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~<%? " V,'CriT c : r EVEN LNG EDITION. TOURNAMENTS IN AYRSHIRE. Dedicated, by permission to the EARL of EGLINTOUN. This day is published, beautifully printed, gilt edges, price 31. W., TOURNAMENTS; or, THE DAYS OF CHIVALRY. Its Origin, Nature, and Effects. Knighthood—its Ceremonials, Qualities,-and ncidents. An cient Armour. Horses for Tilting. Sports. Laws of the Tour nament. Account of the most celebrated and curious Tour naments, manufactur e a case aga i ns t L or d N ORMANBY, The mana gers o f th e C omm i ttee a pp o i nte d to would fain have brought in the Noble Marquis guilty of cherishing the Ribbon Societies, if t h e i r " circling wiles" had not been frustrated by Mr. DRUMMOND. They had got their inestimable witness, Major ROWAN, to state, that lie never knew the Government to have taken any steps for the suppression of illegal societies before the date of the appointment of the Committee ; and he had thrown out, most reluctantly, to be sure, sundry hints as to " what the Government ought to de— what they can do—and what they ought not to do," togther with certain darkling allusions to private official correspondence which he must not on any account reveal. All this --and particularly his shy ness to plump out the whole of what he seemed to be fraught with—being calculated to produce an impression most unfavourabl e to the Government. There is much, as Hamlet implies, in the " Pronouncing of a doubtful phrase," and Mrs. Candour herself could not have managed those soft parts of rhetoric more adroitly than Major RowAN did for awakening suspicions of misconduct which neither he nor his prompters durst openly impute. But the Under Secretary broke through this subtle tissue in an instant, having brought with him, as Lord HATHERTON states, six or seven boxes of papers into the Committee Room, and with an earnestness which only belongs to those who are " in conscious virtue bold," challenged and demanded a most searching inquiry into every case of real or supposed Ribbonism, that had ever been brought within the cognizance of Lord Non.- mANßy's Government. This manly and honest defiance dissipated the factitious mist in which it would have better answered the purposes of calumny , to have kept the subject involved ; and the pullers of Me wires were obliged to change their tactics, and to assure Mr. DRUMMOND, that Lord NOR- j MANBY stood wholly absolved from that charge. Any thing for them rather than a bona fide exa mination and elicitation of the whole truth. All this, however, could not prevent several of the Noble Committee-Judges from endeavo ur i ng to instil th e same pre j u di ces i nto the public mind, " in the course of the debate of Thursday se'nnight. and charges which, in common decency, they have themselves been compelled to abstain from making, are reiterated with the most shameless pertinacity, by those literary organs which are at their com mand, and act by their inspiration. Not daring to assert, after the verdict which Mr. DRUMMOND extorted from the Committee, that the Government has directly afforded encourage ment to those who are said to be leagued together for the overthrow of the Constitution, and the separation of the two countries, the Tory leaders have drilled their ready instruments to accuse the Roman Catholic Clergy of being secret fomenters of the plot, and to charge the Government as accessa- 1 ries in the next degree, by means of the protection and impunity which they are said to afford to all offences committed by persons of that order. Now both those allegations are totally false. It is distinctly proved even in the evidence taken be fore the Committee, that the priests are opposed to all illegal and secret confederacies, and have ren - dered most valuable aid to the legal authorities, in repressing and in bringing offences emanating from them to justice; and it has also been proved before the same tribunal, that in every instance where a priest has been charged with an indictable offence, the G o v ernment, far from throwing the shield of its protection around him, has proceeded against him with the utmost strictness, not to say the utmost rigour, and severity of the law. This has been clearly demonstrated by witnesses in behalf of the Government ; nor have its enemies brought forward a single case, from which even a prejudiced tribunal might have inferred, or pretended to infer, a disposition to screen such offenders, or wink at their transgressions. With regard to the hostility of the Roman Catholic Clergy, to the existence and the proceed ings of the Ribbon Confederacy, we think it should be proof enough, even to satisfy those who be lieve in its great numbers and perfect organisation, that there is so little union of design or action ill'"agi amongst the various clubs or societies. It is also acknowledged on all hands, that not any of those classes of persons with whom the Roman Catholic Clergy associ a t e on terms o f f r i endship and social We lear n f rom the Carlisle Journal that all is intercourse, and over w h om t h ey possess an almost quiet in th at town, and that the three days have passed over t h ere without an unbounded i n fl uence, are in the most remotey riot or di s t ur b ance. A degree co nnecte d w i t h such combinations. On n attempt v , as made to get up a meeting, but it the cont rar y, i t i s well-known that they repel failed. T} Tie M anchester Guardian also tells us from their confidence, with public marks of scorn that all was quiet at Bolton on Friday. Stockport, and reprobation, most grating to the pride of an ) whiels was excited, it states, has continued perfectly Irish heart, every p individual who is susected of quiet du r i ng t h e whole week. At Rochdale the being thus implicated. They drive them from their i 'active Magistrates, assisted by two companies of denounce them from the steps of the Foot, have captured a Chartist banner and dis- chapels, altar, and deny them a participation of those rights, , armed a Chartist of a stick. At Middleton " a from the administering of which a large portion of meeting," it says, " should have taken place, but only th ree young fellows, apparently weavers, their ow n i ncome i s d er i ve d , and without the due were on the groun d." It tells u s also that on Wednes- reception o f w hi c h i t i s t h e belief both of Priests ( 1 day ther e was ag i tation in Wigan, and during the anti peopl e th at no sp i r i tual advantage can be , day CIIISENFIA LE CIIIsENIIALE, Esq., o ne O f derived. All these fa c t s are a d m i tte d , and still it is in : the co un t y M ag i strates, accompanied by Mr. GA s sinuated that the Cl ergy are i ns i ncere in their op. KELL and th e m ili tary, went over to Hindley, for the purpose of dispersing the mob ; but the rioters their d on enunciations of it to the Ribb on system , and superficial in i ! had flail. Th e Wi gan troop of yeomanry cavalry have b een ordered out for duty. Now when We have it, mo reover , i n evidence, and every our very muc h alarmed Contemporary cannot day brings forth fresh in s t ances to corroborate this Proof muster any worse stor i es than these of the Chartistsroof of their zeal i n su pp ort o f t h e l aws, that the in its ne i g hb ourhood, we must come to the conclu- have sion th at the mill-owners in general are much more Roman Catholic Cl erg y i n a ll parts o f I reland uniformly assist e d th e c i v il power i n oprosing the il Progress of sediti on , an d b r i ng i ng pu b l i c criminals frightened th an h urt. Whether their terror proceed to justice. Even Capt a i n VIGNOL ES a dd s h i s tes from the ov ert acts of the Chartists or their ,ownthem to timony to th a t o f t h e ot h er T ory witnesses, and conscie nces , i s a question we must leave tn settle ; hut w acknowled ges t h at h e h as received very great as- Zee have not f orgotten, and we believe • sist Mr. DRUMMOND st a t es t wo very remarkable in- a. . Paring prosecuti ons . p re nee from th e R oman C atholic Priests in 1 th e public never will f orget , t h e scenes which the pari 1 inq u i r i es of certain Factory Committees and Hand -1 loom Committees brought t o li g h t not many years sago. Th e Man . cheste; Guardian is one o f t h e i r stances of assistance derived f rom t h e same source : orga ns , an d i ts endeavours to generate alarm, and In the year 1836, an illegal association called " The Sham roc k Society,' was discovered, an d fists and th e i r l eaders, have been conspicuous excite an i mos i ty and hatred towards the Char several of the m em b ers arreste d i n the town of Sligo. It was the first occasion on which any i from t h e f i rst beginning of their career. We beg l eave to say that while the trials of some discovery lik e ly t o p rove ava il a bl e i n a court of of the Chartists are yet pending, it would be justice had been m a d e ; an d b y w h ose instrumenta as proper t o say noth i ng, though it might not serve lity was it brought t o li g h t ? B y a Pr i est ! the ends c f t h e G uard i an, as the practice of snak- Yes, b one of those men w h o are sa id to b e secretly ing as muc h as poss i ble of a meeting that should engaged in promoting the plots and objects of the conspirators :—" I ought t o mention,' says Mr. have b een h e ld, an d of the great deed of two tom panic s of Foot h av i ng capture d a Ch art i st banner. DRUMMOND, " th a t t hi s S oc i ety was discovered W e 'allude t o thi s su bj ect w i t h no feelings butie by the Roman C a th o li c D ean o f Sli go. It was he pain, because we are conv i nce d t h at tn those ofwho disclosed it. H e f oun d t h at t h ose persons were assembled together, and h e went an d d eta i ned them attemp ts to excite alarm, animosity, and hatred will be mutua ll y and reciprocally successful. The in the house until th e P rovost , w h om h e sent for, and had them arres t e d upon t h e spot." Mr. mill- owners are o b v i ous l y b r i mful of terror and CaineTRACY adds, " The con d uct o f t h e R ey. 'JAMES hatred. B y the people, it is equally obvious, that DUNLEAItY, P.P., h as b een so pra i seworthy in the aff a i r of Petcrloo is neither forgotten nor forgiven, and, in like manner, the affair at this transacti on , an d h e h as s h own so anxious a Birmingh am, on the 4th of July, and the i oesire to preserve t h e p eace o f t h e country that it has subseq uent proceedings, will sink deep and endang e r e d hi s p o p u l ar i ty w i t h the lower orders ;but rem ain permanently engraved in their memory, it must have ear ne d f or hi m t h e good opinion of the respectable portion of society, and will, doubt -1 ill less, receive the high reward of his Excellency's Biraiingham, whatever doctrines might have been a p probation.` trught, the peopl e I lused iat no violence. To that '" Had the loyalty of this ecclesiastic beenmerely " superficial," he had but to " pass irritating attack all the subsequent riots are to be by the other side," as other Priests have done in . on traced, and th e Bi r • rotngham Maarstrates, as the the olden time, and probably neither Mr. FA USSET, causes of the sat Bolton, are every bit as much • the Tory Provost, nor Mr. TRACY, the active Police to blame as riot. BRoNTERRE O'BRIEN or M r. lnspector,with all their scouts and informers, would FEA RGUS O'CONNOR. Prior to the 4 hof July t the Chartists had begun to quarrel was '''- he objects for which it as selves, the Convention was disoroanai:stoingst them-f been held, or of t the members had resigned, and wal e al o sembled. there mentioned by Mr. DRUMMOND, probability of the ferment subsidies, C as e very The other case, e•Comp e ll e d n Catholic Priest who gave ' was that of a Roma gave as the working classes are, to labour from 12 t 0... 16 information to Mr. WARBURTON, a sti hours every day for their living, they have such onl that he was enabled to make little time to spare for political agitation. So yfaar pendiary Magistrate, as they are concerned, agitation cannot long be a se i zure o f 40 stan d of unregistered arms, and the first attempt kept up, and the quarrels am ongst t h e Conven- thereby, as the latter alleges, defeat tionists, • the money that had b een s p ent to no good made to introduce the Ribbon i System into a large, with the call for more, had heeun to dis- wild, and populous county. purpose, . to the 4th of July. The Now, did the manner of the prosecution before gust the Chartists prior that day the Lords' Committee g produce among his wit conduct of the Magistrates, on only . nesses either Dean of Sligo, • • served to irritate them, and provoke outrage, both of this honest Priest, or the , Courts and Juries whom were evidently masters of sound and while the conduct of tangible information served justiceto convince . them • . upon the subject of Secret So since, has only c!eties. They could have told him more than the vi reason from juries, as , So that they can as little expect siunary M r Ito lawyers. Some I . • WAN, or the oracular Major I'V j .. A St reason and common sense from BIRToN ;but they were not brought forward. Nay foolish persons, s however, are boasting that then gour f : more—when Mr. FAUSsET, the Provost, was of the Birmingham Magistrates, the willingness o required to state what he knew about Ribbon men the Government to prosecute, and the readiness of : Sligo, : in 4...g0, it was not suffered to go to the public that juries to convict, are opening tile eyes of the 1 he had derived every particle of his information Chartists to their danger, and restoring the land to . 1 through t h e help of a Priest ; but he received it tranquiirty. What a sad mistake, tending to sane- i • f rom Blank ! lion Outrage, ar.d encouraee injustice. Before the l ' ~ H ow came you to be,aquainted with the existence of Government had arrested' a sine' , person,in- 1 Ribbon Societies in 1336 . or 1.- on d,; n W. Strange, 21, Paternoster-row, and all Book. H IS Majesty the KING of PRUSSIA, having A UZEIGRISED and GUARANTEED DISTRIBUTIONS of MONEY PREMIUMS, which (though they are NO LOTTERIES), offer many possi bilities of obtaining - LARGE FORTUNES, HEINE FHERS at HAMBURGH, are NOW SELLINGI3IIO SHARES for the said DISTRIBU• TIONS. Persons desirous to purchase may receive, PREVI OUS to giving any order, th e PROSP ECTUS and PAR• TICULARS, upon ad(iressing, WITHOUT DELAY, a line to HEINE ROTHERS at HANIBURG. P.S. THE NEXT DISTRIBUTION contains Por tions from NINE POUNDS TEN SHILLINGS and upwards, to TEN THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED POUNDS. A RISE IN THE PRICE of the SHARES for the NEXT DISTRIBUTION will very soon take place, there being only few of them on hand, and nearly all cleared off. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. 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Subscribers in the Country will thus constantly be put in possession of News full Twelve Hours, and on Saturdays, Thirtl•six Hours earlier than usual, by ordering the Latest, or, SECOND EDITION of " THE SUN." SUN-OFFICE, 112, Strand, London. H 1 Ht WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TOMORROW. Morning...... :9 minutes after 9. I E ening ... : 5 minutes after 10. Ic LONDON : MONDAY, AUGUST 19, 1839. Lord BROUGHAM brings under the notice of the House of Lords to-day the proceedings of the Ge neral Assembly, and more especially the resolutions of the Commission adopted at Edinburgh on Wednesday last, relative to disputed Church patron. age in Scotland. At present the spiritual and temporal powers in that country are at utter variance. The Supreme Court of Scotland, backed by the House of Lords, has decided that the As sembly had assumed a right incompatible with the law of the land, and enjoined all the Church Courts to proceed with the settlement of presentees, as be fore the Act of Assembly of 1835, which was thereby declared null and void. The Assembly assert their authority, and prohibit Presbyterians from obeying the injunction of the Supreme Courts. The House of Lords, and particularly the Bishops, will find this rather a knotty point. Dr. PHILPOTTS, who is so fond of exalting the ecclesiastical power over the civil power, cannot fail to side with the Kirk, and pour out his wrath on a lay Peer, for presuming to meddle with things Divine. It is certainly a re markable sign of the times, that in Prussia the Archbishop of COLOGNE, in Ireland Dr. 11141 A LE, in England, Dr. PHILPOTTS, and in Scotland Dr. CHALMERS, should simultaneously be attempting to set up a spiritual, and therefore undefined and undefinable power, in opposition to the temporal authority of the State. The Journal de Stnyrne of the 29th ult. has the following announcement which confirms the re port to the same effect which recently appeared in the London Journals : it is certain that the Ambassadors from the Porte to foreign courts are to be suppressed, and replaced by Charges d'Affaires. Talat Effendi was to proceed to France by the next packet. Eyoub Effend i , lately arrived from London, where he was attached to the Ottoman legation, had set out again for that capital with letters of credence as Charge d'Affaires. The Sultan has taken into his service nearly all the officers attached to the person of his father, and the rest have had liberal pensions allotted to them. Hassan Pacha, late Governor of Tripoli, has been ap pointed Governor of Cyprus, in the room•of. Osman Pacha, deceased. The suppression of Turkish Embassies is said to be dictated by economy. This is very un likely. We believe the real cause to be a return to the ancient constitution of the Moslem Govern ment. Every innovotion whether in costume, habits, or observances, which the Priests disap prove of, is in course of abolition throughout the Empire. Wine is again strictly forbidden, and the bastinado and the bowstring are coming into high repute. We insert in another part of the Paper a letter on " Abuses in the Excise," which, though of old date, contains some new information to many of our readers. That gross neglect, or something worse, exists in this department, the late frauds practised in London and Liverpool abundantly prove ; and if the Lords of the Treasury have not already " looked fully into these disgraceful proceedings, and probed them to the bottom," they must come in for their share of the blame. The occasion affords them a fit opportunity for inquiring into the management of these well paid and hitherto almost irresponsible Commissioners. The affairs of the East occupy a gre a t p ort i on of the French Journals received this m orn i ng. All that is important and interesting in the late a d v i ces from Con stantinopie and Alexandria will he found arrange d under the proper head in another part of The Sun. We direct the attention of our readers to these extracts , mo „ ,a ,•-• _ ,t 3". ., , 4 - • -_. Ik' .''..:' 4JA . : -,- , ~ ser A , . • , ~. ...„ A i' , -,-. .s : -.At ,--- • •'•,.,., ..i:-.7%__ Al ..,-. - stituted a single prosecution, except that bt Mr. STEPHENS, the Convention waa falling into dis repute; it is since the arrests began, and since all the vigour was displayed, that Birmingham was set on fire, and that riots have taken place both in Man chester and Bolton. " In consequence a information i received that a num ber of peraots wee illegally assembler) in a house in the town of Sig°. " Have the gooduris to state to the Committee from whom you got that information ? " I received the information from ----." There is no excuse here for the suppression of the name, on the ground of apprehensions for the personal safety of the Catholic Dean ; the part he took being notorious, where alone there can be any danger. He makes no secret of it himself, nor could he conceal it if he wished ; having performed the service before the eyes of his fellow-townsmen, and between the hours of twelve and one in the open day. But this candid method of informing the public is more in accordance with the real ob jects of the inquiry, and clashes less with the policy of the faction and its agents—spargere voces— by which the Roman Catholic Priesthood is to be represented as identified with the Rib bon conspiracy, and the Government as the protectors of delinquent Priests against the penal ties justly due to their misdeeds. We mu s t t a k e anot h er opportun i ty of expos'ng the falsehood of the latter part of this vile calumny. The community at large begin to feel and ex press considerable impatience for the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER to realise the only Act for conferring great benefit on the - public which has been passed this session. " When is the Uniform Penny Postage to come into operation ?" is a ques tion universally asked, and as universally answered, by " I cannot tell," " Nobody knows ; it all rests with the CHANCELLOR Of the EXCHEQUER." If it rests with the CHANCELLOR Of the EXCHEQUER that Right Hon. Gentleman seems to have so much to do with Bank of Ireland jobs and Shannon jobs, and has betrayed so little zeal, and so much disincli nation, for the Uniform Rate of Postage, that we are afraid the public will not speedily be gratified. As far as we know the first step has not yet been taken. Surely, if it be intended to carry Mr. R. HILL'S plan into execution, and no person has shown half so much acquaintance with the details of the mat ter as he has, the first step is to make him the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER'S chief ad viser for this particular service. We shall suppose that there is some intention zealously to proceed with the work when we are informed that Mr. R. HILL has been appointed Comptroller of the Post office for this special service, or has received some other appointment which will place in his hands the means of carrying his project into effect under his own inspection and control. It must not be marred by being entrusted to another, and perhaps a rival. The device is his, the chief merit is his, and in justice to him and to the plan, he ought to be summoned to carry it into effect. When he re ceives some such appointment as we have men tioned, we shall congratulate the public on the pro bability that their wishes will be gratified. Some of our Contemporaries have entered into a discussion as to the merit of stamped sheets of pa per, stamped envelopes, label stamps, and other contrivances to secure pre -payment, but we do not see why all these plans, as recommended by Mr. HILL, may not be tried. A great apprehen sion is expressed by some persons lest the envelopes or the stamped labels should beforged, and a great deal of ingenuity is exerted, and it is proposed to incur considerable expense to prevent forgery—. forgery to gain something less than a penny on every stamp forged. What an immoral set of people we must be if great precautions are necessary to guard against such a possi bility ? The Chinese, who are celebrated for their deceptions ; and the Italians, who are equally cele brated for mean pilfering, would surely never de scend to such petty plunder. Such suspicion s argue a terrible depravity in the nation. Is the Church, the prodigious Church Establishment, of so little real use, that it cannot elevate this low scale of moral feeling, which, judging from the suspicion s as well as the deeds, is common to the upper and educated classes ? Can no trust be put in man ? We believe these suspicions are gross exaggerations which tend to realize themselves, and we protest against delaying a beneficial scheme till means can be found to obviate all these foul suspicions of low minded persons. Some apprehension, too, is still expressed on the score of revenue. Now, Lord ASHBURTON de scribed a postage tax as a tax on written conversa tion ; and we thought the present rates of postage were to be given up, because it is wholly indefen sible in principle to tax written conversati on. If that is the groun d on w hi ch the alteration is to be made, it is a forgetfulness of the aim and object of the alteration to haggle or doubt about a few pounds of revenue. If as large a revenue is to be obtained henceforward as heretofore, from taxing written communications, the only improvement will be a better mode of levying the tax, which will remain, and on principle, is as indefensible at a penny as at a shilling. The idea is that .the State gives up taxing written conversation, and only makes individuals pay the expense of carrying and dis tributing their letters. To expect as large a revenue from an increased number of letters as is now raised is contrary to this, and is giving something with one hand and taking it sway with another. But all the suspicion we have adverted to, and all the plans proposed, are to protect the revenue, when, in fact, there ought to be no revenue from carrying letters to protect. Til-E SUSI, LONDOST, MONDAY ) AUGUST 19, 1836 as they contain much intelligence calculated to gratify ,rnuize curiosity: it is oonfidently stited - ttrat tne rune hat tweed to all the pfero§aht itiade by MEtiEttrr ALL, anti that no further difficulty will be experienced in settling the Eastern Question. A Marseilles Jour nal of the 13th inst. informs us that HAytz PACHA has been assassinated by the emissary sent by Kilos nEW PACHA from Constantinopl e for that purpose. The statement is of little importance whether true or false, except as manifestin g a return to the old Mus , sulman form of impeachment. In all probability a aunt lar fate awaits the CAPITAN PACHA. The Spanish question begins to excite a lively inte rest in Paris. Royalists and Republicans ag reed in the opinion that the triumph o f D on CARLOS has become impossible ; and that, in fact, he is fast hastening to destruction. The following telegraphic despatch from the frontier, published in the Illoniteur of Saturday, proves that his authority has been completely set at de fiance by a numerous body of his own troops Bayonne, Aug. 15, Half.past Twelve, P.M. " THE GENERAL COMMANDIN G THE 20TH DIVISION TO TILE MINISTER OF WAR. " On the 13th there was a conference with the revolters. The Cure Echevarria had an interview with Don Carlos at Lessee. The 12th battalion of Navarre came on the same day and joined the insurgents at Vera, and or. the 14th they marched to Urdax, where they were joined by the 3d. Elio, having only two battalions left, retrograded upon Goyzueta with Don Carlos, who there found his consort. •• Espartern has marched in the direction of Alava. Maroto has followed his movem ent , . The Post observes that the Cura Echevaria " is an ignorant fanatical priest, who formerly exercised great influence over the mind of Don CARLOS." We readily believe this, as Don CARLOS is incapable of having his mind influenced by other than the ravings of ignorant fanaticism. But this fanaticism is now directed against his authority, and if the QUEEN'S Government only know how to profit by the circumstance, the expulsion of the Pretender from Spain will be speedily accom plished, . - The Commerce publishes the following as the lates news from the Russian capital - . - ST. PETERSBURGII, At m. 4 . —. Yesterday the Emperor held a Council at Peterhoff, a thing which is extremely rare. All the Ministers and Privy Councillors attended, and sat from eleven till his Majesty's dinner hour. It is said in the diplomatic circles of the capital that Govern.. ment has resolved to occupy Moldavia and Wallachia with troops, but undertake nothing against Constantinople or in Asia until it is ascertained in what manner the differences between Turkey and Egypt are likely to be settled by diplomatic means. It is added that the Minister of War has already sent orders for the troops at Odessa to be marched to the two principalities and to be replaced by a like number, to be drawn from th e army of•the south. It was rumoured that in consequence of the intrigues of Russia an insurrection has taken place in Thessaly, and that in fourteen towns and villages- the Turkish authorities have been expelled or murdered. HUSSEIN KHAN, the Persian Envoy at the Court of France, is to return tomorrow to Teheran. He will be the bearer of rich presents from Louis PHILIPPE to the SHAH. BOURSE.--PARIS, SATURDAY, AUG. 17. first Highest Lowest Last French 5 per Cent 5.......... Prioe Price. Price. 1.265...65 ... 11. 65 ... 112 60 ... 1260 4 per Cents 102 75 ... 11 275 102 75 102 75 3 per Cents So 70 . S 0 75 ••• $0 65 S , ) 75 Bank of France 27310 —.2790 ...2790 ...2790 Latlitte Bank Looor. 1 060 ...two ~.10(i0 5,000 f. Si 523) ...5230 —.5230 Belgian 5 per Cents , 104 104' "' " ... 104 Belgian Bank 770 ... 772 50 ... 770 772 50 Coupons ...« 45 45 ... 45 ... 45 Spanish Ac , ive ...... . . Passive ... 4% ... 4% ... 4%, Neapolitan Roman RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain Versailles, N. B LB. 332 .S 0 ... 332 50 ... 330 ... 332 50 Havre Strasburg to Bale Bordeaux to La 1 este 4OO ... 400 ... 41)0 4(0 Montpellier to Cette DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, AUGUST 16. Money. Bills, 54% :,54' Actual Debt, '2% per Cent Ditto, ditto 5 pei cent. A ',mit svndic,4% per cent...... 96 Sr 7 Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent. Bl% 82 Commercial Company, 4 , ,,, per cent 173 Ditto (1832 and 1833) 5 per cent. Ditto 1.37, b per cent _ _ Loan 18137, 5 per cent. IOOU WO i Exchange on London, One month l2 1174 Two mon thl —Dutch Papers, August 17. AUSTRIAN t'UNLin.—Vixxiva, Ara S. Five per Cents. Metalliques .................. ............ mai 4 Four per Cents. Three per Cents . Bank Shares ......—.— .............................. .. 1. ‘ ....... /5 . 3 1 :0 0 1 :l y. —Allgemehee Zcstung, August 13 PRUSSIAN FUNDS. — BERLIN, AUGUST 13. St. Schuld. Sch., 4 per cent 103% 1034 Prussian Engiish Loan, IRV, 4 per cent /03 1 ,i 102 5-6 Xxchange on London, three months „... .... —Prussian State Gazette, August 13. By express from Falmouth, Lisbon journals to the evening of the l 2th instant, brought by the Liverpool steamer from the Tagus, have been received. As we anticipated, the news of the throwing out of the Portu guese Slave-trade Bill by the House of Lords excited great joy among the Portuguese man-stealers, and the indications of a brisk trade in African flesh were every where visible. By the time the cruisers are ready to put to sea the very same Bill will have passed, and thus the praises lavished upon their Lordships,and par ticularly the Duke of WELLINGTON, by these homicide merchants will be changed into the bitterest execrations. The Duchess of BRAGANZA and her daughter arrived at Lisbon on the 7th. She was met at her landing by their M a j es ti es t h e KING and QUEEN, the Duke of SAXE-COBURG, the Princess his daughter, the two Princes his sons, and several Nobles of distinction, who gave her a most welcome reception. The Portuguese Government is reported to have lowered the duty from 6,000 reis to 500, on wines shipped to Canada ; thus equalizing the dUty between Canada and the United States. Letters and papers from Madrid, of the 1 Oth inst., have reached us. The complete success of the Ex altacfo or Radical candidates at the lite election has rendered a dissolution of the Cabinet probable, and its modification inevitable. On the 9th a great meeting of Spaniards of distinction was held at the house of the late Captain-General QUIROGA, to deliberate about -the best way of manifesting the national gratitude to the Earl of CLARENDON for his late excellent speech on the Spanish question in the House of Lords. After the gentlemen present had warmly expressed their gra titude to his Lordship the following resolutions were put to the vote and agreed to unanimously : " 1. That the speech of the Earl of Clarend on , as one of the most i m p o rtant documents of modern times, and most favourable to the cause of Isabel 11, and of Eu ropean civilization, be translated into Spanish by Don Jose Garcia Villalta (a member of the Committee ap pointed for this purpose), and diffused in the widest pos sible manner. " That a magnificent copy of his speech be presented to the Earl of Clarendon, as also a cup of one of the precious metals, of such form and with such inscriptions as shall hereafter be agreed upon. "3. That for these purposes a subscription shall be entered into in all Spain, fixing the maximum of each subscription at four mats (about tenpence British). " 4. That a Committee be now appointed to carry these resolutions into effect." The following gentlemen were appointed a Committee, by ballot, to carry these resolutions into effect :—.Gene ral Quiroga, Don Augustin Arguelles, Conde de las Navas, Jose Don Garcia de Villalta, Don Jose Maria Morente, Don Manuel Cantero, Don Manuel Jose de Quintana. The QUEEN REGENT amuses herself with the plea sures of the chase. The Royal game is the wolf ; and it is asserted that her MAJESTY is as expert a destroyer of this ferocious animal as any cavalier in her train. THE FUNDING OF EXCHEQUER BILLS. (SATURDAY.) TIMES.—Mr. Spring Rice, having failed in his in tended contract with the wholesale dealers in Exchequer bills, bas now opened a shop on his own account, in which he will sell the same article by retail, and adapt himself to the wants or wishes of every description of purchaser. Only on Thursday last, as explained in his letter to Messrs. Rothschild, he would decline any offer for the pur pose of conversion of l ess amount t h an 5 00 , 000 1 . Now, after a lapse of no m ore t h an two days, he will receive any amount that may be offered, and according to the no tice which has been posted this morning at the Bank, subscriptions even of 1,000/. will not be objected to. Thus he has gone back to the course which from the first he ought to have pur sued, because sanctioned by all former precedents at the Treasury, from which, unless for very good reasons, it is always dangerous to deviate. He has now named a price, the same as that propounded i n t h e T reasury max i. mum of yesterday, at which be will give stock in exchange for Exchequer Bill s, and such a price as would probably have br o u g ht i n a suffi ci ent amount of subscriptions, had he fixed it in hi s or i g i nal notice for , the funding; but, so much as he damaged himself, and disturbed the Stock Market, by his vacillating mode of proceeding, the great doubt prevails in the city whether the required amount of Exchequer bills will now be brought in to be funded. HERALD.—Accordi ng issued from the Treasury Chambers, the Chancellor of the Exchequer has thrown the biddings for the conversion of 4,000,000 of Exchequer Bills open to the public, as was formerly the custom on the likeoccasions. This notice following so closely on the heels of the transaction with the Bank of England yesterday is considered as very evident that the Govern ment are rather solicitous to obtain the speedy conversion of the remaining 3,500,000/. Exchequer bills. An im pression, however, has prevailed here this afternoon, that Mr. Spring Rice will not obtain the conversion on the terms offered, particularly as Exchequer bills have advanced to 21 premium this afternoon, and have been in much demand ; the parties who have lately bought them at from par to 6 and 8 premium, will, therefore, make a good thing of their speculation. ------____ CHR ONICL E.—The peculiar and mortifying position in which the Government was left on Friday by the failure of Mr. Spring Rice's plan for the funding of four millions Exchequer bills, rendered, of course, some further step absolutely necessary,if the Mi n i sters really were in earnest ; consequently the public were i n a great measure prepare d for the notice which was p osted on Saturday morning at the Bank of England and the Stock Exchange. The manner in which this document is drawn up, created, amazement • for after what had T:Ftirred, in ref erence t o the iirsi raeJEe;iih'ire !Or 4111 , n:11N-it imagined that another ;, , 7.. - 1 11 d be buffered to be issued egeiaff;) txtilapation but strange as it may appear, such has been the case. The See: - Ind parao,Taph is a perfect jumble, and one upon which nobody would venture get without some elucidation ; for the first portion of it ;Ira* *he business Wotild he closed the montrot the amount appied for reached 3,600,0001. and the inference to be drawn from the latter part is, that tendei will be received until Friday. S , veral gentlemen, therefore, fy waited upon 'Mr. M 5.181141 14 of the Bank, but he was thinfole to' throw any light upon it. Ilowetsgry he at once proceeded to the Treasury, and on his return Informed them that the intention of the Chancellor of the ExCliequer was, that all tenders should be immediately refused the moment the amount was equal to three millions and a half, even if it were comprised In one offer ; that each applicant should receive an acknowledgment marked I, 2, or 3, according to the order in which the tender had been presented: and that the stock , should be disposed of in the same manner, by the appropriation of the full amount applied for by each• This is not only altogether extremely unfair, but is the revival of a system once tried, but proved so prejudicial to the public at large, and inconvenient to the Go vernment, that it is indeed inexplicable why Mr. Spring Rice has thought proper to adopt it. The plan on these occasions, with the solitary exception now alluded to, always has been to open the books fur a certain time, and then to dispose of the stock pro rata, " by which means," justly observes a correspondent, " the weak would stand as good a chance as the strong, and the small subscriber not to be ousted by one or two overwhelming parties." Throughout the whole affair there has 'wen a degree of injustice manifested which is not to be accounted for. Again, are all the Scotch banks and persons in the country debarred from any participation in the operation ? —fir it is quite possible that the whole amount may be taken before the delivery of letters from those places even fr)m whence a reply could be obtained, for on Monday morning toe post is seldom out until about half-past nine or ten o'clock, and the office for receiving proposals is to be opened at nine o'clock. Ira every point of view, the scheme of the Chancellor of the Exchequer is a hazardous one to be concerned in, and it will be well for the Government when the affair is finally adjusted. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS DAY.) lU USE OFCOMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair at Twelve o'Ciock. BANK OF IRELAND BILL. Sir W. SO el ER VILE, E.presented two petitioes as.,sainst the Sank of ft-eland Brli trout Drogheda and ante her place, the Lame of which we could not eseei fain The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER rose to move the 0, tie , ' Of the Day for going into Committee on this Bid, when Mr. O'CONNELL rose and said, that a prac tice had prevailed within the last few days of ring ing a bell when a Member moved that the House be counted. He would submit to the Speaker whether that was consistent with the meaning of counting the House. Formerly it was the practice for the Speaker to take note these were not 40 Members in the House, aed then adjourn it. Fur many years that practice had been altered, and it was now nu longer the duty of the Speaker to count tin flou-e unless called upon to do eo, Now it h4Dpened five or six times during the diecueeion on this Bill diat there n ere not mote than 20 or 25 Members present out of 858, and he th •ught it 40 would not attend it was a tacit declaration against the importance or pro. priety of the measure. It appeared m aistrous that the practice should arise to look out; torl Members to come in to be counted, and go away the moment they acre counted.---( Hear, hear.) They came tit at the ringing of a bell, as house-servants would de at the cell of their masters.—( Hear and a laugh.) He submitted that the practice of ringing the bell when the House was counted was a modern practice, and ought to be discontinued. Mr. R. S I'UART said the ringing of the bell had not been introduced on the occasion of this Bill, but was intro duced in reference to some other question, and the wish expressed by Members on both sides of the House. Mr. O'CONNELL never heard of the practice until within the last four or five days, and it certainly, according to the admission of the Hon. Member, was a modern otie. The SPEAKER said there could not be a question that the practice of ringing the bell when the House was to be counted, was of modern date. It was introduced on the suggestion of the Hon. Member for Kilkenny, in conse quence of the complaints made by some Hon. Members that they had been absent only for a few minutes. It was in consequence of remarks that had been made by the Noble Lord the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in which the House appeared entirely to concur that he (the Speaker) had given directions that the bell should be rung when notice was taken of there not being 40 Mem bers in the House.—( Hear.) Of course he conceived he had acted only iu obedience to the wish of the House ; and if the House desired to give any other order, he would be most willing to obey it.—( Hear.) Mr. O'CONNELL then moved that when notice was taken that 40 Members were not present in the House, the practice of ringing the bell be discontinued. Mr. R E DIN G TON seconded the motion. Mr. WAKLE Y thought the motion might be carried one step further, and extended to the ringing the bell on divisions, because it seemed to him infinitely more mis. chievous that members should come in and constantly vote on subjects which they had not heard discussed. Several Members, on the division on the Poor Law Bill, came in from Mr. Bellamy's and other places;on the bell being rang, and voted when they had not heard one word of what had passed in that House for many preceding hours.—( Hear, hear.) He therefore hoped his Hon. and Learned Friend would agree to the motion being extended to divisions. Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and the House divided, when there appeared—. For the motion Against it Majority for ringing the bell On our readmission into the gallery we found Mr. T. DUNCOMBE moving that it was the opinion of the House, if 40 Members were not present, the business of the country might still be transacted. The House had in fact come to that decision by the vote just taken. The Hon. and Learned Member for Dublin deserved the thanks cf the country fur having drawn attention to this subject ; fir not only ass the way in which the business of the Howe was got through discreditable to the House, but was most disgraceful to the Administration. Several most important measures had already been passed when there were scarcely 40 Members present on one occasion. If the principle of ringing the bell was to be carried out, they might as well extend the bells to Downing -street, and the Reform and Carlton Clubs—(Laughter)—or send out a crier in the street to announce that there were not 40 Members in the House, and that 30 or 40 more were wanted —( Hear, and laughter.) The present discussion would open the eyes of the public to the way in which the business of the House was conducted. If the decision to which the House had just arrived was to be carried out, there was no reason why the Speaker and two Members should not be sufficient to perform the duties of the House. The SPEAKER said it was impossible tor the Hon. Member, according to the rules of the House, make the motion he had just submitted as an amendment to an Or der of the Day. The only amendineut that could be moved to an Older of the Day was, that sonic other Order of the Day be read.---( Hear, hoar.) Mr. DUNCOMBE then withdrew the motion. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER again moved that the Order of the Day be read for going into Committee on the Bank of Ireland Bill. Mr. O'CONNELL then moved that the next Order of the Day be substituted for it. If he were to die on the floor of the House this Bill, if the forms of the House would permit, should not pass before Cbristmas.—(Cheers.) He had pledged himself to his constituents—he had pledged himself to the country not to allow any motion to be made without a discussion and division under such cir cumstances.—( Hear, hear.) No man would be warranted in taking this course if he was nut right in the judgment of every rational person. If the Bill had been brought in at the beginning of the Session, and he had adopted such a course, the good sense cf the House would have borne down all opposition. But he had the good sense of the House with him on this occasion. There was not a gentle.. man present who would get up and declare solemnly his de liberate opinion that this Bill had not been brought in at too late a period of the Session.—( Cheers.) Was there a man who would say the Irish people should not have had time to deliberate on all the parts of the Bill, and see how their interests were affected—that the great commercial towns should not be heard, if necessary, at the bar against the provisions of the Bill ?—( Hear, hear.) The Irish Members had been here from February to July, and when many of them were obliged to leave for the purpose of attending the Assizes and could not come hack again, this measure was brought forward.—(Cheers.) The Hon. Bart. the member for Wicklow, had talked of the " wither ing" effect of this monopoly on his constituents.—( Hear, hear.) Would the House continue to enforce that " withering" process ? Ought not the House to give time to that Hon. Member to have a county meeting of his constituents, and obtain the opinions of the thousands who were " withering" under the baneful influence of this monopoly ?—( Hear, hear.) He should not have taken the present course, if any reason had been given for not bringing the measure forward earlier, or in support of the merits of it. Much had been said of Joint Stock Banks. But the Chancellor of the Exchequer the other day was glad to find one of the Scotch Joint Stock Banks coming for ward to:bid for his Exchequer Bills. And why should not the Joint Stock Banks of Ireland be in the same condition they would have been, if the monopoly of the Bank of Ireland had not for so many years sat like an incubus on the heart of the country, and " withered" its resources ? This was a subject which ought to have beon discussed before —a subject which his constituents were in a ferment upon, because they were afraid of the Bank of Ireland, and they knew what would be the result if they took part against the monopoly. If the Government would grant a call of the House, he would then agree to discuss the measure, and submit to be beaten as he did on every other occasion. The Hon. and Learned Member then moved the next Order of the Day. Mr. DILLON BROWN seconded the amendment. This measure had been resisted by every independent Irish representative, by men of the highest condition in the country, and there had not been a single independent vote from Ireland in support of the monopoly.—( Hear.) The Government were now hurrying this measure through the House, although they knew they owed their existenc e to the support they re ce i ve d from the Irish represents. , tives.—( Hear, hear.) It was not treating the Irish Members as they deserved to endeavour to smuggle the Bill through the House in this manner. How could gentlemen who had resisted a civil coercion Bill for Ireland, support a mercantile coersion Bill for Ireland ? How could gentlemen, who advocated Reform, approve of this Bill ? How could they conceal from themselves that in supporting this Bill, they were favouring monopoly ? It could not be denied that the Bank of Ireland was one of the very worst monopolies that ever existed —that it pre sented the most exclusive features of monopolies. Out of 300 servants of the Bank, only three were Roman Catho lics. It was unintelligible, how gentlemen, who had sup. ported Catholic Emancipation, and who advocated Reform principles, should favour so corrupt and exclusive a monopoly. In the persevering with this measure, the Irish people would have one of the strongest arguments I for a Repeal of the Union. They were refused railroads because, forsooth, they were poor; curious argument that, for refusing people money. And now they were refused a free end unembarrased sys tem of banking, by which the people of Scotland had been enabled to achieve such enterprises as railroads. Irish Members would be neglecting their duty most grossly were they to neglect any opposition in their power to this Bill. No opportunity had been given to the people of Ireland properly to understand this measure. In conse quence of bad Government the means of communication had long been so bad in Ireland, that in parts the news had not reached them that there was such a Bill before Parlia ment. Was it fair and honest that a Bill like this should be carried on, not by open and unprejudiced support, but by simply the aid of officialists? The business of the House had for some time been carried on by Members, three-fourths composed of Government dependents. It was suspicious that those persons seemed afraid of giving any reasons for their support, and to be unwilling to commit themselves to it the m orethan possible. And it was equa ll y surpr ising that Govern ment, instead of propitiating the independent support of liberal measu res were anx i ous t o gain the support of gentl e . men opposite. This appeared to indicate that the Ministry were only Whigs in profession, and Tories in reality. (To be continued in our SECOND EDITION.) PO ST.—A literal error occurs in the notification of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, which, however, is so pal pable that it is scarcely necessary to point it out. It is of course meant, not that subscribers should take, but that they should receive, Consols for Exchequer Bills, though the reverse of this is stated in the preamble. THE MARKETS --('PHIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. The past week's arrivals of English grain were small, of Foreign Wheat and Oats good. This morning there has been a very small fresh supply of all kinds of Corn. The weather being unfavourable Wheat has advanced 2s. to 3s. per quarter for English, and 21. per quarter for Foreign. Barley, Beans. and Peas, each maintain their value, with little doing. Oats are Is. per quarter dearer than this day se'nnight. The top price of Flour is unaltered ; for ship prices higher rates are asked. New Rape seed is unsaleable at 321. per cwt. rateEs ON BOARD OF SHIP Wheat, lied (old) —s I Beans, Small ,new) 43, 41s --- Whit Modern ; .mprovem has ent destroyed the most ------ just ancient building in Hull—except the chancel of T r i n i ty the town. . e I The eased space required by the h e erection oldest n f a relic n e i n w w poration of the town to the Commissioners of her M a j esty's for Church, the Customs, has led to the pulling down of the old Chain House, at the South end of High-street.—Hull Advertiser. SEIZURE OF ARMS.—During the past week pikes, muskets, swords, &c., have been seized in several places besides those which we have before indicated. In the north the seizures have been more ext • ensive. The Chartists, in whose possession the weapons were found , t in many cases, been c ' to prison despite their declaration that they kept arms fo r se tt-defence onl th y, aneir d were guiltyountr of no o ff ence recognizable by th e laws of cy. —de (old) ......—s. —s. Red (1838) .t6s. 60ss. . , - (old) ... 46, 48s. - Tick (new) 3.ls 36... •---... (old) ...... 38,40, - Harrow (new) 355.381. (01d).......425.448. ............ t.es. 725. Brank - --- Superfine - 4s. 78s. Oats, Feed s.--s, R----Foreign free......60f. 7S, ------ New '3,265, Byr.. ........................... 40s. 425. - Poland . arley .. • .................... .30,. 375. New . 5-29 , . --. Grinding 303. 345. - Potatoe klii 30 ;. ---- Malting 403. 425. Malt 50s. 655. - Scotch --- Fine New 665. • 70s. Irish 224. ... 24,265. Paase, Grey, New ...... 365. 38;. Flour Town (per sack).- 60,.02.. Maple New •..... 375. 40;. - Seconds 52, W h i te 40s. 425. ---- I , l*,rth Country.... 50, a 4 . 561. --- Boilers 4 , , 156 . Ptriti SMITHFIELD. There is a h eavy show of beast. at market this morning, and the demand not being great, a decline of price is submitted to. Beef, 3s. 6d. to 45.6 d. ; Mutton, 4s. to 4s. 10d. ; Lamb, ss. 4d. to 6s. ; Veal, 4s. 6d. to ss. 2d. ; Pork, 4s. 4d. to ss. 4d. Beasts, 3,433 ; Sheep and Lambs, 25,430 ; Pigs, 471; Calves, 168. Fine fa. 665. Superfine 665. 725. White (18M) 628. f , 4s. • Fine - 6 t, CITY FISH MARKET. Turbot, ss. to 10s. 15s. and 18s. ; Cod, Is. to Is. 6d., 5s and Bs, ; Soles, 9d. to 3s. per pair ; Lobsters, 10d. to 33. 6d, each ; Good Salmon, 9d. to Is. 3d. per lb.; Whiting, 3d to 6d. each; and Haddock. Bd. to Is. 2d. each. TALLOW MARKET. P. Y. C. is quiet at 525. 6d. on the spot, and 495. for ordi nary. Town Tallow 51s .6(1.1 COLONIAL MARKET. To-day we have nothing doing by public sale, and by private contract there is but little passing ; prices remain unvaried. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Arrivals this morning, two French, two Ostend, and a Dutch mail, also a mail from Gibraltar by the Liverpool, sailed 8:h August, Cadiz 9th August, Lisbon 12th August, Oporto 14th August, Vigo 14th August. Ship letters from Honduras, Halifax, Jamaica, and St. Vincent. We have received Halifax papers to the 30th July. His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief has directed the employment of a company of the 24th Regiment, and one of the 37th, to work on the Great Eastern and Western Roads during the summer—the soldiers are to receive Is. per day, the sergeants Is, 6d., and the subalterns :is. The whole cost will not exceed Is. Bd. per day for every effective man upon the road. The accounts received by the mail from Lisbon this morning state that on the arrival of the Royal Tar there with the London mail, the people in the above capital were agreeably surprised to learn that Lord Palmerston's Portuguese Slave Bill had been thrown out in the House of Peers, owing to the Duke of Wellington's opposition to it. Her Majesty's steamer Firebrand, with her Imperial Majesty, the Duchess of Braganza and daughter, on board, reached Casraes Bay on the 6th, and entered the Tagus un the next day. Ex paper money is 51 per cent. discount. Exchange on England, 564 to 56i. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, SATURDAY. --.We have had a good demand for cotton to day, full prices have been obtained, sales 5,000 bags, chiefly to the trade. Private Letters from Paris of the 16th inst., Four o'clock in the afternoon, state that the rise in bread there had produced a consternation among the working classes ; numbers of the working people bad assembled on the Place de Greve to be employed, but refused to work with out the price of their day's labour was augmented. THE FUNDS. We have few arrivals for a Monday morning and double post day, and the intelligence received by the Lisbon Mail is not of much importance. Consols, which closed on Saturday at 91ti Money, and 91i g for the Account, opened this morning, not quite so good, at 91i buyers for the Account ; Money, 01i The Government Broker has sold about 40,0001. Exchequer bills. It is stated that 500,0001. Exchequer bills have been subscribed this.morning at the Bank of England. We are sorry to observe that the'sudden change in the weather, with the heavy fall of rain during the night, and this morning, has caused some fears that advantage will be taken of it at Mark Lane, in the course of the day, and that a higher price will be demanded for Wheat. Exchequer bills 18 20IPremium ; Bank Stock 185 186 ; India Stock, 247 249 ; Spanish, active, rather lower 19,i 20 ; Portuguese, 294 a ; Thrfe. per- Cents, Hi 19j. ; Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents, 54fi ; Five per Cents. 1 ,03R. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS LAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock lB6 India Stock 3 per Cent. Red. ........ Ditto Bonds 3 per • Cent. Cons. 2IX, %%X, ; South Sea Stock !Of 35.,, per Cent Old Annuities, 0 id° Red. 99% 4 I New Ditto New 3% per Cent 98.7•4 N% 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 New 5 per Cent. - Exch. Bills, .41,000 21 18 18 pm. Bank Long Annuities toexpire Di tto 500 17 16 21 pm. Jan. 5, 186(1 l4 7-16% Ditt o S mall 2O 17 21 19 pm. Oct. 10, 1859 l4 % Ditto Commercial par Jan. 5, 1860 --Ditto Advertised ...... pm. Jan. 5, 1880 — Bank Stock for Account ... 186 April 5, 1880 — India Stock for Account .., Jan. 5. 1870 -- Consos for Account ...... 91% yi% PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds — Peruvian 80nd5...,,, Belgian Bonds Ditto Account Brazilian Bonds Ditto Account % Buenos Ayres Bonds nt. Ditto Account Chilian Bonds DU° Account Columbian Bonds Ditto Account.... ......... -- Ditto Account Columbian Bonds, 1824. — . Spanish Bonds ... Ditto Account 1 9% Ditto Account. 1 91765i Danish Bonds Ditto Account —l Deferred B3i Greek Bonds -• l French, 5 er cent. ...... —f. Ditto Bonds, 1823 —.l ---- 4 p er cent....... —f. —c. Ditto Account —l ---- 3,per cent. Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent. ----- Exchange. —f. —c. Ditto Account Dutch, 2% per cent. `4.%% Ditto, 6 per Cent ' ,7% , Ditto Account 51 ii% Ditto Account Neapolitan. — Ditto Account.... ...... PRICES OF SHARES THIS DA r AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. Brazilian Imperial Mining Co (Issued at 51. pm.) 20 Ditto St. John del Rey Great Western Railway Company Ditto New — 1 %% pm. Brighton Railway London and Blackwall Railway l3 Iniyoi HALF-PAST ONE. The chief feature this morning is the funding of the Exchequer bills, which is now open to any person at the Bank of England to send in their tender ; at present we hear of about 800.000 being subscribed for in the course of the morning. There is still a prevailing opinion that this trial will prove another failure, if some of the great capitalists do not put a shoulder to the wheel. As we are writing it is reported that one of our London bankers have subscribed for 500,0001., which, in addition to the above will make the tenders 1,300,0001. I 00000000000000000 el Consols 91f for the Account; Money 91f ; Exche quer bills receded, 20 16 18 ; India Bonds, nothing done ; Bank Stock 18 ; India Stock, 247. In the Foreign Market some business has been done, Spanish Active 19i; Portuguese 29f ; Three per Cents., 19 ; Colombian 29f ; Mexican 27f ; Danish, 75k; Bel gian, 103 k ; Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents., 54 11 ; Five per Cents., 103 CITY OF DUBLIN REGISTRY.—TUESDAY.-- Tories, 26 ; Liberals, 11 ; majority, 15 ; 25 freemen among the Tories. WEDNESDAY.—Tories, 18; Liberals, 10 ; majority, 8 ; there were 14 freemen among the Tories. THURSDAY.—Tories, 29 ; Liberals, 11; majority, 18 ; there were 23 freemen among the Tories. DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—On Sunday forenoon, between eleven and twelve o'clock, as two men, dressed as bricklayers, were amusing themselves along the streets by what is termed " larking," one of them fell into the road opposite Charing-cross coach-yard, and before he could ex tricate himself, or his companion assist him, the two wheels of a hackney-coach passed over his chest and bead. He was conveyed to Charing-cross Hospital close by, where every attention was paid to his severe injuries, but not the least hop' is entertained of his recovery. BRUSSELS, AUG. 17.—Their Majesties, with their suite, will sot out to-day by the railway for Ostend. Yesterday the King gave a private audience to Count Emile and areltrernont, Envoy Extraordinary and Minis ter Plenipotentiary to the Court of Rome. 17.~ EVENING EDITION. ! WINDSOR -SUNDAY EVENING. M.desty, accompanied by her Royal Highness the Duchess ut Kelit, and attended by Lady Cliarlernoni, ar. rivA at the Castle at four o'clock yesterday aft,-:r»ows, from Buckingham Palace, escorted l y a detachment of the 21_Regiment of Life Guards. During the day the following distinguished pi,rsons ar rived at the Castle:—The Earl and Countess of Ux bitige, Lord Lilnird, Lord Gardiner, the Ladies Eleanor& and Constance Paget, Dowager Countess and Lady Fanny Co-, , .p,r, Hon. Miss Anse,. Mr. Cowper, Hon. Mis s Pa get, Sir ham Lumley, Hon. C. A. Murray, Viscount Torrington, Colonel Buckley, Lord Leveson, Lord Mor path, Earl of Surrey, and Lady Charlotte Dundas. The Queen, accompanied by her distinguished visitors, left the Castle at five o'clock, in pony phaetons, for Vir- Water, whcr. , gala iepast was pri-pared for toe Royal parry in tile Fishing Tempi-. Her Majesty and suite aftemaros want on bo...rd the Adelaide frigate, and ri turned to the Castle at seven o'clock to d7iviict. The dinner took place in the grand dining-room. The band of toe 45 , h Rygitn,nt were in attendance, aed played during the evening telectionsfrom La Sortnambull. 1V; „rMa, and I Pit, itani. Her Majesty attended Divine worship at St. George's Chapel this morning, accompanied by her Rojial Highness the Duchess of Kent, and attended by her suite. Viscount Melbourne arrived at the Castle yesterday evening to dinner, and left ter London at eight o'clock this morning. His Lordship will return to the Castle this morning, to join the Royal party at dinner. The Royal dinner party at the Castle will consist of the following distinguished personages: --Her Royal High ness the Duchess of Kent, Lady Charletmnt (in Wait ing), Hon. Miss Anson, Hon. Miss Paget, Hon. Mrs. Brand (in Waiting), Viscount Melbourne, Earl Surrey, Earl and Countess of Uxbridge ; the Dowager Countess and Lady Fanny C ow p er , Vi scount and Viscountess Howick, Viscount Morpeth, Viscount Torrington, Lord Gardner, Lord Leveson, the Ladies E'eanor and Constance Paget, Lady Fanny Howard, Lord Edward Howard, Mr. Brand, Mr. G eorge Ed war d A nson, Mi ss Copley, Lieutenant-C ,lone) Reid, 2d Life Guards, Lieut.- Colonel Boyce, 45th Regiment of Foot, lion. Colonel and Mrs. Cavendish, Marquis Headfort, Sir William Lum ley, Colonel Buckley, and the Hon. C. A. Murray. _- Lady Caroline Barrington and the Hun. Captain Grey will join the Royal party in the evening. Her Majesty, attended by her suite, took a carriage airing in the Great Park this afternoon. The Queen returned to the Castle about five o'clock, and afterwards promenaded on the Terrace, accompanied by h?r august Mother and attended by her numerous suite. The bands of the two Regiments stationed here were in the Parterre, and several thousands of persons were present. The Court will leave the Castle for Buckingham Palace to-morrow. t'~ COURT CIRCULAR. Saturday was the birthday of her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent. At two o'clock in the afternoon her Majesty, accompanied by her Royal Highness, and attended by the Countess of Charlemont, left town in an open car riage and four, with outriders, escorted by a party of the Light Dragoons, for Windsor Castle. The Royal suite followed in three of the Royal carriages and four, and con sisted of Lady Charlotte Dundas, Hon. Miss. Paget, Hon. Anson, Hon. Mrs. Brand, Baroness Lehzen, Marquis of Headfort, Sir William Lumley, and Colonel Buckley. On her Majesty leaving the Palace, the Royal Standard was lowered from the marble arch of Buckingham Palace. A party of the nobility were invited to Windsor Castle to celebrate the day, and included the Dowager Countess and Lady Fanny Cowper, the Earl and Countess of Ux bridge, and the Ladies Elconora and Constance Paget, Earl of Surrey, Viscount Melbourne, Viscount Morpeth, Viscount Torrington, Lord Leveson, Lord Edward Howard, Lord Gardner, Hon. William Cowper, Mr. Brand, and Mr. George E. Anson. The Duchess of Kent's tradesmen dined together on Saturday at the King's Arms, Kensington, to celebrate her Royal Highness's birthday. Mr. Wyld, the Map Pub lisher, very ably filled the chair. The table was liberally supplied with venison by her Royal Highness. In the evening her Royal Highness's trades-people illu minated. Viscount Melbourne had an audience of the Queen on Satui day, previous to the departure of her Majesty from town. A Cabinet Council was held at half-past ten o'clock on Saturday morning, at the residence of Lord John - Russell in Wilton -crescent. The Council sat an hour and a half. The Marquis of Lansdowne afterwards left town for Dover en route to the Continent Mr. Justice Burton and the Chevalier Mustoxidi had interviews with the Marquis of Normanby on Saturday at the Colonial-office. Dispatches were received yesterday at the Foreign. office from the British Minister at the Hague. Lord John Russell attended at the Home-office on Sa turday afternoon for the first time since his recent indis position. Viscount Melbourne left town on Saturday afternoon, on a visit to her Majesty, at Windsor Castle. The French Charge d'Affaires transacted business at the Foreign Office on Saturday. The Chancellor of the Exchequer left town on Saturday for Tonbridge Wells. Lady Munro from Genoa, and the Hon. Mrs. Walker Ferrand from Liverpool, arrived at Farrance's Hotel on Saturday. The lion. Mr. and Mrs. G. O'Callaghan have left town for the Isle of Wight. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. The Duke of Norfolk, in St. James's.square, from Arundel Castle, Sussex ; Lord and Lady Fitzalan, in Hyde Park-place, from the Isle of Wight; Lord A. Hervey, in St. James's-square, from Brighton ; the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ashburnham and family, by the Great Western, from New York ; Lady Augusta Cotton and Mrs. Brooke, in Cadogan-place ; the Hon. Captain Wellesley, son of Lord Cowley, from a tour; the Hon. and Rev. Richard Bruce Stopford, from the Cloisters, at Windsor Castle; the Hon. Octavins Duncombe, Ist Life Guards, at the Knightsbridge Barracks; the Hon. Cap tain Curzon, R. N., at Marlborough House, from Rotter. dam ; Baron and Baroness Meyerndorff, from a visit to Lord and Lady Shrewsbury, at Alton Towers, Derby shire ; the Earl of Galloway, from a visit to the Dowager Countess of Galloway, at Rosslyn House, Hampstead; Mr. and Mrs. James Alexander, on Carlton-terrace, from their seat, Somer-hill, Tunbridge, Kent; Lord and Lady Rodney and Sir Charles Morgan, from Bognor, Sussex the Hon. William Borvell Macdonald, by the Great Wes tern, from New York. DEPARTURES. Viscount Powerscourt, M. P., from Dover -street, for his seat in Ireland ; Lord and Lady Charles Hervey, from Grosvenor-square, for the Duke of Buccicuch's villa at Richmond ; Lord Montagu, from Hamilton-place, on a tour; Lord and Lady James Stuart, from Langham place, for Scotland ; the Earl of Besborough, from Port land place, for Brighton; Lord Cecil Gordon, or, a visit to General Windham, at Cockermouth Castle, Cumber land ; the Earl of Moray and Lady Anne Stuart, from Stratford-place, for Fifeshire ; the Hon. Grantley Berke ley, M. P., from Spring-gardens, for Gloucestershire; Lieut.-General Sir Joseph, Lady, and Miss Fuller, from Bryanston-square, for their seat, High Grove; Colonel Fred. Stovin, on a grouse shooting excursion, to the High lands; the Hon. Lady Hope, for Edinburgh; the Hon. Colonel and Mrs. Montagu, from Montagu House, Port man-square, on a visiting tour; Sir George and the Misses Talbot, for their seat in Scotland ; Lady Gardener, from Bute House, for Lord Dinorben's, Kenmell Park, South Wales ; Sir Wyndham Drilling, Bart., from St. James's street, for Earsham Hall, Bungay, Suffilk ; Huskisson, from Mount-street, for Sussex; Mr. Wood, from the St. James's Hotel, for Ottershawe Park, Surrey; Dowager Lady Floyd, for Sir Roberi Peel's, Drayton Manor; the Countess of Lichfield and family, from St. James's-square, for the seat of the Noble Earl, Shugbo rough Hall, Staffordshire; Lord Cardigan, on a grouse shooting excursion, in the moors of Inverness-shire ; Earl i and Countess Cowper, from Great Stanhope -street, on a visiting tour in the north ; Lord and Lady Brownlow, from Belgrave-square, for L,amington Spa, Warwickshire ; the Dowager Lady Hamlyn Williams, from South -street, on a visit to Sir James and Lady Williams, at Clovelly Court, Carmarthenshire ; the Earl and Countess of Mor ton, from Old Palace-yard, for their scat in Scotland; the Earl of Liverpool and Lady Louisa Jenkinson, from Fife House, Whitehall, for Bustead Park, near Uckfield ; Lord and Lady Leigh, for their seat Stoneleigh Abbey, War. wickshire; Lord and Lady Ernest Bruce, from Curzon_ street, for Tottenham Park, Wilts, on a visit to the Mar quis and Marchioness of Ailesbury; Lord Montagu, from Hamilton place, on a tour of visits; Sir Robert Gordon, from Argyll House, Argyll-street, on a visit to the Earl of Aberdeen, at his seat, Haddo Castle, Aberdeenshire ; Sir B. Hall, for his shooting box, in Scotland ; Lord and Lady Willoughby de Broke, from Hill-street, for their teat in Warwickshire; the Dowager Countess of West meath, from Poriugal-street ; the Honourable H. and Lady Catherine Molyneux, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Sefton, at Croxteth Park, Lancashite ; the Honourable E. and Mrs. Petre, for Scotland ; the Earl of Cadogan, from Piccadilly, to join the Countess and Ladies Cadogan, at Cowes, Isle of Wight; the Earl and Countess of Aylesford and the Ladies Fincb, from Gros osuctoht;lanri the ; venor- street, for th e i rseat, P ackington Hall, near Coventry; Lord Clements, f rom G rosvenor-square, on a tour; Sir H. Seale, Bart., M. P. , from Albemarle -street, for Mount B B c o g n r e a , v e s q a r u a r f t o m r Lord Ear and L l of Dunmore, Du nally, Via n f a r l o l y m , for their Vi seat, Dunally C astle, Tipperary ; Viscount and Viscountess Powerscourt, from Dover -street, for Powers court, their seat in Ireland; Lord and Lady Gort, from Clifford-street, for Loughcooter Castle, county Galway ; the Dean of Lichfield and the Hon. Mrs. Howard and family, from the Burlington Hotel, for the West Cliff at Ramsgate ; the Earl and Countess of Lucan, from AThomas's Hotel, for Lawn House, near Castlebar ; Sir rthur Bro o k e, B art., for Brookborough, county Ferma gh ; Sir Clifford and Lady Constable, and Miss Chi. cheater, from Cumbe.land-place, for Paris ; Lieutenant_ Colonel Greaves, Military Secretary to the Lieutenant_ General Commanding in Ireland, for Dublin ; Lord Chas. and Lady Harriet Harvey, for the Duke of Buccleuch's villa at Richmond; Sir Henry Lushington, Bart., from Montagu -square, for St. Leonard's ; Lord and Lady Radnor, for Brighton ; the Marquis of Breadalbane, from Park-lane, for his shooting quarters, Perthshire ; Sir Francis Shugburgh, Bart., from the Pavilion, Hans-place, for Warwickshire. CHANGES. The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland, at Sion House from a visit to the Earl and Countess of Powis, at Powis Castle, near Waleot, Shropshire ; the Duke and Duchess of Cleveland and suite, from the Hotel Belle Vue at Venloo, on a tour in Belgium in Holland ; the Bishop • of Winchester and Mrs. Sumner, at the palace, Winches ter, from Portsmouth ; Sir John Orde, Bart., at his seat, Morpeth, from a tour ; Count Valentine Ebterhazy, from a visit to Lord and Lady Shrewsbury, at Alton Towers, their seat in Derbyshire, on a tour. v; ,, f its NE A .1