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sr — THE COURT OF QUEEN CAROLINE. Now ready, in 2 vols., post Bvo., with Portraits, MEMOIRS OF LADY SUNDON, AND OF THE COURT OF QUEEN CAROLLS E, CONSORT OF GEORGE 11. Including Letters of the Most Celebrated Persons of the Tiine, Now first published from the Originals, By MRS. THOMSON, Author of " Memoirs of the Court of Henry VIII.," &C. " We recommend this work to general circulation, not less for its attractiveness as a record of Court personalities, than for its histori cal value." —Atlas. " Lady Bandon was the Queen's Premier—at once her favourite attendant and chief Minister. She had correspondence with the most eminent and most notorious persons of her time, and hence her memoirs become veritable and amusing illustrations of the Court of George 11. We conscientiously recommend the velume."tannia. Henry Celburn, publisher, 13, Great Marlboreugh-street. Just ready, in post Bvo., lOs 6d., bound, 'PACTS and FIGURE S From ITALY. By Don JEREMY SAVONAROLA, Benedictine Monk. 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London. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. TO-MORROW (Tuesday), July 13, will be performed Rellini's opera LA SONNA3fBEILA, Amine, Mdlle. Jenny Lind ; Lisa, Madame Solari ; Count Rodolph Signor F. Lablacbe ; and Elvino, Signor Gardoni. To conclude with the highly-successful new Ballet Divertissement by M. Perrot, the music by Signor Bajett i, of the Imperial theatre La Scala, 3iiLin, entitled LES ELEMENS. The Earth (personified by) Mdlles. Cassan, James, Ifonore, Thevenot ; the Fire, Mdlle. Carlotta Grief; the Water, Mdlle. Rosati; the Air, Iddlle. Cerito. The Free List is suspended, the Public Press excepted. Pit Tickets may be obtained, as usual, at the Office of the Theatre, price 10s. 6d. each. Applications for boxes, pit stalls, and tickets, to be made at the Box-office, at the theatre. The Nobility, Subscribers, and the Public are respectfully informed that a GRAND EXTRA NIGHT will take place on THURSDAY NEM r, July 15, on which oecasion Mdlle. Jenny Lind will appear in one of her favourite characters. To conclude with various Entertainments in the BALLET DE PARTMENT, combining the talents of Mdlle. Carlotta Grisi, Mdlle. Rosati. Mdlle. Cerito, M. Perrot, and M. St. Leon. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT 13-GARDI be EN. repeated TO-MORROW EVENING, Tuesday , July , wil Doniz,ettrs grand opera of ANNA BOLENA. Anna Bolena, Madame Grisi; Lady Seymour, Mdlle. Corbari ; Smeeton, Mdlle. Alboni ; Percy, Signor Mario ; Lord Rochfort, Sig. Tagliafico ; Hervey, Signor Tull ; Henry the Eighth, Signor Tamburinl. To conclude with the popular Ballet, in one act, of LA PERI. The part of the Peri by Mdlle. Plunkett, supported by Mdlles. Baderna, Bertin, Delechaux, Duval, M. Ciontle, &c. Tickets, Stalls, and Boxes, at Cramer, Beale, and Co.'s, 201 Regent-street; and at the Box-office, Bow-street The Doors will be opened at Eight, and the performance corn. mence at Half-past Eight o'clock. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT. GARDEN. The Nobility, Gentry, and the Public, are respectfully informed that a GRAND EX FBA. NIGHT will take place on THURSDAY VIIIXT, July 15, on which occasion will be performed Donizettrs Opera Seria LUCREZIA BORGIA. Lucrezia, Made. Grist ; OrAnai, Mdlle. Alboni ; Gennaro, Signor Mario ; Gazella, Sig. Marini; Don Alfonso, big. Tamburini ; Gubetta, Sig. Taglianco. To be followed by a Scene from I)onizetti's opera of BETLY, per formed by Mdlle. Alboni. To conclude with the popular ballet, in one act, of LA PERI. La Peri by Mdlle. Plunkett, supported by Mdlles. Baderna, Bertin, Delechaux, Duval, M. Gontie, &c. Tickets, Stalls, and Boxes, to be obtained at the Box-OinCe in the Theatre, Bow-street ; and at Messrs. Cramer, Beale, and Co.'s, 201, Regent-street. THEATRE ROYAL, ILtYMARKET. Linder the Management of EVEN Mr. N Webster, sole Lessee. THIS IG Will be presented Murphy's comedy of ALL IN THE WRONG. Sir John Restless, Cirst time) Mr. Webster ; Beverley, Mr. Hudson ; Lady Restless, (first time in that character) Mrs. Nisbett ; Belinda, Bliss Julia Bennett. After which NICOLAS FL AM. Nicholas Flam, Mr. Farren. To conclude with the new comic drama, called THE JACOBITE. Sir Richard Wroughton, Mr. Stuart ; John Duck, Mr. Buckstone ; Lady Somerford. Miss Fortescue. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELrill. Under the direction of Madame Celeste • THIS EVENING WM bl produced a new and original c•nmedy in three acts, called THE TITLE DEEDS. Principal characters by Messrs. Lambert, Wright, Paul Bedford, 0. Smith. Boyce, Munyard, C. J. Smith, Worrell ; Mrs. Yates. Miss. Woolgar, Miss E. Harding, Miss E. Chaplin, Mrs. Laws, &c. After which a new and original burletta, in one act, by Charles Selby, Esq., called OCT ON THE SLY ; or, A Fete at Rosherville To concise wita the new Petite Comedy, entitled, FLYING COLOURS; or, Crossing the Frontier. Captain Sans song!, Mr. Webster ; Margaret, Miss Woolgar ; Helen de Monterean, Madame Celeste ; Justine, Miss Ellen Chaplin. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. (Summer Soason—Lyc EVEN eum ING Company.) THIS Will be performed a dr;;;;;, called THE KING'S WORD To be followed by IS HE JEALOUS. To be followed by the new GRAND BALLET, in which the Spanish Dancers will appear. After whleh, a new comic drama, in two acts, entitled MAR GUERITE'S COLOURS. Principal characters by Messrs. Emery, Wigan, Vining, and Johnston; Mesdames Dickenson, VMars, Arden, and Griffiths. To conclude with ANGELS AND LUCIFERS. ROYAL \Tic roma THEATRE. THIS EVENING PRINCESS'S TIIENTRE, OXFORD-STREET. J. M. Maddox, sole Lessee and Manager. THIS EVENING. Will be produced a new drama (with music by Loder) entitled DYING FOR A KISS. The characters by Madame Vestris, Miss Emma Stanley, Mr. J. Webster, Mr. Granby, and Mr. Compton. To be followed by A CURIOUS CASE. Mr. Aubrey, Mr. James Vining ; Twiggleton, Mr. C. Mathews ; Mrs. Aubrey. bibs Cooper. After which the new farce, entitled A SOVEREIGN REMEDY. Captain Fendragon, Mr. Ryder; Mr. Bottleby, Mr Granby; Quackit, Mr. C. Mathew; Alfred, Mr. J. Webster; Mrs. Bottleby , Mrs. Fosbroke ; Mary, Miss Marshall. To conclude with a comic drama, entitled "LADIES BEWARE !" Colonel Vayasour, Mr. Granby ; Sir Charles Vayasour, Mr. James pining; Matilda, Miss Cooper. FRENCH PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. John Mitchell. THIS EVENING Fourth Appearance of the eminent Tragedienne Mdlle. Rachel. Will be presented LE CODE DES FEMMES. After which, by express desire, for the second time at this theatre, Voltaire's tragedy of TAN :,'REDE. Amenaide, Mdlle. Rachel; Fanie, Mdlieperouet ; Tancrede, M. Raphaei Felix. Reserved seats, Dress Boxes, 73.6 d. ; Pit, 55.; Amphitheatre, ss. ; Gallery, 3s. The performances will commence at Half-past Seven o'clock pre- tisely.' Boxes and Stalls may be engaged at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, $3, Old Bond-street, and at the Box-office of the Theatre, dally,from 11 till 5. -- - -..—...:---------------- ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Proprietor and Manager. Mr. William Batty. Mier the patronage of the Queen, Prince Albert, and the Royal nimily. THIS EVENING . ... . . .. Will be presented a gorgeous Peruvian Drama, to ilinstrate the historical events of the Spaniards' conquest of Peru, arranged from the original text of Brins'ey Shertdan's play of " Pizarro," entitled rHE STORMING OF QUITO; or, the Warrior of the Sun. Rolla, Mr. W. West. The extraordinary equestrian performa' ces of La Petite Davidson and the New Scenes of the Circle, with the who e of the Entertain ments, having been attended with the most complete success, will be repeated every evening. First appearance of Professor Jameison and Son, in their peculiar exercises. To conclude with the SEIGE OF MONTGATZ. Stage Manager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Under the Management of Mrs. Frances Davidge, Lessee. THIS EVENING Will be presented Anber's opera, entitled FRA DIAVOLO. Lord Idleash, Mr. Horneastle ; Fra Diavolo, Mr. Harrison ; Zerlina, Miss Mainforth. After which Dibdin's comedietta of THE QUAKER. Steady, Mr. Leffler; Lubin, Mr. Morncastle ; Gillian, Miss Isaacs. To conclude with the tragedy of JANE SHORE. Gloster, Mr. J. R. Scott. Will be performed a grind historical drama, entitled WALTER TYRRELL, THE SAXON AVENGER; or, The Life and Death of King William IL William IL, Mr. Dale; Walter Tyrrell, Mr. Eflcks Ed•tha. Mice Vincent. After which THE SHIP- VOY; er, The White Slave of Ganda loupe. Julie • (the Ship-boy), Miss Vincent To conclude with THE PALACE OF GENEVA; or, The Spirit of the Vault. B o xes, Is. ; Half Price, 6d. Pit, 6d. ; Gallery, 3d. ROYAL SURREY ZOOI.O , IICAL GARDENS. Be-engagement of M. J S ullien DAY for Ten Nights more. THI , Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, July 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th. Daylight View of Gibraltar —Splendid Menagerie—Promenade Concert by Jullien's band of One Hundred performers, two of whom 1 n Porto= a solo each evening ; Conductor, M. Jullien ; Leader, • Godfrey. All the attractions of the gardens will be added, con -irmB with the grand Pyrotechnic Display of the Siege of Gibraltar. vort eeding the Anima!! at Five; Concert, Quarter -past Six; Fire rm,s,',..arter-past Nine.—No extra charge. t o I; d s - ,_ r _tPbrated HARMONIC ROCK BAND will pe rform previous between the parts of the Concert. Admission to the whole, One Shilling. THE WEA.THER.—SIIN OFFICE, JULY 10. THERMOMETEn, Low es t , 60; Hi g h est , 73 ; • Noon, 75 . BAn.opirrzia, 30.2.—W1ND S.W. ; fine. JULY 11. TIZESMOKIITZR, Lowest, 611; Highest, 79 ; Noon, 80, BA.ROXICTEII, 30.25. Wiwo S.W. ;fine. lill4ll WATER AT LONDON-BRLDGP. THIS DAY. Morning .. 33 minutes after 1. Evening .. 57 minutes titer 1. 4 1 4. 0 , 1 ) -= . 7f ib• 6 , A 'l4 l lil P'"" '401k - ••; '•.' 1 . 6 Tfrl:: *0 11111pIIIV " 4 .1:1) '4O or' ill LONDON, MONDAY, JULY 12, 1847 Preliminary to a dissolution of Parliament, as anterior t o t h e di spers i o n of almost every public assembly, there is visible that a g reeable abandon which is indicative of the anticipated pleasure of an approaching vacation. The legis lative campaign is just terminating. Some of the difficulties of the ses,ion have been conquered, many of them have been evaded, the vast majority of them have fallen harmlessly by reason of partial con cessions, or the assurances of their ultimate removal. Having, in a great measure, competed with the fame Of HANNIBAL in overleaping the Alps, and still more with the fame of NAPOLEON in turning the Alps, the popular representatives seem disposed to indulge themselves with the taste of a few pungent and bitter personalities. Every one remembers how the Parlia men t ary perpetual were the year of 1,1346 terminated, how of the noble and unfortunate Duke d'Enghien, be would, without doubt, have chose..' . another theatre for , the publicity and magnificence of his fetes. Bona parte made of Vincennes a prison ; this was logical; he would never have made it a place for dancing and banquetting." The writer might have added, that but for the death of the Duc D'ENGHIEN, the son of Louts PHILIPPS would never have shared with SOPHY DAWES the rich inheritance of the father of the un fortunate Due D'L' NGHIEN—the still more unfortu nate Duc DE BOURBON—the last of the CONDE& The Duke DE MONTEBELLO, Minister of Marine and Colonies, is attacked with an indisposition which, without obliging him to keep his bed, is still suffi - ciently serious to prevent him from taking part in the debates of the Chamber. The trial of General CUBIERES and his co-accused commenced on Wednesday. On Wednesday the Chancellor, on the demand of the Procureur-General, issued against M. PELLAPRA a warrant of arrest. This act is the commencement of the proceedings to be instituted against the accused by default. The Constitutionnel says—" It appears that, after having made his preparations for departure during the day, M. PELLAPRA left Paris in the evening, at the very moment at which all the solicitude of the police was directed to the ball at the Minimes. M. PELLAPRA, it is said, addressed a letter to his advo cates, M. CHAIX-D'EST-ANGE and M. GAUTSSIER, in which he declared that his great age and state of health would not permit him to undergo the sittings of the court. This letter was immediately sent to the Chancellor." At twelve o'clock on Wednesday the ceremony of presenting cardinal's hats to the Archbishops of CAMBRAI and BOURGEC, who were recently raised to that dignity, took place at the Tuileries. Accounts have been received from the island of Bourbon, which stated that new attempts had been made at Madagascar to renew commercial relations with Tamatave, but the Hovas persisted in excluding from the country all foreigners, without distinction. The English brig Arzac, after having passed a month at Tamatave in making solicitations, had obtainedlper mission to disembark part of its cargo, on condition that it would take nothing from Madagascar. The concession subsequently appeared dangerous to the Government, and after the departure of the Arzac it interdicted all kinds of intercourse under penalties so severe that the packet-boat Bordelais, which arrived at Tamatave in January last, could not even succeed in disembarking a little box of medicines. The po pulations are represented to be afflicted at being thus deprived of the resources of European commerce. The village formerly occupied by the Euro peans at Tamatave has been burned down, with the exception of the house of a Frenchman, on which a trio-colour flog had been placed. On several points of the coast fortifications have been established. RADZACFIDY, formerly Governor of Tamatave, re mained in prison under the sentence which con demned hint to death, for having disobeyed the orders of the QUEEN, but it was believed that he would con trive to escape. The price of corn and flour in the Paris market continues to decline. The holders find it difficult to procure purchasers for any but the best quality, and then only at very reduced prices. Although foreseen, the actual application by Go vernment for authority to contract a loan, caused a very considerable depreciation of prices on the Paris Bourse on Thursday. The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Thursday at 77f. 65c. , the Five per Cents. at 118 f. 30c. ; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,262 t. 50f.; Rouen, 952 f 50c.; Havre, 637 f. 50c.; Avignon, 6471. 50c. ; Vierzon, 587 f. 50 c. ; Bordeaux, 5051. ; Basle, 187 f. 50c. ; Dieppe, 310 f.; Paris and Strasburg, 4201. ; Paris and Lyons, 42711 50c.; Lyons and Avignon, 431 t. 25c. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 458. 75c. ; Spanish Actives, 29 1 / 2 . BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, JULY 9. Boulogne and Amiens, 15 3 / 4 —Central of France (Orleans and Visrzon), 17—East Indian, 1 4—Namur and Liege, 4 Northern s of France, 10j2—West Flanders, 3%8. malignities showered upon a great statesman, how deliberate were the accusations brought against the Champion of Commercial Emancipation, how the orations of certain Honourable Members were flavoured with the tartness of s arcastic vituperation. The Parliamentary session of 1847 promises to end in a somewhat similar manner, but without the re deeming audacity of Lord GEORGE BENTINCH, or the brilliant sparkle of the wit of the Honourable Mem ber for Shrewsbury. Sir ROBERT PEEL was the popinjay at which the arrow of almost every satirical rhetorician in the House of Commons was levelled in 1846. Mr. JOSEPH HUME is the target for the hitherto suppressed personalities of 1847. On the former occasion the attacks were as ephemeral in their influence as the breath that blurs a mirror for an instant and then evaporates, or as the pressure of a footstep on the moss that flings off every impress with its elasticity. At the present time the assailants appear to have as little chance of producing effect either upon the object of their defamation, or upon the popular judgment. With all his Parliamentary peccadilloes, with all his political sins of commission and omission—and what senator of thirty or forty years' standing is without them ?—the Hon. Gentleman the Member for Mon trose has acquired for himself the respect of a very large portion of the community. In the very ble mishes of Mr. HUME'S career there are the palliatives of honesty and plain-speaking. By his pertinacious adherence to the cause of free trade—literally through good report and evil report—he showed that, notwithstanding the pervad ing parsimony of his creed of political economy, there was wisdom at the bottom of it. Troublesome as he has proved at times in regard to the stinting of the national expenditure, there has been, nevertheless, a homely and practical patriotism in the manner in i which Mr. HuME has for years endeavoured to re ' vent the possibility of lavish disbursements from the dishonest plunderers would be punished as they de-, served, the merely cal eless or negligent wou'.d receive an impressive admoriition as to the necessity for greater care and diligence on future occasions; while the British public would henceforward be assured of a fathful administration of the national resources, and the due application of their bounty to the objects contemplated, and for whose relief and benefit it was originally granted. The Swiss Federal Diet was opened at Berne on the sth inst. by Colonel ULiticu OCHSENBEIN, the President of that Assembly, who commenced his speech by congratulating the members of the Diet on their fraternal meeting, and told them that never was a meeting held which commanded such general attention. " Confederates," added the President, " we wish to regard the present situation of affairs with firmness and without alarm. The questions we have to consider regard the most important rights of humanity and the conditions indispensable to a free, moral, and intellectual existence—a choice between progress and Vie status quo—and, consequently, the issue of a contest which is as ancient as the history of man — which has sometimes appeared under one form and sometimes under another, but has never shaken the foundation of intellectual Europe so much as at pre sent. It is true that the momentary results and the course of that painful contest are most various. Never theless, we cannot doubt that the tendency to progress is general. Whilst Poland still bleeds, whilst recently the significant dellruction of the independence of a sister of Helvetia—of the republic of Cracow—has taken place, against the law of nations and in contempt of the civilised world, and whilst on the banks of the Tagus the inde pendence of a nation has been trampled under foot, we see on the Scheldt and on the Isar facts which hitherto were considered as impossibilities. In this category we must place the essential consolidation of constitutional principles in the north of Germany—a star a long time since announced and promised, but which has disap peared." The President next alluded to the political con stitution of the cantons, which, founded on the principle of the sovereignty of the people, has secured the happiness of all separately t but he observed that the cantons required to be united by a new pact, which, by maintaining as much as possible the independence of each, should create a general confederation, affording the best guarantee for their national independence. The President concludes by observing that, "If—what appears to be improbable —a foreign intervention should take place in the internal affairs of the confederation, the world shall know that Switzerland —strong in her right, great by the sympathy entertained for her by all free nations, and by all which expect to become free—will sacrifice the last drop of her blood to maintain the independence achieved by her fathers in so many sanguinary battles, and to transmit that most precious of all blessings intact, as she received it, and in ail its integrity, as a sacred legacy to her chil Oren. May God preserve the mother country ! I de clare the Diet for the year 1847 to be opened, and I in vite you, dear confiderates, to renew the federal oath after the custom of our fathers." Treasury. Against the broad front of the Honourable Member for Montrose the bullets of abuse are harmless, the javelins of invective are innocuous—the bullets are flattened, the javelins blunted. Mr. SPOONER had as lief sally out to hunt the rhinoceros with a toasting fork as attempt to crush the re putation of Mr. HuME with such flimsy pro jectiles as a remembered fragment of small talk, and a blue book tarnished with the cobwebs of twenty-four months. The sympathies of the House have very seldom gone with the Hon. Gentleman the Member for Montrose, for seeing that his themes have generally been based upon COCKER, and considering that his most appropriate crest would certainly he a save-all, Mr. HuME scarcely strikes one on the long run as being the sort of man to sympathise with. Often as the House of Commons has had occasion to coincide with him, the Members of that Honourable House have scarcely ever had occasion to be moved in sentiment or emotion with him. On Friday, however, the sympathies of the large majority of the House of Commons were with Mr. HuME. The ridicule with which that old servant of the people was treated was felt to be unmerited and ungraceful. Indeed the pain with which Mr. HuME must have listened to the attacks directed against himself personally must have been immeasurably more than compensated by the hearty cheers with which his vindication by Mr. AGLIONEY was received. Upon those sponta neous acclamations the Hon. Member for Montrose deserves congratulation. Threatened with branding, as it were, they virtually crowned him with laurel. So much for the idle personalities which are beginning to indicate the proximate dissolution of Parliament. The actual business of the session has been either terminated or put aside for " a better opportunity ;" a little pleasantry and practical joking is, therefore, considered allowable, even though it merge into a sort of moral Donnybrook, where the bludgeons of ridicule are " laid about " somewhat indiscriminately, and characters, instead of skulls, are threatened with destruction. Madrid papers of the 3d instant have been received. According to the Faro, Queen CHRISTINA has written long letters both to the KING and the QUEEN. The Correo denounces all the parties concerned in bringing about the marriage of the QUEEN -a marriage which was effected in direct oppusition to the wishes of her MAJESTY, who was forced to marry her cousin. The departure of Don FRANCISCO DE PAULA for San Sebastian has been delayed for a few days. Carlist bands have appeared in Toledo, La Mancha, and Tarragona. The Political Chief of the latter province has been placed under arrest for not acting with sufficient energy against the insurgents. MADRID BOLSA, JULY 3.—The Three per Cents. closed on the 3d inst. at 28 cash; the Five per Cents., 17 5 16; Passives, 5; and Coupons, 13 cash. We have received the Paris papers of Thursday. The escape of M. PELLAPRA, and the seizure of La Presse, are the subjects of comment in all of them, and the wily intriguers of the Tuileries are but too glad that these subjects occupy the attention of the gobe-mouch,Ps of Paris, and of foreigners also, while they pursue uninterruptedly their plots for securing to the Duchess DE MONTPENSIER speedy possession of the Spanish throne. It would almost appear as if the squabble between M. EMILE DE GIRARDIN and the Ministry was a "cross" got up after the approved " swell mob " fashion to enable their confederates to THE E A R L OF HARDWICKE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR, I must correct a statement in your leading article of this day, wherein you assert, on the alleged authority of the naval historian James, that the Earl of Hardwicke was one of two out of thirteen midshipmen missing in the same berth, on board the Leander at Algiers, who escaped being killed or severely wounded. Now the fact is that his Lordship did not belong to the Leander at the time of the memorable battle alluded to, but to Lord Exmouth's flag-ship the Queen Charlotte. He commanded a gun-boat, which he gallantly placed in an exposed situation, nearly under the bows of the Leander, where he did good service ; but was only removed into the Leander after her return to England, and in her he proceeded to the Halifax station. I was secon d lieutenant of the Leander during the battle and for about a year a fterwar ds , and can there f o re vouch for WALKER, these facts as co u r E re N ct ß .-- y lam (A) Lieut. 8.N., Sir, &c., July 9, 1847. The Third Report of the Irish Relief Commis sioners on Friday again occupied the attention of both Houses of Parliament. In the Lords the Earl of RODEN moved "That copies of all informations con , erected with these transactions which have been made to the Commissioners, together with the names of the chairmen of committees and justices of the peace re ferred to in the report, should be laid on the table," while in the Commons the Honourable Member for Mallow returned to the charge with a vigour and perseverance deserving of a more successful result, and demanded " That so much of the correspondence, with the names, rank, and residence of the parties referred to, as sustains the statement condemnatory of the pursue their schemes of plunder without interruption. We yesterday stated that CHRIS.. TINA and NARYAEZ were reconciled. Senor SARAGOSSA has joined them in Paris, his object being to persuade NARYAEZ to return to Madrid, to put himself at the head of the Government, to depose the QUEEN, and to proclaim the accession of the Duchess DE MONTPENSIER. This scheme was, how- ever, judged to be too rash for immediate execution, and has consequently been suspended until the pear shall ripen. In the meantime every method is put in practice to make the Duc DE MoNTPENSIER popular with the army. No expense is spared for this pur pose, and Vincennes is what Versailles was in the days of Louis XIV. It would be a curious instance of retributive justice if the very means which are taken to secure for the Due DE MONTPENSIER a throne to which he has no right should, by their re- F REIGNCORN MARKET. From the 30th of June to the sth of July thirty-four vessels, laden wholly or in part with corn, entered the port of Antwerp. The importations made were— Rye 1,287,120 kil. Barley Beans 89,900 „ Oats Flour Rice action, produce a directly contrary effect, if the plotters of mischief in Spain should find their cunning plots recoil upon themselves—if " the Engineer should hoist with his own petard :" that such a consumma tion is not impossible let the following article from the Courrier Francais attest. After describing the last fete at Vincennes, it thus proceeds— Total The following table will show the quanta] consumption or declared in transit from the to sth July : " We had resolved, from shame and pity, to remain silent upon the subject of this fi:e given so mal.l - when the public mind was absorbed with sinis ter apprehensions. But the courtiers have spoken, and it is impossible for us nut to protest, in the name of the respect that we feel for the dynasty, against ti,eir dan gerous adulations. Did not these persons comprehend the cries and bootiegs with which the populace of the fauboargs saluted the brilliant equipages as they passed along towards Vincennes ? To whom, then, were ad dressed these exclamations which publicly rendered so many honourable persons participators with some un worthy beings admitted to these galas : Down with the aristocrats ! Down with the robbers !' What con • fusion of brain could have made these courtiers advise the Duke de Montpensier to give a 11,e at this moment, when the grand monde, the only class invited to it, are compromised by so many scandalous acts, and are seek ing shelter in flight and exile from the Court of Assizes or Court of Pe. rs ? 111-judging men describe to us this luxurious feast as full of splendour and magnificence, at which the Garde-Meuble of the Crown dieplayeed all its resources; at which.lin the bowers and on the esplanades, artificial bouquets of light were used to illuminate bou quets of natural flowers—this fe..e, for which the King had given to his son an unbounded liberty to draw sup plies from the rich parterres of Versailles and Saint Cloud. But did not these ill-advised chroniclers, these historiographers of Trianon, fear that the people should reckon up what a fete so brilliant mus t have cost. It would be ascertained that the expenditure was greater than all the one hundred and odd thousand francs which the Royal Family have distributed towards the relief of the public misery. What, in the name of heaven. was the object of this fate ? Alas ! you have told us ! you flatter the army, but you leave the discontented people crying at the gate! Where was the need of this ;e.e,in which you travestied our soldiers into chamberlains of the palace? Was not the fancy camp at Compi‘gne suf ficient for you, assembled as it is in spite of the engage ments entered into by the Minister of War with the Chambers? Was it not a great honour paid by you to Messieurs de I'Artillerie, to confine their functions for that evening to presenting nosegays to the ladies as they arrived!—Oh, let us perfume ourselves with essence of benzoin and bergamot I Let us sprinkle our shirt frills of Mecklin-lace with Spanish snuff ! Par la Sam bleu 1 there is nothing better to be done in these times ! Behold those girandolas filled with wax lights, those downy sophas, those garlands of foliage interwoven into cyphers, that profusion of flowers, those innumerable cases of odoriferous shrubs, those Chinese and Venetian illuminations, those festoons, those astragals those panoplies of every epoch arrange d f or th e embellishment of this showy fete, and amidst all this magnifi cence, those voluptuous smiles gliding with their sisters the graces among those mysterious glades. To tell you that this fate continued from the evening until the morn ing would not be assez Regence. The Marquis de Vin cennes tell us—' The sun gilded the last waltz with his rays as he had saluted the first corare-danse with his last smiles.' Could the Chevalier de Bouffiers ' or M. Jean Vatout himself, have better expressed it? And then how you enumerate all the illustrious personages and celebrated beauties who were saluted by the last smile of the setting sun, and emblazoned by the first rays of his rising. ' Qui nommer,' exclaims the en raptured chronicler, dans ce merveilleux pile-mele de a c n h d a r y ne o a u n , s d i v v i i s n a e g A e s r ? a ' rn n L t o h v a e C B h u l o t r w i s e , were 01l beaux and continued to be inces santly was thrown open, were you that at half past eleven o'clock the . "Ela th s er e e td ? e with fresh supplies , with perfect order the morning. People of France, ? You aretold '1 in engage how will you construe this Vincennes they were four hours at prLcieux' that at usanntitlyharlfnpe‘aysetdth three in ond ' ese aint are without bread; eat cakes. We to am g .ant t out to these counsellors will have the courage to p supper. Ma foi is not this admirable ? Clown you b young Princes the danger there is in their thus isolating themselves from the people ?'' The Union Monarchique, in chr oniclin g the say ings and d o i ngs o f this fete, thus remarks on the want of feeling exhibited in making Vincennes, of all places in the world, the scene of such orgies. It says— " Princes are unfortunate! They have not always time to have memory, and their courtiers rarely attempt to supply the detect. If some of those who surround the Duke de Montpensier had reminded the young Duke that the ditches of Vincennes had witnessed the murder Les put on 30th June In the En repot, June 30. Corn. Out in the En trepot, July a. For con-1 I,umptioo For transit. kilos. Wheat ............... 1,752,613 Rye .................1,213,214 Batley ............... 150,145 Beans ............... 502,116 03.1 S .................. 99,12, Flour .............. 886,508 Rice ............... 159,0781 kilos. 12,009 kilos. 8,820 165,993 THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY MORNING, JULY 12, 1847. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. (Fr - :m The S'zn N t The safes of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 4,000 bales, including a few hundred bales on specula tion. The market closed heavily. Shares were dull, and prices were declining, the business done being small. _ _ The vtle of Railway Shares yesterday, by Messrs. Lamu:o ) .:,.t1 Co., was better attend( d, hut prices were liar, owiug to the depression at pre-ent existiha ieur market, wnich has a downward tendency. W- Lotiee by Messrs. ',mond and Co's advettisetnent, that these sales are to take place every Wednesday for the future, instead of Tuesdays and Fridays as hitherto. We sub join a few of the principal sates:— East Indian ... Great Luxembour g Reading, Guildford, and Reigate, ex int 5 15 0 North British, Extension Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham, x. int 5 4 0 Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux, ex int 6 4 0 North StatiOrdshire Eastern Counties, York Extension 7 2 0 Newmarket and Chesterford..... Great Northern, ex int. . Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A)... 3 4 0 North British, Thirds The Bank averages, as made up for the week to the 3d inst., give the following results:— Notes issued £23,562.330 Decrease 114,215 Rest, increase. 25,478 Public deposits, decrease Other deposits, increase 7 day and other bills, increase Government securities, increase 99,169 Other securities, increase Notes reserved, decrease Bullion . Decrease Active circulation 18,404,100 Increase It may be noted that the Bank has bad an increased demand upon it lately, as usual prior to the closing of the transfer books, for discount accommodation and short loans on stock, &c., while the official payments have begun to tell upon the public deposits. The secu rities will afford an index to the increased business of the Bank, as well as the greater amount of notes em ployed. The slight advance in the Corn Market yesterday. added to the French loan, have had some effect upon the Money Market, although there is, perhaps, not any particular cause for apprehension. The exchanges upon the Continental cities are certainly declining, but as yet the specie going out ik nearly counterbalanced by the imports from South America and other quarters, and it is still a matter of doubt whether a large amount will be required for the United States. At Hamburgh, last Tuesday, the rate of exchange on London was 13.51, and the price of gold 432. As to the probable supplies of grain, weThave to-day renewed assurances from St. Petersburgh of the ability to let us have all we require. Indeed there is a present supply of 2,700 000 tschetworts unordered and available for foreign wants. The English Securities have been much depressed to day. Consols have been 881 for Money and Account. Exchequer bills are 15s. to 1 ls. premium. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been 90 1 1 s, and the Three per Cents. 881 to 89. Spanish Three per Cents. are 324; Portuguese Three per Cents., 34; and Brazilian, 84 ; Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents. are 57i Shares are lower. The effect of the prohibition to pay interest on calls has already appeared in an announcement from the Cale donian Company, of their intention not to pay the 4i per cent. which their shareholders have been calculating upon since October last. The Government resolutions will also afford that company, and, no doubt, many others, the opportunity of getting quit of altering recent obligations, seeing it is now compulsory that no amalga mation of leasing can take place until one of the parties to it is completed and opened for traffic. Scottish Cen tral holders would do well to look to their own interests at the special meeting on the 20th current. 6111'1 Intl FUNI). ONE CLOSING O'CLOCK. PRICES rhree per Cent. Reduced Annuities E 04% 89 89 bree per Cent. Consols Annuities .. • 8 8 3 /5%%3‘ 884 Three per Cent. Annuities, 1726 .. 86% 86% sew Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anna. 90 %% 90% ong Annuities. Expire Jan. 5, 1860 .. 1-16 9 1-16 'onsols for Opening, July 16 .. 89 8 884 Exchequer Bills. 2d. 1,0001... .. .... 14 15 11 p 11 p 500/. . .... 13 12 16 p 16 p Ditto, Small .... 20 15 p 15 p ONE CLOSINi , FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. ride ES. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent .. .. 84 84 Chili= Bonds, 6 per Cent .. . .. 9214 92 Equador Bonds .. .. .. .. .. 3!4 2 _ k Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent .. • • Ditto, 3 per Cent .. .. .. .. 34 34 Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent .. .. Ditto, for the Account • • • . .. . 20% 20% Ditto, Three per Cent .. .. .. 32% 32% Dividend.' on the above payable in London. Dutch Two-and-a-Halt per Cent .. 57 %14 57% Ditto. 4 Der Cent. Certificates .. 90 90 BUSINESS CLOSING PRICES OF PAID. DONE AT PRICES. RAILWAY SHARES. ONE O'CLOCK. ..•••••••• 29% Ditto, Extension • • • • • • North British .• • • .. 25 ••• • •••• • • • .., Ditto, Half Shares .. • • • . 125! • • 1514 •••• • • • • , Ditto, Quarter shares • • .. 314 ••• • ••••• • • • • North stafrordshire .... 10% 1 4 •• • Oxford, Wor'ster, & Wolverhamp. 275¢ Shrewsbury and Birmingham • . 3% .... 3% .•••• • • • • South Devon .. • • • . .. 40 .... 30 • • ••• • • South EsAern and Dovor 33% 37 •• . • • • south Wales .. • . • .. .. 10 .• •• ••.•• • • .. south Yorkshire, Doncaster, and West Rifling Union • • . .. 4/. 25... . . ..... York and Newcastle .. .. 25 .... 37% .. •••• • • • Ditto, Extension • • • • .• .. 10 .... 163 44 % Ditto, Preference • • • . .. 8 .• .. 125{1 • • • York and North Midland .. 50 .. • • ••••• • • • • Ditto, Extension .. 25 .... 43 % Ditto. Preference • • 6 16% ..... Do. E. and W. Riding Eaten . • 10 .• • —• . • • FOREIGN • RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amiens . • • . .... 15% .• •• • •• , Luxembourg • • • . .. 6 .. . •••• • • , Namur and Liege .. • • .. .. 12 .• • .•• • •• • •• • Northern of France • • • . 8 .... 105 %••• • •• Paris and Orleans .. • • .. .. 20 .• 48 Sambr: and Meuse • • .. .. 14 .. •• •• •• •• • • JOINT-STOCK BANKS. London Joint-Stock • • .. .. 10 .... 16% • ••• • • MINES. Real del Monte, Unregistered .. .... ........ Aberdeen.. . • • • • Amber., Notting., Boston, And Eastern Junction .. .. • • 2% • ... .. •• .. Ayrshir 3 and Galloway • • 254 • —••••• • • . • • 2 t Birmingham and Oxford Junction 10 .... 17 .• 17% Wolver., and Dudley.. 10 • • ••• • - • 15 Birming.. Waver., & Stour Valley 8 83 . Buckinghamshire 61.45.... . . % dis. Caledonian .. 35 .... 29% • • . 29% Eastern Counties .. 20 .... 21 20% ••. . • • 21 Do. Perpet., 5 per Cent. No. 1.61. 13s. 4d. ••••• • • • • • Ditto, ditto.. .. .. No. 2. 6/. 13s. 4 d. •• • % p East Lancashire .. .. 20 .• .• 19% •• • • ...... 19% East Lincolnshire .. • • ........ 7 34 Great Northern .. 6 Do., London & York Extension • . 2 x. int. Great Southern & West. (Ireland) 32,4 .... 31 ex int... • 31 x.int. Great Western .. .. 85 ....118 .. •• .• . 121 Ditto, Fifths .. 20 .... •• • ..... 28% Hull and Selby .. 50 ....104% 104% London and Blackwell • .. 16/. 13s. 4d. 7% ••••• • • • • • 7% LOndon, Brighton, & South Coast 50 .... 55 _ • • 54% Ditto, Guarant. Five per Cent. 9 9% x d London an North-Western ..100 .... 180% 180 179 Ditto, Quarters •. L. and B. 12 29 Ditto ditto, New Shares • • .. 2 .... 12% 12% Ditto, Fifths .. 2 .... 17 Ditto, 10/. Shares M. & 11. (B) 5 I I l b London and South-Western 411. 6s. 10d... 68% .... 68% Ditto, New Consol. Eighths .. 40 .... 51 _ 51 Ditto, New 50/. .. .. 32% .... 37% • • .... • Ditto, Scrip 501... • • .. .. 5 .... —4%, Manchester slid Leeds 82 .... •• .• 102% Ditto, llalf Shares .. 38 ...• 4 5 Ditto, Thirds (Reg.) —7l. 45..... —p•••• • • • • • • par Manchester, Buxton, & Matlock 425. • • • • Midland .• ..100 • ... 128 % 128 .• • ... 128% Ditto, 401. Shares .. .. 40 .... —••.• • • • • • 48 % Ditto, 501. Shares ......6 .... 10% 10. ... 10 99% Ditto, Birmingham and Derby 100 .• ••••• • • • • • Newcastle and Berwick • • .. 20 .• .. 28 %••••• • • • • • 28% Ditto, New .. • • • • • .• 00 Norfolk .• .1 •••• • • .. 10 .... 10%•• ...• 10% DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT. Ss mptoms of the conclusion of the session and of the Parliament continue to increase and multiply. It is now evident to the most casual observer that the days of the Parliament of 1841 are numbered. Even if the Govern ment were desirous of prolonging the session, it appears to be quite evident that all their powers would enable them to do so much longer. But in reality they are not. They are naturally most desirous to bring to a con clusion a session from which no further practical results can be expected, and they are no less anxious to shorten the excitement and the distraction of time from useful and necessary occupations, which are engendered and kept up by the now known and ascertained approach of a speedy dissolution. Government was—and is ' —most anxious to bring the session to an end as soon after the 15th instant (Thursday next) as possible, in order to get over the elections, completely before the harvest operations shall have begun. To this end the House of Commons has sat in the morn ing as well as in the evening, almost every day for the last fortnight. To this end, also, Ministers have con sented to abandon, or rather to postpone, every measure that was not in their opinion one of paramount, or of pressing, emergency. To this catalogue of useful mea sures —postponed from necessity—we are sorry to be obliged to add the Bill for the Improvement of the Health of Towns, which we regard as a most useful and necessary improvement, and which we know the Govern ment were most desirous to pass into a law, in spite of the imperfections to which it was necessarily subjected by the fact s f its being an attempt at legislation in a new channel, as by the activity of the fac tious and interested opposition to which it was subjected from first to last. Whatever may have been the reluctance of a dying Parliament to deal with such an unprincipled and unscrupulous opposition, we feel that a new House of Commons and one leis apprehensive of the hostility of local interests and of vested abuses, will be able to second the efforts of the Government in car rying out a generzil and well considered, and a perfectly matured system of sanatory reform. Whilst we express tins hope, we confess that we are not without some feel ings of disappointment that a beginning has riot been made—a commencement in the right direction, which we know that the ministry of Lord John Russell were most anxious to effect, The mere routine business of winding up the session will occupy the coming week—after which the proroga tion, follov.( d by an immediate dissolution, may be con fidently looked for.—Observer. Ma. ROEBUCK.—It was stated in the Morning Chronicle of Saturday that in the event of Sir D. Pollock retiring from the Chief Justiceship of Bom bay, Mr. Roebuck, M.P. will succeed him. We are authorizd to state that Mr. Roebuck will not accept any appointment which will require him to retire from the House of Commons. The Chester Courant says, some of the land bought at twopence bas lately been sold ai tour guine,s per yard. conduct of committees or of individuals in carrying out the provisions of the Act," should be produced We have already expressed our desire that those who have been guilty of the foul conduct imputed by that report should be held up to public odium and well merited disgrace. The parties who could wilfully sanction or participate in a wholesale fraud upon the country, by procuring, or "endeavouring to procure rations for a greater number of desti tute persons than there are individuals in the entire population of the district," which it is positively asserted by the Commissioners " has been attempted in several cases, and for several thousands in excess," are deserving neither of mercy nor exemption from every punishment recognised by the law for their almost unparalleled peculation. If they do not come within the operations of the law, if an adequate punishment cannot be pronounced on the offenders, the criminal code must be wholly defective, and in sufficient to meet the wants of the country. Under any circumstances they should no longer be permitted to retain any power of again interfering in the ma nagement of the public money, of again perpetrating similar iniquities. It is due to the British people to preserve the funds for which they had toiled and la boured with such indefatigable industry, and which they readily tendered for the relief of their suffering brethren in Ireland, and not to place them at the disposal of those who have deservedly forfeited their characters for uprightness and integrity. For these reasons we should gladly have seen the guilty parties exposed and punished. We do not, however, think it by any means neces sary for the vindication of the high-minded men who have acted, and are acting, with credit to themselves and benefit to the country, on the several relief committees. The inculpated parties are the excep tion and not the rule. Many districts were freed from every imputation, and it would be, indeed, a vile prejudice—a most unjustifiable calumny—on the part of any person who should dare to charge an Irish gentleman with a participation in the sordid crimes of the offenders, on no better foundation or stronger evidence than that some of his countryman had disgraced themselves by their infamous conduct. An honourable m an will not deign to notice general charges. He will not suppose that they can be levelled against himself, and he will disregard them in the pride of conscious innocence. We do not mean to insinuate that the Noble and Honourable Members of either House who have called for, or supported, the inquiry were in any manner included in the charge, but we think that they have manifested, perhaps, too acute a sensibility with reference thereto, and have mistaken the true ground on which they should have insisted upon the investigation. Although we desire the publication of the names of the guilty parties, the Government have, perhaps, for the present (although we trust the time may arrive when concealment will no longer be expedient) a ni c a te ti d o j n u . dic l i t ou is sly in withholding the required infor whose name was published, ma nifest right n h h g a t t t ion i everydpelmi cimplicated demand person edd t hi ne fullest investigation into every part of his conduct. It would be the grossest injustice to refuse such an inquiry, which, at this period of the session, it would be wholly impossible to bring to a conclusion before the dissolution. The publication also might, in some respects, act oppressively, if made before an opportunity of explanation was afforded. The course decided on by the Government with respect to the accused magistrates appears deserving of approba tion. They have forwarded to all these magistrates copies of the allegations, and demanded their answer thereto, on receipt of which the Executive will be pre pared to take such steps as circumstances may render desirable or necessary. If this course should be far ther extended to all against whom charges of direct guilt had been preferred—if these persons also, what ever might be their rank or position in society, were called upon to furnish similar explanations, every thing that could be desired would be attained, The kilos. 413,444 540 2,808 95,819 28.069 4,440 .7,326 Total e unts(43:n76lBoo:cl o i n 7 , B, F oo r 2 ance, and Germany 540,680 30,586 indicate a gen eral tendenc y to fall. In our market in The .o. **** :he interi,a• t here is likewise a fall, though we think less here decided t han in other countries. In any case, the fall is more decided on rye than on wheat. A tall of from 2f. to 3f. has taken place at the markets of Grammont, Liege, Louvain, Coutrai, and Termonde. There is likewise a fall of If. on wheat, except at Termonde, where it has risen, and at Grammont, where, on the oontrary, this grain has fallen no less than 4f. The importation of corn is less this year at Antwerp than the preceding, which may be partly accounted for by the high prices of this article in the countries whence it is imported. MUNICH, J U LY 2.-The harvest has already began, and promises to be extraordinarily productive in Lower Bavaria. Not anywhere in Bavaria has the weather been so unfavourable as with us, during the last week. For some days we w ere really yearning foi. rain. PESTH, JUNE 29.-We are just at the eve of the har vest, the prospects of which, from accounts from all parts of the country, are of the most encouraging nature. At most markets there is a great reduction in the prices of corn, and the holders of large stores seem now to be panic-struck, and to be glad to lower their demands, and take what they can get. They now deliver their goods to the buyers, which has not been the case for a long time. The barley harvest has already begun. Several markets here have had parcels of this year ye's Cr Here in Festh, as well as in the other provinces of Upper Hungary, there is a terrible diminution in the prices, but it is not in the same proportion as in the other articles. At Wesprin, for example, one of our ill most impo rt consant co ide rn markets, the following standard w show how r. able this reduction has been, The prices were, per Vienna metzer- JUNE 4..-wheat 161 45kr. to 181; rye, lll 30kr. to 14f1. 30kr. to 151 ; maize, 111 35kr. to 1011. ; barley, 1111. 45kr. ; oats, 4fl. 6kr. to 41 15kr. JUNE 26.--Wheat, 9R. 45kr. to 111 30kr. ; rye, Bfl. 30kr. to 911. 36kr.; maize, 811. 15kr. to 811. 30kr.; barley, 30kr. to 611.; oats, 413. to 41 10kr. AUGSBURG, JULY 3 -This year's wh eat has alread y been brought to market at Batzen. At Neustadt, in the Palatinate, this year, corn (probably rye) has also been brought to market as fine and full as could possibly be desired. At Friburg, in Brieyou, fine new wheat and new winter barley were bought on the 26th June in small quantities it is true. The rye harvest will com mence there the first week in July. In Mayence the prices have fallen a good deal, because Government brought several hundred quarters of wheat to market; in other parts of Hesse the prices have likewise fallen. At Ellwingen, on the contrary, .by an extraordinary an°m"lY, the prices have risen. The markets of Suabia and Newberg present little change scarcely any thing is doing there, but there is a tendency to fall. At Erding and Augsburg, on the other hand, things are unfavourable. At the form• r place 1,009 sheffles were brought to market, which were all sold, save 26 sin ffles at raised prices. ITheat rose 1311.; rye, 31 39k.• barley, 111 21k.; oats, 6 It. The medium price s areWh. at, 3911.45 k.; rye, 3011. 31k.; barley, 2211. 30k. ; oats, 81 54k. At Augsburgh, wheat rose 311. 14E. ; corn, 11 38k. ; rye, 11 Bk. • barley, lfl. 27k., oats, sk. The medium prices are at 4011, 16k.; corn, 4111. 27k.; ry e, 3211 48k.; barley, 2611.20 k.; oats, 2fl. 45k. At Regensberg prices have risen, ott but no sort above lfl. Tne last accounts from n hera Germany mention large arrivals of rye from Russia, and all are unanimous in opinion that there must be a great and permanent reduction very SOOD. Viscount P.dteeriton had a dinner party on SI at kis residence in Carlton-gardens. 4turday COURT CIRCULAR. The Que&l and Prince, Albert. the s and gentle men oldie Court, and the domestic household, attended Divine service yesterday morning in the private chapel in Buckingham Palace. The sermon was preached by the Rev. Mr. Stanley ; the prayers were read by the Hon. ant R, v C. Losi C , ln• -0' Ply Her ~ir v a 14 r R ;.••• e:o - y s .r etete tee ) at Hignioi, , es the e o: i'gni. Alfred, the Princess Royal, th , Princess Alice, and the Princess Helena, took their accustomed airings yester day. His Royal Highness the Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe Weimar visited his Royal Highness Prince Aihert on Saturday morning to take leave of his Royal Highness. His Royal Highness Prince Albert went on ti.ourday forenoon to witness tee c tr:ec a..ion by tit.- Bt,hop of L .1,6• n, of the 114ri-ers' Chtir , h, Do,:k str*.et. His Retya Highness wts wiewit , d Vi,c“unt Clifton, Lieu ten dit-Colon,l the Hon. C B. Phipp', and Lieutenant Colonel Seymour. Her eleiesty the Queen Dowager, attended by her Lady in Waiting. d the Queen and Prince Alpert on Saturday, at leuckinghern Palace. Their Royal Highnesses Prince Alfred, the Princes Alice, and the Princess Heir na, accompanied by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, took an airing in an open carriage and four on Saturday. The Queen and Prince Albert honoured the perform ance at her Majesty's Theatre with their presence on Saturday evening. The royal suite consisted of the Countess of Desert, Hon. Misses Macdonald, Baroness Speth, Earl Ducie, Colonel Buckley, and Lieutenant- Colonel Seymour. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, attended by Lady Augusta Cadogan, Baron Kneseheck, and Mr. Edmond Mildmay, also honoured the performance with their presence on Saturday evening. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager and their Royal Highnesses the Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Saxe Weimar, honoured the performance of the French Plays with their presence on Friday evening. Their Royal Highnesses the Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Saxe Weimar, attended by the Countess of Assenburg, the Earl of Denbigh and Count de Beust, left Marlborough House, the residence of the Queen Dowager, at half-past twelve o'clock on Satur day, to embark at Woolwich, en route to the Hague. His -Royal Highness Prince Peter of Oldenburgh visited her Majesty the Queen Dowager on Saturday at Marlborough House. Her Majesty the Queen De t eager, attended by the Countess of Sheffield and tie Alias Eden, left town in a carriage-and-four at a attarter before five o'clock on Saturday • afternoon, for her residence, Bushy House, Bushy Park. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge attended Divine service yesterday morning in Grosvenor Chapel. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, at tended by Lady Georgiana Bathurst, honoured Lord Adolphus Fitaclarence with her company at dinner on Saturday, at his residence in St. James's Palace. The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, the Earl and Countess of Wilton, the Earl and Countess cf Chesterfield, and the Hon. Captain Macdonald, were present to meet her Royal Highness. The Committee on Education of her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council held a meeting on Saturday, which was attended by the Lord President, Lord John Russell, the Earl of Minto, the Earl of Auckland, the Viscount Morpeth, the Right Hon. Sir George Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Right Hon. Thomas B. Macaulay. Mr. Kay Shuttleworth was in attendance. The British Museum Commission held a meeting on Saturday at Gwydyr House, the Bishop of Norwich, in the chair. The Commissioners present were Lord Wrot tesley, Sir P. de M. Grey Egerton, Bart., Sir Charles Lemon, Bart., the Right Hon. the Lord Advocate, Mr. Hume, M.P., Mr. Rogers, and Mr. Milnes, M.P. A number of Members of the House of Commons, holding office in the Administration, had a meeting with Lord John Rnssell on Saturday at his official residence in Downing-street. The Secretary at War, the Master of the Mint, the Judge Advocate-General, the Under Secretaries of State, the Lords of the Treasury, the Lords of the Admiralty, the Commissioners of the Board of Controul, the Members of th Board of Ord nance, and the Secretaries of the Treasury, attended the meeting. The Duke of Wellington, the Duke and Duchess of St. Albans, the Martluis of Anglesey, and Sir F. Trench, attended the early service yesterday in the Chapel Royal. St. James's. The sermon was preached by the Hon. and Rev. IV. Capel. At the daily service the prayers were read by the Rev. T. Hehnore, the Lessons by the Rev. Dr. Vivian, and the Communion Service by the Rev. Dr. Wesley. The Anthem was "Save, Lord, and hear us" (Hayes). Mr. Turle presided at the organ. The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, the Marquis of Granby. Ladies Wilton, St. Germans, and Somerset, were among ,he nobility present. SPO RTING INTELLIGENCE. BETTING AT MANCHESTER.—FILIDAY. LIYERPOOL CEP.- 9 to 1 agst The Conjuror-12 ti 1 agst Cossack-12 to 1 agst Inheritress (taken) -12 to I agst Lightning-100 to 7 agst Pic Nic-100 to 7 agst Lads• Wildair (taken)-100 to 7 agst Gwalior (taken) -100 to 5 agst Queen Mary (taken)-100 to 5 agst Inglewood (taken). LIVERPOOL ST. LEGER.—Even on Van Tromp. Goonwoon Cur.-7 to 2 agst The Hero (offers to take) —5 to 1 agst Eryx-8 to 1 agst Fitz-Emilius-12 to 1 agst Halo (offers to take). GOODWOOD STAKES.-8 to 1 agst Stultz (offers to take) —8 to 1 agst The Questionable-13 to 1 agst Milliner— 14 to 1 agst Miss Elis-100 to 6 agst Kimblesworth. DONCASTER ST. LEGER.-5 to 2 agst Cossack-10 to 1 agst Red Hart-11 to 1 agst Mr. Martin-13 to 1 agst Fore closure-20 to 1 agst Black Dwarf-25 to 1 agst Limestone. Business very flat—not above a dozen bets laid. MARYLEBONE ELECTION. REFUSAL OF SIR BENJAMIN HALL TO GO TO THE BALLOT. The contest for the representation of the borough of Marylebone, so far as the Liberal candidates are con cerned, is, it appears, likely to be brought to an amicable termination. A communication was forwarded on Thursday last to Sir Benjamin Hall, from the joint com mittee appointed by the candidates to arrange the pre liminaries for the monster ballot, stating that, at a meeting of the Marylebone Reform Association, a reso lution had been passed unanimously, that a ballot should be taken with respect to the Liberal candidates, D. W. Harvey, Esq., Lord Dudley Stuart, and Mr. Serjean , Shee ; and that a resolution had also been passed by a majority of seven votes, that the name of Sir B. Hall should be placed in the same position, and that he should be respectfully requested to allow such a proceeding. To this communication the Hon. Baronet yesterday forwarded to the committee the following reply:— " St. James's-place, July 9, 1847. " Sir,— I have the honour to receive your letter of thi, date, enclosing copies of two resolutions passed at a meeting of your association last ui4ht. The first o' these resolutions was, as you state, pasted unanimously, but the other was carried by a majority of only sever: votes ! In 1841, when a vacancy occurred, no desire was expressed that I should take such a step as that now proposed. The new candidates were alone required to do so, and Sir Charles Napier having on that 1 / 4 .ccasion the majority of votes, was associated with me in the con- test, and was returned. In the present instance Sir C. Napier retires, and three candidates come forward to fin the vacancy so created, and I have yet to learn that either Lord Dudley Stuart, Mr. Sergeant Shee, or Mr. Harvey has any desire to oppose me. "In 1837 I was returned at the head of the poll by a majority of 660 votes. In 1841 I maintained the stun, position, and the majority was nearly doubled, and amounted to 1,278, and nearly 5,000 electors polled fur me. A short time since your associatton, at a fall meet ing, p cased a vote of confidence in me almost unani mously, which vote was confirmed on a subsequent day. Within the last few days two p ublic meetings of elector-, the former numbering nearly 2,000, and the latter 700, declared that they p lace continued confidence in me as their representative, and would use their utmost endea vours to secure my reelection. At the first of these meetings only twelve hands were held up against me, and at the second the resolution in my favour was passed unanimously. Under these circumstances I feel confi dent that the association will, upon further considera tion, agree with me that it is my bounden ciuty to pre sent myself to the electors on the day of nomination, and I have no doubt the constituency will believe that in so doing I shall act with deference to my objections to them, and that I shall receive, as heretofore, the almost unanimous support of the Liberal electors of the bo rough, which I have the honour of representing for tell years. " I have the honour to be, sir, " Your obedient servant, " B. HALL par 371 16% " To Mr. Brotherton, Lisson-grove." The Committee again met yesterday, and I pledge was signed by the three first-mentioned candidates to retire from the contest of the borough in case the bal.. lot of the electors should be against either of them. It was then resolved that the ballot should take place on Monday, the 18th instant, to open at nine in the morn ing and close at eight in the evening, and that no per son should be admitted without signing a declaration in the event of a poll being demanded, not to vote for any but the reform candidates. The pop ular feelin g with respect to the candidates is still supposed to be in favour of Mr. D. W. Harvey. It is generally consi dered that Sir B. Hall has acte d perfectly right in not submitting to the ballot. TUE CBors._We hear from correspondents who have taken journies, which include that valuable part of Devonshire from Bovey Tracey to Exeter—and thence westward including the South-coast, and the South Hams to Plymouth, that the yeomanry speak most highly of the prosperity of the future harvest. In most parts the wheat and barley are strong in the ear, the former generally in blossom in the South, and if the weather continues fine and warm, the kerning will be most prolific. There is a larger breadth of land now in wheat and barley than last year, in consequence of the failure of the potato c-op. The farmers this year, to provide against su h a contingency again occurring, a e provided in many inst s other vegetat.les for the ...rit.r—rea<, carrots, and parsnips. But it has yet to be seen whether the s nail !Mag.- of p a in the ground will be a failure. At present in all parts of this division of the county, they are looking most healthy, and those that have already been produced at family tables are really moss excellent. The hay harvest is now general, being well saved, with heavy crops. The plough, harrow, tormentor. and roller, have been most activdy employee during the last month for the turnip cr ‘p, and there is every prospect or good abundance of his winter food for cattle. Apples are also in atrun• dance with the greatest certaqii) ef cider being sold at a very low price.—Plyniopth Journal. LITERATURE. THE EDIA BURGH REVIIIII', No. CLXXIII. A recollection of the most brilliant days of the Edinburgh Review is revived by the perusal of the leading contribution in the number for the present quarter. The beauty of the composition, the terse 'Jess ef he illeetrative aces. the relody a nd vo;ebi.ity et • he dieti .11, the cerripcs:iensise generosity of the seutiments —all theee, and a vsri, ty of similar characteristics, irresistibly remind us of the palmiest days of (his renowned periodical; they call to mind the period when Brougham disdained not to become elites rary critic ; when Sydney Smith, like a younger Rabe lais, calculated the temperament of the world by his foolometer ; when Macaulay cast the golden glory of his eloquence upon the pages, like the gorgeous hues of t st .ined window streaming on the pavement of a besi/ice; Ashen Mackintosh lighted up the intricacies of some - mysterious theme, by the gleams of his subtle analysis. The article we allude to is a brief but superb biographical notice of the memorable Saint Francis of Assisi, the founder of the Franciscan ord: r. And who, it may he inquired, is the author of this striking composition ? We recognise him as instantly and as confidently as though his name had been prefixed to the contribution. The writer of the opening paper in this number of the Edinburgh Re view is the Honourable George Percy Sydney Smythe. We are aware that the article has been attributed to the Right Hon. the Paymaster of her Majesty's Forces, and we are satisfied that the , magnificent compliment implied in that mis; take as to the paternity will be grateful to the young and accomplished author of "Historic Fancies." From internal evidence, hot' ever, we are convinced that the memoir of Saint Francis of Assisi is from the pen of Mr. Smythe, and not of Mr. Macaulay. Notwithstanding the numerous beauties of the composition, we detect in it more of the immaturity of Mr. Smythe than of the mellow" ness of Mr. Macaulay. Not that we would here employ the expression immaturity in its vulgar se' ceptation. The style of Mr. Smythe is by 00 means immature from the redundancy of v erbi• age, neither is it in any manner marred 11 puerile affectations, or by that tendency to over env bellishment which Longinus has derided with so much earnestness. It is immature rather in those inequalities of tone, or, as we should say more strictly, of pitch, arising from a want of full reliance upon hie own capacities. Cicero was wont, so says the Latin authority, to practise his voice to the pipings of Is flageolet. Demosthenes perfected his articulation by placing pebbles in his mouth. Mr. Smythe has not yet succeeded so far as to be able to dispense with the pebble • and the flageolet. To Mr. Macaulay they have 101 l ceased to be correctives ; and it is in this wise til l ' in mentioning their style together, we would sPel of the immaturity of the one, and the mellowness 0 the other. A victorious athlete like Mr. Macaulsl can allow himself to be contrasted with a str i p wrestler wrestler like Mr. Smythe, propitious as are the su . guries, and nervous as is the ambition, of the latter' Those who have familiarised themselves with the lice' rary productions of the son of Lord Strangford cailOF by possibility fail to recognise his manner I , n the biographical notice of Saint Francis of A ssis :, It shines visibly through the transparent mask of 1$: anonymous reviewer. The scholastic domino toi l .' hide the shape, and even render the dimensions alibi: ous ; but to the practised eye the gad and the earrior are detectable. Even in the first two senteneesl " It was a noble design which died with Reber, Southey. His History of the Monastic Ord er t w ould not, perhaps, have poured a large tire bute of philosophy, divine or human, into the o cean of knowledge ; but how graceful woul d bel j been the flow of that transparent narrative, e n s , now would it have reflected and enhanced the beam : , of every rich champaign and of every towering P e montory along which it would have swept !" Agai n; the identity is obvious when he depicts the mercbsup "ather of Francis, Pietro Bernadone, conjurillf, oo visions of glory for his offspring and mingling visions with the routine of his commercial enterprls Grouping into forms ever new and brillietio like spangles shaken in a kaleidoscope, the ide iia of bales and bills of lading, of sea riskstp of supercargoes, had combined with those of losos,, reckless Crusaders and of the supply of hostile catsc's to form one gorgeous Eldorado. The p e culiarl,6, of Mr. Smythe, moreover, are manifest in a MOJA° tude of other and minuter characteristic s . Ie, ;; , itterations by which a sort of crescendo intensity is 1 0. parted to an argument—in the vivid and alm., caustic colouring of the contrast of individuals, blip' ing at once to our memory the almost gaudy lust laed his paper on "Grey and Spencer" in the Oxford e Cambridge Review—occasionally even in the 11 , 5 ,f t , unusual but favourite adjectives, the hand 0"-01 Smythe is revealed, as for instance when speala o g4s, the authenticity of the poems attributed tO Ls Francis, he observes that M. Delecluse considers 7119 the style " must have drifted far away froill,„ r a original structure into a form at once more and more ornate." Gratified as we are in deteetwg the chivalrous but not yet stalwart form the writer of " Historic Fancies" among the 1.101, rary phalanx of the Edinburgh Review, we are . measurably more gratified in seeing his 7 . 0 5- iti wielded with so much skill and ge r ' e h " Pe . ; in a cause hitherto abandoned as less—namely, in the revival, as he himself says, of " the memory of a once famous ther of the Church, now fallen into unmerited Iseogivia and indiscriminate opprobrium." The P r° , f s sioa earnestness with which he undertakes the e xcwP i>~ it of Saint Francis and his indigent brethren, ha s o something beautiful and pathetic. Impre ssed Vine 11 conviction of the advantages of the ReformatiotietiPar yet, like every man of liberal and unbiasse d ment, ready to acknowledge the advantages resulted from the religious predecessors of Luther and Melancthon. In this spirit of honesty b e ",the tains that the founder of such !confederacy big Franciscans " must have had some of the Molt, qualities of a legislator." "It would be dt even now," he continues, " with all the bet e history and philosophy, to devise a P;(0 better adapted to restrain the licentiousness, tO 5 1%0 the manners, and to mitigate all the oppressions j t he iron age." Speaking again, in another part,,, the third estate in the Franciscan Orders, nornevici be "Order of Penitence," he declares that "it w°l o lo, mere prejudice or ignorance to deny that it an important office in the general advancenirc nice civilisation and of truth." "In an age of oligavrioo) tyranny," he persists, "they (the Mendicant xoresel were the protectors of the weak ; in an age of ig s igtl the instructors of mankind; and in an age of Pr a r„ r do A the stern vindicators of the holiness of the Sac character and the virtues of domestic life• d sob assuredly is a magnificent eulogium, an „, cor an one as is not applicable to reaToiat porate bodies. Biographies are always eatervicoe' even when they relate to the characters and c ote / tildes of nonenties or criminals. For i n a vet; 0; siderable degree, a biography gives us the seelio a mind, the phases of a temperament , the veriest bitei A career, a starting point and a goal. But cis graphy of an enthusiast, such as was St. Fraud e 0; Assisi, is in a particular manner attractive 0n,.1i grossing. To a Roman Catholic, doubtless, the of Saint Francis, even when penned with W e * OP terpolated scorn of an Edinburgh Reviewer , it si always present a spectacle of sanctity , elt! b le , to a sublime community with the invi9i ea In the estimation of every one but a RO O ,O Catholic, the narrative of his eccentric cor.;o throughout life must appear as little else tope the records of a man crazed with fanaticisol":ooo whose religious fervour was carried t o an ePiviitli gance—and whose conduct was that of a beiv.g o die' a heart animated by lofty aspirations, but a bri,!l..oie traught with the frenzy of an ecclesiastical 1°1;60 To all, without distinction of creed, how ieet, r e o at' mast he that strange and fitful history , from ti! set, when Francisco, the son of an adventuron!eor. chant of Assisi, in Umbria, by name Pietro fe ta ( done di Mericona, was at once the bravest part i e, in the feats of the tournay, the brighte st orree 0081 the civic pageantries, and yet withal tu..hollse. ass id uo us in the mart and the countiece chai A marvellous change, however, occurring s t ; ffere li i ratter of Francisco, the reader is afforded a ": 0 0 5 subject for contemplation. Carried to the Ye r it 'ose, of death, after escaping captivity among the vio rlo; of Perugia, Francisco is transformed from %itifel o ling into a recluse. " Long, earnest, and inclu'rotab`„ says the reviewer, " was his gaze into the WI v ibe; abyss" on which those dismal portals open ed he became a valetudinarian the metamorpblo to; completed. His subsequent behaviour is teceilOP counted with a sort of admiring and Yet r od e s gusto. His robing himself in the rags o f l it y 03 0 cant; his kissing with " courageous 111 101 , 1 : 0 4 6 ulcerated wound of a leper; his p un° for, t :j palfrey laden with silks and embroideri es ruin ie purpose of aiding in the rebuilding o f tli n‘ , ; church, near Foligno, dedicated to St. Der° lll f Ass is i interview with his opulent father in the streets o j ol t y when himself squalid and emaciated ; his re, ringing p 9 affection for the leprous, a sentiment spriogpaes° tially from the bewildering hint of Isaiah, r lO it s ; mos earn (namely, the Messiah,) quasi leprogli_rtiol3 cussum a Deo, et humiliatum ;" his wonderful...as:oa.: for the restoration of the church of St. v ion co l o already mentioned, and of the chapel of La r° r d l l irat i° o are facts recounted in language either of be t o or astonishment. What, by the way, ,c an , z ioncle meaning of Mr. Smythe in mentioning - 01 ' b i e b as " a shrine of our Lady of Angels, of ,v . „ io g remains may yet be seen, at once halo.'" i s 0 4 adorning the quiet meadow by which Assigliarigthbve rounqed ?" Dees he not know that in sPe 2 se fere revel ently of the Virgin he lays himself open frequenters of Exeter-hall to a charge of Bia,r,? / ' ili blirg o and that to many suspicious eyes the else tly:t Review may henceforth seem little e'' was, - 0 r th e e rha q v u s arte t r h l e y o u r i g o a st n of the e Oxf p o a r:l og t e r s oct i tb