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ILLUSTRATED BY LEECH. The JULY NUMBER, Price Half-a-Crown, of BENTLEY'S MISCELL AN Y Contains : THE FORTUNES OF THE SCATTERGOOD FAMILY, By ALBERT SMITH. With an Illustration by Leech. • Chap. X./CIL—Joe Jollit hurries Mr. Snarry from sport to sport, to banish his regret. Chap. XXIII.—The Gravesend party of pleasure, and the fate of Fipps. Chap. XXlY.—Clara Scattergood obtains a "situation" with the Constables. The Murder of the Duke D'Enghien. Eton Scenes and Eton Men. By the author of " Doctor Hoolovell." Lines on the Carnival at Rome. By W. Law Gene. Old Time. By George Linmens Banks. A Summer Evening. By H. B. K. Bells. By W. Law Gene. The King of the Cobblers ; a drama. By Mrs. Gore. An Odd Dog. By George Scene, with an illustration by Leech. A Ramble through Styria, the Tyrol, and Illyrla, 1:11 1841. By C. F. Fynes Clinton. The Physiology of London Life. By J. Fisher Murray, author of " The World of London." Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. SUSSEX " BOOK SALE" STOPPAGE NOTICE. MEMORANOUX.—In May, 1824, " The King's" Octagon-room Li brary formed of European and " Stationers' Iran" Deposits Books of many centuries, as the patrimonial estate of the nation under official trust of the Sovereign for the time being, at Buckingham House Palace, was broke up and scattered. This " unique" Collection of Works in all Languages were to be seen (by Sir Charles Dolbin, Dr. Pettigrew, and others) thrown out on the ground " hurry scurry" within the Court-yard of KENSINGTON PALACE, from numerous trains of Woolwich ammunition waggons of the Artillery, for the sinister purposes of making a property, as the sale (?) now pourtrays. The plea, for such a sacrilegious proceeding, was the turning this State deposit library-room into a kitchen, Thus, the undersigned accounts to the present generation, for a frau dulent act, requiring retributive justice to the public, as also proving satisfactorily the why and the wherefore for the extraordinary book collection and Polyglot Bible taste* of the late Duke of Sussex. At this time (1824) the newspapers were loud in their praise of the munificence of his Majesty George IV. to the people ; of his large library, without stating the fraternal gleaning, &c., " via Ken sington," when these literary records of the empire might have been at once " honestly" lodged safe under the court-yard piazza of the British Museum, they being (vide catalogue) upwards of 100,000 volumes. This audacious transaction being made clear to me, I hereby pro test against this spoliation for private advantage, and by this act charge the Duke of Wellington, and Ministers of the present time in official trust, accountable to the Public and non-electors of Great Britain, If they do not stop by investigation these nefarious doings, wkich deeds are to occupy 24 days of " Book sale" under their " sub silentio" license. CHARLES H. ACKERLEY, (Author of the Lamp of Life Non-elector. 5, Swallow-street, Quadrant, 29th June, 1844. " I to the public good apply My thoughts, intent on policy." P.S.—As all " Crown diamonds, jewels, &c." were, by the Go• vernment of 1830, insisted on being returned into the Exchequer, as unlawfully given by George the Fourth to his favourites, " men as well as women," by the same " PRECEDENT " ought these valua ble books, &c. &c. &c. be forthwith returned to the Officers of State, now in trust. Therefore, whoever purchases the Books in question will be considered as receivers of " goods" at risk. _ C. H. A. Justice of the Peace (1837) for Worcester and Middlesex, * The foisted report set about, of 3,0001. a year being laid out in " Books" by the late Sussex leaseholder of Kensington Palace, was to " hood-wink" the public for the accomplishment of the present design, after twenty years' silence. E GYPTIAN HALL, PICCADILLY. (Patronised by the King of Saxony.) The Nobility, Gentry, and Public are respectfully informed that the CELEBRATED GERMAN DWARF FAMILY, consisting of Two Brothers and a Sister, who by their astonishing pantomimic performances have gained the applause (testified by certificates) of the several Continental Courts before which they have had the ho nour to appear, are exhibiting daily at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, Open from Eleven until Two o'clock, and from Three until half past Eight o'clock.—Admission, Is. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. THIS EVENING JUNE 29, Will be repeated the New Opera Soria, composed by M. Costa, the Poetry by Leopoldo Tarantini, entitled DON CARLOS. With New Scenery by Mr. W. Grieve. Philip 11. (King of Spain), Sig. Lablache ; Don Carlos (his son), Sig. Mario; 'The Count Posa (Friend of Don Carlos), Sig. Fornasari; Gomez (Grandee of Spain), Sig. Giubilei; Isabella (Wife of Philip), Madame Grist. In the course of the evening a DIVERTISSEMENT," in which will be introduced a Pas de Valse by Mdlle. Fanny Elssler and M. St. Leon, Pas de Deux by Mdlle. Plunkett and M. Montas u, and the celebrated La Cachuca by Mdlle. Fanny LI sler. To conclude with a Divertissement, entitled LA VIVA)IDIERE, Intr-Aucing the Redowa or Original Polka of Hungary, by Mdlle, Cerito ano M. rt. Leon. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box Office, Opera Colonnade. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Madamc GRISI has the honour to inform her Friends, Subscribers to the 0 1 ,era, and the Public, that HER BEN El IT will take place ON THURSDAY NEXT, JULY 4, Wu en will be perf ,rmed (fir t time thcse three years), Rossini's Opera Seria, OTELLO. Desdemona, Madame Grisi ; Emilia, Madame Bellinl; Plmiro, Sig. Lablache; lago, Sig. Fornasari (his first appearance In that character) ; Rodrigo, Sig. Corelli; I Doge, Sig. G. Galli ; and Otello, Sig. Mario. After which, a DIVERTISSEMENT, in which Mdlle. Fanny Disler, Mdlle. Cerito, M. Perrot, and M. St. Leon will appear. To be followed by the Last Act of Donizetti's Opera, LUCIA DI LA 11 MERMOOR. Lucia, Madame Persiani; and Edgardo, Signor Moriani. To concldue with a Favourite Ballet, in which all the principal Artistes of her Majesty's Theatre will appear. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box office, Opera-colonnade. Doors open at Seven ; the Opera will com mence at Half.past Seven. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. The Nobility, Patrons to the Opera. and the Public, are respect fully informed that, in consequence of the great success of Signor MORI A NI I, an Engagement for Four Nights has been effected w ith that Eminent Artiste, the first of which will take place on Tuesday next, July 2, and the second on Thursday, July 4. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKEL Mit. BENJAMIN WEBSTER, LES 1E THIS EVENING, JUNE 29, Will be repeated the Prize Comedy of QUID PRO QUO; or, THE DAY OF DUPES. With a Prologue spoken by Mr. Webster. Earl of Hunsdon, Mr. Stuart; Lord Bellamont, Mrs. Nisbett ; Jeremy Grigson, Mr. Strickland; Htn , y, Mr. H. Holl ; Captain Sippett, Mr Buckstone; Sir George Mordent, Mr W. Farren ; Countess of Hunsdom, Mrs. W. Clifford; Lady Mary Rivers, Miss Julia Bennett; Mrs. Grigson, Mrs. Glover; Bridget I rim, Mrs. Humby. After which, will be produced a New Farce, entitled THE MIL LINER'S HOLIDAY. Sir Simon Sparkes, Mr. Buckstone; Mr. Pennvwig, Mr. Strickland ; Fanny Thompson, Miss Julia Bennett ; Miss Potts, Mrs. Humby. To conclude with THE TRUMPETER'S DAUGHTER; or, Love and the I'olka. Phillipot, Mr. Webster; Madelon, Madanse Celeste; who will dance the celebrated Polka. Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Boxes, ss. ; Pit, Is. ; Gallery, 'N.; Upper Gallery. lg. Half-price—Boxes, as. ; Pit as.; Gallery. ; Upper Gallery, (Id. Doors opened at Half-past Six, and the Performances commence at Seven. Tickets and Places to be had of Mr. I. T. Archer, et the Box °tee, from Ten till Five. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MA DDOX. THIS EVENING, JUNE 29, Will be performed GWYNNETH VAUGA AN. Owen Wil. Hams, Mr. Fitxjames ; Hugh Morgan, Mr. Wright; Gwynneth Vaughan, Mrs. Sn ling. After which a new Divertiss•ment, called The SLAVE MART. To be followed by ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA. Antony, Mr. Wright; Cleopatra, Miss Emma Manley. Atter which, LOVE AND CHARITY. In which Messrs. Fitz. ames, Oxberry, and Mrs. Stirling will perform. To conclude with a New and Original L'arce, in One Act, called TAKEN BY SURPRISE. Principal Characters by Messrs. Fitz james, Walter Lacy, Oxberry, Miss Emma Stanley, and Miss E. Renner. THEATRE ROY AL LYCEUM, LATE ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE. Under the Management of Mrs. KEELEY. THIRD JUVENILE NIGHT. THIS EVENING, JUNE 29, Will be performed a New Domestic Drama, entitled THE 110- 11/IENTOUS QUESTION. Characters by Messrs. Diddear, F. Vining, J. W. Collier, Miss Fortescue, and Mrs. A. Wigan. After which, a G•ruid Burlesque Fairy Extravaganza, called OPEN SESAME; or, a Night with the Forty Thie , es. assarac, Mr. Keeley ; Morgiana, Mrs. Keeley. To be followed by an Apropos Bagatelle, called POLKA MANIA. Characters by Mr. E. Matthews, Mr. Wigan, Mr. Keeley, Miss Woolgar, and Mrs. Keeley. To conclude with THE THREE FRA DIAVOLOS. Principal Characters by Messrs. F. Vining, Keeley, Wigan, Diddear, Miss Woolgar, and Mrs. Woollidge. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF A ►t " IS. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. BATTY. Great Success of the Chinese Feast of Lanterns, and N Military and Naval Spectacle. THIS EVENING, JUNE 29; Will be lepeated an entire new Military and Naval Equestrian Spectacle, Fntitled THE CHINESE WAR; or, The Conquests of Amoy by British Arms. New Scenery, Dresses, Appointments, &c., to realise the recent triumphs of England's Army and Navy. Feas t of 250 Lanterns. First Week of a graceful and novel pageant, entitled THE ROY A L COTILLION OF FRANCIS THE 1. I ItST; or, The Beauties of the Louvre. Marguerite de Valois, Mrs Batty. New and unequalled Scenes of the Circle—Extraordinary Feats of Horsemanship by monsieur Louis Tournaire, S , g. German i, Herr Telsback, La Petit Isabelle, Mr. Newsome, Sic., with Mr. R. Smith's highly trained Steeds. 'To conclude with an Allegorical Sketch and Living Tableaux of the Principal Events in the Cereer of the Emperor Napoleon Buena parte—Austerlitz, St. Helena, Marengo, with Fame's Tebute to )gland's Hero—the Duke of Wellington. The doors will open nightly at six o'clocA, and the I,rtormances commence at seven. Box-office opened daily from ten till four. The private boxes have been reconstructed and decorated vet, h care and splendour. Acting and stage.ininager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Second Week of the German Lilliputians—First Week of the Ame rican Tragedian, Mr. Hudson Kirby, and an entire change of per formances. THIS EVENING, JUNE 9, Will be performed a New Drama, called THE CARPENTER OF ROUEN in which Messrs Hudson Kirby, Hicks, Neville, Vale, Heslop,Johnson, Mrs. Daly, Miss ferrey, and Mrs. R. Honner will perform. After which, a Lilliputian Ballet, entitled '‘ Napoleon's Gene rosity, in which the Brockstedt Family—three German Lilliputians, only 28, 32, and 36 inches in height—will perform. Ts conclude with HUGH THE GIPSY. ~Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box office, from Eleven to Four. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. IMPORTANT TO ALL TEMPERANCE SOCIETIES. First 'Week of a Powerful Drama, in which the Good Effects of Temperance a:e made Manifest, and the upright Mechanic cannot fail to receive a useful Lesson whereby his Home may be made Cheerful, his Family Happy, and Himself a Credit to his Em ployer, and an Ornament to his Native Land. PHIS EVENING,. JUNE 20, Will be repeated a New Drama, in Three Acts, entitled THE TEMPERANCE PLEDGE ; or, a True Lesson of Life. With an Original Epilogue in favour of the Cause, by Miss Vincent, and suPPorted by Messrs. Osbaldiston, J. Vining, Miss Hamilton, Miss Arden, and the entire Company. After which, OUR. LADY OF THE WILLOW. The Astonishing Performances of Hamet Bey, the Creole Wonder. M To conclude with OF AGE TO-ORROW. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. Daylight View of LONDON in the OLDEN TIME! Painted by Danson and Telbin. The sensation caused by this unrivalled production is beyond all former precedept; its artist the amateur, the casual observer are all struck with lc extraordinary beauty and fidelity of delinea tion, and are unanimothl in Pronouncing it the most wonderful ex. bibition ever witnessed • To view it only as a vehicle for the terri fi c display at Dusk is tin J.. ; g 'cinifi be seen in the calm stillness of the quiet Evening, with its 19:Yers. and Steeples reflected in the spa. cious Lake, to be fully appreci.nte_d The Evening PROMENA CONCERTS, on Men.'ays, Tues. days, Wednesdays, and Th r ursaa, conduct e d b y M r . G o d fr e y, are upon a scale o f more than usual excellence: but words fail in doing justice to the awful representation of THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON Its tearful characteristics are truthfully pourtrayed b , a the same ti me s o beautifully blended with the Wonders of the Pyrotechnic Alt, thaZ delight is predominant over terror; and the who nightie crowd the Gardens hail it with acclamations, and that that Southby, the Unrivalled Pyrotechnist, hls achieved a matchless triumph. The Gardens and Zoological Collection are in the most perfect state, and combining so many and interesting features, are by far the most attractive lounge in or near the metropolis. eeding of the Animals at Five—Concert at Six—Conflagration at Dusk. Admitt ince, One Shilling. EGYPTIAN HALL, PICCADILLY. IMPORTANT NOTICE. ONE SHILLING Admission to THE NAT OLEON MU SEUM, the most magnificent and extensive Collection of Histo rical Curiosities and Works of Art ever known to have been formed by One Person, during Twenty-five years of elaborate research, at a cost of 60,000 guineas, and to completely illustrate, in the most in- BtraCtive and interesting manner, the most Important part of Euro pean history, viz.--CHARLES 1., OLIVER CROMWELL, and LOUIS XIV., to the deaths of GEORGE 111., and the EMPEROR NAPOLEON, in 1821. This unique Museum tins been visited often, during the last and present year, by the Royal randly, the Duke of Wellington, the Foreign Princes, Ambassadors, ant their Ladies, also, many thousands of the Nobility and Public; and the Pro prietor has recently been able to increase, by several very floe pictures, &c., his previous almost incrod:ble number and variety of a W . ., Works of Art, and a multitude of valuable Reiter, and other autiosities, in this most instructive and, as hundreds have said It :night to be, a National Museum. Many thousand have inspected it, and THIRTY PRINCIPAL EDITORS of the PUBLIC PRESS Lave stated that it ought to be seen by every one. The price of adults lien is seduced to ONE SHILLING. The „NAPOLEON MUSEUM is to be seen ovly id the " Egyptian /cull," Piccadilly, daily from Ten till Dusk. JUSTICE TO IRELAND. PUBLIC MEETING. A MEETING of the INHABITANTS of the City of WEST MNSTER will be held in COVENT-GARDEN on MoNDAY NEXT, at One for Two o'clock precisely, to petition Parliament to address the Queen that her Majesty will be pleased to direct the IMME DIATE RELEASE of DANIEL O'CONNELL, Esq., and his fellow-prisoners. FRANCIS S3IEDLEY, Esq., High Bailiff, in the Chain: ROYAL BOTANIC SOCIETY. Under the Patronage of HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN AND THE ROYAL FAMILY. Incorporated by Royal Charter for the Promotion of Botany in all its branches, and for the Formation of Extensive Botanical and Orna mental Gardens within the immediate vicinity of the Metropolis. The SOCIETY'S LAST EXHIBITION of FLOWERS, PLANTS, and MICROSCOPES, during the season, will take place in the GAR DENS of the REGENT'S-PARK, on TUESDAY, July 2. Tickets can be had only by orders from Fellows and Members. Price, before the Day of Exhibition, ss. ; and on the Day of Exhibi tion, 7s. 6d. each, either at the Offices at the Gardens, or at 28, Regent-street. Should the weather prove wet, a New Gate connected with the Tents will be opened. Gates open at Two o'Clock. J. D. C. SOWERBY, Secretary. T HE DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE for JULY, price 2s. 6d., contains : The Nevilles of Garretstown ; a Tale of 1760—Chapter I.—Coming to the Assizes—Chapter ll.—Retrospect and Deliberation—Chapter lll.—The County Ball—Chapter IV.—Embellishments of Auto biography. Remedies for the Perils of the Nation. Some New Jottings in my Note-Book—Second Gathering ; by a Dreamer. The Infanticide Mother—from the German of Schiller ; by J. Anster, Esq., LL.D. Verses from the Spanish of Bellajo, A.D., 1560. Arrah Neil ; or Times of Old ; by G. P. R. James, Esq.—Chaps. XXXV. to XLI. Lines to a Friend. The Rainbow. A few more Words about Mesmerism—the State of Sleep-waking ; by Irys llerfner. The Sea man's Light; by John Fisher Murray. Continental Countries—No. [lL—Prussia. Siborne's Campaigne of 1815. TOM BURKE OF "OURS." No. XIX., price One Shilling. Dublin : William Curry, jun., and Co. ; W. S. Orr and Co„ London; and all Booksellers. THE WEATHER-SUN OFFICE, JUNE 29. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 55; Highest, 73; Noon, 7 BAROMETER, 30.1.—Wain, S.W. __ __ NOTE.—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the freezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometeis fair is usually placed opposite 30, and rain at 29. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE TUTS DAY. Homing ... 32 minutes after 0 I Evening ... 50 minutes after 0. ,„.. Quo • ma i . .. a 01, 411/7401116 i . m 0 3 4 '' '4I3:MEW • ,!' SECOND EDITION'. "Uatt LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 29, 1844. The Irish Marriage Bill was read a second time in the House of Lords, and ordered to be committed on Friday next. The Sugar Duties Bill was read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time on Monday. An interesting discussion ensued on the infamous practice of opening letters at the Post-office. It is too good to be abridged. Lord RADNOR gave notice that, on Thursday next, he would move for a Select Committee on the subject. One remarkable feature of the discussion was the total ignorance of the Duke of WELLINGTON—the leader of the Lords—on this outrageous proceeding. The Earl of WIN - CHILSEA made some remarks about public granaries, and, after a few more remarks from Lord MONTEAGLE, and some sneers from the Duke of RICHMOND about the League, the affair ended without any result. The Scotch Parishes Bil l and the County Rates Bill were read a second time , when the House adjourned. Mr. GLADSTONE announced last night that the ses sion must be speedily closed, or, to use his own words, that a great economy of the public time should be gradually effected, and moved, that on Wednesday next the House do sit at twelve o'clock, for the more speedy dispatch of business. The motion was agreed to. On that day he should move that the Joint-stock Banks Bill be recommitted. Mr. T. DUNCOMnE presented petitions from Wal worth, Camberwell, Somers-town, Lambeth, Carlisle, and many other places, praying the House to repeal the Act of Parliament which gave the Home Secre tary of State the power of opening letters entrusted to the Post-office. In answer to questions from Mr. B. COCIIRANE relative to the fate of Colonel STODDART and Captain CONOLLY, Sir ROBERT PEEL said the Government had received a communication from Colonel SIIIEL, the British Envoy at Teheran, dated the 6th of May, several days later than the last letter from Dr. WoLrr, in which he stated that, as far as he could learn, the two officers were still in prison, and no public execution had taken place. Colonel STOD DART was employed on a mission to Khiva, and when that mission was extended to Bokhara, Captain CONOLLY was to be his agent. Several questions were then put to Sir ROBERT PEEL relative to the Bills which were to be swamped and the Bills which were to have a trial. Among the former was the Irish Registration Bill, though, strange to say, the Premier approved of its princi ciples entirely, and would have a discussion upon it this session. This spinning system is certainly not in accordance with the announcement of Mr. GLAD STONE, that "a great economy of the public time should be effected." For the programme of the re maining business of the session we refer to the report. Mr. COLQUHOUN moved that the Dissenters' Chapels Bill be read a third time that day six months. Sir ROBERT INGLIS seconded the motion, and on a division it was negatived by a majority of 120 in fa vour of the third reading. The Bank Charter Bill went through Committee with little opposition. Some routine business was transacted, and the House adjourned at a Quarter to Ten. The " Arcades ambo,"—the twe " Right Honour• able" Baronets,—the First Lord and the First Secre. tary of her MAJESTY'S Administration,—the inge nuous Sir ROBERT and the high-spiriteckSir JAMES— were permitted a special benefit, last night, in the house of Commons. In the course of their amusing performances they abundantly proved to an admiring audience that they were " et cantare pares, et respon. dere parati." It was a moot point with the House whether the " small-singing" of Sir ROBERT PEEL, or the " answers" of Sir JAMES GRAHAM, were most to be commended. For this impromptu divertissement, the public are indebted to a clever " scena," adroitly got up by a clever person. Mr. B. COCHRANE rose to animadvert on the course adopted by the Government with re ference to the business before the House. The new Bill for the amendment of the poor-law was to have been brought on, upon the preceding evening; bu had been deferred, he presumed, to make way for a discussion which had not been sufficiently proceeded with on the new " Bank Charter Bill." To him (Mr. COCHRANE) it appeared that the Bank Charter Bill might with propriety be postponed, and the Poor- law Bill be taken (as last night) immediately after the debate on the Dissenters' Chapels Bill. Hon. Members who had waited in town expressly for the further debate on the Poor-law Bill, were much in convenienced by its continued delay. It hal been first brought into that House, in this session, on the Bth February last; since which period week after week had passed without any further progress being made in it, and things were in the same position with regard to it as they had been in February. Let us observe, in passing, on this statement of Mr. B. COCHRANE, that his case would have been still stronger against the Government if he had charged. them with the wanton and deliberate obstruction — of public business, by having introduced any such Bill as the Bank Charter Renewal Bill. Ministers must have been aware, when they brought it in, that, either it must be " shot" through the House (on the atmos pheric railway principle) without opportunity, mora or physical, for considering its enactments at all ; ori that it could receive scarcely the cursory considera tion which gentlemen might manage to devote to it, amidst the stormy personalities of half a dozen evenings in Committee. Sir itonawr PEEL then took the leading part in the Bucolic of the evening; and DAAGETAS himself piped—his own praises in the first co uld not have p l ace , and his pastoral longings in the second—with more touching abandonment "He sympathised heartily with Hon. Gentlemen who were kept away from the country. He long o d to b e t h ere as muc h as any one." We don't doubt it. Having committed so many monster blunders in his monetary legisla tion, he may well feel it to be high time that he should get away to look after hi s Birmingh am B ulls, of which he sang so blithely to the Menalca sea o f Tamworth the other day. But he may reckon on a little more baiting yet, in his own person, if we mis take not, before he quits the "Imperial City." No- THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 29, 1644.-i thing, however, was further from his own thoughts than any such ugly anticipation. With a " gcod boy" gravity worthy of his earliest days on the lower forms at Harrow School—he thus pleaded the good behaviour of himself and his class-fellows :—":Honourable Members would recollect that the Members of her MAJESTY'S Go vernment had attended that House, for some time past, each day from five o'clock till half-past one upon the average." The plausible Premier (who evidently thinks in the jargon of his currency crotchets, that the " measure " of his hours of Parliamentary atten dance is the true " standard of the value " of his Ministerial labours) went on to show that it was in dispensable to proceed with all possible dispatch with the new Sugar Duties Bill—the present Act expiring on the Bth of next month—and he appealed to Mr. COCHRANE whether the Bank Charter Bill " was not a measure of great importance ? It was necessary that measure should be carried, in order to put down commercial speculation. He thought it a measure:quite as important as the Poor-law Bill." One cannot pass over this remark without marvelling at the inconceivably unphilosophical spirit, the unpractical views—with which Sir R. PEEL has ventured to propound his abominable Bank Charter Bill. He talks of " commercial speculation" as if it were, per se, an unmitigated social or political evil! Has it ever occurred to him to ask where his own patrimonial fortune would have been but for the " commercial speculation " of his most public-spirited and unavari cious father, the first Sir ROBERT PEEL ? Does his fatuity blind him to the fact, that, without the whole some, informing, invigorating spirit of " commercial speculation," the foreign trade of this country would be as contracted and as worthless as—what " stan dard" of deterioration shall we select for our compari son ?—say—as his own currency system. We begin to believe in the truth of the surmises long enter tained, that Sir ROBERT the Second is as much in favour of a vast, usurious, unfeeling, sordid speculation in the monopoly of money, as he is o pposed to that fair and wealth-diffusing " com mercial speculation," in the legitimate profits of which his sire, with the blessings of all who dealt or were acquainted with him, to the wrong of no man or body of men, and with the good will of that common country to which he was an honour—laid wide and deep the foundations of his princely fortune who would now extinguish the original sources of his patrimony ! Then the Premier talked about the ad vantage of proceeding with the Bills at once, as they came before the House, " for after an in terval of four or five weeks they returned to the subject like giants refreshed, and the subject was debated over again." Of course among these "giants refreshed," Sir ROBERT intends to pourtray himself de scending from BELLAMY'S, or entering, wine -warmed, from Whitehall-gardens. If so, we are again curious to know what ca n be his "standard" or " measure" for gigantic intellect. The unhappy little people who are personally interested in every line of the enact ments to be comprehended in the New Poor law Amendment Bill, must be at once flattered and gratified by the low figure at which he places that measure on his sliding scale of comparative importance. All this was ridiculous enough; but to do Sir ROBERT justice, there is a fund of simplicity about him which will develope it self, and redeems many of his trickeries. Thus— speaking of the Irish Registration Bill—he ventured (surely in utter unconsciousness of the sarcastic waggery he was playing off upon himself) to say, " He had given a rash pledge with regard to it, to meet the convenience of Irish Members. He had found that pledge so inconvenient to redeem that it would make him exceedingly cautious how he gave another." At a subsequent hour of the even ing, it was agreed by Government not to press the Irish Registration Bill beyond a second reading. Coupling this fact with the phrase about Irish Members, we have no doubt Ministers never meant, notwithstanding all their professions, to carry through that Bill. It was a tub thrown to the whale ; an expedient to alarm and to disarm, for a convenient season, an inconvenient and powerful enemy. But the affectation of the Sir ROBERT PEEL of 1829, and 1835, finding any " difficulty " about disposing of inconvenient pledges in 1844, is almost too ludicrous ! This was said, too, in the presence of Sir JAMES GRAHAM, and without blush or qualification I Then Mr. ROEBUCK asked whether the Ecclesias tical Courts Bill was to be proceeded with ? Sir ROBERT could not at present say. We agree with Mr. EscoTT, that it never could he satisfactorily dis posed of ; and therefore it were better at once with drawn. Lord JOHN RUSSELL having demanded what was to be done with the County Courts Bill, Sir J. GRAHAM, as the concluding effect of the piece, so lemnly announced, that on some day next week he would state definitively what measures Government would proceed with—what others they would not go on with. The Poor-law Amendment Bill, he could assure the House, her MAJESTY'S 'Mi nisters meant to press forward at the earliest opportunity. The remainder of this respwidere movement was devoted to a recital of what the Right Hon. Secretary would have done, in certain events which had not happened, with certain Bills which are still to be disposed of. Upon the whole we shall only add—repeating our often asserted protest against the hurried, slovenly, and disreputable manner in which the House of Qom mons is at all times too apt to burke or pitchfork its Bills towards the close of a session—the present Ministers in the present session of the present Parlia ment bid fair to surpass all their predecessors in this mischievous practice. It is curious to note what contrasted destinies are as signed to statesmen. They are a hard-working— not particularly well-paid—high-placed—painsi-tak ing—self-devoting, and yet power-seeking—honoured yet suspected—dexterous, evasive, iron-hearted—class of men. Under the notion of doing credit to the pub lic service, they are apt to be betrayed into actions which do little credit to themselves with the public. In modern times the great duty of a statesman, in civil office, answers very much to the qualification ascribed by Sir WILLIAM TEMPLE, to a good ambas bassador, namely, "to lie with intrepidity for the good of his country." This may or may not be their common aim ; but their fates are different. One man) is canonized after death in the political Kalendar, received by half his countrymen, as " the pilot who weathered the storm." Another is denounced, during his lifetime, as the Evil One who invoked it, and well-nigh wrecked the vessel of the state in attempting to face it. The memory of a PITT or a Fox is said to be enshrined in this figurative craft, so long as she shall be kept afloat. But when so ill-omened an officer as the present Home Secre- tary,is taken aboard, there is speedily an universal cry among his tempest-tossed comrades of " Throw him overboard !" Sir J. GRAHAM is the modern JONAH. `Where he is, there also is foul weather for his com panion. Their whole course is beset with troublPs, " because of him." Rough gales from the factories —squalls from the Dissenters' schools—thunder and lightning from the union poor-houses—sunken rocks and insidious sands, called the " Spy" shoals of the Irish Channel—and fierce hurricanes blowing in the direction of St. Martin's-le-Grand, with irretrievable damage to all Post-office property. These are the sad vicissitudes which they who will mate with him must be content to encounter. Of all these, the Post-office " North-western" seem to be the most likely to swamp the vessel, which they have already laid upon her beam-ends. Now they have began to blow, there is no saying when they will subside. After a brief lull since the MAZZINI catas- ,rophe, they are freshening in another quarter ; and though, on this occasion, Sir JAMES GRAHAM may have had no more to do with exciting them than our selves, their portentous revival will be sure to have hap pened " because of him." In sober earnest, the Home Secretary's political delinquency in violating letters con fided to the Post-office, has attracted more attention than will be found agreeable in high places, to the general fidelity and punctuality of the Post-office Administra tion. Within the last week some circumstances have been represented to us, on authority we cannot doubt, which induce us to believe that complaints like those so freely and intelligibly preferred against this depart ment, by its " accusing spirit," Mr. WALLACE, of Greenock, are much more numerous and important than we could heretofore be prevailed on to believe. We have before us, at this moment, a remarkable communication from a very respectable firm, in a provincial town of considerable trade, setting forth in the most distinct and convincing manner, instances in which letters dispatched by them to their London correspondents had been, some of them detained in the provincial post for two entire days—others, lost or al together withdrawn, having never been delivered. In the case of these delayed letters, we have seen copies of a correspondence with the General Post-office authorities a London. The evidence to the fact of their having been duty posted in the country, and un duly delayed for two or three days, is conclusive and irresistible—being established by the respective post marks. On complaint made in the proper quarter, theparties were informed that every possible inquiry had been made—but in vain— in order to discover how such irregularities had oc curred ; and that the Postmaster-General had not the remotest cause of suspicion as to the integrity of the provincial postmaster. Probably not ;—but, inas much as it happens that the complainants and the provincial postmaster are all engaged in the same class of business, to the suc cess of which instant operations and priority of intelligence and communication are essential ;—as it happens, that there is therefore a very close competi tion of trade always maintained between these gentle men and the postmaster; and as it k further happens, that in every one of the many instances in which the letters of the former had disappeared, they contained " information " of much consequence to the writers and the parties to whom they were addressed, no letters of any other kind having been either lost on delayed ;—the personal good opinion of the Postmaster-General does by no means remove or even lighten the sus picion which the circumstances are calculated to throw on the conduct of so interested a party as his Lordship's provincial nominee. As we have reason to believe that the delays and abstractions of letters forwarded by the same complainants have not been discontinued since the investigation directed by the head office in London, and made without effect in the country, we shall keep an attentive eye to this affair, and any further delinquencies in connexion with it. When Sir JAMES GRAHAM undertook to state, the other evening, that there had not been above a dozen letters opened at the Post-office since he had held his present office; did the Right Hon. Baronet mean, but omit to add—" under his war rant ?" For if the Right Hon. Baronet will call for a return from all the metropolitan post-offices, espe cially those which grant " money orders," of all cases of complaint made of letters having been opened, after posting, in some cases never delivered, of many more shamefully delayed,—we tell him he will find the number not " Twelve," but " LEGION." We have, from time to time, directed attention to the very important labours of the Commissioners who have been charged with the duty of inspecting various ports on the western, eastern, and southern coasts of Britain, with the view of ascertaining their relative adaptation and facilities for the formation of " Har bours of Refuge." If we consider the value of these truly national works (as to which we have hitherto so strangely neglected to improve our deficiencies of physical means and geographical position by the aids of engineering skill and mechanical power), we shall find that even in periods of profound peace, they possess an irrestible claim upon the interest and sympathy of all classes of the community. As essential to the safety and protection of our immense commercial marine, they involve considerations having the most extensive bearing on the preservation of human life and mercantile property. If we regard harbours of refuge in reference to periods of war, their indispensible necessity becomes obvious to the most cursory reflection. The lapse of every day in their construction may be fraught with future mis chiefs of an irreparable character. In his impressive evidence before the Committee on this subject, the Duke of WELLINGTON demonstrated that the acci dents of our local relations with those of France gave to the northern maritime districts of the latter coun try great advantages in overlooking—and in the con sequent means of annoying—pending hostilities—the whole transit of the trade, coasting and foreign, of the port of London. His Grace affirmed that not a merchantman could enter or leave the mouth of the Thames, by day, without being seen, in fair or moderate weather, from the French coasts, which had the sun at their backs. This circumstance induced his Grace to press on the Committee the ex pediency of combining, on that part of our southern shores, the establishment of fortified ports, together with the construction of harbours of refuge. We are glad to observe that the capabilities of Dover, and other places, for such destinations are being subjected to the scientific examination of professional and civil authorities, with a degree of care, of zeal, and saga city, which cannot fail of being attended with the happiest results. It has been well said that the best security for maintaining peace is to be never unprepared for war. Appreciating all the value of this maxim, we should still have been disinclined to touch upon the reflec tions it awakens, in connexion with any disturbance of those amicable relations now, and for years past, so happily subsisting between the two greatest nations of Europe. Yet it is not possible to approach the subject without the hypothesis suggesting itself of the new, and as yet unanticipated, dangers to which in the event of war between France and England, the commercial prosperity of the latter must be exposed, if no scheme of offensive, and especially defensive protection, adequate to these new exi gencies shall meanwhile have been organised. The somewhat premature petulance of the young Prince DE JOINVILLE has recently announced to the world— in the projected revival of the piratical tactics of the old French Flibustierie, with all the improvements of our own MORGANS, TEACHES, and other buccaneer ing spirits of that rather disreputable school of adven ture—what the nature, visitations, and results of these Channel hostilities wonld be likely to prove. It is certain that no man in either country has yet ar rived at anything like an accurate conception of the maximum efficiency and power of naval steam arma nents, either for offence or defence. For this reason, if for no other, let our Government improve on hints which this brochure may help them to, whether it be of the manufacture of the Prince or M. TRIERS, or the sublime production of their united genius. It seems to have exploded, like an unguarded rocket, a little before its time ; but that is no reason why its light—if it afford any—should not be used for the detection of deficiencies, and their re• medy, in our preparations on this side. Certain it is that the importance of harbours of refuge is corrobo rated and enhanced by such indications of feeling but faintly discouraged on the other. There is another point of association on which it is a source of unalloyed gratification to contemplate the growing solicitude of the public mind about the esta blishment of harbours of refuge. This is, the growing desire to connect with their main ob ject—the protection of human life, and mercantile property and shipping the legitimate ac- cessories of improved communication between dose ports and the metropolis, or other of our capitals of commercial enterprise and industry, by means of railroads, to facilitate the carriage of mer- chandise, &c., and the passage of travellers—and also of internal improvemements in the plan, ca pacity, safety, and convenience of such harbour, by the building of piers, jettys, &c., adapted to packet quays and breakwaters ; the deepening of shallows ; the removal of obstructions, sunken rocks, &c. In all these particulars, the able surveys and reports . _ _ to which we have more than once adverted of the President of the College of Civil Engineers, Mr. J. WALKER, Captains BEECHEY, BACK, FAIR, &C., on the relative pretensions of Holyhead and Porth Dynllaen harbours, are entitled to every praise for the ability and diligence they manifest. In con nexion with these reports we must notice, with equal praise, the report of Mr. RENDEL, civil engineer, to the Admiralty on the Chester and Holyhead Railway. Though ordered by the House of Commons to be printed on the 10th May, it has been but recently issued from the Vote-office. It is illustrated by a tinted lithographic chart of an admirable survey of Holyhead Harbour by Captain BEECHEY, R. N. ; and Mr. RENT EL —to whom " the several questions relative to the proposed line of railway from Chester to Holyhead, and the the enlargement of Holyhead harbour," were referred for his opinion —has reported with much clearness and particularity on the important matters submitted to him. This gentleman's report conveys incidental notices of the works to be immediately undertaken ; in Holyhead harbour, particularly, new works conceived upon so grand a scale, that we shall be induced to devote a specific notice to some particulars of them. Accounts from Madrid, of the 21st, announce the departure of the Ministers, on the previous evening, for Barcelona. The .Heraldo thus accounts for this sudden step : " The journey of the Ministers chid not be delayed. The situation of affairs is serious, not because perils surround the Government, but because the prospects and peace of the country depend upon the resolutions the Government is about to adopt. It was urgent that the Council of Ministers should be complete, where her Majesty resides, in order to deliberate on various questions, to decide upon the dissolution of the Cortes, and adopt the measures which, within the limits of the executive power, may contribute to the consolidation of public order. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Marquis de Viluma, has not yet had an opportunity of coming to an un derstanding with his colleagues. This circumstance rendered the Ministerial conference still more necessary, and it has been delayed but by the momentous financial question which has just been decided to the public satisfaction. The Minis ters of Finances, Grace and Justice, the Interior, and Navy except to return to Madrid in the first days of July, espe cially if, as is hoped, the dissolution of the Cortes and convo cation of new ones be determined upon. The electoral ope rations much required the presence at Madrid of a part of the Cabinet. M. Mon has also important operations to terminate with the holders of the centralised debt and the San Fer nando Bank. The meeting of Ministers at Barcelona was indispensable, in order to organise a fiscal situation of affairs." The Funds had fallen again nearly one per cent The Three per Cents. were done at 26i for cash, and 27 3-16 at sixty days ; and the Five per Cents. at 20 for cash, and 201 at sixty days. The Paris Messager of Thursday evening publishes the following dispatch' from General BUGEAUD to Marshal SOULT " Lalla Maghanin, June 16. " Mons. le Marechal—By my telegraphic dispatch you have already learned that I demanded of El Guennaoni, chief of the Marocains at Caid d'Ouchda, an interview between him and General Bideau, in order to establish harmony bet ween the two countries. The place of rendezvous was at three quarters of a league from my earfip, upon the West Mouilah, and at four leagues from the Marocain camp. "At seven o'clock in the morning Guennaoni and General Bideau, accompanied by Captain Rioot and interpreters, met at the place mentioned. The Marocain chief displayed great force ; first 2,500 cavaliers, and then 2,000 cavaliers of the tribes, and 500 or 600 foot soldiers. " These fanatic and undisciplined soldiers approached the conference, and obliged Guennaoni to suspend the conference in order to suppress them ; but they succeeded in completely surrounding our envoys and fired upon our troops, who stood at a respectful distance from our Plenipotentiaries. Never was such insolence and barbarism witnessed. " I had only sent my cavalry and four battalions to the place of meeting, and their number was even reduced by those who were obliged to remain to guard the baggage and to cook. Having been informed by two officers, dispatched to me for the purpose, that shots had been fired, I ordered four other battalions under arms, and marched to the scene of action. I learned on my way that the conference was broken up, and saw our troops retiring, followed by numerous Moorish cavaliers, who fired upon our rear guard. I im mediately formed the eight battalions in echelon upon the centre. The cavalry at the point of the angles, ready to launch at the first signal. The centre battalion, upon which rested the others, was directed by the line which divided the Marocains in two bodies, so as to leave between us and the Mouilah a difficult passage of 1,200 metres (1,300 English yards). The enemy's infantry having disappeared, I sup posed that they ascended the little valley of the river, the snore so as when they pushed forward the centre of their cavalry, their left rested upon my right flank, as if to protect the in fantry, which I thought were in the valley. I then ordered General Lamoriciere to charge his cavalry in echelons, and direct them obliquely on the right for some moments, and then suddenly make a tete de colonne on the left, and fall upon all he found between us and the Mouilah ; while six mountain pieces advancing should hold in check the centre and right of the enemy. Having done this, the cavalry was to re-form behind the echelons, passing behind the right wing. Colonel Jassaf, who commanded the first echelon, executed, with intelligence, this manoeuvre, and soon found himself in the midst of a great troop of cavaliers. Driving them with vigour, he encountered the infantry, over which he crossed, killing a great number. Soon he perceived that he had left behind upon his right a group of regular cavalry of about 500; but then his soldiers were scattered, cutting down ca valiers and foot soldiers. The recal was sounded, but the horses were blown, and rallied with difficulty. "The echelons of infantry could not see this happy move ment on account of the dust, so arrived too slowly to concur in the destruction of the Moorish cavalry. The latter, seeing their danger, set off to regain their main body at the moment when Colonel Jassaf prepared for a charge. Our operations could only have reached the rear of the flying enemy and killed some men. Colonel Jassaf himself took a standard. " The infantry had covered the cavalry from the right and centre of the enemy, so that the latter renounced all attempts and retired towards Ouchda." " This charge confers the greatest honour on Col. Jassaf." The affair, it will thus be seen, was more serious than was at first supposed, and cannot fail to cause much excitement in France. It was a deliberate act of treachery on the part of the Moors, and the French troops were saved only by the well-executed and speedy attack of Colonel JASSAP. The Marquis of RovaGo, son of the Duke of RovxGo, fell in the action. The accounts given in pi 4 xlite letters corres pond with the dispatch, though it would appear from them that the alarm among the French troops at first was much greater than General BUGEAUD would admit. The French generals, according to one of these letters, " demanded that, for the future, Morocco should be forbidden to ABD-EL-KADER, who was to be immediately sent out of the Empire. They demanded, in addition, that the left bank of the Tafna should be henceforward recognised as belonging to France. On the first point they obtained complete satisfaction, and on the other it was agreed, after long discussions, to refer the matter to the decision of the diplomatic body. They had arrived at this point, when an un expected incident occurred to interrupt the interview. This was nothing else than the noise of musketry. The escort which had accompanied the two French Generals was sharply attacked by 5,000 of the enemy. At this unexpected violation of the truce agreed on for the meeting of the leaders, our soldiers were seized with such surprise that first their ranks were thrown into disorder. Ou flanked by the enemy, they began to retreat, and the audacity of the Morocco troops was increasing, with the hope of our defeat, when our men recovered from their surprise, and exhibited such coolness and courage as at once checked the enemy, and enabled our men to gain the advantage over these violators of the most sacred rights. The Morocco troops, who had advanced right in front of the French columns, at the head of which was the Marshal, paid dearly for their temerity. More than 300 of them remained on the field of battle, without .reckoning those whom their comrades had time to carry away. Our loss was much less. We had only about thirty men wounded, of whom two were officers of Spahis, and six killed, amongst whom is the son of Gen. Roviao." The Slide publishes a letter from M. LEON SATAYES, the intimate friend of the Marquis Captain Rovtoo, who was killed in the affair of the 15th with the troops of Morocco. It states that the Spahis under the command of Captain RoviGo and another Captain, commenced the action. The Marquis Ro- VIGO was almost immediately struck by a ball in the heart, and fell dead. The other officer was wounded at the same moment, and remained in the power of the enemy. The deceased was a young officer of great promise. The Chamber of Deputies was still engaged in discussing the Paris and Belgian Railway Bill. By that Bill, as proposed by the Government, there would be two branch lines—one to Boulogne, and another to Calais and Dunkirk ; the Boulogne line to strike off at Amiens, and the other at Ostricourt. The first line, as far as we can judge by the reports, was adopted ; and the other was under discussion on Thursday, at the hour of post. Great interest was caused in Paris by the trial of two persons for the murder of M. DONON CADOT, the banker at Pointoise. Their names are PIERRE ROUSSELET, a locksmith, and EDWARD DONON' CA DOT, a son of the deceased, aged nineteen. The Court was occupied the whole of Wednesday with the reading of the indictment, and examination of ROUSSELET, who repeated before the jury a confes- sion which he had previously made, admitting that he had committed the murder, but solely at the in• stigation of the son, who, on his examination, firmly denied the charge. The Court adjourned at eight o'clock till next day. THE BOURSE-THURSDAY, JUNE 27. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French Five pere3nts .. 122 05 .. 122 05 .. 121 86 .. 121 95 Three per Cents.— 82 15 .. 82 15 .. 82 10 .. 82 15 Bank of France 3020 ..3025 3020 .. 3025 UMW.) Bank, 5,000 f Sharesso7 s. • .5075 .. 5075 ..5075 Belgian Fives, 1840 1842 1081 .. 1081 .. 1081 .. 1081 Spanish Active ••••••• • • • • • 300 .. 301 .. 301 .. 301 Threes .. • • •—• •• .. 35 Portuguese Five per Cents.. 461 .. 35 • • 341 .. 34i • • 461 • . 46{ .. 461 _ Neapolitan _99 - . 30 .. 99:30 .. 99 - 30 .. 99:30 Roman .. 1041 .. 1041 - 1041 RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain Versailles, R.B. L. 8.....•••• •• Rouen ........•• •• •• •• 980 .. 980 .. 080 .. 980 Rouen to Havre•• . • . . 755 .. 757 50 .. 755 .. 757 50 Orleans .•• •• ..... 990 990 •• 985 •• 985 Strasburg to Bale— •• • • .... Y4O .. 240 .• 237 50 .. 240 Avignon to Marseilles...". 765 .. 765 .. 757 50 . 762 50 RAILWAY SHARES FOR 30TH JUNE. St. Germain Versailles, R. 8............ 375 •• 385 375 380 L.B. ...... 252 50 .. 255 .. 245 .. 255 50 Rouen 980 •• 982 5 0 • • 975 • 982 50 Rouen to Havre.• 755 •• 757 50 75 5 757 50 Orleans .... Strasburg to 8a1e.........• 240 •• 245 .. 240 .. 245 Avignon to Marseillea• ••• • • 765 •• 765 .. 757 50 .. 762 50 The High Bailiff of Westminster having fixed Monday next for the public meeting of the inhabi tants, to petition Parliament for justice to Ireland, the meeting will be held in Covent Garden at two o'clock on that day. M any leading Liberal Members of Parliament have signified their intention of attending and taking a part in the proceedings, and public feeling will be displayed in a manner which must produce the very best results. THIS DAY S NEWS Her Majesty and Prince Albert, and the royal suite, are expected to leave town at three o'clock this afternoon for Claremont, where the Court will pass a few days, and will then, it is expected, return to town. A Cabinet Council is appointed to be held this after noon at the Foreign-office, Downing -street. All the Ministers are expected to attend. AMERICAN NEWS EXPRESS FROM LIVERPOOL , LATER ..FROM THE UNITED STATES. SATURDAY MORNING. The Boston and Halifax Royal mail steamer Cale donia, Captain Lott, arrived here at one o'clock this morning, with ninety-nine passengers. She left Bos ton on the 16th, and Halifax on the 18th instant, and has therefore made the voyage in twelve days eight hours. The Texas treaty was rejected in the Senate, on the Bth instant, by a majority of 35 to 16 ; it would have required a majority of two-thirds to ratify it, and it is thus rejected, by more than that majority against it. The President had sent a message to Congress on the same subject, stating his views, and calling on that body to forward the Annexation Scheme. He comments on the speeches of Lords Brougham and Aberdeen in the House of Lords. The motion that it do lie on the table was negatived by a majority of 118 to 86. A late arrival from Hayti announces that the rule of President Herard is at an end, and Guerrier Duc de Christophe is now President in his place. The following is the message of the President : PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE. The subjoined Message was sent to Congress this morning by the President of the United States. It will be seen by our readers that certain information (never yet published) was transmitted by the President to the. Senate, some time since, in relation to the designs of Great Britain on Texas, and which was before that b o dy when they rejected the Treaty. Our readers, and the people of the whole Union, will doubtless read this message with unusual interest, for it de mands their serious attention. MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. To the House of Representatives of the United States : The Treaty negotiated by the Executive with the Republic of Texas, without a departure from any form of proceeding customarily observed in the negotiation of treaties, for the annexation of that Republic to the United States having been rejected by the Senate, and the subject having excited on the part of the people no ordinary degree of interest, I feel it to be my duty to communicate, for your consideration, the rejected treaty, together with all the correspondence and docu ments which have heretofore been submitted to the Senate in its Executive sessions. The papers communicated embrace not only the series already made public by order of the Senate, but others from which the veil of secrecy has not been removed by that body, but which I deem to be essen tial to a just appreciation of the entire question. While the treaty was pending before the Senate, I did not consider it incompatible with the just rights of that body, or consistent with the respect entertained for it, to bring this important subject before you. The power of Congress is, however, fully competent, in some other form of proceeding, to accomplish every thing that a formal ratification of the treaty could have accomplished; and I therefore feel that I should but imper fectly discharge my duty to yourselves or the country, if I failed to lay before you every thing in the possession of the Executive which would enable you to act with full light on the subject, if you should deem it proper to take any action son it. I regard the question involved in these proceedings as one of vast magnitude, and addressing itself to interests of an elevated and enduring character. A republic coterminous in territory with our own—of immense resources, which re quire only to be brought under the influence M our confede rate and free system in order to bo fully developed —pro mising at no distant day, through the fertility of its soil, nearly, if not entirely, to duplicate the exports of the country, thereby making an addition to the carrying trade to an amount almost incalculable, and giving a new impulse of immense importance to the com mercial, manufacturing, agricultural, and shipping in terests of the Union, and at the same time af fording protection to an exposed frontier, and placing the whole country in a condition of security and repose—a terri tory settled mostly by emigrants from the United States, who will bring back with them in the act of reciprocation an unconquerable love of freedom and an ardent attachment to our free institutions. Such a question could not fail to in terest most deeply in its success, those who under the Con stitution have become responsible for the faithful administra tion of public affairs. I have regarded it as not a little for tunate that the question involved was no way sectional or local, but addressed itself to the interests of every part. of the country, .and made its way to the glory of the American name. It is due to the occasion to say, that I have carefully re considered the objections which have been urged to imme diate action upon the subject, without in any degree having been struck with their force. It has been objected that the measure of annexation should be preceded by the consent of Mexico. To preserve the most friendly, relations with Mexico; to concede to her not grudgingly but freely all her rights; to negotiate fairly and frankly with her as to the question of boundary; to render her, in a ward, the fullest and most ample recompense for any loss she might convince us she had sustained, fully accords with the feelings and views the Executive has always entertained. But negotiations in advance of annexation would prove not only abortive, but might be regarded as offensive to Mexico, and insulting to Texas. Mexico would not, lam persuaded, give ear for a moment to an attempt at negotia tion in advance, except for the whole territory of Texas. While all the world besides regards Texas as an indepen dent power, Mexico chooses to look upon her as a re volted province. Nor could we negotiate with Mexico for Texas, without admitting that our recognition of her independence was fraudulent, delusive, or void. It is only after acquiring Texas, that the question of boundary can arise between the United States and Mexico, a question purposely left open for negotiation with Mexico, as affording the best opportunity for the most friendly and pacific arrangements. The Executive has dealt with Texas as a Power independent of all others, both de facto and de jure. She was an independent State of the Confederation of Mexican Republics. When, by violent re volution, Mexico declared the Confederation at an end, Texas owed her no allegiance, but claimed, and has main tained the right for eight years to a separate and distinct position. During that time no army has invaded her with a view to her conquest, and if she has not yet established her right to be treated as a nation independent de facto and de jure, it would be difficult to say at what period she will at tain to that condition. Nor can we, by any fair or legitimate inference, be accused of violating any treaty stipulations with Mexico. The treaties with Mexico gave no guarantee of any sort, and are co-exist ent with a similar treaty with Texas. So have we treaties with most of the nations of the earth, which are equally as much violated by the annexation of Texas to the United States, as they would by our treaty with Mexico. The treaty is merely commercial, and intended as the instrument for more accurately defining the rights and securing the in terests of the citizens of each country. What bad faith can be implied or charged upon the Government of the United States, for successfully negociating with an indepenCnt power, upon any subject not violating the stipulations of loch treaty, I confess my inability to discern. The objections which have been taken to the enlargement of our territory were urged with much zeal against the acqui sition of Louisiana—and yet the futility of such has long since been fully demonstrated. Since that period anew Power has been introduced into the affairs of the world, which has, for all practical purposes, brought Texas much nearer to the seat of Government than Louisiana was at the time of its annexation. Distant regions are, by the application of the steam-engine, brought within a close proximity. With the views which I entertain on the subject, I should prove faithless to the high trust which the Constitution has devolved upon me, if it neglected to invite the attention of the Representatives of the people to it, at the earliest mo ment that a due respect for the Senate would allow me so to do. I should find, in the urgency of the matter, a sufficient apology, if one was wanting, since annexation is to encounter a great if not certain hazard of final defeat, if something be not now done to prevent it. Upon this point, I cannot too impressively invite your attention to my Message of the 16th May, and to the documents which accompany it, which have not heretofore been made public. If it be ob jected that the names of the writers of some of the private letters are withheld, all that I can say is, that it is done for reasons regarded as altogether adequate, and that the writers are persons of the first respectability, and citizens of Texas, and have such means of obtaining information as to entitle their sentiments to full credit. Nor has anything occurred to weaken, but, on the contrary, much to confirm my confi dence in the statements of General Jackson, and my own statement made at the close of that message, in the belief, amounting almost to certainty, " that instructions have al ready been given by the Texian Government, to propose to the Government of Great Britain, forthwith, on the failure of the treaty, to enter into a treaty o f commerce a n d alliance, I offensive and defensive." I also particularly invite your attention to the letter from Mr. Everett, our Envoy at London, containing an account of a conversation in the House of Lords which lately occurred between Lord Brougham and Lord Aberdeen, in relation to the question of annexation. Nor can I do so without the expression of some surprise at the language the Minister of Foreign Affairs employed upon the occasion. That a kingdom which is made what it now is by re peated acts of annexation, beginning from the time of the Heptarchy, and concluding with the annexa tion of the kingdoms of Ireland and Scotland, should per ceive.any principle, either novel or serious, in the late pro ceedings of the American Executive in regard to Texas, is well calculated to excite surprise. If it be pretended that, because of commercial or political relations which may exist between the two countries, neither has a right to part with its sovereignty, and that no third Power can change those relations by a voluntary treaty of union or annexation, then it would seem to follow that an annexation to be achieved by force of arms, in the pro secution of a just and necessary war, could in no way beim tified ; and yet it is presumed that Great Britain would be the last nation in the world to maintain any such doctrine. The commercial and political relations of many of the countries of Europe have undergone repeated changes by voluntary treaties, by conquest, and by partitions of their territories, without any question as to the right, under the public law. The question, in this view of it, can be considered as neither serious nor novel. I will not permit myself to believe that the British Mi nister designed to bring himself to any such conclusion; but it is impossible for us to be blind to the fact, that the state ments contained in Mr. Everett's dispatch are well worthy of serious consideration. The Government and people of the United States have never evinced, nor do they feel, any de sire to interfere in public questions not affecting the relations existing between the States of the American Continent. We leave the European Powers exclusive control, over matters affecting their Continent and the relations of their different States. The United States claim a similar exemption from any such interference on their part. The treaty with Texas was negotiated from considerations of a high public policy, influ encing the conduct of the two Republics. We have treated ~:)t*ll3 ""--- ---",-----,'"—"-----'-----------.....,, ~,th OA F Iwith Texas as an independent Power, solely •i op bettering the condition of the two countries. A, op in any form occur, it will arise from the P 7,,, ,; i fettered action of the people of the two caulr e botii# seems altogether becoming in me to say that tu . ot o , the country, the dignity of the American 1 17 0 0,0 permanent interests of the United States, wow doi quiescence in any such interference. No.,_ ra g aii re gi Pl' highly appreciate the value of peace to bow ,'" t „, do preoand the United States, and the capacity of each be 01 to the other, than myself; but peace can be st to ilk ° 1 by maintaining firmly the rights which belong 0 4 independent community. ;10 So much I have con s id ere d it proper f o r me.o it becomes me only to a dd, th a t w hil e I have of tiori annexation to be accomplished by treaty as the t° ddb form in which it could be effected, should ConN e sw a t proper to resort to any other expedient comp* wi 8 0r Constitution, and likely to accomplish the obJeeL' tioa, I pared to yield my most prompt and active ce-op", 09 The great question is not as to the manner ,: A o rtiti shall be done, but whether it shall be accompli Os" Os" The responsibility of de c idi ng thi s ques tion is NO upon you. JON Washington, June 10, 1844. NEWCASTLE RACES' YESTERDAY. (BY EXPRESS.) oft s The Innkeepers' Plate, by subscription of 3 b... i -- „ ofl with a sun added to make up 50/. ; the secon d stake. Heats, one mile. is) 6 5 1 Mr. Lamb's Lady Flora, 6 y rs (Fran c ) Mr. Dawson's Geneva, 3 yrs .............................. 4 6 1 Mr. T. Walker's The Nobbler, 3 yrs ........ ..... 5 i Mr. Allan's The Wasp, 5 yrs Capt. Boyd's Lara, 6 yrs Mr. Dawson's Bonnets o' 81ue...... The Scurry Stakes of 2 sovs. each, h. ft., with a Gentlemen riders. Heats, T.Y.C• 0 1 I Mr. Lamb's Sambo Sutton, aged (Mr. R. Johnson ) 1 O s Mr. Dixon's Wee Willie, aged Mr. Robinson's Queen of Hearts, 4 yrs ..........••••' 4, Mr. Lambert's Ellen, aged ......••• •••'• 3 Mr. Balmbra's Delirieus, 3 yrs .................. 00: Lord Tullamore's Brown Bess, 5 yrs .............. 0 0; Mr. Rogerson's Charlotte, 5 yrs... .................... 0 (I ; Mr. W. Brown's Jim Crow, aged.. ..................... 0; Mr. Henry's Middleham, aged ........................ • SPORTING INTELLIGEP (RECEIVED THIS DAY_,) LATEST BETTING AT MANCLIE°'7O II I GOODWOOD STAKES.-11 to 1 agst Red-deer , r 4 to 1 agst The Era, 18 to 1 agst Franchise, 2 0 t ° ; 60 ton, 20 to 1 agst Gunter. 8 01 GoonwooD Cur. —5 to 2 agst Alice Hawthelh The Squire. ags t ?S i d ST. LEGER.-4 to 1 agst The Cure, 6to 1 100 7 to 1 agst Ithuriel, 7 to 1 agst The Ugly Buc k , _Red-deer (taken). Very little done. 4 LUDLOW RACES.--TunRsDAT. Jet The Gold Cup Stakes of 10 so - vs. each, with 2 0 a d 1 1 round. .(9 1 , 4 1; Mr. Hall's Brilliant, 3 yrs Mr. Ongley's Humility, 6 yrs ..... 50 The Two Year Old Stakes of 15 sovs. each, /" I ' m T.Y.C. ..0 11 Mr. Ongley's Mystery .................................. ! Mr. Walter's My Mary . .... ... . . Mr. R. D. Goup's The Briti s h G rena di e r ....... The Borough Stakes of 5 sovs. e ac h, with 2 0 a " . ; 1;, once round. .(9 1 fi Mr. Ongley's Queen of the G i p s i es , 4 yrs ..... ~.„, Mr. Ackers named bf by Tenbury, 3 yrs •• •• Mr. Flintoff's The Rhine, 4 yrs ......... 051 The South Shropshire andicap of 10 • soy& added; the second saved his stake. Heats ° n a dis. (9 Subs.) nos) ° Mr. E. Herbert's Tariff, 5 yrs ...(Whitehs .. I ; Mr. Flintoff's The Exciseman, 4 yrs ........... , Mr. Ongley's Fama, 6 yrs .. ..................... .4 0 # Mr. Gough's Aimwell, aged Mr. Hope's ch g by Mazeppa, 5 yrs .............. tided Free Handicap of 50 sovs. each, with BO $ ig e round. ... Mr. Ongley's Queen of the Gip s i es , 4 y r s ..... ..• .. ......... Mr. Hawkins's Nix my Dolly, 5 yrs ....... . ............ Mr. Gough's Fausta, 6 yrs ....... ........ ......... .. . Mr. Flintoff's Countess of Lichfield, 4 yrs •••'• CHANCERY.—_(THis DA /1 1 ;0e The Lord Chancellor sat in Lincoln's-ion shortly after ten o'clock. tar e IN THE A•ri y CASH OF DYCE SOMBRE, A The Loup CHANCELLOR, on taking his se',.„ca A, said, that he was desirous of stating a circurea' - ver!l taken place in the case of Mr. Dyce Sombre... l .olr ..A " certain persons, it appeared, appointed to sli ri Dyce Sombre, with his own consent—officers ° hi s a so on. Those individuals had communicated tl irw g 0 - 1 7 that Mr. Dyce Sombre the other day, while Yins - 01, dropped a letter down the ar ea o f N o . 2, Pell K l l o l _, officers had sent that letter t o hi s L o rdship % . .I,. e d w but not addressed. His L or d s hip had bogy, description this house was, and he had not it was a public one of some sort. His Lords"" PO," O t himself justified in opening the letter, wished t 0 vi Ar the Gentlemen of the Bar engaged in the ce s4 desired he should do on the subject. letter , r Sir TnomAs WiLDE kne w no thi n g of the be willing that his Lordship should adopt any cow ,- upon the subject. Mr. KELLY, on behalf of Mrs. Dyce Sombre , oP the matter entirely in the hands of his LordshiP• t The LORD CHANCELLOR said the letter Ite l c l o sal ti t o at some period or other, but he would ut Dice Sombre herself upon it. He thoug 9, might be convenient to th e B ar that he she' ife d o ft ol i he was obliged to leave Court to-day a t ba he was the more sorry for that, because he w Bs from what he knew of the case, that it could 11 °, t e to-day, and next week he would have to sit in tai rolsi Lords every day, with the exception of li r e"'" toi Saturday. 0 I° o l4 Sir T. WILDE said that since the subject 111,,tlit„ tioned, affidavits had been filed of considerable l_k,,,loef; ing twenty or thirty sh ee t s o f p a per. Those lw es teld been filed on Wednesday, but not delivered till Yoe 0 V was, therefore, impossible that Counsel COal, ‘ tl . re fortptiS : selves acquainted with them. He doubted, tr io` ckl'A Lordship was obliged to r i se a t h a lf-past two o Khe' it would be a useful occup a tio n o f the time of :: 15t erl i ,e, proceed with this important ca s e to-day. He t tsuPo gi t fore, that the Court would o r d er the matter to s or do A The LORD CHANCELLOR said, if this ivas a !,. n . the, he would consent to the appli ca tion, and aq) W ""i jeji a future day; but he was a f ra id the adjourn such an effect on Mr. Dyce Sombre, that be tte ace * ,,,ir acceding to it. He was af ra id of the cons ec t , o f P"' the Learned Counsel could obtain the conse o ' stor Sombre. liff Dice t) 0 Sir T. WILDE could obtain the consent of 0.-- P to anything but delay. on roust The LORD CHANCELLOR—Then you, J 0 10„I case. titi oa Sir T. WrLDE then proceeded to open the he ce' - $OO Dyce Sombre, praying f or th e su p er sedeas ,In 00 which was issued in July, 1843, against (We decline entering further into the case 'TII shall have come more fully before the Court' , TT 15 P VICE-CHANCERY.—(TI , - 0 (Beare Sir JAMES W 10 ---_ .A. 3 1110,10 woonnoFFE V. WooDRO,r7 O O "pr- dif His HONOUR pronounced judgment in thii bees ty question was, whether a gen tl ema n who he'' s u o ide,pt guardian ad litem to an infant defendant-1 1 0, er;f1 1 ., %1 charged. There was n o i m p u t a ti on agaille, t 0 0 01 OP - 0 , he had employed a solicitor of the name c:.`. "billf,o was said, had conducted the p roc eedings 0 8 3 0 0 4 that he ought to be removed. He had 7010' t el he had never seen o ne d rawn w ith more P eso l i s o ,00 0 1 One of the grounds on which the plaint:l:o4o " gles, that he had appointed a s guar di a n a gee '-‘,-u tid O A ) no way connected with the family. vt opinion as to whether or not it was right :ba ' llat i o l f t y should act as guardian. With respect to At r iAe 2 ,00 mistake had been committed, it was the to,; s e a" - and he, therefore, was not to blame. Still, the t ° there had been great exasperation betw u pd thought it right that Mr. Chapman should . bye point a new solicitor to conduct the proeeedists°6-105 on behalf of the infant. The question of 6 ' pended. mk QUEEN'S BENCH.-(T1-111, ,Sittings at Nisi Prius before Chief Jo thc- Special Juries.) #ll c lefejj° l o4ll THE QUEEN V. 111 ' 1 ° 14 ..„,' t ¢ 0 This was an indictment preferred aga: l ,. es ers.ter, solicitor, and a partner in the firm 01 Tvinclwase Tatham, Upton, and Johnstone, of Great ; 19, 500 eie.i r l by Mr. Benjamin Hope, a solicitor, at ` t ; 19, 111,°0 charging him with suborning the proseci! ch v ss be L i t, Henry Payne Hope, to commit perjury, iv_,..h l t iog # to have done in the form of an affidavit , s " ftg ee t . 60v‘' B. Hope) had refused to execute a in, ° ' es v` • me ( warrant of attorney contained a defea PP— gr.!" interest. garti ib 410 ° Mr. Hope conducted his own case dittit-„, o ag 00 der, and Mr. Bristow appeared for s the del,en one , aw d the,,J e d Several witnesses were called by Mr• rn .' s f e dd in v was his brother, but the charge was not P: e dist'd • under the direction of Lord Denman, ha"' verdict of Not Guilty. 1)A1:2101 EXCHEQUER.—(TOE-u. Dot° ,Sittings at Nti Prius in London, before tp- BARON.) oitg• o f d` can eel r ec° BALDNNTN V. ALSADER AND w igs This was an action in trover against the jau pt, Sewell, who in the year 1843 became a b 611 3.1,4 01° thesumjeorfv2isoSan/.,d 3r the value sd a p lu e e te o r f7 o 2 rff ba a r p re pe ls ... ., of e Tt Mr. a p and Mr. Cockburn for the defendants. 0 1P'; lnb i The plaintiff in the action kept the Que" 2 o f isOr Charles-street, Paddington. In the month / h 00 0 went with Sewell to the brewery of g_ e l s ks rs. of & t ie ' e d i t 0 1 Hampstead-road, and there ordered 7 8 ' -e a r A ,tr per cask, and they were sent to his house - l ess, of that year Sewell succeeded to the buslopel,ol/01,4 tt the stock in question, 72 barrels, by a bid August 4, 1842, was still to remain the VI s ogn e be Sewell afterwards became a bankrupt. 1 1 . 1 6: 3 L,And i i i t o tisj' ,11 a protracted dispute sold the ale for about 0 t he p boo of the, present action was indemnification t Mr. COCIEBUIM, for the defence, said t i l e . valu e c 'hee & i , interest the very reverse of depreciating t. - . 0 9ide tied pering with the ale which had by the oPnolirteed o pt'; puted to them. The point upon which 10 00 rep o a JO? that Sewell, in the eyes of the worl d, Was or der 6° o o .4 1 of the ale which was certainly in h is own _ieht tion. A claim against it front the creditors IV be P' or on the sole ground of their allowing de bts 001. 1 when they saw the security. Dania& The j ury gave a verdict for the UNION HALL.—(TIII.3 c avil pel ic ) The driver of cab No. 7,464 was sultana) ? su iting i s ot sentenced to a month's imprisonments for de° tbe e d man of the Q division. It appeared that at ri observed driving along minent danger of the passengers. Wh en fthe Oita I/ at a most reckles s r e w- vas stopped by the policeman his conduct vias, ° ie ft i et o f nature, striking the policeman right aua_ to % 1 1, 9 Several of the bystanders advised the policenroa-ed• tios,li assailant, but he refused; and a gentleman 13 _ 0 sal witnessed the transaction, in giving his evidtaesteo never saw greater forbearance than was ink° t l3- $ O.l policeman on the occio Mr. COTTINCMAI'd said that he should 11 °. t , o j e which could easily be paid, but at once Conlon' for a month to the House of correction. c .1 OL 4 lahl to new wick Pc Ann from Cc Port I Ti butt LL f 0 Un CI or with vrr H oc veg e stew va s 28 8 1"Orl tab], tion; litie: NV i Phil /ow e taint and Van( whe kart id It ki