The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-07 00:00:00

`PRE STIN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVRNING, AUGUST 7,1 a ,t,

On Friday next, In 2 vols. small Bvo., price 245. bound,
REVELATIONS OF RUSSIA;
OR,
TILE EMPEROR NICHOLAS AND lIIS EMPIRE IN 1844.

By
" One who has seen and describes."
" Ted ou tard tout se scait."—Maintenon.
Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
LAST. NIGHT BUT THREE OF THE SEASON.
Sig. MARIO respectfully informs the Nobility, Subscribers to
the Opera, his Friends, and the Public, that HIS BENEFIT
will take place
TO-MORROW EVENING. AUG. 8,
When will be performed (by desire) Bellines 0 era of
I PURITANI.

Elvira, Madame Grist; Giorgio, Signor Lahlache; Arturo, Signor
Mario; and Riccardo, Signor Fornasari.
After which, Selections from the new Divertissement, entitled LA
VIVANDIERE, iatrylucing the Redowa ; or Original Polka of
Bohemia, by Mdlle. Cerito and M. Bt. Leon.
In the course of the Evening a scene from Donisetta's Opera of
LINDA DI CHAMOUNI. _ _

Comprising the admired Cavatim ‘• Luci di quest Anima," by
Madame Persiani ' • and the celebrated duo, "Da quel Di," by Madame
Persiani and Sig. Mario.
To c nclude with LA ESMERALDA. La Esmeralda, Mdlle.
Fanny Elssler ; Phmbus de Chateaupers, M. St. Leon; Pierre
Gringoire, M. Perrot.
Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box-
office, Opera.celennade. Doors open at Seven; the Opera will corn.
mence at Half-past Seven.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMA RKET.
FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. WEBSTER, LESSEE,
And Last Night of the Season.
THIS EVENING, AUG. 7,
Will be performed Shakspeare's Comedy of THE TAMING OF
THE SHREW. Petrucio, Mr. Webster; Grumio, Mr. Buckstone;
Christopher Sly, Mr. Strickland; Katharina, Mrs. Nisbett; Bianca,
Miss Julia Bennett.
In the course of the Evening Mr. Webster will deliver a Farewell
Address.
Atter which, THE TRUMPETER'S DAUGHTER; or, Lore
and the Polka. Philli pot, Mr. Webster; Madden, Madame Celeste;
who will dance the celebrated Polka.
In the course of the Evening, Mr. John Parry will sing " Fayre
Rosamonde."
To conclude with THE MILLINER'S HOLIDAY.

THEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM, LATE ENGLISH OPERA.
HOUSE.
Under the Management of Mts. KEELEY.
Success, Brilliant and triumphant !
The' Adventures of " Martin Chuzzlewit" having, on each repre.
sentation, ueen received with every possible mark of public appro.
bation by the most fashionable and crowded audiences, and having
been pron/unced by the unanimous voice of the publie press to be
one of the most interesting Dramas ever produced from the works
of the celebrated Author, a repetition of its performance will take
place every evening till further notice.
THIS EVENING, AUG. 7,
Will be repeated a New Drama, entitled MARTIN CHUZZLE-
WIT. Principal characters by Messrs. R. Younge, F. Vining,
Emery, F. Mathews, A. Wigan, Meadows, Kinloch, Turner,
Stanton, J. W. Collier, Yarnold, Sanders, and Keeley; Miss For.
fescue, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. A. Wigan, Mrs. Woollidge, Miss
Groves, Mrs. Usher, Miss Turner, and Mrs. Keeley.
To conclude with an entirely Original, and much better than
New, Grand Operatic, Romantic, Melo-Dramatic, Burlesque Extra.
vaganza, founded on the celebrated Eastern rale, in the Arabian
Nights' Entertainment, entitled ALADDIN AND THE WON.
DERFUL LAMP; or, New Lamps for Old Ones. With very
extensive New Scenery, Machinery, Dresses, &c. Principal cha-
tacters by Mrs. Keeley, Messrs. F. Matthews, Turner, A. Wigan,
J. W. Collier, and Keeley; Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Woolli I ge, Miss
E. Chaplin, Mrs. A. Wigan, Miss Turner, hiss James, Miss Carson,
Miss Hunt, Miss Reede, &c., &c.
PRICES OF A DMII;SIO N.—Balcony Foxes. 4 Upper
Boxes, 35.; Pit, 25.; Gallery, 6d. Second Price—Balcony Boxes, 2s. ;
Upper Boxes, is 6d.; I'it, Is. Private Boxes on the It th;,my Tier
(holding eight persons), Tao Guineas. Private Boxes on the Second
Tier (holding eight persons), One Guinea and a. Half Private
Boxes on the Pit Tier (holding six persons), One Guir ea.
The Box-/Itice is open from Ten to Four o'Clock, under the direc-
tion of Mr. Grogan, late of Covent-garden Theatre.

Continued Attractions and Overflows at
ASTLEY'S ROY AL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS.
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. BATTY.
THIS EVENING, AUG. 7
Will be repeated an entire new Eiuestrian, Military and Naval
Spectacle, entitled THE CHINESE WAR; or, The Conquests of
Amoy by British Arms. New Scenery, Dresses, Appointments, kc.,
to realise the rc cent triumphs of England's Army and Navy. Feast
of 250 Lanterns.

New Scenes in the Circle by the Unequalled Corps of British and
Foreign Equestrians—the Anti iodean Professors.
To conclude with THE GREAT STEEPLE-CHASE; or, Eag.
land's HuNest Rome.

Acting and staae.m inager. Mr. W. D.Broadfoot.

Box-office open from Eleven tifi F:ve. Lessons in the Art Riding
by Mr. It. Smith.

ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.

TOM THUMB in a BALLOON, THIS DAY and TO-MORROW.
Should the weather permit, TOM THUMB will traverse the
Gardens in a Balloon, his Last Appearance in London.
MODELS of VENICE and LONDON in the OLDEN TIME.

Painted by Dansonand Telbin.

The sensation caused by this unrivalled prcniuction is beyond all
former pi ecedent ; the artist, the amateur, the casual observer
are all struck with its extraerdinay beauty and fidelity of delinea.
ti0n,,,,n1 re unanimous in pronouncing it the most wonderful ex-
hibition ever witnessed. To view it only as a vehicle tnr the terrific
disp'ay at Dusk is unjust; it should be seen in the calm stillness of
the quiet Evening, with its Towers and Steeples reflected in the spa-
cious Lake, to be fully appreciated.
The Evening PROMENADE CONCERTS on Mon 'ays, Tues.
days, Wednesdays, and Thursdays cont.ucted Lry Mr. Godfrey.
are up a Pcale o?more than usual excellence; nut words fail in
doing justice to the awful representation of
THE GREAT FIRE OF I.( iN DON.

Its fearful characteristics are truthfully pourtrayed, but at the same
time so lieautifully blended with the Wonders of the Pyrotechnic
Art, 'tilt delight is predominant over terror; and the Thousands
who nightly crowd the Gardens hail it with acclamations, and admit
that i:outliby, ;he Unrivalled Pyrotechnist has achieved a matchless
triumph.
The (laden* and Zoological Collection are in the most perfect
state, .did combining so many and interesting features, are by far
the most atturtive lounge in or near the iretropoli'.
Feeding of tlie Animals at Five—Concert at Six—Conflagration at

if any trains run on Sunday, the poor shall have the
same privileges as the rich. A time is coming when
the lower classes will see who are their real friends,
and among these they will not class the Puseyite
Bishops.
Sir ROBERT PEEL moved a congratulatory address
to the QUEEN cm the birth of another PRINCE.
In answer to a question from Mr. T. DuNcomnE,
Sir ROBERT PEEL said he would move the adjourn-
ment of the House on Wednesday or Thursday to a
certain period, which he could not at present state.
The prorogation, however, would not take place till
the judges could give their opinion on the case of the
QUEEN v. O'CONNELL 'and others. The judges were
anxious to have a conference.

Captain BERNAL moved for copies of instructions
to Lord HEYTESBURY relative to Church patronage
in Ireland. Sir R. PEEL opposed the motion, and
after some discussion it was withdrawn. The House
adjourned at Half-past Eight o'clock.

The public rejoice at the event which took place
yesterday at Windsor Castle. The birth of another
child of the QUEEN gives additional security that
England shall no more be encumbered or embroiled
by Hanover, and that King ERNEST and his de-
scendants must confine their prospects to their own
dominions. England is well rid of the race and the
country. Some additional expense will probably be
entailed by this new addition to the Royal Family,
but Englishmen will not grudge it when they know
that it is another safeguard against the tyranny of
Orangemen, and the most unpopular of all the sons
Of GEORGE the THIRD.

Whatever opinions may be formed, in other coun-
tries, of the political honesty of our Government, and
the public faith of its higher functionaries—by reason
of the discovery of certain transactions in which the
Secretary for the Home Department and the autho-
rities of the Post-office have been so much involved—
the feeling of popular indignation excited by the dis-
closures in question will go far to vindicate the cha-
racter of the nation. There can be no mistaking the
evidence which this manifestation supplies of John
Bull's inherent detestation of trickery and fraud in the
working out of any end, however strongly its expediency
may be pressed upon his notice. This love of fair
play—this contempt for all recourse to artifice and
deception in the management of public business—is
only another type of that probity and principle,
which, despite his occasional selfishness, and his con-
stitutional surliness is the salient point of his cha-
racter in all the connexions of private life. Let us
hope that it will long continue to be so. It is, in any
case, a noble and redeeming influence, which is
sure to infuse itself, more or less, into the policy
and business of his goverment at home, and
of his political associations with foreign States.
With regard to the transactions we have above
alluded to, we doubt not that the opinions of
the English public—although they may be some-
what modified by the " Reports of the Select Com-
mittees on the Post-office," which the Houses
Lords and Commons have severally appointed, wilt
continue to run in the same course of decided repro-
bation which they took from the first statement of
M. MAZZINI'S case.

We have perused both these " Reports," and not-
withstanding the dispassionate and calm tone in
which the Commons' Committee appear to justify
what has been done in this matter, on a reference
to the statute of ANNE ; and the more eager
and decided verdict of " acquittal " with
which the Lords' Comniitteee have absolved
Sir J. GRAHAM from the charges brought against
him; we venture to affirm that the finding of neither
of these tribunals is justified by the evidence taken
before it, or the conclusions it has founded on that
evidence. The report from the " Lords" is so meagre
and jejcine, that we do not feel called upon to discuss
it at all. That from the Commons is a much more
carefully compiled document, and entitled to a much
higher degree of consideration. In justice to Sir
JAMES GRAHAM himself, we should premise the ob-
servations we are about to submit, by stating
1,„ wog to my justified in Dleadinff.
in debate-1. rbat he nau not xceeutu
the powers vested in his office by specific statutes
in granting warrants for the opening of " suspected
letters in their passage through her MAJESTY'S Post-
office." 2. That he had done no snore than most of
his predecessors in office had done by issuing such
warrants. (We blush to state, that in the long list of
Secretaries of State, Home and Foreign, who have
so grante.l them, from 1712 to 1844, we find the
names of the staunchest Whigs side by side with
those of the staunchest Tories—in 1756, indeed, we
have the Right Hon. H. Fox; but we have not "the"
WILLIAM PITT (afterwards Earl of CHATHAM), who
succeeded him in the same year. In 1782 we find
the Right Hon. C. J. Fox, consenting to the same
practices which seem so much more appropriate in
1812 to 1821 to Lord SIDMOUTH ; in 1822 to 1830
to Sir R. PEEL ; in 1834 to the Duke of WELLING-
TON; and which we grieve to find equally sanctioned,
between 1835 and 1839, by Lord J. RUSSELL.) 3.
The blame of using M. MAZZINI'S correspondence, it
is indispensable to state, now appears to have rested
with the Earl of ABERDEEN-110t with Sir JAMES
GRAHAM; the latter took out the hot chesnuts, and
"burnt his fingers," but the former " digested their
contents."

We have no room to-day to do more than direct at-
tention to the careful manner in which the Select
Committee of the House of Commons (whose " Re-
port" we print elsewhere at large) have discharged
their task. They seem to have been animated by a
determination
.that, inasmuch as lawyers were
carefully excluded from their body, they
would do the best that in laymen lay
to supply the deficiency of members of the
long robe. They set out by inquiring "into the con-
dition of the posts in this country at various periods
of our history, and into the connexion that sub-
sisted between them and the supreme authorities of
the country"—inquiries in which they acknowledge
the assistance received from " Sir F. PALGRAVE, of
the Rolls-office ; Messrs. LECUMERE and LEMAN, of
the State Paper-office; and Mr. REEVE, of the
Council-office." At first sight this part of their re-
port may be thought to assume too antiquarian or
perhaps too technical a character ; but it leads to
important
afuturea results.
article, the
lat establishes,
bso
absolute
evic as w
viciousness
usnese shall show in
sofanything
like a general warrant for the opening of several, or
an indefinite number of letters, such as we apprehend
Sir JAMES GRAHAM'S warrants will be found to have
been.
This historical resume has some omissions which
we think might have been supplied, if it was worth
while entering into such details at all. We do not
mean, of course, that it should have remounted to
the re- establishment, by CHARLEMAGNE, throughout
his vast dominions, of those " posts" which had• been
so well organised by AUGUSTUS from one extremity
to the other of the Roman Empire, about 830 years
before. The report well distinguishes between two
relations of the office of posts, which our historians
are too apt to confound; namely, that in which it
was governed and discharged under the immediate
authority of the Crown, for its own exclusive purposes,
and that in which the Crown delegated its duties
and responsibilities to some other competent autho-
rity, fur • the purposes and use of its subjects. "It
does not appear," say the Committee, "at what pre-
cise period the Crown undertook to be the regular
carrier of letters for its subjects. The Crown, doubt-
less, found it necessary at a very early period, to the
exercise of the functions of Sovereignty, to be able to
convey with speed and security its own dispatches
from one part of the realm to another, and from and
to parts beyond the seas ; and for that purpose it ap-
pointed certain messengers, or runners, called the
posts: These posts were also employed fur the
personal convenience of the SOVEREIGN, and the indi-
viduals composing the Royal Court. In course of
time, a Master of the Posts' was appointed, and the
first of these on record was BRIAN TuKE, Knight
' who held that office in 1516.' " We would here
venture to remark that the plan of letter "posts" may
be fairly said to have an earlier origin among us. In
1481, EDWARD IV. (in emulation probably of his
rival, Louis XI., whose solicitude for early informa-
tion from Burgundy, and all parts of Europe, had in-
duced him, in 1470, according to HENAULT, to
establish " post houses" throughout France), instituted
a body of runners, or riders rather, on post-horses,
who went each of them, throughout the whole dis-
tance from London to Carlisle—(not then represented
by any " Sir JAMES GRAHAM")—in constant relays
stages, severally, of twenty miles, so as to keep the

KING and his Barons perpetually informed of what
was passing in Scotland and on the Border. We shall
return to the " Report" to-morrow.

Letters from Florence announce the death of
JOSEPH BONAPARTE on the 28th of July, in the 78th
year of his age. He was the immediate elder brother
of NAPOLEON, and, we believe, the last of that illus-
trious family, What changes he had seen and expe-
rienced in his time l He had been King of Naples
and King of Spain ; he was appointed guardian of
MARIE LouisE and the King of ROME, when BONA-
PARTE was struggling in a hopeless contest with the
combined forces of Europe ; and it was owing to his
alvice that these pledges of the EMPEROR'S care were
hurried off from Paris. Their departure ex-
cited universal despair in the French capital.
The inhabitants saw that all chance of success
was gone, and they resigned themselves to their fate.
He was the least remarkable for talent of any of the
family, though a great favourite with his brother.
His arrangements, previous to the battle of Vittoria,
showed that he was totally incapable of conducting
an army, or saving it from destruction, when he had
the means in his power. He fled from Vittoria, and
was never heard of till he gave up Paris to
the Allies. Among the Yankeees he was no favourite;
they would not recognise the Imperial Family; and
after visiting various countries to find a place of
rest, he at last settled at Florence. His life exhibits,
in a most remarkable degree, the vanities of human
vicissitudes. He was the last of a family that ruled
the whole of Europe, and subjected Emperors and
Kings to its dominion, and the announcement of his
death produces no more effect upon the nations which
his brother ruled, than the death of the humblest in-
dividual.

Accounts from Madrid, dated the Ist inst., state
that the decree suspending the sales of national pro-
perty, and restoring the unsold property to the
clergy, subject to the approbation of the Cortes, was
daily expected to be published. According to a letter
from Cadiz of the 27th,. nearly all the French inhabi•
tants had been allowed to leave Tangiers, and all the
foreign consuls had left, except the English; 200
persons of all nations had arrived at Gibraltar. The
British squadron was lying there on the 26th.
Senor HERRERA, formerly Minister of the Interior,
died at Madrid on the 29th ult.

Madrid Bourse on the 30th, Three per Cents.,
26i, at 60 days ; Treasury Bonds, 54 at 60 days.

The French Chambers were prorogued.on Monday
by a Royal ordonnance. On the assembling of the
Chamber of Deputies M. DE LA RocHEJACQUELIN ad-
dressed the Minister for Foreign Affairs, and said he
trusted the Assembly would not separate without re-
plying to the insulting language used by the Prime
Minister of England in speaking of two naval officers
of France. The Government was in a delicate posi-
tion, but had it acted with more firmness Great Bri-
tain would not have dared to ask for reparation. M.
BILLAULT and M. BERRYER made similar remarks,
when M. GuizoT observed that the question at issue
should be left to the decision of the two Governments
that he would attend to it carefully, and that the
Chamber might rest convinced that he would do
everything in his power to uphold the honour and
rights of the French navy. The Royal ordonnance
was then read, and the Chamber separated with cries
of " Vive le Roi."

The opposition journals still comment with much
bitterness on the PRITCHARD affair, but they do not
advance one new argument or fact. The following
statement relative to the affairs of Morocco appears in
the Journal des Debats :
" We believe that the news received from Morocco leaves
scarcely any doubt that hostilities have been commenced.
Letters from Cadiz state that the French Consul at Tangiers
was obliged to use the utmost precautions in effecting his em-
barkation, and the authorities of Morocco have detained the
Chancellor of the Consulate and a great portion of the French
residents. It has been said that the first act of the war will.
be the bombardment of Tangiers by the Prince de Joinville,
but this we think to be an error. Tangiers ought to be con-
sidered a European town, being the centre of Christian com-
merce, and its bombardment would inflict an immense injury
upon the resident foreigners, without doing any harm to the
Emperor of Morocco. We are informed that the Prince de
Joinville has instructions to attack the ports which are purely
❑ational, such as Mogadore, Mazagan, Salee, and Laracho•"

" The accounts from Morocco published by the Govern-
ment extend to the 23d ult., whilst a private correspondent
of a Spanish journal writes as follows from Gibraltar on the
25th—the facts, however, require confirmation.:—' All that
has been reported relative to a sanguinary action fought be-
tween the French and the Arabs is true. The French had
the advantage, but they lost among their killed a general
officer. Yesterday a vessel arrived from Oran, with pressing
dispatches for the Prince de Joinville. The commander of
the Danish fleet, who proceeded to Tangier, announced to
the Emperor that Denmark would no longer pay tribute. He
has since returned to Gibraltar with his fleet, where he is
waiting the result of the affair with the French. A report
prevails of a fresh and more sanguinary action having been
fought between the Moors and the French. It is moreover
stated, that whilst the Moors proclaim war against France,
they appear to wish to remain at peace with Spain."'
The Constitutionnel justly observes :

" The affair of Morocco occupies much more attention in
London than that of Otaheite. If a rupture were to take place;
it is much less likely to be caused by the events which have
occurred in the South Seas, than by those which are prepar-
ing on the north-west of Africa."
The French Funds still remain depressed. On
Monday the Three per Cents. closed at 81f. 30c., and
the Fives at 120 f. 50c.

THE BOURSE—SATURDAY, AUGUST 3.
First Highest Lowest Last
Price, Price. Price. Price.
French Five per C2nts ••• • •• 120 )5 .. 120 25 .. 120 15 120 20
Four-and-a-Half..•• 113 .. 113 .. 113 .. 113
Pour per Cents.
Three per Cents.— •• 81 20 .. 81 20 .. 81 10 .• 81 20
Caflitte Bank, 5,000 f. Sharesso7o —5070 ..5070 —5070
Bank of France.• • • • • • •••••3075 ..3080 .. 3075 ..3080
Belgian Bank ..• •••••• • • • • • 675 .. 675 .. 675 .. 675
Belgian Fives, 1831• •
1840 •••••••• 1051 .. 1051 .. 1051 .. 105 k
1842 •••••• 108 .. 108 .. 108 .. 108
Spanish Threes •••••• • • • • • • 321 .. 321 .. 321 .. 321
Active • •
Portuguese Five per Cents•• 431 .. 431 .. 421 .. 43
•• ••• • • • • t 8 50 .. 98 50 .. 98 50 .. 98 50
Roman „ „ ••••• •• • • 1031 .. 1031 .. 1051 .. 1031

RAILWAY SHARES.

Versallles,R.B.•• •• •• • • •• •• 365
L. 8.• • •• •• •• • • •• 230
Rouen • . •• • • •• • • • • ..... • •• 960

.. 365
.. 235
• . 965

.. 365 .. 365
.. 232 50 .. 230
.. 955 .. 965

Rouen to Havre •
Orleans .. •• ••.• • •• •• -• •• •• 957 50 .. 961 25 .. 957 50 .. 961 25

Strasbur g to Bale • • • • •• •• •• 233 75 .. 235 75 .. 232 50 .. 232 50
ivignon to Marseilles• ••• •• 750 .. 750 • 743 75 .. 750
RAILWAY SHARES FOR THE ACCOUNT, 15Tit OF AUGUST.
St. Germain • ...... • •• • • •• 870 .. 872 50 .. 870 .. 672 50
Versailles, )t.B. •••••• • • • • • • 370 • .. 370 .. 367 50 .. 367 50
L. 13 • • • • • ...... • 230 .. 232 50 .• 230 .• 232 50
Rouen ...... ...... ••••• •• 960 .. 965 .. 955 .. 965

Rouen to Havre— .. •••• 740 .. 745 .. 740 .. 745
Orleans ..... • • •• • • • - • • • • •• 955 .. 963 75 .. 955 .. 963 75
Strasburg to Bale• •—•••• •• 232 50 .. 233 75 .. 232 50 . 233 75
Avignon to Marseilles•• •• • • 747 50 .. 750 .. 745 .. 750

and the other members of the Royal Family, at their
respective residences. _

The nobility and gentry, residing in the vicinity of
the Castle, called during the day to make inquiry after
the health of the Queen. Among them were the Coun-
tess of Ripon, the Hon. the Dean of Wili.lsor and the
Hon. Mrs. Hobart ; the Marquise d'Harcourt, Mr. and
Mrs. Harcourt, Miss Cavendish, Colonel Sir George and
Lady Cowper and Miss Cowper, Captain the Hon. Au-
gustus and Mrs. Liddell, Captain the Hon. James C. P.
Murray, Colonel and Mrs. Berkeley Drummond, Cap-
tain the Hon. C. Grantham Scott, Rev. William and
Mrs. Canning, Lieut.-Colonel Turner, Major and Mrs.
Trent, Captain Charles Seymour, Captain Stracey, Hon.
Strange Jocelyn, Captain Onslow, Captain Rushbrooke,
Lady Grant, Miss Cornewall, Miss Lyttelton, Lieut.-
Colonel Ellington, Coknel and Miss Howard Vyse,
Major Charles Moore, Governor of the Military Knights,
and several of the Naval and Military Knights.
His Royal highness Prince Albert rode out on horse-
back in the afternoon. his Royal Highness returned at
half-past six o'clock, attended by Major-Gen. Weymss.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the
Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, were taken their
usual walks and rides to-day.
This evening her Majesty is going on favourably, and
the Royal Infant is quite well.
The Queen has passed an excellent day, and is going
on as well as possible.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent returned to
the Castle this evening, and dined with his Royal High-
ness Prince Albert.

(From the London Gazette Extraordinary.)
TUESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1844.
Windsor Castle, August 6, 1844.

This morning, at ten minutes before eight, the Queen,
was happily delivered of a Prince. His Royal Highness
Prince Albert, several Lords of her Majesty's Most
Honourable Privy Council, and the Ladies of her Ma-
jesty's Bed Chamber, being present.
This great and important news was immediately made
known to the town by the firing of the Park and Tower
guns ; and the Privy Council being assembled as soon
as possible thereupon, at the Council Chamber, White-
hall, it was ordered, that a form of thanksgiving for the
Queen's safe delivery of a Prince be prepared by his
Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, to be used in all
churches and chapels throughout England and Wales,
and the town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, on Sunday the
11th of August, or the Sunday after the respective mi-
nisters shall receive the same.

Her Majesty and the infant Prince are, God be praised,
both doing well.

The following bulletin of her Majesty's health was
issued this morning :

" Windsor Castle, Aug. 7, 1844, 9 A.m.
" The Queen has passed an excellent night.
" Her Majesty and the Infant Prince arc doing per-
fectly well.

(Signed) " JAMES CLARK, M.D.
" CHARLES LOCOCK, M.D.
" ROBERT FERGUSON, M.D."

THIS DAY'S NEWS.

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS

CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.

The transactions in Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were
moderate being 4,000 bales, but at steady rates. A fair bu-
siness was done in Railway Shares, but prices generally had
a downward tendency:—Birmingham and Gloucester, 114;
Bristol and Gloucester, 57 ; Chester and Holyhead, Si. Ils.
3d. ; Eastern Counties, 124 ; Do., Perpetual (5 per cent.), 2/. 14s.
4d. ' • Liverpool and Manchester, New, 35 prem.; London
and Birmingham, 230; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 274 ; Lon-
don and Brighton, 494 ; Manchester, Bolton, and Bury, 112 ;
Midland Counties, 110; North Union, 134 ex-dividend;
Sheffield and Manchester, 824 ; South-Eastern, 394 ; Ditto,
New, 124 ; Trent Valley, 911 ; Paris and Lyons, 21. 1 ls. 6d. ;
Ditto and Orleans, 384 ; Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux, 21-10.
Accounts of April 7th from Van Diemen's Land report no
new feature in mercantile affiiirs, but the colony was evi-
dently not going back, or we should have heard fresh com-
plaints. The Bushrangers continued to be troublesome.
There are no other arrivals to-day.
The English Stocks have been rather less buoyant to-day;
the accounts from Paris are still looked at with some
anxiety. Consols for immediate transfer have ruled at
994 to 99, and for the Account at 994 to 99. Ex-
chequer Bills have been 775. to 755. premium ; and East
India Bands 945. premium ; Bank Stock has been firm at
200 to 2004. The New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. have
obtained 1014 to 4 ; the Reduced 102 a to and the Three
per Cents. 934 to 1004 ; Long Annnities are 12 9-16 to 7-16.
The transactions in the Foreign Stocks have not been nu-
merous to-day, and prices are rather flat. Mexican have
receded to 354 4 ; dnd the Deferred to 154 4. Colombian
are 134 a ; and Brazilian 834. Portuguese Old Stock has
been marked 814 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. are
61 to 4 ; and Russian 120,
"-"•vftv Shares have been again rather in favour of
parties making in%
tion to sell.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)

Bank .. 5t0ck........„ 200% 200
S per Cent. Reduced Annuities ............. 100% 99% 100
3F
.. "
er Cent. Consols. Annuities.... ~.....»....» ........ 99% %%99
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities lO2
) % la;
ew 3% per Cent. Annuities.... ........
Long Annuities. Expire sth Jan.lB6o l2 9-16 7-16
Ditto 30 Years, Expire 10th Oct. 1859
Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan. 1860.
India Bonds,' ,00•••••••••••••• •••••••• •IN •••••••••••• ••••• 94
Ditto under 1,000.... .......... . ..........
Consols for Account .••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• :99 %%511
Exchequer Bills, I%d. 146 d.
1,0001. ................... •••••••••••• 17 75 pm .. •
5001... •••• •••••••••••• ..... ..... •••••••••••• 75 77 pm.
Ditto Lia 11.................. ........... '75 i 7 pm.
FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Brasilian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Columbian Bonds. 13%%
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent. .••••• .....
Ditto for the Account 3sii 34
Ditto Deferred Stock. 1534%
Portuguese Bonds. 5 per Cent. Bl%
Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent l2O
Spanish Bonds Five per Cent 1840 —
Ditto for the Account
Ditto Three per Cent. 00000000 .............• —
Ditto fer the Account
French Rentes, 3 per Cent
Exchange
Dutch 236 per Cents 000000 .......... 0000000000 ....•...• 61 % "
Ditto for the Account. ' 6l
Dutch 5 per Cents lOl%
New Loan. 5 per Cents. (1837)
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. PAIL Pie SRAM
Birmingham and Gloucester lOO 00000 ... 114,115 to 114
Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings... 5
Chester and Holyhead. .... ......
... 5 554 to
Chichester and Brighton
Dublin and Cashel.... ...... -
Eastern Counties ..... . ... .. . . 23 12% to
Ditto New Registered"...... ..
61. Bd.
Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O 64% ...... to
Great Western. . ........... ,75
135% 10
London and Birmi....ng-Qn. lOO _ to
Ditto % Shares 2 26% -
London and 81ackwa11............. 16%
London and Brighton .......«...., 50 •••..... 481(
Ditto Loan Notes
London and Greenwich ........... 12% .....• '734 •••••• to --
London and South Western ..... 41% ...... 86% to
London and Croydon
Manchester and Birmingham 40
••• •• ••• fee. ......
Dit o 4 Shares - .... ..... 3%_„...._... to
Aland Counties . - --

Midlam ....•••• 000000000000 ••• 100 , 106.105... to 106
Birmingham and Derby lOO ..
Newcastle and Darlington Junct. 21 ........ 42
North Briti.h -
Norwich and Brandon .......... 4
South Eastern and Dover 00000 .... 32% 98%X • to --
_

Trent Valley
1 armouth and Norwich lB ..... —. 31%
r, York and North Midland ..... „,. 50
....... 11l to
Ditto % Shares 2;
Ditto Scarboro' Branch
Orleans, TOUTS, and Bourdeaux 1 ..... —. 1% to
JOINT STOCK DANES,
London Joint Stock
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, AUG. 6.—We have had
a rather quieter market, without any particular change in
prices. Barnsley Junction, 3* ; Eastern Counties, 12i ;
-Ditto Perpetual, 2/, 135.; Manchester, Bury. and Rossen-
dale, 5/1; Manchester and Birmingham, 541 i ; Ditto Quarters,
611 ; Sheffield and Manchester, 83 ; Trent Valley, 10.

OFF SOUTIIWOLD, At m. s.—Augustus, Simpson, Madeira.
ST. MARGARET'S HOPE, JULY 30.—The Messenger,
Jones, from Liverpool, grounded in coming through Water
Sound, but came off in the flood without damage, and pro-
ceeded for Stronsa.

OFF WIIITENITEAD, AUG. I.—Britannia, Bathurst, for
Beunich.
Tnoox, Juix 31.—Arrd. Harmony, Man, Quebec.
ALLOA, JULT 30.—Std. Alfred, St. John's, N.B.
HULL, AUG. s.—Sld. Llan, Runney, St. ohn's, N.B.
OFF THE WIGHT, AUG. 4.—Walker, Coxon, Quebec.

SPORTING INTELLIGLNCE.
(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)
BANBURY RACES.—(TUESDAY.)
The Neithrop Stakes of 10 sovs. each, h. ft., with 50 added.
One mile and a dis.
Mr. Death's Misdeal, 5 yrs (Butler) 1
Mr. Phillimore's Syntaxina, 6 yrs
Mr. Copeland's Assay, 3 yrs .. 3
Mr. Davis's Princess of \Vales, 5 yrs 4
Two others started. •
The Tally-ho Stakes of 3 sovs. each, and 15 added, two
miles, (6 Subs.), were won by Mr. Morgan's Cotswold Lass,
4 yrs (Pitts), beating Mr. Austin's Heigh-over, 6 yrs; Mr.
Cowley's Adrian, aged; Mr. Painter's Oberon, aged; and
Mr. King's Carmine, 4 yrs.
The Warden-hill. Stakes of 5 sovs. each, 3 ft., with 20 added.
Heats, two miles.
Mr. Hobson's Charity, 4 yrs (S. Darling, sen.) 1 1
Mr. Cowper's Independence, 4 yrs
Mr. Jones's Europa, 4 yrs
The Banbury Stakes of 10 sovs. each, h ft, with 50 added.
Two miles.
Mr. S Scott's Mosque, 6 yrs .......
Mr. I. Day's Tamburini, aged ... 2
Mr. Collin's President, 6 yrs 3
Mr. F. Clarke's Arcanus, 5 yrs
Nix-my-Dolly, 5 yrs, and Miss Lucy, 5 yrs, were not
placed. The favourite won very easy.
The Hurdle Stakes of 5 sovs. each, 3 ft, with 20 added,
two miles, were won in two heats, by Heigh-over, 6 yrs,
beating Independence, 4 yrs, distanced.
The Grimsbury Handicap of 3 sovs. each, and 20 added,
one mile and a quarter, was won by Misdeal, 5 yrs,
(F. Butler), beating Fama, 6 yrs, and Aurungzebe, 4 yrs.
BETTING AT MANCHESTER.—TUESDAY.
EBOR HANDICAP.
4 to 1 agst Franchise—tkn.
112 to 1 agst Scalteen—taken
6 to 1 agst Pedometor—tkn..
ST. LEGER.
3to 1 agstTheCure—tkn. 10 to 1 apt Red Deer
sto 1 agst Ithuriel— tkn. 10 to 1 agst The Ugly Buck
7to 1 agst Valerian—tkn. 12 to 1 agst the Princess
7 to 1 agst Bay Momus 35 to 1 agst Lightning.
HORWICII CUP.
sto 2 agst Dog Billy—tkri. 1 sto 1 agst Flamingo.
5 to 2 agst Flagsman—tkn.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

The SPEAKER took the Chair shortly after Twelve o'clock.

POST-OFFICE:

Mr. T. DUNCOMBE moved that a message should be sent
to the Lords, requesting a copy of the report of the Secret
Committee on the Post-office.—Agreed to.
The HoN. MEMBER, on presenting a petition from the
colliers of Durham complaining of the sending of paupers to
distant parts of the country, wished to ask the Secretary of
State for the Home Department, whether it was true,
as .had been stated in one of the public papers,
tha , Sir John Walsham had interfered between
the "masters and men in the mining districts to sup-
ply labourers for the mines in Northumberland and Durham,
and whether it was his opinion that it was part of the duty
of the Poor-law Commissioners, or Assistant Commissioners,
to interfere in such cases ?—(Hear, hear.)
Sir J. GRAHAM said, the Honourable Member had been
good enough yesterday to intimate to him his intention of
putting the question he had now asked. He had, how-
ever, had no opportunity in the interim of conferring
with the Poor-law Commissioners on the subject. He could
state positively, however, that according to his understand-
ing of the poor-law, there was nothing in the provisions of
that Act which would justify any interference on the part of
the Poor-law Commissioners in matters of this kind. Sir
John Walsham, lie was aware, had for some time resided in
the northern districts, and possessed landed property in Here-
fordshire and South Wales, and might have interfered in his
private capacity, but as an Assistant Poor-law Commis-
sioner, he was quite sure fie had not in any way inter-
fered.—(Hear.)
ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE.

Sir H. PEEL gave notice that he should, to•mdrrow,
move that the House, at its rising, should adjourn to Satur-
day, as there were some communications which he under-
stood it was necessary to make between this House and the
House of Lords respecting some amendments to Bills; and
on Saturday he should propose that the House should ad-
journ to some distant day, of which he would give notice on
Saturday.