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Subscribers in the Country will thus constantly be put in possession of News full Twelve 1-i ours, and on Saturdays, Thirty six Hours earlier' than usual, by ordering the Latest, or, SECOND EDITION of " THE SUN." SUN-OFFICE, 112, Strand, London. Itif.ll WATER A. LONDON BRIDGE TO.MORRO\V. Mortung....... 0 minutes; after 11. Evening ... 47 minutes after 11. -,v. . ‘ e .,," . .,.. .. .-4" y, "‘. .*., . . ....., 0, i ---' , ' Yok .- Y.•- , ~...:.,.. c' I NI. .t., ~1 :.. : . A „ e i ...• _6... ''Y';-_-rilf,___ .c. ,:..-._—,-, ~.. ,42 , 7 , ...';' , " .'-,',-.... 1 / 4 ---,,, ... ', • , .-.- • Zile ._,_--1-a,l. LONDON: TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1839. In the House of Lords last night, the Duke of WELLINGTON and Lord LYNDHURST presented peti tions against the Manchester and Balton Police Bills, which may be taken as symptomatic of the fate of those Bills. Lord BROUGHAM brought the Auchterarder case ' before the Peers, and complained of the Government having, as he understood, sanctioned a proceeding in the Lord High Commissioner which was at variance with the law of the land. Viscount MELBOURNE ex plained that the Government had not counteracted the law, but merely authorised the Lotto ADVOCATE to I confer with the Procurator-General of the Church as to the means of putting an end to the dispute. The Kirk will hardly thank Lord Beouetiasi for asserting that its peace solely depended on strict obedience to " the law—for that makes the Kirk and makes religion inferior to and dependent for everything on the law, which good members of the Kirk will never admit. 1 The Poor-law Commissioners Continuance Bill was read a third time and passed. The Poor ttates Collection Bill was postponed in accordance with the wish of Lord LYNDHURST, who said that he knew its history, and that it was framed on a misrepresentation to meet the ease of Lambeth. I Vi3eoolll DUNCANNON said several other parishes were in the same condition, and that unless the Bill avere passed there would be no possibility of keeping t the poor during the year. He, however, postponed ! the Jill till this day. Vi,eount DuecesiNoe moved the second reading of the Naochester Police Bill. The Duke of WEL , LI NGTON mowed that it be read a second time that day three montlis. He said that there at present ex isted in Manchester a means for organizing a more efficient police than that proposed by the Bill. Lord BROUGHA M and Lord WHARNCLIFFE also opposed it. Lord Wiekecsw deserted his usual leader, and declared that he would vote for it. The Bill was read a second time on the suggestion of Lord /31:0(;61-1A31, and the debate on it is to take place to dee. If the Duke of WELLINGTON should not change biedetermination the Bill will be endangered. Tiie Bolton Police Pill was also read a second time. 'lie Birmingham Police Bill, and the Slave Trade Sureearession Bill were both passed. Th e . Earl of MINT() took the opportunity of stating that of .jait information had been received that orders had been gfven to the agents and servants of those engaged in the Traffic to poison a cask of wine to be left on deck, and ooison the water also, so that, in the event of being capt,n'ed, the captors might drink of the poisoned beverages, a od be destroyed. So one diabolical crime leads to another ; and the last contemplated crime is surely as atrocious a osee as ever was practised. 1 Thei r L or d s hi ps ros e at Half - past Seven. . The Commons met at ,iwelve o'clock, but passed the whole of the time nerli till they adjourned P in squabbli ng about roceeci.:ii,g with the Bank of Ireland jo b. Again the House presented an j appearance worthy only a of 'action fight in 1 Ire land. The Bill was put off till i this day. At the I i same sitting th e Lords' amendments 'to the Metropolis tan Police Bill wer e agreed When the Rou se met at 7. . 5 o'clock Mr. Gls BORNE gav e notice that he w ill move an instruction to the Committee on the Bank of Ireland Bill to limit its ex clusive operation to 3.; m il es . In answer to questions, the LORD ADVOCATE 3 i stated that he means next year to bring in a Bill to put an end to the manufacture of fictitiou s votes, and that the Glasgow University is under consideration. Bill, at . i4.,r a The Duke of NI A ILLBOROUG le s Pension brief conversation, was read a second time. On the motion for a Committee OR Funding Exehe- quer Bills, the CH A N CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER lexplained his late operations, in which there was no t much n ew, nor satisfactory , except the state , meat that 700,0001. of his loan was yesterday subscribed for at the same terms as the Bank had proposed to fund Exebecluer Bills. The usual dryness of a financial discussion %etas enlivened by the animation with which Sir JOHN R. „REID abused th e Tones for abusing the Bank. As a scold, great as is our Contemporary, we must declare that vee think the Governor of the Bank, when clothed in his peivileree, is a match even for the Times. '['he CH tNCFLLOR resolutions :ro ved b y the .' " ' of the EXCHEQUER were a slreed to. The Hou se rose at an early hour. - - 1 The Bishop of EXETER, WC Verceive, has com menced a series of " Visitations in the Diocese over which he presides. The purpose of a visita tion, as , our readers are no doubt aware, is to de liver 'what isr called a " charge" to the Clergy of a _ _ -- _ particular district ; which charge, if we may judge by the sample before us, is not confined exclusively to purely religious matters, as it might be supposed au address from a Right Reverend Father in GOD to a congregation of clergymen would be, but admits of a goodly portio n of politi cal alloy. Dr. PHILPOTTS is not a man likely to omit any opportunity of dealing a blow either to a religious or political opponent. He is H a e v i i s ol w en it t h , a a l n a d at the same time a bitter, enemy. first-rate writer of pamphlets, a somewhat fluent, if not an eloquent speaker, and as a charge is some thing between a pamphlet and a speech, the Bishop of EXETER is esteemed one of the best chargers on the Bench. This pugnacious Minister of the Gospel of Peace commences his operations at Totnes, by a fierce onslaught upon the Government for its impartial conduct towards the different classes of religionists in some of the colonies. As the Government of this country finds that these colonies—Australia for instance—consist not exclusively of Church-of- Englandists, but of a mixture of all sects, and has ev en adopted the policy of encouraging emigra tion without distinction of sect, it conceived that it would neither be fair, nor just, nor sa vouring of a Christian spirit, that religious pro vision should be made for one favoured sect and the rest be left to shift for themselves as they best could. Besides, the evils arising out of the su premacy of a pet sect at home are too great and manifold not to have impressed the minds of her MAJESTY'S Ministers wit t li the necessity of putting all on an equal footing abroad. This galls the Bishop of EXETER and other ecclesiastics, who regard that religious equality, which some very good Christians esteem to be a fundamental principle of the Gospel of CHRIST, as totally abhorrent from the genius of the Church of England, highly derogatory to its dignity, and incompatible with its existence. "In the last four years," this worthy Bishop tells his clergy, she calls them, " equal encouragement had been given by the Government to every form of religion in the most important dependencies of the British Crown. In Australia a system had been sometime pursued, showing an utter indifference whether the national treasures were expended in the propagation of religious truth, or of error and falsehood." With this Right Reverend bigot every thing is error and falsehood that is not in strict conformity with the Articles and Liturgy of the Church of England. He takes upon himself, with the arrogance inherent in his order, to decide at once what " truth" is, and from his truth no man must dissent. And yet this meek and humble successor of the Apostles can lift up his episcopal hands in amazement at the pretensions of infallibility put forth by the Church of Rome ! When are the members of a State-Established system of faith to learn the most important of all truths, that in religion " every man standeth or falleth to his own master ;" that to every man that which he believes to be the truth is the truth ; and that hence arises the duty, incumbent on all men, of mutually respecting the rights of conscience ? This is a duty which few ecclesiastics understand, and still fewer rpractise. It accords not with any of the systems of State religion which have been erected on the ruins of the New Testa ment. It finds no favour in the eyes of men whose minds are so engrossed with temporal concerns and selfish interests, that they lose the faculty of dis cerning spiritual objects, and are incapable of ap preciating the value of any doctrine, principle, or practice, which may in any way interfere with those Interests. We have seen a list of the persons transported or confined on account of the petty disturbances at Llanidloes and its neighbourhood in Wales, and they amount to 39 ; one of them said to have been convicted by mistake, he bearing the same name as a greater culprit. They have, dependent on them, upwards of one hundred persons. Most of them are imprisoned for six months, two for two months each, and three for a year, while four are to be transported. What a sum of misery spread over months and years, inflicted for a tempo rary ebullition. If the rioters had devastated half the Principality they could scarcely have caused more misery than is inflicted by the law. It tor tures, while the most diabolical of them would only kill. The prisoners confined in Montgomery Gaol have barely food enough to keep them alive, and they are not allowed to buy more. So we believe it is the case with the prisoners confined in War wick Gaol ; they are subjected to the prison allowance, and can get nothing but that. We do not believe that the middle tiuv c Lucy may be alarmed ttm idle boasting and brawling of a few noisy persons, Will long tolerate that the prisons of this country should be made a means of torturing per sons for political offences. Their good-will will not be obtained by pandering to their present errors. We trust therefore, that the Government will inter fere, and rescue these prisoners from the mercies of Visiting Magistrates' regulations and Gaol allow ances. The Bishop of LONDON last night moved an address to her Majesty, to direct an inquiry into the disease and destitution which prevail amongst the labouring classes in certain districts of the me tropolis, how far similar diseases and destitution prevail in other parts of England, and into the measures necessary to remove these evils. The Bishop has been stimulated, we believe, to take this step by an Appendix to the Fifth Annual Report of the Poor-law Commissioners concerning the prevalence of fever in twenty metropolitan unions drawn up by Dr. SOUTHWOOD SMITH. In that appendix, for which we are obliged to the Poor law Commissioners, though we are surprised after all the previous inquiries by Commissions and Com mittees that such information should be now to seek, we have a statement which is well calculated to alarm the opulent, and convince them that it is not safe for themselves to leave in their own neighbour.. hood such masses of pestilence. Self-love, in this case as probably in most cases, and social, are the same, and the benevolence that aids the poor would secure more vigorous and certain health to the rich : " Such is the filthy, close, and crowded state of the houses," says Dr. Smith, " and the poisonous condition of the localities in which the greater part of the houses arc situated, from the total want of drainage, and the masses of putrefying matters of all sorts which are allowed to remain and accumulate indefinitely, that during the last year, in several of the pa rishes, both relieving officers and medical men lost their lives in consequence of the brief stsy in these places which they were obliged to make in the performance of their duties. Yet in these pestilential places the industrious poor are obliged to take up their abode ; they have no choice ; they must live in what houses they can get near est the places where they find employment. By no pru dence or forethought on their part can they avoid the dreadful evils of this class to which they are thus exposed. No returns can show the amount of suffering which they have had to endure from causes of this kind during the last year ; but the present returns indicate some of the final re sults of that suffering ; they show that out of 77,000 per sons 14,000 have been attacked with fever, one fifth part of the whole ; and that out of the 14,000 attacked nearly 1,300 have died. The public, meantime, have suffered to a far greater extent than they are aware of, from this ap palling amount of wretchedness, sickness, and mortality. ladel endently of the large amount of money which they have had to pay in the support of the sick, and of the families of the sick, panperized in consequence of the heads of those families having become unable to pursue their occupations, they have suffered still more seriously from the spread of fever to their own habitations and families. It is notorious that this disease has been very prevalent during the last year among the industrious classes who have never received parochial relief, and that it has found its way even into the dwellings of the rich, where it has proved extremely mortal. Generated in Bethnal-green, i n Whitechapel, in St. George the Martyr, in Lambeth, in Holborn, &c., it has spread to the better streets in the immediate neighbourhood of these and similar places, and thence to still wider and more airy streets at a greater dis tance, and ultimately to the most remote streets and the great squares. There can be no security against the con stant recurrence of this calamity, but the adoption of mea sures adequate to diminish very materially, if not entirely to prevent, the generation of the febrile poison in every district." Of the same tendency are the remarks, that no dis ease brings so much affliction into a poor man's fa mily as fever ; it commonly attacks the heads of fa milies, and has a most fatal, pauperizing influence. It is one main:cause'of p re ssure on the poor - rates , and a capi ta l far less than commensurate to the interest i annually laid out on fever patients, and their 1 families, if judiciously employed in draining, clean sing, and ventilating the pestilential places which are the abodes of the l indu s t r 'ous poor, would put an end to th e f ever and the o There is, how ever , li tt l e ornotiongr a- manyncr a c e u t vw e r s ay cen)a, together. arl all ifftnhoats knownheen with generally such known st ti sal forthis. SMITH states it, that the mi sera bl e and crowd as e s d pDart h s a- : bitations and miserable and insufficient food of the j poorer clases have been prolific source s of pestilential disease, and of public expense. But though long known, little or nothing has been done to prevent or cure the evil. Now and then a new thoroughfare has been made through old habitations; some splendid streets have been constructed in the west end of the metropolis ; a few magnificent public build ings have been erected at great cost ; but little or nothing has been done to improve those places where the industrious poor are obliged to take up their abode. Great sums, too, are annu ally employed in coercive means to repress the crimes of which no conception, perhaps, would ever enter the heart of man, were it not that the temper and affections are soured by disease and want. Our gaols are spacious, our contrivances ingenious and costly to reform the victims of neglect ; but no care is taken to prevent the germination of crime by spreading the habitations of the poor over a larger space, and making them happy and vir tuous, by placing health within their reach. On this point the Reformed House of Commons has paid no more attention to the wants of the poor than the boroughmongers'. The passage we have quoted from Dr. SMITH was written seven years after the Parliament had been reformed. One great source of the evil is the manner in which the poor are crowded or huddled together ; and they are huddled together because the land is dear. If Canada, or the untenanted wilderness of the United States, .were as accessible as the Isle of Dogs, the people would spread over it, and need not be the prey of disease from being crowded to gether. It is the want of land, then, which makes it dear, and which tends to produce those evils the Bishop of LONDON seems, we are happy to say, anxious to remedy. But the Right Reverend Prelate, in another charac ter, contributes very much, let us tell him, to cause those evils. Though we cannot bring the United States as close to us as the Isle of Dogs, we can its produce, and land is not so much required for itself as for what laboui makes it produce. To bring into England the produce of one, two, or ten millions of acres is equivalent to bringing the acres themselves alongside England, and equivalent to extending the land at the command of her people in an equal degree. Land is dear in the Metropolis as a dwelling-place, because' it is dear at Chelsea to grow fruit and vegetables, and dear in Cam bridge to grow wheat. If it were not needed in Cam bridge to grow wheat, it might be used for growing fruit and vegetables, and Chelsea might be converted into airy dwelling-places. Whatever limits the sur face, therefore, from which we draw our supplies of food, enhances the price of land, and makes it be yond the means of the poor to command comfortable dwellings. Now see the effects of the Corn-laws, against which the Bishop of LONDON has never said one word. They narrow, and, with our pre sent facilities of transport both by sea and land, they narrow inconceivably, the surface whence our people might draw their food—they exclude us, as it were, from the neighbouring Continent of Europe, and the Continent of America—they keep up the value of land, keep the houses of the poor huddled together, and are consequently the parents of much of that fever and distress which the Bishop of LONDON, like a Christian minister, deplores, and at the same time, like an ignorant, stupid, selfish law-maker, causes. We look with little hope to the efforts of the Legislature to cure or prevent poverty and fever, while it persists in its un christian, devilish plan of keeping up the price of land, by keeping out of England the produce of other countries. The Moniteur of Sunday publishes the text of the Treaty of " Peace and Friendship" concluded at Vera Cruz on the 9th of March last, between France and the Republic of Mexico, which has just been ratified by the French Government. We omit the customary introduction and conclusion common to all such docu ments, and content ourselves with quoting the articles of this Treaty, for the information of our readers : . Art. 1. There shall be constant peace and perpetual friendship between his Majesty the King of the French, his heir and successors, on the one side, and the Republic of Mexico on the other side, and between the citizens of the two States, without exception of place or person. Art. 2. In order to facilitate the prompt re-establish ment of a mutual good understanding, the contracting Powers agree to submit to the decision of a third Power the following questions :- 1. Whether Mexico has a right to reclaim from France either the restitution of the Mexican ships of war captured by the French forces subsequently to the surrender of the fortress of Ulloa, or a compensation for the value of the aforesaid ships, should the French Government have already disposed of them ? 2. Whether there is any cause for granting the indem nities which would be reclaimed, on the one side by the French, who have sustained losses arising from the law of expulsion, and, on the other side, the Mexicans who have had to suffer hostilities posterior to the 26th of last 9 two parties may Art. 3, ..A.- .L. ccnclude a treaty of commerce and navigAt;..A.. . ing in a definitive manner, and for the reciprocal advan tage of France and Mexico, their relations in future, the diplomatic and consular agents, citizens of all classes, ships and merchandize of each of the two countries, shall continue:to enjoy whatever privileges and immunities which either have or shall be accorded either by treaties or usage to the most favoured foreign nation; and this gratuitously if the concession be gratuitous, and with compensation if it be conditional. Art. 4. As soon a 3 one of the originals of the present treaty and convention of this present day, duly ratified, both the one and the other by the Mexican Government, as it shall be said in the following article, shall have been placed in the bands of the French Plenipotentiary, the fortress of L'lloa shall be restored to Mexico, with its artillery in the state in which it is at present. Art. 3. The present treaty shall be ratified by the Mexican Government, in a constitutional form, within twelve days of its date, or sooner, if possible ; and by his Majesty the King of the French within the term of four months, also reckoned from this day. In faith of which the above Plenipotentiaries have signed and placed their respective seals. (L.S) CHARLES BAUDIN. (L. S.) M. E. DE GOROSTIZ A. (L. S.) GUADALUPE VICTORIA. On the 4th inst the following articles of an explana tory Treaty signed on the same day (March 9, 18:39), were ratified in Paris : Art. 1. To satisfy the reclamation; of France relative to the damages sustained by her countrymen previous to the 26th of November, 1838, the Mexican Government will pay to the French Government the sum of 600,000 piastres metallic specie. This payment shall be made in three in stirlments, each of 200,000 piastres, on the principal admi nistrator of the customs of Vera Cruz, at two, four, and six months' date from the day of ratification of the present con vention by the Mexican Government. As soon as the aforesaid installation shall have been paid the Government of the Republic shall be free from any pecuniary reclama tion which France might claim previous to the 26th of No vember, 1838. Art. 2. The question whether Mexican ships and their cargoes sequestrated during the blockade, and since cap tured by the French after the declaration of war, ought to be considered as legally acquired by the captors, shall be submitted to the arbitration of a third Power, as has been already stated in Art. 2 of the treaty of this day. Art. 3. The Mexican Government engages, neither at present, nor at any future time, to throw any obstacles is the way of regular and punctual payment of French debts already recognised, and which are now in course of pay. ment. Art. 4. The present convention shall be ratified with the same formalities and in the same way as the treaty of peace of this day, to which it shall be annexed, and in faith of which the aforesaid Plenipotentiaries have signed and placed their respective seals. (L.S.) CHARLES BAUDIN. (L.S.) M. E. DE GOROSTIZA. (L.S.) GUADALUPE VICTORIA. Much curiosity was excited in Paris on Sunday by the appearance in the official columns of the Muni/cur of the following telegraphic despatch received by the French Government. The prevailing impression was that France and England were preparing to strike a decisive blow ; and that the fears previously entertained of their not acting in conjunction were entirely ground less : " MALTA, AUG. 10. " The Consul of France to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. " The British squadron arrived on the 3d of August in the Bay of Beischa, where the ships were brought to anchor within a few miles of Admiral Lalande's fleet. This information was brought to Malta by the steamer Hydra, despatched by Admiral Stopford. The Hydra brought no letters from Constantinople. On the 6th inst. at three o'clock in the afternoon, a French vessel was dis covered by her near Cape Matassan, sailing towards the East." " The Agent for Foreign Affairs at Marseilles to the Pre .. sident of the Council. " The above teleg r aphic despatch was brought to Mar seilles by the English steam packet Hermes, coming from Malta." From the simultaneous appearance of the British and French fleets at the mouth of the Dardanelles, leaving the Turkish and Egyptian fleets unmolested at Alexandria, it may be inferred that the great Powers will not suffer MEHEMET ALL to impose his own terms on the Porte ; and that to prevent his doing so France and England deem it of more importance to watch the movements of Russia than to menace the Viceroy with the destruction of his navy. From the following ex tract from a letter which appears in the Journal des Debats of Sunday, it would seem that Austria has cor dially entered into the views of the Cabinets of Paris and London : " CONSTANTINOPLE, AUG. I.—The Porte was on the point of accepting the conditions of Mehemet Ali, when a dispatch arrived from Prince Metternich to M. Von Sturmer. After the receipt of this dispatch, M. Sturmer met the rcpretentatives of the Five Great Powers, and a note was presented by these to the Porte, engaging it to ~/Y~c~= THI SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1639. trust to the Great Powers the care of making an arrange ment with Mehemet Ali. This proposition has been ac cepted by the Porte, and the representatives of the Five Powers had set about the arrangement." The same journal publishes a letter from Alexandria of the '27th ult., which states that the French Admiral, LALA NDE, was acquainted with the determination of the Capitan Pacha to betray the fleet, and that England was altogether outwitted on that occasion. As one of our Contemporaries quotes this letter as proving his own extraordinary sagacity, we sh a ll quo t e f rom it the only paragraphs which bear upon thi s cur i ous sta t eme nt : " To the great surprise of every one, Admiral Lalande was not at all surprised at the departure of the Turkish fleet. We knew that he had had a long interview with the Capitan Pacha, but we were not awar e of w h a t passed at it ; we were only convinced that the Capitan Pacha was going to fight, but we could not understand how it was that the Admiral did not follow him. " But since that event every thing has' explained itself. The part played by France, whic h , - appeared to have been humiliating enough, , ceases to be so. From the first moment she knew all. The English knew nothing." After passing in review the death of the SULTAN and the well-known occurrences that followed that event, and after assuming that the SULTAN'S death was effected by poison administered by direction of KHOSREW PACHA, the writer explains the revelations made to the French Admiral, and which redeems in his opinion the French Government from the imputation of having played a humiliating part .-- " Achmet Pacha receives at the Dardanelles his order of recal. The same day he gets under way, and sails to the Archipelago; two hours after this took place the interview between the Admirals. The Prince de Joinville and an Armenian interpreter were the only persons present. Achmet told them all that the Grand Vizier was paid by Russia ; that he ( Achmet) was only recall e d t o Con stantinople in order to be bowstrung, and re pl a c e d by or, g, th er e ex i ste d b ut one man who could save the empire and the Turkish n a ti ona lity, Abdul y party ou ; that M a h mou d b e i ng d ea d, ande of the so vary youn g, and that that man was Mehemet Ali ; that he had written to Hafiz Pacha, and if his letter arrived in time the Turkish and Egyptian armies would unite, as the fleets had done, for the preservation of the Ottoman Mo narchy ; that he ( Achmet) was well aware that on the first impulse he would be execrated ; but that time would show who was the traitor, and whether he had not acted as became a Nlussulman and a true believer, by preferring confiding the fate of the Crescent to another true believer and man of genius, than to a Russian agent already go verning at Constantinople. Achmet added, 'We are afraid of the English, and wish that you would come with us, for we believe in the sincerity of the protection granted by France.' The Admiral answered that he could not follow him, but that he had no right to detain him, and that in the name of France he assured him of his earnest desire to maintain the independence of Turkey." If the above statement be really correct, and we have no means of proving it otherwise, it redounds not to the glory, but the disgrace of France. From the instant Admiral LALANDE became aware of the intentions of the Capitals Pacha, it was his duty to have detained the fleet, and thus have secured to his Government the undisputed power of settling the Turkish question on a basis honourable to the good faith, and creditable to the physical and moral influence of France. His right to detain an officer about to commit treason against the existence of the Ottoman empire was clear ; as his want of precise instructions on the subject arose from the fact of the bare contemplation of such a crime being deemed impossible .by his Government. MEHE MET ALI was at that moment at war with the Porte ; Admiral LALANDE's squadron was then off Smyrna, for the avowed purpose of abridging the duration of hosti lities, and, above all, of maintaining the integrity of Turkey ; and yet, according to this writer, the French Admiral secretly permitted her whole fleet to be be trayed to her enemy, without so much as demanding a single guarantee that it would not be employed to complete her destruction ! This •is an ex position of conduct so base, of policy so shallow and detestable, that we should not on any account be the first to attribute it to the French Government. Such, however, is the inordinate vanity of the public writers of that country that they dread everything l ess than the imputation of the overwhelming p ower o f Dance being for one instant forgotten by friend or enemy. We are less ambitious of questionable dis tinction, and therefore take it as a compliment that the Capitan Pacha did not select Admiral STOPFORD, as the confidant of his intended treason. Had he done so, we have not the least doubt but that the Egypti an fleet would now be at Malta instead of at Alexandria, Mr. GILLON, M.P., and Dr. BOWRING are both a t Berlin. Dr. BWRING has been well received by the Prussian authorities, and his suggestions relative to the commercial league are likely to lead to beneficial re sults. There is no other news of any interest in the French papers. The observations made by Lord Brougham last even ing relative to the Auchterarder Case, were not very distinctly heard, but their substance, so far as we can gather from the different papers, appears to be this : A letter had been addressed by Lord Belhaven, the Lord High Commissioner, to Dr. Duncan, the Moderator of the General Assembly, in which his Lordship stated that he was commanded by the Queen to inform them of her Majesty's entire approval of all their pro ceedings. These proceedings, Lord Brougham said, tended to obstruct a solemn judgment pronounced by their Lordships. He therefore wished to know whe ther the letter impugning that judgment had not been written under a 41,:t. Lord M.. - bourne replied, that it was neither in his power nor would it be proper to give any explanation of the statement referred to. The other question was, whe ther the Government had given any ground which could justify the Commission which sat on Saturday last, in passing resolutions by a majority of 104 to 23, in direct opposition to the decisions of the Supreme Courts. Lord Melbourne said nothing had been done by the Government, which could encourge the slightest censure or imputation on the decision of the Court of Session, affirmed as it had been by that House. All they had done was to direct the Lord Advocate to confer with the Procurator for the Church, in order to see whether the matter could not be settled. Not with the intention of framing a bill immediately, or pledging the Cabinet, but to show that they thought the question ought to be considered calmly and carefully. In the meantime the Crown patronage would be administered as it had hitherto been in conformity with the Veto Act of 1834. CATHOLIC BURIAL SOCIETY The numberless means by which the poor help o ne anot h er are not all known, we believe, to their richer brethren. If they be rough and rude, and even occasion a ll y crue l , to one another, as they sometimes are, treating- one another worse than the gentry ever treat them, yet at the same time they are considerately kind, and ever ready to help each other, even to sharing the last piece of coin in their are generally pockets.desi rous s to O b n e e thing t o l f y b w i r i i c e h d they and those w ho have lived without parish help pride them se l ves on b e i ng buried by their own means. hence there are numerous societies in the metropolis, the members of which sub scribe something weekly, that they may, when their last hour comes, have the consolation of knowing that they will be carried in a decent state to the home of all by friendly hands. Such a feeling is worthy of being cherished, and on this account we call attention to a Society called the Catholic Burial Society, which em braces 1,600 members, including amongst them no in considerable number of the barrow-women of the Me tropolis, and the most of them being hard-working Irish labourers. Today the Society gives a supper at the Crown and Anchor 'Tavern to the Rev. Jeremiah Harrington, who has long been their treasurer, and whose services they are about to honour by the present of such a small piece of plate as their scanty means can afford. If it be a single salt-spoon it will be an honour both to him and to them. Their object and their feelings seem most laudable, and, probably, many opulent persons, both Catholic and Protestant, will think it an honour, us well as a Christian duty, to aid their exertions. METROPOLITAN POLITICAL SUMMARY. The Morning Herald of this day contains an article on the subject of Mr. S. Rice's plan for funding Exchequer bills, which our Contemporary says "is an operation little calculated to raise his character as a financier."— The Morning Post indulges in a violent tirade against Mr. Spring Rice, suggested by the late rumour that he is about to be elevated to the Peerage.—The Times, com menting on a political pamphlet just published by Mr. Baring Wall, demurs to the Hem Member's notions of Parliamentary independence, and asserts that his work " contains a large quantity of shallow and futile error."— The Morning Chronicle observes, in the course of a leading article on Chartism—" The working class can only suc ceed by co-operation with the middle class. It may . thwart, but it cannot prevail. S uc h is the obvious moral of the Chartist agitation. "—The Morning Advertiser expresses high approbation of Lord Palmerston's commu nications to the Portug uese Government on the su b j ect of the Slave trade. ----_____ THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) There were g oo d suppliesClTYFlo 71ATTIKET. Tubot, 4s. t o ss. lOs to-day of most kinds a t market. an d iss. ; Good Salmon , Is. to Is. 3d. per lb. ; Cod::15sI s. to . 3s. and s s. ea ch ; Salmon Trout, 9d. to Is. ea c h ; L o b sters, 9d. to 3s. eac h ; Haddock, 6d. to Is., and Whitings, 341. to 6d. eac h. HUNGERFORD MARKET. Fish much the same as in the City. Beef, 7d. to 81d. ; Mutton, 71d. to Bid, ; Veal, Bd. to 9d. ; Pork, 7d. to 81d. per lb. The V egeta b le Market was very f re sh and good, and trade steady at pr ev i ous rates. TALLOW MARKET. P. Y. C. conti nues quiet at s')s. 6d , arrive. on the spot, and 4 8s. to New Hay, 60s. to 70s. , Old Hay, 80s. to 905., 9.55., and 100 s. ; Clover, and 130 s. ; Straw, 365. to 425. per load. 801. t o i I i A o. Y O 71A207. and T . MENAI BRI--GE. e glad to state that this far-famed and b eaut i ful structure is about to undergo a thorough repair. Af ter h aving stoo d uninjured for thirteen years, the memorabl e storm of J anu ary last damaged part of the roadway, and rendered it necessary to deprive the public of the use of it for five days, during which time it was temporarily th oug h sa f e ly repaired.— Carnarcon Herald. FUNDING OF EXCHEQUER BILLS. The following are the resolutions mowed by the Chan cellor of the Exchequer last night, and adopted :- 1. Resolved•—That the several persons who have engaged to subscribe the sum of 500,0001., in Exchequer bills dated in March and June 1839, and charged on Aids or Supplies, and to make deposits of 201. per centum on the amount of their re spective subscriptions at the Bank of England on the 20th day of August, 1839, shall be entitled, upon the completion of their subscriptions for every 100/. so subscribed in Exchequer bills, to 1091. ss. 10d. capital stock in Consolidated Annuities, bear ing interest at the rate of 31. per centum per annum, the said interest to commence from the sth day of July, 1839, and to be payable, by half-yearly dividends, on the sth day of January, and the sth day of July, in every year. That the several subscribers shall complete their respective subscriptions at the Bank of England by instalments, in the proportions and at the times undermentioned; that is to say -20/. per cent. on or before the 27th day of September. 201. per cent, on or before the Bth day of November. 201. per cent. on or before the 20th day of December. 20/. per cent, on or before the 31st day of January, 1840. That interest shall be allowed upon all Exchequer bills de posited in payment of each Instalment, up to the date of such Instalment. That Subseribers shall be at liberty to pay the said Instal ments in advance, and shall, in such case, be entitled to Interest thereupon, for the first Instalment from the date of the bill up to the 16th day of August instant, and upon the amount of the bills for each subsequent Instalment from the date of the bills up to the day the Instalment would have become due. That all the Exchequer bills so to be deposited with the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, shall be de livered over to the Paymasters of Exchequer bills to be can celled. 2. Resolved—That every person or persons who shall, on or before the 23d day of August next, subscribe Exchequer bills to an amount not exceeding in the whole 3,500,000/. of Ex chequer bills dated in March and June 1539, and charged en Aids or Supplies, shall be entitled upon the completion of their respective subscriptions, in manner before provided, for every 1001. so subscribed in Exchequer bills, to 1101. capital stock in Consolidated Annuities, bearing interest at the rate of 3/. per centum per annum, upon the terms and conditions before mentioned. 3.—Resolved—That every person or persons who shall, after the 23d day of August next, deliver in Exchequer, bills to be cancelled in sums of not less than 1,0001., to an amount not exceeding in the whole a sum which, together with the Ex chequer bills subscribed in manner before provided, shall not exceed 4,000,000/. of Exchequer bills dated in March and June, 1839, and charged on Aids or Supplies, shall be entitled for every 100/. so delivered in to such an amount of Capital Stock in Consolidated Annuities, bearing interest at the rate of 31. per centum per annum. as every 1001. of the said Exchequer bills would have purchased if the same had been applied in the purchase of Consolidated Annuities, estimating the same at the quarterly average price thereof, for the quarter ending the sth day of January, sth day of April, sth day of July, or 10th day of October, as the case may be, immediately preceeding the delivering in of such Exchequer bills, such average price to be ascertained according to the daily re turns thereof, made up pursuant to law at the Bank of England. MONEYAND COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Arrivals this morning —French Mail, ship letters from Demerara ; Monte Video ; Calcutta, 16th March ; and New York, by the Roscius, at Liverpool, of the 25th July, old date. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MONDAY.---We have had a good demand for cotton to-day, and full prices have been obtained. The sales, 5,000 bags, chiefly to the trade. TILE FUNDS. We have quite a blank morning both for fresh arrivals and operations in the funds. It is so exceedingly difficult to ascertain any true state ment in respect to the conversion of the 3,500,0001. Ex chequer Bills now open for public subscription at the Bank of England, that we are obliged to substitute the report of the well-informed gentlemen of the Stock Exchange on the subject, who are the most likely to ascertain the near amount of the daily subscriptions. It was generally stated to be upwards of one million entered in the books, but according to Sir J. R. Reid's statement in the House of Commons last night, they only amounted to near 700,0001. As yet we have not heard the amount subscribed this morning. _ _ _ Consols opened at 911 for the Account; Money 91i 1, same as they closed at ; Exchequer bills, 15 18 ; India Bonds, nothing done ; Bank Stock 185 186 ; India Stock, 247 248. In the Foreign Market the chief operation is in Spanish, for which there appears to be a demand, and it has improved from the leaving off price of 194 20 to 20:?-, ; Portuguese lower, owing to what Lord Palmerston stated in the House last night in respect to Portugal, closed at 281 29, receded to 281, at present, 29 to 4 ; Colombian, 311; Brazilian, 78i ; Mexican 27+ ; Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents., 541. ; Five per Cents., Io3i i; Spanish Active is still improving, just done at 201 PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ON O'CLOCK. Bank Stock -- lB5 6 India Stock Fiier Cent. Red.... ...... 94i 174 21 Ditto Bonds - pm 3 per Cent. Cons. 91%% 1 South Sea Stock — 35~ per Cent Ditto Red. 99'.S % New Ditto New 314 per Cent . 98%9( 1 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 New 5 per Cent. Bank Long Annuities toexpire Ditto 500 .. 15 17 pro. Jan. 5, 1860 14 7-16 5-163 1 Ditto Small 2O ... 15 17 pm. Oct. 10, 1859 l4 5-16 Ditto Commercial — par. Jiln. 5, 1860 — Ditto Advertised ..... pm. Jan. 5, 1880 Bank Stock for Account ... April 5, 188(1. lndia Stock for Account ... Jan. 5. 1870 — Congos for Account 91%% PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds — Peruvian Bonds ..... _ Belgian Bonds Ditto Account Brazilian Bonds Ditto Account Buenos Ayres Bonds ..„ ..... —1 Ditto, 3 per Cent. Ditto Account Ditto Account 183i% Chilian Bonds D.tto Account Columbian Bonds —, Ditto Account — Ditto Account —; Ditto Metallic — Columbian Bonds, 1824. 3l , Spanish Bonds ' 19% 20N Ditto Account — Ditto Account. Danish Bonds Ditto Account De& rred B% 9% ~ Greek Bonds — French, 5 per cent ..• f. e. Din !Mt .1 ; --- 3 per cent. Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent. --- Exchange. —f. —c. Ditto Account ......... ..... —1 Dutch, iN per cent. ,54%4 Ditto, 6 per Cent — Ditto Account f;N Ditto Account Neapolitan — Ditto Account — t•RICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. Great Western Railway Company 65 Ditto New Grand Junction Railway Brighton Railway London and Croydon R a il wa y C om p an y l4/. 18 s . 6d. 111 A Ilunchestar and Birmingham Railway l5 Do. Do. Extension HALF-PAST ONE. Up to the present time nothing is known of the sub scriptions received at the Bank for Exchequer bills, which we understand is to be kept a secret until the amount has been received at the Treasury, therefore it will not be known until about 2 o'clock, and it is doubtful if it trans pire; at that hour. The chief speculation this morning has been in the foreign market both in Spanish and Por tuguese Stocks, The former took a sudden start in con sequence of reports which were in circulation that Don Carlos was going to abdicate, and of a cessation of arms for three months ; at present, we cannot give this in any authentic shape, only as a mere report ; at all events, there has been good purchasers in the market of Spaniel, and the prevailing :opinion is that something of a favourable nature has been received from Spain. Consols, 913 : i ac count, Money, 91i -1; Exchequer Bills lower:ls 17; Bank Stick 185 186. In the Foreign Market," Spanish, Active, has improved 1 per cent, from 191 to 20:f ; Portuguese, done at 281, at present they are 29k; Three-per-Cents, 18,Li ; Co lombian, 311; Brazilian, 781 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents, 541; Five per Cents., 1031. DEATH OF SIR ROBERT CLAYTON, BART.-- We regret to hear that Major Sir Robert Clayton, Bart., died early in tl e past week, at, we believe, Adlington Hall, Lancashire. The late gallant Baronet was in his 93d year, and his commission as Major in the army dates so long back as the year 1785. DEATH OF SIR THOMAS DALLAS.--This ve teran officer died rather suddenly on Monday last, at his residence at Bath. Sir Thomas, who particularly distin guished himself on several occasions, was Lieutenant- General in the East India Company's service, a C. 8., and was in his 81st year. He had always served in the cavalry, and received his commission as Cornet on the 25th of April, 1778. THE MARQUIS OF TAVISTOCK.—His Lord ship has published a letter on the Hastings affair, in which ;t is stated, " That Lady Tavistock never te ok any part whatever against Lady Flora Hastings ; and that, inas much as it formed no part of her official duty to communi cute with her Sovereign on this subject, she never imparted any suspicion,' nor made any communication, direct or indirect, to her Majesty concerning it." The Dover Chronicle, whose account of the crops in Kent is extremely favourable, says that if the weather prove favourable, we may confidently expect that after harvest wheat will fall to 40s. per quarter. Our Contemporary's prediction, we fear, is not likely to he realized. " Bolam, the Chartist," says the Courrier Francais, " has been condemned for assasination l" We have many exaggerations of the poor Chartists in our own country. This from France bangs them all. RESPECTABLE HOUSES.—A Correspondent asks " flow does that respectable house in the Hay market, the Waterford Arms, contrive to elude the vigi. lance of the informers ? Neither the name of the pro prietor or what it is licensed to deal in is painted over the door."—Morning Herald.—[lt would be more to the pur pose perhaps to ask how the . proprietors of so many note riaus and infamous houses in the neighbourhood contrive not only to elude the law but to live luxuriously like people of fashion by pandering to the ruinous vices of the 3 oung and unwaryi ALARMING STATE OF THE MENDICITY.-- A special meeting of the committee of this invaluable in stitution was held yesterday, at Ushers quay, the Rev. P. Cooper, in the chair. After some discussion, it was re arlved that the inmates of the institution be paraded through the stteets of Dublin on Wednesday next, in order, if pos sible, to excite the compassion of the citizers, and that, unless tufpicier,t funds were given, all those not actually maimed or crippled will be turned out upon the street. Dubli n Evening Post. SINGULAR ACCIDENT.--0 11 Saturday an in quest was held at St. George's Hospital on the body of Edward Cooley, aged 66, a servant out of place. A ser vant man named Martin gave a rambling account of the landlord of a public-house in Cumberland -street, Bryan ston-square, named Ogle, having thrown the deceased down stairs and broken his leg ; when he went to the deceased be found him lying on the pavement, with the bone pro truding through the flesh ; he got a cab and removed him to St. George's Hospital. The house surgeon said that the deceased refused to allow his leg to be amputated, and he died from mortification of the part. Ogle, the land lord of the public-house, came forward voluntarily, and said that, hearing the deceased abuse his wife, he desired him to leave the house ; he went towards the door back wards, and fell into the street. The Jury returned a ver dict of " Accidental death," at the same 'time expressing their disapprobation of Martin's conduct, and their exone ration of Ogle from all blame. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS DAY.) HOUSE OF - --• The SPEAKER took the Chair at a few minutes pass Twelve o'Clock. Mr. F. FRENCH presented a petition from the Presi. dent and 600 Members of the Medical Association in Ire. land, praying for the establishment of a universal system o medical education. On the motion of Sir C. B. VE RE a return was ordered of all the armed associations which had been formed in con sequence of the Letter of Lord J. Russell to the Magis trates of Counties. On the motion of Mr. C. WOOD the Lords' amend ments to the Highway Bill were agreed to. Mr. R. STUART moved the third reading of the Con solidated Fund ( Appropriation) Bill.—Agreed to. EXCHEQUER BILL. On the motion of Mr. R. STUART, the Exchequer Btll was read a third time and passed. EXCHEQUER BILLS FUNDING. Mr. R. STUART moved the Order of the Day for re ceiving the Report of the Committee on the Exchequer Bills Funding. Mr. HARRIS wished that a corrected estimate of the surplus of the income over the expenditure should be laid before the Houses, instead of the old one. Mr. STUART could not lay this before the House in the absence of the Secretary for the Treasury. The resolutions were then agreed to, and leave was given to bring in a bill in pursuance thereof. UNLAWFUL OATHS (IRELAND) BILL. On the motion of Mr. PIGOT, the Lords' amend ments to the Unlawful Oaths (Ireland) Bill were agreed to. CONSTABULARY FORCE (IRELAND) BILL. On the motion of Lord MORPETH, the Report on this Bill was received. ASSAULTS (IRELAND) BILL. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL for Ireland moved the consideration of the Lords' amendments to this Bill. The order having been read, the Honourable and Learned Gentleman moved that the clause be rein serted which had been struck out by the Lords, and which took away the summary jurisdiction of the justices in cases where questions of title arose. Mr. O'CONNELL was surprised (though to be sure no one could be much surprised at any error of the Lords) that the other House should have struck out this clause. Summary jurisdictions were opposed to the spirit of the Constitution, and could only be justified by necessity. The whole tenor of our legislation was to remove the sum mary jurisdiction in cases where title was disputed, and unless this clause was re-inserted, the Bill would be very pernicious in its operation. The poor people of Ireland were already too much harrassed by summonses for petty trespasses, and next Session he should attempt some modification of the law on this subject. Mr. HODGSON said he believed that where the House of Lords made one error, this House made twenty— ("No")—and the other House had been engaged very pro perly for sometime lately in correcting the mistakes of this House. BANK. OF IRELAND, AND SLAVE TRADE SUPPRESSION BILL. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER wished to state to the House, that a Bill of considerable import ance had passed the House of Lords last night (the Slave Trade Suppression Bill), but in consequence of the break ing up early last night, it had not j ,been brought down. He wished to state therefore, that that Bill would be laid on the table at five o'clock. He also wished to give notice, that' he intended to fix for five o'clock this evening, the Order of the Day for the Bank of Ireland Charter, and then he would be prepared to state to the House what was the definitive resolution of her Majesty's Government, and what was the course they proposed to take. He thought it was quite right the House should come to a definitive understanding on the subject.—( Hear, hear.) The Government would therefore state what course they intended to pursue, and Hon. Gentlemen would have the power of deciding whether that course was right or wrong, and whether they were disposed to adopt it. Mr. O'CONNELL believed it was now clear beyond a doubt, that the facts which had been stated in the news papers of a conspiracy between Portuguese slave traders to poison British captains were true. He perceived that elsewhere it had been distinctly stated that her Ma jesty's Government had received an intimation that the slave traders of Portugal had made an arrangement to place a cask of poisoned wine on the deck, so that if they were taken the British sailors might partake of the wine, and there was also a scheme decided upon of poison ing the water. Those were such diabolical acts, that it was difficult to express sufficient indignation at them, but he thought it was the duty of the Government not only to in form the public that such a foul conspiracy had been dis covered, but to apply to the Court of Portugal to prose cute the individuals concerned in it. It appeared to him that it was the bounden duty of the Government im mediately to draw up the facts, and to call on the Portu guese as our allies to punish such of their subjects as had formed the horrible intention of committing an atrocious crime against the lives of the British. He (Mr. O'Connell) was sure that in saying that, he was expressing the unanimous sentiments of the country, and he at,ti cipated that Her Majesty's Government would take the most prompt and decided methods of endeavouring to ascertain whetl er punishment should not follow that hor rible conspiracy.—( Hear, hear). Mr. GISBORNE did not quite understand from the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether the statement be intended to make relative to the Bank of Ireland, would be made in such a shape that the sense of the House could be ascertained upon it. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said it was not for him to anticipate that any objection would be made to the course he should propose to take. METROPOLITAN POLICE COURTS. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL moved the Order of ti g yp fl y en.• ;ow the Lords' amend ments to the Metropolitan Police Courts Bill. Mr. AGLIONBY wished, before the amendments weft read, to ask the Hon. and Learned Solicitor-General, or the Hon. Member for Lambeth, to state what those amend ments were. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL replied there were certainly a great many amendments. Some if them were merely verbal amendments, but with regard to those that were of substance, they might be divided under two heads. The first was in the 3d clause, whereby the Secretary of State was enabled to give retiring pensions to police Ma gistrates. That clause had been struck out by the Lords. The most important alteration that had been made was the striking out of the 26th clause, which gave a summary jurisdiction in certain cases to the Magistrate, and which had been introduced in conformity with the Report of a Committee of the House. He proposed to agree to these amendments—not because he thought they were in them selves good, but because he thought there were cer tain enactments in the Bills which would do good. (To be continued in our SECOND EDITION.) THE CARDIGANSHIRE BOROUGHS. - Mr Lloyd Williams will not disturb the peace of those boroughs. That gentleman, however, has caused us no little surprise, by the statement that he himself had signed the requisition to Mr. Harford. We have been asked over and over again, " Why should he meddle in the matter of Mr. Harford?" We have heard various and contradictory reasons assigned, but we shrewdly suspect that the true reason may be found hid under the hay and straw of the last Cardigan Hunt Meeting !— Welshman. ELECTION FOR CAMBRIDGE. —lt appears by accounts from this borough that Mr. Spring Rice had written to several of his most influential supporters stating that it was his intention to resign the cares of office, so soon as a successor could be determined on ; and although the party knew that the Chancellor would retire before any great length of time, they had till within these few days done nothing, or next to nothing towards finding a candi. date. Mr. Sutton, son of Lord Canterbury is to come forward on the Tory interest, and according to the Cam bridge Independent Press he is to be opposed by Mr. Gibson, late Member for Ipswich. This announcement has produced a great sensation among the Liberal party who were in great doubt as to who was really to come forward to represent their views and interests when the promised vacancy occurred. Mr. Gibson's name is hailed with the liveliest feelings of joy by every Reformer in Cambridge, so that there can be little doubt as to the result of the contest. The Tories are all but disheartened ; they know the state of the registry, and pretend to hope that the election may not take place until after the next registration, when they fancy, poor souls, that their pros pects will look brighter, and they themselves may be in better condition for the contest. Mr. Gibson took a wrangler's degree at Cambridge in 1830. THE CIIA RTISTS IN BERWlCK.—Vigorous steps have been taken by the magistracy of our borough to provide against any outbreak on the part of the Chartists in this neighbourhood. Between two and three hundred special constables were sworn in, and others have since been enrolled, so that our constabulary force now amounts to 379 ; all of whom have been supplied with staves. Much excitement prevailed in the town on Monday, and the ar. rivals of the coaches from the south were waited upon by large parties, anxious to know what measures were taken in Newcastle for the observance of the " sacred month." It was also reported that one of the collieries in our neigh bourhood had given in work, and that the men were riot ing in their district. The report originated in the fact of the engine having gone wrong, from which cause the men were thrown off work, and one of them having got mar ried they were all engaged in a merry-making. The men are again at their labour. On Wednesday, however, Ma. jor Johnson of Scremerston, had occasion to summon four of his workmen at Shoreswood, before the magistrates, for neglecting their work and exciting others to follow their example. They have all been sent off to Durham, the two former to be imprisoned in the House of Correction at Durham for two calendar months, while they sentenced the two latter to be imprisoned only for one month.—Benwick Advertiser. DEER STEALING.—WiIIiam Pointon, a black• smith, was on Saturday apprehended on a charge of killing and carrying away a buck, the property of Mr. Dugdale. The keeper's wife, on Friday evening last, heard the report of fire arms, and looking to the place from whence th e sound came, saw Pointon. Sho mentioned the circumstance to her husband on his return home, and on going to the spot he found a quantity of blood, and traced other marks w n a fo s rmatio of blood towards the road over the park pales to th e black smith's shop, in which he found the feet of a deer. H e t h en went to Pointon's residence , and inquired for hi m , b ut find. ing him absent, awaited his return, and accused hi m of kil. H ci ling and taking away the deer. He confe sse d t h e and said he was driven to do it by distress. The ve n r is m on e , sn of theointon with the exception of one quarte ne r m , to which Mr. Dugdale, Pointon circumstances restored, having found upon e been the i given Inform a ti on was taken into custody and lodged in Redditch gaol, from whence he was on Tuesday taken before the Magistrates assembled at Petty Sessi ons at B rom to the County Gaol to t a k e hi s trialgarh re t the ensuing com m committed . sions. He has a wife and eight children, only one of whom s w i . 3 e te b n e c li e e . ve, T is he ab ditu l e e s t t od teo any t hi ng toward; gaining a sub-' state of the children, and corofcrt le,s interior of tho habitation, presented a th r illi ng p i cture of the abode and wretchedness. —Worcestershire Reraki. Df Puverty VIN IN JMITION. THE FUNDING OF EXCHEQUER BILLS. (MONDAY.) ES.—The conversion of Exchequer bills by open subscrip tion at the Bank is making very slow progress. There are no means of being very exact as to the amount, but it is believed that out of 3,500,0001., about 1,000,0001. has been taken. As the books continue open for subscriptions till Friday, this may ap pear a fair proportion for the time, but in such cases the first day, and even the first few hours, if the scheme is approved of, are generally decisive of the fate of the operation. The dis couraging symptom in this instance is, that the subscriptions, so far as they have hitherto gone, have been made al most wholly by the jobbers and speculators of the Stock Exchange, who make certain calculations of the relative value of Exchequer bills and consols, ace srding to the fluctuations which take place in the market, and sell on the spot for time the stock which they expect to obtain by becoming subscribers to the conversion. A more miserable dependence than this, for any Government financial operation, can scarcely be ima gined, and it was anticipated by the best practical men in the market, on the appearance of the notice on Saturday, that this would be the result. If consols be maintained at something like the last quotations of to. day, the new stock will be taken off, but otherwise the remainder will be left ou Mr. Spring Rice's hands. HERALD —The very blundering mode which the Chan cellor of the Exchequer has adopted for the purpose of effect ing the conversion of the 4,000,000/. of Exchequer bills, to which we have so often had occasion to refer, has become the constant theme of conversation in our leading monetary circles. That, in a financial point of view, the experiment is a decided failure there can be no doubt whatever. Nevertheless tenders have been made to-day for portions of the conversion to the amount of about 300,0001.—a small suns indeed, as compared with the like transactions of former days. From this circum stance the inference may be drawn that the public do not much relish the propositions put forth by the Chancellor of the Ex chequer. There, however, can be no doubt that the terms of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, even taking the premium upon Exchequer bills to be merely 17, cannot give a profit that . would recompense any party for taking the charge of the con version, whether the engagement be large or small. Still there is an impression that the Hebrew party and their general sup porters will eventually undertake the greatest portion of the con version. A few days will, however, settle that question. POST.—From the moment the proposition to the moneyed interest was issued from the Treasury Chambers, the batteries of the public press were opened upon the Right Hon. Gentle man, and the fire has been maintained with little or no inter mission ever since. . . . We cannot help thinking there is much to excite dissatisfaction. With a funded debt of about 800,000,0001., and an annual charge thereupon of twenty-nine millions and a quarter ster ling, to meet the payment of which the nation is taxed to the very utmost, even at the end of twenty-five years of uninter rupted peace, it is painful to see that a necessity exists for add ing still further to the magnitude of those items, and that this should be done, too, by a Government whose title to the sup port of the people is founded to a great extent on their often repeated declarations in favour of economy and retrenchment. As long as the public debt is allowed to remain in the shape of Exchequer paper merely little attention is paid to its amount. That amount may change from day to day, or from week to week, according to the necessities of the Mi nister ; but when a part is taken away, and placed upon the more intelligible footing of a fixed and permanent obligation, the matter assumes quite another interest. People then begin to ask themselves and each other if this can be done. With regard to the present operation of the Chancellor, which takes place simultaneously with the sacrifice on the part of Go vernment of a very large amount of revenue, the legitimacy of the act may, we conceive, be reasonably questioned. The scrupulous attention paid by the British nation to their public liabilities has ever been the admiration of the whole world ; yet if liabilities, already so onerous, are to be aug-, mented during a period of peace, it is not difficult to pre. phesy what must sooner or later be the consequence. CHRONICLE.--The notable plan of the Chancellor of the Exchequer for the funding of Exchequer bills appears to get on but slowly; for only about 900,000/. to 1,100,000/, have been tendered for to-day, and this may be looked upon as tae cream of the business, for if the capitalists and others of Lon don do not take it more readily, the people in the country will not be encouraged to enter the lists. It is of course quite im-I possible to know what the exact amount is, as every informa tion on the subject is refused. It is a matter of surprise indeed that bidders should have been found for even so much, when, taking into consideration the state of the weather, which, in fact, seems as if it were a sort of climax to the other disagree able circumstances attending the case, since nothing could tend more effectually to defeat the intentions of Mr. Spring Rice than a continuance of rain, and it is to the weather. that the attention of all parties is now directed. The chief tenders for the new stock, we understand, have ema nated from the Stock Exchange ; but as a depression of per cent, has taken place in Consols to-day, with only a falling off of 2s. in Exchequer bills, there necessarily remains only about Aor 3-16th per cent. profit to be gained by the operation, and, consequently, there is little probability of any more being demanded from - that quarter. The tenders from the Stock. Exchange are of course the very worst description for the Government to receive, as the stock is immediately sold upon the market to realise the small advantage which the transaction offers, and without the slightest idea of investir.g. This, moreover, cannot go on to any great length, for there is already an over-abundance of stock and a very great demand for money, six per cent. having been eagerly given for loans upon Consols until to-morrow, so that it would be wholly impracticable to dispose of any great amount, while, of courses the more stock is brought forward for sale the more its value will recede, and if it goes back A or * per cent. further, there would necessarily be a certain loss in the operation. The to-day has occasioned a fall of per cent. in Consols.,' COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT. (PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON INTELLIGENCE. MONDAY, Auo. 19.—The Queen's Cup, as we expected, was won by the Dolphin, but the Galatea was often too near to be pleasant ; the run was a severe one with the two large vessels ; the two smaller ones sailed admirably, par ticularly the Ariel, and took a good many of the deep ones in by beating the Miranda. The vessels came in as follows: H. m. se. H. m. so. Dolphin 6 47 25 I Ariel Galatea 6 59 5 I Miranda There was a fine breeze nearly the whole time. The Dolphin took the lead, passed the Nab first, indeed may be said nearly to have maintained her position through the race, though when bearing down to Yarmouth, things looked queer, and some said the Galatea was a mile a-head of her, if so, she soon recovered her loss, and proved herself the best vessel. The day was very much against the plea sure folks, being showery ; in the evening instead of fire works we had water-works, and no mi s t a k e , f or t h e ra i n came down in torrents. A great deal of money changed hands. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge landed in the afternoon. No yachts having entered for the two 50/. cups to have been sailed for on Tuesday and Thursday, as we stated on Friday, a match has been made fora 50/. cup by yachts under 50 tons, to come off on Wednesday, and as seven are eve expected the Ball. to enter, we anticip a t e a good day's sport. In the ning This day, at the dinner, Lord Yarborough takes the chair. Lord Durham, and upwards of 70 other Noblemen and Gentlemen arc expected. The Noble Commodore, with his usual munificence, furnishes the tables with venison and a superfluity of the finest fruit we have seen this season. His Lordship sails for Gibraltar on Thursday. Lord Wil ton is expected to sail about the same time for Spain. Jones's exhibition of fireworks, in consequence of the rain on Saturday evening, was deferred till to-morrow, Tuesday evening. SPORTING INTELLIGENCEELLIGEN CE. TA TTERSALL'S—YESTERD AY . ST. LEGER. 3 to 1 agst Mr. Ridsdale's Bloomsbury —taken 4 to I agst Major Yarburg's Charles the Twelfth—taken 9 to 1 agst Euclid—taken 15 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Hetman Platoff—taken 22 to 1 agst Meunier--taken 33 to 1 agst Hyllus—taken 25 to 1 agst 111 r. Golden's The Diver—taken 35 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's The Corsair—taken 40 to 1 agst Easi ngwold—taken 40 to 1 agst Mr. G. Clarke's Dragsman 20 to 1 agst Duke of Cleveland's The Commodore offered 30 to 1 agst Provost —taken. Take 5 to 1 Bloomsbury wins his trial at Liverpool and the St. Leger. The room was full and the betting rather brisk. BRONIYARD RACES—FxtnAy. The Broxash Stakes of 3 sovs. each, with 33 added from the Fund, for horses not thorough-bred, that never won more than 50/. at any time before naming for this stake ; that have not been in regular training, nor in a trainer's stable ; and that have been the property for two months before the day of naming of persons residing within eight miles of Bromyard ; the second to save his stake, and the winner to be sold for 601. Gentlemen, tradesmen, or farmers riders. once round and a distance. Mr. Holloway's gr g Ranger, 4 yrs, lOst I llb ...... 3. I 1 Mr. Walker's bg by Howick, aged, list / 1ib........ 1 2 2 Mr. Seab orn ' s Jewstone, ag e d, li s t 1 llb vv • • 2 4 3 Mr. Dre's bl g Jerry, a ge d, I I st I lib ( b roke dovm) 4 3dr 3tol on Jewstone. A good race. s i i i x en y r r y s . : The Hack Stakes of 2 sovs. each, with P. cup added, for horses not thoroughbred, &c. ; the winner ':o be sold for 50/ , were won in two heats by Junks's Cl.'t list I Ilb: (Mr. Scaborn), beating Mr.. Parson's f Snowdon Lass, 4 yrs, lOst I Ilb (bolted), and. Mr. aged, llst I Ilb (bolted). REG pwai T rh hoef considerableo a second rsi;;:otrheftlr r eti e ;reh g doec aphatAeonto:Tted.tol sda T ge t;kr ATaßanpti hlnadu A edretigtl ' nt r eepeellary.omot P .Hus U befioaoiru T ellsfist c E Y • House, ehoe r aae ff nt bfisdor o o tscnhft match. heat—_ cai t h u i t were_ri i: d a em a s aoi Saturday, b t li o e ut l h r n ::v g e l v ey r rh a i f n r iot d re t d , J. Phelps, of Fulham, and J. Royal, 114:1- hank, blue, were the competitors. Hill and Everard in this heat were th e f avourites, indeed they were looked to even in the grand heat, and the majority of the money had been laid out in that way ; and Phelps and Royal were next Lest favourites, although the stamina of the latter were doubted by those who had for any length of time paid much attention to cock rowing matches. The men all went off together at about half -past four, and in an instant white took the lead. Their rowing as oarsmen was good, and their continued lead wonderful in the opinion of many good judges. They came in first w;th apparent ease; blue was second. At half-past five the following started for the second heat :,E. Coombes, of Vauxhall, and Deal, of London Bridge, green ; 11. Watts, of Waterloo Bridge, and Shel ton, Lambeth, yellow ; H. Piner, jun., Whitehall, and J. Maynard, Lambeth, pink. In this th:t lead was disputed by yellow and pink, but in a second or two green went by both pairs, and, maintaining the lead, came in first. Yel low and pink made a sharp race, and the latter came in second, The distance in the grand heat was from Putney Bridge up to a boat just below Hammersmith Bridge, down to Surrey shore round a boat facing Avis's, tio Bells Tavern, Putney, and up to Springate's boathouse. The extraordinary rowing of white had made then;, the principal favourites, but there were so many good mren that persons were loth to overlook their opinion. After a few strokes whit , :, Wok the lead, closely pressed by green, who kept well up. White won by six lengths, green was se cond. A number of the police, V division, in plain clothes, were on the towing path.