The Sun.
London, England, 1840-08-21 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDA Y, AUGUST 21, 1840.

LONDON:
FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 1840.

A very marked change has taken place in the
tone of the Tory Journals. From being united in
making a severe and continued attack on the Minis-
ters they have fallen out amongst themselves, and
attack one another, and attack the Conservative
leaders. That the Times and the Herald should
take different views might indicate only a trade
quarrel ; but when, in addition, we find the Herald
and the Post, and the Standard contending for
different principles and for different men, when
we find the Standard throwing all the Tories
overboard who supported the Irish Municipal
Bill—three-fourths of that body, and find the
Herald scolding the Standard for dealing too
tenderly with those whom it calls Judas-PEEL
and Iscariot-Su a.w, when we find the Standard
advising the Orangemen of Ireland to evade, if not
to resist the law, and find the Post taking the
Standard to task for inculcating rebellion, the con-
clusion is forced on us that in the public as well
as in Parliament there is a thorough 'break up
amongst the Tories.

How can it be otherwise when men have no pub-
lic principle to contend for. Who knows what
Conservatism is ? Who can define it ? The
Standard of last night says " Conservatism is
purely defensive" "of the few institutions remain-
ing unimpaired." On that definition it scarcely
differs from Whiggism, which would defend the
Monarchy, the Peerage, the House of Commons
Rti now constituted, the Church, with some reforms,
the Courts of Law also with some reforms,

our juries, our army, our navy ; that most
ancient institution, the police, established by Sir
8.. PEEL ; that somewhat more modern reform in
ht-le Poor-laws, in which both Whigs and Tories
concurred ; and, as far as we know, nearly all our
institutions, ancient and modern, except, perhaps,
watchmen and constables. The definition of Con-
servatism given by the Standard is not one hair's
breadth different from Whiggism, and those who
under its name fight against the Whigs, declaring
:that they differ from them in principle, are political
cheats and impostors.

The Standard has a subsidiary definition of
Conservatism, "to defend the Protestant Constitution
of the country." On that principle Sir R. PEEL,
and all the Tories who promoted the Emancipation
Act, and more recently consented to the Irish
Alunicipal Law, are not Conservatives, and the
is
party of which the Standard is the organ p
posed to them as completely as to the Whigs.
The
Post and the Times, who side with Sir R. PEEL,
are on this principle not Conservative journals,
and limited as Conservatism is by the Standard,
instead of embracing four-fifths of the gentry and
three-fourths of the people of England, it includes
only the extreme bigots in England, and the
Orangemen in Ireland, the wretched rump of bye-
gone intolerance, the most ferocious, but
the weakest of all our political parties•
If that be Conservatism, instead of being a
strong and united party, capable of governing this
empire, it is not united and strong enough to go-
vern a cathedral chapter ; and, wherever it is domi-
nant, its own furious passions soon fret it into
rags.

The Conservatism of the Standard is not only
tite defence, or rather the revival of bye-gone in-
stitutions, but a defence or revival of acknowledged
tyranny. Whatever might have been in the days of
its power and its glory the iniquities of Papal
Rome, it is impossible for one moment to deny that
the Protestant Constitution of England, as directed
against our fellow-citizens who adhered to the I
Catholic faith, was a great and a grievous system
of civil tyranny. That was acknowledged b)

every successive statesman, whether Whig or
Tory, who gradually relaxed or abolished the penal
laws, till Sir R.. PEEL passed the Act which ad-
mitted Catholic voters to send Catholic representa-
tives to Parliament. To revive that system of
tyranny is the essence of Conservatism, as defined
by the Standard, which, being both unjust and
impracticable, is abandoned by every rational
statesman. It finds no other representatives in
Parliament than Sir R. INGLis and Mr. PLUMP..
TRE, and few other advocates in the press besides
the London Standard and the Dublin Evening
, Packet.

The Standard's narrow principle of mere de-
fence is not, however, strictly speaking, embraced
by any party or persons. Sir R. INGLIs proposed
one of the greatest changes that Parliament has
been lately called on to accede to, both in principle
and effect, when -he asked the House of Commons
to vote money for the annual support of the
Church. Lord STANLEY and the Tories had
something very different in view also from defence,
when they proposed and pertinaciously pressed
forward the Bill for completely altering the registra-
tration in Ireland. Mr.KELLY and his aids, including
the Herald were the reverse of Conservative when
theysought to abolish the punishment of death. The
Standard itself overleaps the bounds of Conserva-
tism, according to its own definition, when it seeks
to excite the democracy to organise themselves, in
order to defeat the operation of the new Municipal
law, that being now one of our institutions. The
Post is in some points furiously innovating. The
Times goes with Sir R. PEEL in correcting all
proved abuses, not in standing by all our institu-
tions; on which principle both have concurred with
the Archbishop of CANTERBURY, the Bishop of
LONDON, and Lord J. RUSSELL in promoting
a slight reform in the Chutth. On the Standard's
definition we do not believe/that there exists a ge-
nuine Conservative in the lain& All persons and
parties want some change' which they call im-
provements, and the main `difference is that the
one party seeks to revive and restore, by corruption,
by fraud, and by force, the old brutal system of
Tory tyranny, while the other pretends at least to
extend freedom, so far as that is compatible with
political order and obedience. The plain and pal-
pable reason, therefore, why Toryism is breaking
all to pieces, and losing ground in the country is,
that it is based on no public principle, and is a
mere scheme of political fraud and hypocrisy. It
pretends to venerate the rights of the people, and the
free institutions of our ancestors ; it really seeks
power, to curtail the former and warp the latter to
the selfish purposes of a narrow clique of aristo-
crats.

From the differences of opinion avowed by the
Tory journals, while similar differences, it must be
admitted, prevail amongst the Ministerial journals,
it is apparent that the Press is becoming more
meditating, more thoughtful, and more independent
than formerly. On the question of Church-rates
and Reform of Parliament, for example, we know
of no Liberal Journal which does not go further
than the Ministers. All our previous observations
tend to prove a similar separation between the Tory
journals and Tory statesmen. One of the signs of
the times, therefore, most full of hope, is the grow-
ing independence of the Press, which no longer
supports the politicians of either party, and may
perhaps be described,in its influence over the public
mind, as superior to both.

There is no Journal which, occasionally, more
amuses us by its lucubrations than the Morning
Post. Formerly, when on the look-out for mares'
new, we invariably turned to the Morning Herald;
but, celebrated as Granny was in her day for a con-
! Cr ita r fry vs ••••

tion if her claims were ever equal to those which
might be put forth by our fashionable Contem-
porary as a real startler of the " natives." And
then the gravity with which the Post shakes his
" ambrosial curls," when the question to be solved
rationally admits of a double interpretation ! It is
enough to make one die with laughter. In an
article which appeared in that Journal on Wednes-
day, under the head " Tee-total humbug," pur-
porting to be a review of some silly trash, in rhyme,
on the subject of total abstinence from spirit-
drinking, we find the following exquisite specimen
of the process of ratiocination in the solution of a
great moral, and, as the Post has it, political
problem :

" It may, we think, be matter for doubt whether the
intention of these men be the perversion of our people
to Popery, as the writer asserts. We incline to think
that political objects are more immediately concerned,
and our opinion is not shaken by the fact that the new
system has been the most extensively carried out by
a Popish priest. The generality of these gentry are
as little in love with Popery, per se, as we are ; but
they know by experience that it is a powerful political
engine, and that, in order to the proper working of
such a machine, the means of combination, and the fa-
cilities for large public meetings, are most essential.
It became necessary, however, that in the employment
of these means, care should be taken to avoid exciting
the jealousy of the authorities, and the pretended pro-
motion of temperance was thought a plausible mode of
doing so. This, we are convinced—together with the
pocketing of some thousands of pounds sterling by the
authors of it—is the real object of the temperance
scheme, and indeed proof is already before us in the
conversion of it, in one part of the United Kingdom, to
purposes exclusively political."

It may, we think, be a matter for doubt whether
a jackass be a donkey, as some writers on natural
history assert. We incline to think that a jackass
is not a donkey, and our opinion is not shaken by
the fact, that the dam and sire of donkeys com-
monly breed jackasses. And, to make an end of
doubting, we are convinced that a donkey is not a
a jackass, and that settles the question. This is
something in the spirit of the logical acumen of
our fashionable Contemporary, who begins with a
doubt and ends with a certainty. The real ab-
surdity, however, is in the grave assumption that
tee-totalism is necessarily the offspring of Popery
or Radicalism. The Church of England has so
few claims to the veneration of the poor that we
cannot consent to see her stripped of all share in
the promotion of sobriety, and consequently of de-
cency and morality among them. It is true that
Father MATHEW was first in the field, and that seve-
ral Catholic Prelates have declared themselves fa-
vourable to the administration of the Temperance
pledge in their diocese ; but it is not less true, that
some Prelates of the Church of England are fa-
vourable to the temperance cause, and that no dig-
nitary of the Established Church has been found
to oppose the formation of temperance societies.
The Post is convinced the object of the tee-totalers
is political. We are much more rationally con-
vinced it is nothing of the kind ; but were it even
so, the country and the Government would have
nothing to dread from a nation of sober artisans,
governed by sober rulers, and instructed by sober
pries“tss.winßisuht
mthneittitrtuidtheisb,
egthnaist tthoe
atleamrmpertahneceof
the
aris-
tocracy, who are becoming apprehensive that their
drunkenness and debauchery will appear in quite a
new light when the multitude are capable of judg-
ng of the enormity of such vices. It would be as
easy as in the present state of society it would be
irniitereshmsenmembers of the
of the Gospel, who
invidious to nameevmenanmy
Legislature, and
are in the habit of railing at the vices of the poor
wretches who spend their earnings in the gin pa-
laces of the metropolis, and yet who scruple not,
when snugly ensconced in a private room in a club
to await the rising sun, knee-deep in cards, and half
blind from the combined effects of wakefulness and
champagne, claret, or burgundy. Upon this curious

feature in the morality of the upper classes, as they
call themselves, we leave the Post to make its own

reflections.

We intended to have stopped here, but on look-
ing over the remainder of the article which pro-
voked these remarks, we find another passage which
will bear quoting. Upon it, also, we have a word
or two of comment to offer :

" It is sheer hypocrisy to prohibit the use of dogs in
the poor man's truck, while you permit the carriage of
the rich man's child to be drawn by goats. It is sick-
ening to us to see English women watering the floor of
Exeter Hall with their tears at the bare mention of the
labours of a nigger, when the same women will load a
four•wheeled carriage with five insides and three out,
and then expect one horse to drag it. And finally, to
come at once to the point immediately before us, we are
disgusted to see English wives and mothers, dizened
out with ribbons, and medals, and banners, filling up
the ranks of a public procession and declaring by their
presence that they will not do what it ought to be the
basest of libels even to suspect them of—that they will
not get drunk ! Nay, Bishops and Judges have not
scrupled to commit this gross indecency, and thus to
give occasion for a scandal that but for their own
absurd conduct none would have dared to dream of."

The sterling good sense, and manliness of the
first part of this extract is deplorably out of keep-
ing with its conclusion. We detest cant and
humbug as much as does the Post, and we would
venture to say, more ; but we cannot blame indi-
viduals if in their endeavours to eradicate an
evil they adopt the means indicated by the
system which State priests and Governments
prescribe for testing the purity of a people.
The Post is scandalized that women, and
Bishops, and Judges, should admit by implication
that they are liable to get drunk ; but the Post is
not scandalized that women should admit by im-
plication at the altar, that they might, without a
vow to the contrary, prove unfaithful to their hus-
bands' beds, and that Bishops and Judges admit, in
like manner, by the implication arising out of vows and
oaths, that they would not voluntarily administer
faithfully the laws of either GOD or the country.
Does not every witness who takes an oath to speak
the truth, admit by implication the possibility of his
or her telling a lie ? Does not the bare attendance
at the morning service of our holy religion, as per-
formed in the Established Churches of this country,
imply an admission on our part, that we have
" erred and strayed" from the paths of righteous-
ness ; that we are become " lost sheep ;" and that
there is "no health in us ?" And if we are thus
to be treated by priests and legislators as criminals
of the deepest dye, where is the great harm in
adding to the black catalogue of our guilt a pro-
pensity to tipple ? If children, unconscious of
sin, and as pure in mind as angels, are made in
our very churches to confess themselves little mon-
sters of depravity, and worthy objects of Divine
vengeance, what is there wonderful in seeing grown
men and women, even in the highest ranks, treading
in the footsteps of their infancy, so far as to imply
in a promise a natural preference for brandy to
pump-water, which they will henceforth labour to
overcome ? While we refuse to admit a youth to
our Universities without an anti-Dissenting pledge,
or a Judge to the Bench without an anti-bribery
pledge, or a Member into Parliamant without an
anti-revolutionary and anti-Popish pledge, or a
witness without an anti-perjury pledge, or to lay
hands on a Bishop without an anti-simony pledge,
let us at least have the decency and the consis-
tency not to laugh at the anti-drunken pledges of
any class of the people.

The following very pithy paragraph is from the
leading columns of the Morning Post :

" It is as well that the public opinion in England
should be thoroughly enlightened as to the real rela-
tions existing between this country and France, for it
is scandalous that shallow-pated, narrow-minded, or sel-
fish writers should essay to conceal the dangerous point
at which affairs have arrived. It isupiositively wicked
tiosieau Luc pcupic x. pruuaulinies
of war and peace. It shall not be our fault that Eng-
lish residents in France be taken by surprise, and we
shall continue to publish such information we deem to
be authentic as may throw light on the intentions of the
French Government."

The earnestness of the Post is amusing. The
French Ambassador is a guest at Windsor Castle,
and a few days ago Lord GRANVILLE was sharing
the hospitality of the French Monarch at the
Chateau of Eu in Normandy ; and yet English
writers are abused for not imploring their country-
men to quit France, where, if they remain a week
or two longer, they will either have their throats
cut or be made prisoners of war. We are
not alarmists to this extent, and we neither
see the wisdom nor the policy of pretending
to be so. Were war declared to-morrow, we should
have as little fear for the personal safety of our
countrymen sojourning in France as we have at
this moment. But after all that has taken place,
we see no sufficient grounds for apprehending that
hostilities will take place between England and
France. For after all the noise made by the Paris
Press, the question of war or peace is not to be de-
termined by the dicta of the Metropolitan Journal-
ists. The opinion of the Chambers and the KING
will go for something, and that of the mercantile
classes, who are all for peace, will throw additional
weight into the Royal and Legislatorial scale. In
a word, the real wickedness is in alarming the public
mind, and so kindling into a blaze of fury the
worst passions of the worst classes of the populace.
The Post has already recounted outrages com-
mitted on the English by the mob of Paris. Is it
intended to provoke retaliatory vengeance on the
part of a London mob ? We cannot believe it ;
and yet does not the whole drift of the language of
the Post warrant such a construction ?

The National of Wednesday, which we have
received with the other Paris Joournals of the
same date, takes The Sun to task, in an article of
considerable length, for misrepresenting its views of
the importance of the URQUHART and ATWOOD
demonstrations at Birmingham, Newcastle, and
Glasgow ; and for representing the tone of the
Republican organ as more bombastic than accorded
with English ideas of good taste. The National
denies having used towards England menacing ex-
pressions, and says that France is too conscious of
• her own power to insult the weakness of other
t States by an unnecessary display of her resources.
We never imputed such puerilities to the French
nation. We never, for an instant, sup-
posed the articles in the National the echo
of public opinion in France. Our quarrel was
with the Press of Paris—not with the French Go-
vernment or the French people, For months toge-
ther our ears have been stunned with the enumera-
tion of French fleets and French armies which
were to act against England. The National itself
some days ago, in an article exceeding a couple of
columns in length, told us in a tone which appeared
rather menacing, that France had—we forget at
this instant how many, and we cannot at the
moment find the paper—but at all events an over-
whelming force of ships of the line, frigates, cor-
vettes, and armed steamers, and that she could
begin the war by landing from fifty thousand to
one hundred thousand Frenchmen on our coast.
We deprecated, and we shall continue to deprecate,
while there remains a possibility of preserving the
peace of Europe, the appearance of such articles,
whether in French or English newspapers. Feel-
ing assured that their only effect upon the public
mind would be to excite the vulgar prejudices of
the uneducated and unreflecting of every class, we
could not witness their appearance without pro-
testing against them. There is no party in Eng-
land wishing to promote a rupture with France—
there is even no party in this country which is not as
much opposed on principle to a war with France as
the Attwoodites, and Cargilites, and Urquhartites,
of Glasgow, Newcastle, and Birmingham. The
National entirely misconceives the drift of the
movement in these towns ; and still more the real
views as well as the policy of Lord PALMERSTON i
—which in reality is as pacific in intention, what-

ever France may make it in effect, as that of any
Quaker in the United Kingdom.
The trial of Prince Louis NAPOLEON is se-
vetely criticized by the Nationa?. "It would ap-
pear," says that journal, " that about a dozen of
the Peers who met yesterday to constitute them-
selves into a court of justice, felt some qualms of
conscience at the business they were about to un-
dertake, for out of 140 odd Peers who at first as-
sembled, only 133 remained to form a secret Com-
mittee." It remarks that out of the five Peers
who were appointed to receive the evidence and
report upon it, four owed their fortunes to the
EMPEROR. The National observes that the bio-
graphy of those Peers is inscribed in the memory
of the nation ; and it concludes by saying that it
is not Prince Louis who ought to complain of
this proceeding. After his silly attempt at Bou-
logne, the worst he had to fear was oblivion and
silence. But the Government has placed hire on a
pedestal in front of an unpopular Court. He was
only a ridiculous pretender, and they have con-
verted him into an interesting victim,
TheCA u followingLAY article on the presence of Mr.
in France is from the Courrier Fran-
cais of Wednesday. The closing paragraph fully
bears out what we have said of the absurd and
MA
pernicious rumours set afloat by the Morning
Post :
. _

Mr. Macaulay arrived in Parisi and perhaps is
here.still no doubt, to see With his own
eyes the state of opinion in France as well as the progress
of the armaments, We fear only one thing, that Mr.
He
has has
wished,
Macaulay may not have taken sufficient time to observe
accurately what he has seen. Prance does not colleen'
her preparations; she makes them openly ; and she is
glad that it is known that, in accepting with regret the
necessity under which there seems the wish to place
her, she prepares for it with a resolution vsbith
will not be shaken. Mr. Macaulay is a distinguished oras
tor and an eminent whiter to whom is attributed the bo-
nour of the finest pages in the Edinburgh llevieW. He
is well acquainted with the Indies, where he bas been em-
ployed some years. We should not wish to affirm that he
was as well prepared to judge France, and that upon
the rapid examination he has just made he will
report erroneous impressions. The Morning Post
has published a plan of campaign, the conception of
which it attributes to the French Government. We
are willing to believe that the English Ministry has
not authorised these absurd rumours by its sanction.
France has no hostile projects; she will only make war
if she be forced to it. Until then it is waste of time and
trouble to amuse oneself in calculating strategetical
movements, independently of circumstances, distances, and
places. We must, above all, deny a report mentioned by
the Morning Post, and which tends probably to frighten
English tourists. This Journal pretends that the French
Government purposes, as a prelude to the war, to arrest
all the English who reside in our territory, and lay an em-
bargo on their property. These are measures which no
humane Government resorts to except as reprisals, and
which public opinion in France would energetically re-
ject. If we must recommence, after twenty-five years of
peace, the sanguinary struggle which had lasted an equal
number of years, we will not make war against the people
as individuals—we will make it against Governments.
These are principles which the progress of civilisation
has established, and which everybody for the future ought
to respect."
We subjoin a summar/ of all that is of any in-
terest in Wednesday's Journals
The Constitutionnel publishes a letter from L'Orient of
the 14th inst., mentioning that the armaments ordered by
the Ministry were proceeding with an activity which could
only be compared with that observed in that harbour
during the wars of the empire. The vessels now arming
at L'Orient are—the Jemappe, a new ship, of 100 guns;
the Artemise, a frigate, of 50; the klerceau, a new
corvette, of 30; the Peyrouse and Alcibiade brigs,
of 'lO ; the Turquoise, a schooner, of 4 ; the Brandon
and Gassendi steamers, of 6. The vessels now on the
stocks, and Which were to be immediately launched,
are—the Semillante, Andromaque, and Penelope frigates
of 60 guns; the Duchesse d'Orleans, a frigate of 50 ; the
Baucis, Decides, and Levrette, schooners of 4. The
vessels remaining on the stocks are the Bayard and Wagram
ships of 100 guns ; the Donawirth, Annibal, and Duguay-
Trouin, ships of 80 guns; the Vengeance frigate, of 60;
the Entreprenante frigate, of 50; the Mcurthe, a corvette,
of 30; and the Asmodee steamer of 350 horse power, and
mounting 30 guns. Orders to build two other steamers
of the same site, and another of 220 horse poweh, bad
been received by the inatitime authorities. The regiment
of artillery (if the marine in garrison at L'Orient was to be
increased by six companies.
Lord Granville, the English Ambassador, was expected
yesterday (the 18th) at Rouen. His equipages had ar-
rived at the Hotel de Rouen on the preceding day. It
was supposed he was going to London.
All the persons implicated in the affair of Boulogne
have arrived at Paris, except Colonel Voisin and the Pole
Ovinski, who are both wounded, and are still at Boulogne.
They are seventy-four in number, of whom seventeen arc
in the Contiergetib, Ind the others at St. Pelagie.
Prime Louis Bonaparte is to be tranferred to-day from
the Conciergerie to the orison of the Luxembeurp.
rtn.- iiouay anti tne neighbouring towns have
received the descriptioifof the persons of 13onapartist con-
spirators, with directions to search the ians and hotels.—
Le
A Ministerial Journal has not feared to announce.

I and without any remark, that the Government, being
obliged to concentrate its whole naval force in the Mediter-
ranean, was going to abandon our Colonies in the West
Indies, and to leave them to defend themselves as well as
they could. We are unwilling to believe in such a resolu-
tion. The Journal des Debats, more patriotic than the
Ministerial Journal;shows how impolitic such an act would
be. We will add that it would be base and shameful. The
Colonies are French by the same title as the several parts
of the mother country, and the Government is no more at
liberty to sacrifice our transmarine possessions than our
Northern and Southern Departments.—Le Commerce.
According to the accounts in the French Papers, it ap-
pears that the conferences which were held at the chateau
of M. Metternich, at Koeningswortli, have been suddenly
transferred to Dresden, under the pretext of honouring the
King of Prussia, who is expected in the above town on the
13th, in company with the Empress of Russia. M. Met-
ternich, Count Nesselrode, M. Tatischoff,; and Count
Maltzhany had arrived previously. It is also stated that
the diplomatists
whereiplomatistthey
sarweilitofinrdetuthrne
Englishafterw AmbassadorardstoKoenin ands-
the Count Woronzow, who went previously to Postdam,
where he had an audience of the King of Prussia. M.
Woronzoff i 3 to return imraediately to Russia, to give an
account to the Emperor of the result of his journey.
We must remark, says the German journals, that their
diplomatic movement has for its object the maintenance of
peace, and, at all events, the treaty will be executed in a
manner not to provoke a serious resistance on the part
of France. All this looks well in words, but the enor-
mous fall in the funds at Vienna does not indicate an ab-
solute confidence in their management for France.
The German press continues a profound silence on the
result of the mission of M. Sainte Aulaire, who, in all pro-
bability, was disappointed to find that M. Metternich ;had
left for Dresden. •

•
Accounts from Brest state that the scarcity of naval mate
rims is so great in that port, that it has caused the sus-
pension of the most urgent works, on examining our
naval magazines, which before were encumbered with ma-
terials, we may say at present are empty.
BoURSE.—PARis, WEDNESDAY, ADD. 19.
First Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Price. Price
French 5 per Cents ll2 ... 112 ... 111 40 ... 111 90
4 per Cents lO2 ... 011 75 101 75
3 per Cents 7B 90 79 5 ... 78 65 78 65
Bank of terance 3175 ...31;5 ...3125
...3150
Laffitte Bank I,ooof. Sh lOBO ...1080 ...1080 —lOBO
5,000 f. sh 5130 ...5130 ...5150 ..5 !CIO
Belgian Bank
S per Cents lOO% 100% ... 100;‘ ... 10. N
3 per Cents 6B 25 68 2i ... 68 25 ... 68 25
Spanish Active 25% 2534 ... 21 ti ... 254
Passive 614 6 iB
... 6 ...
Portuguese 3 per Cents 2llv 21X,
Neapolitan lOO 10 100 10 ... 99 1:0 100
Roman lOO% ... 100%

RAILWAY SHARES,
St. Germain
Versailles, R B 475 ... 475 ... 470 ... 470
L. 8.310 ...310 ...30) ~305
Orleant . . 475 ... 475 ... 470 ... 470
.
Strasburg CO Bale 750 ~, 350 ... 340
.. 340
Bordeaux to La Teste 4OO ... 400 ... 400 ... 400

The Madrid papers of the 12th inst., state that
the Spanish Government has already instructed
its Consular agents to deliver passports to Carlist
refugees anxious to return to Spain. General
Officers are only excepted, who cannot return with-
out,. the permission of General ESPARTERO. The
Five per Cents. were at 27 for cash, with but
little business doing.

We have copied from the Constitutionnel some
very interestin news from Constantinople, which
will Ibe found in another part of he Sun. In
g
addition to the conspiracy discovered by the Porte,
there is a likelihood of
a quarrel between the
Sultan and the Greek nation.

Brussels and German Papers of the latest dates
have just come to hand. The following are extracts
from them :

BRUSSELS, AUG. 19 Falek,
-
Envoy Extraordinary
and Minister Plenipotentiary from his Majesty the King of
the Netherlands, has returned from Aix-la-Chapelle to
Brussels, and had an audience of the Minister of Foreign
Affairs on the 17th of this month.
A letter from the Hague says that the visit of the Duke
of Nassau is supposed to be connected with a projected
marriage of his Highness to the Princess Sophia, daughter
of his Royal Highness the Prince of Orange. It was ob-
served that at the dinner given by the King in honour of the
Duke the latter was seated next the Princess, whereas in
ordinary cases his place would have been next to the Prin.
cess of Orange.
We call the attention of our readers to the following
fact, of which we shall doubtless have an explanation in a
short time :----Yesterday four Cabinet messengers, with
despatches from her Britannic Majesty, passed through
Liege, where they stopped but a few minutes. It appeared
from their passports that one was going to Vienna, the
second to Toplitz, the third to Konigswarth, and the fourth
to Constantinople.
DRESDEN, AUG. 11.--- We see many Russians of distinc-
tion pass through our city, on their way to Bohemia. First
was Count \Voronzow, who passed through Dresden on
his way to Carlsbad. Yesterday Counts Nesselrode, Fi-
quelmont, and Krasinsky, and NI. Von Christians, arrived
from Warsaw.

AUG. 12,—The Russian statesmen, whose arrival I an-

Bounced yesterday, are still here ; and beside them Prince
Metternich, Count Von Tatischeff, and Count Mortimer
Maltzan, have arrived, to meet his Majesty the King of
Prussia, who, it is said, will arrive here to-day.

THE GENTILITY OF THE TIMES.—The Herald
quarrels with the Times for writing an agreeable but
exaggerated description of Gravesend. It seems to
resent the attempt at burlesque in the Thunderer as an
invasion of its own particular department. We thought the
description so accurate in its general features, that we
concluded it could only have been penned by a weekly
visitant, and that it is very poor jealousy in the Herald
to quarrel with such an exposure of the taste and pur-
suits of its rival.
LUDLOW, AUG. 20.—ATaocrou; ATTEMPT AT
MURDER.—This morning, a little before four, the in-
mates of the Angel Inn were alarmed by dreadful cries
of murder and a crashing of glass. On making
a search about the house, they discovered in one
of the bed-rooms, in a state of nudity, a corn-
mercial gentleman, who belongs to the house of
Christopher, George , and Co., shot-manufacturers,
of Bristol, with his throat cut in a most horrid man-
ner, and the room all smeared over with blood. Sus-
picion fell on a man of the name of Misters, who slept
in the same house, and who has been arrested. It is
supposed that he concealed himself under the bed.
The unfortunate sufferer is in very weak state, without
any hope of recovery. The examination of the prisoner
is going on.
CALLIGRAPHY.—We have just been favoured with
a sight of some remarkable specimens of Calligraphy,
executed by Mr. John Craik, master of the Academy
at Dumfries, who, we understand, has had the honour
of exhibiting several of his specimens to her Majesty,
by whom they were much admired. Till we had seen
Mr. Craik's performances, we had no idea to what pei-
fection the art of Calligraphy could be carried. In-
deed this gentleman, by the blended skill, grace, and
spirit of his execution, has almost raised it to the rank
of the Fine Arta. We wish him all the success which
his talents and perseverance deserve.

ACCIDENT ON THE EASTERN

COUNTIES RAILWAY.

The following are the only additional particulars re-
lative to this calamitous event, of whieth we gave a full
account yesterday, in nearly the whole of our first im-
pression.
Upon inquiry this morning we were informerthat
all the persons who were hurt by the accident on Wed-
nesday evening were improving. Those seriously in-
jured are not yet pronounced out of danger, but their
cases are not hopeless. The others have so far recovered
as to have been removed to their homes.

The inquest on Eastman, who was killed, will he
held this evening at Brentwood.
We believe no new fact will appear. There is no
doubt at all that the accident was wholly caused from
the carelessness or foolhardiness of the engineer in not
letting off the steam when about to descend the inclined
plane at Brentwood.

Since the preceding account was put in type, we
have received the following melancholy particulars up
to a late hour :

DEATH OF ANOTHER OF THE SUFFERERS.—This
morning the town of Brentwood was thronged by vast
crowds of persons, amongst whom were a large body
of the Directors and Proprietors of the Eastern
Counties Railway, who had come down by the trains in
anticipation that the Coroner's Inquest would take place
on the body of Eastman, the engineer, in the result of
which they were deeply interested. The inquest had,
in the first instance, been appointed to take place by
Mr. Lewis, the Coroner, at nine o'clock this morning ;
but it being ascertained that several other of the per-
sons injured were not expected to survive, and
that those who were enabled to give the best
evidence in the matter were, from the frightful in-
juries they had sustained, unable, and not in a fit
state to attend, he withdrew his warrant for summoning
the Jury, and postponed the inquest until to-morrow,
in order to ascertain if any others expired, and to
enable the parties to be present who were in the train
at the time of the melancholy occurrence. During last
night Drs. Butler and Richardson were in attendance on
the sufferers who lie in the Nag's Head and Fleece inns,

Mr. Ftbsworth, the nephew of Mr. Ebsworth, opti-
cian, of Fleet-street, was relieved from his sufferings
by death shortly after three o'clock this morning. He
had come from Norwich, where his relations resided, on
a visit to his uncle, and many of them were present
when he died. Foster, the engineer, and Austin, the
stoker, are, however, in such a state as to leave no
hopes whatever of their recovery at 12 o'clock to-day.
Mr. Hall, the Managing Director, and most of the
Board, proceeded to the spot where the accident hap-
pened. They discovered that the engine, which was found
embedded several feet into the soil, was measly dashed
to atoms. A first and second class carriage had shared
a similar fate. _

CLAIM Is Y THE CROWN TO
FISH A PORTION OF THE THAMES AT
WINDSOR.

The Crown, for many years past, has claimed the
right to fish a certain portion of the Thames close to
Windsor, and many disputes have arisen in conse-
quence between the lessee of this portion of the river
and the agents of the Crown.

The case came on for final decision before a full
Bench of Magistrates at the Town-hall, Windsor, yes-
terday.
The party summoned by Mr. Batcheldor, the lessee
of the portion of the river claimed by the Crown, was
Mr. Whitman, one of the Clerks of the Works in the
department of the Woods and Forests, who was charged
with having illegally fished with a net and trespassed on
the water in question.
The mere act of fishing was admitted by the de-
fendant.

Mr. Batcheldor put in a lease, under the Corporation
of Windsor, granted in 1834, which demised to him
for a term all the water from 'Windsor-bridge to a place
called the Abbot's-pile, below the weir, from bank to
bank. It was admitted by Mr. Batcheldor that the
Crown had the right to fish in the cut belonging to the
King's engine, but no further than this cut extended
some seventy or eighty years ago. The shoal in the
centre of the stream having been lengthened very con-
siderably since that period, the Crown maintains that
its right to the water, to the end of the addition to the
shoal, has been proportionally extended.
Mr. Lucas, who appeared for Mr. Whitman, after
having examined several witnesses, who deposed that
they had seen the servants of the Crown fishing the
disputed water from 15 to 50 or 60 years ago, then
submitted to the Bench that he had shown a colour.
able right on the part of the Crown, and he called upon
the Magistrates to dismiss the summons.

Ultimately the Magistrates decided that Mr. Whit-
man had been guilty of a trespass, for which they in-
flicted a fine of 10s. and costs, thus negativing the right
claimed by the Crown.

PREFERMENTS IN THE CHURCH.

The Rev. George Campion Berkeley, A.M.,*.has
been presented to the living of Southminster, Essex, by
the Governors of the Charter-house.

The election to fill the vacancy in the Lectureship of
Dedham, Essex, occasioned by the decease of the Rev.
W. Hurlock, took place on Monday last, when the Rev.
Dr. Taylor, the Master of the Grammar School, in the
same place, was chosen to the office.
The Rev. Benjamin Rees, 8.A., Curate of St.
Michael's, Aberystwith, has been appointed Rector of
Eglwyscummin, in the county of Carmarthen, vice the
Rev. John Brown, deceased. Patron, the Lord Chan-
cellor.

His Grace the Lord Primate has presented the Rev.
James Jones to the parish of Kilmore ; and the Rev
Savage Hall to the parish of Newtownhamilton, vacant
by the promotion of the Rev. Robert Miller, in the
diocese of Armagh.

DIPLOMACY.—The Journal de FranYbrt
gives the following of the 11th inst. from Vienna.._." It
is reported that Prince Metternich will return here much
sooner than was expected, not later than between the 10th
and 15th of September. M. Bailli de Tatischeff, the
Russian Ambassador to the Court of Austria, will be back
at Vienna on the 20th inst. The French Ambassador,
the Count de St. Aulaire, vrill remain only a fortnight
at Marienbad, which baths are only a league from the
chateau of Ccenigswarth. and then come to Vienna for
a continuance, It is, therefore, improbable that there
will be any Congress at Kceuigswarth, as some Journals
have announced."

A fit
Miss PORTERS tiNEODO OF KINO LEO.
roLt).—During his Royal Highness's residence at Clare-
mont, he never failed sending, in their due seasons, tb tay
revered mother (whom he had long honoured with his
esteem) game and fruits, and all other products of his
gardens which might be acceptable to the delicate health
of one at her Venerable age. His Itoyal Highness pre-
sented to my mother a no likeness of hlrtiself, by thiyter,
He also told her, that the last book he and our Princess
Charlotte read together before her confinement was my
lamented sister's romance of " The Knight of St. John,"
and that he kept it turned down at the page at which her
beloved voice had left her.—Queen Victoria from her
Birth to her Bridal.

A NOTEC;iiIITEPARA PREPARATION.—A Correspondent
at Waltham Abbey informs us that the Government, after
allowing the powder-mills at that place (the only Govern-
ment powder-mills) to remain for several years in a dila-
pidated state, have recently sent orders that they should be
restored to efficiency in the shortest possible time. In
consequence of this order, new machinery is in course of
being fitted up. Our Correspondent adds, that on Monday
last an order was received for the manufacture of a large
quantity of cannon powder with the utmost dispatch. He
also says that the small arm department at Enfield Lock is
in full employment. —Post.
The brig of war sent down to protect our fisher-
men from the depredations of the Frenchmen, and which
has been expected for several weeks, made her appearance
in the offing on Wednesday evening, and during the night
gave evidence of being on the station by repeatedly firing.
—Berwick Advertiser,