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London, England, 1840-08-25 00:00:00

Ti.llo, MN* LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 95, 1840.

lIAMBURGH MAIL.

ST. PETERSBURG'', AUG. 15.—Baron Von Brunow,
the Russian Ambassador, at the Court of London, has
received the following imperial rescript, dated Peterhof',
the 30th of last month :—" The very able execution of
several important missions which we have confided to
you, and the happy result of them, have called our
especial attention to you. As a testimony of our satis-
faction and our gratitude for these services, we have
been pleased to confer on you our Imperial order of the
White Eagle, the insignia of which you receive here-
with, and which you will wear according to the regula-
tions.—We remain, &c.—Nicifotas."
BERLIN, Auo. 19.—We bear from the North-East
of nothing but warlike preparations, and marches of
troops in Russia, partly towards Asia Minor, partly to-
wards Circassia. On the other hand, negotiations are
said to be opened with Khiva, to put an end to the ex-
isting difficulties. An English officer is said to have
commenced these negotiations. ,
DRESDEN, AUG 6.—Our most distinguished visitors
have all left us. The King and Queen of Prussia arc
gone to Erdmannsdorf, the Empress of Russia and the
two Princesses to Fischbach, and the Prince of Prussia
to Berlin. The report that the King of Prussia had a
a long conference with Prince Metternich shortly before
his departure, is a subject of great joy to the public,
who hope that it will tend to consolidate the union
between Prussia and Austria, which alone can give to
Germany its former influence in the affairs of Europe.
lIAMBURGH, AUG. 20.—The number of ships or all
nations that passed the Sound in the first half of this
year, was 3,823 from the North Sea, and 2,794 from
the Baltic, in all 6,617, which is 235 more than in the
same period of 1839 ; of these 1,064 from the North
Sea, and 520 from the Baltic were English, in all
1,566, which is 139 fewer than last year. But as it
appears that above 500 are still in the Baltic, the diffe-
rence may perhaps be made up in the next quarter.—
Hamburgh rapers, Aug. 21.
i;Es..i.sl AN t U NDS—BRUSSELS, AUG 22.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent ii9
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent 93
3 per Cent.
---.Thirty.seyen tSt,;
Loan of City, 1532, 4 per Cent
Society of Commerce, 4}4per Cent IU9
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent e6
National Society
Exchange on London (short)
—Brussels Papers, Aug. 22.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, Ace. 14

Fiv per Costs. Metalliques • IoN
Four per Cents. ION
Three per Cents.
Bank Shares 1736
—.4llgemeine Zeitung. Aug. 19.
HAMBURG BORSENHALLE, Auo.
Bills. Money.
Austrian 5 per Cents.
Bank Shares l7lO

An-10-ltussian Loan 10,% IrBl6
Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Cortiticate
Inscription, Ist Sertes lO3
Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co. 3d and 4th
Series
Ditto in Certificates
Dutch Actual Debt, 2% pef Cent SOSQ 50
Ditto 5 per Cent 9B --
Polish Bond.
New ticket
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent 7434 74%
Norwegian Loan, 1634, 4 per Cent.... lO2
Spanish, New 3 per Cents. .....
EXCHANGES ON LONDON.
HAMBURG, AUG. 21.-19. s—Two months, 13 31%.
STOCKHOLM, Auc. 1-I.—Sevpnty-live days, 11. 40,
CI3RIATIANIA, AUG. 12.—Three months, 4 74.
PETKRSBURGH, AuG. 14.—Two months, 14, pence.

Yes

TILBURY FORT.—Two LIVES LOST.—
terday forenoon, at ten o'clock, a lengthened investigation
was entered into before C. C. Lewis, Esq., the coroner
for Essex, and a most respectable jury, at the World's
End Tavern, Tilbury Fort, on the bodies of Richard
Mahoney, aged nineteen, and Daniel M'Carthy, aged
twenty-two, privates of the 16th legiment, new quartered
in that garrison. Michael Cain stated that he was a pri-
vate in the 16th Regiment, now quartered at Tilbury Fort.
On Thursday afternoon last, between one and two o'clock,
he went in company with the deceased and several other
comrades to have a bathe in the river. They all stripped
together and went into the water. They had been in but
a few minutes, when witness saw that Mahoney and
M'Carthy had got much farther out than himself. In an
instant after he missed them, and presently saw them rise
again. They were considerably further out and appeared
to be struggling with the current, which was very strong,
and carried them rapidly from the place where they first
went in. They shortly after disappeared and he saw no
more of them. By the Coroner--I believe the current
was running down at the time, I could render them no
assistance, not being able to swim myself. Our going
into the water was voluntary. Colour-Sergeant Collins,
of the 16th, deposed that he and a party of men belonging
to the depot found the bodies of the deceased about half-
pAst eliven o'clock on the same night, when the tide was
out, a short distance from the spot where they went into
the water. Other corroborative evidence having been ad-
duced, the jury after a short deliberation returned a ver-
dict of " Accidentally drowned."
A DISTINCTION.—Mr. Baron Parke, in pass-
ing sentence on Geach for forgery, at Monmouth Assizes,
told him he had hot only " offended against the laws of
his country, but against the laws of virtue, honesty, and
honour." The Learned Baron, it appears, thinks there
is a wide difference between the laws of England and
" the laws of virtue, honesty, and honour," and we should
be sorry, indeed, to set up our opinion against that of a
Judge.—Dublin World.
Daniel Morgan, the gips}, and the notorious
and extensive horse-stealer in the counties of Berks, So-
merset, Dorset, Hants, and Wilts, is now in safe custody
at Fisherton gaol, and will take his trial at our assizes next
week, on a charge of stealing a horse, the property of
Thomas Taylor in Worcestershire.