The Sun. — London, England, 1839-08-21 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION. if f• TO THE PROPRIETORFa OF EAST INDIA STOCK. 1 T LADIES AND GENT LEMEN, HE DEATH of your late DIRECTOR Mr. JOSIAS I sC PRE ALEXANDER, having f- caused a VACANCY its the management of your affairs, I be 4 leave most eart - ,estly and respectfully to renew my solicita i tion for 7, , ,0tir Faleport upon the present occasion, when I have I every eceason to believe there will be a contest. It is the first 1 time I eve,- intimated an intention of proceeding to the ballot, bavir ,g oantiously abstained from doing so, until the support ( wit' , which I was honoured, should enable me to look forward w ; .th entire confidence to the result. That period, so long and ttF o anxiously looked for, has now arrived ; and if through your favour I am honoured with a seat in the Direction, my best efforts, whether in that capacity or as a Member of the I louse of Commons, shall be directed to promote the interests of the East India Company, and the welfare and I.a2piness of the native inhabitants committed to their rule. f When the day of election has been fixed, I shall lose no time in forwarding to my frieti,is in the country the usual iLetters ofAt t in ey, to c nettle them to vote by proxy ; and I shall ! hr.. happy to be permitted to transmit a similar instrument to any t Proprietors who may still be disengaged, and may deem me deserving of their support, if they will kindly intimate to me i their intention. Allow me to repeat my warmest and most grateful thanks for the very flattering encouragement with 1 y 'Meh l my pretensions have been honoured; and it there should I he any Proprietors to whom I have not paid my respects I i Lust they will kindly ascribe the omission to the accidents in /separable fr ont suc h a canvass, an d not to any want o f assi d uity on my part. I have the honour to be, ; Ladies and (Antlemen, i Your very faithful a nd o b e di en t servant, J WEIR HOGG. 1 40, Upper Grosvenor -street, Aug. 21, 1839. Mr. L - iogg's Committee will sit Daily at the London Tavern Bishopsgate-street. ETIS Majesty the KING of PRUSSIA, -1--1 saving AUTHCRISED and GUARANTEED I)ISTRIBUTIONS of MONEY PREMIUMS, which (thong)). they are NO LOTTERIES), offer many possi• bilitiey of obtaining LARGE FORTUNES, HEINE BROTHERS at lIAMBURGH, '..re NOW SELLING SHARES for the said DISTRIBTh TIONS. Persons desirous to purchase may receive, PREVI. 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Ev;•ning 19 minutes after V. - .- 4 . 4 ., PV . .% • ' \~ LONDON: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1839, ---„----- The Approp r i a ti on Bill, generally one of the last of the Session, was one of the Bills carried up to the i Lords last night. The Marquis of WESTMINSTE,R- eaiied their Lord \t, ships' attention to the impure water drunk by the inha bitants of the west-end ;to the necessity of fencing off 1 railroads to prevent accidents ; and to the state of the ; public sewers, all matters of police, :vhich might be ad vantageously attended to. Hi s L or d ship wished to fl pledge the H ouse to take these subjects into considera tion next S ess i on , b ut t h a ' . b eing informal the notice was i withdrawn. Lord BROUGHAM brought the c,ise of Mr. ROBERTS i 4 before their Lordships. This gentleman has discovered : t a means of preserving animal substances, and wants to be rewarded for the trouble and expense he has in curred. Why does not Mr. ROBERTS, like other inven ,; tors,. bring his intention to the test of the market. If it be worth r any thing he may make money by it. A Conference was held with the Commons on the Lords' amendments to the Ass.sults (Ireland) Bill, and r. i very hardworked, though we have scarcely heard his Pname during the Sessicro, moved th a t t h e L or d s do not P i adhere to their ameAdments, but the subject was post i poned. i Lord BP.occifiA3l asked some question concerning ' the war In the East, to which Lord MELBOURNE re -4 plied that the fight between the Turks and the Egyp tans had nqt been so disastrous to the former as had i been represented ; that the hope of preserving the i' 'Darkish empire was founded on the co-operation of tine five Great Powers ; and our diplomatic agents had i., been sincere and zealous in their exertions to prevent hostilities. The Duke of WELLINGTON said a descrip tion he had seen of the tight was most beautiful, but had the trifling fault of ant containing one word of truth. 1 Lord BROUGHAM formally gave up hi s Beer Bill for this S ess i on . 1 . - . . , LordL; : a. - DxuaaT, on representation, withd rew hi s 0 4positi on to the Poor-rates' Collection Bill, which was Pit trod a third time. The Duk e of WELLINGTON, too, was not disposed to press his . i Lord Bac_ u s G objections to tl:c M anc h es t er Poli ce Bill. ran said h e t h oug h t t h ere m i g h t b e doubtst, sbou d the Charter be held invalid, whether the Gommissioncrs both these Noble 'could form a police, and position, the Bill went withdrawing their op- The Bolton Police NH ht through a Committee. On the proposal to corn'trii°twiterer''was not so fortunate. t a somewhat furious attack 0 . Lord ...YNDIIUBST made Bolton Magistrates, .1 particularly the Mayor, :h o the ude Chartist, and de c l are d that m n he d escr i bed as a 'a much more efficient p o li ce , rid b e secured for th Present A c t s Bolton than under the proposed - Little 80l- I ship further said that only a and °F t. , h e pia ". overseers His Lord •-i ton was included in the borough, : could not raise a rate for the poli ce • • Ihe Duke of WELLINGTON supported Lord LYNDItURST, follo'l ' him in proscribing tire Chartists, so that the Charti st - opinions arc already haeoine like the Di ssenters' CathoF.c opiaioos blore 18:2, a reaso n f or exclusioaar from office. Tiie Tor ics are creating pr ac ti ca ll y new Test Acts, and 1a:a . ,1 I,Y:unit:as - I' and the Duke of WEL usoros jamped to the conclasion that th e Ch art i st opinions led to the riots. Viscount DUNCANNON thought there was soinetiiing in the suggestion touching Little Bolton, and the further consideration of the Bill was postponed till Thursday. The Constabulary Bid went through a Committee with numerous amendincnta, which are to be printed, 1 and th 2 Bill is to be re-committed on Thursday. After getting the Bis•ardy liil through a Commit tee, the Lords adjourned at E gait n'Clock t ;1 Thursday. Tire Co mmons met at twelve o ' c l oc k. aral after some routine business reinstated the class;.: ia the Assaults • (Ireland) B 11, which the There was a little cat•t • Lords r '- 11 , ;(1 struck out. , es. as to wholier the Lords or the r ‘:tra'rDe^s commit most errors, and t h e presump ti on • --- is that the Commons do, they being the most nume rous. The Lords hardly ever originate any measures, are a Court for revising the measures of the Commons, and appear, perhaps, to be more free from errors because they do a great deal less work. They have nothing to do but to correct the errors of the Commons, and commit none themselves because they frame no bills. We are ready to take the character of each from the other and pronounce both to be, each in its line, complete bunglers. The Slave Trade Bill being the subject of a notice, Mr. O'CONNELL took the opportunity of calling on the Government to insist with Portugal on the punishment of the miscreants who had planned wholesale murder by poisoning the wine and water on board slavers. The Lords' amendments to the Metropolitan Police Courts were taken into consideration and agreed to. The Duke of MARLBOROUGH'S Pension Bill went t h roug h a Committee. The House adjourned at Three and met again at Five. The RECORDER, who had been challenged by Mr. HAWES to be in his place in the early sitting, and hear himself attacked, but wa s not present, wished the attack to be renewed in his pre sence, but to this both Mr. HAWES and the SPEAKER demurred, and the Learned RECORDER had not an opportunity of defending himself. Mr. HAWES had censured him_ for misrepresenting the Metropolis Courts Bill in his own Court, instead of attacking it in the House of Commons. In answer to a question Lord Howtcx stated that the substance of the Report of the Navy and Military Commission was agreed on, but he was af.aid would not be laid on the table this Session. Mr. HumE referred to the case of Mr. VIGER, but only received the satisfaction of learning that Sir JOHN COLBORNE was justified in keeping him in confinement. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, after making a long and querulous speech, complaining of the oppo sition he had experienced, announced his intention of withdrawing the Bank of Ireland 8.11, and of bring ing in two Bills to continue the Act of last Ses sion till 1841, and to fund 900,000/. more of Exchequer Bills held by the Bank of Ire land. So ends the scheme for the present ; and the next Chancellor of the Exchequer will, we hope, know something more than Mr. RICE about the. principles of banking, and the prerogative of coining money. After some not pleasant bickering, the Right Hon. Gentleman obtained leave and brought in a Bill to secure the payment of certain sums advanced by the Bank of Ireland. The Com mittee on the Bank was postponed till Friday when certain amendments are to be made in it, and it is to lie over. ..Nlr. HUME moved for leave to bring in a Bill to es tablish County Councils. The debate on the motion was adjourned, and the House adjourned at Half-past Eight o'Clock. In The Sun of yesterday we published at length Mr. M'DouALL's d e f ence , an d i t seems to us to confound all ideas of right and wrong, to pet vert the moral judgment, and render the public mind a complete chaos, to apply the same term, Guilty, to his conduct, and that of a murderer. What did he dos He was present at a meeting where other persons carried flags on which were some inscrir tions that are unpopular with some classes, but are neither indecent nor immoral. Nor are they injurious to property, or repugnant to liberty. He made a speech containing something displeasing to somebody ; there was a pistol or two fired, a felt de joie, for people, as witness Gil Blas, hare long been accustomed to blow off powder on hilarious or exciting occasions. There was a procession, a rem nant of worn-out manners which our Italian Opera going gentry have wholly discarded, and therefore it must be impure and dangerous. But, with all defe rence to stately Judges, and prim starched-up Juries, we cannot look on any of the monuments of anti• quity, abounding as they do with the representation of processions of all kinds, and agree to their asser tion that there is guilt in a proces3ion accompanied by flags and the firing of pistols. Processions are of great antiquity, and very innocent. The Attorney-General for the Palatinate, and the Judge, were quite of one opinion, that the flags, and the pistols, and the processions made the assembly illegal, which we do not dispute. We never pretend to know what the law is ; Chief Jus tice DENMAN does not know it, though he pre sumes he does ; but we know that the law is an incongruous, incomprehensible mass of ecntra dictory absurdities, and we conclude, therefore, that an action which is perfectly illegal may, at the same time, be perfectly innocent and most praise worthy. But Mr. M‘DouALL was guilty of speaking. He is an eloquent man, and litters words that burn. How did the Judge and Jury know what he had said ? A constable reported his, words, who-had probably never reported any thing before in his life, and ap pears not to have made the notes of what he had heard till next morning. How easily such a report might become a jumble of what Mr. M.DouALL said with his own beer-bred fancies, both being equally believed by him, is known to every person conversant with such subjects. So apt a reporter was he, that he could not repeat a passage immediately after Mr. M‘DovALL, though he recollected his very words twelve hours after hearing them at Hyde. On such evidence, a Judge would have directel a verdict against a plaintiff in a civil suit for 57., but in these inflamed party times, the Judge and Jury held it sufficient to stigmatize an able and an eloquent man with the epithet of guilty. Though the Judges, who are bound to know nothing but the law, may be ignorant of the fact that re poriing is brought to great perfection, we beg leave to state, for their information, that there are now numerous gentlemen skilful at taking down the words of a speaker, and whose known accuracy entitles their reports, whether attested by an oath or not, to implicit credit ; and we tell the Judges that they fail in performing their duty— , they do not act honestly and decorously when they accept any evidence of what a public speaker says, exceft the evidence of an accredited and skilful reporter. In such cases the Judge, if he be an honest, .reflecting man, and not a mere blind instrument of a very imperfect rystem, if he be the advocate of the accused, and not the tool of a vindictive party or a vindictive Government—is bound to tell a prosecutor—" You should not come into court unless you can bring the best evidence which the circumstances of the time and the case allow you to procure." Since writing has become common, it has not been the practice to admit the existence of any kind of contracts, unless they are written. The Judges, in such cases, re quire the evidence of art, and they are bound to require similar evidence, as to spoken language, on which a man's life may depend. No such evidence was brought against Mr. M‘DouALL ; and from the verdict and the sentence we pronounce him a much injured and oppressed man. •We would venture, humbly but respectfully, to press his case on public attention, because, in the party warfare now carrying on, it may be the case of every public speaker in the country. The con test at present is between the middle classes and the lower classes, and the former think themselves safe ; but the Tories may return to power, the Peers may get the tipper hand, a Tory Attorney- General may prosecute a Whig politician before a Tory Chief Baron, and the precedents followed in the cases of 1 1 'j'DOUALL and STEPHENS will then tell against the Liberals. We press Mr. M‘DouA Lt.'s case on public attention, because he is obviously an educated man, who appears not to have taken up his principles lightly, and will not lightly lay them down. He acts from conviction. " I retire (he said, at the close of his eloquent speech) cheerfully within the gates of a prison ; I retire there knowing that I am prosecuted and imprisoned because I have dared to advocate the rights of the poer man, and because I have presumed to assert, and am now prepared to demand, the extension of these rights to the working classes of this country which their forefathers possessed. I retire, therefore, in the hope and consciousness that the temporary imprisonment will at length draw to a close, and that at some period I must be liberated ; and being yoinv , in years, I am high in the expectation that I shall yet live to see those principles carried into execution in this country—that I shall yet live to see them perfected in this IP.nd, and peace, and security, and comfort enjoyed by all its people." The case of such a man deserves public atten tion, though even the so-called hut now much mis named Liberal Journals, keep their readers in the publishing any p or ti on o f hi s d e f ence . They con tent dark as to h i s character and atta i nments b y not themselv es w i t h hurling a few shafts of ridicule agai nst the Chartists, and stifle the evidence that ep.nodew,:erful talents, commanding eloquence, great gy, and h onest convictions ° are ranged on their s i • Such a cours e is deluding and dangerous to those who receive such erroneous and one-sided views. Those who read M T erroneous and mdeen fence will conclude, though‘thre. ° pi; be put down, that Chartism will giow and become th e po li t i cal creed of theand spread, masses, means be found, an d that spec , unless d Iy redress their to orievances. The middle classes juswave unfortunately Great need of the soldiery, and the soldiery seetn inclined to make them feel their depetidence They prefer being protected by Itissats to being sur rounded by affectionate fellow-citizens, and needing no protection. The Hussars feel their own power and will make those who can only sleep,onder the protection of th e i r sa b res f ee l i t too. We know enough of the dashing cavalry to be convinced that they will make their contempt for their protegeA manifest. If any person doubt this, let him consult the Chronicle and the Examiner, concerning the be haviour of some cavalry officers to Mr. BRENT, a " magistrate and a gentleman," and he will find ample proof of the assertion. From the correspondence which has been pub lished, and will be found in another part of The Sun, it appears that Mr. BRENT lives in the neighbourhood of Canterbury, not far from the cavalry barracks, and that he and his son occupy land of their own. On the sth of July, six iodi viduals on horseback amused themselves riding over a field of grass laid in for hay. They were in plain clothes, but Mr. BRENT knew them to be officers of the 11th Light Dragoons, com manded by Colonel Lord CARDIGAN. Mr. BRENT saw them, and on being warned that they were committing a trespass, they - made a rude reply and attempted to ride off. Asked to give their names, one of these accomplished protectors of the middle classes replied " Snooks," and one of them attempted to ride over Mr. BRENT. He followed them to the barracks, the gate was shut in his face; he was refused admittance ; he wrote to the Colonel, the Colonel took no notice of his letter; he wrote to the Horse Guards, the Horse Guards made in quiry of the officers, and gave Mr. BRENT no redress. Lord HILL thought it was all right ; for why should not officers trample down the grass of their slaves, laugh at their attempt •to ride over them, and threaten to horsewhip them when told that they are blackguards ? To be sure, Colonel the Earl of CARDIGAN offered to fight Mr. BRENT, but Mr. BRENT had no personal quarrel with the Earl of CARDIGAN, and declined to be shot by an Earl, as a satisfaction for an attempt to ride over him by a Cornet. The correspondencz ought to convince the middle classes that from the Commander-in. Chief to the youngest Cornet they have little or nothing to expect . but rudeness and contempt from that soldiery under which they have placed ;herriselves. - ?uily act i±i een'nert wi 5 the consent of the five Powers. The Prussian officers, including Muhlbach, did not perish at Nezib, and all survive. The National is exceedingly indignant, tbt't this Austro , -Antlittn inl&rei'ensie" has been listened to by France, who might have settled the question " without a blow, almost without a word," without consulting any of the Great Powers. Our Gallic Contemporary does not tell us how; end cit! , ton nit=s otiluslty loot to tie so great that, unassisted, we fear we shall never be able to make the discovery. If, as the French Jour nals triumphantly announce, in proof of the vas t moral and political aseenclaney of Praline,Admiral LALANDE was confidentially informed by the Capitan Paella of his in tended treason, then indeed had France an opportunity of performing a disti.iguishe4 pad, but of which her Admiral lathed tith-r the patriotism or the political liakicity to avail himself. It is France and not England that has been doped and disgraced by this affair : and we are surprisr,d that the varsity of any public writer of ordinaiy discernment should blind him to this obvious view of the question. What does the boasted eon& dence of the C ipitan ainatint to but to this ? —A conviction that he could not reveal his treasonable desi g n to an English Offi cer , an d h ope to l i ve to execute it. And yet he could do so—could propose the betrayal of his country into the powor of her declared enemy, in the presence of a French Admiral and a French Prince of the Blood, both with swords in their hands to preserve the integrity of that country, and yet feel assured that his secret would not be di vulged till his treason Was accomplished! How dis torted mtht be the moral vision of a nation when it glories in what disgraces it! Bat, for the honour of France, we suspend all belief in the alleged tact so porn pously announced in French Papers ; and we trust that the French Government will shortly be able to contra. diet a report so derogatn/ to the honour of the ail. lent Commander of the rrench squadron in the Medi term-it:an. _ In a letter from Vienna of the 10th, published In the Commerce, it is stated that 0. Congress of the Euro pean Powers Will assemble is that capital early in October, to settle the Eistern question. Austria, it appears, cordially adopts the views of England, having recently received sufficient indications of the dangerous design, of rtuslia. The Anti-Catholic proceedings of Prussia have likewise alarmed several Austrian States me„, and t h ey have not hesitated to• declare a n often. sive and defensive alliance with Ftince and tngilnd a nepcnary guarantee of the integrity and repose of the empire. • - The following extracts, :t addition In the facts, already stated, include the whole n jthe intelligence contained in the Vreneb Journals of Monday : On several points of the Eastern question opinions arc divided in the Council, and there was more of conjecture than discussion, and more recital than Polemics , in the Cab . net. Nevertheless, there was one opinion olconsider able weight thrown upon the lapis, viz., the opinion of M. Wets. It is known that in his interview with the King, at St. Cloud, M. Tillers xpressod an opinion contrary to that of the majority of the Council. The majority ap peared disposed to send troops, and occupy therewith some point in the Mediterranean. M. Tiliers• deprecated any such measure.-- Temps. FRONTIERS OF SERBIA, AUG. 3. —Prince Milosch has received an answer from Constantinople to his protesta tion, " That he may remain quiet on his property in Wal lachia, and wait fur a definitive answer." By the death of the Sultan, Milosch has lost his only friend at Constanti nople. His younger brother Ephraim Obrenowitsch, the greatest enemy of Milosch, went to Constantinople after the Sultan's death, and no doubt obtained the assent of the Divan to what has passed in Servia. It is not known what success will attend the mission of Prince Michael- German, the son in-law of Ephraim, who has gone with the message, and is nut to return without the Prince. The consent of Milosch would e tantamount to an acknowledgment of the justice of his abdication. Prince Milosch may refuse to entrust his now only son to the care or power of the ambitious Ephraim. General John Obrenowitsch, second brother of Miloseh, is still in confinement on account of the late outbreak. Th e Turkish troops have deserted in numbers from Rutschuk and Sdistria. We are informed by a Correspondent of the Morning Chronicle that the officers of cavalry find their own horses, and are at considerable expense to perform their public duties. What makes young gentlemen then spend their money and encounter brickbats at times, to keep watch for the safety of the middle classes ? If they are not paid in meal by the State, they must understand how to pay themselves in malt. They are largely re warded by the gratification of their arrogance. To them belongs the honour and glory of wearing a sword ; and they can number amongst their achievements that of riding over elderly gentlemen, and of terrifying young ladies. The less they are paid for their services, the more undoubtedly they will gratify themselves by the indulgence of their lordly passions, and those who now so much rejoice in their aid to save them from their own terrors will, ere long, find their sway hard to bear. The clergy of the Church of England are con stantly complaining that the Dissenters are labour ing to pull down the Church. Their everlasting cry is, " the Church is in danger." If this alarm be anything more than a pretence—if they are really sincere in the apprehensions which they profess to entertain for the 'safety of the Esta blished faith, they plainly, though tacitly, ac knowledge their belief that their Church is not, as they pretend it is, built upon the foundation of the Prophets and Apostles ; for were it founded on that impregnabl e rock, it would, of course, laugh to scorn.not only the bat tering rain of Dissent, but the utmost efforts of alt the Principalities and Powers of the earth leagued against it. That the Church is in danger we do not deny. Such Establishments as it is have every thing to dread from the extension of knowledge, and that pro• gressive moral and intellectual advancement which we believe to be a law of the human species. As the mind of man disentangles itself from the fetters of ignorance and prt'judice, which it, has been the baneful policy of the priesthood to wind around it, the grossness of those corruptions which Christianity has been made to undergo before it could be moulded into an efficient engine of the State will become more and more apparent ; men will cease to shrink, as they now too gene rally do, from a rigid scrutiny into the principles and observances which are dictated to them from the pulpit or the Prayer Book ; they will fearlessly test these by the only standard of truth which a Christian ought to admit, the Holy Scripture of the New Testament, and not hesitate to remove that mass of rubbish with which the pure and simple religion of JESUS CHRIST has been overlaid and choked in the State-bolstered systems of Priests and Church-mongers. Such is the rate that sooner or later awaits the Church of England. In the meantime the very means taken to prevent the catastrophe by the supporters of the Establishment, tend inevitably to hurry it on. Instead of leaving time to do its work upon the tottering fabric, its .friends, in their injudicious attempts to prop it up, bring its rotten and obnoxious points more prominently into view. They who ought to keep its faults in the shade—they who should prevent it from being an eye-sore—they who, above all things, should take care that it do not clash with the interests, the comforts, the recreations of the people, are doing all they can to render it a public nuisance. It is made a bar to every improvement, whether social or political. In no direction can we advance without finding it an obstacle to our progress. It meets us at every turn in some unseemly form or other. The people of Ireland demand to be placed on a footing of (quality with those of England and Scot land, in respect of civil rights. What stands in the way of this act of justice and sound policy ? The Church I England is overspread with ignorance and its attendant crime ; it is proposed to bestow upon the poor the blessings of education. What hinders ? The Church I That Church whose duty it is to enlighten the ignorant and reclaim the vicious, proclaims that these great ends cannot be ac complished without an invasion of her rights and pri vileges ! And, as if this were not enough, we have before us the singularly edifying spectacle of a Bishop perambulating the country to preach up sectarianism and intolerance, and to denounce in bitterness of spirit, as an insult to the Church, the benevolent plan of the Government for afford ing to our fellow citizens and fellow Christians, whom a hard fate has compelled to take up their abode in distant colonies, the means of worshipping their Maker according to that form which their consciences approve. Truly the Bishop of EXETER is a right worthy suc cessor of LAUD. His motto is, " The Church, the whole Church, and nothing but the Church." According to him, it is better for man to lose all sense of a Supreme Being than to worship him after any other fashion than that prescribed by the ritual of the Church of England. AUSTRIA.—The concentration of troops still continued in the south-easter n provinces of Austria. Ther e are at present no less than 115.000 mcn in Gallicis, Tran s yl van i a, the Bannat of Tem, swar, and on the frontiers o f B osn i a and Montenegro, besides the military colonies, and the frontier chasseurs, who can easily put on foot from 20,000 to 30,000 men. The news published yesterday of the sudden deter mination of the five great Powers to assume the settle ment of the Oriental question is confirmed by the ac counts from Paris, received this morning. There is, it is true, no further direct intelligence from the Turkish capital in the French Journals of Monday ; but the fol lowing extract from the correspondence of the Augs burg Gazelle of the lath instant, quoted in their co lumns, removes all doubts of the authenticity of the statement which appeared in the Debars of the pre vious day :—. CONSTANTINOPLE, JULY 29.—1 told you in my last letter that the Porte had voluntarily placed itself under the pro teetion of the five Powers, but that the Ambassadors had given no answer to the Divan on this subject. Chosrew Pacha is excessively anxious, as it i 3 thought that all Mehemet Ali's demands will be accceded to; and a Turkish envoy has already embarked in a steamer to go to Mehemet to inform him of this, and that the Porte would make any sacrifice to secure peace, hut that they relied upon his equity for not insisting on the dismissal of Chosrew Pacha, as Abdul Medjid had, as it were, received him from the hands of his father. But suddenly that occurred which nobody could account for. The Ambassadors declared that the Porte had placed itself under their protection, and that they would unite their efforts for the pacification of the East. This declaration produced a deep impression, as it is evident that the Eastern question has become an European one, and that its speedy arrangement might be expected. The French squadron • still maintains its threatening position at the Dardanelles, and we hear it has been joined by the English squadron. M. de Boutenieff has announc, d to the Porte that Russia would consider as a violation of the treaty of Unkiar Ske- lussi the authorisation given to the French and English t squadro. sto enter the Dardanelles. Th e P orte h as given a satisfactory answer. To-morrow ,the -Iciaya will leave ties kr Alexandria, with the declaration that the Porte cannot now enter into any ulterior negotiations,: as it can itilh SUN, LoNDON, WETWESDAN, ACGUST 21, 1830 The business doing in the course of the morning has not feature was a sale of 30,0001 by the Government broker. FUNDIN ill Oft - ElEii - iiktltiPtt DILLS. (TUESDAY.) appears on the tfreatest authority the city can produce, that 6: the tioci, r '.or t."'f th^ Pink of Eng land, that the amount of Exchequer bills offered for con version yesterday was much ovcntated, and that it was " nearer" 700,60/. than 600,0001. The•current rumour I !l , Ets dl, tht .Ik.vet3t I 0nn,0p01. 4 , awl ; aflorcling to some vcrsions of it, 1,300,0004 It would be Z - ;Urioti',l, if it were possible, to trace the origin of the city re ports on this occasion ; for there never was anything !!`.ire ankiodsly affiplilletl, or " indicative," as the city wits exprt ssed it, "of a struggling with the throes of a difficult bargain," than on this oceasion. The tlelAte of last night cii th e siltlea altegrthef has been. productive of great amusement here. The notion that it conveys of Mr. Spring Rice is that of a mar, who, Imving been terribly oizerreaelied before in all his bargains with the city, has at length arrived at the knowledge of that fact, but having attained thereby no higher degree of capncity, While he is compelled by his oan improv dente to enter up:tti a nett contract, becomes p,r.ilysed.. and :if ttrly unable al make arty prOgresS tit all. That a n y Chan cellor of the Exchequer having so very simple an operation to conduct as a funding of 4M00,0001. of Ex• chequer bills in a per:od of peace should have b , en driven to three distinct modes of proceeding, and have been called upon twice publicly for act explanation of 1,; 3 rn,.ani n g in propounding them, is one of those wt riders Which future ages, if the facts were not so broad and apparent, would not believe. 01 the progress made to-day in the conversion of Ex- chequer bills, under the second stage of the Ministerial process, nothing can be said wish certainty, and what occurred yesterday has shAvn how little the current rumours of the day are to be depended on. In fact, very little notice has been taken of the subjfct, and the only amount named has been the very insignificant sum of 40,0001. HERALD.—The conversion of the 4,000,0001. of Ex chequer Bills continues to be the great topic of conversa tion here, anti every hour almost adds e*ideace of the bung ling operation of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, al though an Evening Coatemporary has pitt forth all arti cle in defence of the scheme, apparently froth authority, which would disgrace the veriest tyro in arithmetic. On the matter of finance the Chancellor of the Exchequer must feel that the Government, which, in his depart ment, he represents, are eiiirerneiy weak - , e!se re!!:v the necessity for explaining away a measure not founded on strand financial principles in the House of Commons, and the adttlssion that it has not yet worked to the satisfaction of the Government ?It bas been inquired here to-day whe ther the apathy which the public and the large capitalists atid bankers have shown respecting this conversion has not some ulterior cause beyond the rate at which the Cn:incellor of the Exchequer fixed his maximum. The answer is simply that the present Government, with their bad policy at home and abroad, have not the confidence of the capi talists of the present day which former Cabinets have enjoyed. The private tenders for the exchange of Exchequer bills still continue so limited that not much more than 50 000/. and upwards has been tifered to-day. The Government arc indebted to the Bank of England for taking the amount for which they contracted ; it may in process of time cause the tenders to fall in, but that must depend upon the relative state of the Exchequer Bill Market, and that of the Consols, since but few capitalists in such matters can be expected to play the Satharitaa with a bungling Chan cellor of the Exchequer. OST.--In arrangingthe conditions of the new loan, tho Chancellor of the Exchequer seems to have calculated too confidently on the eagernl ss of our capitalists to become sharers in the extraordinary benefits professed to be there in held out to them. Hs has evidently been under the impression that the prospect of 4 per cent. profit, or some such trifle, without much chance of loss, would have been sufficient to place all Lombard street on their knees before him at the Treasury Chambers on the 16th instant ; but the Right Honourable Gentleman now per ceives his error. He has at length discovered that the financial and, indeed, the general policy of the present Government is not so unexceptionable as to score fur it that unlimited support from the moneyed interest which was enjoyed by many of his predecessors; and we consider it a most excellent omen that his eyes are so effectually opened to the true situation of the Treasury; inasmuch as the circumstances affords us the best possible guarantee against any further encroachment upon the taxation of the country while the public expenditure continues on its prese..t scale. IVIONEYAND CoM3IERCIAL NEWS CITY; TWELVE O'CLOCK. LivEitroot, COTTON MARKET, TUESDAY.—We continue to have a fair demand for C oton to-day. Tile sales are 3.500 bags, of which 1,200 have been taken for export, without material alteration in prices. We are again this morning without any arrivals of con sequence. The intelligence from the East respecting the affairs of Turkey in the Foreign Journals, will daily become of less importance, as it was stated in the House of Lords last night, by Lord Melbourne, that hopes were entertained of maintaining the power of the Sultan and preserving the integrity of the Ottoman empire, by the complete co operation and agreement of the Five Great Powers, and their determination to act together. No correct information can as yet be obtained in respect to the. subscriptions at the Bank for the amount of the fund ing of the Exchequer Bills, therefore all on the subject is mere guess work. _ _ The - re was a good deal doing yesterday in the Foreigi Exchanges, but not at higher rates. Money continues ver, scarce st a high rate of interest. Consols opened this morning at 91a for the Account; Money 91;4 1 ; Exchequer bills, 15 17 15 nominal ; Bank Stock 1844 1851 ; India Stock, 2461 2471. Little busi. ncss doing in the British Funds at present. In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active is not so good Ps they closed, 201 :I; at present 201 4 ; Portuguese, 28 i 294 ; Colombian, 311 32; Brazilian, 781 ; Belgian 1021 103 i ; Mexican 274 284 ; Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents, 544- 4; Five per Cents., io n 4 . - The fineness of the weather gives great hopes that we shall have a good harvest, and but little injury will be done to the crops by the late rains. ... PRICES OF SHARES 'THIS DAV AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per share. Great Western Railway Company ... . 65 66 51 4 London and Birmingham Rail w ay Company... 90 141 X, Ditto % Shares 5 'el London and Greenwich ftailway company-- 2 , : 111 , 4 Inflow' and Croydon Railway Company 1 3/. 183. Lid. 114 Northern and Eastern Railway Company 25 1314 Co.onlalJoin. Stock B.iik 25 -29 N COURSE OF EXCDANGE. YESTERDAY. n. ,, f ,, 1.2 7 • ;nor:at.. 4B Ditto. at sight (Lutcrdain 2U. 12 7%' Genoa.. ' - - 25 '75 Antwerp... Hamburg.. ...... .....M.B. 13 13Y, Venice .... 47 A1t0na..... Paris, 3 days' sight ‘..5 43 , t'a eralo - per oz. 1`...0 Ditt0....... ........... 3Ms 25 70 ILisbon Marseille , Sourtleaux Frankfort on Maine:, Ex. iii. rril Bahi a • 27 'etersbutgh, ruble... 3 Us. 38 !Buenos Ayres — Merlin Vienna, effective 6...3 M lO 6 , Philadelphia 4h Tritste......ditto lO U Piall 1..; OF BULLION, per OZ. 1114cIrld 37 ! I'ortueai Gold, coin .....t:0 it 0 ;;a1t5.......... ~. l7 I ('oreign Gold, in bars... 3 17 9 :1 I boa .... l4e ; Nz,v Doubloons il•rcelo»a 4 ,34 New Dallars iPville 3IIX, , Silver in 'Bars HALF-PAST ONE. British Alw-ket during the been extensive. The chief Exchequer bills at 16 prem. In respect to the Tenders receive this morning at the Bank for the funding of the Exchequ..r bills nothing is positively known as to the amount. Report slys about 70,0001. Consols may be quoted at present 911 for the Account, have been 911-; Money, 91i; Exchequer Bills, 16 15 18 prem. ; India Bonds. 10 prem. ; Bank Stock, 1844, re. ceded, it was 1844 1854 in the morning. In the Foreign Market little doing. Spanish Active rather lovv,r, 202- 1; Portugu( se 28k, also reced,d Three per Cents., 19; Colombian, 31-1,-; Brazilian, 781; Spanish Deferred, 9 BZ-. The Dutch steamer Batavier has just arrive.] with Dutch papers of the 20th of August, by which we have received the Amsterdam prices of the 19th inst. Two and a- Half per Cents., 541; Five per Cents., 1091 -16 - 5 to 102 g. • No political news of importance. /wrist! FUNDs !ank Stock li.s India S' lek .Iper Cunt Bed 1 per Cent Cr .is 9 %, +Atm Old Annuities ..., N per Cent. lied 9, . Ditto :veto Annuities :stew :1..', per Cm. 98% 'Ex. Bills, Ennui 2 1 '0 pm. New 5 per Cent — i Ditto 59. , 1,. ?i , pm, Long Annuities to expire Ditto 509/ 20 pm. Jan. 186'; Oct 1859 Jan 1890 . — ,Consols for Opg FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian, 5 per cent Portuguese! Bonds, sper cent. —. flolgian, 5 per cent IDitto. New Ditto Brazilian Bonds 78% !Prussian,- 5 per cent 3tienos Ayr. s, 6 per cent I Ditio, M Russian Bonds 5 per cent .., etallic'. Chilian, 6 per cent ] iSpanish, 5 per vent 20% Colointnan, 6 per cent Ditto, 182 i........ . ...... Danish, 3 per cent.... ..... ..... -- French, 5 per cent. —f. c Greek Bonds, 1825, 5 per et. i Exchange f—e , French, 3 per cent f. c. Mexican, 5 per rent. Ditto, 6 por cent, 182.;......... i/utch,:l l ,i', per cent. 54 Peruvian, 1825,6 per cent Ditto, 5 per cen t. in3l6 ' SHARES Great Western Railway I )itto New Shares London and Brighton Railway I:1i London and Blackwall Railway Landon and Birmingham Railway 141% Ditto Quarter Shares London and tireenwich Rail wa y London and Southampton Railway 44 leoldnit ;mu Croydon Railway (Trun:-.) l l l4 Northern and Eastern Railway 134 North Midland ItiilwaY...... York and North Midland Railway 37 I BLOOMSBURY TRIALS.—FuII Reports of these important trials in Bell's Life in London of Sunday next, August 25, taken exclusively for that Journal, together with all the sporting intelligence of the week. Early orders to and from agents are indispensable. Price of ' Bell's Life in _London, Fivepence.-office, 170, Strand. Orders received by every agent in the kingdom. MEETING OF CHARTISTS.—The first out-of door Meeting which has been held in this ne:ghbourhood since the Birmingham riots, took place on Saturday last at Cranston-hill. in the Anderston district. The hour chosen was six P Bt., when it was expected that a mighty asst mbla s re would he gathered together after the dismissal of the mills. The affair, however, was a decided failure, and the people of Anderston went about their ordinary business with the most perfect apathy. At no time, in fact, did the meeting comprise more than 350 persons. and a number of these were mere boys. The Magistrates of Anderston, as a precautionary measure, sent to the Glas gow Police-of f ice for assistance, when Captain Miller readily dispatched twenty-five men from the reserved force under the charge of No. 4 division officer M•KaV ; they :ettained in readiness at th e ..nderstoil Police-oSs'o. but thelir services were unnecessary, as fhe Meeting became et4net before eight o'clock.— Glasgow Herald. BOURSE..—PARIS, 11ONDA1. Ana 19. r i„t, Highest koweat Last Price Price. I'rice Price French 5 per Cents 1.2 6 i ... 112 70 ... 11.! 60 ... 1 2 155 4 per t tints ** 1112 90 ... 12 B 0 ... 102 90 ... 102 90 3 per Cenu S i 7J ... AI! 7(1 ... Si ' ; 0 ... 8 7 u t 27 0 ....2790 .....178i ... 2 7K5 Bank of prance I.attii te Ba , k 1.1 , 00 f. Sii IP 6 ' .., ...;(4 . 1 ...him) ...i t Aiii Belgian 5 per Cents I,) 3N MI —• % ... 10336 ... 03% 3 per tents 7l 7 , 1 ... 71 70 ... 71 7J ... 71 i 0 Beljan Bank 770 ... 770 ... 770 ... 7711 . tp.tiiibh Ac ive Passive 4l,i ... 4 , 4 ... 4 ‘,„ 4 t.i New !'., ferret 1 ... 1, 41 . 1 ... P.,14 ... Iti!, Nea olitsu per t ents 9ki ... . i s Roman 1,, ,A ... 102 , -"i ... 10:04 ... 10•4 ii RAILWAY SktARE, gt. C:errnai-. 601 6 Versailles, rt. n 2O ... 6-0 ... (120 ... 620 ... 64 , 5 ... 64 0 .„ f;O5 1... n. :137 50 ... 345 ... 337 50 ... :45 tiavr , . ' 486 ~ ... I:8i 25 .....48.i 25 ... 980 25 Strasburg to Bale ... 327 50 ... 327 50 ... 32; 50 ... 327 50 ISELC.I AN r , UNDS—Blillast.L.S. Autlti,rr .7 Actual Delit, 21,, per Cent. Rothschild'., Loan, 5 per ('ant l' ls, Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. :iper Cent. ...... .. 71% Loan of City, 1S:12, 4 per Cent — Society of Commerce, 4 ~, per Cent ll4 Bank of 11,1gium, 5 per Cent — National Society .... —Brussels Papers, August 17. AUSTRIAN FUNDS. V imsuk, Arc 9. rive per Cents. Alctalligucs Font per Cents. Three Ina Cents. . 8114 Bank Shares 1550 —Aitgemeine Zcsturtg. August 14 Madrid Papers of the 12th inst. have been received with advices from the Spanish frontier, of the 16th. From the Capital the news is very unimportant, relating principally to election goss i p o f no i nterest to a Foreign reader. NI , e subioin th e su b stance o f t h e i n telligence from the frontier:—The insurrecti o n a g a i ns t MAnoTo is becoming so seriou s US to threaten the ruin of Don Caatos. On the 11th nine battalions had re volted, and were joined by their offic _rs. The next day their Chief Don JUAN ECHEVARRIA had a secret con. ference of two hours' and a half d urat i on w i t h D on CARLOS, which ended in his returning to head the insur gents, who were joined on the next and following day by the 3d, 12th, and 14th battalions. ELIo sent a monk to the insurgents of the sth division.during the conference at Lesaca, offering them pardon if they would lay down their arms, and assuring them that Don CARLOS was under no restraint, but. they answered that they would only listen to such a proposition from the mouth of CAR. Los himself, apart from his Ministers. In fact, the Pre tender is become a mere puppet in the hands of the military chiefs who find it their interest to prolong tip, civil war. --- I The Manchester and Birmingham Railway Extension Bill pa , sed through the Committee yesterday after contest of sixty- five days. It is stated that the oppo nents of the Bill intend to move for its re-commitment, in other words, for its destruction, on the ground that the Grand Junction, Leeds, and Birmingham lines have been shut out from opposition though allowed by the Com nittee to be conflicting lines. The protracted inquiry into the merits of this Bill must con vince the public of the enormous difficulty and ex pense of getting the sanction of the House of Com mons to any new line that can compete with an - es tablished railway, tlic consequence of which must be to deter parties from coming forward to save the public from the despotism of a monopoly. If the pro prietors of coaches on any line of road formerly charged too high fares the public were immediately protected bycompetition—the same is the case with steam-boats ; but now on ail the principal roads of the countr3 there can be no cempetition, or the new line must be obtained at an expense so enormous that the public can gain no benefit by it unless at a ruinous loss to th , . shareholders. It would be an equitable regulation, and it. is the duty of the Government to press it on the Legislature, to allow no Member of Parliament to sit ie Committee, or vote in the House on any Railway Bill in which he has a personal interest. According to the spirit of the British Constitution, no man is allowed to be a judge in hi s own cause , but the S u p reme Legisla ture who create our l aws di s reg ar d thi s , an d ma k e themselves as exception to the general rule. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. The reported arrivals are small of Engli-h Grain, and fair of Foreign. 'Hie weather being fine occasions a dull trade fur Wheat at Monday's prices. in Barley, Beans, and Peas no variation. M. , re money has been asked for Oats but not ob tained, as little is doing in the trade to - day. Flour remains as last reported. ARRIVALS. English ........ Wheat. Barley. . Barj,". •• 1 Irish -.... ....... - ' 6° ' 2)(4" Foreign ........ 6 . 54 ° I,oln , I 2 7. o - brio. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL MARKETS. Beef, 3s. 6d. to 4s. ; Mutton, 3s. 64. to 4s. ; Lamb, 4s. Bd. to ss. 4d. ; V ea l , 3s. Bd. to 4s. 6 d . ; P or k , 4 s . t o 4s. 84. ; Irish, 3s. 4d. to 3s. Bd. Geese, 4s. 6d . t o 6 s. ; Chi c k ens, Is. 64. t o 2s. 6tl. each ; D uc ks, Is. 9.1. to 2s. 6d. each ; Fowls, 2s. 6d. to 4s. eac h ; Pigeons, 4d. to 7d . eac h ; L evere t s , 2 s . totls. each ; T ur k ey Poults, 3s. 64. to ss. each ; Qua il s , 6 d. to Is. each ; R a bbi ts, 64. to i s eac h. Eggs plentiful, and ss. 6d. to 6s. 3d. pe r 120 . . Oats. F.nu, 3 1 :10.irs. 2,10 acks per lb. ; Whiting CITY FISH 31AIMET. Turbot, 4s. 6d . to Bs., 103., and 16s. ; Soles, B d. to 3 s. per pair; Lobsters, 9d. to ;s. each ; good Salmon , Is. to Is. 3 d. Salmon Trout, 9d. t o Is. each; an d C o d, Is. and Is. 6d. t o 35., as., and Bs. eac h . s, 3d. to 6d. each ; Haddocks , 6 d. to Is. each; HOP MARKET. Pt;"es are nearly nominal. The accounts from the Hop grounds arc good. WOOL MARKET. Last night the public sales of Wool, consisting of about 10.000 bales, chiefly. Colo n i a l, comm enced amidst a considerable attendance of buy ers . The state of the Money Market pre vented the biddin g f rom be ng spirited, but firmer prices Were supported. The condition of the Wool was very good. F V RIGHTFUL A CCIDENT.— F . ( l On last, at Colchester, as the coachman of G. Round, Esq.. was rid irig, the animal became restive, slipped up, and fell upon its rider. whose head came with great force upon the pave ment, and be was taken up in a state of insensibility. It is f :pred that the spinal marrow of his neck is periausly iojnred. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS DAY.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. TheSPEAKRa took the Chair at a f e w minutes past Twd d Idelf On the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the EX. CHEQUER, the Exchequer Bills Vund!ng Bill was read a second timo and ordered to be committed to-mortow, On the. Teosion of the CHANCELLOR cf the EX CH EQUE R the fesoltltitm of the Committee on tit,' Exchequer Bills (Ireland) funding ; ware received, and leave given to bring in a Bill. Mr. HUME begged to ask what success had attended the plan of the Bight Hon. Gentleman for funding the rernftindei.nf tlit four millions of Exchequer Bii;s ? Tne CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER could not at present give a satisfactory answer, but he would do so to-rocrvw. DANK OF IRELAND. The RIGHT Hoer. GENTLEMAN then moved the second reading of •he Bank of Ireland Act Continuant(' Bill. Mr. INCH could not allow that opportunity to pass without expressing his regret that the rate of interest to be tiaid to the Bank of reland was not the same as that contemplated In the 8.11 that had been withdrawn Mr. ELLIS thought it rather unreasonable that the Chancellor of the Exybequer should be called upon to re-- duce the rate of interest when that was contingent upon other arrangements which had not been csrried into effect. H thought it much better to leave the BM '%here it was. Eventually the Report vas c•irried by a mai , )r'ty of 48 to 5. (To be enitinut.d in cur SECOND EDITION.) CHAR FISTS AT BATH. To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sir,—A spirited public meeting took place on Monday evening last, on Beacon bill Common, Bath, to memo rialiSe the Queen "to dismiss her present Ministers, and to call others to her councils, who will make the People's Charter, and the kepeal of the Valor] between Great Britain and Ireland, Cabinet meastifee," It was antici pated that the authorities would attempt to prevent the meeting being held, but they did not interfere, and the meeting of dotirge passed off peaceably. We consider that it was one of the mast spirbed meetings ever held in this city ; it gave a proof to all that Chartism is not going down—at least that it is not going down in Bath and its rieighbourhood. The number at the meeting was esti thited at from 3,000 to 6,000. At the conclusion of the meeting the Chartists formed themselves into a procession, and proceeded in a peaceful and decorous manner through the streets to the rooms of the Working Men's Association in Monmouth-street. Mr. G. M. Bartlett addressed at Conside rable length and with great effect a very numerous audience at the above rooms. He congratulated the company on the result of the days' proceedings; he spoke of the propriety of the Convention establishing a National Tract • Society for the purpese of disseminating as widely as possible a knowledge of the principles of Chartism ; he was con vinced that the success of the Chartist cause depended— not on physical force—not on useless exciTment, but upon the trogress of knowledge. This address was listened to by fle numerous assemblage with marked atter.Con, and when he concluded he was loudly cheered. In conclusion, beg to state that the colliers at Radstock, Finsbury and Newton, are daily joining the Chartists. I understand that the Association in Bath contains 2,200 members. I remain, YOUR CONSTANT SUBSCRIBER. Bath, Aug. 20,1839 METROPOLITAN POLITICAL SUMMARY. The Courier of last evening, speaking of the Chan cellor of the Exchequer's plan for funding Exchequer Bills, says :—" In former times it appears to have been the practice, when Exchequer bills were to, be funded, for the Minister of the day to fix a price, which was publicly announced, and at which the holders of Exche quer bills were at liberty to come in, and to exchange them for a propartionate amount of stocks. With the greatest anxiety, however, on the part of a Minister to protect the interests of the public, it was impossible that he should not frequently mistake the real position of the money market, and offer to capitalists much greater advantages than the exigencies of the case required. Thus when, in the year 1827, it was deemed by the Government expe dient to fund three millions of Exchequer bills, the terms offered by Govt rnment were so attractive, that the off!rs sent in were equal to six times the re quired amount. On that occasion, it was calculated that those who effected the negotiation realised a bonus of two per cent., which, of course, was so much lost to the public. On other occasions of a similar nature, a still larger sierfiee has been made, but in all future transactions of the kind, we trust, the plan acted on by Mr. Spring Rice will be persevered in, as that best calculated to do strict justice between the nation and the contractors." The Globe thus alludes to the present position of the physical force men 7•-•-•" Wherever the physical force men have tried their streogth their failure has been signally complete. They have been put down with ease. But though their numbers are too inconsiderable to excite alarm, they are too numerous to be despised. They are savage, ignorant, excitable.' They require to be watched with care, and if they manifest a disposition for mischief to be repressed with vigour. Although their utter destitution of organization and their want of leaders renders them powerless for mischievous opera tions on a large scale, they may try their hands at plunder, if opportunity seem to promise impunity. When the waggon-orators, who advised the people to purchase arms, and vowed to lead them where and when they could use them with effect, found things looking more serious than a procession, they prudently withdrew themselves from the stage. Even fiery Feargus' turned tail, and became fearful and faint-hearted as an ordinary man !" The Standard alludes in the following terms to the report respecting certain changes in the Ministry, which was formally contradicted a few days since :—" There appears to be no longer any doubt that some of tha very extraordinary movements announced a short time ago by the Morning Chronicle, and so confidently denied ' on authority' by the organs of the several sections of the Cabinet interested in the matter, were, and pro bably are, seriously contemplated. One thing is certain, that that portion of the announcement which had reference to the elevation of Mr. Spring Rice to the House of Peers, has been confirmed by the vigorous exertions which ar© making among his friends at Cambridge, to replace him there by some candidate equally devoted to Lord Melbourne's interest. The knowledge which Ministers have ob tained of the poition in which the ensuing registration is certain to place the Conservative party at Cambridge, will, it is supposed, lead to a somewhat premature dis. closure of their intentions upon the subject, as they can never hope to contest it with the same chances of suc cess, small as they are, again." The Times of this morninz, in the course of a lead ing article on the subject of the opium trade, which, says our Contemporary, " involves almost every species of immorality and outrage," observes as follows : " The effect of the opium traffic has been to impoverish, demoralize, and destroy the Chinese population to such an extent, as has latterly provoked the Emperor to adopt proceedings of the utmost severity, involving not only a cessation of the British trade, hut confisca tion, imprisonment, and death to the persons more im mediately implicated." The Morning Post, alluding to Mr. Spring Rice's withdrawal of the Bank of Ireland Bill. s.iys ;—" W. , can scarcely repine at the triumph of Mr. 0 Connell over Mr. Spring Rice. They are cqu.illy honest and patriotic men. Or if we do not repine at the victory obtained by the former, it is only because we have so much sympathy with the interests of the Bank and of the people of Ireland as compels us to lament th a t the interests of either should be sacrificed in so contemp. tilde a contest as that recently carried on between the Chancellor of the Exchequer nod his Hon. and Learned Friend the Member for Dublin." The Morning Herald observes, with reference to the Chancellor of the Exchequer's defeat by Mr. O'Con nell, on the suli , !et of the Bank of Ireland Bill The course which Mr. O'Connell has adopted—and the re sult—are calculated to give rise to grave reflections as to the character of certain Parliamentary privileges. If this case of the Bank of Ireland Charter teaches any thing, it teaches that half a dozen Members may effec tually thwart the will of the vast majority of the House of Commens. No matter what the subject—no matter what the cause! The worst cause, quite as well as the best, will admit of motions of adjournment, and of amendments that mean nothing ! The assumption that the will of the majority must, of necessity, prevail in Parliament, is proved to be by no means unquestion able! Let it be noted that this is a case in which. Daniel has a strong pecuniary interest." The Morning Chronicle, in .a leading article on the subject of Mr. S. Rice's withdrawal of the Bank of Ireland Bill, remarks as follows :—lt is not difficult to understand why he should be mortified at this failure ; but it is not so easy to understand why he should have neglected to serve notice on the Bank of Ireland for 1838, 1839, and 1840, whereby, as was shown by Mr, O'Connell, a considerable loss has accrued to the coun try, and why he should suffer nearly the whole session to pass over, and only bring on the question when nearly all the Members had left town. It may, or it may not be proper, to allow the banks of Ireland to issue paper money without restraint, as in Scotland `; but thi s was not the question. Ihe Right Hon. entleman failed to show why the banks in question should have an unlimited power to issue notes throughout all Ire land, except Dublin, and fifty miles round, and why the Bank of Ireland should have a monopoly within that circle. The Morning Advertiser, speaking of capital punish ments, with reference to the ease of the Chartists lately condemned at Warwick, says—" One of our i nsupera ble' objections to capital punishment is, that there are moral t a h g e e n eie nlo s, st and depraved, ep ras, physicale(i: hardened, appliances d too, brutal on I which,natures, u e r v e -e s, n operate more powerfully than the fear of death." STATE OF THE MANUFACTUAING DIS- TalcTs.—Our letters to-day supply little additional infor mation. The manufacturing towns appear to be quiet but the alarm of the middle cla.i. - sec has not subsided ; popular commotion is still apprehended, and occasional commit tals coGtir.ue to Le reported. EVENING EDITION. COURT CIRCULAR. The Marquis of Normanby and Viscount Melbourne bad audiences yesterday of the Queen. The Duchess of Sutherland, Earl of Surrey, Viscount Palmer:ft:l, and the Hon. William Cowper, joined the Royal circle at dinner List evening at Buckingham Palace. Lady Ljttelton, a»d Lady Harriet Clive, have succeeded the Cou,tess of Cnarlemoht and the Hon. Mrs. Brand as the Lady and Woman of the Bedchamber in waiting on the Queen ; and Lord Lilford and Colonel Armstrong have replaced the Marquis of Headfort and Sir William Lumley- as the Lord and Groom in waiting on her Majesty. The Duke of Sussex left his residence at Kensington Palace on Monday, on a visit to Mr. Thiselthwayte, at his see, &nith wick-park, Hants. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday morning at the racial residence of Viscount Melbourne, in Downing-street. It was atteLded by Viscount Melbourne, the Lord Chancellor , Viscount Duncsnnon, Viscount Palmerston, Marquis of Normanby, the el:ancellor of the Exchequer, Sir John tiobhouse. E,rl of MizAo, Mr. Poulett Thomson, Viscount Hawick, and Lord Morpeth. The Council sat an hour and a half. The A:verican Minister and :*!rs. Stevcnion are still at the sea coast, from whence they wi9 go to the North of England. Sir Augustus D'Este had an intervies; with the Marquis of Normanhy yesterday at the Colonial !ice. The Attorney-General returned to town yesterday from tliP Che,ter Assizei. Despatches from Al+jor-General Napier, Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, were received yesterday at the Colonial Office. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE ARRIVALS. The Count Adam l'otoetti, accompanied by Moir. Gaillet, at the Lansdowne Hotel, Dover.street, from 8 tour; Mr. and the lion. Mrs. Brand, from Windsor; Lady Harriet D'Or;-ay, from the Continent; the (ion• Chas. C. Givendish, M. P., at Burlington House, from Latimors, Bucks; Count and Countess lierminsdale, in Jcrrnyn street, from Paris; Lord Leveson, at Ddronshire House, Piccadiliy, from Windsor Castle. DEPARTURES. Sir Arch. and Lady Maclaine, on a tour to the Lakes, on their way to Eglintoun Castle ; Charles Cumberpatehi Eeq., for Eglintoun Castle, Ayrshire, on a visit to the Earl of Eglintoun ; M. Le Prince Anglona, • from t he Brunswick Had, Jermyn-street, for Paris; M. Le Comte Auguste Platen, from ditto, for Hanover' T. Garnet, Esq., from ditto, for Windsor; Viscount Ar:heson, , M. P., from ditto, on a tour ; G. S. Harcourt, Esq., M.P., and and Mrs. Ihreourt, from ditto, for Ankerwyke House; Dr. Moom from ditto, for Paris ; Earl and Countess of St. Germaing, from New Burlington -street, on a Conti nental tour; Earl and Countess of Radnor and Lady Jane Bouverie, from 6'rosvenor-street, fur Longford Castle,' Wilts; Duke and Duchess de Rovigo, from Albemarle' street, fur Paris ; Lord and Lady Ashley, from Grosvenor street, for Scotland ; Lord Harry Vane, from St. James's" street, for the Continent ; the Hon. Sidney Herbert, M.P., from Grafton -street, for the family seat in Wilts; 'Lord Cecil Gordon, on a visit to General and M r . Wyndham, in Cumberland ; Lord Morison, from Carlton-gardens, for Frankfort on-the-Maine. 'THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION. BIRMINGHAM, TUESDAY. The nrrangements of the meetings of the Associa tion, so far pt least as the scientific department is con cerned, are two , complete ; and this morning pro grammes, containing the particulars of the various gene rid and sectional meetings, were freely distributed. In these it is stated, that the lard room in King Edward's School will be opened on Thursday, the 22d instant, for the reception and election of Members, and . for o ther purposes connected with the business of the Associa tion. The General Committee will hold its first Meet ing on Saturday, the 24th instant, at one o'clock, in t he Library of King Edward's School, and will afterw•aru meet according to adjournment. On Tuesday evening and Friday evening, res Pee: tively, a conversazione will be held in the T o svn-hall , an edifice sufficiently large to accommodate five thou sand persons. An excursion to Dudley is plannet; for Friday, the 30tIr of August, for the purpose of a1t0..." tn.- the nod-resident members an opportunity of visiting the Iron works, the Sedgele.y and R0w1ey.. , 1n 115 9 the Lime-stone caverns, and other interesting objects. Birmingham being a manufacturing town, or, in the emphatic language of Burke, " the toy-shop of EuroPe , it has been suggested by some of the influential,member s of the Association at a distance, that an exhibition of the different articles of manufacture for which the town is famous, in the various stages of their progress, front the crude ore, or the raw material, to the polished -or embossed and ornamented surface, would in all prohabi" lity be highly interesting, if not instructive, to their ,cientitie brethren. With this suggestion the local members of the Association have complied, and frtrn the horn button up to the highly polished and expan sively wrought metals, specimens have been sent in. Among those rho are mentioned_ as likely to attend the AssoCiation at its present meetings,,,are,the - R&• Dr. Buckland; the Rev. Dr. Peacock, Mr.Lyelt, M. Agapin, the celebrated Ictltylogist ; M. Schonbein, of Bask, well known by his researches in electric magne tism ; M. Dumas, the eminent French chemist ; the Rev. Professors Whewell, Powell, Phillips, and Owen the Rev. Dr. Danbeney, Col. Sykes, Major Sabine, Mr , Hopkins, Mr. Delebeehe, Mr. Lubbock, and .many others, whose names have long been honorably connected with science, and whose talents and exertions httre con tributed so much to its advance. MONUMENT TO SIR WALTER SCOTT. SELKIRK, AUG. 16.—1 t had for some time been a subject of occasional discussion in this burgh, on the,. propriety of erecti n g some t es ti mon i a l to t h e memor y 01 Sir Walt er Sc o tt, l atc ,• an d f or t hi rty - two years, Sh er iff of the county, whose public and private character, 2 1, 0 living so long in the immediate neighbourhood, havi.ig endeared him to every individual in the place, not en 4" as a great literary character, by which he had: so highly benefited his country, but in a very particnlai manner thrown a lustre - Over this particular district, with which he was more immediately connected, by the many picturesque and beautiful allusions to its history, scenery and romantic achievements. In the prosecution of this,4 o 7 sign, several months ago a Committee was formed of the Magistrates and other influential inhabitants of the • place to correspond with Mr. Alexander H. Ritchie , sculptor in Alusselhurgh, as to the provable expen,se of erecting in the Square or Market place, a statue °t Sir Walter Scott, of a larger size than life, on a pedestal suitable to the height of the surrounding buildings. A subscription was also begun ; circulars were sent 1° the Duke of Buccleuch and the gentlemen of the county and neighbourhood, who were supposed to be favourable to the undertaking. His Grace returned a very handsome subscription ; and, with the except tom of two or three, almost every person applied to subscribed, many very handsomely, and some sent in their donations Iv ho were not applied to. In a short time the Committee were enabled to get from Mr. Ritchie plans and estimates, and ultimately to agree with him for the whole to be finished by the 15th of August, Sir Walter's birth-day, and the statue yvas actually placed on the top of the pedestal yesterday about noon. The pedestal is very handsome, being light and tapering, and well adapted to the size of the statue (itself 7A feet high), and a striking likeness of the poet. Sir Walter is in the costume of the Sheriff, in his gown, with a roll of papers in his left band, his right hand resting on his trusty staff. The following_ is the inscription under the statue : " Erected in August, 1839, in proud and affectionate remembrance of S:r Walter Scott, Bart., Sheriff of this county from 1800 to 1832. '• By Yarrow's stream still let me stray, 'I hough none should guide my weary way ; Still feel the breeze down Ettrick breaks, Though it should chill my withered cheeks.' a r O s— nt t i armsse veralof the burgh—on sidesof the pedestal other m are compartments it; rtmt Walter's n ms are emblematical allusions to the character of the poet and novelista winged harp, with the word " Waver- Icy" under it, and a finely cut Scotch thistle on another panne' ; the whole most beautifully done. In short, it is only doing justice to Mr. Ritchie to say that the foul ensemble does him infinite credit, and that the whole erection, for beauty and correct proportions, i s n ot equaled, certainly not surpassed, in Britain. It is the subject of surprise and delight of every beholder, and a great ornament to Selkirk. MARRIED.-- At Theydon Mount Church, Essex, on Thursday, the 20th inst., by the Very Reverend the Dean of Carlisle, Gordon Willoughby Gill, Esq., son of the late William Gill, Esq., and Lady Harriet Gill, of Wraysbury, Bucks, to Anne Elizabeth, second daughter of Sir Edward Bowyer Smyth, Bart., of Hill Hall, in the county of Essex. WAntiunsT.—Reaping has commenced in this parish : the crop in some fields is good, while others that lost plant are looking very thin. Mr. Playsted, jun., of High Town, began on Friday, the 9th inst., in a field of ten acres of the Whittington white sheaf, a sh ea f o f w hich was exhibited at our market on Tuesday, which exci ed the admiration of the farmErs present, the straw being 5 11 feet high, with remarkably fine ears, varying from 60 to 80 corns and upwards in an ear. TItIBUTE TO A FAVOURITE POINTER.-01 . 1 a conspicuous point of that part of the Mynydd Maen Niountiiin, near Newport, which is in the Manor of Magna Porta, and parish of Llantarnam, there has been erected, within these few days, at the expense of Thomas Hooper, E sq ., late of Cderlcon, and of Hardington Park, Somer• setshire, an elegant little monument to the memory of a favourite pointer, which had the misfortune to fall by the same shot that killed the bird he was in pursuit of. A black tablet, on one side of the monument, bears the f o ll ow i ng appropriate inscription, written by the Member for our boroughs : Weep, passenger ! but o'er no Christian bier— A sportsman's treasure lies interred here. From his own master's hand the bullet sped, That laid poor Dandy.....prin . ce pointero—dead. . O'er his corpse this stone - is - raised, to prove His master's sorrow; and his master's love. ,d‘•