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brand cense❑ debate t of coe A Communicatio The cor press, on the 30th ult., had g presenth a bankrt sage, in which branches when they :0 a de thout the uniform bankrui " This, it ,fter the two days President Tyler to t :liver sal satisfaction York, fo'r the enactment of _ • ccompanied it by a brief nies: iw s himself in favour of " an equal and ystem, applicable to all classes of per understood, includes corporations, in rill have a most beneficial operation. on . the 6th was reported dull, but prices sons which case The stoc had undergo / was noted in I tions remained the same A decline of m material alteration. An improvement of fed States Bank shares, but the quota . as at the last advices, namely 824. iously taken place. North American Trust and Bank Shares had declined i; sales of bills on Philadelphia, 3t03; ; Indiana dollar bonds, decline ; sterl ing improved 1. The exchange for the packet stood as be fore. The Britannia steamer arrived out early on the 4th, but the accounts by her produced no effect upon the markets. Cotton continued steady in price. The stock was 65,000 bales; and money being plentiful, it was considered that the greater portion would probably be held for some weeks, under any int -- INTELLIGENCI UNITED STATES to the Bth instant, by the packet We have received advic - Henry, which arrived here on Wednesday morn ing, at an early hour, in twenty days. Nothing further had ship Patric mittee of th point under cal bank again occupied the com the Ist and 3rd of the month. The -as an amendment proposed by Mr. thp romnulsory establishment of that could be expected By late intelligence from Tar prevailed in that quarter. A revolut In Vera Cruz the want of confid is in Tampico. A re lent of t revolt among the. tobacco manufacturers Orizva, o, a complete stagnation ion wds daily expected. was as remarkable as it roops had been sent to quell a and growers in 'R INTELLIGENCE Since the above ng intelligence from New York to the 17th inst., from Boston to the 19th, and Halifax to the 19th. We have elsewhere, in introducing the log and list of passengers, given all the particulars as to the occupied is the passage of the Britannia. the Halifax and Boston mail steam ship has arr The following article from the Halifax Journal of the 19th inst. is highly important, but we have not time to comment npon.it ARRIVAL OF HALF-PAST ONE, P STEAM-SHIP BRITANNIA. .—The steam -ship Britannia has just arrived in 40 hours from Bo' of the State of New Yort , 1 - of.W.Leod, day assmr 1. The Supreme Court lecided to proceed to the trial It does appear to us that this question is every important aspect, and we do not see bow the British government can, after assuming the respon sibility of the destruction of the Caroline, and giving the positive instructions to Mr. Fox which they did upon the subject, without seriously compromising the honour of the _ _ country, quietly submit to the course thus persisted in by the state of New York with regard to this important national question BOSTON, JULY 15. THE DECISION OF THE NEW YORK COURT, IN THE CASE OF M`LEOD. (From the Daily Advertiser and Patriot.) We publish to-day the long-expected decision of the Su preme Court of New 'Fork, on the question which was pre sented, on the writ of Habeas Corpus, in the case of M`Leod. The court denies the application for the discharge of the pH sonei, and orders that he be remanded, to take his trial in the ordinary forms of law. The opinion of the court was given by Mr. Justice Cowen. It is not stated that whether the court were unanimous or not. It is stated that the counsel for the prisoner will sue out writ of Error, and carry the case to the court for the Correction of Errors, which court embraces the members of the Senate, and will meet in AugUst. Whether a writ of Error will be held to lie in such a case we are not able to say. It is stated also, that if the Court of Errors affirm the' decision, an appeal will be taken to the Supreme Court of the United Slates. We regret this decision. It appeatT to us to be an asser tion of a claim of State Rights, in a manner to interfere with and defeat one orthe most important objects of National Constitution. The case, when stripped of its formalities, presents two questions. Ist. Whether admitting it to be the case for the adjudica tion of the New York Court, and that no claim of jurisdic tion had been interposed by the authorities of the United States, the prisoner was not entitled on the facts stated and fully authenticated, on the authority of the British Minister and the American Sicretary, upon the principles of the com mon law recognised in the state of New York and of the Law of Nations, to discharge without a jury. 2d. Whether a cause of crime charged upon an individuat if committed by him, was committed under the orders of his superior military officer, and expressly sanctioned by the British government itself—the question whether that act was justifiable or not, being under negotiation between the two governments, and a claim having been made for the discharge of the individual, upon the express ground that the act was avowed by the, government to have been committed by its order, whether such a case comes properly under the juris - diction of the state where the act was committed, or is a case for the exclusive consideration of the courts and authorities the United States? . The Caledonia arrived at Halifax on the 15th instant, after a passage of eleven days, from this port. A very large and respectable meeting of the citizens of eld on the 15th instant, to remonstrate he passage of a National Bank Law, and after the New York was against t reading of a long series of objections by Mr. F. C. Tread well, the " remonstrance " was unanimolsly adopted. At an extra session of Congress, held on the 14th, a long debate took place on the Fiscal Bank Bill, which was again ad journed. Mr. Clay, says the Morning Herald, is almost ready to make drawn game of the pending contest about a bank, and permit the whole matter to go over to the regular session of Congress. This is probably the wisest course, for it is doubtful whether a chartUr of any sort can be perfected at this time The Synod of Nova Scotia had presented an address to Lord Fateland, to which his excellency replied in very gra- tifying terms The accounts of the wheat crops are very promising, and there is every prospect of an abundant harvest. The reports of the cotton and tobacco crop is also very favourable. The news from Canada is unimportant, but we were not able to obtain a complete file of the papers. NEW YORK MONEY MARKET THURSDAY, JULY 15, 6 Prat.—Worse and worse. The general dullness of the season, the extreme warm weather, the prospect that at the extra session no bank will pass, and the various other' causes operating in the same direction, eontinue to depress the stock market, and pgralyse the spe culations of Wall-street. The great mass of fancy stocks rise or fall a few per cent., according as the deliveries of sales on time preponderate, but beyond this feeble movement little takes plate. . Yesterday prices rallied a little, probably to fall to-morrow. _ _ _ YORK COTTON MARKET, JULY 15.—The sales of Cotton to-day have been about 500 bales, without change to notice. We continue our quotations for Flour, although the market appears to have lost its buoyancy, and it is very pro bable sales have been made at a lower figure. The stack is accumulating, and the demand only to supply immediate wants.—Genesee 5,50 a 5,62 1-2; Ohio 6,37 1-2 a 5,50; Michigan 5,25 a 5,37 1-2 ; Southern 5,50. The Grain mar ket, although "the supply is light, appears to be at a stand. About 800 bushels Genesee Wheat was taken at 1,27 1-2. Sales small parcels Northern 'Corn at 70c. measure, and Jersey at 69c. Northern Oats are more plenty, and falling off—sales at 46 a 46 1-2. No sales Rye—last sale at 62 1-2 c. Sales 2 or 300 bbis. Jersey Corn Meal, at 3,00 ; 6 or 700 Brandywine db., at 3,12 1-2, which is an advance : hhds. are held at 14,50 a 15,00. Sales 500 bbls. Whale Oil, at 30 1-2 450 do. at 30c. Ashes are in fair demand, at 5,25 for Pots, and some holders have accepted that price to-day, who have been holding for higher rates. Pearls are dull, ac 5,25. BALTIMORE, July 15.—Our Flour market is quiet. Hold ers are asking 85.62 k for city ; there are no sales. City Mills made of new wheat,tds been offered to be supplied at 86. A lot of 350 barrels fresh ground Susquehannah sold at 85.75, and other lots at 85.621. We received parcels yesterday of the new crop Wheat. The quality was good; and Maryland red, and white and red, at 81.15 a 81.171, and a lot of 250 bushels Virginia at 84.18. No old wheats in market. Sales Penna. Rye at 58. a 60c. ' The market is nearly bare of Corn—white 66 a 67c ; and yellow 63 a 64 c for Maryland ; a lot of mixed Virginia sold Sales of Pernambuco Oats at 48 to 50 c. A small Mess Pork at 811. Whiskey very dull, and held at 22 c. inlihds. and 23 c. in bbls. at 62i c CHARLESTON COTTON MARKET, JULY 10.—The Upland market has been in a depressed state—buyers having taken but 1400 bales." The following quotations will give a correct view of the market at its close yesterday—inferior and ordi nary 73 to 8i ; middling to middling fair 94- to 94, fair to fully fan-10i to'114; . good fine 11: Rice—The operations in this article have been limited to 261 tierces, at prices ranging from 3 to 3i per 100. Freights to Liverpool, Cot ton, Upland to'7 1-6ths; Sea Islands id. There is nothing offering to Havre. To New York, square bags cotton, 374 —[Courier Price Current.] Al 4, JuLar-10.—galaa 19fICI bald.: Cotton at H to 10 cents. Corn 75 to 78 cents; Howard-street Flour 6to 6-1 dollars.—[Rep.] cents per bag SAVAI, MOBILE COTTON MARKET, JULY 3. our last have been 2UG bales. The receipts since EXCHANGE.—The. banks have ceased checking on New Orleans and New York. New York 60 days, San ; do 30 days, 9a91-. FREIGHTS.—The square rigged vessels in port are all en gaged full. There are _several parcels of cotton for New York, one or. two vessels (say 500 to 600 bales) could obtain cargoes for that port at -laic. Nothing offering for foreign ports. The.brig Linden,. for New York, just arrived, has her cargo engaged at.c. per lb. TOBACCO AND COTTON. CROP.—The Nashville Whig of the 30th nit. says :—" We have favourable accounts from the country of the growing. crops .of cotton and tobacco. The planting of the latter, throughout Middle Tennessee and the Western.Districk, bas been heavy beyond all former seasons. The grain crops also promise well, while such a year, as the present, for fruits, has seldom been experienced in this latitude." . . . CHARLESTON. Jinx COTTON MARKET.—The Upland market has, .been in.a depressed state since the date of our last—buyers .having taken but about 1400 bales. Prices on the lower grades have dropt a fraction, while the better sorts have only maintained former rates in consequence of the light stock on sale. The advanced state of the season, and an unwillingness, on the part of holders to submit to the terms of buyers, have checked operations, and the probe ,ility is, that the bulk of the stock on sale, will be shipped -v's account. on owne ..oRILE COTTON MARKET, JULY 7.—This market has been exceedingly quiet since our last notice—the transactions limited to a few small parcels of the better descriptions for Northern manufacturers, too unimportant to particularize. -.niug is a serious obstacle in the way of busi .s removed no reasonable grounds can exist for anticipating any improvement in affairs. Holders con tinue to sustain themselves under these unfavourable circurn _.:+ii n good deal of firmness. Our receipts have down to nearly nothing, and from all accounts the country is pretty thoroughly cleaned out. R e have had no m very recent intelligence f rom t h e inter • The weather, at this end o f the stater, re specting the crops. is of the most favourable description for the growth of the weed. • The want of ss, and until it TURKEY, EGYPT, &c. We have received by express the Levant mail, (overdue one day,) with dates from Beyrbut of the 25th ult., Alexan dria of the sth instant, Constantinople of the 7th, Smyrna of the 9th, Tunis of the 9th, Athens of the 10th, and Malta of the 15th. Their contents are of considerable interest. Advices from Beyrout of the 25th ult., state that the people were waiting with extreme impatience for the result of the negociations pending at Constantinople respecting the re duction of the taxes demanded by the mountaineers. The latter, under the plausible pretext of the losseS which they sustained, and the sacrifices of all kind which they were obliged to submit to under the Egyptian administration, and particularly in their struggle with the soldiers of Ibrahim, declared themselves incompetent to pay the required contri butions. The Arab tribes of the Anexis had refused to dis charge their share of the taxes, because the mountaineers of Haouran had stopped paying them a tribute which they owed to him from time immemorial. The determination of this tribe not to renounce that prerogative had occasioned some nd occasioned the Pacha of Damascus to detach rps of regular troops under the command of disorders, thither a Schebli Arian ince then r and the issue of the differences The peasants of se;eral notwithstanding the —anted peaceao -.,einet Ali's a , villages of Palestine had also manitestt I the intention of and not to pay imitatin Ig the example of the mountaineers their taxes until the Sultan had pronounced on the demand of the latter. The Emirs Bechir and Aydar had come a se cond time from the mountains to confer with the authorities of Beyrout. The were still in that city, and were treated with the greatest distinction by the Governor, who had in vited them a few days before to a dinner, at which all the Pashas and the English authorities were present. The Machouerat had, in consequence of instructions from Con stantinople, proceeded to reorganise the sanatory board of Beyrout. The inspector and the physician having refused to consent to a reduction in their salaries, had been dismissed. Tne former had been replaced by M. Pestaluzzo, and the phssician by Dr. Drombrowski. M. Boure, the new Consul of France, and Mr. Wood, the British Consul-General at Damascus, were expected at Beyrout. M. Desmeloizes, the present French Consular agent, had been appointed to the Consulate of Caneo. Intelligence had reached Beyrout of the arrival of Bizegich, on the Euphrates, of two English iron steamers, intended for the navigation of that river. Those vessels were under the command of Captain Thomp son, who had given proofs, in this difficult expedition, of much talent and courage. The Arabs directed several attacks against them, but a few rounds of artillery dispersed them with wonderful promptitude. There were then lying in the roads of Beyrout, a British ship of the line, and two steamers, three Turkish frigates, and a French and an Austrian cor vette. Several English sail of the line were shortly expected. The Egyptian steamer Nile arrived at Constantinople on the Ist inst., having on board Saib Muhib Effendi, the ex traordinary envoy of the porte, and Kiemal Effendi, the bearer of the last hatti scheriff to Alexandria. On passing before the Point of the Seraglio, the Nile fired a salute of 21 rounds, which was returned by an Ottoman frigate stationed before Topkanhe, and anchored at the entrance of the har bour. During the day she repaired to the Lazaretto, where the two high functionaries of the Sultan landed, and she then returned to her anchorage. This steamer was also the bearer of 5,000,000 of piasters, which the Pasha of Egypt sent to the Porte on account of his yearly tribute. The consuls of the four powers, parties'to the treaty of the 15th of July, bad, it was said, been ordered to hold themselves in readiness to return to Alexandria. The Porte had addressed a firman to Tayar Pasha, Governor of Jerusalem, respecting the Jews of Syria and Palestine, in which that Pasha is directed to give full and entire protection to the Jews, and treat them in every respect as he bad been ordered to treat the Christians. Our private correspondence, dated Alexandria, the sth inst., on board the Medea steamer, states, that a perfectly good understanding continued to exist between Mehemet Ali and the Porte. • Saib Muhib Effendi, the Sultan's envoy, previous to his departure from Alexandria, agreed on the part of the Porte to reduce the amount of tribute to be paid annually to 25,000,000 piasters, with which the Pasha was well pleased. " Another incident,",adds our correspondent, " proves to a high degree the tact with which the Pasha en deavours to evade complying with the orders of the Sultan. Colonel Napier having arrived to claim the Syrians enrolled amongst the Egyptian troops, after many evasions, the Pasha replied that the colonel should address himself to Saib Muhib Effendi, the Sultan's envoy, which advice the colonel com plied with, when Muhib Effendi informed him that this affair of the Syrians depended entirely on the Sultan's deci sion, and that he (Saib Muhib Effendi) had no instructions on the subject ; to which Mehemet Ali added, ' I depend entirely on the Porte, and I shall obey all his commands.' The colonel forwarded despatches to England by the Gorgon steamer, announcing the result of his mission, and remains in Alexandria awaiting instructions from his government"— Times. FORM( MONEY-MARKET AND CITY INTELLIGENCE LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING.—Among the dealings at the Stock-exchange to day, was one of considerable mag nitude—a sale of 100,0001. 34 per Cents. Reduced, which naturally enough affected the prices of the Government stocks, although the market had in the first stage of business presented no very stable appearance. This sale appears to have been entirely unconnected with political or speculative movements, and is said to be one of those operations which some of the larger public companies are in the habit of making when opportunity offers for the laying out of capital, on mortgage or otherwise, at better interest than is obtained by investment in stock. Consols for money closed 894 to i; for the account, 90; 3 per Cents. Reduced, 90/; 3i per Cents. Reduced, 99i ; New 31, per Cents., 98i ; Long An nuities (expiring the sth of January, 1860), 13; and ditto, 3(1 years (expiring the sth of Juanuary, 1860), 1211-16 toe. Bank Stock left off 170 to 171; India Stock, 258 to 249 ; and Exchequer-bills, 17s. to 19s. premium. Dutch 24 per Cents left off 52 to ; ditto 5 per Cents, 1014 to 102 k, but not much business was transacted. Spa nish Actives closed very flat at 19/ to 20 ; Portuguese 3 per Cents 18 to ; ditto 5 per Cents 30 to 4; Mexican 254 to 26: and Columbian 19 to 20. TEA.—The sales closed to-day with rather more spirit, and congous advanced id per lb. Company's congous remained the same-2s 3d to 2s 4d per lb cash. SUGAR.—The market quiet to-day ; sales of British plan tation only 380 hhds. 2,030 bags Bengal sold at very full prices—fine white 71s 6d to 72s ; 7,300 bags Manilla offered and partly sold at 6d below yesterday's prices. 475 chests and boxes of Bahia were all taken in at 14s 6d to 21s. COFFEE.—The market firm for East India. 1,100 bags Ceylon sold at full prices —good to ordinary 71s to 74s ; very colory 76s 6d to 78s 6d ; 670 bags Dutch Company's Java, via the Cape, sold 56s 6d to 575. RICE.-2,300 bags Bengal were chiefly taken in at high prices—ordinary yellowish white lls. CASSIA LIGNEA.-370 chests of low to ordinary colour sold 85s to 93s 6d. STATE, OF TRADE MANCHESTER, JULY 18.—The gloom which hung over the Manchester market, in consequence of the continental bankruptcies alluded to last week, has been deepened by ac counts of very extensive failures at Paisley, where thirteen houses are said to have stopped payment, at the latter end of last week, for an amount, collectively, of about £300,000. Though the immediate effect of these failures upon parties resident in Manchester will probably not be very serious, they are calculated to inspire great distrust. and, coupled with two' or three failures which have recently occurred in this town, had, no doubt, a material effect upon the market yesterday, which was one of the worst that has been experi enced during the present year. Yarns and goods were both depressed in price ; and very few sales could be made, even at the very lowest rates hitherto current. The depression was probably in some degree increased by the unfavourable appearance of the we'ther, which, after three or four com paratively favourable days, has again put on a threatening ap pearance ; and serious fears are now entertained that a late and defective harvest may be added to the other causes which press with such tremendous severity upon the manufacturing interests. Two large spinning and manufacturing concerns, one at Macclesfield and the other at Stockport, which have been for sore time past worked under the inspection of cre ditors, are about to be closed, in consequence of the unpro fitable nature of the business. It is stated that the stoppage at Stockport will only be temporary ; but that, we presume. must depend in some degree upon the future state of the trade. In the mean time, at all events, the effect upon the workpeople will be very serious. ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, JULY 26. — We have had another brisk market to-day, and the buyers have purchased freely at last week's prices. Wool still con tinues to advance a little; yet the manufacturers buy very sparingly, under the impression that the present prices can not long be maintained. HUDDERSFIELD MARKET, JULY 27.—There is nothing new in the state of this market—the same heaviness which has so long been noticed, is still too apparent, especially in woollens. In light fancies there is more doing, and fair prices are realized. In the warehouses perhaps it may be said there is a slight improvement. On the whole, bad as things are, it is some satisfaction that business is no worse. STATE OF TRADE AT STOCKPORT.—The utmost distress prevails among the manufacturing population of this town, in consequence of the number of hands out of employ, and the short time which has been worked at a number of mills during several months. This state of things, we are sorry to say, is likely to be augmented, as the whole of the wor k peop l e em ployed at Messrs. Lane's mills, situate in Higher Hillgate ; and Newbridge-lane, will be thrown out of employment this week end—they having received notice that the concerns will be closed. and their services no longer required. The above extensive establishment have for several years been working under inspection. Upwards of 1,000 hands will be thrown out of employment by the stoppage of these mills. GLOUCESTER.—Upon no occasion scarcely since our city has become a port has there beah such a general depression of trade as that which has existed here for the last few weeks. Business of all descriptions seems literally suspended, and there are now, in the midst of summer, a far larger number of persons out of employment than there were when the in tense frost of last winter put a stop to inland navigation. Tradesmen universally complain that their shops are un visited by customers, and their wares cannot be disposed of; whilst so destitute are the poor, that numbers are kept from the British and other schools, and left to roam in idleness about the streets, because their parents cannot afford to pay the small weekly sum charged for their education. We con t.. 3 we see but little prospect of an immediate revival, and we are sorry to believe that our neighbourhood is not a soli tary instance of this gloomy state of things.—Gloucester Journal. SOUTHAMPTON.—The rapid and amazing increase of the trade of Southampton appears from the following account of the exports for the quarter ended on the sth instant, com pared with the quarter ended on the sth July, 1840. Quar ter ended July 5, 1840 :—Value of British manufactured goods exported during the quarter to France and the Chan nel Islands, £31,000; of foreign goods from bonded ware houses, £3,000 ; total, £34,000. Quarter ended July 5, 1841 :—Value of British manufactured goods exported to France and the Channel Islands, £40,000 ; foreign goods from bonded warehouses, £5,000 ; total, £45,000. British good exported to Lisbon and Gibralter, £65,000 ; foreign goods, £30,000; total, £95,000. British goods exported to Malta and Alexandria, £155,000 ; foreign goods, £3,000 ; total, £158,000. Total increase on the quarter, viz. on Bri tish goods,£B9,ooo ; on foreign goods, £35,000; making to gether, £134.000. The imports have also considerably in creased, but not in the same ratio. The duties paid on the imports here during the quarter amount to nearly £17,000; this, however, is no criterion of the quantity of goods im ported, as the greater part brought in the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Company's vessels, being consigned to Lon don merchants, is accordingly removed to that port by the railway, and the duties paid there.—Hants Independent. THE ROYAL VisiTs.—The reception of her majesty and his royal highness Prince Albert, on their route to Woburn Abbey, where they arrived on Monday, has been most cor dial, every village having vied with their more opulent neigh bours to testify their loyalty. The town of Dunstable, through which the royal cortege had to pass, was profusely decorated with laurels and other emblems of rejoicing, amongst which the staple commodity of the town and the neighbouring country was prominently and appropriately dis played. Her majesty, Prince Albert, and suite left Woburn yesterday, for Pansanger. The Marquis of Salisbury, as a lieutenant-col. of the South llerts yeomanry, will have the honor of receiving the royal party with the yeomanry, on the borders of the county, and form a guard of honor, pass ing through St. Albans and Hatfield, to the seat of the Earl Cowper. Preparations on an extensive scale are making to testify the loyalty of the district through which her majesty will pass. The mayors of St. Albans and Hertford have issued notices calling on the inhabitants to keep the day as a general holiday. Addresses will be presented by the the inhabitants cor porationsaie of each of the above towns ; that of the former party at Pansanger. arrival of her majesty at St. Abans, and that from can be no doubt that of Hertford, upon the arrival of the royal will i he h r e e ger. at S n h ea o r u l l y d t t h l e ie w w h e o a l t e he l r ine pr o o crowded with carriages pected that her f ve ro fi a n d e W majesty and spectators. It is confidently ex with her presence tliisstwill honour the town of Hertford noble institution, which day, for the purpose of inspecting that owes its existence to one of her ma jesty's ancestors—the Blue -coat School. Damascu intrigues of MeE MISCELLANEOUS The present Earl Fortescue, a short time since, is said to have delivered the following prophecy :—" The conservatives once in office, are certain to remain there thirty years." The result is more than probable, but for all that Lord For tescue is no " witch." THE IRON TRADE.—The Herefordshire Journal says, by recent advices from the works we learn that orders are flow ing in, and prices beginning to look up. To have to record au improvement in so important an article of local commerce is indeed a gratifying circumstance. Mr. John Stanley, son of Sir Thomas Massey Stanley, Bart. of Hooton Hall, Cheshire, leaves town for Paris, to morrow, on a matrimonial trip. Mr. Stanley, it is said, will be allied to a niece of the late Prince Talleyrand ; the cere mony to take place early in the next month.—Standarg, Thursday. CURIOUS CtricumsTANCE.—On Friday last, while some of the men employed at the Dundee Ship-building Company's yard were engaged in 'sawing a beech tree, they discovered a wren's nest, containing ten eggs, embedded in the centre of the wood. From the appearance of the tree, it is con jectured that the nest could not have been there for a less period than thirty years. The eggs are perfectly fresh yet. TRADE IN DUNDEE.—We have had a very dull week in business. In flax prices we have no alteration to advise. Tows and codillas continue in pretty fair demand, though these are rather lower in prices than they were some short time ago. The dates from Riga are to the ith instant, at which date there was no alteration in prices. The dates from St. Petersburgh are to the 6th. The braak had opened, but the flax was not turning so well as had been anticipated. Yarns and linens arc without alteration.—Warder. SECRETS OF THE PtusoN HOUSE.—Mrs. Sarah Bradbury, the proprietress of Earl's Court Private Lunatic Asylum, having persisted in refusing to make a return of the inmates of the asylum to the commissioners appointed for taking the census, was fined the other day, in the full penalty of £5 with costs. Mrs. Bradbury immediately paid the amount, stating that all her friends approved of her determination. A remarkable phenomenon was witnessed at Marseilles on the 14th instant, where, between eleven and one in the day,' a strong tide set in at the mouth of the harbour, and caused the level of the water to rise a foot and a half, knocking several vessels against each other, and causing some alarm. At this port no tides are ever felt, and the cause of this sud den rise of the water is supposed to be connected with a vol canic phenomenon on the other side of the Mediterranean, accounts of which will probably be received at a future period. THREE LIVES LOST AT PARK COLLIERY, WORSIIRO'.— _ On Tuesday afternoon, as three men called Charles Rose, Joseph Greenwood, and John. Reneson, were ascending the shaft at Park Colliery, belonging to Messrs. Field, Coopers, and Co. Worsbro', Yorkshire, the chain broke near to the curve, and the three unfortunate individuals were hurled to the bottom, and killed upon the spot. An inquest was held on Thursday before Thomas Badger, Esq., coroner, at the house of Mr. Joseph Green. the Rose and Crown Inn, Worsbro' Common. Verdict, Accidental death. THE WEATHER.—We have had, day by day, for nearly a week past, heavy falls of rain, much to the damage of the out-laying hay, and serious apprehensions are entertained for the corn crops. Reports prevail that considerable in jury has been sustained. We believe that, so far, the fact is otherwise, so far as the North is concerned ; there is no es sential injury, and not much laid. The speculators, however, are busy. On Tuesday the supply in our market was small, and wheat advanced 2s. per quarter. It is all owing to the new tory government, say the enlightened Whigs ! It is somewhat too bad to make any government responsible for the weather ; and a great deal too bad to charge upon a go vernment to be formed in August that which takes place in July.—Leeds Intelligeneer. CAUTION TO PARLIAMENTARY ELECTORS.—The Grand Jury at the present assizes for the City of York have re turned true bills of indictment against Mr. Wm. Gaskell, manager of the Yorkshire Agricultural and Commercial Bank at York, and against Mr. Wm. Banks, stationer, of the same city, for misdemeanour in having at the last election for the city of York given false answers to the questions put to them by the deputy Sheriffs, when tendering their votes for Mr. Henry Redhead Yorke, a candidate at the said election, by stating that they were still in possession of the qualifica tions for which they were originally inserted in the fegister of voters then in force for the said city ; whereas in truth and in fact they had both removed. SINGULAR RECOVERY OF A GOLD WATCH.—Amongst the many robberies we noticed several weeks since, a gold watch was taken in the daytime from a table in the house of a lady in Ely Place. A very suspicious character was at the time accused of it, but without any success of discovery. About a fortnight since, a man at work in a hayfield near the workhouse was driven by the rain to take shelter under the hedge. At some distance he observed a woman stoop with an umbrella, so as quite to hide herself, and after re maining in that position for some minutes she went away. As soon as the rain abated he was induced to go to the place, when he found a small round hole fresh dug, about 8 or 9 inches deep : for several mornings as he went to his work he observed the hole remained unaltered. It was some days before he went that way again, when he repaired to the spot and found the hole filled up ; he then took a piece of stick and carefully taking out the earth found at the bottom a gold watch. Having made it known to his master they went di rectly to a watch- maker, who felt convinced it was the same watch which had been stolen as stated dbove. It was imme diately shewn to the lady, who identified it, and handsomely rewarded the man.—Cambridge Chronicle. MAKING THE MOST OF A THlNG.—After the fashion proper to all conquests, a medal has been struck in com memoration of Lord John Russell's " victory" in the city. It is thus described by the Morning Chronicle:—" The ob verse exhibits the head of his lordship, surrounded by the inscription, `The Right Honourable -Lord John Russell, M.P.,' and beneath the head the date of his last victory over corporate tory influence. The likeness is excellent, and the engraving executed in the artist's (Mr. A. J. Stothard's) well known and effectivestyle. The reverse bears, within an appropriate wreath of wheat ears, the inscription of the watch word of true and enlightened reformers, ' Free Trade,' which is rendered still more comprehensive by the legend, ' Per mare per terram.' " To the obverse there is nothing to ob ject; the inscription is singularly felicitious and piquant. But the reverse might have been improved. It should have 'recorded the reverse, which gave London but two instead of four liberal members. H owever, there is some ingenuity dis played in rendering the " Free Trade," which consisted in imposing a heavy duty on corn, retaining a heavy duty on sugar, and enhancing a heavy duty on the timber used for the commonest purposes, " more comprehensive ;" unless, . . indeed, the author of the legend is bent on " shovving secret wit"—construing " Per mare per terram" to mean, " One foot in sea, and one on shore, to one thing constant never." THE LATE BALLOON DESCENT.—The following is Mr. Green's own description of the late descent of the Nassau balloon, and is confirmatory of the account already given. Mr. Green says :—" On the giving way of the valve-line I informed my companions that the best means left me to regulate my descent was by distending the lower part of the balloon, which at that time was much collapsed ; this, I informed them, would soon be accomplished by opening the neck, and allowing the atmosphere to enter. Accordingly I requested Captain Curry to endeavour to keep the neck open, which he succeeded in doing by standing on the hoop above the car. In a few moments the balloon was fully distended, and I discharged a minute portion of the ballast, to cause the balloon to ascend to a rarer part of the atmosphere, where, the gas being expanded in proportion as the external pressure became less, the gas was forced out through the neck. The descent then commenced immediately, and I experienced no difficulty in regulating the descent, it being only necessary to discharge ballast if it became too rapid, or as we approached situations unfavourable for landing. This my companions had the most agreeable proof of by our descent being effected with perfect ease in a small clover layer or field, encompassed on all sides by corn-fields or large woods. If, on the contrary, the collapsed part of the balloon had not been distended with atmospheric air, we must have obtained a great elevation before the gas would have been sufficiently expanded to escape from the neck, and had the current above been strong, as I have invariably found it when calm near the earth, we should most probably have been carried to sea before we could have reached the earth." THE LATE BIRMINGHAM ELECTION.—The opinion that Joshua Scholefield, Esq., one of ouriwhig-radical members, will be unseated by the petition about to be filed against his illegal return—an opinion which the scrutiny of the poll-book places almost beyond a doubt, appears to be anything but palatable to the honourable gentleman, who has just pub lished the following eloquent and dignified address to the " liberal electors," whose defection he is apprehensive of, in the event of another election. The style and language of the address bears a ludicrous resemblance to some of the Chinese proclamations against the " barbarians" :—" The tory newspapers, with characteristic disregard of facts, are spread ing rumour after rumour, in every variety of shape, with re spect to myself and the recent election. They now venture upon an assertion which requires, upon my part, the most prompt denial, lest their unfounded statement should obtain belief among the independent and honourable men whose support has placed me in the proud situation of being one of your representatives in parliament. Pronouncing my election invalid, they broadly declare that it is not my intention to contest the threatened petition against my return. To this assertion I desire, once for all, to give a flat and most un qualified contradiction. I should, indeed, be unworthy of the distinguished mark of confidence which you have con ferred upon me, could I, for a moment, think of abandoning the trust received at your hands. On the contrary, I beg to assure you that it is my fixed determination to maintain, against oppositiOn in every form, my unquestionable right to the honourable post which your choice has assigned me." This petulant and most ill-advised address has been published in consequence of the honourable gentleman having ascer tained that many of the " liberal electors" will not again support him. THE CENSUS.—From returns into which the commis sioners have allowed us to peep, it appears that of the middle aged population of these kingdoms, one in three has grown five years younger since the date of the last census ; one in seven two years younger; one in twelve remains of the same age ; one in thirty-eight is five years older than at the period referred to ; and one in five hundred and sixty has attained the full age that might have been anticipated from the lapse of years. We believe it has been distinctly ascertained by these returns that the highest age among the unmarried ladies in this country is twenty-nine—the average age is twenty-one and seven-eights. The widows willing to marry again are mostly quite juvenile ; and it is a remarkable fact that many are younger now, as widows, than they appear to be in the previous return as wives. Indeed the effect of the calculation is to show, perhaps in compliment to our young Queen, that her subjects are the most decidedly juvenile people in Christendom. Nor was the designation of the re spective professions and callings of our fellow-countrymen a task of less difficulty. Commonplace and even plebeian as is the simple question, " who are you ?" widely as the inter rogation was diffused a short time back by the gamins of London, it is a query we opine, in common with the cool audacious Mr. Dazzle, that would puzzle half the world to answer properly. Some are an professions—others are not any. Thousands live by their wits—thousands more by the total absence of them ; many of whom the world gives credit to for working hard in an industrious etat for their income, extremely indignant known, and numbers ploym en t pr i v ately lead the lives of gentlemen ; and many gent l emen whom we envy on account of their ost ens ibl e otiose extense, labour perchance in secret much ha r d er t h an ourselves. N indignant if any other than their own was assigned them. The sc h e d ule stated that th e professions of wives, or sons and d aughters, living with and assisting the ir p arents, n eeded not to b e i nserte d . Th ere umbers w more ou ld wouldshrink b if e was no mention at all made of the professions of faithless lovers, election candidates, and false friends ; probably these were imagined to be of so little valu e as to be utterly beneath notice.— C ru ikshank's Omnibus. SHAMEFUL OUTRAGE.—On Friday evening, about half past nine o'clock, five shots were fired throulh as many panes of the window of the Norfolk Times office, No, 8, Exchange street, Norwich, while the proprietor an d several other per sons were conversing inside. Luckily no one was injured, i as the shots seemed to have b e en fire d n a slanting direc tion. It has not been ascertained who wer e th e perpetra tors of this disgraceful :attempt, originating in party spite. Information had been given a few days before, that twenty ruffians, hired by a notorious whig, were waiting an oppor tunity to make an assault in consequence of some handbills being issued from the Norfolk Time: office, descriptive of whig doings at the late elections. These seem t o have ex cited the rage of some of the principals, and led t o t h e above cowardly attack. An investigation takes place on Mond a y, before the mayor and some of the w hig magistrates, who will, probably, trouble themselves but little to bring the per petrators to light. A neglect to discriminate between questions of expediency and questions of principle was one of the weaknesses of the old tory party, of which the conservatives have now happily disencumbered themselves. . This line ought to be clearly drawn, for the sake both of the character of statesmen and of the public interest. Upon a question of expediency, what is unwise, and therefore wrong, at one time, may be wise, and therefore right, at another ; and a sagacious politician will be more consistent in changing his course according to cir cumstances, than in persevering doggedly in one inflexible line of action. Such variations of policy cannot be disgrace ful to any man. The only effect of confounding them with matters of principle would be to place statesmen in a false, and ultimately untenable, position. Upon questions of prin ciple, what is right once is right always, and change is incon sistency, and inconsistency dishonour. - ARRIVAL, OF GAVIN SCOTT IN GLASGOW.—Yesterday morning, the above individual, whose case has excited so touch the attention of the public, was safely lodged in- the Police office of the city. He was brought from London by the mail, in custody of Cuthbertson, one of the division offi cers, who had been despatched to London for the purpose. On reaching Glasgow the poor infatuated lad evidently felt much ; on stepping from the coach he appeared to shrink from the gaze of the spectators, and his face was deeply flushed, but on entering the office it became deadly pale, and he seemed somewhat faint, partly, perhaps, from the fatigue of the journey downwards. Soon aft er being placed in his cell, he fell fast asleep. Early as the hour of his arrival was, (one o'clock) he was followed to the police office by a con siderable crowd, anxious to obtain a sight of his countenance. As a matter of form, Scott was brought before the Polite magistrate yesterday morning, and remanded for examina tion. When brought up, he was dressed in a suit of black cloth, looked quite collected, and all traces of trepidation or faintness, either from fatigue or any other cause, had com pletely disappeared.—Glasgow Guardian. A WATCHMAKER'S RusE.—A poor watchmaker came down to settle at —. The village was populous. This person was utterly unknown, but he had ingeniously hit on a project to procure employ. He contrived, when the church door was opened, daily to send up his son, a lad of some ad dress, to the church tower unseen, and to alter the clock. This the boy was enabled to do by a slight knowledge of his father's business. This measure, of course, made all the watches in the neighbourhood wrong so repeatedly, (and every one swears by his church clock,) that the owners sent them to the new corner to be cleaned and repaired. This ruse established the artisan. — America n Paper. - - FINDING THE BODY OF A MAN UNDER PECULIAR CIRCUMSTANCES. —On Monday night last, two men, brothers, named Tuhbey, were employed to empty a privy used by the men in the London docks, but the soil of which is outside the dock wall in Pennington -street. In removing a large flag stone which covers the cesspool, the pickaxe of one passed through some substance floating on the top of the soil, and which the men took to he a bundle of rags. On looking at it more closly the men 'discovered it to be the body of a man, but in so advanced a state of decomposition that not a feature was discernible, and it presented a frightful spectacle. It was taken up, and a shell being procured it was removed to the bone house of the parish of St. John, Wapping, to wait the coroner's inquest. It is impossible from the construction of the building on the dock side of the wall that the deceased could have fallen among the soil, and there is little doubt that he came by his death by tumbling into the hole on the Pennington -street side two years ago, when the place was last emptied. SUSPECTED ROBBERY AT THE AGRICULTURAL MEETING AT LIVERPOOL.—On Monday last, three foreigners, who gave their names as Alfred Mallard, Henri Louis Lecomte, and Charles Roelants, were placed at the bar of Marylebone Police-office, London, charged on suspicion of having stolen property to a large amount. Police Sergeant Thornton, an active officer of the E division, stated, that having received information that three of the swell mob had gone down to Liverpool last week, he on the previous evening repaired to the Euston-square terminus of the London and Birmingham Railway, when he saw the prisoners, whom he suspected en ter a cab. They had two trunks with them, and they had not proceeded further than Drummond-street, when witness desired the driver to stop. He (witness) then told the pri soners that they were suspected of having stolen property in their possession. Mallard said he was no thief, and the whole of them were taken to the station-house in George street, Bloomsbury. In the bottom of the cab was found a silver snuff-box, engraved " John Barron, 1840 ;" neither of them would acknowledge that this article belonged to him. On searching the prisoners there were found upon Mallard two gold watches, £6O in bank notes and sovereigns, 11s. 6d. in silver, a gold pin and other articles. Lecomte had upon him a gold watch, chain, and key, a £5. note, 12 sovereigns and a half, three double Napoleons, a union pin, and other property ; and upon Roelants were 17 half-sovereigns in a purse, 13 twopenny pieces, two threepenny pieces, an old crown piece, a gold watch, and an union pin, together with rings, &c. On the way from the station-house to this court, Mallard told the sergeant he hoped he would not speak un kind, and that he did not mind £4O, as he was afraid of losing all his lodgers. He (Thornton) had searched Mal lard's house, at 84, Norton -street, New-road, and found therein a considerable quantity of plate ; and in addition, he discovered on the premises a gold watch, and numerous ar ticles of jewellery, together with £8 10s. in cash, and four tickets for gold watches and silk. The whole of the pro perty was here produced, as also two passports, from one of which it appeared that Lecomte was described as being by trade a jeweller. The prisoner's trunks contained only wearing apparel, respecting which there were no suspicious circumstances whatever. Mr. Humphries, who attended for Mallard, contended that there had been no evidence adduced to warrant the further detention of the party. Therewas no reason to doubt that the property found upon them was their own, and he considered that Thornton was not justified in stopping them in the way he had done. Mr. Rawlinson, after some consideration, consented to the liberation of the prisoners upon condition that they should appear on Tues day next, the 3d of August; the whole of the property taken from them to remain in the interim in the hads of the police. Thornton's opinion is that a great pOrtion of the property is the fruit of plunder, committed at the recent Liverpool agri cultural meeting. FREE TRADE.—On all agricultural produce, except corn, the protection given by duties payable on the importation of such articles does not exceed 14 per cent., while the protec tion given by the present duties on the importation of thirty eight manufactured articles. averages about 42 per cent., and it will be found that if the whole of the protecting duties given to agricultural products is calculated according to the usual mode of cultivation adopted, and by which a corn crop can only be obtained every second year on the very bestland —that the average of the agricultural duties will not amount to more than 40 per cent. How useless, then, is the cry of " No monopoly. ' RELEASE OF MR. MEDHURST FROM PRISON.—This person, whose case has lately acquired renewed interest in the eyes of the public in consequence of the erasure of the name cf Mr. H. Moreton Dyer from the commission of the peace for the county of Middlesex, was on Saturday last re leased from his confinement in the house of correction, in Coldbath-tields, upon an order sent down from the Home office. It appears that for some time his health has been on the decline, and that since the interference of Mr. Dyer in his affairs, the symptoms of internal disease, the early stages of which had previously manifested themselves, have been greatly aggravated. To such on extent had these symptoms increased that it was found necessary to call for the advice and assistance of an eminent physician, whose opinion was of a nature to induce the visiting justices of the prison to forward a certificate as to the state of the patient to the Mar quis of Normandy. Subsequent visits tended to confirm the original impression of the medical attendant as to the danger of the attack, and further certificates were sent to the noble marquis, describing the character of the disease, accompanied with the expression of the conviction, that unless Mr. Med lirst were set at liberty, the worst result was to be antici pated. DISSENT NOT POLITICAL-0 no, not at all; we have had some curious illustrations of that in Nottingham of late. On the Sunday before the election, the man who gives out the hymns at the Babtist Meeting -house in Broad-street said he was requested to " give notice, that Tuesday next was Association-day at Derby, but it was hoped that none of their friends would go till they had voted for Hobhouse and Lar pent." At the Wesleyan Chapel, the other day, some per son who occupied the pulpit prayed against the designs of all monopolists," with sundry other party allusions to " free trade," and political clap -traps. And at the Castle-gate Meeting-house a poor man has been deprived of the charita ble pittance which he received from the alms, because he voted for Mr. Walter. If churchmen were to act thus, some of our Dissenting oracles would go wild with what they would call pious rage and indignation.—Nottingham Journal, FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE LONDON AND BRIGHTON RAILWAY. — Last week a fatal accident occurred Lon don and Brighton Railway, near Reigate. It appeared that the engineer of one of the pilot engines, which are employed to run up and down the line to see that all is right, took up a man named Moss, who having dropped his hat, insisted on getting K down. The eng i ne was stoppe d , an d l ie ca ll e d " a ll right, and the engine went on at the instant he jumped off. He fell down quite dead. An inquest was held, and a verdict of accidental death recorded. A few days since the tender of the " Vulture" engine sprung a leak between Reigate and Croydon ; had it occurred on many parts of the line consi. derable delay must have ensued. MURDER AT EXETER.—The Devonshire Chronicle con tains an account of a dreadful murder committed on a gen tleman, named N. Bennett. The unfortunate gentleman was found amongst the rushes in the r iv e r, near Trews Weir, Exet er , on Saturday. The appearance of deceased's face le t no doubt that he had come to his death by foul means. There were the marks of a very heavy blow on the bridge of the nose, which had prod uc ed a s li g ht excoriation, and blackened both the eyes. In the pockets were found only one shilling, and the watch had been torn away, leaving part of the guard-chain round his neck. The deceased was engaged as clerk in the West of England Fire-office. Un fortunately, on Friday last the deceased went down to the neighbourhood of the fair in the Bouhay, and subsequently entered the cattle-market, and there got into conversation with some loose people. In the course of the night the de ceased very imprudently made a display of the money he had about him, and got into conversation with two girls of the town, who lodged in one of the small houses on the bank of the river opposite to where the body was found at about half-past twelve on Saturday morning. The deceased left the cattle market, and was followed by three men, suspicious characters, who had apparently been watching him, and heard his conversation with the two girls. Several persons have been taken into custody on suspicion. CAUTION.—AS a Scotch compositor, named William Ed wards, was crossing a few days ago into Wales, from Bristol, with the view of seeking for a job in some of the printinz offices in the principality, he met with a man, who gave hi; name James Horne, and said that he also w as a compositor, having served hi s time in Canterbury, and was going into Wales with the same intention as the Scotchman. They tossed who was to be pursebearer, and the lot fell on the Canterbury man. They a rrived together in Merthyr, on Thursday, and we re assisted with money by the trade, and the Scotchman g o t a j o b o f work for a fortnight. Next morning the " bursar" was non est inventus, and had doubtless in his hurry, taken off, not only the whole contents of the exchequer, but a " trade card " belonging to his com panion, with which, having none of his own, he means to gull "the profession" wherever he may come. He is a dark complexioned man, slightly pock marked, aged about 30, and standing about 5 feet 9 inches, and he wore what is called a " shabby" olive coat and dirty drab trousers. The card is an Aberdeen card, No. 29, and dated tkpril 30, 1841. CARLOW ELECTION—APPALLING PERSECUTION OF THU ELECTORS IN THE CHAPELS. —Not only are the Romun Catholic electors who voted for Colonel Bruen and Mr. Bunbury persecuted at fair and market, their property de stroyed, and their lives endangered, but the most cruel and appalling tyranny is exercised over their wives and children in the chapel and on the high road to the chapel, on the day dedicated to the worship of the living God ! In some parts of the county Carlow the women are pelted with stones and covered with mud—their clothes torn off their backs, and in some instances they strip them naked and turn them out of the chapel as objects of ferocious joy, derision, cruel mock ery, and execration—so much so as to induce one to ask do we live in a Christian land among a civilised people, or a horde of merciless barbarians, who vent their malice. on help less females and innocent children ? But the persecution is systematic, and guided by the priests—for in Tynriland chapel, last Sunday, a crib was erected, like such as enclose cattle at Smithfield, and a Mrs. Nolan, and the three children of a Mr. Coughlan, were dragged into the chapel-and forcibly thrust into this instrument of torture to hear mass —that is to say, according to the church of Rome, to witness the sa crifice of Christ himself, whose kingdom was not of this world, and who is the God of peace, love and charity, and the Son of Righteousness ! After they were taken out of the crib they were insulted and brutally treated on their way home.—Kilkenny Moderator. CIA . Eitnrpool gPtanbarb. FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 30, 1841 The B ritannia, from Boston and Halifax, arrived here last night, and the intelligence brought by her will be found in the usual place. The decision of the supreme court in the case of M`Leod is the most im portant information which the Britannia brings. In the course of his address at the close of the Carlow election, Colonel Bruen adverted to the few amongst his tenantry who had been seduced by his adversaries, and prevailed upon to vote against him. He said,— " They had deliberately and advisedly made their choice, and as they were satisfied, so was he, However, as he had been often described as a severe and grinding landlord, he would just mention that these men were many thousand pounds in his debt, and had been, above all others of his tenantry, treated with the utmost kindness and indulgence, and he could scarcely believe their ingratitude until he wit nessed it with his own eyes. They had thrown off their old friends and chosen new ones ; surely they could not blame him for doing the same. He had incurred great expense in defending that which was dearest to them all—their liberties —but this expense should now be defrayed by the recovery of debts which might otherwise never have been demanded; if they paid him the debts they owed him, well and good ; if not, at least he hoped he would be allowed to get his land, and he would take care to place on it men who would re spect law and order, and who would not join their enemies and the enemies of their country. They had been deli berately sacrificed, for their votes would not gain the elec tion, and now he hoped their new friends would make a suit able provision for them, and remunerate them for the great sacrifices they had made." The language of a man speaking under circum stances of no ordinary kind is not to be scanned with the severity of criticism ; but we can find nothing in what is here uttered that needs any apology. We may collect from it that the gallant Colonel is determined, in the future choice of his tenantry, to select men who are of the same way of thinking in politics with him self, and that he felt extremely indignant with some who, being deeply in his debt, and having experienced much kindness at his hands, had just given their votes against him. In this we see nothing to be surprised at—nothing to blame ; and if the honourable member for Carlow, and other country gentlemen situated as he is, had not been most virulently attacked by the Libe rals, and their press, we should have thought it quite superfluous to utter one word in their defence. This is what passes in their vocabulary under the name of " persecution" and " intolerance ;" and, after giving it the worst names, and charged upon it an immense re sult of evil, they hold up the authors as men worthy of the severest condemnation—as the worst enemies of their country and their species. A great deal of disturbance .and excitement has fre quently been got up on grounds just as flimsy and ir rational as those assumed in this case. We should feel really at a loss to make the right and title of a landlord more plain by any argumentation than it is at first sight in the statement to which we have just adverted. It is lawful for a man to do as he will with his own ; and if the owner of land, he may certainly choose his tenants not only with reference to their solvency or any other condition, but also with regard to their politics. This is a liberty which the law allows and any man may exercise, as we conceive, without reproach. In this country we should not consider it as very intole rant ; indeed there is nothing whatever in the nature of intolerance in such a transaction. In Ireland, how , ever, it is expected that a man will be more '6 liberal," and divide his interest in his tenantry with the Roman Catholic priesthood; and in case of his refusing to do so, he immediately involves himself in a war with the entire of that ghostly and most sublime community. A vast deal of turmoil ensues, and no man can say what shall be the end thereof. However, the abstract right of a landlord to make a political contract with his te nantry cannot be impugned by any such impertinence. Many varieties of case may be supposed ; but it would occupy far too much time for us to enter into them. We shall deal only with the obvious one—namely, that a landlord has a right, if a Conservative, to select a Conservative tenantry, or if a Liberal, to select a Li beral one ; and, as a consequence of such a contract, that he has reason to be angry with that tenant who breaks his engagement. But the doctrine of the Li beral party in Ireland is, that the landlord should not be at all disvleased with his tenant for such a breach of faith, and if he alter his conduct towards him in consequence, that he (the landlord) is not only an in tolerant but a persecutor. Such is the cry of all the priests and all the agitators. Landlords like Colonel Bruen, who plainly avow their political sentiments and act openly upon them, they denounce as the worst men in the country. We hold directly the opposite opinion, and esteem such men among the very best landlords, and the most useful members of society. We do not hold such men to be the best merely on account of their politics. A had landlord will be still a bad landlord, in our estimation, no matter what the hue of his politics may be ; the man whom we shall uphold as a good one must be really such independ ently of all political colours ; we then advance to poll cal considerations. Now the Conservative of the right stamp looks not merely to receiving the highest possi ble amount of rent out of his estates ; he has ulterior, he has higher, he has much nobler views. He seeks to identify himself with his tenantry, and his tenantry with him; he expects to receive their political support ; he looks to have a thorough confidence mutually sub sisting between them, and he takes the necessary pains and uses the necessary means to effect that end. This cannot be done for nothing, nor done so easily. It would be an easy matter to extort a promise of political support from an Irish Roman Catholic peasant in want of a piece of ground; such a promise he would think very little of giving ; his keeping of it would be ano ther affair, which would depend in a great measure, if not altogether, on the character of his landlord, and the processes used by that landlord to keep him stead fast to his engagement—processes, we may add,'Which involve all that is considerate, kind, and benevolent on the one side, and all that tends to elevate and dignify humanity on the other. The Liberal proprietor, on the other hand, takes no such charge upon himself. In politics he goes hand in hand with the priest, and he is disturbed by none of those anxieties—perplexed by none of those cares with which the Conservative surrounds himself. He can screw up his rent roll to the highest penny; he has no need. to be indulgent; the omnipotant priest is on his side,, and he has nothing to fear. He interferes not with the religion of his tenantry, and though calling himself perhaps a rrosestant, he is so generous as to ' afford all facilities to priests and others to train up his dependents in the ways of Popery. But the Conservative treads no such •` primrose path of dalliance." He builds no mass-houses ; he collects no plotting priests about his sober house; he defies the pope, and seeks for God-fearing men to serve him. The consequence is, that he has all the Popish world in arms against him ; and in case of an election, is with much difficulty able to obtain protec tion from the government in power above him—espe cially if it be a Whig one, and a Normanby, we will not say a Fortescue, he its Deputy. Which of these two landlords, or classes of land lords however, is most likely to add strength to the royal authority, and give permanence to British domi nion in Ireland, we leave the reader to determine in his own mind. But good Conservatism, citizenship, loyalty, or call it what you will, must, in short, be the same everywhere. If .Conservatism be a good thing, nay the only thing for England, it must, say, be the same also for Ireland, or any other portion of her Ma jesty's. dominions, and the man who carries out the principle with Christian moderation, in whatever capa city he may be placed, is, we conceive, the best citizen and best subject. In Ireland it needs every encou ragement and support ; and we hope, under the forth coming administration of Sir Robert Peel, it will shortly and abundantly receive it. It is the glory of the last election that we have bea ten the Reformers with their own bill. This is a cir cumstance of infinite importance—of immense value. It opens a new view of the excellence of our constitu tion, and discloses in a remarkable way that soundness of principle of which the mind of the great mass of the people is compact. It was never calculated by the reform party that we should take their own bill, and thrash them with it; but this is now what has been done. The reform bill is no longer of any avail for their purposes ; it is now an instrument of Conserva tism, and if used aright, it is well calculated to place the institutions of our country on a firmer basis than they ever before enjoyed. It was a constant theme with some Tory writers about the time when the reform bill was enacted, that we had entered upon a downward career of revolution; that we were led along by an irresistible current, and that over the Falls we must go, and plunge head-long into the frightful abyss of anarchy and ruin. These good men were Tories of the old school, and imagined, like the Puseyites of the present day, with regard to the Church, that the whole strength of our constitution lay in certain outward forms and ceremo nies, and:in the nice adjustment of a curious machinery, so complicated, that if any one part were removed or injured, the whole would be rendered useless or fall to pieces. France, and her great revolution, was ever before their eyes, and to their perturbed fancy, nothing was present but scenes of horror, to be enacted in our own beloved country, not less tragic than those which had occurred in France, in her never-to-be-forgotten days of terror. They shuddered at the very name of Democrat and democracy, and supposed that all was lost, when the ancient system of rotten boroughs, un represented towns, and restrictive franchise, was over turned. We would speak with deference of their pre judices, and with tenderness of their fears ; but certainly they carried reverence for ancient customs, and mere formalities too far, and thus rendered them selves incapable of perceiving and appreciating the real power, the true magnetism—the wide diffusion of moral and religious principle, which binds and com pacts the various parts of our social organization, and renders it indestructible by any mere diversity of arrangement of its material elements. They argued from the National Convention of revolutionary France, to the reformed House of Commons of England ; but they forgot to take into account the vast difference between the truth-loving, church-going people of Eng land, and the Voltaire-reading, pleasure-loving, and irreligious people of France ; and that though a con temptible faction, who had climbed their way to power, might make sudden and violent changes in our ancient institutions and laws, yet that the people could not be made to move with such hasty strides, and would remain essentially unaffected by their transitions. Time has made manifest the groundlessness of the alarm of these Tory gentlemen of the old school ; the election just concluded, gives decisive proof that the reform bill has been providentially over-ruled for good, and that there is a strength of conservatism lodged within the heart of an enlightened people of far more efficacy than any which could result from any merely outward ordinance. One of our London contemporaries has been dis cussing the various points of difference which may be traced out between Conservatism and Toryism ; the latter he consigns, with few tokens of respect, to the tomb of all the Capulets. Now the matter is shortly this, that Conservatism is just a new and improved edition suited to the present time—and we submit that the reform bill has contributed very much to the im provement. It is remarked by Doctor Channing, in his address to the Library Company of Philadelphia, that the com manding characteristic of the Present Age is the ten dency in all its movements to expansion, to diffusion, to universality. He demonstrates this in the progress of science, the arts, literature, government, commerce, and religion. Speaking of government, he says : "To what is the civi:ised world tending ? To popular in stitutions, or what is the same thing, to the influence of the people, of the mass of men, over public affairs. A little while ago, and the people were unkno wn as a ptrwer in the State. Now they are getting all power into their hands. Even in despotisms, when they cannot act throUgh institu tions, they act through public opinion. Intelligence is strength ; and in proportion as the many grow intelligent, they must guide the world. Kings and nobles fill less and less place in history ; and the names of men whi) once were lost amidst the glare of courts, and titles, are now written there imperishably. Once, history did not know that the multitude existed, except when they were gathered together on the field of battle, to be sabred and shot down for their masters. Now they are coming forward into the fore-ground of her picture. It is now understood that government exists for one end, and one alone ; and that is, not the glory of the governor, not the pomp and pleasure of a few, but the good, the safety, the rights of all. Once, the policy of governments had no higher end than to concentrate property into a few hands, and to confirm the relation of dependent and lord. Now, it aims to give to each the means of acquiring pro perty, and of carrying out his fortune for himself. Such is the political current of our times. Many look upon it with dark forebodings as on a desolating torrent ; while others hail it as a fertilising stream. But in one thing, both agree ; whe ther torrent or stream, the mighty current exists, and over flows, and cannot be confined ; and it shews us in the po litical, as in the other movements of our age, the tendency to universality, to diffusion." The Doctor is of course a republican, but we concur with him generally in the sentiment expressed in this passage, and if there are any so foolish as to look at the enlightenment and wholesome instruction of their fellow-creatures with " dark forebodings," we consider ourselves happy in not being of the number. We esteem the strength of our own country and all its in stitutions to be an enlightened people—and the only subject of our regret is, that a just enlightenment is not still more widely diffused among them. From such an enlightenment we have no idea of their seeking to " get all power into their hands ;" quite the con trary. This is just what the Chartist miners did under the command of the renowned Mr. Frost, simply be cause they wanted enlightenment, and had been aban doned to the most deplorable state of ignorance. "Intelligence is strength; yes, and happily it is the strength of our government, though no republic, and notwithstanding that it reposes no undue proportion of power in the popular branch of its system. The fears alluded to on this head can proceed only from ignorance. Enlighten the people with sound know ledge, and a child may govern them. The Sovereign may then repose upon them with entire confidence, and the aristocracy will have nothing to fear from them—and then give the people an enlarged share of political privilege, and they will use it, not for the overthrow of that mixed form of government from which we derive so many blessings, but for its preser vation and defence. The new and improved order of Toryism which we espouse is based on popular princi ples—consults especially for the interest and good of the people, cries " forward" in the march of intellect, and abjures tyranny and darkness in every form. This is genuine Conservatism—a Conservatism which will not only preserve but renovate. True, it carries the Bible, and, if possible, the Book of Common Prayer, along with it everywhere ; but surely no honest Whig of the old school ought to object to that. We think those of that ilk should join us, and cut the mere any thing-arians—the Liberals, and the League tribe, who have no principle hut their own selfish interests. Our Conservatism is everything that is truly liberal and enlightened, and worthy the support, nay, the love and affeciion of all men. It has done great things, as we commenced by observing, at the election; but it has still greater things remaining to accomplish. We trust that in Sir Robert Peel it will find a suitable leader, a minister whom it can honour and support ; but it will depend unreservedly on no man. It must be self dependent as well as vigilant. LOCAL NEWS ISLE OF MAN CENSUS.—The population of the Isle of Man is, males, 23.021; females, 21,262 —Total, 47,986, being an increase of 6,228 since 1831. AGRICULTURAL SOCIETV.—The Society's premium of five sovereigns for exhibiting specime❑ roots of au improved variety of the Swede turnip, and a new hardy tree, the arau carla imbricata or Chili pine, was awarded to Mr. William Skirving, of Liverpool. The new iron steam-boat, the Princess Royal, made the passage from Greenock to the Rock Lighthouse, at the en trace to the Mersey, last Saturday, in fifteen hours and ten minutes, which is the best passage ever made. PORTRAIT OF WILLIAM FAWCETT, ESQ.—An admirable portrait of this well-known individual has just been executed by Lupton, after a painting by G. Patten, A.R.A. The atti tude, outline, and general management of the picture as an original, are every way worthy of this distinguished artist, and the engraving is equally creditable to the gentleman who has had the charge of that department. It forms altogether one of the most characteristic and gentlemanly portraits that we have seen. We perceive from the Yorkshire papers, that Mr. Alex ander, Q. C., has been unable, so far, to attend the assizes on the northern circuit, but it is expected he will be suffi ciently recovered to be present at Liverpool. MEETING OF PARLIAMENT.—A general impression 'ex ists that parliament will meet for the despatch of business on the 19th of next month, (August,) but that is by no means certain. The writs are returnable on that day, but the meeting of the legislature must be convened by procla mation, agreed upon by her majesty in council. PUBLIC PARKS FOR LIVERPOOL.-01IC of the subjects which stands for consideration at the meeting of the Town council on Wednesday next is a report from the Finhnce Committee, relative to the projected public parks. We have already stated our opinions upon this subject. Con sidered by itself, the project, we think, is one deserving of every encouragement, adapted as it is at once to subserve the purposes of utility and ornament, to promote the public health, and to improve the appearance of the town in a way Dui .le to its growing wealth and consequence. Tut.: ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—The two grand galas which were given at this delightful and favourite resort, during the past week, draw, as might have been foretold, from the great influx of strangers, a very crowded attendance, and many of the country visiters were so much pleased with the exhibition, that they will, no doubt, assist in spreading still mailer the fame of the Liverpool Zoological Gardens. The scenic display of the fortress of St. Jean d'Acre, with the British fleet and steamers lying in the bay beneath, surprises all who behold it for the first time, and continues to please after the first delusion has been dispelled. As evening closed upon the gay and interesting scence, the variegated lamps were lighted, and presently the gardens were brilliantly illu minated in all quarters. The principal walk was arched with lights, and many devices, formed of different coloured lamps, were exhibited in different parts of the grounds. The gay and animated crowd which thronged the avenues, the reflec tion of the lights upon the trees, and the fortress of Acre in the distance, had a peculiarly pleasing effect, and were the theme of general admiration. Precisely at the hour appoint ed, half-past nine o'clock, the fortress gave the signal for battle, and immediately the vast concourse of visiters repaired to the place of action, where the engagement was continued with greater spirit and much finer effect than we have pre viously seen it. The emblematical representation of Victory flying over the scene, and the subsequent display of Britannia on her shield, drew a burst of loud applause from the audi ence. The tire-works then commenced from the island in centre of the pelicans' pond, and whether we consider them with regard to beauty, brilliancy, or variety, they were the best ever exhibited at the gardens. THEATRE-ROYAL.—The comedy of " London Assu rance," which has made so decided a hit at Covent-garden during the season just concluded,' has been brought out at the Theatre-Royal in capital style. It has met with great success, and nightly draws very lull houses. This comedy has some merit, many detects, possesses little or no interest, awakes no curiosity as it goes on ; yet, from the admirable manner in which the dramatis personw perform their parts, the audience are kept in excellent humour, and relish won derfully all that comes before them. The plot is a very old friend, and the characters are all well known upon the boards, having appeared in plays, dramas, and farces for the last century. Sir Harcourt Courtly, in Mr. Farren's hands, is an elegant but bitter satire upon that class of ani mal, the ci-devant jeune homme : it is an artist-like imper sonation, and most true to life. Lady Gay Spanker Ma dame Vestris plays delightfully ; but who that has seen Mrs. Nisbett's delicious Neighbour Constance, and heard Knowles's brilliant description of a chace flow from her laughing lips, that will not draw a comparison between the two ? Neighbour Constance paints a picture in most glow ing colours : Lady Spanker gives us but a reflection of that picture. Harley's Mark Meddle was most whimsical and humorous; he kept the audience in a roar. We noticed some learned limbs of the law in the house on Tuesday, who appeared to relish Meddle's mode of " getting up a case." One of them exclaimed, when the bailiff left the room upon Grace Harkaway's assurance that she would see Charles Courtly's debts paid. " Why he's gone off without security." Dazzle is but a well-dressed Dick Swiveller. Mr. F. Mat thews played .Max Harkaway, in an honest and hearty fashion, contrasting capitally with the studied polish of Far ren's Sir Harcourt. Mr. Holl went through Charles Courtly with much spirit, and as did Mrs. Bland Grace Harkaway. Mrs. Clarke's Pert was pungent enough. Mr. Bland played as may be supposed Coo/ to the life. Mr. Baker's Air. Span ker was well done, but atrociously did he dress the part. Who ever saw a gentleman in a light sky blue coat? The other characters were attired comma ilfaut, in the very first style of fashion. Mr. Baker's coat was no fashion at all—it appeared like a flankey's cast-off livery without the lacing. The scenes are all very handsome, acid the comedy is well put on the stage. The scene of the outside of the hall, with the lawn and gardens, is decidedly the best thing of the sort ever seen, and does artist and manager immense credit. " Brother Ben" is a laughable farce, and goes off with spirit. Those who wish to enjoy a hearty laugh and a pleasant even ing should by all means see " London Assurance," and the other novelties prepared for their amusement. The comedy will be repeated this evening. CLERGYMEN'S WIDOWS AND ORPHANS INSTITUTION. —The immediate addition of a " Branch Institution for the education of the children of deceased and distressed clergy men" will be proposed at the ensuing anniversary, which will be held, as may be seen from an advertisment, on Thurs day next, in this town. Donations are called for towards the erection or purchase of the requisite premises and fitting them up ; and subscriptions are wanted towards the future support of the establishment. Many of the subscribers to the Parent Institution have already specified their intention of subscribing also to the branch. The Parent institution is, at the present time, the main support of 38 widows and 27 orphans at an annual cost of £1,400. on an average. The Branch Institution is intended to provide a suitable education for some of the above orphans, whilst such ad vantages as they may reap therefrom, are to be extended to the Children of necessitous Clergy who are now officiating within the limits of the Archdeaconry of Chester. It is calculated that the cost of the Establishment will be (over and above what the Parent Institution is now able to supply,) about £3OO. per annum. The amount of donations towards the first cost of the undertaking will guide its promoters in deciding whether to erect, purchase, or hire suitable premises. The Treasurer has now in hand a balance of £1,358. DISORDERS OF THE EAR.—Mr. Cronin's Work on Deqf ness.—The success attending Mr. Cronin's practice in aural surgery has very properly influenced this gentleman to de vote himself entirely to that branch, and to relinquish than ordinary duties of his profession as a surgeon. We need scarcely point out the numerous miseries to which the deaf are subject ; sometimes the object of sneers and sarcasms— sometimes abused as a pest, at another the sport of ironical commiseration—his condition is the most lamentable that is possible to conceive. Vision renders him sensible not only to his defects, but to the fund of amusement which they but too often afford to the by-standers. If engaged in public business, to the transaction of which hearing is essential, his situation is rendered atill more painful. We extract from a second edition of Mr. C.'s work on this subject the follow ing pertinent remarks :—" The diseased conditions of the labyrinth are very frequently, if not mostly, induced by sym pathy with the external ear, for the disease certainly seems to commence in this part, snd whatever will restore the ex ternal ear to its healthy state will have a corresponding effect upon the labyrinth. Thus, then, we see that our efforts and general attention must, in all cases of deafness, be directed to the condition of the external ear ; and even although the causes should be more deeply seated, yet we must look to the external ear as the only medium through which we can act on the disordered portion, so as to restore its healthy condi tion. lam most anxious to establish this point because, on an examination of the external ear in cases of deafness, if there be no apparent disease, no deviation from apparent healthy condition of the parts, it is too apt to be concluded that the deafness is organic, —that the causes are situated beyond our reach, and the unfortunate victim is tamely sur rendered to his fate, without even an eff or t f or hi s rescue . I have had numerous instances of this description come be fore me, and patients who had been for years resigned to their miseries, as hopeless cases of incurable deafness, have, to my very great satisfaction, and their own inexpressible delight, been restored to perfect hearing in a comparatively very short space of time, without any pain, or the slightest inconvenience. How often have the miserable victims of deafness been subjected to painful, nay, the most painful operations? How often has the tympanum been punctured, even broken down, lacerated, and torn to pieces by instru ments, with a view to restore the lost sense of bearing These are painful operations, and never necessary ; nor are they instituted upon any rational principle. Nature has given us an organ of hearing most curiously constructed, most delicately formed, and of which the tympanum forms no inconsiderable part ; can it be imagined that this delicate, curiously-constructed membrane, so perfect in its structure, so well fitted and adapted for its purposes in the economy of hearing, was formed for mere laceration by the stiletto of the aurist ? or that its utility to the sense is so trifling and unimportant, that its destruction may be effected with im punity, and that its presence or absence is a matter of no moment ? Further, the destruction or . perfor a t ion o f t hi s membrane is an operation not wholly free from d anger, an d loss of life even has followed the attempt to de s t roy t h e tym panum :—when less fatal effects have resulted from such suppuration, and ulceration coarse and o v f i violent attempts , i t nterna 1p ar ofthe e inflammation,ar,which both patient and operator have had to lamen t. : THE QUEEN V. YATES.—This was an action for wilful and corrupt perjury, tried . at the Staffo r d s hi re Assizes last Wednesday week. The plaintiff was Mr. L ove ll , managing part.n John nof Yates, theßlsto e xtensive corn-deal er , we ll known upon an the Liverpool Corn Exchange, residing at Calt on, Stafford shire. From the high standin g of t he parties, the case in Mill Company ; an d t h e defendant, i\lr ex cited very great interest. It appeared that so long back as August, 1838, the defendant had made a sale to the plaintiff of a quantity of white Dantzic wheat, value £2741 15s. for cash, according to the defendant, while the plaintiff contend ed ,that the . terms were a . bill at ni ne mont h s ' d ate. A dis pute had arisen upon this point, an d M r. Y ates eventually o btained a verdict against the Bilston Mill Company of £472 3s. for loss upon the contract, the corn having been sold hastily, and at a loss, from the refusal of the company to fulfil the contract as stated to Mr. Yates. The company then filed a bill of discovery in Chancery against Mr. Yates, to restrain him from suing out execution, and an order from the Master of the Roll s was i ssued, requiring Mr. Yates to produce his books containing the entries of the transaction, and it was upon Mr. Yates's statement upon oath, in answer to this order, that the present charge of perjury was insti tuted. The case was gone into at very great length, and among the witnesses examined was Sir Joshua Walinsley, who gave Mr. Yates the highest character for veracity and integrity. The learned judge (Coleridge) thought that the case for the prosecution would not go to the jury with any chance of success. The j ur y i mme di a t e ly re t urne d a verdict of not guilty ; the co unse l f or th e p rosecu ti on h a ving, in deed, admitted that there was in fact no case, no defence or explanation was entered into, and Mr. Yates's acquittal was triumphant. The issue of the case created the liveliest sa tisfaction in a crowded court ; and upon the result becoming known at Calt on an d th e adjoining parishes, Mr. Yates's neighbours caused the bells to be rung. THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL Under the Management of Mr. CLARKE, Sole Lessee, THE PERFORMANCES DURING THE SUMMER SEASON WILL COMMENCE AT HALF-PAST SEVEN.-DOORS TO BE UPENED AT SEVEN. UNPRECEDENTED COMBINATION OF FIRST RATE DRAMATIC TALENT. Fifth Night of MADAME VESTRIS, Mr. CHARLES MATHEWS, Mr. WILLIAM FARREN, Mr. HAR LEY, and Mr. F. MATTHEWS, of the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden, who are engaged for a limited number of nights. The popular new Comedy, performed with the greatest attraction upwards of one hundred nights last season, at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden, called LONDON ASSURANCE, having been received by bril liant and overflowing audience with the most rapturous applause, on each replesentation, will, in consequence, be repeated, for the fifth time, This Evening. THIS present FRIDAY, July 30, will be performed, for the fifth time here, with New Scenery constructed by Mr. Wilmore, and painted exoressly for the occasion by Mr. Johnstone, the last New Comedy, written by D. J. Bourcicault, Esq., called LONDON ASSURANCE. With the following cast of chiracters : Lady Gay Spanker adame Vestris, Sir Harcourt Courtly' William Farren, Dazzle Me Charles Mathews, Mark Meddle Mr. Harley, Max Harkaway Mr. F. Matthews, Of the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden. Charles Courtly Mr. H. Holl. Mr. Adolphus Spanker Grace Harkaway.. Pert Mrs. Clarke. After which, for the third time here, a new Drama, as pro duced last season, at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden, called BROTHER BEN, Which was received on the first and second representations with shouts of laughter and applause. Benjamin Bowles Mr. Charles Mathews, Commodore Cutlass... Mr. Shuffleton Mr. Harley, As originally performed by them in London. To conclude with the Farce of SHOCKING EVENTS. Griffinhoof.... (a Horse Doctor).... Mr. W. Farren, As originally performed by him in London. On MONDAY, a favourite Comedy and Entertainments, the principal characters in which will be sustained by Madame Vestris, Mr. Charles Mathews, Mr. William Farren, Mr. Harley, and Mr. F. Matthews. TO CORRESPONDENTS "The Threatening Letter" looks too much like a hoax for publication. " N B" cannot expect us to insert his letter. For some reason, which we are unable to explain, no ticket was forwarded to our office for the dinner of the Licensed Victuallers' Association, and we are therefore compelled to make use of the report of a contemporary.