The Sun.
London, England, 1840-07-21 00:00:00

TUE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, J tJ LY 21, 1840

pay clergymen, save them from the condemnation
of posterity. It will not calm their apprehensions, I
restore national prosperity, nor win back for them \
the affections of the people.
Sir BALAAM did not commit any additional in-
justice by going twice to church ; but our Legisla-
ture cannot build more churches, and endow more
clergy, without abstracting something more from
the substance of the people, and without commit-
ting additional injustice. The Weaver Churches
Bill, for example, takes away from the poor, or
from the rate-payers, to soothe the consciences of
Parliamentary sinners.

We mentioned on Saturday, that a considerable
quantity of slave-labour sugar was refined in bond
here, and afterwards exported to different parts of
the world, including our own colonies, where this
slave-labour sugar is consumed at a less price than
the sugar grown in the colony can be sold for.
Every pound of the growth of our colonies con-
sumed in them deprives the colonists of a share
of the tax levied on us. Like a halfpenny for
which a boy is to have another if he do not spend
it, every pound of sugar which our colonies can
send hither is a means pf getting another pound,
or the value of a pound, from the taxes, and they
would lose that if they consumed it at home.
They import slave-grown and refined sugar, there-
fore, for their own use, and send us, making us pay
double price for it, all the sugar they grow them-
selves. Very soon, we apprehend, the colonists
will find means—as the supply falls off, as the price
rises, and as foreign sugar is taken out of bond
here—to smuggle slave-grown sugar into the colo-
nies, and send it hither, receiving the 'additional
price which our colonial sugar attracts from the
taxes. We do not know, indeed, that this is not
now practised. The Coast-guard and the Cus-
tom-house officers are not very rigid in Jamaica,
Cuba is not far off, and a great temptation must
exist to bny sugar at Cuba for 15s. or 18s.,
smuggle it into Jamaica, send it hither, and sell it
'or 58s. or 60s. _ _

By Returns just laid before. the House of Corn
mons, on the motion of Mr. CRESWELL,we are en
*dried to state what quantity of sugar is refined in
bond and exported. The total is 193,354 cwts., and
of this 63,070 cwts. arc exported to British posses-
sions, noless than 17,557 cwts. going to the British
West Indies. Now, most of the sugar so refined
in bond, and so exported to the-West Indies, to
Jersey, to Canada, &c., is slave-grown sugar ;
and why should not the people at home have the
privilege of eating this cheap slave-grown sugar as
well as the West Indian planters and the Ca-
nadians ? The policy of keeping out slave pro-
duce, advocated so strenuously by Mr. O'CoN-
NELL and Sir S. LUSHINGTON, greatly to the
disadvantage of the people of England, leads these
legislators to strange results. They give encou-
ragement to grow sugar by slaves to be consumed
in our colonies, and keep every particle of it from
our own starving people. Mr. O'CONNELL'S
justice for Ireland does not extend to giving his
countrymen sugar on equal terms with the inhabit-
ants of Canada and Jersey. The country is
much indebted to Mr. THORNELY for having, in
his speech on Mr. EwA RT'S motion, pointed out
the fact which has led to these remarks, that
slave-grown sugar is largely refined in bond, and
exported to our own West Indian colonies.
It is curious to trace the extraval.,,ancics into
which this system of protecting and exorbitant
duties lead 3 cur !egslato;s. The reader will pro-
bably recollect that an Act was passed a few years
ago, for putting a stop to the growth of tobacco in
Ireland, which caused several acres of that plant to
be grubbed up. It is cultivated, we believe, in
nearly all the countries in Europe, but it must not
he cultivated here, lest the revenue raised on to-
bacco should be injured. The tax and the prohi-
bition give a bounty on the growth of tobacco in
the United States, while at the same time we
prohibit the importation of their corn.
Consistently with this policy, Mr. "Livaou-
cll ERE has induced the House of Commons to las'
as large a tax on all sugar made from potatoes or
any other vegetable as is levied on beet-root sugar.
Not many days have passed since Mr. HERCULES
BRADSHAW demanded compensation for the ruin
which levying a tax on beet-root sugar had cawed
him, and now the manufacturers of pctatoe sugar wig
be placed under a similar ban. Our Sugar Market
Correspondent lately stated that every family might
manufacture its own sugar ; but if it do it will be
liable to the visits of the exciseman. While our
people are .destitute of employment, while they want
sugar very much, while the price is high, and while
they might manufacture it in their pots or kettles
from the growth of every field or garden, they are
not allowed, and must not only be taxed for the
behoof of the planters, but must submit to have
their industry and their energies restrained, lest they
evade the tax. We are inclined to think that if the
system of protecting duties were followed out to all
its consequences, and that system were logically
acted on in every branch of industry, society would
not only'come to a still stand—it would be starved out
of existence, if, before submitting to so painful a
process of annihilation, men did not lay violent
hands on each other.

The Morning Advertiser has backed out of the
controversy which he fastened upon us, under the
pretence that we do not treat km with sufficient
respect. We are .not conscious of deserving the
charge ; but when we consider the figure that our
Contemporary has made since he began to tilt at
us, we are not surprised at the act which it is
brought forward to cover. If he has been discon-
certed and discomfited by the hard knocks he has
received in 'an encounter provoked by himself, be
must remember that he has deprived himself of all
right to complain. We have treated him with the
utmost fairness, whereas he has acted most unfairly

toward us.
We should have taken no notice of this farewell
article, had it not been, if possible, more full of
deliberate misrepresentation than any of those that
went before it. Our Contemporary reminds us of
the cuttle-fish, which, when pursued and unable-to
effect its escape by its swimming powers, resorts to
the stratagem of emptying its ink-bag, by which
the water around it is so discoloured that it cannot
be distinguished, and thus it evades its pursuer.
Our Contemporary has already found that this sort
of mystification will not do with us. As often as
he attempts to evade the force of our arguments by
quirks and shifts, by confounding together things
which have no connection, and separating those
which have, so often shall we expose his trickery,
and bring him back to the question at issue.
Our readers will bear us witness that our posi-
tion has all along been, that the men who got up and
have kept up the Non-Intrusion humbug, were not
sincere in the professions which they held out to
the public. On Wednesday last we stated, that
while they—the Non-Intrusion leaders—professed
to extend the rights of the people, their real object
was to extend the power of the Church 1 and we
added that the "whole tenor of their conduct, from the
moment when the Non-Intrusion deception was
first launched upon the stage in 1834, in
the shape of the Veto Act, to the publication of
Dr. CHALM E RS'S lLst letter in the Witness, amply
bears out this charge." In corroboration of the
charge we adduced the strong fact that this Veto
Act—that Act which embodied the Non-Intrusion
" principle," and which is the root of all the evil
which has befallen the Church of Scotland since,
while it gave the " people"—so to speak—the right
of vetoing the presentee of the lay patron a certain
number of times in succession, and then transferred
the right of presentation to the Presbytery, posi-
tively debarred the said " people" from offering a
single objection to any person whom the Presbytery
—then become the, pan on—might choose to thrust
upon them.
How did the Morning Advertiser reply to us
Ithe next day ? How did he explain a tact so im-
portant to the elucidation of the intentions of the
i Non-Intrusion leaders? He absolutely had the
hardihood to tell his readers that we adduced " no
circumstance or fact whatever in substantiation of
the charge," and he repeats the assertion in three
or four different forms I Was it any wonder that
we applied the term " falsehood" to this statement ?
What other .iord in the English language, ‘ve
instances
nc ec ,e
s theas more, well
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as
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stahmis,e ofp atrhteicsin_esinncaeirn.icti•y,,ortirteathgetroshsypoincisy, of the
Iprostui.e at-
. :tie zp ti eattlntatircbdeotiisr.oi crt itsiel tel
cho)::gt 14
aetxi
oclnu:i of
rioi t ofn ninety-tlte
Ve-
toing " peoule" at the sole pleasure of the Clergy,
and the equally gross piece of humbug exemplified
• in the limitation of the Non-Intrusion principle to
a bare negative on the admission of a pastor, when •

why tshuen/Va/sorainthoig•bj selectedno w
tiser.
We were for some time at a loss to understand
shouldw ,leravheto.e
by accident, discovered the reason. • There
has been, we arz told, for some time
past, a - flirtation going on between our Con-
temporary and his neighbour,
.the " Old Lady
of Shoe-lane," who has an ancient grudge at us.
Aecetho'efriaisttearck.
When the Morning Advertiser popped the ques-
tion, he was told that he must not hope for sue.:
cest until he had proved himself a true knight by
breaking a lance c;ith us. He has done so, and he
ought to hold himself for ever indebted. to us that
he has it in his power to present to his ladyelove
not only a broken lance, hut a broken heaeL We
congratulate out Contemporary on the happy event,
which cannot now be either doubtful or far off, and
if he will let us know the day we will furnish an
tpithalanilion which shall atone for all our faults.
e shall only add that the projected union pro-
mises as rairly as any we ever heard of, to secure
the discharge of the domestic 'duties, divided as.
they are by SETA KSPEARE into the two great rie. •
partments—
- • - -

" To suAle fools, and chronicle small beer."

it ought, in common sense and common honesty, to We tioticil itt a few sentences in The Sun oft Vatn had experienced, a telegraphic despatch had arrived
include election and dismisial. Upon these points Saturday the arrival of advices from Erzerourn
\
at, Toulon
to order that the corvette Tarn, which had on
immense
b?ard an cargo of ammunition and three compa-
we have over and over again pressed our adversary communicating the rapid decline of Russian in-
C 3
for an answer. The two last he has, it would ap- fluence in Persia consequent upon the arrival at whichn;
of troops, and the steam-boats Tonnerre and Styx,
for the last month had been fitting up as vessels of
pear, sworn upon the altar of
HARPOCRATES not . Ispahan of the news of the failure of the expedi- war, should remain in that port, as it was no longer in-
tothey should form part of the expedition."
mention ; and the first—the Veto Act, mind—he tion against Khiva, and the reverses sustained by
A private letter, dated Vienna, the 10th instant, to the
disposes of after the following fashion ;-- the arms of the CZAR in Circassia. On the mind
Carlsruhe Gazette, speaks of a duel between the Vice-
-The second and only other alleged proof worthy of a of a semi-barbarian despot like the
_SHAH,
pantino President
count
Aie
nn.t' the Aulic Council of War, Field Marshal
for military glory, and who had hoped by the aidz tended that
moment's attention which our Contemporary adduces in
substantiation of the charge, is a reference to the care
of Russia tob add all Affghanistan to his empire, dorff Pouldi, and a young man attached to the
embassy of a great power.. Count Mensdorff-is uncle to
passing the Veto Act, that while they
which the evangelical party are represented to have taken
this astounding intelligence must have- made a her Majesty Queen. Victoria and to the. Duchess D© Ne-
urs. The particulars of the duel, or the cause of guar-
thwehrower of the patron they should enlarge their powerful impression ; the more especially as he had! n:°
power. A more unfair mode of dealing with the clues- not recovered from the astonishment, not unmixed ate not given.
can scarcely imagine. What, in the name of truth
i sot, nit:
nnildBwg3ee4d
with into which he was thrown by the spec- having any intention of dissolving the Chamber.
or honesty, has the Veto Act of 1834 to do with the ques-
tacle of British valour on the battle-ground of his
tion under consideration ?
up the
Non-IntrusionVet o A c
Now what was the question under consideration, 6 Count
anticipated conquests. When in 183
which the Mornirg Advertiser endeavours so SIMONICH, the Russian Minister at the Court
clumsily to perplex? Simply the of the SHAH, prevailed upon him to under-
take the siege of Herat, the Persian Mo-
t choen csl ui
sincerity
:r
ift
y theo r
narch daily boasted in the heating of his
tentions we proposed to prove
taders, whose in-
from their acts ! great officers of State that it was reserved for him
Our worthy Contemporary has no objection to the to recover all the conquests of his predecessor NA.
illinesnincwerhitoy gotof the u
,elogic of action" when he thinks it makes against DIR SHAH, and even to push them to the very
his opponent, but he holds it to be an " unfair confines of China. Mr. Ews, who preceded Sir
mode of dealing" when brought to bear against JOHN M'NEIL as British Minister in Persia, in a
himself. If men profess a regard for the interests despatch dated August 1836, speaking .of the in-
of others, and their actions show that it is their tended expedition of the SHAH against Herat,
own interests which they are scrambling for, we thus explicitly points out the real object of the ex-
should have thought that those actions had some- pedition to Lord P _ ALMERSTON :—" His Ma-
thing to do with the question of their honesty. Not jesty the SHAH has been encouraged, and I have
so thinks the Morning Advertiser. According to recently been informed has been 'eternised positive
him, it is an unfair mode of dealing with the assistance in this design [the invasion of Herat],
question ! re by the Russians, who well know that the conquest
The assertion with which our Contemporary fol- of Herat and Candahar by the Persians is an ad-
lows up his newly-invented logical principle is even lance for them towards India." And two years
more•astounding than that principle itself. Here afterwards Sir JOHN M'NEIL, in a despatch to the
it is : Noble Foreign Secretary, adverts to the first
The question about which our Contemporary and our- success of Russian intrigue in making a
selves are at variance is, the question of whether or not ob- tool of the SHAH, and the consequences
noxious ministers ought to be thrust into the pulpits of which would result from the ultimate
Scotland in opposition to the wishes of the people ? triumph of the Persian expedition. In a
If any thing can show how a vain struggle for
despatch of that able and successful dip'ornatist,
victory will lead a controversialist to the disregard dald the Bth of
August,
1838, we find it stated
of every other *consideration, we have the evidence
,that the united influence of Persia and Russia
in this sentence. The question her^ so confidently
seemed to be established in all the Affghan do-
pronounced to be the point at issue between our le exce
minions, with the single of Herat ; that
Contentiorary and us, has, as our readers and his
the existence of that influence in those countries,
must well know, never yet been mooted between
viewed in conjunction with the course they were,
us I We cannot therefore look upon this assertion
and had for some time before been, pursuing, was
of what is notoriously not the fact, in any other
so obviously incompatible, not only with the tran-
light than that of an attempt—altogether unworthy
quillity, but the security, of India, that the British
of a respectable journalist—to evade, by a disin- te ,
overnment was called upon, in self-defence, to
genuous artifice, arguments which he could not
take measures for destroying it ; and, in a word,
confute, and had not the manliness to meet. that Persia was opening the road to India for
The late conduct of the leader of the Non-In- Russia, who made the SHAH the dupe of her
trusionists, Dr. CHALMERS, we cannot help think- ambition.
ing, notwithstanding our Contemporary's demurrer, Such was the state of affairs in Persia, and such
is a falr subject on which to found an argument were the ae•bitious designs of the SHAH, two years
against the sincerity of him and his coadjutors— i •
ago. But his dreams.i of conquest were short-lived.
that there are some sincere men among his followers
we have never denied—because that conduct is in
direct opposition to the so often trumpeted declara- •
lion that it was the Veto L-the Non-intrusion princt- Compelled.. to.raisefft the siege of Herat, he lost all
his influence in A ghanistan, and beheld,' without
. daring to express resentment, a British force take
possession of Karrack, and a British army pass the
ple alone, for which he was struggling, and would Indus, and dispose of a kingdom which he expected
struggle to the death. When, therefore, we find to annex as a province to his vast empire. In the
this man estimating the Veto and the Call as things hour of his distress Russia not only deserted him,
of no value in comparison with the power of the but manifested a vulnerability which has, for a time
Presbytery, and see him still remaining the acknow- at least, destroyed his confidence in the security
hedged leader of the Non-Intrusiontst agitators, ‘lliich her wily agents assured him ever flowed from
what are we to think? What construction can her august protection.
the public put on these things but that which we Now, therefore, is the time for Lord PALMERS.
have adopted ? And as to the rejection of Lord TON 10 establish on a sure
footing the influence of
ABERDEEN'S Bill proving their disinterestedness, Great Britain in Persia.
If a, moment be lost
and entire devotion to the rights of-the people we
Russia will not fail to take advantage of it; and
really wonder how our Contemporary can allow him- we are. not to suppose that with her hands filled
self to offer such - '
a suggestion—arguinent we can ; I i 1
ix.iii void—and with the prospect of soon recover-
hard' ,
.t• call it—after the leaders of his patty have ing ." • d by
front the reverses sustained her troops—
with one voice denounced the Bill for the limits- 'l'
a thousand opportunities will not soon present
tions it places on the power of the Presbytery.
themselves to her. 'rite loss of one expedition
They must be better judges of the effects of the agaiiist Herat will not change one jot the policy
Bill than he can be. and it is, therefore, absurd to , of the Cabiuet of St. Petersburg. Human life is
contend that it sires the patronage of the
Clergy the cheapest of Russian commodities, and no line
the-churches, of policy will be abandoned merely to save the
Nearly the half of our Contemporary's article is '
-o( what the EMPEIOR deems least worthless
wastt. , . ,
devoted to the point raiseli about the true test of
when expended in promotino• the military glory of
the popularity of the. Non-Intrusion principle in 0
the Impe:ial diadem. Because we have been for a
Scotland.- - He cackles as if he thouerht lie had
e). moment triumphant, we must not give ourselves up
really achieved a triumph over us here. He has
to an indolent security. Though the influence of
one test, we have another. It is for the public to Russia in
ussia n Persia has received a serious check—a check
decide which is the best, We have never denied of •
which we have still to reap the full advantages—
that the petitioners for Non-Intrusion greatly ex- •
it will be we. to bear mind that her vast power
• 11 in
ceeded those fur Lord ABERDEEN'S Bill
is still unbroken ; and that unless the proper steps
our Contemporary says forty to on-. It ma - tic previously taken by Great Blitain to aCquire a
m ;be so, or it ay .be a hundred to . ore m cop complete ascendancy at the Court of Teheran, the
our opinion would still remain unchanged that the capture of Khiva, which Russia will soon be sure
newspaper press is a much better criterion of public accomplish,to-throw
may again repentant Persia
opinion on the subject, than petitions got up as • of •
into the arms Russia. But Lord PALMER-
' those alluded to were. He admits the fact that
STON' S past career as a statesman is an earnest of
children in the nursery were made to sign them. what may be now expected from him under happier
Now that fact is not so important on account of , auspices. And it' is gratifying to know that in
the additional signatures so procured, as it is in
Persia and the A ffoli oanistan States his Lordship is
proving how unscrupulously the getters up of the represented by diplomatists equally distinguishdil by
petitions acted. If they could resort to such means patriotism, zeal, keen penetration, great moral
to swell the number of signatures, what would they courage, and admirable readiness and presence of
stick at ? But
.our Contemporary seems to think •
Dmd under circumstances the most unexpected and
there was no harm in M °. akin children sign, and 1
0 the most difficult.
draws from the circumstance an inference in favour
of the " extreme popularity of the Non-Intrusion
principle in Scotland I" We wish him joy of his
discovery.
Again, it is to be considered that the Non-In-
t trusionist petitioners were more active, and under
better discipline, than their opponents, who, as we
before stated, being satisfied with the law as it is,
had not the same stimulus to uree them on to peti-
tion for a new law. Our
Contemporary says that
their petitions were not in all
cases uninfluenced,
but that undue means w •
ere used to get sianatures,
, the
fact. adds that we have taken
fact. The reason that we did not notice it was
because we had never seen it stated anywhere
but in the Advertiser, and therefore we were dubious
as to the accuracy of the fact. But, if it be
true, it only strengthens our argument that petitions
are not the best criterion of popularity in this case.
We are still of opinion, in spite of all the flippancy
which our Contemporary has displayed on this sub-
ject, that a much better criterion is to be found in
the newspaper press, which must be supposed to
speak the sense of the country on a.question which
he himself has hannwledged " convulses " it. He
would make out, if he could, that the question is
entirely a religious otte, and that therefore none but
strictly religious publications
ought to be consulted.
He also' rnisrepresents us in making us say that
it is a political, not a religious question, when he
knows that we said no such thing. What we said
was—that it had fully as much a civil, or politi-
cal, as a religious bearing. ,This we never heard any
person deny for whose opinion we had the least
respect ; and, we
therefore, still maintain that the
newspaper press is a fairer criterion than that pro-
posed by our Contemporary.':
.The Non-Intiusion
principle is now inseparably 'associated with a
struggle between the temporal and the spiritual
powers. It divides the supporters of the laws from
those who set the laws at defiance, and who would
erect a spiritual tyranny on their ruins. ' -' -
We come now to our Contemporary's " parting
word" as to the spirit in which we have carried on this
controversy ; and begto assure him that we have
used no expression which we do not think fully
justified by the occasion which called it forth, now;
that we wish to retract. ' If we have not alwais
treated him so courteously as :lie could have wished,
lie must recollect that he was the unprovoked aa-
greseor. He twice went out of his way to attack
us in a very abusive manner, before we replied. If,
therefore, he has been a little roughly handled, he
has himself alone to blame. - As to our joke about
certain measures, which he :seems to have taken in
• I it? We really did
such bad part, what is there ii
not think he had been so thin-skinned. A joke
f the Morning Adver-
cannot hurt the character o

The Bill to define the Notice of Elections of Mem-
hers to serve in Parliament enacts, That every re-
turning Officer shall give four clear days' notice at
least of the day appointed for the election, exclusive of
both the day of proclamation and the day appointed for
the election.
THE PRESTON AND WYRE RAILWAY.—This line
was opened on Wednesday last with great rejoicings.
The concourse of persons assembled to witness the
start was very numerous, particularly about the neigh-
bourhood of Freston and Wyre station, and especially
at the viaduct of Tulketh, where some thousands had
assembled to witness the train pass over. The train
arrived at the Kirkham station in twenty-five minutes
from the time of leaving Preston, at which place there
was a halt of four minutes' duration. Here the num-
ber of persons assembled was very great ; in short, the
town of Kirkham and the surrrounding district must
evidently have emptied themselves of their whole popu-
lation. The train then passed on to Poulton, and
reached the station there in fifteen m'nutes and a few
seconds. Here again the procession was received with
deafening cheers from a vast multitude of wondering
and admiring spectators, and after a pause of three
minutes the signal for a start was given, and the train
continued an unterrupted course to Fleetwood, its final
destination, which place it reached exactly at ten mi-
nutes to one o'clock, just an hour from leaving Preston,
but as there were seven minutes lost in the stoppages at
Kirkham and Poulton stations, the whole period occupied
in going the nearly twenty miles wasbut fifty-three minutes.

The party afterwards sat down to an elegant dejeuner,
laid oat in the beautiful hotel lately built at Fleetwood,
and left soon after for Preston, where they arrived at
half-past eight. Fleetwood-on-Wyre is situated at the
Southern horn of the entrance to Morcambe-bay, and
Rampside and Bardsea, near Ulverton, arc on the
opposite side of the bay ; the port of Fleetwood is
therefore the natural place to embark for the lakes.
The steam-boats convey carriages and horses across.
the bay daily, so that any one leaving London per
mail train at night, may, by coming through Preston
to Fleetwood-on-Wyre, and crossing Morcambe-bay
per steam-boat from Fleetwood, be at Coniston Waters,
the first of the lakes, under fourteen hours, from
London. The capabilities of the Fleetwood harbour
for a harbour of refuge, and as the best harbour for
depth of water and facility and safety of entrance,
have been borne witness to by Sir Edward Parry,
Mr. Cubitt, engineer, Mr. Walker, ditto, Mr. Locke,
ditto, as well as the Stephensons, who are now en-
gineers to the Company.

ALTON TOWERS.—Her Majesty the Queen
Dowager, with the Earl and Countess of Sheffield, Earl Den-
bigh. and suite, will arrive on a visit to the Earl and Countess
of Shrewsbury, on the 29th instant.
The Princess Augusta, whose dangerous illness
excites so much alarm, is the oldest member of the Royal
Family now alive. She was born on the Bth of November,
1765, and consequently is in her 72d year.
At the Middlesex Sessions yesterday, articles of
the peace were exhibited on the part of Mr. Blewitt, secretary
to the " Literary Fund," against a foreigner of the name of
Ferstandig, charged with circulating abusive hand bills against
the members, and otherwise annoying them, in order to compel
them to grant him relief. He was ordered to enter into his
own recognisance for 401., and find two sureties in 201. each,
to keep the peace for six weeks, and in default, to be Mi-
-1 prisoned for that term. The sureties not being forthcoming,
ho was removed in custody of the gaoler.

FACTORY LAW.—Mi. Ashworth, a mill pro-
prietor, in his evidence before the Committee, estimates the
total expense entailed on the country by the Factory Act at
100,0001. per annum. About one-fourth of this is for educa-
tion. The salaries of the inspectors, amounting to 9,000/., is
the only part of it paid by Government. The number of per-
sons employed in the mills subject to inspection is 394,400.
Our readers, particularly our sporting friends,
may not be aware, and will perhaps be surprised to find, that
by the addition lately made to the assesssed taxes of the kingdom
the duty on game certificates is increased. In future it will be
charged as follows :—Duty, 31. 13s. 6d. ; 10 per cent. increase
7s. 4d. ; collector's fee, Is. ; total, 41. Is. 101—B risto
Mirror. _

Madrid Journals of the 12th inst. have arrived.
Their contents are utterly unimportant. Rumours of a
change of Ministry were in circulation, and a number
of lists were handed about, no two of withal agree in
the names of the candidates for office. ESPARTERO
figures at the head of one list, AGNELLES at another,
and so on, with hardly a limitation of conjecture. The
capital was, however, tranquil, and everything indicated
a return to a pacific and improving system.

The Prince de Canino (Lucien Bonaparte) is
said to have died of the same complaint as his brother the Em-
peror Napoleon—cancer in the stomach.
The project of making gardens and planting
shrubs in the Green-park is said to have been abandoned.
•• EXTRAORDINARY TROUT. —O❑ Thursday
morning a trout of 'the extraordinary weight of 2411b5. was
caught in Sandstell fishery, at the mouth of the Tweed, belong-
ing to John Wilson, Esq., of Tweed House. Its length from
the snout to the tip of the tail, was 3 feet 1 inch, and it mea.-
i cured in girth 1 foot 10i inches. It was in every respect a
beautiful fish, marked by all the peculiarities of the pure and
undoubted trout kind, and is the largest remembered by any
in this place to have been caught in the Tweed.—Berwick
Warder.

The Monitcur of Sunday, which we have received,
together with the other Paris Journals of the same
date, contains a long article on the number and treat-
ment of the Spanish refugees who have sought an asy-
lum in France. On the 18th of July the number of
Carlist refugees in France was 27,700. The French
Government has treated them with great humanity.
The naked have been clothed at the expense of the na-
tion, and all their pressing wants have been relieved
without the necessity of an appeal to individual charity:
As it is impossible to continue the support of such a
host of idle foreigners, the Government has proposed
to form them into a legion to serve in Africa on the
same footing as the French troops in that country.
Every Carlist Officer, who enjoyed the rank of C.tp-
tain under the Pretender, is to retain it, provided he
come forward with 120 men. The period of service in
Africa i 3 limited to three years.
The conquest of Africa continues the great hobby of
the French nation. However inexpedient M. THIERS_
may judge the continuance of a contest in which hard
blows are the only return for an outlay of public money,
so immense as to operate as a constant drain upon the
French Treasury, he dare no more think of proposing a
peace with Apo-EL-KADER, than of offering the French
Crown to the young Duke of BORDEAUX. The Go-
vernment has no choice. It must continue the war, be
the result what it may. Of the way in which it is pro-
posed to continuo it, we find the following account in
the Commerce of Sunday :
It seems at length to be comprehended that there must
be neither peace nor truce with Abd-el-Kader. Prepara-
tions are already making for an autumnal campaign. The
battalion of tirailleurs of Vincennes is going to be orga-
nised ; the two companies which remained in Franco are
to be sent to join it, and it is to be reinforced with 200
men, taken from the several regiments of Light Infantry.
The regiment of the Zausves is also to receive 400 men
of the 2J, 3d and 17th Regiments of Light Infantry.
600 volunteers, taken from the regiments in France, will
be distributed among the several corps of the army of
occupation, and two new regiments will be sent to Africa.
In all the military establishments the workmen are busy in
preparing provisions, ammunition, clothing, &c for
Algeria. Four corvetes of burden are to be employed in
the conveyance of all these effects.
It is a pity that the hot season does not allow us to
undertake a new campaign, now that the Arabs are demo-
ralized and the Emir's regular troops disorganized. Abd-
el-Katier, with whose activity we arc well acquainted, will
undoubtedly profit by three months' suspension of arms to
prepare for the new campaign, to reorganize his regular
troops, to collect supplies, and to excite the zeal and fana-
ticism of his partizans. We, however, hope that General
L'Amoriciere will interrupt his preparations in the province
of Oran, and that he will brave the heat, in order to bring
al.tout the submission cf the tribes next to Oran, or to de-
cloy them.

The Connie,. de Lyons statee, that great disaffection
prevails in Sicily, into which the King found it neces-
sary to pour all the troops that could be spared from
Naples. Seditious writings were extensively circulated
among the people, who breathed nothing but vows for
the independence cf their country.
The following extracts include what other morsels of
intelligence we have ken able to glean from the Paris
Journals :

Letters from Toulon of the 14th of July state :—" At
las', after sundry ordtrs and counter-or!eis, the reserve
squadron, under the command of Vice- Admiral de Ro-
slow], has put to sea. At .twelve precisely the Ocean,
of the line, bearin the Adrairel'i flag, Marengo, Gene-
reux, and 7 rithnt, set rail with a strong breeze fro .;-
the N. W. It is statel that this squadron proceeds to
Tunis, 1-luwever, on the 24th of June the Tunisian army
had arrived at the Sure, and it appears that it has not left
the hank; of the sea sinc,.i it entered into campaign. his
known, besides, that several transport vessels have been
despatzhed from Tunis with provisions and ammunition.
tho meantime the iroops of the Bey were beginning
to want every thing ; especially water, which is so essen-
tially n7cessary in- these warm
.clifnates, was xeessively
scare -4 and fears were entertained for the expeeitienary

cores.
The corn:spore-lent of the comnifice writes from Tcu.
lon, tli.t 'in order, as it were, to complete the history-of
the vicissitudes tlhich the intended expedition to La

EVENING ED 1T ON.
THE MARKETS.-(,1 liIS DAY.)

COLONIAL MARKETS.

There was a steady business done in this department, and
prices generally were well maintained. Raw Sugar was much
enquired after, and a good business was done at last Friday's
prices. Tlic Coffee Market was exceedingly firm, and the
grocers appearing anxious to go into stock, the public sales
went off briskly at advancing prices. Rice was in demand at
full prices. The imports were small from most places.
TEA MARKET.

There was a fair business done, and former rates were frilly
maintained. Company's Cosigou, 2s. 21d. cash.
TALLOW MARKET.

Prices have been steady for Russian Tallow, but the demand
was limited, at 525. on the spot, and 525. od. for arrival.

INDIGO.
The biddings were dull at the public call, and prices were
rather lower for cornmcn sorts.
HAY MARKET. -1

There was a good supply, and a fair business was transacted
at former rates. Fine Clover, 31. to 61. ; New ditto, 31. to
41. lOs ; Old Meadow Hay, 3. 10s. to 51. 10s. ; New ditto,
2/. 10s. to 4/. ; Straw, 325. to 365.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)

LONDON.—Wind this day at noon S. W. by W., light
brceze.

DEAL, JULY 20.—Wind W. S.W., fresh breeze.--
Arrived the Hawk:Brown, from the Cape of Good Hope;
Ocean ; Mariner, Bartlett ; and isabena, Quebec ; Princi
George, Forster, Halifax ; Norfolk, M'Gildowney, Ma-
tanzas. Sailed the Lord Hungerford, Saunders, for the
Cape of Good Hope.
LIVERPOOL, JULY 20.—Arrived the Argyra, Rived, front
Mauritius—sailed April 2; Warrior, Keames, Tampico ;
Johnston, Spence, Demerara—sailed June 17 ;
and Elizabeth, Filcher, and 'Minerva, Matthem, New
Orleans ; Chieftain, and Monument;. Apalachicola ; Brims
tannia, Atheron, Mobile ; Hunsticr, Wildridgc ; Alfred*
' Chance; Rockingham, Andrews; Elisha Dennistout
Pash ; St. John, flitcoate ' • and Cincinnati, Halbrooic,
Mobile ; Harriet Rockwell, Preseett, and Sterling, Saun-
ders, Savannah; Glengarry, St. John's, New Brunswick.
Sailed the Henry Wood,,Scott, for Restignuche; Helen,

M'Cormiek, Brazil; Ann and M,rgaret, liom!ey, Camp°
Bello ; Young Queen, Chalmers, Quebec 7 • Hazard.
Churchviard, and Harmony, Bryan, for Newfoundland-
Off port, the William Brawse, from Chili; Governor,.
Jamaica; Tiger, New Orleans; Fasid,, Quebec; Syr."
den, Oman, New Orleans.
MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS'

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCIC-

- - - -
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MONDAY. —The trarisic'
tions in our Cotton Market to-day are 5,000 bags, o 1 which
speculators have taken 1,000, and exporters 500. Price
steady. . _

LIVERPOOL SHARE LlST.—Birmingham and. Glouces-;
ter, 71i; Chester and Birkenhead, 491 ; Ci-.ester
Crew Junction,6q; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 29 ; Great
Western, 104 ; North Midland, 921 ; Nprtli Union, 65'
Oa the whole the market rather heavy.

It appears by Papers received from the Cape of GOO
Hope, of 17th May, that, according to the Abstract of tbe
Revenue and Expenditure for 1839, the Revenue had isi;
creased about 5,000/ , having been, in 1838, 47,0001, 2117
in 1839, 51,968. The small pox mtill continued to spread'
notwithstanding all the preventive regulations of the Or
vernmcnt.

We have received Halifax Papers to the 23rd June :•;•_;1
ST. JOHN'S, NEW BRUNSWICK, JUNE 17.—Timber of "l.
kinds, in its various shapes, is now a mere drug. EhiP
are low, timber much lower, and deals the lowest of all.
Extract of a letter from St. John's, A. 8., June 19 :.('
I suppose you have heard of the late failures in Pt'ii
John's, most of them were looked for, but Whitney'
rot generally expected. Business, however, goes on we
as yet."
By the Hamburgh Mail of the 17,h, just arrived, the
Exchange comes on London, 13 61; Gold, 429 ; Mal'
1071; Bank Actions 1835.
Both the British and Foreign Markets are, up to tbss
preiLnt time, in a very inactive state, and there dues 0
appear any sprit for speculating.
Consols, which left off yesterday at 91k 1, for Mo'ieta
m
and 92 to i for the Account, opened this orning at ,_,ltb
saw price ; Exchequer Bil:s, 28 30 prem. ; India 13'.111"
2 4 prem. ; Bank Stock, 1731 42; India Stock, 253'1',i
In the Foreign Market very little is doing as Y:i;
Spanish Active, 28k 1; Deferred, 131 ; Passive, frk "
Portuguese, rather lower, 3b i ; Three per CO ',
231 1,- ; Brazilian, 80 81 ; Colombian, 271 281; MOO:
201 314 ; Belgian, 1054 ,1 ; Dutch Two-and-D. .1131 f 1)"
Cents. 533- t ; Five per Cents., 1031. . fi
t'
IREES.—ReaI del Monte, 41 s}; Great 'Westere!v
38.1 prem. ; London and Brighton, V-, i di'coun,t ; BiSiv
wall, 21 1, prem. ; Birmingham, 92 9'. prem.; St.,°:`-e'
ampton, 571 581. per share ; Croyd on, 121 per, suir
Greenwich, 81 9i per share; Mane.nester and Blow..;
"
ham, 10 8 discount.
PRICES OF SHARES V:1IS DAY AT ONE'! 4,
X. s. d. X. s. d. X' Pe
RAILWAYS. • Paid. Per Share:
Eastern Counties
Great Western -
Ditto New
London and Brighton
London and South Western 38335 .... 9&
542777 ...... to
to ...,..„..14
wir,
to 58
London and Croydon (Trunk).. 134 l2 ... .. tu----

JOINT STOCK BANKS.
Australasia
London and Westminster ..... 20
National of Ireland IA lB
HALF-PAsT
U Li
ttle has been done during the morning in the t;
Market, which have maintained the price of 9* Sep
t;;
which may Le quoted a shade lower, 92 for the Ace°°2l
Money, 911 a ; Exchequer Bills, 3s. lower, 28 3„-,731
prom ; India Bonds lower, 2 prem.; Bank stock,'
1741; India Stock, 254 f. pd
In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active is heav* oto
has receded from 28h to 27k; Portuguese, nothing 121
Brazilian, 80, lower; Colombian, 271 ; Mexican, S
oy
Spanish Deferred, 13; Dutch Two-ard-a-Hall per to
53f ; Five per Cents., 103, lower.

WA L SA L L.—A report has obtained very general
currency, that Mr. Godson, the Member for Kidderminster,
appeared as a counsel for a body of Tory prosecutors, in a la'e
politico-criminal trial at Walsall, on the express stipulation that,
in the event of his winning the case, he should be supported by
the faction as a candidate for the representation of that borough.
Now, we know nothing of the truth of this statement, further
than that it is current in this district, and very generally
credited. Whether it is true or false makes very little
difference to us, for we have too much reliance on the good
sense of the men of Walsall to suppose that Mr. Godson or any
other Tory would ever be elected for that borough. We allude
to it, however, for the sake of a very numerous and a highly
honourable class, before whom it seems to us that Mr. Godson
ought to clear his character from the imputation thus cast upon
it. Mr. Godson is a member of the English bar, and that bar
ought not to number one among its members of whom it is
even said that he has acted with political designs in a criminal
prosecution. Mr. Godson owes it to himself and the bar of
England to declare publicly that he entered upon the case we
refer to with no political design, but in the usual course of his
profession.—Stafford Examiner.
VISIT OF PRINCE GEORGE OF CAMBRIDGE
TO LIVERPOOL.—His Royal Highness Prince George of Cam-
bridge left London on Tuesday night and arrived in this
town on Wednesday morning, when he took up his lodgings at
the Queen's Arms, where several officers of his regiment, the
12th Lancers, where previously staying. On the same day,
his Royal Highness accompanied Thomas Clifton, Esq. of
Lytham-hall, to the race-course, wherehis apparance amongFt
the nobility on the Steward's stand excited no little interest
amocgst such of the crowd on the course as happened to be
aware of his presence. In the evening his Royal Highness, with
several of the -officers of his regiment, were entertained at
dinner by Mr. Clifton, at the Adelphi Hotel. On Friday
morning his Royal Highness with the Colonel and several
officers of the regiment, visited the Oriental steamer,
now fitting out in the Trafalgar Dock, for Alexandria. Mr..
Shaw accompanied them throughout the entire vessel, and
when the Prince left her he expressed himself as much
.asto-
nished as delighted with her accommodations and general ar-
rangements. He was loudly cheered as he passed along the
gangway to the shore, by the numerous individuals who
thronged the deck of the vessel and the pier. Soon afterwards
his Royal Highness took his departure for Dublin, in the Earl
of Roden steamer. The captain of the latter, we are in-
formed, apologized to the Prince, that he was not able bet.er
to accommodate him. The reply of his Royal Highness was,
that the accommodation which suited other people would suit
him.—Liverpool Albion.
ARRIVAL OF PRINCE GEORGE OF CAM-
BRIDGE.—His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge
arrived at the North Wall this morning, in the Lord Roden
steamer, with his detachment of the 12th Lancers. After the
disembarkation of the horses, his Royal Highness, accompanied
by our gallant countrymen, Colonel Stawell, the commanding
officer of the-regiment, proceeded to the Royal Barracks, where
they arrived about one o'clock. The men in the employment
of the City of Dublin Steam Company manned the paddle
boxes of two or three of their vessels, and loudly cheered as his
Royal Highness rode past; and as the band passed the end of
Sackville-street, they struck up " Rory O'More." In the
course of the day Prince George rode along the Quays.
Duld;n- ErSniny Post.
Distress prevails to a melancholy extent through -
out the Queen's County. Many of the poor people are ac-
tually endeavouring to subsist on weeds.—Leinster Express.
REPRESENTATION OF WARWICKSIIIRE.—A
report is abroad that Sir E. Wilrnot has let Berkeswell Hall
to Lord Cinterbury, and that, in the event of a dissolution, he
be will not offer himself for the northern division. We ear-
nestly 'ent reat those Warwickshire Liberals, with whom we have
any influence, to take advantage of this opportunity in favour
of that excellent reformer, Mr. Bracebridge. A little atten-
tion to the registration may secure the vacant seat for the
Reformers.— Stafford Examiner.
HAIL STORM.—OR the afternoon of Friday
last an unusually heavy fall of hail took place near Crailing.
In a field immediately to the westward of the farm offices at
Crailing Tefts the hail-stones accumulated to a great depth,
and after they began to melt, the water rushed down the decli-
vity with the violence of. a torrent, carrying along with it a
considerable quantity of the.soil across the turnpike-road into a
field of barley ma the opposite side, whereby' a considerable por-
tion of the grain was pressed down and covered with clay to a
considerable depth. For some time great difficulty was expe-
rienced by foot.passengers passng the place from the accumula-
tion of ha&stones, which covered the road at one part to the
depth of at least 18 inches.—Kelso Chronicle.
Three reverend gentlemen, Messrs. D. James,
J. Hughes, and J. Richards, have been appointed a deputation
to wait upon Lord Melbourne, and urge on him the propriety
of takin, the opportunity afforded by the death of the late
Bishop of St. David's, to appoint a good Welch scholar to the
vacant see. The revueend gentlemen have also been placed in
authorized communication on the same subject with Lord Ro•
bert Grosvenor and the Hon. Mr. Mostyn. The matter has
excited much interest throughout the Principality, and other
meetings to urge it forward with success are contemplated.
MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE.--A most pain-

CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.,2
Bank Stock ... 1744 India Stock ....• ote
3 per Cent. Red 924 Ditto Bonds ............
3 per Cent Cons ......
31 per Cent Red.._
‘,7 1)0
New 34 per Cent
New 5 per Cent .. Ditto 500/ ........
Long Annuities to expire • Ditto Small .......
Jan. 1860. l3 13.16 Bank Stock for Acct...
Oct. 1859 ... ...... India Stock for. Acct...
Jan. 1660.., l3 9-16 Consols for Acct.........
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Austrian, 5 'per cant... 111 Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Belgian, 5 per cent — Ditto, New Ditto ...•••
Ilrazilian Bon 's... 80 Prussian, 5 per cent.... Oa
BuencsAyres, 6 percent Russian, 5 per cent. ••• ',••4
Chilian 6 per cent -
Colombian, 6 percent — Spanish, 5 per cent ......
Ditto, 1824
Danish, 3 per cent.... 80% French, 5 per cent...
Greek, 1825, spercent. Exchange .
Mexkan, 5 per cent - French,3 per cent..•
Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825 — Dutch, 24 per cent ...•••
Peruvi an, 1825, 6 per et — Ditto, 5 per cent...
SHARES.
Bristol and Exeter Railway—,
Eastern Counties Railway
Great Western Railway
Ditto New Shards
Hull and Selby 45
London and Brighton Railway
2 London and Blackwall Rail%ay
London aid Birmingham Railway ..
Ditto New Shares. .
London and South Western Railway „2
London and Croydon Railway (Trunk)
Manchester and Leeds Railway
Ditto New Shares-
Northern and Eastern Railway
•
North Midland Railway

2511
I°.'?

FALLING OF THREE ARCHES OF THE-
ft '
WESTERN RAILWAY.—Friday morning three of theiteefire,s,
constructed arches near the Bristol terminus of the erl
Western Railway fell in. The foundation was first obsell'
,
nl
give way on Monday last, and Thursday night it ha-brie
very considerably. The arches nearly adjoined the
across the feeder.—Bristol Mercury. mgtt
SINGULAR TRIUNIPII.—On Monday, a ttb''
who had been acquitted on a charge of highway robberYoesj
sessions, returned home in triumph in an open fIY, 'lre; grant
with fibulas, and accompanied by the prosecutor !
supper was given by one of the parties in the eve rb.llyisfr
which both prosecutor and prisoner were present.--
Mirror. Eb
THREE • BODIES FOUND IN THE 11.1 OP'
TIT AMES.—This morning two of the bodies out of three ectl
unfortunatetobne
dragging
r Riveraggi young
ng Thamesf
them,om ne nsu(hnmed
aubysoi
body
printers)yofeveningan ootffh that
another
person
ed
ry
care:,
atf
0,00
eed:
or
covesrepdE,Ewbhoyap
jpeuarseTdtloc bEe._betAweenpneOrsaonnd 60nyaernarseSf *J001:,
• Denton stole two cows near Sheffield, last Sunday niglitori'
Monday morning he was apprehended and committed t°
Castle, and on Wednesday he aas tried, and received se
n`'
of transportation for ten years.—Yorkshire Gazette. fig'
THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY---1
,e4C'
TILER OPENING—NEW CARRIAGE FOR HER MAJEst'r7fer
—Yesterday the line of the Great Western RailwaY V:tjoece,
ther opened from Steventon to the Faringdon-road, A “I'd
of sixty-three miles from London. On Saturday last (3"( are
on Thursday, as has been stated in most of the 'papers) 4r,
party of the directo:s and their friends, accompanied by °e s"
Clark, and Mr. Brunel, jun., proceeded from raddillgto9 tale
experimental trip to the new extension, to examine the.:tiell'
us and solidity of the ground, with which they were muchpa'
The Great Weetern Railway Company, anticipa!ing sill' .fed'
tromp of the Queen and her illustrious consort Prince JO'
and the other members of the Royal Family, ha
~liar."
had built a splendid railway carriage for their accomm -010
It is a very handsome vehicle, twenty-one feet in length' %ell
divided into three compartments, the two end ones ,erilt,
four feet six inches long and nine feet while the !" fee'
forms a noble saloon 12 feet long, nine-feetwide, arid %roil
six inches higb. The exterior is painted r f the same h
colour as the others of the company's carriages,
is a large window affording a view of the whole of thbe,
The interior has been most magnificently fitted lIP loot;
Webb, upholsterer, of Old Bond-street. The saloon ,°,„
somely arranged with hanging sofas of carved oak ill t".;
and at ca .line'
the
style of Louis the XIV., an,l the walls are panelled out
same elegant manner, and fitted up with rich crimson arTde fe
sdk, and exquisitely executed. paintings, representing tho,l
acme:As, by Perri.. The end aeartments are alsa „jet.'
the same style, each apartment having in the cent ret.'l
and ornamental rosewood table ; and the floors of t"'
are covered with chequered India matting.•
THE NEW HOUSES OF PA E.LIAA-
Mr. Charles Barry, the architect of the new houses, e3llOO.
sereral interviews with Viscount Duneannon and the the
Mr. Commissioner Charles Gore, OR the subject of 10•Yi5,7,00;
foundation stone of the buildings for the Lords and CI. tili
at d it has, we understand, been definitively arranged " 'eesrr.
ceremony is to be postponed until early in the ensuing 4sret
when it will probably be laid by her 511jesty• n'r„no)r('
stated to I1:0 Commissioners that the houses will be e°o—ri.o44';
by the cora:tenement of the Session 184:1. The w' 104
oi Whore-there are nearly 507, are still employed "•'„p.r.
contractors (Pero and Orissell) in emist:uetieg the
(41.1'.e, ~Usher of the Black Rod's, and Parliament-01,-0f tbc:
W hick by the end of the prevent year will, in !he opiPlo
architect, be 20 or 30 toe t from the ba,etief tat

ful and fatal event' occurred on Friday last, at the Ifroome
Farm, in the parish of Cradley, in the county of Hereford. It
seems that Air. Chamberlain, the respectable occupant of the
fu in, had recently emptied-a eider vat of 'SOO gallons m. asure,
when being desirous of preparing it against the presext making,
he put a lad named Bannister, about ten years of age, into it
for the purpose of ascertaining its state. •The boy lad scarcely
descended into the vat when he was heard to cry faintly for
help, upon which another lad; somewhat older, was sent in to
his assistance; however the latter also beCznie overcome by the
Mephitic vapour that had accumulated in the vessel, and in-
stead of being able to render any aid to his unfortunate fellow-
servant, was obliged himself to supplicate for help: Fmtu-
nately, Mr. Chamberlain succeeded in reaching the latter, and
drawing him out before life was quite cs;tiret, and there were
hap„ at tjle last accounts we heard of him that he might re-
cover; hiit the 4)iher poor boy was found at the iiottom of the
vat a corpse,— Worceacr Hera/q.