The Sun. — London, England, 1853-08-09 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 9, 1853. The Hon. Gentleman the Member for Cam bridgeshire last night moved, on the House going into Committee of Ways and Means, the resolu tion in • reference to the Malt Tax, which he had nearly succeeded in carrying on a previous occa sion. The extraordinary circumstances which then prevented the Hon. Gentleman from stating the arguments in favour of the proposition must be fresh in the public recollection. Owing to the discreditable manoeuvring of the Government, the House was counted out on many successive Tues days—the days devoted to independent members. It was intended to get rid of the present motion in a similar manner. Mr. BALL was, however, not to be got rid of quite so easily. He had secured the attendance of the requisite number of Philo-A grieulturists, and when at the commencement of business the Ministerial side of the House exhibited a beggarly account of empty benches—there being only pre sent, of that party, Sir JOHN SHELLEY, the seconder of the motion, and the Hon, Gentleman who had undertaken the duty of whipper-out— the stratagem having thus thoroughly and com pletely failed—the Honourable Gentleman (Mr. BALL) determined that the shaft should be hurled back upon his opponents with double force. In order to achieve this great desideratum, with a disinterestedness worthy of an ancient Roman , he suppressed for the time his flowing eloquence, and contented himself with merely moving the resolution amid the vociferous cheering of the attendant l oueo li es, the self-immolation —.the who thoroughly appreciated n—the total sacrifice of his own feelings exhibited i n t h e act—which entitled him to rank with the Jzpi rr _ u _ A sor AGAMENNONS of the olden time. The seconder was almost equally concise as in si h n i g s ombnsenirevnattioinns. seif He merely indulged for a p re tributive justice which awaited at the Coalitionists. At the moment, however, when vi c t ory was.appa rently within their grasp — when the u from eoSrRAKER was a bout to put the momentous question the chair—a vision burs t u p on their a stonished si g ht in the bodily sh a p e of the Right Hon. W ILLIAM EIVA.RT GLADSTONE, who, with erect hair and a ff ri ghted aspect, rushed into the House at rail way speed. The doughty champion, albeit single-handed, rushed to the breach, determined to roll back the surge of war. The modern MANLIts saved the fiscal Capitol. Wo shall not s ay that it was preserved by the cackling of a venerable bird, but the brief expression of exulta the rescue. The Right Hon. tion gave time for Gentleman talked vigorously ag ainst time. Un dismayed by the groans and murmurs, and the incessant demands for a division, with which the chosen representatives of the people are accustomed to express their disapprobation of an unwelcome effu sion, he persisted until the arrival of adequate reinforcements told him that a trial of strength might be hazarded. His trusty follower had ac curately measured the opposing force s, and, on a division, it was found that, by a majority of four, the Malt T ax was saved for the present session ! This temporary and most unexpected reverse did not, however, discourage the energetic BALL. He would have ample satisfaction for the disas trous defeat ; he wouldhonourably avenge the loss he had sustained ; he he wouNlvdmiluldakefotriciee Chancellor eauHceolillos to hear his speech ; of the Exchequer repeat the financial plati tudes by which he had foiled his numerous e audi ence former uwdai _s ons l au ght before a more once ! In this unflinching resolution h partly successful. He seized the happy 1(3- the Chair, of the SPEA KEE, being about to leave tle Chair, to detail the grievance and to give to his zarqirim.-; auditors an outline of the unspoke n address whicli hf,.-1. intended delivering on the previous occasion. But the AwxOrable GLAL A remarkable pamphlet* has recently been issued from the press, which must in due course of time act as destructively as a literary bomb shell to the Canterbury Association. It requires only a comparatively brief interval to elapse— time enough, as one may , say, for the fusee to burn down to the socket—before we behold the explosion inevitable from a projectile formed out of materials so peculiarly detonative and combus tible. We have seldom witnessed an exposure more complete—more clearly established—more unanswerably demonstrated. Already it may be declared that to all intents and purposes the bubble has burst—this bubble of the Canterbury Settlement. Fortunately, the credulity of those who listened to the syren-songs of its projec tors, though lamentable enough, as far as it was extended, was not by any means so wide-spread as might at one time have been dreaded. Nevertheless, that cannot in any respect render the ill consequences of the enterprise less arduous to those luckless persons who were unhappily induced to embark in the scheme from the brilliant nature of the prospects held out to them by way of inducement. Ruin, it is true, has not been scattered indiscriminately among all classes of society, as was the case with the South Sea Adventure—but deception quite as disgraceful has been practised. Happily, too, we have not witnessed in the present instance any terrible mortality from famine and pestilence as was the result of the ill-fated Darien Expedition. Neither have we seen with that, as with the noto rious Mississippi Scheme, the engendering among all ranks of the community of the most villanous passions and the most deplorable embarrassments. But, while the ill effects may have been more restricted in number, and less injurious in opera tion, they have originated in a venture quite as unjustifiable as the one and quite as bungled as the other of those famous enterprises. It is from our deliberate and dispassionate conviction that such is the veritable blame to be attached to them, that we are solicitous to point the finger of repre hension thus directly at the members of the Can terbury Association. Every one who has listened to the alluring prospectus of that society, has up to this time suffered lamentably from his mistaken confidence. Icarie was not a more notorious illu sion than this Canterbury Settlement. As well might the purchasers of land in that quarter, who have emigrated thither in quest of health, riches, felicity, and a variety of other boons needless to be here enumerated, because already familiar to the majority of the sufferers from a certain cuckoo-iteration in all the documents issued by the Canterbury Association, —as well say we, might the hapless emigrants here men tioned have danced over a quagmire, in the hope of catching and bottling up, in a Leyden jar, a genuine will-o'-the-wisp--as have dreamt of the possibility of ever attaining the exquisite joys, and realising the beatific visions, of the oft-men tioned Canterbury Settlement. They might as lief have anticipated a sojourn in the golden realms of PRESTER JOHN, floating down the auri ferous flood of Cathay, or sauntering over celestial paths, " strewn with rubies thick as gravel," in the ideal regions of Cipango. Equally rational would it have been, supposing they had gone in quest of some of the gorgeous palaces and incalculable treasures of El Dorado. Nay, their search could scarcely have been more futile had it been directed towards the imaginary charms of Utopia, or the fanciful delights of Arcadia, or the supposititious blessings accruing to the voyagers wrecked on the hallowed shores of Atalantis. For everywhere, in their most confi dently-cherished hopes of comfort and remunera tion, they have encountered nothing but chagrin, annoyance, loss, and disappointment. The Eden of the mendacious SCADDER was not more deplor able " a delusion, a mockery, and a snare " to MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT, than to these emigrant pur chasers of land in New Zealand has been this unhappy Canterbury Settlement. Scarcely any intelligent man in the United Kingdom remains to be informed now for the first time that the scheme here mentioned originated with a cluster of eminent noblemen, clergymen, and gentlemen, who announced themselves publicly as a corporate body, selling land in New Zealand under the authority and with the title of the Can terbury Association. So far, we take it, the facts of the case are sufficiently notorious. Equally well known is it, we presume, that land is sold by the society in that particular portion of the southern archipelago at the rate of 3/. per acre, with a perfect understanding of cer tain stipulated advantages. Purchasers, in fact, were solemnly assured from the outset of the pro ceedings, that in compensation for this exorbitant charge of 3/. an acre, they were to have admirable roadways, and religious benefits almost incalcul able. They were to have " free communication between different parts of the se ttlement," and, abov e a ll, th e y were to possess " a Church Esta blishment, indeed, and collegiate arrangements for the education o f th e i r c hildren, equal to the wants of a sup er i or Church commun it y ." It wa s intimated, t th i n the charter of incorporation, that the e moneys obt a i ne d by the sale of these lands or otherwise accru i ng Canterburyfor theA s benefit soci a tio i o i f , were to be distributed followsas the newly-orga n i se d colony church : and educational Two-sixths u ca were t ion to a be dedicated exclusively to l purposes; two-sixths to emigration purposes; one sixth to the New Zealand Company for the remaining one-sixth to land itself ; and the miscellaneous pu r poses, such as the construe tion of roads, and the arrangement of other Canter bury desirable prepa rations. In p la iner terms ' the " block of rich land" in possessio n o f the Associatio n was to be sold for 3/, per acre to respectable purchasers, on the proviso that the said 3/. were to be thus distributed — port facilities, per acre ........... .............. £0 10 0 g church " Land provided with all necessary roads and ...... 1 Church, Kassa a of bishopric, :oolrlercesepondin Emigration for every 100 ' acres, passag cahblishbMiseinl,p ureiaser and three labourers ........... Nevp Z l ealand Company , for the land 0 0 1 0 0 0 10 0 -o3 0 0 Consequently every purchaser was led to believe that in return for hi s money there wou ld be secured to him by the Association, besides other , "^" The Mutual Relations between the Canterbury Association and the Purchasers of Land in the Canter bury Settlement, briefly considered, with a 5 Copious Appendix of Authentic Documents." Svo ., pp, 14, London, 1853. advantages, necessary roads, port facilities to his heart's content, a college, a church, a bishopric, and a corresponding church establishment. As surances of this alluring kind were given in all imaginable forms by the promoters of the enter prise. Distinguished personages belonging to the higher grades of society endorsed by their names , the promises of the Association. And those pro- • mises were trumpetted abroad not only by orators at public meetings, but also re peatedly through black-on-white in the co lumns of the Canterbury Papers, of the New Zealand Gazette, and of other periodical pub lications. An energetic pioneer had been found in Mr. JOHN ROBERT GODLEY, the originator of the whole of this magnificent undertaking. Be sides which, the exertions of Mr. GODLEY, as Chief Agent, were enforced by those of Mr. THOMAS, as Chief Surveyor ; of Mr. WAKEFIELD, as Commissioner on Land Sales ; of Mr. BLACH FORD, as Accountant ; and of Mr. ALSTON, as Secretary. Nay, these glittering promises were carried so far, that the Rev. Mr. JACKSON was designated the Bishop-elect for the diocese of the new Settlement. Consequent upon all which, three hundred land purchasers were induced to ' embark in the enterprise—and those three hun dred land purchasers are now declared to have been " shamefully defrauded," to quote the simple phrase employed on the authority of the Committee deputed to communicate with Lord LYTTLETON, one of the most prominent and distinguished of the promoters of the Canterbury Association. As epitomising in the strongest and the clearest language possible the charge entered against the association by this Committee, on the part of the unfortunate victims, the 300 land ; purchasers, the subjoined passage is entitled to particular consideration. It sums up the preface of the remarkable pamphlet mentioned at the outset of our observations, and is expressed in the terms following : "It is not pretended that all the members of the Can terbury Association were cognisant of the nature of the evil daily perpetrated under the sanction of their great names, in the course of these proceedings, under which they unfortunately imagined a great religious principle was going on to a triumphant development. Nothing less than an English Church community, perfect in all its parts, could be tolerated by these high-minded and pious gentlemen. Four thousand helpless Christian people on an uncultivated waste, surrounded on all sides by impassable rock and bar ; no church, no bishop, no ecclesiastical or educational establishment of the meanest kind ; no preparation beyond a barrack for the labour ing classes, and a wharf subject to dues; no roads, nothing but the hard earth and shapeless rock as it was from the earliest ages ; —such and such only was the disastrous issue of the greatest relig i ous delusion that could disgrace the intelligen t sanctity of modern days." Such are the startling assertions made on behalf of the sufferers from this bubble blown by certain religious philanthropists, and now formally submitted to the judgment of the community by the Committee recently in communication with Lord LYTTLETON. Further allusion to the subject were superfluous at the present moment one might conjecture on a hasty glance at the circumstances connected with its very eccentric rise and development. Reflection, however, assures us to the contrary so forcibly, that we cannot but be tempted to examine the matter analytically, and in minute detail, at the earliest available opportunity. It is obviously on " the very head and front of its offending" in every way entitled to some such scrupulous and searching examination, this " greatest religious delusion," as it has been called, of our vaunted age of shrewdness and sanctity, enlightenment and civilisation. MONEY MARKET AND CITY INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWO O'CLOCK. The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were estimated at 10,000 bales, of which 3,600 Ame rican, 100 Bahia and 300 Surat were taken for export. The market was steady, and prices of all kinds well supported. The sales comprised 8,000 American, 100 Bahia at 614., 170 Perham and Maranham at 6id. to Bd., 300 Egyptian at 6,d. to Is. aid., 1,500 Surat at nd. to and 30 Sea Island at Is. 10d. to 2s. 2d. per lb. Railway Shares were firm at an advance of 1 to 11- per cent. on all the leading stocks. The following report upon the Fruit trade is by Messrs. Witherby and Hanson : " Since our report of the 23d ult. there has been a large business done in Old Fruit, and of a more healthy character, inasmuch as the purchases have been con fined almost exclusively to the trade, at 90s. to 955. for middling and good qualities, establishing a quotable advance of fully ss. per cwt. on such descriptions. Holders generally of old and new are firmer, and less disposed to realise than at the beginning of the Month, confi dently expecting a further improvement in prices as the season advances. The stock in London is esti- mated about the same as on 30th June." " There is now no doubt whatever respecting the issue of the new crop. Various reports have been circulated, favourable and unfavourable. It has even been stated that the extreme heat which was prevalent in the Morea and the Islands, particularly in Zante, had entirely destroyed the fruit. This is very doubtful, since, with a temperature of 130 degrees in the sun, it was scarcely practicable, not being safe, to ascertain from actual ob servation its effects in any locality." Of the Port-wine Market, Messrs. Walter, Howell, and Hale, give the particulars subjoined : - , " The accounts from the Douro, regarding the effects of the vine disease, are assuming every post a more seri ous and alarming character ; its progress, slow at first, is now rapid, the destruction of the grapes, inconsiderable and only partial in the beginning, is now important and general wherever the disease attacks ; already 20,000 to 30,000 pipes, according to the best authorities and cal culations, have been destroyed, and the disease evidently increases and spreads itself in the same proportion as the fruit advances to maturity. The opinions upon the effect that the disease is likely to produce on the vine, are discordant and much at variance ; it will be difficult indeed, if not impossible, to establish on this subject an absolute and incontrovertible one, in the absence of scientific investigations and the knowledge of its nature, origin, causes, and incidences, as well as how far it is in fluenced and modified by the nature of the soil, clime, quality of the vines, &c. 'The farmers and people in general, however, having before their eyes the unfortunate and fatal effecis that it has produced in Madeira, are struck with terror and consternation, —public prayers have been offered all over the country, with the fervour of a people that dreads its destruction. From the above you can well imagine the feverish and excited state of the market. No only have wines consilerably advanced in price, but very few are offered for sale, yet, at the present exor bitant rates, most of the holders have withdrawn their wines from the market, expecting soon to obtain much higher prices than the already very high current rates demanded. " The stock on the Ist August, 1853, consisted of 21,023 pipes, 5,025 hhds., 3,950 quarters." The committee for promoting the formation of Tribunals of Commerce are circulating a statement of their claims upon the pecuniary support of the mercantile community, and these are certainly very strong. In this document it is mentioned that— " While London is the source and centre of the com merce of the world, it is remarkable that no bond of union or incorporation exists among its merchants ; and that in this respect they are anticipated by insignificant continental and many secondary provincial English towns. They have to irvoke the political aid and social influence of the Chambers of Commerce of Manchester, Liverpool and Leeds, Glasgow, Edinburgh, and New castle, if necessity compels them to appeal to Govern ment or to Parliament ; and they have to take their mercantile law and custom not from the decisions and practice of their own body, but from the doubtful dicta of professional lawyers, acquired by the experience of great uncertainty, proverbial delay, and costs so great as to render the expense of obtaining justice greater than the advantage of the justice to be obtained. "This committee has been engaged for upwards of two years in labouring to discharge some of the functions which a Chamber of Commerce should have undertaken; and after having placed itself in co-operation with the provincial mercantile bodies, in communication with the periodical press, and in correspondence with the zealous law reformers of both Houses of Parliament, and in the profession itself, they have succeeded in so preparing public opinion on the subject, that there is a general de sire for, and concurrence of conviction as to the import ance of, early legislation founded upon careful inquiry, in the view of giving practical effect to the principle on which tribunals of commerce are instituted." As usual, after a material improvement, the funds have became quieter, and some re-action has occurred in prices. Late yesterday afternoon consols were 98 for transfer, and 981 for Sep tember ; but this morning they are 971 to 98 for money, and 97- i ; to 98i for September. The ex planations in Parliament last evening are con sidered satisfactory, though they bear out the view in the leading article of last evening's Sun, that there is yet much to be done before the question can be satisfactorily set tled, and it is sincerely hoped in the City that there will not be a patching up of the dispute that will leave room for future embroilment and aggres sion. The opportunity, it is considered, was never better for curbing the pretensions of Russia, as at another crisis, England and France might not be found united with Austria and Prussia. The New 3i per Cents. have been at 101 to 104, and the 3 per Cents. 98g /. Bank Stock has been firm at 228. India Stock has realised 257/. Exchequer Bills are at 2s. discount to Is. premium, and India Bonds are 21s. premium. The Foreign Market has been very quiet, and scarcely up to yesterday's range. Peruvian Bonds have been done at 83, and Chilian at 1041. Mexican have improved to 26g. Russian Five per Cents. have been at 1171, and the Four-and-a-Half per Cents. at looi. Spanish Deferred Bonds are worth 231. Dutch Four per Cents. are 98 1 , to 1. Railway Shares are active, and at advanced prices. The lines most in favour are Great South ern and Western, which have been fluctuating, Brighton, North-Western, and South-Western. French Shares are scarcely so good, excepting Grand Junction, and Sambre and Meuse. Gold Mines are neglected, but without material variation in prices. Australian Bank Shares are in moderate request at advanced prices. Australian Agricultural are firmer, and most of the other land companies, with the exception of South Australian, which are 15s. -tower. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK (From the o.ficial List.) Business done Bank Stock ...... ........ ........... 228 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities. ...... 9B 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 97 8 New 3 4 per Cent. Annuities lOl 1 I Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860 India Stock India Bonds, £lOOO . Ditto, under £lOOO 2l Consols for Account 11th August 97i 8 Exchequer Bills, ld. £lOOO £5OO Small 2d 1p 2d 1p 2dlp PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK, Chilian Bonds, 6 per Cont. Mexican 3 per Cent. Peruvian Bonds, 4i per Cent. B3 Russian Bonds, 5 per Cent. Ditto 46 per Cent. Spanish New Deferred, 3 per Cent. 231 Spanish Committee Cert. of Coup. not fun. 6 i P e - _ Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch Exchange, 21 per Cem Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates _ HALF-PAST TWO, Consols 971 8 Ditto August Account 9B i WOLVERHA:VIPTON RACES (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) PATSHULL HANDICAP. Master Slender Gladiole Calot CHILLING-TON STAKES Corin ORDER OF RUNNING. 2.4s—.Chillington Stakes. 3.3o—Cleveland Cup. 4.ls—Handicap. ARRIVALS FOR TO-MORROW. Wrottesley Stakes—Laycock, Defiance, Clarina, Eva, Vaultress. Holyoake Stakes—Lough Bawn, Black Doctor, Cloth worker, Massaroni, Morning Star. Foal Stakes—• Whalebone, La Juive, Balloon. Trifle has gone home lame. SPORTING NOTES. WOLVERHAMPTON LOOKING UP. Determined and well-directed efforts have been made to re-establish the popularity of the Wolverhampton meeting. The race committee have exerted themselves actively to attain success, and their labours are likely to meet with commensurate reward. The present gather ing will contrast most favourably with its predecessors of late years ; for, although the spirit is not strikingly distinguished by either quantity or quality, yet the racing was sufficiently close to be interesting—and in certain instances exciting. The most prominent feature in the day's proceedings was, of course, the Wolverhampton Stakes, which brought out an unexpectedly strong field. Pastrycook was the favourite, and although she figured somewhat pro minently in the encounter in the early part of the race was seemingly incapable of sustaining the contest to the end. Doubt won somewhat cleverly. She did not " come" until reaching distance, when she drew to the front, and soon obtained a lead, which she afterwards held to the end. Trifle figured most ingloriously, and finished just in front of old Clothworker, who was last, but who had run third until reaching the turn from home. Musician was much fancied by his party, but he " shut up" at the most critical part of the encounter. Before the race, a question was started as to his lia bility to carry 71b. extra for running a dead heat for a Handicap Plate at Newmarket. This objection was overruled, but I have no hesitation in saying that he had fairly incurred the additional impost. After a long rest Defiance made his appearance for the Trial Stakes. He, however, being left at the post, did not take any part in the contest. It was afterwards reported that he had broken down, a report in which I place no faith. Wolverhampton is now " choke full," and the Hotel charges are as usual exorbitant. It is, therefore, no wonder that many of the sporting visitors sojourn fur the race nights at Birmingham. A right merry meeting will be celebrated at Reading on Wednesday and Thursday. So great, however, is the distance at which I write from the scene of action that I am totally unacquainted with the movements in the market respecting the ap pointed events. I am also unprovided with a pro gramme of the sport, the Sunday Times having been stolen from the hotel where I am staying, and Bell's Life being utterly ignored by the proprietors. Birmingham, Monday Night. A FRESH MAN. RACING FIXTUUES FOR 1853. The figures within parenthesis denote the number of day's racing. AUGUST. Wolverhampton (3) 8 Yarmouth (2) Reading (2) lO North Staffordshire (2) 10 York (3) 17 Canterbury lB Tonbridge (1) 18 Radcliffe (3) 22 Egham (2) 23 Liverpool Hunt Cup (2) 24 Derby (2) 26 Hereford (2) 29 Eccles (3) 29 Lichfield (2) 29 Chelmsford (2) 30 SEPTE: Lincoln (2) 1 Warwick (2) 6 Doncaster (4) 13 Weston Zoyland. and Bridgwater (1) 12 Dover 15 Pontefract (2) LATEST FOREIGN NEWS FRANCE. The Paris papers consider that the acceptance by Russia of the propositions from Vienna has put the Eastern question in the fair way of a settlement, as there cannot be a doubt of the consent of Turkey. The Debats gives the news of the illoniteux with out comment. The Assemblee Nationale, which _ has throughout been the indirect apologist of the Emperor of Russia, and which evidently feels con vinced that a pacific solution has been obtained by concessions to his Imperial Majesty, is delighted at the result. It says : "We hope that the incredulous persons who have been astonished at our confidence in the maintenance of peace, will feel themselves shaken in their opinions by reading the note of the Moniteur. Diplomacy has just acquired incontestable claims to the gratitude of Europe by the skill, the spirit of conciliation, and the rapidity with which it has conducted the late negotiations. It was on the 24th ult. that the representatives of the four great powers, France, Austria, England, and Prussia, assembled at Vienna under the pre sidency of Count de Buol-Schauenstein to discuss the new propositions to be submitted to the Emperor Nicholas and to the Sultan. A few days after the representatives of these powers had agreed on the term of these propositions, and the telegraph trans mitted them to Paris and to London, from whence they were sent back again to Vienna by the same means, having received the assent of the French and English Governments. They were then transmitted by the tele graph to St Petersburg, which soon after made known the adhesion of the Emperor Nicholas. This explains the reason of that adhesion being on Sunday known in Paris. From the promptitude with which every one has come to a decision under the circumstances, it will be admitted that we were right in saying that all the Cabinets, without exception, and without arrire pensee, wished for the maintenance of peace. The telegraph which has tended for some time past to mislead public opinion, has in these case been in the hands of the Governments a wonderful instrument of communication, thanks to which this prompt result has been obtained, and general uneasiness put an end to, for the adhesion of the Sultan, which is (now the only thing remaining to be made known, inspires no doubt, unless unforeseen and improbable events should take place in the interior of Turkey. In a word, if this is not precisely the conclusion of the Eastern question, it is at least something very like it." The Emperor has conferred a pension of 2,400 fr on M. Baucher, the well-known professor of horse manship, as a recompense for the services rendered by him in the Cavalry School at Saumur. Queen Christina of Spain and her suite, con sisting of about fifteen persons, arrived at Havre OR Saturday. Her Majesty took up her residence at Frascati's, where apartments had been prepared for her reception. In the evening the band of the 29th Regiment gave her a serenade. The Ecelesiastical Gazette of Vienna, of the 2d inst., announces the death of the Emperor of China. The Siecle announces that the Emperor has granted an unconditional permission toliM. Baze, former Questor of the National Assembly, to return to France. The permission was granted at the request of the celebrated Agen poet Jasmin. Commercial affairs in Paris have sustained another check this week, and, were it not for some large orders received from the United States, where French merchandise is in good demand, the manufacturers might consider themselves to have fallen into the dead season. The harvest continues to be gathered in through out the departments with as favourable weather as could be desired. The immediate consequence has been a dullness in the corn markets without any serious fall in the price of flour. The last letters received from Lyons are filled with details of the damage occasioned in the city and its neighbourhood by a dreadful hurricane on the afternoon of the 4th inst. The houses between Lyons and the Croix Rousse particularly suffered. Much of the flagging of the foot paths and almost all the gas pipes were carried away by the flood, which swept in a torrent from the hills. Several houses fell in, the walls having given way, and what is more serious quantities of silk in the silk weavers' frames were cut by the broken glass and mortar. The favourable news received from St. Peters burgh of the Emperor of Russia's adhesion to the note agreed upon by the representatives of the Great Powers at Vienna, had a most favourable influence on the market for public securities yester day. After much excitement, and the transaction of a good deal of business, prices stood thus at the close, with an upward tendency :—For Cash— Three per Cents., 79f. 70c. ; Four and a Half per Cents., 104 f. 40c. For the account—Three per Cents., 79f. 75c. ; Four and a Half per Cents., 104 f. 10c. ; Bank Stock, 2,820 f. Sharon of the Bank of Credit Foncier closed at 50f. above the previous quotation, and Credit Mobilier 90f. The last prices are :—Credit Foncier, 750 f. ; Credit Mobilier, 872 f. 50c. The railway share market has participated in the great improvement in the funds. Northerns have advanced 37f., Paris and Orleans 72f., Paris and Strasbourg 52f., Paris and Lyons 44f., and Paris and Rouen, 55f. Large transac tions have taken place, and prices closed as follow, with much firmness :—Northerns, 884 f. 50 c . ; Paris and Orleans, 1,212 f. ; Paris and Strasbourg, 957 f. ; Paris and Lyons, 947 f. 75c. ; Paris and Rouen, 1,105 f. TURKEY AND RUSSIA. Nothing more is known about the propositions submitted to the Emperor of Russia, or of his deci sion thereon, than what was communicated yester day. The effect produced by the dispatch in the Moniteur is, as might be expected, very good, and, as usual, rushing from one extreme to the other, the public is convinced that the Eastern question is at length completely settled. This is going too far, as there is something more to be done. The question of the evacuation of the Danubian Pro vinces is the next important point. That, however, ought not to present serious difficulty, as the eva cuation is the necessary consequence of the Empe ror of Russia's acceptance of the propositions of the Powers. In such thoroughly bad odour is the Russian name that there are some who think that it will be yet difficult to wrest that portion of the Ottoman Empire from the grasp of the Czar : that a pretext for retaining hold of it will be found in disturbances at Constantinople or elsewhere ' - and that, in such case, the Powe rs will not object to a longer occupation. Accounts from Constantinople to the 25th ult., state that a grand council at which the high civil and religious functionaries had been convoked, was held at the Porte on the 24th, when the most war like resolutions were, it is said, agreed upon. The results of the conference at Vienna were not, how ever, known in the Turkish capital at that time. The Press of Vienna contains a letter from Con stantinople of the 25th ult., which says :—" The Divan has sent another courier to Vienna. It is though more and more probable that peace will be preserved. A second edition of the proposition of Russia has been brought before the Divan, which will probably accept it. It is said that the offen sive form of the first is abandoned. The rights of the Christians will be guaranteed to them." A letter from Alexandria of the 19th ult., in the German Journal of Frankfort, says :—" Last even ing upwards of 200 children went through the streets of the quarter of the Pranks, singing some verses imploring God to give the victory to the Sultan. They were followed by several cheicks. They afterwards went towards the Port, and in sulted some Maltese. These latter spat at them, and one man threw a stone at them. Another went for the guard, but he could not get it to come. The tumult did not cease until after the Maltese had withdrawn. On doing so they applied to the English Consul for redress. It was remarked that the patrol having met this disorderly band never attempted to disperse it." The first Russian columns occupied, on the 15th ult., the so-called Little Valachia. Part only re mained, the others left for the Danube. The 15,000 Egyptians are to form the garrison of Constantinople, in place of the Guards, who are to go to Schumla. The Porte had contracted with Armenian merchants for the subsistence of the new forces. 30,000 guns, furnished by France, had arrived at Constantinople prior to the 25th ult. A great Council, to which the Ulemas were convoked, took place on the 24th. The resolutions adopted are said to be very warlike. The Oesterreichische Correspon dent ( se mi-official) says the Cabinet of St. Petersburgh has accepted the Austrian project, to which England, France, and Prussia have given their adhesion. Its reali sation, therefore, depends on the Porte alone. A letter from Bucharest of the 24th ult. states that the Consuls of the Foreign Powers were not to quit the country, as had been reported. They had discontinued official relations with the Govern ment but kept up fri en dly interest Prince, of the subjects of relations of twhiethrehigning h him in their respective Governments. From the Russian papers we learn, that the Em peror on occasion of the report presented to him stating the rapid advances of the troops into the Principalities, had published an order of the day, expressing his thanks to all the officers concerned, -and according a gratuity of two roubles to every private. These pecuniary gratuities which are so often bestowed on the troops, are never paid down to them, but go to a fund, from which the soldier on quitting the service receives in a lump all that he has become entitled to during the time he served. In case of death, it is paid to his heirs. The Frankfurter Post Zcitaag, that is generally well informed on Austrian news, informs us that IMBER. Bedford (2) 2O Leicester (2) 21 Lanark (2) 22 Manchester Autumn (2) 22 Newmarket F. 0. (3) 27 Walsall (2) 28 Northallerton, (2) 29 THE IMPERIAL RUSSIAN FAMILY. Yesterday being a festival day in the Imperial family, at an early hour her Imperial Highness the Grand Duchess Olga, accompanied by her consort, his Royal Highness the Crown Prince of Wurtemberg, arrived at the residence of the Russian Embassy, and was present with her Imperial Highness the Grand Duchess Marie and the Princess Marie at a religious service, performed in accordance with the rites of the Greek Church, by the Rev. Mr. Popoff. After the service, the Crown Prince and Princess of of Wurtemberg, the latter attended by the Baroness Brunnow, proceeded to Grosvenor-house, to pay a visit to the Marchioness of Westminster. The illustrious party were received by the noble marchioness, and con ducted through the picture gallery and the other apart ments of this magnificent mansion. The Crown Prince and Princess afterwards drove through the principal thoroughfares of the West-end, and visited several leading establishments. Among the persons honoured by the presence of her Imperial High ness and her Royal Consort, Messrs. Daniell, the china men of New Bond-street, of whom the Grand Duchess was pleased to order a magnificent dinner and dessert service, and Mr. C. F. Hancock, the eminent jeweller of Bruton-street, may be particularised. The Baroness Sturmfeder and Count Zeppline were in attendance upon the Crown Prince and Princess during the afternoon. At a quarter to three o'clock her Imperial Highness the Grand Duchess Marie, accompanied by his Excel lency Baron Brunnow, and attended by the ladies and gentlemen of her household, left the residence of the Russian Embassy in two dress carriages, the servants wearing their state liveries, for Buckingham Palace, to have an audience of her Majesty the Queen. Her Imperial Highness had a long interview with her Majesty and his Royal Highness the Prince Consort. On leaving the Palace, at a quarter-past four o'clock the Grand Duchess drove to Mivart's, where the Crown Prince and Princess of Wurtemberg had already arrived from their afternoon drive. Their Imperial Highnesses were shortly afterwards honoured with a visit by her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, who had come to town from Richmond for the express pur• pose of paying her respects to the daughters of the Emperor. The Grand Duchess Marie returned to the residence of the Embassy at five o'clock. The Crown Prince and Princess of Wurtemberg were subsequently honoured with a visit at their hotel by his Royal Highness Prince Albert. At half-past five o'clock his Royal Highness the Prince Consort arrived at the residence of the Russian Embassy, and paid a visit to the Grand Duchess Marie. Her Imperial Highness was afterwards visited by his Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar. The Countess of Pembroke, the Countess Bruce, and the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, M.P., and Mrs. Her bert, afterwards called at the embassy, and had the honour of interviews with the Grand Duchess. The Princess Marie, daughter of the Grand Duchess, visited the Colosseum and the Zoological Gardens in the Regent's-park yesterday. Her Imperial Highness after wards drove into Hyde-park, by the Marble Arch en trance, and in making the circuit, near the Serpentine, met the carriage of her Majesty the Queen, by whom the Princess was very graciously saluted. Their Imperial Highnesses itifewl th Uni versity of Oxford and Blenheim Palact, (Tu lay). SHERIFFS' COURT.-(THIS DAY, (Before R. Gurney, Esq.) BRIDGES V. M'CARTHY-SINGULAR CASE OF TENANTCY. This was an action to recover the amount of two quar ters' rent of a house in King-street, Walworth. From the evidence of the plaintiff's agent it appeared that the defendant took the house under a written agreement, and signed it in the name Francis de Fran cais. The premises were occupied for three-quarters of a-year, and the key was sent to the agent on the 18th December, 1851, rent being due from June. Mr. W. R. Buchanan, Basinghall-street, said he was taken by surprise by the production of the agreement, but as two or three gentlemen were together, some mis take might have arisen. Mrs. De Francais was sworn, and declared that she herself paid in her husband's name, and took receipts in his name, but she had unfortunately lost them. Plain tiff's agent went in and put up a bill before Christmas. Mr. Buchanan contended that, at all events, the plaintiff could only recover for one quarter. His Honour said a case had been decided that the putting up of a bill for premises to be let did not debar a landlord from recovering. Judgment was thereupon given for the amount claimed. THE POETICAL LITERATURE OF AMERICA.—The first of a course of six lectures on the above subject was de livered last evening, at the Assembly-rooms, Vauxhall bridge-road. It appeared from the syllabus that the lec tures are to be the productions of two gentlemen— Messrs. Dunt and Fowler—and are to be given by them alternately on following Monday evenings. A letter was read from the Duke of Argyll, extremely regretting he was unable to attend for the purpose of taking the chair. A letter from the Earl of Keumare, expressing his inability to attend the lectures in consequence of ill health, but giving his hearty approval to the introduc tion of a taste for a free, chaste, and original literature in this country, was likewise read amid much applause. - Mr. Fowler then proceeded to read a lecture on the " idea of Poetry," as an introduction or preface to the . series. It was most ably given, abounding in quaint learning, original idea, and eloquent expression. Mr. Fowler's style partakes of the nature of that of Emerson and Gilfillan combined, and is evidently founded Ti a taste of a high order. Graceful readings were given from the poets treated upon, and well-deserved applause was awarded at the conclusion. RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS, LONDON AND SOUTII-EASTERN RAlLWAY.—Traffic re turn for the week ending Aug. 6, 1853 £21,018 8 8 Corresponding week last year. 19,503 10 1 Increase in 1853... LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST RAILWAY.— Traffic return for the week ending Aug. 6, 1853 £18,94313 7 Corresponding week last year 16,571 1 4 Total of the half-year to tlis date, 1853 93,973 17 3 Total of the half-year to Ws date, 1852 87,605 10 6 GLASGOW AND SOUTH-VESTERN RAlLWAY.—Traffie re ',am for the week ending .ing. 6, 1853 £5,373 1 7 Corresponding week last rar 4,170 6 2 Increase in 1853 .. £1,202 15 5 LIBERATED AFRICANS.-A. bill just presented to the House of Lords by the Dike of Newcastle provides that liberated Africans in Sierra Leone are to be deemed for all purposes in Africa nitural born subjects, and they are also to be British subjects for the purposes of treaties with native chiefs. The bill thus describes who are to be deemed liberated Africans :—" For the purposes of this act the words liberated Africans' shall mean and include all persons dealt with or detained as slaves who heretofore have been or hereafter may be seized or taken under any of the acts for the abolition or suppression of the slave trade, by her 11Ljesty's ships of war or other wise, and liberated or deli , er ed to the officers appointed liberated,or detained orreceiv a e s d, slave protected,mayto protect, receive, or pro'ide fo r such p ersons, and all other persons who, as ha,vng beer. dealt with, carried, or provided have been for, u nd e and kept, r any of the said acts." 1-0461111 , 41 L G REAT NAVAL REVIEW AT SPITHEA D. LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY. CHANGE OF ARRANGEMENTS. This Grand Review will take place in the presence of her Majesty the Queen, on Thursday next, August 11. SPECIAL EXCURSION TRAINS will leave Waterloo Station on that day, as follows : To PORTSMOUTH, at 4.0 a.m., retur nin g O'clock. in the Evening at 8 FARES, THERE AND 13ACR--- Covered Carriages, 10s. ; Sea ted Open Carriages, the Even -ss. To PORTSMOUTH, at 5. 0 and 5 . 45 a.m., returning in ing at 7.0 and 7.30 o'clock. FAXES, THERE AND BACK — Covered Carriages, 20s. ; Seated Open Carriages, 10s. To SOUTHAMPTON, at 5.15 a nd 5.30 a.m., returning in the Even ing at 6.30, 7. 0 , 7 . 30, and 8.0 o'clock. Steam Boats will leave Southampton in connection with these Trains, for which Almited number of Tickets will be issued. Pants, RLWAY AND BOAT, THERE AND BAcir Covered Carriages and Steam Boat, 305. All former notices are withdrawn. ARCHD. SCOTT, Traffic Manager. Waterloo Station, Bth August, 1853. LONDON & SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY. SPECIAL NOTICE. The ADDITIONAL TRAINS from LONDON to CHEETSEY and back will not run on THURSDAY next, the 11th inst. On that day there will only be the regular trains. ARCHD. SCOTT, Traffic Manager. Waterloo Station, Aug. 9, 1853. L ONDON & SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY• GRAND NAVAL REVIEW. RETURN TICKETS from London, or any Station on the Rail way, to Gosport or Portsmouth, will be available from WEDNESDAY TO SATURDAY next. ARCUD. SCOTT, Traffic Manager. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. Charles Kean, THIS EVENING, AUGUST 9, Will be performed THE DAY AFTER THE WEDDING. Sup pried 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 THINSKIN. Characters by Messrs. Harley, Meadows, Addison, and Miss Vivash. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI. F-,erietor, Mr. B. Webster —Directress, Maclaine Celeste. THIS EVENING. Atiousx 9, Will be performed GENE VIEVE. Characters by Messrs. Parsell .,, e ' Cullenford, Woolgar, Leigh Murray, Hast in g s, A. Wigan, Pa... Bedford, Keeley, 0. Smith, and C. J. Smith; Mi s s Woolgar and Mrs. Keeley. After which, will be presented SARDANAPALUS. To be followed by THE CAMP AT CIIOBIIAM. To conclude with WHAT ! NO CAB ? ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Farren. For the BENEFIT of Miss PRESCOTT WARDE. THIS EVENING, Annusx 9, Will be performed Farr TIMES. Characters by Messrs. T. Farren, T. Mead, William Farren, H. Marston. G. Cooke, and Shalders; Mesdames Anderton, H. Gordon, E. Turner, and Bartlett. To be followed by A DAY IN PARIS. Emily Grenville, Miss P. Warde. With SHYLOCK, or, THE MERCHANT OF '° VENICE PRE SERVED." Shylock, Mr. F. Robson. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke. The varied and attractive Entertainments at this Theatre continue their successful career—comprising the national spectacle of the Battle of Waterloo, the matchless Scenes of the Circle, and Sport ing Drama of The Chase (the 77th night). Mr. W. COOKE is de termined to present his patrons with every possible novelty, and begs to announce a splendid Spectacle on a classical subject. THIS EVENING, Auousr 9, And daring the week, the Performances will commence with the Military Spectacle of THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO. be followed by Mr. W. Cooke's incomparable Scenes in the ARENA, introducing Mr. Alfred Cooke (the Premier Horseman) in a grand Equestrian Act. Concluding every evening with (77th time) THE CHASE ; or, LIFE ON THE TURF, with a real Fox Chase. - Doors open at Half-past Six. Box-office open daily from Eleven to Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. Engagement of that eminent English Vocalist, Miss POOLE THIS EVENING, AUGUST 9, CFIIISAN, Splendidi'MENAGERIE: Caparisoned Elephants, God frey's unrivalled Band, Vocal and Instrumental Concert, Two Favourite Songs by Miss Poole, various amusing novelties, conclud ing with the magnificent spectacle of THE FEAST OF LAN TERNS, brilliant display of FIREWORKS, and EXPLOSION of CHINESE FIRE SHIPS. Admission, Is. N.B. A grand Show of Poultry, Pigeons, and Rabbits will take place on Tuesday, Aug. 23 and two following days. DAILY WEATHER TABLE. TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1853. State of the wind and weather at each of the following places at nine o'clock yesterday morning. The stations are arranged in order of latitude. PORTSMOUTH—S.E., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. SOUTHAMPTON—N., gentle breeze—cloudless. TUNBRIDGE—N.E., calm—cloudless. BASINGSTOKE—E., calm—cloudless. GREENWlCH—calm—overcast. lIIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAT —Morning 37 min. after 4 I Evening 57 min.aft. 4 To-Mcraow —Morning 17 min. after 5 I Evening 37 min.aft. 5 THE WEATHER.--Sus OFFICE, Auuusr 9. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 72 —highest since noon yesterday. 57—lowest this morning and during the night. 70—this day at noon. BAROMETER, 30 . 33. WIND, iasterly, and fine. . `~ ~ ~i ~~^~~ LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1853. STONE could not be induced to repeat his oration. His honour was fully satisfied, and he reposed gracefully on the laurels which he had then acquired. He, however, held out a faint hope to his opponent. In accordance with a suggestion which fell from Mr. CAYLEY, he professed his willingness to " consider the question during the recess." The supporters of the resolution, who clearly saw that on a division they would be left in a considerable minority, eagerly grasped at the plank charitably thrown out for their relief, and floated off in the tabula in naufragio which so op portunely came to their assistance. The motion was accordingly negatived without a division for the present session. But what will be the result of the promised consideration ? That is the question. Will it accomplish the wishes and satisfy the sanguine anticipations of the claimants ? Will any scheme be devised, any means adopted, by which farmers may be enabled to consume the produce of their own lands on the spot, by which turn nferior barley, not worth malting , may be d into food for the stock, and the hearts of the sturdy labourers be cheered by their being authorised "to be drunk on the premises," without sa tisfying the demands of the tax-gatherer ? There can be no doubt that, if a plan could be devised to meet these objects—if the odious visits their labourers, a of the Excisem an could be dispensed with—it wou ld have a very beneficial effect on thecon ditionnd of the agriculturists, stock. spea king seriously, Mr. BALL is entitled to much credit for his suggestion. If he can es t a blish its feasibility—if he can show that it ma y be adopted without injury to the revenue, or without acting as a direct incentive to fraud, he will entitle himself to the thanks and gratitude of his rural brethren, and establish his claim to the title of " the farmer's friend." 1 ----,__ THE NAVAL REVIEW AT SPITHEAD. DEPARTURE OF HER MAJESTY—(THIS DAY.) This morning her Majesty, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, and his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, accompanied by the Marquis of Breadalbane, K.T., the Marquis of Abercorn, K.G., the Marquis of Ormond, Lieut.-Colonel Wood, Col. Bouverie, Captain Dudley de Ros, the Duchess of Sutherland, Lady Suffield, and Lady C. Cust, left Buckingham Palace for the South- Western. Railway, en route for Portsmouth, for the purpose of being present at the review of the fleet at Spithead on Thursday. Upon arriving at the new station, which is in course of erection in the Wands worth-road, her Majesty and suite were received by the railway officials in a splendid pavilion erected by Mr. Benjamin Edgington, of Duke-street, Southwark. After the usual preliminaries had been arranged, the royal train was set in motion. The party occupied five carriages. COURT AND PRIVY COUNCIL. The Queen held a Court and Privy Council at half past two o'clock yesterday afternoon at Buckingham Palace. Her Imperial Highness the Duchess of Leuchtenberg had an audience of her Majesty. Her Imperial Highness was attended by Baron Brunnow, the Russian Minister ; Mdlle. Wayekoff, and Count Wielhorski. Senor de Castello y Lanzas, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from the Mexican Republic, had an audience of the Queen, to deliver his credentials. His Excellency was introduced by the Earl of Clarendon, K.G., her Majesty's principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by Colonel Cornwall, her Majesty's assistant master of the ceremonies. The Hon. Henry Howard had an audience of her Ma jesty, to take leave, on his departure for his diplomatic post at the Court of Brazil. The Hon. Charles Murray had an audience, to kiss hands, on his appointment to be Minister to the Swiss Confederation. Colonel Sheil had an audience of the Queen, on his return from Persia. Dr. John Forbes, physician to her Majesty's house hold, had an audience, when the Queen was pleased to confer the honour of knighthood. Dr. James L. Bardsley, of Manchester, had an audi ence of her Majesty, and received the honour of knight hood. Her Majesty gave audiences to the Earl of Aberdeen and Earl Granville. The Queen held a Privy Council, which was attended by his Royal Highness Prince Albert, Earl Granville, the Earl of Aberdeen, the Earl of Clarendon, the Duke of Newcastle, Sir James Graham, the Lord Chamber.- _ _ . _ lain, and the - Marquis of Abercorn. At the Council, the Lord Justice General was sworn in one of her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council. Mr. Greville was Clerk of the Council in Waiting. After the Council, Sir James Graham and the Mar quis of Breadalbane had audiences of her Majesty. The Court was attended by the Marquis of Breadal bane, K.T., lord chamberlain; the Marquis of Aber corn, K.G., groom of the stole to Prince Albert ; the Earl of Mulgrave, treasurer of the household ; Viscount Drumlanrig, comptroller of the household ; Lord Ernest Bruce, vice-chamberlain ; the Marquis of Ormonde, lord in waiting ; Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. N. Hood, groom in waiting ; and Colonel Bouverie and Captain the Hon. Dudley de Ros, equerries in waiting. COURT CIRCULAR. The Earthmen, from Southern Africa, were brought to Buckingham Palace yesterday morning, by command, and were seen by her Majesty, Prince Albert, and the Royal Family. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Cap tain the Hon. Dudley de Ros, drove to Lancaster's Rifle-ground yesterday. Her Majesty, with their Royal Highnesses the Prin cess Royal and the Princess Alice, attended by the Hon. Matilda Paget, took a drive in an open landau and four, yesterday afternoon. Col, Bouverie was in attendance on horseback. Her Majesty gave a dinner party last evening, at Buckingham Palace. The company included his Royal Highness the Crown Prince and her Imperial Highness the Crown Princess of Wurtemberg, their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Duke of Cambridge, her Royal Highness the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Meek lenburgh Strelitz, the Duke of Newcastle, the Duchess of Sutherland, the Duke and Duchess of Wellington, Baron Brunnow, the Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde, the Earl of Malmesbury, the Earl of Hardwicke, the Earl of Clarendon, Viscount and Viscountess Canning, Viscount and Viscountess Hardinge, Viscount Palmer ston, Madame de Sturmfeder, Lady Suffield, Lady Ca roline Cust, Lord George Lennox, Lord Charles Fitzroy, Viscount Drumlanrig, Lord William Paulet, Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey, Baron Knesebeck, the Compte de Zeppline, and Colonel de Berlichengen. The band of the Coldstream Guards was in attendance in the Palace during dinner, and performed the following selection : Overture, " J esson d a " Spohr. Valse, " D'Adi eu " Grand Fantasia " Zanetta," Auber Selection, " Alma" Polka, " Valerie" D. Godfrey. Marsch, " Franz Josef " Muller. Sir William Clay, M.P., had an interview with Vis count Palmerston yesterday, at the Home-office. Mr. Vance, M.P., an d M r. L. Clare transacted busi ness at the ailway Department of the Board of Trade yesterday. INDUSTRIAL INVENTION IN PRANCE.—The number of applications for new inventions during the present year in France amounts to 3,352, immediately after the rejection of the Constanti nople project by the representatives of the four Powers in Vienna on the 29th of July, Graf Buol Schauenstein himself drew up another form of arrangement which met with the approbation of the other members of the Conference, and was dis patched to Constantinople for acceptance by the Porte previous to being forwarded to St. Peters burgh. The date when sent off is not given. An article in the Preussisches ijTochenblatt men tions as a certainty that the Vienna Conference has stipulated, as the sine qua non of its media tion, the immediate evacuation of the Danubian Principalities. A letter from St. Petersburgh of the 25th ult. mentions the arrival there of an Envoy Extraordi nary of the Shah of Persia. He was attended by a numerous suite, and accompanied by a nephew' of Prince Dolgorouki, the Russian Ambassador at Teheran. Accounts from Cronstadt, of the 25th ult., state that the 3d division of the Russian Baltic fleet has just returned into port, and the Commander Ad miralEpanischin had been summoned to St. Peters burgh. The 2d. division, which was at Kraisnaia gorka, bad also received orders to return. The Ist division, which had not yet gone to sea, had ceased all the preparations for doing so. GERMANY. It is affirmed that the Archbishop of Friburg (Brisgau) has formally pronounced excommunica tion against the members of the Catholic Supreme Council at Carlsruhe, who refused to obey his in junctions to resign their functions. The German political poet Hoffmann, of Fallers leben, has been expelled from Hanover, whither the numerous expulsions of which he has been the object had brought him. The news from the Upper Rhine and Jaung Mountains state that the crops and vines present the highest promise as to quantity and quality. A Brazilian agent has been arrested at RanschaY in Prussia, where he was endeavouring to induce workmen to proceed to South America. AUSTRIA. The Viennese Ecclesiastical Gazette announces the death of the Emperor of China. The Austrian encampment in Moravia will not be established at Turas, but in the vicinity of 0 1- mutz, where 40,000 men are to be assembled front the 15th to the 30th of September. They are to be inspected by the Prince of Prussia, as federal inspector. General Count Wratislaw, will have the chief command. The Austrian Lloyd, at Trieste, is gathering all, information respecting the affair of the mouth of the Danube, at Sulina, with a view of addressing the Austrian Government to solicit its intervention in the removal of the obstacles to the shipping in terest. SPAIN. The Madrid Gazette of the 3d contains the royal decrees accepting the resignation of M. Moyano, as Minister of Public Works, " offered on account of the bad state of his health," and appointing M• Esteban Collantes, Director of the Post-office, las successor. The Three per Cents. were done at 44i ; De ferred Debt, 24. ITALY. The Milan, Gazette of the 2d publishes a sentence pronounced by the Court-martial of Mantua, con demning four persons to various periods of ink prisonment in irons, varying from eight to fifteen months for having been found in the possession of arms. The Venice Gazette publishes a sentence by the Court-martial of Udine, of the 21st ult., con demning a gentleman named Locatelli, aged 50, having a wife and family, and, as the sentence says, a good reputation in a political point of viol/ to two years' imprisonment in irons, for having been found in possession of an unserviceable fire" lock, and a good sword. This sentence has been commuted into one year's imprisonment without irons. The Eco della Borsa of Milan states that grea t importance is 'attributed in high political circles to the fact of Lieut. Marshal Benedeck having been summoned to Vienna, and it is currently re ported that he is to take a part in the labours °f Count Rechberg and Chevalier de Burger for the re-organisation of Lombardy. At Rome, July 27, the police having been in" formed that a number of young men with Britisa, passports had landed at Civita Vecchia and tho /. they had left that place for Rome, caused then' t 0 ' thorn be followed, and two of those were arrested. persons are it would appear that o volu" tionary agents, and that th ey came with the of mediating betwe en th e object secret societies of Italy. a . -., out to be forgeries. various chiefs of the Their passports turnet. THE DOCK LABOURERS' STRIKES.—This morning at 7 o'clock the full quantity of men had been taken on that were required, and printed notices were posted on the gates to that effect ; but a vast number of men re' mained outside the entrances to the London and St . Katharine's Docks. At 8 o'clock this morning a gentle' man from the Directors of the East and West 'no Docks waited u p on M r. M um f or d , t h e Superintende.,et of St. Kath ar i ne ' s Docks, and Mr. Clements of ill London Do c k s , requesting to be supplied with sever hundred men, as the company he represented were 01 need of a great number of labourers. There were abont 300 men at th a t ti me to spare, who h ad been engage'''. as a reserve, and they were accordingly placed at the agent's use, if he thought proper to engage them. T h . ei were then requested to p rocee d to t h e Mi nor i es ' s tail near Tower-hill, and were conveye d b y t h e Bl ac kvi,, Railway to the Docks, wh ere th e y were p u t to 'Or" with a promise of overtime. SUBMARINE AND EUROPEAN TELEGRAPH C OMP ANY. O P ENING TO BIRMINGHAM.—Th e a b ove company's lane line to Birmingham having been connected with ,0 offices, 30, Cornhill, and 104, New-street, the company com menced transmitting dispatches on Monday The communication between the respective terminil"aa :1 found to be more than usually perfect, and the trn% nutting media apparently without flaw. There was public ceremony upon the occasion, and the only calls_ which render the event remarkable are the great re do '', tion in the tariff, the former amount of 2s. 6d. being ir.s, duced to ls., the is. additional charge for each 10 Nv° ;f t above the minimum of 20 having been changed to a tai.;"6 of 6d. for each additional 10 words or fraction of -4 words, and the somewhat gratifying circumstance tile the great link-lines of Europe are now continued in po t unbroken chain of communication from the continev through London, and northwards as far as as Birittiogi ham. The Company's line to Manchester and LiverP°° is to be rapidly proceeded with. . e t MILITIA LAW AMENDIEENT.—Another Govern.- 44 measure has been printed to suspend the making o f lig; and the ballots, and enrolments for the militia of tl.lO United Kingdom, and otherwise to amend the rev b, relation thereto. By its provisions all general and o° oo division meetings of the lieutenancy, excepting those A , called in the 15th o.acl 16th Vic., c. 50, and all pron: ings relating to the ballot and provision of substitntre,""' are to be suspended until the Ist of October 1854,-44, ceedings during such suspension to be by order in Co w ' to So much of the Militia Act of last session as r elates deputy-lieutenants raising volunteers for the tia be repealed. The times and places of exercise are to appointed by the Lord-Lieutenant of the county deputies, and the notices are to be sent to the i t s by post. The penalty for fraudulent enlistmen t „70 1 0 1 future not to exceed 101., and in default three Werthe imprisonment before one of the Justices n ' Peace, who is forthwith to send a report t,,e t he Secretary of State. Provisions are also mad e i c>r m eat discharge of men from the militia on the rePell e ass of the bounty and the expenses of enrolment--t 0 orethe men enlisting in the regular forces — and to withh;"ia, bounty from those wrongfully absenting from re of Enrolment in the militia is not to cause the forfe its any interest in any be ne fit society. Me n abs 001 themselves from or during training, and not taken th ree afterwards, are liable to a penalty of 101., or ad, months in default, with or without hard labour_;.,4oo person s harbouring militiamen so absenting t hew'' incur a penalty of 201.'1130 FLOWERING OF THE VICTORIA RECTA AT -4, 7 1 1 00- CAL GARDENS, MANCHESTER.—This'very rare pla n A v the progress has been watched with so much interes'' '4 B O subscribers to theßotanical Gardens, Old Trafford, jboo• length come into flower. It was received frnr u worth on the 9th of April last. It was then a s e e t haa having only three leaves, none of which were Ine r re sent three inches in diameter. It was placed in itsbP aqua' position in the huge t an k w hi c h it occ upies in t en % o de' ec rium, and in about th ree mon ths the leaves ha d 7floWa to five feet six inches in diameter. The ars oet i o ue opened on Tuesday afternoon at 5 o'clock, anV edn escisl o open until between nine and ten o'clock tin ed 0,, morning. It then closed, and re-op_a finau t i o'clock in the afternoon of the same day, 3 _ 1 4 . eir closed on Thursday morning between sevorifer h o'clock. The flower on the first day was pe i t t b e e _e ' the petals standing erect, but on Thursday n e l,u_L,; lg th e ! , petals were slightly tinged with pink, and :n 1 " f the -st ite gently bent downwards to the edge d ma ture , sre into which it will gradually sink an Pl_ ci seed. Alsecond flower opened on Thur 3 7 l „i o e I ' l ° o o'clock in the afternoon, and closed between a t tw., t o e ,c ri lo o e ' i c i lo th ck e soanmeFraidftaeyrnomoonr,nianigld. clotntrine-aoepdeni:le.„:4l.o: seven or eight o'clock on Saturday morninsfz. °fie 10 4 of the plant are now expanded to a great five feet si% which was measured on Thursday, was chee c irer e . a half inches in diameter, or 16 feet 71 n From Terence. the The present aquarium hea i lth n s p h p e e a a t r e a d n e t eo oari_batohuestupScicsaencisiigotrreioefe is every probability that there will be f flowers for some time.—Examine r. weather of t he HARVEST IN THE WEST. —The genial pastcrops week b the has west, had a an and theost blyehneeafitc i h a Devonshire under sor oey in many parts of Devon - auspices. On Friday, in the Exeter marke.r.,, beneficial lisoose3r Itel9ee f en ri r i gti e samples of this year's wheat were exhibiteu• ------.... imi Mr. shire a Mr. Inote rf e thleat religio Mr. of Chi of ,ji, a ~, ~ HO The 1 The that ii agaitn On berg 80119