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-1-.0-NDON, OXFORD, and CIIELTEN 114x RAILWAY COMPANY. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital 1,500,0001., in 75,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit 2/. per Share. PROVISIONAL DIRRCTORS (With power to add to their number). Henry Thomas Hope, Esq., Deepdene, Surrey, and Mansfield-scree London James Aspivall, Esq., Liverpool and Cheltenham Henry Bell, Esq., Chalfont Lodge, the Park, Cheltenham John Burton, Esq., Andover Lodge, Cheltenham 31 r. Wanam Bidmead, Cheltenham- Samuel Carrington, Esq., Cheltenham Thomas Aquila Dale, Esq., Malvern House, Cheltenham Johr, Eldridge, Esq., Promenade, Cheltenham Ba 7. ithani Jones, Esq., Cambray House, Cheltenham Mr. Henry Haines, Celtenham James Brough Lawson, Esq., Pine Villa, the Park, Cheltenham John Smith Riviere, Esq., Cheltenham James Webster, Esq., llatherly Court, Cheltenham Richard Warwick, Esq„ Wyddrington House, Cheltenham Slr. George Arthur. Williams, Cheltenham John Wadley Hughes, Esq., Mayor of Gloucester William Montague, Esq., Gloucester William Washbourne, Esq., Gloucester J. S. Browning, Esq., Oxford Henry Hall, Esq., Seswell Barton, Oxfordshire, and Mansfield-stree' London Charles Tawney, Esq., Oxford sir Harry Verney, Bart., Steeple Claydon H The Hon. Philip Sydney Pierrepont, Evenly amptcmshiro Humphrey Humphreys, Esq., Buckingham Robert Benson, Esq. James Brownell 'toothily, Esq. Edward Cropper, Esq. Frank Somerville Bead, Esq. Joseph Elornby, Esq. 110413 Donelly Mangles, Esq., M.P. Captain Constantine Richard Moc,ese m , R.N. Patrick Maxwell Stewart, Esq., MT. Thomas Smith, Esq. Sir James Duke, M.P., DevOr,shire-terrace, London, Peter Davey, Esq., 1, Sirssex-terrace Re gent's Park, Joseph Underwood, 1:5.4., kh th ac eaP ark , Blackheath Kent, rouse, Bucks Hall, Brackley, North• Directors of the London and North Western Railway Company. Directors of the Ox. ford, Witney, Chet. tenharn, and Glou cester Indepen. dent Railway Corn patty. Henry Thomas COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT. IY. ope, E Edward Croer, Esq. James Webster Es q , Mr. George 4 6 .rthur Williams Frank Somerv pp ille Head, Esq. Joseph Homby, Esq. J. S. Browr",mg, Esq . Ross Donelly Mangles. Esq., M.P. Sir Jame', Duke, M.P. Captain C. R. 3loorsom, R.N. Joseph ilnderwood, Esq. Patrick M. Stewart, Esq., M.P. Rohe': t Benson, Esq. Thomas Smith, Esq. J. 7.. Boothby, Esq. ENGINEER.—Robert Stephenson, Esq. BANKERS: London—Messrs. Glyn, Halifax, Mills, and Co. Oxford--Messrs. Wootton and Co. Witney—Messrs. John Williams, Clinch, and Co. Cheltenham—The County of Gloucester Bank Gloucester—The Gloucestershire Banking Company. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Newman, Gwinnett, and Ticehurst, and} Cheltenham James Boodle, Esq. Messrs. Parker, llay es, Barnwell, and Twisden, 1, Lincoln's Inn fields, London Samuel Carter, Esq., Birmingham Messrs. H. and W. Toogood, 22. Parliament-street, London SECRETARY (PRO TEM.)—Wyndham Harding, Esq. PROSPECTUS. The object of this Company is to construct a direct and continuous line of railway, on the narrow gauge, from Cheltenham through Northleach, Burford, and Witney, to Oxford, and thence, by Thome, to form a junction with the London and Birmingham Railway, at once opening the shortest route from those towns and the surround ing districts to the Metropolis, and by means of the Oxford and Bletchley, and other lines in connexion therewith, to Bedford, Cam bridge, Norwich, and the whole of the eastern side of the kingdom. The undertaking is promoted by parties locally interested in the district through which the line will pass, in conjunction with the shareholders in the Oxford, Witney, Cheltenham, and Gloucester Independent Company, who introduced a Bill into Parliament during the session which has just closed, for making the line between Ox ford and Cheltenham, which failed upon technical objections only. It will be the aexious desire of the committee to consult the wishes of the inhabitants as to the terminus, and the mode of aprroachiog the town of Cheltenham. A large portion of the capital will be subscribed by the London and North-Western Railway Company, who have also agreed to lease the line In perpetuity, at a rent equal to four pounds ten shilling per cent. upon the outlay, with an equal division of surplus profits. This line will reduce the distance between Cheltenham and Lon don to 100 miles, being a saving of 22 miles as compared with the present route, and the distance between Oxford and London will be shorter than by the Great Western Railway, without taking Into account the saving in time arising from the more convenient Dosi tion of the London terminus at Enston-square as compared with Pad dington, which, to parties going to the City and most parts of the me tropolis, may he considered as nearly equal to ten miles of railway travelling. An unbroken narrow gauge communication will also be effected, by means of this line, between the docks and port of London and those of Gloucester, and there is no doubt ev , :ntually with Bristol, an object of considerable commercial importraice. Worcester, and the important district of which it forms the centre, will also be brought by WS line within the same distance of London as by any other lines sanctioned by Parliament. It having been decided by Parliament that (with some exceptions, not applying to the present case) all new lines of railway shall here after be constructed on the narrow gauge, it is obvious that the trattle of the districts accommodated, by the proposed line will be best developed by a company in connexion with the existing narrow gauge'lliies, giving, at the same time, to the public the advantages of that competition which the Legislature have recently evinced their anxiety to establish between rival companies. Applications for shares may be made, in the form given below, to the Secretary, at the Temporary Offices of the Company, 29, Great George-street, Westminster. In the allotment of shares a preference will be given to parties resident on the line, or haring local interest. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of the London, Oxford, and Chelten ham Railway (provisionally registered). Gentleinen,—l request you will allot me shares in the above undertaking on the terms of the prospectus ; and I agree to accept the same or such less number as you shall allot to me. And I un dertake to pay the deposit thereon, and to execute the Subscriber's Agreement and Parliamentary Contract when required so to do. Dated this day of , 1846. Name . .... Residence ........ Description ........ Reference •....... . RAILWAY SHARES BY PUBLIC SALE. MESSRS. LAMOND, SMALE, AND LAMOND, Railway Share Auctioneers, beg to thank their Friends and the Public for their continued support and patronage, and to announce that their Public Sales of Railway Shares, &c., take place every Tassoev and FILIDAT, at One o'clock, at the Mall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street, London, to which place, favours, containing instructions (with a reference), are respectftilly requested to be addressed. All Scrip and Share Certificates must be deposited, the day previous to their being offered ; and advices of results will be forwarded by the first post after the sale, and the proceeds imme diately disposed of according to instructions. Otila a, Hall of Commerce. Threadneedle-street, London. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY. Triumphant success of another New Burlesque. TIIIS EVENING The performances will commence with WATCH AND WARD. After which, a New Grand Operatic, Melodramatic, Romantic. Fairy Burlesque Extravaganza, founded on the Opera of " Oberon," entitled THE MAGIC HORN. Principal characters by Messrs. F. Mathews, A. Wigan, Kinloch, Collier, Yarnold, Bender, Silver, Richards, and Keeley; Miss Keeley, Miss Villars, Miss Fairbrother, Mrs. Woollldge, Miss Arden, Miss Forster, Miss Laidlaw, Miss Bromley, Miss lloward, and Mrs. Keeley. 'To conclude with the new Farce, entitled LOAN OF A WIFE. Principal characters by Messrs. F. Mathews, A. Wigan, Meadows, Kinloch, and Yarnold t Mrs. Woollidge and Miss Howard. THEATr.E ROYAL, ADELPHI. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF ➢IADAME CELESTE. THIS EVENING Will be performed the Comedy of PAUL PRY. Colonel Hardy, Mr. Lambert ; Paul Pry, Mr. Wright ; Grasp, Mr. 0. Smith ; Somers, Mr. Worrell ; Mr. Stanley, Mr. Thomas; Harry Stanley, Mr. Boyce, Frank Hardy, Mr. Braid ; Witherton, Mr. Selby ; Mrs. Subtle, Mrs Laws ;.Marian, Miss E. Harding ; Phcebe, Miss Ellen Chaplin. After which. a Grand Mythological Burlesque Extravaganza, de nominated THE JUDGMENT OF PAnIS ; or, The Pas de Pip pins. The characters personated by Messrs. Selby, 0. Smith, Glen nalre, Lindon, Waye, Butler, Williamson, Aldriige, Mitchenson, Alderson, Ryan, Wright, l'aul Bedford ; Miss Ellen Chaplin, Miss Taylor, Miss Harrison, At iss Simpson, Mrs. F. Matthews, &c. To be followed by an original' Comic Sketch, called AIiRAIIA.3; PARKER. Abraham Parker, Mr. Wright. PRINCESS'S T I lEATRE. OXFORD-STREET. TIIIS EVENING Will be performed Shakspere's Comedy . (with Music) of THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR. Sir John Falstaff, Mr. Granby; Mr. Ford, Mr. J. Vining ; Mr. Page, Mr. Ryder; Sir Hugh Evans, Mr. Charles Mathews; Master Slender, Mr. Compton ; Mrs. Page, Madame Vestris ; Mrs. Ford, Mrs. Stirling; Anne Page, Miss Geor.iiana Smithson. After which, an entirely new Serio-Comic: Drama, entitled, A CURIOUS CASE. Mr. Aubrey, Mr. Vining; Twiggleton, Mr. Charles Mathews; Charles Stanton, Mr. Fisher; Edward, Mr Ilonner ; Mrs. Aubrey, Mrs. Stirling. _ - To conclude with en entirely New Comic Drama, entitled THE BARBER, BRAVO ; or, Ihe Inventor of Powder. In which Mr. Charles. Mathews, Mr. Granby, Mr. Wynn, Miss E. Stanley, and Miss E. Honner will perform. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lessee, Mrs. Frances Davidge. Transcendent talent, brilliant success, and crowded houses. Re- Engagement, for Six Nights more, of the distinguished Tragic Actress; Miss Cushman, and her sister, Miss Susan Cushman, positively their last appearance in London. THIS EVENING Will be performed Shakespere's Tragedy of ROMEO AND JULIET. Romeo, Miss Cushman; Juliet, Mss Susan Cushman ; Nurse, Mrs. Daly; Mercutio, Mr. E. F. Saville; Capulet. Mr. ilesiop ; Benvollo, Mr. Johnson; Tybalt, Mr. Fredericks; Friar Lawrence, 11r. ; Apothecary, Mr. W. Smith. After which an entirely new Farce, entitled THE BARBER AND THE BRAVO ; or, The Princess with the Raven Locks. In which 3fessrs. E. F. Saville, Neville, Lewis ; Mrs. E. F. Saville, and Miss E. Terry will perform. To conclude with the favourite Drama of VIE ROVER'S SECRET. Principal characters by Messrs. Saville, Johnson, Fre dericks, Lewis, Heslop; Mrs. Lewis, Miss Terry, &c. Box Office open from eleven till four o'clock. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. PAtronised by her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales, and the Princess Royal. "The Merchant's Steed" triumphant. Entire change of Equestrian novelties. Last Week of the highly popular Drama of " The Nameless." THIS EVENING Will he performed the popular Drama of TIIE STEED OF SY RACUSE ; or, Damon's Flight. Damon, Mr. J. Harwood ; Pythias, Mr. J. Dale ; Calanthe, Mrs. M. Brooks. Assisted by the nu merous Company, double Stud, &c. After which, magnificent SCENES of the HIPPODROME, by the French, German, and British Artistes. The'whole concluding with the popular Drama. entitled THE NAMELESS. Box-Wilco open from eleven, ill five o'clock.--Doors open at six and commence at seven o'clock. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. THIS EVENING Will be performed a most powerful and entirely new Drama of a pecnllar and forcible construction, embracing scenes in every grade of life and eventful acts of every day's occurrence, founded on the popular work, "The Mysteries of London," entitled MARK HAM AND GREENWOOD ; or, The Brothers' Career. Markham, Mr. Seaman; Greenwood, Mr. Walton; Tidkins, Mr. Searle; Ste phens, Mr. Anker ; Count Alteruni, Mr. niggle ; Ellen, Mrs. H. Vining ; Isabella, Mrs. Lie. After which, the Burlesque of PAYEE ROSAMONDE. Fayre Rosamonde, Mr. Forum. To conclude with, DOMINIQUE, TIIE DESERTER ; or, The Gentleman in Black. Under the Patronage of her Moat Gracious Majesty. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. EVERY MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, AND THURSDAY. VIEW of NAPLES, ERUPTION of VESUVIUS, DESTRUC TION of HERCULANEUM and POMPEII, in the year 79. A richly ornamented GCYCIitC BRIDGE of STATUES has been constructed, which will he brilliantly Illuminated at The PROMENADE CONCERTS, conducted by Mr. Godfrey. CALYPSO'S FAIRY GROTTO, representing in the Interior Telemachus relating his adventures to Calypso. The PYROTECHNIC DISPLAYS, by Mr. Southby, aro on the most complete and effective scale. Preceding the Volcanic Display, Mons. FARINET.LI will descend from a Chinese Pagoda, seventy feet in ieight, to the surface of the lake, where a Naiad's Car will rise to receive Lim, and bear him to hta chrystal home. The - Glass Conservatory is splendidly o:namented with festoons of lamps, enabling the visitors to view the matchless collection of Carnivota •by gas-light. leeding,ot the Carnivore at half-past five; the Pelicans, &c., at ata ; Caucert at half-past six and the Eruption at dusk. TO-MOIInOW, September 2, The Boys of the Greenwich Hospital School, with their splendid Baud, Will pay their Annual Visit to the Gardens. On this occasion, in addition to the matchless attractions of the Gardens, there will be a brilliant Display of Fireworks on and in the Water, representing a Naval Engagement between a British Frigate and a Pirate, the Bands playing "Britons strike Home," .and "Rule Britannia." The school win arrive at four o'clock. ADMITTANCE, ONE SHILLING. E,LRLY FRoBT.—We have had several frosty nights during the present week, and same hope is entertained that this change in the weather will check the progress in the pwato disease; at all events it will contribute essentially to h32den and dry the grain, after the heavy rains of last week, voth in the fields and in the stacks.—Leeds Mercury. THE SUN, LONDON, - TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER New ready, price 6g., bound in morocco cloth, H E N E W T I I\l, 0 N A POETICAL ROMANCE. NEW EDITION, CORRECTED, " One of the most remarkable poems of . the present generation It augurs a resuscitation of our bandit glories."—Sun. "The `Few Timon' is a composition which displays bosh beauty and power. It belongs to the school of Crabbe."—Literary Gazette Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. 13. Great Marlborough-street. THE REV. R. COBBOLD'S HISTORY OF MARY ANNE WELLINGTON. DRDICATED, BY PERMISSION, TO HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN DOWAGER. Mr. COLBURN begs to acquaint those interested in the above Work, that it is NOW READY FOR DELIVERY TO THE SUBSCRIBERS. Price 21s. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street, NEW WORK BY MRS. BO:41ER. Now ready, and may be had of all Booksellers, in Two Vols. Bvo., with numerous Engravings. A PILGRIMAGE TO THE TEMPLES and TOMBS of EGYPT, NUBIA, and PALESTINE, in 1845-6. By Mrs. ROME it. Author of "The Rhone, the Darro, and the Guadalquivir, "Stunner," &c. " Mrs. Romer is a pleasant gessipping companion. She visited many places of interest, and has described the impressions they made upon her in an exceedingly agreeable style."—l.it. Gazette. " Even after Eothen ' and Titmarsh's Tour,' Mrs. Romer's Pilgrimage' will be read with pleasure."—Athenaeum. Richard Bentley, New Burlington•street. (Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty). THE WEATHER.—APN OFFICE, SEPTEMBER 1. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 57; Highest. 74 ; Noon, 64 BAROMETER, 30 3.—WIND N.N.E., cloudy. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDOE THIS DAY. Rorning •• 3 minutes after 9. I Evening .. 46 minutes after 9 siV 4 r, ) )3. = • , , • mo-_ uRoPT - - tion of which was fully justified by the vast import ance of the subject, and the necessity that existed for the views of the Committee, which have been em bodied therein, although it has not yet received their formal sanction, being promulgated previously to the recess, in order that public opinion might be fully ex pressed on the recommendations, and that the same might be maturely weighed and considered at a period of comparative leisure, before they should be made the framework of future legislation. The report fully points out the manner in which the intention of the Legislature has been evaded, by a course of proceeding on the part of the directors of different companies, which, to say the least of it, is by no means creditable to the parties con cerned, and is not in accordance with that high feeling of honour, that straightforward course, by which persons entrusted with the management of matters so important to the commercial interests should be actuated, and governed in their proceed ings. It was enacted that whenever the dividend on lines which came within the operation of the Act should equal or exceed ten per cent. on the capiLl stock, the Lords of the Treasury, on giving three months' notice, might revise the tolls, fares, and charges. The bond fide object of this law was, that when a certain large remuneration for the actual ex penditure was returned to the proprietors in the shape of dividends, the public should get the benefit of the surplus in the shape of a cheaper means of transit. This object was practically defeated by the system of declaring dividends on an amount of capital far exceeding the actual outlay, and by the creation of new shares for additional works at par, when those very shares were at a large premium in the market. Specific instances of this abuse are detailed in the report, which fully warrant the recommendation of the Committee, " that an end should at once be put to the system of issuing more new shares than are required to cover necessary outlays, in order to divide premiums among proprietors, and thereby swell the amount of nominal stock beyond the actual outlay." This suggestion, we think, will be assented to by all disinterested persons; its object, however, will be attained in a great degree by requiring that the assent of the newly-constituted Board shall be obtained before any augmentation of capital, by the issue of new shares, can be permitted. The vast importance of railways to the districts through which they run are fully set forth, and it is clearly proved that they are no less valuable to an agricultural than to a manufacturing population. The extraordinary revolution in the value of land by the operation of railways must be very cheering to the ruined agriculturists. We find that land along the Glasgow and Edinburgh Railway, which, previous to its construction, was not worth ss. per acre, now commands a market price cf from 30s. to 40s. per acre for the same land ; and this great increase is not surprising when we find - the superior cheapness and facility of transport both for the farm produce and the means of improving the fertility of the land, which is well illustrated by the fact, that what by the old mode would involve an expenditure of 1421. Gs. 3d., for the charge of car riage, would now only amount to 40/. Bs. 9d. This is quite sufficient, as an example cf the vast benefits conferred on agriculture by railway communication, which would bring large tracts of land now lying barren and unproductive into cultivation. To deve lop, however, these wonderful means of improvement, :0 the utmost extent, the fares should be reduced to the lowest possible rate, a reduction which would be of mutual advantage to the railway proprietors and the public generally, from the great increase of traffic ; a larger profit would be obtained by the former while the latter would have the advantage of the additional activity excited, and the obtaining of the greatest fa cility of communication and intercourse between the different localities. It is proved that the cost of con veyance diminishes with every increase of quantity, and it is calculated that a charge which, with a traffic of 20,000 tons, would only be remunerative at 104 d. per mile, would, with a traffic of 100,000 tons, be re munerative at one halfpenny per mile ; and, vast as the disparity may appear between the two quantities assumed, it is 15y no means improbable that such a re duction of fares would produce the increase. The directors of railways are not always possessed of a full knowledge of that which is most for their own interest ; they too often are influenced by nar row-minced and short-sighted views, that induce them, while wishing to make the largest pecuniary profit from the management of the gigantic monopoly placed in their hands, to take steps by no means cal culated for the attainment of that object. What would be a valuable and remunerative branch of their traffic is too frequently totally destroyed or lessened to the greatest degree by the magnitude of the price charged, which amounts almost to a prohibition. The experience of the past fully testifies that every reduc tion of the fares has been attended with an increase of revenue. The difference between the prices origi nally charged on the London and Birmingham and the present price is exactly one-third, and the statis tics of the corresponding improvement are highly in teresting. The reductions on the fare of the first class, adopted on the Ist June, 1844, was 174 per cent., and the corresponding increase of passen gers was 19k per cent. On the second-class the reduction was 264 per cent., and the increase consequent thereon was 61 1-5 per cent.; while on the third-class the reduction of 33 1-3 per cent. was met by an increase cf no less than 259 per cent. We have thus the strongest illustration that the traffic increases in a ratio more than exceeding the reduc tion of fares, so as to afford an increase of profit. This is certainly too important a matter to all parties concerned to be left to the arbitrary will of the com panies or their directors., and justifies the recommen- dation, " that in return for their monopoly, comps. nies ought to submit to an efficient system of contrcl, with a view to the security of the public against ex travagant fares and charges, and the adoption of uniformity on the different lines in the scales and the mode of charging." We shall return to the other recommendations of the Committee, and examine the data on which they are founded, expressing our assent or dissent therefrom, Kith the several reasons by which we are influenced. Our space to-day forbids further notice. So immensely has the population of Cologne in creased of late years—more especially since it has become one of the great centres of railway commu nication—that it has become necessary to build a new faubourg, and several capitalists have formed a company for that purpose. The faubourg, which is designed for the accommodation of the working classes, will consist of several large houses, divided into small apartments. Madrid Papers to the 25th ult. have arrived. The Ministry had seized the . Espanol on the 24th for asserting that a dispensation had arrived from Rome authorising the marriage of the QUEEN and Don FRANCISCO n'Assis; and the Espanol of the 25th was likewise seized for complaining of the seizure of the preceding day. The Herald() has de clared in favour of the double marriage of Don FRAN.- Cisco with theguEEN, and of Don ENRIQUR with her sister. The arrival of the Duke of GLucicsnueou at Madrid had given rise to a report that King Louis PHILIPPE has demanded the hand of the Infanta LUISA. for the Duc DE MONTPENSIEE. The troops enlisted by General FLORES, for the expedition to the Republic of Ecuador, are to rendezvous at Aspeitia, where, it is said, they will be joined by a detachment of British volunteers. According to the Leo del Comercio, the Cortes will meet on the 16th or 17th of September. MADRID BOLSA, AvG. 25.—The Three per Cents. were done at 34 for cash ; the Four per Cents. at 211; the Five per Cents. at 224 ; the Debt without In terest, at 64 ; and the Coupons, at 20e. We have received the Paris papers of Sunday. On Saturday, after the election of M. SAuzET, as President, the Chamber of Deputies proceeded to the election of the four Vice-Presidents. This also was a Ministerial triumph, the following being the result of the ballot : Number of voters 338 Absolute majority .. 170 M. BIGNON .... M. LEPELETIER D'AULNAY lB3 M. HEBERT M. DELESSEILT 129 M. BILLAULT (Opposition) 116 M. VATOUT .• M. GEOIMES DE LAEAYETTE B7 87 80 24 M. IhvIEG M. .ABBATUCCI. M. DEDELLETAIE M. DUPRET M. DE TRACY M. GUSTAVE DE BEAUMONT .... 20 16 22 DUfAURE The three first gentlemen, having an absolute ma jority, were declared elected. M. DELESSERT, the next highest on the list, is also a Ministerialist, but not having obtained an absolute majority, he was not declared elected, and a fresh ballot will take place on Monday. The result of this ballot shows the overwhelming nature of the Ministerial majority. The 116 votes given to M. BILLAULT constituted the whole force of the Opposition present, while the Ministerialists di ♦ide their votes between M. DELESSERT and MM. DEBELLEYME : Ild DUPRET. The Courrier Francais thus comforts its party under their defeat : " The Conservative party has had an immense majo rity ; the Opposition expected it, and for our palls wo are glad of it. What is it we wish for ? An opposition that will courageously defend our liberties, energetically plead the cause of progress, every day demand useful and necessary reforms, and whose triumph will be so much the more speedy as the abuses of monopoly, of privileges, and of reaction become more audacious and more evident. The moment has arrived fur such an opposition to form itself. There is no long( r a Minis terial campaign to make, and we think that this reason will bring back certain men to a path which they ought never to have quit•ed. The Parliamentary Left is beaten —completely beaten. And why ? Because it has re nounced its programme ; because it has made itself the slave of a man, when it was its duty to have been the apostle of progress and of liberty. The lesson is severe for M. Odilon Barrot and his friends. There are persons who would profit by such a lesson, and who would blush to combat any longer under the orders of an am bitious intriguant, in a word, to serve as a footstool for M. Thiers. Because the Conservatives have the glory of being presided over by M. Sauzet; because MM. Lignon, Lepeletier, D'Aulnay, and Hebert have been • named Vice-Presidents, the cause of progress and of liberty is not lost. We have seen Governments which have possessed formidable majorities, and whose con duct was condemned by a tribunal superior to Parlia mentary majorities—by public opinion.. The victories which have been gained by the practice of skilful manwuvres it the late elections will not be long in being Wowed by striking defeat. Conquered to-day, we shall be conquerors tomorrow,—for principles never die. They may be misunderstood for an instant, but they will triumph one day or another. It is that day of triumph _which we desire to hasten, and it is towards that object that 111 friends 'of order and of our institutions will go ith us. If then you make a bad use of your majority, we shall endeavour to point out the danger which throatens you; but after all, you are masters; it is your affair, and you are at liberty to disregard our warnings. You refuse us, for instance, a Parliamentary inquiry. The Centres are so docile, that such a refusal does not surprise us. Does it prove that the Chamber gains by such refusal in dignity and in consideration? - Ask the country." A commissary of police was sent, on Friday, to search llENat's lodgings in the Rue de Limoges, in consequence of the prisoner's statement that proof would be there found that it was never his intention to kill or injure the KING. On being conducted into the cellar, the commissary dug up the floor in a spot which had been indicatel by HENRI, and at the depth of ei►,►hteen inches he found a copper tube, plugged at each end with wood. The tube was sealed and conveyed to the Chancellor. HENRI de clares it contains papers which will demonstrate the truth of his statements. Considerable alarm continues to be felt in France at the rise in the price of corn, consequent dpon un api rel:ended scarcity. Riots have taken place at Dijon on account of the removal of corn from the neighbourhood, and troops have been sent there from Macon to preserve order. Incendia!y fires continue in the district. Troops have also been or dered to Avdlon. The Allonileur publishes the returns of the imports into France during the month of July last, from which it appears that the Customs duties levied thereon produced 12,957,914 f. Their amount in July, 1844, had been 14,980,828 f, and in 1845 12,837,639 f. This decrease dues not appear chargeable to any other cause than the excessive illiberality of the existing tariff, proved by the tables published by the Mortiteur. In the articles of foreign threads and foreign linens, this fact is glaringly demonstrated. The quantity of foreign thread imported into France in 1844 amounted to 6,255 metrical quintals. In 1845, un,ler the influence of the new and rigorous advance of the protective duty, 4,146, and in 1846 only 2,814. Of foreign linens, the quantity imported in 1844 amounted to 3,002 metrical quintals. In 1845 to 2,201, and in 1846 to only 1,796 ! A letter from Cannes, of the 22d August, pub lished in the Toulonnais says : " Lord Brougham and Mr. Leader have just afforded us a apt ctacle quite unusual in this country. It may be remembered that three years back these gentlemen purchased the fine forest of La Croix de Gardy. The hole of it has since been surrounded with a high wall in the English style, and yesterday fourteen stags, as many (I. , es, and a number of young fawns arrived here from Sar dinia, and are to be immediately let loose in the forest. They were under the care of six keepers, in handsome liveries of maroon•coloured velvet, with gilt buttons, bearing his Lcrdship's crest. A pack of hounds arrived here from England three months back, and everything necessary fur a hunting establishment is to be sent . 1-oin Paris. It is said that a number of sporting men from England are to arrive here this year. Indeed this place is becoming quite an English cclony. On every side are springing up handsome habitations, built with English money, combining British comfort and Italian elegance with Frcnch taste." The Three per Cents. were done in the Passage de i'Opera on Sunday at 83f. 721 c. LYONS, AUG. 28 —Paris and Rouen, 958 f. 75c. ; Avignon and Marseilles, 9isf. ; Northern, 7101. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCIIANGE, AUGUST 31. Boulogne and Amiens, 131 A—Dutch Ithenieli, 6', —East Indian, X —Great Western Bengal, % -- Northern of France Constituted, 13% Orleans and Vierzon, 15 —Orleans and Borde...ux, Si—West Flanders, 4!r. SUN EXPRESSES.— T E IGNMOUTH.—The inhabitants of this quiet little seaport were much surprised and gratified by the arrival of The Sun newspaper on Friday night, by the express train of the South Devon Railway, containing the Queen's Speech, delivered in Parliament that same afternoon. The distance, upwards of :200 miles, being accomplished in five hours, including stoppages. This is the first instance of any newspaper express having arrived at Teignmouth.— (From a Correspondent). MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 10,000 bales, including 500 for export and 500 on spe culation. The market closed very firmly, and was in some respects rather dearer. Shares were quiet again. Following out, at last, the principles of free trade adopted by the Government and the Legislature of Eng land, we find several of the more influential portions of the American press advocating the same cause. Take the following extract as a sample from the New York Herald:— " The demand for protection to our manufacturers comes from the Whig party; it is yet and has ever been a part of their political creed, at the same time they are making efforts to inflate the currency. There is a strange inconsistency in these movements, which can never be reconciled. The effect of the first is to shut out from our markets foreign fabrics, which would come into competition with our own, while the effect of the last is to open a wider door for their admission than the first shuts against them. In this way, one offsets the other, and they never make any progress in the accomplishment of the object in view. On the other hand, we find the opposite party equally incon sistent in its political creed. According to the democratic doctrine, a low tariff will provide a greater revenue than a high one, and a reduction is therefore demanded fur the purpose of increasing the importations and increasing the revenue from customs, at the same time the party requires a currency, established upon a pure specie basis. Here is an inconsistency as glaring as that exhibited by the other party, and as difficult of reconciliation. The party advocating a low tariff should advocate an inflated paper currency, if a large revenue is the object, or even for the collection of sufficient revenue to meet the current expenditures of the Govern ment ; and the party in favour of protection should, in the first place, as being of the first importance, advocate a specie currency, and then get a tariff as high as Foos sible : the high tariff, however, is a matter of secondary consideration. A specie currency and a high tariff would give us a very limited revenue." The public sales of sugar and other produce are rather large to-day, but there is a full average demand. The commercial advices from. Buenos Ayres received to-day are not of much importance. The exchange on England was at 2 3-16. " Th e British brig Ringdove," states the Argentine News, " which a short time since was forcibly carried off' by her Britannic Majesty's steamer Lizard, from the mouth of the Salado, where she had entered in the absence of a blockading force, was on her arrival at Alonte Video released by Admiral Inglefield, and returned to the Salado. But a few days after she was again seized by a French force, and reconducted to Monte Video; when it appears a discussion arose between the two Admirals with regard to this unjustifiable proceeding. The result is not known. The conduct of Captain Inglefield in this instance is per fectly consistent with the acknowledged rules of blockade, and is a virtual disavowal of the heinous out rages perpetrated by Captain Reed at Ensevada." The Funds have been scarcely so high as they were yesterday. Consols for the Account have been quoted at 961', and for Money at 96k. Exchequer-bills have been firm at 218. premium. Bank Stock has receded to 2081, and India Bonds are at 2-6 s. premium. In the Foreign Funds there has been an increase of business today. Mexican Five per 'Ceuta. have fallen from 27i 3 to 26i, and the Portuguese Four per Cents., which were yesterday called at 46, opened this morning at 443, and are now at 451 f(,r the Account. For Spanish Thr-e per Cents. the current v?.lue is at :371 ; for the Five per Cents., ; and for Dutch Two-and-a Halt per Cents., 59k In the Railway Share Market there is a feeling in favour of an improvement in prices. 1 4 1 ittinikt LONDON, TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 1, 1846 , Wherever a reformation is necessary, there, in time, it will assuredly make its appearance. However bigoted may be the preference awarded to some lumbering and ignorant system, whether in science, arts, government, literature, or manners, it will ulti mately succumb to the dictates of common sense and the arguments of common prudence. Formerly the philosophers and historians of Europe imagined it to be a degradation of pencraft if their books, and even their correspondence, were not written in Latin before MoßE's fragment of a history, and ItaLElGn's History of the World, were penned, the masterpieces of our national literature were composed, sometimes in elegant and fastidious, but too frequently in loose and ungainly Latin. After those eminent performances had evidenced that our native tongue was sufficiently dignified and sonorous for the narration of great events, and the expression of elevated ideas, the pre vious ' blunder was corrected, and dog-Latin reserved only for the recreation of the sitars of the universities. The custom of carrying a horse's tail upon our heads, in the shape of a 110%1 ing peruke, has been in like manner abolished, and the covering afforded by nature preserved. Wooden ploughs hasp given place to others more capable of penetrating the glebe. Political constitutions have been modified from the compilation of the codes of LYCURGUS and JUSTINIAN, to the production of the Code Napoleon at the commencement of this century, and are still undergoing gradually improvements. As human perfectability has hitherto proved nothing less than an impossibility, so have the productions of human ingenuity or sagacity proved ever capable of being remedied. The remedies are, indeed, forced upon us by sheer necessity and by irksome experience, if we be not previously convinced of their advisability. Hence it is invariably considered as the best testi mony of wisdom to anticipate the inconveniences which others can only recognise on their arrival, and to make preparations for dilemmas which, if permitted to transpire under no restraint, will be inevitably productive of still greater and more serious emergencies. It is always more graceful and laudable to abandon an error voluntarily than to be driven ignominiously to its rejection. Sir ROBERT PEEL, by this timely move ment, acquired glory where the protectionist minority only obtained for themselves universal obloquy and permanent ridicule. We are rejoiced to perceive that the societies of the Inner Temple, Lincoln's Inn, aed Gray's Inn have selected the better course, or that they have at least given some indication of their readiness to pur sue that better course, and by so doing to prevent a resolute and, to them, somewhat graceless interposi tion of the Legislature. By submitting themselves to a wholesome and natural description of moral regimen, they will prevent the necessity of swallowing some unpalatable Parliamentary bolus. Howbeit these venerable and honourable societies do not as yet display much knowledge of the mysteries of intellectual dietetics. After the committeemen of these three bodies had duly deliberated - upon the necessity of some alteration in their present system of legal education, they ar rived at the conclusion that such a necessity really did exist ; and the consequence of 'this conviction has been the publication of certain im portant resolutions. The solitary lectureship, founded by .the Middle Temple, is therein pro nounced to be utterly inadequate for the instruction of the vast number of individuals annually called to the bar, or, to speak. more accurately, they deemed it advisable that the advantages of such a means of tuition should be under no restriction whatever, but that every candidate should be supplied with a similar boon. Acting upon this principle, the resolutions propose that four additional lectureships be founded, and, moreover, that a certificate of having attended at least two of the courses of these hypothetical or prospective lectures should be a ne cessary qualification for a barrister. So far the arrangement is almost as much as might reasonably have been expected under the circumstances, but ONLY so far ! Certificates of having attended so many lectures upon jurisprudence will be required, but it will be wholly unnecessary for the bearer of the certificate to evince the fact of his having gleaned one lonely morsel of information from that attend ance ! As well might a professor of modern philoso phy shut a student up in his chamber with a copy of BACON'S "De Augmentis" during so many hours in the course of twelve months, and flatter himself that, by so doing, he had instilled into the learner's mind a thorough appreciation of the inductive method of reasoning! Never was a more lame and preposterous expedient resorted to by judicial sages in council assembled! Candidates for the bar, besides handling a knife and fork during so many terms, and by that means getting on excellent terms with their profession and themselves, are to knock their heels together during so many lectures ; but they are altogether relieved from the necessity of listening to the lecturer, much less of comprehending the drift of his discourse —the examinations being voluntary with the candidates ! Either the fabricators of these resolutions imagine the seekers of honour at the bar would have even a more insurmountable objection than Sir Joux FAL STAFF to answering questions "on compulsion," or they must be labouring under the very erroneous notion that legal students are the most industrious scholars in the world. Either these examinations should be compulsory, or the additional lectureships should not be established at all. A man can as readily be indolent in a lec ture-room as in his elbow chair, and we are persuaded that these certificates will, in many instances, be little better than guarantees that So-and-So has regularly taken his after. dinner nap in the lecture-room instead of at his chambers ! that Such-an-one has punctually whittled the bench under the very nose of Professor D RAC°, instead of smoking cheroots over the last num - _ _ _ ber of Punch ! or that What's-his-name has periodically played an imaginary game at billiards in the said lee- ture-roora instead of a real one at the divan. Nothing, indeed, could be more signally fallacious than this re- solution that the attendance at lectures should be re- quisite, and the examination altogether superfluous Yet even this preposterous resolution is acceptable w: an acknowledgment that some reformation is requir.d among the Learned (?) Gentlemen who aspire to silk gowns. It is the first good step in a right direction. We alluded yesterday to the Second Report of the Select Committee on Railways, or rather, we should say, the draft of that report, prepared by Mr. Mon-. BISON, the Chaim tan of the Committee, the publica- ONE CLOSING O'CLOCK. PRICES. 209 208 1 / 4 208 IA __ _ . •I/ PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced Anns....„ 96N, ix, 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 96% 96 New 34 per Cent. Annuities 981 A% - 98 , A Long Annuities toexpireJan.lB6o 10% 7-16 10 7-16 Ditto 30 years, Oct. 10,1859 India Bonds, 1,0001 26 26 Ditto under 1,0001. - South Sea Stock Ditto Old Annuities Consols for Account... 964% 96% Exchequer Bills, 1,0001., 1 1 -Ad lB 21 pm. 21 Ditto 5001. Ditto Small ONE CLOSING VRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK }IMES Ditto, 2 1 /.', per Cent., 12 Guild. 60 &lexicon, 5 per Cent. 1846 27 26% Ditto, Account Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent .. 4436 45 Ditto,•Account 44.,,, 451‘ 45 Russian Bonds ............ - ex div 111!4 Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. Ditto, Account 2 6 1 / x3 Ditto, Passive Ditto. 3 per Cent — Ditto. Account ..... . ..... 37% Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent 43 Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch, 2 1 /,. pia Cent . PRICES OF BUSINESS DONE CLOSING lIAILWAY SHARES PAID. AT ONY: O'CLOCK. PRICES. Aberdeen Amber., No:t., Boston, and Eastern Junction 2%..... 2 1 A 2 2 l /4 Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush IX, --- Aylesbury and Thame.. 1% Belfast & County Down 214 — . Birmin. and Glaucester. 100 Ditto New l 7l Birmingham and Ox ford Junction Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire June.... 2% — Boston, Stamtd, & Birm. 225. — Bristol and Exeter 75 Ditto, New Bristol and Gloucester... 30 Bristol and Liver. June . 2 1 4...... Buckinghamshire Caledonian Ditto Half Shares...... 2 1 4 1%.. ..... ..... Ditto Extension ... .. 2 1 4 — Cambrian & Grand June 42s ...... Cambridge and Oxford.. 1% l% %%•• Central licnt Chester and Holyhead... 27 1 / .' 2 — .. .....-- Churnet and Blithe Chester and Manchester 425. Cheltenham and Oxford 2 ...... . Clydesdale Junction l5 Cork, Blackrock, and Passages Cork and Killarney ... 2 1 ( Cork and Waterford ... 1 1 A — Cornwall Cornwall & CenelDeyon 2% — ... 1 !b.- id Cr _. 2% — lerby ;race...... ... Direct Lincoln, East Ret ford, and Shetld. J tnic. 2% — Direct Manchester I/ 8 dis _.., (Remington's) Ditto (Rastrick's)...... 5 1 4 .. ... ......... Direct Northern Direct Norwich Dublin and Belfast Jutic. 10 Dublin, .Belfast, and Coleraine Dubliii and Galway..... 4, Dundalk & Enniskillen 7 1 / Eastern Counties 141. 16s. 23% 227. ..... 22 3 / 4 Ditto New lOl. 163. 7YB p... 77 p Ditto Perpetual, 5 per Cent, No. 1.......6/. 13s. 4d.... ••• Ditto ditto. No. 2... Gt. 13s. 4d... Do., York Extension.. 105....... 2% 2' EaADerelern andNor'eh 1 Faitern Union 35 ..... Ditto, Quarter Shares 8 3 / 4 Dc. Exten;(HarwVi) lit — ......... ..... • Do., Camb. and Ely.. 2 1 / 4 .-- East Lancashire East Lincolnshire East & West of England 1%...... Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ..... Ditto Half Shares Ditto,' Quarter Shares 12% ...... Ditto, New Edinburgh & Northern.. 10 Edinburgh and Perth... 3 Ely and :Huntingdon ... 7% — ••• •• Enniskillen and Sligo ... 2% — Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorset 5 Glasgow, Kilmar.,&Ayr 50 Ditto, New Do., 1 % Shares (5 per cent. guar.) Glouc.,Abeiystwith,and Central of Wales 1N...... 7 - •• Goole, Doncaster, &c. .. 425. Grand Union (Notting and Lynn Great Eastern &Western 2% ...... •• •• GreatGrirusby and Shef• field ... Great South. and West. (Ireland) Great Munster ... 2 1 ! 2 — - Great North of Scotland 2%...... - i3reatNorth of Eugland..loo Ditto New Ditto, New • ••• Ditto, New (heat Western B5 147 Ditto 1 4 Shares 5O Ditto f 4 Shares lO Ditto Fifths 2O Guildford, Fare'm, Ports. 5 Harwich and. Eastern Counties Junction ... 2 Hull and Selby 5O Ditto ;4 Shares Do. Half Shares 25 — Inverness and Elgin 2 Ipswich & Bury St. Edm. 9 Do., do , and Norwich 2% — Irish North Midland ... 15 — Killarney Junctions ll Kendal and Windermere 1 1 ,G — LA - waster and Carlisle... 43 Do. New Lame, Belfast, and Bal lymena Leeds and Bradford 26 , 69% 70 69% ... Leeds and Carlisle Leicester & Birmingham 225. — Leicester and Bedfard... 225. — Lecds and Dewsbury ... 17% Le: , es`.er and Tamw., &c. 425. Liverpool and Bury ... 14 .. „. .. _ Lpool., Dincbstr, & New castle Junction . _ _ _ _ 24 34 69 1;4 • ••••• ..••—•• A; die. 814 x d London and Blackwall. 16/. 13s. 4d. Do. New Ditto Extension ... London and Brighton 5O Ditto, Fifths London and Croydon, 131. 15s. 9d. 23% x d... 0 3% x d Do. G uaran. 5 per cent. 9 - ••• •• •• ••••• ....... London and Greenwich 12/ 15s 4d„ Do. Preference ...18117s 2d London, Hounslow, and Western London and N. Westernloo 205 ... Do. Quarters .. 2 - Do., no., New Shares.. Ditto Fifths Ditto, Eighths (G. J.) 12% — Do., New IA Shares (G. J.) — _ Do. 40/. Shares (L.M.) 6 Loud. & S.Western 411 6s 10d Do. New Consol. Bths 40 — Do. New Do. New - London and York 2%...... 2% 2. Do.'; Shares London and Windsor . 1A ... .. London, Salisbury, and Yeovil ... ... •. 2%..... • Londonderry& Coleraine 12!C, — ...... ......... Londonderry and Ennis killen Lynn and Ely - 15 Lynn and Dereharn l5 — Manchester and Leeds... 82 Ditto % Shares Do. Quarters 2 Do. Fifths ••• - Do. Sixteenths ~ 6 , 4 Do. Extension 42s. 3 p 3 p Manchester and Birmin. 40 Do. Quarters (A) 5 •••••• 13 3 / 4 1 3 34 Do. Quarters (B) ... 5 Do. Q 'rte' - C)....- 9 176 _ SIA 4uarters (C) I Manchester,Buxton,and Matlock 42s. Manchester, Birm., and Mould Junction ••••• — — Manchest. & Southampt. 2 -...... 1% 1 1 Midland lOO .....140 139 3E Do. Fifths Do. New Do. Birm., and Derbyloo Midlnd& East. Counties 2%...... Midland Great Western Irish Newcastle and Darling ton Junction 25 .....•• •• ..•. •• Do. New Newcastle and Berwick 15 Do. North Shields ... 25 Newcastle and Carlisle...loo - Newport &Abergavenny 2IA ...... - - N-Avry and Enniskillen 4 1 A 1 — - ..... Newark, Sheffield, and . Boston ... .. .. ........ 1%.• ... ... ....... ... - Norfolk . ... 20 - ••• •- ........ • Do. Half Shares Do. Tenths Do. Extension 2 4..... ........... North British ... ..... ... 25 Do. Half Shards ll .......... ..• Do. Fifths 5 ........... ... Do. Carlisle Extens. 14 4%....•••• ...... North of Norfolk 2N ••• •••• ..... Northern and Eastern... 50 Do. Scrip (issd. 5 dis.) 45 ............... - 37% 2;4 381/2 -- 41/2 .......... Do. Quarter Sh ares ... 12% — ..... ............... Do. New - ....... . • - N. Kent & Di rec t Dover 21 •• .. ..... ...... ....... --- North Stafford s hi re ...... 4 25. North Wales ... Connecting Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham Nottingham i & Mansfld. —. ._ - Oxford, Worcebter, and Wolverhampton 1646. 26% 6 37r g 43 10 1 A 51 Wakefield, Pontefract, & Goole 221/ Wisbeach and St. Ives... 2 W ilts, Somerset, & Wey mouth Worcester,Hereford,Ross, and Gloucester 42s. —' Worcester, Tenbury, and Ludlow . , .... ...., ... ... Z Worcester,Warwick, and - Rugby York and Carlisle 214 York and North Midland 50 Ditto % Shares 25 Do. Scarboro' Branch. 25 Do. Selby 3O Do. Extension Do. East and West Rid ing Extension FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Anglo-Belgian 4 Barbadoes 1 Boulogne and Amiens... 14 13% Bordeaux & Mediterran. 2 Bordeaux,Toulouse, and Cette (Mackenzie's)... 2 .• ... Do. (Espelete's) Calais, Dunkrk, and West Flanders Calcutta and Diamond Harbour .... .. Callao, Lima, and Pacific Coast I .. ••• .•• •• 000000000 Central of Spain ... . Ce, lon Detnei ara 2 l /2 ... .. Dendre Valley Direct Bombay and Madras Dutch Rhenish 6 — East Indian ... ..... .... ss. Eastern Belgian Junctn. 21/ 2 ••• Fampoux & Hazebrouk 4 Great Indian Peninsular ss. Great Waste an Bengal... ss. Great Western Canada... 3 1 4 ...... Italian and Austrian..... 3 Jamaica S.Mid. Junction 1 Jersey Louvain ii la Sambre ... 5 ••• . 1% Luxembourg.... 4 Lyons and Avignon 2 — Madras ....... Madrid and Valentia.... 2 ... — Mauritius 1 Namur and Liege Nn of France Constituted 5 North Jamaica 1 Orleans and Vierzon ... 10 Orleans and Bordeaux... 6 ...... 8 3 4 .... Over Yssel 4/ 3s 4d — Paris BcLyonsConstituted 5 Paris and Orleans 2O Paris and Rouen Paris and Strasbourg Constituted Rouen and Havre Sambre and Meuse ...... 8 .... Strasbourg and Bale ... 14 - . • ' '• St. Laurence & Atlantic fours and. Nantes Con stituted ... 5 Tounlay, Jurbise, Lan den, and II a55e1t....... 8 Trinidad is West Flanders .. 6 JOINT STOCK BANKS. Australasia British North American 50 - ••• Colonial Commercial of London 20 London Joint Stock London & Westminster. 20 National Prov. England. 35 National of Ireland 22% — ....... ..... .. Provincial of Ireland ... 25 Union of Australia Union of London lO — MINES Real del Monte Unregd. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) LONDON; Si.rr. I.—Wind this day at noon N.N.E., light breeze, and cloudy. DEAL, Auo.-31.—Wind E.N.E.—Arrd. from the River, and sailed,- Scotia, Kerr, Quebec ; Hendrik Hudson, Moore, New York ; St. George, Jones, Sydney, New South Wales. DUNGENESS, - Alio. 29.—A 'rd. Helena, St. John's, New Brunswick. Off port, 31st, Stadacona, Irons, Montrose. PonTsmount, AUG. 31.—Wind S.W. to N.W.—Arrd. Prince Albert,- Sebor, New York, and sailed for London. otr port,. Barbara Gordon, Ritchie, Tobago. SALCOMBE, AUG. 28.—Arrd. John and Eliza, Youghal, for Portsmouth, very leaky. LIVERPOOL, AUG. 31.—Wind N.N.W.—Arrd. Eurydice, Brown, Maceio ; Phcenix, Graves, Antigua • Jamaica, Bailey, Jamaica; Apollo, Hewitt, St. Domingo ' ; Hannibal, Foote, New Orleans ; Thomas Bennett, lildrige, Charleston ; J. R. Skiddy, Luce, New York ; Ashburton, Rowland, ditto; Mary Ann, Brown, Boston ; Condor, Gardner, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Liverpool, Swinford, ditto ; Jane Ham mond, ditto; Recovery, ditto; Philopontus, Jones, St. Ste phen's, New Brunswick ; Spartan, Prowse, Prince Edward's Island ; Union, Montreal ; Dewdrop, Williams, Labrador. Sid. 30th, Malibran, Stocks, Gulf of Mexico; 31st, Huguenot, Graves, New York. Off port, Isabella, Kestrel, Jane, L'Alexy, and Rappahannock, MARGATE, AUG. 31.—A boat, supposed to belong to a small Dutch vessel lost on the Long Sand, also a few pieces of wood with oars attached, have been brought in here. POOLE, AUG. 30.—Sid. Eliza, Lowe, Newfoundland ; Ceres, JameS Kesbury, Newfoundland. MARYPOET, AUG. 28.—SId. Trafalgar, Quebec. YOUGHAL, Aua. 28.—Arrd. Emily, Coombes, Quebec. Sid. 27:b, Dominica, Storak, Quebec. PORTINDLAER, AUG. 29.—Several bulks of timber were picked up this morning about four miles N.E. of this head, and brought in here, marked W. I. B. in red paint. THE FRENCH FLEET.—Lluyd's agent at Messina reports the arrival there of the French fleet, under the command of his Royal Highnes Prince de Joinville, on the 14th August, from Syracuse, and his departure again on the 16th for the northward. MARKET NEWS --(THIS DAY.) RAY MAILZETB. SNITIIFIELD.—OId Meadow Hay 3/ 53 to dl; New ditto, 21 5s to 31 15s ; Old Clover, dto Si lOs; New ditt o , 4/ to Si; Oat Straw, 1/ Ss to 1/ 0s; Wheat Straw, 1/ lOs to 1/ 12s per load. Trade extremely dull, at the above quota tions. CUMBERLAND.—OId Meadow Hay, 31 lOs to 414 s ; New ditto, 2/ 103 to 3/ 16s; Old Clover, 51 to Si lOs; New ditto, 41 to 4/ 16s; Oat Straw, 1/ 8s to 11 10s; Wheat Straw, 1/ lOs to 1/12s per load. A full average supply, and a heavy demand. WIIITECHAPIL.—OId Meadow Hay, 318 s to 41; New ditto, 31 to 3/ 15s; Old Clover, 41 18s to 51 15s; New ditto, 41 to 5/; Oat Straw, 11 8s to 1/ lOs • Wheat Straw, 1/ lO s to 1/ 12s per load. Supply good, anetrade dull. Ox ford, WI tn ay, and Cheltenham.... Pilbrow Atmospheric ... 1 --...— Portsmouth Direct ...... 3 , ,i Preston and Wyre Do. 1 /, Shar,:s Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Richmond - ! Rugby, Leamingtou,and Warwick Scottish Central Do. New • 21,4 — Scottish Midland lO Do. Extension Sheffield, Buxton, Leek Potteries, andCrewe l% — Sheffield & Manchester 100 Do. Quarter Shares... 8 Shrewsbury and Birm... 2 1 ,x 3 ...... ....... Shropshire Union Shrews., Wolverhamp , & S. Staffordsh. June. 21/, Sligo and Shannon l % South Devon... South Midland 42s. South & Midlands June. 42s South StaffordshireJunc. 21/j — South Eastern & Dover 33 1 / 8 — Do., No. 1 2O Do., Na. 2. Do., No. 3 Do.. No. 4 St. Alban's, Hatfield, and llertford Junction ... 425. Staines and Richmond... 1 1 ... Staffordsh. & Shropshire 2 3 / 4 — South Wales .... ... 5 Swans. & Loughor & Ca meron's Stni. Coal. ... 2 - •• • ...... •• • Taw Vale Extension ... 2 Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke Vale of Neath ... .. ...... 2 Warwickshire & London 42i - % dis Warwick and Worcester 425. — W aterford and Kilkenny 8 Waterford and Limerick 22% Waterfd,Wxfrd,Wicklw, and Dublin Wexford, W aterford, and Valentia Waveney Valley ... 2 - Welsh Midland West Riding Union 42s. West Cornwall WestLondon,Old Shares 20 Wexford and Carlow ... 2%....,, 31 4, P COLONIAL. 20 1 .4 3 1 4 P - 31/1 4% 3% 68!4 383/4 13% - 1,4 23 % 4 1 ja StTGAß.—There has been very little business done in Bri tish Plantation, the attention of the trade being entirely oc cupied with the large public sales. Only about 250 hhds have been sold at rather lower prices, establishing a decline of 6d to is per cwt. The public sales have consisted prin cipally of 4,563 bags, 296 casks Mauritius, 4,540 bags Bengal, 1,165 bags of Madras, 5,301 bags (clayed) Manilla, and 1,405 hhds 164 barrels Porto Rico, nearly all of which found buyers (excepting the Porto Rico), but went off very heavily, and at a decline of fully is to 2s upon the mid and low brown descriptions, of which the greater part consisted, while the better sorts brought fully the pre vious value. Only about one-half the Porto Rico found buyers, at 46s to 50s for low to good yellow, and 44s to 458 6d mid greyish clayed yellow Manilla, being for the Porto Rico fully previous rates, but the Manilla comparatively cheap. The quantity of British Plantation landed last week at the East and West India Docks was 1,757 hhds, 216 tierces, 196 barrels • there were taken for home consumption 1,220 hhds, 116 ' tierces, 251 barrels. The stock in the same places is 10,452 hhds, 1,061 tierces, 7,840 barrels. COFFEE.-140 casks 120 barrels Jamaica, and 1,201 bags Ceylon at auction only partly sold, at rather lower prices. Rusr.—The quantity landed last week at the East and West India Docks was 813 puns 74 hhds. There were taken for home consumption 148 puns 39 lilies, and ex ported 162 puns 192 hhds. The stock in the same places is 9,324 puns 2,136 hhds. SALMI:TUE.-1,255 bags Bengal at auction were all taken in at 263 to 26s 6d for 4% to 3 per cent. refraction, being rather below the previous value. TALLOW.—P. Y. C. is quoted 42s 3d to 42s Gd per cwt. for new, and 41s. 9d to 42s for old on the spot. Town is 43s 6d per cwt. TEA.—The market is dull. THE Moons.: - -The accounts from the hill continue to be as favourable, as to the success of the sportsmen, as at first. Last week, the weather was dry and wet each alter nate day till Thursday; but, subsequently, it has been fair and more seasonably cool. The moors attached to Blair Castle were strictly preserved last year and this, it is under tood, for his Royal Hi g h ness P r ince Albert. —Pertly Co ur i er . a BANKRUPTCY-4111U PA V) (Before Mt. COMMliaioner HoLuov.p.) IN RE :MAYHEW. This bar kript, who is w ell known in the literoris world, came up to pass his last examination, c." 0.; supported by Mr. Sturgeon, and opposed 1,.., J 0t, Cuuke. From the evidence given, by 06 bul ls ' itb it appeared that . he had been connected who the Era newspaper, but had assigned hi' interest, and had not made any entry- il l —ed 615 balance-sheet, as it was of no value. He b ad disci(' t everything to his creditors—his property, w hich bad s . about 1,60(l ., had been seized in execution and sold :., loss of 1,1851. He considered himself justified expenses, as up to the beginning of the year he ()go o , have received 1,5001. a-year for his literary or bours, He originated Punch. and was c adet ceeded by an editor, Mr. Mark Lemon, an arrangement to receive one half, but Mr. Lein° bol refused to ratify the agreement. Out of 2,900 ( only received 1,215/., and owed 2,411/. His tn 3 ba rr° ;e• ment arose in consequence of losing two ar rs i rj e o. ments, amounting to 1,000/. and 300/. - c o But he had offered to pay 51. a-we' k - be of his profits, and make it al ) full half of his earnings if he made more, but the PO' sition was rejected. The ComanssioNEß considered an adjournMent -god take place, for the balance-sheet to be amende°,iiiil the costs should depend on the opinion of the 0I ass The ignee. examination was then adjourned for six weimot The bankrupt estimated the profits of I'unch at 10,r„,,,' a year ;he also claimed 1,000/. f ro m the Iron of estate fur one year's salary he was entitled to Pi li e° notice. 11 THE LATE FORGERY AT CO RE-EXAMINATION OF CAPT. RICHARDS MANSION-HOUSE.—(THIS DAY.) ing is Considerable excitement was created this mor e t hat the neighbourhood of this Court, as it was kll ewil wr f, Captain William Richardson, chairman of the Tent° be Worcester, and Ludlow Railway Company. was 00 a brought up a second time before the Lord MtlY er 'a. charge of having altered a cheque on Coutts' bane for house, from the sum of 101. to 5,000/. The ell e r bee ti 101., it will be remembered by our readers, ha d . sa signed, in the first instance by the eh ltir and, again, by Thomas Stev e n son , and William Le mere Whitmore, two of the dir ec t o rs, who af ter : l o re• returned the cheque to the prisoner. On its he ieb e i as sented at the banking house, th e amo unt elli efir Te ees 5,0004, which was honoured, and five 1,000/. notessfief. paid to the person who presented the cheque. n ta eea wards appeared in evidence, that these notes wer e , p ri. to the Bank of England on the same day hy soner, who received gold in exchange, be giviagl / 1- 0 01 dress " Linen Hall, Dublin." and Furnival's In n o il in town. Subsequent inquiries led to the P rls° being taken into custody. th nerd At twelve o'clock this day th e Right lion. ° oe Mayor took his seat. Aldermen Wood and 3 ,1115 ° sat beside his Lordship. oft After the morning cases had been disP ese b o al Captain William Richardson was placed at the two o'clock. Mr. Bushe, of the firm of Bushe and Mullins, sPP eiltea g e to prosecute ; Mr. Woolf, from Mr. Flower's A ce ' peered for the prisoner. rd of Mr. Bushe said that, on the 7th of July, a !COW the Tenbury, Worcester, and Ludlow Railway 1 014 pany was held, w h en a c h eque was d r awn f or o the signed by Captain Ri c h ar d son , an d con taining it counterfoil the name of the person to wh° DoA was intended to be p a id. Th at p e rson w as 500 6 present. On the 20th of the same month th e g o cheque, signed by the prisoner and bl - oo ptts ' of the directors was present e d at Messrs' vithl bank, purporting to be dra wn f or 5,000/., "/ The paid by one of the clerks in five 1,0001. note s ' next part of his case would be t o b r i n g hom e fals e that on the same day the prison er himself, unc ler : t the name and address, changed th ree o f these not es " o ber Bank of England. The rest of the case wa s a t th e complicated, but it all tended t o th e sam e thing , l'" F os' amount received from the cheque had come into t he session of the prisoner. It an dßobert Hare, called and exami ne d.—He was cler k cashier at Coutts' bank. O n th e 20th o f July h° be the cheque produced, in five notes of 1,000/. eaea Nerd numbers were dated the 13th of February, CO:a 96,087, 96,091-2 3-4, consecutive numbers. not identify the person to whom been the the cheque. He paid th ese notes •, - e bte!„,'" account of William Richard son , William L e- rsu'" Whitmore Thomas Stevenson, and another P e 3lfi Three of those persons were authorised to dr a r vi i n 'elP a y Richardson being always one of the party : The Pi e ,9l partner of Coutts' house was Ed w ard Majoribe n can The instructions to the banker's c le r k on enl erill 're" - to the account of the railway company „„ tbe n airea d e by the witness. It was precisely the s ame 10 tie, stated by him. He (witness) did not k now the P . personally at the time the account was opened. , 11 2 e e Cross-examined by Mr. Woolf—'f he acen e fic t; opened with Messrs. Coutts by th e gentleman 03e-fittsle; in April. Ile had no doubt that th e genuine signs were affixed to the cheque. It was regarded 86 4 0: vate account, Messrs. Coutts decli n i ng to do s 'is n ea with railway companies. There still red e h. balance of 5001. or 600/. in the hand s o f the Win o W . Mr. W. Pulsford examined—Was secretary - Worcester, Tenbury, and Ludlow Railway ,C tgs tie ll. , Hitsfirst been secretary s i nce The offices of the company were at ul' of d e New Palace-yard, W estm i ns t er . He f o carte the minute-book of th e b oar d o f di rec tors l i r sie' the 7th July. That m i nu t e was ver ifi e d by he 1 Lure of the ch a i rman an d di rectors i n the °, l :„g a l/ Captain Richard son was present at that tnee" ) signed the minute. Mr. Bushe rea d f rom t h e b oo k—" A n d al se ng t e h r 9l° cheque for 10/. be given to Mr. Howell's m esse h 7d. his servic es ," with the initial letters W. attac hed ind a s 41 Witness's examination c on ti nue d-e ' - i"cht - e entry in the cheq u e-b oo k i n Captain P'„i son's writing —"No. 11, Messenger fr e h - o ril Howell, his services, July 10." Be Lien j „l e -' a letter from this party, and a conver s h - b1 lowed, in which gentlemen round th e ` 3 a o P ie lt' served that they would give a igovereignme fu ll ; rather than this sum should come out e t. ; ,; ( l of the company. He afterwards re, e h e- greeu n ; Captain Richardson a cheque for 10/, will e d "; :ben at every respect with the counterfeit. * It wa s 'Ling a" signed by Captain Richardson himself. effthe ° cheque produced, h e cou ld see tu tt " be i n g - 00 ference consisted in th e - cheque Ol for 5,000 t, instead of 10/., an d ue er addition of two more signat u r es . Having bee n by Captain Richa r d son t o get th e se signature.to..bev„. closed the cheque to Mr. Whitmore. (The let t ,iler was produced to show that a note from Vail; enclosing the cheque, was posted on the day ea tlifl h ing, Bth July). He found also on the 0 1 0 0 1 7 7 j the date had from the 7th been changed to t o t be e o July. He was positive that the " one . ' had 06r placed before the " seven" when the ;cheque:i' r e, drawn. (The witness then read the letters s° IV% to the directors, requesting their signatures O h qtli" t The cd ea smtcheques,tnttheehoesetb.sycawh back ekiuhotqbnanfusdeeoeesrqbsg‘ thet : i t n nbi being eet respectiveehf ;ly o e Abtna o oi n nt e he sdeiunr. afterwards—that mo q ssi u go e :f s i a t to o t s n iorie. bw p to e a i T. tev t o th (The exarninatio_n was proceedingwe left) they appeared in the cheque produced. The signatur e ." 0 , 10 r e not when in h e t n h the uorr d r e e e p : 1 0 ; t -RISH MARBLES.—.The recent im tion - P r 8 A A tio o marble from Ireland was made on the recommen - , -- • di ivOE Royal Highness Prince Albert, who expressed P ls f Arttle, to a deputation of the Council of the Society 9 13 , art ll ,o. which he is president, of the applicability w irife"o samples of which had been sent over for their el ue r "„ese ii s 'igb' gation, to various economical and ornamental P i l o r yal P ho pe is not generally known that the position of hi s 'eel/ Lid ness, as president of the Society of Arts, i s not il l ts ery - o sbl rary, for although he does not take part il l 1 ,;ou proceedings, everything brought to its investigs'° tellv mitted to his private inspection. Amongst oth e r I t. qualifications the Prince Consort is a good ell eln a ' s 0 14.; ANOTHER FATAL ACCIDENT AT 1 .° 14-1 $- aer e Wednesday Sparrow's G Gould -street, coal -pit, Longton.accidezlt %c,cotinirerebozsi-0000 Wa le bees.. playing together on the pit-bank, when the e c .e A tirl of them, named John Ford, about eight years a' 7.1,0 ' f ive entangled with the chain attached to the 1,70 which, in revolving, drew the child with grea t a portion of the machinery, and crushed his bey 8 0 '4 r, arm in a frightful manner. The unfortunate h ° . 7 10 s ar , the accident only about two hours. Au inques t vv „ the Three Tuns Inn, yesterday, before W-. Hardly a verdict of "Accidental Death" returned.- 0 loci‘ Mercury. 0 ' ll SUICIDE AT CH °we ELSEA.—Shortly before 0 , or , last night a young woman, whose name, resideelpfr lathe flexion was not known, committed suicide in the riv' b y into very nearly opposite Cremorne Gardens entralicietbouteufe' ing from the embankment into the water. I ' . lal Ad s , clothes of the deceased rem a ined in sight severla be s!l oti ia from the want of a boat very little exertion CO ° it 0 ,1 to save her. From her dress and appearaligsd appear that she had been leading a life of P r o oct e% tr / prostitution. ; AMERICAN ELOQUENCE.—The follOW• n gof 1 40 do from a speech of General Buncum in fa vour ov er "Mr. Speaker—When 1 open my eyes, and 1 00 " tbe ye sad vast expanse of this country—when I see 1 10 "c iza tioa . o sf , freedom has caused it to rise in the scale of Clvitotiogtr tb e expand on every side—when I see it grcwing , Sl r 'bol Mg, like a spring freshet—l cannot resist tho loupe ,o g e r jtg day will come when this great nation, like a, _ boy, will burst its straps, and become entirely tot,otije Oll4O boots. Sir, we want elbow room—the continen 1 , 7 0 continent, and nothing but the continent—and ",,, g e Calla Dig it. Then shall Uncle Sam, placing his bat upely' . : c oas l, .olf rest his right arm upon the Oregon and Califor Ir the jiti po o left upon the eastern seaboard, and whittle a w , a 2 e znall , ° SO° power, while reposing his right leg, likee. Cape Horn! Sir, the day will—the day must co r York Sun. „ fy DEGRADING PUNISHMENTS IN THE AB----', 003 03 . L i t ,0 recent order of the Commander-in-Chief, _cf.smyere officers of regiments, battalions, or depOlsr are e ffect i n sentence military Wenders to solitary conlilin":coed. t bo cells, or " black holes," as they are technicaell _ ver to ill s many cases, as soon as a prisoner is deliveruna_uovarY.t:ie, garrison provot of the Royal Artillery, that f ,e o l,essr , ,, orders to crop the hair of the delinquent as cloe 'r to r be tar: On Sundays the whole of the men who may calic,_e ..„. 0 of a c o rm n fi e n d e d e s a c r o e r a r c n h d e d p t i o a e t e h d e i b n a r t r h a e c kcchhaappeel I ; nc i l o l F s pj c 0 P' place, with the armed escort on either side ot in :,'