The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-17 00:00:00

fore Tangiers; the Ocean, three-decker, 1,017 men ;
the Marengo, 679 men ; the Inflexible, 853 men ; the
Neptune, 815 men ; and the Alger, 683 men, under
the command of Admiral DESCHENES, before Tunis.
We have, besides, a frigate, La Belle Poule, several
steam frigates and corvettes, a great number of
steamers of a lesser power, transport corvettes,
lighters, and brigs."

The following letter from Tangiers, which appears
in a Toulon journal, describes the state of affairs at
Tangiers, on the 2d instant, four days before the
attack ;

" We see the Moors every day exercising on the
coast their infantry, cavalry, and artillery, to the sound
of the tanztam, and with banners unfurled. At night
they retire to their camp in the mountains. The town
seems to have been abandoned by its inhabitants, who
have sought refuge in a small wood in the neighbour-
hood, where they sleep under tents. During the night,
their fires indicate that that part of the coast which i:-
protected by a small fort lately erected, is inhabited.
The forts and batteries offer an imposing aspect ; but
the town, situate in a ravine on the verge of the sea, i•
entirely open; a feeble rampart surrounds it, and divides
it into two parts; the houses appear to be in a good state
of repair, and pretty regular. If we can judge from
appearances, the Moors do not intend to oppo: e a
vigorous resistance, but they are determined, as far a,
we can ascertain, to prevent our landing, which would
defeat the object of our expedition, if their opposition
proved successful.
" On the Ist of August, at break of day, we saw bands
of between 150 and 200 Kabyles descend from the
mountains. They were all well armed, end accompanied
each by a few horsemen. They advanced to the town
gates, with the intention evidently of plundering it, but
the people would not allow them to enter the place.
Each band had a flag, which was either a rallying
emblem, or the indication of the tribes to which they
belonged. We are daily expecting to receive orders to
commence hostilities, and every preparation has been
made on board the ships for the attack."

Thursday, the day of the Assumption, was observed
as a holiday at Paris, and the Bourse was closed, but
a good deal of business was done at Toazom's. The
Three per Cents. had fallen to 81f. 27c.

HIS DAY'S NEWS

UNION-HALL.—(THIS DAY.)
Samuel Herit, one of the messengers of the Queen's
prison, was brought before Mr. Cottingham, the sitting
magistrate, charged with conveying two bladders of gin
into the interior of the prison.
Mr. Colville, the principal turnkey of the prison,
stated that the prisoner was one of the messengers, and
well acquainted with the rules and regulations of the
prison. Last night, as the prisoner was passing through
the lobby, he let two skins or bladders fall on the floor,
which, on being taken up, was found to contain spirits.
The prisoner was detained, and given into custody.
Mr. COTTINGHAM ordered the prisoner to pay a miti-
gated fine of 51., or one month's imprisonment. -
In default of payment, the prisoner was locked up.

CLERKENWELL.—(THIS DAY.)
Martha Cunningham was charged with the following
outrageous conduct at the C!erkenwell Workhouse :
It appeared from the evidence, that at eight o'clock
on the previous night the prisoner went to the work-
house and asked to see the overseer. He came ; upon
which she abused him in the grossest manner. Mter
much difficulty she was removed. She came again at
ten o'clock, and shouted and screamed so that all the
paupers were aroused out of their beds. She cried
" Murder ! Fire !" and collected a mob of five hun-
dred people in front of the workhouse, to whom she
made the most hideous representations of her treatment
in the workhouse, every word of which was untrue ; but
the story roused the people at the time to a condition
bordering upon desperation. At length the police
came up, and she was taken to the station-house.
Mr. COMBE sentenced her to a fortnight's imprison-
ment in the House of Correction.

DAY.)
SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
DEVON AND
THURSDAY.
(RECEIVED CEEI VE ET DE R THIS
RAC E
s"I
The Second Class of Home Stakes of 10 sovs. each, 3 ft,
with 25 added. Two miles and a dis.
Mr. King's bf, by Jack-in-the-Green, out of Eliza 1
Mr. Downe's Usurper, aged
The City Members' Plate of 501. Heats, one mile.
Mr. W. Ley's Fair Play, 3 yrs (Newman) 1 1
Mr. Scobell's Fox, 4 yrs 3 2
Mr. Crofton's Cornopean, 4 yrs
A Forced Handicap of 2 sovs. each, 25 added, the new
mile, was won in two heats by Mr. Crofton's Cornopean,
4 yrs (Blanton), beating Mr. Reed's Mona.
Handicap Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each, with 25 added.
One mile and three quarters.
Mr. Williams's Elysium, 4 yrs . (Blanton) 1
Mr. Ley's Fair Play, 3 yrs bolted.
Handicap Sweepstakes of 5 soya. each, 2 ft, and 25 added.
Heats, half a mile.
Mr. Ley's Fairplay, 3 yrs (Cowley) 1 1
Mr. Graham's Alice Lowe, 3 yrs 2 2
Mr. Allibone's Icarus, aged
Mr. King's f by Jack-in-the-Green, Eliza, 3 yrs 3 4
TENBYRACES.—THURSDAY.
The Tenby Stakes of 3 sovs. each, and 20 added, the
second to save his stake, were won in two heats, by Mr.
Henderson's Greedy Sam, aged, beating Mr. Lucas's St.
David, 5 yrs, Mr. Bower's Picton, Mr. Llewellyn's Giraffe,
aged, and Mr. Oliver's Sergeant Botheram.
The Tradesmen's Plate of 15/., added to a Sweepstakes
of 2 sovs. each, were also won by Greedy Sam, carrying
71b extra, beating Jenny Jones, St. David, and another.
The Gogerddan Stakes, of 10 sovs. each, h. ft., with 20
added; for hunters. Gentlemen riders. Four Miles.
Mr. Powell's Cracksman, aged (Owner) 1
Mr. Southby's Waterloo, 5 yrs
Mr. Boultbee's My Grandfather, 6 yrs 3
The Members' Plate, of 50/., added to a Sweepstakes of
5 sovs. each. Heats, two miles.
Mr. Wesley's Counsellor, 5 yrs walked over.
The Ladies' Plate, added to a Sweepstakes of 3 sovs.
each. Heats, one mile.
Sir C. Cockerell's Aurunzebe ...(S. Darling, jun.) 1 1
Mr. P. Pryse's Chaos, aged
MARLOW RACES.—THURSDAY.
The Silver Cup, given by Sir R. Clayton, added to a
Sweepstakes of 1 SOT. each. Heats, twice round.
Mr. Preston's Bosphorus, aged (Pattison) 1 1
Mr. Bray's Firey Oaks, 6 yrs 3 .2
Mr. Ibbotson's Paradise, aged 2 3
Tho Quarry Stakes of 2 sovs. each, and 20 added, once
round, were won in two heats by Mr. Dixon's Fox-
hunter, aged (Livesey), beating Mr. Hepple's Lady Flora,
6 yrs, Mr. T. Hussey's Rabbi, 4 yrs, Mr. Richards's
Chemist, aged, and Mr. Patton's Palaemon, 6 yrs.
The Hurdle Stakes of 2 sovs. each, with 20 added,
1 lst 71b each, once round, were won in two heats by
Mr. Patton's Palmmon, 6 yrs (Wynne), beating Mr.
Lamb's Donald. Caird,; aged, Mr. Pocock's Luck's-all,
Mr. Ward's Fidget, and several others, easily.
BETTING AT MANCHESTER—FRIDAY.
EBOR HANDICAP.—Even on Franchise, 8 to 1 agst
Godfrey (taken), 8 to 1 agst Rowena, 12 to 1 agst
Jamie Forest, 14 to 1 agst Glossy, and 30 to 1 agst Pe-
dometer.
GREAT YORKSHIRE STAKES.--2 to 1 agat Morpeth, 7
to 2 agst Prince Royal, 6 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's lot.
ST. LEGER.-3 to 1 agat The Cure, 4 to 1 agst Ithu-
rid, 8 to l agst Bay Momus (taken), 11 to 1 agst Red
Deer, 12 to 1 agst Princess (taken), 12 to 1 agst Ugly
Buck, 14 to 1 agst Foig-a-ballagh, 16 to 1 agst Morpeth,
and 33 to 1 agst Milton (taken).
ABERYSTWITH RACES—WEDNESDAY.
The Johnny Raw Stakes of 5 sovs. each, 3 ft, with 20
dded.
a
Mr. Hall's Brilliana, 3 yrs walked over
The Cardiganshire Stakes of 15 sovs. each, 10 ft, and 5
only, if declared. Two miles. (11 Subs.)
Mr. Westley's Counseller, 5 yrs (H. Darling) 1
Mr. Parr's Ninety-One, 3 yrs
The Crosswood Stakes of 5 sovs. each, 3 ft, with 20
added. Heats, one mile and a half, over hurdles.
Mr. Powell's Cracksman, aged ...(Mr. Cresswell) 1 1
Mr. Ackers named Chance, 6 yrs 2 2
The Town Plate, added to'a Sweepstakes of 3 sovs. each.
Heats, one mile and a half.
Mr. Hall's Brilliana, 3 yrs (E. Griffiths) 0 1 1
Mr. Parr's Zanthus, 4 yrs
Mr. Pryse's Chaos, aged 3 dis.
The Tradesmen's (Handicap)THURSDAY
Cup
of 50/., added to a
Sweepstakes of 10 soya. each, h ft, and 3 only if de-
clared. Mile and a half.
Mr. Parr's Ninety-One, 3 yrs (E. Griffiths) 1
Sir C. Cockerell's Aurunzebe, 4 yrs

NEW INSOLVENT ACT.—We have received a copy
of the following Circular,: which Lord Brougham has
sent to the governors of all the prisons for debtors :
"Brougham, 14th August, 1844.
"Lord Brougham wishes to inform the gaoler of * * *
and, through him, the debtors, that his last Circular ap-
plied to cases which require the interposition of the
Court of Bankruptcy. But persons confined for debts
not exceeding 201., exclusive of costs, may apply at once,
by petition or motion, to the Court by whose process
they are confined, and that Court will immediately order
their release. Persons whose debts are of a greater
amount, must petition the Bankruptcy Court in the man-
ner formerly directed."
FRAME RENTS.—The framework knitters in the
Midland Counties are holding meetings respecting the
exaction of frame rents from the workmen, a species of
truck. A resolution to the following effect is passed
wherever meetings are held :—" That if the masters are
determined to stop frame rents,
every person shall keep
a strict account of all moneys deducted from his or her
earnings, and give notice that they consider such stop-
page illegal ; and shall, at the conclusion .of the trial
Chawner v. Cummings, use all legal means to recover
the same; and that this meeting pledges itself not to
sign any document." What with one thing and another,
the poor man is ground to the death. Lord John
Russell's appeal on behalf of the working classes, at the
close of Parliament, does him everlasting credit.—From
a Correspondent.
Madame Vestris and Mr. Charles Mathews are
performing at Plymouth, whence they proceed to Exeter.
E. . Denison, Esq., M.P. for the West Riding,
arrived in Doncaster, on Saturday last, for the recess.
We are sorry to learn that the Honourable Member, in
his journey from London, experienced a serious acci-
dent, by which he received a severe contusion on the
hip, which has had the effect of confining him to the
house for two or three days. We are, however, happy
to learn that he has sustained no permanent injury, and
is now perfectly recovered from the effects of the injury.
—Doncaster Chronicle of yesterday.

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool this week have been
26,210 bales, the market having been rather slack.
Stock 928,000 bales, or rather less than last year.—The
following are the quotations of the Railways dealt in :--
Birmingham and Gloucester, 1134- ; Eastern Counties,
12k; Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton, 16k; Grand Junc-
tion, 218; Liverpool and Manchester, 201; London and
Brighton, 48-1- ex-div. ; Midland Counties, 109 ; New-
castle and Carlisle, 105; Sheffield and Manchester, 84 ;
South-Eastern, 384; Ditto, New, 12k; Paris and Lyons,
2i; Paris and Rouen, 381. .
The prevalence of heavy rains in most parts of the
country in the course of the present week, and the state
of the weather, according to all the accounts that have
this day been received from the trading and agricultural
districts, being any thing but favourable for the
labours of the field, the demand for manufac-
tures has fallen off a trifle, which the markets for
grain have influenced. Still the reports from the
country markets mention that the prospects of the hus -
bandmen were very good, in the advent of fine weather.
As a set-off to the rains, the winds during pericds have
proved of a very drying character. The clearances of
foreign wheat has been considerable at the duty of 17s.
per quarter.

A slight rally occurred in the Funds this morn-
ing. Consols were marked at 99 for the Ac-
count, as well as for Money, but each are now
A- to per cent. lower. The business done has been
slight. Exchequer Bills are firmer at 75 premium; the
Canada Debentures have receded to 111. Bank Stock
is at 1994, India Stock at 2821, and the New Three-
sad-a-Half per Cents. at 1011 I.
Scarcely half a dozen bargains have been entered into
in Foreign Bonds this morning. Converted Portuguese
are at 441 ; Spanish Deferred at 121 ; Dutch Five per
Cents. at 101 to 1001 ; and Belgian at 1031.
Tbe circular of a share-broker states that " the better
understanding that now subsists between the leading
lines for conducting their respective interests, and the
interference of Parliament by the new Act, has very
materially restored public confidence to this kind of pro-
perty, which had previously got into great disrepute,
and suffered accordingly in value. The excess of money
capital wanting employment, and low rate of interest,
continue to favour railway speculations, and to establish
prices for the most experienced and best conducted lines,
which will now resume their proper position as investment,
supported, as they are likely to be, by a favourable harvest
keeping up a full circulation." The market for Railway
Shares has not presented any remarkable feature (his
week. Birmingham and Gloucester, Chester and Holy-
head, Great North of England, Manchester and Leeds,
Midland, Newcastle and Darlington, are higher. The
rest are generally a shade lower. Provincial Bank of
Ireland Shares opened at 201 premium, and have since
been sold at l 9 premium per Share.
BRITISH k UNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.

(From the Official List.)
Bank Stock 199%4
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
3 per Cent. Console. Annuities 98% 99 96%,,
336 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 102%4%34
New 3% per Cent. Annuities lOl 4
Long Annuities, Expire stb Jan. 1860 l2 9-16%
Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan. 1860. 124
India Stock
India Bonds,l,ooo
Ditto under 1,000 94
Consols for Account ..........................».» 98% 99 98%
Exchequer Bills, I%d. I%d
1,0004
5004•... ... ?!.......•..... ..... •......•.... 73 75 pm.
Ditto Smaii.... . ... ..... ...• --- ... .•• '73 75 pm.
Ditto Advertised
FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Belgian Bonds, 5 per Cent lO3
Portuguese Bonds' 5 per Cent.
Ditto Converted 44%
Spanish Bonds., Five per Cent 1840 —
. Ditto Deferred 12%%
Dutch 2% per Cents 61%
Dutch 5 per Cents.... ............. ..... .........

PRICES OF SHARESeTHIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE.
Birmingham and Gloucester lOO ll 4
Chester and H01yhead................ 5
Dublin ausd Ca51ie1...... ........... .... 2% 634% ... to
Eastern Counties
__ _

Ditto New Registered 81. 6s. Bd.
Ditto Perpetual 5 per eent l3s. 4d.... 1
Ditto Ditto (No. 2) —
Grand Junction lOO . ..... ...223
Great North of England lOO ......... 111......... to 113
Great Western
• Ditto % Shares .......... ...—.... 50
London and Birmingham. lOO 224
London and Blackwall 1634
London and Greenwich ............ 12%
London and South Western 41%
London and Croydon
Lynn and Ely l% 4304 .. to
Manchester and Leeds 7O l2O .......... to 121
Ditto % Shares
Midland Counties lOO .........10934 108% to 109%
Birmingham and Derby IOO ..
Newcastle and Darlington Juliet. 21 . .... ..... 46 44)4 to 47
North British
Norwich and Brandon
Yarmouth and Norwich
York and North Midland
Ditto Scarboro' Branch
Orleans, Tours, and Bourdeaux 1 -
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
Provincial of Ireland.
PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, Atio. 15.
- - - -

,
3 per Cent. Consols 99%
Three and a Half Stock ...,...
Ditto New, 1630

3% per Cent:Debentures 94%
Bank Stock 203%
Grand Canal Debentures, 6 per Cent.
Royal Canal Stock
4 per Cent. Ballast Office Debentures 983
4 per Cent. City Debentures ...
LAST PRICES OF SHARES.
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SRAM
Dublin and K. Road
Drogheda'Ditto.... 6O
Dublin and Cashel ditto
Hibernian Bank 25% 3l
Royal Bank
National Insurance 25
Patriotic ditto
Mining Company-of Ireland 7
Wicklow Copper Mines
City of Dublin Steam Company
Ditto Ditto 5O
Ditto Difto, 1336 ...
British and Irish Steam Company ... 50 ....
Steam Ship Building Company
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, AUG. 16.--The
market to-day is firm, but only a limited business done.
Dublin and Drogheda, 74 ; Eastern Counties, 12 1-16,
ex div.; Manchester and Leeds, Half Shares, 50 ; Man-
chester and Birmingham, Quarters, si.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY

LONDON, AUG. 17.—Wind, fresh breeze at W./sT
and cloudy.

DOVER; Atro. I6.—Arrd. Aimwell, Stockton for
Exeter, with loss of bowsprit, sails, rigging, cutwater,
&c., having been in contact this morning off Dungeness,
with the schooner Sarah, of Newcastle. Off, William
Carson, Harvey, Buenos Ayres.
PORTSMOUTIi, AUG. 16.—Wind N.W. to W.—Sld.
Lord Boddington, [Cork and Calcutta ; Childe Harold,
Cape, &c., and Bombay ; John Peat, Bermuda. The
Ticumseh, for Bremen to New York (hence 10th inst.),
and the Gesina, from Hamburgh to Malaga, have both
been assisted in here with considerable damage, having
been in contact.

SOUTHAMPTON, AUG. 16.—Sld. Lloyds, Quebec.
TORBAY, AUG. 1 6.—Sld. Talcom an and Ceylon, Quebec.
OFF SALCOMBE, AUG. 15.—Kingston, Jamaiea.
PLYMOUTH, AUG. 16.—Wind variable.—Sld. Dahlia
and Ann, for Quebec.

DEAL, AUG. 16,--Wind A.M. N.W., moderate. P.M.
S.S.W. to W.S.W.—Arrd. Melia, Rio for Antwerp;
Helen, Taylor, Bahia; Sormeild and Three Darner, both
St. Croix, for Copenhagen; Herculean, Holmes, New
Orleans; Columbus, Meyer, Ditto for Bremen; Hendick
Hudson, Moore, New York; Eagle, Quebec. Sld. Mary
Hay, Launceston; Brenda, Mauritius; Coquette, St.
Helena; Favourite, Ichaboe; Providence, Halifax. Re-
main, Cygnet, for Port Philip; Chariot and Norna,
Ichaboe; Europe and Cyrus, Quebec; and one or two
others.

ALDERNEY, AUG. 14.—A hogshead of Bordeaux wine,
marked "B F, 540, Ducros, Jeune, and Co., Bordeaux,"
was picked up on the north side of the island, 11th inst.
MILFORD, AUG. 15.—A schooner is sunk in St. Bride's
Bay, about three miles from the shore.
FALMOUTH, AUG. 15 AND 16. The handspike,
branded " Lord Arid," picked up at Lundy, Ireland, it
is feared belonged to the Lord Ariel of this port, which
was at Penarth Road, Ist inst., chartered for Guernsey,
and has not since been heard of. Sid, I. W. Dare,
Algoa Bay. Off, Fenelon, Barkenstein, Havannah, and
sailed for Antwerp.

BARMOUTH, AuG. 14.—1 t blew a heavy gale this
morning. A head-board, marked " Cynthia," carved
and gilt upon it, has been picked up off this. The
Desire, from Beaumaris, did not come ashore here 6th
inst., as stated.

MONTROSE, AUG. 14.—The Highlander, from Arch-
angel, ashore on the Aurot Bank, has been got off, and
in here considerably damaged.
PORTIICAWL, AUG. 15.—The Wave, from Hayti to
Meath, ashore here, has been got off with little damage.
OFF CORK, AUG. 14.—Hanwee, Smith, Ichaboe.
LIVERPOOL, AUG. 16.—Wind variable and moderate.
—Arrd. Alegone, Bathurst. Sld. Scotland and Indus,
Quebec ; Eagle, Syria, and Birkenhead, St. John's,
New Brunswick. Off, Enchantress, Roscius, and Birken-
head.

PERIODICAL AIETEORS.—The annual return of the
meteors of the 10th of August has this year excited a
more than usual interest. Preparations for noting
them having been made, they were accurately observed
in Belgium by the astronomers, M. Quetelet, Dr. For-
ster, and others. On the night of the 9th, between
nine and eleven o'clock, only seventeen of these fallen
stars were observed ; but on the 10th, (the regular
period of their return) Dr. Forster found that the
number of those which crossed the western hemisphere
alone amounted to rather more than seventy per
hour. Some were exceedingly brilliant, and va-
riously coloured, whilst others left long trains
of light in their track. What was most
remarkable was their evident tendency to a converging
point in the heavens, very near to Antares, in the heart
of the Scorpion. Indeed, hardly any exceptions appeared
to this rule ; and yet they commenced from every
quarter, a circumstance that will be very interesting to
astronomers in distant parts. One of the most brilliant
of these meteors appeared at 35 minutes past 10, mean
time, at Bruges, and it crossed the zenith, or nearly so,
not far from the first star of the Harp, descending
towards the horizon in a direction W.S.W. Besides the
ordinary meteors, Dr. Forster observed some remark-
able white lines, apparently electric, which seemed as if
drawn along the sky momentarily, and which had also a
direction towards W.S.W. Observers will now wait
anxiously for the 12th and 13th of November, which is
the next period of the meteors.—Galignani.
THE GRAND DUCHESS ALEXANDRA NICOLARWNA
OF RUSSIA.--A paragraph announcing the demise of
the Grand Duchess Alexandra of Russia, purporting to
be derived from authority, appeared conspicuously in the
Morning Herald of yesterday. This announcement was
of course echoed by the Standard of last evening ; but
we are happy in being enabled to give a direct contradic-
tion to this report. The latest accounts which have
reached this country from St. Petersburgh are up to the
3d inst., and were received in town yesterday. By those
letters we learn that her Imperial Highness was still in
a very precarious state ; but, happily, the statement
published by the Marring Herald and Standard yester-
day is totally devoid of foundation.—Post.