The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-03 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, ATJG TT Sill 3, 1844.

SHEPTON MALLET, SOMERSETSHIRE.
pri ALFORD returns his grateful thanks to the
JL numerous Families who have honoured him with their pa-
tronage, and to his Commercial Friends and the Public generally, for
the kind support which he has received from them daring the eight
years that he has occupied the George Commercial Inn ; and begs to
inform them that he has taken and entered on the HARE and
ROUNDS COMMERCIAL HOTEL and POSTING HOUSE, which
he has newly fitted up for their convenience.
T. A. assures his friends that nothing shall be wanted on his part
that can conduce to their comfort and accommodation. He trusts
that strict attention, combined with moderate charges, will secure
him a continuance of their favours.
Excellent Stall Stabling, Lock-up Coach-houses, &c. &c. The
Posting establishment conducted on the usual moderate terms. Good
Post-horses and carefhl drivers. Coaches to and from London leave
the above Inn daily, Sundays excepted.

Now ready, in 2 vols., small Bvo., 21s. bound,
A WINTEI. IN
By Mrs. ASHTON YATES. ITALY.
Also just published, by the same Author,
AN AUTUMN IN SWITZERLAND.
SECOND EDITION, in 1 vol., 10s. 6d. bound.
Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

NELSON DINNER.
•' PRAND ILTM"—PUBLIC NOTICE.—TIRAND-ED.
The Operatives of the metropolis, the people, &c., are requested to
bear in mind the fact that prior to George the Third's reign all the
Parliamentary enactments, &c., as recorded, were in the Latin
language, the which, jesuitically admits of two interpretations,
namely, an English and Latin signification " fair to the ear, but
false to the eye*" From which circumstance, the unremunerated
Masons of the " Strike," will now learn (vide undersigned letter
in "Morning Advertiser" in reference), also that the free land
allotted on which Nelson's pillar stands, was granted by the present
Greenwich unaudited and irresponsible trust over 3,000,000 sterling
. .

yearly, tYom (in their possession) all the charities of England* fer the
relief of the "sick, hurt, and maimed" in conformity with this Act,
appertaining by its verbiage to the " trade, navigation, and naval
strength of Great Britain" as proclaimed under the 2d Queen Anne,
This Act of 1703 provides, under its Commission, that " a refreshing

Prandium, genus zonte," as the girdle of yearly investigation, should
have place by free Representation Parliament, as the " refreshing at
noon-day ;" not as belly cheer for the groSs body, but as food for
the mind's eye of posterity. Thus ! the discerning will view the
hypocritcal intent, " Dinner-prandi" of the Greenwich pensioners
friends disposed of, as further made apparent by the " statue" pence,
collected as a Prandium, otherwise " doticum est mane" mark, or
nuptial grace endowry, as footing money, received by those pensioners
deputed by the " trust fit to bring in the monies" as the " Com-
mission decrees," and the said dinner humbug defines under the fol-
lowing, as in 1753 scratched on the base of the effigy in St. Paul's
Churchyard :
" Queen Anne she's gone, and left us in the lurch,
Her face against the Brand Ey'rie-shop,t her back against the
church."
The aforesaid, explains the reason for the undersigned demanding,
on the part of the public, if the word DINNER was to be understood
in the knife and fork acceptation of the term, or the Latin significa-
tion. The Chairman Sir Edward Codrington was dumb-foundered,
and hence " the disturbance to the clique" in a cleft-stick, men-
tioned in yesterday's London papers.
August 3, 1844. CHARLES H. ACKERLEY,
5, Swallow-street, Quadrant. Author of the:Wonderful " Lamp of

Life" in this, our day, as the ALLAH-Donative.

• The charities of Ireland in "Kilmainham Hospital "—those of
Scotland in the " MAinen Hospital" Edinburgh—tin-audited now
140 years, &c., consisting of several millions sterling.
t The letter (P, mutata in B as lib. co'nate to the Metro-pole Ey're
"four de Justice ambulante"—or ancient justice-shop of the
Charing-cross array, as the " Ap!-pny-de-DOme" Square!

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
THIS EVENING AUG. 3,
Will be performed Donizetti's Opera, entitled
DON PASQUALE,
Norina, Madame Grisi ; Ernesto, Signor Mario; Dr. Malatesta,
Signor Fornasari ; and Don Pasquale, Signor Lablache.
Between the Acts, a Divertissement, in which will be introduced
the admired Pas de Deux from " Les Houris," by Mdlle. Cerito and
Lq. St. Leon.
To conclude with LA ESMERALDA. La Esmeralda, Mdlle.
Fanny Eissier ; Phoebus de Chateaupers, M. St. Leon; Pierre
Gringeire, M Perrot.
Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box
Office, Opera Colonnade.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
Sig. MARIO respectfully informs the Nobility, Patron; to
the Opera, his Friends, and the Public, that HIS BENEFIT
will take place

ON THURSDAY NEXT, AUG. 8,
When will be performed (by desire) Bellini's ipera of
I PURITAN'.
Elvira, Madame Grisi ; Giorgio, Signor Lablache; Ai Gut,, Signor
Mario; and Riccardo, Signor Fernasari.
To be followed by a Divertissement in which Mdlle. Cerito will
ppear.
In the course of the Evening, Selections from a Favourite Opera,
iti which Madame Persiani and Sig. Mario will appear.
To c nclude with LA ESMERALDA. La Esmeralda, Mdile.
Fanny Eissier ; Phoebus de Chateaupers, M. St. Leon; Pierre
Gringoire, M. Perrot.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
MR. BENJAMIN WEBSTER, LESSEE
LAST FOUR NIGHTS OF THE PRESENT' SEASON
THIS EVENING, AUG. 3,
Will be performed Sheridan's Comedy of THE SCHOOL FOR
SCANDAL. Sir Peter Teazle, Mr. W. Farren ; Charles Surface,
IVIr H. Holl ; Lady Teazle, Mrs. Nisbett.
In he ceurae of the .Et ening, Mr. John Parry will sing " Fayre
Bosamonde."
'Fe be followed by the new Farce, entitled THE MILLINER'S
HOLIDAY. Sir Simon Sparkes, Mr. Buckstone ; Mr. Pennywlg,
Mr. Strickland; Fanny Thompson, Miss Julia Bennett; Miss Potts,
Mrs. Humby.
To conclude with A KISS IN THE DARK.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. WEBSTER, LESSEE,
And Last Night of the Sea'on.
WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 7,
Will be performed Shakspeare's Comedy of THE TAMING OF
THE SHREW. Petrucio, Mr. Webster; Grumio, Mr. Buckstone ;
Christopher Sly, Mr. Strickland; Katharina, Mrs. Nisbett; Bianca,
Miss Julia Bennett.
In the course of the Evening Mr. Webster will deliver a Farewell
Address.
Atter which, THE TRUMPETER'S DAUGHTER; or, Love
and the Polka. Phillipot, Mr. Webster; Madelon, Madame Celeste;
who will dance the celebrated Polka.
Mr. John Parry will sing oue of his celebrated Buffo Scenes.
To conclude with THE MILLINER'S HOLIDAY.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
LESSEE. Mr. J. M. MADDOX.
FOR THIS NIGHT ONLY.
V'OR THE BENEFIT OF THE CHORALAUG DEPARTMENT.
THIS EVENING, . 3,
Will be performed Donisetta's Opera of DON PASQUALE.
Principal Characters by Mr. Allen, Mr. Burdmi, Paul Bedford and
:Miss Grant.
After which, A GRAND CONCERT.
To conclude with a New and Original Burlesque, entitled THE
WONDERFUL LAMP, being an Illustrated Version of Aladdin.
Abanazar " Mr. Paul Bedford ; Aladdin. Mr. Wright ; Princess
Badrouladour, Miss E. Stanley.
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THEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM, LATE ENGLISH OPERA-
HOUSE.

Under the Management of Mrs. KEELEY.
The" Adventure' of " Martin Chuzzlewit" having, on each repre-
sentation, ueen received with every possible mark of public appro-
bation by the most fashionable and crowded audiences, and having
been pronounced by the unanimous voice of the publie press to be
one of the most interesting Dramas ever produced from the works
of the celebrated Author, a repetition of its performance will take
place every evening
TH till further notice.
IS EVENING, AUG. 3,
Will be repeated a New Drama, entitled MARTIN C HUZZLE-
WIT. Principal characters by Messrs. R Younge, F. Vining,
Emery, F. nlathews, A. Wigan, Meadows, Kinloch, Turner,
Stanton, J. W. Collier, Yarnold, Sanders, and Keeley ; Miss For-
tescue, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. A. Wigan, Mrs. Woollidge, Miss
Groves, Mrs. Usher, Miss Turner, and Mrs. Keeley.
To be followed by an Apropos Bagatelle, called POLKAMANIA.
Characters ./ Mr. F. Matthews, Mr. Wigan, Mr. Keeley, Miss
Woolgar, and Mrs. Keeley.
To conclude with a New Domestic Drama, entitled THE MO-
MENTOUS QUESTION. Characters by Messrs. Diddear, F.
Vining, J. W. Collier, Miss Fortescue, and Mrs. A. Wigan.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS.
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. BATTY.
Great success of the Chinese Feast of Lanterns, and New Military
and Naval Spectacle.
THIS EVENING, AUG. 3,
Will be repeated an entire new Equestrian, Military and Naval
Spectacle, entitled THE CHINESE WAR; or, The Conquests of
Amoy by British Arms. New Scenery, lltesses, Appointments, &c.,
to realise the recent triumphs of En3land's Army and Navy. Feast
of 250 Lanterns.
Dance of the POLK A, by Mdlle. Cushnie and Sig. Milano.
New and unequalled Scenes of the Circ e—Extraordinary Feats
of Horsemanship by Monsieur Louis Tournaire, Sig. 6ermani,
La Petit Isabelle, Mr. Newsome, Btc. ; with Mr. It. Smith's highly
trained Steels.
After which, the old English pageant o! THE SUMMER'S
MORN of 1686; or, the White Wreath and Flitch of Bacon.
To conclude with THE GREAT STEEPLE-CHASE ; or, Eng-
land's airvest Home.
Acting and stage-manager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot.

DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
THIS EVENING, AUG. 3.
The Grand Oisera and splendid Spectacle have attracted the greatest
overflow ever remembered, increasing nightly.
Last Week but three of the Opera Season, commencing with FRA
DI AVOLO. Powerful Operatic Company—Miss Romer, Miss Betts,
Miss Pearson, Mr. D. W. King, Mr. Leffler, Mr. E. L. }lime. Mr. S.
Cowell, and Mr. G. Stansbury, conductor. Increased Band and effi-
cient Chorus from the Theatres Royal
To conclude with an entirely new Aquatic Spectacle, introducing
Three Scenes of Real Water, entitled THE MOUNTAIN CATA-
RACT ; or, The Enchanter's Spell.
Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box-
office, from Eleven to Four.

ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.
Daylight View of
LONDON in the OLDEN TIME
Painted by Danson and Telhin.
The sensation caused by this unrivalled production Is beyond all
former precedent; the artist, the amateur, the casual observer
are all struck with its extraordinay beauty and fidelity of delinea.
Lion, and Are unanimous in pronouncing it the most wonderful ex-
hibition ever witnessed. To view it only as a vehicle tor the terrific
display at Dusk is unjust ; it should be seen in the calm stillness of
the quiet Evening, with its Towers and Steeples reflected in the spa-
cious Lake, to be fully appreciated.
The Evening PROMENADE CONCERTS Mondays, Tues.
days, Wednesdays, and Thursdays concucted uy Mr. Godfrey.
are up-n a scale oemore than usual excellence; fait words fail in
doing justice to the awful representation of
THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON.
Its fearful characteristics are truthfully pourtrayed, but at the same
time so beautifully blended with the Wonders of the Pyrotechnic
Art, Mat delight is predominant over terror; and the Thousands
who nightly crowd the Gardens hail it with acclamations, and admit
that I:outbby, the Unrivalled Pyrotechnist has achieved a matchless
triumph.
The Gardens and Zoological Collection are in the most perfect
state, dud combining so many and interesting features, are by far
the most attraritive lounge in or near the metropolis.
Feeding of the Animals at Five—Concert at Six—Conflagration at
Dusk. Admittance, One Shilling.

EGYPTIAN HALL, PICCADILLY.
IMPORTANT NOTICE.
OXI,I SHILLING Admission to THE NAPOLEON MU-
SEUM, the most magnificent and extensive Collactlon of Histo-
rical Curiosities and Works of Art ever known to hat e been formed
by One Person, during Twenty-five years of elaborate research, at a
cost Of 60,000 guineas, and to completely illustrate, in the most in-
structive and interesting manner, the most important part of Euro-
pean history, viz.—CHARLES 1., OLIVER CROMWELL, and
LOUIS XIV., to the deaths of GEORGE 111., and the EMPEROR
NAPOLEON, in 1821. This unique Museum as been visited often,
daring the last and present year, by the Royal Family, the Duke of
Wellington, the Foreign Princes, Ambassadors, and their Ladles,
also, many thousands of the Nobility and Public; and the Pro-
prtetrbr has recently been able to in as ease, by several very fine
pictures, he.' his previous almost Inc:edible number and variety of
MSS., Woes of Art, and a multitude if valuable Relic, and other
curiosities, in 01.3 most aisiructive and, as hundreds have said it
ought to be, a Natio2al Museum. Is thousand have inspected it,
and THIRTY PRINCIPAL EDITORS el the PHI3LIC PRESS
have stated that It °ugh' to be'seen by every one. The price of admis-
Mon is reduced to ONE SHILLING.
The NAPOLEON MUSEUM is to bo seen only at the "Egyptian
'pa" Piccadilly. daily
em Ten till T, usk.

THE WEATIIER.—SuN OFFICE, Aua. 3.
rinamosiETEß, Lowest, 53 ; Highest, 68; Noon, 61.
BAROMETER, 29. C.—WEND,.—WEND, S.W.
Nova„--The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the
treeing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is
Qually ptaced opposite 30, and rain at 29.

ICIII WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE TUTS DAY
Aforning 48 minutes after 4 I Evening 6 minutes
after. 5

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SECOND EDITION:

COURT LEES and others against the repeal of the penal
laws relating to Catholics. What misery mad
Orangemen and Jesuitical Bishops cause in this
country !
Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition from Lord
DUNDONALD, stating that he possessed a secret for a
destructive engine, surpassing any of the implements
of war known, and prayed to be admitted into compe-
tition with other inventors.

The Metropolitan Buildings Bill was passed.
In answer to a question from Lord BEAUMONT,
relative to the execution of a Maltese at Tunis, Lord
ABERDEEN said that person had been guilty of two
murders. On reference being made to him by the
Tunisian Government, he said he could not interfere ;
and if it had been left to him to say whether the law
should have its course, he would have answered in
the affirmative.

On the order of the day being read for the third
reading of the Railways Bill, the Bishop of LONDON
moved an amendment on the sixth clause, in order to
prevent third-class trains travelling on Sundays,
Good Fridays, and Christmas-days. This horrible
motion was justly condemned by Lord BROUGHAM,
Lord MONTEAGLE, and the Marquis of CLANRICARDE;
and the Duke of WELLINGTON, seeing the state of
affairs, made a retreat, and moved that the debate be
adjourned till Monday. It was accordingly ad-
journed.
Lord WHARNCLIFFE moved the third reading of
the Unlawful Oaths (Ireland) Bill. This led to
some discussion, in the course of which Lord
CAMPBELL made this just remark :—" The Catholics
and Protestants of Ireland should be put on an equality,
and until they were so, there would be no lasting
peace or tranquillity in Ireland."
The Bill was then read a third time, and the House
adjourned at Half-past Ten o'clock.
The Commons met at Twelve o'clock, when several
Bills were passed.
A new writ was moved for Dudley in the room of
Mr. HAWKES, who had accepted the Chiltern
Hundreds.
The House went into Committee on the Insolvent
Debtors Bill. Several Members previously had
objected to the Bill being brought forward at such a
late period of the session, but the opinion of the
House was against them. Nearly all the clauses were
agreed to, the report was received, and the Bill was
ordered to be reprinted and recommitted on Mon-
day, to enable the Government to make alterations in
accordance with the suggestions of some Members.

The Art-Unions Bill was read a third time and
passed. After some other business of little import-
ance, the House adjourned at Half-past Seven.

The spirit which animates the Bishop of LONDON
will be the death of his order. There is no redemp-
tion for the bigoted and selfish race which he repre-
sents. At the crisis of the Reform Bill, the Episcopal
Bench was all but overturned, the men with lawn
sleeves and black aprons scarcely dared to appear in
the streets, and were hooted even in sacred temples by
the religious people of England. They succumbed
for the time, but when the storm was over they ap-
peared in their true colours. Whenever any benefit
was to be conferred on the working-classes, when
education for the million was proposed and measures
for the relief of Dissenters were introduced
into Parliament, the Sacred Bench • was
crowded to excess
.to advocate bigotry, and trample
upon the rights of one half of the nation.
They are the most selfish and intolerant class in the
whole community. Merchants and traders, and men
of experience in every other rank of life, listen to
reason, and submit patiently to the plans of Go-
vernment, however injurious to their individual in-
terests, because they know everything would be
thrown into confusion if they rebelled against the
decisions of Parliament. The Bishops, however,
take higher ground. They set Parliament at defi-
ance, and rest on what they call their divine autho-
rity.. The Railways Bill affords a remarkable instance
of the presumption and despotic character of the
Church. A clause allowing trains with third class
carriages to travel on Sunday, WAS carried
in the Commons by a large majority; the
Bill was sent up to the House of Lords,
with that clause, and the Bishops without a moment's
delay put their heads together to oppress the poor
man. The Bishop of LONDON last night moved the
rejection of that clause. In his usual Jesuitical
manner he professed that he did not wish to prevent
railway companies from carrying third class passen-
gers;; all he wanted was to release:the Government of
this Christian country from the necessity of enforcing
travelling on the Lord's-day. The conduct of this
man is beyond endurance. If it is a sin for the poor
man to travel on a Sunday by railway, is it not a
still greater sin to allow the rich to go by
what the Bishop, we suppose, would call a sa-
cred train ? The first and second class carriages may
be filled to overflowing, they are to be allowed to
pass ; but the third class is prohibited because it is
the Lord's-day. The nobles, the wealthy mer-
chants, the squires of England, and the whole bench
of Bishops, may travel by railway on Sunday ; but
the poor man must remain at home; he must not
enter a third class carriage, because he would bring
down upon the land Divine judgment by such an
outrageous profanation of the Sabbath. Though he
is pent up all the week in some noxious cell ; though
he is anxious to see his friends on the only day that
he can spare from his heavy toil ; though he
has no other means (with the exception
of steam-boats, and these the Bishop would also
forbid) for inhaling the fresh country breeze, he is
to be debarred from this harmless and healthful re-
creation, on the plea that the Sabbath would be pro-
faned. We say, Down with these hypocrites—these
oppressors of the poor—these men who, in the words
of our Saviour, " Strain at a gnat and swallow a
camel." The rich have all the seven days of the
week for travelling or amusement ; the poor man has
only one ; and, though he should be as pious as the
Bishop of LosiD6N, and go to church in the forenoon,
like a good Christian, he must be chained to his
house for the rest of the day, and look forward in
gloomy anticipation to the renewal of his labours
on Monday. His family too are to be chained
with him. His wife and his children, who we
know, if the Bishop does not, submit to
many deprivations during the week for one day of re
taxation, must be confined to the smoke of London,
while the Archbishop of CANTERBURY and the Bishop
of LONDON are travelling in their chariots, or regaling
themselves and their friends at country seats, provided
for them by the very people whom they would crush
to the dust. The public cannot submit to this glaring
tyranny, this mockery of religion. The Duke of
WELLINGTON, as will be seen from the Parliamentary
report, took time to consider. Why did he not ehow
his usual decision ? Why did the Hero, who fought
the battle of Waterloo on a Sunday, not act in accor-
dance with his own unbiassed opinions, and set his
face, like a good and a great man, against the en-
croachments of the Church and the oppressions of the
poor ?
*OW

We have devoted a considerable space to our report
of the proceedings yesterday at the Westminster
Court of Sewers, which we think will amply repay
our readers for the time it may occupy in its perusal.

The subject, it will be seen, relates to the large
sum of 41,6491., the amount of work done by the
contractors for the Eastern and Western divisions of
the Westminster Sewers since Michaelmas, 1841.
Mr. LESLIE, one of the Commissioners, declared that
a gross fraud had been committed on the public,
and that Mr. BENNETT, whose tender was ac-
cepted by the Court of Sewers in July, 1841,
as the lowest tender, was not so in reality. He
made the surveyors read over various items from
the rejected tender of Messrs. BIRDS, comparing each
item with BENNETTS', in which it was shown in every
case cited, that the public has by the manoeuvre been
compelled to pay an increase of price, varying from
five to ten, twenty, fifty, sixty, and even one hundred
per cent. more than they should have done ! The con-
clusion of the scene was probably unparalleled in any
Court in this country, for after such documentary evi-
dence, which cannot err, had been read, the Court re-
solved that Mr. LESLIE had not proved his case !
We may safely affirm, that not a single reader will
coincide with the Court—the case is made out beyond
the shadow of a doubt, and we who are rate-payers
in the districts think and feel that a Court so exhibit-
ing itself ought to be buried in one of its own
sewers.

Surely it is an augury that we have fallen upon
evil days, when it is impossible, in our opulent and
magnificent metropolis—to say nothing of the empire

at large—to raise a subscription fund of sufficient
extent to defray the expenses of a monument to the
memory of NELSON. The whole range of our heroic
history does not present one name, perhaps, asso-
ciated with more chivalrous daring, more tran-
scendent success, or more signal achievements in
the service of his country, than that of
our "great Admiral." At a time when our
military pretensions were humble, indeed, by the
side of those of continental Powers, whose armies,
under the chief command, as it may be said, of a
single captain, occupied the entire Continent in mili-
tary possession ; when the moral impression and phy-
sical efficiency of our soldiery abroad were, as yet, in
an inverse ratio to the enthusiasm and energy of the
warlike spirit excited by the common danger in all
ranks of our people at home ; NELSON was the greatest
among the great commanders who vied in elevating
our naval renown to a point of unapproached
supremacy. In 1798 he dealt, on the Bay
of Aboukir, a mortal blow to the naval power
of Republican France. In 1801 his consum-
mate conduct and impetuous bravery annihilated
the navy of the most formidable competitor we
could have grappled with for maritime empire,—
namely, Denmark. In 1805 he closed his mortal
career, a career of daring intrepidity and
successive triumphs—by extinguishing, in a single
action, the combined fleets of Imperial France and of
Spain. We select these three epochs of the brilliant
story of his eventful life, (crowded as that is with
a hundred episodes of stirring interest, not less glo-
rious to the dauntless bravery of this wonderful man,)
because they mark the periods at which the British
nation was most indebted, under Providence, to his
genius and his valour, for its escape from the
degraded fate of all the other kingdoms of
Europe. If NAPOLEON could have wielded,
with the military resources, the naval armaments,
also, of the great Powers of the north and south, whom
he successively conquered, and rendered subservient
to his own policy of aggrandising France at the ex-
pense of all her allies; Great Britain must have
become a mere tributary—a province—a dependency
of the new empire which he founded in defiance of
every obstacle. At this time of day it can scarcely
be necessary to expatiate on the irretrievable calami-
ties—social, moral, and political—the ineffaceable
disgrace—the irreparable injury to an ancient
Power of the first rank, and force, and
dignity, if it fall into the rear of Euro-
pean nations, and be blotted out from the
list of independent and permanent sovereignties.
And if this be true of any State, with how much
force does the reflection apply to the case of Great
Britain, which, even forty or fifty years ago, had a
larger inheritance of renown and strength, of wealth
and power, of sacred recollections and brilliant des-
tithes to forfeit, than any other independent Power in
existence ?

Associating these considerations with the name of
NELSON, we have, from time to time, expressed our
sorrow and astonishment at the apathy—not to
say the ingratitude—of the public in permitting
the progress of such a memorial as that
which has been erected to his honour in
Trafalgar-square to languish for the want of
pecuniary aid. We have lived to see the funds
raised for so sacred a purpose indebted mainly for
even their present amount to the munificence of a
FOREIGN Potentate ! We have lived to see the hand—
and we will not shrink from doing it all honour for its
liberality on this occasion, of the Autocrat of RUSSIA
opened heartily and generously in the work of con-
tributing to an imperishable record of the great hero
and the saviour of this country. We have
lived to blush for the unpatriotic parsimony of
those in high station—the royal and the noble favour-
ites of fortune, who, from their abundance, could not
spare so much to this offering in honour of British
heroism as probably the cost of the jewelled souvenirs
lavished by them on some ridiculous freak of nature
like an American dwarf. Nay, while the palaces of
royalty and the saloons of our ducal aristocracy
have been freely opened to receptions of unbounded
hospitality and gracious courtesy to the Yankee mi-
crocosm, her MAJESTY'S Ministers deny even the use
of the mere area of Trafalgar-square to the truly na-
tional purpose of giving a banquet—not at the public
expense, not at any charge to the Crown, or to
the Government—to the few gallant veterans,
the surviving comrades of the great NELSON, who
fought and bled with him in the estuary of the Nile,
at the entrance of the Baltic, on the rocky shores of
Teneriffe, or in the tempestuous sea that breaks upon
the Cape of Trafalgar ! We can scarcely believe the
evidence of our own eyes, or suppress the expression
of our indignation, when we read the statements de-
livered at a meeting of the " subscribers to the fund
for the dinner which was to have taken place in
Trafalgar-square," held on Thursday, at Willis's
Rooms, Sir EDWARD CODRINGTON in the chair.
The whole affair of the column which is, and the
banquet which is not, has been throughout an insult
to the illustrious dead ; a disgrace to the nation ; an
insufferable slight upon the veteran pensioners who
were to have paid, in the manner proposed, their
last public homage to the immortal commander whom
they served ; which will associate mingled
emotions of anger and contempt with the
name of the present Government in the bosom of
future generations, to whom the glory of NELSON will
be as a sacred relic of an age of heroes. In the first
place the beautiful shaft of the Corinthian column
was actually robbed of twenty feet of its length, in
order to dissipate the fears of Lord MONTEAGLE, and
other abettors of Mr. WILKINs'S monstrosity—the
National Gallery—that it would give an effect of in-
significance to the elevation of that edifice. As if
anything could elaborate the meanness, or exaggerate
the ugliness of that disgraceful enormity. In the
second Sir ROBERT PEEL, the other night, stood
sponsor for this inconceivable violence on the beautiful
design supplied for the shaft (by Mr. REPTON
we believe), by quoting the sagacious opinion of
some professional authorities whom Government had
consulted, "that if the pillar was built of the intended
height, it would be dangerous." How exalted an
idea this ex-officio arbiter of art—this presiding
genius of all Committees for building, decorating, and
painting all kinds of public works—must have of the
the masonic skill of our builders—of the experience
of our contractors—of the strength of stone, and
the endurance of bricks and mortar—to be coaxed
into a fear, that in a city which has boasted for 170
years of such a column as the Monument, 160 feet
above its pedestal of 42 feet—a column so much
lighter and shorter as the NELSON pillar, as ori-
ginally designed, could not be erected with safety to
the vicinity ! Apprehensions, these, consistent
enough in the patrons of Sir JouN SoANE's uphol-
ntery-liitc arailiceLute, or oh itmez...
less and monotonous copies of the most tame and in-
sipid Greek examples yet extant.
But to the business of Thursday. The ancient
friend and comrade of NELSON, Sir E. CODRINGTON,
apprised " a very thin meeting" that the permission
originally accorded by the Woods and Forests to
employ the area of Trafalgar-square for the projected
dinner having been withdrawn, all that remained for
the Committee to do was to explain the reasons of
their failure to carry out the design of their appoint-
ment, and to dispose of the subscriptions. In the
outset of the arrangements, Sir ROBERT STOPFORD,
Governor of Greenwich Hospital, had given per-
mission for the attendance of the Trafalgar men ; and
Lord LINCOLN, on the part of the Woods and Forests,
had granted the use of the square. This last had
since been, after various postponements to the anni-
versaries of the battles of the Nile, Copenhagen, &c.
withdrawn by Lord LINCOLN, who apprised the
Chairman that his reason was the fear of the walks,
terraces, &c. sustaining injury. But the contractor
for the works himself offered to make good any
damage they might sustain; (trumpery specimens
of unsightly asphalte as they are after all.) Then
followed the usual, well-understood, official trick of
bandying the Committee from one department to
another, between the Earl of HADDINGTON and the
Earl of LINCOLN ; the former, at least, having the
;11' dridelantiootninttoensdo
foraicnetetrofedree.c,l, areotvhbaty tshheoAulddmtihreayl t
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rated his refusal, not thinking " Trafalgar-square
a suitable place for such an entertainment—on account
of
the beingsituated
metropolis,
where i n sucks
some
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m edednissetuly populated
rbancesm partigh of
might be
be
likely to ensue." " Trafalgar-square not suited,"
indeed, for a commemoration of NELSON ! What are
this egregious young Lord's notions of suitableness
and appropriate adaptation ? And the vicinity is too

" densely peopled," is it ? Would this profound Com-
missioner have the companions of NELSON regaled
in holes and corners, as if it were some paltry, petty,
shuffling affair of managing a sham election for a ducal
pocket borough ? Densely peopled ! "In GOD'S name,"
we say, " would that such a banquet could be given
in the presence of ten millions of his and our fellow-
countrymen, that they might impress their children and
their connexions with the honour rendered to one of
the most devoted and disinterested champions of their
country's greatness ! And, finally, this Lord of a
peaceful bureau in Whitehall-place is afraid of " dis-
turbances ensuing" among the people, should these
gallant tars be assembled at a banquet to toast the
memory of NELSON. Well there might be popular
manifestations of scorn, and displeasure, and disgust,
at the unaccountable possession of power by a Go-
vernment which can be thus oblivious of the undying
claims of NELSON'S renown upon his country's grati-
tude, and thus impertinently offensive in disparaging,
by anticipation, the conduct of those whom he had so
often led to victory and honour. But if they had
arisen, they might have been changed to merriment
by the mere mention of these freaks of Sir ROBERT
PEEL'S cautious Government, and poor Lord LIN-
COLN'S cautious Commissionership. We have only
patience to add that, of the 4081. subscribed for the
dinner, the balance in hand, after deducting expenses,
cost of medals, &c. (a balance of 347/.) was ordered
to be divided among the Pensioners, their widows,
&c., to whom the dinner was to have been given.

Whilst our French neighbours, under one of those
accesses of political credulity which so frequently
betray them into apprehensions very alarming to
themselves, but very amusing to all the rest of the
world, are endeavouring to inflate the Otaheite
question into one of meditated universal empire, on
our parts, in the southern hemisphere ; we propose to
say a few words on a subject somewhat more grave,
but considerably less palatable, we suspect, to their
vicious appetite for Anglo-denunciation. Our
Parisian Contemporaries are so very earnest in
their invectives, that we suppose ourselves bound,
in courtesy, to assume that they really believe
what they say,—and attach a bona fide meaning to
what they write—touching the Society Islands. On
this principle we collect that they imagine our con-
nexion with the affairs of Otaheite to subsist and be
maintained for no other purpose but gradually to
assume possession of the island, and to provide its
government. That our interposition to protect the
unfortunate POMARE from thebrutality of some obscure
French officers, whose acts have been substantially dis-
avowed by their own Government, was but the cloak for
a deeply formed plan for getting her into our own power,
and dictating our own terms for her compulsory ac-
ceptance, under the hopeless restraint of our superior
strength. That Mr. PRITCHARD, our Consul, in re-
ceiving and consoling the unhappy QUEEN, and re-
moving her under the safeguard of the British flag,
and entering his Consular protest against the proceed-
ings of the French authorities, as contrary to the
law of nations and derogatory to British bonour—was
really animated by the desire imputed to him, of
" raising a general insurrection in the island,
for the extermination of all the French subjects inha-
biting it." That this gentleman (for whose imprisonment,
in spite of all Lord ABERDEEN'S coaxable facility
in bolting diplomatic apologies, we must yet have
ample, express, and measured explanations or satis-
faction), was really exhibiting, in his own person a
bad copy of " John of Procida," and getting up a
miniature " Sicilian Vespers" among the tattooed
aborigines of Otaheite. We must be content for the
present to leave these lively fancies undisturbed ; for
we are about to turn from this tiny speck on the great
waste of the Southern Ocean, to which an accident,
or the caprice of the French public, has attached
so exaggerated an importance ; to the contempla-
tion of the present affairs of a magnificent empire
in the East, held by this country in undisputed pos-
session, and impinging largely, with its boundary
lines, on the vast continent and seas of Asia. An
inspection of the " Accounts respecting the Annual
Territorial Revenues and Disbursements of the East
India Company, for three years, 1839-40, 1840-41,
1841-42" (ordered by the House of Commons to be
printed on the 16th of July), would go far, we con-
ceive, to disabuse the most determined enemy of per-
fidious Albion, in the Paris journals, on the subject of
our interested attentions to the successor of TA-
MEHAMEA

It would be quite out of place to enter, here, into
any recapitulation, however brief, of the geographical
position, extent, natural and political resources, pro-
ductions, population, &c. &c., of the several countries
and nations comprehended under the jurisdiction of
each of our Indian Presidencies. The very best
test among practical men—of colonial possession
and authority, is identified with the actual
receipt and disbursement of enormous revenues. In
our Presidency of Bengal, for instance, these are
derived, mainly, from such undoubted evidences of
paramount sovereignty and established power, as post-
office collections, stamp, mint, customs and excise
duties, and the yield of particular
branchesuties that are farmed, such as
land
of revenuerev enu ;
e
those from the sales of salt and opium. To these
may be added the equally significant attesta-
tions of political supremacy, furnished by ter-
ritorial receipts, as those from the "territory ceded by
the Burmese ; subsidies received from the Nagpore
Government; tributes from the Nizam, Rajhpoot,
and other states ;" also the " charges" on the other
side, including military, war, and marine charges.
The same items, to a great extent, supply the ele-
ments of the return for the " North Western
Provinces," late the Agra Presidency ; and in the
accounts for " Madras," are added, among " revenues,"
" Subsidies from Mysore, Travancore, and Cochin." In
the statement for the "Bombay" Presidency, we find
the addition of " Subsidy from the Cutch Govern-
ment ;" and among the charges—for the Indian navy
and marine alone, no less than 13,26,857 rupees. But
what are the more striking results of this elaborate
exposition of the affairs of this more than Imperial
domination, mainly administered by a score of
British merchants at home, and their confidential
servants in the East, civil, political, and military, with
civil, j udicial, and military staffs, invincible armies, com-
manded by some of the ablest officers in the world,
and an admirable marine to uphold and vindicate
their power ? In the first place, let us take " Charges
defrayed in England, on account of the Indian terri-
tories in each of the four years, 1839-40 to 1842-43
inclusive." The " Dividends to proprietors of East
India Stock " varied little ; the amount ranging
from 625,8851. to 626,4771. per annum ; the value of
" stores" consigned to India from 290,6771. to
333,0891. Steam-vessels (purchase and equipping) in
the first year of this term cost 192,8291. in the last,
50,0091. Furlough and retired pay to military and
marine officers, 488,7011. to 535,6081. per annum.
Payments on account of her MAJESTY'S troops
serving in India, from 150,0001. to 400,0001.
a year. General charges from 514,6721. to 533,6971.,
&c. &c. The total for 1842-3 was 2,458,1931. The
preceding year it was nearly 400,000/. more.
In the second place, we take the " General Ab-
stract of the Revenues and Charges of India." The
"revenues " of all the presidencies and provinces was
for the last years 1842-3, no less than 17,164,8361.
And notwithstanding the enormous outlay in-
cident on our operations and position in the
countries north and west of the Indus, the total
expenses, including the total of war; charges, were
only 912,223/. in excess of revenue. This result may
be considered as an irrefragible proof of the elasticity
of the general Indian revenue, and the economy of
its present arrangement. But when we take into
account the almost inestimable value of the abso-
solute stock and plant of the East India Com-
pany in England, and in its Asiatic do-
minions, shipping, public buildings, warehouses,
merchandise, munitions of war, &c., &c., and find
that the " public debt for all the Presidencies bearing
interest, on the 30th April, 1842, stood only at
34,378,288/., paying imerest, varying with its various
classes, from 4/. to 61. per cent. (but on a small amount
0f17,000/., transferred from Fort Marlborough, paying
10 per cent.) and that the aggregate of this interest
does not exceed 1,628,5251. per annum; we may well
marvel at the grandeur and opulence of these vast
establishments. Hers are their proprietary
dividends regularly paid in England, to
the amount of 630,000/. and upwards per
annum, a yearly charge of interest of little more
than a million and a lalf; and a yearly revenue of
17,000,000/. and upwards—in the " charges" against
which this interest and all the inconceivable burden of
such armies in such a country, maintained on a war

establishment are comprised ! Truly we may let
the Parisian journalists amuse themselves with big
words about Otaheite !

The Madrid journals of the 26th ult. all advert to
what some of them call an attempted revolution. The
lieraldo, a Government paper, thus describes the
plot :

"According to accounts which have reached us, Provi-
dence has just saved us from a frightful catastrophe—the
plan said to have been in agitation was nothing less than to
have set fire to the barracks, and, under favour of the first
moment of confusion, to have assassinated the officers and
the chiefs, and to have delivered up the city to all the horrors
of a pillage. These horrible schemes have, however, been de-
feated by the zeal and activity of our military and political
authorities, and the admirable fidelity of the troops. Amongst
the persons arrested, is a nephew of Don Alonzo Cardera.
" It appears nearly certain from all accounts, that the
Exaltados had an idea of making some manifestation. They
had made overtures to the sergeants of some of the regiments,
and given them money ; but after they had got possession of
the secret, and received the bribe, these men, faithful to their
duty, communicated the affair to their officers, and thus pre-
vented the contemplated outbreak. Every precaution con-
tinues to be taken."

The Castellano, another Government paper, doubts
the story, but at the same time admits that the
" entire population is in the deepest anxiety." And
why ? Because they fear it is a scheme got up by
NARvA.Ez, for the purpose of making further inroads
on liberty. The editor of the ilionarquia has been
found guilty of a libel on the Government. The ver-
dict against him was to this effect : " Guilty, with
extenuating circumstances, and the editor is declared
incapable of accepting a situation in the public service,
and condemned to a fine of of 3,.500 reals."
The Prince de JoINvILLE again sailed from Cadiz
on the 23d, for Tangiers.
On the 26th the Three per Cents. were quoted at
264- for 60 days.

Ths intelligence from Otaheite has caused some
sensation at Paris. Several of the journals publish
the documents at length, and most of them have ar-
ticles on the subject. In general they infer that
Mr. PRITCHARD was in the wrong, and consequently
justify the French authorities. Even the Journal des
Debats, the Government paper, takes that view of the
affair, and we presume thus speaks the sentiments of
M. GulzoT :—" It appears that immediately after the
declaration of taking possession of the island was
made by Admiral DUPETIT THOUARS, Mr. PRITCHARD
protested against it, and prevailed on Queen POMARR
to take refuge on board an English vessel. Up to
that time the British Consul acted within the line of
his duty; but after he had protested, he should have
waited for instructions from his Government. It
appears, on the contrary, that Mr. PRITCHARD set
about organising an insurrection against the autho-
rities which had been established ; that under his
authority incendiary proclamations had been cir-
culated through the islands, and a party of the
natives incited to take up arms. Acc()rding to the
same accounts, M. D'AuEIGNY had declared martial law
in the place, and taken every measure necesssary to
repress the insurrection. The English correspond-
ence pretends that Mr. PRITCHARD had been guilty
of no act of aggression, and had merely offered
Queen POMARE an asylum on board a vessel of his
nation. This is what we wish to see cleared up.
One thing appears certain, that the French authori-
ties had arrested Mr. PRITCHARD for inciting the
nation to disorder, and that he was only released on
the application of the Captain of the Cormorant
steam-frigate, who promised that he should not again
land in the island. The Cormorant then sailed for
Valparaiso, from which place Mr. PRITCHARD took
his passage in the Vindictive. It is through Mr.
PRITCHARD himself, no doubt, that the news given
by the English journals has been communicated;
and, consequently, it may be very well believed that
the facts in question are exaggerated, or denaturalised.
Besides, if it be true that Mr. PRITCHARD, after the
taking possession was declared by the French Admi-
ral, organised an insurrection against the new autho-
rity, his incarceration and expulsion were perfectly
consistent with: the laws of nations ; and from his
known previous conduct, it is difficult for us to be-
lieve that he has maintained the neutrality which is
attributed to him by the English press."
The National, as a matter of course, highly com-
mends the spirit shown by Captain BRUAT in curbing
the insolence and overbearing airs of English agents.
The writer commences with apparent fairness and
moderation, and ends with a malignant attack on
England. The following extract shows the spirit
which animates a journal that nothing short of war
with this country will satisfy :

" We admit assuredly as the first of the principles which
govern international relations the inviolability of consular and
diplomatic agents. Without this principle there would be no
more security in those relations, and we should fall back into
a state of barbarism. There is, however, a principle no less
incontestible—it is, that diplomatic agents should respect the
sovereignty of the power that receives them, shonld recognise
its rights, and refrain from meddling with anything which
may compromise the security of the State. These ideas are
elementary, and certainly Captain Brunt and Admiral Dupetit
Thouars havenot forgotten them. To pretend, as the English
journals insinuate, that the Consul Pritchard was arrested,
put into prison, and compelled to leave the island, without
the most imperious necessity calling for such a measure, is to
insult good sense, and mock at realities. It is evident that
he had recommenced his attempts on the inhabitants, shame-
fully taking advantage of their ignorance, and persuading
them that France, a poor country of the third rank, had no
means of maintaining her rights; lie, in fact, persuaded the
poor devils to take up arms to attack us. If such insolence
be permitted, the treaties which unite nations may as well be
torn up. Our representatives at Tahiti have acted as they
should have done. They arrested this Pritchard, and they
were right in so doing, they prevented his doing more mis-
chief by first arresting him, and then sending him off. These
perpetual overbearing airs which are assumed by the Eng.
lash agents towards us should at length meet their punish-
ment. The French do not go on their territory to defy their
power, contest their possession, and oppose their conquests in
all parts of the globe. We respect them where they are;
let them in their turn respect us."

The Presse calls Mr. PRITCHARD " a Figaro dis-
guised as a missionary," and the Constitutionnel eagerly
seizes the opportunity for making an attack on M.
GUIZOT

" What will M. Guizot now do ? The disavowal of the
conduct of Admiral Dupetit Thouars must be by this time
known at Otaheite. What effect will be produced on the
natives, again, perhaps, in insurrection, or recently brought
under subjection, by the news of our obedience to the injunc-
tions of England? Will not the predictions of Pritchard be
accomplished in their eyes? Who will henceforward answer
for the tranquillity of the Society Islands? Is not our
authority there for ever lost? It is stated that Admiral
Hamelin, who is to supersede Admiral Dupetit Thouars, has
sailed in the Virginia. What joy and triumph for Com-
modore Nicholas, and for the English officers who
have taken part against the French Admiral, to see
him replaced at the very moment of their menaces, and
amidst the insults of the entire EnOish press! And
what a ridiculous and impossible mission is not M. Bruat
charged to accomplish, if lie must reinstate the Queen, after
the vigorous blow which has just been struck ! He is pub-
licly involved in the responsibility of the acts of Admiral
Dupetit Thouars, which he has followed up and exceeded.
The disavowal falls with still greater force on him. M.
Guizot, the taker of islands, has been as unfortunate in his
enterprises as in his concessions. He has wished to make
himself a conqueror, and he has not dared to lay his hand,
altogether and without reserve, on some islands of savages.
He has again become pacific, and his complaisance has raised
a fresh cause of division between France and England. We
do not possess Tahiti, and yet we are at war there ; we have
disavowed the acts of our Admiral, and the English are about
to demand reparations from us ; we have humbled our marine
and yet that za not enough. It is certainly impossible for a
Government to act with more skill, good fortune, and glory !"
The English papers containing Sir ROBERT PEEL'S
words, " a gross outrage, accompanied by a gross
indignity," will make some stir among these advo-
cates for war. In the Chamber of Peers, Viscount
DUBOUCIIAGE, one of that party complained of the
little attention paid by the Government to the public
feeling on various points of foreign policy—such as
the disavowal at Otaheite, the affairs of New Zealand
and La Plata, and the right of search. He also re-
ferred to the case of the English Consul at Algiers
not having yet demanded his exequatur. Count DE
ROSSIERES thought it childish to raise a question of
dispute or discussion about the exequatur, when the
country to which that Consul belonged had
acknowledged the right of France to her
conquests in Africa. He adduced the case
of the establishment of Belgium as an independent
kingdom in 1832, when the French Government,
though certainly well inclined towards that country,
never thought of renewing the authority by which her
consular agents were acting there. He would state
another remarkable example. In 1828, when Don
MIGUEL went to Portugal to espouse his niece, the
French Government refused to recognise him ; but
at the same time, not wishing to let the interests of
the French people suffer from this state of things, it
sent a Consul-General (M. DE LESSEPS) to Portugal,
to watch over these interests, and this agent regularly
performed his mission, in spite of the non-recognition
of Don MIGUEL. Therefore, he would maintain
that, as the two cases were precisely similar, there was
no necessity for the English Consul at Algiers to be
provided with the exequatur of the French Govern-
ment. It was understood that the business of the
session would close at the end of the week, and the
prorogation take place on Monday.

THE BOURSE—THURSDAY, AUGUST 1.
First Highest Lowest Last

Price. Price. Price. Price.
French Five per Cznts ...• .. 121 45 .. 121 45 .. 121 30 .. 121 30
Four per Cents. • .... 106 50 .. 106 50 •• 106 50 .. 106 50
Three per Cents..... 81 70 .. 82 .. 81 65 . • 82

Bank of France 3115 ..3115 3115 ..3115
Lafiltte Bank, I,ooof. Sharesll2o • • 1120 ..1115 .. 1115
Belgian Fives,lß3l..
1840 105 f • • 105; .. .. 105 f
1842 •• 108 i .. Ingf .. 108 f .. 108 f
Spanish Threes
Portuguese Five per Cents • • 431 .. 431 .. 43i • • 431
Neap01itan............ •
Roman . 1031 .. 104 .. 1051 .. 104
RAILWAY SHARES.

243 75 .. 243 75 .. 242 50 .. 242 50
Uonen to Havre— ..... •• 760 .. 760 .. 757 50 .. 757 50
Orleans ............. 9BO .. 980 .. 978 75 .. 988 75
Strasburg to 8a1e......
Avignon to Marseilles.. 765 765 . 765 .. 765
RAILWAY SHARES FOR SETTLING, 2n OF AUGUST.
St. Germain
Versailles, L. 8............ 242 50 .. 242 50 .. 242 50 .. 242 50
Rouen to Havre.......... 760 .. 760 .. 757 50 .. 757 50
Orleans' .. 978 75 .. 980 .. 977 50 .. 977 50
Strasburg to 8a1e.......... 238 75 .. 238 75 .. 237 50 . 237 50
Avignon to Marseilles.-- 766 25 '.. 767 50 .. 765 .. 765
RAILWAY SHARES FOR THE ACCOUNT, 15Th OF AUGUST.
Versailles,L.B.. ...... 243 75 .. 243 75 .. 242 50 .. 243 75
Orleans ..... .......... 985 .. 985 .. 985 .. 985
Strasburg to 8a1e.......... 238 75 .. 238 75 .. 238 75 .. 238 75

ATTEMPT ON THE LIFE OF THE
KING OF PRUSSIA.

HAMBURGIL JULY 30.—The Berlin Papers bring
more particulars relative to the attempt on the life of the
King of Prussia. Their Majesties arrived about noon
on the 26th at Frankfort-on-the-Oder, where they
stopped for a short time, and arrived in the evening at
Christianstadt, and at seven in the morning of the 27th
proceeded on their journey to Erdmansdorff. We learn
from a letter of the King's own band, dated Frankfort,
that his Majesty was perfectly u ell, and we have the
more pleasure in communicating this intelligence since
it appears that his Majesty was actually struck by one
of the balls, which, thanks to God, only grazed his
breast, where it has left a red spot. When the inhabit-
ants of Frankfort were informed of the King's providen-
tial escape, they assembled in crowds to welcome him,
and resolved to offer thanksgiving, in the church. The
Queen. too, was well, though deeply affected. The
Prussian Gazette publishes in its official part, two
addresses to the King, dated the same day on which
the atrocious attempt on his life was made. One is
from the Chief Burgomaster, the Burgomasters, and Mu-
nicipal Council ; the other from the other Magistrates.
They both express in the warmest terms their abhorence
of a crime of which the Prussian territory offers no pre-
vious instances ; their joy at their Majesties safety, and
the grateful feelings towards Divine Providence for its
manifest interposition. His Majesty, who appears to be
in the most perfect health, and in good spirits, received
the deputations from his loyal" capital with the Queen at
his side, in the most gracious manner, and replied with
visible emotion to the address of the Burgomaster in pre-
senting the address. The concluding words of his Ma-
jesty's answer were remarkable, and will be deeply im-
pressed in the heart of every Prussian :—" Nothing can
shake my confidence in my people, and, least of all, such
an attempt. My relation to my people remains as before.
I lay my head without apprehension in the lap of any
individual."

The person who presented the petition to the Queen
is the daughter of the assassin.

THIS DAY S NEWS.

UNION-HALL.--(THIS DAY.)
The night charges were more than unusually numerous
this morning, and occupied the attention of the magistrate,
Mr. Trail!, a considerable period. The charges consisted of
drunkenness, rioting, and abusive language. Mr. Trail, in
most cases, inflicted fines, varying in amount from 40s. to 55.,
or, in default of payment, from seven to fourteen days' impri-
sonment.

Robert Skinner, a most expert thief, and a character well
known to the police as a professor of teaching juvenile
thieves in the art and mystery of diving into gentlemen's
pockets, was brought up in the custody of police-constable
M 101, for exercising his calling in the High-street, Borough,
and " sounding" the pockets of several gentlemen. The po-
liceman informed the magistrate that, knowing what a skil-
ful and experienced character he had to deal with, he -watched
his motions for a length of time, and at length caught him
in the act of lifting up the tails of a gentleman's coat.
Mr. Them, informed the prisoner that he was in a fair way
as a candidate either for the gallows or the penal settlements,
and sentenced the prisoner to fourteen days' imprisonment in
the House of Correction.

Ann Harris., a prostitute, residing in a common brothel of
the lowest description, in Vine-court, Tooley-street,
Borough, was committed for twenty-one days to the House
of Correction, for robbing a sailor of his jacket. " Jack"
informed the magistrate that now he had not got a shot in
the locker, and he must go to sea again.
James Sadler, a news-boy, in the employ of Mr. James
Norris, bookseller and newsvender, of High-street, Camber-
well, was charged with embezzling various sums of money,
received from different customers. Mr. Norris, in answer to
a question from the magistrate, said he did not wish to carry
the case to the sessions.

The prisoner was dismissed with an admonition from the
magistrate.

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