The Sun. — London, England, 1840-08-25 00:00:00

tIVI-IN INO Pit-qTION• LITERATURE. THE MAN AT ARMS. t James, Bentley, London. 1'340. one of the most indefatigable wr 'tejs of fiction of the present day, is the author of e "is tale, which, like the majority of his fictitious t:43ositions, has historical fact for its ground tci) k. The period to which it refers is about of e middle of the sixteenth century, and the scene th its principal incidents is laid in France, when stat country was convulsed by the sanguinary s ha t betweeti the Catholic and Protestant N i ipatt Y. The hr:ro, Henri de Cerons, is, like ail r • James's heroes, brave, generous, susceptible, but without any marked traits of individuality i 4 ll bout hi m and he relates his various adventures ver t j ie first person, which gives a greater air of cis,"lliritude and animation to the tale than it otherwise possess, for it is by no means le h'rible for the novelty of its incidents, and its ir k . '',, a cters are ptesented to us rather in outline than get ail. Still the reader will be interested in k'o-ciPerusal, for the style of the narrative is lively k r •" ° wing ; the descriptions of landscape scenery , to e Mvariably effective, the author having a ready ,crPrehension of the picturesque ; and the battle C o nes ' especially that wherein the Prince de lad e is killed, and the particulars respecting St. 4tiholonlew's massacre, with which the story tees,Wt(litihel just as a melodrame usually concludes O h l conflaaration of a baron's castle, and the ti r tlrtie r of the b aron hi mse lf, with all his attendants, related with considerable tact and spirit. MUSIC. 114. ANCIENT MUSIC OF IRELAND. 4 Rodges and Smith. London, 1840 ".11unti ng has exhibited considerable research in tf - i ta k--which appears to have been quite a labour tl le °4- ----of giving to the world these specimens f 4 ncien t music of Ireland. Of the hundred an o d fif ty , t ve, u oes which he has introduced into his volume, f or f ew are known in this country, and will there afford a rare treat to t h e mus i ca l commun i ty. thrr. Bunting has judiciously arranged them in epee divisions—namely, the ancient, the very t e c,. 4 4 , and those which were composed in the last r flo '- ; t ur Y by the harpers, of whom Carolan was the ,ir st ee leGrated. These tunes are again classed— ttliel 43 they possess ; secondly, as they are desti -1/le)°' ,1)' °1 ; the great c h aracter i st i c o f I r i s h and Scotch rh o s , we mean, the fourth of the scale. In tii o e i airs wh e r e the s ca l e i s imp e rfect, there is a fi et 4 ve la r and i m p ress i ve w ild ness , somet i me s o f a A, r ) at oth e r ti me s of a m e l anc h o ly character. Of t l e .gards th e ver y anc i ent tunes , t h e i rregu l ar ity ind l eir tim e i s remar k a bl e , t h e p h rases b e i ng t h ree ti'e ba rs , instea d o f t h e usua l f our or e i g h t b ar r, 6 We should have imagined that such amelody as ott: e harp that o n ce in T ara ' s hall," and many r" of a si m il ar nature , wou ld h ave b een more at N eeti ve When pl a y e d s l ow ; but. here we find them kss k ed " moderately quick ;" and Mr. Bunting, tr ; t u rts us that such music assumes quite a differ ' amoharacter, when played with spirit and energy, th ac cords b e tt er w i t h t h e nat i ona l temperament , 4411 When executed i n a languid and tedious man kir' The quick tunes are of the most inspirinF , Kpartic u l ar ly " Y oung J ames Pl un k et , i ss the, Lady," and " Mac Donnell's M ar ch ;" the wild amounts amounts almost to the phre n zi e d in its b (1 th energy, an d t h e anec d ote respect i ng i t, relate d We author, proves this to be its real character. e Cannot conclude this brief notice without ex- L e , s sing our a d m i rat i on o f t h e b eaut if u l sty l e i n ""ch th e arranger has accomplished his task ; his e°lll panirnents are always rich, and yet subdued ; `°(l thi s is particularly apparent in the pl e asi ng eI d e (L Y, " A little Hour before Day," the last w o bars of which none but a superior musician rr e reco mmended have harmonized._T e he volume is further prefatory remarks, in w hich we find several o .funiended by s some able e ntertaining anecdotes of the "Ila t distinguished Irish harpers of the last two it i COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, MONDAY.—The King and Queen of the r°llzians left the Castle this morning at a quarter past ,1 4 r o'clock, attended by Madame d'Hoogvoast, Count qand Mons, Van Prate, to embark at Wool ch L°ll their return to the Continent. 4; 1, Queen and Prince Albert walked to Adelaide oi l l‘,, t l'is morning, and returned to the Castle in The l , l '"ton through the Little Park. Greet l , 4 ` 3 Yal P a rty rode out this ev en i n g i n to the l obe ' l rk, h er M a j es t y an d th e P r i ncess o f Hohen the PI, a phaeto n and four ; the Duchess of Kent, Dhe ne esg Therese, and one of the children, in an tiL ktnto n ; and the Duchess of Bedford, Lady C. l' ria a2l and Baroness Spaeth in an open carriage. C ol : e ,!, Albert was on h orse b ac k, attended the Hon. k‘ - ' a veadish, C o l. Bouverie, and Mr. F F. Seymour. t,z de W e er the Belgian Minister,left h n ets . ` °- day. The Duke of Bedford, Viscount Ia - lc", and Si r James Clar k a l so too k their departure. Ilie e Earl o f U x b r id ge an d Major Cockburn of the e°ijoin the Royal dinner party at the Castle this v°K. l'e°llnt Melbourne rode out on horseback. '4l Majesty, the Queen Dowager, avompanied by It rrivj e° ° B s Ida and Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, ( 11:1 0 at Marlb or ough House at half past eleven °l4j e , - ; Yesterda morning from Bushy Park. Her , a nd hery Serene Highness paid a visit to the tl e i: es s Aug us t a , at Cl arence H ouse , St. James's. Her 1,4 1 3ty afterw ar d s wen t t o Gl o u ce ster Hou se , wher e 11 , ( fhess of Gl ouce ster gave a dejezine to her Ma ‘V;il t ile Duk e o f Cambridge, the Duchess Ida of Saxe ,o °o Pri nce Ed war d o f S axe W e i mar , an d th e p rinces s of Saxe Weimar. Majesty the Queen Dowager, and their Serene °:;V l ' s ses the Duchess lda. and Prince Edward of r t i n W eimar, left Marlborough House in an open t ,i;g° and fo ur w i t h ou t r id e rs, soon after five o , clock , Ti eir r eturn to Bushy Park. kli k lef olinwing accou nt of the health of the Princess , Was issued yesterday d,ffeA6° Prin cess Augusta has had another very in t°•clar y 4 .4 night, and her Royal Highness is not so well ~,enne House, August 2-l." ter "uke of Cambridge and the Duchess of Glouces- Tvhisited the Princess Augusta yesterday. D uke of Cambridge arrived in town at one ti l e Yesterday afternoon, from a visit to Sir Henry ai i ° s rd, at his seat, \Vistow Hall, Leicestershire. thive°ont Palmerston returned to town yesterday 11 I„s ' L n ° from a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle. °ire r i — i ur dship left town in the afternoon for his seat, I ,4—a nda, Hants. d ay tile Marquis of Normanby returned to town yester rota the Isle of Wight. Ott e es Patche s were rece i ve d yester d ay a t t h e C o l on i a l- L ir °tll the Governor of Malta, and also from Sir Illa gd "glas, the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian • gel ° ns. Loss OF LIFE.—On Monday Man Th e -e ,.. r , Was visited by a severe storm of rain and wind, thi e C t uld, we fear, must have done most extensive mis fits 0 the crops of corn throughout the district to which blll -74 fles extended. We have heard that nearly the o of the corn between this town and Altrincham tit 114 1 , - " n down by its force, and lies as fiat as if a roller had dente I! ) ls k sed over it. The rivers Mersey and Irwell were the rain to a height which has not, we believe, 4 141,j er tolied by any summer flood since the disastrous i m , le o in the year 1799, which is still rememberei. (4 A Y Cheshire farmers, and which also occurred on the 17th Al t :gust• In that part of Cheshire which adjoins the river the whole of the low ground was under u a'er on fullmorning. A cartel in the employ of Mr. T. Orem, tet t : l g. - miller, of Tovingtonslower-end, near Bury, was tar t rn ' n g on Monday evening from Rochdale, with his and' a nd arri v i ng at a po i nt where t h e roa d b etween B u ry hs ooL 'mr• Orm an ' s m ill crosses (by the a ford) the liolcombe riy,„‘; very short dista nce f rom its junction with I)) 4 well, he found th a t t h e b roo k was greatly swollen ' r ain, and w a s a d v i se d not to attem pt to cross it. Ile, illtW.elrer ref use d to li sten to this advice, and not only got ch? ici t he cart himself, but took with him a woman and a tlrs t) 4 l, l to were desirous of crossing the brook. lie then taid ...Is horse into the water, but before he reached the comp e the force of the current overpowered the horse, and v q .elled it to swerve from the proper course; the cart It:overturned, and the whole party was precipitated into 11 ) , ', a ging torrent, which swept them immediately into th e it and they were a ll t h ree d rowne d . M on d ay , ultY on which this strm prevaild, ws he aniversary l i thellisastrous flood of o 1799, and also a of t the f loss of the utitsay Castle, which was wrecked on Aug. 17, 1 t:331. 1„,,,, A few days ago (says a letter from Limoges) a p,"/ fourtejn, who had been confined in a room of the 4 4111 y school, with a window having an , iron rat n:, as Pootshment for not having learnt his lesson, was found h ad s uspended from one of the bars of the window by his tt. alt kerchief, There was reason, however, to believe fullt death was not the result of suicide, but accidental, D l' : the hog, of the school had been accustomed in their 7it'iToastic exercises to perform a fiat, which consisted in tii.itshg themselves by the force of their wrjits, and passing t4i.T 4 d and body through a handkerchief fixed at a err -44,- "eight. It was conjectured that this youth bad, t o tried this, and failing tri accomplish it had —itriloeutslevihthiniself. strangulation. Notwithstanding this presump tuin!,the clergy of Limoges refused, on the ground that ,h e lue had been committed, to !rink the body into the of tir eh, or perform the funeral cerenh7ov, mid the doors " t/ i , e church we re on ly opene d on the formZil rsloisition Pe s t s ' 13 e m s Yor. Th e f unera l serv i ce was chauntedy the t,e(l2lwho attended the funeral after which they pro io great order to inter it in , the cemetery. METROPOLIS IMPROVEMENT. SECOND REPORT. The Select Committee appointed to take into considera tion the several Plans for the Improvement of the Metropolis, concerning which R •ports were made to this House in the years 183 G, 1837, 1838, and 1839, together with any other Plans fqr the same objects which thoy deem deserving of consideration ; arid to report their opinion as to the expediency of adopting any of the said Improvements, and also as to the best means of carrying the same into effect ; and to whom several Petitions were referred ; end who were em powered to report their observations and opinion, together with the Minutes of Evidence taken before them, from time to time, to the House ;—have further considered the matters to them referred, and agreed to the following Report : Your Committee having, in their First Report, called the attention of the House to those plans for new thoroughfares in the Metropolis in which, according to their judgment, were combined in the greatest degree the several descriptions of improvement and advantage which were assumed by the Committees of 1838 and 1839 as the best grounds for selection, have proceeded to the further consideration of '.he numerous projects comprised in the order of reference to them. Among these, the most deserving of early attention appears to be a plan for opening a spacious and conve nient communication between the neighbourhood of the Parliament Houses and that of Buckingham Palace, through a district in Westminster which remains at pre sent in a very degraded and unwholesome state. This plan of improvement was adverted to in the Report of the Committee of 1838, who appear to have refrained from pressing it more particularly on the con sideration of the House, because it had been the subject of examination and inquiry by a separate Committee appointed in 1832 for that purpose, whose Report had led to various communications with and between the public departments of the Treasury and the Office of 'Woods. A reference to these will be found in the Appendix to this Report ; and a general view of the grounds on which this line of thoroughfare is specially to be recommended, will be seen in the evidence and statements of Mr. Wason on the subject. It does not appear that any steps hive been taken or are now in contemplation, in consequence of the Report of 1832, towards the execution of this very useful and ad vantageous improvement. Your Committee, therefore, consider it as falling within the general scope of the order of reference to them, and they, therefore, feel it to be their duty to submit their opinion concerning it to the House. But, before they present any specific recommendation in conformity with that opinion, they find themselves called upon to direct the attention of the House to a representation which they have received on behalf of the Corporation of London, respecting the unfinished state of the alterations in the vicinity of the new Royal Ex change, as authorised by the Act 1 and 2 Vict. cap. 100. This will be found in the statements and evidence of Mr. R. L. Jones, from which it appears that the expense of effecting the whole of the improvements under the Act in question will considerably exceed the sum of 150,0001. assigned to it upon the recommendation of the Committee of 1838 ; thereby justifying the esti mates made by Mr. Jones himself at the time ; he hav ing stated to that Committee his expectation that a sum not less than 200,0001. would necessarily be required for the purpose. The consequence has been, that a ver) material part of the projected improvement, viz., the removal of the block of buildings called Bank-buildings, to create an open space in front of the New Exchange (in which your Committee understand that the statue of the Duke of' Wellington is to he placed), remains unexecuted at this time for want of funds. In giving his evidence in exp!anation of this subject, Mr. Jones has adverted to certain communications be tween the authorities of the City and the Treasury in the outset of these transactions ; and he relies upon an alleged understanding between the Government and those authorities, that a sum of 200,0001. would be as signed by the public in aid of this undertaking. He also insists upon the repeated declarations made to the Committee of 1838, that a smaller sum than 200,0001. would not suffice for the accomplishment of it. On the other 114nd, it appears, on reference to what passed be fore that Committee, and also before the Committee on the Bill for the rebuilding of the Royal Exchange, that there was reason to expect that the City of London would, in consideration of the advance of 150.0001., take upon themselves to defray the whole charge if it should exceed that amount. Upon the conflicting views which may now be taken of the original understanding between the different parties in this matter, and of the obligation actually resting on the City of London, your Committee would feel much difficulty in offering a posi tive opinion, but they are disposed, in the present state of the case, and upon a consideration of all the circum stances, to recommend that further aid should be given for this very important object, for the following reasons : —lst, Because, when the sum of 150,0001. was appor .. _ _ _ tioned to it by the Committee of I'33S, that Committee was under the belief that the whole amount available from the fund, composed partly of local duties and partly of contributions from the revenue of the City itself, would altogether not yield more than 350,000/. ; of which it was proposed and sanctioned by Parliament that 150,000/, should go to the Corporation for these works, and 200,0001. for improvements not within the limits of the City ; whereas it now appears that 450,000/. may be raised upon these funds : 2dly, Be cause, in order to raise the additional sum of 100,000/. now contemplated, the consent of the Corporation must be obtained for continuing the contribution from the City revenues towards the general fund, until such time as that new charge shall be paid off, which continuation the Corporation arc willing to grant, it the further aid now roiicited by them be extended to this work : and idly, Because the City are also willing to continue the same contribution (being about 12,000/. per annum) to the same funds for the further term of four years, for other general improvements, as recommended in the First Report of your Committee, upon the condition above mentioned. Upon a careful review of all these circumstances, your Committee have, therefore, come to the de termination to recommend to the House, that the remainder of the sum which may be raised on the duties and contributions in question, supposing Parliament to sanction the extension of their duration for four years beyond 1838, as has been suggested, should be assigned in nearly equal proportions to the improvements con nected with the rebuilding of the Royal Exchange, and to the plan for making the new line of' communication in the neighbourhood of the Houses of Parliament ; which last will be found in the Appendix to this Re port, and explained by the evidence and documents placed in connexion with it. According to the statements and calculations of Mr. Scott, referred to in toe First Report of the Committee, the whole sum that may be raised on the terms assumed by him, supposing the receipt of the Coal and \Vine Duties to be extended four years and 1838, would be - - - - - - - -£510,000 But this being exclusive of the contri bution of the City revenues, if they be added, the amount would be - The sums already recommended to be charged thereon, according to the First Report of your Committee, amount to 533,000 - 454,000 Leaving a disposable. surplus of .£79,000 Your Committee, therefore, are of opinion that the interests of the public in these highly valuable improve ments, and the reasonable claim of the City of London as contributors from their own estates to the funds from which the means of effecting them are derived, would be fairly met by the ast.ignment of 40,000/. from this disposable surplus to the completion of the great work in the neighbourhood of the Royal Exchange, and by applying the remainder in aid of the execution of the new street in Westminster. In making these recommendations, your Committee think it right to suggest that in affording the aids above mentioned to the City, on the one hand, and to the parties who solicit assistance for the improvements in Westminster, on the other, care should be taken by the Office of Woods to secure for the public the full accomplishment of each of these undertakings by the respective parties, in consideration of the specific ad vances now proposed to be made to them. July 14, 1840. DEPARTURE OF THE KING AND QUEEN OF TIIE BELGIANS —On Monday morning, at ten minutes past seven o'clock, their Majesties the King and Queen of the Belgians and suite arrived at the Dock-yard, Wool wich, in two of the Royal eairi , iges ; the early hour of their departure from Windsor (four o'clock in the morn ing) having• prevented their being attended by any of the members of the Queen of England's household. The Widgeon steam vessel, Master Commander J. Hamilton, was in waiting ito receive the Royal party, and they im mediately embarked, the .signal being given by a Royal salute from the field batteries of fie Royal artillery sta. tionrd in the Dock-yard, under the command of Captain Mee. In conseqcencc of the band of the King's Royal Rifles being required to march a division of the troops from the garrison to the steam-boats at eight o'clock, on their way to Windsor, a company of the Royal artillery, coin sanded by Lieut.-Colonel Cruttenden and the excel lent bind of that regiment, fo' med the guard of honour. The tide being scai cely high enough at the time of their ,Majesty's arrival to float the vessel, the band, led by Mr. Mackenzie, performed for half an hour, until sbe was able to proceed, some of the finest airs. The King and Queen of the Belgians remained on the deck during the whole time, to the delight of a great number of persona who had assembled at that early hour for the purpose of wit. nessing their departure. When the vessel sailed the spec tators gave three cheers, which the Kling aeltiowledged by taking off his hat several times. The royal 111 g of Bel gium was hoisted in the dock-yard and the national flag of Belgium on her Majesty's vessels in the river. His Ma jesty was very plainly dressed, with a white hat on, and appeared very fatigued and having the expression of a care worn countenance. ThP convict Archibald Bolam, of savings' bank murder notoriety, arr;ved safe at Sydney, New South Wales. in the early part of tho present year. It is stated that he acted as schoolmaster and chaplain to his brother convicts on the voyage out.—.Newcitstle Journal. RIOT AT COLNE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Stn—ln reading the leading article in The Sun of the 9..0Ji inst., I was grieved by the tenor of your re marks on the conduct of Mr. Wood, in his endeavours to suppress the disgraceful riots ut Colnc. Entirely acquitting you of the intention to eoeourage the lawless and violent, yet my local knowledge impresses me with the fear that they will construe your observations into a censure upon the Magistrate, and a palliation of their own riotous and murde.ous proceedings. In the administration of justice, Mr. Wood ever manifests a scrupulous tenderness for the liberty of the subject, and a kind and lenient consideration for the poor, when accused before him. Actuated by these feelings, his object was to warn the people, and induce them to disperse, by reading the Riot Act in different parts of the town, which proceeding you have described in terms so offensively sarcastic. It appears by the evidence given before the Coroner, that the wished-for effect took place to some considerable extent, and had the warning happily also been taken by that body of misguided men, who conflicted with the police, the deplorable loss of the valuable life of an employer of the people, and the father of a family, had not taken place, neither had the three accused men been deprived of their liberty, and exposed to the severe penalty of the law. Mr. Wood did not excite the riot by the means which he used to suppress it. The rioters were already assembled, and having on several successive evenings of the preceding week committed extensive destruction of property, he had every reason to fear a repetition of their destructive work, which he was solicitous to pre vent, without incurring the danger of a collision between the armed populace and the police. Taking into con sideration the very inadequate force at his disposal, to keep in check so overpowering a number of rioters, armed with more powerful and deadly weapons than the police, Mr. Wood's object, and the means he took to effect it, appear to have been such as sagacity and discretion would suggest. The lamentable event of the collision demonstrates the wisdom of the design of using every available means to prevent it. The principal cause of the riots is the strong objection of a part of the population to the introduction of the Rural Police, and their object being to banish them out of the town by force and incessant annoyance—an ob ject not more feasible than the suhmission of the Go vernment itself. It does appear to be the part of sa gacity and discretion to have on the spot, so long as this design is entertained, such a military force as may afectually prevent the recurrence of such lawless and qavaze attempts as that, the distressing consequences of which we have now to deplore. Trusting that your desire to promote good order and subjection to the laws, and your sense of justice, will in duce you to publish, with such comments as you may think proper, in an early number of The Sun, this brief explanation and defence of the conduct of Mr. Wood, and the peaceable part of the inhabitants of Colne, in the measures which they have been impelled to take for the rreservation of their lives and property, I remain, your obedient servant, Colne, August 22, 18.10. PAX. NAVAL AND 1111L1TAKY MOVE- MENTS. The Benhow 72, and the Magicienne, 24, have been ordered to join Admiral the Hon. Sir Robert Stop ford's squadron, at present cruizing off the Dardanelles. The Donegal, 78, flag-ship, of Rear-Admiral Sir J. A. Ommanney, has been ordered to leave Lisbon, it is supposed, for the Mediterranean. The Queen, 110, will be commissioned without de lay, and be made the flag-ship of Admiral Sir Edward Codrington ; and the Illustrious, 72, one of the demon stration ships at Portsmouth, is order?d to be commis sioned for the sane quarter of the Globe. The following corps are under orders for the Medi terranean, and further detachments of Royal Artillery and Royal Marines will follow, now that the troops from Spain have returned, which they did on Saturday, in the Alban steam-vessel, which landed a portion of them at Woolwich. The 19th Regiment to Malta ; the 30th to Corfu, the 42d to Corfu ; the 79th to Gib raltar ; the 88th to Malta ; the 97th to Corfu ; and Ist battalion Rifle Brigade to Malta. Part of these regiments are sent to relieve others, but there has been a promptness with which the order has been issued ra ther unusual on such occasions, and the companies of the Royal Artillery sent to Gibraltar are fully of opi nion that those they are intended to relieve, instead of being sent borne, will proceed up the Mediterranean, and they are strengthened in this opinion by the know ledge that a company was sent there from Gibraltar on particular service, without waiting for the arrival of those who were to relieve them from England. Ti.ll o , MN* LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 95, 1840. lIAMBURGH MAIL. ST. PETERSBURG'', AUG. 15.—Baron Von Brunow, the Russian Ambassador, at the Court of London, has received the following imperial rescript, dated Peterhof', the 30th of last month :—" The very able execution of several important missions which we have confided to you, and the happy result of them, have called our especial attention to you. As a testimony of our satis faction and our gratitude for these services, we have been pleased to confer on you our Imperial order of the White Eagle, the insignia of which you receive here with, and which you will wear according to the regula tions.—We remain, &c.—Nicifotas." BERLIN, Auo. 19.—We bear from the North-East of nothing but warlike preparations, and marches of troops in Russia, partly towards Asia Minor, partly to wards Circassia. On the other hand, negotiations are said to be opened with Khiva, to put an end to the ex isting difficulties. An English officer is said to have commenced these negotiations. , DRESDEN, AUG 6.—Our most distinguished visitors have all left us. The King and Queen of Prussia arc gone to Erdmannsdorf, the Empress of Russia and the two Princesses to Fischbach, and the Prince of Prussia to Berlin. The report that the King of Prussia had a a long conference with Prince Metternich shortly before his departure, is a subject of great joy to the public, who hope that it will tend to consolidate the union between Prussia and Austria, which alone can give to Germany its former influence in the affairs of Europe. lIAMBURGH, AUG. 20.—The number of ships or all nations that passed the Sound in the first half of this year, was 3,823 from the North Sea, and 2,794 from the Baltic, in all 6,617, which is 235 more than in the sa me period of 1839 ; of these 1,064 from the North Sea, and 520 from the Baltic were English, in all 1,566, which is 139 fewer than last year. But as it appears that above 500 are still in the Baltic, the diffe rence may perhaps be made up in the next quarter.— Hamburgh rapers, Aug. 21. i;Es..i.sl AN t U NDS—BRUSSELS, AUG 22. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent ii9 Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent 93 3 per Cent. ---.Thirty.seyen tSt,; Loan of City, 1532, 4 per Cent Society of Commerce, 4}4per Cent IU9 Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent e6 National Society Exchange on London (short) —Brussels Papers, Aug. 22. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, Ace. 14 Fiv per Costs. Metalliques • IoN Four per Cents. ION Three per Cents. Bank Shares 1736 —.4llgemeine Zeitung. Aug. 19. HAMBURG BORSENHALLE, Auo. Bills. Money. Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank Shares l7lO An-10-ltussian Loan 1 0 ,% IrB l 6 Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Cortiticate Inscription, Ist Sertes lO3 Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co. 3d and 4th Series Ditto in Certificates Dutch Actual Debt, 2% pef Cent SOSQ 50 Ditto 5 per Cent 9B -- Polish Bond. New ticket Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent 7 4 34 74% Norwegian Loan, 1634, 4 per Cent.... lO2 Spanish, New 3 per Cents. ..... EXCHANGES ON LONDON. HAMBURG, AUG. 21.-19. s—Two months, 13 31%. STOCKHOLM, Auc. 1-I.—Sevpnty-live days, 11. 40, CI3RIATIANIA, AUG. 12.—Three months, 4 74. PETKRSBURGH, AuG. 14.—Two months, 14, pence. Y es TILBURY FORT.—Two LIVES LOST.— terday forenoon, at ten o'clock, a lengthened investigation was entered into before C. C. Lewis, Esq., the coroner for Essex, and a most respectable jury, at the World's End Tavern, Tilbury Fort, on the bodies of Richard Mahoney, aged nineteen, and Daniel M'Carthy, aged twenty-two, privates of the 16th legiment, new quartered in that garrison. Michael Cain stated that he was a pri vate in the 16th Regiment, now quartered at Tilbury Fort. On Thursday afternoon last, between one and two o'clock, he went in company with the deceased and several other comrades to have a bathe in the river. They all stripped together and went into the water. They had been in but a few minutes, when witness saw that Mahoney and M'Carthy had got much farther out than himself. In an instant after he missed them, and presently saw them rise again. They were considerably further out and appeared to be struggling with the current, which was very strong, and carried them rapidly from the place where they first went in. They shortly after disappeared and he saw no more of them. By the Coroner--I believe the current was running down at the time, I could render them no assistance, not being able to swim myself. Our going into the water was voluntary. Colour-Sergeant Collins, of the 16th, deposed that he and a party of men belonging to the depot found the bodies of the deceased about half pAst eliven o'clock on the same night, when the tide was out, a short distance from the spot where they went into the water. Other corroborative evidence having been ad duced, the jury after a short deliberation returned a ver dict of " Accidentally drowned." A DISTINCTION.—Mr. Baron Parke, in pass ing sentence on Geach for forgery, at Monmouth Assizes, told him he had hot only " offended against the laws of his country, but against the laws of virtue, honesty, and honour." The Learned Baron, it appears, thinks there is a wide difference between the laws of England and " the laws of virtue, honesty, and honour," and we should be sorry, indeed, to set up our opinion against that of a Judge.—Dublin World. Daniel Morgan, the gips}, and the notorious and extensive horse-stealer in the counties of Berks, So merset, Dorset, Hants, and Wilts, is now in safe custody at Fisherton gaol, and will take his trial at our assizes next week, on a charge of stealing a horse, the property of Thomas Taylor in Worcestershire. RAILWAY TRAV ELLERS AND RAILWAY PROPRIETORS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sirs —I make no apology for troubling you with this communication, as it is obvious I can have no object but to serve the publi , 3, for having been once robbed and r ut on my guard, it is not likely that I shall suffer a second time. yy On Sunday last, on my arrival at Derby from the North, I presented myself at the railway station, and requested to have a ticket for London by a second class carriage. I was told the fare was °3s., which of course I paid. After asking half a dozen porters at that ill regulated place into which carriage I was to get, I was put into one for London. I had not been long in it before I was informed that I was wrong, for it was for passengers to London via Hampton, and that I was to go to London via Leicester and Rugby. 1 did not care how I went to London, but the proceeding excited my suspicion, and I learnt to my astonishment that I had been swindled out of 3s. Gd., the eharge via Hampton being 19s. 6d. I remonstrated with a man in autho rity who seemed to have the ordering of the trains, and he had the effrontery to tell me that everybody knew it was cheaper to go to London via Hampton than via Leicester and Rugby. I cannot believe he would have told such a lie without ha v i ng an i nterest i n d o i ng so . In fact, my impression is, th a t th e p eop l e at t h e D er b y station have some remuneration for sending passengers to London by the most exp ens i ve route, an d I am anxious to give publicity to my op i n i on . I un d ers t an d the Derby station is the joint property of several Rail way Companies ; therefore it is difficult to ascertain to whom complaints should be made. Perhaps the best plan is to complain through the press on all occasions, otherwise railways, which are so advantageous to the public, will become positive nuisances after they have superseded all other conveyances. In justice to re spectable and well-conducted railways, like the London and Birmingham, I think it is only right to do it ; for the malpractices of some. are creating a strong desire to encourage opposition railways —. a measure 1 conceive quite unnecessary, and a great waste of capital, if the existing railways were properly managed. I am, Sir, 5 our most obedient servant, A CONSTANT READER. RURAL FETE AT ARMADDY CASTLE. On Tuesday, the 11th current, the Marquis of . Breadalbane gave a fete at Armaddy, which will long be remembered by the people of the district. The object of his Lordship was to gather around bim the tenantry on his estates in the western districts of Argyll shire for the purpose of instituting annual meetings for boat-racing and Highland games. The invitation was truly a Celtic one, and included sll those within miles round who are connected with his Lordship's estates, either as tillers of the soil, tradesmen, or workmen in the slate quarries, which are so extensive in Easdale. The morning lowered and threatened rain, but this did not prevent the people from starting to the scene of compe tition, and by 11 o'clock the usual stillness of Armaddy was enlivened by the approach of the different parties from the glens attended by their pipers, whose shrill notes echoed from rock to rock, and sounded far away in the distant hills. A little before U o'clock, the Marquis and Marchioness, with her sister Miss Baillie, accompanied by Captain and Mrs. M‘Dougall of M'Dougall, Mr. Campbell of Glenmore, Mr. Aspinall of Liverpool, and the other gentlemen who had come to see the gathering took their station on a rising ground at the head of Ar maddy Bay, to meet the people of Luing and Seil, who had arranged to come in their boats. The business of the day commenced by a procession of boats—both oared and sailing—which gathered from many a different point till they mustered, at the Sound of Cuan, a fleet of more than a hundred, when they manoeuvred in two lines in view of the castle—a barge with the Breadal bane family flag leading in the centre—and afterwards separated to contest for various Regatta Prizes, which had been offered by his Lordship, and the competition for which excited a very keen interest. the boatmen having landed, the time till dinner was take n up by an exciting round of rural sports , including :and in the throwing a the coursestone and hammer, t ha a m m m o e s r t , a l d ea m p i i r n a g b , le a d n i d sp f l o a o y t o r f ac Highland bone na and muscle was giving—" the young contending while the old surveyed." The immense assemblage, male and female, with all their children and friends who could attend them, sat down to dinner, to the number, we believe, of 0,300 To find a hall fit for dining such a party in thi s district, - or almost in any other, was out of the question, but the day turned out fortunately fine, and tables were constructed on a lawn, about a quarter of a mile from the Castle, which were attended by 100 waiters, and perhaps the largest party which ever was entertained at one time in the Highlands, was most sumptuously re oled with beef, mutton, &c., all washed down with a reasonable libation of whisky toddy. The Marquis and Marchioness walked round the inside of this circle, close to the people, receiving their congratulations, and returning them in the most kind and affable manner. The Marchioness and Miss Bailie then divided, from a table provided for the purpose, confectionaries amongst about 500 little children, who, in this day of rejoicing, were not forgotten, and who must long remember this kind act of attention. Dinner being over, the party joined in the dance upon the green—fifty reels at a time—to the music of five pipers, and continued the jollification till a reascni able hour, when some took staff in hand, others took to their boats, and all departed in peace and merriment— highly delighted with the generosity of the Lord of Breadalbane. Soon after the prizes had been distri buted, about fifty of the neighbouring ladies and gentle men retired to the Castle, where they were entertained at dinner by his Lordship, and spent a happy evening. Two fat oxen, a score of sheep, twelve hundred loaves, besides quantities of oat bread and cheese, with five hogsheads of punch, were used on the occasion. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALCS—YESTERDAY. Business was exceedingly dull, and not sufficiently interesting to require any introductory remarks. It is enough to state, that Launcelot and Gibraltar , were i n cons i derable demand at an improvement on Thursday's p r i ces , an d t h at Crucifix, after remaining for some time at 16 to 1, fo un d t wo or t h ree sup porters, the closing one s ; s h e was backed for about two hundred pounds in the cour se o f ten minutes. Broadwath and Maroon declined two or three points, and w ere no t sup ported with any spirit; nor was muc h money laid out on the uot being at those odds, but at 1 4 and 15 to 1, the last mentioned gy others. A fiat day closed as follows : ST. LEGER. 9 to 4 agst Lord Westminster's Launcelot—taken freely 6 to 1 agst Gen. Yates's Gibraltar taken 15 to 1 agst Lord G. Bentinck's Crucifix—taken and off. 16 to 1 agst Lord Westminster's Maroon—taken 16 to 1 agst Mr. Meiklam's Broadwath---taken . 20 to 1 agst Duke of Cleveland's Theon 25 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Dr. Caius—taken 28 to 1 agst Mr. Shepherd's Viceroy—taken 1000 to 15 agst Mr. Clark's Alonzo—taken 2000 to 30 agst Mr. Nevill's Christinetta—taken 500 even between Crucifix and Theon, the backer of the mare giving five sovereigns for choice. LATEST BETTING AT MANCHESTER. ST. LEG ER. The leading feature this morning (Friday) was the laying of 9 to 4 agst Launcelot ; 7 to 1 was laid agst Gibraltar ; and 12 to 1 agst Crucifix. DONCASTER CUP. 7 to 2 offered on the field ; 7 to 1 agst Charles the Twelfth (taken freely). TILE DERBY. 20 to I offered on the field. PAISLEY RACES.—FRIDA Y. The Silver Bells, with 100 sous. added. Twice r ( o N tm ob d le an ) d l a distance. Mr. Bowman's Easingwold , 4 yrs, Bst Mr. Meiklam's Modesty, 6 yrs, 9st 31b ........ 2 :ire:Lord Eglinton's The Potentate, agaeNndtd,,o9.fistlell3ieels\b,:rlB3s''t 21b. Lear, aged two - 6 ol t d o c 4 ol o t n s, A B lo st des s t l y b . ; , once round Sweepstakes of 20 snvs. each, with 20 added from the Fund • for two quarters of a mile. (6 subs.) Mr. Ramsay's bl f Martyrdom Lord Eglinton's br fby Muley Moloch, out of Zi11ah......... „ Mr. C. Alexander's hr. c Archer ... ......... • ............ ; 2tol on Martyrdom, Won easy. ....... - 30 added Match for 251., list 71b each..—Mr. Yates's Ring with 25 added, for all beat Mr. Croft's Woldsman very easily.b , The County Members' Plate of 50 guineas. Heats and a distance. Mr. Ramsay's Sunbeam, aged, Bst 3lb , ( Noble) 1 1 Mr. Mer r y s Laurier, 3 yrs, ist 41b ........................ 2 9 4 to 1 on Sunbeam, who won each heat easily. yrs, 7st 101 b ...... ...(Noble) 1 The fr G om old th C e Cup, Fund.by su b T s ;v o o f m ls ile S s Ov a s i ; d e a ac d h is , t l a O rie f e t.., ‘ ,.,,i st h subs. ) Lord Eglinton's Dr. Caius, 3 yrs, ist .. .;: ....... .walked over Sweepstakes of 10 sous. each, 11- ft.,ages. Two miles• (3 subs.) Hon. J. Sandiland's Oswald, aged, 9st 31b .........walked over The Aftershots Free Handicap Sweepstakes of 5 sous. each, with 20 added. A A i l r r . . Bowman'sß e di .ern,s Kathleen, Easing . o 16d,y4rs, ............... 9 A good race. 75t 41b a ged 26, who poisoned himself by magistrate of ---_ . SUICIDE oF A MEDICAL STUDENT.—On Saturday evening an inquest was held;before Mr. Higgs, at i tvhaer,Gr,raanindeHdioctaell,stCuodveenntt, Garden, on the body of Mr. Da- ' takirw prussic acid undo:. the following circumstances : I who enjoys an incom e of from theTh The Manchesterdeceased, itd dock police, was the son of a 2,2001. to 2,500/. per year. A short time since he married a i v s a t s e r lir s o t u r e g e h t t , young lady, the daughter of a clergyman, and on Friday h e This preyed so heavily upon underwent an examination before the Royal Colle sh g u goons, and was rejected. his mind, as his hopes rested upon his success in the medical profession, that he entered the above hotel on Fri day night, and called for a go of gin. In about ten min u t es afterwards he was discovered in the water-closet, and an ounce bottle, which had contained prussic acid, was lying on the place. Life was not quite f e li x o ti . ne l t 2 , , a A n i d an h c e b King_stree►, was called in, but he arrived too late, a s t h e out into the supper-room,wh,) and Mr. u E ai d n w te a d rd w s, it a k deceas e d expired a few minutes after being first discovered. It transpired that the deceased had been residing with 11 A, I i r a . ne K he e s n t d e r r i - c s k q , ua a re, surgeon , Verdict, " Temporary Insanity.' ROAST-BEEF REASONING. —One honourable member could not bear to see Christianity abused, because it was a part of the common law of England, not because it was a part of common reason; this is solid, substantial, roast-beef reasoning. —Burke's Speeches , iersgoefl u, family. ro..f PRINCE LOUIS NAPOLEON. PARIS, AUG. 23. The Monitell?' of this day states that the preliminary measures connected with the affair of Prince Louis Bonaparte were in rapid progress, and that several of the accused had undergone examination. Among the fifteen persons examined have been Prince Louis Napoleon, General Montholon, and Cols. Montauban and Parquin. The examination of the Prince, though not intended to be final, was extremely long. His bearing and manner while it lasted disap pointed the functionaries who conducted it. They ex pected loftiness, hauteur, firmness, unshrinking courage and determination, but they found him weighed down by a sense of his own situation and that of his friends, adherents, and party. He neither protested against the competency of the Commissioners or examining officers, nor refused to reply to any of their questions, nor expressed indignation or resentment at any of their many observations calculated to wound his amour propre. General Montholon not only repeated that he was not aware of the Prince's intention when he went on hoard the steamer, but now added his belief that the affair was, in respect of himfelf, a guet-a-pens (trap or snare.) The examinations of Colonels Montauban and Par quin produced from them respectively frank avowals of their attachment and devotion to " the Imperial cause." The papers connected with this affair, now in the hands of Government, develope the whole plan of the conspiracy, and expose every step taken in it, and in which—will you believe it ?—our old acquaintance the Syren, Madam Gordon, was the chief agent. Strangely enough, the police have this time also inflicted a wound on that lady's self-love. They have not arrested her. It is not known whether she will protest against this culpable neglect aril inattention of the police. It will appear that the Prince originally intended to niakd his attempt about the month of November, that is, at the epoch when the remains of Napoleon might be expected to arrive in France, and when the enthusiasm of the people and the army for his name might be natu rally at its height. Madame Gordon was, however, of opinion that " the Irimas of November or December might assert their chilling influence, and give to Louis Philippe a chance which the ardency of the caniculi (dog days) would ensure to the Prince." This sage observation had all the success it merited, and the Prince resolved that the expedition should take place at that chosen and happy period, imparting to his fair coun sellor the knowledge of the day and manner of it—a secret which it would be heresy to doubt she had reli• giously kept. We have seen this lady here in Paris in the character of a concert singer, and with no mean pretensions to ex cellence in her art. But it was not the quality of her voice nor the perfection of its cultivation that attracted to her benefits the crowds we have witnessed. The principal portion of her audience consisted of partisans of the cause Inweriale. The remainder were spies of the police, and persons attracted by curiosity. Having concluded her series of entertainments in Paris, she took to the provinces, and visited either in her professed character of concert singer, or her real one of Imperial Propagandist, or both together, as at Paris, Metz, Douay, and other strong places, in which were large garrisons, and in which (she reported to the Prince) she brought over to the cause whole regiments of soldiers and entire corps of officers. Relying as be did on the success of her exertions, and on the correctness of her assurances, the Prince ordered, on the receipt of one despatch from her, a general move of his adherents. One, a principal person, was to proceed to Ghent to be at hand to enter Lille ; another to Mons, to be ready to enter Valenciennes, &c. This intention, however, was abandoned, and his partisans accompanied him in his expedition, which failed. It would be unjust, however, to withhold from you the knowledge of a real service this gifted lady effected. The Legitimists and the Bonapartists of France aro unquestionably as brave men as live, but it unfortu nately happens that the men of pluck, the fellows who, under a Jeanne or a Barbes, would turn into the streets, and in noon day attack a Government defended by 120,000 bayonets, are not Legitimists nor Bonapartists—they are Republicans. Now, as nei ther lily nor an eagle would be sure to produce a rising of such daredevils as those who defended the church of St. Mary in 183:2 and 1834, or attacked the Palais de Justice in 1839, it was suggested by M. de Crony Chanel that a union with the Republicans should be effected. To this proposition the Prince returned a positive refusal, for, be it for his praise or his dispraise, it will come out that an idea of republicanism never entered his head, nor, to his honour, was ever professed by him. It struck Madame Gordon, however, that the suggestion of M. dc Crony Chanel was rather a good one, and, with a tact which no eulogy could do justice to, she set about the affair and attached to the cause Imperiale some thousands of Bonnets Rouges—princi pally of those formidable fellows the journeymen tailors —but candidly stating to them that to establish an Empire, and not a Republic, was to be the object of the intended effort. The Imperial party is, in fact, divided into three sections. That of which I have just spoken has, or had, for its leader, Madame Gordon. The second which assembles at the residence of Madame Renault de St. Jean d'Angeley (the widow of the great sena tor of that name), and who are called the " Worship pers," contemplate nothing in the shape of fighting. The third has for its chief Madame de Salvage de Fa verselles, assisted by the Duchess de Ragara. This latter section is the more enlightened of the three, and are denominated "the expectants." hut who are adverse to all rash attempts. Thus it will be seen that Madame Gordon had it ail her own way.—Tines. EGYPTIAN NEWS. ALEXANDRIA, AUG. 7. On the 29th ultimo, the Etna steamer arrived from Toulon. It is generally said that it was the bearer of despatches concerning Syria. The general opinion is, that at the first energetic notification made by the great Powers to Mehemet Ali, Ibrahim Paella will march upon Constantinople. Every body is con vinced that such is the project of Mehemet Ali ; and it is in accordance with the counsels given to him by his friends at Constantinople. On the 30th his Highness received a courier from Syria, who had left Beyrout on the 25th. The despatches state that Baron Houffroy and Viscount de Chausel, the leaders of the insurgents, had taken refuge on board the Diligente. Three chiefs of the mountaineers had been made prisoners, and were to be brought to Mehemet Ali. Abbas Pacha bad just received orders from his Highness to echellon the troops on the coast. Soliman Pacha and Osman Pacha were to proceed in the direction of Tripoli, in order to put an end to the revolt which was still brewing in that country ; and after having completed their mission Osman Pacha was to take his regiments to St. Jean d' Acre, and Soliman Pacha those under his orders to Aleps and Damascus, with the view of reinforcing the army of Marasch. The preparations for war are being continued, and cannon are planted daily along the shore. They are arranged in batteries on the heights. His Highness lately despatched one of his aides-de-camp in order to accelerate the marching of the troops which are return ing from Mecca. Orders have been given for the Na tional Guards of Cairo to arm, to call them into active service, and to despatch all the artillery possible to Alexandria. From Cairo munitions of war arc de spatched to Syria. The materiel which his Highness has at command is immense, but both the civil and military service is badly managed, and the Pacha is sur rounded by a host of incapable men. Guns are mounted on carriages which will not be able to undergo the least shock without the necessity of being repaired. The forts are supplied with metal of different calibre, but experienced artillerymen are wanting for that service. The land army, some regiments of Ibrahim Pacha's guards excepted, are composed of uneducated children. That army is decimated by sickness and the bad quality of the provisions, and the sending away of European in structors has been the cause of all the evil. Mehemet Ali does not view his position in a right ligbt, and he is persuaded that ho can go to war with England, and even Russia, which a handful of Circassians keep in check. We have been informed of the departure, on board the last vessel which conveyed the Levant mail, of a Cabinet messenger, who, as soon as he reached Malta, immediately proceeded to join the British fleet. The steamer which arrived on the 4th instant brought M. Augustin Capo d'lstria, who is exiled from Greece. He was escorted on board at Syra by two gendarmes. The Jewish expedition has arrived. Sir Moses Montefiore has been already presented to the Pacha. The con ference did not last long. He was presented by Colo nel Hodges, the British Consul. M. Cremieux will be presented, after the steamer leaves, by M Cochelet. Two English steamers have just arrived, one from Beyrout and the other from Smyrna. Nothing has transpired. His Highness leaves to-morrow for Lower Egypt, but the object of his journey is not known. On the ‘27th July, at five in the afternoon, the steamer Papin left for Toulon. M. Eugene Perier was on board. His official mission with Mehemet Ali has completely failed. The young diplomatist, who was presented by M. Cochelet, has had several conferences with his Highness. The object of his mission was to prevail upon Mehemet Ali to avail hiraself of the presence of Sami Bey at Constantinople,in order to conclude, by some concessions, his differences with the Porte. France demanded that his Highness should abandon the district of Adana. Mehemet Ali refused peremptorily in all the conferences which had taken place up to the arrival of the steamer the Nile. On the arrival of that packet M. Perier and M. Cochelet again went to the Palace. They found Mehemet Ali reading his Constantinople despatches, received from Sami Bey. The conference lasted three hours, and Mehemet refused to consent to any arrangement, con cluding by saying, " If they attempt to force me I will defend myself, and I shall at least fall with honour:' M. Cochelet tried to prove that the concessions were not dishonourable, and asked him to wait for the decision of I the London Conference, reminding him that he ought to restore the Turkish fleet, as he had promised. Mehe met answered, "My offer was not accepted, for the Divan has not named any one to whom I should restore the squadron, and send it back to Constantinople." After this unsatisfactory conference M. Perier left, well convinced that the first diplomatist in the world could obtain nothing from the l'acha. BLOCKADE OF BUENOS AYRES. The following is an extract of a letter received at Lloyd's : " Buenos Ayres, May IS, IS.IO. " I have nothing to advise regarding the blockade by the French—they continue it as usual, and from appear ances I do not see any chance of a speedy termination. From General Lavalle's army in Entre Rios we know nothing certain at present. The province of Incuman has declared itself against this Government, and invites the other provinces to follow its example. Should any thing result from this, I shall duly advise you." FIRING UPON AN ENGLISH SCHOONER BY THE FORT OF ALMERIA. [EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM LLOYD'S.] " ALMERIA, AUG. 3, 1840. " The British schooner Titania, Capt. R. Loosemore, from Gibraltar, in ballast, and bound to Zante, anchored here on the 29th ult., and sailed the following day for her destination. " The Titania was tacking off Almeria, on the morn ing of the 29th, owing to contrary winds, and coming, it was alleged, under cannon•shot of the fort, without any fla g flying, she was fired at without ball ; and though she immediately hoisted her ensign, they fired on her twice more with cannon ball (one of which pitched short of her stern) which naturally surprised the cap tain, and induced him to enter the port for explana tion, where he was detained till he should pay the cost of the three shots. Every exertion on the part of her Majesty's Vice-Consul against what he considered an unjust and arbitrary proceeding was disregarded, and to avoid greater prejudice by the detention of the vessel he paid the amount demanded for account of the captain (the latter having no money on board), under protest, and the vessel was permitted to depart. " It is only , very lately that the artillerymen at the fort have received orders to fire on vessels approaching without colours ; so far they may be justified ; but to I continue firing with ball, after hoisting the flag, till the vessel should deviate from her voyage and come to anchor to pay the expense, may be attended with very serious accidents, as nearly happened to the Titania. Her Majesty's Vice-Consul has therefore given a full report of the above to the Consul at Malaga, and I consider it also advisable to inform you thereof." LOWER RHINE COURT OF ASSIZE. (Abridged from the Gazette des Tribunaux.) MURDER OF A GIRL BY HER LOVER.—George Andres was charged with the murder of Marie Heintz, a young woman only 16 years of age, by cutting her throat in the forest of Gries, on the night of the 28th of May last. It appeared that the deceased, Marie Heintz, an or phan girl, entered the service of a small farmer, named Andres, at Gries, near Strasbourg : and she had not been there long before she had the misfortune to attract the attentions of George Andres, one of the sons of her master. The poor girl returned the affections of the young man ; the intimacy proceeded until she found herself enceinte. The connection between his son and his servant remained a secret from M. Andres, until early in the month of May an individual who had become acquainted with the fact communi cated it to him ; and the girl was immediately dis missed from his service. Placed in this distressing po sition she made less mystery of her pregnancy, and con fided to some of her friends the fact that the young Andres was the father of the child which she must ere long give birth to ; but she consoled herself with the belief that her lover would never abandon her. On 1 Bth May she was taken into the service of Abraham Kcenig, a weaver at Bischwiller, in the capacity of shop woman. Here she soon gained the confidence of her employer by her good temper and assiduity. On the 29th of May two women, who had gone in•o the forest of Gries to gather dry wcod, discovered a female lying on the ground with her face upwards exposed to the rays of the sun. At first they thought she was asleep, but on a near approach they discovered that it was the dead body of the unfortunate Marie Heintz. They lost no time in giving information of the circumstance to the Mayor of Gries, who immediately proceeded to the spot, and subsequently the Juge de Paix also arrived. The body lay not far from a path leading from the com mune of Gries to that of Bischwiller ; it was extended on the ground lying partly upon the right shoulder, the face about ball discovered to view, the arms partly crossed, and the fists clenched. The clothes, as well as the face of the deceased, _were covered with blood. On the neck were two wounds, one under the chin, the other a little lower down towards the bosom. At a short distance lay a knife with a wooden handle, covered with blood. 'The medical man who first examined the body pro nounced his opinion that the deceased had come to her death by her own act ; and the earth soon covered the remains of the unfortunate girl. The examination had, however, been made very hastily in consequence of the excitement and pressure of the crowd during the sur geon's inspection of the body. Subsequently, however, Jacques Schuster, the bro ther-in-law of George Andres, conceived a suspicion that the knife which had been found near the body of deceased was the same which he had missed from his house about six weeks previously ; and when it was remembered that he had promised marriage to a young woman named Eve Hammer, and that on the very night previously to the discovery of the body he had had an interview with the deceased, who stood in the ( way of his marriage with the other girl, the suspicion that Andres was concerned in her death gained strength. It was next discovered that Andres had called at Kcenig's shop and purchased pipes ; had there seen the unfortunate Marie, and made an appointment with her for the same evening ; that she had told the young Lisette Kcenig of his having done so, and said, " What can he want with me ? No matter, I will go." In the evening she kept the fatal appointment. The young Lisette Kcenig and another girl went with her to the end of the village, and then left her to proceed to her lover alone. She was in excellent spirits when she separated from her companions. She was afterwards seen by a young woman named Matz, who stopped talking to her until George Andres was seen approach ing, when she left her from feelings of delicacy. She was never more seen alive except by her murderer. About an hour after they had been seen by Matz, Andres returned to the village of Gries, and proceeded to Eve Hammer, whom he sought in marriage. When he arrived be was covered with perspiration. He se veral times wiped his face, and said that he had been taking a long walk to inspect a plantation of madder. Although exhausted and fatigued, he could not rest in one place, and proposed to Miss Hammer to take a walk in the village ; this, however, she declined, as the weather was threatening ; and he then left her and went to an inn, at which he remained drinking till about half-past nine o'clock, when he returned to the Hammers' house. It had been remarked at the inn how the perspiration fell from his face. He remained with Miss Hammer until about ten o'clock, affecting to talk and laugh cheerfully with the innocent cause of the dreadful deed which he had committed. On his return home his absence of mind was observed by a young man who slept in the same chamber with him. The body of the poor girl was now exhumed, and it was satisfactorily proved that she had been the victim of a murderer. Andres began to act upon a system of denying every thing, and declared that he had never had any improper intimacy with the deceased. He held out for some time, but at length abandoned all hope of escape, and made a full confession of his guilt. CONFESSION OF THE PRISONER—" At the hour ap pointed I went, and waited for her on the borders of the forest, and as soon as she arrived we entered its shades. There we sat down upon the grass, side by side, on the spot where her body was found. She took the in her arms and affectionately embraced me. I re proached her with having stated that 1 was the father of the child with which she was pregnant ; which she denied. I was at the time seated by her side, with my right arm round her waist. When I again reproached her with what she had stated, she gave me the lie. " Since you have the audacity," said I, " to deny the reports of which you are the author, you deserve to die in this place." She replied, "Kill me if you have the courage !" She had scarcely uttered this , when with my left hand I drew a knife from my waistcoat pocket, and with the same hand (for I am left-handed) plunged it into her throat. " George, George !” cried she "do not kill me." At the same time she made great efforts to escape from me, and it is not impro bable that during this struggle she received the wounds found upon her hands. I then succeeded in forcing her head round, and inflicting a wound in the upper part of the neck. I quitted the spot as she was on the point of expiring—as the last breath rattled in her dfully affected t h ro at, and a few barely audible sobs alone i n di cate d that T i ei f wasteh hardn prisonero t labour. quiteyewtas i extinct.' sentenced Ia xti n s ct . .:s dreadfully imprisonment e a during the trial, and seemed bowed down with for liferemorse. CHURCH-RATE SEIZURE.—The Churchwar dens of St. Peters have laid their fangs upon a horse and cart, the property of Mr. Thomas, of Pontcarreg, near this town, for non-payment of Church-rate. They will be offered to public auction on Saturday next in front of the Cock public-house, when we hope there will be a large attendance to witness the legalised plundering of private property. Mr. Thomas is a highly respectable Dissenter, and pref ers a ll ow i ng the Law, the Devil's Law,s e to ta k e exampl its course, th an pay t h e rate v o l u ntarily. will be very genera ll y f o ll owe d by the the bidders and parish in f u t ure . W e s h a ll d u ly chronicle purchasers in our next.— Weishman. D i s senters of this 143 Y ENING EDITION. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS• FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. (From the _Morning Chronicle.) The Standard of last evening announces the discovery of an " extraordinary conspiracy," for the alleged facts of which it is indebted to no less an authority than the Bristol Mirror, and its correspondent Mr. Handley, one of the V l / 4 "hie. Members for South Lincolnshire:" The agents of this gunpowder plot are certain London corn-factors. The object is to vest their cash in corn, so as, by forced purchases, to raise the averages, and let in foreign corn. And the crime imputed is, that they plan "to swindle, nay, to starve, a whole nation with impunity." A " villany," argues our Contemporary, which " has strong substantive claims to the notice and indignation of the community." Now, supposing the facts to be as they are stated, we cannot see how the nation is likely either to be swindled or starved by the transaction. The result must be, that there will be more corn in the Country. It will not be the dearer on that account. The transaction seems much more likely to operate as a pre vention of starvation. Neither the farmer nor the con sumer has much cause of complaint against those who . buy corn l arge ly d ur i ng h arves t ti me . Few commercial operations are more legitimate in themselves, or more obviously useful in their tendency. And let us suppose that, by the alleged purchases, the price is factitiously raised, and the duty consequently reduced, who is to blame ? The fault, if fault there be, is plainly in the Corn-laws. There, and nowhere else, is the facility created "to swindle, nay, starve the nation." But for those laws the " extraordinary conspiracy" would simply be taking extraordinary pains to ruin itself for the public benefit. Our contemporary has provided for the demolition of all his own arguments, through many a month, in favour of the food monopoly. It is that rnoaopoly alone which arms speculators in corn with any formidable power over the markets. Were the ports always open, either freely or even with a small fixed duty, for the importation of foreign corn, the sup ply would accommodate itself to the demand. The power of speculators and jobbers would be at an end. The vicissitudes would cease by which they are stimu lated. A rant so uniform that it can be calculated, year by year, to a nicety, would be met by a regular importation. Instead of the apprehended drain of gold, the production of which is further charged as a crime on the dealers, there would be a proportionate export of manufactures, enabling the workmen, by the employ ment it produced, to purchase the food they had earned. Not an evil is indicated in this fervid exposure by our Contemporary, but what really belongs to the hi; itself, and is part and parcel of the scathing curse of a bread-tax. (From the Times.) Our renders will find in another column a second letter from the Rev. Mr. Watts, going into further de tails of the atrocities practised in the Bath Union workhouse. We consider the exposure of these things to be unspeakabiy valuable, as showing that the judg ment which we have been led to pronounce upon the spirit of legislation in which the New Poor Law was conceived, and upon the character of the manifestoes which have at various times issued from Somerset House, is borne out even to the minutest particular by the actual working of the system in numerous and distant places at the same time. All these facts tend to a single point, the state of things which they discover can as ise from one cause only, and can be healed by only one remedy. How is it that. this monstrous uniformity of oppression has been produced ? Plainly, by the ruthless vigour, the consistency and concentration of despotism—a despotism established expressly for this purpose and not the less formidable because removed from the conspicuous position of Royalty to the ob scurity of a dusty office of Somerset-house. Des potism (under another name, but we prefer the old one) is the favourite expedient of root-and-branch Reformers, on account of those very qualities which constitute it s , power for evil. Whet it does, it does cleanly and the roughly ; whi'e it lasts it is able to stifle and trample down the resistance of those whom it oppresses ; it can send out its polypus feelers into Cornwall, or Northumberland, or Wales, without receiving the slightest impression from that which is peculiar in the circumstances of person or place. Whatever horrors may be enacted at any point in the circle of operation, whatever atmosphere of moral indignation those hor rors may originate within their immediate sphere, nei ther the horror nor the indignation come in contact with the central intelligence, or influence its secret me tions. What might be calculated, if actually witnessed, to excite human feelings in the hardest heart, will be coldly or contemptuously disregarded when reported from a distant, and possibly from a suspected, quarter. (From the .Morning Advertiser..) Shou l ,d the calamity of a war with France be unfor tunately forced upon England, it is important that pub lic opinion should be matured upon the merits of the case. It appears as the result of all the discussions that France is determined to support the Paella of Egypt, and to allow of no intervention in the affairs of the East. For this course, she is pleased to assign no reason but her sic val e , sic,jubeo. But the principle of Non-inter vention, loudly proclaimed by her at the revolution. of July, and also announced as the principle of the foreign administration of the English Reform Ministry, was ex plained by M. Thiess, the French Minister himself, in reference to the Italian States, to mean that France would neither interfere in the affairs of other States her self, nor permit other States to do so. This is the fair meaning of non-intervention ; and unless it is capable of this construction, it is a mere empty sound. France now desires that the status quo should be preserves! inn the affairs of the East, which Egypt and Turkey are to settle between themselves without any interference ; but she must he prepared to enforce the doctrine in both ways, for if neither she nor England are to be allowed to interfere she must be prepared to prevent Russia from interfering likewise. What power has she to do this It Could the relations of the Turkish Sultan and the Egyptian Viceroy afford any hope of a permanent set tlement--could the obligations of treaties he cancelled, and Great Britain liberated from her alliance with the former, and Russia forced to forego the fatal privileges of protectorship conferred upon her by the Treaty of Unkiar Skelessi, this would be all very well. But what security can France give that Russia would not laugh to scorn her construction of non-intervention, and march to the relief of the Sultan at the first summons, careless whether the other European Powers relished it or not ? Was not her conduct towards Poland during the crisis of English and French reform a suffi cient proof of her respect for the promulgators of the doctrine of non-intervention ? What Statesman, having that before his eyes, would abandon Turkey to the course of fortune, as France would insist ? (From the Morning Post.) We stated some time since, on the highest authority, that the ratification of the new treaty by the Govern ment of Austria might be daily expected, and in so doing we anticipated its actual arrival. The ratification by the Cabinet of St. Petersburgh was never for an instant considered doubtful, as distance was the only question to be looked to in calculating the moment at which it should reach this country. We thought we might safely leave it to the most able political post masters to decide at how many versts an hour the Am bassador's bags might bring the imperial confirmation of the treaty which the Autocrat had suggested. Nothing can be more satisfactory, if true, than the discovery made by our Contemporary, that the blockade of the Syrian ports is to be exclusively a military one ; be cause as such a measure must, ex necessitate rei, be nugatory, it will admit of any possible explanation. We have only to hope that the sense to be ultimately affixed to it may be pacific ; but, in our present state of infor mation, we cannot consider the announcement itself as either more or less than a concession—and a somewhat clumsy one—on the part of the British Government. (From the Morning Herald.) f Our own opinion of the policy of the New Poor Law is known to be one of unqualified and unmiti gable hatred and disgust. We hold that Whig . bo on to the labouring classes" to be so bad in its principle as to be incapable of being made a good measure by any modified attempt at improvement. It is a law which has done more to separate the rich and poor, 1 and by such alienatio n t o ren d er insecure the rights 1 o f property, and unsettle the very foundations of so ciety, than any vicious, cruel, unchristian, and uncon stitutional law that has been passed since the founda tion of the monarchy. But though holding this opinion of the law itself, when specific charges of ill treatment and cruelty to paupers, extra the law itself, are made against Poor-law Guardians or their officers, we wish to see the evidence before we condemn or acquit the pat ties so charged. In the case of the Cre diton Uniun we suspend our judgment as to the truth or falsehood of the charges. The result of the pro ceedings of the boasted Court V Inquiry has left as more in the dark than ever. The question now to be solved is, do the three Poor-law potentates at Somerset House really desire that the case should be elucidated. by evidence, or do they not ? If they do, let us have no more mock-inquiries like that which agitated a whole 1 1 district for two days, only to terminate like... " Told by an ideot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing." ANECDOTE OF THE QUEEN.—Shortly before her Majesty's Coronation, General Wilkinson received a notice to attend that solemnity, and do suite and service to the Queen. The gallant officer, finding himself unable to undertake a journey to London, prayed to be excused, on the score of advanced age and bodily infirmity, and ex precsed a hope that his long services and conduct in the field would satisfy his Sovereign that it was not through want of loyalty that he sought exemption. A few days after this answer was returned, a letter, addressed " Gv neral Sir William Wilkinson, K. C. 8.," was received by the gallant veteran, informing hint that her Majesty had ro, her of been graciously plea sed to di spense with his attend ance a t teen ac k nowledg ment Victoria f roth the Coronation on account of his advanced age, a n d to con fer upon him the honorary distinction of a K n i g h t Co tu his sirtii long and valuable he r id an Bridal. dcr s o e f r t v h ic e es ß ._ ath Q , i in Committed to Monmouth Gaol, Aug. 14, Henry- Mills, for stealing a pock e t-handkerchief i the property got , William Gwynne while, removi ng th e pr i soners from l .. 1 van into the court.