The Sun. — London, England, 1840-08-03 00:00:00

I b 7r yr", L . xr V Jr,, N G pi ! I • I ON LIRECHTHEiUM CLUB; or, AUXILI- Ld ARY ATHEN&UM. t a MEETING of the COMMITTEE of this Assoeia tio 1 _ n, held at the ternporftry Offices of the Club, No, 6, Water y 3-place, Pall 40.11, on Friday, the 24th of ,Ittly, la4o, Sir JOHN DEAN PAUL, Fl'et., in the Chair, It was t-tsolved,—That the Colurnittee, having elected One 'Hundred Members from the List of Candidates, do meet again on Thursday, the 6th hay of August next, at One o'Clock pre- L _ visel l'y to proceed to the Election of the Second Hundred Me,m- Y l '^rs, and other business of the Club, rNoblemen and Gentlemen desirous of joining this Association e re quested to sen d i n t h e i r applications immediately to the Secretary H. E. Pai ne , E sq. , to whom all other communica ions respecting this Club must be addressed. pis MAJESTY t h e EMPEROR o f ii . AUSTRIA having AUTHORISED and GUA RANTEED several DISTRIBUTIONS of MONEY DIVIDENDS, which (though they are NO LOTTERIES) We: many possibilities of obtaining LARGE FORTUNES. HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, Are now SELLING BONDS ior the said DISTRIBU TIONS. Persons desirous to purchase for one of the next Distributions, 1:1.,,.av receive, PREVIOUS to giving any order, the PROS -tCTUS and PARTICULARS, upon addressing WITH OUT DELAY, a line to HEINE, BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH. i THE NEXT DISTRIBUTION c o n t a i ns SEVEN HUNDRED DIVIDENDS, Amounting t• £72,170, The Dividends being r.. 25,000 £BOO £l5O £lOO £7O 5,00 600 120 90 60 1,500 1,000 400 110 80 50 200 And the following bistribution contains 25,200 Dividends, Amounting to £954,888, the Dividends being £15,000 £6OO £7O 0 £37 10 7,500 300 50 0 37 0 0,800 200 42 0 36 0 1,800 150 40 10 35 0 . 1 „ I ,200 100 39 0 ~ 'ErSE, BROTHERS, h av i ng rem itt e d, d ur i ng a s h ort 'ate, 1 5,0001., 9,0001.. 5.00 0 / ., 3,6004, &c. &c. &c., to Lon- Inn -, 3,600/., 8001., 7001., to Edinburgh ; 3,6001. to Dublin ; ,6 1 4)0/. to Beverley; 3,6001. to Halifax ( Yorkshire); 1,2001. 4 .,,. Portleaven:Harbou r; 900/., 600 1., to Li verpoo l ; 900/. to Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; 900/. to Hull ; 9001., 600/., to Man theater ; 600/. to Bideford; 600/. to Cork ; 600/. to Bradford ; t hlay shall feel glad to remit many Dividends of the said Dis hibution; to England, Ireland, and Scotland. The Bonds (which are no Lottery Tickets) can be cashed at evviry Banker's connected with Germany in every mercantile Plaice in th e wor ld . .....—_ ROYAL SURR THEATRE. Continu a l overflows. Immense EY success of Haine's Spectacle, "Jane of the Hatchet." The grand Tableaux d'action, and im p o sing military evolutions of 100 Female Warriors, have been witnessed by upwards of 35,000 persons with astonish dent and d e li ght. The av:ful sublimity of the last scene, depicting the Siege of Be auvo i s , excee d s ever y thi ng hith erto t eiripted. at Will be ac t ed a G THIS EVENING, AUG. 3. rand Historical Spectacle, of unequalled splen- JANdour, entitled n OF THE HATCHET. ,Pert S2 ed by tne entire strength of the Company, After svhi c } tt e o I N F TI°.E EaNnTd:: RS Orie H undred Female W arr i ors. ~, Drama of pecnliar interest, called conclud e OF A DRUNKARD'S LIFE. elude a Comic Piece, called E DRO THE CRUEL AND 'MANUEL THE COBLER. SEEr .. N c. "1- 'S URREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. `-' sur,CES T P , WEEK, an d CONTINUED B R ILLIANT S of BEETHOVEN'S BATTLE SINFONIA, With novel and eff Introductions ! G:it AND its ective ! PROMENADES MUSICALES ET CHAMPETRES, Pro By Godf rey ' s unr i va ll e d B an d . grarne of the Conceit for August 3d, 4th, and 6th. FIItST PART. ertu res—Egrnont (first time), and the Dragon Fight. Petersburgh (first time.) Fantasia from Obe ion. Waltz —Die Berggeister (first public performance), Me 7,nge Des Danses, Pas des Nations (from Le Corsair) intro ,4cing the Tyrol.enne, Bolero, Quadrille, and Tarantella. Pas nedouble (Ms.) SECOND PART. GRAND BATTLE SINFONIA, eetitov en with new effects and an augmented Band. l:‘4tinz. e Cor o , C asta Di va, from Norma (first time this sea -114d); Aluurd's New Quadrille—La Chasse (first time in Eng- Tbe • O verture—Guillauma Tell. Gallop— Benyov.-sky. T 1 v ast Punorama al Fre sco o f I ce l an d and its Volcanoes, by ii ans on--Breaking up o f t h e Ice—Melting of the Snows— eleale and Departure of the Discovery Ship. eltrker's astonishing " Koniapho s ti c " 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. HI GH WATER AT LOND ON BRIDGE TMORROW , Mo O w, P.iterfi I Evening minutes after 6 he Publie,atien of the Evening Editien of Tiia SUN com menced at 20 minutes after Three. 311- X+ - LONDON: MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 1840. We are by no means displeased to see the clues tinn of Church property debated in Parliament ) 42 „ P r °Poss of the E cc l es i ast i ca l Revenues and Dune;, Bill. It will tend to make the question of pi:ociitpuerely bett er understood than at present, and it impossible, we hold, for society to get on P e aceably w hil e that question is enveloped in any ba d of my s t ery, or i s placed on any doubtful • 41 s. The right of the State to deal with C4'-urch propertby as the Parliament shall see fit, 'was broadly avowed by the Earl of HARROWBY, I ‘'b h° i 8 110 Revolutionist, no Whig, no Reformer, LICE, a good old Tory, a colleague of PERCEVAL, ^r,VPOOE, CASTLEREAGH, and BATHURST. "P.- Noble Earl said— heard a great deal of the right of the Legislature i, e to . tiseirtere with these offices and their property. .T .e L di s : t .:- , had always exercised the right of making a new h a it ion more suite d to the wants of the times, and perd b, to the real v i ews of the dows of property invested public and p ermanent establishments. nveste The Noble Earl adduced a variety of instances in 'which the Legislature had exercised the power, and ,we shall il lustrate the theory of the practices of the t:arliarnent. It is an ax i om o f po li t i ca l economy that t w an hat is annu a ll y create d i s annually consumed. co e y man l oo k abroad, and he will be at once nvinced that the actual we a lth w hi c h t h e ex i st i n g gener a r • ton smallest lnherits from its predecessors is the van of it s r i c h es , an d is rather to b e con erP-ii as th e i nstrument for making or creating Can than wealth it se lf. D we lli ng -h ouses , w hi c h, th eve r , continu a ll y requ i re repair, are a port i on of i,nae national wea l th, destined to consumption, for f n y of which we are indebted to those who went us ; but th e trenc h es o f our fi e ld s, roa d s, vr.dges, ships, canals, &c., which are great con ;'4ienees, are rather to be considered as instru lents fo r creating wealth than as wealth itself. he wealth and most essential part of the national exi al , for t h e sake of which every other part :a sts, the national subsistence, is in a great measure :annu a l or sem i- annual, or even, as in the s e of milk, a daily product, and is on an aver r"nsumed withi n t h e t i me o f i ts product i on. 4 .°W) Over all this, constituting the property of in duals, and the result of the annual labour of lig men, this g enerat i on an d t h e i r representat i ves 1° Parliament have as full and complete a right as / J. Pre-existing generation had over its property. is impossible th a t th e y can d enu d e or d epr i ve / t "emselv es o f i t, b ecause it requires a continual act c ,, 1 t he will t o appropr i ate an d d i str i bute the annual , 4 " n ro dnce of their labour ; still less could they make The ,er such a r i g h t to those who went before them. r great mass of the wealth of every society, we r e Peat, consists i n t h e annual produce of labour ; n id over the w h o l e of that annual produce the liv ig Peopl e an d their chosen representatives in Par :ainent, have as full and complete a right as men possessed at any time over any species of property. a How far the living generation is bound to re toPeet the testamentary dispositions of their ances etrks °r any other disposition of tl,eir property, is an er and a very important question. It is a ques also, which mus not be shirked by th who s o nul dtreat th e subjectt fairly, or would hope to ose obtain thring thei r d octrines the assent of mankind. One reis quite clear, that if property have been be athed or settled for a noxious purpose, the pre siet°, t generation would be bound to alter the dispo- Lu lnn * Suppose, for example, a man had be eathed an estate in Eng r n Af r i ca land for th e p ur p ose o f p ro nuall y fi tt i ng out a ship, to carry off n e g r oes "a v to till a suga r pl antat i on h e m i g h t the e p possess e d i n Barbadoes, it is clear that either that ajliame nt or the Courts o f L aw wou ld quas h prin c ipl e , disposition of the property. O n t hi s p l a i n the rational it:ion the Church o f E ng l an d a d opte d whena doctrine t h at people could not be Prayed out England of Purgatory, the Parliament of appropriated all the ro ert which had been destined property the of to say masses for n of the dead— Catholic • dead —that is, destined to pay _se, priests for repeating useless prayers and u less ceremonies—to some other purposes more useful to the living generation of that day. On ltihgahttp.rineiple a former Parliament, acting with the Protestant had, and justly acting, we think—for the were ant Church and the Protestant doctrines an improvement on the Papal doctrines —ap propriated Church property to the Protestantriest l:;"4 uA i and th e y cannot deny the principle we have gow p n, without rep u di at i ng its consequence, va- Citg ' S . k ' • < I et.. .. e.. 2' Wt i _ . N '•'. *l* l r . .. - l 'ii) . 1 1. z. } . A .; -A 'r t (' ? . • 1 4 1f„,, • -.... 2:.• -ft ;7: : 4 .. . r., . , - ...i Os. bp . a ring: ected c ture, 6s. 9d. iceman jewel— ;. g° Iva " Nlts be, of the Buyers of helP to hold about asc that ' G ALS. nvectivo or ha" Fran ce knee 1 1°- :o be A IS W V Whose, treaty • Franc e the v .3 ° - to de 'g ~,•er shall aPPe n )efs 'll 41 3t. (-eat Y is o ttae- Th° nt to 2c professes nee, 11 ' ‘tar 0° hat vib e a little hat their and they , i and g°e wrn,thcY eed eloer it 'a vita ess e o fin d asjl lirckus'' to ll : the 08 • ; there ', o n e 433 '7 1* nand s twistie% nisevable. reig V n. ) chooses is more; ;11 tb ee aye"; d 30 0 TV eP a ; irte- 0.- ,t t lO 16 3 °'„se• eO- 040 in l ei l inc r Lolt. of carc P' itl . 110 115 ' e at r tor pti , CQll i ser e h• gY r• em to have s urnsg : ,heir If eYe`i. t t tel ,s SUN, LONDON, MONDAY% AUGUST 3, 1846. cating their sees. and reinstalling the Papal priest hoOd in eVery living in England. Inheriting, as each generation does, the know ledge of its predecessors—being, in fact moulded, in great part, in heart, mind ; and afreetian by them —it cannot fail to 'respect every disposition they may have made of their property. Hence it and it is a very striking feature, we in the history of inan—that the prese n t generat i on per mits a portion of its annual produce to be disposed of according to the testamentary dispositiol men who lived as long ago as ALFRED the GREAT. That, we humbly think, is showing re spect enough for our ancestors, and it is carried a great deal too far, when an appropriation of pro , perty, now noxious to the public, is continued because they or their immediate successors, acting, too, under the acknowledged influence of superstitiYN, and terrified by a designing and knavish priesthood, so willed it. The bulk of the revenues of our Cathedrals, the bulk of the income of the two Universities, the bulk of the property, as it is called, of the Church, had such an origin, and is now amazingly injurious to the public. To hold up large bribes for hypocrisy and lying, to set apart an enormous rev,,oue to be enjoyed only on condition of denying freedom to other men, is, in our estimation, as mischevious a destination of the public resources as ever was devised. A Church endowed to maintain a certain set of doctrines, not to discover and enforce truth, to keep up some cer , tain set of usages without any proof that they are useful, except the assertions of those who profit by them, seems to us to contradict the first law of society, which, as it is impressed on the heart of every individual, comman di ng hi m to b etter h i s condition, commands society to move onward. Our readers will no doubt remember that the Tories joined the Radical Members of the House of Commons in voting that the Judge of the Ad miralty Court should not sit in Parliament when ever the present Judge shall vacate his seat. It was a Tory who moved the amendment by which that question was decided, and then the whole squad of Tories professed—as they are always ready to profess, when they have a party purpose to serve, a most unbounded reverence for the pure and uptight administration of justice. Following out that prin ciple, though without applying it to any individual, the Ministers introduced a clause into the Irish Municipal Bill to enable the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland to direct the holding of frequent sessions by the Recorder of Dublin, for the discharge of pri soners. We explained, in our summary, that this clause was set aside by Lord LYNDrIURST, and we borrowed a paragraph from the Herald which characterised the Noble Lord's con duct as perpetrating a monstrous job for the sake of Mr. Recorder SHAW. The hypocritical Tories, therefore, have no more regard for the pure administration of justice, than they have for the liberties of the people, when to trample on either suits their party purpose, Some of the Peers accused the Ministers of having proposed the clause for the purpose of ex cluding Mr. SHAW personally from the House of Commons. " The Duke of WELLINGTON," Says the Examiner, " comported himself with a crazy sort of violence on this occasion. He rantingly dared Ministers to exclude Mr. SIIAW by name." The Marquis of LANS'POWNE stated that the clause had been drawn up, not because the Re , corder was a Member of Parliament, but because the Ministers were bound to see an efficient Re corder, and justice efficiently administered in Dublin. The testimony, however, of an opponent in favour of the Ministers, is preferable to their own assertions, and we shall, therefore ) corroborate the charge made by the Herald against its own friends, by quoting a paragraph from the Standard. On Saturday that Journal said— We can suppose a zAse opposite to that assumed by the majority of their Lordshipt._the case of a golod 171..overn ment and a bad Recorder. Irs it right tO leave the Govern ment in such a case within) the power of compelling the Recorder to do his duty ? And what are the objections to observing the analogy of the general law, and the reasons for making in D u bli n an exception to the law which is ad mitted to be proper in the other incorporated towns of Ire.. land? We hear but of one suth objettion, but of one such reason—because the Recorder oi'Dublin is now a Member of the House of CoMmOns i Surely this is carrying a little too far, in the individual case, a respect for vested interests. The country is to be deprived of a bene ficialpluriialt:;aw beense one gentleman happens to enj o y a which no man hereafter may ever enjoy, and eLjoys it in circumstances which may never again arise. We think that no judge ought to sit in the House of Com mons ; but these objections must be strengthened a hun- dred-fold if the principle shall be adopted, that a Member of the House of Commons, if a judge, is to be allowed a latitude not allowed to other judges. See to what this principle may lead in the case of the city of Dublin itself. The Recorder may be a candidate for the votes of those amongst whom it is his duty to administer justice without favour or affection—a great inconvenience, if not a great indecency. He succeeds in becoming the representative of the suitors to his court ; he is their zealous, their, pos sibly, fanatical organ in Parliament. The duties of his j t u r i d e i s c ia to l r o e ffi c h a im re to o f t h c e o p u r r o s e p e r n e d gl i s c h t a ed—t he rge of those G Government ve r men t duties— he defies the Government—and, in consequence of the not public amendment justicecarie d fareloa in night, the deoefinfies ic i t t ? suee xv es e successfully. How will sup posing an impossible, or a remotely possible case; we are supposing what will be a lmost certainly the case of the first Romanist or pro-Romanist Recorder of Dublin; and we are very far from pledging our credit that the present Recorder may not be himself the man." In these observations we see a full justification of Ministers, and a complete condemnation by the Standard as well as the Herald , of the SHAW- LYNDHURST monstrous job. Those two journals appear at length to have become ashamed of their party, and, with some of the dignity and pride which ought to belong to those who preside over the press, they object in this instance to be the obsequious tools of their hypocritical leaders. We are glad to see that Lord JOHN RUSSELL did not give way on Saturday to the wily suggestion of Mr. J. NICHOLL, to place JOHN THORO GOOD, as Mr. BAINES said, in a worse situation than at present. Mr. JOHN NICHOLL meant well, no doubt, for the Ecclesiastical Courts ; but the simple Bill of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, to enable the Courts to discharge JOHN THORO GOOD, was preferred by the House, and passed through a stage, while the rival Bill of the kind Mr. J. NICHOLL was withdrawn. How extremely amiable is this gentleman, as the representative of the clergy, still to require that their hook should be kept in the nostrils of the honest JOHN THOROGOOD. The Flanders and Dutch mail received last night has brought the subjoined intelligence of the war which Russia is waging with undiminished vigour against the brave Circassians. No power knows better when to strike an effectual blow than Russia. It was when a Reform Bill agitated the mind and distracted the attention of England, and when a revolution paralysed the energies and averted the vigilant eye of France, that Russia contrived that an insurrection should take place in Poland, which served as a pretext for annihilating the separate ex istence of an independent State ; and now that England and France are at variance about the Oriental question, we are not surprised to hear that she is making prodigious efforts to add Circassia to her conquests, and thus open a way for her troops to Syria, at whatever time she may choose to push her conquests in that direction. Her al liance with us on the Oriental question, does not in the slightest degree diminish our general distrust of her, and we sincerely hope that public men will not relax in their vigilant observance of her insidious policy out of any pique towards France. Be it carefully remembered, that the Convention agreed upon by Four out of the Five Great Powers was only adopted by England as the surest way of baffling the secret policy of the Cabinet of St. Peter3burgh, which aims at the Protectorship of Turkey as the first step towards the seizure of Constantinople. It is too late to call upon the British Govern ment to take any measure for calling in question the right of Russia to make war on Circassia, and we fear equally fruitless to express a hope that the gal lant volunteers who have joined the Circassians will receive an augmentation of numbers, now that the civil war is ended in Spain. And yet CABRERA and BALMASEDA, could they be prevailed upon to fight under the standard of the Circassian Chiefs, might yet atone to liberty for the atrocities which they committed in Spain. BEssARABIA, JULY 9.—French troops from Poland con tinue to arrive in Bessarabia, following the detachments which have proceeded by forced marches to the Caucasian provinces ; the marches are so precipitated that the troops advance thirty or thirty-five wersts per day (three wersts make two English miles). As these last troops have a quantity of heavy artillery w ith them . which cannot be em ployed in the mountains of Circassia, it supposed th a t the Caucasus is not the sole ob j ect of their destination, An immense number of waggons folio=s the trcops with the most necessary supplies. 40,000 axes have been pro. vided that every man may have one; they are intended to clear the forests of the Caucasus whore it cannot be effected 4 •by fire. The soldiers, however, probably in consequence of the fatigues of the march, appear to be rather dispirited, while we hear from the Caucasus of the most enthtfsidsti resolution. Even Russian 'Accra who were engaged in last year's campaign relate astonishing instances of the bra Very and here.ic eV; votedness of the Circassian% !t IS affirmed that the ope rations of the Circassians indicate a regular plan, which rprises even experienced tacticians. They are said to be chiefly led by Poles, and the names of Potoaki, ea banski, and Czatorski are snoken of. French and English officers, tne : an said to be • among them. With re7ct, the Russian plan for the nothing is positively known. In th 'last place, the corps under General GralYl:e on the Kuban, neeep.t'ing the line of the Black Sea to the Caspian, is to remain on the defensive. It is confirmed that the Circassians have broken through this line, passed the Kuban, surprised and taken threii of the strongest forts, and cut tO pieces th greater part of the garrisons. Thi . a is said to have been the fate of the Rus sian TZirartermaster General Gltsfort, and his whole staff. Much light artillery and part of the camp fell into the hands of the Circassians, who are taid t' hate ad vanced to Anapa, and to haVe taken that fortress. The loss of the Russians, in their recent encounter, is said to bare been very considerable ; but it is reported that they soon recovered their losses, and have retaken all the forts, including Anapa. Measures are taken on the Dniester to improve the navigation of that river. The Russian Go vernment intend to eatablith a now lataretto at Muhilcv. An express has just arrived from Paris with the intelligence that everything looked more patific yesterday. The tone of Sunday's Jouilials was greatly moderated ) and no fresh Ordinances, as expected, appeared in the Moniteur. This is what we were prepared to expect, when the good sense of the French people could have time to or , rate upon the national Councils, We have received the whole of the Paris Jour nals of Friday and Saturday, together with Madrid Papers of the 25th ult.---and from both interesting extracts will he found in another part of THE Surf. The tone of the French Journals is still warlike, though a good deal moderated since Wed nesday last. The shout " War with tugland” sounds ridiculous after eommon sense has put the question What about ?" But the Government has nevertheless proceeded to redeem the pledge which it gave, to be prepared against any emergency. The Moniteur of Saturday publishes two Royal decrees dated the 29th of July—the first calling into active service, from the 9th inst., all the yonng conscripts of the second portion of the contingent of 1836, and all that are still disposable of the contingent of 1839 ; the second Royal ordinance authorises the Minister of Marine to open extraor dinary credits for increasing, by 10,000 men, the • effectual force of the navy, besides five ships of the line, thirteen frigates, and nine steamers. Admiral RoussiN is also preparing an extensive promotion, in order to fill up the staff of the fleet ; so" that, in every public department, as much energy is now displayed by the French Government, as if a war, on the most extensive scale, had actually been de clared, But notwithstanding these notes of preparation, we do not believe that the peace of Europe will be dimiabed at present. Louis PHILIPPE has 110 inclination to go to war about an affair in which France has no more interest than any of the other Powers ), and although M. THIERS may pant to distinguish himself as the NAPOLEON of the Ca binet, we can hardly believe that even he would embroil Europe to augment a reputation for accoms plished statesmanship. Without being in the least intimidated by the hostile bluster of the Paris Press of the early part of last week, we are greatly gratified to . witness the moderation assumed by the same Journals At its close: The language of violence or recri mination is un;Yorthy of such civilized Powers as England and France. Mere btiaStitig on either side is equally opposed to the dictates of sound judgment and good taste. We do not require to be told, by Way of bravado, of the warlike resources, of the courage, and of the in .*indbility of France. We have more than once voluntarily admitted the possession by France of all the attributes of military glory claimed by her public writers, without so much as an allusion to the potency of a nation who more than once suc cessfully braved her as an enemy, and in the hour of victory only sought to secure her friendship. Upon this point the following extract from an article in the Times of this morning is in entire harmony with our sentiments, and, though somewhat long, we are confident our readers will be glad to learn from it that the Times has taken a co rrec t an d patr i ot i c view of a question of so much importance to the peace of Europe : Most earnestly do we deprecate the violent outbreak of national pride, and all the clamour of martial preparation, which have reached us through the French press. These detestable opportunities of strife are hailed in a tone of exultation which should be laid aside. A people holding so high a place in the rank of civilized nations should re monstrate with a nation as civilized as itself in calmer and more pacific language than that which is necessarily used to the semi-barbarians of Cairo or Pekin. We do not share the predilection of the French people or the French Govern ment for the Pacha ; but if aught of needless mistrust or personal slight has been shown towards France or her able and respected representative in this country by the British Government, or by foreign diplomatists in London, the people of England are now as much as ever disposed to testify their esteem for the French alliance, whether that country send us a marshal or a philosopher —a Soult or a Guizot. But the people of England look on nothing with more contempt than hot and misplaced indignation, even though it be supported by undoubted re sources and untarnished bravery, We are sincerely desirous that the Eastern question should be settled ; but if any proof be needed of the hold which the alliance with France has acquired upon the opinions and the interests of this country, that proof will be found in the general dread of the public lest a settlement, otherwise so desirable, should be obtained at too great a risk. But if France act with good sense and good faith, that risk, as we stated on Sa turday, is very small; for what and where is there the cause of war ? Arc nations to be estranged by the same puny causes which drove the pedantic and punctilious Courts of the 17th and 18th centuries to arms ! Or where, in this instance, is the national insult or the national wrong which can justify so violent and desperate a re sentment ? If, by the untoward course of events, these sparks aro wafted on till they threaten the fabric of European society with a conflagration, it will be recorded that events so disastrous never sprang from a more paltry cause. Such a war would be begun, not for inde pendence, for Poland perished unassisted ; not for freedom, for the appeal of the most oppressed coun tries in Europe has been made in vain ; not for fame, for enough of fame has been bought by France, though at too dear a price ; not for a territorial aggrandizement, for the disputants on neither side put forth their own claim to pos session ; not to fulfil the faith of treaties, for France having signed the collective note of the 27th of July, for the main tenance of the integrity of the Ottoman empire, has already pledged herself, at least, not to assail it. Are we then ex posed to these dangers for the sake of a desperado like Mehemet Ali, whose hard Government is placed, even by his supporters, on the lowest level of Oriental despotism, or for the sake of the barbarous and lawless population of the pachalic of Aleppo and Mesopotamia? The details of the Eastern question are in themselves so contemptible—the rival powers so similar in their badness, that this apple of discord is not even an apple of gold. The loss of one drop of Christian blood shed in war in the heart of Europe is followed by more calamities, and is more grievous to humanity, than the massacre of a horde of Mussulman insurgents. The evils of war are exactly proportioned to the civilization of the countries engaged in it. The nations which have made most progress in the arts of peace arc most afflicted by the interruption of them ; and if France and England stoop to share the violence they ought to made rate, the advantages even of victory will be shared or engrossed by powers quite unable as yet to compete with either of them in benefiting mankind, though ready to surpass them in bloodshed ; the burden and the ruin will rest upon themselves. But, although it cannot be concealed that the utmost foresight cannot insure the avoidance of sci,fatal a rupture, is it too much to ask and to hope that a social and Chris tian spirit may yet command the elements of political strife? If we are separated from France en this question, that is no reason for severing the great and numerous in terests by which we are now and for the future as much united to that nation as we were yesterday. If, on the other hand, we find ourselves strangely com bined with Russia in this particular treaty, that is no reason for laying aside our long sigilanco of her designs, and our protestations against the spirit manifested by so many of her previous and her present actions. On the contrary, that vigilance requires to be redoubled, especially if we have to deal with her either as friend or foe single-handed. We have ere this contracted alliances with Russia, from which she has extracted all the benefit she sought ; we have ere this fought battles of which she has reaped the spoil. England is not more inclined now than she has ever been before to tolerate Russian dominion in Constantinople ; and, great as is the responsibility of those who have ventured on so bold a course for the attain. meta of its immediate object, that responsibility binds them under the heaviest and most solemn obligations to provide against the possibility of being deceived by its ultimate results. The following is a summary of the miscellaneous news in the French Papers of Friday and Satur day : All the :noise in the journals of M. Thiers deceives no body. If there were anything serious in these demon strations the Chambers would be convoked. The English Parliament is sitting, the French Parliament ought like wise to be sitting. So long as the ordinance for con voking the Chambers does not appear in the Moniteur, we shall consider the language of the journalists as no more than idle words. Allot:sr I.—The funds have recovered to-day; th ey have risen about I per cent. that Th it e s ho decline ul d having do at to ceased pris. at A L report,o n don t o i t o w w a a s s natural spread of the fate of the Palmerston Administration. The Eng lish give no reason to expect such an event, and at present there is no reason whatever to believe that this news has any foundation. Admiral Duperre was at his seat as Cel!cues, near _Blois, when he received by express orders to be in readiness to tale the Command-in-Chief of our navel force. He immediately Set out for Paris.—Gaiette de Frutic:=.% We know that the contractor for the navy has been sum moned by the Minister of the Marine, and that he has had several conferences with hill on the 'quantity of articles which be could furnish in a gi ven t ithe, As for the armaments, the Presse says that Admiral Duperrc having accepted the command in chief of the naval force in the Mediterranean, twenty ships of the line, Rill be under his prdeFa. Letters from Marseilles, received at Paris to day, says the Sieck, announces that the Egyptian troops landed in Syria have had an engagerhent with the Druses in which the latter suffered great loss. After this battle, of which re haVe received nci details directly most of the insurgents are said to have shown an inclination to make their sub mission.—Le Commerce. The :Constitutionnel states, that 150 Spanish non.com missionod officer; and soldiers had enrolled themselves for french service on the 20th ult. at Perpignan, and 300 on the 21st. Those engagements continue. A private letter dated Rome, the 18th ult., to the Jour nal des Debate, mentions that the Duke Alexander de Torlonia, the head of the Celebrated banking-house of that name, was married on the 17th ult. to the Princess Teresa Colonna, a young lady of 18 y ears o f age , w h ose f or t une amounts to about 3, 500,000 Roman seudi (morn than 500,000/. British.) The Journal des Debate states that Captain Lescauff, of the brig La Julio, arrived at Dunkirk on the 24th. On the sth he saved seven men whom he found on a craft with* ' out sail or rudder, belonging to the English galliot the Lisbon, which had taken fire, and was abandoned by her crag. PAMI ANn ROT:EN RAILWAY BILL—The first general meeting of the shareholders of the Faris and Rouen Rail way was held on Thursday, at the salOon of M. flertt;, in the Rue do la Victoriet to deliberate on the modification of the statutes rend ere d necessary by the changes in the Bill which were made by the Chambers. About 250 per sons wera oresent, rep resenting 3 1, 0 0 0 shares of the total number of d ~, 2,000. The statutes require for the general meetings only the presence of 200 shareholders. M. Laffittc, wile presided on this oecasionj read the Report of the Committee of Management, of which he is Chairman, and froth width it appears that three years will suffice for the termination of the vsliol6 line. The proposed modi fications were agreed to by the meeting, but it was re solved that the Company should make every effort in their power to get the interest guaranteed by Government, and whith had been reduced from 4 per cent, to 3 per cent., restored to the former amount in the event of such a concession being made hereafter to any other Company. The aniOUnt to be allowed to the Comtnit4 tee of Atanagement, which, according to the decision of the Council of State, was to be referred to the general meeting, led to a very stormy discussion. It was contended that to give twelve persons a minimum remuneration of 100,000 francs a year was to burden the Company impro. t P h e e riY heav b y ut du af t sitiott was agre e d t o by a l a rge majority. c e s r some s o e observations se fr g om ent lr e . m L en a , ffi th tt e e, pr a o s pe to . The Memorial Bordelais states that Elicabide is to be put on his trial for murder at the Assizes of the Gironde, which will commence about the tlOth of August. The same paper expresses a hope that the body of the boy murdered at Paris may be interred with those of his mother and sister, and that a modest tomb should be erected at the ex pense of the city over the remains of this unfortunate family. BO UR 5E,..--PARtS, SATURDAY, AUD. ••-• • F Irkt Highest, Lovett Last Price Price. Price. Price 1 1 0 1 4 3 5000 ...... i l t l l4 t 5 1 0 0 ...... 1 1 , 1 )4 3 l i,o o ...... 1 1 0 13 4 50 50 French 5 per Cents 4 per Cents 3 per Cents . 02 20 . 82 50 ... 89 ... 82 Bank of France 3OO ...:'3OO ... 3 , (1 ...3200 Belgian Bank 5 per Cents !CO ... 100 ... 100 ... 100 Spanish AcLive Passive 504 ..• 6 ... 5' ... 6 New Dcferred lieapolitan Roman 1 $7/i ...10U(, ... ICON ~.100% RAILWAI SHARES, Versailro a L.11....,i 530 ... 530 ... sno ... 330 Orleans . . S.rasburg to Bale . ........ 30 ... 380 ... 380 ... 3-0 lIISH MUNICIPAL fut.—The Reread, consistently, this morning again denounces the Shaw-Lyndhurst job ; but we regret to say that we believe the clause, as amended by the Lords, will not be rejected by the Commons. In fact, it seems hardly worth while to delay the settlement of a question which has agitated the country for four years, in order to rescue the Tories from the stigma with which they have branded them selvea, POLISH REFUGEES.--AVe arc informed that Lord Sandon is to call the attention of the House this evening to the case of the Pohsh Refugees. We trust that Members of all parties , in the . Ho use will unanimously Lord S a ndo n 's motion. Surely there never was a better occasion for the British Parliament to ex press, at a small expense, its feelings in favour of Po land. We intreat our iriends, and ail the friends of whatever is just and noble, to display their right feeling by coming forw ar d t o s upp o rt Lo r d Sandon's motion. What is sought is that instead of one hundred and fifty-eight who are gone, fifty-two Polish refugees should be admitted to participate in the Parliamentary grant, the sum already voted being more than sufficient for the purpose. What the House is conjured to do is, with out voting one additional shilling, to rescue from appal ling misery fifty-two victims to their attachment to the noblest of causes —Morning Advertiser. Our readers will find in another column aa official account of the present state of the French navy, and of the extent to which the French Government pos sesses the means of augmenting it to meet any sudden o e f em F p r i o r n e n o b f t a h m e b o it c i e o a n n . is T e b v o id n e g n b tl n y o now the great object of French ambition. Though not in would recommend to the Admiralty the exercise of t te ha l the eergg e re a en s a t alarmed ctyo.bjeTcth for the fate of Great Britain, we more than ordinary activity. The Government is apt to nod occasionally, but no time could be worse chosen for relaxed vigilance than the present. Our dockyards should be indeed hives of industry. BRIGHTON, JuLY3l.—The Duke and Duchess de Nemours, accompanied by General Colbert and the Countess d'Oraison, arrived at the Albion Hotel this morning from Goodwood, at eleven o'clock. Their Royal Highnesses alto breakfast rode over to the Pavilion, and inspected her Ma jesty's marine residence. About a quarter before two their Royal Highnesses and suite rode to the Pier in an open car riage. The Royal Pair were most respectfully saluted by thousands of well-dressed persons un the Pier, who had assem bled to witness their embarkation. The General Steam Navi gation Company's packet the Dart, which had been specially engaged to convey their Royal Highnesses across the Chan nel, left the Pier-head about t wo o ' c l oc k , an d i s expected to reach Dieppe about eight this evening. The Earl of Ducie, on Friday, eat for the first time in the House of Lords since the death of his father ; his Lordship then took the oaths and his seat. TII E NEWSPAPER PRESS.—The increase in the circulation of London newspapers, since the reduction of the stamp duty, has been annually 9,885,943, or 47 per cent. on the previous circulation. The increase in the English pro vincials has been 1 1,370,452, or 137 per cent. ; Scotch, 1,3-0,006, or 49 per cent.; and Irish, 364,452, or 7 per cent. on former circulation. Dr. Bowling has arrived in Exeter on a short visit to his father, C. Bowring, Esq., of Larkbeare. The learned Doctor proceeds afterwards to a public dinner to be given to him at Falmouth. The funeral of the Earl of Durham will take place in about ten days at Chester-le-street, near Lambton Castle, in the vault of the Lambton family. His Lordship's remains will be landed at North Shields or Sunderland, from the Albatros yacht, and thence conveyed to Lambton Castle, where they will lie in state. The Countess of Durham and the Ladies Lambton did not arrive at Cleveland House from Cowes until Friday evening at seven o'clock. Her Ladyship leaves town for Howick Hall this morning, accompanied by her noble parents, Earl and Countess Grey. THE MARQUIS OF DOURO.—The eldest son of the Duke of Wellington, the Marquis of Douro, has been paying Liverpool a visit during the present week. He visited the Custom-house, Town-hall, shipping, and other objects of attraction in the town, with all of which he expressed his de r light.—Lieerpool Chronicle. FORESTALLING.—It appears that this practice has also been very prevalent in Loughborough, and that the lord of the manor has issued a public notice published in Lei cester, with a view of putting a stop to the system in our market.—Leicester Mercury. GooDwooD.—l can scarcely find language to express the surpassing brilliancy of the Goodwood Meeting, brought to a close on Friday. To use the wor d s of Lord Eg linton, one of the stewards, it has been the b est meeting ever known in England. Including heats there w ere actually n thirty-four races during the week, and in on e d ay two of theu largest starts took place I ever remember—twenty for the llarkaway Cup, and twenty-four for the 300 sovereigns, the munificent gift of the Stewards.—Post. SINGULAR CASE of H D E ARTORWENINTG . h -- e An In quest was held before Mr. Payne, at . St. Bartholomew's s ?n Saturday ev • Hos pital, on Saturday last, on the body of Emma Saunders, aged s seventeen months. The deceased had fallen out of bed into a large pan of water. del Il Lcz E g ß o was MAJESTYgivn Donna g, and appeared to excite as much admiration as at the preceding representa tion. Rubini was encored in Paeini's c, Il soave," and at the fall of the curtain he and Grisi were loudly ca ll ed for, and at length came forward to receive the congrat u l at i ons of a very ' numerous audience. C erito was al so hon oure d with an encore in herpas de deur with Guerra in the Lac des Fees. At the conclusion of the ballet the pj anseuse came forward, and was rapturously received. Her Majesty and Prince Albert were present. I-BCCID FATAL STEMOAT A ENT.--Sunday evening three young men were proceeding up the water in a boat ; in passing through 1 . N . , t Violet steam-boat they were unfor tunately run down by the Several in: oat, whereby they were all thrown into the water. . watermen put off to y heir assistance, and succeeded in rescuing two of them. The other man immediately sank, and was seen no m ore . The people on board the steamer did all in their power to avert the calamity. The marriage announced between . the Earl of Shelburne and Kerry, on ly surviving son of the Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne, and L y Georgiana Herbert, sister to the Earl of Pembroke, andlace nieceatVP the Russian General Count Wm onzow, will take m month. Tholit House, near Salis bury, early in the ensuing bride. elect in h Earl is in his twenty fourth year, and the noble brilliant ey twenty-third. The event will be celebrated by festivities at Bowood. The Marquis of Hertford, attended by his physician and a large suite Dorchester will leave D r travelling ' House this morning, en route to the south o f until April Europe, w h ere hi s ' Lordship is expected t o remain next. RV SHE EP.EXTRAORDINA -- Mr. Seaman wether I Beale, of Tcnterden, hastog, which has for some a The lamb was often time past suckled a lamb.. seen apparel-01y was not supposed suckiar , the sheep, but it , .5 However that it derived any • ' nourishment from its eilor_t • . , on shearing the wether, it was found to be ot . herviise, and that a stream of milk , could be[produced from him equal to that from a ewe.— Rochester Gazette. MOOR G Am E.--We understand that the moors in the neighbourhood of Halifax are thi s year very deficient in the number of young birds' r•LOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) Atid. J,..-,Win,d,.this day at noon, /3., terly,breeies and fine . .weather. Poarsi4purft,, A 17i. ; ,2,-,-Nyind W.S.W.—galled tile Malabar, Pollock, for Bombay. FALMOUTH, Auo. I.—Wind N.N. E.—Arrived the Ta. gus steamer, ITLeocl, from Gibraltar. Sailed the Anna Maria, renwick, for ,Calcutta ;, and Charles Carter, Broady, La Gua)ra. Off port the Clyde, Salisbury, from Taganrog. POOLE, AUG. 2.—Sailed the Olive Branch, Rogers, for New foundland. DARTMOUTH, AUG. I.—Arrived the Calypso, Pettier. bridge, from Quebec. Off port the General Hewitt, Sel.. lers, from Quebec. GVERNSEa, JUL, 30.—Sailed the Eotus, Domaille, for Valencia; and Caledonia, Henry, Havannah. LIVERPOOL, Auo 2,—Wind W. N. W.—Arrived the Mary and Jane, Pearson, from Miramichi; Don, Muir, Quebec; Robert Bain, Fowler, ditto; Jubilee, Anderson, Taganrog 1 . , Minerva, Alexander, and Eleanor, M‘Pher son, New Orleans ; gomulus, New York ; Carthngenian, Quebec; and Mary and Mite, Darker, Prince Edward's Island. Sailed the outward-bound. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. The arrivals of last week were considerable of Wheat, tut small of other' Grain. The fresh supply of Wheat is good, but of other Corn short. The speculators for a lower duty pur chased the runs of fine Wheat again at last week's prices ; other qualities sold slowly to the millers at rather less terms than last Monday. Barley unvaried. Beans and Peas firm. Oats a dull trade at last currency. Flour sold heavily at the late ad vance. The weather being very fine, and harvest proceeding in the south, scarely any new samples have been seen. PRICES ON BOARD OF Srilis Wheat, lied (01d)... Beans, Small (new) ......... 48e. 503 White (old) —v. - (old) ......... —E. -===-- Red (2830) 664. 653. Tick (tiff*, ...... 43s 46s Firm 7os• (old) .......... —B. Superfine 725. 753. Harrow (new) ...... 443. 43z. White (1839) 665. 703. ............ • Fine 725. 76s Brank, Superfine 77s BOB4Oats ' Feed --F6reign free 631. 846. - New 21. 20g. Ryt • 3.ts Vls Poland., Barley 305.386. • - New .Bs. 325. Grinding 30s. 345, - 1- l oflt6f -- • - Malting 3Bs. 425. Malt e..E., ~,,,, 565, 658, Scotch 3.25. 648, Fine New cos. 72a. - Irish 255. ... 275. 30s. Pease, Grey, New 40s. 425. Flour Town (per sack).... 603. 655. Maple New 436. 465. - Seconds 565. 5 5 1. Whne 425. 445. North Country-. 525. 554 Boilers 465. 523.1 Bran : lls 125, ARRIVALS OF GRAIN IN LONDON DURING LAST WEEK. English 111 a 4rqrs. sacks Irish FL reign MARKET. Having had a larger supply of Cattle ilran astral, combined with the extreme heat of the weather, the butchers Were fearful of purchasing. Beef was about 2d. per stone under lest Fri day's prices, but Mutton and Lamb were unaltered; the. coarsest sorts of Veal were 4d: cheaper, but the finest young Veal fully commanded the high advance of Friday. Young Porkers 2d. lower. Beef 3s. 2d. to 4s. 4d. Mittton gs. 6d. to 4s. sd. Veal 4s. Bd. to ss. 6d. Lamb 4s. 10d. to ss. Ed. Pork 4s. 4d. to ss. 2d. Beasts 2,830, Sheep and Lambs 25,900, Calves 228, and Pigs 534. Hay 655. to 925. 6d. Clover 85s. to 115 s. Straw 365. to 40s. TEA MARKET. Prices were well supported at the public sales, which offered about 12,003 pkgs. The attendance was good, and the biddings for good useful descriptions were brisk. The principal part that passed the hammer was disposed of. There have been no arrivals during the last few days, and the market altogether appears to have assumed a much firmer tone. TALLOW MARKET. The transactions continue very small, but in consequence of the non-arrival of the usual supplies, the holders still keep prices very high ; in P. Y. C. on the spot and to arrive 525. ed. HOPS, The market still very firm, and a large business has been done by speculation, but there seems to be but little disposi tion to make further purchases at the present high prices, and the last day er two the market has been rather quiet. The duty has fallen to 45,000/. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The Tagus steamer has arrived at Falmouth with a Lisbon mail. The information by the above conveyance is not of much importance. LIVERPOOL. COTTON MARKET, SATURDAY.--ThC sales in cotton to-day ar© to a fair extent to the trade ; prices steady. LivEntoo SHARE LIST, Asa. I.—Birmingham and Gloucester, 74}; Chester and Birkenhead New Shares, 14i; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 29 i ; Grand Junction, 258 ; Great Western Half Shares, 55k; Manchester and Birmingham Half Shates, 40i. Every description of Rail way Stock heavy in the market. We have received Hobart Town Papers to the 25th of March. _ ( From the Australian.) Ely a gentleman lately arrived here, wo learn that the country in the neighbourhood of the outer stations is in a most alarming state. The aborigines are mustering in strong force, and unless a sufficient body of police is sent down without delay, it is impossible to calculate the mis chief which may be done. The tribes meditate a syste matic and organized attack. We have reeeiyed the Journal of Antwerp of yester day's date. BOURSE OF AMSTERDAM, JULY 31.—We are again more heavy to-day in our Funds—the liquidation is partly the cause of it. Ardoin't have a great deal varied, opened at 21k, went Up to 21/, but heavy sales caused a re-action, and they fell to 21—. at the closing 20/ to Accounts from Java to the Bth of April state that in the last days a most violent wind took place at Madion, which occasioned, a great deal of damage to the Government vessels and various buildings. War or peeeo with Pranc e i s t h e genera l top i c o f con versation in the City. bind out di ten persons are of a decided opinion that we shall have no *at With France; and according to the information from Paris this morning, the King of France is for the maintenance of peace. The French Ordinance for the levy of 60,000 men and 10,000 seamen, with five ships of the line, and 18 frigates, has not had any effect on the Fritish Funds at present. TIM FUNDS. Consols may b' quted at present 90k for the Account, have been 901; Money, 89k 90 ; Exchequer Bills, 22 24 prem. ; Bank Stock, 173 174 ; India Stock, 252 254. In tho Foreign Market Spanish Active left off Satur day, 241, at present 24k i; Deferred, 111- 12 ; Passive, 5i 6 ; Portuguese 311 32; Three per Cents., 211 22 ; Colombian, 241 25f ; Mexican, 28f 29} ; Brazilian, 78 79 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 51i i; Five per Cents., 101. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. R. s. d. X. s. d. £. s. d. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Great Western Ditto New London and Brighton; London and South Western 3Bl s7i to North Midland, (New) South Eastern and Dover PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, AUG. 1. 3 per Cent. Consols Three and Half Stock 9Bi 1 Grand Canal 5t0ck......... . . ... Ditto Reduced ...... ... Ditto Debs. 6 per cent... 88 Ditto New, 1830 ...... 99 Ditto 4 per cent per Cent. Debs. HALF-PAST ONE. The President steam-ship left Liverpool on Saturday, the I st inst., at two P.m., with 45 passengers, and between 4 to 500 tons of freight. Consols continue in a very uncertain state, owing to various reports, such as a Message to the House this even ing for a supply of seamen—that an Express had arrived from Paris, bringing the funds lower, and two more ordi nrnees were expected every day to be issued. These reports had the effect to lower Consols from 90j- to 89i, at which price they are at present. Bath the British and Foreign Markets have a gloomy appearance. Exchequer Bills, 22 24 prem ; India Bonds, 2 dis. par. ; Bank Stock, 1731 ; India Stock, 2531 2i ; Spanish Active has receded from 25i to 24k; Deterred, 12 11i ; Portuguese, 30i, have been 32i ; Three per Cents, 21i ; Columbian, 25 ; Mexican, 28i 29 ; Dutch Two and-a- Half per Cents, 5 ; Five per Cents, 1011 2. Very little business doing in the Share Maik.A. Great Western New, 544 ; London and Brighton 261 ; South Western 57i ; North Midland, New, 33 CLOSING BRITISH PRICES. FUNDS. Bank Stock ... 173 i India Stock ...... ...... -2521 3 per Cent. Red 9OB Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent Cons ..... ... 891 Ditto Old Annuities ... 3 per Cent Red...,_ _ 99 Ditto New Annuities — New 3i per Cent New 5 per Cent ... Long Annuities to expire _.,:..... , Ditto Small Jan. 1860. l3i Bank Stock for Acct.-173i Oct. 1859 ... ...... 13 7-16 India Stock for Acct.-253i Jan. 1860.- ...... 13i Consols for Acct 9O FOREIGN FUNDS. Aastrian, 5 per cent... Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 per cent lOl Ditto, New Ditto 3li Brazilian Bowls._ .. .. 78i Prussian, 5 per cent.... I3uenosAyres, 6 per cent Russian, 5 per cent.... ' Chilian 6 per cent 44 Ditto, Metallic Colombian, 6 per cent... 22i Spanish, 5 per cent 251 Ditto, 182 4 25 Ditto, Deferred PL Danish, 3 per cent..... 77i French,s per cent... —f. —c. Greek, 1825, 5 percent. Exchange E —c. Mexican, 5 per cent.... French,3 per cent —f. —c. Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825 Dutch, 2i per cent sli Peruvian,lB2s,6 per ct. Ditto, 5 per cent..... 101 ,1 SHARES. Great Western Railway Ditto New Shares. . London and Brighton Railway 26i London and South Western Railway 56i Manchester and Leeds Railway Ditto New Shares Northern and Eastern Railway North Midland Railway Ditto New Shares South Eastern awed Dever 33i COURT MARTIAL.—On Saturday a General Court-martial was held at St. George's Barracks, Charing cross, when a charge of forgery and defalcation in his mutter accounts was preferred against Pay-sergeant Fuge, of the Ist Company, Ist Battalion of Scots Fusilier Guards. The evi• dence was very conclusive against the prisoner, but the finding of the Court will not be promulgated until the sentence Is ap proved of by the Commander-in-Chief. The defalcation was about 501., for which the prisoner has sacrificed his pension, which would have been 13. 10d. per day , an d he will, in all probability, be transported. DREADFUL ACCIDENT.--011 Monday after noon, as one of the pilot boats was having her mast taken out of her, under the crane, at the north en d of the Queen's Dock, just as it was clear of the boat and was about to be lowered on the quay, the slings gave way, and, awful to relate, fell upon a poor Irish labourer, who was passing under at the moment, and crushed him in so dreadful a manner as to cause instant death. The poor man, we hear, has left awife and four small children. _Liverpool Albion. COURT CIRCULAR. • Her , Majesty and Prince Albert attended Divine Service --- L afternoon in the Ch a p e l R o y a l, St. J ames ' s , enta, he R el. ~..Dakins officiated. The Chaunt was the Rev. P. aertit 4 , t 3 the a jFil ,;.•!scat and Nunc Dimittis, Aldrich in G. Ire Anthetti, g G m ; thou art my God" (I ) :.frcellY, Waft sung by MesstS. Hawkins, Hobbs, and Bradbury. Sir George Smart presided at the organ. The Dean of Hereford was the Deputy Clerk of the el'oset in Waiting. The Royal Suite consisted of the Countess of Mount.dgcumbe, Hon. Miss Paget, Hon. Miss Anson, Lord Byron, Earl of Surrey, Lord George Lennox, Hon. W. Cowper, and Col. Wemyss. The Marquis of Normanby and Viscount Melbourne bad audiences of the Queen on Saturday. Her Majesty and Prince Albert took an airing on Satur day afternoon in an open carriage and four. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, attended by the Countess of Mount Edgcumbe, Hon. Miss Anson, Lord Byron, Earl of Surrey, Hon. W. Cowper, and Colonel Wemyss, honoured the Italian Opera with their presence on Saturday evening. The Duchess of Kent attended Divine Service yester day morning in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The Sermon was preached by the Rev. Mr. Reid. Lady Char lotte Dundas was in waiting on her Royal Highness. The following was issued yesterday : " The Princess Augusta has bad a bad night, but there is no material change In her Royal Highness's symptoms. " Clarence Houa t , August 2." The Duchess of Gloucester' and the Duke of Cambridge, visited the Princess; Augusta oath yesterday and on Saturday. The Duke of Cambridge attended by Colonel Jones, went yesterday morning to Kew, and attended Divine Service in Kew Church. His Royal Highness returned to town in the afternoon. The Duke of Cambridge honoured Sir William J. Newton on Saturday with a sitting for his Coronation Picture. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon at the Foreign Office. It was attended by all the Ministers. The Council sat two hours. THE QUEEN DOWAGER. Keswick was on Monday last honoured by a visit from Royalty. The Queen Dowager, who has been sojourning for a few days at Bewness, sent word by mail on ..s. l thdaY evening, that she would be at the Royal Oak Inn to lune!' at ten o'clock on Monday. Short as the notice was, tri umphal arches, decked with evergreens, were soon erected across the streets at the Inn. Flags were floating from the windows, &c. ; a party of gentlemen were to go out to escort her into the town ; a procession of Odd Fellows was to be formed ; and the children bebnging to the Sunday Schools were to be arranged on each side of the road, every one with a bunch of flowers, tied with white satin ribbon, which were to be thrown into the carriage as it parsed. But all these arrangements were frustrated by her Majesty writing an hour sooner than was expected, and being set clown at the ttoyal Cisk, almost unseen; but no sooner was her arrival ascertained than the streets were crofgded by all classes, every one dressed in their best, shops wife Closed, and a general holiday commenced. Soon after arriving tt went up the lake to Lowdore, saw the waterfall, and returned by the road, and left Keswick again about three o'clock for Patterdale, escorted out of the town by a party of gentlemen on ileirgreback.—all the arrangements which were made for her reeeptiotl were put into requisition on her departure. She was accompanied by Ida , Duchess of Saxe Weimar, Earl and Countess Sheffie ld, Lady Georgina Curzon, Lady Mary Fielding, Earl Howe, and Earl of Denbigh. From Patterdale, we believe, her Majesty retraced her steps southward,:without visiting Lowther Castle. She was expected at Alton Towers, the seat of the Earl of Shrewsbury, on Wednesday evening, and great prepara tions were made for her reception.— Carlisle Journal. THE EASTERN QUESTION. SPIRIT OF THEPARIS PRESO. The Paris Journals of Priday and Saturday are oil the whole rather less warlike in their leading articles than they have been for the last two days, although they still declare that, unless the treaty of the four Powers be modified, there must be an appeal to arms. Those which profess their de sire for the continuation of peace still cling to the hope that the feelings of the English nation will be manifested strongly against what they call the alliance with Russia, although the English Ministerial Journals have declared that one of the motives of the Cabinet is to prevent the ag grandizement of that Power. The Constitutionnel says— " The effect produced in Paris by the news of the treaty between the four Powers is beginning to be known in Lon don. Our neighbours are astonished at our susceptibility, and do not comprehend how we can show such emotion at the resolutions of Lord Palmerston and his allies. We must indeed do the Whig press the justice to say that it had net till now an idea of the effect which the news would produce here. When Lord Palmerston signed the treaty, he, like the journals which support his policy, had, perhaps, full confidence in the enduring moderation of France. He is now undeceived." The Quotidienne has the following observations on the prohgble consequences of a war " if M. Thiers be resolutely decided for war, there is a great chance of his having his own way, for the Ministe rial papers serve him thoroughly. But the question has become one of polemics, eve, in the dynastic press. If the struggle were to commence, ti;, Question of the East would be lost in that of the revolution. is not a de fensive war, but a war of interest, which France c,"nuld be called upon to make ; it Is a war of principles and of pro. paganda. The contest would be not to know whether Syria shall belong to the Sultan or to Mehemet Ali, but whether revolution or monarchy shall govern the world. The whole of Europe would be shaken by a revolutionary war, and it does not belong to M. Thiers or anybody else to prevent such a result. Let a single gun be fired on the banks of the Rhine, and either conquered Europe must submit to the revolution, or France must be invaded. The war once commenced can end in no other way." The Dtbats has no leading article on this important subject ; it merely quotes the leaders of the English press. The Courrier Francais devotes the whole of its first page to an articit6 under the head of " Lord Palmerston accused of high treason." Ata:stcal by the pompous display of this head in large characters, we e.s4sected on reading it to find that Lord Palmerston had been brought before the Hotaft of Commons on a formal charge of this description ; our surprise, therefore, was not slight, when we found this charge to be an old accusation made by Mr. Thomas Att wood, the ex-member for Birmingham, President of the Birmingham Political Union, and of the Society for the Regeneration of Poland, in his last annual speech in favour of Poland against Russia, vvilich is the eternal cauchemar of this really amiable man but over7calous politician. The Presse, which has never fallen into the idea of the French Ministerial Journals, that the policy of Lord Pal merston will be disavowed by the English Parliament, and even by his own colleagues, quotes an article from the Globe, confirming its own view, but studiously concealing the fact that the article which it quotes appeared in the Globe as from its Parisian Correspondent, who, however correct his opinion may be, cannot know officially what the views of the English Cabinet are. The Capitok urges to war. Nothing short of the war of propaganda, to which the Quotidienne alludes, will do for this journal; but it has no confidence (it would be a great misfortune if it had) in the present Government for such a war. " We shall make a great blustering, and spend a great leal of money," says this journal; a cve give hopes to nations which have been waiting so long for us to ,`use ourselves ; but that will be all. Our soldiers will be paraded on the frontier, but good care will be taken not to cross it. Yet the outrage offered to France by the Kings of Europe must not go unpunished. Let the men who govern us reflect on this. If they should be incapa ble of avenging us, or tardy in doing so, the nation would promptly say to them, Arriere and find avengers of their own." The National seems to anticipate that the Austrian and Prussian Governments, alarmed at the demonstrations of the French nation, will do everything to prevent the com mencement of a war of principle, which would shake the thrones of those countries to their foundations. It fears, however, that they will not withdraw from the alliance with Russia and England without exacting new conces sions from France. The Univers, a journal which rarely affords us an opportunity for extract, contains the follow ing, which has, perhaps, more good sense than anything hich the other papers contain;— The position of the question is this :—lf the insur rection is Syria be very serious, if the Pacha should give way to the summons of the four Powers, or if he should be easily and promptly subdued, Lord Palmerston will have been in the right, and we shall have no dangers to incur, and merely the disagreeableness of having been deceived. If the insurrection be put down, and the Pacha be able to resist with energy and for a long time, Lord Palmerston will have been wrong, and we shall have been right ; his position would then become a bad one, and ours would be strong." The Univers adds :—" We are assured that our Am bassador in London has received from his Cabinet instruc tions which arc at once dignified, firm, and reasonable. They are of a nature to produce same impression upon the English nation. We are fully convinced that England is not desirous of a rupture with France, and will feel that the question as to whether Syria shall belong to the Sul tan or the Pacha is not worth the risk of a war." The Commerce, in alluding to the state of the Bourse, says—" Considerable alarm has for some days prevailed relative to the extensive fluctuations in the funds. Large fortunes are tottering, and a serious financial crisis must be the result. With all this before its e y es, the Gov ernment has remained a silent spectator, although it had the power of setting Europe right as to the true position of affairs. The enormous fall which the funds have experienced within the last few days has taken place as if by chance. The Cabinet has allowed it to proceed, and withheld any kind of communication. 4. With all respect for the secrecy of negotiations, it ap pears a matter of surp rise t hat the preparations p f r e e r s d s e s f h e o n u c l e d: A spread an alarm b y p ublishi ng the at the same time leaving the public in doubt as to the ac tual state of affairs. So fatal a sil ence s h ould no longer be maintained, as every one seems inclined to interpret it in the worst sense. It has another disadvantage, namely, that alternately suceeeded influenced e u s en rie ce u d s b r y ea th cte the most T est con tradictory Government is bound to state the truth, which, if only known to a few privileged persons, must in moments like market the a e r k p e r e t e t n e t prod the i u r c r e e p f a o r r a bt l h e e m i n j a u r r y i c e h f h t a h r e v s e e s t havein t h h e e e n s t k o e e l; - t in the dark." PORTUGAL. By the Tagus steamer, which arrived at Falmouth on Saturday, we have received the following letter from our correspondent at Lisbon : LISBON, JULY 27.—1 t is now more than two months since the Cortes assembled; two-thirds of the session have therefore, in all probability, elapsed, and the Budget, tic discussion of which, under existing circumstances, ought EvViNriN - G EDITION. ito be the great business o f the Legisi i ;,•.!ure , Lae not y et t lill toixe a d llo b w y e t d he to sit much Constitution, lon v g iz er ., come. ibe before the Chamber. It i s not likely tn;.! the ,`:" . :ortea tthhraerretrontmhisal;;Zrlausrnioonl as that term is completed, they expect to be prorogleed till January next, and should this be the case, the estimate- 4 , according to the now usual cou rse h ero , w ill aga i n h ave tv I be voted n a lump, and the Government will perhaps ark for a vote of c o 2fidence, in order to raise means to pay the half d:vidend next Christmas; for after Senhor Florido's last letter to Mr. Thornton, I cannot suppose the session will be allowed i.,0 pass without At least so much being done. But as to the " permanently fixing the state of the finances," which the Deputies talk of in their address to the Throne, there seems but little chance of its being done this year. The Senators are still discussing the reply to the speech 1 4 i46rn the throne. The relations with Spain and Brazil', have bdel discussed at great length. As to the island in. the Guadiana, Senhor R. de F. Magalhaes admitted that everything was just in the same state as when it began, the Commissioners appointed not being able to come to any conclusion. Petitions have been presented 'against the Douro Navigation Convention, not against that par t i cular measure alone, but impugning any measure of the kind. A very long discussion took place about Brazil. Baron Tojal advised that they should not wait for treat i es with Brazil so as to prevent their concluding treaties with other countries, which had a much greater capacity of to king their products. Viscount Sa attacked the duties imposed by Brazil upon Portuguese wi nes , an d, i nc id enta ll y a d ver ting to the pro jected treaty between England and France, said that they ought to open negotiations with the countries liable to be a f.tcted by such a treaty, viz., Sicily, the Rhine provinces, and, wove all, Spain, and get them to join in measures of reprisals agronst us, in case the treaty was carried into effL et. Ihe Marquis de Saldanha is said to persist in holding himself aloof from either party, both the Ministry and the! opposition being desirous to secure his assistance. The; Duke of Palmella has also hitherto refused office, and seems disposed to assist in keeping things as they are for the present. Were the Duke to come in with ,Saldanha, a strong government it is thought might be formed ; but in that case Bomfin would have to retire, as it is not likely that either would serve under him. Several mectin t :s have lately been held, and the Duke of Palmella gave a dinner to a large party of members which the Rev °lacer. de Septembro says was to recive the whole party ; but adds, that the ultra-Chartists, J. A. Magalhaes, Seabra, &c., have committed themselves too far to recede. Aguair h as :,vidently gone over to the Government, and will perhaps come ink the Home Office, R. de F. Magalhaes keeping the Foreign office, which he now holds, ad interim. A mercenary asOssin, named Queijo, was executed at Oporto; he had been the terror of the district of Basto for two years, being wont to extort money under the threat of assassination, and u 5,74 to put any one out of the way for nine cruzados (li.). A murder was committed on ihe road to centra on Sa turday night, on a young man who was proc,:eding that way on root with his dog and gun, on a sporting' expedi tion, and his dead body was discovered by his own fa ther, who was following some hours after on the same road I It is thought that the harvest here, both in corn and oil, will be found considerably under the average this year. The olives, indeed, are quite a failure in several districts ; the wine growers are expected to come off bet ter, and there will be a good deal made this year.— Morning Chronicle. SPAIN. The Eco del Comercio of the 25th ult. mentions that considerable excitement prevailed in Madrid on the pre vious day, and, although public tranquillity continued un - interrupted, a general feeling of discouragment and anxiety was manifested. It seemed to be the general opinion that the sanction given to the law on municipalities would have the effect of a firebrand thrown into a mass of combustible matter, and that an explosion must take place. The de plorable effect of this measure upon the army and the; po•- pulat'on at large has been a cause of affliction to all true Span'ards, and can only be approved of by selfish indivi duals and those actuated by party motives. The muni— fipality of Madrid held one of its ordinary meetings on the reviomiday, and, if report is to be credited, the Ministry had transteitted to that body the law in question for the purpose of making it public. A number of the inhabitants had assembled in order to ascertain what steps the muni cipal authorities of the capital intended to take. A coun cillor having asked what mode of discussion would be• adopted, the President informed him that he bad not, as yet, received any communication on the subject. This reply seems rather singular, and no one can say whether it is to be attributed to fear or to a prudent determination, on the part of the Government, not to promulgate a law which bad caused so much dissatisfaction. The Phare of Bayonne publishes the following tele graphic despatch:- 46 PERPIGNAN, JULY 28, HALF-PAST 9 O'CLOCK. " LIEUTENANT-GENERAL CASTELLANE TO LIEUTENANT- GENERAL COUNT HARISPE. " The National Guard is no longer on duty at Barce lona. Espartero visits the military posts every afternoon on horseback, and the sentinels have orders to fire on any one who disturbs the public peace." The Correo Nacional of the 25th' of July contains the following statement of the affairs of the Madrid Bourse of the previous day :—ln the new Five per Cents. 59 trans actions to the amount of 28,000,000 reals at 26 25 15 16ths cash ; for account, 26i ; debt without interest, 5, 1 ,- at 60 days. Exchange on London, three months, 38/ ; Paris, 16 6. SYRIA. On the subjeCt of Syria, we find the following in the. Constitutionnel :- 4' The importance of the insurrection of the mountain eers has been exaggerated. Ibrahim Pacha, surprised in e he pe w o a p s le eb o i f ig S e ) 2 .r t i o a y defeated the in-- s a l i n s ; u d 3 t 3 l l ) b i a i T in e s a s t e n i l n f a c u l , m p a o i l s t t i t h j g o e u e r g n u h e s r a a a i t e l t m r h i , e s n u fi g l r t s i t m o o f a n t s e t e l h y t surgents with great case. He is now more powerful than he was in 1853, his troops are more practised in war, and the rebellion does not extend beyond the chain of Lebanon, the population of which does not exceed 400,000 souls, and is composed of three races—the Ansarias, the Druses, and Alaronitcs. The Ansarias, who reckon 60,000 souls, and occupy the northern part of the chain in e T s chree importanceiNe I dD a s li ,ru o h m saco% e s,fe d aamnn thisud mutual u a r ain,Abldieapri political s lne o i tle m it ne e as - i e environs of Tripoli, are id o lat ers , m i x i ng , h owever , t i i n me t s hea ris w t o ia r n shpa ttes s . om T e rh t ee im n p although f 0 l y 1; l e o r w y nv trifling. d different relations. The Maronites arc Catholics, who having In the sixth century been persecuted by the Greeks, took refuge in the Lebanon. The Druses are a set of Maho medans, whom their co-believers drove from their country. Common safety drove the Druses and Maronites to com bine in the defence of their new country. It was not till the reign of Amurath 111. that they were brought u , Kler the dominion of the Turks 1 but they were allowed to Lave a chief taken froTs among themselves. The race of t iis chief becoming extinct, 1-be authority was transferred t, art Arab ; from whom Emir Beciiir, the present chief of the Druses is descended. He was a powerful prince when the French army entered Syria, and he has ruled the Druses and Maronites fur 45 years. He is commander of all the forces of the country, and it is by his order alone that the people can take up arms ; he is the only meL 4 ium for the execution of the directions of the Government ho raises the taxes, which arc levied according to the nu:n her of mulberry-trees, or acres of land, possessed by cacti inhabitant, and out of which ho pays the tribute. Emit Rechir, whothe nirsebot revolthloN in loved and respected, greatly contri buted Being a Christian, he a Sultan, or rather the Turks of Con stantinople, should be re - established in authority o v e r s ) su that if t Ls? Syria, a terrible reaction will ensue, and he therefore re mains faithful to Mehemet Ali. The Maronites will soon rally iound the banner of their Emir. If, however, carried away by passion, they should not listen to his counzel, divisions will soon break out among them, and they will fall under the sword of the Egyptians ; but, if they submit, Mehemet Ali will make great concessions to them, in order to atitteh them to his interests." FRONTIERS OF TURKEY. au. The great discontent in Bosnia is ascribed to the gene ral oppression, and, above all, to the extortions of tne G o v e rnor Wedschibi Pacita. There is a great agitatio n in the Herzegowina. The Vizier is making great military preparations apparently against Montenegro. On the other hand, the Vladika of Montenegro has surnrnoncd the in habitants to arms. Ali Pasha knows that the Porte sees through him. Whether the Montenegrons are on; r play ing a farce in concert with him, or whether they are seriously preparing to resist an attack is uncertain. In Turkish Albania, two armaments against Montenegro are' preparing. The fortresses of Spux, Podgorizza, and Xabliak are being ca sr ie f iursN visibly perfectr , n i i i s s h i b e l d y in w c i rt t er h aunicin a u r gi t i Inu t i l l y, ammunition, and pro visions, and the number of ar me d vesse l s on the lak e of Scutari Michael Turkish atC o K m r m a ity everywhere prevails. The g i s u s i i e o v n a e c r z , a N n l usa invitationE ff end t i o , chassentome to B to c g Price ra dey but he has answered that the nation will not allow him to go thither except with a strong escort, fearing that when there he might be separated from the nation, as his father and treated like him. The adversaries of the e lation and of the Prince will not indeed fail to represent the :le clining of the invitation as an affront to the Porte, or even ' a direct rebellion, and thereby draw the Turkish Commis sioner more and more to their side ; but the Government is not apprehensive on this account. The Government has proofs in writing in its possession, which leave no doubt of the criminal intentions of the de posed primates. They thought of securing the Government to themselves, by banishing all the members of the family of Obrenowitsch, except the Prince, in which case Simitsch would have been President of the Senate ; and while two other Members of the proposed Triumvirate had already provided for themselves, by obtaining from the Porte the appointments of Counsellors to the young Prince, M. Radicservisch, lately Director in the depart ment of the Interior, a very active and able man, has been appointed by Prince Michael to be Minister of Justice and Ecclesiastical Affairs. HOP INTELLIGENCE. WORCESTER, J • L v 31.—We had a very brisk market. for all descriptions of Flop s last Saturda y , and fine new realised 10s. per cwt. on the previous market prices. The a from the plantations are as un f avoura bl e as accounts t s and t young shoots being still f o ll owe d up w i t h filth which have reduc e d t h em too weak un be, ca vermin, to show any signs of blossom ; indeed the blight has been so severe that it is feared many stocks will be destroyed for another year. The duty must be small, no one being disposed to back 1,0001. Present prices, per cwt.:— Low new, from 84s. to 110 a. ; fine, from 1265. to 1555. ; Yearlings and 1837'5, from 70s. to 106 s. LOUTH ELECTION. -Mr. Fortescue was elected last Friday without opposition. I