The Sun.
London, England, 1840-07-30 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION.

r ter of the price of them, but the expenses of convey-
, ante from the villages to the mine were not paid to us. If
we were to enter into the details of all these vexations it
would be too long, and we do not reckon the blows with
sticks, and the dishonours which were done us, as if we
had been Egyptian fellahs; we do not even mention the
expenses we were put to for the Emirs and for the Boulonk-
bachis, and ever since the es,ablishment of the quaran-
tine until the present time, the mountaineers have been
obliged to provide lime, fixing a minimum price for it, and
transporting it on their beasts cf burden, and new taxes
have been laid upon the mills. Masons have been sent by
force to Kanlek, Bona, St. Jean d'Acre, and to the qua-
rantine, and they only received one-quarter of the usual
payment, and these forced works have increased in the
towns, in the country places, and in every spot ere we
go, and thereby reduced several families of the untain
to extreme misery, and ruined us also; for we have no
l longer either money, children, or cattle, seeing that cur
children are taken for the Nizam, our crops arc insufficient
for so many demands, our cattle of every kind are in
continual misery, (so that many persons have pre-
cipitated from a great height their mules and their
camels, and others have sold them for next to nothing),
and as to ourselves, we are employed to serve the mines
and the soldiers. Some time ago, toof when war and ty-
ranny fell upon our brethren, the inhabitants of Horan,
who are of our own nation, the government gave us arms,
and sent us to fight them, which we have done for two con-
secutive years, and many of us have died, either from the
fatigues of the march or in battle ; and that has cost us,
between expenses and losses, about 2,000 purse. In fine,
almost all our goods are destroyed, our children arc no more ;
and since we have lost our liberty, no longer possessing any-
thing ofour own, and being in extreme consternation, we have
necessarily revolted, in order to deliver ourselves front
tyranny, and recover our peace and liberty. Now, if the
authorities turn themselves towards God (justice) and re-
lieve us from tyranny, we are ready to submit ourselves
and to obey their orders, since our insurrection has not
been for the purpose of forming any authority for ourselves,
but solely to free ourselves from this insupportable tyranny;
seeing that we can no longer pay more than a miri on our
goods and a guiali. lf, then, our prayer shall be accepted,
and if the aforesaid tyrannies are removed from us, as we
desire, this is what we pray his Highness the Viceroy to
do : to take from us a miri and a guiali, and to remove
from us all tyranny and distress, and to do this by means
of the agents of England and Fiance, and by means of
their Consuls in these countries, in order that if these
treaties are not faithfully executed, we may appeal to
them. We remain, then, in the places where we now are,
waiting an answer; and if it is favourable, every one shall
return to his own home; but otherwise we are ready to die
rather than remain in our present situation. We have ex-
plained our state, and let the authorities order.
(Signed) THE INHABITANTS OF THE
MOUNTAIN IN GENERAL.

PERSECUTIONS OF THE JEWS

IN THE EAST.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sts—As President of the London Committee of De-
puties of the British Jews, I am requested by them to
state that they have received a communication from Sir
Moses Montefiore from Marseilles, dated the 21st of July
instant, on which evening ho embarked en route for
Alexandria.

The subject of the Eastern persecutions is so deeply
interesting to (Jur fellow countrymen, and indeed to the
whole civ&zed world, that any additional information re-
specting it cannot be otherwise than acceptable,
I shall therefore, feel greatly obliged by your giving
insertion to the accompanying extracts from letters re-
ceived LiN Sir Moses Monte Ere at Marseilles previously to
his depafture._

I have the honour to be, Sir, your obt.,dient servant,
HANANEL DE CASTRO.
19, South-street, Finsbury square, July 29.

Extracts from letters alluded to in the preceding com-
munication :

Damascus, June 4, 1840.
Last week the wicked entered the Synagogue at Djobar,
and pillaged the whole edifice. The holy scrolls they hare
torn into pieces ; they even took some of those holy cover_
irgs of tae scrolls, and other sacred writings, and used
them most contemptuously.
The community prepared a petition to the Governor,
Sheriff Pacha, but he would not receive it, on account of
the quarantine.

I have before stated to you that our enemies digged
a burial-ground, ;where the most distinguished of our
brethren have been buried for two hundred years. They
hate thrown the bones of our ancestors and friends into
the open roads, and have buried in our sepulchres their
own dead.

Woe to the ears that hear these things, and to the eyes
which behold such horrid deeds!

Our enemies are now building a place of worship, and
they seize any Israelites they meet in the street, make
them carry the most heavy load', inflict the most cruel
blows upon them, and make them suffer hunger and thirst.
From the very day that Signor Sasun and Signor Briggs
spoke to Sheriff Nobs in favour of the Israelites, the pri-
soners, instead of receiving favour, were put into separate
dungeons, and are not allowed to receive food from their
friends, unless each time the food is brought they pay from
50 to 100 piastres ; they are not allowed any change of
dress, so that they are covered with insects. Woe to us !
What is to become of us ? The mouth is not capable of
expressing our sufferings ; we only have our trust in the
Almighty, our Father in Heaven, who, we hope, will speed-
ily deliver us.

Extract of a letter from Constantinople, dated the 29th
of Jun?, 1840 :

On the seventh day of Passover (24th of April) the fir-
man from Mehemet Ali reached Damascus, whereby great
help was rendered to our brethren, as they were imme-
diately relieved from all cruel torture, but our enemies still
seek the undoing of the hraelitce.
It is true that the French Government sent a person to
examine the case, but not direct from Paris. They in-
structed the Consul-General of Alexandria to send :-.ome-
body to Damascus; the result was, that he being infecior
in rank to the Consul at Damascus, decided in favour of
his superior.
The Paella once gave his word to the Consuls that the
prisoners should take their trials before him at Alex
dria; but the moment the French Consul heard of the
Pacha's decision he went and persuaded him to alter his
intention. The fact is, that if the trial takes place at
Damascus there is no hope; as no person would dare to
say a word in favour of the accused; but, on the contrary,
if their trial takes place at Alexandria, they are sure to be
found innocent, as there will be hundreds of witnesses in
their favour.

The wire of my son, who is now kept among our op_
pressers, has been dreadfully beaten.
[Here follow charges of so grave a character against
the party mentioned, that it has been thought best not to
give them publicity at present.]
Copy of a letter addressed by a distinguished English
merchant, Signior Briggs, to the Governor of Damascus.
Whilst Mr. Briggs has been staying at the above town,
Sheriff Paella gave a banquet to that gentleman. Mr.
Briggs embraced that opportunity to speak most favour-
ably towards the Jews, and before he left town wrote the
following letter to the Governor:—
°` I hcreby give you most righteous and noble advice.
I have 1.)::ca in your town, and witnessed the outrageous
behaviour towards the Israelites. I understand that in
consequence of two or three of their enemies all these
cruelties have been inflicted on them. This surely cannot
be approved by the Almighty, as the Jews are entirely in.
nocent. Proclaim all over the town, that whoever will
find out the Padre Thomaso shall receive a very great
reward.

" I have also written on this subject to my friend the
Paclia of Egypt."
The following reply of the chief Rabbi of the Jews in
Damascus to the application made to him after torture to
sign an admission of the truth of the supposed crime, and
which reply is contained in a letter dated Constantinople,
181-, June last, may also prove interesting:—
The Chief Rabbi being requested to sign a confession
of the murder said—

When you smote me with 500 stripes over all my body
would not confess to a lie. When you plunged me into
a pool of cold water for three hours on a winter's day, a
drawn sword over my head so that I could not raise it, I
lied not ; and when you inflicted 170 stripes on my hand
I still would not utter a falsehood ; and when you drove
the bones which you placed round my head into my eyes
to blind me, I still lied not, and spoke not this falsehood ;
and now shall I sign to a lie ?"
The writer adds, the Rabbi was then sent back to
prison to await his trial.

EXTENSIVE BURGLARY IN OXFORD-STREET.
—This morning, at an early hour, the extensive premises of
Mr. M'Pherson, tailor and mercer, No. 160, 03[1prd-street,
were burglariously entered, and property to an immense :mount
carried off by the thieves, consisting of ready-made apparel And
cloth. The police are in active pursuit of the robbers.

REMARKABLE CASES OF BEE4SWARMING.—
As a person named Marshall was proceeding in company with
another female through a cornfield adjoining Marcham Park,
on her way to Abingdon, on Monday se'nnight, she observed
a swarm of bees coming towards them, the whole of which
almost immediately afterwards settled upon her neck, face,
and bosom. The poor woman was greatly terrified, and
with some difficulty retained the power of respiration by
placing both hands over her nose and mouth. Her com-
panion immediately went back to the village, for assistance,
and Mr. C. Chamberlain soon arrived with a hive, and, with
the assistance of others, removed her to his house, where in a
few minutes he relieved Mrs. Marshall from her perilous situa-
tion without hcr sustaining the least injury, remarkable as it may
appear, not one having stung her.—Reading Mercury. At
Manse of Birse, on the 11th inst., a swarm of bees came off, and
after hovering over the church for some time, pro&eded to
cluster over the bread bonnet of an individual whohadascended
the roof of the church with a hive, for the purpose of
securing them. When the bees had fairly settled on his
bonnet, he cautiously descended with them dangling gracefully
about his ears. On reaching terra firma he was seated, and
over his head was placed the hive, into which the swarm
quickly ascended without inflicting a single sting upon the man,
who on being released from his irksome and rather perilous
situation, complained of a buzzing noise in his ears, which
occasioned a temporary defect in has sense of hering.—Aher-
deen Herald.

During the past week there have been both
thunder storms and floods in Yorkshire and other parts of the
north of England, which have done considerable damage. There
was also, we regret to add, some loss of human life.
STATISTICS OF GAS.—For lighting London
with gas there are eighteen public gas works, twelve public gas
companies ; 2,800,0001. capital employed in works, pipes, tanks,
gas-holders, and apparatus ; 450,0001. yearly revenue derived ;
180,000 tons of coals used in the year for snaking gas ;
1,460,000,000 cubic feet of gas made in the year ; 30,400
public or street consumers,: about 2,650 of these are in
the City of London. Three hundred and eighty lamp-
lighters employed; 176
..gas-holders, several of them double
ones, capable of storing 0,000,000 cubic feet ; 890 tons of coals
used in the retorts on the shortest day, in twenty-four hours;
7,120,000 cubic feet of gas used in the longest night, say the
24th of December; abo,st 2,500 persons' are employed in she
metropolis alone in this branch of manufaclure ; between 1822
and 1827 the quantity nearly doubled itself, and that in tire
years; between 1827 and 1837 it doubled itself again.

TENTING EDITION.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

1-11)111E CIRCUIT-LEWES, JULY 29.

The, eommiseion of assize for the county of Sussex
was opened this day, at the Court-house, by Lord
A bivJger.
Tne number of prisoners at present for trial is between
'twenty and thirty, but it is stated that none of the of-
-fences are of a vety serious description. The cause list,
it is said, is long, and there are some special jury cases
of an interesting description.
After the commission had been read, the Court ad-
ourned until to-morrow morning, when both Courts will
proceed to business, Lord Abinger presiding in the
Crown Court, and Baron Gurney at nisi prius.
The Judges will go to Guildford and conclude their
circuit on Monday next.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HO USE.

A lad named Owen Jones was brought before the
Lord Mayor charged with having robbed his master
Mr. Ellis, tailor, at Aldermanbury, of several articles.
Mr. Ellis stated that the prisoner, who had been ap-
prenticed to him from the Military Asylum at Chelsea,
was a young man of a most violent character, and had
been actually drill sergeant to a party of Chartists.
Although comparatively of diminutive size, he resisted
awl attacked the officers who apprehended him even
in fie station-house, where resistance might be pre-
strmed to be little less than madam.

The LORD MAYOR—What ! did this boy resist the
officers ? A policeman—Most violently my Lord. We
were obliged to tie his hands behind his b,ia.

Mr. Eilis said that although he had treated the prt-
.lr,ner with the most marked indulgence—the extreme
•of ingra;itude was the return. He had given the pri-
soner leave to go to the country to see his friends
lately, and made him a present of some clothes ; but
away the prisoner set off and got married, and no
drnrbt the lad supported his wife by levying contribu-
tions .upon his master. Some of the goods which had
been stolen were found at a pawnbroker's.
A messenger from the 'Military Asylum at Chelsea
stated that the boy had conducted himself well at that
.place up to the time he was apprenticed. He was the
son o'f an old soldier.

Thooprisoner was remanded.
An old sailor, who was rather deaf, was called upon
to give evidence against a man named Giles, accused of
having stolen two cheeses, the property of the clerk of
the Great Western Railroad. He appeared neither to
understand ne,r to relish his situation at all.

Well, my good fellow," said the LORD MAYOR,
" what have you to say ?"
say I an't gui!ty—never was guilty at all.
T. Lon MAYOR—I don't say you are ; nobody
a: cuses you.

Sai'.or—What do you want to make me guilty for ?
never in rich a place as this afore. What do

yr.ti want wi' me ?
The LORD MAYOR—Don't ha afraid.
Sailor (to the officer next to him)—What doe,
1..3 say ?

Oaic.er—His Lordship tells you that you neetrut

be afraid.

S:ilor—Afeared 7. I an't afeara,—(Lookine; round
tpiciously.) I don't like this Ilzre place. What do

ye want we me, I say ?
'rue LORD MAYou.—We only want you to speak t!:e

I ,1

S'tilor—Why,--my eyes, I do speak the trutl-. I say
-•;ty.--(-1 laugh.)
:no Loan MAYou—Did you see any one take the
ther,„les ? Sailor—Ay, to be sure I did. Ax him if I
rfldnt. (pointing to the prisoner). Didn't I, Master?
Da you (to the Lord Mayor) ax the gentleman.
Tie Loan MAYOR—WeII, what did you see ?
Sailor—Oh, I don't like this, -- rtly eves. swear
ay.% guiity, if you like. Han,: us the book.
The Loan M AYOR—Ntbody suspects you, ray good

Vic)

sAor_Well., I must go. I can't stay here any
long-cr. Th;'lt.'ll do, I expect. I never was here afore,
and I wov% stay for no one.
The I.oao MAYoa (to the prosecutor)—l hofle you
Hari other witnesses to support your ease ? The pro-
rictrutor replied in the affirmative.
_

The Sallor—" Well I can't stay longer I expect.
I never war in sicu a place. I wont come no more.
No use in axing me, for -- my eyes if come, I
expect." The old fellow then moved towards the door,
and was beard muttering very indignantly as he went
down the steps. Upon getting into the street he blew
Iris nose without the aid of handkerchief; and looking
up at the windows of the justice-room, he said, " D--
their eyes, they wanted to make me guilty I expect,
buc if ever they get me there again I'La--"
The prisoner was remanded.
Robert Styles, a person in the employment of Mr.
Margeton nt Cheapside, was committed for trial, upon
vhe charge of having robbed his master. Some braces,
which had been taken from the premises two years ago,
were found among the goods which the prisoner was ac-
cus,z,d of baying stolen.

Mr. nobler, jun., for the prisoner, appealed to the
ttompassionate feeling of the prosecutor,' but that gen-
tleman, who believed that the prisoner had been for a
long time robbing the concern, and who has several
young, men is his establishment, said that he considered
himself bound in every respect to go to the extremity.

FORGERIES ON THE NEWPORT

OLD BANK.

NEWPORT, JULY, 27.—Considerable excitement has
existed here for these several days in consequence of
Mr. Geach, the sor-in-law of Frost, and who was re-
cently in very extensive practice as an attorney at Ponty-
pool, being here in custody upon the charge of forgery
to a very considerable amount upon the Newport Old
Bank, Messrs. Williams and Co. The prisoner was
examined on Tuesday last, upon which occasion Mr.
Williams, the senior partner of the firm, detailed the
forgeries, which consisted of three notes of a Miss
Herbert and two acceptances of a Mr. E. Williams,
amounting to nearly 5,0001., and which, having been
paid him by the prisoner, had been discounted by him,
and placed to his account.
Mr. Geach, who stated he could prove his innocence,
applied for an adjournment until to•day, which was
granted, and the Court adjourned until nine o'clock,
Monday (the 27th), long before which hour every
avenue leading to the Justice-room was thronged w;th a
dense concourse of people anxious to have a view of

the prisoner.
At one o'clock the prisoner was again brought up,
and the depositions taken on the former day having
been read,
Mr. Fora (solicitor for the prosecution) said, that
since they were before there, Mr. Geach had been fur-
ni,l2cd wi:h his banking account, and the aggregate
amount of the pecuniary transactions between him and
the bankers. The case, therefore, of the prosecutors
was complete, and be at once prayed that the prisoner
■.ight be committed.

Sir 'l'. Fhi!lips—The Magistrates having duly con-
sidered your case, have come to the conclusion that you
must stand committed to take your trial at the en-
suing Monmouth Assizes on both charges, for having
uttered these notes and acceptances, knowing them to
be forged, and with intent to defraud Messrs. Williams.

The prisoner then applied to be allowed to put in
bail, but was informed, that, as to that matter, the Ma-
gistrates must refer him to a Judge of As.ize. The
prisoner was then removed in custody for the purpose of
being conveyed to Monmouth gaol.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
(LLOYD'S.)

VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.—The Helme, from Alexandria
to New York, 11th inst., off Gibraltar, by the Clipper,
Holland, arrived et Liverpool; Courier, Roche, London
to &nth Australia, 17th May, lat. 26 S, lon. 25 W;
Isabella, beund to Madras, 30th ult., lat 6 8, lon. 28 W ;
Moslem, 28th inst., lat. 48, lon. 15, by the Ocean Bride,
srrivcd off Falmouth; Edmund Cat le, London to Quebec,
lat. 49, lon. 18; Eddystone, London to Bathurst, 28th
ult., lat. 46, Inn. 59. by the Endyrnion, arrived at
Leith ; Allen, Kerr, Clyde to Bombay, latitude 3 N,
longitude 25 W., by the Telegraph, arr ved off
Havre ; Mary lt‘omerville, Liverpool to Calcutta, 18th
March, lat. 2, long. 9 Liverpool, bound to New York,
7th inst., lat. 40, long 50 ; Hibernia, Liverpool to New
York, 12th inst., lat. 40, long. 40, by the Henry Took,
arrived at Liverpool ; Oawell, Liverpool to Quebec,
18th inst., lat. 58, brig. 12, by the Eleanur Bracegirdle,
arrived at Strangford ; Richmond, from Liverpool, out
nme days, with loss of masts, 10th inst., lat 41, long. 13,
by the William McGibbon, arrived at Belfast; Anne, cf
Sunderland, for Quebec, lat. 41, long. 24 ; Prince, of
London, lat. 49, long. 9 ; Africa, of Gothenburg, lat. 48,
long, 12, by the Indian, Carr, arrived in the River; Iris,
Browse, Cadiz to Newfoundland, 11th inst., lat. 37, long.
21 ; Robert and Fanny, Liverpool to Rio Janeiro, 22d,
lat. 48, long. 10, by the Tacitu.s, Moore, arrived off the
Wight. Zenobia, New Orleans to Marseilles, lat. 40,
long. 41, by the Ellen, Brown, arrived in the River. Med_
ford, Liverpool to Boston,' 19th inst., lat. 48, long. 34 ;
Eleutheria, Quebec to London, 20tti,lat 48, long. 38, hi
the Patrick, Henry, arrived at Liverpool, Gales, of and
from Whitby, out 40 days in the White Sea, by the Ann,
Gascoin, arrived off Yarmouth.

EXTRAORDINARY PROLIFIC BA RLEY.-Mr.
amuel Barnes, of Westbury, has this year drilled in two
acres with six pecks, and dibb?ed one acre with less than one
peck of grain, and, most astonishing to relate, there are at
this time to be seen from 100 to 150 stalks of grain growing
from one corn, and some of the ears contain from 30 to 40
corns in each ; and last year the same gentleman grew nearly
24 sacks of grain per acre, of good quality. Its properties for
malting have been tried, but of course on a small scale, and
found to answer well. Mr. Barnes will be happy to show the
barley, as now growing, to any gentleman who may be desirous
of seeing it.

CORONER'S INQUEST.—ALLEGED CASE OF
MU H.DE R. —T ma EFFECTS OF CONTINUOUS DISSIPATION.
An inquest was held before Mr. Carter, at the Mason's
Arms, East-lane, to, inquire respecting the death of Mary
Armileld, aged 44111 which was generally reported in the neigh-
bourhood to have bieen caused by vloleace. The details given
in evidence were the same as appeared in Wednesday's Sun.—
The Jung found a verdict, that the deceased's death was the
consequence of excessive intemperance. Armfield, who is be-
tween 60 and 70, was called in and severely admonished by
the Coroner. His grave would seem to be near at hand.

SFIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

rilltoH THE DAILY PAI"Ett. of YESTERDAY.)
(Froth the Olobe.)
The speech of the Bishop of Salisbury fin, klonday
evening, in the debate on the Eccleiiastical Duties and
Revenues Bill, has -called forth etretee tommendatory
remarks from .soreee Ima deep regret from all who de-
sire to see tlle clerical order rescued from the odium of
being influenced by secular regards, and religion freed
from the injuries to its spirit and influence which
such an imputation, if staccessftilly fastened Or), its
ministers, cannot fail to laid. The Right Rev.
Prelate is reported to have urged as a -feason for the
rejection of the Bill, that "if these establishments
were reduced, the ineweethent to enter the service
of the Church would be materially diminished ; and
as a proof of the solidity of this argument, he referred to
the fact that when a measure, hardly more sweeping in
its nature than that now proposed, was introduced into
the Long Parliament, the 'number of students in divinity
at the Universities rapidly declined, and became at last
comparatively insignificant. He feared that the same re-
sults would follow now. He was informed, indeed, that al-
ready, owing to the agitation and uncertainty which pro
veiled upon this subject, the number of students in divi-
nity at both Universities had been considerably reduced."
" The inducements to enter tire Church *would be ma-
terially diminished if these establishments were re-
duced." The Archbishop of Canterbury designated
these establishments by their right name when he
celled and proved them to be wee "sinecures." Tee
Prelate of -Salisbury—from whom better things were
expected when be nee raised to his present high end
responsible office—declares that these sinecures, in the
possession of which the ministers of the Unurch repose
in inglorious case, white the hungry sheep" which
they solemnly swore to feed " look up and are not fed"
—are the inducements which operate upon parents to
devote their sons to the service of the Church, without
which the Universities will be void of theological stu-
dents, and the churches destitute of pastors. What is
this, we ask, but the repetition of the very objection,
scarcely varying the form, which the worst enemies of a
State Church have but too successfully urged against
such an institution ?

(Films the Standard.)
In the House of Lords, List night, Lord Brougham
presented a curious petition from the negroes of
Barbadoes. The petition had two prayers—the
first was for " a Parliamentary reform" in the is-
land, by such a reduction of the franchise as should
throw the elections into the , hands of the black po-
pulation. The second and more rational prayer
respected some regulations in force, which disable
the labouring classes from emigrating to Guiana
and other colonies, where the rate of wages is higher.
Lord Brougham seemed favourably disposed towards
both thmattda. The Black Parliament would cer-
tainly ra far towards completing his Lordship's work
ita the West Indies. All that is wanting to give a
pleasant and picturesque finish to the connection of
Great Britain with these settlements is a system of
such Parliaments extending through all the islands.
In reply to the Bishop of Exeter, Lord Melbourne
stated that the ordinance for the re-incorporation
of the fraternity of Saint Sulpice (Lower Canada)
has arrived in this country, but that the Govern-
ment would not lay it before Parliament in the course
of the present Session. His Lordship added, that in
the opinion of her Majesty's Law Officers, the local
Government is competent to pass the ordinance in ques-
tion, notwithstanding the limitation of the Act 2 and 3
Victoria, chap. 4, sec. 53, which prohibits from passing
any law " affecting the spiritual rights of any religious
eomirunity, except as to the tenure of land." We have
not the statute before us, and must, therefore, take the
words from The reporters—but these words seem to us
very like nonsense. They may not, however, be less—
probably on that account—a part of a Whig-made
statute. The main consideration, however, is,
has the local Govetnment the power to incorporate
a Romanist fraternity with inemense estates, and with
perpetual succession ? Whether such an Act affects
or does not affect " spiritual rights," it certainly creates
rights of a vary formidable political character, and such
as it plainly was in the power of the local government
to abstain from creating ; and here the question pre-
sents itself, why i; such an extraordinary exercise of the.
prerogative to be withholden from the observation of
Parliament for now at least six months to come ?
Lord Melbourne says that be has had the ordinance
by him some time, but that he will not present it until
next Session, because the law, we suppose, does not
compc,,l him to do so ; but is this fair dealing with Par-
liament, and with the country ?
(From the Courier.)_
•

An earthquake could not more suddenly and com-
pletely deface and derange the physical order of Rat ure,
than the revolution, so silently and unexpectedly ope-
rated at the Foreign-office, crumbles into dust the frame-
work on which avowedly the foreign policy of this coun-
try has been constructed for years past. The
Quadruple Alliance of which Great Britain and
France were the two buttresses of defence and
defiance against the great Northern Powers, and
the Northern Colossus in especial, is effaced and
supplanted by another Quadruple Alliance, of which
Russia and Great Britain are the advanced guard,
marching to assault against the riv,il pretensions and
policy of France. This fantastic feat, accomplished
by diplomacy marvellous if not.dexterous, comes upon
us like a coup de theatre, and the old beau transformed
by stage trick in the twinkling of an eye into the slip-
pered pantaloon could not more awake the wonderment
of the merry juvenility of Christmas holidays, than the
phantasmagoric hey-presto pleasantries of Lord Palmers-
ton, the " juvenile Whig." Swift as thought he tra-
verses the globe from west to east, from north to south,
and we behold him alternately perched at the antipodes
of the European world, before his flight is suspected,
now wrapped in the folds of the tri•colour flag, anon
surmounting the flagstaff of the Russian eagle. We
are not of the number of those who deprecate the
maintenance of friendly relations with Russia, and who
would rush into war because bar fleets are too nume-
rous, her power substantially aggressive, and her ambi-
tion unmeasured. But although our demeanour should
not be offensive, our watchfulness should never sleep,
and we should be as ready and prompt to repel when
the hour of action and danger really arrived, as slow
to provoke and hasten it, either by gratuitous insults
and an ostentatious attitude of ill-judged defiance, or
by a misplaced and overweening confidence.

STATE OF' TRADE.

( From the Manchester Guardian.)

MANCHESTER.—There was no material change in
the market yesterday, as compared with that of the
preceding Tuesday ; the demand both for goods and
yarns was moderate, but steady, and prices without
alteration. Within the last few days some purchases
have been made for American account, but they are
generally of an exceedingly limited character, and pro-
duce but little effect upon the market.
ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, JULY 27.
—We have had rather more doing in the market to-
day ; yet the business has been limited, and prices very
low. In the wool market there is nothing new to re-
port ; prices are giving way, and manufacturers buy for
immediate use only.
HUDDERSFIELD MARKET, JULY 28.—There were
more buyers in this market to.-day than last week ; but
the amount of business done was comparatively trifling.
What may be the effect of fine weather cannot of course
be ascertained ; but hopes are entertained that a good
harvest will greatly improve the withered state of
r trade ; and, as all prospect of a foreign demand is at an
end for the present, this seems to be the only ground
of hope. Prices are nominal.