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EVENING EL'lrrlol.q. AFFAIRS OF THE EAST. (From a distinguished Correspondent.) The affairs of the East have within these few days un- :-?,.onc a most important change, and have been hurried - .to a headlong career, where the least untoward move .cnt way produce results fat,l to the equilibrium and har i,my of European Powers. This state of things is merely e consummation of the short-sighted presumption of the resent Secretary for Foreign Affairs; and CU this occa on he is said fur ()Lee to have met with the moststrenu _ . resistance from his colleagues in the:Council, which aa only overcome by the threat of his resignation. The pneussion even of this small mutation, a mere rope of sand te the present Ministry could not withstand, and the oreign :S , ..e•ret , -v iriamphed. The French Government have always held the epinion !at to withstand the utter dissolution of the Ottoman ;mpire,uuder the• increasing pressure of northern ambi• 3n, it was necessary to strengthen the emasculated power the young Padischah by a bulwark formed of the feuda ry empire of Mehemet Ali, reduced, however, to its just As it became daily more palpable that the youth • Sultan (a mere shuttlecock betwixt an ignorant Sul 'ia mother and a treacherous Minister) could not )1(1 firm an empire which had escaped the grasp of Is potent and gifted father, and as Mehemet Ali 3uld be interested in the further inviolability of - .0 Ottoman rule, and in not changing from a -ble to a more dread northern liege lord—under ,:;:se circumstances, we say, the policy of France in this ,pect has daily acquired fresh adherents. Consequently, en M. Guizot, the most honest, and perhaps the most •'red, of French Statesmen, came to infuse new vigour the negotiations, his success was apparently beyond most sanguine hopes, whilst the displeasure of his )rtbern colleague was no less palpable. However, our ._,r.2jg,n Secretary had still a tendency, like all little ends, to fall back into his old limited habits of ratiocina ,n; and, when his self-love was fired by the dexterous ogestion that the soluthm of the great question would attributed to the French representative, then Lord 'almersto - n is said once more to have doggedly embraced ; ee most opposite course. We have already stated how, we hear, he overcame the istance of his time-serving colleagues. Alarmed at concessions proffered by Mehemet Ali to the Sultan, • „ich might have led to immediate reconciliation, Lord Irneriton issued instructions to Lord Ponsonby to keep by all means the feud betwixt the liege lord and his vassal, and to exalt the expectations of the former, pointing out the probable effects of the Syrian insurrec un, of which we know who fanned the dimes ! In the tvcantime we are told (what is of paramount importance) :' , at Lord Palmerston has signed a compact with Austria, 'russia, and Russia, not on opposed to and excluding Ne'rance, but unknown to the latter Power until signed • ;lad acted upon. The result of this compact is, that .erms are to be dictated to the Pacha worse than before '.L:e battle of Nezib, giving him only a few days to accept :r refuse. After the lapse of that time still worse con riitions are to be proposed for his acceptance; and, if after -11 e expiration of a month he has not complied, the will of the Conference is to be enforced vi et arwis. And now comes the consideration of the effect of this compact. The success of its measures is only to be ex pected from the insurrection in Syria. For that quarter the English fleet has sailed : but there also will arrive the 'French fleet, and the Egyptian with an army abroad. The departure of these troops has diminished the military force disposable near Alexandria for the invasion by the Pacha of the Sultan's remaining empire. But, on the other hand, the Pacha, with the genius of a States man, and a determination equal to every emergency, with one glance has seen that he cannot hold all he had em braced in his sway, and has clearly distinguished where the vital struggle for his empire must be fought. He is con sequently said to have recalled at once all the troops dis persed over his recent gigantic conquests in Arabia, &c. The game to be played by France is now evident. She has only to encourage the Pacha to a determined resistance : then coercive measures will be resorted to. England can only employ her fleet to bombard some maritime towns and capture the Pacha's fleet, if that of France will re main a passive spectator ; and we hear that M. Thiers has most emphatically stated some time back to the re- , presentatives of the Powers that nothing could be more erroneous than the belief that France would remain phy f;ically passive, and use only moral means, whatever might Be this as it may, the effective means of coercion are in the hands of Russia alone. The Pacha's forces, on the first attack, may advance, and another battle of Nezib be fought and won. Thereupon the Rus sian army kept in readiness will drop down the con quered channel to Constantinople. The folly of Lord Palmerston will then bare reached its climax and its consummation, and, if the hitherto slugglish public spirit of England hold still any sway, Lord Palmerston and his colleagues will sink to rise no more. But they will leave behind a legacy of irretrievable evil. Even now it is seen that the union of France and England, which the Whigs once boasted of so much as the grand counterpoise to the aristocratical Powers in the European equilibrium, is anni hilated. Austria, who is the natural ally of England, and has common interest against Russia, is thrown back into the arms of this great Power, which she cannot contradict, unsup ported, requiring, as she does, the moral effect of an al liance with the Autocrat to control her Hungarian and other turbulent lieges at home, whilst she strains herself to keep down her Italian subjects at a distance. Prussia, left by the Congress of Vienna a narrow riband of hete rogeneous States straggling across the map of Europe, without natural force of aggregation or natural bulwarks to her frontiers, is still less inclined to control her es seutial Russia, while England deserts her in terests. To those who may be inclined to doubt the vices of Russia, we recommend their reading the erruhatic words of the great Russian historian : " The object and character of our policy has inva riably been to seek to be at peace with everybody, and to fr.,alic conquests without war ; always keeping ourselves on the defensive ; placing no faith in the friendship of those •svliose interests do not accord with our own, and losing zlo oppr_rtunity of injuring them without ostensibly break g our treat es with them." We have thought it right to give circulation to the ril,eve article, in the style and spirit of which skilful rea der,: wiil he able to detect diplomatic sagacity and tact. At i 3 our duty to say that it does not proceed from any Source that cLn be supposed to be identified with the in- t;r9sts of Mehemet Ali. The facts asserted in the above article are, we believe, unquestionable; but for its argu ments or its tone we do not wish to declare ourselves rc oubible.l-11foriting Post. DUTCH AND GERMAN PAPERS. AMSTERDAM, JULY 21.—Yesterday afternoon a zl wis made on the iron railing between this city d Haarlem, of the first locomotive manufactured in is euuntry. It was manufactured by Messrs. Ver c!rd and Company, and we are happy to say that the uit of the trial was perfectly satisfactory. Vander Schrieck, of tins c ty, has obtained per 1, ;ion to establish a communication by steam-boats, veen the capital and Antwerp. reasons of the suspension of the proceedings C 6 mmis.sioncrs at Aletricht, is said to be the ire c<prosed by the Belgian Commissioners to -) , ;1;:ine kith the regulation of the national debt, the zltleinent of all other pecuniary matters between the •0 i.icgdonl3, in the month of June 1,100 ships of all nations r , ss- , ( 1 . the Sound from the German ocean, and 1,075 the Baltic, total 2,178. Of the former 307, and the latter 265 (in all 572) were English. IlAmßutin, Juts 18.—His Imperial Highness the .: - ..assian Crown Prit - xe passed through this city yester •',:y morning at 7 o'clock, on his way to Kiel.—Hantburg .July 18. .13nussEi.s, JULY 22.—The Elec ors of Brussels met •.. day to till up tao vacances in the Chamber of Dcpu ' catisld by the appointment of M. H. de Brcuckere to ov , rnment. of Antwerp, and that of General Willmar the post of Ambassador of Berlin. M. Leelei q, the of Justice. was chosen in the room of Genera! ilrnAr, and M. 11. de Brouokere was reelected. ileum performed yesterday in the Church of -H. Gl:dale, in honour of the ninth anniversary of the 1...•.,'„; Accession. S.ckenurff, the Russian Charge d'Affaires, has rneci to Brusicl3, FRiNTIERS, JULY 5.—A letter from Bucha. 27th June, states that the changes id the Divan and the late events in Servia have in- Piiaco Milosch to give up his intended journey to , nna ; and he will, for the present, remain in Wallachia ;ft . i%atch attentively the further course of events in Servia. Letters from Constantinople say that the pros of a direct arrangement between the Porte id Mehemet Ali is becoming more and more ;. 0r,74.n.,-, that perhaps the only point in dispute is the terri ,,,,y of A.-duna, and that it is not doubted that Mehemet will 'tie induced to give it up. Lord Ponsonby indeed ,tinues to urge the Porte not to renounce Syria, and ry ably achltiLes as an argument the new insurrection ; but this will probably be already quelled when -7.. liffandi comes out of quarantine, and the negotia begin to be mor,: serious. mercantile letter from Constantinople says that :osrew Paclia has been ordered by the Sultan to put ix:,; e'l at the head of the caravan which is to convey the air Waa l presents from the Sultan to Mecca. It is said that inly object of this is to remove the old fox t o a di g. from the capital, where he is supposed to be the soul continued intrigues. The Sultan's Commi ss i oner, Effenc:i, who arrived on the 26th of June at Alt on board the Argo steam-boat, has a suite of tAvcnty persocs. 6ELUIAN F UNDS—BRUSSELS, JULY ',..2. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. ltothschild'a Loan, 5 per C 4 n t lO4 ,Loan of Thirty 'Millions, 4 per Cent. .... ____________— --- 3 per Cent. .......__ ...-----,- Th irt y:seven- -- -- 77 . L,,,ari of City, 'tn., 4 per Cent society ef Commerce, 4Si per Cent lln .tank of kleigiurn, 5 per Cm' 94N N..tional Society .F.xc`sange on London (short) —.2russels Papers, July 2'2. A US'iIIIAN FUNDS.—V IENNA, JULY 14 Five per Cents , .Nl etalli q ues- Wear per Cents. Int 2,, 83 Three per Cent. I£4S Bank Shares --Aagemeine Zeitung, July 19 HASIBURG BOICSENI-lALLE, JULY 13. Bills. Money, Austria 4 5 Per Cents. Bank Sh . , tes .,, tn i Loa. 180 4825 Akllo-1., ' 1 10934 10931 Itussien 5 pe. ''' Cent. Ist series, Cc:rtilicate Inscription, Is. 'B°-Icg — 103)i Ru . sian 5 per ~,,, nit. Hope and Co. 3d and 4th Serics ..........„ •• 99 983 i Ditto 99 98 in Certiricat.c:s .‘„,••.' , 34 Dutch Aetna! Deb. .. 'a 71 1 0er Cent , . 52 52% Ditto 4. -, p*eCent 99 Polish Bonds .. .. .. —............ .... 142 — 1 ) t :i New ticket Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cm 4.. 159 .- Norwegian Loan, 1£34, 4 per C.-at... lO2 e;-:1 0. Spanish, Neet13,perACnkt5._».—.......„...... ........ 7 _ 6 _ Is 75;4 , . \,./ , 7... I N uNDS.-I.•earari,Jutx 13. 2-- - .? St. Schuld. Sch., 4 5 4 per cent. ...........,.1 13 04 ".1 4 . 14 1 °n N eY. ":'"-- Prussian English Loan, L i3O, 4 per cent. 103% . ,--•---) lOW% -1 , ;. )..,'l4',, h;xchan ge on London, thi - ee months „OS 18% ;:;IL% i —Prussian State Gazette;• duly W. LONDON: FRIDAY, JULY 24. 1840. The Duke of WELLINGTON made a most re markable declaration in the House of Lords last night, which tends, with all the weight of the Duke's influence, to crush Sir ROBERT INGLIS'S Church Extension scheme. His Grace was charged with the presentation of a petition from the University of Oxford, of which he is Chan cellor, against the Ecclesiastical Duties and Reve nues Bill, which his party supported in the House of Commons, but which, the Bishop of WIN CHESTER has declared, is opposed by all the clergy of England. In presenting the petition, his Grace emphatically declared that he entirely differed from the petitioners ; and added, with considerable warmth— It is vain for any man in these times to expect the defi ciency will be made up out of the public money, while the Church has in itself resources that may be applied to the purpose. I say, my Lords, that all the resources which the Church possesses should be applied to supply that deficiency, and to remove those inconveniences. The petitioners themselves admit that the evil exists, and it is most desirable, both for the public good and for the good of the Church itself, that those inconveniences should be remedied and removed. I confess, therefore, that I heard with astonishment that this petition was got up in tho University of Oxford, and that these petitioners prayed that the Bill should not pass. My Lords, I am of a very different opinion from tire peti tioners. lam convinced that no measure could be de vised which could more tend to remedy the evils, and to remove those very inconveniences of which the petitioners themselves complain in this petition, and which they say truly attend the parochial sy,tem of the Church in this country. I think, my Lords, the Ecclesiastical Commis sioners did their duty in recommending this Bill. I think it highly creditable to the Church that those inconveni ences should be removed by the Church itself. I think it highly creditable that the Church should even take the first step in rmnoving those evils, without applying for the assistance of the public money." That is another great shell, thrown by the Duke into the very midst of the bigots. He scattered and frightened his friends by his Chinese shell— his Church shell will blow them into atoms They have given him power to throw it, and effec tually he has hit them. Praise to the great Duke, who has given the whole tribe of hypocrites another severe blow I A whole batch of Bills were, by the magic of the Royal assent, converted into Acts or laws last night in the House of Lords, and among them the Canada Go vernment Bill. Several petitions were presented against the Eccle siastical Duties and Revenues Bill ; to one of them from the University of Oxford, &c., presented by the Duke of WELLINGTON, WO have elsewhere directed the reader's attention. There was also a petitien against British troops at tending id o latrous worship in India, which provoked the Bishop of LONDON to denounce that "crying abuse," and to inquire what the Government had done to suppress it. Viscount MELBOURNE believed that the Govern ment had d one a ll i n i ts p o wer to put an end to it. The R e p ort o f t h e W eaver Churches Bill was brought up and agreed to, and the discus sion on t h e Bill is to be taken on the third reading. Several peti tions were presented against the Bill, and one from 120 workmen employed in the Weaver navigation, which the Bishop of LONDON declared, as we expected he I would, was one of th e s t rongest arg uments which could be urged in favour o f t h e Bill. The Priests asserting need makeke it a rule to affirm that no argument s s o the conclusive m ee themselvesth a t men that their they ministration do asnot. That is taken as an undeniable proof that they are immersed in heathenism. The Regency Bill went through the Committee. Mr. KNIGHT BRUCE, as Counsel for the Deans and Chapters, was then heard at the bar against the Eccle sastical Duties and Revenues Bill, which the priest hood are resolved to oppose to the utmost of their power. The Peers sat patiently till ten o'clock to hear the Learned Gentleman ; and then, after settling that the Bill should not be read a second time to-m or . row, adjourned. In the Commons the Hon. Mr. C. 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INGLIS, postponed till Monday, after a division, when his motion was supported by 92 and resisted by 48. It is said to be the Hon. Baronet's intention to try to rescind the vote the House lately ' came to in favour of compensating the lessees ; but to several questions whether such was his intention the Hon. Baronet resolutely refused to answer. The spar ring which took place was rather brisk than agreeable to those engaged in it. A petition from Troubridge, Wilts, which referred to some statements made by Mr. BRUGES, the Member for Bath, concerning Messrs. CARRIER and POTTS, was not allowed to be presented, because it infringed on the privileges of the House. The Insolvent Debtors and the Municipal Boun daries (Ireland) Bills were read, the former a third, the latter a second time, so that this Bill will go speedily up to the Lords, to enable them to pass the Municipal Corporations (Ireland) Biil, and bring the Session triumphantly to a close. The House went into Committee on the Railways Bill, and was occupied with that the greater part of the evening. The several clauses occasioned a good deal of discussion, but finally the Bill passed through the Committee with amendments, and the Report was ordered to be received on Monday next. Alterations will yet be made in it. The Bill concerning Rating Stock in Trade occu pied the House for the remainder of the evening. It sat till a Quarter past Two. The last number of the Quarterly Review con tains an elaborate article on public health and mor tality, several extracts from which have made the rounds of the Journals, and are already incorpo rated, as it were with the public mind. As long as errors are buried in heavy Parliamentary reports, or huge quartos, which the bulk of the people sel dom read, they are comparatively unimportant ; but when they are spread by the Journals through the length and breadth of the land, they have a great influence over our actions, and may be inju rious to the national welfare. On this account we are about to notice one statement in this article of the Review, not so much to refute as to limit and illustrate it. The population of Great Britain has increased more rapidly since the commencement of this cen tury than ever before. There is good reason to suppose, notwithstanding the many impediments laid in its way by our absurd and cruel system of restrictions on the national industry, that it con- tinues to increase. The increase has been, and continues to be, chiefly in the population of towns. There has been comparatively little increase in agri cultural districts, which continually draft off their population into the towns : "In 1790, the workers in towns to the labourers in the country were as one to two. In 1840 it is just the re verse, the workers being to the labourers as two to one. The proportion of manufacturers, miners, and artisans to agricultural labourers is, for Staffordshire, three to one ; Warwickshire, four to one; West Riding of Yorkshire, six to one ; Lancashire, ten to one ; Middlesex, twelve to one." The tendency of all agricultural improvements is to raise an equal produce by less labour, and it is only as fresh ground is taken in cultivation, now a comparatively rare occurrence in England, that more hands are employed in agriculture. It is probable, therefore, that the future increase of population will be, like the great increase in the present century, chiefly of the inhabitants of towns. As commerce and manufactures, on an extensive scale, have come into existence subsequent to agri culture, as that followed pasturage and hunting in its turn, so we may infer that they are to continue to extend, and that the further increase of our race is to consist of town population. If such be the destiny of mankind, we may feel some alarm for the future fate and fortunes of our successors when we find it broadly laid down that " The concentration of population in cities doubles the deaths from the epidemic diseases and those of the nervous system. In counties compared with cities the deaths by convulsion aro as one to three, nearly; so also deaths by water on the brain ; acute diseases of the lungs are in counties as compared to cities as one to two and a half, nearly. " the deaths from consumption are increased 39 per cent. ; those from childbirth 71 per cent. ; those from typhus 221 per cent. in cities as compared with counties." Though it has not occurred to Mr. FARR, from whom the Reviewer largely quotes, or to him, to remark that most of the statements from which these deductions are made are of modern date, that is they date from within the last ten years, when hand-loom weavers have seen their children perish at the first blow of disease, because they and the parents, as Mr. FLINN remarked at Manchester, are in an emaciated condition for want of food— and that consequently these statements refer to the period when the man-and-child-slaying Corn-laws have been in full vigour, we must not forget to remind our readers of that circumstance, so that they may place the increased mortality at the door of its own unrighteous parent. That it is owing merely to the increase of people in towns, and that conse quently subsequent generations will be still more a prey to disease than the present generation—that the race is to become diseased and miserable, as it ceases to become agricultural, is not positively as serted by the Reviewer, it is regarded as doubtful by Mr. FARR, and it is the peculiar inference against which we wish to caution our readers. It is a very re markable fact, attested by all our statistical writers of the least eminence, which Mr. FARR and the Reviewer ought not to have forgotten, that since the great change in the relative proportion of our population mentioned in the first quotation, the average duration of life in England has increased. That fact, taken in conjunction with the increase of a town population, knocks on the head the infe rence that dwelling in towns is necessarily injurious to life. The same inference may be overthrown by com paring the mortality in the opulent districts of Lon don, or any large town, with the mortality of the rural population of Ireland. We know from sta tistical returns that the average duration of life in the former is nearly equal to the average duration of life in any part of the world ; and we know, without statistical returns, from the annual prevalence of star vation and typhus amongst the rural poor of Ireland, that the average duration of life amongst them is not equal to its value in St. George's Ha nover-square. The true deduction, therefore, from the facts lately accumulated by our " vital statisticians" is, that poverty or wretchedness, and not merely the increase of the people, whether in town or country, is the cause of those numerous diseases and that terrible mortality amongst the poorer classes in towns, which have of late, on several occasions, been prominently and painfully brought under the public notice. Mr. FA R R says " there is no reason why health should be impaired by residence in one more than in one hundred square miles, if means can be devised for supplying the two hundred thousand in dividual: located in the former space daily with the requisite supply of pure air, and for removing the principal sources of poisonous exhalations." -It is also known that nourishing food will enable the body to resist external sources of disease, which overwhelm those who are feeble from the habitual want of nourishment. The good cheer so common in large towns amongst people in easy cir cumstances, which some persons, from want of understanding, speak of with contempt, is necessary to resist the deleterous effect on the health of a crowded population. Now, it is a somewhat re markable fact, which deserves to be well considered by those who speculate on vital statistics, the mate rials of which are drawn chiefly from the lives of the poor, that the number of persons who are able to live without manual labour is continually increa sing ; or, which comes to the same thing, the labour of one individual in the progress of society, is able to nourish a continually increasing number of persons. In that circumstance there is a provision for the attainment by the masses--if rightly ap plied—of those comfortable means of subsistence by which the opulent counteract the influence of most of the external agents which are noxious to health in a crowded town. The subject fa: outweighs in importance the time and space we can devote to the discussion ; we hope, been o make a rnoeur mere readers however, t atdiscriminate enough he t w ha e es hthe etre increase of town population and the effects of po verty, which is not the necessary :consequence, as the increase in the productive power of man shows, of an increase in the number of people. We may hope also that our hints, helping out the reflections of our readers, may serve to dissipate any gloomy forebodings of the disease, wretchedness, and misery of the next generation of town dwellers (which the Corn-law advocates now love to point out), to which the unexplained statement of the Reviewer may give rise. The vast misery and disease which the re cent investigations into the habits of the poor have shown to prevail in society are in a great measure the consequences of that MURDEROUS LAW, made for the benefit of the landowners, which strikes the industrious poor with poverty, and makes them, as the weavers of Manchester are well aware, the prey of disease, and hurries them to an untimely death. Extended as our remarks already are, we can not neglect to draw one practical deduction from them, and from some observations of the Reviewer. He makes it a matter of reproach that " England is the only European country which is devoid of a medical police, and in which the public health has been allowed to shift for itself." That remark ac cords with a prevalent opinion, and there is a very general desire for the appointment of such a police in England. We look on the recent investigations by Commissioners into the health of the metropolis and other towns, and the investigation of the same Commissioners into the health of towns in Scot land, as intended to lay a Parliamentary ground for the appointment of such functionaries. It may be doubted, however, from another remark of the Re viewer, whether, after all, the English plan of " letting the public health shift for itself," be so injurious as is implied in the reproach. The Re viewer says — London is, after all, the healthiest of the great capi tals of Europe. The pure climate of Naples has little power over the filth, the misery, and the vice of a popula tion in khich the annual mortality i s 1 in 28, while with us 1 in 44 only dies in the year ; in Vienna, 1 in 9 2 ; in Paris, 1 in 36; in Brussels, 1 in 29; in Geneva, 1 in 43 ; in Rome, 1 in 24 ; in Madrid, 1 in 35 ; in Amster dam, lin 25. As compared with these, then our land and city are blessed." In those facts we see no encouragement to imi tate the other countries of Europe in establishing a medical police ; and if much disease and much mortality be caused by poverty rather than any other circumstances, the multiplication of Com. , and of all the cum thsinery of Government, missbrou i so nand s , c o o f r u the p ii c d a e t e p d e n m d e a ti c which is now maintained at an enormous cost, and is one of the chief causes of the poverty of the people, will only increase that poverty and increase the very evils it is intended to remedy. The opulent and intelligent know how to help them= selves, and we doubt whether it will not be wiser, instead of appointing more Commissioners to lin crease the poverty and continue the pupilage of the masses, to set diligently about removing all kinds of restrictions, lessening the number of Commis , sioners, and diminishing all the machinery of Go vernment, so that opulence may descend and spread as far as possible amongst the industrious and lower classes. This consequence gives to the first part of the article some immediate practical im portance.. . _ Our readers will find in another column, copied from the Morning Post, an article of " A Dis tinguished Correspondent," on the Oriental ques tion, which, proceed from whence it may, is writ ten with ability, and with a seeming acquaintance with facts as yet but little known to the public. As events in the East have suddenly assumed a portentous attitude, and as we differ altogether from the view taken of the entire question by the Correspondent of the Post, we shall endeavour calmlyto examine his positions—overlooking the petty allusions made to the weakness and the disunion of a Cabinet than which a stronger or a more united could not now be formed by any party,or all par ties, in England. The:Oriental question is too impor tant in its bearings upon the policy of Europe to permit us to discuss it on the insignificant basis of domestic faction. It is exclusively neither a Whig question nor a Tory question ; but it is even in its most limited sense a British question, and, in a more extended point of view, an European ques tion, the influence of which must one day or other be felt through every part of the old world. The " distinguished Correspondent" of the Post states explicitly that Lord PALNIERSTON has been made the unconscious instrument of Russia from a petty personal jealousy of France, whose suggestions, had they been attended to by England, would already have produced an amicable settlement of all dif ferences between MEHEMET ALt and the SUL TAN. This has been often stated before, but on no occasion has the basis of such an amicable set tlement been clearly explained. We know the proposal made by the VICEROY to the Porte, after the ,battle of Nezib, had laid the Ottoman mo narchy prostrate at the feet of a victorious vassal. That proposal stipulated that the Porte should ac knowledge the hereditary claims of MEHEMET ALL and his family to the Sovereignty of Egypt, Syria, Candia, Adana, Bagdad, and the whole of his conquests on the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf. Had it not been for the interference of Lord PALMERSTON, the SULTAN must have accepted this proposal ; and thus MEHEMET ALI would have but, in the course of a year or two, to pick a fresh quarrel with his Imperial Master, to dash at once upon Constantinople, and seat himself upon the throne of - the Osmaulis. Nor will Lord PALMERSTON'S jealousy of the SOULT Administration in France, relative to the independence of Turkey, surprise those statesmen who are familiar with the events which immediately preceded and fol t l i o ie wc y c i l et t o h r e y o b f at i tl ß e R o A f u N i e m z e 'r ll h A e j w o a y s w re it e l ei w ve h d ich at the Court of France was not at tempted to be concealed, and it is now notorious to all Europe, that but fo r what transpired at the interview between Admiral LALANDE 'and the Capitan Paella, the lat ter wou ld not treasona bl y have delivered up the fleet to the declared enemy of his Imperial Master. To have supposed that the French Government at that time sought only to obtain for MEHEMET Au those possessions to which, in his Highness's despatches to the Porte of the 13th ult., he has r estr i cte d hi mse lf, w o uld have evinced a degree of silliness on the part of a British Minister, which would have justified his colleagues in sending him to Bedlam. And what better proof can be advanced of the triumph of Lord PALMERSTON'S policy than the Viceroy's limitation of his original claims —,a limitation not only not denied, but proclaimed, by the Correspon dent of the Post ? We now come to more recent events, and here we take leave to doubt the fact of a treaty being signed by four of the Great Powers, without the concurrence or even the knowledge of France. In deed we are satisfied that this Treaty only exists in the lively fancy of the writer. Since the accession of M. TIIIERS to office, the conduct of the French Government upon the Oriental question has under gone an entire change ; and we may confidently affirm that between Lord PALMERSTON and M. G uizoT not a shadow of jealousy or distrust does exist, or has existed, either upon this or any other question. We question not the sound policy evinced by MEHEMET ALI, in abandoning his conquests in Arabia, but the fact demonstrates his weakness, .vhich is now admitted by his Parisian advocates of the press, including the Journal des Debats. The writer's hypothesis of a Russian army taking possession of Constanti nople to save it from the victorious Viceroy rests upon the supposition that the Pacha can put down, in spite of England and the Northern Powers, the insurrection in Syria. This recent events have proved to be impossible. If military stores be only supplied to the DRUSES and their Christian allies of the mountains, before four months have elapsed 'MEHEMET ALI will not pos sess a fortress in all Syria. Nor would England and the other Great Powers ever consent t o entrust Russia with the sole guar dianship o f t h e T ur ki s h capital. Even Russia herself wo u ld not at suc h a time, either dare to make such a propos i t i on , or to risk the conse quences of attempting to carry it into effect. Powerful as she is, and much as she desires to see her eagles floating victorious on the shores of the Bosphor us , i t i s not w hen a British fle et must be riding in the Straits, that she wi ll thus hurl defiance at the rest o f E urope . A n y movement of Russia against C onstant i nop l e wo uld soon, under the circum stances assumed by the wr iter in the Post, brim ,. France ba c k t o t h e s id e o f England , and who would then answer for the integrity of the present Russian empire ? Would we not hear a voice from Poland, which neither Austria nor Prussia would dare to stifle ? Whatever dangers, then, beset the peace of E urope f rom Lord PALMERSTON'S policy upo n t h e E astern q uestion, we are unable to discover in w h at way t h e y c ould be decreased by adopti ng t h e suppose d vie ws of Fiance during the Premiership o f M ars h a l SOULT. On the contrary, any d e p ar t ure f rom t h e system of which Lord PALMERSTON is the advocate , must leave the SULTAN at the mercy of the VICE ROY ;. -destroy the integrity of the Ottoman empire ; establish a Russian Protectorship at Con stantinople ; and arrest the progress of Imperial reforms which promise in a short time to revivify, and restore to more than pristine energy, the decay ing members of the yet vast empire of the Osmanlis. It is no longer a contest between barbarism and civilization. MEHEMET ALI, of whom the civil-1 ized world once expected so much, is not now so intrepid a Reformer as his Imperial Master. Marshal VALLEE'S account of the military operations in Africa during the month of June occupies the cc lumns of the Wonitcurof Wednesday. We have no space for the details, which we the less regret, as they would prove very uninteresting to the great bulk of English readers. With a cool indifference, which makes us involuntarily shudder, the Marshal informs his Go vernment that " all the Kabyles who attempted to op pose his march were slain, their wives and children made prisoners, their crops utterly destroyed, their houses burned to the ground, and all their cattle driven away or butchered on the spot"—leaving the country through which the army passed a sterile wilder ness! And this, then, is the boasted civilized system of waifare in the nineteenth century! We need not wonder that Socialism is on the increase in France, when such spectacles as this are contemplated witia approbation by the Government, and not discounte nanced by the Ministers of the God of Peace and Love. It is stated in one of the papers that Prince Auous- TUS of SAXE COBURG, brother of the Duchess of NE. MOURS, is to marry the Princess CLEMENTINE, third daughter of Lou►s PHILIPPE. The Prince is one year younger than his intended bride. There is very little news of any interest in the Paris Papers of Wednesday, and that little will be found in the subjoined extracts from them : A letter from Oran of the 6th of July, says, " The Dragon brig sailed on the 30th of June, from Rachgoun and Tangier, it had on board a Captain of the Staff, and Aide-de-Camp to the Lieutenant-General, commanding the division, who is said to be charged with an important mission to the Emperor of Morocco. It appears that this officer received instructions from the Ministry, which brought the mail on the 24th of June. " We believe we may positively affirm that Marshal Valee is going to be recalled from Africa. Generals Ber thois and Lamoriciere were not to depart till the recal of the Marshal should be decided on. Now, Mr. Cartel, Aide-de-Camp to General Berthois, has set out. The General will set out to-morrow, and General Lamoriciere the day after." The following notice has been given by the Vice- Consul of Mexico at Marseilles : " For the interest of the merchants trading to Mexico, I have to inform you that the insurgents of Yucatan, havi ing equipped a vessel with the national colours, the Mexican Government has declared to the diplomatic and consular agents of foreign powers in Mexico, that it does not recognise the colours of this ship, and that it will in like manner disavow them on board all other ships which may be illegally armed by the insurgents of this depart. ments, as well as by those of other parts of the republic ; that they are consequently to be considered and treated as parties by the ships of Powers in alliance with Mexico, and that the Government disclaims all responsibility for any damage or injury whatsoever which the ships in question may occasion to foreign commerce."—Le Commerce. Private correspondence from Brive, of the 2d, informs us that Madame Laffarge still lives, the report of her death from poison being unfounded. The " Chambre des Mises en Accusation" of the Royal Court of Limoges has found a true bill against her for poisoning her husband, and she is to be tried at the Court of Assize at Correze, in the beginning of August. She has appealed against the sentence in the affair of the diamonds, but no doubt exists of that appeal being rejected. Her health is very much broken, and she seems now quite unequal to bearieg up against her complicated sufferings. The account of the catastrophe on the railroad from Naples to Portici has fortunately turned out to be a false hood. The following is from Vienna of the 11th July to the Prussian State Gazelle : . 4 The news which 1 sent you in my last letter of the un fortunate affair which took place on the railroad of Naples, fortunately turns out to be a fable. They are in search oi the inventors who gave the report." BO URSE.PARIS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 22. _ . _ First Highest Lowest Lan Price Price. Price. Price French 5 per Cents ll9 5 ... 119 20 ... 119 5 ... 119 10 434 per Cents ll3 25 ... 113 25 ... 11.1 25 ... 113 25 4 per Cents 2OB 75 ... JOS 75 ... 198 75 . .. 108 75 3 per Cents B6 50 ~.. 86 65 ... 86 50... 86 65 Bank of trance 3760 ...3760 ...3760 ...3760 Laffitte Bank I,ooof. MI ll5O ...1150 ...1150 ...1150 5,0001. Si 5270 ...5270 —.5235 —5270 Belgian Bank 5 per Cents lO6 ... 106 ... 106 .., 116 3i er Cents 77 50 ... 77 50 ... 77 40 ... 77 40 Spanish Active ° N ••• 28 !_ . 4 ... 28% ... 284 Passive .. _ 6i ... 6'77 ... 6 3 4 ... 6 3 Portuguese 3 per Cents 2 3i4 —. 2 : 3 i 2374, ... 23 4 4 Neapolitan lO5 90 ... 105 00 ... 105 80 ... 105 65 Roman lt6li ...106% ...106 ... 106 RAILWAY SHARES, St. Germain 705 ... 705 .., 705 ... 705 Versailles, IL B 525 ... 525 ... 520 ... 52C LB. Orleans . Strasburg to Bale 413 75 ... 413 75 ... 413 75 ... 413 75 DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, Jut 21. Money. Bill', Actual Debt, 214 per Cent Ditto, ditto 5 per cent. Amort Syndic, 4% per cent 92 9234 Ditto, ditto, 334 per cent 76% 774 Commercial Company, 4 , 4 per cent 17 2 14 172% Ditto (1835 and 1837) 5 per cent. ...... Loan 1837, 5 per cent. 9914 993., Exchange on London, One month... ..... Two months ..... —Dutch Papers, July 22. CLERICAL MAGISTRATEE.—A return to the House of Commons has been published of the names, addresses, and residences of Justices of the Peace, being ministers of the Established Church, which makes the total number above 2,000. They swarm most in Norfolk and Suffolk. In the former there are 102 Reverend Justices of the Peace, and in the latter not less than 111. THE SECOND-SIGHT OF POLITICIANS.—Twenty years ago the elder Bourbons were in possession of the thrones of Spain and France, and formed a compact alli ance w;:!: Russia, Prussia, and Austria, against the grow ing democracy of Europe. The Holy Alliance was then in full vigour, and any politician, however foreseeing, who had then predicted the present condition of Europe and shaped his policy to conform to it would have been considered fit for Bedlam. That is but one illustration of the errors politicians are likely to fall into who frame their policy and subject thei r p eo pl e t o enormous expense in order to provide ag a in s t some supposed future evils, which most probably never will come. Untaught, however, by this experience, and in unteachableness quite as bad as the Bourbons, the Times of yesterday called on the country to provide for , the contingencies of the next `° quarter of a center}." The foresight of an individual providing for himself seldom extends so far, but for an individual so to provide for a na tion, and now prepare for the exigencies of the next 25 years, is about us wild a scheme as ever entered the head of a political writer. It will appear feasible, however, to those who have n"t been taught by the great events of the last half century, that politicians and political sys tems do not direct the progress and the affairs of society. TO THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON. MY LORD DUKE—The sentiments expressed by your Grace on presenting the petition from Oxford (and as reported in the Second Edition of The Sun this even ing), must prove gratifying to all honourable and right thinking persons—it is a proper application of Church revenues and resources ; and also a proper and atten tive performance of clerical duties, as regulated by the law, that will remove the lameatable feeling which now unhappily exists against the Established Church. Perhaps it would be as well that the Church profes sion were placed under martial law, as well as the mili tary and naval profession. There can be no good rea son why one MILITANT profession should be more se verely punished for neglect of duty than another. I am, my Lord Duke, your devoted servant, OLD PENINSULAR. Thursday, July 23, 1840. COURT CIRCULAR. Toe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, attended by Lady Augusta Somer set, left Cambridge-house at one o'clock, yesterday after- Loon, fur Walton-on-Thames, to honour the Earl and Coun tess of Tankerville with their company at their residence, Mount Felix. The Princess Sophia Matilda came to town yesterday from Blackheath, and visited the Princess Augusta nt Cla rence-house, St. James's. The Duchess of Gloucester and the Duke of Cambridge also visited her Royal Highness yesterday. A Deputation consisting of Messrs. Gecrge Dunlop, George Dunlop, jun., and William Shirring, accompanied by Mr. G. W. Elope, M P., had interviews with the Chan cellor of the Exchequer yesterday on the subject of the Distillery Laws. Viscount Melbourne returned to town yesterday after noon from a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. Lady Charlotte Dundas and Mr. and Mrs. Harcourt, at the Burlington Hotel ; Sir James and Lady Hamilton, Colonel Houston, Lord Somerton, Colonel North, the lion. Miss Georgiana Liddell, Captain Charles Eden, R. N., the Francis Charteris, and Lord and Lady Antrim, at Mivart's Hotel ; Lord Kilmorey, the Marquis of Salisbury, and the Ladies Feel ; Mr. Manners Sutton, at the Carlton Hotel: Lord Marcus Hill, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Brett, and Sir Edivaid Dering, Bart., at the Burlington Hotel; Colonel and Mrs. Webb, at the Ber ners Hotel, Bcrners-street, from their scat, Milford Holt e, Godalming ; Thomas Barnett, Esq., Mrs, and Miss Barnett, at ditto, from their seat, Stratton Park, Bigglesvrade; Captain and Miss Wilkinson, at ditto, from Walsimm-le-Willows, Suffolk ; R. V. Yates, Esq., and Mrs. Yates, at ditto, from Liverpool; J. Green, Esq., and Mrs. Green, at ditto, from Stevenage, Herts; Colonel and the Rev. A. C. Paler, at ditto ; R. Vint, Esq., at ditto, from Colchester ; J. Wade, Esq., at ditto, from Brighton; James Heyworth, Esq., at ditto, from Liver pool ; R . Gramlick, Esq., at ditto, from ditto. DEPAR'T'URES. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ashton and family, from the Bur lington Hotel, for Livetpool; Lord and Lady Bolton, from Thomas's Hotel, for Hackwood Park ; the Hon. Barry Yelverton, from the Burlington Hotel; Mr. and ' Mrs. Tudor, for the Continent ; Captain and Miss Inge, from Thomas's Hotel; Lord and Lady Rolle, for Bicton House, Devonshire; Colonel and Lady Laura Meyrick, for the Auberies, Suffolk ; Lord and Lady Newry, for Antrim ; General Sir Charles and Lady Colville, for Rus sell Farm, Herts ; Lord Corry, for Cowes ; Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. Douglass, on a tour; Lord Petre, for Thorn don Hall, Essex ; Mr. M. I3iddulph, for Cliorth Castle, Denbighshire ; Lord Mount 1 4 ;;Igecumbe, for Buxton Wells ; Major- General Wyndham, for Stadelands, Sus sex ; the lion. Sir Courtenay Boyle, for Su-sex ; the lion. Mr. and Mrs. John Elliott and Captain Willoughby Lake, for Torquay ; Sir William Hort, Bart., for Kil dare ; Sir Thomas and Lady Strange, for St. Leo nard's.on- Sea ; Colonel Ebrington and family, for ditto; Lady Massey and family, for Ditto; Gen. Mundy, for Brighton; the Earl of Egremont, on a cruise in the Janette yacht ; Major. General Walker, for Brighton ; lion. Colonel Moreton, for Hastings; Sir Thomas Gage, for Bt ighton ; Mr. Kemys Tynte, for ditto; Sir John Sid. ney, Bart., for ditto ; Col. Cavendish, for St. Leonard's hill, Windsor; the lion. George Edwards, from the Bur lington Hotel, on a tour ; Mr. R. Greg, M. P., from ditto, for Manchester; Mr. and Mrs. Blundell and family, from the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street, for the Conti nent ; Mon. Arnould and Men. Jourdain, from ditto, for ditto; the Misses Syms. from ditto, for Horsham; Mrs. Arabia, from ditto, for High Beach ; Mon. Delpier, from ditto, on a tour; Lady Chetwynd, from the Hanover Hotel, Hanover-square, for Bishton, Staffordshire; Mr. and Mrs. Grimes, from ditto, for Sutton Coldfield, Staf fordshire ; Mr. and Mrs. Hindle, from ditto, for Wood fold-park, Lancashire ; Lady Harriett Ellertond and Mr. and Miss Sutton, from ditto, for Edwinston, 011erton, Notts. PARLIAMENTAI , I.)( DIVISION. (From the Poles and Proceedings of the Rouse of Commons.) THURSDAY, JULY 23. RAILWAY S BILL—In Committee. First Clause (That, two months after the passing of this Act, no Railway or portion of any Railway shall be opened for the public conveyance of passengers or goods, until one month after notice in writing of the intention of opening the same shall have been given by the Company to whom such Railway shall belong, to the Lords of the Committee of her Majesty's Privy Council appointed for Trade and Foreign Plantations) —Question put, " That the Clause, as amended, stand part of the Bill:"—The Committee divided : MAJORITY—AYES, 84. Adam, Rear-Adm. Sir C.—Clack-ILincoln, Earl of—NorthampZo mannan shire, South Aglionby, H. A.—Cockermouth Loch, James—Kirkwall Baines, Edward—Leeds Lushington, Rt. Hon. S—Tower Baldwin, Charles Bari y—Totness Hamlets Baring, F. T.—Portsmouth Melgund, Viscount —Hythe Barnard, E. G.—Greenwich Mildmay, P. St. John —Winches- Benett, J.—South Wiltshire ter Boldero, Henry G.—Chippenham Morris, D.—Carmarthen Brareston, T. W.—Essex South Morrison, James—lnverness Bridgeman, Hewitt—Ennis Norreys, Sir Denham—Mallow Briscoe, J. I.—Westbury Oswald, James—Glasgow Brocklehurst, J.—Macclesfield Parker, R. T.—Preston Brotherton, J.—Salford P arne ll, Sir H. Dundee Bruges, W. H. L.—Bath Pendarves, E. W.—W. Cornwall Bryan, Maj. Geo.—Kilkenny Co. Philips, Mark—Manchester Campbell, Sir John—Edinburgh Phillpotts, John—Gloucester Chalmers, Patrick—lnverbervie Protheroe, Edward—Halifax Dalrymple, Sir A.—Brighton Pryine, George—Cambridge Darby, George—East Sussex Rice, Edward Royd—Dover De Horsey, S. H.—Newcastle- Richards, Richard—Merionethsh. under Lyme Russell, Lord John—Stroud Douglas, Sir C. E.—Warwick ialwey, Lieut.-Col.—Ludlow Eliot, Lord—East Cornwall Scholefield, J.—Birmingham Elliot, Hon.P. E.—Roxburghshire Scrope, Poulett—Stroud Finch, Francis—Walsall Seymour, Lord—Totness Fredifield, James Win.—Penryn Shell, Richard Lalor—Tipperary Gladstone, W. E.—Newark-on- Smith, Benjamin--Norwich Trent Somers, J. P.—Sligo Graham, Right Hon. Sir J. R. G Somerset, Lord G.—Monmeuthsh. Bt.—Pembroke Stanley, Lord—North Lancashire Greene, I'. G.—Lancashire Stewart, John—Lymington Grimsditch, T.—Macclesfield Stock, Dr.—Cashel Hall, Sir Benjamin—Nlarylebone Sugden, Sir E.—Ripon Harcourt, G. G. V —Oxford s hir e T a lb o t, R. M.—Glamorganshire Hawkins, J. H.—Newport, Isle 01 Thornely,Thos.—Wolverhampton Wight Turner, Edmund—Truro Hector, Cornthwaite John—Pe- Vernon, G. H.—East Retford tersfield Wakley, Thomas—Finshury Hobhouse, T. Benj.—Rochester Warburton, H.—Bridport Hodgson, Rd.—Berwick-on-Tweed Ward, H. G.—Sheffield Hope, G. W.—Weymouth Williams, William—Coventry Hutton, Hobert—Dublin Wood, Colonel T.—Brecon Knight, H. G.—Nottinghamshir. Wood, G. W.—Kendal Labouchere, Right Hon. Henry— Wood, Benjamin—Southwark , C , Taunton Yates, J. Ashton --Carlow Langdale, Hon. C.—Knaresbo. TELLERS. rough Parker, John—Sheffield Lemon, Sir Chas.—W. Cornwall Clay, William—Tower Hamlets MINORITY Ainsworth, P.—Bolton Atwood, W.—Greenwich Broad ley, Henry—East Yorkshire Easthope, J.—Leicestir Fleetwood, P. H.—Preston Hawes, B. -Lambeth Hayter, W. G.—Wells Hollond, Robert—Hastings Hume, Joseph—Kilkenny —NOES, 15. Kemble, H.—East Surrey Martin, John—Tewkesbury Muntz, G. F.—Birmingham Thompson, Ald.—Sunderland Vigors, N. A.—Carlow Co Wilmot, Sir T. E.—Warwickshire TELLERS. Sandon, Lord—Liverpool Ewart, William—Wigan THE MARKETS._(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. The arrivals of all descriptions of Grain since Monday have been small. Wheat was held firmly at Monday's prices, and little was done. Barley, Beans, and Pease, unvaried. In oats rather higher prices were asked, with a moderate demand. The top price of Flour still undetermined, there being a difference of opinion among the millers. London averages—Wheat, 11,235 quarters, at 795. 4d. ; Oats, 9,034, at 28s. sd. ; Beans, 1,257, 45.1. 10d. SMITHFIELD MARKET. There was an average supply, and the dem - and was very heavy for Beef, but prices were not lower. In Veal a good business doing, at an advance of 4d. per stone. Lamb and Mutton in good demand, prices unvaried. Pork not quite so lively, and lower rates were accepted. Beef, 3s. 2d. to 4s. 6d. ; Veal, 4s. 6d. to ss. 4d. ; "Mutton, 3s. 6d to 4s. Bd. ; Lamb, 4s. Bd. to ss. 6d. ; Beasts, 718; Sheep and Lambs, 9,490 ; Calves, 364 ; Pigs, 410. Hay, 3/. ss. to 4l 10s. ; Clo ver, 4/. 4s. 6d. to 51. 15s. ; Straw, 1/. 16s. to 2/. per load of 36 trusses. PROVISION MARKET. Batter sells steadily at improved rates. Bacon in fair de mand, and prices on the advance. Prime Meat, 595. to 60s, per cwt. COLONIAL MARKET. Prices were firm for produce, but not much busines% was done by private contract, and the public sales were unimportant. The Imports were light. TEA MARKET. The demand was dull for free trade Tea; but prices were steady. Company's Congou sold slowly at 2s. 2d. cash. TALLOW MARKET. Not much demand existed for Tallow ; but prices were steady, at 525. on the spot, and 525. 6d. for arrival in the last three months. SPIRIT MARKET. Rum on the advance, and the demand good. Brandy no cheaper, but still few buyers. British Corn Spirits steady al 10s. 2d. per gallon. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LivErtrooL COTTON MARKET, TIIVRSDAY.—We have had a fair demand for Cotton to-day, without change in prices. Sales 3,500 bags, principally American, to the trade. LIVERFOOI, SHARE Ltsr.—Chester and Crew Junction, 60'.1; Great Western, 102 2 1 . ; Brighton United Company and South Western, 56k. The market generally droop ing, more sellers than buyers. Arrivals this morning French and Ostend mails, ship letters from Bdrbadoes, Miramiehi, Antigua, and Havannah. The Mexican government has lately issued a declara tion to the effect that all Yucatan vessels bearing the na tional flag, will be treated as pirates. Accounts received at Havre from Monte Video, of the 10th May, state that the blockade of Buenos Ayres, was not taken off, and little hopes were entertained that it would be for some time. We have received the Journal of Antwerp of yester. day's date. BOURSE OF AMSTERDAM, JULY 21. —There still pre vails a dead calm in the National Funds. Two-and-a- Half per Cents. 53k; Five per Cents. 201 i ; Ardoin's Spanish remain at 25 15.16 to 26 a f ter the Bourse. Consols are not quite so good as they left off yesterday, at 92 for the Account ; Money, 91w, at present may b quoted 91-I- 3 92 for the Account, and 91g-1 Money. Ex chequer Bits 25 27 prem. ; Indi a B on d s, 2 4 prem. ; Bank Stock, 174 175 ; India Stock, 254 9 56. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active rather better, left off 27 ;at present 271 1 ; D e f erred 12a ; Pas sive 6i -, 7 ;; Brazilian, 79A- 801 ; Colombian 27i 28 ; Mex ican 301 511 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 531 ; Five per Cents. 1031. elIARES.—Great Western 36: 37* prem. ; London and Brighton 7 1 discount; Blaekwall 21 prem. ; Birming ham 91 93 prem. ; Southampton 57:k 581 per share; Croydon 121 pe r s h are; G reenw i c h 8 1 9 1 per s h are; Manchester and Birmingham 10 8 discount. The article in the Post respecting the East has rather damped the British Market. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red 92- 2 3 per Cents. Con. 31 per Cent. 100 Ditto Red New 31 per Cent. ...... 99 1,E New 5 per Cent. Bank Low* Annuities to expire Jan. 5, 1860... 13 11-16 i Oct. 10, 1859. Jan. 5, 1860. Jan. 5, 1880. April 5, 1880. Jan. 5, 1870. DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK India Stack ...... Ditto Bonds ...... South Sea Stock Old Annuities New Ditto 3 per Cent. Ann. 1751 Exch. 8i115,1,000/. 22 24 pm. Ditto ...... 500/. 25 24 pin. Ditto Small Ditto Commercial ..... dis. Ditto Advertised ... pm. Bank Stock for Acct... India Stock for Acet... Consols for Acct 92 HALF-PAST ONE. The funds at present have the appearance of the weather—rather of a gloomy cast. Since the early part of the morning the British market has continued heavy, although we do not hear of any arrivals to depress the market. It is supposed that the affairs of the East have operated on the nerves of the speculators. Consols may be quoted at present 91-:4 , 92 for 27th August New Ac count ; Money lower, have been 914. Exchequer Bills have fallen 3 shillings, 22 24 prem. ; India Builds lower, par to 2 prem. ; Bank Stock, nothing done. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active has receded from 27 to 2q; Portuguese, ; Three..per-Cents., 23i-; Spanish Deferred, 12R ; Passive, fik; Brazilian, 791 ; Colo.nbian, 274; Mexican, nothing done ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., .53 , lower ; Five per Cents., 103, lower. 2 pm Very little doing in Shares :—Great Western, 102; South Western, 58; North Midland, New, 34. No other arrivals or reports. LOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock ........... ... 175 ' India Stock ••• .. ----. 3 per Cent. Red 92 Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent Cons ...... .. 91n Ditto Old Annuities ... 90} 31 per Cent Red........ 100 Ditto New Annuities — New 31 per Cent New 5 per Cent ... Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small Jan. 1860 Oct. 1859 lndia Stock for Acct... Jan. 1860 — Consols for Acct 9l' FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent... Portuguese, 5 per cent. -- Belgian, 5 per cent...... Ditto, New Ditto — 1 3razilian Bonds... .. •• 79i Prussian, 5 per cent.... 1 3 h u i e l n ia o n s ,6 yr p e e s r , 6 cyn e t r cent Russian, 5 per cent.... c Ditto, Iletallic Colombian, 6 percent... Spanish, 5 per cent 271 Ditto, 18 0 4 275 Ditto, Deferred l2l Dani s h, 3 per cent. ... • 80} French, 5 per cent... —f. —c. Greek, 1825, 5 percent. Exchange —f. —c. Mexican, 5 per cent.... French, 3 per cent B7f. —c. Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825. Dutch, 21. per cent 535 Peruvian, 18 0 5, 6 per et. Ditto, 5 per cent..... 103 SHARES. Birmingham and Gloucester Railway 74 Great Western Railway Ditto New Shares 46 Hull and Selby London and Blackwall Railway London and Birmingham Railway .., lBl London and South Western Railway .. 5B Manchester and Birmingham Railway .. North Midland Railway Ditto New Shares 34 EVENING E 2)IT lON PUBLIC DINNER to MR. RTCARDO, THE LIBERAL CANDIDATE FOR STOKE UPON-TRENT. On Tuesday last, the 21st instant, the electors of the extensive district comprising the towns of Stoke-upon- Trent, Burslem, Hanky, Shelton, Fenton, Lane-End, and Longton, gave a grand dinner at the last-mentioned place to Mr. Ricardo, the Liberal candidate for the represents , tion of the Potteries. The preparations for this festivity had created no little excitement among the inhabitants of the district, and as the time arrived for it, the spirits of the Reformers were greatly raised; whilst the Tory party dwelling on their late unsuccessful canvass, were propor% tionately depressed. On the .da y appointed for the festi val, the district was the scene of unusual bustle, numbers of respectably dressed persons hurrying along to the scene and the echoes in the streets, awakened by the earriegve and coaches of all descriptions, which might be every where seen conveying parties of electors to the dinner.-- Staflordsitire Examiner. LWe shall perhaps give some portions of the speeches cc-morrow, if we have space.--ED. Sun.]] HOP INTELLIGENCE. ( From the dlueuocwet Gazette.) MAIDSTONE.—The hops generally in the Mid-Kent dis trict continue to maintain ther superiority over any other district. Since our last the weather has been generally warmer, although a nipping frost was observed on Tues day morning. The only two grounds, however, which bid fair to produce a heavy crop are the " Flower of Kent" and that of Mr. Gurney adjoining, which certair4 present a picture of health and luxuriance, the bines rank and strong, the leaves of an immense size, and g enerally of fresh green, the tendril s " s h a ki ng h an d s " across the rows, and the burr just making its appearance, In maul grounds in this district, however, the bines are very much aver-poled. Very long poles, in any other than very strong grounds and favourable seasons, are a sad strain upon the bines, which before they can reach the top of the pole have so much exhausted their vigour that th:i have little left for the production of hops. Those grounds which are under-cropped with other productions Wil l scarcely do anything. Another correspondent states that within the last three days, taking a view of the whole district, the bad grounds have become worse, and the good ones, which are confined' as we have before stated, to a small circuit, a re rather deteriorated than improved, as the vermin are fast increas ing, even in the best grounds, and honey-dew and fire blast are rapidly making their appearance. The mould has not increased. The weather of the last two days and nights has been most unfavourable, and there is no pros. pect of improvement. Our correspondent, who has paid the most minute attention to the grounds, and made the most extensive inquiries, is of opinion that there will be a general blight, and that the duty w ill no t reac h 30,000 b From the accuracy with which he has hitherto predicte d the unfavourable changes, and the gradual decline of tlatt duty, we are disposed to attach great weight to his opinion* Still further improvement has taken place in Merewortb and Wateringbury parishes, in which many of the group& look well - and tolerably clean. There appears, however' to be nearly as many opinions as to the probable amoun t of the crop as there are growers of hops. THE FARLEIGHS.—.Some of the grounds in this proli 6 l district will bear probably an ave r a ge cro p, b ut i n som e these the bine appears nearly at a stand-still. The favourite grounds in Chart Sutton, Boughton, Lie' ton, and Hunton, are in worse condition that they were a week since. The bine is generally average growth, bet rather short in weak grounds. A week's still warm wet: ther would give many of those a " top-crop" which Ow look very badly. SEVENOAKS.—The bops in this neighbourhood ar e look' ing very badly, with an abundance of vermin. Some fe ° pieces, where they are strong in bine, are getting better' but the prevailing opinion of the planters is, that there or' not be grown above one-third of an average crop. 'll O betting it the annual hop dinner, at the Chequers Inn, 01 1 / Saturday week, was that the duty would not exceeo eighty thousand pounds. TONBRIDGE.—In this parish there are said to ge 1 0° acres which will not yield a bag an acre , as th e bi nes er 6 already much shrivelled and eaten up with vermin, before they have reached their full growth. The bines, in Hawkhurst, Salehurst, and Bodibarn t are worse than ever. The l eaves are a ll d ropp i ng o ff , an dt°' young shoots are followed up by the lice. Pestevey.—We have often heard it said that the supe' rior cultivation and mana gemen t w hi c h t h e b op grou p' receive would enable them to overcome the attack of ye t. min or blight. This year, we are sorry to say, w e exPei rience the contrary to this assertion; the numerical se persevering attacks o f t h e verm i n h ave comp l e tV h r checked the growth of the bines ; and many groutit which in the month of Mav were the most promising, n now the most sickly, and the bines will not ge t t o the top of the poles. The produce of the neighbourhood will be very small indeed. CRANBROOK.—The vermin appear to have comple.t I . overcome the hop plantations in this pa r i s h an d neir" bourhood, and we think the crop will be a mere nothilg; it being next to an impossibility for any material In/ ; ' provement to take place, on account o f t h e f orwa rdne ss of the season. The vermi n a re as numerous an d lively as ever. GOUDHURET.—The prospects of a crop are still less tl they were last week. S ome o f t h e f ew compar ative ) good gardens are becoming foul, and will, if the prege° uncongenial weather continues, most probably get wof t There appears in s ome o f t h e worst grounds a sliglir - eu ° "( at improveme n t, b u t, f rom t h e h oney -dewed lousy state of the plant, it is very improbable they can do much. ' Tuesday morning last we had a considerable frost. FIRE AT IPSWICH.—A fire broke out in th e premises of Mr. Horn, sailmaker, on Wednesday mornig! which destroyed the whole building, and upwards of twenty houses, besides granaries and warehouses. he IRELAND—THE SUB-LETTING greatest excitement has been raised amongst the peasantry the west of Ireland by the novel a tt empt t o b r i ng the co n ; acre system under the operation of the Sub •lettino• Act ; rb it is too monstrous to suppose that it can b e e ff ec t e d. ° The e tempt of the Marquis of %Vestmeath has totally failed, as ." i t Jury in all the actions brought at the Leitrim A ss i z es 3 ,,g 31 b . 1 e one of his tenants gave their verdicts against the most Marquis. DOVER, JULY 23.=DETERNIINED —On Tuesday last a gentleman, a passenger on board t,'; Courier French steam-packet, leaped from the deck of t' o vessel, when she was about half-way across the Channel' C , 1 ,5 the passage from Dover to Calais, and was drowned. Preci°ii, to jumping overboard deceased attempted to shoot himself W , 1 ,i3 a pistol, but being frustrated in this attempt to take awaYf r , life, he had recourse to the one just stated, in which, u r(l , -, e tunately, he was but too successful. He is supposed to h% 5 been an Engli s h man , b ut not hi ng h as yet transpired, so far - we can learn, of his name or connections. BAD TIMES FOR THE BAR I—The lawYe r : e are growing up like mus hro oms , w hil e th e b us i ness in, t„-, Courts and upon Circuit is running down lik e an hour-g' 3- , e , At the present Assizes the lawyers of the M uns t er bar ha ',, it for the first time, worn their wigs and gowns on circuitt;.. the same principle , probably, that a fashio na bl e t a il o r en`7 l , yours to attract business by exhibiting well-d resse d figures, 'g his windows. The Waterford Chronicle has the folio 1 is doleful intelligence for the gentlemen in horse-hair s said that there are about eighty lawyers at present in large number, it must be confessed, taking into considerat!,"th the business they have to do. The records are few, and "tip one or two exceptions, light ; whilst the criminal busine ss c o9 the city is a nonentity, and in the county unprecedenf e trivial. Certainly, unless the desir e f or liti ga ti on beect r somewhat more vehement, and th ere are inure candidates 'of the penal colonies, we do not know what will be the fa te t 3 these important gentlemen who periodically import so va s o t a quantity of grave looks, wi se p h ys i ognom i es, bl ac k co ats, I , t, allude to profound le arn i ng, into our anc i ent city. —D ub E eniny Post. 0 0 ENGLISH OPERA-HOUSE.—Th e f a bl e o f t was the subje c t o f a b ur l esque produced on Thurs d a y gig o under the title of Life in the Clouds. Like all other InY t t he logical pie ces o f th e ki n d , t h e h umour consists i n inyolving.nio ancient deities in m o d ern squa bbl es , an d ma ki ng th e re i gula t t i ti - e r of Cock a i gne a p p l y t o t h e i n h a bi tants o f Ol ympus. Th e a L u fa ,t. divides hi s b ur l e tt a i n t o th ree e p oc h s , supper - t i me, bre" 2 1. time, and dinner-time, a most legitimate division, and a y i ,l e - al ing far more forcibly to the memory than any lwr ° , l° ,7 or al system. In this short period he works out the grant' I L i e e that it is expedient for married men to be select in the en ° ,, r , of their guests. Ixion was prettily played by Miss M. Gl °v i b, who danced the cachucha with some: grace, but no (tp/° l a; f, and was encored. Mrs. Brougham, with her half-virtue, coquetry, her sense of propriety and love of flattery, and ° ' fl ' Ju ot all her really majestic deportment, made an excellent , ____ 2l , In Wild's Bacchus there was much unctuous pl e asan a tr?,,,, kind of fidgetty hankering after rows" that was n er l ) . : ern ice) ing. Brougham, who play e d th e cons tell a ti on ( Corn ell.. O'Rion, plumped his chees o give an imitation o f % ,( 35 and drew much laughter k in t a small part. The burlett a loudly applauded, and announces for repetition. PATENT LEVER WA TCH E 't; With silver dbuble-bottom cases £6 6 6 With silver hunting cases This celebrated construction (thz.. most accurate on will": a watch can b e ma d e ) i s now otfer, , l, with the latest itupro,vet-i: merits e. the detached escapen,:nt, jewelled in four capped, hand to mar k t h e seconds, hard enamel dial, and man e taming pow er t o cont i nue go i ng winding up, at the a b° price. A printed warran t y i s g i ven, w i t h fi xe d t erms , on whit, th° Watches will always receive any attention needed. T. COX SAVORY, Watchmaker, Silver and Goldsnn.,,t, 47, Cornhill (Seven JO ° from Gracechurch-street), London. N.B.—Second-hand Watches purchased in exchangei...o BIRTHS. At Little Campden House, Kensin:lton, La ly a son. At Tunbridge-wells, the Lady Sarah Taylor, of a son. ~, On the 23d inst., at Denmark-hill, the lady of Joseph Guru" Es 1., of a daughter. i• 4 On the 23d inst., in St. llele n ' s - p l ace , th e laly of Rich a Davis, Esq., of a son. ' On the 22d inst., at G rove - p l ace, N ort h Brixton, MO Sidney James Fletcher, of a daughter. o f On the 23d inst., at St. G eorge ' s-p l ace, ' M rs . Davidson , . a son. _......, IttiARRIED. c, Oa the 23d inst., at St. P ancras Church, James Small , of Bedford, to Miss Dorothy Th ompson, of the same place. ac t OA the 21st inst., at Landford Church, John lli bb Brewer, of the Middle Temple, Esq., only son of J. linab, Esq., of Melborne, to Eliza, daughter of the late Richard W Esq., of Melchet-park, Wilts. D I.ND. On the 18th inst., a t Dover, Charles John, third son of t I' late Admiral Wilson, of Itedrave Hall, Suolk. PaY fu On the 21st inst., at Kidw g ells, Maidenhead, William -1 Esq., Treasurer for the county of Reeks, aged 65. et , On the 23c1 inst., Richard, on l y c hild o f Ri c hard Spa n bookseller, High Holborn, n aged 5. Blun t, On the 18th inst., at ames Ditton, Richard Tilyer Joi" Esq., of Dorset-place, Dorset-square, aged 70. n Wil On the 19th inst., Joseph Rich md, only son of J. 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