The Sun. — London, England, 1852-09-15 00:00:00

Vi)trb Wibttlicon. DON - CASTER RACES. (THIS DAY.) (By ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) (Continued from our Afternoon Edition.) The Municipal Stakcs. *Umbziel ... Warwhoop ... 1 ... 2 FRANCE. The President of the Republic left Paris yesterday (Tuesday) on his tour through the east and south of France. At one o'clock he arrived at the terminus of the Orleans Railway in an open carriage drawn by four horses, accompanied by Marshal Jerome, his uncle, General St. Arnaud, !Minister of War, and General Goyon, his Aide de-Camp. The Presi dent's carriage was preceded and followed by bodies of officers of Carabiniers, Cuirassiers, Dra goons, and Lancers, who had come from Versailles and St. Cloud early in the morning to request the favour of being allowed to accompany him to the railway. General Mangan, Commander in-Chief of the army of Paris, all the Ministers (with the exception of Messrs. Ducos and Magne, who are absent on leave), the metropolitan authori ties, and all the Generals present in the capital, awaited the arrival of the President to take leave of him. As he alighted from his carriage he was received by MM. Peraigny, de Maupas, and the Prefect of Police. The people, who had assem bled in considerable numbers at the terminus, saluted him with cries of " Vive Napoleon !" " Viva l'Emp6reur !" At a quarter-past one o'clock the President took his seat in the state carriage, with the three Ministers of War, General Police, and Public Instruction, and the different dignitaries of his household, and shortly afterwards, the signal having been given, the train moved off at full speed. The official returns of the foreign commerce of France now published, show that since the revolu tion of 1848 the exports have increased consider ably, whilst the imports have diminished from 1,200,000,000 f , i n t h e year 1846, to 1,094,0p 0 , 000 ! . last year. Thi s one f act s h ows that t h e co un try is ,00ceo0O i t s not yet reliev e d f rom th e ru i no us effects of catastrophe of 1848. It must be furthertrie serves collected that France, f rom h er geographical pos i tion, as a pass age f or merc h an di ze to other on, counties, par ticularly to S w it zer l an d. It is not surprisin g i _there fore that th e merchandize trans itu through France last year should have amounted to 700,000,000 f. It is further to be remarked, that the merchandize passing through France to Be lgi u m 184 w h h i a l has t t he increased a m amount ü b n y t in transitu to 33 per cent. since the year E n gland has decreased The efollowityg 2aBreptehreceimnt within the same period . ports and exports of France from and to the principal countries in the world during the last year : Imports , . Exports. F. England... -• ... 69,000,000 293,000,000 'United States ... 110 ,000,000 145,000,000 Belgium ••• ••• 114,000,000 123,000,000 Sardinia ••• ... 74 000,000 59,000,000 Spain ... 27,000 000 54,000,000 Switzerland • 23,000,000 55,000,000 Germa-ny ••• 33,000,000 44,000,000 Turkey • 34,000 , 000 20,000,000 It appears from those returns that, with the excep tion of Sardinia and Turkey, from which countries the imports exceed the exports, that French produce exported to foreign countries exceeds the amount of produce demanded in return. Oa further examina tion it appears, that of the 1,694 millions' worth of merchandize imported into Fruoce last year, 687 mil lions are articles of primary necessity. Of the exports 68 hundredths are mlnufi.ctured goods, such as cotton and woollen cloths and dressed skins, and 32 hundredths are natural produce, such as corn and wine. STATE OF TRADE. (From the Manchester Guardian of this day.) MeecnesTarn TUESDAY.—According to the Ca nada's advices cotton remained dull down to the Ist inst. in all the markets of the United States. We have now, however, accounts of more serious mischief to the crop from rain, caterpillars, and worms, than those previouali received ' • but they principally relate to the Atlantic State s and Florida. The storm was se vere at New Orleans, and appears to have been of a de structive character at Mobile. In the great cotton dis tricts of the south, the promise still is for a large yield. Last week, with no drawback from the favourable probabilities as to supply, there was a flagging in the spirit of speculation at Liverpool, and a drooping tendency in the market up to the close of business on Saturday. Yesterday, however, there was some degree of reaction, which appears to have been con tinued to-day ; and the loss up to Friday seems to have been recovered, as prices are reported 1-16 d. to d. higher than they were then. The reports of mischief to the cotton crop, vague as they are at present, are received with much more caution here than amongst our more excitable neigh bours ; and, therefore, their whole effect amounts to no more than an increnee of firmness in the rr of j arin., while in cloth not even this is perceptible. In the former, there was a tendency last week, similar to that which affected the raw material, and which appeared likely to throw an ad vantage, in the present week, into the hands of buyers. That result has been prevented. The market has, in a great degree, recovered its tone ; and spinners hold to their quotations with a firmer hand. Twist and weft, from 28's upwards, for home manufacture, are particularly hard ; and for the better qualities of 40's mule, in the bundle, higher prices are paid. We can scarcely say, however, that the general feeling was quite so good in the latter as in the earlier part of the ( 21 : The va l ue o f printing cloths continues to be well sustained. In domestics, T's, and long cloths there is no change. India goods ere still dull. E ROCHDAL M , OriDAY.—The flannel market has been rather quieter to-day, and the merchants have purchased mere sparingly et than on the previous week. Broke wool contin ues very scarce, and high prices are asked for it, which th e y manufacturers can ill afford to pay at the prices they are now receiving for their pieces. MACCLESFIELD, TUESDAY. —We have little to add to eur remarks of last week. The state of trade with more satisf ac t or th an past,our manufacturers continues fcr some months past,and the Weavers are better em ployed. Thrown Silks—There has been a moderate de mand, both from the trade h e re and for exportation. The mills are all working full tim e , b ut as the silks in progress are mostly fine and tediou s to work , . there is no a-.!cuto u l a tioq of stock. The complaints are general that hands are scarce in this d e p artment this also applies to the neighbouring town of Congle ; last to enter report e d ton. Raw Silks—The market r emains in the same uncertai n and i na ctive state as we it. The trade evidently are indispos e d into any o p erat i ons f ur ther than for immediate use. few HALIFAX SATUEDAL—Ver worsted goods y have changed hands in cur piece-hall to-day, con- and the business in th e ware h ouses is also in a lang uid dition. The yar n trade has not experienced any noticeable change. There is a good deal doing, prin cipally for the shipping houses, but at prices that are not remunerative to the spinner. The wool mark et is quiet, without any alteration in the quotations. Short wools, especially the lower sorts, are fetching hig her prices. TIUDDEZSFIELD, TUESDAY.—The market here has heea languid to-day. Although there have been a fair number of bay era in town their purchases have 11: e :. heel, large. Sbippers hav,i been busy during the ut for the Spain American end continental bmarket,. A fair quantity of goods have been stirring, t nwly deliveries to order. FREN- ea Th , foikmi,,, RAILWAY TRAFFIC. eeipta of the p i; in ar e 9 the last returns of the gross re- NoßTlFEltiki. ~.iPal French Railways :-- i g00de%?r,,Aug...06 to Sept. 1: Passengers, 432,002 f. B ouEN .,_p rota 4 , ..'-' 9 E; total, 707,061 f. 159,344 t.; goo 3 , 5, , 9 : 2 't,, 2 . 9 to Sept. 4: Passengers, rllO ,933 f. A.4. 4 1 9 t4"41, 258.612 f. HAVR.E.—From Sept. 4: Passeiwrs, 62,134 f.; pods, 48 8 49 f. ; t otte: ORLEANS AND BRANe tt Sept. 4: Passengers, 335,08 2 es—From Aug. 29 to 596,3071. goods, 261,225 f .; tota l, ..... . STuAsBURG —From Aug. 26 t o 304,844 L; goods, 157,253 t.; total, 462 1) ;; : Passengers, BALE.---FrOM Aug. 23 to A ug. 29 - 4 . 1 . 42.410 f.; goods, 24,078 f. total, 66,48 8 f. Passengers, MONTEREAu.—Froat Aug. 26 to Sept. 17041 f.; goods, 14,4481. ; tutal, 31,489 f. 3 asengors. lams.— From Aug. 29 to St pt. 4 p asse 2 99.999 f.; good:4, 152,314 f.; total, 452,313 F. Pas se ngers, WESTEBN.—From Aug. 30 to Sept. 5: Pas se 109,1841. ; goo d s , 13,160 f.; total, 122,344 t. Passe ngers,' GLASGOW AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY. - TralEc for the week ending Sept. 11, 1852: — Passengers (23,630), goods and parcels, horses and carriages.. 4 4 , 060 7 0 Corresponding week in last year 4,526 4 7 SCOTTISH CENTRA L RAILWAY.-- this company, at a meeting held on the 4th inst., recommend to their half-yearly sharehol dersedateao dividend at the rate of three per cent. per annum for past half-year. re solv ed THE LAST ICARCS.--A man, residing in the Rue for Quincampoix, formerly the porter of an hotel, who has some time been possessed of the idea that he could imitate Icarus, and fly in the air, on Friday profited, by the absence of the person appointed to watch over him, and endeavoured meeting of to carry out his design by flying frem the window, which was on the fourth floor. He fell into the court-yard, and was killed on the spot. THE MANSLAUGHTER AT LIVRIIPOOL.—ThoMaS Yates was brought up, on Monday, before Mr. Statham, d eputy-coroner, on a charge of murdering GraceJ fifty-sev en years ( a brief account of which aeared aged in ' The S un of yesterday). After hearing the evidenppones, ce of the surgeon, the jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against the Prisoner, and he w as comm itt e d to gaol to await his trial at the next ass.zee. THE SUN, SOUTR-E ASTERN AND CONTINENTAL STEAM-PACKET COMPANY. _ The following is the report of the directors to be presented at the half-yearly general meeting to be held on Thursday next : The accounts of the South-Eastern and Continental Steam-packet Company, now submitted to the pro prietors, show that the gross receipts of the half year ending on the 31st of July have been 14,2811. 4s. Bd. ; the working expenses 5,7071. 14s. 3d. ; the cost of repairs, 3,141/. 10s.; and the port charges, 1,3441. 1 ls. 2d. ; making a total charge against revenue of 10,1931. 15s. 6d.; and leaving a balance of 4,0871. 9s. 3d. of net earnings during the half-year at the disposal of the proprietors. The number of miles navigated by the steam-ships during the half-year was 17,192. A fixed service between Dover and Calais, in conjunction with trains leaving London at 8.10 A.M., and Paris 7.30 A.M., commenced on the Ist July; the Northern of France Railway having engaged to pay towards the cost of this service a subvention of 10/. per diem for twelve months from that period. The daily tidal service between Folkestone and Boulogne is d some performed, as usual, once a day each way, times twice a day each way, sec uring the passage through between London and P aris by that route daily, in twelve hours. It is satisfactory to the direc tors to be enabled to state that the traffic in merchan dize is on the increase. The freight derived from this source for the last half-year was 1,2781.65. The direc tors recommend that a dividend be declared at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, the company p ay i ng the income-tax, which will leave a balance in hand of 1,1871. 14s. 11d.; and this sum the directors recom mend should be carried to the credit of the reserve fund. And this being done, the result will be that the com pany have paid up ca p ital to the amount of 109,398 /. ; m the a y ry, , possess e i g ht steam-ships, viz., the Princess Princess Maude, the Queen o f th e Bel gians, the the Queen of the French, the Prince Ernest, the Princess Clementine, the Princess Helena, and the Lord Warden, which cost, at the original contract price, 114,5931. 6s. 6d. ; there has been laid out on these ships in repairs and in improvements, 42,4171. ss. I ld., and they have been and are maintained in substantial and perfect order. The company will have paid in dividends from July, 1845, to July 31, 1852, the sum of 4 9 ,263/. 125., making an average of 51. 17s. ld. per cent. per an num; and, in addition to the • eight steam-ships, they have a surplus property amounting to 22,9891. 3s. 4d. in consequence o f t h e d ea th o f the late Mr. Benjamin larding, and the retirement of other trustess, it will be desirable for the proprietors to appoint additional trustees at the ensuing meeting. It will be in the re collection of the proprietors that the South-Eastern and Continental Steam-Packet Company was origi nated by the South-Eastern Railway Company. The directors of the railway company had seen the absolute necessity which existed for establishing and maintaining an efficient system of intercourse, by steam-ships of the first class, between the South- Eastern Railway and the ports of France and Bel gium, and in November, 1843, the then directore recommended to the proprietors of that company, that they should themselves prepare to supply the means of carrying on that system of intercourse in the ;most efficient manner, in default of its being provided by private enterprise ; and finding that they could not command steam-ships of a superior class, and the performance of an efficient service by other means, the railway company contracted for two steam-ships, which were delivered to them, and for three others which were in progress of con struction and partly paid for before this company was formed. The law, however, does not permit railway companies to hold property in steam-ships unless by special Act of Parliament, and no such Act of Par liament having then passed, the necessity arose for the establishment of this company, and a circular was is sued to the proprietors of the South-Eastern Railway inviting them to provide capital for purchasing the steam-boats under the following assurance :-1t is proposed so to regulate the fares of the steam-boats in conjunction with the South-Eastern Railway as to in sure a net return of Si. per cent. per annum on the paid-up capital of the South-Eastern and Continental Steam-packet Company.' This company was, therefore, thus constituted on the assurance given by the circular, and also by the chairman and directors of the railway company, to its proprietors, that the dividend on the shares would be always five per cent. per annum, with the contingency of any increase that might happen, that increase being subject to the discretion or the governing boards—the directors of the two compa nies being the same. Subsequently to the forma tion of this company, Parliamentary autho rity has been given to other railway com panies to become owners of steam-ships, and the di rectors have felt it to be their duty to call the atten tion of the proprietors of the railway, as well as the proprietors of the steam-packet company, to the anomalous position in which the two companies now stand. The proprietors of the steam-packet company have no authority by their deed of settlement to em ploy their steam-ships except in carrying traffic between the South-Eastern Railway and the conti nental ports, and are thus entirely subservient to the great interests of the South-Eastern Railway com pany_ The law having now sanctioned the direct ownership of steam-ships by railway companies, it is obvious that the time has come when the rela tions of the two companies should be placed upon a permanent basis. The South-Eastern Railway Company, at their general meeting, held on the 9th instant, authorised the directors to negotiate terms with the steam-packet company for the purchase of the steam-ships, on the condition that such terms should be submitted to a future meeting of that com pany for their consideration ; and they associated with the directors a committee of five proprietors to con sider and report upon the terms to be proposed. The directors suggest to the proprietors of the South ilastern and Continental Steam -packet Company that it will be expedient on their part to associate a com mittee of five proprietors with the directors for the purpose of negotiating terms for the consolidation of the interests of the two companies. MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS. NUILUER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, SEPT. 11, 1852. Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases ...*258 Diseases of Uncertain Seat ... 44 Tubercular Diseases ... ••• ••• ... 180 Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... ... 90 D:seases of the Heart and Blood-vessels ••• 40 Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of Respiration ... •... 102 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver , and other Organs of Digestion ,„„ ••• ••• ~•• „.. 53 Diseases of the Kidneys, &c. •• • ... ,„ Childbsr6h, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. „, S Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles ... Diseases of the Skin, &c. ••• Malformations.— ... ••• ••• 1.1.• _ _ _ ___ Prevezture Birth ••• ••• •• ••• ••• 26 Atrophy ..• ••• ••• ••• 32 Old A ge ••• ••• ••• 30 tiudders ... •• • •• • •• • ••• Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance ... 44 Causes not specified ... ••• ••• ••• 3 ••• AT -8 FRoX ALL CALIF'S 936 Population Deaths in corre- Deaths F.nureerated, sponding week in the West Districts... 8 7 185 " of WI. Weei,. .. 147 ... 130 North Districts_ 4960,427 Central Districts 393t 9 5 6 6 East Districts ... 485,522 ...: : 15 0 12 : ...,..• 2 1 1 9 3 1 mouth Districts.. 616,635 ••• 304 ... 217 ----- ..... 2,362,236 1,026 ••• 936 Blales ••• Fem.%lcs ... 491 ••• ••• 445 BIRTHS IN TEE NriEEK. Males ••• ... ... ••• ••• 749 Females ... ••• ••• ... 688 Total ••• 000 ••• 1,437 *ln this number are included 58 by Scarlatina, by Typhus Fever, 88 by Diarrhoea , and 5 by choZ 32 a THE LONDON GAZETTE, Sept. 14. WAR-OFFICE, SEPT. 14. 18th Foot—Ecsign Francia.Eteson to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Sargent, appo i n ted Adjutant, July 9; Gentleman Cadet William O'Bry en Ta y lor, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, vice Etesen, Sept. 14; Lieutenant Edmond William Sargent to be Adjutant, vice Doran, killed in action, July 9. 23d Foot—Second Lieutenant Frederick Sayer to be First Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Jenkins, who retires; First Lieutenant Henry Bathurst to be Adjutant, vice Jenkins, Sept. 14. 24th Foot—Ensign Robert Joseph Logan Crutchley to b.. Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Cuming, de ceased, June 26 ; Ensign Alexander Garden Shlnd, from the 69th Foot, to be Easign, vice Crutchley, Sept. 14. 59th Foot—Lieutenant Joseph de Montmorency to be Captain, by purchase, vice Fuller, who retires ; Ensign J ames Alfred C au lfi e ld to h e Li eutenant, b y purchase, vice de M ontmorency, Sept. 14. vice Huey, w h o exchanges, 68 th Foot —Li eutenant-Colonel Lord Arthur Lennox, from half-p ay of the 6th Foot, to be Li eu t enan t-C o l one l , 69th R oot—Gentlem an C a d et Ch ar l es F raser, from yal Milit ary Sept. 14. the Royal College, to be Ensign, without pur cha7 se, vice Shand, app o i nte d to t h e 24t h F oot, Sept. 14. Bth Foot— Ensign Alfr e d Wi c kh am Py m W ee k s to be Lieutenant, by p urchase, Sept. 14. vice Delisser, who retires, 92nd Foot—Lieutenant Mordaunt M‘Naughton Smith, to be Captain, by purchase vice Iley, who retires ; , Ensign Edward Cha r l es Buller Elhiristone to be Lieu tenant, by Smit h ; Ensign George, Thomas p urc hase, vice Ramsden, fro m th© 88th Foot, to be Ensign v i e E Iphinstone, Sept. 14. 96th Foot—Ensign Philip Savage Alcock to be Lieu tenant, by purchase, vice Allman, who retires, Sept, 14. 2d West India Regiment—Lieutenant Charles James Lindam, front half-pay Mile Brigade, to be Lieutenant, ; Cornet John L es lie, vice 11.1.‘Loughlin, who exchanges LONDON, WEDN ES DAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 15, from the 6th Drago on Guards, to be the 16th Lieutenant, by pur chase, vice Lindam , who retire-, Supt.l4. the James Arco lV y l , ll r x r a o y v . 1 1 17 1 e 8 , 5 0 1 f . OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, SEPT. 13. Foot, Bß in Royal Regime nt of Artiller y —First Lie ut. Charles E t V o E b T e . • m e sj a o p r t Neville Lovell to be Second Captain, vice Blakely, re tired upon half-pay; Second Lieutenant George Sisson Harward to be First Lieutenant, vice Lovell, Aug. 18; Brevet Major Piercy Benn to be Lieutenant Colonel, vice Desbrisay, retired upon half. pay ; Second Captain George Bueknall Shakespear to be Captain, vice Benn; First Lieutenant James Francis Eaton Travers to be Second Captain, vice Shakespear; Second Lieutenant James Meredith Collingwood Vibart to be First Lieu tenant, vice Travers, Aug. 31; First Lieutenant the Hon. Edward Thomas Gage to be Second Captain, vice Lord William Kennedy, retired ; Second Lieutenant William Booth to be First Lieutenant, vice Gage, Sept. 1; Se cond Lieutenant William Lambert Yonge to be First Lieutenant, vice Fisher, resigned, Sept. 2. Commission by the Queen. Royal Cardigan Militia—Patrick Francis Durham, Esq., late Captain and Adjutant 37th Regiment, to be Adjutant, Sept. 11. Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Yorkshire. Henry Willoughby, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant; Francis Cholmley, jun., Esq, to be Deputy Lieutenant. Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Haverfordwest. William Walters, Esq. ,to be Deputy Lieutenant; Wil liam Owen, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant ; John Lloyd Morgan ' Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant ; John Evans, Esq.,itobe Deputy Lieutenant, Sept. 9. Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Devonshire. Sir James Hamlyn Williams, Bart., to be Deputy Lieutenant; the Hon. John William Fortescue, to be Deputy Lieutenant; William Hole, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant, Aug. 10; the Hon. William Wells Adding ton to be Deputy Lieutenant; John Marshall, Esq , to be Deputy Lieutenant; Thomas Wentworth Boller, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant; John George Johnson, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant; John Henry Furse, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant; John Bargusa Yong°, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant; Charles John Cornish, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant; Shilston Calmady Hamlyn, Esq, to be Deputy Lieutenant, Aug. 26. In the East Devon Regiment of Militia Charles Fursdon, Gent., to be Lieutenant, Aug. 9; Samuel John Maclurcan Esq., to be Captain, Sept. 1. In the North Devon Regiment of Militia Isaac Newton Fellowes, Esq., to be Captain, vice Parker, resigned, June 14; John Marshall, Gent., to be Lieute nant; John Sydney Smyth, Gent, to be Ensign, July 31; Thomas Berry Torr, Gent., to be Ensign, Sept. 1. In the South Devon Regiment of Militia—Sydney Strode, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Ougier, resigned, Jane 22. Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Northumberland. Ralph Carr, Esq , to be Deputy Lieutenant, Aug. 11. Northumberland Regiment of Militia William Matthew Bigge, Esq. (late Lieutenant Colonel in her Majesty's 70th Regiment of Foot), to be Lieutenant - Colonel, vice Coniston, retired; Algernon George Percy, Esq., commonly called Lord Lovaine (late Lieutenant and Captain in her Majesty's Ist, or Grenadier, Regi ment of Foot Guards), to be Major, vice Ogle, retired, Sept. 8; Edward Smiles to be Surgeon, vice Dennis, re tired, Sept. 8. Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Durham•. Henry John Baker Baker, Esq., to be Deputy Lieu tenet; George Hawks, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant; Henry Hobart, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant; Robert Henry Allan, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant, Aug. 26; John Harrison Aylmer, Esq, to be Deputy Lieute nant, Sept. 5. Durham Militia—Frederick Acklom Milbank, Req., to be Captain, Aug. 26. Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Gloucester- shire and Bristol. George Drinkwater Bourne, Clerk, to be Deputy- Lieutenant, Sept. 4. North Gloucester Light Infantry Regiment of Militia —John Williams Wellington. Esq., to be Major' Thomas Warner, Gent., to be Surgeon, vice Filkin, re signed, &in. 7. Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of the East Riding of Yorkshire. East York Regiment of Militia—Robert Wharton Wilkinson, E:q., to be Captain, vice Todd, resigned, Sept. 9. Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Lancashire. Ist Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia —Adjutant Frederick William Lane to serve with the rank of Captain, Sept. 7. Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Oxfordshire. Oxfordshire Regiment of Militia —Spencer Field to be Ensign, vice Fuller, resigned, Sept. 10; Thomas Omman. ney Pipon, Esq., to be Captain, vice Irapey, resigned, Sept. 13. Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire Royal Montgomery Militia —George Beadnell, Esq to be Captain; William Slyman, Esq., M.D., to be Sur geon, Sept. 10. BANKRUPTS. Alexander Eorfar, straw bonnet manufacturer, Dun stable, Bedfordshire, to surrender, Sept. 30, and Oct. 26, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Sambrook court, Basinghall-street; Crosley and Burn, Lombard-street; Simpson, St. Alban's, Hert fordshire. Lewis Worms and Matthew Worms, merchants, Queen-street, Cheapside, Sept, 30 and Nov. 2, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee, Abchurch-lane ; Tilleard,lSons, and Freeman, Old Jewry. Benjamin Salter, brewer, Fulham, Sept. 28, at one, and Oct. 19, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Ed wards, official assignee, Sambrook-court, Basinghall street ; Lawrence and Plows, Old Jewry-Chambers. Henry George Quilter, grocer. 73irmiogbaw, Sept. 20 and Nov. 2, at halt-past eleven, at the Birmingham Dis trict Court. Whitmore, official assignee, Birmingham; Motteram, Knight, and Emmet, Birmingham. Maurice Richards, grocer, Birmingham, Sept. 29 and Nov. 2, at half-past eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Whitmore, official assignee, Birmingham; Mot teram, Knight, and Emmett, Birmingham. Edward Michelson, woollen merchant, Manchester, Sept. 28 and Oct. 29, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Young, official assignee, Leeds; Bond and Bar wick, Leeds. Liverpool, Sept. 24 and ol District Court. Oct. 15 , d a J t o e n l e e s v , en li , ne a n t dr t a h p e er iiverpi Turner, official assignee, Liverpool; Williams, Liverpool. INSOLVENT DEBTORS. S. Slater, tailor, Princes-street, Hanover-square. B. Jarman, carpenter, Stockwell-grove, Lambeth. D. L. Marr, fruiterer, Park -terrace, Regent's -park. C. H. K. Totem, Liverpool-street, City. E. Oiley, butcher, Morpeth-street, Bethnal-green. D. Pinkstone, licensed victualler, Hutchinson -street, Aldgate. J. N. Brooks, clerk, King's-road, Chelsea. T. C. Watts, gentleman, Tennison-street, Lambeth. N. S. Price, accountant, Brompton-crescent, Middlesex. S. Rogers, carpenter and builder, Old Broad-street, City. W. Hooper, house painter, Tysoe-street, Clerkenwell. R. Parpworth, Craven-buildings, Drury-lane. J. B. Heeles, Gresham-street, City. J. Pelling, miller, Addle-hill, Doctors'-commons. R. L. Harbert, greengrocer, Nine-elms, Vauxhall. R. N. Wilson, Craven -street, Strand. R, Adams, turncock, Mint-walk, Croydon. J. H. Page, auctioneer, Hyde-place, Heaton. J. Jenkins, builder, Southsca, Hants. G. Rouse, provision-shop keeper, Hulme, Manchester. S. Campbell, shipowner, Liverpool, G. M. Bower, master mariner, Liverpool. J. Thistlethwaite, Levenshulme, near Manchester. G. Porteus, journeyman shipwright, Durham. A. Colclougb, Walesby, Nottinghamshire. J. Moor, cordwainer, Lancaster. J. Cheaworth, licensed victualler, Liverpool. P. Johnson, general commission agent, Liverpool. J. Bate, gardener, Aston, Warwickshire. W. Kirk, grocer, Morthen, Yorkshire. Rev. W. P. Burn, clerk, Ulley Paraonage, Yorkshire. J. T. Bignell, clerk, Devonport. W. H. Norton, surveyor, Birmingham. T. C. Sudbury, cabinet maker, Pontefract, Yorkshire. M. Wood, chemist, Wednesbury, Staffordshire. N. Samuel, fishmonger's assistant, Bishop Wearmoutb, Durham. J. Dring, publican, Chattlris, Isle of Ely, Cambridge shire. DIVIDEND. In the Country. F. Raiford, Stourbridge, Worcestershire. banker, Oct. 16, at halt-past ten, at the Court, Birmingham. NOTICE OF CERTIFICATES. In the Country. W. Iliggitbotharn, MaccleAeld, silk manufacturer, Oct. 7, at twelve, at the Court. Manchester—J. Earp, Uttoxeter, brewer, Oct. 9, at half-past ter, at the Court, Birmingham—C. F. Bailey, Burslem, Staffordshire, bootmaker, Oct. 11, at half-past ten, at the Court, Bir mingham—T. Shaw, Birmingham, stationer, Oct. 9, at halt-past ten, at the Court, Birmingham—R. W. Lish taut), Shenatone, Staffordshire, surgeon and apothecary, Oct. 11, at balf•paat ten, at the Court, Birmingham. Lanca shire, cotton Ennu CEkTIFICATE GRANTED. R. W. Street, Oxford-s.:rect, victualler, certificate of J. B. WilliamsonPA -RTNEaRnSdH J. E S e D yw lS o S od O , Lr es D to . n,_ the third class, IL Phillips, Fort in —Mary Tatham, Portman-place i'acturers—J. Stevens and G. B. Park, Macclesfield, arLhitec:a—R. Hobbs and Manchester anCl' i lorsfEdl, end J. Foulds, Halifax, Edgware-road, linendrapers Old-row, Limehouse, Yorkshire, w orsted P a iD n 'a d ers—H. Miles and C. Miles, o Giles'-row, Cambridge-road, Mile-end-road, draper s — J. P. Tylee and T. and T. Langton, rys,taSffohrrdosphsihrier,e,ourrabOerwselan; S. and T. Bentley, Deane Owens,. ed j J. Taylor, Bennett, Bath, chemists— g yr er i, — Taylor, Liverpool, general merchants—A.. Hides, and M. Hillas. Bradford, Yorkshire Hardy, R. manufacturers —R. Driver, S. Lamer, and , Sut cliffe,worsted- manufacturers—R. Haliwell, Lancashire, iJ. K. cot ton - manufacturers (so far as regards J. K. Sutcliffe)—T. Smith and R. Botcher, Bungay and Beccles, corn-merchants—C. H. Higgins, B . T. Higgins, and S. F. Knowles, Birkenhead -- "k it Clarke, W. Wilmot, and B. Best, Holloway-terrace, and King-street, Tower-hill, preserved provision merchants —R. Bendle, J. Bendle, and T. Wright, Carlisle, solici tors—A. Macdonald a nd J. G. Gollan, Leadenhall-street, ship and insurance brokers—J. M. Hill and J. Pattinson, Carlisle, joiners—E. Barber, C. Barber, and R. Barber, Newton-heath, Lancashire, manufacturers of naptha— W. W. Tookey and J. Selby, Oundle, Northamptonshire, silk mercers—R. Sherwin and W. Sherwin, Macclesfield, brush makers—A. S. Macrae and W. D. Tomlinson, Liverpool, general brokers—G. Knock and J. I. Clarke, Picca dilly , linendrapers—T. Flintoff and W. Mickle, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, mustard manufacturers —W. Abell and L. Owen, Holyhead, linendrapers. INSOLVENT PETITIONERS. John L o v egrove, Clewer, Berkshire, fruiterer. Henry Thomason, Eccleston, Lancashire, saddler. John Ellis N • , Norwich, carpenter. John Bryson, Canterbury , • I butoher. Henry Moreton ,W olverhampton. __, Samuel Page, Wolverhampton, moulder. J RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE, SHREWSBURY AND CHESTER RESULT OF THE E XTRAORDINARY MEETING TO REMOVE THE DIRECTORS. CHESTER, TUESDAY. —Our paper of Monday con tained a report of the extraordinary meeting of this com pany, held at Chester on Ssturday, when a resolution, moved by George Monroe, of Edinburgh, to remove the directors, was refused to be put by the chairman on the ground of its illegality. A subsequent motion for the adjournment of the meeting to the 20th inst., for the further consideration of the question, and resisted by the directors, was lost by a show of hands, whereupon a poll was demanded, and the meeting adjourned to yesterday to receive the report of the scrutineers. Lest evening, at seven o'clock, the scrutineers net being ready, the meeting was further adjourned to this day (Tuesday), at twelve o'clock. At the meeting to-day, Mr. Wardell, the chairman of the board, presiding, the following report of the scruti neers was read:— " We report that having given effect to the revocation of proxies, the result of the votes is as follows: Against the Adjournment. Persons pre5ent......... 44 representing Proxies held by ditto... 383 ditto 427 11,143 For the Adjournment. Persons present .. :.. 46 representing Proxies hold by ditto... 346 ditto 392 9,043 Majority of votes against the adjournment, ac cording to Mr. Lowe's view Balance of votes eleitned to be deducted by Mr Gutch, but not allowed or admitted by Mr. Lowe 466 Majority of votes against the adjournment, ac cording to Mr. Gut e y a views, but upon which he makes the remarks added by him below 1,634 The scratineers, in concluding their report, feel it their duty to state that two proxies registered in favour of the adjournment, and watch beer the names of the par ties whom they profess to represent appear not to be signed by them, and have consequently been disallowed. " WILLIAM LOWE. "JOHN JAMES GUTCH." To the report was appended the following observa tions by Mr. Gutch I have further to remark that I have of jected to proxies representing 3,277 in favour of the motion for adjournment, on the ground that they were not lodged within .the period p rescr ib e d by t h e company ' s A ct , which 1.3 e xpressly stated to be five days before the holding of the meeting—see 7 and 8 Vic., c. 99, sec. 71 --and Mr. Lowe having refused to certify or to admit this, I have b een under the necessity of thus stating my views. This objection also causes a deduction from the votes in favour o f th e a djournment to th e ex t en t o f 659, leaving a b a l ance aga i nst t h e a b ove apparent ma jority of 2,61 8. Deduct majority, as shown above, ac cording t o my views, of 1,634, haves a majority in favour of the adjournment, according to my views, of 984." "There is also a q uestion as to the s ca l e o f voting forjoint holdings, on which Mr. Lowe and I have not been able to agree, but which, so far as I can judge, would not affect the result materially either way; but as I differ with him in opinion, I have thought it right thus to notice it. " JOHN JAMES GUTCH." The report h aving been rea d . The CHAIRMAN said—l beg to state that the motion for adjournment is lost. Mr. MONROE—I do not concur in the opinion of the chairman. Ido not think it is carried, and I shall—. Mr. ROY (who had risen at the same moment as Mr. Monroe)_l beg t o move that this meeting b e ad journed sine die. Mr. TREVOR seconded the motion. The CHAIRM AN put th e mo tion, and declared it car ried on a show of hands. Mr. MONROE - -- I - b7g — t'o move the previous question. The CRAIRX&N—it - iS too late; the motion is carried, Mr. McmioE—Well, then, I demand a poll. The CnArardarr--Very well. Who shall we name as scrutineers? I name Mr. Robinson and Mr. Woodford. Mr. MONROE complained that the chairman's conduct in naming new scrutineers was quite unheard of, and showed a want of confidence in the two scrutineers who had already acted. Some discussion took place, in the course of which Mr. Trevor, one of the auditors, charged Mr. Monroe with making some untrue e:cusations against him in connec tion with the company, and bearing upon his (Mr. Trevor's) former position as the editor of the Chester Chronicle. After an irregular conversation, Mr. MONROE withdrew his motion for a poll, " but," said he, " I beg leave to announce to the gentlemen pre sent that this matter is not yet ended." Mr. TREVOR (much excited)—And I beg to t3ll Mr. Monrci that the matter between him and myself is not yet ended. I advise him to leave the city 93 soon as possible, and save himself baing kicked ote.—(Loud laughter.) Mr. TAUNTON, of London, then came forward, and said that however opposite might be the views which some of the shareholders possessed, he thought they ought not to separate without a vote of thanks to their chairman. Ho begged, therefore, to propose a vow of thanks to him, and in doing so he could not help expressing his wish that the chairman might preside over more fair and more impartial meetings than he bad recently done. Mr. Taunton then proceeded, under considerable excite ment, to refer to an assertion that had been made in the meeting to the effect that he appeared there as the no minee of the Great Weetein Company. le did not know that he was bound to take notice of gentlemen who made nee of unfair language behind his back; but as one gentleman present, Mr. Gordon Thomson (Mr. Thomson, Mr. Monroe, and other gentlemen in favour of the North-Western alliance at this time left the room), had stated that he (Mr. Taunton) was a paid agent of the Great Western Company— A SHAREHOLDER rose to order—The meeting was not now competent to hear such a charge. Mr. TAUNTON contended he was in order. A person had made an unfounded, false charge behind his back, and he asked was there one person present who dared maintain it? 110 paused for a reply. He could answer the charge fully and entirely, and furthermore, if Mr- Gordon Thomson or any of his coadjutors would meet him in that area when the question came to be discussed upon its broad merits, ho should be prepared not only to answer the charge as against himself, but he should be prepared to prove that the London and North-Western Company had, to a very business of thi s company .—(H ear and great extent, its pa id a gent . , who were intmlering with H e w as sorry that h e had been compe ll ed to Cheers.) legitimate seer diverge from the obj ect f or which he had risen. He con cluded connexi on w i th the company (in in ackn ow l edging the compliment, by moving a vote o f thanks to the chairman. whichT referred he hCelitoheaha had ev s er activeAv e r taken th e d eepest interest) from its origin to the presen t time, and proceeded to say that he had now a few wor ds to sa y to the shareholders at large. It was with great p ain he now informed them that that was the last time he should appear bef o r e th em as chair man of the board. It was not that he now differed with any portion of the board, for the directors, with himself, had no doubt what ever tha t the policy which they had pursued was the bes t for th e interest of the company. Theg ground o whichu n h dof hise oould no l onger contend (cataract in retirement was a p ersona l a ffliction, against the eye). In conc lusion he said they had his best wishes neverne be allowed to overcome the oui d line, , in con nex i on w ith whi c h right. After a few word s from Mr . Roy, regretting the chair man's resignation, the proceedings terminate(' RAILWA Y SHARE MARKETS. BR ISTOL, SEPT. 14 STOCK EXCHANOE.—The share market to• day was v ery dull, and closed with out doing any business of importance. LIVERPOOL, SErr. 14. STOCK Excal*lGE*—The share market opened dull this morning, but towards the_ elote o f t h e d ay a better feeling appeared to preve'l, and operations became more active. The transactions were as follow :—Caledonian 21 ii,—Eastern Counties, 11 Lancashire and Yorkshire,' 88 , 4—London and North-Western, 121%—Ditto, Fifths, 314 13„..4tarlehester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, Preference, 12—Ditto, 6/. New Preference, Vs I P.—Midland, 78%—Ditto, New Preference, 4 per cent., 1- r. -- P .— South-Eastern and Dover, 22 l / i. MANCHESTER, SETT. 14. STOCK EXCHANGE. The share market was fi t in to-da but there was not much business doing,. The transacti o n s w -' were as folio : —East Lancashire, 18,/ IR —Lancas l i i r e and Yorkshire, BSg—Ditto, Fifths, 3Ys dis.—Ditto, F Shares, 1% p.—London and North-Western, I.2l34._midiands 78v, Manchester, Sheffield,' and Lincolnshire, r2N—West Ridi 7 29; 3 dis.—South-Easern and Dover, 1,4 6. n - , BIRMINGHAM, SEPT. 14. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The share market remains much in the same state as yesterday. the only transaction reported was—South Staffordshire, % dii. in -- - IRELAND. THE LAV , MURDERS IN TA PPBRARY AND ROSCOM MON. DUBLIN, TUESDAY.—A m cor respondent of th e E ven Mail, writing from Clou,l on Sunday evening, nw .;.5.2 " I am happy to inform y ou that the police here and in the county of Waterford have succeeded in arresting eight persons for the atrocious murder of our esheined townsman, the late O'Callaghan Ryon, E'-q., and b a y, lodged them safely in our county gaol. An i cs , est i ga. tion will take place to-morrow in our Court-house. I t were ahrarsesbteedenonrutmheourGeadhitehamt ousonmtseitiOp!f alnhdesethfaetllotwhsey left their homes the evening the murder was committed.' A man named Mullooly has been arrested in Ros common, charged with participation in :the late murder in that county. The evidence against him is that he prevented a servant boy of the murdered man from rendering assistance to his master when the attack upo n him was made. Mullooly was about sailing for America when he was arrested. THE PACKET STATION. The followin g l etter f rom Mr. Russell , of Limerick, appears in th e E ven i ng M a il, and, if the information which it conta i ns b e well fo•lnded, the verata questio of thepacket theve s r ta y tio g n ra w ti o fy ul ig dnseeimntetiougbeenscoel, which I h ave at last:—. Un is m Union Clyub, pleasingLondo duty to n,Sept.lo, 1852. my dear Sir,—lt communi cate received from a high official source, that the Commis sioners appoint e d to i nqu i re into the relative merits of the Galway or the river Shannon as a Transatlantic port have reported not only favourably, but very de cidedly in preference of Foynee. " I am sat i s fi e d t h at a ll w ill agree that the people of Limerick are deeply indebted to L ord Montea g le f or the very kind manner in which he represented our in terests during the preliminary inquiries on this important subj ec t. t‘l am, dear Sir, yours faithfully, " F. W. RUSSELL. "Mr. W. Carroll, Chamber of Commerce, Limerick," BETTING HOUSES. Races rr. , _rit 411 Ow is taid ttei: favour, but they produce some fatal efft•cts as well as some very go o d ones. If any one should ever in his enthusiasm liken a race-course to the garden of Eden, half the world would only recognise any truth in the comparison, because on the " course," as in the garden, the devil is seated hard by the tree of knowledge. A " know ing one," in the language of the turf, is one of the most admirable imitations of the father of " lies," in some of his attributes, that weak mortality is enabled to produce. He turns the paradise into a hell. Through him the wager which was formerly a harmless venture between men who could afford to make it, becomes a means of misery and ruin to hun dreds who ought never to come under its operation. While betting was confined to those who owned [he horses, or to those who were excited spectators of the race, little harm was done. At any rate the evil was confined within narrow limits. A proprietor of a herse backing his property, or a connoisseur in horses backing his opinion, could scarcely do damage to any but themselves. The evil would be local, and could never become national. When, however, the tricks of the stable began to exercise an influence over the races themselves and the betters thereon, the betting book became nothing better than a rogue's ledger. Success in betting was not the result of a well founded knowledge of the capabilities of a horse or his rider, but of an acquaintance with the dirty doings of the stables. " What is it?" says Nimrod, " that guides the leading men in their betting? Is it a knowledge of the horse they back either to win or to lose ?—and is it his public running that directs their operations? We fear not. Three parts of them know no more of a horse than a horse knows of them, but it is from pri vate information, purchased at a high price—at a price which ordinary virtue cannot withstand—that their books are made up. Again, how do the second class of betters act? We reply—they bet upon men, and not upon horses. For so soon Ls they can positively ascertain that certain persons stand heavy against any one hors; that horse has no chance to win, unless, as it sometimes happens, he is too strong for his jockey, or the nauseating ball has not had the desired effect. He runs in front, it is true, for he can run to win; but what is hie fate? Why, like the hindermost wheel of the chario' he is " cursed Still to be near, but ne'er to reach the first." The evil, however, did not stop here. As long as the corruption was confined to the bona fide frequenters of the turf, the result was a mere transfer of property from the fool to the knave. The knaves, however, desired and obtained a larger circle for their operations. The speed of the horse and the skill of the rider being shown to have no influence on the issue of a race, and all information on the subject being supposed to be the exclusive possession of the " knowing ones," a thousand pretenders to this distinction sprang up, and offered themselves as safe guides to the universal public in the road to un bounded wealth. The bait took, and the effect was seen in the establishment first of sweeps and then of "betting houses." These miniature "hells" brought ruin within the reach of the shallowest pocket. For half-a-crown the poor man was promised intelligence which would put more in his pocket than he could earn by a mont's labour. Listen to one of these wor thies expatiating on the advantages he can offer to his dupes. He signs himself "Nonpareil," and intro duces himself to the public in a Sunday newspaper two days ago : I now strongly advise you to lose no time, if you wish to be on the winners for Doncaster. lam proud to in form you that I guarantee a great number of winners, including the St. Leger, which is a certainty. A list, 10s. —worth 101. Take my advice, and have a list. A deal of money is tobe made. * * * I am well assured that no enterprise is more remunera tive than well-directed " turf investments." Very great advantage in becoming a subscriber. Terms—twelve months, 2 guineas; six ditto, 1 guinea; single event, 2s. 6d. Here is a golden harvest placed within the reach of the poorest classes. Labourers, servants, apprentices, are all invited to share in the promised prosperity. Is it wonderful if the temptation should prove irre sistible to num b ers ? T he poor man, i n spite of many opinions, we may say of much legislation to the contrary, has an appetite for excitement, and a de sire to take o ccas i ona ll y i rregu l ar means t o g r a t i fy i t as his rich neighbour. And we all know without the authority of Nimrod, that the rich man often endea vours to make a " good book" in precisely the same manner As that indicated by the advertising prophet as the way for the poor man to make his. It is here where the cause of the evil rests. Sir Peter Laurie may threaten to put down betting-houses, but if he succeeds he will soon see that he will have to com mence a crusade against the same pest in another shape. Until the patrons of the turf can purify the circle of their operations, the wretched effects which we now see proceed from betting-houses will never cease. With what face can our legislators enact laws for the suppression of betting-houses while they are patronising the very system which is a very hothouse for betting houses ? The miserable fre quenters of these houses know that Lord Derby and a large number of the Members of both houses who are in England are likely to be at Doncaster watch• ing the " odds," and looking for information as eagerly Ps themselves. If; then, they are debarred forcibly from a pursuit which they know may be practised by the rich with impunity, they will only be strengthened in the mischievous impression—which is but too justly prevalent—that there are some vices which are the especial property of the rich, and that the end of legislation is to secure a monopoly of these for that class. What effect this will have upon the national morality we leave the legislators to de cide. They must expect to be met on all sides by the reproacb, "Physician, cure thyself."—Daily News. 1852. 1 THE NAVY. (F.-,in me Titats.) We publish to-day a letter from Lord Dandonald, which will combine a good variety of opinions in its favour. In all that the gallant Lord says about bounties and insinuates t , bout protection he will assuredly not want for earnest sympathizers, and four-and-twenty hours will not pass, we dare say, without appeal to this respectable testimony in behalf of Ministerial propensi ties. It is certainly true that a large number of British seamen—some say even 50,000—are engaged in the ser vice of foreign countries, and it would surely be some what strange if it were otherwise. All nations, in all times of the world, have always competed for the services of any particular peopls distinguished in any particular craft. Once upon a time the best weavers were inva riably Flemings, freemasons Normans, and sword-cut lers Spaniards, wherever they were met with. Later in the day gardeners have been Scotchmen and sculptors Italians, while at the present moment diamond cutters are only to be found among the Jews, and public murderers among the Irish. Most nations have some calling in which they excel, and the fact that foreign countries come to England for seamen only shows that our seamanship is the best article of its kind in the market. It would certainly be inconvenient if we sold all and retained none for ourselves, but we never heard that the Swiss lacked soldiers for home defence when they stocked half the armies in Christendom. On the contrary, the free exportation seemed rather to sti mulate the produce, and Switzerland was never more powerful than when battles were fought by Swiss in fantry as commonly as vessels are now sailed by British seamen. As to bounties, the practice proves nothing but the artificial character of the system, and for England to run a race in such folly as this would be like protec ting the sugarcane by enormous premiums against beet root. Omitting however Lord Dundonald's premises, we can at once acquiesce in his conclusion that " strict attention should be paid to all that concerns the steam department of the navy." Whether we shall be driven, either from the change in naval tactics, or, as our noble correspondent prognosticates, from absolute want of seamen, to rely upon steamers in place of ships of the line may be a doubtful question, but as we do profess to maintain a fine steam marine, and as we have paid pretty heavily for its establishment, it is cer tainly as well to neglect no method of keeping it in proper order. Long ago, it will be remembered, we drew attention to the fact that engines were never systematically fitted to ships, and Lard Dundonald now complains that boilers are never fitted to en gines. This perversity of arrangement seems hardly credible, but our noble correspondent plainly alleges that whereas disproportionately small boilers used to be attached to powerful engines, small engines aro now attached to disproportionately large boilers; that in neither case was there any previous trial, and that in both cases the result was failure. If any person should doubt this description of Admiralty practice, we can only beg him to recollect that practice little less extraordinary was actually disclosed and confessed to. It was frankly acknowledged that the builder of the ship was never put in communication with the maker of the engines which were to propel her, and some years did positively elapse before this species of concert was thought desirable in the national dmkyards. But the remarks of our correspondent suggest an other question, which, indeed, instinctively arises from occurrences of recent date and terrible significance. How far is our present system of s t eam p ro p u lsion consistent with probable security? It was but the other day that we adverted, for a different purpose, to the excessive speed at which our Atlantic steamers are driven through the water, and to the sacrifice of all ordinary mercantile considerations to this one object. It is quite certain that for the sake of an hour or two's gain in a voyage of 10 or 12 days we surrender many of the requirements of a packet-ship, but do we imperil safety as well? Is there anything in these conditions of build, propulsion, and compethion on the seas which can be thought to make the voyage more hazardous than before? Without sug gesting any conclusive reply to this inquiry, we must at once admit that no recent accident seems in any degree ascribable, as far as we could learn, to the power of the engines or the speed of the vessel. The Amazon would apparently have been consumed even if she had been a very Vulcan for sluggishness, and it is quite mani fest that the real Admiralty standard of six miles an hour brings about many more failures than the racing pace of the American packets. We acknowledge, therefore, that on the face of things there is no reason for presuming that even our exclusive devotion to speed and power endangers the security of the vessel. Still s in every other description of locomotion, increased ra pidity does bring with it increased need of precau tion, and although the course of a ship over the water is exempt from the worst liabilities of a railway train on land, the idea involuntarily suggests itself that some thing may go wrong under such extreme pressure, and that the consequences might be worse than in ordinary cases of failure. Lord Dundonald, we observe, intimates that Government steamers are positively ordered not to be worked at the full power of steam " unless under the most pressing emergency, to be noted in the logbook, and officially reported by letter to the Admiralty." Now, we should very much like to k n o w w h e th e r thesein structions aro based upon a general conviction that ex cessive speed, under any circumstances, involves a cer tain amount of danger, or whether they are dictated simply by a prudent estimate of Government machines in particular. We can readily understand that if a boiler is so ill adjusted to its engines as to require either unnatural straining or equally unnatural restraining a disaster is very likely to occur; but, as merchant ships do not usually adopt these anomalies of construction, are they liable to the same perils, or should they be handled with the same precaution? We throw out these co ns id erat i ons f or re fl ect i on a l one . That there is no danger at present discernible in the racing speed of our merchant steamers we readily ad mit. No voyages across the Atlantic have been executed with greater general comfort than those performed within ten or eleven days. But thorn may possibly be limits to our license in this respect, and if so, we are certainly going the. way to find th em . A s t o t h e G overnment steamers, if they aro i n d ee d fi tted with such engines that express directions are given never to work them except where an explosion would be the lesser evil of two, we must confess that the famous passages of our Vulcans and Megasras are pretty clearly explained. To these conditions of progress, however, we have no desire to see our merchant ships reduced, and, instead of such " pre cautions" as our correspondent alludes to against putting on the steam, we would rather see such an adaptation of ships to engines, and of both to the duties before them, as would allow them to be turned to their ostensible uses without any danger at all. THE CORK EXHIBITION. This ExhibitionWasl;;;;ghiTo a close on Saturday with a grand musical festival and promenade. NAVAL IN TELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 14.—The Trident paddle steam vessel, Lieutenant-Commander Harvey, came into har bour yesterday to coal; she returned to Spithead in the evening, and was paid advance to-day; she sails to morrow for Rio. This vessel is of the Harpy class. We hope she will make a less disastrous voyage out than her sister did home. The Dauntless, 24, screw-frigate, Captain Halsted, was undocked to day, and received her crew from the Cam perdown. Rear-Admiral Superintendent H. Prescott, C. 8., went on board his flag-ship the Neptune, 120, Captain Scott, yesterday, and must3red the officers and men of the or dinary for the last time, prior to his quitting his onerous appointment. The men of the ordinary were released from duty for the rest of the day on the occasion. The Encounter, 14, Captain Gordon, will be paid off to-morrow, and re-commissioned by Captain O'Cal laghan. The Electra, 14, Commander Morris, is intended for the Australian station. The Meander, 44, Commodore Talbot, will be paid advance on Thursday, by which time the defects in her magazine will be remedied. The Commodore tempora rily struck his pennant this morning. The Highfiyer, 21, Captain H. J. Matson, is again ready for sea She hauled out of the fitting basin today. APPOINTMENTS. Lieutenants—Thomas J. R. Barrow (1843), to the Queen, 116, at Devonport; Herbert L. Griffiths (1842), from the Coast Guard, to be agent iu charge of mails in a contract steam-vessel; George T. C. Smith (1842), to command the Dee steam-vessel, commissioned this day at Woolwich; Robert G. Craigie (1848), from the Ama• zon, on the East Indian station, to the Termagant steam frigate at Portsmouth, expe2' d to proceed to the East India station; John E. Montpmerie (1848), to the En counter. 14, steam-sloop, at Portsmouth; Charles Stir ling (1852), to the Encounter. Master—John Scott (1846), to the Encounter. Paymasters—James B. Moorman (1846), to the En counter; Henry S. Gibson (1846), to the Hercules emi gration ship, fitting at Chatham ihr the conveyance of emigrants to Australia. Master's Assistant—Percy W. East, to th© Encounter. Midshipmen—John Gilley, El. T. F. Campbell, and Augnstus Law, to the Encounter. Clerk—Luke Mastercnan (1846), to the Dee steam vessel. Gunner—James S. Pardon, to the Encounter. Boatswain—John H. Johns, to the Encounter. Carpenters—John Brown, to the Encounter; Wil liam Cornish to the Highflyer stcam•sloop, at Portsmouth THE DUBLIN EXHIBITION OF 1853. The site of the Exhibition presents a very animated and interesting scene just at this moment. At its northern and western sides about eighty sawyers are actively engaged in cut 'lig portions of the larga supply of timber Mundy carted to the lawn. The centre of the site is occupied by platforms, upon which the ribs of the centre and side halls are being made by a numerous body of carpenters. Three of the ribs for the aide halls have been com pleted, the construction of which is most ingenious. They consist of laminae of irregular lengths, averaging tut feet, the abutting joints being so arranged that no two in the rib come opposite each other, by which great uniformity of strength is obtained. The whole rib consists of ten thicknesses, ranging from one inch and a half. These are secured together by inch and inch three-quarter screws, according to the thickness of the lamina. _ . The weight of the timber in each rib is about 28 cwt., and about 1,200 screws are used in its construction. On a platform on a portion of the space to be occupied by the centre hall, one of the larger ribs has been chalked out. Its span is 100 feet, and it will weigh nearly six tone. Upon reference to the dimensions of the transept of the Great Exhibition, we find that the height to th e top was 107 feet, its breadth 72 feet, and its extreme length from north to south 408 feet. The centre hall of the Exhibition will be within three feet as high, 28 foot wider, and about 17 feet longer. The whole breadth occupied by the three halls will be about 300 feet Towards the end of the month some of the metal pil lars will be cast and placed on the stone foundation, which we perceive has ben raised to the required level.s The railway from Charleroi, in Belgium, to Erque lines, on the French frontier, is now completed. The direc tors of the company went along the line a few deys ago, in a train drawn by an English locomotive, constructed on the new system of having two boiler& TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir,—l look forward with anxiety lest the seeming im portance of financial, legal, and other useful reforms, which touch the pocket and press on public notice, shall wholly engage the time and attention of Parliament to the neglect of really more important interests—the security of our country from the evils of even local in vasion. It is not by speeches in the Lords or Commons, though published in the Times (stultified as th©y are by contra diction and misrepresentation), that a just estimate can be formed of the defective nature of our protective de fences; no, nor by any readable article which could be promulgated by your favour—but by directing public at tention in the right course to obtain information and ex cite reflection on the stealthy, silent changes that have taken and are taking place in the maritime circumstances of our country. Let the public ascertain whether, in addition to the loss of employment for 12,000 seamen, expelled from the banks of Newfoundland by the effect of pecuniary bonne ties given by rival nations, a still greater number of able mariners have not been driven from our South Sea whale fishery by the like device; whether the coal trade on our shores is not now in progress of being superseded by steam-conveyance; whether, from want of employ ment in these and oter ways, tens of thousands of sea men have not quitted their native country, to serve in foreign vessels on distant shores ; and whether, in a case of emergency, we shall not (as regards our sailing ships of war) be at a loss to find seamen, while the ma ritime resources of rivel nations have been increased by our supineness. If these truths are confirmed (as assuredly they will be on inquiry), is it not essential that the most strict attention shall be paid to all that concerns the steam department as the best substitute for our former naval force? I could not composedly rest my head on the pil low in death (now, in the coar-.e of nature, not distant), were I to abstain from endeavouring, through the widest channel open to me, to obtain investigation into the abuses perpetrated in the steam department of the navy. In my last communication I proved (from the Naval Blue Book of Jaly, 1849), that "engines of great power compared to the biz') of the boilers" (6,385) were adopted (without previous trial) at a cost in ships and machinery of millions sterling, and I asserted that thews, had failed to that extent in practice. I may now elf, that the reverse of this experiment has been put in pro gress, and that small engines are now being fitted to large boilers ' although no official trial hes been made or permitted to be made (but peremptorily refused), since the chief engineer admitted in evidence that " we do not know to this day which i 3 the best boiler" (6,090). I shall here assign the reason for these peremptory refusals on this important question—namely, that as the whole steam department is fitted with boilers patronised by the chief engineer, which are now found to have one third of their tubular surfaces wholly non-efficient, even when the other two-thirds are pushed to extremity, such exposure would be a fatal blow to farther arbitrary adaptations. _ s "Nothing can dis engage th e nava l s ervice from the ((rags by which its improvement is retarded but the re vival of the Naval Commission of Inquiry quashed by a vote of the unreformed !louse of Commons, on the Ist of March, 1805." Brenton, in his " Life of Earl St. Vincent," says, " Every man on entering public life should make the Re ports of the Naval Commissioners his study." It would be an unalloyed good if his advice to statesmen could be successfully recommended for public adoption, and so originate petitions for the inve sti g ation of professional concealments respecting which the Legislature area,,. attention t ion t o un acquainted as with the inte rnal or g aniza t i on of the Chi nese marine. now, have steam aeveengiven,aroused ships-of-war had not the moat positive orders absolutely roh e i r bi , t i b n y g equipment pm ere en t " engines of groat emergency,power" Dire the erroneous disasters ew under the most pressing their to be noted in the log-book and officially f u t l h l e working steam, unless o , reported by letter to the Admiralty'. This order, as I mentioned in my observations on the dreadful occur rence in the Amazon, ought to have been promulgated, conspicuou.ly affixed, and strictly enforced, on board of all packets under the inspecti on of the steam department (5,825). A precaution the more indispensable, since the prudent management* of our North American Packet' bee; been endaneer , d by cem eetitien threw: Olen'. a "' - than' L ;:.:10. it.agus ter a iew m iles advautage, or the fraction of , a day. l who eauoary regard order theirand warning safety will d o aa l to ai n t3 t s tha t i f st :rc All il3 thepre tin inefficient boilers to propel " engines of great power at full speed) shall he publicly read in the ir presence pier v ious to departure on their voyage, an d that it sh the all be affixed in some conrpicuous place, as is practised in navy. Passengers may themselves, as a precaution, test th° temperature of the funnels above their double casing, by attaching to a stick some article th at will era': fum veil e! in contact with highly-heated matter , as the }Un of a well constructed toiler ought no t b y o f the no' warm th t° di' a i colour a pocket-handkerchief, wh ile those boiler, as I have experimentally tested, I hope this letter may meet the eye o v' f 'il li l iT fer Duke of Northumberland, who by the aid ei havero _ sional knowledge, and the insight it must given him, as a bystander, into the tortuous workings of r" t, ...13 be cial routine, will give credit to the fact (w'' ---- n y Flt lead. proved) that new boilers, paid for by publi c ra° " -e a: nave been left abandoned tor years in Woolwich yo,rer without paint, and actually valued as old iron, ratue_ than permit a trial of their evaporative power t0.0.d.. made; while a similar pair (by chance), on hosrd a saT of-war, having been unsuientifically and ta i p r tested, data were disgracefully quoted disparage their pre-eminent performance! log . I feel assured, Sir, that his Grace, who, on OW . s office, most judiciously resolv ed to inquire into abli_lacte himself, will not fall into the lung-sroding ov s e te d ; to ractice of referring for truth ( w hich can be te to 5). tie interested or delinquent departmen t (5,799, s'B f In this conviction, I pray, on behalf of our countri'f. the naval service, and of passengers who may (1133bar •to i e l i packets having engines and boilers of boilersdispro3rti in size, that his Grace will grant to those having ofricis' possession of the steam department a fair olle h d o pli• trial, to be at the cost of the hitherto clisappointe. ~ not cants in the event that their respective boilers ab.oheva., excel their naval opponent boiler by 25 Pe r cent. ' tare ill poration and 200 degrees of less perilous temPera-- the funnel.--I am, Sir, &c., London, Sept. 9. * The Hon. Samuel Conarl DIInD oN•LD, THE COUNTRY ftliAttl(Bl' The condition o i r S tl W te eCt shebut the off , I c C or ri SEPT 14. but , mildew is painfullyu'spispairer'Pit"ilue • — ere ia grinding s condition, the rnthers wheats The best descriptions, and such as w_ t t h e flme figures, perhaps a trifle in favour of the v ie J , of Barley also sold somewhat freely, and Mani saa3P good malting quality were offered for sale. a. rilli QtrAlll7/ Ditto (new).. PER QUARTER. .MII to pUrChaSCCI at abOLutrer. Ditto, , Wheat, red Ditto(new) white to 345 (old) 45s s s t t oo 52540 s PBeeasan,s,:oel: .................. 3 1 9 5 to 3is 0 0, to 0 5 38s to 42s Oats ................ to 00 Barley, raalting AVERAGES FOR THE WEEK ENDING oar. 1. , ' A Wheat Barley ,5 Oats ... ...., ..... _ 10 " 21s .4d ~ Peas . ....9 0 Beans 0 ~ HULL, SEPT. 14. ...Sh e Messrs. Taylor and Bright's circular stst e° ' es not Dart b e weather Burin the n... p a st wee k has for t h e re,—.. 9 sbe dry an d cool, and very little wheat now remain on_isbly fields, the whole this crop has been more fel° ur.00., gathe;_ed un in this district than in the neigbbouripg, _re ties. We regret we cannot write in equally 5309fi10u terms as regards potatoes, which, according to the information dials, worse. The effect on wheat prices may not be i o f taking the we to can obtain, keep going not e , the vepgiaectaebolfebrbeeaindgiLortcleadterougn c:ect:0:0 pect prices,to uslat eit tell , and probably upon oats as moo by wheat. The business of the week has been rao l .„ tbe more confidence and tone than wa3 the case (Mouton previousquitewa fortnight, nting , a daily consura • dem and 11° l ' s puve . o rts tested its . • and although apeculation has mao i. elf, with inquiries from very differen ode tety for samples and offers. To-day's market was ag i test Li . a jolnshire farmers; the condition supplied with new wheat from our Ogrll and tue d r od OW ~, ning a fair demand from the millers, all fresh t 1 %`• 7 0 s ay; the sumo remark applies was very samples Tuesday were free sale at fully the rates bu teu rreri old chambered parcels are much neglected. Very.little3_iii barley yet offering, but the quality good; a Wee har_o, yet started; 30s asked for one or two floe lots. Fat log a r g e a s i d n y d s o s a l r e er a ; s thenew foreign grinding re parcels there is a daily sale at full pricers. rueolit, they are arrive.g Peas d importers had great demand. Oats only dull sale, an sh ip With to ma k e some concession to e ff ect sale s fr°lll - . Qi 4 an increased import of linseed this market rules q e,, without, however, any 's value; the COP reduction 1 our gIPP II weather increases the demand tor the cake , 0 . So very scarce a 0 b...,:.. a present entirely linaitsd to of which is t i Z y ue s s c a a rpassifug in rapeseed, and rape cakes are e"' fetching our top quotations. The following are the present prices of gra'n: - ' • I . s. 5. r s 4 , qg .... on Wheat, English, red Bull 030"_1„ed. 37 to 40 Yeas, white and Ye' . :;;;''" Do. white Dantzic and Ko- Pomeranian and 42 44 Do. grey ......••••'" 1-4 I.J, Linseed, Black SO. ,i, es' nigsberg 42 —46 Do. Petersbur h ••••• 41 g ''• 38 -" Do. Riga & Archngl• - ,40 Hamburgh Danish, Holstein,& 37 42 Do. Konigsberg .... 1, to. pet „ A Friesland ,,155e. Danish Russian and 36 —3B Lins. c., Hull 01 Os to I • to olO s Do.FrieslandOdessa 34 —3B Do. fine for. 7155 dO Os Oats, English Do. Do. Russ. &Od •.. ni to 61 a 17 1 —l9 Do. inf. foreign... -- 0. , - Barley,malti essa 16 —18. Tares, English ..•••• 18 20 Rape cakes...92s 6d to ...OS 42 5 _O5 24 25 Guano ............ Do. ng 28 —3 0 1 Do. foreign ......... 25 0 " - Os 7/ to / to CO I Beans grinding 29 —35 Bones, do ...... 5 0 s 6cl„ ii co Do., foreign 3O —33114 e ............... .. i Carr el ' el ite. l Barrels. od- - ~a 47 White wheat 18. Od to 20. 6d C- 6 113 Red wheat IC4 Od to 19. Od 20 do 97 Ditto l9. Od to 20s 3d 19s o ,l ' 0 Ditto oos CI to 00s Od 224 Barley 11s 4d to 11s 6d 116 - „ 6cl'. 00 11° 88 Ditto lls 6d to 11s 9(11 0 Ditto €4B Od to 003 Od 18 80re... los 9d to 10s 10d po i Od 253 Oats .. 88 Od to gs 3d) qdo 549 Ditto 3 Ditto o Pigs 0088 s: 05 3 dd d tt t oo o 009 8! 034ddd ugiu.jus 4d.. oper 0 t 42 barrels Q writ n e ti . 0 pigs. w ty h s e o a l t d ; a l t h th r e ed H ; 4igohatrlPeyri;c73: -- bare; 3 0115' f:hantity of Grain and Number of Pigs sold lot eei ig ; 0. Wheat, 1,824. Barley, 0. B ere, 979. Oats, 7,173. PRICES OF BUTTER. CANT. cURBE Xe l* 67. First quality 76. First quality • ..... 1 . : Second quality Third quality 67s Third quality .......... .. .. 56 ... 43 1 Fourth quality 7, Fifth quality ... 3 Sixth quality cw C t. o cl a a r t . m — ea F l l i o o u s r ; l: o irs l Return of Cattle sold for week ending SeR! . Pigs, 401. Sheep, 214. Cows, 40 iv. oil seconds,lls to 12s Od; households 9s to 10s 6d;thirds,A sloe/ Indian weal 7 s 3d t04. 0d pei ion , meal, 94 6d to 10s per cwt. Indian corn 710 e to 71 " 26 , ; o verlie Bran 77s 6d to& s per ton. Ha Farmers 158 0 d tp .....FaruLe ri , 225; dealers 30s Od to 00s; average Y— ON per ton. St r , 11 ; (101 ''' ' t 0 . 1 62 :; 6cl to 130 6d extra,. to, 0( 10s Od to 28. 0(1; average l6s • dealers 00s Oa ` 6 ,1 to ° 3; average 00s Od per ton. Bread—Wooten loaf oto household loaf bd to Od per 41b. Fresh butter,co,ll-' 1 1 2 0: per 6 d lb . per ton. E g gs -4s g g 8 Newport 14s Od ; Lydney 15s • Landore 00 . ; sr of to 4 ° . P go t Whisky, 25 o. p., be 9d per imperial gal y l 7 4d t° —Beef 4icl to 7d ; mutton 5d to 611 d ; e lb f l°P° —4 T s a o ll d ow to 349s,s2dodper hundred. olio 7d ; pork 4d to Od ; bacon tid to 7d ;sausages bd pr ' too. /os Po - 818 s to 910 s per cwt. Bangor slates 2/17s 6d to 3 _ r 000. ' Bark, red 71to 8110 s per ton. Fleece wool 16s to 00s P,„.. red Hemp 291 to 34/ per ton. Fish—Scotch herrings 16s to ou:1 / p er ditto, 24. to CDs per barrel ;' Newfoundlr-id, 10/ 09 to j ye lje ton. Timber—Memel, 70s per ton; red pines 31 56 ; Ode' ' ditto, 3/ 15s perdeals, 151 to 181 per I ° 3 ' ~.if slici ° Market 20a to 28s; salted 21s to 30. per ow't ;, ::" v ioo , 3d to Od per lb. Potatoes, white bd to 71. , vs. , ' 843 to 12d. Guanc —Peruvian, 101 10s to 11/ per I. o * Archangel, 19s per barrel. CORK, SEPT. 13. kt 03 [ADVERTISEMENT ] Holloway's Oinerne r° gr. Pills have effected a wonderful Cure of Rheutaatislnci.ites t D o o p na r l o d fe l% s l so c r K H el o la l r io , w o a f y M a u s rrumbidg New South Ilra l es u't 61t1 follows :—" Aman ° f a " °-- of t he j a stice a t , years of age, employed by John Peter, Esq Peace in this colony, suffered for twelve months fro° 7 and tack of rheumatism, brought on by an exposure to w et a cold. He was so painfully afflicted that his body W e rae ric 4 nearly double ; in this deplorable condition he body the using Holloway's Ointment and Pills, and so speedY r to - o sed cure effected by them that it seemed to those who had„,wl.,,gists his sufferings little less than a miracle.—Sold by all vrZ., 1 3,1, and at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, London. FATAL ACCIDENT AT STOKE NEWINGT °- w ater Monday, as a man named Pitman was conductiuogitz to f i t cart along the High - street , Stoke Nev4ngton, W - 77 1 0 sudden jerk of the vehicle , he was thrown off his s° 3 " e ' rs ovS pitched upon his head and lay motionless. Som e Re wad went to his assistance, when life was found extinct. nearly sixty years of age. BIRTHS. ni , an doo OF A sox. On the 12th inst., at Leamington, the lady of ` d--- Wren Hoskyns, Esq. the lady On the 10th inst., at the Elms, Newbury, Berko , of Captain Atwell Lake, Madras Engineers. OP A DAUGHTER. On the 11th in s t., a t B erengrove , Bainbam, Kent, the Wif° of William Walter, Esq. the lv if ° of On the 12th i nst ,at West-hill, Highgate, John L. Tatham, Esq • On the 9th i ns t , at ABBleaßsibyE,DN:otts, the Rev. Morga n , M.A ., rector o f Llandega ' i, Carnarvons hi r e, t p (: y eldest daught er o f R o b er t Kelham Kelham , Esq., jf Pl eBs hall, Notts. 1 n 4otl" On the l Ith inst ,at St. Mark's , Surbiton, King" ° 3 Thames, G 11r. Ran . well, Esq., of Kingston-crescent, Por,fses' Rants, to Maryann, relict of the late Mr. George S. of Surbiton. DIED. On the 11th inst. at the Brewery, Berm ondsey', bet ° Georg; Payne, Esq., aged 81, for many years a resp ected melll the Stock Exchange. On the 11th inst., at Rhyl, Flintshire, Elizabeth Sar,ll3' wife of Henry LaUrellCe, Esq., and daughter of Sir aw,' Crofton, Bart., of Longford-house, county of Sligo. On the 11th inst., at Notting-hill, aged 81, Fenrietts, widow of P. Levys, Esq., of Albion Estate, J2111191C2. Oa the 1 2 th inst., at Henrietta-street, Covent Eliza, wife of Mr. Lovell Reeve; aged 41. es _ _ _ London: Priatsd and Published b y &EURO° YOGI 112, Ne. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, o. 0 ( Strand, in tl'e Precinct of the S2voy. 4 1 ' the cowl*" Bliddlueze WedueElg.r, September 15,1552. k - Of tioti the 3 1201 tep Por Ply, eor, kath E,