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MR. D'ISRAELI AND HIS CON-

pendent men, and say I had done my duty to them as
their representative?—.(Loud and long-continued cheers )
I have entered into the details of these circumstances
longer than I fear has been pleasant to you ; bat they
are not utterly without interest to you. I have no name
—no powerful interest—no great influence—l am nothing
in the House of Commons but Member for Shrewsbury ;
and part of the obloquy which I may draw upon myself
must necessarily fall upon you ; and if I should gain a
little triumph, let me know that you will share it with
me, and that you will enable me to say, " We elected
this stranger, and will support him, for we have found
him an independent and an honest representative." The
lion. Member gave a brief sketch of his career in the
House of Commons, and concluded by sa3 ing—All men
have their great object, and I have attained it already.
If I had wanted a crumb of the public plunder, I have
little doubt that I could have gained it as other men
have. Let me be fairly understood. lam no political
Pharisee, to thank God that I am not like this man or
that man. If I had the same objects in view, lam per-
haps as frail in my nature as others, and would use the
same means to attain the same end. I aspire, however,
to gain public fame, public respect, and public approba-
tion. If I can achieve this I shall have attained all I
seek for. This is my ambition—let other men follow
theirs. They may ridicule the magnificence of my
aspirations, and endeavour to taint the purity of my mo-
tives. Let them do so ; they will not induce me to
alter my course. I seek no pecuniary reward ; I
have ample reward in the generous, the honest, the
confiding support of a thorough English constitu-
ency. If I have not an independent constituency, where
am I to look for one ? ' Where is the proud Baron,
or the: many-acred Squire, who can imperiously
say to you, "Return me this man or that as your repre-
sentative?" You are no political sham, but an honest
and independent constituency, equal in intelligence to
one half of the Members of the House of Commons. I
met you first, perhaps, in a great measure by accident ;
but I had not long been among you before I said to my-
self, " I have now found a society of enlightened men in
whom I can confide, and if they place confidencp in me,
the smiles or frowns of a Minister will have no effect on
my conduct."—(Cheers.) The miserable insinuations of
third-rate men, who hint that I have been refused A
place, and that the independent course I have taken
against the Ministry arises from disappointment, have
no effect on me, and I will never take the trouble to
answer them. Sir Robert Peel knows me—we have
been some years on terms of private intimacy, and he
knows me too well:to think for a moment that any pecu-
niary circumstances influence my conduct. Let him—
the Minister—once state that in public, and I will answer
the charge, but not till then. No, gentlemen, I aspire
to no petty post or miserable pecuniary benefit—let
those who do obtain them ; they have my consent. I
aspire to rise in the eyes of the public ; and, let who
will be Minister, I will fearlessly follow the dictates of
my own conscience, for I know I can return to my con-
stituents without dread, confident that they will appre-
ciate my motives and support me in my independent ex-
ertions.—(Cheers.) These words, gentlemen, are not
uttered during the heat and excitement of a contested
election—neither are they the bragadocian boastings of
a tavern oration—they are words I wish you to recollect
—words, let me tell you, I have spoken in my place in
the House of Commons to the Prime Minister. No
man has given a more generous, a more disinterested, and
let me add—when in opposition—a more efficient sup-
port ; I have had frequent tokens of his private grati-
tude, and during the last session I have received the
public testimony of his respect. I was his supporter
when in adversity—in prosperity I will not be his slave.
(The Honourable Gentleman sat down amid tremendous
cheering.)

TRIPOLI.

BY the SPECIAL AUTHORISATION of the
AUSTRIAN GOVERNMENT,
and under the Direction of the IMperial Authorities, Irrevocably on
the 12th of Octoloer, 1844, will take place,
The SALE, by SHAKES, of ESTATES, STOCKS, and BONDS,
besides the CASINO at BADEN, witk the GRAND HOTEL ala
VILLE do VIENNE, estimated at
ONE MILLION TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND FRANCS,
The pleasant country seat of Adolphshdhe, near Prague, with two
castles, grounds, gardens, &e.
The two vineyards, Sehubertka and Prekinka, half a mile distant
from Prague, comprising a Surface of about eight rods, or sixteen
acres, in exchange of which arc offered to the winner :
One Hundred Obligations of the Loan of Prince Estorhazy from the
year 1836, and Twenty-live Thousand Francs, in ready Money,
granted by the Aulic Treasury of his Imperial Majesty.
The accessory Prizes consist of Francs-7,000, 6,000, 5,000, 4,000,
2,000, 1,000, Ltc.

STITUEN TS.
(From the Shropshire Conservative.)
On Monday Mr. D'lsraeli paid a visit to Shrewsbury,
to meet his constituents and explain his Parliamentary
conduct during the past session. The Shrewsbury Con-
servative Club met in the Assembly-room of the Lion
Hotel on Wednesday, Mr. James Whitney, in the chair.
Upwards of 400 electors were present, and the health of
Mr. D'lsraeli being proposed by the chairman, was
drunk with enthusiastic cheering. In replying to the
toast the Hon. Gentleman made a long speech, from
which we can only give brief extracts.
Mr. D'lsneeet—Gentlemen, your respected chairman
has recommended me to your notice as a champion who
came forward to fight your battles in a time of need,
when there was no other candidate to be found, and ge-
nerously acknowledges that that circumstance should be
the foundation of your future support. I cannot but feel
grateful for so flattering a suggestion ; but I am not
desirous myself of claiming your future support from
feelings of past gratitude, and would rather let my future
conduct be the basis on which you should build your
confidence, and that my claim should ever rest, not as a
past candidate, but as your present representative.—
(Cheers.) I soon had an opportunity. of having my
promise tested ; for, upon my arrival in London, the
first information I received on enteritis" the lobby of
the House of Commons was, that Government had
determined to force the Canadian Corn Bill through
the House ; and my informant inquired what course
I should adopt. I answered that, however painful it
might be to my feelings to oppose the Ministers, I should
not hesitate for a moment in voting against the measure.
I did so ; and a Member of the Government—a Cabinet
Minister—the same evening asked me why I did so ; and
said that the people of Shrewsbury did not care about
the measure. It is possible, gentlemen, that you might
have forgiven my tergiversation had I voted for the mea-
sure, and explained to you my reason for doing so was
the difficultieein which the Conservative Ministers were
placed ; but I had not the moral courage, nor the immo-
ral audacity, to say one thing to my constituents at
Shrewsbury, and within twenty-four hours rote diame-
trically opposite is London.—(Loud cheers.) This, gen-
tlemen, was the first occasion on which I was under the
painful necessity of opposing my friends, the Conserva-
tivel
have done o;
Ministry • but, as a man of honour I ask you, could
I have done otherwise, or could I have rendered my op-
position less offensive ? At that time there was a most
powerful party arrayed against the Government, and
lent and damaging speech against them, and have in-
how easy it would have been for me to have made a vios
flamed the passions of those friends who were then in
opposition ? Such a course of action on my part would
have told with double effect, because I had defended the
Ministry on their two previous measures ; but I had no
wish to do so, and I only recorded my silent suffrage
against them. Still, gentlemen, I have been told that
my opposition was factious. Does such conduct as that
appear factious to you ?—(Cries of " No, noi") Not
long after this, a motion of vital importance, I consider,
to the well-being of the working classes, although not a
political measure, was brought forward by a nobleman
tamed for his philanthropy, and in some measure
connected with this county I need scarcely say
that I mean Lord Ashley. The motion I speak
of was for limiting the duration of labour as far
as regards women and children. There is no
subject, gentlemen, on which I have taken a deeper
interest than the condition of the working classes.
Long before what is called the " condition of the peo-
ple ' question was discussed in the House of Commons,
I had employed my pen on the subject. I had long been
aware that there was something rotten in the core of our
social system. I had seen that while immense fortunes
were a:cumulating—while wealth was increasing to a
superabundance—and while Great Britain was cited
throughout Europe as the most prosperous nation in the
world—the working classes, the creators of wealth, were
steeped in the most abject poverty, and gradually sink-
ing into the deepest degradation.—(Hear, hear) As I
stated before, gentlemen, there i 3 something unsound in
the present state of our social system—one-half the
population is overworked, and the other half under-paid.
—(Hear.) It is from these circumstances that we wit-
ness the extraordinary scenes of misery and insubordi-
nation in the manufacturing districts, and see whole pro-
vinces in flames in the agricultural.—(Hear.) The noble
Lord whom I before mentioned had deeply thought on
these circumstances ; ho had, without political, and cer-
tainly with° it factious motives, instituted committees of
inquiry, who had published reports on the condition of
the labouring classes, full of details so astounding that
they had caused a sensation throughout the entire king-
dom, which has never been equalled since the publica-
tion of the first report on the slave trade. Upon the
noble Lord bringing forward his measure for reducing
the hours of labour of women and children, I, with a
powerful party, composed of men of all political creeds,
voted in its favour. The Government having been twice
defeated by the Noble Lord, you would have thought
that they would have bowed to the decision of the
House. But no. A Cabinet Council was held, and Sir
Robert Peel came down to the House and called upon
the Members to rescind their votes. I wish to speak
here with frankness; it has been said by some, that this
was an unconstitutional, an illegal, and a violent act of
Sir Robert Peel. It certainly is not so. Ido not think
it is unconstitutional for a Minister to request the House
of Commons to reconsider any question upon which
there is a possibility that they might have been mis-
taken. It certainly is one of the last efforts of a Mi-
nister; but, the House having rescinded their vote, I
consider that Sir Robert Peel was amply justified in the
course he pursued.—(Hear, hear.) You do sot, I am
sure, consider it factious on my part because I voted
against the Ministry on these occasions—l deeply de-
plored the difficulties they had to contend against, but I
could not change my principles because of those difficul-
ties.—(Hear, hear.) What, however, was the next step
of this Conservative Government ? In the last throes
to the d
raexpiring
and agonies of the Whig Administration, Lord John
Russell brought forward a measure which would mate-
rially injure the interests of our West India colonists.
This
Ministry
exciting the sympathies of a large and powerful class,
and
to was
endeavour done
into
exchequer. Sir Robert Peel and the Conservative party
an in
impoverished the
opposed that Bill, and the Whigs were driven from office
upon it. This is not the place to discuss the merits of
the Bill. I only want to place the facts of the case be-
fore you, so that you, as a jury, should decide upon my
by
conduct. What did the Conservative party do when in
office ? Lord Sandon—avowedly under the direction of
Sir Robert Peel—brought in a Bill virtually, if not pre-
cisely, the same as the one upon which the Whigs were
expelled from office. I am not ambitious enough,
nor vain enough, to place myself in juxtaposition
with Sir Robert Peel ; he has means of information
which might have shown him that he was wrong on his
first opposition to the Bill, and might have seen the ne-
cessity of adopting it on the present occasion ; but if he
possesses those extraordinary means, he should have
taken some pains to teach his supporters the secret, or,
at all events, make some appeal to their feelings and un-
derstandings for the necessity of its adoption. Instead
of that, however, he came down most abruptly to the
House, and called upon his followers to support him,
without taking the trouble to assign any reason for the
sudden change. What could I and the independent por-
tion of his followers do ? Why, vote precisely as we
voted three years before. Was that factious ? The
first time I came down amongst you as your representa-
tive, I said in this room, " I have fulfilled the first pledge
I gave you—l have turned out the Whigs ;" but could I
have come before you as an honest man on the present
occasion, and say, " I have kept in the Tories, by voting
for the self-same measure which I voted against to turn
out the Whigs ?"—(Loud cheers.) On that occasion I
again gave a silent vote, not because I was not desired,
nay, requested, by some of the most eminent men to
speak on the subject ; but I had a great personal regard
for the Prime Minister, and I felt that I could not enter
into the subject without saying much that would be un-
pleasant to his feelings, and I abstained from speaking.
The division took place, and the Ministers were beaten
—the strong Conservative Government was defeated,
wailing was the and
and greatgnashing of teeth.
No gentlemen could be brought up from the country
to cover the defeatno Members could be prevailed
upon to unsay or undowhat they had said or done pre-
viously, and consternation prevailed in the Ministerial
ranks. It was rumoured that the Ministers were about
to resign. Indeed, I was told—not as a secret—by two
members of the Administration, that they actually had
resigned. I can assure
this
you that it was with feelings of
great pain I received
intelligence, but it did not
alter my conviction on the measure. Upon entering the
House of Commons, however, I found that they had not
resigned; but that Sir Robert Peel had determined on
asking us again to rescind our votes, and said if we did
not do so we must abide by the consequences. I could
not silently obey the imperious mandate which he put
forth; and I warmly
dand ;
13!"-onately, but quite unpre-
meditatedly, expresse my feelings on the
Itosuect. The
manner of my address, and the expressions sed, were,
exactly proper as
perhaps, not so if I had been more
prepared; but the circumstances of the case were a suffi-
cient justification of my warmth, and I do not now re-
gret or wish to recal a single expression I then made
use of.—(Loud cheers.) hen the division came, how-
ever, the Ministers were in a majority ; but how was
that majority obtained? Why, the champions, the
orators, the oracles of the Anti-Corn-law League crossed
the House, and carried the Ministers in triumph to their
lobby.—(Hear, hear.) Was I wrong in the conduct I
had pursued? No. In two days afterwards the most
prudent of orators, if not of statesmen, came down to the
House and made an apologetic speech, for the first time
in his life—because he had always been more cautious,
more courteous, and because, in fact, he had never before
given offence.—(Hear, hear.) Was not that a sufficient
? His
justification of my conduct own friends said
afterwards that they were astonished at his want of
caution, want of temper, and the arrogant and imperious
tone he adopted on the occasion; and if I had sat silent
during the haughty address, and craven like had trembled
on my seat without the courage to resent it, how could
I have dared afterwards to meet honourable and lade-

The following is a more detailed account than that
we published in our edition of yesterday of the pre-
sent state of the disturbances in Tripoli and their

origin :

A serious revolt has broken out in the interior of
Tripoli, which threatens alarming consequences. Up-
wards of 6,000 men from Iffreen, Kik keli, and Ray-
ana, have taken up arms. Their leader is Milufl,
Shah, ex-Minister of the depofed Mahmudi family
who have taken refuge in Constantinople, but who
have recently repaired to Sefax, and thence to the
mountains of Gebal, where they are spreading the
flames of revolution.
" The principal cause of the revolution," says a
letter from Tripoli, "is the heavy taxation which
directly and indirectly gravitates upon those tribes.
The present Pacha's administration is doubtlessly in
clever hands, but it ought to be managed with less
precipitancy, and the taxation be more proportionate
to individual income. The zeal for raising and for-
warding money to Constantinople is what occasions
stores to be empty, baggages deficient, and, conse-
quently, the marching of troops delayed until ammu-
nition stores are prepared. Such loss of time may
benefit the Miludi mountaineers, who are sufficiently
wise so as to avail of it, and take the offensive. Thus
may the revolution be further propagated, and the
rebels rendered more daring."
The principal point of attack by the rebels is the
Castle of Iffren, which has been recently built by the
Turks, but which is supposed to be too strong for
their resources. According to a letter from Tripoli
of the 7th of August, which is published by the Malta
papers, the rebels are supported by some neighbouring
Powers, and it will increase Lord Aberdeen's confi-
dence in the good faith of the French in Africa to
find that they are not without suspicion of being at
the bottom of this revolt :

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MEHEMET ALI.
(From the Examiner.)
A youthful prank, played by an old gentleman of
eighty, Mehemet Ali, has frighted the Levant, and but
for the more juvenile pranks of the French, would have
caused still greater affright. His sage Highness, the
Nestor of the Mediterranean, went to a party, committed
an excess, and got so uproarious and extravagant, that no
Irishman, before the invention of teetotalism, ever
equalled it. He beat his women, cuffed his Minister,
cursed his physician, broke his pipe, and flung his fez
out of the window. At last he sent for 250,000 purses,
and flinging himself into a boat, set sail, or oars, for
Cairo, bent on a spree, but acquainting kis worthy
Alexandria subjects that he was bound for Mecca. The
old sinner ! Sheridan, dead drunk, acquainting the
watchmen who picked him up that he was no other
than Mr. Wilberforce, lied not more comically than Me-
hemet Ali, when he said he was going to Mecca.
But we much fear that we could never let our readers
into the mysteries of the Oriental orgie, nor describe,
except in metaphor, a Turkish jollification. We can
merely imitate those artists who condescend but
to sketch, who draw a line here, daub a shade
there, and leave every one to fill up the pic-
ture for himself. The feast in question was
given by Mehemet's daughter, the widow •of
Defterdar Bey ; in honour, too, of the wedding of one of
the family. The old Pacha was invited, and was served,
of course, alone, with viands the most spicy, and drinks
the most exciting. The drink was not wine, for that is
forbidden by the prophet. It rather resembled that
drink at Irish temperance halls, where whiskey is pro-
hibited, but where cordials concocted of alcohol dis;
guised with ginger and pimento, are swallowed, as not
only compatible with the pledge, but highly honouring
it. So Mehemet's tipple was more of the spicy than the
spirituous. And instead of making him good-natured
in his cups, it made his Highness very much the con-
trary ; for he set about beating all the women, to the
horror of eunuchs, black and white. He then made off,
as we have described, in a tangent, Ibrahim going to all
sorts of devices to send his physicians after him ; smug-
gling them first into the house, and then into the boat.
Such is a magre and true outline of an event which
has much alarmed politicians, and even the Alexandrians,
although their affright was considerably intermixed with
laughter. There was neither conspiracy nor revolution.
It was not a deep-laid plot of Ibrahim's, nor yet of the
Marquis of Lavalette, French Consul, nor yet of any
hostile Turk. It was simply the political effect of a
social orgie.

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A WELCOME DISCOVERY.—A week or two ago,
while a boat's crew were at work at Loch Ryan, fishing
—not for fins, but sweet-smelling seaweed, to be applied
as manure—the drag grappled some harder substance,
which, when raised to the surface, resembled strongly a
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form of a large jar of excellent cognac brandy. The
fishermen, as may be supposed, were quite overjoyed to
find both meat and drink thus unexpectedly provided ;
knives were in immediate requisition, and, after lunching
heartily on oysters, each man received a bumper noggin,
to stimulate or quicken the process of digestion, and put
him in good humour for further exertion. how long the.
jar had lain in brine, shallow atthe side, or;l3..rwhat accident
it was placed in such a position; are questions which it is
easier to put than answer ; but we suppose the piscators
would have no objection to a similar windfall every time
they put to sea, whether in netting herrings or dragging
for dulce and tangle.—Greenock Journal.
DEWSBURY.—COMICAL ADVENTURES.—MOIIdfIy last
being Brewster sessions, at Wakefield, and likely to be
the last there for the Dewsbury publicans to attend in
that town (Dewsbury being about to have a district
sessions for all purposes), the stout landlords and their
dames, mostly " fat, fair, and forty," along with a num-
ber of their friends, must needs pay the farewell Brews-
ter visit. Conveyances of all sorts and sizes were in re-
quisition and obtained, well loaded with the owners of
the beer. barrel and representatives of the bung hole, who
in a short time were jogging their journey to Wakefield.
Some fine sport took place on the road. One unlucky
boniface had the mishap to drop one of his legs on the
road, without, however, the least pain, or the loss of one
drop of blood; the limb was in a very rigid state, and
the owner did not feel his loss until on getting off
the coach at Wakefield he fell into the street. A
doctor (alias joiner) was immediately sent for, who fur-
nished the deficient man with crutches, and ordered
him into his surgery until he provided him with a
new leg. On his way to the " doctor's" shop he met a
person in a light cart vigorously holding up the unlucky,
forlorn-looking leg, and which he handed to the bereaved
owner, who, after having sundry repairs done to it,
placed it on a more secure footing alongside his fleshy
companion. After the Brewster businois was done, and
the glorious dinners dispatched, general attention was
devoted to the department of liquors, and deep drinking
was the order of the day. In a few hours the convey-
ances were ordered out for the return ; but ,the ascent
of the coaches was not so easy a task ; the natural equi-
librium was lost, and ladders were therefore obtained,
and " sich a gittits' up stairs we never did see." Some
were literally carried up the ladders and laid on the
coaches, and those who were not so far gone had enough
to do to keep them from rolling off. On arriving
home, three neighbour landlords had lost all power of
locomotion, and in order to dismount them a wag sug-
gested that a plank should be obtained on which to slide
them down as heavy luggage. The vehicles ran against
each other several times on the return, but no serious
accident occurred.
SHEERNESS, AUG. 28.—1 t is currently reported in
the Dockyard that instructions have been received for
five of the advance ships at this port to be brought for-
ward for commission. The London, 90, has been taken
into the fitting basin. The Amazon has very nearly
completed rigging, preparatory to being commissioned.
The greatest activity prevails in every department of the
Dockyard.—Brighton Herald.

ADDITION 6 TO POLICIES DECLARED IN
1835 AND 1840.
Guaranteed Date of With Bonus
Sum in Policy. Policy. Addition.
£1,000.. 1825 £1,337 10 0
£l,OOO 1 826 £1,312 10 0
£l,OOO 1627 £1,287 10 0
£l,OOO 1828... .... . .... ...£1,262 10 0
Further Additions will be made in 1845 and every file years
;hereafter. Later Policies have also large additions.
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required.

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PUBLIC NOTICE.
434, OXFORD-STREET.
TO SHIPPERS. OWNERS, CAPTAINS, AND OTHERS.
Copies of Testimonials, Gratis, by all Agents.
GRIMSTONE'S EYE SNUFF.—Under the
Patronage of his late Majesty, her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Kent, and the Lords of the Treasury, is universally re-
commended by the Faculty for its efficacy in removing disorders
ncident to the Eyes and Head.
SIGHT RESTOR
DEAFNESS —NER VOUS HEADACHE AND
CURED!
By the most simple, delightful, and fragrant Compound!
Its mode of application is fraught with pleasure; many thousand
sures have been accomplished by its use, at a trifling expense, yet
certain in its operation. If testimonies be necessary to induce the
sufferer to make trial, Kings. Lords, and Commons have used it.
the Lords of the Z reasury have sanctioned its use. Their late Ma-
jesties, the Duchess of Kent, the most .eminent Oculists, Medical
Practitioners—with that gigantic balance, the Press—have eulogised
Grimstone's celebrated Herbaceous Compound, known as " Grim-
stone's Eye Snuff," for its efficacy in removing all diseases incident
to the Eyes and Head. G. J. Guthrie , Esq., F.E.S.See J. B. Lach-
field, Esq.'s letter, Whitehall. Dr. Thnmas. Dr. Andrews calls it
a national blessing—see his Reports touching its utility. The late
Mr. Abernethy, with many others, recommend GriillStollo.l Eye
I Snuff, and call it " Man's best Friend," and the " Student's Vag.
Mecum."
Dr. Andrews also recommends its use as a preventive. See his
reports in Nov. 1831. He states that the tenacious sympathy of the
membrane, within the nostrils, with the nervous system, that Grim-
stome's Eye Snuff, when frequently taken, must be of the greatest
benefit to the consumer; and, further, recommends its universal
Adoption as a preventative.
Dr. Thomas. of Hatfield, having witnessed many cases both of
headache and ophthalmia, has kindly given his testimony thereof.
A few of the many thousand Testimonials of Sight restored and
Deliftieell cured by GRIMSTONE'S EYE SNUFF:—
" To W. Grimstone, Esq. " April :IMF', 1841.
" Dear Sir,—l feel bound by a sense of justice to inform you of
the miraculous cure effected on myself by taking a few pinches of
the far celebrated Gemstone's Eye Snuff which, i s my case, ought
rather to be called' Ear Snuff,' it haring effectually relieved me from
a deafness from which I have been suffering for many years. You are
at liberty to make any use you please of this communication, since I
should mucb regret if the extraordinary qualities of your Eye Snuff
were not universally known.
" I am, dear Sir, your' obedient servers',
Grantors, Scotland. MARGARET MACGREGOR.
" I can vouch for the t JAMESe foregoing facts and statements.
"May SHUTER, Kentbury, Berks."
G. W. M. Reynokls, editor of Chambers' London Journal, kc.. &e.,
relieved of excruciating pains, and can now write without spectacles
—.36, Stamford-sLeet, Blaciariar'saoad.
Madame F. Levis, facing the church, Park-street, Wiodsor; cured
dimness of sight and headache.-9th 3-ptember, IBS% and cured
et
J. B. Lachfield, Esq. ; cured of Ophthalmia. Whitehall and
Thatched House Tavern —See his letters, 1836 and 1852.
Observe the Caution—W. GRIMSThim. ONE is the sole inventor,
and the only genuine is prepared by
This Odoriferous Herbaceous Compound of Herbs is sold in
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and at the Herbary, Highgate; and, can also be obtained in all the
principal Towns and Cities. A liberal allowances o
Shippers
Owners, Captains, and all Vendors of Grimstone's Eye Snuff. This
celebrated Snuff is shipped to all ouarters of the globe, and retains
its benign qualities in every climate; All Snuffs and Cigars shipped
on the shortest notice.
Any quantity can be forwarded throukh the General Post, by
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" The Bey of Tunis," says the letter in question,
" is desirous of weakening the Ottoman Power on his
frontiers, and the French have more particular reasons
to provoke disturbances and civil war at Tripoli, and
undermine the Ottoman Power. This will greatly
facilitate their conquering the territories of Sauf and
Tuggurt, under the colour of philanthropic policy,
and then claim the thanks of Europe for their having
occupied that country. In my last I had foreseen
what the French might do, and the events now seem
to justify my prophecy, though many at first had
taxed it with exaggeration."
Later accounts state that the Castle of Iffren is
suffering from want of water and provisions, and all
communication having been cut off with it by the
rebels, the Pacha was making all efforts to send rein-
forcements to the fortress, but without success. The
following is the latest information we have on the
subject :
" TRIPOLI, AuG. 11.—Many more camels have
been loaded at the Castle, this morning, with ammu-
nition stores, and sent into the interior. Two couriers
are arrived, and bring the intelligence that the horse-
men sent by the Pacha to open by force the passage
to the Castle of Iffren, have been beaten and re-
pulsed. It is said that the mountaineers had opposed
a more numerous cavalry than the Turkish, which
is hardly possible. They not using horses at
all=—they must have been supplied by the tribes of
Naei and Arguma belonging to the regency of Tunis.
I understand that the Turkish expedition will march
off on the 13th. Gold is rising—the Mahboub in
gold is willingly received at nine piasters of Tripoli
—a higher price than ordinary. The weekly markets
are abandoned—the Arabs are afraid.
" AUGUST 12.—The rumour of the loss of Ismail
Bey, colonel of the regular cavalry, seems to be con-
firmed, but it is not ascertained if killed or taken
prisoner. The Pacha's son will set out immediately
for Bengazy in a man of war. A rumour is in town
that some Europeans are among the mountaineers to
direct their military movements. They can be no
other people than French, if true. I have sufficiently
intimated in my preceding correspondence, that eter-
nal disquietude is at the bottom of this affair. The
French Consul is angry at this fact being published,
at the moment of its execution. It is irksome to the
French to find people less stupid than their arrogance
will let them believe."

TUE QUEENS CONTEMPLATED PROGRESSES.—It is
the intention of the Queen to embark on board the Royal
yacht Victoria and Albert to-morrow week, the 9th
instant, and proceed direct to Scotland. Lord Glenlyon
having placed Blair Castle at the disposal of her Ma-
jesty, she will occupy it for a few weeks, together with
the Royal Establishment ; but the precise period of the'
Queen's stay in the Highlands has not been determined
on. This visit of her Majesty to Scotland is to be a pri- •
vate, and not what is called a state one.--Observer.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Saturday afternoon, as
William Carson, servant to Lieutenant Swinton, of the
4th battalion of the Royal Artillery, was returning from
on board the Sir Robert Peel, convict-ship, lying off the
Arsenal, Woolwich, he stepped into a wherry at the
moment a steamer was passing, the swell from which
caused the boat to roll heavily, and losing his balance,
he fell overboard and sunk. The drags were imme-
diately raes beensorte ed. Thedditsoo,ovbeurtnothing deceased,whatever
wh
ofo
borethe an
de-
ceased

excellent character in the garrison, has left a wife and
- -- - - - - -

seven children to deplore his untimely end.
On Tuesday, as one of the assistant priests in the
parish of St. Severin, was proceeding to the church to
say mass, he was accosted by a young workman, who,
with an open poinard knife in his hand, loaded him with
abuse, and appeared determined to stab him. Some
passers-by interfered, and persuaded the young man to
go away. He returned, however, some minutes after,
armed with a razor, and this time he was arrested, and
taken to a neighbouring post. He there declared that
he had had a grudge for a long time against the priest
for having prevented him from making his first com-
munion, not finding him, as he said, in a tit frame of mind.
SHIPS STORES.—The Board of Customs having
had under consideration a representation of Messrs.
Finals and Fisher, shipping and provision agents, com-
plaining of the delay and inconvenience which is ex-
perienced in consequence of all tobacco and cigars re-
moved by lighters for exportation as stores, being re-
quired by the Board's minute of 1843 to be accompanied
by a tidewaiter ; and it appearing, from the reports of
the practical officers, and the practice of sending a tide-
waiter in charge of tobacco, removed for shipment as
stores, may be dispensed with, except when the quan-
tity is very large, or when the searcher clearing for
goods may have reason to suspect fraud, and provided
that the shippers of tobacco as stores from the bonding
warehouses, or entitled to drawback, be required to pro-
duce to the clearing searcher the official document for
the same, signed by the tidewaiter, if any be on board
the vessel, and if not, by the master or mate, in proof of
the receipt of goods on board the vessel, and that the
searcher shall not clear the vessel until such receipt
upon the official document alluded to be delivered to him,
orders have been issued to the officers at the several
departments and stations to govern themselves in future
accordingly, care being taken that the regulations of the
minute of August, 1843, respecting the shipment of
stores, be most strictly adhered to.
EXTENSIVE SEIZURE OF TOBACCO.—A most im-
portant seizure was on Saturday made by the Excise on
the premises of Mr. F. Ryder, tobacco-manufacturer, of
Chiswell-street, Finsbury-square. From information
received, Messrs. Adolphus Mark and John Wilde, two
indefatigable officers and examiners-general of Excise,
proceeded to the above premises, and requested to exa-
mine the stock of tobacco, which was readily acceded to,
and the result was, that they discovered a large quantity
of manufactured tobacco, which appeared to them to be
adulterated with an article resembling peat. They ac-
of thein a
van,
cordingly seized the whole, and pursuing their search,
found a large pan, containing a solution of honey, or
some other saccharine matter. They then proceeded to
an adjoining room, which they minutely examined. It
contained a cupboard, which they found to be locked,
and on requesting the key of it, they were told that the
key had been lost for a considerable time, consequently.
board
fied with this answer, determined that the cup
d,
should be examined, and an iron bar being procure
found about 701 b. of
it was forced open, and within was
believed to be mixed
they were unable to produce it. The officers, not satis-
peat, or a similar article to that,
inquiring its use,
with the tobacco. Upon the officers
0-manufacturers to
years, when the law allowed to .
In the course of
articles in their possession.
have such
Lind a vessel containing Vene-
tiantheir search they also found
ingredients, but d •
during
red and a mixture of other
the loner
in inner apart-
ment,the time the officers were engaged
had •
they were informed, that it hadbeen there for some
and conveyed to the Excise-office,
disap-
peared, an was nowhere to be found. By the assistance
Messrs. Spurger and Cowie, the whole stock was de-
posited Nan of saccharine matterentirely disap.
to
be adjudicated upon by her lAstjesty's Commissioners.
Another seizure was made on the same premises about
three months since.
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COTItT CIRCULAR.
WIND9OII, MONDAY.—Her Majesty rode out in
pony phaeton this morning, accompanied by the Prin-
cess Alice, and attended by the Dowager Lady
Lyttelton and Lord Charles Wellesley. In the after-
noon her Majesty, Prince Albert, and the Prince of
Prussia, went out in an open pony carriage, attendrid
by Lord Charles Wellesley (Equerry in Waiting), on
horseback. The Lady in Waiting and the Maids of
Honour followed in a pony carriage, and Count
Puckler, Baron Schleinitz, Baron de Berg, ami Count
Konigsmark, also followed.
Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince of
Prussia, left the Castle at a quarter before ten o'clock
this morning, to shoot in the royal preserves. Their'
Royal Highnesses were attended by Major-Ger.eral
Sir Edward Bowater. The Prince returned to the -
Castle shortly before two o'clock.
The Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal were
taken their accustomed airings this morning on
ponies in the pleasure-grounds adjacent to the Castle.
In the afternoon, the Royal Family were tidien a!,
airing, accompanied by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton.
The Earl and Countess of Jersey and Lad 2., Cie.
reentina Villiers, the Earl and Countess of WeAmore-
' land, and Viscount Melbourne, left the Castle to-day.
The Earl of Liverpool left in the forenoon, but returns
to the Castle in the evening, to dinner.
The Count Nesselrode, Count D. Nesselrode, the
Duke of Wellington, the Earl and Countess Dela-
warr and Lady Mary West, and Sir Robert and Lady
Peel, arrived at the Castle to-day, on a visit to her
Majesty.
Ifer Majesty and Prince Albert, with the Prince
of Prussia, inspected to-day the " Doncaster Cup,"
which Messrs Mortimer and Hunt had the honour of
submitting to the illustrious party. The subject of
the cup is Henry the Eighth and Queen Catherine
meeting Robin Food at Shooter's Hill, May 1, 1515.

Sir ifenry Wheatley arrived in the afterit(x)n.
ller Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady
Charlotte -Dundas, the Countess ‘Vratislaw, and Sir
George Cooper, will join the royal circle at dinner
this evening.
The band of the Scots Fusilier Guards will attend
during dinner at the Castle.
Her Majesty's private band will be in attendance
in the after part of the evening.
The Duke of Cambridge arri .ed in town yesterday
from his residence at Kew. His Royal Highness went
to the House of Lords in the afternoon, and in the
evening returned to Kew.
A Cabinet Council was held at two o'clock yeAter-
d afternoon at the Foreign-office. The following
wire the Ministers present:—
Sir Robert Peel, the Duke of Wellington, the Lord
h incellor, Lord Wharnclifie, Earl of .1 Iberdeen,
Lord Stanley, Sir James Graham, the Chancellor of
the Exchequer' Earl of Haddington, Lord Granville
Somerset, and Sir Edward Knatchbull.

Lord Wharncliffe arrived in town yesterday morn-
ing to attend the Council from Anglesey Villa, near
Gosport. The Earl of Aberdeen arrived from 'Windsor
Castle. Lord Stanley arrived early yesterday morn-
ing from Latham House, Lancashire. Sir J. Graham
arrived from the Isle of Wight, and Lord G. Somerset
from Tunbridge-wells.
The Council sat two hours and a half.
Directly after the Council, Sir Robert Peel, accom-
panied by Lady Peel, left his residence in Whitehall-
gardens, on a visit to the Queen at Windsor Castle.
The Earl of Aberdeen also left the Foreign-office
soon afterwards, on his return to Windsor Castle.
The Duke of Wellington left town after the Council
on a visit to her Majesty.
Mr. Dean, Chairman of the Customs, had an in-
terview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yes-
terday, at his official residence in Downing-street.
The Earl of Westmoreland arrived in town yester-
day from Windsor Castle. His Lordship transacted
business in the afternoon at the Foreign-office.
Dispatches were sent off last evening from the Co-
lonial-office for the Governor of Gibraltar, for the
Governor of Malta, and also for the Lord High Com-
missioner of the lonian Islands.

PUBLIC BATHS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,—In your publication of the 20th current you
very obligingly inserted my letter on the subject of
Public Baths. I feel t)o deeilly interested in the
subject to allow the matter willingly to drop, and
therefore I trust you will endeavour to find space for
this communication. I shall be as brief as possible ;
but if a word or two at a time can keep the matter
before the public eye, and should ultimately be the
means of inducing those among the working classes,
who have the power to set the affair in a position to
be worked out to some good and practical end, neither
your labour nor mine can be considered as thrown
away.
Since I last wrote to you I have read in the news-
papers a brief notice of a great public meeting that
has just been held at Salford, where no less a sum
than 11,0001. was subscribed in the room for the pur-
pose, among other objects, of erecting baths fur the
working classes of that locality. Here is an example
for the citizens of London to imitate. Without uny
very serious difficulty some twelve or fourteen
thousand pounds has been collected in London, to
hand down to posterity, in bronze or marble, the
name of an illustrious Duke, not very likely to need
such a memento in future generations. A much
smaller sum than this would enable us to hand down
to our posterity a benefit for which they would have
good cause to bless the public spirit and enlightened
liberality of those who would assist or encourage the
working men of London to attain for themselves so
necessary and desirable an object as the erection of
cheap and judiciously distributed baths.
That the working classes of London are not un-
mindful of the benefits to be derived from, or averse
to the use of the bath, is shown by the numbers who
have flocked to the Serpentine during the hot weather,
amounting to little short of 300,000. All this too in
the face of its numerous inconveniences and dangers,
for scarcely a week passes during the bathing season
without some fatal accident ; and the exposure is
such as must deter numbers from availing themselves
of the so-called luxury. The fact too of the Lord
Mayor having issued a proclamation against bathing
in the river, ought to act as a stimulus to our exer-
tions to supply proper means and conveniences that
this necessary may be within the reach of all.
I hinted in my former letter that Governmept
might do much to assist us in the way of granting
sites for the erection of buildings. And, just to view
the matter in a practical light, I will take the liberty
of pointing out one or two situations that struck me
as peculiarly fitted for the purpose. In Orange-
street, where the well is being sunk for the supply of
water to Trafalgar-square and the public offices, is a
long vacant space of ground, close by this inexhausti-
ble supply of the needful element. The two engines
that are to be employed to raise the water, could
likewise be made available for the purposes of hot or
tepid bathing. Again, at the east end of the Serpen-
tine is a vacant space of ground, somewhat below the
level of the river. When I last passed that way, if I
remember rightly, it was occupied by a stagnant
looking ditch, which under any circumstances it
would be desirable to drain. Were a bath erected
here it might be open at all howls, the dangers and
the exposures of the river being thus completely
avoided. I need not lengthen this letter, nor will I
add one word more, than just to say that a few re-
marks from your pen, :to give point and effect to my
weak attempts, would, I am sure, be duly appreciated
by all who wish well to their kind, and would confer
much pleasure upon, Sir, yours very respectfully,
A WORKING MAN.
Harrison-street, Regent-square, Aug. 27.

THE LATE PITMEN'S STRIKIL—Our accounts from
the collieries are satisfactory. The pits are all at work,
and though, from some quarters, we hear of an inten-
tion to " knock off " again, wo have very little appre-
hension of the renewal of a folly that has cost the pitmen
so dear. At Wingate Grange the men turned out for a
day, with the view of securing the employment of a
delegate named Sutton ; but finding the owners deter-
mined to resist the demand, they wisely relinquished
their purpose, and resumed their labour. We observe.
from the neighbouring prints, that in various places,
" the strangers" have been maltreated by the old pit
men, for the purpose, doubtless, of driving them from
their employment, so as to make room for the eurplu,
hands who have been thrown out of engagements by
the
strike. But the prompt assertion of the law will c°ll.
vince the authors of these proceedings that,
i every
lawless device, they will be productive only
those who resort to them.—Durham Chronicle.ofnjury to
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evening on his way
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on Friday morning for the on
to North Newcastle the
same e north. lie passed throug,i
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derland. his return
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the° fv
\Vednesday an effigy was elevated on a pole, and, after
being
paraded for some time round the neighbourhood,
it was set fire to in the presence, and amidst the shout-
ings of some hundreds of the population. A letter which
appeared in the Times newspaper of Saturday last,
signed G. S., strongly condemnatory of the jury who
tried and acquitted Belaney, has also been reprinted at
Alnwick, and extensively circulated. The excitement in
the locality of North Sunderland, whore Belaney and his
unfortunate and much respected wife were so well known,
and where her friends most reside, is described as being
very great.—Durham Advertiser.
ENTERING OF MEN FOR THE ROYAL NANT.--•
On Saturday orders were recei%ed from the Board of
Admiralty to commence entering able-bodied seamen
for general service at the general rendezvous, Queen's
Head, Tower-hill. The Perseus tender, lying off the
Tower, has been getting'ready for the last wee!: to re-
ceive the men who may pass the doctor's examination,
until they are sent off to Woolwich, Sheerness, Ports-
mouth, and Plymouth, by steamers, to man the ships
that are ordered to be immediately put into commis•
sion, in case of a misunderstanding between this country
and France.