The Sun. — London, England, 1853-08-24 00:00:00

NETHERLANDS LAND ENCLOSURE COMPANY " ISSUE OF DEBENTURES." The Directors are now prepared to receive Proposals for the Loans of Sums of Money not exceeding in all 50,0001., on the security of debentures authorised to be issued at the Annual G of the Company, held at Ro tterdam on the 29th July,enerel Meeting 1853. The Debentures are transferable " to Bearer," in sums of 1001., 50G1, and 1,000/. each, repayable at the expiration of three years. and bearing interest at the rate presentation er cent. per annum. The in terest is payable half -yearly, on of the coupons of the Bankers of the Company in London, Paris, Brussels, Antwerp, and Amsterdam. By order of the Board. G. FASSON, Fee. 3, Adelaide -place, London -bridge, August 20, 1853. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OIFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. Charles Kean. THIS EVENING, AUGUST 24, w in be performed THE DAY AFTER THE WEDDING. Sup ported by Mr. and Mrs. W. Lacy. After which, SARDANAPALUS. Principal characters by Mr. 'lnd Mrs. C. Kean. To be followed by CHESTERFIELD TIIINSKIN. Characters by Messrs. Harley, Meadows, Addison, and Miss Vivash. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Vestris. THIS EVENING, Ana. 24, Will be presented LA SONNAMBULA. sim I Reeves and Weiss; Mrs. Sims Reeves. To conclude with THE BEt...GARS' OPERA. Supported by M G. Tedder and Miss Julia Harland. Supported by Messrs, THEATRE ROYAL ADELPIIL Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster —Directress, Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, AUGUST 24, Wlll be performed GENEVIEVE. Characters by Messrs. Parsel'e, Callenford, Woolgar, Leigh Murray, Hastings, A. Wigan, Paul Bedfbrd, Keeley, 0. Smith, and C. J. Smith; Miss Woolgar and Mrs. Keeley. After which, will be presented SARDANAPALUS. To be followed by THE CAMP AT CFIOBHAM. To conclude with WHAT! NO CAB? ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Farren. THIS EVENING, AUGUST 24, Will be performed THE TIMES. Characters by Messrs. T. Farren, T. Mead, William Farren, H. Marston, G. Cooke, and Shat act's; Mesdames Anderton, H. Gordon, E. Turner, and Bartlett. With SHYLOCK, or, THE MERCHANT OF "VENICE PRE SERVED." Shylock. Mr. F. Robson. To conclude with THE WANDERING MINSTREL. Jem Bags, Air. F. Robson. Al.•••• ASTLEY'S ROYAL A.MFRITHEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke. The Best Ventilated Theatre in London.—Excitement exraordlnary; —The increasing demands at the Box-office to witness the memo rable spectacle of the Battle of Waterloo, renders it imperative on t h e ma nagement to anno unce its continuance till SATURDAY September 3, when it must positively be withdrawn, to make room for the new classical novelty which will be produced with un s paral l e l e d splendour. — Mr. W. CO ACE will, by general desire, appear magnificent charger "Riven."—N . .B , ap p e ar every evening Mi s s EMILY COOKE will positively appear on Saturday, Septem ber 3. THIS EVENING, AUGUST 24, And during the week, will be presented (58th night) the success ful National Spectacle of THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO, with m ilitary effects, reviews, terrific encounters, &c. To be followed by Mr. W. Coo.ke's original Scenes in the CIRCLE, introducing Mr. Alfred Cooke (the Premier Rider) as the Spirit of the Oracle, or the Warrior of the Sun. Concluding with (90th time) THE CHASE ; or. LIFE ON THE TURF. Box•ofttce open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. THIS EVENING, AUGUST 24, CHUSAN, Splendid MENAGERIE, Grand Military Band, Vocal acd Instrumental Concert. 3farvellous display of THE FEAST OF LANTERNS, brilliant FIREWORKS, and EXPLOSION of CHINESE FIRE SHIPS. Admission, Is. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. T it' DAY —Morning 12 rain. after 5 Evening 30 min.aft. 5 Taatoßßow—Morning 46 min. after 5 Evening 3 min.aft. 6 THE WEATHER.—Suzr OFFICE, AUGUST 24. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 64—highest since noon yesterday. 54—lowest this morning and during the night. 66—this day at noon. BAROMETER, 26.88—rising. WIND, E. to E.S.E.—Light breeze and cloudy. Heavy mist in the morning. irkj r , r ea,-e Aro, r- • 4-;'s, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1853. Death has recently been busy among the Cele brities. It was only the other day that surgical science was abruptly deprived of one of its most distinguished votaries in the person of Mr. BRANSBY COOPER, suddenly deceased at the Athenaeum Club. In the same copy of our journal which contained this melancholy intelligence, was recorded the demise of one of the brightest examples of valour afforded by the catalogue of the heroines of Great Britain. Allusion is here made, of course, to the dissolution of Lady SALE, the courageous wife of that brave Sir ROBERT SALE, whose prowess will henceforth add another glorious souvenir to the annals of the various feats of arms wrought by Englishmen in Hindostan. Scarcelybad a few hours elapsed after the publication of the fact of these two lamentable occurrences—occurrences inflicting a heavy loss upon the skill and daring of the present generation when it became our sor rowful duty to announce the disappearance from among the number of our veteran defenders of two men of deservedly en viable reputation. By the departure from life of the gallant Lord SALTOUN, the military profession of England was deprived of a noble survivor of a race of warriors now almost extinct —men who fought under the banners and shared in the triumphs of WELLINGTON. By the removal from amongst us of the gallant Sir GEORGE COCKBURN, i the maritime profession almost at the same in-c stant lost another of its eminent chieftains—an other of those illustrions sea-captains who have now almost entirely disappeared —men who par ticipated in the blood-bought victories of our immortal NELSON. Apart from every other consideration, the share taken by the last-mentioned officer in the convey ance of the Emperor NAPOLEON to St. Helena cannot fail to preserve his memory on the scroll of European history, and that, moreover, it is gra tifying to reflect, in a light for many reasons sin gularly favourable. The circumstance is worthy at this moment of particular remembrance. The conduct of Sir GEORGE COCKBURN at the period in question must always be looked back to by his fello w - countrymen with sentiments of almost grateful admiration. For his personal bearing upon that occasion, and under those peculiarly trying circumstances, tended in some measure to redeem by i ts gated abasement'nofanimitY the otherwise unmiti gated the one brio.ht the national character. It shadow of the gleamsurrounding 'piercing the gloom and Hence forth. in the record inodfing turpitude. Hence tivity, Sir GEORGE mthat memorable cap fame may happily counterpois e honourable Sir HUDSON Lowes deurade dl. a se nt ) l(ll honourable s r hope, repu- to greatness of tation. The one appreciated. thkeeeping as the extraordinary man entrusted prisoner—the other testified insult s up a, State of his nature by heaping the pettiest baseness fallen grandeur, and by adding the irritations ofupon his vile and vulgar impertinence to the miseries i what, in truth, were absolutelysublime misfortunes. ~. The one, it is true, had been tutored to heroic actions in the glorious throng of our naval achievements, while the other had been accustomed to the mae , q , mean and despicable views by association with the lowliest of his species, as the leader for some time, on the southern coast of Italy, of a gang of cut-throat Neapolitans. A blundering effort has re cently been made to extenuate the proceedings of Sir HUDSONLOWE towards the captive of St. Helena; but that effort, if successful in any way, has * only proved ineffectual in enhancing, if that can be regarded as having been possible, our sense of the baseness and criminality of the man eulogised. If " possible," we sa y, b ecause , t o our mind the en deavour to darken the notoriety of LowE, would be more extravagant an absurdity than that of " gilding refined gold," of " painting the lily"— more preposterous than an attempt to kill the dead, or to blacken a black-a-moor. No posthu- n niv ercert' 4 4 extenuation could be attempted, .. h 7eft9 l l, 'o4444:lnstance,of Sir GEORGE , ---,—tventracter, : strw.r.._,_,__ . 1. unstilltA 4 tioni - , ), ( e instant - 4 ` - ; ,, the int. Ant 4 .i i s whosc) repute remained of his birth to dissolution. v th e mari.kime proielsion, it is an His i t s () rreismeemin \ ber wa4 - Os rapid. as it was in . all. respects a,bls #4 ,74412* no minally enterinc, tho Captains servant as ea r l y as the honour navY as le 12th March, 17 of 81, he does not a pp ear to have gone to s ea until five years afterwards, when in 1 786 We find him cruising on the home station on board H. M. S. the Termagant. From that vessel he Was removed to the Ariel in 1788, proceeding in her to the East Indies, and returning home in 1791, on board the Princess ,Royal, hidiaman. moioWlo As midshipman he afterwards served in the Hebe, and as master's-mate in the Romney, first in the Channel and then in the Mediterranean. His examination being successfully passed on the 3d of June, 1791, he was thereupon in the following year appointed acting-lieutenant in the Pearl, and was subsequently confirmed in the beginning of 1793 in the Orestes. During that same year we find him the ninth lieutenant of the Britannia (100 guns), and then the tenth lieutenant on board the flag-ship the Victory (100 guns), off Toulon, in which latter vessel he speedily attains the rank of First Lieutenant, and is then promoted before the expiration of October to the command of the sloop Speedy. Immedi ately after this we come upon the catalogue of his many brilliant achievements. His resolution in maintaining the blockade of Genoa caused him to be named, in the January of 1794, Acting Captain of the Inconstant, and to be officially posted, as early as the month ensuing, in the 32-gun frigate the Meleager. His energetic co-operation with the soldiers of Austria in Piedmont ; his hardihood on the 31st of May, 1796, under the bat teries of Larma ; his share in the blockade of Leghorn ; his capture, during the December of that year, of the 40-gun ship, the Sabine ; his defeat at the same time of the 34-gun ship the Matilda ; his participation in the destruction of the corvette L'Etonnant, and his seizure of the privateer Maria ; his bringing out from under the fire of two powerful batteries on Grand Canary Island the French letter of marque the Marseil laise ; and, besides many other heroic deeds, his valiant conduct during the great battle off Cape St. Vincent--may be found honourably inscribed upon the tablets of our naval history, by the truthful, hand of JAMES, or by our other national annalists. His career, up to the close of the last war, was one of daring and valorous activity, as since then, until shortly before his death in 1853, it has been one marked to the last hour by pro fessional zeal and political consistency. His glory it was to have extorted by skill and courage the applause of NELSON, and to have won by his magnanimous courtesies the commendation of NAPOLEON. Briefly—let it be remembered of Sir GEORGE COCKBURN, now that he reposes in death, that he was approved by NELSON for his gal lantry, and that NAPOLEON pronounced him to be a gentleman. Whatever opinions may be entertained as to the legal effect of the limitations contained in the will of JOHN WILLIAM, seventh Earl of BRIDGEWATER, there will be a general feeling of satisfaction at the final decision of the House of Lords, which we published in extenso in our impression of Sa turday. Where so great a diversity of judgment existed amongst the highest judicial authorities as to the technical construction of the instrument, where the Lord Chancellor and no less than nine of the Judges were on one side, and four ex- Chancellors, the Chief Baron, and Baron PLATT on. the other, it would be highly presumptuous to declare authoritatively as to the real effect of these provisions, or whether the acquisition of the title of Duke or Marquis of BRIDGEWATER could be deemed a condition "precedent" or " subsequent" to the enjoyment of the vast estates which passed under the devise. But every person is competent to form his own judgment as to the policy of such a condition, which was unquestionably calculated not only to exercise a very demoralising and inju rious influence over the happiness and independ ence of the successive legatees named in the be quest, but also to place our most gracious SOVE REIGN—the fountain of all honour in the United Kingdom—in a very unpleasant position, being coerced either to bestow a high dignity on a per son who might not have merited it, or possibly, resenting the unwarrantable interference with the Royal prerogative, to refuse a well-deserved honour to a meritorious servant,. lest similar efforts should be made by wealthy testators to secure honours and dignities for the relative to whom they were enabled to leave great riches. Had the attempt been successful, there would unquestion ably have been a necessity for further legis lation to prohibit (as in the celebrated THEL LUSON case) a similar disposition in any fu ture case. The decision of the tribunal of ultimate appeal has, however, happily removed the difficulty, and bestowed the wide-spread do mains in accordance with the dictates of sound common sense—and rendered substantial justice to the parties concerned. The facts of this very extraordinary case which appeared at considerable length in our report of the judgment of the House of Lords, may be briefly stated in a form more intelligible to our non-professional readers. FRANCIS the Third and most celebrated Duke of BRIDGEWATER, whose name will be remembered so long as the canal system exists—by his will bequeathed his canal property to his nephew, the Marquis of STAFFORD, afterwards Duke of SUTHERLAND, with remainder to his second son the present Earl of ELLESMERE, by whom it is now enjoyed—but devised the family estates and personal prop3rty, exceeding half a million sterling,. to his cousin, General JOHN WILLIAM EGERTON, the great grandson of JOHN, third Earl of BRIDGEWATER, and grandnephew of SCROOP first Duke of BRIDGEWATER, who suc ceeded as seventh Earl. This Nobleman had ever evinced a morbid anxiety to retrieve the lost honours of his house, and, being unable to achieve his object during his lifetime, determined to make the testamentary disposition of his immense pro perty the means of eventually accomplishing his desire. With that view, and guided by the skil ful advice of the most acute real property lawyers, ho framed the extraordinary will now under no tice, and which has just been set aside, so far as the most important particular was croncerned. The family of the testator consisted of one brother, FRANCIS HENRY, subsequently eighth and last Earl with whom the BRIDGEWATER titles ex pired, and two nieces, the daughters of his sister Lady AMELIA HUME—one of whom was then Countess of BROWNLOW, and the other wife of Sir CHARLES LONG, afterwards Lord FARNBOROUGH, a well-known and munifi cent benefactor to the National Gallery. As neither Earl FRANCIS nor Lady LONG had, or were likely to have, issue, the testator lCoaed to his grandnephews, the two sons of Lady BROWNLOW, as the parties through whom he could exercise a species of moral coercion on his SOVEREIGN. Accordingly, after bequeathing annui ties of 12,000/, a-year to his widow, 18,0001. per annum to his brother FILINCIS, and 4,000/. to Sir CHARLES LONG, and after his death to Lady Lorro, with a further life interest to the latter after the death of Earl Fitaxcis, the balance being directed to accumulate, he gave the reversion of his estates and the accumulated fund to Lord Al- '°R l ), and his first and other sons in tail male, tititutsdsault of such issue, to his brothel-, that over. ”..-bieENRY CC'S; with several remainders unie-usb: th eondition was, however, annexed, a certain Ulnae Party possession should, within estate hereinbefore Duke or M s.uceeed in acquiring the title of gave utely void." arcp u , of tp GzwA TER, "the use and baoldieeted. to be limited to the heirs male of th e succeeded diehto dth.eec estatejus.t " cease and be absol Y" if such rise to the protracted and person should This was the terminated. provision which under the t ex o p ,r e d its A iv l e Fo l n it D iga s t u io cen limitations of the will, but died under hav'n acquired the title of Duke or Marqui s o f 13 1 g W.A TER, and the question then arose wheth lert7.4- estates, now producing nearly 80,0001. per arinum .Ire should go to his son, charged with a ; .)0410 of 5,000/. per annum for his widow, or whether it passed over to his brother, CHARLES HENIty G us; ,or EGERTON, with a similar proviso as to the acquisition of the coveted title by him, so that it would ultimately become an inheritance so the Gentlemen of the Long Robe—an illus'a-ation of the class of suits exemplified by CHARLES DraKEzsrs in JARNDYCE V. JARNDYCE. This destruction of the estate has been averted by the final judgment which, setting aside the former decision, has vested the estate in the son of the late, the present Lord ALFORD, a result which will be generally accept able to the community. The decision of the veteran Lord LYNDHURST exhibited the matter in the clearest light. There were two p o i n t s to be determined-Ist, Was the provisQ.and con di tion precedent, or subsequent to the vesting of the estate in Lord ALFORD ? and, 2dly, Was it contrary to public policy ? The ma jority of the Law Lords decided in favour of the appellant on both points—Lords LYNDHURST, BROUGHAM, TRURO, and ST. LEONA RDS holding that it was a condition subsequent and against public policy, in which views they were confirmed by Chief Baron POLLOCK and Baron PLATT ; while Lord CRANWIPRTII, Barons PARKE, ALDERSON, and Justices CROMPTON, COLERIDGE, WILLIAMS, CRESSWELL, WIGHTMAN, TALFOURD, and ERLE thought differently—that it was a condition prece dent, and not against public policy. Where such men differed, who shall venture to decide the con troversy ? To' an ordinary understanding there seems to be sound foundation for the argument of Lord LYNDHURST, that an estate could not " cease and determine" unless it had previously existed, and that, therefore, it must have been a condition subsequent. If that was the case of the estate in the first Lord ALFORD, the father of the claimant, and then if the condition was contrary to pub lic policy, it would, according to all the prece dents, be absolutely null and void, the same as if it never had been made. Now certainly it appears to our minds as if nothing could be more mis chievous than to permit so great an inducement to Parliamentary corruption—a condition so unfair, and possibly annoying to the SOVEREIGN. If not contrary to public policy, according to legal pre cedents it ought to be declared to be so, and an Act of Parliament passed to prevent the re petition of similar experiments, in endeavouring to extort the acquirement of titles of honour as the condition of enjoying property under limita tions contained in any deed or will. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 24, 1853, THE CASE OF THE BON. MRS. NORTON. In the Times of to-day there appears a letter, two columns in length, from the Hon. Mr. Norton, the ma gistrate of Lambeth Police-court, in reply to the state ments made by Mrs. Norton, and Mr. Leman, her solicitor, in letters which were published in the same journal on Saturday last. He says : " I seek this public channel of vindication from the false allegations there made, as I have a public character to sustain—my private one is safe in the hands of those who know me. It is as a magistrate, an administrator of justice (according to my ability), that I come forward in the present matter with a plain statement of facts, to prove that I have striven to be as just in my private affairs as it is my aim and desire to be in my public capacity. It is with pain that I feel myself compelled to break that silence which the forbearance of 17 long years has made habitual to me ; but I feel I must now speak out, and that it would be treason to my character and fair fame to leave all these accusations un answered." In another part he observes : "Unhappily, the judge and every one engaged for or against her in the cause seemed overpowered by Mrs. Nor'zon's demeanour, and those who had a turn for the drama (of whom, unfortunately, my own solicitor was one) were suspended in breathless, helpleAs inaction. None who witnessed that scene can forget it to their lives' end—all must remember it as the most splendid piece of acting ever exhibited, however much the sober mind of England must revolt against the disgrace of a court of justice bein g t urne d i nto the stage of Drury lane." After entering into details to show that he had posi tive denials from Mrs. Norton that she was in the receipt of an annuity from Lord Melbourne, he goes on to say : " It is true that in 1837 we contemplated a reunion. She had assured me that she had taken the sacrament in attestation of her innocence of all criminality ; that as surance, and other circumstances, induced me to believe hor innocent of th e l as t o ff ence ; but of the impropriety of her conduct and total disregard of outward appear ances, by which alone society can form its .opinion, no one who moved in our circles could doubt. My own con duct, I admit, at that time was weak and vacillating in the extreme. I had loved her to madness for three or four years before I married her, and after we were united she had all power over me. But all idea of reunion was abruptly broken off when certain tidings reached me of her sejour in the Isle of Wight. From that moment my honour was outraged, and our reunion rendered impossible. Judge, then, of my surprise within the last three or four years to receive hints from her as to our living again together ; one of these I can dis tinctly remember. My son Fletcher was seriously un well at her house, and I went there to see him. I was remarking to hi m th a t I was about t a ki ng a new l ease of my ho use , w h en s h e sa id, `What non s e nse , w h en there's a room for you here.' Would any one believe that in 1849 such a proposal could have come from the person who, on Thursday last, denounced me in the way she did ?" In another part of his communication, he gives the fol lowing history of the action against Lord Melbourne:— "I had observed from the time of their close intimacy Mrs. Norton had taken less interest in our then only child and in myself. On one occasion I had seen her arm round his neck, and when I remonstrated with her she said, "Well, and what if I had my M e lly roun d t h e neck—what was it ?" I was jealous, and mentioned the subject to Mrs. Sheridan, who quite lulled my suspi cions by telling me that he had been her father's friend, and other circumstances ; and on the morning of the 30th of March, 1836, I had no suspicion what ever that their intimacy was anything more than pla tonic. On that morning Mrs. Norton left her home, leaving her letter bureau by accident open, and I saw piles of Lord Melbourne's letters lying i n it. Sh e never showed me his letters, saying letters were not meant for two ; and, knowing her particularity about her letters, without looking at one, I locked the door of the room in which they were, and, giving my servant Fitness th e key, gave him the most positive orders that no one should enter the room until Mrs. Norton returned, in order that she might see that they were untouched, and just as she had left them." In reference to the action against Lord Melbourne, he observes : "It suited the defendant's counsel in that action to give it a political complexion, but I solemnly declare, upon my honour, that not a single person of the Tory or any other party persuaded me to bring it, and no com munication whatever, .had I with Lord Wynford or any other person connected with politics about it until after the trial was over. Mr. Currie, my solicitor for the action, will vouch for this, and he is also aware of cer tain solicitations made by both parties in politics that I would not proceed with the action ; he is aware how my witnesses were molested and tampered with in town, and that it was at their own request some of them were sent to the country, where they were nevertheless followed and persecuted." • He further adds " Lord Melbourne promised me the appointment of police magistrate before he visited at our house, or before, I believe, he even knew Mrs. Norton. Lord Eldon bud appointed me Commissioner of Bankrupts in 1827, and when such appointment was abolished by the construction of the Bankruptcy Court in 1830 or 1801, I considered that I had some claim on the Home Secretary, having received no compensation for the loss of my situation." REPEAL OP THE HOP-DUTY.—The Chancellor of the Exchequer in reply to a deputation of the Weald of Kent Planters, on- Saturday, observed that they were for a total repeal, whereas other and not unimportant bodies among their brethren were for an acreage duty— a plan to which he (Mr. Gladstone) admitted he had been favourable, as preserving a portion of the tax and equalising the pressure now complainel of as unjustly bearing upon the different hop districts. Parliament had evidently not been disposed to accede to the views of the total repealers, whose demand was in fact a dead blow at the excise generally. With respect to Mr. Dis raeli's plan of leaving half the duty as at present im posed, Mr. Gladstone stated that he disapproved of that mode of dealing with the question, since it left in full operation the inequality now complained of by different districts. The right hon. gentleman promised to give the subject his earnest attention. COKE.-0 wing to the increased coke of production, the price of Brancepeth coke is advanced to 11s. per ton, but for quantities of 1,000 tons and upwards the price will still be 10s. 6d. Preparations are making to sink a new pit at Brancepeth, which will enable about 2,409 tons of coals to be raised daily, which, by in creasing the number of ovens to 1,000, nearly 6,000 tons of coke weekly may be made by one firm aione.— Railway Times. FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE HULL AND BRIDLINGTON RAILWAY.—A fatal accident occurred on Monday, on the Hull and Bridlington Railway, near the Cottingham station, by which two women lost their lives and several are reported injured. It is stated that the tyre of one of the wheels came off, and the carriages ran off the line. FATAL 'RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—On Monday, the 22d inst., a fatal accident occurred to one of the guards of the York, Newcastle, and Berwick Itailway Company. At the time the accident happened, the deceased, whose name was William Wright was on the government train from Newcastle to York. It is supposed that he had been inside his break-van, between Sessay and Dilmoor arranging the luggage, that when he found the train VMS approaching the junction he came out, and was making his way to his seat outside, for the purpose of applying . the break, and that in his progress he had hissedhis grasp At the handrail, and so fallen back wards from the train, which, being in rapid motion at the tithe, Would of course give an increased impetus to the force with which his head mine in contact with the 1 ground s and where, from the injuries he sustained, he expired shortly after he was picked up. DEFACIIIG ANTI TENDING THE COlN.—Yesterday the new act to prevent the defacing of the current coin of the realm was printed. It declares that a practice has alisen of defacing the coin of the realm by stamping it for advertising purposes, and bending it. It is now en acted that if any person shall defies any of the Queen's current gold, silver, or copper coin by stamping thereon any names or words, whether such coin shall or shall not be thereby diminished or lightened, or shall use any m71.4 - ..hine or instrument for the purpose of bending the s every such offerder shall in England and Ireland be guilty of a misdemeanour, and in Scotland of a crime or offence, and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable to fine or imprisonment. or fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the court. The second provision in the act is of such general importance that it is given in the very words :—" No tender of payment in money made in gold, silver, or copper coin so defaced or stamped as aforesaid shall be allowed to be a legal tender; and if any person shall tender, utter, or put off any coin so defaced, stamped, or bent, as aforesaid, he shall, on summary conviction thereof before two justices, be liable to forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding 405., provided always, that it shall not be lawful for any person to pro ceed for any such penalty as last aforesaid, without the consent (in England or Ireland) of her Majesty's Attor ney-General for England or Ireland respectively, or (in Scotland) of the Lord Advocate." The act took effect on the 20th inst., when it received the royal assent. THE HARVEST IN IRELAND. —Since this day week there has been a run of uninterruptedly dry weather. Harvest operations are being carried on with great vigour, the scarcity of manual labour, especially in some of the western counties, being.the only drawback to their to e n Chlaavree, wheresset in speedy completion. The rep orts of the condition of the a potato n fortnight tp agoh continue te m disease most t was satisfactory. thought with a good deal of its ol d virulence, all the fatal symp- . toms have disappeared. OLITHEROE ELECTION. — Th e p 01l commenced y esterda y o might soon have decided the contest. The borough had morning, and went on b ut lan g uidly, or the 460 voters been unusually quiet Burin; the night, l ofanthde there were which are Usually resorted to and s,`rategic proceedings 1 h eventfu night preceding the in places' like these on the no attempts at "bottling, 'or othe • more bold course which might be likely to lated to pi•event any bodies of either party endanger the Peace, and as largo were pos t e d a l k out the streets, b. keepino• watch, proceedings T; :e presence of the police was no doubt calcu to have called , i`he first return was issued at 9 o'clock, forth resistance. when Mr. Peel was declared to have only 4 5e other to of this kind won2d have been very likely 57 for Mr. Starkie. At a quarter past 10 the numbers stood—Starkie us, and Peel 89. At 11 o'clock, Starkie 157, Peel 148 ; at 12 o'clock, Starkie 204, Peel 176. The close of the poll was as fellows :—Starkie, 216 ; COURT CIRCULAR OSBORNE, AUG. 23. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, accompanied by Count Alexander Mensdorff, and at tended by the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting, drove to Ventnor yesterday afternoon. The Earl of Aberdeen left yesterday for London, and the Earl of Clarendon and Sir Charles Lyell arrived on a visit to her Majesty. • The Hon. A. Gordon has succeeded the Hon. D. de Ros as Equerry in Waiting to the Prince. THE MARRIAGE OF THE DUKE 'DE BRABANT. The civil marriage of the Duke of Brabant, with the Archduchess Maria, took place in a hall of the Palace at Brussels, at 10 o'clock on Monday, the bride looking rather pale and agitated, but magnificently attired in white and diamonds. The bridegroom wore the uniform of his military rank, a major of Grenadiers, to which he has been recently promoted. The King himself wore the costume of a general, with the red riband of his own Order of Leopold ; and all the Great officers of State wore their official costumes and orders. For the ceremonial marriage the Collegiate Church had been long under repair and decoration, and here the Roman Catholic Church, so potent in Belgium, put forth all that pomp and splendour which is so essential a part of her character. In the centre of the lofty nave rose a baldaquin, which seemed nearly a hundred feet in height ; huge old tapes tries, half faded with the lapse of centuries, enclosed the space in front of the altar. A dim religious light was all that the antique painted windows allowed to pene trate from the dull unfriendly outer air, but a long array of massive candelabra poured the light of thousands and thousands of wax lights on whole legions of priests, clad in white, who thronged in perfect order the high ascending gradations of the altar, in front of which sat the Cardinal Archbishop of Mechlin, Primate of the kingdom, on a gorgeous throne, surrounded by his suffragan bishops, with their high golden croziers rising over their heads. In the centre space, under the baldaquin were the chair of the King and kneeling cushions for the Royal pair, all as rich as gold, velvet, and embroidery could make them ; while on each side the diplomatic corps, the Senate, the Court, the camp, and the city were all represented. The Archbishop received the King and the Prince at the great gate, where they arrived amidst the loud huzzas of the crowd. Blasts of trumpets of full intonation, without a single flat note, regaled our ears, and the King, the Duchess, with long held train of silver cloth, and the Prince, moved up the living avenue to their places under the canopy. The bride and bridegroom then knelt, and the ceremony commenced with a prayer. The Cardinal Archbishop, when all were seated, read a discourse to the Royal pair, monitory of things needful in their new state and highly responsible position, which was listened to with all the decorum requisite on such an occasion. The marriage service was then read and the nuptial benediction pronounced, after which the deep peals of the organ were heard and a subdued but sublime mass choral swelled on our ears, the incense curled on high, and at intervals a salute of 101 guns measured the pro gress of the scene. Last of all, with both organ and orchestra, came Te Deum Laudainue with thrilling powers THE ROYAL VISIT TO DUBLIN. —ln anticipation of the approaching Royal visit, Dublin is at present almost Buffering from an excess of population. Standing room is not to be had at any price iu the hotels, and lodgings of the humblest pretensions to respectability are at a high premium. Everything betokens a brief season of unusual brilliancy in the Irish metropolis. The "illu mination" question was debated yesterday in the corpora. tion, and a satisfactory " compromise" was agreed to. Private houses are not to be lit, but it was recommended that all large establishments and public places should illuminate in such a manner as might be thought most suitable. Fireworks are to be discouraged, •' lest a spark by the merest chance might fall on the Exhibition building, and be productive of serious consequences." Alderman Reynolds fought hard for the chandlers, but he was overborne by the sense of the Council. REPORTED DEATH OF LIEUT.-GENERAL SIR CHARLES J. NAPIER.—The Standard says, that up to noon yester day no intelligence of Sir Charles's death had been re ceived at his private residence, although he was known to be alarmingly ill. The gallant veteran has been exceedingly unwell for the last two or three months, and during nearly the whole of that period was confined to his bed in Hobart-place, Eaton-square ; wh ence , how ever, he was conveyed, last Saturday week, in an easy carriage, to his country mansion at Oaklands, near Hants. Although the repo r t o f his decease is without foundation, it is understood that his ultimate recovery is 'despaired of by his friends and medical attendants, who indeed almost hourly expect his dissolution. NARROW ESCAPE FROM DROWNING. —On Monday afternoon a number of children, while playing on the towing path of the Regent's-canal, near the New Globe, Mile-end, one, a boy about nine years of age, accidentally fell in, and Was nearly drowned. A poor man, a jour neyman shoemaker, jumped in and attempted to save him, but being afraid to venture beyond his depth, re treated, and left the child to perish. Mr. Horncastle, of Poplar, coming by at the time, and hearing the screams of the women witnessing the child sinking, immediately sprang into the canal and brought him up from the bot tom, and delivered him into the charge of the police, who conveyed him home to his parents apparently lifeless. Mr. Horncastle, after his bath, walked off in the direc tion of his home amidst the cheers of the numbers who had by the time assembled, DIETIZESSING SUICIDE. —Yesterday forenoon an in= quest was holden at the Eel Pie Rouse tavern, Peck ham-footpath, Peckham, before Mr. Carter, one of the coroners for the county of Surrey, on the remains of Mr. Thomas Atkinson, a respectable tradesman, whose body had been found in the Surrey Canal, on Saturday morn ing, under what at first were considered suspicious cir cumstances. It appeared that on the previous evening the deceased, who was a gas-fitter in an extensive way of business, had been to Camberwell fair and Vauxhall Gardens with a friend, whom he left at half-past four in the morning, and at eight o'clock his body was found. He had for some time before been very much depressed in his mind, in consequence of his bringing two actions against a person, and his apprehension that he should lose both. The jury returned a verdict to the effect that the deceased had committed suicide while labouring under temporary insanity. The deceased has left a widow and family to deplore his loss. DEATH FROM CHOLERA IN THE MILLI3ANK PmeoN. —Yesterday Mr. Bedford held an inquest in the Mill bank Prison on the body of Mary Keith, alias Campbell, aged 30, a convict, under seven years' transportation for felony. It appeared that something like two hours elapsed before the surgeon of the prison was made acquainted with the nature of her complaint. Dr. Baly, the prison physician, said that on Saturday last he found the deceased in a state of collapse from cholera. lie saw her three times on that day, the last time about 10 o'clock at night. He had tiO hope of her recovery, and she died of cholera bli Sunday morning at two o'clock. In answer to questions from the coroner, Dr. Baly said that there were no means of distinguishing between Asiatic cholera and summer cholera. There were less cases of diarrhoea in the prison this year than last sum mer. On making a post mortem examination of the body, he found the same symptoms as in other cases of death from the same disease. He considered that the (quip toms set in at half-past eight or nine in the morning. He regretted that the deceased had not been seen sooner by 91: surgeon after she became ill ; but he did not, think lil li f e ln e w d i o a u t l e d ly h a a f v t e e r b w e a e r n d , a s a . v e d Theif j. s he tir had y re t b u e r e n n e d a atte nded ver. h t d o ieß i t ver dict, the deceased died from cholera," p.ri oz , at par (ac2ordia g to the last tarlir), p„i; i i r at) 1 : ‘, EX.CHANGE. —The (1110tatiN1 9f gold at at th e London at short being for standard g bh Mint' rie 13.: P eof 17s. 104 d, per ounLle L gold • exc.:lnge at pais. , g.vcs An exchange of .11' ) and, the of 3/. 17s. 10Ad. per follows that gold 's ' on )oWhich, at the English Miut price than in Lond on , .'' about 0.68 per cent. dear in Paris 26, :v o li o i , ch i t , and, fer 2 tandard gold, gives an gold is 427 p e e trhadvices from liainhuigli the price of exchange of Ik6 • London at short gei ng per cent, dearer in Hambn; it course of exchange at New techange at Hamburgh on follows that gold is 0.82 Y or k k than in London. The 60 days' sight is 1091 per cent. an o d . London for bill s at between England and Ameri ca ' be , ing " Ao l 27- , ro per c ent. , c a enf e , it follows that the exchange is nominally 0.17 per cen t. in favour of England ; and, aftor making allowance fr:a• charges of transport, the pres- t, ra ,te leaves scarcely ~en . . any profit on the ininartatum ~ EGHAM RACES. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) ORDER OF RUNNING. I.4s—Town Plate. 2.ls—Queen's Plate. 2.so—Baron's Stakes. 3.2s—Magna Charta Stakes. 3.ss—Prince of Wales Stakes. 4.4o—Egham Stakes. 5. o —Amateur Stakes. s.3o—Matci. Merry Maid, Don, and Diamond filly have arrived. Retail is expected. RADCLIFFE RACES. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) Defiance has gone home. Jacob broke down. LATEST BETTING. MANCHESTER CIIP. 2to 1 agst Sir Robert. 2 to 1 agst St. Andrew. DERBY RACES. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) ORDER OF RUNNING. 2.3o—Grand Stand Stakes. 3. o—Produce Stakes. 3.4s—Tradesman's Plate. 4.3o—Ladies' Purse. s.ls—Maiden Plate. LATEST BETTING. DERBY TRADESMEN'S CUP. Black Doctor and Missive backed against the field freely. POULTRY SHOW AT THE SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. Yesterday a very attractive novelty was added to the standard attractions of the above gardens, in the shape of a numerous and valuable collection of poultry, pigeons, and rabbits, sent in by all the eminent connois seurs, and amongst which prizes to the amount of 2501. were distributed. The show was pronounced to be first rate both in quality and in the nu m b er o f s p ec i m ens exhibited, and, notwithstanding the lowering aspect of the day, attracted a numerous and fashionable assem blage. There was a tremendous array of the fashion able cochins, cinnamon, lemon-coloured, white, and black—the last being the greatest novelty, and some of them valued at 1001. a pair. These birds, so at tractive to the amateur, and so ungainly to the unini tiated observer, wax larger at every succeeding show, as if the growth was stimulated by public approbation ; so that, at some distant day, we may expect to see them disputing the palm of stature with the emu or the ostrich, and ridden, saddled and bridled, into the show by their enterprising exhibitors. The specimens exhibited yesterday possessed all the points of the cochin sangre azule being speckless in hackle, excessively cir cumscribed in posterior diminutions, and having coun tenances, the expressiveness of which was detected with intuitive sympathy by the judges. In consequence of the season of the year, the chickens were in higher feather than the adults, but the whole collection was pronounced to be of the very highest character. The first prize was awarded to Mr. Eason, Thurlow Lodge, Lower Norwood, for the best cock and two hens ; and prizes were also taken by Mr. Fanlie, Adkins, Rawson (a large exhibitor), and several others, indeed the only difficulty felt by the judges in the class was in the em barrass de richesse, with which they had to deal. In Hambro' fowl, Mr. Nichol's pen of gold speckled was much admired, and carried away the first prize of its class. Epicures will be very glad to know that the Aylesbury ducks of this year surpassed all former specimens ; and connoisseurs will not be surprised to learn that in black Spanish fowl, Captain Hornby, of Knowsley, carried away nearly all the prizes. Of seven pens sent in by that gentleman, five became prizeholders. The dealers prize was carried off by Mr. Castang, of Leadenhall-market, under whose superintendence the whole arrangement of the show were carried out. One of the Spanish fowls shown by this exhibitor was much admired, and by many considered to be equal to Captain Hornby's. The pigeons were not so numerous as had been expected, in consequence of the sudden death of an intending exhibitor ; but there were some pens of fantails of rare excellence, to which first prizes were awarded. In the more miscel laneous departments geese, rabbits, &c., the exhibition was exceedingly well supplied, and many of the spe cimens obtained prizes. In addition to the poultry show, the visitors to the gardens had the opportunity of inspecting Mr. Marriott's Apiary, in itself a most inte r resting exhibition, and the newly constructed marine aquarium, in which the finny inhabitants of the deep may be seen disporting themselves in obedience to their various idiosyncracies, and affording to the student in natural history a complete mine of instruction and amuse ment. The erection of this feature in the attraction of the place has been attended with considerable trouble and expense, as large glass tanks, filled with salt or fresh water, had to be provided, and the specimens to be collected from various and distant quarters. It is to be hoped, however, that the public patronage will be such as to make the aquarium as profitable as it is interesting and instructive. In the evening the usual concert, in cluding Miss Poole's singing, and fireworks, completed the bill of fare. THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS. TO J. I'. KNIGHT, ESQ., R.A., SECRETARY TO THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS. SIR, —ln reply to your note of the 21st of June, in which you do not sanction the printing of your private correspondence, I beg to intimate that I have deferred doing so less from a sense of impropriety than an un willingness to force upon public attention the details of a correspondence which could only be interesting to a very small portion of newspaper readers. The publica tion, on the 15th inst., of the report of the "Select Com mittee on the National Gallery" has, however, thrown a new light on the subject of our controversy. When I first took the liberty of addressing you through the medium of The Sun newspaper, I was under the im pression that the Royal Academy of Arts was a char tered body, and as such amenable to law for the com mission of any act in contravention of its charter. In my simplicity I thought I had only to duly seal up the "Rejected Miniature" in the presence of competent witnesses, and have it submitted to something in the shape of a Parliamentary committee to meet with proper redress ; but when, in my communication with " the Select Committee on the National Gallery," I was in formed that the Royal Academy was not a chartered body, but simply a private society, and as such had a perfect right to accept or reject any work of art offered to it for exhibition without being obliged to give a rea son for so doing to any person whatever, I was per fectly astounded. Thanks, however, to the report just issued, that which appeared incomprehensible yes terday is quite intelligible to-day. The trustees of the National Gallery and the members of the Royal Academy have been playing, it appears, rather a nice " make-things-pleasant" sort bf a game. No wonder the secretary of the latter should consider "the columns of a public journal not a fit medium for transacting the private business of the Royal Academy." But had the Royal Academy been as scrupulous about appropriating to its own interest that which was the common property of the public, as it is anxious to keep its questionable transactions secret, the present con troversy would not have occurred. It is the fate, however, of all long courses of irrespon sibility—be the delinquents persons or bodies-4o be over taken by retribution at last. Rats, however, modest and retiring at first, if allowed to occupy a hole in a wall for any considerable period unmolested, will be sure to end by recognising no rights to the building but their own. Thanks again to the report just published ; the Royal Academy is perceived to hold possession of the National Gallery by a tenure analogous to that by which a com munity of rats hold possession of a house. And as with the one species of vermin, so with the other—skilful " rat-catching" regime will only do for either. I am, sir, your obedient servant, THOMAS SKAIFE. Vanbrugh-house, Blackheath, Aug. 22, 1853. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. - (TILTS DAY.) IMPUDENT ROBBERY. Ferdinand NieunzanQE: placed at the bar before Mr. Hardwick, charged with stealing a glass case contain ing a stuffed squirrel, the property of Mr. William Henry Austin, solicitor, 31, St. Martin's-street, Leices ter-square. Mr. James Austin, the son of the prosecutor, deposed that, about 9 o'clock on the previous night, he was standing at his own door, when the prisoner came up, and wanted to go up stairs. Witness stopped him, and asked what he wanted. The prisoner replied, "I beg your pardon, its 32 I want instead of 31," and he then went to No. 32. Witness passed him, leaving his own door open, and in about two minutes, on his re turning, he met the prisoner coming down the stairs with something concealed underneath his coat. Witness followed him into the street and gave him into custody, when the property produced was found upon him. The prisoner, who denied the charge, was 'committed . for trial. NATIONAL FREEHOLD LAND SOCIETY.—This society has just purchased another estate of 130 acres at Cardiff. EXTENSIVE ROBBERY.—Yesterday information was re ceived by the police, that on Saturday afternoon, between four and half-past four o'clock, some expert thief made his way into a counting-house in Ironmonger-lane, Cheapsido, and stole therefrom a black dress coat, in the pocket of which was a book containing Bank of England notes to the amount of 2701., and creeping unperceived by the clerks out of the office, took to his heels and got clear away with his booty. WANT OF "NAVVIES."—A large number, of navvies are wanted for the Manchester and Southport Railway; and the " want " (an unusual one of these useful indi viduals) induces the contractor to offer "liberal wages. THE REGULATION OF OUR TRADE WITH CHINA.—The London Gazette of last night contains the notification of the repeal of certain acts for the regulation of our trade with China , and the new regulations, which are to take effect from the let of November next. LATEST FOREIGN NEWS. FRANCE. Despatches were received at the Foreign-office yesterday from Vienna, dated the 19th, and were immediately sent off to the Emperor to Dieppe. Their contents have not transpired, but it is sup posed that they bring a satisfactory solution of the Turkish question. The questions of the day are now the state of the crops, the measures taken by the Government to provide against any deficiency in the food of the people s and the vast commercial speculations which are on the tapis. It is said in the commercial policy of France that important modifications are in contemplation. There is every reason to believe that the Emperor himself is a free-trader ; in the Cabinet there is a difference of opinion, but one influential member of it, who to a late period has been of a contrary way of thinking, has become a convert. The movement in favour of free trade has commenced. The Emperor is expected in Paris to-day from Dieppe, to preside at a Cabinet Council. In the absence of any news respecting the dis pute between Russia and Turkey, the Paris journals abstain from comments on that subject. There is au article in the Sièc le on the memoran dum of the Austrian Government to the Courts of Europe, with reference to the affair of Kossta. It says : " The principles set forth in this memorandum are true, but who is it that has violated them ? Evidently, Austria, which, in a neutral port, caused to be arrested in a most offensive manner a man placed under the pro tection of the flag of the United States. If the Austrian Consul had any doubts as to the legality of M. Kossta's naturalisation, he was bound to apply to the officer in the command of the American station, and to ask him to oppose the evasion of that refugee until the point of law had been properly cleared up. Austria, disdaining the use of legal proceedings, attempted to obtain justice for herself by force. And now she complains of having met with a legitimate opposition to her acts of violence ! Turkey, always accustomed to yield to a protection which does not protect her, has dismissed Ali Pacha, the Go vernor of Smyrna, formerly Grand-Vizier, and one of the most intelligent men of the Ottoman Empire. There is no danger that the same treatment will fall on the American captain. The United States will uphold the respect due to their flag, and rather than abandon a man protected by an American passport, they would burn down Trieste, and again raise up the Republic of Venice. They care little about the treaties of 1815, before which the Governments of Europe stop short, because these treaties were the affair of princes at the expense of the rights of nations. In truth, when all slumbers in a kind of fetichism for the acetic quo, it would be almost,to be wished that Austria would venture to brave the anger of the United States. But she will not attempt it, well knowing that the Americans would not hesitate to de fend the right as it requires to be defended. However, we enregister, as of good augury, the memorandum of Austria, for it is of a nature to remove all hesitation on the part of the Government of General Pierce to stretch out a friendly hand to those persons who suffer in Europe from the pretensions and acts of Austrian des potism." It has already been stated that the French sub jects who had received foreign orders were not to be allowed to wear them without special authorisa tion. The Moniteur now publishes a decree au thorising a great number of persons, whose names are given, to wear these orders. The Dabats announces the death in Paris of Ge neral de Montholon, who is well known from his connection with the Emperor Napoleon. The Constitutionnel says :—" Different candi dates, accepted by the government, for the elec tions of members of the Legislative Body, which are to take place on the 4th of next month, have been announced. We may mention for the Cotes du Nord, Count Jerome Paul de Champagny, son of M. de Champagny, Duke de Cadore, who was minister of the Emperor Napoleon I. ; for the Loiret, M. Nogent St. Laurent ; and for the Nord, M. Godard Desmarets, member of the Council general." There was not much business transacted at the Bourse yesterday, except in railway shares, the speculators appearing to decline dealing in Govern ment rentes until the final solution of the Eastern question shall be announced in the Moniteur. The Three per Cents. opened at 80f. 45c., and rose to 80f. 60c., at which they closed for the end of the month, The Four-and-a-Halfper Cents. closed at 105 f. 55c. • Orleans Railway shares, 1,290 f.; Rouen, 1,098 f.; Havre, 520 f.; Great Northern, 905 f. ; Paris and Strasburg, 988 f. 75c. ; Paris and Lyons, 972 f. 50c., Lyons to the Mediterranean, 832 f. 50c. ; Western of France, '7sjf. 25c. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 647 f. 50c. ; Great Central, 560 f.; shares of the Bank of Credit Mobilier, 890 f. RUSSIA AND TURKEY. A conspiracy has been discovered at Aleppo. Their object was to plunder and kill the Christian inhabitants of the towns. The ringleaders had been arrested and transported to Rhodes. The Cologne Gazette has the following from Vienna, dated the 19th :—" A courier arrived to day with dispatches from Constantinople, dated the 13th. They were immediately sent off to the Turkish Ambassador, who is now at Baden. It is rumoured that after deliberating for three days the Porte accepted the propositions of the confer ence, but will only ratify them after the evacua tion of the Principalities." The Press of Vienna states from Constantinople that the Russian Consul at Adrianople, who had left his post, has received orders from the Russian Consul-General to return to it forthwith. Baron do IVleyendorff, son of the Ambassador of Russia at Vienna, left Trieste on the 17th for Dalmatia, to proceed to Montenegro, whither he is carrying, it is said, the order of St. Anne to Prince Danilo. A letter from Constantinople of the Bth, in the Wanderer of Vienna, sintes that M. de Bruck, the Austrian Internuncio, had declared to the Porte that in proposing to occupy Servia, the Austrian government had no desire to make the slightest attack on the integrity and sovereignty of Turkey, but merely to aid in the maintenance of order, and that if the Porte did not consider this aid necessary the Austrians would not cross the frontier. A letter from Jassy says :—" General Danuem berg, before his departure from our town, set at liberty all the inhabitants of Moldavia who had been arrested for resistance to Russia. At the same time, the inhabitants were informed that they would be severely punished, if, for the future, they endeavoured to thwart the views of Russia." A Count Ostrowsky has published a series of Slavonian letters in Paris, which show that the non-success of Prince Menschikoff's mission is the first step to Russia's downfall ; and, further, that fall will split the empire into its two component elements, the Polish and the Muscovite : "In the next century the world will see with as tonishment a powerful and mighty Poland erected on a new plan, out of the elements it has possessed for a thousand years, and round it a new cluster grouped, the United States of Europe ; and where the sceptre of the Muscovite Czars once swayed, an imposing Sclavonian Confederation shall stand indestructible in all time." The tone of the Constantinople and Smyrna papers is decidedly martial. Among other lucu brations on possible contingencies, the Impartial de Smyrne says— "lf war begins it will not end for lack of warriors, for many European celebrities have put their talents and their courage at the Sultan's disposal. When war breaks out Turkey will not stand alone ; Europe will not look on with indifference at this political murder." The Turkish reports from the camps state that the most Untiring assiduity and invincible courage are to be met with everywhere. Tribes are flock ing in on all sides to offer their services to the Sultan ; even the Kurds were come. A corres pondent of the Triest Zeitung writes from Con stantinople : " Nobody will believe that the proposals sent from Vienna to the Czar have met with his approval. Every body here speaks of nothing but war ; and some enthu siastic Turks go so far as to talk of giving the Russians a mortal wound on their own ground, and so reconquer ing all the territory Turkey has lately lost." A correspondent of the National Zeitung (Berlin), writing from Constantinople, under date of the Bth inst., takes a calmer view' of the matter than we find in the Turkish papers • he warns his readers not to allow themselves to be misled by the ac counts of the warlike zeal of the Turks. The definitive reply of the Porte was expected at Vienna on Saturday evening or on Sunday. The Wanderer says the passions all of the different par ties have been so thoroughly excited, that as soon as the last Russian regiment has re-crossed the Pruth things will occur in the two Danubian Prin cipalities, and perhaps in Servia, which will war rant a new intervention on the basis of certain stipulations contained in the last treaty of Balta- Liman. Before General Dannenberg left Jassy for Bucharest he liberated all the inhabitants of Moldavia who had been arrested for disobedience to the Russians. At the same time, however, the Moldavians were informed that the severest mea sures would be adopted if in future they offered a ny opposition to the Russian arrangements. A. Russian Commission, which is examining the Su lina mouth of the Danube, is said to have received orders to draw up a plan for its improvement. The numerous fires in the Turkish capital are considered a certain sign of the increasing discontent of the people with the measures of Government. Halil Pasha is mentioned as the future Turkish Envoy to St. Petersburgh. AUSTRIA. The Journal de Franefort contains a letter from Vienna of the 19th, which says :—" Count Buol, Minister of Foreign Affairs, yesterday gave a grand fite to celebrate the birthday of the Em peror. All the Ministers and a great nu nibe q f dignitaries of State were present. Count de Rear berg was likewise invited. M. de Bourquenei celebrated the St. Napoleon by which only French subjects were invited. Theri. was the same day a grand dinner at Lord * 5l , moreland's at which were present several reembel7 of the diplomatic body, and amongst others Baron de Meyendorff, Baron de Stockhausen, ite." A letter from Vienna states that a con maker house in that letter has lately, by order of a baa „ f a grand dinner, t: at St. Petersburg, made considerable purchases of• metallic bonds, paying for them by bills 011 1 , ° . c1 ; don. It is stated that these purchases, w'ilde have tended to keep up prices, have been l ila for the account of a Russian Archduchess. ITALY. The quantity of specie which is now leaving Piedmont for purchases of corn in foreign warl'ept has, says one of the journals, caused the eats Bank of Turin and its branch establishments 1' raise their rate of discount from 4 to 5 per cou t i 3i . The Eco del' Esperienza states that the iliba u . tants of Melsi having proposed to erect a ra° li . ment to the Kino. of Naples, his Majesty being 113 ; formed of it, has directed that the sums collecteu for that purpose be devoted to works of charitYc:r. A grand ball was given to the Queen of d dinia, on the 16th, on board the Curnberlau, U I .S. frigate. The vessel was decorated with ; Italian and American flags. Dancing comrlienc,h, at eight, and lasted until half-past four in " morning. SPAIN. The ex-Queen of the French is expected a nd in the early p ar t o f ne xt month. The P uhe ii to Duchess of M on tp ens ier will proceed to Cad thew meet their royal relative, who will return wi th g. to the Palace of San Telmo to pass the w inter ' Govante, the Minister of Justice, has made kMws ers through the Gazette that for the future f oreigu wishing to exercise the profession of teacher! for Spain must, in their demand for au thoriss,_ . ,ti ° ', p that purpose, state the cause of their tai"l' inv b: l n y their residence in the Peninsula, and ac c a lthel their application by a certificate, prOVIDg that - have exercised the profession for six Year!' , A : the The Three per Cents. were done at 4 4 1 "W A of New Three per Cents. at 23 13-16 ' the ' d the First-class at 10 7-16 ; and that Of the S ec at 5 5-16. ANOTHER ASCENT OF MONT BLG— Ah 7 ofir44 NAVAL OFFICER. re sting jute of . We have been favoured with the following account of another ascent of Mont Blanc Via 12ar we cer, Lieutenant Augustus C. Murray. This cwe2abis believe, is well known in the service. Re ebtaill - 7 li ee first commission for distinguished and gallant KJ ' O l when mate of the brigantine Dolphin, in be si. t g ees et capturing a well-armed and desperate pirate on Isi e o ded• of Africa in 1841, when he was dangerously wt/ He has sir.ce served as lieutenant for many Y ea ts, and latterly as first of the Terrible, 21, steam - M Hibernia, flag-ship of Sir William Parker. w riting "I have made the ascent of Mont Blanc sine'? 0 : 0 0 last to you. We attuned the Grand Mulets, in. lap ight and remained there, a s usua l, f or th e n i g ht. At ra w • n we left them, lighted by a s i ng l e l an t er n ; the -i cay le creased from the time of o u r d e p ar t ur e, until it be e uevi so terrific a gale, that we c ou ld no t p r oceed by t b , old path usually pursued, so we determined to try gip, in one, the same which Dr. Hamel attempted in which he forced the guides to the ascent after theY thus assured him that to advance was to pe rish ' gee causing the death of three poor fellows, a bor which unhappy circumstance this road has b een Of doned. It was the advice of Jean Dirt, o ir chief guide, which determined me under the exis t .7bA cumstances to attempt it. Following this route, " to ols successfully advanced, notwithstanding incessaut.,,,elv to of hail and snow which beat full in our faces nervy se the summit of the Rochers Rouges, when s uddeei of awful crevasse burst open before us with the e .f o s t di thunder ; our advanced guide at the same il ls " 1 11 084 appeared, and we all feared the poor fellow t e a in when to our joy we heard him cry out, and succe ed rescuing him by throwing down our rope, schie b ,„' — ,ibl_, just reached him on the jagged fragment dice, w o f he clung, a narrow escape, for on either Siee - deptP,' yawned a perpendicular chasm of some 150 feet i o _ :itis boo We still kept on, notwithstanding, with undium'„ ardour, in spite of the constantly increasing of the storms of wind and hail, until we 6. 00 - vreti• o naged to reach a small rock just above the, o te Mulets, xnder which the tempest now compell ed to it creep for shelter, absolutely forcing us to cling d ot with all our strength to prevent our being blowy ose All the difficulties of the ascent were no w o ver a te d to be wthalfhiet summit, hour fltiabrvvrsee: n: more isudeuthuer,r w inih asn o oug u u.m l ins d mtot broughthehidmeta.v;usectbholur,ttm ceased us a w c it h h a e to proceed withoutwjasea o all le ourtha that lives,it w a s t near, a h in e a s t ea e Jean r l ue i rti s an i t i b g; as b i ositiose o'er as as i t m he po w ss i i n b d l would infallibly blow lie ,;ciog the adjoining precipice did we attem t it. Witheu t rrtbe r a second thought, un d ersuc h circumpstances, to the'illiooet ascent, we decided on d e sc en di ng without loss °f us' every moment of which was now becoming doubly Pr'"sod Throwing ourselves at full length on the 01)° :12 crawling to the edge of the des cen t, we slid detnir to few minutes what had taken us more than an ,T - Gee , : surmount. Then commenced the labour of Ou r yr' as the snow had fallen to suc h a d e pth that wv e 0 half-buried at every s t e p. W orn ou t with fet i C to finally reached the Gra n d s M u l e t s , w here we i'wool," spend the night ; an d suc h a n i g h t came on our not have lost it f or wor ld s . E ven now it thrilln r e cee' me, far surpassing in grandeur all I could ever ea a vr ceived. The fea r f u l h urr i canes o f w i n d, the fe" "hoods r il lanches, the openi ng crevasses , th e crash oftb the fierce lightning, riving in vivid fle sh , „ e° o•-• 4/ 2„, dark clouds veili ng th e summit of Mont 13 J A- t hie*, combined to form a scene w hi c h th e a bsolute ness of man must truly see and feel to cur e A l e . s ois,, • te When I looked upon it from our lonely Oa, „" resting-spot, far above the sweet village of Cu e— :roe e ; it seemed as though the mountainous w orlds o efi us were warring with an angry heaven. 112 „ e n ivs P : a morning, when I looked in search of our ';' e stig: route, it was impossible to distinguish 3 Oil?, of it, from the changes that had taken Pla ce i, 1 ":4 the night. What had been comparatively lev- u s now heaved up into gigantic waves. Nurner°Abell. impassable crevasses likewise blocked the waY• on ate l e ld 5 a.m, we re-co mmence d o ur d escen t, and f or t one a arrived in safety at Chamounix. We coo' on our ascent on the I s t o f August, a t seven a ' lon e returned on the 3d, at nine a.m. I wer lt a e Se lie taking five guides with me, of whom the chief c e c l e ver Tairraz, is a fine b rave f e ll ow , and is besides a tn an }' naturalist ; I most cordially recomm end bin' t ',o oo one willing to try this most arduous asee ri evasse man besides, a volunteer, gave up at the last c ise per; and returned. There is one thing I would ad: g uid e d sons who may wish to ascend Mont Blanc. T 4 b„,,,. 013 , 0 at Chamounix are fettered by police regu la ' l , a rd t are obliged to serve in rotation without rug, be , their capabilities, to avoid which annoyance g i s t be, plan is to select your principal guide a t Cha,'▪ ' ,5• ar and walk to Turin with him and obtain t he t o dinian Minister's order for the ones you '' Theo select. I should ce r t a i n ly a d v ise five at leas t ' e befe' walk back, and tak e a f ew d a y s ' good exercirs. dove_ you attempt it ; I s u ff ere d muc h from not hal. 00 so. A firm det ermina ti on an d good health v" carry one through." ----- ost ° A Bnia ri HT ~ O BIET.—For some few eveningg the conspicuous comet has been visible a little o ,l)° , ° L the N.W. horizon at dusk, and will continue so noels der"ug is of the second magnitue present week'. On Saturday. at 3 o'clock, the wh ich was brighter than the well-known star Cor Caroll , Jig' .tin ' guished with the naked eye, but was trace is much greater distance with an ordinary' nightg l°s6 ,,ri: °° ;ashort tail eeu ld c i be to f. evening the comet will set three hours after tatter hith• the 27th two hours, and on the 31st one hour ai t t e ii it i 5 Its brilliancy will increase rapidly each night until on t b j e z finally lost below the horizon. It is at presenvocts i' borders of Leo and Ursa Major, moving O, c on' Leonis, from the stars v and :-," ill the Ta ttel bel c !' stellation. The tail streams off directly from t ba ni vet ° without any appearance of division, and the e h - , lovi altogether a very pretty object when viewed with magn ifyi n g power. AS ag f° SCOTCH LEGISLATION IN THE LATE SE5 5l°- g.-- ; 00' r 1, as we can remember, or can make out fr om thei scot(/' of the Parliamentary proceedings, t h e numbe r ° t Wer e meas ures introduced or adopted ' by Governteesoeptio: eight, of which seven are now law. The en ° rathe r is the Edinburgh Annuity Tax Bill, which wilf;,i'easre' local and private than a national and publie,' - „ su,' and the causes of whose failura have alrea,df v e s" '.'", solidation ciently discussed. The seven successful bills 3 ,, i 1.- tcf I Sheriff Courts ; 2. University Tests • 3. 1 33°Ig :,Te tr 4. Entails ; 5. Burgh Harbours ; 6. 'SheriffihiP-of the ; 7. Evidence (which was a erlear re /0 111). Lord Advocate, though adopted by Lord .10,_.°%r oil! This does seem a pretty fair quantity of welix a ah ooov session, and a session, too, crowded and Wo rt° o sure s. beyond precedent with important imperial 111 w hich Restricting our comparison to those measureso, sy° apply only to one or other of the three during tb° make out the facts sufficiently to see that, ;f whole session, the purely Scotch business has been the ther advanced than either tha merely Eng lis t ore merely Irish. It ought not to be omitted te. o se er), one of the measures carried—which, as we 133vh3,1 the were all that the Lord Advocate introduced-- Qcotoi support of an overwhelming majority of the ', es ion members. What, then, is the sum of the who-e l' ec hillf, as regards Scotch business ? That no bill OP dc e° affe • cting Scotland has been carried or but such as had the support of the Scotch rer_,orfet, tives ; and that every Scotch bill which they slrot got has become law. If, therefore, Scotland has 14; "justice" this year, it is entirely her own fae,:lieddle..' Englishman has refused anythieg she a sked, l a i n d, ot ° with anything that belonged to her. Can Ir e _ ber of °. her special officers of state and double the ue, 11 0 presentatives, say half as much ?—Scotsman• neal THE BIGHTS OF NUNS. —A petition of r t h e der e ; been presented to the House of Lords agein s _ t ot e 6 _, of the Lord Chancellor of Ireland, in the jut of fai t of Blake v. Blake, and early in the next s es e si „i; ou se °, liament the question will come before th e9 r .... 3- 10 , :l ye Lords. as to the rights of persons or inherit ..:_i i or per' having taken the vows, to acquire or inherit s=l estate. even intr,oesoo;