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emir Aims unit NEW WORK BY DR. CROLY. Slow ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., 111 A It S T 0 N. .BY THE AUTHOR OF " SALATHIEL." " A vigor, ens tale, full of touching and terrible Incident."—Lite rary Gazette i " A work of appalling power."---Naval and Military Gazette. " In this r admirable work we have the masterpiece of one of the master spirt Is of the age. In, no work will be found a more splendid gallery of distinguished chrracters, or one so gloriously, yet faith fully painter I."—Chelten'jam Examiner. Henn f Colburn, 7....'ublisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THE AUTHOR'S EDITION. Now TOO .y at t'Zil the Libraries, in 3 vols. post 3v0., with a Portrait and memoir of the Author, A POET'S BAZ AAR By H. C. ANDERSEN.. Author of " The Improviratore." From the Danish, by Charles Beckwith, Esq. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. RAILWAY SHARES BY PUBLIC SALE. MESSRS. LAMO I I4D, SMALE, AND LAMOND, Railway Waive Auctioneers, beg to thank their Friends and the Public for tb.eir continued support and patronage, and to announce that tisf,ir Public Sales of Railway Shares, &c., take place every Trkon,s - ir and FRIDAY, at One o'clock, at the Hall of Commerce, Tl , ..re,adneedle-street, London, to which place, favours, containing ins tractions (with a reference), are respectfully requested to be addref is All Scrip and Sb Certificates must be deposited, the day previous to their b eng offered ; and asiviccs of results will be forwarded by the fl rat post after the sale, aul the proceeds imme diately disposed of according to instructions. Offices, Hall of 'o,ommerce, Threadneedle-street. London. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. The Nobility., Gentry, Subscribers, and the Public at large, are respectfully infe,rme4 that the Season will commence on SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1846, and, in a determination to render this Theatre worthy of that patronage which has made it one of the most celebrate t in Europe, the Lessee hats entered into engagements with the following Artistes : FOR GRAND OPERA. Tenors—Mr. W. Harrison, Mr. b. W. King, Mr. Barker, Mr. Henry, and a De'ot.tant of great promise. Basses and P.eritones—Mr. Borrani, Mr. Burdini, Mr. Stretton, Mr. Weiss, and. istr. S. Jones. Soprani 511(1 Contralti—Madame Anna Bishop (her first appear ance since 11,z immense success in Italy), Miss Romer, Miss Rain forth, Miss 't'c,ole, Miss Collett, Miss Messent (a Pupil of the Royal Academy of London), Miss Rebecca Isaacs (her first appearance on this stage)... In *Wilton to which a treaty is pending with Madame Viardot Garcia. Exc.lush It of this array of talent, the engagement of. Mademoiselle Jenny Lb id still exists, and will be put into bill lorce, should she attempt t o sing on any other stage in this country. The 0/ Thestra has been entirely re-arranged and re-modelled, its members being carefully selected from the first talent in the kingdom. Musical Director, Signor Schira. The Chorus has been augmented `..0 an unprecedented extent, and arranged with great care. Chorus MpAtcr, Mr. Tully. FOR CiRAND BA:LLET AND SPECTACLE. Mademoiselle Sor .hie Fuoco. (Premiere Danseuse from the Academie r.coyale de Musique); Mademdiselle r zlora Fabri, Mademoiselle Plunkett, Mdlle•Padernr , (Priracipal Danseuse from La. Scala and San Carlos), Madame "Cheo , lore (from the Academie Royale de Musique), McUle. Beuard arid. 31dlle. La Borderie (both from the Academie Royale de Musimie, Paris), 3fdll.e. Louise, 3fdlle. Adele, Les Sceurs St. Louis, Madame Giubelei, And a tree tY Is on the eve of completion with Ilfdlle. Carlotta r arris.i. Mons. Bretin, Mons. 'Clat3odore (from the Academie Royale de Musique, 'Paris), Mons. Baguet and Mons. Blasts (both from the principa:, Theatres It), Mona. Adrien, M ons. Paul, of aly Mr. W. H. Payne, Mt. T. Mathews, Mr. Howell, Mr. Wieland, Mr. Risley and his celebrated Sens, And a more numerous body of Corps de Ballet, Figurantes, and Promencaases, than has ever yet been enrsged in an English theatre. Ballet Masters, MM. Bla sis and Bar= ; Under Ballet Master, Mons. Adrien ; Superinten'aent of Spectacle, Mr. W. West. Amongst other novelties of the season will be a new Grand Ballet, in three Acts (never ae",ed), to be called ERSELIE, Composed expressl.y -Tor Mademoiselle Flora Tabri, by Mons. Bretin. The last popula.r F.allet, in Paris, called BETTY; Besides the revivals of " The Devil to Pay," " The Peri," " La Giselle," " PP.quita,” and others, which have obtained so great a success on a Lis stage. THREE NEW OPERAS : On() in Three Acts, by Mr. Lavenu, One in Three Acts, by Mr. M. W. Balfe, One in Three Acts, by Mr. W. V. Wallace. In addition to a complete repertoire of Works from the most eminent Composers. A confident hope is still entertained of producing THE CAMP OF SILESIA, by the renowned Composer, 31. Meyerbeer. AN ENTIRELY NEW BALLET, for the appearance of a celebrated Danseuse, and of several others, whose answers are daily expected. The Scenery under the superintendence of Mr. Grievo.. Stage Manager, Mr. Harley. The general Management under the direction of Mr. Bunn. TIIRA.TRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. The public is reaLectiully informed that this Ther.tre, the Interior and exterior of wl'Ach have, during the recess, boen thoroughly re paired, re-pal nteii, and ornamented, will OPEN for the Season on THCBSDAY n ex+., October I, 1846, with a favourite COMEDY, a hew and original FARCE, and other ENTERTAINMENTS. Tho Box.-oillce will be opened on Monday next, from Twelve till Four, ur,der the direction of Mr. T. Archer, Box Book-keeper. THEATRE ROYAL, ri7.l-DER THE MANAGEMENT OF LYCEUM MRS.. KEELF,Y. Second Week of a New Comic amnia. The New Grand Fairy Bur lesque; Extravaganza, entitled " The Magic Horn," having been, on each occasion of ita 'representation, received throughout with the most cordial marks TX approbation and delight by crowded and fashionable audiences is, in consequence, respectfully announced for repetition every Evening till farther notice. THIS - EVENING The performaa•;,es will commence with a New Comic Drama, TO PARRY4TS AND GUARDIANS. Principal characters by Messrs. A. Ifitgan, Meadows, and Keeley; Mrs. Woollidge, Mrs. A. Wigan, 14 '.88 Hicks, Miss Turner, Miss Howard, and Mrs. Keeley. After I chick, a New Grand Operatic, Melodramatic, Romantic, Fairy B' Jrlesque Extravaganza, founded on the Opera of " Oberon," entßlceA THE MAGIC HORN. Principal characters by Messrs. F. Mr , thews, A. Wigan, Kinlech, Collier, Yarnold, Bender, Silver, Rich,, and Keeley; Miss Keeley, Miss Villars, Miss Fairbrother, 11 4r1... Woollidge, Miss Arden, Miss Forster, Miss Laidiaw, 3liss Bromley. Miss Howard, and Mrs. Keeley. To conclude with TO PERSONS ABOUT TO MARRY. TIRE ROYAL, ADELPIII. UNDER TIHE D TR IRE E CTION OF MADAME CELESTE. THIS EVENING Will be presented a new domestic drama, entitled EUGIL'.IA CLAIRCILLE ; or, THE NEW FOUND HOME. Frederick 'Stan more, Mr. Worzeil ; Mr. Rugleigh, Mr. Cullenford ; Toffey, Xr. Paul Bedford ; Hugh Matlock, Mr. 0. Smith ; Mrs. Toffey, Mrs. F. Matthews ; Eugenia Clairtille, Madame Celeste. After which the Comic Drama, entitled USED UP, * Sir Charles Coldstream, Mr. 'Webster ; Lady Cluttcrbuck, Mrs. F. Matthews. To conclude with the :klythological Burlesque extravaganza, de nominated THE JUDGMENT OF PARIS ; 'Jr, The Pas de Pip pins. The chars cters personated by Messrs, Selby, 0. Smith, Glen flair°, Lindon, 'llraye, Butler, Williams;,n, Aldridge, Mitchenson, Alderson, Ryan , Wright, Paul Bedfore,. ; Miss Ellen Chaplin, Miss Taylor, Miss PiarrLson, Miss Simps , ,,n, Mrs. F. Matthews, &c. PR' ONCESS'S ATRE, OXFORD-STREET. THIS EVENING Will be per.lbrmed 9. New Comic Drama, in Three Acts, entitled LOVE'S Tr....LEGRA.pII. Count Theodore, Mr, J. Vining ; Arthur de Solbo'g, Mr. C. Mathews; Baron Pumpernickel, Mr. Compton. After which, the New Drama, entitled A CURIOUS CASE. Tvviggleton, Mr. C. Mathews ; Mrs. Aubrey, Mrs. Stirling. To conclude 'with the Comic Drama, entitled USED UP. Sir Charles Coldstream. Mr. C. Mathews. STRAND THEATRE. llnd , zr the Management of Mr. Davidson. THIS EVENING Will be perfo7 Ted the new historical Tragedy, entitled THE MAID OF WAI tSAW. Ulric Sobieski, Mr. Gregory ; Hro'.anoff, Waldron ; Werter, Mr. Carle • Cloton, Mr. Grafton; Cat o ff, AttwoOd ; :Eva, Mrs. Per c y ; Zeta, Miss M. Glover. To be follw.ved by the Farce, entitled THE BLUF. DEVILS. To conclride with Shakspere's Tragedy of THI.: MERCHANT OF VENViE. Shylock, Mr. Gregory ; Bassanio, Mr. Rivers ; Gra- Han°, Mr. Grafton ; Launcelo. Gobbo, Mr. Attwood ; Salanio, Mr. Carle ; Portia, Mrs. Percy ; 'Nerissa, Miss Dorrington ; Jessica, Miss M. Glover.. Prlv2.te Boxes, Places-, and Stalls, may ?A engaged at the Box office, from eleven till four, and at all the Libraries. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lessee, Mrsi. Frances Davidge. THIS EVENING Will be perfhrTned the revived Play of THE LAW OF THE LAND. Sir Peregrine P latitude, Air. Nevill ; Abel Dodson, Mr. Cooper; Robson, Mr. Fredericks ; Snail, Mr. Webb; Fielding, Mr. Pelham; Lucy Primrose, Mrs. ; Amelia Platitude, Mrs. Saville; Flounce, Miss Terry. After which the Farce of THE SECRET. Mr. Dupuis, Mr. Fre dericks ; Vaksre, I % 4 'r. Pelham ; Thomas, Mr. Webb ; Mrs. Dupuis. Mrs. Saville ; Ang Aka, Miss Vaughan. To concln.de .11 the romantic Drama, entitled THE ROBBER'S WIFE. Charac' cers by Messrs. Heslop, Lewis, Fredericks, Neville, Wet b, Haw'ains ; Mrts. Saville. Brix-office e,pen from eleven till four o'clock. ASTLE-.F.% ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Prrietor Mr. W. Batty. LAST WEEId BU T TWO , OF THE SUMMER SEASON. Patronised by her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, Prince Albert, tht - Prince of Wales, and the Princess Royal. Immense succees o 1 the present magnificent attraction. THIS EVENING Will 'performed the popular Drama of THE STEED OF SY RACUSE I or, Damon's Flight. Damon, Mr. J. Harwood; Pythias, Mr. J. Dale ; Calanthe, Mrs. M. Broils. Assisted by the nu merous, Company, double Stud, &c. Aft' Jr which, popular SCENES of the CIRCLE, by the British and - Foreign Professors, male And female. Clowns to the Arena, Me.sers. Wallet and Boehm,. The whole concluding with a favourite AFTERPIECE. Boa-office open from. Ueven till five o'clock.—Doors open at six and commence at •seveo o'clock. ReJTAL VICTORIA THEATRE. THIS EVENING Will be performed a powerful and highly Interesting Nautical Drama, srititiett BREAKERS AHEAD ; or, A Seaman's Log. Luke, Mr. C. J.. Bird ; Allan, Mr. Florrington (first appearance in London) ; Capt. Oakum, Mr. Archer ; Black Graham, Mr. Searle ; Barns7oy, Mr. Forman ; Amy Graham, Miss Vincent. After which, the Burlesque of HAMLET. Hamlet, Mr. Forman ; Ghost, Mr. 9 .,earle; King, Mr. Ranoe ; P o l on i us , M s. H oward; e, Mr. Burton ; Queen, Mr. Cooke ; Ophelia, Miss L. Pearce. To conclude with MARKHAM AND GREENWOOD ; or, THE B F.OTHERS' CAREER. Markham, Mr. C. J. Bird; Green wood, Yir. Florrington ; Tidkins, Mr. Searle ; Ellen, Mrs. Vining. Under the Patronage of her Most Gracious Majesty. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. THE LAST FOUR NIGHTS. Benthby's Grand Scene, representing AN ENGAGEMENT BE TWEEN A BRITISH CRUISER AND A' PIRATE, will be repeated every Evening. NEXT MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY. AND THURSY. VIEW of NAPLES, ERUPTION DA of VESUVIUS, DESTRUC. TION of HERCULANEUM and POMPEII, in the year 79. A richly ornamented GOTHIC BRIDGE of STATUES has been constructed, which will be brilliantly Illuminated at Night. The P RUKENADE CONCERTS, conducted by Mr. Godfrey. CALYtso'S FAIRY GROTTO, representing in the Interior Tel_en 3 •Achus relating his adventures to C a lyp so . "Ir." PYROTECHNIC DISPLAYS, by Mr. Southby, are on the drat complete and effective scale. Preceding the Volcanic Display, Mons. FARINELLI will descend 'Prom a Chinese Pagoda, seventy feet in height, to the surface of the lake, where a Naiad's Car will rise to receive him, and bear him to his chrystal home. The Glass Conservatory is splendidly ornamented with festoons of lamps, enabling the visitors to view the matchless collection of Carnivora by gas-light. On MONDAY, September 2R, The ENGAGEMENT on the WATER (the mcst beautiful Py- Votecimic Display ever witnessed), and all the Attractions of the Beason. Peeing of the Carnivora at four ; the Pelicans, Ste., at half-past four Concert at five; Descent in the Car at eight o'clock, and he Eruption follows immed.ately. ADMITTANCE, ONE SHILLING.—CHILDREN HALF-PRICE. FATAL PALL FROM A STEAMBOAT.—Yesterday, Mr. Bedford held an inquest at the Crown, Green-street, Leicester-square, on the body of John Jennings Mat thews, aged twenty-eight, a compositor. The deceased and a fellow-workman, named Evans, had been passing the evening of Wednesday at a public-house in the Strand, with the engineer of the Bee, river steamer. They stayed together beyond midnight, and heavy rain coming on the engineer invited them to sleep on board the Bee, which wa s moored off the Fox-under-the-Hill Stairs, outside the Ant steamer. The engineer led the way, and as Evans was following him, by stepping from the Ant to the Bee, he fell into th e water b etween theme deceased falling in i mmed iately afterwards. Evans clung to the paddle-box and was saved, but deceased, being a good swimmer, swam towards a buoy a h un d re d yards oft and just as he was nearing it Ni disappeared. His body was not found until nine o clock on Thursday morning. The effects of a blow on the forehead, by coming hi contact with the side of the steamer, as he fell, is supposed to have prevented decease . d from swim ming too plus of safety. Verdict, "Accuitnitai death.. THE SUN,' LtiSIDON, SATURDAV IVENING, SEPTEMEER 26, 1846 THE WEATHER.—Strx OFFICE, ►SEPTEMBER 26. ThERMOMETER, Lowest, 54; Highest. 66 ; Noon, 65 BAROMETER, 29.8.—W1ND W., squally. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning .. 53 minutes after 4. I Evening .. 14 minutes after 5 so many successive years by Mr. CHARLES VILLIERs, inasmuch as the preservation of public health, by an abundant supr„.;ly of nutritious provisions, was dif ferent from, the preservation of public health, by aboliFlning nuisances of a very deleterious and pc.:rnicious character. Facts are inces santly transpiring which demonstrate the im- PortAnce of some legislative interference in ai:ls regard—facts which are infinitely more cogent than the most lucid arguments of the journalist. In pleading thus for some effort on the part of the Go vernment we are not striving to realise the pecuniary advantages of any association of speculators —we are not advocating the cause of some philosophic experi mentalist—we are not demanding the trial of some vague scheme for the aggrandisement of any one portion of the community; we are pleading for pure air to those thousands of our fellow-citizens which are pent up, from one year's end to the other, in the populous streets and alleys of the metropolis. We are pleading for decent interment for those fifty thou sand corpses which are annt'.7.;lly borne over the thresholds of this capital f( i r sepulture. We are pleading for the requisites of life and the sanctity of death. Exposures are occ :atring almost every week, of the vicious syste-di uponbur.; which nearly all of our r.'4l-grounds are regulated. It is now well-known, that the Spa-fields burial-ground is not ti:le wily spot in which the earth is filled te, repletion with dead bodies. Other areas in London present equally villanous spectacles. The ground in these areas is not only sa turated with decomposed matter, they are not merely stuffed with such an abundance of putre faction that the atmosphere is vitiated in their vicinity, they are not merely exhaling pestilential vapours during the rainy seasons, and reeking with an in supportable stench even during the summer months ; but they are productive of consequences still more horrible. The execrable scenes recently represented in Friday- street burial-ground afford a lamentable example of these consequences. It appears, that for the purpose of making room for fresh carcasses, the tombs are violated—the coffins are exhumed and broken to pieces—the decayed bodies inside are jumbled together like mere offal from the slaughter house, and are thus cast forth upon the neighbouring dungheaps to rot in a more convenient and less costly manner. Are these things to be permitted in a laud enlightened by civilisation—we will not say in a land blessed by Christianity ? Are the holiest sen timents of our nature, and the dearest associations of our hearts to be thus destroyed for some ignoble and sordid consideration ? Are the sensibilities of our population to be thus blunted by rendering death more loathsome than it is already, by connecting those memories which should be revered and loved with everything that is debasing and repulsive ? France, Prussia, Spain, Austria, Italy, Russia, America, do not exhibit any such spectacles ; and shall Great Britain ? Paris, 'Vienna, Berlin, Madrid, Rome, Philadelphia, St. Petersburgh, are, to say the very least of them, unpolluted by such proceedings ; and is it right that London should be crowded with these abominations ? In Pere la Chaise the graves are verdant, and many of them decorated with garlands —in Spa-fields, according to Mr:WALKER, the grave diggers are sometimes up to their knees in masses of corrupt flesh, stamping it down into a closer compass! The church-yards of Wales and Switzerland are perfect gardens—the burial-ground in Coleman-street is described at this meeting of the Common Council as " emitting, through holes made in the tomb stones, an effluvia which rendered the air pestilential Not merely do these facts fill the public mind with disgust, but they act in the most pre judicial manner upon public health. It is un deniable, and we may even say self-evident, that they tend materially to increase the mortality of the metropolis. Dr. LYNCH has condensed the whole truth into the following emphatic lines :—" There was to be seen," said he, "the narrow plot of ground reeking with pestilence, its soil saturated with sul phuretted hydrogen and carbonic acid gas, its surface strewed with bones and moist with matter and ex halations alike disgusting to the senses and destruc tive of health. That plague spot was hemmed in with hovels, in which space was economised to the verge of suffocation, and the narrow streets and cess pools aided the' morbid exudation to percolate the subsoil, and under the dwellings of the poor, by which means fever, dysentery, scrofula, and con sumption were never absent." Frightful as that pic ture is, it is proved, by incontrovertible statistics, by the bills of mortality, and by the statements of the Sanatory Commissioners, to be rio exaggeration. Nor can it bear the semblance of exaggeration when it is remembered that from forty to fifty graves are not unfrequently opened in the course of a single day in one of these horrible pits of interment. Scarcely less pernicious in its effects upon the health of the population is the nuisance of smoke, whether arising from steam-engines or furnaces, manufactories or other establishments. The atmos phere is thus impregnated with a multitude of dele terious particles, and the lungs are compelled to inhale large quantities of carbon. Instead of oxy genising the venous blood:by respiration, we are absolutely drinking in a kind of diluted poison. It is not surprising that contagious diseases are so pre valent in this vast capital when we consider the amount of impurities mingled with its vital atmo sphere. If only as an unsightly superfluity this nuisance should he immediately abolished. The manufacturers, and the like, should be compelled, under penalty, to resort to those simple scientific contrivances by which smoke can be consumed, and which con trivances are in very general application at Liverpool and elsewhere. Nearly all the principal architectural beauties of London are tarnished, if not entirely concealed, by the crusts of dirt deposited by this smoke nuisance. Even the Nelson Column and the new Palace at Westminster are becoming dingy under its influence, before their completion. It is not, however, with simply "an eye to appearances" that we are so desirous for the abatement of this nuisance ; it is because smoke and burials within towns are productive of infinitely greater evils. It is because we are assured that upon their prohibition depend the comfort, the happiness, the morality, and the lives of thousands. Hence we are deeply re joiced at these resolutions of the Court of Common Council; and we look with the most earnest anxiety. ' for the development of those sanatory schemes pro mised to the people by Lord JOHN RUSSELL when last the Premier stood upon the hustings at Guild hall. The proof of the excellence of those sanatory measures will double the popularity of the present Government, and lessen the mortality in an almost equal proportion. Accounts from Palermo state that all the roads of Sicily are so infested by brigands that travellers are frequently stopped and robbed in the open day, even at the very gates of large towns. Madrid papers of the 19th have arrived. They contain the conclusion of the debate on the address and the result, 'which is already known. The Herald() says that the Due DE MONTPENSIER, " Out of a respect for Parliamentary privileges," would not leave Paris until the result of the debate was known. The 21st was fixed on as the day when Mr. BULWER. was to present his protest against the marriage of the INFANTA. This protest is, it is said, couched in the strongest terms. The dispensations from Rome for both marriages had arrived at Madrid. Count BRESSON, the French Ambassador, on hear ing of the protest of Don ENRIQUE, waited on the QUEEN and demanded that the young Prince should be banished from the Spanish territory for ten years. Is Spain already become a pro vince of France that a French Ambassador, act ing the part of Viceroy, orders the banishment of a Prince of the blood for 10 years ? The Carlist insurrection in Catalonia is rapidly in creasing, and Thursday last was, it is said, the day fixed for a general Carlist rising in all the northern provinces. MADRID BOLBA, SEPT. 19.—The Three per Cents. were done at 36i for cash ; the Four per Cents. at 22 ; the Five per Cents. at 22i ; the Debt without interest, at si; and the Coupons at 20i. We have received the Paris papers of Thursday. The Government received on Wednesday a tele graphic dispatch from Madrid, supposed to have an nounced the fact that Mr. BULWER had, in the name of his Government, formally protested against the Montpensier marriage, A Cabinet Council WWI bu• mediately held, and, if we are to judge of the result of their deliberations from the article on the subject of the Montpensier marriage which appears in the Journal des Debats, the French Government is de termined to proceed at all hazards. " The French Government," says the Debats, " has the right to do what it is doing, and it will maintain that right. It will not allow itself to be moved by jealous clamours. The Duke DE MONTPENSIER has been freely chosen by Spain as the husband of the INFANTA. The marriage of the Duke DE MONTPENSIEN will take place ! Without fear and without boasting, the Go vernment will go on (passera outre)." And after some bitter attacks on the Opposition papers, it thus concludes :—"The Duke DE MoisTrENsurt marries in Spain ; he espouses the sister of the QUEEN ; his marriage is glorious for the dynasty, glorious for France ; it happily puts an end to the question of the marriage of the Spanish Princesses, which ap peared like a gauntlet suspended over Europe; it secures two things—the triumph of constitutional principles and the perpetuity of French blood in Spain. Every one feels and appreciates the grandeur of this alliance. The Opposition alone, in all its shades, and according to the measure of the parties NN ho compose it, exclaim, blacken, threaten, excite the Spanish Progressists to arms, partake in and foment the jealous spite of some foreign journals. Shall we pre vent their continuing their course ? Certainly not." In the meantime the preparations for the marriage proceed, and the Due DE MONTPENSIER has himself addressed the following letter to the Minister of Public Instruction : " I am about, Monsieur le Ministre, to beg you, in consideration of my approaching marriage, to grant a week's holiday to the pupils of the different colleges of the University. It will be pleasing to me to be able thus to remind them, on an occasion so interesting to myself, that I luive been, on the same benches, the fellow-pupil of their predecessors. My brothers, from the same feel ing, and under similar circumstances, solicited and ob tained the same favour from your predecessors and from yourself. Accept, Monsieur le Ministre, the renewed assurance of all my sentiments towards you.—Your affectionate, " ANTOINE, VORLEANS." It is needless to add that the Minister has complied with the request. We yesterday stated that the Duc DE MotirrEN stErt had signified his intention to refuse a dotation which the Spanish Cortes might vote to his bride! On this subject the National jeeringly observes : " Great news ! M. Bresson at Madrid has received crders to declare that the Duke de Montpensier re nounces the dotation which might be voted to his future bride ! This generosity, it is said, must confound the entire opposition of Spain ! It is enough, in fact, to excite ecstacies ! But let us look a little further. Fer dinand left to his two daughters seventeen millions of piastres, which is equal to 85,000,000 f. The Spanish Treasury has hitherto assigned to the Infanta an annual provision of 250,000?. Would it continue this to a Princess who has become a Frenchwoman ? This is very doubtful, for no one can tell how the next elections for the Cortes may go. At all events the discussion of this unpopular marriage would be renewed. It is con sequently an hypothesis which has been yielded to But the moiety of the 85,000,000 E is a reality care fully preserved. Besides, in thirteen years, 42,500,000 f. must have been greatly increased. This is an invincible temptation —so much money already securely and productively invested I What I when the Spanish Treasury is largely in arrear, and when the claimant is out of Madrid, must a regular formal demand of payment be made by a summoning officer ! Oh, fie no ; we will behave nobly. We will relinquish the pro vision of 250,000 f., and be content with the private for tune ! Why, however, is it carried to only 30,000,000 E ? Oh I Queen Christina has had the guardianship for 13 years, and the trust of 85,000,000 f. causes much trouble. Then, Madame Munoz has had many mishaps ; she has been running about the world ; she has eight children by her second husband ; she has had to bribe insurrec tions ; she has been a partner in banking-houses, and one of these in Paris has lately caused her a loss of 10 000 000 f. She also, in her turn, has been a rival in generosity. Take 30,000,000?., and call for no account of the trust. The bargain was so geed for both parties that it was concluded without haggling ! But we have at one stroke renounced a doubtful dotation of 250,000 E! Shade of Louis XIV. ! thou still hoverest over thy de scendants !" In another article the National throws the whole blame of the existing complications on M. GuizoT. " Only fancy," says the National, "M. GuizoT allowed the KING of the FRENCH to believe that the marriage of the Due DE MONTPENSIEE had been accepted. Louis PHILIPPE thought that the Queen of ENGLAND followed for a long time the phases of that negotiation, and he was amazed when he found that she never suspected such a thing. To conclude an affair of this kind without saying a word to a friendly Cabinet, to an allied Government, is a very cavalier proceeding, and one at which England is offended. M. GuizoT concealed the thing from every one. lle has hurt the feelings of England by not consulting her. lie has, besides, deceived the KING in letting him believe that diplomatic communica tions on that subject had taken place, and in making him believe that Lord ABERDEEN had consented to the marriage." Speaking of the conduct of M. GuizoT in thus wantonly breaking up the entente cordiale, it says— " If his policy had any sense, it was the intimate alli ance with England from which it was derived. And what is he doing at present ? He assumes the responsi bility of a marriage which changes the good relations between the two Governments. He wishes to accom plish this act, which was conceived, prosecuted, and executed without the knowledge of England by a sur prise and against her will. He commits against Lord Palmerston the identical fault with which he had so warmly reproached that Noble Lord during his embassy to London. He inflicts a wound at pleasure on the self-love of the British Cabinet. He excites the suscep tibilities of the nation, and he succeeds so well that Queen Victoria herself feels offended, and complains with a certain bitterness. What superior interest, therefore, could have decided M. Guizot to commit so giddy a bravado and so grave a provocation—an act so inconsistent on his part? Where can he now find the force from which he derived his existence? Is it Chris tina or Narvaez that can render to his system what the marriage deprives him of in England? Is our foreign policy about to change its principles? Who will defend it—who will protect it? If we can dispense with Eng land, we have been imposed on during the last fifteen years. We were told falsehoods in 1840, and the Duke de Broglie's speech in 1845 was but a fallacy. All the speeches of M. Guizot were a tissue of falsehoods. There was, therefore, no necessity to fly Tangiers as if van quished, and to pay for our glory there. There was nu necessity to follow the English to Texas, and to invent the balance of power in America. The Pritchard in demnity was, therefore, but a useless infamy. Either, therefore, all that we have seen is a dream—all that we have heard is an illusion, or M. Guizot, who so openly breaks with the British alliance, is the most insane and the most inconsistent of Ministers. It appears difficult to us that M. Guizot should long survive his triumph. Perhaps even had he any feeling of real pride remain ing, ho would not wait to be immolated! But he is rivetted to the car. The marriage must be accomplished, as well as all the other destinies ; and, perhaps, the epitaph of the great policy may serve as the epithala mium of this glorious hymen." The Courrier Francais says that the Moniteur will publish shortly an authentic act, in which the Duc DE MONTPENSIEE will declare in the most ex press and formal manner his intention to renounce personally for himself all right to the throne of Spain. This renunciation, as it strikes us, will be worth nothing, inasmuch as the Due DE bIONT PENSIER, has no right to the throne of Spain, neither will he acquire such right by his marriage. A re nunciation by himself and the INFANTA for them selves and their descendants would, perhaps, obviate many of the objections now entertained to the mar riage; but a renunciation merely . of personal rights, which the person renouncing does not possess, is not worth the paper it is written on. The Carlist movements have seriously alarmed the French Government. " The strictest surveillance," says the Constitutionnel, "is exercised in all the towns assigned to Spanish -refugees for their residence. The authorities have even thought proper to secure the persons of several of them. General Roro, who was living at Valenciennes, was arrested on the 223, and removed to the citadel. At Nantes, Colonel NOZALE, who has inhabited that city for five years, was also apprehended by several police agents, who, after searching his papers and lodging in the most minute manner, conducted him to the town prison. It appears that the Colonel lately visited Bourges, where he had a conference with Count DE MONTE- WOLIN." The Courrier de la Gironde, of the 22d inst., states that " the' flight of Count DE MONTEMOLIN and CABRERA had alarmed the Government, and that the superior authoritie 8 of Bordeaux had been instructed to adopt measures to prevent the departure of the Spaniards who hat 1. formerly served in the army of Don CARLOS. If our information be correct," says the Courrier," tru Prefect had sent for severa luf the general officers to obtain from them their words of honour that they would not leave for Spain. On their formal refusa 1 to subscribe to such an engage ment, the Prefect ordered General VILLAREAL and M. SARGIS (forme r Dobleraen of the household Don CARLOS) to be detained prisoners in their own lodgings:; old Cola ael MANZA.NES, ex-Commander in the Guards of N pure, and oeveral of hie oQIU‘ panions in exile, to be confined in the departmental gaol." Notwithstanding all these precautions, however, General MONTENEGRO, the best artillery officer in the Carlist service, has managed to escape, and to join the Count DE MoNTEMoLIN, as has Senor MON, his secretary. A large body of troops have been ordered to con centrate at Toulouse, and dispatches of a very pres3ing nature have been twat from Toulon per Castor steamer, to the Prince DE JOINVILLE, who is cruising in the Gulf of Spezzia. The Courrier Francais and the Constitutionnel both find fault with the abandonment of the Protec torate of France over the Society Islands. It appears by the following extract of a letter from Toulon, published in the Constitutionnel, that hostilities are on the point of commencing between AI3D-EL-FADER and the Emperor of Monocco :- " Great preparations are being made on both sides ; but the activity displayed in those critical circumstances by the Emir are incredible. Succours of every descriptien have arrived to him from the most re mote provinces of the empire. Abderrahman, on the point playing his last stake, has, if we are rightly informed, demanded the armed intervention of France ; but we understand that the latter merely promised to assemble a considerable corps of troops on the frontier of Algeria, in order to cut off all retreat from the partisans of Abd el-Kader, in case they should be beaten on the other side of the Tafna, and seek refuge on our territory. The French Government does not appear inclined to interfere openly in the contest about to take place between Abder rahman and Abd-el-Kader, but it has pledged itself to forward supplies of every sort to its ally, and a battery of six pieces of artillery with their caissons, destined for the Moorish army, is actually on its way to Toulon, where it is to arrive on the 27th and to embark on the 28th, in the steam-frigate sailing on that day for Algiers. This battery will be sent as quickly as possible to Oran, to be delivered by General Cavaignac to the Emperor's agent, or directly forwarded to Tangiers. Each piece is accompanied by a chief gunner or instructor, who will probably enter the service of the Emperor." The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Thursday at 82f. 50c. ; the Five per Cents., 117 f. 40c.; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,265 f. Rouen, 950 f.; Havre, 720 f. ; Great Northern, 718 f. 75c. ; Avignon, 910 f.. ; Vierzon, 625 f.; Bordeaux, 560 f.; Boulogne, 465 f.; Basle, 235 f. ; Dieppe, 3751.; Paris and Strasburg, 5011. 25c.; Tours and Nantes, 510 f. ; Paris awl Lyons, 5221. 50c.; Lyons and Avignon, 492 f. 50c. ; Bordeaux and - Cette, 482 f. 50c.; Spanish Three per Cents., 3634. LYoNs, SErr. 14.-Paris and Rouen, 958 f. 75c.; Avignon and Marseilles, 937 f. 50c.; Northern, 731 f. 75c.; Paris and Lyons, 1,286 f. 25c. BUSINESS DONE. IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, SUPTEMBER 25. Dutch Rhenish, s!f,—Louvain a la Sambre, 34 —Luxembourg, I% —Madras, Nellore, and Arcot, —Namur and Liege, I%—West Flanders, 3IA. TIIE PRIVY COUNCIL.--A special train was or dered at two o'clock at the Paddington station of the Great Western Railway, to convey the Cabinet Ministers to Slough, on their way to Windsor Castle, to attend the Privy Council appointed to be held by her Majesty this afternoon, at three o'clock. Lord John Russell, Lord Minto, Sir George Grey, Lord Morpeth, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and other Ministers, were expected to proceed by the train. Lord John Russell, it is expected, will remain to dine with her Majesty and the royal circle at the Castle, and continue on a visit until Monday next. CRIMINAL COURT-(THIS DAY). OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Justice MALLE and Mr. Baron PLATT.) RAPE.— William Keppcll, aged 40, an Irish labourer, was charged with having violated the person of Mary Haley, a child, aged 11 years. The evidence of the surgeon proved that the felony had not been committed. Mr. Justice MAULE summed up, and The jury at once found a verdict of Not Guilty. The prisoner was discharged. Martin Ryan, a porter, aged 29, was charged with having committed a similar offence on Ann Ware. This case was peculiarly atrocious, inasmuch as the girl was idiotic. The poor creature appeared in court, but no answer could be elicited to any of the questions put by the Learned Judge. The exhibition was so pain ful, that Mr. Baron Platt almost immediately requested the father to take her away. The surgeon proved that a felonious assault had been committed, and other witnesses stated that they disco vered the prisoner in bed with the unfortunate girl. The prisoner called no witnesses. Mr. Baron PARKE summed up, and the jury returned a verdict of Guilty. Mr. Baron PLATT then, after a feeling and impressive address, sentenced the prisoner to transportation for life. The prisoner, on the sentence being given, exclaimed, " Oh, that is too hard, my Lord—that is quite too hard." Mr. Baron PLATT—No, not too hard, considering the heinous offence you have been guilty of. Prisoner—Oh, quite too hard; and I'm innocent too. The prisoner was then removed to the cells. NEW COURT. (Before the COMMON SERGEANT.) Eliza hillier, a damsel of easy ♦irtue, was indicted for stealing a gold watch, value 201., the property of Wm. Edward Gibb, in a dwelling-house. From the evidence adduced, it appeared that the pro secutor, who is in the army, on the 12th of the present month had been dining out, and having taken too much wine, he was returning home, when he met with the prisoner and went with her to a house of ill fame. After remaining with her some time he left, having forgotten his watch, which he had laid on the table. Upon recol lecting that he had left his watch behind him he returned to the house, but found the prisoner and his watch gone. The prisoner, on the same evening, went to a pawn broker named Dolree, and offered the watch to pledge for 51. The pawnbroker inquired whose it was, and upon the prisoner stating that it was her husband's, he desired her to bring him, and detained the watch. Ultimately the prisoner was taken into custody, she asserting that the prosecutor had given her the watch. Mr. Clarkson appeared for the prosecution. Mr. I.IORRY was counsel for the prisoner, and con tended that the prosecutor, being intoxicated, might have given her the watch without recollecting it. The COMMON-SERGEANT having summed up the case, the jury found the prisoner Guilty,und The COURT sentenced her to four months' imprison ment in the House of Correction, and hard labour. - ~._- Pk, MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 12,000 to 15,000 balesAat full prices, one half being taken on speculation. The sale of railway shares on Friday, at Messrs. Lamond and Co.'s, was well attended, and prices generally were well supported. A large business was ,done in the ludian lines. The following are a few of the principal sales . Great North of India .£0 5 6 Great Southern of Madras 0 5 6 East Indian ... Madras,_Nellore, and Arcot 0 7 6 Great Western of Bengal 0 7 6 Northern and Southern Connecting Manchester and Southampton Italian and Austrian ...... 2 2 6 Goole and Doncaster 1 10 0 Grand Union 0 13 0 Leicester and Bedford Cornwall and Devon Central Reading and Reigate ... 0 16 0 Direct Northern 1 13 6 Churnet and Blythe .. 1 10 0 Paris and Rouen Reading, Guildford, and Reigate 0 16 0 Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham Namur and Leige The Post-office authorities are now most stringently carrying out the last notice as to Post-office orders. With the view of affording the fullest information to those who may want to avail themselves of the facilities in this respect, we may usefully insert here the follow ing extract from the General Post-office notification : " Great inconvenience having been produced, owing to the neglect of parties who obtain or receive money orders in not attending strictly to the regulations laid down for their guidance, the public are requested, when applying for the payment of money orders, to comply strictly with the rules laid down in the money order it self; and when obtaining money orders, to take care that the full Christian and surnames of the persons in whose favour the money orders are obtained, as well as their own, together with their address and occupa tion, aro properly given, and that the names are correctly spelt, as should these precautions not be complied with, payment of the money order, when it is presented, must be refused." • We are practicably enabled to confirm the fact stated as to the " inconvenience" from parties not attending to the requests of the Post-office authorities, but to demand the Christian names of all parties in a firm, in whose favour a Post-office order is obtained, and sent, seems almost too much. However, the order is now impera tive, and it must be obeyed. There are several ship arrivals announced this morn ing in the City, but we do not learn that any more re cent intelligence has been received than that before com municated. The Bank return for the week ending the 19th inst., has these variations: — A decrease in the amount of notes issued of 106,3451., or to 29,758,6151. An increase in the rest of 5,7021., or to 3,873,4911. An increase in the public deposits of 566,7704 or to 8,765,570/. An increase in the other deposits of 221,7214 or to 8,316,9241. A small decrease in the seven day and other bills of 34,625/. An increase in other securities of 727,1854 or to 13,049,0011. A decrease in the notes in the banking department of 29,405/, or to 9,817,1951. A decrease in the amount of bullion of 44,5871., or to 16,319,2911. Scarcely any business has been transacted in the Funds to-day. Consols fur Account opened at 951, and are now at 95i ; for Money the price is at 951. Ex chequer-bills have varied from 12s. to 14s. premium. In the Foreign Funds a show of activity has been displayed. Spanish is at 261 ; The Three per Cents. at 37 ; the Belgic Four-and-a-Half per Cents. at 97i ; Mexican at 25 ; and Brazilian at 881. The Railway Share and Scrip Market is heavy. ONF. CLOSING PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES. 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 954 IA 95% Bank Stock for Account ...... —210 M Consols for Account..: 9 5 1/ 0 /& 95 1 / 2 Exchequer Bills, 1,000/., 1 1 4 d l4 12 14 pm. 15 Ditto 5001. Ditto Small ... 12 14 pm. 14 ox - E CLOSING PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK PRICES Brazilian Bonds Ditto, New, 1829 and 1839 — 86 Equador Bonds Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846 24% 25 25 Peruvian Bowls, G per Cents 37 37 Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. Ditto. 3 per Cent 37 371 i, Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent 4 2 1,E 42 1 / 2 Dividends on the above payable in London. Belgian 416 per Cant 9 7 3A 97 3 A Dutch, 2 1 ,4 per Cent Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates 95 95 PRICES or PAID. BUSINESS DONE CLOSING SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES. Aberdeen Amber.. Nott., Boston, and Eastern Junction 2%..... Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush l% ...... Aylesbury and Thame.. 1% Belfast & County Down 2 1 / a Birmin. and Gleucester. 100 Ditto New 1 7% — .... ... — Birmingham and Ox ford Junction Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire June.... 2 3 A Boston, Stamfd, & Birm. 225. — Bristol and Exeter 75 Ditto, New Bristol and Gloucester... 30 ...... ..... Bristol and Liver. June . 2 1 /....... Buckinghamshire Caledonian Ditto Half Shares 2 l /2 PA ... ..... ..... 14 Ditto Extension ...... 2% Cambrian & Grand Jane 42s Cambridge and Oxford.. 1% — Central Kent 2% Chester and Holyhead... 27% 24% 24% Churnet and Blythe Chester and Manchester 425. Cheltexham and Oxford 2 — . — Clydesdale Junction ..... 15 Cork, Blackrock, and Passages Cork and Killarney ... 2% Cork and. Waterford ... 1% Cornwall _ . ........_ Ditto, Half Shares ... 2%...... Cornwall & Cent'lDevon 2 I)erby and Crewe ...... ... 2% Direct Lincoln, East Ret ford, and Shetld. June. 2% Direct Manchester (Remington's) Ditto (Rastrick's) ..._ Direct Northern Direct Norwich I Dublin and BelfastJunc. 10 Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine DubliP and Galway..... 4 Dundalk & Enniskillen 7% Eastern Counties 14/. 16s 21%% ...... ..... 21% Ditto New lOl. 16s. Ditto Perpetual, 5 per Cent, No. 1.......61. 13s. 4d.... Ditto ditto. No. 2... 61. 13s. 4d... Do., York Extension.. 105....... 2 EastDereh'i andNor'ch 1 Eastern Union 35 .. ... Ditto, Quarter Shares 8% — Do. Exten.(Harwich) 1% — .•••••••• Do., Camb. 'and Ely.; 0 2 %. ... East Lancashire East Lincolnshire East & West of England 1 %.....• Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ...... 72% 71 ...... Ditto Half Shares ... 10 18 Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% -— Edinburgh & Northern.. 12% — .• ••• Edinburgh and Perth... 3 ...... - - Ely and Huntingdon ... 7'/....•• Enniskillen and Sligo ... 2% — Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorset 5% Glasgow,Kilmar.,&Ayr 50 ...... - - Ditto, New .. 15 Do., -V I Shares (5 per cent. guar.) Gloue.,Aberystwith,and Central of Wales 1%...... Goole, Doncaster, &c. .. 425. — Grand Union (Notting and Lynn Great Eastern &Western 2%...... ••• •• - GreatGrimsby and Shef field Great South. and West. (Ireland) Great Munster 2% ...... - - Great North of' Scotland 2 1 / 2 . Great North of England..loo 230 Ditto New Ditto, New . Ditto, New Great Western 85 Ditto % Shares Ditto !‘ Shares Ditto Fifths ,3,/ Ditto, New ••• ...... Guildford, Fare'm,Ports. 5 •••'•••"•" •, Harwich and Eastern Counties Junction ... 2 ...... Hull and 5e1by............ 50 Ditto 14 Sh ares Do. Half Shares 25 Ipswich & Bury St. Edm. 11 1 / 2 _ Do., do., and Norwich 2% Irish North Midland ... 1% Killarney Junctions l4 - Kendal and Windermere 1 1 / 2 Lancaster and Carlisle... 45 Do. New Lame, Belfast, and Bal lytnena Leeds and Bradford Leeds and Carlisle Leicester & Birmingham 22 5. — ., ~ Leicester and BedfJrd... 225....••• l i a, dis % dis. Leeds and Dewsbury ... 17%...... Lpool., Mnchstr, & New castle Junction Liverpool and Bury ... 14 .. ... .. London and Blackwall. 161. 135. 4 d. 8% 8 B% Do. New Ditto Extension ~ 5 ...... —.............— London and Brighton 5O .. ... 58 1 / .' 2 1 4 1 5 8 3/ Ditto, Fifths London and Croydon, 13/. 15s. 9d. ...... Do. Guaran. 5 per cent. 9 London and Green wich 12/ 15s 4d Do. Preference ...18/175 2d London, Hounslow, and Western ' 4, , ,ci.,,, l;:, N. W, ,i. , 2• - i,!(..-: ..198 199 , Quarte , 4 . •• • • •-• Do., no., New Shares.. 2 Ditto Fifths Ditto, Eighths (G. J,) 12% Do., New 1 / 4 Shares (G. J.) - Do 40/. Shares (L.M.) 8 Lt nd. & S.Western 411 6s 10d 6 9 1A% ...... .... 697143 Do. New Consol. Bths 40 Do. New Do. New 1% London and Y0rk...... ... 2 1 / 1% 3 / 4 Do. 4 Shares - London and Windsor . 1A... . London, Salisbury, and Yeovil ..... ............. 2%...... - I ondonderry& Coleraine 12%...... .....• Londonderry and Ennis- - killen 12% .... - Lynn and Ely Lynn and Dereham Manchester and Leeds... 82 - Ditto I A, Shares Lo. Quarters Do. Fifths 3 . .... 9M... ........ ... Do. Sixteenths 6 M — -- Do. Extension 42s. Manchester and Birinin. 40 Do. Quarters (A) ...- Do. Quarters (B) - _ Do. Quarters (C) 1 ...--- _ . . Manchester,Buxton,and Matlock 42s. ...... 21% 0 % p•••••• 1 P Manchester, Birm., and Mould Junction .• ... - ~•••'•"" .... 1 Manchest. & Southampt. 2 ..-... 1 Midland lOO .....1361/ 135 ..... - ••• 135 Do. 1 , ifths 2 - 34% Do. New Do. Birm., and Derbyloo .-- Midind & East. Counties 2%...... Midland Great Western Irish ....• Newcastle and 3.Berwick 15 Do. North Shields ... 25 Newcastle and Carlisle... 100 Newmrket &Cliesterfrd 2/.12s 3 / 4% p.. ...... 5/ Newport & Abergavenny 2% — Newry and Enniskillen 4% Newark, Sheffield, and Boston ... .. ~. ......... W s _ ... ... ........ - Norfolk 100 Do. Half Shares Do. Extension 34 1 North British ... ..... ... 25 ...... 35 344 Do. Half Shares ll ...... ............... 15/4 ..-- Do. F •ifths 3% Do. Carlisle Extols. 1 1 4 aV ... i% .-• North of Norfolk .. 2 3 / 4 ~ •••••• Northern and Eastern... 50 Do. Scrip (issd. 5 dis.) 45 Do. Quarter Shares... 12 1 ,4 - . ..- Do. New N. Kent & Direct Dover 2 1 ,4 — ..... ......., ---,,, „ North Staffordshire ...... 42 5. North Wales Northern and Southern Connecting ............ 2 % — -•" Northampton, Banbury, , -.., and Cheltenham ...... 2 Nottingham & Mansfld. - Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton ...... 12 % 74 l,i Oxford, Witney, and Cheltenham.... Portsmouth Direct 3% — ....., ...... Preston and Wyre Do. % Shares - - Reading, Guildford, and Reigate - ..... Richmond _ 10 - Rugby, Leamington,and Warwick 77: 19 ••• •••••• Scottish Central - ... Do. New 2iA - • Scottish Midland .... Do. Extension 2% Sheffield, Buxton, Leek ...... Potteries, andCrewe... 1% — Sheffield & Manchester 100 Do. Quarter Shares... 8 ••••' Do. Lincoln sh ire June. 1M — ~.... Do. & Great Grimsby. 10 ..- Do. do. Extension 425. .... ...... .... Shrewsbury and Birm... 2% .... . —... .... Shropshire Union Shrews., Wolverhamp , & S. Staffordsh. June.. 2 1 / 2 , Sligo and Shannon IA -- South Devon South Midland 42s. South & Midlands June. 42s — South Staffordshire June. 2 1 / South Eastern & Dover. 33'/8 38% De., No. 1 2O Do., Ne. 2. Do., No. 3 Do., No. 4 St.Alban's, Hatfield,and Hertford Junction ... 425. — ••••••......•• Staines and Richmond... 1 - ......••••• Staffordsh. & Shropshire 23 /4 — South Wales ... .. 5 Swans. & Loughor & Ca meron's Stm. Coal. ... 2 ...... Taw Vale Extension ... 2 Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke - Vale of Neath Wakefield, Pontefract, & Goole 2 2 1 /2 — ......., ..... .. Warwickshire & London 42s — .. Warwick and Worcester 425. ...... — •,••• Waterford and Kilkenny 8 ...... Waterford and Limerick 22% — •... Waterfd,Wx.frd,Wicklw , Ind Dublin al.. Wexford, W aterford, and Valentia Waveney Valley 2 - ........ Welsh Midland West Riding Union West Cornwall 2 ••• • • . ........... • West London,OldShares 20 Arexford and Carlow ... 21/2 I . % ' 'isbeach and St. Ives... 2 237055N,il "i 4 , , 2 1" ; 13 1 . 1 7. iltg, Somerset, &Wey mouth Worcester,llereford,Ross' and G10uce5ter......... 425. Worcester, Tenbury, and Ludlow Worcester,Warwick, and Rugby York and Car1i51e......... 2 3 / 4 4l York and Newcastle 25 ... . 40% l O- 14 Ditto New 1 York and North Midland 50 387 , Ditto % Shares 25 Do. Scarboro Branch. 25 Do. Selby Do. Extension 2O — Do. East and West Rid ing Extension FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Anglo-Belgian - 4 — ' Barbadoes ...• • 1 ...... ••••••., Boulogne and Amiens... 14 ...... - ........ ' Bordeaux & Mediterran. 2 • Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette (Mackenzie's)... 2 .. .-. Do. (Espelete's) Flanders and 2 •••• - ' '' .............. Calais, Dunkrk,andWest Diamen-d. 2 —.. •• ........ Calcutta Harbour ....... ..... Callao, Lima, and Pacific Coast 1 .. ... ... ......"‘"... -- Central of Spain ... . - Ceylon.. ..- Os - Demerara - Dendre Valley - 4 ...... ...........• Direct Bombay and , s/ M a d ras Dutch Rhenish 6 ...... -- • •..•••. ...... 4- East Indian ... ..... .... ss. ..... %............ II .......' Eastern Belgian •.. 2% ...... -- .................. .._. Fampoux 84 Hazebrouk 4 ...... -- - Great Indian Peninsular— r 58. ...... G rea t Western Bengal... ss. ...... Great Western Ca I,‘ nada... 3 ...... - I ta li a n and A us trian... 3 Jamaica S.Paid. Junction 1 Jersey Louvain ala Sambre ... 5 ... . ..' ......... _ L u xembourg... 4 Lyons and Avignon 2 Madras ... 1 ............... ............... Madras, Nellore, and Arcot V Madrid and Valentia.... 2 8 ... .• •-- ........ Mauritius .. • •ii. Namur and Liege NnofFranceConstituted 5 ...... 13!6 41,••• North Jamaica... ...... ... 1 - ••••r•••-•••..•• Orleans and Vierzon ... 10 Orleans and Bordeaux... 6 ...... .4/ 3s 4d 4 ...• --- lg Over Yssel Paris SeLyonsConatituted 5 Paris and Orleans 2O - IS 48, L 5677 4i Paris and kouen Paris and Strasbourg Constituted Rouen and Havre Sambre and Meuse ...... 8 .... ...0. Strasbourg and Bale ... 14 St. Laurence & Atlantic — ...,. fours and Nantes Con stituted ....... ..... 5 - .... ..•• Tournay, Jurbise, Lan den, and Hasselt....... 8 .... Trinidad West Flanders ...... .... 6 MINES. Real del Monte Unregd. ..0 ....0 3 34 LLOYD'S SHIPPIN G.—(THIS D LONDON, SEPT. 26.—Wind this day at noon south,' breeze, and cloudy. org el DEAL, SEPT. 24.—Wind W. to W.N.W.—Arrd. Todd, Para; Highlander, Quebec ; Kingston, lier i f:'telY South Australia ; Mary nn, Allen, Madras; Tigrie• 11- 000 Ceylon ; Janet Muir, Heron, Ceylon ; Content, Afrios; Park, Sierra Leone; Regina, Dominica ; Marliiier ° ;ja Dominica; Statira, Dominica; Hindoo, New Odes 0 0, be t' sailed for Antwerp ; St. Ann's, Richards, Pugwash ; re, 113 ton, Oliver, Quebec. Arrd. from the River, Napoleon, P,411,0' Black Sea ; Becket, Squire, Cape of Good Hope. The t ige af ticleer, Passmore, from Jamaica, and the Patriot, Dern 00 0 from Cardiff to Loudon, have been in contact, the forme' oe jib-boom, and the latter her bowsprit; both procuedech mo t( Laurel, Roach, from Marseilles to Antwerp, and the JAI"- were in contact last night. SnotoniAm.—Arrd. Belsay Castle, Pratt, Quebec.., w tta; Livia:root, SEPT. 25.—Arrd. Ranger, Stepney, OW" es o ro Victoria, Rio Grande ; Thomas Mellor, Maceio ; AO , Victoria, Thomas, Maranham ; Freeman, White, eolos' Columbian, Merryman, Mobile; Richmond, idustate,, o riOt lachicola ; Empire, Russell, New York; St. George , • ida ditto; Mountaineer, Bogart, St. John's, New Dm 0 5 '01 - Asia, Hannah, Shediac ; Lady Constable, Richebucto ; de gOr licate, Quebec. Off port, Britannia, Bonny; 13aziA Jamaica. OFF NORTH FORELAND. SEPT. 24.—Trenton, Quebee•_„l, COWES, Sarr. 25.—Arrd. Rialto, liarrison, New OrlePro, PLYMOUTH, SEPT. 25.—Wind N.N.W.—Off port, mona, Trinidad for Bremen. ad . FA!.MOUTII, SEPT. 25.—Wind W.S.W. to W.N.W. the Agnes, Alexandria, Patagonia and Bahia. 1P r iAce BIDEFORD, SEPT. 24.—Arrd. John, Queue°, Edward's Island. PILL SErr. 24.—Off, Bethel, St. John's, New Brivatrivid‘' for iristul. ray CLYDE, ;Z,LI.T. *23. Arrd. Greig, Ikr a ; 0./ London, APDonald, I'ictou. Sid. Lavinia, Kellar, lotto, DULLIN, SEPT. 23.—Sid. Lord John Russell, 114 St. John's, him's, New Brunswick. T:7l 1. .L$ Nom,' „ - britinns LONDON, SATURDAY, SEP r .CENIBER 26, 1846. The unwieldy remains of Protection have been taken down to Chelmskord, to be exhibited to and duly mourned over by a few of the relatives and friends, who had for many years delusively enjoyed an intimate acqu:sintance with the unfortunate de ceased. But - whilst they mourned, they feasted,—it having been, settled, by a preliminary resolution, that no stomP.chs were strong enough to continue empty in ate presence of such a distressing object and ghastly spectacle. Accordingly, to support them through the painful scene they had determined on witnessing, they ordered an excellent dinner for the occasion, and wrote a very pathetic letter to Mr. TOOLE, the celebrated toast-master, to run down fi;nd ' do his best to cheer up their spirits. The Duke o f RICHMOND acted in his usual, candid and straight forward manner. His Grace, having very op portunely flown to a convenient dis'6ance of five hundred miles, sent a letter, stating that his health had suffered so much from the attention he had paid to the departed monster during his last illness, that he begged leave to decline risking it any further at the corr:plimentary " wake" to which they had done his Grace the honour of forwarding an invitation. Lord ASHBURTON took the like whole some view. Just returned from the Continent where his Lordship had been for a little fresh air, and the composure of his shattered nerves, a very polite refusal to be present at the prandial inquest was dispatched by Lord ASHBURTON to the Essex Agricultural Protection Society. We think that in these, and other numerous instances, a very wise dis cretion was exercised. Self-preservation is the first law of nature ; and every writer on the preservation of health has alluded to the deteriorating influences of brooding over fetid remains. It may be a very wise law for the promotion of anatomical science, that the bodies of great criminals should be handed over I after death for dissection ; but it is not to be expected that all those who prompted them, for their own sel fish purposes, to the commission of the grave offences, for which they have suffered the extreme penalty, should be necessitated to watch over their mangled re - mains, wherever and however they may be whimsi- I cally hawked about. Therefore we hold that the Duke of RICHMOND, Lord ASHBURTON, et hoc genus omne, are fairly justified in the course they have adopted. The sudden and violent death that overtook the ' object so deeply commiserated at Chelmsford, was frequently adverted to in very feeling terms during the effervescent speeches delivered after dinner, and much was said as to the actual cause of the shocking occurrence. Lord GEORGE BENTINCK was observed to howl most piteously. The intensity of his Lord ship's.sufferings elicited considerable sympathy, and a great sensation was produced, when the Noble Member for Lynn declared his belief that his de ceased friend bad come to his death by secret poison; and the feelings were all the more strongly worked upon, when his Lordship added, that he had known the lamented victim many years, and who, till within a short time of his melancholy end, appeared to be as hale and hearty an old cock as ever stepped. We are told that Lord GEORGE is exceedingly hurt at the rumour that has got abroad, that the old gentleman had pampered himself with very high diet all his life, in the shape of import duties, and that, though he was, to all appearances, a very healthy subject, his system had been, for a long time, gradually un dermined. We are further informed that Lord GEORGE is quite positive the late squire never hob bled about on crutches, when in private. We are bound to confess however—making every allowance for the favourable recollections and poignant senti ments of Lord GEORGE—that we have been credibly assured he could not get out of his easy-arm-chair for many years without calling for artificial support, and that he used to give the strictest orders to his confi dential servants never to divulge the fact to the The good, gullible farmers had to listen to many dreary speeches, but must have left the table very little enlightened as to the past or future. Lord GEORGE rode over the course in his usual style. A great deal of bombastic fustian, much coarseness of language, and impudently-assumed fallacies, con stituted the chief ingredients of his Lordship's address. Lord GEORGE'S egotism never soared higher. His were " good, honest intentions," but his opponents were " careless of principle and political honour," and "dirty fellows" into the bargain. Ire land, to be saved, must, according to this redoubtable champion and undoubted authority, " cling to the last planks of Protection." Such are his Lordship's pleasures of hope. If Ireland is suffering from famine, she must keep her own superabundance of grain to herself, for which she is entirely indebted to the late system of the corn-laws. Such is Lord GEORGE'S panacea, and into wase head it never seems to have entered, that if famine is to be thus staved off in one part of our dominions, it would infallibly bring it over another, which has afforded the usual market for the sale of the produce he would prohibit from exportation from Ireland. The Noble Member for Lynn makes startling dis coveries. His Lordship is sapient enough to eat a cake and have it too. So far from Ireland having benefited by the corn-laws, her backward state in agriculture is referred to as the chief cause of her misery, and every suggestion is being daily poured forth to accelerate improvements in the cultivation of her soil, which would long ago have been engendered and stimulated, had the wholesome influence of com petition, incidental to freedom of trade, prevailed. The old bugbear, that foreigners had closed their ports against the exportation of grain in periods of scarcity, was routed up anew, and al lusion made to this having been done last year by Sweden, Belgium, Sardinia, and Egypt. Countries are right enough to do this when they have only sown corn sufficient for their own consumption ; but steps adopted by foreigners, under our old laws of prohibition, are no guide to their future policy under the auspices of unfettered commerce, when, for the purposes of commerce, other nations will produce an article in abundance proportioned to the demand for it in this country. The greatest of modern Em perors tried to hamper us by his celebrated Berlin decrees ; but the energy of the merchant defeated his purblind policy, even in the zenith of his power. Much more of rhodomontade was uttered by the Protectionist leader, which we cannot dwell upon at present. His ignorance of the principles of our Con stitution is absolutely glaring. Altogether, the meeting at Chelmsford goes further than we expected to prove the monopolists the most incapable set of men for understanding the wants, or promoting the interests of a great country like this, that ever figured in public life. On Wedeesday the members of the Court of Common Council resolved unanimously to petition Parliament cn two subjects of extreme importance to the sanatory condition of the metropolis :—Firstly, to prohib the interment of the dead within the precincts of the City, and secondly, to prevent the grievances resulting from the smoke of steam-engines, from the furnaces of manufactories, and from the chimneys of other buildings. We have already so frequently had occasion to dilate upon the necessity of some comprehensive and immediate alteration in these particulars, that the urgency of the question must instantly present itself to the imagination of our readers on the mere perusal of the above announce ment. Only very recently we directed public grati tude to the'patriotic perseverance of Mr. MACKINNON in bringing his motions annually before the attention of the House of Commons. We then endeavoured to show that the exertions of that Honourable Gentleman were only different from the evrtione made during BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.) Patrick Nyland, the Irishman, who has been so often remanded on the charge of throwing two bricks from the roof of a house in the Strand, and seriously injuring Mr. Harvey and Miss Tomkins, who were passing at the time, was finally brought before Mr. Ilenry this morning. It appeared that both Mr. Harvey and Miss Tomkins were now out of danger, and that neither of them in tended to appear against the prisoner. Mr. HENRY therefore discharged him, but warned him that if either party had died he would have been tried for manslaughter. MARLBRO'-STREET.—(THIS DAY.) George Iluddlestone, a boy about 16 years of age, was put to the bar charged with turning to account the su perstition of the people of Tottenham-court-road. Police-constable E 166 said he was on duty in Totten ham-court-road last night between ten and eleven o'clock, and saw a large crowd about Tottenham- court road Chapel, collected by a number of boys, who gave out there was a ghost astir. Shortly one and another of the ghost-seers began to find that their pockets had been lightened, and to complain to the police. He said he watched the boys in the crowd, and distinctly saw the one at the bar with his hand in a lady's pocket. The defendant denied the charge made against him. Mr. HARDwica remanded him till Tuesday, that in quiry might be made about his character. THE YOCCA GLoaroso.—Four of these beautiful plants are now in flower at the Surrey Zoological- Gar dens. It is supposed the extreme dryness and warmth of the weather has occasioned such an unusual occur rence. These plants are " miniature aloes," shooting their flower sterns from the centre of the plant exactly after the fashion of the aloe, and the shape of the stem and form of the petals are very similar. The flower stem grows to the height of eight or ten feet. The Baron Rehausen, Charge d'Affaires for Sweden and Norway, with his suite, arrived in this country yes terday morning, by the General Steam Navigation Com pany's mail-packet John Bull, from Hamburgh. SPLENDID METEOR.—The most brilliant and re markable specimen of a " shooting star" that we recol lect to have ever witnessed passed over the metropolis last night. At fifteen minutes to ten the atmosphere became suddenly lighted up with an intense glare, fully as strong as the brightest moon-light, but of a lurid blueish tinge, and the attention of every one who hap pened to be in the open air was immediately attracted to the magnificent phenomenon passing over head. The meteor first made its appearance in the shape of a globe of fire, a little south of the zenith, and shot across the heavens towards the north, until it be came extinguished after passing a few degrees beyond the polar star, and then the fiery train which it left behind appeared broken into two ; the shorter part being nearest to the nucleus and disappearing first after it, whilst the remaining part, which seemed to be more than twenty degrees in length, retained its vivid brightness for about thirty seconds. The most singular feature in the phenomenon was then observed. The train, which had been changing gradually from the bright phosphoric white to a dull red, assumed a ser pentine appearance, which soon changed into a semi circular one, and perfectly resembled a cluster of minute stars, gradually becoming fainter and fainter until, after a lapse of nearly five minutes, it quite vanished. The phenomenon excited very general interest. The atmos phere was beautifully clear, and several shooting stars on a small scale were observed during the evening. A laburnum tree is now in full bloom in the garden of Mr. Barnes, jun , in South-street ; such an instance at this period of the year, not being remem bered by the (Vest arborist in our neighbourhood, ex cept this season.—Dorset Chronicle. EXTRAORDINARY ROBBERY.—Some person or per ,,,l nt(rt d thy: toner of Crowle Churc,l, af W nigh's oho, and took away the haocle face th 4, cock A reward of 101. is offered by the Vicar, the Rev. Mr. bun combe, for the detection of the o ff ending party.—Don caacrChronicle. tae CI Pri❑ ?if , G Rio A Be, / 0, pe / "I 8 Si Bee alb .04a B to The Ma 14de. 31, littes It- 14.11 4 93 I *eejte.t k ec ~ t linr •••........... I 'D% ',