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an'l will bring all police, as a means of preventing I
crime, into disrepute.
At present there a police forte extending all over
Ireland, placed under the authority of the Secretary
of State. The Rogue Money Bill, and the Con- I
stabulary Bill, will establish a similar police
throughout the rural districts of England and Scot-
land ; but it will be placed under the control of
Justices, who are responsible to no person but the
Secretary of State. Both Bills are excluded from
boroughs having Charters, or Police Acts ; and
to make up for that, the Secretary of State
seems resolved to get the control of the police
in them. There are now three Bilk passing
through the House of Commons for improving the
police in Birmingham, Manchester, and Bolton,
each of which authorises her MAJESTY to appoint
a Chief Commissioner of Police in each of these
towns, and enables him, under the authority of the
Secretary of State, to appoint such a police
force as he thinks fit for each. When to
these Bills we add that the metropo-
litan police is already placed under the
said Secretary, and that the appointment of the
Magistrates in all the boroughs excepted from the
Rural Police Acts belongs to the Secretary of
State, it appears that we shall soon have esta-
blished in , Eno eland as in Ireland, a complete sys-
tem of gendarmerie. While the people are talk-
ing about it, the thing is silently dune, and a po-
lice is established.
It should be noticed that the three Bills men-
tioned will place in the hands of the Ministers
three new offices of considerable importance.
A Commissioner of Police in each of those towns,
and probably others will follow, having the appoint-
ment of the police, will be a person of great influ-
ence, and will enable the Minister of the day to
control to some extent the electors of the borough
in which he is placed.
We have sometimes heard it said, and have our-
selves supposed, that the Ministers wanted vigour
and sagacity to attain their own ends. It now ap-
pears that they have only wanted definite ends ;
and that when they have them, it is impossible for
men to go straighter or more determinedly towards
them. They keep on a right line. If they had
in the course of their career exhibited the same
kind of vigour and determination in controlling the
Tory Lords and Squires—in repressing the arro-
gance of the Bishops—in procuring the repeal of
the Devil's-laws—in abolishing Church-rates, which
the Dissenters have a right to expect, as they now
exhibit in parsing these Bills, and so extending their
own patronage and power, the mass of the popu-
lation would not now have to mourn over blighted
hopes, and the country would probably have been as
peaceful and prosperous as it is disturbed and dis-
tressed. If they had coerced the unjust landlords
the presumptuous meddling priesthood, and the in-
timidating, oppressing Tories, they would have had
no occasion to increase the army, to establish a
rural police, and to coerce the people. The re-
ceivers of rent and tidies might not have held their
horns so high ; the Bishops might have been
obliged to lay down their coach-horses and some
of their footmen, and might have been reduced
to live somewhat like their Master. The landlords,
too, might have been obliged to abate a little of
that vain pomp and profligate expenditure which is
undermining their own morale and the morals of
the nation ; but the empire would not have been
threatened with civil war, and the Government
would not have fallen, as Mr. WARBURTON justly
said it has fallen, into anarchy.

the Government of Ireland, which he thought vvr.
an infraction of the law.
But f then he is cOndeinned most vOienientiv or
attacking ft Liberal Government. To judge him
correctly, we must place ourselves in his position,
and we know that with his opinions as to Commis.,
the Extension of the Suffrage; the Corn-laws, &c.
he has ceased) with Many eithel.- persons, to regard
the MinistErB at deserving the name of a Liberal
Government. He treats them as nsuipers of a
noble title, and as living on a departed reputation.
Besides; all Parliamentary proceedings are so much
tarried on with a view to party and pei'stinal
objects, in which patriotism anti principle are always
cast overboard AS toeless incumbrances, that Lord
BROUGHAM is no more to be condemned for at-
tempting to obtain his own ends, by attacking Lords
MELBOURNE and NORMANBY, than Mr. Hum
is to be condemned for attacking Mr. SPRING
RICE about the Bank of Ireland. We differ in
toto from Lord BROUGHAM'S view of Lord NOR-
MANBY'S Government. We see a people pacific,
a country governed without the former coercion, and
without troops ; we see party and religious strife
much lessened, and, ad•mring the results, we con-
clude that the law which has been over-ruled, to
obtain them, is itself a wrong. Lord BROUGIIAM,
like the great body of politicians and lawyers, deems
the law of more importance than society ; and he
overlooks the results to vindicate the law. On the
same principle he cares nothing for names and old
alliances, and to vindicate the law he attacks the Mi-
nisters We regret his conduct, but we cannot join
our Ministerial Contemporaries in describing it as
baseness and treachery, without the shadow of apo-
logy or justification.
To say one word of the -vote of the Peers.
What is it worth ? Nothin: Every man knows
that it is the dictate of faction. It will not alter
the results of Lord NORMANBY'S Government,
which attest its goodness. , Lord lton EN may rave
for a whole century, and the Peers may vote as the
Duke of WELLINGTON bids them for as long a
period ; but the raving and the voting will never
change the character of the'proceeding, or give the
decision the least weight with the country. There
. however, is, nno antagonist power to resist the
Lords. The Commons are virtually disbanded.
The few Ministerial dependents who nightly attend
to pass Bills, will have as little weight with the
country as the Tory faction in the Peers.

We are glad to hear that the friends of educa-
tion have resolved to aid the Government grant by
private subscription, and that a considerable sum
has been already contributed. At the head of the
list is her MAJESTY, for 1001., Lord JOHN US-
SEL L 1001., and several other influential parties
considerable sums—one of whom has subscribed
2001.

We learn from Hanover- that a petition to the
King, signed by nearly 300
,Citizens of Osnaburgh,
and forwarded to his Majesty by post on the 27th
ult., was returned to them unopened This is a
specimen of King ERNESie'S respect for the
opi►►ions, and of his Royal and parental regard
to the prayers, of his subjects. The petiti►n►
we understand implored his Majesty to dismiss
his man of all-work VON SCH ELE, and to call to
his councils a Minister enjoying, or deserving to
enjoy, the confidence of the country—an object
purely legitimate in any country where it is pre-
tended that a constitutional Government exists.
The people, however, will and must be heard.
If driven to it they will find a m ore discordant
mode of assailing the Royal ear, than through
the respectful form of an humble petition.

The Postage Bill was last night read a third time
in the House of Lords, and is now therefore past all
danger. It only requires her IVIAJESTY'S assent,
which is in fact that of her Ministers, who brought
in the Bill, to become the law. The only fault we
find with the Bill is that it leaves too much to the
discretion of the Treasury, which at present means
the discretion of Mr. SPRING RICE, who has
not so conducted himself as to inspire the public'.
with confidence either in his integrity or his
talents. They will feel, therefore, that it will
be necessary to watch his progress, and to remind
him from time to time, till the measure be
brought into operation, of the task he has under-
taken. We have no fear that he will endeavour
ultimately to disappoint the public, but he may delay
the gratification of their wishes—he may carry a
scheme, to which he is evidently averse, so incom-
pletely into effect as to mar it—and as he will have
such great power under the Bill, it will be necessary to
watch his proceedings. The public will not brook
a very long delay, and therefore we hope that Mr.
R ICE will use his utmost diligence in carrying the
preamble of the Bill into effect, and will speedily
establish a uniform penny postage.

Letters from Malta, of the.26th ult., inform tic,
that the Powerful and the- Ganges had arrived
there, and were preparing, in conjunction with the
Daphne corvette, to join the squadron of Admiral
SToPFoRD, then at the Dardanelles. There
would then be eleven English, and six French
ships-of-war, besides nearly an equal number of
small craft, to oppose any movement of the Russian
fleet in the direction of the Bosphorus. The state
of Turkey is truly pitiable. In the midst of
professions of universal amity,--for even MEHE-
MET ALI professes boundless loyalty she
finds herself surrounded on all sides by
hostile, or at least suspicions demonstrations, and
in danger of being made the' theatre of a war in
which -the Great Powers. of .Europe shall be the
principals. The occupation of Constantinople by
a foreign army under the most favourable circum-
stances—by an English and French prOtecting
force—would fearfully shake the popular Moham-
medan belief in the stability of the Ottoman throne.
According to a letter in the Austrian Observer
HAFIZ PACHA has been replaced in the command
of the army by SAADULAH PACHA, formerly
commander of the army of the East. The same
journal states that numerous other changes of high
functionaries were recommended by the Divan, and
about to be adopted by the SULTAN.

The proceedings in the House of Lords on Tues-
day evening have given rise to numerous com-
ments, in which we have scarcely shared. In fact,
we side with neither faction, and, openly speaking
our minds, are not likely to please either.
Deeply do we regret to see Loid BROUGHAM
lending himself—even admitting that he is not sen-
sible of any such intention—to promote the purposes
of the Tories. If there be any part of the policy of
the Ministers which deserves approbation, on ac-
count of its truly liberal and useful tendency, it is
their Government of Ireland. It was, and is, per-
haps, contrary to law, certainly it is directly at vari-
ance with former practices, but it is agreeable to
justice. It defers to the wishes of the majority. It
has been found eminently useful. The country
enjoys comparative peace and prosperity. The law
and the practices which have been set aside are
only intended to promote the public welfare, and
the presumption from success is that the law and
the practices were erroneous.
If the means by which they have brought about
these results needed apology or excuse, an intelli-
gent and liberal politician would find it in the
fact that the legal practices in Ireland, as well
as the proceedings of the Government, have
been, time out of mind, loose to a degree unknown
in England. They were, in fact, all framed for si-
nister party purposes ; they were relaxed or
tightened as the VICEROY and his subalteins were
mild and merciful, or harsh, cruel, and vindictive.
That Lord NORMANBY obtained such useful re-
•sults by setting aside the law and departing from
the ancient practice, is as striking a proof as has
lately been afforded that something more, and be-
yond, and better than the law is required to pro-
mote social welfare.

There is no domestic news of intereit in;the French
Journals of Thursday ; nor is the intelligence from the
East of much importance. The Commerce has the fol-
lowing letter from St. Petersburg. dated the 26th
We learn that Count Nesselrole has just signified
to the Cabinets of the Tuileries and St. James', 64 if
Mehemet Ali refuses to accept the whole of the pro
posals made to him by the Divan, Russia and Austria
will send troops into Turkey to defend the Grand Seig-
nior an i the Ottoman empire against their enemies. In
consequence of this resolution► fresh instructions have
been sent to M. do Boutenieff, at Constantinople, and
several superior officers have gene to Odessa to join the
army of the south. Important intelligence was re•
eeived this morning from Tiflis. It is stated that after
the Russian troops had gained some successes in Upper
Daghestan, General Grabbe marched with 35,000 men
to Ackalzic, on the Turkish frontier, for the purpose.
it is said, of covering Erzeroum ; but the Abases and,
the Tschetchentses having taken advantage of this move
to attack Gagry, Soudjoum Kale, and the rear of the
Russian army, General Grabbe was obliged to retrogade,
and take up a position on the Sandja. After this,
Daghestan has revolted for the second time. These
occurrences have made it difficult for the armies of the
Caucasus and the Black Sea to spare any detachments
for the purpose of acting againstthe Egyptians in Asia."
In the 7'oulonnais:of the 4th inst., we find the follow-
ing letter from the coast of Troy, dated the 19th ult.:—
We sailed from the islands of Ourlac on the 13th, and
we are now at Tenedos. The squadron is composed of the
ships Jena, Triton, Jupiter, Trident, and Gener.•ux, and of
the corvettes Brillante and Argus,. The Hercule re.
mained at Ourlac, on account of her numerous Rick,
whose recovery is very tedious. Admiral Leland° and
the Prince de Joinville went on the 10th to visit them on the
island, and spent the evening on board the Hercules, where
some amateurs trea'ed them to a dramatic performance.
The steamer Dante, having run against the Jena ship-
of-theline, was consid,rably damaged, and on her return
to Smyrna was obliged to put Into Ourlac with her pas-
sengers, and give her despateLes:to the Brilleante corvette,
by which they were conveyed to Sy ra: Since we arrived
within sight of the Dardanelles, we indulge the hope of
doing something, fur the Russians will, no doubt, appear
in the Bosphorus, and we have orders to face that instant
an entrance into the channel.

Lord NORMANBY, for the first time in the his-
tory of Ireland, has made the Government accept-
able to the people. They never before regarded it
in any other light than as an enemy—he has made
them look on it as a protector. He has-reconciled
it and them heretofore always at variance. His
kind and winning manner, his affability, his mixing
with their friends, his condescension towards their
priests, his journeying through the country and
associating with the people, brought them and
power into friendly contact. 'Limier his Adminis-
tration the Government and the people shook
hands, and the law ceased to be an instrument cf
party oppression. He accomplished that great end
and could only accomplish it by departing from the
routine established by his predecessors, and to be
angry with the means he employed is tantamount
to condemning the admirable results.
Looking with the eye of a Liberal at the broad
and ample results of Lord NORMANBY'S policy,
and having no respect whatever for the dictates of
party interest, which are called law in Ireland, we
deeplyregret that Lord BROUGHAM, a Liberal,
who
has differed with the Ministers because they
are not liberal enough—who defends the almost Re-
publican party in Canada—who is the advocate of
LOVETT and COLLINS, and of the Glasgow cot-
ton-spinners—who is, in fact, now more wanted
than ever as a leader of the Liberal party, to which
he seems to aspire—deeply do we regret that he
should now have put himself forward to serve the
purFoses of the Tories by attacking the most
liberal and most useful pact of the policy of the
Ministers. . .

There is no news of interest from Spain, except thlt
great dissensions prevail at the head quarters of the
Pretender. The troops are without pay, and threaten
to mutiny unless money arrive from some quarter.
On the commercial relations between England and
France the Cuurier Francais..has the following observa-
tions :

It is true that England imposes upon our brandies the
enormous duty of four hundred per cent. For many years
past the French Government have endeavoured to ob'ain a
reduction of this duty, and the English Government has
appeared disposed to accede to the request ; but it has, and
not without reason, required in its turn certain conditions.
In exchange for a reduction of the duties upon our wines,
brandies, silks, and millinery, England demands the admis•
sion into Fr..nce of her iron and stuff 4 at a moderate duty
Is that what the Ministry of the 1201 of May propose?
If so, let• it be said openly, and the Treaty will soon be
concluded between the two countries. We fear, however,
that very different views are entertained. Ministers, far
from preparing any diminution of the customs duties,
are thinking of augmenting the tariffs upon linen cloths
and threads, which have hitherto been the only articles of
exchange permitted to the English. The Commissioners
sent from London to Paris on the invitation of M. Mar-
tin (du Nord) left without concluding anything. Why
recal them it no other concessions are to be made ? There
should be no negocia, ion where there is no intention to con-
clude. It is unworthy of the French nation to hold out
hopes which it does not intend to fulfil.

But while we deeply regret it,
we cannot join
some of our Contemporaries in running a muck
against the Noble and Learned Lord for his
conduct. He is a lawyer, who has a profound
reverence for the law. lie thinks and says that for
the law to be observed is the one thing essential to
the prosperity of society. On that subject the
Ministers agree with him, or pretend to agree with
him, and he only did justice to his own principles,
and to theirs, when he called the attention of the
Peers to what he considered to be, and the vote
of their Lordships established to be, infractions of
the common practice of the law. Considering reve-
rence for the law as the main pillar of society,
Lord BROUGHAM may be excused for asking the
.
opinions of the Peers on that part of the conduct of

General Valdez has revietualled Solsona without any
attempt being made by the Carlists to prevent him.
A Sardinian frigate was discovered on the 30th of July
on the coast of Catalonia : it was steering towards the
coast of France, without attempting even to approach the
port of Barcelona. This circumstance is remarkable at
this time, when strict precautions are ordered to hinder
clandestine importations, which it is known are intended.
—Le Constitutionnel.

BOURSE.--PARIS, THURSDAY, AUG. 8.
first Highest Lowest Last
•
Price Price. Price Price
French 5 per Cents l:2 30 ... 112 41 ... 112 30 ... 1 2 40
4% per Cents .......
3 per Cents An 3.) ... sift 35 ... 15 ... 8' '5
Bank of rranee VSOO .48 .1} ...2"790 —.2810
Lai tte Bank
55,0901. 8..,ihl
51(21 .......15L55) 7...5,2.105250 :7.5.02).5205
101
..; 103
... 103 ... 10:3
Polgian 5 per Cents
T.',ol,,ian Bank
770 . 710 ... 770 ... 770
RAILWAY SHARES.

St. Germai, ........... 610 14; 612 5 C... 610 ... 612 5
tiergailles, R. 13 e:10 630 6z,0
59 Mil
LB. ..... ...... ...•• •.• ;.:27 50

TIC H StilsL LON DON, SATURDAYi AUGUST ip, 1819.

COWES, ISLE QF 'WIGHT.

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THE CHALLENGE CUP.
This splendid Cup, valae 2.50 guineas, has been exhi-
bited at the Royal Yacht Sttuadron House this week.
It If pasibltp, titriiat,sei that have been sailed for here I
it is three feet in height and beautifully ChaSetl.
The ftill-leilgth Portrait. of the Earl of tarboretigh;
Comtitalore of the Royal :Yacht Squkdinii, the funds for
Which were voted at the Spring meeting, is placed in the
Squadron House. The likeness is a most striking one.
Lscly Murray has taken White Rose Cottage, for Lady
Cooptr, fol the "eaidn Clintaln *mil; Mr. guiligt's
LoM Ca'dogin is in treaty for the King's house.
Lady tie Horsey, who had taken Cannon, has been under
the necessity of declining it, in consequence of the illness
of Lady S:radbrook,
The Earl of Durham sails daily in his beautiful yacht,
the Wanderer;
.his Lordship has taken Harriet Lodge
until Oetobt-r.
Though hundreds of visitors are daily arriving by the
numeruu4 steamers from London, Dublin, Cork, Falmouth,
Exeter, Pool, Lymington, Plymouth, Portsmouth, and
Southampton—and from the latter we have five large ves-
sels every day—yet the town is very far from full ; they
seem to be principally "birds of passage," and proceed on
to Freshwater, thence over the downs to Blackgang Chine,
the UndereFff, Ventnor, Bauchurch, and Shanklin to Ryde,
with as little loss of time as possible, and then away to
their homes, hundreds spending only about three days in
the island. . _

ARRIVALS.
Arc. 3, 6 30 A.M., Therese cutter, E. N. Harvey, Esq.,
from London river.
6 30 p.m., Naiad cutter, William Di-lafifld, Esq., from
Boulogne and Dover. Light breeze N: N. W.
4th, 7 A.M., Amulet cutter, John Meiklam, Esq , from
Boulogne. Light breeze N. N. W.
sth, 10 45 A. M. , Will-olthe- Wisp cutter,; Sir Robert Har-
land, Bart., from Ipswich. Light breeze N. N. E.
6th, at noon,,Vampire cutter,_John Lindegren, Esq., from
Portsmouth.
11 P.M., Midge cutter, Colonel John Pare, freim Ply-
mouth. Light breeze W. S. W.
Bth, at noon, Harriet schooner, G. W. Heaeagt, Esq.,
from Southampton.
9th, 4 A. at., R. Weer cutter, John Moore, Esq., from
Fayal. Light bretv W. N. W., fine.
SAILING S. •
Are. 2, 3 p.m., Midge cutter, Colonel Petre, for Ply-
mouth. Light breeze S. E.
3d, P.m., Aurora cutter, William Beach, Esq., for
Wcymouth.
4th, 4 45, P. at., Naiad cutter, William Delafield, Esq., for
Brest. Light breeze N. N. E.
sth, 6 P.m, Harri,A schooner, John Beardmore, Esq.,
for Cherbourg. Light breeze N. N. E.
YACHTS AT AND ABOUT THE STATION.
Schoonera—Dolphin, Wanderar; Merlin, Mischief, Arid,
Galatea, Norna.
Cutters—Niutilus, Ann, Vampire, Alarm, Lord of the
Isles, Elizabeth, Hebey Emerald, Earl St. Vincent, Miry,
Breeze, Albatross, Pirebe, Spider, Sapphire, Sultana,
Sparrowhaak, Amulet, Therese, Fanny, Ganymcde, Julia,
Matilda, Midge, Harriet. -
The Secretary has sold Mr. Neil's schooner Wanderer,
of 141 tuns, to the Earl of Durham; Mr. Harvey's The-
rese cutter, of 121 tons, to Mr: Joseph Re}nolds ; and
Mr. Robinson's cutter Sultana, of 50 tons, to Mr. E. H.
Schenlcy.

• • •
ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON REGATTA,
THE QUEEN'S CUP.
The following schooner yachts have entered for her
Majesty's Plate, to be sailed for on Saturday, August 17,
to start at eleven o'clock precisely, viz.:—Dolphin. 117
tons, Ariel, 118, Miranda, 164, Galatea, 190. On the
same evening a splendid display of fireworks by Mr. Jones.
On Monday, the 19th, the Royal Yacht Squadron
annual dinner.
20th. On Tuesday a piece of plate of 50/. for yachts of
55 tons, and under 70 tons, will be sailed for.
On Wednesday the Royal Yacht Society Annual Bail,
attended by Weippert's band.
On Thursday a piece of plate will be sailed for by yachts
of 70 tons and under 90 tons.
At a general meting of the members of the Royal
Yacht Squadron, held at their house, at Cowes, this day
( Friday) Aug. 9, the following members were present :
John Moore, Esq., in the chair : Stephen Challen, Esq. ;
Joseph Veld, Eq. ; Joseph Reynolds, Esq. ; Andrew
Corbet, Esq. ; Henry Thorold, Esq. ; Lieutenant- Gen.
Str Wm. Johnsone, K. C. B. ; James Lyon, Esq. ; Alex-
and, r Murray, Esq., M. P. ; Captain Corry, It N. ; H.
Ro:)inson, Esq. ; Wm. Lyon. Esq. ; Benrge Bentinck.
Esq. ; Edward Heneage' Esq., M. P. ; G. H. Ackers,
Esq.; Thomas Hallifax, Esq.. jun.; Col. Petre.
The following candidates were elreted me cabers, viz.,
John Hambrough, E-q., Witch, cutter, of 70 tons; and
The Earl of Desart, Owen Glendwr, cutter, of 113 tons.

THE MARKETS-(THIS DAY.)

COVENT GARDEN.

To-day this market showed itself to be in its prime. The
supplies of all kinds were most abundant. Potatoes improving,
fruit of all kinds good and reasonable; Plants Is. per dozen;
Asparagus, ss. per bundle ; Celery, Is. to Is. 6d. per bundle;
Onionrls. to Is. 6d. p.•r sieve; Carrots, 4d. per bundle; Bro-
cob, 9d. per bundle ; Turnips, 4d. per bunch ; Apples, 2s. 61.
to 4s. I,er bushel; Strawberries per pottle, Is. 6d. to 2s. ; Cu-
cumbers per brace 6d. ; Spinach, Is. 6d. per sieve ; Goose-
berries, 4s. to 4s. 6d. ditto ; Pears per ditto, 3s. ; Cherries,
4d. to sd. per lb. New Potatoes 2d. to 3d: per lb.
HUNGF.RFORD MARKET.
Fish-Turbot 4s. 6d. to 10s. 15s. and 21s. ; Good Salmon
Is. to Is. 6d. per lb. ; Lobsters 10d. to 3s. each; Soles 10(1. to
3s, per pair. Beef 7:1. to 8i 1. ; Mutton lid. to Bid. ; Veal
&I. to'9d. ; Pork lid. to: 81d. per lb. Of Vegetables p. ices
much the same as those of Covent-garden.
CITY FISII MARKET.

The supplies to-day were to a fair extent, but trade was not
brisk. Turbot, 5s to 10s., 155., and 21s. ; Soles, 61 to 3s.
per pair; Lobsters, 91 to 4s. each; Good Salmon, Is. to
Is. tid. per lb. ; Whitings, 3d. to 61 each ; and Haddocks
6d. to ls. each ; Oysters are getting cheaper.
NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL.

Supplies of all kinds of killed Meat, both town and country,
were large. Beef, 35. 2d. to 4s. ; Mutton, 3s. 4d. to 4s. 2d. ;
Lamb, 4s. 4d. to ss. 4d. ; Pork, 3s. lOW to 4s. Bd. ;
3s. 6d. to 3s. 10d. ; Veal, 3s. Bd. to 4s. Bd. Poultry of all
kinds was in large supply. Geese, 4s. 6d. to 6s. each ; Fowls,
2s. 6d. to 4s. each ; Chickens, Is. 6d. to 2s. 6d. do. ; Rabbits,
6d. to Is. Id. do.: Leverets, 2s. to 4s. do. ; Turkey Poults,
3s. to ss. do. • Pigeons, 4d. to 9d. do. ; Ducks, ls. 9d. to 2s.
6d. do. ; Quails, 9W to Is. 3d. do. Eggs in good demand at
ss. 6d. to 7s. per 120.
HAY MARKETS.
New Hay 60s. to 70s. and 755., Old Hay 90s. to I 10s. and
112 s. ; Clover SOs. to 1005. 1155. and higher ; Straw 365.
to 445.

TE Y tLO It— A lASTIN O. S.
ADDITIONAL CORRESPONDENCE,
TO THE EDITOR oF THE XOENINo Fos L.
SlR—Some 01 the London newspapers tr,i%e been earty-
ing on a E)stenaatie attack against parts of the st.itemenr
which I found it necessary to make relative to the treat-
Merit Khich Lady Flora M istings had received at Bucking •
Tioth liiie• Were Itd r.ltor; that etatetnent to be under--
11'1M A lin any way, should Li 6 poirotti at AS n slanderer
for the rest of my lite. I the more 1.),g of you to publish
a copy of the letter of my niece from which I extracted it.
I have the honour to be, Sir, your very humble servant,
HAMILTON FITZGERALD.
Burlington Hotel, Aug.;

FROM THE LADY FLORA ELUL. HASTINGS TO HAMILTON

FITZGERALD,

" Buckingham Palace, March 8, 1839
" My dear Uncle.—Knowing what a very good-natured
place Brussels is, I have not a hope that you have not
already heard a story with which I am told London is
tinging, but you shall at all events have from my own pen
the account of the diabolical conspiracy from which it has
pleased God to preserve the Duchess of Kent and myself ;-
for that it was intended to ruin the whole concern, though
I was to be the first victim, I have no more doubt than
that a c.rtain foreign lady, whose hats\ d to the Duchess
is 110 secret, pulled the wires thotigh it has net been
brought home to her yet. I told you I was ill,
whin I. came to town, having' been suffering for
some weeks from bilious derangement, with its
agreeable accompanimeuts, pain ih the side And swelling of
the stomach. 1 placed myself immediately under the care
of Sir James Clark, who, being physician to the Duchess
as well as to the Queen, was the natural person tononsult.
Unfortunately he either did not pay much attention to my
ailments, or did not quite understand them, for in spite of
his medicines the bile did not take its departure. How-
ever, by dint of walking an 4 porter_ I gained a little
strength ; and, as I did so, the swelling subsided to a very
remarkable degree. You may, therefore, guess my in-
dignant surprise when, about a fortnight.since, Sir James
Clark came to my room, and announced to me the convic-
tion of the ladies of Are Palace that I must be pi ivately mar-
ried, or at least ought to be so—a conviction into which I
found him completely taiked over. In answer to all his
esbortationito confession, "as the only means of saving try
charactef," I returned, as you may believe, an indignant but
steady denial that there was .anything to confess. Upon
which he told me that nothing but my submitting to a me.
dical examination would ever satisfy them aria remove the
stigma from my name. I found the subject had been
brought before the Queen's notice, and all this hal been
discussed, and arranged, and denounced to me, without one
word having been said to my own mistress, one suspicion
hinted, or her sanction obtained for their proposing such a
thing to me. From me Sir James went to the Duchess,
arid announced his conviction that I was in the fa-
mily way, and was followed by Lady Po.trnan, who
couveaed a message from her Majesty to her mother
to say that the,Queen would not permit me to appear till
the examination had decided matters. Lady Partinan
(who with, you trill grieve to hear,
.Lady Tay.stuck are
those whose names are mentioned as most active aeainst
me) took the opportunity of distinctly expressing her con-
viction of my guilt. My beloved mistress, who never for
one moment doubted me, told them she knew me and my
principles, and my family, too well to listen to such a
charge. flowevet, the edict was given. The next day;
having obtained the Duchess's very reluctant COrISCIII,
for she could not bear the idea of my being exposed to
such an humiliation (hut I felt it right of her, and to my
fancily and myself, that a point blank refutation should be
instantly given to the lie), I submitted myself to the most
rigid examination, and I have the satisfaction of possess-
ing a certificate signed by my accuser, Sir James Clark,
and also by Sir Charles Clarke, stating, as strongly as
language can state it, that " there are no grounds fur be-
lieving that pregnancy does exist, or ever has existed." I
wrote to my brother, who, though sUlfering from influenza,
came up instantly. It would be too long to attempt to
detail all his proceedings, but nothing could be more aianly,
spirited, and judicious than his conduct. lie exacted and
obtained from Lord Melbourne a d stinet disavowal of his
participation in the plot, and would not leave town till he
had obtained art audience of the Queen, at which, while
distinctly disclaiming his belief of airy wish on the part of
her Majesty to injure me, lie very plainly, but respect-
fully, stated his opinions of those who bad counseled
her, aid his resolution to find- out the originator of the
slander, and bring him or her to. punishment. I am
quite sure the Queen does not understand what they be-
trayed her into. She has endeavoured to show her regret
by her civility to me, and expressed it _handsomely with
tears in her eyes. The 9uchess was perfect. A mother
could not beim been kinder, and she took up the insult as
a personal one, directed as it was at a person attached to
1 her service. and devoted to her. She immediately dis-
missed Sir James Clark and refused to see Lady Portman,
and would neither re-appear or stiffer me to re-appear at
the Queen's table for many days. She has crowned her
goodness by a most beautiful letter she has written to poor
mamma, whom the accounts, kept from her while there
was a hope that matters might not become public, would
reach to-day. I em told there is but one feeling,
as respects me, sympathy for the insult offered to
one, whose very name should have been a protectien to
her, and that in many places the feeling is loudly expressed
that a public reparation should have been offerea me by
the dismissal of the slanderers. This does not, however,
appear to be the view of Ministers; and as personally 1
wish for no revenge on those who have insulted me, 1 can-
not 1 much regret it, though I doUbt whether they are
quite ju..hc'ous as respects the general feeling. As re-
spects the Parliamentary majorities they are with regard
to the ladies. And poor Clark, who has been the wo-
men's tool, could hardly he sacrificed alone. The Duchess
has stood ba me gallantly, and I love her better than
ever. She is the most generous-souled woman pos-
sible, and such a heart I This business made her very
ill. It shattered me, too, very much, and lam wretcheel'y
thin ; but, under Dr. Chambers's good. manage meat, I
ern getting round, and hope soon to be well. H :stiogs
says he has not yet done with the business, nor ever will
while there is anything left to sift. •
" Good bye, my dear uncle, I blush to send you so re-
volting a detail, but I wished you to know the truth—
the whole truth, and nothing but the truth—and you are
welcome to tell it right and left.—Your affectionate ejaea,
" FLORA ELIZ: HASTINGS."
" To Hamilton Fitzgerald, Esq., •
17, Rue de Namur, Brussels."

We have been requested by Mr. Fitzgerald to publish
the following, which be thinks necessary for his own vin-
dication, and useful for the purpose of showing that the
fatal attack upon the reputati.,n and feelings of Lady Floia
Hastings was part of an arranged system of persecution.
L• has been extensively circulated fot the la4t two months:
STATEMENT OF MR. FITZGERALD.

" been blamed by so many people for having
made (as they say) an unnecessary exposure of the outrage
inflicted on Lady Flora Hastings at Buckingham Palace,
that I think it necessary to explain why I published a nar-
rative of the principal facts attending-it.
I was living at Brussels when it occurred. Every one
there knew of it before I did. On the 14th of March I re-
ceived a letter from England giving me .a minute detail of
what had happened, from which I thought there could not
be a doubt of Lady Flora's innocence, and that her brother
had fully done his duty. I was soon undeceived. Letters
poured in on me from all quarters containing the same
i jurious reports. I found tnat Lord Hastings' proceed-
ings were unknown except in his own circle and at the
Palace ; that he was abused in the London clubs for not
having acted with sufficient spirit; and that infamous stories
were circulated about his sister, under the old plan for pro-
pagating lies, strict injunctions to secresy. Every one except
his own family were acquainted with them. Whenever I
tried to trace them to their source, I was met by the same
answer—'• I cannot give up my authority; I must beg of
you not to quote me ; but I assure
ou the report
is very generally believed." It was said that the
present was, at least, her second error, as when she
left the Palace last year she was certainly pregnant.
Bets were laid on the time when her situation would force
her to 'bolt' from the Palace. At Vienna it was believed
on the 15th of March.that she had remained on her knees
an hour begging mercy of the Queen, and that Lord
Hastings, having as a Peer forced his way into the Royal
presence, had upbraided her Majesty, who made him no
answer, but curtsied and retired when his tirade was over.
I immediately went to England. When I arrived in
London I found all these reports in full circulation. Lady
Flora's family were not in town, and were ignorant of them ;
the generality of indiff gent people were inclined to
believe them. The known fact that no one of the Queen's
household had been punished for the in ult Lady Flora
had received seemed to say that the Government did
not think her assailants deserved punishment, or, in
other words, that she had not been ill-treated by them.
The inference from which was, that she was guilty,
but had been favoured and spared from motives of
humanity. Nothing s, emed to check the complete es-
tablishment of this opinion but the prompt punishment
which the Duchess of Kent had inflict d on Sir James
Clark, by dismissing him from her Royal H ghness's house-
hold. I landed in the City, and remained there many
days, to ascertain what judgment the respectable and un-
prejudiced citizens bad passed on the case. I consulted
with many friends, and by their assistance was present at
many discussions held by people who did not know me.
At those respectable houses, where men of business
pass. their evenings and discess the news and speculations
of the day, I found public opinion was universally
against Lady Flora. The general idea was that she
had been treated with unnecessary harshness; that she
should hare been get quietly out of the way ; that such
things recur every day in palaces ; that people who place
their daughters in them must take the consequence of doing
so. It was often said that her brother would not have
been so quiet if he had not known that more than he liked
would have come out if the thing had not been hushed up.'
I concluded that the opinion of the people at large was the
same as that of the people of London, as hoth were acted
on by the same fallacious evidence—anonymous statements
in newspapers ; and I was confirmed in my original opinion
that it was the duty of sonic individual of Lady Flora's
friends to extinguish all false reports by pubishing a full
statement of the case, and openly challenging contradic-
tion. I felt that Lord Hastings could not do himself
justice in publishing his own acts, and that delicacy, bro-
therly love, and family pride might prevent him from being
sufficiently accurate and minute in stating his sister's
wrongs. I therefore determined to publish it
" HAMILTON FITZGERALD.
" Brussels, May. 30, 1839."

• Can any of our correspondents inform us what was th,
date of the arrival at Vienna of Lord Melbourne's brother?

Her Majesty rode out on horseback-yesterday afternoon,
attended by the Hon. Mrs. Brand, Baroness Lehzen, Miss
Quentin, Marquis of Headfort, Colonel Buckley, Lord
Gardner, Sit William Lumley, and Mr. Rich.
The Marquis cf Islormanby and Viscount Melbourne had
aud;ences yesterday of the Queen.
The Royal dinner party at the Palace last evening in-
cluded the Earl and Countess of Carlisle, Leidy Elizabeth
Howard, Earl of Surrey, Viscount Duncannon, Viscount
Melbourne, Lord Morpeth, and Lord- Lilford.