The Sun. — London, England, 1840-08-01 00:00:00

P.VENING EDITION. deficiency of talent in it, but the talent is not well applied. It is of a quaint, crotchety character, and appeals to the fancies of the few, instead of the judgment of the inany. But there is none of this perverse spirit visible in the remarks suggested by Mr. Bunn's recent work on the S:agP, which urges not a few seasonable and pertinent sugges- ' bons for the benefit of managers. In the account of " Cci*nental Philosophy in America," we think we can trace the able and argumentative pen of tlieditor, who quotes, with seeming approba tion, a remark.of Victor Cousin, to the effect that " the only conquerors at Waterloo were civilization and the charter !" This is a truly French conceit, in7cniotls enough, and meant to be profound. Nk e should be glad to know, however, what sort of ci vilization it was that spoke by the mouth of the cannon, and enforced conviction through the agency of fixed bayonets ; also how much of the charter was visible in the broadswords of the Forty-second To our thinking, " Civilization and the Charter" had. as - little to do with Waterloo, as they had with the Ordinances of Charles the Tenth. " Rose Ci;.nton" is a soitimenal tale, of an exceedingly lachrymose and die-away character. In " Our Monthly Crypt" there are several impartial notices of new books. SPORTIA G REVIEW. Contains three spirited engravings, the most skil ful of which is a sketch of " Salmon Netting on the Tweed," which is remarkable for the picturesque beauty of its back-ground, and the cool, transparent tffect given to the unruffled waters of the river. Among the literary contents, we perceive an ani mated descripticm - , by Nimrod, of a sporting month spent in Leicestershire. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen and Prince Albert took an airing yesterday afternoon in an open carriage and four. Colonel Wemyss and Colonel Bouverie (the Equerries in Waiting), attend ing her Majesty and his Royal Highness on horseback. Viseou.it Melbourne had an audience yesterday of her Majesty; Prince Albert rode out on horseback yesterday, at tended by Mr. George E. Anson and Colonel llniverie. The Royal Dinner Party at the Palace last evening in cluded the Earl of Erroll, the Earl of Surrey, and Mr. George Edward Anson. The band of the 2d Regiment of Life Guards was in attendance at the Palace during dinner. The Coldstream Band attended at the Palace on Thurs day evening. Hor Alaj sty honoured Sir William J. Newton with a sifting yesterday at Buckingham Palace for his Corona film picture. His Royal Highness Prince Albert honoured Mr. A. E. Chalon, R. n., with a sitting on Thursday at Buck ingham Palace, for a whole length portrait in water colours. The Duchess of Kent took a carriage airing yecerday. The Princess Augusta received visits yesterday atter aeon from the Duchess of Gloucester and the Duke of Cambridge. The answer given during the day, at Cla rence House, St. James's, to the inquiries after the health of her Royal Highness was—" Tile Princess Augusta has had another good night." Mr. Muskett, M. P., Mr. Gilbart, and Mr. Duncan,• a Deputation from the Joint-stock Banking Committee, bad an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday. in Downing-street. Lori Fitzroy Somerset, Colonel Pereeval, Mr. Pigot, and Alr. Lefevre, had interviews with the Marquis of Normanby yesterday, at the Home-office. Sir T. Mitchell had an interview with Lord John ill sell yesterday, at the Colonial-offi..!e. The Earl of Hardwicke and Sir Bruce Chichester had interviews w;th Viscount Melbourne yesterday in Down- ins--street. The Marquis of Normaoby returned to town yesterday from Goodwood. Francis Seymour left Buckingham Palace yester- day, for Dover. .D.z..spr.chea frean Sir L. Smith, Governor of the Mauri tius, v,, , re recz.:ived yesterday at the Colonial-office. The Jadicial Committee of her Majesty's Most Honour :Me Privy Council sat yesterday in the Council Chamber. The Lords present were, the Lora President, Lord Lynd hurst, Lord Brougham, and the Judge of the Prerogative Coml. The Qucen'a Advocate and Sir Frederick Pollock were Laird in an appeal from Jersey. The Very Reverend the Dean of Jersey v. the Reverend Edward de Vavasseur, dit Durell. Aftee hearing this ease. their Lordships adjourned. ST. SAVIOUR'S, SOUTHWARK. CHURCH-RATES. Y,sterday morning a Vestry wa; held in the Vestry room of St. Saviour's, Southwark, for the purpose of snaking a Church-rate, and upon other business. Mr. JoHN flowE, the Warden of the Great Account, in the chair. After passing the accounts of the late Wardens, Mr. Horns stated it now became necessary to make a Church-rate for the ensuing year, in consequence of the parish having. to pay 7601. to the Exchequer Loan Commi;sioncrs, 386/. fine to the Dean and Chapter of RocheAer for the renewal of the lease of Martin farm, and other heavy items. The sum of 3,376/. would be required, for amongst the outlay these would be about 2001. tor matting and furniture for the Cnurch. Now a sixpenny rate would leave a deficiency of. 4121., while se ninepenni rate would give the parish a balance of 4701. Under these circumstances he should advise the adoption of the higher rate. Mr. Ilicktaans moved that a Church-rate of nine pence in the pound be made. Mr. R. EMBLETON said before they agreed to the making of a Church-rate they ought to know how the money which had been raised for the building of the new church had been expended. After some further remarks, he concluded by seconding the resolution for the 9d. call. Mr. WILD, jun., objected to the item of 200/ roe the furnishing of the church, and moved as an amendment that 4 rate of 6,1. in the pound be made. Mr. InvutE considered that a 9d. call was a very heavy ere. Mr. FERRIE seconded the amendment. A show of hands was then taken, when the amend• ment w s lost, and the original motion carried. The meeting then proceeded with the other business, which being got through the meeting broke up. COMMISSION OF LUNACY. Yesterday morning a Commission of Lunacy was °pond at the Sun Hotel, Dednom, near Colchester, before William Sparliog, Samuel Watticy, and W. W. Francis, Esquires, Commissioners of Lunacy, to inquire into the state of mind of Philip Constantine Bolton Hitch, Esq., and, if insane, from what period. The Jury was composed of the most influential freeholders, ineludimt several Magistrates of the county of E3sex. Mr. STARLING, who presided as Chief Commissioner, addressed the Jury at considerable length, fully explain ing zbeir duties. Mr. Singers, who appeared on behalf of the Rev. • Wortham Hiteli, and others of the finally, at le,'!use instance tile Commission was issued, said that the present proceedings had been instituted for the personal protection of the unfortunate young geniteman, and also .of property, and not from any hostile feeling to wards him on the part of his family. He was about twee ty-seven years of age. and had been at school nearly the whole of his life, but had learned nothing ; he had scarcely the capacity of a child. He (Mr. Singers) would produce evidence to show that Mr. Hitch had bean 4f an imbecile mind from the earliest period of his life. The Rev. J. W. Hitch stated that his brother had not been in a right state of mind from his infancy. _ Henry Horatio Bidwell, surgeon, deposed that although Mr. Hitch was twenty-seven years of aze, his intellect was not equal to that of a child ten years old. Mr. Corder Platter said he was master of the Eng lish school in Dedham. Mr. Hitch, the alleged lunatic, had been with him for eighteen years. He is not able to count coppers up to is. .. - The Jury, after a short consultation, returned the following verdict :—" We find that Mr. Philip Constan tine Bolton Hitch is of unsound mind, and incompetent to manage his affairs, and has heenLso from the 26th of November, 1837. WEST SURREY ELECTION.—The election of a Member A Parliament for this division of the county took place yesterday, at Guildford ; and, there being no other can didate in the field, John Trotter, &q., of Epsom, who started in the Conservative interest, was proposed and seconded, a n d declared to be duly elected. Y`v THE NORTH WESTERN BOUNDARY.---it may suffice to state, as the result of the labours assigned to the Commissioners, that they have satisfactorily ascertained by a strict investigation of the face of the country, by an industrious perusal and comparison of charters, treaties, transfers of ter ritory, and other historical records, the absolute and indisputable conformity between the intent and spirit of the treaty of 1783, and the demarcation of territory originally contended for by Great Britain ; that no portion of the " disputed " districts ever could, under the authority of that Treaty, or with any colour of justice, have been claimed by the United States ; that the award of the King of Holland, which transferred to the Re public about three-fifths of the " disputed territory," was founded on erroneous data, and on entire igLoranee of the filets which have been subsequently developed; that the award of that Sovereign if accepted by the part es, could nsever have been executed under any circum stances, the structure of the country interposing thereto physical and irremoveable obstacles ; that, so far from the smallest fractßin of the disputed territory falling within the line of the Uoited States, a rigorous construction of some authoritative documents would actually prove a just title on the part of England to a portion of what has heretofore been re garded as part of the State of Maine itself ; and that, in fine, the conclusions upon which certain " official agents of the re public have rested the American case, instead of being the legitimate results of practical investigation , are unsubstantial inventions brought forward in the absence of all real investiga tion, conveying erroneous ideas of the nature of the country , and calcolated to mislead not only their own auth or i t i es , b u t public opinion in the United States and in Europe as to the merits of the question."-- Timm. THE GLORIOUS DAYS -.')F JULY. ( From the French Papers of Thursday.) The last day of the fetes of July has passed off with the greatest eclat. The weather was jesterday magnificent. ard all the population of Paris acre out of doors eloer mined to enjoy themselves. As utual, the Champs Ely se, s, with its fair, presented a motley scene ; the mat de cocaine attracted the same crowd of admirers at the slips and chances of the adventurous climbers ; the orchestras and dancing places were well attended by plebeian vota ries of the Muses ; the long-fought battles were all fought over again, with the addition of Mazagran in all its 1 horrors ; and the victualling-booths, tumblers, jugglers, and gjmnastical exhibitors, to say nothing of the giants attd dwarfs, all had each their often. renewed crowds of easily gr.tified visitors. The Place de la Concorde was shown off on this occ &on in all its beauty ; the foto, tains were in full play; so also was the new basin at the rood-punt of the Champs Eivsees; excellent order was maintained by the municipal guards and police, and there was really no small pleasure to be derived from a ramble among the throng. At the Barrier° du Trone, the inhabitants of the eastern parts of the city came in for their shareof the amusements; and immerse crowds were stationed all day round the Column of July, on the Place de la Bastille, admiring the aspect of this new acquaint ! ance, which is indeed a great addition to the appearance of that part of the town. 0.: the river the jousts and other aquatic amusements, including a boat race, occupied the afternoon, and affarded r o small fun to the spectators, who lined the quays and bridges. Showsly after seven the grand concert in the garden of the Tui leries commenced, and was listened to by a dense as semblage. The King and 13.,yal family were on the terrace of the Chateatr, and remained there while the I Marseillaise and Parisienne were performed in first-rate style. Soon after eight the illumination of the public buildings throughout the capital was general ; the two columns, the Pantheon, the offices of the Ministers cf Ma rine and Finance, and the Arc de Triomphe de l'Etoile, producing a grand effect. All along the principal avenue of the Champs Elysees, besides the festoons of lampions that extended on each side throughout the distance, a series of large lustres in white arid coloured lamps were suspended down the middle of the roadway, and rendered the illumination doubly striking. Precisely at nine th.' first rocket was fired from the Tuileries, and was answered by a discharge of rockets and the shouts of some hundred thousand of people. Three balloons were let off from th.. Quai d'Orsay, display ng comet-like tails of fire till that had attained a considerable altitude, when they threw forth abundance of rockets and tri- coloured fire that produced a rovel and beautiful effect, The grand fireworks on the Quai d'Orsay, near the Tuileries, immediately com menced, and the devices of water and land-rockets became incessant. After a beautiful alternation of effects of va rious coloured lights, burning pillars, yew -trees, coils of serpents, &c., a most splendid temple was suddenli lighted up, nearly in front of the Chamber of Deputies and facing towards the Place de la Concorde. This was one of the most chaste and exquisite pieces of pyrotech nical skill we have ever seen. Four columns in white_ l light, separated by st rs and other devices in coloured fire, bore between them three compartments with the cy phers 27, aS, and 29, respectively flaming within them. Vases on the tops of the columns sent forth showers of tri. coloured fire, and loud discharges of artillery and rockets took place beneath. A beautiful star and other grand discharges were seen on the Punt de la Concorde, and then came three superb bouquets, one in honour of each day of the fete, the second of which and the last, includ ing a tremendous discharge of white rockets in the a;r, were of unusual grandeur. This has been by far the best display of fireworks since the rejoicings for the birth of the Count de Paris. At the same time very brilliant dis charges of fireworks took plaee at the Barriere du Trone, the bouquets there being also on a scale of unusual magni. ficence. The crowds in the streets,ifrom all parts cf the capital and the banlieue, were immense, but, as far as we observed, good order was maintained. The following arc some particulars of the exhumation of the bodies of the victims in front of the Louvre : After digging down about five feet a range of twelve bodies were found, the bones of which had become blackened, but the skulls were in tolerable preservation. Here and there some fragments of clothing were to be seen, the rest having been destroyed by the quick lime thrown into the grave. Under a second bed of lime another range of skeletons was come to; these were much more perfect, and the skulls retained their tenth almost entire, and which, from their whiteness, showed that the victims were mostly young men. The garments in which they were enveloped were in a good state, except the linen, which had entirely disappeared, while the shoes were almost completely perfe ct. On coming down to the third tier it was found to have contained not less than twent) -five bo. dies, the skulls and spines of which were perfect, and in other respects presented nearlythe same apjaiarances as those above them. The whole number of skulls taken up was sixty, although the list given in did not mention more than thirty-two. It was, however, ascertained that twenty. seven Swiss Guards were buried at the Louvre. As it was not possible to distinguish these last from the rest, the whole of the remains were put into the coffins, and thus the bones of the poor S a iss repose under the column of July with the defenders of that liberty which they con tended against. Among the rest was found the skeleton of a woman, which was recognised by the fragments of a female dress, and by a pair of gold ear-rings. Two five franc pieces. which she must have had in her pocket, fell to the ground when she was taken up. There was like xf.se found the skeleton of a child, which, as well as that of the woman, was pl, eed among the bones of those with which they had for ten years lain quietly in the earth. PARIS, .111.1' 30.—The fetes of July are over. They hay- terminated w;thout any serious accident, but they have been attended with demonstrations of national feel ing which it is said the Court regrets to perceive, or, it you will, to have provoked. The warlike tone of the Government Papers to-day has produced on the Funds a very serious impression. A species of panic has, in fact, existed throughout the busi ness hours. I feel b .und to state, however, that persons really well informed have eo expectation of an) thing its the shape of war, unless new incidents occur to exaspe— rate or to stimulate the vanity of the existing Government. It is pretty generally admitted, however, that an attemdt to coerce Mehemet Ali. which must have been contem plated by the Treaty of the Four Powers, would be ad mirably calculated to produce most untoward events. Towards the close of the Bourse the panic increased, but no new fact to justify it was mentioned. The Commerce states that all subjects of the Lombardo- Venetian kingdom, who had received the benefit of the late amnesty, received notice, some time since, from the Au:— Irian Embassy, to quit France before the fetes of July, un der the penalty of losing the advantages which that !nes- surt. had extended to them. " The injunction of Count d'Appony," adds this jwurnal, " has been strictly followed, and all those alluded to, including the Prince and Princess Belgiojoso, have passed the frontier." TILE LA - STE.R.N QUESTION. SPIRIT OF THE PARIS PRESS. FROM THE PARIS PAPERS OF THURSDAY. (From the Ccnstitutionnel, organ of M. 'niers.) There is much comment respecting the measures which the Government intend to resort to. They are as follow as to a levy of men The Government is about to call into vice all the soldiers plitO . ti at its disposal by law. It is not with men as with money. The Gevernment is autho extraordinary credits nzed to open by R iyal ordonnancre° for the extraordinary expenses comma: Ad by he interests of the country, but it has not the power of oiaking soldiers by nrdonraoce, and can only call out those who are go en to it by the Chambers. It a ill, consequently, take the rerna:n der of the classes of 1836 and 1837, and all the dais of 1839, which will supply a considerable force, of which the exact number is not 3et known. If circumstances, which, how ever, the Government does not yet anticipate, should render it necessary to put France upon a full war tooting. the Chamra•rs will he convoked, and the wants of the country will be laid before them. What chit fly occupies the attention of the Government is not having under arms a greater number of men than that of which it can at pre sent dispose. In France soldiers are formed rapidly. We must provide for the materiel, mount cavalry, and provide horses for the ar.illery. These important measures have aircady been ordered. The fleet will be augmented, and the command given to Admir,.l Duperrc, who will have under his orders Rear-Admirals Lalande, Ilugon, and La Sosse. The Government has made every airangement to hasten the building of the steamers. Our manufactories will be supplied extensively with large tools, so as to be able to pro luce engines of the largest size, and, if neces sary, the Belgian manufacturers will be applied to. The French workmen, who merely demanded a share In the manufacture of engines, will now have only one anxiety-- viz., that of having more to do than they can accomplish. In a word, the preparations are such that, if it should be come necessary, France could in a very short time be placed upon a perfect war footing. We cannot understand that the diplomacy of France can be reproached with having played the part of a dupe, or with having submitted to humiliation, on account of a treaty having been concluded by the four Powers without her consent. In what has she been a dupe, and how ha' she been humiliated by that fact? France, it is said, knew n othing about it ; she only had co g nizance of the tr eaty after it had been sign ed. What is meant b y that? If it is intended to be con ve y ed that the treaty was only noti tied after its conclusion it must be acknowledged that that was inevitable, and that it could not be otherwise. The Cabinets naturally only notify resolutions agreed upon and acts consummated. But was France ignorant that negotia tions were pending ? Was she ignorant of the object of those negotiations ? 'No, certainly ; and the Morning Chronicle is right on that point when it formally contradicts the assertion of the Morning Post relative to the pretended ignorance of our Ambassador respecting matters which were transacted out of his province. It is because the French Government was cognizant of those negotiations and of their purport that it refused to take a part therein ; and when, after reiterated intercessions, in order to oh rain its assent, it persisted in abstaining, there is nothing humiliating fur her dignity that negotiations were cfr_Tted without her. The simple meaning of that is, that France remained f.ithful to her policy even when she knew that she stood alone agaimt four. She must be proud of it, instead of being humiliated thereby. That policy, said the Morning Chronicle, only chfLred from that of the other Powers but upon the means to be resorted to in order to ensure the in. te : Trity of the Turkish empire. That assertion ;s true, Hough expressed in vague terms. But when the Morning Chronicle adds that France looked upon the possession of Sy 'la by the Pacha as incompatibl e w i t h a system of pad. fication, the Morning Chronicle positively stated the very opposite to the truth. France has constantly contended that to imp ose upon Mehemet Ali worse conditions than those which h a d b een agreed to. , xi b3:Nilnagtiin hmisohudg it. was to apply fresh f ee l t o t h e fire It is precisely on this p o i nt instead of that the d.ff_rener has taken place between Franc e and the ot 6 er Courts of Europe, and we must observe that In this rffiir each of the Powers, with the excepti n of England, has taken the corn et view as to it-elf. "1 KT, has arisen in Egypt a young, vigorous , and civilizing po wer, full of pro mise for the future. The French Government has de. Tr-1141 SUN. LONDON. SATURDA AITrfIUST 1, 1810. elated itself in favour of this Power. The Cabinets of the i North have declared against it. In our opinion the Eng lish Cabinet alone, carried away by the pa-lions of one of its members, has taken a false route. It has thought thet it could without impruder,ce range itself on the mit: of our Edversarie,; it has thought, in disregard of an alliance of ten years, that the safest part to take was that in which it would find itself as four against one. France has long seen this tendency of the English Go vernment, but has not taken alarm at it. To prevent it she ha made no concession of honour or interest, and she has, therefore, been neither duped nor humiliated. There will be no humiliation for us so long as we do not permit a policy, from which we have bad the good sense and the courage to withdraw, to triumph over the equi librium of Europe by violent and perilous means. It does not appear to us that ur Government is taking the road to such a national decadence. _ ( From the Journal des Debats, organ cf the Court.) Let us do this justice to England that she is the only country, besides France, in which the word •• liberty" may be uttered with impunity. On this account it has ever been our most ardeet desire to see the two nations place them selves together at the head of civilizstion, form a double rampart in the West assainst the invasion of new barba rians, and secure in concert the legitimate triumph of modern opinions. it we old be a subject of eternal regret if the peace obtained by such vast efforts, and that union which is its surest guarantee, should both be compromised to satisfy the vanity of an individual. But let us hasten to express the firm hope that still remains to us. Yes, we believe that peace will be preserved ; we believe that the alliance will be maintained : because, to maintai❑ it, we rely upon England herself. It is really presuming too much on our credulity to endeavour to persuade us that Lord Palmerston represents England, when he does not even re present of the Ministry. So long as a solemn discussion shall not have taken place in Parliament, so long as the pressure from without shall not have commenced its action we must be permitted to doubt that England is willing to plunge with her Minister into the maddest adventures, and act the part of squire in the train of this capering cheva lier. Let us consider the state of public opinion in the two countries. In France there is unanimity; all party quarrels have disappeared before the national question. As for us, whatever may be our likings or aversions, we sacri fice or postpone theni without hesitation. Is it the same in England ? The organs of the party which every week places the Ministry in jeopardy are full of reprobation of the culpable recklessness which would involve Europe in flames. and of sarcasm against the presumptuous dandy who would set about remodelling the world, attempting to exclude France, and perform the play of Hamlet, with the part of Hamlet omitted. It we are well informed, a large portion of the English Cabinet has declared itself against the opinion of Lord Palmerston. The terrible chances engendered by Lord Pal►nerston's policy could not escape the clear and ale sated mind of Lord Clarendon, the venerated experience and prudent Liberalism of Lord Holland, and the calm reason of the Marquis of Lansdowne. The chief of the Cabinet himself, whose inconre:tible integrity of character we acknow It dge, has, it is said, manifested the most ► ner getic opposition; and although Lord John Russell may aave appeared in his place in Parliament to have approved of the sentiments of Lord Palmerston, we believe he is too much occupied with the dowestic situation of Eng land, and too deeply imbued with the gravity of the colonial crisis, to imagine that he would lightly risk a disa.trous rupture. And can all these conside rations have yielded to the threat of Lord Palmerston to resign ? We cannot conceive how Lord Palmerston has seen able to persuade a reasonable Cabinet that his pre tence among them was indispensable. We know not by what fascination he has brought his colleagues to partake of the exclusive adoration which he bestows upon his own merit ; but in proportion as we should be astonished to see England sacrificing the repose of the world to the pro blematical necessity of preserving its Ministry, we are sur ,rrised to s.e that Ministry risking the loss of power in the inexplicable desire to retain Lord Palmerston. We must again express our hope that the English Cabinet has not sufficiently calculated upon the sensation which its decision would produce in France. We finally hope it will com prehend that the question is too grave to be made an open question—that the wise and prudent portion of the Cabinet wilt bring the remainder of it to some wholesome views, and that nobody will misunderstand the moderation which we display. The Courrier Francais says— The n►cutent is badly chosen for an insult to France and an attack upon her interests, for the Whig Ministry has little support from the country, and exists only by the strength imparted to it by the alliance with France. Lord Palmerston separates the two nations violently, at a mo ment when the alliance was becoming more firm. It is easy to see what England will lesc by this policy ; what it will gain nobody knUvis, not even Lord Palmerston himself." The Presse does not take the same view as the Debals in therartiele which we have already given, as to the insig nificance of the Ministerial question compared with the great question of national dignity. On the contrary, it considers that the destinies of the country in the event of a war could not be safely entrusted to M. Thiers. The following passage is as personally bitter as language well can be : " The journals of M. Thiers have fallen into a sort of warlike delirium. War, war, say they ; we must go to ear. Let us raise five hundred thousand men ; let us draw upon the lists of persons able to man our fleets, until it shall be exhausted ; let us take all the millions of the sinking fund and the public works; let us sell all our fo rests; in short, give our last man and our last crown; this is the time for the'sacrifices predicted by Al. Minot. But to what will this war-fever I, ad? To new and more inextricable complications. I‘l. Tbiers, however, has no other resource; his s)stcm is lost, and he has nothing else to lose. If we allow him to continue the game, the dignity and interests of France will be his stakes." The Presse recommends a negotiation with Austria, for the purpose of detaching her from t he alliance which has just been formed, but obs rvrs that such a negotiation inu,t be commenced by a Minis.,er less obnoxious to Aus tria than M Thiers. The National, unlike most of the other Journals, which even in the midst of their enthu.siasm for what is called the popular cause, still abstain from insulting remarks upon the English, and studiously separate the act of the Government from the supposed feelings of the British people, endeavours to revive the most galling reminiseenc, s, and reproaches one of the French Plinces fur part.king of the hobpitality of the English Queen. The following is in bad spirit and bad taste: " Whilst the English Ministry is making a dupe of F•ance, the Duke and Duchess of Nemours are receiving the caresses of Queen Victoria. Prqice Albert aid the “mng General of the Orleans family pass reviews to :ether, and examine in detail the equipment of the Eng. lish troops. The pretended hero of Constantina sees the Brit sh troops defile before him, and he may perceive at tached to the button-hole of more than one soldier the famous medal of Waterloo." SPORTIA G INTELLIGENCE. GOODWOOD RACES—FRIDAY. Match for 200 sovs., h ft. Mile and a half. Mr. Theobald's Fearnought, Est ilb Lord G. Rentinck's Dreadnought, Bat ilb 2 to 1 on Dreadnought, who was beaten in a canter. Sweepstakes of lt;0 says: each, h It. Half a mile. (3 subs.) Duke of Bedford's fby Taurus, 7,t (Cotton) 1 Dord G. Bentinek's Capote, Bst 121 b Lord f• glintoun's Assagai, 7st 2tol on Calve. Won by a length. A dead heat for second place. The Goodwood Cup of 1539, value 3001., by subscription of 15 soys. each. Craven Course. (44 subs.) Laird Eglinteun's The P. 4 entate, aged, Bst (Lye) 1 Lord Chesterfield's Gambia, 3 yrs, Est 121 b 2 Duke of Richmond' , Mus, aged, Bst 61b 3 The following also started, but were not placed :—Mr. Bowes's Epirus, 6 yrs, 9 t 51b—Col Peel's the Dey of Algiers, 4 yrs, Bst 81b—Major Hay's Retricver, 4 yrs, Bst 81b—Duke of Orleans' Beggarman, 5 yrs, Bst 31b—Lord Lichfield's The Corsair, 4 yrs, 84 31b—Col. Wyndham's Postovjee Boman jee, 5 yrs. Bst—Mr. :..andiland's Nubian 5 yrs, 7st 121b—Mr. Treen's Doncaster, 6 yrs, 7st 121 b —Duke of Richmond's Con- Insionee, 4 yrs, 7st 21b—Duke of Richmond's Glenlivat, 4 yrs, 7st—Mr. Payne's Willesden, aged, 7st—Duke of Rich mond's The Currier, 4 yrs, Est 121b—Col. Anson's Nicholas, 3 yrs, 6st 101b—Lord Exeter's Hellespont, 3 yrs, 6st 41b— Lord J. Bentinek's Half - cas te, 3 y rs, 6st—Lord Verulam's Carlos, 3 yrs, sst —and Mr. Thornhill's Euclid, 4 yrs. Sat 121 b. Won by a length. The Nassau Stakes of 50 says. each, for three-year-old fillies, Bst 71b each, &c. The new mile. (16 Subs. ) Lord G. Bentinck's eh f Rosa Bianca (J. Day) I Lord Chesterfield's f by Priam, out of Rowton's dam.. 0 Lord Exeter's br f Silistriao 1.4‘.” , ••• • --' 2tol on Rosa. Won by a length. Match, 100, h tt, D.S.C.—Lord Lichfield's Feather, 4 yrs, Est 13ib (Wakefield), beat Lord G. Bentinck's Naworth by three lengths. The Stewards' Cup of 3001., added to a Ilandica? Sweepstakes of 5 soy. each. T. Y. C. (44 subs.) Mr. Bowes's Epirus, 6 yrs, 94 71b (Scott) 1 Duke of Richmond's Mus, aged, Bst 111 b The following were not placed :—Euclid, 4 yrs. 9st 71b— The Dey of Algiers, 4 yrs, 9,t 31b—The Corsair, 4 yrs, Bst 111b—Camelino, 4 yrs, Bst 11113—Nubian, 5 yrs, 84 61b— Mendiza al, aged, Bst 51b—Bosphorus, 4 yrs, 84 31b—Pick wick, aged, Bst—lo, 4 yrs, 74 71b—Barabbas, 4 yrs, 7st 31b— Willesden, 6 yrs, 7st 11b—Black Beck, 3 yrs, Est 121 b Guava, 5 yrs, 6.t 101b—Nicholas, 3 yrs, Est 10Ib—Solace colt, 3 yrs, 6st 101b—Garry Owen, 3 yrs, 64 101b—Hellespont, 3 yrs, 6st 71b—Interlude, 3 yrs, 6st 51b—Rnwton's dam, 3 yrs, 6st 31b—Verity, 3 yrs, Est 31b—Courtesan fi.ly, 3 yrs, 54 71b —Sal Volatile, 3 yrs, sst. Won by a neck. NEWPORT (SALOP) RACES.—TuEsrmv. The North Shropshire Stakes of 5 sovs. each, with 20 added, for horses that never won 501. Mile and a half heats. (4 Subs.) Mr. Saunders's Frank, 4 yrs, Bst 71b (Marlow) 1 1 Mr. Walters's Soloman Bennett, 3 yrs, 7st 71b... . ...... 3 2 Mr. Stanley's The Baron, 4 yr., Bst 71b Won easy. The Newport ( Handicap) Stakes of 15 sons. each, 10 ft, and 5 only if declared, with 50 added ; the second saves his stake. 'I wice round. (13 Subs., of whom 9 declared. ) Mr. R. Pigot's Wings, 4 yrs, ist 121 b Mr. Saunders's Kitty Cockle, 6 yrs, 84 Mr. Cart wright nd Arthur, aged. Bst 41 b...... . . ... 3 Mr. Phillips's Taffy, 5 vrs, 84t. 6lb `Won by a head. The Cavalry Cup, twice round and a distance, was won in three heats by Mr. Boycott's Magic (late Baron Spolasco), beating four others easily. b•-t is objected to. WEDNESDAY. The Stand Purse , added to a Swee p s takes o r 5 soy, each, mile and a half , was %von in two heats by Magic, beat i n g Isa bella and a,enther easily. The Aqualate Hunt Stakes of 5 soy. each, with 20 added. Two mile heats. (8 Subs.) Mr. Phillips's Taffy (h. b.) 5 yrs, list 9.b ( Mr. Byrne) 1 1 Mr. Stanley's eh g The Baron, 4 yrs, list Sib 2 2 Several others started. Won cleverly. Hurdle Sweepstakes of 5 sov. each, with 15 added. Heats, twice round and a distance. Mr. Stanley nd gr h Arthur, aged, list 21b .. 1 I Mr. Baddelay tai Rex, aged, lOst 131 b Won cleverly. NESTORS OF THE IRISH BENCH.—The four senior judge, on the bench are—Johnston, called to the bar in 17 5' 5 ; Burton, 1792 ; Bushe, 1793; and Pennefather, 179,1.--- Limerick Cnronicle. LOVETT AND COLLINS. APUBLIC DINNER, to the above GEN- L TLEMEN, will take place at White Conduit-house, on MONDAY. August 3. T. WAR LE Y, M.P., in the Chair. T. S. Duncombe, M.P., and several other Gentlemen, have pledged themselves to attend. Dinner on table at Three o'Cleck precisely. Tickets 3s. each. Lady, 2s. 6d. May be had of Mr. Hetherington, 126, Strand. Air. Cleave, 1. Shoe-lane. Mr. Watson, 15, City-road, Mr. G. Rogers, 58, High-street, St. Giles s, Mr. R. Moore, 20, Hyde-street, Bloomsbury, Sec. The Committee, and at the Bar of the Tavern. The Committee a-e authorized to state that Messrs. Lovett and Collins will be present. TRECHTHEIUM CLUR; or, AUXILI ARY ATHEN/EUM. At a MEETING of the COMMITTEE of this Asso,...ia tion, held at the temporary . Offices of the Club, No. 6, Water loo-place, Pall Mall, on Friday, the 24th of July, 1840, Sir JOHN DEAN PAUL, Bait, in the Chair, It was resolved,—That the Committee, having elected One Hundred Members from the List of Candidates, do meet again on Thursday, the 6th day of August next, at One o'Clock pre cisely, to proceed to the Election of the Second Hundred Mem bers, and other business of the Club. Noblemen and Gentlemen desirous of joining this Association are requested to send in their appli cat i ons i mmed i ate l y to t h e Secretary, H. E. Paine, Esq., to whom all other communica tions respecting this Club must be addressed. THE AUGUST NUMBER OF CO LBUR N'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE AND HUMORIST, EDITED BY THEODORE HOOK, Esq. Contains, among a variety of other interesting articles, Papers by the — fol:owini Distinguished Writers ; I. The MARQUIS of LONDONDERRY.--" Journal of a Visit to the South Spain." 2. p HOOD, Esq.—" Rhymes for the Times, and Reason for the Season.—No. 1. An O pen Q uest i on .—N o . 11. pm os t S ." 3. MRS. TROLLOPE.—" The Life a n d Adventures of o T e y 1 , 1 8 0: h 1A Charles Chesterfield, the Youth of Genius." 4. The Hon. E. PHIPPS.—" La Gitana, a Tale of the South of Spain." 5. LAMAN BLANCHARD, Esq.—" A Quarrel with some Old Acquaintances." 6. DOUGLAS JERROLD, Esq.—" A Chapter on Black Dogs." Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Dedicated by Permission, to Her Most Gracious Majesty, the QUEEN DOWAGER. Just ready, in one vol. post Bvo, THE ART of NEEDLEWORK, From the Earliest Ages, With Notices of the Ancient Historical T , pest►ies. 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ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Audiences literally crowded to the cieling nightly flock to wit ness "Jane of the Hatchet," the most sucees,ful and gor geous Spectacle ever produced. The evolutions or 100 Fe ,,ale Warriors, grand entry of the Amazonian army, simul taneons rising on the rocks, and defeat of the soldiery, are electric effects, and meet with repeated cheers. Upwards of 20,000 persons have witnessed it. THIS EVENING, AUG. 1. Vill 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, a Comic Piece, called EVERYBODY'S RELATION. To conclude with Haino'i Drama, THE CHARMING POLLY. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. SEEVENTH WEEK, and CONTINUED BRILLIANT SUCCESS of BEETIIOW N'S BATTLE SINFONIA, With its novel and effective Introductions !! GRAND PROMENADES MUSICALES ET CIIAMPETRES, • By Godfrey's unrivalled Band. Programe of the Concert for August 3d, 4th, and 6th. FIRST PART. Overtures—Egmont (first time), and the Dragon Fight. Quadrille—St. Peter:burgh (first time.) Fantasia from Obe ron. %Valtz—Die Berggeister (first public performance), Me lange Des Dances, Pas de. Nations (from Le Corsair) intro ducing the Tyrolienne, Bolero, Quadrille; and Tarantella. Pas Redouble (MS.) SECOND PART. GRAND BATTLE SINFONIA, Beethoven, with new effects and an augmented Band. Cavatina c Coro, pasta Diva, from Norma"( first time this sea son )• Musard's New Quadrille—La Chasse (first time in Eng land). Overture—Guillauma Tell. Gallop—Benyowsky. I he 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 " Koniaphostic," or " Lime Light. Eruption of Mount Hecla, &c. On Monday. Tuesday, and Thursday next. ADMISSION ONE SHILLING. Feeding Hour of the Carnivora, Five o'Clock. Concert commences at Six. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. unrrine ...... 3 minutes atter 4. 1 Evening 8 minutes alter 5 the Publication of the Evening Edition of THE Sux cora- menced at 10 minutes after Three. t.,e5 •c. flavour. Our readers will recollect this gc,ndernan's no table project to get a special exemption of himself from the regulation oblig:ng Recorders to hold sessions as frequt , ntly and vi - tularly as the ends of justice might re quire : we had hoped the effatt of our exposure, joined with the rernoustr Incas of Lord Wicklow and Lord Devon in the House of Peers, had been the abandon ment of the project. Vvre little knew, however, the pertinacity of this Right Hon. Gentleman in a job. " We need not, we trust, repeat what we have said on the indecency of creating the regulations of a judicial office to suit the convenience of the political partisan who may happen to fill it. " One word to Lord Lyndhurst. We have not heard whether he is to be the mover in this business to-night. We hope not. He has a character above that of a partisan ; he has a character as a Judge ; it would deeply pain us to see him sullying his own ermine by an, connection with this business." Lord LYNtatuasT, therefore, has stained his ermine, and has, so far as he could, completed the monstrous job. Bravo, Herald, LYNDHURST, and SHAW, what a united and honest crew ! The Earl Of HADDINGTON next carried a clause ".0 enable the present LORD MAYOR of Dublin elect, to succeed to the office of President of the Court of Con science, by 58 to 39. Is this another monstrous job for a thick-and-thin partisan The Bishop of EXETER was not so successful with an amendment to transfer the right of presentations to livings in the gift of Corporations to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. The Duke of WELLINGTON opposed the amendment, which was withdrawn. The Bill was then passed, the Bishop of EXETER saying No, in the name of the Anglican Church, of which it is the duty to nourish discord in the realm. Several Bills were forwarded a stage, or approximated towards laws, and their Lordships adjourned. In the Commons• Lord JonN RUSSELL gave notice that he should move on Monday to commence public business as soon after four o'clock as convenient, and that the House should meet on Tuesday at twelve, with a view, we suppose, to bring the business of the House of Commons to a close. Mr. KELLY gave notice that next Session he should renew his exertions to abolish the punishment of death ; and he postponed till the same period his Bill to give votes to freemen. The Regency Bill was read a third time, after Mr. FRESHFIELD had moved a clause, which was negatived, to provide for the case of the REGENT ceasing to be REGENT under the provisions of the Bill when Parlia ment should not be assembled. A considerable number of Bills were shoved on without any further notice than the motion. The Railways Bill caused a brief discussion, but it was passed. The Infant Felons' Bill went into a Committee after some opposition from Lord G. SOMERSET. It promises to increase amazingly the business of the LORD CHAN CELLOR, for it empowers him to constitute any infant felon the ward of any applicant who proves his fitness and willingness to take charge of the infant till twenty one }ears of age. Lord J. RUSSELL explained that the Bill had met with great concurrence in the other House of Parlia ment, and it was framed with the benevolent ohject of enabling societies and ind,viduals to provide for the de cent bringing-up of those children who might have been gu ilty of crimes. In Committee the clauses were much discussed. An amendment to substitute the age of 14 instead of 21 for the period of guardianship was lost by 27 to 4. and an amendment to prevent any child being sent out of the kingdom under the Bill was lost by 33 to 7. Mr. WAELEY spoke of the Bill as separating parents from children with as little ceremony as men would sepa rate any two animals, but Mr. EWART said he had misconceived the Bill. We hope he has ; but we must say that it is one of those measures interfering more and more with the people, which we are afraid are founded on a totally erroneous principle. However, one evil begets another, and it. is necessary, as the law converts the peccadilloes of children into grave crimes, that the law should take care of those, if possible, whom it renders by degradation incapable of taking care of themselves. The Bill went through the Committee. The House adjourned at a Quarter to Ten o'Clock. We have derived great satisfaction, and we wish not to conceal but to display it—from the disa• greement which the debate on the Ecclesiastical Bill, on Thursday evening, has made manifest among the Bishops and the clergy concerning the disitibution of the revenues of the Church. The bulk of the clergy, led on by the University of Oxford, have declared against the Bill, and the Bishop of LONDON retorts on the petitioners that two-thirds of them do not in the least understand the question. The Bishop of EXETER, while he professed a kind of idolatrous veneration for the Archbishop of CANTERBURY, laboured throughout his speech to show that the Arch bishop was a poor weak mortal, who did not know his own mind from year to year, and was wholly unfit to be at the head of the Establish men:. The Bishop of ROCHESTER, in a charge ' to his clergy, says he is willing " To follow the apostolic Jule of living peaceably with all men," but in sell-defence "he is ready to go great lengths," which, being placed as a con trast to peaceable, signifies that Dr. iVIuRRAY is willing to make war for the Chapters. It would be a glorious sight to see the Right Rev. Prelate sallying forth from under the portals of old Rochester Castle, like another Bishop of BEAU VAtS, as his ancestors sallied from the hills of Athol to bring back the STUARTS and the Papacy, to do battle for the prebendaries and canonties of the Church. His apostolical courage might be great, but his followers would be few, and FA LSTAFF'S ragged regiment would far exceed the tail by which the new champion of bygone follies, imitating the ancient practices of his Highland ancestors, would be followed to the field. The Bishop of ROCHESTER, as well as several others of the clergy, have accused the Bishops of pt'rjury for violating the oaths they have taken as to Chapter property, and greatly are we delighted to see the very same accusation which these holy men brought against the Catholic members of the Legislature now brought against them, and to see them obliged to defend themselves on the same principles as Messrs. SHELL and O'CONNELL, and nearly in the same terns as were employed by those gentlemen. In reading the speeches of the Bishop of LONDON on Thursday, and of the Archbishop Of CANTERBURY on Monday, WE might suppose that we were reading the answers of Mess's. O'CONNELL and SIIEIL, except that the language is not so vehement to the rabid accusa tions of Messrs. M.GHEE and PHILLPOTTS. The Bishop said-- The Right Rev. Prelate next adverted to the charge that had been made against him and his Right Rev. Col leagues upon the Commission, that they had violated their oaths. That charge, which amounted to nothing more nor less than a charge qfperjury, had been made with con siderable bitterness by the Right Rev. Prelate. His con science told him that he was unstained by any such crime. Loud cheers.) All he and his Right Rev. Brethren had sworn was to defend the rights and privileges of the cathedrals from unlawful aggressions ; but they were not prevented from giving their consent to, or originating, such measures as should be consonant with the usefulness of the cathedrals, or their efficiency.—( Hear, hear.) The Archbishop said— ._ There was one subject which he should have mentioned earlier, namely, that of oaths. Many respectable clergy men had remonstrated with him on the violation of his oath, in being instrumental in supporting this measure, which would deprive the Cathedral of Canterbury of a part of its rights and revenues. He conceived the oaths taken by individuals, whether civil or ecclesiastical, or the cor porations to which they belonged, were always taken in subordination to their higher duties, and their obligations to the laws of their country. An oath of this kind left every man at liberty to do his duty and speak his mind as a subject, to deliver his opinion in Parliament , and to ad vise his Sovereign if he chanced to be Privy Councillor. He conceived it was in the nature of such an oath not to interfere with their duties, nor could he conceive that any oath could have been taken in any other sense by himself as a resident canon or prebendary of Canterbury. Both these Prelates, therefore, agree that their oaths to preserve the property of the Chapters does not prevent them from taking part in a re-distri bution of that property in the Legislature, in order to make the application of it more beneficial ; and yet when the Roman Catholic Members of the Legis lature propounded the same doctrine, and acted on the same principle, they were met by one universal hiss and howl from the Ultra-Protestant Journals. What is to save these Most Pev. and Right Rev. Palates from being tomahawked by the Times, -calped by the Herald, bludgeoned by the Stand ord, and stifled by the Post with perfumed va pours, we hardly know, unless their name of Prows. taut suffices fur the purpose,and unless our Contem poraries are anxious to convince the Catholics that the same act is a venial offence in an English Bishop which is a deadly sin in a Catholic layman. The peijury.poisoned chalice, however, which was dttittged so deadly for the Catholics by the Pro testant priesthood, is now, according to the un erring justice of GOD, commended to their own lips by the hands of their own brethren, and clecply must they drink th,treof. This retribution brought about by the mercenary quarrels of the priests, no one mixing the ingredients but themselves, affords 115 reat pleasure, and we anticipate from the quarrel time most important benefits for the public. The Times was yesterday . quite in raptures w i t h the Report of the two Commissioners who were ap pointed to inquire into the boundary betwixt Maine and New Brunswick. It has seldom occurred to us, (it said), to meet in the course of any political controversy a demonstration so triumphant as filet brought ferwara on the part of G)Ionel Mudge and Mr. Feathervonhaugh in supp:)rt of a right so hotly and pertinaciously disputed. The temper, the dili gence, the reasoning power, the thorough knowledge of their subject in all ha branches, and their lucid exposition of such a variety of complex and difficult matter which are presented by the report of those able gentlemen, must do them the highest honour both here and in Ame rica, although praise from the latter quarter may no doubt be but grudgingly bestowed. In the justice of these observations we fully con cur, but one of the reasons assigned by our Con temporary for his praise is so remarkable, coming 'from him, that we must quote it:— The press of England, and the Times amongst other journals, had vaguoly apprehended, without direct inquiry, that the American claims had partially, though riot en tirely, some sort of foundation in positive truth and jus tice, and that a mutual compromise, or in other words a certain sacrifice, of pretensions on bath sides, might be ne cessary towards an equitable adjustment of the feud. The Times had fears the Times was in error, and in its joy at getting rid of its fear it confesses its error. It might, however, have learned from the estimation in which its own opinions are held, the exact value of bullying, and not have been taken in by its own arts when played off by others. Any person, (it said,) who paid attention (and who has not ?) to the clamours of the Republican newspapers for some years past, must have been persuaded, had he not known better, that the citizens of the State of Maine were a set of the most oppressed and ill-used of God's creatures —lambs worried by the prowling wolves of England-- turtle-doves fluttered in their nest—stricken and sighing sufferers under wanton injury, with whom the world must sympathise, and who well-deserved that every man able to use a firelock would join in that appeal to arms which they so long and lustily have threatened. So the Times was frightened by the clamour and bullying of the Republican newspapers into believ ing that the Ministers were wrong, and that Eng land might be called on to make concessions which the Ministers did not contemplate. Yet this sagaci ous journalist, who was terrified by the howl of some kindred jackal's, has been for months abusing the Ministers because they did not settle this boundary question according to his erroneous view. The Ministers have done better : they have shown, to the satisfaction of the apprehensive Times, and, we trust, to the conviction of the Americans, " that the claim of Great Britain does not, as has been alleged, rest upon vague and indefensible grounds ; hut that she has ahvays had a clear and indefeasi ble title, by right and by possession, to the whole of the disputed territory. But, after all, what will be the value of this dis puted territory without hands to defend it ? The energetic men of the United States, unhampered by a colonial administration three thousand miles dis tant—unimpeded by the many clogs which an old Government fastens on our population—and in creased in numbers by a yearly immig►ation of 60,000 or 100,000 of the most active, independent, and stirring of the population of Europe—will mul tiply faster and increase much more rapidly in power than our colonies. Against their growing num bers it will be scarcely possible for England long to maintain any boundary, and certainly not without. incurring an expense far greater than the land is worth. Let us hope, however, that negotiation may now settle the dispute peaceably, and we will willingly leave to the next generation the task of providing for the evils by which they may be as sailed. The Syrians having raised the standard of the SULTAN, whose subjects the British Government acknowledges them to be, sound policy demands that no time should be lost in rendering them such assistance as England is in a condition to furnish, without directly taking part in the active resistance offered to the usurping arms of the VICEROY. We have an abundance of military stores unem ployed in our arsenals ; and the advices received from Syria represent the brave mountaineers as only in danger of being overpowered by the want of lead to make bullets, a quantity of powder, and a few small field-pieces. Should the Government hesitate to supply the Druses with arms and mili tary stores, it is only requisite that no impediment be thrown in the way of our enterprising merchants, either at London or Con stantinople, who will not be slow to profit by the opportunity thus afforded to give employment to the gun manufacturers of Birmingham and Sheffield. The Syrians do not abound in money, but an ar rangement with the Porte could be easily effected for the repayment of any debt contracted by them for arms and ammunition in a struggle fur inde pendence. The success of the Syrians is all that is wanted to settle the Eastern question, now so essential to the restoration of France to good hu mour. And after the very intemperate tone as sumed by the French journals, and the inflamma tory appeals made to the warlike sympathies of a highly exciteable people, we are ready to admit that delay cannot be unattended with some degree of danger. Not that we are apprehensive of an actual war, but that we know differences of this nature are likely to lead to suspicions and estrange mews at some future period, when it may be es sential to the preservation of the peace of the world that the fullest confidence should exist between England and France. The more we examine the wayward conduct of France within the last fortnight in relation to this question, the more it surprises us. It would really appear, from the language of the press, that the French Government and people are resolved to have a war upon any terms. We had thought that the excitement afforded by the campaigns in Africa would have satisfied a people less practically conversant with the horrors of war than our volatile neighbours. But so far is this from appearing the fact, that the most popular organs refuse to listen to one syllable in the way of extenuating or explaining what they are determined to regard as a proof, po sitive and notorious, of British hostility. In vain do we urge that the British Government could not have acted differently without either dismembering the Turki s h emp i re, or tacitly handing over the Porte to the guardianship of Russia. In vain do we entreat our Gallic Contemporaries to exa mine the question calmly in all its obvious bearings, before bringing a charge of bad faith against a great friendly power. Let only this be done yet by the French Press, and it will be found that Eng land had no choice, unless she consented to the sa crifice of Turkish independence. This is so well urged by our Contemporary the Chronicle, that we have pleasure in quoting the following extract from an article in that Journal, embodying the pith of what we have repeatedly urged upon this subject : Suppose that England had refused to agree to any pro posal for a joint interference, on the part of four out of five of the Great Powers, what would have been the inevitable consequence? Russia would have said, "If you don't choose to interfere, we will ; Turkey is our ally, and needs assistance ; if you are unwilling or unable to give that as. sistance, you can have no possible right to object to our doing so." What answer could we have made ? Could we, with the slightest p-etence to justice, have gone to war with Russia for sending her fleets and armies to assist an allied power, whom we professed ourselves most anxious to aid? And if we had been unjust enough to do so, could we have reckoned on the assistance of Prussia, or Austria, or even France, in such a war ? We think not, and that in such a case Turkey would have been deliberately and knowingly handed over by us to Russia. But supposir the contrary —suppose that England :and France had, in such a case, gone to war with Russia, why that would have been a general Euro pean war— . he very thing that every body wishes to pre vent, and which it is the duty of the Government to pre vent ; and thus the British Government would, with its eyes open, have wantonly and madly, and without neces sity, have brought on a general war. It is pet fectly plain, therefore. that the immediate consequence of following any other line of plicy than that adopted by Lord Palmer ston must have been to bring about a result most preju dicial to British interests, or highly dangerous to the peace of Europe. We have the whole question in a nutshell. No other safe, and honourable, and really pacific course, than that which she adopted, was open to England. If that course displease France, it must he, either because she has not duly considered it, or because she is resolved upon being displeased. In the one case we regret her piomptitude to take offence ; in the other we deplore her indifference to the best interests of her own subjects, no less than to Europe and to humanity. England is in no mood for spilling -the Woad of an ally, or for shed ding her own, in a quarrel in which she has but a common interest with France ; but if compelled to fight, she will not be found less formidable than she has ever proved, when forced to defend her honour and the interests of her allies. It is curious to note the mane projects to which the breaking out of a war in Syria has already given rise. We have only space, however, tut allude to one indicated by a Correspondent of the Globe of last ni4bt, for declaring Syria an inde- ze , f),e LONDON: SATURDAY, AUGUST 1. 1840. . wo i Government for i f , o d r g e s: a r v n i ( c i In the Lo r d s l ast n i g h t Lord LYNDHURST presented for a Committee to a petition from Mr. MILLS, claiming a large sum f r om the u d 'Pm; the Governm en t nvestigate his claims. Lord BROUGHAM laid on the table a Bill for the bet ter regulation of the Court of Chancery, intended to supply the place of that which Lord J. RUSSELL had the night before list declined to proceed with in conse quence of Sir EDWARD SUDDEN'S oPP"iii". Lord LYNDHURST said he thought there must he some misconception in the other House on t.h esubject, or the Bill would not have been put off. Lord BROUGHAM'S Bill was read a first time. The Court Houses (Ireland) Bill went through a Committee after a din ision, Lord CIIARLEVILLE Op posing the Bill, when the majority in its favour was 83 to 24. The Bills o f Exchange Bill also went through a Cott. mitten, al:er a few olji.etions made by Lord WHARN CLIFFE and Lord ASIIBURTON• The Nionici v al Corporation (Ireland) Bill gas real a third time. Lord LYNDHURST then moved as an amendment to omit the words in the 161st clause, ..hick empowers the Lord-Lieutenant to appoint the time for holding the ses aions, instead of allowing the Recorder to fix the time es at present. After a brief dismssion, partly on tho merit s of Mr. Recorder SHAW and partly on the principle of excluding him front Parliament, Lord LYNDHURST'S , amendment was eatri.ll by 58 to 42. To , 11(11.1 unt ou r readers with the meritorious 'ire , of ar.t.rk thus pH-- formed 14 the Tories we b e g' leave to quote a pas • • sage from the ilorning Hctald of yesterria) : " We have already called attention to the monstrous job contemplated by Mr. Recorder Shaw in his own 1 E 17EN ING EDITION. pcndent State ; inviting the Jews to return to Jeru.' saki» ; and, by way Of maintaining the intearity.of! the Turkish empire, divid:ng it in o three distinct "' and independent sovereignties I Surely Irish heads are not the only clever heads at the perpetration - of bulls. But, however we may dispose of Syria--arid'' before counting the chickens, it would be as well to see them hatched—there can be no doubt of tite, interest which Great Britain has in the success of. the so-called insurgents. To this fact only would - we now invite the serious attention of the Govern ment, and the people of this country. Nothing can be easier than to supply the Syrians from Malta or Gibralter with the necessary munitions of war, and no doubt a few gallant English and French officers will volunteer their services to the Druses and Maronites of the mountains, so as to impart a military precision to the movements of their brave but undisciplined followers. The French Government has made an important admission, and one which will be gall and worm'' wood to the " distinguished Correspondent " of the Post, to the Tories, and to all who seek to saddle, Lord PALMERSTON with having provoked a rue' ture with France. It admits that there was nothing secret in the negotiations of the Four Powers,-1 that the alleged secret treaty was not secret at all —that France was perfectly aware of every stet ) taken by the other Powers, but that she voluw. tarily- chose to take no part in them. " Was France ignorant," asks the Constitutionnel, the or , gan of the Foreign Minister, o f Th urs d a y, , c that , negotiations were pending ? Certainly not. The Morning Chronicle is therefore right i n it s format. , contradiction of the assertion of the .Morning Post , relative to the pretended secresy of the treaty, an the ignorance of our Ambassador respecting it. It is because the French Government was cognizant of these negotiations and their purport that it rel fused to take any part in them. And after repealta,: intercessions, in order to obtai n it s assen t, it persistea in. abstaining; there is nothing humiliating t o her.. dignity in the circumstance that negotiations wele,. effected without her." Thi s i s a f u ll acqu i tta l 01 Lord PALMERSTON of the grave charge of insult' ing and endeavouring to dupe France by the con' coction of a secret treaty, preferred against hke, Lordship by the Post's recrea n t correspon d ent , an d echoed by a few fire-side politicians in Parliament,' But we must claim for The S un t h e pr i or i t y. making the assertion for whi c h th e Constitutional gives credit to the Chronicle. The formal contra' diction of the assertion of the Post's correspondents that there existed a secret treaty unknown to France, only appeared in The Sun of the 24th ult.—the very day on which the charge was made in the columns of the Post. In no other London Journal of that date was t h e existence 01 such a treaty so much as called in question. France has likewise had the frankness to stat e the whole of the difference between h erse lf an" , the four Powers. She is for giving Syria to th e PAuttA, while they insist upon restoring it to th e SULTAN. " Syria is nec essary to the indepen4 dence of the Porte" say the four Powers ; You are mistaken," answers France ; " but whether or o ', Syria is essential to the existence of the PACHA' This is the whole question as it stands, and as th e French Government says it stood for the last two years. There has been no mystery—no intrigue no indication of bad faith on the part of any of 11 l Powers. France was entreated--prayed—implore d to unite in the decision of the four Powers, but she sullenly and doggedly refused. If misfortunes 0 0 7 from these events, who but France is to blame 1 , There is more sp ecu l at i on t h an news in wer French Papers of Thursday. In another part The Sun will be found the spirit of the rrell Press on the Ea s t ern quest i on, which will be Fe e with interest. We do not give much for the vl'eS. like boasting of the Constitutionnel. The exe'_% ° , nations already given remove any apprehens in' which we entertained of a possible rupture betwet: England and France. The Debats hints p% plainly that at the Tuileries the sacrifice of a Brinc . Minister is all that i s wante d to put the Court i e ra „ good humour with E ng l an d. W e expect to pai l( chase the smiles of F rance at a l ess sacrif i ce . : - the Members of the English Cabinet, Lord Pfi.". : t w o o ß u l r d it b is e h a i t n p te r r e e s s e t r s it n im e p v o e s r s y i b y l a e r t t o o f fi i t l h wi t hout .. i OP T NIERSTON is the only Mi n i ster whose place -1; i e The lollowingextracsinclude all the late Wl' important news in the Fren c h Papers : NEWS FROM SvaiA.—There is no doubt that the SgYr tian fleet has effected a l an di ng at B eyrou t . It Was or. poged of a lin e - o f-b att l e s hi p, 12 frigates, and, a commanded by Osman B e y, a :Turkish Admiral, an d Must..pha Bey, au Egyptian Rear-admiral. From the 22d to the 30th, 18,000 men 'nave laje at e t out of which 5,000 are T ur k s , ta k en at Alex's:Wrist °`'", Tripoli, and Tarsus. Admiral Napier arrived on the 7th at Beyrout, but t h t , e' Egyptian fleet had left, and th ere rema i ned but one frie m and two corvettes. Admiral Napier was surprised rapidity with which Mehemet Ali made that expeditio lu er . Mehemet Ali has no w 88,000 men in Syria. He is ci? tabs that the Emir B ec hi r takes no part in the revolt , gin , be has sent his children to the Pacha as hostages. it SOUTH AMERICA.—Admiral 111ackau w a s to arr. v b a Cherbourg on S atur d ay . A report is current that ' e p ‘v e d e i t l i e o a n r o w f i r l o l m n ogt goo a o i d l f a ( o )r th L o a rit P y la th ta al the Governmea t tb i l recently received news which gives reason to hoe by the affairs of B uenos Ayres will be speedily arrsetv This agree s b ut ill with the following letter, received respectable house at Havre:— 9. " Monte Vid e o, May 1 - Aio " We have nothing very important to tell you of tical nature. The position of General Lavalle is stib: o to crllent ; he is engaged in putting an end to the re o l, of the ar m y o f t h e G overnor Elchague of Entre 1.1,1 which, since th e i r d e f eat, occupy an intrenche d sition in front of La Bi'jada, their capital, nels with a little good w ill an d a few hundred men, the i Admiral might take, whenever he pleased, we tonY without striking a blow. But that General Officer 11180 c f. feats every day more openly his illwill and his obstinso in counteracting all the plans of our diplomatic agbe and the success of Lavalle, whom the i ns t ru ctions of t to French Government command him to a ss i s t and foa ll ,c. the utmost of his pow er . I nstea d o f seconding is Admiral persists in seeing no advantage for France 1,14 negotiations and a p eace w i t h R osas himself—a Pescoo which is impossible, an d w hi c h a ll hi s ill - j udge d mensilibe have only served to p revent — a peace which wo ul d shameful and humiliating to France, if it should be n e , twined ; which would be made only limier the pa: 0115% and with the good pleasure of England. The decline in the prices of produce continued b a few days. When it was found that the happy c °s o l quences expected to f o ll ow t h e v i ctory o f San Crist°he were not realised so s p ee dil y as h a d b een hoped, wh en t of the Admiral, an d hi s oppos i tion to the Pre,, illwill eb e . agent became ev er y d a y more fl agrant, the deman d - vived.—Le Commerce. LS OUR S E.--•PARIS, THURSDAY, JULY 30. is a k irst Price High e st L Price t Trite st ~",-,/,,, ~, P French 5 per Cents ll5 ... 115 ... 1.3 20 ... I/i 30 50 3 per Cents SI 3G . 81 CO ... 81 30 ... ~.‘ .tank of France :M t 50 ......:W2 7 5 2 50 ......3 , 1 7 2 2 5 40 . ..... 3 1 ... 4 0 ii,lg,ah 31.er Cents ....wilish Ac ive 25 ... 25 '25 ''' 6 Passive 6 • " • 614 ... 6 Nleaoolitan New Deferre.l ? 0 102 75 ... 112 75 ... 1 0 ., •.. 103* Roman 1.4% ... lei4 i i ...105N RAILWAY SHARES. se o Versailles.R. 13 5OO ... 000 ... 000 *** 00 L.B. B'.....tsourg to Bale 3llO • 500 ... 510 ... 500 • 3 35 . ...390 ... 385 ••• BELGIAN 1. U NDs—llituseaul, JULY .9. Actual De,t, 24 per Cent. .............. ..• ..... Rothschild'. Loan, 5 per Cent ICOS Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 97 . _ -------- Thirt' :ent. ='. - • • -. , S:l2, 4 -•••• • Cli... r C ••••• • •• WiN Loan of City, Ipe ent Society of Commerce, 43.4 per Cent llO Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 92 National Society . —,, Exchange on Londo n ( s h ort) —Brussels Papers, July 29. AUSTRIAN I'III'4IJS....VIENNA, JULY 21 • rive per Cents. sletalliques - ".•• ".•• 10034 J 02,0 Fmar per Cents. Three pr. , r Cents. 40 !link Shams:E. —,AliEemeine Zettung. July :26 HAMBURG BORSENHALLE, Jinx 2S. Bills. Austrian 5 per Cents. ......" ........... ... ....... ,„„ l 1‘114 . ° 1 4" ' 4e!:: - ''. dank snares An 10. Russian Loan Russian 5 per Cent. !st series, Cizrtiticate los , h in G J A ._ iw Inscription, Ist Se os — Itustian 5 per Cent. Hop, and i. 0. lid and 4th Se i s ..„ 95}.,; "- Ditto in Certificates - Dutch ..ctual Debt, 25 pe Cent 52% '-- • Ditto ') per Cent p9 l'oli , h Bond N• ew • icket 034 60 65 i Angle. i.;afiish Loan, 3 per Cei. 6 76% Norwegian Loan, 1,5:3-1, 4 per Cvat..„ „, Soariih, New .3 per Cents. ............ ... ... Madrid Papers of the 23d ult. have arti/ ecr i The Eco del Commercio states that a forc e g ° o 15,000 men are to be stationed near the co-operate with th e G overnment i n carrOng " r; Ayuntainientos, o r C orporat i on Bill, irr 4 o op a l s; tion. This is old PEREZ DE CASTR'J' PO ° measure MADRID EXCITANGE, JULY 2'2. Considerable nu an c e , has been transacted, with a prospect of .more confide i e fo r Li the Five per C e nt s . 74 transactions were effee teu . re re an integral sum of 32,800,0 00 rea l s , r o f which nine at for Cash at 261 t o 4t, and the remainder for the M c° a o l/ at 26a at 60 days' d a te. I n t h e PrAsive 500,00 0 re p were negotiated at 6a, with 4premium. Exchange London at ninety days, 38. i Money. There are no adviers from Barce;lona. • WEST SURREY ELECTlON..—Yesterday ..;„e• tbe electors of West Surrey as:sembled at Guildford , all o f without opposition elected. 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