The Sun. — London, England, 1853-08-05 00:00:00

NAVAL REVIEW AT SPIT HEAD. LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY. The Review has now been fixed to take place on Thursday next, the 11th inst. Special Excursion Trains will run from Wrloo Station on the meriting of that day, at hours to be afteaterwaAs advertised, in ord er to reach Gosport, Portsmouth, and Southamp ton in time for the Review. GRAND _ By order, ARCIID. SCOTT, Traffic Manager. Waterloo Stat!on, sth August, 1853. 'THE " LEADER " NEWSPAPER of TO MORROW (SATURDAY), August 6, will contain, among other articles, America versus Russia Lord Clarendon's Demand for Explanations—Mr. Cobden on the Rangoon—Chobham and Spit head —The House of Noble Poverty —The Danish Lykes against the Russian Flood—Curiosilies of " Justice "—Criminal Record—The Vort Beck Vcrtlict—Amercan Consuls Instructions to them— be Church in the Colonies an d at Home—Hendell Phidips's Reply to the Letters of lon on the Anti -slavery Leaders —Parliament sketched on the spot, by " The Stranger" —Paris COTretpcndence —Literature, &c., and all the Horne and Foreig ens of the Week. No. 176. Price 6d. Office, Wellin. ton-stree n t, Srand. Money orders should be made payable to Mr. Alfred E. Galloway. PATENT SMOKELESS FURNACES. " Iron Work., Bui ton- n-Trent, Aug. 3. 1853. st r ,—We are very much pleased with the action of 5 our Patent Smokeiess Furnace' on these premises, both as regards its preven tion of smoke and its c nomy. We are now wisp ing the inven tion to other furnaces in Burton, where we teul contidest it will he extensively used. We beg to congratulate you on the simplicity and effectiveness of y oar plan. And we are, Sir, your most obe dient servants, " THORNEWILL and WARILiIf, Engineers. " Mr. John Lee Stevens." This invention is now in course of application at Billinzsgate. market, for the city of London Corporation, and to the boilers of powder and paper mill., breweries, distilleries, water works, &c., and generally to land and mirine engines of every description. In form aloft res . c.ect.ng licenses to manufacture or use the PATENT SMOKELESS FURNACES is given by Mr. JOHN LEE STEVENS, the Patentee, at the offices, 63, King Willi4m-street, City, London, where drawings and further testimonials, &c., may be seen, and references obtained to several highly respectable firms in London and elsewhere, upon whose premises the Patent Smokeless Furnaces are in daily operation. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under t h e Management of Mr. Charles Ream TIIIS EVENING, AUGUST 5, Will be performed THE DAY AFTER THE WEDDING. Sup ported by Mr. and Mrs. W. Lacy. After which, Lord Byron's Tragedy of SARDANAPALUS. Principal characters by Mr. and Mrs. C. Kean. To be followed by CHESTERFIELD THINTSKIN. Characters by Messrs. Harley, Meadows, Addison, and Miss Vivash. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI. Proprietor, Mr. B.: Webster —Directress, Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, AOouST 5, Will be performed GENE VIEVE. Characters by Messrs. Parselie, Cullenford, Woolgar, Leigh Murray, Hastings, A. Wigan, Paul Bedford, Keeley, O. smith, Miss Woolgar and Mrs. Keeley. and C. J. Smit h ; After which, will be presented S A.R.DANAPAL ITS. To be followed by THE CAMP AT CIIODIIAM. To conclude with JOHN JONES. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Farren. Great success of the New Drama. THIS EVENING, Atm= 5, Will be performed the New Drama entitled T FIE TIMES. Charm tars by Messrs. Farren, T.' Mead, H. II arston, William Farren, G. Cooke, and Shalders; Mesdames Anderton and Bartlett. After which, an entirily New Burlesque, by Fran..is Talfourd, Esq., entitled SHYLOC.K, or, THE Mr RCLIANT OF " VENICE PRESERVED. Shylock. Mr. F. Robson. To conclude with THE WANDERING MINSTREL. Jem Bags, yr. F. Robson. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Sole Lesee and Manager, Mr. W. Co eke. MOST PARTILL' Alt N., , TECE.--No; withstan.lin: the eontinucd succett4 attending - the trrand 41111:try , pectace of the Battle of Waterloo, which .c".n only be witn , ss,,d at this Nati .nal Estab lishment, %Jr. W. Cooke ii determi'.ed to present his patrons with an uninterrupted chanter novelty, and begs to announce in i'reulr lion a Splendid Spectacle on a Chesical Subiect never attempted, and will be produced'on scale of splehdour hitherto unprecedented. .N.B.—Tho4e who have not yet seen this glorio , ts Dramatic Spec tacle are requested to make an early application tor places. MAGNIFICENT S:::ENES IN THE CIRCLE. THIS EVENING, AUGUST 5, And during the week, the Performances will commence with VIE BATTLE OF WATERLOO. To be followed by 11r. W. Cooke's matchless Scenes in the CIRCLU, introducing Mr. Alfred Cooke (the Premier Horseman) on Four Fiery Coursers. Concluding every evening with (75th tine) THE CHASE ; or, LIFE ON THE TURF, with a real Fox Cha,e. Doors open at Half-past Six. Lox-office open daily from Eleven to Four. Stage Manager, atr. W. s est. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. Engagement of Mr. J. W. SHARP, the celebrated Comic VocallEt. THIS EVENING, ACCOST 5, PANORAMIC VIEW of CHUSAN, Promenading Elephants, Splendid MKNAGERLE. Voeal and Instrumental •nocert. Two Songs by Mr. W. Sharp, viz., Comic Scena, " Uncle Tom's Cabin," and" Jokes for 1853." Various amusing novelties, concluding with the wonderful exhibittin of THE FEAT OF LANTERNS, brilliant display of Finn:WORKS, and EXPLOSION of CHINESE FIRE SHIPS. Admission Is. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tat , DAT —Morning 10 min. after 2 I Evening 31 min.aft. 2 To•Moartow —Morning 50 min. after 2 Evening 7 min.aft. 3 THE WEATHER.—SuN OPFICB, AUGUST 5. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 72—highest since noon yesterday. 56—lowest this morning and during the night. 71—this day at noon. BAROMETER, 30'23—rising rapidly. WIND, N.E.—Light breeze, and fine, sunshiny weather. TT) LONDON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 1853. Another, and, this time, crushing blow, has recently been administered to the odious policy hitherto pursued by us towards our fellow-sub jects in Hindostan. Another shock has been given to the colossal and dilapidated system known as that of the Double Government—a system that has passed more crushingly over the necks of the unfortunate Asiatics than ever could have done the terrible and detested car of the demon Jug gernaut. Dismay must consequently have been excited once more among the Leadenhall-street potentates. Anxiety must have been renewed among the clerkly sages constituting the Board of Control. Discomfort must have re-awakened in the bosom of its august President, notwithstand: ing that delectable soporific to none more welcome -than to the Right Hon. Sir CHARLES Woon—the pleasant anticipation - of an official salary increased by one or two thousand pounds per annum addi tional. Allusion is here made, we need scarcely observe, to the remarkable pamphlet informing the public precisely and categorically how it is wars are, from time to time, as occasion may render desirable, got up in India for the Purposes of predatory spoliation. The notorious Burmese war is adopted in this pamphlet* as about the aptest possible illustration : and this because it constitutes nob merely the latest, but, all things considered, about the most rascally example that could well be selected from among all those nume rous expedition s by which we have attempted, during the last century, at the expense of more than one oriental sovereign, to satisfy our insa tiable greed of power, and our lust of territorial aggrandisement. The Pamphleteer who has thus o pportunely drag ge d to light the contents of the Burmetießlueßooks,stringm' g together in one lucid narrative the facts which must otherwise for the most paart, have remained hidde n in that vol ' uniinous mass of quibble and prevarication—is no other than that same shrewd observer who, a short ti me since, contrasted 1789 and 1853 to the e • hagrin of those who would fain deliver up France provisionall y or in perpetuity into the hands of the revolution_ fists, :Had not t he name of RI CHARD CUE D: b ee n inscribed upon the title-page of this ne w b roc hure about the Burmese, we question v ery much if one intelligent reader in the 'Unit e d Ki ng dom could have falld to recognise in it s contents the unaffected earnestness, or the un more than the " unadorned sparing logic, any eloquence of the Hon. Member - for the West Riding of Yorkshire. As here narrated with p itil es s precision, the facts of the case "tell" i n a manner the most damnatory against all those individuals who we re implicated in the origin of the war with the unoffending Burmese Sovereign. Aga in st Commodore LAMBERT — especially and peculiarly ag ainst Commodore LAMBERT —as the Marplot of the whole of the preliminary negotiations ! Against Com mander FISHBOURNE, who may be said to have blown: the smouldering embers of the first, and at that time almost extinguished, quarrel into a blaze with the fuming and blustering of his unfortunate deputation I Against Lord DALHOUSIE, as that phenomenon amo ng the Governor-Generals of Hin dostan, a ruler who not only countenances the flagrant violation of orders by a subordinate, but goes so far out of his way as t o those glaring d ere li c ti ons pronounce upon of duty the warmest phrases of uncalled-f or an d reiterat ed panegyric. Colonel BOGLE is the only English involved in these untoward and m o st lamentable tra nsact ions A y of whom . COBDEN has f oun d i t i n his conscience to s p ea k in terms of comm en d a ti on. himself asserts distinctly (I). 44), that " the lye' b tter e s of - this officer are almost the only part of the correspondence which an Englishman ought to " How Wars are got up in India : the Origin of the Burnae: - .0 War." By Richard CohleD, Esq., M.P. Bvo. pp. 68. London Cash, 1853. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING% AUGUST 5, 1 8 53. pletely change the constitution of one, and not the least important, of its branches ? The divided responsibility—the independent Boards were either useful or the reverse. If the former, its efficiency should not be im paired by the introduction of nominees, which would prove destructive of its indepen dence If the latter, why should we endeavour to tinker up that which was radicall y wrong, to continue a body utterly useless for any good pur pose, and potent only for evil ? In whichever point of view we regard the question, we the more clearly perceive unanswerable objections to the Bill now before the House of Lords, which, to use the vulgar but expressive phrase, is " neither fish, flesh, nor good red herring ;" which neither preserves in its integrity, nor altogether gets rid of the influence of the Court of Pro prietors, and which must, therefore, be impo litic and injudicious, whether that influence be beneficial or the reverse. Let us hope, then, that the Upper House may interpose its authority to prevent permanent legislation, until sufficient information has been acquired, and, by limiting the duration of the measure to one or two years, insure that full and ample discussion in Parlia ment which is essential to the solution of the im portant problem, " What is the form of govern ment best calculated to promote the welfare and happiness of our Hindoo fellow-subjects." Should the Peers of England do this, they will receive the 'thanks and gratitude of the natives of India, as well as of England, and the various Presidencies will re-echo the cry gone forth from the United Kingdom, and resounding through the eastern and western dominions of Queen VICTORIA —" Thank Gon, we have a House of Lords." MONEY MARKET AND CITY INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWO O'CLOCK. The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were esti mated at 6,000 bales, of which 1,200 American, 300 Bahia, and 500 Surat were taken for export The market closed heavily. The sales comprised 4,000 American, 120 Pernam and Maranham at 60. to Bd., 800 Egyp tian chiefly at 64d., 1,000 Surat at 31d. to 51d., and 20 Sea Island at 2s. 3d. to 2s. 6d. per lb. Railway Shares were dull. Produce has this week been taken to a moderate ex tent in Mincing-lane, and prices up to within the last two days were firm, since which there has been a down ward tendency. Importers sell less freely, and foreign buyers do not take so much. Coffee, sugar, and tea arc consequently at rather lower prices. Rice has been maintained, rum has been in demand, and saltpetre dearer. Dry goods have been less wanted, although lower terms are not accepted. Tallow has been higher by about 6d. per cwt., and in cotton not much has been done. Jute has advanced in price, and in coir goods and hemp there is more activity. The bills which fell due yesterday (the 4th) to such a large amount were extremely well taken up, and money is a little easier this morning. Silver is still in demand. Mexican dollars have been sold at 59-Ad., being Ad. advance. The English Stock market has been heavy with less dealing. The foreign intelligence is still unsatisfactory, but it is from St. Petersburgh that definitive accounts are now looked for. A statement in the second edition of a morning contemporary about the Russian fleet in the Baltic being called out, is merely a repetition of what was received here a week or ten days since. Consols have been 97/ to 971 for Transfer, and 971 g for account. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents, have been at 1001 to 1001, and the Three per Cents. at 98 to Bank Stock is steady at 2281. Ex chequer Bills have been 3s. dis, to par. East India Stock is firm at 258. Foreign Securities have been extrem e ly quiet, with the exception of Russian, which are deservedly lower in anticipation of the Treasury at St. Petersburgh becoming drained and forced contributions being resorted to, with a loan in perspective, even should peace be restored. No prudens person, unless of such large resources as to ren der it a matter of perfect indifference, should, under any circumstances, whether pea , :e or war be the order of the day, hold Russian Stock at the present high prices. Russian 5 per Cents, have been at 117 to 1, and the 41 per Cents. at 994 to 1001. The Spanish Com mittee's Certificate is at 61 to 64. Mexican Bonds have 257 to 26. Brazilian Small Stock is 1011. Dutch 4 per Cents. have been quoted at 97 to 977. The Gold Mine Shares have been flat. The Shares of the Land:Companies are a shade firmer. The Banks continue depressed. The following is from the monthly report of Messrs. Lamond and Co.:— " The Railway Share Market has maintained a very firm appearance. Although the amount of business transactel has not been large, it has been sufficient to support quotations, while the better descriptions have showed an improving tendency. In this respect prices have exhibited a contrast with those of English Stocks, which have been weaker towards the close of the month, and are still declining. There is, invari ably, less activity in the railway market a few weeks prior to the half-yearly meetings, now on the eve of commencing, and, until the results of dividends shall have been ascertained, no essential alteration is likely to take place. French and Belgian shares have recovered a shade, compared with June ; and, should peace be assured on the Continent, we may expect an advance in the low-priced descriptions. It has at last been arranged that the Upper Indian Line shall amalgamate with the East Indian Rail way, but it has not yet been clearly defined in what proportion their shares shall rank with the existing stock of the latter company. The meeting of the Brighton Company, at which a dividend of 1/. 16s. per cent. has been declared, is viewed as satisfactory in its general features, and the reports which are circulated with respect to other undertakings lead to the belief that, notwithstanding increased expenditure on account of the rise in the prices of materials and labour, the rates of distribution proposed will meet the expecta tions of the great railway proprietary body. The traffic, considering the unseasonableness of the weather, the damage by the floods, and other countervailing causes, is progressing remarkably well, and indicates that the value of the principal shares will be supported at their principal quotations, if they do not further improve. The calls for August amount to only 253,1311., against 665,404/. in the corresponding period of last year ; but the total during the first eight months of 1853 have reached 7,083,6521. against 5,129,4371. in the same period of 1852." From Liverpool we have the following report on the fruit trade by Messrs. Houghton and Levy : "CURRANTS.—Since our last circular, of the 6th ult., our market has been comparatively quiet, arising in a great measure from the usual contracted demand at this season of the year, and the want of stock of those de- scriptions on which the consumption for some time past has run. The dealers are still bare, but reluctant to operate at the prices demanded by the importers. A parcel of new fruit, per British Queen, of about 1,000 packages, has in part been freely taken, at rates fully in advance of our last quotations. The inquiry for good old fruit still exists, but the stock is reduced to the hands of only a few holders, who are not disposed to realise except at considerably advanced rates. This result is only what we anticipated some time back, and has con firmed our expectations that the consumption would be obliged to fall upon new and inferior fruit. The latest advices, dated 27th ult., ratify the telegraphic dispatch, received on that day, that the excessive heat had entirely destroyed all the grapes attacked by the blight, and the result of this year's crop will be considerably worse than that of last. Taking into consideration this prospect, the diminished stocks in this country, and the comparative bareness of the continent, that although the market at present is in some measure deadened by the above named causes, and the late arrivals of some extent, (consisting principally of descriptions that will not keep), it is only consistent that an opinion should prevail that sound keeping fruit will yet experience a further enhancement in value before the autumn is over. The arrivals consist of 203 butts, 200 carroteels, and 1,609 casks and barrels ; the clearances of about 230 tons ; and the exports of 60 tons. " RAISINS.—There has been a good business doing in all descriptions, at advanced rates. The clearances for home consumption and export have, for the time of the year, been unusually large, and are proceeding at the rate of 80 tons to 90 tons per week, nearly double that of last year. The stocks are in consequence materially diminished, and there is every prospect of this market being perfectly clear by the time new fruit arrives. Black Smyrna—ln consequence of the high price of currants this description is getting into demand, and this article, which, at the early part of the season, was much neglected, has all been cleared off the market at consi derably advanced rates, and some large parcels have been bought on speculation, to arrive. The last advices of Smyrna Raisins, of the 27th ultimo, speak of the crop being but small, at least of good fruit, as it is calculated that about one-third is affected with the blight. The intelligence of the Spanish vines, although generally better, is of the same tenor." BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY. ( From the Official List.) Businees done. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities ..... 94 8 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities . . .. 97i 3 i i New 31 per Cent. Annuities lOOl II il a Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860 India Stock Consols for Account 11th August 97i I h Exchequer Bills, ld. £IOOO 2400 par 3 d 1 d Small par 3 d 1 d LATEST FOREIGN NEWS. FRANCE. The Pdys professes still to be confident of a pacific solution of the Eastern question. What is certain is, that the new complication cansed by the proceedings of Russia towards the Hospodar of Moldavia, however in excusable it may be, will not prove an obstacle to the arrangement of the Eastern question, if the Emperor of Russia will accept the condition of the evacuation of the Principalities. The effect of this complication would cease with the cause. The Conefitutionnel observes that the question is now brought to a point which must soon have a solution, and recommends a few days' patience. We join in the recommendation. The Assembles Nationale persists in predicting the maintenance of peace. It considers the order given to the Hospodar of Moldavia by the Russians the most natural thing in the world; not indeed strictly equitable, but arising out of the exercise of force. The Assemblee seems to be astonished that so very simple and natural an incident as this should be made the ground of objection and remon strance. The Siècle continues to demand energy on the part of the British and French Governments, and re commends that a fleet should be sent to counteract the designs which it imputes to the Emperor of Russia as regards Denmark. The Government is occupied with a decree, which is about to be published, relative to the regulation of all matters concerning the frontiers of the Empire, and to the attributions of what is called the Mixed Commission. This last-named body is to examine every thing that may have reference either to the frontiers or to the ground required to be left unoccupied round fortified places. It will have to conciliate the interests of the various ser vices in such a manner as that the defence of the country shall not suffer. The President and the members of this body are to be named by the Emperor on the pre sentation of the ministers concerned ; and they are to have full power to consult for the matters which come be fore them, the committee of fortifications, that of artillery, the council-general of the pones-et-chaussees, the council of admiralty, and the council of works of the navy. General de Fitte de Soucy, Inspector-General of the corps of marines, has just returned to Paris from Gua deloupe, after having completed his tour of inspection. M. Dugud, Prefect of the Aude, has been appointed Prefect of the Manche, in the room of M. Paulze d'lvoy, who has been appointed to the Aude. Queen Christina is expected at Havre on Saturday next. Her Majesty has taken apartments at the Fras cati Hotel for the bathing season. Countess Orloff, wife of the Minister of Police at St. Petersburgh, arrived at Rouen on Wednesday with her suite and carriages, on her way from Dieppe to Paris. The Prince of Wurtemburg and the Princess Olga of Russia, his wife, arrived at Antwerp on Tuesday. The Moniteur Algerien of the 30th publishes a gene ral order, appointing General P4lissier, commanding the province of Oran, to take the government of the colony during the absence of the Governor-General, who comes to France on leave of absence. The ad interim com mand of the province of Oran is confided to General de Luzy de Pelissac on Wednesday. The unfavourable reaction reported in the Public Se curities continued yesterday, and Rentes have experi enced a heavy fall. The last prices were—for cash : Three per Cents., 77f. 45c. ; Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 102 f. 40c. ,For the account : Three per Cents., 77f. 55c. ; Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 102 f. 30c. ; Bank Stock, 2,800 f. Credit Foncier shares have at length given way 20f., and Credit Mobilier have also fallen 20f. They closed, Credit Foncier at 720 f., and Credit Mobilier, 790 f. 50c. The depression in the railway market is even greater yesterday than it was on Wednesday, and in some linesithe amount of depreciation is large. The fol lowing are the last quoted prices :—Northerns, 845 f. 25c.; Paris and ,Orleans, 1,137 f. 25c. ; Paris and Strasbourg, 907 f. 50c., ; Paris and Lyons, 907 f. 50c. ; Paris and Rouen, 1,065 f. 50c. ; Lyons to the Mediterranean, 740 f.; Western of France, 758 f. ; Rouen and Havre, 490 f. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 615 f. 50c. TURKEY AND RUSSIA. A privalte telegraphic dispatch, from Vienna, brings the following, dated Constantinople, the 25th ult.:— " The Ministers of the Porte held a council to - day , and afterivards sent off a courier to Vienna. The public mind is;more calm, but the preparations for defence continue., A portion of the Imperial Guard has left for Shumla." The last direct news from Constantinople is given by the Ost. Deutsche Post, in a letter of the 21st ult.. The writer professes to have positive information that Prince Gortschakoff has sequestered the tribute pay able by the Principalities to the Porte, and pro hibited all official intercourse between the provincial Governments and the Suzerain. Another version of the first part of this has, however, reached us. Reschid Pasha demanded the tribute due, whereupon the Hos podars replied to Omer Pasha, that there were already above BQ,OOO Russians in the Principalities, and the outlay was so great that years must elapse before they could again resume the payment of their tribute. There was a report in Constantinople on the 21st that the Emperor Nicholas had proclaimed the independence of Moldavia and Wallachia under Stirbey, but others are of opinion that the Turkish Government is more likely to do 89. Probably neither of these reports deserve attention. There is a very prevalent rumour, that a powerful Ritssian army, which will be under the com mand of Prince Paskiewitz, is assembling on the fron tiers of Armenia in the direction of Erzeroum, but there the Russians are not very likely to win laurels, as the Asiatic provinces of Turkey are not its vulnerable point. On the 18th and 19th all the Ulemahs and high dignita ries of the State were called together, and it was made known to them in the name of the Sultan, that as they did not share in the actual defence of the Empire it was but reasonable that they should contribute to the ex- penses. These indications of the general tendency of affairs in the Principalities have received a startling corroboration by the receipt at Constantinople of a dispatch from the Prince of IVloldavia on the 16th ult. It is addressed to his Kapou•kaia, or Charge d'Affaires, at the Porte, and an nounce to him that aßussian occupation having taken place his functions as Chargé d'Affaires are at an end. Prince Vogorides, the Chargé d'Affaires in question, represents this act as a declaration of independence, and his view is adopted by those who, though influential, may per haps not be thoroughly conversant with the bearings of the case. Prince Vogorides has a son•in-law, for whom he has been actively intriguing for some time, with a view of putting him in Prince Ghika's place as Hospo dar of Moldavia. His intrigues even reached the extent a few months ago, when Prince Ghika was suffering from severe illness, of inducing the Porte to sanction a medical commission de lunatico inquirendo. The Egyptian fleet is on its way from Alexandria, which it left on the 15th inst., and consists of two line of battle ships, four frigates, two corvettes, one brig, and two steamers, 40 transports, with 25,000 troops. The whole under the command of Kel Selim Pasha. A letter from Constantinople of the 21st ult. states that the news of the assembling of a corps of Russian troops in the neighbourhood of Erzeroum was fully confirmed, and that that city would be invested by the Russians in the first fortnight of August. The Patric has the following from Jassy, 20th ult. : " Information has just been received from St. Peters burgh, that the Russian Government, while leaving to the reigning princes of Moldavia and Wallachia their title and their nominal power, has decided that there shall be joined to them a council of government composed of three members appointed by the Czar. All affairs are to be submitted to this council, whose decisions will be sovereign. Independently of this fact, the country has just been subjected to a contribution in kind. Se veral young Boynrds having manifested their discontent. at the exactions committed by the troops who occupy the country, were immediately incorporated in the Rus sian army, where they will be compelled to serve for three years. Engineers have been for several days past taking a plan of the towns of Jassy and Bucharest, which are, it is said, to be fortified in such a manner as to be able to support the operations of the Russian army." A letter from Riffa states that several Russian ships, which formed part of the 2d Russian fleet, have been sent to Cronstadt to complete their fitting out, which was not finished when they sailed. The latest news we have from St. Petersburg comes up to the 26th ult. ; a letter of that date maintains that the Emperor would be very unwilling to receive an Am bassador from the Porte, unless he brought with him the Russian ultimatum signed ; that the English and French proposals had been set aside because they seemed to proceed from a misunderstanding which the circular dispatches of Count Nesselrode were in tended to remove ; that the task of Austria was the re moval of all the Porte's mistrust of Russia's pretensions; that even any note in disclaimer on the part of Russia would he a matter of difficulty, as the Emperor had al ready expressed himself on that point. The feeling was still that negotiations must necessarily be carried on for a very long time, until the Porte can be brought to give way. Nothing had as yet had any success in convincing the Petersburg Cabinet that there really were sound reasons why the Porte could not give way. From Cronstadt we hear that the news had been re ceived there of the loss of the Alfred, Capt. Martin, from Newcastle, stranded on the island of Fsel. As a preventive to the cholera, solemn processions were parading the streets of Petersburgb, accompanied by religious services, and with the crucifix carried at the head. Letters of an earlier date (24th ult.) from St. Peters burgh had expressed very distinctly that no proposals would have any chance of acceptance that did not come from Austria ; but when the Cabinet of Vienna has procured the consent of the Porte to the Russian pos tulates, its representations w ill be taken into considera tion. The preliminary activity of the Austrian Cabinet was represented as directed to withholding England and France from any steps that would render war inevitable. A Vienna correspondent of the Kreuz Zeitung states that the Cabinets of Vienna and Peters burg are quite agreed on one point, not to let the influence of England gain a monopoly or even a preponderance in the East ; that this was a matter of vital necessity for Austria, and to attain this Russia and Austria were de termined to unite all their energies. A Jassy correspondent of the Augsbuiy Gazette writes, " Those persons who consider the passage of the Pruth a mere demonstration will soon see their error. The 4th and sth corps d arme - e have now passed the Pruth ; that is, 24 infantry regiments, 12 regiments of Hussars and Cossacks from the Don, making together 110,000 men, with 32 batteries, part of which form a siege train. These forces, as you are already aware, occupy the south of Wallachia, or, to speak more dis tinctly, the left bank of the Danube. Until yesterday we believed that hardly more than 85,000 or 90,000 Rus sians were in the Principalities, but the following esti mate is probably nearer the mark—in the two Principali• ties, between 100,000 and 110,00 men ; in Bessarabia, a reserve of 85,000 men. In addition to the second reserve army near Warsaw, there is to be a third near Tula, to the south of Moscow, which, in case of need, will re inforce the army acting on the Asiatic-Turkish fron tiers. All the preparations announce a campaign of some duration, and the contracts for supplies have been concluded up to next year. If the Danube should be crossed, which in case of war would of course be the very first step, Shumla, would be besieged, but the main army would proceed at once to the line of the Balkan. The Jassy writer animadverts on the way in which the west of Europe indulges in allusions, and laments the irretrievable loss of time ; but these are matters which are too patent to need repetition. Justice is done to the high discipline observed in the Russian army, and the officers themselves, probably in obedience to the orders of their stern commander, are extremely polite to wards the inhabitants. It is evident that anything but harmony prevails between the officers of Russian and German origin. Prince Gortshakoff is said to treat the latter, among whom are some of the most eminent gene rals, with singular coolness, and his conduct to the Mol davian dignitaries, who creep and cringe before him, is not much more engaging. read without blushing." And, upon a careful examination of the documents comprised in these two weighty Blue Books relating to our struggle with the Burmese, it will be found that, in pass ing that eulogium upon the gallant Commissioner in the Tenasserim Provinces, the Representative of the West Riding was, in every respect, justi fied, seeing that Colonel BOGLE was the only English official engaged in these negotiations with the King of AVA and his Government, who evinced any disposition whatever to exert himself in bringing about an amicable settlement, in com pliance with the obvious and avowed wishes both of the Burmese people and of the Burmese Sovereign. At the outset of his argument, indeed at the commencement of the little Preface prefixed to it, Mr. COBDEN, we observe, refers to the appearance of the pamphlet in words rather apo logetic than merely introductory. He excuses himself for having " made an abstract of the lead ing facts of the case for publication," upon the score that circumstances prevented him from bringing the subject directly under the considera tion of the House of Commons, after he had care fully perused the Parliamentary "Papers relating to Hostilities with Burmah," with the design of laying the matter befor e the p o p ular branch of the Legislature. After a perusal of the pamphlet here submitted to ge neral criticism, scarcely any reader, however captious, will object, we opine, to the fact of its appearance at this moment, and under these circumstances, as either unnecessary or inopportune- Nothing indeed was really more desirable, because nothing by possibility could be more appropriate. The statement, in fact, has come to us in the very nick—when attention i s being directed more scrutinisingly than ever, to the evils entailed upon India by the detestable and indefensible system of the double Government. It demonstrates the folly of that system in a man ner the most unanswerable, by laying bare before the British people the real causes of the recent war with the Burmese. It shows how the whole quarrel sprang originally out of certain claims made for compensation, to the amount of 9,948 rupees (" a fraction under a thousand pounds"), for certain injuries said to have been inflicted by the Governor of Rangoon upon one Captain LEWIS, of the Champion, 410 tons, and one Captain SHEPPARD, of the Monarch, 250 tons, both British subjects, and the latter a native of Chittagong. It explains succinctly how the accused Governor was thereupon immediately recalled from Rangoon by the King of Ava, and how assurances multiplied of the amicable disposition towards the English at once on the part of the people and of the Government of Burmah. Yet, evidence is immediately afterwards adduced showing how—simply because on the 6th of January, 1852, a deputation was " kept wait ing for a full quarter of an hour in the sun," within the compound of the Governor's house, at Rangoon—the great yellow ship of the King of AVA was seized in the night time by order of the British Commodore, the coast of Burmah was declared in a state of blockade, the amount of pecuniary compensation demanded was raised from 1,0001., or rather from 9201., to 100,0001., and a struggle was commenced which, says Mr. COBDEN, with just indignation enough (p. 54), can hardly be called a war, the more appropriate term for it being " a rout, a massacre, or a visitation." No wonder, seeing the horrors of that war and the pitiable absurdities in which it originated, no wonder, say we, that, recognising all this, Mr. COBDEN speaks so contemptuously (p. 40) of Lord DALHOUSIE'S famous " Minute" as a document dwelling " with a minuteness quite feminine upon details respecting points of ceremonial, and breaches of etiquette !" No wonder that, upon a calm and dispassionate review of all the circumstances, he should speak further on of that same " Minute" as—(words could not well be plainer)—" an un statesmanlike, immoral, and illogical production." Those who may feel disposed to question the propriety of any such opinions through notions of improbability, and suspicions of extravagance, we ourselves would now earnestly commend first of all to Mr. COBDEN'S pamphlet, and then (for cor roboration of that pamphlet) to the official papers about Burinah, presented in the June of 1852, and in the March of 1853, to both Houses of the British Parliament. " It's an ill wind that blows nobody good," an exceedingly bad measure that is not received with unmitigated approbation in some quarters. Sir CHARLES WOOD'S new India Bill, however, appears to have achieved this infelicitous distinc tion—to be regarded with distrust and appre- hension by every class in any degree interested therein. The voice of public opinion has already proclaimed in unequivocal terms the dislike of the community in general to the legislative experi ment by which the modern Mogul attempts to perpetuate an objectionable system, without con sideration for the wants and wishes of the myriads of human beings whose future wel fare and prosperity were so largely dependent on the result, and which was entered into and passed through one House of Parliament in the absence of adequate information, and without affording any opportunity to the natives of India of substantiating or even preferring their com plaints. The Press generally, throughout the length and breadth of the land, exhibited almost Ln unparalleled unanimity of condemnation. scarcely a single journal of any shade or variety of political opinion, not even the veriest Ministerial hack, applauded the hybrid and ill-considered measure. Even the Directors of the East India Company, who found that the double Govern ment was to be continued for an indefinite period, and that they themselves would be permitted to retain the dispensation of very valu able patronage a favour which they had no right to expect, and that their salaries would be increased under the operation of the measure— not only audibly murmured, but even earnestly protested against some of its provisions. Like the distinguished " waiter on PROVIDENCE" of the olden time, when corruption was even more rife than at present, they " took all they could get, and kept grumbling." It is true, that by their minute submitted to the Court of Proprietors, they declared that they deemed it " inexpedient to offer any further opposition to the proposed measure," but at the same time they reiterated their objections to several of its details, and re gretted that their objections had " not met with the desired success." The Court of Proprietors went even further than the Directors. For once they exhibited a will of their own, and raised the standard of in surrection even in the precincts of Leadenhall street. So distinctly and unequivocally did they exhibit th e i r di sgus t a t the en ti re p ro je c t—so manifest was it that they would refuse even the qualified assent accorded by the Directors—that the resolution by concurring in the views and opi nionsexpressed the Court of Directors in the minute of th e an(l 2 :th July above referred to, was withdrawn, strong p e titi on t o the H ouse o f Lords obj ec ti ng change its praying for many ° many of its details, and it very different, m most important seriousfea alterations which would totally tures, and render u of of Commons. easant and very the H inist er i a l ausp i ces, that which had, under the m indeed, from obtained the sanction of The bill, then, has not th e npl singular fate of pleasing nobody ; may, even we, there fore, earnestly hope that it e l even th hour, be withdrawn, or merelye at the passed ' for a limited period , and not forced upon unwilling r ecipients—that, conceive d in haste, it may not b e repented at leisure by all classes in England as well as in Hindostan. We do not wonder at this general rejection, this universal repudiation of the crude and un digested attempt at legislation. Sir CHARLES WOOD proved, or rather endeavoured t o p rove, too much for his own purpose. one tenth part of the fulsome. panegyrics heaped upon the Anglo-Indian . Government during the weary four hours and a half devoted to the un- , mitigated praise of the existing , sy stem, were Warranted by the facts there was no adeq uate season f or any alteration whatsover .1 If the double Government had indeed exercised such a b ene fi c i al i nfluence on t h e con diti on of the people placed un d er t h e i r charge, why so cora. THE ADVERTISEMENT DUTY. The Bill for the repeal of the duty on advertise ments, last night received the Royal assent, and, as it was to come into operation as soon as it be came law, the public will from this day receive the benefit of the remission. COURT CIRCULAR. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, with the Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred, left Buck ingham Palace at 20 minutes to 10 o'clock yester day morning for the Camp at Chobham. The Royal suite consisted of the Countess of Gainsborough, the Hon. Mary Seymour, the Duke of Wellington, Colonel Bouverie, Captain the Hon. Dudley de Ros, Lieutenant- Colonel Biddulph, and Mr. Gibbs. The Queen and Prince Albert, with the Prince of Wales and Pt ince Alfred, returned to Buckingham Palace soon after 5 o'clock. The Princess Royal and Princess Alice, attended by Miss Hildyard and Colonel Wylde, arrived at the Palace at a quarter before 6 o'clock yesterday afternoon, from Osborne. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and her Impe rial Highness the Crown Princess of Wurtemburg, at tended by Comte de Zeppline and Colonel de Berlich ingen, visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent yesterday afternoon at her residence, Clarence-house, St. James's. A deputation, on the subject of the operation of the Smoke Bill on the distilleries, had an interview with Viscount Palmerston, on Wednesday, at the Home office. The deputation consisted of Messrs. Currie, Smith, 0. Smith, Browning, and James Currie. Sir Henry Barkly and the Right Rev. Bishop Wilson had interviews yesterday with the Duke of Newcastle at the Colonial-office. Dispat'.:hes were sent yesterday from the Colonial office to the Governors of Australia and to the Governor of Van Diemen's Land. THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO IRELAND. —We understand that on the occasion of her Majesty's visit, it is not in tended to confer the honour of baronetcy upon any indi vidual holding civil appointments ; at least it is a very great doubt whether the Ulster badge for the future will be so freely conferred. THE LATE COUNTESS OF MINTO..—We understand that the mortal remains of this lamented lady are now en route from Piedmont to this .country, for interment in the family mausoleum, at Minto Castle, Roxburgh shire. BUCKINGHAM PALACE.—The newly constructed façade of the Palace has been again defaced by scaffolding, for the purpose of having the frontage painted with several coats of paint. It was only a few months since that considerable portions of the carved work had to be re paired. ODEBBA.—The dates from Odessa are to the 25th of July, when the wheat market had again become ex tremely active, large orders from France and Italy having caused an advance of fully 2s. per quarter. In dian corn was also in great request, and the transactions of the past few days had been 80,000 quarters of wheat and nearly 25,000 of Indian corn. NEW ZEALAND.—Papers from Auckland, New Zea land, to the Bth of March have been received. A claim had been preferred by a native for the reward of 1001. offered for the discovery of a coalfield within a reason able distance of the port. The locality was Omaha, near Point Rodney, a short distance from the Island of Ka wan. Of the existence of coal it is stated there was no doubt, the only question was with respect to the quan tity. The last accounts from Wellington mentioned that, notwithstanding the defects of the local adminis tration, the old colonists were making progress, although complaints prevailed of the insufficiency of land to carry out general operations. THE MOVEMENT OF THE CITY POLICE FOR AN ADVANCE OF WAGES.—DEPUTATION TO THE COM3IIS SIONER.—Yesterday afternoon, at three o'clock, a de putation of two men from each division of the City police force waited on Mr. D. W. Harvey, the commis sioner, at the chief office, in the Old Jewry, and on being introduced handed to the commissioner a petition signed by about 400 men, begging that the commis sioner would exercise his influence with the Court of Aldermen in their behalf to grant them an advance of pay. The commissioner said he would readily comply with their request to present the petition to the Court of Aldermen, and he should urge upon the court that in consequence of the great demand for labour, a fit class of persons for the police force could not now be got for the amount at present paid for wages. But if the court would have a smaller amount of men, and pay them a sufficient sum to act efficiently, they would have in the City a better class of men, and the duty would be equally well dis charged. He would put their case before the Court of Aldermen, and from the fact of an increased demand for labour and the high price of provisions, he hoped the court would empower him to pay the men better. The commissioner concluded by stating that he should not support the petition in person before the Court of Alder men. The serjeants also have made a movement for ad vanced wages, and the commissioner has signified his intention to urge the Court of Aldermen to increase their pay from 24d. to 28s. per week, and to impose upon them the extra duties of inspecting lodging-houses every 24 hours, which are discharged in an unsatisfac tory manner under the present system of distinct inspec torships. The abolition of the latter offices will, it is urged, go far to liquidate the increased pay to the ser jeants, who are supported by the police inspectors in their representations to the commissioner. THE STRIKE OF THE LONDON DOCK LABOURERS. — The strike continues, but the company have obtained several hundred labourers from other than their ordinary sources, and the work of the establishment was, there fore, carried on, it is understood, without much serious interruption. EXTENSIVE FIRE IN CLERKENWELL.—Last night shortly before midnight, a fire of a very alarming cha racter, and. attended with a considerable destruction of property, broke out in the premises belonging to Mr. Dominic Caproni, figure-maker and moulder, carry ing on business at 2 , q, Mount Pleasant, near the House of Correction, Clerkenwell. The premises were of considerable extent, and were surrounded by sundry stables, cow-houses, and private build ings, so that at one time it was feared that a space of ground covered with houses to the extent of an acre or so would have been laid waste. The engine of Messrs. Reid, the brewers, several of the London Bri gade, that of the West of England office, and the escapes of the Royal Society, were soon on the spot, and plenty of water having been obtained, the firemen, under the direction of their superior officers, went to work in admirable style ; but in spite of which the fire was not subdued at nearly one o'clock this morning, and not until the premises in wh ich the misfortune com menced were burned out, and serious damage done to a valuable stock of plaster of Pa ris, which it is understood belonged to Mr. Robeson, the manufacturer. It was reported that a man had perished in the flames, but from the survey made by the firemen there is good ground for supposing that the object seen was only a plaster cast. It is not known how the fire originated, or whether the sufferer was insured. .... Murray,THE CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY.-Mr. Z. m the contractor of Woolwich, having been the successful competitor, by public tender, for carrying out the drain age and for forming the roads, &c., on the estate pur chased for the members at Eaing, and which was re cently allotted, celebrated the turning of the first sod by giving a dinner at the Bell Inn, Ealing, on Monday. Francis Nicholas, Esq., D.C.L., of Great Ealing, in a workmanlike manner, broke the ground, and the event was heartily announced by the cheers of a goodly assem blage, amongst whom we remarked many of the elite of the fair sex of Ealing. Mr. A. B. Wilson, of Charlton, Presided, and in the course of the evening proposed " Success to the Conservative Land Society," coupled with the n .l' i n h o ewr namee t e u u r nmi return i ng months, Farquharson, unprecedented h h e e i their nl believedot h e a e l hi s agent, ttohrayt .nwkss stated th success of this society since the period of its forma tion,of land so • cieties - -there being registeredabout 5 250 now , shares, and profits had been made on some allotments of 1501. After various othe r up, all regretting th a t the toasts,ditav the company broke a from their homes precluded them from remaining which, ore long, thank s to the ac tiv i t y longer in of thisvillage, will be largely extended in dimen sions the society, and value as a popular suburb of the metropoli s . TUNBRIDGE WELLS.—The fine estate of Woodbury Park, at this fashionable and popular locality, is to be divided amongst the shareholders of the Conservative Land Society, which has just purchased the property. PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent Ditto Small Mexican 3 per Cent. Russian Bonds, 5 per Ceut. Ditto 41 per Cent lOO A 99/ 1001 100 Ditto Small Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent — Spanish Committee Cert. of Conp. not fun 6i i k 6 p 0 Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch Exchange, 21 per Cent. Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates , THREE O'CLOCK. Consols 97k Ditto August Account DEPLORABLE CATASTROPHE AT THE SEA-SIDE.— DEATH OF Two BOYS WHILST BATHING.—The family of Mr. Childs, of Moorgate, the surgeon in chief to the City police force and the London Militia, have been plunged into a state of the most poignant grief, by the following melancholy occurrence :—lt appears that Mrs. Childs and family have been sojourning at a favourite place on the Lincolnshire coast known as Ingoldmells, and two of her sons —fine, high-spirited boys—one about ten, and the other nine years of age, were in the habit of bathing alone in the sea. Parts of the beach were very dangerous, there being several holes where clay had been dug up, and which the boys had been cautioned about. A few mornings back, the weather being very fine, the governess took two little girls to bathe, the boys going in at the same time some short distance from them. The governess then returned with the girls to the hotel near, where the family were residing, thinking that the boys would follow. She had scarcely reached Mrs. Childs' bedroom, when the alarm was raised that the lads were drowning. They imme diately ran on the beach, Mrs. Childs being only attired in her night dress, and rushed into the water up to their waists, with a view of rescuing the poor little fellows, and doubtless would have perished themselves, had not some of the persons near pulled them back. By this period one of the boys, John, had disappeared, but the other, Julian, never sunk. His body was got out in a few mi nutes, but all chance of restoring life was destroyed by the people around carrying it with the head downwards. The other body was not got out until the receding of the tide, when it was found in one of the clay pits. The depth of water where they perished was about 12 feet. It is thought that they were in the act of going ashore, when the strong set of the tide carried them off their feet, and bore them into deep water. The younger could swim a little, but the elder not at all. Some la bourers, who were working on the st a banks, heard the boys - Call out for help, and they tried to save them, but not being able to swim, failed. The coroner's jury re turned a verdict of "Accidental Death" in each case. ITALY. The Opinione of Turin states that grand manceuvres of the Piedmontese army are to take place in the plains of Marengo, under the direction of the Duke of Genoa. The Giornale di .Roina, of the 7th ult., contains Cardinal Antonelli's edict prohibiting the exportation of corn, already announced by telegraphic dispatch. It is as follows : - " The indifferent harvest of this year has excited fears of a scarcity of corn, so that many provinces have prayed the Government to have recource to extraordi nary measures. While the Government is inquiring into the true situation of the country with respect to the supply of corn, his Holiness our Lord has meanwhile, by the advice of the Council of Ministers, provided for the provinces of the Adriatic by the measures already published on the subject. And whereas, his Holiness also desired to provide in a similar way for the provinces of the Mediterranean, he has been pleased to direct that until further orders the exportation of corn of any sort from the State, whether by sea, or land, shall be pro hibited. In other respects the provisions of the edict by the Secretary of State, dated the Ist of December, 1846, shall be observed, all laws contrary to it being abrogated." The Roman correspondent of the Mes3agqere Modanese writes from Rome, 23d ult., that the Dutch Minister of Worship has arrived there to adjust the differences now existing between the Papal See and the Low Countries. MARKET NEWS-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. The arrivals of English wheat up to our market coast wise during the present week, and fresh up to-day, were on the increase, and in fair average condition. Owing to the fineness of the weather for the crops, and the large imports from abroad, the demand for all kinds of wheat of home produce ruled heavy, and Monday's prices were barely supported. The imports of wheat having exceeded 33,000 quarters, the show of foreign samples was very extensive. Red Baltic wheats wero mostly selling at full quotations ; but all other kinds were lower to purchase. Floating cargoes sold slowly, on former terms. Foreign barley was in fair average supply, and moderate inquiry, at late currencies. In the value of malt no change took place. We were heavily supplied with oats. Good English qualities were held at full prices, but all other kinds were fully 6d. per quarter cheaper. Beans, peas, and flour, realised Monday's currency. Enzlish Irish .... Foreign ARRIVALS THIS WEER. Wheat. Barley. I Malt. Oats. Flout. 1,930 I 3,460 4,720 1,650 360 I 9,190 33,510 5,120 I 225,3.0 2,150 sks 4,130 101 SMITHFIELD. The supply of beasts on offer in to-day's market was seasonably extensive as to number, but very deficient in quality. All breeds were in but moderate request, at Illunday's decline in the quotations. Amongst the foreign stock were a few oxen from Spain. We were well supplied with sheep ; nevertheless, the demand for them was some what active, at very full prices. There was an improved sale for lambs, the value of which advanced 2d per 81bs• Calves, the supply of which was good, moved off steadily on former terms. In pigs very little business was transacted. Mileh cows were steady, at from 151. to 181. 10s each, including their small calf. Per Sibs to sink the offals. s. d. s. (1.1 Inferior Beasts.... 3 oto 3 4 Second quality.... 3 6 3 8 Prime large oxen 310 4 0 Prime Scots, &c. 4 2 4 4 Inferior Sheep ...3 6 310 Second quality ...4 0 4 4 Prime crse.-wlled.4 6 4 8 Lambs 3, --- - ---- s. d. s. cl• IPrime Southdown 410 5 0 Large crse calve; 3 4 4 0 Prime small d 0... 4 2 4 8 Large hogs 3 0 3 6 Small porkers 3 8 4 0 Suckling calves ..21 0 26 0 Quarter old pigs 19 0 25 0 5 2d to 6s 2d. TOTAL SUPPLY. Beasts .. • • • ....• • • 1,142 Sheep and Lambs .. —15,920 Calves .. • • ..... 544 Pigs .••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • 450 NEWGATE AND The general demand ruled E Per 81bs by • s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. Beef, inferior 2 8 3 0 Mutton, Inferior 3 4 3 6 Do., middling 3 2 3 6 Do., middling 3 8 4 4 Do., prime large .3 6 3 8 I Do., prime 4 6 4 10 Do., do. small ....3 8 310 Veal 3 8 4 8 Pork, large 3 0 3 6 Pork, small 3 8 4 2 Lambs 5s Od to 6s Od. LE ADENHALL. steady, as follows : the carcase. FOREIGN SUPPLY. 8ea5t5........ ........ 444 Sheep _ Calves,..... „ 480 Pig 5........ , SPAIN. There is nothing in the shape of news in the Madrid journals of the 30th ult., with the exception of an official bulletin from the Queen's physicians, published in the Gazette, announcing that her Majesty has entered the fifth month of her pregnancy, and that rejoicings will consequently take place at La Granja. A. letter an nounces the arrival in Madrid of General Lersundi, President of the Council. The Three per Cents. were done at 44?, cash ; De ferreed, 23g. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—AuG. 4. CHARITABLE TRUSTS BILL. ____ Amendment proposed, to add to the amendment in , page 23, line 28, after the words " religiou s worship,' the words " nor shall this act, for the period of two years from the passing thereof, extend or be in any manner applied to charities or institutions, the funds or income of which are applicable exclusively for the benefit of persons of the Roman Catholic persuasion, and which are under the superintendence or control of persons of that persuasion." Motion made and question put, " that those words be there added." The house divided: ayes 87, noes 76. MAJORITY—AYES 87. A'Court, C. 11. W. Forster, J. Peel Frederick Aglionhy, H. A. Fox, R. Pellatt Apsley Ball, Edward Gladstone, William Phillipps, J. H. Bass, Michael Thos. Graham, Sir Jas. Thilllinore, R. J. Bell, J. Greene. J. Phinn, T. Berkeley, Grenville Grentell,!;. Pilkington, J. Bethell, Sir Richard Hadfield, George Russell, Lord J. Bigge, William Hall, Sir Benjamin Sadleir, J. Blackett, J. F. Hastle, Alexander Scully, F. Bouverie ' E. Ileadlam, Thomas E. Seymour , Lord Bower, G. Herbert, Sidney Shel le y , Sir J. V. Boyle, Zion. Colonel Hervey, Lord Alfred Smith, John Benj. Brady, J. Heywood, James Smith, R. V Brainston. T. W, Heyworth, Lawrence Strutt, Edward i.rockman, E. D. Howard, Lord E. Stuart, Lord 1). Biotherton, Joseph Keogh, William Sullivan, M. Browne, Valentine Kershaw, James Tancred, Henry Wm. Bruce, Lord E. Langston, J. H. Thornely, Thomas Bruce, 11. A. Lowe, Robert Vansittart, George II Butler, Charles Lucas, F. Villiers, C. Pelham Clay, Sir W Mackinnon, W. A, Wall, C. B. Clinton, Lord Robert Massey, W. N. Walmsley, Sir J. Cockburn, Sir A. Miall, Edward Wickham, H. W Cubitt, Alderman Minivan, R. Wilkinson, W. Elcho, L•ird Monsen, W. Williams, W. Esmonde, John Norreys, Sir D. J. Wyndham, W. Fagan, W. O'Brien, C. Young, Sir John Ferguson, Sir R. O'Connell, D. TELLERS Fitzgerald, W. Patten, J. Ilayter, W. G. Forster, C. Pechell, Sir G. Musgrave, Earl MINORITY—NOES 76. Arbuthnott, General Hamilton, Lord C. Newdegate, C. Beresford, William I Hamilton, Gee. A. North, Colonel Berkeley. Sir G. , Hastle, Archibald Oakes, J. Blair, Colonel Henley. J. W. Palmer, Robert Blandford, marquis Horsfall, T. B. Percy, J. William Buller, Sir J. Y. Butt, William Peto, S. Burrell, Sir C. B. Inglis Sir R. 11. Repton G. W J. Cairn., ii. M'Calmont Jolliffe, Sir W. 0.11. Bolt, Y . Chambers, Thomas Jones, Capt. Sawle, C. B. G. Cholmondeley, Ld. H King, P. J. Scobell, Captain Clive. Robert Klnuaird, Arthur F. Taylor, Colonel Cobbold, J. C. Knatchbull, Win. F. Vance, J. Coles, H. Beaumont Knightley, Rainald Venter, Sir W. Divett, Edward Langton, H. G. Vivian, J. Ennis Duncan, George Langton, W. G. Vyse, Capt. Dandas, F. Liddell, 11. G. Waddington, 11. Dunlop, A. Liddtll, T. Warner, Edward Egert qt, E. Lockhart, W. Whitmore, H. Ferguson, Joseph Malins, Richard Wigram. L. T. Follett, Brent S. Mandeville, V.sconnt Willoughby, Sir H. Frewen, C. H. Maxwell, James P. Wise, A. Fuller, A. E. Meux, Sir Heury Wuodd, B. Gaskell, JamesMilnes Miles, W. George, John Michell, W. YELLERS. Goer, W. Montgomery, H. L. Graham. Lord M.W. Morris, D. Thesiger, Sir F. Grogan, E. Mowbray, John R. Spooner, Richard SUPPLY--THE SLAVE TRADE. Motion made and question put, " that a sum, not exceed ing 2,1751., be granted to her Majesty, for payment of rewards for certain services in suppression of the slave trade on the coast of Africa." The committee divided - ayes 117, noes 25. MAJORITY—AYES, 117. A'Court, C. Goodman, Sir George 0 Connell, D. Aglionby, H. Graham, Sir James Osborne, Ralph Bailey, C. Greene, T. Palmer, Bounden Baines, M. T. Grenfell, C. Palmerston, Viscount Ball, Edward Hadfield, George Patten, W. Barrington, Viscount Hamilton, Lord C. Peel, F. Bass, H. T. Hamilton, Geo. A. Pellatt, A Berkeley, Grenville Hastie, Archibald Phillips, John Henry Bethel], Richard Headlam, T. E. Pinney, W. Bonham-Carter, Jobn Heathcoate, Sir G. Pritchard, J. Booker, T. W. Herbert, Sidney Russell, Lord .T. Booth, Sir R. Hervey, Lord A. Sadleir, James Boyle, Col. Heywood, James Sadleir, J. Brocklehurst, J. Ingham, R. Sawle, C. B. Graves Brotherton. Joseph Joillffe, Sir W. G. H. Scully, F. Bruce, Lord Ernest Keogh, William Seymour, Lord Cardwell, Hon. E. Kinnaird, A. F. Smith, Rt. !In. R. Challis, Alderman Laing, S. Smith, John G. Clay, Sir W. Langton, H. G. Spooner, R. Cobbold, J. Chevalier Lee, W, Stirling, William Cockburn, Sir Al Liddell, 11. Strutt, E. Cowper, W. Lockhart, A. E. Sutton, J. li. M. Craufurd, E. H. J Lowe, Robert Taylor, Colonel Drumlaurig, Viscount Macartney, G. Thornely, T. Dunlop, A. Macgregor. James Thornhill, W. Dunne, Col. Maguire, John F. Tyler, Sir G. Eleho, Lord lirlalins, R. Vance, J. Elliot, John Mastemian, John Villiers, Hon. C. Euston, Earl Niles, W. Walpole, Spencer H Fagan, W. Milligan, Robert Wilkinson, W. A. Ferguson, Sir R. Mills, T. Williams. M. Ferguson, Joseph Michell, William Wilson, James Fitzgerald, W. R. S. Molesworth, Sir W. Wood, Sir Charles Fol'ett, B. Spencer Monsell, William Woodd, I; • Forster, Charles Montgomery, H. Young, Sir John Forster, John Morgan, Octavius Fox, It. Di Morris, D. Frr itch, F. Mowbray, J. Frewen, ...lharles Hay Norreys, Sir D. J. George, John North, Colonel Gladstone, William Oakes, J. H. TELLZJ3. Hayter, W. Mulgrave, Earl MINORITY—NOES, 25. Bell, James Kershaw, James Thompson, George Cheetham, John Kirk, William Walrusley, Sir J. Cobden, Richard Lucas, F. alley, G. IL Duke, Sir J. Massey, W. N. Wh Wilcox, B. Duncan, G. Mitchell, T. A. Willoughby, H. B Feilden, M. J. Murrough, J. F. Greene, John Pechell, Sir G, B. Hepworth, L. Pilkington, James flutcuins, E. Scobell, Capt. Hutt, William Sullivan, M. TELLERS. Hume, Joseph Bright, John His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Capt. the Hon. Dudley de Ros and Dr. Becker, honoured the Photographic Institution, 168, New Bond-street, with a visit on Wednesday last, and expressed himself highly gratified with the exhibition of photographic pictures. OPORTO.—The accounts from Oporto to the 28th of July describe the continued progress of the vine disease. At present, however, its advance is not rapid, and it is thought, therefore, that the less this season, although great, may perhaps not be alarming. The fear is, that the symptoms may increase from year to year until the vineyards are wholly destroyed. Since the last advices large purchases of wine had been made at a considerable advance in prices, especially for those of the lower class. THE GOODWOOD CUP.—In our account of Goodwood races, which appeared on Friday last, the Stewards' Cup was by mistake described as the Goodwood Cup. This latter was manufactured by Messrs. Hunt and Roskell, and consists of a group representing the Earl of Surrey presenting a hawk to the Princess Mary, daughter of Henry VIII., and was won by M. Lupin's Jouvence. PREVENTION OF FORGERY.—To a great commercial country like this, in which extensive transactions are arranged by the passing of small paper documents, it must be always of importance that such papers should be protected from imitation. Various plans, lentwih more or less success, have been suggested, .and, at gth, we have reason to believe the desired object has been fully attained by the improvements effected by Saunders, of Dartford, Kent. We scarcely know how to describe the surprising, useful, and beautiful effects produced by this interesting process, and we must con tent ourselves with saying, that elaborate designs - drawn with considerable artistic ability —are introduced into the substance of the paper, which places it wholly out of the power of the forger any longer ^ profitably to attempt imitation. It would seem that a few banking institutions, public companies, both in England and abroad, and railway bodies, for the prevention of for gery of pass-tickets, to which they are so liable, are already, and that cheques, letters of credit, and dock warrants, will be shortly, indebted to this new and in teresting invention. Doubtless, ere long, Exchequer Bills, and a variety of other public documents not hitherto protected, will benefit from the like discovery. It is singular that this invention should come into prac tical operation just at the period when the utmost efforts of the engraver are ineffectual to cope with forgers fully conversant with the recent revelations of science in re gard to copying steel and copper-plate works. BOROUGH HOP. The plantation accounts at hand this morning are by no means favourable ; nevertheless, the business doing in all kinds of hops is comparatively small, at the currency of this day week. The duty to•day is called 140,0001. Mid and East Kent pockets, 130 s to 180 s ; Weald of Kent ditto, 128 s to 145 s ; and Sussex ditto, 115 s to 130 s per cwt. COLONIAL. SUGAR.—There has not been much doing in British Plantation, and the quotations have remained firm. At auction Barbadoes realised 33s 6d to 38s for ord to fine. East India, at auction the demand was slack, and a good deal was bought in. Mauritius partly found buyers at 35s Gd to 37s for good to fine yellow, at 33s to 31s 6d for low and mid, and at 29s 6d to 33s for ord to fine brown. Bengal, chiefly date sorts, went at 32s to 37s for low to fine yellow, and at 30s to 31s for brown. Benares low to fine white sold at 36s 6d to 39s Gd. Foreign—Bahia was taken in at 29s 6d to 338 Gd for low to fine brown, 32s to 33s 6cl for low and mid yellow, and 37s for good. The latest sales of yellow' Havannah have been made at 37s to 38s for mid dry and strong, but the demand at auction was limited, and a good deal was taken in at 35s Gd to 42s for low mid yellow to florettes. Porto Rico sold at 39s 64 to 41s for mid good and fine, and 36s 6d to 37s for mid. Cuba went at 32s 6d to 35s 6d for low to mid soft yellow. COFFEE.—There has been a tolerably firm market ; but in the absence of any active demand Plantation Ceylon has been sold at 51s 6d to 52s for fine ord, 54s to 555 6d for f fine ord and low mid, and 52s to 53s for small colon. F fine ord and mid grey of favourite marks was taken in at 60s to 625. Triage sold at 38s to 52s 6d. Native Coy' lon was taken in at 46s to 46s Gd for good ord, but a small quantity sold at 47s for fine ord, and at 45s 6d to 46s for low ord. Mocha went at 64s 64 to 65s for mid yellow, and at 46s to 583 for triage. Jamaica went at 46s to 48s Gd for good and fine ord, pale. COCOA.—There has been rather an improved demand. Guayaquil was taken in at 34s to 35s per cwt. Rusi.—A fair business has been done at full prices. COTTON.—There have been moderate transactions. RICE.—The demand has been limited. SALTPETRE.—Prices have been much the same, 6/ to 51 per cent. refraction being sold at 27s to 27s 6d per cwt. SPlCES.—Pimento has realised sid to sid for mid and good mid even. Ginger has been sold at 4/. 10s to 8/. 11 1 for mid and good white, and at 43s to 70s for low' an d small.E T A.—Pephpeerre has haa not b been at full u p e ri h oo d s oi - ng , Malabar an(i. p 4d to for good and fine shot, and 4Ad t o 4.tefor h a lf h eavy Trlces ,A remained about the same. TALLOW. —P.Y.C. has been very firm at 52s to 52s Si per cwt, GREEN FRUIT.—The market is quiet. Lemons improved in value ; a parcel sold by Keeling and Hunt, per steamer from Lisbon, went at 2s to 3s per box higher. A small cargo of autumn oranges from Terceira has arrived, but are not sufficiently matured for immediate use, the reduc tion of duty being one of the inducements to ship them to this market. Barcelona nuts have further advanced 2s per bag. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(TIIIS DAY.) LONDON, Aug. s.—Wind this day at Noon, N.N. I V• ; light breeze, and cloudy. DEAL, Aug. 4.—Wind, N.E. Arrived from the Rive r —Cybele, for - Berbice • John Bull, Montreal. Aug. 5 (9.12 a.m.)—Wind, N.E., light. Passed—Mir/A' pore, from Calcutta, f or L on d on , in tow of steamer ; Charlotte Reed, from Riv er St. Lawrence, for London, tow of steam ; Christiana, New York, for London, in told of steam ; Matilda, from Laguna, for Hamburgh ; Medor* , from London, for Jamaica ; Meotede, from London, for Constantinople. RAMSGATE, Aug. 4.—Wind, E.N.E. Sailed—Wold e ' mar, Singapore. OFF DOVER, Aug. 4.—Wind, E. Arrived—Charlott e, Manzanillo. FALMOUTH, Aug. 4.—Wind, N. Sailed—Emeral d, Antigua. GLOUCESTER, August 4.—Arrived -Falcon, Quebec ; Avar, do. PORTSMOUTH, Aug. 4.—Wind, S.E. Sailed— Patrick Henry, New York ; Rochester, South Seas ; Bolivar, P e. merara. SHIELDS, Aug. 4.—Sailed—Victory, Bermuda ; Etiwant New York. MILFORD, Aug. 4.—The Maria, for Quebec, is bacilf strained, having been aground on White Horse Reach . Sailed—Hobe, Quebec. HULL, Aug. 4 —Wind, W.S.W. Arrived—Avonda l A Richibucto ; Orion, Greenland, with 5,000 seals, and u ` puns. of oil. PETERHEAD.—Arrived—Dublin, Greenland, with 70 tons of oil. CLYDE, Aug. 3.—Wind, W. Arrived— Roberto' Trinidad ; Argo, Quebec. NEWPORT, Aug. 4.—Arrived—Henrietta and Reboot London, for St. Thomas. Sailed—Y, St. Thomas ; wedge, do. ; Marianne, St. Jago de Cuba. DUBLIN, Aug. 3.—Wind, E.S.E. Arrived—Glammi lre ' Barbadoes. Sailed—Ganges, New York. ConK, Aug. 4.—Wind, S.E. Arrived Argo, Lond on ' U.S. Off Port—Canada, Quebec. MANDAHL, July 20.—The Anne Marie, of and fro ; 131 Aalborg to London, has put in here leaky, and must charge. MAP OF CAB FARES.—A portable little distance OAP of the metropolis—contrivedfor ascertaining cab ft' reg h under the new enactment—has just been published, We W e serve, by Messrs. W. H. Smith& Son, of the Strand, and t doubt not will soon command pretty general attention ties the hands of the various booksellers. It presents to a pink map of London under a blue web-work of linse ri , each angle representing a direct half - mile, and thus ...re dering almost any distance traversed a matte r of el's calculation. In the margin of this flysheet (whi ch t he compressed, by the way, in a cloth case suitab le for roe waistcoat pocket) there are g iv en , in separate P$ graphs, the new cab laws and regulations. , i --A LAUNCH OF A WAR STEAMER AT BLAckwAL-.00 screw steamer the Beberebe , built for the 13razo• Government by Messr s. Gree n of Blackwa ll, was terday launched from the building yard of thnse,gal tlemen. This vessel was constructed under the sit itli a management of Captain Delamare of the Brn o - a navy, and has engines of 130-horse power from ,tu e ,,,„an nufactory of Messrs. Penn, of Greenwich, mane, 7 is their improved principle. The Beberebe is syn a it ft, styled in nautical phrase a " rakish -looking eroy beautiful in appearance, because constructed ue'rerchi and tastefully, with all the modern applianc es of d the tectural skill, and with due regard to solidity of purposes for which she is i n t en d e d. The dim ensnl, 27 the vessel are—length over all, 178 feet . breadt a t feet ; depth, 15 feet ; and of 600 tons. Her arr;rii-ige is one 68-pounder on slide, and six 32-pounde r o ateci guns. The Beberebe will be rigged as a thr e k e ft four schooner, and will sail for the Brazils in nue, - ~ernm onths. Two other steamers for the Brazilian L'r e s i,, of ment are in course of construction by Messrs. Gr e w as larger dimensions. The ceremony of christen_iniip performed by Miss Ma ceda, the daughter of the Jstrs4. Minister. The launch was effected in the bes Auk. THE HON. ARTILLERY COMPANY.— WOOLIVIC."any 4.—The members of the Hon. Artillery Co mpany London, of which Field-Marshal his Royal Prince Albert, K.G., is Colonel and Captain-I:, c o w and the Hon. Henry Fitzroy Lieutenant -Colo o:tercior manding, arrived at the Woolwich marshes Y s One for practice with 9-pounder and 6-pounder . 6x . e d at hundred rounds of 6-pounder round shot we7 ri a from the range of 650 yards, with a strong side,T re. 'l l l the east, or at a right angle to the line ni ' 2, or t number of shots put into the target was g the targe t to 4. The remaining shots that did not strike a rig ht of were, in every instance, within a few feet o_ .Iffve been left, and some under or over, but all w ou ti l n d d r per gen considered very good practice. Four. arnli th a e t i li vi e shi(icileavl'er : n e rl4 : cl i e4 water,e3fioreydarfrdsopratnwgoe,9-paonudndmeardgeuenxseweilit.erh;sp_hrar:letnirseel stci,l3;l4l.sty7r: rounds per gun were fired from two d 9 e P g e o u od pr ac e e; round shot at 900 yards' range, tfiivneuedhavtoingblostwrufcrkomthie.htearegaepitt, dailitarihnnodug the practice. , . ' --~' ,_ It Andov e , tirprisc Abdall a Puritan Andov e wince Rcei Allingt,. GarPi r t lierberi SYlphin Vaultre Staidst( Willian Sweetn FPlis allriez °Wort .._, fl IM] 11(Y The lack at Lort Pool, 3 e°l4bil Th e on m o we nt 1 A tlaaia C . or , 11.1 4.4 0 h 41111 ply a d riti et th e • , th l C a Vrp If