The Sun.
London, England, 1844-07-26 00:00:00

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LONDON, I:1w A
JULY 26, 1844.

The Earl of RADNoa gave notice that he would
this day put a question to Lord WHARNCLIFFE, re-
lative to the opening of letters at the Post-office.
The County Coroners' Bill was read a third time
a id passed.

Lord BRoucinAM preSCDtCd a petition from his fel-
low-subjects, the negro merchants, planters, and la-
bourers in Trelawney, Jamaica, against the reduc-.
Lion of the duty on sugar.
The Gaming Suspension Bill was read a third
inn!, and passed.
Lord ABERDEEN laid on the table the latest in-
t:•uctions given to the officers engaged in suppressing
he slave-trade, and gave some statistical details of
he number of slaves imported into the Brazils and
:Tiba, which showed that there had been a great de-
tease lately. The Earl of I.IIINTo, Lord COLCHES-
rR, the Earl of CLARENDON, and the Earl of HAD-
INGTON, wade some remarks in reference to these
,tructions, expressing their approbation of the plans
lupted by the Government for suppressing this
,yrrible trade.

Lord BROUGHAM moved that the report of the
;ommittee on the Insolvent Debtor Bill be taken
Ito consideration, and that the Bill be read a third

il tie.

Lord COITENItAM opposed the third reading, and,
t a speech of some length, said, the Bill would

Upwards of half a century has now elapsed since
the death of BURN!_g, and so far is the poet's fame from
having been in the slightest degree dimmed by age,
that every year it seems to have acquired additional
lustre. While the sardonic school of BYRON, the
chivalrous and picturesque school of SCOTT, the me-
taphysical school of COLERIDGE and SHELLEY, the
milk-and-water school of HATLEY, and the ultra-
pastoral school of the Cockney THEOCRITUSES ;
while all these various schools of poetry have risen,
flourished, and in a great degree passed away, BURNS,
like those "dead and sceptred sovereigns," of whom
`MANFRED speaks, still continues to "rule our spirits
from his urn." The cause of this potent spell which
he exerts alike over our reason and our sensibi-
lity is obvious enough, and may be ex-
plained in a few words. He was a profound
and impassioned student in the school of Nature.
lie was not influenced by nice rules and regulations,
nor carried away by subtle theories. He had no
faith in the pedantic dogmas of scholars and critics,
but looked to his own heart as his surest and safest
guide, and drew thence his inspiration. In all the
poems of BURNS we see how exclusively he consulted
his own ardent impulses, and what entire and noble
confidence he had in them. Whether frolicking with
his strapping " queans" among the barley-rigs;
giving utterance to devotional sentiments in his
" Cotter's Saturday Night," or to patriotic sentiments
in his " Scots wha hae ;" conjuring up alternately
images ofghastly horror, wonder, and broad humour,
in his unequalled " Tam O'Shanter ;" or pouring
forth touching and mournful ideas in his " Lament
for Glencairn "---no matter what the theme on which
BURNS expatiates, still we find Nature his sole
prompter, and his own manly heart his sole inspira-
tion. Perhaps of no other poet in the language can
it be said with so much truth as of BURNS, that there
is not one false, or maudlin, or unhealthy sentiment
in his works. IVe allude here exclusively to his
poems, for his prose letters, in the midst of many
beauties, contain passages of dreary bombast and
tinsel sensibility. But regarded solely as a pest, he
stands forward in our literature, the best because
the truest intepreter of Nature we have had since the
days of SHAKSPEARE. Hence the emotions which he
pourtrays find an echo in the hearts of universal
hum unity ; and it is the surest proof we know of, of a
man's healthy condition of intellect, that he is able
fully to appreciate the works of BURNS. We have
been led to these reflections by the public announce-
ment in The ,Sll7l of yesterday, of a grand festival
" in honour of the genius of the poet," which is to be
given " On the Banks of the Doon" on the 6th ofAugust
next. At this festival, which will of course be attended
by immense numbers of BURNS' admirers, the Earl
of EGLINTON will take the chair, and Professor WIL -
SON—of whom, in his own peculiar walk of intellect,
Scotland has quite as much reason to be proud as of
BURNS —Will officiate as Vice-Chairman. We can
imagine the high and pure gratification that will be
felt by all who are • present at this festival, and the
delight and admiration with which they will listen to
the copious eloquence of CHRISTOPHER NORTH
poured forth by the banks of that stream which
BURNS has rendered immortal. It is the first time
we believe, since his death, that a public compliment
on so magnificent a scale, has been offered to the
memory of the author of " Tam o' Shanter,"—thai
bold, warm-hearted, strong-minded Ayrshire peasant,
whose independent spirit poverty could not crush,
and whose frank, cordial nature the world's neglect
could not chill nor pervert—and we take for granted,
therefore, that the festival will be attended by all classes
of his countrymen, and that the Scottish peasantry
will have their representatives at this national gather-
ing, as well as the aristocracy and the gentry.

The "Causes of Incendiarism," to which we have
lately adverted, in a few articles devoted to a retro-
spect of the melancholy outrages that have disgraced
some of our eastern counties—are well touched by a
" Correspondent," who dates from Norwich. It is
impossible to approach such a subject without pain
—difficult to discuss it without the hazard of doing
harm by such a discussion ; yet it is one as impracti-
cable for us, as public journalists, to pass by unno-
ticed, as it would be impolitic not to denounce such
crimes, were it practicable to be silent on the fact of
their existence. In this conviction we proceed, with-
out further hesitation, to remark upon our Norwich
Correspondent's communication.
It is so recently that we took occasion to express
our concurrence in the manly views of the actual con-
dition of our agricultural-labour population, with
those avowed in the Hon. and Rev. Mr. €4ODOLI`IIIN
OSBORNE'S letter to the Duke of RICHMOND; that we
shall not use any argument, or employ any statis-
tical authorities, to prove the allegation that our land-
owners and farmers are too much addicted to pay
their out-door servants very inadequate wages. We
are confirmed in this belief by the still later declara-
tions of the Times on this subject. They bear out
Mr. OsnoaNE's charge that your great farmers and
herders of stock have not a single animal to whose
lodging, training, apd management, they do not devote
more pains, expense, attention, and solicitude than
they will manifest on behalf of their poor labourers,
&c. Sir H. BANBURY spoke, therefore, on a pre-
sumption but too we►l founded, we fear, when he said,
in other words, that the want of kindness and per-
sonal consideration in the masters had generated a
dangerous, though smouldering, feeling of discontent
in the men, to which feeling, it was to be feared, that
much of the late deplorable increase of the crime in
question was to be traced.

Our Norwich friend in sending us specimens of
" a clause or two," incorporated into agreements
which are now insisted upon, in his district of country,
" by the largest landowners, Whigs too," beforehand,
from tenant-farmers about to occupy under them,
shows, in the first place, how severe is the pressure of
the terms of these clauses, superadded to the higher
rents which the competition for farms has a tendency
to secure to the landowner, and the greatly increased
burthen of the tithe, in many instances, under the
operation of the last Commutation Act. Thus operated
on by what he quaintly terms " the stress of
landlord-and-parson circumstances," and the competi-

tion we have just adverted to, these tenant-farmers—

especially the one to two hundred acre holders—re

sort to all sorts of means and contrivances, in their
turn, to screw the excess of the rent, tithe, rates, and
taxes which they stand at, out of the wages they pay
to their unfortunate labourers. The first result of
the system so adopted is a most fatal and but too ob-
vious one. It becomes an element of their calcu-

lation
as to the expenses of the farm they are about
to occupy, under this competition-excitement,
that a portion of their labour will be done by single
men, at a cost just half of what they will have to
pay to married labourers. It is abundantly clear
that the money profit of such practice—from which
no benefit, in the true sense of the word, can be said
to result to' any one—centres finally in the landlord
who encourages this reckless, Irish sort of competi-
tion for the occupation of his farms. But
the immediate consequence obviously is this,
in a district of labour already redundant in
amount and underpaid in wages,—namely, to
encourage and foment improvident marriages.
It is the surest means for the unmarried labourer
to increase his earnings, to induce some female to
unite her destiny to his already hopeless condition.
In this way a generation of improvident, discontented,

. A report prevailed at Paris on Tuesday that the
- Government had received accounts of the bombard-
, ment of Algiers, and that fresh troops had been or-
dered for the coast of Morocco. Towards the even-
, ing, however, it was ascertained that no intelligence
of the kind had reached the French Government.
. According to the latest accounts from Morocco, the
British Consul was still with the EMPEROR, and was
using his influence for an amicable arrangement of
the differences between the two countries. We find
the following article in the Courrier Francais, the
first part of which we believe to be perfectly true,
and the other a tissue of wicked falsehoods :
"The letters of our correspondent at Gibraltar announce
to us a pretty sharp disappointment occasioned to the Go-
vernor, Sir IL Wilson, by dispatches brought by a courier,
who came from Madrid to Gibraltar in 43 hours, a thing
never before accomplished. These dispatches, sent by the
English Ambassador in Spain, are relative to the affairs of
Morocco, and our correspondent, who is perfectly well placed
to receive good intelligence, assures us that they enjoin Sir
R. Wilson to use all his influence to determine the Emperor
Abderrhaman to subscribe to such conditions as shall be de-
manded by the French Government. No person at Gibraltar
for a moment doubts that Sir Robert Wilson has been the
instigator of the foolish manifestations of Morocco against
France. It is to him that belongs the honour of having raised
this grave question, for Abd-el-Bader would not have suf-
ficed. In the space of two months he has on four occasions
quitted the seat of his government to repair to various points
of the Moorish territory—Tetuan, Malilia, Tangiers, and El-
Araich. He had caused himself to be openly accompanied in
these excursions by the Consul of Morocco and the principal
Moorish merchants established at Gibraltar. Everywhere
he set himself up as the protector of the Emperor and the
enemy of France. He lavished his British shakes-of-the-
hand on the Arabs, and cordially sympathised with their
audacity and their hopes. It was in English that the first
preaching up of the holy war against the Christians of France
began in Morocco."

This journal adds, that the conduct of Sir ROBERT
WILSON in this affair is in conformity with all his
previous proceedings, and then goes into a long his-
tory of his political and military life, every act of
which is represented as being characterised by hosti-
lity to France.
According to the Presse, the French Consul at
Mogadore was lately obliged, in consequence of the
public excitement, to remain a whole week shut up
in his house, without daring to venture out. A body
of 15,000 Kabylcs entered the place, and went to
inscribe their names with the Kaid as being ready to
defend the town in case of its being attacked. They
wished immediately to take possession of the town,
and in that case the Europeans would have been all
lost. The Kaid, however, had sufficient address and
influence to induce them to withdraw, on his promise
to call upon them at the first moment of danger.
The French Funds fell considerably on Tuesday,
owing partly to the reports respecting Tangiers and
to extensive purchases by a large capitalist. The
Three per Cents. closed at 81f. 70c., and the Fives
at 121 f. 70c.
The following are additional extracts from the
papers :
" The principal merchants and traders of the city of Paris
met on Monday in one of the halls of the Tribunal of Com-
merce, to arrange the preliminaries for the annual election of
judges. The Prefect of the Seine, having taken the chair,
addressed the meeting in a long and able speech on the busi-
ness of the tribunal, and on the general state of the com-
merce of Paris. The number of causes decided by the Tri-
bunal, said the Prefect, from the Ist July, 1843, to the same
date in 1844, was 43,104. The number of failures within the
jurisprudence of the tribunal was 630 within the same
period. The Prefect then noticed, in terms of warm
encomium, the efforts made by the manufacturers of the
department of the Seine to enrich the Exhibition of
National Industry with products of a nature to ex•
cite public admiration. He went so far as to say that
Paris is to be regarded as the first manufacturing town in
the world; for if, said he London finds in its port and its
position a commercial superiority, Paris, by the variety of
its products, their amount of value, and the importance of
the exports to the whole of Europe, and, indeed, the whole
of the world, may claim the first rank.' The Prefect took
occasion, when alluding to the national exhibition, to correct
a very exaggerated statement as to the number of strangers
who were attracted by it to Paris. Several of the Parisjour-
nals had given the number of visitors at 300,000. The Pre-
fect declared, from the police returns, that the number had
not at any time exceeded 70,000, and that the average num-
ber of visitors is 40,000. In the course of his speech the Pre-
fect gave an account of the finances of the city of Paris. He
stated that there had been a considerable falling off from the
revenue of the octroi duty. The speech concluded with an
enumeration of the many improvements and embellishments
of the city, effected by the municipality, and, as the head of
it, the Prefect took a just pride in pointing out these changes
to the public."
The Obserrateur de Trieste gives intelligence from
Greece, to July 6. The elections were to commence
next day at Athens. The Trieste paper states that
the Duchess DE PLAISANCE was spending large
sums of money, in order to have Opposition
Members elected. It is supposed that the Ministry
will have some difficulty in securing a majority in
the Chambers. Fresh troubles were spoken of in
Acarnania, but no details are given.
A letter from Rome, July 11, in the Augsburg
Gazette, says :
" The conduct of Lord Seaton, Lord High Commissioner
of the lonian Islands, as well as of the military commander,
Major Frazer, during the expedition of the Italian refugees,
has given rise to numerous communications between the
Italian Government and the Court of St. James's, it being
sused that they might have prevented the expedition.
Thereater discontent is felt here at what has passed, because
the Cabinet of London had solicited the intervention of the
Pope, to calm the agitation of men's minds in Ireland. The
agent of the refugees at Corfu is an ex-Dominican, who has
betrayed the order to which he belonged ; he lends his
house to the refugees, who hold meetings there. The Am-
bassador of Spain, Castello d'Ayenza, arrived yesterday.
Count de Trapani is exclusively occupied with his studies,
and lives retired from society. M. de Pietro only set out
for Lisbon to-day, M. Capaccini, who is still at Lisbon, will
be, it is said, received cardinal."
THE BOURSE—TUESDAY, JULY 23.
First Highest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. Price.
French Five perC3nts— •• 121 80 .. 121 80 • • 121 70 •• 121 70
Four-and-a-Half-- 113 .. 113 .. 113 .• 113
Three per Cents •• 81 95 .. 81 95 .. 81 70 82 10
Rank of France ..... .......3120 ..3130 .•3120 —3135
Lafiltte Bank, 5,000 f. Sharesso7o • • 5070 • • 5070 —5070
Belgian Bank ..• •••••• • •• •• 670 .. 670 •• 670 •• 670
Belgian Fives, 1831—
1840 •••• • • •• 1054 .. 1054 1054 .. 1051
Spanish Threes ••• • • • •••••• 331 .. 331 .. 331 .. 331
Active •••••• • • •• .• 301 •. 301 .• 301 •• sot
Passive . 54 .. 51 .. 51 .• 5/
Portuguese Five per Cents• • 45 .. 45 .. 45
.. 45
Neapolitan
•98 90 .. 99 .. 98 90 .. 99
Roman .. .. 104 •. 104 .. 104 .. 104
RAILWAY SHARES.
Versailles, R.B • •••• 390 .. 390 390 .. 390
L.B•••••••• • • 243 75 .. 245 242 50 .. 245
Rotten 987 50 • • 990 .. 987 50 .. 990
Rotten to Havre 760 761 2:5 .. 760 .. 761 25
Orleans 985 .. 986 25 .. 985 .. 985
Strasburg to Bale .. • .
Avignon to Marseilles— .• 766 25 .. 766 25 • 766 25 .. 766 25
RAILWAY SHARES FOR THE ACCOUNT, 31sT OF JULY.
St. Germain
Versailles, R.B. ......... • 400 .. 400 • • 383 75 .. 383 75
L.B.
Rouen.. •• • ...... ••• •• •••• 987 50 .. 990 •• 987 50 .. 990
Rouen to Havre 762 50 •
•• 762 .50 .. 761 25 .. 761 25
Orleans .
Strasburg, to Bale.. •.•• • • 241 2:5 .• 241 25 .. 240 .. 241 25
Avignon to Marseilles• ••• • • 765 •• 766 25 .. 765 • • 766 25

Madrid journals of the rith have been received
Great preparations are in progress for the genera]
election.

The Glubo states that a grand electoral meeting of
the partisans of the Government had just been held,
at which a Central Committee of thirty-one was ap-
pointed. Among their names are those of M.M. DE
SOMORUELOS, GARELI, ISTURIZ, LA RAGOSAL, BRAVO
MURILLO, CASA IRUJO, SALAMANCA, CARRIGUIRI,
CASTRO Y OROSCO, TASARA, PENOFIELD, SABATER,
BURGOS, FONTAOS, JUAN SAN MIGUEL, LOPEZ,
BALESTERO, &C.

The Progressistas were equally active, and have de-
termined to contest the principal cities, among others
Madrid, Cadiz, Saragossa, Barcelona, Corunna,
Malaga, Seville, Burgos, Valladolid, Caenca, and
Carthagena.
Accounts had been received from Havannah of
fresh disturbances at Matazens. In one of the letters
t is absurdly stated that Mr TURNBULL appeared to

(From The Sun of Last Night.)
The general appearance of the Cotton market at Liverpoel
was the same. Prices were firm, but the article was very freely
offered. The sales were 6,000 bales, of which 300 American
were for exportation. The sales included 150 Egyptian, at
6kl to 7d, and 500 Surat, at 3d to 34d per lb. The rest was
American, at 34- to 6dd per lb.—A. good demand was expe-.
rienced for Shares in all the leading lines, and a large busi-
ness was done. Birmingham and Derby, 71.4 ; Ditto and
Gloucester, 1041; Eastern Counties Registered, 14i ; Ditto
Greenock Preference, 42s ; Lancaster and Carlisle, 4i ; Liver-
pool and Manchester, 230; London and Birmingham, 227 ;
Ditto, 32/. Shares, 381; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 27 • Man-
chester and Rossendale, 744- ; North Midland, 100 ; Sheffield
and Manchester, 78 • South-Eastern, 38,1 ; Trent Valley, 12i ;
Paris and Lyons, 2/13s 6d; Paris and Rouen, 38 ; Orleans,
Tours, and Bordeaux, 21 6s 6d ; Tours and Nantes, 19s.
Au attempt is being made to induce parties in the City
to invest capital for the completion of the Illinois Canal;
the inducement being, that if this work is accomplished the
interest upon the capital already advanced, and to be sub-
scribed, will be regularly paid. lc o question, it may be a good
scheme on the part of those who have already advanced cash
upon the security of American bonds and shares, especially the
creditors of Illinois to get others into the boat with them.
But the Yankees are not a set of people to let a good thing
pass out of their hands, and if the canal will pay such
splendid profits as are anticipated, the contractors would
be the last people in the world to give others
an advantage. There are plenty of bona fide public
works in this country, secure against the chances o
repudiation, to which those having money at disposal, might
direct attention, without placing it in jeopardy, simply be-
cause 1 or 2 per cent. is now offered by Americans or others
for it.
There are accounts from Buenos Ayres this morning, but
there is no intelligence worth notice, either in the letters or
papers.

A slight re-action has occurred in the quotations of the
British Securities to-day, a large speculative operation hav-
ing been connnenced for a re-action in prices. While, how-
ever, money is so abundant as it is at the present moment,
all such attempts must fail. The case would be
very different if Stock was plentiful. On the con-
trary, it is as scarce as ever, if, indeed, it be
not more scarce than ever before remembered. Consols for
Money have varied from 994 to 99i ; and for the Account
from 993 to 9n These quotations show that Money Stock
has a preference as to price, over Time bargains. A good
deal of business has been done in the Three-and-a-Half per
Cents. Exchequer Bills have advanced to 80s. premium.
The Commissioners bought 10,000/. Consols at 99g.
Buenos Ayres Bonds have improved to 37. Brazilian
Bonds have been flat, at 834; and Mexican at 36-1-. The
high price of 20 per cent. above par has been paid for Russian
Bonds—the Five per Cents. In other Bonds there was
no business done this morning.
The advanced prices of yesterday of Railway Shares has
scarcely been maintained this morning, the Great Western
and one or two others excepted. In other Shares the busi-
ness done has been trifling.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JULY 24.—We have a
buoyant market, and an increased demand for shares gene-
rally. London and Birmingham, Quarters, 27; Manchester
and Birmingham, 54, cum quarters ; Sheffield and Man-
chester, 77,1 ; South Eastern, 38q ; Trent Valley, 9i i ; Hud-
dersfield and Manchester, 225. 6d. to 235. 9d. prem. ; Dub-
lin and Cashel, 4,7 i ; Manchester and Buxton, 365. ; Man-
chester, Bury, and Rossendale, 4/ i ; Blackburn and
Preston, 3i.
CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.
Bask Stock, . ............. 209 I Indian Stock
3 per Cent. Red
3 per Cent. Cons.
1:1001%. ;
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;Portuguese,
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00tiu,0ttgtNPAuepe,55enwnired,a1c5e1ipe..nt..t.t.0..r................e"...n........t....................28:::.:94133.7pp0mt . .
99. X Ditto Old Annuities ...
3% per Cent. Red 103% Ditto New Annuities ...
New 3,si per Cent. .......
New 5 per Cent. Ditto 500/
Long Annuities to expire
Jan 1860
t'DpCriFotutnUsoss,oNi
Dal spnef,ferrrpAee
Deferred.,.,,,,,""
Act 99'/q
..n...t................99... 'Ai
O..."36:l4l:!Russiap, 5 per Cent
12 9.16 Bank Stock for Acct....
Oct. 1859
12 5 .1146 I India
Spanish, S t ocs p
ek fro rc Ae1erit.....................—....
...._
Jan. 1860
Austrian, 5 per Cent
}D.rietntoc,hlseptalerl:
Belgian, 5 per Cent
Brazilian Bonds
Buenos Ayres, 6 per CenFt
Claim, 6 per Cent
liez
cinntt.. ....... . —ff. 1-2°c:
Colombian, 6 per Cent
_ ;Dutch, 2 Cement...,..
617 i
Ditto, 1824
_ ; Di!to, 5 per........ 102,
Cuba Bonds,
3npeds,r6Cpeenrt Cent
Greek, 1845, 5 per Cent — ;Exchange .....
......
.......c
.....c
Mexican, 5 per Cent
. . —c
3 h French,
SHARES.
Peruvian, o, 6 p ertr2sC e,not .1,
e, 1
rB3C7e.
1.1. t

Birniingliam and Derby, .£:(/0 paid.
..........................
49
Birmingham and Gloucester (100 LI
Ditto, New Shares, 17% paid ..................
Bristol and Gloucester, 30 paid .. . ••••••-.. 264

Dublin and Cashel, 23i paid ....................... ...
Great Western (75 pai ) ..........................
..... j 6,
Ditto Half Shares, 50 paid. .......................... 85
London and Birmingham (Stock) ...................
Ditto, New Thirds, 2 paid ...... ...„„
•

.............. :38%
Ditto New Quarters ( paid) ....................... 27,fi
London and Greenwich (12t. 158. 4d. paid) .........
London and South Western (411. 6s. 10d. paid)... 81%
Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) . .................. • 114
Manchester and Birmingham .........................
Ditto, Quarter Shares paid)...............
Northern and Eastern (4apaid) ........................
Ditto Scrip (15 paid) ..... ............................... . 24
Ditto Quarter Shares (12% paid) ...........
South Eastern and Dover (33 is 4d paid)
....... 37
Ditto New Shares, 4 paid ....... .................. . 11
Thames and Medway, Ll 9 53 8d paid ...............
Yarmouth and Norwich (18 paid) .............. 81,4
York and North Midland (50 paid) ..................... 108
Orleans, Tours, and Bourdeaux, 1 paid ............
Paris and Orleans (20 paid) ............................. 28N.

CLOSE OF THE SESSION.—It is expected that the re-
gular business of Parliament will have been disposed of
gtouetdhe ; but the session
25th of August.
by the end of the first week in August. The Parliament
1,3111111
bneotc,ohnotilnveuveedr,bybeadtjrnhoeunpmreourot
The purpose of this arrangement is to afford time for re -
ceiving the reports of the Judges, and making up the
judgment of the House of Lords upon the writ of error
brought by Mr. O'Connell and his fellow-prisoners...—
Herald.
ARRIVAL OF THE QUEEN DOWAGER.—WooLwIcrt,
JULY 25.—The Black Eagle arrived at our yard this
morning at eight o'clock, and came alongside the wharf,
having on board her Majesty the Queen Dowager and
suite. Her Majesty looked well, and sat on the deck
until half-past eight, when she disembarked, and imme-
diately proceeded to town. The landing was strictly
private ; not any of the military authorities were pre-
sent, the guard of honour dispensed with, and Commo-
dore SirfErancis Collier, the Superintendent of the Dock-
Yard, was the only party to receive her. A foreign
steamer proceeded up the river with her Majesty's
luggage.
ARRIVAL OF SIR ROBERT AND LADY SALE.—
LtmE REGIS, WeoxEsnar.—On Monday, Major-General Sir
Robert Salo, Lady Sale, and their widowed daughter, Mrs.
Sturt, and child, arrived at Swanu's Bank House Hotel, in
this town, accompanied by Sir Francis Ford, E.I. C.S. ; Capt
Scober, ditto; Captain Ainslie, 21st Fusiliers; Mr. Robin-
son, 7th Dragoon Guards; Mr. Remington, sth Bombay
Cavalry. The Gallant General and family and friends were
landed by a Cowes pilot-boat, the True Briton, Indiaman,
being wind-bound in the Channel. As soon as their presence
became known, the Nobility and Gentry of the neighbour-
hood, and the inhabitants of Lyme, vied with each other in
offering their congratulations, while the church bells poured
forth their merriest strains of harmony to welcome the Gal-
lant Veteran and his truly courageous lady to their native
land, after so many gallant actions and " hair breadth scapes
by flood and field." 'They left for London on Tuesday morn-
ing, amid the cheers of a great number of persons who assem-
bled to witness their departure.
MORTALITY or TAILORS.—In the registered causes
of death of 233 persons, entered during 1843, in the eastern
and western unions of the metropolis, under the general head
of " Tailor," no less than 123 are registered as having died
of disease of the respiratory organs, of which 92 were of con-
sumption ; 16 diseases of the nervous system, of which eight
were of apoplexy; 16 of epidemic or contagious diseases, of
whom 11 died of typhus;
23 of diseases of uncertain seat, of
whom 13 were victims of dropsy, eight of diseases of the
digestive organs, and six of " heart disease," whilst, of the
whole, only 29 died of old age."
A MISTAKE.—It is well known that on Monday
last, at an early hour, the King of Saxony intimated his
intention to visit the theatre in the evening. After din-
ner his-Majesty and suite stepped into a carriage, when
the postilion, instead of driving to the Theatre Royal, as
he was ordered, trotted off to the Amphitheatre. The
King, the Ambassador, the Baron, and the Doctor, all
alighted. The servants attended his Majesty into the
passage, and the party ascended the stairs. They were
utterly astounded at the freezing coldness of their recep-
tion, for his Majesty had already had an interview with
Mr. Clarke, and had not failed, we feel convinced, to
admire the suaviter in modo of that well-bred gentleman.
But here all was cold neglect. Arrived at the top of the
stairs, they were turning to the boxes, when they were
at once brought to a dead halt by an individual who
barred their further progress, and saluted their ears with
a loud exclamation of " Check, Sir, check!" " Check?"
said one of the suite, " what, are we not expected?"
The check-taker stared, bht repeated his demand, and
concluded by pointing out the place where money was
received. The possibility of a mistake was readily sur-
mised, and a few brief inquiries showed the party that
they had been. set down at the wrong theatre. They
quickly passed over to the patent establishment, where
they wtra received with all urbanity.—Liverpool

LAW AND POLECE.
At the Lincoln assizes, William Markham, aged 37, was
charged with having, on the 30th of May, at Tathwell,
feloniously shot at Jacob Gainsley, with intent to murder
him. There were other counts charging him with an intent
to wound and main. The prosecutor is the keeper of a toll-
bar near Louth, and on the evening in question was within
the same reading his Bible, when Markham entered and
asked for a biscuit. He soon after quitted the place, but
returned, and taking down a pistol from the mantel-piece,
levelled it at the prosecutor and fired, the ball happily missing
him and lodging in the wall. The defence was, that the man
at the time he committed the act in question, was not in a
right state of mind. The jury retired, and after a long con-
sultation, returned with a verdict of guilty of shooting with
intent to kill. Sentence deferred.
The Ipswich assizes commenced on the 23d. The calendar
is very heavy, and contains the names of fifty prisoners, the
majority of whom are charged with arson; of these 11 can
neither write nor read, 9 can read and write imperfectly,
and 8 are under 17 years of age, two of them being mere
children.

At Guildhall, James Richard Downes, an attorney's clerk,
was charged with various acts of fraud and embezzlement by
his employer, Mr. Sagwell, of the Temple-chambers. It ap-
peared that he had defrauded Mr. Bagwell of several hundred
pounds, besides throwing his business into confusion. He was
committed on three charges of embezzlement.
John Le Grand, who has hitherto passed as an importer of
and dealer in French goods, was finally brought up on a
charge of being concerned in an extensive burglary com-
mitted on the premises of Mr. Charles Banks, lace-manu-
facturer, of Lawrelice-lane, on the 24th of December last.
The prisoner was fully committed.
COI7IM-PASHZONABILE.

' The Duke of Wellington will give a grand concert of vocal
and instrumental music on Wednesday evening next at Aps-
ley House, to which are invited their Royal Highnesses the
Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, the Hereditary Grand Duke
and Duchess of Mecklenburg Strelitz, and four hundred of
the elite of the haut ton. The entertainment, it is understood,
is given for the purpose of introducing Lady Charles Welles.
ley, after her recent alliance with Lord Charles.
The Duchess of Sutherland and family are about to leave
Stafford House for Trentham, and after the marriage of the
Marquis of Lorn and Lady Elizabeth Leveson Gower, the
Duke and Duchess go to Dunrobin Castle, N.B.
The Duke of Somerset entertained at dinner on Wednes-
day evening, at his mansion in Park-lane, the Duchess of
Hamilton, the Countess of Lincoln, the Earl and Countess
of Dunmore, Lord and Lady Blantyre, the Marquis of
Huntly, Lord Seymour, the Earl of Besborough, Viscount
Melbourne, the Hon. Mr. Cowper, and the Hon. Alr. Stewart.
The Duchess of Somerset received a select circle of friends
during the evening.
The Earl of Zetland has arrived at his seat in Scotland
from Aske Hall, Yorkshire. The Countess had previously
arrived at Kerse House, - from Yorkshire.
The Earl of Wilton has taken Banstead Cottage, near
Ryde, for the season, which his Lordship and family will
occupy early next month.
The Earl and Countess of Sefton leave Croxteth early
next month for the Highlands, for the shooting season.
Lord Frederick and Lady Augusta Fitzclarence and suite
arrived at the Clarendon Hotel, on Tuesday, from Wiesbaden,
where they made a brief sojourn, en route from a tour in the
south of Europe.
Wednesday the Dowager Duchess of Bedford gave her con-
cluding fete champetre for the season at Bedford Lodge, Camp-
den-hill, on which occasion her Grace was honoured with
the presence of a very numerous assemblage of the aris-
tocracy.
The Marquis of Bristol is daily expected in St. James's-
square, from Brighton, and after remaining some weeks in
town repairs to Ickworth Park, near Bury St. Edmund's,
for the autumn.