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THE DORY ANTHES EXCEL.SA, now 1 in bloom at WORTON LODGE, ISI EWORTH. Subscribers to the Royal Society of Horticultut e are invited to visit it as often as they please, between one a nd five, daily (except the Day of the brand Fete at Stafford- House, Chis wick, 24th July). Non-subscribers to entitle themselves to the same -privileges, must procure Tickets, at ss. each, at the Gardeners' Gazette Office, 343, Strand. SPLENDID SPECIMEN OF STOVE, ORCHIDEOUS, and . GREENHOUSE P LANTS, for sale by PROTHEROE and MORRIS, at the New Grand Flower Hall, Stafford-House, Chiswick. Citalogues Is., to be had of Protheroe and Morris, Cornhill ; at all the Seed-shops; and the Gardener's Gazette Office, 343, Strand. :14ENV ZEALAND LANDS. _ 44 1 - The DIRECTORS of the NEW ZEALAND LA ND COMPANY hereby give notice, that the whole of the 110.,000 loxes offered for sale, in the first and principal Settlement, having been DISPOSED OF, purchasers are required to pay the balance of their respective purchase monies to the Com pany's bankers, Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths, on or before Tito lISDAY the 25th clay of July instant. The Directors also give notice, that the lots for priority of choice will be drawn at the Company's office, in the presence of the Directors, on MoNnAY the 29th day of July instant, at Twelve o'clock at noon precisely, when purchasers are requested to attend by themselves or their agents. If any shall have failed to complete their purchases, their deposits will be for. feited, and they will be deprived of the benefit of the lottery for priority of choice. By Order of the Directors, JOHN WARD, Secretary. No. 1, Adam-street, Melphi, 16th July, 1839. TO BE HAD OF ALL BOOKSELLERS. STEW HISTORICAL and BIOGRAPHI CAL WORKS. Just published by RICHARD BENTLEY, New Burlington-street, Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty. HISTORY of the REIGN of FERDINAND and ISA BELLA. the CATHOLIC, of SPAIN. By W. H. PRESCOTT, Esq. 3 vols. Bvo., with numerous Portraits. The Second Edition revised. The NAVAL HISTORY of the UNITED STATES. By J. FENIMORE COOPER, Esq., Author of " The Pilot," " The Red Rover," &c. 2 vols. Bro. with Portrait. BISHOP GOODMAN'S HISTORY of his OWN TIME. Ccmprising ImEmoias of the COURTS of ELIZABETH and J ANIL:3 I. Edited by J. S. BREWER, M.A. 2 vols. Bvo., with Portraits from original paintings. 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THE EDINBURGH REVIEW, No. CXL., _ _ _ Will be published on Saturday next, July 20th. I. THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON'S EUROPEAN DES PATCHES. :1. LAING'S TOUR IN SWEDEN. 3. DI: LA MOTHS FENELON'S DIPLOMATIC CORRE. SPONDENCE. 4. LOUDON on the TREES and SHRUBS of BRITAIN. 5. LYELL'S ELEMENTS of GEOLOGY. 6. SURVEYING VOYAGES of CAPTAINS KING and FITZ ROY. 7. DEERBROOK, a NOVEL, BY MISS MARTINEAU. S. The POETICAL WORKS of PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY. 9. The JA,VIAICA QUESTION. London: Longman, and Co. Edinburgh: A. and C. Blask. I—I IS Majesty the KING of PRUSSIA, having AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED DISTRIBUTIONS of MONEY PREMIUMS, which (though they are NO LOTTERIES), offer many possi bilities of obtaining LARGE FORTUNES, HEINE BROTHERS at HAAIBURGH, are NOW SELLING SHARES for the said DISTRIBU TIONS. Persons desirous to purchase may receive, PREVI OUS to giving any order, the PROSPECTUS and PAR• TICULARS, upon addressing, WITHOUT DELAY, a line to HEINE TMOTHERS at HAMBURGH. P.S. The ma DisTntr,UTION contains Portions from 9/. 10s. and upwards, to 10,400/., THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. LAST NIGHT of the SEASON, and of the PRESENT MANAGEMENT. THIS EVENING, JUL 16, Will be performed the Historical Play of KING HENhY V., From the Text of Shakspeare. King Henry the Fifth, Mr. Macready. To conclude with, HIGH LIFE BELOW STAIRS. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Re-engagement of the BEDOUIN ARABS, and engagement of Mr. WALLACK. THIS EVENING. Jucv 16, Will be acted Je-roid's Drama of THE RENT DAY. Martin Hey.vood, Mr. Wallack. After which, first time here, the Drama of THE BRIGAND. Alesandro Massaroni, Mr. Wallack. And the Unparalleled Exercises of THE BEDOUIN ARABS. To conclude with, THE BREWER OF PRESTON; or, the BLACK CHARGER. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. Under her MAJESTY'S IMMEDIATE PATRONAGE. THIS EVENING, July 16, and THURSDAY, July 18. GRAND PROMENADES MUSICALES ET CHAIVJ PETRES. With (by Special Desire) the repetition of Handers famous HAILSTONE CHORUS. Exkibition of the Extraordinary newly-discovered Light KONIAPHOSTIC, Under the superintendence of Mr. H. Carter. Colossal Panorama, Modelled View of Mount Hecla, by Ranson, during the Day, and at Dusk the Terrific Representa tion of an Eruption of that Volcano. Feeding Hour Five o'Clock—Concert at Six. Admission One Shilling. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We are obliged to decline the insertion of the letter of H. W. on the Birmingham affair. It is too violent in its language to effect any good. From the number of communications which reach us on this subject we are made painfully sensi ble of the feelings of the people, but we must keep the mat ter entirely in our own hands and under our own controul. THE TWENTIETH DAY OF JULY IS AT HAND. COUNTY VOTERS,—Before this Day you should make your claim to Vote in the terms pre scribed in the Reform Act, and put the claim into the hands of the Overseers of the place where is situate the property which entitles you to vote. BOROUGH VOTERS,—Before this Day you should pay your taxes, that you may be entitled to be on the Register •f Voters for the current year. OTICE. We shall give a very Full Report of the great Catholic iVleeting, held yesterday, in The Sun of To-morrow Morning. HIGH WATER AT LOND , )N BRIDGE TO- vIORROW Morning 2 minutes after 6. Erening 2i minutes after 6. vi , ;.<•• !. - 1,. t. • VE10.4 - • zh,e 41111+ LONDON: TUESDAY, JULY 16, 18311. Nothing of any importance was clone last night in the 'House of Lords, except that Lord BROUGHAM moved the second reading of his Education Bill, the objects of which he clearly explained, as the Node has d one b efore. The manner in which he ex posed the arithmetical mistakes of the National School advocates , and boasters, was the most useful part of his Lordships speech. " If," said his Lordship. " those statements were correct, E ng l and would be the best educated country in Europe, not the worst." The Bishop of. CHICHESTER obj ecte d to the Noble Lord's Bill, that it was far worse than the worst of the Privy Council minutes, that it wholly overlooked the e Clergy, and would take the e d ucat i on of the peo l wholly out of their hands, an d t h erefore he mode that the Bill be read a second ti me i n s i x months.v After b. few well deserved compliments to Lord BROUGH AM, Lord MELBOURNE recommended his Noble and Learned Friend to withd raw hi s Bi ll, which the Noble Lord did. TneirLordship s th en a dj ourned. In the Commons, the City Pollee Bill occasioned some discussion, in consequence of Mr. Fox MAULS having introduced a considerable number . of new c l auses by way of rider, adding to the City Bill, we b e l ieve , all the harsh and tyrannical provisions of the Metropo litan Police Bill. The proceeding was justified as the recommendation of a Committee. Mr. i MACKIN NON also o bj ec t e d t o the Bill that t disqua lified the Conynissioner from sitting in Parliament, which, as this is a private Bill, he described as uncon stitutional and unusual. A short debate ensued, in which Mr. WILLIAMS said the clause was personally directed against Mr. HARVEY ; and Mr. HARVEY contended strongly for not depriving the people of the power of rewarding those who served them. But this found no favour with the Hou:e. Sir ROBERT PEEL and Lord JOHN RUSSELL i supported the clause, which on a division was carried by 108 to 32. Sir GEORGE CLERK had a special entry made on the Journals to prevent the introduction of so many clauses, by way of rider, becoming a precedent. True to his principles, Sir ROBERT INGLIS, on the moCenn that the Irish Corporation Bill be read a third time, moved that it be put off for three months. Mr. Pii.UMPTRE seconded the motion. Mr. O'CONNELL sup ported the Bill, though he was not satisfied with it, and declared that if it were mutilated in the other House, he would vote against it. On a division the Anti-Irish mustered 21, and the Bill was read a third time by a majority of 76. For a considerable part of the night the House was occupied in Committee on the Admiralty Court Bill. An amendment proposed by Mr. HUME, to throw the Admiralty Court open, was lost on a division, 28 voting for it and 69 against it. The Bill for continuing the Poor•law Commissioners was read a second time, after a short debate and a division, on which 35 voted against and 120 for the second reading. The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at Two o'Clock. It is very generally said that the evils of which the lower classes complain are economical or social, arising from an excess of population over the means of employment ; and that, for their suffer ings, our laws are not at all to blame. Such an argument, were it well founded, would go much further than those who use it apprehend. Com pared to these evils, all the petty deviations from morality—not going to Church on Sunday, getting tipsy, or picking a pocket—which so much pains are taken to correct or cure, are really not worth consideration ; and for the Government to acknow ledge that these enormous evils are beyond its power, is to degrade its office, if not to abdicate its functions. Those who suffer, may well ask the statesmen who use that argument, Why then do you not break the staff of office, and confess that your pretensions are quackery ? If you cannot save society from the calamities of starvation, wherefore do you claim our obedience and respect? One principle or the other must be adopted and carried out. Either the Le gislature is capable of warding off evils, and of regulating society, or it is not. If it be, why are the people in a state of discontent from great distress ? If it be not, why do you charge your selves with the responsibility of governing ? Al low either the social principle to come into full play, and abolish all laws, or maintain the political principle and provide a remedy for low wages and want of employment, as well as for the want of spiritual instruction ? But do not, when you want to coerce the people into obedience, main tain the political principle, and insist that society will fall into anarchy unless the people be obedient and submissive, and when they complain of distress and destitution, turn round on them, and say—We have no power : your evils are social, and arise from causes beyond the controul of legislation. It is not, however, true, and no man can dare to say it is, as long as the Corn-laws, and several similar scoundrel enactments are continued, that the evils now suffered by our people are wholly social or economical, and not political. If they were wholly social, what fatuity, what madness, would it not be in the Corn-law making Legislature to take on itself, by passing such a law and so in terfering between the people and the course of nature, all the responsibility of evils which, whether social or political, threaten the public peace ? The evils are in truth political, and the Legislature should remove the causes of them. We see with sa tisfaction that this subject begins to attract atten tion, though foolish writers, while they acknow ledge its importance, still venture to deride it, and that the classes possessing political influence are called on to use it " so as to remove the evils which press on the working classes, and ameliorate, so far as public measures avail, the precarious and fluc tuating nature of their present condition. " This," says the Globe, " is the great work which lies be fore the middle and instructed classes in our times. For this have they acquired increased power in the Legislature ; and for this they must strengthen, consolidate, and exercise that power. All the fri volous pretensions of mere rank will quail before the assertion of the nobler mission which Liberal states manship has to fulfil." Bet before they can accom plish this they must cast aside the paralyzing and even death-bringing notion that the evils of which the people complain have their origin exclusively in social or natural causes, and not in bad laws. The latter we may remove—the former are beyond our control. Lord BROUGHAM moved the second reading of his Education Bill last night, but, after making a speech on the subject, the Bishop of CHICHESTER having moved an amendment, withdrew his motion, and so ends, for the Session, we believe, all dis cussion on the very important subject of education. We are not altogether sorry for this, for we begin to doubt whether this vast sea h ave b een sounded' on every point, and whether the public must not survey it on all sides for some years before it is ready for legislation. There is one particular circumstance, for ex ample, in modern society, which, so far as systems of education are concerned, seems rather to have been overlooked. Of late complaints have arisen in various quarters of the loss, as it were, of indi viduality. We are described by one great and popu lar writer, but as rowers chained in a galley ; we all go with the boat we impel, and we all rise and pull together. We dress much alike, and live much alike. Fashion or custom is master over us all, and drills us most submissively nnder its laws. We are but the servants or even slaves of our ma chinery. We must all travel by railroads at one _rapid rate, or be huddled together in steam-boats. Thousands and millions of persons, day after day, tread the same dull round as the wheels on which they depend, and seem daily likely to become wholly mechanical. Now, any general system of educa tion must rather augment than diminish this gene ral, and by•some deemed fatal, tendency, to reduce all society to mere masses of mechanism. Not con tent with the uniformity which fashion impresses on us—not content with the compulsion to move in the same tracks, and at the same time, to which the use of railroads and steam-boats exposes us—not con tent with the great mass of the people being reduced to almost the mechanical level of the mules and looms they attend, we seem anxious to devise and ap ply one great and uniform system of school learning which shall hasten the extinction of all individuality, and extend the mechanical habits of the cotton fac tory over the national mind. This is one aspect in which we believe a general system of education has not been much contemplated, but which cer tainly requires investigation before the Legislature proceed to act. In relation to this part of the question we were interested by Mr. GIBSON'S remark at Ipswich, that education must be particular, not general. Its object, of course, is to enable individuals to per form their duties and live happily ; for it will scarcely he denied that even the moral precepts which religion enforces have chiefly for their object the promotion of individual and general happiness. Education, therefore, to be good should have spe cial regard to the situation in which a man is likely to be placed, to the peculiar duties he will have to fulfil, and the peculiarities of the individual. It should be adapted both to his external circumstances and internal dis position as far as they can be ascertained. Surely a man who is to lead a sedentary life, like a weaver or a tailor, and whose health and develop mentipowers require h of his physi ca l s recreations to be of an active nature, should not be drilled in the same manner, while a boy or a youth, as he who is to be a seaman or an agriculturist ? Surely, too, the youth whose situation requires from him the drudgery of daily toil, and who happens to have a poetical temperament, can have no greater injury inflicted on him than to have that peculiarity un duly developed, and even forced into active opera tion by a system of literary instruction, uncorrected by any physical education to harden his muscles, correct his propensity, and enable him to fill his situation with honour and profit. We are warm friend s to education, but we rather doubt whether t o individuals, now indi scr i m i nate and genera l system m i g h t not b e uniformity an mechanical injury ni u osy comp l a ained ofn d promote . the It appears, from the frequency and the acrimo nious tone with which the Opposition Journals allude to the reception given by the QUEEN to the late Address of the House of Lords, that the Tories find her MAJESTY'S reply neither palatable nor easy of digestion. Grandmamma seems to have taken the rebuke, so seasonably administered, to the " meddling Priests" and factious Peers, most to heart. We are really afraid it will be the death of her. She can think of nothing else. She broods over the " untoward event" night and day, and utters her lamentations in strains that we are con vinced would have melted even the stony hearts of ELIPH AZ, the Temanite ; BILDAD, the Shuhite ; and ZOPHA It, the Naamathite ; had Jos appointed her to plead his cause with his unsympathizing friends. If any one demur to this conclusion, and assert that our venerable Contem porary exhibits less patience and more peevishness in her lucubrations than the Patriarch of Uz, it would only prove that, with unreflecting persons age and sex go for nothing, whereas their privi leges are of longer standing, and more generally acknowledged than any to which the House of Lords can lay claim. But to be serious, it is undoubtedly a highly amiable and praiseworthy feeling which prompts our respected Contemporary to make the distinc tion which it does between the personal acts of the Sovereign and those acts for which the Ministers are responsible. The answer to the Lords' Ad dress, it calls " unconstitutional and discreditable incivility,"—sharp words these coming from such a quarter--and then it lays the blame of this at the door of her MAJESTY'S advisers, for the gene rous purpose of protecting her from the popul ar hatred which it fancies she must incur if the people imagined that the " sharp rebuke," or as some call it the " snubbing," of the Lords, were the unprompted effusion of the Royal mind. We would use the liberty of recommending to our venerable Contemporary to quiet the grievous alarm which she evidently labours under on this important point. If the QUEEN never do a more unpopular act than " snubbing" the Peers, she will be the most popular Sovereign that ever swayed the British sceptre. Our regret is, that the Peers have been so little accustomed to hear the honest truth told them by the Throne. Had they had a little more of the " snubbing" discipline applied to them, they would have known better how to be have themselves, both towards the Sovereign and the people. Let the revilers of the Ministers, at the same time, 'recollect that this " sharp rebuke" or " snubbing," or whatever else they choose to call it, owes its sting entirely to the consciousness on the part of those to whom it:was administered, and the public conviction, that it was well merited. There is nothing in the lan guage of the reply to which the most fastidious courtier can object. On the contrary, it is per vaded by a spirit of dignified courtesy, such as might be expected from a QUEEN who, even in conveying a reprimand, does not forget the respect she owes to herself, because others may have for gotten their duty. There can be no question that the QUEEN did reprove the Lords, and that too in the finest possible style, but it is as unquestionable that they deserved this reproof. They were the aggressors. They made an attack upon the Royal prerogative, and in such a way as to add insult to injury ; for could there be a grosser insult to the QUEEN, the Head of the Church of Eng land, than to presume, as the Lords did by their Address, that her MAJESTY would employ money placed at her disposal by the House of Commons to the prejudice of that Church ? This, use assert, was an affront, which it was impossible for the QUEEN to put up with. Her MAJESTY'S Mi nisters would really have deserved all the abuse which the hirelings of faction have heaped upon them for putting this famous reply into the QUEEN'S mouth, had they not advised their Royal Mistress—if peradventure she needed such advice— to let the Lords know that they had overstepped the limits of decorum, as well as the line of their duty, in their late`proceedings. It ts, however, a matter of no moment whether the Lords are pleased or displeased at the result of their factious and impertinent interference in matters with which they had no manner of busi ness. We hope it may have a good effect upon them, and teach them better manners in future. What we look to is the benefit which is likely to accrue to the public by the firmness with which Ministers have stuck to the great question in volved in these proceedings —namely, whether there shall be established a system of national education without distinction of sect, where all shall be alike considered the children of the State, or a system of intolerant domination, under which c,le sect shall have the privilege of either dictating its own religious principles to the rest of the com munity, or - of raonopolislng - rhe fuods - set apart for general education, with a view to prevent the spread of useful knowledge among the people. This ques tion is, we conceive, now settled, and though the scale of operations with which the new system commences is not large, it is not a thing of small importance that the principle has been adopted and a beginning made in a right direction. A gradual extension must take place, and it will not be an easy task for any Government, however hostile to the principle, to make a retrograde movement. The following extracts from the German Papers, received last night, contain interesting intelligence from the East. It will be observed, however, that the Editor of the Allgemeine Zeitung, deems the news unworthy of implicit credence for reasons assigned below :-- TRIESTE, JULY 4. —The steam-boat that has arrived to, day from the Levant, has brought so much important news that I should lose the post if I stop to send you all. The letters from Alexandria are to the 17th, and those from Constantinople to the 20th June. From the first place the Kolourat steam-boat brought 280 passengers, who had left Egypt from fear of the events that might occur. There has been a considerable action, in which the Egyptians, commanded by Soliman Pacha, were total)) , defeated, upon which the Turks advanced to Antioch, of which they took possession, and were welcomed by the en thusiastic acclamations of the inhabitants. This first victory gives reason to expect that the Turl , ish Divan, which is determined on war, will be still less dis posed to listen to the remonstrances of the European Powers, hut will persist in its resolution to free Syria from the yoke of Ibrahim Pacha. Tie Egyptian squadron was stationed between Rhodes and Alexandria; English and French squadrons are cruis ing in those seas to prevent collision. Letters from Con stantinople say that the Turkish Fleet left the Dar danelles soon after the arrival of the Capitan Pacba at Megmra. All French subjects at Constantinople had re ceived directions to be ready to quit the capital at a mo ment's notice. The Sultan bad broken a blood vessel and was very ill. If the prognostics of the English physician had been realised, the Sultan would be now no more. Our letters from Constantinople received by way of Vienna three days ago were of the 20th, and those from Alexandria the day before yesterday of the 19th, ti at is two days later than the above from Trieste. As they say nothing of a battle, and the letters from Malta do not speak of it, this news cannot be implicitly admitted, though the Lloyd Austriaco speaks of these events, and we give its supplement as a continuation of the above letters from Trieste. to which it adds some particulars.]—Note of Allgemeine Zeitung. The doubts expressed by the German Journalist would seem to be unfounded, from the following paragraph, translated from the last received nu m ber of the Piedtnontese Gazette : " After the first skirmishes, in which only small detach ments were engaged, a cavalry combat took place, in IA hich the Turks were victorious. Then a new battle was fought between two strong divisions of the armies, and again the Egyptians were defeated. The courier who took this news to Constantinople, states that the Egyptian division was commanded by Soliman Bey, and that in consequence of his defeat, the Turkish army entered Antioch." HAFIZ PACHA, Commander-in-Chief of the Turkish army, has addressed the following letter to IBRAHIM PACHA, in answer to the communica tion of the Viceroy of SYRIA, demanding to know why, and for what purpose, the army of the SUL TAN invaded the Syrian territory. The letter of IBRAHIM, which was remarkably explicit, ap peared in our columns a few days ago : " lIAFIZ PACIIA TO HIS EXCELLENCY lERAIIIM " 28th Rebei.ewel, 1255 (June 9, 1839). " I have received the treasure of thy letter, which thou has sent me by the Commandant Mohammed Azik Bey, and I have read its precious contents. As thy Excellency in thy letter manifests submission to our benefactor, the be nefactor of the universe, the high, potent, and much ho noured Sultan, and as thou expressest a wish to merit the benefits of his Highness, I can give thee some explanations. May the benevolent God prolong the life of our revered Lord until the end of time, in order that he may cover his servants with his shadow, and that his sublime throne may protect those who submit to him. " Submission consists not only in words but in actions. However, when the Grand Seignior's army went to Bir and pitch e d their victorious tents, Mageun Agassi, corn. wander of the Arab cavalry ( Hennedi), came within half a league of Bir with his troops, to reconnoitre and pro bably to pillage some villages; in fact this cavalry did pillage several villages in the province of Orfa. This en forced the necessity of our protecting our army, and we therefore advanced a body of Spahis. Some of these Spabis having lost their horses, and having gone to catch them at a place betweett Bir and Aintab, where there were eight hundred Henne - :iis, these fell upon them, disarmed one, and cut off his . bead. This, f ar f rom b e i ng i n accord ance'.. with the st tunission which th ou owest to t h e G ran d Seignior, we h a v e bee n f orce d to retaliate. I have taken the liberty to send thee this amicable letter, as a proof of and I give it to A z ik B ey, who, w i th Achmet ander of the S u bli me army, w ill g i ve it to thy mßo yyg E o x a goodwill cw° ll l al en in Cy. When, by the grace of God, he shall have 4:elivered it into thy hands, the consequences of its con'ants will depend upon thy will." When peace is restored in the East, it would mark the wisdom of the Porte to send HAFIZ PACHA as Ambassador to the Court of St. Pe tersburgh. He is evidently a diplomatist of the first water. He will not require a cipher in writing to his Government, for NESSELRODE himself would be puzzled to comprehend the pur port of a dispatch so happily vague in its expres sions as the above. According to accounts from Alexandria, pub lished by the German Papers, MEHEMET ALI is making most formidable preparations to maintain himself in the Government of Egypt. A re inforcement of 120,000 Bedouin Arabs from the Desert were on their march to join the army of IBR A lIIM in Syria. Other numerous bodies had landed at Suez from Arabia, and awaited the orders of the VICEROY. Despatches have been received at the Foreign Office from Colonel SHIEL, charged, in the ab sence of the Ambassador, with the protection of British interests in Persia, dated from Erzeroum, which bring the highly important news that England has succeeded in seating the SHAH SOOJArt on the throne of Candahar. Colonel Sir ALEXANDER BURNES has thus accomplished his mission in despite of the intrigues of Russia and the hos tility of Persia. Great praise is due to Lord AUCKLAND, who, by a prompt attention to the representations of Colonel BuitNEs, Captain HAYNES, Lieutenant POTTINGER, and several other able, active diplomatic agents of Eng land in the East, have established a general idea of the power, and the munificence of Great Bri tain in Central Asia. The deposition of the Rulers of Candahar and Aden, and the preserva tion of Herat, are events which will make them selves felt from the shores of the Caspian to the banks of the Indus. Their Most Faithful Majesties of PORTUGAL, as we learn by letters from Lisbon, dated the Bth inst., are devoting their Sundays during the summer to the patronage of those national schools of cruelty and barbarism, Bull-fights. When Republican principles were in the ascendant in Spain and Por tugal the brutal custom of baiting hulls was wholly abolished ; but, with the restoration of Royalty to its pristine glory, has returned the only amusement which it appears Princes of the Spanish, Bourbon, and Braganza lines are capable of fully appre ciating. The following telegraphi c communi cation, which appears in the Moniteur Parisien of Sunday, contains the latest intelligence from the East : " Extract of a telegraphic despatch from the Agent of Foreign Affairs at Marseilles, dated July 13, 3 A.M. " Advices from Constantinople state that the Sultan is seriously indisposed. " On the 26th of June a battle, which took place on the 21st, between the Turks and Egyptians, was talked of at Alexandria, but the details had not been received. " The Turkish fleet was, on the 2Sth of June, still in the Dardanelles Straits. Admiral Lalande was with the Jena at Tenedos ; the remainder of the squadron at Our!ac. "The English squadron, consisting of thirteen sail, quitted Malta on the 2d of July, taking the direction of the coasts of Syria." Upon this news we shall at present make no other remarl: than that it appears the naval demon strations of France and England will prevent any collision between the fleets of Turkey and Egypt. We are delighted to learn, from the Paris Journals of Sunday, that there is reason to hope that no ca pital punishment will be inflicted in consequence of the late emeute in the Capital. On Saturday morn ing Madame CARLE, BARBES sister, accompa nied by her husband, waited on M. DE LAMAR TINE, to request a letter of introduction to the KING. This the Hon. Deputy had not the right of giving, but he gave them a letter to M. MON TALIVET, who procured them an audience. The KING received them with great kindness, and hav ing patiently listened to the touching representation of a sister pleading for a beloved brother's life, thus graciously answered her:-- " I am personally much inclined to indulgence but the solution of the question does not depend upon me alone ; the Council of Ministers is this very morning sit. tieg in deliberation on the affair ; nothing is yet decided. Reasons of State must be taken into consideration. If I were only to consult my own feelings, you should this instant return to Paris with the pardon of Barbes. Take courage—hope.". The KING had ordered all the papers produced at the trial to be brought to him that he might examine them before confirming the sentence of the Court of Peers. When BARGES' sentence was read to him on Friday night he beard it with gait calmness, but not with a braggart or idiotic insen sibility. " I expected as much," said he, " but I solemnly declare that I am not the murderer of Lieutenant DROUINEAU." When told that the Court condemned him not as the actual murderer, but as the principal author of that crime, he seemed much relieved, and observed, " I am condemned then as the Chief of the insurrection. This I have myself admitted." He next inquired the fate of his accomplices, and expressed great delight that he only was to die. When subsequently asked if he would receive a Minister of the Gospel, he an swered with great readiness, " Certainly : I am a Christian, and Christianity will not be one of the least supports of the Republican cause." He then requested that the Abbe GRIVEL, Chaplain of the Luxemburg, might be allowed to visit and afford him spiritual consolation. The other prisoners, when their sentences were read, asked the fate of BARBES, and expressed sorrow at his condemnation. The Liberal Journals loudly condemn the dis persion by the troops of the be arers o f t h e pe tion to the Chamber of Dep u ti es on S atur d ay , for abolishing the punishment f or pol i t i ca l of fences. The petitioners, though in number from four to five thovsand persons in blue blouses, were entirely unprovided with arms, and their easy dis persion, without offering the shadow of resistance, proved that they had meditated no disturbance of the public peace. Nevertheless several of them were severely wounded by military ruffians, who, not more than three months ago, fled at the sight of three hundred determined citizens. In propor tion to the cowardice is the cruelty of soldi ers when let loose among a flying unarmed mob. The f o l. lowing is a v copy l of the petition whi c h t h e wor ki ng men of Paris er e conveying t o t h e Chamber when they were dispersed by the soldiery and armed Mu nicipal Guards : gt TO THE DEPUTIES. k it Gentlemen,—An insurrection has broken out in the capital. A sentence of the Court of Peers has been pro. nounced, and that sentence is death —death for political circumstances. " When in 1830 the Ministers of the fallen King were accused, three days our streets were covered with blood ; then, as now, the Court of Peers was occupied with a fearful process. Understanding the generous instinct of a victorious people, the national representation rose en masse to demand the abolition of the punishment of death. If this wish was not immediately adopted as law by the State, it was a questisn of form, but your unanimous ma nifestation saved the life of the accused. Ought it not to be the same in these days ? Has civilisation retrograded ? " In 1839 would the nation behold without horror the political scaffold erected, which by your organ of justice was broken in 1830? For these and other considerations left to the appreciation of your great wisdom, the under signed have the honour to ask if you are in favour of the abolition of the punishment of death, in requesting you to manifest the urgency of the popular wish." (The signatures follow.) The following extracts from the Paris Jourt;als of Sunday include all the remaining intelligence they bring of any p o liti ca l o r general interest : The Ministers held a Council at Neuilly yesterday, t o deliberate on a commutation of punishment. The deli beration, which was interrupted by their having to be present at the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies, was re sumed yesterday evening. A journal published the follow ing note, which was addressed to it yesterday, with a request that it might be inserted The countrymen of M. Barbes, who are at'Paris, deeply afflicted at the violent demonstrations w hi c h t oo k place to. day before the Cham ber of Deputi es , h ave met t his evening to draw up a peti tion to the Ki ng for pardon." The Memorial Bordelais gives the two following pieces of intelligence, the authenticity of which we can by no means allow, notwithstanding -the confidence with which that journal gives them : " We have a letter from Madrid of the sth, and the journals of the same date. A very important piece of news is communicated to us, viz., that it is believed that Queen Christina will quit Spain. Her Majesty is stated to have spontaneously resolved on this step, in order to facilitate the means of obtaining the peace of the country. It was for this reason that the Marquis De Las Amarillas was almost compelled by the Government to return to Madrid. It is said that the Queen will confide tile Regency, in the name of her daughter, to Espartero, the Marquis De Las Amarillas, and Count Ofalia. This Regency, a sort of military authority, would take all the necessary measures to prepare the country for an agreement respecting the dynasty which should be calculated to bring about the pa cification of the Peninsula. " The source from which we derive this news deserves our confidence. " Letters from the frontier, which merit our confidence, lead us to believe that Maroto and his army are endeavour. ing to persuade Don Carlos to leave Spain as soon as pos sible with his consort, conceding which they will leave the Regency to the Prince of the Asturias. In this manner, and if their projects are previously concerted with Espar tero,nothing would remain but to publish the political con. ditions of the. Alliance, the two principal obstacles, Don Car. los and Queen Christina, being set aside, These are pro bable statements which we should be happy to see realised." —Le Constitutionnel. Madrid journals of the 7th instant have been re ceived, which announce that the Government, had learned that the Waterloo steamer with 10,000 muskets, clothing, and munitions of war, had left London freighted for the service of the Pretender ; and that strict orders had been sent to the cruisers on the coast to capture her if possible before land ing her cargo. CA BRERA had again succeeded in cutting off all communication by the main road between the Captain-General of the army of the centre, and the capital. Since the above was written the following ac count of the fate of this vessel has been received from our City correspondent : The Waterloo steamer from London to Gibraltar and the coast of Spain, took fire off the Nab lighthouse, burnt and sunk; the crew and passengers were landed at the lighthouse. About 50 muskets have been saved. Report states she had on board 10,000 muskets as well as uniforms and warlike stores for Don Carlos. MEETING OF CHARTISTS IN MANCHESTER.---One of the largest meetings ever recollected in the town of Manchester was held in Stephenson -square on Saturday evening by the Chartists. A person named David Roberts presided, and in a brief address to the meet ing, told them that the proceedings of Government to wards the Convention had been adopted with a view to dissolve that body, but the delegates, though their numbers were so much reduced that they had a diffi culty in conducting the important business entrusted to them, had passed a law resolving that so Ion; as six of them remained, those six should continue to act. If Government thought of annihilating the Convention by such means as these, they were mistaken, for, as fast as they imprisoned their representatives, the people would elect new ones to act in their stead: He concluded by introducing to the people a person named Butterworth, to move the first resolution, who addressed the meeting, and was followed by several others much in the usual strain. The meeting separated about ten o'clock, and marched in procession through the town, but no dis turbance appears to have taken place.—Times. THE CHARTISTS.—Last night at seven o'clock, in pursuance of a printed notice headed " Outrage at Bir mingham," the object of which was stated to be to ad dress the Queen, in order "to cause an inquiry to be made into the brutal and atrocious proceedings of the authorities at the above town," a meeting of Chartists took place at Clerkenwell-green. It was one of the most numerous that have been held there, between 4,000 and 5,000 being present. A van was placed in the middle of the road, from which the different speakers addressed the crowd, several delegates assisting. Va rious resolutions were agreed to, which in strong terms expressed the meeting's condemnation of the conduct of the authorities at Birmingham, and a petition, founded upon them, was also adopted. The whole went off in a very quiet manner. One peculiarity of the proceedings last night was that neither flag nor banner was to be seen. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) HUNGERFORD MA RKET. Supplies good, and demand in proportion ; prices steady. Turbot 4s. 6d. to lbs. ; Good Salmon, Is. 6d. per lb. ; Lob sters 9d. to 2s. 6d. ; Soles 9d. to 2s. 6d. per pair. Vegetables in excellent supply and brisk sale; prices much as last quoted. Beef 7d. to 80. ; Mutton 70. to 80. ; Veal Bd. to 9cl. ; Pork 7d. to Bd. per lb. CITY FISH MARKET. Supplies good and demand fair ; prices steady. Turbot, 4s. 6d. to Iss. ; Soles, 9d. to 3s. per pair; Lobsters, 6d. to 2s. 6d. ; Mackarel, sd. to 10d ; Salmon, Is. to Is. 6d. per lb. ; Crimped, 2s. 6d. to 3s. per lb. ; Whitings, 4d. to Bd. ; and Haddocks, Bd. to Is. 2d. HAY MARKET. The supplies cud demand moderate, prices as before. New Hay, 60s. to 725. and 7.55. ; Old Hay, 80s. to 100 s., 1055., and 108 s. ; Straw, 345. to 455. per load. TEA SALE—SECOND DAY. A good attendance of the trade. About half of what was put up sold. The prices of last public sale were supported. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MONDAY.—We continue to have a better feeling in our Cotton Market, and the demand to-day has been to a fair extent. The sales, 5,000 bags, az an advance on the quotations of last Tues day of id. to id. per lb. From the Halifax papers, received to the 18th of June. " PRINCE EDWARD'S ISLAND, CHARLOTTE TOWN.— There Were 50 sail of American vessels in George Town on Saturday last, all full laden with herrings, from Magdalen Islands, and estimated to have on board 20,000 barrels. They sailed on Sunday. American fishermen taken by the Victory, nine in all. If this sort of thin.- goes on for a year or two, old treaties will b eg in t o l oo k like living records of mutual obligation." The above papers arc filled with English news. Arrivals this morning—French mail ; Ship letters from Sierra Leone and Monte Video ; Calcutta, Feb. 15. Tna_ictl_na„ _ — l7 - 016 - thelalarliour the unfavourable accounts re ceived this morning from Birmingham, which will be found in another part of the Paper, of riots, pillaging and firing houses, has not had any effect on the funds. The selling of the dead weight still continues to be the general topic of conversation in the City ; the monied inte rest as well as the gentlemen of the Stock Exchange, wished to have some further explanation on the subject if a part or the whole of it would be disposed of, in consequence of which inquiry was made of the Cashier of the Bank, but without any effect. To-morrow being the day, the bid dings are to take place, no doubt all ...particulars will be made public. We have very few arrivals this morning, consequently there is a very great dearth of intelligence. The intelli gence from Monte Video is of an old date, ;6th April ; the previous accounts were of May. Consols, which closed yesterday at 93,1 a for the Ac count, opened this morning at 932, for August Account 932. 4 ; Exchequer Bills 10 12 ; India Bonds 15 20 ; B.Ank Stock 189 190 ; India Stock 250 252. In tkc Foreign Market most of the prices are nominal as yet; Spanish as they closed, 19/ ; Portuguese, same, 34i i; Belgian 1021 ; Brazilian 77/ 78e; Colom bian 324 33 ; Mexican 254 26i ; Buenos Ayres 18 20; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 642 I; Five per Cents. loq PRICES or' STOCKS THIS Rank Stock lts9 India Stock ..... DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. 3 per Cent. lied. 9 24%514 3 per Cent. Cons. 91 %%2 Fs 4 4 3', per Cent - Ditto Red. 99 %36 3.i li N.,w 3% per Cent -.99 B;zi, o 9 New 5 per Cent." - Bank Long Annuities toexpire Jan. 5, 1860 14 3-16 5-111 Oct. 10, 1859 l4 1-111 q Jan. 5, 1560 . l, Jan. 5, 1880 - April 5, 1880. .„„ -, Ditto Bonds l5 20 pm. South Sea Stock — Old Annuities c;o IA New Ditto 3 per Cent. Annuities, 17:i1 Exch. Bills, .£l,OllO ... 10 13 pm. Ditto 500 14 11 15 pm. Ditto Small 15 11 16 pm. Ditto Commercial — pm. Ditto Advertised Bank Stock for Account ~, India Stock for Account ... Ja . n. 5. 1570 PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Au%trian Bonds B !Igian Bonds Ditto Account Brazilian Bonds Ditto Account Buenos Avres Bonds Ditto Account Chillan Bonds D tto Account ~„ Columbian Bonds Ditto Account -- Columbian Bonds, 18'2,4 3i Ditto Account U%% Danish Bonds Consos for Account 9:3!,i 3 1 ,4 THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCh • Peruvian Bonds Ditto Account Portuguese Bon•:s Ditto New Bonds Ditto Account 3i% Ditto, 3 per Cent. Ditto Account Prussian Bonds Russian Bonds, Iti"."2 ll4 Ditto Account Ditto Metallic Spanish Bonds Ditto Account. — l9 Passive Ditto Account Greek Bonds Def,rred French, 5 per cent. —f —e.. Ditto Bonds, 1825 ---- 4 per cent. Ditto Account Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent. --- Exchange. --f. —c. Ditto Account —! Dutch, 2Si, per cent. SJn Ditto, 6 per Cent — Ditto Account Ditto Account Neapolitan — Ditto Acc0unt........ ...... HALF-PAST ONE O'CLOCK. Consols, which were in the early part of the morning 93 to improved to 93,1 owing to the Chancery having purchased to a large amount, supposed to be near one hun dred thousand. Since which the market is not quite so good, and Consols receded to 93 I, at present may be quoted 03-i. Nothing has as yet transpired as to who will be the bidders for the dead weight ; it is expected that a conference will take place to-morrow, previous to the biddisgs, for further explanations on the subject. The public and speculators are anxiously waiting for fur. thcr accounts from Birmingham by the Railroad this after noon, to ascertain if any further mischief had taken place; up to the present time it has not had the least ethict on the funds. Money continues at easy rates of discount with the banker's bills. Exchequer Bills 10 13 ; India Bonds, 15 20 ; Bank Stock, 189 ; India Stock, 253}. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active, 19q; Portu uese- Three per Cents., 211; Colombian, 32i Mexican nothing done; Brazilian nothing done; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 541; Five per Cents., 103. CLOSING PRICES. ttrtiTisti FuNps flank Stack IS9 India Stack .53 3 per Cent tied :1 per Cent. C, as 34i per Cent. Red 91 , 1 Ditto New Annuities 0 New 3 , , , per Cent ( /9 Ex. Bills, 1,1100/...... 21 10 pm. New 5 per Cent — Ditto 511 e/ lit pm. Long Annuities to expire Ditto 5001 'S pm. Jan. 1,0 Oct. 1339 Jan IS6O FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian, 5 per cent — Belgian, 5 per cent 102% Brazilian Bonds 7 ,3i Buenos , Xyr..s, 6 per cent — Ciiiiian, 6 per cent — Coloinlhan, 6 per cent Ditto, 1894 3254 Danish, :3 per cent — tireek Bonds, 1825, 5 per ct — Mexican, 5 per cent — Pitt°, fl per cent.. 1825 — Peruvian, 1825,6 per cent..." Portuguese Ponds, sper cent. Ditto. New Ditto Prussian, 5 per cent Russian Bonds, 5 per cent Ditto, Metallic.. Spanish, 5 per cent Ditto, Deferred 8 French, 5 per cent. —f. —c. Exchange —c French, 3 per cent —r. —c, Dutch, i 2 per cont. 5l ry Ditto, 5 per cent. lo3s, kRES, Eastern Counties Railway Great Western Railway Ditto New Shares ... Gosport Junction Railway 7N . London and Brighton Railway London and Greenwich Railway ( csnydon RailwayTrun,) London endl2!4 Alanchester and Birmingham Railway Ditto ditto Extension 234 North Midland Railway York and North Midland Railway 34 THE POOR.—The hoe is generally at work amongst the crops in this neighbourhood, and there is employment for all our labourers, and the wages given, where they are expended with that economy the new Poor Law is so well calculated to enforce, appear to meet their necessities, as every able-bodied man, his wife and chil dren, may have work if they will seek it. The health of the rural population, too, is represented as being unusually good. ---Esser Herald. DREADFUL ATTEMPT TO FIRE BIRMINGHAM. MONDAY, ELEVEN O'CLOCK, P.M. Little were we prepared for the diabolical events of this night. At eight o'clock it was found necessary to call out the police in order to disperse the crowds who were beginning to assemble in the Bull-ring, in the course of which several persons were wounded. Nothing of importance occurred till about nine o'clock, when a cry arose of " Put out the gas !" Great confusion en vied, and at length the mob succeeded in setting fire to two houses, both of which were reduced to ashes. The rioters held undisturbed possession of the Bull-ringii7u; ten o'clock, when the Dragoons, under Col. Chatterton, arrived, followed by a detachment of the Rifles, and commenced clearing the streets, which they accomplish ed, apprehending several of the rioters. The engines were then brought to bear, and are now playing upon the flames. HALF-PAST ELEVEN, P.M. At this moment the shop of the Messrs. Bourne, grocers, Bull-ring, corner of Moor -street, and Mr. Leggett's, wholesale and retail feather and bed tick warehouse, are in flames—in fact, are completely gutted. The fire is raging at the back of Messrs. Bourne's ware house, up Moor -street, and it is impossible to say bow far it will extend. The distress and feeling of the in habitants in and about the Bull-ring is beyond descrip tion. We have received the following this morning : TUESDAY MORNING, SEVEN O'CLOCK. I have again this morning visited the scene of havoc and.desolation. Although the numbers engaged in the fiendish work were comparatively small (not exceed ing three hundred persons), yet they acted so simu'. taneously and so apparently under excellent genera'. ship, that they met with no opposition in their demo lition and plunder. They first, at Half past Eight o'clock attacked the public office, in the front of which there is not left a single pane of glass. They next proceeded to Mr. Bourne's, the extensive wholesale tea-dealer's ; within a quarter of an hour they effected an entrance into it, took down the shutters, which the smashed into pieces, and used as arms. Find ing that wood did not do their work sufficiently expeditious, they forced the iron railings which surrounded the Nelson Monument, and with those iron bars they carried all before them, battering down doors, shutters, casements, &c. For a short period they ceased, as if tired from the more laborious work, and commenced breaking all the large lamps and windows in the Bull-ring and High-street. All this time they had the battle-ground to themselves. About nine they forced Mr. Leggett's (amost amiable man and a Reformer) house, carrying the upholstery into the street, which they shortly set in flames, carrying-back a portion of the latter into Messrs. Bourne's and Leggett's houses,which were shortly in flames. The order was giver, all the gas-lights were extinguished, and then they at tacked, pillaged, and gutted the houses right and left. About this time the police bravely advanced and faced the infuriated rabble, who fled in all directions. Shortly after the Dragoons advanced at full gallop. One unfortunate man fell a victim to their fury, and I believe was killed on the spot. The Rifles followed in two bodies, each about 150 strong. Several rioters were arrested in the very act of destruction. The following houses in High-street are complete wrecks :—Mr. Martyn, jeweller, Mr. Banks, chemist, Mr. Gooden, Nelson Hotel, Mr. Bunton, porkman, Mr. Arnold, bacon shop, Mr. Pontrey, grocer, Mr. Savage, eheesemonger, Mr. W. Dakin, tea-dealer, Mr. Baden grocer, Mr. A. Dakin, grocer, Mr. Horton, silversmith, Mr. Parke's snuff shop ; several other houses are greatly injured. At ten o'clock the roof of Mr. Leggett's house fell in with a fearful; crash. Mr. Bourne's ex tensive premises, occupying large fronts in High -street and Moore-street, have the walls alone standing. The loss of property is incalculable. It is supposed that not more than two lives have been lost. The crowds at this moment in the streets are immense ; the Police and Rifles are the only force on duty. About twenty rioters are in the Public Office. EIGHT O'CLOCK THIS MORNING. The troops are out again parading the streets. . DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, JULY .12. Money. Bilte. neund Debt. Sl4 per Cent Ditto, ditto 5 per cent Amon syndic, 4% per cent..... ............ Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent B2 8'244 Commercial Company, 404 per cent lBO% 1801 4 Ditto (1832 and 1443) 5 per cent. Ditto 1837, S per cent. Loan 1837, 5 per cent. M.% 100 Exchange on London, One month l2 o.i Two mon tha BELGIAN I , U NDS—Baussims, JULY 12. Actual Deist, 2 1 % per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent PA% Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 3 per Cent. 7o;i Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent 91% Society of Qmmerce, 45 per Cent llB Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 74% National Society . WO —Brussels Papers, July 13. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, JrtY 4. Five per Cents. Metalliques . Four per Cents. Three per Cents. Bank Shares 1489 . —4ltgemehteZeitung. July 9 • HAMBURG BORSEN HALLE, JULY 6. Bills. Money. Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank Snares An to-Russian Loan 107% 1074 Russian r, per Cent. Ist series, Certificate Inscription, Ist Series Russian 5 per Cent. Hop. and to. 3d and 4th Se I.s DS 97% Ditto in Certificates Dutch .ctual Debt, 2% pe Cent. 5l Ditto 5 per Ceti* P I Polish Bond, New : icket Anglo. I ianish Loan, 3 per Cent 71% 71% Norwegian Loan, 1 , 31, 4 per Cent...... EXCHANGES 00. LONDON. HAMBURG, JULY 11.-13. 6.—Two months, 13. 4. PETBRSBURGH JULY 2,4.-11%. STucituoLm, SuLy 5 —Sevonty.five days, 11, 38. BERLIN, JULY 5. Three to •nt his, 6. 21‘ 9 . PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, JULY 9. Bins, Money, St. Schuld. Sch., 4 per cent lO3l 103% Prussian English Loan, 1830, 4 per cent 103% 10274 Joacefiange on London, three monr,is 6 21% —Prussian State Gazette. July 10. LLOYD'S SHIPPIN(-(THISDAY.) DEAL, JULY 15. —Wind W. S. W. Arrived the Mount Stewart Elphinstone, Jolly, from Calcutta; Ca zelle, Hutch ii,son, Bahia. Sailed the Thomas King, Rounce, for Sydney; William Jardine, Crosby, Cal cutta ; Matilda Luckie, Munro, Demerara ; Ludlow, Thom, Quebec: British Tar, Frazer, ditto; Vernon, Liddcrdale, Madeira. PORTSMOUTH, JULY 15.—Wind W., fresh breeze.—Ar rived her Majesty's steamer ColumLia, from Halifax— sailed the 27th ult. PLY NIOUTII. JULY 15. —Wind variable.—Arrived the Sylph, from Cadiz. , ALMOUTII, JULY 14.—Wind S. to N.N. W., fresh bretze.—Arrived the Penelope, Huntrod, from Sierra Leone; Clurinda, Hawks, Odessa; Liverpool, Potter, Palermo. LIVERPOOL, JULY 15.—Wind W. N. W.—Arrived the Washington, Burnett, from Monte Video—sailed the 28th of April; Othello, Tucker, Savannah; Gem, Matthew, Kertch ; William, Mackwood, Trieste ; Elizabeth, Clark, Black Sea; Spiek, Hamilton, Naples; Ann Weze, Potts, Leghorn; Brigand, Groom. Marseilles. Sailed the Sheridan, De Peyster, for New York ; Mary, Morton, Quebec. Off Port, the Countess Dunmore, from Odessa. Mr. MACKWORTII PRAED, Member for Aylesbury , is dead, and has created a vacancy for that place. DISTURBANCES IN IRELAND.—The Crown business of the city terminated on Monday, having occupied but a day and a half. The assizes are maiden. —Lime rick Chronicle. A WOMAN OF A NOBLE COURAGE.- On Monday last, as Miss Henderson, mantua-maker, of Co ronation-street, Sunderland, was walking on the sea-shore, she observed a girl in the sea, who had ventured out of her depth while bathing, and was in danger of being drowned; when Miss H. rushed in and brought her out in safety.— Sunderland Herald. We understand that Sir William Horne has been offered the vacant Mastership in Chancery, but that he has not yet accepted it. The vacancy is caused by the resigna tion of Mr. Martin. CIIARTIST MEETING AT KENDAL.-An other Chartist meeting was held on Tuesday last, on the old Bowling-fell, Kendal, to which place some hundreds proceeded about seven o'clock in the evening, preceded by a band of music, a flag, and one or two small banners, with appropriate inscriptions.' The star of the evening (a Mr. Lowry, who had arrived from the North by the Whitehaven mail that day) then burst into light, and harangued the assemblage for about an hour, in language which appeared to nurture the root of disaffection to the present state of things, so lately planted in their bosoms by the speech of Dr. John Taylor. There would be about t wo thousand persona present. This slums a vast forward o d r r ate increase to the last meeting , which num be r ed only ala:mt five hundred; and they now also a pp ea red to be well organized, as the major it y marched t o and from the Bowling-fell three abreast , and a r m in arm. spondent casts some reflection on the " criminal apathy" of the middle class of society , for not stepping f O or u v this crisis, and organising societies in every town and village, for the constitutionally endeavouring to obtain the tangible objects of household suffrage, vote by ballot, and triennial parliaments, the organization of which might be made a means of disabusing the minds of the lower classes of the universal suffrage mania, and the granting of which reforms would strengthen the friends of the Monarchy and constitutional liberty, and cause an almost total desertion from the ranks of the revolutionists ; and he thinks that if some such plan is not very speedily adopted, the opportu nity for its being usefully done will 'have passed away.— Lancaster Guardian, COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen, attended by the Countess of Burlington, rank an wrin t z in the Parks yesterday afternoon in a car riage and four. viscount melbourne and the Judge-Advocate General had audiences yesterday of her Majesty. Her Majesty honoured Covent-garden Theatre with her presence last evening. Her Majesty was attended by the Duchess of Sutherland, the Countess of Burlington, Hon. Miss Murray, Earl of Uxbridge, Lord Gardner, Sir Fre- . icrick Stovin, and the Hon. Colonel Cavendish. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, accompanied by the Princess of Hohenlobe, took a drive yesterday in abarouche and four. 1 tie Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied 1) the Princosscs Augusta and Mary of Cambridge, took at, icing to Caen Wood yesterday afternoon. The Duchess of Kent has appointed Lady Charlotte Dundas, daughter of the late Earl of Zetland, and Lady Panny Howard, daughter of the Earl of Suffolk, to be Ladies of the Bedchamber to her Royal Highness. Lord Belhaven, the Rev. Dr. Gordon, the Rev. John Bruce, the Procurator, Mr. Alexander, M r . H og, an d Cap rain Trotter, a Deputation from the Committee of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, had an in -ervipw with Viscount Melbourne yesterday ikDowning street. ne Earl of Scarborough, the Military Secretary to the Commander of the Forces, and Mr. Labouchere, had in- terviews with Lord John yesterday at the Home-office. Messrs. W. Young, Lewis Wilkins, Huntingdon, and Alex. Stewart, had an interview yesterday with the Mar quis of Normanby at the Colonial office. The Belgian Minister and Sir John M'Neil transacted business yesterday at the Foreign-office. Mr. Adolphmt had an interview yesterday with Viscount Melbourne in:Downing-street. Chancellor of cue Exchequer left town on Satur day for Tunbridge Wells. Despatches from the Right Hon. Stewart Mackenzie, GnrPrtior of Ceylon, were received yesterday at the Co lonial Office. FIRE ON BOARD A STEAMER.--OR Sunday night, about eleven o'clock, a fire broke out on board the Starlight iron steamer, at her moorings off Cbeyne-walk, Chelsea•• Considerable damage has been done to her deck, and to the engine and machinery. It appears that the Starlight, which is a very unlucky boat, har ing once sunk near Blackfriars-bridge, and on another occasion lost her rudder, had been under some repairs at Deptford, and her cabins decorated and provided with new seats and cushions for the purpose of tak ing the Marquis of Normanby and a party of his friends to Richmond She came up on Sunday night from Deptford, and the stokers having failed in properly extin guishing the fires caused the accident. The Starlight was unable to proceed to Richmond yesterday, and the Mar quia of Normanby and his friends went by another vessel. Much surprise was manifested at a party of the metropo litan police leaving their duties on land and going off to the vessel some time after the fire was extinguished and elf danger was at an end. They were told by the people belonging to the Starlight that their services were not re quired. They, however, insisted on stopping on board and taking charge of the vessel. K MAN CHARGED WITH POISONING HIS WlFE.—Yesterday at Lambeth -street John Clifton, a journeyman tailor. was placed at the bar before Mr. Hard wick, and charged on suspicion with having administered poison to Caroline, his wife, and from the supposed effects of which she died at an early hour that morning. After strong circumstantial evidenCe of the deceased having come unfairly by her death had been adduced, the prisoner was remanded until Wednesday. CABBAGE.—In one week the enormous quan tity of upwards of seven thousand dozens of cabbages have been cut in the immediate vicinity of Wakefield, fcr va rious surrounding markets ! The cabbage in the hands of the tailors has not been taken into the calculation. FALSE CHECKS.—At Marylebone office yes terday, a dashingly-dressed man, about thirty-five years of age, giving his name and address George Gordon, No. 1. Derby-street, Mayfair, and who is said to be a aporting character, was brought up in custody from the Albany street station-house, and placed at the bar before Mr. Raw linson, charged with having defrauded various persons by means of fictitious checks. He was remanded till Wed nesday._ _ _ On Monday morning last, as the Rev. Michael Staunton, rector of Chertsey, in Surrey, was driving through the above village in a one-horse chaise, accompa nied by his servant, the horse, a very spirited one, suddenly became quite ungovernable, and started off at full speed, defying the efforts of the Rev. Gentleman and his domestic to restrain him ; and we regret to state that the animal had not proceeded many yards before the chaise came in con tact with a four-wheel waggon, and the concussion threw Mr. Staunton and his servant to the ground. The Rev. Gentleman had the misfortune to dislocate his right shoulder, and was severelybruised about the head and face. He was instantly,conveyed to Mr. Harcourt's, the surgeon, where every possible assistance was rendered him. For tunately, the servant escaped with but trifling injury. THE MOORS.—Game is said to be very plen tiful upon the moors in this neighbourhood, and abundant sport is anticipated.—llalifax Guardian. Our sporting friends will be happy to hear that the prospects of the en. suing grouse season are very flattering upon the generality of the Perthshire moors. The report from the game keepers at the principal shooting lodges is, that the fa vourable weather at , themost critical part of the hatching season, in the early part of June, had caused fewer casu alties than bad been experienced for many years ; and the coveys were both numerous and already as strong on the wing as has been seen on the 12th of August. This for ward state of the young birds will likely prevent the re turns of killed the first day equalling those of former years, but it will be greatly in favour of the true sportsman and the permanency of the sport.—Perth Courier. MARQUIS OF DOURO.—The Marquis of Douro and his Lady arrived at Granton, at five o'clock nn Monday afternoon, by the General Steam Navigation Company's steamer the Leith. A NOTCH-POTCUI PlE.—The Editor of the Northampton Courier says, " Just before our putting our paper to press we met with an accident, which knocked three columns of abolition, temperance, foreign news, pa• tent medicines, coal mines, singing books, beef, cattle, beautiful ladies, mulberry-trees, and various other articles into pie." THE LATE Loss OF LIFE IN CIIELSEA REACII.—On Thursday last a Waterman of the name of Connorton, belonging to the London-bridge steam-packet wharf, discovered the body of a young man entangled in the paddles of the Diamond Gravesend steamer, which was moored in the river abreast of the Custom House. After considerable difficulty he dragged it into his boat and con veyed it ashore. Shortly after the body was owned by the relations, who are persons of respectability living in Guild ford-street, Vackfriars road, as being one of the unfortu nate sufferers who were capsized in a six-oared cutter three wee ks ago off Chelsea. The body had been in the water nearly twenty-one days, and was in a dreadful state of de composition. On the same evening information wac for warded to Mr. Payne, the coroner, who held an inquiry into the circumstances of the case, and the jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death." A reward of 201. was offered for the discovery of the body. PENNY POSTAGE.—The petition from this town for a uniform penny postage, received no fewer than 9 5,127 signatures in less than two days. There is great distrust prevailing as to the disposition of Ministers to carry out the measure in its integrity and simplicity.— Manchester Times. The steamer Actmon, Capt. Main, made the passage from Liverpool to Greenock in th e extraor di nar y short time of seventeen hours and ten minutes, on Monday last, the Bth inst., and landed her passengers at Glasgow+ in nineteen hours and three-quarters, being the quickest conveyance on this line ever known. PROVIDENTIAL INTERFERENCE.--A few days since a daughter of Mr. Braithwaite, engineer to the Eastern Counties' Railway, three pears of age, fell from the nursery window in the upper part of the mansion, Hare Hall, Romford, upon some paved stones, without receiving the slightest injury. —Esser Herald. The Countess of Sandwich has been appointed Lady of the Bedchamber to her Majesty, in the place of the Marchioness of Breadalbane, who has been compelled, by the delicate state of her health, to resign. BURGH OF POLLOKSHAWS.—EDUCATION.-- The population of this burgh, as ascertained by a recent Census is 4,580. Of whom are under 5 years of ag►e 722 Do. above 5 and under 12 776 Do. Do. 12. 3,082_4,580 This population being almost wholly of the working classes, many parents are so poor as to be utterly unable to afford the cost of education. Of the 776 between the ages of 5 and 12 years, 234 only are receiving education at the expense of their parents, and at least two-thirds of the children have, until very recently, been receiving no other instruction than has been afforded by the Sabbath schools. This very lamentable state of educational matters has at. tracted the attention of some benevclent individuals, by whose exertions 114 of the youngest of the children have been placed in the various schools in the town—the expense of their education being defrayed by the heritors of the parish—and an evening school for the children who are at work, or unable to attend the day schools has, about six weeks ago, been opened as an auxiliary, to assist in con nection with Auldfield and burgh Sabbath Schools, and will be supported by private contributions. In this school one hundred children, of all religious denominations, have been placed under the superintendence of Mr. James Boyd, teacher, assisted by four monitors from the Sabbath schools, who receive instruction in reading, writing, arith metic, English grammar, and geography.— Glasgow/Japer. READING FREE GRAMMAR SCHOOL,—The Rev. Francis Valpy has announced, in a letter to the Mayor of this borough, his resignation of the situation of Master of this school : we understand the Rev. Gentleman has been appointed head-master to the Burton -upon-Trent Free School. This resignation has already brought three candidates into the field: the Rev. W. B. Young, M. A. ; the Rev. F. Fawkes, curate of St. Mary's, in this town ; arid the Rev. R. Appleton, chaplain to the county gaol.-- Reading Mercury. STABBING A PDLICEMA N.--On Sunday after noon, between four and five o'clock, as police constable Farraby, 38 D, was on duty in flinde-street, Dorset-square, his attt ration was attracted towards four reputed thieves, were conducting themselves en the footpath in a very riotous and disorderly manner. Ile endeavoured to secure them, when one of the party, a lad named Divine, kicked him on the legs, and then ran off, pursued by Farraby. who seeing him take refuge in a house entered, when he was met in the passage by Divine's father, who ran at him ith a large open clasp knife, and stabbed him with it in the ear, which was cut completely through. The police man made his way back to the station (his assailant having escaped by a door at the rear of the premises), bleeding prclusely, and the wound was immediately dressed by the divisional surgc:m. flad the knife been directed only an inch higher, the constable would, in all probability, have been killed on the spot. EVENING .EDITION. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, JULY 16, 1839. I:VEN IN(4 ED ITI ON