The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-19 00:00:00

TITIE SUN LONDON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 19 Is4l.

past-tertaiti persons had been endeavouring to excite
them, and that the vote of the Municipal Council on the
subject of the census was considered by them as admi-
rably suited to their purpose. We regret to say that
these persons found a great number disposed to listen to
them, and for an instant there was reason to fear that
the tranquility of our city was seriously menaced. Groups
assembled on different points, and uttered cries in the
front of the houses of some of the municipal councilors;
their doors were also violently struck, and stones were
said to have been thrown at the windows, the pertttr-
bators withdrew only in presence of an armed force.
The disturbances were renewed yesterday evening, and
the number of the rioters was greater than on the
preceding night. Lamps ;were broken, doors were
forced open, and dreadful menaces were made against
the members of the Municipal Council. All these dis-
turbances lasted for a long time before the armed force
interposed. We hope the authorities will in future dis-
tribute their force better, and adopt all necessary mea-
sures to prevent a recurrence of such tumults." The
same journal states that a disturbance took place at the
theatre on the evening of the 12th instant, on the occa-
sion of the debut of a young performer. " After-listening
patiently during the first two acts of Lucie, the public,"
says the Memorial Bcrdektis, " rose en masse to protest
against the too evident want of power of the:debutunt.
We do not know what the stage manager came forward
and said at the commencement of the third act, for the
noise was so great that it was impossible to hear any-
thing. A Commissary of Police thought fit to order the
theatre to be cleared. We think the public had a right
to express their disapprobation, and are not surprised at
bearing that the subscribers intend to protest against the
conduct of the Commissary on this occasion."
The people of Germany appear to evince some
curiosity to inspect the person of the warlike
I\i. TRIERS, who is now sojourning among them..
The following graphic description of his inter-
view with M. HOFFDIANN, is from the Journal dc
Frankfort :

THE BANKS OF THE MAINE, AUG. 13.—M. Thiers
met at Cologne M. Ernest Emile Hoffmann, deputy of
Hesse Darmstadt. M. Hohmann invited him to dine at the
table d'hotc, saying that all were desirous of seeing him.
He an3wercd " But, Sir, I do not travel to show myself."

It is true, said the :Deputy, but others travel
see you. You are a Frenchman, and as such you
should be polite, and not withdraw. M. Hoffnaann had
engaged M. ThiErs to change his :plan of travelling,
and pass by Arnsbcxo•' and Cassel. Ile told him he was
deceiving himself, if he thought any propaganda. -would
dispose the Rhenish population to a union with France.
Ba assured, said he, in case of a war, ie will all march,
and I among the first, against France. Whoever has
toll you the contrary, has told an untruth. We like to
see France great, and the triend of Germany, but we
will not submit to her despotism. Revolutions are not
spontaneous, 'they are brought on forcibly by the
tyranny of Governments. There remains much to be
desired in Germany, but we expect all in time. Loyal
men repudiate revolutionary means, and all Germany
partake their opinion. It is mine. You have had the
prudence to keep silence, and you only listen." M.
Thiers smiled, but did not speak. M. Hoffmann fur-
nished every body with an opportunity to speak to M.
Thiers, and all were delighted with his language and
manners.

The Courrier Francais has a querulous article
on Spanish ingratitude and English busy-
bodyism. This Journal says that ESPARTERO
refused to renew the lease of the little island of
Del Rey at Mahon, where the French have an
hcspital. Of course, our Gallic Contemporary
n-:akes the discovery that ESPERTERO'S refusal
was dictated by Lord PALMERSTON. Unfortu-
nttely for the veracity of the Courrier,
M. GUIZOT did not ask for a renewal
of the lease, ESPARTERO did not, there-
fore refuse it, and consequently Lord PAL-
MERSTON could not have dictated such refusal.
France chooses rather to abandon Del Rey than
to witness the establishment of an English hos-
pital in one of the Balearic Isles. In this the
French Government acts a wise and a prudent
part. The following are extracts from these
Papers:—

A letter of the Bth inst., from Meiningen, informs us
that the beech-tree, planted on the 6th of May, 1521, on
the spot where, on the preceding day, Martin Luther
was urrested by five horsemen in disguise, and carried to
the Castle of 'Wartburg, has been blown down by a vio-
lent storm. The tree, though it had existed more than
three centuries, was still vigorous, and bore wide-ex-
tended flourishing branches. Some pieces have been do-•
posited in the vault of the church at Steinach, with a
ceremony at which three of the descendants of Luther,
living at Mocha, the village in which the father of the
Reformer was born, were present. The Duke of Saxe-
Meiningen has ordered a monumental fountain, in the
Gothic style, to be erected where Luther's beech stood, to
be surrounded by a grove of trees, and to bear an appro-
priate inscription.
Amongst the numerous improvements for which
Denmark is indebted to her present King, the publica-
tion of the budget is one of the most essential. That
for 1841 has appeared, being the first document of the
kind ever exposed to the people at large. The excess
of the revenue over the expenditure for the year is
702,120 rix-dollar., or 0,502751.5 Aecurthug to
modifications whieks-e'rne—Adiainstrartetr, rtyiN---binithea-
increase. The army is from 15,000 to
20,000 strong, and the navy is composed of 6 ships
of the line, 6 frigates, and a proportionate number of
corvettes, brigs, schooners, and cutters. The expense
of the army and navy is put down in the budget at
3,562,600 rix -dollars, or 17,640,496 francs.

The- Comercio of Madrid says :—" We have re-
ceived intelligence, via Cuba, that on the Ist and 2d of
June the inhabitants of Port au Prince were surprised
by a sudden inundation of all the small rivers in the
surrounding country, by which upwards of 500 families
were submerged, and several of -them drowned. The
dikaster would have been greater still, but for the gene-
rous devotion of some citizens, who risked their own
lives to save their fellow-creatures."

The German Journal of Frankfort announces the
suicide at Baden Baden of an extraordinary maniac,
named • Rummers. It says—" For twenty years this
person had been in the habit every six months
of. ordering a coffin, but always differed with the
maker of it ns to the fit.' He would have
the coffin placed against the wall, and, getting hitt
it, would complain like a dandy to his tailor that it was
too large here or too small there that it was too tight
over the arms, or to loose over the body. At length a
coffin having boenmade to his mind, he swallowed poison,
having previously summoned his friends and acquaint-
ances to attend him. When they were assembled] h ill:.
formed them at the point of death that he OW happy, as
he had at length succeeded in obtaining tt proper garment
for his appearance in the next World."
The Hance Gazette contains .hG following from
Hanover, of the 7th inst.:—" The Government as jUst
addressed a certain nurfoer of copies of the vitelaiiiittion
concerning the dissolution of the *Mtn to the ecclesias-
tics of the consistorial district of Hanover, accompanied
by it letter dated Wth ult., which is thus conceived :
The Government is convinced that the clergy will not
fail in the mission imposed upon it by the obligation to
recommend to the faithful the obedience end resilect
which they owe to the Sovereign) itid ti Warn them
against the seductions and wok's ut the spirit of party.
It has, nevertheless., theught proper to send to the eccle-
siastics several copies of the proclamation of July 14, in
order that they may distribute them, but they are not to
read the proclamation from the pulpit or in the schools:
The Government hopes they will employ all the 'Albans
in their power to accomplish this eb3aet.' "
The price of bread is flted at 33 centimes the kilo-
gramme for the remainder of this month.
Our math may recollect the affair of the butcher
of the Rue des Mathurins Saint 'Jacques, named Martin,
who, in January last, after ill-treating his wiftc and
being reproached for it by his man Sound., wa,s stipposed
to have challenged the latter, and to have been shot by
him in a duel near the Barrie du Maine, and for which
Soulict was committed to take his trial. This trial took
place on Saturday, when a person named Maginot, sup-
posed to have been Souliet's second, was arraigned with
hum The evidence, however, was so vague and indefi-
' nite, that the Advocate-General abandoned the prosecu-
tion, and, upon the recommendation of the -Court, the
Jury acquitted both prisoners.
A letter from Catania, in Sicily, quoted by the
Univers of the 2d inst., represents the beat there to have
been suffocating, and that from the 15th to the 20th of
July the thermometer, though plaCed in the shade, and
faciag the north, mounted to 34 degrees of Reaumur,
103 r Fahrenheit. The town, never very much animated,
appeared to be perfectly deserted. Every inhabitant- re-
mained all day in his chamber with the shutters closed,
and the brick or stone floors kept constantly watered ;
others cooled themselveS with ices. The leaves of the
vines and others trees were parched and shrivelled, and
the gardens were as devoid of vegetation as in the depth
of winter. The heat is represented as having been much
more intense than for many years past.
A few days ago the owner of a woollen manufac-
tory at Amsterdam, who was endeavouring to prevent a
young girl from approaching the wheel of some steam-
machinery, was himself caught by it, and torn to pieces
before he could be extricated.

A Correspondent of the National at Algiers, who
formed part of the last expedition under General Barn-
guay d'Hilliers, asserts that on one occasion the troops
marched from four o'clock one morning to four the next
morning, with hardly any rest, over .a very difficult moun-
tain district, in the midst of a burning heat ; and that
the men suffered so severely that. 17 committed suicide,
and 34 were taken by the Arabs and decapitated, within
the twentymfour hours in question. We have seen no-
thing to confirm this very improbable statement in any
other quarter.
Baron Von Hofmann, Minister of Finance to the.
Grand Duke of Hesse Darmstadt, .died a few days since
of water On the chest. His loss is much felt in the
Duchy, where he was greatly esteemed by his Sovereign
and by all classes.
The Empress of Russia has remitted to the Muni-
cipality of Charlottcnburg 20,000 crowns, being part of
her Majesty's inheritance from the late King of Prussia,.
for establishing an hospital for foundlings.
The inventory of the property of M. Lehon the ex:
notary is terminated, there is a deficiency of 8,000,000
francs. M. Lehon is fain detained in the Conciergerie,
where he awaits the preliminary proceedings for his trial.
A Legitimist Journal says •—" Yesterday a mass was
celebrated in the church of the Petits Peres, at which a
great number of Royalists attended to return thanks to
Heaven for having preserved the life of the Duke of
Bordeaux."

The Municipal Council of Lyons voted on the 12th
sum of 10,000 francs, to be employed in defraying the

expense of the reception of the Duke of Aumale.—Le
Constitutionnel. _ _

We have the following letter from Algiers, of Bth
August :—" The troops are still employed on the works
for the defence of the place, several colonists have been
to examine these works, and on their return have
brought forward great projects for colonization. It
seems that, in the month, of September, some establish-
ments will be formed on the place of the Mitidja. The
Tartare brings us excellent news from the 'Western posts.
The tribes are abandoning Abd• el-Kader evrat in the
province where his power seemed to be the most solidly
established. General Bugeaud has embarked in all haste
on board the Phare, for Mostaganem. He appeared to
be in high spirits, and is resolved to direct in person the
defection which has manifested itself in the province of
Oran. If all that we hear is true the power of Abd-el-
Kader is drawing to an end, and the occupation of Mas-
cara will prove as fatal to the Emir as that of Constan-
tine was to Achmed Bey."—Le Courrier Fran.ertis.
BOURSE—PARIS, MONDAY, AUGUST 16.

f Irst Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Prick. Price
French 5 per Cents ll6 60 ... Ild 60 ... 1 6 45 ... 116 45
4% per Cants .. 105 50 ... 105 50 ... 105 50 ... 105 50
4 per Lents P9 70 ... 99 70 ... 90 70 .., 99 70
3 per Cents. ex. div 77 65 77 5 ... 77 60 ... 17 61
Hank of c ranee
Latlitte Bank 1,0001. StStares 11:40 ...P4O ...1140 ...11A0
5,000 f. Shares 5115 ...5115 ...511') —51.5
kov,Rn Bank
Belgian 5 per Cents.
New Loan .......
sp,inpila Active :O% ... 20,6 ... .. 01, ... ..0%
...

43 ... 4% ... 4% .. 4%
Dutch 234 per Cents 52% !2 st ;2,4
rapt/lit
..It
1102 tan 11:4 19 ... 1(4 10 ... 10 ... 14 10
KA2% Hu% 172% 102%
sHATIEb.
St (;ermata
Versatile,. I.f; :307 50 ..YO7 !. ... 20, 50 .. 201 50

. .... . ... _„ .... .. _... _ _
il. is 3:-2 50 .. :'22 50 .. nt-:2 .0 _. 2250:-
lloOrpellier to Cette .....
2:5 ... 2t5 ... :An
Xotpin
ork.n. .. 4to ... 480 ... :80 .. 48+
i:r.isourr to Pale 238 75 ... 438 75 ... t.'39 75 . !2;-,8 75

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS

CITY, WEDNESDAY EVENING,

The English Stock Market continues to feel the influ-
ence of the sales for one or two public bodies, the Bank
of England, it is said, being among the number, but as
soon as these operations, arising from special circumstances,
shall be discontinued, there appears, at present, to be no
impediment in the way of an improvement in prices. Ex-
chequer Bills today were 16s. to. 13s. prem., Consols
89 to L;- for Money and 891 to for Account. Bank
Stock was at 168 to 1681 it being scarcely so good,
and East, India Stock receded to 246:1; and 247. The
New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. were worth 981 to
and the Three per,Cents. Reduced 89 to 90.
The operations Foreign Bonds have been extremely
limited. Spanish Active ,Bonds were to-day at 194, Bra-
zilian 674 f, Spanish Deferred at 10, Peruvian at 16 to 151,
Dutch Two and-a-Half per Cents. at 51, and the Five
per Cents. at 1011 to The price comes over from Hol-
lend !A ?c, fur the former.

For Railway Shares there is still a fair inquiry, and
with trifling exceptions the previous quotations were
maintained to-day. Great Western Railway were quoted
161 to 17, the New 6} to .41, the Fifths 44 to the Lon-
don and Birmingham 70 to 71, and the York and North
Midland 26 to 27i premium. Brighton Shares were
to Gi. Midland Counties 20 to 21, and North Midland
New 81 discount. Commercial Bank of London Shares
were 30 discount, 2nd National Provincial of England lA-
discount.

(From The Sun of Last Night.)
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, AUG. 17.—A good
demand has again been made in the Cotton trade to-day,
although Tuesday being market-day at Manchester is
considered a blank day ; the sales are 3,000 bales, a few
of which have been taken fur export and on speCulation ;
the Market closed firmly.
LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET AUG. 17.—A moderate
business has been transacted at the Stock Exchange this
day. Eastern Counties, 8 ; Liverpool and Manchester
One-Half Shares, 93 ; London and Birmingham Thirty-
two-Pound ShareS, 24 ; Midland Counties, 79i ; North
Midland Third Shares, 91.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, AUG. 17.—The
improved state of the weather has tended to strengthen
the Share Market, and prices are stiffer :—Manchester
and Leeds, 51 52 ; ditto, Halves, 20:} 21 ; Manchester
and Birmingham, 21i ; London and SOuth Western; 511;
London and Birmingham, 160 ; North Midland,
Thirds, 9. •

The only later arrival to-day is from Launceston,
Van Dieman's Land, the papers from thence being up to
the I6th April, but they contain no news of importance.
Holders of wheat appear more anxious to sell than they
have been for some past ; it realises from 6s. to 7s. per
bushel, but there are only a few buyers. Sugar is 36/.
per ton, and Tea 121. per chest.

The English Securities have recovered from the de-
cline wl,ich took place yesterday.. Consols opened firm
at 891 for Money, and 891 /for the Account; the Three
per Cents. Reduced, 89:1 ; Three-and- a-Half per
Cents., 981 99 ; Bank Stock, 1681 1691 ; Exchequer
Bills, 14 16.

Spanish Active Stock, 191 s ; Passive, 41 ; De-
ferred, 94 10 ; Portuguese Five per Cents., 291 301 ;
Ditto Three per Cents., IVrt, 184.
Not much business doing..
'rhe Launceston papers received this morning, containing
accounts from Port Philip to the 9th April, state that the
monetary depression, which has been for some time
past felt so much, continues without ranch amendment,
and consequently the Markets are in the same state.
Sugar continues looking up, owing to a great scarcity of
the article, and a supply is anxiously looked for.
There is /Rao • or no nusinesa &inn; in the atoQI,LBA,-;
-iromnyVTO-7 per cent., but upon short loans.
The Share Market has been inactive, but a slight
improvement has taken place. Great 'Western, Fifths
are 84 ; London and Brighton, 431 ; London and Bir-
mingham, 161 ; Midland Counties, 80 ; North Midland
New, 311 ; York and North Midland, 774 ; Do. New, 22.
Nothing doing, and no alteration to notice.
The Batavier steamer, clue to-day, has not yet arrived,
The auspleloo and truly gratifying change in the
weather has already caused a partial cessation of activity
in the Corn Market, and although the arrivals from
abroad continue large, the business doing is in reality lim-
ited. The effect, however, of the late operations in the
jobbers, coupled with the weather which prevailed a
week or two back, has not yet been felt in its fifil etitimt,
and the Acid tiVefage Which regulates the duty must
yet advance, to the injury of the domestic growers whom
the sliding scale is pretended to benefit. It is probable
that some of the orders for corn abroad will now be
countermanded.
Consols Cr Account; , &Leber, tbi
Mt ►lddtl, 2b 26 ; Spanish, 19.8.
No business whatever doing.
CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock l6B. India 5t0ck...ie....4,447
3 per Cent Rel.:us:Ill 1:1!tt.c)
pol' Wit tdfii B9i Ditto Old Annuities ...
per Cent Red..
New 34 per Cent 9- Ex. Bills, 1,000/....24d 13 pm
New 5 per Cent — Ditto 5001 l3 pm
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small—. 13 pm
Jan. 12 13-18 Pank Stack j'ar
Oct Stdck tdr OW 47-1
ina. • 'Consuls for Acct 894
FOREIGN FUNDS.

Austrian, 5 per cent (Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Belgian, 5 per cent — Ditto, New Ditto
Brazilian 80nd5.... 674 !Prussian, 5 per cent...:
Buenos Ayres 6 per cent stint, 5 ppi
Chiliikti, 6 Ott rent.:l ... Wed,
te_biliblin, 6 per cent... Spanish, 5 per cent
Ditto 1824. — Ditto, Deferred ... 10

Danish, 3 per cent — French, 5 per cent. —f. —e.
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Exchange —f. —c.
Mexican, 5 per cent.... French; 3 per cent —f.
Ditto, 6 per cent, 1823. Diitkli, 2& per cent.
Peruvian; 189 6 per et. isi DiR6; 5 ilek eta: t • • I 1
NnAttlF.B
East ern Counties Railway (23 paid)
Ditto Debentures ( 6 paid). .
Great Western Railway (65 paid) B2
Ditto New Shares (50 paid . •tek* • • • le MI
Ditto Fifth plid)
Lotrdeen Ind 4: righton (541141)' •••• ' ' • ' 431
toikdon Birininghain Railway (90 pd) 160
London and Greenwich Railway (20 pd)
Ditto Scrip. (5 paid)
Ditto Tenths (li paid)
Midland Counties Railway (100 paid) i • • 89
North Midland lia,ilivo..y(ll4Piiiiii)
Ditto Nov Shards (40 Paid)
Ditto Thirds (10 paid) • • • • 9.
South Eastern and Dover (38 pAid)., 164
York and North Midland Railiva .
ril
Ditto Ne* Shi4i4l3 06 paid)

- -- ---
MARRIAGE OF MISS DUFF OF DELGATY
CASTLE TO MR. RICARDO, M.P.—The marriage pf Mis
Duff, daughter of General the itonrir. 04-T
of Delgaty, to Lewi m.r. for stoke-upon-
Trent, took ehtee at belgaty Castle, at two o'clock r.m.,
on Wednesday last, in presence of a number tr
of the district. The youthful and accOniplq..Vlde
:was given away by her itch% tutelel, Earl of
Fife, and the ceremony was VettoimOA by tlie nO-•11ir.
Gordoa of Montquhitter. After oaittiki* of A
the happy pair set oft in tt earrlallesand-four for London.
About 300 gentletnen of the district, in order to commei•
morate the event, sat down to a sumptuous dinner in
large pavilion erected on the square of Tattle
occasion—Alexander Souter, Esq., Muff, ht the chaiiN
the duties of which he discharged in ti very happy
manner. He was 'supported on the right b;;•-the
Messrs. Cruickshank and Christie of Turrift, and on the
left by John Blade, Esq., of Craigiebuckler, &o. &o.
Bonfires blazed on every hill in the neighbourhood the
bells ofßanff and Macduff rung a merry peal dating the
day ; the vessels in the harbour displayed their colours,
and a huge bonfire was lighted upon the "Hill o' Doom."
The lieges of Macduff had a grand dinner and a ball ht
honour of the occasion ; and, in short, every demonstra-
tion of joy vvac manifested throughout the whole district.
—Edinburgh Advertiser.•
CHILDREN'S FRIEND SOCIETY.—This truly
benevolent institution, we are happy to hear, is not to be
entirely abandoned. We understand that some members
.of the Committee are in treaty for some land in Kent
(about 100 acres), upon which it is intended to employ
destitute children, to train and instruct them under the
same judicious regulations as were adopted at the late
asylum at Hackney-wick, and to retain them on the es-
tablishment until the age of 16, when it is presumed
they will have acquired such useful and practical know-
ledge as will enable them to make their own way
in the world. Such an institution will be a great na-
tional blessing, as a means of rescuing many a child of
want and neglect from the paths of vice ; and will, we I
firmly anticipate, meet with immediate and powerful sup-
port, not only from the patrons and friends of the late
Children's Friend Society, but, as it deserves, from the
public at large.
We are glad to hear that the Crown has granted '
pension of 100/. a year to the widow of Mr. James, the
naval historian. The Lords of the-Admiralty., particu-
larly Sir Charles Adam, strongly recommended Mre.
James's memorial to the Treasury.