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THE =MOH NICHOLAS AND HIS EMPIRE LI( 1844 By " One who has seen and describes." " Tot ou tard tout se scait."—Maintenon. nate volumed proceed from the pen of one intimately conversant with the subject, and an eye-witness to much that he describes. They will lead the reader through startling disclosures regarding the fslga. acts, and character of ate Emperor Nicholas—the nature of liid government—the secret police, or Russian inquisition—the op pression of the nobility—tke more than West Indian slavery of the peasantry, and the unparalleled persecution of Roman Catholics, United Greeks, and Jews. They will also be found to contain mi flute and ample details on the naval and military force of the Russian empire ; together with a full account of the general conspiracy of the Russian Nobility against the Imperial Government. Uenry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. LAST NIGHT BUT TWO OF THE SEASON. THIS EVENING, AUG. 13, Will be performed DO P (by N specia IASQUAL desire) E. Donlzetti's Opera of Marina, Madame Grisi ; Ernesto, Signor Mario; Dr. Malatesta, Mgnor Fornaaari ; and Don Pasquale, Signor Lahlache. To conclude with the revived admired Ballet, arranged by Mdlle Ceeito, LE LAC DES FEES. The prinripal Characters by Mdlle. Cerito, Mdllee. Ferdinand, Barville, Madame Copere, M . Gosselin, and M. St. Leon. Ricci's New Opera of Corado d'Altamura will 14 repeated on Sa turday next. Applicatlans for Boxes, btalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box Mee, Opera Colonnade. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. LAST NIGHT BUT ONE OF THE SEASON. Madame PERSIANI respectfully informs the Nobility, Subscribers to the Opera, his Friends, and the Public, that HIS BENEFIT will take place ON THURSDAY NEXT, AUG. 15, When will be performed Mozart's chef d'oeuvre IL DON GIOVANNI, Madame Grisi, Mettle. Favanti, and Madame Persian'; Signori F• )rnasari, Lablache, F. Lablache, Galli, and Mario. After which, Selections from the new Divertissement, entitled LA VIVANDIERE, iatrlducing the Redowa ; or Original Polka of Bohemia, by Mdlle. ('cribs and M. St. Leon. To be followed by the Last Scene from Donizetti's Opera, LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR. Edgardo, Signor Moriani. To oeotlude with (last time) LA ESMERALDA. La Esmeralda, Famay Elsaler; Phcebus de Chateaupers, M. St. Leon; Pierre Gringeire, M Perrot. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box. office, Opera-colonnade. Doors open at Seven; the Opera will com mence at Half-past Seven. THEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM, LATE ENGLISH OPERA. HOUSE. Under the Management of Mrs. KEELEY. Another great Achievement ! Successfully Triumphant !! To attempt to eulogise the gorgeous splendour of the New Extrava ganza of " Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, or New Lamps for Old Ones," would be a work of supererogation' the Manage ment, therefore, contents itself by simply stating that it will be lopeated every Evening! THIS EVENING, AUG. 13, Will be repeated a New Drama, entitled MARTIN CHUZZLE. WIT, Principal characters by Messrs. R. Younge, F. Vining, Emery, F. Mathews, A. Wigan, Meadows, Kinloch, Turner, Stanton, J. W. Collier, Yarnold, Sanders, and Keeley ; Miss For. isecue, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. A. Wigan, Mrs. Woollidge, Miss Groves, Mrs. Usher. Miss Turner, and Mrs. Keeley. To conclude with an entirely Original, and much bettor than New, Grand Operatic, Romantic, Melo.Dramatic, Burlesque Extra vaganza, founded on the celebrated Eastern Pale, in the Arabi in Nights' Entertainment, entitled ALADDIN! AND THE WON DERFUL LAMP; or, New Lamps for Old Ones. With very extensive New Scenery, Machinery, Dresses, &c. Principal cha tatters by Mrs. Keeley, Messrs. F. Matthews, Turner, A. Wigan, J. W. Collier, and Keeley; Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Woolli Ige Miss E. Chaplin, Mrs. A. Wigan, Miss Turner, Mi s James, Miss earson, Miss Bunt, Miss Reede, &c., &c. PRICES OF ADMISSION.—BaIcony Boxes. 45.; Upper Boxes, es.; Pit, 25."; Gallery, 6d. Second Price—Balcony Boxes, 2s. ; Upper Boxes, Is 6d.; Pit, Is. Private Boxes on the Ita l con7 Tier (holding eight persons). Two Guineas. Private Boxes on the Second Tier (holding eight persons), One Guinea and a-Halt Private Boxes on the Pit Tlsr (holding six persons), One Guir ea. The Box-office is open from Ten to Four o'Clock, under the di rec. tioti of Mr. Grogan, late of Covent-garden Theatre. Under the especial Patronage of h:r Majesty the Queen, aid Prince Albert, and honourd by the presence of His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, Prince Mecklenburgh Strelitz, and distin guished assemblage of Nobility. Triumphant Success of ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS, Proprietor and Manager, Mr. BATTY. THIS EVENING, AUG. 13, Will be repeated an entire new Eluestrian, Military and Naval Spectacle, entitled THE CHINESE WAR; or, The Conquests of Amoy by British Arms. New Scenery, Dresses, Appointments, &c., So realise the recent triumphs of England's Army and Navy. Feast of 250 Lanterns. Splendid acts of Horsemanship —The Dance of the Polka. Tu conclude with THE GREAT STEEPLE-CHASE; or, Eng• land's Hu - vest Home. Mr. BATTY respectfully acquaints the Nobility, Gentry, and the Public, that having just returned from the Continent ; and, notwith standing his present unprecedented success and overflowing houses, be is ever anxious to produce novelty, to render this Establishment pre-erainent, and the first in Europe for its unequalled and extra ordinary productions, he has succeeded in forming arrangements with the following first-rate French Artistes, in addition to his present 'Talmted Corps of British and Foreign Equestrians :—Madame Lesette, Madamo. Reline, Madame Philipe, M. Pierre, M. Georges, and M. Ferdinand Scmidt, from the Circle Olympique, Faris, Ham. burgh, &c., and who will appear in their various and novel Scenes of Equitation. Acting and stage-manager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE Last Eleven Nights of the Grand Opera Company—Second Week of Cinderella, and an entirely New Piece. THIS EVENING, AUG. 13, Will be performed Rossini's Fairy Opera of CINDERELLA ; or, The Little Glass Slipper. Supported by Miss Romer, Miss Betts, Miss E. Terry, Miss Pearson, Messrs. D. W. King, Lefler, E Hime. S. Cowell, R. Honner, &c. Conductor, Mr. G. Stansbury, wills double Band and Chorus. Te conclude with an entirely Now Drama, entitled GRAMA CHREH MOLLY. Embwing the whole strength of the Company. Places and Private Boxer to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box. 'dice, from Eleven to Four, STRAND THEATRE. THIS EVENING, AUG 13, Will be performed MARTIN CHUZZLEWI I'. Young Martin Chuzzlewit. Mr. Ranoe; Old Martin Chuzzlewit, Mr. Aylitre; Jonas Chuzzlewit, Mr. Attwood; Montague lige, Mr. Roberts; Tom Pinch, Mt. Biddies; Mr. Pecksniff, and Mrs. Sairey Garnp, H. Hall; Mary Graham, Mrs. Coleman Pope. After which, a New and Original Burlesque. entitled THE WON DERFUL LAMP, in a New Light, nein.; an Illustrated Version of Aladdin. Abanazar, Mr. Paul Bedford; Aladdin, Mr. Wright ; Princess Badroulbadour, Miss E. Stanley. To conclude with Selby's Farce of THE NEW FOOTMAN. Bobby Breakwinclow, Mr. Attwood; Polly Picnic, Miss Carter. UNPARALLELLED IN THE ANNALS OF EXHIBITION ! IN HONOUR OF HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN DOWAGER'S BIRTH-DAY. ROYAL SURIREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. THIS DAY and TO-MORROW, August 13th and 14th, 1844, a GRAND FETE and FANCY SALE, for tho BENEFIT of the SAINT ANN'S SOCIETY SCHOOL, will take place in these Gardena. The unequalled Menagerie ; Graad Modelled View of London in the Olden Time ; celebrated Russian Family Kantrowitz, from St. Petersburgh, in characteristic costume, will sing a selection of their national airs. _ _ The FANCY SALE, arranged in a beautiful Marquee, at which Several Ladies of Distinction will preside. Blight's admired brass band. Herr Meyer, the Magic Siffieur, will go through his wonderful performances. The beautiful Model of Venice. The Promenade Concerts, with a most unique selection. The whole to conclude with the unrivalled representation of the Fire of London, with additional and electrifying effects. Doers open at Ono o'clock, announced by a Royal Salute, and the National Anthem. Kantrowite Family, Three and Five. Herr Meyer, at intervals. Promenade Concerts, at Six. Conflagration, at Dusk. Admission, One Shilling. EGYPTIAN HALL, PICCADILLY. IMPORTANT NOTICE. ONE SHILLING Admission to TM% NAPOLEON MU SEUM, the most magnificent and extensive Collection of Histo rical Curiosities and Works of Art ever known to have been formed by One Person. during Twenty-five years of elaborate research, at a oast of 60,000 guineas, and to completely illustrate, in the moat in structive and interesting manner, the most important part of Euro pean history, viz.—CHARLES 1., OLIVER CROMWELL, and LOUIS XIV., to the deaths of GEORGE 111., and the EMPEROR NAPOLEON, in 1821. This unique Museum has been visited often, daring the last and present year, by the Royal Family, the Duke of Wellington, the Foreign Princes, Ambassadors, and their Ladies, also, many thousands of the Nobility and Public ; and the Pro- Witter has recently been able to increase, by several very fine pictures, &c., his previous almost incredible number and variety of MSS., Works of Art, and a multitude •If valuable Relief - , and other ourloeitles, in this raost in3tructive and, as hundreds have said it ought to be, a National Museum. Mary thousand have inspected it, and THIRTY PRINCIPAL EDITORS of the PUBLIC PRESS have stated that it ought to be seen by every one. The price of adrais lion is reduced to ONE SHILLING. The NAPOLEON MUSEUM is to be seen only at the " Egyptian Piccadilly. daily fi ran Tea till Dusk. THE WEATHER.—Sux OFFICE, Auc. 13. ImemmozarrEn, Lowest, 55; Highest, 67; Noon, 62. BAROMETER, 29.7.-Wttm, W. NOM—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the i r gezing pdint, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is tsually placed opposite 30, and rain at 29. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning ... 92 minutes after 1 .b.`vening ... 41 minutes lfter .. . ','„Cr, l ,, . ••.^2 1 , 1 , ''o' :: .• . ~ ''-', - O ,T A III•N AL . _-_,,, -, 4 '",ty:' : ~;: , 4' ,7. as 4 t. ' ,J. •, C , :4 _.; Al', r.• ' -f. 7 ii W.:. N4 ..,.' .... 1 . tar/ :," f 114•0 ....' :I tt ~0441(6. ,_ :,., .„ Njj,, %, • ,`,;;." 4 .A ~ a ..- 7 ,9 " .'P • 2110 14 d,.4 ~,3 4 b 4 0,, ,C.'• ,"„ - "_ . -•• :'40:,'.....1 , e., , 4 - , 0..._._ ' • ' ' Ili n li: ,„; , • SECOND EDITION: QY bet/all -';‘) Atilt LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1844. The great meeting at Alloway Kirk, to honour the memory of BURNS, deserves a few brief remarks. It was honourable to the people of the United Kingdom, for men, and women too, from England and Ireland, Were present to celebrate this great national tribute to the most remarkable poet of modern times. There could not be a better proof of the irresistible force of genius, than the fact that a peasant wrote songs in what has been called the Doric tongue, but unintel ligible to Englishmen and Irishmen, and in time they were compelled, by the beauty and vigour of his poetry, to learn the barbarous language, and sing his divine airs with all the enthusiasm of nationality. No man ever wrote so many songs destined to immor tality, and if,we except the beautiful odes of HORACE, none have been so generally diffused over the habit able globe. In India, America, in nearly all the islands of the ocean, and now even in China, th e songs of BURNS form a necessary accompaniment of every festival, and the " Banks and Braes of B onny Doon," " Highland Mary," and " Scots wha hae wi' Wallace bled," are as well known and as much admired as on the banks of Ayr. Such a man was worthy of a nation's gratitude, and nobly was the tribute paid. The crowds who thronged to celebrate the festival far exceeded expectation ; and at the head of them was appropriately placed a chief whose family and domains BURNS has rendered immortal. None could be better fitted for the chair than the proprietor of the " Castle of Montgomery," and in justice to nobility, no one performed his part better than the Earl of EauirroN. His speech was by far tho best that was made on the occasion. It contained nothing extraneous. It was all directed the main object of the day. It glowed with pa- triotic feeling, and embodied sentiments which will only make the world regret that the present heir to that illustrious family did not live in the time of BURNS, to screen him, as he would willingly have done, from the pangs of poverty, and rescue Scotland from the disgrace of allowing the first poet of the age to pass his latter days in an ignoble employment. The speech of Lord EGLINTON was all good, but the following passages deserve particular notice, and will thrill the heart of every Scotchman : " Oh ! that he could have foreseen the futurity of fame created for him this day, when the poet and the historian, ;the peer and the peasant, vie with each other in paying their tribute of admiration to the humble but mighty genius of him whom we hail as the first of Scottish poets. Such a foresight might have alleviated the dreary hours of his sojourn at Mossgiel —might have lightened the dark days of his pilgrimage on earth. Well does he deserve our homage who has portrayed the Cottar's Saturday Night,' not in strains of inconsiderate mirth, but in solemnity and truth, who breathed the patriotic words that tell of the glories of our Wallace, immor talising alike the poet and the hero; he who could draw inspiration from the humble daisy, breathed forth the heroic words of ' The Song of Death,' strains, the incarnation of poetry and love, and yet of the bitterest shafts of satire and ridicule —obeying but the hand of nature, despising all the rules of art, yet trampling over the very rules he set at nought. At his name every Scottish heart beats high. He has become a household word alike in the palace and the cottage." These sentiments, though expressed in glowing language, are only matters of fact, but they do not come up to the truth. The words of BURNS make every Scottish heart, it is true, beat high ; but what heart do they not move ? His words are sung on the banks of the Ganges, of the Indus, and the Mississippi ; his fame has extended over the world, and his songs of liberty hold out hopes even to the most wretched slave. Scotland may well be proud of a " ploughman" who has spread her fame far and wide, and made a rude and uncultivated language familiar to every civilised nation. Railroads are undoubtedly among the most ori ginal and characteristic features of the material eco nomy of our times. Their uses and relations are so multiplied, so intimately mixed up with the business and interests of all classes of the community—they form so indispensable and prominent an element in the scheme of modern European society—they are so obviously the high roads of moral as well as physical intercommunication between the remotest localities of empires —and, in this country, the vastness of their design, the magnificence of their execution, and the perfect system of their administration are so far superior to those of any other State, that there are no public works in the management and welfare of which the solicitude of the English people is so universally manifested. The proverbial passion of our active races for travel is gratified by railway locomotion, though within the circumscribed limits of their own islands, with a facility which appears to be absolutely magical, and with a velocity of transition that more than realises the demands of even our unreasonable appetite for speed. No wonder that the progress and manage ment of undertakings so closely identified with the constitutional temperament of the people have been watched by that people with an incessant and scrutinising jealousy. All kind of hard things (it must be confessed) have been suspected—and not a few have been openly said—about the overwhelming monopoly, and reck less selfishness, and unprincipled extension of profits, which, alone, railway companies it was supposed would consult, in comparative indifference to the great interests of the community, and utter disregard of the wants, the wishes, and the limited means of the poorer classes, who might, whether for business, or health, or relaxation, be solicitous of journeying by the only conveyances, with few exceptions, now avail able for such a purpose. It is not necessary for us to inquire whether the disposition manifested, and the conduct and proceed ings adopted, by particular railway companies in the first years of their operations, justified to any—or to what—extent, these fears and anticipations. It would be, moreover, ungracious in us to ask, in what de gree the active part recently taken by Parliament, in combining a series of carefully considered enactments for the general regulation of rail roads and their affairs, may have quickened the tendency of Boards of Directors to give a liberal and humane consideration, to the exigencies of that numerous body, to which we allude, who with the most inadequate means for paying highly for railway accommodation, have the most need for its facilities of occasional transport from the metropolis, and other swarming marts of long-continued and all but incessantly-plied toil, in their brief and scanty intervals of leisure. Much more to our purpose and our taste, it is to express the feeling of unfeigned satisfaction with which we regard the liberal and ever generous spirit in which, month after month, the great Railway Companies come forward to announce the arrangements they have made for procuring the most valuable, healthful, and instructive of all recreations to the sons and daughters of industrial labour, at a cost cheaper than we had really supposed it could ever be afforded. The second and third-class passengers, the latter more especially, are the objects of these excellent arrangements. The London and Birmingham, Great Western, London and Dover, London and Brighton, and Eastern Counties Railway Companies, we most particularly notice as en titled to the best thanks of the public for the efforts they have made in this direction. They have reduced the charge per head on the several pleasure or holiday excursions, which they have opened to the enjoyment of hundreds—of thousands, rather—who, but for such manifestations of a kindly spirit in these bodies, might never have come within sight of the chance of such enjoyments, to a point which cannot reimburse their expenditure, unless the numbers who avail themselves of their offers be immoderatelygreat ; but which, in that case, must yield a corresponding profst to which their spirited liberality establishes in these companies, the most legitimate of claims. Who that remembers a Sunday in Manchester, but twelve years ago, with the gin -shops swarming, as we have seen them, with whole families of artisans, well behaved, indeed, and attired in their best, but compelled, as it were, to make out their day of rest in such unfitting quarters, from the utter hopelessness of penetrating into the country— were they ever so disposed—by dragging their ex hausted limbs, say through the dreary length of the brick-and-mortar suburb of Oldham, for example, a weary four or five miles, unreclaimed by an open space half as big as Kennington-common ;—who that has seen, on Sundays, the suburbs inhabited by the poorest weavers of Glasgow, or the operatives of Huddersfield, but must rejoice at the light and easy terms on which the Act of the Legislature has now secured, to such as are desirous to avail themselves of it, the privilege of being conveyed, for a few happy and refreshing hours, once in every week, through the purer air, and cheerful inspiration of large tracts of open country—over moors and through vallies and round the bases of breezy hills, or near the banks of fresh and sparkling rivers—far away from the polluted atmosphere, and oppressive monotony of the town in which they have to earn their hard subsistence ? After excitement and gratification like those of the the "railway trip," we may be sure they return with kindlier feelings to all the world—increased self- respect, and augmented alacrity. The prospect of re newing at short intervals their glimpses of " the world" beyond the dingy streets of mills and factories, in which they have been so long over-wearied denizens, ... .. . will lighten the toils of the week, strengthen the re lations and good understanding between the manu facturer and the operative, the master and the ser vant, and gradually extinguish that painful sense of virtual exclusion from the enjoyments common to all classes above them which has too long, and most un wisely, been permitted both by the Government and the capitalist, to pre-occupy and poison the mind of the labouring artisans. The Legislature has done nobly in providing that there shall be on all the great lines of railway, where passenger -trains of any class are run on Sundays, third-class trains—and in spirit, energy, and liberality, we must say the Rail way Directors have gone ahead even of the Legis lature. Witness the last announcement of the Brighton Railway Company. At what angle of elevation the Bishop of LONDON up-turns his episcopal eyes at monster trains of forty _. ~ \N‘ NEW HISTORICAL ROMANCE. Just ready, is three vols. post Bvo. ARTHUR ARUNDEL Tale of tho English Revolution. BY HORACE SMITH, ESQ., Author of " Pirambletye House," &c. Henry Colburu, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-Street. Now ready, in 2 yols. small Syo., price 245. bound,_ R EVELATIONS OF RUSSIA; OR, ~, y THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 18, 1844. Madrid journals of the sth have been received, but they contain no news. The Court was not expected to return from Barcelona till the 22d instant. The Three per Cents. were done at 27, 1 , at GO days and the Five per Cents. at 20. On Sunday the French Government received the following telegraphic dispatches : " TANGIERS, AUG. 2 " The EAIPEROIt, who is coming from Rabat, is ex pected at Alkazar, within a march of a day and a half from Tangiers. It is said that Mr. HAY is with him." " TANGIERS, AUG. 3. " The Governor of Larrache has received from the EMPEROR full powers to negotiate. The Prince DE JOINVILLE has delegated, on his side, M. DR NION. All hostilities are suspended, and a pacific solution is anticipated." In addition to this intelligence we learn that on the Bth inst., a telegraphic dispatch from Paris reached Toulon, ordering the immediate departure of three ships of the line, the Ocean, Inflexible, and Neptune. These vessels were to put to sea next morning, and sail without delay to Tangiers. The object in ordering :this reinforcement to the squadron under the Prince JOINVILLE, is probably to give more effect to the negotiations and bring the affair to a speedy conclusion. Most of the Paris journals make fresh comments on the discussions in Parliament relative to Otaheite, and, we are glad to find, in a more peaceable tone. The Siecle, though it cannot conceal its hostile feel ing to England, thus adverts to the awful conse quences of a war :—" When one reflects on the ad mirable progress made by our manufacturers since the re-establishment of peace, on the frightful misery which would oppress our operatives if our manufac tories were closed by war, on the enormous amount of sums voted for railroads, on the difficulties and em harrassmeats which make a regency to he feared, one is certainly disposed to wish for the maintenance of peace. For these reasons we are far from reproach ing our Government for sincerely endeavouring to ac complish that object. But we cannot without pain see the continual sacrifices in vain made by France. It is a singular fact, that whilst we are told that England is our only ally in Europe, it is with her we are continually quarrelling—on the question of the Marquesas Islands, on Otaheite, on Algiers, on the right of search, on Egypt, on Syria, and on Spain. To pretend, therefore, that between her and us there exists a cordial understanding is a real derision." The Journal des Debats expresses satisfaction with the reserve manifested by Sir ROBERT PEEL and the Earl of ABERDEEN, and confidently hopes that the exertions of the two Governments to preserve peace will be successful. " Sir ROBERT PEEL," it says, " following the wise advice which he gave to Lord PALMERSTON—that second thoughts are best—re fused to enter into any discussion relative to a sub- ject which requires the utmost reserve. Lord ABER DEEN, in the House of Lords, was similarly discreet. It may be permitted to us to believe that the example given by M. GUIzoT in the French Chambers was not unconnected with the change effected in the atti tude and language of the British Ministers. We cannot but congratulate the two Governments on this fact. There existed already so much cause of irritation between the two countries, that it became necessary for the men who were to direct public affairs scrupulously to watch their words. Lord ABERDEEN expressed a hope that the moderation of the two Governments would still frustrate the designs of the enemies of peace, foreign and domestic. The reproach made against the Conservative Governments is, that the good harmony existing between the two countries has been compromised by the mutual con cessions made. In truth, we admire the patriotism of the Opposition, whether in France or in England. Their efforts appear to be directed each to sacrifice the honour and dignity of their country, and to see which of them shall represent it as the most humi liated, the most sacrificed, or the most dishonoured. Fortunately these accusations,' as absurd as odious, neutralise each other. Let the two Governments, which, in the midst of so many critical circumstances, have succeeded in maintaining peace, so gravely coin- , promised, continue advantageously their exertions, and they will be supported, we are certain, by the great majority of the two nations." Even the Courrier Francais has become pale : " The maintenance of the dignity of the country is not to be found in war. In spite of the management ot M. Guizot and his colleag ues , F rance i s not yet fallen so low as to require a remedy so heroic. War no longer enters into her manners nor her ideas, and peace is no more threatened by the party which has exposed M. Guizot than it is maintained by the eloquent theories and the problematic capacity of that orator Minister. Thanks to the diffusion of wholesome democratic ideas, to the conquest of the civilising over the brutal and war like element, war has ceased to be popular, and will not break out unless English arrogance has the madness to place us in the alternative to draw the sword or to submit to insult." The Commerce announces that three telegraphs are now being constructed at Paris which are to be placed on three ships, which will be stationed between Dover and Calais, during the KING'S stay in England. By this means the London telegraph will directly com municate with that of the Home Department at Paris. At TORTONI'S on Sunday the Three per Cents. were quoted at 81f. 55c. Mr. Thomas Baker, superintendent of the C division of metropolitan police, has been allowed by the Secretary of State to retire from the force on a pension of half pay, after a period of 15 years' service. He was formerly sergeant•major in the Coldstream Guards for upwards of twenty-five years, and was present in Egypt in 1801, where the sight of one of his eyes was injured, and is now entirely gone, and throughout the whole of the Peninsular war, ending with the battle of Waterloo. Upon his being pensioned from the army he was made a warden of the Palace, and presented by his Royal High ness the Duke of Cambridge with a very handsome gra tuity, and by the officers of the regiment with a piece of plate and a clock, with an inscription of his services, as a testimony of their high opinion of him, and of his con duct and bravery in action. WEST INDIA PlNES.—Yesterday afternoon there ' was a last sale for the season at Monument-yard, of 5,000 pine apples from the Bahamas. The fruit was of excellent quality, and the prices averaged from Is. Ed. to 55. each. The pine season in the West Indies is now over, but it is probable, judging from the success of the present speculation, that there will be a very large im portation of this esteemed fruit in future years. carriages of all classes, running down "at early dawn" to Dover or Brighton on a Sunday —a delicious, holy, sunny Sabbath, in its truest and most sacred sense ; a Sabbath of calm and innocent enjoyment, and, therefore, of inward thankfulness and praise to the vast majority of those who participate in its pleasures—with what emotion the mitred master of the palace at Fulham reflects, on his river terrace, or amidst the luxurious repose of his saloons in St. James's-square, on the abomination of 1,000 people—of the middling and lower classes—(for this meekest of Christian prelates never objected to the Sunday travelling of the rich, in their own carriages, nor even to the vicarious of fences of railway carriages in locomotion on that day, provided always they were " first-class" passen gers who were to be carried, his Lordship's repu diated amendment having been levelled at third-class trains)—we know not; but we do care. We are anxious that he should practically learn "the luxury of doing good," by contemplating, on a Sunday, the happy faces assembled at a railway station. We strongly advise him to book a place in the next " railway excursion" at reduced fares, taking care to secure himself a " return" ticket by a train that shall bring him up in good time on that day se'nnight, for the service at the Chapel Royal, or any other equally courtly duty. We have given elsewhere a short article from the Times, relative to the announcement of the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, that it was not the intention of the Government in future to furnish a return of the stamps issued to each individual newspaper, but merely the aggregate of those used by all. Our Contemporary justly admits the fairness of this re turn to the old custon„ and, we may add, in a hand some manner, willingly gives up any advantage that may be derived to the proprietors of the journal by a publication of the returns. As regards ourselves it is a matter of indifference whether they are pub lished or not; but it is not so with newly-established papers, or with those which, from some temporary circumstances, or unforeseen accidents, may have fallen off in their circulation. To the proprietors of such papers, the quarterly returns caused great in jury—the country papers, in particular, suffered severely from the practice ; and we are, therefore, glad that Mr. GOULBURN has admitted the evils of the system, and resolved to abate them. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY. HAY MAREETS. SMITHFIELD. —Coarse Meadow Hay, 3115 s to 414 s ; Useful ditto, 41 6s to 4112 s ; fine Upland ditto, 41 14s to 5/ ; Clover Hay, Si to 616 s ; Oat Straw, 116 s to 118 s , Wheat Straw, 118 s to 11 lOs per load. A fair average supply, and a steady demand. CUMBERLAND. —Coarse Meadow Hay, 3116 s to 418 s ; Useful ditto, 4110 s to 41 16s • fine Upland ditto, 4117 s to Si 3s; Clover Hay, 4 / 1 2s to 61; Oat Straw, 118 s to 1/ 10s; Wheat Straw, 11 lOs to 11 12s per load. Supply mo derate, and trade rather dull. WHITECHAPEL.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 15s to 41; Useful ditto, 414 s to 41 12s ; fine Upland ditto, 41 14s to 51; Clover Hay, 41 15s to 61 lOs ; Oat Straw, 116 s to 11 8s ; Wheat St raw , 1 1 8 s to 11 lOs per load. Both Hay and Straw sold freely, at full prices. New Meadow Hay sold at from 31 to 414 s ; and New Clover, 3118 s to 515 s per load. COLONIAL StrGAß.—The market for British Plantation is deci dedly more firm, and after the public sales some parcels were disposed of at rather better prices ; about 450 hhds have been sold. There has been rather more dispositicrn shown to purchase Molasses, but as holders demand higher prices, no transactions have taken place worth reporting. The public sales have consisted chiefly of 12,151 bags Mauritius and 1,094 bags Bengal. The whole of the Mauritius sold, and went off with spirit (nearly one-half was taken by one broker, supposed to be on speculation), at fully previous prices, and in some instances rather dearer; very low to fine brown brought 43s to 54s 6d, and low to fine yellow, 55s to 65s 6d. Nearly all the Bengal also found buyers, the greater part at comparatively very high prices ; viz., 68s to 71s for good to fine strong grainy yellow (Dhobah kind), and the remainder at 53s to 61s for low soft yellow (Date kind) to mid soft white Benares, being about previous rates. The quantity of British planta tion landed last week at the East and West India Docks was 1,037 hhds 222 tierces 332 barrels, and there were taken for home consumption 1,268 hhds 122 tierces 309 barrels. The stock in the same places is 12,748 hhds 1,914 tierces 2,936 barrels. COFFEE.—Of 970 bags Ceylon and 106 bales Mocha at auction, only a small portion was disposed of at 54s for good ord Ceylon, vv hich is the former value ; the remainder was taken in at 65s to 76s for fine ord to fine fine ord British Plantation kind, being comparatively very low prices, but at which there were not purchasers. The Mocha was likewise taken in at 78s for good deem garbled. A large parcel of Ceylon has been disposed of privately (amounting to about 3,500 b ags ) , t h e exact price of which has not transpired, but is supposed to be 54s 6d or 555. MM.—The quantity landed last week at the East and West India Docks was 465 puns 59 hhds. There were taken for home consumption 176 puns 30 hhds, and ex ported 190 puns 97 hhds. The stock in the same places is 10,070 puns 1,782 hhds. SALTPETRE. -971 bags Bengal, at auction, were nearly all taken in at 25s to 27s for 71- to 2i per cent Tefrac tion, being again cheaper. TALLOW.—P.Y.C. is steady at 41s to 41s 6d per cwt on the spot, and Town at 43s 6d per cwt. TEA.— The private market is very firm. There are public sales declared for Thursday next. PINE APPLES.—A bout 4,000 were disposed of yester day by Keeling and Hunt, being the remainder of the cargo of the Fear Not, from New Providence. The at tendance of buyers was exceedingly good, and many private purchasers were present, and much judgment was shown in th e di str ib ut i on o f the Pines, as regards size and quality, which was apprec;ated by the dealers and others, who purchased without reserve, at prices averaging those of former sales. Several exportations have been made to the Continent; and from this, in con junction with the large sales made for home consunsp tion, it is clear that the exportation of the Pine from the West India Islands to England will shortly become a more important feature. --- IMPROVEMENTS AT BANKsroE.---During the last few days extensive alterations have been going on at Bankside, Southwark, from the east end of Holland street, extending as far as Messrs. Barclay's brewhouse, Bank -end. The principal portion of the roadway, which has been in a most dangerous state for some years, 114 s open newl . y laid down on the most improved system. In some parts lacing the rip= theroad-way has been raised three feet, chiefly as a proientinn against he good tides, which frequently inundate this portion of the river side to an alarming extent, causing the most serious destruction of property. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, AUG. 13.—Wind S.W., moderate breeze, and cloudy. OFF MARGATE, AUG.lo.—Champion, Steele, Antigua. DEAL, AUG. 12.—Wind S.W. by S. to W.N.W., tresh and squally. 10, P.M., S.W., moderate.—Arrd, Richard, Jamaica. Put back, Duke of Roxburgh, for Madras. PORTSMOUTH, AUG. 12.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrd. H.M.S. Thunder, Nassau ' • Childe Harold, London, f or Bombay ; Isabella Blyth, London, for Mauritius. COWES, AUG. 12 .—Arrd.Alcyone,Schlaiker, Mazatlan. MUMBLES, AUG. 11.—S1d. Gipsy and Auricular, St. Jago de Cuba ; Alderman Pixie, Penrose, Cuba. GRIMSBY, AUG. 10.—The sloop Lark, of Boston, has been brought in here. HOLYHEAD, AUG. 10.—The Neptune, Thomas, from Banow to Swansea, foundered in Carnarvon Bay, 6th inst. ; crew saved. PADSTOW, Aua. 10.—A boat marked " H. P. R. t," and a cabin drawer, were picked up yesterday in Col stentan Bay. ILFRACOMBE, AUG. 10.—Part of a boat, marked " St. Austell Packet, of Fowey," Henry Nancholes, has been picked up in Mort Bay. CONWAY, AUG. 10.—The Lady Champness, Hughes, for Liverpool, went ashore at the Great Ormshead, and has been brought in here to be repaired ; crew saved. LIVERPOOL, Auc. 12.—Wind N.E., light.—Arrd. Gipsy, Cresswell, Maranham ; Moslem, Vale, Hayti ; Henrietta, Laguna ; George Paskhell, Mobile ; Mars, Came, Paisborough ; Gem, Fawcett, Quebec. Sid. Sarah, Ichaboe ; Shakspeare, Bombay ; Garrick, New York ; Carolus, Boston ; Malabar, Quebec. Otf, Briton, Laura, and Flora. OFF Conic.—Bombay, Ichiboe, Superior, Henderson, Belize. BRISTOL, AUG. 10.—Arrd E. Thom, Miramichi. HOLYHEAD, AUG. 9. Sld. Waterlily, Newfoundland. NEWPORT, AUG. 11.—S1d. Margaret, Thomas ; Eudine, Quebec. AUG. 12.—Arrd. Flora, de Putun, Ichaboe ; Ann, Tatmao•auche ; Auora, Gil mour and Reward, Quebec. Sailed Corinthian, St. John's New Brunswick. FALMOUTH, AUG. 12.—Wind W.N.W., strong breezes and squally.—Arrd. James Dunn, Marsala, with foremast carried away, &c., 4th inst., lat. 44 lon. 2. GLOUCESTER, AUG. 12.—Sid. Venture, Quebec. MILFORD, AUG. 10.—S1d. Catharine, Ichaboe ; Tasso, Quebec ; Swift, Quebec. SWANSEA, AUG. 12. —The Catharine, of Stirling, from Havre, foundered 30 miles from Portland this morning ; crew saved. Aua. 12.—1 t blew a gale four 4 p.m, yesterday until four this morning. BANKRUPTCY.-(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Commissioner GOULBURN.) IN RE:LEWIS JOHN JACKSON. Mr. NrcaoLLs said he appeared to oppose the bank rupt's interim order, on the part of a Mr. Riches, who was a creditor to the amount of 1101. He opposed the insolvent on two grounds; first, that this debt had been contracted in a fraudulent manner; and, secondly, that when an action had been entered in the Court of Queen's Bench, the bankrupt by defending said action had in curred expenses to the amount of 601., without any reasonable expectation of being able to pay the same. Mr. Commissioner GOULBURN—There was an action, then. What were the damages given ? Mr. NICHOLLS-501. The Learned Counsel then stated that his client Riches was a coal dealer and collector of rents. He afterwards took out a license as a broker, and employed the bank rupt as his man to take possession at a salary of 2s. 6d. per day. Some time after this connexion, the bankrupt proposed that the opposing creditor should advance some money to buy furniture, on which a profit might be realised on its subsequent sale. Riches acceded to the proposition, and an agreement was en tered iuto that the bankrupt should have two-thirds of the property for his trouble, and the creditor, Riches, the remaining one-third for the use of the money. The con nection realised a profit, and continued for about twelve months ; when one morning it was discovered that the bankrupt was removing furniture, amounting to 1501., from Newport-street, where their place of business then was, to Cambridge road, where the bankrupt now resided. He succeeded in re moving it, and Riches not being able to procure a settle ment, entered an action in the Queen's Bench, and found damages in 501. Such were the simple circumstances, and he contended that this fully established his grounds of objection. Evidence was called to the facts. Mr. Commissioner GOULBURN thought that the bank rupt in this case came clearly within the wording of the Act, he having contracted the debt to Mr. Riches in a fraudulent manner, and was therefore not entitled to the protection of that Court. The goods were delivered upon trust, and there being 110 sale shown or established, it implied clearly a breach of that trust. He (the Com missioner) was therefore obliged to reserve the conside ration of the bankrupt's final order, giving him the protection of the Court. • There was no other case of the slightest interest heard this morning. GUILDHALL.—(THIS DAY.) ROBBERY FROM THE POST - OFFICE.—Ann West, a very neatly-dressed girl was this day placed before Alderman Farncombe on suspicion of stealing forty seven sovereigns from Mrs. Larkins, a female residing at 141, Bell-alley, Golden-lane. The evidence of 132 City constable, went to show that at half.past five last night, he had been called into a public-house in Golden-lane, kept by Mr. Duffy, in con sequence of Larkins charging West with stealing forty seven sovereigns. He took them both into custody, and then accompanied by Sergeant Merry and Mr. Duffy, he went and searched the premises of Larkins. While searching, Mr. Duffy pulled a glove from among the ashes of the fire-place, containing fifty-four sovereigns. After a long conversation between the sitting Alder man, Alderman Gibbs, and M r . D u ff y , Mrs. Larkins was placed in the witness-box, but not sworn. To questions from the Bench she said that she had known the prisoner for about a week, but her sister for five years. The prisoner was in service in 14, South ' street, Grosvenor-square. The fifty-four sovereigns were Mrs. Larkins' own property, the fruits of nine years' industry. Her husband had been a policeman, but was latterly a letter-carrier in the Post-office. She had not seen him since the day before yesterday, but had received a letter saying that he had gone to the country. Her husband knew nothing of the sovereigns, as they were her own winning. She had no wish to charge complainant. The policeman was called in by Mr. Duffy. Matthew Peake examined—Was a constable attached to the Post-office, and took the husband Larkins into custody yesterday, on suspicion of stealing a letter on the 10th of July last, containing notes to the amount of 551. The notes had since that period been changed, and he had no doubt that the present gold was part of the plunder. The husband was remanded till Thurs day next, and he prayed that the present prisoner, and Mrs. Larkins, might be also remanded for further inquiry. The prisoners were in accordance with his request re moved, to be brought up again when the evidence will be completed. CLERKENWELL.—(T HIS DAY.) Two men, named Cokeley and Foley, were charged with violently assualting Mary Began, and police-con stable 74 E. The constable deposed that on the previous evening he was alarmed by cries of murder, and on running i n t o Lamb's-court, Bloomsbury, saw Foley beating Mary Regan violently. The woman was laying on the ground bleeding profusely. Witness immediately seized Foley, who at once knocked him down, and both struggled on the pavement. At length witness got upon his . legs ,but had no sooner don e so th an C o k e l ey ran over':and felled - witness with a blow. Both prisoners then attacked him, and be would have been injured severely had it not been for the immediate arrival of other constables. The woman Began, either from illness or fear, declined to come forward. The constable seemed to be severely injured. 'Waddington, the gaoler, said Cokeley had been con victed at this court 19 times, and Foley 15. Cukeley was, familiarly termed " the Jack of Clubs" by his vagatlohiF associates, and he was the terror of the neighbourhood in which he lived. Mr. COMBE sentenced the prisoners to seven days' imprisonment in the House of Correction, without the power of releasing themselves by the payment of fine. UNION-HALL. —(THIS DAY.) The Secretary of the St. Olave's Society of " Odd Fellows" attended for the purpose of giving information of the following extensive robbery committed on the funds of the society :—The applicant stated that an iron box, containing four 1001. debentures, together with three savings' banks books, containing entries of 1501., was intrusted to the care of Mr. Steven. son, the treasurer of the society, who lived in Loman's-street, Loman's-pond. The box a n d i ts contents were kept in Mr. Stevenson's bed-roo m , an d on the preceding evening, during his and his wife's ab sence from home, the house was entered. The iron box was broken open, and the whole of the contents taken; the discovery having taken place on the return of the parties to their house. The applicant added that there appeared to have been no for ce use d i n entering the house, the thieves having got in by the aid of a skeleton key, with which they opened the street-door. The ob ject of the present application was to be made acquainted with the best plan for the detection of the thieves. Mr. COTTINOHAM advised the applicant to lose no time in giving instant information of the robbery to the police, and he also recommended that notice of what had taken place might be given at the Bank of England, as well as at the Savings' Banks, where a portion of the Society's money was deposited. The applicant, having thanked the magistrate, retired. PETERHEAD, AUG. 9.—The following vessels left Greenland on the 17th ult., in company with the Union, which arrived here yesterday :—Anne, of Hull, two whales, and 2,000 seals ; Hanover (foreign), clean ; Altona (foreign), three small whales ; Augusta (foreign), one whale. THE LATE FIRE NEAR GRAVESEND.--CORONER'S INQUEST.—Yesterday afternoon a jury was empannelled at the Rose and Crown, Upper Thorne, near 4ochester, in Kent, before John Noble Dudlol.v, Esq., on the body of James Miller, aged G 7, who died from injuries re ceived at the late fire. After hearing the evidence the coroner summed up. It was quite clear that the acci dent happened from some defect in the flue ; the fire thus communicated with th e th atc h of the roo, which falling in upon deceased he thus met his end. The jury, without hesitation, returned a verdict of " Acci dental death." POW.LAIS IRON 17NRKs.--We understand that Sir J. Guest, Belli., the proprietor of these extensive works. has recently received an order from Ru ssia . _ tons of iron, f or th e purpose Of 50,000 strnption of niilyfays used in the con -4-i-• • “.at country.—Hereford Times, SUMMARY OF NEW AND Vnbtfir Opinion. " Who runs may read." PORSIZGN. On Saturday a grand dinner was given at the Palace of Neuilly, in celebration of the fourteenth anniversary of the day on which Louis Philippe took possession of the throne, after making oath to the charter of 1830, in presence of the two Chambers. The Ministers, Ambas sadors, grand dignitaries of the State, and a large number of general officers, attended the banquet. The Journal des Debars confirms the account of the executions in Calabria in these words :—" Very, very sad news has been received to-day from Naples. The late mad attempt made in the month of June last on the Calabrian coast by a band of refugees from Corfu, has had a melancholy result. Of 19male prisoners, 17 were condemned to death. Of this number nine were shot on the 25th July. Among those to whom pardon was not extended were the two sons of Admiral Bandeira, who commanded in 1840 the Austrian squadron in the Levant. The Semaphore de Marseilles, of the Bth inst., an nounces the arrival, on the preceding day, of the steamer Redschid, having on board the two Egyptian Princes, Hussein Bey, son of Mehemet Ali, and Ahmet Bey, his grandson. Thirty-six young men, belonging to the first families of Egypt, sent to France at the expense of the Viceroy, to receive an European education, accompanied the young Princes. The King of Saxony landed at llamburgh on the 7th inst. Notwithstanding a strong head wind and tide, the steamer passed Stade at half-past ten o'clock A.M., where the Hanoverian guardship fired a Royal salute, and upon reaching Altona and Hamburgh, at one o'clock p.m., the same honours were paid to his Majesty by the Danish man-of-war stationed at Altona, as well as by the bat teries on the shore. Upon landing the King was re ceived by a deputation from the Senate and corporation, who escorted his Majesty to the principal hotel, where apartments had been prepared for him. The Prince de Join►ille will accomplish, on the 14th inst., his 27th year, being born at Neuilly on the 14th of August, 1818. He will be promoted to the rank of Vice-Admiral on his return from the expedition against Morocco. Two hundred and twenty Spanish refugee priests, from different parts of France, passed through Bayonne last week, on their way to Spain ; hundreds of others from Italy have also entered Catalonia by Perpignan, :and landed along the coasts of Valencia and Andalusia by the Marseilles steamers—a proof that they expect some thing. The receipts of the Customs of Marseilles in July last amounted to 4,283,307 francs, showing an increase, as compared with those of the corresponding month of 1843, of 1,476,991 francs. LAW AND POLICE. . _ At the Court of Bankruptcy, yesterday, the investiga tion into the affairs of the Romford Bank was resumed. The bankrupt, Alderman Thomas Johnson, underwent a long and searching examination by Mr. James, the re sult of which was anything but satisfactory. The case was adjourned to the 4th November, the assignees re. fusing to make any allowance to Mr. Johnson, but con tinuing the allowance to Mr. Mann. At Harwich, in the case of Mason v. Simmons, which was an action against an insurance office, to recover damages for loss by fire, the jury found for the de fendant. At Appleby, the case of Webster v. Wilson was tried. The defendant was late mayor for the borough of Kendal, and the action, which was for assault, arose out of the proceedings at the late election for town councillor for that borough. The jury retired, and were absent some considerable time. When they returned into Court the foreman said they found their verdict for the defendant, and that each party should pay their OWa costs, and that the regulations for the election were not prop er . The Judge then took the verdict in the words in which it was delivered, leaving it to the parties to apply, if they thought fit, to the Court above to enter the verdict as the Court should think fit. At the Mansion-house, a young man, who stated his name to be William Charles Prince, was brought before Sir John Pirie, charged with having robbed Mr. Kip ling, hosier, of Cheapside, of a diamond pin, at Don caster, nearly two years ago. The prisoner was appre hended in King William-street. Sir John Pirie was quite satisfied with the evidence, and directed that the prisoner should be delivered up to the constable from Doncaster. At Guildhall, John Bampton, who was described as a coal-merchant, &c., residing in Brackley-street, Barbi can, was charged with having left his wife chargeable to the parish of St. Giles Without, Cripplegate, and was committed to Bridewell for a month. At Bow-street, Patrick Larkins, a supernumerary letter carrier in the General Post-office, was charged with stealing two letters, containing 700/, and upwards, the property of the Post Director-General. He was re manded. George Edwards, alias Johnson, a notorious " craks man," was committed for trial from the Marylebone Police-court charged with burglary. At Queen-square, yesterday, in the case of a recruit who refused to take the oath of allegiance, Mr. Burrell stated that the Act of Parliament gave magistrates the power of discharging persons who had hastily enlisted, if they had not taken the oath of allegiance, and made application to Wm to be released from the obligations into wkich they had entered within four days from the date of their enlisting. The Magistrate refused to detain the recruit. Several persons were committed for fourteen days from Clerkenwell for destroying their clothes in the Holborn Union workhouse. At Worship-street, yesterday, a middle-aged man, of very respectable appearance and good address, who gave the somewhat doubtful name of John Tompkins, was placed at the bar before Mr. Broughton, charged with assaulting Eliza Quin, a child five years of age, in a second-class carriage of the Eastern-Counties Railway. He was called upon to find bail. At Lambeth-street, Charles Wallen, a fish-porter, or assistant,'at Billingsgate, was charged before Mr. Norton, with stealing sundry printed lists, containing the names of those persons qualified to vote, and also those claim ing to vote in the parish of Whitechapel, from the door of the Baptist chapel in Little Alie-street, Goodman's fields. The prisoner was discharged on the ground that the second Sunday in August, the time prescribed for their being up, had expired before he took them down. On his leaving the dock Mr. Norton adverted to a gross blunder in the Reform Act, which gives a magistrate the power of convicting parties guilty of the offence of enalty is recoverable. not p less th an 10 s ., b ut prescr ib es n o de stroyingemocdeeedbin g yw or 4h o c i cs a h. r carrying the eng away these list, in a penalty not x COU R T — rasmorranzz. This is the birthday of her Majesty the Queen Dowager, who completes her 52d year. Lady Augusta Somerset, daughter of the Duke of Beaufort, who for some time had held the appointment of Lady of the Bedchamber to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, has recently resigned that situa tion in the Royal establishment. Lord and Lady Stuart de Rothesay arrived in town at the close of the last week, fmna their seat, near Christ church. His Lordship is still in a very indifferent state of health, which is a source of uneasiness to his family. Amongst the fashionables who have been staying lately at Worthing, are the Duchess of Cleveland and Lady Augusta Poulett, Lady Elizabeth Dullin, Viscount and Viscountess Andover, Countess of Beauchamp, Mr. and Mrs. Peyton, William Conyngham Burton, Esq., &c. The Duke and Duchess of Marlborough, with Lord Alan and Lady Louisa Churchill, have arrived at Arsaig, the Noble Duke's shooting quarters in Perthshire. The Earl of Digby has arrived at Sherborne Castle, from London. The church bells rang a merry peal on the occasion. The Earl of Lonsdale, the Postmaster-General, ar rived at Lowther Castle, Westmoreland, on Saturday evening last. The Hon. Colonel Lowther arrived at Lowther Castle on Thursday last, where the Hon. Gen tleman will remain during the greater part of the shoot ing season. The gallant Colonel, in the course of a few days, will be joined by several distinguished visitors. Count and Countess Zichy and suite have left the Clarendon Hotel for their chateau in the vicinity of Presburg. MISCELMANEOUB. The fourth meating of the Isle of Man Agricultural Society was held, on Thursday last, at Peel. The show ofcattle was excellent, many of the animals being spoken of with admiration by the judges. The horses, however, were not generally good. In the evening the members and friends of the Society partook of a sumptuous din provided by Mr. Frizelle, of the Peel Castle Hotel. The sale of the third part of the library of the lute Duke of Sussex, consisting of books on English, Scotch, and Irish history, English and foreign topography, voyages and travels, was commenced on Monday by Messrs. Evans, Pall-mall. The sale of this part will ex tend over six days, and no further portion of the library will be sold till November next. The Act for facilitating arrangements between deb tors and creditors will come into operation on the Ist of September next. It contains 16 sections, which; with rules, &c., are to be worked out by the Court of Bank ruptcy, in addition to the other branches of judicature on the law of debtor and creditor. The object of this Act is to enable non-traders to apply to the Court of Bankruptcy to petition, making a full disclosure of their affairs with a proposal to pay their creditors, on which a protection from arrest can be obtained. Another meeting of the Directors of the Caledonian Asylum was held on Monday at the Freemasons' Tavern, for the purpose of receiving a report of the Directors relative to the appointment of officers. The proceedings, in consequence of a discussion being likely to take place between the members of the Established Church belonging to the Institution, and the subscribers professing Free Church doctrines, excited considerable interest. His Grace the Duke of Buccleuch presided, and there were present the Marquis of Bute, P. M. Stewart, Esq., M.P., Hector !lose, Esq., the Chisholm, the Rev. Mr. Cumming, the Rev. Mr. Hamilton, Mr. Nisbet, &c. An attempt was again made to force upon the Institution a clergyman of Free Church principles, but it totally failed. As proof of the respect in which Mr. Buncombe is held even by his political opponents, it may be necessary to state that amongst the subscribers to the Testimonial Fund, are M r . D'lsraeli, M.P., and Mr. Busfield Ferrand, 61. P. The former subscribed 10 guineas, and the latter 11. William Nicholson, Esq., is a subscriber of 26 guineas. It is understood that no discharge has yet hem, ob tained under the 20/ clause of the New Insolvent 44 by persons in custody, from the simple reason that a copy of the statute could not be procured, and of course no judge would proceed on hearsay evidence. BARMOUTH, Am 10.—TheDesire, Jones, from Beau maris, is ashore in here, without much damage. THIS DAY'S NEWS. MONEYAND COMMERCIAL NEWS. WTI, QUARTER TO 7'HiIEE. There was not much spirit in the Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday, and prices only maintained their previous position. Sales to a fair extent took place. Exporters bought 1,000 bales, and the entire transactions were 6,000 bales, viz., 1,000 Surat, at 3d. to 3fd.; 400 Egyptian, at 6d. to 12f d; 200 Pernam, at 51d. to 6id; 120 Maranham, at 4id. to 51d.; and the rest American, at 3fd. to 54d. per lb. Shares were not so good as on Saturday. Birmingham and Gloucester, Quarter, 28 ; Chester and Birkenhead, 314; Dublin and Cashel, 6-1-; Eastern Counties Perpetual, 2/. 14s. id.; Glasgow and Ayr, 59} ; Glasgow, Paisley, and Greer.ock, 12/. 63. 3d.; Great Western, Eighths, 12i; London and Birmingham, 32/. Shares, 38f ; London and South- Western, 86; Midland Counties, 109; North British, 2f ; Sheffield and Manchester, 85f ; South-Eastern New, 12i; Pari s an d Ly ons, 2f; Paris and Orleans, 38,k; Paris and Rouen, 384. The following are some statistics relative to the trade of St. John's, New Brunswick : Imports in 1842, 437,7051. ; in 1843, 605,115/. ; in crease in 1843, 167,410 Exports in 1842, 344,382/. ; in 1843, 464,721/. ; increase in 1843, 120,339/. Total import in 1843, 605,115/. Ditto exports in 1843, 464,7211. Excess of imports over exports, 140,394/. By another return it appears that there entered in 1843, at that port, 287 vessels, of 127,060 tons burden, and manned by 9,792 men ; and that the number of ships cleared was 369, of 149,753 tons burden, and manned by 9,473 men. New vessels registered in 1843 At St. John's 4O vessels, 8,745 tons. At Miramichi For owners in the United Kingdom 5 „ 2,206 „ Total Emigrants arrived at St. John's, from Great Britain, in 1843-77 adults ; 43 under 14 ; 0 under 7. From Ireland-490 adults ; 104 under 14 • 57 under 7. Total —567 adults ; 1'47 under 14 ; 57 under 7. There is nothing new in the City to-day, taut Alder man Johnson's case has afforded a subject for much dis cussion among all classes. The produce markets are brisk, and business in ge neral is good ; but the weather excites some uneasiness, and a good deal of money has within the last fortnight been paid for duty on foreign cc,rn. The Funds are more buoyant to-day upon the news of the Morocco peace, and there has been some animation. A few of the jobbers were inclined to depress the market, but the effort has proved unsuccessful. Consols for im mediate transfer have been marked 99h- to 99, and for time 991 to The Commissioners obtained their stock at 991. Bank Stock has been firm at 200, but India Stock rather flat at 283. The New Three and-a-Half per Cents. have been 101 i to ; the Reduced, 1021 to ; and the Three per Cents., 99i to 1001 ; Exchequer Bills have been supported at 745. to 725. premium. South Sea Stock is steady at 115 ; Long Annuities are 121 to 9-16ths. The Foreign Securities offer not the slightest feature. Spanish are completely nominal, the Five per Cents. at 221, and the Three per Cents. at 33. Portuguese Con verted obtain 434 to 44. Mexican ars supported at 36, and Colombian at 134 1. Dutch Two-and-a.. Half per Cents, obtain Glna to -a. Shares are very steady, and there is a moderate de mand. Greenwich look better, owing to the expectation that at the meeting now on, the report will be favour able. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Bank Stock 2OO 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 3 per Cent. Consols. Annuities 3% per Cent. Reduced Annuiti es g ( 101 56 New 334 per Cent. Annuities 101%% Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860,..,......, 12% 9-16 Ditto 30 Years, Expire 10th Oct. 1859 Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan. 1860. India Stock South Sea Stock ll5 Bank Stock 2CO Consols for Account Exchequer Bills, I%d. 134c1 1,0001. 5001 Ditto Small ... .......... ... 75 72 pm. Ditto Advertised — FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Columbian Bonds. 1 3% % Mexican Bonds, 1237, 5 per Cent. .... 26 Ditto for the Account Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent. .... Ditto Converted ••• 44 Ditto for the Account 43% Spanish, Bonds,, Five per Cent 1840 — Ditto Deferred Dutch 234 per Cents 6l r% Ditto for the Account. Dutch 5 per Cents lO % 101 New Loan. 5 per Cents. (1837): lOl% % PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE. Birmingham arid Gloucester lOO Bristol and Gloucester SO Chester and Holyhead ....... ......... 5 Eastern Counties Ditto New Registered Si. 6s. Bcl Grand Junction lOO .21 Great Western Ditto 4 Shares Ditto lifths Hull and Selby Lancaster and Carlisle London and Birmingham. Ditto New Thirds Ditto Shares London and Blackwall 16% London and Brighton . .... ......... 50 London and Greenwich . 1231 London and South Western ...... 41 % 86% to ManeheAter and ItoPcla Dit 0 34 Shares Manchester and Birmingham ... 40 .... Ditto 34 Shares Midland Counties Birmingham and Derby Newcastle and Darlingten Juliet. 21 North British 234 2%% ~. to Norwich and Brandon South Eastern and Dover Ditto New - York and North Midland ...... ... 50 .........109 Ditto 34 Sh ares Ditto Scarboro' Branch Paris and Orleans Paris and ltouen 2O .... ..... 38}( JOINT STOCK BANKS. Commercial of London .-... ...... 20 London and Westminster 2O MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, AUG. 12.—The market continues firm and a steady business has been done.—Black burn and Preston, ii ; Eastern Counties, Registered, 141 cum div. ; Huddersfield and Manchester, 2i ; Manchester and Leeds, Half Shares, 501 5 1 1 ; Ditto, Quarter, 9 ;Man chester and Birmingham, 54 * ; Preston a n d Wyre, Five per Cent. and diva., 37i ; Trent Valley, 94 ; Paris and Lyons, 495. ; Peak Forest Canal, 391. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE . (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) WOLVERHAMPTON RACES.—Mortnel., The Produce Stakes of 10 so vs . eac h, with 25 ad colts Bst 61b, fillies Bst 31b. Once round- Mr. Copeland's Ninety-one ........................... ..... Mr. Bristow's Frey s trop ...... Mr. Critchley's His Royal Highness ........... ••••" Lord Chesterfield's Joan of Arc .................... ••' Lord Warwick's The Mule ............................. The Wolverhampton Stakes o f 25 so p s . each, 15 " 5 only if declared, with 100 added—the second his stake. Twice round and a distance. (5 1 5111S ' of whom declared.) Mr. Wreford's Franchise, 5 yrs, 6st 101 b .......... ... Mr. Payne's Maria, 4 yrs, 7st 81b Mr. Cooke's What, 4 yrs, 7st 21b .................... Mr. E. Buckley's David, 5 yrs, Bst 411 •..' Mr. Williamson's Mavourneen, 5 yrs, 7st. .......... Won easy. The Ladies Purse of 501. Heats, once round and Mr. King's Yarrow, 3 yrs (Lye) 1 Mr. Copeland's Imaum, 3 y rs o 0 Mr. Painter's Obero n , a ge d Lord Chesterfield's Attaghan, 3 yrs 0 e ' Mr. Wilson's The Di s o wne d, 4 yrs d r Mr. Minor's Confab, 3 yrs n Mr. Holkar's b g by J u pit er , 3 yrs ....... ..•• - LEWES RACES.—(MONDAY.) c", Match, 100, T.Y.C., Mr. Sh e ll ey ' s Prologue, A (Bell), beat Mr. J. Verrall's br c by Rockingham' Whalebone, 2 yrs, easy. The Queen's Plate of 100 Guineas. Heats, 141 ' course. 1 Mr. Salvin's Alice Hawth orn , 6 yrs (T emp l em an) g i' 10Ir. Smith's. Queen of the Chase, 3 yrs ............ rj The Sweepstakes of 3 sovs. each, and 25 added, T . "' (4 Subs.), were won in four heats by Mr. blor l / 1 ladium, 5 yrs (E. Edwards), beating Mr. Shellei s o pt , times-Five, 4 yrs ; Captain Smith's c by Eli* Tesane, 2 yrs, and another. TATTER4ALL'S.—YESTERDAY. A little business in a small way enables us to a list of market prices. WOLVERSTAMPTON STAKES. 6 to 4 agst Mr. Wreford's Franchise—taken ST. LEGER. 3 to 1 agst Mr. Salvin's The Cure—taken , 4 to 1 agst Lord Stanl e y' s Ith ur i e l— ta k en and 13 to 2 agst Mr. J. Scott's Bay Momus—t. and' 15 to 2 agst Mr. Vane's Valerian 10 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Red Deer—tak e° 12 to 1 agst Mr. J. Day's the Ugly Buck—taken 14. to 1 agst Mr. Irwin's Foig-a-ballagh 33 to 1 agst Mr. Hampson's Lightning —taken The backers of Red Deer and Ugly Buck offered W THE DERBY. 30 to 1 was laid against the Monimia colt, and 40 1 , ponies about Falstaff (late Grotesque). Offers to tal c? 1 about Alarm, who is reported to have become the p of Mr. Greville. ART-UNION OF LONDON. (THIS DAY.) m The Annual Meetin g o f the Subscribers " we li Art-Union of London took place this day, at G r ei o'clock, in the Theatre Royal Drury-lane., o o' interest was manifested in the proceedings of r"F ic f s ,4 sent meeting, in conseque nce o f th e diffi cu lties .. 0 have been recently th rown i n th e way o f these_! 01% institutions, from the stat e o f th e l aw on lotterni in consequence of an expectation that some eg t e# tion would be given of the steps which hait o d adopted by the frie n d s o f art i n b o th IV of Parliament to secure t o t h e subsch,,,,pr to the various art-unions throughout the „.? try, "indemnity for the past and security t i li cic i! future." The doors were opened at eleven e tio lei and shortly afterwards the boxes were fully 00e , st Y, the greater portion of the occupants consisting y o je) , gantly-dressed ladies. The pit soon became el s tl!'i and the stage, which was fitted up most a ppropr of fi t and in front of which were erected the wheels e , tune, was also completely filled before the coele l ot merit of the proce e di ngs . A mong t h ose pre see observed the Right Hon. Lord Monteagle, T. 91' Esq., M.P., D. Christie, Esq., M.P. W. EVia r" f" M.P., Benjamin B on d C a bb e ll, Esq. , , W. Tooke , 00 and several other patr ons an d a d m i rers of theti At twelve o clock precisely, His Royal lind the Duke of Cambridge, President of the Pv t 04, (who was attended by Baron linesebeck), il the theatre, and took the chair amidst the rely plaudits of the audience. His ROYAL HIG HNESS th en opene d t h e proeeef by addressing the mee ti ng as f o ll ows :—Lechiso, Gentlemen, It is und er very peculiar eircilin,„ s that I am called on t o p res id e over you here woe You and all our oth er f r i en d s h ave no doubt iroff, the legal points whi c h h ave been mooted, and difficulties which have arisen in the course evele proceedings. Thanks to th e attent i on of two '00! bers of Parliament—Lord Monteagle in the of Lords—(Cheer s )— an d M r. W yse in the n° Commons—(Cheers)—to wham we are all untie!, obligations—(Cheers)—thes e points have been co? up and those difficulties removed.—(Cheers.) yd I last had the pleasure of presiding over you, ftar was two years since, I congratulated you on the Pi siderable increas e w hi c h had taken p l a ce in our li p ( bers—we then numbered 7,000 members of bu r Union, since then we have lidded 7000 more t ° numbers---(Cheers) aild we now COnSi9 1 ipti 14,000 members.--(Loud cheers.) This fac e afford great gratification to all who interest in the progress of the fine arts, and 1, 11 31 you that it gratifi es no one more than mysek report will be r ea d t o you b y Mr. Goeciviltib);,l( honorary sec re t ary . O ur chief object, after „oh port has been read, will be the drawing of the ,r . and I heartily w i s h you a ll success.—(Cheers)&! The SECR ETARY th en read the following re* , The late proceedings relative to the legaliV ro v ar Association ha v i ng engaged a considerable share attention for some time past,fare :probably known, fer, majority:of the su b scr ib ers, through the periodi' egis The Committee, h owever, consider it necessary t c . / e f , mence this, their e i g hth annual report, with a hilsilvij cital of them. In April last, according to c ustonit ti o arrangements were mad e f or th e annual distribil the funds ; th e use o f t h e Theatre Royal Pr i ll!"j I had been generously afforded by Mr. Bunn' ro or A Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge had Pon to take the chair. A f ew d ays b efore the appoici,Col4 a letter was rec e i ve d f rom t h e sol i citor to the, LOLIP A tr missioners of h er M a j esty ' s Treasury, inforwilPoi Committee that the A r t-U n i on of London bg!".,. been brought under the notice of their LordsliV, they were advised it was ill egal, and that the •e, continuance of th e same would render all p 1, 47,/ tbd gaged in it' liable to prosecution. On receipt cr9f t4 communication, your Committ ee , i n deference W ment, immediately suspended their proceedipl addressed an urgent memorial to the Prime o setting forth that, the Art-Union of London, s l OO O/ A 1 establishment in 1837, bad expended . about to r, the purchase and preparation of 'corks of art's ., 0‘.„1 great encoragement of artists, taste for the Fine Arts throughoutivad the diffas,Zr; the empire pO: ds of the parties concerned in ti .'s management had , Id niary or other personal Interest therein ; that i t o laird, into operation painters, sculptors, engravers, 133 V o l sinkers, and w or k ers i n bronze—a b ranc h of : & Old neglected in thi s country ; that they had the 11_,01 correspondents, not merely throughout pp Kingdom, but in Ceylon, Bombay, Singaporet:d Scotia, Hobart Town, Mexico, and New York thus bound together by one common interest:44oS portant and g oo d one — a multitude of ieu'„v f; throughout th e wor l d, and had opened to reeZi sources of elev a ti ng grat i f i cation, tending to we- c i tha' from deb a si ng pursu i ts; that the Committee ha ~ 1 o s, large sum o f money i n their hands for distriballaieiote:i for paymett of engravers ; that many artists had labour an d s kill to the preparation of works of r.O-1,00/ in Jhe.imlippiiy % 9E cases looked to this and sirAla ta itie g i ciatipwoltitii reward ; an d t h at, if tti', Ocleill .Were'pCelented from completing their ktrrangeille•p o tonv j ; t 1 results w ou ld b e di sastrous to a large IK,dy of i se "iiag c o men. They therefore prayed, the question of legality, that they - m i g h t that no legal proceedings - would be san e 'll w- i tkout then ante tiro Government if the general meting were held a tot, and promised to give the r.nost serious attenti on o opinion of the law officers of the Crown b e fore ere were taken towards a future subscription. c , r • Ge e Sie They had an interview afterwards with P-T,, Clerk, on the part of Sir Robert Peel, but Ive- i vaa_' . to P ld to obtain any guarantee. A meeting of artist- 5 0 0' o metropolis,from all n u p n a i r e t r s o o u f s th p e et e it o i u on ia s tr ;v ., er , f: in Parliamentth e ‘ ,„ cop, on the motion of the Right Hon. Thomas vY t' f d (" e st mittee of the House of Commons was ap pre:: b June), " to consider the objects, results, ari ae ted position of Art-Unions, how far :they are e nieet,,,,st existing laws, and what are the most e% renor practicable means to place them on a safe 'zie yoe dill et basis, and to render them most subservient to provement and diffusion of art through th eclasses of the community." t ill tY This Committee continued to receive eviden c eno iv end of July, and Itave not yet made their r to a 01 05 0 f the meantime the exhibitions were drawing ibe and the Right Hon. Lord Monteagle, wit h "(this ,11 '10 securing the continuance of the operations 0 t i s ts w e j to elation, and of preventing disappointment had exhibited works during the current years a Bill to the House of Lords to legalise 60 1 %r under the provisions of which, as altered by. c tintsl of Commons and made law, the Association _leseed reed on. By this Act we are enabled to P r r u stoo d T e a the 31st day of July, 1845 ; and it is unt," f 0 is early in the next session of Parliament n in „, 0 on the report of the Committee, will be Dru c u o a cie cies place tho Art-Union of London and similar ale a permanent and firm basis. ori l f The proceedings referred to have beenliece s an d I re / cause of much anxiety to your Com mit tee, se; the/ i c (' called for continual exertions on their _ A ssoc ia repaid, however, by the conviction that tnn` t h o s r a t will now hold a more important place than t he to ._ done. r aele unls sl. 7s. The subscription for the present eases of 2 ,48 ~,,S sum of 14,819 Z 145., being an increase°, the s oe c l ey ia over that of last year. The e xtensie l L proviM ) operations, by the appointment of additional„ refe.rrelo and foreign honorary secretaries, hasen""g Ol t already. There are now 271 gentlem en acre be ill fig e re er capacity, anti it is hoped that the list conunittee,,,,ye ii.i.gease'd. In America, especially, your es; and th v ey raqi °ll most anxious to inc ease their relation ff of co o n accepted 7,',111 pleasure friendly offers projuottla-, o by %0 t he y te!, Fine f i 3 t A he rt o s ffi in ce t r h s e o u f n a ite S d oc s ie ta t tra l r a re tu c r e e n , tlY tho l le „, tr,.... e e ri th r et Act of the New York Legis lature, the, Art-Union." Every link whim hel ps