The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-25 00:00:00

GRAND FETE OHAMPETRE,
In honour of the Birth-day of IL. R. H. PRINCE ALBERT,
ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS,
TIIIS DAY AND TO-MORROW, TWO DAY FETES,
Commencing with the May-pole and Morris Dancers ! Friar Tuck,
Maid Marian, Pipe and Tabor, &c.

The Magnificent Modelled Representation of EDINBURGH, un-
eaualled Man./Prin. rlw m• 1 a ri qv", Casbiax,
(exhibited for the first time.)
The magnifie,nt MODEL of VENICE, will be exhibited in a large
and appropriate building lighted from the roof.
An additional Military Band.

Signor ltomanzini will give a classical representation of the Ancien
Statues. on an elevated platform.

Miniature Balloons will be discharged at intervals. One of larger
dimensions will ascend from the Lake emitting Fireworks during its
Ascent.
The PROMENADE CONCERTS By the unrivalled Band o
the Establishment. •
Le Petit Hercule Volant, the Infant Prodigy, win-perform the dar-
ing feat of ascending and descending from the top of Edinburgh
.:astle across the Lake, to the Royal Institution.
The aquatic Tableau and Fireworks will be on an unprecedented
,Cftie of magnificence, including a representation of the Flight of the
t

Admission, One Shilling.—Doors open at One,

The following petition from the inhabitants of
Cologne, dated August 14, on the subject of the pro-
mised constitution, was presented to the King of
PRUSSIA on the 16th:—

" Sire,—The undersigned trust that they respond to the
exalted sentiments of your Majesty, in expressing a wish in
accordance with the necessity generally felt, of obtaining from
the high wisdom of your Majesty the fundamental basis of a
general representation of the people, the publication of which
is anxiously expected by your loyal subjects. The citizens are
anxious to obtain a greater participation in their affairs, that
is, to be permitted freely to choose their municipal councillors
and burgomasters. For the last thirty years your faithful
subjects have awaited a blessing which they know to he con-
templated by the Government of your Majesty."
On the 18th the King and Queen of PRUSSIA, accom-
panied by Counts DE STOLBERG and THIELE, Ministers
of State, and by Baron DE CANITZ, Prussian Envoy to
Vienna, arrived at Frankfort on the 18th, and left the
following day for Wurzburgh and Munich.
A report was prevalent at Berlin, on the 16th, that the
religious differences now existing in Germany would be
spade the subject of discussion in the Germanic Diet,
with a view to some positive decision at to the degree of
freedom to be granted to the new sect of the German
Catholic Church.

We learn from the German Universal Gazette, that on
the 18th inst. a proclamation was posted at Leipsic, in-
forming the people that the KING had appointed coin-
nniss!oners to inquire into the deplorable events of the

12th, who would soon arrive in that city. On the same
day the Municipal Council published a document for-
bidding, under the severest penalties, all popular meet-
ings without a special permission of the authorities.

The Rhine Gazette states, on the authority of a letter
from Coblentz, that whilst the King of PRUSSIA was at
the Chateau of Stolzenfels a council was held, at which
several political questions of high importance, and also
the question of the religious differences in Germany,
were discussed. Prince MErrEarucu, says the letter,
presided at the Council, and the Earl of ABERDEEN and
Count BRESSON were present.

Madrid papers to the 18th have arrived. That city
was in the greatest agitation, and an outbreak was
hourly expected. The new house taxes are excessively
unpopular, and the shopkeepers of the capital have de-
termined to shut up their shops and to resist the pay-
ment of them. On the 18th several shops were shut up,
and it was expected that on the 19th every shop in Ma-
drid would be closed. The Ministers have, it is re-
ported, left Madrid for La Granja and Aranjuez, giving
the Captain-General Mazaays:Do full powers to act
as be may see fit. Troops were pouring into
the city, and it was said that the military would
have orders to force open the shops. In the meantime
the people are preparing for an emergency by laying in
stores of provisions, and a bando was to be published by
tile political chief fbrbidding the closing of the shops.
rt he Hey aldo and the Castellano both disapprove of the
Plan of shutting up the shops. The former has returned
to its allegiance to the Government, to which it offers
its life and fortune on the present occasion.
The Queen of SPAIN and her mother arrived at Santa
Aguada on the 17th inst., and on the next day her MA-
+STY was to commence takiug the mineral waters. The
rbyal party on their road from St. Sebastian to
Mondragan halted at Bergara for the purpose of examin-
ing the monument erected, on the spot where the
meeting between ESPARTERO and MAnoro took place, at
which the celebrated convention was entered into which
put an end to the civil war in the Basque provinces.
MADRID BoLsA.—The Three per Cents. declined k ;
they were quoted 31i cash, 31i 60 days ; 15,600,000
14,4-ais done. Nothing in the other securities.

We have received the French papers of Friday and
Saturday. The following diplomatic changes are an-
nounced in the Conatitutonel :
; "M. Rossi, our Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of
Rome, only holds: that office pro tempore, for Baron Bois le
Comte is to be appointed Ambassador to the Holy See in the
r4:om of the late M. Latour Maubourg. The post at the Hague,
left vacant by M. Bois le Comte, is to be given to hi.
Bussieres, who will be succe.eded at Dresden by M. de Eyragues.
M. de Langsdorff is to remain at Carlsruhe, and his office of
Minister at Rio Janeiro is to devolve on M. de la Rosiere, First
Secretary of the Legation at Rome. This last post is intended
far the young Prince of Broglie, who is to be replaced in Madrid
by Baron de Talleyrand, an attaché in London. There are also
to be promotions among the secretaries and attaches when M. de
F'ontenay, the Minister at Stutgard, and M. Alleye de Ciprey,
the Envoy at Mexico, will retire from publiclife. Three can-
didates are on the list for those two situations—Baron Gros,
former Chargé d'Affaires at Bogota ; and Messrs. de Lavalette
and Adolphe Barrot. M. de Sartigea, Secretary of the Lega-
tion in Greece, is to be provided with a mission, and replaced
by M. Thouvenel, brother-in-law of M. Cuvillier Fleury. M.
de Bacourt, it app. ars, abandons the diplomatic career, and
surrenders his post of Minister of the United States to AL
Pageot, who is already named Plenipotentiary. The mission
to Texas being suppressed, another destination will no doubt
be given to M. Dubois de Saligny, the late Chargé d'Affaires."

The Duke and Duchess DE NEDIOUR; arrived at
Bayonne on the 20th. The Prince and Princess DE
jOINVILLE left Paris for Eu, on Friday, on which day
the Prince and Princess of SALERNO arrived at Eu,
I,e,ving spent the previous day at Rouen. M. TRIERS is
ti) set out for Spain on the 26th. The report that the
government of Algiers had sanctioned the duel between

enerals BOURJOLLY and BOURGEN has been contra.

dieted ; the duel- had not taken place. It would appear
by the following extract of a letter from Algiers, pub-
lished in the P, e.,se, that the French have experienced
a severe check from the Arabs. The letter is dated
iltiliana, 9th Aug.:—
'" The Arabs have again revolted at Orleanaville, four days'
march from here, which has caused the Governor to leave some
infantry with us in observation. Another expedition is to be
undertaken in that direction. In the north the tribes of Bougia
have risen against the Agha named by France. The whole of
the garrison of Algiers has been ordered out, and in four days
2b,000 infantry and 3,000 cavalry were brought together. We
have been cruelly ill-treated. The first battalion of Zouaves
have been massacred. The let regiment of African Chasseurs
and a squadron of Spahis have been drowned. On the same
day two field officers and eleven others expired. As to the
number of soldiers, we have not yet ascertained it exactly, but,
according to the reports in circulation, we have lost in killed
and wounded, drowned, or overcome by heat, 2,700 men. At
ptesent we are at 108 degrees of Fahrenheit at one o'clock in
the day."

The Presse of Friday has an article on the recent
ukase imposing additional duties on foreign vessels en-
tering Russian porti, which it considers as a measure of
reprisal directed against France, the Custom-law of last
session imposing an additional duty on tallow and lin-
seed. The Commerce combats this opinion, and contends
that Russia has more to lose than gain by entering into
a war of tariffs with France. That as a heavier duty
has beet, imposed on sesame, which is not a Russian pi o-
duction, that on linseed Russia has no right to complain.
This additional duty on tallow and seeds was imposed as
a protection to the French
.agriculturists who cultivate

which the whining is wound up. But Mr.-SIDNEY HER-
BERT heeded not his colleague's whining, nor thought it
necessary to reply to his colleague's gentle rebukes of the
Cabinet, of which he is a hopeful member. Mr SIDNEY
HERBERT made a speech full of soft compliments to his
colleague and his constituents, but of everything to the
point singularly empty. The emptiness of the Cabinet
Ministet's speech is significant. If Mr. SIDNEY HER..
BERT had been able to say that the Government were
resolved to abate no more protection, would he not have
said it ? If he could have given a flat contradiction to
Mr. SOTEERON, would he not have done it? There was
no consolation for Mr. BENETT to be got out of Mr.
SIDNEY HERBERT'S speech, nor for the SOTEERON af-
frighted Wiltshire farmers ; but we may augur from it
future advances of the PEEL. Government to free trade,
and we believe that there is no member of the Cabinet
in his heart more liberally disposed than Mr. SIDNEY
HERBERT himself, or more ready to laugh outright, but
that it would be rude, at his colleague's whining out-
pouring.

Poor Mr. BENETT I—he left the Whigs because they
would not protect agriculture for him, and now finds
that in going to the Tories he has gone from the frying-
pan into the fire. Oh ! what would the old gentleman
give now if he could get Lord Jorat RUSSELL'S eight-
shilling fixed duty of 1841 ?
Mr. BENETT was particularly clamorous at Wan-
minster for the repeal of the malt•tax. " His opinion
was that, instead of taking taxes off timber and glass,
which no man could eat—which were luxuries out of the
reach of the poor man—they should take off the malt-
tax. He would never cease to attack that tax for the
purpose of giving to the poor man the luxury of beer.
This would be better than nibbling at cheese, butter,
&c."—(A voice, " The poor man could eat cheese and
butter.") Yes, indeed, the poor man could eat
cheese and butter. And why not, Mr. BENETT,
take the taxes off cheese and butter also, instead of glass
and timber, which the poor man cannot eat ? Why not
take the tax off even bread ? Is this your reason for
taking the tax off malt, and not off cheese, and butter,
and bread, which we find in another part of your re-
ported speech? " Why not take off the malt-tax—(Hear,
hear)—that would give them a better price for their bar-
ley?" And yet, Mr. BENETT, you would fain have us
believe that your desire for protection, your hatred of
free trade, your abuse of the League, is all love for the
poor man. " That would give them a better price for
their barley ;" and Mr. BENETT goes on to say, " and
they could then afford to sell wheat at a lower price."
But wheat at a low price, according to Mr. BENETT, in
another part of his speech, is an evil for the poor man.
" I am en observer for the last fifty years, and I can tell
you that at no period, when corn was cheap, have wages
been high." But if Mr. BENETT can bring himself for
a moment to believe, with the vulgar, that cheap bread
is a blessing, why, in that moment of inspiration, will
he not allow us to cheapen bread by importation, as well
as through the repeal of the malt-tax ? Mr. BENETT'S
Warminster oration is, indeed, a choice specimen of
bucolic logic.

colza and other oil-producing seeds. The following, ac-
cording to the Presse, are the penalties which France
will have to pay for the protection of the growers of
colza

" By this means our navigation as well as our produce are
excluded. The French merchaat-navv will lose about 20,000
tons, which comprised at leat 100 vessels. The silk trade will
also suffer, since its exports to Russia amounted to between
3,000,000 f. and 4,000,000 f. The agriculture of the South
will likewise be aggrieved, for its wines figure in the returns of
French imports into Russia, by the Baltic, for about two mil-
lions. The measure, decreed at St. Petersburgh, appears at
first to be general, and to apply to all countries. But it is to
be remarked that the fifth article excepts the vessels and pro•
ducts of the most favoured nations, as well as those which have
concluded special treaties with Russia. England is placed in
the last category. She will not, aecordingly, be comprised in
the proscription, and if that proscription lasts, our neighbours
will not fail to supplant us in the Russian markets."

But, after all, the colza growers will not derive any
advantage from this protection. The crop of colza has
failed to such an extent that the merchants will be
obliged to import linseed from Russia, even at the pre-
consequence of this pro-
steeentthhmeawvty ty, n dbueth,
have to pay
atanthdetheeenosnellyeers
of
oil
will
three times what they ought for the oil which they con-
sume, while no single industrial interest of France,
trading, commercial, manufacturing, agricultural, or
colza-growing, will derive one tittle of advantage. There
never was a more pregnant instance of the suicidal cha-
racter of the policy of protection than this history of the
profrcted colza-growers of France. It is a perfect epi-
tome of the whole question as between the free traders
and the protectionists.

The eburrier de Marseille of the 18th states, from
Naples, that the Government of the Two Sicilies has de-
finitively abolished the tax on sulphur.

The number of killed and wounded already removed
from under the ruins of the factories blown down at
Rouen, on Tuesday, exceeds sixty killed and one hun-
drkd wounded.

It is reported that Algiers will be erected into a Vice-
Royalty for the Puc D'AUDIALE.
M. PEPIN LEIIALLEUR, president of one of the
northern railroad companies, was summoned on Friday
before the Tribunal of Commerce by several share-
holders, opposed to the projected fusion between that
company and that presided over by Baron DE Rums-
CHILD. The tribunal decided that the cause should be
called on or. Monday (to-day).

There appeared in the journals of Saturday a letter
from M. PEPIN LEBALLEUR, stating► that, "in conse
pence of the law proceedings rashly commenced against
the Directors of the Company for the Northern Railroad,
bearing his name, they find themselves under the neces-
sity of poAponing the notice whiCh they proposed giving
to their shareholders, to inform them of the period at
which they could offer them either the participation to
which they were entitled, according to the arrangements
entered into for their interest, or the integral repayment
of the amount of their subscription."
The Journal des Debuts contains a notice, inserted at
the request of the united companies of Messrs. DECAN
and LEBEUF, informing the public that they were in
possession of the capital necessary for the construction
of the Northern Railroad, and the line from Fampoux
to Hazebrouck ; that all the formalities required by the
law bad been fulfilled ; that all the documents demanded
by the competent Ministries were prepared, and that
the company was now in a condition to bid fur the con.
cession of the two lines. The concession is to be made
on the 9th September.

The Paris Bourse w•as again extremely animated on
Saturday. The French Funds and the Railroad Shares
recovered considerably, and an immensity of business was
transacted in the promises of all the lines about to be ad-
j udicated.

The Three per Cents. closed at 84f. 20c. ; the Five per
Cents. at 121 f. 80c. ; Orleans Railroad shares, 1,302 f. 50c.;
Rouen, I,llof. ; Vierzon, 820 f. ; Havre, 920 f. ; Avignon,
I,oBof. ; Basler 282 f. 50c. ; Belgian Two-and-a-Half per
Cents., 59f. ; Spanish Three per Cents., 38%.
The following are the quotations of the new lines
Orleans and Bordeaux, 2151. premium ; Boulogne, 140 E;
ditto and St. Quentin (Carette), 7f. 50c.; Paris and Stras-
burg (Ganneron), 15f.; ditto (Bechet), 5f.; ditto (Hio-
guerlot), 12f. 50c. • Dijon and Mulhausen, par; Dieppe, 45f.
LYONS, AUG. 19.—Avignon and Marseilles, 1,0851., end
of August; Paris and Orleans, 1,3011., ditto; Paris and
Rouen, 1,085 E, ditto; Orleans and Vierzon, 798 f., ditto;
Orleans and Bordeaux, 720 f., ditto; Nismes and Montpelier,
sf. 90c., ditto.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Auo. 23.
Boulogne and Amiens.. 10% Orleans and Bordeaux 11%
Bordeaux &Mediterran Over Yawl •••
Bordeaux and Toulouse Paris & Lyons (Lafitte) 3 '
Do. and Cette — Ditto (Ganneron's). 21
Central of Spain ..
Dutch Rhenish ...
Dendre Valley.
Dieppe & Paris Junct — Paris and Strasburg
Dijon and Mulhouse
East Indian - Do. (Compte de L'Est)
Grt Northern of France !Paris and St. Quentin.
(Laffitte's)
Ditto (Rosamel's) ... 3 'Rouen and Havre —
Great Paris and Lyons. Royal North of Spain 2%
Jamaica Junction — Sambre and Meuse ....
Do. North Midland — Strasbourg and Basle .
Louvain and Jemeppe — Tours and Nantes
Lyons and Avignon 2%1 (11I'Kenzie's) —
ruxembourgh.. 214 r Do. (Lefebvre's) —
Namur and Liege 53/s Verona and Ancona.... .
0."...u. au,/ rrici V/11

42%

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

EMEUTE IN MADRID.
(From the Second Edition of the Times.)
The Journal des Debais ofyet.terday publishes the following
intelligence from Madrid of the 19th inst., received on Satur-
day by the French Government :

" The Minister of Finance having refused to accede to the
wishes of the merchants of Madrid, who had demanded some
modification in the new tributary system, a great agitation
ensued ; numerous groups assembled in the streets
and public squares; all the shoPs were immediately
closed, and the authorities were obliged to call out the
troops of the garrison. Several charges of cavalry and
a discharge of musketry had been necessary to disperse the
crowd. Two persons were said to have been killed, and two
officers and a sergeant had been dangerously wounded.
" When the courier left Madrid the entire garrison was under
arms, and all the military posts had been doubled. Consider-
able reinforcements had arrived from Guadalajara and Cuenca,
and the Captain-General had been vested with extraordinary
powers by the Ministers present in Madrid. He was even
authorised to declare that capital in a state of siege, should
circumstances require it. The city was tranquil, although
still slightly agitated. The political Chief had published a
most energetic proclamation, and ordered the shops to be re-
opened under the severest penalties. Several shopkeepers
who disobeyed the order had been arrested."

The Moniteur publishes several royal ordinances appoint
ing nine new peers.

The Three per Cents. sold at Tortoni's for 84f. l7lic.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
PAISLEY RACES.—THURSDAY.
The Trial Stakes of 5 soya. each, 3 ft, with 25 added, for
3-yr olds, 7st 51b ; 4 yrs, Bst 71b ; syrs, 9st llb ; 6 yrs, and
aged, 9st 41b ; mares and geldings allowed 31bs. Three
quarters of a mile. (4 Subs.)
Lord Eglinton's Bretwalda, 3 yrs (Oates) 1
Mr. H. Johnstone's Punjaub, 3 yrs 2
Mr. Muirhead's Maid of the Mill, aged 3
Even on Bretwalda. Won by two lengths.
The Burgh Members' plate of 50 guineas. Heats two miles.
Mr. W. H. Johnstone's Milden, 3 yrs ... (Robertson) 1 1
Mr. J. Anson's Ferona, 4 yrs 2 dr
2 to 1 on Milden, who won in a canter.
The Glasgow Cup of 100 soya., added to a Handicap Sweep-
stakes of 25 sovs. each, 15 ft, and only sif declared. Two
miles. (19 Subs. 10 of whom declared.)
Sir C. Monck's Glossy, 5 yrs, 7st 71b......... (Cartwright) 1
Mr. Merry's Brevity, 5 yrs, 7st 31b
Mr. Rogers' Ravensworth, 5 yrs, 7st 21b
2tol on Glossy, and 3to 1 agst Brevity. Won cleverly
by half a length.
The Paisley Cup of 401., added to a Sweepstakes of 10 soya.
each, h ft. Heats, once round. (4 Subs.)
Mr. Merry's John Harris, 3 yrs, 7st 51b (Robertson) 1 1
Mr. T. Dawson's Surety, 4 yrs, .Bst 71b
Mr. Muirhead's Lars, aged ......
Won cleverly.
FRIDAY.
The " Silver Bells," with 50 soya. added. Three-year-olds,
7st 21b; four, Bst 21b; five, Bst 10Ib ; six and aged, 9st.
Mares allowed 21b. Two miles and a distance.
Lord Eglington's br f Bretwalda, 3 yrs (Prince) 1
Mr. Merry's bl m Brevity. 5 yrs
The Hunters' Stakes of 10 soya each, h ft, with 20 added;
12st 71b each; winners extra. Gentlemen riders. Heats,
two miles.
Mr. Campbell's b g Waverlev, aged (Captain Nicolls) 1 1
Mr. R. Swan's b m Archeress, 6 yrs
Mr. Harvey's King of the Valley, 6 yrs 2 3
Mr. Merry's b g The Nobbler, aged 4 4
The Railway Stakes of 10 sovs. each, h ft, with 25 added;
three year olds, 7st 41b; four, fist 61b; five, Bst 131 b; six
and aged, 9st 2;b; mares and geldings allowed 31bs; the
winner to be sold for 100 sovs. Beats, once round and
a distance.
Mr. Morris's b f Mesmeria, 3 rrs (Oatts) 1 4 1
Mr. J. Anson's b f Fermis, 4 yrs 2 1 2
Mr. H. Johnson's bre Punjaub, 3 yrs 3 2 dr
Mr. Rogers's b g Ravenswortb. 5 yrs.. • .. 4 3 dr
The Aftershots Handicap Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each, with
20 added. Once round and a distance.
Mr. Merry's b c John Harris, 3 yrs.... (Prince) 1
Mr. Redfern ns Gipsey ( h b)2

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_;oST OF TILE "MORIN MiooLESEX.—An appendix
,o the eleventh annual report of the Poor-law Commissioners
contain,, among other returns, one relating to the amount of
money levied and expended for the relief and maintenance of
the poor in each union, and for parishes not united under the
Pour-law Amendment Act, in England and Wales, for the
year ended 25th March, 1844, &c. It thence appears that,
during
liberty
in Middlesex (consisting of the Finsbury, Holborn,
of the Ossulston Hundred, and the cif
arid
d Tower y
trninster) was 348,1301. There was, in ad-
a tha t
divisionso f dear,,
e s the amount levied by assessment for the
dition to that sum, a further amount of 19,1471. received from
other sources in aid of the poor-rate; thus making a total re-
expended, during the above-mentioned period, in relief, &c.,
o
cif e
,8;4c0" of the poor, of 367,2771. The amount
; a further amount of 508/. MS 'said to
1. 19,. The sum of 3,8501. was ex-
lnivdheeeddp for
o m r
w chargesthe various vaccinators, under the Vaccination Extension Act.
ex-
pended w e
a rsellie 7f5,
The payments towards the County-rate amounted to
50,846/. ; and those towards the county and local police forces
92,319/. The money expended for all other purposes amounted
to 31,250/. ; and the total parochial rates,
857,7241. &c., expended, to