The Sun. — London, England, 1844-08-17 00:00:00

PARIS, VIA BOULOGNE. THE New Commercial Steam Company's superior steam ships leave London-bridge Wharf, weather permitting, every Sunday, Tuesday, and Friday, according to tide. EMERALD, Sunday, August 18, at One morning. CITY OF BOULOGNE, Tuesday, August 20, at Two morning. CITY OF BOULOGNE, Friday, August 23, at Six morning. EMERALD, Sunday, August 25, at Eight morning. The advantages to the public by a direct communication between London and Boulogne are—a great saving of expenses, particularly to families having luggage. which is at once put on board the vessel five of wharfage, and landed at its destination without being liable to loss or damage from removals by trains or otherwise, and the ac commodation afforded to passengers in the above vessels, by having private cabins for ladies, as well as excellent sleeping berths. The distance from port to port is frequently done within, ten, and seldom exceeds twelve hours. Offices, Fish-street-hill ; Mr. Harris, 8, Water-lane, Great Tower• street ; and Chaplin's Universal-office, Regent-circus. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. LAST NIGHT OF THE SUBSCRIPTION. (By Special Desire.) THIS EVENING, AUG. 17, will be performed Bellini's celebrated Odcra, _ I PURITAN'. Elvis, Madame Grisi; Giorgio, SignoiLablache; Arturo, Signor Mario; and Riccardo, Signor Fornasari. Between the Acts the admired Ballet Divertissement, entitled LE DELIRE D'UN PEINTRE. ...... . Stephano, M. Perrot; Blanche D'Oviedo, Mdlle. Fanny Elssier. To conclude with a selection from the admired Ballet l:livertisse. went LA VI V ANDIERE. La Vivandiere, Mdlle. Cerito. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box Cffice, Opera Colonnade. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE It is respectil;liy announced that ONE FAREWELL NIGHT will be given on TUESDAY NEXT, AUG. 20, When will be performed Rossini's Opera (compressed into One Act), IL BARBIERE M SIVIGLIA. • Characters by Madame Grill', Signor Mario, Signor Lablache, Sig nor F. Lablache, and SignorFornasari. The National 'Antheni will be sung by the who!e strength of the Operatic Force of the Company. To be followed by the Last Scene from Donizetti's Opera, LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR. Edgardo, Signor Moriani. _ After which, the Third 'Act of Rossini's Opera, LA CENERENTOLA. In the course of the Evening, UNE BAL SOUS LOUIS XIV. In which will be introduced a variety of Dances and Pas de Carac :ere. Mdlle. Fanny Elsaler will appear as a Cavalier of the Court of Louis XIV., and wall dance with Mdlle. Cerito the admired " Minuet de la Cour and Gavotte." To which will be added , Selections from LA ESMERALDA. Ia Esmeralda, Mdlle. Fanny ; Phoebus de Chateaupers, M. St. Leon; Pierre Oringoire, M. Perrot. To conclude with Selections from the Ballet entitled ALMA ; ou, La Fille du Feu. Principal Dancers—Mdlle. Cerito, M. St. Leon, and M . Perrot. . . Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and'ilckets to be made at the Box ofßce, Opera-colonnade. Doors open at Seven ; the Opera will com mence at Half -past Seven. THEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM, LATE ENGLISH. OPERA HOUSE. Under the Management of Mis. KEELEY. Another great Achievement Successfully TriumFhant 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. 17. 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 teeters by Mrs. Keeley, Messrs. F. Matthews, Turner, A. Wigan, J. W. Collier, and Keeley; Mist Woolgar, Mrs. Woolli ige, Miss E. Chaplin, Mrs. A. Wigan, Miss Turner, Mi s James; Miss Carson, Miss Hunt, Miss Reede, &c., &c. PRICES OF A I)MlSSlON.—Balcony Boxes. di.; Upper Boxes, 35.; Pit 2.5.'3 Gallery, 6d. Second Price—Balcony Boxes, 2s. ; Upoer Boxes, Is. ed.; Pit, Is. Private Boxes on the Balcony Tier (holding eight persons), Two Guineas. Private Boxes on the Second Tier (holding eight persons), One Guinea and a-Half. Private Boxes on the Pit nee (holding six persons), One Guir es. The Box-office is open from Ten to Four o'Clock, under the direc tion of Mr. Grogan, late of Covent-garden Theatre. Under the especial Patronage of h-r Majesty the Queen, and Prince Albert, and henourd by the presence of His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, Prince Mecklenburgh Sti elitz, and distin— guished assemblage of Nobility. Triumphant Success of ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. BATTY. THIS EVENING, AUG. 17, Will be repeated an entire new Eluestrian, Military and Naval Spectacle, entitled THE CHINESE WAR; or, The Conquests of Amoy by British Arms. New Scenery, Messes, Appointments, &c., to realise the recent triumphs of England's Army and Navy. Feast of 250 Lanterns. Splendid acts of Horsemanship.—The Dance of the Polka. To conclude with THE GREAT STEEPLE-CHASE; or, Eng. land's Hirvest Home. Mr. BATTY respectfully acquaints the Nobility, Gentry, and the Public, that having just returned from the Continent ; and, notwith standing his present unprecedented success and overflowing houses, be is ever anxious to produce novelty, to render this Establishment pre-ensinent, and the first in Europe for its unequalled and extra. ordinary productions, he has succeeded in forming arrangements with the following first-rate French Artistes, in addition to his present Talented Corps of British and Foreign Equestrians :—Madame Lexette, Madame Heline, Madame Philipe, M. Pierre, M. Georges, and M. Ferdinand Scmidt, from the Circle Olympique, Paris, Ham_ burgh, &c., and who will appear in their various and novel Scenes of Equitation. Acting and stage.mAnager, Mr. W. D. Broadfook Box-office open from Eleven till Five. Lessons in the Art of Riding by Mr. R. Smith. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE Last Seven Nights of the Grand Opera Company—Second Week of Cinderella. and an entirely New Piece. tven - _ THIS EVENING, AUG. 17, Will be performed Rossini's Fairy Opera of CINDERELLA ; or, The Little Glass Slipper. Supported by Miss Roraer, Miss Betts, Miss E. Terry, Miss Pearson, Messrs. D. W. King, Leffler, E. L. Rime, S. Cowe'l, R. Honner, &c. Conductor, Mr. G. Stansbury, with double Band and Chorw. To conclude with THE:QUAKER. Lubin, Mr. E.. L Hime ; steady, Mr Leffler; Gilli in, Miss Betts. Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box office, from Eleven to Four. STRAND THEATRE'. rins EVENING, AUG. 17, Will be performed MARTIN CH UZZLEWI I% Young Martin Chuzzlewit, Mr. Rance; Old Martin Chuzzlewit, Mr. Ayliffe; Jonas Chuzziewit, Mr AttwoOd; Montague Tigg, Mr. Roberts; Tom Pinch, Mr. Biddies; Mr. Peckaniff, and Mrs. Sairey Gann), Mr. H. Hall; Mary Grabam, Mrs. Coleman Pope. After which, a New and Original Burlesque, entitled THE WON 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 FOOT At a Bobby Breabowiu., Mr. Attwoou; roily ricnic, miss uartcr. _ ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. On MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, and THURSDAY, throughout the Season, the Gardens will open with the following attractive Novelties : THE PICTURESQUE GROUNDS—FEEDING OF THE ANIMALS- - -UNRIVALLED MENAGERIE. ilioDEi.i . oiTEicf and LONDON in the OLDEN TIME, Painted by Danson and Telbin. The sensation caused by this unrivalled production Is beyond all former ptecedent ; the artist, the amateur, the casual observer are all struck with its extraordinay beauty and fidelity of delinea. tion,,wd ,re unanimous in pronouncing it the most wonderful ex hibition ever witnessed. To view it only as a vehicle for the terrific display at Dusk is unjust; it should be seenin the calm stillness of the quiet Evening, with its Towers and Steeples reflected in the spa cious Lake, to be fully appreciated. The Evening PROMENADE CONCERTS on Mon:litys, Tues. days, Wednesdays, and Thursdays conuucted Uy Mr. Godfrey, are upon a scale of more than usual excellence; but words fail in doing justice to the awful representation of THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON. Its fearful characteristics are truthfully pourtrayed, but at the same time ao beautifully blended with the Wonders of the Pyrotechnic Art, mat delight is predominant over terror; and the Thousands who nightly crowd the Gardens hail it with acclamations, and admit that tiouthby, the Unrivalled Pyrotechnist has achieved a matchless triumph. The dardens and Zoological Collection are in the most perfect state, dud combining so many and interesting features, are by far the most attractive lounge in or near the wetro,solis. Doors open at Nine—Feeding of the Animals at Half-past Four — Concert at Half-past Five.—Conflagration at Dusk. Admittance, One Shilling. EGYPTIAN HALL, PICCADILLY. IMPORTANT NOTICE. ONE SHILLING Admission to THE NAPOLEON MU SEUM, the most magnificent and extensive Collection of Histo rical Curiosities and Works of Art ever known to have been formed by One Person, during Twenty-five years of*elaborate research, at a cost of 60,000 guineas, and to completely illustrate, iii the most in atracttve and interesting manner, the most important part of Euro history, viz.—CHARLES 1., OLIVER CROMWELL. and MIS 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 Family, the Duke of Wellington, the Foreign Princes, Ambassadors, and their Ladles, *lse, many thousands of the Nobility and Public ; and the Pro prietor has recently been able to hr.:tease, by several very fine Ipictures, &c., his previous almo st incredible number and variet y of gg„ Works of Art, and a multitude 'tt valuable Relict, and other cur i o siticq, in this most utstructive and, as hundreds have said it ought to be, a National M.zseum. Mary thousand have Inspected it, and THIRTY PRINCIPAL EDITORS ol the PUBLIC PRESS have stated that it ough to be.seen by every one. The price of admis tion is reduced to ONE SHILLING. The NAPOLEON MUSEUM is to be seen only at the' Egyptian flail." Piccadilly, daily ft om Tea till Dusk, THE WEATHER.—SuN OFFICE, Auc. 17. razamoxtETEß, Lowest, 58; Highest, 70; Noon, 66. BARMINIIER, .N.W. NOTE.—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the reezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is usually placed opposite 30, and rain at 29. HIGII WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE TUTS DA Y. Morning ... 46 minutes after 3 f Evening ... 5 minutes after 4 „„ gcla .. 3 ( Pi 4—L4V 1 1 4,71 r ~,.. 7 ,: Vl' all I. RA ) Yr , *l i ' . • ''i'' : 1 '8).; Tk ~,, A ' 4 •, ..41111V:s. ° 4. .r.ir/S•411111111%,‘ - . ...,. ' . 14,`,i , ,,..': ~,* ''' • • AM , e ,7• - •-, , • ~. .-1.7A1111111160..;., • •.. e ,,,, r ,„,-• V , 4, ...*".....,... , -:1(-.. , :•,-,;,„,tet.--, "A , -. 4.4 • , DIEU .li ~1,•''.".),1,...,..6....i;':.--:''' SECOND EDITION. ..,„ bion,llg LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 1844. We cannot at all comprehend the policy of LOUIS PHILIPPE and M. GUIZOT. They wish to live in peace with England—they profess that the great objects of their government are the maintenance of peace all over the world, while in almost every quarter of the globe emissaries are sent forth to ex cite disturbance. The islands of the Pacific Ocean are, at the present moment, in a state of the utmost confusion, caused by the French. The whole Medi terranean coast of Africa is up in arms against France, if we except Tunis. Egypt is in a state of the utmost uncertainty. The old brave man has given up the reins of government to his profligate son, who is sup ported by the French, and, in case of a war with England and France, he would at once declare against England. But these petty Powers on the African coast are nothing in the scale. They are mere ad juncts to the relations between France and England. The proceedings of the French in that quarter, how ever, show what is their intention. LOUIS PHILIPPE is anxious to live at peace with England, yet JOINVILLE, and BIIOUAT, and D'AUBIGNY, are doing everything in their power to excite the English people against the French. The bombardment of Tangiers is a novel feature in a period of peace, and it is the more remarkable that it takes place when the Sovereign of Prance is about to pay a friendly visit to the Queen of ENGLAND. The polic7 of the French KING encourages the opposition journals of France to excite the peo ple against England ; he is encouraging his son to attack an ally of England; he is making grot demonstrations along the Mediterranean shore, all injurious to the trade and influence of England ; yet his Government professes that their only object is to preserve the peace of the world. We are reluctant to express any unfavourable opinion of Louis PHILIPPE, but at the same time we must state that his present measures are likely to bring on an universal war, and destroy all the glo ries of his peaceful reign. The leading weekly organ of the Anti-Corn-law League has an article entitled, " The League, and its advisers," which will be found in another column of The Sun of this day—wherein the Chronicle and one or two other journals are taken to task for having presumed to offer advice unsolicited to this great na tional confederacy, and represented it as being in a declining state of health. " The League is not con vinced," says our weekly Contemporary, " by such testimony as has been offered, of its own failing strength and energy. We believe ourselves to he as vigorous as ever, and moving onwards with firm and steady pace to the accomplishment of our object." The League is right. It is as vigorous as ever, and the great principle which it espouses is as influential as ever, if not more so. True, we have no more weekly Covent garden meetings, but the good spirit is still actively at work ; and addresses, tracts, and lectures are every where contributing to enlighten the public mind. Were the object which the League professes to have in view a mere Utopian theory, like Mr. OWEN'S social system, it might possibly, when once the novelty was at an end, sink into insignificance; but the principles which it advocates are practical and business-like, and every way fitted to meet the exigencies of the day ; con sequently there is no more likelihood of its declining , in public estimation, than there is of Sir R. PEEL be coming a member of Mr. O'CoNNELL's Repeal Associa tion, or of Sir J. GRAHAM holding ii his hand a private letter of M. MAzznsfs, without a wish to open it. In truth, the League is to all intents and purposes a national confederacy. It gives expression to the one great want of this unrivalled commercial country. It walks side by side with the age, of whose wishes it is the recognised interpreter; and is repudiated, and its vast moral influence denied, by none /but the selfish, ignorant, short-sighted partisans of monopoly—an anti-national class, whose power is rapidly on the decrease, and whose theories must ere long be gathered to the extinct crotchets of other days. Already has the League been acknowledged by a potent ad versary to be a " great fact," and never, whilst England continues to be the first commercial country in the world, can it cease to be otherwise. We can scarcely imagine any concurrence of public events but such as must tend to keep it steadily on the increase, for it represents the principle of common sense—a principle which from its very nature is as indestructible as the air we breatbe—as the soul that informs us. But it is objected to the League, for sooth, that it will not enlist under the banners of Whiggery— will not accept of Lord Joins RUSSELL as a Commander-in-Chief—but will pursue an inde pendent course of action, irrespective of Whig and Tory parties ! And why should it not do so ? Why should it allow either a RUSSELL or a PEEL to clap a muzzle on its mouth—to dictate to it how it shall vote—how far it shall go—what it shall say, and what it shall not say, in Parliament ? Its great excellence in the public eye is its independence— its entire freedom of thought and action ; and were it once to forfeit this by an injudicious submission to either of the two contending political parties, from that moment it would cease to be a Power in the country. The duty of the League is so obvious that it is impossible to misapprehend or misinterpret it. It has nothing to do with Whigs or Tories, but is bound to keep solely in view the great—the para mount question of free trade. To this momentous consideration every other must be held subordinate ; and that statesman—no matter to what party he belongs—must be deemed most worthy of the support of the League, who will do the most to emancipate Commerce from the galling shackles with which she has so long been manacled. It is becoming a question of daily increasing in terest, " What limits do our Ministers intend to assign to the uncertainty, the timidity, and the vexations of their scheme of colonial government?" The very genius of mismanagement appears to have established itself in some of the bureaux in Downing-street— Tama;na Innelliqhes untior the want of coloured free labour. It is agreed, on all hands, that the only effi . . . cient course which can be taken to relieve her - from this condition of agricultural paralysis into which she has fallen, owing to the almost entire withdrawal from work of the emancipated black population, is for the Crown to sanction and encourage the immi gration of labourers accustomed to tropical heats, and exposure to the varieties of climate which these gene rate. Two plans for drafting such immigrant labour into these islands are proposed to the Colonial-office ; the one, by importing native coolies from Bengal ; the other, by inviting free Africans from the British settlement at Sierra Leone, or the countries in its vicinity, on that part of the African coast. The Colonial-office halted so long before it could bring itself to approve either the one or the other of these experiments, that the resident planters and owners in our West India Islands were compelled warmly to remonstrate on the unnecessary aggravation of their sufferings which ensued from this postponement of a remedy. The plea of difficulty in dealing with a proposition of so much novelty, was answered by reference to the fact of the successful issue of such a system of coolie immigration in the Mauritius and in Demerara. When, at length, permission to adopt it in the case of Jamaica had been coldly and tardily conceded, the permission was found to be clogged with so many obstacles and restraints and vexations, that it was almost useless to those for whose welfare it was intended. With the fortune of every other boon which Sir ROBERT PEEL'S Government has ever granted, this, also—there is too much reason to fear—will have been yielded too late. It has been so ungraciously and so long withheld, that it has not been productive, as yet, of anything like the degree of alleviation which must have been experienced from its earlier concession. But if Jamaica and other of our West Indian possessions have reason to complain of the supineness, or the wrongheadness of the Colonial Department in one particular, some of our new establishments in Australia, in the Pacific, and in parts of the world somewhat less remote, have equal grounds for considering themselves aggrieved, by a course of action on the part of the Colonial Alinister that is neither protective, nor conciliatory, nor just; but that it is calculated, on the contrary, to exhaust the energies of the colonies which it con trols, in unsupported efforts to consolidate their own strength and resources ; and to involve them in un seemly squabbles with the Government of the mother country. In this latter category we may include the noble island of Ceylon, and the important islands of New Zealand. Our present business is with the latter. In the whole history of our colonial settlements, we know of none which has been treated by the present Government—and, we must add, by its predecessors —with more of neglect and apathy at one time, more of disingenuousness and fatuity at another, than New Zealand. Neither the Government of Lord MELBOURNE, nor that of Sir ROBERT PEEL, seems to have ever made up its mind to the policy which it became this country to adopt towards these fine and improvable islands. If other States—Holland, for example—had been disposed to contest our possessory title, British Administrations seem to have gone out of their way to afford them means and opportunity for doing so, by the indifference and indecision with which, during a very long interval after the disco veries of Cooic, acting on the hints of TASMAN, they regarded all propositions for settling and cultivating these two islands of New Zealand. No jurist, we apprehend, can feel any substantive difficulty about the soundness of our preferable title to them; but Lord JOHN RUSSELL himself always appeared as disinclined to raise this preliminary question as Lord STANLEY seems to be. Why, we are at a loss to di vine. If th ese Mi n i sters h ave acte d upon pr i nc i p l es of supp ose d exposed expediency, they have been egregiously deceived. Their forbearance has only opened a door for the sub-negotiation, if we may so call it, of French and other land speculators with native chiefs who were already in immediate rela tions of amity with, and dependence upon, us. Had we stated more broadly, from the first, our preten sions (which cannot be questioned, so long as all the precedents are to enure, that are relied on, by E uropean nations for the right of territorial occupation in newly discovered tracts of waste or savage country), there would have been such an ascertained proprietary principle established by the Government, as against all incomers, as must have prevented those conflicting claims in respect of lands, conceived to be already ceded or transferred, by sale and purchase, to the New Zealand Company, which resulted, the other day, in the bloody conflict of Waken, and the death of Captain WAKEFIELD and many other English settlers. It is clear, from the circumstances of that disastrous ren contre, that the native chiefs had either never parted with the lands they were required to surrender to the parties who should purchase them of the New Zea land Company, or did not understand the delegated title of a private corporation holding under the Crown to which they themselves acknowledged a willing allegiance. Now, instead of repairing this anomalous and dangerous state of things, the Colonial Department, and her MAJESTY'S Government in general, seem pre-occupied by a taste for per forming the comedy of She Would and She Would Not. They will not exercise that right of sovereignty which consists in giving titles to parcels of the soil set out for sale to British subjects ; but they will not, on the other hand, repudiate the fact of that sovereignty. How grievously this feeble and injudicious waver ing must operate on the interests of the New Zealand Society, was very forcibly demonstrated at a special Court of the Proprietors, held yesterday, at their house in Broad-street-buildings. The report read to this meeting by the secretary contained the following passage :—" We are prepared to issue orders for land in any of the settlements, not doubting ourselves, after the award of the tribunal to which the questions between this Company and the Colonial-office were referred, that you may safely rely on the justice of her Majesty's Government and Parliament for ob taining, sooner or later, the grants from the Crown to which the Committee of the House of Commons has declared you to be entitled." We fear that this is a begging of the question. What is the value of de clarations and recommendations of Committees of inquiry appointed by the House of Commons, when the Government, at pleasure, treats them in that "manner so Tartarly," which is adopted in defiance of the affirmative report on the Danish claims, for example ? But that to talk thus is but to beg the question is virtually admitted in the very next lines of the report itself—" But, at the same time, the extreme injustice which you have suffered in being encouraged to subscribe a large capital, and to lay out more than half a million of money, in colonisation, without having yet obtained a secure title to one acre of the land which the Crown engaged to grant to you in con sideration of your outlay for public purposes, teaches us a caution which we are desirous of impressing upon all who may apply to us for land orders. And this, we believe, will be done most effectually by our refusing i to guarantee any other title than such as the Company may obtain from the Crown ;"—when the Crown is disposed, that is, to give such title to the Company. Now, where is the evidence of the wish, the contemplation, or the readiness of the Crown to do so ? If the Company have vainly sought, hitherto, to establish an equitable right to such a title, by an expenditure of more than 500,0001., do they expect to wring it from the moral or political con scientiousness of the Government hereafter, by de clining to go a step further in the same direction—a direction so convenient and irresponsible to that Go vernment, so onerous and dangerous to the Com pany ? "We propose," the report proceeds, "to attach to every land order a condition to the above effect. In this way, every applicant will be made fully to understand that on the question of the pro bable or certain justice of the Crown, in its dealings with the Company, he judges for himself, and must rely on his own judgment." How many "land orders" the Company can expect to be applied for by men who have that ominous presumption laid be fore them, of " the probable or certain justice of the Crown," which the Crown's refusal to guarantee the title to a single acre of their lands to a body which has invested more than 500,0001. in the purchase of them, we leave it to time to develope. But we would counsel the Company to proceed for their just and equitable demands by some more urgent and cogent process than this passive, and hitherto most unlucky, reliance on the " probable or certain justice of the Crown." The reported abdication of MEHEMET ALI 13 not confirmed by the latest intelligence from Malta. it was known there on the 4th inst. that he had sud denly left Alexandria on the 26th of July for Cairo and a report prevailed that he had resigned the power into the hands of his son, but no particulars are given, and we are, therefore, inclined to doubt the news brought by the French telegraph. The British Consull:at Alexandria had dispatched a Maltese sail ing vessel to the senior naval officer at Beyrout, Cap tain GLASSCOCK, of the Tyne, to summon to Alexandria every disposable British ship of war. The PACHA'S officers of state, the diplo matic body, and public in general, are at a loss to account for his sudden departure. The Maltese Times attributes it to madness. " The PACHA," it states, " the day before yesterday lost his senses. Two nights running he had not had an hour's sleep, and in the morning he ordered his coach to be ready, saying, wish to go to Cairo.' He did this without advising with any one ; but his sons soon dis covered it, and ran to stop him, demanding an expla nation of such a curious way of acting. Last night he passed in company of MOHARREM BEY, without sleeping one single hour, and this morning ordered his boat to be ready to sail, saying, ' I do not wish to hear or know anything concerning Egypt,' but added, that IBRAHIM PACHA knew what he had to do, having consigned to him the " Suggello," ' but this he would not accept while his father lived. All the consuls are in motion. It is said that MEHEMET ALI explained himself by saying that it was his wish to go to Mecca, and there die.' " Accounts from Madrid of the 9th inst. state, that intelligence had been received on the previous even ing from Gibraltar, announcing that the Emperor of Morocco had acquiesced in all the demands of France and Spain. it thus appears that all parties in that quarter have been taken by surprise by the unexpected and sudden bombardment of Tangiers. The next in telligence from Gibraltar will, therefore, be looked to with much interest. The editor of the Eco del Comercio, a Madrid journal, was tried on the Bth for a libel on the Government, and acquitted by a jury of his countrymen. This shows that some patriotism still remains in that unfortunate country. The Three per Cents. were done at 28 for cash, and 281 at 60 days; and the Five per Cents. at 19 15-16 at 60 days. The principal intelligence in the Paris papers has been anticipated by the telegraphic dispatches pub lished yesterday. The bombardment of Tangiers had caused much excitement, and depressed the funds fully a quarter per cent. Every one looked forward to a peaceable termination of the contest at the mo ment when the French Admiral was destroying the fortifications, and we fear also the houses of innocent foreign !'residents in [the chief Moorish town on the Straits of Gibraltar. " Yesterday morning," says the Revue de Paris, " the news from Morocco was pacific. We knew that a courier had left the Foreign office with dispatches for the Duke DE GLIICKSDERG, who is at this moment in Madrid. Those dispatches contained the instructions and powers necessary to ratify, in the name of the KING, the agreement con cluded by M. DE NION. Immediately on receipt of those dispatches, M. DE GLUCKSBERG was to repair from Madrid to Cadiz, where the steamer Gregeois, which was ordered to wait for him, was to take him on board, and convey him to Tangiers. Now the aspect of of-' fairs has completely changed. Just as we were ready to go to press, we hear that a telegraphic dispatch, re ceived in Paris too late to be published in the Mes sager, announces a fact of the highest importance. According to that dispatch, the Prince DE JOINVILLE, not deeming the propositions of peace acceptable, had commenced the bombardment of Tangier, dismounted 80 pieces of artillery planted on the ramparts, and de stroyed the fortifications erected by the Moors on the sea side." The French Government were evidently prepared for such a result. For, according to a letter in the Semaphore of Marseilles, France has not had, since the expedition against Algiers, in 1830, such a naval force on the coast of Africa. " Before the 15th inst.,'' says a Correspondent of that journal, " France will have on the coast of Barbary eight ships of the line —one three-decker, the Suffren, commanded by the Prince DE JOIN villa; and a crew of 900 men; the Jemmapes, 917 men; and the Triton, 810, now be- THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 17, 1644. fore Tangiers; the Ocean, three-decker, 1,017 men ; the Marengo, 679 men ; the Inflexible, 853 men ; the Neptune, 815 men ; and the Alger, 683 men, under the command of Admiral DESCHENES, before Tunis. We have, besides, a frigate, La Belle Poule, several steam frigates and corvettes, a great number of steamers of a lesser power, transport corvettes, lighters, and brigs." The following letter from Tangiers, which appears in a Toulon journal, describes the state of affairs at Tangiers, on the 2d instant, four days before the attack ; "We see the Moors every day exercising on the coast their infantry, cavalry, and artillery, to the sound of the tamtam, and with banners unfurled. At night they retire to their camp in the mountains. The town seems to have been abandoned by its inhabitants, who have sought refuge in a small wood in the neighbour hood, where they sleep under tents. During the night, their fires indicate that that part of the coast which is protected by a small fort lately erected, is inhabited. The forts and batteries offer an imposing aspect ; but the - town, situate in a ravine on the verge of the sea, is entirely open; a f ee bl e rampart surroun d s it, an d divides it into two parts; the houses appear to be in a good state of repair, and pretty regular. If we can judge from appearances, the Moors do not intend to oppose a vigorous resistance, but they are determined, as far as we can ascertain, to prevent our landing, which would defeat the object of our expedition, if their opposition proved successful. "On the Ist of August, at break of day, we saw bands of between 150 and 200 Kabyles descend from the mountains. They were all well armed, end accompanied each by a few horsemen. They advanced to the town gates, with the intention evidently of plundering it, but the people would not allow them to enter the place. Each band had a flag, which was either a rallying emblem, or the indication of the tribes to which they belonged. We are daily expecting to receive orders to commence hostilities, and every preparation has been made on board the ships for the attack." Thursday, the day of the Assumption, was observed as a holiday at Paris, and the Bourse was closed, but a good deal of business was done at TORTONI'S. The Three per Cents. had fallen to 81f. 27c. THIS DAY'S NEWS. UNION-HALL.-(THIS DAY.) Samuel Herit, one of the messengers of the Queen's prison, was brought before Mr. Cottingham, the sitting magistrate, charged with conveying two bladders of gin into the interior of the prison. Mr. Colville, the principal turnkey of the prison, stated that the prisoner was one of the messengers, and well acquainted with the rules and regulations of the prison. Last night, as the prisoner was passing through the lobby, he let two skins or bladders fall on the floor, which, on being taken up, was found to contain spirits. The prisoner was detained, and given into custody. Mr. COTTINGHAM ordered the prisoner to pay a miti gated fine of 5/., or one month's imprisonment. In default of payment, the prisoner was locked up. CLERKENWELL.-(THIS DAY.) Martha Cunningham was charged with the following outrageous conduct at the Clerkenwell Workhouse : It appeared from the evidence, that at eight o ' c l oc k on the previous night the prisoner went to the work house and asked to see the overseer. He came ; upon which she abused him in the grossest manner. After much difficulty she was removed. She came again at ten o'clock, and shouted and screamed so that all the paupers were aroused out of their beds. She cried " Murder ! Fire !" and collected a mob of five hun dred people in front of the workhouse, to whom she made the most hideous representations of her treatment in the workhouse, every word of which was untrue ; but the story roused the people at the time to a condition bordering upon desperation. At length the police came up, and she was taken to the station-house. Mr. COMBE sentenced her to a fortnight's imprison ment in the House of Correction. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) - DEVON AND EXETER RACES.-(CONCLUDED. THURSDAY. The Semi Class of Home Stakes of 10 sovs. each, 3 ft, with 25 added. Two miles and a dis. Mr. King's bf, by Jack-in-the-Green, out of Eliza 1 Mr. Downe's Usurper, aged The City Members' Plate of 501. Heats, one mile. Mr. W. Ley's Fair Play, 3 yrs (Newman) 1 1 Mr. Scobell's Fox, 4 yrs 3 2 Mr. Crofton's Cornopean, 4 yrs A Forced Handicap of 2 sovs. each, 25 added, the new mile, was won in two heats by Mr. Crofton's Cornopean, 4 yrs (Blanton), beating Mr. Reed's Mona. Handicap Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each, with 25 added. One mile and three quarters. Mr. Williams's Elysium, 4 yrs . (Blanton) 1 Mr. Ley's Fair Play, 3 yrs bolted. Handicap Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each, 2 ft, and 25 added. . . - - Heats, half a mile. Mr. Ley's Fairplay, 3 yrs (Cowley) 1 1 Mr. Graham's Alice Lowe, 3 yrs 2 2 Mr. Allibone's Icarus, aged Mr. Kiag's f by Jack-in-the-Green, Eliza, 3 yrs 3 4 ___ TE:NI3Y RACES.-THURSDAY. The Tenby Stakes of 3 sovs. each, and 20 added, the second to save his stake, were won in two heats, by Mr. Henderson's Greedy Sam, aged, beating Mr. Lucas's St. David, 5 yrs, Mr. Bower's Picton, Mr. Llewellyn's Giraffe, aged, and Mr. Oliver's Sergeant Botheram. The Tradesmen's Plate of 15/., added to a Sweepstakes of 2 sovs. each, were also won by Greedy Sam, carrying 71b extra, beating Jenny Jones, St. David, and another. The Gogerddan Stakes, of 10 sovs. each, h. ft., with 20 added; for hunters. Gentlemen riders. Four Miles. Mr. Powell's Cracksman, aged (Owner) 1 Mr. Southby's Waterloo, 5 yrs Mr. Boultbee's My Grandfather, 6 yrs 3 The Members' Plate, of 50/., added to a Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each. Heats, two miles. Mr. Wesley's Counsellor, 5 yrs walked over. The Ladies' Plate, added to a Sweepstakes of 3 soya. each. Heats, one mile. Sir C. Cockerell's Aurunzebe ...(S. Darling, jun.) 1 1 Mr. P. Pryse's Chaos, aged MARLOW RACES.—TRURSDAY. The Silver Cup, given by Sir R. Clayton, added to a Sweepstakes of 1 soy. each. Heats, twice round. Mr. Preston's Bosphorus, age d (Pattison) 1 1 Mr. Bray's Firey Oaks, 6 yrs 3 2 Mr. Ibbotson's Paradise, aged 2 3 Tho Quarry Stakes of 2 sovs. each, and 20 added, once round, were wonin two he a t s by Mr. Dixon's Fox hunter, aged (Livesey), beating Mr. Hepple's Lady Flora, 6 yrs, Mr. T. Hussey's Rabbi, 4 yrs, Mr. Richards a Chemist, aged, and Mr. Patton's Palmmon, 6 yrs. The Hurdle Stakes of 2 sovs. each, with 20 added, Ist 71b each, once round, were won in two heats by Mr. Patton's Palmmon, 6 yrs (Wynne), beating Mr. Lamb's DonaldCaird,l aged, Mr. Pocock's Luck's-all, Mr. Ward's Fidget, and several others, easily. BETTING AT MANCHESTER—FRIDAY. EBOR HANDICAP.—Even on Franchise, 8 to 1 agst Godfrey (taken), 8 to 1 agst Rowena, 12 to 1 agst Jamie Forest, 14 to 1 agst Glossy, and 30 to 1 agst Pe dometer. __ GREAT YORKSHIRE STAKES.-2 to 1 agst Morpeth, 7 to 2 agst Prince Royal, 6 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's lot. ST. LEGER.-3 to 1 agst The Cure, 4 to 1 agst Ithu riel, 8 to 1 agst Bay Momus (taken), 11 to 1 agst Red Deer, 12 to 1 agst Princess (taken), 12 to 1 agst Ugly Buck, 14 to 1 agst Foig-a-ballagh, 16 to 1 agst Morpeth, and 33 to 1 agst Milton (taken). ABERYSTWITH RACES—WEDNEsDAY. The Johnny Raw Stakes of 5 soya. each, 3 ft, with 20 added. Mr. Hall's Brilliana, 3 yrs ----- walked over The Cardiganshire Stakes of 15 sovs. each, 10 ft, and 5 only, if declared. Two miles. (11 Subs.) Mr. Westley's Counseller, 5 yrs (H. Darling) 1 Mr. Parr's Ninety-One, 3 yrs with 20 The Crosswood Stakes of 5 sovs. e ach, 3 ft, added. Heats, one mile and a half, over hurdles. Mr. Powell's Cracksman, aged ...(Mr. Cresswell) 1 1 Mr. Ackers named Chance, 6 yrs The Town Plate, added to's Sweepstakes of 3 sovs. each. Heats, one mile and a half. Mr. Hall's Brilliana, 3 yrs (E. Griffiths) 0 1 1 Mr. Parr's Zanthus, 4 yrs --...0.u.1., 3 dis. Mr. Pry se's Chaos, aged THURSDAY. The Tradesmen's (Handicap) Cup of 501., added to a Sweepstakes of 10 sous. each, b ft, ands only if de clared. Mile and a half. Mr. Parr's Ninety-One, 3 yrs ............(E. Griffiths) 1 Sir C. Cockerell's Aurunzebe, 4 yrs NEW INSOLVENT ACT.—We have received a copy of the following Circular, which Lord Brougham has sent to the governors of all the prisons for debtors : " Brougham, 14th August, 1844. "Lord Brougham wishes to inform the gaoler of * * and, through him, the debtors, that his last Circular ap plied to cases which require the interposition of the Court of Bankruptcy. But persons confined for debts not exceeding 201., exclusive of costs, may apply at once, by petition or motion, to the Court by whose process they are confined, and that Court will immediately order their release. Persons whose debts are of a greater amount, must petition the Bankruptcy Court in the man ner formerly directed." FRAME RENTS.—The framework knitters in the Midland Counties are holding meetings respecting the exaction of frame rents from the workmen, a species of truck. A resolution to the following effect is passed wherever meetings are held:—" That if the masters are determined to stop frame rents, every person shall keep a strict account of all moneys deducted from his or her earnings, and give notice that they consider such stop page illegal ; and shall, at the conclusion .of the trial Chawner v. Cummings, use all legal means to recover the same; and that this meeting pledges itself not to sign any document." What with one thing and another, the poor man is ground to the death. Lord John Russell's appeal on behalf of the working classes, at the close of Parliament, does him everlasting credit.—From a Correspondent. Madame Vestris and Mr. Charles Mathews are performing at Plymouth, whence they proceed to Exeter. E. Denison, Esq., M.P. for the West Riding, arrived in Doncaster, on Saturday last, for tie recess. We are sorry to learn that the Honourable Member, in to for th t a w t o he or hu three sust d ai a n y e s d . his journey from Lond on , experienced a serious acci dent, by whi c h h e received a severe contusion on the however, injury, happyand learn hip, which has h a d th e e ff ec t of confining him to the house no Weare, permanent is now perfectly recovered from the effects of the injury. —Doncaster Chronicle of yesterday. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool this week have been 26,210 bales, the market having been rather slack. Stock 928,000 bales, or rather less than last year.—The following are the quotations of the Railways dealt in:— Birmingham and Gloucester, 113+ ; Eastern Counties, 12k; Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton, 164; Grand Junc tion, 218; Liverpool and Manchester, 201; London and Brighton, 48+ ex-div. ; Midland Counties, 109 ; New castle and Carlisle, 105; Sheffield and Manchester, 84 ; South-Eastern, 38i; Ditto, New, 12k; Paris and Lyons, 2i; Paris and Rouen, 381. The prevalence of heavy rains in most parts of the country in the course of the present week, and the state of the weather, according to all the accounts that have this day been received from the trading and agricultural districts, being any thing but favourable for the labours of the field, the demand for manufac tures has fallen off a trifle, which the markets for grain have influenced. Still the reports from the country markets mention that the prospects of the hus bandrnen were very good, in the advent of fine weather. As a set-off to the rains, the winds during periods have proved of a very drying character. The clearances of foreign wheat has been considerable at the duty of 17s. per quarter. A. slight rally occurred in the Funds this morn ing. Consols were marked at 99 for the Ac count, as well as for Money, but each are now to per cent. lower. The business done has been slight. Exchequer Bills are firmer at 75 premium; the Canada Debentures have receded to 111. Bank Stock is at 199+, India Stock at 2821, and the New Three aad-a-Half per Cents, at 1011 4. Scarcely half a dozen bargains have been entered into in Foreign Bonds this morning. Converted Portuguese are at 40 ; Spanish Deferred at 12-a ; Dutch Five per Cents. at 101 to 1004 ; and Belgian at 1034. The circular of a share-broker states that " the better understanding that now subsists between the leading lines for conducting their respective interests, and the interference of Parliament by the new Act, has very materially restored public confidence to this kind of pro perty, which had previously got into great disrepute, and suffered accordingly in value. The excess of money capital wanting employment, and low rate of interest, continue to favour railway speculations, and to establish prices for the most experienced and best conducted lines, which will now resume their proper position as investment, supported, as they are likely to be, by a favourable harvest keeping up a full circulation." The market for Railway Shares has not presented any remarkable feature this week. Birmingham and Gloucester, Chester and Holy head, Great North of England, Manchester and Leeds, Midland, Newcastle and Darlington, are higher. The rest are generally a shade lower. Provincial Bank of Ireland Shares opened at 20} premium, and have since been sold at 191 premium per Share. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Bank ....... ...... 199% 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities ..... 99% 3 per Cent. Consols. Annuities. .......... 99 % 99 96 %71 3% per Cent. Reduced Annuities 1 30( New 3% per Cent. Annuities ....... 101 %% Long Annuities, Expire 511 Jan. 1860 ............ 12 9-16 Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan. 1860. l2 % India Stock India ............ Ditto under 1,000 Consols for Account .......... 99 ii 99 98% Exchequer Bills, I%d. 15 .71. 1,0001. .....«.«,N........... ..... 73 75 pm. ........ ............ 73 75 pm. Ditto 5ma11........,... ****** -- ••••••• 00000 73 75 pin. Ditto Advertised FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Belgian Bonds, 5 per Cent lO3 Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent. Ditto Converted 44% Spanish Bonds,, Five per Cent Ditto Deferred 1214% Dutch 234 per Cents 61%34 Dutch 5 per Cents ...... 101 100% PRICES OF SHARES.THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE. Birmingham and Gloucester lOO .....„..114 Chester and Holyhead 5 64 to Dublin and Cashel"... ........... ... 254 634% ... to Eastern Counties ..„.......„ ........ 23 .... Ditto New Registered 81. 6s. Rd Ditto Perpetual 5 per eent l3s 4d.... 1 Ditto Ditto (No. 2) — Grand Junction lOO 2t.i Great North of England Great Western Ditto 54 Shares London and Birmingham lOO 222 London and Blackwall 1636 ...... 756 London and Greenwich London and South Western 41% London and Croydon Lynn and Ely l% .. 456)6 ... to Manchester and Leeds 7O 126 .... .... to 121 Ditto 54 Shares 3O Midland Counties lOO 1095( 10850 to 10956 Birmingham and Derby lOO 8056 Newcastle and DarlingtonJunct. 21 .. 46 4454... to 47 North British Norwich and Brandon Yarmouth and Norwich lB .... ..... 2954 ... to York and North Midland Ditto Scarboro' Branch Orleans, Tours, and Bourdeaux 1 ...... JOINT STOCK EANKS. Provincial of Ireland. PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, AUG. 15. 3 per Cent. Consols • 99% Three and a Half Stock ...,... Ditto New, 1830 3% per Cent. Debentures 9454 Bank Stock 203% Grand Canal Debentures, 6 per Cent. Royal Canal Stock 4 per Ccnt. Ballast Office Debentures 9836 4 per Cent. City Debentures LAsr PRICES OF SHARES. - • RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE. Dublin and K. Road Drogheda' D itto ..... 6O Dublin and Cashel ditto ...............234 6 Hibernian Bank 25)6 Royal Bank National Ino ulanun Patriotic ditto Mining Cempany:of Ireland 7 Wicklow Copper Mines City of Dublin Steam Company Ditto Ditto 5O Ditto Ditto, 1836 ... British and Irish Steam Company ... 50 Steam Ship Building Company MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, AUG. 16.—The market to-day is firm, but only a limited business done. Dublin and Drogheda, 74 ; Eastern Counties, 12 1-16, ex div.; Manchester and Leeds, Half Shares, 50 ; Man chester and Birmingham, Quarters, 5. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, AUG. 17.—Wind, fresh breeze at W.N.W., and cloudy. DOVER, AUG. 16.—Arrd. Aimwell, Stockton for Exeter, with loss of bowsprit, sails, rigging, cutwater, &c., having been in contact this morning off Dungeness, with the schooner Sarah, of Newcastle. Off; William Carson, Harvey, Buenos Ayres. PORTSMOUTII, AUG. 16.—Wind N.W. to W.—Sld. Lord Boddington, (Cork and Calcutta ; Childe Harold, Cape, &c., and Bombay ' • John Peat, Bermuda. The Ticumseh, for B remen to New York (hence 10th inst.), and the Gesina, from Hamburgh to Malaga, have both been assisted in here with considerable damage, having been in contact. SOUTHAMPTON, AUG. 16.—S1d. Lloyds, Quebec. Twin AY, Auc. 16.—S1d. Talcoman and Ceylon, Quebec. OFF SALCOMBE, AUG. 16.—Kingston, Jamaica. PLYMOUTH, Auc. 16.—Wind variable.—Sld. Dahlia and Ann, for Quebec. DEAL, Auc. 16.—Wind A.M. N.W., moderate. P.M. S.S.W. to W.S.W.—Arrd. Melia, Rio for Antwerp; Helen, Taylor, Bahia; Sormeild and Three Darner, both St. Croix, for Copenhagen ; Herculean, Holmes, New Orleans; Columbus, Meyer, Ditto for Bremen; Hendick lludson, Moore, New York; Eagle, Quebec. Sld. Mary Hay, Launceston; Brenda, Mauritius; Coquette, St. Helena; Favourite, Ichaboe; Providence, Halifax. Re main, Cygnet, for Port Philip; Chariot and Norna, Ichaboe; Europe and Cyrus, Quebec; and one or two others. ALDERNEY, Auc. 14.—A hogshead of Bordeaux wine, marked " B F, 540, Ducros, Jeune, and Co., Bo r d eaux ," was picked up on the n or th side of the island, 11th inst. MILFORD, AUG. 15.-A schooner is sunk in St. Bride's Bay, about three miles from the shore. FALMOUTH, AUG. 15 AND 16. - The handspike, branded " Lord Ariel," picked up at Lundy, Ireland, it is feared belonged to the Lord Arid of this port, which was at Penarth Road, Ist inst., chartered for Guernsey, and has not since been heard of. Sld. I. W. Dare, Algoa Bay. Off, Fenelon, Barkenstein, Havannah, and sailed for Antwerp. BA/MOUTH, AUG. 14.—1 t blew a heavy gale this morning. A head-board, marked " Cynthia," carved and gilt upon it, has been picked up off this. The Desire, from Beaumaris, did not come ashore here 6th inst., as stated. MONTROSE,. AUG. 14.—The Highlander, from Arch angel, ashore on the Aurot Bank, has been got off, and in here considerably damaged. PORTHCAWL, AUG. 15.—The Wave, from Hayti to Meath, ashore here, has been got off with little damage. OFF CORR, AUG. 14.—Hanwee, Smith, Ichaboe. LIVERPOOL, Aua. 16.—Wind variable and moderate. —Arrd. Alegone, Bathurst. Sld. Scotland and Indus, Quebec ; Eagle, Syria, and Birkenhead, St. John's, New Brunswick. Off, Enchantress, Roscius, and Birken head. PERIODICAL METEORS.—The annual return of the meteors of the 10th of August has this year excited a more than usual interest. Preparations for noting them having been made, they were accurately observed in Belgium by the astronomers, M. Quetelet, Dr. For ster, and others. On the night of the 9th, between nine and eleven o'clock, only seventeen of these fallen stars were observed ; but on the 10th, (the regular period of their return) Dr. Forster found that the number of those which crossed the western hemisphere alone amounted to rather more than seventy per hour. Some were exceedingly brilliant, and va riously coloured, whilst others left long trains of light in their track. What was most remarkable was their evident tendency to a converging point in the heavens, very near to Antares, in the heart of the Scorpion. Indeed, hardly any exceptions appeared to this rule ; and yet they commenced from every quarter, a circumstance that will be very interesting to astronomers in distant parts. One of the most brilliant of these meteors appeared at 35 minutes past 10, mean time, at Bruges, and it crossed the zenith, or ne ar ly so , not far from the first star of the Harp, descending towards the horizon in a direction W.S.W. Besides the ordinary meteors, Dr. Forster observed some remark able white lines, apparently electric, which seemed as if drawn along the sky momentarily, and which had also a direction towards W.S.W. Observers will now wait anxiously for the 12th and 13th of November, which is the next period of the meteors.—Galignani. THE GRAND DUCHESS ALEXANDRA NICOLAIWNA OF RUSSIA.-A paragraph announcing the demise of the Grand Duchess Alexandra of Russia, purporting to be derived from authority, appeared conspicuously in the Morning Herald of yesterday. This announcement was of course echoed by the Standard of last evening ; but we are happy in being enabled to give a direct contradic tion to this report. The latest accounts which have reached this country from St. Petersburgh are up to the 3d inst., and were received in town yesterday. By those letters we learn that her Imperial Highness was still in a very precarious state ; but, happily, the statement published by the Morning Herald and Standard yester day is totally devoid of foundation,—Post. MARKET NEWS.--(THIS DAY.) COVENT-GARDEN. Notwithstanding our market was very heavily sup plied with both English and foreign fruit, as well as with vegetables of home produce, the general demand, arising from the comparatively low rates demanded, was steady at our quotations :—Potatoes, from 4s to Gs Gd per crs t ; Onions, is 6d to 2s 6d ; Turnips, 2s 31 to 3s 3d ; and Carrots, 4s 6d to Gs per dozen bunches ; Walnuts for pickling, Is 6d to 3s ; Spinach, 6d to is ; Gooseberries, Is 6d to 3s 3d ; Currants, 2s Gd to 4s ; Orchard Plums, 2s to 4s ; Orleans ditto, 4s to 6s ; Green Gages, 4s 6d to 6s ; Broad Beans, Is to is 9d ; Peas, 2s to 3s 6d ; Apples and Pears, 2s to 3s 9d ; and French Beans, is Gd to 3s per half-seive ; Pine Apples (English), 4s 6d to 7s; Hot-house Grapes, Is 6d to 5s ; and Cherries, 2d to 6d per lb ; Pine Apples (Foreign and Colonial), 6d to 4s ; and Melons, 2s to 5s each ; Peaches and Nectarines, Gs to 12s ; Red Cabbages, 2s to 6s ; and White ditto, 6d to is per dozen ; Cucumbers, 4d to 8d per brace ; Horse radish, 2s to Gs per bundle ; Small Salad, 2d ; and Mush rooms, 9d to Is per punnet ; Radishes, 4d to 8d per dozen hands ; Cos Lettuces, is 2d to Is 6d per score. HIINGERPORD. For most kinds of prime Meat, as well as for Fish, the demand ruled steady, and previous rates were well sup ported. In all other articles, very little was doing. NEWGATE AND LEADENNAIAL. Prime Mutton and Veal were in active request, at very full prices ; in other kinds of meat a fair amount of busi ness was transacted. Beef, from 2s 6d to 3s 6d; Mutton, 2s 8d to 3s 8d ; Lamb, 3s 8d to 4s 8d ; Veal, 3s 4d to 4s 4d ; and Pork, 2s 4d to 3s 10d per Blbs by the carcase. —We had a scanty supply of Poultry, yet the demand was heavy, at barely last week's prices. Chickens sold at from 2s 9d to 4s ; Ducklings, 2s to 3s ; Goslings,:4s to 6s ; Pigeons, 3d to 10d ; and Rabbits, 10d to Is 6d each. NEWPORT. The demand for meat was rather active, at full prices. Beef from 2s 6d to 3s 6d ; Mutton, 2s 8d to 3s 8d ; Lamb, 3s 10d to 4s 8d ; Veal, 3s 6d to 4s 4d ; and Pork, 2s 8d to 3s 10d per 81b. BILLINGSGATE. Salmon was again plentiful, and in request at from 6d to 8d per lb. Oysters moved off steadily at from 26s to 42s per bushel. In other kinds of fish but little was doing. VIIIITECHAPEL. There was a steady business doing, and prices were firmly supported. Beef, from 2s 6d to 3s 6d ; Mutton, 2s 8d to 3s 8d ; Lamb, 3s 8d to 4s 8d ; Veal, 3s 6d to 4s 4d ; and Pork, 2s 6d to 3s 8d per Blbs. BREAD. The prices of wheaten bread in the Metropolis are from 8d to Bi-d ; of household ditto, 6d to 7,id per 4lb loaf. HIDE MARKET. Raw hides at per stone of 141b.—Best steers and heifers, 5s 6d to 5s 10d ; middling hides, 4s 8d to 5s 4d ; interior hides, 4s 2d to 4s 6d. Sheep and calf skins, at per skin. — Market calf, 6s 6d to 8s 6d ; shearlings, is 3d to is 9d ; lamb skins, is 3d to 2s. HAY M.A.N.KETS. SMITHFIELD.—Coarse Meadow 11 ay, 3/12s to 414 s ; Useful ditto, 41 6s to 4/12s ; fine Upland ditto, 41 14s to 5/ ; Clover Hay, 41 15s to 616 s ; Oat Straw, 116 s to 11 Ss ; Wheat St raw , 11 8 s to 1 1 12s per load. A fair average supply and a steady demand. CUMBERLAND.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3118 s to 4/ 6s ; Useful ditto, 418 s to 4/ 14s; fine Upland ditto, 4/ 15s to 51 ; Clover Hay, 4/16s to 6/; Oat Straw, 118 s to 1110 s; Wheat Straw, 1/ Ils to 1/ 13s per load. Supply toler ably good and trade rather dull. WITITECHAPEL.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3/158 to 414 s ; Useful ditto, 41 6s to 4/ 12s ; fine Upland ditto, 4/ 14s to 51; Clover Hay, 5/ to 6/ 12s ; Oat Straw, 1/ 8s to 1/ lOs ; Wheat Straw, 1/ lOs to 1/ 12s per load. The Hay and Str aw move d off steadily, at fill prices, but otherwise the trade ruled heavy. New Meadow Hay sold at from 31 to 414 s ; and New Clover, 41 to 5/ 5s per load. WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET.—FRIDAY. There is a large arrival of 'Wheat to this day's market. Haying had unsettled weather during the last few days, the holders of Wheat obtained in the early part of the day an advance of ls. per quarter for best samples, upon the little business done, but towards the close trade be came dull at last week's rates. A fair demand exists for Grinding Barley. Oats and Shelling sell readily without any material alteration in value. Beans are in request at an advance of ls. per quarter. The harvest has com menced pretty generally in this neighbourhood. Per qr. of 601 b. to the bushel. EXTRA. NEW. Wheat Suffolk, Essex, and Kent... ..... Red to 51 49 to 50 Ditto ditto White... 57 52 53 Norfolk Red 5O 47 49 Ditto ditto White... 53 49 51 Lincolnshire and Cambridge Red 49 46 48 Ditto ditto White... . 52 49 51 Yorkshire Red... .... 50 47 49 Ditto ditto Whit e... -- 53 49 51 Foreign Red 49 45 47 Ditto ditto White... 54 48 52 Per quarter imperial. Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk — 34 31 32 Yorkshire and Lincolnshire . 34 20 33 Grinding 28 29 Foreign 32 30 31 Per qr. cf 631 b. to the bushel. Beans, Small fine 37 35 36 Ticks 36 34 35 Foreign — Oats, Potato and Poland —t. —5. ... —s. Meeting lld. to 1234 d., Foreign —d, to —d. pet Stone. Me11ing............. ....... .........................:16.5. to —s. W. per Load. Malt RAILWAY RETURNS. We extract from the Railway Record the sums received on the principal Railways of Great Britain for the week ending on the day of the month prefixed to each. The return includes the money received for passengers, parcels, carriages, horses, mails, and mer chandise:—. Week ended Name of Railway. Total. .E. s. d. Aug. 10 Arbroath and Forfar 282 4 7 9 Birmingham and Gloucester 3,273 1 3 Brandling Junction — 10 Bristol and Gloucester 9 Chester and Birkenhead 682 10 2 8 Dublin and Drogheda. Dublin and Kingstown 11 Dundee and Arbroath 10 Durham and Sunderland 378 16 1 532 1 6 10 Edinburgh and Glasgow 3,628 19 8 11 Eastern Counties and North Eastern 4,720 3 9 10 Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr 3,242 11 0 10 Glasgow and Greenock 1,263 19 0 10 Grand Junction 10,058 15 2 10 Great North of England 2,379 7 4 11 Great Western 9 Liverpool and Manchester 10 London and Birmingham 11 London and Blackwall 1,424 15 3 10 London and Brighton 13 London and Croyd on 15 London and Greenwich 796 5 3 11 London and South Western ....... 8 Manchester, Bolton and Bury 990 13 1 10 Manchester and Birmingham 3,634 16 10 10 Manchester, Leeds, and Hull Assoc 8,702 15 4 10 Midland Counties 10 Newcastle and Darlington 1,042 19 3 10 Newcastle and Carlisle 2,054 19 5 11 Newcastle and North Shields 443 11 11 9 North Union and Bolton and Preston 1,996 16 9 12 Paris, Corbeil, and Orleans 12 Paris and Rouen 5,917 0 0 10 Preston and Wyre 597 8 Ili 10 Sheffield and Manchester 648 1 10 15 South Eastern 10 Taff Vale 11 Ulster 552 7 7 11 Yarmouth and Norwich ....... ....... 10 York and North Midland NAVY. RETURN OP THE AMOUNT OF HORSE POWER ORDERED FOR HER MAJESTY'S STEAM-VESSELS BETWEEN THE IST DAY or APRIL, 1839 AND THE 31ST AUGUST, 1841, &c. Horse Power 4,496 Number of Vessels Tonnage 16,581 RETURN OF THE AMOUNT OP HORSE POWER ORDERED FOR HER MAJESTY'S STEAM-VESSELS BETWEEN THE IST DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 1841, AND THE IST DAY OF JULY, 1844, &c. Horse Power Number of Vessels 3O Tonnage 26,892 J. T. BRIGGS, Acct. Genl. Navy. JOHN EDYE, for the Surveyor. Admiralty, Aug. 7, 1844. BARBAROUS OUTRAGE.—Yesterday eight men were brought from Ilford House of Correction by Mr. Ander son, the governor, and safely lodged in Newgate, to take their trials on Monday next, on the capital charge of grossly violating, and seriously injuring, the person of Hannah Hales, a widow, residing at Leytonstone, Essex. The prisoners, whose names are John Hark !lett, Jeremiah Wakeling, William Scarborough, Wil liam Wiudley, Henry William Watts, James Lin guard, William Wiley, and James Ashford, have been examined before Messrs. Davis, Cotter, and Streetfield, magistrates for the county of Essex ; and from the evidence adduced, it appeared that on the night of Tuesday, the 6th inst., the prisoners were drinking at the Crown Inn, at Leytonstone, when the presecutrix came in, and at their earnest solicitations she was in duced to drink more than she should have done. On leaving the house about ten o'clock, the three first-named prisoners took the woman down a lane, past the residence of Mr: Dean, the magistrate, and on to the forest, when the other prisoners joined them. Here the brutes at tacked the unfortunate woman ; and she, having offered considerable resistance, they, after nearly breaking her arm, and bruising her body in a fright ful manner, one after the other accomplished their brutal purpose. They then escaped, leaving their unfortunate victim nearly dead, and for several days after her life was in considerable danger. Information of the outrage having been given to Addington and Benton, two con stables belonging to the K division of police, they, after much difficulty, succeeded in apprehending all the pri soners. Mr. Valiance, a surgeon, of Stratford, described the injuries which had been inflicted on the poor woman, and said, he at first thought her arm had been broken. The prosecutrix identified the whole of the prisoners, and they, in defence, denied the charge, saying they had heard her screams, and merely went to the place to see what was the matter. ARTISTS' ANNUITY FUND.—At a num erous meet i ng of gentlemen connected with this useful fund, held on Thursday evening, at the Freemasons' Tavern, a 'piece of plate was presented to Abraham Cooper, R.A., as a token of the personal esteem of the members, and as an acknowledgment, however inadequate, of the sense en tertained by them of the unremitting zeal displayed on all occasions by Mr. Cooper in the promotion of the interests of the Association during a period of thirty years. _ A mixture of lard and wood soot, in , •4 - Lia l quan tities, is stated by th e e di tor to be " the ( 2 c - lincinnati Advertiser, §ol'crt ; ,gnest thing in the world" for burns auk Acalds. SUMMARY OF NEW AND littbltt ®pinion. " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. We regret to learn from Constantinople that port of :the arrest and detention of Dr. Wolff Pi tyrant of Bokha ra i s con fi rme d. Th e s i tuat i o n ("' reverend gentleman is one to create great anxiO alarm to all the friends of humanity. It appeal„: his fate were made to depend in some measure result of a war in which the Khan is engaged. The King of the French and his sister Madanie laide, accompanied by General de Rumigny, C ° 7, Strada, Colonel Dumas, and two orderly officers, St. Cloud on Tuesday, returning to Neuilly to a' In the evening their Majesties received the Ministl r Marine and Foreign Affairs, Baron Teste, M. ranger, and M. Wailly, the Proviseut of the CO Henry IV. The infant Princess, by the command of his To has received the name of Francoise Marie Ameliai t witnesses were M. Felix Barthe, Vice-President Chamber of Peers ; Vice-Admiral de Rosamel, Ye France ; Chevalier Jose de Arajo de Ribeiro,,Y; Extraordinary and Mi n i s t er Pl en i po t ent i ary of tgl, peror of Brazil ; and V icom t e d'ltabayana, WO: the Council of the same Monarch. At five o'cl: z Wednesday the Archbishop of Paris went to lie baptise the royal infant. Their Majesties on the morning of that day re c f! the Mayor of Montreuil-les-Nches, accompso, some of the principal fruit-growers of that C 0 , 47 The King has thus re-established the ancient cnsw,, permitting each year the presentation of a 10 , peaches for his dessert. This custom, which far back as Girardot, the first person who intro& ,(1 cultivation of peaches at Montreuil, under Louis 11 was broken off by the Revolution of 1789. The ,„ presented the Mayor with a sum o f 5 00 f, f or ther of the commune. The following gossip appears in the Courrier Fra l f t : 4 —" Sir H. Hardinge had in th ree d a y s comp l ete d with Mehemet Ali, by Which the •English Govelv, guaranteed to himself, as well as to his descendant s ',; Government of Egypt, and th a t no ot h er P owe r SP` . interfere with him. In return, Mehemet Ali had g that the English Government should do as ther in the country, and that protection should be affora t i all English subjects he consents moreover, to troops to go through Egypt whenever necessary. railways from Cairo to Suez were t o b e commen ced „; out loss of time ; and, in fact, the Paella had bee° complete Englishman." On the 2d inst., two medical men were tried b ill , the Correctional Tribunal o f V esou l (H aute Saone). having caused the death of a patient by injild_t; operations for hernia. The tribunal negatived the c rd of involuntary homicid e , b u t con d emne d t h e w days' imprisonment, a fine of 50f. each, and the payment of the costs of the prosecution, for in" wounds from want of skill. On the 10th inst., whilst ten men were empl4 building the church at Mende Jugon, Cot e du o t were mounted on a scaffold 60 feet high, it became charged with the materials, and fell to the ground. • of the men were killed on the spot, and three vre g : severely injured that their lives are i n danger. 1:1,0 maining two were much bruis e d, b u t w ill pr recover. The Universal Gazette of Prussia states that, 4th, the Academy of Sciences of Berlin sent a de,' tion to Baron de Humboldt, t o t es tif y t h e lively hilf felt by them in his voyage to America, from whiS i progress of science had derived such great advanil i and the following day the members of the Acadero him a grand banquet, at which the Prince de li p (Charles Lucien Buonaparte), who is an hoe member of the Society, was also present. M. Madoz has arrived in Paris, and M. Cortil, f M. Lopez are expected, Th ese gent l emen, i t 11 remembered, are the parties w h o were arreste d charge of conspiracy against the Spanish Gover' but dismissed after a confinement of three mo nths- The Universal German Gazette announces the of the King of Saxony at Leipsic, on the 9th inst. A A letter from Rome, of the instant, states th' most perfect tranquillity reigned in all the towns Romagna. Private letters from Barcelona, of the 9th instant , tion that the Narvaez Administration was again tcl in its existence by a Court camarilla, at the 1 1 ''' which is the Marquesa de Santa Cruz. LAW END POLICE. Robert Bannister, the Portsea bankrupt linen' who was captured in Mad e i ra , t o w hi c h i slan d be absconded with upwards of 2,0001. in his possessiott: yesterday brought up for examination at the Bank ili f f Court, before Mr. Commissioner Goulburn. Sf. c , curious disclosures were made as to the maener.i.„o' ducting business in the linendrapery trade. le' examination is fixed for the 20th inst. Wills and Davy, who had carried on busi_ ii i less ., drapers in Oxford-stre e t, a ppli e d to Mr. C01331,31'; Fate for their certificate ; th e app li cat i on was and the Commissioner postponed his judgment 30th inst. In the Insolvent Court, Richard Cleaver., a blie tle Paddington, was remanded for twelve months. George A. J. Chapman, late saloon keeper at lane Theatre, was remanded for eight months. , try Thomas H. Horatio Cauty, who is known it , e " play world" as Captain Cauty, was ordered to he charged. 0 .0 At the Gloucester Assi z e s Th omas Willi ams , 1810 indicted for killing and s l a yi ng H enry C ox, at )1006 on the 24th of July last. It appeared that the P,. 1 7,00 and the deceased h a d b een th row i ng stones at eacLL;OO4, and that a st one th rown b y t h e pr i soner had fril the skull of the d ecease d. Th e pr i soner was CO°l, and sentenced to three months' hard labour. itO, In the case of H er b er t v . B rown, an act i o n brought by an att orney to recover his bill of cost/el/ o f was tried at th e same ass i zes, before Chief Ps Tindal ; the jury found for plaintiff for 351. 2s. Stt SOT, Golding Jones was convicted at the Midales o sions of three assaults upon different police:0 1 d; sentenced to two months' i m p r i sonment fur each sfdi At the Mansion-house John Tennyson was 1 .: 3 310 before the Lord M a y or , c h arge d w i th having ro bs af Thomas Dunster, of Gun-st ree t, S p i ta lfi elds, o f a P' handkerchief. He was committed. fee Mr. George Deaco n , a p erson w h o was said to he e respectable, was br oug ht b e f ore the Lord Mayo r fl/ the charge of having caused great disturbance ( 1 7 0 111 fusion in Mark-la ne an d i ts ne i gh b ourhood, by add ,;,,e the passers-by in the l anguage o f Scriptiei v , a nd 41 ":0 buting amongst th em h an dbill s, containing a most , vagant rhodomont a d e a b out hi s former business_d farmer and breeder of cows and sweep, and his n o occupation of promoter of the religious advantages n .jor fellow -creature s . It appeare d that the poor man iineso he had a call to serve the Lord. His uncle, who attendance, said he was perfectly harmless. He 11 ' charged with an admonition. fie Joseph Bealby, a y oung man a b out thirty yeari:oo employed as a clerk at Messrs. Beard and Co.'s, ° I Coal-wharf, Earl-street, Blackfriars, was brought" Guildhall, charg e d w ith having embezzled money s considerable amount. He was remanded. Thurston Warts, the driver of the cab 648, W - c are ss. by Mr. Alderman Farncombe for -"f us i ng to a fare. befo rl ., At Bow-street, M r . James Hee: l ige was b r ought V Mr. Twyford, charged with neglecting to supit o e wife and thre e c hild ren, Whereby they became Jill able to the Strand U n i on. The defendant excused the self by saying he was at present going throug h tD t Bankruptcy Court, a n d was receiving nothing fr, ° ,7,, te 9 official assignees. Th e d efendant having refused come an inmate of the workhouse, his family we re , up to him, with an intimation that if they again chargeable, he would be sent to prison. i eSs' Charles Lambe D ow d en, an actor at Sadler i a who stands charged with several forgeries, wars b_, n r° up for re-ex am i nat i on, at Bow-street, and, ter -. manded. veer A cabman summo ne d M r. W . L. Whitrnore, of 0 eeri e' street, Buckingham -gate, before Mr. Burrell, at 9 1l d 11 ! square, for non-payment of his fart, It apPe% e br had sent for the cab o ff t h e stand but had no t d th" , 8 quently engaged it. He was adjudged to jag fare, and ss. costs. „ roe Mr. Hardwick, the magistrate of the Martha wee street Police-court, inflicted a fine of 41., or si% oc iec imprisonment, upon George Martin,aliasTollte,,P e oP, ful man, who called himself a jockey and ge a ' , e feo,` ? boot-maker, for beating Richard Parrott. The 7 0 . 0 10 - ', ant had knocked down his unfortunate victim, Qpi efiv his leg, and afterwards beat his head upon the P ilf- tlsr Mr. Dick, proprietor of the Blue Posts .Flott g bo market, was summone d b y the police for hsv i f for n house open aft er th e h our prescribed by the Act " liament. He was fined 20s. be g tir M. Dubourg, th e we ll-k nown restaurateur i n t market, was convi c t e d i n a s i m il ar penalty for a st .lar offence. itr releh °l36 Edward Griggs was sentenced at the CI 0° * On e dieg Police-court to pay a fine of Si., or be iniPri „ l e months, for throwing a knife at his wife, and w" her on the arm. w ll°- Mr. John Yardly, a very well-dressed r a n en t s', s l ; abode did not transpire, was charged with a ';;. ng sault upon Mr. John Grant, a gentleman res T in Te o , his family at 55, Bayham-street South, Camden It appeared that defendant had insulted coinP the '. d to 11 ' sisters, and o n b e i ng remonstrated with had st dere complainant himself. He was fined 51, and or find sureties to keep the peace. t t bc A young lady, who figured some months s g°,:sec tr . Thames Police -court and the Old Bailey, in t he b o ` tion of a man who used to act as her amanuenses' erg' subsequently, with the assistance of a solicitor an" ap plielh dragooned her into a singular form of marriacg_et;rt, fo r . l to fir. Norton at the Lambeth-street Police-curt' le sa b l e little temoorary pecuniary assistance. Mr. . Of t % he would communicate with Mr. Ballantip. a _ . , t bie Thames Police -court, with a view of seeing a could be done for the applicant. broug hl o q Sarah Bagley, the female sailor, was again in to as at m Union-hall, . : tu , t sh h e e, the employ of Mr. Pullen, van proprietor,..a u pv keion gi . o n t summons for wilfully damaging an oninl , t! e s c u_ bon 6 At WSoiwich, a drivwvienarsgngpairmvoeernndisilipdirtkon,ehbveaerrdqrae;f:63B;4' in to Mr. Munyard, to the amount of 21. n3 b en 7 sa id , ge ‘ been proved, Mr. Jeremy, in giving judgment , r „ no " a-- , his shall order the defendant's master to pay vas re fer so doing." s d e o r n v e a n t and s, and t conductor, 1:- s omnibus con Frederick Fleming, he h c a o d st t s iie H m e en is ns li o a f bl p e u f n or ish th in e g co h ne s uc se t r o v . o o c iii h a a t r id g e e d of Comet on f i value of upwards of 200/. ed from the same John Render was remand from stealing the a charge of rape. 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