The Sun.
London, England, 1839-08-22 00:00:00

THE SUN. LONDON, THURSDAY, AUG-VsT 22, 1839

LONDON :
THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1839.

The Lords did not meet yesterday. The Commons
met at two o'clock, and forwarded the Exchequer Bills
Funding Bill, and the Exchequer Bills Ireland Fund-
ing Bill.

The Bank of (Ireland) Continuance Bill was read a
second time after some remarks.

Some opposition was given to the motion for receiving
the Report on the Duke of MARLBOROUGH'S Pension
Bill, which, after a brief debate, was carried by 48 to
5. The principal opponents of the Bill were Mr. HUME
and Mr. WAYLEY.

The adjourned debate on Mr. HUME'S motion for
leave to bring in a Bill to constitute Councils in Coun-
ties was resumed, and after a few observations the
motion was withdrawn. In our estimation such Coun-
cils, or some means to place the county-rates under
the control of the rate-payers, are more than ever
necessary, since Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S Constabulary
Bill. At the same time we cannot regret that the
motion was withdrawn, since it could not possibly lead
to anything good at this period of the Session.
Mr. I 1 NE, by asking Mr. WOOD if any contracts
had been entered into for the conveyance of the West
India Mails, elicited a considerable quantity of useful
information as to the exertions lately made by the Go-
vernment to promote communication with diffe-
rent places. We cannot bring it under the notice
of our readers more summarily than by quoting
a passage of Mr. BARING'S speech. He said—
" During the last few years a weekly communication
by steam had been established with Gibraltar—a fort-
nightly communication with the Baltic—a fortnightly
communication with Corfu and the Grecian Islands--a
steam communication between England and India—a
fortnightly communication between England and North
America, and now they had secured by that last ar-
rangement, a fortnightly steam communication between
the West Indies, Mexico, and that country, which was
of great importance in the
present state of their nalColo-
Possessions." After this explanation,
adjourned. at Eve o'Clock the House

On several occ —7-------"Ib-
Czodnas lcately,as on the second Jamaica
Bill, as on the
ernment Bill, and particu-
larly as on the Birrnn h
ght
of atlPolice Bill, the Mi-
nisters have thou
BERT PEEL would say of it. nothing but what Sir Ito-
, as if he were
their roaster, they have framed tnhfactlmeasures with
t was not for
a view to obtain his approbationeir
shouted
this that the generous and confidinr,
for the Whigs and placed them iii PotEeople
nation wished to be under the yoke of the Ifthe
Tories it would place them in office, and make the
responsible for their deeds. We advert to
such a
ni
topic, to such a degradation of the Ministers, and
through them to such a degradation of the whole
Liberal party, with feelings of extreme sorrow. We
mourn over the Ministers, and we mourn over the
situation of the party of which they are the head.
To see Lord JOHN RUSSELL do the bidding of
Sir ROBERT PEEL, to find him in opposition to the
Liberals of Birmingham, and the Common Council of
London, which a few days ago petitioned against his
proceedings, to know that the great bulk of the
lower classes speak worse of him and his Government
than they ever spoke of the Tories, to hear him
spoken of as FINALITY JOHN, to find him on all
popular questions votino with the Tories, and ar-
rayed
against his own best friends, and the best
friends of the Liberal cause, all these things are for I

us subjects of deep regret. They strike a death-
blow to our hopes—they convince us that we can
place no trust in any Statesmen, whatever may have
been their professions, and they force us to say, that
the people, in spite of soldiers and police, and in
spite of treacherous friends, must help themselves.
As Mr. O'CONNELL has frequently admonished
his countrymen, if they would be free, " them-
selves must strike the blow."

We are induced to make such reflections by com-
paring the present condition of the Whigs with
their condition in 1828. It was our lot to be pre-
sent at the great festival given in honour of Lord
JOHN RUSSELL in 1828, in the Freemason's Ta-
vern, to commemorate his exertions for the abolition
of the Test and Corporation Acts. Compliments
well deserved were then poured in on Lord JOHN
RUSSELL from every quarter of the kingdom, and on
that especial occasion hundreds of enlightened and
intelligent men, the representatives of men as in-
telligent and enlightened as themselves, were
enthusiastic in toasting Lord JOHN Rus.
SELL. They shouted with joy and gratitude, and
their warm-hearted emotions were fully shared by as
many female spectators as could be crowded in the
' galleries of the room, who waved their handker-
chiefs and cheered the Noble Lord as if he had
been the benefactor of the human race.
The Noble Lord must have felt at that moment, if
ever in his life, great and happy. It was a moment
worth a whole age of routine, of office, and of
salary. It was a moment worth dying to enjoy. We
refer to that circumstance with no unkindly feelings,
but to inquire why these circumstances are changed?
Why it is that the champion who then led the noble
army of freemen to victory, should have become
almost the vassal and the slave of the Tories. We
seek instruction not crimination, and we refer to
that memorable event as a clue to Lord JOHN
RUSSELL'S present—we must call it, with all
deferente to him--humiliating situation.
For ;what was Lord JOHN RUSSELL then ap-
.
plandeC then hailed as the saviour of the country ?
What Shad he done ? He had led on the people, to
a victory over one intolerant and restrictive law.
He had aided them to pull down one pillar, ac-
cording to Lord ELDON, of the Constitution. He
had denounced a restrictive law as a violation of all
liberty, and he obtained a triumph over it. He
crushed one species of odious tyranny under his
feet. He had proved that it was inimical to the
welfare of society, and contrary to the conditions
on„which men unite together. Why is Lord JOHN
RUSSELL now unpopular? What is he now? When
he succifeed to office, he became the heir of the Tory
syste4N and the advocate of that very tyranny which
he hid:denounced, and one pillar of which he had
pulled clOwn. The system of which the Test Acts
was a part was homogeneous throughout, and as
he settled in office he necessarily became, gradually
perhaps, and without being sensible of it, opposed
to his own former policy. Had that system been of
brass and clay, it would have fallen speedily and
easily to pieces ; but it was, and is, all of iron.
The similar bad laws against the Catholics, which
Lord JOHN RUSSELL and the Whigs contributed
to abolish in 1829, and the several measures of
Parliamentary and Municipal Reform, which lie
promoted or carried, all confirm the fact that the
system he began to administer in 1830 was an
odious one of corruption and tyranny.
For a time, after he and his party accepted
office, old habits of thought and action and old
associations and connections, compelled him to go
on in the same career which led to the abolition
of the Test Acts, and the glorious triumph at the
Freemasons' Tavern. Gradually, however, he over-
came his old habits, gradually he forsook the prin-
ciples that made him combat the Tory system,
gradually the one sentiment of official duty over-
mastered all the sentiments of patriotism, and gra-
dually he became the mere servant or slave of the
Tory system, which, up to 1830, he had assailed,
and of which, in 1828, he nobly and boldly pulled
down a pillar. This change in his conduct is the
cause of the change in his situation. He has
been compelled by his subserviency to be, as it
were, a mere tool of the Tories, for they
framed the system and enacted the laws which
he carries into execution. So he appears,
to the masses, as the persecutor of inno-
cent men ; so he has become, instead of being ho-
noured and applauded, derided and abused. In
1828 he was the conqueror of the Tories, in 1839
he ooks to Sir ROBERT PEEL for approbation,
and makes war on the principles he contended for
in 1828.

What can Lord JOHN RUSSELL, and what
can the Ministers gain by this ? He can live
but a few years, he may be in office only a
few months, but the persecuting policy the
coercive system, strengthening the hands of the
squires, and extending the sphere of the Govern-
ment, he is row persuing, will last for years, and
be for years the sources of irritation, disorder, and
trouble amongst the people. He is but extending
a power which must of necessity be wielded by the
Tories. The more he extends it, and the more
coercive he makes the Government, the sooner
must the Tories execute the system which is natu-
rally theirs and not naturally that of the Whigs.
He is therefore sacrificing his own well-earned
reputation, sacrificing his glory and his popularity,
merely to hasten the return of his opponents and
the enemies of the people to office.
We might be more patient under what we consider
a lamentable tergiversation could we, for one moment,
suppose that the coercive system of the Tories is
beneficial to the country. But we look at France
and are convinced that police regulations and a mili-
tary government neither protect property nor pre-
serve tranquilliity. The French papers are every
day filled with accounts of the most audacious
thefts in the streets of Paris under the eyes of the
police. In that country there is a sedition
almost every month ; so that Lord JOHN
RUSSELL is forfeiting his popularity by in-
troducing a police and extending a tyranical
system of laws, in order to hand down his name
with odium to posterity, and promote disturbance
and disorder in the land. We are grieved to write
thus, but our duty to the Ministers, as well as our
duty to the country, compel us to remind them of
what the country said and thought of the Whigs
in 1828, and what is now said and thought of
them. They have sacrificed their own friends only
to strengthen, without propitiating, the Tories. The
change ought to convince them that they are ir. a
false position ; and that those who laboured for
several years to pull down the pillars of the Tory
Constitution, are now improperly employed in en-
deavouring to build it up and strengthen it.

As the Tory Journals are filled with bitter com-
plaints day after day of the insecurity of property in
Ireland we think it our duty to direct public atten-
tion to the evidence which we insert, given by Mr.
SIMPsoN, to the Lords' Committee, as to the value
of land in Ireland. By that it appears that so far
from property being insecure it is continually rising
in value there, and that Englishmen and prudent
Scotchmen are continually investing money in the
purchase of land. Even a Stipendiary Magistrate,
who must have had good opportunities for know-
ing the state of the country, has, it appears, be-
come a landowner. Most people think the
land high enough rented in England, particularly
when they see, every second or third year, that the
landlords graciously condescend to abate some-
thing of their legal demands on their tenantry ; but
in Ireland, according to Mr. SIMPSON, the tenants
pay higher rents than in England. Such evidence
of the increasing value of property in Ireland is a
complete and thorough answer to the thousand
columns of trashy abuse which the Tory Jour-
nals have published against the Government
of Ireland during the last five years. Add
to this the withdrawal of troops from Ire-
land, and we cannot fail to conclude, that the
conciliatory and anti-Tory Government of Ireland
has been as wise as it has been avowedly merciful
and kind. At the same time, we say, with the
Spectator, that the same test is equally applicable
to England, and when we find more troops
required here, and disturbances growing up in
every part, so that England is almost as bad as
Igrreeltatned adoption
dowasptuionnder the Tory Government,
we
cannot but conclude that the ever-to-be-re-
and co
ercivebeworse Polic
as we know it toy in En,land is as unwise
should
bybethhearshloVahnigd
loes of the Toryd tu nb jhu hfr.ldo,
\Vhyby
vernment than Irishmen ?"the Go-
at the command or supestioNnVohfenthdeidoytrhaen\g‘ie'mhiegns :
put down public meetings and hunt down the Ca-
tholics as they have put down and
hunted down
the Chartists in England at the
command of their
political opponents ? In Ireland, language has been
hlesat ed

repeatedly used quite as inflammatory, or more in-
flammatory,thati ever was uttered by 3Ir.M‘Do UALL
or M. r. STEPHENS, admitting the reports of the
hireling witnesses to be correct ; but no person was
punished for using it, and Ireland is fast becoming
tranquil. In England persecution has been tried, and
sullen discontent or violent hatred of the laws is
overspreading the land. Should such emotions be
perpetuated and extended, they will eat into the
core of England's safety. Her boasted Constitu-
tion; her famous laws, which the Whigs are en-
forcing in spite of reason and common sense, when
deprived of the people's love and respect, will be
like a weeii ly biscuit we have sometimes seen
at the end of a long voyage, not very foul
to look on, here and there only a mark
of corruption within, still preserving its form, but
lo thoroughly maggot-eaten that when knocked on
the table it crumbled into a heap of disgusting
dirt. The policy which leads to the persecution of
the masses, or the leaders of the masses, will
slowly but surely destroy the heart of Britain's
greatness, and it will, by and by, tumble by some
revolutionary shock into a heap of mournful and
offensive ruins.

We are sure the public will agree with Mr.
O'CoNrusr.A., in thinking that it is the duty of
the British Government to use every means in its
power to bring to condign punishment the Portu-
guese miscreants who have formed so horrible a
conspiracy against the subjects of this country
engaged in suppressing the slave trade. To avenge
themselves for the losses they may sustain by the
capture of their slave vessels, the persons engaged
in the nefarious trade have adopted the resolution
of poisoning the wine and water on board any of
their ships, as soon as it becomes certain that it
must become the prize of an English cruiser. Any
thing more diabolical than this, it is hardly pos-
sible to imagine. The Portuguese are allowed, on
all hands, to have been for a long time at the bot-
tom of the scale of European civilization, but no
one till now imagined that they were sunk to the
level of savage life. Yet a very little reflection will
show that this degradation is nothing more than was
to be expected. It is in as strict conformity with the
moral laws of nature, as an eclipse is with the
physical. The men whose occupation it is to traffic
in the flesh and blood of their fellow-creatures,
must be familiarised with scenes, and habituated to
deeds, which, in no very long time, wear out
the very traces of humanity from the soul. If to
be the master of slaves be so awfully demoralizing
as the sad history of our West Indian colonies tells
us it is, what must it be to be actually employed in
the fettering, the stowing, the suffocation, the
launching of human beings, and the other horrors
to which the slave-trader is a party ? Can such a
course of life produce anything but an utter depra-
vity of character ? A brutality below even that of
the brutes ?

These wretches, we repeat, must, if possible, he
punished; and the Government of Portugal is called
upon by its duty to the honourable part of the
nation, if it does not respect its engagements with
other nations, to sift this atrocious conspiracy to the
bottom. If it do not act thus, eternal disgrace
will he its portion, and its just portion. The very
name of a Portuguese will in future stink in the
nostril.

Letters direct from Constantinople of the 31st ult.,
confirm the accounts previously received of the accep-
tance by the Porte of the mediation of the Five Great
Powers in settling all differences between the SULTAN
and the VICEROY. Nevertheless the HADJI SAIB
EFFENDI, accompanied by M. ANSELM, an attache of
the French Embassy, was to set out on that evening for
Alexandria, with a splendid decoration for MEHEMET
ALI, and with an offer of the hereditary Government
of Egypt, and its dependencies, to the VICEROY and
his family, provided he would consent to restore Syria
to thO SULTAN. We see nothing in this mission but a
wish to gain time, and perhaps to obtain indirectly a
knowledge of the real designs of MEHEMET Au. This
could be better effected by the Five Great Powers,
especially now that they have taken upon themselves all
responsibility of the settlement of the question. No
one in Constantinople could really imagine that MEHE-
MET ALI would give up Syria at the request of the
Porte—thus leaving himself at the mercy of his
enemies. The possession of Syria is as indispensable.
to the independence of Egypt, as is the right of closing
the straits of the Dardanelles to the security of Con-
stantinople. This is so well known to all who are con-
versant with the merits of the question, that it would be
a waste of words to dwell longer upon it.
Besides the letters direct from Constantinople of the
31st ult., we have received the Augsburg Gazette,
which contains a letter from that capital of the Ist of
August. " The offer of intervention made by the Five
Great Powers," says this writer, " has been followed by
a letter of thanks from the Porte, in which it solemnly
repeats its assurance that it will take no step except in
concert with them. As Europe has now taken upon
itself the settlement of all the misunderstandings in the
East, and the Five Great Powers have declared that
they will act jointly and in perfect unison, it may be
asked in what measures they will agree ? The word
Independence' is vague, and the word Integ-
rity' requires modifications." The writer goes on
to enumerate difficulties with which all the world
is familiar ; but without suggesting in what way they
can be overcome ; and he concludes that the Repre-
tatives of the Five Powers had a long consultation
with NOURRI ErrENDI on the previous day, and that
M. BOUTINIEF, the Russian Ambassador, was almost
in hourly consultation with the Porte. From all this,
we glean one important fact, namely—that the Five
Powers have actually taken the settlement of this
question upon themselves, and that henceforth they are
to be held responsible for the result. The conference
will meet early next month in Vienna.

Captain WALKER has returned to Constantinople
with no very exalted opinion of the loyalty of the
Turkish navy. His mortification at being on board the
Capitan Pacha's ship when the fleet was betrayed is
extreme.

The mercantile news from Turkey is very gloomy.
Trade had suffered much by the apprehension among
merchants of a war with Ezypt, especially since the
battle of Nezib.

The French Journals of Tuesday comment with much
bitterness of tone and acerbity of feeling on the recent
debate in the House of Lords on the subject of the vio-
lem e offered by the French Authorities to the British
gum traders at Portendic. We may observe that they
might have spared themselves this waste of patriotic
indignation, by attending more carefully to the language
actually employed by Lord MELBOURNE on that occa-
sion. By misconceiving and mistranslating his Lord-
ship's speech, they have established a fanciful ground for
as fanciful declamations about French independence, and
not yielding to threats, with much more to the same effect.
When we state that Lord 111ELBOURNE never made use
of the offensive phrases attributed to him by bungling
translators, we have said all that requires to be said on
such a subject.
The KING has appointed General BAUDRAND to pro-
ceed to Constantinople to congratulate the SULTAN on
his accession to the Ottoman throne. The Constitu-
tionnel suggests that the mission of the General will be
likely to accelerate the recal of Admiral RoUSSIN, who
is judged incompetent to the functions which have de-
volved upon him by the complication of the Oriental
question.

The Eclaireur de la Mediteranee, a Toulon journal of
the 16th, states :—" Letters from the Ministry of Marine
announce that Admiral Duperre had definitively given in
his resignation, and that he no longer signs the public
documents."

The Bourdeaux journals of the 18th contain numerous
particulars of the arrival of the Duke and Duchess of
Orleans at that city. They publish the speeches addressed
to the Prince, and his Royal Highness's answer. The
reply to the speech of the Mayor has been received with
enthusiasm.

The Prince and Princess have given orders for a sum of
40,000 francs to be employed in redeeming from the Mont
de Piete, the articles pledged there, which are the most
necessary to the poor and, likewise for a distribution of
bread to be made daily during their s!ay.—Constitutionnel.
BOURSE.—.PAMS, TUESDAY, Aua. 20.

First Highest .Lowe‘t Last
Price Price. Price. Price
French 5 per Cents l:2 63 ... 112 70 ... 112 70 ... 1 2 65
4% per Cents lO6 50 ... 106 50 ... li 6 50 ... 106 50
4 per Cents lO3 ... B:3 ... las ... 10:3
3 per Cents BO 65 ... SB 65 ... 80 60 ... 8 , 60
Bank of trance 2760 ...27110 ...27:.0 ...2755
Lattitte Batik I.ooof. Sh lO6O _lO6l ...lOTA ...1(161.)
5,(1011. Sh 5225 —.5225 ... 52"25 ...52 5
Belgian 3 per Cents 7l 80 ... 71 80 ... 71 80 ... 71 80
Bcl,;ian Bank 770 ... 770 ... 767 50 ... 767 50
Coupons ......
Spanish Ac ive
Passive 4l/4 ... 41/4 •. 41/4 ... 41/4
Nes.: olitan
Roman lOO% ... 102% ... 102% ... 102%

RAILWAY SHARES.
St. Germain
Versailles, It B 6i9 30 ... 612 50 ... 607 50 ... 607 50
LB. 243 ... 347 50 ... 315 ... 245
s° Havre
trrlsiesabnusr—g. :.: **
8a1e....
Montpellier to Cette

Madrid Papers of the I3th inst. have been received.
The Gazette of that date contains a pompous dispatch
from ESPARTERO, announcing his arrival at Vittorio,
and his disappointment at not meeting the enemy,
whom he resolves to seek without delay. From the
Spanish frontier the news is more interesting. The
d sunion in the Carlist ranks was increasing ; and it was
supposed that DON CARLOS was plotting the means of
escaping to CABRERA, he being now virtually a prisoner.
Lord JOHN' HAY S conduct in the negociation with
MAnoTo has been approved of by the British Govern-
ment.

LLOYD'S SHIPPIN G-(THIS DAY.)

DEAL, AUG. 2l.—Wind N. W.—Arrived and sailed
the Windsor, Nesbitt, for Calcutta; Richmond, M'Leod,
ditto ; Carnatic, Voss, Madras ; Bebe, Wright, St.
John's, New Brunswick ; President, Buffington, Teneriffe ;
Active, Hutchinson, Odessa.

LIVERPOOL, At:o. 21.—Light variable airs.—Sailed the
Theseus, Goymer, for Calcutta; Westmoreland, Mann,
Pernambuco ; Champion,Wright, Brazils; Pink, Paterson,
Montreal ; lona, Campbell, Lubec. Off port, the Jose-
phine, for Barbadoes; Thomas Hughes, Jamaica; Pearl,
St. John's, New Brunswick; Robert Burns, Nova Scotia;
Harriet, Scott, Quebec; Margaret, ditto • :Phcebe, ditto;
Warrior, Lisbon; Stamboul, Kertch; Eitza, Saunders,
Odessa.

PORTSMOUTII, AUG. 21.-.-Wind N. E. to S.W.— Ar-
rived the North Briton, Lyall, from Soul abaya. Off
Port—The Binney, Payne, from New York; Pring, Bo-
lethe, St. Croix.

PLYMOUTH, AuG. 21.—Off Port, the Anne Robertson,
Munro, for Batavia.

• FALMOUTII, Asia. 23.—Wind N.—Arrived the Lord
Abercromby, Nish, from Odessa. Off Port—The Com-
merce, Primrose, from Odessa; Tesco, Cacoei, Gallipoli.
BRISTOL, AUG 20.—Arrived the Mary White, Buck-
land, from Quebec ; Elizabeth, --, ditto. Sailed the
ditto.
Dorothy, ___—
GLOUCESTER, Auo. 20.—Arrived the Alexandria, Keet-
strom, from Wylinig.
,
KING ROAD, AUG. 20.—. Arrived Hcbc, --, Charente.
HULL, AUG. 26.—Wind N.—Arrived the Princess
Hawes, Hamburg; Wm. Darley, steamer, Draper, ditto;
AVdoodisOonr,antigaerrisstoena,mepri::: from Amsterdam ; Flora,
A,
siway,
Wilson, Gottcnburg;
Fenv‘ick, Clarke, Riga ; Bulha, Lawson, Memel;
Fuder, Moon, Riga ; and Concordia, Alson, Stockholm.
HUMBER, !Ivo. 20.—Arrived the Roberts, Woodhouse,
and W. sh:ngton, James, Hamburg.
STOCKTON, AUG. 20.—Arrived the Esther, Nothy, from
Bathurst.

\VisaEcn, AtTG. 20.—Arrived the Navigator, Hamer,
W)burg ; Premium, a
Pi i Q
..n.y, etersuurgh.
MILFORD, AUG. 20.—Arrived, the Jane, Pattison, from
Archangel ; and Crown, Weston, Leghorn.
COWES, AuG. 21.—Arrived, the Alasco, from Matanzas ;
and Cid de alboa, Arigunaga, Havannah.
CHATHAM, AUG. 21.—Arrived, the Jane Lowden, Sauls-
by, from St. Petersburgh.
CREEK, AUG. 21.—Arrived, the Union, Pulliam, from
Trieste; and Burrells, Munden, Constantinople.
DUBLIN, AVG. 20.—Arrived Preciosa, Falek, Memel.
CORK, AUG. 19.—Arrived, the Mary Ann, Lyster, from
Leghorn ; P. kin, Olivar, Nantes. Off Port, the Queen
Victoria, Lawson, from Miramichi.

LEITH, AUG. 20.—Arrived, the Leegend, Hoppe, from
Dantzie.

SHIELDS. AUG. 21.—Arrived, the Augulta Charlotte
Dramcr, from Wolgast ; Libra, Ducie, Riga;
Guava
Packet, Dodd, Memel.

MONEYAND COMMERCIAL NEWS

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
LIVERPOOL, COTTON MARKET, WEDNESDAT.—We have
had an extensive demand for cotton to-day, and full prices
have been obtained. The sales amounted to 8,000 bags,
of which 2,500 have been taken for export.
Arrivals this morning—French and Ostend mails, ship
letters from St. Mary's, River Gambia, Matanzas, and
Batavia.

Accounts this morning at Lloyd's in their Portsmouth
letter state that seven vessels were on shore at Table 134 y,
Cape of Good Hope. This will cause great anxiety among
the commercial community until the particulars arc known.

THE RINDS.
We are again this morning without any arrivals of im-
portance, with the exception of the express from Paris,
which conveys a confirmation that the negotiations for the
settlement of the affairs of Turkey is left by the Porte to
the Five Powers.
Late yesterday afternoon it was ascertained that the
subscription for the funding of the three million five hun-
dred thousand Exchequer bills was nearly accomplished
by the timely assistance of some of our great capitalists.
The firm of Messrs. Rothschild and Company subscribed
for 500,0001. The banking firm of Coutt's also for
500,0001., and the Bank of Ireland also for the same
amount. Taking these statements to be correct, a sum
equal to 2,700,0001. out of the original contract offired by
Government of 4,000,0001. has been subscribed for, this
includes the 500,000/. taken by the Bank of England and
the 700,0001. bid for on Monday; thus there remains still to
be subscribed for 1,300,000/., which, according to the pre-
vailing opinion, will be subscribed in the course of this day
or to-morrow, which will terminate this agitated financial
affair.

This morning we have again on the tapis the matrimonial
alliance which is about to take place between her Majesty
and his Serene Highness Prince Albert Francis, second
son of the reigning Duke of Saxe Coburg. He is expected
shortly to arrive in this country. He is three months
younger than her Majesty.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer stated last night in
the House of Commons, that he could not at present give
a satisfactory answer as to the success which had attended
his plan for funding the remainder of the four millions of
Exchequer Bills, but would do so this day.
Consols opened this morning at the same quotations
they closed at 9li i Money ; 9li i for the Account; with
little doing as yet.
The continuance of the fine weather causes the Funds to
continue firm at present. but they aro not expected to re-
main in that situation when the whole amount of the
Exchequer Bills is subscribed for, as a quantity of
that stock will be brought into the market. Exchequer
Bills improved 20 to 22. In India Bonds nothing done ;
Bank Stock 1841- 1853 ; India Stock, 2462 2472.
In the Foreign Market, Spanish closed at 202 i; at
present 20 ; Portuguese,2B i 29-k ; Three per Cents.
18Z- 192 ; Brazilian, 781 ; Colombian, 311 32 ; Danish,
75 76 ; Mexican 271 28i; Dutch Two-and-a- Half per
Cents, 544 i ; Five per Cents., 1021 1034.
PltloEs OF STOCKS THIS DAY AJr ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock . 184)4 541 India stock
3 per Cent. Red. 924 4 , Ditto Bonds pm.
3 per Cent. Cons. 91%%3y%1 South Sea Stock. tooq
3s, per Cent. — I Old Annuities ......... .........
Ditto Red. gil % I New Ditto
Yew
ew 314 per Cent 98% 3's 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751
New 5 per Cent. - Exch. Bills, £l,OOO 22 23 20 pm.
Bank Long Annuities toexpire Ditto 500 22 23 20 pm.
Jan. 5, 1860 l4 7-16% Ditto Small 2O 22 23 20 pm.
Oct. 10, 1859 l4 5-46 li Ditto Commercial — par
Jan. 5, 1860. -- Ditto Advertised
Jan. 5, 1880 --- Bank Stock for Account ... 1855
April 5, 1880 - India Stock for Account ...
Jan. 5, 1870 - Consos for Account .........91%ii
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAI AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Austrian Bonds. -- Peruvian Boads —
Belgian Bonds — Ditto Account.
Ditto Account
Brazilian Bonds - Ditto New Bonds
Ditto Account
Buenos Ayres
—1 Ditto, 3 per Cent. ......
Ditto Account
A Bonds
Chilian Bonds - Prussian Bond

D oonds
tto Account -1 Russian Bonds, 182')
Columbian Bonds
Ditto Account ,— —, Ditto Account —
Di
Columbian Bonds, 1824
Ditto Account 3ll ( Ditto Account. ...... 2.1”,',N, %
Danish Bonds
Ditto Account —i Defirred 98%
Greek Bonds —l French, 5 per cent. ll2l. 514,
Ditto Bonds, 1825
—1 ------ 4 percent.
I f. C.
Ditto Account
----- 3 per cent....... —f. —c.
Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent. —! Exchange.
Ditto Account ......... ..... Dutch, 2X, per cent.
Ditto, 6 per Cent -- Ditto Account —
Ditto Account
Neapolitan — Ditto Acc0unt........ ......
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAV AT ONE O'CLOCK.

Paid. Per ,ihare.
Birmingham and Derby Railway Company 7O 75
Birmingham .nd Gloucester Railway Coir.Nny 39 27
tireat Western Railway Company ....... ..... 65 _
Ditto New ............ . .................... .. ......
, _ 2 pm.
Grand Junction Railway
1.,:n00t, And liirmiugham Railway Company
Ditto ti Shares 5 ',2
London and Croydon Railway Company M. ISs. 6d. 11 Y 4
North Midland Railway Company
York and North Midland Railway Company 3. 37
HALF.PAST ONE.
It is too early as yet to ascertain the amount of the sub-
scriptions at the Bank this morning for the remaining
amount supposed to be 1,300,0001. ; perhaps late in the
afternoon it may transpire.
Although we have few arrivals this morning of con-
sequence, both the British and Foreign Markets have a
lively appearance, and the speculators are in better spirits
than for some days past. Spanish Active is the mania at
present, and a good deal is doing in that Stock, owing to
the prevailing opinion that the civil war in that country
is drawing to a close.
_...

Consols have been in the early part of this morning 91i
for the Accctrit, when a sale of fifty thousand took place,
which caused them to recede to 914, since which they
went up to 918, at present 911; Money, 91i; Exchequer
Bills have been done at 23, at present lower, 20 prom. ;
Bank Stock lower, 184 ; India Stock 246 k, also lower.
In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active improved to
20 ; Portuguese 29 ; Three per Cents., 19k; Colombian,
31!A ; Danish, 754; Dutch Two-and-a-Hall per Cents,
54, lower; Five per Cents., 103.

HAYMARKET TIIEATRE.—The Lady of
Lyons drew a full house on Wednesday. Macready's Claude
was of course the chief attraction. Miss H. Faucit, too,
makes a very charming part of Pauline ; and these two, and
Madame Dcschapelles, are the only three characters of
any consequence. These were all three just as at Covent•
garden, but there was necessarily a change in some of the
minor
Gla vi Personages. Beauseant was by Phelps, vice Elton ;
a by Webster vice Meadows, and Dames by Strick-
land vice Bartley. Macready and Helen Faucit were
severally summoned to receive sentence of admiration at
the Conclusion, and it was abundantly testified by the
audience. Teddy the Tiler followed, and Foreign Airs
and 'Waive Graces closed the performance. These two
farces often repeated
ularity.
as they have been, still retain all
their freshness and
NOR po p
FOLK, It gives us great gratification to
state, that the Reformers of West Norfolk have now en.
tirely shaken off that apathy, under the influence of which
they were last
year induced to suffer the registration for
that division of the county to be totally neglected. This
year the registration will be carefully attended to, and
very little doubt is entertained that the result will be
highly gratifying to the friends of civil and religious li-
berty. If there should be no dissolution till after the Ist
of November (and we can hardly think there will), it is
mifs. ge
confidently anticipated that Messrs. Bagge and Chute will
be relieved at the next election frem the necessity of at-
tvndance at St. Stephen's, as the Representatives of WestNorfolk.`CanrbridyeAdverviser.
Norfolk.—
Canibrsi/
PRICE OF LABOUR.—Before the Corn-law was
passed, the wages of harvest labourers in the Boston dis-
trict were 245. per week, and throughout the country
from generally, ttoA2os., with provisions. Where are
all the laurnanity-mongers ! What has become of Poor-
d v etiser.
law Stanhope, and Bible-Society Bexley, and Plough-
man's Friend Buckingham, and Ashley the Beadle of the
Factories? Why, they are all shooting grouse, raising
rents, taxing bread, or killing game, time, and the ladies.
" A man can see how this world goes without any eyes."___
Anti Corn, law Circular.
FATAL EFFECTS Or DRUNKENNESS.—On
Tuesday an inquest was held in Goodman's•fields, on the
body of ;
an infant nine months old, who, it was alleged,
came by its death in consequence of injuries received on
the head by the mother while in a state of drunkenness,
and fighting with a woman.

MARRIAGE OF HER MAJESTY.

(From the Ms n'nq Post.)
It is our duty this day to make to the British people
an announcement which they will receive with intense
interest, and we hope and believe with unanimous sa-
tisfaction. We have received from a correspondent re-
sident at the Court of Brussels, and enjoying the entire
confidence of that Court, a communication which enables
us to state, in the most distinct and positive terms, that
a matrimonial alliance is about to take place between her
Britannic Majesty and his Serene Highness the Prince
Albert Francis, second son of Ernest, the reigning
Duke of Saxe Coburg Saalfield.
The august Prince whom so high and so auspicious
a r e tiny await, will shortly arrive in this country, ac-
companied by their Majesties the King and Queen of
the Belgians. He will arrive, we believe we may ven-
ture to say, to depart no more. He will arrive, we
ardently hope, to impart new lustre and security to the
British Crown, and to constitute the domestic happi-
ness and sustain the social virtues of the Illustrious
Lady by whom, in the ordination of a gracious Pro-
vidence, the British crown is long, we trust, to be worn.
The Prince Albert Francis of Saxe Coburg was
born on the 26th of August, 1819. He is, therefore,
three months and two days younger than her Majesty.
The father of this Prince, Ernest Duke of Saxe
Coburg Saalfield, was born on the 2d of January, 1784 ;
succeeded his father, Francis (the father also of the
King of the Belgians), on the 9th of December, 1806 ;
and married, first, Louisa, daughter of Augustus Duke
of Saxe Go ha Altenburg, who died on the 30th of
August, 1831. The issue of this marriage was the
Prince Ernest Augustus, now, together with his illustri-
ous father, on a visit to the British Court, who was born
on the 21st of June, 1818, and the Prince Albert
Francis, the distinguished object of this notice, who was
born, as above stated, on the 26th of August, in the
following year.
The Duke of Saxe Coburg Saalfield, the father of
Prince Albert, contracted a second marriage on the 23d
of December, 1832, with the Princess Maria of Wur-
tcmberg, who was born on the 17th of December, 1792.
We understand that her Majesty will not be present
at the prorogation of Parliament ; from which we infer
the probability that the Queen's Speech may contain
some allusion to the nuptial contract we have felt our-
selves authorised to announce.

Be this, however, as it may, we venture confidently
to predict that this interesting and important subject
will be brought under the notice of the British Parlia-
ment early in the next Session, and to intimate the pro-
bability that the next Session of the British Parliament
will be accelerated for the purpose of its consideration.
It is gratifying to be enabled to state that the youth-
ful Prince who is about to acquire so strong a claim to
the respect and affection of the British people is ac-
knowledged by all to whom he is personally known to
possess the graces of person and manner, as well as the
more valuable and lasting qualities of intellect and dispo-
sition which are calculated to render the respect and
affection of a virtuous and intelligent people an easy and
a natural tribute.

We cannot conclude this announcement without
breathing a prayer, in which the whole British nation
will fervently unite, that the Royal union which is
about to take place may be productive of happiness
to our beloved Sovereign, of augmented dignity and
security to her throne, and of honour and advantage to
her people.

The Earl of Itosslyn continues his select dinner
parties in Grosvenor-place for a few days longer, and then
proceeds to Melton Mowbray.
The Earl and Countess of Duck, Lady Cathe-
rine Moreton, and the Hon. Percy Moreton left Park-lane
on the preceding week for Brighton. Lady Emily is gone
on a visit to Lady Charlotte Berkeley, at her villa near
Maidenhead.
Lord Brougham leaves town on Wednesday
next to dine with the Duke of Wellington and the Corpo-
ration at Dover.
The humane opposers of the abominable slave
trade are, perhaps, ignorant of the fact that in the year
1,000, children were first forbidden to be sold by English
parents.