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being of prepossessing appearance, he paid his addresses
to her, and was accepted. They were married in St.
Luke's church on the 2d of May. They spent the bridal
evening in the Rev. Gentleman's house. A little before
bedtime Mr. Boddington slipped into the bed appropri-
ated for the married couple, and was forcibly ejected by
the husband's friends.

Other evidence of the same character was given, but
w refrain froth publishing it. The assault complained
of took place on Thursday last. Complainant, after
watching the motions of Mr. Boddington for a long time,
at length found out his wife's lodgings at 53, Spencer-
street. He went thither, and spoke friendly to her, but
she struck him with a bellows on the head, and Mr. Bod-
dingtou came in, and struck him with his clenched fist.
A third party interposed, and the complainant declared
but fur that he should have been murdered.

Mr. COMBE said a more disgraceful case he never
heard. He recommended the complainant to enter into
no compromise. He would send the case before a jury.
Five pounds, the highest penalty he could impose, was
no su ti-icient punishment for such baseness.
They were then committed for trial.
UN/ON-HAIL.

Police Constable 134 I' was placed at the bar, before
Mr. Traill, charged by John Cameron, with a wanton
and unprovoked assault on Kennington-common.
The complainant said I am engaged ift The Sun news-
paper office as reporter, and was, in my official capacity,
sent to Kennington-common, on Monday, the 22d inst.,
to report, not the speeches, bUt the general aspect of the
meeting. For this purpose I went to the further end of
the Common and waited until the meeting was dispersed.
Seeing things pretty clear, I was making my way home,
when a constable on horseback rode his horse at me. I
was endeavouring to get out of his way, when defendant
came up behind, and seizing me by the collar threw me
on th ground, right in the way of the animal. I got up
and ;Nas thrown down a second time; when rising, and on
my knees, I took policeman's number, seeing which he
alleivkfd me to go off the Common.
Mr. Tamm.—Such was nearly my own case ; partly
out of curiosity, and partly because I thought it my duty
to go ; and I got pushed about, as did many others, by
the police, but, under the peculiar circumstances, I made
no complaint about it.
Complainant—l make no complaint of the police for
doing what they might consider their duty ; but I eel-
taint; complain that I was thrown down twice by this
man without warning, and when the Common was clear
at the time.

Mr. TRAILL—I got pushed about a good deal, 'tis true,
and perhaps bad no right to be there, but it was in my
district, and therefore I went: Let us hear, constable,
what you say to this charge ; Mr. Cameron says you
pushed him on the ground twice?
Defendant—l was on Kennington-common with a
great many more policemen. I was coming down the
Common when I saw this gentleman (complainant)
catch hold of Cheesly's horse's reins. Cheesly called
for my assistance, and I went and caught hold of his
(complainant's) collar, when his foot came against mine,
and he fell. lie said, he would not go off the Cominon,
and I gave him a shove, and he happened to fall again.
Mr. TRAILL—Why did you give him a shove the
second time ? Defendant—l thought it my duty to do
so ; I was told to clear the Common.

Mr. Tneux—But why did you shove him down a
second time ? Defendant—Why he caught me by the
breast.

Mr_ TRAU.L—You had better say no more than you
can prove. Are you sure that Mr. Cameron caught the
reins of the mounted policeman's horse ? Defendant—
To the best of my belief he did.
Mr. TRAILL—Did you see him do it ? Defendant—
I believe he did.

Complainant—l am upon my oath, Sir, and I know
the nature of it, and I deny that I caught the reins of
any horse, or that I touched any policeman. It is im-
possible I could catch him by the breast, for in that
case, , when thrown I must have fallen on my back,
now I was thrown on my face both times.
A witness confirmed these statements in many points.
Mr. MAUL (to defendant)—Do you wish to call any
witnesses ? Defendant—l will call Cheesly, 200 P.
Police-constable 200 P.—l was on duty on horseback,
riding among the people, and clearing the Common.
Mr. TRAILL—Did Mr. Ferguson give you these
orders ? Constable 200 P—No, Sir, we got the order
from the Superintendent to clear the Common. I was
not riding faster than I ought to do. I saw this gentle-
man standing looking about, and ordered him to go
away. He said he would not go away for any police-
man. I said he must /go like the rest, and was pushing
him :way when he caught my reins. The defendant
endue up, and I asked him to assist me. He did so, and
in the struggle complainant fell. He got up, and put
himself in a fighting attitude, and then the defendant
pushed bim:into the road. I saw no blows struck.

- 106 P called. Mr. TRAILL, addressing him, said a
great deal depended upon his testimony, and how he

Wi taess—l was on duty, and saw XOO P requesting
the co:nplaiiiant to move off the Common. He refused,
anfl sclzed the horse's reins. The other constable came up.
This witness was examined by Mr. TRAILL at some
length, and after some questions to the plaintiff said,
these constables have exceeded their duty a great
deal too much. Cheesly has evidently misre-
rxweitted the facts, and the other constable
(106), though he has not said so much, -has
coloured everything in favour of the defendant. I am
strongly dissatisfied with the evidence of 200 P, and I.
tun not very much -pleased, with that of 106. In this case
dCen,:ant you are liable to be fined, and you are quite
inexc;:sable in endeavouring, when you find that you have.
gun 3 too far, to give the case the complexion you have
tried to do. The effect of this fine will be your dismissal
from t 'le force. Mr. Cameron, did you use any expres-
sion!, ? Complainant—Merely that I was going home as
fast a, L could ; one policeman, previously, very politely
apologised of my showing my card, but it had no effect
upon this man. _ _ _

Mr. TnAlLL—Lcan find no excuse for the constable

in this matter. The effect of such conduct is to destroy
conlidt)nce in constables as witnesses, and lower the force
in public opinion.
Defendant—l was ordered to clear the Common.

Mr. TilAlLL—But not to knock people down and then
come here to defend it. Defendant, you are fined 10s.,
and if the Commissioners think that, under the ciream-
stancc•s; there are some palliations, I shall not object ;
but I am so much displeased with your defence that I
shall not recommend you.

PROPERTY TAX.
OFFICIAL.)
Office of Stamps and Taxes, London, Aug. 23.
Sin,—The Board, finding that considerable mis-
understanding exists as to the mode in which the
property tax is to be assessed on rent-charges under
the Tithe Commutation Act, deem it expedient that
special instructions should be issued for the guidance
of the local officers on the point. - I am accordingly
directed to state that, in all cases where the tithes
have been commuted under the Act referred to, no
seveate assessment is to be made in respect of the
tithe commutation rent-charge on the persons en-
hereto, but he will pay the duty thereon through
the, owner of the land, by way of deduction, as by the
commutation of the tithes into a rent-charge the lands
are in effect tithe-free. As respects the occupation
tile assessment is to be made on the full annual value
of t 11,7! lands; under schedules A and B, deducting from
the ty chargeable under the latter one-eighth thereof,
ac: to the seventh rule in schedule B.
supposing a tenant to occupy a farm for
he pays a rack-rent of 500/. to his landlord,
who pays a rent-charge on the same farm of 100/., the
neat will be as follows :

a:~,~

On 59'31, the amount of rent of farm to be
asa 6.,ed under schedule A, at 7d. in the
..214 11 8

nd
Rent to be assessed at 31d.in- the
;;cu ad on the occupier £7 5 10
Deduct ith part of such duty . OlB 2

6 7 8

£2O 19 4

The tenant, in the first instance, will pay the whole
duh- of 201. 19s. 4d. ; but when he pays his rent he
wilt deduct 7d. in the pound from his landlord,
amounting to 141. Ils. Bd. who will deduct from the
owner of the rent-charge 7d. in the pound thereon,
leaving the duty of 61. 7s. Bd. to be borne by the
tenant;:

I
they observe, that where the rent reserved to the
landlord is exclusive of the rent-charge, and the te-
nants pay it to the tithe-owner, the rent-charge must
be lulled to the rent, and the aggregate will be the
annual value of the farm to be assessed under schedule
; and the assessment under schedule B will be on
such aggregate amount, but the tenant will be entitled
to a reduction of one-eighth from the duty of such
assessment. In such case, however, the tenant, when
he pays his rent, will deduct from the landlord 7d. in
the pound on the rent received only, and when he pays
the rent-charge to the tithe-owner will also deduct
7d. in the pound thereon ; thus retaining from the
landlord and the tithe-owner the whole amount of the
assessment paid by him under schedule A.
I have to add, with reference to the allowance au-
thorised to be made under the 4th rule in No. 4, sche-
dule A, for the parochial rates, taxes, and assessments
charged upon any such rent-charge, that such allow-
:lnce may be claimed at the end of the year by the
Person entitled thereto, under the 61st section of the
Act. I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
CHARLES PRESSLEY.,
To Philip Longmore, Esq., Clerk to the Commis-

.sioners of Property Tax, Hertford.

SOUTHAMPTON, AUGUST 29.—OPENING OF TIIE
For-rnAstPow Doens.—The Directors of this undertak-
ing arrived here at half-past twelve o'clock this day.
The Little Liverpool, from Lisbon, Cadiz, &c., which
v, as due yesterday, not having arrived, the steam was
got up in the Oriental and Peninsular Company's ship,
the Tagus, on board of which the Directors and their
fiiends partook of a cold collation, and at three o'clock
s! .e moved from the Royal Pier decorated with flags of all
nctionz, and while proceeding in mid-channel, and about
to make her course into the Itching river, the Little
Liverpool hove in sight. The Tagus hoisted signals,
when the Liverpool became instantly decorated with her
signals and other flags. The Tagus then made for the
duck, and on her arrival at the entrance, half-past four
o'clock, she lay to to make way for the Liverpool, which
ervered the dock in gallant style, followed by the Tagus,
amidst the firing of guns and the huzzas of many thou-
sal:d people. A train of carriages was in readiness
alongside the dock, for the immediate transmission of
passengers to the railway terminus. The cargo, which
consists of grapes and other fruits, will be forwarded by,
railway to-morrow morning to London. The Directors'
and their friends returned by* six o'clock train to town,

DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY 'PHEATRE.

Immense attraction. The Opera Company in Two Pieces.
THIS EVENING, AUGUST 31.

Will be presented, the Musical Play of ROB ROY.
To be followed byiDonizetti's Opera of THE LOVE SPELL,
supported by the First Vocalists of the Day—Miss Romer, Mr, W.
Harrison' Mr. Leffler, Mr. J. Webster, Mrs. Serle, and Miss E.
Terrey Conductor, Mr. G. Stansbury.
To conclude with Mr. Breton's celebrated Farce, entitled BATH-
ING, in which Mr. G. Wild will perform his original Character,
Places and Private Roxes may be had of Mr. J. Kerschner, at the
Lox Office, from Eleven till Four daily.

in view. 'Whether that system be passive re-
sistance or secret association, the danger to the
State will be a thousand times greater than from
any congregation of oratorical operatives on
Bethnal-green, or on Kennington-common,
Barking dogs rarely bite ; and it is seldom in-
deed that men ever do any active mischief who
are suffered, to dissipate their dissatisfaction in
rhetorical display of their grievances.
Whatever the Tory journals may urge to the
contrary, they are the best friends of the RlO-
narchy—they are the only real supporters of
" existing institutions "—who recommend the
adoption, at this moment, of a policy of concilia-
tion. Let the people only be brought to regard
the police in the light of spies and informers, as
the Tory journals would make them, and there' is
an end of the efficacy of that force. They will
become useless to a people whose confidence they
have lost, and in the large towns throughout
the United Kingdom anti-police associations
will in time become as numerous and as for-
midable as the Trades' Unions were during the
Reform fever. Instead of sowing the seeds of
enmity between the people and the police, it
ought to be the study of the Secretary of State
to inspire in the former the utmost confidence
in the integrity, moderation, and protective
vigilance of a force constituted solely for the
protection of the life and property of the com-
munity at large. Selected, as they necessarily
must be, from the least educated and intelligent
class of the community, it is an outrage upon
common sense to suppose that they can decide
at what point a public speaker exceeds the
limits of fair discussion. Neither are they able
to tell when the public peace is endangered in
cases where no attempt is made to commit a
breach of the peace. They ought, therefore,
never to be suffered to interfere without the
authority of a Magistrate in attendance, or the
written orders of two or more of the nearest
adjoining householders. As Sir ROBERT PEEL
'can neither be ignorant of, nor indifferent
to, the strong spirit of disaffection which
is spreading throughout the land, he owes
it to himself; to the Crown, and to the national
safety to take the whole subject into immediate
consideration. Small as may be the confidence
reposed in him by the working classes, it is a
thousand times greater than any reposed in his
colleagues, Sir J. GRAHAM and Lord STANLEY.
The Home Secretary is universally distrusted,
and if anything could inspire confidence in the
Cabinet it would be his removal from it.

In another part of the paper will be found an inter-
esting article on the American Steamers. Speedy
communication between this country and her colo-
nies, as well as the United States, is becoming every
day of more importance, and any plans, therefore, for
lessening the expense or removing the difficulties
which have hitherto attended steam navigation across
the Atlantic, deserve the serious consideration of the
public.

The accounts from the manufacturing districts
continue to represent matters as gradually im-
proving. The Liverpool Times, of yesterday,
states that the demand for cotton has greatly in-
creased, so many as 20,000 bales having been
taken last week on speculation, being nearly half
the quantity sold. As there is now an abund-
ance of food, and plenty of capital seeking in-
vestment, there is every prospect of a speedy re-
vival of trade, provided the Government will let
the working people alone. The sliding scale is,
as we predicted, playing the deuce with the far-
mers. By throwing nearly two millions of quay-
ters of grain and flour into the market, just as they
were preparing to dispose of their crops, the corn-
jobbers have contrived to take as much money
out of their pockets as they put into the Trea-
sury. Now, had Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S Bs. duty
been adopted, when first proposed, the present
influx of grain would have been prevented, inas-
much as it would have been eaten during the
scarcity of last year, and thus the farmers could
have made sure of fixed reasonable prices instead.
of being left constantly at the mercy of the job-
bers. But as they supported the humbug of the
sliding scale, they will find few to sympathize
with them, whatever loss it may inflict upon them.
Could the farmers be brought fully to com-
prehend their own interests, they would perceive
that no class of men are more interested than
they are in the prosperity of the manufacturers.
But for the outlets afforded by cotton mills,
and woollen factories, and dye works, and similar
branches of industry, they would be devoured
by their 'surplus population, notwithstanding a
million of Malthusian regulations, such as Lord
F. EGERTON has recourse to for restricting the
growth of his collier colony. Some silly people
talk as if we could do very well without manu-
factures. Have these persons ever considered,
as a writer in the Liverpool Times observes,
that " nothing is more certain, than that the
commerce of the country, its naval power, its
ability to pay the public creditor, the very value
of the soil, and the means of subsisting the la-
bouring population," all depend upon the prospe-
rity of our manufaztories ? Not a bit of it. There
are villages the rental of' which amounts to many
thousands of pounds, which but for manufactures
would be brakes of briars not worth as many
pence as they are now worth pounds. Nothing
displays greater ignorance than the assertion that
the landlords are not more benefited than any
class of men by the growth of manufitetures.
They risk nothing, and yet their property is sure
of being quadrupled in value by being made the
site of these hives of industry. Her commerce
is the right arm of the power, the wealth, and
the civilisation of England ; and that commerce
is based upon her manufacturing industry, and
command, in consequence, of the markets of the
world.

Our readers will see in the police report from
Union Hall, a short history of the deeds per-
formed by the police at Kennington-common,
and of the credit which the worthy Magistrate,
Mr. TRAII.I., gave to the evidence of two of the
constables employed on that occasion. We have
no reason to make any additional remarks as to
the credibility of such witnesses ; and we only
regret that some of our Judges have not the same
skill in sifting evidence, and particularly in
sifting the evidence of interested witnesses, when
charges are brought by this new force against
respectable people. Two of these men swure to
statements which the Magistrate declared were
without foundation, and it is horrible to reflect
that on such evidence a respectable man has
been committed to the tread-mill, and probably
ruined for life, by a sentence passed on him by
a Judge of the land. Mr. TRAILL was on the
Common when these furious assaults were
made on the people, and, as became an up-
right Magistrate, stated that he had also suf-
fered by the violence of the police, and could
see no justification for their proceedings. What
a picture this gives of the arrangements and
orders of the Police Commissioners ! While a
Magistrate was thus attending to his duty he
was rudely pushed about as if he had been, we
will not say a Chartist, but a pickpocket, and
was glad to escape from the very men who
are paid by the country for preserving order!
This is a disgrace to the Government ; and if a
full inquiry be not made into the new regulations
of Col. ROWAN and Mr. MAYNE, and ample mea-
sures adopted for preventing the recurrence of
such illegal and dangerous practices, they will
find some difficulty in obtaining either respect
for the law or fbr those who administer it. The
policeman was properly fined for the outrage,
but as he may have obeyed the orders of his su-
periors he will probably be retained, and thanked
for his exertions.

Since the emancipation of the slaves throughout
the British Colonies, great complaints have been
made by the planters of the high price of lab3ur, and
various plans have been proposed, and some partially
adopted, for furnishing the necessary supply. Hitherto,
however, no sufficient remedy has been found, and the
consequences are that the price of sugar in this
country has been greatly increased, an additional
stimulus has been given to the slave trade for the
, ,
supply of. Cuba, and Brazil, and a premium thereby'
given to those countries for competing with our
colonists in the European market. A Select Com-

mittee, appointed last session to inquire into the state
of our possessions on the west coast of Africa, directed a
considerable portion of their inquiries to the evils
complained of, and whether any remedy could "be
provided by means of emigration from Africa. The
Committee consisted of some of the leading Members
of the House of Commons, and the representatives of
a few of the large sea-ports, and confined their in-
quiries upon this subject to three points,—namely,
whether there are materials for, a free emigration
from Africa to the West Indies ? whether it would be
desirable for the African to make the change ? and
whether it could be carried on without the possibility
of creating or encouraging a new slave trade ? To
all, these questions, after mature inquiry, they re-
turned answers in the affirmative. In Sierra Leone
alone, it appears, the liberated Africans and their
descendants amount to about .50,000, independent of
those who may be released from slave ships, or who
may hereafter come into the colony for the purpose of
emigration. The Committee, therefore, consider that
emigration from •that quarter, if it were permitted
and encouraged, would prove to be considerable. The
more important question, however, was whether the
change would be desirable for the people themfelves ;
and in order, as far as possible, to ascertain
this point, they referred to various authorities ;
among others to Sir C. METCALF, GoverEor
LIGHT, and Mr. BLACKWELL, a Wesleyan mi-
nister in Trinidad, who are unanimous as to
the improved condition of the emancipated negroes.
" The thriving condition of the peasantry," says Eit
C. METCALFE, "is very striking and gratifying. I
do not suppose that any peasantry in the world have
so many comforts or so much independence and enjoy-
ment. Their morals, I understand, are much im-
proved, and their sobriety is remarkable." Contrast-
ing, therefore, their condition with that of the liber-
ated slaves on the coast of Africa, removal to the
West Indies would be a great blessing, both as re-
gards moral and religious instruction and increase
of wages. " It would be well," adds the Com-
mittee, " for the African in every point of view,
to find himself a free labourer in the free British West
India Colonies, enjoyingthere, as he would,higher ad-
vantages of every kind than have fallen to the lot of
the negro race in any other portion of the globe."
With proper regulations, they come to the conclusion
also, that not the slightest danger exists of creating
even a plausible suspicion of a real slave trade. They
propose that a free passage should be offered to the
Africans settled within the colony, and to the free settler
or other native, on the public authorities assuring
themselves that the circumstances under which they
came were entirely free from all suspicion of fraud or
force. We have read this part of the Report with
great interest, because it involves considerations of
vast importance, not only as regards the property
of our West Indian settlements, but the moral and
physical improvement of a numerous and ill-used
race. Were a legitimate system of emigration es-
tablished, with full liberty. to the labourers
to return, in a more civilised 'state, to their native
soil, carrying with them increased knowledge of the
useful arts, as well as religious knowledge, they would
establish what Sir JOHN JEREMY calls ," the refiux
of the West upon the East," and form the first great
step to the civilisation of Africa.

The whole of the French Journals have reached
us. The llfoniteur and the Journal des Debats
alone publish the Report of the Peers upon the Re-
gency Bill—that document having been absurdly and
unfairly refused to the other papers. It is an able
document, drawn up with great care, as if to show
that the Peers are fully qualified to act as an inde-
pendent branch of the Legislature, notwithstanding
their being deserted by the Deputies and the
KING. The Duke de BROGLIE, the reporter,
is unquestionably one of the best read men
in the Chamlier,. M. GuzzoT only excepted. We
have not space for the whole of this Report, which is
very long ; and we regret this, inasmuch as it is very
eloquently written and• abounds in more just obser-
vationr than so ordinary a subject would seem capable
of eliciting. The following extract from it will show
our readers in what way the Peers have dealt with
this question :
The Regency is a temporary royalty, which takes the
place of true royalty during the i minority of the Prince
called to the Crown. It is to be established at the mo-
ment of the accession of that Prince, and to cease on his
attaining his majority. How then should this Regency
be established ? Is it to be established on the principle
of right, according to a simple and invariable rule ; by
a general law which shall govern all affairs which human
prudence has to regulate ; or by a special law, which
shell nominate on every occasion the person who shall
be called to the Regency ? The reply to this question,
the first, and perhaps the most important, of all which
the proposed law calls forth, should, we consider, be
founded on the nature of the Government it is meant to
support.
If the Regency be a temporary royalty it should be
formed in the image of true royalty. The rules applied
to the establishment of the one are equally applicable to
the other. By declaring the Regency elective, at the
approach of each minority parties would be formed
threatening each other in voice and gesture ; and
pretenders would arise. The Ministry would be no
longer for citizens the highest point of ambition ;
powerful orators, generals beloved by their soldiers,
would set their regards and hopes on a higher point.
The Royal Family would incur the risk of being divided.
When the day of election arrived, what intrigues and
cabals would there not happen in the Chambers ? The
press, the tribune, and public assemblies would become
the arena where the best reputations would perish. The
Princes of the blood royal, those who would eventually
be called to the throne, would have their slightest actions
criticised with an unsparing hand, and every fault exag-
gerated to suit the purposes of party. Should the
chc ice fall on him who is not heir-presumptive, what
will become of that Prince while waiting for the throne,
after having been deposed as Regent ? Some powerful
reason must be given for incurring such a risk ; immense
advantages must be proposed to weigh against such im-
mense dangers. _ _ _

The debate on the Regency Bill commenced and
terminated in the Chamber of Peers on Monday.
Only four Peers addressed the Chamber. The
Bill was passed by 163 votes against 14. There will
be TIO occasion for the Deputies to assemble again to
deliberate upon the Peers' amendments. Notwith-
standing their ill-humour, they have adopted the Bill
as sent up to them.

The official part of the Moniteur of the 28th contains
only the notice of the receipt of a letter from the Queen
of Spain, to the notification of.the death of the Duke of
Chileans.

The fleet of Admiral Hugon :was to leave Ajaccio on
the 23d of August. It is said that it will return to the
authorage at the Hyena ',elands, where it will be
serabled towards the end of the month.

The corn farmers have long been reckoned the
greatest grumblers in the world. Mr. Huskisson
said they were never satisfied. If the crop was good
they had too much of it, for the prices became so low
tizit they could not pay their rents with a profit; and
if from rain, or wind, or tempest, the corn was da-
imaged, there was no rise of price to remunerate
thorn, for foreign grain was imported, and kept the
Kees low. But these gentlemen are the most ami-
able, contented beings that ever lived, compared
with the hop-growers. Though the crop exceeds all
expectation, they denounce it as the worst that ever
was seen. There is always some drawback—either
tb e " red rust," or the flea," or " the excessive
drought," or " foggy mornings," or " hot days,"
sorely trying the stamina of the tender plants ; and
the duty, of course, is always over-rated. There is
no intelligence we distrust so much as " Hop Intel-
ligence," but we are obliged to take it as it comes.
Our readers, of course, must do the same ; but we
advise them to keep this in mind, that when the hop-
growers say it is barely an average crop, it is the
best that has been known for half a century ; and
when they say there are no hopes at all, it is, to a cer-
tainty, a fair average crop.

(AciiiriAßY OF EIE, S

AND
VOtttr OPtraOlt.

" Who runs may read."

POREIGZI.

'The Duke de Broglie's Report of the Committee
of the French Peers on the Regency Bill is published
in Sunday's Moniteur and •Debats. The other papers
complain of the refusal to be allowed a copy, and
their indignation will probably be greater when they
find that the Report has found its way into the Debats,
the Ministerial organ, as well as the official Moniteur.
The Regency Report begins with the words,
" The King does not die in France." The Quotuli-
enue, the Royalist print,, remarks on this phrase,
"The King does not die." Very well. However,
he is sometimes killed, and. sometimes driven from
his throne, and this ought not to have been forgotten
by the Noble Duke. This great and fine maxim of
our ancient national rights, which the Duke de
Broglie recals, as well as M. Dupin, is now only a
dead letter. In 1830 the godfathers of the young
establishment set up the doctrine of the sovereignty
of the people above it, and you have pleaded the
fatalism of necessity. Do not, then, say "The King
never dies," for in your mouth such a cry would be an
apostasy. Leave it to old France, who suffer, dit on
the tomb of Louis XVI., as well as on that of Henry
111. But, if you like, say, "the Regent does not die.
• Count Roy' as Reporter of the Commission of
Comptibalite, having proposed to the Chamber of
Peers the erection of a marble statue to the late Duke
of Orleans in the Luxembourg, the motion was carried
by acclamation.
The Frankfort journals of the 26th, supply some
additional details of the assassination of a high Russian
functionary. The victim was Prince Gagarin, Master
of the Ceremonies of the Imperial Court, and Vice-
President of the Cabinet, and the murderer a game-
keeper, named Rheimann, born in Finland. He shot
the Prince with a pistol as he was returning to his
home from the Court at three l-. 31. The assassin was
tried by a military commission, and sentenced to re-
ceive 6,000 lashes from rods applied by 500 men, a
oortiori of which he had received, and was taken to
the hospital. When cured he was to receive the re-_
mainder, and, should he recover the horrible punish-
ment, he was to work for the remainder of his life in
the Siberian mines.

The Augsburg Gazette of the 24th contradicts what
't had stated respecting the conduct of Mr. Fon-
blanque, British Consul at Belgrade, with reference
to the civil broils of Servia. The President of the
Senate of Servia, Ephraim, uncle of Prince Michael,
has, in the name of the Senate, entered a solemn pro-
test against the conduct of the Ministers, Prohtseh
and Radiciewitsch. Prince Michael seems not in-
clined to listen to his uncle.
We have received Lisbon news of the 22d inst.,
Irought by the Liverpool steamer. Prince Frederick
.)1. Austria had arrived at Lisbon in the Bellona
frigate, and had gone to visit their Majesties at Cintra.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, TUESDAY EVENING.

,
But little alteration occurred in the Money Market
since the afternoon beyond a greater degree of sta-
bility, owing to a cessation of sales. Consols left off at
921 93 for Money, and 93 buyers for the Account. Bank
Stock 1674 1684 ; India Stock, 251 ; Exchequer Bills,
Old, 51 53 ; New, 49 51 premium.
The prices of Foreign Securities were—Belgian, 1014
1021 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 52+521 ' • the
Five per Cents., 102 1021 ; Danish, 831 841 ; and Bra -
zilian, 644- 65k. The quotation of Mexican was again
better, being 351 354.
The only fluctuations in Railway Shares were in Bir-
mingham, Brighton, and Great Western ; the two former
of which advanced, and the latter declined in price.
Why either event should have orcuri•-ed in the. first and
last, is'difficult to conceive on legitimate grounds ; the
discount at which the latter is at present may justify a
change. It is to be hoped that no such bargains have
been entered into, as may bring these securities into a
similar contempt to which certain other documents have
been brought by like dealings. London and Birming-
ham were 187 189 ; Birmingham and Gloucester, 42
44 ; Great Western, 831 841 ; the Half Shares, 654 661;
South Western, 62 63 ; North Midland, 57 59 ; the
New Shares, 28 29 ; South Eastern and Dover, 214
22-1-; Eastern Counties, 8k 84 ; Northern and Eastern,
374- 381 ex div. ; Blackwall, 74 8 ; and Brighton, 334
33per share.
The rates of exchanges continued very firm, and the
quotation upon Antwerp was 12 44 ; Amsterdam,
12 61, 12 61— ' Rotterdam, 12 6, 12 61 ; Hamburg+,
13 12, 13 121 ; Paris, 251. 774 c., 25f. 824 ; Frankfurt,
151, 1504 ; Vienna, 9 56, 9 57 ; Madrid, 364,,364 ; and
Lisbon, 521.
The quotations of the bonds were, Peruvian, 15 16 ;
Colombian, 201, 204 • Portuguese Five per Cents, 331,
34 ; the Three per dents., 20, 204 ; Spanish Five per
Cents, 21, 21* ; and the Three per Cents., 204 204.
(From The Sun of Last Night.)
The prices of the Funds do not continue to be well
maintained, several parcels of Stock having been brought
to market. Consols are 924 93 for Money, and 93 934
for the Account • Three per Cents. Reduced, 934 934 ;
Thee-and-a-Half per Cents. Reduced, 1014 102 ' • New
Three-and-a-Half per Cents., 101 1011 ; Bank Stock,
168 169 ; India Stock, 251 252 ; India Bonds, 36 ; Ex-
chequer Bills Old, 51 53 ; New, 49 50 prem.
Rather more animation has been exhibited in Foreign
Securities, but as has been usual of late, Dutch Bonds
have again to-day been most in request. The Two-and-
a-Half per Cents. have been sold at 524, and the Five per
Cents. at 1021. The quotation for Mexican is 35351.
A further advance has taken place in London and
Birmingham. Railway Shares, which hare been sold at
189 ; Great Western, 844 ; Brighton, 334 ;- Blackwall,
'74 8 ; and York and North Midland, 91. With these
exceptions the Market has been dull.
The Bonds quoted to-day are—Peruvian, 16 ; Portu-
guese Five per Cents., 331 ; Spanish Five per Cents.,
21 ; and the Three par Cents., 201.
From the general tone of the American papers, from
certain circumstances which have transpired here, and
from the fact of another financial agent having arrived
in this country, it may be inferred that fresh attempts to
raise a loan on account of the United States in Europe
is about to be made.

MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, AUG. 29.—There
is an improved inquiry for Railway Stock, but not
much business doing. Union Bank of Manchester
Shares are in good demand ; North Midland, 58f ex
div.; Ditto Halves, 28i with div.; Edinburgh and
Glasgow, 49 to 49i ex div.; Manchester and Bir-
mingham, 24i ; Manchester and Sheffield, 31 to 32.

CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.

Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Red. ...... 93 Ditto Bonds
3 per Cent. Cons .. 93 Ditto Old Annuities ...

31i per Cent. Red... 102 Ditto New Annuities...
New .3i per Cent... . lOl Ex. Bills, 1,000/....2d. 51 pm
New 5 per Cen' Ditto 500/...... 51 pm
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small ..... .. 51 pm
Jan. 1860 ... ...... 12 11-16,Bank Stock for Acct....

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Oct. 1859
Jan. 1860 l2 Consols for Acct.
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Austrian, 5 per cent. ... !Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Belgian, 5 per cent 1024 ;Ditto, New Ditto 331
Brazilian 'Bonds... (Prussian, 5 per cent.
Buenos Ayres 6 per cent. ißussian, 5 pet cent .....
Chaim, 6 per cent
Colombian, 6 per cent — Spanish, 5 per cent...... 21
Ditto, 1824 2oi Ditto, Deferred.... .
Danish, 3 per cent — French, 5 per cent. —f. —c.
Greek, 1823, 5 per cent — Exchange
Mexican, 5 per cent 3sk French, 3 per cent. —f. —e.
Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 , Dutch, 2} per cent S2J
Peruvian,lB2s,6 per ct. 16 'Ditto, 5 per cent. .. ... 102 f
SHARES.
Eastern Counties Railway (23 raid) ..., —
Ditto New Shares ( paid)
Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) .... 491
Great Western Railway (65 paid) 833
Ditto Fifth (4 paid) • 74
London and Brighton (50 paid) . 324
London and Blackwall ( paid) 7f
London and Birmingham (90)
Manchester and Leeds (70 paid)
Midland Counties Railway (100 paid)
North Midland Railway (100)
Ditto Thirds (211. 13s. 4d. paid) -19 i
Paris awl Ramon-(18 paid)
South Eastern and Dover (50 paid)... —
Ditto Scrip (10 paid) • ... 6}
York and North Midland (50 paid) ... ...... 91

COURSE OF EXCHANGE—(YESTERDAY.)
Amsterdam CF. 12 9 Gibraltar 46
Ditto, at sight • 12 6 Leghorn ...... ...... ...... 30 25
Rotterdam ...... ...2 U 12 93 Genoa . 25 95
Antwerp l2 14 Milan
Hamburgh M.B. 13 15 Venice
Alton&
Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 65 Palermo, per oz 120
Ditto, 3 months 25 90 Lisbon
Marseilles
Bourdeaux 2b 95 Rio Janeiro 26
Frankfort on Maine... 1511 Bahia
Fetersburgh, 3Us ... 363 Buenos Ayres ......
Berlin . 7 New York,2l days sight 463
Vienna, effec. fl. 3M. 957 Philadelphia 46
Trieste, ditto
Madrid ... 363 Foreign Gold, bars X 3 17 9
Cadiz
Bilbao ... 36 New Doubloons 0 0 0
Barcelona
Seville ... 36 Silver in Bars ... ..... 0 4 93