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GENERAL STEAM NAVIGATION COM PANY, Incorporated by Act of Parliament, 69, Lombard street, London. Notice is hereby given, that the HALF-YEARLY GENERAL MEETING of the PROPRIETORS of this Company will be held at the Company's Office, 69, Lombard-street, on TUESDAY, the 27th inst., at Two o'clock precisely, pursuant to the Act of Parliament, to transact the usual Business, and to declare the Dividend for the Half-year ending June 30, 1844. London, Aug. 1, 1844. JOHN WILSON, Secretary. FOREIGN PROVISION SALE. TO BE SOLD, WITHOUT RESERVE, on WEDNESDAY, Sept. 4, at No. 2, Monument-yard, at Twelve o'clock precisely : Hams, American, 4,000, duty paid. " Selected for country trade. Pork, " 100 Ox Tongues, " 100 kegs, Beef, smoked, " 200 pieces, Beef, family, " 150 half-bands," Sausages, " 20 kegs di Salmon, Irish " 4,000 21b tins " The bulk of the above will be deposited in a DUTY-FREE Ware house, and can be shown on application to Keeling and Hunt. Samples to be tasted one day previous and morning of sale, at the Broker's offices, and Catalogues to be had of, KEELING and HUNT, Brokers, 2, Monument-yard, and 9, Pudding-lane. DICTIONNAIRE NATIONAL; Or, GRAND CRITICAL DICTIONARY of the FRENCH LANGUAGE. By BESCHERELLE, Aine, of the Library of the Louvre, Author of the " Grammaire Nationale," and Member of several Learned Societies. This new and most valuable work, which when completed, will form two splendid large quarto volumes, of four columns, containing more matter than four volumes of " Le Dictionnaire Landais," is now issuing from the press in half-sheet numbers, three numbers being published weekly. Founded on the authority of the most celebrated anthors, and corn prising for the first time not only all the words lately introduced into circulation by the Press, but also Geography, llistory, Biography, &c., &c., together with the Critical and Analytical Notes of the most esteemed Dictionaries (such as those of the Academy, of Laveaux, of Boisto, and of Napoleon Landais). Le Dictionnaire National is designed to be a work eminently clas sical, and more correct, ample, and complete, than any other Dic tionary that exists. It is computed that the whole work will be completed in fifteen months, and in four hundred numbers ; but should any numbers issue exceeding the four hundred, they will be delivered gratis. Ills Majesty the King of the French has honoured the "Dictionnaire National " by becoming a subscriber to it. N.B. A re-impression is ready of the thirty-eight first numbers, printed in four columns instead of two, and in a new and beautiful type, containing 150,000 letters to the sheet. .. • _ OFFICE OF Suraciurnws. l'Ams : SIMON 41i, Rue des Fosses du Temple. LoliDox : L. and A. BER and CO., 20, Blenheim-street, Great Marlborough-street. Price i tf each Number, of a half-sheet large quarto, Twenty-fire Centimes. Now ready, in 2 vols. small Bvo., price 245. bound, REVELATIONS OF RUSSIA; OR, THE EMPEROR NICHOLAS AND HIS EMPIRE IN 1844. " By One who has seen and describes." " Tot ou tard tout se scait."—Maintenon. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. To be had of all Booksellers. THEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM LATE ENGLISH OPERA- Under the Management of Mis. KEELEY. Another great Achievement Successfully Triumphant ! ! I To attempt to eulogise the gorgeous splendour of the New Extrava ganza of Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, or New Lamps for Old Ones," would be a work of supererogation ; the Manage ment, therefore, contents itself by simply stating that it will be repeated every Evening ! THIS EVENING, AUG. 25. Will be repeated a New Drama, entitled MARTIN CHUZZLE. WIT. Principal characters by Messrs. R. Younge, F. Vining, Emery, F. Mathews, A. Wigan, Meadows, Kinloch, Turner, Stanton, J. W. Collier, Yarnold, Sanders, and Keeley ; Miss For tescue, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. A. Wigan, Mrs. Woollidge, Miss Groves, Mrs. Usher, Miss Turner, and Mrs. Keeley. To conclude with an entirely Original, and much better than New, Grand Operatic, Romantic, Melo-Dramatic, Burlesque Extra vaganza, founded on the celebrated Eastern Tale, in the Arabian Nights' Entertainment, entitled ALADDIN AND THE WON DERFUL LAMP; or, New Lamps for Old Ones. With very extensive New Scenery, Machinery, Dresses, &c. Principal cha tacters by Mrs. Keeley, Messrs. F. Matthews, Turner, A. Wigan, J W. Collier, and Keeley; Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Woolli 'ge Miss E. Chaplin, Mrs. A. Wigan, Miss Turner, Mi .s James, Miss &non, Miss Hunt, Miss Reede, &c., &c. PRICES OF ADMISSION.—BaIcony Boxes. 41. • Upper Boxes, 35.; Pit, 2s:; Gallery, 6d. Second Price—Balcony B oxes, 28. ; Upper Boxes, ls tid. ; Pit, Is. Private Boxes on the II tie my 'Der (holding eight persons), Tu o Guineas. Private Boxes on the Second Tier (holding eight persons), One Guinea and aalalE Private Boxes on the Pit Tier (holding six persons), One Glib ea. The Box..ittice is open from Ten to Four o'Clock, under the direc tion of Mr. Grogan, late of Covent-garden Theatre. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. BAT fY. Nightly overflows • o the wonders to the wonders of Mr. Carter, the Lion King—Mr. Batty and Trained S:eed Beda. THIS EVENING. AUG. 26, Will be repeated the Eastern Spectacle of MUNGO PARK; or, The Lion Tamer of the Niger. Karfa, the Arab, Mr. Carter, wh rein he will introduce his beautifu Iperformance with his trained animal., lions, tigers, &c., in the cage, and on the open stage drive a lion in harness. Combats with the monarch of the forest, and other new extraordin. ry feats. Entire Change of the Scenes In the Circle. To conclude with an entire new Equestrian, Military and Naval Spectacle, entitled THE CHINESE WAR; or. The Conquests of Amoy by British Arms. New Scenery, Dresses, Appointments, &c., to realise the rccent triumphs of England's Army and Navy. Feast 01250 Lanterns. Acting and stage.mtnager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. Box-office open from Eleven till Five. Lessons in the Art of Riding by Mr. R. Smith. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Last Nights of the Opera Company. THIS EVENING, AUG. 26, Will be performed the Opera of GUY MANNERING ; or, The Gypsey's Prophecy. Henry Bertram, Mr. D. W. King ; Gabriel, Mr. R. Honner ; Julia Mannering, Miss Romer; Lucy Bertram, Miss Betts; Flora, Miss E. Terrey ; Meg Merrilies, Mrs. H. Vining. After which, a New Operetta, written by J. B. Buckstone, Esq aid cempa•ed by E. litzwilliam, Esq., entitled a SUMMER NIGHT'S LOVE, supported by all the Vocalists. To conclude with Tri E WA H.LOCK OF THE GLEN. Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box. office, from Eleven to Four. STRAND THEATRE. THIS EVENING. AUG. 26, Will be performed MARTIN CHUZZLEWI P. Young Martin Chuzzlewit, Mr. Ranoe; Old Martin Chuzzlewit, Mr. Ayliffe; . -...-..,-a-,astague Tigg. Mr Roberts; Mr. H. Haft; Mary iiraham, Airs. Lowman suf.-- After which, a New and Original Burlesque, entitled THE wo N. DERFUL LAMP, in a New Light, being an Illustrated Version of Aladdin. Abanazar, Mr. Paul Bedford; Aladdin, Mr. Wright; Princess Badroulbadour, Miss E. Stanley. To conclude with Selby's Farce of THE NEW FOOTMAN. Bobby Breakwindow, Mr. Attwood; Polly Picnic, Miss Carter. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. Two entirely New Pieces, and numerous additions made to the Company, including Mr. J. Hudson Kirby, Mr. Binge, Mr. T. H. .Lacy, Mr. Aldridge, Mrs. W. West, &c., THIS EVENING, AUGUST 26, Will be performed a New operatic Roman Ce, entitled LA CATARINA ; or, The Diamonds of the Crown. Henriquez, Mr. T. 11. Lacy; Rebelledo, Mr. Dale; Mugnoso, Mr. Aldridge; Diana, Miss Hamihon ; Catarina, Miss vincent. After which, the laughable Farce of NO. Sir J. Dmbtful, Mr. Seaman; Hurricane, rdr. James; Frederick, Mr. Binge; Lady Doubtful, Mrs. W. West. To conclude with JACK AND THE BEAN-STALK ; or, The Lad that knew how many Beans made Five. Jollibuffit, Mr John Herbert ; Jack, Miss Vincent. Private Family Boxes, £1 Is. Od. and £1 Ils. (SA. IN CELEBRATION OF PRINCE ALBERVS BIRTHDAY. LICENSED VICTUALLERS' SCHOOL. PATRONESS—HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN. THE GOVERNOR and COMMITTEE beg to announce that they have engaged that highly popular place of public resort, THE ROY AL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, For THIS DAY and TO-MORROW, AUGUST and 27. In addition to the usual a. tr ictions of the Gardens, including the unequalled and far-famed MENAGERIE, The BURNING of LON DON, PROMENADE CONCERTS in Two Parts, the Splendid Band of the Establishment, conducted by Mr. Godfrey, The cele brated RUSSIAN FAMILY KANTROWI IZ, in full Costume, will sing a variety of their National Melodies, Ht RR MAYER, the Magic Siffleur, Brilliant DISPLAY of FIRE-WORKS, &c., a GRAND FETE and FANCY FAIR w.ll be held on each day, and a Series of Entertainments will be provided for the numerous Com pany anticipated, which cannot fail to ensure the swot ort of the Sub scribers to the Institution and the Public generally. The beautiful MODEL of VENICE will be exhibited free of extra charge. The children of the School will attend on both days of the Fete. An extra Military Band is engaged. Ticket- One Shilling each (which will be admitted on either day), may be had of the Gov. rnor and Committee , of the pat Trustees and Committee, at the School-house, Kennington-lane, and at the Office, I_7, Fleet-street. The Garde.is will be o - encd at One o'clock on each day with a Royal Salute and the Natio...al Anthem. GRAND ARCHERY FETE and BALL-PLAY by the lOWAY INDIANS, at LORD'S CRICKET-GROUND. Trial of Skill by the Children of the American Forest and Prairie for several Prizes. First Time of Indians Encamping In Europe. During the Ball-play of the loway Indians, when encamped at Hoboken, opposite New York, 26,000 persons visited them in one day. The public are so licited not to crowd too close to the players during this interesting game, as a large arena is necessary to give It due effect. The In glans will arrive at Two and depart at Six precisely, THIS DAY AUGUST 26, and five following days. The Squaws will erect the Wigwams immediately after their arrival. The Exhibition (except ing the Ball-play and Archery Fete) will be on an elevated platform. —Admission, Is. No re-admission. THE FOURTEEN lOWAY INDIANS, giving their WAR DANCES, GAMES, &c., at the EGYPTIAN HALL, under the explanations of Mr. Catlin, each day of this week, from Half past Two to Four in the day, and from Half-past Eight to Ten at night. Doors open half an hon. previous. The spacious wigwam erecting for the full and effective illustrations of this party with Mr. Catlin's Indian Collection in Paris, will entice them from London after a few day? more of their exhibitions. EGYPTIAN HALL, PICCADILLY. IMPORTANT NOTICE. ONE SHILLING Admission to TILE NAPOLEON MU SEUM, the most magnificent and extensive Coll.:et:on of Histo rical Curiosities and Works of Art ever known to have been formed by One Person, during Twenty-five years of elaborate research, at a Cost of 0,000 guineas, and to completely illustrate, in the most in /tractive and interesting manner, the most important part of Euro pean history, viz.—CIIARLES 1., OLIVER CROMWELL, and LOUIS XIV., to the deaths of GEORGE 111., and the EMPEROR NAPOLEON, In 1821. This unique Museum has been visited often, during the last and present year, by the Royal FamEy, the Duke of Wellington, the Foreign Princes, Anibarradors, and their Ladies, also, many thousands of the Nobility and Public; and the Pro prietor has recently been able to in of ease, by several very fine pictures, Sec., his previous almost ine , edible number and variety of MSS., Works of Art, and a multitude -sf valuable Relic', and other curiosities, in this most instructive and, as hundreds have said it ought to be, a National Museum. 31,;ry thousand have inspected it, and TIIIRTY PRINCIPAL EDITORS of the PUBLIC PRESS bays stated that it cugh to be seen by every mae. The price of admis- UM is reduced to ONE SHILLING. The NAPOLEON MUSEUM is to be seen only at the Egyptian Hall," Piccadilly. Ball y h om Ten ttll Dusk. THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, Auc. 26. TUERMOMETER, Lowest, 52; Highest, 68; Noon, 62. BAROMETER, 30.1.—WD ID, W. l c rTlL—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the freezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometeis fair is u wally placed opposite 30, and rain at 29. MUD WATER AT LONDONJ3RIDGETHIS DAY. Morning ... 9 minutes after 0 Evening ... 40 minutes after 0 4g- • V 44, • \ .tt - sk 4r bi g • 917 ftgl 4 7404, 1 1 k, •!„ , ,i .<\\® s , , 0\ E V , Li„) „. m° • '4; tom— SECOND EDITION. 4e - b 111114 Pittvt LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 26, 1814. The Morning Herald declares that it notices, once more, "with no unfriendly spirit, a charge" which it distinctly stated, a month ago, against Lord MEL BOUKNE and his Cabinet—namely, " that his Lordship and his Whig colleagues were in the habit of opening Mr. O'CoNNELL's letters in the Post-office." This charge our Contemporary "regrets to say" rests on •-• 1 IP, p such authority as it cannot hastily reject;" for "the was made by Lord :MELBOURNE himself in •• t4ent august presence in the country, and in the presence of too many witnesses of inferior, though total of'exalted, rank, to be retracted." And it is very delightful to find the Herald discoursing thus ern- phatically on the monstrous practice it now repudiates; .... we are most unwilling to believe, implicitly, an accusation which, if true, must brand the Whig Cabinet with an indelible and eternal mark of infamy and dishonour. To open the letters—of a Member of Parliament—of a man entrusted by the people with the solemn charge of their interests—is clearly a high crime and misdemeanour against the constitution." We entirely concur in—and have, on many recent occasions, in specific terms, advocated—these senti ments. We denounced, in terms of equal strength and reprobation, the scandalous offence to which Sir JAMES GRAHAM pleaded guilty, of having issued official warrants to authorise the detention and open ing of letters in their passage through the Post-office. But the Herald found no offence on account of this in Sir JAMES'S conduct. We, too, contended, in sub stince, that the practice of clandestinely opening letters whilst they were within the assumed sacred trusteeship of the Post-office, was "a high crime and misdemeanour against the constitution." But that which the Herald perceives to be manifestly such in Lord MELBOURNE, it would seem never to have sus pected in Sir JAMES GRAHAM. Although it holds that this species of delinquency in a Whig Premier, if truly charged, "must brand a Whig Cabinet with an indelible and eternal mark of infamy and dishonour," it cannot see that the same offence, in any way, should affix to the Home Secretary of State of a Conservative Administration any such stigma. If our memory rightly serves us, the Herald was quite facetious at the idea of imputing that to Sir JAMES, as officially flagitious, or in itself indefensible, which had been no • toriously done by all his predecessors in office. But it appears that, however convenient it may have been for the purpose of our Contemporary when this grave charge, in the case of M. MAZZINI and others, was brought forward against one of its Ministerial patrons by Mr. THOMAS DUNCOMBB, to shirk the enormity of the specific violation by falling back on the whole stream of official precedents (bearing on its tide Cabinet Ministers of all parties, and all shades of po litical opinions, for more than one hundred years past), it afterwards discovered that it had been too precipitate. By this generalizing, it had lost an un foreseen opportunity of "branding" a special delin quency, and this, too, committed by an enemy. Here was a fault to be repaired at the earliest opportunity. ft had allowed a whole flight pf butterflies to escape, in order that one, in which it was interested, might not be folded in the net of a Parliamentary inquiry. But it soon found, that among this flight, there was another, a bigger, a more important individual, whom it could not afford to lose. It resumes, therefore, in its own person, the very chace which it had depre cated in others. Lord MELBOURNE is an "Emperor" of the largest class ; and so he is caught, and solemnly pinned, and ostentatiously displayed, in the Herald's newest specimens of political entomology, in opposi tion (we suppose) to Sir JAMES GRAHAM, impaled in a similar manner in the "glass" cases of the Opposi ti in Collections, as " Papilio fnspiciens—(GßA nam)"—a description which we humbly tender for adoption. Now, there is something, in all this, more than amusing, though the fun is not small of seeing politi tical disingenuousness reduced to the shameless incon sistency of decrying in its opponents, to-day, as " a high crime and misdemeanour against the constitu tion," that very offence which, yesterday, in its friends, is not only considered venial, but almost went out of its way to vindicate. There is, beyond this absurdity, a legitimate moral to be deduced from such party-serving tampering with principles. It is, that the attempt to compromise truth is sure to entail the discomfiture of him by whom it is made. The practice so loudly and universally complained of is right, or it is wrong. There is no halting between its justification and its condemnation. Even if its defenders rely on the miserably humble plea of ex pediency, that plea is consistent—intelligible so far as it goes. But it is not intelligible or consistent for one man to-day, and neither consistent nor intel ligible for another to-morrow. If the Herald had had the frankness and the manliness to admit, on a recent occasion, that the opening of sealed letters was a gross and detestable perversion of official privilege in Sir JAMES q at iliAbi it might now, with perfect tion—a gross and detestable proceeding in Lord MELBOURNE. The difference between us is this that, writing under no trammels of party, or inte rested feeling, we as indignantly and distinctly pro test against the constitutional misdemeanour in Lord MELBOURNE, as we have protested against it in Sir JAMES GRAHAM. But the Herald, after overlooking, or palliating, or defending this course of action in its political client, the Right Hon. Baronet, turns round upon it, and holds it up to public execration, when resorted to by its political adversary, the Noble Vis count. The fact is (for reasons which, having urged in former articles, we will not press again upon our readers), the: power of sealed letter-violation, whe ther authorised in the Secretary of State by the Act of ANNE, and continued by Mr. LABOUCHERE'S Post office Acts Consolidation Bill—or not—is morally inexcusable in theory ; whilst for reasons of sound policy, as well as on the ground of immutable rights, and national honour and public faith, and even on the much-relied one of political expendiency itself, it is absolutely indefensible. The accident of Whig or Tory connexion cannot affect, by one jot, the strength of the principle. What was thus tainted with wrong and fraud in the official acts of Lord MELBOURNE, cannot have been more pure or less to be execrated in Sir JAMES GRAHAM. But it may be that the Herald's emphatic instance of the letters " of a Member of Parliament," is meant to suggest a difference between the case of Mr. O'CoN NELL'S correspondence and that of M. MAZZINI. Be it so. The " difference " is even then worthless, for it leaves the cage established against Sir JAMES Catanam untouched. It was charged by Mr. DUN COMBE that his own letters had been opened at the Post-office. The charge was not answered, but it was not denied. Mr. WALLACE stated, in the broadest terms, that his letters for some time met with the same treatment. The accusation was not repelled, for it was true. Besides, it was admitted that diplomatic correspondence of foreign Ministers had been, shall we say, habitually opened, under a Conservative Go vernment. The Herald surely does not mean to in timate that it was a greater crime in a Whig Go vernment to have violated Mr. O'CostsiELL's corre spondence ? Again, we say—in few words—the whole practice, from beginning to end, with its sta tutable authority, Ministerial precedents, and official usage, is in all respects base, pitiful, and inexcusable —a degradation to the Minister who resorts to it, a reproach to the country which tolerates such a Minister. We perceive in a recent number of the London Medical Gazette some sensible observations on the pernicious tendencies of certain societies (exceed ingly common in the most densely-peopled localities of all great towns, but more especially in those which are situated within the manufacturing districts), called " Burial Clubs." The scheme of those clubs assures to the parents of an infant child, subscribing from the period of its birth a few pence per week to the society's funds, a certain large amount in the event of the infant's death, to provide—in nomine ex pensarum—as it were, for its funeral. The rate of the subscription and the amount of the reversionary suns thus assured, vary, of course, with the circum. stancess of the case, the amount of the latter being determined, in most cases, by such considerations as whether the subscription was commenced immediately after the birth, or at a later period, the rate of the weekly premium contributed, &c. But, at any rate, it would seem that where one or both of the parents are in constant employment, they frequently sub scribe to two, three, four, even six different clubs of this nature. On the death of the child who has been thus " entered " of such associations, the parents may, in this way, become entitled to—and may actually re ceivc—sums varying in the aggregate, from 101. to 50 /. even. Thus in these parents there is created and vested an unnatural money interest in the death of their own offspring. Are the most precious ties of kindred always strong enough to bear and resist the terrible force with which the iron-grasp of avarice, or the gloomy energies of hopeless poverty, will occa sionally attempt to rend them asunder? Here is a dreadful question for their consideration, who devote themselves to the patient study of the causes of great crimes in combination with great poverty, in town populations. There is no disguising the appalling truth that must form the answer to the question we have asked. Infanticide, on a scale of fearful magni tude, is the result of this organized, though unin tended, temptation ! Some months ago, in comment ing on the important matters comprised in Mr. I CHADWICK'S very interesting Report on the Sanatory Condition of large Towns, we pointed out the evi_ dente given as to the wilful destruction—the positive murder—by processes more or less sum mary, of infant children who have been made the objects of subscription in burial clubs, by parties re siding in the cellars of Manchester or Glasgow, and the squalid alleys of many other towns. That Re port was prepared under the instructions of, and addressed to, the Right Hon. the Home Secretary ; yet, up to this moment, no step (so far as we are aware, at least) has been taken to put down, or even to subject to the most stringent regulations and' control these burial clubs. Nor is this all. The highest medical authority has confirmed the reports and sanctioned the opinions of Mr. WALKER'S inva luable testimony to the deleterious effects of our pre sent system of sepulture on the health (perhaps, also, on the morals) of thickly populated c: ties, &c. The crowded and disgraceful condition of many of our church-yards and burial-grounds, as well some belonging to Dissenting proprietory chapels, as to chapels and churches of the Establishment, after impregnating the atmosphere with noxious and loathsome vapours, generating virulent fevers, an d disse minating disease and death wherever the ventilation is imperfect of the street and neighbourhood in which the putrescent gases are exhaled—compels the parties in terested in the fees upon interments to close their grounds, or to become accessories to the offence against society of poisoning the living, by subject ing them to the fatal influences given out by the corrupting dead. As a middle term—a compromise of some sort, between their duty to their species, and the claims of their own purses—they permit their ser vants to violate those decent observances which the precepts of education and religion, not less than the instinctive prejudice of our common nature, con spire to make us regard as sacred. Long before the work of decomposition has advanced to that point at which the buried body is resolved into the dust of its original elements—it is exhumed, chopped up, mutilated, dishonoured, shovelled and thrown about and mixed up with all other masses of undistinguish able mortality—vile and revolting in the general hideousness of its decay, indeed ; but once—and that perhaps recently—organised in all physical beauty, instinct with life and passions, informed by intellect, and embodying immortal souls. The relics of mor tality are thus torn from their last resting place, and thus desecrated by the grave-digger or the sexton, who 13 so to economise the capacity of the Golgotha of which he is the steward, as to find the means of making it swallow up more coffins, although their over-accumulation has already upheaved the sepulchral soil a foot or more above the surrounding locality. Let those who may imagine this description to be exaggerated peruse the Commons' Report on the means of preserving the health of towns, &c., the sub sidiary report of Mr. WALKER, or the able article contributed on this shocking but most important subject, about two years ago, by the Westminster Review, and the much more recent narratives in our own columns of proceedings at the ground in Por tugal-street. We would refer more particularly to the horrors proved on the evidence of witnesses, but too competent and too credible, as to such practices in the church-yard and the burial-ground of St. Clement Danes, and the disgusting receptacles in Drury-lane and Portugal-street. And yet, on the face of that evidence, of those reports, of the dreadful experience supplied at intervals, pre cisely in these localities, according to Mr. WALKER, and the sextons or grave-diggers examined, of spotted and other malignant fevers, consequent on the open ing of graves in ground saturated and still absolutely reeking with the corruption of death, we see that graves are still opened every week in the most crowded part of the Strand,—for example, in Saint Clement's Church-yard. We remember it was given in evidence either by the able surgeon, whose name we have mentioned, or before the Commons' Committee, that there was one remarkable family vault, even — within the walls (however), of that Church, which had never been opened within the memory of any inhabitant, without consequences ug OFrltildi Gr 4 AgnalAw i t h i n Now, we cannot help thinking that the practices we speak of, as incident to these attempts to keep up the "busying business" in grounds, long since become, and still acting as, pestiferous nuisances to their neighbourhoods, must have a baneful effect upon the moral perceptions, and the natural feelings of those po,xrer and more hard-faring classes of the labouring community with whom the workmen employed in such outrages to the dead are most likely to come into contact. The finer sympathies which may well subsist, and are so generally found, in the bosoms of the humblest of eur fellows, are soonest worn out by collision with more callous natures. A medical prac titioner, examined before the Committee we have THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST Q 6, 1844. named, remarks : " I u►ed often to observe great apathy in a certain class about the death of their children. They did not seem to look on the death of the young as the great evil which it is eommonly regarded ; they said, God took care of young children who died ; that their death did not matter much ; that life was full of hardships and misery, and that the child was provided for when it lied.' This feeling I found to be rather common."— (3,313, p. 203.) How short an interval, in the mind of a parent thus reasoning, must be interposed between a passive obedience to the decrees of PROVIDENCE, and an impious sacrifice of its manifestation in the gift of life I The wholesome prejudices that honour, or revere, or respect the memory, and even the ashes of the dead, once extinguished by the coarse example of the prac tices Nre have hinted at—even the bosom, it seems, of the father or the mother is inaccessible to the claims of helpless infancy upon the most universal affectfons implanted in all nature. Sordid ava rice expedites, by wilful murder, the term of that infant life, which but for its intervention would have been, perhaps, extended into many years, to accom plish, -who shall say, what destinies ? Surely these are en ing evils, demanding (as we have ventured on form er occasions to urge in the strongest language) the imstant and most emphatic interference of the law and its authorities. The one of these evils is, Iv e apprehend, cognisable at common law, (acs an offence against the public health), by indictment or otherwise. The other—these burin/ clubs—as being in the nature, perhaps, of benefit societies-4t may be more difficult to deal with. A more specific remedy—by statute, po: sibly—may be acquired ; but that infant murder follolvs on these burial fund associations, is a con nexio.n of cause and effect not more palpable to our judgm ent than that a brutalising demoralisation is conseq cent on the notorious desecrations of the sanc tuary o f the grave, rendered indispensable by the still permittt sd and disgusting practice of continued inter ments i n our over-gorged church-yards and burial grounds., Acco tints from Madrid of the 17th inst. state that the mos t perfect tranquillity prevailed in that capital The Duke of OSSUNA was dangerously ill. The QuBEN arrived tzt Valencia at four o'clock on the morning of the 15th:. The Madrid papers contain no news from Morocco 7. The r_ClAree per Cents. closed at 27 1-16, at sixty days ; ftbe Floating Debt at 591; ind the Coupons, at 24k, at sixty days. Madlid journals and correspondence of the 18th have been received. The Court will return to Madrid on the 20th. The reason N bich has determined General NAR vela to hasten the retu zn of her MAJESTY is not known, and it is con sidered .iby many that he must have some very pressing cause lor so doing, and in hurrying on the Royal patty int spite of the fatigue occasioned by the great heat. The• At ithorities thought it necessary to adopt some fresh pre cautions for the preservation of order, which were cot ntinued through the night, but nothing took place In any way to account for this apparent useless demon stration of force. We m:e without fresh accounts from Morocco. The Tiempo contains a letter from Gibraltar of the 10th, i n which the English are openly charged with hating prevented the conclusion of peace between France.- :and Morocco. The letter concludes by charg ing El 'gland with the intention of seizing upon Tan giers, in. order to have an :entire command of the Straits.. The Gazette publishes a royal decree pf the 14th, , ergs nizing a naval force for the repression of smuggling . The vessels employed on that duty are to be coma nanded by officers of the royal navy. Tho force Is tcr consist of 2 steamers, 6 brigs, 2 schooners, 23 feluccas of the first-class, 6 of the second, 2 lug gers, and 29 escampavias. We have received the Paris papers of Friday and Saturday. The journals of Saturday contain the telegraphic dispatches announcing the return of ME IIEMIIT ALI to Alexandria, and the victory of Marshal BIJGEAUD in Morocco. The following is the form in which these dispatches are given in the two official papers : _ . " ➢IARSEILLES, Atm. 22, FivE, pm. "THE GOVERNOR GENERAL OF ALGERIA TO THE MINISTER OF WAR. " ' Bivouac of Kondiat Abderralnan, 14th. " ' Having marched upon the Morocco army, which became daily more strong and menacing to Algeria, I came up with it at two leagues in front of its camp. It assumed the offensive with 20,000 horse at the moment the heads of our columns were crossing the Isle. %Ve were surrounded on all sides. The most complete victory—(interrupted by the mist): " "ALEXANDRIA, Pru. " After some days of irresolution, the VICEROY has renounced his journey to Mecca. He has resumed the conduct of affairs, and his return 'to Alaxandria is announced." The Debats on giving these dispatches says : Although this dispatch is incomplete, there cannot be the slightest doubt that the most complete victory has crowned the efforts and bravery of Marshal Bugeaud and his army. The height of Kondiat Abderral►man, which was accessible to both parties, is a hill in the front of the camp of Lalla Magrina, halfway . to Ouchda, and is the most advanced post on the Algerian frontier. In its front runs a rivulet, called the Oued Isly, whieh forms a boundary." The Paris papers of Saturday vie with each other in repudiating the correspondence reflecting on the Prince de JOJNVILLE and the officers of his squadron, which appeared in the Times of Wednesday, and the Journal des Debats gives the following letter from a French naval officer, in reply the Times' correspon dents : " Certain journals of London publish with a sort of satisfaction letters written from the Bay of Tangiers by pretended officers of the English navy, present at the bombardment. From the grossness of the language, and the complete ignorance of naval manoeuvres apparent in every line, it is impossible to recognise the correspon dence of a real naval officer. But since the English press renders the navy of Great Britain responsible for these gratuitous insults thrown on the navy of France, we may be permitted to bring forward in opposition to them letters from our own officers. They will show whether it be true that the Prince do Joinville did not worthily maintain the honour of the tricoloured flag, and whether our crews did not fulfil all the expectations that were formed of their bravery and skill. I quote textually several fragments of letters written by com rades of mine is the squadron of Morocco. " On the 6th the weather was fine, and a favourable breeze facilitated our manoeuvres. The Prince had pre viously had the channel for our ships buoyed out. From daylight the signal to prepare for action had been flying from the Admiral's ship. The steamers towed the line of-battle ships to their station, about 800 yards from the shore, which was as near as they could be brought an account of the depth of water—indeed, the Suifren during the bombardment had not above five feet water under her keel. The Moors allowed us to take up our position unmolested; indeed, they did not seem to expect we should approach so close, for their shots passed over us. The Suffren had about fifty shots in her hull, but without experiencing much damage. The order was given to spare the town, and to point only at the walls, and every shot made the masonry fly about in all direc tions. The firing was never stopped except to let the smoke clear away and rectify our aim. Our gunners fully maintained the character which even some English officers gave them when witnessing their practice in the Levant. " The fortifications facing the roads are all dismantled the guns dismounted, and their carriages knocked to pieces. Of all that line of defence crenelated and brist ling with cannon, which rendered the approach to Tan giers so picturesque, there remains only a heap of ruins, and over them still stands the town, untouched, except by a few stray balls. The only object was to subdue the pride of the Morocco men, by dismantling their forts, and this attained, the Admiral gave orders to cease the fire. The cannon of the squadron has laid Tangiers open to our troops, if France thinks fit to plant her standard upon it. The reverberation of our cannonade might be heard at Gibraltar. The English ships, which kept themselves aloof, scarcely expected a demonstra tion so energetic, and seemed to be by no means pleased with it." The Journal des Debats gives translations of the letters from the Times, and thus comments on them : " Let these deplorable testimonies of hatred and re sentment be read. To reproduce them is themost severe act of reprisal that can be used against them ; for a se riously thinking people must be deeply abashed by such VefliPeFoleirre n sirieras, - lecth ' enVie . ' h e el% Lariy t , h a e . confined themselves to criticising the operations of the French squadron, the orders of the Admiral, the ma noeuvres of the ships, or even the correctness with which their guns were fired, one might have allowed them this inoffensive gratification to calm their ill-humour. But to accuse a French Admiral, French officers, and, in fact, the French navy, is, indeed, contemptible I We should feel that we were insulting the son of our King, as Well as those fighting so gloriously under him, were we to do more than shrug our shoulders at such ineptitudes. God defend us from humbling them to such a degree as to make any other defence for them. God preserve us from rendering insult for insult. Nations are as much bound as individuals to pay respect to each others' feel ings. There is one thing, however, of which we have a right to be proud on this occasion—it is the contrast pre sented by the language of public opinion in France. It is the calm dignified self-respect which the public has preserved since the receipt of the late news from the coast of Africa." The article concludes in these terms : " We know that the English Government has had no share in this, and we believe with satisfaction, that the great majority of the people of England sincerely pro test against these odious diatribes. At the same time we believe, and say so with regret, that all the efforts made by the Governments, and the truly honest and wise men of both countries to maintain peace, will become vain if the most powerful means of acting upon public opinion are to be systematically perverted into instru ments for exciting trouble, hatred, and all the bad pas sions." The following observations on this subject occur in the Courrier Francais : " Frankly, we believe those letters to have been written at London, in the interest of the Cabinet, which imagined nothing better than to sully the glory of our arms, and even of our bravery, in order to diminish the popular emotion which places it in danger. It is either a miserable Ministerial piece of tactics, or a contemptible manifestation of the basest envy. But, whichever it be, it shows the state of public opinion in England with re spect to the cannon-shots fired by our squadron. At all events, we affirm, for the honour of France, that there could not be found a single officer amongst us to insult the bravery of the English, a scribbler to write such vil lanies, or a journal to permit them to appear in its co lumns. No party—not even the war party, which the British press has invented--would have been capable of thus throwing filth in the face of Great Britain. Such is the difference in our code of morals. We hold in equal esteem the black coats of Exeter Hall and the red coats (blue) of the Times." The Constitutionnel observes : " Public opinion in Prince will be strongly affected by these calumnies. We do not wish to add to the diffi culties of the Government, but it seems to us that no reserve should longer be maintained, and that the dis patches of the Prince de Joinville should at once be published." All the other French papers of every shade of politics comment in equally strong terms on the etters of the Times' correspondent. The Otaheite affair is not yet settled, but it was currently reported on Saturday in Paris, that the ultimatum of the English Government had been re ceived by the French Cabinet on Friday. Its terms were not known. It was believed that M. GUIZOT had refused to renal either Captain BRUAT or M. D'AUBIGNY, but that he had offered to express the regret of the French Government that the zeal of seine of their officers had driven them to do acts which could not be justified. The Revue de Paris gives the following as the plan proposed by the French Government for the settle ment of the question, and says it has got its informa tion from a good source : "After the exchange of several diplomatic notes, M. Guizot has proposed to England the following arrange ment :—That Otaheite shall become n free state, and that France and England shall each of them establish a consul in the island, and that both countries shall be treated on a footing of perfect equality in regard to commercial advantages ; that the French squadron shall be recalled, and that the authority of Queen Pomare shall be re-established. With regard to Mr. Pritchard, he shall be at liberty to return to Otaheite as a private individual ; tut he is never to be allowed to hold any public functions in the island. We do not know the answer of England to this proposal. All that we can affirm is, that the above is the sense and meaning of the arrangement proposed by M. Guizot. "It appears certain, says the Reforme of Friday, " that Lord Cowley, the British A m bassador, presented two days ago to M. Guizot a more peremptory,note than the furmer, requiring a reparation from France for the affair of Otaheite, and the immediate recal ofliiM. Bruat and d'Aubigny." An article in La Presse, states that " it was not merely in Otaheite that the British mis sionaries were misconducting themselves," and then pro ceeds to detail the occurrences in Western Africa, to which allusion had been made in the House of Commons during the late session of Parliament. The Moniteur states, that "The King having been apprised of the death of the Grand Duchess Alexandria, daughter of the Emperor of Russia, went into mourning for eight days on that day (Saturday)." " The members of the Committee of the French credi tors of Spain had an interview with the Spanish Am bassador on Thursday last. M. Martinez do la Rosa assured them that his Government was most anxious to fulfil its engagement towards its foreign creditors, and that there was every reason to hope that the next Cortes would devise measures to that effect. The Committee were to wait upon M. Guizot on Saturday. " We have forwarded to Dublin," says the Univers, " the numerous addresses which have reached us from the different parts of France, together with those signed by the Catholics of Paris, expressive of their sympathy for the illustrious prisoner of Richmond (O'Connell.) A respectable clergyman, called by private affairs to the capital of Ireland, kindly offered to take charge of them, and to hand to Mr. O'Connell this testimonial of admira tion of Catholic France." The Semaphore de Marseilles of the 21st instant, and the Sud, the Ministerial journal of that city, announce that a telegraphic dispatch was received on the preced ing day, at Toulon, ordering the immediate embarkation of 20,000 men for Algeria. These troops are intended to replace those sent to reinforce the army of Marshal Bu geaud, on the frontier of Morocco. " Hussein Bey, son of Mehemet Ali, and Achmet Bey, son of Ibrahim Pacha, have landed at Marseilles with their suite, and taken up their temporary residence at the Hotel d'Orient. " Letters from Toulon state that the greatest activity still prevails in that arsenal and port, and that steam boats have been ordered to Port Vendres to take on board three regiments of cavalry to re-inforce Marshal Bugeaud. They also state that a report was very cur rent of Admiral Parceval Duchesne being ordered to the Morocco coast, and announces as a fact that the In line-of-battle ship, is ordered to join the Prince's squadron, and that the Ocean, Marengo, and Neptune are ordered to be in readiness for the same service. " The French papers continue to speak with great bitterness of a treaty of commerce which they affirm to have been concluded between Sir Henry Hardinge and the Pacha of Egypt; and they add that the Pacha has accepted of the protection of England They say that by the treaty England has acquired the right to make a railway across the Isthmus of Suez, and to introduce her goods into Egypt at a greatly reduced rate of duty." The Reforme of Friday states that a reinforcement of two companies of Engineers and a company of Ar tillerymen was to be forthwith embarked at Toulon, for the squadron of the Prince DE JOINVILLE. It was stated, on the other hand, that orders were dis patched from the Ministry of War, on Thursday, to ship two additional regiments of Infantry and a regi ment of Lancers for Africa. An article published by the Bade Gazette, of the 19th inst., would indicate that the Valais was on the point of being invaded by volunteers from the neighbouring cantons. " Enlistments to that effect," t says— " Were making on a large scale in the districts of Aigle and other different points alonc , the lake. At Ouchy two hogsheads full of b a ll cartridges r were embarked for Lower Valais, and concealed in a small tower near the lake. Muskets, purchased at St. Etienne, were also for warded to the same destination. It was reported that the Valais intet.ded to separate from Switzerland and unite with Piedmont." The Journal des Debatsrpublishes the following letter, dated Posen, the 4th inst. " The chief of the police of the Grand Duchy of Posen" thelAulic Councillor de Valentini, has just been arrested and lodged in solitary confinement. The following are the facts that led to the adoption of this rigorous mea sure, which produced here an extraordinary sensation : Some time ago M. de Valentini received orders from the Minister of Police to arrest a M. Malczewski, a Polish refugee, who was accused by the Government of this country of fomenting disturbances by the circulation of revolutionary writings. When the police agents pre sented themselves at the domicile of 11. Malczewski to secure his person, they found that he had absconded the night before. They seized his papers, and discovered among them a letter, not signed, in which M. Malczewski was informed that he would be arrested on the following morning. Inquiries were made, and it was ascertained that the handwriting was that of a bookseller of Posen, M. Zupanski, a native of Greece. The latter denied it at first, but as he declined to do so on oath he was carried to prison. There he confessed having written the letter, but obstinately refused to tell how he knew that an arrest warrant had been issued against M. Malczewski. In the meantime, however, the President of the Administration of the Grand Duchy, having heard that M. de Valentini was very intimate with M. Zupanski, ordered him to be likewise arrested, and he confessed having told 11.1. Zupanski in confidence that he had received the warrant in question. Although M. Zupanski had refused to disclose the name of his in former, he was nevertheless set at liberty. The pro ceedings against the chief of the police are conducted with the greatest activity. When concluded, the re ports will be forwarded to the Supreme Court, sitting at Berlin, to which delinquent functionaries of the higher order are amenable. The offence of M. de Valentini is denominated in our laws an abuse of confidence towards the Government, and is punished by hard labour for a limited period, or for life, according to circumstances." TILE BOURSE—SATURDAY, AUGUST 24. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French Five DerCsnts•••••• 120 15 .. 120 20 120 10 .. 120 15 Four per Cents.. - 104 45 !! 1 21, 35,:: 1 93 $ s 1 93 SR Bank of rcalice 3042 50 .•3042 50 .•3057 50 .•3037 50 Latlitta Bank, 5,000 t. Sharesso6o ..5660 5060 • .5060 Spanish Passive 51 .. 51 .. 51 .• 51 Portuguese live per Cents.. 44 .. 44 Neupolltau •• • .. 98 .. 98 RAILWAY SHARES. .. 44 .. 98 .. 44 • . 98 St. Germain .....• 875 .. 875 .. 875 .. 875 Versailles, ... 367 50 • • 370 . • 367 50 .. 370 228 75 .. 231 25 .. 228 75 .. 231 25 Rotten . . .. 950 .. 955 .. 950 .. 955 Rouen to Havre•..• ..... .• 725 .. 727 50 .. 725 .. 726 25 Orleans •........ 945 .. 948 75 .. 943 75 .• 948 75 Strasburg to . . 236 25 .. 238 75 .. 236 25 .. 233 75 Avignon to Marseilles•. 740 .. 741 25 . 740 .. 741 25 RAILWAY SHARES FOR THE ACCOUNT, 31sT OF AUGUST. Ver sallies, R.ll. L. 8.. . 230 .. 237 50 .. 230 .. 237 50 Rouen 945 .. 955 .. 945 .. 955 Rouen to Havre Orleans ................... 940 .. 955 .. 940 .. 955 Strasburg to 8a1e.......... 237 50 .. 238 70 . 237 50 .. 238 75 Avignon to Marseilles THIS DAY'S NEWS. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. The following is the conclusion of the telegraphic dispatch, dated Marseilles, the 22d inst., published in the Moniteur of yesterday : " We gained a most complete victory. " Our infantry, which stood most firmly, and a little lot of our cavalry fought with the utmost bravery. They successively captured all the camps, which covered a space of upwards of a league in extent. " Eleven pieces of artillery, 16 stand of colours, 1,000 to 1,200 tents, among which was that of the Emperor's son, his parasol, the insignia of his com mand, all his personal baggage, a considerable quan tity of warlike stores, and an immense booty, remained in our power. " The enemy left about 800 killed on the field of battle. Our losies, although severe, are light -when we consider the importance of the battle, which we will call the battle of Isly." Our Madrid letter of the 19th has the following:— M. Mon has formally disclaimed the intention at tributed to him of pushing his threatened New Three per Cents. into the markets of London, Paris, and Amsterdam. He has given official assurances to the British Minister that the new tituios shall not be issued in a form which would ren der them negotiable abroad, but pledges himself to restrict their operation to the Spanish market by ren dering them payable only at Madrid. The Heralclo states that the French had destroyed, in their course towards Larache, all the Moorish towns situate on the coast. The Ottoman fleet was still at Beyrout on the 25th ult.—Times. VISIT OF THE KING OF THE FRENCH TO TUE QUEEN.—There is now no doubt that the contemplated visit of his Majesty the King of the French to the Queen has been postponed for about a month, if it be not alto gether abandoned. The middle of October, however, is now mentioned as the probable period for the arrival of the French monarch in England. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, with a portion of the infant Royal Family, are expected to set out on their marine excursion between tho sth and the 9th proximo. Tile precise day for the departure of the Court from Windsor Castle has not yet been finally determined upon. Her Majesty is not expected to be absent from Windsor Castle more than a fortnight or three weeks. It is considered very probable that her Majesty and the Prince Consort will visit Claremont for a day or two previously to proceeding to the Isle of Wight.—Post. _ Viscount Alford has vacated the Earl of Ripon's mansion in Carlton-gardens, the term of his Lordship's occupancy having expired. The President of the Board of Control, with the Countess of Ripon and family, have removed there from Upper Grosvenor-street. The Dowager Lady Blantyre and the lion. Misses Stuart have- arrived at their seat in Scotland, from town. Lord Arth ur L ennox , C o l one l C am pb e ll, an d a se , .ect party, have been enjoying the sports of the season at Pcnrhyn Castle, the seat of the Hon. Colonel Pen nant, M.P. in Wales. Lord and Lady Holland removed from Florence to Naples last month. her ladyship was confined in the Neapolitan capital on the Bth inst., of a daughter, still born. Lord and Lady Grantley and the Honouourable G. C. Norton, M.P., and family, have been placed in mourning by the demise of their relative, Sir Niel Men zies, of Castle Menzies, on Tuesday last, Sir Niel having married in 1816 the eldest daughter of the late lion. Fletcher Norton, and sister to Lord Grantley, and which lady he survived. • The Batavier steamer is ashore at the mouth of the Spye, on the Dutch coast, where she has been since Tuesday last ; and the Havre steam-packet is also ashore in the old Maase. Both have discharged their cargoes into lighters. MONEY AND COMMERCIALNE WS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The Cotton Market at Liverpool had a dull appear ance on Saturday, but a fair business was done. Sales 5,000 bales, including 1,400 for export. The sales in Railway Shares were as follows :—Birmingham and Glou cester, 106; Chester and Holyhead, 61; Eastern Coun ties, 11a; Grand Junction, New Quarters, 391; Lancas ter and Carlisle, 61 ; Liverpool and Manchester New, 344; London and Birmingham, 222; Ditto 321. Shares, 37k; North British,* Sheffield and Manchester, Quar ters, 13- 1 4 ; South-Eastern, 371; Trent Valley 921 ; York and North Midland, 37k; Paris and Lyons, 21. 9s. 6d. It will be perceived, from an advertisement in this day's Sun, that the largest sale of foreign provisions yet announced is to take place on the 4th proximo, and the result of which will tend to test more accurately than has hitherto been the case, the real operations of the new tariff. It is a monster sale, and the great object of the importers is to force a home consumption for American provision, and to remove the prejudice which has hitherto ex isted. A new feature of offering the bulk offered, duty paid, will afford the trade and public generally a better idea of the nature of the provision to be put up to auc tion than has hitherto been the case ; in fact, the desire on the other side to force sales of provisions generally is so urgent, that the restrictive duty that still exists will be met by the merchants by a corresponding reduc tion in the price on this side—hence the first essay by the sale in question. By the arrival of the London line•of•packet ship Prince Albert, and the Liverpool packet Europe, from New York, papers of the Ist inst. have been received, but they are only one day later than the former accounts, and do not contain any news of importance. Stocks were better. There was very little alteration in quota tions, but that little shows au improvement. No alteration in the rate of exchange is quoted, and not much doing. There is very little going forward in Cotton in New York, or any of the Southern markets. The last erep has nearly all been received and disposed of, but "Jonathan" complains most bitterly that in the exports a large in crease has occurred, while the cash receipts have dimi- nished. The Consol Market opened with firmness this morning, the price for the Account being 99, for Money the same. Now the quotations are i per cent. lower. The Un funded Debt is in demand at 755. premium. Bank Stock is at 1991• South Sea Stock at 1141 - ; and the New Three -anti-a-Half per Cents. have receded to 1011, after having touched 1011. The Government brokers bought Consols at 99. In Spanish Stock not a single bargain has been quoted to-day. The French Three per Cents. have been done at 80. The Dutch Bonds have varied but a shade. Old Portuguese are at 80k, and the Converted Bonds has improved to 44i ; Deterred Chilian wore at 52 ; and Mexican at 3511. The fluctuations in the Railway Shares have been very constant, but with slight changes in value. The Great Western, and the Birmingham and Gloucester, have improved. In most of the others prices have re ceded. The Provincial Bank of Ireland have realised 19:1 premium, and Union of London, 2 prem. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Bank 5t0ck..„..... ”.•,,. 0000000 •••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 199% 3 per Cent. Redu c ed Annuities ........ 99%34 3 per Cent. Consols. Annuities 99 98% 356 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 102%4 New 356 per Cent. Annuities.......... ............ Long Annuities, Expire Mil Jan. 1860 1250 Ditto 30 Years, Expire 10th Oct. 1859 Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan. 1860. 124 India Stock South Sea Stock 114% Bank Stock for Account ... 198% Consols for Account ....... ............ .......... ....... 99 98% Exchequer Bills, • 13id. 130. ' • ' 1,000/. - Ditto Smail Ditto Advertised FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Chilian Bonds, 6 per Cent - Ditto Deterred 5l Danish Bonds, 1825, 3 per Cent. 69 Mexican Bonds, 1 837, 5 per Cent ... ......... Ditto for the Account. 35% Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent. Ditto for the Account French Rentes, 3 per Cent Exchange Dutch 254 per Cents 61%4 Dutch 5 per Cents 100%% New Loan. 5 per Cents. (1837) PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. KAILWAYEI. PAID. Pea SHAM Birmingham and Gloucester Ditto New Bristol and Exeter 7O BO 81 ... to 80 Chester and Holyhead ......... ...... 5 Dublin and Cashel...". ........ ... 234 76% ... to 7 % Eastern Counties ..... ..." ... ...... .. 23 Ditto New Registered Si. 6s Bd. Ditto Perpetual 5 per cent l3s. 4d.... 1 Ditto Ditto (No. 2) Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O ..... .... (6)4 Great North of England Great Western Ditto % Shares ........... .......... 50 ......... 83 Hull and Selby London and Birmingham. lOO 219 Ditto New Thirds London and Blackwall... ......... ... 16% ...... 7% London and Brighton 5O 48% London and Greenwich London and South Western ..... 41% London and Croydon Lynn and Ely Manchester and Leeds 7O 124 to Ditto 34 Shares 3O -. 53 Manchester and Birmingham ... 40 ......... 54 Midland Counties Birmingham and Derby........... 100 North British 256 ...... 33( % 1 % ... to Norwich and Brandon South Eastern and Dover ..... Ditto New 'Voir ilittgath y Wand i n IL _ ti, , r ,,, .SZ/ •.....••1,3 7‘ LO I vii - Ditto Scarboro' Branch Paris and Lyons Paris and Orleans 2O .........37 - JOINT STOCK SANK& Provincial of Ireland. Union of London PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, Ana. 24. • 3 ,per Cent. Consols 9/ Three and a Half Stock Ditto New, 1830 lOl 3% per Cent. Debentures 93% Bank Stock 204 Grand Canal Debentures, 6 per Cent Royal Canal Stock — 4 per Ccnt. Ballast Office Debentures — 4 per Cent. City Debentures ... LAST PRICES OF SHARES. RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE. Dublin and K. Road • 100 Drogheda Ditto.. Dublin and Cashel ditto Hibernian Bank 25% Royal Bank National Insurance 25 Patriotic ditto Mining Company of Ireland.... '7 Wicklow Copper Mines City of Dublin Steam Company ...... 100 Ditto Ditto 5O Ditto Difto, 1836 .... British and Irish Steam Company ... 50 Steam Ship Building Company MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, AUG 24.—We have had less business doing to-day, and the market is somewhat flatter.—Blackburn, Burnley, and Accrington, .2 3 . ; Caledonian, 41 ; Churnet Valley, 3s. prem. ; Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester, 28s. 9d. prem. ; London and Birmingham, 324 shares, 38 ; London and Brighton eighths, lle. 3d. prem. ; Manchester and Leeds, quarter, Ili ; Manchester and Liverpool District Bank, 10k. LLOYDS SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY LONDON, AUG. 2G.—Wind, westerly, fresh breeze, and cloudy. DEAL, AUG. 25.—Wind, A.m., W.N.W. to N.W. ; P.M., N.W. by W., moderate.—Sld. Conservative and Unicorn, Ichaboe ; Countess Kerr, Belize ; Mary and Jane, New York ; Lockwood, Quebec ; Lady Caroline, St. John's ; Tagus (steamer), and Caster, Constanti nople ; Rival, Newfoundland. PORTSMOUTH, AuG. 25.—Wind N. to N.N.W.—Arrd. Prince Albert, Sebor, New York, sailed 2d inst., and proceeded for London ; Vernon, London for Madras. Ski. Roslin Castle, Quebec. COWES, AUG. 24.—Arrd. Thetis, Weild, Bahia, out 53 days ; Abbe Baker, Pratt, Havannah. Sld. Halifax Packet, Swan River ; Warsaw, New York. PLYMOUTH, AUG. 25. —Wind N.W.—Sld. Caledonia, New Zealand. Off, George, Carlson, New Orleans for G ottenburg. FALMOUTH, AUG. 25.—Wind N.N.W., fresh breeze. —Arrd. Lord Saumerez, Budd, Ichaboe. SWANSEA, Auc. 24.—Sld. Alderman PiHe, Cuba. YARMOUTH, Auc. 23.—Arrd. Lady Combermere, Cook, Quebec. lartwrcu, Auc. 25.—The Caroline, Bakman, from Memel to Rotterdam, was brought in here to-day, aban doned, and waterlogged. PETERHEAD, AUG. 22.—The Glasgow, from London to Inverness, in working out of the bay, got on the rocks this morning, but afterwards came off and pro ceeded. CORK, AUG. 23.—Off, Eliza Ann, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Zanoni, Dalhousie, and both sailed for Liverpool. Sid. Emerald, Pugwash ; Cornelius, Quebec. Arrd. Eden and Lord Boddington, London for Bengal. HULL, Auc. 24.—Arrd. Earl of Holderness, Wan derer, Charles William, and Harriet, Miramichi; Ross, Quebec. 25. Black Boy, St. John's, New Brunswick. RANSGATE, AUG. 24.—The Lady Mount Stewart, from London to Dublin, sailed hence this morning, and got ashore on the Groin on the West Pier Head, but came off on the tide, very leaky, and is now at anchor at the Black Buoy. The Emma, from Christiania, which put in here on the 18th instant, is discharging, being very leaky. LIVERPOOL, Au°. 24.—Wind,variable and light.-25 th. N.W. to W.N.W. light.—Arrived Europe, Furbee, New York ; Margaret, Cunie, Honduras. Sld. Edward Powis and Charles Jones, China ; Nith, Calcutta ; Palanquin, Bombay ; George, Mauritius ; Ellen, Cape of Good Hope ; Naiad, Gloucester ; Junius and Universe, Ichaboe ; Frisk, Bahia ; Nightingale, Pernambuco ; Isabella, Demerara ; It. I. Haynes, Barbadoes ; Lanca shire Witch, Jamaica ; Ana, Havannah ; Frances, Ma deira ; Ocean and Glendower, Charleston ; Yarmouth, Philadelphia ; Alabama and Ontario, Bath ; George, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Sir C. Napier, St. An drew's ; Conqueror, Pacific ; Lewick, The Duke, Eleanor, Calcutta ; and Chieftain, Quebec. REPORTED MURDER AT RICIIMOND.-Thii matter has been much exaggerated ; so far from Mrs. New being dead, she was not at that time even in imminent danger. It appears that, on the afternoon of Thursday last, about five o'clock, William New went home much excited by liquor, and commenced quarrelling with his wife, who is now far advanced in pregnancy. In a fit of passion he struck her a blow in her left side with some sharp instru ment, inflicting a deep wound, about an inch long. The screams of Mrs. New brought in some of her neighbours, upon which her husband effected his escape. Mr. Lomas, a surgeon, of Richmond, was sent for, who examined the wound, and pronounced it to be a flesh-wound, and not dangerous. Lady Fox and family, and Baron Nabuiz, were among the passengers that landed at Blackwall Pier yes terday morning, from the General Steam Navigation Company's mail packet Columbine, that left Rotterdam the previous day. The Columbine brought the Dutch mail. Sir Robert Peel left his residence in Whitehall gardens on Saturday eveni ng , f o r hi s sea t, Drayton Manor, Staffordshire. MARKET NEWS-(THIS DAY.) CORN-EXCHANGE—MONDAY. The arrivals of all kinds of Grain, of home produce during the past week have been only moderate for the time of year ; but the imports of Ferign Wheat, Barley; and Oats have been extensive. Fresh up to-day we received a full average supply of Wheat, coastwise:as well as b 1 land carriage and sample, at least three-fourths of wh ich were of the present year's growth, and of very superi° l ; quality. There was rather an extensive number 0 : buyers in attendance, while the sale for new Engl ism Wheat was steady at fully last week's pric e* or from 53s to 588 per quarter : but, with other kinds of wheat the trade ruled heavy, at, in We s ! transactions, a decline in the quotations of ls. P er quarter, and a clearance of such was not effected. Ther e was a very large quantity of free Foreign Wheat offer ing. The demand for that description of grain was in I/ very sluggish state, and prices had, in some instances , I downward' tendency. There was scarcely a sample :t English Barley at market ; but the supply , of free 0; reign was good. The Barley trade ruled inactive,l e we have no variation to notice in the quotations. 1 . 1 , 1 .: bast Ware Malt was quite as dear. In other kinds supply of Wheat was good ; next to nothing was doll The display of Oat samples was not large ; yet, the ss for that article was inactive, at late rates. Old Bea°, a ere in demand at 2s per quarter more money. other kinds very little was doing. The sale for Peas we i steady, at is per quarter advance on last week's rate The Flour trade was heavy, at barely late rates. P" Seeds very little was doing. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. WURAT—Essex & Kent, thlata—Chevalier.... 63s to° red 42a to 528 ' Oars—Yorkshire . anti .„, Ditto, white Norfolk and Lin- Potatoe . ............... 25s SG coin, red 39s to 468 Ditto white 4os to 53s Irish, red 47s to 508 Ditto white Rva—Old 2ss to 33s New 368 to 3881 BARLEY—Grinding 23s to 278 Malting Chevalier 328 to 35e MALT—Suffolk and Nor folk 568 to 62. Brown 50s to 54s Kingston and Ware 568 to 62s FOREIGN GRAIN AIS WintaT—Danteic 4.9 s to 56s Hamburgh 36s to 40. BARLEY 3os to 53s OATS—New Feed l4B to lds Youghall and Cork, iff black Cork, white Scotch, feed ..... 2ls is /Bums—Tick. .... t° sfo Pigeons t° tO" PEAS— Grey 316 Maple ...... t° ,. White Boilers,.„,"„„ FLOUR—Town made „ 4 45 to o Suflo'k ...... t O 3O Stockton & N orfo lk 33s w ID FLOUR IN BOND. ~,gfA 'BEANS •••••••••••••••••••••••• 9 ° . Pg&a 2 511 °0; F L ow t —American Baltic SATILTICIPIELD. Compared with that exhibited on this day the supply of Beasts was somewhat numerous. . nc l weather being rather favourable for slaughtering. the attendance of buyers good, the Beef trade, pur t ' te o larly with the primest Scots, runts, &c., was stead)" , , prices quite equal to those obtained last week. Il e ,. ever, a total clearance was not effected till a late h° i w ch We had on sale only six Oxen from Rotterdam, 01,00 met a heavy sale at from 171 103 to 1815 s each. . cts arrrival of Beasts from our northern grazing disn, consisted of about 1,000 short-horns. Those from NoP — i s Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire, comprised 500 Se°,, and homebreds ; from the western and midland couutl' o f 500 Herefords, Devons, runts, &c., from other pare England, 300 of various breeds, and from Scotlautlf,',o horned and polled Scots. The numbers of sheep _ again extensive. Prime old Downs, which were ran d scarce, produced full prices ; but the value of °r i ii breeds arising from a heavy demand was with dill l supported. Very little business was transacted in q t y. the supply of which was tolerably good, at about 5 4 tionary prices. Calves met a heavy inquiry at bl° late rates. In Pigs very little was doing. Per Sibs, t o sink the . s Si to s. aid d. L a.4 0 ;4 Inferior Beasts 2 6 2 8 Second qualitydltte... 3 2 5 / Second quality ditto 2lO 3 4 Coarse-woolled ditto.. 8 6 4 / Prime large Oxen 3 6 3 S Southdown Wethers 3lu Prime Scots, &c. Large coarse Calves 3 4 310 Large Hogs 3 0 ir Prime small ditto 4 0 4 6 Small Porkers 9 8 Suckling Calyes, each 16 0 33 0 Quarter oldPigs,eachl6 0 ' Inferior Sheep,. 2 8 3 0, Lambs 3 8 - t .. SUPPLY AT MARKET. • 906%tA - -800 36 , Sheep. 1 I Calves 146 . I no' 5 I NEWDATE AND MDZILDMNHA.Z I .• h es The arrivals of country-killed Meat up to t" markets during the past week have been only to mited extent, but of fair average quality. The suPpo slaughtered in the metropolis have been by no p O lll B , extensive, yet they have proved quite equal to %info', wants of the buyers. Prime Beef, Mutton, and. JO have sold steadily at full prices. In all other 1;409 Meat very little business has been doing, yet Pre rates have been supported. At per stone, by the Carcase. to y f s. d. to s. d. s. 9 1 Beef, Inferior.... ..... 2 6 2 3 Mutton, inferior ..... 2 - middling ..... 210 30 - 0 I --prime large "... 3 2 3 4 - prime 6 Pi prime 5ma11.... 3 4 3 6 Pork, 2 g 9 ' Veal ..... 3 4 4 4 -small ..... 3 Lamb, 3s rid to 4a 6d. ARRIVALS DURING THE PAST WEEK. Beasts. Sheep. Calves. 52 3 100 -- 45 8 84 1 0 20 -- 10 Scotland Yorkshire Norfolk Suffolk — Cambridgeshire. Essex Surrey ****** ... 000000000000000 ...... 2O 140 100 gil Devonshire fal Wiltshire Other parts -.. 50 40 '...-' 290 670 Dlfitrence since our last. l5 527 260 V7OOl. MARKET. • shit One of the principal features we have to notice Je d fct market is a considerable improvement in the demulL.,o all descriptions of British Wool, and a trifling advs-rbo the quotations of that article. This improvensetoyerf been principally caused by the increased activity improvement where apparent in the manufacturing districts, us w oof to the improvement in our export trade. Altbott o f of the large flock-masters have withheld the bu 5 01te present year's clip from the market for the preseetl,o o the impression that prices will, ere long, rule higher ' 1 : 0 0 present, the supplies in London are quite as ext ens f l ool has been observed at the corresponding periods ° Oil past seasons. From this it is evident that the 0 31 . 0 1 ° Wool this year has been extremely hurt "a t tO very superior quality. It is estimated that, the past week not less than 28,000 fleeces have b in London, and transmited to Manchester Sp e , b ok,' places. About 10,000 of this was flannel and the remainder combing and Down Hoge, far as the future value of wool is concerned we be ob:, of opinion that, though a slight advance MO.' JO, tamed in it, the improvement will not, for to e poor t supplies, exceed that at present noticed. Soutil if ,7, Hoggits may now be quoted at ls Id to is 2d; 11$ ts 1„; ditto, is 2id to Is 3d; Kent Fleeces, Hid t t ° , l to Flannel Wool, loid to is Id; Blanket ditto, 6 1,"torl i f Swinton Fleeces, Ilid to Is id per lb. The eev,,,ess,' abolition of the duty is clearly exemplified by tbe •07 1 importations of wool. It will be remembered thsr, weeks since, the largest public sales of cole °l 7, , 1 114 ever held in this country took place, yet tiv-a r t f j ` t g whole of the parcels brought forward, asiou° s; It o about 25,000 bales, were disposed of at full Pri ce t is.P, d # this, too, with the prospect of other auctions r 5 - 1 • 9 01( large. The importations of wool from our Atl i si t boi s .A colonies during the present year, have exceeded f or e fo reS, last by about 17,000 packages, while those °' o be r / have somewhat declined. It is gratifying, t ° that the Colonial Wool now comes to band al 6 t5 improved condition. Formerly, great cornPla i . e „ 3 le l 7o made as to false packing, but now scarcely a Ebel comes to hand in that state; hence all classes ° „ c lilo are exhibiting more confidence in effecting r O 4 During the past week, about 2,000 bales have vecte tore imported from New South Wales, which, add e lf ini r li previous arrivals undisposed of, causes the sto e ' o f 1 1 4 , 1 , house to exceed 24,600 bales, a large portiou, e 0 oo t will be submitted to public competition about tu b 6 o ,l of September. Of Foreign Wool the imPor ts - 0 1 exceeded 700 bales. The quotations of Aue r ' ; 5 ,t now range from 9d to 2s 10d ; of Cape, 7 d tc ! is Spanish, Is 4d to is 10d ; of German, is 9d t° pound. BOROUGH AND SPITAZInsi. --- otoo- ,tt • ,„ The supplies of Potatoes are still confined . ceived from the neighbourhood of the metroPellsWasi quality is very good, and the prices paid vary to 6/. per ton. BOROUGH NOP PTA.NSX I r; pfa ce tls Although the Hops have made some litt.el)e 01: 15 ` , during the week, they being mostly in burr in. t o of the plantations, the accounts are still cons% is i f i t : j of favourable, owing to which the demand here We t o at full prices. The duty is called P 5,000/ 71 5 1 tt 0, Kent pockets, 614 s to 61 12s ; Mid Kent di tt ,, ° 'iee 7; 0 0 91 18s; East Kent ditto, 7/ 5s to 91 49 ; Lifid 10/ to 1t 1 1 ls; Sussex ditto, 61 2s to 6l 1 05 ; bags, 71 to 81 5 s. , TALLOW MARKET. 0 9 r•i" The market is firm, and the wee kly delire rl li e sa re proving, the weather bein g f avoura ble for O to t and . the demand fully equal to th e supply, s e A f o r. duction in the price of Town Tallow is lool ce ' fr 10 1 TAILORS' BENE VOLEN .) • u •oti TUTION.—(THIS - t svo r ot The half-yearly meeting of this excelle ° rot pas was held this morning at the Freernasca Ir . ren ale tor 4 ' web Queen-street. Mr. Cutler, one of the I) ! tu tioUtiti called to the chair. He stated that the Ins 5 not 100 0 0 had been established only eight years' 7 1 001 ° Os; flourishing condition ; that forty-six ag e o f 89 5- e. supported by the Society, at an outlay „ In be lo w several of whom are residents in the usY,.„'h a pri fo ati s to the Institution at Haverstock-hill. 11 0 " - o f the j form the meeting that the increased sla t° ; o pera , ' oo or admitted the election of five other Perisi,e an 6 t , additional cost of 1041, which would tea" wo uld r e outlay of 9954 145., the election of wh,l tis iness ° place after the transaction of the gener al f meeting. he rep ort 01) The SECRETARY read the half-yearly ri n e rs es tli Directors, which congratulated the subsc e arn _ e o' continued ' prosperity of the Institution, , u t i: an d VIVO_ called upon them to continue to sup po r t _ s ti e deavour to induce others to become sub_ r no . ; b ° t o ll pensioners had died since the last 'pee :l3 ;oe% A ye Directors had pleasure in adding, that thF L t hea ltrt t os asylum were in the enjoyment of ex , celie l 4, r etfgilf were satisfied with their condition. hey . 1 0 'f exr 1,40 two they p had er so nb e s— en a ui m id a e n r t a h n e d the • they were compelled to do so, otherw con wilL rb ., p l, al f il e t 1 The receipts at the last festival amount racier of the Society would have bee e n, to so J° raw., sum as 7551. 13s. Bd. of the r e r - ilor• frnoen2ceissteshietyasyitrerb; Mr. Myer moved the adoption _ quo to was seconded by Mr. James, a Punic. , n tere g th e /. o carried unanimously. . q na ture t iou ° h transacted, us and the meetinguni esetg proc a Oter biness of an the five pensioners. to the elee Total Bl 583 Previous week's arrival ..... The Marseilles journals e—nti—on a rep ort:00 111 Toulon that a telegraphic dispatch had t:obeenooo4l ot there, ordering preparations for the ev 18,000 men for Algeria.