The Sun.
London, England, 1839-08-13 00:00:00

TIIE HARVEST IN IIILLAND.

, The weather, we arc truly harpy to state, has taken
a decidedly favourable turn, and is admiral 4 calcu-
lated to promote the ripening of wheat. The accounts
from the country are, in the aggregate, of a favourable
nature, and their tendency is to show that the crops
have suffered less than had been supposed. 'Wheats
have certainly been injured to a considerable extent, but
all other crops, including potatoes, promise well. Con-
sidering the well-grounded alarm that prevailed ten
days ago, we have reason to be thankful to Providence
for our present prospects.—Dublin Evening Post of
Saturday.
It is gratifying to state that the light rains of ere yes-
terday have been succeeded by genial sunshine, and that
the weather having undergone a decidedly favourable
change since yesterday morning, the prospects as to the
standing crops might be said, in these districts, to be
promising. New oats, of superior grain, appeared A•
Market to-day, and were taken at a currency of 1.55.
per barrel. The harvest wil! become general within a
fortnight should the present weather continue.—Cork
Southern Reporter.
The wet, harsh, and unseasonable weather of last
week was succeeded on Sunday and Monday by very
fine sunshine. Yesterday, however, the weather again ,
changed to wet, but fortunately it is not accompanied
by high winds. As yet we believe, the corn crops are
uninjured, but a continuance of the present moist wea-
ther for even a very short time longer, would cause greet
injury.-IVatolord Mirror.
We are glad to understand, frotn several communica-
tions received, that there is little damage done to the
wheat fields by the late heavy rains. A. sample of oats,
of the Poland kind, was brought to our office on. Satur-
day, grown on the farm of M. Edward O'Connor, at
Kilmore, and finer grain of this descrioica_vq.itexec
been or detriment to it to any extent. On. the whole,
a most abundvit harvest is anticipate(l.—TipperarB.
Free Press.

TILE HAGUE, A uG. 7.—Their Royal High-
nesses, the Hereditary Prince and Pe.ncess of Orange.
have each sent to the Burgomaster of this town the sum of
500 florins, for the benefit of the pour.
TIIE GENTEEL HAIR-DWESSEIL—It was not
exactly a hair-dresser's; that iat ,;) say, people of a coarse
and vulgar turn of mind have, tailed it a barber's, for they
not only cut and curled lad'.er, elegantly and children care-
fully, but shaved gentle's', Cr, easily. Still it was a highly ,
genteel establishment—xraite first-rate in fact—and there '
acre displayed in the Ts/indow, besides other elegancies,
waxen busts of a lir,lst lady and a dark gentleman which
were the admirati on of the whole neighbourhood. In-
deed, some ladi'.is bad gone so far as to assert, that the
dark gentleman was actually a portrait of the spirited
young proprie cor, and the great similarity between their
head-dresse‘,—both wore very glossy hair with a narrow
walk straight down the middle, and a profusion of flat cir-
cular curls on both sides—encouraged the idea. The
better informed among the sex, however, made light of this
assertion, for however willing they were (and they were.
very willing) to do fall justice to the handsome face and
figure of the proprietor, they held the countenance
of the dark gentleman in the window to btt an exquisite
ti-,d abstract idea of masculine beauty, realised sometimes I
perhaps among angels and military men, but very rarely
embodied to gladden the eyes of mortals. It was
to this establishment that Newman Noggs led Miss I
Kenwigs in safety, and the proprietor knowing that Miss
Kenwigs had three sisters, each with tem flaxen tails, and
all good for sixpence a-piece once a month at least,
promptly deserted an old gentleman whom he had just
lathered for shaving, and handing bi'.n over to the journey-
man ( who was not very popular arnc,ng the ladies, by reason
of his obesity and middle age), waited on the young lady
himself. Just as this change Fad been effected there pre-
sented himself for shaving a big, burly, good-humoured
coal-heaver, with a pipe i n his month, who, drawing his
hand across his chin, reo'aested to know when a shaver
would be disengaged. The journeyman to whom this
question was put looked doubtfully at the young proprietor,
and the young propri clot looked scornfully at the coal-
heaver, observing ut.bintoetenahnu_teathnyhetseoadwme time, " You won't get
shaved here, my may." s 4 Why not ?" said the coal-beaver.
"Wedun't shave gsratleman in your line," remark ed the young
proprietor. " Wily, I see you a shaving of a baker when I
was a looking t'arough the winder, last week," said the
coal-heaver. `" It's necessary to draw the line sotnewhees,
my fine feller," replied the principal ; "we draw the line
to
there. We can't go beyond bakers. If we w
us, and we might shut up shop. You must t* some .
get a.ny lower than bakers our curtomers woulddoetshearrt
establishment,eaetstared,coNueletivnm'tandoNiotghgesr,e.:
hoTahpepaePeaePlid-
highly entertained, looked slightly round the shop, as if in
g grinned at
depreciation of the pomatum pots and other articles of
stock, took his pipe out of his mouth and gave a very loud
whistle, and then put it in again, and walked out.—
Nicholas Nickleby.
A REFLECTION ON THE STRANGE THINGS
OF 111 K WORLD.—As he paced the streets and listlessly
looked round on the gradually increasing bustle and pre-
paration for the day, every thing appeared to yield him
some new occasion for despondency. Last night the
sacrifice of a young, affectionate, and beautiful
creature to such a wretch and in such a cause
had seemed a thing too monstrous to succeed, and
died,same and
dvaryuignlgy round—
how
warmer he grew the more confident he felt that
some interposition must save her from his clutches. But
now, when be thought how regularly things went on
crafty avarice
fahf
ergoewewm
they
hi dveaeyyd youth
were
t eo
r e and d
w a
hy
totteringo
grew rich,
the stately houses, and
and manly honest hearts were poor and sad—how
how many those who lay in noisome pens, or rose each
day and laid them down at night, and lived and died,
father and son, mother and child, race upon race, and gene-
ration upon generation, without a home to shelter them or
the energies of one single man directed to their aid—how in
seeking, not a luxurious and splendid life, but the bare
means of a most wretched and inadequate subsistence, there
were women and children in that one town, divided into clas-
ses, numbered and estimated as regularly as the noble fami-
lies and folks of great degree, and reared from infancy to
drive most criminal and dreadful trades—how ignorance was
punished and never taught—howjail. door gaped and gallows
loomed for thousands urged towards them by circumstances
r
darkly curtaining their very cradles' heads, and but for
a hick they might have earned their honest bread,
of
life,
b and livecr4
in peace—how many died in soul, and had no chance
vicious as
how many who could scarcely go astray, F
he
and stricken
they would, turned haughtily from the crushed
wretch who could "oarce do otherwise, and ;show o old have
done
wells than even
been a greater wonder had
_ he orsh
injustice,
and
misery,
they, bad they done ill—how
whow the world rolled on from
much
and wrong there was, and yet
and
indifferent, and no man
year to year, alike carelessre„ it;—when he thought of all
seeking to remedy ofrrronetd the
mass the one slight case on
this, and selected
which his thoughts Wert bent, he felt indeed that there was
and little cause or
little ground for hope,
atom in the huge aggregate of dis-
should not form an
and add one
tress and sorrow, small and unimportant trait
to swell the great amount.— iiv, cholas Nickleby.

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Era, Mrs. Vining-. Km.herine, Miss Grant.
] Lucie, Miss Martin.
Waltet • Mere, Mr. E. F. Saville. Wilbert, Mr. Dale.
• ' John the Jester, Mr. Smith.
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TUESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1139.

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The House of Lords was chiefly employed last night
with a batch of Irish Bills, of which the Better Preven-
tion of Assaults: Bill—atter some observations to show
Low slovenly the Bill was drawn—the Constabulary
fore Bill, the Spirit Licenses Bill, and the Sheep-
Sterling Pill were read a second time ; the Shannon
after a short philippic by Lord ELLEN BOROUGH,
acid the Dublin Police Bills went through a Committee.
If laws could make a land prosperous and a
p:?"pie orderly, trelund most be the most pros-
pendia anti -orderly country in existence, for the Parlia-
; Inent, with a most gracious beneficence, showers upon

fi;rivarding this batch of Irish Bills, their
Lordships. discuised, in Committee, the Metropolis
r.oliet, Bill. Lord Bnounitam essayed to procure
the rejection of the third clause, giving retiring pen-
-605, but he Wil3 defeated by three, their Lordships
finding it impossible, though it were to gratify party male-

t eleace, to vote against a clause. the principle of which

is vary clear to; many of their Lordships. Clause 2.5,
e:rablinc, one Magistrate summarily to dispose of Irk-
wa's thrown out by a majority of 3, on the recon

inendation of Lord LYNDHURST. Several other clauses
were amended or rejected, and the Bill, if it pass at all,
:rill be sent down to the House of Commons very much
mutilated. It went through the Committee, but is to
receive further amendments on the Report, which is
ordered to be brought up to-day. Their Lordships
) rose before Nine o'Clock.
The first business of any importance transacted in
the House of Commons last night was the rejection of
a petition offered by Mr. FIELDEN from the Cobbett
• Club, giving a history of the malversations of Parlia-
't meta and the grievances of the people. It touched the
House of Commons too much on the raw ; it was rub-
Inez nitre into their wounds, and they' kicked it out.
Larivser to a question from Mr. EWART,
Sir J. klositousE stated that all the transit duties in
the Presidency of Bengal were abolished, but in the
Presidencies of Bombay and Madras that much wished
for result had not yet been attained.

The Lords' amendments to the Irish Corporation
Bill were, on the motion of Lord JOHN RUSSELL,
orddred to be taken into consideration that day three
months. His Lordship adverted to his intention of
briogity, in another bill this Session, but announced
tliat he- had given it up: After some observations by
Mr. SHAW, and a, tolerably long -speech from Mr.
t OToNNELL, the motion Was agreed to, and Ireland is
ti) be left with her old Corporations till the next Session.
The chances now are that she will get no Corporation
Reform at all, till she gets a sweeping one which will
2ertAinly not please the Tories.
The Lords' amendments to the Prisons Bill, includ-
- ieg their rejection of the clause to allow Roman Ca-
tholic clergymen to visit gaols containing 50 Roman
Catholics, were agreed to, under a protest from Mr.
LANGDALE sod lir. A. YATES.

Ott the third reading of the Poor Rates Collection-
' 1..;f1. Mr. DUNCOMBE moved a clause to exempt
pa
•: 1,41 -1 governed by a local Act from the operations
3
of the Bill, but was defeated by 45 to 21. Several
M,ashors then reproached Lord JOHN RUSSELL in
stro;kk terms with breach of faith. and again divided,
though equally unsuccessfully, on the question that the
de Mr. DuseomßE said that the parish
of S'. Andrew'i Holborn, had given 3,000/. for a
Act, which would now be so much waste paper.
The Birmingham Police Bill, after some fruitless op-
pc.ition, was rend a second time by 38 to 10.
, Report on the Spirit& Licenses Bill caused

so.iie little conversation, several Members contending
1 that it would injure the publicans. The Report was
however brought up on a_division by .2.8 to 19.
. •" • ,
i oavoitt opposition the Duke Of MARLBOROUGH'S
Pension Bill was postponed, but the foundation of an-
' other piece of legislation, made necessary, we believe, by
the rejection of the Irish Municipal Bill, was laid. Lord
Moapirttt obtained leave to bring in a Bill to restrain
the alienation of Corporate property in Ireland
The House rose at Half-past Ten.
,
' NV

e see by _
an advertisement which appeared in I
,:tur paper of yesterday, that the Government is about
to fund four millions of Exchequer bills, about (re-
seventh of which has been created for the Shannon
job. It is true that the bins
funded are
those dated in March aad ,Tune beast ; but they
might have been kept in circulation
issue of Exchequer bills for other Purposes been
i" had not the
inconveniently large. But whether the Shannon job,
or any other jobs, have given rise to this funding,al
ought to alarm the community to find tso
it
large an increase is to be made to the
National
Debt Debt in a period of profound peace. The charge
arising from the present proposal will amount to
one-fiftb`of the charge for the 20 millions debt con-
tracted to compensate the slave owners, which has
caused much lamentation even by the Chancellor of
the Exchequer. It is probable, indeed, that the present
loan will not be contracted for on such advantageous
terms. "as that was, and that it may add, with a
ieficient revenue, 200,0001. a-year to the national
exrutliture. Contemporaneously, then, with the
vigour 'if the Government to suppress Chartism,
the National Debt, the great source of Chartism,
and of many of the f.pb!ic difficulties and embar-
rassments, is to be iiirrease4 by four millions ster-
ling. The country appears to #s very much like
1. er,2-an lahouring under cie::.rittni &era", ns, whose
ptirecieiall compels him to take ‘'Yery day at: 47.-

creased dose of the poison, the continued use of
which has brought him into his wretched condition. 1,
We can have no hope that the lesson this reads
to our landlords will have the least influence on
them. They arc the most stolid of mortals, as
Lord HOWICK once implied. According to Mr.
OA STLER, the Parliament and the land-
owners will learn nothing from less empha-
tic teachers than fire and sword. At the same
time, while there is a possibility of drawing or
driving them back from the precipice to which
they are hastening, it is our duty to place before
them the consequences of their conduct, amongst
which the public discontent, the public extrava-
gance, and the increase of the National Debt, may
undoubtedly be reckoned.
To bring the matter more distinctly home to
them we beg to direct their attention to an
I article on the state of the money market, which we
copy from the Times. From that it appears that
the necessity of funding Exchequer bills arises
from their abundance, and the interest of money
being upwards of 6 per cent. It further appear-
highly probable that the interest of those Exche-
quer bills which are to remain in circulation, must
be raised ; and this rise of the rate of interest, and
this addition to the debt, will both constitute an
additional mortgage on the land. Now, so far as
the necessity to fund Exchequer bills, and to raise
the rate of interest on diem, springs from the rise of
the rase of interest in the market, that is immedi-
ately caused by the difficulties under which the
Bank of England labours, and they again are
caused by the Corn-laws. Consequently, what-
ever proportion of the increase of the interest on the
National Debt, funded and unfunded, falls on the
landowners, must be set off against the advantages
1 to them of the Corn-laws, for those laws take that
sum out of their pockets.
I
I But this rise in the rate of interest, caused by
the Corn-laws, operates still more injuriously to
the land-owners and to the farmers. Sir JAMES
URA iIAM has stated that five-sixths of the land
of England is mortgaged. Of course some of those
mortgages are continually falling in, and require to
be renewed, and on all the money the land-owners
now have to borrow they will be required to pay
the higher rate of interest caused by the Corn-laws.
The whole tribe of land-owners and farmers, the
former from their general habits of thoughtless ex-
travagance, and the latter from the long period—a
whole year at least, and when they first plant hop-gar-
dens or orchards, and when they breed and fatten stock,
two or three years—which must elapse before their
produce can come to market, are essentially and
emphatically a borrowing and a debtor race. On
them, consequently, the rise in the rate of interest
falls with double weight. Nor can what remains
of the usury laws protect them from the demands of
the lenders. When, as the Times says, 15 per
cent. can be made of money, will the landlords be able
to borrow at 5 ? Certainly not. The farmers may not
see the matter so clearly, because they borrow chiefly
goods from tradesmen and artificers, whom they are
to pay at Michaehnas ; but the price charged to
them will be in some measure determined by the
general rate of interest, and when they buy on cre-
dit, as they generally do, and must, in proportion as
the rate of interest is high, it will add no small sum
to their Michaelmas and Christmas bills. Many of
them, however, are direct and continual borrowers
from bankers and other moneyed men, and in such
cases this rise in the rate of interest, which is mainly
caused by the Corn-laws, will be plainly and
palpably felt. In all cases we have no doubt
that those laws take more out of the pockets of
the farmers than they put in.
There is another consideration which they will
probably overlook. It is generally, and, we believe,
correctly stated that the average rate of interest is
always determined by the average rate of profit to
be made in industrious occupations. It is also af-
firmed, and we believe with truth, that as men
must before all things be fed, the aver-
age rate of profit made by cultivating
0
the land determines the rate of profit in all other
occupations, and also determines the rate of
interest. Now, there are no circumstances what-
ever in the present state of our manufactures to
warrant a rise in the rate of interest ; but in the
great increased price obtained for agricultural pro-
duce this year, giving a high profit on the cultiva-
tion of land, there is good reason, on the principles
we have just stated, why the rate of interest should
rise. In fact, the monied classes being sure, as
Lord BACON says, to get the money into their
box, and being, in fact, the masters of the
needy ianutords and the borrowing farmers, are
taking advantage of the increased profit made by
cultivating the land to raise the rate of interest,
and so to gather to themselves .most of the gain
which the selfish law-making landlords most un-
justly and cruelly extort from the people by a tax
levied on their bread. It is to us pleasant, by thus
tracing the effects of the Corn-laws, to obtain a
conviction, that like other dishonesty, like
vulgar pocket-picking, or viler burglary, those
who practice the rascality of making Corn-laws are
but the poor tools of more accomplished money-
getters, and never rise either into wealth or dis-
tinction like the master receiver. Mr., or as he is
called King, OASTLER promises, we see, in a
letter published in the Times yesterday, that hence-
forth all the men of the North, whom he kept from
agitating against the Corn-laws, will now agitate for
the repeal orif them ; and coinciding with Lord JOHN
II ussELL, furnishing as sure a test of truth as the
coincidences of a Frenchman and Englishman, he
adds, that when they unite with the middle classes to
procure the repeal of the Corn-laws, resistance
will be hopeless and impossible. His assertions
confirm many other indications of the same ten-
dency, and justify a hope that his prophecy is well-
founded. In that case the landowners will be
compelled, amidst justly earned curses and heartfelt
contempt, to give up their scoundrel laws, while
their monied masters, the great and real owners of
their estates, will have taken care, as we have shown,
that they shall not even profit temporarily by their
rascality.

The Archbishop of CANTERBURY found him-
self in a somewhat awkward predicament in the
House of Lords on Friday last. The Most
Reverend 'Prelate was, to use a sea phrase, literally
" taken aback." He presented a petition from
somebody or other, complaining that many mem-
bers of the Church of England were sliding into
the ungodly and dangerous practice of assembling
in unlicensed places of worship for the purpose of
Divine service. The Archbishop, no doubt,
thought that he was doing good service to
religion by exposing, with a view to re-
medy, so great an abuse of Christian liberty as
such an enormity implies. His astonishment may
therefore be easily imagined, when a fierce can-
nonade was opened upon him, and the Church over
which he presides, by Lord ELLEN BOROUGH and
Lord RODEN. These Noble Lords, so far from
seconding the prayer of the petition, scouted the
notion of attempting to bolster up the Church by
restrictions, not only absurd in themselves, but im-
posing great hardships on many sincere adhe-
rents of the Established faith. Lord ELLEN-
BOROUGH took the opportunity which was thus
afforded him, to point out to the Primate of
all England the grievance which he, not differing
in one iota of form or doctrine from the State-
ordained system of worship, laboured under, in
common with all other strict members of the Church,
in being prevented, by an obsolete law, from having
Divine service performed in his house in the pre-
sence of more than twenty persons. He was so
situated that the parish-church was not easily
accessible to him in winter, and the consequence
was, that the 70 or 80 persons composing his
household were deprived of all opportunity of
worshipping their Maker in the public ordinances
of religion. So greatly did he feel this inconve-
nience, that he declared himself ready to build a
church at his own expense, and endow it during his
life, if the Church would dispense with the law.
It seems difficult to conjecture what possible
objection there could be to so generous a proposal.
We do think members of the Church are hardly
dealt with, in being compelled, as they must be
in many country districts,- either to lay themselves
ice toa severe
performed
oernma
el tj, bi
opens
considerable portion,eliogrioutos
forego thepublin their
c worship of GODaltogetherilhgouas houses,
for a
they are worse off than the Dissenters,li
thinking that this senseless' .
liable to no such penalty • this
who respect
a r e
and we cannot help
sense-
less practice, has contributed law, and more
its share to swell the
ranks of Nonconformity.
The Archbishop, not being prepared with a
reply to questions which he did not anticipate, and
had probably never considered, shuffled out of the

dilemma, by promising that any proposal made to him
in the regular way of business by the Noble Lord,
would meet with due consideration ; but oracularly
observed, that changes, which seemed easy at' first
sight, were often found to be attended with in-
surmountable difficulties. If we may judge of
the extent of the difficulty by the extent of the
change, we must agree with Dr. HOW LEY that, in
Church changes—till very lately at least—the diffi-
culties must have been indeed " insurmountable."
That ra has, however, passed away. Reform has
laid its unhallowed broom even upon the sacred
• cobwebs of the Church. Why then should the
Most Rev. Prelate, who has himself ventured to
wield this formidable instrument, shrink from a pro-
position like this which, although it should, as lie
seems to dread, disincline people from going to the
parish-church, who, by the way, do not attend it
now, would still have the effect of multiplying
churches, and not only of extending the Church,
but of extending religion also—none the worse for
being found raising her voice in unconsecrated places.
We hope the Archbishop is not afraid that the one
extension would militate against the other.

We have received a copy of the Petition of the
Cobbett Club, signed by T. SAVAGE, Chairman,
(ho. ROGERS, Treasurer, and B. TILLY, Secre-
tary, which Mr. FIELDEN offered to the House of
Commons last night, and which the House reject-
ed. Though it be long, we should willingly,
were it safe, make our readers acquainted, for their
instruction, with the language Which the House of
Commons regards as insulting. But after the
declaration of the Attorney-General, that a hand-
hill containing that language would be considered
as having a tendency to excite insurrection and
blood-shed, and be a breach of the peace, we can-
not fly in his face and ask him to prosecute us.
\Ve are compelled therefore to decline inserting the
Petition, though it was read in the House of Com-
mons. We may at the same time say with Mr.
FIELDEN, that the Petition contains scarcely any
thing which a great majority of the people, not
being members of either faction, would not agree to.

We learn from Chester that the Magistrates
there being much alarmed lest the peace of that
ancient city should be disturbed by the Char-
tists during the approaching trial of Mr. STE-
PH ENS, have issued a proclamation calling on all
householders to be sworn in as special constables,
to preserve peace and defend property. The pro-
clamation says that

"The Mayor and Magistrates have strong grounds to
apprehend that the peace of the city may be disturbed by
an attempt on the part of evil disposed persons from the
manufacturing districts to liberate the prisoners who are
about to be tried for sedition and unlawfully arming, at the
ensuing Assizes."

Nov, such a proclamation, if it have no bet-
ter authority than mere rumour,—and we are
assured it has not, will have two bad effects—it
will frighten very unnecessarily and wantonly all
the timid persons, including most of the ladies of
Chester and its neighbourhood, and it will tend
to inflame the minds of the Juries by whom the
prisoners are to be tried for sedition and unlaw-
fully arming. We are not sure that an honest and
up9ght Judge, aware of the present propensity to
alarm in the middle classes, would not find in it
sufficient reason to postpone the trial to the next
Assizes. Justice requires that these men should
not be tried while the Magistrates issue such pro-
clamations, and while the Press teems with exag-
gerated accounts of the arming of Chartists, and the
discovery of Chartist manufactories of pikes, mus-
kets, and ball-cartridges. There is a new kind of
Titus Oates terror spreading through the land, not
on religious but political grounds, against which
,fudges ought to protect the accused Chartists, for
i
vain for them to look to Juries for pro-
is in
pro-
tection.

Letters from Lisbon of the sth instant announce
that Lo RD PA LmEßsToN's Portuguese Slave Trade
Suppression Bill excited the wildest outcry among
the organs of the Slave Trade in Portugal. The
Nacional and the Procurador dos Probes are for
a war with England rather than suffer this nefari-
ous traffic—the staple of Portuguese commerce,
and the main-spring of her colonial prosperity—to
be abolished through the agency of Great Britain.
It will be curious to mark the tone of these jour-
nals when they learn that the House of Lords here
threw out the Bill, and still more so when they be-
come apprised of the determination of the
Noble Foreign Secretary to carry it, in
Ur iti,li uo
its re-introduction to the House of Com-
mons on Thursday last. The Nacional contends
that the Portuguese Government has only to issue
letters of marque against England, to enlist
thousands of foreigners under the conquering
" Lusitanian banner ;" and of course, when the
rejection of the Savery Suppression Bill by the
Lords is known in Lisbon, the same Journal, with
a modesty peculiar to the Portuguese Press, will
attribute the conduct of their Lordships to the
terror inspired by such an apprehension 1 This may
console the national vanity of the evil-doers for a
week, about which time the account of the
resuscitation of the defunct Slave Bill will reach
them. That week will have allowed time for the
slave-traders to make preparations for extending
the traffic, unawed by a further apprehension of
British vigilance ; and thus the inhuman and im-
moral conduct of tilt Lords in rejecting the first
Bill will cause the blow to descend with double
violence upon the heads of the Portuguese man-
stealers.

On the night of the 4th the country house of
Mr. O'NEIL, Danish, Belgian, and Turkish
Consul-General at Lisbon was broke❑ open and
property stolen to the amount of 1,000/. sterling,
being for the most part jewels. The robbers
murdered a servant who sought to prevent the
robbery.

The French Journals, though still occupied with the
Eastern question, are obviously unable to shed any
new light upon it. An article ita the Siecle, however,
is well deserving of notice. According to that respect-
able and generally well-informed organ of the Liberal
party, the object of the majority of the Members of the
French. Cabinet in sanctioning the assemblage of a large
military force at Toulon, is, that France may, should
the Russian fleet enter the Bosphorus, seize by a coup de
main, either upon St. Jean d'Acre, or Smyrna, in order
to make an Ancona of them. This would be a novel
mode of co-operating with England to maintain the in-
tegrity of the Ottoman Empire. And yet its suggestion
does not all surprise us. It is of a piece with the
fai.ciful, absurd, selfish, and unjust projects, which
many members of the French Cabinet are daily in the
habit of indulging.
The Journal des Debals publishes a letter addressed
to Sir JOHN M‘NEIL, late British Ambassador at the
Court of Teheran, to the Prime Minister of the SHAH,
recounting the indignities which forced him to demand
his passports, and quit Persia ; with the answer of the
Grand MousTimiu, denying or qualifying the state-
ments of the British Envoy, and attributing to his ar-
rogance
and intemperate zeal the failure of his mis-
sion. We are at a loss what degree of
credit to attach to the alleged authenticity of the
letters. But this, in truth, is of the less consequence
as they contain no important allegation not already
before the public. The only thing very remarkable
about them ►s their appearing first in a French rather
than in a English Journal. If authentic, they must
have been procured through the agency of some of the
French officers at Teheran.

In an extract from a letter from Constantinople of
the 17th ult., it is stated that HAFIZ PACHA, on learn-
ing the death of the SULTAN, surrendered the remains of
his army to IBRAHIM. If this report be confirmed,
MEHEMET ALI will have the whole military as well as
the naval strength of the Ottoman empire at his disposal.
On the night of Thursday last a fire broke: out in
the Civil Hospital at Toulon. It was extinguished
before any serious loss was sustained. No lives were
lost, nor were any individuals seriously injured.
The Editor of the Gazette de France, the Royalist
organ, was sentenced on Saturday to pay a fine of 2,000
francs, and suffer imprisonment for three months, for
publishing a libel against the Government.
The following extracts include the only remaining
intelligence in the French Journals of Sunday :
It seems certain that the Council is still as much divided
as it was some days ago, notwithstanding the assertions of
the Ministers to the contrary. On the other hand, the
language of the English press is still as hostile to Mehe-
met Ali, and as embarrassing to the Cabinet of the Tuile-
ries, which the Morning Chronicle reproaches (who would
believe it ?) with projects of aggrandizement. A portion
of the Cabinet, it is said, still insist on the necessity of as-
sembling at. Toulon a corps of troops, for the purpose
of supporting in some part of the Ottoman Em-
pirestulipeonretgthg ociations of our diplomacy, but this opinion
meets with an obstinate opposition in the highest depart-
ment of the Governmnt. It is, however, high time to
come :to some decision for events become more pressing in
proportion as our rulers hesitate. The Court appears to
have received decisive news. What may it be ? The
official evening journal does not say a word of it ; but its
very silence has added to the importance of the conjec-
tures that are in circulation. Shall we suppose that the
ilfohiteur Parisien has been instructed not to announce
that Admiral Stopford has attacked the Turco-Egyptian