Monmouthshire Merlin

THE HUSBAND'S FRIEND. I wish, ladles and gentlemen, that you knew my Unclc. Savory—he is such an excellent fellow-such an adept at composing (for It I, nothing less) a salad, brewing a jorum of punch; or filhng the chair at a club dinner. His eye is as bright as the Bude light, while his face looks like a map of good humour, every wrinkle being the boundary ot lome merriment. He promises to be as fat as a butter firkin, as slim as a threescore and ten spinster. He was in love at that time, and this very likeness was intended as a gift to his Dulcinea. Luckily, unclc found her out before he had so far committed himself as to present her with his effigy. She Jilted him most shamefully, and Uncle Savory took hi. disappointment so much to heart, that he became misanthro- pical, and retired from the world with no other companions than a bottle of Irish whiskey, and a German tobacco-pipe. He remained in a state of seclusion for eight and forty hours, and was for years as broken-hearted a man as love ever subjugated. He resolved to avoid: the chance* of a second attachment; so gave up housekeeping, took chambers in Lincoln's-inn, dined promiscuously, drank moderately, re- tired to rest whenever it suited his humour, and exercised the enviable privilege of letting himself in by a latch key. There is a little club called the" Ringdoves." It derived its name from the members being all married men, with one exception, and that one was my Uncle Savory. The Ringdoves hold their meetings in one of the out of the way corners of the metropolis, and are famous for nothing but their tendency to good fellowship and decided aversion to early hours. Uncle Savory was very popular with this set of roysterers he was not Riven to jeer at matrimony, sang a very tolerable song, and never rost from the table until every one else had departed. In fact, he might be considered as the thong which bound together those convivial fasces and whenever the gout held him at home by the toe, the Ringdoves; ..emed another set of beings, or, as one of them remarked, The) •earned at home," which .according to their illustration of that popular phrase, signified that they were insufferably dull. The consequence of this popularity of my Uncle Savory was a world of mistepretectation; and a few week's since, the malignity to which he WM exposed brought him into such a state of despondency that he was actually detected drinking a tumbler of unadulterated filtered mark the peculiarity of his disorder—the water was actualh filtered. As I shan not be able to frame an apology for my uncle thus de- grading himself, I will merely detail the persecution which induced thispitable and moral prostration. Women (Goddesses as they are!) have a logic peculiarly their own. with them it is an axiom, that their own husbands can do no wrong but at the instigation of others." rm.nttl6 *ai^ ti"lt Ringdoves were married men, and conse- «arr,p,i i!fCeiV- from t^eir respective spouses the benefit of the fore and Denalt?Mn*'tL"iT-,il0yed* however> by the infliction of those pains mirably which wedded ladies know how to administer so ad- Reader you must fancy the return home of Mr. Brown, of the Rine- doves and a colloquy something like the following £ üh, it is you nice time to come hame, Brown-palt one—and the Are out." My dear, I'm ashamed—" "Oh nonsense." I am indeed. Is that that the boot-jack?—but I could'nt getaway; and-ugh !-curse the boot." Not get away you talk like a child. There do'nt drink cold water In that manner—you had better take a couple of Cockles 1 There's, two str:iting," Two. Really my dear I had no idea of the time. Is my nightcap on your side f Here Well, you needn't throw it into the ewer. You're angry. "Angry—isn't It past two 1" It wasnt my fault. There was Jackson, and little What's-his- name that keeps a pony, and Savory." Savnry—that man ought to be ashamed of himself; he Dever goer home. I should like to tell him a little of my mind." "He's my fri-end,-my pier, and puts-less-oil in his-punch-" He's a perfect nuisance, and oughtn't to associate with married men. Brown—Brown Why you're snoring During the above, Mrs. Jackson may be also indulging in a soliloquy, and a fancy portrait of her husband's frieEd-Uncle Savory. These coals are'nt worth a farthing-Brown ought to be prosecuted tor selling such a fool to deal with him. Two o'clock lackson's with that Savory again. What a brute that fellow must be-how Jackson can degrade himself by making a friend of such a lo.red-haired-I hate red hair— red faced— tipsey—I wonder if he's ever sober—abandoned roue. Jackson never used to go out in this way till h. knew Sa.,ory-quarter past two-that Savory's a villain. I wonder what he has been -a gambler-a Jackson's step No it isn't)—a pirate—a spy (there's a cab. No, it has stopp'd n«xt door)—a forger—a returned convict. Gracious me ca/i anything have happened to Jackson? Hag that Savory been plaving tricks with W-TOT US These scenes are not altogether imaginary tfc. i i partakes of the ideal, but every lady ew?vm?™hP V n doves" looked imnn TTn^i^ o 3 01 everY member of the "Ring- abused and misrpnrpcBntoH ory ,as their husbands'friend, and think that whilst he liEfpno^'J11 aFcor(*ingly- Poor uncle little did he other of the RiniMn a » j eulogy of first one and then the with honp«t or; i !doves, and felt the blood in his heart bubbling sonra ir,,i commendations of his salads and punch, his rrniot; admirable conduct in the chair, that their fairer and better rati IT""8 oa<'lnf? with "curses not loud but deep," as the primary je or the consumption of rushlights and connubial absenteeism. I he veil was at length removed from his eyes towards the heel of as pleasant an evening as ever gathered upon the orgies of the happy fraternity of the Ringdoves. Jackson twitted Brown with being a nightly auditor to a private lecture on the "conjugal duties Brown retaliated upon Briggs, whose laugh was the loudest at the martial penance of his "Ringdove;" Briggs revenged himself upon Dobbs. who had been betrayed into an expression of sympathy for his noc- turnal snubbings; Dobbs filliped Smith; Smith grilled Jones; Jones ronled White; and so on, until each member of the club had confessed I to keeping a gray mare," and laughed heartily at his own domestic I thraldom. Uncle Savory was paralysed; for every man had ended his acknowledgment with the same harrowing assertion- My wife says it's all Savory's fault." He had fancied himself indifferent to the opinion of the world in general, and of the fairer portion in particular! but now that he heard ) himself a bye-word by men's hearths—a social vampire that was feeding upon the domestic felicity of a dozen hearts, he felt the punch bocoms iee in his bowels, and the fragrant fumes of his beloved weed change to the unsavouriness of an expiring candle. The last "Ringdove had departed, and still my uncle sat with an ampty jug before him; and it was not until the waiter, surprised at the phenomenon of his abstinence, informed him that it was three o'clock. that he laid down his long exhausted pipe, and retired to his lonely ahambera In Lincoln's-inn. How desolate appeared his condition He would have given half that he was worth for one of those curtain lectures of which he had heard so much during the past evening: but there was nothing sitting up for him but a little night lamp that burned as steadily as though it were upon the alter of a Romish saint. If it had only sputtered, my Uncle Savory would have been satisfied. No, he was atone! No angered voice, yet gentle in its angar, reproached him for the lateness of his return, or excused his regretted absenee by the attractions of some husband's friend. He felt the whole weight of the convivial delin- quencies of the club rested upon his devoted name, and he shuddered at the eon fiction. Unele Savory doats upon children. In the humour he was in, the strangest fancy found ready admittance into his brain, and h. Imagined that all the infant Ringdoves, in their prayers for pro tection, were taught to lisp his name in conjunction with that of the wicked one. He thought he heard the angered mother threaten her perverse child to send for Mr. Savory and then he recalled the visions of his early love, and began to speculate upon the possibility of his heart sprouting again. The latter idea acted as a sedative, and he became sufficiently calm to mix a small glass of brandy and water, and resort to his old friend, the maerschaum. The twittering of the house sparrows at length warned him of the day-break, and he crept into bed with a very confused head, the result either of drinking or reflection-my own opinion leans to the former supposition. For some evenings, the Ringdoves saw nothing of my Uncle Savory, and the only information they could gain of him was from a small piece of paper which they found wafered on his door, inscribed with this laconic sentence—" Gone out; "—but where ?—that was the mys- tery and serious thoughts were entertained of advertising the missing gentleman, when to the great relief of the community, Uncle Savory made his appearance at the Thursday's meeting- Many were the inquiries as to the cause of his absence, but upon this point he refused to satisfy them and as his wonted humour dif- fused its influence amongst them. they soon ceased to care for lhe past in the enjoyment of the present. The fact is, that my uncle had stolen quietly down to Gravesend, in order to argue over in his own mind what he ought to do in his present state of feeling. At first, he in- clined to matrimony but recollecting what a violent change it would necessarily produce, he gave up the pleasing dream, and set to work to free himself from the odium attached to a husband's friend The plan he decided upon was a simple one, and accident enabled him to exe- eute it at much leIS trouble and inconvenience than he anticipated It so happened that Mrs. Brown had Issued invitations for a tea partv On the evening succeeding my uncle's return, and he learned with ex- treme delight that the visitors included all the wives of the Rinir doves." A little badinage, cleverly introduced by Uncle Savory in- duaed every husband to promise to attend at the club and abandon the tea table—a resolution which was strengthed by the assurance of my uncle that he should consider their presence on the ensuingtevenina as a personal obligation to himself. The morrow evening came, but not Uncle Savory, and numerous were t he conjectures of the" Ringdoves to account for his absence. AI I have no wish to keep the reader in suspense, let me beg of him to eon- eeive lhe drawing room of Mrs. Brown, crowded with the wives of the Ringdoye5," and at that point of time when the marital misdemean- ours were the universal subject of conversation. co Of course you have heard of Savory?" inquired Mrs. Brown. What, that fellow exclaimed Mrs. Dobbs. "A little imp! said Mrs. Jackson. The greatest nuisance that I know," remarked Mrs. Briggs. co That-what shall I call him," eontinned Mrs. Brown, pausing lor a word sufficiently comprehensive to expresl the fullness of her disgust —" That-that-friend of my husband And mine said Mrs. Briggs. And mine said Mrs. Dobbs. And mine said Mrs. Jackson-" that friend is the tempter—the Mephistophiles that leads my poor J. into late hours and incipient in- toxication." Briggs, Dobbs, Jackson, See., were declared to be equally victims. v, I do betieve if were to see that wretch," said Mra. Brown, that I should—" here she paused to peruse the inscription on a card which ~e 8"vant had just delivered to her—her lip whitened—the bird of nameof m turban shook as with an ague as she gasped out the „ 5" Ma ROGER SAVORY." Had a bomb-shell been suddenly dropped into the tea urn, the partv "°u7? »een more panic-striken—a feeling that was not allayed v i„h T,-t,"0C? °/ uncle—the universal bugbear, the "spring heeled Jack —to their domestic quiet. v u5l" ??use<* a' *ke door—he bowed—(he is celebrated for his and hi"d-mind, only hinted-a curtesy. «f innm hut • an intruder," said my uncle in the blandest oi tones out, -—and he paused O d«ar no," replied Mri Hr^w- «#>», har as she uttered "ho request?» C0n,C,enCe ,m0te "Thank you, "said my uncle demniMmrV I expected to have found Mr. Brown here 1 Pe"°n ,n ° hav^xpUteTMr.^rown W^etur'n^d home" 7°? Tu Mrs. iaekson h.4 been hurst*«.t.?pJSr3^SjlK:M,. Savory knowsihis own attractions; and eonsidered it probable, that as he was away. Mr, n. might have thought of his wife and friends It did not coincide wirh my uncle's purpose to under3tl\nd the drift of Mrs. Jackson's remark,he therefore smiled. My object in calling," he said at length" was to leave my address in Paris" r n Paris! exclaimed the ladies simultaneously. In Paris," continued my uncle. "I leave towii in three hours: and I fear it will be-years --(here my uncle blew his nose grleifuJly) "ere I return to my native land" A beam of pleasure stole over every countenance in the room. "Pray take a cup of tea," said Mrs. Brown, as you. are going to travel It may, perhaps, be agreeable You are very kind," answered my uncle—-and drawing his chair to the table he accepted the proffered beverage. By degrees he contrived to lead the ladies into conversation and by tOllching upon those topirs only which he conceived to be most accept- ahle to them contrived to pr010nu his visit until within half an hour ot the time he had named for his departure. He rose, and gracefully took his leave, requesting that his best wishes might be conveyed to the absent husbands. The ladies declared that 1\1r. Savory was anything but a disagreeable man. No sooner had the street door closed upon my uncle than he threw himself into a cab, and ordered the driver to convey him to the lo- cality of the "Ringdoves." He rushed into the room, as though breathless from exertion, and tendered a thousand apologies for his unavoidable absence, ordered in a bowl of punch as a peace offering, and commenced" fusillade of jokes that soon set" the table in a roar." The clock chimed three as the merry roystcrcrs turned into the street, each voting Uncle Savory the best fellow in the world." The result was exactly what my uncle had anticipated. Not one wife would admit the old excuse- It was that Savory." Savory, the agreeable gentleman, who was then snoring in the Dover coach? Impossible!" From that night all the ladies were convinced that my uncle was an injured innocent, and the Ringdoves, fearful of exciting more illiberal suspicions, never sought to palliatc their delinquencies by the mention of the name of their" friend Savory." -lllumi1lated 11lagazille..

THE DISMISSAL OF THE IRISH MA- GISTRATES. The ground upon which ministers have defended the dismis- sal of the Irish magistrates is, not the egregiously foolish plea put forth by Sir E. Sugden respecting the declarations in Par- liament, but, though less absurd, it is not less dangerous to the freedom of discussion. The justiifcation is, that the purpose of the Repeal meetings was intimidation, that violence was likely 10 result from them, and that in such an event, the magistrates who had taken a part in the agitation could not be Irusted in he suppression of the consequent tumult. It is obvious thai these are apprehensions which may be entertained by the timid or professed by the dishonest with respect to meetings in fur- therance of any great object whatever. Every important ques- lion of our time has been treated as involving the ruin 01 the Constitution, revolution, the fall of the empire, &c. Catholic Emancipation, the Reform Bill, the new Poor Law, the amend. ment of the Corn Laws, were all in their respective days Ie. presented as fraught with cureless ruin, and the sun of England has set for ever, at least half-a-dozen times, within the lasl 1:,) years. Indeed, the constitution is like Apollo Uelvi, in Kil- ling no Murder," who having announced his own demise by sudden death, adds that he was very subject to it from his infancy. It being quite a matter of course to attribute the most fatn 1 consequences to every change, and easy to assign to meetings for its promotion a tendency to violence and commotion, theie >s not a question of any moment with respect to which magis- rates throughout the kingdom might not be dealt with as the Irish magistiates have been treated as to the Repeal agitation. Xoihing more is necessary than to assign the danger, aod the conclusion is arrived at. The formula of the justification might te printed aod pigeon-holed in the Home office, witll a blank only for the pai icnlai question. A ministry of Buckingharns, Stanhopes, Blackstones, and the like, would look upon the re- peal of the Corn Laws much as the present Government regards the Repeal of the Union, and would, on the same grounds 01 langer, probauly take the same ill-judged steps, invading tiie 'recdom of discussion. We do not deny, however, that there may be occasions on which it may become the duly of a Government to exercise its power of withdrawing magisterial authority from persons whom it may deem not trustworthy. The justification of such an ex. ercise of power will always be found, if it can be found at all, in its consequences, some good effect having been brought aboui by it which could not h'\ve been accompliohed by any other neaos, or some evil disposed of whicb could not otherwise havf been averted. But are any effects of this kind tobetraced in the tiain of the dismissal of the Irish magistrates? Is the Go- vernment strengthened, is the Repeal agitation weakened by it ? Has it not given tresh spirit to the excitement it was intended to liscourage. It has inspired not awe, but scorn; il hasevinceu not the vigour 01 'he Government, but its small, mean, petti o^ging way of making its timid, distant approaches to a great md formidable object. Lord Clanricarde, in his very able speech, thus reviewed the consequences with as much rnodeia- iion as Iruth- "The moment the arbitrary and unconstitutional character uf these aCls had been understood, every man who Iud the slightest bearing towards repeallelt his sympathies excited in fwour of those who were so treated. A universal feeling was consequently excited on behalf of these dismissed magistrates. One gentleman stated. 'Not being a repealer, and having hi therto taken no part in these meetings, I yet adopt the lan- guage of Lord J. Russell, that the act of union is as open to jscussion as any other act.' Every man having any feeling of independence felt indignant at such conduct on the part of the Government; and the genilemen dismissed, so far fiom having :>een depressed or degraded, were seemingly exalted. AJ en who level hitherto had aspired to fame had now their names enrolled in the annals of Ireland aud some of them would certainly remain so distinguished for ever as among this band of man yrs. A laugh.) They had been toasted as heroes, and half deified is martyrs-(bu;hter)-and many, to 'heir own great surprise, found themselves suddenly public characters men who had never desiied it, \\cre elevated from Iheir obscurity-(a lau^h —because, having been called to attend these meetings, they had allowed themselves to be carried along in the currento) popular feeling, and infinitely to their astonishment, became objects of popular enthusiasm. (A laugh.) Could any man who had the slightest knowledge of, or experience in, popular leeling, doubt that this must have been the immediate effect of such a course on the part of the Government? But it had inother effect. It had been intended, farther, to put down the repeal association. Now in the last yeai its resources, in spite •>f great efforts and several meetings, had increased but slowly, and £170 had been considered a large rent for one week. When the speeches appeared in Parliament the rent rose to £330. hi the first appeaiance of the letters it rose to £600. When they had become known generally, it rose to £1,200. The following week it fell certainly lower, but it had never been beneath £1,000. It had been once as high as 13.000, and had averaged, perhaps, £1,200 or £1,500 a week. Such, then, had 'leen the effect of these letters, and such the judgment shown in sending them: nor should he omit to draw attention to the in- justice and inequality which had accompanied these acts of the Government, and which had greatly increased popular sym- pathy. One gentleman dismissed had meiely attended a din- ner given to his representative and though it might have ccr tainly been expected that where such eminent repealers as Mr. O'Connell were to be present the subject would be alluded to, this was a very strong and arbitrary proceeding, particularly considering that had the dinner or meeting been prior to tne 7r11 ol May—before, that is, the declarations of Government— the Chancellor would not have interfered. But, at all events, i: was a proceeding that ought to have been accompanied by ^impartiality yet, when afterwards eight. magUfates had at- tended a meeting of tIllS sort, aud only two hall been dismissed, the Home Secretary, on being questioned, had said that each elSC must stand on its own merits.' Those who attended the -iinri3r, where they met merely for the purpose of making and hearing speeches, merely for the purpose of agitation, because he representatives were not theie, they were not dismissed while those who attended the meeting called for the purpose o petitioning, those who attended a meeting called foraicga) purpose, were dismissed. Were they to be told that such con- duct was to have a good effect in Ireland, and make men side with the Government 1 There was a third effect which nose letters would have, a sad effect, and one to which he wished to direct the particular attention ot their loidships. He meant the want of confidence in the magistracy which It engendeied mirdand. (Hear. hear.) He felt that he was entItled to say that a gieat improvement in that respect had been lately made in Ireland. (Cheers.) That county had not advanced as they mi»ht have wished but she had greatly advanced, and in nothing more than in the administration ol justice, and more particularly in the lower branch, though probably the most im- poitant one, viz., the performance of the magisterial duties; their lordships must agree that the way in which those duties were now performed, as contrasted with former times, showed a great and decided improvement. We have heard it well remarked that one of the most impo- Iltic effect. of this rash, ill considered measure, is the banish- ment from popular meetings of men whose duties as magistrates bound them most scrupulously to guard against whatever might j tend to a breach of the peace which they were appointed to pre Magistrates in the repeal meelings were securities foi iheir peaceable conduct; and it was not only that the magis. ir:<ies themselves must have felt put upon their honour to lake lm.'b that their sacied dmies should not suffer by their political ;> oceediogs, but aiso that the people on their part must have .'el hound to respect the law, by the respect they owed its con- servators in their ranks, as th«y must have fell that any out- break would severely compromise the characters ot the magis- 'rates associated with the body committing it. Wthapeopfe not insensible of generosity, and altvays ready to return kind- ness for any signal confidence, this consideration was no slighi hold. In such a state of things as exists III lreland, a wise Government would have thriftily husbanded all the means of peace, and abandoned no lie to it which it could honourably maintain. What said Lord Clancarty, a Tory, and a friend of the mi- nistry?— The only overt act of the Government was one of a very questionable character. He was willing to give the responsible advisers of the Crown full credit for s'ngleness of purpuse in punishing magistrates, but he feared that their conduct in this respect was calculated rather to give an impulse to the present unfortunate agitation. The removal of some of ihe magistiates would be a serious loss to the bench of justice, and many ot them, he thought, had been harshly and unfairly dealt with for instance, he very much regretted the removal of SIr Michael Uellew, and theie were others who but for this injudicious step would not have thrown themselves into the rinks of the repeal movement; and those who had thus been made arde.it Re- peaters f,,1t themselves relieved from the obligation under which they had been previously laid to attend to the preservation of the public peace."—Examiner.

CONSERVATION OF THE CONSERVATIVE MINISTER. The care taken of our Peel by the police is quite beautiful. It is with him everywhere. Happy man he never can outrun theconstabte. hen he goes out walking two policemen get up behind him. No one sees them, but there they aie under the skirts of his coat, and it a stranger salute him. they start from thetr ambulatory ambuscade and apprehend him. When Zn S,lySn h°me.i U biteha11 dens are more closely v. t of old, and a sparrow cannot lisnt on a twig without alarming .1 I ,i o a- Qg me vigilance ot ihe Premier s ftie prime n.i*s«r **•*«»« = d°l1' hed'e i ^0>' !oungesfabout Whitehall gardens, and does not give a good account of himself (how could he?) he .s forthwith laid hold oi. and examined at great length fou, times at bow-street; having been remanded, as the .epori .rates, that some medical gentleman might have an opportunity ot examining into the state of Ins mind." The corpus de'ich vas nothing more nor less than loitering about Whitehall gar- h ns without being able to g,ve a good account of himself; foi all people who loiter about the gardens must be able to give a .ood account of themselves, excepting always Sir Robert Peel ,,110, as the law maxim has it, is not bound to an impossibility. At last, alter a great ado, and an exhibition of the most ve- liementzeal on the part ot the magistrates, the boy is discharged; nothing more having been proved than that he was as idle as !)'e police were busy, and when these two opposites met tofe- ncr, a commotion like that in the present case is in the courss jf things. We see in this instance, however.—the better foi is very irrationality—the lefinemeut of vigilance with which ve guard our Peel. Tney will next take up his shadow for ;ù lowing him and refusing to answer why or wherefore. Wherever he goes or wherever he stays, a sweet little cherub sits peiched up aloft to keep watch for the life of our Peel, and ihechcub iscloVhedm blue, with white metal buttons, a num- ber on his collar, and a h it with a lim round the top to pievent the breaking 0[' his head. The interposition of these cherubs is sometimes very curious. When Sir Robert Peel was in Germany, Sorg, the keeper of the Hotel de Russieat Frankfoit, had paid him some attentions which so pleased the great man that he invited Sorg to attend him whenever he should come to England. This event came to pass in the spring, and Sorg, happening to meet Sir Robert in Downing-street, was hastening up to accost him, when the great man, not less full of care for himself than for his country, and not relying on the do-nothing system in his own case, iianded his forgotten friend over to the cherubs in disguise, who aitend all his steps. The amazement of the German, who though a hotel keeper is a man ot large fortune, and in his own country accu-tomed to be treated as a gentleman, at finding himself taken into custody for a salute, is not to be described. lIe will instruct his countrymen what a perilous thing it is to make a bow to Sir Robert Peel, with his police at his heels and a fancied assassin in every unrecognised face.—Examiner.

FRENCH SYMPATHY. The Tory journals got a story, some time back, of M. Chas Ledru, a Parisian barrister, having gone to Ireland to aid and abet in getting up insurrection. It is a pity there was no truth in the story, for M. Charles Ledru is a man of business and sense, and a jovial fellow withal, who could have let the Irish into many valuable secrets. However, the Tory story of M Charles Ledru has set other French folk, greater lovers of no- toriety and row, to do what M. Charles Ledru did not do, viz., go to Ireland, fiaternise with the Irish, make addresses, pala- ver, and get palavered in turn. Accordingly certain gentiv in Paris get up a dinner on the anniversary of the capture ot the Bastille, and forthwith set about devising how Dublin Castle could be stormed and its captives liberated in an equally glo- rious manner. The very brilliant and effective way in which the French ultra-democrats have aided Polrnd in its regenera- tion, naturally suggested the expediency of giving similar in- citement and similar help to the Irish. The hero of this scheme and this banquet was not M. Charles Ledru, but his namesake M. Ledru Rollin, a taller man by far, or as the Irish would say, a cleverer, six feet high, powerlul lungs, ore rotundo, and, in short, possessed of all the physical qualities of a great orator, t The following is the address drawn up by the Directing Com- mittee of Paris, and to be spoken to the Directing Committee of the Irish by the orator in question :— Fnslaved Hibernians, We, the freest people in the universe, come from our great centre of civilisation, to bring you the homage of our sympa- thies; sympathies which we gave to Egyptians and to Poles, and which proved so notably effective, that the proverb of May Young France protect you,' has throughout the world become synonymous with the blessing of the D-I take you.' Uur philanthropic hearts are greviously moved at the thought of men like you being ground to the earth without even the elements of liberal institutions. It is true that, although the people of July achieved a glorious revolution no farther back than 1830, they are still without a single I.. aat guarantees the lIberty of the person or the libcrty of tile preSS. hoth being at the meicy of the first policeman. It is true, unfortunately true, that twenty Frenchmen dare not congregate to talk upon poliiical matters wiijtout being subject to impiisonment or fine at the mercy of the Peers' Court. The mere publication cf a political pamphlet renders any one of us amenable to the same court, and liable to the same penalties. I, myself, who address you have just spent six months in prison, for having dared to teil my constituents that they were badly governed. But, nevertheless, llishmeD, we are most anxious to help you to conquer those free institutions which we have been unable to ,1tLtin, but which you efjoy in your benighted and enslaved clindition." Such is the address, purloined from the most authentic source, as the phrase is. which M. Ledru Rollin is charged with fling- ing at the head of the Irish LLera'or. I have been promised .Vli. O'Connell's reply, but kar it cannot be got in time for your Saturday's edition. But it will keep, however unused as that otators productions a e to do so.

MR. BLEWITT'S LETTElt TO THE PREMIER. Mr. Blewitt, who is not always heard as he ought to be in the House of Commons, has written a letter to Sir Robert Peel, which proves, at least, that he has a better claim to be ';eard, than many empty-pated gentlemen, who, when they rise to address the house, are often received with unmerited favour. 1\1r. Blewitt, in this letter, appears in a new character. He is Sir Robert Peel's looking glass.—We fear the glass would find little favour, that ventured to tell half so much truth to any non-political dowager. We do not say that political dowagers would prove more indulgent, if we could get at their real sentiments; but, be this as it may, we can assure Sir Robert Peel, that he will find Mi. Blewitt's hints useful, though unpalatable and we recom- mend him consequently to make free use of his glass, if he wish to form a fair estimate of his own po-ition in public opinion. The contrast drawn in Mr. Blewitt's letter between the dig- nified tall of 1835, when the premier, quitting office with graceful propriety, left behind him a name, which, if not dis- tinguished by any great statesmanlike achievements, was at least unsullied by even the suspicion of any great administra- tive incapacity," and the perilous eminence of 18-13, when the physician stands revealed as the quack, and the Utopian dreams ot 1841 have been tuined into an almost universal sense of dis (ress and danger,—is as just as it is forcible. Never, perhaps, was that credulity, which Mr. Blewitt describes as the pecu- liar infirmity of the English character," more promptly, or painfully punished j-and the quotation from Bolingbioke,— the portrait of the minister, "who wriggled hiniseifinto power, without knowing how to use it, when obtained,"—"whose mind was hke the sanctum of a temple, with a great curtain drawn solemnly across it, while theie was nothing but a con- tused group of mis-shapen and imperfect lorms,—heads with- out bodies and bodies without heads,—within,"—would have made the fortune of a speech, had Mr. Shell, or Sir G. Grey Ílit upon it. For it is the truth,—let who will gainsay it. Sir Ilobeit Peel may think his looktng glass too faithful, but the country sees him as he may see himself in it, if he chooses to contem- plate a very wretched figure. We said last ueek that he was in a false position." We say now, as we have ofen saiJ before, that he is in a false position, because he took office un- der false pretences. Had the agriculturists known how much he intended to do, he would have no chance of the majority, which the counties gave him-and his failure would have been just as certain in the towns, had they known that he meant to do so little. France had a Finance Minister, a few years before the revolution, who was called" the Spoilt Child,"—L'Eufint gate,—by the wits of the capital Why? Because he touched everything and spoiled everything that he touched L' Abbe Touche a tout is h:s historical surname. He was Sir Robert Peel's pro- totype. Those, who believe in the transmigration of souls, may think it a case of absolute resuscitation. But, say the friends of the premier, he personally deceived nobody. His practised tongue never tripped. lie made no iash promises—no foolish professions!—Precisely so He let the countiy deceive itself. He had a dish for every palate; —baits and candidates for every interest;—Sir George Mur- ray for Manchester with a good dash of Free Trade,—and Lord Stanley for Lancashire with a spice of Protection!—Mr, Beckett for Leeds, who votes for a Free Trade in wool, at all events, and Mr. Palmer for Essex,—the one honest truth telling man, who, when the Government produced its Budget, had the courage to say that if a Tory premier could be suspected of sanctioning Pree Trade in anything, he should not have polled tony'votes amongst his 2,0;)0 constituents. 1 his is what We call, getting a majority under false pretences aLd, as a necessary consequence, comes the inability to make "spot it for any object of real utility. There may be small concessions, leeble attempts at wretched compromises,—such as we have seen in the Tariff and in the Corn-laws,—but the vis l'lertiæ of the party controls its leader, when he approaches those larger changes, without which his own professed princi- ples Illust remain a dead letter. How could Lord Lincoln, who congratulated the country upon having scouted the hum- bug ot cheap bread," from the hustings at Newark,—assent to any change that would make bread really cheaper ? He would be told that he had sold his constituents for the woods and < lores: s while, if the Duke of Newcastle's son gave up the woods I and forests because he could not assent to a government plan for ( ICVIVIOg British industry by opening the trade in corn with America, how long would that government survive his seces- sion ? And so it is, upon every other great question. Inaction is the condition of Sir R. Peel's political existence. lie cannot conciliate Ireland, because his party made English fanaticism une of their stepping stones to power. He cannot advance Jne hair's breadth beyond the time tracad out last year in com- < [nercial changes, without risking his majoiity, or keep his ma- lority without disgusting the country. His fiiends say they ( Jnly assented to what was done, upon condition that it should <o no farther. Thecountry says, that to stop where he is, threa- tens every great interest with inevitable ruin. This is the se- -rt t of that singular state of ihings, which the Times has de scribed, as the combination of absolute inefficiency, with absolute power."—It cannot last long, but it may last long enough to inflict injuries, which it will be very difficult to re- I paii. Let us hope that when it ends, as end it musi, the reign uf false ptetences will be over; and that whoever will succeed < Sir Robert Peel at the helm, we shall know before hand what Je means to do with his power.— Weekly Chionicle.

An account is published of the net revenue of the ] Duchy of Cornwall, from the 9th of November 1841, the day olthe birth of his royal highness the Prince of Wales, to the 31st ot December, 1842-or little more than 12 months-from which it is seen, that the income for such period amounted to £32,935. 13s.4d., while the expendi- ture was £ 12,835- 13s. 4d.—thus leaving £20,100. as a surplus. This seems a large sum; but it is to betaken < into corsidelation, that in such amount is included £14,580. 5s. 3d., being "compensation in lieu of the lin coinage duties;" while, on the other hand, there will, we presume, be a deduction from the expenses, as attend- ant on the collection of such dues. Having now before us the revenue of the duchy—and a receiver-general and chancellor, with other officers to his infant royal highness, having been appointed-we think it would not he too much to ask that the positiou of the miners by whose la- bour such revenue is obtained, should have the considera- tion of his royal highness, through one or other of his offi- cers, with the view to the protection of the home miner, who is sacrificed at the shrine of the capitalist, whose ad- ventures are in foreign mines.—From the Mining Jour. ISTHMUS OF PANAMA.— According to a communica- tion made by M. Arago to the Paris Academy of Sciences, a contract has been entered into by Messrs. Baring and Co., of London, with the republic of New Granada, in virtue of which the republic is to cede to them the line required for the projected canal, with eighty thousand acres of land on the two banks, and 400,000 acres in the inte- rior of the country, Messrs. Baring and Co. had, It is said, in the first instance, fixed the amount of toll for the navigation of the canal at the exorbitant price of eighteen francs per ton, but they have reduced it to eight francs Hie wok, upon which four to five thousand men are to be engaged, is to be completed in five years. GRIEVANCES (IRELAND).— The Late Divison.— It is a curious circumstance that an equal number ot Irish mem- bers voted for and against Mr. W. S. O'Crien's motion on lush grievances, 0:1 Wednesday se'iint^ht. Thus-14 mem bers for counties and 7 lor boroughs voted for the motíon- making 21 and 15 for counties, 5 for boroughs and 1 for Dublin University, against the motion — also making 21. Scotland was the only portion of the United Kingdom whose members were in a majority (of 8) for the motion- she majorities against it being, England 76 and Wales 10. 1 bus Scotland appears to be the only" sympathiser" We learn from the Liverpool Times that the practice oi p acing women in the public stocks is being revived a' f'rescot and St. Helen's.

HOUSE OF LORDS. THURSDAY, JULY 20. The Lord Chancellor introduced a btll, which was read a first time, for the purpose of legalizing Presbyterian marriages in Ireland. It was simply a temporary measure, having refer- ence to such marriages as had taken place, and was introduced in consequence of the great anxiety which existed on the sub- ject in Ireland. A more general measure will hereafter be brought forward. The house s*t but a short time. FRIDAY, JULY 21. The standing orders having been suspended, the Presbyte- j rian marriages (Ireland) bill went thiough its several stages, and was read a third time and passed. Lord Portman laid on the table a bill for the amendment of the law of landlord and tenant, so far as related to the improve- ment of land. The bill was read a first time, and ordered to be printed. On the motion of Lord Brougham, the slave trade suppres- sion bill was read a third time and passed. Lord Campbell, in moving that the report of the committee on the law of libel bill be received, said he wished to propose a clause relating to the reporting of debates in Parliament. He would not, however, give their lordships the trouble of dividing upon it. The noble and learned lord referred to Cavendish's report, and pointed out the necessity of having something to furm the basis of Parliamentary history. Lord Brougham concurred in what had fallen from the noble and learned lord, and said the country was under vast obliga- tions to Mr. Wright, the editor of these reports, for the able manner in which he had compiled them. The clause was then negatived and the report received. Ordered to be reada third time on Thursday. The scientific societies bill and the petty sessions bill, went severally through a committee, and their lordships then ad- journed till Monday.

HOUSE OF COMMONS. WEDNESDAY, JULY 19. Mr. T. Duncombe complained of the conduct of the govern- ment and its supporters, in not assisting to make a house" on the previous night. Lord J. Russell and himself had im- portant motions, the one on education, the other on prison discipline and the government must not, therefore, complain of obstruction in the progress of public business, seeing they had prevented the discussion of these important subjects on the onlv day in the week now left to independent members. Sir R. Peel said he had come down at twenty minutes past four o'clock, and was quite surprised when he found there was no house. The dropped orders" were then fixed for other days. Mr. Mackinnon's" health of towns" bill stood for next read- ing but Sir J. Graham and other members recommended its withdrawal. Mr. Mackinnon yielded, promising to renew the bill next session. Lord Worsley moved that the coroners' bill be committed, pro forma, in order to introduce certain amendments. Sir E. Knatchbull resisted this, and moved, as an amendment, that the bill be committed that day three months. Mr. C. Berkeley seconded the amendment. Af er soinejdtscussion, the house divided, when the amend- ment was rejected by 66 to 42 and the bill was carried through committee, pro forma. Thursday, JULY 20. GOVERNMENT MEASURES*. Sir R Peel stated what measures the government are anxious to carry during the present session, and what they are disposed io abandon. They are desirous of carrying, if they can, the Irish arms bill, the Scottish church bill, the Irish Poor-law amendment bill, and the exportation of machinery bill. They have made up their minds to abandon the ecclesiastical courts hill, the factories bill, and the law courts (Ireland) bill, and every other measure to which any determined opposition may be offered. But they are still desirous of earing the county courts bill, with which are connected two other measures of law reform, the small debts bill, and the superior courtscommon law bill. On these he will state the decision of the government on a future driy, as the hope of carrying depends on the progress of other business. In answer to Sir G. Grey, it was stated by Sir J. Graham, that as the Government had determined on withdrawing the ecclesiastical courts bill, it would be necessary to renew Ihe act for suspending the operation of the act for effecting the new arrangement of dioceses which had been re- newed from year to year. Lord Ashley expressed his deep regret at the postponement of the factories bill-a regret which was natural after the peiiod of ten years he had devoted to the subject. He hoped the Go. vernment would bring it forward early next session. ARMS EILL. The house having gone into committee on the Irish Arms Bill, Lord J. Russell proposed that the 24th and 25th clauses, which give the power of entering houses, should be confined to such districts as the Lord-Lieutenant should, by proclamation, declare to be in a state of distuibance requiring the application of this bill. Lord Eliot objected that the effect of this limitation would be, that arms wuuld be concealed in districts not disturbed. It was well known that ihe murders in Tipperary had been com- mitted by strangers, biinging their arms with them from a dis- tance. After some further conversation, the amendment was nega- tived on a division, and the committee then occupied themselves until about one o'clock wi h the further details of the Bill. They had by that time proceeded as far as the 34th clause, having had eight divisions, all unfavourable to amendments. The other orders having been disposed of, Sir J. Graham obtained leave to bring in a bill for the im. I provement of prison discipline. FRIDAY, JULY 21. The Designs Copyright Bill was reported and ordered to be read a third time on Thursday. The Customs Acts Bill was also reported. Mr. Hume took that opportunity of objecting to the principle upon which they were legislating on the subject of the Customs' duties. Mr. Hawes said, so far as the Coalwhippers' Bill was con- cerned, it was a direct interference with the rights of labour, and suggested that evidence be taken before the select com- mi;tee. Mr. T. Duncombe and Mr. Labouchere also condemned the principle of the Coalwhippers' Bill. Mr. Gladstone denied that the object of that bill was to inter- fele with the right of labour or to impose any additional taxes upon the public. The principle of the bill having been affirmed, he did not think it necessary to send evidtnee before the com- mittee.. Mr. Ewart gave notice that early next session he should move the abolition of the duty on foreign wool. Air Hume gave notice that on Tuesday next he should move that the Attorney-General be directed to prosecute the agents of Lord Dungannon at the. 'as? Durham e'ec,'on> for bribeiy, and to take proceedings against other parties who had received br'rbneS3'nsvver to Mr. Mackinnon, The Chancellor of the Exchequer said the sum of ,£100,000 had been voied as a loan to Antigua and St. Kitts, to relieve the sufferers by the late earthquake, and the money would be paid over as soon as the necessary securities were perfecied. The Presbyterian manages (Ireland) bill was brought down • ,ue fjouse of Lords, and read a first time. In answer to Lord Ashley, Sir R. Feel saiô he regretted very much the postponement [ )f the eduction clauses of the 1 actory Bill, and at an early pe- •iod of the nexl sfslon he should. introduce a bill for the ( imendment of the laws regulating mills and factories. f ARMS (IRELAND). < The order of the day for going into committee on the Irish: Arms Bill, having been read, Lord J. Russell Kave notice that on bringing up the report t Ie should m°ve the insertion of a clause limiting the right to ( nake domtci',ary visits to tnose districts which had been pro. s ;!aimed as in a state o disturbance by the Lord Lieu'enant. The house t icn went into committee, commencing with clause 34, a lengthened discussion ensued, several divi- r ions taking p' ^-e on each clause. r After or.e of the divisions, Lord Clements complained that j lie doors had been left open I or a considerable time after the jhairmao had put the question, by which several members who ( ud taken no part in the debate ha-:l been enabled to get mio r he house and swell iho majority of the government. If such a t proceeding look place again, he should move that the chairman t jo report progress (Hear, hear.) t Clauses up to 55 were uliimaiely agreed to with amendments, )nd the hou^e ihen resumed. I The order of the day for the second reading of the Arches and r Prerogative Courts Canterbury Bill having been read, ] [VIr. Nichol thought the measure unjust and oppressive, and « should move that the bill be read a second time that day three ( months. t Mr. Elphinstone defended the bill. I Mr. Brotherton moved the adjournment of the debate. s The house divided on the amendment of Mr. Nichol, which t was agreed to by a majority of 69 to 22. The bill was conse. n[uently lost. The report on the municipal corporations bill was received. < I he Public works Ireland Bill was also reported. Mr. Hindley moved for leave to bring in a bill to amend the factories act. Sir James Graham admitted the necessity of legislation upon the subject, but hoped the hon. gentleman would not persevere in hn measure, as the government would bring the whole sub- ject before the house eaily next session. Motion withdrawn Continuation bills on the subject of loan societies, the exemp- tion of certain bills of exchange from the usury laws, for the suppression of the slave trade, and to exempt stock in trade from rating under the poor laws, were brought in and read a firsl tIme. The house adjourned at half-past one o'clock.

EXTENSIVE ComRacIi—Within the last few days go. vernment have contracted with Mr. David Belhouse, of M;-ti|Chps,er> ;or the erection of barracks on an extraordi- narily extensive sicale. The site is forty-five statute acres, and the erections are intended to accommodate 2,000 ca- valry and 2,000 infantry. The cost, exclusive of ihe land, wdl approach, It lIot exceed £100000. The consump- tion of cast iron w,ll be |ar^e> English oak and Baltic timber are the main qualiijes (|laj are to be introduced. Little if any pine rom North America will be used. From the fact thai there are now also erecting barraeks both at Bury and Ashton, illS said that Lancashire is to become the principal military depot of the kingdom. There will, when the barracks in question are completed, be accom- modation in the entlre county for upwards of twenty-five thousand men, at east such is j|le opinion of persons who profess to know. Liverpool Journal. DEATH OF LADY MARY LOUISA LENNOX.—We have to announce the death of the above estimabte lady, who xpired on Saturday the 1.5th inst. at her residence, Wood End, near Chichester. Ihe melancholy intelli gence was j received by t'ie e an uchess of Richmond on Sat- in day evening. ±'ie leased was only surviving sistei 01 the late Duke of Richmond, and consequently was aunt of the present Duke, and was born November 2.1769. The demise of this venerable lady will cast a gloom over the approaching races at Goodwood.

1 FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. SPAIN. ESPARTER O. It would be useless to enumerate the different towns now in the hands of the insurgents, or to describe the number of bat- tallions deserted to them suffice to say, the cause of Espartero is lost. Anarchy, disorder, and military despotism have tri- umphed. The whole of Catalonia, with the exception of Seo d'Urgel and Fort Montjuich, has been abandoned by Zurbano. Even Lerida, the besieging of which in 1810 raised Suchet 10 the rank of field marshal, has been evacuated without the slight- est struggle The I3a!e-uic Islands have declared against Es- partero the Basque provinces, the inhabitants of which were his stanchest friends, no longer acknowledge him, the army of which, not twelve months since, he was the idol, now declaie him a traitor, and receive such proclamations as the following with shouts of applause :— "Barcelona, July 12, 1843. A proclamation has been addressed to the inhabitants, in- forming them of the flight of Zurbano fiom Lerida, and thank- ing them in the name of the country for their effoits against the inhmous traitor of Buen-a-vista (Espartero), who, raised from the ranks by the suffrages of the people, sold to a strangei (England) his Queen and his country It only remains for him to seek refuge on board an English vessel, or to be exposed on a gibbet on the place of the Cebada. People of Spain, you are the admiration of the whole of Europe." Thus low has fallen Espartero, Duke of Victory—he whom Christina honoured with the tille of Saviour of the country Great bUme is attributable to Espartero for his want of energy. When he quitted Madrid, and that fourteen days too late, it was generally supposed that he intended immediately to attack Valona had he done so, it is more than probable that he would have succeeded but after waiting a considerable time at Alba- cite, he with difficulty marched to Val de Penas—honoured twice the Sierra Morena, directing his course to Baylen-and by this time he is either in Cadiz or not far from it, having with him only 3000 infantry and about 200 cavalry, and separated from General Van Halen. It is said, and I am inclined to believe with some truth, that the army with Espartero revolted at Balazole, having at its head the famous regiment of Luchana, commonly called Espartero's Janissaries,' and that he owed his safely to the speed of his horse and three squadrons of ca- valry. He beat General Ena before Teruel, and by marches and counter-marches, showing much military tactics, he is now not far from Madrid, having with him upwards of 10,000 in- fantry and 2000 cavalry. Madrid must fall: it is surrounded by tl^tee divisions on the one side, General Urbino with the gartfson of Badajoz on the north, Generals Aspiroz and Amor, wilh eight battalions of infantry, 500 cavalry, and two batteries of artillery; and on the side of Aragon, Narvaez. General Iviaste to defend Madrid (not fortified), has only the National Guard, greatly divided in opinion three companies of pioneers, 100 cavalry, and the depot of the different battallions with Es- partero. It is more than probable that Mendizabet will capitu- late; indeed, I am assured that he has promised the diplomatic agents in Madrid that he was determined not to shed the blood of his countrymen in a cause which, to say the least, he conii- dered desperate. Aftei this assurance, the Duke de Gluckstadt and Mr. Aston offered Espartero a safe and honourable refuge in France or England. His reply does him great credit. "I cannot accept your generous offer," said he I am not suffi ciently rich to live either in London or Palis; a Spanish colony is the only refuge proper for a poor citizen. The only protec- tion I demand," continued he, is for my wife and her peisonal property." Lillie is known of the movements of General Van Halen; it is reported that he has abandoned the Regent; I should not be surprised if this were true. Van Halen's reputaiion dates from ¡he war of independente. The last accounts of this general stated, that, after putting Cordova in a state of defence, he had marched in the diiection of Seville. The insurrection triumphs but, as was once observed by Napoleon, "it is the commencement of the end." The troubles of Spain will now really begin; the struggle will be between Lopez and Narvez, between the ultra Libeials and the Chrisiino moderates. France must protect Christina. Louis Philippe and the Queen's mother are strongly compromised, and must row together. But let the French king not be deceived, the majority of the Spanish nation will never permit his meddling in Iheir affairs they have made use of him as a powerful aux. iliary against Espartero but neither he nor his countrymen will ever be popular on the other side of the Pyrenees. The greatest attention should now be directed to the movements of the French Government; and, as far as I am able, you slull be kept well-informed. The departure yesterday of the Duke de Montpensier for the Pyrenees is of more importance than is generally imagined. It is supposed that the youth of the Duke will prevent suspicion but a deep scheme has been laid, and ere long, you will hear of a tour along the Pyrenees by the Duke d Aumale-the future husband of Queen Isabella, as he is ge- nerally called by the sycophants of the Tuileiies. I he French intend sending an imposing marine force into the Mediterranean and Bay of Biscay. The Veloce, Papin, and Meleagre are already stationed at Barcelona.

EDITORIAL RESPONSIBILITIES IN AMERICA. Wre copy the following from the New York Herald :—" We have been greatly shocked by the assassination of Dr. Hagan. the well known editor of the Vicksburgh Sentinel, although there were reasons enough to induce the fear that, in that re- gion of violence and hlood, he would one day meet this deplo- rable fate. Dr. Hagan was a man of great talent and finished education. He was an Irishman by birth, and his character presented a striking specimen of that union of amiable man. ners with great warmth of feeling and excitable temperament, which is so often met with in his countrymen. He conducted for some time, with ability and success, a medical journal in the city of Washington, and afterwards migrated to Mississippi, where he soon became one of the leaders of the locofoco pany. Whilst there he took a bold and determined stand against the unprincipled financiers who were robbing the state and the people, and his fiery denunciations often struck terror to his opponents. He was the author of the term 'repudiation,' and whilst he advocated the repudiation of certain bonds, he stren- uously contended against that dishonourable mode of getting rid of the state debts. The following are the particulars of the fatal scene, as furnished by the paper of which he was editor, of the 8th :— It becomes our painful duty to announce the cool-blooded assassination of the proprietor of this journal, yesterday after- noon, at three o'clock, at the hands of Dr. W. Adams, son of Judge George Adams, of Jackson. Dr. Hagan. as was his wont, was returning from his house to this office after dinner, when the individual named above walked up behind him, and struck Dr. Hagan over the head with a cane. A scuffle ensued, which brought both parties to the ground. Dr. Hagan being on top. While in this position Adams pulled out a short-barrelled pistol, bringing the muzzle round to the back of the neck of the deceased. The ball struck the spine and passed up into the posterior part of the head, causing instant death. Dr. Ha- gan was unarmed, and no one near him to render any assist- ance. The corpse was carried to the residence of James B. Hayes, where an inqucst was holden on the hody. Adams, aftcr an examination before the magistrate, was admitted to bail in the sum of six thousand dollars, and securities for the same amount.

LONDON MARKETS. CORN EXCHANGE, MARK-LANE, MOPDAY, JULY 24, — Ihe arrivals of English wheat to this morning's market irw very good, and at the opening of the market considerably higher prices were demanded but it was not cleared off till late in the day. We must note an improvement of 3s. to 4s. per qr. since this day se'nnight, and this will also apply to 'o- reign free and bonded wheats and a fair business was trans- acted at these advances. The weather, though fine to-day, has been very unsettled. Yesterday we had very heavy rain, accompanied with much wind, and the atmosphere was cold and chilly. There is very little barley here, and prices are al- most nominal, though higher rates are readily obtained for any small parcels which appe ir. '1 here was a good supply of oats, which realised somewhat better piices. Beans and pease are also held at a small advance. In other articles we have no change to notice. Current Prices of Grain per Imperial Quarter. s x ) s s Wheat English .63 to 70 I Old Beans 34 to 35 11 ye — to 3t» Tick Beans 32 to 34 Barley .32 to 36 Oats (Potatoe) 26 to 27 Malt. 60 to 63 Ditto (Feed). 23 to 24 White Pease (Boilers) 34 to 35 Flour 42 to 45 Grey Pease 32 to 33 Official Corn Averages and Duty, July 15. Wht. I Barl. | Oats, Rye .1 Beans: Peas. Aggregate average s. d. s. d.t s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. of 6 weeks. 49 7j 27 IIj 19 I 31 4 29 0 31 0 qr. I qr. qr. qr. ( qr. qr. Duly onFor.Corn 20 0 9 0 7 0 10 6 11 6 10 6 bl. bl. ti. bl. | bl. bl. I 0 0/0 0j 0 0) 0 0 0 o SMlTHFIELD MARKET-JuLY 24. In the beef trade prices were higher to-day than for some time past. Some of the very primest Scots were disposed of at an improvement in the currencies obtained on this day se'n- night of 4d. per 8lbs., but the general rise did not exceed 2d. per SIbs., at which a good clearance was effected. The num- ber of sheep was not large, but fully adequate to meet the wants of the buyers. For most kinds of mutton the demand was rather active at fully, but nothing quotable beyond pre- vious rates. Lambs were again plentiful, yet they commanded a firm inquiry, and late figures were well supported, the Down qualities producing five shillings per eight pounds. Very few instances were observed of the epidemic. There was rather a scanty number of calves on offer, yet the sale for them was in- active, at our quotations. Prime small porkers sold freely- Other kinds of pigs heavily, at unvaried prices. During the week, not a single head of foreign stock has been imported into the United Kingdom. Per st. of Bibs., sinking the offal. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d* Beef 3 6 to 3 8 Lamb. 4 0 to 5 0 Mutton 3 6to3 8 1 Veal 3 10 to 4 3 1 Pork, 3s. 8d. to 4s Od. J HOP INTELLIGENCE. J. s. Pockets, 1842, Wealds 98 to 109 per cwt. gEast Kent .110 to 130 >, Sussex. 97 to 1C9 11 Farnham 00 to 00 Pockets, 1841, Good 60 to 70 Choice. 75 to 90 Bags, 1841, ditto 00 to 00 Old olds, ditto. 00 to 00 11 WOOL MARKET, JULY 21. rerid. s. d. s. d. DownTegs o 11 tol 0 Half-bred Hogs 10 11 Ewes and Wethers 0 10 0 101 Blanket Wool 0 5 0 7i Flannelditto 0 8 £ 0 ll| PRICES OF SHARES AT LONDON. BRITISH MINES. M No. ol NAME OF §T3* g g Shares COMPANY. £ '« Gu 500 Anglesey 5 4,000 Bedford ••••• 100 Botallack 175^ 1000 20,000 British lien 70 8,000 Blaenavon 50 120 Brewer — 160 79 Budnick — 10 1,000 Cam Brae 15 150 5,000 Consols Tretoil Mining Association. 4 | { 2,000 Cornubian Lead Company 3 5 512 Cook's Kitchen — 40 112 Charlestown — 350 128 Cregg Braws 40 128 Coshen 15 150 10,000 Durham County Coal Co. 37 — 128 East Pool 250 100 Great Consols 97 gyo 10,000 Hibernian 121. 2 1,000 Holmbush .II 14 43 2,000 Isle of Serk (Guernsey). 15 80 Levant — 450 20,000 Mining Co. of Ireland 7 J2f 128 Mostyn Mines 100 70 North ltoskear — 300 3,000 Polberou Consols 10 128 Penstruthal 37 150 10,01)0 Rhyrnney Iron. 50 4 128|South Caradon goo 800 South Towan jo 1§ G4|South Wheal Bassett j* 430 oTjSpeam Moor. jq 13o Tregollan 2 4,000 Treleigh Consols. 5 If 2J 6,000 Tamar Consols ••••••••! 6,000 Tin Croft 7 16 128 Trewavas 125 12(i i'reviskey and Barrier V.V. — 320 96 Tresavean — 12C0 120 Trethellan — 250 4,000 United Hills. 5 5 6,000 Wicklow Copper.. 5 12$ 3,845; West Wheal Jewel.. 101 19 20 120: West Trethellan 5 90 50| Wheal Vor 500 — l.OOOjWheal Bandon. 1 6 1,000; West Carbery f 12 £ LATEST CURRENT PRICES OF METALS. LONDON, JULY 21, 1843. X- »• Spelter ton 23 15 For delivery 22 10 Zinc—English Sheets 38 0 Quicksilver [(, y 4 Iron, English—Bar .Von 410 Hoops 6 5 Sheets .ton 7 10 Cargo in Wales ton 4 0 Pig, No 1, Wales ton 3 5 No. 1, Clyde. 2 0 For Swedish bd. ton 10 0 Russian, ccnd ten 18 0 rst.ton 0 0 Gouriefi .ton 0 0 Archangel. 0 0 Steel-Swedish keg .bd. ton 16 10 Ditto Faggots bd.ton 16 10 Copper—English sheathing /ft 0 0 9i Old jb; 0 7| 8 Cake p. ton 83 0 Foreign cake 0 0 Tile 81 0 Tin, British—Blocks.. 3 0 Bars ewt. 32 Foreign, Banca 3 1 Stiaits I 2 17 Peruvian 2 8 Tin Plates—No.lC. p box 1 7 IX. ditto 1 13 wasters 3s. p. box less "1*" Lead, British—Sheet yj \Q Shot 20 0 Red. 0 0 White 0 0 Pig-Lead—English 16 10 Spanish 16 5 American 15 10 PRICES OF SHARES AT BRISTOL. COMMERCIAL KOOM3, iiRISTOl,, July Great Western Railway Company P&9i •??} Ditto HalfShares 50 664 Ditto One-Filth Shares ]2 16i Great Western Steamer 95 20 ^2* BiistolSteam Navigation ]3o 120 Bristol and F.xeter Railway 70 581 59 Birmingham and Gloucester 100 52 Cheltenham and Gt. Western Union 80 27 Talf Vale 100 — 55 Severn and Wye av35 — 27 30 Kennet and Avon Canal.av40 104 West of Eng. & South Wales Dist. Bank 12J — 8{ •?, Eastern Counties 23 9 London and Birmingham 100 215 London and Southampton 644^7? Leeds and Manchester.. 70 — 77 CURRENT PRICE OF GOLD AND SILVER* Qi For. Gold in brs. peroz., £ 3 17 9 New Dollars. £ 0 4 Portugal pieces 3 1751 Silverinbrs(stndr)O 4 11

MISCELLANY. -«- RUSSIAN PUNISHMENT — FEMALE DEVOTION. Prince liubetskoi was condemned to the galleys fourteen years ago. Young at that time, he took part in the insurrection if December the 14th. He tried to persuade the troops that the Emperor Nicholas was nut legitimate, and hoped by aid of II is alse conviction, communicated to the soldiers, to effect a politi- :al revolution. But the conspirators were too few to bring ibout any result. It was merely creating disorder for disorder's ,ake. The conspiracy was defeated by the presence of mind )f the Emperor, and by the intrepidity of his regard. The Prince Trubetskoi, the most compromised of the guilty, was :ondemned lo work in the mines of the Ural for fourteen years, ind pass the rest of his life in one of these lemote colonies of Liberia, peopled exclusively by malefactors. The Prince had wife, a daughter of the noblest of the land. She would foi ow her husband to his living tomb, and weuld not be persuaded o quit him. She obtained permission as a favour, and the go. vernment respected, that is, permitted this permanent act of ;acrifice and devotion during fourteen years. The journey alone vas enough to have killed a delicale and delicately-reared lady. But she supported all. The Prince and Princess had no child- en in St. Petersburg. They have had five children in the nines. Their friends had the permission to send clothes and Kovisions to those in the mines, but noi money. Such aid was nlispensable to a muther who reaied five children in a climate, )f which the temperature alone is sufficient to extinguish hu. nan life. Afier seven years, the Princess addiessed a petition o the Emperor to allow her children to be sent to St. Peters- jurg, to be educated. The reply was, Thai the children of he galley slave, slaves themselves, did not want education."— Che Prince has now fulfilled his years of public work in the nines, but the place assigned for his residence in Siberia is so emote and barbarous, that the rigour there is far worse than ahour in ihe mines. T e health of the Princess has suffered. she therefore prays the Emperor, through her family, to be per. nitied to inhabit some part of Siberia not utterly savage. The ;nvirons of Tobolsk, of Irkulz, or Orenburg, would appear a jaradise to her; there, at least, would be found an apothecary's ihop, if not teacheis. The reply of the Emperor 10 the person sho made this demand for the unfortunate Princess, was, I wonder how any one dares to speak to me again of a family .hose chief conspired against me." The Trubetskoi family at Bt. Petersburg, aSNeJl as the family of the Piincess, atill go to :ourt.—The Marquess de Custine's Russia. BALLAD. Men look askance at the King of France, For they think that he has been a Pink of best frienùs to favour the ends Of the delicate Queen Christina. The rebel throng are remarkably strong, But, to strike them with heart-fear 0 Like a second Cid, has left Madrid The valliant Espartero. Some towns his regency frown against, Some for his regency are 0, But Madrid's declared in a pretty state- That is, in a state of war O. The Queen is left in a stick called cleft, Where she very much afraid is, While the Regent goes away from his foes, And in search of his friends in Cadiz. When once in there, if the wind blows fair, He can sail, if his heart's not mannish," For some English place, where he'll meet with a race 1 hilt have had enough of Spanish."

CURIOUS DISCOVERY.—Nearly 500 workmen are at present time employed in digging the canal of Zeisaete. The work, therefore, proceeds pretty rapidly, and basal- ready been commenced on a line of 5000 yaids. These excavations have laid bare on the whole extent 01 the wOlk, and nearly on the same level, a bed of turf. Near the village of Oostkerke, for above 2000 yards below the bed of turf there are the remains of a vast forest of oaks, firs, and other trees. In several places the trunks of the trees have disappeared; but in others they are found lying full well. We must, therefore, allow that the level of the coun- I tiy to the north of Bruges was one, two, or three yard-J lower, than it is at present, but that vegetation was very flourishing, for in the subterraneous forest just discovered there are trunks of trees eight or nine feet in circumference — Bruges June 28. The Ltev. Owen Parr, vicar of Preston, has formally sig- nified that he will resist the intended tolling of a bell at the Roman Catholic chapel of St. Augustine, considering lit" an illegal invasion ot the privileges of the Church 01 England as by law eSlablished. Blackburn Paper.

BRISTOL PRICES CURRENT OF LEATHRR RAW GOODS. i D. ID. a. a. ib. lb. Q. CropHides perlb 30.35—lltol2 Light. 1J 40 48—12 13 Irish Skins —'4 n 50 60—15 17 Welsh Skins 27 40—% Foreign Hides .30 35—10 It 40 43— to 40 45—10 II 45 50—IS Middlings 12 13 52 .$ Butts English. 16 20—I4j 15J Kips, English and Welsh. 19 24 26—15 16 Petersburgh 6 18 Middlings 12 13 52 56-19 ) 8 Butts English. 16 20—I4j 15J Kips, English and Welsh. 19 24 26—15 16 Petersburgh 6 18 20 2830—1517 t. 10-15 extra 34 36-16 18 East India ic Foreign. 10 20-13 14* Seal Skins, small ,5 28 30—11 14 hirgt1111* ,2 Iff ExtrastrongSl 36-10 14 Basils .ZZ. « a Hides S 37 4n Oilal, Foreign BelHes 9 sc 40—13J 15 Foreign Shoulders. J* jt Common ditto 35 40—13 14 Dressing Hide Bell. U HiS' JJ grll ?i, KfcSfcrzr K» I3,1 RAW °°0BS English Horse Hides 12 13 Drysalted East India .id. Welsh ditto 11 13 Kips, No. 1 ||d.l»* German ditto 13 16 I —— 2 8d. Spanish ditto 14 21 Brined No. 1 10d. d< Ditto Shaved, without 2 7d— b butts Us to 15s Od each. Dry Spanish Horse Hds, "*• Horse Butts 11 13 et BestPatternskins 56 64—23 24 Bark JS8. to £ ?• t t"n 65 70—24 26 Valonia. £ 18 to £ 20 OS-P c«rt Common Pattern 22 23 I Shumac lis- to 1 P 100 120—16 20 I Glue pieces(flsd) 35s.t3S- 30 36—15 18 [ (unfleshed) 14s— 30 36-15 18 [ (unfleshed) 14s— BRISTOL HAY MAPKET. ,n 0 Hay per Ton £ '2 10 0 to 'X 9 Straw per Dozen 2 0 to Newport, Saturday, July 29, 1343 lYinied and Published for the Sole Proprietor, E D DOWLING, of Crindau, near Newport, at the 1 go- General Printing Office, situate in Corn-street, in afth" rough of Newport, by JOHN O'DWYER, of L street, in the said Borough.. cf1uare' London Agents:—Messrs. Newton and Co., Warwjcs-tl,jia0- Mr. R. Barker, 33 Fleet-street Mr. G. Reynell, 4^ .fc cery-lane Mr. S. Deacon, Coffee-house, N». 3 W the Mansion-house, where this Paper is regularly nl