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THEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM, LATE ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE. Under the Management of Mts. KEELEY. Another great Achievement Successfully Triumphant ! !! To attempt to eulogise the gorgeous splendour of the New Extrava ganza of Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, or New Lamps for Old Ones," would be a work of supererogation ; the Manage ment, therefore, contents itself by simply stating that it will be repeated every Evening ! THIS EVENING, AUG. 21, Will be repeated a New Drama, entitled MARTIN CHUZZLE. WIT. Principal characters by Messrs. R. Younge, F. Vining, Emery, F. Mathews, A. Wigan, Meadows, Kinloch, Turner, Stanton, J. W. Collier, Yarnold, Sanders, and Keeley; Miss For.. tescue, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. A. Wigan, Mrs. Woollidge, Miss Groves, Mrs. Usher, Miss Turner, and Mrs. Keeley. To conclude with an entirely Original, and much batter than New, Grand Operatic, Romantic, Melo-Dramatic, Burlesque Extra. vaganza, founded on the celebrated Eastern rale, in the Arabian Nights' Entertainment, entitled ALADDIN AND THE WON DERFUL LAMP; or, New Lamps for Old Ones. With very extensive New Scenery, Machinery, Dresses, &c. Principal cha racters by Mrs. Keeley, Messrs. F. Matthews, Turner, A. Wigan, J. W. Collier, and Keeley ; Miss Wo ol g ar, Mrs. Woollidge, Miss E. Chaplin, Mrs. A. Wigan, Miss Turner, Mi .s James, Miss Carson, }fiss Hunt, Miss Reede, &c., &c. PRICES OF A SIMS 10 N.—Balcony Boxes. 4:.; Upper Boxes, Ss.; Pit, 23.7; Gallery, 6d. Second Price—Balcony Boxes, 2s. ; Upper Boxes, is 6d.; Pit, Is. Private Boxes on the It ilc my Tier (h o lding eight persons), Tao Guineas. Private Boxes on the S ec ond Tier (holding eight persons), One Guinea and a-Half. Private Boxes on the Pit Tier (holding six persons), One Guit ea. The Box. Alice is open from Ten to Four o'Clock, under the di rec. tion of Mr. Grogan, late of Covent-garden Theatre. ASTLEY'S ROY AL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. BATI'Y. Nightly overflows o the wonders to the wonders of Mr. Carter, the Lion King—Mr. Batty and Trained Steed Beda. THIS EVENING, AUG. 26. Will be repeated the Eastern Spectacle of AILING° PARK; or, The Lion Tamer of the Niger. Karfa, the Arab, Mr. Carter, wh .rein he wilt introduce his beautifu Iperformance with his trained animal , , lions, tigers, &c., in the cage, and en the open stage drive a boa in harness. Combats with the monarch of the forest, and other new extraordin ry feats. Entire Change of the Scenes in the Circle. To conclude with an entire new E luestrian, Military and Naval Spectacle, entitled THE CHINESE WAR; or. The Conquests of Amoy by British Arms. New Scenery, Messes, Appointments, &c., to realise the recent triumphs of England's Army and Navy. Feast of 250 Lanterns. Acting and stage.mtnager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. Box-office open from Eleven till Five. Lessons in the Art of Riding by Mr. R. Smith. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Last Nights of the Opera Company. THIS EVENING, AUG.:©, Will be performed the Opera of GUY MANNERING ; or, The O',psey's Prophecy. Henry Bertram, Mr. D. W. King ; Gabriel, Mr. R. Honner ; Julia Mannering, Miss Romer; Lucy Bertram, Miss Betts; Flora, Miss E. Terrey ; Meg Nlerrities, Mrs. H. Vining. After whieh, a New Operetta, written by J. B. Buckstone, Esq., aid coinpa•ed by E. I,itzwilliam, Esq., entitled a SUMMER NIGHT'S LOVE, supported by all the Vocalists. To conclude with THE WARLOCK OF THE GLEN. Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box office, from Eleven to Four. STRAND THEATRE. PHIS EVENING, AUG. 26, Will be performed MARTIN CHUZZLEWII`. Young Martin Chuzzlewit, Mr. Rance; Old . Martin Chuzzlewit, Mr. Ayliffe; Jonas Chiszzlewit, Air Attwood; Montague 'l' lag, Mr. Roberta; Tom Pinch, Mi. Biddies; Mr. Pecksniff, and Mrs. Sairey Gann), Mr. H. Hall; Mary Graham, Mrs. Coleman Pope. After which, a New and Original Burlesque, entitled THE WON DERFUL LAMP, in a New Light, being an Illustrated Version of Aladdin. Abanazar, Mr. Paul Bedford; Aladdin, Mr. Wright; Princess Badroulbadour, Miss E. Stinky. To conclude with Selby's Farce of THE NEW FOOTMAN. Bobby Breakwindlw, Mr. Attwood; Polly Picnic, Miss Carter. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. Two entirely New Pieces, and numerous additions made to the Company, including Mr: J. Hudson Kirby, Mr. Binge, Mr. T. H. Lacy, Mr. Aldridge, Mrs. W. West, &c., Sze THIS EVENING, AUGUST Will be performed a New operatic Romance, entitled LA CATARINA ; or, The Diamonds of the Crown. Henriquez, Mr. T. U. Lacy; Rebelledo, Mr. Dale; Mugnoso, Mr. Aldridge; Diana, Miss Hamilton; Catarina, Miss Vincent. After which, the laughabla Farce of NO. Sir J. Doubtful, Mr. Seaman; Hurricane. Mr. James; Frederick, Mr. Binge; Lady Doubtful, Mis. W. West. To conclude with JACK AND THE BEAN-STALK ; or, The Lad that knew how many Beans made Five. Jollibuffa, Mr John Herbert ; Jack, Miss Vincent. Private Family Boxes, I Is. Od. and £I I Is. 6.4. IN CELEBRATION OF PRINCE ALBERT'S BIRTHDAY. LICENSED VICTUALLERS' SCHOOL. PATRONESS—TIER MAJESTY THE QUEEN. THE GOVERNOR and COMMIT FEE beg to announce that they have engaged that highly poi,ular place of public resort, THE ROY AL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, For THIS DAY and "1 0- MORROW, A MUST '26, and 27. In addition to the usual a tractions of the Ga• dens, including the unequalled and far-famed MENAGERIE, The BURNING of LON DON, PROMENADE CONCERN in two Parts, the Splendid Band of the Establishment, crnducted by Mr. Godfrey, The cele brated RUSSIAN FAMILY KANTROWI IZ, in full Costume, will sing a variety of their National Melodies, H h RR MAYER, the Magic Siffleur, Brilliant DISPLAY of FIRE-WORKS, &c., a GRAND FETE and FANCY FAIR will be held on each day, and a Series of Entertainments will be provided for the numerous Com pany anticipated, which cannot fail to ensure the sum opt of the Sub scribers to the Institution and the Public generally. The beautiful MODEL of VENICE will be exhibited free of extra charge. The children of the School will attend on both days of the Fete. An extra Military Band is engaged. Ticket', One Shilling each (which will be admitted on either day), may be had of the Gov: rnor and Committee, of the past Trustees and Committee, at the School-house, Kennington-lane, and at the Office, 1.27, Fleet-street. The (larders will be o:ened at One o'clock on each day with a Royal Salute and tha Natio..al Anthem. GRAND ARCHEItY FETE and BALL-PLAY by the lOWAY INDIANS, at LORD'S CRICKET-GROUND. Trial of Skill by the Children of the American Forest and Prairie for several Prizes. First Thne of Indians Encamping in Europe. During the Ball-play of the loway Indians, when encamped at Hoboken, opposite New York, 26,000 persons visited them ►n one day. The public are so licited not to crowd too close to the players during this interesting game, as a large arena Is necessary to give it due effect. The In dians will arrive at Two and depart at Six precisely, Tills DAY, AUGUST 26, and live following days. The Squaws will erect the Wigwams immediately after their arrival. The Exhibition (except ing the Ball-play and Archery Fete) will be on an elevated platform. .—Admission, Is. No re-admission. THE FOURTEEN lOWAY INDIANS, giving their WAR DANCES, GAMES, &c., at the EGYPTIAN HALL, under the explanations of Mr. Catlin, each day of this week, from Half past Two to Four in the day, and from Half-past Eight to Ten at night. Doors open half an hour previous. The spacious wigwam erecting for the full and effective illustrations of this party with Mr. Catlin's Indian Collection in Paris, will entice them from London after a few dap more of their exhibitions. EGYPTIAN HALL, PICCADILLY. IMPORTANT NOTICE. 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This unique Museum has been visited often, daring the last and present year, by the Royal Family, the Duke of Wellington, the Foreign Princes, Ambaisaitirs, and Bier Ladies, also, many thousands of the Nobility and Public; aryl the Pro prietor has recently been able to In:nesse, by seyeral very fine pictures, Sc.l., his previous almost increllble number ant variety of /ASS—, Works of Art, and a multitude - if valuable Relic!' , and other curiosities, in this most instructive and. as hundreds have said it pught to be, a Nations: Maseum. ary thousand have inspected it, and THIRTY PRINCIPAL EDITOIN 'ii the PUBLIC PRESS bays stated that it cueß to be seen by every one. The price of adults- Bon is reduced to ONE SHILLING. The NAPOLEON MUSEUM is to t.e seen only at the Egyptian Picealilly. (ley ft em Ten till Dus's. THE WEATrIER.—SIIN OFFICE, Arc. 26. 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The Morning Herald declares that it notices, once more, "with no unfriendly spirit, a charge" which it distinctly stated, a month ago, against Lord MEL BOURNE and his Cabinet—namely, " that his Lordship and his Whig colleagues were in the habit of opening Mr. O'CoNNELL's letters in the Post-office." This charge our Contemporary "regrets to say" rests on such authority as it cannot hastily reject;" for "the confession was made by Lord MELBOURNE himself in the most august presence in the country, and in the presence of too many witnesses of inferior, though still of exalted, rank, to be retracted." And it is very delightful to find the Herald discoursing thus em- phatically on the monstrous practice it now repudiates; .... we are most unwilling t) believe, implicitly, an accusation which, if true, must brand the Whig Cabinet with an indelible and eternal mark of infamy and dishonour. To open the letters—of a Member of Parliament—of a man entrusted by the people with the solemn charge of their interests—is clearly a high crime and misdemeanour against the constitution." \\re entirely concur in—and have, on many recent occasions, in specific terms, advocated—these senti ments. We denounced, in terms of equal strength and reprobation, the scandalous offence to which Sir JAMES GRAHAM pleaded guilty, of having issued official warrants to authorise the detention and open ing of letters in their passage through the Post-office. But the Herald found no offence on account of this in Sir JAMES'S conduct. We, too, contended, in sub st ince, that the practice of clandestinely opening letters whilst they were within the assumed sacred trusteeship of the Post-office, was "a high crime and misdemeanour against the constitution." But that which the Herald perceives to be manifestly such in Lord MELBOURNE, it would seem never to have sus pected in Sir JAMES GRAHAM. Although it holds that this species of delinquency in a Whig Premier, if truly charged, "must brand a Whig Cabinet with an indelible and eternal mark of infamy and dishonour," it cannot see that the same offence, in. any way, should affix to the Home Secretary of State of a Conservative Administration any such stigma. If our memory rightly serves us, the Herald was quite facetious at the idea of imputing that to Sir JAMES, as officially flagitious, or in itself indefensible, which had been no toriously done by all his predecessors in office. But it appears that, however convenient it may have been for the purpose of our Contemporary when this grave charge, in the case of M. Mazur(' and others, was brought forward against one of its Ministerial patrons by Mr. THOMAS DUNCOMBR, to shirk the enormity of the specific violation by falling back on the whole stream of official precedents (bearing on its tide Cabinet Ministers of all parties, and all shades of po litical opinions, for more than one hundred years past), it afterwards discovered that it had been too precipitate. By this generalizing, it had lost an un foreseen opportunity of "branding" a special delin quency, and this, too, committed by an enemy. Here was a fault to be repaired at the earliest opportunity. It had allowed a whole flight - of butterflies to escape, in order that one, in which it was interested, might not be folded in the net of a Parliamentary inquiry. But it soon found, that among this flight, there was another, a bigger, a more important individual, whom it could not afford to lose. It resumes, therefore, in its own person, the very chace which it had depre cated in others. Lord MELBOURNE is an "Emperor' . of the largest class ; and so he is caught, and solemnly pinned, and ostentatiously displayed, in the Herald's newest specimens of political entomology, in opposi tion (we suppose) to Sir JAMES GRAHAM, impaled in a similar manner in the "glass " cases of the Opposi tion Collections, as " Papilio inspiciens—(Giu nAm)"—a description which we humbly tender for adoption. Now, there is something, in all this, more than amusing, though the fun is not small of seeing politi tical disingenuousness reduced to the shameless incon sistency of decrying in its opponents, to-day, as " high crime and misdemeanour against the constitu tion," that very offence which, yesterday, in it , friends, is not only considered venial, but almost went out of its way to vindicate. There is, beyond this absurdity, a legitimate moral to be deduced from such party-serving tampering with principles. It is, that the attempt to compromise truth is sure to entail the discomfiture of him by whom it is made. The practice so loudly and universally complained of is right, or it is wrong. There is no halting between its justification and its condemnation. Even if its defenders rely on the miserably humble plea of ex pediency, that plea is consistent—intelligible so far as it goes. But it is not intelligible or consistent for one man to-day, and neither consistent nor intel ligible for another to •morrow. If the Herald had had the frankness and the manliness to admit, on a recent occasion, that the opening of sealed letters was a gross and detestable perversion of official privilege in Sir JAMES GRAIIAM, it might now, with perfect consistency, denounce it—as we do, without hesita tion—a gross and detestable proceeding in Lord MELBOURNE. The difference between us is this that, writing under no trammels of party, or inte rested feeling, we as indignantly and distinctly pro test against the constitutional misdemeanour in Lord MELBOURNE, as we have protested against it in Sir JAMES GRAHAM. But the Herald, after overlooking, or palliating, or defending this course of action in its political client, the Right Hon. Baronet,.turns round upon it, and holds it up to public execration, when resorted to by its political adversary, the Noble Vis count. The fact is (for reasons which, having urged in former articles, we will not press again upon our readers), the: power of sealed letter-violation, whe ther authorised in the Secretary of State by the Act of ANNE, and continued by Mr. LABOUCHERE'S Post office Acts Consolidation Bill—or not—is morally inexcusable in theory ; whilst for reasons of sound policy, as well as on the ground of immutable rights, and national honour and public faith, and even on the much-relied one of political expendiency itself, it is absolutely indefensible. The accident of Whig or Tory connexion cannot affect, by one jot, the strength of the principle. What was thus tainted with wrong and fraud in the official acts of Lord MELBOURNE, cannot have been more pure or less to be execrated in Sir JAMES GRAHAM. But it may be that the Herald's emphatic instance of the letters " of a Member of Parliament," is meant to suggest a difference between the case of Mr. O'CoN NELL'S correspondence and that of M. MAzzINI. Be it so. The " difference " is even then worthless, for it leaves the case established against Sir JAMES GRAHAM untouched. It was charged by Mr. Dusr- COMBE that his own letters had been opened at the Post-office. The charge was not answered, but it was not denied. Mr. WALLACE stated, in the broadest terms, that his letters for some time met with the same treatment. The accusation was not repelled, for it was true. Besides, it was admitted that diplomatic correspondence of foreign Ministers had been, shall we say, habitually opened, under a Conservative Go vernment. The Herald surely does not mean to in timate that it was a greater crime in a Whig Go vernment to have violated Mr. O'CoNNELL's corre spondence ? Again, we say—in few words—the NN hole practice, from beginning to end, with its sta tutable authority, Ministerial precedents, and official usage, is in all respects base, pitiful, and inexcusable —a degradation to the Minister who resorts to it, a reproach to the country which tolerates such a Minister. We perceive in a recent number of the London Medical Gazette some sensible observations on the pernicious tendencies of certain societies (exceed ingly common in the most densely-peopled localities of all great towns, but more especially in those which are situated within the manufacturing districts), called " Burial Clubs." The scheme of these clubs assures to the parents of an infant child, subscribing from the period of its birth a few pence per week to the society's funds, a certain large amount in the event of the infant's death, to provide—in nomine ex pensarum—as it were, for its funeral. The rate of the subscription and the amount of the reversionary sum thus assured, vary, of course, with the circum. stancess of the case, the amount of the latter being determined, in most cases, by such considerations as whether the subscription was commenced immediately after the birth, or at a later period, the rate of the weihly premium contributed, &c. But, at any rate, it would seem that where one or both of the parents are in constant employment, they frequently sub scribe to two, three, four, even six different clubs of this nature. On the death of the child who has been thus " entered" of such associations, the parents may, in this way, become entitled to—and may actually re ceive—sums varying in the aggregate, from 101. to 501. even. Thus in these parents there is created and vested an unnatural money interest in the death of their own offspring. Are the most precious ties of kindred always strong enough to bear and resist tile terrible force with which the iron-grasp of avarice, or the gloomy energie3 of hopeless poverty, will occa sionally attempt to rend them asunder? Here is a dreadful question for their consideration, who devote themselves to the patient study of the causes of great crimes in combination with great poverty, appalling ntown populations. There is no dis g uisin g the truth that must form the answer to the question we have asked. Infanticide, on a scale of fearful magni tude, is the result of this organized, though unin- tended, temptation I Some months ago, in comment ing on the important matters comprised in Mr• CHADWICK'S very interesting Report on the Sanatory Condition of large Towns, we pointed out the evi. &nee given as to the wilful destruction—the p )sitive murder—by processes more or less sum mary, of infant children who have been made the objects of subscription in burial clubs, by parties re siding in the cellars of Manchester or Glasgow, and the squalid alleys of many other towns. That Re port was prepared under the instructions of, and addressed to, the Right Hon. the Home Secretary ; yet, up to this moment, no step (so far as we are aware, at least) has been taken to put down, or even to subject to the most stringent regulations and' control these burial clubs. Nor is this all. The highest medical authority has confirmed the reports and sanctioned the opinions of Mr. WALKER'S inva• luable testimony to the deleterious effects of our pre- sent system of sepulture on the health (perhaps, also, on the morals) of thickly populated cities, &c. The crowded and disgraceful condition of many of our church-yards and burial-grounds, as well some belonging to Dissenting proprietory chapels, as to chapels and churches of the Establishment, after impregnating the atmosphere with noxious and loathsome vapours, generating virulent fevers, and disse minating disease and death wherever the ventilation is imperfect of the street and neighbourhood in which the putrescent gases are exhaled—compels the parties in terested in the fees upon interments to close their grounds, or to become accessories to the offence against society of poisoning the living, by subject ing them to the fatal influences given out by the corrupting dead. As a middle term—a compromise of some sort, between their duty to their species, and the claims of their own purses—they permit their ser vants to violate those decent observances which the precepts of education and religion, not less than the instinctive prejudice of our common nature, con spire to make us regard as sacred. Long before the work of decomposition has advanced to that point at which the buried body is resolved into the dust of its original elements—it is exhumed, chopped up, mutilated, dishonoured, shovelled and thrown about and mixed up with all other masses of undistinguish able mortality—vile and revolting in the general hideousness of its decay, indeed ; but once—and that perhaps recently—organised in all physical beauty, instinct with life and passions, informed by intellect, and embodying immortal souls. The relics of mor tality are thus torn from their last resting place, and thus desecrated by the grave-digger or the sexton, who i 3 so to economise the capacity of the Golgotha of which he is the steward, as to find the means of making it swallow up more coffins, although their over-accumulation has already upheaved the sepulchral soil a foot or more above the surrounding locality. Let those who may imagine this description to be exaggerated peruse the Commons' Report on the means of preserving the health of towns, &c., the sub sidiary report of Mr. WALKER, or the able article contributed on this shocking but most important subject, about two years ago, by the Westminster Review, and the much more recent narratives in our own columns of proceedings at the ground in Por tugal- street. We would refer more particularly to the horrors proved on the evidence of witnesses, but too competent and too credible, as to such practices in the church-yard and the burial-ground of St. :_lement Danes, and the disgusting receptacles in Drury-lane and Portugal-street. And yet, on the face of that evidence, of those reports, of the dreadful experience supplied at intervals, pre cisely in these localities, according to Mr. WALKER, and the sextons or grave-diggers examined, of spotted anti other malignant fevers, consequent on the open ing of graves in ground saturated and still absolutely reeking with the corruption of death, we see that graves are still opened every week in the most crowded part of the Strand,—for example, in Saint Clement's Church-yard. We remember it was given in evidence either by the able surgeon, whose name we have mentioned, or before the Commons Committee, that there was one remarkable family vault, even — within the walls (however), of that Church, which had never been opened within the memory of any inhabitant, without consequences more or less fatal to those who came within the ma lignant operation of the gases thereby disengaged. Now, we cannot help thinking that the practices we cp:lak of, as incident to these attempts to keep up the "burying business " in grounds, long since become, and still acting as, pestiferous nuisances to their neighbourhoods, must hare a baneful effect upon the mural perceptions, and the natural feelings of those poorer and more hard-faring classes of the labouring community with whom the workmen employed in such outrages to the dead are most likely to come into contact. The finer sympathies which may well subsist, and are so generally found, in the bosoms of the humblest of our fellows, are soonest worn out by collision with more callous natures. A medical prac titioner, examined before the Committee we have named, remarks : " I used often to observe great apathy in a certain class about the death of their children. They did not seem to look on the death of the young as the great evil which it is commonly regarded ; they said, God took care of young children who died ; that their death did not matter much ; that life was full of hardships and misery, and that the child was provided for when it Hod.' This feeling I found to be rather common."— (3,313, p. 203.) how short an interval, in the mind of a parent thus reasoning, must be interposed between a passive obedience tothe decrees of PROVIDENC a, and an impious nacrifice of its manifestation in the gift of life I The wholesome prejudices that honour, or revere, or respect tb e memory, and even the ashes of the dead, once extinguished by the coarse example of the prac tices we have hinted at—even the bosom, it seems, of the father or the mother is inaccessible to the claims of helpless infancy upon the most universal affections implanted in all nature. Sordid ava rice expedites, by wilful murder, the term of that infant life, which but for its intervention would have been, perhaps, extended into many years, to accom plish, who shall say, what destinies ? Surely these are crying evils, demanding (as we have ventured on former oouasions to urge in the strongest language) the instant and most emphatic interference of the law and its authorities. The one of these evils is, we apprehend, cognisable at common law, (as an offence against the public health), by indictment or otherwise. The other—these burial clubs—as being in the nature, perhaps, of benefit societies—it may be more difficult to deal with. A more specific remedy—by statute, possibly--z nay be acquired ; but that infant murder follows on these burial fund associations, is a con nexion of cause and effect not more palpable to our judgment than that a brutalising demoralisation is consequent on the notorious desecrations of the sanc tuary of Elie grave, rendered indispensable by the still permitted and disgusting practice of continued inter ments in our over-gorged church-yards and burial grounds. Accounts from Madrid of the 17th inst. state that the most perfect tranquillity prevailed in that capital TI e Duke of OssuNA was dangerously ill. The QUEEN arrived at Valencia at four o'clock on the morning of the 15th. The Madrid papers contain no news from Morocco. _ _ _ _ _ The Thar .e per Cents. closed at 27 1-16, at sixty days ; the - .Floating Debt at 591; and the Coupons, at 241, at :sixty days. Madrict journals and correspondence of the 18th have been. received. The Court will return to Madrid on the 20th. The reason wltich has determined General NAR VABZ to hasten the return of her MAJESTY i 5 not known, and it is con sidered by many that he must have some very pressing cause for so doing, and in hurrying on the Royal pal ty in spite of the fatigue occasioned by the great heat. The authorities thought it necessary to adopt some fresh precautions for the preservation of order, which were continued through the night, but nothing took place Can any way to account for this apparent useless demonstration of force. We are without fresh accounts from Morocco. The Tiempo contains a letter from Gibraltar of the 10th, ;:i3 which the English are openly charged with having prevented the conclusion of peace between France' and Morocco. The letter concludes by charg ing E.ng land with the intention of seizing upon Tan gie:s, in order to have an ;entire command of the Sti al ts. The Gazette publishes a royal decree of the 14th, organizing a naval force for the repression of smuggling. The vessels employed on that duty are to be commanded by officers of the royal navy. The ford, is to consist of 2 steamers, 6 brigs, 2 schooners, THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST Q 6, 1844. 23 feluccas of the first-class, 6 of the second, 2 lug gers, and 29 escampavias. We have received the Paris papers of Friday and Saturday. The journals of Saturday contain the telegraphic dispatches announcing the return of Ma- HEMET ALI to Alexandria, and the victory of Marshal BUGEAUD in Morocco. The following is the form in which these dispatches are given in the two official papers : " MARSEILLES, AUG. 22, FIVE, P.M. " THE GOVERNOR GENERAL OF ALGERIA TO THE MINISTER OF WAR. " Bivouac of Kondiat Abderrahman, 14th. " Having marched upon the Morocco army, which became daily more strong and menacing to Algeria, I came up with it at two leagues in front of its camp. It assumed the offensive with 20,000 horse at the moment the heads of our columns were crossing the Isly. We were surrounded on all sides. The most complete victory—(interrupted by the mist)? " "ALEXANDRIA, Drir. " After some days of irresolution, the VICEROY has renounced his journey to Mecca. He has resumed the conduct of affairs, and his return to Alexandria is announced." The Debats on giving these dispatches says : " Although this dispatch is incomplete, there cannot be the slightest doubt that the most complete victory has crowned the efforts and bravery of Marshal Bugeaud and his army. The height of Kondiat Abderrahman, which was accessible to both parties, is a hill in the front of the camp of Lalla Magrina, halfway to Ouchda, and is the most advanced post on the Algerian frontier. In its front runs a rivulet, called the Oued Isly, which forms a boundary." The Paris papers of Saturday vie with each other in repudiating the correspondence reflecting on the Prince de JOINVILLE and the officers of his squadron, which appeared in the Times of Wednesday, and the Journal des Debuts gives the following letter from a French naval officer, in reply the Times' correspon dents : " Certain journals of London publish with a sort of satisfaction letters written from the Bay of Tangiers by pretended officers of the English navy, present at the bombardment. From the grossness of the language, and the complete ignorance of naval manoeuvres apparent in every line, it is impossible to recognise the correspon dence of a real naval officer. But since the English press renders the navy of Great Britain responsible for these gratuitous insults thrown on the navy of France, we may be permitted to bring forward in opposition to them letters from our own officers. They will show whether it be true that the Prince de Joinville did not worthily maintain the honour of the tricoloured flag, and whether our crews did not fulfil all the expectations that were formed of their bravery and skill. I quote textually several fragments of letters written by com rades of mine is the squadron of Morocco. " On the 6th the weather was fine, and a favourable breeze facilitated our manoeuvres. The Prince had pre viously had the channel for our ships buoyed out. From daylight the signal to prepare for action had been flying from the Admiral's ship. The steamers towed the line of-battle ships to their station, about 800 yards from the shore, which was as near as they could be brought an account of the depth of water—indeed, the Suffren during the bombardment had not above five feet water under her keel. The Moors allowed us to take up our position unmolested; indeed, they did not seem to expect we should approach so close, for their shots passed over us. The Suifren had about fifty shots in her hull, but without experiencing much damage. The order was given to spare the town, and to point only at the walls, and every shot made the masonry fly about in all direc tions. The firing was never stopped except to let the smoke clear away and rectify our aim. Our gunners fully maintained the character which even some English officers gave them when witnessing their practice in the Levant. - " The fortifications facing the roads are all dismantled the guns dismounted, and their carriages knocked to pieces. Of all that lino of defence crenelated and brist ling with cannon, which rendered the approach to Tan giers so picturesque, there remains only a heap of ruins, and over them still stands the town, untouched, except by a few stray balls. The only object was to subdue the pride of the Morocco men, by dismantling their forts, and this attained, the Admiral gave orders to cease the fire. The cannon of the squadron has laid Tangiers open to our troops, if France thinks fit to plant her standard upon it. The reverberation of our cannonade might be heard at Gibraltar. The English ships, which kept themselves aloof, scarcely expected a demonstra tion so energetic, and seemed to be by no means pleased with it." The Journal des DebaLs gives translations of the letters from the Times, and thus comments on them : " Let these deplorable testimonies of hatred and re sentment be read. To reproduce them is the most severe act of reprisal that can be used against them ; for a se riously thinking people must be deeply abashed by such a display of envy and vain boasting united. If those who wrote these letters, let them be who they may, had confined themselves to criticising the operations of the French squadron, the orders of the Admiral, the ma , napuvres of the ships, or even the correctness with which their guns were fired, one might have allowed them this inoffensive gratification to calm their ill•humour. But to accuse a French Admiral, French officers, and, in fact, the French navy, is, indeed, contemptible I We should feel that we were insulting the son of our King, as well as those fighting so gloriously under him, were we to do more than shrug our shoulders at such ineptitudes. God defend us from humbling them to such a degree as to make any other defence for them. God preserve us from rendering insult for insult. Nations are as much bound as individuals to pay respect to each others' feel ings. There is one thing, however, of which we have a right to be proud on this occasion—it is the contrast pre sented by the language of public opinion in France. It is the calm dignified self-respect which the public has preserved since the receipt of the late news from the coast of Africa." - - The article concludes in these terms : " We know that the English Government has had no share in this, and we believe with satisfaction, that the great majority of the people of England sincerely pro test against these odious diatribes. At the same time we believe, and say so with regret, that all the efforts made by the Governments, and the truly honest and wise men of both countries to maintain peace, will become vain if the most powerful means of acting upon public opinion are to be systematically perverted into instru ments for exciting trouble, hatred, and all the bad pas- sions." The following observations on this subject occur in the Courtier Francais:— " Frankly, we believe those letters to have been written at London, in the interest of the Cabinet, which imagined nothing better than to sully the glory of our arms, and even of our bravery, in order to diminish the popular emotion which places it in danger. It is either a miserable Ministerial piece of tactics, or a contemptible mtnifestation of the basest envy. But, whichever it be, it shows the state of public opinion in England with re spect to the cannon-shots fired by our squadron. At ull events, we affirm, for the honour of France, that there could not be found a single officer amongst us to insu lt the bravery of the English, a scribbler to write su ch vil lanies, or a journal to permit them to appear in its co lumns. No party—not even the war party, which the British press has invented—would have been capable of thus throwing .filth in the face of Great Britain. Such is the difference in our code of morals. We hold in equal esteem the black coats of Exeter Hall and the red coats (blue) of the Times." The Constitutionnel observes : " Public opinion in France will be strongly affected by these calumnies. We do not wish to add to the diffi culties of the Government, but it seems to us that no reserve should longer be maintained, and that the dis patches of the Prince de Joinville should at once be published." All the other French papers of every shade of politics comment in equally strong terms on the etters of the Times' correspondent. The Otaheite affair is not yet settled, but it was currently reported on Saturday in Paris, that the ultimatum of the English Government had been re ceived by the French Cabinet on Friday. Its terms were not known. It was believed that M. GulzoT had refused to recal either Captain BxUAT or M. D'AUBIGNT, but that he had offered to express the regret of the French Government that the zeal of some of their officers had driven them to do acts which could not be justified. The Revue de Paris gives the following as the plan proposed by the French Government for the settle ment of the question, and says it has got its informa tion from a good source : "After the exchange of several diFlomatic notes , M. Guizot has proposed to England the f o llowing arrange ment :—That Otaheite shall become a free state, and that France and England shall each of them establish a consul in the island, and that both countries shall be treated on a footing of perfect equality in regard to commercial advantages ; that the French squadron shall be recalled, and that the authority of Queen Pomare shall be re-established. With regard to Mr. Pritchard, he shall be at liberty to return to Otaheite as a private individual ; but he is never to be allowed to hold any public functions in the island. We do not know the answer of England to this proposal. All that we can affirm is, that the above is the sense and meaning of the arrangement proposed by M. Guizot. •. "It appears certain," says the Reforme of Friday, " that Lord Cowley, the British Ambassador, presented two days ago to M. Guizot a more peremptory,note than the former, requiring a reparation from France for the affair of Otaheite, and the immediate recal ofMM. Bruat and d'Aubigny." An article in La Presse, states that "it was not merely in Otaheite that the British mis sionaries were misconducting themselves," and then pro ceeds to detail the occurrences in Western Africa, to which allusion had been made in the house of Commons during the late session of Parliament. The Moniteur states, that "The King having been apprised of the death of the Grand Duchess Alexandria, daughter of the Emperor of Russia, went into mourning for eight days on that day (Saturday)." " The members of the Committee of the French credi tors of Spain had an interview with the Spanish Am bassador on Thursday last. M. Martinez de la Rosa assured them that his Government was most anxious to fulfil its engagement towards its foreign creditors, and that there was every reason to hope that the next Cortes would devise measures to that effect. The Committee were to wait upon M. Guizot on Saturday. " We have forwarded to Dublin," says the Univers, " the numerous addresses which have reached us from the different parts of France, together with those signed by the Catholics of Paris, expressive of their sympathy for the illustrious prisoner of Richmond (O'Connell.) A respectable clergyman, called by private affairs to the capital of Ireland, kindly offered to take charge of them, and to hand to Mr. O'Connell this testimonial of admira tion of Catholic France." The Semaphore de Marseilles of the 21st instant, and the Sud, the Ministerial journal of that city, announce that a telegraphic dispatch was received on the preced. inn . ° day, at Toulon, ordering the immediate embarkation of 20,000 mei for Algeria. These troops are intended to replace those sent to reinforce the army of Marshal Bu geaud, on the frontier of Morocco. " llussein Bey, son of Mehemet Ali, and Aehmet Bey, son of Ibrahim Paella, have landed at Marseilles with their suite, and taken up their temporary residence at the Hotel d'Orient. " Letters from Toulon state that the greatest activity still prevails in that arsenal and port, and that steam boats have been ordered to Port Vendres to take on board three regiments of cavalry to re-inforce Marshal Bugeand. They also state that a report was very cur rent of Admiral Parceval Duchesne being ordered to the Morocco coast, and announces as a fact that the In- de Bible, line-of-battle ship, is ordered to join the Prince's squadron, and that the Ocean, Marengo, and Neptune are ordered to be in readiness for the same service. " The French papers continue to speak with great bitterness of a treaty of commerce which they affirm to hare been concluded between Sir Henry Hardinge and the Pacha of Egypt; and they add that the Pacha, has accepted of the protection of England They say that by the treaty England has acquired the right to make a railway across the Isthmus of Suez, and to introduce her goods into Egypt at a greatly reduced rate of duty." The Reforme of Friday states that a reinforcement of two companies of Engineers and a company of Ar tillerymen was to be forthwith embarked at Toulon, for the squadron of the Prince DE J OINVILLE. It was stated, on the other hand, that orders were dis patched from the Ministry of War, on Thursday, to ship two additional regiments of Infantry and a regi ment of Lancers for Africa. • An article published by the Basle Gazette, of le 19th inst., would indicate that the Valais was on the point of being invaded by volunteers from the neighbouring cantons. " Enlistments to that effect," it says— " Were making on a large scale in the districts of Aigle and other different points along the lake. At 0 achy two hogsheads full of ball cartridges were embarked for Lower Valais, and concealed in a small tower near the lake. Muskets, purchased at St. Etienne, were also for warded to the same destination. It was reported that the Valais intended to sPparate from Switzerland and unite with Piedmont." The Journal des Debats - :publishes the following letter, dated Posen, the 4th inst. " The chief of the police of the Grand Duchy of Posen the:Aulic Councillor de Valentini, has just been arrested and lodged in solitary confinement. The following are the facts that led to the adoption of this rigorous mea sure, which produced here an extraordinary sensation : Some time ago M. de Valentini received orders from the Minister of Police to arrest a M. Malczewski, a Polish refugee, who was accused by the Government of this country of fomenting disturbances by the circulation of revolutionary writings. When the police agents pre sented themselves at the domicile of M. Malczewski to secure his person, they found that he had absconded the night before. They seized his papers, and discovered among them a letter, not signed, in which M. Malczewski was informed that he would be arrested on the following morning. Inquiries were made, and it was ascertained that the handwriting was that of a bookseller of Posen, M. Zupanski, a native of Greece. The latter denied it at first, but as he declined to do so on oath he was carried to prison. There he confessed having written the letter, but obstinately refused to tell how he knew that un arrest warrant had been issued against M. Malczewski. In the meantime, however, the President of the Administration of the Grand Duchy, having heard that M. de Valentini was very intimate with M. Zupanski, ordered him to be likewise arrested, and he confessed having told M. Zupanski in confidence that he had received the warrant in question. Although M. Zupanski had refused to disclose the name of his in former, he was nevertheless set at liberty. The pro ceedings against the chief of the police are conducted with the greatest activity. Whe❑ concluded, the re ports will be forwarded to the Supreme Court, sitting at Berlin, to which delinquent functionaries of the higher order are amenable. The offence of M. de Valentini is denominated in our laws an abuse of confidence towards the Government, and is punished by hard labour for a limited period, or for life, according to circumstances." TUE BOURSE—SATURDAY, AUGUST 24. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French Five per emits ... 120 15 .. 120 20 .. 120 10 .. 120 15 Four per Cents. lO4 45 .. 104 45 .. 104 45 .. 104 45 Three per Cents.•. .. 80 15 .. 80 35 .. 80 10 80 35 Bank of France Lanitte Bank, 5,000 f. Shareeso6o —5060 • • 5060 ..5060 lipiunsh Passive bi • • 51 .. Si • • 5* Portuguese Five per Cents • . 44 44 .. 44 .. 44 Neapolitan . 93 .. 98 .. 93 .. 38 RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain .• •• •••••••..• 875 875 .. 875 .. 875 Versailles, R. 8... ...... •. • 367 50 370 .. 367 50 .. 370 L.B • 228 75 •• 231 25 .. 228 75 .. 231 25 Rouen•••. Rtmeu to Hav - re•••• Orleans . 945 .. 948 75 .. 943 75 948 75 Strasburg to 8a1e.... •• 236 25 .. 238 75 .. 236 25 .. 233 75 Avignon to Marseilles— •• •• 740 .. 741 25 . 740 .. 741 25 RAILWAY SHARES FOR THE ACCOUNT, 31sT OF AUGUST. Versailles,R.B.•. L.B. . . 230 •• 237 50 .. 230 .. 237 50 Rouen .................... 945 .. 985 .. 945 .. 955 Rouen to Havre............ 728 .. 730 .. 725 • • 730 Orleans Strasburg to 8a1e.......... 237 50 .. 233 70 . 237 50 .. 238 75 Avignon to 3larseillea .. Tnis DAY'S NEWS EXPRESS FROM PARIS The following is the conclusion of the telegraphic dispatch, dated Marseilles, the 22d inst., published in the iTfonileur of yesterday : " We gained a most complete victory. " Our infantry, which stood most firmly, and a little lot of our cavalry fought with the utmost bravery. They successively captured all the camps, which covered a space of upwards of a league in extent. " Eleven pieces of artillery, 16 stand of colours, 1,000 to 1,200 tents, among which was that of the Emperor's son, his parasol, the insignia of his com mand, all his personal baggage, a considerable quavi ti ty of warlike stores, and an immense booty, remained in our power. " The enemy left about 800 killed on the field of battle. Our losses, although severe, are light when we consider the importance of the battle, which we will call the battle of Isly." Our Madrid letter of the 19th has the following:— M. Mon has formally disclaimed the intention at• tributed to him of pushing his threatened New Three per Cents. into the markets of London, Paris, and Amsterdam. He has given official assurances to the British Minist*r that the new titulos shall not be issued in a form which would ren der them negotiable abroad, but pledges himself to restrict their operation to the Spanish market by ren dering them payable only at Madrid. The Herald() states that the French had destroyed, in their course towards Larache, all the Moorish towns situate on the coast. The Ottoman fleet was still at Beyrout on the 25th ult.—Times. VISIT OF THE KING OF THE FRENCH TO THE QUEEN.—There is now no doubt that the contemplated visit of his Majesty the King of the French to the Queen has been postponed for about a month, if it be not alto gether abandoned. The middle of October, however, is now mentioned as the probable period for the arrival of the French monarch in England. H er M a j es t y an d hi s Royal Highness Prince Albert, with a p or ti on o f th e infant Royal Family, are expected to set out on their marine excursion between the sth and the 9th proximo. The precise day for the departure of the Court from Windsor Castle has not yet been finally determined upon. Her Majesty is not expected to be absent from Windsor Castle more than a fortnight or three weeks. It is considered very probable that her Majesty and the Prince Consort will visit Claremont for a day or two previously to proceeding to the Isle of Wight.—Post. Viscount Alford has vacated the Earl of Ripon's mansion in Carlton-gardens, the term of his Lordship's occupancy having expired. The President of the Board of Control, with the Countess of Ripon and family, have remfmed there from Upper Grosvenor-street. The Dowager Lady Blantyre and the Hon. Misses Stuart have arrived at their seat in Scotland, from town. Lord Arthur Lennox, Colonel Campbell, and a se'ect party, have been enjoying the sports of the season at Penrhyn Castle, the seat of the Hon. Colonel Pen nant, M.P. in Wales. Lord and Lady Holland removed from Florence to Naples last month. Her ladyship was confined in the Neapolitan capital on the Bth inst., of a daughter, still born. Lord and Lady Grantley and the Honouourable G. C. Norton, M.P., and family, have been placed in mourning by the demise of their relative, Sir Niel Men zies, of Castle Menzies, on Tuesday last, Sir Niel having married in 1816 the eldest daughter of the late Hon. Fletcher Norton, and sister to Lord Grantley, and which lady he survived. The Batavier steamer is ashore at the mouth of the Spye, on the Dutch coast, where she has been since Tuesday last ; and the Havre steam-packet is also ashore in the old Maase. Both have discharged their cargoes into lighters. MONEY AND COMMERCIALNEW S. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The Cotton Market at Liverpool had a dull appear ance on Saturday, but a fair business was done. Sales 5,000 bales, including 1,400 for export. The sales in Railway Shares were as follows :—Birmingham and Glou cester, 106; Chester and Holyhead, 61; Eastern Coun ties, 1 ; Grand Junction, New Quarters, 39i; Lancas ter and Carlisle, 6 4 1 ; Liverpool and Manchester New, 341; London and Birmingham, 222; Ditto 32/. Shares, 37; North British, 3; Sheffield and Manchester, Quar ters, 13 : 1; South-Eastern, 372; Trent Valley 921 ; York and North Midland, 37k; Paris and Lyons, 2/. 9s. 6d. It will be perceived, from an advertisement in this day's Sun, that the largest sale of foreign provisions yet announced is to take place on the 4th proximo, and the result of which will tend to test more accurately than has hitherto been the case, the real operations of the new tariff. It is • a monster sale, and the great object of the importers is to force a home consumption for American provision, and to remove the prejudice which has hitherto ex isted. A new feature of offering the bulk offered, duty paid, will afford the trade and public generally a better idea of the nature of the provision to be put up to auc tion than has hitherto been the case ; in fact, the desire on the other side to force sales of provisions generally is so urgent, that the restrictive duty that still exists will be met by the merchants by a corresponding reduc tion in the price on this side—hence the first essay by the sale in question. By the arrival of the London line-of-packet ship Prince Albert, and the Liverpool packet Europe, frim New York, papers of the Ist inst. have been received, but they are only one day later than the former accounts, and do not contain any news of importance. Stocks were better. There was very little alteration in quota tions, but that little show an improvement. No alteration in the rate of exchange is quoted, and not much doing. There is very little going forward in Cotton in New York, or any of the Southern markets. • The last crop has nearly all been received and disposed of, but "Jonathan" complains most bitterly that in the exports a large in crease has occurred, while the cash receipts have dimi nished. The Consol Market opened with firmness this morning, the price for the Account being 99, for Money the same. Now the quotations are 2 per cent. lower. The Un funded Debt is in demand at 755. premium. Bank Stock is at 1992; South Sea Stock at 1141; and the New Three -and-a-Half per Cents. have receded to 101,-}, after having touched 104. The Government brokers bought Consols at 99. In Spanish Stock not a single bargain has been quoted to-day. The French Three per Cents. have been done at 80. The Dutch Bonds have varied but a shade. Old Portuguese are at 801, and the Converted Bonds has improved to 44-1 ; Deterred Chilian were at 52 ; and Mexican at 35- Z. The fluctuations in the Railway Shares have been very constant, but with slight changes in value. The Great Western, and the Birmingham and Gloucester, have improved. In most of the others prices have re ceded. The Provincial Bank of Ireland have realised 19:1 premium, and Union of London, 2 prem. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Bank Stock .............. ...... ........... 199% S per Cent. Reduced Annuities 3 per Cent. Consols. Annuities 9i/ 98% 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 102% New 3%, per Cent. Annuitiee............ ........ 101%%% Long Annuities Expire 50 Jan. 1860 12% Ditto 30 Years, Expire 10th Oct. 1859 Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan. 1860. 12% India Stock South Sea Stock 11414 Bank Stock for Account I9IN Consols for Account Ex chequer Bills, 13id. I%d. 1,0001. 5001 — ............. 73 75 pin. Ditto Small — Ditto Advertised.— ..... — FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Chilian Bonds, 6 per Cent ...-- Ditto Deterred 57 Danish Bonds, 1825, 3 per Cent B9 Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent. Ditto for the Account. 35% Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent. ......... Ditto for the Account French Rentes, 3 per Cent Exchange Dutch 2% per Cents 61%4 Dutch 5 per Cents loo%li New Loan. 5 per Cents. (1637) PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHAKE. Birmingham and Gloucester...... 100 ......... 109 to 1083] Ditto New Bristol and Exeter Chester and Holyhead ....... ......... 5 Dublin and Cashel...". ........ .... 2% 7 6% ... to 7% Eastern Counties . .......... 23 Ditto New Registered.... 81.65. Bd. Ditto Perpetual 5 per cent.... 13s. 4d.... 1 Ditto Ditto (No. 2) Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O t634 Great North of England Great Western ... ....... .. ........ .... 75 137% Ditto 34 Shares ............ ......... 50 .... ..... sr to Hull and Sielby ~... London and Birmingham. lOO 2I 9 - - Ditto New Thirds 2 37% to London and Blackwall 16% ...... 7% ..... to London and Brighton ....... London and Greenwich 12% ...... 8904 ... to London and South Western 41% ...... 88 ...—... to London and Croydon Lynn and Ely l% . 4 to Manchester and Leeds 7O 124 ......... to Ditto % Shares Manchester and Birmingham ... 40 Midland Counties lOO ,106 ,.. to 107 Birmingham and Derby North British 2% ...... 3 3438 ... to Norwich and Brandon South Eastern and Dover ..... .... 32% Ditto New Yarmouth and Norwich lB 47,04 ... to York and North Midland Ditto Scarboro• Branch Paris and Lyons 2 1%% to Paris and Orleans JOINT STOCK BANKS. Provincial of Ireland. Union of London. PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, Avo. 24. 3 per Cent. Consols 9R% Three and a Half Stock Ditto New, 1830 3% per Cent. Debentures 93% Bank Stock 204 Grand Canal Debentures, 6 per Cent. Royal Canal Stock —, 4 per Ccnt. Ballast Office Debentures 4 per Cent. City Debentures ... LAST PRICES OF SHARES RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SnARE. Dublin and K. Road Drogheda Ditt 0... Dublin and Cashel ditto Hibernian Bank 2536 Royal Bank 1 2 National Insurance 25 Patriotic ditto Minifig Company of Ireland Wicklow Copper Mines City of Dublin Steam Company Ditto Ditto 5O Ditto Difto, 1836 ... British and Irish Steam Company ... 50 Steam Ship Building Company MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, AUG 24.—We have had less business doing to-day, and the market is somewhat flatter.—Blackburn, Burnley, and Accrington, 2a ; Caledonian, 41 ; Churnet Valley, 3s. prem. ; Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester, 28s. 9d. prem. ; London and Birmingham, 32!. shares, 38 ; London and Brighton eighths, I Is. 3d. prem. ; Manchester and Leeds, quarter, 11'< ; Manchester and Liverpool District Bank, 10/. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(T HIS DAY.) LONDON, AUG. 2G.—Wind, westerly, fresh breeze, and cloudy. DEAL, AUG. 25.—Wind, A.M., W.N.W. to N.W. ; P.M., N.W. by W., moderate.—Sld. Conservative and Unicorn, Ichaboe ; Countess Kerr, Belize ; Mary and Jane, New York ; Lockwood, Quebec ; Lady Caroline, St. John's ; Tagus (steamer), and Caster, Constanti nople ; Rival, Newfoundland. PORTSMOUTH, AUG. 25.—Wind N. to N.N.W.—Arrd. Prince Albert, Sebor, New York, sailed 2d inst., and proceeded for London ; Vernon, London for Madras. Sld. Roslin Castle, Quebec. COWES, AUG. 24.—Arrd. Thetis, Weild, Bahia, out 53 days ; Abbe Baker, Pratt, Havannah. Sid. Halifax Packet, Swan River ; Warsaw, New York. PLYmotrrn, AuG. 25.—Wind N.W.—Sld. Caledonia, New Zealand. Off, George, Carlson, New Orleans for G ottenburg. FALMOUTH, AUG. 25.—Wind N.N.W., fresh breeze. —Arrd. Lord Saumerez, Budd, Ichaboe. SWANSEA, Auc. 24.—Ski. Alderman Pirie, Cuba. YARMOUTH, AUG. 23.—Arrd. Lady Combernaere, Cook, Quebec. HAnwicit, AUG. 25.—The Caroline, Bakman, from Memel to Rotterdam, was brought in here to-day, aban doned, and waterlogged. PETERHEAD, AUG. 22.—The Glasgow, from London to Inverness, in working out of the bay, got on the rocks this morning, but afterwards came off and pro ceeded. CORN, AUG. 23.—Off, Eliza Ann, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Zanoni, Dalhousie, and both sailed for Liverpool. Sid. Emerald, Pugwash ; Cornelius, Quebec. Arrd. Eden and Lord Boddington, London for Bengal. HULL, Auc. 24.—Arrd. Earl of Holderness, Wan derer, Charles William, and Harriet, Miramichi ; Ross, Quebec. 25. Black Boy, St. John's, New Brunswick. RAMSGATE, AUG. 24.—The Lady Mount Stewart, from London to Dublin, sailed hence this morning, and got ashore on the Groin on the West Pier Head, but came off on the tide, very leaky , and is noiv at anchor at the Black Buoy. The Emma, from Christiania, which put in here on the 18th instant, is discharging, being very leaky. LIVERPOOL, AuG. 24.—Wind,variable and light.-25th. N.W. to W.N.W. light.—Arrived Europe, Furbee, New York ; Margaret, Cunie, Honduras. Sld. Edward Powis and Charles Jones, China ; Nith, Calcutta ; Palanquin, Bombay ; George, Mauritius ; Ellen, Cape of Good Hope ; Naiad, Gloucester ; Junius and Universe, Ichaboe ; Frisk, Bahia ; Nightingale, Pernambuco ; Isabella, .Demerara ; R. I. Haynes, Barbadoes ; Lanca shire Witch, Jamaica ; Ana, Havannah ; Frances, Ma deira ; Ocean and Glendower, Charleston ; Yarmouth, Philadelphia ; Alabama and Ontario, Bath ; George, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Sir C. Napier, St. An drew's ; Conqueror, Pacific ; Lewick, The Duke, Eleanor, Calcutta ; and Chieftain, Quebec. REPORTED MURDER AT RICHMOND.--•.This matter has been much exaggerated ; so far from Mrs. New being dead, she was not at that time even in imminent danger. It appears that, on the afternoon of Thursday last, about five o'clock, William New went home much excited by liquor, and commenced quarrelling with his wife, who is now far advanced in pregnancy. In a fit of passion he struck tier a blow in her left side with some sharp instru ment, inflicting a deep wound, about an inch long. The screams of Mrs. New brought in some of her neighbours, upon which her husband effected his escape. Mr. Lomas, a surgeon, of Richmond, was sent for, who examined the wound, and pronounced it to be a flesh-wound, and not dangerous. Lady Fox and family, and Baron Nabuiz, were among the passengers that landed at Blackwall Pier yes terday morning, from the General Steam Navig ation C o mpany's mail packet Columbine, that left Rotterdam the previous day. The Columbine brought the Dutch mail. r. Sir Robert Peel left his residence in Whitehall gardens on Saturday evening, for his seat, Drayton Manor, Staffordshire. MARKET HIS DAY.) CORN-EXCHANGE--MONDAY. - The arrivals of all kinds of Grain, of home produce, during the past week have been only moderate for the time of year ; but the imports of Ferign Wheat, Barley, and Oats have been extensive. Fresh up to-day we received a full average supply of Wheat, coastwise:as well as by land carriage and sample, at least three-fourths of whi ch were of the present year's growth, and of very superior quality. There was rather an extensive number of bit) era in attendance, while the sale for new Engli sh Wheat was steady at fully last week's prices, or from 53s to 58s per quarter : but, with other kinds of wheat the trade ruled heavy, at, in most transactions, a decline in the quotations of ls. per quarter, and a clearance of such was not effected. There was a very large quantity of free Foreign Wheat offer ing. The demand for that description of grain was in a very sluggish state, and prices had, in some instances, downward tendency. There was scarcely a sample of English Barley, at market ; but the supply of free Fe' reign was good. The Barley trade ruled inactive, but we have no variation to notice in the quotations. The best Ware Malt was quite as dear. In other kinds the supply of Wheat was good ; next to nothing was doing. The display of Oat samples was not large ;• yet, the sale for that article was inactive, at late rates. Old Beans were in demand at 3s per quarter more money. In other kinds very little was doing. The sale for Peas wag steady, at Is per quarter advance on last week's rates. The Flour trade was heavy, at barely late rates. IA Seeds very little was doing. CURRENCY PIER IMPERIAL MEASURE. WuNAT—Essex .14 Kent, I MALT—Chevalier as to .... red 424 to 52s' OATS—Yorkshire and Ditto, white ...... Norfolk and Lin- Potntoe . . 253 to coin, red 3 90 to 46s Youghall an d Cor k, Ditto white 4os to 53$ black Irish, red 471 to 50s Cork, white Ditto, white RYE—Old 26s to 33s BRANS—Tick ills to 0 New 308 to 38s, Pigeons BARLEY—Grinding 23s to 27sIPEAs— Grey ........ ....... 3ls to 9 3. „., Malting Chevalier 324 to 35s White 358 to. MALT—Suffolk and Nor- Bollers 321 to folk sBs to 62s FLoua—Town made ... 44s to Ir. Brown 50: to &is 5uf10'k...... .. .. ... 34s to 301 Kingston and Ware 50s to 6211 Stockton liNo;Tolk 334 to 3" FOREIGN GRAIN AN WurtAT—Dautzic to Ms' Hamburgh 364 to 408 BARLEY 306 to 33s OATS—New Feed l4s to lEs; rD FLOUR IN BOND. BILANS 2Ol UP . 1 1 9 PIUS 23. tel , _ ° FLouit—American Baltic SMITHFIELD. Compared with that exhibited on this day se'nnie t " the supply of Beasts was somewhat numerous. i ll weather being rather favourable for slaughtering, l v „ -- the attendance of buyers good, the Beef trade, parti c "; larly with the primest Scots, runts, &c., was steady , 6 ' prices quite equal to those obtained last week. 1- 10 _, W : ever, a total clearance was not effected till a late t o• n ; We had on sale only six Oxen from Rotterdam, which met a heavy sale at from 171 lOs to 1815 s each. 'L „, P" arrrival of Beasts from our northern grazing district' consisted of about 1,000 short-horns. Thos e from Norf° ll ' Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire, comprised 500 Sc °ts and homebreds; from the western and midland countie s ' 500 Herefords, Devons, runts, &c., from other parts °f England, 300 of various breeds, and from Scotland, 150 horned and polled Scots. The numbers of sheep were again extensive. Prime old Downs, which were ratherr scarce, produced full prices ; but the value of ot t e „ breeds arising from a heavy demand was with diffico,s,"J supported. Very little business was transacted in La uw " the supply of which was tolerably good, at about 5t tionary prices. Calves met a heavy inquiry at b ate ' ) late rates. In Pigs very little was doing. Pe a r S ibs. BlSibs.to sink the efiaL a to y . 4. . to s.. , . Inferior Beasts 2 6 2 8 Second qualityditte... S 2 s 9 Second quality ditto 2lO 3 4 Coarse-woolled ditto.. 3 6 4 0 Prime large Oxen 3 6 3 8 Southdown Wethers 310 .... Prime Scots, &c. - 6 5 I arge coarse Calves 3 4 310 Large Hogs ....... ..... 3 0 .IS Prime small ditto 4 0 4 6 Small Porkers 3 8 .1; 9 Suckling Calves, each 18 0 33 0 Quarter old Pigs, each 1 6 0 .1 5 Inferior Sheep SUPPLY AT MARKET. Beasts. I 1 Sheep. I Calves. I PiP'„ 3,065 36,800 116 28u NEW GATE AND LEADENHALL. The arrivals of country-killed Meat up to the G, markets during the past week hare been only to s i . e . mited extent, but of fair average quality. The s u P iol slaughtered in the metropolis have been by no me gins tho extensive, yet they have proved quite equal to meet, o l wants of the buyers. Prime Beef, Mutton, and ,V. have sold steadily at full prices. In all other k io° o Meat very little business has been doing, yet previ° rates have been supported. At per ston, by the Carcase. s. d. to s e d. I. to s ' 0 Beef, ..... 2 6 2 8 Mutton, inferior 2 „6 5 midd1ing......... 210 3•— middling 3 f 3 3 --prime large ...... 32S 4 prime ..... 65 , Litime small 3 4 3 6 Pork, larg s Veal ➢..... 3 4 4 4 --small e 3 3 Lamb. 3s 6d to 44 thl. ARRIVALS DURING THE PAST WEER. Beasts. Sheep. Calves. nlg g i 3 100 45 8 84 10 Norfolk Scotland Yorkshire Suffolk Cambridgeshire. - 100 Essex Surrey_ 2O 110 100 4cl, Devonshire 20 i3O Wiltshire 14 ICO Other parte 453 Total 6l 583 29 °, ° ', j '74 'l,llO Previous week's arrival Difibrence since our.last l3 527 AO ^" WOOL IVE.A.RX.MIC. One of the principal features we have to notice in ° fo r market is a considerable improvement in the deman d in all descriptions of British Wool, and a trifling advaort o the quotations of that article. This improvement P .. v . been principally caused by the increased activity ever,' where apparent in the manufacturing districts, as we to the improvement in our export trade. Although It of the large flock-masters have withheld the bulk order present year's clip from the market for the p r esent, a 5 s t the impression that prices will, ere long, rule higher Or; 0 present, the supplies in London are quite as extens:Lost has been observed at the corresponding periods Of o f past seasons. From this it is evident that the gr e/vt a of Wool this year has been extremely large, an „,4o( very superior quality. It is estimated that, 0w,014 the past week not less than 28,000 fleeces have bee n t ber in London, and transmited to Manchester snat.,.°4ol places. About 10,000 of this was flannel and nu ' 50 wool; the remainder combing and Down Hoggits, fps far as the future value of wool is concerned we sre2 o b' of opinion that, though a slight advance mit ]og 4 tained in it, the improvement will not, for we n ", supplies, exceed that at present noticed. South:be Hoggits may now be quoted at is ld to is 2d; 114 ' 1 4 ditto, is 2id to Is 3d; Kent Fleeces, I lid to it; Flannel Wool, lOid to Is Id; Blanket ditto, 6id h t :ftl#, Swinton Fleeces, llid to Is id per lb. The efferb..:oo o abolition of the duty is clearly exemplified by the inc's:ass, importations of wool. It will be remembered that; ; 0 0 weeks since, the largest public sales of colonist' t llO ever held in this country took place, yet nea r g i g 1 whole of the parcels brought forward, amonn"„7o.: about 25,000 bales, were disposed of at full prices' 111 this, too, with the prospect of other auctions 1,, large. The importations of wool from our .Anst r ,, t/ oes i colonies during the present year, have exceeded t i ." r oe last by about 17,000 packages, while those of 't o e s have somewhat declined. It is gratifying . tea r est ll that the Colonial Wool now comes to hand in improved condition. Formerly, great complainneb.: made as to false packing, but now scarcely a silbel,r . comes to hand in that state; hence all classes n `dissr:_,, are exhibiting more confidence in effecting be en o r, During the past week, about 2,000 bales have heel, tr imported from New South Wales, which, a dded, fi st e; previous arrivals undisposed of, causes the stock 1 1 ,03 1 c,,, house to exceed 24,600 bales, a large portion 01,1,00' will be submitted to public competition about the Sorj of September. Of Foreign Wool the imports on I S' exceeded 700 bales. The quotations of Austrian, ;,,,,c now range from 9d to 2s 10d ; of Cape, 7d t° ,,ydr Spanish, is 4d to is 10d ; of German, is 9d to pound. BOROUGH AND SPITAIMIZIa )°, ,,OO The supplies of Potatoes are still confined to t'"They ceived from the neighbourhood of the metror,olis' 4 . o o quality is very good, and the prices paid vary ' to 61. per ton. BOROUGH HOP DIARRZIN n ro,lo Although the Hops have made some little ,r„ during the week, they being mostly in burr in t„J:,, of the plantations, the accounts are still cousins - 0P ,1 favourable, owing to which the demand her e lireso ' te at full prices. The duty is called 125,0001. /5! „ Kent pockets, 614 s to 61 12s ; Mid Kent ditto,. l e ditt` f. 91 18s; East Kent ditto, 71 5s to 91 4s ; Chid S eP 101 to 11l I Is; Sussex ditto, 61 2s to 6l lOsi bags, 71to 815 s. The market TALLO firm, th W MARKET i c o, ate , is and e weekl to p proving, the weather being favourabled T e l iveries for CO 0 hO 0 L no and the demand fully equal to the supply, i fer. duction in the price of Town Tallow is looked grff TAILORS' BENE VOLENT IN TUTION.-(THIS DA l( ' ) 't" ti° k., The half-yearly meeting of this excellent 1.1343L11-3.„ofrAil was held this morning at the Freemasons' T a Ye t - o ' , T e b Queen-street. Mr. Cutler, one of the Pirecil4oll-0 called to the chair. He stated that the Institatic% iaar, had been established only eight years, w i g' s , p lll° o ° ,' n i o n sf g t i twb c u i t, n ioot d mhn i e t a i oat Society, that forty-six .4 .4 0 7 averst residents o a o t ic - a h n i n i 11 '3 ! supportedsfift form oy t u h err e iasl l h h ti ne il est aY siti i i in ;_ st be_ i - iap s o ll o l : 4.4 ie - 0 ad r i m nit t t h e e d In th e e eti e ß l g ec t t h io a n t th of e i fi n v c e reas ot e h d er s p ta e t n e sio 100 9 ' te , additional cost of 10.11., which would roili ce .,"„ n uld t i lio outlay of 9951 145., the election of who "- busines sr place after the transaction meeting. of the _,,,i, 0. oe general The SECRETARY read the half-yearly re p o rt ea of Directors, which congratulated the subscribe orpcso, continued prosperity of the Institution, an cl „ c i toA f o called upon them to continue to support 11,,,11,0, dQavour to induce others to become subseru`. b ut . ho pensioners had died since the last m eeting 0 , 00 oft Directors had pleasure in adding, that the illeulthi,p asylum were in the enjoyment of excellent o . re tte u i iietc were satisfied with their condition. They re vf e xe - btO they had been under the painful necessity ° lto ; to • two parsons—a man and wife—from the Il g Y b igb , c ,,,1. they were compelled to do so, otherwise the_ no teir , racier of the Society would have been c°l o Rd The receipts at the last festival amounted to ir b fort" 1111 0 0 3 sum as 7551. 13s. Bd. Mr. Myer moved the adoption of the Teri.iion was seconded by Mr. James, a jun1110'11241:0 otos} carried unanimously. i t h u e r to transacted, Othe and rbusines t s ho o m f e a e n ti 4iin pr te oo re e s tdiene'dg the five pensioners. 0 _,---------- rt f r° 4l The Marseilles journals mention s rerreceio I. Toulon that a telegraphic dispatch had be43°,00 ° there, ordering ipreparations for the WWI. 18,000 men for Algeria.