The Sun.
London, England, 1828-07-12 00:00:00

DIVIDENDS.

E. Augur, George and Blue Boar-yard, Holborn, coach-
master, Aug. 1, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners
—T. Colbeck, W. Ellis, J. Wilks, W. and J. Holdsworth,
,Vesthouse, Fewston, Yorkshire, flax-spinners, Aug. 1, at
Line, at the Court of Commissioners—R. D. Dinneford,
Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, draper, Aug. 5, at two, at
the Court of Commissioners—J. J. Daw and H. Tuck,
Little St. Thomas Apostle, vellum-binders, Aug. I, at
twelve, at the Court of Commissioners—S. Hopson, Long-
lane, Smithfield, turner, Aug. 1, at nine, at the Court of
Commissioners—R. Hunt and J. Sharp, Lombard-street,
brokers, Aug. 5, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners--
W. Lenton, Vere-street, Clare.market and Shoe-lane,
'milder, July 29, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners
Price, Park-street, Regent's-park, scrivener, Aug. 1,
at ten, at the Court of Commissioners—E. Russell, White
Ploi,e.-court, Southwark, hop-merchant, Aug. I, at nine,
at the Court of Commissioners—C. L. and IL A.- Spitta,
and F. and G. Moiling, Laurence Pountney-lane, merchants,
Aug. 1, at nine, at the Court of Commissioners—W. and
H. Sykes and T. Wilkinson, London, bankers, Aug. 8, at
twelve, at the Court of Commissioners—J. L. Shepherd
ar.d 11. Fricker, Southampton, linen-drapers, Aug. 1, at
nine, at the Court of Commissioners—W. Turner, Coleman-
street, plasterer, Aug. 1, at eleven, at the Court of Commis-
sioners—lV. Walker and T. Baker, Cannon-street, wholesale
grocers, Aug. 1, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners—
S. Clegg, T. Mather, jun., and K. Pringle, Etna Iron
Works, West Derby, Lancashire, founders, Aug. 11, at
twelve, at the Clarendon-buildings, Liverpool—J. Conway
and T. Davison, Liverpool, merchants, Aug. 13, at twelve,
at the Clarendon-buildings, Liverpool.--R. Cooper, Led-
bury, Herefordshire, innkeeper, Aug. 1, at eleven, at the
George Inn, Ledbury—E. Cox, Ledbury, Herefordshire,
currier, Aug. 1, at eleven, at the George Inn, Ledbury—
F. Cross, jun., Birtsmorton, Worcestershire, coppice wood
dealer, Aug. 1, at eleven, at the George Inn, Ledbury—
H. Clark, Swallowfield, 'Wiltshire, Aug. 4, at twelve, at
the Wheat Sheaf Inn, Reading—W. Ingelow, sen., and
W. Ingelow, jun., Boston, Lincolnshire, bankers, Aug.
14-, 15, at ten, at the Peacock Ino, Boston—J. Jack-
son and R. Mellor, Salford, Manchester, ironmongers,
August 6, at ten, at White's Hotel, Manchester—
J. and J. W. Knowles, Bent M►lls, Wiladen, Yorkshire,
cotton-spinners, August 29, at ten, at 'White's Hotel, Man-
chester—S. Lusty, Stonehouse, Gloucestershire, corn-
dealer, July 23, at eleven, at the Fleece Inn, Rodborough
_W. Marsden, Salford, Manchester, machine•-maker,
August 8, at ten, at White's Hotel, Manchester—A. Pink,
Portsea, Hampshire, wine-merchant, August 5, at twelve,
at the Royal Oak Inn, Portsea—T. Poole, Colwall, Here-
fordshire, dealer, August I, at eleven, at the George Inn,
Ledbury—S. Porter, North Lopham, Norfolk, banker,
August 5, at ten, at the King's Head Inn, Diss, Norfolk—
R. 11. Sommerville, Liverpool, hosier, August 1, at
twelve, at the Clarendon-buildings, Liverpool—T. Wal-
ker, Radford, Nottinghamshire, lace-manufacturer, August
2, at eleven, at the Flying Horse Inn, Nottingham—S.
Waterfall, Coventry, tea-dealer, August 5, at ten, at the
Star Inn, Manchester.
CERTIFI CA TES—A uG. 1.

W. Bemrnose,l3ourn, Lincolnshire, chemist—A. Carter,
Crosby-row, Walworth, baker—J. Dickinson, Church-
passage, Guildhall, woollen-warehouseman—W. H. Darby,
Edgeware-road, builder—W. Dawson, Kingston-upon•.
Hull, bookseller—C. A. Fitch, Allen-street, Goswell-street,
bacon-dryer—H. Hetherington, Kingsgate•street, Holborn,
printer—R. ➢lorris, Cheltenham, hanker.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

S. G. Bower, H. M. Seally, and D. Ayrey, Old Jewry,
wine-merchants--W. B. Benson and W. Simpson, Leeds,
tobacco-manufacturers—R. Green, U. T. Lutwyche, and
W. Whiston, Birmingham, smelters—J. Gtimshaw and
W. Woods, Bishopwearmouth, Durham, rope-makers--
W. Heath and J. Lawrence, Basinghall-street, cloth-
factors—J. Hoile and R. Pearce, King-street, St. Giles's,
painters—S. Liversidge and T. Crownshaw, Rotherham,
iron-masters—J. Lefevre and H. Pinches, Birmingham,
merchants—P. Long and E. Kemp, Lincoln's-inn-fields,
attornies—J. Philp and R. Law, Watling—street, table-
linen-manufacturers—J. Tanner, T. Richford, and A. W.
Hume, Heading, brewers—W. Temple and W. J. Adams,
'fokenhouse-yard, certificated conveyancers--•G. Warren
and W. Addison, Great Malvern, WorFestershire, surgeons.

HAY.—Fora number of miles around this
city the hay crop is now nearly all safely in the rick, and
beyond the ordinary contingencies of weather. A larger
crop, and a more flattering appearance of an abundant
aftermath, have not been seen in the remembrance of the
oldest farmers in this vicinity. Yesterday about 120 stones
were delivered to a brewer in town, at the rate of 6d. a
stone. Only one large purchase is yet mentioned in this
city. An extensive coach proprietor, who keeps from a
dozen to a score of horses, has bought the produce of se-
veral acres, at 7d. a stone. It is to be driven to him in
weekly or fortnightly supplies, as his demand requires, and
people well acquainted with these matters consider this a
better bargain, _ by fully a penny a stone, than those malls
under the ordinary conditions.—Scotsman.
It will be remembered that NAPOLEON Buo-
NA7Artaa, in his will which he made at St. Helena, left
tokens of his gratitude to several of his old companions in
arms, out of the wreck of the fortune which he then pos-
sessed. Among others he left a legacy of 100,000 francs
to the SOH or grandson of General DIMOMMIER, and de-
clared in his will, " that he bad to the moment of his
death a noble and touching remembrance of the marks of
esteem and friendship which that brave and intrepid Gene-
ral bad bestowed on him." There were three competitors
for this legacy,—the first Madame ZEccA Ducoatattea,
the widow of one of the sons of the General ; Madame
COLLETTE, his daughter ; asd M. DESIRE ADONIS Du-
GOMMIER, the son of the General. The legitimacy of this
person was disputed. Tliti case in the first instance was
submitted to M. LAIITTE, who had 6,000,000 francs in
his possession for the liquidation of the legacies as an arbi-
Vator. That gentleman, in the first place, declared against
tie claims of the widow. From this decision she appealed
t i the Court Royal at Paris. The case has occupiel its Lit-
t •idiot' for several dsys, and judgment has not yet been given.

LONDON.
SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 12, 1828.

We have no further news from Oporto ; and
the public anxiety in the meantime is extreme.
By Monday we shall, no doubt, have authentic
communications. For our own part we do not
at all coincide in the opinion of those who think
the cause of the Constitutionalists desperate;
much less do we believe the wild and inco-
herent reports at present in circulation respect-
ing the defeat and utter dispersion of the
Patriot Army. That they may have retreated
we do not deny, but that they have cowardly
fled in the face of MR-ames « Grand Army"
seems very incomprehensible, if the previous ac-
counts of their enthusiasm and numbers were at
all correct. In our opinion, and we have ex-
pressed it before, the great—the paralyzing error
of the Constitutionalists, was in their delaying to
strike the iron while it was hot, and push on to
Lisbon, and so take advantage of the general
consternation. But they wanted a resolute
leader—a man whose firmness of character
and promptitude of action would have in-
spired confidence into the lukewarm, and
animated the conduct of all by a well-timed
and spirited decision. That opportunity has
passed away; but while the Constitutional
army remains faithful, 'we have no apprehension
for the ultimate result, provided the active opera-
tions of the campaign are entrusted to the energy
of SALDANHA.

It appears that much of the exaggeration re-
specting the flight of the troops is attributable to
the crazy conduct of the Count DE TAIPA,
whose alarm at finding the Constitutional army

make a retrograde movement was so great, that
he hurried back to Oporto, meeting PALMELLA,
VILLA FLOR, and SALDANHA, 011 their way to
the army, in his flight ; and his consternation
was so extreme that he besought them to ac-
company him, saying that " all was over."
PALMELLA and VILLA FLOR returned to con-
sult the Government, but SALDANHA proceeded
at once to the army, which lie instantly rallied
and cheered by his timely presence. Next day
PALMELLA and VILLA FLOR returned to the
army, and thus matters rest at present.

It is but justice to add, that the Conde DE
TA IPA was attacked by a brain fever : on arriv-
ing at Oporto he instantly repaired on board an
English bria-of-war to save his life.
The terror, of the British merchants at Oporto
has communicated itself to their brethren here
who are interested in that quarter. A deputa-
tion of Them yesterday waited upon the Earl of
ABERDEEN, with the following memorial
s, sum- 11.
•

"Information having been received to-day from Oporto,
dated 30th of June, stating that the army of Don Miguel
was within a short distance of Oporto, and expressing
strong fears respecting the safety of British persons and
property in case the city should be taken, the undersigned
Oporto merchants beg leave to represent this circumstance
to his Majesty's Government, and respectfully to claim its
protection.
" They therefore request the favour of the Earl of Aber-
deen to take prompt and effectual measures fOr the protec-
tion of the British subjects and property at Oportn,
daily as, owing to the port being in a state of blockade,
the means of removal of families and property are cut off.

" To the Right Hon. the Earl of Aberdeen, &e."
The following is stated in the Times of this
morning to be a correct account of what trans-
pired ; but we cannot bring ourselves to think
that his MAJESTY'S Government have not acted
in a very Sir William A'Court sort of manner
in withdrawing not only our military, but our
naval protection, from the British Residents, at
the very moment when they most needed assist-
ance, from the avowed hostility of that ruffian
MIGUEL, who commenced putting the plot of
usurpation in practice the moment he landed

After stating the imminent danger apprehended by the
Oporto merchants from the near approach of Don Miguel's
army to that city, and denunciations of vengeance against the
English having been made by the Miguelite party, the
deputation requested his Lordship to inform them whether
in case of the destruction of their property. this Government
would consider that they had a fair claim upon that of
Portugal for indemnification. His Lordship assured them
that if the British merchants had conducted themselves ac-
cording to the laws of the country, and had abstained from
any acts involving them with either party, there would be
a very strong claim for indemnity, and that his Majesty's
Government had instructed Sir Frederick Lamb to make
the strongest remonstrances against any such infringement
of the rights of British subjects, as such a line of conduct
would incur the heavy displeasure of his Majesty's Go-
vernment.

The deputation next inquired whether the blockade, and
the stoppage of communications, were not considered by his
'Majesty's Government as an infraction of the treaty with
Portugal? His Lordship observed in reply, that the treaty
appeared merely to have reference to a case of a foreign
war even with this country ; but that it did not provide
for a case of civil war, which might render it necessary for
the Portuguese Government to take steps apparently in
violation of the treaty. His Lordship said, that it had not
been the wish of his Majesty's Government to sanction the
blockade, but that it had been thought consistent with our
principles so to do; but that, certainly, there were infor-
malities in, the manner in which this blockade had been
enforced, which gave his Majesty's Government the power
to claim free egress for vessels now at Oporto, though they
could not permit inore vessels to enter.
His Lordship, however, admitted that the ulnae of
letters and their detention could not be sanctioned, and that
parties sustaining loss by such an act would be fairly enti-
tled to remuneration. If not permitted to be sent to their
destination, they should have been returned to the British
authorities.

The deputation having been assured by his Lordship
that he had made application for the free egress of British
subjects and their property from Oporto, notwithstanding
that his offer, he thought, had been declined, the deputa-
tion explained that they merely meant to express, that
unless shipping were allowed to enter the port, they could
not remove their property, and that they certainly bad no
desire to remove it, provided they could by any means be
protected in staying, as the loss and breaking up of esta-
blishments consequent upon such removal would be nearly
tantamount to its destruction. The deputation then sug-
gested, that the ships of war now there, which his Lord-
ship deemed sufficient to protect or remove the whole of
the families at Oporto, were, from their small size and
want of accommodation, quite unequal to that purpose,
and therefore earnestly requested that a frigate might im-
mediately be despatched to be off Oporto, and receive
families and their valuables. This his Lordship promised
should be immediately done, if, upon his representation to
the Admiralty, it could be effected, and that if a_frigate
could not be spared, a ship of the next class should be sent.
His Lordship renewed the assurance lie had formerly
given of the, sincere wish of his Majesty's Governtnentto
afford every possible protection, and that he was quite alive
to the situation of the families at Oporto. At the same
time his Lordship expressed again his sincere hope. that no
English resident either had interfered or would interfere
by word or deed with politics ; which the deputation as-
mired his Lordship, as far as they were aware, had not
been the case.

Our City Correspondent says that an Express
has arrived from Paris, bringing the French
Rentes of Thursday : Five per Cents. 105 f.
80c.; Three per Cents. 72f. 85c. The continual
rise of the above Funds for these few days past is
attributed to accounts received at Paris, that the
Russian Ambassador is also going to Corfu to
meet the several other Ambassadors, and the
moment the Turkish Ambassador, who is also
expected there, arrives, negociations will be re-
sumed.

We do not believe a word about the Ambas-
sadors—the Turkish question must now be
settled by fighting, not by idle negotiations.
.We have had too much equivocation of late.

The French Papers of Wednesday, and the
Gazette de France of Thursday, have been re-
ceived. On the 10th June the greatest tran-
quillity was said to reign at Constantinople.
The Turks have published their Manifesto,
which is said on all hands to be a masterpiece
of Ottoman policy. Even the SULTAN has
deigned to become an author, and to appeal to
public opinion,
in a work entitled, rather pre-
The Foundation of future
work attempts to justify the
mvaiettuorerileys_pesrvlhiaicphs,
destruction of the Janissaries. We think
that the SULTAN is too late in the day
with his defence of a measure which he must
have duly considered before he risked his throne
by attempting
so hazardous an enterprize. The
event y
been accomplished—whether wisely or
has
not, on his part, but it certainly betrays symptoms
of fear or unnecessary solicitude now to agitate a
question,
apology
and, if wrong, no argument on earth
could restore to its original character. The
men have been killed or dispersed two years ago
can an appeal to the minds of the survivors
resuscitate the victims of oppression—and per-
haps ingratitude ? It is a bad sign for tyrants
when they appeal ty public opinion in justifica-

tion of their acts, for it is -by acts alone that
tyrants can exist.

The East Retford Disfranchisement has been
abandoned for the present Session. Who knows
what the next will produce ? The Duke of
NEWCASTLE may be on the wrong side of the
Tweed by that time.

Mr. GOULBUR Ni last night brought forward the
Budget, and we must do him the justice to say, in
a manner highly satisfactory. He did not attempt
any dAusion—no bolstering up of rotten systems,
merely, we presume, because they were no
longer expedient. He proceeded in a clear,
manly, and straight-forward course, to state the
real situation of the country, and the present as
wel as probable state of our finances, and ac-
quitted -himself altogether in a very creditable
rnainer. His speech, which will be found
elwhere, rang the knell of that long-con-
tinued bubble of national delusion—the mis-
named Sinking Fund—which is henceforth to be
limited (nominally) to three millions, but which
is, in fact, to consist only of the actual surplus
of Income over Expenditure, as recommended
by the Finance Committee. The Right Hon.
Gentleman said that the Revenue of Great
Britain alone had increased in this year over
that of 1827 by 85,000/., while that of Ireland
for the same period had increased 150,0001.
This statement we think highly satisfactory, and we
trust that Government, acting upon the increased
income of the country, will see the necessity, as
well as propriety, of reducing the taxes—because
a timely and proper reduction would prove a
source of additional revenue, by increasing the
comforts of the great body of the people.

THE FUNDS-(THIS DAY).

CITY, TwsLrie o'CLocr.

In the City the speech of the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer on the Budget seems to be generally considered
as a manly, candid, and fair exposure of the state of
our financial affairs, and has created feelings of satisfac-
tion even on the part of those who might have been
supposed to have considered the limitation of the
Sinking Fund to the excess of the actual Revenue,
as a breach of good faith to the Fundholder ; in fact,
the excess of any Revenue cannot be taken for the
extinction of stock only, but may be appropriated to
the discharge of Exchequer Bills and the other float-
ing debt, and therefore to speak of this Fund as ap-
plicable to the funded debt, is utterly useless; the
Sinking Fund is totally defunct, and is now the Sur-
plus Fund; it has had its day of delusion, and its
friends and admirers, many of whom have derived no
trifling benefit from the fictitious price at which it has
enabled its votaries to keep up all funded property.
It is to be hoped, therefore, the dawn of a more
healthy state of things is now on the eve of com-
mencement, which, aided by the strictest economy
in the public expenditure, will eventually ease
the debt, and perhaps tend to some reduction
in our heavy taxation, thereby enabling us to enter
more freely into competition with our Continental
neighbours, who are less borne down by the weight
of taxation.
We have no fresh intelligence from Portugal this
morning, but although it is supposed the accounts from
Oporto are much exaggerated, alarm is felt for the sue-
cess of the Constitutional Government of Don Pedro,
and this appeared to be the impression that has been
made on our Ministry, whose policy it has been
difficult by many people to understand latterly, with
reference to the blockade of Oporto. A Leeward
Island Mail has arrived at Falmontb, bringing letters
from St. Thomas's of the 15th nit. ; the communi-
cations from Laguayra are of the 24th May, and are
not important ; coffee was 61 dollars ; the exchange
5i 6. Bolivar had not arrived in the Caraccas.
Cliihe angGedo,vebrnumt
ietntwassvagsenneortallep
yxeeted consideredto he
he ITIu
ch
would
be declared Dictator. Consols opened th,is morn-
ing,* 871 for Account ; went to 87k, and after
being B'7?,- f, they are now 87?-, for Account. A
trifling reduction has taken place in the prem. on
Exchequer Bills to 68. India Bonds remain
103, 105.
In the Foreign Funds there appears to be little
doing, nor have prices materially varied. Brazil
Bonds are 62k; Portuguese, 57:1,- 58; Russian, 931
94.; and Greek, 17 18. In the Share Market, no
alteration or any business.

TWO O'CLOCK.

Consols for account are 87i 1, after having been
871 buyers; there is, however, very trifling business
doing. The French Funds continue to be going up,
and come over by an express early in the day; the
6 per cents. 1051. 80c.; the 3 per cents. 72f. 85c.
Mexican Bonds are a mere shade lower, being
40 ; Portuguese, 57,-; 4, having been 58.
HALF PAST TWO.
Consols for Account, 874 i; scarcely any thing
doing.
FOUR O'CLOCK.—CLOSING PRICES.
Consols 861 Danish
Do. for Ac. 88 Greek, 1825
Brazilian Bonds 61:1 Mexican, 1825 401
Buenos Ayres Peruvian
Chilian Do. 264 Russian
Columbian, 1824 Spanish, 1821 11

SECOND 'EDITION.
BUN OFFICE, Five o'clock.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

(THIS EVENING.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

The House met this day at the usual hour, pur-
suant to adjournment.
Mr. LABOUCHERE gave notice shat he would
submit a motion on Monday on the state of Canada.
Sir A. GRANT brought up the Report of the
Ways and Means Committee.—The Resolutions
were agreed to, and the Bill ordered to be brought in.
Sir A. GRANT brought up the, Report on the.
National Debt Act. The Resolutione were agreed to.
The General Turnpike Act Went through a Com-
mittee, and the Report was ordered to be received
on Monday.

The Bombay Marine Bill was read a third time
and passed.
The Military and Naval Pensions' Act went
through a Committee, and the Repoit was ordered
to be received on Monday.
. The Deserted Children (Ireland) Bill was read a
second time, and ordered to be committed on
Monday.
,Mr.. WJEMOM HORTON gave notice that on
Thursday he would move some resolutions in fur-
therance of the resolutions of this House on the
subject of Slavery.
Mr. HORACE TWISS brought up returns re-
specting Captured Negros.
Mr. SHILLA presented the Report of the Commis-
sioners for Building Churches in the Highlands.
The House adjourned at half-past Four o'Clock.

EMBARKATIONS AT THE CUSTOM-HOUSE
THIS MORNING. —The Marquis bf LOTHIAN, Lord CLAN •
WILLIAM, Lord HENRY KERR, Count WAL3IODEN, &e. with
their suites, for Hamburgh, by the General-Steam Naviga-
tion Company's steam-packet, the William Jolliffe ; Lord
and Lady DARLINGTON, Sir JOHN and Lady SHELLEY,
HENRY V. STUART, Esq. M.P. &c. with their families
and attendants, for Rotterdam, by the Attwood steam-
packet,

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.)

FROM LLOYD'S.

DEAL, JULY 11.—Wind S.W.—Arrived from
London the Thomas Henley, for Halifax. Arrived
the Julius Caesar, Green, from Gibraltar; Baretto,
jun., fromindia; and Tropic; from Barbadoes. The
Royal Sovereign yacht arrived with the Lord High
Admiral on board, and will proceed to the westward.
PORTSMOLTTII, JULY 11.—Wind S. by E.—Ar-
rived off the Wight, the Jessie, Winter, from St.
Helena, sailed the 18th May, and from the Cape the
30th April.
FALMOUTH, JULY 10.—Wind W. to W.S.W.—
Arrived the Francis Freeling packet from the Lee-
ward Islands, sailed from St. Thomas's 15th June.
Sailed the-Sydney packet, Waring, for the Cape.
The mail-boat Mary was wrecked the 19th May
on a sunken rock, in running for Antigua.
BRISTOL, JULY 10.—Arrived the Jane, Wallace,
from Trinidad; and Amity, Young, from Miramichi.
DUBLIN, JULY 10.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrived
the Leeds, from Bordeaux : Nimble, McKay, from
Riga.

The Brighton, Parker, from Jamaica, is supposed
to be arrived in the Downs.

The Ann, Burton, arrived at St. Lucia, was plun-
dered on the 28th April, in lat. 30., long. 31., of
part of her cargo, by a schooner, reported from
Buenos Ayres.
The Lalla Rookh, Macullum, from Madras to Pe-
nang and Sincapore, was totally wrecked near-Pon-
dicherry about the 6th of March : very little of the
cargo expected to be saved.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY.)

COURT OF CHANCERY.
IN THE MATTER OF BUXTON.

Mr. AGAR was instructed to apply for half a dozen!
writs of habeas corpus to bring before his Lordship
the body of Mrs. Buxton. This was a subject that
had been very fully discussed in the Court of. King's
Bench, Mr. Buxton ran off with a young lady, and
married her at Manchester against the consent of her
relations. Her uncle, and some other relations, pur-
sued the couple-overtook them at Manchester, on
the very day on which the marriage was celebrated
—took possession of the lady, and have confined her
ever since. An application was made by the husband
to the Court of King's Bench, for a writ of habeas
corpus, calling for the body of Mrs. B. to be
brought before them, and that Court issued six
writs in consequence of the supposed difficulty
of knowing where to find her. Her uncle and
others applied to have the writs quashed, which was
consented to, upon their undertaking to produce
the lady at the Judge's chambers, and there have the
matter discussed. Mr. Justice Littledale was the
Judge before whom the discussion took place, and
in the result he refused to decide the question as a
Judge at chambers, hence the present application.
The LORD CHANCELLOR ordered the writs to
issue.

FOOTNER V. TIGF.S.
The Court was proceeding with this part-heard
motion when we left.

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT.
Nothing of interest occurred in this Court to-dad•.
Several of the leading Counsel were in attendance
at the Cockpit.

The Duke of CUMBERLAND and the Duke
of Ca3rnaincE left town together, yesterday morning, for
the residence of the Duke of CumnEar.ANn at Kew, from
whence, after breakfasting, and remaining some time with
Prince GEORGE, the Royal Dukes proceeded to the Royal
Lodge in Windsor Park on a visit to the King.
The Duke of SUSSEX entertained a select
party to dinner yesterday, at his apartments in the King's
Palace at Kensington.

The Duke of CANIBBIDGE and Prince LEO-
POLD honoured the entertainment given ifLordeand Lady
Gv:oftc.F. CAVENDISH, on Thursday gveninb, at their resi-
dence in Piccadilly, with their presence.

Prince ESTER HAZY entertained Prince LEO..
?OLD and a numerous party to dinner at his residence in
Chandos-street.

Earl CHATHAM transacted business yester-
day, at the Colonial Office, Downing-street.
Lord EL LENBOROUGH and Mr. CROKER
visited the Duke of WELLINGTON yesterday, at the Treasury.

The Confessor of VICTOR AMADEUS, King
of Sardinia, who was a Jesuit, on his death-bed much
wished to see the KtNo. He was gratified, and addres-
sed him as follows :—" Sire, you have always treated me
witk the greatest kindness; I will be grateful for it.—
Never have a Jesuit for your Confessor again ; do not
question me further on the subject, as I dare not answer
you."

Monday was witnessed in Calton the melan-
choly spectacle of the remains of a female being conveyed
in a cart to the burying ground without a mourner or at-
tendant. She had infested the streets till, as generally
happens with those unfortunate creatures, disease put a
period to her wretched life ; and no one could be induced
to follow her body to the grave.— Glasgow Chronicle.

a conference took place
manufacturers of Kidderminster and a
bcoemtwOmeenitn tteeS: carpetoetfuttdh ry week,iuurneynen, which it was hoped would
have led to an arrangement of the still existing differences,
more particularly as the masters offered some advance upon
the prices which they had been endeavouring to establish.
The men, however, rejected the proposition, and avowed it
to be their full determination to refuse all employ, except
at the wages they were receiving at the time of the strike.
—Stockport Advertiser.

PHENoNIENON.---AbOUt midnight, on Friday
week, a meteor of extraordinary magnitude was seen to
pass over Kerr idge and the adjacent villages. It was ac-
companied by a crackling noise, and when far advanced in
an easterly direction, it emitted a great quantity of sparks,
and a sulphureous stench, soon after which it made its exit
in the shape of a comet. The weather had been intensely
hot, and it is not a little singular that the appearance of
this meteor was preceded by an unusual darkness, though
no cloud was visible, nor was there at the time the slightest
breeze perceptible. The phenomenon, we understand, was
witnessed by a few individuals in the vicinity of Buxton.—
Manchester Herald.

WHAT NEXT ?—A few evenings ago, a re-
spectable tradesman, residing not one hundred miles from
a fishmonger's shop in Newark, being in company at a
public-house, had the misfortune to break a glass, which
he paid for; and being hungry, we suppose, actually set
on and eat the pieces, in the presence of several respectable
people : he afterwards offered to bet a wager that he would
eat half a ton weight of glass, in less time than any other
man in England could eat half a ton of carrots !—Notting.
ham Mercury.

BEAUTY AND ECONOMY.—A friend informs
us, that the other night he went to drink tea with a lady
and her two daughters, and that on entering the dining-
room, be observed several glasses neatly arranged on the
mantel-piece, in which appeared the most beautiful bulbous
plants he had ever seen, the roots of which were of the
deepest crimson, and the green sprouts strong and luxuriant.
Our friend naturally inquired what they were, when one of
the young ladies replied with an arch smile, " This is my
mother's garden. These beautiful roots you observe, are
`only red onions, with which she at first amused herself,
by noticing the rapidity of their germination. She then
thought of turning them to use, 'and of course, when we
make soup, these fine healthy sprouts are cut, minced small,
and not only flavour, but
garnish the soup !"—Glasgow
Free Press

GAME.—The game, 1828, promises to be as
plentiful as the grain. The moors are already " redolent "
of " cheepers," and we are acquainted with individuals who
have counted 10 grouse, and at least 12 blackcock pouts,
following a single old pair. In a few days, partridge pouts
ti
will be running about among the corn, and we only regret
that the earliness of the hay harvest should have occasioned
CO mach skaith among the parent birds. In many in-
stances, they have been wounded and killed by the uncon-
scious scytheman, and in others frightened to such a degree
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damage,
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whole will be very large, and the coveys numerous beyond
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peppering on hill and dale—bent, heather, and stubble field,
—from and after the 12th of August and tat of SepteMber.
—4dinburgh Courant.