The Sun.
London, England, 1842-08-08 00:00:00

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LONDON:
110:'7DAY MORNING, AUGUST 8, 1842.

WAR BETWEEN SPAIN AND PORTUGAL

• "The Montrose steamer arrived at Southampton on
Sitturday afternoon, and brings the extraordinary intelli-
gence that Spain has declared war against Portugal. The
;7in-wish troops are already assembling in large numbers
on the irontier, and particularly in the vicinity of Bra-
ganza, at which point, we presume, hostilities will cum-
mence between the two countries.

We borrow this announcement from the Hampshire
Megraph. We have to add, that the Hampshire Indepen-
dent mentions a rummur that twelve sail of the line are or-
dered to be fitted out, which, taken in conjunction with
the news from Lisbon, has an omnious appearance.
The editor of the Telegraph seems not to be aware that
the relations between Portugal and Spain have for some
time (mused uneasiness. It was mentioned a week ago that
she Spanish Govarnment had given official notice to the
Portuguese Government that it was necessary, according
to its views, to advance a military force to the frontiers
of Portugal, in consequence of the disturbed state of the
frontier district. .1t that time General RODIL's army,
12,000 strong, was on its march in that direction, and
some troops had actually arrived at Braganza. Another
army, it was also announced, was on its march to the.
southern frontier of Portugal. It would seem as if some
jealousy on the part of Spain, of the treaty lately concluded
between Portugal and this country, combined with the
ill-will which Spain entertains towards Portugal on ac-
count of their'commercial, or rather smuggling rela-
tions, was at the'bottom of this prompt proceeding on
the part of ESPARTERO. From whatever cause it may
arise, no man can answer for the consequences of any
war which may now be commenced in Europe.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer has very properly
refused to wake himself or the Government a party to
those corrupt compromises which Mr. ROEBUCK'S Com-
mittee has verified. He declined to grant Lord CHEL-
SEA'S request to be appointed to the Chiltern Hundreds,
and the Noble Lord remains a Member of the House in
spite of himself. By these means all these compromises
will be rendered of no avail, and all the parties to them
will tail in accomplishing their object. No better punish-
ment could probably be devised, and, the public will
laugh heartily at the tricksters being tricked.
What will become of the promised 2,000/. to be paid
by Mr. IlussEnn and Lord CHELSEA, in the event of Mr.
'lilts not being elected, we know not. Possibly they
may plead that they have done all they can to complete
the other part of the bargain, and therefore they ought
not to be called on to pay the mono): It is clear by
Ltrd CREW/. endeavouring to fulfil his engagement,
that be preferre l resigning his seat to paying his share
of the 2,1109/., and it will be hard on the Noble Lord to
compel him to pay the money and retain the seat against
against his-will. Whether the unexpected refusal of the
Chancellor of the Exchequer will exonerate him from
the payment or not we know not, and it seems probable
that the knotty point may cause as much negotiation as
did the first corrupt compromise.

On July 14th we ventured to express an opinion that
the House of Commons, would, fur its own sake, throw
out the Colliery Bill, as amended by the Lords, which
fall; so far short of what the House of Commons supposed
to be necessary for the protection of the colliery popula-
tion. Lord ASHLEY'S unbending benevolence, has, how-
ever, di3a,ppointed us. He recommended the House of
•
. Commons on Saturday to adopt the Lords' amendments,
and they were adopted.
Before Lord ASHLEY persuaded the House of Com-
mons to interfere with the subject, the Legislature was
not responsible for the condition of the colher population.
It was an affair betwixt the men and their employers;
between the ciao's arid their wives; between the little
trapper, and their parent: who ,ent them into the pit,.
',('tie only part of it for which tue Legislature was respon.
Whicit staid be raid to grow from it: regulations
apart from ail the laws which regulate property, Iva s the
practice of binding' out parish apprentices under the
Poor-law. For all the enormity of that, as it grew di-
• n'om an net of the Legislature, and was .sanetioned
by it, the Legislature was strictly responsible, and it wes
bound to int,efere and prevent the parish officers l'n;Ul
'411.")g
i poor orphans into slavery ,for many pars
• ;ender its authority. For all the other evils of the
3.stetti it WaS no more directly responsible
thwe. icr the fact that society consists of masters and
won'. men, of capitalists and labourers, of opulent idle, s,
and i ulustrions poor. Fearful, indeed, will be its re-
t,ponsi ility if it assume, as Lord ASHLEY would have
it, the duty of regulating each of the many occupations
sociekv, And of preventing every evil which the imagi-
nation of we ak and ignorant men may ascribe to it. He
. induced the 1 louse of Commons to assume the responsi-
bility of reg,ul. sting employment in mines, and henceforth
evory evil whit.
.h belongs to that occupation, every acci-
dent in ;A mine, every hardship to which the colliers are

exposed, will be justly laid to its door. The Bill to
which the Commons has now assented falls far short of
the Bill which the Commons thought necessary. and by
assenting to it, that I'louse must answer for the much
which is omitted, as well as the little which is done.
According to Lord ASHLEY'S own statement, he has
sacrificed the children in order to save the women. He
admits, therefore, that he is henceforth the guilty sacrificer
of the poor trappers—that HE offers up their infant happi-
ness on the altar of MoLocu. But if any persons de-
serve the care of the Legislature, it is children. Grown
women can, in general, take care of themselves. They
have a voice in , suck matters, and they know how to
make it reach the Legislature. In fact, they have peti-
tioned, and have generally prayed to be let alone, though
Lord ASHLEY and his friends, out of love to them, have
disregarded their prayers. With most impertinent sell-
conceit, these philanthropists pretend to know bettir
what is good for the women than they know themselvel ;
and, in spite of their prayers, the Legislature has for-
bidden them, after a certain time, to be employed in
coal pits. But to carry this crotchet of Lord Asa-
LEY'S into effect, he has sacrificed the poor helpless,
voiceless children. That is a specimen of the monstrous
absurdity of pseudo-philanthropic legislation. The
awful folly of it is equally conspicious. By so interfering
it makes itself answerable for every evil, real or imagi-
nary, which afflicts mankind, and heaps on itself a load
of responsibility which, in the end, must sink any and
every Legislature which assumes it.

Mr. O'CoNNELL, on Friday, in the House of Commo4
moved for " Copies of, or extracts from, the correspond-
ence between the Government and the Magistrates. rela.-
tive to the witnesses produced on the trial of HARE and
others, at the late Armagh Assizes, for Ribbonism,"
which naturally brought the question of the spy system
in Ireland before the House. The papers were refused,
but the motion afforded Lord ELIOT an opportunity of
making a declaration which the country will be de-
lighted to hear—namely, that that atrocious system has
been carried on without any encouragement, open or
implied, on the part of the Government. The Noble
Irish Secretary said, that " whatever advantage might
be derived from obtaining information or the proceedings
of secret societies by the aid of spies and informers, he
thought the advantage would not compensate for the in-
justice and injury which would be done by employing
paid agents to procure information." The Noble
Lord previously stated, that if the local authorities were
cognisant of the conduct of the informers, HAGAN and
Cox, their conduct was altogether unjustifiable. We are
happy to be able to record such language from the mouth
of the Noble Lord. We always did him, personally, the
justice to state, that we did not believe that he was cog-
nisant of the late unconstitutional proceedings of the
Irish Executive, and we are really well pleased to find
that we did him no more than justice. But the Noble
Lord talked last night of the embarrassment of the Irish
Government from most of the crimes committed in that
country being prompted by, or perpetrated under the
sanction, and at the instigation, of secret societies. Such
embarrassment can be got rid of at any moment. All
the Noble Lord has to do is to make it known throughout
Ireland that the Government will no longer encourage
any spy or informer, and that in every case
prosecutions of criminals will follow the first information
against them. So long as the spy system is continued,
there will be secret societies, because the spies them-
selves will form them, and perpetrate crimes in their
names, to bring their deluded members within the
meshes of the criminal law. Once fairly and publicly
abolish the spy system, and there will be an end of
Ribbonism in Ireland. What inducements can the
Roman Catholic population of Ireland now have to be.
come Ribbonmen, and thus render themselves liable to
incur a penalty of transportation ? Their religion is
no longer in peril ; their clergy are not only
safe from persecution, but universally respected ;
their property cannot be taken from them, nor
their personal rights invaded with impunity ; mem-
bers of their body sit in both Houses of Parliament;
others of them are in personal attendance upoa the
Sovereign ; their political chief and co-religionist is
the Chief Magistrate of the capital of Ireland ; and in
all respects before the law they stand on a footing of
political equality with their Protestant fellow-country-
men. That a naturally shrewd race of men so circum-
stanced should voluntarily incur the penalty and dis-
grace of transportation from a country to which they are
so devotedly attached, is consonant neither with the
principles of rhyme nor reason. But it happens never-
theless, Lord ELIOT may answer. We admit that it
does. It happens in this way. The poor Irishman, in
attending some wake, fair, market, place of superstitious
penance, or other gathering, is waylaid by the spy, who
literally plies him with whiskey, and inflames his mad-
dened brain by recollections of the horrors of the last
rebellion, and the wrongs endured by Ireland at the
hands of England. When his victim is sufficiently in-
toxicated and bewildered for his purpose, the fabricated
revelation of the existence of a secret society for the
redress of all grievances is made, fraternization is pro-
posed, an oath of secrecy is exacted, and a password
given. When every thing is ripe, a meeting ofthe dupes
takes place at some Sheebeen, or unlicensed public
house, information is forwarded to the police, and the
infernal perpetrator of all the atrocity is rewarded for
turning QUEEN'S evidence, as it were, and supplying the
amount of evidence requisite for the conviction and
transportation of his unfortunate dupes. This, we
pledge ourselves, is the real secret of the existence of
so many Ribbon Societies in Ireland. As these
societies are denounced from the altars by the Roman
Catholic clergy ; from the platforms by every Roman
Catholic orator ; in the confessionals of the whole of
the regular and secular priesthood ; and stigmatized and
prosecuted by the civil authorities, they could not
exist for six months but for the continued influence of
whiskey and spies. Nor would the atrocious spy system be
suffered to continue so long in Ireland, but for the
handle which it afforded iniquitous and bigotted Ma-
gistrates to get rid of poor persons either troublesome
or distasteful to them. They had but to place a mark
upon their victims, and the spies did the rest. Half the
trouble of a conviction was over when it was known that
the accused had an enemy in the nearest Magistrate.
We do not mean to say that the Magistracy were always
cognizant of what was to follow. But the spies were
careful to select as many of their victims as they could
from among the disaffected, and those against whom local
ill-will existed on the part of men of fortune and station
in society. We, therefore, say decidedly, get rid of the
spy system, and there will be an end of Ribbonism in
Ireland.

There is no political news in the French Journals.
They contain nothing but accounts of the funeral obse-
quies of the Duke of ORLEANS, a report of which will
be found in another part of The Sun.

The Havre Journal of yesterday says—" At eleven
o'clock this morning, twenty-one minute guns from the
tower, and from the Rodeur moored in the basin, an-
nounced to us the commencement of the funeral service
at Notre-Dame for the Duke of Orleans. At the same
time all, the public establishments and the ships and ves-
sels in the port and harbour hoisted their flags half-mast
high. A gun continued to be fired every half hour
during the time the ceremony was supposed to last."
The Toulonnais says:—" We are now able to state
positively that Admiral Baudin is about to relinquish the
Maritime Prefecture. We also learn that Admiral
Hugon will probably be called to Paris as soon as he has
inspected the squadron, which it is said he will do at the
island of Hyeres. The officers who are to replace the*
two Admirals are not yet known."
The Impartial, a Journal of Smyrna, :says:—" By
order of the Porte the troops forming the camp at
Adrianople, have received orders to march to Monaster.
Four regiments have already set out, and two others have
arrived from Constantinople. A considerable force will
be collected to be sent to Albania."
The Pope held on the 22d of July, at the Palace of
the Quirinal a Consistory, at which he delivered an
allocution on the religious affairs of Russia. This allo-
cution is short, but it is accompanied with ninety diplo-
matic documents, which contain a summary of all the
negotiations between the Court of Rome and the Russian
Government. At this Consistory the Pope proclaimed
twenty-one Prelates of whom four were French, namely,
liens Nauds, Archbishop of Avignon, and Messrs. Ber-
leaud, Regnier, and Bardon, Archbishop of Tulle, An-
gouleme, and Cahors.
The Federal of Geneva, of tho Ist, says, in a supple-
ment:—" The municipal elections of Geneva have just
taken place. The Radicals have everywhere triumphed
by a great majority and manifest their joy by noisy ae-
clamations."—Commerce.

BOURSE--.PARIS, TuURSDAY, Au G. 4.
First Highest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. Price.
French 5 per Cents 118 118 20... 118 ... 118 10
4 per Cents 101 G 0... 101 60... 101 60... 101 60
3 per Ceuta 77 75... 77 80... 77 75... 77 75
Bank of France 3215 ...3215 ...3205 .. 3205
laflitte Bank I,ooof 1025 ..1025 —.1025 ...1025
5,0001 5035 ...5035 ...5035
Belgian Bank...
Belgian Fivvs lo2i ... 1021 102% ... 102%
1840 lo3i ... 1031- ... 103% ... 103%
Spanish Active...l 221 22 22%
Passive !••••• ^l} ... 4% ... 4% ... 4%
Dutch 2% per Cents 52% ... 52% 52A ... 52%
Neapolitan.
Human

RAJ LWAY SHARES.
St. Germain Bl5 ... 815 815 815
Versailles, R.B . 293 75... 293 75. 293 75... 293 75
92 50... 95 . 92 50—. 93 75
Rouen
0r1ean5.............. ...... 552 50... 555 ... 552 50... 555
HA mBURGH BORSEN HALLE, AUci.2.

Bills: Money
Austrian 5 per cciarj.
Rank Shares
Anglo-Muslim Loan 1094 lOU
Russian '5 Der Cent., Ist series, Certificate lO3l-i 102 h
Inscriptiosn, Ist series -
Russian .5 per Cent. Hope and Co., 3d and 4th
Serie 3 99 97K,
Ditto in Certificates .....
New 4 por Cent. (15401................ eir* SO

Dutch Actual Debt, 2)6 per Cent
Ditto 5 per Cent.
Polish Bonds
New Tickets
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent. 79 78%
Spanish, New 5 p' r Cents.

EXCHANGES ON LONDOV.
HAMBURGH, 2-13 IN, Two months 1; 75i.
STOCKHOLM, JULY S. Seventy-five days, 12 10.
VIENNA, JULY 99.—Three months. 9. 42

PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, JULY 30.
Bills. Money
St. Schuld Sch., 4 per cent. lo3li 1i3%
Prussian English Bond, 1830, I per cent. 1124
Exchange on Landon „„
Prussian State Gazette, July n.

rl %

THE IRISHMAN IN:HIS GLORY I—The late row at the
Nottingham election must have been a rich scene, and we
quite envy the feelings of exuberant delight with which
Mr. Feargus O'Connor must have taken part in it. It
seems that two waggons, freighted—one with Stephens
and his Conservatives, and the other with Feargus and
his Chartists, found themselves face to face one fine
morning last week, in the market-place. The result
may be anticipated. The Chartist waggon took it into
its head that the Conservative waggon looked impudent ;
and, thus thinking, pitched into it with a seal that bore
down all opposition. Feargus, of course, headed the
Chartists. and, by all accounts, achieved wonders with
his shillelagh. To be sure, in the warlike enthusiasm of
the moment, he floored the wrong man ; and was
throughout so full of his fun, that he staved in the short
ribs, and bissected the craniums, of more than
one member of his own party ; but what of
that ? A skull is a skull, whether it grows on
Chartist or Conservative shoulders ; and if in a
skrimmage, an Irishman finds one skull more to his
liking than another, sure, has'nt he a right to make free
with it ?—to give just a delicate postman's rap at it with
his shillelagh. In election rows it doesn't do to be par-
ticular. Punctiliousness and ceremony are thrown away
on such occasions. All you are expected to do is, to
pitch into the individual who happens to be standing
next you, and get as much fun out of him as possible,
previously offering up a supplication to Providence that
he will be graciously pleased to direct your shillelagh to
the skull of the right man ! What makes the drollery
of this Nottingham skrimmage still more remarkable, is
the fact that Feargus, who commenced it, was at the
time engaged as Head Pacificator to Sturge, the Quaker
AN OPTICAL EXPERIMENT. —An Optician was this
morning—as will be seen by reference to another part of
The Sun—brought up to Union-hall, on a charge of as-
saulting a young woman. It seems that the parties
were to have been married yesterday, but hap-
pening to have a disagreement about the wedding-
dresses, the bridegroom elect, true to the instincts of
his profession, made an optical experiment on his bride,
in the attractive shape of a couple of black eyes ! The
latter, who had no taste for such experiments—not
being of a scientific turn—immediately broke off the
match ; and, not content with this, introduced her
affianced husband to the notice of the Magistrates of
Union-hall, who fined him twenty shillings, by way of
encouraging his enthusiasm in the cause of optical
science. See what it is to be carried away by one's pro-
fessional ardour !
EXTRAORDINARY NOVELTY.—We understand that a
Grand Flying or Centrifugal Railway is now exhibiting
at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, " two hundred feet in
length, down which a car, containing a living passenger,
descends, and gains sufficient momentum to whirl it
roand a circle forty feet in circumference, then ascends
another incline in perfect safety, and during this transit,
the head of the traveller is completely inverted I"—We
wish that Sir Robert Peel could be prevailed on to
ascend this extraordinary car ; for then—when once his
head became " completely inverted "—there might be a
chance of his adopting a different opinion respecting the
Income-tax to that which he at present entertains.

Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, attended by a nu-
merous suite, left town on Saturday by the London and
Birmingham Railway, on a visit to Lord Howe, at Gop-
sall-hall, Leicestershire. Her Majesty afterwards pro-
ceeds on a tour for some weeks, honouring different
noblemen with a visit.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, SA.TURDEY EVENING.

The prices of our own Funds have almost completely re-
covered from the late forced depression—Consols leaving off at
9131 91i for Money, and for the Account ' • Bank Stock, 1693
1703 ; India Stock, 249 250; Exchequer Bills, Old, 51 53;
New, 49 51 prem.
The circumstances by which the fall of one-half per cent.
was produced in Consols, has been very freely commentedupon.
This was caused by a false report that events adverse to the
continuance in office of the present Ministry of France had oc-
curred, and that they bad accordingly resigned. The rumour
was most industriously circulated by parties known
to be connected with the pigeon expresses and operated upon
accordingly by several timid jobbers ; and the market having
been made so as to suit the speculators the opposite side was
then taken. So long as this system was confined to Spanish
stock, &c., it was not worth any very lengthened notice,
although, under any circumstances, most be highly deprecated.
And the distinction is made, inasmuch as none but specula-
tors themselves were ever taken in, and they were perfectly
aware of the real value of the reports. Now, however, when
these same parties, finding that no more fleecing is
to be carried on in, these bonds, and others of a
like description, venture to fly at such high game as our
own Securities, the attempts require exposure and every exer-
tion to render them unavailing. Some remarks have been
made on the conduct of the Committee of the Stock Exchange
in reference to this, and a comparison instituted between the
effect these rumours and the late swindle played off in Mexican
bonds. It would appear that the two cases are totally dissimi-
lar. In the latter a party is stated to have sold at 37, and then
to have produced a letter, by the aid of which the quotation
was driven down to 31. In the other it has been merely a
verbal statement, resting upon the credibility of the party
making it, and the value of whose testimony is now correctly
ascertained, and in future will doubtless be appreciated accord-
, ingly. In the one case the proceedings of the body in question
were not only very remiss, but indicated a desire to shield some
of their own body; in the other it would appear they could
not be called upon to exercise their authority.
The prices of Foreign Securities were—Belgian, 1013 1023 ;
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 513 513; the Five per
Cents., 1013 1013; Danish, 813 823; and Brazilian, 63 65.
'f he quotations for Mexican were, 35 25%.
London and Birmingham Railway Shares were 180 182 ;
Birmingham and Gloucester, 47 49 ; Great Western, 893
90; the Half-Shares, 631 643; South Western, 61% 621,!x;
North Midland, 59 60; the New Shares, 29 30; South
Eastern and Dover, 221 233 ; Eastern Counties, 81 93 ;
Northern and Eastern, 40 41 ; Blackwall, 9 93 ; and Brigh-
ton 333 341; per share.
The quotations for the Bonds were—Colombian, 201 213 ;
Peruvian, 15 16 ; Portuguese Five per Cents., 333 33%;
the Three per Cents., 193 20 ; Spanish Five per Cents. 203
201; the Three per Cents, 193 1931
(From The Sun of Saturday Evening.)
The market has completely recovered from the panic
of yesterday afternoon, and some extensive business has
been done both in English and foreign securities. Con-
sols are 911 for Money, and for the Account ; Three
per Cents. Reduced, 921:; Three and-a-Half per Cents.
Reduced, 1003 101; New Three-and-a-Half per Cents.,
1003 1001; Bank Stock, 170 171 ; India Stock, 249 251 ;
India Bonds, 33 35 prem.; Exchequer Bills, Old, 51 ;
New, 49 51 prem.
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. have been sold at
513, awl the Five per Cents., 1001. The quotation for
Mexican is 35i,
_

The Share Market has not to any extent participated
in the improvement of the Funds. Business to-day has
been limited, and includes both London and Birmingham,
182 ; Great Western, 89 90; South Western, 62k; South
Eastern, 23+; and Edinburgh and Glasgow, 47i.
The Bonds noticed to-day are, Portuguese Five per
Cents., :331; Spanish Five per Cents., 201, and the
Three per Cents., 19i.
PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, AUG. 4.
3 per Cent. Consols . ..... 91 ; Bank Stock
Three and Half Stock 991,1 Grand Canal Stock ...
Ditto Reduced ... Ditto Debs. 6 per cent...
Ditto New 1830......... 991 Ditto 4 per cent ..
3i per Cent. Debs.
--
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, AUG. s.—The Share
Market exhibits more firmness, Shares in our local
Banks are still in considerable request. The transactions
of the day were :—Bristol and Exeter, 41+ ; Eastern
Counties, 9 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 91 ; Man-
chester Assurance, 91. 18s. 9d.

CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH, FUNDS

Bank Stork l7o}
3 per Cent. Red. .... 92. i
3 per Cent. C0n'..... 914
3i per Cent.
New 3i per Cent... looi
New 5 per Cer'
Long Annuities to expire
Jan. 1860 12a _

India Stock 2491:,
Ditto Bonds
Ditto Old Annuities
IDitto New Annuities -
lEx. Bills, 1,0001. ...2d 5l pm
I Ditto WM 5O pm
Ditto Small
Bank Stock fur Acct —

Oct. 1859
Jan. 1860
FOREIGIN

India Stock for 0pg....
IConsols for Acct. 91f
or FUNDS.

Austrian, 5 per cent 1101
Belgian, 5 per cent
Brazilian Bonds...
BuenosAyree6 per cent.
Chilien, per cent
Colombian, 6 per cent —
Ditto, 1624

Portuguese, 5 per cent.
'Ditto, New Ditto
Prussian, 5 per cent.
Russian, 5 pei cent....., 11.4 i
Ditto, Metallic ...... .
Spanish, 5 per cent 2o*
Ditto, Deferred.... pi

Danish, 3 per cent —i French, 5 per cent.ll7f. 50c._
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — (Exchange
Mexican, 5 per cent 3s} !French, 3 per cent. 77f. 50e.
Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 , Dutch, 2i per cent. sli
Peruvian,lB2s,6 per et. !Ditto, 5 per cent. .. ... 1011
SHARES.
Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid) .... 9l
Ditto New Shares ( paid) ...
Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) ...... ... 47e
Great Western Railway (65 paid)
Londen and Brighton (50 paid) ..
.. 34
London and Blackwall ( paid) ...... 9
London and Birmingham (90) ,
„..
... jeol
London and South Western (4116 s 10d pd) 62
Paris and Rouen (18 paid)
South Eastern 1 tui Dover (SO paid) 23i
Ditto Scrip. ( 10 paid) ...... ...... ...... 7i

BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, AUGUST s.—The de-
wand for West India produce has been very limited with
little variation in value since our last. The St. George
cargo, consisting, of 2,300 bags Bengal, has been brought
to market, and found buyers at fair prices. We have to
report the arrival of the Eleanor and Coverdale, from
13arba:loes with 1,000 hogsheads.
THE GALE AT CALCUTTA.—(From a letter dated
June 8.)—" The terrific gale which visited Calcutta on
Friday last (the day the regular mail was despatched)
put all writing out of tke question; it was all we could
do to secure ourselves in our houses. In mine, the
windows were driven in, the verandahs carried away,
and damage done to a serious extent. It is the
worst gale I have witnessed during 12 years' Indian
residence. The loss sustained by the shipping is dread-
ful. The Symmetry, Globe, Lord Western, Cavendish,
Bentinck. and a French brig, all fine large vessels, have
been totally lost in the river ; 43 other first.rate vessels
are disabled ; and of the immense quantity of native
craft always plying, there is scarcely a boat remaining.
Bow many lives have been lost it is yet impossible even
to conjecture, but the number must have been very great
both of Europeans and natives. The damage done to
shipping cargoes is computed at 500,0001. But we have
not received accounts from the interior, and I fear the
indigo crops, now ready for cutting, will have suffered
terribly."