The Sun. — London, England, 1859-08-31 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. LEWES AND UCKFIELD. The fifth ordinary general meeting of the share holders in this compalitwas—held -yesterday after noonad their offices, in High-street, Lewes, Mr. R. W. Bjencowe, chairman of the board of directors, presicring. The, .report, which was adopted unanimously, stated& that the directors have duly received the stipulated rent for their line from the London, Brighton, and South Coast Company, and recom mendos dividend of 2 per cent. (less income tax) for the half-year ending the 30th June last. Attached to the report was the regular statement of accounts duly audited.. A motion that a dividend for the half-year end ing the; 34th June last be declared at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum (less income . tax) was 'unani mond*. adopted. - HEREFORD, ROSS, AND GLOUCESTER. The sixteenth half-yearly meeting of this com pany was held yesterday, at the Barrs Court sta tion, Hereford ; Mr. John Omerod in the chair: The report was adopted, as were also the follow ing resolutions :—" That a dividend at the rate of £5 per cent: per annum upon the preference shares of the company be, and the same hereby de clared,; tlutt-a dividend at the rate of 4s. per share on thconlinary shares of the company be, and the KM is, hefeby declared." A vpte. of thanks to the chairman (who officiated in the: absence of Colonel Vaughan) closed the meet ing. BLACKBURN. The twenty-fifth half-yearly meeting of the shareholders in this undertaking was held on Mon day at the office of the company's solicitors, Messrs. Robinson and Son, Blackburn. The attendance was very limited. Mr. William Henry Hornby, M.P., chairman of the company, presided, and moved the adoption of the published accounts, which was agreed to. He stated that the balance which the purchase money would not cover was still between £7,000 and £B,OOO. The retiring di rectors and auditors were re-elected, and with a vote of thanks to the chairman the proceedings terminated. LANCASTER AND CARLISLE. The capital account of this company shows that £1,895,537 had been received and £1,858,183 ex pended to the 30th of June last, leaving a balance of £37,354. The revenue account for the half-year ending the 30th of June last shows that £178,064 had been received and £64,046 expended, leaving a balance of £115,072, including £1,044 brought from the preceding half-year. The proposed divi dend, at the rate of 0 per cent. per annum, would absorb f.£70,700, the interest.on loans £4,292, the Lancaster and Preston proportion of net receipts £12,646, and the Kendal and Windermere propor tion £3,987, leaving a balance of £3,447. WEST CORNWALL. The report states that the railway is now open for traffic between Plymouth and Truro, but the few weeks that intervened between the opening of the line and the making up of the half-yearly ac counts do not afford sufficient data to enable the board to form an estimate of the probable results of this through communication to this company. The revenue account for the six months ending the 30th of June last shows a total receipt of £15,140, while the disbursements have amounted to £10,576, leav ing a profit of £4,564, which, added to the balance of .1:666 brought from the last account, gives a total on the credit side of .the general revenue ac count of £11,130. After payment of interest on . debentures, rent of Penzance station plot, and elec tric telegraph, out of this sum, a balance of £6.664 is brought to the credit of the current half-year. The capital account shows a total receipt of £518,295, of which £l3 remains unexpended. NEWRY AND ARMAGH. The ordinary half-yearly meeting of the proprie tors of this railway was held at Newry on Monday. Mr. Lattimore, chairman of the company, presided. The report, which showed an increase in the traffic, was unanimously adopted. The CHAIRMAN then moved the resolution autho rising the directors to exercise the borrowing powers of the company. Mr. J. W. GREER eked if the payment of that loan and interest took precedence of the dividends on the shares when the railway was in a position to pay a dividend ? Tne CHAIRMAN said there was no question upon that point, but if they would come forward and take shares they did not require the clause at all. The resolution, having been seconded, was put and carried neon. con. The meeting was then made special in order to consider and determine the future prospects of the company. In the course of the discussion of the prospects of the company it was asserted that, un less 3,000 shares were taken it would be almost im possible to procure the requisite loan of £78,000 from the Commissioners of Public Works. It was observed that the proprietors of the soil in this dis trict had not extended to the undertaking that amount of support that was to be expected from them. Some of the merchants and householders in Newry, &c. had looked upon the scheme rather phlegmatically ; anda committee was nominated to call upon them to urge the necessity of supporting the directors. ORIENTAL INLAND STEAM COMPANY (LIMITED). The half-yearly meeting of this company was held yesterday, at the London Tavern, Colonel Grimes in the chair, when the following report was read:— " In their last report yoUr directors intimated that the trains despatched - from this country last autumn had arrived in India in safety, and that so soon as this intelligence was received, your manag ing director was despatched to Kurrachee' to see the vessels fairly started on the river. Your direc tors have now to report that upon Mr. Bourne's arrival at Kurrachee, owing to the great vigour with which the work had been prosecuted, he was enabled almost immediately to launch one steamer, a passenger barge, and one cargo barge; these vessels were tested under weigh in the harbour in a connected state, and were found to act satisfac torily. The mouth of the Indus, which at present forms the navigable entrance to. the river, is a con • siderable distance from the harbour, and the mon soon being then near at hand, it. was found impos sible to wait for the completion of more barges, as in consequence of the heavy sea during that period between Kurrachce and the mouth of the Indus, the passage across in boats of this description would have been impracticable. As it was, those already launched were only got into the river with much difficulty. On the 23d of May, Mr. Bourne, accom panied by Mr. Wood, started from Gisree, and pro ceeded up as far as Sehwan, a distance of about 330 miles. The intense heat of the weather caused much sickness among the officers and crew. The European pilot, Mr. Masterton, died from sun stroke ; and the power of the steamer, from causes not at present fully known, having been found inadequate to propel her with sufficient speed against the stream, which was found to be stronger than was -hitherto represented, it was resolved to return to Gisree, with a view of perfecting arrange ments for another trip. Intelligence has been received by last mail of her safe return. "The directors regret exceedingly that the antici pation they had entertained of being able to report oi this occasion the favourable inauguration of the company's enterprise has, from these' causes,. been unavoidably deferred. Nevertheless, although the train has been unable to complete the ascent of the river as above mentioned, your directors see no reason to abate their confidence in the ultimate success of,the undert a ki ng . The remaining barges of the first train, as also the whole of the second train were in a forward state at the time the last reports were dispatched from Kurrachee, and they will, it is believed, be ready for tranTout iss ' ion to the river by the close of the monsoon,. directors in the last report intimated their h av in . 7 ordered two additional trains of greater power and'' capacity than the last ; these trains are in a forward s t a t e o f 7 completion ; some of the barges have been shipped in a vessel purchased by the company. with a v i ew ., to her being converted into a coal hulk on her ar rival at Kurrachee. The steamers, one of which is being put together for a trial in this country, will also be realy at an early period. " A considerable quantity of . coal has been dis patched, as it was deemed requisite to have a large supply in India, there being at times a difficulty in procuring an adequate supply of wood. "The calls made on the several issues of sh ares havil'g been freely responded to, your directors do not consider that it will be necessary to make any further call for the present. "In the articles of assoaiation, (lauses No. 31 and 41 are too stringent, and have caused much in convenience in the practical working-of the com pany's business. A resolutinn to amend these-has been framed, and will be submitted for adoption-at the special meeting. • "In furtherance of the intention expressed by your directors at last meeting, they proceeded to elect two gentlemen to fill the seats in tho direc tion which were the? reported vacant; and it was with considerable satisfaction 4-hat they were enabled to add to their list the lames of Mr. Car gill, one of the directors of the Oriental Bank Cor poration, and Mr. Mackenzie, deputy chairman of the Eastern: Bengal Railway Company; and to these appointments your confirmation is solicited. • "A vacancy having occurred in the office of au- ditor by the retirement of Mr. May, i t will be for the shareholders to elect a successor. _ _ _ The CHAIRMAN stated that this meeting had been convened in accordance with the articles of associa tion, though the directors would rather have post poned it till they could have received full informa tion as to the inability of the steamer to ascend the river ; but he was glad to say that Mr. Bourne would shortly be in this country himself, and then the result of another trip would be laid before the proprietors, and he should propose to adjourn the meeting for three months, when the board would be in possession of all the information which they required. He would now move that the report be adopted. The motion having beg seconded, was carried with one dissentient. - it General BRIGGS said it was clear that the steamer had not sufficient power to carry on the work in the river ; and that the company's officers had not had the requisite information as to the strength of the stream. How was it that Mr. Bourne had not been well informed on the matter, seeing that the Indus had been navigated for the last 16 years? What was the rate of the stream ? The CHAIRMAN believed that the engine had a power in excess of any stream. They had always been given to understand that the current or stream was about four knots, but it was found to be six knots an hour. General BRIGGS said they must have boats of a proper description for the particular service. We had half-a-dozen boatsrnnningbetween London and Ramsgate, but the smaller penny boats could not do it. The CHAIRMAN informed the hon. gentleman that the board had every confidence in the power of the steamers, and that at present they did not know of any great difficulty they had to overcome. They had armed themselves with every informa tion which it was possible to obtain. General BRIGGS—It would not tend to improve the position of the company by the adoption of the report. If the report had been postponed till Mr. Bourne returned the public would have been satis fied. Mr. CARGILL (the deputy-chairman) said that perhaps the chairman was out of order in moving the adoption of this report, which, it must be ad mitted, did not convey much information beyond the fact that the first attempt had failed, which they were led to suppose had arisen from some cause or another, and that cause they could not hear till the return of Mr. Bourne. Till, however, that infor mation was obtained, there was certain business which must be done at a meeting of this kind, which was, to a certain degree, of a formal charac ter; but there were other points, the consideration of which ought to be deferred, which had reference to the cause of failure. They might stand over till the adjourned meeting. The matters which must be decided, subject to the approval or otherwise of the shareholders, were the confirmation of the elec tion of Mr. Cargill as a director, and the re-election of Mr. Kennedy, and the appointment of an auditor. If the chairman would consent to postpone the adoption of the report till the adjourned meeting could be held, the meeting could then express their approval or otherwise of the two names referred to, putting aside the report till the adjourned meeting. The CHAIRMAN said he was most happy to adopt the suggestion of the deputy chairman. That motion was then withdrawn. The two directors were elected, and Mr. Thomas Tilby, paymaster in the Royal navy, was proposed by General Briggs and seconded by Mr. Nash as auditor. The meeting was then adjourned till the 30th of November next, at one o'clock. A special meeting was then held for the purpose of altering and amending the 34th and 41st clauses of the articles of association, for the purpose of giving greater facilities for conducting the details of the business of the company. A vote of thanks to the chairman and directors closed the proceedings. IRELAND. DUB LIN, - TUESDAY MORNING. INVASION OF IRELAND. The Irish war journals (now reduced to three in number) are making spasmodic efforts to impress their readers, including the scattered memb ers o f the Phoenix Clubs, with the idea that something portentous looms in the visit to Europe of Mr. John Mitchel, the great champion of vitriol bottles at home and of slavery in the Southern States of the Union. It appears to be a settled matter that the interesting exile's steps will be first directed to wards the shores of France, and that here in Ireland we need not expect his presence until he is prepared to land at some exposed spot at the head of an in vading army. The Dundalk. Democrat, after ex pressing its disbelief that the fate of Wolfe Tone in '9B is reserved for its more modern hero of '59, observes : "If he is coming to France, he would not have ventured there without knowing the footing on which he is' to stand. It is probable that he has been corresponding with friends in ' Paris, who know something more of what i s go i ng t o happen than other people. Or, perhaps, as the British say there will be an invasion, that Mr. Mitchel believes them for once, and is going to give a helping hand to the enemy, and offer his advice on the best place to strike the fist blow. Should the invasion take place, and that Ireland is to be visited by the for midable Zouaves, John Mitchel would have no ob jection, we suspect, to accompany them; and the worst of it is that we are ill prepared, owing to the Crime and Outrage Act, to resist any such invasion. Mr. Mitchel knows all our weak points ; and our opinion is that he would lose no time in going round to land in Connaught or Bantry Bay, but would dash boldly on the capital and seize the Castle, and all the arsenals in Dublin. He would, we fear, strike at once at the heart of our power, and scatter us like chaff before the wind before we could organize our forces. Among the Young Ireland party there was no one but John Mitchel capable of leading an army of liberation. He was a man of iron will and indomitable courage. We believe he possesses that boldness and energy which would inspire his followers to rival the soldiers of any other nation in deeds of heroism. He is a man to i:ecida quickly, and to carry out his purpose with unerring judgment and a vigorous arm. He would have the men of all districts either with him or against him, and would deal roughly with all who should desire to stand on neutral ground. Such a ,than as thik would prove a formidable foe to Eng lish power in Ireland ; and, although he might run some risks, it is certain that he would not be so easily caught as Wolfe Tone. If Mr. Mitchel's visit to Europe be to aid the invasion which the English seem to expect, he will have no mercy for John Bull, and will more than rival Garibaldi in his furious onsets against the Great Britons." In an adjacent column this best possible public instructor informs its readers that it is to France they must look for a free press! Erin go bragh! THE POTATO DISEASE. The Cork papers will have it that the blight in its oldest and worst form has attacked the potato crop in that-quarter. The fact of its actual appear ance there has been several times noticed in the local journals, , but this morning the tale is told with more circumstantiality than usual, and is no longer set down as a flying rumour. The Examiner .of last night says : • " We regret to say that, so far as has come under our obser ration, in the rural districts for many miles. around, the potato disease is becoming very general. In one instance that has come to our knowledge a splendid field of 15 acres, excellent land and highly cultivated, the crop on whi.th was at ono time expected to realise £5OO, is now become absolutely worthless. In many cases half and even, two-thirds of the crops have been lost. An es teemed correspondent inforins us that the blight has set in with deadly virulence • along the coast from Kinsale to Clonakilty. The crop in that diStriet this year was about the same average breadth as : if has been for the last three years, but in Yield and quality it had been greatly superior. Unforta, nately, however, in no year has the tuber been so rapidly destroyed. The potato .melts away almost when attacked. Whole fields have been abandoned as not being worth the cost of digging. With re- - gard to the• other crops in that district, the same correspondent states that wheat has been found net nearly so productive as in 1858, oats on the other hand much more prolific, and barley less in produce, but far better in quality and c6ndition." .. Al c a tn ic l a , n p a o T 6d ts: i l. no t l E ,a . , rr ria ] b .— ly Du , Barry's _ delicious Revalenta restores health, without medicine, o in th e ' e ' r v r e e n n i i e e n di c es, a r expense, a as it saves 50 times its cost in coostinationn, i remOves indigestion (dyspepsia), flatu lency,cough, a&thnio, few out of 50,0C.i0 testiruntitl' con , sa le i rr us , bilious, and - liver complaints, ni4debility. We extract a all medicine. . c ur , N 9., 4, ,, 08. ° L e ß m e o v v . t c ci j r o br D l s v if . B 9) F a a iEs; nres, which had resisted nervousness, debility, with cramp s Cure No. 4 1 "Ef i ght years' dyspep‘ia, I, and delicious t idiin fot naus ea,oond have been elfeetub. ine lly ck, near Ha mb urg, of a lady of 107 years i (ij a ftc a ic,,,t.o v: r. 7 , :N s , h lul o lT r fa t orilfik t s i .4o,, aw l , 9 2 , t hli i Y o ' lvho 1' -,,, , 4.- r r harelly certny tnat my mother-in-1 - a- - 1857. has just completed her 107th year, after having suffered for nabloi to digest half a *century anti more from indigestion4.now (dvso(vQ:l . ..,_121b., consequent disorders, has been p.erectly.cur&l-1 -,, ), and Revalenta Arabica Food,. and - y Barry's almest any kind o , flifboo.,d3Nsv.i;th2lgb-r.e;astsc..oafrfm.b._7l,sH. Horse., In tins, at ts. Gd, • •fl)_t of po§t 265. The 10i b. and 121 b, tins carriage free, en rec 541 e order. Do 13arryfunl - Co„ 77, Itegent,strea, -L on d„. Fortnum, lins, , au, and Co., 182, • Piccadilly; 41ahis, co, Gracechurch-street; ; 4, Ch6anside ; 63, and 150, Oxford. street; 330 and 451, Strand ;49 •a-id GO, . Bishopsg a t e • st r€t,t, ~, 8.5, T o tt en h am -court-road. Also at Dublin, Be - viley and bronco. ; at Edinburg'', Raimes and Co. ; at Liverpool, Nixon and 'Phew; tit Max:teeter, Sharp and Scott; at York It:times, Blanchard, and Co. ; at South ampton, Rand.jl and Son. '1 THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENINCt u - AUGUST 31, 1859. LORD NORMANBY AND THE TUSCANS. (From the Nord.) M. Übaldino Peruzzi sends us, with a request for their insertion, the two following letters. We have much pleasure in complying with his wish : " Mr. Editor,—The Marquis of Normanby, when speaking in the House of Lords on the late move ment in Tuscany, described the conduct of the Liberal party in a way that is eloquently contra dicted by the events that have taken place in this country for the last four months. But, in addition to this, the noble lord, in publishing separately his speech of the Bth of June last, thought fit to add to it some notes, one of which, concerning the memo randum of the provisional Tuscan Government, places me under the painful necessity of addressing myself, through your kind medium, to the impar tiality of the public. " In the note B the marquis relates a little ad venture which appeal's to him to be curious, and which appears to me, were it true, to be most dishonourable to me. On reading the pas sage of the memorandum drawn up by the secre tary_ of the Foreign Minister, where it speaks of the efforts made by the Grand Duke and his sons to put down by force the national movement of the 27th of May last, I am asserted to have said : But we cannot affirm that, because it is not true ;' and notwithstanding that I am stated to have nevertheless signed this document, having yielded to the majority of my two colleagues. " As this fact is completely false, I wrote to the Marquis of Normanby the instant I was made an quamted with his publication, and begged hitn to be so good as to contradict it publicly. I told him that the meinorardum ordered and advised by me had been drawn up by the Minister of Foreign Affairs on the authority of documents since pub lished, that it was then . corrected, and at last signed by me before it was by my two honourable colleagues ; and lastly, I declared to him that nothing like the anecdotes he had related had oc curred. " The marquis has done me the honour of ad dressing to me two letters, in which he enters at full length into the denial and the justification of the repressive measures alluded to in the memoran dum • but respecting the calumni o us t a l e h e had piously consigned to the note B, he confines himself to informing me that he received it from a well-in formed correspondent at Florence. It is right I should add that in those letters, as also in his speech of the Bth inst., in the House of Lords, the marquis was so good as to render to my character a homage that would not all be deserved, if the fact he has publicly affirmed and has not publicly con tradicted were true. " This is why I take the liberty of begging you, -sir, to be so good as to give -a place in your re pectable journal to the solemn contradiction I see myself compelled to give to. the calumnious report that the Marquis of Normanby has thought proper to publish respecting me. "I beg you at the same time to be so good as to publish also the annexed letter addressed to the same personage by my friend Commendatore F or netti, secretary to the Ministry of Tuscan Foreign Affairs, and which has remained unanswered. " Deign to accept, sir, my thanks and the assur ance of my most distinguished consideration. " ÜBALDINO PERUZZI, • " Formerly Member of the Provisional G overn ni en t Of Tuscany." "Paris, August, 25, 1869,. M. Peruzzi, in his letter tTthe Marquis of Nor manby says : " Monsieur,—l have seen the speech you delivered in the House of Lords on the affairs of Italy, and which you have published as a pamphlet, with notes. - " The note B regards ma espe'6ally ; it contains, as regards me, insolent and calumnious insinuations. "Your insolence I reject with contempt. The one Fornetti' of whoa you speak as if he were the most abject of men you knew perfectly well to be the Commendatore. Pornetti, Officer of the Legion of Honour, Secretary General to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. I do not remind you of this through foolish and puerile vanity, but to expose the bad faith with which you have written all that concerns me. "As for your slanderous insinuations of the curious details' that might be revealed about ' my rogueries,' 1 defy you, in the most formal manner, to instance them, and I cite you to publicly produce and justify them. If you think that age and decre pitude give you a license to tarnish with impunity the reputation of honest people, I forewarn you that you have made a calculation . as false as it is in famous. " Florence, July 15." THE COMMERCE OF ITALY. (Abridged from the Journal des Debuts.) While the grave question of Italy is being dis cussed perhaps a brief commercial valuation of the several component states of the prospective Italian confederation may not be unacceptable. Italy, from the Mediterranean to the Adriatic, from the maritime Alps to the mouth of the Taglia mento, was the ancient home of European com merce. In the middle ages, when the ports of Havre, London, and Liverpool were solitary sand heaps, it was at Genoa and at Venice that its bril liant dawn uprose,sand those glorious cities of the sea already filled the world with the dazzling fame of their wealth and enterprise. Their grand exist ence' has, it is true, passed away, or rather been eclipsed by the prosperity of their models' rivals ; but run your eye along the littoral of that Italian peninsula, and think what a merchant navy might become which should unite underthe generous pro tectorate of a common federal bond the numerous ports that fringe its coast—Nice ' Genoa, Leghorn, Ancona, CivitaVecchia, Palermo, Cagliari, Messina, Naples, Sinigaglia, Fiume, Venice! And behind all these maritime mouths, over those fertile valleys which the Po and its many affluents irrigate, be sides the Piave, the Adda, the Arno, the Tiber, &c., what natural wealth has Providence lavished on the soil! what precious raw materials are harvested or manufactured to nourish the great mercantile operations of the seaports. In Piedmont, and in Lombardy, rice and silk, the mulberry and the olive, cattle, wool, and leather, besides plenty of other industrial resources, which, if not so vigorous as our own, do nevertheless flourish, as the Turin Exhibition of 1858 proved; cloth, silk, woollens, paper, typography, leather, glass, and metal works. In Tuscany, in Parma, in Modena, cereals, marble, iron, lead, copper, argal, borax, cheese, plaite!l straw hats, rags; in the Roman States, cereals, cattle and wool, flax and hemp, wood, potosh, and alum ; in Sicily and in the Nea politan_provinces, oil in abundance, wheat, wine, fresh and dried fruits, salt, sulphur, madder, comes tible pastes, Sac; All these, with many other raw or cultivated productS, commercial Europe receives at present from the rich plains of Italy in immense quantities. But what may not their development become when a vigilant and enlighted administra tion, animated, with a keen instinct of national unity, shall have improved the cultivation .ef the land by a better division of the soil, facilitated the exchange of products by the - abolition of frontier dues, which are a premium to smugglers, and oft en to brigandage, and emancipated labour, which almost throughout Italy is the slave of monopoly 'as; for instance, at Urbino, where the Albani family have retained the manufactuie of pins as a privi lege of their house ever since element XII. ; and as at Rome, where illustrious descendants of patri cian families. of the ancient republic possess the ex clusive right of making strings for musical instru ments, window-glass, &c. The Italian Governments are rather Weak in statistics (excepting, of course, Piedmont), and it .would - be somewhat difficult to make out an exact table of their exports and imports; but the followL ing may be taken as an approximate statement of the commercial transactions of the peninsula, or, rather, of what was known about them 12 years since, and of what they were still up to a recent period. As to Lombardy, its Commercial transac tions haw until lately figured with those of Venetia i.i the official statistics of the Austrian Empire, and their average value _may be estimated at not less tl..an a fourth or a third of the total commerce of that Empire—that is to say, to a minimum of about 500 millions of francs (£20,000,000). Economically speaking, Austria had ample reasons for clinging to the preservation of that rich agricultural domain, edited' Lombardo-Venetia ; for it must not be for gotten 'that the silk produce alone represented in raw material nearly 180,000,000 of &titles, some thing like from three to four millions of kilo grammes of raw silk, which, being manufactured at Lyons, at Saint Etienne, at Zurich, at Elberfeld, and at Birmingham, are worth from one millard and a half to two . millards of francs (E 60,009,006— £80,000,000). On the whole, leaving a certain margin for the transactions in bond.at the free ports, such as Genoa, Leghorn, &c., on a comparison of the two periods above mentioned, we get at the following averages : 1844-46. 1857. Millions of Francs. Lombardo-Venetia 4lO 500 Sardinian States .. ..... 339 843 Tuscany and the Duchies.... 170 245 Papal Statis ... , Two Sidlies l7O 180 1,145 - 1,886 The progress it, 12 years appears considerably —more than 84 per cent.---and it will give us some ides of what a country which (speaking of Central Italy only) has hitherto been the worst governed in the world, may become. Only let this noble Italy live her own life, let her natural capabilities be - freed from all foreign pressure, and you will see how readily this land—this ancient cradle of all the sciences and arts—will assimilate the conditions of material grandeur peculiar to the most advanced nations! We see that the Sardinian states (not in cluding Lombardy), with a population barely num bering more than half that of the kingdom of Naples, (5,195,000 inhabitants, against 9,200,000), does nearly five times as much trade as the latter. We see, too, that it is Sardinia which in 12 years has accomplished the most rapid increase in exports and imports. Doubtless the system of political and commercial liberty which it has so resolutely carried out has had not a little to do with this advance. The Papal States have made a little peogress too, due, we be lieve, to some encouragement given by the present Pope to the growth of timber; but see how the Roman State, with its 3,125,000 inhabitants, lags in the rear of Tuscany, whose active and intelligent population, even including Parma and Modena, does not exceed 2,425,000 souls. THE ITALIAN .DUCHIES. (From the Times.) The French Press is entirely free. The Parisian newspapers are completely independent of all offi cial control. M. de Morny testifies to this, and to doubt the fact would be, as he says, to doubt his heart and honour. We hope, however, that we may without offence believe that the Constitutionnel would not put forward the article we so gladly re produce to-day unless the conductors of that paper were quite certain that it would not be displeasing to the Emperor or disavowed by his Ministers. Assuming, then, that the Constitutionnel is correct in its announcement, Italy is free, and the work which the French Emperorundertook to do is, with some modifiactions, consummated. Europe has not yet seen the text of the Villafranca Treaty. All speculation respecting the future has been disturbed by uncertainty how far the understanding as to the Duchies extended ; whether the proposed restora tion was an absolute guarantee, or only an under taking to preserve an attitude of permissive neu trality. We never knew how far Austria had prevailed, or how far the Emperor of the French had committed himself: It is only now that we for the first time read the extent of the obligations contracted by the French Emperor. At Villa franca he " agreed" to the restoration of the former reigning Princes. This phrase does not mean, as some readers might incorrectly imagine, that he had undeltaken that the Princes should be re stored, but merely that he submitted to recognise without opposition the fact of their restoration whenever that event should happen. It does not pledge him to march armies into the Duchies in order to control the will of the sovereign people, for that would be to act contrary to the principle which he has adopted as the foundation of his own throne. It does not commit him to allow Austria to go forth in arms to do what she has stipulated for, even in her moment of defeat, as the condition of peace ; for that would be to cast away the object for which France went to war—namely, to destroy the Austrian habit of interfering in the affairs of Italy. The stipulation which Francis Joseph pressed so earnestly at Villafranca meant no more than this—that Napoleon 111. should use his best peaceable rhetoric to induce the Italians of their own free will to take back the Sovereigns they had expelled. It is pleasant to know that our powerful ally has so much confidence in the power of reason and of good adiice. It is excellent to contemplate these two Emperors un buckling their swords, and tossing them far away from them, and then sitting down to settle all mat ters upon strictly moral principles. Those swords once thrown aside, the Emperors no longer had any attention for the details of coarse physical force ; nothing but the rules of logic and persuasion had any attraction for them. The French Emperor would persuade the populations to receive back their Sovereigns; the Austrian Emperor would persuade the Sovereigns to grant the populations amnesties and charters. We hope that Francis Joseph understood the basis of this treaty to rest strictly upon moral grounds, and that he is content with the manner in which it is being worked out. But whatever Francis Joseph may have under stood or may desire, it is quite clear now that Aus tria must look on, and either swallow her vexation or vent it only in words. She must not move a corporal's guard against these little saucy Duchies. The Emperor of the French is using his most per suasive arguments,—he has not yet given up all hope of suer,- ; in order that his persuasions may have the s cater trioral weight, he disseminates his promise t tt under ; no circumstances shall force be used ; L. .vill fulfil loyally to the end his disinte rested mission ; he wilt,he grieved if his wise and prudent advice is not followed. But if they won't, they won't. What is to b lone? nthing, as Na poleon 111. believes, but tp turn round to the Dukes, make, them a low bow, and say,—" You see, my friends, do what I can, these poor people will not have you." Francis,-;-;seph may say,--" Leave the matter to me ft"' one month, and I'll carry out the treaty." '1 ..s, however, would be force; and " the armed intervention of Austria in the affairs of the Italian Peninsula has ceased for Frenchbut opepaogsiltee. ever." Austria ge ha w s a h te e h r fortresses, esthe a frontier fortress t o F rance. Th e tp la e ntl d ia sa i N s V r u i t d intervening plains of Lombardy and Piedmont are but interposed as buffers to relieve what M. de Morny calls the Austrian pressure upon France. Austria must be regarding the proceedings of the Duchies with much the sort of feeling wherewith a hungry grimalkin may watch the motions of a little company of white mice sporting and playing under the protection of that grimalkin's master. anfedelislipt that it is rather ers have their hardlt i ison Aus t r i a . impossible t o Cats s p instincts as well as mice and flies. Of course, the French Emperor is quite right according to all the moralities. It would have been a great crime to coerce the Duchies to take back their Princes, and Austria ought to have known, i n d ee d, must have known—that it could never be in the mine of Napoleon 111. to commit a crime against the sove reignty of the people. But, notwithstanding this, a suspicion cannot be kept out of the minds of some indifferent observers that the Austrian idea •of re storing the Sovereigns was something rather diffe rent from taking the votes of three hostile little States, and allowing their universal suffrage to decide the destinies of three Austrian dependencies. We might perhaps wish that the French Emperor had withstood altogether the stipulation in the Treaty of Villafranca, but we cannot but rejoice at the result. Whatever Austria may now think of the matter, we are convinced that this end is the best for all parties. Austria will.be stronger in her concentration, and Italy will be happier in her freedom. The Duchies may still have to fight for their independence, for the Emperors have not undertaken to keep the peace among the Italian Powers. There are many mercenaries ready for service, and one of the Dukes is said to have a respectable force in his pay. It is just upon the cards, also, that whenever such a force might be brought to bear it might be discovered that the exiled Sovereigns are not without a party in their own States. This, however, will be a very cheap struggle for independence. If the army of Central Italy cannot hold its own against a few bands of mercenaries, we had better forget the name of Italy even as a geographical expression. Under the protection of this Imperial promise the course of Centr,4l,taly to freedom and prospe rity seems safe and sure. A little firmness to repel the not too formidable 0 . &too earnestly-directed blandishments of PrinCe I F oniatowski, a resolute ingratitnele towards their liberator, whose tender heart will be wounded by their obstinacy, but will perhaps be healed again by their acclamations, and the names of the deposed dynasties will be heard no more in Italy. The next step is already resolved upon. They have unanimously desired to weld themselves into one kingdom whereof Victor Em manuel shall be the first Sovereign. We cannot conceive that, if all chance for Prince Napoleon be put out of the question, the French Emperor can have any hearty objection to such an amalgamation. This work of the restoration of Italy will be, if it shall endure, the principal glory of his reign. He will naturally desire thaf it should be as marked a success, and give as visible a monument to posterity, as possible. Piedmont, with twenty more Duchies amalgamated with it, could offer no object of jealousy or distrust to France. .It is not compre hensible, therefore, that any stronger sentiment than diplomatic delicacy can induce him to put pressure upon the King of Sardinia to refuse the territory now proffered to him. Moreover, we now know that this pressure will be entirely of an argu mentative and diplomatic character. It seems to us, therefore, as matters now stand, that Victor Emmanuel cannot refuse the offer of the Duchies. It would, perhaps, not be prudent definitively to accept it. Perhaps it would be more wise to assume tile Government provisionally, and thus preserve order, prevent further revolution, and keep out other candidates until the new order of things is cpsolid ited. But, unless sonic very rash or very niad course of conduct should occur to mar the prospect, the unity of Italy is now secure. We will add that the Emperor has a right to say " To me Italy owes her independence.'; • On the treat Western Railway of Canada, a statement of traffic receipts by passenger and goo is trains gives the following risults :—Week ending AuAnst 12, 1859, £5,904 7s. 2d. ditto, 411 g. 13,1858, 46,044 12s. 6d. ; decrease, £7.1() 4;3, 2dt Aggregate gross receipts from the Comnience i ne l at of the current half-year to date, two weeks, £11,507 Ile. 2d. ; ditto, fur the corresponding period last year,..£12,342.F5. 2J. ; decrease, L 834 lis. A COURT. 01 , LAw.—Surgeon : " I fonnd plaintiff had a severe contusion under the left eye, treat extravasa tion of blood undernoth it, with some abrasion of the skin." Judge You mean that he had a black eye P' Surgeon : Yes." Judge; "We why didn't you say so ?" THE NINE HOURS MOVEMENT. A meeting of the Executive of the Central Asso ciation of Master Builders was held yesterday. Messrs. Trollope reported considerrble increase in their number of men. It is impossible to say what the determination of the employers might hare been had the men declared a dividend on Monday and thus evinced an ability to stand out; but, as it was, the Central Association simply ad journed for a week. It must be observed that these meetings of the masters are conducted in private. No doubt the result as communicated is accurate; but after how much discussion the resolutions are arrived at, or what opinions are expressed, we are unable to state. NOTTINGHAM. On Monday evening, the 29th inst., a meeting of the building operatives of this town was held in the large room at the Durham Ox. Mr. Vll ARRIOTT, chairman, in opening the pro ceedings, denounced the document of the master builders as despotic and tyrannical, and urged the operatives to unity, by which they were certain to obtain their rights. As respected the nine hours movement, there eon ldbe only one opinion—namely that it would benefit the working classes both morally and socially. He then introduced a depu tation from London. Mr. OSBORN, from London, in a long address, detailed the movement between the operatives and master builders. Mr. WILLIAMS, an operative bricklayer, proposed the first resolution : " That this meeting heartily sympathises with the builders of London in their present position, and feel proud of the noble stand made against the obnoxious document presented for their acceptance." He said the movement of the operatives was a just one ; it was the old struggle of labour against capi tal. The masters had now nearly the whole of the political power, and now they wished to exercise social power over their workmen. Mr. BROWN, stonemason, seconded the resolu tion. He stated that the Stonemasons' Society contributed to seven different hospitals in the coun try, the sum amounting to £l5O per annum. Last year more than £l,OOO was paid as siek•money. The society had paid to unemployed men whom the parishes refused to maintain, £3,472. They had also paid for accidents £B5O ; and for these the masters had as much right to pay as the men. (Hear.) All that had been expended for strikes was £1,114. The resolution was put and carried with accla mation. Mr. BURREY, painter, proposed the next resolu tion " Having heard the statement of the deputation, and believing the cause to be worthy of support, we hereby pledge ourselves to render them all the assistance in our power as long as the struggle exists." Mr. LENNOX, plasterer, seconded the motion, which was supported by Mr. BRIGGS, solicitor, of Derby, and carried unanimously. A vote of thanks to the chairman terminated the proceedings. The mec — tinF, was of a most orderly character. PLYMOUTH. A meeting of operatives took place at the Me chanics' Institute, Plymouth, on Monday evening, Mr. Toop, carpenter, in the chair, when a resolu tion moved by Mr. Jacob Winsor, stonemason, was unanimously adopted to support the present movement in London. There were about 600 per sons present, and the sum of £4 10s. was collected. The proceedings were of a most orderly character. Only one expression of a questionable nature was used, and that one met with most unqualified dis approbation. During the discussion, Mr. SLADE, carpenter, said he considered that an effort had been made by Messrs. Trollope to place their men in a worse condition than that of slaves or convicts. Mr. BERRY, engineer, belonged to a society which during the last six or seven years had paid £22,000 to the sick and to those on strike, and such societies were to be suppressed by the " document." If a man got sick at his work, and had no such resource, what would his employer give him ? Nothing. How much beefsteak could a bricklayer's labourer buy with his wages ? Why, as much as he could pull off a bullock's h orns . _ _ Mr. R. AMBROSE would take an employer to be worth say £4,000, and estimate an operative at .£l,OOO ; it was therefore clear that the operatives must combine to put themselves on an equality with their employers. All they got from their masters was " Wake up ;" " Get on." Mr. JAMES 'LAMB complained of the want of sup port by the local workmen. The society's members were like the figs in a Cornish pudding—one here, the other at the Land's End. In June the Ply mouth men asked for 3s. 6d. a-day and nine hours ; they obtained only ls. a-week additional. He thought that ls. each to Trollope's men was a small pittance. Mr. JOHN CORNISH did not think that 3d. per week from each operative in the country was suffi cient. Let every one take a quart of beer less and. subscribe 6d. There were not more than six tee totallers in Plymouth ; they could afford an in creased subscription. Mr. C. SHOVELL said that after the operatives had succeeded in London the same system must be adopted in Plymouth. In the Devonport Dockyard the day's labour averaged 8 1 hours only. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-Aug. 30. BOW-STREET.--Edward Thomas Isaacson, 2, Adelphi-terrace, and 23, Ampthill-square, Hamp stead-road, was brought before Mr. Henry, on a warrant, to answer the charge of having conspired, with others not in custody, to defraud Messrs. Shoolbred and Co., Tottenham-court-road, and other tradesmen, by obtaining goods under false pretences. Mr. Sleigh, instructed by Messrs. Wild and Bari ker, conducted the prosecution, and Mr. Manning was the defendant's solicitor. In the course of his opening observations the learned counsel reminded the Court of some recent proceedings in the Divorce, and other courts in re ference to Mrs. Mure, formerly the wife of the Consul for New Orleans. This lady has lived in Paris and other places since her separation from her husband, with a very notorious personage, whose exploits had now, become tolerably familiar to the public, but who, with the lady, were at present be yond the reach of the English law. Mr. and Mrs. Mare were former customers of the prosecutors, and it was on the representation, by the defendant, that certain goods were intended for the wife of the Consul that they were forwarded on credit, although a portion of them had been since found in the London residence of the defendant, on his being apprehended on the present charge. Mr. James Shoolbred, jun., deposed that he was a parther in the firm carrying on the business of drapers, upholsterers, &c., in the Tottenham-court road. On the 23d December last the defendant called and produced a letter, purporting to be written by Mrs. Mure, at Paris, and ordering a quantity of goods, which were to be sent under the bearer's direction to France. The defendant said he was passing to and from Paris continually,. and had promised to take charge of the goods; which he wished to be sent to his offices, in the Adelphi. He reminded witness who Mrs. Mure was by mentioning that Mr. Mure was the Consul at New Orleans, and had formerly made extensive purchases at the establishment. Witness found, on inquiry, that Mr. Mure had been a customer, and n the belief that this was an order from him, he consented to supply the goods, which consisted of two Turkey carpets (with hearthrugs to match), three sets of silk damask curtains, six pairs of muslin ditto; &c., amounting in all to about £l3O. Witness told defendant that the goods were too bulky to be delivered at his chambers, and advised that they should be sent to the wharf, at London bridge, to go by steam-boat to Boulogne. He ob jected to this at first, but finally consented, and called two or three times while the goods were being got ready. Shortly after they had been.sent off, the defendant called with another letter from Mrs. Mure (January 29), containing another order for goods. Witness observed that the last lot had not.been paid for, and asked if h e s h ou ld d raw upon Mrs. Mure, in Paris. The defendant said, " Oh, no, that is all 'right, Mrs. Mure will pay for the whole by cheque when the second order has been executed. She sends a great deal over in this way, and I have paid £lOO for her this week." Witness consented to supply the gdods, consist ing of Brussels carpets, some green da. mask curtains, some moire antique and pop lin dresses. The defendant was accompanied on this second visit by two ladies, who assisted him in selecting the goods, which were sent to the defendant's chambers in the Adelphi. They amounted to about £5O worth. He stated as his reason for wishing the goods to be sent to his chambers, that he could get them to France cheaper by taking them with him. Cross examined—Previous to the first transac tion, namely, in. November, VO worth of goo d s had been supplied to Mrs. Mure. Other orders had been executed and alwas paid for on delivery. I did not say to defendant, " Oh, I recollect Mrs. Mure, she was a very handsome woman" nor did any one else say so in my presence. I did not supply the goods on Mrs. Mure's credit, as she had never had goods on credit. Re-examined—l certainly should not have sup plied the goods if I had known that Mr. and Mrs. Mure had been separated. Christopher Horseman, assistant at Messrs. Shoolbred's, corroboratia The 'evidence of last wit- ness, having made up the goods, and identified a portion of them, which had been removed from the residence of the defendant in Ampthill-square. Thomas Kent deposed to having been sent to 2, Adelphi-terrace by prosecutors, to inquire about the goods delivered there for Mrs. Mure. He saw the defendant, who affected not to remember him at first. Witness said he had come to speak about the things sent from Messrs. Shooibred's. Defen dant said, " What of them ?" Witness said, " I was desired to say that Mrs. Mure has written to complain of the goods not having arrived in Paris." He replied, " Who desired you to say so?" Wit ness told him that he received his instructions from the counting-house. Defendant said, "It is very strange. I have heard from Mrs. Mure this morn ing, and nothing is said about it in her letter." Witness said, " They have not passed through the Customs." Defendant replied, " That is no busi ness of yours (meaning the firm's). I undertook to see the goods delivered, and if anything goes wrong I am responsible." It was explained that the message about the letter was a stratagem resorted to by prosecutors in consequence of certain information which had. reached them. Inspector Pethers deposed that he executed the warrant on Monday afternoon, about five o'clock, and after taking the defendant into custody at 2, Adelphi-terrace, accompanied him to 23, Ampthill square, in th.! drawing-room of which were several articles of upholstery, which were identified by Mr. Shoolbred's assistant as part of the goods supplied to defendant for Mrs. Mure. The defendant's solicitor complained of his client having been locked up all night, and asked the witness if he was not even searched, and what was found upon him. The Inspector said the defendant delivered up his pocket-book, &c., without being searched. The former contained two £5 notes and other money, and two pawnbrokers' duplicates, having the name of Miss Isaacson upon them ; but nothing relating to the property. Mr. Sleigh said he should show that the bulk of the first goods had from Messrs. Shoolbred had been pawned in Paris, or were still on sale there; but he could not go on further with the case at present. He would examine one witness, however, relating to another similar charge preferred by Mess r s. Osle r and Co., the extensive dealers in glass, chandeliers, &c., of 44, Oxford -street. Mr. Thomas Rose Miles, manager of Messrs. Osler's London show-rooms, proved that in Decem ber last the defendant called there with a lady and produced a note apparently from Mrs. Mure, order ing goods to be sent to " 35, Rue de Madeleine, Paris." Witness was reminded that the British Consul at New Orleans, her husband, had dealt with them before, and in the belief that this was the same customer, the chandelier, &e., worth £93, was sent to Paris. Defendant wanted them to go to his chambers at first. When witness spoke of the duties on glass, the defendant said, " Being Consul it will go to him free ; or at a less rate." The defendant was now remanded, two sureties in 306/. each being accepted. CLERKENIVELL.—BRUTAL ASSAULTS UPON FEMALES.-A tall, powerfully-built man, who gave the name of Thomas Clough, described as a pen sioner, residing at 51, Upper Seymour-street, St. Pancras, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with committing a very violent assault upon his daugh ter-in-law, Mary Clough. From the evidence it appeared that the prisoner was a very violent man, and between twelve and one in the morning he had a quarrel with his son. The son struck his wife, and then the defendant called the complainant very nasty names, struck her about the body, and knocked her down. Not content with this violence, when the complainant got up the defendant deliberately struck her three severe blows on the face, which blackened both her eyes. _ _ The complainant stated that since she had been married to the defendant's son the defendant had been in the constant habit of ill-using her, and on one occasion he took up a knife, and swore he would run it through her, and on another he nearly sue ceeded in strangling her. The 'defendant made a very rambling defence, and abused the complainant in court. Mr. Tyrwhitt said there could be no doubt that the prisoner was a brutal fellow, and ordered him to pay a fine of 205., or, in default of payment, to be imprisoned in the House of Correction for one calendar month. The prisoner said he would not pay a farthing, and was lucked up. James Little, a farrier, of South-crescent-mews, was charged with unlawfully assaulting and beat ing Elizabeth Highfield, on the 27th inst. Mr. John Wakeling, solicitor, appeared for the complainant, and stated that the assault he had to complain of was one of a most violent nature. On the day in question the complainant was passing down the mews to her residence, when the defen dant, who was the worse for liquor, ran away from his wife, who was holding him, and struck the com plainant, who had not spoken a word to him, a violent blow in the face, which blackened her eye. So violent was the assault that the complainant fainted, and some women caught her, or she would have ffillen. The defendant made use of most filthy language towards the complainant, and had done so previously. Witnesses having been called, who proved Mr. Wakeling's statement, Mr. Jay, solicitor for the defence, said he could not deny that an assault had been committed, but it was not of such a violent nature as was repre sented. Mr. Tyrwhitt said that a violent blow had been struck, and ordered the defendant to pay a fine of 40s. and costs, or, in default, one month's imprison ment. The money was at once paid. THREATENING TO MURDER.—Guiseppe Belli . _ was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with threatening to murder Giacomo Basini, a lodging-house-keeper, of No. 4, Somer-street, Back-hill. Mr. J. Wakeling appeared for the complainant, and Mr. Molinari acted as interpreter. The defendant, at two o'clock in the morning, went to the house of the complainant and threatened to stab him, and if he could not do so then, he would do so either in one year or in twenty. whenever he met him. Mr. Tyrwhitt ordered the defendant to find bail for six months. DISGRACEFUL CRUELTY AT THE NEW CATTLE MARI{ET.—I➢IPRISONMENT WITHOUT A FINE.— John Keef, a big, rough-looking fellow, a drover, badge 658, residing at 23, York-street, Southwark, ' was charged by Mr. W. Love, the chief constable' of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, with the following barbarous treat ment to some sheep : Guest, one of the soctety's constables, stated that he was on duty in the New Cattle•market, where he saw the prisoner among a number of sheep, which he was endeavouring to get into one of the pens. In doing so he beat them over their heads and eyes in a most cruel manner, in consequence of which the sheep ran about very wildly, and the prisoner followed them, dealing them such violent blows with a heavy cudgel that two or three of them fell, being stunned by the blows. There were several persons present, who indignantly denounced the prisoner's conduct, and he (the officer) then took him into custody. In answer to the charge, the prisoner said he was merely stopping the sheep. It was not likely he should knock the sheep about when the officer was l in sight. Mr. Tyrwhitt said the prisoner had made a very lame deface, and the officer had very properly brought him. before him. A stop mist be put to such disgraceful scenes of cruelty, and it appeared to him that the only way to put an effective stop to it was by sending such brutes as the prisoner to gaol. The prisoner, like one of his companions last week, would be committed to the House of Correc tion for 14 days. The prisoner begged hard to be allowed to pay a fine, but the magistrate would not listen to it. Alexander Gardener, badge 320, was brought up in the custody of Greenwood, 104 N, and fined 55.,i or seven days' imprisonment, for cruelly beating a bullock in the New Cattle-market. LAMBETTI.—CONSEQUENCES OF TIIE STRIKE. —A poor woman was introduced to the notice of Mr. Elliott by Mr. Andrews, one of the ushers of the court, who said he had known her for some years as most industrious and hard working in her endeavours to support herself and her family, but she was at present, owing to a slight illness and the strike amongst the builders, reduced to temporary priVations, and therefore sought his worship's kind assistance from the poor-box. The poor woman said she had two sons, most willing and industrious youths, always desirous to wok hard to assist her, and with their earnings and her own she was enabled to get en very well, but, owing to the unfortunate turn-out amongst the builders, her boys, without any wish or desire of their own, but, on the contrary, quite against their wishes, were thrown out of employment, and unable to get any allowance, so they were all re duced to want. _ _ • • Mr. Elliott ordered the poor woman im• mediate relief from/the poor-box. WESTAIINSTEII.--DIsTRE,ssiNG CASE.—Ellen Neady, a middle-aged woman, was charged with attempting to commit suicide. William Arnold, mate on board the Twilight iron steamboat, proved that on the previous evening the defendant was a passenger from London-bridge to Chelsea. On the Wall MT 441 n ~.,.,4 %;n having had his attention called to the defendant, directed witness to watch her, and shortly after passing Vauxhall-bridge, she jumped upon one of the seats, and was in the act of throwing herself overboard when he secured her, and gave r 'her into the custody of a policeman at Chelsea. At the station-house she stated that she was the widow of a soldier formerly belonging to the Madras Fusi liers, by whom she had had eight children, seven of whom, owing to the hardships they had under gone, had died while she was in India. Her hus band fell at an early stage in the mutiny , and after_ encountering a series of vicissitudes and dangers of no ordinary character, she returned to En g land. She left her eighth child, a little girl, in India, of whom she had had no tidings until last _Saturday', when she was informed that if she went to Tower hill, a letter there awaited her from India. She found the letter was from a missionary in India, and contained the melancholy intelligenceof her child's death, which, coupled with other circum stances, deeply affected her mind. Sergeant Marshall, of the V division, stated that Mr. Selfe, the magistrate, had taken great interest „ in the poor woman's case some months"agn, and had represented it with advantage to her to the authorities at the War-office. On her return to England she had been inveigled by a rec ruiting sergeant, and induced to marry him upon his re resentation that he was a single man, b ut in a few days discovered that he was a married man with a family. Much sympathy had been exercised in her behalf. Defendant repeated a po l rtion of the sta tement she had made at the station-house, and ascribed the frame of mind which had induced her attempt to throw herself into the river, to the shock she ha d sustained, in addition to her other misfortunes, by the intelligence of the death of her only surviving child. A friend of the defendant having nndertaken the charge of her, and the defendant having ag ain eat u t again solemnly promised that she would not repea the offence, Mr. Arnold consented to di.scharge her. DISGRACEFUL CONDUCT TO A CHILD.---Jam" Ferrebee, a labourer, about 40 years of age, wa3 finally examined, charged with disgraceful conduct to a‘little girl, 13 years of age. Evidence having been givln, The prisoner was committed for six months to hard labour in the House of Correction, and re: quired, at the expiration of that period, to find bail for six months more. CHARGE OF SHOOTING.—SamueI Larkhanblock master of the Grosvenor Canal, Pimlico, wa s charged with shooting and wounding twoi from A number of witnesses were examined , whose evidence it appeared that a boy named Bur; ton, aged 14, a French boy, and a number 0 others were bathing in the Grosvenor Catial Thursday last, and sitting on or playing groin some timber there, when a gun was fired fr°lll the towing accused's grounds, which overhang the towing path, and Burton and the French boy were both slightly wounded, one on the cheek and bacek! and the other in the muscles of the arm. t he vi dence went to show that the accused had fired the gun, and when charged with having wounded the boys, one of whom (Burton) is now in the hospital going on favourably, ho told one of the witnesses that he was shootin at sparrows. He wrung bi4s, hands, and appeared to feel great regret at what had occurred. He was ordered to find two sureties in £ 2 OO each for his appearance on Saturday. Bail was put in. COUNTRY MARKETS. NEWC ASTLE—AuG. 30. We had a good supply of wheat from the co untry thi s morning, a fair proportion was of the new crop, the quoit); generally being fine and heav, a nd sold from 4 2 s t for red, and up to 48s for white. y Flour is per sack low Barley, peas, and beans steady. Rye was difficu lt to glut Oats rather lower. Arrivals this week : Wheat 1,607 qrs. Barley Oats Rapeseed — Beans Malt Linseed — LIVERPOOL—Aun. 30. Our market this morning had a thin attendan ce of the town and country trade, and with only a retail demand for wheat at a reduction of Id per cental on Friday's rates. Flour was generally held pretty firmly, but where sales were made a decline of Gd to is per sack was necessari• A fair consumptive demand for Indian corn, at about late rates. Oats and oatmeal irregular in value. Egyptian beans gave way 6d per qr. Peas and barley nominal*" un changed. The market closed very dull. BRISTOL—Aun. 30. At our market to-day new and inferior wheats were ra' ther easier in price, but there was a dull trade in old and foreign wheat at about late prices. Barley sells rather dearer for grinding, say 6d higher. Oats Id lower. SHEFFIELD—AUG. 30. We had a fair attendance at to-day's market, and a small supply of grain. The extreme prices of last week, however, were fully maintained. Several samples of new wheat rea lised 16s 6d to 18s 6d. Superior new oats, 24s to 28s, Beans and other articles unchanged. Red wheat, per load of 3 imperial bushels... 16s Od to 17s 6d White ~ )2 ...18s Od to 20s Od Beans ~ ~ ... 18s Od to 215 Od Peas, per qr 4Bs Od to 54s Od Grindin g barley, per qr 33s Od to 355 0 d Malting ditto, „ 33s Od to 355 Od Oats I, 24s Od to 32s Od Millers' prices for flour—is 6d, is Bd, and is 10d per 141 b. Hay, 80s to 85s ; wheat straw, 28s to 36s ; oat straw, 28s to 36s ; turnips, 14s to 16s per ton. ' LEEDS—Aua. 30. There were fair arrivals of wheat this morning, and We had a more liberal supply of new wheat, which is fully 2s lower than late rates. Old wheat also is cheaper. The price of barley unchanged. Beans and peas a short supplYt and prices are nominally the same as before. NORWICH CATTLE—Aua. 27. A moderate show of store cattle to .day, comprising Scots, shorthorns, Devons, and Irish. - A small attendance, but a fair amount of business done, at fully late prices. Scots, 4s to 4s 6d ; shorthorns, 3s 6d to 4s 6d ; Irish, 30 to 3s 6d. Fat beasts, 78 6d to 8s Gd per stone. Sheep—The pens were well filled. —Fat sheep, g s Od to 8s 6d per stone. Pigs—A good supply. Store pigs 25s to 30s ; fat pork, Gs Od to 6s 6d per stone. COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—YESTERDAY• Amsterdam Ditto Rotterdam — 11 16f 11 1 7 Ant werp Brussels — 25 25 25 30 Hamburgh Paris Ditto Marseilles — 25 35 25 40 Frankfort on Maine —117 a i Vienna Trieste Petersburgh — ' 34 34g Madrid Cadiz — - 4 9 1 Leghorn — 30 5 30 10 Genoa 25 65 Naples 4o4 40 -- 25 60 Palermo 12,1 123 Messina — 122 ' 422 511 Lisbon -- 514 52 ' Oporto Rio Janeiro • New York Foreign Gold in Bars (Sfindaid)....pe r oz. £ O 3 I L 4 Mexican Dollars - /t 0 5 1 Silver in Bars (Standard) if -t BIRTHS. BowDEN.—On the 15th inst., at Malta; the wife of Major Herbert Bowden, of the 22d Regt., of a daughter. Mnr,s.—On the 24th inst., at Eastbourne, the wife of Arthur Twills, Esq., M:P., of a son. MASTERS.—On the 28th inst. , at Rye-lane, Peckham, the wife of Maxwell T. Masters, M.R.C.S., Lecturer on Bo tany at St. George's Hospital, of a daughter. NrAs.--LOn the 28th inst., at .Surbiton, the wife of Rear- Adrairal,Nias, C. 8., cf a sou. MARRIAGES. FowLER-:-EnsxlNE.—On the 29th inst, at Winteringhani, Lincolnshire, by the Rev. F. R. Read, R. Fowler, of the Inner Temple, barrister-at-law, eldest son of Marshall Fowler, of i'reston Hall, in the county. of Durham, Esq., to Anne Agnes, daughter of the.late Hon. and Very Rev. Henry David Erskine, Dean of Ripon. HILL—G ATEVE.—On the 24th inst.,at Thorndean, Greenock, by the Rev. Dr. M'Culloch, J. Ramsay. Hill, Esq., t o Mary, daughter of James J. Grieve, Esq. OBERNDO RPF—ALEXANDER.--On th e 23d i ns t., at Douglas , Isle of Man, Count Alfred Ob ern d or ff, e ld es t s on of Count of Oberndolf, Reoendorff, &c., Bavaria, to Amelia Maria , widow of the late Leslie Alexander, Esq., P.P., and D.L., of the county cf Londonderry, and daughter of the late Col. Thomas Bates. .DEATIIS. DOUGAL.—On the 26th inst., George Dougal, Esq., at his residence, Blackwood, Dumfriesshire. Hu tho 28th inst., at the house of Chas. Reynell, Esq., Putney, Leigh Hunt, Esq., in the 75th year of his age. LOGAN.—On the 28th inst., at Oxford•terrace, Hyde-park, the infant son of Dr. Logan. POPE.—On the 27th inst., of decline, aged 25, M daughter of the late Mr. H. Stahlschmidt. • ROUSE.-01). the 27th inst., suddenly, in his 60th year, at the residence of hie nephew, 5, Canterbury Villas, Brix ton, James R. Rouse, Esq., of Lemon-street, Truro, Cornwall. WALSH.—On the 25th inst., aged 40, the Rev . John Walsh. of holly-place, liampsnari. • . . ---- LoNpoN :•Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG', of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Buts Offi ce, No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the county of kr L1A1„,.., Wnanactiloxr A,,,,,,gt 21. 1859.: ~I 41