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13, Great Marlborough-street. Ai R. CTOO L BE i 7 i R u N ) i o S F N kL E L ‘11V001)- s U E ILL I: I i C ts .A.I . I NS • 1. Revelations of Russia and the Emperor. 2. Mr. D'lsraeli's Coningsby. Third Edition. 3. A Winter in Italy. By Mrs. Ashton Yates. 4. Parsons and Widows. By the Author of " Peter Priggins." 5. Tow nsend's Memoirs of the House of Commons. Vol. 11. 6. Hon. G. S. Smythe's Historic Fancies. Second Edition. 7. The Marchioness of Londonderry's Travels. S. Memoirs.of the Babylonian Princess. 9. Miss Striek.huid's Queens of England. Vol. VII. 10. The Victory. By " The Old Sailor." 3 Vols. Also, is a few days, 11. Arthur Artmlel. A Tale of the English Revolution. By the Author of " Brambletye House," &c. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. The SEPTEMBER NUMBER of COLBURN'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE AND HUMORIST, Contains the following interesting articles:- 1. Social Piracy ; or the Rovings, Roamings, Motions, Locomotlons, Peregrinations, Pouncings, Manoeuvres, Maraudings, Great Larcenies, and Petty Larcenies, of Mr. and Mrs. Hawkes and the Young ilawkes. 2. The Miners. A Story of the Old Combination-laws. By the Medical Student. Z. Conversations with the late W. Beckford. Esq. Author of " Vathek.!" 4. Reminiscences of the late King of Sweden. By a German Officer. 5 Lights and Shades in the Life of a Gentleman on Half-Pay. By W. H. Matwell, Esq., Author of " Stories of Waterloo." No. IV. Sketches of Character—A Ca-sa in Counought—The Three Marys. 6. Stanzas to the Memory of Burns. Written for, and intended to have been sung at, the late Festival. By Eliza Cook. 7. The Itubertse, on their Travels. By Mrs. Trollope. Chapters X., XI., and XII. A. A Spanish Criminal Case. 9. The Refugee. By the Author of " Peter Prigglns." 10. Account of a Society for the Encouragement of Hearts. By La man Blanchard, Esq. 11. Revelations of Russia and the Emperor. • 12. Confessions of au Italian Innkeeper. 13. Poems. By Coventry Patmore, Esq. Henry Colburn, Publisher, i Gr Marlho,ough-ctrert. Now ready at all the Lihraries, in 3 vols., po •t a vo., T HE FREE L ANCE. AN HISTORICAL ROMANCE. By D. WCARTHY, Esq. Author of " Massaniello." Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. THEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM, LATE ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE. Under the Management of Mts. KEELEY. Another great Achievement Successfully Triumphant ! !! To attempt to eu , ogise the gorgeous splendour of the New Extrava. ganza of " Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, or New Lamps for Old Ones," would he a work of supererogation ; the Manage ment, therefore, contents Itself by *lmply stating that it wilt Le repeated every Evening ! THIS EVENING, AUG. 30, Will he 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. rescue, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. A. Wigan, Mrs. Woollidge, Miss (scores, Mrs. Usher, Miss lurner, and Mrs. Keeley. To conclude with an entirely Original, and much better than New, Grand Operatic, Romantic, Melo-Dramatic, Burlesqt:e Extra. vaganza, founded on the celebrated Eastern Fate, in the Arabian Nights' Entertainment, entitled ALADDIN AND THE WON DERFUL LAMP; or, New Lamps for Old Ones. With very extensive Ne. , scenerv, Machinery, Dresses, &c. Principal cha iacters by Mrs, Keeley, Messrs. F. Matthews, Turner, A. Wigan, J. W. Collier, and Keeley ; Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Woolli lge, Miss E. Chaplin, Mrs A. Wigan, Miss Turner, Ms s James, Miss Carson, Miss Hunt, Miss Reed*, &c., &c. PRICES OF ADMISSION.—BaIcony Foxes. 4 Upper Boxes, 35.; Pit, 2.5.*; Gallery, 6d. Second Price—Balcony Boxes, Vs. ; Upper Boxes, is 6d.; I'it, B. Private Boxes on the ti.ticmy Tier (holding eight persons), Tao Guineas. Private Boxes on the Second Tier (holding eight persons), One Guinea and a-HalL Private Boxes on the Pit Tier (holding six persons), One Guir ea The Box- Ake is open from Ten to Four o'Clock, under the di rec. Son of Mr. Grogan, late of Covent-garden Theatre. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. BATTY. Nightly overflows to the wonders to the wonders of Mr. Carter, the Lion King—Mr. Batty and Trained Steed Beda. THls' EVENING. AUG. 30, Will be repeated the Eastern Spectacle of M UNGO PARK; or, The Lion Tamer of the Niger. Karla, the Arab. Mr. Carter, wh re,n he will introduce his beautifulpeiformance with his trained animals, lions, tigeis, &c., in the cage, and on the open stage drive a Boa in harness. Combats with the monarch of the forest, and other sew eatraordin ry feats. Entire Change of the Scenes In the Circle. 're conclude with an eatire new Eitiestrian, Military and Naval Spsictacle, entitled THE CHINESE WAR. or. The Conquests of Amoy by British Arms. New Scenery, Dimes. Appointments. he., to realise the r,cent triumphs of England's Army and Navy. Feast •f 250 Lanterns. Acting and gasman snager, Mr. W D. Broadfoot. • Box-office open from Eleven till F.ve. Lessons in the Art of Riding by Mr. R. Smith. DAVIOOE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Last Nights of the Opera Company. THIS EVENING. AUG. .41, Will be performed the Opera of GUY MA NNERING ; or, The ftypsey's Prophecy. Henry Bertram, Mr. D W. King ; Gabriel, Mr. R. Homier ; Julia Mani•ering, Miss Romer; Lucy Bertram, Miss Betts; Flora, Miss E. Terrey; Meg Merriltes, Mrs. H. Vining. Atter which, a New Operetta, written by J. B. Buckstone,Esq,, sand compo ed by E. citzwilharn, Esq., entitled a SUMMER NIGHT'S LuVE, supported by all the Vocalists To conclude with I,IE WARLOCK OF I'HE GLEN. Places sod t'ri•ate Boxes to De had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box. office, from Eleven to Four. STRAND THEATRE'. THIS EVENING, AUG 30, Will be performed MARTIN CHUZZLEWI P. Young Martin Chuzslewit. Mr. Il.noe; Old 'Martin Chuzzlexit, Mr. Ayliffe; Jonas Chuzzlewit, Mr A ttwood Montague fiftg, Mr. Roberts; Tom Pinch, Mi. Biddies; Mr. Pecksniff, and Mrs. Sairey Gamp, Air. H. Hall ; Miry Graham, Mrs. Coleman Pope. - To be followed by THE SPIPALFIELDS WEAVER. Mr. Simnao• a, Mr. Wright; Adele, Mrs. Montgomerie. After which, a New and Original Burlesque, entitled THE WON DERFUL LAMP, in a New Light, bein; an Illustrated Version of Aladdin. Abanazar, Mr. Paul Bedford; Aladdin, Mr. Wright; Princess Badroulbadour, Miss E. Stanky. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. *Two entirely New Pieces, and numerous additions made to the Company, including Mr J. Hudson Kirby, Mr. Binge, Mi. T. It Lacy, Mr. Aldridge, 31m W. West, &c., &c THIS EVENING, AUGUST 30. Will be performed a New • i crane Romance, entitled LA CATARINA ; or, The Diamonds of the Crown. Henriquez, Mr. T. H. Lacy ; Rebelled°, Mr. Dale i Mugnoso, Mr. Aldridge ; Diana, Miss Hamil•on; Catarina, Miss vincent. After which, the laughable Farce of NO. Sir J. Doubtful, Mr. Seaman; Hurricane . alt. James; Frederick, Mr. Binge; Lady doubtful, M s. W. West. To clnclude with JACK AND THE BEAN.STAI.K ; or, The Lad that knew how many Beans made Five. Jollibuffa, Mr John Herbert ; Jack. Miss Vincent. Private l• amily Boxes, £1 Is. Od. and Al lls. 6sl. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. On MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, and TIURSDAY. throughout the Season, th• Gardens will open with the following attractive Novelties : THE PICTURESQUE GROUNDS-FEEDING OF THE ANIMALSI.UNRIVALLED MENAGERIE. MODELS of VENICE and i3ONDON in the OLDEN TIME, Painted by Danson and Telbin. The sensation caused by this unrivalled production is beyond all tomer ecedent ; the artist, the amateur, the casual observer are all struck with its extraordinay beauty sad fidelity of delinea. Con,- it re unanimous in prnhouncing it the most wonderful ex. hibition ever witnessed. To view it only as a vehicle tor the terrific display at Dusk is unjust ; it should be seen in the calm stillness of the quiet Evening, with its Towers and Steeples reflected in the spa cious Lake, co be ftilly appreciated. The Evening PROMENADE ' ONCERTS on Mondays. Tues. days, Wednesday., and Thursdays concocted uy Mr. Godfrey. are up n a scale of more than usual excellence; I,tit words fail to doing justice to the awful representation et THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON. Its fearful :hiracteristics are truthfully pourtrayed, but at the same time so ueato dully blended with the Wonders of the Pyrotechnic Art, 'ill. delight is predominant over terror; and the Thousands who nightly crowd the Gardens hail it with acclamations, and admit that :2uutt,by. .he Unrivalled Pyrotechnist has achieved a matchless triumph. • The .i.uclens and Zoological Collection are in the most perfect state, 40 combining so many and interesting features, are by far the most .itira,tive lounge in or near the iretro,ooli.. Doors open at Nine—Feeding 01 the Animals at Half past Four — Concert at Half.pait Five. —Conflagration at Dusk. Admittance, One Shilling. EGYPTIAN HALL, PICCADILLY. PORTA.NT NOTICE. ONE SHILLING Admission to THE NAPOLEON MU •,EUM, the most magnificent and extensive Collection of Histo- Mead Curiosities and Works of Art ever known to have been formed by One Person, during Twenty-five years bf elaborate, research, at a cost ut 0,400 guineas, and to completely Illustrate, in tile most in structive and interesting manner, the most important part of Euro pean history. viz.--CIIA.RLES 1., OLIVER CROMWELL, and LOUIS XIV., to the deaths of GEORGE II L, and the. EMPEROR NAPOLEON, in 1821. This unique Museum has been visited often, daring the ia.s' and present year, by the Royal Family, the Duke of Wellington, the Foreign Princes, Ambassadors, and their Ladiei, also, many Lhousands of the Nobility and Public ; and the Pro prietor has recently been able to inn ease, by several very fine pictures, h. - L, his previous almost lucre Wale number and variety of MSA., Work:, of Art, and a multitude -,, valuable Relief, and other curiosities, in this _most ostructive and. as hundreds have said it ought to be, a Nations.: Maseum. 34,,t-y thousand have Inspected it, and THIRTY PRINCIPAL EDITORS of the PUI3LIC PRESS have stated that it ouch to be seen by every one. The price of &Wa lton is reduced to ONE SHILLING. The NAPOLEON MUSEUM Is to be seen only at the "Egyptian ;Tall." Piccadilly. dal!) , horn Ten till Dust. TILE WEATHER.—SuN OPTICE, Ana. 29. 1' • KRMOMETKR, Lowest, 47; Highest, 65; Noon, 64. BAROMETER, 30.2.—Warn, S.E. ont.—The number 32 on :he Thermometer denotes the f:-azing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is Ili tally placed opposite 30, and rain at 29. HIGH WATER AT LONDONAMIDGE THIS DAY. M 'ruing ... 10 minutes after 3 I livening ...2 1 1 Minutes after 3. ) tut LONDON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1814. The whole of France is up in arms against Eng• land, and for what cause no Englishman can form the. slightest conception. This new passion is a wild mania as groundless as the dreams of a lunatic. For the last thirty years we have made no aggression on the French, we have not interfered with them in any way, and if England has displayed any feelings towards its nearest neighbour they have been feelings of peace and amity. When the worn-out BOURBONS were extinguished, E ng l and rejoiced as much as France, and every French journal paid the highest compliments to a country which they now denominate " perfidious Albion." This has all the appearance of madness. England has done nothing to merit the reproach. During th e lon g p eriod of peace E ng l an d thwarted France in only one instance, by maintaining the integrity of the Turkish empire, an object which the French Government declared, at a pre vious period, it was most anxious to accomplish. What has France done during the last thirty years ? She has seized islands in the Pacific, about which, it is true, we care nothing, but that does not place France in a better light. She has occupied nearly the whole coast of Africa on the Mediterranean. She is threatening Tunis, bombarding Tangiers and 310- gadore, and extending her influence from Egypt to the utmost bounds of Morocco. By the most insi dious policy EsPARTERO was driven from Spain, Queen CHRISTINA, the favourite of the French Court, made supreme ruler, and the whole of the Peninsula, not even excepting our old ally, Portugal, placed under Frer,"a dominion. The constitutional Govern ment of both countries has been destroyed by French intrigue, yet the French rage as if they were the injured parties. There is no sense or reason in the 4.. V cf , e C -4 • . s atv••l l i•N 4 4 air ' 4" • W . - 4!114020 ' 4141 ..' '; - ' .‘ THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST SO, 1844. in the dispatch that requires explanation. The Ad miral says that he has taken possession of the port, but he states afterwards that he has placed the port in a state of blockade. This appears to us to be a contradiction, for we do not understand why a port is to be blockaded when we are in possession of it." We give the following extract from the same jour nal, to inform our readers of the vast preparations made by England for a war with France : "We know not whether a war between France and England will or will not arise out of the present difficul ties between the two countries, but we cannot but think that it is high time to prepare for it. England is making the most active preparations, and the farce played off by the Whig orators in tke House of Commons about the enfeebled state of the British navy must not be allowed to lull us into an insecure supineness. It is certain that England is actively arming and putting herself in a posi tion both to attack vigorously and to protect her foreign possessions. The fleet of Admiral Owen in the Mediter ranean is daily augmenting, and has now equalled in strength the squadron under the Prince de Joinville ; and, since the latter has received reinforcements, the English Admiral has applied to his Government, and two sail of the line have been ordered out. Besides this, we see from the accounts in the English papers that the most active preparations are making in all the English dockyards in bringing forward ships, and in a very few days several vessels of large size will be ready for commission. " For the last two months the Collingwood has been lying at anchor at Spithead, under orders for the Pacific, but Admiral Seymour still waits for orders, and it is more than probable that her destination will be changed, and that she will be sent to the Mediterranean. In addition to all these preparations for attack, the most diligent attention is being paid to those of defence. A com mittee has been appointed to inspect and report on the state of the defences of the coast, and orders have also been dispatched to the colonies to urge on the authorities there the necessity of improving the state of their de fences, and in using every endeavour to prepare them selves for any event which may arise. The militia at Jamaica are also ordered to be called out, and go through a regular drilling, as n as done in time of war. " At Malta, which is considered impregnable, the Governor has issued orders with regard to the fortifica tions of the island. " According to a morning paper, the Government has also come to an arrangement with Captain Warner for providing him with the means of testing his terrible dis covery. " When all these facts are brought together, we think we may, without rashness, conclude that the disposition of tke English Government is anything but pacific. From 1830 to 1840, no instance of like activity was ever witnessed with our neighbours, and at the very time when England - was at war in India, in China, and when the Eastern question was in agitation, preparations to such an extent were never made. England, it is there fore clear, anticipates war, and, if she anticipates it, it is clear she wishes for it ; and it will break out unless France is prepared to empty to its very dregs the cup of bitterness held out to her by her neighbour." A letter from Oran of the 17th gives the following details of the battle of Isly : "On the 14th Marshal Bugeaud, having no longer any hope of bringing the negotiations with Morocco to a friendly termination, and seeing the army, under the orders of the son of the Emperor, was augmenting daily, resolved to attack the Morocco camp, which had besides, on the 11th, sent some hundred sharpshooters to fire upon our outposts. As soon as his movement commenced the Morocco army deployed, and in a short time our little army was surrounded by more than 25,000 cavalry. The action commenced in pretty good order, and the artillery of the two camps opened the combat. The artillery of the Moors, which was much more numerous than ours, was pretty well pointed. Th e affair being undecided, the Marshal ordered a general charge of cavalry, and in a few minutes our horsemen arrived close to the guns of the enemy, which are said to have been more than forty in number. Eleven re mained in our hands. The infantry came up in double quick time, and the victory declared itself on our side. The Moors were completely routed, and only sought safety in flight. The French had about 200, put hors de combat. Amongst the killed and wounded were seve ral officers. It was in the evening of the 10th that Mar shal Bugeaud was informed of the bombardment of Tangiers. We learn from the frontier that the people of Morocco, encamped not far from the army, have abandoned their territory, leaving the ground covered with rich crops," The French Funds again fell on Tuesday about 35 centimes. The Three per Cents. closed at 801.25 c., and the Fives at 120 f. 30c. ME BOURSE—TUESDAY , AuctraT 27. First Highest Lowest Last ?rice. Price. Price. Price. French Five peresuts•• •• l2O 50 .. 120 55 .. 120 30 .. 120 40 Four per Cents. Three per Cents.•• Bank of France •......3020 ..3020 3020 ..3020 Belgian Bank Belgian Fives,lß4o ..•• 1842 .• .• 186* • • 1061 .. 106 j .. 1061 Spanish Active -• •• • • Threes .. 33 .. 33 .. 33 .. 33 •• bj •• .. .. 5j Portuguese Five per Cents 44 .. 44 .. 44 .. 44 Neapolitan-... •. •• •.•.. .. 98 .. 9$ .. 911 .. 98 Rowan .... •• • • 104; .. 1041 .. 1041 .. 1041 RALLWA.7 anfortms. St. Germatin ..........•••• 8110 .. $BO .. 1175 .. 1180 •....••••• 370 370 370 370 L.B•• .• 236 25 .. 236 15 .. 235 .. 235 Rouen ..... 950 .. 950 .. 950 • • 950 Rouen to Havre 732 50 .• 732 50 730 .. 73C Orleans 955 .. 955 .. 946 25 .. 947 50 Strasburg to 13a1e Avignon to Marseilles• ••• 747 50 . 747 50 .. 740 .• 740 RAILWAY SHARES FOR THE ACCOUNT, 31ST OF AUGUST. St. Germain .• .• .• • 850 .. 890 .. 885 .. 885 Versailles, R. 13•• •••••• • • • • • 370 • • 370 .. 370 970 L.B. .. . ... 237 50 .. 237 50_.. 232 50 .. 232 50 960 .. 960 .. 960 .. 950 Roden to Havre .. ••• • • • 7 30 • • 730 .. 727 30 .. 727 50 Orleans .• ••••••••• • - • • • • • • 933 • • 955 947 50 .. 947 50 to ...... 240 .. 240 . 237 50 .• 237 50 I Str v as igi tu n r Aiarsoillei• •• • Strasburg THE AFFAIRS OF. EGYPT. TRIESTS, AvG. 18.—A letter from Alexandria, of the 6th of this rannth, gives the following particulars of the secret events in Egypt : " Several governors of the provinces and district ma gistrates (Scheckßeleh) have made representations, both in Cairo and Alexandria, of the miserable conditit n of the Fellahs ; and the Consul of Cairo reported to Ibrahim Pacha, at Alexandria,—First, that the Fel labs in all the villages were in the most wretched con dition. Second —That the public works for which the people were not paid, and received no food, have in creased their_ misery in the most frightful manner, and have caused emigration. Third—That the land can not be cultivated, and the harvest be got in, if the Fel lahs are driven from village to village, and we are to pay penalties, &c. Fourth—That the governors and sheiks are no longer able to check the evil, and, there fore, require that a report be made to the Viceroy, and that the debt of 75,000 francs, due by the villages, shall be remitted them." The Consul of Alexandria hesitated to lay this melan choly account before the Pacha, who had but lately recovered from an indisposition. On a visit which Mehemet Ali paid to his daughter, she ventured to speak to him on this subject. On this he saw nothing but treachery around him, resolved to abdicate, to make a pilgrimage to Mecca, and declared he would have the head of the traitor, whom he did not name. On the 26th of July he went to the country seat of Moharran Bey, where he refused to see anybody, even his children and grandchildren, and when Sami Pacha appeared be fore him with a request that he would admit. Ibrahim Pacha, he fell into a rage, and drove him away in such a manner that he trembled all over for twenty-four hours after. On the 27th he set out for Cairo, accompa nied by his physician. On the whole way he spoke little ; at Cairo he could see nobody, and frequently uttered the word " traitor." The Consuls of the Five Great Powers presented a note to Artim Be)'. inquiring to whom the Viceroy had confided the Go vernment during his pilgrimage, to which only a verbal answer was given. Tho Viceroy is said to be now more calm at Cairo. and to receive everybody. He has sum moned Ibrahim Pacha and several great men to delibe rate on the state of the country. Ibrahim Paella set out on Friday, and ought to have arrived in Cairo on Sunday, nr yesterday, but the mail from Alexandria, which was impatiently looked for, brought word that he had not arrived at Cairo on Sunday evening. One of the Consuls, not satis fi ed with Artim Bey 's verbal an swer, demanded one in writing, on which Artim Bey declared in a note that the health of his Majesty, which required his journey to Cairo, was re e stablished, and the Viceroy himself again directed the affairs of the Government. " All seems to be over, but we cann ot be q uite eas y Mehemettill we Ali, know btlyie;is mud esul conduct,tofthelib e rations at Cairo. has greatly exposed himself, and thrown great discredit on this part of his life. .The Consuls of the Great Powers have acted with energy. They have sent for ships of war to protect the Europeans at Alexandria. Au English corvette has al ready arrived. The Viceroy must be convinced that the Powers will not look on with indifference if he en dangers the tranquillity and safety of the country. Ile is old, and his intellectual faculties are much impaired. The best thing he could do would be to resign the go vernment to his son Ibrahim." JUDGICi.—(YEsTERDA.Y.)—Yesterday morn in g THE IRI SH STATE TRIALS.•-••MEETING or THE at twelve o'clock, being the hour appointed for the assembling of the Twelve Judges of England, to consider privately their views and opinions upon the writ of error brought by Mr. O'Connell and others, in the House of Lords, a few minutes before that hour the several Judges, with their usual characteristic punctuality, began to arrive at the residence of the Lord Chief-Justice of the Common Pleas, Sir Nicolas Conyngham Tindal, No, 43, Bedford square. The first to arrive was Chief Baron Sir F. Pollock, who was immediately afterwards follow ed by Lord Denman, Mr. Justice Alderson, and the whole of the other Judges of the Queen's Bench, Common Pleas, and Exchequer. Dui HOUSEROLD litrAwytt.—The undermen tioned change of quarters will take place this day, viz. ;—The first battalion of the Grenadier Regi ment of Foot Guards, from Winchester to Portman street barracks ; the second battalion, from St. George's barracks to Wihcheeter ; and the third battalion, from St. John's-wood barracks to Wellington barracks. Also the first battalion of the Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards, from Portman-street barracks to the Tower of London ; and the second battalion, from Wellington barracks to St. George's barracks ; and the first batta lion of the Scots Fusilier Regiment of Foot Guards, from the Tower of London to Windsor ; and the second bat talion. from Windsor to St, John's-wood barracks. present proceedings of Lours PHILIPPE'S Government, and they may depend upon the fact, that the other nations of Europe are not disinterested spectators of these aggressive schemes. England, thank GoD, is able to d&'end herself. She is not easily moved—she preserves for a long time that silence aifreux which the French army can appreciate, but when her dignity or her interests are in danger, no country rushes to the contest with more determined courage. We should regret to see it put to the proof—we wish to live in peace with the French people, who have many good qualities, but the gasconade of their press, and the encroachments of their Government, in a sphere which affect our possessions both in the Mediterranean and India, have increased to such a pitch, that even the warmest friends of peace can no longer be silent. by their posterity, and it is, we repeat, no very aus picious sign of the times when a proposal to erect a public monument in their honour is received with comparative indifference. Such, unfortunately, ap pears to be the case at present as regards the Scottish Reform martyrs ; for though Mr. Hums and those who think with him have been laudably zealous in their endeavours to awaken a proper feeling of grati tude in the public mind, yet we fear we must confess that they have hitherto failed of success, and admit with the Morning Post, that "the position in which the Martyrs' Committee find themselves placed is due mainly to the deficient sympathy of the people in their cause." Our Tory Contemporary, of course, chuckles hugely over this fact, but for our own part we regard it with no ordinary degree of apprehenssion. When public spirit is boldly and actively on the alert, there need be no great cause to dread the encroach ments of authority ; it is only when it is tame and apathetic that results may be anticipated unfa vourable to constitutional liberty. We do not say that the PUL Ministry entertain the slightest notion of in vading the acknowledged rights of the people, but were they inclined to do so, we fear that the temper ofthe times is such that they would meet with but a languid re sistance. For months past scarcely any stir or energy has been exhibited, whether within or without the walls of Parliament. The conflict of principles seems to be at an end, and the public mind has become as stagnant as the waters of a Dutch canal. The consequence has been, that during the session Ministers have carried everything their own way ; and judging from the cold, sluggish feeling manifested by the people for the last six months, we da verily believe that if Sir R. Pm, was to come forward next year with a proposition for increasing the pressure of the income-tax, a few faint growls of dissatisfaction would be the utmost amount of hostility that would be brought to bear against him. If this political apathy on the part of the public were the result of a general and fast increasing state of prosperity, there would not be so much cause to deprecate it; but it is the result, rather, of distrust—of doubt—we might almost add—of despondency. Dissatisfied with the present condition of things, and bewildered with the extraordinary confusion, incertitude, and inconsist ency prevailing among parties, the people know not how to act, on whom to rely, or in what direction to make a decided more. They see Tories professing Whig principles, and Whigs every now and then ex hibiting a sneaking predilection for Toryism ; they see Radicals tame and acquiescent, and Chartists quitting one by one the field of political controversy ;—and seeing these strange things, they are naturally filled with distrust of all public men, a fueling to which must be attri buted their present state of lethargy, and calm and half contemptuous indifference. But it is not in the nature of things that this drowsiness should be of much longer continuance. A reaction must inevitably take place ere many months have elapsed, and when it does, Sir R. Pim, and his obsequious supporters will find that the time is come when they must abandon the system of expediency, and advocate something like a principle, if they would hope to maintain their station at the helm. It would be a short-sighted and unwise policy in the present Government, indeed, to persevere in that i fatal neglect of the most important of all the inte rests connected with our coasting trade, which so many preceding Governments, equally with them selves, have been so justly chargeable—on any plea of having their attention exclusively engrossed by the present aspect of our foreign relations. There are popular occupations in the welfare of which— albeit they rank among the most hardy and pre carious which are followed by the humbler classes of our maritime population—matters of the most essen tial and immediate concernment to the security and honour of the empire at large are indissolubly bound up. Among these our FISHERIES are entitled to take the very first rank. We place them, avowedly, before even our Royal Navy, for the Fisheries are the school which form the sailors who are to man our ships and to protect our coasts. Whether we con sider them merely in reference to this destination, or as the purveyors of that vast proportion of healthful and nutritious food which they supply fur the, daily consumption of an immense portion of our abound ing population ;—whether we reflect upon the ready and effective reinforcement they supply to us in time of war, on an element to which they may be said- to be native, and amidst whose tempests they can pur sue with spirit and confidence the service they are appointed to, whilst less practised hands shrink ap palled from the execution of any duty, through the fury of storms and the consciousness of surrounding perils--or we look upon them, only, as ministering to the first great and universal wants of all human society ;—we are bound to regard the brave and hardy seamen engaged in our fisheries with pecu liar favour. But it is notorious that we have for many years greatly forgotten our duty in this re spect. They have complained, by memorials, to the Board of Trade—petitions to Parliament—remon strances to the influential people of their vicinities; they have shown how the larger boats of the French and Dutch fishermen have committed successive en croachments on their fishing grounds from tine to time, accompanied sometimes with acts of violence to the person ; at others with the destruction of their nets and tackle. Their complaints have been too often wholly disregarded, or replied to by measures that have proved wholly ineffective : such as conven tions negotiated between our own and other Govern ments whose boats have presently treated them as mere waste paper—and been permitted to do so with all but absolute impunity. It is curious to remark how much the national value of our own Fisheries was underrated—how dimly suspected the policy of en couraging such nurseries of our maritime strength— before the days in which our PETTYS, and TEMPLES, and CIIILDES, Our CAMPBELIS, ANDERSONS, OSWALDS, and SMITHS, succeeded in awakening and fixing public attention to the subject. If a wholesome jealousy was aroused for a brief season, under the first of the STUARTS, to prohibit to all foreigners the right of fishing on our coasts, in twenty-seven years afterwards, under his successor, 30,0001. were ac cepted from the Dutch as the price of rescinding that prohibition, and leaving them at liberty to monopo lise the fisheries of a large portion of our coasts. The wiser Scotch had already extended and protected their herring fishery for five centuries when the " Herring Statute" of 1357 was passed; but al though with the English this invaluable fish had be come an article of extensive commerce since the dis covery of the process for pickling them in 1390, nearly four centuries elapsed before the incorporation of our British Herring Fishing Company. In that interval the aggressions and encroachments our fisher men had to sustain had been repeatedly pressed by the Crown on the attention of Parliament as fitting objects for its intervention, and as calling for more effectual protection at the hands of the Executive. Of our ancient fishery at Newfoundland, which we have pursued in that distant colony ever since 1577, we only speak here because it has notoriously proved often a grand feeder of the Navy with able-bodied and excellent seamen, and because foreign encroach ments on the cod fishery grounds around that large island have been the actual cause of fierce hostilities and subsequent treaties between this country and the Crowns of Spain and France, the States of Holland, &c. Our whaling fishery, like the others, has fear fully declined of late years, and with it the profitable employment of some of the stoutest merchant ships, ping, and the most thorough and intrepid sailors which this country could produce. It occurs to us that it would well consist with that policy of nautical preparation on which we dwelt at large in a recent article, and at the same time operate as a boon of well-deserved encouragement to a set of men whose claims upon the favour of their country have been too often and too long slighted, to adopt some immediate and general plan of registration that should include a perfect calendar of every fishing boat on every part of the coast, its tonnage, names, and numbers of present owners, and crews, occupation (or branch of fishing), limits of its usual fishing, &c. The value of this craft, when information of what is passing in the harbour on the other side of the Channel, is inappreciable. For these services, and for bounties on their volunteering into Queen's ships when re quired, &c., &c., funds should be appropriated ; and the same operation might likewise include further provision for wounds, pensions for long service, &c• We are confident that, in the disastrous event of a war, a previously-matured scheme of this sort would prove of the most essential benefit to the recruiting reserves necessary for the maintenance of our naval arm in its full vigour and readiness. For the happier object of preserving the continuance of peace, it would be an emphatic demonstration of the completeness of our preparations for war. In either case it would secure the active and energetic vigilance of a body of men whose local knowledge of the coasts of both countries, and the incidents of tides, currents, shoals, &c., at various points, would render them the best adapted corps of marine observation, if we may so speak, that we could possibly hope to organise. And not the least curious fact connected with this notion is, that the plan of such an organisa tion, and the machinery for registering such a force, are already set out in the " Second Annual Report of the Commissioners of Ireland" (presented to Parlia ment pursuant to 5 and 6 Vict., c. 106, s. 122). We shall have occasion to give some extracts from this document in a day or two, and we will on that occasion more particularly commend the simple, but effective plan, of registration devised by the Commis sioners to the reader's attention. Accounts from Madrid of the 21st inst. announce that the Emperor of Morocco had yielded to all the demands of Spain, and that peace had been established between the two countries. Spain is to receive a compensation for the wrongs of which she complains, all the expenses are to be paid, and also an extension of territory on the side of Ceuta. The following letter announcing the fact appears in a Madrid jour nal. It is addressed by the Spanish Consul at Tetuan to the Governor of Ceuta:— - " Consular Agency of Spain at Tetuan. "I have the honour to inform your Excellency that the Pacha Sidi Ashash has had a conference with the agents and Vice-Consuls residing in this town, at which he communicated to them a letter from his Imperial Ma jesty of a very recent date, in which he congratulates himself in the most expressive terms on the perfect and sincere reconciliation that has taken place between Mo rocco and all other nations, except France. His Im perial Majesty expressly recommends to all the Go vernors and public functionaries to give every assistance and protection to the agents and subjects of those nations. The Pacha has invited me to communicate to you those tidings without delay, and to inform the captains of the feluccas of Ceuta that they may come to Tetuan in all safety. " ABM) I.I.APAN. " Aug. 12." All the Spanish ♦easels of war, except one, had, in consequence of this arrangement, left Ceuta for Algesiras. The QUIEN, accompanied by her mother and sis ter, made her entry into Madrid at four o'clock on the morning of the 21st. The Three per Cents. were done at 27i at 60 days, and the Fire per Cents. at 20 at 48 days. The Paris papers, and especially those of the Op position, are loud in their praises of the bravery and skill displayed by the Prince DB JOINYILLB at Moga dore. The affair has caused quite a sensation through out France, and even Republican and Legitimatist journals begin to regard the Orleans dynasty in a more favourable light. There is no accounting for tastes, but really we cannot see what great cause there is for rejoicing. The Moors had no more chance against the French than the Chinese against the English. These primitive people are unable to contend against the skill and discipline of European warfare, and victories obtained over such contemptible opponents cannot furnish any test of military genius or real bravery. They are to be regarded with satis faction only as far as they contribute to peace, and the civilisation of barbarians. That was the light in which we ♦iewed our successes in China, though England was contending with an empire containing a population of three hundred millions. France has attacked successfully a little empire containing a population of a few millions, yet the writers in the journals make as much noise about the affair as if the best troops of Europe had been conquered by a handful of Frenchmen. One of the Ministerial journals, it is true, is silent on the subject, but the other, the Globe, breaks forth in these strains : " There cannot be a heart unmoved at the multiplied recitals of the feats of arms of our soldiers and seamen. Three victories in nine days! On the 6th, Tangiers bombarded; the 14th, 20,000 Moors beaten ; and on the 15th, Mogadore ruined and taken! Such are the humiliations of France during the month of August. Let no one imagine, however, that this will change a word in the language of the Opposition journals. Their businesa is to have it believed that the Govern ment is sacrificing the dignity of the country, and they will say so unceasingly. What do parties care about falsehood? Dolus an virtu:, quis in hoste re guirat f Such is their morality. These journals, too, are truly unfortunate in their predictions. They declared that England had forbidden our fleet to meddle with Tangiers, and it was there that it com menced its operations. They said that England had interdicted the landing of a single man at Mogadore, and, lo! it is occupied! As to the English press, it will allow, we hope, that our gunners have improved from the 6th to the 15th; that, for ignoramuses, our pointers do not aim too ill ; and that, for cowards, our officers come close enough to the enemy." The Constitutionnel expresses equal satisfaction, and rejoices that the imputations cast on the naval tactics of the young Prince and his officers have received such a speedy and triumphant refutation. " This new feat of arms," says M. Turass's journal, " ac complished by the PaiNca and our seamen, will im pose silence, we hope, en the shameless correspon dents of the Times—on those maligners, full of envy and ignonance, whose gross invectives are disavowed by all honourable men. It is not probable that the bombardment of Mogadore will cause any satisfaction in England; but it will at least command, with re spect to our navy, that courtesy on which well-bred men of all countries pride themselves in similar cir cumstances. France will rejoice that at both extre mities of Morocco our brave men have entered on a struggle of honour and courage. Whilst Marshal BUGBACD, with 8,000 brave followers, put 24,000 cavalry to the route, the Prince DB JOINVILLE was placing his foot on the soil of Africa, and battering down the old city of the pirates." " The bombardment of Mogadore," says the National, " was the necessary consequence of that of Tangiers, and the means of obtaining satisfaction could only be rendered efficacious by taking posses sion of one or several points of the coast. We con gratulate the French authorities, whoever they may be, to whom the initiative of this resolution belonged, and we wait tranquilly for the opinion of the English journals on this new feat of arms, which has added honour to our nary. There is, however, something It is no very encouraging sign of the times when the memory of those who have suffered in the cause of freedom fails to excite a lively feeling of respect and gratitude in the mind of the community at large.— The Scottish Reform martyrs—for it is to their case we are alluding—were men who, in days when Government was but another term for despotism, and prerogative was pushed beyond the limits of the Constitution, made a bold, unhesitating stand against the encroachments of authority and freely sacrificed their all in the patriotic, but unsuccessful endeavour to maintain the rights of the people unimpaired. Though beset by spies, and encompassed on all sides by dangers of the most alarming kind, their high moral courage never once deserted them ; and though they failed in their attempts to ro use pu bli c sp i r i t to suc h a d egree as might enable it to shake off the PITT and DUNDAII yoke, which then pressed so heavily on the best ener gies of the country, yet the example they set of pa triotic resistance to arbitrary power was not barren of good results, for it served in some degree to keep alive the flame of liberty which otherwise might have been wholly extinguished, and paved the way for that measure of Reform which was wrung from a reluctant aristocracy in the memorable year 1832. The memory of such men, there fore, should be held in profound reverence MONEY AND COMMERCIALNEWS CITY, THURSDAY EVENING. The Funds have left off rather heavily at 99i for Consols. The New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. have been 1011 to 101. Bank Stock was 199 to Sellers rather pressed in the market. The Foreign investments were neglected. Spanish Five per Cents. were quoted 22i 1, and the Three per Cents. at 331 4. • Mexican Bonds were 351 Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. were 611 to 61. The additional transactions in Railway Shares have been these :---Bristol and Exeter were 11 ; Chester and Holyhead, 11 ; Great North of England, 13 ; Birming • ham, 120 to 119 ; Manchester and Leeds, 52 ; Midland, 44 ; Northern and Eastern, 12 ; South-Eastern, 4i ; York and North Midland, Scarborough Branch, 21 ; Ditto, Selby Scrip, 331 to 34:1- ; and Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux, 1 premium. Eastern Counties have been 111 ; Blackwall, 9i ; Brighton, 1i- to 2 ' • and Green wich, 4 di:c .unt. Bristol North American Bank Shares were discount. The following notice was issued this afternoon at the Bank of England : " The Governor and Company of the Bank of Eng land are ready, until further notice, to receive applica tions for loans, upon the deposit of approved Bills of Ex change not having more than six months to run, Ex chequer Bills, and East India Bonds, such loans to be repaid on or before the 23d October next, with interest at the rate of three per cent. per annum, and to be for sums of not less than 2,000/. each." (From The Sun of Last Night.) There was more business doing yesterday in the Liver pool Cotton market, and full prices were realised. Sales li,ooo bales, of which about 1,500 are for export, com prising 300 Surat, and 1,200 American. The total sales were 400 Egyptian, at 6d to 9d ; 150 Bahia, at 6d ; 350 Maranham, at 4kd to 51d; 200 Pernam, at 6d to si; 600 Surat, 3d to 3.id ; and the rest American, at 34d to sid per lb.—Shares were rather dull. Chester and Holyhead,6i; Eastern Counties, Registered, 131 ; Glasgow and Ayr, 58 ; Grand Junction, 218 ; Liverpool and Manchester, New, 361 ; Birmingham, 2181 ; Lynn and Ely, 31 ; Manchester and Leeds, Quarter, 51. Bs. 9d. ; Midland, 106 ; North British, 31 ; South-Eastern, 3S+ ; Ditto, New, 12} ; Paris and Lyons, 2/. 7s. 6d. ; Paris and Rouen, 37. A decision, given by the Commissioner of the Bir mingham District Court of Bankruptcy recently, demands peculiar attention, as it is the first time, we believe, that the law has been so settled upon the point raised. An insolvent, named Wood, having filed his petition, it was dismissed by the Learned Commissioner, on these grounds :—Firstly, that the insolvent had not resided for twelve months immediately preceding the filing of his petition ; and, secondly, that his domicile was not situated in the district of the Court ; for though he had himself been residing in England some time, his wife and family were now in France, and he had come over expressly to take the benefit of the Act. This was held to be contrary to the intention of the Legislature, and therefore the petition was dis missed. If this principle is held to be generally good, a great number of individuals who have been compelled to live abroad, will be debarred tho privileges which the recent changes in the law hold out to insolvents. We are entirely without arrivals from the colonies today of later dates than those before obtained. The Funds have been very heavy this morning owing principally to the settlement of the Consol Account now in progress. Stock has been borrowed, and the continuation is at one-sixteenth per cent. For Money the value of Consols has fallen from 981 to 94, and for Account from 98; to 98g. This afternoon the New Tree-and•a-llelf per Cents. will close for the calcula tions of the dividends, as well as the Three-and a-Half per Cents. Reduced. The Government brokers bought 5,0001. Reduced Three per Cents. at 99i. The premium upon Exchequer Bills has fallen to 745., and Bank Stock is lower by per cent. than it was yesterday. In the Foreign Funds the business done to-day has been very trifling. Spanish Bonds are rather higher, the Actives being quoted at 22k Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents., however, fluctuated from 611 to 61f. Belgian Bonds are heavy at 1021. Mexican are at 35i, and Colombian at 134. An improvement has taken place in the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway Shares, in the Great Western Half Shares, and in the London and Birmingham. The other shares are generally rather lower than yesterday. PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK (From the Official List.) Bank 5t0ck...... .....„.„....».»....».».».«.«....» 199% 199 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 99%%M 3 per Cent. Consols. Annuities ........... 98% 1 4% 9% per Cent. Annuities, 1818 lOl% Iper Cent. Annuities ' 1726.......... .............. 5+7%34 S i per Cent. Reduced Annuities New 3% per Cent. Annuities.....„..... 101% 100%9( 101% Long Annuities, Exore sth 12% 7-16 India Stock India 80nd5,1,000... ........... ..... -- Ditto under 1,000 96 Bank Stock for Account Consols for Account .... ....... 98% % Jr.xch 'us? Bills, INci. 11, ,,,, .. 00000 ••••••••••••••••••• —••••••....-.. . 50Ql.••••••••••••••••••••••••••• .. •••••••••••• 75 71; era. Ditto Small— ........ — ..».»..••• 75 77 pos. Ditto Advertised — PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Belgian Bonds, 5 per Cent 102% Columbian Bonds. 13% Danish Bonds, 1825, 3 per Cent ft/ Mexican*Bonds, '837, 5 per Cent ..... 35% Spanish ponds, Five per Cent 1840............... 2234% Ditto Passive Bonds. .... ........ ..........._ 5% Ditto Three per Cent. Dutch 2% per Cents ........ ••••••••••• ........ ....••••• 611 %% % Dutch 5 per Cents. IOO%Y. PRICES OF SHA lt ES AT ONE O'CLOCK. R•ILW•TS. Pato. Pas iliac,. Birmingham and Gloucester..„.. 100 ......... 110 .. to 109 Caledonian Chester and Holyhead 5 51343 ... to Dublin and Ca5he1....... ........ ..... 2% ...-. ._ ._ Eastern Counties ..... ........... ... Z — to Ditto New Registered...—. 81. Si'. Bd. Great Western Ditto 4 Shares ............ Ditto fifths _ . . Loudon and Birmingham. lOO 2 9 to Dit o % Shares .......... ........... 2 London and Brighton London and Greenwich London and South Western 41% ...... 84334 ..... to Lynn and Ely. Newcastle and DarlingtonJunct. 21 ..... - Norwich and Brandon South Devon York and North Midland ........ 50 .........105 Ditto Selby Scrip Paris .nd Orleans ..... —... ........ ... 20 Parisand .. ............ 000000000 000 20 ......... 97 - 3( MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, AUG. 23.—We have had a dull market ; prices generally are lower, and little business done. Barnsley Junction, 3i- ; Leeds. Dewsbury, and Manchester, 1 prem. ; Manchester and Birmiagham, 52} to 52 ; Ditto, Quarters, 5-1- ; South- Eastern New, 11 ; Trent Valley, 9:. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bask Stock 199 Indian Stock 281% 3 per Cent. Red 99 Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent. Cons. 5 per Cent. Red lOl% Ditto New Annuities... New 3% per Cent lOl Lica. Bills, 1,00.11. 1%d... 74 Pm. New 5 per Cent. Ditto 5(5)1 Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small... ......... 77 pm. Jan 1860 l2 7.16 Bank Stock for Acct.... 199 Oct. 1859 ,Consols for Act. 98% Jan. 1E 1 60.. ....... ;India Stock for Acct.... FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian. 5 per Cent .., ...... Portuguese, 5 per Cent Belgian; 5 per Cent 102% Ditto, New Ditto — Brazilian Bonds ............. Prussian, 5 per Cent Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent... -, . Russian, 5 per Cent — Chllian, 0 per Cent — Ditto, Metallic ....... ........ ... Colombian, 6 per Cent .....; 13% Spanish, 5 per Cent 2-% Ditto, 1824. .... .......... ....... . Ditto, 3 per Cent 33% Cuba Bonds , . 13 per Cent .t. Ditto, Deferred — Danish, :3 per Cent Greek, 18-5, 5 per Cent — Exchange ..... ....... .... —f. --c. Mexican, 5 per Cent .... Ditto, 6 per Cent., 1837.. Peruvian, 1825, 6 per Cent,,, Ditto, S per Cent .......1004 SHARES. Bristol and Exeter (70 paid) Bl Chester and Holyhead ( 5 paid) Eastern Counties (23 paid) Great North of England, 100 paid London and Birmingham (Stock) London and Blackwall (161..135. 4d.) 7 London and Brighton (50 paid) London and Greenwich (12t. iris. 4d. paid) B% Manchester and Leeds (70 paid. h EasternMidland u, Countiesand Dover (190 paid) (33 2s 4d paid) a Northern and Eastern (45 p a id) 38 York and Scarborough Branch (2% paid) Orleans, Tours, and Bourdeaux, 1 p a id ...... laris and Orleans (21) paid) Paris and Rouen, 20 paid DUTCH MAIL. FROM THE RHINE, AUG. 18.—The annual meeting of the Central Commission for the Navigation of the Rhine will be held at Maintz in a few days. It is said that Holland intends to make some very liberal proposals, which will be favourable to the German transit trade. Thus it is to be proposed to abolish all the various tolls levied on the navigation of the Rhine through the Netherlands to the sea, and to substitute for them the very low duty of ten Dutch cents. for a hundred kilogrammes. Holland asks, in return, that Russia shall abolish the tolls on the Rhine between Cologne and Emmeruh, and charge no higher duty than on goods sent from Belgium, by the railway to Cologne, up the Rhine. Germany may be glad of such measures, especially considering its very un certain position with respect to Belgium. FRANKFORT, AuG. 24.—Their Majesties the King and Queen of the Netherlands arrived yesterday even ing- at Mayence, where they were immediately com plimented by the reigning Duke of Nassau. Their Majesties arid the Duke then we n t f rom M ayence to the chateau of Biberien, where their Majesties passed some time with the Duke's A special train brought their Majesties to Fra . nkfOrt, where they were received at the landing-place by Princess gustus of Prussia, and Prince Frederick of Prussia. Their Majesties then went to Harlan, where the Queen stopped for the night, while the King and Prince Alexander proceeded direct to Vienna. The Queen intended toproceed on her journey this morning. BRUSSELS, AUG. 26.—The progressive increase of the railway receipts, which has been observed since the beginning of this year, has not stopped in the month of July. The total receipt, which in June was 953,000 francs, rose in July to 1,092,023 francs, and but for the unfavourable weather which prevailed through the whole month, the increase would have been still greater. The total receipt in the first seven months of 1843 was 4,419,142 francs ; in the first seven months of 1844, 6,050,595 francs. The number of travellers in the same period was, in 1843, 1,599,000 ; in 1844, 1,899,000. The quantity of goods conveyed was, in 1843, 134,583,536 kilogrammes ; in 1844, 274,110,278 kilo grammes. A SXCIRT ATTACC—FOLKSTONE.-011 Monday evening as Mr. Broderick, superintendent of the com pany's omnibuses, was driving from the station after the 9.15 train had gone down, some fellow, who had se creted himself under the tramroad arch leading to the North Foreland, threw a brick, which struck Mr. Bro derick on the loins with such force as nearly to knock him off the box, and severely injured him. The proba bility seems that the attack was made by some disap pointed vagabond to revenge himself fur some grievance, and it is supposed mistook the party. If dtsoovered, such ruffianly and unmanly conduct merits a severe puni sham t.-3faidetone Gauger. CITY CHAMBERLAIN TO THE WORTHY AND INDEPENDENT LIVERY OF LONDON. GENTLEMEN ,—A vacancy having occurred in the im portant and honourable office of Chamberlain of this City, I venture to announce myself a candidate for your favour, when you shall be called upon to exercise your franchise in the election of a successor to my lamented friend, the late Sir William Heygate, Bart. In earnestly soliciting your support at the ensuing election, I beg leave respectfully to state that I am a Liveryman of this, my native City ; the sow, also the grandson of Liverymen—that within this City I was trained to the laborious and honourable profession in which I am engaged—that for upwards of forty years I have been a member of your ancient Corporation and during twenty- three years of that period a Magistrate of London—and that, having served the offices of Sheriff and Lord Mayor, I am now, with the exception of my esteemed friend, Sir Claudius Stephen Hunter, the SENIOR member of the Court of Aldermen. Thus long and intimately connected with you, I cast myself upon your kind consideration, gratified by the re flection that the office which I solicit involves no political question, and while respectfully adverting to the punctuality, diligence, and impartiality with which it has been my constant endeavour to discharge my ma gisterial duties, beg to assure you, that should I by your suffrages be elevated to the station to which I aspire, I shall relinquish my professional pursuits, in order that my energies may be entirely devoted to your service.—With much respect, I hare the honour to be, Gentlemen, Your faithful and devoted servant. ANTHONY BROWN. Mincing-lane, Aug. 29, 1844. LLOYD'S SHIPPING. LONDON, Atm. 29.—Wind, S.E., fresh breeze, and fine. DEAL, AUG. 28.—Wind, N.N.W. to .N.E., P.X E.S.E.—Arrd. Castle Lacklan, Bruce, Jamaica ; Eliza beth, Dinnel, Ballina ; Percival Foster, Hall, Memel ; Olive, Brown, Cuba. Arrd. from the River and sld. Elizabeth and Antoinnette, Batavia; Prince of Wales, Hopkins, Calcutta ; Oscar, Wrangles, and Mary Rowe, Gable, Ichaboe ; Emma Searle, Chambers, Prince Ed ward's Island. FALMOUTH, Atm. 28.—Wind, variable airs and light.— Off port 27th, Stag, Pearson, Matanzas; Sir John Mar shall, Paysheep, LIVERPOOL, Atm. 28.—Wind, N.W., light.—Arrd. Leviathan, Weale, Galveston; Mary, Laing, Honduras. Sid. Hashemy, Calcutta ; Mary Cousin, Ichaboe ; George Glen, Arthur, lehaboe ; lona, Morrison, Ichaboe ; Ga zelle, Westerburg, Brazil ; Susan Drew, Page, Mobile ; Herries, Brown, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Royalist, Lawson, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Commerce, Man sell Richebueto ; rbit, Larkin, and Ottawa, Dryman, Quebec ; Margaret Ann, Cole, Newfoundland. DUBLIN, AUG. 26.—Sailed Antelope, Casey, Prince Edward's Island. _ WATERFORD, AUG. 26.- —Arrd. James, Reiley, Quebec. RAMSGATE, AVG. 28.--Sid. La Piedad, Riva de Sells. CowEs, Am. 28. Arrd. Thames, Prince, Havannah ; Astrachan, Porter, New Orleans. OFr SALCOMBE, AuG. 27.—Murat, Boling, New York, fur Amsterdam. SWANSEA, AUG. 27.—Arrd. Jessie Anderson, Mor rison, Valparaiso. Sid.' Appleton, Cuba. LEITH, AuG.27.—Arrd. Conquerol., Gleig, Montreal. MILFORD, AuG. 27.—The Friendship, from Aber dovery to Newport, which was run ashore in Martin's Haven, 25th inst., got off last night, and has been brought here, with part of forefoot knocked away. Oct MARGATE, AUG. 27.—Cordelia, Havannah. NEWPORT, AUG. 27.—S1d. James Edward, Charles ton; Lord Althorp, Miramichi. SALCOMBE, AUG. 27.—The Eliza and Mary, of Poole, Lock, is ashore at Newfoundland. HULL, AUG. 28.—Sid. Julie Bruscovitz, China. ALDBOROUGH, AuG. 28.—The Neptune, from Dantzic, full of water and abandoned, was passed, 22d inst., by the Brant, arrived off. KINGSTON, NEAR ARUNDEL, AUG. 26.—A bottle, Con taining a paper with the following information upon it, was picked up off this yesterday :—" On a raft off the Bermudas, made from the wreck of the Thunder, of Ply mouth, caught in a gale on the 22d of June last aban doned on the 25th ; two hands lost and one child pas senger. Pity us unfortunate souls." This is addressed to Mr. Edmunds, 52, Crawford-street, London. HONORARY REWARD BY THE KING OF THE FItENCII. Admiralty, 28th August, 1844. Sir,—l am commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to transmit to you herewith a copy of a letter from the Foreign-office, transmitting a gold medal which has been awarded by his Maj. sty the King of the French to Captain Kreeft, of the English mer chant service, for his assistance to a French vessel wrecked on the coast of Africa; and I am to signify their Lordships' request that you will cause the said medal to be delivered safely to Captain Kreeft.—l am, Sir, your most obedient servant, (Signed) JOHN BARROW. W. Dobson, Esq., Secretary, Lloyd's. (Copy.) Foreign-office, Aug. 23, 1844. Sir,—l am directed by the Earl of Aberdeen to trans mit to you a copy of a note from the Count St. Aulaire, the French Ambassador at this Court, together with a gold medal, which the King of the French has been gra ciously pleased to award to Captain Kreeft, of the Eng lish merchant service, for the important services ren dered by him to the crew of a French vessel ship wrecked on the coast of Africa, in the month of No vember last ; and I am to request that you will cause the medal to be forwarded to Captain Kreeft. I am, &c. (Signed) H. U. ADDINGTON. Sir John Barrow, Bart., &c., &c., &c. THE NEW INSOLVENT ACT. IMPORTANT INTIMATIONS. In the Birmingham Bankruptcy Court. on Satur day last, Mr. Commissioner Balguy made the follow ing remarks on the above-named Act : " It may be of some general importance that I should take the opportunity of alluding to the pe titions of insolvents presented under the Act lately passed for the amendment of the law of ' Insolvency Bankruptcy, and Execution ; and I am particularly led to do so from the circumstance of my being obliged to return two petitions to the partiev, who applied to file them, upon the ground that the sig natures to such petitions were not duly attested. The 38th section of the Act to which I have just referred. expressly enacts, that the rules and orders made by the Judges and Commissioners of the Court of Bank ruptcy under the said recited Act (the sth and 6th Vic., c. 116), shall extend and be applicable to this Act, ex cept as otherwise provided by this Act.' Now the 4th order requires that each sheet of such petition and schedule shall be signed by the petitioner in the pre sence of, and shall be attested by, his attorney.' lam of opinion that this means an attornev-at-law—a known and recognised officer; and I think it very material for the interests of the insolvents themselves that it should . be so. Assuming that a party may consti tute an unprofessional man his attorney or agent to act for him in the matter of his petition (which, however, I am not at this moment prepared to concede), I am quite sure that it would not be to his advantage to do so. In that case, the authority must be given by power of attorney, which to be used in this Court must be verified by affidavit ; here, I sus pect, in the article of expense alone, the insolvent would be damnified. Again, the petition, the sche dule, and the affidavit annexed to those documents, are to be in a certain prescribed form, and if not in that form, such petition shall be dismissed; for so says the section of the late statute. Here, as it ap pears to me, the habits of a professional man are re quired, or it is to be feared that in too many instances the parties will be delayed, if not altogether defeated, in the protection they are seeking. An effective pro tection can be secured only by attending to the re quirements of the Act. One false step might render it unavailing, and the unfortunate insolvent, after some expense and anx;ety, would ultimately find him self in the predicament in which he stood when he first made his application to this Court. And I may add that it is not altogether unimportant that these proceedings are under the guidance of those over whom this Court can exercise control, and whose charges are subject to its taxation."— Worcestershire Chronicle. SINGULAR DISCOVERY or SMUGGLED SrIRITS.— RociiEsTEß, AuG. 26.—At the Rochester Police-court this day, Mr. Francis Higginson, Lieutenant, R.N., and chief officer of the coast-guard stationed at this port, ap peared before the Mayor of this city, Mr. Larkin Allen, to prefer a charge of smuggling against Robert John Russell, a waterman of Chatham, under the Act of Par liament 3 and 4 William IV., cap. 53, sec. 51—an Act for the Prevention of Smuggling. The prisoner who was brought up from the station-house, having been con fined since Saturday night, was taken by Peter Doherty, a boatman of the coast guard, about eleven o'clock at night of the 24th instant, having in his possession a box and two hampers, which be was landing from a boat at th e Sim-hard, Chatham. The property was secured by the coast guardsman, and locked up in a room at the Sun-hotel, and the prisoner was taken before Lieutenant Iligginson, when that officer asked the prisoner if the hamper and box contained spirits ; if they did not, he should not detain him, as he was bound to be very jealous of the liberty of the subject. The prisoner said he did not know what they eontsined, as he had brought them ashore from the Hussar hulk, he having . been induced to do so by order of Dr. Ferrier, and the gun-room steward of her Majesty's ship Thunder, Commander E. Barnett, which ship was lying alongside the Hussar, off the Dockyard. The prisoner, on being informed by Lieutenant Higgin son that he must be detained, made a statement which induced Mr. Higginson, on Sunday morning, to go on board the Thunder, and see the commander on the sub ject, and the prisoner was confined at the station-house. On board the Thunder, the gun-room steward admitted giving the prisoner the box containing twelve bottles of foreign Geneva, and hampers containing thirty-five bottles of port wine and sherry, to take on shore, which had been given to him by the doctor of the ship ; and the doctor admitted giving the same to the steward, but denied knowing anything of the box and hampers leaving the vessel. The property, on Sunday morning, was deposited in the Custom-hou,e of this city. The prisoner, who is a married man, and has a family of children, was remanded till Friday next ; and, in the meantime, the depositions taken are to be forwarded to the Board of Customs in London for their decision. SUMMARY OF NEWS AND Vutlltt eptnton. " Who runs may read." rOILDIGN. According to accounts from Paris, Marshal Soult still remained at his country seat in the South. It was re: ported that he was to resign the office of Minister of War, but that he had consented to remain as President of the Counctl without a portfolio. The Minister of Commerce has returned to Paris from Vichy. A letter from Metz, of the 24th, says :—" The weather, has again become frightful, the rain not having cease° falling since last evening. The orders given for the j movement of the troops are not the less maintained, an d the greater number of the soldiers will arrive here 00 Monday. Everything is in an active preparation for the commencement of operations on Wednesday. Deputa tions have arrived from the garrisons of Bavaria and Austria. to witness the operations. The Duke of Sass: Weimar and his sons are expected ; they sire to alight si the Prefecture. The Duke de Nemours and the Dula' de Montpensier continue to visit the military establish* ments." A letter from Marseilles of the 23d states that as til l Pharamond steamer entered the port with the newS , the victory of Isly, she dressed herself on* with Bags , and fired three shots to announce that she was the beare r of happy intelligence. The greatest excitement inner diately prevailed, and the newspaper offices were . i he . sieged by the crowd, anxious to learn what ho occurred. In the evening the public buildings wer e illuminated. The Moniteur Parisien says :—" The Moorish artoi , which attacked our troops on the banks of the reckoned 24,000 cavalry. The enemy must, in addition' have possessed a numerous irregular infantry, and pro,' bably some regular troops, to defend and work the sett '' lery. Marshal Bugeaud, as has been already stated, he ti under his orders only 7,600 infantry, 1,400 cavalry, an d 12 pieces of cannon." The Dioniteur Algerien of the 20th has come to boa . It states that official documents had been received 01l that day at Algiers announcing the victory of JO They add nothing, however, to the details given in th e dispatch already published. On the 16th the guns at the forts of Oran fired a number of salvos in honour of the signal advantage gained by the French ar. The Constitutionnel says—" The Kin g journey England is postponed. Orders, it is said, have been dis* patched to the ports to delay the preparations. The period at present named for the embarkation is Octo , ber 17." The Augsburg Gazette mentions a report from Triestfs that the Bellona, Austrian frigate, on board of which Is Admiral Bandiera, had received orders to sail for /IP' rocco. A letter from Hamburgh announces the arrival in that city of a number of Poles, who had been recently trans; ferred from Posen to Magdeburg. They have received permission to proceed to England, and are ou their wel to that country. LAW AND 7POLICB. In the case of Worley v. Yardington, which was trie° before Mr. Secondary James, and which was an act° brought by a meat salesman against a butcher residing in King's-road, Chelsea, who cold meat for him on cow' mission, the jury found for the plaintiff, with 201. di" wages, being the amount advanced by plaintiff to Jr fendant for which defendant had not accounted. At Liverpool, th_. cause of Wood v. Monk came on fo r trial before Mr. Justice Cresswell, being a crim. con. el, tion brought by a tavern-keeper against a medical 0 7; The defence was, that the whole was a conspiracy r, the part of plaintiff to get rid of his wife. Ultimate' , it was agreed that a juror should be withdrawn. I On the Crown side Timothy O'Brien was convicted .° cutting and wounding W. Jones, with intent to do his some grievous bodily harm. *„ Dowden alias Lamb, the actor at Sadler's Wells, w il t was accused of forgery, pleaded guilty to the charge io d before the closing of the Central Criminal Court, 'lt was sentenced by the Recorder to two years' imprio". ment. At the Mansion-house, on Wednesday, Wm. Laidler, tt seaman who appeared before Sir John Pixie, on Sett day, to complain against the supercargo of the ship J. Campbell, for bloody and desperate proceedings oa coast of Africa, appeared before the Lord Mayor, l e cording to his Lordship's appointment. Sir John sat with the Lord Mayor upon this occasion. The if a i Mayor having stated that, from the accounts revel Ta from Liverpool, it appeared that the supercargo had ile, h , with proper zeal, spirit, and discretion, and th at ship's crew were in a state of mutiny, Laidler hi being one of the chief mutineers, that individual to tempted to justify his conduct, when he was warned take care that those whom he had calumniated did °°_, make him responsible for his conduct. The marine r the seaman was brutal and menacing in the extrerol furnishing an extraordinary contrast to the gentle %a pathetic description of his sufferings and feelings on, st, ter occasion of his first application to Sir J. Pine. S' r , ho Pixie most unequivocally expressed his opinion as t ° ' mutinous conduct of the crew, and hoped that the On hi 3 O ments which had gone abroad had done no injury t o "" character of Mr. liurnley. A person of very gentlemanly addritss, about thief years of age, named Henry Smith, whose threadbare P r : tnents, attenuated frame, and care-worn countenalle',, indicated extreme distress, was brought before the magistrate, at Queen-square, charged with begging. 1 1 defendant was a native of the Cape of good Hope, a nt had received a liberal education, but had been broui,'"J up to no profession or calling, and had been anexpect e , d , l l reduced to absolute want. He had a wife and fan The magistrate gave him some temporary relief, a s stated he would consider what t•ould be done for hilo• A summons was issued against a pawnbroker narav" Harding, residing in York street, Westminster, far Tee fusing to pet mit the examination of certain articles ; the police, the duplicates relating to which were foila in the possession of a man committed for robbery. e A man named Watkins was fined 5/. at Maryleb oe for having sold half a lo a d of h a y in Cumberland maricel, and neglecting to enter the same in the book of thec ier of the market. John Briggs, a pauper in the union workhouse, Mil l i; and New Town, was charged with stealing a va ltl/1 6 pld ring, the property of the inaster'of the workhew The prisoner had always expressed a desire to go to 10 South Wales, and had been beard to say he would re 0 jeteller's shop but what he would go abroad. lie remanded. A itk At Union Hall John Leigh, an engineer, chargen /1 4 , absconding with the wife of John Townsend, a I' ll- e s draper, and stealing various articles, his property. W held to bail to answer the charge of felony. Peter M'Walter, a young man of_ fashionable aPP i e „t o ; ante, was charged with plundering the King's Heed 'o r in the Borough, and the Hero of Waterloo Tavern,the the Waterloo-road. At both places he arrived io evening, with a carpet bag, engaged a bed, and In ' re , night plundered the house and decaniped. He was manded until Saturday, in order to give parties wh e ," - I 0 been robbed under similar circumstances as those au:4 mentioned, an opportunity of attending and identi t .P" him. The Insolvent Debtors' Court will sit on Tuesd a y next, the 3d of September, for hearing of bail cases $ to other matters. Since the operation of the Act. °a . amend the law of bankruptcy, insolvency, and exect l "4 the business of the Court has materially decree' s , r e i, The bail list for Tuesday contains only forty Pr? which number is not more than a fourth of the apP .' tions in August last. cousin'-PAANZONABLZ. 11 11 Prince William of Prussia is not expected to tak e o f departure for the Continent until after the christenir i g t o ,. the infant Prince, which is understood to be fixed for, o r morrow se'nnight, the 6th of September, at Wi n a d Castle Lthe Duke of Wellington, and the Ministers t he great officers of State, are also expected to a ttende august ceremonial ; and a few days afterwards the Fri P t or will leave town for the Prussian dominions, wing Duke of Wellington a short visit at Walmer Castle.. 0 The Marchioness of Clanricarde has returned to "' h ail from Becket House, Berks, where her Ladyship has 1 ' 7 0 4 of the party assembled there on a visit to Viscoun t , s 4, Viscountess Barrington. The Noble Marquis is via' t his estates in Ireland. may . The Marquis and Marchioness of Waterford are ing a tour in Germany. oral The Marquis of Bristol has left town for Ick w i o. Park, near Bury St. Edmund's. Earl and Lady 1 “„', 1 10 rine Jermyn aul family have joined the Noble ge r lor at that beautiful seat. Lord Alfred Hervey. 3 1 . 17 f .," the last letters had reached Pau, where Lord and ---- r „ r a Charles Hervey are residing, having en route visited -v . ' William Hervey, at Paris. baf e The Dowager Countess of Erroll and Lady NAV - arrived at Brighton for the advantage of the sea sir' le ft The Countess of Glengall and family bee Grosvenor-street for Brighton. J e t The Earl and Countess of Hardwicke have arrive on, Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire, from town for the 9e l i fliCO 'The Earl and Countess of Brownlow, and the r Cust, have left Belgrave-square for the Continent. 0 0 Noble Earl and Countess purpose visiting the Ge r ia ca spas for the benefit of the Countess's health, whic h ° t ort the earlier part of the spring has not been so sati sfac as could be deired. The Earl of s Gosport has returned to this country after a tour of three months in Germany. left ess Ashbrooke and the Hon. Miss Flo wer town on Wednesday last for a tour in GermanY. „ (pi Lady De Clifford has left Carlton House-ter rac e fof St. Leonard's on-Sea, and purposes to reside die' some time to come, for the benefit of her health' ;fin able Lord and Lady Morley have entertained faahm — h ire, parties at their noble mansion, Saltrana, De' °/is ti este during the week, and the following distinguished gay have been on a visit to the Noble Lord:—Lord an Y ar de Elliott and Miss Lygon ; Sir John and Lady ars. Buller, and Miss Buller ; Sir Samuel Spry, Mr. 5i ;,,,,0bf0 Fortescue ; Mrs. Parker, of Whiteway, and Mr. of Manadond a 45, Lord Charles Wellesley leaves Apsley ti 0 03151 'thole ° or two to go into waiting as equerry. Lady. 00 to Wellesley will accompany the Duke of welling Walmer Castle. rea p The Archbishop of Armagh and the H on. ferd, who haye been on a vi2itins tpur 111 SPetla X• left the Highlands for the aroniepisoopisl palaeg magi). The British atisCELLAXII°I". Institution closes on the 31st inst. it a tbe The Dutch steamer Batavier arrived at the St. A- it o nine Steam-wharf on Wednesday morning early, in i r er oll s afety, %an a fair complement of passengers sP'.. cargo, ectoprising a quantity of frtiit, cattle; SO. . h i) , 'I he Nawaub of Surat , spl endidl y dressed in oc 4 , embroidered Oriental costum e, with three attends: "j visited Woolwich Garrison *a Togas,' lifti ell°°ll ' 11 was conducted over the barrack - ro oms and mess-010 4 Li e utenant-Colonel Colquhoun, Major Stindila nd4 141