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(. ,et' Ssuir&ay to iHonfra}/? poøtø. ic LONDON, AUG. 5. )d'i -t\ ^RDING to the latest account in the Paris f i^on Q^8rs of the movements of the armies in Spain, ,\t'L Ipd Ehad retreated to Cantavieja, whither Oraa g, | are sa\fartero u'ere rapidly following him. His troops I tlesp^-• *° totally dispirited, while he is sick and it' ^ipo]1^}11^' From Catal onia the news is not so g'ood, 8te»u >v"'{? capitulated to the insurgent As to Jari- states^f,s expedition into Castile, the Phare of the 29th b ^°H C ')een no niore fortunate than t' ^"?Ues'lr'0S' beaten on the 21 st near Haro by the Por- Cr,^ *e brigade, it has been forced to return by Santa 1> begn e Campezu, with numbers of ;.vounded, who have r ^ansP0I"ted to Yrache."—Add to this, the two Plies fXan ves>,el9 which sailed from Spezzia with sup- f' 'k* ^0n Carlos, have the one been captured by the into V ^le other, containing 10,000 muskets, carried tlip ,naroz by a Christino brig. The celebration of Thft jnu*Versary of the Revolution passed off quietly, t uPQft'i^Urna^ ^es Delates has the following' remarks "«T&r C0UP d'etat of Hanover:— "°t J)* erm»ns consider the attempt of the King of Hanover e'ares •Se'f. but as connected with a general plan. A King tle- i a0(l ac unbound l»y a constitution solemnly promulgated, by his predecessor. In Hesse, which joins Hati- "o 1,6 co-Regent, Frederick William, were to die, as he has • no in t^en excePt oy a-left-handed marriage, a Prince of Hesse, to bj le service of Denmark, wonld succeed; and he is known 1 0paS|?PPO!5ed to the constitution of Hesse as King Ernest'to -^1 (j "aiover. Throughout the other Constitutional States it I. a' S'ven times to find Princes who on their accession I i t'le same example, should it prove successful. In I ''Port'r re. 's a 'n )'ears, whom.the Absolute Journalists I lii^ r°m time to time as liavingdied, and accompany it with a ^as • *011 's ''ttle likely to succeed him, as the heir of Cjr| Is at Vienna, favoured and courted. The sons of Don are at 'he same Court, and since the Pretender has passed 1. bro, compliments and attentions are showered upon his sons Even the little Court of the exiled Bourbons attracts ,0Reih°n *ls activity and awakened hopes. Putting all these |W »r> l'ie Germans sea a kind of Concert, a general conspi- is m Absolutism throughout Europe, the first effort of which the King of Hanover on the constitution of the Iltr), the o- ^ave arrivals from Lisbon and Oporto to-day to the 1 u^' Lisbon the prevalent opinion was that Military insurrection would be suppressed without a difficulty. Letters from Oporto, however, express thp1, ent opinion. The rebels have concentrated all forces at Valencay, and Viscount Sada Bandeira, "iel reached Oporto, was preparingto march against sjr ■ In the south the insurgents had collected their J>0at Castellio Branco. The other parts of bad not participated in the disturbance. At 0!1 the Exchange on London, at 30 days' sight was ito 53Jd. permilree. Discounton ex. paper money er celit. <j e learn from Rome that Don Miguel issued a allr<!e ^ast moutli» by which he declares null and void jjf |and every document, and more especially contracts H'°fnS' treasury bonds, power of attorney, &c. &c., e0t *a*e 'ster? Guyoa was silly enough to nr«st toa Frenchman called Ouvrard. This act of f0 11 Miguel is considered in the diplomatic world as ebodiug some political movement on the part of the j^'King 0f Portugal. The different liberal parties in e0rt"gal,therefore,insteadof weakeningand destroying UjCl1 other for the sake of nonsensical theories, or in ^-hunting, will have to unite against their common svet»y, the Royalist party, which, if they do not look will take them by surprise, and quietly seat Don 'SUel on the throne of Portugal. p fetters from Naples represent the state of affairs at a ermo as being most lamentable. One sixth of the P'jlation that had remained in the town had been r,ied off by the cholera, and the place was infested j/ troops of robbers, who broke open and plundered bouses and warehouses that had been deserted. aJ'&e body of troops had been detached from Naples, so a<* succeeded in entering the city, and in restoring Qie degree of tranquillity but the whole country "i a very agitated condition. t\r ?y the Sampson, one of the London line packet ships, Sorlved at Portsmouth, and, through the North and Otlt American Coffee-house, we have New York papers fro the lith it. Great anxiety was expressed for news n land. These papers contain accounts from e.Xlc°, which state that the government of that country t^^utered into a compromise with the government of j8 j.^nited States, relative to their mutual claims, which Jj^ely to be successful. We have received by this occasion Quebec papers of July 4th and Montreal papers to 7th; the latter obtain a report ot the constitutional meeting-held there {be 6th July. It was attended by upwards of 5000 Persons, who displayed much loyalty and attachment 0 British interests. They ascribe the late harsh mea- ttres fo the ungrateful refusal of the House of "Assembly of Lower Canada to make the necessary "PPropriations for the administration of justice, &c. hey highly disapprove of the outrageous proceedings the majority of the House of Assembly; they ^clare their abhorrence of the immoral and disorgan- ^lflg effect of resolutions adopted and measures recom- J^nded atpublic meetings held by the opposition party express their conviction that all real grievances ivill be redressed by her. Majesty's goverment: that the COllnexJOn of Canada with the parent state is necessary the prosperity of the province, and any attempt to 'sturb that connexion is opposite to the wishes and Interests of the meeting. By advices from St. Thomas's to the Gth ult., we regi'et to find that a mutiny had taken place atTrinidad amongst the recruits of the 1st West India Regiment, and it was not put down without a good deal of 1ighhng and considerable bloodshed, eight or ten of mutineers having been killed. It is said that their was to pillage the town of St. Joseph, where they was stationed. In other respects the accounts are ptisfactory. All the other Islands were perfectly pinqui], the corps generally were looking well, and small-pox was fast subsiding. y We regret to say the yellow fever is raging in Sierra ^eone to an unparalleled severity. The Captain of £ e Sir Francis Burton, from Fernando Po, reports hat he spoke with the William Her dm an, which vessel ad left Sierra Leone on the 30th of June, for Sunder- with the Governor, Major and General Dundas On board. Upwards of 40,000 persons were ill, and the crews of her Majesty's vessels of war 00 the station, 'e Huzzard, Dolphin, and Scout, had suffered severely. lxteen Europeans bad fallen victims, all the cases at- with the black vomit. In the Dolphin, Mr. ..avies, assistant surgeon, with nine men, have fallen .Jctirns; the Buzzard lost the Assistant Surgeon and ten "len and the Scout twelve men, the Second Lieute- toant not expected to reach Ascension Island alive. A Very strong feeling has been expressed in the city as to the policy of our Government keeping up a Colony ^bich has proved not only very expensive, but the S^uinte of which has led to the death of numberless British subjects. MONEY MARKET.T—THE confidence entertained by he public in the maintenance of the value of the pub- "c securities appears rather to increase, a further im- provement having taken, place this week, amounting 'Otl the extreme quotations to about one half per cent. a rise since the opening of the transfer ooks of not less than If per cent. The amount of 4 Unetnployed capital which is now at the disposal of The large discount houses, and the private bankers will 1'10 doubt be soon increased by sales of portions of the Unfunded debt, as many parties who have made tem- Porary investments in them will no doubt begin to Realise the present high premiums. This will have the ^ffect of lowering- the rate of interest of money even be the le'vel it is at present, which cannot be quoted more »nan 2^ per cent, upon stock, and 4 per cent on the wst class of commercial paper. The Directors of the «ank of England are therefore, in consequence of their still demanding 5 per cent, for accommodations, losing a considerable portion of their business. The specu- jatarst for a rise have in several instances taken advan- to-day of the buoyant state of the market, and have realised the profits which have accrued b}' the **te improvement. Money has not been less abundant <h«n it was in the middle of the week; but Consols for account, which opened at 92, declined to 91 f, »hd closed at 911 J. The 3A per cents, reduced de- clined to par, and, the New Stock to 991. The pre- miums upon Exchequer Bills and India Bonds remain 5ls. and 538^, Bank Stock was sold this afternoon | per cent, lower than yesterday, viz. at 210J. There ftas been a very heavy market for Spanish Stock to- 'day. Although there have bee,n some further supplies the United States Bank Post Bonds," little; or no- *fting is doing in ihem. Those redeemable in April ltext are quoted at95, and the others to be paid ill June ^tOg; The business doing in Shares continues ex- *r«*nely small. The Poles:residing iu Loudon have addressed a very becoming;letter^ to Lord Dudley Stuart, expressive Of tbeir deep -obligations to his Lordship for his strenuous and persevering exertions on their behalf, and of their andgrief in the loss oftheN oblfe Lord's Section at Arundel;- The number of signatures w 148. .v: '.1 PL ih'tf — '■ • I « The Queen has appointed Sir George Smart Con- duclor of her Majesty's private English Concerts. On Monday the Queen received the Deputation from the Corporation of the City of London, consisting of the Lord Mayor, the Recorder, Sheriffs, and Remem- brancer, appointed to invite her Majesty to dine with the Lord Mavor and Corporation, at the Queen's Palace. The Queen, attended by Lord Glenelg and the First Lord of the Treasury, and also by the Countess of Charlemont, the Lord Chamberlain, and Grooms in Waiting, received the Deputation in the Saloon, and was graciously pleased to appoint the 9th of November to dine with the Lord Mayor and Corporation. Her Majesty held a Court, Thursday, at the Queen's Palace, at which the several Foreign Ambassadors and Ministers were respectively introduced by Lord Pal- merston. The Queen was attended by the Countess of Mulgrave and the Equerries in Waiting. Her Majesty afterwards gave audiences to Lords Melbourne and Palmerston and in the evening entertained at dinner the Duchess of Kent, Duke of Sussex, Prince Christian of Holstein, Heschid Bey (the Turkish Am- bassador), Baron and Barones Blome, Duke D'Ossuna, Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, Earl and Countess Cowper. Countess of Mulgrave, Lords Melbourne and Palmerston, &c. &c. The Queen, we hear, having expressed a wish to appoint to one of the highest situations about her per- son, Miss Jenkinson, a daughter of Lord Liverpool, who had been a personal friend of her Majesty from earliest youth, it was intimated that the young lady was not of rank sufficiently exalted to be entitled to the honour; the Queen said with energy, Why, then, can't I make her so?" y The Lord Mayor in the course of Wednesday re- ceived a young sturgeon, the first caught in the Thames ill the present reign, and immediately sent it as a pre- sent to her Majesty. It is rumoured at the Military Clubs that the Field- Marshal the Duke of Cambridge will, on his arrival from Germany, be appointed Commander-in-Chief of all her Majesty's land forces. The Royal Duke's mili- tary appointments are, Colonel of the Coldstream Re- giment of Guards, and Colonel-in-Chief of the 60th Rifle Corps. The privilege of franking commenced on Thursday. The Earl of Munster has been appointed Constable of Windsor Castle. We have heard a rumour that the Tories intend to propose Sir Edward Sugden as Speaker in opposition Mr. Abercromby, and that upon this question their whole strength is to be mustered. The Dean of Bristol, Dr. Musgrove, is to be the new Bishop of Hereford, in the room of Dr. Grey, deceased. Lord Alfred Paget, the new Member for Lichfield, will be probably the youngest member of the new House of Commons, having completed his twenty-first year on the 29th of June. His Lordship has been appointed one of the equerries to her Majesty the Queen. A rumour has been in circulation that Mr. Tennyson D'Eynecourt would be shortly raised to the Peerage. We know not if there be any foundation for this report; but should this event take place, and a vacancy in consequence occur in the representation of Lambeth, we have reason to believe that Mr. Fox Maule, who has been thrown out far Perthshire, will be brought forward as a candidate for that borough. Considering his political information, distinguished talents, eloquence, and the liberal opinions which fie enter- tains, being the advocate of the ballot and triennial Parlia- ments, there could not be a doubt of his success. Of this we feel assured, that a better selection could not be made- any liberal constituency might be proud of such a repre- sentative.— Morning Advertiser. Captain Wood, the New Member for Middlesex, is a Captain in the first battalion of the Grenadier Guards, commanded by Colonel Grant, and now quartered in Dublin. The gallant officer is nephew to the Marquis of Londonderry and Lady Emily Hardinge, and cousin to Sir Walter James, Bart., the new Member for Hull. The gallant officer is the eldest surviving son of Col. Wood, his eldest brother, Capt. Charles Henry Wood, of the 10th Royal Hussars, having died some time ago at the seat of Lord Enniskillen, in Fermanagh. Thursday the Household Troops received orders to discontinue field-days during the summer; there will consequently be no Review before her Majesty. The Scoteh Fusiieer Guards inarch on Monday and Tuesday next for Bristol, to embark for Dublin, to relieve the 1st battalion of Grenadier Guards. Mr. O'Connell has addressed a letter to the electors of Kildare, cautioning tliem against voting for Mr. E. Rnthven, as a person who does not deserve their confi- dence, and ought not to be trusted. Mr. O'Connell pledges himself to move the expulsion of Mr. Ruthven from the Trades' Political Union, unless he withdraws his name within a month. Mr. E. Ruthven has addressed a letter to the men of Kildare and the Trades Political Union," in reply to Mr. O'Connell's charges against him. Mr. Ruthven accuses Mr. O'Connell of having endeavoured to bribe him by an offer of 1000/ and the first vacant Colo- nial situation," to retire from the representation of Kildare. One of the Leicester papers contains an advertise- ment, headed 'Bribery,' inviting all persons who are in possession of facts relating to offences against the bribery laws, and who are desirous of obtaining the 5001. penalty payable in such cases, to apply for assistance at the office of the anti-bribery association in that town. The advices from Lancashire represent commercial affairs in rather a favourable light, some slight symptoms of improvement having manifested themselves how- ever, it is satisfactory to know that the depreciation in value of all manufactures seems at length to have ceased, and if the dealer and manufacturer can only obtain remunerating prices, it is immaterial whether the current rates be high or low.-Globe. It has been proved by frequent experiment, that the most effectual mode of increasing the growth and pro- moting the healthy condition of trees of all descriptions is cleaning and washing the stem. The circulation of the sap is carried on through every branch to the ex- tremity of the most minute fibre, and if this is impeded by an incrustation of dirt and moss on the body of the tree, will as effectually interfere with the vigour of its growth as a soiled and dirty skin will stop up the finer pores and intercept the circulation of the blood. On Tuesday, in the case of the Oxford Charities, the Lord Chancellor gave judgment. His Lordship said the question raised by the petitioll was, whether the four lectureships in the gift of the Corporation of Oxfordat the time of the Municipal Reform Act passing came ander the provisions of the 71st clause, directing chari- table funds to be placed in the hands of Trustees. He was of opinion that the lectureships could not be considered as coming within the meaning of that clause, and therefore that the appointment to the lectureships must remain as heretofore in the gift of the Corporation. The heavy storms of rain have 'laid' the wheat to a very considerable extent in various situations, and of course the laid grain must be Injured more or less. The crops are ripening fast, and in forward situations thp. harvest is expected to commence in a few days, if the weather should be propitious. In Hereford the Hops continue to grow rapidly, and Jook well in most of the grounds. Mr. Charlton, the Conservative Member for Lud, low in the last Parliament, has issued an address to the electors of that borough, in vindication of his conduct at the last Election, in which he repudiates .1 the charge which he says has been levelled at him of having sold them, and solemnly affirms that he has neither profited nor does he expect to profit one farthing by anything that he has done. That he attempted, however, to throw the Clive party over, he admits, and he glories in the fact. Gentlemen," ob- serves Mr. Charlton, the facts are these: the base in- gratitude, the heartless and interested feelings which I have observed among the Conservatives in the House of Commons, satisfies me that if they were restored to power to-morrow, they would not, as I had fondly imagined, have grown wiser by adversity, but would again recklessly plunge the country into all the miseries of bye-gone Toryism. Self-interest would be their aim, and plunder their end! Nor is the conduct of' many of the Conservatives in this borough a jot better than their name-sakes in London: they are not Con- servatives in principle nor in practice—they are only Clivites! Had they been Conservatives, they would not have talked to me as they did of seeing Lord Clive safe,' when Lord Clive, instead of supporting the Con- servative calise and your "interests, has ingloriously deserted both. The head and front of my offending is this—I have but repeated to Lord dive's face what many of you that voted for him asserted behind his back: and if I have voted for the Liberal candidates in preference to his Lordship, it, is because I believe in my conscience that conduct such as his is more injurious to you, and to the best interests of this country, than- anything they can do."—The Salopian Journal states, that Every vote over which Mr. Charlton had the least control, was, recorded in favour of the Radical candidates, whom h.e himself also supported with his own! '■ The Rev. Patrick O'Brien, for some years a priest of the Church of Rome, has recently read his recantation at the parish Church of Kilflyn, Ireland, and conformed to the faith of the Protestant Church. About half-past twelve o'clock on Friday, a tremen- dous explosion alarmed the inhabitants of Old-street, St. Luke's, and was found to have proceeded from a house in Bishop's-court, where John Smith, who occu- pied the lower room, carried on the business of lueifer- match maker. Brannan, a police-constable, and others, immediately repaired to the spot, around which several hundred persons assembled in the course of a few minutes. The place was then filled with thick smoke and an almost overpowering sulphureous smell, and it was soon ascertained that a boy employed by Smith, having been engaged in grinding and compound- ing the various substances used in the manufacture, the friction had caused the explosion of the dangerous mixture. The boy having been thrown down by the force of the explosion, crawled out of the apartment upon his hands and knees, beneath the dense vapour which filled the upper part of the room. His handsr were burnt, and his face blackened and scorched, but he did not appear to have sustained any other injury of a serious nature. Smith, his employer, who was in the room at the time, escaped without any actual injury, but was found lying on the stairs in a fainting state, having apparently been thrown there by the shock. The Railway Magazine has the following calcula- tions respecting the probable success of Mr. Cooking's recent unfortunate experiment. "Mr. C.'s apparatus consisted of an inverted frustrum of a cone, 34 feet diameter at the top. aud three or four at the bottom, which was open. The umer ring was a tin tube, about two inches diameter, and the lower a wooden hoop the superficies of the cone was strong linen or canvass, and the whole, with the basket in which he was, weighed about 1501b. He took up twp cwt. of ballast, making, with himself, a total of about five cwt. We know not the proportion of the axis of the frustrum to either diameter of the cone but supposing the para- chute a. nat circle, which would have been a better form for resistance of the 34 feet diameter, it would expose a resisting area of little better than 900 square feet. With these dimensions the mass would have descended with a velocity of near 13 miles an hour—three times greater than safety would permit; but from the bad formation of the machine, and the great hole in the middle, the resistance must have been It ss, and the velocity greater. Could Mr. C. have rid himself of of the 2 cwt. of ballast, he must have descended more than 10 miles an hour—that is, nearly three times as fast as he ought. In every way it was an ill-contrived, ill-judg'ed experiment; the tube was too weak, and, we are informed, it came unsoldered the day before he went up. To descend with a velocity of five miles an hour, rather too much for perfect safety, requires a re- sisting area of 1000 square feet for every 1001b. Cocking's bad only 900 for more than five times the weight!" ELECTK)C TEL);GRAPns.—A letter from Munich says: —"To the great astonishment of the population of our city, a number of men were seen a few days ago climbing upon the roofs of the highest houses, without any one being ab!e to guess at the motive of their proceedings. We have learnt since that their intention was to place rods of iron from the steeple of the Cathedral, beyond the Isaar, to the Chateau d Eau on the Gerteigeberg. Professor Steinhall wishes, by a practical experiment, to try the plan imagined by Mr. Gans, to establish, by means of electricity, a system of cor- respondence capable of replacing that of the telegraph, but tar surpassing it in point of rapidity. QUAKERS. The following was the address of the Quakers to,James II. on his accession:—" We come to con- dole the death of our friend Charles; and we are glad that thou art come to be our ruler. We hear that thou art a dis- senter from the Church of England, and so are we. We beg that than wouldst grant us the same liberty that thou takest thyself: and so we wish thee well. Farcwell. Had. M.S. 6030. AN OLD BAILEY PRACTITIONER.—A young man named Thomas Smith, was charged at the Mansion-house with having stolen a *and kerchief. Fay, who said he came from Jersey, was the owner. His pocket had been picked in the street, and the handkerchief was found in the prisoner's pocket, and identified by the gentleman, who said, I won't give my right name, because they'd call me a flat when I go home for being done by a London thief."—The Lord Mayor: I shall send the prisoner to Bridewell for two months, and that's more than he'd get if he was tried at the Old Bailey.—Mr. Fay Very good. Then 1 am done with it.—The Lord Mayor: Yes. You may take your hand- kerchief with you to Jersey.—Mr. Fay: No, I won't. I shan't have any thing to do with it.—The Lord Mayor: Why not? You are not afraid that it will communicate any infection to you or yours, are you?—Mr. Fay: I shan't handle it, for certain.—The Lord Mayor: Oh, it will be as good as ever after it had been washed. Officer, give the gentleman his handkerchief.—Mr. Fay (turning away with horror from the handkerchief): I won't touch it, I tell vou. I would not wear any thing a thief laid his hands upon. The Lord Mayor: Why, my good Sir, the handkerchief is as good as ever it was. Take it home to your wife, or she'll give you a lecture for your folly.-Here the officer was about to throw the handkerchief across the table, when Mr. Fay cried out, D-n it, throw it the other way," and, stooping down, lie slipped towards the door, and went away through the hall and down the steps as fast as he could, amidst the laughter of the crowd.—The prisoner: Please yon, my lord I hope you'll give me my ankitcher. You see the gentleman know'd it warn't his'n, and that's the reason he runned away.—The Lor.d Mayor: Yon are a clever fellow, but you shall not profit by the gentleman's eccentricity.—The prisoner: Do you think, your lordship, that a man as be- longed to a ankitcher would refuse to take it back? I wish I was offered all the ankitchers as was stolen from me The Lord Mayor: I have had you often for this sort of work. Yon shall go to the treadmill.—The prisioner; But wont you give me my ankitcher ? If yon are so cruel as to send me to the mill, you ought to chuck me my ankitcher to vipe away my tears ven 1 veeps there.

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