The Sun. — London, England, 1850-08-27 00:00:00

LI -"'"------_________- LO°ZI)'S SHI PPING. —(THIS DAY.) toq q , 'l, A go 27.—Wind this day at noon S. to S.W. 4 1.1, 1 , ' A re ` 4 ' "d Ee• kneeswisi,,,,...ec. 26 --Wind N. W.— Sid. Thitlin, Quebec. httbYesterday --"43wioE, Atm, 24.—The Johi, Harrison, sailedle. London, but canted over nrar this te - pf e.,laltie aternoon during a heavy gale from . the iih l. f'tQ. crew, noon , cook, Saved by the Fidelity, S e e 't,%llla, which h s e tback with sails split. atilt ''ANctscl. Jtri. I P . u Tli, Sarah Saods, svaneer, ria -intittt with the British barque Avoa, in this har e;, 25 th T. _ I, ;t tl lv yiv ur s e u d o . e; the latter had her bow and rigging tad'i'S,,, t ,1311 x, Atfo. 1 4.—The El'zibi th, Hobart Town, s°o 'tdni• . about 18th ult., txp eete 'co, put into \lonterey, 8 41, , .. d to b' cond-nined as unseaworthy. 141 to 1 41 ' 11°14 S'COTI.I, Auc. 16.—The Annie,Ho o l-_ etli e / ,°ston, which was ailAndel on the east side taken %Ito h„rbd 1Ith May . has Th e h our, Wr44 ":l 49ses Pr ince Edward's Island to England, was with 1. it Green Island,about 14 days since, 1, ter e,i, , htland Unite 0 for 190/. The Adonis, i f and ,. from and sold .ibl e le,' i States, to Bra Island, was Ni ro Ilibil durin g a thick f et 6th wit coked on , July. The Hop, 0 ~,° ll, lllO al e ,13,,alticaore f St Johns,'Newfoundland, went ` 4l t r." August can t o •,ave in a damaged state. `alb s iz't Siguenay to ' London, has been wrecked l't 44410 r Islands. tir e T ee e n 6,1 )0 01% 4 —* 8 . The George, Tatmegouche .t to s 'de °° a reef, near the former port, and ii, p ill tlat be ot f i t h . aztt N ° • tva,orA,' 'NEWFOUNDLAND AUG. I.—The Jane, l' h l t , / taires""er..4,sac, Matanzas to Quebec, was wrecked ~.,I \ t A I ' of this port 30th ult.; crew saved, cargo in4t., At t l uill r,(l. 26.--wind Wto N.N.W.—Arrd. Arne • u-',alatitta; Hermann * Theodor, Muller, Charles , tie, i l ',sailed for Brake. Arrd. Arrd. from the River, Liatralia.°n Town; Sophia Moffatt, Adelaide, South . to-g.°l',Cia',l,ll, Ce 3 lop, and all three sailed; Pro s- V %ler ) ; 't ° mad Rope; Merek, Rio Janeiro; Gl t e_ e 1 1 %tt hhi c e and all three sailed. Arrd. from h e I"; th e ,1,811, T homas S k Ca eof Good Hop o . noo , p '0..."1. °Le °f the Outward ae boehd, except the Pr - L0•C1'048- the Cape of Good __Hope. h)t°l4B, Aug. 6 Wind W. to N.N.W.- -14111!tuditorriett!,nAtioore, *Hava.—nnah, for St. Petersburgb. ieleett.`43ebee, put back. Crte ad t AUG. 2 6.—The Anne Sophia, ha,. rhe as been towed in to-daf t ondon .10.." o r a iti , aro() eania ge , witn loss L of fore il ' Qt.' °LI Abu. 2 6.—Wind N.W.—Arrd. Pick -4;440 let% Arica• Union, Honduras; Columbus, 4 1°; 4 New York; Jacob, Westowell; Hoodless, ld 41 es 1e dtar ti -) lerl ee3 7 , Prince Edward's Island. S . Is, 41 ; e , et Sierra Leone; Patriot King. Fletcher, 1 1 ,Ptil er Agues, Stephenson, Barbadoes; James P ket 1 / 4 ;141111-u'L,llew Orleans. 81d. St. Thomas Pac _ : le a,' 11 04" 3 / 4 gYlit, La Guayra; Sarah, Montre te a r l a tit l'i, li e , -e ,,e f New Hampshire. New York; Wes L pate th :' zori t . The Gift, Mon- Olf port, Tagus. r i ttei d. Port w qbII 1 , ,,.. , as totally wrecked 16th July, near tia a ‘``", New foundland. The Belie, Swansea to b lib ' put: Monte Video 19 th June, leaky, would 14141,,'pd probably be condemned. tf,( 1 4,,,,, t;°. 26.--Tee Margaret Hughes, schooner, 4141,,P,Iatei:rtick on the Middle Patch, near the Point 0 "ek " e4 t to pieces ; crew drowned. Arrd. Hope, „ 4 , 1 •0 44 4 kiiikbolt, Arrd. Jane, Sturgeon, Quebec. 11 ,11 1 9 S. l j ta t, AUG. 24.—The Elzabeth Ho o ld mess, PC ll ettie . e hts, New Brunswick, put int M e auille % ere . rili ng With lo f and is being towed Ss 0 spars, Wtll , tra At li, 4 , g °. U.—Wind N.W.—Arrd. Helene, 11,1 1 140 t1 b 4r eocao, and sailed for London. ____._ ii'ula l -, Ansa 26 Wind S.W. to W.N.W.— it dog,; xueb ' '""" Ab....ee, ittpltseroi. Ski. Ann, *Lister, Quebec. t isa' . `"??..._e e ' Ave. 26.—1 t has blown a gale all day y Itt i m eN i - att he Magdalene has been raised, and the Nee, " having been stopped, she makes but 44 '""'..we.....„............._._.. rri 11 -- 'L NE Ws._(THIS DAY.) It w k itti lltt iw —4 : 2 ' !nazi:luxe. 5",,,tt0,214:---Old Meadow Hay, 21 12s to 31 14s; NO, 3 1 Os to 31 3s; old Clover, 31 10a to 4/ 1 1 / 0 8 s s ; t b - ` 4 . A ~( a s to 41 Os; and Straw, 1/ 2s to en . 14,1%17:fu1l average supply, and a heavy dem d_ s lsiiltia, Old2r--- Meadow Hay, 21 10, to 31 1 6 8 s . L tt iOha ctitt % 3/ S e s . to ss; old Clover, 31 10a to 41 9 ;., C 1:1 0 11, - ,,to 3/ 18s; and Straw, it 2s to 11 ith' 4l ll, -` gay and Straw moved off slowly, at our ,11're erp 14414 % 2711P'"--Old Meadow Hay, 2/ 12s to 3 i / 16s; is h tlt it ii t o, at': t° 3 / ss; old Clover, 8,1 to 4/ Os; and Straw, 31 1 5 / s 2 t i o to 4 11 8s PP Y tolerably good, and trade dull. 44 . ILlti'lltitigh p c 4 / 1 * qttitos*ere l ar n.:. 4 n9i ° U7 l t il tinnes in demand, and ;, ktp , a ltd ci. cludin n g e ß n arbadoes by auction at ti t he et% h jral zed Demerara at 36s to 475, :ki - ti te r; 1,96 f or the former, and is to 2s dearer 4 0 1 1 tilte, 0 bags Bengal sold briskly at being „Rn t i„„ the greatest improvement on tills V:►lk lit .Y, deseripti • 597 bags Ma . it, " 4 1 ' Ple Elt at 11 k.' 14 ' 44 61 ' The ° q u u s i ' intity of British P:antation I t tle co l l, 4g tie the East and West 'eche Ducks was Ce t 4 .l_ 3l l4i bti r ee'• 27 barrels. There were taken for n t : ‘ k IC • ` t - i , )11 1.635 hhds, 219 tierces, 535 barrels. 9o ~c ,e ' .',081 4 '"e Ut ile Places is 17,358 hhds, 2,390 44. °barrels. kt "••••h i t ii , 41 'et,, h -e dema nd considerably improved, , i s t, % s il; - ,,,m t !cie. barrels 56 casks Plantation Ceylon tt..t)li3,9oulit'll advanc e of Is to 2:cwt; 1,260 per 6d to ors 42s 6d, iti tt Alt lt 4 g° also found buyers at 37s 11,4titnileallhalwance of fully Is; 400 bags good ilt 'Tb q tk te been sold privately at 435. ti4eh lu dic elsiijia,tity e landedlast week at the East and Om „beta. d esk s was 545 puns 1 hhd; there wer h i „"i pupa" consu mption 408 puns 11 hhds. and. ex: ;ct k l la i 56 bhda The stock in the same pieces 1,t.,, Ds 1 248 i 14 eriv bhds. ti4 al t tle ate l•Y 5 ,000 bags East India have been sold eaa draw n 4l t k ;t , 4 11 1 B au ctiaa about 3,000 bags Ars P I le . . 15 0 b a 561 to 9'• were nearly all 4,, 4 1.14 ad per i g b a Batavia Pepper 8134 h; -s t e , ll f, Y e. is 3e, 63 for fine old, and 37s for '''tti e t ' u • Town. 38$. mark et is firm arid the deliveries are good. 11) -- ------........___.______ 1 1 1 1 4-44ESEX SESSIONS. ti,' 4 11, 9 y Na st . (THIS DAY.) ;liit',°` kliri.a•EdJottrned General Sessions for before 4 1 k 1 1. 414 tz , Li" sex commenced this morning, b d e am o s) 'k t ite h lk ,tlel l `,`, l ! t he absence of Mr. Sergeant , A . 1:15.7.11.,12'' alagistrates at the . Sessions Ho_ e u w se n , Nh4l 4 tirr eeD • The number of prisoners sot d y, 'trier trial is 95, of which 83 are indicted q4ll,l 4 ftre . ed , 'e, / wes t ~. u tille:tE having addressed the grand Olt t ~ u'atnilied t r the performance of their lied Tat OTTD hp4•oy `feel , ''"•EN V. HENRYt T • 1 4 ,4 4 it h 4 to this ease was indicte d session, in 01, rad d . ye others for keeping a nu mince in the lP th al;l ° Ple a d ia gteb, but having been takea ill, he was lo o t k t jP thi s ta ' (l it . was then arrange . d th it he should khi l 'q lid, 4blng and plead guilty, which he Etc h, lii, tw o , vas ordered to find bail, himself in 6044 a ttes of 501 each to abate the nuisance, to 'ellit iV e r t f t e r judgment at , tho next 'sessions, 1 / 4 0 , ew er next. kcl d t t ,„"---. li 4 to,'ltt It : . -ST REX T.—(T H ISIDA Y.) Wh'R c ti 61, s ,4PU OILIST.—John Crawley, a pugilist, b. v i® c ' t - - " v e 3 te B t with assaulting and ro 41 ! Pt 6ile ea Oil F es tfilltihc3"e4thr statedl llngs* 10411 ' 4 Pube_. that on the previous night he i some I l i'lk i ,lot, 4,`,_e house for the purpose of 41 . e t i t tt hd Witllce prisoner was standing t g the front of t i :ii ht e l bi t , e _ e sa, having some previous knowledge of tati l l aitt,ldl ) y kr: aarit:clit himself f part l of f of beer. The a hi p s o invitation, and k l ‘ O t 1 1 1 :',It el : had Paid for three pots he told the !t -4 (1 TE III t inlo he paid for a pot. The prisoner 00.1 , ..ot 1 ' l 4a le ° t 5 " mag" about him, else be would l)ilk id i etti ll eft the house, and had not procee de d d to r jo - P h ial a le o h _ e n the prisoner came behind him an Ih i ttl, b h f e , ti wc, the Prisoner falling on . the pocket, he Wi l ilti t ' t 4 1 1 01 1 . 1 the prisoner's hands in his 4 t4 e ti 'l f ri r iet lee, " when a constable came up pe a e nd took ih tf 6v h "It ie h ? castody. On arriving the station, Phi 81 )116 ts Pocket and missed four a Y half-crowns Nell% tint th e Bi ch he put in his waistcoat pocket V 111,44; le . 4 -ts'e Ppiebblio-houif.. . 14 atkhle IN h 4 0k. 114 le%. , f a 34 proved taking the prisoner into er e to ' li t ae,i e ucg him at the station, when the four 1 01 144t1 ti' m aye shillings stolen from the prosecutor l'r 411 44 41 him. cis, for trial. ti.4'4411 li i ‘de LP ' -------- --rt , HIS DAY.) ef %t t 1 0 " 4 REET.—(T , al te , ~ . 8,,. t Vitt,,qB,-.k ti v Le, cab proprietor, living i , n . _Fr e a m ti : h, to, 444 "Y -road ries carged before ti ,ct. li Itti she t assaulted Elizabeth Brooks, a i red . p Rh wile ) Iwo% hi t. 1 14 an, with the butt end of a whip, e by - I, lt !ll t ee e n 3 ,ela time will be deprived of her eye kilt ye, klipe-ll'iiintint's right eye presented leery kilt I%Plaintitcee' hba ltp °at c e 44'4 stated that the previous lh % N; Vi ii 7c l c, she paid a visit to the afterno°n,t t t . e v e ; l hid,„ e ahe was in the parlour, room the 1 p e r, o i s f o n t e h r e , 4441/4 hey ,i Ol the influence of liuor, entered the be k %Or a c ' e t Passio Upon seeing his wife, •%w w. t ioli la n• . let. 'n .1 tie I. t blow, which laid her prostrate on eh'leueht to it 4 whip in his hand, the lash of which OR t;iils The lhfiict epon her, when the complainant 4410 N. the but t - ktsoner then struck her en the right ieh 44 to rand of the whip, the effect of b PIN I lle 40 render her insensible; on recovering s I ,kiPtei t ll „alil e , o ut for a policeman. The pr si„ . . ttl„mt Q,1,,*(1 attPIA. 4ikloil her ee lit -m ti I t r i3 e l, who took the prisoner into custody, 1 104, e h 1 ,, e complainant gave the charge against at .1 wad bleeding profusely, and very mu" . •1 0 ,, ratio iltotet C.'be r , tlirt n 4 19 wit . Lated that when he entered the parlour . iD, 40 4 °Il tion" 4 . 114 the complainant's son in an i_m- J l l: l ll e : t f?„ ( Vo w s il tr i l e k 4 e 'very much exasperated him. He s Av., hoe„ Les ~;, , the complainant as the blow wa INC" th Plai tut "es Ytica l lit b e , %I t. on being recalled, denied most po -1/41 Iliad l eth i l l ,lo:l. s°ll the prisoner's wife were r in .k t e lif tp t eat , ...,0it,,,,, wife had lost a ring, at a te r, i i .r 6 p , d.‘4 , 1„ , .. .0 , lt. Complainant's daughter S• • h ty tilDrip o ,,_ er e all laughing when the prisoner '‘en 4 „"Kr W „. b 'ht. " fined 51, or in default two months' Dtmtk t ollt i . 're, -'''-•e5.,.................... , ti , ,i tt ~ ..,,, ;1 - --- __ _ ___ ___,----- 1110;11144 ta ate ° the leader of yesterday . on the _ ten,h4ll4lt4graZliuenties Railway, the cobuding ,, w e o m d . k tltNk.s 4l oi ebt,./vas Misprinted a employes" for h tk no % • Kins froth the context. 45 / 4 Z e iq l 2! in g made for the erection of a • -0149iir, THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. There are further advices from this colony to the 16th June. They announce the discovery of large deposits of guano on Dassen Island, by a Mr. E. Cheappini, but which, being on public lands, is claimed by the Government. An important improve ment with the harbour of Table Bay was under con sideration, by the construction of a breakwater, ex tending from the shore near the Chavonna battery embracing that portion of the anchorage where the deepest water is to be found, .and by a curve towards the extremity, protecting from the action of the tide and the surf a large portion of the area of the bay. The want of a harbour of refuge at Table Bay has long been fir, and the present project is one of con siderable importance to the colony and the shipping interest. The number of vessels which entered Table Bay in 1849 was 500, of 156,000 tons. FATAL ACClDENT.—Yesterday morning, about ten o'clock, as a man named Simes, residing in Passmore-street, Pimlico, was in the act of sweeping the lead projecting over the shop-front of Mr. Fenn, cheesemonger, High-street, Marvlebone, a portion of the lead gave way, and the unfor tunate man fell on to the pavement with such force that his brains were dashed out on the spot. Oa being picked up life u as quite extinct. HER MAJESTY'S SHIP CALEDONIA.—Extract of a letter from hor Majesty's ship Caledonia, off Malta, dated 6th instant. We have been favoured with the perusal of a letter from the hove ship, from which we extract the following : " We are all cruising between Malta and Sicily, to keep out of the way of the cholera, now prevalent at the former place. Ths squadron had a taste of it a few weeks since, but we are all cow, thank God, very healthy—de average number being under 3i per cent., and these with slight complaints. We have been out fur a month, and shall probably remain cruizing six weeks or two months longer, until the cool weather sets in—it being now fearfully hot on shore, and rather warm fur us—but I never felt better, and I believe this is the case with most of us. We shall probably be with you in March to pay off." ROYAL NORTHERN AGRICULTURAL Snow.—This agricultural gathering took place at Aberdeen on Thursday and Friday. The exhibition of stock was very great, and the show of implements was considerable. A dinner afterwards took place in the Mechanics' Hall, which was attended by the Duke of Richmond, who presided, the Earl of Aberdeen, Lord Haddo, Admiral Gordon, Sir A. Leith Hay, Sir J. D. Elphinstone, Captain Fordyce, M.P., and many landowners. The speeches were entirely of a compli mentary character, with only indirect references to agricul tural depression. BOSTON AND STAMFORD RAILWAY.—The half yearly meeting of this company to be held to-day will be merely of a formal character, preparatory to winding-up the undertaking and completing the arrangements with the Great Northern. No report will be presented. The ba lance-sheet, however, shows that the receipts on the capital account have been 83,609/. 18s. The expenses, including 33,672/. Ice. for Parliamentary and law; 5,428/. 16s. 3d. for interest on capital ; 1,978/. lls. 3d. for engineering and other ordinary items, have amounted to within 1,407/. 15a. 6d. of the receipts. CITY OF LONDON REGISTRATION OF VOTERS. — Mr. Thomas Young M'Christie, the Revising Barrister, has appointed Monday, the 16th of September, on which to com mence his registration of voters for Members to serve in Par liament fur the city of London. Geoss IGNORANCE.—The Corunna papers mention a fact that shows in what a state of ignorance and brutality the Gallician labourers are still plunged. The aeronaut, Madame Sanges, who had made an ascension in her balloon, descended near the village of Betangos. Here the peasants, with a stupid old fanatic priest at their head, brutally as saulted the poor woman, alleging she was the devil, and had she not been defended by some more civilised than the rest, she would probably have been killed. The Governor of Corunna has rendered the village pecuniarily responsible fur the damage done to the balloon, and has sent the culprits to prison. DEATH FROM FALLING FROM A CLIFF.--A few days since, Mrs. Thomas, a widow, residing at Marcross, near Bris'gehd, South \Vales, was walking along the edge of the cliff when she accidentally tell over and was killed on the spot. The body, when found, presented a dreadfully mangled appearance. • ROYAL MILITARY REPOSITORY.—The Comman dant of the Garrison has issued an order permitting visitors to Woolwich to go over the Rotunda and the Repository grounds on five instead of three days a week, Saturday being the only week day on which they are closed to the public. RIVER rLATE.—TREATT BETWEEN visa BUENOS AYREAN AND FRENCH REPUBLICS.—The following telegra phic dispatch was received at Lloyd's late yesterday after noon from Liverpool :—" A treaty was concluded between Rums and the French Admiral prior to the 22d July, at Buenos Ayres. Terms not transpired. There was a diffe rence of opinion as to whether it would be acted upon imme diately, or its ratification by the French Government be waited for." GOSPORT.—The weather this week has been very unfavourable to the harvest, as a considerable quantity of rain has fallen. The potato disease has made it; appearance in this neighbourhood but not to such an extent as it did last year.— Hants Independent. A SNOW-STORM IN AUGUST.—During the latter part of last week the weather was fine and seasonable for harvest operations throughout this district. But on Satur day and Sunday a considerable change took place. The at mosphere became much cooler, particularly on the latter day, when a strong wind set in from the south-west, the sky became clouded, and in the afternoon and evening much rain fell. During Sunday night the wind shifted to the west, and blew a heavy gale. On Monday the wind again shifted, northwards, and rose at times to a hurricane, the sky being overcast, and heavy showers of rain falling at intervals. At about a quarter to four in the afternoon the town and sur rounding neighbourhood was visited by one of the severest storms of wind, snow, hail, and rain, we ever remember to have seen. The wind appeared as if it would lift the roofs from the houses, and it shook all those buildings exposed to its Jury to, their foundations. The rain descended in tor rents; and with the snow, which was only a short time per ceptible, was swept by the wind like clouds of moisture over and through the town, while the hail fell upon the roofs and against the windows as if a shower of stones had been dis charged from above. Fortunately the storm did not last more than five or ten minutes, or it must have effected great destruction of property. After it had passed there was a lull for a time; but t.:e wind, which was from the north-west, soon rose again, and blew strongly throughout the night. During and atter the storm the weather became almost as cold as winter.— Blackburn Standard. BIRKENIIEAD.—On passing through this town a pleasing contrast presents itself in the general appearance of the place, compared with what it exhibited twelve months ago. The utmost activity now prevails along the whole of the Cheshire shore, down to Wallasey Pool. About 1,500 m-n are employed in making the docks and the immense float, and it is believed that some of the docks in the locality of Wallasey Pool will be ready to admit vessels in the be ginning of October. The shipbuilding yard of Mr. Wilson, at Birkenhead, is in a complete state of readiness for work, and a few days ago the keel of a first-class frigate for the Brazilian Government was laid. Mr. Wilson's graving dock will admit of the largest steamer afloat. There are few shops now empty; business is becoming more brisk, and almost every house in Birkenhead and Tranmere is occupied. _ _ _ • REDUCTION OF INTEREST.—The banking-houses in Glasgow have just announced that the interest allowed on deposit receipts (that is, the more permanent kind of depo sits) will be reduced to the same rate as that allowed upon the daily balances of current accounts, making a uniform rate of two per cent. on all moneys lodged with them. Two of the Edinburgh banks have also made the same announce ment. EXAMINATION FOR THE MERCHANT SERVICE .--• BOARD OF TRADE, AUGUST, 1850.—The following masters and mates in the merchant service have voluntarily passed their examination under the regulations of the Board of Trade, since the 30th of June last, and obtained certificates of qualification :—First Class Masters - James Gibson, Dun dee; Joseph Bell, John Maguire, Henry Bulkely, John Hewitt, Liverpool; John Shaw, John Patterson, Alexander Rodgers, Alexander Watt, Samuel Patterson, Charles Ro bertson, Glasgow. Second Class-Robert Harrisson (extra), Henry Anderson, South Shields; Eugene Leonard, Charles Leisk Allan Morrison, Liverpool ; George Seaton, Hull ; George Gule, David Brown, Dundee; George Clark Darling, Glasgow ; Edwin Jarvis, J. H. 11. Hunt, W. Bencraft, G. W. Black, W. F. Peppercorne, P. Lorin, W. Porritt, I. J. Noel, W. Pashiey, W. A. Silver, S. Perkins, London ; J. Hutchin son, Leith ; G. A. Clark, Yarmouth. Third Class - G. Squirs, A. S. Dove, G. Slader, G. M. A. Carphin, B. Martin, J. Thorn, J. Robbs, R. T. W. Woolver , R. Glanfield , Lond on. Mates, First Class—Alexander Buchan, Glasgow ; H. Bar ber, Yarmouth. Second Class R. G. Coltman, Milford; J. P. Ritchie, Glasgow; W. Simms, J. Atkinson, L. M. Grey, J. G. Mason, R. F. Cann, IL N. Mackay, D. Gage, J. M. Stephens, C. F. Farquharson, R. Firth, H. Warden, B. Struthers, G. F. Warkmirster, London; W. P. L. Buckle, Gloucester. Third Class—J. awkins, W. Williamson, London. For Steam Navigation only—Master, Third Class —T. Boyce, London. Mates, Second Class—C. Edwards, H. M. Thomas, London. HERRING TRADE.—A letter from Wick, of Aug. 15, says, the herring fishing in this district continues light, but pretty regular. Great dependence was placed on this week, the weather being fine and the appearances good, but there seems to be no great body of fish on the coast. The number of boats now fishing here amounts to 804, being nearly equal to last year. The highest boats for the past week ranged from 3 to 36 crans. The general average for the season is now 53 crans per boat, being 15 crans per boat under that of last year at the same period, and 28 craps under 1848. The fishing of 1.49 was the heaviest n record. The fishing this year, taking in the whole coast, is considerably under that of any season for the last ten years, except at Lybste , , where it is a full average one. On Friday and Saturday last, we learn that the fishing was heavy on the Fife coast, and prices of green fish at Anstruther receded to 6s. per craw on Saturday. The fishermen there expected a very heavy take this week; but for a little time the most part will be bought up by Frenchmen. There were upwards of 60 French ves sels there to purchase green fish when our correspondent wrote. " Prices of cured fish at Wick remain at former quota tions, of 14s. 6d. per unbranded, and 15s. for branded. A good many purchases have been made at that, and this price, It is expected, will be fully maintained, considering the very light fishing we have had. Ths total quantity of herrings caught at \Vick this season is rather better than 42,000 barrels, of which there have been shipped—coastwise, 14,000; foreign ~000; total exports, 19,000 barrels. DRINKING BRANDY FOR A WAGER.—Yesterday morning, about five, a young Tan on the establishment of Mr. Norekef, marble dealer, of King William-street,Charing cross, died, under the following circumstances:—lt appears that the deceased on Sunday night agreed with some com panions, for a trifling wager, to drink a pint of brandy and then walk to London .bridge. It is believed that he accom• plished the wager, and was then conveyed home, where he remained in a state of stupor till the hour above-mentioned when he died. The necessary information has been forwarded to the coroner for an inquest on the body. Her Majesty has appointed the Earl of Chichester to be First Church Estates C. mmissioner, and John George Shaw Lefevre, al., to be Second Church Estates Commis sioner, the former with a salary. NEWTON FLANNEL MARIEET.—TheTe was not a large supply of goods in the market last week, and the at tendance of buyers was not numerous; there was, however, a good amount of business transacted. Prices remain about the same In the wool market there is no variation either in demand or price. Things are in an unsettled state in this neighbourhood at present, in consequence of an absurd at tempt on the part of the working classes to resist the intro duction of iruproved machinery, and a partial turn - out has ()muds—North Wales Chronicle. SUN, LONDON; SPANISH BONDHOLDERS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—The public J,ttention being at this momen t directed to a general meeting of Spanish bondholders convened for Wednesday next—and consequent upon. another proposition for carrying out the Peninsular system of spotiation—l feel assured that your well-known zeal i❑ the public weal and general rights insures your ready cooperation for the redress of the long defrauded foreign creditors of Spain. If private wrongs receive atteetion from our highly talented Minister for Foreign Affairs, we cannot reasonably suppose that he will over look public ones, or continue to give any sanction to Governments w hich, regardless of every principle of , honesty and justice, violate their pledged national faith, and thus strike a fatal blow to public credit and com merce. The question does not merely relate to the ruined bondholders of Spain, but, as a matter of course, interests all persons concerned in foreign securities and loans; for if the system of repudiation be allowed in one ally it would soon be perhaps conveniently adopted by others, and thus eventually produce general bankruptcy. If Governments, boasting of their resources, may do this with impunity, with what consistency can the law be put in force against private individuals? As to the evasive conduct of Spain, her total 'disregard of every promise, whilst she recklessly pursues a system of extra vagance, and the ready adoption of the same iniquitous system by Portugal, it is ull too well known to need comment from my pen; but I cannot doubt that the colossal power of the press will be exerted in support of foreign creditors, and an exposure of the infamous pro positions of Spain.—l am, Sir, yours faithfully, A SPANISH BONDHOLDER. August 26, 1850. KOSSUTH'S LETTER to GEN. CASS. Kutaya (Asia Minor), May 25, 1850, General,—lt is already ten months that I have the anguish of exile to endure. Nature has man's mind with wonderful elasticity endowed. It yields to many changes of fate, and gets accustomed even to adversity. But to one thing the patriot's heart never learns to inure itself—to the pangs of exile. You remember yon patrician of Venice, who, when banished, feigned high treason, that he might at least from the scaffold cast over the Rialto a glance once more. This fond desire I can easily understand. I can so the more, because yon Venetian, though exiled, knew his fatherland to be happy and great; but I, sir, carry the dolor of millions, the pains of a downtrodden country in my wounded breast, without having even the sad con solation to think that it could not otherwise be. Oh, had Divine Providence only from treason deigned me to pre serve, I swear to the Almighty God the threatening billows of despotism would have fallen like foam from the rock c f my brave people's breasts. To have this firm conviction, sir, and, instead of the well deserved victory of freedom, to find oneself in exile, the father land in chains, is a profound sorrow, a nameless grief. Neither have I the consolation to have found mitiga tions of this grief at the hospitable hearth of a great free people, the contemplation of which, by the imposing view of freedom's wonderful powers, warms the despon dent heart, making it it in the destiny of mankind belie re. It is not a coward lamentation which makes me say all this, General, but the lively sense of gratitude and thankful acknowledgments for your general sympathy. I wanted to sketch the darkness of my destiny, that you might feel what benefit must have been to me your beam of light, by which you, from the capital of free America, have heightened my night. It was in Broussa, General, that the notice of your imposing speech has reached me; in yonder Broussa, where Hannibal bewailed his country's mischief, and foretold the fall of its oppressors. Hannibal, exiled like myself, but still unhappier, as he was accompanied in exile by the ingratitude of his people, but I by the love of mine. Yes, General, your powerful speech was not only the inspiration of sympathy for unmerited misfortune, so natural to noble, feeling hearts—it was the revelation of the justice of God—it was a leaf from the book of fate, unveiled to the world. On tbat day, General, you were sitting, in the name of mankind, in tribunal, passing judgment on despotism and the despots of the world; and, as sure as the God of Justice lives, your verdict will be accomplished. Shall I yet have my share in this great work, or not? Ido nut know. Once almost an efficient instrument in the hands of Providence, I am . now buried alive. With bumble heart will I accept the call to action, should I be deemed worthy of it, or submit to the doom of inactive suff-rings, if it must be so. But, be it one or the other, I know that your sentence will be fulfilled. I know that aged Europe, at the sun of freedom's young America, will herself grow young again. I know that my people, who proved so worthy of liberty, will yet, notwithstanding their present degradation, weigh heavy in thi. balance of fate ; and I know that, as long as one Hungarian lives, your name, General, will be counted among the most cherished in nay na tive land as the distinguished man who, a worthy inter preter of the generous sentiments of the great Ameri can people, has, upon us poor Hungarians, the consola tion bestowed of a confident hope, at a moment when Europe's decrepit politics seemed our unmerited fate for ever to seal. May you be pleased, General, to accept the most fer vent thanks of an honest friend of freedom. Let me hip' that, should Mr. Ujhezy (my oldest and best friend, and present represent:ail e in the United States), in the interest of the holy cause to which you hare so generously your protection accorded, addresses bintselt to you for something which you might, in your wisdom, judge convenient and practicable, you will not withhold from us your powerful support; and please to accept the assurance of my highest esteem and most peculiar veneration. L. KOSSUTH, Anc. Governor of Hungary. To the Honourable the General Casg, Washington. I hope you will excuse my bad English. I thought it my duty to address you in your own language. COURT CIRCULAR. OS BORNE, MONDAY. The Queen and Prince walked early this morning in Osborne park and grounds. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and younger members of the Royal Family, walked and rode as usual. This being the birthday of his Royal Highness Prince Albert, the Royal Marine Band attended early this morning at Osborne, and played the follow ing pieces of music :—" The Prince's Hymn," " The Cubourg March;" selection, "Le PropLete ;" Waltz, " Schortzblatil," and " God save the Queen." Sir Francis Baring returned to bis residence at the Admiralty on Saturday from Southampton. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has left Ardve rikie, Kingussie, and proceeded to Glenquoich, In vergarry. Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office, from the Governor of South Australia. LADIES FASHIONS—NOVELTY IN ALPACAS.-- A good deal of attention has been caused by the introduc tion of a new description of decorative Fabric, the patent of Mr. Robert Milligan, of Bingley, York, and made public through the extensive house of Messrs. Milligan, Forbes, and Co ,of Bradford. The material itself, is made of fine alpaca, and ornamented in the highest and most artistic manner, by stripes and figures on delicately tinted silk floated on the surface, this silk receiving in its turn, bright colours of flowers, &c. The richness thus obtained is very great, and resembles the effect of embroidery. Whilst from the firm and close texture of the silk itself, the goods will wear much better than if worked by the needle. There certainly has not been so elegant or useful a novelty in dress goods pre viously produced in the fancy trade of the north, nor one so likely to find favour with the ladies. The patent is likewise applicable to manufactured goods, known as cobourghs, orleans, damasks, &c. &c., even to a new style of ribbon, which, we understand, will make their ap pearance shortly. Upon their introduction we shall have much pleasure in recurring to the subject. ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.--MIS. Fanny Kemble yes terday concluded her series of readings from the plays of Shakspere. The play chosen was the First Part of King Henry the Fourth As in every preceding instance, Mrs. Kemble made us feel the purpose and intent of the great poet in a manner which no actor, expositor, or lecturer has before achieved. The delineation of each individual character was perfect. On the stage we are wont to see some one great artist in some one favourite part, the rest of the scene being so marred by inaccurate reading and incompetent representa tion that the ." bright particular star" is seen through hazy fogs, which becloud and confound its splendour. In the hands of Mrs. Kemble, the whole of the glorious picture is exhibited in its matchless entirety. No doubt, the speech of Hotspur, in explanation of his refusal of the prisoners, was a wondrous specimen of declamation; and the character of Falstaff was produced in the boundless fulness of its humour. But the slight sketch of Lady Percy was there in its graceful perfection, as carefully and as exquisitely given as any of the characters on which more dependence is usually placed. We cannot doubt that an entertainment so elevating in its cha racter. and so justly popular, will be resumed at an early period. Mr. Mitchell deserves the thanks of the public, for this as well as for the general management of his exquisite theatre. GREAT NOVELTY IN AEROSTATION.—Mr. Graham, the husband of the celebrated but unfortunate aeronaut, Mrs. Graham, whose balloon was recently seriously injured by fire, has not only repaired the aerial machine, but announces bis intention of completing its inflation with hydrogen gas, manufactured by himself on the spot, prior to his wife's ascent in it from Cremorne-gardens to-morrow. To the scientific in such matters this experiment is a question of great inte rest. Mr. Graham is the only aeronaut who has succeeded in the use of hydrogen ; he has, we believe, ascended on four occasions, in a balloon inflated solely with hydrogen gas. THE LATE ACCIDENT AT THE BRICKLAYERS' ARMS STATION.—On Sunday morning last, by permission of the authorities, a number of the officers, porters, and others employed at the above station attended Divine service at St. Mary's, Southwark, Old Kent-road, to offer up their public thanksgiving for their providential preservation when the accident occurred on Wednesday last. A most suitable and very impressive sermon was preached on the occasion by s t stt h oehtn e .eme jmdßeoev. C. Bo wen , th e incumbent, from the sth chapter of mercifully a money coni ef , uy andnl Li d y e ssp t ep h oeas e mir tel seemed h deitiaonnybtdehe: the deeplybe,y poor-boxeswc which c consent nl was tt boyof most those theot h s t atchurchwardensvd ah 0, had attentively am o b u e l n i e s t n - ., ing to 91. 2s. 6/el., will be applied for the benefit of the widow and orphan of the unfortunate man who lost his life by the melancholy evect. COLLISION of VESSELS AND Six LIVES LOST. — The Thomas, Betts, from Quebec, which arrived at Greenock on Monday, came in contact, on Friday last, twelve miles south-east of Tuskar, with the barque Speranza, of and for Trieste, laden with coals, three days out from Liverpool, which sank in ten minutes afterwards. The master, Mr. Dabeta, with his wife and child, and three seamen, were drowned; the remainder of the crew, consisting of the mate and seven, seamen, were picked up by the Thonam, and bx9iight t 9 GitiA9ol.—EctinkreiZMlng rot: TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 27, 1850. Though in public the King was an incessant and rather egotistical talker cn ordinary topics of no mo ment, yet he spoke but ,little at cabinet councils, generally listening very attentively. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. TIMES.--:-The closing scene of the life of Louis Philippe of Orleins, once the Sovereign of a great people, the soldier of one revolution, the conqueror of a second, and the victim of a third—of the Prince who seemed to control the destinies of France and the policy of Europe at the very moment when a tumult in the streets of Paris and a mob of madcaps hurled him from the throne —adds but one brief line to a most eventful history. The great epoch of his career ended with the 24th of Febru ayry, 1848. Thenceforward England has afforded to him the last services of hospitality—an asylum and a grave. A stream of great events has hurried us along with inconceivable velocity from that point at which Louis Philippe and the world parted company; but on this solemn occasion, when Death has placed the irrevocable seal on all the vicissitudes of his life, we look back to the whole record of his singular existence and we shall attempt to trace some faint likeness of his character, when he seemed to have attained the height of sovereign ambition, rather than in the confusion cud disgrace of his fall. That, after all, was the work, almost the accident, of an hour; but the annals of a reign of nearly 18 years, and the peculiarities of his character and policy, are imperishable subjects for the meditation of the statesman and the historian. Louis Philippe, King of the French, was distinguished among all the men who have - figured with equal promi nence on the stage of history and in the government of mankind, by the absence of those transcendent powers of intellect, those inordinate passions, those imposing vir tues, or those daring crimes which commonly mark the annals of human greatness. But for those perilous gifts of genius and of power he substituted a singular com pound of the minor qualities of human nature. Whe ther for good or evil, these constituted the large aggre gate of his character, and in forming a correct judgment of this remarkable man it would be equally dangerous to exalt him into a sage and a lero, or to degrade him into a selfish oppressor. Good sense, thrift, caution, knowledge of the world derived from experience rather than from intuition, patience, self control, and keen self-interest were the plain materials of a character which was cast in no heroic mould. These qualities of the lesser order were dilated in his person to very un usual proportions, and applied to very unusual ends; but they never lust the stamp of what must be termed, for want of a more appropriate phrase, the vulgarity of their nature. The impulses of enthusiasm, the glow of imagination, the pursuit of a great scheme of action, the indulgence of large sympathies or desires in policy or in government, were unknown to his character and to bis reign. On one or two occasions intense acquisitiveness, animated by an unusual excess of tradi tional pride, tempted him to deviate into a passion, and imitate the policy of the loftiest of his ancestors. Occa sionally his aversions prevailed over his better judgment, and in the last few months of his reign his temper be came testy and his resolutions incautious, under the growing effects of age. But these were exceptions to the general spirit of his government, and the transac tion to which we more particularly allude was wattled in a web of minute contrivances and intrigues which seemed partially to conceal from the aged Monarch him self the amount of his own rashness, and the conse quences of his design. Whenever the history of his reign is accurately written, it will be found to have been conducted and regulated by an astonishing adapta• tion of petty methods to great ends—by carefully avert ing those explosions of energy which are apt to dis turb the cause they were intended to serve—by an invariable and ingenious We of all the means afforded by the current circumstances of the day—and by lowering the standard of govern ment to that of the middle classes of society, instead of inciting the nation to participate in the triumphs of military or the excitement of popular power. It was strange that at any time such methods of government should enthral the genius of a high-spirited, martial, and fretful people, and that the French nation should have surrendered so much of its natural impetuosity to so homely a spell. But the result has ultimately shown that the spirit of the nation secretly burned tor other objects, anti would even brave the excesses of revolution and the risks of despotism to escape from the temperate routine of the government of the middle classes. The highland youth in the shop of Simon the Glover, of Perth, was not more out of place than the French peo ple in the apprenticeship of a limited constitution. It would be inconsistent with the essential qualities which we ascribe to Louis Philippe's character to suppose that at any period of his life he was excited by dreams of vast ambition, or enabled by constancy of purpose to look on wards from the hardships of exile and proscription to the recovery of the throne of France. For his own hap piness —and, we will add, for his greater success—his aspirations were confined within narrower limits. At one time, indeed, as in the curious transactions of 1811, ambition seemed to invite the Duke of Orleans to play a more active part in the Spanish war; at another, Greece, and even Mexico, allured him by the phantom of a throne; but these adventures were not seriously pur sued, and he sate down after the restoration of the Bourbons contented, or at least resigned, to be the first Prince of the blood in France, and one of the richest per sonages in Europe. Yet, even in those uncertain years, his vigoroas mind was not inactive. He alone of all the Princes of the House of Bourbon had spent his life in a contest of policy with the principles of the French Revo- lution. He !shine had attempted to assume whatever ' garb the spirit of the age imposed on him, and to profit by the lessons of his past experience. A sterner and a prouder man would have died a hundred deaths rather than condescend to humour the popular passions, which twice in his life uncrowned his nearest rela tives, and finally turned upon himself. Louis Philippe was affected by no such scruples; and no sooner did he find that terms were proffered to him by those who might then have driven him into a second exile, than he ascended the throne under the auspices of a popular revolution. From that instant his policy changed; but though the current was turned, its move ment was slow, and at first all but insensible. "Mu lutte tenace centre r anarchic" (to, use tus own expres sion) became the settled purpose of his reign. The dazzling career of a Napoleon, and the blind resistance of a Charles X., were alike impossible; yet the same, or even greater results, were to be accomplished by a sedulous employment of slender but multifarious means; and those results were supposed to have been accom plished so effntually that nut only had the Court and the Ministry the firmest reliance upon their success, but even the Republican party had postponed the execution of its designs until the King's demise. The Revolution of Februsry was alike uniorseen by all parties, and this confidence was undoubtedly the cause of the extraordinary neglect ut the decisive measures which might have pre vented it. The military exploits of Louis Philippe were limited to one campaign under Dumouriez, when he had not completed his twentieth year, and although he took a part in the actions of Jemmapes and Valmy, those in cidents in his life were only recalled when it was politic to connect his name with the prowess of the Republican armies. But of courage on all occasions but the last and greatest of his life the King displayed no ordinary share. tie had braved without a trace of hesitation dangers in comparison with which the heat of battle is a game. Fur many years of his reign the attempts at as aination were so frequently repeated in every imaginable form that a man of a less hearty courage could hardly have left his palace gates with indifference. Yet his com posure was scarcely ruffled by these hateful crimes, and without either fatalism or religious enthusiasm he inva riably presented a cheerful and resolute presence to his deadliest enemies. These personal qualities are so well known that it is the less possible to conceive under the influence of what panic he absconded from the Tuileries, when half an hour of resolution at the head of 12,0u0 men who filled the Carrousel would have changed the issue of his life and the destinies of Europe. But on that fatal morning the King was no longer himself ; he was unnerved, he was old, and he fled from the revolu tion, leaving everything in the dust. There certainly the high spirit of the House of Bourbon utterly f sled him. On all occasions it had been at once his greatest art and his greatest trial to keep the pride of his royal race from awakening the hostile passions if the country. In the interior of the closet and the palace he snowed himself minutely versed in all that characterised the lives and policy of his predecessors. A parallel between himself and Louis XIV., even in personal features, was one of the points on which his vanity rested with most complacency. The golden sun gleamed once more upon the velvet canopy of the throne of France; and it has been said that no consequences of the revolution of 1830 were more regretted by the King than the loss of the fieur delis and of the riband of the Holy Ghost. Nothing could exceed the minute detail in which every incident of every subject, past, present, or to come, presented itself to his mind, and passed under the scrutiny of his indefatigable industry. His memory was of the most comprehensive kind, especially as ap plied to I ersons and events, for in books he was little versed; and hence his conversation was extraordinarily copious and animated. All subjects were alike welcome to him, and there was nothing on which be had not in formation enough to converse or curiosity to inquire. Yet in all this marvellous display of 'readiness that magical touch was always wanting which converts the products of the intellect into the finest forms of elo quence or wit ; in the whole range of his daily conver sation we know of no recorded instance of one of those winged words or subtle combinations of language which lay bare a truth or search a mind; his love of the arts was profusely cultivated, but it wanted the delicacy of a refined taste and a chastened judgment, and all the 4ctivity of his bustling existence seems not to have added one imperish able thought to the world. The same want of elevation pervaded his moral as well as his intellectual being. To him great principles were matters of as little concern as great truths. Perhaps at the bottom the tuition of Madame de Geniis, the Jacobin Club, and the rough usage of his early life had left him sceptical of both. Hence, however, proceeded the greatest errors of his policy, and the just cause of his final discomfiture. Man has a larger appetency for truth and rectitude than to be permanently contented with tricks and expedients. The principle of the King's reign was to live without his subjects as best be could. His immediate predecessor had perished in an attempt to revive the principle of the French Monarchy as of old, and the principle of the French Republic was apparently lulled to sleep. All that could be done was to borrow as much as could be borrowed with impunity from the one and the ether. Perhaps from wisdom, perhaps from necessity, per hops from personal pride, Louis Philippe contributed nothing to•the regular estab iahment of a constitutional Government in France, and he suffered in his own person the penalty of his personal reign. No Prince less qua lified by natural effrontery and long experience could have played the part which Louis Philippe acted for so many years. He was the greatest master of what must be termed the orsft of kings that the world had beheld • for Ingo than i Qualm; §O4 lie gcltipted the influeuce pf Royalty, aided by bis own personal dexterity, to the manners of ecaptious and democratic age. In all par ' ties, in all professions, in every walk of life, and every mood of passion, th e Ki ng l ove d to practise his powers of address. Few area within his sphere w( re inacces sible to his persuasive ingenuity, and it may be said that he disarmed more enemies by his tongue than he would have done by the rigour of persecution. For this pur pose the hospitality cf the Tuileries was indiscrimi nately- off'red to men of all parties, and the King consi dered no affront unpardonable but that of a total I estrangement from the Court, and no man irreclaim able but those who refused to listen to him. In the pur suit of his objects by these means he displayed incredible patience, drollery, and cunning. Even in dealing with his bitterest enemies—those who were leagued against his throne, and who had attempted his life, he invaria bly observed an admirable clemency, which for the first time marked a great political revolution. It will be re membered when all his other acts aro forgotten that from the commencement to the end of his reign no blood was shed but that of convicted assassins, and of some few deluded insurgents in Pile heat of popular contests. From all such st Ana the government of Louis Philippe is pure; and an excessive reluctance to occasion the effusion of blood was ot e cause of his overthrow and ruin. And if he renounced the use of these dreadful means sf civil re pression, so also did he successsully oppose and avert the perils sif European war. We have seen that his whole rlicy was repugnant to the viol, nt measures and the hazardous adventures of more enterprising minds; but it is not the less creditable to his name that he should have persevered through good and evil report in the that sted'ast adherence to the cause of peace which has prolonged a million of human lives, averted incalculable miseries, and strengthened the confidence of nations in those ties which have, for the first time, grown to ma turity between them. A peaceful reign of 17 years over the most warlike people of Europe, still panting with the fever of a revolution, and mindful of the re. verses which closed the last war, is a phenomenon with out a parallel in political history; and the merit of him who accomplished this great work of policy is but the more conspicuous amidst those apprehensions which have followed his downfall. He undoubtedly revived many of those practices which had thrown discredit on the diplomacy of France in former reigns. His duplicity was such that nothing but the singular influence of his conversational powers could have given any value to his assurances, and he exulted in the success of his schemes, without the slightest reference to the propriety of the means which had been employed to serve them. The inevitable contequence of a government carried on by these arts was, that the deeper the hold it seemed to acquire by such practices upon the party which it could command, the less it could reckon upon the respect and support of the na tion at large; and the more complete the King's personal system of control became, the less could he have trans ferred it to any other hands. It began and ended with himself. The authority he enjoyed in his own family was unbounded, and that control which few absolute monarchs have possessed over the princes of their own race was complete in the hands of Louis Philippe. lie owed it to his playful disposition, which even at the close of his life could lay aside his cares and dignity to join in the sports of a child. He owed it to the singu lar judgment he had shown in the education of his sons, and not less to their invariable confidence in his indul gent solicitude for their welfare. After they had reached the prime of manhood and assumed the duties of married life, his sons continued t o i n habit the sam e palace and to form a part of the Fame domestic circle. Without any excessive display of paternal authority, the Royal Family continued wholly dependent on the King's advice and pleasure, and the divided interests of a Court were unknown. Nor in this allusion to the domestic ties of his life must the names of those be omitted who shed over it the steady light of conjugal love and sisterly friendship. The purity and piety of the Queen, to whom ho was devoted with the most undeviating fidelity and aff< ction, seemed to plead against the imperfections of his character, while the clear judgment and decision of Madame Adelaide held as it were a lamp to his path. It is remarkable that the death of his sister was so speedily followed by the great catas trophe of his reign, and that the Queen alone endea voured to prevent the closing and irretrievable fault of his abdication. These near influences of his family gave to one portion of his life at least a moral dignity and a charm of sentiment to which he had no other claim; and however men may have doubted the sincerity of his words, there is no reason to question the truth of those affections. In the more ordinary transactions of life he bas been accused of an excessive love of money, and it is true that he judged of the value of human actions and principles . 13 - y ion sordid a standard. ' But he ex- s pendea his - private fortune with great muni ficence, the public revenues with prodigality; and he was less prone to amass money than to devote it to the purchase of popularity and po litical power. When suddenly driven back into exile, he who had been accused of amassing wealth had barely the means of obtaining the necessaries of life, and it has recently been proved, by the publication of the ac counts of the civil list, that bis average personal ex penses did not exceed 4001. a year. Of all his personal tastes, that of building was perhaps the strongest, and the restoration cf the Palace and Museum of Versailles at his own cost, the emtellishtnent of Paris, and the re storation of the antiquities of France are splendid mon uments of his reign. Although the administration of the public finances was inordii,ately profuse, immense semi were expended . in public edifices of every kind, which remain for the ornament and utility of the country. In Paris alone Louis Philippe terminated all the great buildings which Napoleon had begun. He inher.ted from the il,gent Orleans a love of s&erice ,nd even a tas`•e fur medicine ; and he had acquired in his travels a fondness, not common in a French Prince, for marine amutemPuti. But the customary entert.mnments of a C..urt, the chase, military exercises, and play were comparatively unknown in his day, and they were sacrificed to the exi genci.s of public opinion in a democratic com- muniry, ever j- alous of the pleasures of Princes. Per haps in these minute details the character of the marl may be traced even mere consistently than in hid political actions. He rose without moral greatness, he reigned without the affection of his people, and he fell without the cornras4ion of the world. The last hours of his reign were a prey to an undignifi‘ d panic; his determina tious fluctuated between the extremes of weakness and absurdity; and in his selfish eagerness to preserve the unhonoured fragment of a life which no one seriously menaced, he recoiled from the necessary exercise of force, and left the French nation exposed to all the horrors of anarchy. That gre at event dissipated in an hour the whole fabric of hie lite, and left him despoiled of all 'het wealth, ambition, power, and artifice could bestow on man. The deepest lesson of human mutability which this generation of men had witnessed was com plete; and death has mercifully drawn its veil over the last struggles of old age, enfeebled, uncertain cf the future, abandoned by the crea'ures of his former bounty, and vanquished by the revolutionary powers of France which no living man has yet perteantntly subdued. POST.—It is impossible to contemplate without fen sations of the deepest interest the announcement which records the death of Louis Philippe. The dignity of his birth, the tragic horror of his family history, the vicissitudes and hardships of his individual existence, the storm and earthquake which shook the earlier por tion of his public career —all these things could not have failed to render his story an eventful one, even had it wanted those thrilling chapters of its conclusion—the zenith of exaltation, the ignominious fall—the palace of the Tuileries, and the retreat of Claremont. Viewing the whole of these particulars, the closing scene of Louis Philippe's life strikes us as more emphatically significant than even that of his predecessor Charles X., with whose position he contrasted his own on one remarkable occasion, and whose destiny, so curiously involved in and parallel to his, mast have frequently fur nished food for reflection in the long leisure hours at Claremont. True it is that the transition of our ideas, from the youth of the Comte d'Artois, the gayest of the gay revellers who danced over the frightful abyss which was to yawn beneath them, to the quiet re tirement of the grey discrowned King in his exile at Gratz, constitutes a survey of startling interest; but the fortunes t.f Charles X. are of a simple character enough. Trained in the school of those pleasure-seekers of the old regime with w hose such ty the bright morning of his life was so necessarily associated, he could never thoroughly divest himself of those habits of thought to which his recollections would naturally cling with gros.teq fondness, never altogether appreciate the altered itificences with which he had to deal. It is the ordinary misfortune, perhaps, of those who are actively engaged in a "restoration" that they ignore the existence of the' residuum which is invariably It ft by the retiring ele ments of disorder; that, in watching the ebb of the re volutionary deluge, they lose sight of the new strata which it has upheaved. Such, however, was by no means the case with Louis Phillipe. His training had been, in the first instance; somewhat different from that of his royal cousin; it had better prepared him to ac commodate himself to the tremendous changes which swept over his country, and which tested his capabilities in this respect to the utmost. Again, he was by cir cumstances removed from that active participation in the restored Court of the Bourbons which might, perhaps, base drizzled his eyes to the same extent as those of the other branch of his family. But whether it is to be at tributed to the force of circumstances, or to his own na tural sagacity, certain it is that no man appears to have better understood the elements with which he had to deal than Louis Philippe. To none could the task have been better assigned than to him, of re-constructing that system of French society which had collapsed in 1830; that is, assuming that the task was to be per formed under the same conditions which were imposed oatritghiant of ep a dynasty, och .lfpolitical finesse could have secured the Louis Phillipe would have been the man to effect it. If a bard, cold, persevering ramification of intrigue and chicane could have struck the routs of sovereign power firmly in the soil, the tree that was planted in the glorious days of July would have been flourishing now. If a craftily -woven chain of expediency could have bound the several classes of the nation to the throne of their own choice, fortune and seemedaturotis, to hav e pl aced such a bend in the hands of hilippe. But it was not to be. After rev, ',teen years, the discovery became palpable that monarchy in France must represent a principle, and not merely a tact. The first glimmer of that discovery extinguished the Throne of the Barricades. The Ode aos dynasty shut li, d off its regal coil amidst the laughter of all Europe. Without striking a blow ; without saying a word, it sur rendered the most complicated and artificial system of government that was perhaps ever devised, to the most clumsy and purposeless revolution that ever was at tempted. As we involuntarily contrast the career of Louis Philippe with that of his predecessor, so it is not less curious to es a'ch it in relation to that of his successor. But a few years back, the pris o ner of Ham lingered be hind the b o l ts and bars of his dungeon, while the Citi zen King held royal court in the palace of the French Sovereigns, and speculated in matrimonial alliances with half the potentates of Europe. Now, the then prisoner of Jim camas Iriugio na t progrell t>rotn tORI3 DEATH LOUIS PHILIPPE g, t Majesty he 26 Ki ng th o f August,Louis P a ip mo H rn is in The King had b een ma d e aware of h i s approac hi ng Philippe Claremont. diedor it. yesterday dissolution early on Sunday, in the presence of the Queen, and receiving with calmness the melancholy information thus first broken to him, prepared for the final arrangements which he wished to make. After a conversation with the Queen, he dictated, with a remarkable clearness of mind, a conclusion to his memoirs, in order to complete a history which ill ness had compelled him to suspend for more than four months. He then caused to be summoned his chaplain, the Abbe Guelle, all his children and grandchildren who were at Claremont at the time, and in the presence of the Queen and his family, he discharged every duty of religion with the most perfect Christian resigna • tion, a stoical firmness, and a simplicity which is the real evidence of human greatness. He then remained for some time surrounded by his family. Towards seven o'clock in the evening the debility from which the King had been suffering appeared to have passed over, and fever came on, which continued during the night with much violence, but without disturbing the composure of mind which never abandoned his Majesty. He Pxpired at eight o'clock yesterday morning, in the presence of the Queen and the following members of his fatally :—Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Orleans, the Count de Paris, the Duke de Chartres, the Duke and Duchess de Nemours, the Prince and Princess de Joinville, the Duke and Duchess d'Au male, the Duchess Augusta de Saxe-Coburg, and the attached attendants of the Royal household. Louis Philippe was the eldest son of Louis Philippe Joseph, Duke of Orleans, and of Narie, the only daughter of the wealthy Duke of Penthievre. He was born in the city of Paris, on the ,6th of October, 1773, and was consequently in his 77th year. He was at the head of the Orleans branch, of the Bourbon family, which originated in Phillippe, a son of Louis the Thirteenth, created Duc d'Orleans by his elder brother, of whom the ex-King was the grandson's great grandson. Phillippe, the first Duke of Orleans, was twice married, his last wife being Elizabeth Charlotte, of Bohemia, grand-daughter of James I. of England. It was from this lady that the Orleans family descended, and through her has b; en traced a direct relationship to the line of Stuart. When a minor, Louis Philippe was entitled Duke of Valois, but on his father succeeding to the title of Duke of Orleans in 1785, he became Duke of Chartres. He was, with his brothers and sisters, placed under the superintendence of Madame de Genlis, and under her tuition they were taught the English and other lan • guages. Of the political movement in 1789 the countess and her husband were warm adherents, and they failed not to impress their sentiments on the young minds of their charge. Louis Philippe was introduced, whilst very young, a member of the Jaco bin Club, and was frequently present at its sittings. In June, 1783, he proceeded to Vendome, where a popular commotion took place in consequence of a number of clergymen refusing to take an oath, he being at that time appointed to an honorary colonelcy in the 14th Regiment of Dragoons. At this place he saved the lives of the non-juring clergymen, who were about being killed by the police. Some time after this emeute he saved the life of a citizen of Ven dome, who was rescued from drowning only by the heroic efforts of the Duke. For his intrepidity he was presented with a civic crown. About two months after going to Vendome he quitted the garrison with his regiment, and proceeded to Valenciennes, in the north of France, where he continued his military avocations. About the middle of April, 1792, war was declared against Austria, and now Louis Philippe made his first campaign. At the head of his troops he fought at Vainly, in September, 1792, and after wards, on November 6, at Jemmapes, under Dutnou riez. While the Duke was engaged in repelling the foreign armies which menaced the tottering fabric of the French monarchy, the revolution was hastening to its climax. The monarchy being extinguished, and the King and his family placed in confinement, a decree of banishment was hastily passed against all other members of the Bourbon Capet race. This act of proscription, however, was as summarily re pealed. On the 21st of January, 1793, the unfortunate Louis XVI. was executed, and on the 6th of No vember the Duke of Orleans (Egalitil) was tried be fore the revolutionary tribunal, on a charge of con spiring; against the nation, was condemned, and guillotined. At that period the Duke of Chartres fled into the Belgian Netherlands, then under Austria, where he was courteously received, but he refused to take up arms against France. For some time he was subject to great privations, frequently journeying on toot, with a pack on his back, and shoes worn out, and sometimes fearful of discovery. Ile, however, ma naged to get an introduction to the teacher of an academy at Reichenau, in the Grisons. Here, under a feigned name, and without being recognised, he taught geography, and the French and English languages for many months. In consequence of some political troubles, the Duke of Orleans for such he was now entitled to be called, after the de cease of his father—left Switzerland, and travelled through a great part of Europe, residing for some time in Denmark, without the knowledge of the French Government. Through his mother, the Duchess of Orleans, a communication was made, that if he went to America the sequestration should be taken from his property, and she would be made more comfortable, and her two other sons, Montpen sier and Beaujolais, should be released from prison, and permitted also to embark for America. To this proposition the Duke of Orleans acceded ; and ac cordingly, on the 24th of September, 1726, he em barked for Philadelphia, which he reached after a passage of 27 days, and where he was joined by Montpensier and Beaujolais. Whilst here they learned that a law had been passed in France decreeing the expulsion of all the Bourbon family from the country, and that their mo ther had been deported to Spain. Their object was now to join her, but owing to their pecuniary cir cumstances, and to the war between England and Spain, this object was not easily accomplished. After many extraordinary adventures, however, they reached England, end having proceeded to London, they shortly afterwards took up their quarters at Twickenham. The English Government having al lowed the Duke of Orleans a free passage in a frigate to Minorca, he proceeded thither, expecting to find the means of passing over to Spain. From the con vulsed state that country was in the expedition proved fruitless, and he was obliged to return back to England again, retiring to Twickenham; at which place the Duke of Montpensier died on the 18 t h of May, 1807, and was buried in Westminster Abbey. At the invitation of Ring Ferdinand of Naples, the Duke of Orleans visited P.lermo, where he gained the affections of the Princess Amelia, the second daughter of the King, and in 1809 they were mar ried. In 1814, intelligence reached Palermo that Na poleon had abdicated the throne, and that the Bour bons were to be restored to France. On the 18th of May he arrived in Paris, when, in a short time, he was in the enjoyment of the honour due to them. The return of Napoleon in 1815 broke up his ar rangements, and he again went to resid e in Twicken ham. On the return of Louis XVIII., after the hun dred days, an ordinance was issued, authorising, ac cording to the charter as it then stood, all the princes of the blood to take their seats in the Chamber of Peers, and the Duke returned to France in Septem ber 1815. Here he distinguished himself by a d is pl ay of liberal sentiments, which were so little agreeable to the Administration that he returned to England, where he remained till 1817. He then returned to France, but was not again summoned to sit in the Chamber of Peers. He therefore remained in private lite for some time, when an unexpected scene was opened, viz., the revo lution of 1830, during which the King was in effect discrowned, and the throne vacated. In this emer gency the Provisional Government, which h a d ar i sen out of the struggle, and in which _ fitte, Lafayette, and other politicians had taken t h elead turned to wards Louis Philippe. A nego tiati on i with him was opened, sad after a few days consideration he July, nh e ecceded to the request, and at DOOO, on the 31s ebe went to Paris, and accepte d t he office which had been assigned to him. Oa the 2d of August the abdi ca ti on in the of Charles X. and of his son was placed hands of the Lieutenant-General; t he abdication, however, being in favour of the Duke of Bordeaux. On the 7th the Chamber o f Deputies declared the throne vacant, and on t h e f o llowing day the Chamber went in a body to Louis and offered him the crown on terms 0f a revised charter, which he formally accepted in the Chamber of Dep u ties on the 9th. He brought to the throne habits which for active business. Without peculiarly fitted himene t o r showy talents, he was a possessing any brillianai in formation ; of a calm and tranquil nature ; person of great general a na turally cold and reserve d disposition in affairs o f moment ; distinguished alike in s mall by prudenc e an d per in great things and severence. He wa s a an • ofl a b our, immense taking a pleasure , in affairs and in the transaction and dispatch of business. Ha examined hims e lf a ll im portant papers conn e cted with the affairs of state, read the principal journals, and attended even to th e e, fortun and to the manage mentdetails of his own private „ of his family and children. of the tafitirs S L' town, the applauded ruler of Fran ce , w hil e the ihen. -_ 1 T King dies in exile at Claremont. There isteam instance for Juvenal or Johnson, of the instability of human greatness, the vanity of human wishes! Surely there ‘I must be a melancholy moral borne from that death-bed I even to the ears Of the winner in the game! Like the legacy of Lady Jane Grey to her cruel cousin on the throne— Haud aliens putes homini quse obtingere possunt: Sors hodierna mihi, cras erit ilia tibi. • Such a moral is more than a mere warning borrowed from the general chapter of accidents. Louis Napoleon is now, to all eppea:ance, treading in the same path which Louis Philippe has trodden before him. The same experiments are before him; the same golden round beckons him on, though he has not yet committed him self to the 1 erilous task of achieving it. It he has still that confideece is his " star" which consoled him when his fortunes might have seemed desperate, and consider" himself bound to seek the altitude which common obser vation points at as almost within his grasp, it is difficylt to see what greater advantages he has to rely on than those which smiled on the outset of the Orleans dynasty, and betrayed it to its ignominious exit; or what greater elements of endurance he can expect to cluster round a second empire than ,s ere at the command of the most astute politician in Europe. DAILY NEWS.—The man, Louis Philippe, expired S estereley et Claremont. The King, Louis Philippe, departed this line some time previous. The latter was a great event; the shuffling oft the mere man's mortal coil is but a small one. His friends, however. may make a . huge funeral pile cf his private virtues, which were most exemplary in the narrow circle of his friends and his de pendents. Therein, indeed, he kept a kind of preserve of ail the virtues. But beyond the domain, beyond the paling which immediately surrounded the vicinity of his household, he allowed few of these virtues to stray. And he can, perhaps, be best characterised as a politi cian, by saying that as such he was the direct eontrary of what he was as a pere de forndle. There is no greater proof, perhaps, of the profound unintelligence of our age, than the worship which was paid to him as a politician. Never did Oriental Brahmins build up for their idol a greater or a blinder mass of adoration than the priests of European politics, who lead and create opinion in all its capitals, reared up for Louis Philippe. And yet this great idol of the Liberal Conservatives, as they call themselves, spent the eighteen years of his reign astride the great country on which he weighed and over which he swayed like a nightmare. Throughout that time not one great or generous idea ever seemed to have germed in his mind. Of domestic policy, be yond the cajolery or bribery of i deputy, he had none. Of the condition, the wants, the economy, the ferment ing minds of his people, neither he nor the statesmen who served him knew aught. He and they actually lived and governed over a mass of volcanic matter in fu sion and ebullition, but covered over with certain layers of social earth, fair and verdant to behold. These wor thies were delighted and contented with the appear ance of the surface, nor ever thdught to sound the depth, to try tne te m p era t ure , or analyse the elements of the lava below. Their sole anxiety was t I stop every aperture, and stick their loin de rigueur in every cranny. By this they merely accelerated the explo sion. And amidst the many phenomena of that cataa trophe there was none more portentous than the burst ing of that huge bubble, the kingcraft of Louis Philippe. The fact is, the very essence and end of government, the development, the foresight, insight, and contentment of a people's wants were utterly unknown to the Solomon of Loudon drawing-rooms and Parisian saloons. He believed, with several other great men by the bye, that policy meant diplomacy, and nothing more. As much a legitimist at heart as Charles 11. was a Roman Catholic, Louis Philippe felt convinced that he had filched a throne, and how to keep his balance there was his sole object. Of the soil beneath him he knew little, as we said, and cared less. But of the powers around him in Europe he was fully cogni sant, knew their weaknesses and their strength, their prejudices, their follies, and their magnanimity, where it existed. Amongst these he played, making use of England in the first years of his reign, as the only Go vernment that could aid and favour his parvenu and in fant kingdom. As by degrees, however, he gained strength, years of possession and prestige, then he flung off the English crutch on which be leaned, and which had actually served him as an instrument to subju gate Europe north and south of him, Belgium and Spain, to his will. Thus armed with the very power which we had provided for him, he flung himself into the alliance of the absolutist powers, and was em boldened by his friendship with them to play England and Spain, and his own relative, the young Queen of Spain, one of the filthiest and basest tricks that ever disgraced man or politician. England's disgust was great, but of course inoperative. But that of France was equally great. if not against the act, at least against him also perpetrated it. And never was the power of re• tributive justice shown more signally and awfully than in the ruin of all concerned in the Spanish marriage from the suicide of their negotiator Bresson to the dethrone ment and expulsion of Louis Philippe and his Ministers. It is impossible to characterise the reign of the monarch without bringing forward these its great facts, and with out expressing upon them a strong opinion. It is die. tated by a sense of justice, not resentment. For the' house of Orleans and its bead have long ceased to excite any feelings of the kind. On the contrary, the demeanour of the fallen dynasty, and of all its members, has been irreproachable. It has been dignified, resigned, betra) ing no captious humour, indulging in no recri mination, no vain boasts, no restless attempts or idle. in -1 trigues. The King ju,t deceased was even supposed to recommend a postponement of the claims of the Orleans to that of the legitimist heir. The Duchess of Orleans would, however, lever consent to such a compromise; and the decease of Louis Philippe is likely to have the e iTect t f communicating more life and activity to the Orleans party. DOCK COMPANY IMPROVEMENTS.—We hear it is inteLdcd by the Dock Company to construct a new railway the entire length of the three docks. Ihe railway is to ccin mence at the goods railway station, cross the Humber-dock Bridge in Wellington-street, and run on the town side of the Humber Junction, and Old Docks, as far as the end of Low gate. The old-tashimed tram-roads now running by the side of the docks are to be removed. This will be a very great improvement, and will tend very much to reduce, if not entirely to remove, the charges for " truckage" on goods shipped and unshipped. By the new system goods coming by railway for shipment can, without delay, inconvenience, or expense, be dropped by the side of the vessels for which they are intended, while, in like manner, the carriages on their return can take up the goods delivered from shipboard for transportation by railway. Another improvement also designed by the Dock Compiny for facilitating the trade of the port, is the application of hydraulic power to their large crane, by which coals, &c., will be shipped with thrice the rapidity now attained.—Hell Packet. INTEMPERANCE AND SUICIDE.—On Sunday after noon, a party of labouring men and their wives, all more or less intoxicated, were returning from Battersea, where they had bear spending the afternoon, when, off the Houses of Parliament., a Mrs. Shadbrook, residing in Queen's Head pksage, Charles-street, Drury-lane, who had conceived that an improper intimacy had taken place between a female of the party and her husband, in a frenzy of jealousy suddenly threw herself overboard. Mr. Shadbrook, though unable to swim, leaped in to save his wife ; the unfortunate woman, however, who was very drunk, was not seen to rise again, and her husband was with difficulty dragged into the boat. The body was not recovered. SOTER'S MAGIC STOVE.—La Patrie tells a story of a dispute between an English traveller and a douanier respecting the admissibility of M. Soyer's magic stove. The douanier contended that it was hardware prohibited by law. The Englishman assured hint it was his kitchen, and seeing the custom-house officers looking rather incredulous, he quietly fixed the stove, lighted a brass lamp, produced from a kind of book one or two raw cotelettes ready egged and breaded, threw them into a microscopic fryingpan, and served them up in about a minute, to the great astonishment of the spectato-s. The eouanier was not proof against this demonstration, and the stove was allowed to pass. POOLE, AUG. 26.—The embezzlement or the late actuary of the Poole Savings Bank, Joseph Barter Bloom field, deceased, is supposed by some to extend to 5,0001. or 6,0001. Mr. Tidd Pratt was here on Saturday, and a Go vernment accountant is to be employed, in conjunction with an accountant in this neighbourhood, to examine into the affairs of the bank. The loss will be, it is supposed, to the depositors ss. in the pound. Ma. ANDERsoN, M.P. FOR ORKNEY AND Suer- LAND, AND HIS CoNsTrruENTs.—This gentleman is making a tour of visits to the Islands of which he is the representa tive, with the view of tendering explanations of his lublic conduct in Parliament during the past session. On the 14th instant he arrived at Stromness and addressed a numerous meeting in a long speech, which was received with great satisfaction by the electors. The following were the con cluding observations of the Hon. Member with respect to local grievances to which his constituents were exposed. The first was that of "scat,"—the exemption from rates on the Crown and earldom property—the check to improvement formed by the Crown lands—inequality of road-money as sessments, &c., respecting which he had pressed incessantly upon the Government the necessity of inquiry, and he be lieved he might say, that in a - short time a Commissioner would be sent by Government to make inquiry into those matters on the spot, when it would be competent to every one who had any repreceutation to make in reference to them, to do so direct to the Commissioner. - (Applause.) The second object, and certainly not the least, was the im provement of the postal communication, by means of a steam- packet across the Pentland Firth. To obtain this he had used every possible exertion, and having latterly in duced the General Shipowners' Society of London and the committee of Lloyds to take up the question, as one concern• ing the shipping interest at large, the Government had, at last, taken the matter into serious, consideration. Having ascertained that Captain Ottei, of her Majesty's ship Comer, had been directed to make a report upon Scrabster pier, and the practicability of stationing a steamer there for carrying the Orkney mails, he (Mr. Anderson) proceeded to Thurso on his way north, and had then met Captain Otter, had had a conference with him on the subject; and had ascertained that this officer had reported most favourably for the object iu view; and he therefore hoped that it would not now be long before they would see this important object carried into effect.—(Great applause.) A vote of thanks to the Hoe. Member was unanimously ad:ipted, and he on the fol . -- lowing day departed for Kirkwall in furtherance of his mission. BIRTHDAY OF THE PRINCE CONSORT .--WINDSOR, MONDAT.—This being the anniversary of the birth of the Prince Consort, when his Royal Highness enters upon hie 32d year, the bells have been rung and salutes tired as usual. A public di, ner to celebrate the auspicious event took place in the afternoon, at the Castle Hotel William Hanson, lisq., the mayor, in the chair), which was attended by a numerous party, con,isting cf the principal inhabitants of the town and neighbourhood. In the evenirg the houses of m any of the tradesmen of his Royal Highness were brilliantly illu minated. THE SUBMARINE TELEGRAPII.—The wires for this important work are now in readiness, and are safely on board the steam-ship Goliath, now lying in Dover harbour. On the drum on which the wire is to be laid there is already $ considerable quantity coiled; and on the deck there is an ample reserve to be used when wanted. It i 3 said that ope. rations are to commence at the next neap tide, should the weather permit. We are sorry to say that the potato disease has made its appearance in the neighbourhood of Llangollen... .North Wake Gazette. N 1 Nf