The Sun. — London, England, 1840-08-29 00:00:00

SECOND EDITION 'THE FUNDS-(CLOSING PRICES). BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock .. 1691 India Stock .• .• $ per Cent. Red 903 Ditto Bonds ...... ...... 2 dis. 3 per Cent Cons ...... -3i per Cent Red 99* Ditto New Annuities... New 31 per Cent New 5 per Cent . Ditto 5001 lB pm Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small Jan. 1860. 133 Bank Stock for Acct — Oct. 1859 . . — India Stock for Acct — Jan. 1830......... Consols for Acct 9Ol FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent... Portuguese, 5 per cent. 71 Belgian, 5 per cent Ditto, New Ditto 34a Brazilian Bow's... .. .. 801 Prussian, 5 per cent.... BuenosAyres, 6 per cent Russian, 5 per cent.... 1141 Chilian, 6 per cent Ditto, Metallic Colombian, 6 per cent... 22 Spanish, 5 per cent 25 Ditto, 1824 . 24$ Ditto, Deferred • 12 Danish, 3 per cent..... French, 5 per cent... —f. —c creek, 1825, 5 percent. Exchange —f• —1 Mexican, 5 per cent.... French,3 per cent —f. —c. Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825. 241 Dutch, 21 per cent 521 Peruvian,lB2s, 6 per ct. Ditto, 5 per cent..... 1021 SHARES. __ Bristol and Exec- Eastern Counties Railway Great Western Railway Ditto New Shares. Hull and Selby London and Brighton Railway ...... 25i London and Blackwall Railway London and Birmingham Railway .. London and South Western Railway ... North Alldland Railway Ditto New Shares SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. (From the Globe.) If we were called upon to designate the desire which pervades all classes and sects in Ireland, we should un hesitatingly describe it as a desire for peace ; that the benefits of good government may be realised to the fullest possible extent ; that civil disabilities being re moved, the party jealousies and dissensions they occa sioned may subside ; and that the members of the same commonwealth, inhabitants of the same town or dis tict, instead of regarding each other with cold suspi cion, or cherishing the elements of furious hate, may bury beneath the tree which shelters their common pri v Eggs, the hatchet of intestine war, and imprecate a curse upon the head of him, of whatever creed or party, who would dig it from the grave to which a sense of common interest in the general pacification of the eJuntry, every real friend of that country would consign it. We do not regard the intemperate speeches of violent men, of whatever party, as tending to shake the position we have assumed. The exception rather estnblihes than weakens it. The conspiracy which the Standard and other Orange organs recommended, as the best rneaes:of rendering the Irish Municipal Bill a source of perpetual bitterness and strife, instead of hailing it as another step towards allaying the hostile feelings which the exclusive corporate system had engendered and kept alive—and the " Repeal agitation" belong to the same class—originare in the same motives, and will be doomed to the same result. Both will expire of in enition ; the food on which factions feed has been cut off by the common consent of the leaders of both par t ies in Parliament, which the concessions of both to ef fect the settlement of this long agitating co. stion fully proved, will be productive of a correspondent disposition out of doors. The march of real patriotism in his on ward course of pacification, will be rapid ; and the be nefits, social, civil and religious, which will spring up and flourish in her path, will be as numer ous as the fruit they bear will prove beneficial to a long-divided and therefore degraded and impoverished people. (From the Standard.) M. Thiers is the type of an order, the representative of the pauper politician class, and as we suffer something by this class ourselves, it is well to show the temptations to which pauper politicians are exposed, the opportunities which they enjoy, and the unscrupulous profligacy with which, if not narrowly watched, they may employ these opportunities. M. Thiers, moreover, has threatened and insulted this country, and though, thanks to the wisdom of the King of the French, the good feeling of t French people, and—let us not forget it—the good aduct of the British press, the menace and the insult tssin;; away like a summer cloud ; still it is a heavy offence to create an unfriendly feeling between two great neighbouring nations, an unfriendly ferling which the least accident might have kindled into a desolating war. It is right, then, to expose the pro, bahle motive of the firebrand, if for no other purpose than to render difficult or impossible a repetition of his crime. It is melancholy to reflect upon what slight threads the peace of the world depends. We have it upon record that a dispute between Louis XIV; and his minister, about the proportions of a window in the palace of Trianon, led to the wars which d , s Mated Europe at the end of the 17th and he !.inn ng of the 18th centuries. " I will give him," said the minister, something else than criticising my taste i n architecture to think of;" and more than a million of better men than either the King or the statesman rai 1 the forfeit of their lives as the consequence. This was bad enough ; but surely a viler and more dc g aling origin of war would be the enlargement of the Aundity of the breeches pocket of a mean adventurer. We believe that the security of the French Throne, the well-being of France, and the preservation of the pace of Europe, will be doubtful until M. Thiers and his class arc repudiated from the councils of Sovereigns, an I therefore we must regret to see the Morning Chronicle, or any other respectable journal, apologising for them. (From the Courier.) We beg the particular attention of our readers to one of the charges to which the seven suspended minis ters of the Church of Scotland are now called upon to Vead. It appears to us one of the most grave of all the counts within the four corners of the libel. They are charged with having profaned and desecrated the Christian sacraments of Baptism and the Eucharist, by administering the same to their parishioners after they had been suspended from their ministerial functions by the Commission of the 11th of December and the Gene ral Assembly of 184.0. Th's charge, upon the face of it, is a most grave and serious imputation, in so far as it lays profanity and sacrilege at their door, is grounded nn the assumption that the sentence of suspension took from the seven ministers " the power of the keys," as it is cllled in the Confession of Faith ; and that until this power is restored, by the same authority that took it away, all the acts of the Strathbogie ministers are acts , of :Tress profanation of religious ordinances, these minie. ters during this period being, as Mr. Candlish expressed it—" no ministers of Christ at all !" Without at pre sent showing, as we could do, that the doctrine involved in this assumption, and on which alone this count in the libel is made torest, resolves substantially into the most purely papal dogma that can be imagined, and proves to a de:nonstration that the Kirk is but half-reformed, we must ask our readers to look at it under another : phasis. It holds, that Ministers deposed by the Church Courts, which gave them " the power of the keys,"— although these Courts arc themselves of " this world"— cannot administer the word and ordinances as ministers of Christ, whose kingdom is of another world, until the same Courts shall restore them. Let this be granted to the present guides and leaders of the Kirk ; and let us ,just remind them of an historical fact, in connexion with their own recent proceedings. In 1736, or thereabouts, the Church Courts in Scotland deposed a body of minis ters, who afterwards originated and formed the well known and most highly respected Secession. From these :ministers so deposed " the power of the keys" was taken ; yet in face of this deposition they exercised this power. Amon' , other things they exercised the highest functions understood as coming under this power—the ordaining of future office-bearers in the Church of 'Christ. But according to Mr. Candlish, these Ministers so ordained were " no Ministers at all :" every act they did was an act of gross profanation and sacrilege! and the grossest of all was .‘ the laying of their hands" on others, and assuming to authorise them to dispense the word and sacraments. And who do our readers think arc " the office-bearers in• the house of Christ" --the General Assemblies and Com missions of the Church of Scotland—now aiding and abettin g i n con d emn i ng the seven suspended ministers .or Strathbogie, as profane and sacrilegious invaders of Christ's crown and kingdom ? the ry men who re ceived ordination at the hands of the deposed seceders ! who, according to Mr. Candlish, we at all!" We are told, that when the Rev. e'v'noGemni Gentlemen uttered this sentiment he was loudly cheered b t the spiritually-begotten children of the deposed seceders, Surely incom mon e now sitting in the General Assembly, r ake men were called upon more than others to. cause with the ministers of Strathbogie in witb s anding the doctrines, under which it is now attempted to crush them, they are the descendants of the Erskiues and Gillespies. SOUTHAMPTON DOCKS.—A Quantity of SHARES in this Undertaking to be SOLD. As the advertiser is desirous of being immediately relieved from all responsibility he will sell at a discount of 51. 10s. per Share. Address, post paid, to Mr. G. R., No. 90, Fleet-street, London. THE DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGA ZINE for SEPTEMBER, price 2s. 6d., contains :- 1. Hillman's History of Christianity.-2. Our Portrait Gal lery—No. Xl.—Rev. Charles Stuart Stanford, with an Etch ing.-3. The Rival Tanists. Chap. I.—The Tower and the Glen. Chap. ll.—The Castle.-4. Sketches from the An tique. By Miss M. A. Browne.-5. Rev. Mr. Woodward's Shunammite.-6. George , Robert Fitzgerald, concluded.- 7. Chalmers, Wardlaw, and 31'Neile on Church Establish. ments and the Voluntary System—Second Article.-8. Charles O'Malley, the Irish Dragoon. By Harry Lorrequer. Chap. XXX.—Fred Power's Adventure in Philipstown. Chap. XXXI.—The Voyage. Chap. XXXII.—Mr. Sparks' Story. Chap. XXXIII.—The Skipper. Chap. XXXIV.— Land. 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BRITISH HISTORY, chronologically ar ranged; comprehending a classified Analysis of Events and Occurrences in Church and State, and of the Constitutional Political, Commercial, Intellectual, and Social Progress of the United Kingdom, from the first Invasion by the Romans to the Accession of Queen Victoria. By JOHN WADE, Vice-President and Member of the Historical Section of the Institute d'Afrique of Paris. " This is essentially a good book, and it will be found almost necessary in every library for the purposes of reference. It re minds us most of Camden's Annals of James I. ; but instead of being limited to a single reign, it extends over the whole period of our history, beginning with the British and Roman, and ending with the cenclqion of the government of William IV."—Morning Chronicle. Effingham Wilson, 18, Bishopsgate-street Within. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Sixth Week of Haines' "Jane of the Hatchet." The extra ordinary success of this gorgeous Spectacle is beyond con ception. Upwards of 75,000 persons have already witnessed the grand Tableaux d'action and military evolutions of the hundred Female Warriors. Revival of "My Poll and My Partner Joe. THIS EVENING, AUG. 29. Will be acted a Grand Historical Spectacle, of unequalled splen dour, entitled JANE OF THE HATCHET. Supported by the entire strength of the Company, and One Hundred Female Warriors. After which, the Comic Drama of A DAY AFTER THE FAIR. To conclude with the Nautical Drama of MY POLL AND MY PARTNER JOE. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. EVERY MONDAY, TUESDAY, and THURSDAY. GRAND PROMENADE MUSICALE ET CHAMPETRE, By Godfrey's unrivalled Band. Programme of the Concert for Aug. 31, and Sept. 1 and 3. FIRST PART. Grand Overturn and Marche Triomphale, composed for the Musical Festival at Cologne, in 1832, by Ferdinand Ries. Quadrille—Le Neva, Musard•—Pot Pourri sur les Motifs de Les Huguenots, Meyerbeer. New Waltz, Feenivelt, Labitzky. Coro ed Aria, Io vo in Campo (Malek Adel), Costa. New Grand March, Ehrenbreitsteiner (first performance in this country) Haslinger. Overture—Guillaume Tell, Rossini. SECOND PART. BEETHOVEN'S GRAND BATTLE SINFONIA, By the aug-nented Band, wit's instruments of novel construe tou, avid 340 rounds of artillery and musketry, giving the most vivid realization •f the events of the Battle of Vittoria. Spanish Chaunt. Fantasia from " Oberon," Weber. Waltz, Philomen, Strauss. Quadrille, Le 3larriage. Musard. fhe vast Parorama al Fresco of Iceland and its Volcanoes, by Danson—Brel.:iing up or the Tee—Melting of the Snows— Release Bad Departure of the Discovery Ship. Carter's astooishin7 Koniaphostic," or "Lime Light. Eruption of Mount Zecla, with increased magnificence. ADMISSION ONE SHILLING. Feeding Hour u 7 the Carnivora, Five o'Clock. Concert at Half-past Five. Eruption at Half-past Eight. TO CORRESPONDENTS. F. W.'s communication is left in the office for him. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TOMORROW. onong 5! minutes after 3. Evening 4 minutes after 4. T.,e Publication of the Evening Edition of Tnz Sux coin- menced at 10 minutes after Three. "ts C 7 ' V • ~% 1 - -14 4 - ein U.141+ LONDON: SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 1840. Though much has been written on the Corn laws, they have one bearing on the Ministry which has not yet, we believe, been noticed. In obe dience to the demands of persons of property, the Ministry have felt themselves constrained to insti tute a number of prosecutions, and to establish a more rigid and extensive system of county police. Such proceedings are as irksome to generous minds as they are offensive to the mass of the community ; and, we presume, they have been conceded by the Whigs, and submitted to by the people, with equal repugnance. One thing at least is certain, that the conduct of the Government, in relation to preserv ing the peace of the country by prosecutions and police regulations, however necessary, has been to them a source of much unpopularity. It is, however, quite certain, whatever might have been the case in the rural districts—though we have no doubt that prosperity and peace would have smiled on them from the righteous abolition of the starvation laws—that so much additional employ ment, and such a continued prosperity, would have been shed over the manufacturing districts by the abolition, that the discontent in the working classes, and the dreadful apprehensions in their employers, could not have had any existence, which have com pelled the Ministers to be the instruments for exe cuting a most unpopular work. Thus to the Corn laws may be traced much of the weakness and no little of the instability of the Ministry. They have had to execute the landlords' devilish and plunder ing system ; and its evil consequences have half ruined them. Would it not, therefore, be prudent in them to consider whether they will consent to be any longer the servants and vassals of the landlords in executing their enormous wickedness ? What ever may be Lord MELBOURNE'S crude and ill formed opinions on the vital subject of the sub sistence and employment of the people, it would suffice to overturn the detestable system of plan d2r, which, sanctioned by law, is sapping the mo rality and the peace of society, were such of the Ministers as are opposed to it, like honest, intelli gent, and upright men, to say at once that they would no longer be the instruments for carrying such an unrighteous law into execution. But one secession from their ranks on such grounds—most certainly two—would bring the Corn-laws to an end. Mr. O'CONNELL, the Repealer, has been most favourably received by the thousands of his coun trymen who congregate at Liverpool. We insert, in another place, the resolutions they adopted, merely to inform the Protestant public that even in Lancashire, the head -quarters of the Orangemen in England, there is no inconsiderable number of Catholics and Repealsrs. Perhaps they may learn from such a c i rcumstance— f ear b e i ng sometimes a useful RAILWAYS VERSUS COACHES.— In conse. -loci Le - • of the opening of the London and Blackwall Rail. t eacher—that patriotism, which ought to em b race way, the old-established coaches upon this line of ro a d, all the community, does not consist in short-sighted, .and to the East and \Ve't India Docks, have been lite- /. • -rally run off the road. Twenty-five horses and five coaches, obstinate self•will. Even Protestantism may be the property of Mr. Robert Cambert, that have been work_ too exclu s i ve l y pursued. The Protestant public, at least th e u l tra part of it, has insisted on in log up. , n this road, were yesterday sold at Dixon's Reposi tory, Barbican, and the horses being moc•tly young, and a 1 , ng a n d i n j ur i ng the Catholics. It has " good sort," as they are termed, fetched good prices ; but suitin g care the coaches, although sound, light , and in g o o d condition , I fully pat ron i se d those Journals which have done I both ; and now, when it finds that it is exhibited a melancholy falling off in property of this de scription. Th e fi r st coach that was put up for sale for i scat rely safe i n i ts own home from the enmity some tim e f oun d no bidders at any price; but at length five 1 has so provoked, it may begin to guinea s I was offered for it. The auctioneer said he was it almost ashamed to take such a bidding—the iron work i doubt whether upon the carriage alone was worth more money; but as ,it be good policy to make hatred of other ' members of the community —even though they be his instruction s were "to sell," he must obey them. The c oach was at length knock-d down at eight g iineas. Three other coach; were Th knocked down at s l ums e t ot ex- Catholics—the rule of their Protestant conduct. seeding ten guinea!! ha e . fitth coach had on y jus hco What effect that may have on their salvation, w from the coachrnaker's pair, and not done an; wo-king* undergone a thoroug re- , , ' appreciate ; it certainly does e cf trouble, it at length found'smce ; and after a good deal cannot . ... not add to t urchacer at the sum of , fifteen guineas, a sum hardly s a ufficient to pay the coach- their . own well-being !n this world, and the well maker's bill. i being of the community. If they had permitted justice to be done to Ireland, Repeal would not now be powerful in Dublin and Liverpool. Sank of France 3190 ...3190 ...3175 ...3175 Laffitte Bank I,ooof. Sh 1065 ...1065 ...1065 ...1055 5,000 f. Sh Belgian Bank 5 per Cents 31 cr Cents / 1 9., 3 .0 ... 60 30 ... 60 ,25 ... 69 so `pali,ll Ac'ive ;.n% ... ~.:. 254 ... ',.6 YortuNuese 3 per Cents , ,ioag Neapolitan• , —•-• I.: Roman ...,,..w.b,,..5. ll'O ... 100 ... 100 ... 100 Mr. ADOLPHUS SLADE, who holds, we believe. the rank of Lieutenant in the Navy, has just pub lished a volume of Travels in Germany and Rus• sia, in which he devotes several pages to demon strate the necessity and the practicability of forti fying Constantinople. In the course of last year Mr. SLADE, whose previous "Travels in the East" are well known, revisited Constantinople, and after a careful examination of the defensible points around that city, agrees in opinion with Generals GUIL LEMINOT, HAPO, and ASTER, that it could be rendered impregnable against any army that Russia could bring against it. At an expense little ex ceeding a million sterling, Constantinople could be put in a condition to set the threats of MEFIEMET Au at defiance, and to prevent the passage of a single Russian ship from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean. We have not space, nor has the public, we fear, patience, for the discussion of this important question at the present moment ; but as it is one of real interest to England no less than to Turkey, we trust it will receive the due conside ration of the Government. It may reasonably be supposed that the defenceless state of Vienna, Berlin, and Madrid, materially contributed to the success of the French arms in 1805, 1806, and 1808 ; and also that if Paris had been fortified in 1814 the Allies would have found it a more troublesome af • fair to replace the Imperial Eagle by the Royal Lilies on the towers of Notre Dame. The best defences of a capital are the living ramparts formed by the breasts of a gallant and united people ; but seeing that Russia, at any time when the waters of the Black Sea are unfrozen, requires only three weeks to transport an army of 300,000 men to the shores of the Bosphorus, it is surely important that no means of defence against the possibility of such a calamity should, be left untried. Let it never be forgotten that Constantinople is the very key-stone of the arch upon which reposes the existence of the Ottoman empire. Remove it, and Turkey is as much a thing of the past as the glories of Babylon or the hanging gardens of Nineveh. RAILWAY SHARES, St. Germain Versailles, R. B 457 60 ... 457 50 ... 457 ; . 4 . 53 50 L.B. Orleans .. .... 4 " 57 _50 ... 467 5J ... 465 ... 405 A WARNING.—The neighbourhood of Islington was yesterday alarmed by a man go i ng through the street; and calling out with a stentorian vniVe, " Great and alarming accident on the Great Western Railway this morning Here you have, for the small charge of a halfpenny, a full, true, and particular account, from the second edition of the Mornirg Post, of a MoSt dreadful accident on the Great Western ltsilway, telling you how the steam-engine blew up on the road to Windsor ; the carriages were forced off the road, and seventeen persons lost their lives. Here you have all the particu lars, &c." He was followtd by several other men selling broadsides, but on purchasing one, it described not an accident on the Great Western yesterday, but the accident on the Eastern a week ago. There was no such accident on the Great Western. As the Govern ment regulates everything, and as there is a spick and-span New Police Act, including Punch and Judy, flying kites, a n d p l ay i ng marbles, why, let us ask, does the police allow men to go about the streets spreading such alarming and lkilse reports, injuring the property of the shareholders of the Great Western, and terrifying all th ose w h ose f r i en d s might perchance have go ne yesterday on that railway ? If the police were not to undertake the task of shielding the community from all sort s o f nuisances and evils, we should not call on it to put down the nuisance. On this occasion, however, it was rather negligent, for no policeman was seen in the neighbourhood at that time or long afterwards. Our warning is directed to the police therefore as well as to the public. DOES AGRICULTURE OR MANUFACTURES MAKE PAurEns ?—ls it from ignorance, or from a wilful de sire to deceive, that the herald yesterday stigmatized our manufactures as having pauperised the people We showed, two days ago, by irrefragible evidence, that the paupers, in proportion to the population, are nearly twice as numerous in the agricultural as in the manufacturing districts. It remains to be added, how ever, that there is a constant influx into the manufac turing from the agricultural districts, by which the latter are relieved from the superfluous hands, and that one principal cause of the pauperism of the manufac turing districts, so far as it exists, is that influx, and especially the influx of wretched paupers from agri cultural Ireland into our manufacturing towns. THE BRITISH QUEEN STEAMER.—We understand that this splendid vessel, with her powerful machinery, will be shown to the public (gratis) during the whole of to-day (Saturday), and on Sunday, at three o'clock, will take her departure from Blackwall for New York. There is very little news of interest in the Paris Journals of Thursday. Private accounts had, how ever, reached the Government from London, that the mediatorial exertions of his Majesty the King of the BELGIANS had produced a state of things capable of rendering the pacific settlement of the Eastern question a matter of very little difficulty. The belief in the pacific settlement of this ques tion, so far as relates to France and England, is growing very general in Paris. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, Ana. 29.—Wind this clay at noon, light easterly airs and calms, with hairy weather, DEAL, AUG. 28 . —Wind E. S. E.—Arrived the Tropic, from the West L.Uies ; Anna Victoria, Arocena, Tene rife. Sailed the outward bound. LIVkRPOOL, AUG. 28 —Wind variable.—Arrived the V.ritannia, from Sydney, New South Wales, sailed 29th April, was struck by lightning on the 21st June, in lat. 45 S., long. 38 ; Helen, Anderson, Monte Video ; Sis ters, Ramsey, N assau; L evant (packet), ditto; Olympia, Grey, New Orleans ; M' Cleaves, Thompson, ditto ; Lucy, Murphy, Mobile ; St. Fullan, Campbell, New foundland ; Magdaliva, Bone, ditto ; Martha, Frampton, Africa, sail e d from Fernando Po on the 18th of June ; Peruvian, Borneo. Sailed the Jackson, Jackson, for Tri nidad ; Importer, M'Kawdy, Miramichi ; Harper, Mur phy, ditto ; Liverpool, Taylor, ditto. kThe Olympia, Gray, from New Orleans arrived here, got in contact on the 26th inst. off Kinsale with the Nova Sociedade, from Lisbon to this port, the latter lost bowsprit, cutwater da maged, So., and made so much water that the crew got on board the former, but at daylight perceiving their vessel still afloat they returned to endeavour to get her into Cork. The Monarch from hence, was totally lost on Torn Shot's Point, Calabar River, on the 2nd of Juno, the master, mate, and nine men drowned. PORTSMOUTH, Ana. 28.—Calm and light airs.—Off port, the Sultana, from Singapore, sailed April 8. PORT Tat,noT, Atha. 27.--The Scipio, which was aground on the bar, came cff this morning without damage. SHIELDS, Ana. 27.—The Diana. Hutton, from Riga, which was on shore at Briar Burn, has been got off, and towed in here. On the subject of the disgraceful employment of the Government despatches to promote nefarious jobbing on the Bourse, we find the following in Thursday's Journals : The Courtier Francais, in noticing the statement of a Malta letter, that the return of Admiral Lalande has been countermanded, says :—" We believe this state ment to be incorrect. Admiral Lalande is summoned to Paris, the Ministry wishing to consult him. But it does not appear that, at so critical a moment, any idea has been entertained of dispensing with the services of so skilful and experienced a seaman. Admiral Lalande is to share with Admiral Hugon the command of the fleet which is to be placed under the orders of Admiral Du perre. Admiral Hugon must be now at Smyrna, and we may be easy as to the command of our naval forces whilst in the hands of so distinguished an officer." The Siecle says, " a person who is necessarily well-informed assures us, that Vice-Admiral Lalande is arrived at Toulon in the Jena." The Toulonnais publishes a letter from Algiers, in which it is said that the rumours of a general war have strongly excited the population of Algiers. The Jewish and native residents it represents as desirous of shaking off the French yoke, and it attributes all sorts of cri minal intentions to the Maltese, who are upwards of 1,000 in Algiers alone. The Italians, it says, are gene rally attached to the French, but the Spaniards are much divided. This letter concludes with the recom mendation to set aside the capitulation of 1830, by which it says the Moors profit too much. The Captain and crew of the City of Edinburgh steamer were released from confinement at Paris on Wednesday last. Extract of a letter published in the Carlsruhe Ga zette, dated Vienna, 17th inst. : is We arc informed that the mission of St. Aulaire had not for its object, as had been stated, to prevail on the powers to come back on the treaty of London, but merely to invite them to direct the negotiations to be resumed by their representativa. In this latter case, the Ambassador of France is said to have been in structed to make certain concessions in favour of the maintenance of the integrity of the Ottoman empire. If we were to credit certain reports, France would no longer support tie Viceroy in his pretensions to Syria, but would insist, by way of compensating him, on his being declared independent of the Porte. We men tion the'da reports, because they are the subject of con versation in our salons, and some persons app ear t o consider them w e ll founded." The Mohawk, Crow, got on shore in the Roads, on the 25th inst., but came off the following tide without damage. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TWELVE 0' CL 0 C.K. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, FRIDAT..--The only , observation' we have to make,differing from our Circu lar of last week, are merely that the common qualities of American, as well as Surat, command very extreme rates, and Brazils are, if anything., rather lower. Tho sales to-day are about 4,000 bales, with a very fair de mand. Speculators have taken 1,500 bales of American, and exporters 600 American. LIVERPOOL SHARE LIST, AUG. 28. Brighton and Gloucester Chester and Birkenhead New Shares 2O Eastern Counties Grand Junction Great Western Half Shares London and Birmingham 321. Shares 47+ 46i South Western THE FUNDS. Although there is very little doing, still the British Market has a firm appearance. Consols, which left off yesterday at 90i 1 for the Ac count, opened this morning at 901 ; Money, 891 k ; Exchequer Bills 18 20 prem.; Bank Stock, 1681 9k ; India Stock, 248 i 249 i. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active left off 24k si, may be quoted at present rather better, 251 ; De terred, 11i 12k ; Portuguese, 341 ; Three per Cents., 221 4 ; Colombian, 2,11 Two-and•a-Half per Cents., 511 2 ; Five per Cents., 1014102. ; Mexican, 28i 29 ; Dutch Shares—Great Western Railway, 24 26 premium ; London and Brighton. 91 1 discount ; Blackwell, 1 discount ; Birmingham, 78 80 premium ; Southamp ton, 56 57 per share ; Croydon, 111 1 per share ; Greenwich, 6i 7i per share ; Manchester and Binning barn, 1] 9 discount. The Government expects the ratification of the treaty of commerce with Holland, and, as soon as they are received, it will acquaint the French merchants with the terms ; they cannot be carried into effect till after they shall have been approved of by the Chamber, —Moniteur. A despatch from Barcelona, dated the 22d, an nounces that the Queen had departed by sea for Valen cia that morning at ten o'clock. Barcelona remains in a state of tranquillity. Senor Cabello, who had ac cepted the Department of the Interior, accompanies the Queen.—Moniteur. Pants, AUG. 27.—The Semaphore of Marseilles an nounces that Admiral Lalande, who was on his way to France, has received at sea orders to resume his com mand. We believe this statement to be incorrect. Admiral Lalande is summoned to Paris, where the Ministers are going to consult with him. But it does not appear that there has been any idea of depriving the country, at so critical a moment, of the services of so skilful and experienced a seaman. Ad miral Lalande is to shale with Admiral Hugon the com mand of the fleet, which will be under the orders of Admiral Duperre. Admiral Hugon must be now at Smyrna, and we may be easy now respecting the em ployment of our naval force, as long as it is in the hands of so distinguished an officer.—Courrier Francais. We find the following in the Capitole W e are assured that the preliminary investigation of Boulogne will be ended on the 16th of September, and that the discussion will commence immediately." The Capitole says that Prince Louis Bonaparte de clares that the entire responsibility of the affair of Bou logne lies with him, and that those who accompanied him in his enterprise were not informed of his object till they were at sea, and could not recede.—Le Constitutionnel. On the subject of the scandalous imputations di rected against M. Thiers, the 411e:sager and Moniteur Parisien of Wednesday night contain, from authority of course, the following:— " The journal La Presse contains some odious in sinuations against some persons holding official situa tions, on the subject of the transactions which have taken place on the Stock-exchange. We have but one answer to give on the subject. The officers of justice are investigating those transactions, and no limit will be assigned to their inquiry. Those who are acquainted with any facts connected with them have only to bring them forward, and they will be examined, but those who without addressing themselves to the persons ap pointed to inquire into those transactions shall continue slanders in the public prints will merit the epithet of calarrniaters." The Massager adds," The journal La Presse of this day states that M. Dosne (M. Thiers' father.in-law) had left Paris for Lille, in consequence of some severe observations addressed to him by a puty in M. Thiers' salea. We give to that assertion the 'Host unqualified contr a di c ti on , and •we defy that journal to name the deputy to whom * it alluded." La Presse, in reply to then;" M. Dosne' paragraphs, says, that s departure f or 'Lille cannot be denied," and adds, " it is not aut h or ; , , ed to give the deputy's name without his consent, but that it hopes he will himself come forward and state that he votes with Ministers, and sits on „ the l e f t s i de of the Chamber, and i s a Magistrate. It would b e b etter f or receivers-rreneral " The w or d s a dd ressed by him to M. t D o 74 tr e : v ai e n (e in their d e p artments than to compromise' 11, :itsters by conduct which creates suspicion.'" The Presse concludes by asking the llfcssager whether M. Dosne did not receive a large sum from a stock broker, on the last settling -day, being the profit arising from speculating for a fall in the public funds. The investigation respecting the fraudulent opera tions on the Bourse in the course of last week was commenced on Wednesdtly by M. Boulloche, the Judge of Instruction. Among; the witnesses examined were M. Vandermarcq, the Syndic of the Change -agents, and the Editor of the Gazette des nibunaux, who was the first to denounce to public indignation the frauds committed on that occasion. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Bristol and Exeter 5O ...... 28 ..... to 27i Eastern Counties Great Western Ditto New London and Brighton London and Birmingham 9O 163 London and South Western 3B; North Midland, (New) - JOINT STOCK B•NKS. National of Ireland 174 l5l to 16 BOURSE. I THURSDAY, Aug. 2i. first Highest Lowest Last Pri'.:e Price. Price. Price French f. per Cents U•,I 113 co 112 10 ... 113 30 4 per Cents 1.„3 'l3 ... 103 3 ucr Cent 5........, 6O 80 25 HALFm-fr morning T f r oOmNE Paris. The private letters received this are of a pacific nature, and state that the differences which prevailed between this country and France, re specting the affairs of the East, have been amicably settled. The British Market has continued very steady dur ing the morning, with little doing, at 90i for the Ac count, and at present may be quoted rather lower, 90i for Account ; Money, 89i ; Exchequer Bills 611‘osse,; Portuguese,' 18 premium ; India Bonds, 4 discou n t ; 169 L Bank S toc k, It is s e ttli ng -d ay i n th e Sh ares, and Monday in the Forei gn M ar k et. S pan i sh Active 251 ; Passive, n, 24l ; Colombian,34 i; Three 241 p ; e r Brazilian, C ets nothing . 22 done ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 51i ; Five per Cents., 1021 ; Spanish Deferred, 12k, Shares —G reat Western, 88 ; L ondon and Brighton, 251 ; South Western, 13LIRGLARY.—This morning information was received at all the police-offices of a burglary and exten sive robbery on the premises of Mr. Bartram, pawnbroker, 26, Prinees's-street, St. Ann's, a few doo r s fr om the re. sidence of th e l ate M r. W estwoo d. It is said that wat c h es, plate, an d other property to a great amount have b een carried off. o m f e r n „ to AP OTHECARIES' HALL.—Names of Gentle men the C o u r t o f Examiners g ranted cer tificates i. , atification on Thursday :—Spencer Thomson, Bur SCIENCE ton-on-Trent ; J o h n P a dd en , Truro ,• Herbert John Gi raud, Fave rs h am; J ohn J err ard. Castle Hedingham:; Ralph Pars ons B ear d a h am, L e eds. tion may be thro wn i nto t h e amusements o f y outh . Ev e n at that game w hi c h i s ca ll e d " Hop Scotc h, " or " Hop if the the Beds," IN f i S a g P 60 offt T a .--Much incid ental instruc. play-ground were stained with an outline map of the counties of England, it would be quite as agreeable to hop from Kent to Cornwall, and thence toc,Cumberland, as from one space to another, in appropriately originate in idea, s t u h a a l t u t n h m e ehaonpinsgwfioguuldre.vrAy wag observed, upon this Kent.— The Smith-and-Dolier Copy Books. DRUNK WITH A DIFFERENCE. —In an ac tion for libel (Tidy v. Wright), tried at Wells, on the Western Circuit, Mr. Baron Maule, charging the jury, observed--" The justification had said that the plaintiff' was drunk and di,orderly : there was no evidence of his having been di sor d er l y , and he had not been more drunk than other respectable persons might be." It appears from this, that every resp ecta ble person is not required to be altogether as so b er a s a judge. The Dublin lady, who bore testimony in a Police Court to the character of aNeswervyaon,tk, pilots,tha t she was ~a daeent drunken creature," might pass for a goo d w i tness at Wells. " THE MISSING PILOTS. — We are h appy to learn that W as hi ngton N orr i s and John Thompson, the and Adam and Thomas, apprentices, supposed lost, have returned in safety to the city. In the dense fog they lost their reckoning, and were picked up by an eastern brig, the captain of which demanded pay for taking them on board." The captains "down east" keep 4 sharp look out it seems ,--American Paper. SOMETY FOR PROMOTING PRAC TICAL DESIGN, AND DIFFUSING A KNOW-I, LEDGE AND,LOVE OF THE ARTS AMONG THE PEOPLE. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) On The.r•dny a meeting of the suhpeA-;bers to this important Institution took place at the Great it , mits; Leicester.-snuai.e; N. the Purpose of proceedirg in ge neral business, and electing the council and other officers belonging to the Society. The chair, on the motion of Mr. C. K. Nicholls, seconded by Mr. H. Clarke, was talign at e iing o'clock, by Mr, : Steele;, 'the Chairman then read from the ballot paper the names of the gentlemen elected to compose the new council, consisting of Messrs. Ailes, Berry, Barber, Crosl2,y, Mackersie, Tint, M.P., Smith, Nicholls, Clax ton, Clarke, Steele, Fogg°, Loft, and ()then. After some discussion on general business, Mr. SA MUEL SSIITII moved a vote of thanks to the Chairman for his able conduct in the chair; Mr. SIEFLE, alter expressing in strong hit sense I of gratitude for the high honour which had been paid him, proceeded to say he should make a very infelicitous commencement of his duty as a member of the Council, were he to inflict on the gentlemen present a rhetorical eulogy on the objects for which the Society had been formed. Every gentleman whom he had the honour of addressing had given proof that be was penetrated by a conviction of their inestimable value ) they required no words of his to it& this catiVidtiOh more deeply in their hearts.—(Hear.) He should, instead of this, come directly to something prac tical, to prove that he would keep his pledge not to be an inactive member of such an admirable Institution. There is, said Mr. Steele, at the opposite side of this very square, the house and the observatory of the greatest man who ever did honour, not merely to Eng land, but to human nature, Sir Isaac New ton.—(Great cheering.) Fifteen years ago I wrote a public letter from. ..my College in Cambridge, recommending to England that a magnificent dome, like that of Assisi, in Italy, thrown over the primitive Chapel of St. Francis to protect it, should be reared over the house and observatory in London of the writer of the Principia and Optics, and the inventor of that talisman " won from the void and formless infinite" of intellectual being, the gorgeous talisman of the fluxional calculus. Lord Monteagle, when Chancellor of the Exchequer, presented one petition from me to Parlia ment, and Mr. Hume a second in a subsequent Session, praying for the erection of this dome (putting the house and observatory of course in the most perfect repair) as an appropriate national monument to him of whom it is with infinite justice engraved on the monumental tablet in the sanctuary of England, Westminster Abbey, " Sibi gratulentur mortales Tale tantumque extitisse liumani generic decus." I published some lithograph pictures from my drawings at the time ; and Sir Martin Archer Shee, one of our Vice-Presidents, honoured me by giving me permission to dedicate to him whatever new designs I publish when I next bring the matter under the consideration of Parliament. My excellent friend, Mr. Charles Kerry Nicholls, presented from me to this institution a copy of The Sure newspaper containing my petition long be fore I had the honour of being myself a member, and I intended to read some passages for you now, but it can not be obtained from our library without some little delay ; therefore 1 shall recite for you, from memory, one passage, to which I desire to call your most earnest attention. Mr. Steele here recited that exquisite pas sage from Lord Byron's " Childe Harold" :-- " There is given Unto the things of earth which time bath bent A spirit's feeling ;" &c. And subsequently applied it to his purpose, by express ing confidence that the Observatory of .Newton would de deemed to be an exception, and that it should not " wait till ages were its dower," for its spiritualiza tion, for its " power and magic," and " spirit's feeling." Mr. Steele concluded amidst marks of the strongest applause of the Council, by expressing his confidence of obtaining the fervid co-operation of the Society in sustaining his petition when ie should next bring the subject before the considereion of Parliament ; and it was an interesting circumstance connected with this subject, that it was in the house of Newton that the very Society which he was addressing had its first esta blishment. The Chair being taken by Mr. Dowling, the new Coureil held its first sitting for the purpose of electing a President, Vice-Presidents, Secretary, Treasurer, and other officers connected with the Society. Mr. Ewart, Esq., M.P., the late President, was unanimously, and with the loudest acclamations and expressions of gratitude for his great services to the Insti tution, re-elected President, several members exclaiming that as long as he chose to retain the office there could not be any rivalry. The following gentlemen were then elected Vice- Presidents for the year ensuing :—Sir Robert Peel, Bart. ; Sir Martin A. Shee ; Thomas Wyse, Esq., M.P. ; Ashton Yates, Esq. ; Cornthwaite John Hector, Esq., M.P.; Sir Denham Norreys, Bart., M.P. ; Thomas Steele, Esq. ; Howard Elphinston, Esq.; C. Lushington, Esq., M.P. Mr. A. Crosby was unanimously re-elected Secretary. This gentleman, who has always been indefatigable in his exertions for the Society, briefly returned thanks. After which, the meeting, which was numerously at tended, then separated. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) COVENT-GARDEN, Plants, per dozen, per bundle, Is. to Is. 6d. ; Onions, per sieve, 3s. to 33. 6i. ; Carrots, per dozen, 3s. to 4s. 6d. ; Currants, 4s. to 4s. 6d. ; Peas, 3s. to 3s. 6d.; Green Gages, balf•sieve, as. to 3s. 6d. ; Pears, 2s. to 3s. ; Cucumbers, per brace, Is. to 4s. ; Lemons, per hundred, Bs. to 12s. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. The demand for Poultry was very limited, the rupply large, and prices unaltered. Eggs dull of sale at ss. 6d. to 6s. per 120; Meat in large supply; the demand (with the exception of Beef and Mutton) was to a fair extent, and prices were as follow : —Lamb ss. 4d. to sd. 4d ; Mutton 2s. Bd. to 4s. 2d.; Beef 2s. Bd. to 3s. 10d. ; Veal 3s. Bd. to ss. ; and Pork 3s. Bd. to 4s. Sd. per atone of 81b. WHITECHAPEL. Trade good, and supply small. Prices advanced 4d. on Lamb, Pork, and Venl. Beef and Mutton at former rates. Beef, 2s. Bd. to 3s. 10d. ; Mutton, 2s. Bd. to 4s. 2d. ; Lamb, 4s. 4d. to bs. 4d. ; Veal, 3s. Bd. to ss. ; Pork, 3s. Bd. to 4s. 83. Clover Hay, 4/, to 6/. 6s. ; Do. Meadow, 3/. to 1. ; Straw, 1/. 13 4 . to 11. 16 3 . TAOLOW MARKET. Prices were firm foe. Y. Candle at 525. 6d. to 525. 9d. on the spot, and .535. for arrival in the last three months. The demand was good. PRICE OF BREAD. The trghes e of •he MA 00115 is II d for the 41b Leaf. o,ccl Bre.ta nay be had at 81. PRI,.,E) OF SEEDS Per Cwt. Per Quarter. i No w Ergl sh R e o Cl o v e r...so s SC s St. F e i n —s 5s .Os Old Litt° Di"•o —s —s — s Rye G ass —s I`..s fd's New Foreign Di,to —s 50s "iss r.icey Grass s—s —s 011 Di to Di to —s s—s 1,, i.seed, for fe di g ~.—s 48s 5 s 1•• ew White Clover 40s 5t 's II s Otto, for sowing ......—s CO 70s Old Dirt, Ditto —s —s —a Ditto, for crush' g ....—s 42s 41 s \ew 'lre oil —s his 345 H in Old 1 itto a 17s 2 , s Canary —s Os li:ss Jr' foliurn - s :30s :ifs l'er B'..shel. English Carraway —s 40s 50s White Must rd....!4s Od to Ills Or Foreign:Au° —s 45s 4Ss Brown Ditto 15s 0,1 to 20, . c Coriander —s 12s l&s,Tares PRICE JF OIL. Rape Oil, brown, per ton £39 0 Ditto, refined Linseed Oil 29 10 Lies ed Oil Cake at tn, Mill (per 1000) l4 14 Ra, e t ake, per to I PRICE OF TALLOW, SOAP, &c. per 11219. Town Tallow £2 13 (I Melting Stuff £2 0 Yellow Russia White .O 0 f Graves Soap Ditto 0 0 0 Good Dregs 0 5 PRICE OF RAW FAT, per stone of filbs. Price of Tallow (as stated by the 'fallow Melters) os 111 d. COAL MARKET. :hips arrived since las. market-day, 47. S. d. Bell, Hobson A: Co. Hartley i a 9 Carr's Hartliy 2O 0 Derwent Main l7 I Id lyweil Man l9 I Orig nal Windsor's Po.ito d H : Ord's Redhugh Smith's Pontop l7 6 'lown:Liy .. , . Nylaiii Walls E d lietvic: , e and C 30 V. Walls End arosfortli WAN end Heaton .. 20 3 Walk End Hilda 2O 6 Walls End Killingworth Walls End Itiddell's. W. E. BraddylPs Hetto~ a. d. Walls End Haswell Walls End Helton Walls End Helll.-y Walls End Lambton Walls End Pemberton Walls End Stewart's Walls End Kelloe W. 1., End Adel ride 'Walls End Barrington Tees 19 0 Walls End Evenwood ll W Ails End Gordon Walls End Tees t.2. 0 Cowpen... 1 - loward'i:Neinert,in .Math IB ti \lithley Walls End Devonshire l9 0 Mr. Richard Thomas, son of Richard Thomas, Esq., of Yolk, was on Friday admitted a member of the Royal College of z"urgeons. SUICIDES DIFFICULT TO BE ACCOUNTED FOR. —Yesterday forenoon an inquest was held before Mr. Wakley, M.P., at the St. Mary lebone workhouse, on the body of Henry Stuart, aged 23. The most remarkable feature in the case was the apparent suddenness with which deceased had made up his mind to drown himself. He passed Tuesday evening and night with some com panions at. a " free and easy," held at the White Horse, Cumb2rland-market, New-road, and sang three songs during the evening. At half -past one next morning he was seen last alive by his companions, in company, and perfectly sober, with two females, in York-square, and even an acquaintance saw him a quartet of an hour later. A few minutes past two o'clock the police received notice that a man had jumped off the Regent's Canal-bridge, behind the park, and though they dragged for the body they did not recover it until six next mcrnir.g. The Foreman—" It is strange that, without showing himself in any way excited, he should drown himself, and in so short a time after quitting his companions." The Coroner— "ltis an every-day occurrence. Suicides are not to be accounted for, I held an inquest a short time ago on a young man who committed suicide because ha" had been left 200,0001." TILE NVEATIIER.—As the harvest advances anxiety for its success becomes more general ; and we re gret to say that the weather has not been very settled within the last two or three days. A good deal of rain fell on Monday forenoon, but the weather cleared up as the day advanced. On Tuesday afternoon we had, again a good deal of wet, but yesterday was throughout dry, m ild, and bright, and a considerable breadth of corn was cut in the neighbourhood. The harvest is quite general here, and the fields are in a uniform state of ripeness, so that one field is no sooner cut down than the reapers proceed to another. From all parts of the country we receive the same gratifying accounts of the forwardness of the crops and the general goodness of the wcather.—Edi ti b„ uh Courant. COURT CIRCULAR. lir/Nrigoa, PamAy.—The Queen, accompanied by Prireess of Holienlohe, the Princess Therese and ;be children, rode nut in the Park this afternoon ct fi % o'clock. in a (1.41NQ-brit-find pony pfm on. NO. open carriages followed—in one were two of the children dl the Princess of Hohenlohe, with the Duchess of Bedford, and Madame do Hugel ; in another car rii:ge were Lady Charlotte Dundas. and Hon. Miss Spring Rice. A number of gentlemen accompanied the Royal party on horseback, including the Hon. Coinnel Cavendish and the Hon. Major Keppel. The Dlchess of Kent and the Prince of Hohenlohe left the Castle soon atter in a pony phaeton, his Serene Highness driving. .The Marquis - of Headfort and Vi scoun t M e l bourne , joined tne equestrian party. Her Majesty's Band was dismissed last night, on ac count of the indisposition of her Royal Highness the Princess Augusta. Viscount and Viscountess Falkland left the Castle to-day. Mr. Alfred E. Chalon, R.A„ was honoured by Prince Albert yesterday, with u sitting for a whole length por trait in water colours. Toe Lord Mayor arrived at the Castle last evening rom town, to have an audience of his Royal Highness Prince Albert. His Lordship slept at Windsor, and left this morning ter town. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Mr. George E. Anson, Col. Bouverie, and Mr. Francis Sey mour, arrived at Buckingham Palace at half-past ona o'clock yesterday afternoon, in a carriage and four with outriders from Windsor Castle. ifiron Gersdorff, the Saxon Minister, had an audience of his Royal Highness. Soon after four o'clock Prince Albert, who was ha bited in a Field Marshal's uniform, with the riband and jewel, and also the star of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, left Buckingham Palace, attended by Mr. George Edward Anson, Treasurer of his Household, and Lord George Lennox, Gentleman-in-Waiting, for Fishmongers' Hall and Guildhall, to receive the freedom of the city of London. Col. Bouverie, Epuerry in Wait ing, and Mr. Francis Seymour, Groom in Waiting, fol lowed in another Royal carriage. Prince Albert and suite returned to Buckingham Palace to dinner at half-past six o'clock. Colonel Bouverie and Mr. Francis Seymour called at Clarence House, St. James's, during the afternoon, to make inquiries after the health of the Princess Augusta. Prince Albert, attended by Mr. George E. Anson, Colonel Bouverie, and Mr. F. Seymour, left Bucking ham Palace at half-past eight o'clock last evening in a carriage and four for Windsor Castle. The Princess Augusta was visited yesterday by the Duchess of Gloucester. The account of her Royal Highness's health issued yesterday was as follows : " The Princess Augusta has had some sleep in the night, and her Royal Highness continues comfortable. " Clarence House, August 28." Among the inquirers yesterday, after the health of her Royal Highness, were the Turkish Ambassador, ;he Belgian Minister, and Madame Van de Weyer, the Hanoverian Minister, the Danish Charge d'Affaires, and Countess &lie Brahe, the Duke and Duchess of 'Northumberland, Earl Brownlovf, and the Attorney- General. The Duke of Cambridge, attended by Col. Jones and Col. Walton, honoured the Lord Mayor with his com pany at dinner last evenipg, at the Mansion-house. Mr. Crawford and Mr. George Lewis had interviews with the Marquis of Normanby yesterday, at the Home- Office. THE FESTIVAL OF RUBENS. ANTWERP, Au G. 26.—The great holiday bisseculaire in honour of Rubens, terminated last night, and the city is becoming quiet and industrious. The cathedral ot Notre Dame is one of the most beautisul ecclesiastical buildings in Europe. It was commenced in 1422, and finished in 1518. From the top of the tower, which is unrivalled for elegance and lightness, Brussels, Ghent, Malines, Louvain, and Flushing, may be seen with ease by the naked eye ; and on clear days the smoke from the steamers is easi:y discernible at the entrance of the Scheldt. In the clock tower there is a bell which requires the united strength of sixteen men to ring it ; and its repeated preservation from the fire of the incendiary has been mainly owing to the leaden cis terns with which it is provided, and which are always kept full of water. In 1825 a general repair of the church was commenced, which is still in progress. At the foot of the tower is engraved the epitaph of the celebrated Quent;:i Matsys, who died at Antwerp in 1529, at the age of sevezity-nine years. Up to the age of twenty he exercised the calling of a black. smith ; but, in order to obtain the hand of a lady to whom he was devotedly attached, he changed his trade for the profession of a painter. The re are three of his pictures in the Museum, w hi c h :re valu ' able as monuments of the infancy of the art of painting, of which, unquestionably, they are chef teceuvres. They were painted in 1508 for the sum of 300 florins, anJ were subsequently bought by the authorities of Antwerp for 1,500 florins, after having escaped the fury of the Iconoclastes, or image -breakers. There is great deli cacy and expression in his drawing, and the colours at this day are AS brilliant as when first laid on ; but he knew absolutely nothing whatever of perspective. This church possesses Ruben's celebrated painting, " be Descent from the Cross," which has been the object of universal homage. It may be said to occupy the th one of the arts ; for every country and every school has recognised it as the perfection of ima gination and grandeur. Pierre Paul Rubens is desig nated the prince of Flemish painters. He was born at Cologne, of Antwerp parents, on the 29th of June, 1577, and studied in the schools of Adam Van Ort and Otto Venius ; but, becoming superior to both masters, he made the tour of Italy, and was subsequently em ployed by the Crowns of Spain and England in several important diplomatic missions. He received honours from every Court in Europe ; and the rapidity with which he produced his works may be gathered from the fact that there were engravings from thir teen hundred an d t en o f hi s pictures. He was twice married, and died on the 20th of May, 1640. In his " Descent from the Cross" there is vast sublimity of conception. The dead body of our Saviour is inimitably painted, and the eye is irresistibly drawn to it as the absorbing point of the composition. The expression of the surroundiug personages is ma naged with extreme nicety of observation. The grief of Mary is that of a mother—the affliction of St. John that of a disciple and a friend—and the countenances of the others betoken each a separate and admirably contrasted sentiment of sorrow. Corresponding with this picture there is also his " Ele vation of the Cross," as magnificent and sublime a com position as the other. These two paintings were taken to France and placed in the Louvre, but on the return of the Bourbons Louis XVIII. ordered them to be restored. During the siege of Antwerp, in 1831, the most extraordinary precautions were resorted to in order to protect them from injury by the bombardment. A third picture, and probably that which excites the greatest admiration, is his " Assumption of the Virgin," which is placed over the grand altar. For this paint ing Rubens received sixteen hundred florins, or at the rate of one hundred florins per day, his usual price, the time occupied in its execution having been only sixteen du) s. This, too, was taken away by the French, but replaced i❑ its present situation in 1816. Next in importance to the Cathedral is the Church of St. James, the interior of which is imposing and grand beyond description. Behind the principal altar the tomb of Rubens is placed, situated in a small chapel, the whole of which is consecrated to his memory and that of his family. The most attractive ornament in this chapel is a picture of the Holy Family by the great master himself, in which he has introduced the portraits of himself and kindred. His own is represented in the figure of St. George ; those of his father and two wives as St. Jerome, Martha, and Mary Magdalen ; his grandfather under the figure of Time, and his son under that of gm angel. The Church of St. Paul,originally a Dominican con vent, is an exquisite structure. This church contains the painting of " The Flagellation," a most masterly composition, by Rubens. Although a frightful subject, is is one of his very best efforts. The blood abso lutely appears trickling from the lacerated back of the Saviour, as he patiently submits to the blo►vs of his tor mentors. Rubens's extraordinary power of combination and truth of colouring are particularly manifested in this picture, which is composed of only three standing figures. The organ in this church is one of the finest in the world. Saint Charles Borromeo, the last church I had time to inspect, is remarkable for the singular beauty of its proportions, and proves beyond doubt that Rubens, like Michael Angelo, was a universal artist, for it was commenced under his direc tion, and accordin g t o hi s d es i gns. P rev i ous l y to its being burnt it was built entirey of marble, and its walls and altars were loaded with a great number of Rubens's paintings, gold vases, and columns of Jasper and porphyry, the whole of which, with the exception of two pictures (now in Vienna), fell a prey to the flames. Over the entrance door are Janssens' celebrated pictures of the twelve apostles. It is impossible to give any adequate description of the marvellous carvings in oak which enrich and adorn these churches. Every pulpit and every confessional is a work of art meriting a separate and distinct examina tion. In fact, the churches are so burdened with the costliest efforts of the human mind and the skill of man that the eye becomes almost wearied in contemplating the masses of beauty which every where present them selvcs in the shapes of pictures, altars, shrines, pulpits, gilding, and sculpture I had intended to have given you some account of the Museum, in which there are more than two hun dred and twenty pictures. including eighteen by Rubens, and nearly a dozen by Van Dyck, but as a thick vo lume would he necessary for this purpose, I confine myself to the ekpresaion of an opinion that Rubens's - - Saviour Crucified between Two Thieves" is, upon th whole, the best of his works 1 have yet seen ; and th Vandy(ei " Le Christ Mort:" is the ncble3t piG.tura upon which 1 have ever set my eves. , Tile conclusion of thcsefetes naturally suggests some, rcfl'otions on fl , e diff, , renr ways in which art and its., prof(siors are regarded here and abroad. With us knowledge of the works of our hest maiters, both ns.. sculpture and paintin g , is confined to the we ll -educated; the common people k now hate of then, and care less' But in Antwerp and elsewhere they beer-me part and par eel of the public property, regarded by all alike, from the prince to the peasant, as objects of pride apd veneration. Amidst all the mummery and buffoonery which in pars" occupied the Antwerpians for a fortnight, their self-aban donment to the generous impulses of an enthusiastic re-.-; gard for art was perceptible from first to last. No fa ct ' is more palpable than that an habitual acquaintance with, works of high art tempers down the passions and softens:. the feelings, refin'ng the imaginatfon in its passage",,, the senses. We have none of this in England. Why The answer is plain. We have an ugly incubus squat ted upon the bosom of art, continually flapping 5118/ with its vampire wings the wholesome air absolutely ac cessary to its vitality. The name of this withering mow ster is the Royal Academy.—Morning Post. • COWES-ISLE OF WIGHT. (FROM OUR OWN COKREF.PONDENT.) ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON INTELLIGENCE SAILINGS. tot Auo. 22d.—Phant om cutter, Sir William Curtis , -- Ramsgate. Light breeze W. S. W., and fine. 23d.—Kestrel yawl, Commodore Earl of Yarborough' for Guernsey and Plymouth. 24th.— Nymph cutter, John Bayley, Esq., on a cruise' 25th.—Brilliant scho oner , G. H. A c k ers , Esq" for Plymouth ; Arundel yawl, William Hanham, ESq" Plymouth and Falmouth ; O s p re y cut t er , C a p ta in 0 ,1, Keane, to the westw a rd, on a cru i se : F anny cu tter, I • I • Delme Radcliffe, Esq., for Plymouth. bt • 26th.—Ariel schooner, Al mon Hill, E sq ., for Piro° Light breeze W. N. W. for 27th.—Merlin schooner, William Lyon, Esq" di% Cadiz ; Antelop e cu tt er , Viscount Powerscourt, for Ca and Mediterranean. Light breeze W. S. W., and An c ;„ YACHTS AT AND ABOUT THE STATIO N. Schooners—Norna, Hawk, Janette, Hussar. Cutters—Ariel, Nautilus, Ann, Alarm, Lord of the Hebe, Emerald, Earl St. Vincent, Breeze, Lufra, Forest Fly, Phebe, Sapphire, Dream, Sparrowns - C-anymedc, Matilda, Medina ; Waterlily yawl. p:vmouth Regatta has attracted a number of the yacb of the _Royal Yacht Squadron to that port. AUG. M —The Marquis of Normanby and Lord ?al. merston are an. ongst our vi s it ors t hi s wee k. Lord Sydney ,:nd family leave the Castle on -no,t orr next, and the E a rl ,of Errol is expected t o o ccupy " the remainder of the season. Lord Clonbrock leaves to-morrow. • Lord A. Fitzclarence, viti:o has been on a visit toy f e l Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, at Harriet Lodge , yesterday. Departures—Lord Powersc our t and f a mily; Lady - Jos and family ; Mr. Hussey and family ; Captain Jone s ' g ral A. W. Corbet, Esq., Captain James Lyons, and se/ of other families are on the move, our arrivals hardly ke e p pace with the departures. Ha mm el Sir L. Sbadwell arrived yesterday, as did Lady " II Mitchell, and Lady Hayse, this day. lO rem The Duke of Beaufo r t an d f ami l y are e xpected main her until thiddle of October. Wight THE HA EVES T. e m The farmers of the Isle of been blessed with m os t s pl en did weat h er to house I ,z 1 70 bountiful crop • the oats are particularly good , they gad also most excellent crops of turnips, mange' wurxela potatoes. NAVAL P4TELLIGENCE• WOOLWICH, AUG. 28.—The Lightning, CooOf der R. N. Williams, and the Fearless, Second N 1 , 2 _ 11 , 6 " r H. l3rehant, steam-vessels, returned to Woolwic h Sunday, having transferred a company of the Mx ii , Artillery to the Apollo (troop-ship), at Portsmouth. The Apollo immediately afterwards proceeded Wit h L ao men to Plymouth, where they were to e mbark io Inconstant, 36 guns, Capt. D. Pring, under orders 11, Gibraltar and the Mediterranean. I ft The Alban (steam-vessel), Master John K in g , Woolwich, on Wednesday night, for Dover, to amyl a company of the 77th F oo t t o the Oriental (0".111 steam-vessel), for a passage to Malta. The Alba° virl return to Woolwich. The Shearwater (steam-vessel), Commander .14,11 Stvane, sailed yesterday from Woolwich for PortsmonorP" where she is to be paid in advance, previous to P • ceeding to the West Indies. . . Byres, • The Modeste, 18 guns, Commander H. on he rived at the Isle of France on the 17th of MO' way to C M hina. turn° der The eteor (steam-vessel), Lieut. -C° to VV P°I- R. D. Peitchard, is ordered from Plymouth with, to be repaired. 0 B . coa l The Firebrand (steam-vessel), Master °' to att tleu left Woolwich, on Tuesday, for Southampton , upon the Lords of the Admiralty. , f or The Rochester sa il e d to-day from Woolwic h Portsmouth and Plymouth. 45r 4 The Oriental m a il s t eam - s hip, 1,264 tons, and horse power, h as b een surve y e d and approved of l ' the mail service between England and Alexandria. i. The Cygnet, eight-gun brig, Lieut. Commander Or munci Wilson, will sail from Woolwich about Tuesd' nex t for Portsmouth and the Cape of Good Hopi'''. APPOINTMENTS. ) To THE MEDEA.—LICUt. Gillmore H arv ey ( 18°3 0 ; to be First Lieutenant ; .Mr. Isaac Noot, Surgrso Mr. S. W. Webb, Assistant-Surgeon ; Mr. 1r 13 ° 1. , Pidcock, Clerk ; and Mr. J. H. Stevens, Mate.. f o .. Henry Parkin, Esq., Surgeon, Royal Marl oo l• firmary, to be Deputy Inspectoi• of Hospitals at wich. ipa gr. Mr. Thomas Lloyd, Mr. John Kingston, John Dennen, are appointed Foremen of the .11111,1 neers ; Mr. Robert Hughes, Foreman of W" ks ' f' st Mr. Robert Tomlinson, Foreman of Boiler-noikral, the new steam-factory in the dockyard at 147.°°'*1 SPORTING INTELLIGDI' YORK AUGUST MEETING.—Wro)2 4 " g 3 (CoNcLunxn. ) 71b; pd The Members Plate of 501., for three-yrs-old , Est a res 6 7st 91b ; five, B s t slb ; six and aged, Bst 101 b ; tn_ar geldings allowed 3lb s ; winners of 50/. once this 1: 10 twice 51bs, and th r i ce 6lb s extra . Mil e a nd hale b Mr. Heseltine's b f The Shadow, 4 years ............ 4 Cohnel Cradock's b c Messmate, 4 yrs ............... , Sir C. Ibbotson's ch f by Plenipotentiary, 3 yrs ...... Mr. W. Richardson's ch c Kingston Robin, 3 yrs••• 5 3 $ Colonel Thompson's b f Mazourka, 4 yrs .... third by fhe first and se con d h ea t s were won easy, and th length. HEREFORD RACES.—WEDNEsn AT. (Co:cm:Dan.) 0 ta dfd, The Hunters' H a ndicap ( stakes of 10 sov. each , , c" -- 2 .) Heats, twice r o und and a distance. ( 7 S aW Mr. Davies's b g Sam W e ller, 6 yrs, Ilst 41b ....... . ••• Mr. B. Davies's b m Merry Lass, 6 yrs, 12st 21b•••'' The Farmers' Plate of 50/. , the gift of the " CountY ro ok the second to receiv e 10/. o ut o f it. 'leaks, tvvic.ce ) I / Mr. Cook's Speculation, 6 yrs, list 71b •••••••••••C r Mr. Vcvers's ch c Little Tommy, 4 yrs, llst 4lb. .... ..... o the Mr. Corbels Beggar B o y, 5 y rs , li s t bah an d ° started. NORTHAMPTON RACES. 1; „,1 1 V' in THURSDAY. 14, 11”' The Yeomanry Cup of 501., for horses not h Lao , d for once round and a distance : the winner to be s °' 1 sous., &c. 1 Mr. Pettifer's br m Catchfly, 4 yrs, lOst 101 b ..... 1 Mr. T. Ridge's b g Whitestockings, aged. I'lst ...... 3 0 Mr. Butler's b g Alunteagle, aged, list 91b ......... ••• A good race. Her Majesty's Plate of 100 gs. Three mil"' „..• Duke of Grafton's b 11 Montreal, 4 • . 's, 9st lib ........ Mr. Worthington's b h Northenden, 5 yrs, 9st 9 1 b....... Won by a head. be sold far The Town Members' Plate of 50/. The winner to 1 I 100/., &e. Heats, two miles. , Mr. Booth's ch g Hahneman, yrs, Bet 91b.. .......slv) . 3 ; 5 Mr. Bireham's Diana, 3 yrs, 6st 111 b.........•• •,! Mr. Capell's b m Victoria, 5 yrs, Bst 91b........... Won easy. m ot, CANTERBURY RACES.—Tittras o wo, The Bridg e Plate of 50/. ; f o r th ie e-yrs-old, • 3 pd g e sr Bst fib ; five, (fist; six an d age d, 93t. 3lb ; mar es logs all owe d 31b s ; winners of a p l ate or sweePs• tak rr e fle 54iP thiS: 31bs; of t we , bib s; an d o f t h ree, i lb s ex tra. "- „ to be sold for 150 sov., &c. Two mile heats. Sir. Balehin' s b m Slang, ages_ ...( Balchin, k in.) 0 d ' Mr. Cook's ch g Harkaway (.1 t ' r . ........ 0 Sir. Doeke ra y' s b c L yster, 4 yrs • . Y . ... ...... A tir Sir. Clifton's b m Sl en d er , 5 yrs . . ............ .•• s•r Mr. Hussey's Red Ros , -, 4 yrs ... .: .. ........................ fo ur A good r ac e. llb r ef , The County Plate of 50/. ; f or three-yrs-old , 7',',lb; 0 13 " c c Bst 31b ; five, Bst 101 b ; six, 9 s t ; an d - aged, o ' t &e. allowed 31bs. ; winners extra as above. 1 mile and a distance. 0 Mr. Bishop's Munehausen, 5 yrs .........(Horn sb y ) o ar ... Jr. King's Dahlia, 3 y rs Mr. Coleman's Chymist, 5 yrs... ....................... Two others started for the first heat. W° n ea ROWING MATCH. 1 THE SCULLERS' WAGER BETWEEN CONNC' A ci 0 9 ' 4 HASLIP.—This contest took place on Thursday, an ed foo l very pretty race throughout, The match erhanat the coat-and-badge wager of Doggett's, in which h f a t h e way came in third ; and, it having been asserted ; no o was a very powerful and superior sculler, some fr, ear Haslip, who plies at London-bridge, expres sed tu sc lingness to back the latter for NV., and a m atch eie s ad, cordingly made. Betting was 5t04 on Cc n " will bcf °r° the time the men made their a canner, an h" iron' the start, bad increased to 6 to 4. PP The distance wai-ocaY Westminster to Putney, with tide, and the me n we nt about an hour before high water. There v"" ; „" u u r s, choice in stations at starting, and after a few m — ,, - , c lea" , u , c a h t t c h d . e r s s c w, u . a l :aa long g c t u h l i , n C . d o vnannocweaoyf pt 101. Ho had doubled this distance at Vauxhall -bridge' atl'ofcr' though Haslip rowed very hard, the latter cou ld n :mio ut° take him. Conn owa y arr i ve d a t Putncy-bridge - and a half before his opponent. SICK PEOPLE.--I have not vet -- hie to venture out ; perhaps by Thursday licit I maY g. t , t , r) tv , ° of the clubs, but not, like De Sage's lam e see m a 0 00 0 devil , eem t o crutches. People are so sympathising ; t ße s i des , lle care so much, and they really so little. e I 0 0 cording to my theory, sickness is bundliation. I 12 0 _11 4 ,... however, do not go the length of Charles Lamy however, of " People in general don't like sick persons, &ow I hat() them,"...james Smith's Memoirs, ire!._ r.i4 l • - alfl3 EVENING EDITION. TIM SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 1840. EVENING ED I T