The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-15 00:00:00

TIIE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 15, 1944.

Commons, at least, were taught the secret of their of the lowliest peasant ;—we pass by these incid?nts
own strength ; and the popular voice in the councils in his chequered career, replete though they
of those States, on the most memorable occasions of are with the wildest romance; but had any
domestic interest, was usually raised to temper the one told him, at that disastrous period ce
ferocious cruelty of their oligarchical members. In his life when he was sitting by the humble hearth
the same spirit, the general policy of these Republics of his Norwegian friend, M. BURS, that he would
was usually to mitigate the savage resentments of one day, not only regain all his lost wealth and titles,
their allies—such as the Dukes of MILAN, FERRARA, but ascend the throne of France through the instru-
&c. But since the Spanish line of the BOURBONS mentality of that very class of society which had been
was installed after the execution of JOACHIM MURAT, so ready to banish and persecute him, assuredly the
in its hereditary throne of Naples—and from the "traveller MuLemt" would have regarded such a man
moment that the Papalty, after the close of the as a lunatic, and treated his predictions with infinite
last war, was reinstated in the full sovereignty contempt ; for everything at that period tended to
of the " States of the Church," those fair i show the utter absurdity of such a vaticination ;
and beautiful portions of Italy have once and for years afterwards it seemed daily more
more become a prey to those imbecile and I unlikely that it could ever be realised.
lawless schemes of Government which seem to be the First, there was the French Republic op.
destined scourge of the land. The dominion of posed as a barrier to its fulfilment; and when this
Austria over her Milanese and Lombard territories, was removed, then came the Empire, with Napo
however open to objection on the score of its LEON'S dazzling series of triumphs, which placed all
arbitrary pretensions and its obnoxiousness to the Europe at his mercy ; when this, too—rather by the
wishes and nationality of a vast section of her Italian interposition of the elements than by the force of
subjects, is yet, upon the whole, under the Emperor man—was swept away, then there was the Restore-
FERDINAND, exercised in a mild and paternal spirit. tion of the elder branch of the BOURBONS, which
The Imperial Government has repeatedly remon- left "the traveller MULLER'S" chance more remote
strated with the Government of his Holiness on the than ever. Events, however, soon conspired to favour
dangerous and impolitic system of persecution and him. That which had so long appeared impossible,
intolerance, religious and political, enforced in the began gradually to assun:e an aspect of probe
Papal States by the Ministers of his Holiness. These hility ; and at length, by the incredible fatuity
remonstrances have been disregarded, but the political of his Royal kinsman, he was raised to the
troubles to which it was foreseen, in Vienna, the perse- French throne with the unanimous approbation of
verance in such a system must inevitably lead, have long those very classes of society—the middle and lower
since broken out. The Papal Government, instead of orders—whose fathers, forty-nineyearsibefore,had been
dispassionately inquiring into the political, municipal, foremost to con.ent to his banishment ! To complete
and social grievances, which have for years so cruelly this extraordinary "romance of real life," Louis
harassed and insulted its subjects, seems occupied with Piunmee—long after the majority of his manhood',
no other schemes than those which may aid it in the friends have pas,ed into the grave—finds his old .1N or-
accomplishment of the most bloody and unchristian wegian host still living at the patriarchal age of eighty-
vengeance against the unhappy Italians who have been two, and repays as KING of the FRENCH the hospitalit3
induced to attempt an insurrection against its autho- he received from him as the "traveller AIULLER !
rity. A handful of these unfortunates (for we at There is nothing in the wildest fictions of the nove-
once avow that we cannot altogether withhold our lists more startling than the leading incidents in the
sympathy from men whom rank and obsti- career of Louis PHILLIPPK ; who, it would almost
nate and bigoted misgovernment has driven to seem, had been purposely chastened by Providence
desperate courses) having made at Corfu some in his youth, in order that France and Europe
ill-matured arrangements for their meditated move- might receive, in his old age, the benefits of that
ment, landed on the coast of Calabria, under circum- tempered and enlarged sagacity which, in strong
stances marked by so much disorder, precipitation, minds, is the inevitable result of early trials and
and temerity, that it is almost impossible to avoid the vicissitudes.
suspicion of treachery on the part of those who in-
vited, or who conducted them thither. With the
Calabrese, on whom they appear to have anticipated
that they should make a proselyting impression, they
had no time for even communicating. In an instant,
as it were, like the dissipation of a dream, the insur-
gent movement was made, met, defeated, terminated.
Before all their party had disembarked, some were
wounded—all were prisoners. They were taken by
the forces of a Government perfectly prepared for their
attempt. The discomfited, disarmed, unresisting
prisoners, consisted, for the most part, of men (says
the Morning Herald) "of birth, fortune, and educa-
tion; two of them sons of that Admiral BANDEIRA
who commanded the Austrian squadron which as-
sisted the English fleet on the coast of Syria in
1840." Such men had given, at any rate, an earnest
of their sincerity and good faith in this abortive
effort to rescue their countrymen from the thraldom
of their political misery and debasement, by the
greatness of the stake which they were content to
sacrifice on the very threshold of the enterprise. Of
the whole band, some 17 or 19 strong, nine were
presently shot, like dogs, in cold blood, by order of the
Neapolitan Government. Another confederate, one
GIUSEPPE GARDINGHI, having escaped from Bologna,
took refuge in the territories of 'the Grand Duke of
TUSCANY. The Minister of the POPE demanded his
extradition; and this demand, though at first strenu-
ously resisted, was at length acceded to by the Tuscan
Government, but not without the express condition,
agreed to on the part of the POPE, that his life should
be spared. But, alas ! this condition was made in a
bad faith, which history associates instinctively with
Papal diplomacy. GARDINGRI was re-conducted to
Bologna ; tried there, and shot !

M idrid journals of the ith instant have been re•
ceived, but they bring no intelligence of the slightes.
interest.

The Three per Cents. were done at 271 for cash
and 278 at 60 days ; and the Five per Cents. at 20/
for the 23d of August.

The French Government on Tuesday received the
following unexpected communication from Egs pt :
TELEGRAPHIC DISPATCH.
ALEXANDRIA, JULY 27.
"His Highness the VICEROY has just abruptly left
Alexandria, declaring that he renounces for ever
Egypt and public affairs, and that he means to retire
to Mecca.

" IBRAHIM PACIIA is at Alexandria—the city ip

quiet."

No reason is assigned for this sudden resolve, and
rew imagined that the veteran warrior, so fond of
power and so anxious to raise Egyptto a distinguished
rank, would have resigned all into the hands of his
son. He is now in the 75th year of his age, however,
and possibly weary of the turmoils of Government,
and desirous to see how his system will work uncle!
his successor, he proposes to survey the scene in the
quiet retreats of the Holy City.
The Otaheite affair still furnishes topics for leading
articles, but they are now confined to the Opposition
journals. The (?onstitutionnel, M. TRIERS' paper,
persists in stating that Mr. PRITCHARD was one of
the instigators of the revolt, hut as far as evidence
has yet been produced without any foundation for the
assertion. In commenting on the letters from Ota-
heite published by the London Missionary Society, it
says—" This correspondence proves that the reverend
brethren of M. PRITCHARD were not strangers to his
intrigues ; in fact, it may be seen by these letters that
the assembly presided over by the missionaries
at Hidiaa was suddenly transformed into a meeting
of armed men, engaged in conflict with our
troops; that the Rev. Mr. JonissTox, a Missionary at
Teirabou, the smallest, but also the most factious of
the two peninsulas of Otaheite, was so strongly sus-
pected of having excited his hearers to rejoin their
brethren at Hidiaa, that the Governor considered it
his duty to interdict his return to Teirabou, after he
had once come to the great peninsula. We may be-
sides remark in his first letter the naive phrase :
Until a final answer comes from England.' He be-
trayed all the hopes that Mr. PRITCHARD had not
feared to encourage, and in consequence of which the
unfortunate inhabitants of Otaheite were excited to
esrein
revolt. The consequences of this affair will be
mayd
danger
e rfotri
mitt
awful,' adds the second correspondent. Awful for
tophfeeryitihaep.ir enemies was to be raised by
aomnuodrmsceoonlndtfii eldlrehsnecintethveasstraetngthtl(l.
the recal of Admiral DUPETIT THOUARS. For the
proper understanding of this correspondence it must
be borne in mind that Otaheite is divided into two
peninsulas, separated by a narrow isthmus called
Taravao. The battery established on the isthmus
cuts the communication between the two peninsulas,
and prevents the insurgents of Teirabou from joining
those of Hidiaa."
The Presse has a long dissertation on the primary
cause of dispute between the French and the Ota-
heitans, and attributes it entirely to the expulsion
of two French missionaries at the suggestion of Mr.
PRITCHARD. But the public begin to be weary of
these vain discussions, which only tend to perplex the
question. We find something of a more amusing
character in one of the war journals, the National,
and we therefore give it at length. Alas! for old
England. If Louis PHILIPPE, instead of igno-
miniously bending to the British Government, and
visiting in peace the cliff's of "perfidious Albion," would
only muster a little courage and present himself on
board a hostile fleet either at Portsmouth or the Nore,
he would "cut England to the heart, and reduce her
to the rank of a third maritime power." These are
the warlike strains of this silly and contemptible
boaster:—

We must refer to the accounts we have given of
the barbarous cruelty which the POPE has manifested
towards VIOLA and thrum.' (other two State offen-
ders) for proof of the hopeless and sanguinary into-
lerance with which his Holiness (!) pursues the victims
of their political opposition to his mode of governing
Bologna and the Legations. In the meanwhile, we
cannot help expressing our hope, that with that fore-
ast and sagacity which distinguish the Cabinet of
Vienna, and in consideration of the deeply endangered
interests of his own Italian dominions, the Emperor of
AUSTRIA may be induced to interpose for the future
pacification and tranquillity of the whole Italian penin-
t,ula. Let his Imperial Majesty, by vigorous and
emphatic negotiations, restrain this prurient appetite
of the King of NAPLES and the POPE for the blood of
mal-contents. Let the EMPEROR'S powerful
influence be exerted to secure the adoption, by
these weak and arbitrary Princes, cf institutions
more conformable to the mild and tolerant spirit of
the age, of his own reign, and of European Govern-
ments in general, in the place of the antiquated, un-
certain, undefined, and despotic pretensions which they
would uphold with the reckless violence of the darkest
ages of tyranny and superstition. Into the strange, but
,tartling theory, of these insurrectionary movements
In Italy having been fomented by a Russian intrigue
for erecting a new Italian monarchy for the Prince
DE LEUCHTENBURG, the Roman Catholic son-in-law
of NICHOLAS, and son of the late Viceroy of Italy,
EUGENE, we do not enter. The story rests on the
:tsserted purport of an intercepted letter from Emudo,
one of the noble brothers BANDEIRA, who has just
been shot at Cosenza. Should the letter again come
under public notice, and in some better authenticated
manner, we may probably recur to it.

In a morning Contemporary of this day appears the
following interesting paragraph relative to Louis
PHILIPPE, which is taken from a Swedish journal :
"On the 2d inst., Vice-Consul BURK celebrated the
eighty-second anniversary of his birth-day. On the
same day he received a letter from the King of the
FRENCH written with his own hand, and accompanied
by a gold medal. The letter which was dated from
Neuilly, was in these words It is always agreeable
to me to find that the traveller MULLER has not been
forgotten in a country which he visited in simple
guise and unknown; and I always recal with plea-
sure this journey to my mind. Among my recollec-
tions, I give the first place to the hospitality so frankly
and cordially granted me, a stranger, throughout
Norway, and particularly in Norland and Finmark ;
and at this moment when elapse of forty-nine years
since I made this journey into Norway, has left me
but few of my old hosts remaining, it is gratifying to
me to be able to express to all, in your person, what
grateful feelings I still entertain.' " In the absence of

themes of more immediate political interest, we may
perhaps be excused if we venture to make a few re-
marks on the above passage, which is suggestive of
an infinite number of deeply interesting historical
recollections. At the time the "traveller MULLER"—
now the KING of the FRENCH, and the preserver
of the peace of Europe—made the journey to which
he here so simply and feelingly alludes, he was an exile,
friendless and almost pennyless, from his native coun-

try; his father was in a prison which he was destined
never to quit hut for the scaffold; all his nearest and
dearest relations were on the list of the proscribed;
and he himself, notwithstanding that but a year or
two previously he had fought with signal skill and
success under the Republican banner at Jemappes
and Valmy, was hunted in all his wanderings by the
agents of the Convention, and from one hour to an-
other could never call his life his own. Like
CHARLES STUART, after his flight from Culloden, the
disguised, humble, sorrow-stricken, and persecuted
" traveller MULLER"—he whose childhood had been
passed in the palaces of Royalty—was glad to take
refuge in the meanest peasant's hovel ; to eat of
the coarsest viands ; associate with the humblest
classes ; and accept the smallest alms offered him
by the hand of Pity. It was at this period of his
life that he encountered the gentleman wh)m, after
the lapse of forty-nine years, he remembers with
such grateful vividness. Startling as had then been
the vicissitudes of his lot, how many more startling
changes was he to witness ere the cycle of his for-
tunes was finally completed ! We say nothing of his
subsequent wanderings, and unexpected re-union with
his brothers, in America—of his providential escape
from a French cruiser on his return to Europe—of
his residence in Switzerland, where he picked up a
scanty subsistence as a teacher of mathematics—or
of his strange adventures in Italy, where he was at
one time the companion of Royalty, and at another,

the English ships boarded by ours have escaped from
•air grasp, and owed their safety to a fault in the con•
,truction ; but thanks to the more wall-sided build (Sour
nodern ships, the passaga of the deck of one to that of
,he other may be effected with extreme facility, our
sailors making but little account of the pe=rsonal resist-
ance of their adversaries. Our sailorshave not forgotten
their former brilliant victories, neither have they for-
gotten their glorious defeats, the causes for which no
winger exist, and which they keep in remembrance only
that they may avenge them. We shall see whether
they have in rain n.mrishod in their hearts a hatred fur
England."
THE BOURSE—TUESDAY, AUGUST 13.

First Highest Lowest

FLANDERS AND DUTCH MAIL.
TEE lleouE, AUG. 12.—The official account of the
revenue in the first six months of 1844, is now pub-
lished, compared with that in the first six months of 1843.
It was in 1843 25,688,877f.
1844 25,373,504f.

Loss in 1844
The diminution is chiefly in the duties on importation
and exportation, amounting to 221,484 florins, and in
the taxes and registration stamps, 546,059 florins.
The diminution in the import duties is chiefly owing
to the circumstance that a smaller quantity of foreign
corn was disposed of for home consumption. With re-
spect to the stamp, &c: duties, they are only 70,000 flo-
rins less than in the first six months of 1842. In the
excise there is an increase of nearly half a million in
1844.

Last

Price. Price. Price. Price.
French Five pere:nts 121 30 .. 121 40 .. 121 25 .. 121 40
Four-and-a-Half.,.• 113 .. 113 .. 113 . • 113
Three per Cents... 81 60 .. 81 65 .. 81 60 .. 81 65
Laffitto Bank, I,ooof. Shareslloo ..1100 .. 1100 • • 1100

5,000 f. Sharesso6i —5065 —5065 ..5065
Belgian Bank ...... 665 .. 665 .. 665 .. 665
Belgian 1ive5,1631......... 104 .. 104 .. 104 .. 104
1840 ........ 1041 1041 1041 1041
Dutch Two and-a-Ha1f..... 611 .. 611 .. 611 . 611
ipanish Active ..... 304 .. 301 .. 30 .. 30
Threes 321 .. 321 .. 321 .. 321
geapolitan•••••••••••• • .. 98 35 .. 99 .. 98 35 .. 99
Roman ...... ......•.... 1031 .. 1031 .. 1001 .. 1031
RAILWAY SHARES.
it. Germain
Versmlle,s,L.B. ...... 235 .. 236 25 .. 235 .. 235
Rouen
Rouen to Havre.
Orleans
Strasburg to 8a1e...... •• 236 25 .. 237 50 .. 236 25 .. 237 50
RAILWAY SHARES FOR THE ACCOUNT, 15Th OF AUGUST.
Versailles, L.B. .....
Rouen.. •••••••••••• 980 .. 982 50 .. 980 .. 982 50
Rouen to Havre.-- .• • • 750 .. 750 .. 747 50 .. 747 50
kleans • •••• •• 968 75 .. 971 25 .. 967 50 .. 971 25
Strasburg to Bale 237 50 .. 237 50 .. 237 50 . 237 50

BRUSSELS, AUG. 20.—1 n the space of twenty-six
months the French railways have cost the lives of 289
persons, and 457 individuals have been wounded in con-
sequence of accidents. The victims of the fatal catas-
trophe of the Bth of May are included in this statement.

SPORTING INTELLIG-ENCE.
(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)
DEVON AND EXETER RACES.—WEDNESDAY.
The Devonshire Stakes of 25 sovs. each, 10 ft, and 5 only
if declared ; the second horse, to save his stake. Once
round.
Sir S. Spry's Subduer, 4 yrs (Pegg) 1
Mr. W. Ley's Fairplay, 3 yrs 2
Mr. Parker s b f, by Jack-in-the-Green—Eliza, 3 yrs 3
The First Class Home Stakes of 10 sovs, each, 3 ft, with
25 added. Two miles and a distance.
Mr. Downe's Usurper, aged (Owner) 1
Mr. Reed's Mona, 5 yrs
The Hurdle Stakes of 3 soya. each, and 10 added, 12st
each, mile and distance, over four hurdles (6 Subs),
gentlemen riders, were won cleverly by Mr. Golds-
worthy's Fair Penitent, aged (Mr. Luke), beating Cap-
tain Hamilton's Remus, Mr. Graham's Charlatan
(bolted), and Mr. H. Sweet's Emperor (bolted).
The Ladies' Purse of 254 added to a Sweepstakes of
5 sovs. each, 3 ft., Gentlemen riders, one mile (4 Subs.),
was won by Mr. King's c by Hornsea, dam by Sooth-
sayer, 3 yrs (Mr. Scobell), beatins, Mr. Crofton's Corno-
pean, 4 yrs (short of weight), and Mr. Graham's Alice
Lowe, 3 yrs.
MARLOW RACES.—WEDNESDAY:
The Ladies' Purse of 30/., added to a Sweepstakes of
3 sovs. each ; three yrs, 7st 41b ; four yrs, Bst sib ;
five yrs, 9st ; six yrs and aged, 9st 41b. Mares and
geldings and maiden horses allowed 31b. Winner to
be sold for 1001., &c. Heats, twice round.
Mr. W. Dixon's Foxhunter, aged ...(Livesey) 0 l 1
Mr. Hepple's Lady Flora, 6 yrs 1 3 2
Mr. Knowles' Farce, 4 yrs
Two others ran.
The Hurdle Stakes of 2 sovs. each, with 20 added
(s.Subs.), once round, were won in two heats by Mr.
Lamb's Donald Caird, aged (Clark), beating Luck's-all,
The Knight, ralminon, and Hilda.
TUNBRIDGE;: WELLS RACES.—WEDNESDAY.
The Eridge Handicap Stakes of 10 sovs., h ft and 2 only
if declared, with 50 added ; the second saves his
stakes. One mile and a half. (15 Subs.)
Mr. Balchin's Dahlia, aged (W. Balchin) 1
Mr. E. R. Clarke's Young Lochinvar, 4 yrs 2
Mr. Coleman's The Devil-among-the-Tailors, 5 yrs 3
The following also start, d, but were not placed:—
Mr. Werninck's Patchwork, 5 yrs ; Mr. Anderson's
Chance, aged, and Mr. Hardy's Fairplay, aged.
The Ladies' Plate of 254 added to a sweepstakes of
2 sovs. each, winner to be sold for 60/., &c., one mile
and a dis., was won in three heats by Mr. Werrali's
Rondo, 3 yrs (Esling), beating Mr. French's Argos,
aged (won first heat), Mr. Abdell's Bother'em, 4 yrs,
Mr. E. R. Clark's Sir Edward, and Mr. Wiltshire's
Ascot, 6 yrs.
The Visitors' Stakes of 3 sovs. each, and 35 adeed,
the second to save his stake, and the winner to be sold
for 1001, one mile and a half, were won in three well
contested heats, by Mr. Wilson's Dart, 5 yrs (Hardy).
beating Mr. Moul named Devil-among the-Tailors, 5
yrs (won first heat), Mr. Sare's Discretion, 3 yrs, and
Mr. Coleman's Lufra, 3 yrs. -
WOLVERHAM TON RACES.—WEDNESDAY.
The Wrottesley Stakes of 10 sovs. each, with 20 added,
for three and four year olds. Once round.
Mr. Speed's Everton, 4 yrs (G. Whitehouse) 1
Mr. 1). Cook's What, 4 yrs 2
Captain Vaughan's Extempore, 4
.yrs 3
A good race.
The Holyoake Stakes of 20 soya. each, 10 ft, and 5 only
if declared, with 50 added, the second to save his
stake. Twice round and a dis.
Colonel Anson's Marquise, 4 yrs (Abdale) 1
Mr. Ongley's Roderick, 5 yrs
Mr. Payne's Johnny, aged 3
Mr. Quarterman's Discount, 6 yrs, and Mr. William-
son's Mavourneen, 5 yrs, also started.
Won by two lengths easily.
The Consolation Plate of 501 for the beaten horses ;
three-yrs-old, 6st 101 b ; four-yrs, Bst ; five-yrs, Bst
91b ; six-yrs and aged, Bst 121 b. Winners extra, &c.
Heats, once round and a dis.
Lord Warwick's The Mule, 4 yrs ... (Arthur) 0 1 1
Mr. Cooke's What, 4 yrs

MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS.—There has
been a considerable decrease in the number of deaths
luring the last week. The total number was 934--
previous week 1,014 ; average of five summers, 900.
rhe excess over the average is chiefly attributable to
small-pox, scarlatina, diarrhoea, and typhus, which,
taken together, exceed the average by 118, the num-
bers being 227 and 109. In consumption, inflamma-
tion of the lungs, and old age, there is a considerable
decrease. The following is the analysis of the lists
of violent deaths :—Fracture or contusion, five cases,
of which three were by falls ; dislocation, one case ;
wound, two cases, of which one was suicide; drown-
ing, four cases; poison, two cases, of which one was
suicide ; and murder, one case. Total, eight males
.md seven females. The thermometer was highest
on Tuesday 68, and lowest on Saturday 48 deg. The
barometer had ranged low during the whole, the
average being about 29.5, and the rain in inches 0.44.

Fins DAY'S NEWS

BOW•STREET.-(THIS DAY.)
William l3oultle, a hair-dresser, was brought up,
charged with bovine-, in June last, while in the service
Mrs. Taylor, of Craven-street, stolen a quantity of
erticles, her property.
Mr. Henry Benshall, the superintendent of police at
Bury, in Lancashire, stated that the prisoner applied to
him for relief on Saturday last. He said that he had a
statement to make as he was very uneasy in his mind.
-le said that in June last he was in the service of Mrs.
.lone Taylor, of Craven-street, Strand, us hair-dresser,
;hat one Sunday, in the month of June, he remained out
all night drinking, and on the following morning, before
any person got up, he went to his mistress' house, and
stole a quantity of razors, fourteen or fifteen in number,
a quantity of hair-brushes, combs, &c., two boxes, and
,undry other articles. Several of the razors belonged
to Mr. Chiffney the jockey, who had left them to be set.
He went to Liverpool from London, and on his road sold
the razors for drink at various public-houses, that he was
in great distress, and had come to the determination of
4iving himself up to justice. After the prisoner had
made this statement, the witness said he should detain
him on a charge of felony.
Mr. HALL committed the prisoner for trial.

Mr. Flintoff's The Rhine, 4 yrs
Mr. E. Peel's Cane, 4 yrs....
Wen in a canter.
ST. LEGER BETTING.
9 to 2 agst Ithuriel 12 to 1 agst Ugly Buck
I
Bto 1 agst Bay Momus l4 to 1 agst The Princess

CRICKET.—CANTERBURY, AUG. This grand
match, Kent against England, was to have been com-
menced on the East Kent ground, at Canterbury, but the
wetness of the weather was such as to prevent all possi-
bility of play. The parties remained upon the _round
until nearly three o'clock, when it was determined to
postpone the match until this morning. The match was
accordingly begun, " England" going in first. The
weather, however, was but little more favourable for the
sport than on the preceding day, for not only did the
rain compel the players to desist from their operations,
and to quit the ground, but just as their side had brought
their hands to a conclusion, the rain set in apparently
for the afternoon. Notwithstanding the inauspicious
appearance of the early part of the day, the ground was
very numerously and fashionably attended, nearly all
the leading families of that part of the county being pre-
sent. The score was 96 for England when the stumps
were raised.

LONDON TO BRUSSELS IN A DAY.—It may be in-
teresting to some of our readers to know that the journey
from London to Brussels can be accomplished regularly
in one day. The arrangements for this great object
commenced on Sunday last. The train left London for
Dover at half-past 5 A.M., arrived at Dover at 9 ; the
e.nbarkation on board the Princess Mary, belonging to
the Dover Railway Company, took place immediately,
and the voyage to Ostend was performed in little more
than four hours and a half. The passengers left Ostend
at a quarter-past 4 o'clock, and arrived in Brussels at a
quarter past 9 the same evening, the whole distance
(238 miles) havingbeen accomplished in lsi hours. The
stoppages in Ostend exceeded two hours.
" 'Ls DISTANCE LENDS ENCHANTMENT," &c.-
We propose that Captain Warner be allowed to try the
virtues of his " long range " on the " Mauvais " comet,
as being the object furthest off ; or, as the insuranee
offices might object to this, what does Sir Robert Pe el
say to the Captain being allowed to have a shy at the
repeal of the income-tax ? It is the most remote object
any "long range" could reach ; and, if " Captain
Warner" can only bring it down, we are sure the nation
will willingly award him the 400,0001. he modestly asks
for the experiment.—Punch.
SURVEY OF TME MERSEY CHANNELS.—The sur-
vey of the entrances to the channels of the Mersey, by
the Dock Committee, to ascertain their exact state, pre-
viously to the commencement of the operations for the
intended docks in Wallasey Pool, commenced, we believe,
on Monday last. They are being made by Lieutenant
Lord, R.N. marine surveyor to the Dock Committee,
under the direction of Mr. Jessie Hartley, and are to be
of a most minute character. The ultimate object is to
ascertain the effect of the new works upon the Victoria
Bar. Annual surveys of a similar character will be made
for the next seven years, the results of which will be
duly reported.—Liverpool Paper.
EXEMPTION OF JURORS.—It may not be known
generally, that this is the proper time for parties wishing
to claim exemption from serving on juries, under the
Act of George IV., cap. 50, sec. 9, which states that
persons claiming exemption shall apply to the overseers
and churchwardens of their respective parishes, to have
their names struck out of the list previous to being pub-
lished. The first three Sundays in the next month being
the time for exhibiting the lists of persons qualified to
serve as jurors during the ensuing year, if exemption is
not claimed during this month, they will be obliged to
appear at the sessions.
COUNT NESSELRODE.—BRIGHTON, AUG. 14.—The
weather was so unfavourable yesterday that the Count
was confined nearly the whole of the day to his apart-
ments. In the afternoon he received a visit from his
son, who arrived by the half-past twelve o'clock train
from London, and having dined at the hotel with his
father, took his departure by the last train on his return
to the metropolis. The Count, notwithstanding the
continuance of stormy weather, visited the German Spa
again this morning, accompanied by Dr. Franz. He
drank of the waters, but he does not intend, we believe,
to follow up a course of them. He commenced taking
salt water baths this afternoon. To-morrow afternoon
he will go to town for the purpose, we believe, of bring-
ing his daughter, who has just arrived in London, to
Brighton on the following morning, her physician in Sr.
Petersburg!' having recommended her to try sea-bathing.
Baron Bruanow will, we understand, accompany the
Count on his return to Brighton.
REMOVAL OF A CHURCHYARD.--In the execution
of the improvements in the formation of the new street
from the Bank to the Post-office, the contents of the
burial-ground of St. John Zachary, one of the churches
destroyed at the great fire, situate at the end of Maiden-
lane, and just at the rear of the Post-office, are being re-
moved prior to the ground being thrown into the new
street. The churchyard is carefully boarded up, so as
to prevent inpection; but a large vault is in the course
of excavation at the rear of the ground, in u hich the
1 remains from the graves will be deposited. The earth
is being taken to the new Bunhill-fields burial-ground,
in Golden-lane, and is removed in carts only between
five and eight o'clock in the morning. This ground con-
tained some very old monuments, but the interments
have been rare the last few years. Yesterday the ma-
terials of six houses, being nearly the whole south side of
Maiden-lane, were sold, prior to being pulled down for
the improvements.
THE NEW ROYAL EXCHANGE.--During the last
few days considerable progress has been made towards
the completion of the New Royal Exchange by the con-
tractor. The frame-work is now being placed in the
tower for the bells, of which there will be fifteen. In a
few weeks this magnificent edifice will be cleared of the
scaffolding.