The Sun. — London, England, 1840-08-19 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION. LITERATURE. • WANDERINGS IN GERMANY. Ball, London, 1840; In the summer of 1837 the author of this slight and sketchy volume, a gentleman named Wilkey, set out on a tour through Germany, a tour which seems, now-as days, to be as much the fashion with . Englishmen as that of Switzerland was e a dozen . years ago. After an unusually stormy passage, during which he " was a victim to the unutterable agonies of sea-sickness," Mr. Wilkey reached Hamburgh, of which he speaks in terms of high praise, and seems inclined to dissent from die opinion ' of most travellers that it is " the most dissipated place in Europe." We do not, however, lay much stress upon his dissent, for he was there too short a time to be able to form an opinion worth considera tion. Berlin, which he next visited, he pronounces to be a dull city, though he was struck, as are most foreigners, with " its imposing edifices, and broad, • regular streets." The inhabitants, he tells us, are shackled by etiquette, and, like all Germans, are passionately fond of music. After a brief stay in the Prussian capital our author took his departure for Leipsic, so celebrated for its annual fair, and that tremendous battle which decided the fortunes of Napoleon. Here he heard the particulars of the death of -the chivalrous Poniatowski, who was one of the Emperor's most faithful adherents, and fell in. the retreat from Leipsic. We quote the account of this catastrophe, which we do not remember to have seen detailed with such minuteness as is here . x' ibi ed On tl.e 19th of October, when the French army I evin to retreat, the Prince was charged by Napoleon w th the defence of that part of the suburbs of Leipsig wisich les neatest to the Borna road. For this service . he had only two thousand Polish infantry assigned him. Pe.c , iving t'le French columns on his left flank in full retreat, an.i the bridge completely choked up with their retillcry and carriages, so that there was no possibility ( f ge ting over it, he drew his sabre, and turning to the (ffice s elle were about him, Gentlemen,' said he, it is ha ter to fall with honour.' With these words be rushed, at the head of a few Polish cuirassiers, and the officers surrounding him, upon the advancing columns of the allies. He had been previously wounded on the 74th aeti 16th, and on this occasion also received a musket ball in his left arm. He nevertheless pushed in ward, but found the suburbs lull of the allied troops, rho hastened up. to take him prisoner. He cut his tea,' through them, received another wound through his cross, threw himself into the Pleisse, and with the as sistanee of his officers reached the oppcsite bank in ssfety, leaving his horse behind in the river. Though much exhausted, he mounted another, and proceeded to tl.e E ster, which was already lined by Saxon and Prus sian r . flemen. Seeing them coming upon him on all sides, he plunged into the river, and instantly sunk, to gether with his horse. Several officers who threw them selves in after him, were also drowned ; anti others were taken on the bank or in the water. The body of the Prince was found on the fifth day (Oct. 24th), and taken out of the water by a fisherman. He was dressed in his gala noiform, the epaulets of which were studded with dianarnde. His fingers were covered with rings set with brilliants ; and his pockets contained snuff boxes of great value and other trinkets." Mr. Wilkey is loud in his praises of Vienna, chic a according to his account, must be one of the liveliest and handsomest cities in Europe ; he can not, however, he adds, " say much in commenda tion of its climate, for it is very variable, and the high winds that blow here, particularly that from the east, are extremely piercing and injurious." As regards the prevalent dissoluteness of manners in the Austrian capital, our author agrees in opinion with many other travellers, who have declared that it is as dissipated a place as any in Christendom ; and observes, in illustration of his assertion, " An Englisshman who had spent a considerable time in Austria, and whom I afterwards met, told me, amongst other things, he had sate several days following at the table of a man of consideration at Vienna, when both his wife and mistress were present, and the character of the latter was well known to the company. In the opinion of my in formant, society at Vienna was even more licentious than at Florence, for here, said he, in some in stances, one man will have an indefinite number of mistresses, whilst at Florence, these lords of the creation are content to be the husband of one woman, and the cavalier of another." From Ivrienua Mr. Wilkey went on a steam excursion to Presburg, which was the extreme point of his tour ; and thence retraced his steps homewards, ssisitlng, on his way, several of the most eminent towns and places of note in Germany. The great fault of his hook is its want of anything like sub stantial information. It is a mere Diary, of the slightest arid flimsiest nature possible, and the in feriority of the matter is by no means atoned for 11 the felicity of the manner. PRINCE NAPOLEON LOUIS. Few events have caused a greater sensation in society than the lamentable termination of the Prince's late at tempt. It still remains to be seen what were the grounds en which he undertook an enterprise that up to this =- meet appears to have been so unaccountably rash. The only conclusion to which it is possible to come is that he must have been the victim of the intriguing adventurers by whom he was literally besieged—of people who, having nothing to lose, over-persuaded him to the adoption of a course from which they anticipated a brilliant future for ther own fortunes. This seems a probable conjecture ; hut other persons, nether few ncr believe the Prince to hove fallen into a snare laid for him by the French police, in their anxiety to get rid of one who cause! them so much uneasiness, and whom they especially dreaded in reference to the excitement that is naturally 'peeked for when the remains of the ex-Emperor shall ar rive in France. Alen elto were far from participating in the opinions or entertaining the political views of the Prince have, never- I heless, taken a deep interest in him en account of his per sonal qualities, his great accomplishments, and his polished m; nners. His unexampled generosity, which never per.. mitt:El him to inquire of what country the individuals might be whom he invariably relieved in their distresses, has acquired for him an universal sympathy that leads all who knew him here to throw the blame of h:s recent at tempt—if any belong to it—upon those who led him astray, A thousand instances might be adduced of his liberality, and of the extreme delicacy with which it was exercised. One of these we cannot forbear to mention. Two foreign sharpers were late!y iu town, and contrived under false but specious pretences to gain access into the be: t s.ciety. They were everywhere received without suspice n, end among other houses at which they visited was that of Napoleon Louis in Carlton-gardens. It was here that at a dinner party, Captain Vyse, of the 2rl Life Guards, met the soi-disant Vicomte de Tracy, one of the escroqueurs to whom we have alluded, and. before they separated the latter agreed to purchase a charger from the Captain for a hundred and fifty gu i neas . The horse was sent to the stables of the Vicomte, who, however, forgot that part of the transaction- which involved the payment of the money. SlTthly afterwards the two chevaliers d'in dustrie felt themselves impelled, by the extreme urgency of their private affairs, to quit London in considerable haste, leaving several little pecuniary matters unarranged—the transaction with Captain Vyse among the rest. The Prince. • having heard the story, at once determined that, as he had • been the medium of the introduction, be - was bound to bear les friend harmless from the consequences of it. With this high-minded feeling he enclosed a check for the amount - to Captain Vyse in a note remarkable for its delicacy. 'I he answer may be anticipated. It expressed the Cap tain's sense of the gentlemanly motives that had dictated the offer, which, however, h e d ec li ne d to acceat, on the ground thatl if he had been tricked he could only blame his own Want of caution, and that he could not for a moment acknowledge the Prince's responsibility. There the matter bested till such property as the .Vicomte de Tracy had ....deft behind him in his hurry was exposed to sale for tile a.Tlacnefit of those who had suffered by him. When Captain Vyse's horse was brought to the hammer the Prince di xected M. de Persigny to b uy hi m, and send him to the Captain, with a r eques t t h at he would accept present as Captain a mark of his e s t eem an d friendship. Vyse could - no longer refuse ; an d thus terminat edt t r ,e an a saction that e , reflected the highest cre di t on both the parties • There is a circumstan ce connected with thetloatiet.enter prase of Napoleon Louis that g i ves i t a peculiarly sombre -and melancholly colouring. Prior to his departure the .. Prince wrote to his banker a l e tt er that hadi ? some sort the- cbacter of a testam entary paper. It cen tained his last directions for making a generous pro_ , rep; vision for his servants and other persons who were de pendent. on him ; ;and, if this were proof of the kind.. e ..mess of his disposition, his probity was shown by the ayition of thamost detailed instructions for the p ayment .a a who had pecuniary claims that it was incumbent on him--to liquidate. He had always been in the habit • of paying every account against him regularly once a i. month ; and when we see, therefore, that, amidst the ins • ,portant cares that distracted him at the last moment, he • did not lose sight of the smallest debt he had incurred, we • have the most convincing proof that, among the other ex cellent traits that shed a lustre on his character, there was none more remarkable than a high and scrupulous principle of honour. It is stated in the last advices from Paris that Marechal Clause 1 and M. Mauguin are seriously compro mis e d : b y the - maiseovery of some papers on board the steam boat. Ir this • .be the case it would appear that in the interior of France '9 l er? was more foundation for the Prince's attempt than the failure of it at Boulogne would justify one in believing. —4ll " i ling Post. of 140; rk John - Russell was a passenger by the mail train ell the Lancaster and Preston Railway on Thursday evening. His Lordship, after having stopped at the King's Arms, pursued his journey into Sootier d the following .morning.—Lanca s er Guy, rdian. Lord and Lady Brougham have left Grafton street tor the villa wit ch his Lordship has taken for a term at Ashford, in Kent, where the Noble and Learned .Baron intends to reside g the autumn. ' THE lONIAN ISLANDS, AND THEIR NEW CODES OF LAW. TO TEE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SinL- - There is no one who has in the least in terested himself in the affairs of the Government of the lonian Islands, but must . have desired for them new codes of Civil and Criminal . Law. Sir Thomas Maitland recommend: l and commenced the work by taking as its basis the best codes extant. Under Sir Frederick Adam and Lord Nugent, these co d es were nearly perfected ; there remained for Sir Howard Douglas the duty of submitting • them for the consideration and sanction of the lonian Legislative Assembly. For this purpose he (Sir Howard Douglas) assembled a new Parliament . (the sixth), in March 1839, and selected for the members the most intelligent persons of the Islands. And, to use his own words in his opening speech, " Men of so much consideration, character, talent, influence, and stake in the country, and one of these men was the Cavaliere Mustoxides. This Assembly, so formed, was proud of the distinction conferred upon them (the consideration of the Codes), felt the great importance of the duty imposed upon them, the, great responsibility attached to their proceedings, therefore deliberated slowly and dispassionately, clause by clause, and part by part, upon this great work. But, ere the Assembly could complete their labours, so as siduously begun, a difference arose between them and the Lord High Commissioner, which difference eventually led to their dissolution, after two pro rogations. [See Sir Howard Douglas's imaginary plot.] To simplify the matter, with regard to delibera tion, by another Parliament, the Lord High Com missioner, in the selection of his Legislative As sembly, instead of naming them from the iutelli gence of the Islands, as he had previously done, to form his sixth Parliament, adopted an opposite course, and, it is a fact, selected chiefly persons the most ignorant. This seventh Parliament assembled in February last (however without the compliments to their character, intelligence, &c. granted to the last), and proceeded to the consideration of the Cones ; and, as a preliminary step, not a bad one, they appointed a Committee of their body to ex amine and report upon them, and this was done rapidly. The Report of the Civil Code was received and read, and without any discussion the Code was unanimously adopted by the Assembly ; but the Report of the Penal Code being read, a member objected to the mode of proceeding, that of adopt ing the Code solely on the ground of the Report of the Committee without discussion, and moved, "that the Codes be read and discussed." Upon which an amendment was proposed. " That the Codes be carried nemine contradicente," upon -w hich a division took place, when, for the original pro position, there voted 11, and for th amend ment 18. The amendment was adopted (and it was not in Ireland !) There is no use arguing upon the absurdity and unconstitutionality of such proceedings. The answer would be, "It does not signify ; the Lord High Commissioner saw no objection." No; his objections have shown them selves to be confined to the exercise of reason and common sense. He formed this nemine-contra dicente-Parliament to save himself the trouble cf objecting, and from such a Parliament what a miserable compliment that there should have issued au address to the Throne of England in favour of the Government of Sir Howard Douglas, and such a one was presented on Friday, the 7th of August last ! The codes may be the best that possibly could have been formed, but it must be admitted that Sir Howard Douglas, coming in at the eleventh hour, has no more to do with them, deserves no more credit, than in the planting of the olive-trees in the islands, the fruit of which he may enjoy. But, if fault hereafter shall be found with them, the biame, from want of proper deliberation at their passing into law, will rest on Sir Howard Douglas and his ignorant Parliament. _ I have the honour to be _ Your obedient servant, CHARLES FITZROY. 15th August, 1840. On Sunday evening, about seven o'clock, when the Woolwich steam-packet Fairy had nearly reached Ilungerford-market, a small boat, in which were three very young lads, shot out from just below the pier, and so suddenly , that it was impossible to prevent the steamboa t from going over them, although the engines were imme - diately stopped. The Fairy struck the boat in midship , and cut her in two. A Waterman named John Wand, f Bermondsey, who was rowing down the river at the time, pulled away to the spot where two of the boys were strug gling in the water, atd picked them up, The other boy had disappeared, excepting one of his hands, which could just be discerned above the surface of the water. A Wool wich waterman, named Richard Wheeler, one of the crew of the Fairy, jumped overboard from the stem of the ves sel, and succeeded in saving him. Wand then rowed to Wheeler, and took him and his charge into his boat, and rowed them safe to the pier, TIIE WEATHER.—In our last we announced with pain the breaking up of the weather. Since then little ill has happened to the growing crops. Friday, Sa turday, and yesterday, were growing days; and the sun shine predominated over the rain. The temperature is low, and the moisture has greatly improved the meadow hay, the turnips, and potatoes. It is our hope, however, that the watery it fluences will not be permanent. In the meantime, harvest has been commenced in our neighbour hood ; and, among others. a field of ba•-ley was cut last week by Mr. Mather, at Barlanerk, near Glasgow. One swallow, however, does not make a summer ; and this is a petfectly isolated case as connected with Scotland, the harvest in which, even with the most favourable weather, will not make a commencement before the end of the pre. sent or beginning of the next month.—Glasgow Argus. Mr. Galloway recently proposed to Mehemet Ali the construction of a railway from Alexandria o Cairo, a distance of 120 miles, crossinc , the stream twice, and passing through a great part of the Delta. This road would cost about 3,000,000 thalers (500,0001.). and the distance might be performed in four hours. The Vice. foy has, ho to ever, made no reply to this plan. ANIMALCULAR CONSTITUTION OF CHALK. —Professor Ehrenberg, in 1836, announced, that in esti niriing chalk and other calcareous rocks, he bad dis cavered the characteristic fact, that the smallest grains of chalk appeared to consist of regular elliptical par ticles, possessing a cr;•stalline aTecr. Since tli4 pe riod, he has ascertained that the chalk of Puskarerz, in tt. e east of Prussia, and that of the island of Ru en, of Schonen, Denmark, Gravesend, Brighton, Ire land, Mendon near Paris, Giigenti in S,cily, pres4nts two different structures ; the one inorganic, dis;in ;;uished by its regular elliptical structure and granular slaty disposition, and the other organic, consisting of microsco pical shells. By mixing Canada balsam, by the assistance beat, with the dry chalk, in a fine state of division, Ehrenberg found that the chalk contained an immense number cf microscopical animalculm hitherto unknown, va ryin,g in size from one twenty-fourth to one two-hundr e d and cighty-eighth part of a line. A cubic inch possessed up ards of a million of them ; consequently, a pound weight of chalk contains above 10.000,000 of thesf! animaleulw. THE LATE LORD DURHAM.—EarI Grey%vit nessed the departure of the funeral procession from Lamb_ ton Castle. The venerable Earl was stationed at a win dow in an apartment above the saloon ; from which it could be seen for a considerable distance. It was rumoured that his Lordship would have attended the funeral, but that he remained in the castle to administer to Lady Durham the consolation she so rnuch needed under her final sepa ration from her beloved and honoured lord. —Durham Chronicle. ~ THE TOLERANT CHURCH.—On Monday, the remains of the late Mr. Job Spriggs, who dicd at the house of his brother, in this town, were removed to Clipston Church for interment, but the deceased not having been made "a child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom," by baptism according to the ritual of our Popish establishment, the pope of the village, the Rev. J. Bull, refused to perform the service, which pronounces every [christianized] infidel our " beloved brother," and commits his remains to the dust in the " sure and certain hope of a joyful resurrection to eternal life." The Rev. F. Gough, Baptist minister, delivered an address on the outside the " consecrated enclosure," after which the interment took place in silence. How long arc the feelings of surviving rela tives to be outraged by such execrable conduct ? What Popish Bull was ever more contrary to humanity, reli gion, and common sense ? Can any of our readers inform ei h c y e s us what m o d e i s adopte d b y t h e • pr i es ts of the Establish ment w ier h s ic h h ire th m ey o l .c e u a r r y n . whether a deceased person has been_ baptized accor di ng to the rites o f t h e Ch urc h or n o t i family,ith ger i s Mr. Bourdo hasi t successa to n, a c e lebrat e d p or tr a it painter, who met with ;;rest in taking th e portraits of the Vice roy'sor Syria, where he is to take the likeness of Ibrahim P-ed f Pacha. He has given up the idea of Lakin;; r , that of , features such constant changes that it is i THE WEATHER impossible t o d e li nea t e them. HER AND THE HA R VEST.—The last two or three d a y s • oisn London and i ts ne i g hb our h oo d have been unusually bternns ' accompanied at intervals with heavy show ers o f rair rain fell in torrents, th e wind" On Sunday a ft ernoon t h e as even ing unusually cold. On Monday the high, and the ay the wi n d i ncreased to a hurricane from the S. W., and several 1 during the day. The gale on theev heavy sh owers f e ll riverand the steamers could hardly make headway was tremend ous , coming up the pool against the flood tide, whil e , agai ns t i t i n navi gation of the boats and small craft was e the geatly A few gleams of sunshine occasionally burstr impeded, hazy atmosphere, but altogether the day was cold,through the wet, aed cheerless. Nor had we yesterday much finer weather. We are, however , glad to find from the country p apers t h a t notwithstanding the temporary interruptions of the fine weather the harvest proceedr pretty wall. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1840. IMPORTANT NEW WORK ON CIRCASSIA. Now ready, in 2 vols. post Bvo., with Illustrations, 21s. bound, A YEAR AMONG THE CIRCAS SIANS. By J. A. LONGWORTH, Esq. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. To be had of all Booksellers. MR. G. P. R. JAMES'S NEW NOVEL. Nov ready, at all the Librariesin post Bvo., HE► 'MAN A'l' AItM S ; . Or, HENRI DE CERONS. A ROMANCE. By G. I'. R. JAMES, Esq., Author of " Darnley," " De L'Orme," " Ch..rles Tyrrell," &c. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. CIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of 6_ a AUSTRIA having AUTHORISED and GUA RANTEED several DISTRIBUTIONS of MONEY DI VIDENDSc which (though they are NO LOTTERIES) affer many possibilities of obtaining LARGE FORTUNES. HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, Arc now SELLING BONDS for the saidDISTRIBU I'IONS. 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The Bonds (which are no Lottery Tickets) can be cashed at 3very Banker's connected with Germany in every mercantile place in the world. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Fifth week, and increasing success of Haines' Historical Spec tacle, "Jane of the Hatchet." Upwards of 60 ; 000 persons have already witnessed the grand military evolutions and imposing Tableaux d'action, of the hundred Female Warriors, in this extraordinary Spectacle. Crowded Houses. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. N:0rning......35 minutes after 6. Evening B,minutes alter 7. The Publication of the Evening Editien of THE Sux com menced at 10 minutes after Three. p' 0 ~.....4;.A,..... ~-;_ii • - ? ~ • •,.. ~,.;;;::: ''' c-Me 7 ..0.; ;...ii•N.-':(-° - 0, .-.• • - -,-, ~A..„ ~,•,?,..-?t,e-„t .----,...:_, ~;:z 4 ..*we , ,-.., -,,,-0, r 7 e 4 LONDON: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1840. The public would have been most happy to learn from the Standard " that it is known that nothing can shake the loyalty of the Irish Pro testants, a characteristic which we rejoice to think they will ever maintain," had it not been that the same voucher for their loyalty openly advises them to set the present authorities at defiance. The loyal Standard says— " Let our Irish fellow-subjects legally organise them selves as that distinct party which the finishing stroke of conciliatory policy has made them for ever. Let the members of the old Corporations preserve their forms, according to the charter of more than thirty Kings ; meet on their usual festive anniversaries, admit so many Protestants as they think worthy to the honour of being associated with them ; and though stripped of all political power, avowedly because of their fidelity to the principles to guard which power was conferred upon them,—let them perpetuate the memory of this glorious fault, and of its ' honour giving' penalty, by all means that are not unlawful. Let the old Corporations be preserved, as far as forms go, in integro—preserved as monuments of constant , loyalty on one side, and of the little faith to he placed in office-seeking statesmen and politicians on the other. Let :hose institutions be reverently cherished though no more than a shadow of them remain, but with the odious things substituted for them let Protestants have nothing to do. They were engendered between the O'Connell Ministers and the Conservative aristocracy and their parasites ; upon these let the hideous progeny be afliliated—let the parents take care of their own offspring—Protestants owe nothing to them." So the Protestants are to bc loyal,.,according to the Standard, to the thirty dead Kings, and they are disloyally to refuse obedience to the thirty-first Sovereign, b e i ng h er M a j esty Queen tICTORIA. The laws of the present Parliament are to be set at naught, and the laws of the Parliaments of the time of JAMES I. and WILLIAM 111. arc to be obeyed. Altogether that is a good representation of the principles of the Conservatives ; they are the loyal and dutiful subjects of dead Kings, and rebels to living authorities. They cloak their re bellion under some fine names, and pretend to defend the principles of Protestantism, while they set at defiance the authority of the Protestant So vereign. The Protestants of Ireland must prove by their conduct that they repudiate the advice of the Standard, or they will stand convicted of honoui ing her MAJESTY'S predecessors more than they honour her. The distress of which we receive continual ac counts from different parts of England, we do not ascribe to the Ministry. They will pardon us for saying that they could not relieve it if they would. If Lord MELBOURNE were as well disposed as Lord CLARENDON to repeal the Corn-laws, the Ministry could not accomplish it till a more deci sive demonstration were made by the people. In fact, however, the lukewarmness of the metropolis on this great question, the opposition to the repeal given by the Chartists, and the steady support which the Corn-laws have received in the anricul -1 , 1 turai districts , render it to repeal the Corn-laws, and so to relieve the dis tress of the people. 1 However much the English may be flattered to the contrary, they are on this and some other points essentially unjust. They keep on the Corn-laws. Public opinion has acquiesced in this scoundrel enactment for more than twenty years, and the public voice yet objects to its removal. To get rid of it we must enlighten the public. A pressure from without must be brought to bear, not only on their Representatives, and on the Peers, who maintain these laws, but on the constituencies 1 which support them, before they can be repealed. The public are to blame, therefore, for the conti nuance of these laws ; and till the public become enlightened and just, we can scarcely hope for their repeal. Every evidence of existing distress should influence the judgment of the public. If the Corn-laws answered the purpose and end pro posed by them, there ought to be no distress in the country, no low wages, no want of work, for against all these the Corn-laws were to provide. The great want of work, the very low wages, and the great distress which exists, are all proofs that the Corn-laws have not answered their object. We have quoted in stances of distress during the last two days, and to these we now beg to add what the Leeds Times says : The depressed circumstances of our labouring popu lation—forming so large a proportion of the consul:lin:: public—render it impossible that our home trade will experience that speedy and lasting revival which is so much required ; and the continuance of our restrictions upon our intercourse with foreign countries, tenders still more improbable the prospect of a permanent re vival of our foreign trade and commerce. An intelligent Correspondent, in a northern commer cial town, thus writes : .‘ What the cause of all this distress—not yet ended, I fear—may be, no one can tell. Our Scottish stocks are droopirg fast, and are likely to get still lower ; and as to trade, there is nothing to warrant an expectation of improvement. Some people even go to the length of maintainiKr that trade is leaving the country never to return. This, hors ever, I cannot believe. One thing is indeed certain—that if trade do not improve in the course of autumn and winter, we must have many more failures among the manufacturers, the consequence of which would be, that trade would get into fewer hands, and then probably get round again." We were in hopes that the fine weather, which had, as our Contemporary states, given confidence to trade, would have at once made its influence felt on prices. But no fall has occurred. Now the weather has changed, not for the better, and our hopes and expectations are at an end. Good judges say that whatever may be the harvest weather, the crop will be short, and that, if it be bad, the distress will be extreme. We were willing to hope that it would not be so, but the price in the markets unfortunately confirms the announcement of those who are en titled to credit. High prices and great distress will therefore most likely prevail during the winter, and the suffering people . will have to curse the Legislature, or curse the agricultural interest, as the cause of their sufferings. `We should urge this with less vehemence if the Legislature interfered less with the people ; but when it regulates the supply of their food, it should also interfere to regulate the quantity of employment and the amount of wages. Its interference with one part of the production and distribution of wealth makes it responsible that every part of it should be adjusted ; and distress, from such a cause as want of food or employment, should not exist. It is because the Legislature has interfered in one direction, that its interference in another is now indispensible. Whether it can look on tile task which awaits it with complacency, whether it really imagines that it can regulate and control every part of society better than it is controlled by the laws of competition and free trade, we cannot say; but we can say that undertaking such a task leaves very little dif ference between it and Mr. OWEN, who denies the propriety of trusting to the principle of competition, and only proposes for his parallelograms what our Legislators actually undertake to carry into effect. Like him, they distrust the principle of competition, and will substitute for it their own schemes and devices. We recommend to the careful perusal of the ad vocates of Church -rates, the report of the pro ceedings at Rochdale, since the close of the poll at that place. A public meeting, attended by up wards of 4,000 persons, was held on Thursday last, for the purpose of concerting measures to- pro ' tect the inhabitants against the fraud attempted to be practised upon them by the .6 friends of the Church," as the exactors of the conscience-tax ludicrously enough denominate themselves. At this meeting speeches were delivered, and resolu tions passed, breathing a spirit of the inoq deter mined defiance to Church-rates both in principle and practice. The conduct of the Vicar—Dr. HoLEswoRTH, of Canterbury notoriety—is held up to the well-deserved reprobation of the public, as contrary to common justice, and insulting to the parishioners ; the system of iniquity acted upon, during the late contest, by the partisans of that Reverend and loyal personage, is denounced in ap propriate terms of severity ; and the meeting so lemnly pledges itself to use all legal means to pre vent the levying of the "unholy and infamous tax," and to defend those who may be prosecuted for not paying it. This is exactly what we expected would take place. It was not to be imagined that six or seven thousand persons, after struggling against the im position of the rate, with all the zeal and self-devo tion which distinguish those who rally round a prin ciple from the hirelings of a party, should quietly sit down and acquiesce in the decisicn of a tyrant majority, even if that majority had been obtained by honest and fair means. Much less could they be supposed to follow this submissive and pusilla nimous course under the actual circumstances of this case, stained as it is so deeply with injustice, violence, fraud, and corruption on the part of their opponents. No ; the natural result of the contest, carried on as it has been, is to arm the anti-Church rate party with tenfold enmity, both against the iniquitous tax itself, and against the Church which resorts to means so iniquitous to fix it upon them. There had been no Church -rate heard of in Rochdale for five years. With the Reverend dis ciple of Canterbury BRADSHAW, came a new era. This clerical firebrand has re-kindled a flame in his parish which will not soon be quenched, and which we hope to see extend to many other parishes. It must have been a spectacle ne less grateful to the feelings of this godly man, than edifying to the community, to witneEs—as was witnessed on Sun day last, in Rochdale—a clergyman of the Church of England, guarded by policemen, passing through the str eets am id st the hoot i ngs an d execrat i ons of his pari s hi oners. With suc h a s i g h t b e f ore his eyes, i t was no wonder that one o f t hi s unhappy man' s own f r i ends exclaime d , " Whoever wing,the Church will lose !" .4. We always rejoice when an act of oppression or gross outr age falls on the shoulders of some person of not e , a M ember of Par li am ent, or a Church warden, or a V estryman, for i ns t an ce, becauie suc h an occurren ce attracts the no tice of the Legislatur e as well as t h e pu b lic, and generally leads to a re medy of the evil. We are therefore, glad to see, from the Marylebone Police Report, that Mc. KENSETT, one of the Board of Guardians andVes affair b e tween the p olice consta ble trymen of th a t p ar i s h , h as had a little personal experi e n ce of the treatment to w hich man y of the lower c l asses are o b licied to su bmit without redress. Had it been an and a h o d man , t h e latter wou ld probably have had a cold bribing,, o , in a ce ll for the nigh t, an d next morning would have re ceived a lec t ure from die Magis trate f or i nter f er ing with officers on In thi s case Mr. duty. KENSETT appealed to the Inspector, who no do ubt knew hi m. He was instantly set at liberty, and the constable who committed the assau lt was fined 51., et. in d e f au l t of payment comm itted for a month. The p art i cu l ars of the case w ill b e found in an o th er part of th e paper. This, we regret to say, "is by no means a rare i nstance o f the brutal and tyran nical conduct of police constables. It is of fre quent occurrenc e ; and however blameable their conduct in the street, respectable persons are de terred from i nter f er i ng, f ro m the conviction th at their hum an i ty would be rewarded with a night's imprisonment. With suc h extravagant powers given to the police, no man is• safe. We sincerely hope, therefore, that this affair of Mr. KENSET T will lead to a chang e of the system, and that in all cases in which an insult to the official dignity of these gentlemen, the police constables, is the question at issue, no charge will be sustained without evidence also from other witnesses. It is certainly a monstrous anomaly that a parish-officer for doing his ditty, should be dragged along the streets like a felon by two servants paid by the parish, for the maintenance of order and the pro tection of the innocent. There is no news of the slightest interest in the German Papers just received, save that the failure . of the crops in Southern Russia had led to agra rian outrages, and the burning of five hundred vii lanes by the starving serfs. In New Russia the periodical failure z,f crops, and the difficulty of pro curing corn by land carriage from Hungary and Po land has from time to time, since the founding of Odessa, produced great misery among th serf population. One year corn is so abundant as to be really valueless ; the next a bliElit falls upon it, or it is burned up by scorching winds, and man a:id beast are doomed to all the horrors of lingering starvation. Everything that an absolute Government could do in the way of providing granaries, and making provision against the approach of such calamities, has been done ; but the evil has been only partially mitigated. The outrages committed by the starving peasantry in the provinces of Orel, Tula, and several of the central provinces of Russia, are thus related in a letter from Frankfort, of the 15th instant : " Tae country people, after exhausting their last re sources, carry away the valuable articles their cabins contain, and then set them on fire, and proceed with their families to the nearest,village. There they remain until the country affords them no longer any means of existence, when they burn the village and emigrate to another district. The entire rural population of those govern ments is thus in movement, and it is calculated that about 500 villages have already become a prey to the flumes. The landlords have every-were aban doned their estates, and notified to the Govern ment their inability to pay the capitation tax. Some of them arc reduced to such a state of destitution that a sub• scription has been opened at Moscow on behalf of the suffering nobles of the devastated districts. The Emperor Nicholas has sent his Minister of the Interior to Tula, in order to devise means of quelling this novel species of in surrection, and placed a quantity of g:ain for seed at his disposition." The following paragraphs include all the mis ccllancous news in the German papers, which we may here observe entertain no fears of a war be tween the Four Poweis and France. On the con trary, they treat the grave discussions of the British Press upon this subject with unmitigated ridicule : HANOVER, AUG. 10.—We learn on good authority, that the celebrated oculist, Jaeger, of Vienna, will shortly come to Hanover, to perform the operation on his Royal Highness the Crown Prince. His Majesty, the King, is going to-day to the Gohrde. BERLIN, Ace. 6.—Privy Counsellor Eichhorn has now finaliy accepted the post of Minister of Ecclesiastical affairs, the conditions which he proposed having been ap proved and granted by his Majesty. The place which Mr. Eichhorn held in the Foreign Department will, it is conjectured, be given to the emi nent Privy Councillor of Finance, Dr. Erchmann ; and Baron Bulow, our Ambassador at London, holds a high office in the Foreign Department, which may, in the sequel, entitl^ him to a place in the Ministry. BERLIN, Ace. 11.—The King and Queen are gone to day to Dresden, where they will stop a few days, and then go to Fischbach, which is hardly spacious enough to afford accommodation to all the distinguished persons expected there. Their Majesties are expected to return to Berlin on the 29th. Should Baron Von Billow take the place lately filled by M. Eichhorn in the Foreign Department, Count Maltzan, now Ambassador at Vienna. is expected to take his place in London, and M. Von Brockhausen, now at Stockholm, to go to Vienna. —Harnburgh Papers, Aug. 14. HAMBU RG BOIt3ENHALLE, Auo. 14, Bills. Money, Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank Shares l7Bl A n la-Russian Loan lr9 IS 8% Pam;ian 5 per Cent. tst series, Certificate Inscription, Ist Se: . lO4 'fustian 5 per Cent. Hop, and Co. tid and 4th Series Ditto in Certificates Dutch :actual Debt, pe: Cent 51!4 51 Ditto a per Cent 9B Polish Bonds New haat An!_7lo.!;ani,h Lox., 3 per Cer. 7.)),4 75 Nclwegian Loan, 1t , 3-1, 4 per C e aZ......., Spanish, New 1 per Cents. EXCHANGE:4 ON' LONDON. ILINIBURG, AUG. 14.-13. fO xi —Two months, 13 334. sTneicnoLm, AUG. 7 .--Sennty-five days, 11, 41, naERSBURGH, <LUG. 7. —Two months, 3 , 1 r, pence AUSTRIAN FU ND S.—VIENNA, Aro. 8 i• iv per Colts. Fear per Cc `s 11.ree Cents Bank Shares lO7O --Allgemetne Zcitung: Aug. is., 141% - France is resolved to alarm Russia. The nister of the Interior, according to the Constitu lionnel of Monday, has granted permission to all the Polish refugees sent out of France in 1838 to return, and fix their residence in the capital. Pass ports for Paris have been forwarded to all the Poles of distinction in the Islands of Guernsey and Jersey, and, we believe, to a few who sought a re fuge in Great Britain. For those in pecuniary distress a suitable provision in pensions, accord ing to their rank, has been made, so that Paris will soon be the head -quarters of the Revolutionary Propagandists. Austria, always easily frightened by the bug-bear of revolutionary principles, has already taken measures for rendering any political communi cation between the Italian refugees in France and the inhabitants of her Lombardo. Venetian terri tory more difficult. The French Government is not likely to allay her terrors. We learn from a ,private source that a simultaneous revolutionary movement in Italy and Poland is one of the en gines which M. THIERS is resolved, in the event of a war, to bring to bear upon the Governments of Austria and Russia. This would certa3nly be very embarrassing, inasmuch as England could not move a finger in support of Imperial domination in these countries. No alliance with Russia could prevent England from witnessing with joy the re suscitation of unhappy Poland ; and whatever might be the primary motive of France, no British Minister would dare to oppose her in the accom plishment of a work so glorious as the re-instating Poland in the rank of an independent kingdom. The preparations are going on with unabated vigour in every part of France. In less than a year France will have 28 ships of the line, 30 fri gates, 12 corvettes, 40 brigs, and 150 oth er ves sels, all afloat, fully manned and equipped for war. The French are so proud of their fleet, that we have a fresh enumeration of its strength in one or other of the Journals every day. Comparisons, so odious in most things, are here glorious. The National has only to quote in parallel columns an article from the Constitutionnel, setting forth the naval prowess of France, an d a l ea d er from the limes, deploring the wretched condition of the old hulks that constitute all , that remains of the " wooden walls of old England," to raise a hubbub for war among all the shirtless adventurers in Paris. This is the only instance in which the excessive modesty of the Tines has proved injurious. We have received the following letter, dated Toulon, August 12:— General Corben has returned to France. He arrived yesterday on board the Phare " Great exertions arc making to complete the battalions of the Regiments which are selected to make part of the great expedition which is preparing in the province of Oran. There arrived here yesterday 130 tirailleurs of Vincennes, and 430 men who are intended for the Zouaves. The preparations for the expedition will be prosecuted with vigour on the arrival of General Larnoriciere at Oran. _ _ _ 4 7 lieutenant-Colorwl Cavaignal arrived at Algiers on the sth, and on the B th took the command of the regi ment of Zouaves, at the head of which he will prove a worthy successor to the brave Lamoriciere. This regi me is to embark for Oran, to take part in the expediti on ." ALGIERS, nt AuG. B.—We have received interesting news from Oran up to August 3. The Dragon brig, which had been sent to Tangiers had returned. It touched sue ccsaively at Tangiers, Ceuta, and Gibr'altar. The news which it brings is interesting. Our Consul at Tangiers had no apprehension, and had no reason to complain of the conduct of the Emperor towards him. Abdherraman desires to remain at peace with France, but he asks our support in eisa his subjects, who are naturally inclined to ku.sist Abrl-d-Kader, should not listen to his orders. In the first instance he has not been able to prevent them from praying in the Mosques for the success of the holy cause proclaimed by the Marabouts in the name of Abd-el-Kader. At Ceuta the Dragon was likewise well received. It obtaimed certain intlirmation that there was an agent of Abd-el-KAer at Gibraltar, commissioned to purchase arms cf the merchants. During the last war quantities of twaraunitieti were sent from that place to Abd.el- Kader —Cimstitlitionntl. BOURSE.—PARTS, MOND AY , A UG . 1 7 . I. irst Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Pri ce. P rice Rench 5 ier Cents ll3 60 ... 113 60 ... 113 15 ... 113 40 4 per Cents loi ... 1 ,, 1 ... 194 ... 104 3 per Cents O -. HO ... 79 BO .., 79 90 3aril : of France..... LalliLte Batik I,ltoof. Sh lOB5 —10:45 ...Icso ...1080 t 5,0001. Sh .5'40 iielgian Bank 5 yet Cents 3I er Cents Dutch 2% per Cents 524 ... 52% ... 52.,,' ... SN, 1 Spanish ACAVO . - ... V3*, Pa ssive 6 14 ••• 0 4 ... tili ... tiq Por tuguese 3 per Cents ti‘ ... 23 ... 22 .to :.eaplait.ni Roman it 1 ... 10 1 ... 10 ... pa -- --•- -- -- - -- —4 RAILWAY SHARES, St. Cermai, Versailles, It. 1;.... . L.E. ()rift's .. 4844 S:ra,ferurg to Bah: OO ... 3:0 ... 3t5 36'b INSOLVENT DILBTORti' UOUT. (THIS DAY.) IN THE MATTER OF WESTROPP. The insolvent in this case applied on his petition to be discharged. He was opposed by Mr. COOKE on the part of several creditors, who complained of fraudulent alienation of pro perty. The insolvent had in 1836 purchased a house and business for the sum of 8001., and contracted several debts up to last October; at which time by deed of asf.ignment he conveyed his interest in the business and premises to his son, a young man about twenty-one years of age, who assisted him as shoprnsu. Some three or four of the creditors bad signed a document to the effect that they would be satisfied with an immediate payment of ss. in the pound, and a subsequent one of 2s. at the end of three weeks. Evidence having been adduced, • Mr. Commissioner REYNOLDS said that he considered the assignment between the insolvent and his son to be a decided attempt at fraud. As for the document alluded to by the Learned Counsel, it was void, inasmuch as it was executed by only is fra2tion of the creditors, beside there was no proof of the subsequent instalment ever having been paid. He should, therefore, order the condit;onal thsch,tr i ;ze of the insolvent—that he be released from cus. tody when the property was given up for the benefit of the creditors; and it was his (the Commissioner's) determina. lion to remand the insolvent from time to time, until these terms had been complied with. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. (Tins DAY.) OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Baron GURNEY.) RAPE —John Tooley, a labourer, 40 years of age, was indicted for a rapt: on Maria Boddy, on• the sth of the present month, at Illingford. The facts of the case are unfit for publication. Mr. Jones conducted the prosecution, and Mr. Phillips appeared for the prisoner. Mr, Baron GURNEY summed up, and The Jury found the prisoner guilty of an assault only. Mr. Baron GURNEY sentenced him to twelve months imprisonment and hard labour. VIOLENT ASSAULT.-Jame ; Brennan, aged 39, an Irish labourer, was indicted with feloniously wounding Peter Anthony Cullen, a comedian, with intent to do him some some grievous bodily harm. Mr. Jones conducted the prosecution, and Mr. Phillips defended the prisoner. Peter Anthony Cullen said he was a comedian. On the evening of Sunday, the 2d of August, he was in the Coach and Horses, Lambeth. The prisoner was there also. The company were talking about Ireland, and, on a reference being made to him, he said he liked the boys (meaning the Irish) very well, but he did not like their bogs. Upon which the prisoner said he was " a d—d impostor ;" to which witness replied th a t h e was a dirty carpenter. This was between elev e n a n d t we l ve o'clock. Liquor was then called for, which the landlord refused to serve, and witness went away. He was immediately followed by the pri soner, struck violently on the head with an iron poker, and deprived him of his senses. The blow cut his head dread fully, and he had.been under a surgeon's hand ever since. The landlord of the Coach and Horses, and several other witnesses, corroborated the prosecator's evidence as to the assault, and Mr. Thompson, a surgeon, of Lambeth-walk, stated that the wound had been of a most dangerous nature, that in flammation had supervened, and that Mr. Cullen's life was in danger for upwards of a week, and lie had no doubt if the prosecutor had not had a hat on, the wound would have caused instant death. Mr. PHILLIPS addressed the Jury for the prisoner. Mr. Baron GURNEY summed up. The Jury convicted the prisoner, and the Court sen• tenced him to twelve years' transportation, obsr.rving tha these acts of violence, which were now becoming- so fre. quent, could only be put a stop to by severe punishment. NEW COURT. (Before the COMMON SERGEANT.) John Horton and John Smith, convicted of stealing 12s. Id. of Thomas Young, from his person, were each sentenced to one year's imprisonment and hard labour. Thomas Baher was indicted for stealing a handkerchief from a person unknown. City police constable Greenland, No. 282, was on duty on Holborn-hill, on the 21st of July, in the evening. He saw the prisoner take a handkerchief from the pocket of a gentleman, and immediately seized him. A crowd col lected, and he was unable to apprize the gentleman of his less. On searching the prisoner, the handkerchief was found upon him. The prisoner offered no defence. The jury found him guilty, and he was sentenced to six months' imprisonment with hard labour. William Charrington, convicted of stealing IS pair of stays, the property of Robert Gay, was sentenced to seven years' transportation. The prisoner had previously been convicted of felony. Hannah Honli:a married woman, convicted of robbing her furnished lodgings, was sentenced to nine months' im prisonment and hard labour. Edward Hill, aged 16, and William Belcher, aged 14, were convicted of stealing a quantity of calico from the shop of William Collier. Hill it appeared was a boy of good character, bnt Belcher was well known, and had been in trouble before. Hill was sentenced to one month's imprisonment and bard labour.. When Belches- was called by the Clerk of the Arraigns, he commenced bellowing most lustily for mercy, and pro mising to be a model of good conduct if he were not transported or sent to a ship. The COMMON-SERGEANT—WeII, we will give you one more chance, although it was ycu who brought 11;11 into the scrape. The sentence of the Court upon you is that you he imprisoned for three months in the House of Cor. rcction, and before your discharge that you be well whipped. Belcher (in a moat melancholy tone)—Thank you, Sir. ---(Laughter, in which the Common-Sergeant joined.) The prisoners were then removed. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. (THIS DAY.) ASSAULTING A MAGISTRATE ON THE BENClL—Caroline lynch, a young woman of respectable appearance, but .who has been sent from this office to the House of Cor rection at least twenty times for being engaged in street broils, was again brought up in custody, although she was only diFeharged on Monday last from the New Westmin ster Bridewell, where she had been committed for a month, and placed at the bar before Mr. Long, the presiding Magistrate, charged with having been found, at two o'clock thi.; Morning, in Oxford street, drunk, and behav ing in such a disorderly manner as to disturb the inha bitants, and cause many of them to rise from their beds in a state of great alarm. Mr. LONG—You are quite incorrigible. I shall send you to Bridewell for one month. Defendant—Then I won't go for nothing; there._ take that, you old —; and before the gaoler could prevent her, she flung with amazing force a handful of perm) pieces at Mr. Long. Only two or three of them struck slightly his worship's person, but the rest completely rid. died the windows at his back. She was removed with great dif f iculty to the lock -up cells. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL, 4 There was a good demand for Poultry, with a moderate supply, and prices with difficulty sui ported ; Eggs in good supply, the demand dull at ss. 6d. and 6s. 9d. per 120. Butcher's Meat was in good supply and moderate demand, but prices were with difficulty maintained; Beef 3s. 10d. to 4s. ; Mutton, 33. to 4s. ; Veal, 3s. Bd. to ss. ; Lamb, ss. Bd. to 6s. 4d., and Pork 33. 6d. to ss. per stone of Sibs. COLONIAL MARKET. A good demand prevailed to supply the wants of the home trade; and prices were firm, especially for Raw Sugar, Coffee, and Tea. The imports were light from all quarters, and the public sales were of little moment. TEA MARKET. In Free Trade a fair amount of buisiness was transacted and former rates fully supported for all sorts. Congou and Twatikay were, however, the most, in request. TALLOW MARKET. The demand for Y.Y.C. still limited, but prices did not give way, arid fine quality on the spot was worth 525. per cwt. For arrival 51s. 9d. was asked, but few buyers appeared. IRISH PROVISIONS. Butter sold slowly at former rates. Bacon less in request, but prices firm. Lard wanted, and 655. paid for fine bladdered. METAL MARKET. Lead in good request. Iron sold steadily. Copper brought 911. per ton. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS, CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The - Haniburgh Mail has arrived of the 14th August withipapers of the same date. Exchange on London, 13 5i ; Gold, 427 ; Metal, 108 ; Bank Actions, 17d 0. The Continental intalhgence received this morning has caused the British Market to remain firm at present. The private letters from Paris this morning state that Prussia and Aus.ria have signed the Treaty to protect the Porte. Consols, which left off yesterday at 90.11 for the Ac count, opened this morning at the same price, Money, 90k1. Exchequer Bills, 22 24 prem. ; Bank Stock, 167,1- 168 4 • - India Bonds, 2 dis., par ; I n di a Stock, 248 250, t' The Foreign Market at present is inactive. Spanish Active closed at 251 i, at present, 25;3- -7,-; Deferred loi 19 Passive 6-41; Portuguese, 341 ; Three per Cents-., 2i ; Brazilian, 79 80; Colombian, 241 25 ; Mexican, 28i 291; Dutch Two -and-a- Half per Cents., 51il i; Five per Cents., 102,1. SIIARES.—Great Western Railway 23 25 prem.; Lon don and Brighton 91 13- dis. ; Blackwall par, i prem. ; Birmingham 76 78 prem, ; Southampton 56 57 per share ; Croydon Ili 12 per share ; Greenwich 8 9 per share ; Manclivster and Birmingham, 10 9 dis. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Shar e . Great Western ..... ... ............ ~ 40 London and Brighton ............ 35 1 9 o London and Blackwall ...... 20 ..to London and Birmingham........, 00 169 Ditto New Shares ............... 9 4 London and South Western 3 B i 7i 56 London and Croydon (Trunk). 134 111..... to North Midl an d , ( New) HALF-PAST ONE. Nothing further is as yet known respecting the unpaid draft of 5,0001. for Spanish Bonds. We bear that the Committee of the Stuck Exchange were to sit on the business in the course of the morning. Consols have been, during the morning, at 901 for the Account ; Money 901 ; Exchequer Bills, 24 prem. ; India Bonds par; Bank Stock, 168,4. Not a bargain has been done in Spanish Stock to the present hour. In the Foreign Exchange yesterday no alteration. In Shares scarce anything doing. Mr. Crofton M. Vandeleur will start for Clare in the event of a general election. EVENING EDITION!_ COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, TUESDAY.—Yesterday, prior to Queen Dowager leaving Windsor, her Majesty visited St. George's Chapel in company with the Duchess Ida of Saxe Weimar, and attended by the Earl of Denbigh: Her Majesty remained some time both in the choir and in the north aisle, where the Princess Louisa Was in terred. The Duke of Wellington, Marqus of Normanbyr Earl and Countess of Albemarle, Viscount Torrington, Madame Van de Weyer, and Sir W. Lumley, left the Castle this morning. The Marquis of Headfort and the Hon. Major pel have both arrived at the Castle this day, and h ave succeeded Viscount Torrington and General the HO' Sir W. Lumley, as the Lord and Groom in liVaiti° s on the Queen. Mr. W. C. Ross, A. R. A., is s till engaged at the Castle, painting the miniatures of P r i nc e Albert, t he King of the Belgians, and the two PriDCCSEC S Holienlobc. Monsieur Guizot, the F r en c h A m b ass ador, is ea. Feted to arrive a t th e C as tl e thi s even i ng , o n a vi"' to her Majesty. The Hon. Miss Spring Rica rode out to-daY iT t pony pheeton. The Duche s s o f B e df or d an d Vi scountess Palmer ston rode out in a carriage in the morning, and in t he afternoon the Hon. Miss Pitt and Madame d'Horr vorst also took a carriage drive. This morning Prince Albert, the Ki ng o f the Bel gians, and the Prince of Hohenlohe, took the diversion of shooting at Virginia Water, attended by Mr. George E. Anson, and Colonel Bouverie. The weather has been very va r i a bl e , an d her g r jesty has not taken her accustomed drive this mornige The Duke of Cambridge left Cambridge House Or after nine o'clock yesterday morning, on a visit to the Duke of Rutland, at his seat, Haddon Hall, DerbYibt The Princess Aug us t a was v i s it e d yester d a y by t"; Duchess of Gloucester. Sir Mathew Tierney attended her Royal Highness yesterday. The following accoul of the stat e o f h er R oya l Hi g h ness ' s h ea l th was issued in the forenoon : " The Pr;nc,ss Augusta is much the same as yes ter‘ day. " Clarence House, Aug. 18." The Marquis of Normanby returned to town Yes r day from a vi s it t o h er M a j esty at W indsor C t The Hon. Edward Petre, Mr. Runihold, al, Mr. Phillip Cr a mpt on h a d i nterv i ews w i th the Neu' Marquis at the Home-office, in the afternoon. Despatches from the Governor of Western Australia were received yesterday, at the Colonial-office. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE' ARRIVALS. d v Mr. and Mrs. M'Neil, and M r s. Y ates, at L°lll,„bi Hotel, from a tour in the Highlands • Sir John Broughton, Bart., at ditto, fr om Bank Farm ; Capt. at ditto; George Robinson, EN., at ditto, from Liver?'" DEPARTURES. Lady and Miss Norcott, f or Windsor; Capta:n Nor (4 14 to join the Rifle Brigade at W ee d on ; Rev. Mr. a nd .a fd r : Hare Townshend, fur th e Ty ro l ; t h e H on. Mr. old Auf- cl Arthur Thellusson, for Buxton W e ll s; Si r Ri c hard a ll d , Lady Moreton, for Sussex ; Sir Ri c h ar d an d Lady ' droll, for Dover ; Lord Ly ne d oc h, f or Derbyshire; tiff and Mrs. Leslie Melville, f or B r i g h ton; t h e Hoe- l i r and Mrs. Henry Ashley, f o r Windsor ; Lord and D a ' Sondes, for Norfolk ; Lady L uc y Foley, for Chelteeloll, Lord and Lady William Fitzroy, for Malvern; Adno by Sir Charles and Lady Ogl e , f or Ri c h mon d ; t he n f ig, Hon. Charles Arbuthnot, fo r H o ll y Hill , H ants; the 1 1 n ,, Mijor Baring, for the Moo rs ; L a d y H oneywoo d, for is to worth Lodge ; Sir Loftus a n d L a d y " t P o for r North; Mr. Corba!ly, M.P., for Aberdeentlire; " t o tain and the Hon. Mrs. W arren d er , f or B r i g ht9e;:tio Honourable Captain Ch ar t er ' s , f or Mil an; Sir .M10;4, and Lady Clifford, for Leamington Spa; Earl, Ori r , Lord Cranley, and L a dy A ugusta O nslow, f or di tt o; „ if . Howard, M. P., for ditt o; L or d S eymour, f or t h e M' k; in Perthshire; the E ar l o f O x f ord, for Frampton 1 1, the Hon. Mrs. Mackenzie for Learn:ington spa;. of Fortescue, Esq., for Dublin Castle ; the Mare si rt g• Northampton, for Dieppe ; Mr. Dunbar, fast; Hon. eneral Capel, for Cheltenham Lleat e j ir is s General Sir William and Miss Paterson, for ; ditto ikir• L. Bulger, Bart., for the German Spas; J. G. f worth, Esq., and Mrs. Skipworth, from Long's not e 4 4 be Antwerp ; W. E. Hartopp, Esq., Mrs. Hartopp, A ° "dor.- Misses Hartopp, from ditto, for Leicestershire; bin, Esq., front ditto, for Oxford ; T. Y. Hall, from ditto, for Newcastle ; Major and M. Kell from ditto, for Lansdowne -crescent, Cheltenham;. ' t bo and MN. George Calvert, from ditto, for LiverpeoS; v i e r , Earl of Enniskillen, for Ross shire; the Hon. P er , c YCites' Bert, for Monaghan; Sir Walter and the Hon. Lo'Yrl i- rtee" ling, for Wrotharn Park ; the Earl and Counters of M. P , for wi-o. gall, for Ireland; Admiral Lord Colville for nubs Wells, sae. 0191,1... VNII I°' Nn before f, forol R . e A t h M z:G bank r u pt AT B, s r , „ ,‘_ v . . i 1, : 7: 1 : t e: RAMSGATE, TUESDAY EV.- _, ri n 0 THE BANKRUPTCY OF N. A. AuSl ll " • • hil The adjourOneLdpmßeeAti . assin ig final examination was held at the Albion H ot el, l ,•_aill'ii" a l , to-day at three o'clock, Keene, E. Drake Brookman, 1. Co m missionersoysan H. ‘, 4 h 'te wick. After some preliminary proceesiit;ge Mr. Win; ""); of London, accountant, presented the balance slieat • consisted of 101 sheets, besides an elaborate strtem, 01 1- . 0 stock transactions for twenty-two years past. He s sitl", was; due to the assig nee (M r. B urgess) to state th st i, ", nad devoted much persevering industry to prepare a 0 s r , count of stock transacti ons f or t h e l ast twenty-two : le ap amounting to between 3,000 ,000 1 . an d 4,000,000/, n ° t ip vidiously, but for the satisfaction of the creditors. i v (Mr. W.) had taken the same account on another i ll ic r e t ciple, and the result was the same. It was to be rein .a_ r or t. that none of the bankrupt's property was fettered or mer e, gaged, and that the bankruptcy was clearly unpr( tu cce ,• rated. Although cases of individual hardship must ii si had sarily have occurred, the town of Ramsaate gener a ' Y cof don a g e L li n v reason to be thankful for the conduct of the Lon the bank of Messrs. Roberts, Curtis, and Co. H a d ti IC L a we j ruptcy been delayed two months money would hav e !! : fall into Ramsgate, and the bankrupt, having enjoYei t"' la nce confidence of the t own to t h e day of stoppage, tll .C i ba a s 41 , due to the agent wou ld h ave turned in their f viva j ot , former years, but immediately this house was ir,for t 0 : .; the extent of th e bankrupt's embarrassment, they " 4 0 1 ;' mined to wind up the affair rather than by temp orizin ;'. be sures to consult t h e i r own interest. The estate mi. /(Lost expected t o p ay 58, i n the 1/. at least. The total rPi of liabilities is 78,165/. 149. 2d. , of er The Commissioners and Assignees having go i i t 'l 0' the balance sheet (the summary of which is annex .e," pressed themselves satisfied, and the bankrupt pas' (ell the The Ramsgate notes in circulation at the da . .e 0 f a t° fiat, amounted to about 10,016/., of which the bol d t o ot ti:zi amount of 7,000/., and notes to the amount of 3 ' have not yet appeared. ote a ti Thc solicitor's bill to t h e c h oice of assignees ano oar 1701., of which 301. was disallowed in taxation, a' f the remaining sum 37/. was for Commissiouers' fa' IC ip; TO MARINERS. u : TRINIT Y H OUSE, LONDON, A v e . 1,3 h A narrow channel having opened between Co' th 6 Point, on the coast of Suffolk, and one south-end ci e , r t° Barnard Sand, n o ti ce i s hereby given, that in /1e facilitate the pas sage o f such 'ecssels as may,under cumstances of emergency, be induced to avail them° ba 6 of this passage, the Cortv:.ration of the Trinity-nous° a in caused two buoys, as Imr , .after described, to be place the following situatis,, vi z . Ar a° A black beacon- b.:.oy, marked " South Inner Ba f let on the inside cf t he south end of that sand, in 15 ; tow water, 'spring tid es , and with the following marl to comp's' bearings, viz. R C chimn e y o f a f arm h ouse, on the back la w n ju!- by tour...:ning the ou t ermost tree of Covehithe Wood, 'gap' Lowestoft Church, its length open eastward of $ Kizkley Cliff, N. NI: E. South West Barnard buoy, N.E. by E. Southwold Church, S. W. by W. 3 : W. 40 7 A striped black and white buoy, marked " 10 44 Point," i n 15 feet water off that p o i nt , with the foi l marks and b ear i ngs , v i z.: _, fb° A farmhou se on w i th the extreme end -6 f Cl3%.'Ci i Wood, W. b y S. -I S. kid Lowestoft Church steeple on with the gap in ---11 Cliff, N. N. E. E. Southwold Church, S.W. by W. 4 W. • Covehithe Church, W. N. W. Kessingland Church, Noah. fi• Note. --The abov e b uoys b ear from each other hAtil I le S. S. and E. b y N. N., and t h e w i dth of the c• is 180 fathoms. By order, J. HERBERT, Secre 181 ' S GREENWICH y sEss.l( (Before Mr. ADAM YOUNG, and other Justic E P 4,O On Tuesday a respectable labouring man old tl s e on' came before the Bench, accompanied by a iot ° stable, in discharge of recognizauces he had ente feed . 0 91 for the appearance of his wife before the Ma g isti upon a charge of being chunk and disorderly. • pO , The Magistrates inquired why the defendant W a in attendance ? fn Mr. Smithe, the Magistrates' clerk, said that th e P lie eo of the person who now appeared before them had gOr taken up by a con st a bl e, who found her in r -rra i he street, in a dreadful state of intoxication, and oft''' r , gr ed was placed in th e stat i on-house her b usbary."L ;0: 11 into recognizances for her appearance e.t thr, polic 4 " 4 the next day. He believed that since, t'oPn the N, d• had been very ser i ous l y i ll, and was u nt ;ble to at 0 0 ' Mr. Thack ra y inquired wheth e ' r the ill ne ss W ;- cas T io he nedhubsbyatinied said excesses that of sincetb e night t r n s h is i he llt la i d f e t h a a k d en b , c a e n n d i , n in a ra d e r t, eastul .h asdf ra been in from l ul h ' e e s r t senses for any n ot c _ mla e deepest length of time. She had express regret for what bad occurred, and had pr' 7 , he r that it s h ou ld h o a warning to her for the rest ar l ife. Under these circumstances he requested th 00 gistrates would discharge his recorrnizance, and re his wif e f rom attending before them.' 46 1:1 ° The Marvistrates sa id '.h ey would be will' .1 1 g ` Vo s wh a t had been required, b u t they thJught ,;would,i better th at t h e charge :Should bang over thr head va in ile to prevent her from committing such exr s vd to Upon this understanding the case t os order s stand over. THIS - EVENING. AUG. 19. 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 WAPPING OLD STAIRS. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. NINTH WEEK, and CONTINUED BRILLIANT SUC CESS of BEETHOVEN'S BATTLE SINFONIA, With its novel and effective Introductions ! ! GRAND PROMENADES MUSICALES ET CHAMPETRES, By Godfrey's unrivalled Band. Programe of- the Concert for August 17th, llth, and 20th. Overtures—Le Lac des Fees ; Das Nactlajer in Grenada (first time). Quadrilles—L'lndien, The Casaliers, composed expressly (first time), Les Echos. Waltz—Hommage a la Reine, Die Berggeister. Fantasia from Oberon. Aria—Tutto e Sciolto (Sennambula). Clarionet Obligato—Pot Pourri sur les Motifs de Fra Diavolo. Trio—Night is coming (Blanche of Jersey). And BEETHOVEN'S GRAND BATTLE SINFONIA, By the augmented Band, with instruments of novel construc tion, and 340 rounds of artillery and musketry, giving the most vivid realization of the events of the Battle of Vittoria. fhe vast Panorama al Fresco of Iceland and its Volcanoes, by Damon—Breaking up of the Ice—Melting of the Snows— Release and Departure of the Discovery Ship. Carter's astonishing " Koniaphostic " or "Lime Light. Eruption of Mount Hecla, &c. On Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday next. ADMISSION ONE SHILLING. Feeding Hour of the Carnivora, Five o'Clock. Concert commences at Six. Now ready, in 2 vols. post Bvo., with a Portrait, 21s. bound, MEMOIRS, LETTERS, AND COMIC MISCELLANIES OF THE LATE JAMES SMITH, Esq., ONE OF THE AUTHORS OF " REJECTED ADDRESSES," EDITED by HIS BROTHER, HORACE SMITH, Esq., Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. To be had of all Booksellers.