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Now reads, in 0 ,e Volume, dimly Bvo., price 7s. fid. ST. STEPHEN'S ; or, PENCILLINGS OF Pi )LITICIANS. By MASK. " These sketches of the leading politicians of the day are all penned in a free, flowing, off-handstyle; occasionally, + bitterly sarcastic in their tone ; but, in general, they are calm and im partial. We have perused them with much pleasure. and so, we are sure, will the majority of our readers."—The Sun. " The greater number of these sketches are specimens of his torical painting of the highest order."—The Atlas. " Mask is a keen, subtile observer, and an experienced de. lineator of character; and it is evident, from the knowledge which he displays in these pages, that he has occupied a sena torial chair for half a century at least."—The Parthenon. Hugh Cunningham, 3, St. James's-square. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. The New Play of Tortes.' having attracted crowded audiences on each r , Tresentation, it will be acted every evening night excepted). THIS EVENING, Juts , 22, Will be performed Shakspeare's Tiage,iy of HAMLET. Hamlet, Mr. Wallack ; Ghost, Mr. Dale ; Gertrude, Mrs. H. Vining. To conclude with, THE PHANTOM SHIP. EVNING EDITION. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL G:1;,;(:);* Under her MAJESTY'S IMMEDIATE PATRONAGE. THIS DAY, June 22, the Boys of tie Royal ;Military School will pay their Annual Visit, accompanied by their -hi saile Band, in full uniform. THIS DAY, TO-MORROW, and THURSDAY, June 22, 23, and 25, GRAND PROMENADES 'MUSICALES ET CHAM- PETRES. Exhibition of the Extraordinary newly-discovered Light KONIAPHOSTIC, Under the superintendence of Mr. H. Carter. Colossal Panorama, Modelled View of Mount Flecla, by Danson, during the Day, and at Dusk the Terrific Representa tion of an Eruption of that Volcano. Feeding flour Five o'Clock—Concert at Six. Admission One Shilling. HIGH , NATv{ AT LON!) iN BRIDGE TO-MORROW :111 minutes after 11. I Evening u m n rtes atter ot, ae W ' . '1 ' •-', ' A - 7,5 ' 1 41 ,7, ' :.,./AM'''vlx .N 4,1 ......,5 Cht Ffz4u/114 LONDON : MONDAY, JULY 22, 1181. The House of Commons met on Saturday, and a smart discussion ensued on the Bill for continuing the Poor-law Commission. Some instances were stated of the proceedings of the Commissioners, which seemed to have an effect on the House, though they were ably defended by Mr. 13atscoE, who may be considered an imparti a l m a n. The H ou se di v ided on the ques tion, that the Order of the Day for committing the Bill be read, which was carried by 86 to 2.7. Mr. DARBY then moved that it be an instruction to the Committee to introduce a clause to give r&ief to widows and able-bodied men with: families, who were married before the passing of the New Poor law This important motion—for the amendment trenches deeply on the principle of the New Law— was strenuously resisted by the Ministers, but was car ried on a division by 69 to 46. Lord JOHN RUSSELL Immediately postponed the further consideration of the Bill. The amendment makes so material an alteration in the present law, that we are not sur prised at the Ministers being resolved, as we presume they are, to ask the opinion of a fuller House on the question. So many Members, however, have now left town, that any decision on such an important question by one-fourth of the House of Commons, whichever way it goes, will be most unsatisfactory. The House seems in something like a dilemma. The Ministers cannot allow such an important altera tion to be carried into effect without asking the opinion of a fuller House ; and it is now im possible, we are afraid, to collect such a House as will give anything like validity to its decision. That is one of the results of the House having been occupied, for five months, with little more than factious speaking and brawling, which has caused all real business to be so long postponed that the House has melted away, and its decisi ons now, let them be what they may, will have little or no authority in the country. A considerable number of Bills, however, were sub sequently forwarded a stage, as if there were a desire to pass a great number of laws, when the absence of, Member s must necessarily deprive the decisions of the House of all weight in the House of Lords, and of all respect in the country. Add resses from different bodies to one another and to the people at large seem at present very much in vogue. We consider that to be a good sign, indicating in all a desire to attain their ends rather by reason than violence ; though some of the Addresses, we regret to see, throw in a terrific threat or two as a make-weight to the argument. Our Correspondent at Birmingham sends us one specimen, which we publish, because, as he says, it is extensively circulated in the North, and it teems right to make all classes aware of the opinions which prevail amongst the bulk of the community. On the same principle, if we could find room for them, which we cannot at present, we should insert several addresses which are now lying before us. There is one which the Carlisle Radical Associa- tion has addressed to the shop-keepers and trades men of that town, in which they quote a celebrated passage from one of Mr. OA STLER'S letters, saying that our " boasted manufactories will perish by an agent soldiers cannot cope with nor policemen avert ;" in which they call on their townsmen for assistance to carry on their present movement, con cluding by saving— " Call not this an idle threat, Crimson tears may follow yet." There s another which Mr. ATTWOOD has sent to the Peace, Law, and Order Society of Birming ham, in which he refers very emphatically to a pla card issued by the Convention against paper-money, and which Lord J. RUSSELL exhibited to him in the House of Commons as a complete answer to his statements ; he admits that it is, so far as the Convention is concerned—he declares that the Delegates of the industrious classes, the members of the Convention of which he is the author, have turned against him—he asserts that the doom of the country is sealed, and oppressed with difficulties— he declines to attend a great meeting at Birmingham for the purpose of restoring harmony and reconci liation amonest the different classes of his towns men. Mr. ATT WOOD then gives up the task of pre serving peace as hopeless, and resigns his townsmen and the country to the military rule which seems ready to be adopted. We should also insert, if our space would permit, an Address to the Chartists which has been circu lated in the North, it is said with considerable success, of which the object is to point out the impropriety of their violent language and proceed ings, and demonstrate to them that they only affront and outrage the middle classes by the threats they continually use. There is also lying before us, and we shall endeavour to publish it when we can find room, an Address from the General Convention of the in dustrious classes to the middle classes, the object of which is to induce the middle classes to join the industrious classes in obtaining the Charter, to disclaim for the body the violent language used by some individuals, as the middle classes generally disclaim the insulting language which the Tory journals apply to the working classes, and to con vince the public at large, that the present demands of the Chartists arise from no temporary ebullition of feeling, that they are the result of the progress of knowledge, and that sixty years ago such a de claration of principles was made, almost indentical with those embodied in the People's Charter. We regret that we cannot at present find room for these documents, for they would throw much light on the present disposition of the people, and might in dicate to reflecting minds the manner in which future event s are likely to shape themselves. We must content ourselves now with saying that all these Addresses indicate an activity in the national intellect, a great and Sampson-lik e after something yet un a tt a i ne d, w hi c h striving threatens, like the might y exertions of hi s bli n d streng th, to pull down the pillar s of the social edi fice, burying the destr o y ers beneath the ruins. It is a just and philosophic remark of Mr. CARLISLE that no great movement ever takes place in society which is not founded on some im portant truth. He might have a dd ed with pro priety, we think, some permanent instin c t or affec tion of the human r ace. That th ere i s now such a great commotion in society, does not admit of a doubt ; and it would be more rational in our states men to ascertain the truth which is at the bottom of it, or the main-spring of affe.:tion flout which it flows. It behoves those who are at the head of society—it is the duty of our rulers_ and of all men deservine: the name of statesmen or Philosophers to find out this great secret, and not seek to stifle that truth or s uppress that affection, whatever it may be, by, the brutal arm of vio• lence. It lies on the surface that the whole contest turns on property ; one is struggling to keep , :lid the other to acquire ;, and we must warn the landowl_ers, we must warn all class es , that the sit - retinesqnf proqerfv-is destroyed beingmingled up. with taXat - i r bn _. • . ---e-4ermP.mijrPr!--m-7.-"_—rrrr-r""" of the industrious and frugal 11 to keep what he has honestly acquired, is confused en] perplexed by being described under the same term as rent, which i, now the fruit of the starvat;oii laws, and as tithes, salarie s , and innsims, which have no more validity than the decrees of an ignorant, a bar narous, or a corrupt Legislature . We call attention to an article which we extract from the Aylesbury News concerning Lord Nu- GENT, and his pretensions to ri-present A6esbury, which is written with so much more knowledge than we possess on the subject, that it quite supersedes any remarks we might be disposed to make. We shall only say that as far as the popular cause was concerned (with the engagements between the Noble Lord and Mr.. CA\TENDIsII we cannot meddle), his own letter satisfied us completely that his Lord ship was acting a most unworthy part. The Bill for reducing the Postage to One Penny, and making the rate of payment uniform, will be found in another part of The Sun. Our readers will observe that no time is fixed by the Bill for the measure coming into operation. It is all left to the Treasury, and the commencement of the alteration will depend on the time required for making the necessary arrangements. In what state of forwardness they may be we know not, but we fear that several weeks, not to say months, will elapse before the country receives the benefit of this only useful measure of the Session. It is supposed that, in consequence of Mr. DARBY having carried a clause on Saturday, making a great alteration in the Poor-law, that the measure for continuing the Commission will be given up for this Session. As the Commission lasts till the end of next Session, less inconvenience will probably result from this course, than from the House of Commons now undertaking to decide such a very important question as that which has been mooted by Nr. DARBY. The success with which the exertions of the Scottish Dissenters to prevent the monopoly of Bible-printing from being continued i❑ that part of .the kingdom have been crowned, is a severe rebuke to the listlessness of the English Dissenters, who seem to think, that the Universities, those hot-beds of bigotry, exclusiveness, and intolerance, will, out of pure love for them, generously relin quish the invidious privilege which they hare so long enjoyed of printing the Bible, and admit their Nonconformist brethren to that equal participation in it to which they are i❑ justice entitled. This, at least, is the conclusion which appearances would lead one to draw from the supineness with which the Established Sect is permitted to dole out the Scriptures to the rest of the community, in what ever quantities, and at whatever prices it. pleases. We tell the Dissenters plainly, that this tame ac quiescence in a matter touching not merely sec tarian feelings and prejudices, but the highest in terests of man—involved as these interests are in the circulation of the word of GOD, is very far from creditable to them as a body of Christians. What steps, we should like to be in formed, have any of those Associations which start up with mushroom rapidity, apparently for no other purpose than. to delude the honest and zea lous part of the Dissenting community, and then to die an inglorious death—what measures have any of them taken to get rid of the Bible-printing monopoly ? They inscribe " Civil and Religious Liberty" on their banners, and sound a loud flourish of trumpets, but where is the practical good— where-the real benefit to the " cause," which can be said to have resulted from their exertions? What object there can be in confining the print ing of the Holy Scriptures to the Universities, or in limiting it at all, is to us utterly inconceivable. We can hardly suppose that there can be enter tained even among the cloistered tenants of Oxford, a wish to circumscribe, as much as possible, the dissemination of the Old and New Testa ments, whatever hostility may be felt to the extension of education and the diffusion of know ledge. Yet that the monopoly has this effect there cannot - be a shadow of doubt, for it is of the very essence of a monopoly that it should enhance the price of the commodity in which it deals. The reason which is sometimes assigned for the exclu sive privilege of the Universities, is eminently absurd, and has been proved by facts and experience to be directly contrary to truth. If the Scriptures, it is alleged, were to be allowed to be printed by anybody there would be no security against incorrect editions being published. Now, what is the fact ? Why, that there are thousands of deviations from the standard version—thousands of mistakes in the privileged Bibles ; and that the unprivileged editions—for such is the consistent wisdom of our practice in this matter that any one may publish an edition of the Bible provided he add notes—are infinitely more correct than those for the accuracy of which the clerical monopoly is held to be a perfect and, at the same time, an indispensable guarantee. We are sorry that the Government should have left even a remnant of the old restrictive system in Scotland. It ought to have been completely shat tered to pieces, and the printing of the Bible, as of other works, left open to competition, which is a much better security for accuracy and every other requisite, than monopoly can be. Practically speaking, however, there is little to complain of. All that any printer in Scotland now has to do, is to get a Minister of any denomination to vouch for the text of the edition about to be printed being that of the authorised version, and the Lord Advocate must grant him a license to print and publish. This may be done with so little difficulty, that it is, in reality, a mere matter of form. Letters and papers from Madrid of the 13th inst. have been received, but their contents are of no inte rest. The Liberal Journals, were very violent in their attacks upon the Government, but notwithstanding fears to the contrary. nothing had occurred to disturb the peace of the capital. The French Chamber of Peers is in high dudgeon at the conduct of the KING in commuting the capital sentence pronounced by it upon the revolutionist BARBE 3. According to a statement which appears in the Message). of Saturday, which we have received, together with the other Paris Journals of that and the previous da3's date, a great number of the Peers, with M. MOLE at their bead, have signified to the Mi nister of Justice that it is not their intention to assist at any future criminal prosecution. This course on the part of the Chamber is extremely impolitic and indecent. It is an attempt to rob the KING of the brightest jewel in his crown—the prerogative of mercy ; a prerogative which the Peers well know Louts PIDLIPPE is in no danger of abusing. The Court of Peers, like JONAH denouncing judgment against the Ninevites, is jealous of its honour ; as if it was expected to pronounce any other verdict than that prescribed by law ! This is very silly, and very short-sighted ; but we shall be glad if the KING take the Peers at their word, and trust for the future to the loyalty and impartiality of a jury. On Friday afternoon the King and Queen of the BELGIANS arrived at St. Cloud, where the King of the FRENCH and the members of the Royal Family are at present residing. Letters from the head-quarters of Don CARLOS, of the 13th inst., state that Lords RANELAGH and MAN NERS, and the Marquis of GRANBY, were among the foreign magnates at the Court of the Usurper. A letter from Cp.rcassonne, near the Spanish frontier, con tains the following intelligence, which is confirmed in a more recent account " News has been received on the frontiers of the Eas tern Pyrenees, announcing that an affair had taken place i between the troops of General Valdez and the Compte d'Espagne, in which the latter had been wounded by a hall in the left shoulder. " It is reported that Valdez, having sent a foraging party under the escort of 1,200 men, imagined that the Compte d'Espagne would attack them, and had followed with a larger force at some distance, intending to surround the rebels: What he had foreseen took place, and Valdez, after killing and wounding a great number, retired with 300 prisoners." A petition was presented to the Chamber of Depu ties on Thursday, praying that steps might be taken to compel the British Authorities in the West Indies to restore French fugitive slaves who were daily escaping to our free colonies. To the great credit of the Chamber it was received with marks of general disapprobation, several of the Deputies declaring that time protection afforded to fugitive slaves by Great Britain was as creditable to the humanity, as cons stent with the liberal and enlightened prineintes professed by this country. __ BOURSE—nods, SATURDAY, JULY 20. HALF -PAST THREE,—'I i ere has been ajair quantity Orleans business in the French Stocks ; they have fully maintain( d the firmness of yesterday. Fur the Accuunt the Three per Cents. opened at 79f. 80c., rose to 79f. 85c., de clined to 79f. 75c., and closed at 791. 80e., a rise cf sr. The Five per Cents. have also been sc. better, having been at MC 00c. For Money the Three per Cents. a,d the Five per Cents. are both 10c. higher. The Bai.k f Fraace Shines have not varied. The Laffitte Bank 1,(001. tres ar- 14nalte!ed; those of 5,0001. have not b. en, quoted. The Belgian Bank shares a 'bade higher. The Sfati:l - 1 Active continues to hang at 191, aid the Passive at 41. Business continues somewhat brisk in Railway Shares. The Versailles Right Bank are rather weak; the Versailles Left Bank are as yesterday, but that is 10f. lower than on Thursday. The St. Germain have not been quoted, either for money or for time. first Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Price. Price. French 5 per Cents :-; per Cents 79 80 ... 79 80 ... 19 80 ... 79 60 Bank of trance 27511 .... - 2750 ...2759 Lattitte Bank I.ooof. SO.— 1050 —.1050 —.1050 Belgian 3 per Cents ... 72 15 ... 72 15 ... 72 15 72 (5 Bank 787 ... 787 50 787 50 787 50 Coupons Spanish Ac lye Passive 4 14 414 414 ... 414 99 8., !..!9 115 ... 99 85 ... 99 95 Roman 1 4 ,2 102 ... 102 ... 102 RAILWAY SHARES. Versailles, R. B 6BO 681 L.B. 3BO 385 • •. 452 50 452 59 975 Strasburg to Bale 3W Mulbauseu to Thann ... 3.5 ... 677 50 677 50 ... 352 50 ... 360 ,„ 451 „,. Ono 075 •• • 1 ' 75 .34 . 2.5 V ... :335 ...:573 ...37:, 9Th • 1 40 • 37J ASPHA LTES AND B 1 I'LL(IENS. Seysiel (English) DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, JuLY 19 Money. Bills. Actual Debt, 24 per Cent Ditto, ditto 5 per cent. Amort Syndic, 4 per cent„... Ditto, ditto, 35 per cent 81.34 ers.24 Commercial Company, 4: .; per ccnt :7314: 173% Ditto (1832 and 1833) 5 per cent. Ditto 18:37, 5 per cent. ~ Loan 1837, 5 per cent. Excharge on London, One month l2 0 2X, Two mon tha BELGIAN V UNl)S—Ratiasett , , JOLT •..!11 Actual Debt, 2 per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cant l':l% Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent 9 l3'i 3 per Cent . 71 Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent — Society of Commerce, 4 ..,:.iier Cent 1171,4 Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cell. - „, 7 National Society . - -Brussels Papers, July 20. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.--VIENNA, JULY 12 Five per Cents. MGtalliques Foar per Cents. Three per Cents. Hank Shams ....... 1524 —AllgemeineZeitung, July 17 PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, Jim, - 12. ' Bills, Money. St. Schuld. Sch., 4 per cent 103% 103' Prussian Engiish Loan, 1830, 4 per cent. 103 102% Isachange on tendon, three months 6 21 hi —Prussian State Gazette, July 17. ... 450 LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) DEAL, JULY 20, AND 21. —Wind S. W.—Arrived the Waterhen, —, from Miramichi ; Sir William Bensley, --, Quebec ; Miranda, Artis, Lisbon. Sailed Maidstone, Wr_.mble, Calcutta. PORTSMOUTH, JULY 20. —Wind S. W., blowing hard.— JPLY 21. —Wind S.W. to W.. fresh breezes.—Arrived the Acorn, Mills, from Riga; Hazierig. Retzman, Marseilles. LIVERPOOL, Jr'LY 20. —Wind S.W., fresh.—JULY 21. Wind W. N. W.—Arrived the Bohemian, Larad, from Cal cutta ; Liverpool (steamer), New Yolk, sailed 6th inst. ; Wolfscove, Dunon, Dalhousie; Independent, Yallow, Richebucto ; Belhea, Campbell, Marseilles; Mersey, Mar tin, Oporto ; Henrietta, Ranghill, Naskaw ; Lancaster, late Campbell, Bombay ; Adam Lodge, Maio, New Or leans; Echo, Mallett, ditto; England, New York; sailed Ist inst ; Grace, Antigua ; Rowena, Sierra Leone; Frederica, Dantzie. Sailed the Potomac, Smith, Alex andria ; Columbus, Croppe ; Queen Victoria, Thompson ; Charlotte, Graham; Congress, Eaton, New York. Off port, John, Taylor, Africa. CREEK, JULY 21.—Arrived the Naples packet, Richards, from Palermo. MON EY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The arrivals this morning are more numerous than im portant. iMails from Lisbon ; most of the West Indian Islands have been received, the substance of which will be found elsewhere in our columns. . We have received Cape of Good Hope papers to the the sth May. They do not contain any ❑ews from the Border, but arc filled with English and American intelli gence. Gibraltar papers to the 12th July, as usual, anticipated by the French papers, from the seat of war in Spain. Demerara papers received to the Bth June. They do not contain any news of importance. We have received the Price Current of Rio Janeiro of the 16:h of May. TUESDAY, MAY 21,—The arrival •of the Penguin packet has caused the Alert to be postponed, but not oc casioned any alteration in the state of our market. There has been some more business doing in the Exchange on Friday and Saturday, also a little to-day, at previous rates, 294 to 29i, Bills contin,eing to offer at the same, and al. most no money under thirty days, Hamburgh 600 reals. " Coffle, no alteration in prices to-day, almost nothing doing; stock f•ales at 78. Spice, no alteration." We have numerous arrivals this morning, particularly from the westward. The New `York papers received by the Liverpool steamer will be found in another part of the paper. They are not of much importance, and the com mercial information much the same as per last arrival. TIIE FUNDS. Consols opened this morning as they closed on Satur day, with little doing as yet. 91i 92 for Money, 92i for the 29th August next Account ; .Exchequer Bills, 16 18 ; India Bonds, 23 27 ; Bank Stock, 189 190; India Stock 253 254. In the Foreign Market no business doing at present; prices nominal ; Spanish Active, 18} 19k ; Portuguese, 344 35 ; Three per Cents., 221; Colombian, 33 ; Mexi can, 261 ; Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents. 54i 551 ; Five per Cents. 1021 4. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock , - India Stock __ _. 3 per Cent. Red. 3 per Cent. Cons 9IT. 2 2 South Sea Stock --- 3% per Cent —l Old Annuities — Ditto Red. 99 IUO : New Ditto New 3% per Cent 09%% 1 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 New 5 per Cent. Bank Long Annuities toexpire Ditto 500 ... pm. Jan. 5, 1860 14% 8-44% Ditto Small 2O IS pm. Oct. 10, 1859 l4 3-10 Ditto Commercial — pin. Jan. 5, 1560 — Ditto Advertised ...... pm. Jan. 5, 1880 Bank Stock for Account ... -- April 5, 1880 — India Stock for Account ... Jan. 5, 1870 — Congos for Account 92% PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK Austrian Bonds — Peruvian Bonds — Belgian Bonds Ditto Account Brazilian Bonds Ditto Account Buenos Ayres Bonds Ditto Account Chilian Bonds Ditte, 3 per Cent. Ditto Account 22 % ,4 Prussian Bonds .., .... Ditto Account Columbian Bonds — Ditto Account — Ditto Account Columbian Bonds, 1824 — Spanish Bonds — Ditto Account 32% 3 Ditto Account. Danish Bonds Ditto Account —. Deferred B% Greek Bonds — French, 5 pox cent. —f. —c. Ditto Bonds, 1825 — --- 4 per cent —f. —C. Ditto Account — -- 3 per cent. —f. —e. Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent — Exchange....... —f. —e. Ditto Account - Dutch, 24 per cent. 51% 5 Ditto, 5 per Cent 26 Ditto Account 55 Ditto Account '6%1 5 %14 , Ditto, 5 per cent — Neapolitan — Ditto Account...." — PRICES OF sHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. Birmingham and Derby Railway Company .... 70 64% 5 13 uteri' Counties Railway l6 % London and Birmingham Railway Company Ditto New Shares London and Croydon Railway Company lll. 18s. 6d. I 2 London Joint Stock Bank lO 104 'PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, JULY 20. 3 per Jent. Consols i 4 per Cent. stock Ditto Reduced Ditto New, 1630 ...... ~. 99% City of Dublin Steam Comp. -- 34 per Cent. Debentures... 9 - 2) National Insurance Company Bank stock 'hand Canal Stock Royal Canal Stock HALF PAST ONE. We have received the Antwerp Journal o yesterday's date, which informs us in a postscript to the Messager of Ghent, that a traveller had arrived from Bruges in the af ternoon bringing the unfavourable news that a great fire took place in the above town ; the church of St. Saveur and several hotuies near it were consumed. A New Orleans Paper says, we learn from good au thority, that the conversion of the Mexican debt, amount ing to upwards of 50,000.000 dollars, effected about two years ago by F. de Lizardi, Sic. of London, has at length been ratified by the Mexican Government, and forwarded to England by the last Eogli,h packet knot yet arrived) from Vera Cruz. This, among other advantages, secures the Bond•Lolders one sixth of the whole duties collected in the ports of Vera Cruz and Tampico, in payment of the interest on the new bonds. Business continues very dull at New Orleans, owing to the very gloomy state of monetary matters, and there is but little prospect of improvement in the balance of the season. United States Bank Stock, with the dividend of four per cent. 1131 114 ; Exchange in England 94f. During the whole of the morning little has been done in either of the mark( t 3. Consols at present may be quoted, 921 for Account; Money, 919 92 ; Exchequer Bills, 18 16: India Bonds, 26 24; Bank Stock, nothlng done ; India Stock, 254. Spanish Actives, 19A ; Po►tuguese, 34i ; Three per Cents. 221 9 ; Colombian, 32i 3 ; Mexican, 264, im proved ; Dutch Tsvc-and-a-Half rer Cents., 55 ; Five per Cents., nothing done. AYLESBURY.—In the article which we copied from the Mo, ring Chronicle of Saturday, Lord Nugent throws doubt upon the chance of success for Mr. Cavendish ; but we repeat, from the very best authority, that Mr. Cavendish had every prospect of succeeding in the contest. Lord Nugent has played the Tory game—whether designedly or not, time and his own future conduct will show ; but if he either abandons the Reformers of Aylesbury, by running away from the fi g ht h e has hims e lf rushed into, or proves his weakness by an inconsiderable poll, he will not free himself from the imputations such a result would cause to be thrown upon him. At the last Buckinghamshire election, Lord Nugent voted for a Tory ; will he deny that ? Previous to going down to Aylesbury to start for the borough this election, did not Lord Nugent hold communi ' cation with the Duke of Buckingham ? Did he not, in short, go to the Duke's house, and inform him of his intention to start against Mr. Cavendish ? Will Lord Nugent deny this ? It is too much the custom to disregard public in mere personal considerations, and Lord Nugent appears to have fallen into this error most completely. We trust that the Reformers of Aylesbury will do their duty on this occasion, and if Lord Nugent neglects their interests, that they themselves will defend them. WOODEN PAVEMENTS.—It is said that a French Nobleman has discovered a plan which promises to realise the greatest advantages as applicable to paving. Wood pavement can by this new system be constructed in such a manner as to present any surface of one solid corn. pact body. It is also the cheapest and most lasting mode of constructing pavement, and has none of the disad. vantages of the exiting sy s t em ; i t canno t s i n k un d er i ts original level, and no sh oc k or pressure can shake or dis vl'oaclinggtia::las any portion of it It is neither dusty in dry nor • muddy in wei weath-r- GENERAL CONVENTION. (THIS DAY.) The Convention met at the usual hour, Mr. CARPENTER in the Chair. Mr. SMART, the Secretary pro tern., read letters from Carlisle and several other places, announcing contributions to the national rent and the defence fund. A letter from the " Union of French Democrats in London" was also read, expressing their sympathy in the movement -now go ing on ►n this country to obtain social equality. A letter from Mr. Frost, dated Bristol, July 18, was read, stating that he had attended a meeting at that place, and hc.did not think that the working classes would at present obey the orders of the Convention for keeping the sacred month. He therefore suggested the propriety of a few members being sent into Wales to agitate on that subject, and had no doubt it would be attended with beneficial results. Mr. Duncan, Mr. Hartwell, Mr. Hetherington, Mr. Burns, and Mr. O'Brien paid to the Treasurer several subscrip'ions which had been placed in their hands. Mr. HETHERINGTON brought up an address to the middle classes, which had been agreed to by the Committee ap pointed for that purpose. It was read at length by the Secretary. sa T ol it ld e t zeption of the Address having been moved and Mr. BRONTERMS O'BKIEN said he could not sanction the address, because he believed the middle classes to be more deadly enemies to the working classes than the ruis tocracy were. Men of this kind he would never address except in the language of reprobation. The Convention ought not to conciliate them. It was their duty to conci liate the Convention after having robbed the working classes of their rights. Dr. FLETCHER was of the same opinion, but he conceived that it was possible to- draw over a portion of the middle classes, and that was the reason why he had concurred in the address. The Report was then ordered to be received. Mr. HETHERINGTON Moved, seconded by Mr. JAMES TAYLOR, that copies of the address be forwarded to the Editors of the different papers. Dr. M'DocALL suggested that before the address was ordered to be printed a copy be placed in the hands of each member, in order that they might make such amendments as they thought necessary, and moved an amendment to that effect. Mr. DEEGAN thought that each member should be fur nished with a copy in the first instance, and therefore seconded the amendment. Mr. BURNS was in favour of the publication of the ad dress. Dr. TAYLOR had no great confidence in the middle classes generally, but be thought such an address would be of considerable value in the northern parts of the country, and he should support the issuing of it immediately. The original motion was agreed to by a majority of 20 to 4. An adjournment for lialf.an.hour then took place, in order to allow the Defence Committee to meet. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) ..0. - CORN EXCHANGE. Last week's arrivals of English Grain were again small, but we had considerable quantities of Foreign. The fresh sup plies being limited, superior parcels were a little dearer. Barley, Beans, and Peas were unchanged ; Oats were hi. per quarter lower. Flour sold at former rates. FRICES ON BOARD OF SHIP Wheat, Red (old) ......... —s. —s, Beans, Small (new) 43s 41s White (01d)...,.. —s- —s. ----- (old) 46.4185. Red 1838) ......`-4s. 585. Tick (new) 33s 36_ Fine 60s. 645. • ----- (old) 38:.40; Superfine ...... Os. 703. Harrow (new) 35A.383. --White ( l 838) ....Vs. (2s. ----- (old) 423.443, ---- Fine 6! , 5. 703 Brank -- Superfine .74s 78s. Oats, Feed _--- Foreign free 58s. 76, ----- New . ....... ..... 25, 28,, ityr 40s. 425. Poland —e --c. Barley 30.,.37x. New %5..303. Grinding ,303. 545. Potatoe 28;.30 Malting 40, 423. Malt 565, 655. -- Scotch 125.34s Fine New 6ds 683 Irish 245. ... 285.285. Pease, Grey, New 38s. 385. Flour Town ,per sack).... 60 82, • . - Maple New 373. 4 05 sieconds 54'.5-li. White 405. 425. --..-- North Country.... 505.52 . Boilers, 42s. 445. Bran ARRIVALS OF GRAIN IN L( Wheat. I 3,377qr5. )NDON DURING LAST WEI._ K. • )tts. Firtv, 355 qrs. I 1,713 qrs. 5,412 •acks 3052 1 ---- 27,2 M) 5,412 brls. English ForeiEn 1 18,041 1 2,847 SMITHFIELD. Beef sold well at 2d. per stone advance. Mutton had a slight had a slight advance. Lamb sold at former rates. Veal has declined 2d. per stone. Beef, 3s. 10d. to 4s. 10. Mutton, 4s. to ss. Lamb, ss. 4d. to 6s. Veal, 4s. 4d. to ss. 2d. Pork, 4s. 4d. to ss. 4d. Beasts, 2,961 ; Sheep and Lambs, 26,500; Calves, 210; Pigs, 490. NEWCASTLE CORN EXCHANGE.—JuIy 20. Rh d. White. Who'd, Northundserland 5 O. 72s 545.763.1 -- Norfolk and Suffolk 6)s. 701....... 733. 78s. - Berwick and Scotch 69.:. 6`.ls - Foreign 6 - is. 685...0 • • 675. 70s. Rye, Nerfslk and Suffolk Foreign Barley, Malting, Norfolk and Suffolk 42s. 435....... --s. --s. Grinding and Feeding 315. 355. Malt, Norfolk and Suffolk 663 6Os —s. —s. c Beans, Small 4os. 43;....... —s. —s. -- Tick 43s. 46 —B. —B. Pease, White 42s 465. . ... ''- 3 . —4. Gray 42s 45s —s. —s. Oats, Northumberland, Potatoe 32s. 33s ,--s. —S. - Feed - 28, 30s s. Foreign Flour oar sack) sos. 525. —s• --s• WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET.-July 19. 'neat, Red, Norfolk and Sufiblk ...... -s. 664. to 68s. fine 73'. Lin. and Cam. -s. Ms. to 655. fine 60e. ---..-- Yorkshire -s sfs. to 61s. fine 675. -- Yl/ hite ..--. Foreign, Red - 5. -s. to 62 4 . fine 66.?. White -s. -s. to -s tine 71s_ Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk 4os. to 425. tine 44e. - Lincolnshire 'it's. to 375. fine 9s. --- Yorkshire Wold . 36s. to 3Ss. fine 395, - Foreign Beans, Small . s. to 41s. fine 45r. --- Tick Oats, Potato -s. to 30s. fine 34. --- Poland -s. -s. to 30s. fine :4s. - vrierland and Small -s. s. to 5165. fine '..Bs. - Luz.aling Shelling ... ..... .......... ..... ........ 3ls. to 365. Od. per Loa.? Malt. ........., _ ..„...„„, ... ~. ..... ons. fine 41).. per Load. Rapeseed •••••••••••••• ....... •• ~•• ..... • .1. Os. 2Y. 0. . 2 31 . 0 .• per Last, THE SUN, LONDON, MOND►A JULY 22, 1839. POItTUGAL. By the arrival of the Tagus steamer at Falmouth, from the Mediterranean, on Saturday, we have received late in telligence from Portugal. The Tagus left Gibraltar on the 11th instant, Cadiz 12th, Lisbon 15th, Oporto 16th. The accounts from Lisbon state that the Cortes have been occupied during the past week with matters of domestic interest, and there was no news from the provinces. The summer amusement of bull-fighting had begun. The Tyrian packet has arrived from the Brazils. Left Rio Janeiro on May 22, Bahia June 3, and Pernambuco on the 11th, bringing a freight of 18,000/. ; but the news by her bat been anticipated by an arrival at Guernsey. CORN LAWS. paragraph supplies more and very STA l p i. d a , a w l :Eensriax. regret gr ir sar o eee m ntt The following paragraph IN IRELAND. t proofs oteootefe i al nta o hfn f lo : edr tmittowbe landlords, ofsfr m a,uoram a tenh n dao n tf e s r tflaarrmienvl Connemara,i Ireland, enne w d hi s . the ci still h l Teaoth t ep h edl yee prevails, enrichscoundrel th the July a l n s d ' — is increasing to a frightful extent in this district, even amongst those who were considered above want. The poor people are coming in hundreds here, to see if anything will be done for " I was present this day when application was madecattle them."t and------ boiling'stat the ingt blood till it became hattheywereexis thick, tin whengbyble eding the they hi cat it, and als o eating seawee d an d sma ll s h e ll - fi s h . I k new cases myself wh ere the c hild ren resorte d to wee d s i n t h e fi e ld s to allay their hu nger , b e i ng so f or 24 h ours , an d ano th er l arge family having no food for two days; one of them, a of boy, children years, dreading a return of hunger, took away the t wo s h eep t h at were spared to pay the public money or cess, w hi c h, to a dd t o the misf o rtu ne , i s 110% collecting, and so ld t h em f or h a lf-pric e . I a l so k now many not 13 to come here, particularly last week, who said they were without food twenty-four hours, and indeed their faces corroborated their statement. And while I now write (six o'clock p. n..) there are many here who have not tasted food since yesterday morning. Others are known to have, by night, taken away the carrion of a cow drowned by chance, and unskinncd for two days, and picked the bones that the dogs had feasted on. The description given by the priest of the sufferings of the people, whom he has to be in constant attendance on, is frightful. Many families are lingering through fever. and will feel want a long time, as their manure remains at their cabins, not being able to sow ; and what is worse, the misery is not likely to end with many when the harvest returns,which will be late in this country, as they are now compelled to root out the potatoes before they arrive to one-eighth of their growth. So that in a week there will be as much destroyed as would serve for two months, if full grown. I need not name one village, for every one round about shares this awful visitation. There arc many actively endeavouring to relieve this distress ; but, alas, it is only like a drop of water to the ocean." THE TWELFTH OF JULY.—So far as we have yet learned we have reason to believe that the anniversary were that the Chu rc h b e ll s were n some of the steeples, t L e u e r p g l n and itl 1 P rung,ht t hey are and e a s. of the Boyne passe d over, not onl y wi thout the occurrence of rioting in any q uarter, but without any display of party emblems, and on t heir g eneral sub m i ssion to the law in this respect we have to award to the Or angemen the credit tr , h but nothing like a procession took the churches o f Dublin joy bells w e r e rung , and in the suburbs a num ber of shots were fire d , but nothing further occu rred. In Der r y an Oran ge flag was susp en d e d over the figure of Governor 'Walker —Th e jny b e ll s p ea l e d, th e " virgin flag" w°trea'‘n ent i tle d .flagsc ' I hoistedn understood the nei ghbourhood was displayed from one of the windows of the Cathedral, and nine discharges of cannon took place at the foot of the monum ent .on the Royal bastion. Every es.INTARKET, JULY 19.—The Belfast News Letter. ether exhibition of political feeling was confined to the sugar markets continue flat and declining, and the extent i j al G l lodg es. _ of business done is inconsiderable for this time of the year. The weekly deliveries still fall cif to the amount of rather roo ß ms ß o r f s t T h o e s L eve s r more than 1,000 hhds. each return, which must eventually have an important in fluence .on prices. Whatever may prove the efiCit In , in th e : to be d import, we cannot but think it will be more than compensated by the difference in the consumption ; and as the stocks on hand are new greater than last year, and the a verage pr i ce 7 s. per cwt . higher, it appears h igh ly improbable that present rates can be maintained. —Bristol Mercury. In Cowbridge (says a Correspondent) there is a population of about twelve hundred inhabitants, many of whom are persons of independent property, but yet there is no butcher, baker, or plumber, in the parish, and la bourers are so scarce that the farmers are now paying from twelve to fifteen shillings per week, besides an allowance of beer, and in many cases a dinner, during harvest thr 0 This is a striking contrast to Devonshire, where the men employed in agriculture are earning but seven to eight I shilling pm. week.—Canthrian. LATEST NEWS FROM AMERICA. By the arrival of the Liverpool steamer on Saturday night at Liverpool, from the United States, we have re ceived New York papers to the 6th instant inclusive. The Liverpool, with seventy passengers on board, made the homeward passage in thirteen days and a half. The 4th of July being the anniversary of the American Declaration of Independence, was celebrated with general rejoicings throughout the States, and as the libations poured out by the Yankees at the shrine of the jolly god were more than ordinarily profuse, we regret to have to announce that various steam-boat and railway accidents occurred to mar the fulness of individual delight. President Van Buren was on a visit to New York, where a speech delivered by him in answer to an address of the inhabitants of Castle-garden, excited a good deal of in terest. Only two questions were touched upon in the speech, that is to say the Boundary question, and the sub. Treasury scheme. With respect to the Boundary ques tion, be recommended moderation, firmness, and a deter. mination to be guided by the principles of rigid justice. This could not be gainsaid, and was of course, well re ceived ; but as regarded the sub-Trea sury sc h eme, h e avowed himself as warm a supporter of it as he Ever was. This has raised a terrible commotion in the newspaper world which, like all mere newspaper commotions, was ex pected to subside in a few days. No person acquainted with the character of Mr. Van Buren could have antici. pate(' a change of his opinions on the Treasury question, unassociated as it at present is with the more important affair of a continuance in office. Mr. Daniel Webster has addressed a letter to the people of Massachusetts, from London, where he is at present, declining to be put in nomination for the Presidency . at the next election. ( From the New York Papers.) " BREAKING UP OF THE SLAVE TRADE. —ln conversation with Captain .M'Donald of the brig North, just arrived at Baltimore from the coast of Africa, we learn that thirty-one slaving vessels had been captured and carried into Sierra Leone and condemned, between the Ist of January and the st of April this year; that the British cruisers had also landed their men and broke up several slave establishments on shore, particularly at the island of Boolama, a place set tled by the Portuguese. The commandant of the British brig of war Portage told him that they had fallen in with several vessels which had the appearance of being slavers, but having American colours, and papers furnished by the Consul at Havanna), he had to let them pass, but after wards fell in with them and captured them with slaves on 'mud, that being proof positive of their true character. More slave vessels had been captured lately between the River Gambia and Sierra Leone than at any given time before ; that part of the coast being so near the British settlement." MONEY-MARKET, &c.—JuLy 6. The transactions at the Stock Exchange yesterday were again small, and prices of most descriptions sold went lower than on Wednesday ; especially the fancy sorts, which receded considerably. The Money-market con tinues in a quiet state, and business affairs generally ex tremely dull. Foreign exchanges remain very much in the condition previously noticed ; and the transactions in bills for transmission by the Liverpool, were moderate on England, at 4 dollars 85 cents., and 4 dollars 87 cents. (9 a,9i per cent.) the pound sterling. Bills on France 5 francs 121 cents, a 5 francs 15 cents. DIVIDENDS —The Equitable Insurance Company have declared a dividend of eight per cent., payable on the 12. h instant. . The New Orleans Canal and Banking Company, three per cent., payable on the 22d instant. The Baltimore Life Insurance Company have declared a dividend of four per cent. for the last six months. RATE OF SALES AT THE STOCK EXCHANGE, JULY 1. 25 Shares U. S. Bank 25 do. Mechanics' Bank lO4 50 do. Dry Dock Bank 75 do. North American Trust and Banking Co 60d. 78 50 do. Delaware and Hudson Canal ...s 60d 70 50 do. Vicksburg Bank s3O d 42 100 do. Ohio Trust Co. 20 do. Union Marine Ins. Co 6O 50 do. Washington Ins. Co. 24 do. North Diver Fire Ins. C) 991 36 do. U. S. Fire Ins. Co. 15 dn. Mohawk Railroad 15 do. Boston and Providence Railroad 50 do. New Jersey Railroad 10 do. Stonington Railroad 300 do. Harlem Railroad cash 50 35 do. Canton Co. Balt 25 do. Utica and Schenectady THE MARKET. Ashes—Without any material change in price. Cotton —The sales quite moderate, and the prices of the lower qualities about the same as previous to the arrival of the Liverpool ; but the better sorts command from 1- to :7 1 a cent per pound higher than last week. Flour and Corn— Without any great change since Wednesday. Naval stores as before noticed. SOUTH AMERICA. FROM RIO DE JANEIRO. —NEW BRAZILIAN TARIFF.-By the William Price, from Rio de Janeiro, the editors of the Baltimore Patriot have a letter from their correspondent, of the sth of May, which advises us of an important altera tion in the tariff of Brazil. We make the following extract from his letter:— " Rio de Janeiro, May 15. " We have to notice a decree materially altering the du. ies on some of our principal articles of import, These alterations are— " Ist. On wines and all spirituous liquors, the duties on which will be raised to 50 per cent., except on such as may be the production of countries with which Brazil has at present treaties in force. " 2d. The duties on liquids in general, and on flour, will be levied on weekly valuation, fixed by a commission specially nominated. These alterations to be enforced from the Ist July next, and to continue for the following financial year. .6 We beg to call your attention particularly to the law, as it will, for the present at least, very materially in crease the duties on flour, which article at present bears a Custom-house valuation of only 1211000 dols per barrel ; or much below what it will be undoubtedly valued at in *uture. " With regard to politics we have nothing new to ad. At Monte Video nothing very important has trans vise. pired. At Rio Grande affairs are rather more favourable for the imperial cause, although the change of Ministry here has given a•check to active movements in that quarter for the present." WEST INDIES. We have received the Jamaica papers to the 19th June : " We are getting anxious to hear of the fate of the Sus. pension Bill. It comes "home to the business and bosom of us all.' There is, or there ought to be a community of feeling, as there is a community of interest, between all the West India colonies. We cannot, therefore, help regard ing the apathy of the sister colonies as criminal. They have taken no part in the sufferings and oppression of maica. The constitutional measures of the British Go vernment, in depriving that island of her legislative rights, has roused uo action on the part of the propr:etors in the other colonies. A very considerable number of those proprietors reside in England, in affluence and comfort ; should they not have shown some sympathy with the wrongs done to Jamaica ?" The Barbadian of the 18th May, says— " With great regret we hear of frequent robberies in own and country." . . . ST. VINCENT.--The Barbadian states that the riotous and deadly state of the town of Kingston, (St. Vincent) has been lately such as to cause a meeting of the inhabi• *Ails, at which it was resolved to send in a petition to the Legislature, founded on certain resolutions, expressive of their opinions on the dangerous condition of the town. They attribute most of the disorder to the neglect of the police officers of the provisions of the Liquor Act. A report prevailed at St. Vincent that Sir George Tyler is to be relieved of the Government by a military officer of the name of Stirling. SAINT L UCIA. —Since our last publication we regret to state most alarming accounts have continued to pour it, from the country, it is too true, as we reported last Satur. day, that an impression has found its way into the minds of the negroes chat it is the intention of Government to reduce to a state of slavery all who may be found working on the plantations on the next aniversary of their emanci pation. Already have numbers flown to the woods. ArsTiouA.—The Legislature met on the 25th, and a despatch from the late Colonial Secretary was laid befor;2 thorn rooornmending &nu ndmenta of the law respect ing vagrancy, contracts, and deportation ; the dispatch is said to have cansed a strong sensation, and a unani• resolution expressing the feelings it created, passes ihe House. It met with a similar reception in the Council. BRITISH GUIANA.--We regret to perceive, by an extract of a letter published in the Demerara Royal Gazette, that fires are not confined to Trini :ad, but that that colony has also been visited by them. Fire is raging along the entire east line, from side line to side line. Bor deaux is burned from ab.ck to the public road. L'Oran tiore will, I suppose, share the same fate. This paper says—" Since we have received the above extract, we have heard the fires are still raging, and thr eaten entire destruction to much propel ty." EXTRAORDINARY GALE OF WIND.—THE CROPS. —The county of Devon has been visited by one of the severest and most extraordinary gales for the month of July ever known. Indeed the weather, for the season, is most unprecedented. In the early part of the week we traverstd a great portion of the southern part of the county. The fiolds teemed with abundant crops rapidly ripening for the sickle—to-day they are beat down formiles and miles. A gentleman who came up the coast to-day and yesterday, describes the destruction as most melancholy, and wide spread. Every field of wheat and barley is laid level, and at the most unfortunate time, just as the wheat was " kern ing," or going out of blossom. The consequence of this visitation is already felt in our markets, which opened to day with an advance of sixpence per bushel for wheat, whilst barley, already at an enormous price, is rapidly rising, owing to the deficiency of the apple crop. In the present disturbed state of the manufacturing districts, we fear the consequences if the storm should have proved generally so destructive as it is found to be in this neigh bourhood, and too justly feared to be in the county at large. It is reported that a vessel was lost off the bar at Exinoutb, and all hands perished. The gale which is blowing from the south-east is still raging.— Western Times. On the 9th a London commercial traveller, in coming from Kincardine to Dunfermline, dropt his pocket book, containing two bills on London, one 701. and the other 501., beside s•7o'. in bank notes. On missing it he advertised in all the villages through which ho bad passed. On the following day a woman came from Toryburn and delivered to the traveller his pocket-book with all its con tents, for which he gave her 5/. COURT CIRCULAR. Her Majesty and her august Mother attended divine ser vice yesterday afternoon in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The prayers were read by the Rev. Dr. Wesley, and the lessons were read by the Rev. R, H. B. than,. The mu sical service was Arnold's in F., and an anthem, " Call to Remembrance," (Nares). Mr. J. B. Sale presided at the organ. _ The Dean of Here Ford was the Deputy Clerk of the Closet in waiting. Her Majesty's suite consisted of the Countess of Burlington, Hon. Miss Murray, Hon. Miss Paget, Lord Gard ner , Earl of Surrey, Sir Fred. Stovin, and the Hon. Colonel Cavendish, Lady Charlotte Dundas was in waiting on the Duchess of Kent. The Royal party after the service, returned in three of the Royal carriages to Buckingham Palace. During the early part of the week the Queen was slightly indisposed with a cold, but is, we are happy to state, entirely recovered. Sir J. Clark has been in attendance upon her Majesty. Her Majesty, accompanied by the Duchess of Kent, honoured the Italian Opera with her presence on Saturday evening. The Royal suite included the Countess of Bur lington, Hon. Miss Paget, Hon. Miss Murray, Lord Gardner, Sir Frederick Stovin, and the Hon. Colonel Cavendish. Viscount Melbourne and Lord Hill had audiences of her Majesty, on Saturday. The Queen, accompanied by the Duchess of Kent, and attended by the Hon. Miss Paget, took an airing on Sa turday afternoon in an open carriage and four. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, accompanied by the Princesses of Hohenlohe, left Marlborough House, at two o'clock on Saturday afternoon, in an open carriage and four, for her residence at Bushy Park. The Duke of Cambridge visited and took leave of her Majesty, previous to her departure. The Hon. Miss Eden, Lady Beding feld, Rev. J. R. Wood, and the Hon. Captain Curzon, left town on Saturday, for the Queen's Lodge at Bushy Park. The Duchess of Gloucester, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, at tended by Miss Kerr, left town yesterday morning for Kew, where their Royal Highnesses attended Divine Ser vice in Kew Church. A sermon was preached by the Rev. E. Neocati, in aid of the Funds of the Queen's Free school. Despatches from Sir John Colborne, Governor of the Canadas, and from Sir George Arthur, Lieutenant-Go vernor of Upper Canada (brought by the steam ship Liverpool) were received yesterday at the Colonial Office. Despatches were also received yesterday at the Colonial Office from Sir G. Gipps, Governor of New South \Vales. The Earl of Lichfield and Earl de Grey had an inter view with Viscount Melbourne on Saturday in Downing street. '1 ue Military Secretary to the Commander of the Forces had an intervi,w with Lord John Russell on Saturday at the Home Office. The Commander of the Forces had an interview with Marquis of Normanby on Saturday at the Colonial Office. The Chancellor of the Exchequer left town on Saturday for Tonbridge Wells. The Marquis of Lansdowne had a dinner party on Sa- turday at Lansdowne [louse. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL JULY MEETING-FRIDAY. The Knowsley iiinr - ;r Stakes of 100 sovs. each, h. f. ; for three-yrs-old colts, Bst. 61b. ; and fillies, fist:. 21b. Once round. (10 subs. ) Lord Stanley's b. c. Charlatan, by Physician (Lye) I Lord Westminster's c. by The Saddler Hon. E. M. L. Mostyn's b. c. Hugh Lupus, by Priam Betting-7 to 4on Lord Westminster's c., and sto 2 agst Hugh Lupus. Won in a canter. The Stand Cup of 100 sovs. value (in specie), added to a Handicap Sweepstakes of 15 soya, each, 10 ft. Once round and a distance. (26 Subs.) Mr. Denham'. b. c. Compensat ion, 4 yrs., Bst. 51b 1 Lord Mil o ti's el - . m. Cruiskeen, 5 yrs., 6st. 131 b. Mr. Holker's ch. m. The Maid of Mouton, 5 yrs., Bst.4lb 3 The following also started but were not placed :—Mr. Ogden's br. c. Harpurhey, 4 yrs, Ist. 51b. ; Mr. F. R. Price's br. g. Captain Pops, 4 yrs, Ist. 51b. ; and Lord Stanley's br. f. Velo city, 3 yrs, 6st. Mb. Betting-7 to 2 agst Harpurhey, 3to 1 agst Compensation, 3 to I agst Maid of Monton, and 7 to 1 agst Velocity. Won in a canter by two lengths. The Grosvenor Stakes of 15 soy. each, 5 ft., with 50 added ; for three-years-old, Ist. 41b., and four years, Bst. 101 b. ; the winner of the St. Leger Stakes 31b. extra ; mares and geldings and four-year-olds, being maiden at the time of nomination, allowed 31b. (16 Subs. ) Mr. W. R. Ramsay's b. c. Lanercost, 4 yrs (Cartwright) 1 Mr. Allen's b. f. Antigua, by Mulatto, 3 yrs 2 stol on Lanercost. Won cleverly by a length. The Stanley Stakes of 20 soy. each, with 30 added ; for two year-olds, 6st. 121 b and three Nears, 9st. 21b. ; mares and geldings Bowed 21b. T. Y. C. (3 Subs.) Lord Stanley's bk. f. Hoyden, 2 yrs. The Selling Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each, with 70 added; for three-yea"r-olds, .7st. ; four years, Bst. 41b. ; five years, Bst, 101 b. ; six years, 9st..; .. winners once, 31b. extra ; twice, tilb extra ; mares and geldings allowed 31b. The second to re ceive 10 soy. out ot the stake, and the winner to be sold for 150 sov. Heats once round. (4 Subs.) Mr. Etty's br. c. The Quack, 3 yrs .. (Lye) 1 1 Mr. F. R. Price's b. f. Lady Abbess, 3 yrs Lord Miltown's ch. c. Leprechaun, 3 yrs Mr. Dixon's b. h. Anvil,s yrs .. Won easy LATEST BETTING AT LIVERPOOL. THE GOODNN HOD CUP. 7 to 1 agst Harkaway 5 to 1 agst Galewood 6 to 1 agst Deception 10 to 1 agst The Doctor—taken 15 to 1 agst St. Andrew—taken 10 to 1 agst Industry—taken 111 E ST. LEGER. 3 to 1 agst Bloomsbury 4 to 1 agst Charles the Twelfth 15 to 1 agst Hetman Platoff METROPOLITAN POLITICAL SUMMARY. The Morning Chronicle of this day observes, with re ference to the Irish Committee of Inquiry appointed some months since by the House of Lords with a view to throw obloquy on the Marquis of Normanby's system of policy, Has Earl Roden, with the aid of fourteen hundred folio pages, proved that ' crime was never suffered to go on, as it had been by Lord Norrnanby's Government?' No, the total failure of the case against Government is now ap parent." In another leading article, suggested by the Penny Postage Bill, which is to be read a second t►me to. night in the Commons, our Contemporary says—" The Bill has been drawn with apparent honesty of purpose of carrying the proposed plan into full execution. We there fore urge all the friends of the measure to early attend ance, and to do their best to get the Bill into Committee as soon as possible, for we have reason to believe that delay in sending it to the House of Lords will alone place the measure in jeopardy." The Morning Post, referring again to the subject of the Birmingham riots, and the Duke of Wellington's passionate comments on them the other night in the House of Lords, observes :—" The people of Great Britain will not be re conciled to the burning of houses and the destruction of property in the face of a civil and military force more than adequate to the repression of such outrage, even although they should be satisfied, which is rather improbable, tha• the Duke of Wellington has spoken of these transaction, in terms of stronger indignation and horror than they de ,ervcd ; or even although they should be satisfied that the perpetrators of these outrages are the same men with whom Secretaries of State did not disdain, a few years ago, to hold indirect correspondence, with a view to accomplish, by the threat of physical force, an important change in the Constitution." The Times comments in the most furious style on the general incapacity of Ministers, and insinuates in the following frantic paragraph, which seems in. spired by the genius of Bedlam, that they would not hesitate to break up the whole framework of the monarchy, if by so doing they could crush their Conservative opponents I— " Once more, it is not the Chartist multitude, it is not the Chartist Magistrates, who arc morally guilty of the attempted ruin at Birmingham, or of that tremendous conspiracy which pervades and scares the whole north of England with hourly threats of plunging into utter desolation the most affluent and prosperous of our manufacturing cities of Notting liamshire, Staffordshire, Lancashire, and Yorkshire. It is not, we repeat, the mere tumultuary agents or local abettors of these calamities who ought to bear the blame and punishment of their consummation. It is the central authority by which they were encouraged and hslloocd on, Ity which they were contemplated front the very outset as tit means and tools of the victory for which Whigs were struggling over Conservatives—a faction so blinded by rage and hatred, that it was content to break up the whole Itamewoilt of the monarchy if it might hurl the fragments A. the head of its old political opponents." The Morning Herald contains a leading article on the subject of its pet-grievance, the new Poor-law Bill. The spirit of this article may be judged of by the following pa ragraph The new Poor-law is, in truth, a declaration of war against the rights of industry. It is a law that may suit jobbers and schemers, and men who seek to thrive by • grinding the faces of the poor.' It is a law that may prove productive of temporary profit to that order of capi talists, which boasts of owing no allegiance to the soil of England.' But the new Poor-law, in striking at the rights of industry, strikes also at the security of property— more especially at the security of property in land. No conservatism may deserve the name, which does not rest on conservation of the comforts and privileges of the la• bouring poor. To pass sentence of degradation from his place in society upon every man, whose misfortune it may be to be deprived of employment, is to render it the in terest of a powerful class to keep always out of employ ment a considerable portion of the order of labourers." The Morning Advertiser, recurring to Lord Brougham's ' education speech in Parliament, rema rks as follows:_ e S a a i l t zer basis la ofd , and th e to Oelebinlisolistinstitutions h e o formation Lord Brougham ' s afte. er plan s. raise o s i t n d a t i n h s : plan Prussia, of l e a d o u k c s a education n t h adoptedis object a in s a France, W e lay it down as aad m a n o is process bnt th o o e ul tree is in whole educational structure. potable proposition, that the mind i of the rising generation y s m o a c y ial g organized wit h faut education be trained ed,bjyasatn asedtuheeartiworlga c d l i i g n e e s d te . 'd system s ki t c e Beginning given country to the hi population of any g g hest possible grade of social, moral, and intellectual improvement," Considerable quantities of excellent hay are now i mp orted to Glasgow fr om I re l an d ; an d we h ave heard it stated that in some cases it has been sold at 30z. a ton cheaper than by our Scotch farmers. For some year s past the import of high vegetables has tended very materially to keep clown the vegetable market in this city,—Glasgow 4r 9gs . GIGANTIC STRAWBZ,RRY.-A strawberry of the seedling sort, grown in the gardens at Chipporsbr-m -ra•k, in this county, was gathered a few days since, weigh ing 13 drachma avoirdupois, and measurei six inches in circumference.—:Carnbridys Chronicle. A BILL FOR THE FURTHER RE_ GULATION OF THE DUTIES OF POSTAGE. [Note.—The words printed in Italics are proposed to be inserted in the Committee.] Whereas it is expedient that the present rates of postage on letters should be reduced to one uniform rate of a penny, charged on every letter of a given weight, to be hereafter fixed and determined, with a proportionate increase for greater weights ; Parliamentary privileges of franking being abolished, and official franking !being strictly regulated, and Parliament pledging itself to make good any deficiency of revenue which may be occasioned by such alterations of the rates of existing duties : And whereas it is expedient and necessary to give by law a temporary authority to the Lords of her Majesty's Trea sury to take th e necessary steps to g i ve e ff ect t o s uch re duction, and to make orders and regulations for the same ; which reductions, orders and regulations shall have force and effect to the fifth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and forty, and no longer. Be it therefore enacted, by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Loids Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Par liament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that it shall be lawful for the Lords of the Treasury from time to time, and at any time after the:passing of this Act, by war rant under their hands, to alter, fix, reduce, or remit, all or any of the rates of British or Inland, or other post age payable by law on the transmission of post letters, and to subject such letters to rates of postage, according to the weight thereof, and a scale of weight to be contained in such war rant (without reference to the distance or number of miles the same shall be conveyed), and to fix and limit the weight of letters to be sent by the post, and from time to time to alter or repeal any such altered or reduced rates, and make and establish any new or other rates in lieu thereof ; but so that all such warrants shall be inserted in the London Gazette ten days at least before coming into operation, and shall within fourteen days after making the same be laid before both Houses of Parliament (if then sitting), or otherwise within fourteen days after Parlia ment shall meet. _ . And be it enacted, that the rates of postage from time to time to be altered or reducLd and fixed by any such warrant, shall he charged by and be paid to her Majesty's Postmaster- Gt ne al for the use of her Majesty on all post letters to %. hi h such warrant shallcxtenJ. And be it enacted, that it shall be lawful for the Lords of the Treasury, by warrant under their hands, to sus pend wholly or in part any Parliamentary or official privilege of sending and receiving letters by the post free o! . postage, or any other franking privilege of any descrip tion whatsoever, as well under an Act passed in the first year of the reign, of her present Majesty, intituled " An Act for regu!ating the sendit:g and receiving of Letters and Packets by the Post, free from the duty of Postage," as under any other Act or Acts of Parliament win force, and to make such regulations for the future exercise of official franking as they shall think fit : Pro vided also, that every warrant to be issued by the Lords of the Treasury for the suspension of the Parliamentary pri vileges of franking shall be inserted in the London Ga zelle ten days at least before coming into operation, and shall, withinfourteen days after making the same, be laid before both Houses of Parliament (if then sitting), or otherwise within ,fourtern days after Parliament shall mice% And be it enacted, that it shall be lawful for the Lords of the T,rasur, by warrant under their hands, and inserted in the London Gazette ten days at least before coming into operation, to suspend wholly or in part the regulations and privil!ges estamishod and given by law in respect of let te. s sent by the twopenny post in London and Dublin, and also by any penny post, and in respect of any other letters which nay be now sent by the post at a low or' reduced rate of postage or free of postage, and to declare and direct that all and every or any of such post letters shall be charged and chargeable with the like rates of postage as any other letter transmitted by the post, or to make such otly2r regulations in respect thereof as in any such warrant shall from time to time be expressed. Provided always, and be it enacted, that it shall be lawful 1;r ti e Lords cf the Treasury. by warrant under their hands to be inserted in the London Gazette (which war. rant may b r rescinded, varied or altared as they shall from time to time think fit), to direct that letters written on stamped paper, or inclosed in stamped covers, or having a stamp affixed thereto (the stamp in every such case being of the value or amount in such last-mentioned warrant to be expressed and specially provided for the purpose, under the authority of the Act), shall, if within the limitation of weight to be fixed under the provisions of this Act, pass by the post free of postage ; and also to require that every letter sent by the post shall, in the cases to be specified in any such last-mentioned warrant, be written on such stamped paper, or enclosed in such stamped cover, or have such stamp as aforesaid affixed, or that in default thereof, or in case the stamp on which any letter shall be written, or the stamp on the cover in which it shall be enclosed, or to which it shall be affixed, shall be of less value or amount than in such warrant shall be ex.. pressed, such letter shall be charged and chargeable with such rate of postage as such warrant shall direct. Pro vided always, that in all cases the stamp on or affixed to any letter, or cover of a letter, put into the post, shall, after such letter shall have been delivered by the post, be no longer available for the purpose of protecting the same or any other letter from the duty of postage. And be it enacted, that it shall be lawful for the Lords of the Treasury to order and direct the Commissioners of Stamps and Taxes from time to time to provide proper and sufficient dics or other implements for expressing and de- . noting the rates or duties which shall be directed by any such warrant, as aforesaid, and to give any other orders, arid make any other regulations relative thereto they may consider expedient. And be it enacted that the Commissioners of Stamps and Taxes shall cause a separate account to be kept of the stamp duties arising under this Act, and it shall be lawful for the Lords of the Treasury, and they are hereby empowered, by warrant under their hands, from time to time to authorise and require the said Commis sioners of Stamps and Taxes to direct their Receiver- General to pay over such sum and sums of money arising from the said Stamp Duties as the Lords of the Treasury shall think proper to the account of the Receiver-General of her Majesty's Post-office at the Bank of England ; and a!l such sums of money which shall be so paid over shall be 11,1 d by the said last-mentioned Receiver-General, sub ject to all annuities and yearly sums now charged by law on, or payable out of the Post-office revenue, and all other charges, outgoings, and disbursements to which the Post office revenue is at present liable. And be it enacted, that the rates or duties which shall be expressed or denoted by any such dies as aforesaid. shall be denominated and deemed to be atemp duties, and shall be under the care and management of toe COM missioners of Stamps and Taxes for the time being ; and all the powers, provisions, clauses, regulations, directions, flues, forfeitures, pains an I penalties contained in or inosed by the several A,:s now in force reiating to clamp duties (so far as the same may be appli- cable), shall be of full force and effect with respect to the stamps to be provided under or by virtue of this present Act, and to the paper on which the same shall be impressed, or to which the same shall be affixed, and shall be observed, applied, enforced, and put in execution for the raising, levying, collecting, and securing of the rates or duties denoted thereby, and for preventing, detecting, and punishing all frauds, forgeries, j and other offences relating thereto, as fully and effectually 1 to all intents and purposes as if such powers, provisions, 1 clauses, regulations, and directions, fines, forfeitures, pains, and penalties, had been herein repeated and specially en ected with reference to the said last mentioned stamps and rates or duties respectively. And be it enacted, that all post letters shall ba posted, forwarded, conveyed, and delivered, under and subject to all such orders and directions, regulations, limitations, and restrictions as the Postmaster-General, with the consent of the Lords of the Treasury, shall from time to time direct. And be it enacted that the penalty which by an Act passed in the first year of the reign of her present Majesty, intituled " An act for consolidating the laws relative to offences against the Post-office of the United Kingdom, ,And fur regulat'nethe judicial administration of the Post effice laws, and for explaining certain terms and expressions employed in those laws," is imposed on every master of a vessel, outward-bound to Ceylon, the Mauritius, the East Indies, or the Cape of Good Hope, who shall re fuse to take a post letter bag delivered or tendered to him by an officer of the Post-office, shall henceforth extend and apply to the master of ever t y l vessel bag outwar d bound who shall refuse to take a posetter vered or tendered to him by an officer of the Post-office . to the same gratuities as the master of any other vessel, or conveyance; but every such master shall be entitled o n o oLb i e f i o n f g th e o P p o o st s - t o_ o ffi ffi e c e o p . acket, conveying letters for on or And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Lords of the Treasury to make any reduction or alteration they .nay consider expedient in the gratuities allowed by law to t t ) o ' . masters of vessels for letters conveyed by them, f o r or on behalf of the Post-office between places within the United Kingdom, and between the Un ited Kin g dom and the a li n i d an t d o s al e l f ow M aann,y3ge; setuYtimasters of vessels, passi n g to or from or between an y of aie G s u f e o r r n t s h e e y' conveyan c e Sarklud ofAl i e ti s e e r letters t tier Majesty's colonies or possessions beyond the seas, if snip letters fom beyondnce of s nip seas they shall think fit, not exceediag the gratuities payable to r the word " letter" or shall be held to include newspapera, and any oth er , t m : r a e l i I t United o e ted r r s sb e,o,ft it enacted, Kingdom v ou e n seseedtiesindf:t for the that p j t e A l w a c c c h o t e e n , s n y te e v y e a Bar „ packet, pai er, article, or thing transmitted by the post, but not so as to deprive newspapers of any privilege they now legaily possess of passing free of postage ; and that the previsions of this Act shall be constructed itecoiding to the respective interpre tations of the Lerma.' and expre-aions contained in the said ,econdly i•ereinbefere-mentioned Act of the first year of the reign of her presentt. Majesty, so far as those interpre tations are not repugnant to the subject or inconsistent with the coet ect of such provisions. And be it enacted, that whenever the order, consent, or direction, or any other act of the Lords of the Treasury is prescribed or required by this Act, such order, com;,ent, direction, or other Act, may be signified under the hands of the Lords of the Treasury, or any three of them. And be it enacted, that this Act shall absolutely cease and determine on the .sth day of October, one thousan d c i piyht hundred and forty ; anti all warrants issued und er 4 the contrary (except in respect ( f any postageidrtuater hi of this authority of the same, unless Perliement shall decla re to may then have become payable under or f b a y nc v h duties, and Act); and any proceeding for recovery d o ar, penalty in sions of this or any other Act, and ya-nfid any proceeding except also as to any offence committed i a tt n e curred by reason of any such offence, or for the punish for recovery of any Such fi ne or pcna tn _Laoinrst the proeis ment of any offender. peeled by any Act to be p a _ sed u uring the pre sent session of Parliament. _____..-rse-------=_-_____ ___—_,_-. be it enacted, That this Act inay be amended or re- And The sharehold`eT of the Brighton railway, fol lowing the excellent example afforded by seve.ral other s a y Companies, Companies, hir.ve voted lON. pt , r annum. towards the support of three elerpruQn, who are to go among the la bourers employed Ott their line, and impart to theta Teligio" instruction. EVENING EDITION.