The Sun. — London, England, 1840-08-17 00:00:00

EVEgING EDITION. ERECHTHEIUM CLUE Or. AUXIi lARY AT IT EN .F.1:31. M.I3IITT iific Assoeia iIA.~AVF ELECT[( :N 'I the 6th in th; List of ( `once, That e 2ts they ~ 11 meet, on .._ An2u , t, a' One o'clock pr-ei-ely. at the temporary (o„. the Club, N. , . 6. Waterloo-place. Pall Mall, to make a turt/wr Selcc , ion In m the List of Candidates, and take into coos deratiou the several MANSIONS which have been offered for the use of the Club. Noblemen and Gentlemen desirous of joining the Association are requested to send in their applications to the Secretary, H. E. Paine, Esq., to whom all other Communications re specting this Club must be addressed. (Signed) JOHN DEAN PAUL, Chairman. TO THE PORTUGUESE BONDHOLDERS. 4 PRELIMI AMC NIEETINGoI BOND -1-1.. 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The Bonds (which are no Lottery Tickets) can be cashed at every Banker's connected with Germany in every mercantile Mace 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 FeA ale Warriors, in this extraordinary Spectacle. Crowded Houses. THIS EVENING, AUG. 17. 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 LIRILLIANT SUC CESS of BEETROVI-.N'S BATTLE SINFONIA, With its novel and effec , ive Introductions!! GRAND CH PROMENADES MUSICALES ET PETRS, _ _ _ By Godfrey's unrivalled Band. Programe of the Concert for August 17th. 11th, and 20th. Overtures—Le Lac des Hes ; Das Nartlajer in Grenada (first time). Quadrilles—L'lndien, The Cataliers, composed expressly ( first time), Les Ichus. Waltz—Hommage ala Heine, IJie Berggeister. Fantasia from Oberon. Aria—Tutto e Sciolto (Sennambula) Clartonet Obligato—Pot Pourri sur les Motifs de Fra Diavolo. Trio—Night is coming ( Blanche of Jersey) And BEETHOVEN'S GRAND BATTLE SJNFONIA. By the augmented Band, with instruments of novel construc tion, and 330 rounds of artillery and musketry, giving the most vivid realization of the events of the Battle of Vittoria. The vast Panorama al Fresco of Iceland and its Volcanoes, by Danson—Breaking up of the Ice—Melting of the Snows— Release and Departure of the Discovery Ship. Carter's astonishing " Koniaphostie," or " Lime Light. Eruption of Mount Hecla, &c. On Monday. Tuesday. and Thursday next. ADMISSION ONE SHILLING. Feeding Hour ,rf the Carnivora, Five o'Clock. Concert commences Six. GH 1 TER Al' I.ON Dt.N BRIDGE 10-51 DR RU cr 9 'mutes after ++vening ... + minute. a'tcr 5 The Publication of The Evening Edition nt THS SUN com menced at 20 minutes after Three. - t) - i 4:24 c - ..T . 1 . ( -5k r — '' _ "O.!' '' .s:- - -- - ..,,,N,. ..... AI 54.1 ~' ) , c1 , e , ,,, • • 4......_,,„,......., e ...r . 4 . • ---::.-2..;iz. , 4,f4: , ' --,-----* , • • ..- ~..„..,.„ ...--„,-- Zfn a'al• chisse . c, for the it own sake, in order that they may ernment—that society may not culties or revolutions, should offer mm ed into (lift employ ail the mean , in their power to give correct and unlarz,ed pol , real knowledge to every class in the At lea,.t they :•Iniulcl place no o!i -stacle in the way of the pt ople oiltaqiitip• the best and most accurate information, and they ought to be especiaily careful what opinions they promulgate, awl v,hat prejudice, :h , -t co( rah. The masses of each natton, it is plain, can know comparatively little of the masses of any other nation. A mongst tilt ►n accordingly, arid against each other, the most niveterdte prejudices did and yet do exist, arid of those pr, jud ces, it the masses in Eagldnd and France are to influence the re spective Governmt nts, as they must, the other and better classes will he the victims. How can this be cured, and how can a knowledge of each other be most certainly and swiftly ,:in.earl so that the power of both shall not be blind and mischievous? We say first and best, by giving them as much as possible a common interest. It is the business of those who now pretend, like Lord ASHBURTON, to guide the national comic:ls, to lessen their prejudice, and knit them together by as mutual and extensive a commerce as they can carry on. Instead of that, however, our pretended wise statesmen, who are so averse from heating of the popular influence, have long laboured most assidu ously, by a barbarous system of anti-free trade re gulations, to give each people separate interests, and to nourish their ruinous prejudices against one another. Even Lord ASHBURTON, while he had the sagacity to make the remark we have quoted, had the meanness to shelter him self—as the prebininating influence of the breeches pocket swayed him from rectitude, under the ex cuse that other nations would not give free trade ; as if pocket-picking by JACK justified pocket-pick. ing by JEm, and as if it were not the business of enlightened legislators to do right—to set a good example, and trust to its mighty influence to com pel others to imitate it. In fact, free commerce will never be established by commercial treaties; every such treaty is a fetter on commerce. To compel other nations to gdopt the system of free trade, it is onl) necessary for us to begin it. Our Government may safely rely on our merchants not trading with any nation unless they gain by it, and their gains are national advantages. It may, as far as other countries only are con cerned, and no revenue questions interfere, freely open our ports to them, being quite certain that no trade will grow up which is not a•lvantageous to England. Other countries will, if our ports be freely opened, desire to trade with us, but they will only be able to do that on mutually and reciprocally advartageous terms, so that the way to force free trade on them is to begin at home, regardlt ss of commercial treaties. We contend that this is the duty of our Legislature, not 50 much to increase the national wealth,though that will ensue—not so much to augment the food and comforts of the people, though that will be sure to follow, as to lessen the mutual prejudices of the d:fferent people, who now in part control the Governments, and kn►t them together by the bonds of a common interest. At the present mument no little uneasiness prevails lest a war should take place with France. Many persons believe that it cannot be avoided ; but it there were only as many commercial relations be tween that country and Englar.d as between Eng land and America, it would be at once recognised as impossible that such mutual advantages should be sacrificed to aught that concerns the empire of Turkey or the Pachalic of Egypt. Peace has ex isted between France and England for twenty-five years ; for ten years the two Governments have cultivated active political friendship, and it is a disgrace to both—it is a severe condemnation of the system pursued by both, that at the end of the twenty-five tears, the two nations are not more closely united by the mutual 4dvantages of trade. The wisest of our Statesmen, and the most bene volent of our public men, would most regret should a war arise between the two nations ; and for want of mutual commercial interests there is now a great risk that their benevolent counsels may be overruled by the mutual prejudices to which mischief loving persons in both countries can yet successfully appeal. We see by the Carlisle papers that the distressed hand-loom weavers of that city had a Meeting on Monday last. About six or seven hundred persons were present, and being in a most suffering state, they naturally gave vent to strong feelings in strong language. Their political theories may be erro neous, we see few political theories without errors ; but about their deep distress there can be no mis take. An address was read and adopted by the meeting, as the " Address of the Hand-loom Weavers to the Public," which states amongst other things that, according to the Report of the Com mission of 1838, LONDON: MONDAY, AUGUST 17, 1840 In the Spectator yesterday there is a rea.ark to the effect that the influence of the French over their Government, through the means of a repre presentative system, must be taken into account in consideting the probabilities of war. It is, of course, the unavoidable effects of the representative system, and the more complete that system is the more powerful is:the effect—to give the popular pre judices and the popular ignorance, whatever they may be, a control over international relations as well as over the march of the Government at home. It may he grating to statesmen, it may be humbling to their pride, it may sound strange and dissonant to some ears, nevertheless it must be stated, that the effect of a popular representation is to give as much weight to the opinions of those who are called the foolish people, as of those who flatter themselves with being wise states men. The late mee►ing at Birmingham furnishes a direct proof, for there the extensive knowledge and learning of Messrs. URQUHART, ATTWOOD, MONTEITH, and Co., were obliged actua ly to take the law from the presumed ignorance of Mr. CON LINS and his Chartist friends. A moral is to be drawn from this which is worthy of the attention of " It then appeared from the evidence adduced by the master-mttnufacturers arid their workmen, that the ave rage gross earnings ot a hand-Loan weaver was eight shillings and sixpence per week, winch, after necessary deductions, such us loom refit, winding, and other casual expenses—there would only remain the miserable pittance of five shillings and sixpence, to support a hand loom weaver, his wife and children, in victuals ! clothing, firing, house room, education, &c., for a whole week! which, you are perfectly aware, is altogether insufficient to obtain eten the commonest necessaries ot life ; and that under this state of things, hundreds or poor men, their wives. and Willies, niust be fast sinking into premature grates.' They go on to state " since that period there have been further reductions in their earnings to a most enormous amount ;" and they give a tabular view of the earnings of several of them to justify this state ment. " There are upwards," they say, " o f li ve thousand souls in Carlisle and the neighbourhood dependent on this branch of industry ; and that, in consequence of the scarceness of work, there are innumerable instances of families not having more than three-halfpence per head a day to live upon, which is considerably below pauper's allowance." This description of their distress was confirmed by one of the speakers, Mr. BLYTHE, who said— " When he looked around him every day a :id saw such a state of nretettedu»ss ,among his feiloi.v-erraiurts„ could scarcely think that this was a Uhristrau rout! ) , which could see so many of its people starving, ho e so great a proportion were living in riches and splen dour, who ought to support them. He, for one, knew many families who had not tasted food for twenty-four hours. Was it to be endured longer in the present state of society ?" We should not be surprised were men, exposed statesmen. As a further illustration, however, of it, we must remind the reader that Lord ASHBURTON, with ...hat great sagacity which is natural to him, when unvrarped by the throbs of the breeches-pocket, pointed out, on the debate on Earl FITZWIL. LIAM'S motion (June 11th), the same influenc e of popular representatives in controlling the Govern. to such privations and sufferings, not to be very vents of the Continent on the subject of trad e :_.... strictly observant of the laws of property, and they 6, So hie," he said, " from other countries being in- very openly warn the Magistrates that they " feel dined to agree in this liberalism (free trade), all ttio,e apprehensive, if relief in some shape is not shortly in whi.A there were popular bodies of repre e entries granted, that property may not be secure, and sent's/es, actually repu hated 6 I rep trade.' They would tarry on negotiations on the subj..et, but they all ended imany may suffer wno are neat at all concerned in the cupidity of the master manufacturers, nor the mat 'rti nothing. 'I an Ambassador of Louis the tryFour it ty, they . rui;ht adtninistratiosi of our laws." We will not injure 2:, , enth had agreed to a commercial have reckoned on his carryii , g his coun• ry with nim. tint them by quoting any of the harsher language which they could not do so with an A nib ,ssmlor of Louis Phi .lippe, as the Chambers of his country would be very they used, as we only wish to make their distress known, and stir up the opulent and the hkely t o re f use to acce de to any such treaty."ll<uuwn, ligent to devise means to relieve th em . I t i s i n t e l- In the p resent state o f soci e ty no human being, we appr e h en d, un l ess fi tte d f or a res id e nce in Bed- a disgrace to the country, that h er skilful chit- I Jam, will conc l u d e t h at the countr i es o f E uro pe can 1 dren should want bread. How to r e li eve t h em I be governed without allowing the masses to par- is the difficult problem. At the Meeting a letter I 0 tieipate in the government b means of rehresen- I L l / 2 0. y 6 I was read from Mr. AGLIONBY , which, while it tation—, .I.itrywhere the press, at least, appeals to ; breathed the best and waimest wishes for their wel_ the Nyliof; " ople, and there is no country in fare, ho confessed that the writ e r saw no E ',l rope in,-,:i leh the p ress h as not considerable t testi)* means of giving them relief. There is plenty o f ow over t per.,..- The influenc e o f t h e masses • he fluur and wheat :o be go; at New York for a corn. march of ..s, vernmeht is therefere unavoidable. paratively small sum of money ; why shouid not a What does-this dictate ? Why, that the upper portion of the national funds—since the nation THE SUNS LONDGN MONDAY S AUGUST 17. Imo, will undertake to pension modest merit, and pro- I on the Eastern question, which will he found in vide for indigent r ; d ni lir should not a su9:, another part of The Sun. hhe arovnent of the about a tenth part of the Pel.ion-list, faAier Debuts proves too Innen. The treaty it dt.precates than have so many people st:irves be is just tied by the very ined?iii i y DebutA played to buy cheap -flour at New Yolk, maintainsexists between the SULTA N and his vas,a: SAM I HEY was l e ‘ x! e ec t t o e i t l i c h, o ic r k o t ) o e C F o r i ti s n t e a l i l iti c ti te L and to distril , u ., :! cheap ;id amongst those at Cal!1•It. «l;;,ihree-nalfpeoce with the fleet. per heml per ha) ‘V,,,ther our suggestions be organs since the return of M. PERRIER from followed or not, something, we affirm, must be done, Alexandria inclines us to doubt the -correctness of or the peace of society and the safety of property such a rumour. M. PERRIER'S object in pro , be endangered. ceeding to Egypt was to impress on the PACHA the necessity of moderating his pretensions, in order to put himself and France in the right, should the Four Powers proceed to extremities ; but it appears that the VICEROY was intracticable, and refused to abate one jot of his claims. In all the maritime towns of France the most extensive oreparations for war are in active progress. The Alai. at Boulogne is still the subject of nu merous cou.munications, the substance of which is given in another column. The Madrid papers are of the Bth instant, but they bri.ig no news. The Fives were at 261 for cash. We have given in another part of the Paper ex tracts from American Journals,, and a . letter from our Correspondent at Halifax, received by the Britannia steamer from Boston. This vessel ar rived at Liverpool from Halifax in ten days, having made the passage in the shortest time on record. We have also given an ac count of the festival at Boston to celebrate the formation of the Boston Company for steam communication between tLat poit and Liverpool and our leaders will be gratified to find that the feeling displayed on the occasion was in the highest degree flattering to Old Englard. New York and Boston are now rivals in communicating with the mother coutur) ; and it is a singular circum stance that the two vessels which maned on the same day, the first of August, should have arrived on the :._aine day in England. We bad the first accounts from Liverpool, owing to the facilities afforded to our Correspondent there by the agents 1 for the Boston Company, Messrs. M•lvEtt and Co. Yesterday morning M. Pasquier, M. de Cases, and M Franck Carre, went to the C.,nti erger i e to exam i ne th e persons concerned in the affair of Boulogne, who had al. ready arrived at Paris. It was yesterday asserted at the Luxembourg, salsa jour nal, that the proceedings in the affair of Louis Bonaparte may commence before the Court of Peers on the 15th of next month. Preparations are making to arm the numerous forts along our coasts in the Channel. A supern.r t ificer of engitie.rs has been sent to Boulogne, and has already visited several of them. These torts, in their present con dition, could not make any defence, most of the facing of the masonry having fallen into the ducat's. It is in contemplation, in the Marine department, to rase the number of captains of s hip s (Capitaines de VA:scau) to a hundred, and to nominate forty captains of corvettcs.—La Gazette de France General Laniorien re lett Toulon on the 9.h for Algicri, on board the G'astor ; he had arrived at Toulon but a few moments before toe vessel put to sea. It is known that he is going to take the command of the province of Ora... 'the sudden d. parture c f the fl..iieral gives ocea,ic.ii to a thousand cm:jet:to c,. 5 .ine Imagine that tio• Goverti. men( intend to assume in Alstea, a, writ as in Europe, attitude wormy of France If a war should take wave, it is a t tic than probahie that Eaglaod will do its utmost to excise against us the Emperar of Morocco and the Bey of Tunis. We ought, Ebert fige, to take immediate precau tions to be prepared for whatever may happen. Gibraltar being opposite to Morocco, it is probably from that place that the arms and ammunition will be lot warded, which Abd. el-Kwier will ask for. We may even expect to see English .-ffieerg at the head of the Emir's troops. —Le Constilutionnel. mOURSE.—PAkIS, FRIDA!, Ara. 14. The un-ENlish feeling which dictated the pub lication in the first leading article of the Morning Post of Saturday, of an alleged communication from a Foreign Correspondent, suggesting to Fiance the must drectuai %lay of annoy mg Eitg• land in the event of hostilities being resolved upon, has excited very general di%Ylist in the highest Tory as well as Whig circles of the metropolis. In in stances where, peradventure, the Post looks for ex clusive patronage, the greatest surprise has been excited that a Journal could be found in the British empire base enough thus to devote its columns to the directing an enemy how to inflict a mortal blow upon the proud pre-eminence of " Old England." It was reserved for the Post to demon strate that the rancour of faction may extinguish, even in an English bosom, the love of country — that there is one Tory at least, who, to oust the MELBOURNE Cabinet, would witness with plea sure the landing of 100,000 Frenchmen on the coast of Kent, and the waving of the tri-colour on the highest pinnacle of the Tower of London. The Post's "Distinguished Cor respondents," domestic and foreign, are a truly fiendish brood. The former poisoned the very fountain of public opinion in France, and by the vilest and most irritating taunts, all but provoked a war between the two countries ; the latter, with equal malevolence, indicates the way in which the vitals of England may be reached by the sword of France ! t`itst Highest Lowest Last Price Price Price Price F t ,er t ents 3 per t ents 7M 90 . 79 :..0 LO 25 of fiance 3150 ...; 150 ...:+125 —3'25 Rate Bank 1 ,outn. Sh 4lOO ...1 ti ...11.0 _llOO 5,00ut. Sh 5150 —5150 ...MN) _5.3 ..clgian Bank 5 p 10? 102 ... 40 1 .. 109 3 i.cr Cents .. 69 ... 69 (el 95 ... 61 95 Ac. ive ;25% 1,54 Passive 6 ... t•iyi .. . 6 641 Portuguese 3'ner Cents 214 ... 2F L A , 214 ... 214 Nea t olitan lOO 25 ... 1011 50 ... ILO 25 ... '2ll Roman 1,2 ite2 it 14, ... 141 RAILWAY SHARES, St. rermai.• ersailles, R. B 478 75 ... 4.8 :5 ... 474 75 ... 478 75 L.B. Orleans .. S:rasburic to Bale German Papers, of the latest dates have just reached us. The Leipsic Gazette brings some accounts of strange doings at Constantinople, the particulars of which will be found in another column. The following paragraphs include the latest general news in these papers : VIENNA. AUG. 7.—Count St. Aulaire did not set out for K•oiii , gsborg till to-day at noon, in order to confer with Prince Metternich, who is now there, on the turn which the negotiatiuns on the Eastern qw•stion has taken. His Excelluncy, it is said, entertains the fullest confidence that the differences which have been announced with so n vich noise may be settled in an amicable manner by the intervention of our gnat Statesmilt. The Papal Nuncio, Prince Altieri, is preparing to go re it is said the Ambassadors of all assemble. ttohoKGorneiagtabpuorwg,erws The Post affected to doubt whether France would adopt measures not accordant with the re cognised usages of international hostility. This having recourse to an idle feint to cover the ex pression of unpatriotic sentiments, only adds to the virulence of the poison. While pretending to de precate the views of its Correspondent, the Post is careful to leave it to be understood that he is a much higher authority than the Editor even upon the morality of the very question at issue, and still more as a prophet whose eye penetrates the dark veil which hides the future from the ken of ordinary mortals. In telling us so dogmatically what France will do, the Post aims at inculcating what she ought to do. Hitherto England has kept war at a distance; the Post would persuade France to make us fight for the sanctity of our household gods upon our very thresholds. We cannot after this point to the ATTWOODS, the CA RGILLS, and the URQI.J , HA it Ts as the only persons who rejoice at the prospect of the 'mind's:ion of England, even should one or other of these wor,lnes figure as a Mysterious contributor of the anti-British dia tribes which disgrace the columns of our fashion able Tory Contemporary—inasmuch as the con ductors of the Post must be held responsible for communications to which such an unusual shire of DRESDEN. Arta. s.—There is a report that his Maj'•sty the King of Prussia will shortly have an interview at Fischbach with Prince Metteraich. Accounts from Berlin say that Count Malian, the Prussian Ambassador at the Austrian Court, appears less adverse than be was to undertake the office of Minister of Foreign Affairs. The Embas.y to Naples seems to be intended for Baron Von Werther. It is affirmed, on good authority, th.t in the last fortnight of Auguit there will be a formal Congress of Members at Kottig-burg. We have juvt received files of the Gibraltar Chronicle and the Malta 1 in:es of the sth of August inclusive. The former has no news. From the latter we extract the following late intel ligence from the Levant THE NON PACIFICATION OF SYRIA —We have received advises of the latest dates from tiu , Levant by the Dante ; from Cunsiantinoplc up to the 27t 1 Ult., from Beyrour the 9 21 from Alexandria the 26th, awl from Smyrna the '29th. The intelligence all agrees in representing Syria as by uo means tranquil, and as ha.ing never yet ,übmitte'd to the Government of Ibrahim. Some villages on the coast. isolated from the main body er the insurgents, and se receiving no support from them, alone have submitted. The insurgents retired to their fast nesses on the approach of Abbas and Soliman Pashas. Those who have submitted were bought over by the treachery of the son of the Emir Bechir. The anarchy of the country is complete. But the ex cesses of the Albanians have been stopped by the interfe rence of Capt. Napier, of the P ower ful, who threatened to batter down Beyrout, if their depreciationson the peaceable inhabitants were not discontinued. The presence of Capt, Napier's division alone prevents the whole country from be. coming a heap of desolation. CONSTANTINOPM—Letters have been received up to the 27th ult. The French steamer Cocyte, arrived here on the evening of the 17,11 in eight days from Toulon, bringing despatches from Paris of an urgent nature, but nothing has yet transpired. Despatches were also scut to Alexandr;s. r h e e p r a r p a r t i i n o c n e s o a r r o p r b i n e c i n e g s _ m s a o d e t b t a a t t c h e e le H b r i a r e t t m p h r e o ro birth t o o f the dynasty of the Port e w i t h a goodly number of supply sovereigns. Narvik Pacha, well known in England, and according to our Correspondent , an honest man, has been raised to the rank of Muskir, and appointed to the G ivernment of 2 st e i n s t a a t e Salonics in the place of Emir Pasha, who for the third time has b.- en ceposed on account o f hi s i ntemperance . The. a Y cassta ns had lost one of their castles, the Russians having seized it, without much difficult y , thou g h not without the shedding of blood. left et o n rs the from Odessa h , state despatches c h the s will pro b ab ly t ° s e t a diswpoint the French C.'binet. Cc eLte RUSSIA. --The population of the north of Russia is affil eted with a dreadful I.mine, and the Emperor has been obliged to open his Baltic ports to the introduc tion of foreign corn. " Russia's pride is no longer," sap our correspondent, " what is was, and her influence here is far .below par. It is on this account M. Boutenieff has been allowed to go away for awhile." Trade is very bad at Odessa, and another English house, that of Thomas Carruthers and Sons. has failed. Shipping is so abundant that a Bi itisb vi sari accepted a charter at 30s. per ton, being less than halt of the lowest figure of the usual rates. TREBIZONDE —The last letters (up to the 15th ult.) are satisfactory. Commercial affairs continue to be ani mated, and there is a great demand for English manu factures. The expedition of I - 1 •fiz Pacha against Keur Hus sein Bey has succeeded, the rebel chief having been defeated Pau m,de prisoner. This news has diffused a universal jay. An English Tartar, with despateles: from Pt rain, had been stopped and robbed, but nothing Of imp 'nonce had been lost. CAPE OF GOOD HOPE —By the Walnier Cast/c we have received Cape Town papers of the 27th of May. Tile tow n was at t h at period suff •riug from the smut - pox, though t h e milady had a bated It. had cau se d great attent ion to b e pie d to t he cleansing the t,,vtin, which may b e p ermanent ly beneficial. C om p laint s were made of th e d ea r ness o f bread and meat, but the colo iiisis rejoiced iii some copious mid refreshin g r.ins in th e ca:tern provin c e, ash ch it was wip ed would have a be iieficial eff•ct on prces. The L e g islative Council had been engaged i n di scuss i ng a letter from Lord John on the subject of immigration, which the Council re solved to encourage by the sale of waste lands. ii DUBLIN, AUG. 15 GREAT MEETING OF THE ULSTER C ASk CIAT)ON y •st(rAa) the first nit, ' ' ''' Assc-cia•ii n was heh •n the eiou- Music FLOI Idtei ) erected in Belfast, tt the put') •-e of tiorniAating efflocr, to act for the body Until they should he pelt:mist n'iy apt.ointed dt the fit, general meeting, which will be In Id on Frlday, the 18t! S , Ttember next. This heieg hut a preliminary meeting the public at large or the gentry at a distance were not solicited to attt nd it ; notwithstanding which so numerous a meeting, one representing the ealth, the intelligence the industry, and the morel power of Uls.er, had not beet seen since the memorable period of 1782, when that pro. vince led the vin towards victory and liberty for the entire people of Ireland. On the ;notion of Mr Graig, seconded by Mr. Shsrmar Crawford, the Hon. Henry Caulfield took the Chair. The me eting was addressed in succession by Mr. Conno Blake, the Hon. Mr. French, Mr. V. O'Connor Blake, Mr. Blake Foster, and thi n by Mr O'Connell, the report of whose speech oc:upied nearly three columns. Sir S. O'Malley next addressed the meeting and concluded by I ,ropoing a complimentary resolution to Mr. O'Connell for his services, combined with a pledge to aid the Libe rator in obtaining a dom-stic legislature. Lord French sa , d that as the resolution was the voice of all Ireland, as well as of that 111 , 9.!ing, he would put it to them to peas it by acclamation. The resolution was then carried by loud aid emitinuA acclamation J. J Bodkin, Esq , M. P., was then called to the Chair, when the thanks of the meeting were voted to Lord Ffrench. after which the meeting se parated in the most perfect order. CAVAN ELECTION —Colonel Clements was elected last Wedi,esday. AWFULLY SUDDEN DEATH OF SIR JAMES WEBSTER WED- DERBURNE, BART T.ie demise of the above-named baronet took place a few minutes to eleven o'clock on Thursday night, undo most distressing c . scurnstances. About eleven o'clock h. went int... the public house, 77 Abbey-street, accompanied by two females There he ordered the waiter to fetch u l • two glasses of punch for his companions. The waiter wa s in the act of having the beverages prepared at the bar hrlow when a fall, as if o f some heavy substance, was heard on the fl,►..r of the drawing-room immedi tely over head. He stopped till the drink was got ready, and h. proceeded with it up stairs There, on et tering the apartment, he behel the deceased extended on the ho.ad., all but a lifeless corpse, breathing► convul •vely, but without the slightest motion of the body or I mba. I) ,, ctor Heron, of Sackville-street, was most promptly in attendance—a vein was opened in one of the• temples but all was over—the v't..l spark had fled forever. The women were given into custody, but no blame be longed to them. Yesterday en inquest was held by the Lord Mayor and a respectable jury, when, after the examination of se veral witnesses, the Jury returned a verdict of " Died of Apoplexy." Mr. bincy, sol citor for the deceased, deposed that he (deceased) was the plaintiff in the celebrated case oi Wedderburne, which was tiled before the Lord Chan cellor of England. He gained that cause and came into possession of upwards of four hundred thousand pounds, to gether with estates and property in Scotland and this country worth more than twenty thousand a-year, and that he was to be married in a week or so He had his pas sage paid to England, where he was to have gone this day (Friday), to arrange matters previous to that event. The body is to be sent to Scotland for interment. D ceased appeared to be upwards of fifty years of age. of nandsome countenance, but rather corpulebt in person. In his walk he halted considerably, as if suffering from a paralytic affection. prominence is given. We stop not here to reprobate an example which will find no reputable followers among tht: News paper Press of this country. If war be forced upon Englat.d , in spite of the pacific efforts of the Government, Ministers will encounter no oppo sition on the part of the respectable ultra-Tory and Radical Press, in carrying it on with the vigour and. success hitherto characteristic of British hostilities, Were such an event to take place—which may . GOD, in his mercy to France no less than to Eng land, avert—we should be found seeking our ene mies on their coasts, not supinely awaiting their arrival ,n ours. Should the French steamers be employed, as the National says they would, in throwing from 50,000 to 100,000 Frenchmen upon the Isle of Thanet and the banks of the Thames, such of them as would re-cross the Channel would have but a sorry account to give of their freight. We have an estimate of the invading force given by the National, but that Journal does not venture to predict what portion of it would return to Paris laden with the plunder of London. That. calcula tion is left for the Foreign Correspondent of the Morning Post. We trust it is not yet too late on the part of the Press, to express a hope that the good sense of the two greatest and most civilized nations in the world will be powerfully exerted, even at the eleventh hour, to avert the horrors of an European war. The importance of the question in dispute is not worthy of such a sacrifice of the great interests of humanity. War, ever a crime, is now ix:e of fear ful magnitude. Instead of tending to spread civili zation, as when successfully carried on against bar barians, it must. have the effect of retarding its progress, or of b:utalising the passions of an al ready partially educated and refitted people. We epeak not of the individual misery which it would ihflict upun iniudretls of thousands,—upon the evil passtoos which it would en g ender in the breasts of all. The anguish of bereaved relatives, robbed by conscriptions, of sons and brothers. ripening into manhood, to saturate with their life- , blood the battle-fields of nations, has been painted by more than one French hand, in colours so vivid that we shrink in despair from an attempt at BATH. —.OBITUARY Ex TItAORDINARY.— ( From a Co r regp o t a d ent .)-0a ,li g nitarii s ..1 the Ch urc h, Saturday, August 15 , died of a decli ne , a l ter a rickety ex istence of two year, and ten months, the Bath Post , al ias the Somersetshire Constitution a l, a li as t h e T a unton Conservative. Shorth after its both, it was ta k en under the aus p ices of severe) as its wet mine; assisted in ills la ctessant duties by a son of Mars, %ha. although acting in a subordinate capacity, who appoin ted a certain Baronet was considered , s t h e Major nursema id. The seeds of its dissolution wer e sown b y its being con fined under the pet ticoats of M o th er Ch urc h, which induce d a p rernature de cay arid early d es h_..... STRATHRO G I E CASE. _.At At the meeting of the Corgani,sion on "Fh ors d a y, the Wl'. Mr. Dunlop reported the result of t h e deliberations of the C ommittee ap p ointed to frame a lib e l aga.tist t h e seven suspen ded ministers of Strathbogie, and Requieseat in p ace." proposed that the libel should be adopted —the relevancy to be considered at the next Commission. The motion was adopted without a vote, and the Com mission adjour ne d on Friday till November next. The cler g y o f t h e di o cese of St. Da vid ' s have unanimously express e d their regret that a Bisho p should have 'been app o i nte d to t h a t s ee who was ig norant of the Welsh language. The Archdeacon Davies has been made P the vehicle of thi s com laint• —Heryord Journal. We have received the whole of the Pa ris Papers HOP INTELLIGENC E. W OR CESTER, AUG. of F r id a y a nd Saturday, with advices from Con - , 14.—The ac counts from the hop p lantations are not more staetiiiiiple (it' the 2711 i, Smyrna of the 29 h, and al des De- favourable since the hot weather set in, excepting that it Athens ut the 314 ult. The tone of the Patisian has given a freshness to the p!atita, which will save them Pre, 5 .,, ; 1 • • 644 wily du we Lind a really arg,uinentative article . . h Again waritke. lii the Allrit for another sear, otherwise the blight would have destroyed of a m n , d iny moredoing. stocks, The duty •Mark et firm, the weaksool imitation. While, therefore, we are as little indifferent as the most warlike of our Gallic Contemporaries to the possession of that prowess which secures us against aggression, and while we are prepared not to shrink from the maintenance of our just rights, we tegaid with horror what has a tendency to pro voke groundless international enmities, and to lead to the unnecessary shedding of blood. In our eves there are few rinctacles more de.plorahle than the glory of the sword triumphant over reason, so-called albeit that t sword be held by a NELSON or a WEL LINGTON. The prostration of arts before arms— of intellect before brute force, is what no love of conquest would ever induce us voluntarily to witness. THE MARKETS._(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. The arrivals of Grain last week were moderate, and trifling since. The weather has been changeable, and this morning the rain and wind were alarming the millers were, however, cautious buyers of Wheat, but the speculators gave an advance of Is. to 2s. per quarter on last week's prices. Barley, Beans, and old Pease unaltered. New White Pease 2s per quarter lower. Oats met a fair sale at rather higher prices. Flour very heavy in sale at its late value. For new Winter Tares such high prices are asked, that the buyers will not make offers. rILICES ON BOARD or SVIP Wheat, Red (old) 60s. 7i;s. Beans, Sinali ,new) 46, 50,. White (01d)...,. 66,i. t-2,. ----- (old) . -- —s. -- lied (1840) .60., 16 • Tick (new) 43 4P . -- Fin t; s . 7s. --- (old) Superfine 74s 765. -- Harrow (new) 44i. 414 s 14 —.-- W .te (11441 )....66, 73. ------ (fild).., ~„—s.—s. ----- Fine 745. '76s. I-hank -- Superfine 78 2s. Oats, Feed --Foreign free f 3: 84s. ityt 3 , is 4os. Poland _s. s Barley 3os 385. New ' B, 325. Grinding 30s als Potatoe --; ri. Malting - ' , lnv 3 2, 3's. Malt ..565, 655. Semen : ,2, 345. -- Fine New 6ds Vs. Irish 255... 27 .30 , . Pease, Grey, New 404. 425. Flour Town ,per Sack).... 60- liss. Maple New .43.. 46, Seconds 56 .5-s. White 42s 41e. - .....- North Country .... 52 :5 . - Boilers 46 . 48,1 Bran ll .I'2c ARRIVALS OF GRAIN IN LONDON DURING LAST WEEK heat. barley. I oat., Flour. 111 :3 English Irish - 1,751 F..reign SNI I r ii FIELD. There was a large supply of hortivd cattle at market, upwards of 1.50 / above the usual average; th- coarse and middling descriptions commanded an advance of 241. per stone. Al utton and Lamb vvere in good request, and the coarser sorts of the former realised 4d. higher, Lamb about 2d. lower. Veal, a steady sale at former prices. Beef 3s. 4d. to 4s. 6d. Mutton 4s. to 4s. 104. Veal 4s. Bd. to 5, 64. Lamb 4s. 10d. to ss. 6d. Pork 4s. 4d. to ss. 4(1. Beasts 3,326 ; Sheep and Lambs 24,000; Calves 168; Pigs 420. Hay 3/. 15s. to 51; Clover 41. 15s. to 61. 6s. TEA MARKET. Prices of this article were well maintained, at the Public Sales of 3.600 packages ; indeed, in some cases a further ad vance was paid, and the bulk of that quantity was readily dis posed of. In the Private Market also a fine business was done ; and Cumpan)'s Congou brought 2 3d. per lb. cash. TALLOW MARKET. The prices of Russian Tallow are still high, owing to the few parcels in importers' hands, and the market very dull. P. Y. C. on the spot, sls. 9d. to 525. per cwt. HOP MARKET. In this market there has not been quite so much business done, owing to the high prices; but a lumber improvement ap • pears certain, as the season's production will be much smaller than for many years; the accounts from the hop-grounds are still very bad. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK, LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, SATURDAY.—The sales to-day are 5,000 DagB, of Which 1,000 have been taken on api•culation, and 500 for export; full prices have been obtAinvd. Our arrivals this morning are two French, two Ostend and one Duch. mail•;. Also a mail from Gibr.dtar, by the Iberia—saile d 6th August, Cadiz 71h, Lisbon 10th, Oporto 11th, and Vigo 12. h. According to Rio Jaiciro Papers of the 16th June, the exchange on London was 301 to ; Stocks, 771 to 78. We have received Sydney Papers to the Bth April. BATHURST, APRIL I.—This part of the Colony is again assuming its late awful appearance. The grass is parched, and everything drying up for want of rain. Wheat is fast rising in price ; cheese none ; butter very scarce, 3s. per lo ; meat 6i. Three thousand wethcrs have be•.:n sold during the lost week for the Port Philip marker; and I,ouo head of cattle for the same market, at 51 per head. A Lisbon mall has arrived, brought by the Iberia steamer, of the 10th August. The Finance Minister's relation has been read, hut not printed as yet, by which it aprears there is a diminution in the estim , tes of 1,400 contos and upwards, of which nearly 1,000 arises from only half the Foreign dividends being included instead of the whole as heretofore clone; a dividend is to be paid January next, that which was due last January. Various prodositions are, it is said, submitted with respect to the Foreign debt ; the whole amounting, in fact, to a vote of confidence in the Government to Le allowed to negotiate nith its creditors, and make the best bargain it can. Oa the different heads of the future dividends as well as Inc arrears and coupons due, the idea is to negotiate for a reduction of the interest, and to assign certain funds for the satisfaction of the same, and the redemption of the Ttn probability of a new treaty with E ;gland appears very gr at. A report prevailed of an extens;ve conspiracy, in which seventy (,ffic rs were concerned, to upset the Government having been discovered. This is auppsed to be much ux a,gerated, but some arrests have taken place. Ttre ca pital continues tranquil. Tlift FUNDS. We are sorry to announce that a failure has taken place this morning in the Stock Exchange and Foreign Market; the defaulter. who is a Hebrew, has tailed in both markets, the amount is not ascertained, but it is supposed to be large., particularly in the diti,rea.ces in shares. Up to 'he pre. :eta time it has had but little eff ct on either of the narkets. Consols opened this morning a shad" lower than they closed on Saturday. and may be quoted 9ek 'with for ,Money and the Account. Exchequer Bills 22 24 prem. ; Bank Stock 167 169; India Stock. 250 252 ; India Bonds mithint.?, done. Iu toe Foreign Market little doing as yet. Spanish Active same as they closed on Saturday, 254- ; Deterred, Pa,sive, 64 ; Portuguese rather lower, left off in, Saturday 331- 34f. rt present 3341 Three pi"ir Cents.. ; Colombian, 241 ; Mcxirau, 28 29 ; 79i 801 ; Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents. 512 ; 'Five pet Cens., SHARES —Great Western, nothing doing ; London and Brighton, 10i 91 disc. ; Blackwall, a dis„ 4 prem. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share Great Western Ditto New London and Brighton London and Blackwall North Midland, (New) PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, AUG. 15. 3 per Cent. Consols Three and Half Stock ssi Grand Canal Stock ... Ditto Reduced ,„ Ditto Debs. 6 per cent... Ditto New, 1830 ...... 9S& Ditto 4pi r cent 3i per Cent. Delis. HA L 1 7 - PAS 7' 01Y E. The lowest price of Consols, during the morning, ha. been 89k for the Account, and at lyres, lit ma) be Tint. at 90 1 i ; Money the sane. F.xchcquer Bills, 23 21 23 prem. ; Bank Stock, I6Bi 1673-. rather lower. In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active, 25i; Portu guese, 334 ; Three Per Cents., 224 22 ; Colombian, 244.; Mexican, 30; Brazilian, 791 80; butch Two-and.a-Halt per Cents., 51i i; Five per Cents. 102. Shares all lower. Great Western 88, New 494 4 London and Brighton, 4,1 5 ; London and Blackwall, 19k 20; North Midland New, 43. EXTENSIVE ROBBERY.--On the night of Tues. day Ihst. th,re was stolen from a gef.ili•maii in a house Lait,s.reet, two r, bills or , lraf• ,, of 500 1 ec' , . two ditto of 200/. each, 01e dilto (.f 104 e:al LAI bank-notes •or 5/, ravh—in .11 1,550/. The Ca,: la at presen under nvest, lion.—Scotoman, LITER A isURt. TURKEY AND THE 'FUR'', S. Tyas, London, 1840. There is little that olume, and what little there is, is not of much it e ; but there is a great deal that is common place ; and not seldom the ut)le is so lo9se and slipshod, that we hare some difficulty in making out the author's meaning. Here is a sample of his manner, and judging of the sack by the sample, the reader, we fear, will be tempted to pronounce it wholly worthless : "The Greeks have been blamed for then intriguin g lisposition, and they have also a character for being dishonest and duplicious ; but among them, as tmong all nations, there are good and had ; when you meet a good Greek, he is rtally a sterlin, t good ine,and lam inclined to believe that the slavery wider hich they have been kept, has had much to do in the formation of their present character." Ob serve the exceeding caution with which the author here launches a common-place truism, old as the hills. He is by no means psitive—no, he dare not .;o that length ; he thinks it better to be on the sate ,ide of the question, so is onl " inclined to believe" that four hundred years of abject slavery have had a detrimental effect on the Greek character i He leaves it to bolder spirits to state that the fat t actually is so; he himself is content with mo destly intimating it, by way of hypothesis. Now, this is not discretion, but a burlesque of that useful quality. We pass without comment the sage and brilliant remark, that " among the Greeks. as among all nations, there are good and bad;" but how came the author to mase use of the word " dupli cious," which is a mere coinage from his own mint ? He had far better have said " deceit tut," for then he would at least have heen intelligible. .1s an instance of his very indifferent gramtnar, we quote the following sentence, which from the loose way in which it is worded, would furnish an amusing riddle for a Christmas tire-side ;—" The Greek women have the cha racter of being excellent mimics, and from the tew specimens I saw, I think fully entitled to it." The only readable part of the volume is the account of the late Sultan's reforms in Turkey, but even here The author does little more than tread the same ground that a host of other writers have trod before him. KILRUSH PETTY SESSIONS. ANNOYING THE NEWSMONGERS,--oWeil Giltenane, 1 pale, peaceable, and proper little weaver, was the complainant in this ease. He had been assaulted by Mr. and Mrs. Hartigan. fellow-lodgers, for some pas sing comment he hail presumed to make on " the state of things in general," and the war with China in par ticular, touching which Paddy Hartigan was enlight ening an attentive auditory. Magistrate—Describe the nature of the assault. He whose calling it was to throw " The shuttle athwart the loom," actually exhibited something approaching to a blush on his cadaverous cheek, and after a few hems, gave the bench an inkling, from which they could gather that that quarter of him had suffered which bears a similar appellation to the weaver of Shakspearian celebrity. But Mrs. Hartigan, a pock-marked dame, whose pe culiar oratory would not shame a Billingsgate matron, or the columns of the Pilot or Monitor, when they be spatter each other, stood up to her fight, and like " Banquo's ghost," pushing Mr. Giltenane from his stool, exclaimed, " E'then, what delicacy it is. Wake and zniserable bodied as this crethur ov a weaver looks, he's terribly bitther wid his jokes, an' whin the nibors getther in to hear me husband (aside to H. ' Why don't you spike, you onshough 1" —A laugh) readio' the news, he's for ever passin' remarks, an' jeerin' uz, because we like to hear how Connell is gettin' on in Parliament, 'till at long last he carniod an' got a kick in the —side, an' maybe, I scorn to tell a lie, an ot her from myself as he was on the move, an' iv he re mained 'tisn't cleer to me but he'd get more on the bark o' that again —an' now what can ye make ov it, gintle men ?"—( Laughter) _ _ Magidrate—Did you give these people provocation ? " Oh! stranglin' to me ov I did," sighed Owen Giltenane. Mrs. Hartigan banged her hands together three times in succession, as if frightening sparrows from a corn field, and caused the weaver to retrograde a pace or two, ‘• On, biug anounds! D'ye h ear th is wor k ?" she said in a voice of suppressed passion. " Why, then, juit listen to nie a mi 1111 l t, my Worships, a n ' it I don't make ye sins;ble ov his bantherin.' Micky Keane was takin' a dhraw o' the paper, an' readin' re spectin' Shina ; an' we:l an' good, if he was, he med mention ov one Lin : he is, 1 think meself, one o' their lord 1 Ili:lents or judges, or some other sort ov a gincral ove r 'em. Be gor,' says this man, you'll find be's a discindant from Bryan O'Lynn,' says he, I wish I was a poor relation ov his at the present writin.' ' Arra the d-1 choke yourself and himself,' says tni! husband, can't you let the boy read the news ior uz ?' Oh, no. nothin' I'd do Misther Giltenane bu: to keep bob bin' his head from side to side, an' cracking his fingers, and singiti'— " Bryan O'Lynn had no watch to put on, So he F coo p'd out a turiiip to make him a one, Then he clapp'd a criket snug onther the skin ; Whap ! they'll think it is 'tickin,' says Brian O'Lynn." —( Great laughter.) 44 Well," says his Worship, " as there has been no great datmige done, pay the cost of the summons, and let him alone for the future." " We're obliged to you," responded Mrs. Hartigan, in an equivocal tone—" but, if that exainp e ov a wheaver di,turbs us again, confusion to me if I don't give him a maul myself, aad make his head as soft as any other part aqout him." COURT OF REQUESTS. TOWER HAMLETS. FAMILY JARS.—Terry Malony, a broad-shouldered Eineraider, summoned his brother-in-law, Mike O'Brian, fur 65., the amount of a surgeon's bill for mending the head of the said Terry Malony, which the other had broken by means of a quart pot and a cudgel. The plaintiff and defendant, who were both coal whippers, occupy apartments in the same house in Gibbet's,alky, near the Match-walk, Shadwell, and the aforesaid breach in the plaintiff's " upper story" was the climax to a bit of a domestic " shindy" they had, by way of winding up a political dispute. " Yer wurtchup," said Malony, the plaintiff, " Mike's a repaler, bad look to him." Commissioner—Well, what has that to do with his breaking your head ? Are " repalers," as you call them, in the habit of cracking sconces ? Malony—Sure, yer wurtchup, it's anything they'll crack that stands in the way ov 'ern. It's a bloodthirsty nather Mike is to be ill-treating his own kin. Commissioner—ln what way are you related to the defendant ? Malony—Yer wurtchup, wasn't his own wife named Milony, which same is my own father's maiden name, and she's his nAtheral dart her. Commissioner—Then, from what I can unders'and, you are his brother-in-law ? Malony— That's throe, and a mighty onfrindly blaggard he is. Sure I thought I was " idt" intitely whin hit sthruck me Will the quart pot. Commissioner—You Irish can do nothing without finishing it with a fight. Hots did t'lis row begin ? Terry Malony, the riattitirl. scratened his head, " blessed" tornsulf, and engaged to " the wool truth." From his stoty. it appeared, that. Terry and his brother-in-law having indulgt•d rather too freely wth drops of the " cr,,thur," waxed somewhat political, and proceeded to argue the rel rtive ad, antages and dis advantages that wound accru,2 from " a repale of the union." Mike, it seemed, was it red hot " repaler," but Terry " rowed the other way," and their dispute, like political disputes in other quarters, led to high words ; and Mike who, like many other Irish orators, was somewhat intemperate and violent, though he had no prospective anticipations of being rewarded with a Commissionership, in the " heat of debate" flung an empty quart pot at his relative's head and cat it open, and afterwards applied a plaster in the shape of a stout oaken cudgel. For repairing this same breach the me dical gentleman charged G.;., to recover which Terry summoned Mr. Alice O'Brien. Cotnmissioner—Was your head seriously injured by the defendant, Malony ? Malony—Faith an' I was, yer wurtchup, lucky it was a thr,flin 4 thickness or it's " kilt" I'd beet) as dead as a herring. Commissioner_Ali, you see under such circum stances it is an advantage to possess a thick head.— (Laughter.) Terry, whose cranium appeared to he rs substantial as a brick wall, agreed with the L arucd Cotutnissmner that the brains, where there were "Env, ought to be eel defended. C..tiunissioner—Well. Mike, it seems prlty lear to me that y ou b ro k e Sour relation'', fif ad ; wfq do you 4 refuse to pay for mending it ? D efendant—O.:by, yer harrier, Terry begun ti.e shindy, which me witness, wid your banner's lave, will prove. Commissioner —Well, let us hear your witness. • A ragged Irishman here came forward, and was asked by the Commissioner what he knew of the transaction, " Plaze yer riverance," said Miki,'s ragged witness " I'm from the county Cork s venteen year barrin' Sew wakes, and"— . _ Commissioner—«e don't want to know bow lon you have liven from Cm k. or IA ht the r y, u our coat button,,d bet,ittd, but tnerv:y whetht r yiw .thythiog about this ran-acf Witnt ss No, h mg, harr.i,' that th hot ti ounly Terry's a mighty dale the worst on 'em. ',14 2 1 . 1? EN 1110- IID tTt ON m this very lucid explanation tho 04urt we t .1:0e to form any npi, ic,n as zo viim was tie grissor in the row, tied the talmmow , was am , qu, , nl-3 distni,Sed. CENT RA Cit I N COUR. I (THIS DAY ) • The Tenth Sessi,, of the Central Criminal Court of tlte, present Nlayoralty comm e n ce d • r o -d a Y, before .the Alayor,ithe Recorder, Mr.' Sergeant gratin, Sir J..hn Key and Pirie, the Sheriff &c. - - - The calendar contains the names of 260 prisoners, many of whom are charged with offunees of a serious nature. The foiloAing is the summary of the offences and the number of persons charged : Throwing burning liquid at the person, 1 ; burglary, 5 ; uttering and having possession of c.iuriterfeit cots, 4 ; - cutting and wounding, 7 ; embezzlement, 13; forgery and uttering forged instrum e nts, 3 ; ho use b rea ki ng , ; lar ceny, 197 ; letter stealing from the Post-office, 2 ; slaughter, 1 ; misdemeanor, 14 ; rape, 1 ; receiving stolen go ds. &e., 8; robbery, 2. The Grind Jury having been swe.rn. The RECORDER proceeded to deliver his charge to them• The calendar cont fined the names of 260 prisoners, and . that number would probably be increased to 300 and up- . wads, before the end of the Session. Upon reviewing the offences with which the prisoners stood charg e d, it w ,s melancholy to ebserve, notwithstanding the severity of the pun shment inflicted in various cases, the increase of crime, especially that of wnunding, maiming, cutting► and disfiguring. In the present ca.endar there were:oo less than •even cases of that description, but it was %oat° source of gratificaio3 to know that they were not k f that egg, avated nature which the Court had t ad to deal with to a former session. One of those cases, ho. , e.er, it w.s ne cessary to allude to as the off •nce came under the enact" merits of a statute passed in the first year of the reign of her present Majesty—lie alluded to the case of throwing vitriol on the person with intent to do grievous bodily harm. In the instance to which he alluded, the offetce had been followed by the loss of an eye. According to the provisions of the statute, any person convicted of such an offence was punishr.ble at the discretion of the Judge, with either transportation for life, or fifteen yearn , or with imprisonment not exceeding three years. Tue other cases in the calendar were chiefly of an ordinary de scription, and required very little comment from him. They consisted chiefly of larcenies, rapes, burglaries, and indecent assaults, and of the latter offence be was sorry to observe, that it appeared on the increase. He trustair however, that by severe punishments that increase would be checked. The Learned Judge, after explaining to the Grand Jury their duties, remitted them to the perh,rmance of them by expressing his confidence that they would dis charge them with credit to themselves and benefit to their country._ The Petty Juries were then sworn in, after which the Court proceeded to try several minor off:nces, but nothing worth reporting occurred up to our reporters leaving. ALL ANIMA Ls HAPPY IN A STATE OF NATURE. In a state of nature, no race of animals is un happy ; they are all adapted to the mode of life. which God had ordained them to lead, and their chief enjoyment consists in pursuing their natural habits, whatever these may be. The woodpecker, while boring a tree, and clinging to it for hours by its scandent feet, is just as happy as the eagle is when perched upon the mountain cliff, or pouncing on its quarry from the clouds. Neither could lead the life of the other, but each is happy in the state which has been assigned to it : and this is ob servable throughout all nature. A rat, which burrows in a ditch, is as happy as it could desire, so long as it can find garbage sufficient to feed on ; and a heron, immovably fixed watching the approach of small fishes and frogs, has, these can be little doubt, as much pleasure as any lover of the angle can enjoy while wearing out: the summer-day in marking his light float , and waiting, in mute expectation, the wished-for bite. We generally, I believe, connect rapidity or slowness of motion with the ideas we form of an animal's happiness. If, like the tortoise, it move with slow and measured steps, we pity or despise , as the mood may be, its melancholy sluggish condi tion ; and the poor persecuted toad has probably incurred as much of th e o di um so un j ust l y attac hed to it, by its inactivity, as by the supposed loath someness of its appearance. On the other hand, en joyment seems always to be the concomitant of cele' ritv of motion. A fly, dancing in the air, seems more happy t han the spider lurking in his den ; and the lark; singing at " heaven's gate," t o p ossess a more joyous existence than the snail, which creeps almost imPe r ceptibly upon a leaf, or the mole, which passes she hours of brightness and sunshine in his dark Ca evils under ground. But these and all other a" 1- mals are happy, each in its own way : and the habits of one, constituted as the creatures are, could for° no source of felicity to another, but the very . reverse. You have known the swallow all your lifetime, and therefore are well acquainted with the rapidity and constancy of its flight. From the early morning to the downgoing of the sun, it is for ever dashing through the air with the rapidity of an arrow ; but neither morning nor evening does it ever show one symptom of weariness ; it has a wing which never tires ; and at night it betakes itself to repose, out worn out by the fatigues of the day, but p re pared ' for sleep after what is to it a wholesome exercise. -- Drummond's Letters. SWALLOWS AND GAS,—A pair of swallows the species hirundo rustica, known in England by th e , name of the chimney-swallow, and in Scotland genera l l y as:the house-swallow, l a t e l y took up their abode in th e _ gas-work at Hamilton. Th e p l ace t h ey fi xe d on was o ne of the iron drams that support the ceiling immediate l y above the retorts. From the great heat, the nest-buldi n g process made for some time little or no progress; for 11 , oun as the clay b ecame d ry, it cracked, and fell ; 0 pieces. By dint o f perseverance, however, and skil l mixing up Cie clay with straw and other tougher mate rials, a nest was formed, and the woi k of incubation cow menced; and at present there is a brood of thumpi n g young swallows, active and vigorous, just at the peintfo flying. Th e p ecu li ar i ty i n this case is in the swall°:b flaring fixed upon suc h a locality, continually filled 0 " vapours, and smelling strongly of gas; and, when the r e• torts are filling, dense volumes of smoke, mixed with Ili' rid flames of fire, filling the whole building— " Fierce to devour, the fiery tempest flies, Swells in the wind, and thunders to the skies." But while Vulcan's dire squadrons deluge all areund, peaceful little strangers, " Pleased, sit viewing the triumphant flames." The rearing and perfecting of this brood is a clear Pr° ° that coal-gas is not hurtful to the most delicate organ s : It may also be stated that this odd place for a swal low nest has been selected in spit e o f an i nscr i ption on the d°o e of the gas-house—" Every thi ng i n i ts place, and a p l a ce for every thing."—Scottish Guardian. ASHBURTON.—There has been but one death here since July 11, a space of more than one catend.ar month, in a population of nearly 5,000 inhabitants, and 11 the registry of seven parishes included with this town on l y two deaths have occurred in the same period. DEATH OF A LAUDANUM DRINKER.--- 1 " inquest was held on Thursday last at the Marquis of Cl ary ricarde, Upper Southwick -street. Paddington, before M r ' Wakley, M P„ on the body of John B wler, formerlY a cab proprietor, who, under the pretence of wanting limn for horses, purchased half a pint on Monday, a nu , - appears drank the w h o l e o f t h at enormous quantity by 9 l"e glasses full c o n secut i ve l y, w h ile resting on his bed, ii'sr ietiring for th e n i g h t H e was a laudanum drinker I'l habit, and on Saturday fortnight had given his hous e " keeper as many bottles to sell as brought eighteenpenn e ' all labelled " laudanum," though he was not known befor B to be accustomed to that fluid. He was found dead in ht ! room by his fellow- l o d gers at fi ve o ' c l ock on Tuesday af ternoon. ternoon. The eviden ce at t h e i nquest justifi:d a verdict of " Insanity," which was passed. The squirrel hunt which came off at Grafto n i Rensselaer c oun ty, t h e wee k before last, and the resu l t °f which, as announced by the Troy B udget, was characte rized rized in s ome quarters as a " tough story," t urns out t° be within th e mar k . A Grafton Correspondent of 07e Budget says, " The north p irty killed 11,203, the south party 9 703, whi c h ma d e t h e former party 1,500 a- h au. The Budget, in explanation of what appears incredible to the uninitiated in the sport of squirrel hunting. sn i t % " The way th e y count is follows :—A squirrel con , five; a fox coun t s fi ve; a b:ue jay, five ; a blackbird' three : a pigeon, two; a woodpecker, one ; a crow, te tl l j an owl, ten ; an d a h aw k , twenty. They designate 8 game as squirrels."—Albany Argus. On Friday the coming of age of the Hon. C. S. Cocks, th e e ld est son o f Vi scount Eastnor, and gra n , son of th e venera bl e E ar l S omers, was kept with g rey p, feasting a n d re j o i c i ng at E astnor Castle, Leigh Si n t° 4 Droitwich, and Stoulton, where the gentry, tenantry• the poorer classes partook of sumptuous dinners, and th evening concluded with b a ll s an d other rejo i c i n gs' ,„ Worcester Guardian. It is rumoured that the Earl of Devon is in the event of a vacancy, to succeed to the Chaen ei ° o r t ir ship of the University of Oxford. The members lie Queen's College will celebrate their five-hundreth a III versary on the 20th inst —Oxford Chronicle. We THE NEW RAILWA Y COMMISSION.-- - , to understand th a t. the ra il way department to be anneinui, the B eird of Trad e , un d er the new Bill, is to be coes s t v i ,„ t h d at first on a very limited ehd economie& scale. this view, in , tead of appointing a wh o l e B o ard of co'oe missioners and permanent engineer inspectors, the raV tis , department has, we un d erstand, been attached to thestaea ticul branch of the Board o f T ra d e, a nd P l l,-, te.der the general control and superintendence of p,,fl Porter. The on l y a ddi t i onal appointments under tb:hoot consist, we ar e i n f orme d , of a barrister, at a salarye' A we et a' per annum, t o ass i st i n the revision of by-laws, railway II and other i mportant matters of a legal nature, which the devolve up on t h e B oard under the provisione Act, and t o con d uct t h e general business and correnskl deuce of the del arttrent under the superintand e .. r oo t Mr. Purter; and ore junior clerk, at a salary (: . 1 , 00, it a par. With regard to the business of insPe . L : unr ot, is not, we unt'erstand, the intention 01 Gove' ec ha§ ") insta,ev aril u n til m ore expo -I( a %, pe r. , i“ ( , f Imo of the n;o4 , nte, t 0 cm inenver -p},, alltbt f an it,Fprc!er 0 , ()era', but t sou° tom) time t o lime, cc i:CC , I,1011 nviy t D ethoni ffic ,, of tht: Ro l or r compele7i rate o to perform the duties of an inspector, at a fixed remuneration.