The Sun. — London, England, 1840-08-20 00:00:00

ERECHTHEIUM CLUB Or, AUXILIARY ATHEN/EUM. The COMMITTEE of MANAGEMENT of this Literary and Scien4ific Association having, on Thursday, the 6th inst., made their SECOND SELECTION from the List of Candi dates, pursuant to Advertisement, hereby give Notice, That they will again meet on Thursday, the 20th August, at One o'eloek precisely, at the temporary Offices of the Club, No. 6, Waterloo-place, Pall Mall, to make a further Selection from the List of Candidates, and take into consideration the several MANSIONS which have been offered for the use of the Club. Noblemen and Gentlemen desirous of joinleg the Association are requested to send in their applications to the Secretary, H. E. Paine. Esq., to whom all other Communications re specting this Club must be addressed. (Signed) JOHN DEAN PAUL, Chairman. On Monday next, in vols. post Bvo., NARRATIVE OF THE WAR IN AFFGHANISTAN , IN 1838-9. 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Concert commences at Six. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. 13 minutes after 7. I Eyening minutes atter 8. 'ice Publication of the Evening Edition of THE SuN corn• menced at le minutes after Three. ~,, :4 - & - s -- --v, ~...„),Pri5e,,,.,1,,,, ~„..„ 4,.... 1 ,. t,_,,,,, .„,,,,;..,,„„, .„. 0, ~,,,,,:fre . .„,,..,,,,,,„..ii.„1 , ,,,, ~.,,,,:.,,, 4,,,,, ,„,„,... ...,_ ~,, „,.....„.,....,_.„4,...„,„ , trr,ht -I.llx+ LONDON: THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1840. Amongt the facts stated in the Second Annual Report of the Registrar-General, the greater num ber of deaths in the towns than in the rural districts is worthy of notice. Thus, for example, the deaths of children under three years of age, out of 1,000 in 1839, were, in Manchester and Salford suburbs, 475; in Leeds, 447 ; in Birmingham, 440 ; in Liverpool and West Derby, 437 ; in Dor setshire and - Wiltshire, 281 ; in Devonshire, 286 ; and in the North Riding of Yorkshire, &c., 282 ; in England and Wales, the mean is 343 ; showing that the death of infants in towns is proportionably greater 12 or 13 per cent. than the average of all England, and very much greater, about 40 per cent., than the average of the deaths of infants in rural districts. A similar fact is true of the extreme aged as well as the extreme young. Out of 1,000 deaths, there were at the age of 70 and upwards. in Manchester, 53 ; in Liverpool, 60 ; in Leeds, 68 ; in Birming ham, 78 ; in the Metropolis, 99 ; in the North Rid ing of Yorkshire, and agricultural part of Durham, 202 ; in Devonshire, 208 ; in North of Lanca shire, &c., 210: Mean of England and Wales, 140. It is inferred, therefore, tat great towns and cities are much more fatal to life than rural districts. Although we have some doubts of the reliability of these returns, seeing that to the towns the aged come for medical advice, and the poor and the friendless to hide their misery, and that to tithe country those in opulent circumstances retire to - pass in peace the evening of their days, we adopt the i .a.wertion, though not to the extent stated, that mor tality is greater in our towns and cities than in our rural districts. There remains, however, an in quiry into the cause, for it will not do to assert that the mere increase of the people in towns vitiating the air causes the greater mortality ; because, it is well known that as the town population of _England has increased, the value of life has in .creased ; and it is equally well known that the value of life is not so great in the United States as in England. With the increase of the people in towns, improvements in the medical arts have been .coeval, and they tend both to rescue infants from the grave and extend the lives of the aged. We have already in The Sun stated that this increased mortality is rather to be ascribed to the poverty of the inhabitants of our cities than to their being crowded together. In the metropolis, for example, which surpasses all other places for the immense number of persons congregated to gether, but where the poverty is not so great as amongst the weavers of Manchester, &c., the num ber of persons who live to be above 70 is nearly double the number of :Manchester, and the mor tality amongst infants-388 out of I,ooo—is ac tually less than the average mortality of all England and %Vales. This view is confirmed by the noto riety of the fact that it is amongst the poorer classes of the towns, and in the places where they are huddled together, that the mortality is greatest. The following observations of the Glasgow Herald tend to the same end : We are led to touch on this subject principally from having perused a painfully interesting Report, re cently published, entitled, " Report from the Select Committee on the Health of Towns, published by authority of the House of Commons." Amongst the large cities of the e m pi re we observe that Glasgow has an unenviable prominenc e for the wretchedness of the lower portions of its population. Bad as it is, we be lieve it is gradually growing worse ; and we have heard an official gentleman in this city, than whom no one has better opportunities for observation, i state th at, year by year the distance between thneowcih and the poor is increasing, and that there are and b arefooted instances of reckless men, of squalid females, and of sickly children, whi c h Were r arefooted twenty years ago—that in fact the lower ordersaieevc_ierlez rapid/y sinking into that apathetic state in which they care not to help themselves. The Qua r t erly states that, " The miseries of Glasgow, as deyscribevdiewv Dr. Cowan, are almost incredible in a country e which is sending its gold al.@ its missionaries to the country millions who need them less than the amalgam of 000 Irish and Highlanders, that wallow in fil t h, crime, and wretchedness, in the cellars and wynds of this great commercial city. From ten to twenty persons of both sexes lie huddled together, amid their rags and filth, on the door of a small apartment, ,:;!tach night. The cellars are beer and spirit shops. liMultitudes of the younger girls, says Mr. Symmonds, B 3 lipplied to Captain Miller, the head of the Glasgow Po lice, to rescue them from these scenes, to which they were driven by sheer want. A year or two served to 'liarden and hurry them, from drunkenness, vice, and 'disease, to an early grave." " Paradoxical as it may .I,,PPear," says the same authority, " it is certain that a man's health, nay life, is nearly as much in the keeping j of those of whom he knows nothing as in his own. Of ~,the three influences mainly acting on it—himself, so „ciety, and external nature—the first bears on it most intntly. ensely, the seco n d most covertly, the last most con sta It is a curious fact that a wretched dwelling—one which has no tidiness and sweetness about it—h a s a g most humbli ng an d debasing influence upon its occu - I pants, and it is pl a i n that so l ong as the hide ous wyn d s re . sold closet are p erm i tted to nain so lone will they be • nursing beds of vice and disease, and so long will the latter permeate every portion of the conimunity. That reveals the secret of the great mortality. It is the crowding people together in _hideous wynds (alleys or cellars in England), it is the sinking into apathy of the lower orders from extreme wretched ness, in which they care not to help themselves, which causes the mortality which alarms our phi lanthropists. From our own experience, and from what we have read and heard, we believe also that the increasing distance between the opulent and the lower classes, as described by the Herald, is not confined to Glasgow, but is spread all over the empire. The working classes of England and Scotland have been overwhelmed by the desti tute, lumper-fed Irish, and have approximated to their level. This increased distance between the classes—for the opulent have only grown more opulent, and the luxurious more luxurious, in con sequence of having at their command a large mass of labourers, willing to work for the smallest pos sible quantum of subsistence—has caused those lamentations which have of late been made by some opulent people about the condition of the poor in our towns, and which are of mo dern origin. It was only lately that much attention has been given to dividing towns into districts, to clean out their wretchedness, to draining them effectually, to removing nuisances, and to providing places for recreation. These are proofs not only of the deterioration of the popula don of England, but o a general and increasing distance between the different classes, such as is remarked in Glasgow. To trace this to any causes which it is in our power to remove, should be a welcome work to our philanthropists, who are acutely pained by the miseries which they endeavour in vain to relieve. Apart from the influx of Irish, which is very much promoted by the importation of food from that country, after which the peo ple come, and which would be checked by bringing food from other countries, whence the people would not or could not follow it—the con tinued deterioration of the lower classes is no doubt mainly to be ascribed to the laws impeding the supply of food. The whole human race are, and ever have been, prompted by a desire to better their condition, and there must be some most mischie vous and powerful cause to overcome this desire, and consign multitudes first to hunger, and then to despair. The Corn-law operates in this way. It has no direct influence in stopping population ; it stops its progress by limiting the supply of food, by lowering wages, by increasing the offer of labour, and lessening the capitalist's demand for it. It thins down population to the level of the home-grown supply of food, by misery and famine, and makes the multitudes it starves submit to every degree of wretchedness before they will finally give up their hold of life. The weak, of course, go first, and hence the great mortality of the young and the advanced in life, amongst the poor in towns. A great, and not an unworthy, stir has been made by some benevolent men, on account of the deterio ration and destruction which civilization has car- ried amongst the coloured aborigines of our colo nies, but that destruction has not been more ex tensive, nor brought about by more continuous misery, than that of our own people by the Corn law•s. In 1834, 1835, and 1836, the harvests were abundant and prices low ; in 1838, 1839, and 1840, the reverse has been the case. In the for mer years enterprise was much excited, there was a brisk demand for most kinds of labour, and wages were comparatively good ; in the latter years, the reverse was the case. In the former years population would spring forward ; in • the latter, it would be cut down by the process of starvation to the scanty supply. As a writer in the Times yesterday observed, there have been, taking the monthly average, 69 periods since 1793, when th e p r i ce o f w h eat has -varied between 48s. and 355. per quarter, and 333 periods above 655. Now population may be considered as a steady and constant force, having, like a falling body, a tendency to accelerate its move ments, but the supply of food is an extremely varying quantity. Lord ASHBURTON, we know, says that this cannot be helped ; but all our mer chants, who can draw supplies from all parts of the world, affirm that the harvest never fails every where, that the failure of the crop in one place is compensated by an abundance in another, and that, taking the whole world through, the annual supply of food is as little varying as the popula tion. But to limit our people to our own soil , for food, and consequently to a varying sup ply, is the object and effect of the Corn-laws. They, therefore, are the cause that the supply is a much-varying quantity, while the increase of po pulation is a constant quantity. The people are required to adapt their numbers to their food, but how can they when the supply varies so much ? No wisdom can accomplish it, and the lower classes have exclusively to bear, in the first instance, all the terrible consequences of the stimulus to population being great in cheap years, and of thinning down the populati on in dear years. Over the progress of population legislation has no direct control, and as it cannot, by requiring certificates of wealth be fore allowing marriage, check population, though it can by those certificates degrade the people, it is not justified in meddling with the supply of food, and causing it to vary. To trace the effects of this on the morality of the people, producing recklessness and disregard of life, is now beyond our space. We may, however, safely assert, that the Legislature has never taken these consequences of its own laws into considera tion. In fact, it knows not of them. It passes laws in ignorance, and it assassinates at random. The best that can be said for it is, that it knows not what it does, and murders by mistake. We borrow from the Manchester Guardian an instructive account of an inquest held at Colne, to inquire into the death of the special constable, Mr. HALSTEAD, who was killed there in a riot on Monday week. The Jury, after a patient investi gation, and hearing much more evidence than is reported, brought in a verdict of Wilful Murder against RICHARD BOOTHMAN as principal, and JAMES WILKINSON and THOMAS RILEY, as ac cessories. The evidence went to show that Mr. HALSTEAD was struck by BOOTHMAN on the head by an iron bar, and killed. We look on this event as of much importance, mingled with much apprehension. There have b een , we know, two or three instances of ma ster - manufacturers secretly assassinated, but to the best o f our reco ll ect i on , thi s is first the instance of late years, in which, under circumstances of an avowed contest, one of the middle classes has fallen by the hand of one of the lower classes. but we dread, shoul N d Ve he wish present he m exasperation a ybe the f l r a o s m t , poverty and oppressiont continue, lest he be only the first of a long series. Who Mr. WOOD may be, and what may be his acquirements, we are perfectly uninfor me d ; b ut in the present temp er o f the p eo pl e , i t i s the duty of the Government t o a ll ow no persons to admi nister the law but those of approved discretion and sagacity. That is due to the suffering, even if misled, people. Now, we cannot say that Mr. WOOD seems to have acted either discreetly or sagaciously. lie expected attacks when none were made, and provoked them by the very excess of his precautions. According to his own descrip tion, he trotted about the town reading the Riot Act when there was no riot, like a child beating a new drum. He flitted about, creating alarm, un easiness, and irritation, where there was obviously no riot, and thought it best to remain where he was when the mob challenged him, as he thought to meet them. It may be that the report is imperfect, but we are bound to say, from what is given, that Mr. WOOD'S conduct did not evince that discre tion and sagacity which are now required in those who administer the law. But whether the people be exclusively in fault, whether the Magistrates ought to share the blame, and whether the Legislature may not deserve cen sure, the result is equally to be deplored. One re spectable citizen has lost his life, and three others of her MAJESTY'S subjects have put their lives in great peril. Colne, too, is to be converted into a garrison town, and the inhabitants, not being able to rely on the constable's staff for protection, hum bly solicit militaty help, and profess themselves ready to pay all the expenses for providing barracks and accommodation for soldiers. The precautions for preserving peace are banishing peace. First the police is augmented, which, provoking broils, the inhabitants are obliged to trust for safety to the military. Is this England, the land of which it was wont to be the boast that the constable's staff was more powerful than the bayonet of the soldier ? " WHOEVER WINS THE CHURCH WILL LOSE" was the exclamation of one of Parson MOLESWORTH'S friends when he observed the violence of the proceedings at Rochdale. It is a sentence that ought to be engraved on the heart of every Clergyman, and every Churchwarden, who feels an inward motion to gird up his loins for a Church•rate struggle. The Church is unpopular enough already, from her standing in the way of every amelioration, local or institutional, which is called for by the w an t s o f a rapidly-advancing civi lization. It is, therefore, the height of madness in her ministers, and those who call themselves her friends, not only to enlist against her the reli gious principles of her natural enemies the Non- Conformists, but the passions of the populace, which every Church-rate contest uniformly brings to bear upon her, and the disaffection, if not disgust, of those of her own community, who have too strong a regard for justice to stand by and see her exercise her oppressions, without taking part with the oppressed. What but ruin can be the result of conduct so infatuated ? But, after all, is this wonderful ? The grand error of ecclesiastics has always been, that as they do not themselves advance with the times, they cannot be made to understand that others are ad vancing. Because they sec, in their own little world of the Prayer-book, everything standing exactly as it did three hundred years ago, there fore they imagine that the mind of man has been equally stationary. That changes in religion, in modes of thinking, in social habits—that the dis• enthralment of the popular mind from the shackles wound around it by priestcraft, and contempt for t hose who preach holiness and practise wickedness, should be the natural consequences of the light of knowledge beaming upon the human soul, seems beyond their power to comprehend. As one of the latest examples of this infatuation, let us look at the conduct of the Vicar of Roch dale. For five years there had been peace and harmony in that town. It was not found that the parish church had tumbled down, because no at tempt during that period had been made to keep it up by fines levied on persecuted Non-Conformists. All went on well. Anon there comes a new Vicar- Dr. MOLESWORTH has no notion of this good agreement between Churchmen and Dissenters. His element is war—as best beseeming a minister of the Gospel of peace—and one of his first acts was to stir up the religious strife which had long subsided, by arraying the one half of his parishion ers against the other on the irritating question of Church-rates. For a whole week a populous town is not merely thrown into a state of disorder and confusion, but the fiercest passions are let loose, the powerful coercing the weak, the rich oppressing, or, where they cannot oppress, corrupt ing, the poor, and the weak and the poor taking their revenge on their powerful oppressors, by curses " not loud, but deep," against them and the Church, which is the cause of all. Is it in nature that such scenes as these should not com pletely uproot any feeling of respect or regard which the persons engaged in them--and may we not add, those who hear of them—might have en tertained for the Establishment and its ministeri? Is not the inevitable result of such proceedings on the part of a so-called Christian Church, to bring into hatred and contempt with the mass of the people both the Church, and the religion which it professes to uphold by means so disgraceful and wicked ? We resume our observations on the sugar, or rather, to be consistent with ourselves, the " tea cup question," with a view to do more justice than our space on Saturday admitted, to Mr. INNEs' " Thoughts" upon the state and prospects of our West India Colonies. Mr. INNEs finds a great deal wrong in the, management of the colonies, and much to blame in the conduct of the colonists themselves, but he is either by far too charitable or too good-natured to lay the lash upon the shoulders of any class of delinquents. The Government sins, but then it is from excessive tenderness for the liberty of the subject ; the planters act amiss, but they do so from a mistaken idea of seif-interest ; and the coloured labourers, because they know no better, prefer a bare subsistence and idleness to luxuries and incessant toil. Without having recourse to the theory of the absence of artificial wants, upon which Mr. INNES lays so much stress, it was always clear to us that the emancipation of the negroes would create a comparative scarcity of labour in the slave colonies. It would even have grieved us to think otherwise, however the planters might have suffered by it. Notwithstanding the debasing effect of slavery upon the kindlier affections of our nature, we did not doubt that there were thousands of the poor Africans who, in a state of free dom, would toil the skin off their bones to spare their wives and their infant offspring the endurance of the out-door hardships with which they were then familiar. We expected from filial piety instances of rest for the weary and withered bones of the aged and infirm parent. We expected to hear that the head of every negro family was more easily persuaded of the inability of an inmate to work, by whatever infirmity afflicted, . . than were the slave-drivers, whose authority he superseded. When, therefore, it was first an nounced, after the emancipation of the negroes, that free labour was not so abundant as slave labour, under the old system, we were only sur prised at the disappointment exhibited in the coun tenances of several leading Abolitionists. They absolutely looked as if the experiment of the su perior efficacy of free labour had failed, in apparent ignorance that one of the blessed effects which the voice of nature, in their own breasts, should have told them would flow from the freedom of the negroes was thus realised. They seem never to have reflected that the love of the African hus band for his wife ; and of the African father for Al 5 poor " piccaninnies," would be manifested in with drawing from labou rs unsu i te d to t h e sex of the one,an im d t t ' h e etender years and fragile frames of the other. Et remedy for e vils which, lifN Nneglected proposes, o swill e yet desolate th e W est India Lianas, the i m p ortat i on, under the agency of the Government, of free labourers from Africa and the United States. Portuguese la bourers he thinks unsuited to the description of work to be done in sugar colonies, whereas Afri cans are well adapted to the cultivation of sugar cane plantations, and the manufacture of rum and sugar. He thinks the planters ought to be per mitted to contract for longer periods of service than is allowed by the Government in the case of la bourers yet to be imported, and, consequently, strangers to the climate and the work ; but, to pre vent a system which may not improperly be called kidnapping, he suggests that the Government agents should be required to give the labourers before embarking the most correct information, and to publish from time to time, for the benefit of all labourers about to proceed to these colonies, the re lative prices of labour, and every kind of food in the different islands. Under such a system he maintains that free labour would produce sugar at a cheaper rate in Guiana and Trinidad than it can be produced by slave labour in Brazil; and as these two islands are capabl e of supplying more I sugar than is required for the consumption of the whole human race, Mr. INNES does not seem to think that anything more than its adoption is ne cessary to inflict a mortal blow upon the slave trade. We are, however, not quite so sanguine upon this point. We do not think that Mr. INNES'S plan, if carried into operation, would rid the world of slavery ; but we do think that it would repro duce a state of society not far removed from it in the West Indies. We grant the plan is not absolutely impracticable. Russia, by means of her military system, could easily carry out such a scheme ; but we hold it to be inconsistent with the entire policy of a Government like that of England to assume the agency of regulating the supply and the price of labour in any part of her dominions. To enforce justice, to protect the weak against the violence of the strong, and to allow to each the uncontrolled exercise of property, whether in the body or the purse, rightfully belonging to them, includes nearly all the functions of a profes sedly free government towards its subjects, what ever may be their clime or colour. We are rather for restricting than extending the interference of Government. If free labour be wanted in the colo nies the wisest plan, in our opinion, will be to leave the planters themselves to supply it. Experience will soon teach them what races are fittest for the labours they require ; and we are under no appre hension that they will scour the shores of the Medi terranean for lazy Maltese, Italians, and Portuguese, while for a little more wages they can get healthy, willing, and industrious labourers from the United States and the coast of Africa. They may make blunders at first, but in a little time such blunders will be corrected. At the same time the Government may co-operate with them by encourag ing emigration ; and affording facilities for cheap and speedy intercourse between the several islands and the best labour markets in both hemispheres. We have not touched upon the religious view of the West India question taken by Mr. INNES. We, however, entirely agree with him, that the giving encouragement to labourers from Africa to return to their native country after a . few years spent in the West Indies, would greatly contribute to the civilization of the native race. But, as a qualifica tion, it is essential that they be made something more than Christians. They must be taught use ful trades, and made well acquainted with practical husbandry. When men acquire industrious habits and multiply social wants, they become easily weaned from the practice of cruel and debasing superstitious rites and ceremonies. The Paris Journals of Tuesday have all reached us. is again talkedle i majority o fa s probable. of them n r ac c i t o h u nt England of t h e danger of shipwreck to which the King of the FRENCH and the Royal family were exposed off Calais, had reached the capital, but it was so worded as to create as little alarm as possible. In the Moniteur of Tuesday we find the followinc , tele graTphheicmdaes.pr of CalaisiCALAlS,atcl y : to kr - G. 17, IiALF PAST . 3 o'CLOcK. the Minister of the Interior. The King and Royal family have just landed at Calais fro T m b t e h ir ei N r i p a j le e a st s i u e r s e an b d oa ß t oyal 11. health, and have been receTivoe udi t l g vi h tb ne e s n se tb s o a s r ia e sm in . excellent ei n ig ois O e f than meaning in the Minis terial preparations for war,on having stated that and th the statement having press, the same official ora y an has Parise Opposition thought proper to been eagerly repeated b Ministerial f contradiction :_.... publish the following ann ounce tha o t r h some days past, on the faith h o o m f e a pjorouvrnfriaclsial journal, the armaments commenced in one of our ports have been m slackened ,,stfo in l consequenco of to this p e o g se iv d e ci t t h iz e ens alone could have invented says the Commerce rma o d f an t i l a i l e n se e c w r s e , t order s.whichil l _ d l i V s and ,, p7 , p h a i g s a n te o d t . e,,, date, " is very much in M. DE MONTALIVET'S choice. style. It affects, to contradict something, but it contradicts nothing. It was not asserted that preparations were slackened ; but it was asserted that they were never sufficiently active. And we still persist in asserting, that we have heard so from eye-witnesses as trustworthy as the Minister of Ma rine or the President of the Council, and conse• fluently that it was our duty to make it public." It must be admitted that with an opposition so cap tious as this, and at the same time mad for war, the French Government has a difficult game to play. But much of this difficulty is of its own creation. M. THIERS, whose fingers itch when he has not a pen in them, is as much a journalist as he is a Minister, and consequently contrives to keep him self constantly in hot water with the press. The Journal des Debats of Tuesday—which continues to treat the question of war or peace with the utm os t grav ity—h as a l ong ar ti c l e on t h e de fenceless condition of the French colonies, and the certainty of their falling into the hands of England in the event of a rupture. As the observations of the Debets, dictated as they are by the Court, are of great weight in determining the degree of confi dence actually reposed in the much-vaunted invin cibility of the French navy, we subjoin them at full length. The Abolitionists will be delighted to learn, that whatever be the result, the emancipation of the slaves in the French colonies rill he greatly accelerated by the bare probability of a conflict with this country. IN THE EVENT OF A WAR BETWEEN FRANCE AND ENGLAND, Wt-IAT WOULD BECOME 10i, bw'aTr,l-IwhEichFßonElyNaCfHewy COLONIES? °NIES? ( From th e J ourna l d e s Debats of Tu esda y.) ago appeared imminent, should break out between England and France, which God forbid, what would become of our colonies ? This question ought to have presented itself to the minds of Ministers, and merits the serious attention of the colonies tio w n ou a l n d d fall imEmmedrieat;ely Ro or e es a i country. Th e most probable h yp othesis is, that the e i n to the power of the English ; thi s i s what happened during the wars of the and such is the want of opinion f has been brought on this s u bj ect by the G ov ernment, that the other g p h a t tby and to c w ar b e ic o b f o p u o r i bl cioolonial administration, such is th day one o f the most war like of the Ministerial journal s announced without co mment, that the Govern ment, obli ge d to concentrate a ll its naval force in the Me diterranean, wolutldwaasbatbndoosn thatt o , themselvesof ge o u u s r s c io o o lon o i f es tbe Sugar Bill , t h e favourite arg ument of all the partisans the Atlantic. of the beet-root sugar manuf a cture was, w as, i t t h b at tb i e t wou would be imprudent to a d m i t to an equality beet -root sugar manufacturers those of the colonies which at left h e firstto die war ofw would be pitniofan,llibly taken from us; whi c h was as m uc h as to sa y that the colonies should be lest they should be lost to us by a contest. The loss of Canada, of Louisiana, of St. Domingo —all these disasters of our revolu tionary troubles have thrown a fatal discouragement over public opinion as regards the colonies ; and instead of seeking to extend our colonial system, and allowing it to become deep-rooted—instead of even endeavouring to render our insufficient possessions useful to us, it is a com. mon-place admission with many persons, that our colo nial possessions ?Are not important enough for 113 tc) give ourselves the trouble of attending to them, and that it is useless to think of extending them, as we could not keep them. These deplorable opinions have even acquired the dignity of a theory. The colonies have been so much kept under in the name of the absolute principle of free trade ) the disasters of the revolution, the immemorial neg ligence of the Government; the exaggerations o f th e par tisans or the beetroot manufacture, and the Mad dogmas of certain political economists, that an absurd belief has been created that they are either burdensome or useless, and that in time of war no great sacrifices ought to be made to preserve them, We will not attempt to show, for it is self , evident, the immense value to the mother country of an exclusive market, protected from all the modifications which may be effected by treaties of com merce in international relations ; we will merely observe that England, which has the reputation of understand ing pretty well her own interests, is far from partak ing of our apathy as to colonies, and that, not satisfied with governing 120,000,000 of subjects in India, and with supplying Canada, the Antilles, Guayana, her pos sessions at the Cape, and her factories on the coast of Africa, with her productions, she is daily making new sacrifices to extend her Indian frontiers on the side of Affghanistan, to create in New South Wales the nucleus of a population, and to found important establish ments in New Zeal.md. It is in the interest of her co lonies, or her factories, and to protect her commercial outlets, that she is constantly endeavouring to lay hold of military positions. Why did she take Malta, Gibraltar, Aden, Buschir, and Karek ? Why has she taken posses sion of the Falkland Islands? Why does she plant her standard on the smallest island that she discovers, if it be not in order that she may be everywhere present, and protect with more efficacy her immense colonial interests. It is to her colonies that England owes not only her wealth, but her naval supremacy, the number and experience of her sailors. All enlightened men in France see with pain the slight extension of our maritime com merce, and the consequent insufficiency of our navy ; they are convinced, that the greatest encouragement which can be given to navigation consists in the prosperity and exten sion of our coonial possessions. Whilst waiting for new acquisitions, we cannot, however, reasonably think of abandoning the colonial possessions which we already occupy. Our four productive colonies now employ 6,000 seamen; that is to say, one half of the whole of the mer cantile navy, exclusive of the coasting trade. We must add that Guayana, which now supports 22,000 inhabitants, would be capable of feeding 20 millions, if the govern ment would take the trouble of cultivating it, and pro moting a spirit of association. But in waiting until some `true statesman shall comprehend the p o liti ca l an d com mercial importance to France of a vast colonial develop ment, we have an immense interest in not allowing, in the event of a war, so valuable a naval station as Fort Royal, the finest of all the Antilles, to be wrested from us, and in remaining masters of our islands, which, neglected as they are, still occupy a great place in our commercial movements. Whilst one Ministerial Journal announces the abandonment of our colonies, another says we are going to reinforce the garrisons. We cannot but approve of this project, if it really exists. But in approving of it, it is impossible to dissimulate the insuffi ciency of such a measure. Martinique has 78,000 slaves, out of 116,000 inhabitants; Guadaloupe 96,000, out of 1 9 7,000 ; Bourbon 69,000, out of 109,000. In the event of attack on our possessions, the English, who have now emancipated their slaves in the Antilles and the Mauritius, would endeavour to excite the black population of the French islands to insurrection, and we must acknowledge that, if they were to succeed, which is not doubtful, the success would give them a formidable point d'appui for external war against us. Here is the whole difficulty; so true is it that, turn which way we will, this unfor tunate slavery question opposes every kind of ameliora tion. Political rights, commercial equality, military se curity, all are compromised by slavery, and it may be said that slavery is at the bottom of all the evils that besiege, and all the dangers which threaten us. It is to this point, therefore, that the attention of the Government should be chiefly directed; and if the chance of war should become more distant, it should profit by it to take into considera tion the only measure which could protect the colonies from a coup de main, for it is clear that a reinforcement of a few hundred soldiers would be a very illusory measure, if there were reason to fear that two-thirds or three-fourths of the population would extend their arms to receive the enemy." (From the French Papers.) Ail the accounts frome Rome agree that the health of the Pipe is considerably improved. By order of his High ness the treaty which is to be concluded between the Court of Rome and that of Portugal is to contain a❑ article by which Portugal is to bind itself in the most express manner to remove the negro slave-trade. This is a point which we know it would never concede to England.— Gazette de France. It seems that the number of persons under arrest on ac count of the affair of Boulogne is much more considerable than has hitherto been stated. It was affirmed to.day that the number of writs issued amounted to eighty-nine. Some of them have not been executed because the persons against whom they were issued have fled. Others are said to have been released after a few days' confinement. In fine the number of persons now in the hands of the police is said to be seventy-six, including the crew of the City of Edinburgh. The Semaphore of Marseilles says that M. Gourio du Refuge, commander of the Lycurgue, accused of having by imprudence caused the death of a sailor, has been con demned by the court-martial to three months' imprison.. ment, and a fine of fifty francs.---Le Constitutionnel. Ve have just received by express news direct from Naples of the 6th of this month. The King had returned to his capital, and had recalled from Sicily the troops that were sent thither during the differences with England. Three ships of the Neapolitan navy, with a part of their troops, were in sight of the port on the 6th. It was reported at Naples that in case of war Ferdinand would furnish a contingent of 20,000 men to Austria. The capital was tranquil. —Le Commerce. BOURSE.-PAMS, TUESDAY, AUG. 18. first Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Price. Price French 5 per Cents ll3 15 113 15 ... 112 10 ... 112 20 4 per Cents lO2 02 ... 1)2 102 3 per Cents 79 50 79 50 79 ... 79 Bank of France 3175 —3185 ...3175 ...3175 Laffitte Bank I,ooof. Sh lOB5 —lOB5 ...1085 ...1035 5,000 f. Sh Belgian Bank 5 per Cents 3 per Cents 69 ... 69 ... 69 ... 69 Dutch 2% per Cents 52% ... 52% ... 52% ... V% *Arndt Active 25% ... 25% ... 21% ... 25% Passive b r a ••• 6 4 ••• 6 g ... 6 4 Portuguese 3 per Cents 21%, ... 21% ... 21% ... 21% Neapolitan lOl 75 ... 100 75 ~. 100 75 ... 100 75 Roman lOl ... 101 ... 10014 ... HO% RAILWAY SHARES. Versailles, R. B 475 477 50 475 ... 477 50 L.B. Orloans . S9.astmrg to Bale O6O ... 360 : 35 5 355 Bordeaux to La Teste 4OO ... 400 ... 4CO ... 400 The Madrid papers received are of the 11th inst. The new Government had signified their in tention to enforce the Ayuntamientos or Corpora tions Bill, so unpopular with the Liberals in every part of Spain. This will lead to fresh riots, dis sensions, and civil broils. The following paragraph is from the Castellano. We trust for the honour of the Spanish nation that no such orders as those recorded in it were given —" The last bulwark of despotism, the fort of El Callada de Alpuente, has fallen. One hundred and sixty-nine prisoners were made. His Excellency has given orders that those who surrendered, as well as those who were taken, shall be shot, in con sequence of their obstinacy in not accepting the con ditions offered them." The Madrid Bourse was on the 11th at 27k cash Letters from Constantinople of the 29th ult. state that something resembling a conspiracy against the SULTAN had been discovered in that capital. Of the Ulema eleven members were arrested, which would lead to the conclusion that it was ]a conspi racy of Turks opposed to the reforming spirit of the Government. The details, however, had not been made public, as from the high rank of some of the persons implicated: it' was feared that it would be dangerous, in the first instance, to have recourse to such a measure. The plot for dethroning the SULTAN was devised by old KHOSRES PACHA, who had contrived to draw the SULTAN'S brother-in-law, HALIL PACIIA, into it. From several circumstances in the recent history of Halil, he does not seem to be a very trustworthy person. On obtaining a pro mise of a full pardon from the SULTAN, he re vealed the plot of the conspirators, and assisted in arresting them. Notwithstanding the promulgation of the Hatti Scheriff, we should not be surprised to hear that the oars of the boatmen in the Golden Horn have come in contact with the shaven polls of a few of the true believers, who thus have exposed themselves to the vengeance of the Padisha—re viving the recollection of the palmy days of Islam ism, whe❑ one of the prerogatives of the SULTAN was to cut off fourteen heads a-day without pro voking the questions why or wherefore, even on the part of the Kislar Agra. Brussels and German Papers of the latest dates have just reached us. The following extracts from them include all they contain in the shape of news : BRUSSELS, AUG. 16.—1 t is said to be decided that the Board of Commerce and Manufacture shall be divided into two, one for Commerce, the other for Manufacture. Major Beaulieu, who was for some years Charge d'Af faires at Berlin, and who is now appointed to go in the same capacity to Lisbon, has arrived at Brussels. Before he left Berlin, the King of Prussia gave him the order of the Black Edgle, as a testimony of his satisfaction with his services. We learn that the officers of justice have seized the list of the persons belonging to the seditious meetings, and also the list of persons who subscribed by the month or the week funds for the propagation of the jacobinical system. The Marquis de Rumigny, the French Ambassador, arrived here this morning. It is reported that at the residence of one of the adhe rents of the meetings about 500 daggers , besides other prohibited weapons, cartridges, &c., have been discovered. Several of the persons arrested have been set at liberty by a decree of the examining Judge. GALICIA, AUG. 2.—The Government of the Republic of Cracow, perceiving from the debate in the British Par.. liament, that Lord Palmerston allowed that there really existed a document drawn up by inhabitants of Cracow, complaining of the conduct of the Three Protecting Powers, and of the Government of the Republic, Om in order to discover and convict the authors of it, applied to the Residents of the Three Powers, in order, by their influence, to obtain a sight of the said document, which is said to be signed by its authors. AMSTERDAM, AUG. 15.—We learn from the Hague that the courier with the ratification of the commercial treaty with Franc is gone to Paris, and that he will de liver to Baron Fagel the Grand Cross of the Order of the Netherlands Lion, intended for M. Thiers. THE HAGUE, AUG. 17.—His Highness the Duke of Nassau left the Hague the day before yesterday. ST. PETERSBURG, AUG. 4.—Between the 221 and 27th of last month eight ships have arrived here with cargoes, chiefly of Rye and Rye flour. DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, AUG. 16. Money. .8111 F. Actual Debt, per Cent Ditto, ditto 5 per cent. Atnort Syndic,.“.i per cent 89% vot4 :)itto, ditto, 3!4 per cent '7s 7u Commercial Company, 40, per cent 166., 167% Ditto (1535 and 1837) 5 per cent. Loan 1837, 5 per cent. Exchange on London, One month ll 97, 1 i Two mon tha Dutch Papers, Aug. 18. THE MARKETs-(THth DAY.) COLONIAL MARKET. There was not much done by private treaty, and the public sales were unimportant. Prices, however, were firm for all articles, and the imports were again light from all quarters. TEA MARKET. Prices were firm, and the operations were to a fair extent in both Free Trade and Company's. TALLOW MARKET. Russian sells slowly, both on the spot and to arrive, but prices remain. firm. SPIRIT MARKET. Little demand for Rum, but as the stocks are small prices are firmly supported. Proof Leewards 3s. 9d. per gallon. Brandy dull at former rates. Geneva in good request at 2s. to 2s. Id. per gallon. WHITECHAPEL HAY MARKET. The supply was again small, and the demand, being brisk, the market was soon cleared at stiff prices. Old Clover, 41. to 61. ; new ditto, 4/. to 51; Old Meadow Hay, 3/. ss. to 51. ; new ditto, 3/. to 41. per load ; Straw, 335. to 365. per load. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) DEAL, AUG. 19.—WindE. N. E., light, invariable.- 7 P.m. S.S. W., variable.—Sailed on the 19th, the Leda, Shuttlecock, for New Zealand ; Lady M‘Naghton, Doutty, Sydney, New South Wales ; Brightman, Mockels, South Australia; Rosaline, Colford, Ceylon ; Ewell Grove, Burrett, Mauritius ; and the greater part of the outward bound. LB.'En Poor., AUG. 19.—Wind N. W., moderate.—Ar rived the Leila, Higgins, from New Orleans; Jessie, M'Lelland, Quebec ; Francesco Serenie, Maresca, Gal lipoli; Gcoiyina, Lammond, Marseilles; Amalia, Al breet, Dantzic; Dorotea, Diercks, Hooksiels; Lans downe, Turnbull, Konigsberg. Sailed the Sycie, Jolly, for Bombay ; Aquctnet, Master, Havannah ; Alice Jane, Bleasdale, Vera Cruz ; Fairfield, Lyon, New York ; Maria, Smith, Africa ; Beaurnaris Margaret, Watkins, Wicklow, with loss of mainboom, cargo shifted, &c., bound to Liverpool. RAMSGATE, AUG. 19.—Sailed, the Ann M'Kenzie, Simpson, from London, for Quebec ; London, Vasset, Newcastle, for St. Valery. PORTSMOUTH, AUG. 19.—Wind W. to W.N.W.— Sailed the Reindeer, Davis, for Newcastle. PLYMOUTH, AUG. 19. —Wind W. S. W.—Sailed the Thetis, Broscn, from London, for St. John's, New Brunswick. FALMOUTH, AUG. 18.—Wind N. W. to S. W., strong gales.—Arrived the Royal Adelaide, Batty, from London. The Li'y, Sadler, from Guernsey, stone laden, sunk off Beachyhead on the 17th inst. ; crew saved. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NE WS CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, WEDNESDAY.—The Cot ton Market has been without animation to-day ; prices are, however, steady. The sales 3,500 bags, chiefly American descriptions. 300 bags have been taken on speculation, and 200 for export. LIVERPOOL SHARE LIST, AI'G. 19.—Chester and Bir kenhead, New Shares, 204 ; Eastern Counties 13i ; Grand Junction 212 ; Quarter Shares 6q; New 284 29 ; Great Western, Half Shares, 494 501; South Western 57; North Midland 861 ; Paris and Rouen 263. The favourable change which has taken place in the weather has give❑ an impulse to the Share Market. By the Dutch steamer Batavier we have received papers to the 19th inst., with the Arna.tordam prices of the 17th. BOURSE OF AMSTERDAM, Ater. 15.—Although the ad vices received from Paris are far from being pacific, our market for the National Funds; is firm. Some purchases of Integrals for account of a German house have been effected. Ardoin's Spanish has been animated, but with out any improvement in the price ; after the closing done at 22 to 1-16th. THE FUNDS. Consols, which left off yesterday at 901 for the Account, opened this morning at 90k ; they are now 90k to a ; Money 901, with little doing ; Exchequer Bills 23 25 prem. ; Bank Stock 167 1681; India Bonds 2 dis., par ; India Stock 248 250. In the Foreign Market Spanish continues at the leav ing off quotations of yesterday, 251 ; Deferred 12* ; Passive 6i t i; Portuguese same as they left off, 341 38* ; Three per Cents. 221 23* ; Brazilian 79 80 ; Colombian 24i• 25 ; Mexican 284 294 ; Dutch Two-and a-half per Cents. 511 52 ; Five per Cents. 1011 102. SHARES.-Great Western Railway 23 24 prem. ; Lon don and Brighton 10 91. dis. ; Blackwall f dis., par ; Birmingham 77 79 prem. ; Southampton 56 57 per share ; Croydon 111 12 per share; Greenwich 72k 81 per share ; Manchester and Birmingham 10 9 dis. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Birmingham and Gloucester BO . ... 731 to Eastern Counties Great Western Ditto New London and Brighton London and Blackwall London and South Western PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, AUG..IB. 3 per Cent. Consols Three and Half Stock 9Bii Grand Canal Stock - Ditto Reduced ...... ... —1 Ditto Debs. 6 per cent... 8i _ . Ditto New, 1830 ...... 98i Ditto 4 per cext 3L. per Cent. Debs. HALF-PAST ONE. Accounts from Berlin, of the Bth August, in the Ham burgh Correspondent state as follows:—We can assure our readers from the best source of information, that our wise and prudent King is far from wishing to give his sanction to the ulterior ratification of the Quadruple Treaty concluded with England, relative to the question of the East, by which he would plunge his people in a conflict with France without any hopes of gaining any advantage. The Dutch Government has ratified the commercial convention concluded with France. Since the early part of the morning the British Market has a firmer appearance, and Consols have been done at 908- for the Account. The speculators begin to have some confidence in the manner the King of France expressed himself at Boulogne--" I promise you that while I live you shall have peace." Since the above has been written, we hear that the French prices have arrived, and Consols have become rather heavy. Consols at present 901 for the Account; same for Money ; Exchequer Bills 24 25, rather lower ; India Stock 248; Bank Stock 1681. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active reached 26 ; at present 25 3 i ; Deferred 121 ; Portuguese 35k, improved ; Mexican 298 ; Belgian done at 102:i ; at present lower, 102 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 52 ; Five per Cents. nothing done. In Shares little doing. Great Western 893- ; New Shares 494 ; London and Brighton 254 ; London and Blackwall 19k; South Western 57 ; Birmingham and Gloucester 731; Eastern Counties 134. • SERIOUS ACCIDENT ON THE EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.—WC have received a most alarming account of an accident on this line, near Brentwood, which is said to have taken place about ten o'clock last night ; and not giving full credit to the statement, we made inquiry at the office in Shoreditch, at two o'clock, this afternoon, The only answer received was, that an accident had occurred, but the clerk who made this communication could give no particulars. Several lives are said to have been lost, but we think it better not to give the details till we have received fuller information. AUTHENTIC PARTICULARS.; SUN OFFICE, Half-past Three. An accident of a serious nature occurred on Wed nesday evening on the Eastern Counties Railway, which has unfortunately terminated in the death of one of the men employed upon the line, and the serious injury to several other persons. On the seven o'clock train leavir g Brentwood with a considerable number of passenger s , the engine driver, wh en d escen di ng t h e i nc li ned plane, which commerat a, Brentwood I - 1111, neglected to shut off the steam, agreeably to the re p eate d or d ers wh i ch had been issued to all the drivers in the Company's service. The consequence was the train descended with immense velocity, and when near Putwell's-bridge, began to rock in a fearful manner ; and after running about 150 yards, the engine finally ran off the rails, dragging the carriages with it. One of the workmen engaged on the line was killed on the spot, and the engine driver and stoker were both very seriously injured, as well by the concussion as also by the boiling water from the engine. Several of the passengers were more or less injured, ono or two of them seriously, being burnt and scalded by the coke and water from the engine. It is a remarkable fact that the accident occurred at n part of the road where the line is in the most per fect and consolidated state, and though considerable damage has been done to the carriages and to the engine, the trains have since the accident, been running with the utmost regularity. The most exaggerated state ments of the accident having circulated, we are happy to give the correct version of the affair, the whole of the occurrence being entirely attributable to the reckless ditto. Pierson. driving o f th e eng i ne - man . Th e following are the names of the u n f ortuna t e persons who have suffered by the accid en t : Killed—E as t man . Scald e d an d b ru i se d—Foster, engine driver. Ditto wounded in the head — Austin , fireman. Scald e d, w ith concussion of brain — Mr. Ebsworth, passenger. Concussion wounded scalded—Sonof brain, " fsal slight—Mr. hf —Air H. Corbould. Severely t Bruised, not much hurt—Son of Col. iTyler. Bruised, not dangerously—Mr. Brown of Colchester. Scalded and bruised, do.—Mr. Tozer. Slightly wounded.. Collar, the guard. CRIMINAL COOURT-CTHIS DAY OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Baron GuietiE Y. ) POST-OFFICE ROBBERY.- George Ming, aged 18, a re spectable young man in appearance, and clerk in the Inland department of the General Post-office, was ihdicted with stealing, on the 4th of the present month, a lette r containing one bank note, value 101., one value al., th" c sovereigns, and ls. of the Postmaster-General, while em ployed a , a clerk in the Post-office. The case was a tew days ago fully gone into before the Magistrates at Bow -street, and it is, therefore, unnecessary to go again into the details. Witnesses were examined to prove th a t o n the 4th of thet present month a letter arrived by the m ail from Miri c i e . Bosworth, containing the money i n ques ti on , in the on'', nary course of business, and that the prisoner was deteeter t in stealing the lett e r an d it s con t en t s . Th e l e tter wh ich contained the money was t a k en f rom th e mouth of the prisoner by Tyrrell, one of the constables of the po st " office. The sum of 3/. Is, was found upon the pr;so ner, but the notes were no t di scovere d, an d as the number of them had not b een t a k en , t h ey cou ld not b e t ra ccd ; it was supposed the prisoner had swallowed them. Emma King, the sister of the prisoner, proved that the night of the 3d of August she had gone with he r mother into th e prisoner's bedroom, fur the purp ose c ' t f placing three sovereigns on the mantel-piece. She w ei ' into his room th e next morn i ng, an d t h e sovere i g ns were gone.--(The object of the ev id ence was to account fort money found in the prisoner's possession.) Several witnesses were called on behalf of the 1) who stated that pr ev i ous to t h e present transact i on his cc)g duct was unimpea c h a bl e . Mr. Sheppard a n d M r . Ad o l p h us con d ucte d the r°s3cll- tion, and Mr. Clark son d e f en d e d t h e pr i soner. Mr. Baron GU RNEY summe d up, an d the j ury found tbe prisoner guilty of em b ezz li ng t h e l etter. The Court deferred p assing sentence. fa tbet The prisoner is v er y res p ecta bl y connecte d , his „, being a retired offi cer o f th e army, an d two of hi s brothe l had been killed i n th e serv i ce o f t h e i r country. t John Thomas Ho gg pl ea d e d gu il ty to an i n dictroe n i , charging him with s t ea li ng a l etter containing seven °tile notes, value 10/. eac h, o f t h e P ostmaster-Genera l, "'"„ r in the servi ce o f th e Post-office, of which he was lty carrier, and Ri c h ar d H ogg hi s father also pleaded Vibe to feloniously receiving the notes, knowing them tyi ng stolen. Th u l a tt er pr i soner a l so pleaded guilty to ha ri v been before c onv i c t e d o f f e l ony, and sentenced to 11",,,,`n sonment. transportation, n r sentenced and Richard h n T hom a i s i Hogg, ogg, th e t 11 ; t s a ten io years' Thceu transportation for life. • NEW COURT. (Before the RECORDER.) STEALING WINE. —Matthew Barnes and Slepe- " P oe lard were indicted for stealing four bottles o f sherry' property of Mr. Henry Henderson, the master of the r soner nes. a d , nt It a B pp ar eared that Mr. Hende rson i s a w i n e-rt e ' er in Piccadilly, who has also an establishment in O r°3 ;01- yard, where the prisoner Barnes was his cellarman. off lard was a shoemaker, living near Ormond-yerr l ' d the suspicions of the prosecutor being excited, he desire llera police to watch the cellar, and a policeman saw - ° fl of ed coming out of th e ce ll ar w i t h a bl ue b ag. He st opr him, and the ba g was f oun d to conta i n the f our bolt sherry produced. An apprentice of the prisoner P o ll ar d proved th a t master was frequently in the habit of drinking win e ' Barnes had pleaded guilty. eal' The Jury found Pollard Guilty, and they Were or. sentenced to three months' imprisonment with herd 111 %I C. Mr. Bodkin conducted the prosecution, and Mr. Phillips defended the prisoner Pollard. victeatb°: James Smith an d J osep h P eters were con stealing three pairs of boots, and three pairs ofs l3 n es ' property of Rich ar d Pi n k ncy . nee d Smith, having b een prev i ous l y conv i cte d, wa s seate d to to seven years' transportation ; Peters was sentence three months' imprisonment with hard labour. .1 for Peter Sturg eon an d H enry M a ll ars were indicte d a nd stealing a ham, the property of Thomas Young' acquitted. I,,,odke r ' They were agai n i n di cte d f or stea li ng a 000. chief, the prop erty o f Th omas Gordon, from his Mallars was acquitted, and Sturgeon was found Gu and sentenced to ten years' transportation. TRIAL OF PRINCE LOUI S NAPOLEON. , la' COURT OF PEERS.—SITTING OF TUESDAY, A of This day having been appointed for the convocaotipoeers the Court of Pe ers , t h ere were about from 1 00 to 1,1003' present at no on . Th e avenues leading to the was no bourg presented th e usual appearance. There ,scinCe extra display of t roops , nor did the public seem tomuencea much curiosity. The business of the Court con, or cloa' RoYal tria l of by the President, M. Pasquier, reading the nance for the convocation of the Peers for the w as Prince Louis Nap o l eon , a f ter w hi c h the sitting 1 , , ,,e 0 1 u " r % was flounced by the President to be secret, the cleared of all s getranrs. I otber Peers, On Monday the Duke Decazes, and severs- rs went to the Conciergerie to interrogate the prise a ll 11 The Messager s t a t es that ei g hty- n ine warrants ill the have been issued for the arrest of persons invelvect attempt of Prince Louis Bonaparte; some of these, ever, have been evaded by flight, and of those taken 5C ar ral have been discharged after being a few days i n eonal' i , ment. Those rem a i n i ng i n c ust o dy, it says , amoun t 1 ' seventy-six, including the crew of the Edinburgh Castl 6 ' Advices from Boulogne state that the wounds of Coif; nel Voisin will t a k e a l ong t i me i n healing, so that "; will not be in a s t a t e to b e moved to Paris for sOi weeks. He is said to support his sufferings with gre% courage, and appears resigned to his fate. He complai° 6 of injustice fro m th e G overnment , an d d ec l ares that 11,, was impelled to join in the attempt by a desire to avag he himself. Colonel Laborde distinguish e d hi mse lf at t" battle of Austerlitz, and commanled the Old Guard in t y l r, island of Elba. All the articles to be produced in c o ; dente before the Court of Peers have been sent ° among them is the Bonapartean hat of the Prince. „, u . Thirty-nine more of the prisoners in the affair of.P" c , logne have arrived at the Conciergerie in cellular carriagaio escorted by det-chments of gendarmerie. Prince V t 0 1 who occupies the c h am b er the most distant from t ha t he Count Montholon, on hearing the noise occasioned by ea' arrival of these prisoners, and suspecting what it confined treated that his val e t d e c h am b re B e lli er m i g ht be dire cot with him, or at lea s t a ll owe d to wa i t upon hi m . The of the prison replied th a t i t was out of hi s po wer to ee pc with this reque s t so long as the order for solitary led ment should b e continued. The Prince was much B°oo- at the refusal.. He has, however, all the liberty Ae of patible with his position, and passes nearly the.whube it his time in smoking and in readin books, Wh ich IV allowed to receive according to his own choice• here fore, be at once removed from' Boulogne, prisoners who were wounded and who could not, teuctea arc OP very shortly. o a " .The day before yesterday," says the Comma-erne, the certain quantity of furniture was transferred fr.euxeo. Garde Meuble of the Crown to the prison of the bourg, destined, it is said, for the use of Prince 14eu „ from poleon, who will shortly be transferred to that ptis ° P the Conciergerie." TURKEI. A bee n '" t , iCONSTANTINCTPLk, JUVir 29 ;'-- Reports hay.. - r o l ea lating since yesterday of a plot against the G°fe l s ha ve which has been just discovered. Several indi viclua - , 1-saa , been arrested ; among others, ten of the class of w o e i n , and twenty of inferior station, have this morning heed ere carcerated at Galata. The conspiracy , however, h a ' ths per its discovery, been abandonedby the authos, no 1 ,,?., 5 , a 'fat chief of whom arc said to be sonages than Khosrew and Halil Pashas. l ue d his unl not t yet troops, appear ter, f under promise of a full pardon, has bet pre .. I c i o e t n i d ederates, who have, in consequence, all been si d ) e%' a te re nd k e e d n d 0 . t v v o n t l h t t e o d r e b e e e g s the cabal, in the event of an ex I• n de doubt that'r . though many disaffected • and there is ne the' . co-operation. Osman Bey, the p G o o sio rn , r o r f Rbe d e s, f the nen ded en who that the sedeiftiothnehoaA,,,ers had been withdrawn for his behaviour ve in n the aff 4i : 0 g , a t Jews. died on his way to Constantino le a few daY- sa ° t' s- 4 the Dardanelles. The matter having been fullY e d it w as fictorily investigated before the Council of Justlen unjustly decided unanimously that the Jews had been me st e - 4 , - a blis b th',_ we re, persecuted, there being not a tittle of evidence t° : co arse the charges against them. It appeared also in consin . , _., o n of the trial that both the English and French Represcritatiotive seriously implicated in this persecution . the subject will be forw d d b se Governments, who, it is ex ected will prove them _ the stice that, not less disposed to afford p' retributive • them j U Turkish. P l " We have official intelligence from Odessa that th e a • s ed ar e y the Jews to their resP e yes peror Nicholas has ordered the Caucasian army t° l , ) , e hc r-l aa a to two hundred thousand men. Generals.Graucarda Nlouravieff had al read Kuban ; and the third corps, under Rudig e ' s one already on its way. To complete the army of invas icli ; leas t a ready marched their divisions t 0 W ag of the division destined to act will have to march a fo rce 450 miles. It seems i nten d e d by this overwhelming l ia is to bring this war to a conc l us i on at a blow. glfsener evidently con cen t ra ti ng h er s t re ngth, resources, an°_,,ora gies for this sole object, for every other has been teilhollY rily laid aside. The expedition to Khiva ha s been:: op. abandoned, and, that she may not be called upone n'r-:000- port her influence at Constantinople by any warlik iin t he stration, her voice, which was lately all-power fu ow Ow settlement of the Turco-Egyptian question , i 5 n retc%, pletely silent, and her Minister, on a frivolous r o t his has at this most important crisis absented hims elf 1 int...-iif post. in the meanwhile, if she can carry her P°„litical the Caucasian barrier, which, more than any rreas' obstacle, Asiatic or European, has impeded her P e v d res' be surmounted—if that mighty basis of ulterior aglocy sion be secured—not only will she resume the ass !t then which is now in pbeyance here, but, exposed as nod' will be to her attacks, extinguish every hope °fi nueL ence in Turkey. 1 1 . Som NAMBULISINI.-A most extraorclinarY so. stance of this kind occurred a few days ago i t n o g ha phew Stone, of Newent. Ile father, and in the course of the night, wss s : fut of b el/ 1 . fell from his bed-room window, adistagneoe of si.rteeg ceed lle afterwards (as he supposes) took a ladder, and P la he c a it against the window, In which means he got in,_t? is f a ll again, h and did not discover: till the morning that in r; c had dislocated his shoulder.—Gloucester JOUrn e " e kSt G On the 24th ult., at Alexandria, three rc their supposing themselves unobserved, murd ered one and of fellow-countrymen. They were surprised in the fa7 no n one of them was recognized as Karalamho, warehou partne r :i n s and factotum of the Prussian Consul ate. smuggling gunpowder, they murdered their companion from jealousy in their trade. It is su pp osed tht in t he under protection, he will be acquitted ; for C onsul . East are more powerful than Sovereigns .4'urePe EVENING EDITION. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1840. EVENING ED ITION••