The Sun.
London, England, 1842-08-27 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, FRIDAY.—This morning about seven
o'clock her Majesty's private band, and the band of
the 2d Life Guards, performed a serenade on the
South terrace of the Castle, in honour of Prince
Albert's birthday.

At half-past one o'clock her Majesty the Queen
Dowager, attended by the Countess of Sheffield and
the Earl: of Denbigh; her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Gloucester, attended by her Lady in
Waiting; and her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Kent, attended by Lady Charlotte Dundas, arrived
at the Castle to pay congratulatory visits on the
auspicious event. The illustrious party remained to
lunch with her Majesty and Prince Albert.
The Queen Dowager and suite, and the Duchess of
Gloucester left at three o'clock.

Her Majesty and Prince Albert, the Duchess of
Kent, and the Duke of Saxe Coburg Gotha, after-
wards left the Castle in a pony phaeton and four, and
drove through the street to the Great Park, at-
tended by the Duke and Duchess of Norfolk, Lady
Mary Howard, Viscount and Viscountess Canning,
and the rest of the visitors, and also the whole of the
Royal Suite in pony phaetons.
The Earl of Jersey arrived on a visit.
The Rev. Lord Wriothesley Russell, Lord Charles
Wellesley, Dowager Lady Lyttelton, Major-General
and Lady Isabella Wemyss, and Mr. George Edward
and the Hon. Mrs. Anson, will have the honour of
joining the Royal dinner party this evening. Both
bands will be in attendance at the Castle.
The whole of the visitors are expected to leave to-
morrow.

The town is generally illuminated, and a splendid
display of fireworks under the superintendence of Mr.
Fenwick, will take place at nine o'clock upon the
Round Tower.
Her Majesty and the Prince took their early walk
in the Home Park.

The Prince of Wales- and the Princess ROyal were
taken out, both morning and afternoon, accompanied
by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton.

Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, and her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, left Bushey
House, Bushey Park, yesterday morning, to pay a
visit of congratulation to her Majesty and her illus-
trious Consort, on the auspicious return of Prince
Albert's natal day.
His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge
arrived at his residence in St. James's Palace, on
Thursday night, from the north. Yesterday his
Royal Highness went to Kew. _

tiir Jam—es Graham arrived in town yesterday morn-
ing from a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle.
The Earl of Aberdeen had an interview with the
Right Hon. Baronet at the Home-office in the after-
noon. Sir James afterwards left town on his return
to Windsor Castle.

The Agent for Jamaica, and Mr. Marryatt, had an
interview with Lord Stanley yesterday at the Colo-
nial-office.

Baron de Moncorvo, the Portuguese Minister,
transacted business yesterday at the Foreign-office.
Mr. Thornton, Deputy-Chairman of the Stamps
and Taxes, had an interview with the Chancellor of

the Exchequer yesterday, at his 0 ffi ei al residence in
Downing-street,
The Rev, De, molding had an interview with Lerd
Stanley yesterday, at the Colonialloitee.

PRINCE Atitiit.T'S BIRTHDAY.
ii‘LIJMINATION S.
Vesieeday being the anniversary of the birth-
day of his Royal Highness Prince Albert, most
of the tradesmen to the Household, and other
patriotic individuals, testified their loyalty and re-
spect by illuminating in the usual manner. The
illuminations, though by no means so numerous as of
late, were still plentiful enough. The following are
amongst the most attractive :
THE THEATRES.—Her Majesty's Theatre ex-
hibited a gorgeous illumination. It consisted of the
letters P.A. in amber-coloured lamps of large dimen-
sions, encircled by laurel wreaths, and surmounted
by a splendid coronet of variegated lamps.
The Haymarket.—A plain star of variegated lamps
in the centre, with the letters P. A. in amber.
BOND-STREET.—Mitchell, publisher, No. 33, ex-
hibited an elegant radiating gas star of the order of
the Bath, with the initials P. A. in its centre.
Bishop, goldsmith, No. 170.—P. A. in amber-co-
loured lamps, with a lozenge star in the centre, sur-
mounted by a projecting crown, and supported by a
gun in variegated lamps.
Storr and Mortimer, jewellers, No. 156.—A very
elegant gas crown of large dimensions.
Delcroix, perfumer, No. 158.—The initials P. A.
in amber-coloured lamps, with a projecting crown of
amber and purple lamps in the centre.
PICCADILLY.—Robson and Co., house decorators.
—The initials, P. A., in elegant gas, with a star in
the centre.
REGENT-STREET.—Ponsonby and Son, plate-glass
warehouse.—This house presented one blaze of light,
the whole of the balconies being illuminated with gas.
THE lIAYMARKET.—BreckneII, Turner, and Son,
tallow-chandlers.—A most magnificent single gas star
of immense dimensions. This was decidedly the most
beautiful " star of .the night," and attracted universal
admiration.
PANToN-STREET.—Garrard, silversmith.—The ini-
tials P. A. in amber, with a projecting crown in the
centre in variegated lamps.
ST. JAMES'S-STREET.—The Guard's Club House.—
This illumination was decidedly the most magnificent
of the night, and attracted the greatest number of
spectators. It comprised two splendid stars of the
Order of the Bath in gas, beneath which was the orb
or mound in green, purple, and amber-coloured lamps,
and on each side the letters P. A. in jets of gas ; the
whole being surmounted by a magnificent crown.
Crockford's Club House.—A splendid projecting
crown in variegated lamps, with the Star of the Or-
der of the Garter formed in gas jets. Beneath this
were the letters P. A., encircled with splendid wreaths,
composed of green, red, and amber-coloured lamps.
This display also attracted a large concourse of persons.
PALL-MALL.—Messrs. Graves and Company, the
print-sellers, exhibited a splendid Brunswick star, with
the letters P. A. in the centre.
None of the public offices throughout the metropo-
lis were illuminated, neither did we observe any of the
Club-houses, save those which we have already men-
tioned.
The streets at the West-end were crowded with
respectable-looking persons ; indeed, the neighbour-
hood of St. James's-street, Bond-street, and Picca-
dilly, presented the appearance of a fair. Several
bands' paraded the streets, playing the National
Anthem, and the utmost order and good feeling
seemed to animate the sight-seekers, who thronged
the streets until a late hour.

THEQUEEN IN THE HIGHLANDS.
The last Sovereign that visited the Highlands of
Scotland was also a Queen—the beautiful and un-
fortunate Mary Queen of Scots. The Royal journey
was made about the same time of the year as that
proposed by Queen Victoria; but Mary rode on horse-
back. Roads there were none ; and no wheeled car-
riage was seen north:of Perth before 1715. Charles
the Second, when in Scotland, during the Common-
wealth, was crowned at Scone, on New Year's :ay,
1651 ; but while the sceptre was held by the more
vigorous and able hand of Cromwell, Charles is
scarcely entitled to the honours of monarchy ; and he
does not seem to have made any perambulation of our
Highland district. The Scottish Queen left Stirling
on the 18th of August (old style) in the year 1562, and
took nine days in travelling to Aberdeen. The ac-
commodations could not have been very princely, for
the two secretaries—Randolph and Maitland—who
accompanied Mary, had to sleep together in the
same bed ! From Aberdeen the Queen proceeded to
Inverness, and the room then occupied as her parlour
is now the counting-room or office of Mr. Ferguson,
wine-merchant. The house has since been completely
modernised in appearance—the old turnpike-stair and
projecting balcony, with the capacious kitchen,
are removed. Mary got but a stormy re-
ception here. The Marquis of liuntly was
all paramount, and he was in arms against
the Crown. The Castle of Inverness was taken
by storm, and the Governor put to death. The
Queen was of an intrepid spirit—she had not then
tasted deep of adversity; and Randolph writes that,
when the Lords and others at Inverness came to her

in the morning, after the watch, she wished she had
been a man " to know what life it was to lie all night
in the fields, or to walk the causeway (rough enough
our causeway was then, and long afterwards, though
often darned) with a knapsack, a Glasgow buckler, and
a broad-sword !" Queen Victoria visits the North in
happier times; but if danger were near, she would
be as little inclined to quail as her predecessor.
Her journey will be one continued triumph. If
a parallel were drawn between the state of Scotland
at Mary's journey, and as it is now, with its com-
merce, its means of communication, its arts and
luxuries, it would be seen how much may be done
by industry and public spirit, supported by freedom,
in surmounting the difficulties of a rugged soil and
northern climate. We wish that Queen Victoria
had resolved on penetrating as far north as Queen
Mary ; but this may be done at some future period.
At all events (as we consider the whole of the High-
lands t 3 be within our beat), we shall attend the
Royal movements, and chronicle them faithfully and
fully for our readers.—lnverness Courier.

THE DISTURBANCES IN THE
MANUFACTURING DISTRICTS.

MANCHESTER, Thursday Morning.
All is peaceable at present here, but whether the
calm is brought about by a dread of the consequences
which might result from a collision with the civil and
military power, still on active duty, or the discontents
are secretly plotting measures for a more serious out-
break, is snore than can be determined, and hundreds
of persons in this town arid throughout this district
look upon matters as by no means presenting the ap-
pearance which the lovers of peace and order would
wish. It is a fact, known and acknowledged by all,
that the return to work is by no means general, as was
anticipated would be the case yesterday, or at all
events to-day ; and from the fact of a number of
specials being again called to duty last night, after
having been released from their labours, it is reason-
able to• suppose the authorities do not anticipate a
restoration to the usual state of things. This morn-
ing a meeting of power.•loom weavers was held in
Tinker's-gardens, which was attended by between
300 and 400 persons. Some speeches were made of
an inflammatory character, and a resolution was come
to, unanimously, not to return to work until they ob-
tained from the masters the advance of wages which
they demanded. Information was given to the police
of the meeting, and a party of that body, under the
command of Superintendent Stephenson, was des-
patched to disperse them ; but on their arrival at the
spot the meeting had separated..
MANCHESTER, Friday Evening.
The town has been quiet all day, and a number of
special constables have been dismissed, but there are
no more hands at work than yesterday.
The most sanguine hopes are entertained that if the
workmen would resume work, trade would again be
as prosperous as it has been. The sales of cotton at
Liverpool to-day are 5,000 bags.
A meeting of the Anti Corn-law League was held
last evening, at which Mr. Cobden, M.P., spoke, and
endeavoured to show that the League have nothing
to do with the present disturbances.
EXAMINATION OF PRISONERS-THE SEDITIOUS
PLACARD.

Turner and Leech, who were remanded on Tues-
day last, were again brought up this day at the New
Bailey, Manchester, before Mr. J. F. Foster and Mr.
D. Maude, in order to their being committed.
The charge against the prisoners was for a general
conspiracy to disturb the public peace.
The Court committed them to the Assizes for trial,
but would admit them to bail in 4001. and two sure-
ties of 2001. each, to give 48 hours' notice of bail.
Isaac Tinker and George Seddon, who are charged
with using violent language and taking part in break-
ing into the AdelphiWorks at Salford, were re-
manded to Tuesday, in consequence of its being
stated that the principal witness against them was out
of the way, and had been so since "Wednesday.

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THE SUN, LOVb&T, SAtURDAV EVENING, AUGUST 184.

Joseph town, John Riley, and James Barton, were
also committed for a riot and attack on the Manches-
ter and Leeds Railway.
. .

The President of the TiItIOS Delegates' (Chartist)
Confereitc, Alexander Hutchinson, who was fi-
nally examined on Friday, at the New Bailey,
on a charge of having presided at an illegal meet-
ing, is a mechanic in the employ of Messrs.
Sharp and Roberts. He is an intelligent man, and
was once editor of a Magazine called the Trades'
Journal, in which he exposed the mischievousness and
inutility of strikes of4orkmen, with the view to keep
up wages. It was stated by Hutchinson's attorney,
before the Court on Tuesday, that his client had indi-
vidually opposed the resolution come to by the dele-
gates, upon which the present proceedings against him
are founded ; but that, as he did not believe there
was any thing illegal in it, he considered it his duty,
as chairman of the meeting, to sign it and procure its
publication. These circumstances, added to Hutchin-
son's previous good character and steady conduct,
vouched for by his late employers, Sharp and Ro-
berts, and Mr. Fiirbairn, have excited much interest
in his case. Hutchinson is of border extraction and
education.

FRIDAY MORNING, QUARTER PAST ELEVEN. So
satisfactory was the state of things in this district that
the daily reports which have been made to the Home-
office were last evening not despatched, there being
nothing of importance to communicate.
The fustian cutters and power-loom weavers, are
however, still out, and manifest no disposition to re-
turn to. their work unless the masters accede to their
demand for higher wages.
This morning • placards are being posted on the
walls, announcing a meeting of Chartists for to-mor-
row night (Saturday), at which a lecture will be de-
liVered on the state of affairs, the causes of the riots,
and their connexion with the Anti-Corn-law League.
MANCHESTER, FRIDAY MORNING. -One of the
most crowded meetings of the members of the Anti-
Corn-law League took place last evening, at the rooms
in Newall's-buildings, Manchester, that has been held
for some time. After the routine business of the
evening, the secretary reported the registering of 421
new members in Manchester, and 600 in Liverpool, in
addition to the 1,800 names 'received a week since,
and Mr. Cobden occupied the time by delivering a
long and eloquent speech: ' _ .

LANCASTER, Aug. 25.
The turn-out still continues in this town, and there
is no appearance of matters being accommodated.
This morning a meeting was held on the Green Area,
as on several former occasions, when a few hundreds
assembled. They were addressed by some stranger,
the burden of whose speech was, "don't go in." All is,
however, quiet.

OLDHAM, Friday Morning.
All is quiet in this town, but work is not generally
resumed. The authorities are, however, still ready,
in case any further outbreak should take place.
APPREHENSION OF WHITE, THE BIR-

The quotation of Mexican declined to 34+ 34i,
although it has not been mentioned in the official lists
to-day.
The. Share Market has improved to a trifling ex-
tent—London and Birmingham being 182 184 ;
Birmingham and Gloucester, 40 42 • Great Western,
854 864. ; the Half Shares, 66 664 ; South West-
ern, 621- 63} ; North Midland, 57 59 ; the New
Shares, 28 29 ; Eastern Counties, 9 9+ ; Blackwall,
8* 8*; Northern and Eastern, 38i 39 ; and Brighton,
33 331- per share.
The Exchanges were again all better to-day—Am-
sterdam being 12 6+; Rotterdam, 12 6* ; Antwerp,
12 4} 12 44 Hamburgh, 13 12, 1.3 12} ; Frankfort,
1501. 151-4-, and Paris, 25f. 80c., 25f. 82ic. The large
amount V bills offering on these several countries
must lead to the conclusion that an increase in the
export trade is going on. It is generally the case that at
this season of the year a drain takes place upon the Bank
of England for gold, and a corresponding decline
in the rates on foreign countries. Now, however,
the contrary has to be noticed, and if it be, as it is
generally attributed, to the late relaxation in the
Corn-laws, it becomes a serious question as to how
much might be affected if a total alteration in them
should take place. It may here be mentioned that
another and an extensive failure has occurred in the

Corn-market to-day.
COURSE OF EXCHANGE—(YESTERDAY. 1
Amsterdam CF. 12 Si Gibraltar ... .. 46
Ditto, at sight ...... 12 5i Leghorn ~.• ........ ...... 30 25
Rotterdam ...2 U. 12 9 Genoa :l5 95
Antwerp
Hamburgh M.B. 13 15 Venice .......... ... 47
Altona
Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 65 Palermo, per oz l2O
120
Ditto, 3 months 25 90 Lisbon
Marseilles
liourdeaux 25 95 Rio Janeiro 26
Frankfort on Maine... 1514 Bahia
Petersburgh, 3Us ... 37 Buenos Ayres

Berlin V 7
Vienna, effec. fl. 3M. 957
Trieste, ditto
... 959
Madrid ............... 364
Cadiz ......36i
Bilbao . 36
8arce10na.............. . 36
Seville .................. 36

New York, 21 days sight 4bi
Philadelphia 46
PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ.
Foreign Gold, bars £3 17 9
Portugal Gold C0m...3 17 5
New Doubloons 0 0 0
New Dollars 0 4 9i
Silver in Bars... . . 0 0 0

• There died lately, says a German paper, in the
Village of Felsoe Foorock, in Transylvania, a farmer
named Terebesi in the 135th year of his age. He always
enjoyed good health, and worked in the field until just
before his death.

I have assumed a rtiofe threatening appearance. All the
mills in Carlisle, with the exception Of Nib; have now
stopped work, and at about eleven o'clock a numerous
body of turn-outs, amounting, it is said, to five or six
hundred men, proceeded towardl3 the factory of
Messrs. Rothwell and Co., with the avowed intention
bf forcing the workmen there to join the movement.
As they marched in procession through the town
the greatest excitement existed. The yeomanry had
just returned to their quarters, after the morning pa-
rade, when they were again summoned to duty, and
proceeded, under the directions of the Magistracy, on
the road which the turn-outs had taken. It happened
fortunately, however, that their services were not re-
quired. The mob had been met by George Head,
Esq., of Nickerby, and, yielding to his remonstrances,
were induced to forego their intention of proceeding
to the factory.
The Magistrates, however, have taken effectual
means to prevent the persons peaceably engaged there
from being molested or intimidated, and a company of
the 66th has been stationed in the factory for their
protection. As yet the people are quiet, but the
number of disaffected operatives have considerably in-
creased, and those who have the opportunity of know-
ing their feelings speak of the dangers of tv-night.
A great commotion has just been caused by the
arrival of some prisoners from Wigton. It appears
that last night, about eleven o'clock, some serious
rioting took place in that town. The military were
pelted by the mob, and all the windows of the prin-
cipal inns were smashed. Lieut. Blunt, of the 66th,
was dangerously wounded on the head by the blow
of a stone, and it became necessary to have the Riot
Act read before the tumult was in V any way checked.
Several of the rioters were then taken, and three of
them have already arrived in custody, having been
committed to Carlisle gaol. Others are also expected.
So great was the excitement of the populace along
the line of road by which the prisoners passed, that it
was deemed expedient to protect their arrival by a
large body of special constable's a troop of yeomanry
and a company of foot. This had the effect of intimi-
dating the mob, and the prisoners were safely lodged
in gaol.

Large parties continue to beg in the neighbourhood
of the town, and levy large contributions. In many
places they have compelled labourers, even in the
country, to leave their work ; and have turned out
many of the men engaged oa the Maryport and Car-
lisle Railway.

Some Chartist delegates from Manchester were
secretly in the town yesterday, and left this morning
by railway for Newcastle, in company with another
one of the leaders of the Carlisle Chartists, who re-
cently figured as chairman at meetings in Manchester.
It is rumoured that the Newcastle colliers intend to
strike. Business of all kinds is nearly at a stand in
Carlisle. The turn-outs are quite destitute, and we
understand already complain of hunger, but they
evince no disposition to return to their work.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS,
CJTX, FRIDAY EVENING.
FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.

TlMES.—Additional facts are continually trans-
spiring respecting.the investigation into the frauds at
the Custom-house, and it is now more than ever re-
gretted, that the Board of Commissioners is not an
open Court, and that the public are not at once in-
formed of the proceedings that are carried on, instead
of having to trust to vague rumours alone, which ne-
cessarily compromise the character of a vast number
of individuals, since, in the present uncertain state of
the case, it is impossible to ascertain with certainty
to whom blame in reality attaches. It is understood
that the Chairman of the Board, Mr. Deane, being at
present out of town, the investigation is carried on by
Messrs. Dowding and Weston, Surveyors-General,
the Right Hon. G. Dawson, Commissioner, and Mr.
Howe, the Inspector-General. The frauds already
discovered seem to have been of various kinds. In
silks and butters they have been very extensive. The
former have been passed at low values, and a low rate
of duty has been charged upon them accordingly.
This species of fraud has long kept affairs in an
unsettled state, as several of the agents who charged
but a fair rate of commission were astonished that
they could not find employment from the silk houses.
The fact is, that conducting their business honestly,
they were unable to offer such advantages as those
who were connected with the fraud. Butters have
been passed at 1 per cwt. under weight; spirits have
been declared to be wine ; false packages, known in
the slang. of. illicit trade as " dummies," have been
shipped for the drawback, which has sometimes been
obtained on spurious- wines, &c., and all this with the
connivance of those who received emoluments to pro-
tect the revenue, when in fact they were filling their
pockets by its plunder. So profitable has this dis-
honest trade'been, that one party, it is said, has made
no less than 1,0001. in a single week. The names of
several of the suspended persons have already trans-
pired, but in the present state of the affair it is not
advisable to publish them.
• The new scale of corn duties and the tariff a, e
working by degrees their effect upon the speculators,
who were hardy enough to doubt their efficacy for
the public benefit. Another failure on the Corn Ex-
change was announced to-day, that of Messrs. Rich-
mond and Varr, who are said to have held large par-
eels of grain in expectation of the market being in no
manner adected by the revision which was made in
the regulation of the duties. Their liabilities, ac-
cording to the •p;ossip of the market, are 50,000/. to
60,0001., and some even speak of them as being above
that sum. Mark-lane was in the highest state of ex-
citement to-day, owing to this and other reported
stoppages, which are not, however, yet authenticated.
The absence of another large speculator from his ac-
customed post, gave rise to prejudicial surmises, but
parties who are acquainted with his movements do
not appear to apprehend any difficulty in that quarter.
That both bread and butcher's meat will be much
cheaper during the present year than for a long while
past, is asserted unequivocally by those who are old
enough to remember movements which have taken
place under former alterations of the tariff; and on
the ground that the effect of the present alteration
having so speedily exhibited itself, and long before
it was expected, the provision markets will be seized
with that sort of panic which, while it may bring to
the ground many whose premature speculations have
been conducted on princ.ples at variance with those
demonstrated when the change was first proposed,
will in the end serve the interests of the general com-
munity by making apparent the great good effected.
Nothing can more strongly prove how completely the
trade in Port wine is paralyzed by the expectation of
a reduction of duty than the fact, that on the 22d
inst.,not a gallon of Port wine was paid duty upon in
the port of London—a circumstance without paralel
in the annals of the trade.
SUN.—The prices of the Funds exhibited a further
improvement at the close of the market than at three
o'clock. The causes then assigned will be sufficient
to account for this ' • and although some disappoint-
ment may arise from the absence of internal
business, which causes such an abundance of
money, yet the absence of speculation in foreign bonds
will afford a counterpoise. If the money be required
for any special purpose it is here, and can be easily
obtained without creating any considerable alteration
in the prices of the stocks. Consols left off at 921
for Money, and 928 for the Account ; Bank Stock,
167 169 ; India Stock, 251 252 ; Exchequer Bills,
Old, 51 53 ; New, 49 51 prem.
The prices of the securities were—Belgian 1011
102 ; Dutch Two- and-a-Half per Cents., 521521 ;
the Five per Cents., 102 1021; Danish, 83 84 ; and
Brazilian, 658 66.

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SUN OFFICE Three o'Cloch.

Now that the gratifying intelligence has gone forth
to the world that the political differences between
b England and the United States are on the eve of a
• satisfactory and final adjustment, the attention of com-
mercial men begins to be directed to the condition of
business relations with our Transatlantic brethren. The
apparent indifference with which a number of the States
of the Union advocate a scheme of S tate bankruptcy, has,
for some years past exercised a most pernicious effect
upon the credit, not only of the States concerned, but
I of the Federal Government. Were the physical re-
' sources of these States wholly exhausted—were they
densely crowded with a pauper population, over-bur-
dened with taxes to defray the interest of debts con-
tracted to carry on ruinous wars—had they no
means of establishing a credit in the mo-
ney-markets of the world, their repudiation of
the payment of debts fairly contracted by them
' might excite regret, but could incur no very severe
censure. But when nothing is heard in Europe
louder than the boasting of these States of their in-
exhaustible mines of wealth—of their waste lands to
be appropriated—their timber to be sold—their mines
, to be worked—and their rich soils to be cultivated,
the moral sense is shocked by the bare-faced im-
morality implied in the repudiation policy, or rather
proposed bankruptcy, of these States. Nor is the
folly of such a scheme less monstrous. than its dis-
honesty. America is yet but a new country. Her
debts altogether are but mere trifles when contrasted
with her immense means of defraying them. Would
she, then, to get rid of them, affix upon her forehead
in burning characters the brand of a swindler ?
Would she have her sons pointed out in Europe as
the inhabitants of States too dishonest to pay their
just debts ? The Americans are a sensitive people,
and they may rest assured that upon no point can
they expose themselves to more ridicule in Europe
than that of their being wanting in the discharge of
their pecuniary obligations.
No blame is at present attached to the members of
the Federal Government for errors which it is felt
they have no power to correct. But the progress of
affairs for the last few years has convinced the most
liberal men in this country that an extensive reform
is required in the Constitution of the United States.
It is clear that the Executive wants power to conduct
with dignity and effect nearly all questions
of international policy. This was painfully ap-
parent in the case of 3PLEoils trial, the Boundary
question, and the affair of the Creole. There
is a feeling springing up in Europe that it is no
longer safe, in any matter which may affect the in-
terests of individual States, to accept the pledges of the
Federal Government. The Executive has no power
to coerce refractory States, who may at any moment
plunge the Union into all the horrors of an unjust,
unnecessary war. This evil will be a thousand times
more felt now than it could have been before the
discoery was made that we may safely traverse the
Atlantic by steam. America is now our near neighbour.
We can partake of her hospitality on her own shores,
and resume our desks in Threadneedle-street, in a
shorter time than it would have taken us, thirty or
forty years ago, to make a pilgrimage from London
to old Melrose Abbey. The intercourse between
America and England is also so constant and- so
regular, that we insensibly become mixed up with
every great movement by which she is agitated. Her
journals find as enthusiastic readers in London as in
New York; and in proportion as she is brought within
the range of our sympathies, are we affected by the
blemishes which we discover in her Constitution.
No doubt the action and re-action in this way is mu-
tual, and that to the nearer approximation of America
to us by means of steam navigation, ought we indi- ,
rectly to attribute one cause of the rapidly increasing •
spread Chartism.

His Holiness Pope GREGORY XVI. addressed an
allocution to the Sacred College on the 22d ult , set-
ting forth the persecution of the Roman Catholic
Church in Russia and Poland, under the' government
of the Emperor NICHOLAS. As the Russian Govern-
ment refused to allow any Papal Bull to be pub-
lished within the Imperial dominions, the seeming
silence of the Holy See attracted attention, and it is
to acquit himself of all remissness, that the POPE ad-
dresses the Sacred College, enclosing the Members
copies of the several pastoral letters sent to the Ca-
tholic clergy in Russia .and Poland. The following
extract from the- late allocution includes all that it
contains of interest. The papers to which the POPE
refers have not yet been made public :
Venerable Brethren,—We have already communicated
to you from this very place the grief which has so long
afflicted our mind on account of the deplorable state of
the Catholic Church in the Russian empire. It has
happened, to our legitimate grief, that as the measures
which we have unceasingly adopted for the security of
the Catholic Church within the bounds of the Russian
dominions have received no publicity in those regions, a
rumour has been fraudulently propagated by the here-
, ditary foes of the Holy See amongst a very great mum-
bar of the faithful in those parts, that we, unmindful of
the most sacred of our duties, have silently passed over
the great calamities of those faithful, and have there-
fora almost deserted the cause of the Catholic religion.
The affair has reached to such a point, that we should
become, as it were, a stone of offence and a rock of
scandal, not only to a very large portion of the Lord's
flock over which we have been placed by Divine ordi-
nance, but also to the whole Church which has been
founded upon him, as upon a firm rock, whose venerable
dignity has been extended to us his successor. Under
those circumstances, our duty to God, to religion, and
ourselves, demands that we should repel far from us
even the suspicion of so unworthy a fault. We have
accordingly ordered a complete account of all that we
have done in the before-mentioned empire for the Ca-
tholic Churcl:;vtrsoot bhteah
that
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apostolical duties.

There is no news of any interest in the French
Journals. The Coratitulionnel has a long article on
the disturbances in the English manufacturing dis-
tricts, in which our --operatives are blamed for not
habituating themselves to starvation, as do artisans in
that greatest of countries—la belle France.
PARIS, 'Auc. 25.—The Moniteur of this morning has,
in its official part only, a note from Neuilly of the 24th,
stating that the Ambassadors of Austria, Portugal, and
Baden, had had private audiences of the King, to pre-
sent the answers of their respective Sovereigns to the
notification of the death of the Duke of Orleans—Con-
stitutionnd.

A Berlin letter of the 18th states, in the Wartzburg
Gazette, that the Prince Roval of Prinsia, whilst inspect-
ing the troops on the nth, .had a fall from his horse, but
received no injury. The same letter mentions a report
that accounts had been received in Berlin of the death of
the Russian Minister of Finance, by a pistol shot, from
the hands of an officer, for whom he had refused to pre-
sent a petition to the Emperor.—Galignanes Messenger.
Everybody is struck with the idea that the present
Chamber of Deputies cannot last.

The Emancipateur of Cambrai has the following
lines :—" The period of the dissolution is not so distant
as might be supposed ; for any minority is formidable
when it rests upon truth and the national policy ; and
let it not be forgOtten, it is a minority of 94 votes that
threatens the Guizot Xinistry, which is expiring, or the

Thiers Ministry, which is coming into existence. Neither
the one nor the other has sufficient strength tobrave such
a minority, supported by public opinion. Let us then
expect a speedy dissolution of the Chamber, and let us
prepare to combat with as little disadvantage as possible
on the unfavourable ground on which monopoly plates i;
us."—Gazette de France. '

On Monday the Minister of War informed Aischa and
Mahommed, the wife and son of the Arab chief El
Flamelaoui, that the King had been pleased to remit the
imprisonment of this old man, who was condemned bf
the Council of War of Constantina, for a letter written'
by him to Abd-el-Kader, suspected of being treasonable.
Until then, Flamelaoui had been remarkable for his fide-
lity, and had even received the cross, at the request of
the Duke of Orleans, for his conduct during the expedi-
tion of the Portes de Fer. It was the Queen, says the
Debots, whose kind offices are never implored in vainr
who, on this occasion, interceded with his Majesty for
the unfortunate Arab chief.

The Toulon journals of the 21st give accounts of the
squadron of Admiral Hugon up to the 15th. It had
been at anchor at Ajaccio, in Corsica, for two dila.
Its further destination was not known.
The Belle Poule left Toulon on ►he 20th, to go to Brest.
• A private letter from Algiers, of the 15th, published
in the Toulonnais, says, "The Governor-General has
just arrived here. He has visited the plain of StavuPlir
Maheltna,. Blidah, and Medeah, by the road of La,
Chilfa. He appears to be much pleased with his tour."
—Commerce.
BOURSE—PArus, THURSDAY, AUG. 25.

First Highest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. Price.
French 5 per Cents.... 119 70... 119 70... 119 60... 119 60

34ceearnCents 7i 80... 78 80... 78 90
Bank
of
3250 ..3250 ...3245 3250
Belgian Bank 770 ... 770 ... 770 ... 770
Belgian Fives lO2l ... 102! ... 102 k 104
1840 lO3 ... 103 ... 102 i 104
Spanish Active 24 ... 24 ... 21i 2!.4
Passive
Neapolitan..
Boman

„+
„9
,~

;v
;,ti

;•,1C

RAILWAY SHARES.
St. Germain 837 50... 840 ... 837 5c,... 840
Versailles, R.B ... 285 ... 285 ... 285 ... 285
Rouen ...
Orleans. 563 75... 563 75... 563 75... 563 75
Strasburg to Bale 2Ol 25... 201 25... 200 ... 200
BELGIAN FUNDS.--Banssins, Ann. 24.
Actual Debt, 234 per Cent , 5214
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent lOO%
Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent 9I ,
Three per Cent...........
--- Thirty-seven Milli ns, ditto ......... .... 70%
------
Loan of City, 1832, Four per Cent.)— 192
• Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent 86
Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent 77
National Society . .. .... —
Excha.,ge on London (short) ... ...... ........ —
—Brussels Papers, Aug 24.
HAMBURGH BORSEN HALLE, Ann. 23.
bills. Money.
Austrian 5 per Cents.
Bank Shares, 1652 16.8
A nglo.liussian Loan 159'1 l(1114.
Russian 5 per Cent., Ist series, Certificate .03)4 ItS%
Inscription, Ist series
Russian a per Cent. Hope and Co., 3d and 4th
Series OR 97q
Ditto in Certificates 97% 97. g
New 4 per tent. (1840) te/1/4, 894
Dutch Actual Debt, :46 per Cent. .........
Ditto 5 per Cent.
Polish Bonds .. ....... .. ......
New Tickets
Anglo.Uanish Loan, 3 per Cent. 8034 804 '
Spanish, New 5 p.x Cents.... .................
EXCHANGES ON LONDOF.
HAMHURGH, AUG. :3-13 9%, Two months I s 7;,i.
STOCKHOLM, AUG. 16. Seventy-tive days 12 15.
VIENNA, AUG: 16—Three months. 9. 42.
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, Ana. 20.
Bids. Money •
St. Schuld Sch., 4 per cent. ........... ....—.. 104 1.3%
Prussian English Bond ~1630, 4 per cent. L 2 102% ••
Exchange on London ... -- 6 23% .I
.
Prussian State Gazette, Aug. 21. .

His Serene Highness the reigning Duke of Saxe
Coburg and Gotha passed through town this morning
from Windsor Castle, and went to Woolwich, where
the' Duke and his suite embarked on board the Blank
Eagle steam-packet for Ostend, on his way to Brussels.

Lords Aberdeen and Stanley, and Mr. Goulburo,
have left town this morning to attend the Queen's •
Privy Council, at Windsor Castle. The Lord Chan-
cellor is also expected to be present. Sir James
Graham remains at Windsor this morning, and Will.
join his colleagues at the Council.
CORN-LAWS.—According to a return laid before
Parliament, the number of signatures to petitions, fit '.1.4t
dresses, and memorials to her Majesty, for the repeat
of the Corn-laws, from the Ist day of January to the
~
12th of August, 1840, amounted to 746,044.
LONDON CORPORATION.—The following items •Of
expenditure are extracted from the annual accounts
of the Chamberlain of the City of London for 1841,
laid before the House of Commons, and ordered to be
printed :—Monies paid by the Chamberlain for the
City Police, 48,689/. ; Police Superannuation Fund,
1,748/. ; Mooring Chains in the River, Salaries of
Harbour-Masters, &c., 12,973/. ; Thames _Navigation,
including Repairs of Locks, Improvement of the
River, Salaries, &c., 20,0061.; Sewers, 22,9161; Paving,
Cleansing, and Lighting, 60,0191.
PENsioNs (IRELAND).—A Return has been laid be-
fore Parliament of the names of all persons to whom
pensions were granted as compensation for any office
sahineodlid)
thein
mln,riatemilyi/nstdh,oe f at
personsa omr
amount
upreviousnow,
at
receiving
able
the .Act
the Speakers of
number altogether, including
of Committees,
the two Houses, Chairman
of the Black Rod,
of Union;
Clerks of Parliament, Usher such peimi;
Sergeant-at-Arms, trainbearers,
only of this goodly number are the words "receives
amount to about 300. Attached to the tto
messengers,naamchs of -I.B't
ce
:
in person," and to the other 290 names (with four or
.. ,
five exceptions) the word "dead" or "ditto."

THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.)
NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL.
Town as well as country killed Meat was nearly un-
saleable, even at lower prices. Beef 2s. Bd. to 3s. Bd. ;
Mutton 2s. 10d. to 3s. 10d._,. Lamb 4s. 4d. to 4s. Bd. ;
Veal 2s. 10d. to 4s. 4d. ; Pork 2s. 6d. to 4s. Bd. per stone
of 81bs. We had not a good supply of Poultry, but the
demand was very limited; prices are nearly nominal, but
fine fresh Poultry brought high rates. Grouse dull of
sale. Eggs 4s. 6d. to 6s. 6d. per 120.
WHITECHAPEL MARKET.
The trade was good for meat uninjured by the weather,
but damaged meat sold at very low prices. The supply
was a small one, though equal to the demand. Beet;
2A. Bd. to 3s. 10d. ; Mutton, 2s. 4d. to 3s. ; Veal, 2s. Bd.
to 4s. 4d. ; Pork, 2s. 4d. to 4s. Bd. ; Lamb, 3s. Bd. to 4s.
Bd. Clover, 41. to 51 10A. ; Hay,. 2. ss. to 4/ 4s. ; NeW
Hay, 31. to 41. ; Straw, 1/ Bs. to 11. 12s.

TEA MARKET.
The demand was very limited, the trade waiting f`';
the public sales declared ; but holders were firm, and
would not sell common sound Congou under Is. Bd. ca,h.
TALLOW MARKET.
The market very dull, and prices had a downward
tendency. Sellers at 475. 9d. per cwt. on the spot.

WAKEFIELD CORN DIARKE t's
Of late prices of Grain have been nearly nominal, but
to-day we had a fair attendance of buyers and a tolerable
business is done at our quotations. The quantity of New
°tiering is so small, that it fetches a high relative value'
Barley nominal. Oats are 4d. per stone, and Shelling;
Is. per load lower. Beans and other articles its before.
Waeat, Red, Essex and Kent —a. 48 . to 5,5. fin, 5,1*.
------ Norfolk And Su tliilk —t. Cis. to 46.5. fine 48,1.
- ----- Lin. and Cam.
—s. 40 ". 45, out 47,•
...—•••••••• Yorkshire —s. 44:. ti 41,. fine 41).6
---- White
Foreign, Bed —s. —s. to 42 . fine 50.
-- 'White —s.—s. ,6 i.:3. nue 55.:
Barley, Norfolk and E,lttedli 24,..0 .i.i. fine :Ali'
,--.- Lincolnshire
--- Yorkshire Weld
---- Foreign -8 to --s. tine --e.
Beans, New - 325. ic 34 . Enc 36.1.
----OW 34s to --s. tint :itiss
Oats, Potato S. to 20s. tine 6.D.
,- Poland —s. —s. to 2.05. fine ‘1.5..
--- Vriezlan4 and Sm:,l! . ............
4U5.
-- - healing
Si,"W.
glballing
Halt
Rapeseed

LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, AUGUST 27.—Wind, this day at noun,
light winds from the northward, and cloudy.
DEAL, AUG. 26.—Wind E.—Sld. Senator, Mauritius►
Helen, Bahia ; Pearl, Montreal.
DOvun, AuG. 26.—Sld; Blomidon, Newfoundland.
PORTSMOUTH, AUG. 26.—Wind L.S.L,—SId, Isabelle
Blyth, Mauritius.

DUBLIN BAY, AUG.-25.—Arrd. Edwin, St. johrt'S.
OFF Coax, AUG. 24.—Navigator. Buenos Ayres,
ABERDEEN, AUG. 24.—Sid. St. Lawrence, Quebec.
SHIELDS, AUG. 25.—Maria and Dahlina, Quebec. -
LIVERPOOL, AUG. 26.—Wind N.\.E.,
L—Arrd.
Magistrates, Young, Old Calabar, left June 10th and
Fernando Po, 15th ;. Liverpool, Hadley, Mobile ;
ter, Doyle, New York. Sid., Tapley, China ; Maid of
Cashmere, Monte Video ; Julie, Rio ; Romulus, Gre-
nada ; Cameoes, Trinidad ; Tamenund, New Orleans ;
Patrick Henry, Portsmouth ; Robert Parker, New Yel: ;
Windsor Castle, Boston ; Medora, Halifax ; Mabel, :7,t.
John's, New Brunswick ; Aberdeen, Quebec.

THE STADE DUTIEs.--A document on the subject
of the Stude duties has been published, prepared, We
believe, by M. de Falck, a member of the Privy Council
of King Ernest, and intended to defend the claims of the
King of Hanover to the right of exacting the Stade 'At-
tics. The English Government has, it is understood,
-consented, under all the peculiar circumstances attending
this cue, to recognize an ad valorem Stade duty of one-
eighth per cent., instead of the one-sixteenth per cent. sti-
pulated ibr in the treaty of the year 1691 between
Sweden, to which pea er Stade then belonged, and
Hamburgh. The peculiar and delicate position of
Hanover in the commercial policy of Germany—a de-
site not to add to the many inducements for that king-
dom to join the Zoll Verein, and the obvious useful-
ness there is to England in a strict friendship with Ila-
-Hover as a counter agency to that League, have doubtless
had their due weight in inducing the British Government
to accept these terms. Besides, it must not be overlooked
that the concessions which Hanover granted to England
in 17:36 are revocable, and that pressure on the "limo-
verian Government for reduction to the letter of the
treaty of 1691 might have produced a revocation of those
concessions. At all events, the reduction granted and
accepted will be a great relief to British shipping in the
Elbe, and is to be regarded as a proof of the perfectly
good understanding which exists between England and
Hanover.—Morning 'Herat.

CovENT-GARDEN.—It is understood in the thea-
trical world that Mr. Vandenhoff and his accomplished
daughter are to strengthen the Covent-garden company
in the approaching season, and that a new drama, from
the pen of the gentleman who was the successful author
of The Provost of Bruges, is in preparation.