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GERMAN' PAPERS. ~~~ y. \ }S` POLAND. (From the Augsburg Gazette.) We have three letters lying before us, from which we extract the following passages. WARSAW, JULY decree exists, but it is not yet published, by which the estates of all those persons who are out of the kingdom are to be sequestrated. All sales made since the revolution of the estates of those who are not included in the amnesty, and are out of the country, : are to be annulled. Only it is not yet determined what is; to be done with the wives and children of those whose', property is to be sequestrated. No answer on this point' has yet been received from St. Petersburgb. The distress of the country has attained the highest pitch through the heavy imposts with which we are burdened. A window tax is going to he levied in the towns to defray the ex penses of the fortifications. A double tax on landed pro perty will he demanded this year. FROM Tile ENVIRONS OF KALISCH, JULY 6.—The tat ites of those who have quitted the country will very shortly, in spite of the constitutional guarantees, be con fiscated and given to Russians. We expect a very bad harvest ; it rains incessantly. The levying of recruits, and the carrying away of the children, destroys our agriculture. Even dwarfish, de formed, and crippled persons are taken for recruits. The number is to be in all 70,000. As a great many of them run away, new levies are continually made, and thus the country becomes more and more depopulated. Another levy of 70,000 men is to be raised in September. War continues to be talked of. CR.►cow, JULY 15.—General Chlopizki has obtained permission to remain at Cracow. A great ❑umber of pea sants fly out of the kingdom, and either come hither or go to Galicia. In the woody parts of the country, the pea-ants desert the villages, and go with their axes into the forests, to defend themselves against the levy of recruits, and the carrying away of the children. The insurrection in Lithuania is said to continue, and if the Russians do not renounce their dreadful system, it will spread. The Li thuanian insurgents kill all that fall into their hands. There are scarcely any Russian troops left in Podolia. All are concentrated in the kingdom, and ready to march. Countess Branitzka, a lady in the Russian interest, has presented to the Emperor 12,000 young girls for the colonies. Snit-mum, AUG. 10.—This morning, at 10 o'clock, his .Majesty received at the Palace a deputation of the Municipal Council of Stuttgard, which presented a❑ ad dress, containing the congratulations of the Council on his Majesty's happy return, and its gratitude for the assur ances contained in the Royal Rescript, dated Leghorn, the 8d inst. His Majesty signified to the deputation his entire satisfaction with its firm and prudent conduct in the pre sent time• of excitement, and with the spirit of order and confidence prevailing in the great majority of the inhabi tants of Stuttgard. His Majesty also returned his thanks for the .sentiments of attachment and loyalty in which the honourable and faithful citizens of Stuttgard unite with the ;Municipal Council. At the same time, however, his Majesty gave to Dr. Fenerlein, the Chief Burgoinaster, an address to his Majesty, relative to the resolutions of the Diet of 28th June, 1832, which was got up chiefly through the machinations of the ill-disposed party, and by the preme ditated propagation of groundless apprehensions : this ad dress he desired Dr. Fenerlein to return to the president of the committee, by whom it had been transmitted to the present Cabinet, during his absence, and intimate that his Majesty could not receive it, as well on account of the impro per manner in which it was drawn up, as of the reprehen sible manner in which the delivery of it was filet attempted ; and to impress on the committee that it was to confine it self within the legal limits of its sphere of action. His Majesty has taken a similar resolution with respect to a similar address of the citizens of Tubingent, the 31iniater of the Interior having been directed to return the address through the burgomaster to the citizens, on account of the disrespectful nature of its style and contents, and at the same time to give them a serious reprimand on account of the spirit of unfounded contradic tion and presumptuous opposition to the measures which they have manifested already on various occasions.—Sinti gard Gazette. The Government Journal mentions the Royal decree accepting the resignation of the Minister of the Interior, AI. Von Weiskaar, on account of ill health. His Majesty expresses his thanks for the eminent services of the Mi nister, and his reeret at being deprived of them. The department of the interior is confided for the present to M. Von. Schla.ger. The same journal announces the suppression of the Liberal and of the Sentinel on the Rhine. Baron Von Wollworth, Minister of State, died on the 30th ult., at Bavaria, at the age of 82.—Frankfurt Papers, Aug. 14. • N s ' ~. ' , PRICES OF STOCKS THIS Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red. 5 4 V4% 3 per Cent. Cons. S 3 M Ii t 3!•4 per Cent. Ditto Red New 3% per Cent 9•2 1% 2 !f ; \ 91% 3 per Cent. Ann. 17." , .... -- 4 per Cent. 1816 Bank Long Ann. to expire Jan. 5, 1860 1( 13-16 Oct. 10, 1850 — Jan. 5, 1860 — Jan. 5, 1880 April 5, 1880 Jan. 5, 1870...... ........ PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian Bonds B9 Belgian Bonds Ditto Account Brazilian Bonds 494 Ditto Account 49 Buenos Ayres Bonds 22 Ditto ACcount — Chilian Bonds . l6 Ditto Account Colombian Bonds ....... ION Ditto Account ..7 Ditto Bonds, 1824 IIX, Ditto Account l2 Danish Bonds Ditto Account 69% Greek Bonds ‘1 Ditto Bonds, 1825. 27 6Y% , Ditto Account — Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent % Ditto Account — Ditto, 6 per cent —l Ditto Account 2 Bl Neapolitan —I LAWS OF THE CUSTOMS. This day was putdishpd, price 6d. AFULL ABRIDGMENT of the NEW ACT of PARLIAMENT (just passed) to AMEND the LAWS RELATING to the CUSTOMS, containing the Substance of every CLAUSE, and TABLE of NEW DUTIES, with a Copious Index. Also, complete ABRIDGMENT of the REFORM and BOUNDARY ACTS, price Is. each. By G. P. ANDREWES, Attorney- at- Law and Notary- Public. London : Printed for, and to be had of him, 84, Lower Thames-street, opposite the Custom-house, and all I3uok s,llers. DON PEDRO'S EXPEDITION. The Ann Paley, Captain Rolston, arrived at Liver pool on Sunday afternoon, after a quick passage of seven days, from the Tagus, bringing accounts from Lisbon a week later than those received by the Hermes, noticed in our last. No decisive event, either on land or at sea, had transpired, both the belligerents seeming to entertain a salutary fear of each other, which makes them observe great prudence in the movements of their fleets and armies. The following statement, for which we are indebted to Captain Rolitone, contains an abstract of the accounts which he has brought from Portugal : " The Ann Paley sailed from Cascaes Bay, near Lisbon, o❑ the I 1 th August, 1832. Lisbon was still declared in a state ofsiege ; no vessels would be admitted while their ene my remained on the coast of Portugal. Left at anchor in Cascaes, his Majesty's ships Asia, Caledonia, Briton. Britannia, and Falcon yacht. The Revenge and Le veret, were cruizing in the offing. The Romney had been out with water from Lisbon, for the squadron, and returned on the 9th. The following merchants' vessels were at anchor at Cascaes Bay, viz. :—Schooner's Desire, from London; Queen, Jane, Concord, Bally, and Janet, from Fal mouth.—Brigs—Sy/ph, from Aberdeen ; Mary, from Plymouth.—Sloop- Express, from Bristol.—The Goose, of London, from Newfoundland, sailed for Cadiz on the 9th. His Majesty's brig Royalist, sailed with despatches for Plymouth on the 11th, was to touch off Oporto. " On the ith the Leveret left the hostile squadrons, N.W. by N. from the Rock of Lisbon, distant 60 lodes. Admiral Sartorius had the weather gage, distant four miles. His corvette Amelia, being a dull sailer, was sent off to leeward. His fleet consisted of the Reina de Por tugal and Donna Maria, frigates; Count of Villa Flor, brig; and Fayal, schooner. The Miguelite squadron, of the Don John, of '74; Derodores frigate, 48 ; three corvettes, of 28 ; two brigs, of 20 guns each. Admiral Sartorius fired two broadsides into the Don John on the night of the sth, And received a few straggling shots in return. " The last accounts from Oporto, by the Falcon, of the sth, state, that Don Pedro had not advanced, for want of cavalry, and was not likely to move soon. " Admiral telegraphed, on August 6th, No alteration at Oporto on the sth. Constitutionalists not likely to move soon.' " By Captain Markland's note, which be received on the 6th, from Admiral's secretary, There were 12,000 guerillas surrounding Oporto, got up by the priests. Only one cavalry officer and one soldier had deserted to Don Pedro lately. A farmer, who had supplied Don Pedro with two oxen, bad all his property destroyed and com pletely beggared by the guerillas.' The following is extracted from a letter, dated Lisbon, August 10 :--" As for news, I have none to give. Great dissatisfaction, owing to vessels not being allowed to come in, is expressed by every one ; and up to the present there is not the least chance of a change. The Tagus will leave this for your port to-morrow. Don Miguel is gone to breakfast on board the United States American frigate." The following notice had been issued for the informa tion of the merchants : " Asia, off Cape Roca, Auc. 5. " Sir,--You will make known to the masters of British vessels in Cascaes Bay, or other parties concerned therein, that I yesterday received a letter from Mr. Hoppner (British Consul), acquainting me that the Portuguese Government have refused admission into the Tagus of all foreign ships and passengers, so long as their enemy remains on the coast of Portugal. " WM. PARKER, Rear-Admiral. " To Captain Markland, H. M. S. Briton." Jamaica Papers to the 14th ult. have arrived. The Island was quiet, with the appearance of returning tranquillity. The weather was very wet. There is no news in these Papers. Colonial Union Societies were forming all over the Island, for the purpose of not employ ing on their estates any person who attended the meetings a the Sectaries. CROSSES OF HONOUR. —By a calculation lately made, it appears that 32,231 Crosses of Honour have been distributed in France wee the Restoration. By Louts XVIII., in the six months in 1814, 1,761 ; by the 100 days, 114; by Louis XVIII., on his return, 4,266 ; by CHARLES X., 11,524 ; by Louis Puturrx, up to the 20th ,luly, 1832, 14,566,—Le Circle, " E L Y V'e ? %Vie LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 21, 1832. The accounts from Poland are distressing in the extreme. We have not words to express our utter abhorrence of the damning perfidy with which the Emperor NICHOLAS acts towards that unhappy country. The march of depopu lation proceeds with the most savage barba rity. It is not enough to tear the in fant children from their widowed abodes, but a lady in the Russiainterest—Oh, shame to Polish patriotism !—a Countess BRANITZKA, has presented twelve thousand young girls to the EMPEROR, to people the colonies ! After such outrageous mockery of all that is decent or charitable, may we ask, in the name of humanity, what does Lord DURHAM do at the Court of Russia? Is it not an insult to Eng land that her majesty should be re presented at a Court where such damned deeds as these are perpetrated—and that, too, in direct violation of the faith of treaties. But what despot ever respected treaties when they interfered with his anilgtion ? Verily this country and France have much to answer for. The cry of Polish mourning ascends to Heaven for retribution. ‘Ve pray that it may be instant. We have news from Lisbon to the llth inst., but none from Oporto later than the sth. No movement of any consequence had taken place on shore, nor was any account received from the rival squadrons. The force of SARTORIUS was too small to venture a formal battle with the fleet of MitiuEL, but much was expected from his superior management and the dexterity of his men. The last accounts left both parties about SO miles to the westward of Lisbon— SARToRtus keeping the weather guage. By to-morrow, perhaps, we may hear of something decisive between the squadrons. The report of Almeida having declared for Don PEDRO is still persisted in, but we cannot learn with what correctness. It is clear that if PEDRO be able to maintain his ground yet a little longer, there will be many opportunities for those favourably disposed to the constitu tional cause to declare themselves. Their chief difficulty at present is to evade the vigilance of the Priests who swarm everywhere, and who are sworn to uphold the Usurper's power, rightly apprehending that with its fall their own domi nion must totter also. There is another phalanx of strength upon whose assistance Don MIGuEr, must place great reliance, and that is, the Spanish army on the frontiers, whose presence must produce a mortal fear on the Portuguese along the borders. Though Spain has formally declared her neutrality during, the struggle, we well know to which side her inclina tion leans, and that whatever indirect countenance and protection her troops can give to MiGUEL will be liberally afforded. It is not enough that Spain protests her non-interference—her inte rest is too deeply concerned in the result, — not to use all her influence by foul or by fair means in support of the Usurper. Since writing the above, we learn that two vessels have arrived at Gravesend from Oporto, which they left on the 7th, at which time Mt ' GUEL'S troops were attacking that place ; but without any probability of success. The fact of their daring to take such a step implies a confi dence in their own strength. A good defeat might settle the bussiness either way—but we fear that DON PEDRO is limited in his means. Lord ALTHORP most truly stated, a day or two before the breaking up of the House, that the provisions of the Reform Act, requiring pay ment of taxes in borough voters, did not apply to scot and lot voters ; and yet we find by letters we have received from more than one intelligent correspondent, that the matter is still to many involved in obscurity, and that they cannot re concile the clauses of the Act with the CHAN CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER'S declaration. The origin of the mistake is the not properly marking the distinction between rates and taxes. By the twenty-seventh section, which confers N the. tfght‘' of voting upon 101. householders, besides the other conditions to which they are subject, they are required, in order to be re gistered, to have paid, "on or before the twentieth day of July in such year, all the poor's rates and assessed taxes which shall have become payable from them in respect of such premises, previously to the sixth day of April then next preceding." So much for the 101. household ers : they must have paid both rates and taxes, to entitle them to be registered. The twenty third section saves to a scot and lot voter (amongst several other classes of persons) his right of voting so long as he shall be qualified as an elector, according to the usages of the place where 'he claims to exercise his right, and according to any law now in force, if duly regis tered. The scot and lot voter, so far, therefore, remains precisely in the condition he was before. The clause goes on to provide for his residence within a certain distance of the borough for a given time, to abolish his right if he suffer him self to be omitted from the register for two suc cessive years, except in certain cases, and to re quire him to qualify himself by the last day of July, as if that were the day of election. These then are the ort/y alterations made in the condition of the scot and lot voter. Nothing is said about either rates or taxes, but he is simply thrown back upon the qualification required in the borough wherein he may happen to claim his franchise, except that his rates must be paid by the last day of July. In no borough that we are aware of is the payment of taxes included in the qualifica tions required, by custom or law, of a scot and lot voter. We do not think we can do better than quote, upon this subject, the words of CIIARLES F. F. WORDSWORTH, Esq., of the Inner Temple, in his very excellent work on the " Law and Practice of Elections (for Eng land and Wales), as altered by the Reform Act, Bze." In page 65 he says, " Persons paying scot and lot are understood to be those parish ioners who pay poor rates. It has, therefore, been the practice to refer to the poor-rate as a kind of register of the scot and lot voters. This rule, however, is not the only criterion, for it has been held that a church-rate would he ad missible to show who was an inhabitant paying scot and lot, if there were no poor-rate.* " It was resolved, in the Alilborn Port case±, that persons rateable, and having paid the rate, though that rate be made by officers illegal or doubtful, have a right to vote as inhabitants paying scot and lot.' It is not always necessary that there should be actual assessment and con tribution. If a person having rateable property is omitted, and uses due diligence to be put upon the rate, he will be entitled to vote. The question of due diligence is one depending upon the facts of each particular case.t Due dili• gence is a seasonable application to a tribunal competent by its determination to place the voter in that relation with the borough or town out of which relation the right of voting arises." We have given the last two paragraphs be cause it may, perchance, happen that the 30th section, entitling occupiers to demand to be rated, may be held to apply only to the new classes of voters created by the three preced ing clauses. * Fowey, C. and D. 135. t 1 Douglas 129. C and D 125. We find the following in the Parisian corres pondence of this morning's Chronicle The conduct of the Emperor NICHOLAS to Lord DURHAM and to the crew of the Talavera at tracts a great deal of attention in this country, and gives rise to many unpleasant suspicions and fears. The Emperor,. forsooth, is all Eng lish—heart, manners, and nearly language ! The Empress never knew the Emperor speak so much English in his life as he did to Captain BROWN ! The Captain is ravished with the condescension of the CZAR and the Em press ! The Sovereign of an Aristocracy, which reckons more Princes than France has Barons, proceeds to the Talavera in a boat which he steers himself !—shakes Captain BROWN by the hand !—drinks a glass of grog in the midst of the crew, to the health of King WILLIAM and his people ! all the sai lors are received at St. Petersburg with the most flattering distinctions—they are shown grand military manoeuvres, and the exercises of Circas sian cavalry. In the presence of ail the Am bassadors and Courtiers, the English uniform is preferred above all others. The CZA R studies to flatter the national pride of the officers—de clares himself to be the best friend of WILLIAM —and terminates in announcing to them, that he prays to God each night for the King of ENG.. LAND." It is astonishing what a world of magic lies in that one little word—Royalty ! Every thing a KING does, is sure to tell. His very common places are oracles of wisdom with the majority. If he smiles, it is with the most irresistible suavity ; if he bows, it is with the most fault less grace ; if he cracks a joke, it is sure to split all sides ; if he utter an aphorism, it is sure to be the most profound ever uttered. A KING, even in these days, is one•third mortal, and two thirds divine. He occupies a midway station between man and the Deity. Read, for instance, the above paragraph. Here we see a King merely speaking a little bad English ; shaking a British officer by the hand—sure never was Cap taiß's hand so honoured ! drinking a glass of grog with his men ; treating them to a grand military review, and behold ! as a necessary consequence, we have a whole ship's crew in extacies ! This strong instinctive propensity to idolize Royalty ; to consider whatever it says or does as " wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best," is unfortunately not confined to the middle and lower walks of life, but pervades all classes equally. The taint osuendmind it e x er ts he must be seemsin more re o inherentthan a n i n m o a u n r o n v a e tru whose e h , no influence. We look, therefore, with exceeding anxiety to the result of Lord DuJHAM's mission. He is, we know, a bold, high-minded, clear-head ed man, but is he, even with these qualifications, wholly free from the bewildering witchcraft of royalty ? We hope SO. For grea t indeed would be the scorn and ridicule attached to the character of British statesmen, were truth to be bartered for a smile, and justice for a snuff-box. Yet there is no denying the fact, that it is a most trying position in which his Lordship is just now placed. Temptation besets him at every step, flattery stands ready with her hellebore to pour into his ear, whenever she can catch him sleeping. hlis judgment, therefore, must be continually awake ; his energy ever at its post. Otherwise he will surely fail. But, indeed, in every instance, unless political opinions are adopted more from principle than impulse,— more from conviction than feeling, they are sure to fall victims to the first temptation that besets them. In these emigrating times the case of BECKETT and others against LENS, in another part of our Paper, will be read with interest. The Learned Judge seems to have been much shocked by the description that was given of the close manner in which the passengers, their pro visions and luggage, were stowed, and is re ported to have said, that " as a man of humanity, he could not help regretting that such a law as the Passengers' Act had ever been sanctioned by the legislature." The fact is, that the law was passed with the most humane intentions ; and any one who recollects the shocking scenes which Ame rican passage ships used to present before its passing, will admit that it has produced a change decidedly for the better. Three persons to every four tons is not, especially for a short voyage, an excessive number for a vessel to carry ; and the crowding, &c. complained of in the case of the Sir George Murray, which induced Mr. Baron BOLLAND to regret the passing of the Act of Parliament, arose from the violation of that Act. It is curious, by the way, that although it appears to be clear, by the direction of the Judge and the finding of the Jury, that the plaintiff was in the right, the last obtains only 40s. damages, notwithstanding that he proves actual loss, occasioned by the conduct of the defendant, to a much larger amount. Our readers will find in another column, an account, which we have every reason to believe rests on good authority, of premature interment in cholera. The subjects of this horrid catas trophe were—a mother and her son ! The former fortunately recovered just in sufficient time to prevent her being screwed down ; but the latter was literally coffined alive This is an awful subject for reflection, and we hope will operate as a warning upon me dical men and parochial authorities. Every symptom attending cholera being as yet partially unknown, and even, as it should seem, the exact moment when it produces dissolution, its last stages being merely a sort of life in death ; too much elution cannot possibly be exercised to prevent premature interment. We trust this dreadful circumstance will be fully in quired into, otherwise it will do incalculable mischief. The public mind is but too easily worked upon with regard to this bewildering pestilence. It lays hold of the imagination like a spell. DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. New 5 per Cent. — India Stock i Ditto Bonds 5 6 pm. South Sea Stock 93% Old Annuities i — New Ditt0............ 3 per Cent. Ann. 1751 , Ex. Bills, £l,OOO l2 13 pm. Ditt0............500 Ditto Small Ditto Commercial pm. Ditto Advertised — pm. Bank for Account IS6 India for Account - Cons, for Aug. 9.9 M•?0•(2% THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Peruvian Bonds lOl Ditto Account Portuguese Bonds 50% Ditto Account 5O Regency Scrip 4 !,', 4 dis. 1 Ditto Account 31 44 3! 4 dis. t Prussi an Bonds 99 Ditto Account — Ditto Bonds, 199.9 lo o '4 Russian Bonds, 182 9 Ditto Account New Loan 93 Spanish Bonds, 159.1 l3? Ditto Account Ditto Bonds, 18D Ditto Account 13!,,c, French Rentes, sp. c. —1 —c. ---- Exchange —f —c. ---- 3 per cent —f. —c. Exchange —f —c. (Dutch Scrip 43 5 1 Ditto Account 43 N I French Scrip '!", pm. MANSION-HOUSE.-(THIS DAY.) STAGE COACIIES.—A person named Carter, the pro prietor of a stage coach plying in Bishopsgate-street, and several of his coachmen, attended on summons before Al derman KELLY, as the locum tenens of the Lord Mayor, and Alderman COPELAND, to answer the complaint of one of the street-keeper's of that district. By the Act of Parliament for regulating stage coaches, a certain period was allowed to obtain passengers ; Carter had in several instances greatly exceeded his stay on the stand, and on being remonstrated with by the officer, he threatened to do for him if he interfered with his coaches. Carter said, if he had a few days allowed he could bring forward witnesses to prove the falsity of the officer's statements. Mr. Alderman COPELAND had no objection to allow Carter time to bring forward witnesses to rebut the charge, but he trusted, if the charge was made out, that Mr. Alderman Kelly, acting for the Lord Mayor, would visit the offending party with the heaviest penalties of the law. Carter, together with one or two others, were the only coach proprietors who refused to adopt the regulations laid down for the convenience of themselves and the public ; the consequence of which was, continual disturbances in the streets, letween rival coachmen, to the great annoyance of passengers, who were sometimes forced from one coach to another ; and, in many instances, to such extent were affrays of this sort carried on, that the streets were totally obstructed. The case was ordered to stand over to the 24th. BOW- STREET.-(THIS DAY.) A poor half-starred Irishwoman, who obtains her liv ing by carrying loads in Covent-garden Market, was charged with making a disturbance there, and interrupt ing a market gardener named Poole, in his business. Mr. ROE, the Magistrate, asked her if she had got ten shillings? Woman—Lord help me, your Worship, I have not te❑ farthings; my children have not broken their fast yet. Mr. Roz—Have you any goods or chattels that can be sold to pay the fine? Woman—l have no goods at all, your Worship. Mr. ROE—Then you stand committed for 14 days to the /louse of Correction. The poor woman was then locked up. CHOLERA MORBUS, OFFICIAL REPORT CENTRAL BOARD OF HEALTH. COUNCIL OFFICE, IVIIITEHALE—(THIS DAY.) DAILY REPORT of CHOLERA CASES. COUNTRY. Remaining at last ItepoTt:2s67--Ne , v Cases,7ls—Deaths,2ls— 434—Remaining, 2572. Total Cases since the com mencement, 35,056—Deaths, 13,001. (Signed) WM. M A CLEA N, Secretary. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY). HAY MARKETS.—(At per Load of 36 Trusses.) CUMBERLAND (LATE ST. JAMES'S.) Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £2 15 to .£3 0 'kTew Meadow Hay 2 15 3 15 Useful Old Ditto 3 0 315 Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay ...... Clover Hay 4 0 6 6 Oat Straw .C 1 16 to .£2 01 Wheat Straw ... 2 2 2 4 Supply moderate, trade steady; and prices stationary. SMITHFIELD. Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £3 0 to £3 5 New Meadow Hay 3 0 3 10 Useful Old Ditto 3 5 3 15 Fine Upland Meadow and 11. ye-grass Hay ...... clover Hay (extra fine)...£ll O... Generally „, 4 0 5 0 Oat Straw ... £1 16 to £1 IS 1 Wheat Straw 2 0 2 2 Supply moderately good, trade rather dull, and prices as last quoted. Great preparations are making at Goodrich Court for the reception of the Duke of SUSSEX, who in tends honouring Sir S. R. MEYRICK With his presence the early part of the ensuing month. PRESENT TO HER MAJESTY.—A beautiful purse table and book-tray, of Irish bog yew, and of cu rious and exquisite workmanship, has been presented to the QUEEN by the Marchioness of ELY. The yew was the produce of the Marquis's estate, and for beauty of shade and colour could not be surpassed by any exotic ma terial, of whiOh such fancy articles are usually manufac tured. The Central Committee of the Reformers in the division of West Kent, are making strenuous exer tions for the re-election of Messrs. HODGES and RIDER. Sir WILLIAM RICHARD POWLETT GEARY has offered himself for this division on the same principles as Sir ED WARD KNATCHBULL, who will oppose Sir WILLIAM CosWAY and Mr. PLUALTRX for East Kent. SURREY SESSIONS.-(THIS DAY.) George Hozill and Margaret Roland were indicted, the former for stealing, and the latter for receiving, know ing them to have been stolen, large quantities of wax candles, sealing-wax, &c. value 71., the property of Mr. John Field, an extensive wax and tallow-chandler, of Lambeth-mars h. The case occupied the Court all the forenoon. It ap peared that the male prisoner had held a confidential situation under Mr. Field for about nine years. The female prisoner, who was a young woman of very inte resting appearance, was an acquaintance of his. It was stated that she lived in the neighbourhood of Mr. Field's premises, and was under the protection of a gentleman who made her a large allowance, and who was in the way of procuring orders for the theatres and Vauxhall Gardens. The male prisoner was in the habit of getting those orders from her, and in return presented her at various times with parcels of wax and other candles, and gave her invitations on parties of pleasure in a sailing beat which he kept. The prosecutor had frequently missed property of va rious descriptions from his manufactory, and suspecting that the prisoner, who seemed to lead a gay life, had com mitted depredations upon I hitn,con the 7th of August he had him taken into custody and searched. Nothing was found on his person, but he confessed that he had repeat edly taken wax candles and sealing wax, and that a quan tity of them might be found at the residence of the female prisoner. The officers went there, and found a large quantity of the prosecutor's property, which was produced in Court. The female prisoner accounted for it by saying she had bought it of her brother. A great many witnesses of respectability were called, who all gave the prisoner a most exemplary character; it was also stated that the female bore the character, in her neighbourhood, of being exceedingly charitable to the poor. The Jury found the prisoners guilty, but recommended them strongly to mercy. The prosecutor recommended the female prisoner to mercy, but as to the other prisoner, it was necessary as an example to the other workmen that he should be punished. The CHAIRMAN sentenced them both to seven years' transportation. The female prisoner, who was accommodated with a seat during the trial, was carried out of the Court after her sentence, in a state of insensibility. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.) FROM LLOYD'S DEAL, Auc. 20 —Wind S.W.—Arrived from the river and sailed, the Zenobea, Owen, for Bengal; Belle Alliance, Arckoll, for Madras ; and Guardian, Sinclair, for New South Wales. PORTSMOUTH, Aua. 20.-Wind W.S.W.-Arrived from London, the Georgiana, Clemente, for Bengal.- Sailed the Lord William Bentinck, Hutchinson, for Madras and Bengal. FALMOUTH, Auc. 19.-Wind W. to W.N.W. fresh breezes.-Arrived the Martin, Martin, from Bahia; and Tancred, Smith, from Port-au-Prince. _ _ COWFS, Ann , . 20.—Arrived the Congress, Shaw, from Havannah. POOLE, Auc. 19.—Arrived the Hero, Bell, from Memel. PENZANCE, AUG. 19. —Arrived the Anne, Davis, from Memel. BEACHLEY, AUG. 19.—Arrived the Orwen, Orwen, from Archangel. LIVERPOOL, AUG. 19.—Arrived the Diana, Anthony, from Trinidad ; Grace, from Antigua; Lee, Cannon, from Barbadoes ; Lexington, Covell ; Grotius, Barstow ; and Mary and Harriet, Tibbetts, from New Orleans ; Choctaw, Forster, from Savannah ; Fame, Chace, from Charleston ; Regent, Quekfall ; Campion, Brown ; and Fairfield, Smith, from Quebec ; Ann Paley, Rolstone, from off Lis bon, sailed 11th inst., not allowed to enter. Off port, the Chandos, from Jamaica. GREENOCK, AUG. 18.—Arrived the Joseph Anderson, Thomson, from Quebec; Terranova, Kelso, from New foundland. DUNDEE, Auc. 18.—Arrived the Hector, Reid, and Traveller, Wighton, from Quebec; Cousins, Wilson, and John, Dryden, from Bay Chaleur ; Victor, Morrison, from Cape Breton ; Cottager, Roger, from Reval. LlsmKEmcK, Auc. 18.—Arrived the Torrento, Sterling, from Quebec ; Eliza, Davis, from London. ABERDEEN, AUG. 18.—Arrived the Hercules, Reid, from Greenland. HULL, Auc. 19.—Arrived the Lady Helen Marr, Moore, and St. Mary, Gill, from Quebec. YARMOUTH, Auc. 20.—Arrived the Minerva, Culling; Sylvan, Gillam ; and Venus, Symmons, from Quebec. Dunt.tri, Auc. 19.—Arrived the Thames, Scott, from Quebec. NEWRY, Ave. 19.—Arrived the Tarbolton, Thomson, from Quebec. The Factor, Smith, from Liverpool to London, was assisted into Holyhead on Saturday, with loss of foremast. THE FUNDS.----(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE 0' CLOCK. The accounts brought by the Arial from Oporto are not of a later date than previously received. The last Lisbon packet left Lisbon on the and touched at Oporto on the sth inst. bringing news of that date from Oporto; but, by the way of Liverpool, we have information from Lisbon of the 11th inst. and from Oporto of the 6.h, by the Ann Paley, who returned to Liverpool with her cargo. Lisbon was still in a state of siege. Oa the 7th inst. the Leveret left the hostile squadrons N.W. by N. from the rock of Lisbon, distant sixty miles. Admiral Sartorius had the weather gauge, distant four miles ; he fired two broadsides into the Don John on the night of the sth, and received some straggling shots in return. The last accounts from Oporto, by the Falcon, of the sth, state that Don Pedro had not advanced, and was not likely to move soon. On the 6th the Admiral telegraphed, "No alteration had taken place at Oporto." 12,000 guerillas were hovering about Oporto, assembled together by the priest. ; only one cavalry officer and one soldier had de serted to Dun Pedro lately. On the tenth of August, Don Miguel went on board the American frigate to breakfast. By the French snail this morning, we have accounts from Flushing, which state that the different ports there had been repaired, and the garrison had received a rein forcement; and the above place now bids defiance both to the English and French fl'ets. Seamen had been shipped from Flushing, to be put on board the Dutch fleet. The accounts from Poland continue still to be of a me lancholy nature. They write from Halisch to the 7th of July, that the property of persons who have left that unfortunate country will soon be confiscated ; and a bad harvest is also expected, owing to continual rains. The recruitment and carrying off the children has prevented the agriculture. The Russians even take for recruits men of small stature ; they have already carried away about 70,000 men, which causes the country to be depopulated, and it is expected that in September another levy will take place of 70,000 men. Accounts from Paris state, that the Chambers are expected to meet on the Ist of October, when M. Dupin will replace M. Barthe, and M. Humane M. Louis. The Presidency of the Council will be given to Marshal Soult, who will meet 140 Deputies who signed the eompte rendu. The whole of the Liberal Press will be against the Mi nistry, as well as the Tribune. The Paris Papers say we can announce that M. Van de Weyer is going to London to terminate, in concert with General Goblet, the affairs of Belgium. THE FUNDS. Consols opened this morning as heavy as they left off yesterday, 83:1 g for the Account, with little doing at pre• sent. Report says that some new difficulties have started, on the part of Belgium, for the adjustment (on the minor points) of the affairs, which may cause some delay to the final issue. Bank Stock has rather taken a start for the better this morning. It left off yesterday 185 to 187. At present it may be quoted 187 to 189. HALF-PAST ONE. Two ships have arrived at Gravesend from Oporto, which left on the 7th instant, by which it is said that let ters are in town of the above date, stating that they were attacked by Don Miguel's troops, and at the moment they were writing all was going on well. Other accounts are also said to be received to the same purport, but the result is not mentioned, as they were left fighting. The above account is probable, as by the accounts re ceived at Liverpool 12,000 guerillas were approaching Oporto, and in all probability Don Pedro might have sent out a division to disperse the m. The Captains of the two vessels are not as yet in town. Consols are at present 93i for the Account ; Bank Stock, 188 to 190. In the Foreign Market Po T rt: R ue ß r E ßegent Scrip 4 CL OCR. - 4 1 - to 4 discount. In other Foreign Securities little or no thi ng doing. Consols are now 83 for Account, POWER, the comic actor, whose personation of Irishmen has not been equalled since the days of JACK JOHNSTONE, has, we understand, left the field where he acquired his professional reputation, and engaged himself to Cipt. POLHILL, at Drury-lane. FINE ARTS. MARTIN'S ILL USTRATIONSoftheBIBLE. PARTS M. AND IV. We have just been favoured with the lettered proofs of these two parts. They abound in Mr. Martin's usual faults and excellencies, who, whatever may be said of his want of human sym pathies, of his utter inability to give adequate expression to the passions, is, so far as mere imagination is concerned, the most striking painter of the age. In his power of pourtraying the grand and terrific in scenery—of bringing vividly before us the stately domes and gorgeous temples of the Babylons and Ninevehs of old, — above all, in his perfect and absolute mastery over space, no artist just now before the world equals, or even comes near him. Here, his ge nius " dwells like a star apart." In other respects, it merely glimmers with cold, feeble, uncertain radiance. Haydon surpasses him in strength of feeling ; Etty in the anatomical details of the human figure ; Wilkie in the forcible simplicity with which he tells and works out a story, and makes himself understood at a glance. Mr. iVlartin (except in the ideal) cannot compete with these great masters of art ; he must therefore content himself with the praise of being able to resuscitate the " famous Babylon," and give us the best, because the truest, idea we have yet had of the glories of the city of Semiramis. The Death of Abel is a fine production, subject to the strictures we have just hinted. Nothing can be grander, more sublime, or more filling to the imagination than the adjuncts of the pi c ture : by adjuncts, we mean, the war of elements that is going forward in the once peaceful Eden, as if to mark the awful hour when death first stole upon the human race : the frowning crags, thunder-smitten and blasted with lightning; the vast chaos of clouds, hanging, like a curse, upon earth ; the broad, winding Euphrates here re flecting the meteoric splendours of heaven, there black with the deep shadows of the over hanging cliffs ;--nothing, we repeat, can be more impressive in their way than these things ; but here our praise must stop. The still-life of the picture is precisely that part which should possess most spirit and animation. For what are the leading ideas that the Death of Abel suggests? Not the grief of the father, not the hysterics of the mother, not the corpse stretched full-length on the ground ; these are but auxiliaries to produce a general effect : the one prominent feature, round which the whole interest of the picture rallies, is the figure of Cain himself. The rage, remorse, horror, phrenzy, depicted by the countenance and gestures of the first of earth's murderers—this it is that gives its character and imparts its striking moral interest to the story. Yet Mr. Martin has backed out of this, which he must have felt to be a, dilemma, and has got rid of it by a side-wind. His Cain is a sad vulgarism. His countenance is devoid of passion ; there is no curse branded on his fore head ; he takes things coolly, and looks like a mere pickpocket who has stolen a watch and seals, and is running away from the cry of " Stop thief !" Adam and Eve are better ; but the former is too exagge rated, and the latter too devoid of sentiment . Of the Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah it is impossible to speak in too high terms of praise. It is as magnificent—as sublime a de scription as even Mr. Martin himself ever pro duced. The figure of the solitary prophet in the foreground, bewailing with uplifted hands and eyes the catastrophe which he foresaw, yet could not avert, adds considerably to the effect, and impresses us with a high idea of Mr. Martin's poetic sensibility. The Deluge is also an imposing production ; but it is too much of a Variorum edition of Mr. Martin's former painting on the same sub ject. This, however, we will say, that he is the only painter who has ever impressed us with a lively notion of this catastrophe. All the other Deluges we have ever seen—and we have seen some dozens of this favourite subject of art— have invariably reminded us of a❑ equinoctial overflow of the Thames in the Essex marshes. LITERATURE. THE ORIGINAL. —Co Tvlr. Among the many cheap publications to which the spring gave life, but which, with the fall of the year, appear to be dropping off one by one, was " The Original." Either the world was in censed at the presumption implied in the title of the work, or thought it not original, or thought it too original, or—in short what" ever the world thought, or whether it thought at all about the matter, " The Original" suffered the far from original fate of dying, after some four or five months' existence only. The publishers entertaining far from the original idea that it was a bad thing to lose m oney, and sell some hundreds of back numbe rs as wast e paper, have hit upon what certainly is an ori g inal idea,volu inoef, bind i ng and s selling l u i nig the i rh sale. How far the world will h e inclined t o swallow in a lump what it coul d not get throug h in detail we will not under take to say, but Per: tainly we have read wors e stories than some o f those in the volume before us, Several of the wo od-cuts are excellent. 14 must be a cross' tempered fellow who cannot extract an h our or two's amusement f rom t h e letter-press and trations conjoined. te m-- retaili f they can—whole originalities into at Windsor ‘ . wi — t l l: l4 ''.4R THE KING lot birth-day o f h• m minated throughout. The batchelors' revels will nil ° gr a e Las r .r e f otie t i h n e gg o . cca T si h o e n t w ow ill n b w e i c l e l le b l e ga ii te lo 4 , T 11 -7':----- D4y.—This being the place in the Walk as usual, and Souninv, the artist in fir e ' works, has been engaged, and will make a grand displal of the Pyrotechnic art, which he has cootracte4 to da for 1001, • Lord FITZROY SOMERSET held a militaq levee at the Horee Guards this forenoon, which was Fel l attended. Despatches were received this day at th e Foreign Office, from our Ambassador at Paris. Mr. BgRNAL, Chairman of the Ways a n Means, arrived at Rochester on Friday, and proceeded t ° canvass the electors for the promise of their votes at th e approaching election. Mr. MILLS, the other Member' again comes forward. Mr. NEwNHAm CoLuriowooot who married the daughter of the late Lord CoLuNowooPP has publicly announced his intention of submitting h i° claim to the choice of electors, PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAT AT ONZ O'CLOCK. 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