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according to his notion, at least, " sufficient misery
at home, in Ireland, in the north of Scotland,
in Wales, and, indeed, in London itself, as in all
large cities." These unfortunate beings (the " hun-
dred thousand in London who know not where-
withal to live to-morrow, or where to find their
bed for the night") are, according to our German
author, a kind of martyrs to national and religious pre-
judice. " They are Irish," say the religious, benevolent
English ; " they are Catholics and strangers !" The
reader, we presume, will, by this time, have been en-
abled to form a tolerably fair notion of our German's
powers of observation in these matters.
With respect to the number of Polish and other
refugees in England, their mode of existence, political
relations, &c. (a subject on which we feel inclined to
trust to our author's means of observation, with far
greater reliance than when he dilates on the peculiari-
ties of English manners), it would appear that there
are at present in Great Britain (the work is published
in 1339) about 800 Polish emigrants, the greater pros
portion of whom are resident in London; the remain-
der, for the most part ci-divant soldiers and sub-
officers, living in Portsmouth, Plymouth, and other
towns in England, Scotland, especially in Edinburgh,
and a few in Ireland. The leading political opinions of
these refugees are divided, according to our author, into
three chief factions or sects, the aristocratic, the mode-
rate, and democratic or republican parties. " Each of
these parties has its leaders, its adherents, its
laws, and its journal." " The head of the aristocratic
party is Czartorisky, the future King of Poland, as he
is designated by his adherents, and as he is himself well
pleased to hear himself called. The democratic party
has no particular leader, but is by some supposed to
look to General Uminsky as their head. The mode-
rate, or juste milieu, assemble in London round the
General Dwernicky, who seems more adapted to lead a
charge of cavalry than a political party."
In the Review of Von Halberg's" Travels in the
East" we are introduced to that last of dethroned
Princes, Milosch, and rarely have we met
with, even in books of travels, a more con-
temptible character. He can neither read
nor write ; despises learning in others ; and
has the alipearance, as well as the tastes, of a
pig-jobber. Moreover, he is an extensive dealer
in these animals, whose welfare has engaged ten
times more of his attention than the necessity of
wisely governing his subjects. The deposition of
such Princes is a negative proof of some share of
public virtue and patriotism in the people.

THE ORIENTAL HERALD.
We noticed an evident improvement in the two
last Numbers of the Oriental Herald, and we are
glad to be able to pronounce the number for Sep-
tember more spirited than any of its predecessors.
Besides some excellent articles from the instructive
pens of Emma Roberts and Mrs Postans, the
Number is embellished with two beautifully coloured
portraits of a Kunachee chief in all the " pomp and
circumstance" of military costume, and a woman of
the country, bearing upon her head a pitcher of
water, just as the women of the same country did
three thousand years ago. The synopsis of Indian
intelligence is very carefully arranged.

PICTURES OF THE FRENCH DRAWN BY
T HEMSEL VES, PART IV.
This is a translation of a deservedly popular
work, now publishing in Paris, on the plan of the
" Heads of the People," which first suggested the
idea to our lively neighbours. It is embellished

with plates—humorous in design, but by no means
equal m pint. of execution to those which illustrate
its spirited prototype. The sketches in the present
number are the " Virtuoso," the " Duchess,"
the " Midwife," and the " Horticulturist." We

extract from the first a fair specimen of the style of
this very amusing publication :
Thus shut up, thus apostrophising, and thus disporting
with his beautiful porcelain, M. de Alenussard is the hap-
piest of men. He falls upon his knees before it—he adores
it—he loves it with the utmost tenderness ; and, more
enthusiastic, more poetic than Pygmalion, he does not
wish to animate his Galatea. He does not discover a
fault about her : to animate would be to despoil her—
to deprive her of some charm ! His Galatea will never
grow old ; women painted on cups will be for ever
young ; the nosegays on the vases and plates will re-
main eternally fresh and verdant ; nothing of all that
will experience the snows of age ; the future will be
even as the present. When Pygmalion, blinded by his
enthusiasm, implored the gods to invest with life the
worshipped object of his love, he created for it, at the
same time, age, wrinkles, hoary locks, and death ! M. de
Telenussard's joy exists in the insensibility of his mis-
tress,—in the materiality of his idealisation. He cre-
ates for her all the graces which he wishes to recognize
about her ; he testifies for her an impassioned love,
which he also fills up with sacrifices ; he casts down, as
a befitting holocaust to his soft clay, first, (it is scarcely
necessary to name the primal offerings) the hard clay,
its sister, and the Queen's porcelain, its cousin ; and
then follow the old Japanese, the old Chinese, and the
old Saxe specimens, even to the admirable eathenware
of Bernard de Palissy, the Italian workmanship of
Faenza, with their rich paintings and their decorations
after Raphael,—yes, even to the Delf-ware bas-reliefs
of Lucas della Robbie.
He only knows one thing—only loves, adores,
cherishes one object—and that is the soft clay of Sevres.
The rest of the world may fall in, crumble, and he
would not pay attention to the ruins. He never reads
a newspaper ; he is not an elector ; does not belong to
the National Guard, nor to anything of that kind ; he
is the admirer of the soft clay of Sevres. This passion
for collecting curiosities—this mania—this idolatry of
the soft clay of Sevres—have exiled, as it were, M. de
Menussard from the rest of the human species, from his
fellow-creatures, and from all mundane sentiments :
they have rendered him selfish, stern and inflex-
ible in his resolutions, and miserly in everything,
save the purchase of the soft clay of Sevres
He entertains no compassion for the poor ; the recital
of a great misfortune extracts not a tear from his eye
He would see a whole quarter of the town burning be
fore he would stir an inch from his own door, or suffer
himself to experience the slightest emotion at the ca-
tastrophe ; but if one of his cups, one of his plates, or
one of his vases were to break, his lashes would be
bathed in tears ; groans and complaints would escape
from his bosom ; he would find in his heart a mine of
poetic treasure to deplore the loss of his cup, his plate,
or his vase ; and he would be lost in astonishment were
the rest of the world to remain insensible to his anguish.
He would be capable of killing the man that should
break the smallest particle of his'possessions in soft clay.
In fine, he would traverse conflagrations, purgatories,
and the regions of the damned, to save the smallest
saucer of soft clay that might be in danger of destruc-
tion ; and he would not put his feet into water to save
a drowning child ! Love is a passion which renders
ferocious those who experience it. M. de Menussard,
with his black silk skull-cap, his greasy hat, his shabby
coat, his upright and tarnished hair, his beard but indif-
ferently cared for, his hands chilled by perpetual contact
with earthenware, and his worn-out shoes, is, perhaps,
of all lovers and admirers of this age, the most fervent,
the most sincere, the most true, the most enthusiastic,
and, on that account, the most excusable in his selfish-
ness and ferocity.
By the side of M. de Menussard may invariably be
encountered, at the Auction Mart, on the Place de la
Bourse, a celebrated collector of autographs, who pos-
sesses the writing of all famous personages : but within
the last month, he has laboured under a mortal affliction
—ten lines of Moliere's own writing escaped him, and
became the property of a celebrated English amateur,
He will not recover the shock ; his days are numbered ;
he hears nothing—sees nothing, but walks about like
a miserable wretch on whom some inveterate fatality is
heavily weighing. He considers himself as a dishonoured
individual ; his collection of autographs was once reputed
to be the finest of all collections existing, and now it
is only the second in rank.
M. de Menussard shrugs up his shoulders when he
sees the collector of autographs ; he even says that he
is mad.

ORTON.—A torch-light procession of Chartists
took place through Orton on Tuesday evening last, headed
by a band of music. Two effigies were burnt opposite
Mr. Winder's, but nobody could learn who they were in-
tended to personate. This demonstration was a matter of
su prise to the good people of the retired and quiet town
of Orton.—Kendal Mecrury.
FIRE DAMP EXPLOSION.—On Monday morn..
ing, when the children employed in Mr. Haigh's colliery,
at Sinking Wood, were entering to their work, a slight
explosion of damp occurred, by which the first in the gang,
a little boy named Barraclough, was severely burned, but
hopes are entertained of his recovery. The rest of his
companions were very little hurt, and were able to make
their way back out of the works. When Barraclough was
found he was nearly suffocated ; his shirt, except the collar
and wrists, was completely consumed, and his face is
dreadfully scorched.—Halifax Express.
DISTRESSING SUICIDE.—On Friday night a
young gentleman, named William Henry Legge, about
twenty years of age, resi ling about five miles and a half
from this city, and son of the late General Legge, com-
mitted suicide by shooting himself through the head with
a pistol. The deceased had formed an attachment with a
young woman of the neighbourhood, Miss Eliza Sterry,
which attachment, it is said, did not receive the approba-
tion of his mother. On Friday night came home about
aw quarter pest ten o'clock, in company with the young
tmha:einrrrts,:oneosnheyidwsiozianduefodent megrtahwahpe he was paying his addresses. Having
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knelt
pistol to his month,
feet. The jury returned a verdici that deceased ee-
the
stroyed himself, being at the time in fell a corpse at her
derangement. Miss Sterry, as a state of temporary.
received a terrible shock from titetr
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as the mother of the deceased, was not considered in a fit
otate to be examined on the inquest.—Gloucester Journal.

THE TOURNAMENT.

[ln addition to the full accounts o' th. 3 fcolish and un-
lucky exhibition which we published on Saturday, we give
the following particulars up to Fridaj.l
THURSDAY, Ave. 29.—The lists in the park of Eglintoun
Castle at this time exhibit the appearance of a pond.
Yesterday at three o'clock the procession, of which the
programme has already been given, entered the place
appointed for the feats of the stalwart men at arms, amidst
a deluge of rain and an incipient tempest of wind. The
ladies, the Queen of Beauty and her attendants, were
brought to their seats in the galleries in close carriages,
and by that means escaped a portion of the soaking to which
the rest of the company were subjected. The trumpets
sounded gallantly as the procession entered the barrier, and
those who could exalt their voices, and were not afraid to
open their mouths for the rain, shouted amain. The
knights attempted to return the compliment, by bowing
to their admirers, but it was only an attempt : they sat
so stiffly in their iron panoplies, that bowing without
rolling out of their saddles was an impossibility, and,
consequently, they passed on in frigid and unbending
dignity. The day, which had dawned auspiciously for the
sports, assumed by twelve o'clock an appearance which the
most sanguine admirer of the tournament could not misin-
terpret. Black and louring clouds were gathering toge-
ther in threatening heaps all over the horizon, and by the
time the sun reached the meridian of Eglintoun, down
came a torrent of water from the heavens, which at once
put an end to all hopes of a fine day. There were by this
time about 20,000 persons assemble‘d : of this number the
elite, consisting of perhaps 500 or 600 were under cover,
whilst the host had nothing but great coats, umbrellas,
and patience to compete with the inauspicious elements.
Some few got under the trees in the park, but as there
were no trees in the immediate vicinity of the listed field,
the immense majority had no such resource to apply to. In
front of the castle were drawn up bands of musicians on
horseback, dressed in ancient and quaint costume, and at
intervals sounding a flourish of trumpets, shawms, and cor-
nets. In this place, previously to the formation of the
procession, were seen knights and esquires, bowmen and
billmen, exhibiting themselves to the ladies, who peeped
out of the castle windows in admiration of their feats.
" Upe the alures of the castle, the ladies there stode,
And byhulde this noble game, and which knyghts were
gode."
ROBERT OF GLOCESTER, Ring Arthur's Tournament.
Some doubt at this time arose amongst the multitude
whether or not the thing would come off ; however it did
at length come off, and, as has been said, at three o'clock,
amidst the rain and wind, the procession entered the lists.
The ladies having taken their scats, the Queen of Beauty
(Lady Seymour) and her immediate attendants occupying
the' centre of the grand stand, the business of the day
began forthwith. The jousting was much the same—or,
rather precisely the same—as that which took place at the
rehearsal at the Eyre Arms, at St. John's-wood, of which
an account was given some week's back ; the barrier which
divided the jousters was, however, much better arranged,
and considerably longer here than at the Eyre Arms.
Lances were shivered and some smart encounters took place,
but there were fortunately no scrions accidents. The Earl of
Eglintoun, in a splendid suit of brass armour, encountered the
Marquis of Waterford, and broke two spears in the conflict.
The Noble Earl was then declared the best knight of the'
day, and rewarded by the Queen of Beauty with the crown
of victory, amidst the shouts of the spectators. Other
knights exhibited their prowess in similar feats, and a fu-
rious contest on foot between two fermidable personages in
armour, armed with two.handed swords, took place, to the
delight of many and the terror of others. One of these per-
sonages was a huge dragoon, whose "long sword fell
heavily on the back and shoulders of his adversary, which
adversary, a well-known performer at the minor theatres
of the metropolis, returned the obligation by battering the
sains of his antagonist. The pertinacity of these individuals,
had it been exhibited in a better cause, would have been
highly meritorious, but as the case is, produced nothing but
sore bones to both. It was about this time that the
news reached the lists that the banqueting-hall Red
the ball room, constructed of enormous tents, were
in a flood of water in consequence of the incessant
rain having penetrated the roots and sides. The Earl
of Eglinton immediately announced to the company in
the grand stand his regret at what had taken place, and his
inability to entertain them as he had intended. The No-
ble Earl appeared completely out of spirits with the un-
fortunate resvlt of the ra;n, but rallied like a true knight
to make this unfortunate announcement. It was received
with somewhat long faces by those who had been invited to the
banquet and ball, and by a grin of something like satisfac.
tion by those who were not favoured with invitations.
Meantime the rain bad net diminished in violence. The
whole place of the tournament was soaked like a wet sponge;
those in the uncovered seats had long been wet through,
and through the roof of the large covered stand the pelt-
ing of the storm was beginning to penetrate. Barons,
knights, 'squires, dames both of high and low degree,
demoiselles, Highlanders, Lowlanders, bagpipers, trum-
peters, heralds, and pursuivants, were all wet through.
One gentleman, whose enormous red nose procured him
the title of " Rouge Dragon," afforded amidst this ele-
mental strife much diversion by the pains he took to pro-
tect his costume, and the queer feature from which he de-
rived his title. Another individual, whom the mob called
the " King of Beauty," and whose appearance was that
, of a London coalheaver, dressed in a green baize suit of
I clothes trimmed with black worsted, (from the ward.
robe of one of the London theatres), and evidently under
the inspiration of whiskey, excited great curiosity by
continually crossing and re-crossing the lists, followed Ly
a boy who carried an immense carpet bag. The whole
of this goodly phalanx, accompanied by monks, pilgrims,
Gurths, Wambas, and other descendants of the Witless
family, began their retreat from the park about five o'clock;
the roads then presented a most singular appearance.
'the carriages to convey this mass of persons to their desti-
nations were not sufficiently numerous by one half. Those
who were afraid of catching cold had partaken in many
instances too freely of the " creature," which they had
imported in pocket pistols for home consumption. This
had imparted an animation to their language and gestures
much more grotesque than elegant. Persons in costly
velvet and gold, and satin shoes, had to trudge eight miles
through the mud before they could take " their ease in
their inn ;" and this morning hundreds are cursing their
own folly and the weather, sehich has punished their bones
with rheumatism, lumbago, and cramp. The rain is still
descending in torrents, many have gone home, but more
are still arriving. The age of chivalry, has, for the pre.
sent, certainly departed, but its convulsions will probably
continue for a day or two longer.— Times.
The Jester, who, we were given to understad, is both a
wit and an artist of no mean ability, contributed not a
little to the amusements of the day. He cracked many
jokes, and good ones too, which told with increased effect,
from his grotesque appearance with his cap and bells, and
the ludicrous caparison of his Rosinante. In his several
visits to the Reporters' Stand, " the son of Witless"
rejoiced in the delivery to the " Knights of the Quill"
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like a mule ?" " Wamba" nett came up to the Stand
mentioned, and requested and received a pencil, with which
he said, with great solemnity, showing his sketch book,
that he intended to engage his professional talent upon an
Irish scriptural subject—The Marquis of Waterford's
head on a charger—(The Marquis alluded to had just
mounted fur a tilt. )—" Ho, ho," said he of the Cap and
Bells, "my Knights of the Sheet, if the Highland Eagles
have to wait for a dead Knight to-day, it will be a long
time before they get one. They'll be infernally hungry by
that time, I guess "—" See you yonder Knights tilting at
a ring ; that's very effeminate sport—just what ladies do—
trying to catch the ring."—Ayr Advertiser.
On Friday the weather was delightful, and, notwith-
standing the deluge of the preceding days, the grounds
were in a condition well calculated to do justice to the
wishes of the Noble entertainer. Under these favourable
circumstances the magnificence of the display exceeded the
expectations which had been formed in reference to it,
great as they were. The immense congregation of
strangers has given an impulse to trade here which is be-
neficially felt in many quarters. The taste displayed in
the arrangements, and the perfect manner in which the
whole affair was got up, merit the highest commendation.
—GlasgowEOLlNTOUfrail.
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rendering the place fit far the purposes intended. In con-
sequence of this favourable change in the weather, the
company from the different towns, villages, and places
adjacent, began by eight o'clock in the morning to put
themselves in motion. The roads were crowded with the
curious, and with those who had been disappointed the
previous day. By one o'clock, upwards of 10,000 persons
were assembled, and numbers more continued to crowd
in. About two o'clock the procession moved from the
castle. The order of this part of the tournament was
similar to that which took place on Wednesday, and
which has been already described. It was certainly a
gorgeous and most splendid pageant. The gre at
variety of armorial bearings on the surcoats of
the knights and squires, the rich housings of the
horses, and the costly trappings of the riders, the highly
polished armour of the chevaliers, and the elegant costumes
of the ladies, mingled in gay confusion, produced a spec-
tacle exceedingly brilliant and pleasing. There were bands
of archers, troops of Highlanders, and an almost endless
succession of esquires, men-at-arms, halberdiers, and
other formidable personages in quaint yet not unpicturesque
attire. The tournament commenced with the jousting of
the knights, who challenged each other to the lists.
The trumpets sounded the charge, and the heralds pro-
claimed the result. The jousting was followed by riding
at the ring, and the quintain, and the mode, closed the
labours of the day. In the mele, eight knights in com-
plete armour on horseback, fought with swords, and some
Leavy blows were exchanged. There was but one accident,
and that a slight one. Mr. Jerningham was wounded by
a sword cut in the wrist, as it appeared to the spectators,
from the inefficient manner in which his gauntlet was
secured. The Marquis of Waterford seemed very anxious
to carry the contest beyond what the rules of the tourna-
ment allowed, and some heavy blows were exchanged
between him and Lord Alford. The marshal of the lists,
Sir Charles Lamb, very properly interposed his authority
between the combatants, and order was instantly restored.
The procession then left the ground at six o'clock, much
in the manner in which it had entered, the Queen of Beauty
and her attendants being on horseback. In the course of
the day Lord Craven was thrown from his horse, but re-
ceived no injury beyond a severe shake. The Marquis of
Waterford also got a tumble, but was unscathed ; and the
horse of Mr. Lamb tell with his rider ; neither were
much hurt. At eight o'clock the banquet commenced in
the temporary room erected for the occasion. This was a
grand sight ; nearly 400 persons sat down to a splendid
feast, consisting of all the substantial dishes of ancient
Scotch and English cookery, and all the delicacies of
the modern art. The whole was served up in dishes
and covers of exquisitely wrought silver, partly se-
lected from the family plate of Lord Eglintoun, but
principally furnished from the stores of Messrs. Storr
and Mortimer, of Bond-street. The room was lit by
very beautiful lamps, furnished by Messrs. Phillips, of
Regent. street, and presented a brilliant effect. All the
party were in rich costumes of the days of chivalry.

Lord Eglintoun made a short speech after the removal of
the cloth, in which he expressed his hopes that tournaments
would become fashionable amongst the nobili y and gentry
of the country; he had shown that they could be revived,
and that tilting could be practised without danger. His
Lordship's Address was received with great satisfaction by
his numerous guests, all of whom expressed their
satisfaction at the entertainments of the day, and the hos-
pitality of him by whom they had been given. The ball
commenced shortly after 12 o'clock, and dancing was kept
up with great spirit till day-break, all the persons
present appearing in their costumes, and mingjing
in the quadrilles, gallcpades, &c., with an energy which
proves the bracing effects of the sea-breezes of the rtes-
tern coast of Scotland upon the nerves and sinews of
the most delicate. It was announced that the tournament
would be resumed to-morrow (Saturday), if the weather
proved favourable. The lower ward of the castle was a
scer.e of festivity and rejoicing. This portion of the edi-
f.ee represented the fabled histories of baronial residences
of the early days of chivalry to the life. The feasting and
carousing was kept up con amore throughout the night, and
daylight dawned upon the revels of noblts, knights, squires,
men-at-arms, archers, and retainers.
" Where throngs of knights and barons bold,
" In weeds of peace high triumph's hold ;
" With store of ladies whose bright eyes
" Rain influence and judge the prize.
" With pomp, and feast, and revelry,
" And mask and antique pageantry."
SATURDAY, AUG. 31.—T0-day the state of the weather
has prevented the jousting : the rain descends in torrents,
and the fatigues of the last eight-and-forty hours have sub-
dued even the iron nerves of the most formidable cham-
pions. The castle is full of guests, and the houses and
public inns at all the adjacent towns are still closely packed
with visitors. The wind is blowing hard on the coast, so
that those who are about to take their departure are a little
alarmed at steam-boat conveyance, and all vehicles that
cats be procured are already engaged to convey the home-
ward bound to Glasgow and other places by land.— Times.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.

(MONDAY.)
TlMES.—Notwithstanding the great pressure for
money in London, it appears that it is by no means
joint-stock
banks in those parts of the country where
banks are situated, which have entitled themselves to a
regular supply of money from the Bank of England in
return for their forbearance in abstaining from the issue-
of any notes of their own. Under the arrangements
made by them, they are entitled to a fixed sum of 3
per ceat. interest only, and they are absolutely binding,
it seems, on the Bank during the present Charter,
whatever may be the value of money, and the demand
for it elsewhere. It follows, that these banks being
under no distress or apprehensions for themselves, and
' being, moreover, desirous-of promoting the prosperity of
their districts; do not hesitate at lending, to traders in
good credit, at. '5 per cent., and in many instances
as low as 4 per cent. - In London the rate may be
said to vary from 6 per _ cent. for good mer-
chants' and bankers'l2tills, to 10, 15, 20 per cent.,
or almost any rate
.that can be named for the in-
ferior classes of traders. The customers of the country
banks are not only placed more at their eas3 by the
superior facilities they obtain on the spot, but cease send-
ing any bills for discount to the London market, while
those who arc in a' train for obtaining facilities through
country connexions will even send bills from London to
be discounted. A more important consequence is, that
the whole weight of the circulation of the country is
thus thrown upon the Bank of England, and their
attempts to contract it in London are frustrated. The
small amount of bullion now remaining has to sustain,
not only their own notes issued at home and through
the branch banks, but, by virtue of the legal tender
clause, the notes also of the issuing country banks.
Nothing can remedy this state of things but some great
expansion of the foreign trade of the country, which
the high price of goods and of produce effectually for-
bids, so that the future is looked forward to in general
with much despondency.
The English Funds continue to fall, and it is impos-
sible it should be otherwise, so long as the suspicion
exists at the Stock Exchange that the stock obtained
by the Banks of England and Ireland uuder the late
conversion of Exchequer Bills is about to be thrown
on the market. All the movements of the brokers
who usually make sales for them are watched with much
jealousy by the jobbers. It is supposed, however, that
they managed, in the course of the morning to dispose
of nearly 100,0001. Consols. Meantime the sale of Ex-
chequer Bills has become almost as difficult a matter
as it was before the late reduction of the amount in
circulation was effected through the conversion. In-
deed, it is difficult to see how the price of them is to be
sustained so as to prevent their being paid in for duties,
and so diminishing the amount of the revenue. Com-
mercial bills have been done Bs. discount. and the or-
dinary bills bore a premium of 3s. to 53. only. Money
continues very scarce at the Stock Exchange, and some
great sacrifices were made in the sales of Consols for
money compared with the account. Bargains were
done at 89i. for money, but the last quotation was
891 to 89 for money, and 901- buyers for the account.
ndia Stock was 2481 to 249 ; hank Stock, 184 to
185.

POST.—We prepared our readers towards the close
of the past week, by the information we then gave them,
with rogard to the views of the Bank Directors, relative
to the circulation, to expect that some additional strin-
gency might before long be felt in the Money Market.
That such has been most decidedly the case to-day was
sufficiently obvious from the declining state of the
public securities. Consols, which opened at 90y for
Money, dropped abruptly to 89i, and, although in con-
sequence of some limited purchases which were subse-
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quently made there was a rally, it was but a very feeble
one,t
. and the effect even of this proved of no great du-
ration. The closing rates were 891 for Money, and
90:12- to for :,he account. Exchequer Bills left off at 3s.
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It has irw become a matter of notoriety that some
of the principal bill brokers have been warned of the
necessity which exists for the adoption of a more cau-
tious and prudent system than has been hitherto pur-
sued. This may have been with reference, in all pro-
hibility,to the co-operation they have been in the habit
of affording to certain country establishments, by means
of which speculation and monopoly have been so injudi-
ciously upheld, to the great detriment of the real inte-
rests of the nation. The measures adopted by the Bank
of England in former years for correcting an unfavour-
able course of exchange were at once found to be effi-
cacious ; but, now that
these measures are counteracted
by another class of institutions by whom their power is
shared, though not so their responsibility, and which
have, therefore, nat the same object in common, in
that respect to answer the case is far otherwise. Month
after month parses over, and still the evil it is proposed
to remedy continues in operation. Had it not been for
the joint-stock banks in the country, each of which
is placed in immediate competition with other
banks, and struggling as it were for an existence, it is
impossible but that the prices of commodities should
have been sufficiently lowered by the action of the
Bank of England that has now been so long in progress,
to cause an export business, the consequence of which
would have been the establishment of a balance of trade
in our favour, and a return to the Bank coffers of a
portion of the treasure that has been taken from them
to pay for corn and American and other stocks and
shares of various descriptions.
Notwithstanding what we have here stated, commer-
cial bills of a strictly legitimate character have, we un-
derstand, been discounted at a somewhat reduced rate
of interest to-day. Indeed, we are informed that the
bill-brokers, whose interest it is to keep up the charge,
have offered accommodation at 6 per cent. per annum.
We do not believe that the rates demanded on the Con-
tinent will be at all permanent. A draft of silver for
Russia (little or no gold is required) will, it is thought,
be,
be quite temporary, and we are assured that the provi-
sion made in this country on German account, in the
shape of ready funds, it, ample for the purchases which
will be needed shortly of our manufactures for continen-
al purposes.

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Mr. Tollemache, cif Tilbury Lodge, near Tar.
porley, will stand for the southern division of Cheshire a
the next election.—Speeator.
THUGGEE IN INDIA.—The Edinburgh Re
view was the first of th e English press to bring the sub-
ject of Thuggee completely before the British reader, and
documentary evidence to a great extent has since been pub-
lished, confirming details which appeared at first to be in-
credible. The new work on this subject " Confessions of
a Thug," by Captain Taylor, an officer in the service of a
native Prince, has not only this documentary authority
to depend upon, but the still stronger one of personal ex-
now active tly engaged in the suppression of
,dia,The work, therefore, although characterised
ex-
perience, authenticated by the acts of the British Govern-
ment
inside nts of romance, is essentially mbt
hyee nastl
yl in
st the
his-
torical, the narrative being literally the confessions of a
prominent actor in the terrible scenes of murder which
have systematically devastated India for centuries, and is
only indebted to fiction f, it the few connecting links which
were necessary to sustaii t the reader's interest in the talc.
—Morning Herald.
ST. PETERSBURG-H, AUG. 15.—Count Ben-
kendorff, commander of the gendarmerie, and chief of the
~•psecret military police, has denounced to the Emperor
Nicholas
of the
existence: of political societies among the
officers the First Cos of Army and those of the regi-
ment
of Hussars of the Imperial Guard. The Autocrat
was startled by the disclosure, and instantly issued a Ca-
binet order, providing, first, that the individuals suspected
of belonging to those societies should be arrested, and
tried with all the rigcur of the military laws ; secondly,
that the command of the First Corps of Army be taken
from the cavalry general, Baron Geismar, and that of the
Hussars of the Guard ftNt)m Major-General Narwert ; that
these two officers be ph iced on the half-pay list, and suc-
ceeded in their eomman ds, the first by Lieutenant-General
Tymafujet, and the so cond by Major-General Plantine.
The number of officers turested is very great.—Commerce.