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FITTIK EDITION. Now ready, in 1 vol., with plates, 10s. 6d. bound, The ISTORY OF MARGARET CATCHPOLE, A SUFFOLII GIRL. By the REV. R. 'COBBoLD, " Compressed into the compass r,f cue volume, this biography will pecome a standard work ; for al together Margaret Catchpole was millciently remarkable in charticter and fortunes to take her place among the celebrated personae:es of times past."—Britannia. Henry Colburn, Publishrz, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THE NEW NOVEL. GBY THE AUTHOR OF " SECOND LOVE," IS NOW READY AT ALL THE LIBRARIES. lqichard Bentley, New Burlington-street; It ALLLWAY SliAltEs BY PUBLIC ,ALE. LAMOND and Co., ItAILWAT SHARE AUCTIONEERS, beg to thank their Friends and the Public for their continued support and patronage, and to announce that their Public Sales of Railway `Bares, take place every WEDNESDAY. at One o'clock, (instead of Tuesday and Friday, a.; hitherto), at the Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle street, London, to which place, favours, containing instructions (with a reference), are respectfully requested to be addressed. All Scrip and Share Certificates must be deposited, the day previous to their being offered ; and advice' of results will Do forwarded Dy the first post after the sale, and the proceeds tome -1 ately disposed of according to instrgctions. N.B. Sales and pwrchases of all descriptions of stock and shares effected by private contract, every day, astusual. utlices, iiall 01 Coirunerce, Threadneedle-street.tondon. WEB. MAJESTY'S THEATRE. THIS EVENIv.G, Tuesday, July 20, will be performed Meyer. beer's eelebrated opera ROBERTO IL DIAVOLO. _ _ Alice, Mdlle. Jenny Isabella, Made. Castellan ; Roberto, Signor Fr hint ; Rambaldo, ,ignor Gardoni ; Sacerdote, Signor Bouche ; !ant Bertram, Signor Staudigl. In the Second Act an incidental Divertissement, in which Mdlle. Carolina Rosati will appear. To conclude with (for the last time) the celebrated PAS DE QUATRE, by M. Perrot, by Wiles. Taglioni, Cerito, Rosati, and Carlotta Grist (her last appearance). The Free Liit is suspended, the Public Press excepted. Pit Tickets may be obtained, as usual, at the Office of the Theatre, price 10s. (3d. each. Applications for boxes, pit stalls, and tickets, to be made at the Box-oftice, at the theatre. On THURSDAY NEXT (it being included in the subscription) will be produced (by special desire) an entirely new opera, composed ex pressly for this theatre, by Sig. Verdi, entitled I 31ASNAtiIERE. The litrretto founded on the y drama of " The Robbers," by Schil ler, with new scenery, dresses, and decoiationt. Amalia, 3fdlle. Jenny Lind; Carlo, Sig. Gardoni ; Francesco, Sig. Colettl ; 3foger, Sig. Bouche ; Arminio, Sig. Corelli ; _Rola, Sig. Dai Flora; assintillano, Sig. Lablache. To conclude with various Entertainments in the BALLET DE PARTMENTS, particulars of whieh will be duly announced. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the Management of Mr. R. Webster, sole Lessee. THIS EVENING Will be presented MARRIED LIFE. Mr. Samuel Coddle. Mr. W. Farren ; Mrs. Samuel Coddle, Mrs. Glover ; Mr. Lionel L 3 nx. Mr. H. Roll ; Mrs. Vonel Lynx, Miss Julia Bennett ; Mr. Young husband, Mr. Brindal; Mrs. Younghusband, Mrs. Humby ; Mr. G. Dismal, Mr. Tilbury ; Mrs. G. Dismal, Mrs. Stanley ; Mr. Henry Dove, Mr. Buckstone ; Mrs. Henry Dove, Mrs. W. Clifford. After which the drama of GRANDFAT 1 , ER WHITEiIEAD. Grandfather Whitehead, Mr. W. Farren ; Drayton, Mr. Tilbury; Langley, Mr. Stuart; Louisa Drayton, Mrs. Seymour. - • --- To be followed by the new comic drama, called THE JACOBITE. g Richard Wroughton, Mr. Stuart; John Duck, Mr. Buckstone ; Lady Somerford, Miss Fortescue. THEATRE ROYAL. ADELPHI. Under the direction of Madams Celeste THIS EVENING Will ha produced a new and original comedy in three acts, called THE TITLE DEEDS. Principal charactena by Messrs. Lambert, Wright, Paul Bedford, 0. Smith, Boyce, Munyard, C. J. Smith, Worrell ; Mrs. Yates, Miss Woolgar, Miss E. Harding, Miss E. Chaplin, Mrs. Laws, &c. To be followed by THE WRECK ASHORE. Miles Bertram, Mr. Boyce ; Grampus, Mr. 0. Smith ; armaduke Magog, Mr, Wright ; Alice, Mrs. Yates ; Bella, Miss Woolgar. To conclude with a new and original burletta, in one act, by Charles Selby, Esq., called OUT ON THE SLY ; or, A Fete at Rosherville. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. (Summer THIS Will be presented a new and original drama, in two acts, entitled FLEUR DE I ,YS ; or, Lover Triumph. Comte de Marigny, Mr. Bender, Maurice Vermont, Mr. Murray; Coquadrat, Mr. Oxberry ; Fompon Mongflard, Mr. George Wild ; Fleur de Lys, Miss Ellen Daly ; Isabel de Marigny, Miss Arden. To be followed by a new Bal et Dive-tism,nt, produced under the direction of Mr. Peamore, called I'HE ROCK OF BEAUTY, in which the Spanish Dancers will appear. Ater which, a new drama, cal'ed THE NINTH HOUR. Louis Baguette, Mr. Emery; Charlotte Menard, Miss Daly. To conclude with rHE MOMENTOUS QUESTION. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. J. M. Maddox, sole Lessee and Manager. THIS EVENING. After which, a new drama (with music by Loder) entitled DYING FOR A KISS. The characters by Madame Vestris, Miss Emma Stanley. Mr. J. Webster. Mr. Granby, and Mr. Compton. To be followed by USED UP. Sir Charles Coldstream, Mr, C. Mathews. After which the new farce, entitled A SOVEREIGN REMEDY. Captain Pendragon, Mr. Ryder ; Mr. Bottleby, Mr Granby ; Quackit, Mr. C. Mathews; Alfred, Mr. J. Webster; Mrs. Bottleby, Mrs. Tosbroke ; Mary, Miss Marshall. To conclude with a comic drama, entitled "LADIES BEWARE !" Colonel Vavasour, Mr. Granby; Sir Charles Vavasour, Mr. James Vining; Matilda, Miss Cooper. FRENCH PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Lessee. Mr. John Mitchell. TO-MORROW EVENING For the Benefit of Mr. Mitchell. Will be presented UNE FEMME QUI SE JETTE PAR LA FENETRE. The characters by M. Dumery, M. Rhozevil, Mdlle Vallee, Mme. Grassau, and Mdlle. Clemence Ceneau. After which the Second -ict of Soumet's celebrated play of VIR GINIE. Applus Claudius, M. Raphael Felix ; Fausta, M. Rabu. ; Virginie, Mdlle. Rachel. During the evening the eminent da , iseuse Mdlle. TAGLIONI has obligingly offered to execute a favourite Pas Seul, assisted by the Coryphees of Her Majesty's Theatre. To conclude with Moliere's popular comedy of LE MISA.NTROPE. Celimene Mdlle. Rachel. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Proprietor and Manager. Mr. William Batty. THIS EVENING Two gorgeous Sneetales in one night. First time this season, MAZEPPA; or, Tne Wild Horse. With all its original ,ffeets. Last week of the highly-successful Peruvian drama, entitle i rIIE STORMING OF QUITO ; of, the Warrior of the Sun. Rolla, Mr. W. West. Entirely new Scenes in the Arena, by the talented Artistes of the Establishment, in the various modes of equestraton. Stage Manager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Under the Management of Mrs. Frances David,ge, Lessee. THIS EVENING Will be presented ShaTspere's tragedy of JULIUS C..VIAR Brutus. Mr. G. Bennett ; Cassius, Mr. Lyon; Marc Antony, Mr. H. Marston ; Portia, Mrs. H. Vining. After which the popular farce of THE HYPOCHONDRIAC. To conclude with the admired drama if THE SOLITARY OF THE HEATH. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. THIS EVENING will he presented THE BLACK DOCTOR ; or, The Fated Lovers of Bourbon. Fabian, Mr. Edwards ; St. Luce, Mr. Bird ; Briquet, Mr. Gardner; Andre, Mr. Searle; Pauline de la Reynesie, Miss Vincent ; Marcbioness, Mrs. G. Lee. Ater which GEORGE BARNWELL ; or, the City Merchant. George Barnwell, Mr. Hicks. To conclude pith a romantic drama, entitled CLANRONALD ; o ,The Usurper of Glencairn. Boxes, le.; Hall Price, 6d. Pit, 6d. ; Gallery, 3d. ROYAL, SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. Last Four Nights of M. Jullien. First week of the Jenny Lind Quadrilles—Second week of the Harmonic R ck Band. THIS D Y, July 20, The Entertainments repeated Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Daylight View of Gibraltar—Splendid Menagerie— Prom. nade Concert by Jullien's band of One Hundred performers, includinMes.ts. g Barret, Bauman, Prospere, Collinet, Richardson, Lazarus, CrotTli, Koenig, &c , two of whom will perform a solo each evening ; Conductor, M. Jullien ; Leader, Mr. Godfrey. The celebrated Rock Harmonicon nand will also perform at intervals, concluding with the Siege of Gibraltar. Feeding the Anima's at Five; Juilien's Concert, Quarter-past Six; Fireworks, Quarter-past Nine. —No extra charge. Admission to the whole, One Shilling. On WEDNESDAY next the Royal Ssuth London Floricultural Society will hold their Grand Summer Flower Show here. Upwards of Fifty Prizes will be awarded for Fruit and Flowers. WEATHER.—& rN 4 /FFICE. JULY 19. T tt.RMOMETER, Lowest, 52; Highest. 69 ; Noon, 65, BAROMETER, 30.04.—W1ND E.N.E. ; cloudy. Ell ,ti WATEit .IT LONDON-tticiii4;i% DAt Morning.. 40 minutes after 6 j 'Event= .. I "'note afro' 7. -1L ; .u, 41A4. o Rout • 0 1 - 11 T, • noS fliørnnA r uit LONDON, TUESDAY, JULY 20, 1847. Sir ROBERT PEEL has constituted himself a great Leader of the English People . by proving himself himself Patriotic Statesman. His retirement from office in the government of these realms can never be forgotten : it was invested with the dignity cf an historic event by the enthusiasm of the whol e nat i on f or a falling but triumphant Ministe r . Si nce th a t memorable occasion the late Premier has lived in comparative retire ment ; comparative, we say, merely in reference to the prominent position occupied by him in the House of the representativ e Legislature during the five years preceding. Sir ROBERT has at length emerged from this partial privacy by publishing an Address to his constituency at Tamworth. That Address, how ever, belongs not exclusively to the electors of Tamworth ; it is the property of the whole kingdom, it is for the perusal of every enfranchised citizen in the empire. Some declaration of opinion, some defir.ite an nouncement of principle, some explanatory allusions to the p a st, some assurances and au gur i es as to the future, were expected from Sir ROBERT PEEL imme diately upon the dissolution of the Long Parli ament, of which he had l ost t h e during the existence obedience of a Great Party, and gained the gratitude and affections o f a Great People. Sir ROBERT P EEL has fulfilled all these expectations by his comprehen sive letter to his constituents. nire: , toes of the For mer ly the electioneering ma Right Hon. Baronet the representativ e of Tamworth were little better than political puzzles. The Ad drees before us —every word and numeral of which we have studied with the attention demanded by a document of such significance and importance — is eminently the reverse of its predecessors. It is penned in the homeliest style imaginable ; but that ve ry characteristic of homeliness, both in manner and 1 language, imparts an extraordinary forcefulness to 1 the composition. Nothing could be more straight forward, more manly, more independent, more candid, more conclusive than the explanation given by the ex-Prime Minister of his conduct throughout the period of his Administration. Nothing could be m ore singularly indicative of the soundness of his position before the country than the solicitation of the suffrages of the Tamworth electors by which that explanation is accompanied—a solicitation so graceful in utterance, and yet so uncompromising in dignity. The Address, indeed, will be doubly wel come to the community at large ; it will be welcome as an explicit retrospect of a policy which has been productive of incalculable benefits to the million ; and, above all, it will be welcome as a token that the inaugurator of that policy is staunch in his adherence to the cause of progression and improvement. Sir R. PEEL is fully committed to the popular move ment. Liberalism is bis political creed. The greatest good to the greatest number is the end of all his as pirations as a politician; and—seeing that his obser vations upon the Maynooth grant, upon the penal enactments, and upon the extension to all religious classes of the blessings of national education, imply the most catholic tolerance—we are justified in regarding as his favourite motto, " Civil and Religious Li berty." The retrospect taken by Sir ROBERT PEEL is, as we have already intimated, most satisfactory ; but how could it be otherwise ? The Right Hon. Baronet can only look back with exultation upon the closing achievements and predominant ten dency of his Administration. Referring to the state of our foreign relations at that period, he can only remember the honourable compromise effected with regard to Oregon, whereby continued jealousies and probable warfare, between Great Britain and the United States, were prevented; he can only remember the triumphal progress of our arms in the defence and development of our Oriental possessions ; he can only remember the prolonged and continuous peace preserved between ourselves and the other kingdoms of Christendom. Referring to the measures adopted by himself and his colleagues for the development and preservation of the Established Church, he recalls to mind the fact of their having afforded facilities for religious instruction to no less than 764,000 souls hitherto excluded from that instruction by the paucity of the churches when compared with the general population. And, referring to the financial and com mercial innovations effected under his especial guidance, he enumerates a series of such marvellous and beneficent changes (faits accompli), as it has never before fallen to the lot of any statesman to catalogue. . A profound interest is attached to this portion of Sir R. PEEL'S manifesto. The details, it is true, are no more than a recapitulation of the speeches deli vered in the House of Commons by the Right Hon. Baronet on proposing the total, but gradual, abolition of the laws obstructing the importation of foreign grain—the recapitulation, however, is more concise, and, if possible, more convincing and unanswerable than the orations it echoes. Again, does the ex- Premier aver that his conversion from the doctrines of Protection to those of Free-trade was not as abrupt as his present antagonists asseverate. He proves that in his instance there was no sudden " jumping to con clusions ;" that, on the contrary, his financial policy tended, from 1842 inclwively, to the ultimate reali sation of freedom to commerce. Nevertheless, he is not ashamed to acknowledge, as he nobly acknow ledgel on retiring from authority, that his confidence in the so-called protective system was materially weakened " by the conflict of argument on the prin ciple of a restrictive policy," meaning thereby the peaceful agitation of the Anti-Corn-law League, and the logical eloquence of its illustrious chieftain, Mr. COBDEN. To the awful deficiency of provisions, moreover, caused by the mysterious destruction of the potato crops in 1845, he attributes in a particular manner his final determination to demand the abro gation of the corn-laws. Famine was indeed to him what the Sibyl was to the Prince of Viauzz.—at once a warning and a guide. Famine warned him from an obstinate persistence in the obsolete blunder of pro tection, while it led him on to the golden glories of free trade ; it pointed not from the luco to the antro, not from the grove to the cavern, but from the dark ness and confinement of old laws to the light and liberty of new ones. " Procul 0, procul este, profani, Conclamat vates, totoque absistite luco. Tuque invade viam, vaginique eripe ferrum ; Nunc a.nimis opus, lEnea, nuns pectore firm°. Tan iitn pffata, turens antro se immisit aperto: Ilk ducem haud timidis vadentem passibus mqult." Famine threatened ; experience conquered a moiety of prejudices ; reason and argument overcame the remainder. Sir ROBERT proclaimed to his colleagues the necessity of opening the ports and of blotting the restrictive laws upon corn from the statute-book : the Conservative party was thereby deprived of its creator, and he himself was expelled from office, though he was accompanied in his retirement by the accla mations of his fellow-countrymen. History sill tell that those acclamations were well deserved, that they were deserved because of the in troduction of a financial and commercial policy which has in truth tended "to furtify the established in stitutions of this country, to inspire confidence in the equity and benevolence of the Legislature, to main tain the just authority of an hereditary nobility," and —what is more practically beneficial than all—" to better the condition of those who labour for their subsistence." By the establishment of an income tax and the removal of imposts from articles of consumption, whether as food or as the materials of manufacture, Sir ROBERT PEEL relieved the poorer classes from the burden of contributing in undue pro portions to the national revenue, and removed the re sponsibility of the maintenance of the credit of our exchequer to those more opulent classes among which he himself is notoriously numbered. This considera tion it is which justifies the Right Honourable Baronet in saying so emphatically, in allu sion to his determination, in the November of 1845, to abolish the restrictions against the introduction of grain from foreign countries—" I am wholly un conscious of any single motive of self-interest, personal or political, which was not calculated to bias my judg ment in favour of an opposite conclusion." Knowing the accuracy of this assurance, the population of Great Britain cannot but recognise in the consequent retire ment of Sir ROBERT PEEL from authority the sacri fice of Place to Patriotism. What will the electors of Tam worth do ? What will be the influence of this Address over the scattered divisions of the Conservative party ? The answer must be obvious to themselves. Sir ROBERT shows that he is neither a wavering supporter of Expediency, nor a sycophantic aspirant for the votes of any single constituency in the empire. On the contrary, he evidences that he is an honest convert and a manly candidate. If, therefore, the enfran chised inhabitants of Taraworth are conscientiously opposed to the course adventured upon by their distinguished representative, they have had pointed out to them by that very representative himself the only path which now remains open to their inde pendence. Whatever may be the decision of his constituents, however, Sir ROBERT PEEL will retain the affection and admiration of the people, because in becoming a Reformer of singular audacity, he has become also a National Benefactor. In the observations which we offered on Friday, respecting the cla use p ro p osed b y Mr. G. ALE IANDEE: HAMILTON to be inserted in the Bankruptcy an d Insolvency Bill, we stated that none of the parties seemed aware of the fact that an Act had been passed in the year 1841, by which members of the Irish bar were qualified to be appointed to any of the offices abolished by the Bill, and generally to any judicial office, unless specially excluded. On inquiry we have learned that Mr. HAMILTON men tioned th e ex i stence o f thi s provision, although from the confusion which unfortunately prevailed in the House at the time it was not reported, and 1 , from the line of argument adopted by its opponents it to b render e c i nju s tinjustice to an unintentional did not a ppearunder s t oo d. W e h as t e n to cor rect our person, and we s h ou ld regret it the more inthe present inst ance , as, although y Pr or. We should be sorry to r. HAMILTON in political feeling, wholly opposed to M : he was at the time endeavouring' to obtain an act of ; justice for a highly respectable body of his country ; men, and to promote an object whiecohplAe-eofare the satisfied United would be highly beneficial to th e p Kingdom generally. 1 It was considered desirable to obtain a legis lative declaration o f the ri ghts of the Irish b although no new enactment mi ght be re ar, - quired to confer that ri g ht, and it w as with that view that Lord CAMPBELL introduced the clause to which we have already alluded, although Lord LYNDBTJBST, on its introduction, stated that he i conceived it to be unnecessary, for be never under- THE SUN, stood when the term "barrister" or "barrister-at law" was used in any Act, that it did not include Irish as well as English barristers—indeed, the Le• gislature must mean by the term persons who are competent to practise before its own tribunal, in any of its branches, in that capacity; and it is now uni- I versally acknowledged that an Irish barrister is qua lified to appear at the bar of either House. But it is important, not only that the privilege should exist, but that it should be acted on and carried into prac tical effect—not merely that parties should be eligible to office, but that there should be a reciprocal opening of the Courts in each country. There can be no sufficient reason urged against the admission of the Irish bar to a full participation in all the rights and privileges conceded to their brethren and vice versa. The privileges of the bar are admittedly not for their own benefit, but for that of the suitors in the several courts, of the clients who may have occasion to avail themselves of their ser vices. The great ob ect to be achieved in either country is clearly to obtain persons of competent ability and learning, and of unblemished reputation. The Irish bar will not be found wanting in any of these respects. Sir EDWARD SUGDEN, a witness whose authority as to legal endowments will scarcely be impeached in this country, has borne the strongest testimony to the merits cf the Irish bar, and stated that in the depth of their research, the extent of their attainments, and in the skill, talent, and integrity with which they applied their knowledge, they were second to none. A student in Ireland is subjected to as many tests, before he is admitted to practice, as in this country ; nay, more, he is compelled to become a member of one of the Inns of Court in London, and thus, in addition to the legal education afforded in Ireland, to go through everything that is required as a qualification for the English bar. Why, then, should a system be kept up that perpetuates differences between the nations that it is in every respect de sirable to have abolished? It is not for the benefit of the suitors. If the Irish bar are so far beneath the English, as alleged by some, they will speedily find their proper level, and the English practitioners will have little reason to shrink from the competition ; nay, they would be the great gainers by the change, for an extensive field would be opened to them, in which they would speedily attain the pre •eminence due to their superior acquirements. The opinions of Lord CAMPBELL on this subject are well known. That distinguished lawyer has long expressed the greatest anxiety for the abolition of every distinction. In his evidence before the Com mittee on Legal Education he says, in answer to question 3,869, "My own opinion is, that there ought to be one bar for England and Ireland, and that a barrister who practises in England should be entitled to practice at the Irish bar also." And to the question (3,874), "Do you think it would be advisable also that English judges should go the Irish circuits, and Irish judges the English ?" he says, " I feel that so strongly, that I have several times pro posed in the House of Lords that the- system should be adopted." Lord WELLESLEY was of opinion that it would tend very much to benefit the United Kingdom if there were one bar for England and Ireland ; and that there should be an in terchange—" that English barristers should be appointed as Irish judges and Irish should be appointed as English judges." it And, again when asked, " whether there was not a considerable difference in the law, and the practice of the law in the two countries, and whether that would not inter fere with the interchange," replied, " I do nut at all agree in that, the difference between them is quite trifling. The common law of England and Ireland is the same, and there is no material difference in the practice." To this convincing testimony, which must be conclusive to every unprejudiced mind, we may add that of Lord BROUGHAM, who states that "he can see no objection' to allow English and Irish bar risters to practise reciprocally in each country," and that it might tend very much to correct the Irish practises. His Lordship adds, "lam a great friend to sending over from time to time an English Judge to preside on the Irish bench, and I should see no objection whatever to bring over an Irish Judge occasionally to this country. I see no objection whatever to that interchange." Having thus stated the opinion of the two greatest legal reformers of modern days, we shall quote those of a sound practical man of business, a gentleman to whom we have already alluded in favourable terms, and whose character and reputation is well known in both countries. Mr. PEIRCE MAHONT says—" I hope I shall live to see the time when English barristers will be made Irish Judges, and Irish barristers English Judges; the more the distinctions of country are broken, the better for the United Kingdom." It is unnecessary to multiply proofs of the pro priety and expediency of the change. In fact, there is nothing that can be urged in opposition, except the advantage of preserving a monopoly to a certain class— a sort of protection to native English industry, which will not, we are sure, be resorted to by any of the high-minded or able men that adorn the English bar. We are sure that they would not interpose such an objection to the adoption which would be for the general benefit, even if their personal interests were more deeply involved than could possibly be the case. The Madrid mail of the 12th had not reached Paris when the post left on Saturday. We have received the Paris papers of Friday and Saturday. On Saturday the Court of Peers pronounced judgment in the case of General CUBIERES and his co accused. They are all found guilty of corruption. TESTE is sentenced to three years' imprisonment, to deprivation of civil rights, and to pay a fine of 94,0001., besides refunding the 95,000 f. he had re ceh ed as a bribe, and which sum is confiscated for the benefit of the hospitals. CUBIERES is deprived of his civil rights and condemned to pay a fine of I 0,0001.; and PARMENTIER has had passed on him a similar sentence, with the addition of being mulcted in all the costa of the trial. AI. PELLAPRA was expected to arrive in Paris on Sunday in order to surrender and take his trial. The Reform Banquet at the Chateau Rouge still continues to be the great subject of comment in all the Paris papers. Had the Minister who inspires the Journal des Debats been wise he would have adhered to his first resolution, and have made no allusion whatever to the matter. In the exuberance of his dynastic loyalty, however, he could not resist com menting on the omission to drink the health of Loris PHILIPPE, and stigmatizing that meeting, in consequence, as one compromising public order. This attack has brought forth the following crushing reply from the National:— " All is lost. Public order is compromised. Anarchy is raising its hideous head. We are rolling from abyss to abyss to the follies of communism. The question be fore us relates to the ruin of society! It is the Journal des Debats which this morning utters this cry of alarm —not apropos of complaint —not with respect to the scandalous trial—not with regard to the ignoble pro ceedings of the Government. No; those are great, pure. and glorious! But the Reformist banquet of the Château.: Rouge, that is the destruction society! That is the commencement of the abyss! MM. Duvergier de Hau ranne, Leon Malleville, Odillon Barrot, and eighty•five of their colleagues, have been guilty of the infamy of assisting at a banquet at which the King's health was not proposed! Can you figure to yourself a similar horror? The King, the living and incarnate law! At that impious meeting it was prefer red to toast the sovereignty of the people and the revolution of July! What abomination! The guests dared to utter ardent wishes for the reform of a legislation which has given us 225 satisfied Deputies, comprising M. Dugalie! What oblivion of every morality! They went further —they spoke of the rights of those excluded from political power, of the sufferings and the merits of all those citizens whose political laws pay labour by ingra titude. They appealed to the justice and the solicitude of public opinion against those odious iniquities of social organisation its opposition to the moat numerous and ill treated classes. In that assembly of privileges, in the name of the census, all sentiments were in accord to proclaim the necessi y for modity ing the political instru ment which supports, propagates, and increases all disorders. And, as if all these facts were not sufficient to characterise that infernal meeting, those present carried their audacity so far as to propose a toast to the 'rigs become excited when think of that ignominy! press!—and they did not drink t o t he Kin g ! O u r feel - King's health ? Are not Deputies boun d under the I How could M. Duvergier dine without drinking the penalty of outlawry to commence by a monarchical benedicite? As soon as they happen to meet, in an official assembly or not, they are obliged to renew even n r o sh a o th uid of t fi h d oy elit e y xp a o n s d e homage that to his Majesty, Majesty toreceive worst compli men t ! The elect of the legal nation are, consequently, regarded as a flock of func tionaries! Th ey are cowar d s or po l troons b ec ause they associate with th e most se l ect o f t h e e l ec t ors of Paris, who, leavin g as id e men, wish to occupy themselves LONDON, TUESDAY MORNING, JULY QC 1847. solely with the institutions of the country! Truly we / were awir , . that the pride of upstarts w but , di;' r.• r :1, that it v7uched so hi; , :L: 1.1•0;cii:••• say ?)-“,y - - - A !' But wo rely in our ':lte sole principle of government is the sovet (delay el ii;,: i;: oPle. Tito oational will the origin and the term of all governments. It alone creates them, according to its necessities, as it pleases; and anybody must have a short memory to have for gotten already how that sovereign will destroys forms which are contrary to its expansion, and casts into soli tude those ancient royal races when they pretend to oppose their worn-out privileges to the eternal right of the people. That. Charles X. succeeding to his brother Louis XVIII., who malutaiue,:i that he had reigned 20 years when a foreign eteem-boar cast hint i,n :_mas in the year 1814—that those persoi,s st Quid have: ,i,• Lulled to be srinci pie:, might have pase , ed without ridicule. An.!, nevertheless, when a meeting was held at the Venitanges de Bourgogne without drinking the King's health, no body then thought of groaning and lamenting the con duct of Deputies who had at that period a dynastic surface. And you wish and require that Deputies should at present drink the King's health! Not only Deputies, but the electors of Paris —but the press of Paris, athi that in the month of July, when the burning sun heats the pavement, when from the heights wnich command the capital we perceive the Louvre, where the people were victorious, and the Tuileries, where They li•veited a throne, and the dust of the Csrroueel, where the pe destrians trampled under their feet the fleurs delis broken to pieces! But your adoration becomes ridicu lous by force of impertinence. You now style the King t h e living, incarnate law! Good people. you mistake yourselves fit Louis XIV. In what article of the charter have you founo that the Kisg was the law? The law rules the King as well as Vie humblest of citizens. He contributes one-third to it—he ex, ewes —he is bound to obey it —or, rather, tis he acts not without his Ministers, in constitutional larigu,,ge we must thus explain your splendid phrase:—Ti e H e i n e and incarnate law is M. Ja:,r, M. Dumou, M. Cunin, Gridaine, lath er , a t S e d an! A fi ne incar nation, well worthy of adoration ! In truth, one is -ur prised to find to what a point the spirit of the Court, the miserable spirit of subserviency, is perpetuated in this country, notwithstanding the terrible lessons of history. It might be said that the residence of the Monarch was closed against the external air—that the movement of generations, and the permanent progress of ideas had not been felt there. It appears to it that an intelligent, active, powerful, and energetic nation like ours should halt because a system has described its parabole—that the immovability of the upper part ought to paralyse the entire social bocy —that all France should be con demned to drag its limbs like a decrepit old man, because it pleases all those who lead it to be fr 4 m 70 to 81 years of age ! fhose are the men of the Left and the Lett Centre, to whom they do the honour to attribute some good sense. They perceive that the pre sent policy degrades and corrupts all parties. They contend at the Chamber—their efforts are destroyed by a majority of satisfied members. They propose an electoral and Parliamentary reform—they are ridi culed, and told that the country is laughing at them. They then address themselves to the electors—the latter reply and appeal to men of every party attached to the revolution of July who desire a modi fication of the existing system. A common feeling unites different sections of the same party. Each brings his followers and maintains his flag. A cry of anathema is immediately raised because the national sovereignty and the Revolution of July have been invoked in place of the King! The Marseillaise was chaunted with ete thusiasm, but Vive Henry IV. was neither played nor sung, and Deputies were present! What a scandal! And it is expected that this extraordinary manifestation, of which the echo has been heard in London and in Germany, shall be imitated in France! What an im prudent expectation! Ah! we are well aware of what grieves you. It is because no disturbances interfered to derange this sincere and powerful expression of the Parisian electors. It is because in that assembly of 1,200 persons the heat and excitement diminished in no respect the dignified demeanour of theguests. Itis because that amongst the 5,000 or 6,000 persons who responded outside to the applause of the company, and to the music of the Marseillaise, your police found no opportunity to interfere to repress the slightest confusion. This consciousness of right, which is gra dually penetrating , verywbere, and which fortifies those amongst whom it penetrates, afflicts you because it me naces your existence, and it becomes the more alarming to you as it is consolitary to society in general. Yeti invite by your provocation agitation and riot. You would have cried less loudly if an opportunity had been afforded you to disperse the meeting as illegal. You would not perhaps regret, crouched as you are in your filthy den, that some violence should have assisted you in creating alarm. Do not place any reliance on vio lence—that must come from you. We hare waited pa tiently for your system to produce its fruit. The coun try has seen and has tssted the poison. You art- edu cating the nation. You are enlightening the most blind by the light of your policy. Parties have learned that bad Governments are not destroyed by their eff eits. Bad Governments commit suicide, and you will not fail to succeed in consequence of the care with which you charge your weapons. Our part will henceforth be go verned by yours. You may act, we shall wait." The Ministers, if they are wise, will henceforth taboo this subject of the banquet of the Chateau Rouge. The dynasty has nothing to gain by reviving recollections of 1830. Some short time since the Semaine hinted at some unfair practices in the granting of a mining conces sion to the Talabot Company in Algeria. The National, of Friday, takes up the subject, and is more explicit in its accusations of unfair play. It says that on November 9, 1845, four-and twenty hours before Marshal SOULT gave up his place as Minister of War, four royal ordonnances were issued conceding for 99 years certain mines at Belchita, in Algeria, to the Marquis DE BASSANO, M. TALABOT, and others. Since then th e M arqu i s DE B ASSIN°, the story goes, received a formal promise from G-en. Sr. YON to be accorded a concession of the copper mines of Ain-Barbar, but in spite of that engage ment the concession has been since granted by Gen. TREZEL, the present Minister of War, to M. TALBOT. The National demands, if it be true or not, that on May 3, the representative of the Bassano Company sent in a very energetic protest against the formal and otligatory violation of the promise of his prede cessor. It adds— " Is it true, that the letter from the Bassano Corn - publc works in Al ger i a, o f w h ic h proo f rai ny contained very grave accusat i ons aga i nst the ent tl" Is it true, that, the matt er i n di spute was referred to the Council of State, whi c h d ec l are d i tse lf i ncom petent, in consequence of the natu re o f th e acts a ll ege d? u a li s es o ff o e f r t e l d 'e i to be given ? " Is it true, that N . I. Tal a b ot summoned a numb , r of n making u p a company ; an d t h at to a N the nu m b er, i t was state d t h at, p be e f r o s r o e rl'. sanjtc3-)•juonint ,oneon himl o could be effected it would be necessary first of all to set aside 4,000 shares, representing a capital of 2,000,0 00 francs, to provide for ciutingencies (besoins accidentels)? "Is it true, that these were designated by the cabalis tical name of 'el shares ?" The Courrier Francais of Saturday publishes the whole of the deed of the society for the working of the mines, with a capital of ten millions of francs, and by which it appears that a fusion of coneessionnaires was established in order to render competition im possible. The first paragraph of the deed commences with the usual words, Entre les soussignes, and a blank for their names, the reason of which the Courrier says it will give hereafter. At the end of this deed the Courrier says : o Suppose a simple and honest man to have discovered a mine in Algeria. He has devoted his time and his money to trials and researches. He demands a conces sion tor his discoveries, and immediately the society of monopolists launches against him one of its members as taeccoteuzetai nal represented person is sciitednear naturally theGt)ve s r ur i p m i e )r n td p Government by 3,,riots managing director, M. Talabot. M. Talabot is the son in-law of M. Cunin,Gridaine, and Marshal Soult is his partner. The competitor of the company carries the day, and the concession falls to the lot of the company. How can the unfortunate industrial hope to succeed against the influence which is at the command of his competitors? It is the same for a grant of land. The Society Talabot puts for ward a com p etitor and obta ins it. Is not this an organiz ed mono p oly? This is the reason why the Compagni e Bassano, after havin g re senmti o nea g . ive to M. Talabot his is re ceived a positive promise th at the concession of the cop per mines of Ain-Barbar sh ould be made to them, saw o a f the permission last Ministry to workthe Minister of War at the moment of the change the reason why, on the 3 d of May , the representa T - tive of the Compagnie Bassano addressed to the present Minister of W ar lively remonstrances against the violation of a fo rmal arid binding engag e . hthaoste last ment given by his predecessor. This is why the letter of the Compagnie Bassano contained grave accusations against employes in the public works of Algeria, and offered to bring forward proofs in support of the accusa -1 tious. We could cite the names of several other victims. How many persons applying for concessions have been repulsed by the permanent coalition ot the Societe Tula but! This society is an army of competitors, and it is always v i ctor i ous. Why? We saY again we will become more explicit if nu answer be given to us. We will ex amine to-morrow this mysterious clause of the company's deed of settlement.—` Other shar es have this day been subscribed for by ;Messrs. Jules and Leon Talabot, who may transfer them to different fi sends wishing to join this present company, bringing into it the concurrence of their labours and endeavours. Who are these friends to whom Messrs. Talabot may transfer these other shares? What are their names? What is the number of shares? Why this r,serve, when in the deed all the other share holders, whatever they may have brought into the cona- Paay, are named and Oescribed, and the number of their shares in serte d? Thi s i s a point upon which the public has a ri g h t to d eman d a ca tegorical and full explanation. Messrs. Talabot cannot fail to give it themselves. We, On our part, formally demand it of them. We are quite sure that they will not reins° it from the moment when we say that thi s st ipulation resembles very much the clause which was the leading point in the affair of Gouhenans." In Commenting on these constant exposures of the system, the Union Monarchique says— _ " Ministerial corruption is a system applied to all Parts of the State. Administrative justice is everywhere rendered subnrdinate to electoral and Parliarnenta-y cal ,zot .-nivport, g t :aselves on a ~nhs or "irt A CGRUiVRUCCS an ardent ey surround en , seek ~ . treng, .7. In P.ll t regions 01 p with er,a!ures prompt to serve! them It is not merit which gives title to favour—it is s ,, lvisliness. The Ministers have re-established serfdom in France, an odious bondage, in which a man kive3; himself in ex change for a possession which ought to be the price of honour and liberty ! We are obliged to confine ourselves to general terms, for what crowns this orr,- nisztion of servitude is, that independence is a cri:ne But who, hencel'orth, can. hide from himself the t&et of trafficings which dishonour tho country ? Who cal, dec e ive hims:•lt as to ~t -,) malty -• tunes, so many clevati,ns, s. , tivini power ? Dees favour i rir l es Opiiiee• e • tnedesty? Power to m-rti ? Who is iiot islaritied at the reoustrous caprices which displace poverty a.n i wealth, i.r which sacrifice honesty and services? On all this spin tacle no mistake can be committed by the conscerice to France. And if it be thus, if such be the convic?.ion of the country, how can we be astonished that when Minis ters buy the consciences of men, teen in their turn have the idea of purchasing the consciences of Minist,.rs? Is that not a iiaturat exchanee or corruption and v twiny ? And why sheuld it be more criminal to tempt the eupidi ty of a Minister thi-sn that of an elector? Before human morality where is the differ, nee? This simp:e queste.li is very crave, and we ask it of, honest p-ople 110• n«•sr. tieople, take care! To pross-cute and strike cor ruption in an is-elated act is not to crush corruptii n, is riot to save Feamee. France perislns because the grin eiple iif corruption is at he bottom of polities; an as km.: is that principle lives, it ❑ecessarily preduces its conse quences. Ministers have• need of this principle ; they hare often said that themselves, under the ambiguity of their apologies. What is corruption they call influence, action, exercise of the right of the State. That is, be. cause their policy, having no strength in justice, they cannot allow liberty to conscience! They mu- t make an invasion in the private domain of man; that is all their moral power. And then you have heard their irony ; after having done violence to the free will of the citizens. they cried, Do you feel yourselves corrupted?' Ah no! the corrupted do not feel themcelves corrupt, precisely because they are so. It is the virtuous who feel that corruptors are the enemies, the plagues of the liberty and dignity of the people ! Honest people, quit your security! France is perishing by Ministerial corruption. Take care that impassibility does not resemble a sort of complicity in this systematic conspiracy of depravation. Call to yourselves, for it is time, all men who have at heart the grandeur of the country. Protest. ! petition! speak! write! Let there be a league against the Minis terial system, which carries in itself the germ of public degradation. The drama of the Luxembourg will not be lost. if it be an occasion for honest people of all parties to forget their quarrels in order to attempt to saw France." It is too late now to call for a league against a system which carries in itself the germ of public de gradation. Such a league should have been formed before Paris was fortified. That which has been ac quired by fraud, whether in France or Spain, will be maintained by force; witness the complaints of the Ministerial and Palace journals of the attempts of the Opposition to prolong the session, witness the fierce denunciations of all those who took part in the Reform banquet at the Chateau Rouge, witness the camps of 25,000 men each at Compeigne and Lune ville, witness the army of 40,000 men to be assembled at the foot of the Pyrenees, witness the constant com munications between the officials of the Palace and BUGEAUD and NARVAEZ. The 15th being the file of St. HENRY, was cele brated with great éclat by the Legitimatists. The Paris Bourse on Saturday was a singularly cheerful one. Government stock opened at the prices of the previous day, but closed at an improvement. Shares were, however, in the ascendant. Northerns opened at 567 f., arid ended, firm, at 575 f., being a rise of 8f ; Marseilles and Avignon, which fell to 6201. on F:i day, rose 17ff.; Orleans and Ronens rose respectively 741.; Bordeaux, which closed at 4801. on Friday, rose to 4901. on Saturday. The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Saturday at 77f. 75c. , the Five per Cents. at 118 f: 70c.; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,280 f. ; Rouen, 970 f ; Ilavre, 642 f. 50c,. ; Great Northern, 575 f. ; Avignon 637 f. 50c. ; Vierzon, 5871. 50c.; Bordeaux, 490 f. - Boulogne, 3901. ; Troyes and Montereau, 2701.; Basle, 182 f. 50c. ; Dieppe, 310 r: ; Paris and Strasburg, 420 f. ; Tours and Nantes, 3951.; Paris and Lyons, 4301 ; Lyons and Avignon, 432 t. 50e. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 4571. 50c. ; Spanish Three per Cents., 321%. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TUE LONDON STOCK EXCIIANGE,JuLY 17. East Indian, 1 / 4 —Luxembourg, lA—Northern of France, 12% ex int.—Orleans and Bordeaux, 54—Paris and Lyons, 4%—West Flanders, 4. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, accompanied -by his Royal Highness Prince Waldemar of Prussia, walked yesterday morning in the pleasure ground and plantations of Osborne. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice went yesterday morning to the sea-beach, and took pony and walking exercise. Her Royal Highness the Princess Helena was taken an airing yesterday forenoon. The Rev. Mr. Protheroe had the honour of joining the royal dinner circle at Osborne, on Sunday. The Duchess of Sutherland and Lady Caroline Leve -1 son Gower have taken their departure from Osborne. His Royal Highness Prince Waldemar, of Prussia, his Excellency the Chevalier Bunsen, his Serene flightless Prince Lowenstein, Baron de Laner, Count Oriola, and Count Groeben, remain at Osborne on a visit to her Majesty. Her Royal Highness the 'Duchess of Gloucester, en tertained their Royal Highness, s the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and a select party, at dinner, yesterday evening at Gloucester House. _ _ His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge visited the Royal Hospital at Chelsea, yesterday. Viscount Duncan, M.P., had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-street. Cap:ain Fitz-Maurice had an interview with the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson yesterday, at the Office of the Board of Ti ade. Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from the Colonial Office, for the Governor-General of Canada, and also for the Governors of the other North American Province The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council had a meeting yesterday in the Council Chamber, Whitehall, to give judgment on an appeal from the High Court of Admiralty, " 6hersby v. Hibbert," relative to the " Duke or Manchester." The Lords present were the Lord President, the Master of the Rolls, Lord Brougham, and Lord Campbell. Judgment was given by Lord Campbell. The Court then rose. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALLS-MONDAY. Some singular fluctuations in the betting against the Hero imparted more than usual interest to the Goodwood Cup betting. It appears that for two or three days re ports of his bTing lame have been rife at the West end, and that odds, ranging from 6 to 10 to 1, have been laid against him. A more favourable disposition was evinced yesterday, several hundred pounds having been laid out at prices varying from 7 to 2 to 9 to 2, the last bet being 4 to 1. Eryx maintained the position in which he closed at Liverpool. The Wolfdog was backed at 7 and 8 to 1, and Halo, with great spirit, at 10 to 1- Sunbeam was declared not to start, and Fitz-Emilius receded to 40 to 1; in fact, was out of the betting. The betting on the Good wood Stakes was confined to six or eight horses, of which the first five only were in any request. A few bets were made on the St. Leger and Derby, but no change worth speaking of arose. Latest prices:— GOODWOOD STAKES. 7 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Stultz—taken to 2001. 8 to 1 agst Mr. Sainsbury's The Questionable 12 to 1 agst Mr. Isaac Day's Milliner —taken 12 to 1 agst Mr. Elwes's Miss Ells—taken 12 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Lothario—taken 20 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Hydrangea—taken 20 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Vampyre 20 to 1 agst Mr. Kimber's Tantivy GOODWOOD CUP. 7 to 2 agst Lord Egliuton's Eryx 4 to 1 agst Mr. J. Day's The Hero—taken 7 to 1 agst Mr. G. H. Moore's Wolf-dog 10 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Halo—taken freely 16 to 1 agst Lord E. Russell's Dulcet 16 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's Pyrrhus the First 40 to 1 apt Mons. Aumont's Fitz-Emilius ST. LEGER. 9 to 4 agst Mr. Padley's Cossack 6 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Van Tromp 10 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Red Hart 20 to 1 agst Mr. Pedley's Foreclosure 30 to 1 agt the Duke of Richmond's Halo—taken 1000 to 10 agst Mr. S. L. Fox's Executor—do. DERBY. 25 to 1 agst Mr. B. Green's Flatcatcher—taken 25 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Surplice—taken 28 to 1 agst Col. Peel's Sesostris—taken 33 to 1 agst Mr. Payne's Glendower 40 to 1 agst Mr. B. Green's Beverlac—taken 1000 to 20 agst Mr. Cooper's Slug—taken. LATEST BETTING Al' LIVERPOOL ON FRIDAY. GOODWOOD STAKES. 7 to 1 agst Stultz (t) I 12 to 1 agst Milli ner ( t) oto 1 agst Questionable,(t) Ilsto 1 agst Lothario (t) Grimston is declared not to start. GOODWOOD CUP. 3 to 1 agst The Hero 11 to 1 agst Halo 7to 1 agst Eryx (t) I7to 1 agst Wolfdog and 11 to 1 agst Wolfdog Pyrrhus Grinaston is declared not to start. ST. LEAVER. 2to 1 agst The C ossac k 10 to 1 agst Red Hart (t) 7to 1 agst Van T rom p (taken 12 to 1 agst Mr. Martin i) freely) 1000 to 10 agst Executor BY. 40 to 1 agst Brocket (t) 40 to 1 agst Besborough (t). DER 25 to 1 agst Surplice 30 to 1 agst Sesostris The long talked of sale by auction of Shakspere's house at Stratford-on-Avon is this day announced in our columns, by Mr. Robins, who has been selected by the representatives of the late owner for the proud distinc tion of transferring this singularly interesting property to a new proprietor. A wide field is offered to the auc tioneer to indulge in " fancy's sketch;" the style of the advertisement is, in our opinion, written in a happy spirit, and we have no doubt the description about to be published of this unique property will be interesting to everybody. MON Y and 00111 :74, P., . 7 ~.. ! , vt-, .•.gyi,l • _ S - rirea were iu limited request ; the uiLiriret ►vac very quiet. - - - There are no ship arrivals to dmy will late intelli• Bence from any quarter, but by the u. , ual IlatnOurAh and French mails we have favourable reports of the weather and the crops. The corn market here is firmer this morning, nevertheless. The heavy failures at "Awe-rick, in this particular branch of basinest!, surve to increase the apprchen4;:n of etnlyrrass , oent in other qn,:•ter::, a! !It, 1,,o• e ext, t •,! the spee,,io• t 1,rt.% r nor s The Attie! lean teem to desire much to make a move ment for forwarding by an easier route the supplies of grain received at Buffalo. Recent accounts state : " Very few persons who do not look at the commercial articles of the Buffalo papers, have the least idea of the trade of that port. It is stated that there arrived in Buffalo in twenty-four hours, i. e., en the 4th and sth instant, 180.851 bushels of vs heat, 31,000 barrels of flour, and 41,052 bushels of corn. By far the m..jor rein of this goes now by the i'rie Canal, but. could ceme throu 7 ,,h our province were faciaties afforded by rail ways across our p•-ninsula, and a tree exit by the St. Lawrence. We take the folsowing from the New Yot k Courier and Enquirer, Juue 3. The go a head nation, however, will find it difficult to enlarge their canal to use size of our St. Lawrence : ' The dine:dry, delay, and cost of transporting the produce of the Lake region through the canal to tide water, are becoming very serious considerations—more especially when everything that can be raised is eagerly forced forward to the advantage of existing high prices on the sea-board. Miserable, paltry party politics, which forbade the completion of the Erie Canal—and, what is hardly less reprehensible—the apathy or indif ference of large portions of the business people of the country, which has permitted to be engrafted into the new constitution provisions that tie up the Legislature from adequate grants towards completing the enlarge ment even now when its necessity is demonstrated — these causes combined subject the whole world, we may almost say, to delay in receiving full supplies from our overflowing abundance, and impose upon agriculture an unnecessary and enormous tax in the way of toll and freights.' " The English Funds have been very dull this morning, and are not buoyant. The rise in the corn market, and the decrease of bullion in the Bank, are still the causes assigned. Consols have been 89 to 88f for present trans fer, and 89k I- for account. New Three-and -a-Quarter per Cents. have been 915 4. Bank Stock has been firm, at a rise to 1975. Exchequer-bids are 9s. to 12s. pre mium; and India Bonds ss. to 10s. premium. The Foreign market is equally dull. The only bar gain in Spanish Bonds has been in the Passive, at 4i. The Five per Ce"ts. have been nominally 21 to 22, and the Three per Cents. 31 to 32. The letter sent by the Committee of Bondholders to the Spanish Ambassador will, it is hoped, have some effect. Mexican Bonds have been at 195, and Chilian at 92 to . Dutch Two-and a-Half per Cents. have been 57f 4, and the Four per Cents. 905 to 91. The Railway Share market is quiet. but prices gene rally are maintained. French Shares have improved. tiltlTlBl.l FUNDS, ONE CLOSING O'CLOCK. PRICES Bank Stock .. 1973 f, 1973fe s!tree per Cent. Reduced Annuities 89% 89% three per Cent. Consols Annuities 89 88%% 88% New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anns. 913 s N I 913(, Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 .. 9 1-16 India Bonds, 1,0001. .. .. Ditto. under 1,0001. .. Consols for Opening, Aug 26. .. • • 83 % Exchequer MIL t %d. 2d. 1,0001... .. .... 912 p 5001. .... 14 10p Ditto, Small 14 13 P ONE O'CLOCK. . 92% 92 CLOSIN PRICES. FOREIGN FUNDS Chilian Bonds, 6 per Cent .. Cuba, 6 pei Cent .. • • Equador Bonds .......... Grenada, 1 per Cent .. .. • 19% Mexican Bonds, 1846, 5 per Cent .. 19% 19% Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent .. Ditto, 4 per Cent .. .. 31% 31 t/ 8 Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent .. Ditto, for the Account • • • • • • —21 M Ditto. Passive Bonds .. - 4 3 /, Dividend , on the above payable in London. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cent • • 5 7 % 57% Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 91 90% 90% BUSINESS CLOSING PAID. DONE AT PRICES. ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES OF RAILWAY SHARES. Amber., Notting., Boston, and Eastern Junction . • -2% 1%%••.. • • • - Birmingham and Oxford Junction 10 .... 18 ... • ...... Birming., Wolver., & Stour Valley 8 .. 8% .. ••• • .. . Caledonian Ditto, Half Shares .. Eastern Counties .. .. 20 . 20%3s .. ••• • • • Ditto, York Extension .. 7 34 .... % ••. • • Great Northern .. 6 .. • • Do., London & York Extension 234 .... 2% 2........ Great Southern & West. (Ireland) 32 31 % 30 .. • • .. Great North of England . ..100 .. • • •• .. Ditto, New 301. . .. 30 .... 69 .. •• • • .... Great Western .. .. 85 Ditto, Quarter Shares .. .. 15 Lancaster and Carlisle .. .. 50 .... • • • Ditto, Thirds .. .. 10 15 ........ • . Liverp., Manch., & Newc. Junct. 2% .... .... L 'noon and Illackwall .. 161. 13s. 4d. 7% ••• • • .... 7 V !i London, Brighton, & South Coast 50 .... 55% 34 ........ 55% London an North-Western..ioo ....150% 179•..... 179 Ditto, Quarters L. and B. 12 .......... 28% Ditto ditto, New Shares • • .. 2 .... 13 . Ditto, Fifths .......2 ••.•.. .. • • Ditto. 401. Shares M. ik B. - 40 .. • . 70 -•-.. • London and Aouth-Western 411. 6e. 10d... 6834 68 ...... Ditto. New Consol. Eighths .. 40 .... 503 f 50 ...... Ditto, New 501. 3236 .... 38% 38 ...... Ditto, Tenths (Consolidated) .. 50 57 •• • Ditto, Scrip 50/... 5 .... Ditto, ditto 401... .. • . 4 .... 3h, • • ........ Lynn and Ely .. .. 25 .... Midland ..100 ....128 Ditto, 40/. Shares .. .. 40 .... 48% •• • • Do., Consol. Bristol and Birm. t•ix per Cent. .. —lOO 128 Newcastle and Berwick .. .. 20 30 29% 3 14 29% 29% Ditto, New .. .. • • 5 • • 9% %% • .... 9 34 Norfolk ....100 .. 123% .. • . 123% North British .. . • 25 .• .. 33 Ditto, Half Shares .. 1234 .... 15%........ .. North Staffordshire 7% .. • • 10% .......... Preston and Wyre.. .. • • 25 •• • • 373 ••••• • • • • • Ditto, Half Shares (A) .. • • • 53G •• • • ••••• • • • • • Ditto, ditto (B) •• .. .. • • 1% Reading, Guildford, and Reigate 5 •• • ....... Shrewsbury Lola Bumnigniun .. 334 .... 3% 3 Shropshire Union .. .. • • • 4 •• • • 2 % 34 •••• • • • • South Devon .. .. 40 South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole .. .. 205~... ...... 2 .... 2;8 .... .... _ _ West Riding Union • • • • .. 4/. 2s. • . .. p P Windsor, Staines, &S. Western.. 425. .... 23 p.. .. 3 p York and Newcastle .. 25 .. •. 37 38 4 .. 38 4 Ditto, Extension.. .. • - . • 10 .. • • 17 % Ditto, Preference .. 8 .... 12 5 4% ...• •• 12%x York and North Midland .. 50 .... .......... Ditto, Extension .. .. 25 .... 43M ........ • • 43 t0 Ditto, Preference • • .. 6 .... •.••• • •• • • 16 Do. E. and W. Riding Eaten.. 15 ... 27% .......• • • 27% FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amiens .. _0 .... 15% %• • 15% East Indian ss. .... 1 ,4 .......... Luxembourg •• .• •• .• 1% Namur and Liege .. .. • • .. 12 .• 6 ••••• • • • • . Northern of France .. .. •• 10 . 12% • • • • 12% Orleans and Bourdeaux 6 .... 514 .......... 5% Paris and Rouen .. .. • • .. 20 .... 38 .......... 38 MINES. Real del Monte, Unregistered .... 2 • ... ..• 2 UNION BANK OF AUSTRALIA. The annual general meeting of the proprietors of this company was held yesterday at their offices, 38, Old Broad street. JOHN CUMMINS, Esq., Chairman of the Company, presided, and read the report, which stated that the af fairs of the company were in a very prosperous condi- tion, and no loss of any importance had occurred during the past year, while the amount of the bad debts had been considerably reduced. The Chairman also read a statement of the accounts, from which it appeared that the liabilities for the past year amounted to 957,066/. ss. Id., and the balance of undivided profits to 37,677/. 10s. 11d., leaving a reserve fund of 50,008/. I ls. sd. The report was unanimously agreed to, after which the Chairman and C. E. Mangles, Esq., were re-elected as directors. The meeting then separated. EXTRAORDINARY SUlClDE.—Saturday a man, whose name is unknown,' committed suicide under the following singular circumstances:—lt appears that the deceased was in great distress, and on the previ . applied for a lodging at the Red-house, in Mint-street, St. George's, Southwark, chiefly occupied by cadgers and beggars. At an early hour be got up, and went up stairs to his room, where he was subsequently discovered hanging by a rope from a rafter in the ceiling, quit e dead and cold. On the floor immediately under the spot where the deceased was suspended, was written in a bold hand, with chalk, " friends reside at No. 17, Church-street, Brighton." His pockets were searched, and in one a duplicate of a coat was found, pawned for 6s. at Mr. Folkard's, pawnbroker, Brighton, on Monday last. Mr. Allingham, the officer of St. George's, South wark, took possession of the body, which he removed to the workhouse. - - FATAL ACCIDENT WHILST .BATHING.—On Satur day a man employed at the floating bath, Blacktriurs, discovered the body of a youth lying in the mud off the plate-glass wharf; Upper Ground-street, Blackfriars bridge. The body was identified as being that of Ed ward Foley Gibbons, aged seventeen years, an appren tice to Mr. West, the optician in the Strand. On Mon day last the deceased and his master proceeded to the waterside to bathe, and whilst in the water the swell caused by the various steam-boats carried him out into the stream, when he became alarmed, and before as sistance could be rendered he was drowned. ROBBERY - AT EARL SOMERB'.—On Saturday in farmation was given that on Friday a massive silver ink-stand, twelve or fifteen inches long and five broad, with a small silver candlestick attached, the property of Earl Somers, was stolen from his Lardship's seat, the Priory, at Reigate, Surrey. It was engraved with a crest, a weed growing out of armour, and a stag, and with the names of several of the family. The robbery is stated to have been committed by some go-cart men, two of whom were seen near the house in conversation with another man, who off=-red paper ornaments for sal'. after which they drove to London. PRINCE WALDEMAR OF PRUSSIA.- His Royal Highness Prince Waldemar of Prussia, being desirou s of observing English country life, has arranged a plan for visiting the provinces after his return from Osborne House. His Royal Highness will remain in town for a few days in order to witness the prorogation of Parlia ment, and will then commence his proposed tour through the manufacturing districts, the north of England, and Scotland. The first city visited by his Royal Highness will be Oxford, whence he will proceed towards Bir. mingham, Manchester, York, and other important and interesting localities in the midland and northern counties. His Royal Highness in the course of his tour in Scotland will visit her Majesty and Prince Alb ert at Lord Abercorn's seat on the banks of Loch Laggan. Dudley' nost in- diffel-tm s r," imulactr lett. borough, want more that, promi s ing to pa y ;thei require ready money and no credit. 's ST. ALBAN'ti.-- the conAitunev of St. A Run have been on the alert for candidates, and have been ransa"king Lon ion in all directions for aspirants t° Parliamentary fame. No less than four candidates are already in the field, and yet they want lr. Salo' mons, ls'3 or a>., !„ a dd to the nui ve b.-r_ As • , ~ , b u t the voter` hope oa. SOUTH LASCASHIRE.—M C. Ent While has 911' nounced himself again a candidate. The injudicioos conduct of the fag. end of the Leagu e , in repudis ti l Lord Brackley, has brought this about. Never Wist good advice of Mr. Cobden mor e wan ted, than these meddling gentry a t th e p resen t ti m e. RIPON.—Sir Jamts Gr a h am comes in for Ble"; Any candidave for this pl-iee, who stands unde r '- family influenc, mzy be announced as corning ifs'no s coming forward. HULL.—Mr. Baines, Q.C., and Mr. Jan will, It is believed, be returned for Hull. a sbeg i YARMOUTH.—Mr. Golds m id and M r . R. Bae have the call here. fef NORTH CalistituE.—Mr. Astley, led on by fat restless spirits, will, it is believed, come fereear d ,, North Cheshi re; b u t t h e great ma j or ity of tbe e 7; tors, feeling that Mr. Stanley and Mr. Egerton, 1 10 been mutually agreed to be supported, upon w" - tin ground Mr. Davenport retired, will not, bred honourable compact, and Mr. A s tl e y cannot elic7 e 3 CAMBRIDGE.-Mr. H um f re y, Q.C., has con s° t. to stand for Cambridge on the Conservative int ere tb , e There is, however, littl e f ear f or the success 01 Liberal candidates. f the STAFFORD.—A. new candidate, Mr. Healey, e d Temple, has made his appearance, and has P - t many friends. H e i s a man of first-rate ta len t to an excellent sp ea k er , an d i s repor t e d succeed. FEOME.—Mr. Bethell, of the Chancery l ie is returned from an inspection of this borough. said not to be greatly pleased with his visit. THE POTATO DISEASE.r. f' 70 THE ADITOR OF THE 50' L. ..1 of i SIR,—A letter has appeared in the Stancw"7 o ;tisi trom it has been copied into man , other papell 9 L e asti: 1 that " the potato disease has shown itself in blor a ." ths' acres in the neighbourhood of Barnstaple." I beh,,,,, e— beo ; the author of the letter in question (Mr. Charles P:„ pubs of Beekington, near this place) did not intend it u 'u'a kii i lication, but that it was sent to the papers (wite l iesr ~ knowledge) by the gentleman to whom he had aum s p 0 - it as a private communication. Be that as it % 11/ i l ia° A the statement is one calculated to occasion 93t1C 7,311 0r in the public mind, I think it my duty to sag vi i bei le imputing to Mr. Roberts, in the slightest degree , re ef! tention to excite unnecessary apprehension Wit b mi bje, ". to the crop), that the reports made to him on th e , et are not confirmed. I will not undertake to i t' thi i . nothing like the potato disease has appeared t f' i '' neighbourhood ; but, if it had exhibited itseli ;1030( it certainly is as yet to a very limited extent, and to ;a I ' B that in many places in which the plant seenitoe te attacked a fortnight or three weeks ago, it has 5 7, e gils a ti covered a perfectly healthy appearance. Ido no t- 1 0 tfr to pronounce that the appearance of the potatoes - I pro" district (as of all the other crops) is generally 0 68 4 1 raising, and inspires sanguine hope of a bundafil l ' o por this note re;a , es to a matter of fact, and of grea t o at t° tance, I append my real name, and have the be e remain, Sir, your obedient servant, W. A - 0 111" Mayor of Batiste le. Journal Office, Barnstaple, July 17, 1847. HER MAJESTY'S THEA F -L r - 11, e d- Mr. Lula) , is not one of tho s e who sire 0 1'", e ssoa, success, for, successful as h as b een hi s presen%" e d o t and it has been successful beyond all preceden t h ' r )!°; not relax one jot in his endeavours to render2oV e d jesty's Theatre in every way worthy of the ilitr" go ioll A it bcars and of the high and di s " re d. - d patronage with which it has been hoot ] r osily less enterprising , a less conscientious, a less 0 0 P", manager than Mr. Lumley, wound have rests oars for the remainder of the season, seeing 111 .. ee t iID Lind draws to the house every night at least tf bi gl as many persons as the house can hold; an d it ivsl i ,j Lumley been the manager for this season only' ea gsW o have been an useless waste of capital to ha ve can s any other talent, seeing that the b °use. er foc i , but filled, lout as Mr. Lumley is not only in r aV g t hst t "4 season, but proprietor for all time, we cousw" for ° x liberality uhieti he is exhibiting in bringing be- a novelty aftrr novelty is a judicious econoal: r, so acts of liberality are remembered heleL ti t e for 0 , tend greatly to increase the subs.cription ensuing year. Th e pu bli c k now an d ley 13 %, liberality in a 'management, and Mr. Ln ° , 3 .2 ISt during the course of th e present seaso n, P — blie g'‘ gratifying proofs th a t not on l y d oes the pa - a Ce' „r r ; preciate liberali.y b u t th a t i t rewar d s also, bee" tainly never has public favour and patronag e more fully t arced than it has been „pi/ Lumley. On Saturday Taglioni — the Tag a iii La Deese, made her first appearance this sewn'jro" far famed Pus de Quotre, supported by Carlo tar Cerito, and Rosati, who took the part ' forme r tii i tamed by poor Lucile Grahn, who is lot 1 , capacitated from appearing by a conlP' 9 , 4 1 the foot from which she has long been sufferirig'ol lioni looks, and acts, and dances as well as ever , Dsolf, the old enthusiasm as revived by the Pas de ,i - 00 , - 4 Bouquets were showered on the stage, a y s bibi o was the same spirit of friendly partizansh i p t hat by the worshippers of the respective Dteie#, 0 01 0 wont of yore to be so exciting. It was a gre w. co res . , / , and Mr. Lumley may now boast that be has S e tle n her Majesty' s Theatre the services of the Or • the primo buffo, and the premiere dunseuse t..- doe ro se There is no lyrical establishment that can I' vi m rival to Jenny Li n d, or Lablache, or Taglia rr i ' h e L itre' all at this moment e ngage d at her Majesty's '- 13' 1 ' 0 fo° 5 37 25% 128 48% HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—Her rte )l ',.,e„g ness the Dueness of C a mb r id ge h onou red th e r e fea'? antes at her Majesty's Theatre on Saturday .i e tt_,.e. s , with her presence. In her H o) a l Hi g hnesss V s , W ho the Baron and Baroness Nieur n an n , the Lloe'; s l y. 1° ford, Sir William Davison, and Mr. EdmanL he Pid Miltimay. roe theatre was also honoured L'-' S Or h OCC 1 0 sence of the fiance Waldemar of Prussia, vv -- i l is ite, h • it her Majesty the Queen Dowager's brat. ,m' n :betl• 7,‘ Highne6s's suite included the Count de u r h ; etaie"/ Count d'Oriola, and the Baron Lauer. In t r - a llt, 9 14 box were the Duke and Duchess of Nor' - 0 1 3 4 Adelisa Howard, Lady Mary Howard, Howard, and Col. and Lady S. Lindsay. P e . pe n , also present—Prince Trubetskoi, Prince D n r til- tiing s- # Leon, Princess Tuka Gargarin, the Duke of I' e jitt 9 a ke d e O . and Mr. Arbuthnot, his Excellency the DU LOra re f ie fi tortt t i l e lie and suite, the Duke and Duchess of Be° - 1 . 0 d_,, Duke of Leeds, the Duchess Dowager of Cler e h "; 0; Marquis and Marchioness of Donegal, t'''' - d er A. quis of Huntley, Sligo and the Ladies Browne, the Marquis of Ile:01 , Count Revel, the Marquis and Marchioness of Aile d " the Marchioness Downt• Oa" the Earl and Countess of Wilton, the Earl of C er Ootl t r the Earl of Lonsdale, the Countess de Jarnac, t he e 011/0 1# 1 teas of Glen all the Earl of Belfast. the Earl of fie moreland, the Earl and Countess of Bective, 1-e VP' 1. count Duncannon, Mdlle. Olgar de Lechner, th e 01 li countess Dungannon and the Hon. Misses Iry,i ne raf fj t !.,,: Ladies Taylor and Lord Robert Taylor. Lora ;, e rof.c Bruce, Lord Saltoun, Lord and Lady Fitzroy S°s( v.,.‘ '.c and Miss Somerset, Lady Bellingham Grabaah g , .e:,, i,' de Koudriaffsky. Sir P. Acland, Bart., Lady g ell- d w" :,‘, Henry Webb, Barr., Sir Edward Codrington °Julio ° Misses Codrington, Sir Henry Willoughby, qr . 0 r : [ Fane, lion. Mr. Arbuthnot, Major and the i l . SD" ..: dr • Gage, Major Baring, Major White, Capt. an u nke e , a' - ib s airs. Ryder Burton, M. de Coultu, M. Mi l ri - n gerf 'ill Mrs., and Miss Brereton Trelawny, Lady x!'"c0p . , 0 „,, - Hon. Spencer Cowper, Mr. Huber t de Burg n ' fin d ,r s ; o , S::: Reynolds, Mr. Errington; Mr. Packe, M. -- a crd ,r, - ,. t Packe, Reading; Mr. and Mrs Gricewood, Mr. and P r i. '+' Wheeler, Mr. and Mrs. Huxley, Captain 1113 / 1 00. i ; t.' Griffiths, Mr. and Miss Somerset, General the r• r. JO' T . N ' P. Upton, Captain Arthur, Captain Smith, "" Orl Baldwin, M.P., Mr. Cholmondeley, &c. &C. nE ri! .- 01 7t, ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT"GAti by . .„ -I ; :i. Saturday night her Majesty's box was OCCUP I 7, C° P : r e 1 Royal Highness Prince Waldemar of Pril s „, s h — e 're i l i`,"h• IV Oriola, Count Gneben, and Baron de Lauer. ",. -- r t i Ll i y ,'", !. also present the Duke and Duchess of Be au : h° too t- a s il . Blanche Somerset and Duly Georgina Colr i at o aa f t e a [.:, Marquis of Ely, Earl of Cardigan, Earl 1 10 ,° poi 1/D ,b l i,,,' z ' Villiers, Earl Compton, Earl of Besboroug, i n • le reav t o ru . Countess Minto, Count Potocki, Viscount , - , '* --t wen - 'n Irj to t' Viscountess Glentworth, Viscount Duppll ~,., cer. l _,d, 0' Chfden, Viscount Templeton, Lord and LIV,,Gen . l' ton, Lord Alexander Lennox, Lord Otho xit - cu ffle.., l 1 II ,-, ip, Lady A. Harding, Lord A. St. Maur, 1 43rd d jkl. h',.,,,, ; Lady Sophia Wyndham, Lord Wrottesley I- 0 ail' 'a 13or col , I , Lord Brooke, Hon. G. W. Mlles, Hon. G. g o o. ~, c, ',. 1 Hon. J. Fortescuo, 11. R. Yorke, 31. 1 "*. ..7 - 0 , Li• e -: and Mrs. Fitz Gibbon, Hon. Colonel Ripcon , i' e vityr!"f i Cavendish, Lion. A. Ramsay. Hon. Capie ;t , VI/ P io. !'' Hon. Mr. Stanhope, Mr. Thelluson, Hon. '''.. libl• ' - it i' 7 ' - ' and Lady Bath r, Sir Henry Pollard WrillotCy, $ 0 Archibalsl Macdonald, Sir J. H. Lowther, ~..0,1 fr :' Michael Shaw Stuart ; Sir John Campbell, 1-esiortil and Lady Campbell ; Sir William and Lady gt rg e Or a, ..' Sir Philip Broke, Sir William de Bathe, Sir Ge" Sir m and D euJ orth' ''‘ Lady Clerk, Lally Jodrell, Lady Macfarlane, J., AV Hall, M.P., Sir S. and Lady Scott. Sir J. a ..0 ,,•_ . 0. ... kinson, Sir C. Ma , shall, Sir H Webb, Sir J. D u C i 'd ; Sir J. and Lady Easthope, Sir C. lielti,d .;; Leslie, Esq., M.P., 11. Baring, Esq.+ .o. file a g i ; Wilshire, Esq , M.P., General APNeil, ~-7 7 . , coptti i t . son, Esq.. M.P., Mt ntegue Gore, lisq, M. - l i e , egra Stevenson, Charles Wernyss, Esq., Captain 8 4 1 T. 1,10,Y, Dalrymple, Captain Boyce, G. Stuart, Esq.' : 1 6 01 1 _ 0 * ClEta ton, Esq., Mrs. Curwen, E. Delafield, k_s c l on ' d, ISt; Webster, Esq., the Misses Byrne, Mr. Dru lo o:,_,. Dl' Arabi!), Captain BaFour, G. Parnther, -r- , °'s b Braine, Major Mitchell, Mrs. Kemp, e to la , g B6 en e 'ii so er b .l , : ti t i o g The municipal council of Co given orders to have two great e stablishmen ts a ._von . for the poor constructed in that city ; the cin° ' be gratuitous.