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

S ttLT-ii°3-riloYaNnAtes 27.- IN G.--( THIS DAY.) Wind this day at noon S. to S.W., Lo rate bre;-ze and fiee. ,Ivi.t.e, Aro. 6 . -Wind N. W.- Sid. Rankin, Quebec.ied hoe, l"3lu stm, AM 24.-The John Harrison, ; er Yesterday fur London, btu - canted over near this b ''. l ° Bartle f.ernoon, during a heavy gale from . eleierd• its- ' crew, except the coek, saved by the Fidelity, etiter,LYee, which has put back with sails split. e„,, eaaseiseo, JULY 1.--Th, Sarah Steeds, se : amer, b(;;:a2cotitect with the British berque Avast, in thr her : Ilitto 25th June; the latter had her bow and r ggine I 7 li)jured tie w e. • fors Vet, AUG. 14 . -The Eliz ibttli, Hobart Town, I tti :e ll ' 4 "isco, gut into Monterey, about 18th ult., lin tetted to be condemned as unseaworthy. „ ,_ 110445 X, NoYS. Scone, AUG. 16.- l'he Annie, uol _ Oto s , / B , ° stoe, which was serendel on the east aid/ of leek 'laud 11th May last, has been hot off, and taken ' a rbour Tlis Rose,' . teeeke_, Prince Edward's Island. to ace d, was whit L a et Green Island, about 14 - 411:er care° for 190/. The Adonis. , f and from days s g , la a n nd seld 104 I T 3 I , thiterl State s , to lire Island. was wr, eked o e n , si t e efr's'sed durin g it thick f )1; 6th July. et te,houte Baltimore for Sr, John's. Newfoundland, s we t% Tits P r ad Aieruat ; car g o saved in a damaged state. ttll42°, ,15guetiay to London, has bet% wrecked fplers egdalor Islands. ilet,,,, tilikun. 8. - The George, Tatrnsgnuche . to -"'" on gote near the former purl, and it i 4 ; 41 a0t be off. lie Po not NEWFOUNDLAND AUG. 1.-The Jane, illy ~...,r , ' girt Y kr °ism), Matarzls to Qaebee, was wrecked lost 4 east of this Dr port 30th ult.; crew savei, cargo 1;_11141114e. 26 . Wind W. to N.N.W.-Arrrl. Arne . b _"I. I;ll7'ealutta; Hermann Theodor, Muller, Charles gt•le, li.d fur Brake. Arrd. from the R s i ) v u ttr, L ki trie 3 4 . 4 ,°, ll Town; Sophia Moffett, Adelaide,. South tNr, e : 4011, Ceylon, and all three sa . iled . , _r_ .,_ ", Qu; h Pt °I Good Hope • Merek, Rio Janeiro, GI L ye. ei i-ee, L end all three i sailed. Arrd. from the La. thle--Whabdis, Thomas Snook, Cape of Good Hope. '4 1 , 01 4 the 5 f the outward bound, se eeape of Good Hope. except the Pro liid.4llllC-11441,71,1% AUG. 26.-Wind W. to N.N.W.- 4 1 adora g i g l r be r°, Havannah, for St. Peteraburgh. j ob bin. r 0, put back. ~.4t ud i, Ara. 26.---The Anne Sophia, London -sit 44,1 St bas been towed in to-day, with loss of fore joe e oth er d ive _ 14 4, 44?°°1 ' , ' li wage. • d N.W.-Arrd. Pick it,4t q,i,,,, e no. 26.-Win Honduras; Columbus, Giett°24ll4ll3:t Arica; Union, U J a a i c o o l t, Westow ell; noodles!, eacipt.Dek;`;ll,eliney, Prince Edward ' s Islan F t ete S he ld r, . s e i i ,es ; 4 _, terra Leone; Patriot King. li t elleee's, Stephenson, Barbed . oes; James Pin ks Allealse",°),„New Orleans. Sid. St. Thom m as n P nt a r e e k a e l t : 10' lie' - 4ypt La Guayra; Sarah, ~ pp ' Ito , 4411di Nei bp; New Hampshire. New York; Western l'opotra this ' L ett(' Off port, Tagus. The Gift, Moue 1 1,rand t" Port, was totally wrecked 16th July, near tit reek Newfoundland. The Belle, Swansea to )1 sif t4 te P t lt into Monte Video 19th June, leaky, would critt i 'Pm Probably be condemned. if i L leild h - ' llO . 26 --Ta Margaret Hughes, schooner, 441-`9t.,41--ertlelt.on the e Middle Patch, near the Point e kli etl ea. 144 to pieces; crew drowned. Arrd. Hope, 1 .0 ' is tt A IN 1)02,43 ....rrti. Jane, Sturgeon ita l t e Sr til e lt r , AVG. 24.-The Elizabeth Mauille 011 ie ,: uollo's New Brunswick, put in!o e e t b h ee . ilolderness, 'ars 'Nag kith loss of spars, and is being to 41' 0 1te a . i.N41 0 1 , u 1t .. 110 . 26.-Wi n. d . N.W.-Arrd. Helene, 11,44401„,„`leinocito, and milieu for London. m n ,„...... -4 ,11, AUG. 2 6.-Wind S.W. to sY•es IT kt h 1 ktgebee 1 tt4A.SI. tti v tves eo ,. d. Ann, M'Lister, Quebec. h e Me `,„.,; Atm. 26.-It has blown a gale e all day ktr,'Pal re.t.Ahe Magdalene has been rais d and the "ette r - "e having been stopped, she makes but _",....,............................... t E T NEWS. —(THIS DAY.) le:ltytoret., Walt 111,AaxASICS• hfk, dit to, ar s „ to 31 3s; old Ul,,ver, 31 10a 2s to to 4 / 1 1 1 0 8 %; 4:vkl A3lOa to 41 Os; and Straw, 11 4 4 ' 1 ' lull averag e supply, and a heavy demand. ase di tto, 1it,..--Old Meadow Hay, 2/ 10, to t 3 4 1 1 1 6 8 5 5 ; tliti cl itto, a f S e to 31 ss; old Clover, Itis t 'e. I to h ° ll to 31 18s; and Straw, 3l 1 1 / Uj 2s e to 1! 9' w lti tteek te Ray and Straw moved off slowly, at our paw d a i ,te, li t ?L.-- Old Meadow Ray, 2/ 12 3 to 4 3 1 11 0 6 g s .; hr kite, 2 a,',' to 31 ss• old Clover, 31 155 to •••e. 8 - °I to 4/ Os; and Straw, 1/ 2s to I/ 8s it Be e 44137 tolerably good, and trade dull. ~s ,;, A tt , ...11, 4 2 , COLONIAL. I kt .le4 A t ' I continues in demand, and 4ti n° 4°l : e l lar get including Barbadoes by auctio 4 n 7 a o t , 'op t °, titt)e,fla Cr ystal;zed Demerara at 36s t o ttl " il l atte 7 ra tes for the firmer, and la briskly r, r at about being i° ' ta iaV A 4lB greatest improvemen Mauritius 144 kivite e - meaCti tions; 597 bags " '4144 CHI ' T P it of Bri 11 '4 vgot lt he quant y ho , 0 :003 14 - p _at the East. and West India tisit D l3l , ll )e n k t s at w i e n s e ete:LstenptL-eet, 27 barrels. There wfre taken for tee -" le 6 - 0 1 6:15 htids 219 tierce., 535 d ba 2 rr 3 e 9 ls o . tv.4' 5 ,08 "Bea ' -- places ' is 17 , 358 hb- '' • . t , L .,_ 0 4 1 ,,, epe e bt •°*C. , ...1 11 " 1 8. t l ° l 4 -. 41 40 4 . 1 d emand has considerably . N I Z i lqily , t 406 barrels 56 casks Plantation Ceylon , 1,260 tteteetli-iotein4 advance of is to 2: ti, - (fie k ~;to alao found buyers at to ore b ,11,. ( ' 'Ylo - b k advance of fully is; 3 p 7s er 6cl 42s 6d, 400 bags good ,_Wt i';',A,- 44 ve been sold privately at 435. 1411 :h . 1.44d ir4 'l,(l4antity landed last week at the East and ?e t c for hetteemka was 545 puns 1 hhd ; _the en i __ ru . 1 11 ) 4 61 b„,,° coneurnption 408 puns 11 hhds, 9e' It J)3l i t , l 56 bhdie The stock in the same places ttaliCt.',l4l,l4 1248 iihds. IPOte IltittleitittOY 5 ,000 bags East India have been sold 81,, /l 'alid e L At auction about 3.000 bags r tt4444,, at 8 5 61 t 9s 14 1` 4 11 t i t. tl ow to 231dpeeighs _Rat o avi a . Pepper were nearly all • ;itt:la th"..-I).te• is 365 6d for fine old, and 37s for Al'tl2°t• Town 38s. --......__lbarket is firm and the deliveries are , i„-----z_„.„,_____,__ The "LESEX SESSIONS. I. l tl Au ill, (THIS DAY.) It : 4 ' ll ' l 4VA" adjourned General Sessions for the Nkiti :Ithatill`llesex commenced this morning, f i k `ele ; b 's , neh ‘ lll the absence of Mr. Sergeant Adams) 'th lk- " W ell e clt Ma_gistr - ates at the Sessions - House, n li p is celnsreen. The number of prisoners set . down l°4l T. -4r for trial is e 95, of which 83 are indicted ilit y ll e , Iltii'tlley -1111,°.,, Jniso havin addressed the grand ti‘ it 4LataisseEd is the performance of t eir pk:Psel,"eaditnilttctukEtN v. HENRY TAME. , i l k _. w ith ,o, - ...is case was indicted Nei' et P e dl i !A e others, for keeping a c l u a i s s t an sc e s e s:on, in 1 / 4 11 4,1 t° pli..tiNt'll, but having been taken i ll, h he was the should k, teemer he'`'• It was then arranged thet . h e be ac , qQ i i ll y ei° morning and plead guilty , whic in 4,,, T 'd ' , e lm ' d was ordered to find bail, himself.__se 4 th'"ee "° sureties of 501 each, to abate the nuisance, 4 °lde ti ll i PP°4 r 14 judgment at the next s essions, 1 n October next. Iltit t : L 4 ° , 11 1 , 1 44, Et . S TREET. —(r HISIDA . Y . .) eti e g,tlrg d - 7 . t A PUOILI John Crawley, a pugilist, "iis - ', - '3' Silveszer lisTe's-twith assaultiug and rob- N 4.11, prtiol 6fieen shillings. 44 1 iti o n"aetor stated that on the previous night be 111!Itt,,h_esee't.134b,„li,c-hou.se for the purpose of getting some a lto ‘ , tted e.-Ine prisoner was standing at the . fr . ot e t o_f t. Otit'o,,Ntedbntness, having some previous knowledgm,oe Me 'et e r a ttv, to partake of part of a pot of beer.. Tri _ ki te ' t *Iti;„4"117 s ailed himself of his invitation, and ti f t - ,,er it4a paid for three pots he told the till he hee l e aft time he paid for a pot. The prison l e d r . }to, tot got a " inn" about him, else be wou ~!titji; ystde ti left the house, and had not . proceeded an _ ts i ' r ,' l hi k :hen the prisoner came behind him ofd " 11 1;, 1 phial r ,Sata. the prisoner falling on the to p , tiii? oti t , ebeane the prisoner'a hauds in his pocket, n k e a it rP itoe lioliee," vvhen a constable came up and t,?o n, a 44 !;""l tl t t e",° custody On arriving at the Atstio fore 40,7 "La Pocket.and missed four half-crowns °Op-e,,lem,;"ints, which he a put in his waistcoat pocket ct ' ll 'lle NV h 1 t ee -0,043, ie- ow. , ‘ci kid ' 4Bl t p 34 proved taking the prisoner into Ittl'ts efinr;aing him at the station, when the four o h ,vaad t „"`" ate shillings stolen from the prosecutor 4 %7 (4 1 him. Too ' for trial. ' h' 4111 ---------- S DAY.) °l 4 , 6 1 ' dtkv r, "STREET .--Cr ill t S'l 4- 'te - li?' S'ou • -- - t l• • in Fran ii• It' t, .Ik, L i ` it e, a eat) proprietor, living 4 le e,llll hisZ"eY-road, was charged before Mr. Ham- Zilltpthtilim,Z ttisaulted Elizabeth Brooks, arepec h t: J. is, ( 6r ~,( 44n , With the butt.end of a whip, e-r. ft 'tintf n i - ge te"taa , time will be deprived of hera veryey ‘lZtle 0004PPeAZI:1‘inant's right eye presented Iltistt faerPi!lit'aecte. 1,10e i .. oeioeL stated that the previous afternoon. ic saga While 1 she paid a visit to the wife of the th Ve ee l kde e ,bens was i n th e parlour, the prisoner, th e 'k 1 1 4 viol. Influence of liquor, k • fla n 4 k ..;'",t P 4381 Up on seeing his wife, he entered the room I fti b t e : pi lt e - i t v ee t d . 4o. till-te'tjitteittat,tltl3,lwohwei; .iwnhhiciah hand, laid her prostrate on %I L L lb._ allot tipon her, wen h the complainant the lash of which 1 4 1, 1 _ 4 th e e'tie Prisoner then struck her on the right ge t , i i e ale tt- end of the whip, the effect of which een 4 W lre wits i ih e ;:115 render her insensible; on recovering ' l et t ,_a_ 414 to for a policeman. The prisoner's , th set q e ,,,e . e attend. . ; 44, 111; 41 , 1.° Y, who took the prisoner into custody,. -/rell her ey, - , 4 Int complainant gave the charge against i T1. 1 1) * was bleeding profusely, and very Al q tom e p, 4 ..lo t ___ much I !'op er q hi l 'rifatated that when he entered the parlour 4 1 ' 1 tte t l / c 1 sitie„, W ife and the complainant's sets in . an i!" . 1- . sededrit.,e,d his very much exasperated hipow. was sit the e , ra 'a p r i his Wife, the complainant, as the bl ow 4 1 i :ii: t i i ) : the t tili:aat, on being recalled, denied most ro -o,t_N :::_kii,,t."4..onv..t.ttid the prisoner's wife were eh e t. ee t, q t tabli ng fo a r int he is. wife had lost a ring, acid they 'NI 4 (1 th, t. Complainant s daughter • i tti , 7 were all laughing when the prisoner 11 11 0 ,. Pri se is et tee Was 4k LAN, fined 5/., or in default two months' PlA'tilt a 41 11 st ' f-- --"&------_____ ~.1..............• W °II th ''...11l th l ------------ on the ar n ° tan,. , e fader of yesterday ttv, Psrggra-rptlh,,Otinties Railway, the concluding , word , 11,le , bee i l error e b vi lv,_ as misprinted e employ's" for g " em `ifililatinus 4 ells from the context. 414 134.D i a .P ea being Made for the erection of a • '446044 good. Li CA PE OF GOOD HOPE. There are further advicea 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 Chavorma.battery embracing that portion of the anchorage where the deepest water is to be found, and by a curve toward► 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 felt, 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. SPANISH BONDHOLDERS. TO 7'HE EDITOR OF THE SUN. DEATH SlR,—The public attention being at this moment directed to a general meeting of Spanish bondholders convened for Wednesday next—and consequent upon another proposition for carrying out the Peninsular system of spo!iation—l feel assured that your well-known zeal in the public weal and general rights insures your ri ady cooperation, for the redress of the long defrauded foreign creditors of Spain. If private wrongs receive attention 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 which, 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 it 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 consistncy 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 recklw.sly pursues a system of extra vagance, and the ready adoption of the same iniquitous system by Portugal, it is all too well known to need comment from my pen; but I cannot doubt t,hat 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. FATAL ACCIDENT.--Yesterday morning, about ten o'clock, as a ma❑ named Simes, residing in Pasiimore-street, Pimlico, was in the act of sweepimg the lead projecting over the shop-front of Mr. Fenn, cheesemonger, High-street, Marylebone, a portion of the lead gave way, and the unfor tunate man fell on to the p.iveinent with such force that his brains were dashed out on the spot. On being picked up life wai quite extinct. IiER MAJeSTY'S SHIP CALEDONIA. —Extract of a letter from her 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. Th 3 squadron had a taste of it a few weeks since, but we are all now, thank God, very healthy—the average number being under 3} per cent., and these with slight complaints. We have been out for a mouth, 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 for us—but I never telt 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 SHOW. —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 presidei, the Earl of Aberdeen, Lord Haddo, Admiral Gordon, Sir A. Leith Hay, Sir J. D. Elphinatone, 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 83,6091. 18s. The expenses, including 35,6721. Its. for Parliamentary and law ; 5,4281. 16s. 3d. for interest on capital; 1,9781. lls. 3d. fur engineering and other ordinary items, have amounted to within 1,457/. 15s. 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 Meuibers.to serve in Par hament.for the city of London. GROSS 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 for 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 Bridgend, South Wales, was walking along the edge of the cliff when she accidentally fell 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.—TREATY BETWEEN THE BUENOS AYREAN AND FRENCH REPUBLICS.-110 following telegra phic dispatch was received at Lloyd's late yesterday after noon from Liverpool :—" A treaty was concluded between Rosas 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." KOSSUTH'S LE.I"I'ER 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 cf 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 ve. 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 Browse, 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. Ye?, 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 that 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 not know. Once almost an efficient instrument in the hands of Providence, lam now buried alive. With humble heart will I accept the call to action, should I be deemed worthy of it, or submit to the doom of inactive sufferings, if' it must bo so. But, be it on o 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 this balance of fate ; and I know that, as long as one Hungarian lives, your name, General, will be counted among the must cherished in ray 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 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 its 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 blenday 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 fury to their foundations. The rain descended in tor n nts, 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. Foitunately the storm did not last more than five or ten minutes, or it must have effected great destruction of property. After it bad passed there was a lull fur a time; but the wind, which was from the north-west, soon rose again, and blew strongly throughout the night. During and after the storm the weather became almost as cold as winter.— Blackburn Standard. ' May you be pleased, General, to accept the most fer vent thanks of an honest friend of freedom. Let me hope that, should Mr. Ujhazy (my oldest and best friend, and present representativ e in the United States), in the interest of the holy cause to which you have so generously your protection accorded, addresses himself 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 Casa, Washington. I hope you will excuse my bad English. I thought it my duty to address yen in your own language. COURT CIRCULAR. OSBORNE, 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 a music :—" The Prince's Hymn," "The Cobourg March;" selection, "Le Prophete ;" Waltz, " Schortzblatil," and " God save the Queen." BIRKENHEAD.—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 mEn 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 t h e 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, snaking 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. 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, ta verizarry. Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office, from the Governor of South Australia. LADIES FASHIONS—NOVELTY IN ALPACAS —A goyal 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, &o. 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 es cobourghe. 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.—'.Kee. Fanny Kemble yes terday concluded her series of readings from the plays of Shakspere. The play chosen was the First Part of ICing Henry t/eeFourth 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 7N 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 his intention of completing its inflation with drogen gas, manufactured by himself on the spot, prior to his y 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 STATiox.—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 andssttoeht eimercifully e hot r cnn y , yaann dd deposited sap impressive ephouasei rintleeeds hti sermon aonnvbtdethe was preached on the occasion by the Rev. C. Bowen, the incumbent, from the sth chapter of deeplyd bepoor-boxesycwhichosf e e n l wt consent of g b o ' y of t the mostbt h o i a e t a whotdtae day, churchwardens, , t va amount ing 3bel ibeen to 9/. 2s. 6id., will be applied for the benefit of the widow and orphan of the unfortunate man who lost his life by the melancholy event. EXAMINATION FOR THE MERCHANT SERVIC E. — 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, Charle-4 Leisk Allan Morrison, Liverpool; George. Seaton, Hull; George Gulp, David Brown, Dundee; George Clark Darling, Glasgow; Edwin Jarvis, J. H. H. Hunt, W. BencraftjG. W. Black, W. F. Peppercorne, P. Lowin, 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, H. N. Mackay, D. Gage, J. M. Stephens, C. F. Farquharson, R. Firth, R. Warden, R. Struthers, G. F. Warkmiester, 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 TRADR.—A letter from Wick, of Aug. 15, says, the herring fishing in this district continues light, but pretty regular. Great dependence was plac ed 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 31 to as 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 crans under 1848. The fishing of 1•49 was the heaviest on record. The fishing this year, taking in the whole coast, is considerably under that of any season for the last ten years, except at Lybster, 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 Anatrutber receded to 6s. per cran 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 corres p on dent 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. The total quantity of herrings caught at Wick this season is rather better than 42,000 barrels, of which there have been shipped—coastwise, 14,000; foreign 5,000; total exports, 19,000 barrels. DRINKING BRANDY FOR A WAGER.—Yesterday morning, about live, a young man on the establishment of Mr. Norckef, 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. s s Her Majesty has appointed the Earl of Chichester to be First Church Estates C mmissioner, and John George Shaw Lefevre. Esq., to be Second Church Estates Commis sioner, the former with a salary. NEWTON FLANNEL MARKET.—TheTe was not 8 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 ducti al of improved machinery, and a partial turn-out has occurred,—North Water Chronicle. COLLISION or VESSELS AND SIT 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. Dabota, 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 Thomas, and brouht to Govinck,—Eckenirgh Evening tort, THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 27, 1850. Though in public the King was an incessant and rwher egotistical talker en ordinary topics of no mo ment, yet he Fple 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 cf Louis Philippe of Orleans, 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 ar,d a grave. A stream of great events Las 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 and disgrace of his fall. That, after all, was the work, e.lroost the accident, of an hour; but the annuli of a rtign of nearly 18 years, and the peculiarities of his character and policy,, are imperishable subjects for the medita►ion of the statesman and the historian. Louis Philippe, King of the French, was distinguished among all the mon 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 if intellect, those inordinate passion 9, those imposing vir tues, or those daring crimes which commonly mark the annals of human greatness. But for those perilous gilts 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 forining a correct judgment of this remarkable man it would be equally dangerous to exalt him into a sage and a hero, or to degrade him into a seifish 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 lost 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 his reign. gn 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 entangled in a web of minute contrivances and intrigues which seemed partiallyto 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 feign is accurately written, it will be found to have been conducted and regulated by an astonishing adapts • 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 use 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 for other objects, and 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, wo 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 uneertsin years, his vigorons mind was not inactive. He alone of all the Priuces of the House of Bourbon had spent his life in a contest of policy with the principles of the French Revo lution. He alone 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 ratbcr than condescend to humour the popular passions, which twice in his life uncrowned his nearest rent- tines, 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. " Ma forte tenace centre 1' anarchic" (to use his own expres emu) became the settled purpose of his reign. The dazzlieg 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 effectually that not only bad the Court and the Ministry the firmest reliance upon their success, but even the Republican party bad postponed the execution of its designs until the King's demise. The Revolution of February was alike untorseen by all parties, and this confidence was undoubtedly the cause of the extraordinary neglect of 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 h e t oo k a part, in the actions of Jemmapes and Vainly, 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 sing displayed no ordinary share. lie had braved without a trace of hesitation dangers in comparison with which the heat of battle is a game. For many years of his reign the attempts at al, biination were so frequently repeated in every imaginable form that a man of a less hearty courage could hardly have left his palace gates with i n diff erence. Yet hiscom posure- posure was scarcely ruffled by these hateful crimes, and without either fatalism or religious enthusiasm he hiss 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 12,000 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 be fled from the revolu tion, leaving everything in the dust. There certainly the high spirit of the House of Bourbon, utterly failed 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 e.f the country. In the interior of the closet and the palace he showed 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 thefieur delis and of the riband of the Holy Ghost. Nothiug could exceed the minute detail in which every incident of every subject, pair, 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 persons 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 he 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; hi s love of the arts was profusely cultivated, but it wanted the delicacy of a refined taste and a chastened judgment, and all the activity 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 bas 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 he could. His immediate' predecessor had perished in an attenett to revive the principle of the French Monarchy as of old, end the principle of the French Republic was apparently lulled to sleep. All that could be done was to borrow as much as could bo borrowed with impunity from the one and the other. Perhaps from wisdom, perhaps from necessity, per. haps from personal pride, Louis Philippe contributed nothing to the regular establishment 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 craft of kings that the world had beheld fur muro than s oeptury, mid he wieptecl the Whence of Royalty, aided by his own personal dexterity, to the manners of a captious and democratic age. In all par ties, in all professions, in every walk of life, and every mood of passion, the King loved to practise his powers of a Idreis. Few men within his sphere wire inacces sible to his persuasive ingenuity, and it may be said that he disarmed more enemies by his tongue than he would hare done by the rigour ef persecution. For this pur pose 0 - e hospitality of the Tuileries was indiscrimi nately offered to men of all parties, and the King consi dered no affront unpardonable but that of a total 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 wore 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 whtn all his other acts are forgotten that from the commencement to the end of his reign no Wood was shed but that of convictfAl as3at;sin3, and of some few deluded insurgents in she heat of popular contests. From all such st dn. the gov, rnment of Louis Philippe is pure; and an excessive reluctance to occasion the effusion of blood was °Lc cause of his overthrow and ruin. And if he r, nounced the use of these dreadful means c.f civil re pres,ion, so also did he successfully oppose and avert the perils of Euroucan war. We have seen that his whole vlicy was repugnant to the violent measures and the _ . naz trdous adventures of more enterprising minds; but it is not thy less creditable to his name that he should have perseviacd through good and evil report in the that wed ast adherence to the cause of peace which has prolonged a million of human lives, averted incalculable miteries, and strengthened the confidence of nations iu 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. lie 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 big 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 consequence 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 oould 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 be have trans ferred it to any other bands. 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. He owed it to his playful disposition, which eve n at the close of his life could ley aside his cares and dignity to join iu 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 to inhabit the same palace and to form a part of the same 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 affection, seemed to plead against the imperfections of his character, while the clear judgment and decision of Madame Adelaide hold as it were a lamp to his path. It is remarkable that the death of his sister war 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 bad no other claim; and however men may have doubted the sincerity of his words, theta is no reason to question the truth of those affections. In the more ordinary transactions of life he has been accused of an excessive love of money, and it is true that he judged of the value of human actions and principles by too sordid a standard. But he ex pended 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 his average personal ex pauses did not exceed 4001. a year. Of all his personal tastes, that of building was perhaps the strongest, and the restoration of the Palace and Museum of Versailles at his own cost, the embe:lishment of Paris, and the re storation f the antiquities of France are esplendid mon uments of his reign. Although the administration of the public finances was inordinately profuse, immense sums were expended in public edifices of every kind, which remain for the ornament and utility of the country. In Paris along Louis Philippe terminated all the great build:riga a Bich Napoleon had begun. He inherited from the Regent Orleans a love of sc:enee -lad even a twee fit medicine ; and he had acquired in his travels a fondness, not common in a French Prince, for marine amusements. But the cust , iintary entertainments t f a Court, the chase, military exercises, and play were comparatively unknown in his day, and they were sacrificed to the exi• gencios of public opinion in a democratic com munity, ever j• atom' of the pleasures of Princes. Per- haps in these minute details the character of the man may be traced even more consistently than in his political actions. He rose without moral greatness, he reigned without the affection of his people, and he fell without the compassion of the world. The last hours of his reign were a prey to an utidignifi. d panic; his determina tions fluctuated bet 'seen the extremes of weakness and absurdity, and in his selfish eagerness to preserve the unhonoured fragment ot a life which no one seriously menace', he recoiled from the necessary exercise of force, and left the French nation exposed to all the horrors of anerchy. That great event dissipated in an hour the whole fabric of his life, and left him despoiled of all that 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 of the future, abandoned by the creatures of his former bounty, and vanquished by the revolutionary powers of France which nu living Man has yet permanently subdued. POST.—It is impossible to contemplate without sen 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, must have frequently fur nished food for reflection in the lung leisure hours at Claremont. True it is that the transition of our ideas, from the youth of the Comte d'Artoiv, 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 of Charles X. are of a simple character enough. Trained in the school of those pleasure-seekers of the old regime with whose society 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 greatest fondness, never altogether appreciate the altered influences with which be had to deal. It is the ordinary ` sto' misfortune, perh aps, of those who are act i ve l y engage d in a ' restoration" that lift the existence of the residuum which is the retiring of the e r l e e : meat s o f disorder; that, id watching volutionary d eluge, they lose sight of the new strata f i ‘ og by the ebb which it h as upheaved. Such, however, was by no means the c ase w i th Louis Phillipe. His training bad been, in th e first instance, somewhat different from that of his r o y a l ceusin; 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, have dezzled his eyes to the same extent as those of the other branch of hie family. But whether it is to be at trihuted t o t h e force of circumstances, or to his own na tural sagacity, cert ain it is that no man appears to ha better und erstood the elements with which he had to deal than Louis Philippe . To none could the task have that system gued than to him, of re-constructing of French society which had collapsed in 1830; that is, assuming that the task was to be per formed tinder the game conditions which were imposed at teat epoch. If politieal finesse could have secured the origin of a dynasty, Louis Phillipe would have been the man to effect it. If a hard, cold, persevering ramification of intrigue and chicane could have struck the roots 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 art seemed to have placed such a bcnd in the hands of Louis Philippe. But it was not to be. After teve nteen years, y th e discevery became palpable that monarchy in ran" must represent a p r in c ipl e , and nut merely a fact. The first glimmer ot that discovery extinguished tah, d the Throne of t h e B arricades. The Orb ans dynasty shut off 48 regal c o il ami d st t h e l aug h ter o t a ll E urope . With out strikin g a b low, without saying a word, i t sur rendered th e most complicated and artificial system of government that was perhaps ever devised, to the most clumsy and purposeless revolution tbat ever was at tempted. As we involuntarily contrast the career of Louis Philippe with that ef his predecessor, so it is not less curious to w atch it in relation to that of his successor. But a f ew years back, the prisoner of Ham lingered be hind th e 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 91 HAM carters ia triuropka u t progress frssa tQW to LOUIS PHILIPPE His Majesty King Louis Philippe died yesterday morning, the 26th of August, at Claremont. The King had been made aware of his approaching 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 resigner 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 expired at eight o'clock yesterday morning, in the presence of the Queen and the following members of his family :—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 Duchesi 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 Marie, 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 be 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 Geniis, 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 ineute 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 Dumou 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 (Egalite) 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 ho was subject to great privations, frequently journe3 ing on foot, 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 Anierica 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, 1796, 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 t o th e i r p e cuniary cir cumstances, and to the war b etween E ng l a nd an d Spain, this object was not easily accomplished. After many extraordinary adventures, however, they reached England, and 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 means of passing o ver to S pa i n. F rom t h e con to Minorca, he proceeded thith er , ex p ec ti n g to find the v ulsed 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 18th of May, 1807, and was buried in Westminster Abbey. At the invitation of Kin g dthaeugahffteecrti ofon s the of King,the Parnidnceinss Ferdinand of Naples, the Duke of Orleans visited P a l ermo, w h ere h e ga i ne d 1809 9 el t i h a ey Amelia, th w e ere second mar ried. In 1814, intelligence reached Palermo that Na poleon had abdicated the throne, anti 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 reside 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 display 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 life 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 had arisen out of the struggle, and in which Lafitte, Lafayette, and other politicians had taken the lead, turned to wards Louis Philippe. A negotiation with him was opened, and after a few days consideration he acceded to the request, and at noon, on the 31st of July, he went to Paris, and accepted the office which had been assigned to him. On the 2d of August the abdication of Charles X. and of his son, was placed in the hands of the Lieutenant-General; the abdication, however, being in favour of the Duke of Bordeaux. On the 7th the Chamber of Deputies declared the throne vacant, and on the following day the Chamber and offered him e F a hil r i e l Te e reused charter, which he formally accepted in the Chamber of De puties on body t t o e r Louis i s o the 9th. He brought to t he throne ha bits whic h w t h e e l' t c rown ina on terms peculiarly fitted him for active business. Without possessing any brilliant or showy talents, he was a person of great gene ral information ;of a calm and tranquil nature ; of a naturally cold and reserved disposition in affairs of moment ; distinguished alike in great things and in small by prudence and per aeverence. lie was a man of immense labour, taking a pleasure in affairs and in the transaction and dispatch of business. He examined himself all im portant papers connected d with the affairs of state, read the principal journ als, and attended even to the details of his own private fortune, and to the manage- Pent of the affairs of his family and children. town, the applauded ruler of France, while the then King dies in exile at Claremont. There is an instance for Juvenal or Johnson, of the instability of human greatness, the vanity of human wishes! Surely there must be a melancholy moral borne from that death-bed even to the ears of the winner in the game! Liko the legacy of Lady Jane Grey to her cruel cousin on the throne— Haud aliens putea homini vie obtingere possunt: Sorg hodierna mihi, cras ern ills tibi. Such a moral is more than a mere warning borrowed from the general chapter of accidents. Louis Napoleon is now, to all appearance, treading in the same path which Louis Philippe has trodden before him. The same experiments are before him; the same golden rcund beckons him on, though be has not yet committed him self to the perilous task of- achieving it. It he has still that confidence in his " star" which consoled him when his fortunes might have seemed desperate, mid considers himself bound to seek the altitude which common obser vation points at as almost within his grasp, it is difficult 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 be can expect to cluster round a second empire than were at the command of the most astute politician in Europe. DAILY NEWS.—The man, Louis Philippe, expired yesterday at Claremont. The King, Louie Philippe, departed this life some time previous. The latter was a great event; the shuffling oil the mere man's mortal coil is but a small one. His friends, however, may make a huge funeral pile r f his private virtues, which were most exemplary in the narrow circle of his friends and his de pendents. Therein, inched, he kept a kind of preserve of ad the virtu, s. 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 contrary of what he was as a pore de foinille. 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 fur their idol a greater or a blinder mass of adoration than the priests of European politics, who lead and create opinion its 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 gertned in his mind. Of domestic policy, be yond the cajolery or bribery of a 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 end 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 thought to sound the depth, to try the temperature, or anal) se the elements of the lave below. Their sole anxiety was t t stop every aperture, and stick their loix de ristueur in every cranny. By this they merely accelerated the explo sion. And amidst the many phenomena of that catas 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 London 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 fally 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 cf possession and prestige, then he flung off the English crutch on which he 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, nut of course inoperative. But that of France was equally great, if not against the act, at least against him who perpetrated it. And never was the power of re tributive justice shown more signally and awfully than iu 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 dies tated by a sense of justice, not resentment. For the house of Orleans and its head 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 bt en irreproachable. It has been dignified, resigned, betra}ieg no captious humour, indulging in no recri mination, no vain boasts, no restless attempts or idle in trigues. The King just deceased was even supposed to recommend a postpoie meet of the claims of the Orleans to that of the legitimist heir. The Duchess of Orleans would, however, rover consent to tuch a compromise; and the decease of Louis Philippe is likely to have the e ffect (.1 communicating more life and activity to the Orleans party. _ DOCK COMPANY IMPROYEMENT:I.—WO hear it it intended by the Dock Company to construct a new railway the entire length of the three ducks. '!he railway is to com 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-fashioned tram-roads now running by the side of the docks are to be removed. This will be a very great improvement, and wilt tend very much to reduce, if not entirely to remove, the charges for " truckage' on goods :hipped 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 Company 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.—Hull 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 been spending the afternoon, when, eff the Houses of Parliament, a Mr 3. Shadbrook, residing in Queen's Head passage, 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. SOT ER'S MAGIC STOVE.—La Patrie tells a story of a dispute between an English traveller and a douanier respecting the admissibility of M. Soyer'a 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 spectators. The douanier was not proof against this demonstration, and the stove was allowed to pass. POOLE, AUG. 26.—The embezzlement of the late actuary of the Poole Savings Bank, Joseph Barter Bloom field, deceased, is supposed by some to extend to 5,0001. or 6,000/. Mr. Tuld 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. MR. ANDERSON, M.P. FOR ORKNEY' AND SHET LAND, •ND Ms CONSTITUENTS. —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 r üblic 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 representation to make in reterence 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 Otter, of her Majesty's ship Comet, had been directed to make a report upon Scrabster pier, and the practicability of stationing a steamer there for carrying the Orkney mails, be (Mr. Anderson) proceeded to Thurso on his way north, and had then met Captain Otter, had had a couference with him on the subject; and had ascertained that this officer had reported most favourably for the object in 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 Hon. Member was unanimously adopted, and he on the fol lowing day departed for Kirkwall in furtherance of his mission. BIRTIIDAY OF THE PRINCE CONSORT .—WINDSOR, DloNpar.—This being the anniversary of the birth of the Prince Consort, when his Royal Highness enters upon his 32d year, the bells have been rung and salutes tired as usual. A public dicer to celebrate the auspicious event took place in the afternoon, at the Castle Hotel ( William Hanson, Esq., the mayor, in the chair), which was attended by a numerous party, consisting of the principal inhabitants of the town and neighbourhood. In the evening the houses of malty of the tradesmen of his Royal Highness were brilliantly. THE SUBMARINE TELECRAPIL—The wires for this important work are now in readiness, and are safely on board the steam-ship Goliath, now lying in Dover harbour.- Oa the drum on which the wire is to be laid there is already a considerable quantity coiled; and on the deck there is an ample reserve to be used when wanted. It is 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 Leightiourbood of LlatloUtgory k lforth Wales Gazette.