4,0001. found on him after his execution may terve as an additional proof that he was in the pay of a wealthy Sovereign. For further particulars we refOr uo to toe Papers published at the time. A nother offence on our account was committed by Mr. Be niowski, whose mime has been associated with the recent transactions of the Chartists. But do you know who that person is ? He is a Jew by birth; a converted Christian by speeulation ; educated at the public expense under the influence of the Russian Government, and subsequently a surgeon in the Russian army ; he passed to our ranks at the mom ent when the cholera exposed him to a greater danger in a Russian hospital than he was likely to meet with on the field of battle. Arrived in France, as a Polish refugee, he fomented for a long time the Polish ernigraticr. in that country. At last, despised by the Pok;',.. and seeing his labour fruitless, he wrote an ~:;ppertinent letter to the French Minister, came tQ England, pro proposed to attack St. Petersburgh, with forces which, if his advice had been listened to, must have been exposed to certain extermination by the Russians; and we believe that with the assistance of the P.usilan Government he would have been able to ,gssatet few„transp or t s hip s a t th a t time, and to sell us to the Czar at the market of St. Pe tersburgh. When this' project fell to the ground he pro posed aaother. lie entered into an alliance with the ta e lteaan promised ned dk: p meetingao mwinead rhd eidy abandoned cohbi disgust refugees flattering td ot t i h ee e d contem pt woulds t bh p yi su pport Oshfr himself rfifomyf Associationtt rtht the Chartists, and, representing himself to them as a person Polisho f) f o is'e„. great soldiers;ntfir 'e t ot a: l ohl t i if f t t e E h ti e g t the Friends e c na friends, n o d o f s f , o . his standard, as a drowning man de. ready to catch at a straw. To effect this he determined to in sult some of the most distinguished friamds of the cause of Poland at the meeting held for the purpose of celebrating the anniversary of the Polish Revolution in November last. He came there in company of some dirty foreigners. How lie succeeded is well known to the public. You have at tested yourself, in your Paper of that time, the in dignation of the Poles, who expressed unanimously and loudly their conviction that be ( Beniowski) acted in the interest of Russia, and that they looked on him as an a Russian agent. And if from another quartar you have learned that he is in the pay of the Russian Govern. ment, it is clear that no responsibility for the actions of that man can fall on the Poles in general, and that they have never deserved to incur odium and contempt in the eyes of the English nation. It would be equally just to lay on our account the Russian intrigues in India, Persia, Turkey, and Egypt. The most grounded reproach against the Poles is, that we are disunited in our political opinions, and that we have no confidence in our chiefs and statesmen. But we never differ in the principal object, which is freeing our country from the foreign yoke. Some differences of opi nion occur only amongst us in matters of lesser import.. ance ; but the first trumpeter who shall call us to battle, will at once put an end to all our disputes, and at that moment, with joy and cheerfulness, we shall all embrace each other. But as to the confidence in our chiefs and states men, the matter is widely different. Confidence, if once lost, cannot be so easily recovered. Our chiefs and statesmen have bad no reason to complain in that respect during our last war with Russia, though, unfortunately, they had nut sufficient confidence in themselves. In stead of raising the people, and using every means for o f f roni th a e c v e a t r . t q a u i n i s ri vq g t 0 r t y h , e t hey o t b h c c ; ed kept e back o o n u . r a n a c r e m s y French Cabinet, and, having allowed one of the best causes to perish by their false system, they cannot claim again any confidence from their country, unless they de clare that they will never return to the same system again. Friends of Poland !—lf you wish earnestly to reconcile us, you must ob:ain from those exalted persons a renuncia tion of that pernicious system, and this assurance will be the only efficient remedy. Our anxiety in this respect !,roves that we are always ready to meet again our enemies with certain success. It is true, that being unacquainted with the manners of this country, some of us may injure our cause by our awkward demonstrations; but it is in your power, Gentlemen, to prevent that misfortune. As edi tors of various papers, but all of them favourable to Poland, you will, we are confident, give no publicity to any injurious articles. It is a repeat we make by the organ of your valuable columns to all the Editrrs of A POLE. Great Britain. EVENING EDITION. TO TILE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin—ln your paper of yesterday, the 18th, are some just and pertinent remarks suggested by the recent meeting of the Roman Catholics at Freemasons' Hall. It must be obvious to the most superficial observer of passing events, that the Established Hierarchy will speedily rue the day when they stepped forward so un wisely in the affair of General Education. The schools (delusively termed " National") had been tacitly left in their hands, and of the money to be issued by the Treasury, they would have come in for the gleatest share. What mere could the Clergy desire ? Yet, like the greedy dog in the fable, they chose to risk what they had got, for the chance of getting something more ; and so, nat satisfied with having nearly all, they must endeavour to obtain more than all. Such an attempt by an Hibernian would be laughed at, and ascribed to his breed, but, for a like blunder by Englishmen, we must resort to the old adage, " Quod Deus volt per. dere, prius quam dementat." In their almost miraculous blindness, the hierarchy have unconsciously roused their adversaries to meet them in the field of argument. For that the Esta blished Clergy were not prepared ; and so, having been caught unawares, they have verified to the letter the adage above-mentioned. Their claims to exclusive orthodoxy, to Apostolical instead of Parliamentary origin, and to everything else which they arrogate for themselves exclusively, are now openly attacked ; and if their claims are to be upheld any longer, they must come forward and prove those claims to be well founded. But, can they venture to do so ? Can they dare to have their Articles of Faith examined, and have their Liturgy reviewed ? Queen Elizabeth's Convocation did the first, and Charles the Second's Convocation did the last ; but Queen Victoria's Convocation is as speechless as are any of the Oracles of ancient days The existing Hierarchy, Sir, are afraid to open their mouths by Roy al authority ; for, l►ke the insolvent trader who wants courage to look into his accounts, the assembling of a Convocation for dispatch of business is shunned as if it would be the prelude to striking a docket of bankruptcy against the concern. We often hear that among the Established Clergy there are many who cannot afford to have a conscience. A grievous charge is that ; and, if unfounded, the sooner it is re futed the better, for the credit and character of the Church of England. The farce of assembling a dumb Convocation, w!th every new Parliament, has been at best but an ingenious device for giving to abuses and heresies the semblance of truth ; and if the former are never again to be corrected, nor the latter to be examined, it is but fair to conclude that both of them are protected, and sanctioned by the laws of the land. Abuses and heresies, however, will not remain sta- tionary. Either they must be plucked up ; or else they will keep growing, and will spread. That both have Servant, been allowed to take root, to grow , and to send forth shoots in all directions, are truths , M r. Editor, which it would be in vain to deny , e ither at La mbeth, at Bishopsthorpe, or at London House.user' . I have tlh,oeuhronnloousrt obedienttoremam,Si humble A LAYMAN. Tunbridge, July 19, 1839. HOP INTELLIGENCE.—There is no material al teration in the grounds near Maidston e . Th e bi ne i n som e places has been slightly injur e d by th e w i n d. A t Goudhurst, Lamberhurst, and liorsmonden, the hops are very good, turning into burr, and promising well for a crop. The hop plantations in Ticehurst and adjoining parishes, are in a growing state, and fast coming into burr. We have had two days of high winds, which have much battered the pines, particularly in exposed situations. The high winds that have been prevalent at Tunbridge Wells, for the last two days, have done great damage to the hops in every part of this neighbourhood. At Bur. wash, the hop plantations are generally in a growing and thrivinff.state. In some grounds there is a little honey dew to be seen. We bid fair to exceed an average crop. At Wiliam the hods are looking remarkably well; plenty of bine, and free from vermin. as a true docu ment (says the Sheffield Iris) has been sent t to rs u . s CAN THIS BE TRUE but it is notice sent to each of Earl Spencer's cotage o I believe the so unnatural, that it is almost impossib le i bution:=" The Noble Lord bad sanctioned its , distribution:—" ?—The following Spencer are desired to take te nants of the Right [lon, Earl S . or a second family of any ried son, or a married da e n gd t e r e , y of them do so after this p ve en into their houses a mar. notice des c description, ,a n they d 611 flowed to hold their cottages..— notice, they will rot i be . a 1839.,, JOHN BEASLEY.-- I not t ui o ah re e Cel Ju 37 ,-. ' ICS —At a ' OF t....ATITOL • a tl r i c at, meeting of INCREASE strict School Society,held • Wesleyan Di the Sheffield c hapel oa Wednesday week, Mr. Cocker, Carvert-street s tated that " the village in which he re. of Hathersage,d about 1,000 inhabitants,' • • comprising in sided contaiae almost equal numbers, Churchmen, Methodists, and Roman Catholics —of the last named, there were, when ho first knew the village, some half dozen families—th e y were now about one-third of the population." Sir William Horne has accepted the Mastership in Chancery, vacant by the resignation of Mr. Martin. This appointment will give great satisfaction to the Bar., Now ready, the First Volume of THE COLLECTED WORKS OF 8I R HUMPHRY DAVY, BART. Edited by his Brother, JOHN DAVY, N. D., F. R. S. i 9O, ntaining a Memoir of the Life of Sir HUMPHRY DAVY, lot h Portrait, complete in itself ; price 103 . 6 d. i n n ea t oth boards. 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