The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-20 00:00:00

SPORTING.

An extraordinary cricket-match was played on Mon-
day and Tuesday Jest, at Hall's Cricket-grouud, between
the one-arm and one-leg pensioners of Greenwich and
Chelsea hospitals. On this occasion the Navy beat the
Army, the Chelsea pensioners scoring only nineteen
runs, and the Greenwich tars 176. Considering that
cricket, more than any other game, requires the full
complement of arms and legs, this match must have been

TZIE.ELTRICAL.

The Chronicle states that :—" The Duke of 'Welling-
ton, passing through Canterbury last Saturday, on his
way to town from Widmer, stopped to change horses at
Wright's. He asked Mr. Wright to show him the Can-
terbury corn letter of that day (being market day), when
he observed wheat quoted as having fetched 86s. He
asked was it true that that price had been obtained in
that day's market, and being replied to in the affirma-
tive, observed, 'lndeed, then something must be done."'
Mr. O'Connell has accepted an invitation to a public
dinner at Highbury Barn on the 30th.
During the late Glasgow election, a publican resident
in the suburbs, received a letter by the post, purporting
to have issued from the Tory candidate, authorizing him
to keep open house till the election was over. The land-
lord was of course in extacies ; threw open his doors ;
spread his tables with his best viands, and called on every
passing Tory voter to come and eat and drink as much
as he pleased. At the close of the election he went to
the Tory Committee-room, and presented to the candi-
date a bill as heavy as one of Dr. Philpotts's pamphlets.
or Sir James Graham's speeches ; when, lo ! to his in-
expressible astonishment he learned that the letter was
a forgery ! He has since been all but broken-hearted,
and hates the very mention of the word " Tory" as much
as the Devil is said to hate holy water.
The Post contains the following important intelli-
gence :—" Yesterday the Duke of Wellington and Sir
R. Peel walked arm-in-arm to the Houses of Parliament ;
and Lord Stanley and Sir James Graham came together-
to the House of Commons on foot !" This is, indeed, a
momentous sign of the time ! No wonder our Contem-
porary records it with special particularity.

7Z237,201722.8 OF 'X'ZIE 13.4.1 r.
- The Conservative prints assert that the Right Hon. .T.
C. Herries will come forward for Bradford, vacant by the
death of Mr. Lister.
We understand that upwards o ,unds worth of
mob were hired yesterday by th•` .
,' ton Club Com_
mittee, for the express purpose of cheering Sir Robert
Peel.

It is rumoured that the Tamworth quack-doctor in-
tends to adopt the homoeopathic principle—that is to
say, to prescribe infinitessimal doses of reform by way
of remedy for John Bull's malady.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY; TWELVE O'CLOCK.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, AUG. 19.—The sales
to-day amount to 5,000 bales, at steady prices. There
is little alteration since yesterday. 500 have been taken
by exporters.

LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, AUG. 19.—Rather a li-
mited business has been done at the Stock Exchange this
day, and prices are more fluctuating. Midland Counties
Quarter Shares, 194 ; London and Birmingham new
Shares, 32/., 24 ; Eastern Counties, 7 ; Grand Junc-
tion Half Shares, 984 ; South Eastern and Dover, 171.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, AUG. 17.—There
is a marked improvement in the Share Market, and
prices have an upward tendency :—Manchester and
Leeds, Halves, 21i ; London and South Western, 524;
London and Birmingham, 160 161 ; North Union,
80 ; Huddersfield Canal, 261- ; Bank of Manchester, si.

The I-lamburgh mail has arrived with the letters and
papers of Tuesday's date. No alteration had taken place
in exchange, though gold was rather higher.

THE FUNDS.
The English Stock Market continues firm. Conso:s
are now 891 for Money, and 891 -a for the Account ;
Exchequer Bills, 13 15 ; and India Bonds, 5 7 prem.;
Three per Cents. Reduced, 894 ; Three-and-a-Half
per Cents., 98:I 99 ; Bank Stock, 168 169 ; India Stock,
245 247.

Spanish Active Stock, 194 20 ; Passive, 4 ;
Deferred, 98 10* ; Portuguese Five per Cents., 292
304- ; Ditto Three per Cents., 174 184 ; very little bu-
siness doing.

PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share.
Great Western
Ditto New
Ditto Fifths
ion and Selby 5O ...... 50i to --
London and Brighton
London and Birmingham ... 90
Ditto Thirds -
Ditto New ~.. 2
London and South Western ' 38}- 51}...., te 521
Manchester and Leeds ... 70
North Midland
Ditto New
York and North Midland...
JOINT STOCK RANKS.
National of Ireland
HALF-PAST ONE.
The business doing in the Stock Exchange has been to
a very limited extent.
Consols are now 89i 4 for Money, and 894 for the Ac-
count ; Exchequer Bills, 13 15 prem.
There have been but three bargains done in the Foreign
Market—Colombian Bonds at 20-I ; Spanish, 19i ;
Dutch Fives, 102.

There has been more business duing in the Share
Market than for some days' past. Great Western are
81a4 ; the New, 56f ; ditto Fifths, ; Hull and Selby,
56; London and Brighton, 434 ; Birmingham Thirds,
534. ' • the New, 23i ; South Western, 524 ; Manchester
and Leeds, 56 ; North Midland New, 31i ; York and
North Midland, 779. _ _

QUARTER TO THREE.
The intelligence received here from the Continent
within the last few clays is not very gratifying for our
commercial interests, since in addition to the proposal
set on foot for a Customs Union between France and
Belgium, Luxemburgh and Brunswick are reported to be
on the eve of joining the Prussian League.
The feeling of the Tea trade as to the inaccuracy of
the intelligence purporting to come from China, and to
which we bore testimony on the very day the news was
published, is sufficiently tested this morning by the in-
disposition evinced at the public sales in progress, to
offer any advance on the previous quotations.
The weather works its benefits to the poor. Corn is
clown Is. to 2s. per quarter to-day.
Consols for Account, 89i ; October, 89i- ; -Colom-
bian, 20f, ; Mexican, 25i 26e ; Spanish, 19i 31,.

MRS. WAYLETT'S BENEFIT.—This excellent
actress will take a benefit at the English Opera House
on Monday next, when a great treat may be expected.
The evening's entertainment will commence with The
Ladies' Club, and will be followed by three favourite
short pieces. In the course of the evening Mrs. Waylett
will introduce the songs of -"Kate Kearney" and " I'll
never be married again," with several other airs. Mr.
Eliason, lessee of Drury Lane, will perform a fantasia on
the violin ; Mr. Harper, sen., will play some airs on the
trumpet obligato ; and Miss Foxall will give the bravura
" Let the bright Seraphim." The selection of pieces is
good, and the performers, we are certain, will to justice
to them.

as ridiculous a one as the translation of Don Quixotte,
which was proposed to be undertaken some years ago,
by two gentlemen, one of whom did not understand a
word of Spanish, while the other was equally ignorant
of English !

At Easton, in Nottingham, a single cricket match was
played by two Commodores, both wooden-legged, which
proved a source of great amusement. Pearmain hopped
thirteen runs ; Moreton twelve, when he was cleverly
. . .

caught out by his opponent, who was hailed victor of the
" subscription purse."

The English Opera-house has, we understand, been
taken for a limited period by Mr. Heraud and his friends,
for the purpose of testing the merits of the unacted
drama. Messrs. Elton, Phelps, Mrs. Warner, and se-
veral other performers of note, have been engaged. The
house will open on Thursday, with an adaptation of Mr.
Stephens's " Hungarian Daughter," to be followed by a
new farce from the pen of Captain Marryatt.

COURT--PASHXONABLE.
The Dowager Lady Glenlyon's mansion, in White.
hall-gardens, which adjoins Sir Robert Peel's, has bees
taken by the Right lion. Sir Henry ilardinge, M.l'.
for a term.

A great number of persons of rank and fashion were
among the numerous passengers who left London for
Antwerp and the Rhine on Sunday last, by the steam-
ship Princess Victoria. .

The Duke of Cambridge arrived in to►vn yesterday
morning from Kesv.

Lord Melbourne left town yesterday on a visit to her
Majesty.

The Earl of Winchelsea arrived in town yesterday
from Sussex.

At the suggestion of Prince Albert, a beautiful grotto
and waterfall are being constructed in the Royal plea-
sure-grounds at Windsor.

VIZSCIELLAINTISOUS.
Among the ruins at the fire at Blackheath, much
valuable plate has been recovered, and it is expected
when the drawing room is reached, many jewels will be
raked up.

A meeting of the Blackwall Railway Proprietors was
held yesterday, at the London Tavern, when Mr. Alder-
man Humphery explained the circumstances under which
he had sold certain shares in the Company, and in con-
sequence of which he iad resigned his Directorship.
Mr. Rennie was elected to fill the vacancy.
On the 25th of August the statue of De Rnyter will
be uncovered at Flushing.
Yesterday. the Rev. W. R. Cobbold, the incumbent of
Selbourne, Hants, died at the Belle Sauvage Inn, in con-
sequence of injuries received from having been run over
on Friday evening by one of the mail carts.
"Last Saturday evening," says the Nottinghani Review,
the demand for bread was so unusually great in various
parts of the town, owing to the almost certainty of a rise
in the price on the following Monday, that many of the
baker's shops are completely emptied."
A Morning Contemporary states, that in the House
of Commons yesterday " every eye was directed to Sir
R. Peel ; and when he rose to speak, an almost death-
like silence prevailed." If the silence was as marked as
that which the Right Hon. Baronet has maintained on
the subject of his remedies, it must indeed have been " a
death-like" one !

EJIIPERIAL PARLIA-MiENT:

HOUSE OF LORDS;-(THIS DAY.)
• APPROVAL OF THE SPEAKER,.
Shortly- after two o'clock, the Lord Chancellor, the
Marquis of Lansdowne, the Marquis of Norm anby, the
Earl of Clarendon, and Lord Duncannon, took their
seats beneath the Throne as Lords Commissioners, for
the purpose of giving her Majesty's approbation to
the choice of the House of Commons of Mr. Shaw Lefevre
as their Speaker.
Immediately after the Commons had taken their seats,
Sir Augustus Clifford, the Usher of the Black :Rod, was
commanded by them to summon the House of Commons
to attend the bar, and in a few minutes Mr. shaw Le-
fevre, accompanied by his mover and seconder, and a
great number of Members, appeared at the bar..
Mr. SHAW LEI-TYRE then addressed their Lord-
ships as follows :—My Lords, in obedience to her Ma-
jesty's commands, her Majesty's most faithful Commons
have proceeded, in the exercise of their undoubt ed rights
and privileges, to elect their Speaker, anc. I have
to acquaint your Lordships that, however unworn thy of it,
lam the object of that choice, and I with all humility
have now to ask her Majesty's most gracious approbation
of that-choice.

The LORI) CHANCELLOR—Mr. Shaw' Lefevre,
we have it in command from her Majesty to as-
sure you, that her Majesty is so fully sensible
of your zeal for the public good, and your ample suffi-
eiency to discharge the high and arduous duties to which
you have been elected, that she fully approves and con-
firms you their Speaker.
The SPEAKER—My Lord, with the most profound
gratitude and respect I submit myself to her Majesty's
commands, and it now becomes my duty, in' the name
and on the behalf of the Commons of England,
to lay claim, by humble petition, to the free exercise of
all their ancient and undoubted rights, immunities, and
privileges ; more especially those of freedom of debate,
and freedom from arrest and molestation for their
persons and servants, free access .to her Majesty,
when occasion may require, and that her Majesty will be
graciously pleased to put the most favourable construction
on all their proceedings and actions; and for myself, my
Lord, I have to entreat, that if any errors should be
committed, it may be attributed to me and not to her
Majesty's faithful Commons.
The LORD CHANCELLOR—Mr. Speaker : We
have it further in command to assure you that her
Majesty most readily confirms all the rights and privi-
leges of her faithful Commons, which have ever been
granted and confirmed by her Majesty's Royal predeces-
sors; and with respect to yourself, Sir, although her Majesty
is sensible that you stand in no need of such an assu-
rance, her Majesty will ever put the most favourable
construction upon all your words and actions.
The Speaker then bowed to the Commissioners, and
retired from the bar.
The Lords Commissioner then retired.
The Lord Chancellor shortly afterwards re-entered the
House and took his seat upon the Woolsack.
Several Peers then went up to the table to take the
oaths. •

Among the Peers who were sworn in we observed
Lord Onslow, Lord Rollo, the Earl of Thanet, the
Bishop of Rochester, Lord Calthorpe, Lord Teynham,
the Bishop of Norwich, Lord Brougham, Lord Keane,
Earl Fitzwilliarn, Lord Fitzgerald and Vesci, Viscount
Lorton, Lord Hastings, the Bishop of Down.
Their Lordships adjourned at Four o'Clock.