The Sun. — London, England, 1839-07-08 00:00:00

-~ , i 4. EVENING EDITION. ( - 4 RAND FETE AT THE ROYAL BEULAH SPA, On "WEDNESDAY NEXT, July 10. By d:rection of the Committee, a COLD COLLATION Iwill be laid cut in the splmdid Marquee erected on the occasion 1 of Marshal S,ult's visit to the Spa, tickets t o w hi c h ma y be obtained in the Gardens, at 3s. each. Refreshments, Ices, &c. of every description and of the - first quality, will be amply provided at the ordinary charges, printed lists of which may be se.n in various parts of the Garden. Under the especial patronage of the QUEEN DOWAGER, 1 honoured with the- eanction and presence of his Royal Highness I the DUKE of SUSSEX. PATRONESNES. 1 Tie Duche; - .s of SonierF(4 ------- iieLady Mary Lambton 1 The Marebioners of Salisbury The Lady Mayoress 1 The Countess of Erroll The Hon. Mrs. Fox Maule The Countess.of Durham The Hon. Mrs. Moreton rfhe Countess of Z; , tiand The Lady Carroll The Lady Worsley Mrs. Dobie i The Lady Augusta Gordon Mrs. Perkins. PATRONS. Thr‘ Moron ; q of S •. I .isbury !Theffon. A. H. Moreton,M. P. The &al of Scarborough ' Sir J. J. Guest, Bart., M. P. Thr., Eirl ol Ferrers Sir J. Rae Reid, Bart., M.P. 'lnc Earl of Durham E. G. Barnard, Esq., NI.P. The Earl of Zetland Rowland Alston, Esq., M.P. The Earl of Mexborough J. Easthope, Esq., M.P. The Lori Ffedet :el: Gordon J. Ramsbottom, Esq., M.P. Liird Via; slay • Robert Steuart, Esq., M.P. The Lord Mayor 'Sir F. Booth The Hon. G. W. Fox Maule, John Lainson, Esq., and Ald. 'ii. P. Captain Deans Dundas The Rt. Hon. T. D'Eyncourt, i:ev. I. Vane M.P. 'B. B. Cabbell, Esq. _ .... --. Th:? Hon. Col. H . :II P. -11 Bailie, J. W. Sutherland, Esq. F. Fuller, Esq. The iron. Col. Anson, M.P. By the kind permission of M..Laporte, Grisi, E. Grisi, Tamburini, Gienbolei, Poole, &c. &c. Strauss's Band, led by M. Schallehn. The F u ll C o ld s t ream Band, leadcr 31r. ° Godfrey. The Alpine Minstrels in Costume. Tickets, is. ;on the day, is. 6J. To be had at the Libraries of Ebers, Sims, Andrews, All aro ft, at a ll t h e M us i c Sh o p s ; at the Sch,;ol; the Freemasons' Tavern ; and of the Commit tee, which sits daily at the George and Vulture Tavern, Corn hill; and at all the Stations of the Croydon Railway, trains from which will run every half hour. Doors open at One, and Coneurt will commence at Three o'Clock. TO ADVERTIS'ERS.—THE VIDINBURGI-1 REVIEW, No. CXL., will :41 be published next week. Advertisements for insertion are retvested to be sent to the Publishers on or before THURSDAY NEXT, and Bills on or before SATURRDAY NEXT. 39, Paternoster-row, Monday, July 1839. conduct—and the country is reconciled to the standard—by what the Tories did ;so that Tory profligacy is really the national guide after the Tories are excluded from office. Their long do minion has produced habit - s, both in the people and in the Government, which, with irresistible force, impel both on in a career that must end in ruin. The two great sources of our excessive, and, let us add, unwarrantable expenditure, as Mr. RICE explained, ara the demands of the House of Com mons and the country for an increase of the naval and military force—for more extensive machinery of Government; and the unfortunate conflict with Canada, which was brought on by following Tory principles. When the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER referred to the expense. of the New Poor-law, and the expense of the Factory Coin missioners as augmenting the expenditure for the year, it was scarcely candid in him to overlook the cost of improving the navigation of the Shannon, and of building the stables at Windsor. We hope the Right Hon. Gentleman is not averse from an ex penditure of public money which does not originate with himself. To know the sources of our finan cial disease, is to be half way towards curing them. They obviously arise from a general disposition to cure all kind of evils by the agency of Government, and the application of public money. Though we know the source of our danger, we doubt, when we recollect the Corn-laws, whether there be sufficient virtue in the ruling classes to enable them to save the country. The aucsts of the members of the Convention at Birmingham continue. Our paper of this day contains the account of Mr. LOVETT'S examination and committal to Warwick Goal. One thing is quite palpable from that, namely, that the violence of which the art:lorities and Police were guilty were the paret:ts of the lesser' violence in Mr. LOVETT, the drawing up and publishing a seditious libel, for which he has b een comm i tte d to Warwick Goal. Thus it is that violence begets violence, and now that an open contest has begun between the middle and the lower classes, between those who share in the powers of the Government and those who are denied all share in it, lie must be a bold prophet who will fo:etell how and when it will end. All the accounts which we have seen agree in representing the attack on the people at the Bull Ring to have preceded ail warning on the part of the Magistrates. Women and children were pre sent, and a working man was reading a newspaper, when they were suddenly attacked by the Police, beaten, and partially dispersed. As at present in , formed, we see no warrant whatever for such a course of proceedings. That the Magistrates might be alarmed, is not a justification of it. Their alarm, their terror, might have been the offspring of their own bad conscience.. They might be convinced that they had seduced and betrayed their fellow-townsmen ; and some testimony on oath should have been given —perhaps it was, and will hereafter be produced—that the public peace was endangered ; but at present no such testimony ap pears, and, apparently, with no other warrant than their own fears did the Magistrates order the people fereihly to be .dispersed. We must presume that they had some ground for this act of violence which has not yet been made public; but whether they had or not it is equally clear that their violence was the immediate parent of all the following violence. Human actions are closely connected one with another, and if the violence for which Mr. LOVETT has been sent to gaol be worthy of reprobation, we cannot comprehend that philosophy which exone rates those whose violence was the cause of his. It is true his violence might be contrary to the law, and their violence ma) be brought within the law ; but the law itself may be, in this case— GOD knows it has been in many cases—most erro neous, and command or authorise that which is criminal. We, therefore, shall not say that the Birmingham Magistrates have not acted most mischievously, though the law be entirely on their side. LAST WEEK. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. The Public is respectfully informed, that the PRESENT 31ANAGEMENT WILL TERMINATE • WITH THIS SEASON. THIS EVENING, JULY 8, Will ba performed the Historical Play of KING HENLY V., From the Text of Shakspeare. Kill; Henry the Fifth, Mr. Macready. To conclude with, FRA DIA VOLO. Marquis San Carlos, Mr. Frazer ; Lorenzo, Mr. Burnett ; Zerlina, Miss Rainforth. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Oaptain Marryatt's " Phan'om Ship " nightly attracts over .. . tiovair,g, Howeel. - First appearance of the Bedouin Arabs since their return from Arne' lea. THIS EVENING, hr.,- 8, Will be repeated the New .Iy2tical Drama, entitled THE PHANTOM SHIP. Philip Vanderdecken, E. F. Saville7 Amine, MrA. H. Vining. After which, THE BEDOUIN Ali ABS' UNAPRALLELED EXERCISES. T. conclude with, THE CURSE OF .31AAnION. Hogaith's " Marriage A-la-mode." An. Lstb, 3lr. Walla k, the Proprietor of the \cw York, will make his 6rst at in Two of his Popular Characters. oli NaLiunA The . London t' c five ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. Under her MAJESTY'S IMMEDIATE PATRONAGE. GRAND PROMENADES MUSICALES ET CHAMPE TRES, and ERUPTION of }IECLA COMBINED ! ! First Exhibition of the Extraordinary New Light, KONIAPHOSTIC ! THIS DAY, TO-MORROW, and THURSDAY, JULY Ili, 9, and 11, A GRAND INSTRUMENTAL CONCERT, By a splen,llLand, composed of the most distinguished Instru- _ mental Performers in the Metropolis, Selected and condumed by Mr. Godfrey. Commencing at Six o'clock. At. Dusk will be intros aced, for the first time, an extraordinary Boveity, produced under the superintendance of Mr. 11. Carter, called KONIAPHOSTIC, by which the Whole Gardens will be illumined in the most brilliant manner with One Central To be followed by the F.IIUPTION of MOUNT HECLA. Adrnif,sion One Shilling. Hour of Foe:ling the Carnivore, Five o'clock. WHITE CONDUIT GARDENS, (Open Every Evening) Second Week, and triumpCant success of the BRITISH JIM CROW, Mr. DUNN, who will, THIS EVENING, and during the WEEK, sing and dance the celebrated Songs of " Sich a 4 - rettin' up Stairs," '• Clare de Kitchen,'" and '° Jump Jim Crow'," in the highly amusing Vaudeville, intitled, THE COURT JESTER, or, THE BLACK SENTINEL. In addition the Amusements will consist of a GRAND VO CAL CONCERT, by Miss Ford, (from the Theatre Royal Drury Lane), Miss Smith, Mr. and Mis. Rogers, and Messars. 'Benson Field, and Co. In the oonrse of the Evening the wonderful Arab, AB SHE KIR ABDALLA will go through the whole of his extraordi nary Performance on the Corde Volante. The Evening's Entertainments will conclude with a Magni cent Display of FIREWORKS. Admission Is, Juveniles 6d. Full particulars in the Bills of the Day. To-morrow a Grand Gala Fete, for the Benefit of a Philan thropic Lodge, held at the Queen's Head and Artichoke, Al bany-street, Regent's Park. As to the part which the Government has taken in this deplorable transaction, we understand it amounted to this : the Mayor of Birmingham ap plied to the Secretary of State for the Home Department for the assistance of some Police to enable him to keep the peace in Birmingham. The Home Secretary granted his request, establishing the fact that the London Police, as was said from the first it would be, is an addition to the armed force of the country, which the Home Secretary can put is motion with out any concert with the military authorities, so that the country hat somewhat less security for its being judiciously employed, than if the orders were first to be transmitted from the Home Secretary and then from the Horse-guards. Having acceded to the Magistrates request, we take it for granted that the Home Secretary did nothing more in the matter, and left the Mayor and his Councillors to their discretion. They alone, then, are the re sponsible parties, and possibly they may coivince the country that they have discreetly used the power they have newly acquired, and that they have not obtained► a franchise only to make use of it to the injury of others. The Recorder, it will be noticed, justly compli men' ed Mr. LOVETT on the frankness with which he answered questions that concerned only himself ; and the equal firmness with which he refused to answer any questions implicating others, will be generally admired. Such men are the stuff out of which martyrs are made; and martrys to liberty are now likely to be more sincere than martyrs to reli gion. What support the members of the Conven tion, which was dying out, may now meet with— what enthusiasm their arrest may kindle—is hard to say ; but the event is well calculated to try the temper of the people, and the strength of their attachment to principles which they have loudly professed, hut which we have always regarded as erroneous. If the mass be not, as we. think they are not, particularly in the North, degraded to the lowest stage of political abasement, the consequences of these proceedings on them may be alarming. We openly say, that our fears surpass our hopes. We condemned the excessive bail which was de manded in the case of Mr. STEPHENS—we must equally condemn it in this case. Taking the in come of Messrs. LOVETT and COLLINS at two pounds per week each, to require bail of them which amounts to five years' income, seems to us excessive and unwarranted by the custom and practice of the Courts of Law. HI ;II WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Mooing : § minutes after O. J Evening...—. 0 minutes after I. • C , ?"° 4 • - 61) ' *, ‘' '''''‘ . n t > 4 ',".) ' '''./.,, N om.:, 1, . 4 4, :if '-. -,-- ''',-,-4‘..4- ~.- ....:,,,.. 'ln Z , lux+ LONDON : MONDAY, JULY 8, 1839. IWe regret to learn from the statement made by the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER OD 1 Friday evening, that the expenditure for the year ending sth of April, 1839, was 430,3261. more than the revenue, and further that the expendi ture for the current year is likely to be, according to the Right Honourable Gentleman's estimates, 427,554/. more than the revenue. Such a con tinued excess of expenditure above revenue in time of peace, is we think, a serious evil ; and measures ought to be taken at all hazards to reduce the expenditure to a level with the revenue. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER pro poses to meet this deficiency by an issue of Ex chequer Bills, which in the present state of the Money Market, and in the present circumstances of the country is a measure of doubtful propriety. 1 What amount he will actually ask for on a vote of credit he will state at a future period. While he is going on borrowing at this rate, we cannot see the propriety of still keeping up an office for the reduction of the National Debt, which is, we be lieve, yet in existence. It is no consolation to us to be thus obliged, year after year, to give up the hope that the national burdens would be re duced by the economy of a reforming Government. We see, in the establishment of a Society for Be ti We are not to get from Lord MELBOURNE any or- .erino the Condition of the Natives of British India, ganic returns, neither are we to get any economical the dawn of a new and brighter era in the history reforms, for they are wholly impossible while the of the East. We expect not ever to behold the expenditure exceeds the revenue. inhabitants of Hindoqan assume the rank among i Generally the nation was accustomed, and with Oriental states which belonged to them under the great justice, to reproach the Tories with having martial sway of the Jagatay and Mogol Princes-- heaped on its accumulated debt, by prose- under ihe sceptres of thel3AaErts, the HEMAYUNS, cuting unjust wars, but an ample justification the ACBARS, the JEHAN GHIRS, the SHAH will be found for th e m if t h e re f orm i ng Govern- JEttANS, and the AURUNGZEBES, when a con meat adds to the debt in a time of peace and pros- quering Prince carried out of India gold and perit v . Th e T or i es , with the glory of their con- jewels of the value of one hundred and twenty-five tests will, by the Ministers now adding to the millions sterling, without greatly impoverishing the debt, be rescued from reproach, and be handed people ; len down to twe anti c ip a t e a p er i o d w h en mo de rate Posterity with honour conferred on them human labour will be more than adequate to supply by the Whip. Some fatality appears to weigh an abundance of the necessaries, and a corn on the Government. It has fallen over the preci- 1 petent share of even the luxuries of civilized pice of strict integrity, impo s i ng on th e fut ure the I life—when famine will become unknown, and when payment for present follies, and it seems doubtful knowledge, as a beacon-light at sea, will guide un whether the power of mortal man can save it from erringly the now blind, groping idol-worshippers of being dashed to pieces, that the living springlt is,;at the same t i me Asia. This will require time, and perseverance, , coneolat ory to k now an d p at i ence , an d much toil, and some hazard ; but , of the nation a l we lf are t h e resuscitati on o f a country, under any circum is unimpaired. T he revenue, which has stances, is a labour of extreme difficulty, and o f fallen short o f th e expenditure, has the estimates of it s p ro b a b le amount. e ex e d d slow and painful accomplishment. To wound i s long the spring may fl ow unweak e e Ilow easy, but the process o f h ea li ng is tardy and with our Corn-laws, and cotton-mille workingeneci—_, troublesome. 'lyranny is d ou bl y d readful and de• testable from the fact, that it can perpetuate more short - time, and with great efforts makino. '' • than can he removed ' b to evils in a year restrict the currency, and produce a general fall And that besides P in in prices—we will not conjecture. The CHAN flicts moral wounds CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER seemed to have a suffer s in a century ; physical wrongs, it too often in the generation- t incurable that them. The crimes committed under the fearful forboding that its end is not far off ; but sanction of the British name in the East would up to this time the Customs, the Excise, the Po s t- be venial indeed, if we could hope to destroy their office, and other great branches of t h e revenue, effects by the stretching forth of a hand, or the hare have continued to increase. The excess of ex- passing of an Act of Parliament. It must, there penditure over income, then, is caused, not by th e fore, be obvious, that the Society just forrired, and drying up of the springs of our wealth—not by having fe l ' the object of its labours the physical the falling off in our income, but by the great in- and moral improvement of an hundred millions of creas e of expenditure. It is clearly, therefore, human beings, has undertaken a work of immense and that is our consolation, within the power of difficulty; but let it not be forgotten that te prin- the Government to make the two equal. The , ciples of justice, the precepts of the Go s p elp, and origin of that fatality which is hurrying us on in 1 the dictates of a far-seeing self-interest ll . 1 , equa y im a dangerous caree r i s th e system of government. pose upon the whole British nation the bl . t • ' o iga ion It belongs to the habits of the people. It exiSts of cordially supporting them, and such support is in ourselves. It is the corrupting lega cy b equeathe d all that is wanted to secure the / ultimate ac com to the nation, and bequeathed public men, by ! plisliment of so eldrieus a perpose. We have 101- i the protracted system of Tory profligacy and Tory 'Jo .. ,. 'd ti;C , example of ' NADIR SHAH in ritlino 1 inisalle• Oar preseet statesmen rneasure their I India of her diamonds, her pearls, and her gold . ; gmeeleameemeeetweeeareareeeeereeele, but she abounds in mines of wealth which we have not yet opened—in treasures enough to surfeit the imagination of avarice. Besides supplying as much wine, and oil, and rice, and tea, and sugar, 1 and drugs, and s pi ces , as s h e wou ld requ i re for the 1 use of her own population, India is 'capable of pro ducing more of these commodities than would be requisite for the wants of half the nations of Europe. Instead of imposing on the miserable ryots the necessity of growing opium to the ex ; tent, on an average, of 30,000 chests annually for demoralizing the inhabitants of China, we might, by the judicious encouragement of the cultivation of cotton, and the growth of the tea-plant, render the whole population, free, and happy, and inde pendent. instruments of increasing wealth and civilization, instead of being, as they are now, miserable agents of the demoralization of the Chi nese empire. Did the southern States of America not find a ready market for cotton in England, they would have long since abolished slavery ; and we would venture to affirm that if we even now substitute the cotton of our fellow-subjects in British India for the produce of the United States, ten years will not elapse before there will not be a slave to be found within the wide extent of North America. But for our encouragement of slave labour, the institution could not possibly exist even for two years in any part of the United States. But upon these points, and many others which our space will not permit us to touch upon, ample information will be found in the Report of the Meeting of the friends of the Society held on Saturday, which is published in another part of The Sun, and to which we especially invite public atten tion. Independently of high moral and religious considerations, this is a question in which every person that wears silk or cotton, drinks tea, desires a bottle of cheap and good wine, is fond of a rich desert or a diSh of rice, has a direct inte!est Nor need we detail to the merchant and the politi cal economist the advantages which must accrue to us from making our own colonies subsidiary to the supplying of all our wants, and consequently enabling them in return to consume our manufac tures. We have here no commercial rivals to dread —no national jealousies to contend with—no com mercial treaties to negociate—no corrupt officials to propitiate. The regulation of production and con sumption is entirely in our own power, and let trade operate as it may, the balance must be always in favour of British subjects. BILL. PRICE OF SUGAR. EFFECT OF AIONOPOLY. We are glad to see by an advertisement in ano ther part of our Journal that the leading men of the City of London are to have a meeting on Wednes day next, to petition Parliament to carry Mr. Row- LAND HILL'S plan of a uniform penny postage into effect. We trust that they will teach Sr ROBERT PEEL that his opposition to the measure is ill-timed, though we are free to admit that the manner in which the Chancellor of the • Ex chequer brought forward the motion invited the opposition, if it did not justify it. Such alarm as he displayed for the revenue—such apprehension lest faith might not be kept to the public cre ditor—such an exaggerated estimate as he made of the loss to be incurred—such a puling . , meagre sketch as he gave of its advantages, such discredit as he threw. on the unanimous petitions of 'the universal people—such an anxiety as he evinced for a pledge to make up the deficiency in the revenue, were well calculated, if they were not intended, to alarm the Tories for the finances, and to inspire them with courage to oppose his plan. With a case like that of the uniform pennypostage in his hands, backed as he would have been by all classes and conditions, more boldness and more confidence would have become Mr. RICE. We never heard a lamer advocate, unless it was in a cause which the pleader had been bribed to lose. We have no fear, how ever, of its ultimate success. It cannot be spoiled by any official mismanagement ; and the gentlemen of the City of London will endeavour to put an end to Mr. RICE'S fears for the revenue anti to Sir ROBERT PEEL'S Opposition. We regret to see the character of the Ministers, when they have, on this point, done all that was expected of them, damaged by the manner in which Mr. RICE brought forward, on Friday night, his reso lution to establish a on - dot - in penny - postage, coupled with a p'edge on the part of the HOuse of Commons, that it would tax the people, if necessary, to make up any loss to the revenue which might be incurred by adopting the scheme. Letters from Constantinople of the 17th ult., an nounce that on the 15th, Admiral ROUSSIN, having on the previous day received despatches from the French Government, informed the Porte that the French fl_et in the Levant had received orders to employ force, if necessary, to prevent hostilities between the. Turkish and Egyptian fleets. To this declaration the Sultan had not returned an answer on the 17th, but the general impression was that nothing would prevent him fr:mn making war upon his vassal. Independently of the large fleet which sailed on the Bth and 9th four fri gates, three brigs, and three corvettes, were getting ready for sea. The English ships in the Levant had received orders to co-operate with the French Admiral in the prevention of hostilities. There is no news of any political interest in the Paris Journals of Friday and Saturday, the whole of which we have received. The trial of the prisoners is not yet con cluded, but so tamely is it conducted that the public is absolutely sick of it. Nothing remained on Saturday but to hear the Counsel for the defence, or rather to allow them to weary themselves talking ; for it was observed that half the Peers were asleep during the proceedings. Domiciliary visits, and the seizure of concealed arms are matters of daily occurrence in Paris. The garrisons around the City are receiving fresh reinforcements. The Madrid Journals received are of the 29th ult., but they bring no news of interest. From Bayonne the accounts are of the lst inst., but they too, are un important. ESPARTERO had caused three of the prin cipal inhabitants of Amurrio to be shot for favouring the Carlists. Don CARLos had shifted his head quar ters to Bergara, from an apprehension that he was too near to General Don DIEGO LEON, who was prepar ing to visit Estella. THE THUNDER STORM, LAST NIGHT. Last night, between nine and twelve o'clock, the neighbour hood of the metropolis was visited with one of the severest thunder -storms that has occurred for many years. The sky had looked dark and threatening for some hours previously, espe cially towards the west and north, where the horizon was of a uniform dull yellow, as if charged with electric matter ; the heat also was most oppressive, and there was not wind enough to stir a leaf. About eight o'clock a few heavy drops of rain fell, and shortly afterwards the storm commenced. The light ning, which was chiefly in the west, was remarkable, not only fur its duration and its intense brilliancy, but for its being al most wholly unaccompanied by thunder. With the exception of one terrific peal which seemed crashing right overhead, there was scarcely any thunder; and what little there was, was evi dently, from its faint, muttering sound, at a great distance. The storm was at its height about half-past nine o'clock, at which hour the blue, ghastly sheet lightning, followed momently by forked flashes of a bright glowing red, like red-hot steel, and which darted, not as is usually the case, in a zig-zag man ner, but perpendicularly down from the clouds, pre , ented a spectacle of sublimity quite tropical in its character. We know not indeed that we ever beheld such lightning. Flash followed flash, with scarcely a minute's interval, for upwards of two hours, when the storm gradually died away. We fear it has done much mischief, and that we shall hear of the loss of hu man life ; for about six or eight miles from London, in the direction of Hounslow, it must have raged with uncommon ♦iolence. rIETROPOLITAN POLITICAL SUMMARY. In consequence of a heavy pit;Ss of miscellaneous matters we are compelled to be unusually brief with our Political Sum mary Ibis day.—The Morning Post has a long leading article on the subject of Education, the object of which is, of course, to condemn the proceedings of Ministers, and to show that they ought to have " abandoned the scheme, or any other scheme applicable solely to England, which had a large majority of English Members against it !" The Morning Chronicle, commenting on the Bishop of London's anti-education speech in the House of Lords on Friday night, justly observes of it : --" The speech of the Bishop of London seems to us to be very irreligious in its tendency. We allude more particularly to that part in which he endeavoured to show that a gentleman might be correct and ho nourable in his conduct without religion, but that to a poor man religion was innispensable." The Morning Herald contains an article filled with the most sickening flattery of the Archbishop of Canterbury, for his endeavour to perpetuate ligotry and igno rance among the English people, by his anti-education motion in the Lords on Friday night. The Times falls foul of the Chancellor's Fludget, but carefully refrains, except in one soli tary instance, from grappling with its details. The Morning Advertiser, alluding to the recent education debate in the Lords remarks that it puts the claims of the Church to the control of national education on narrower and better defined grounds, while it offers a complete exposition of the Government plan, and of the justificatory motives upon which it is founded. A circumstance has just alrested our attention, that we need hardly remark is without a parallel case. Mr George Robins, through whose instrumentality half the landed property in England has changed hands, announces in our columns, simultaneously, first 50,000 acres of land;in America; then a villa and lands with 1,500 acres, the favoured residence of Tuscany, and not far removed from Florence, by the English traveller designated " The Italian Paradise ;" then follows 600 acres of land in Brittany, es pecially adapted to successful emigration, and lastly, (as it were to consummate all his proud ambition,) a little castle and 400 acres of land, approaching tho famed City of Athens, commanding all its ancient grandeur and looking upon the Aet•oppolis._thc Aeademus of Plp..to—the Mount_ Ilyrreettus and Pentelicus__tt Pi: ails—Salamis—and in deed, all the islands of the Aegean Sea. This is indeed a new era in the vocation of an auctioneer. SHARES. Bristol ond Exeter R a il way Eutern Countins liailw '''''''''' "“"' 014 ("Wan' and Brighton lialkion and Birmin4hani Railway 162 Illanchaiter and Birmingham I:aihydY Northtrn and Eastern Railway rif 4-e•el--N, LONDoN, MONDAY, JULY 8, iBf-0 BLACKWALL RAILWAY EXTEN- It is asserted by the OppOnenft of this nieasnre : that Parlia- Mot has hitherto Confined the teiinini o f R a il ways t o th e Suburbs of cities and towns. Numerous instances occur to the Contrary ; amongst Olich may be named Manchester, Liver wol, York, Derby, and Dublin, which afford positive contradic tions to this assertion; and thes^ ,atlways) it tntist be observed, are worked by locomotive engines, which the Blackwall is not. It is alleged that the extension of this Railway will occasion a frightful destruction of property, and will be an intolerable nuisance to the City of London. The promoters deny that either of these results can follow from the extension sought, which is only 415 yards ; not in the heart of the City, but crossing a remote part lying between the Alinories on the east and Fenchurch-street on the west. The houses required to be removed will not excetd forty-three. The virduct will be twenty feet in height, clearing all the atm ts, and in no respect interfering with the traffic. No locomotive engine or other machinery will be used; of the line being work e d' i n onh direction by mome ntum, and the other by gravity. Th ere 4vill not b e t h e slightest percep tiblen noise or vibration, noeven so much i nconven ience as is becasioned by the traffic in a com mon street. this part The chief object of the Bill is to render more certain the clearance of the Pool, by bringing the terminus of the Railway equally near to the centre of the City, as the wharfs now used for steam-boats at London-bridge. The opponents have 'raised a cry against the Company, of breach of faith with the City. This accusation is false, as will anpear from the minut es of the Com m i t t ees i n t h e House of G mmons in 1837, and the present year, and from those of the House of Lords in 1837 ; in all whi c h i ns t ances i t was dis tinctly disproved : it will be again refuted upon oath before the Commiiteo of the Lords. The Promoters retort upon the'r opponents the charge of breach of faith, they having entered into an agreement in 1837 to permit a similar Bill to that then before Parliament to be in troduced in the next or subsequent session, and that it should not be opposed until it reached the Committee of the Lords. The Bill now before Parliament is a similar Bill, but it has beat opposed in all its stages. The opponents have stated that the railway will occasion the destruction of three Churches. The fact being that it c's ?s not approach nearer to any Church than 175 feet, and having streets and large masses of buildings between the railway and all the churches in its neighbourhood. It is asserted that 2,245/. only have been expended about the works of the original line ; and that the cost of the extension will be 411,8001. On the contrary, upwards of 200,000/. have been expended; and it ha s b een satisfactorily established before the Committee of the House of Commons, that the cost of the extension (including the requisite depot) will not exceed 193,000/.* In the House of Commons the Preamble was voted proved by a majority of 9 to 3, and the Report in favour of the extension was carried by a majority of 103 ; the numbers being 176 to 73. [The above is published by the authority of the Board of Directors: * The promoters have been accused of a departure from the powers and provisions of their Act of 1836 They dis stinctly and emphatically deny that there is the slightest foun dation for this charge. Table showing the ex-duty price of West India Sugar in Mincing-lane, and comparing the same against that of foreign sugars:-- London, July 6, 1839. The " Gazette" of last night quotes the average Per cwt. price of British Piantation Muscovado Sugar, ex clusive of duty, at The actual quantity sold on account of the importers in the week ending the 2d inst., on which the above is computed, con sisted of 599 hhds., 119 trs., and 238 barrels, and not of 900 hhds. as estimated in the market, Muscovado Sugars produced by free hands East of the Cape of Good Hope, have been sold this week at from 20s. to 255. per cwt., being abaut 18s. per cwt. less than the price of West India Sugar. This unjust and indirect tax of 181. per ton, collected in the price of all Sugar consumed by the British community for the exclusive benefit of the quondam slave owners, is rendered the more obnoxious and repugnant to the feelings of the nation by the reflection that it aids and stimu lates the perpetration of those acts of revolting cruelty, and po litical unfairness towards the black population, with statements of which the newspapers and pamphlets written by eye wit nesses abaund from day to d•.y, nor is this all the mischief which may be alleged against this shameful tax, for by it the means arc furnished which enable the whit e people of Jamaica—who in point of number and respectability are very far inferior to the * inhabitants of the meanest parish in London to beard the Im perial Government, and to neck at the humanity displayed by this great nation in 1833. If her Majesty's Ministers, cog nizant as they are, of the extortionate.effecta of this Sugar too nopoly, ar e no t s t rong enoug h to put it down alto ge th er , t h ey might surely refr a i n f r o m directly encouraging such an into lerable abuse—they might steer a Middle course, and wait a favourable opportimity fel' annihilating a system so diametricdly opposed in pitinciple to other important measures which they have successfully advocated; bur, unfortunately for the pub lic at large, they blink this question, and do in fact support a system which they know to be beset with manifold sins. If that were not the case, what justifiable reason can they assign for purchasing, as they recently have done, West India Sugar for the use of the Navy at forty pOmnds per ton, when they might, if they had chosen, have ob i tamed a supply of Muscovado sugar of equal quality at twenty- two pounds per ton—the last contract was for 100 tons---the clear loss to the nation, therefore, on that single transaction amounts to 1,8001. ; there may be a dozen such contracts in the course of the year for sugar for aught we know, constituting a net an nual gift to the colonists of upwards of 20,0004 Taking this as a sample, we have a right to assume th .t the money Squan;• dered, in conjunction with this, upon other monopoly-priced articles, for the use of the navy, would well defray the expenses of maintaining a small fleet at sea. There can exist no rational cause for thus petting the West Indians, who, the Ministers must knew, would, in return for such kindness, he amongst the foremost to chase them from office. Moreover, such misapplication of money brings the Government into disrepute with the industrious classes of the country, who cannot fail to perceive that they are made to con tribute their hardlysearned wages to furnish the means for pay ing the 181. per ton more than the Sugar is worth. Again, is it fair upon the navy, to make that important branch of the service appear in the eyes of the nation more costly than its efficiency actually requires ? During the past week the Mincing-line Market has been ex tremely dull, although prices are lower. The account of deli veries of West India Sugar from the Docks of this Port in the last week, showed that the public had taken less oy 669 hhds. than in the corresponding week of 1838. The deliveries of Sugar at all the outports were likewise very short of the quantity delivered this time last year, which clearly dem onitratei that a wholesome and laudable determination now prevails 'through oute ua th ns int e rests aF tu t l o s' a e r e e( ilbugoUetnre:relinquisheder e,b, atyt. free_th cwt.—the e labour consumption been om otft Sugar the d t o wouldfiv o e a m t e , n i ,ss t o e ufu d g a4arrs.. raisedp Kingdom a d favouritism abstain e f v t towards r dgseneWraelslty front have increased so prodigiously that we should not now have had to lament that the disbursements of the State exceed the amount of its revenue, nor would the Chancellor of the Exchequer have been under the dire necessity of borrowing money at a costly sa crifice to supply the amount deficient, We again earnestly are commend the people to persev ere i n a rigid abstinence from breaking Suga through rforsamet thimeis longer, and they willssuredly succeed in abominable monopoly. The stock in London on the 30th June, 1837, was 17,439 hhds. and trs., and the Gazette price 325. 64d. per cwt. The stock in London en the 29th June, 1839, was 27,277 hhds. and trs., and the Gazette price 41s. 6d. per cwt., nearly 10,000 hhds. snore, besides a surplus of East India Sugar of 30,000 bags. Can any human being say why the nation should pay 9s. per cwt. more for Sugar in 1839, than was paid for it in 1837? MONEY AND COMMERi.3IA L N EIVS CITY. TWELVE O'CLoCR. Arrived this morning two French, two Ostend, and a Dutch mail; ship letters from Calcutta of an old date. We have received a Mauritius Price Current, of the 19th March. Exchangt. upon London—Mauritius Government Bilk three days sight, 2b to 3 premium ; Mauritius Bank Bills, 90 days sight none; l'rivate Bills 90 days sight par and 1 per Cent. diicount •, on France, 90 days sight at par and I p er cen t. discount. _ We have received Bombay Papers to the 19th May, but their chief contents, respecting the armies, have already ap peared. From the Papers of the 16th Dlay , a letter received from Amarapoora of 23d March, gives an account of an awful earthquake that had occurred there a day or two previous to the above date, the houses had rocked so violently that chairs rolled about the rooms, and the next morn ing they found the country under water and the earth forced open in several places ; every brick house had been thrown down and many lives had been lost. The palace of the Kir.g at Ava had shared the same fate, burying many persons under its ruins. Consols which closed on Saturday, 934 i for the Account, opened this morning, 93{ Buyers, and for Money, 92 Ex-divi dend ; Exchequer Bills, 25 27 ; India Bonds, 28 30; Bank Stock, 191 192 ; India Stock, 255 257. In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active, 19%; Portuguese, 344 35 ; Three-per-Cents, '214; Mexican, 264; Columbian, 33%; Brazilian, 774; Dutch Two-and-a-half per Cents, 54 i ; Five per Cents,lo34 4. PitICES OF sl'ut.,Kl THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock - Indi2 Stock - -- 3 per Cent. lied. Ditto Bonds 25 pm. :i per Cent. Cons. 9l ip 2!4 ; 2 South Sea Stock — 3 .. per Cent —; Old AnnuiLes — Ditto Red. 100 9: 3 % : New Ditto New 54, per Cent ...., l , 9 l;tili i 3 per Cent. Annuities, 17%1 New 5 per Cent. - Exch. nine, £1,015) ... 20 28 pm. Bank Long Annuities toexpire Ditto 500 ... "27 :29 pot. Jan. 5, 1860 l4 7-14% , Ditto Small '8 SO pm. Oct, 10, 1559 - Ditto Commercial — Pm. J: n. 5, 1t4).1 if ii Ditto Advertised ... - pm, Jan. 5, 1880.. ...... . .-...,„ - Bank Stock for Account ... --. April 3, 1880. ...... India Stock for Account ... ..-..... . 1311 . 4 * 1870 ... - . . ......" PRICF.S or I'011:EI .... ... NDS THIS DAI AT ONE O'CLOt K. Brazi ian Bonds, 7714 8; Ditto for the Account 7; ; Cr,lian Bonds for the Account, a 7 8," • Danish fond', Three per Cent, 75 ; Poi tugue 4 e Ne w B ands, for th !Accou t, 35 4 sq, 4i. HALF-PAST ONE. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARICZT, Jutv 6.—We have had a fair attendance of the trade in our market to-day, but their pur chases were so limited in extent as scarcely to amount to 2,000 bales, and prices in some instances are %d. to %d. per lb. lower Consols continue firm, with little doing , and may be quoted at soi a for the Account, and for Money 92. Money continues 19i, nominal ; Portuguese, 30 ; in the same state as at the end of the week. To-morrow the public will receive their dividends, and in all probability in a few days money will become more plentiful. Exchequer Bills, 26 28 ; India Bonds, 2$ prem. ; Bank Stock, nothing doing. In the Foreign Market; Spanish Active, nothing done, 19 to per Cents., 544 ; Bra zilian, 774; Chilian, 3.} Danish , Three per Cents., 21i; 75; Dutch Two-and-a- HaIf CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS Bank Stock ... ............ hulk, At ack FOREIGN 3 per Cent. Red .. ........................ i. 10 ,4 I Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent Ct.iis. ....... ... .... 92 . 1 Ditto Old Annuities 334 per Cent. Red .............. . koi Ditto Jew Annuities Five per Cents., 104. _ New 3y;, per Cent ....... .. ........ gd% Ex. Bills, I,oooi 9,1 2l, pm. Nciv S per Cent. .......... Ditto NV/ '..1) pm. Long Annuities to expire"' Ditto 500 , SO pm, Jan. 1160 .................. 14% Bank Stock for Opg. .— Oct. 1859 .................. India Stock for Opg Jan 18110 Austrian, 5 per cent......,,,,,, Portuguese Bonds, Stier cent. Belgian, 5 per cent. .............. Ditto New Ditto Brazilian Bonds ...... ............ 78 Prussian, 5 per cent. Buenos Ayr.:3, 6 per cent..., Russian Bonds, 5 per cent Chilian, 6 per cent ............... Ditto, Metallic Colomthan, 6 per cent..,.,,,,,, Spanish. 5 per yen. l 9l ;Mtn 1824 Ditto Deferred Dani;h, 3 i:er cent ..... .....,... riN FUNDS 7; French, 5 per cent —f. —c. Greek Bonds, 1823, Sper et. Exchange —f —c Mexican, 5 per cent............. French, 3 per cent —f. —c, Peruvian, 1825,6 per cent.... —. Ditto, Ditto, 6 per cent., lii.r; ---- ......... outch, '4i per cent. 101 Y, 5 per cent. EXECUTION THIS MORNING. ••- , . . This thortiing at eight O'clock, John Marchant, yoittli aged IS fear, and flit tttantiist itittterwb..t the last sen tence of the law in the front o f N ewga t e , t o r tilt) inUrder of his fellow servant at Chelsea. Soon after six o'clock, the Rev. Mr. Cinver, the recently appointed Ordinary, arrived at the prittki, but the convict had been long riSen from his couch, having had several hours apparently sound slumber. After a desultory conversation of a spiritual kind, the unhappy youth partook of the Sacrament. About a quarter to eight the Sheriff's, Alderman White, and a few other gentlemen were admitted to the room in which the convict had beer. confined since his conviction. The Under Sheriff inquired whether he had any further statement to make, he replied in the negative. While the executioner was pinioning his arms and wrists, he stood with astonishing firmness, and conversed freely with those around him ; when the prison bell sounded the first knell, it had the effect of an electric stroke on his frame, but it was momeri tary. The procession shortly moved through the avenue to the fatal scaffold, the Ordinary reading portions from the burial service. When the prisoner reached the scaffold he gave a glance around him at the crowd by which he wan surrounded. The courage of the youth now ap peared to diminish, and he reeled its a stinting posi tion. The executioner performed his awful duty with celerity, and the culprit had not been exposed to public gaze more than a minute before the bolt was withdrawn, and, after a few struggles, he ceased to live. There were some artists in attendance for the purpose of taking a cast of the malefactor after hanging the usual time. A female applied to have her neck rubbed with the "dead hand" to cure a tumour, but if the migh.y cure was attempted it was not done in public. COURT CIRCULAR. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, attended by the Dowager Lady Betlingf,ld, visited the Queen onSatur day, at Buckingham I iliac Her Majy,ty also visited the Duchess of Kent. Viscount Melbourne hal an audience of her Majesty. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager attended divine service yesterday morning at the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The Sermon was preached by the Rev. J. R. Wood, from the •First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Thessalonians, chap. ii., verse 13. The Prayers were read by the Rev Mr. Haden ; the Lessons by the Rev. Mr. Rickman ; and the Altar Service by the Rev. Messrs. Packman and Haden. The Musical Sertiee was King's in C; the' Sanctus in C, Savage. The Anthem, " Awake, put on thy strength" (Wise). Mr. Knyvett presided at the organ. The Bishop of Norwich, and the Dean of Hereford. the Clerk, and Deputy Clerk of the Court ; were in wt iting. Her Majesty was attended by the Hcni. Miss Eden, D,wager Lady Bedingfeld, and Earl Howe. The Sacrament was administered by the Rev. Messrs. Packman and Eden. The Queen Dowager, attended by the Dowager Lady Bedingfield, took an airing on Saturday in an open phaetc.._ Her Majesty the Queen Dowager attended • divine ser vice yeterday afternoon in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The Dean of Hereford was the Deputy Clerk of the Closet in waiting. The Duchess and the Princess Augusta of .Cambridge attended Divine Service, yesterday morning, in Grosvenor Chapel. The Royal Duchess was attended by Miss Kerr. The Princess of Leinengen and the Princess of Bohm lobe attended Divine Service, yesterday morning, in the Royal German Chapel. The sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. Kuper. The Duke of Cambridge left town en Ssturday, on a visit to the Duchess of Gloucester, at Bagshot P a rk. The Duch ess an d t k e Princess Aiwusta of Cambridge, attended by Miss Kerr, honoured Lady Shelley with their company, on Saturday, at the concert given by her Lady ship at Ivy Cottzge, Fulham. The Princesses of Hohenlohe took a carriage drive with the Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied by the Princesses Augusta and M ry of Cambridge. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the official residence of Viscount Melbourne, in Downing -street. It was attended by all the Cabinet Ministers, except the Earl of Minto, who was indisposed. The Council sat two hours and a half. The Marquis of LanSdowne left town after the Cabinet for Tunbridge Wells. The Marquis of Normatiby also left town on Saturday afternoon, for the residence of the Earl of Tahkerville at Walton-on-Thames. A Deputation from the Committee of the General As sembly of the Church of Scotland, consisting of Lord B haven, Rev. Dr. Chalmers, Principal Dewar, Rev. Dr. Gordon, Rev. Dr. Mackellar, Rev. John Bruce, Rev. Itibert Candlish, Mr. J. Shaw Stewart, Mr. Alexander, Mr. Bell, Mr. Dunlop, Captain Trotter, and Mr. Hog, had an interview with Lord John Russell, on Saturday, at the Home Office. Mes rs. Charles Ansel', Charles Ford, and B P. ['Ri der, a Deputation of Actuaries of Assurance Offices, had an audience on Saturday with the Chancellor of the Ex chequer in Downing-street. The Prussian Charge d'Affaires transacted business on Saturday at the Foreign Office. A Deputation, including the Right Hon. F. Shaw, M p., Mr. Beamish, M. P. ; AlesFrs. La Touche, Barrington, Haite, and Macneill, had an inter view en Saturday with the Chancellor of the Excequer in Downing-street. Several of the Cabinet Ministers dined on Saturday at Blackwall. LADY FLORA HASTINGS. Lady Flora Hastings, Lady of the Bedchamber to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, was born on the 11th of February, 1806, and was the eldest child of Fran cis, second Earl of Moira, K. G., K. C. G. Lady Flora has left a mother, brother, and two - sisters. On Friday evening, at the express wish of the Marquis of Hastings, there was a post modem examination in order to remove any erroneous impression as to the cause of her Ladyship's decease, Sir A. Cooper, Sir B. Brodie, D . Chambers, and Dr. Holland, were present. Sir Benjamin Brodie was the officiating surgeon. Her Ladyship died from an enlargement of the liver, which pressing downwards, produced an enlargement of the ibdomen and internal inflamation. The mortal remains of the deceased are to be removed 'froth the palace •on Tuesday next, and will from thence be conveyed for interment in the family vault at Loudon. The Marquis of Hastings intends to accompany the remains of his sister to Scotland. It is the etiquette . of Cie Court that when any member of the household dies wi:l,in the p3lace, the body shall be removed within twenty four hours ; but in this case that etiquette will be dispensed with. The, Dowager. Marchioness of Hastings is in an infirm state of health at Loudon Castle. The utmost observance of respect is paid by her Ma jesty, as also the inferior inmates of the Palace, to the re mains of Lady Flora Hastings. Immediately after her Majesty had risen on Friday mottling, she inquired in the most earnest manner after the situation of Lady Flora, and when the melancholy tidings of her death was announced, her Majesty's emotion at the lamentable event was intense. Though her Majesty is in the constant habit of going to the Opera House, especially on Saturday evening, yester day she declined, and did not even take her usual airing. Her Majesty has also expressed her intention of not going to the Chapel Royal, St. James's, this day, but will attend divine service privately in the chapel attached to the Pal ace. Observer. THE MARKETS. -(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. The past week's arrivals continued—small quantities of Eng lish grain, and a good amount of Foreign. The fresh supplies are short. Erie Wheat commanded Is. per quarter in ad vance, but other descriptions were at former prices. Barley comes in small quantities, and the demand epually trifling. Beans and Pease dull sale and hardly maintain their late value. Good Oats support former sales, but other descriptions rather cheaper. Fresh made Flour sells at last quotations ; in other qualities little doing. eiticEs ON BOA RD OF SHIP Wheat, Red (old) —s. Beans, Small new) 41 , 44 ----White (01d)......—5. N. - P.ed 1838)........r4 , 98.-; Tick (new) l 3, 36_ —.— Fin,' CO; , I , L - Superfine CO, 7,i; Harrow (new) 35.385. —_-- Wh.te (153,1) ....675. 1,25. ---.—.....—...--. (0id)........ 42.44 s --- Fine O's 70s. Brank ... ._. -- Superfine 745 ;Ss Oats, Feed Foreign free 59-4 763 By( 40s 423 Poland Barley 3oa 376 New % 303. Grinding 303 nu Fotatoe.. 28•.30.. Malting 40s. 425. Malt slls. 655. Scotch . ^r2..3 - s Fine New 6,1.4 6,18. .-- Irish 245.... 28-.285. Pease, Grey, New ...365. 38.,. Flour Town ;per 5ack)....60-,62 Maple New . ..... .375. 40,. —.-- Veconds 54-.51, . -- White 40, 423 ---... N , irth Country.... 503.52 . -- Boilers —4) , 44. Bran . 12.: 13.. ARRIVALS ,-1 - ' GRAIN IN LONDON DURING LAST I , VI . :LK. 1 0: heat. Barley, , 5.,,.. English I 3,5 6 7rs 231 qr , 2,742,in. I 3,955 -add I ••••••••••• -6, two , Foreign 1 ::5,395 3.537 , 20,852 1 2011 brls. SMITHFIELD. Supply short, trade heavy, and without variation. The prime Beef, 3s. 6d. to 4s. Bd. ; Mutton, 4s. to 4s. 10d, ; Lamb, ss. to 65,; Veal, 4s. to 4s. 10d. ; Pork, 4s. to ss. Bea s t s , 2,196 ; Sheep and Lambs, 29,730; Pigs, 435 ; Calves, 195. BILLINGSGATE MARKET. Hot weather caused the trade to be dull, and prices a trifle higher. Turbot, 4s. 6d. to 215.; Soles, 9d. to 3s. 6d. per pair; Lasters, 6d. to 3s. ; Salmon, Is. to is. 6d. per lb. : Crimped, 3s. ; Whitings, 3d to 6d ; Haddocks, 6d. to Is. ; and Illackarel, 4d. to Bd. NEWCASTLE CORN EXCHANGE-July S. Red. White. Wheat, Nor th u tri 6e: land -. N'orfolk and Suffolk figs. 70,....... 73,. 795. Berwick and Scotch... ........ - Foreign 675. 6 8 ..... 67, 70s. stye, Nerf,lk and Suffolk - Foreign s. -s -s. -1. i..; Barley, Malting, Norfolk and Suffolk- 425. Ids .......,s. -s. :?.. -- Grinding and Feeding 'll5. 355. Malt, N'orrolk and Suffolk fifes els Beans, Small .-E. -E. --- - 'Del: 435. 1.65. - 5. -s. e Pcase, White 4- 465 . ... -5. -s. _ Gray 42, 455....... -S. -s. Cats, Northumberland, Potato(' 3ii. 3ls -A. -E. Feed - f oreign ---,. -5 Flour par sack) )05. 525 . -5. -s. WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET-July 5. Wneat, Red, Norfolk and Suffblk ...... -s. 665. to f.flic. fine 731. ---- Lin. and Cam. -s. 613. to 655. fine 605. -------- Yorkshire -5 Ms. to 615. fine 67, ------- White ---- Foreign, tied -5. -s. to 62, fine 110 s. ----- White -s. -s. to -s. tine 711 Barley, Nfirfolk ansi Suifislk ----- Lincolnshire l6s. to 378 fine 9g. --- Yorkshire Wold - Foreign Beans, Small -s, to 41s. fine 45r, - Tick 5. to 2fis. fine 391 Oates, Potato -s. to 30s. fine 34 ,. -- -- Poland -8. -s. to 30s. fine f 4s. Wrierland and Small. - ir., - ialing ....,. .... Mit. to 15d. per Stone. Awnin g 315. to 36s Od. per Loss' Malt - .•... -= - 4. 465. fine 40s. per Load. - Rapeseed . , ...... -1. Os. 2 3 1, 0 5 . 251 . Os. per Last. THE ARCHBISHOP OF PARIS.—The health of the Archbishop of Paris is said to be much improved. He was able on Saturday last to officiate in the Chapel of the Dames du S,cre Collar, and does not intend, as was reported, to go to 1!,.1y, but will merely pass a few days in the country near Paris. NATIONAL GALLERY.—The Chancellor of RIOTS AT BIRMINGHAM. FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) ARREST OF MR. W. LOVETT. SECRETARY TO THE GENERAL CONVENTION. AND MR. COLLINS, A DELEGATE -THEIR EX AMINATION, AND COMMITTAL I'o WAR WICK GAOL. BIRMINGHAM, SUNDAY. Saturday evening, at 7 o'cioirk i Mr. Bott‘:n. town con stable, accompanied by police-constable JohtiPal.ner, end others, entered the Convention Hall, where Mr. Lovett and other Delegates were examining witnesses concerning the late attack by the police on the people. Mr. Bolton handed to Mr. Lovett the warrant for his arrest, which the latter read aloud. There were but a few persons pre• sent, who commenced groaning, and showed some indica. tions of an attack on the police; but the Delegates imme diately interfered, and, with Mr. Lovett, insisted that the officers should not be interrupted in the discharge 01 their duty. Mr. Lovett then accompanied Mt. Bolton to the public office. Shortly after, Mr. Collins wa§.brought in. It appears that, Mr. Collins having heard that a warrant was issued against him, surremiered himself to Mr. Bolton. At nine o'clock Messrs. Lovett and Collins were brought before the Magistrates ft.:- examination. On the Bench were the Recorder of Birmingham, Messrs. Clarke, Walker, P. H. Moog, C. Shaw, F. Clarke, and W. Chance—the latter Chairman. The Court was crowded with highly respectable individuals, who appeared to take a deep interest in the proceeding. The CHAIRMAN, addressing Mr. Lovett, said, " Mr. William Lovett, yiu are brought here charged with pub lishing and circulating a seditious libel." The RECORDER.—Mr. Lovett, you will answer or not, as yeti think proper, the questions that will be proposed to you : you will use your disCretion in that respect, and the Clerk will take, in writing, your replies. Mr. LOVETT.—I understand, Sir. RECORDER.—. Was this paper (containing the resolution of the Convention of the sth) published under your direc tions? Mr. Lovett—lt was. RECORDER—Did you give it to Mr. Collins to get it published? Mr. Lovett—To the best of my knowledge I did. RECORDER —When did you give directions for the pub lication of that paper ?—Mr. Lovett—the day before yesterday. Mr. Collins-1 think it was yesterday morning. Mr. Lovett—lt might bd. The RECORDER (handing prisoner the original menu scripta—Was this the manuscript which you handed to Mr. Collins to hate printed? Mr. Lovett—lt was the same, to the best of my recollection. RECORDER—I request your moat particular atteetion to the following question, but warn you that you are not hound to answer it. Were you aware when you gave directions for its publication, that a collision had taken place between the military foice, police, and certain inhabitants of Birminghani ? Mr. Lovett—l was aware of it. May I add— RECORDER--I beg you will say all you can in your own favour, which will also confer a favour upon this Court. Mr. Lovett—l add, that it was from all I beard and saw respecting the attack mada by the police on the people on Thursday night previous to the Riot Act being read, and my strong feelings of the injustice of that attack prompted me to write and propose those resolutions which the placard bawled to me contains. RECORDER—Very well, we will consider the printed paper as part of the examination. Mr. Barlow, the clerk, read the resolutions, for which , ee • The Sun of Saturday. RECORDER—NO matter what may be our opinion res. pectin?, tho propriety of your conduct, there can be but one opinion, Mr. Lovett, respecting the candour of your answers to questions that must militate against you. RECORDER proposed those resolutions. Mr. Lovett—As expressive of my opinions of the bru tality and blood-thirsty disposition of the Metropolitan Police and the injustice of the authorities in allowing those men to act as they did against the people, without the ne cessary forms of law having been complied with. And my feelings were further excited, from the knowledge I pos=sessed that some of those authorities formerly sanctioned and took part in similar proceedings, arid entertained similar principles to those advocated and expressed by the people at their public meeting. Mr. MUNTZ—DO you mean the Bull Ring meetings? CIIAIRMAN—Not yet, Mr. Muntz. Mr. MUNTZ —I have a right, to ask the question. The RECORDER dissented. Mr. MUNTX, persevering.—Do you Mr. Lovett, mean to say that you saw any of the authorities at those meetinga ? Mr. Lavett—l say that the persona I refer to attended assemblages of the people professing principles' of Radi. calism. As to their manner or mode of advocating those principles, I do not presume to know anything about. Mr. Muntz was proceeding in his interrogatories, when the Recorder stopped him and resumed his examination. RECORDER— Did you move at the meeting of the Con vention the resolutions placed in your hands, and which are marked A ? Lovett—l did, and I propoied them. RECORDER—Who was in the room on that occasion ? Mr. Lovett—l refuse to answer that question. RECORDER—Wig you give the names of the members of the Convention present on the occasion ? Mr. Lovett— That I also decline to answer. RECORDER—TeII me the name of the person who pre sided at the meeting of the Convention upon that occasion ? Mr. Lovett—That I also refuse to answer. RECORDER—Were you aware, Mr. Lovett, that the police force, which in the placard is called a blood-thirsty and unconstitutional force, were armed with staves only ? Mr. Lovett—l heard it so reported. RECORDER-Were you aware that certain members of this police force were wounded dangerously by weapons? Mr. Lovett—l heard that several of them were wounded, and at the same time thought that the people were justified in repelling such deSpotic and blood-thirsty power by any end every means at their disposal ; because I believe thy institution of the pollee force is an infringement on the constitution and liberties possessed by our ancestors, for if the people submit to one injustice after another, which self constituted authorities impose upon them, they may be eventually ground to the dust without the means of any resistance. RECORDER-3 observe in your last answer you use the te;•ins "by any and every means iri the power ofthe people." I wish tn ask you if you propose, by those resolutions : to intimate to those addressed that they had a right to oppose the police forc. - , by arms, or an appeal to arms ? Mr. Lovett—The second resolution expresses my answer us clearly as possible. RECORDER Do you, by the second resolution, recommend or repudiate an appeal to arms ? Mr. Lovett—Several of the working classes asked my opinion. This resolution I then drew up. as exprt - liive of my advice under existing ei , ouinstaiices. RgeottnErt —At the time you prrpoted the resolutions of the placard, were you aware that the Magistrates of Birreing•ham had prohibited the meetings which for some time had taken place at the Bull-ring? Mr. Lovett—l had heard that the M igistrAtes had given such an order, but considered at the same time that they themselves, or a portion of them, had set the example of holding meetings there as well as in the public streets. I thought tho people had a right to follow so worthy an example. Mr. MttNti--.Will you inform me if any of IseMagistrat, , s attended the meeting which took place in the Bull-ring ? —Mr. Lovett—l do not know that they did personally attend Ball-ring meetings, but I understand that during the agitation for the Reform Bill, and subsequently, that they had encouraged the people to meet there, and had paraded the public streets with the people, more especially on the return of the Delegates from Scotland. Mr. MoNTx.---I wish to know from whom you heard those statements ? Mr. Lovett—From common rumour, so generally ex pressed as to leave no doubt of the truth on that point. The 13irmingleam Journal in its reports refers to those meetings and the person s atten di ng t h em. Mr. MUNTZ.—The Bull-ring meetings ? Mr. Lovett— , I cannot say. ' Mr. MUNTZ at the time you caused the placard to be published, were you aware that people had been punished, fined, and sent to the House of Correction for attending those meetings ?—Mr. Lovatt.—l was; and were I an inhabitant of Birmingham rather than yield to such despotic power on the part of the authorities, setting aside the old es'ablished usages and privileges, I would make any sacrifices, because I conceive the right of the people to bold publk meetings to be an old and constitutional right, which no self-constituted au thority, or any authority not representing the whole body of the people, had any right to set aside; and espe cially, as I understand that the law by which these meet- ings tvcro attempted to be set aside, was never contem plated, by those who drew it up, to apply it to public meetings, but to any obstruction to the pavement. Mr. Lloyd may be referred to as one of the persons concerned in drawing it up Mr. MUNTZ.—What Mr. Lloyd ? Mr. Lovett.---I un derstand that he is a Tory ; I think his name is Francis— the Act speaks for itself. Mr. MUNTL—Are you aware persons have been com mitted to prison for mteting in the Bull-ring ? RECORDER —The fact speaks for itself. Lovett—l am aware that you have law enough to hang as all if you wish. REcoanEa (to Mr. Muntz)—th you wish to ask any more questions? Mr. MuNTz—No, not at present. Mr. Lovett—l wish to add, that the third resolution has a reference to the arrest of Dr. Taylor, who was arrested after saving two policemen's lives, and persuading the people to go home and throw away the weapons he found in their hands. From his arrest lam satisfied dip neither the lives, liberties, nor property of the people will never be secure until they have some controul over the laws they are called upon to obey. The brutal manner in which Dr. Taylor was arrested induced me to draw up the third resolution. (Mr. Lovett here read the third resolution.) A policeman here informed the Bench that neither Mr. Watson nor Mr. Salt could be found. The Clerk then read over the examination, which having been signed by Mr. Lovett, he retired, and Mr. Collins was brought up and examined. RECORDER—What is your name ? Mr. Collins—John Collins. _ . RECORDER—Have you held office in the National Con. vention 1 Mr. Collins—l do not know of the existence of such a body ; but there is the General Convention of the Industrious Classes. RECORDER—Are you a Member of the General Conven. tion of the Industrious Classes ? Mr. Collins—l am one of the members of that, and was appointed a delegate at the same time with Mr. Muntz. REconotta—Were you prehent when the resolutions set forth in the placard A were passed in the Convention? Mr. Collins—l was. RECORDER—Did you deliver those reiolutions to the printer? Mr. Ccilins—l did not. RECORDER—Were you present, or in company with the person who delivered them to the printer? Col lins—l was. RECORDER—What is the name of that person? Mr. declinq answering Orit question. I:[>r. (lilylion' to to Ile nua.ber of those placards that siicod Collins---I did.. he printed ? Mr. THE • DEVIL AMONG THE SCHOOLMASTERS• —Their reverences, the Clergy, are actively engaged in their war against Bible Schools. They are now attempt ing to drive all independent schoolmasters into their cate chism-cramming system. A schoolmaster m ay have laboured usefully and zealously in his vocation for years -- the Bible may have been read in his school weekly or unlcn be introduces the C:ttechisnt, arld Put s hiinself under tLe inspection of the parstais, be is to be ruined fel thwith. They threaten uppcsit;onwlicrever they find an an independent schoolmaster.—Weatarn the Exchequer lass purchased for the National Gallery a of Vela:lnez. It was exhibited laA yt.r at the In , iitutinn, and represents the arena of bull-fight. It was b.)u,,lit from Lord Cowley, and 4.0001. is, WC un derstand, the sum that has been paid for it. E 141 - Nr I (4 14: D tr . 14:manta—What number ? Mr. Collins r -I ordered 1 500 to be printed. RECORDER—What was done with the printed placards? Mr. Collins—They wt re posted on the walls. RECORDER—When were the directions respecting them given ? Mr. Collins—On the sth of July. RECORDER—Were you aware at th. , time that a cAlision had taken place the night before between the police and the people, or persons assembled at the Bullring? Mr. Collins—l was. I heard that a collision had taken place. RECORDER—Was that collision a subject of discussion at the General Convention ? Mr. Collins—lt was talked of h the Convention. REcom i,—Will you give me the names of the mem bers ve „,:jon who were present when those reso lutions of the onswe Co repr t o i proposed at; ;:t adopted. Mr. Collins—l ca..ft do that. RECORDER—YOU mean to say that you cannot give all the names.. Mr. Cellins—l cannot. RECORDER—Who was in the chair? Mr.. Collins—l decline to answer that question. CI-minims—Did Mr. Muntz accept the appoitt,tment of Delegate. Collins—l unhetittateigly 'answer Yes. CHAIRMAN—Did he art after his appointment? Caiiins —He allowed his name to be circulated by advertisen,.ent as being so appointed and I conAder that he aceeytk'd . , appointment when he allowed himself to be named one of the trustees to the National Fund lodged in the Bank of Grote, Preseot and Grote. Mr. Collins stated that in attending those meetings he followed the example of men who should have been their guides • and that he never attended a Bull-ring meeting after ;he majority of the people declared at Holloway head that they should be discontinued, and he denounced the attack by the police upon the people assembled as brutal and unctinstitutional, it having taken place before the Riot Act was read. Mr. Collins having signed his statements, the two pri soners were remove.i, and the room was ordered to be cleared. After a few minutes, they were again brought before the Bench, when . _ The CHAIRMAN stated that they were committed for trial at the next Assizes; bot for their appearance at the next Assizes bail would be acecoted, 5001 themselves, and two sureties of 250/. each—forty-eight hour? notice being required. Messrs. Lovett and Collins protested again,l the amount of bail required, as being too excessive for working men, whose wages did not exceed 30s. a-week. The CHAIRMAN said that the Bench had waghed the matter well and would not lessen the amount. The CHAIRgAN read a parr dpnying that Mr. Monti ever accepted the office of Delegate, or ever acted as a Member of the Convention. At f , ur o'clock this morning ('unday), they, with 13 other prisoners, were conveyed to Warwick jail under a strong escort. On Saturday night, for the first time, the people attacked the houses, breaking the windows and smaa.hing the gas tubes, leaving the streets in darkness. To us,l the 'words of the pollee, it was the roughest night they bad ; 13 pri voners were arrested. Things still retain a frightful aspect. Dr. Taylor was released Saturday night, and return Rd at 4 o'clock on Sunday morning; in prison his Bair was cult off. (From the Dispatch.) 'BIRMINGHAM, SATURDAY, 12 O'CLOCK .—Nfartial law was carried into full effect last night by the authorities : the soldiers commenced, in the most ~ : avago manner, L.' clear the streets, the cavalry cutting at all persons who got in the way. One poor fellow had his head cloven open, and a surgeon could not be found to dress it ; and the unii fortunate man was carried away in a cart. At two o'clock this morning, Mr. Lawrence brought into town some prisoners, under an escort of Police and Rifles. During the night several other arrests took place, but it is impos sible to ascertain the charges against - them, as no persons were admitted into the presence of the representatives of justice, unless they were evidence. Yesterday, a public meeting was convened at Holloway Head, bzit the parties were dispersed at the point of the bayonet, and by the ca valry, who drove the people into the canal. Seve.ral 'were wdUnded on the occasion. Last night additional military forces arrived from Coventry and Weedon. O'Connor has also just waived. He has been deputed to wait on the anti orities foritho..ur of the Town-hall to hold a public meeting. If this -'s refused the people will attend all the chureins to-morrow, in companies of • tens, twelves, and fifteens. The Con vention met last night to examine witnesses, when it ap peared that the attack was made on the people half an hour before the Riot Act was read. Bail ham been ac cepted for Dr. Taylor. The bill-sticker who posted the address on ulterior measures has been arrested. Last night a young matt received a cut on the neelc and face from the sabre of a dragoon; and another person bad his nose nearly cut off. The metropolitan police never move about except in bodies, and then they are armed with cutlasses and pistols. THREE o'CLocx.—The Convention has been debating the ulterior measures to be taken, in case they should be prevented from assembling on the 13th instant, to fix the commencement of the sacred month, and it was resolved that a Committee of six should be appointed, whose deci sion should be unnounced, and regarded as that of the whole Convention. The Magistrates are examining the prisoners arrested last night. I have examined the weapons which were then seized, which are of a multifariotta descrip tic,n, as daggers, chisels, hammers, short iron-bars,lce. The Convention sat for a time with closed doors, anclit is under stood the Chartists are all to assemble in the churches to morrow. Guest, the printer of an Address from the .-Ceit vention to the People of England, was arrested to-day it: the police-office, on appearing there to bail Dr. Taylor. Martial law is to be enforced, and all shops and public houses closed at eight o'clock in the evening. The Add-ess above referred to recommended -1: An instant run upon the Savings Banks. 2. That all paper be converted into gold. 3. An abstinence from exciseablc articles. 4. A❑ exclusive dealing with Chartist shop keepers. 5. A general arming. It notified that imme• diately after the 12th, the day for ceasing to work will be named. TWELVE O'CLOCK, SATtIRDAY NIGHT. ARREST OF THE SECRETARY OF THE NA TIONAL CONVENTION AND OTHER DE LEGATES. This evening, at seven o'clock, Mr. Lovett, Delegate for London and its districts, and Secretary to the Conven tion, was arrested in the Convention-hall, Acton-streft, where be and other Delegates were engaged in examining witnesses touching the late attack on the people by the police. Mr. Bolton, the chief constable, and Mr. J o hn Palmer, police-officer, were the officers who put the warrant into execution, which they did in a manner becom ing men obliged to discharge so painful and disagreeable a duty. At eight o'clock, dr. John Collins, Delegate for Birmingham, was also arrested by Mr. Bolton, or he rather delivered himself up, for hearing that a warrant was issued against him, and in Mr. Bolton's hands, he waited upon him and surrendered. At nine o'clock Messrs. Lovett and Collins were brought before thct Recorder and the following Bench of Magistrates—Messrs. Clarke, Walker, P. 11. Muntz, W. Chance, C. Shaw, and F. Clarke. The charge against them was for having caused to be printed and circulated a seditious libel, vie. the three la? resolutions, which were passed after Dr. Taylor's arrest- At 12 o'clock, after a very lengthened investigation, the room was cleared, and in a few minutes after the prisoners were ordered in, when the Chairman, Mr. Chance, de clared them guilty of the libel, and committed them for trial at the ntxt Assizes. Bail, in the sum of 5001., and two sureties in 2501. each was demanded. The parties in vain protested against the enormous amount of bail. Other arrests, will, it is expected. take place during 'the night. The state of the town continues in the same excited state. About seventy prisoners have been arrested during the ' last three days. Mews. Feargus O'Connor and Smith have become bail for Dr, Taylor, in the sum of 2501. each • the Dr was required to enter into personal security in the sum of 400/ Two coaches, filled with prisoners, and committed for trial at the Ass:zes, have just quitted Birminghan for Warwick gaol, under a stong escort. The policemen a re pronounced out of danger. At the suggestion of Feargus O'Connor, 100/. out of the National Defence Rent, will be handed over as a loan to the National Defence Fund, and to be applied in defence of the prisoners to be tried on the I:th instant. _ _ The special constables are all dintinguished by white bands on their arms. The yeomanry have been ordered to be in readiness, but are not (wit h a few exceptions) allowed to enter the town. The military begin to complain of their duty, which, up to the present moment, has been of the most harassing description. Feargus O'Connor has expressed an opioion that the people have acted with great tameness. Altogether, between 7 0 and 80 persons have been arrested. Our reporter concludes—lt is said to be tfi^ determina tion of Government to give a deathblow to Chartism. If the expressions and threats of the people on the one bend, and the hostile preparatfqns for a defence on the other by the authorities, convey anything like information, a blow is expected from some quarter. We are glad to learn that there is no foundation ' for the rep or t of the death of the Bisi:cp of Lichfield and Coventry. The Right Rev. Prelate, Who is residing in Own, has been dangerously ill for some rime past, 'but within the last few days his health has been considerably improved. Sir Henry Halford and Mr. A. B, Chisholm, of Dev-mshire-street, are in daily attendance. upon his Lordship. DEAFNESS AND DEFECTIVE VISION.--k length those dreadful coaladies are completely obviateo without torture and serious risk by medical treatment: The Messrs. S. and B. 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