The Sun. — London, England, 1832-08-07 00:00:00

~ J bona—viz, frotn Argova, from Targovia, from St. Gullen (with 10,000 signatures), and from the canton of Zurich. On the 12th, Mr. Morier, the new English Minister, had his first audience of the President of the Diet. . . On the 17th instant an address, signed by 1,402 citi zens of the district of Ravensburg, was sent to the King of Wirtemherz, petitioning for the speedy convocation of the Estates of the Kingdom, and detailing the wishes and grievances of the country. The Weimar Journal observes that the Constitution of Weimar was guaranteed in 1817, so far as it is not con trary to the terms of the /tot of the Confederation. HANAU, JULY 23.—This morning the Burgher Guard of this city enrolled themselves with due solemnity, in conformity with the new law for its organization. Each company was drawn up in a circle in the market-pl ice, and the law having been read, they took the oath pre scribed by the law; the whole was done with the greatest regularity. The choice of officers and subalterns will begin on Wednesday. COPENHAGEN, JULY 28.—0 n the 24th and 25th two new Russian ships of the line and a frigate, all built at Archangel, passed the Sound on their way to Cronstadt. EXCHANGES ON LONDON. HAMBURG, JULY 31.-13. 14j ; two months, 13 P. BERLIN. JULY 28.—Three months, 7 0. BREMEN, JULY 27.—Two months, 618. LEIPSIC, JULY 28.—Two months, 6 194. HAMBURG, JULY 31.--BORSEN HALLE, HALF-PAST Two O'CLOCK.—Funds rose to-day, in consequence of the favourable reports from Amsterdam on the subject of the Belgian affairs. Money abundant. Discount 3 per cent. End of July. Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per cent. Anglo-Russian Loan Hamburg ditto B6Y,i Russian Inscription, 5 per cent 86% Ditto, ditto, 1831 B s7i Polish Bonds lO7 Austrian Bank Shares 1124 Austrian Metalliques New Austrian 4 per cent. '7514 —Hamburg Reporter. HORRIBLE MURDER, AND SHOCKING SUICIDE OF THE MURDERER. (FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.) STOCKPORT, AUGUST 6. On Sunday morning, between the hours of 2 and 3 o'clock, as the watchman was going his rounds in the Higher Hillgate in this town, his attention was attracted to a confused noise, and half-suppressed shriek', which issued from the house of a fancy silk-weaver, named Thomas Songe, situate in Small-street, a few doors from the Hillgate. He immediately proceeded to the window shutters and listened ; he thought it was somebody beat ing a woman, and took but little notice of it ; but just as he was going away, he heard a cry of " Murder," and some one say that Songs bad cut his wife's throat. A number of persons congregated about the house, and Mr. Rayner, a surgeon, entered with others, when a scene pre sented itself shocking to behold. Mrs. Songe was ex tended on the bed, a lifeless corpse, completely inundated with blood up to the shoulders, with her throat cut in so horrible a manner, that, when lifted up, her head hung from the trunk apparently by a piece of skin. By the side of the murdered woman lay the cruel murderer, Songe, with his throat also cut, and most ter ribly mutilated. Mrs. Songe was quite dead and nearly cold, hut her wretched husband showed signs of life, and attempted to rise in the bed, but he was held down by the surgeon, who stopped the hemorrhage of the blood, which was flowing frotn his mangled neck. His eyes were fixed and glassy, he was not able to speak, and died in the utmost agony in about an hour after the en trance of the surgeon. A bloody razor lay by the side of the murderer in the bed, with which he, no doubt, committed the revolting and cruel double murder. The most shocking circumstance connected with the horrid affai r is, that there were six children of the unhappy pair in the house at the time, one of whom, a little girl about eleven years of age, was in the same room and saw the murder committed, but was compelled to be silent in consequence of a threat that Songe held out to her, that if she spoke a word he would murder her also. The room was dark, and, according to the account of the child, it appears that the murderer knelt upon her mother whilst be cut Iter throat, having previously got up from the bed and fetched a razor from the cupboard. The other children were asleep in an adjoining room. The cause for the committal of the horrid deed assigned is, that Songe was jealous of his wife and Ilia two ap prentices ; and the child states that soon after her father and mother went to bed she heard a long conversation between them, in the course of which they quarrelled, and Songe taxed his wife with having cuff-red the apprentices to take liberties with her, which she de nied, and spoke of the absurdity of such a charge, and said, that he had no reasons for suspecting her of inconti nence. He told her he was confident that such was the fact, and that if she confessed he would forgive her ; but if she persisted in her innocence, he would murder her that night. She replied that, not being guilty, she would not confess to guilt ; upon which he jumped out of bed, and ran to the cupboard for the razor. The child here screamed, and begged of her father not to put his threat in execution; but he said that if she did not hold her tongue, he would cut her throat. The child got out of bed, and joined her younger brothers and sisters in the next room, being afraid to speak. It would appear from the statement of a person for whom Songe worked, that the diabolical deed was pre meditated in the day time; fir on the Saturday this person met the murderer on Ardwick Green, Manchester, going towards Stockport, and they stopped and spoke. He asked Songe whether he would weave him a piece of fancy goods of a certain pattern, to which Songe replied that he would neither work for burn nor any one else, as he did not intend to work any more. Songe then walked on ; he did not appear to be in liquor, nor in the least de• ranged, but was just as he always seemed to be, thoughtful, and from inquiries that have been made, it does not appear that he was the least intoxicated when he went to bed ; indeed, he was a remarkably sober man, but in his reli gious opinions he was an infidel, and a follower of the Carlisle persuasion. The jugular vein anti the carotid ar tery of both were completely severed. The cut in his wife's throat was a very clear one, but the gashes in his own were jagged, for it appears that in inflicting the wound upon his wife, the rivet of the razor handle came off, and broke it, so that he would have to press upon the back of the razor to effectually destroy himself. Both bo dies lay in the house where the murder was committed, and an inquest will be held before Mr. Hollins, the coro ner, on Wednesday next. Songe being well known in the town, the dreadful affair has created the most intense interest, and today the house is surrounded by crowds of the curious. He was considered to be one of the first fancy silk-weavers throughout the whole of the manufac turing district, and did a considerable deal of business for large manufacturers, who gave him the raw material to manufacture into pieces. The poor woman, who has been thus cruelly murdered through the influence of the " green-eyed monster," was a steady, hard-working crea ture, and was much respected in the neighbourhood in which she resided ; and there appears to have been no cause to suspect her fidelity to her barbarous husband. Six unhappy children are left Orphans upon the world, and it is to be hoped that a feeling and generous public will sub. scribe something !or their support. The age of Mrs. Songs was 35, and that of ber husband 40. They bad been united 15 years. AFFAIRS OF GERMANY. (Public Meeting at the Crown and Anchor; concluded from The Sun of yesterday.) Mr. KREUTZNEA, a German, seconded the resolution of thanks of Thomas Campbell and 11. L. Bulger, Esq., and spoke at great length in the German language. The resolution was then put, and carried unanimously. Mr. CAMPBELL returned thanks. As a firm, but a discreet friend of Germany, he exhorted them not to be misled by any appearance of zeal on the part of this country, and not to depend on any thing England could do for them. Ile prayed them to understand what he cad, not as cooling in his zeal, for he felt for Germany as warmly as ever, but as anxious that they should not be misled. The sympathies of the people were already en listed on their side, but it was another thing to bring them into practical use. Ile was not a partizan of any party, and with all respect for the present Ministry, he declared them of a p icifie—lie regretted a too p aciric counsel. What, then, must bring ab out suc h changes in the popular mind of Great Britain, as may, without disrespect to the Cabir.et, determine Great Britain to bestir herself for Germany ? It depended on th e Germans them. selves. If they succumbed, and depended on Great Britain, she will do nothing, and she will be right ; but if they rose, like their Alemanian forefa thers, like the Achrean league, with one accord, in spite of debt and economy, they would win the heart of Great Britain, and she would pray, pay, and bleed for them.__ (Cheers.) He exhorted them rather to let the liberties of their country die gloriously in battle, than to be ignomi niously suffocated. But it might be said, "It is easy to say to the Germans, go out and fight," and if he did not belong to the English nation the reply would be just; but did Englishmen obtain Reform by succumbing ? They hail struggled for Reform for thirty years, and hail suffered during that time evils which many men would exchange for the risk of a day's battle. England had long waged a moral battle, and when they came to the awful crisis, they were much mistaken who thought they were fearful of the LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 7, 1832. An official account has been received of the battle, on the 23d July, between the liberating army in Portugal and that of the Usurper. It does not appear that many prisoners were taken by Don PEDRO, nor that many of the iVliguelite troops joined his standard. Indeed there did not offer many opportunities, judging from the nature of the country, for such an attempt. A victory achieved under so many disadvantages, though not productive of any immediate conse quences beyond the complete establishment of the liberating army, cannot fail, when generally diffused throughout, to be attended with very beneficial consequences to the cause of freedom and jus tice. The people will learn, with satisfaction, that Don PEDRO has not only landed on the coast, but has been able to maintain himself on the field of battle, and keep possession of the second city in the kingdom. This will produce a moral effect which all the arts and threats of the Usurper, backed by priestcraft, cannot over-. come. If Don PEDRO but be able to maintain his position for another month, there is no fear for the final triumph of the legitimate cause. What the object of the Marquis PALMELLA'S mission may be we cannot yet positively say, but it is very probably to demand of this country, now that a legitimate Government is actually established in Portugal, the fulfilment of treaties subsisting between both nations. That England would not be justified to interfere so long as the subject in dispute is merely between rival members of the same family, however re bellious the conduct of one of them is, we admit ; but a case, we suspect, has arisen which justifies our interference, an d that is the secret, but determined assistance, afforded by Spain to the cause of Don MIGUEL. That assistance is just in kind and character si milar to that afforded by Prussia to Russia in the Polish war—and latterly to Holland during the invasion of Belgium. It is impossible for France and England to shut their eyes to the conduct of FERDINAND. His army on the frontiers has only been deterred from moving in a body to the assistance of MIGUEL, by the threats of recrimination on the part of England and France. But though FER DINAND hesitated in acting so boldly, there can be little doubt that numbers of Spanish sol diers have secretly joined the forces of the Usurper. Acting on the principle of self pre servation, FERDINAND must see that if Don PEDRO succeeds in Portugal, the cause of con stitutional freedom cannot long be resisted i❑ Spain. Hence the vital sympathy between the tyrant rulers. For the full particulars of the conflict on the 223 and 23d, we refer to tile official account. It appears that Don PEDRO was busily employed in organising a volunteer force at Oporto, and was preparing to detach a force to land on the southern coast of Portugal. His complete command of the coast gives him ample oppor tunities of harassing MIGUEL 's troop, and keeping alive the spirit of the people. It is a pity that he has not more means of transport-- a few steam-boats and a couple of thousand cavalry would greatly facilitate his views. The following are extracts from German and Brazil Papers received this morning :-- ANCONA, JULY 22.—Yesterday the new Delegate, Monsig. Gr ase lli n i , arr i ved at O s i no , and General Cu bieres will go thi t h er to-morrow to pay him a visit. A deputation from the municipality is gone thither to-day for the same purpose. Some persons think that the Ge neral will concert with the prelate for the return of the Delegation to Ancona. Last Thursday several persons from Romagna left this city for Ravenna with passports from the French General, and letters to the Vice Consul ; the vessel arrived at Ri mini, but they were not allowed to land. The Austrian and Papal authorities declared they were arrested till an answer should come from the Vice Consul at Ravenna, to whom information was sent. Many other persons from Romagna intend to go to Corfu, hut few enlist in the French foreign regiments. Here, as in Romagna, arrests take place, but with the difference that here criminals are pursued. Discontent prevails every where ; here, with the French policy ; h the marches with the Austrian rigour ; i❑ the remainder of the papal states with the arbitrary pro ceedings of the ecclesiastical authority. In the marches the banditti are becoming formidable, and form themselves into divisions of tens and hundred , .. A common soldier receives 20 bajocchi per day, a decurion 50 ; the con tution serves without pay ; 60 bajocchi are granted him from the Secretary's office or elsewhere. Letters from Rome say, that the Government has raised a large sum of money on the mortgage of the estates of the chapter of St. Peter, and is in treaty for farming the cus toms, on which two millions are to be lent in advance. It is said, that the 27th, 28th, and 29th of July will be celebrated by the French garrison here. We enjoy entire tranquillity.—Allgesneine Zeitung, July 31. ST. PETERSBURGII, JULY 21.—Lord Durham arrived here on Tuesday. FRANKFORT, JULY 24.—A report, which has been for some time in circulation, has become more general to day,—that 500 Austrian troops, from the garrison of Mayence, are to he quartered (as it is alleged, for the pro tection of the Diet) in the great edifice called the German House, which is time private property of the House of Austria, and is situated in our suburb of Saclasenhausen. SWITZERLAND IN JULY.—According to positive infor mation, the number of the Austrian troops, mostly Scla vonians and Hungarians, stationed about Bregniz, Feld kirsh, &c., is only 5,000 or 6,000 men, and these appear so peaceably disposed towards Switzerland, that it has not been thought necessary to place any troops on the frontiers. In the general temper of the people, which daily manifests itself in the most satisfactory manner, no reasonable man in Switzerland thinks of being apprehensive of an attack either from abroad or at home. MUNICH, JULY 25.—Accounts from Tyrol speak of the continued augmentation of the Austrian troops there. Innspruck alone, the population of which is about 13,000, has a garrison of 10,000 men. STUTTGARDE, JULY 28.—The day before yesterday a seizure was made in the booksellers' shops of the remaining copies of Dr. Werth's pamphlets--'The National Festivals of the Germans in Hambach." The seizure was made by the Magistrate. on the authority of 8,3, 7,9, and 27 of the Wurtemburg, on the freedom of the Press, of 30th January, 1817. A great many of our printers have lately been interrogated by the police, on account of a printed protest against the resolutions of the Diet of 28th July, and some printed ob servations upon the same resolutions, of both of which a great number of copies seems to have been distributed : they are said not to have given any information that can lead to a discovery of the source from which they came. It is ex pected that an official communication will be shortly pub lished, for the purpose of removing the apprehensions which have been generally excited by the late resolutions of the Diet. HAMBURG, AUG. 2. —The St. Petersburgh mail of 28th July, which we have received by the steam-boat that has anived at Traemunde, brings no interesting news. CASSEL, JULY 29.—The birth-day of his Royal High ness the Elector was celebrated yesterday in this city with feelings suitable to the day, and to the name of the illustrious friends of the Constitution. The municipal Council gave a grand entertainment, to which the Mem bers of the late Assembly of the States were invited, ex cept the Princes of the Electoral family, who were invited to the Prince's table, and the Counts of Isenburg. The health of the Elector, the august founder of the Constitu tion, was drunk with enthusiasm, as also the healths of the Electoral Prince, co-regent, of the Eleetoress, and of the Princess Caroline. The Burgomaster, M. Schomburg, made an impressive speech, in which he did full justice to the exertions of the first Assembly of the Estates, since the founding of the Con• stitution, which he commended, as not being a mere spe culative introduction, but founded cn the wants of the country. The whole of the proceedings were conducted with the greatest harmony. liallovErt, AUG. I.—Our Gazette of to-day contains the official promulgation of the resolution of the Diet of July 5, 1532, with a command to all the subjects of the kingdom to conform to them. HAMBURG, AUG. 3.—BORSEN HALLE HALF-PAST Two o'cLocx.—Wheat has been sold at reduced prices. In Rye and other Grain very little business doing. Wheat, Auhalt, white re d ll2 to 100 ➢fagdcburgh Hanks ll5 to 125 Mecklenburgh Holstein, red The new Prussian Loan of 12,000,000 rix-dollars was already become an object of speculation here ; for ten bonds, 50 Prussian dollars, 99 bonus is offered. Dis count 2.k per cent. End of August. Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent 6 5 .14 Anglo-Russian Loan Hamburg-Russian Loan S6 Russian Inscription, 5 per cent. Ditto ditto, 1831 Polish Bonds I O S7 Austrian Bank Shares 1130 Ditto Metalliques New Austrian 4 per Cents 76 —llanzburg Reporter. RIO DE JA Ma°, MAY 19.—The Session of the Cham. bore having been opened on the 2d of May, the Ministers of Justice, of the Marine, of Foreign Affairs and Finance, made their several reports of the state of their departments, all of which are of great length, and fill the columns of the Diario of the 19th of May. The report of the Mi nister of Finance alone (which is not concluded) fills 22 columns. . _ The Emperor Don Pedro 11. has been recognized by all the European Powers, except Prussia and Holland, and in Ancona, except by some States, unhappily agitated by civil dissentious. . _ All the Powers had given the most satisfactory assur antes of their friendship.—Diario do Governo, May 19, The French Papers of Sunday contain no news. Paris was tranquil. The Irish Reform Bill was last night finally agreed to, and will, probably, this day receive the Roy a l Assent. Lord ALTIIORP last night obtained leave to bring in a Bill for extending the time of paying the rates under the Reform Bill, from the 20th of July to the 20th of August, and likewise to make the tender of the rates sufficient, as he had understood that the parish officers in some places had refused to receive the rates. This is as it should be. The Mutine Packet has arrived from Rio Janeiro with dates to the 21st of May, but let ters are in town of a later date. The exchange had risen to 334 34. The commercial trans actions had been of a limited scale. Money had become rather more plentiful, and discounts were effected with greater facility. The exports in March were 35,274 bags and barrels of coffee, 3,475 cases, 442 boxes and barrels, 775 bags of sugar, and 32,707 hides. In April 26, 508 bags and barrels of coffee , 1,974 cases, 825 boxes and barrels, 1,120 bags of sugar, and 17,641. The prices of coffee had declined from 4.300 to 3.800, but had after wards risen to 4.200 and 4.300 for superior, and 3.850 to 3.900 for good seconds. The sales during May amounted to only 14,000 bags, and the stock on hand on the 21st was 5,000 bags. The continual rains which had prevailed for more than a month,had prevented the new coffee from coming into the market, and very little remained of the old crop. The reports of the new crop were rather unfavourable, promising one-third or one-fourth less than last year. Sugar had been very dull, and the price was almost nominal, some trifling sales had been effected at 2.600 and 1.600, and 2.500 and Law. Muscovados alone were in request at 1.700. The stock was about 4,000 cases. Hides commanded little attention; there were upwards of 50,000 on hand. Cotton was nominal. In the Funds the Stock had declined from 48 to 44, but had subsequently recovered to 451 46. The statement of Lord PALMERSTON rela tive to the boundary of Greece, and the manner in which the Government have acted on this subject, will give satisfaction to every true friend of that country. By the former treaty a great part of Acarnania and 2Etolia was to be excluded from Greece, the consequence of which was that it would have required an army much stronger than any the finances of the coun try could maintain, to guard against an attack from the Turks, or any of the half-savage tribes that inhabit ancient Thessaly and Macedonia. By the new arrangement, Greece is placed in greater security than the fondest wishes of the people, but a few years ago, could have antici pated. From the skill of the inhabitants in mari time affairs, they have little fear of an attack from their ancient masters by sea ; and now that a northern boundary is secured, by ex tending the limits to the gulfs of Volo and Arta, with the lofty range of Mount Othrys as an intervening barrier, Greece may be said to be more compact and isolated than it has ever been in ancient or modern [mes. Yet men who pretend great anxiety for the liberty of that country, exclaim against the Go vernment for guaranteeing the payment of a few thousands to obtain so desirable an object. The objections of the Hon. Member for Middlesex to the measure seem to be founded on the purest spirit of contradiction, without the least chance of effecting any good. Mr. HuME was a great friend of the Greeks some years ago, and even became a subscriber to the loan, well know- ing that money is the sinews of freedom, as well as of war, and that without a generous public came to their support, they could not have emerged from Turkish slavery ; yet the same Honourable Member, who gave his own money so liberally in 1824, now grudges a small loan out of the public purse to complete the in dependence of the people. Suppose this country had not at all interfered on behalf of Greece, and had acted on the strictest prin ciple of non-interference advocated by the Mem ber for Worcester, would there have been the slightest chance of the Greek people remaining free ? Both these llon. Members, notwithstand ing all their lectures on economy, would answer in the negative. No man, indeed, can deny that but for the interference of England and France, Greece would at this moment be either a fief of Russia, or under the Turkish yoke. Yet these patriotic friends of liberty, penny wise and pound foolish, would refuse the Government a small grant, not only to secure the freedom of Greece, but to save this country vast sums of money in case of a war with Russia. The refusal of LEOPOLD has on the whole been beneficial to Greece, and though it would have been most desirable to place some person of mature years and ability over such a people, yet seeing the difficulty of finding such a Prince totally unconnected with the Great Powers, but little blame can be attached to the Government on that ac count. The extension of the boundary ought to cover a multitude of other defects; and after the great sacrifices Turkey has made, and the state of helplessness to which she has been reduced by external and internal foes, it would have been the height of injustice and cruelty to have de manded another sacrifice, without compensation. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY. desperate extremities. He would tell them not to depend on the assistance of England or France—not even to ask their consent. The only specific measure which he could at present propose for the advantage of Ger many, was the establishment of a German Newspaper, to be circulated through Germany ; and he would ask those 'who contended against the possibility of such a circulation, how the cholera morbus got circulated through Ger many, notwithstanding their cordon sanituire, and he would wager a newspaper against the cholera any day. He would be happy to concert the means of raising a suf• ficient sub scr i pt i on f or t h e purpose contemp l ate d. - When he looked at the thousand German authors in his library. he asked himself how it was possible for 700,000 bayonets to put down a nation possessing such intellectual powers. What were 700,000 bayonets against 15 millions of Ger mans, of whom 7,4- millions were males, out of whom there must be 700,000 soldiers to fight for their country. If the despots moved in advance, what was Poland to be do ing, and Galacia, and Hungary ? And was Italy to be all smoothness and content ? When the explosion was in the rear, ha would not like to be those 700,000 men. In conclusion, he exhorted them to depend on themselves, and he wished that the blessing of God might attend them. (Cheers.) The resolution was seconded by Mr. WADE, and car ried unanimously. There were several other speeches made ; and, after a vote of thanks to the Chairman, the meeting separated. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red 8 4% 3 per Cent. Cons. 5 374 Ta il 4 334 per Cent. - Ditto Red 91% 234 Kew 334 per Cent. 9 1 % 1A 3 per Cent. Ann. 1726 - 4 per Cent. 1826 Bank Long Ann. to expire Jan. 5, 1860 l6 11-16 % Oct. 10, 1859 - Jan. 5, 1860 - Jan. 5, 1880 - April 5, 1880 - Jan. 5, 1870 - DAY AT ON O'CLOCK. New 5 per Cent. — India Stock Ditto Bonds 3 4 pm. 'South Sea Stock Old Annuities fii) , ;iy ' New Ditto — 1:1 per Cent. Ann. 1751 Ex. Bills, Xl,OOl l6 17 pm. Ditt0.....„ .... .500 l6 17 pin. Ditto Small Ditto Commercial ..... .. .. pm. Ditto Advertised — pin. Bank for Account — India for Account Cons, for Aug. 29 3.1% 4 PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian Bonds 9114 Belgian Bonds 757, THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. ,Peruvian Bonds Ditto Account Brazilian Bonds Ditto Account ,Portuguese Bonds Ditto Account 524&1N`2 Ditto Account 46N 7 Buenos Ayres Bonds 22 Ditto Account Chilian Bonds Ditto Account Columbian Bonds Ditto Account Regency Scrip...3N 4 Ts', dis. Ditto Account 3 43% dis. Prussian Bonds 99 Ditto Account Ditto Bonds, 1822 100!.; Russian Bonds, 1822 9 , ”6% Ditto Account 98% New Loan 9l Spanish Bonds, 1821 Ditto Account 1 4 % Xi% Ditto Bonds, 18 13% Ditto Bonds, 1824 lll4 , Ditto Account l2 . Danish Bonds 67414 Ditto Account 67% Greek Bonds 22 Ditto Bonds, 1523 , ! Ditto Account ... French Rentes, sp. c. —1 —c. ----. Exchange ...... —f —c. —3 per cent. —l —c. -- Exchange —f —c. Dutch Scrip 437( t 3' R Ditto Account 43741 3 F7: - ..nch Scrip , Ditto Account 27 Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent 25 Ditto Account Ditto, 6 per cent :2i4N 30 Ditto Accoant 30% Neapolitan PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAT AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Anglo Mex. Min. Co. (iss. at Si. pm.! £lOO Bolanos Mining Company £l5O Brazilian Imp. Min. Co. (iss. at 51. pm.) £2O British Tron Mining Company £5O Columbian Mining Co. (iss. at 51. pm.) 4SV 2 English Mining Company 12!4 General Mining Association ll Real dcl Monte Mining C 0...., United Mex. Min. Co. (iss. at 21. pm.) 40 Ditto New Sctip 2 Alliance Fire Insurance Comp. lO Protector Insurance Comp. Australian Co. Canaria Company General Steam Navigation Co. Provincial Bank of ! reland 25 Per Share. :215 4V, 7 19 1 4 3!;, 3% 8% £1 4 6 6% 44 !6 28 y 2 FOREIGN EXCHANGES ON LONDON. HAMBURG, Ana. a-13 13 , ; ; two months, 13 12N PETERSBURGH, JULY 27.-10 7-16. STOCKHOLM, JULY 27.—Ninety days, 14. 2. BERLIN, JULY 31.—Three months, 6. 29,4. BREMEN, JULY 31.—Two months, 617. 3 1r-tr „ s ; ,4,7_4;a 1. tWnitt, FROM LLOYD'S. DEAL, AUGUST 6.—Wind S. W.—Arrived, the Mary, Foreman, from Jamaica; the Migvie, Murray, from Ma deira ; the John and Mary, Malvunv, from Youghal ; the Winchelsea, Burt, from China. Sailed, the outward bound, put back, Lord Amherst, Hicks, for Bengal. Ar rived from the river, and remains, the James Pattison, Grote, for Bengal. PORTSMOUTH, AUGUST 6.—Wind N. W.—Arrived, his Majesty's ship the Maidstone, from Brazil ; the Char lotte, Tyfe, from Leghorn. Off port, the Exmouth, War ren, from Bengal ; the Dove, Crosby, from Oporto. Arrived from London, the Lady Nugent, Perceval, for the Cape of Good Hope and Bombay. PLYMOUTH, AUGUST G.—Wind S. S. W.—Arrived, the Mary Ann, Jacks, from Van Diemen's Land, sailed April 11. FALMOUTH, Auo. s.—Variable light breezes.—Ar rived the Mutine packet, from Rio Janeiro, sailed '2oth of May, Bahia 3d of June, and Pernambuco the 10th. This vessel has on board 44,000 dollars en freight, 17,000 of which are from the wreck of his Majesty's ship Thetis ; Louisa, Hewson, from Mirimichi. COWES, Aua. 6.—Arrived the Princess Victoria, She raton, from Virginia. TORBAY, AUG. .s.—Arrived off port the Five Sisters, Swaffin, from Cadiz. BRISTOL, Aua. 6.—Arrived the Annabella, Stanton, from Newfoundland. Arrived at St. Helena, the Royal Saxon, Lotus, and the Juliana, Tarbrett, from Bengal. Mr. GRANBY CALCRAFT, M.P. has been confined for some days past to his lodgings in St. James's. street, with a severe attack of the cholera. He is now pronounced by his medical attendant to be out of danger, and was able to go to the House of Commons yesterday. We have been informed by a respectable cor respondent, that the Committee appointed to inquire into the state of the Silk Trade has broken up, without coming to any expressed opinion or united judgment on the facts which their examinations had elicited. The Committee, having sat for 15 weeks, and having examined a great body of witnesses, had, no doubt, collected materials on which a report might have been founded, declaratory of the sentiments of its members, and expressive of the tendency of its examinations. That such a report was not made, is ascribed to a manoeuvre of the Chairman, Mr. P. TirostsoN, who, seeing that the majority of the Committee were against him, preferred rather the omis sion of a report altogether, than the expression of an opi nion hostile to his own. Of this latter fact we know no thing beyond the statement of our correspondent ; but we might probably join with the Chairman of the Committee in thinking that it was better to publish the evidence with out note or comment, as the grounds of a general opinion, than to give what we are persuaded must have been a wrong judgment, or a hasty decision ready made. We have been contending for the last six weeks, that the evi dence taken before the Bank Committee should be printed for general distribution and circulation, without being accompanied by any declared opinion from the Chairman or members of the Committee; and why should our re commendation be different in the case of the silk trade? With all due respect for the industry and upright inten tions of our correspondent and his friends, who have been instrumental in demanding the inquiry, we cannot see of what value their opinion would be at the present moment, or why Mr. Tnostsosr should have dreaded its promulga tion. We never could anticipate any benefit as the pro bable result of the inquiry from the beginning. Though all the facts had been made out in the man ner which their authors alleged, they would not have laid the least ground for altering our commercial Policy on this branch of our manufactures, with any persons who understood the question; and among those who cannot understand a commercial principle, what benefit can result from the mere accumulation of acknow ledged details ? The question of the silk trade has been long settled, a nd ought not now to be d isturbed ; but we entirely obj ec t t o a n y trick in quashing opinion or abridg ing inquiry..... Times. VICE-CHANCERY COURT.--(THIS DAY.) EXPARTE MURRAY IN THE MATTER OF KENNINGTON. This was the petition of several of the separate creditors of Rowland Stephenson, praying that a proof for 58,0001 , which had been allowed by the Commissioners to be made by the joint Mate against the separate estate of Rowland Stephenson, ought to be expunged, the ground on which the Commissioners allowed the proof being that the amount bad been abstracted by Rawlavid Stephenson from the joint estate under such circumstances of fraud as that, according to the law in bankruptcy, the proof ought to b• admitted. Mr. KNIGHT appeared for tl e petitioners, and con tended that the amount had been abstracted by Rowland Stephenson, with the perfect knowledge and license of the other partners of the firm, who had made no complaint of it, they well knowing that it was important to them, under the circumstances - in which the house then was, to keep on good terms with Rowland Stephenson, otherwise the disclosures which be might make would probably bring the house to premature bankruptcy. Mr. WIGRAII followed on the same side. Mr. Paris and Mr. RICHAROS appeared for the respondents, contending that the judgment of the Coin missioners was correct, inasmuch as the abstractions by Rowland Stephenson had taken place unknown to any person, with the exception of Henry Stephenson, who admitted in his examination, that the transactions bad been kept from the knowledge of the other partners. His HONOUR considered the judgment of the Commis. sioners correct, and dismissed the petition. CHOLERA INJUNCTION-THE GOVERNOR OF SECEFORD HOSPITAL •. GUNSTOHE. Mr. MuNRO applied for a special injunction in this case, to restrain the defendant from letting any of the pre mises which he held under a lease from the Governors of Seckford Hospital, as a hospital for the:reception of patients afflicted with cholera.—(Laughter.) The premises in question were situated in the parish of St. James, Cler kenwell, and one of the conditions of the lease to the defendant was, that nothing should be done with the pre mises that would tend to the annoyance of any of the other tenants on the estate. In defiance of the covenant the defendant had actually let the premises to the parish officers of Clerkenwell as a cholera hospital. Patients had been removed there, many of whom had died, and the other tenants of the estate had been greatly annoyed and put in fear of their lives. The Vim. CAANCELLOR thought he could not grant the injunction as asked to the full extent, as it would have the effect of turning out all the patients in the hospital, who might take it in their beads to come to the Court to argu'• for themselves their right to return.—(Laughter.) His Honour would, however, grant an injunction, restraining the defendant, and the parish officers of St. James, Clerk. enwell, from permitting any more patients to he received in the premises, and from using the dwelling-house as a hospital for the reception hereafter of patients afflicted with cholera morbus, upon the understanding that the defend ants might apply to the Court to-morrow, if they chose, to dissolve the injunction. BANKRUPTCY COURT.-(THIS DAY.) EX-PARTE HINTON IN RE PARKER. The bankrupt in this case was an attorney, as was also the petitioner. On a former occasion a petition was pre- , rented to the Court to supersede the commission, on the ground that Mr. Parker was not a trader. It was at tempted to be shown that be had dealt in hay, potatoes and horses ; but the Court being of opinion that tilos, dealings had not taken place with any intention on the part of Mr. Parker to earn his livelihood thereby, or in any other way that could brinc , hint within the balokrup , laws, granted the prayer of the petition. This was oo the 27th June. A few days after a petition was presented to the Lord Chancellor to bear an appeal against the de• cision of this Court, not by way of special case, but by way of petition. The prayer of this petition was yester day rejected by the Lord Chancellor. An application wa• made to the Court to-day to stay its order, which had been suspended by the existence of the appeal before the Lord Chancellor, till a special case bad been framed, on an undertaking to frame it within ten days. The Court dismissed the petition with costs, on the ground that it would only tend to a delay, which Mr. Hinton ought not to suffer. The decision of the Court would not prevent the respondent appealing in the regular way, if he thought fit. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY). HAY M A RKETS.—(At per Load of 36 Trusses.) CUMBERLAND (LATE ST. JAMES'S.) Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £2 15 to £3 0 New Meadow Hay 2 15 3 15 Useful Old Ditto 3 0 3 15 Fine Uplsnd Meadow and Rye-grass Hay 3 15 4 5 Clover flay 4 0 0 0 Oat Straw XI 16 to £2 0 I Wheat flraw ... 2 4 2 6 Meadow Hav from ts. to 10s. per load lower ; Straw 2s. per load higher than last quoted ; prices otherwise stationary. A moderate supply, and a sluggish trade. SMITHFIELD. Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay .£3 0 to £3 5 New Meadow Hay 3 0 3 15 Useful Old Ditto 3 5 3 15 Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay 4 0 4 15 Clover Hay (extra fine)...X6 10... Generally Oat Straw ... £1 IS to .£2 o—Wheat Straw 2 2 2 5 A good supply, and a dull trade ; prices as last quoted. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, T WEL VE 0' CLOCK. Montreal Papers to the 27th June, Quebec to the 23d June, and Rio Janeiro to the 20th of May, have been re• ceived at the North and South American Coffee-house. (From the Montreal Papers.) CHOLERA AT QUEBEC.-Total of admission of cases, 658 ; total of deaths, 403. It is with great satisfaction we can now congratulate our readers upon the great diminution daily observable in the ravages of this disease within the city and precincts of Quebec. The return of the Emigrant and Cholera Hotv pitals are highly satisfactory. We are happy to contradict the report published in the Montreal Herald, of the deaths of Sir John Cadwell and Mr. Justice Kerr. (From the Montreal Paper of the 23d June.) It affords us great satisfaction to confirm the intelli gence we communicated to our readers of the very rapid di-appearance of the cholera from this city, and of the restoration of its inhabitants to a comparative cheerfulness. The Rio Janeiro Price Current, of the 18th May, contains the following observations :—" Since our last circular of the 30th March, a further advance on England took place in the exchange, it having risen from 31 to 32, and to our present quotation 331 to 34, and at which it has been pretty steady for about a month past. Apparently the falling off of the arrivals of produce, chiefly of coffee, as well as withdrawing of capital from the country for Portuguese account, have checked it for a while, and the transactions to-day were of a very limited scale. No bills remained above 34 days in the market, and money has be come more plentiful, and discounts effected with greater facility, notwithstanding the disturbances in April. Cof. fee has declined in price since our last, but :use gradually again. Sugar has been very dull. Hides are almost the same as the sugar business. Till?. FUNDS- It is generally considered in the City, and by the well informed, that the affairs of Don Pedro are not in so prosperous a state as was at first imagined. On perusing the official account of the battle of the 23d, we do not find the taking of the 2,000 prisoners, and the two regiments of cavalry and one of infantry going over to his standard. By his preparations for entrenching himself at Oportt , he must entertai❑ fear of his being attacked in that position : should this take place no doubt it will be a bloody con test, and if dislodged he will be obliged to re-embark. In a few days we may expect to bear of some important and decisive event. Consols opened at the same price they left off yes terday, 831 to 8 4 for the Account, with scarce a bargain doing at present. Don Pedro's scrip has again lowered ; left off yesterday 2to 1 this morning 4to 31 dis count. A private mail has arrived, which, sailed from Rio on the 20th May—all g uiet there. HALF-PAST ONE. We cannot expect further information from Oporto until the arrival of the Lisbon Mail, which is expected by next Saturday. The accounts from the Imperial Brazil Mining Compan:, are favourable : fifteen days' working had produced 1311 b. 11(a. of gold ; stamp heads, 741 b. The petition for the repeal of 15 per cent. duty was before the Chain hers, and it was expected that it would be determined in favour of the Mining Company. Consols have been the whole of the morning at 83i SI for the Account, with little or nothing doing. We hive no reports at present of any description. Portuguese Scrip from 3-.% to 4 discount ; Portuguese Stock 2 per cent lower-511 to 52.—1 n other Foreign Securities nothing doing. THREE 0' CL 0 CK. Consols for Account, 83-i 81. FOUR O'CLOCK CLOSING PRICES. Consuls ... 831 Danish — Ditto for Account 83 Greek, 1825 — Brazilian Bonds 46. Mexican, 1825 — Buenos Ayres... Peruvian .. ...... ••• —, Chilian Ditto.... Russian 99,g Columbian 1824 ..... Spanish ... l4 4P IRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNAL The crowded meeting at the Crown awl Anchor Tavern yesterday affords one proof c f ;he interest taken in the cause of the Gerrmws in this country. The lines to which Mr. O'Connell hav given such extended circulation, Hereditary bondsmen, know ye not Who would be free himself must strike the blow ?" cannot be too frequently repeated. If we were to draw our conclusions with regard to the pre sent temper of the Germans from the tenor of the speech of Dr. Schulte, we should, without hesitation, declare that the good cause must be triumphant. The question is, are the Germans prepared to make those sacrifices which a re- . . sistance to the atrocious decree of Frankfort will render inevitable ? On this subject we must depend in a great measure on the accounts of the Germans themselves. Dr. Schulte says, ,hat " the time is come when the acts of the Sovereigns of Germany, as contra-distinguiQhed from the acts of the people, have involved Ger many in a greater commotion than had existed at the time of Luther and the Reformation." We rejoice to hear that this is the case—that the Germans feel as they ought to feel the deep insult which has been offered to them. If their " hearts are resolved and their hands prepared," the ultimate issue cannot be doubtful. Dr. Schulte strikes the proper note when he tells his country men " not to rely on others, but to give proof that they are ready to strike for freedom. Let the Germans raise their own country to a level with the other Powers of Europe. Let them meet their Sovereigns with war, and immolate them at the altar they had erected for their people: then would they find support in the freemen of England and France." If ever there were a cause which justified resistance, it is that of the Germans. The decree of Frankfort is one of he most insolent attempts ever witnessed to sub- stitute the bayonet for constitutional rights, so lemnly guaranteed by treaties. Prussia and Austria, - not content with themselves violating the pledges given to their own German subjects, are determined that the Constitutions granted by more conscientious Governments shall no long► r benefit the people who live under them. But it required not this aggression to justify the Ger mans in ridding themselves of their rulers. A people are justified at all times in endeavouring not merely to preserve the beneficent institutions which they possess, but to improve those which are no longer suitable to their wants. Dr. Schulte, we observe, does not say much for what the Germans possess or have ever possessed. " Efforts," he said (alluding to Mr. H. L. Bul wer's speech), " had been made to show that the Germans had always enjoyed freedom, and had had a Constitutional Government and a free Press. He did not agree in these views The Germans were slaves under the old em pire ; they were slaves in the times of Bonaparte ; and they had been the slaves of the Sovereigns since 1815, the date of the Holy Alliance. The Treaty of Vienna had swept the German name and nation out of Europe." The aggression of the despots has not created the discontent ; it has only ren dered it no longer supportable. The misery of Germany is caned by the perpetuation of a sys tem no longer suited to the times in which we " If the Treaty of Vienna (said Dr. Shulte) had been fulfilled, it could not con stitute the happiness of Germany. How could ghat country be happy with thirty-nine Courts, and all their subservient and extra vagant appanages to support ?" The feudal system was well adapted for a newly conquered barbarous country ; but the misfortune of Ger many is, that the feudal system of that country was continued in a state of things utterly incompatible with it. In the times when the feudal system originated, the Princes lived on the produce ,of their own domains. An able historian, speaking of Charlemagne, tells us, " that neither the Emperor nor his Barons had standing armies, and they, there fore, could not altogether disregard the good will of their followers. This Imperial Govern ment had no finances, no revenue scarcely but the proceeds of domains ; he who gave laws to the European world, regulated himself the price of the eggs of his barn-yard, and wore household cloth made of the yarn his Queen had spun." Under this system, in its purity, it was of no consequence how many Princes there might be in the German empire (except in so far as a number of Princes led to internal disunion), because the land of the Prince or Baron constituted his only revenue. But it is quite another affair when every Elector, Duke, Landgrave, Margrave, and Count, began to vie with the great So vereigns of Europe, and to keep up heavy establishments, of which the expense was defrayed by taxation. To say that the thirty nine German Princes have a right to reign over the people, and to saddle them with the mainte nance of Courts for the Princes themselves, and. provisions for younger children, is to say that they have a right to oppress the people. A small Republic is a nuisance, as all men know who have witnessed the jealousies and bickerings of some of the Swiss Republics ; but if a small Republic is a nuisance, what must a small kil , - t, have Nalways been dom be, where the individual who comes in col lisionc with the ruler is exposed to his power ? Accordingly the eab h fortunateo petty rre i abhorrence accident, t da s ie personsf Germany,t , of r ex cept by spirit. Muller, the celebrated Swiss historian, who had accepted a Professorship at Cassel, writes to his friend Boustetten, " Germany does not suit me. There are some amiable indivi duals, but generally there is little taste and little real love for letters; and because they have little feeling, they exaggerate all sentiments. Letters are little honoured in the provinces, even where men of letters are better paid than I am. The reason is that the military ab sorbs all, and there are endless etiquettes which place an insurmountable barrier between the orders. It may be laid down as a general rule, that there never can be good company where the different orders keep themselves apart, and each , preserves proudly its foibles. As to affairs, all the Governments are corrupted, the people are only occupied with their distress; knowledge cannot, under such circumstances, produce great effects." This was immediately before the French Revolution. That Revolu tion destroyed a good deal of the German pride; but too much still remains, and the people are harassed to death by the petty despotisms of petty Courts. Can we wonder, then, that , men , should complain of the number of C o urts :" It _ the Germans, therefore, can rid themselves of this monstrous state of things , w ell and g o od. This is, however, a question of prudence, which they e sy to say themselves,yarwith Dr. Schulte ; but there are alone able to solve. It is must be the firm resolve to meet the conse quences which war entails on nations. A Hun garian g entleman, a Dr. Kraitsis, well observed