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rnher 01 e nu.— - tvitlve. .15 the gra"' ,A ;aed having beg d jury, ir ro lug beat • 0. dicta es , lnt, i v tribunal et ffivh resO u n for tu e ago, le off er ' venl tt be sb f e ld bOYS - r 0 .0 tO t, sho —of it; e at the 154 i s c alled 111 ed him " an d otild isonor were , a s obser ce ri Dr, an d 8 1. the neig w hined out ,, d the Jtiub' ber - num of the 131L' f ' , ; r rted all yo u ca n t o ba" 1 6.bitt , the , n ew Ir° rks 4a tiori if bY beer" v " e as ton l es a to i hiwtbyhe to lc the IIC ra°ll AY) the i 0 1 dib s 0 autsstiei I , r ve l ]g oc. here offing vas will be ld Tb e o bee t hi P t 1 of tb ° iue to t he :i s frien d by . o ot 001 ,1° ,008 t the • re , IA nOt. ,d to stoor, be par cel ge l erti• boy' t he Io ," bu t o l ," , 'M eO4 üb' ht be r e lf in !liras assn ble , he ison be e.' llo y, a t be fore ced h A n' I with for ni. ; f of ewe wh ieo t heir nci g ja )petir'. • rosee'l' o - • rolli f robb i4 , WA r"li dr Old , h 04t fora'at e e%s 11 4 t is bi l r e he "ere- lle g fic io :ea og s i 11 Jecee .ced, re al : „d e ~eee Oa eorf o ge d ne e!' 3 c o. tor t pv, NERAL EL MT/ 0 N SOMERSETSHIRE (WEST). FIRST DAY'S POLL. Moody (C.) 1,844 Hood (C.) • : 1,765 Rouverie (L.) ... 1,183 Escott (L.) .. . 1,145 OFFICIAL t THE I T POLL. ewdegate .. 2,915 Spooner ▪ ... 2,451 Leigh . 2,278 The Sheriff d . e'clared—the two first duly elected. SCOTLAND. ORKNEY. da.he,norn i nation took place at Kirkwall on Thurs- Anderson. the candidates are Mr. Anderson and Mr. The show of hands was in favour of Mr. 4 IRELAND. CLARE COUNTY. ItThe Sheriff has declared Sir Lucius O'Brien and („,1!i•or Macnamara duly elected. Mr. Cornelius .`oiirieii intends to petition, on the ground that his tell were intimidated by the Conservative mob. CORK COUNTY. Mr. eluted E. Burke Roche and Dr. Power were re on Saturday without opposition. KILKENNY COUNTY. FIRST DAY. Rely Y ler ::: • • 115 8 Butler 7 9 Gre en **. Walsh ••• • 66 ••• ..• k r. LIMERICK. COUNTY. b „,, ,luonsell (C.), and Mr. Smith O'Brien (Re wireate have been returned. Mr. Caleb Powell ns a petition. LA WYERS IN THE NEW PAR LIAMENT. L a i n : 4erabers of the Bar, re-elected for the new Par- Cockermouth. sgrionb• y, H. Aojester. • Q.C. (Judge Advocate), Liskeard. e bb e'', B. 13•, Boston. arc lwell C hristi E ~Liverp . 00l erin e, W. Weymouth. I) tin r, i P s, Wm. C- irencester. — "as b • S.G S therlandshire. 4 ar Sir u t, Wm., Dumfries. odson R Gr een , ~„., Q.C., Kidderminster. O re " e, -u., Lancaster. Nor , 7 ' Right Hon. Sir G. (Home Secretary), North Ltilunaberl d l aYter, Nv a . ll • G., Q. C., Wells. r t ;g, Sir J. W., Bart., Honiton. J e '!'lB, Sir R. H. Oxford University. Law, Sir J., Knt., A.G., Chester. w ' 11 °n C• E Q.C., Cambridge University. I,T Le • fevr e, Hon. S , Hampshire. Ro leh9 , ll ' Br., Cardiff. Stua rt l33llY, John, Q.C., Devonport. T ' sq.o , Newark. -!lnered, H. • Q.C., I, 4l fourd, T . N., C., Reading. Banbury. : O esi ge, Sir F., lint., Q.C., Abingdon. 2.1 1 1 13131 F, S. H., Q.C., Midhurst. arristers not before in Parliament, now returned:- 8 414 , 1 , e5, Q.C., Northern Circuit, Hull. litaplsetoktl.burn, A. E., E.D., Recorder of Folkstone, Hythe. Western Circuit, South- Joiesdi: Q.C. Haverfordwest. 4 . 1,1 13 a, E.E., Equity - Bar, Newcastle. IYard 'Jer v i s R. Q.C., Northern Circuit, Whitehaven. bh r ' u• J. Equity Bar, Horsham. . r Samuel, Q.C., Northern Circuit, Pontefract. Tur n R ., Equity Bar, Plymouth. Virh;er: Georc , e, Q.C., Equity Bar, Coventry. 3. Ti te e t3 ' , Q.C., South Shields. trieri solicitors now practising, or who have for- Ititactised, and have been re-elected, are ° ll '' J., Dudley. Gri witt l J., Monmouth. lieertch, Thomas, Macclesfield. 4. Thlp taps tetelltlrorkbori-I,lB°l are icitors not before in Parliament, but now ge, Barnstaple. Charles,Pealie Ipswich. rs°ll, Laathetn.—Legul Observer. P -IPPERARY ELECTION. 1 _ re or ti, por-"teoeidification of the English reader is subjoined ya ul tait ar „ a, most characteristic s c peech eh de ( l A iv r e e r h e d d ea b eue taff am -I ; °' the Roman Catholic nur . Itep e - a ( `l3. Propoaing Mr. Scully, 1 SUCcessful search mightL ar Z in e f o e ; t li y lti o a f te l s , ip a p t er t a h r e y. ree E e x n ,p t t o e e u r ielt o a i f l o l n tl f e or the far arLaAllerlF,tormatrioenseu, ted with a tremens u e r a :01 3 1 was gree . es and s opposite side:— Ile took the Tun newsp ap ers burst of acclamation. th. oUt of his pocket, and throwing it with force at Lincoln table, said to Mr. Collett, ~ There's your ,,l _ speech uira l a e i e _ eir l. for, y o u."—(Great cheering.) ly. rget. P illnever in the wh ole e (continued the Archdeacon), I Lord at up of my life, and it is a long political life, gentle Tory this Court-house with feelings of more me ,.. W ho are you bringing forward this b y ( 0 7 of Ti pperary? —(Cheers.) I'm ashamed ba o l f l bY th:t ea t bri • orns.--- cheering.) I always like to catch the of ng la , f (Laughter.) Who, I repeat, are you Tipper fore (Laughter.) r espectable, independent landlords it Co a , r Y? The the se of man who stood by in to ts t and when Roebuck called you murderers, : I d did t.a;1:111P to defend you." ehk.;dot Lerr—l did.—(Groans.) 1 Oh, r eae" 1-4431',041-0h Oh' descendants of the Tipperary risto joh:sY'„ Though you are Tories, a r than , gentlemen of Tipperary. I love you better when You'r'elistani,_l—(Laughter)—who will laugh at you (i. ....ea are confiscated and your children beggars. ee ---dro (Loud nheer3.) Those E gl' h fellows have not o ......ne is a very 1)1d thatt)— . 13of thei t nilk of human an a- ki i n s dness in their bosom. at , *11•looking fellow (pointing to Mr. Collet 111-lookbag fellow—(Laughter)— litre Mr. Collet • • • his tablet. Arehcleaco t corualenced wriung in your tablet; car rY that • n LAPPAx—Put that down in , r oud laughter,la your snuffbox, as we say in Tipperary.— they. e any) do regret, my Lord Suirdale, to se t h e man of the old stock of the aristocracy coming to hear) aek ° I . a man whom they do not know.—Olear! Russell alike t I care not for the Whigs or Tories; they are all n me, from snappish Roebuck to Lord h ....11, and Sir Robert Peel. —(Cheers.) /.0 tandds of Ireland, wholesale murderers; and di that fello liDeolllttelomokei,n Mr.ao laughter Nv— think yo.u)'llLoud They called (Laughter) —stand up for you? C gangry 11 (Cheers.) It was really Johnßu at .m—e' sir; don't on fused laughable to see the astonished, c such Etngry looks of Mr. Collett, who did not expect , ae laceration from the Very Rev. Gentleman.] . u at on (smilin glad Roebuck is Out of P4rl . g)—l am with driving la inent• When he charged the landlords . them, di out their unfortunate tenants, and starving d ( L OU stand up then, Mr. Collett, and call him dal Loud cheers.) Do you know, my Lord Suir i, tier? eu w s b e lt a Frenchman said of John Bull? He said, 30u d e shY(,),l-I„yery well, fur he eated de oyster and gave of Ti e ' --(Loud laughter.) But, Tory landlords and pperary, Yollr candidate was turned out of Lincoln, 0 ,. 1. you thought him good enough tor Tipperary—out u t e he frying pan into the fire.—'Laughter.) Oh, gen iL ine n. are you —ar e you not ashamed of yourselves?— Your cud laughter.) I see the crimson blush mantling on Y?ur cheeks —you can't conceal it —your hearts are not with your tongues —you are partly Irish after all.— (Loud cheers.) If you return Collett, he will laugh With contempt at you ; and when your estates are beg2queezed like a lemon, he will damn you for a set of garly rascals.—(Loud laughter.) C o ll ett, d i d you r hear that Irishmen had tails?—(Loud laughter.) bid you ever hear that the brutal 2 Imes called us the bloody priests?—(Groans.) Mr. COLLETT (good humouredly)—Do you say your Prayers? The ARCHDEACON --W O do say our prayers, and .. I'll make yo u say yours before Izmen w doe%cewimtheruwa their ears and eyes open, s (Laughter.) It is a s a d day w select such a ma n as their can. didate for Tipperary.—(Hear.) I would take nay po litical en e my by th e h an d ; - I would shake hand s W i th You, Mr. Collett, if you'd let me—(Laughter)—b u t, to me, I would say, " G o friend or foe who would abusenot support Lord Joh n alo ng, you scoundrel." I could Russ e ll, my Lord Suirdale ; and I will tell you why. Beca use h e starved 2.000,000 o f my fellow-countrymen. --( Groans for the Premier). A scoundrel who refused bring food to the starving to send two vessels of war to what did the Americans du pep end And . cheering) —the the land of --, glorious America ?—(Loud la C e was never soiled ? t t ne brave, where freedom's sod America do ? The -„,kOreat cheers.) What did brave people,sent their best ••resident the Government, the alliPs, manned with their noble Yankee sailors—(Cheers) (Cheers.) ----with fend, not bomb-shells, to our . shores. — Premier of Re°raPare this with the conduct of the pigmy - V e nd , the rotten Russell.—(Groans.) own can . COLLETT—Say something about your didat e Tho(Groans.) hter.) not done yet,--(Laughter.) 0, A RCHDEACON —I am England is derived r "e source of the great revenue 0f,,,. it their - and they send us their cast-of A i ir cast-off clothes, ~eraber, saying, ~ He'll do well enough for Paddy. " Your kt•Aughter.) You stood hat's for Lincoln, Mr.Collett—w that Year nara ? John ?—(Laughter.) I'm sorry , theY di d not us handsomer specimen of the cast-off clothes than send you any a way.—(Laughter.) You're not I lla h lt. as handsome es my man.-(Loud; laughter.) ( Care her o the Times of the 30th of July, that's the —3 ' You Showed your nose in Lincoln—(Laughter)_and i'' tflads you nose debut our very smart.—(Loud laughter). Iln cont3ainsr 1,859 voters—Colonel Sibthorp opp ose d y 0„ , 7 * -- ne headed thepoll. Surely they must have the nitch' f' ' • elected Sibthorp • le s opinion of you when they , 0 preference to vou.—(Loud laughter.) Well, how 144 °Y voted for you ? I'll tell—out of 1,859 voters you tot 272 (Renewed laughter). And, after that, you come Ti A to Tipperary, to try the Tipperary boys. I -'l7.°lcE—Oh, what a chance he has!—(Renewed alighter.) h The ARCIIEEAcoN—IIe has, indeed! Why, I have e ar e _te a list of voters for my own two parishes, and there h ," In those two parishes alone a majority of !even over .d " whole sorry su orters in the barony of Midillethir . ---11 (Loud Putcheers.)PP that in yi , Ur pipe, Mr. Collett i a t : sraeice lt•—(Laughter.) Electors of Tipperary,and ~_ .going to propos e as a candidate a young man, l. c l Is not a bit the worse for being a Roman Catho lc : h. Z. u i 4l ",•) A man was never the worse for knowing 4'. 4' Weal hizaaelf,—(cheers,) He is a LAnclsotue fellow, too.—(Laughter.) I hog leave to propose Francis betray a 3 a tit and proper person to represot Tipperary. —(Loud cheers.) His father, the late James Scully, was, at the worst of times, at the head of the Catholics of this county.—(Cheers.) In 1828, the year before Catholic Emancipation—of which measure, my Lord, your Lord ship's ancestors were the most strenuous advocates — Dr. BURKE—A.eheer for the old Hutchinsons.— (Loud cheers.) The ARCHDEACON—I remember in Dr. Burke's pre sent chapel the late lamented O'Connell, may God be mercif;ll to him!--(Sensation.) Pray for him, Mr. Collett.—(Laughter.) Dr. BURKE—If he knows how.—(More laughter.) The ARCHDEACON—The late Daniel O'Connell was present—James Scully was in the chair. " I am de lighted," said the Liberator, " to see you in the chair, James Scully, as the brother of the distinguished author of the Penal Laws.'—(Loud cheers.) We must have fair play ; we'll beat him into rags, so that his English friends won't know him.—(Hear and laughter.) They'll say, " Can this be the Collett that stood for Lincoln ?" —(Loud laughter.) Electors of Tipperary, you'll do your duty ; we want Ireland for the Irish. (Loud cheers.) Our standard is the green flag of Erin.—(Tre mendous cheering.) " On our side is virtue and Erin ; The friends we have tried Are by our side, And Collett is before us."—(Loud cheers.) I am speaking at random —(Laughter)—but I had a very good speech prepared, and you, Mr. Collett, spoiled it—(Laughter)—by coming up at the eleventh hour with your bamboo head. (Laughter.) I really believe it's not the first good thing you spoiled.— (Laughter.) Sir Joseph Yorke, in the House of Com mons at one time said, that if Ireland was four• and twenty hours under water, it would be peaceable, and not till then. Little Johnny Russell has adopted a dif ferent plan; he adopted starving them in millions.— (Loud groaning.) You may go home to Lincoln, Mr. Collett; do you live near it?—(Laughter.) Go hone and tell them from us we are Irish—the descendants of the old Spaniards.—(Cheers.) You aro not a Spaniard, you are more like a Creole.—(Loud laughter.) Tell them from us that we are not to be trampled upon — (Cheers) —that we repudiate both Whigs and Tories; and if Old Nick had both of them Old Ireland would be much better off.—(Laughter.) We are moral force Re pealers.—(Tremendous cheering.) We are the disciples of the Great O'Connell—he of European fame.—(Loud cheers.) We are his followers, and though he is dead, we will hoist his banner for repeal, liberty, and Old Ire land.—(Great cheering.) I have great pleasure, my Lord and electors of Tipperary, in proposing Francis Scully as a fit and proper representative for gallant Tipperary. —The venerable Archdeacon resumed his seat amidst the loudest demonstrations of applause. HER MAJESTY'S MARINE EX CURSION. PEMBROKE, AUG. 14.—At 3.45 P.M. the Prospero mail-steamer (which had on Friday noon been ordered to lie off St. Anne's Head to await the arrival of the royal squadron) signalled the squadron, and precisely an hour afterwards they had entered Milford Haven, coming to an anchor off Milford, the Dockyard fort firing a royal salute. The squadron passed Friday night at the Scilly Isles, being prevented by fog from touching at Fal mouth. The Queen came on deck and was heartily greeted by her Welch subjects, who, after cheering her Majesty, called for the Prince of Wales, when hearts, hands, and voices were united to express the delight felt by her loyal Britons. The Earl of Cawdor waited on her Majesty on her arrival and took with him a Welch girl in the costume (hat, jacket, &c.), much to the amusement of the royal party. A few minutes afterwards the Prince, accompanied by his suite, together with the Earl of Cawdor and the Captain-Superintendent of the Dockyard, went on board the Fairy, and proceeded up the river to the Dockyard, where they landed and went round the establishment. The fort again fired a royal salute as the steamer passed. They then rode up in the Superintendent's carriage as far as Bush-hill, to have a view of the castle and t9wn of Pembroke. The Prince alighted, and seemed to enjoy the scenery very much. They then returned and embarked on board the Fairy, steamed down to the royal yacht, and came to anchor about half-past 7 in the evening. It is not known whether the royal party will remain to-morrow (Sunday), or proceed to the coast of Scotland. Rumour says they will visit the Earl of Cawdor to-morrow, and start on Monday morning. CARNARVON, SUNDAY, AuG. 15. To-day at one o'clock the squadron was descried out in Carnarvon Bay, and the movements of the vessels were immediately signalled from the pilot station at Llanddwyn. It was soon manifest that her Majesty intended to pass through the Menai Straits. As her 11 fajesty had been fully expected on the pre vious day everything was in readiness. Colours were hoisted on all the principal buildings—the Porth-yr-aur, Custom-house, Town-hall, &c., and the various vessels in the harbour and straits were gaily decorated. About half-past two o'clock the Fairy yacht, with her Majesty, Prince Albert, the Prince of 1% ales, the Princess Royal, and suite, steamed up to the front of the town. One man-of-war steamer only accompanied the royal yacht, the Victoria and Albert and the other vessels, forming the escort, having p awed round by Holyhead ; but several Li verpool steamers followed in the wake, having large pleasure parties on board. On arriving off the town, the Fairy lay to for ten minutes, when a royal salute was fired 'from the Coed-helen guns, and from a bat tery on the pier-head. The quays, town walls, pier head, and •every available spot of ground were crowded with people, all anxious to obtain a view of the royal party, who, however, were not distinctly visible, owing to the distance - from ,the shore. Mr. Turner, the Mayor, and several other gentlemen, paid their respects on board. Before the salutes had finished the Fairy got under steam, and proceeded on her passage 'down the straits, having a pilot for the pas sage of the Swillies on board. A pilot for the navi gation of Carnarvon bar had joined the yacht at Mil ford. The non-arrival of her Majesty on the previous day had caused great disappointment, numbers of persons having arrived from a distance for the pur pose of seeing the squadron pass. It is expected the yacht - will anchor fur the night in the Cross Roads. THE SUN, COURT CIRCULAR. Maj rx-General Bowles left her Majesty's marine resi dence, 'Osborne, Isle of Wight, yesterday morning, for town. The Dowager Lady Lyttleton remains at Os borne 'w ith their Royal Highnesses Prince Alfred, the Princess Alice, and the Princess Helena. 'rho I tight Hon. Sir Edward Ryan returned to town yesterda y. Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from the Colonsal t-office for the Governor of Jamaica, and also for the Gov ernors of the other West India colonies. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Pc iorsmourn, MONDAY.—The Fire Queen steam each t, Lieutenant Commander C. R. Johnston, having on b card the Earl of Auckland, First Lord of the Adin it alty ; Captain Eden, Private Secretary ; and Colon e 1 Irvine, Director-General of Engineering and Archir, ectural Works to the Admiralty, ran the dis tance t etween the Needles and Alderney-roads in five flours. The Earl of Auckland landed with Captain Eden,. and surveyed the breakwater (Wednesday) which is in the course of construction at that place, and of 'terwards visited other points of the island, leavinl • on Thursday morning for Guernsey, where the Fi.: st Lord again landed, and remained some hours inspecs ing all the available points for defence. His Lords 4 .ip left Guernsey about six P. m. for Jersey, where he arrived in two hours afterwards, a distance of tvvt ! n t y - e i g h t m il es. His Lordsh i p, .accompan i e d by Cal ?tail' Eden and C o l one l I rv i ne , proceeded on shor e a b out half-past eight r. Ni., and on Thursday more iii ig left t . 1 ie V . ieto proc( b tided to Bl won] ms are in progress or projected. The Fire Queen visited ri various parts of the island where the i t land, Irvin; ,andp l ier, Jersey, about twelve o'clock, and u ey , Bay, at the N.N.E. point of rocee e where the Earl of Auckland, Colonel Captain to Eden and Mr. Watkin embarked, and after plann u i _d view the island of Ecrihosv, and Iloules r sundryßayn,gwhe improvements, returne to to SL Helier's in rethey disembarked, and returned Fire f 4ueen, after carriages,disembarking as the nearest route. The the ot her official perisembarking the First Lord and Hello :'s with all speeds°tnoages, proceeded also for St. Thi Amphitrite, 26, ca m to ee i t them on their return. and al pears to be very sinal;tl; it. Eden, is all ataunt, presen ts a very fine servicablenaZed. She already doubtless prove a very comfortable- earance, and will econom hical ship. as well as a very Trincomalee, 26, sister ship to the above, Warr. .?,n, is also progressing as fast as possi b o le ve ? Capt. equi? ' P a nent, but shortness of hands is a princ* In h er l cause of hot tardiness in other respects. Tlf , 3 Fury steam-sloop,Commander Wilcox, is in the basin fitting for sea rapidly. She has had a thi r d mast fitted, which improves her appearance. She will sail to the Cape, and most likely thence to the East' Indies. 3 Centaur steam-frigate, alongside the basin, is now f •eady for commission. A captain is expected to be 3 9 pointed to her daily. Tk ,e Bee steam-vessel, for the use of the students of the I anyal Naval College and the Excellent, is receiv ing a new tubular boiler, having worn her old one out e Geyser steam .sloop, Commander Brown, is fittim, 3 for sea in the basin. T ll l ,e Cambrian, 36, Captain Plufnridge, is alongside the 3: etty to receive the necessary fitments for her com mis? lon, and the accommodation of General Sir Harry Sni.i th, family and staff. Ea RATUNI.—In the report of the meting of the Chwi ,ng-cross-bridge Company, on the 13th inst., the nanny of the newly-elected director should have been gives as Coles Child, Esq., not Coleshill Esq. The san te', , when corrected, will read thus :—Coles of 13 romley, Kent, a magistrate and deputy-lieutenant of th of county was (with Edward English, Esq., of Guild fo rd-street, Russell -square,) elected a director of the cc rapany. LONDON, TUESDAY_ _EVENING, AUGUST 17, 1847. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. rnosr THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. TIMES.—If the document emanating from the Prussian Cabinet, which we published a few days ago, were understood to comprise the sum total of the results of the late Diet, the most sincere well wishers of King Frederic William IV. would be con strained to admit that the amount of business trans• acted, and the importance of the measures carried, fall much_ below the solemnity of the occasion. To convoke 600 gentlemen in Berlin from all parts of the Prussian dominions, and keep them in full debate for eleven weeks, was rather more than was necessary, if the Diet simply negatived all the proposals of the Government on the one hand, and the Govarnment has evaded or ignored all the demands of the Diet on the other. But if the proceedings of the late Diet of Berlin are obnoxious to this kind of criticism, we hasten to add that we by no means underrate the im portance of the moral consequences of what has been accomplished and exhibited to the nation and to the world. In spite of all the apprehen sions and uncertainty which attended the convo • cation of ,this assembly, we have seen a body of men whose moderation and good sense were only equalled by their eloquent language and their enlightened opinions ; we have heard the unanimous declarations of the Diet in favour of the existing institutions of the Prussian monarchy, and of all that tends to main tain the nationality and vigour of that kingdom ; we have nowhere discovered any tendency to revolu tionary innovations or a spirit of disaffection, and even the Ministers escaped in a remarkable manner from those legitimate attacks which it is their busi ness to encounter in such popular assemblies. In a word, the Diet lent the whole strength of the nation to the support of the Crown and of the King's Go vernment, and it seemed never for an instant to have forgotten that the duties of loyalty and order ought to be paramount in the Legislature of a monarchical state. By the Prussian people and by the rest of Europe the conduct of the Diet has been appreciated as it deserved to be ; but we cannot think that the Prussian Government has done full justice to the mo deration which guided its whole conduct. To sum up impartially on both sides, the Diet leaves a great, dignified, and honourable impression of the mind; whilst the demeanour of the Prussian Cabinet has been from first to last uncertain, petulant, and by no means equal to the emergency. It would have been easy for the leading members of the popular assembly to have raised and directed a party which would have routed the Ministerial forces in a week, and compelled the King to seek for other advisers. But whatever the country may have thought of its Ministers, they were on all occasions treated with as much respect as if their policy commanded the approbation of the Diet. The truth is, that all the Ministers are, like the public servants in Prussia generally, men of high character and honest intentions ; and when they erred it was chiefly from inexperience of the new political machi nery they had brought into existence. This respect for their personal characters carried them through the melee without any formidable wounds ; but it cannot be extended so far as to justify their political conduct upon a review of the whole transaction. It was a great and an impracticable inconsistency in the Prus sian Monarchy to educate and arm the people, and to confer on them the exercise of extensive municipal rights, without extending to them any portion of political power ; but that inconsistency would be rather increased than diminished if the same exclu sion from political power were still maintained against the representatives of the people, after they had been formally convoked in the Diet of the kingdom, and after they had shown the utmost moderation and aptitude in the performance of their duties. Very naturally, they assert that the first of those duties is to define their political power. They are called together in pursuance of pledges repeatedly given, and the manner of their assembly is studiously copied from that of the estates from which they trace their descent. It is clear that their legitimate powers cannot be less extensive than those of their forefathers, or those contemplated and secured to them by pledges of a more recent date. Those powers, therefore, they will contend for and eventually obtain. For it must be remembered, as one of the principal consequences of the Diet of 1847, that henceforward the. United Diet of Prussia has a permanent existence. It can no longer perish. Whether it be sitting or adjourned, the hopes of the people and the strength of the State rest on its future deliberations and on its votes. Whether its powers be latent or acknowledged, they are in being ; and at the first emergency, to them the appeal must be made. In other words, the political destinies of the country are in their hands. The last observation we would make on this subject is to point out the strange confusion which exists in the minds of wary continental statesmen, and probably of the King of Prussia himself, on the subject of constitu tional government. They speak of a surrender of the absolute rights of the prerogative, as if that in volved an inevitable weakening of the powers of government. They forget that for every por tion of individual authority which may fall away they receive the benefit of a collective energy and a multi pliedoGpoervaetrinomn.entT, w he h y ie d h o is n u o l t w a u t y o s n a c o e t s o e g e w th i a th t o n u o t arbitraryeo the express support of its subjects, and perhaps in opposition to their will, can ever accomplish those great tasks or realise those vast designs which re quire the conjoint action of a whole people ; and they have yet to learn what the strength of that power is which a Minister derives from the majority of a free nation. There is, it is true, no halting place between absolute power or constitutional responsibility. Ministers must either act with the undivided autho rity of the Sovereign whom they serve, or they must have the direct support of the people whom they govern. A Cabinet is worthless and powerless which is first tutored by a Prince, and afterwards tolerated by a people. But that is a state of transition which cannot be of long duration. The Prussian Govern ment will be wise enough to discover that its true s t ren gth lies for the f u t ure in the support o f a ma jaonrditymoofdtehreatDioniet w ; ialnid we have no doubt that time Crown into more perfect h armony w ith those of bring the councils of the the nation. CHRONICLE.—The results of the county elec tions in Ireland indicate the political temper of that country even more strikingly than the borough re turns. The facts are well worthy of notice, and most especially worthy of the notice of English statesmen. The conclusion which they all establish is, that the feeling in favour of a R epea l o f t h e U n i on , or , i n o ther words, the tend ency to look anywhere rat h er than to England for the cure of Irish evils, is as strong in the hearts of the Irish people at this mo.. ment as when the multitudes assembled at Tara and Mullaghmast, and when a leader still lived to give utterance and intensity to the national aspirations. There can be no room for doubt that the Repeal pas sion is alive and powerful amongst the Irish, and its vitality is the more evident from the circumstance that all these exhibitions of it are the result of local and apparently unconnected impulses. There has bneoengennoercaelntra Th e R e peal Association central power oe has been little more th an a name . It has had nei ther mind nor y organization. f ss o ' r ort t h he speakingof at arduous money business giving direction to a pop u l ar mov ement. But for the audacity of Mr. Reynolds, the metropolitan city would have been a s cool as a cucumber, while the greater part of Ireland was raging in the fever of Repeal. In dealing, however, with these confused and tumultuous heavings of popular passion, it is not unimportant to notice the position and cha ratter of the parties who, though they have little real control over the movement, are most prominent in connexion with it. These may be separated into two classes, one of which is friendly and the other hostile to the present Government. We may take this as the broad practical distinction between them — that the former is disposed to give Ministers a general support, and to enjoy the benefit of their patronage , while the latter declares t he acce pt ance of Mini ste rial favours treason to the Repeal cause, and opposes the Government with the most deadly enmity. The " Old Ireland" party, which includes the sons of Mr. O'Connell, has only the strength which arises from of • hood The former element power is evanes cent,priest . family a political allegiance similar that popular name, a is n n d o f t ro s m o. the lf t c h o e un la t r e g n e a r n p ce ort o i f on th o e f but the latter the Roman Catholic clergy yield to Mr. may still be possi e bl n e t , at of the Repeal fora lf time, f to pe Q a _eelin„ ,c rom to °'C a n t e 1 aevhich they_ _ rendered l to himself it prevent the main current Ir. 0 on tl Ws successors may not exac y possess his sagacity ne may be presumed and discretion, but they to be at least as willing as he was tokeep Repeal for the Corn Exchange, and to use. Parliamentary influence for the being directed into angerous chann e it appears to b is any central influetnciet, is apart w which i h n the hands of enforcement of practical measures. So far as there of this party ; e th woube e clergy, grow front day to day l e ss as politicians, appearin one or two localities, the other united. Except section of Repealers, whichis called " Young Ire land,"to he not only powerless, but positively appears beyond all questi is - on, a curious unpopular. This, powerless withouEutngtlthaoend,claenrgdy, d which ' fact. Young Irelao in its fierce and almost savage hatred of an it d s fanaticism for nationality, feeling, c in perfect har mony with thepopularmight b e g supposed oli ee in t to n be however, lreland can create tio s nor evenan scarcely show itself upon any hustings, walk the streets, without having to call p the thing is not so When analysed,against ath poetry o m e t o .r b y . surprising. Young , and can vivify historical traditions y its literary power, but it wants tact and discretion, and its ballads and for the rather attempts to create a new spirit its oratory are of nationality, than h utterances of exist the coarse and vulgar sentiment whic now The set of gen tlemens. Repeal movbement who compose Younglreland, therefore, are not m ore dangerous than their rivals. It mistake, however, to take it for woualdt be present gnrtieyous granted that they cannot become dangerous. Already they have powerful allies amongst the young, and they fraternize easily with the Conservative converts to Repeal, who bring to it the influence of property. The wind of popular favour is now against them, but before a twelvemonth is over we may see it filling their sails. Their determined denunciations of place-hunting are very likely to tell in the long run, for it required nothing less than the magical power of O'Connell hims e lf t o make fide- lity to the Repeal cause appear compatible with the solicitation of places from an Anti-Repeal Government. We do not hesitate to say, however, that if Ire land is ever to be raised out of the slough of despond in which she is now plunged, the bestowal of place ought not to be made thus subservient to the extension of political influence. The immediate gain is purchased at a frightful cost. That de bauchery of the public mind which is the result of stimulating the appetite for place-hunting, may be come, if it is not already, one of the most formidable obstacles to good government in Ireland. Steady tastes for the ordinary pursuits and labours of life, and that impulse which seeks an improved condition through industrial enterprise, are the mental quali ties to be promoted amongst the Irish. A Govern ment honestly desirous for the social advancement of such a people would take pains to turn their thoughts' towards any other mode of living rather than its own appointments. It would reduce the number of ex pectants by every practicable expedient. It would make its selections in all cases with the least possible delay, to prevent suspense and the growth of vain hopes. It would give a flat negative at the first word to all improper applications, and instead of keeping crowds hanging about its offices in idleness, and wasting the time of its functionaries with useless interviews, it would at once drive the nine out of every ten who must be ultimately disappointed to betake themselves to some honest calling. These principles have not only not been observed, but resolutely violated by nearly all Irish Governments, and the consequence is that the place-hunting pauperism of Ireland has become almost as great a social evil as the system of public works. We may give one illustration. Under Sir Robert's Act for creating new colleges there are some twenty, or at most thirty, professorships to be disposed of. For these thirty places it is currently reported that there are upwards of one thousand applicants. In this case alone, therefore, a thousand educated men are hanging in expectation upon the Government. They have been so for about two years, and it is said that one year more will elapse before the appointments are made. It is needless to insist upon the bad habits of mind which must be engendered by such delay in . . this large mass of persons. An Irish Governm - ent ought to be as far from encouraging a moral plague of this sort as from promoting the spread of cholera or fever. If it could not make these college appoint ments at once, we may feel sure that it might at least have dismissed at once nine-tenths of the appli- cants as unqualified, leaving a qualified remnant for the selection. Such promptitude would not subserve mere party interests, because it would convert nine hundred friendly expectants into as many disappointed foes, but it would be a wholesome medicine for one great social malady of Ireland. ADVERTISER.—The present state of our com mercial and monetary relations with America is not sufficiently understood. Great misconceptions exist on the subject where correct views might be expected to prevail. For the last eight or ten days apprehen sions have been entertained, that we were about to be subjected to another severe and continued drain of specie in consequence of the demands of the United States for our gold. The alarm is groundless. No man who looks below the surface of things could share in it. The exchanges have not been quoted lower than 5 per cent. Their highest rate is 6& It is of importance to observe, that no transaction is re• presented as having taken place at 5 per cent. Bills are only said to be offered at that rate. But what sort of bills ? Only those of a very questionable character. There is no instance given in which transactions have taken place at less than 5i per cent.,—none at least in paper that would even be looked at. Good bills are not to be had under 6 per cent., a rate of exchange which, with the in creased rate of discount now charged by the Bank of England, the expenses of insurance, freight, and the loss of four months' interest, renders it impos. sible to export specie from this country to America without sustaining an absolute loss. But this is not all. Even the very best American corn bills are now regarded with great suspicion by the banking in terests in England. A large number of such bills, protested, were returned by the steamer which sailed on the first of the month, and a still larger number by the steamer which quitted Liverpool on Saturday last. Under these circumstances, it were out of the ._. _ question to suppose that any amount of specie will be drawn from the coffers of the Bank for export to America. There is even more than this. Not only . are all apprehensions of another American drain of our precious metals without foundation, but there are grounds for believing that in a few weeks we shall actually see a re-importation of gold from America into this country. The large amount of returned bills must instantaneously operate on the exchanges in New York. The difficulty of getting undoubted bills on England will send up the exchanges suffi ciently high to render it profitable for our merchants to import bullion from New York. It is proper, how ever, it should be understood, that in advancing this position, we do so on the assumption that, along with the returned corn bills, there will be a con continued, if not increased, demand for our English manufactures, and a sensible decrease in the ship ment of bread stuffs for this country. On the first point there can be little or no doubt. In Lancashire and Yorkshire there is at present a large number of American orders for English manufactures, and all the more intelligent Americans in this country concur in the opinion, that this trans Atlantic demand for our goods will not only be continued, but increased. It is equally probable—certain, we should rather say— that the shipments of bread stuffs to this country will now fall off to a very considerable extent. The very great reduction which has occurred in the price of corn must of itself prevent any large shipments to England. With the present low prices, in con junction with a still further expected decline, no English merchant will dream of importing cargoes of American corn, in the expectation of realising a profit by the speculation ; and the United States mer chants will not incur the risk of sending their cargoes to this country on chance. The necessary effect of this will be, that the exchanges will take an upward turn, until they reach a point which will render it profitable for England to import the precious metals from New York. POST.—It has been well remarked, with respect to the tendencies of this busy, self-displaying age, that whatever it does at all, it overdoes. This is quite as apparent in the most serious and weighty affairs of life as in the most trivial. Whether it be men's object to propogate a religion, or to acknow ledge acts of individual service to the community—to build churches, or to elevate some character in the public esteem—we perceive equally the nimium which is the characteristic of the day—the extrava gance which well .disciplined good sense and native sobriety must condemn—the exaggeration from which good taste must turn with sensations of offence. Of course this general feature of the time is modified by circumstances into various forms, and, according to attendant lights and shadows, assumes ,various hues. In all of them there is—or, at all events, in our judgment there is—a disagreeable violation of truth and simplicity. One of the forms in which this extravagance or excessiveness appears is in the en deavours which even good men make to blend together things in their very nature discordant—to en graft, for instance, religion upon worldliness, or—to use the words attributed to a distinguished personage —to embark " the ark of the Church upon the crest of the advancing wave of modern society?' We beg pardon for what may seem to be impatience, when we say at once that we can look upon this kind of thing as little better than grave nonsense, or some thing between dreaminess and affectation. We have in this journal, as often as it seemed proper for writers in our sphere and of our calling to do so, pro tested against the prevailing spirit, or " advancing wave" of modern society, as utterly alien from Christian sentiment ; and we declare now unre servedly, as we have inferentially argued before, that they who would have the principles of Christian re verence, of good-will one towards another, and of practical humility and kindness prevalent in our land, have no other rational course but that of utter and absolute opposition to the sentiments and habits which do now prevail instead of these things . . To combine the spirit of the Church with the spirit of the world appears to us to be an extravagance suffist ciently rebuked by the plainest language of the m . o " Ye cannot serve God and Mammon. awful authority to which Christian men three potent spirits—not, certainly, of heaven —by the :crest of its advancing wave" but appear upon cr of levity, but too prominently—we mean thhee spiritspirit of which modern society the spirit of aggrandisement, and t seems ready ostenta tion. As to the first, almost oneand y?'anTareerael—be for a jest, or even a sneer, subjects .p is manifestly possessed, of.ublic and which indicates that the public giggle is sought for as an evidence of public opinion. In complaining of this, we have nothing to say against . mirth or buoyant portance are frequently brought . forward in a shape humour where it is natural or becoming. Our objec tion is to that excess and perversion of a lightsome r n e v e o . k e s x l a e u x g t h t h t e e r r eis where the judgment a gshouldgran . which in these days seems altogether in sindspaiatsiriekairnetblewtenh.hte:cdTehcie last thing thought of by any one is moderation. A perpetual and inordinate straining after more is the characteristic even of those whose possessions are already alarmingly great. More pro minent than the other two, and not less offensive, is the spirit of ostentation ; for we find each one striv ing to surpass bis neighbour in some egregious vanity or another, and sounding his trumpet before him as ' much as ever he dares. Is it in company with such spirits as these that the ark of the Church is to be borne upon the crest of the advancing wave of modern society ? The Right Hon. Gentleman lately elected to Parliament by Oxford University is gene rally believed and said to have written an article in the last number of the Quarterly Review on the state of British Society with relation to Religion and the Church. In this- essay we recognise that curious combination of clearness in the detached parts, with obscurity in the drift and purposes of the whole, which the Right Hon. Gentleman is apt to exhibit in his more serious discussions. But, if we rightly understand the article, it is intended ultimately to enforce the policy of trying to blend religion with the habits and views of society as we find them. And yet the author, adverting to a time which he describes as " towards the middle of the nineteenth century," describes thus the state of our divided society : "There are huge assemblages of human beings in vast and wealthy towns, and wide districts also of the land, through which we may walk and see the spec tacle of a Christian people, silently unchristianized, and religion all but relegated, within the pale of wealth and temporal ease which it menaces, by the Eoverty which it came to bless and ennoble. When 'he consciousness of these things becomes definite, when it falls upon the affections of sensitive and pious, especially if also youthful and ardent minds, like a spark upon tow, can we wonder that every thing that exists shall be questioned and arraigned and many a harsh and unjust sentence passed under the excitement of the moment ?" It appears to us that if any judgment at all be delivered upon such a state of circumstances, whether by the youthful and ardent, or by the aged and considerate, it must be a severe judgment if it be a sound one. We think that he who deals tenderly with such a state of society, and who does not condemn it, is more liable to the reproach of being "unjust" than he who does. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TAT rERSALL'S-YESTERDAY. Until late in the evening the only stake touched upon was the Ebor Handicap, for which Mathematician was backed at 6 and 7 to 4, and Grimston freely at 5 to 1, the latter subsequently advancing to 4 to 1; nothing else was fancied. A few bets were laid afterwards on the Great Yorkshire Stakes, St. Leger, and Derby, but be yond showing a decided feeling against Eryx, it pos sessed very little interest. THE EBOR HANDICAP. 6 to 4 agst Mr. Gully's Mathematician 4 to 1 agst Sir J. Gerard's Grimston 12 to 1 agst Mr. Jaques's Sir Martin (no backers) 15 to 1 agst Captain Harcourt's Ellerdale Neither Halo nor Pyrrhus go to York. GREAT YORKSHIRE STAKES. 5 to 1 agst Sir R. Buikeley's Montpensier 6 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Epirote 7 to 1 agst Mr. J. Day's The Farmer's Daughter ST. LEGER. Even on Mr. Pedley's Cossack (the field for choice) 8 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Eryx 8 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Van Tromp 15 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Planet 16 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Mr. Martin 25 to 1 agst Mr. Pedley's Foreclosure—taken 30 to 1 agst Mr. Stephenson's Black Dwarf—taken 2,000 to 30 agst Mr. O'Brien's The Liberator—taken 400 to 100 agst Mathematician winning the Ebor Han dicap and Cossack the St. Leger—taken GREAT YORKSHIRE HANDICAP (DONCASTER). Even money laid on the field agst lots of ten and eleven THE INFLUENCE OF THE BANK ACT IN PRODUCING THE PRESENT PRES .SURE.—No. I. TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING CHRONICLE. Sir,—ln considering the present difficulties which oppress the money market, and interfere so prejudi cially with the commerce of the country, it is exceed ingly important to draw a strong and a conspicuous line of distinction between the radical and the acces sory causes out of which the evils have arisen. An impatient and indiscriminate vehemence, which should expend itself in animadversions upon the Bank Char ter Act as the exclusive parent of the severe incon venience from which the country suffers, would not in any sense be creditable either to the candour, the reason, or the discretion of those who gave it the be nefit of their concurrence. There can hardly be a question among dispassionate observers, that the influ ence of this supererogatory law has been most per nicious, and that it has added very seriously to the difficulties of a crisis which certainly did not require the aid of any extraneous complication. It is most desirable, therefore, that the faults of vicious legisla tion should not be palliated or obscured by an intem perance of accusation unable or unwilling to discrimi nate between inevitable and artificial causes of commercial disturbance. If we can fairly apportion the results upon this basis, and with this object, we may conclude with some confidence, that a judgment so obviously impartial and so sedulously just will not pass unheeded by a community distinguished by an habitual respect for fair argument and an honourable sensitiveness to its force. It may very readily be conceded, that the competi tion raised by the railway companies for the use of capital, both as direct calls upon the proprietors, and as loans negotiated with the public, has become so extensive as to exert a powerful influence upon the market rate of interest. If the rate of interest was, say four per cent. before a railway demand of the magnitude of thirty millions per annum came upon the country, the fact of that demand is an intelligible reason why the rate of interest should advance to a higher figure. But it is scarcely an intelligible reason why the general advance of the rate of interest should produce the same violent effects as the measures of coercion which are connected with the last stages of an adverse exchange. A feeling is very prevalent, which with some in consistency appears to be equally alarmed at the oc currence of one of those gluts of capital when 1 or 2 per cent. is obtained with difficulty, and at the revival of a demand which again restores a more natural relation between the lending and borrowing portions of the community. There is a general uniformity of opinion as to the ultimate mischief of capital over-easily and cheaply obtained; but there is no well defined test as to the position in the scale of advance of that line of distinction which separates a period of exuberance from one of healthy facility, or which, again, distinguishes this latter condition of the money market from a period when the rates of discount have attained a degree of inflation ruinous to the successful prosecution of the ordinary branches of trade. It is not in the nature of the phenomena that there should be such a certain and definite test. Nor in this country is it probable that we ever suffer from a state of things when the quantity of loanable capital in existence is positively inadequate, except at ruinous prices to meet the legitimate demands for its use. The derangements of our money market are those of panic and alarm. We encounter periods when in the words of the late Mr. Rothschild, " the appre hensions of capitalists are excited, and they withdraw themselves altogether until quiet is restored." The exorbitant prices paid for accommodation during these seasons of excitement are not so much a correct index of the relative scarcity of money, as premiums fairly due to the lender for the augmented risk with which circumstances have suddenly surrounded nearly all the branches of his business. lam far froni say ing that extremities do not sometimes occur, when, as the condition of avoiding a greater and more per manent evil, there is no escape from one of these desperate and disastrous disturbances of our whole commercial economy. It is the duty, as most assuredly it is the interest, of our legislation to establish regulations which, as far as possible, shall diminish the frequency and mitigate the violence of these unhappy disruptions of all the rules of ordinary sagacity and circumspection. This is the species of merit which, before long, will be held paramount to ail others in the consideration of schemes of cur rency management ; and it is precisely because the existing law, so far from giving us any better protec tion against these exacerbated crises, does, in point of fact, promote their multiplication and intensity, that it is so obviously and so justly obnoxious to the severest tone of criticism. There is abundant evidence that the elevation of the rates of interest at the Bank of England on the 2d August inst. was a measure almost totally unex pected by the commercial community. During the preceding week the abundance of money in Lom bard-street, at the then existing rates, was quite adequate to the applications for it, and there was no symptom of uneasiness until the publication of the return of the 24th July excited an apprehension that, with so small a reserve in the banking department, and with the improbability that it would receive any important increase from a further decline in the out standing circulation, the directors might feel it neces sary to adopt some measures of restraint. The acute sensation produced by the events of April has not yet been much impaired by lapse of time, and it can excite no surprise that any reasonable fear of the repetition of similar difficulties and perils should bring the principle of self-preservation into most ' active exercise, and at once place the money market under the influence of one of those alarms when, as I have endeavoured to explain, the rate of interest ceases to be the true index of the quantity of capital in existence, and becomes a premium of insurance against an imminent but undefined hazard of losing the principal advanced. It appears to me, there fore, that altogether apart from the general question as to whether the demand for advances had come so far to preponderate over the supply of capital as to lead naturally to a rise in the rate of interest, the rise which has oc curred, supposing it to be legitimate, has been accom panied by a suddenness and severity of tension and excitement altogether disproportionate to the occa sion—and that this suddenness and severity are wholly and exclusively the consequences of the pre sent Bank Act. By this Act the directors are mere passive instruments for giving audible utterance to the effect of a numerical rise or fall of the reserve of the banking department. When that reserve has fallen to a certain depth of exhaustion, the functions of the establishment cease and determine. The public in April last had an opportunity of beholding a partial reduction of this theoretical outline into bond fide practice. The lesson has not been thrown away, and no merchant can now be accused of nervous timidity who feels himself in the midst of perils when the Bank directors, in obedience to the present ruth less legislation, have intimated in the usual form that it is only a narrow margin which separates them from the positive rejection of all further discount business. In a few words, then, we are indebted to the Act of 1844 for the sudden and unexpected interference of the Bank with the course of the money market, and for the association with that interference of a degree of perplexity and alarm such as, under other circumstances, would be reserved for the extreme stages of a foreign drain of bullion. There are two objections which may be started to this conclusion—it may be said, first, that in the ab sence of the present stringent laws, the Bank would have permitted its treasure to descend to a most hazardous point of exhaustion; and secondly, that to the same influence we are beholden for an action upon the money market so decisive as to impose an effectual barrier to the further progress of no small portion of the railway expenditure. With your permission these topics may form the subject of another letter.—l am, Sir, your obedient s ervant, LOUIS D'OR. Aug. 14, 1847. RAILWAY ACROSS THE ISTHMUS OF PANAMA.—M. Klein, who was sent to Bogota to treat with the Go vernment of New Granada for the e stablishment of a railway across the Isthmus of Panam a, has returned to France. lie has completely succeeded in his mission, having obtained most advantageous conditions for the company he represented. The works will shortly be commenced. The following arrangements have been effected in consequence of the vacancy of the collectorship of cus toms at Inverness :—Mr. J. Waters, now collector at S fl l ie.ws Clark, prpe Boston, to be collector at Inverness ; Mr. W. Delap, comptroller at Sligo, to be collector at Boston ; Mr. circumstance is i O s b o s n e e rv o e f r . many. eo i!g ,. I; E M y r. O J R . C B E ent o :tt, h c i o l l G le r c isT to A r n a o t N Bridlington, to be rs eo th ll a e t etor at Malden, to be comptroller at able tri fl e any publicity, notwithstanding the re ceived from T r e olel n nes t .r h h e i rs thatw roundsaytahi the difference i n finding IMAGINATION.—The Upon tal: tn n of the are ready to snap up every occurinconsider he number without following of Capta):. Corbin. The captain, as is his two ladies, one of them taping wont, s th h e e i wasr We relate the fact as it was ong the passengers to receive the amount demanded from to Ramsgate, in consequence, that to Margate. Captain Corbin, and not, as she thought, , seeing her sudden alarm, assure fw d no thing, as the weather was finea was comparatively glass. She, however, expressedndhthe sea as smooth as North Foreland. Captain Corbin heard dread of the fur ther on the subject, naturally imagining i e.rd but little time she would laugh at her ill -grounded that in a little being told by her companion that she ears. Upon wa s "i ff the North Foreland," the lady in question fell b ac k e • into a fainting fit, from which she never reco vere d. She Was removed from out the steamer (the Little Western its arrival at Ramsgate, and placed i n a fl y b y ) upon order of the captain, who himself obtained apartments for the i n sensible lady and her distracted sister. Every care and attention was paid her , but she died the same evenin g an extraordinary instance of the folly of allowin g the mind to be overcome by horrors of its Own .- creattng,...... , Canterbury Journal 4 1 OAttirdaY• DERBY. ,000 to 40 agst Mr. Mostyn's Loadstone—taken ,000 to 30 agst Mr. John Day's Nil Desperandum— taken freely 35 to 1 agst Mr. J. Scott's The Stinger —take 40 to 1 ,000 to 20 agst Mr. Sandford's The Sheriff—taken SOUTLIAMPTON RACES.—MONDAY. The Southampton Stakes of 10 sovs. each, h ft, and only 3ft if declared, with 50 added. Two miles. Mr. W. Sadler's Antagonist, 3 yrs, 6st 71b...(Maton) 1 Mr. Hawkin's Teresa, 6 yrs, Bst 31b 2 Mr. White nd Rosin-the-Beau, 4 yrs, 7st I llb 3 Mr. Etwall's Passionate, 5 yrs, Est 51b. Won cleverly by a length. The Shirley Stakes of 5 sovs. each, and 25 added. T.Y.C. (5 Subs.) Mr. Elwes's Cerberus, 4 yrs (Wakefield) 1 Mr. Sadler's f Hind of the Forest, 2 yrs Alewhipper, 2 yrs, and Prudence, 5 yrs, also started. Won by a neck. The Railway Stakes of 3 Bova. each, and 25 added, were won easily in two heats by Mr. Drinkald's Moodkee, 3 yrs, sst 21b (Maton), beating Misdeal, aged, Bst 31b, and Alvanley, aged, Bst. The Maiden Plate of 301., added to a Sweepstake of 3 sovs. each (5 Subs.), was won in two heats by Mr. Etwall's Passionate, 3 yrs, 7st 21b (J. Sharpe), beat ing Mr. Death's Danseuse, 3 yrs, Est 21b, and Mr. King's Madge Grey, 3 yrs, Est 111 b, easily. DONCASTER RACES, 1847. Acceptances for the Great Yorkshire Handicap. Miss Sarah, 5 yrs, Bst 131b—Lightning, aged, list 91b —Chanticleer, 4 yrs, Bst 71b—Poynton, 4 yrs, Bst 51b— St. Lawrence, aged, Bst 21b—Sir Tatton Sykes. 4 yrs, Bst —Plover, 4 yrs, 7st 101b—Lothario, aged, 7st 61b—Yard ley, aged, 7st 51b—Quadruped, 4 yrs, 7st 21b—Best of Three, 6 yrs, 7st 11b—Arthur, 5 yrs, 7st—Miss Burns, aged, 7st—Vanish, 4 yrs, Est 121b—Pilgrim, 4 yrs, 6st 121b—Spithead, 4 yrs, 6st 121b—Mowerina, 4 yrs, Est 121b—Limestone, 3 yrs, 6st 91b—Alliance, 4 yrs, 6st 71b—Crown Prince, 4 yrs, Est 51b--Shelforth, 4 yrs, 6st 41b—Sagacity, 3 yrs, Est 31b—Queen Mary, 3 yrs, 6st 31b —Tragical, 4 yra, Est 21b—Queen Mab, aged, 6st —Executor, 3 yrs, 6st—King of Morven, 3 yrs, 6st— Ulysses, 3 yra, sst 121 b—Wiseacre, 3 yrs, sst 121 b Martext, 4 yrs, ssl 91b—Punch, 4 yrs, sst 91b—Delo raine, 4 yrs, sst 91b—Watchdog, 3 yrs, sst 81b—King of the Forest, 3 yrs, sst 41b—Sir Martin, 3 yrs, sst 31b— Lyme, 3 yrs, sst—Palma, 3 yrs, sst—Pride of Eden, 3 yrs, sst—Pantomime, 3 yrs, 4st 41b. The rest pay 5 sovs. each. Acceptances for the Cleveland Handicap. Plover, 4 yrs, Bst 21b—Winchester, 5 yrs, Bst 21b— Sharston, 4 yrs, 7st 1 lib—Pilgrim, 4 yrs, 7st 51b—King of Morven, 3 yrs, Est 101b—Hector, 5 yrs, 6st 91b— Ibrahim Pacha, 3 yrs, Est 41b—Don Caesar, 3 yrs, sst 41b —King of the Forest, 3 yrs, sst 41b—Cheapside, 3 yrs, sst 41b—Pride of Eden, 3 yrs, sst—Mary, 3 yrs, sst. The rest pay 5 sous. each. CRICKET. ELEVEN OF ALL ENGLAND V. TWENTY OF LEICES TERSHIRE.—This match was resumed at Leicester on Saturday morning, when the twenty commenced follow ing their innings in the face of 203 majority. It will be found that they made a better stand on this occasion, but the number proved too large for them; the only scores were obtained by Dakin, Keslin, Mr. Fabling, and Mr. Clifford. The most killing bowling in this innings was delivered by Dean. The final score stood as follows: LEICESTERSHIRE. Keslin, s Dorrinton, b Hillyer... 3... b Dean 21 G. Clifford, Esq~ b Hillyer Marshall, run out Warrinton, b Hillyer Deacon, b Mynn ... ...... ........ ?....b Mynn Dakin, b Myim 1...b Dan . .....32 R. Seddon, Esq., b. Hillyer E. Elmehirst, Esq., c Pilcb, b Myan Pratt, b Hillyer 0...b Dean 0 C. J. Freer, Esq., b Hillyer ...... 5... c Mynn, b Hillyer A. Bass, Esq, c and b Mynn ... 8... b Mynn 4 W. Benn, Esq., hit wicket, b Hillyer..... 6...b Hillyer .. . .... J. Wheatley, Esq., b Hillyer ... 3... b Dean 0 Nicholson, b Hillyer 16... c Hillyer, b Mynn ... 4 Dakin, jun., c Mynn, b Hillyer 0...n0t out 0 Barker, run out J. Fabling, Esq., b Mynn ..... J. Pratt, Esq~ not out W. Brooks, sq., c Pilch, b Hill yer 1 ..run out 0 J. Fulshaw, Esq., b Mynn ...... 1... c Mynn, b Dean— Byes 8, wide (Mynn) 2 .........10—Byes 8, wide 1 9 73 ALL ENGLAND. A. Mynn, Esq., b Dakin 5 Hiller, s Cli ff ord, b Marshall ll Clarke, s Warrbatan, b Marshall 10 Pilch, b Dakin 37 Guy, c Dakin, b Marshall 0. C. Pell, Esq., b Dakin 8 N. Felix, Esq., run out Dorriuton, run out 7 G. Parr, c Elmhirst, b Fulshaw 100 Dean, c Elmhirst, b Warrinton 44 Sewell, not 0ut......... ........ 6 Byes 28, wide 10, no ball 1 39 All England therefore won i n one innings by 71 raw. _____------ --PEDESTRIANISM. GEORGE BRADSRArcia:_ yeSte a IL E g i : concourse of " London event attracted roils ground of the Bat and Ball, to the Th e s.i f p r e lations of the articles were, that particulars" Ilammersmith, whose pedestrian George Bradshaw. 0 well before the public, should Br are already walk seven miles, fair toe and heel, for a stake of 20 so reigns, the like amount being deposited by the backers of' Old Time. The measurement of the distance to be traversed was 12,320 yards, and as the area o f th e ground a t mine host Farr's proved to be 578 yar d s, 21 circuits of the course, with 182 yards extra at the coming-in, had to be walked. At five minutes after five o'clock Bradshaw started from the scratch, in racing trim; to our eye, however, he was too fleshy, and by no means in such tip-top condition as when he walked Powell or East, in his last match with that pedestrian. The first 3i miles were covered in 29 minutes 33 seconds, which gave a winning aspect to the man; in the fourth mile he walked a little out, owing to the inequalities of the ground; in the fifth he met with a severe wrench of the right foot, by putting it into a hole, staggered, and nearly fell. From this time he walked in difficulties, and finally lost the match by coming to the winning-L O ." 1 hour and 40 seconds from the time of starting. laterTne old gentleman who carries the scythe, and sooner. or roften mows as all down, thus triumphed, bY a ga in cash shillings per second, over those who had risked t he ir against him. OXFORD UNIVERSITY, Ara. 14•--It is understood that sixteen heads of houses voted at the late election for Mr. Round, four for Mr. Gladstone, and four did not vote. Of the head masters of public schools, being Oxford men, all but one voted for Mr. Gladstone. By Consent of the Vice-Chancellor and both committees, a poll-book will be published, and the pairs stated in an appendix. AQUATICS. STRAND -LANE REGATTA. Yesterday a purse of sovereigns and other prizes given by the inhabitants of St. Mary -le-Strand, St. Cle ment's Danes, the Templ e , an d i ts vicinity, were con tended for by fourteen free watermen, belonging to Waterloo. bridge, Arundel, Essex, and Temple Stairs, in three heats. The two first boats in each heat to start for the grand heat. • • - First Heat. Richard Teasdale and Isaac Sculthorpe ...(Pink) Andrew Mitchell and W. Mason ... (Light blue) 2 George Garrett and William Webster (Green) 3 Richard Martin and Joseph Waite ... (Purple) 4 ' ' A good start was effected, when pink and light blue soon showed in front, and arrived in the above order. Green being third in this heat, was entitled to row in the second heat. Second Heat. Benjamin Russell and Robert Ridgway ... (White) 1 George Garret and William: Webster ... (Green) 2 John Bush and James Dupere (Yellow) 0 Samuel Martin and Joseph Teasdale ... (Red) 0 Grand Heat. This heat was severely contested throughout by white and pink, when pink ultimately came in the winner. CHELSEA REGATTA. The annual regatta at Chelsea took place yesterdty, twelve watermen contending, in an oars wager, fol. a purse of sovereigns, subscribed by the residents of _the vicinity. The rowing throughout was excellent, and the attendance of spectators, as usual, extremely Vitynerous. The contest was in three heats. First eat. _ William Waight an d Charles H Cole, jun. (Green) 1 Thomas Cole, jun., and William C o l e ... (Yellow` James Atkin s and Thomas Woodford (Pink) , 0 The distance in this and the next succeeding beat was from opposite the Yorkshire Grey, up to Cremorne house, down round a boat moored off the British Flag, and back to the Eight Bells, Cheyne-walk. An even start, at a good pace, was succeeded by Yellow taking the lead; but in coming up nearly oppo site the British Flag, the winners, who had been upon their quarter for some distance, took the first place and kept it. Won by c length and a half. Second Heat. George Thomas and John Prince ... (Scarlet) 1 Joseph Cole, jun. and George Brown The winner too k the lead and kept it, closely waited on by the second man, and came in a length only a head. Grand Heat. The distance in this heat was reversed to suit the tide'. The men started from Battersea-br,dge down to the British Flag, back to Cremorne-gardens, and finichAd by rowing to the Yorkshire Grey. William Waight and Charles Cole .:.- 1 Green took the lead, kept it, and won easy by half a dozen boats' length. EXTRAORDINARY HAIL-STORM:On Wednesday, August 4, at about 3 P.M., an extraordinary storm swept over the town of Foix and its vicinity. flail fell for nearly half an hour in such vast quantity that where it could agglomerate it was left in heaps a yard high. Its effect on the vines was so destructive that nothing is left but their bare stalks; the beans, corn, potatoes, and fruit have also disappeared. The storm took a direction from west to east. The breadth was of no great extent, for it scarcely covered a quarter of a league; but it was consi derable in length. Taking its rise at Col-del-Boueh, at about 4 kilometres from Foix, it devastated successively the communes de Lavelanet, Sainte-Colombes sur Lhers, Chalabre, and reached Quillau. in the department of the Aude. It is impossible to calculate the total loss, but some idea can be formed of it by that sustained by a M. Perie, nursery gardener, at Foix, which has been esti mated at from 20,000 to 22,000 francs. Mr. Cunard has entered into a contract with the British Government to run a line of steamers from Hali- fax to Bermuda, and to place a steamer on thT) route between Halifax and St. John's, Newfoundland. The contract has no connexion direct, or indirect, with the British North American Royal Mail Company. —Liv er - pool Albion. SHIPWRECK.—On Friday night the brig Muth, laden with coals from Whitby, went on shore on the Nore sands, about two miles above the light-vessel. The wind blew freshly from the E.N.E., and the vessel soon after striking bilged, and filled with water. Several boats from Southend, and a steam-tug, put out to her assistance, and her cargo was thrown overboard to lighten her, but she had worked into the sand too deeply for any assistance to save her. On Sunday she was abandoned by the crew, and now lies with her hull covered at high water, gradually sinking in the sands, which will ulti mately absorb the whole of the bull, Another brig went on shore on the same sands on Saturday night, but was got off with the loss of hPr rudder. THE LATE ATTEMPT AT MURDER AND SUICIDE.-- From the hour that Mr. Solly, the senior assistant surgeon at St. Thomas's Hospital, performed the diffi cult operation of extracting the bullet from Mr. Craw. ley's jaw, as noticed in our journal of yesterday, the unfortunate sufferer has been improving. At six o'clock last evening it was the opinion of the surgical staff of the hospital that no fatal consequences need now be apprehended. It is matter of surprise to every one that Mr. Crawley and his intended murderer were not both killed instantaneously when the pistols were dis. charged, for when Ovenstone fired at Mr. Crawley the mouth of the pistol nearly touched his cheek. It is stated by Ovenstone's friends that the pistols had been charged for upwards of two years. The intended murderer is also considerably better, and it is the opinion of the surgeons at Guy's Hospital that if no unfavour able symptoms come on, he will be fit to be removed to the Mansion-house to hear the charge against him in the course of a day or so. He has been under the strict surveillance of the police ever since he was removed to ' the hospital, and he has not uttered a single word about the deplorable occurrence during the time he has been in bed. He has been visited by several of his friends, but he has not so much as alluded to the event to any of them. Besides the document found upon his person by the police, in which he alluded to the motives that in duced him to commit such horrible crimes, two other letters were also written by him to his sisters, in which he told them what he had gone out to do. In one of the letters written by him he stated that the money owing to himself was more than he owed, and he hoped his creditors would be all paid and the overplus given to a relative of his. _ _ FIRE IN SPITALFIELDS. Yesterday morning, shortly before four o'clock, a fire broke out in the pre mises occupied by Mr. J. Nicholls, a bedstead maker, 1, Thomas-street, Brick-lane, Spitalfields. The flames when first discovered by the police were raging in the workshops on the first floor, and in the course of a few minutes penetrated the root and communicated to the third floor of Mr. Thomas Muntz's premises. The in mates of the adjoining houses having been aroused, a messenger was dispatched to the fire stations, and several engines quickly attended; but the fire continued to pro gress, and it was not until the workshops were burned out, and their contents consumed, that the firemen could obtain the mastery. Considerable damage is also done to Mr. Muntz's premises by fire and water. The origin of the disaster could not be ascertained. Unfortunately Mr. Nicholls was uninsured for his stock in trade, but the building was insured in the West of England Fire Office. THE LATE MISS FRANCES BURDETT (SISTER OF SIR FRANCIS).—Tbe will of this lady has been before the Court for some time, and has only just been proved by the executor, J. G. Ramsden, Esq., the husband of her niece Sarah, the elder daughter of her late brother, Wm. Jones Burdett, Esq. The personal property was estimated at 30,0001. She has provided an annuity of 100/. for Mrs. Thornett, who was her faithful attendant for twenty-two years; also a small annuity for a former maid of her aunt, Lady Jones; a legacy to the widow of her late brother, W. J. Burdett; and to her sister, Lady Langham, to whom she has left her share in the Oxford shire property bequeathed to her by her aunt, Ltd," Jones. The residue of her personal estate, including the furniture, plate, books, pictures, and jewels, as also the real estate, to be divided among the children of her late brother, William Jones Burdett, Esq. , R. LITTLE DEATH OF VICE-ADMIRAL BEND t c he orn ab p o t v o e n HALES.—We have to announce the d .s etri n s c e e o a f t Gallant Admiral, who died a fe a ve dv d a % . ageed of 82 years. Bishop, Somersetshire, at the ensidshipman on board the The deceased flag Vigilant in 1778, English and . under Admiral Keppel and anoffideasersiwstaesd in the action between the French fleet, on examine board the Cußszisia.—Admiral Sir Thomas Dour- Ad c m u ir i al sss d b : e : ei r pn v h: l oo l j e l d . rs c i t e:g e o r ff a s, B C a re o t u s ; h o . a f th l a n m q:ui t r o y . Ma j es ty's 'a and offi ce rs ofthebylntsh, ereeceinlitnlyesaerrfiovredbrweaitkhinga carat chier has part of the mo ne y p aid s fil h le e d ad w s ith t si p lZ, o Fo e n theiopening g amount one o f o tsho f em l ce ,o h oO efst l usr i u t pc Es sent di dry se two O eb v ne ered to be filled with lead. Tr .e chest was strongly clasped down so as to resemble the other chests. No doubt exists as to the knavery of the Chinese, and that the one was substituted by them for the other. Captain Mundy, who commanded the Iris, received the ch ests f rom the Vixen. VAUXHALL GARDENS. --The Printers' Pension So ciety had a b ene fi t at these gardens last night, and al though the weather was somewhat unfavourable, still it was numerously and respectably attended. The enter tainments w ere t h e same that have been presented dur i ng the past week or two, and were greeted with the warmest approbation, the whole scene, lighted up as it was, by innumerable lamps and other splendid deco- Irations, being of the most brilliant description. The only drawback was the absence of the French eques trians, who, we understood, were detained by stress of weather. THE GREAT BRITAIN.—The following is an ex tract from a letter to Gibbs, Bright, and Co., written by Captain Claxton, and dated Dundru m Ba y , Au g . 14 : "No tide ; only 1 2 feet 6 . We want 12 feet 6, as tide table gave it. Every exertion was made both by our selves and her Majesty's ship. Her Majesty's people stand by us, and her ship returns on the 22d. I cannot praise of their exertions. I beg to add, sayth enoughatnothi in nothing can exceed Messrs. Bremner's exertions, father and son. They have been beat this time by the element. Mr. Bellamy we are extremely lucky in hav ing, and his suggestions are must valuable ; he stands by us with 56 men. Her Majesty's ship Birkenhead will be here on the 22d inst." A proposal has been made in Glasgow for the ins stitution of a fund for the purchase of an annuity to Mr. Sheridan Knowles. No definitive method of raising it has yet been resolved on ; but an amateur theatrical performance is one of the methods talked of. IMPORTATION OF CATTLE.—An account of all cattle, sheep, and swihe imported into Great Britain from Ireland ; from the sth day of April to the sth day of July, 1847, has just been published by order of the House of Commons. Of oxen, bulls, and cows, the number during the quarter was 34,917; of calves, 4,4231 of sheep and lambs, 88,178 ; and of swine, 14,750. Di° a Icie d' '" 1 t ier or 111 e, , oei! 6 1 mor° lc el 0 a lierf:ell 0 to Jot° vito