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RAILWAY SHARES BY PUBLIC SALE. MESSRS. LAMOND, SMALE, AND LAMONT), 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 TUESDAY and Fainav, at One o'clock, at the Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street, London, to which place, favours, containing instructions (with a reference), are respectfully 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. Offices, Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street. London. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY. Triumphant success of another New Burlesque. THIS 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 HORN". Principal characters by Messrs. F. Mathews, A. Wigan, Kinimch, Collier, Yarnold, Bender, Silver, Richards, and Keeley; Miss Keeley, Miss Viltars. Miss Fairbrother, Mrs. Woollidge, Miss Arden, Miss Forster, Miss Laidlaw, Miss Bromley. Miss Howard, 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 ; Mrs. Woollidge and Miss Howard. IHEATrtE ROYAL, ADELPHI. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE. THIS EVENING Will be performed the Comedy of PAUL PRY. Colonel Hardy, Mr. Lambert ; Paul Pry, Mr. Wright; Grasp, Mr. O. 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 naire, Lindon, Waye, Butler, Williamson, Aldridge, Mitchenson, Alderson, Ryan, Wright, Paul Bedford ; Miss Ellen Chaplin, Miss Taylor, Miss Harrison, Al iss Simpson, Mrs. F. Matthews, &c. To be followed by an original Comic Sketch, called ABRAHAM PARKER. Abraham Parker, Mr. Wright. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. THIS 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 Georgiana 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 Honner ; Mrs. Aubrey, Mrs. Stirling. To conclude with an 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. Transcendant talent, brilliant success, and crowded houses. Re- Engagement, for Six Nights more, of the distinguished Tragic Actress, Miss Cushman, and her sister, Miss Susas 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 ; Mercutie, Mr. E. F. Saville ; Capulet, Mr. lleslop ; Benvolio, Mr. Johnson; Tybalt, Mr. Fredericks; Friar Lawrence, Mr. Neville; 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 Messrs. E. F. Saville, Neville, Lewis ; Mrs. E. F. Saville, and Miss E. Terry will perform. To conclude with the favourite Drama of THE ROVER'S SECRET. Principal characters by Messrs. Saville, Johnson, Fre dericks, Lewis, ; Mrs. Lewis, Miss Terry, &e. 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 Alnert._the _Erivee. itf_Walea._ ant __Dje..P.riyieess Royal. "The Nameless." THIS EVENING 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. Will be perfOrmed the popular Drama of THE 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. lioa•office open from eleven till five o'clock.—Doors open at six and commence at seven o'clock. We are rejoiced to perceive that the societies of the Inner Temple, Lincoln's Inn, ar.d 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. to the utmost extent, the fares should be reduced to ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. THIS EVENING 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. MOR RISON, the Chairman of the Corinmittee, the publica 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 capital stock, the Lords of the Treasury, on giving three months' notice, might revise the tolls, fares, and charges. The Lona . 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 t 3 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 he 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 of 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. 6s. 3d., for the charge of car riage, would now only amount to 407. Bs. 9d. This is quite sufficient, as an example of 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, Will be performed a most powerful and entirely new Drama of a peculiar 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 Alteroni, Mr. Illggie ; Ellen, Mrs. H. Vining ; Isabella, Mrs. i. , e. After which, the Burlesque of PAYEE ROSAMONDE. Fayre Rosamonde, Mr. Form ‘n. To conclude with DOMINIQUE, THE DESERTER ; or, The Gentleman in Black. 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 10id. 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 by no means improbable that such a re duction of fares would produce the increase. 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 JOHN 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. 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-minded 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 171 per cent., and the corresponding increase of passen gers was 19i per cent. On the second-class the reduction was 26i- per cent., and the increase consequent thereon was 61 2-5 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, compa nies ought to submit to an efficient system of control, 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, with the several reasons by which we are influenced. Our space to-day forbids further notice. 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 DRACO, instead of smoking cheroots over the last num • be t of Punch ! or that What's-his-name has periodically tore-room 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 ac an acknowledgment that some reformation is required among the Learned (?) Gentlemen who aspire to silk gowns. It is the first good step in a right direction. Under the Patronage of her Most 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 GOTHIC BRIDGE of STATUES has been constructed, which will he brilliantly Illuminated at Night. The PROMENADE CONCERTS, conducted by Mr. Godfrey. CALYPSO'S FAIRY GROTTO, representing in the Interior Telemachus ~elating his adventures to Calypso. The PYROTECHNIC DISPLAYS, by Mr. Southby, are on the most complete and effective scale. Preceding the Volcanic Display, Mons. FARINET.LI will descend from a Chinese Pagoda, seventy feet in 'eight, to the surface of the lake, where a Naiad's Car will rise to receive Lim, and bear him to his chrystal home. The Glass Conservatory Is splendkliy ornamented with festoons of lamps, enabling the visitors to view tho matchless collection of Carnivora by gas-light. Feeding of the Carnivore at half-past five; the Pelicans, &c., at six ; Concert at half-past six and the Eruption at dusk. THIS DAY, SEPTEMBER 2, The Boys of the Greenwich hospital School, with their splendid Band, 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 "Buie Britannia.' The School will strive at four o'clock. ADMITTANCE, ONE SHILLING. 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 D'Assrs ; and the Espanol of the 25th was likewise seized for complaining of the seizure of the preceding day. The Heraldo has de clared in favour of the double marriage of Don FRAN cisco with the,QuEEN, and of Don ENRIQUE with her sister. The arrival of the Duke of GLUCKSBITEGH at Madrid had given rise to a report that King Lours PHILIPPE has demanded the hand of the Infanta LUISA for the Due DE MONTPENSIER. 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 Eco del Conzercio, the Cortes will meet on the 16th or 17th of September. MADRID BoLsa, AuG. 25.—The Three per Cents. were done at 34 for cash; the Four per Cents. at 214; the Five per Cents. at 221 ; the Debt without In terest. at 63 ; and the Coupons, at 201. 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. BmwoN . 201 M. LEPELETIER D'AULNAY lB3 176 . 129 M. HEBERT . M. DELESSERT M. BILLAULT (Opposition) .... 116 M. VATOUT M. GEORGES DE LAFAYETTE B7 M. VIVIEG M. ABBATUCCI.. M. DEBELLEYT.lE. - M. DUPREY M. DE TRACY , 22 M. GUSTAVE DE BEAUMONT .... 20 M. DUFACRE 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 fre,h ballot will take place on Monday. The result of this ballot shows the overwhelming nature of the Ministerial majority. The 11G votes given to M. BILLAULT constituted the whole force of the Opposition present, while the Ministerialists di vide their votes between M. DELESSERT and MM. DEBELLETME and DUPRET. The Courrier Francais thus comforts its party under their defeat : THE IVEATHEIL—SUN OFFICE, SEPTEMBER 1. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 57; Highest. 74 ; Noon, 64. BAROMETER, 30 3.—WIND N.N.E., cloudy. " The Conservative party has had an immense majo r ray ; the Opposition expected it, and for our parts we 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 cf monopoly, of privileges, and of reaction become more audacious and more evident. The moment has arrived for such an opposition to form itself: There is no longer 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• bitions intriguant, in a word, to serve as a footstool for M. Thiers. Because the Conservatives have the glory of being presided over by M. &meet; because MM. Bignon, 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 manoeuvres at the late elections will not be long in being followed by striking defeat. Conquered to-day, we shall he conquerors to-morrow,—for principles never die. They may be misunderstood for an instant, but they will triumph one day or another. It is towards day of tri um ph which we desire to hasten, and it towards that o bj ect that all friends of order and of our institutions will go Kith us. If then you make a bad use of your majority, we shall endeavour to point out the danger which threatens 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 Charribyr gains by such refusal in dignity and in consideration? Ask the country." Milli WATER AT LONDON-r:RrnGx THIS DAY. Warning .• 27 minutes after 10. I Evening .. 10 minutes after 11. ^' ' ''' NP. 1 pp . , .1t V, If • _,...,er,,,, 413—. 0 54%,..„,.. 'K A commissary of police was sent, on Friday, to search llENnt'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 indicated by HENRI, and at the depth of eighteen inches he found a copper tube, plugged at each end with wood. The tube was sealed and conveyed to the Chancellor. HENRI de• Glares it contains papers which will demonstrate the truth of his statements. Considerable alarm continues to be felt in France TILE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 2, 184 6. at the rise in the price of c • orn, consequent upon an apprehended 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. Incendiary fires continue in the district. Troops have also been or dered to Availon. Chester and Holyhead... 27 1 7 ()hornet and Blythe 2 Chester and Manchester 425. Cheltenham and Oxford 2 ClydesdaleJ unction ..... 15 Cork, Blackrock, and Passages Cork and Killarney 21A Cork and Waterford ... 1 1 / 2 — Cornwall The Mom' teur 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 does not appear chargeable to any other cause than the excessive illiberality of the existing tariff, proved by the tables published by the Non/Emir. 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, under 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 spectacle 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 whole of it has since been surrounded with a high wall in the English style, and yesterday fourteen stags, as many does, 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 for a hunting establishment is to be sent from 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 colony. On every side are springing up handsome habitations, built with English money, combining British comfort and Italian elegance with French taste." • The Three per Cents. were done in the Passage de l'Opera on Sunday at 83f. 72?,-c. LYONS, AUG. 28 —Paris and Rouen, 958 f. 75e. ; Avignon and Marseilles, 915 f. ; Northern, 710 f. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, AUGUST 31. 1 1/s Cornwall & Cent'lDevon 1 lerby and Crewe Direct Lincoln, East Itet ford, and Sh effd. J vac. 2% — Direct Manchester Boulogne and Amiens, 134 —Dutch Rhenish, 64 —East Indian. Y.—Great Western Bengal, --Tiorthern of France Constituted, 13 1 h Orleans and Vierzon, 15—Orleans and Bordeaux, 834—West Flanders, 4y, . SUN EXPRESSES.—TEIGNMOUTH.—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 trait! 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). ( Remington's) Ditto (liastricle) 5%...... Direct Northern 1 3 / 4 MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. (From The Sun of Last Night.) 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 for 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 pos 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. " The British brig Ririgdove," states the Argentine News, " which a short time since steamer Lizard, from the mouth of the Salado, where she had entered in the absence of a blockading force, was on her arrival at Monte 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 -a, and for Money at 96k. Exchequer-bills have been firm at 21s. premium. Bank Stock has receded to 2084, and India Bonds are at 265. premium. In the Foreign Funds there has been an increase of business to day. Mexican Five per Cents. have fallen from 27i to 26,i, and the Portuguese Four per Cents., which were yesterday called at 46, opened this morning at 441, and are now at 451 for the Account. For Spanish Three per Cents. the current value is at 37i ; for the Five per Cents., .I6:1 ; and for Dutch Two-and-a• Half per Cents., 591 In the Railway Share Market there is a feeling in favour of an improvement in prices. Messrs. Lamond and Co.'s sale yesterday was well at ended, and very good prices were obtained. Some of he scrips show a considerable rise. The following are a few of the principal saks:— Louvain als Sambre •- £l 6 0 Reading and Reigate 1 2 0 Northern and Southern Connecting Oxford, NV itney, and Cheltenham Shropshire Union and Canal Cambridge and Oxford Grand Union Over Yssel South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4 3 7 0 Taw Yale Extension and Duck 0 10 6 Eastern Counties, York Extension ...... Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham Great Eastern and Western 0 18 6 Churnet and Blythe Reading, Guildford, and Reigate 1 2 0 London and York Manchester and Southampton 1 0 0 Great North of India East Indian 0 17 0 West Riding Union Paris and Lyons Direct Northern 1 15 0 Great Western of Bengal 0 11 0 Norfolk Extem. to Norwich and Brandon 2 5 0 Boston, Newark, and Sheffield 0 17 0 oitTE CLOSING PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES. sank Stock 209 208 1 ,i 208 1 4 3 per Cent. Reduced Anns 964,V' t 96 1 / 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 96% 96 1 4 New 3 1 % per Cent. Annuities 98 1 /,% 98 1 A, LongAnnuitiestoexpireJan.lB6o 10' . 7-16 10 7-16 Ditto 30 years, Oct. 10,1859 India Bonds, 1,0001 Ditto under 1,0001.. .. . South Sea Stock Ditto Old Annuities Consols for ACcount V.x.chequer Bills, 1,0004, 1 1 Ad. Ditto 500/. Ditto Small 96 96A, Pm. 21 pm. 21 pin. 22 CLOSING PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. PRICES Ditto, DA per Cent., 12 Guild. 60 Mexican, 5 per Cent. 18.16......... 27 26 1 / z 26 1 / 2 Ditto. Account ..... .............. 27V / ,' 2 26% ONE O'CLOCK Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent .. 44: A 45 Ditto, Account 4 4 lh, 454 45 Russian Bonds .. •• ex div 11114 Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840 Ditto, Account 26% V g Ditto, Passive Ditto. 3 per Cent — Ditto, Account ..... 37VA Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent...... 43 Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch, 2LA per Cent . 26% 37% 43 Direct Norwich Dublin and Belfast June. 10 Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine Dublin and Galway..... 4 Dundalk & Enniskillen Eastern Counties 14/. 16s. ..... • 23 1 4 ; 22% Ditto New lO/. 16s. Ditto Perpetual, 5 per Cent, No. 1......61. 13s. 4d.... ......... Ditto ditto. No. 2... 6/. 13s. 4d... Do., York Extension.. 105....... EastDereli'm andNor'cli 1 Eastern Union Ditto. Quarter Shares 8 3 / 4 Exter,(Harwich ) 1 - v s — Do., Camb. and Ely.. 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 ••• Exeter,Yeovil,& Dorset 5 1 4 — Glasgow, Kilmar., & Ayr 50 Ditto, New .. 15 . Do., 1 / 1 Shares (5 per cent. guar.) Glouc.,Aberystwith,and Central of \Vales 1%...... •• Goole, Doncaster, &c... 425. Grand Union (Notting and Lynn Great Eastern &Western 21/Q 4 1/, , 223 /1 7, P 2% ••• • 24 24 3% GreatGrimsby and Shef field Great South. and West. (Ireland) Great Munster ... 2 1 /... . .. Great North of Scotland 2 1 / 2 ...... Great Northcf England..loo Ditto New 5 Ditto, New . Ditto, New Great Western B5 147 Ditto 1 4 Shares 5O Ditto - 1 ;1 Shares lO Ditto Fifths - 30 x int. Guildford, Fare'm. Ports. 5 ..... Harwich and Eastern Counties Junction ... 2 ...... Hull and Selby 5O Ditto I ; ,i Shares Do. Half Shares 25 Inverness and Elgin Ipswich & Bury St. Edm. 9 Do., do, and Norwich 2 1 / — Irish North Midland ... 1% — Killarney Junctions IA Kendal and Windermere 1 1 / - 2 — Llncaster and Carlisle... 45 Do. New Lame, Belfast, and Bal lymena Leeds and Bradford Leeds and Carlisle Lekester & Birmingham 225. Leicester and Bedfjrd 225....... Leeds and Dewsbury ... 17 1 / 2 — Leicester and Tamw., &c. 425. Liverpool and Bury ... 14 .. ........ ...... Lpool., Mnchstr, & New castle Junction London and Blackwall. 16/. 13s. 4d. Do. New Ditto Extension London and Brighton... 50 Ditto, Fifths London and Croydon, 131. 15s. 9d. 23 1 / 2 x a... ........ 1 / 2 x d Do. Guaran. 5 per cent. 9 London and Greenwich 12115 s 4d — Do. Preference ...18117s 2d London, Hounslow, and Western ........ 2 •••••••• • ••• London and N. Westemloo 205 Do. Quarters Do., do., New Shares.. Ditto Fifths Ditto, Eighths (G. J.) 12 1 / 2 Do., New 1 4, Shares (G. J.) Do. 401. Shares (L.M. ) 6 Lond. & S.Western 411 61 10d Do. New Consol. Bths 40 Do. New Do. New - London and York 2 l /2 . 2% 2 Do. 1 /, Shares London and Windsor 14' London, Salisbury, and Yeovil .....» . .......... 2 1 / Londonderry & Coleraine 12 ........ Londonderry and Ennis killen ... 12 1 / 2 Lynn and Ely ' 15 Lynn and Dereham l5 — . Manchester and Leeds... 82 Ditto I ,f, Shares Do. Quarters 2 Do. Fifths D 9, SiNteripAlo — Manchester and Birmin. 40 •• Do. Quarters (A) 5 13 3 / 4 Do. Quarters (B) ... 5 Do. Quarters (C) 1 G 9 1% 8% x d 2 1% 8 1 / 2 78 1 / - 1334 Manchester,Buiton,and Matlock 425....... 1 1 / 2 p l% p Manchester, Birm., and _ Mould Junction ..... Manchest. & Southampt. 2 ...... 1% 1 Midland lOO .....140 139 Do. Fifths 2 Do. New Do. Birm., and Derbyloo Midlnd& East. Counties 2%...... Midland Great Western Irish Newcastle and Darling ton Junction Do. New Newcastle and Berwick 15 Do. North Shields ... 25 Newcastle and Carlisle...loo Newport &Abergavenny 2 ... . . Newry and Enniskillen 4% 2 Newark, Sheffield, and Boston ... Norfolk Do. Half Shares Do. Tenths Do. Extension . 2 North British ..... 25 Do. Half Shari s Do. Fifths 5 - 37 1/4 11 1 4 2814 VA 38% 4 1 / 2 Do. Carlisle Extens. VA 4%.... North of Norfolk 2 3 /4 .... Northern and Eastern... 50 Do. Scrip (issd. 5 dis.) 45 Do. Quarter Shares... 121/2 — Do. New N. Kent & Direct Dover VA — ...... . ...... North Staffordshire 42s. ...... 3% 3 / 4 p . 3 3 4 p North Wales Northern and Southern Connecting Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham 59% PRIC 3OF BUSINESS DONE CLOSING E IA.II.WAY SHARES PAID. AT ONti O'CLOCK , PRICE, , . Aberdeen .. 1) Amber., Nott , Boston, and Eastern Junction 2:'( 3 ..... 2% 2 '''''''''''' 21 4 Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrash l;5 Aylesbury and Thame.. I% Belfast & County Down 2 1, , ,i — • Birmin. and Gloucester. 100 - D:tto New ............... 1 . 1 Birmingtam and Ox tOrd Junction ......... 2 Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire June.... 2% Boston, Stannd, & Birm. 0 23. — Bristol and Exeter 75 Ditto, New .......... 5 ...... 10 1 / 4 - Bristol and Gloucester... 30 .....• 51 Bristol tend Liver. June . 2 1 / ...... ........ Buckinghamshire ...... 423. 2 1 / 4 dis Caledocian ............. 9 0 . ... 16% Ditto Half Sha res . ...... 21 72 1%.• 104 1,4 dis 164 Ditto Extension 2 1 / 2 Cambrian & G ran d J une 42s Cambridg e 4ncl Oxford.. I i 1 17;06% Central...... Kant, 2 l /2 ... I% Nottingham] & Mansfld. - Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Oxford, Witney, and Cheltenham.... Pilbrow Atmospheric ... 1 -,... Portsmouth Direct 3% Preston and Wyre Do. % Shares Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Richmond 10 Rugby, Leamington,and Warwick Scottish Central Do. New 2 1% Scottish Midland lO Do. Extension Sheffield, Buxton, Leek Potteries, anderewe.— 1%...... Sheffield & Manchester 100 Do. Quarter Shares... 8 Shrewsbury and Birm... 2 1 ,..... 3 ShropsMre Union Shrews., Wolverhamp., &S. Staffordsh. Jane,. 2N Sligo and Shannon IN, — South Devon... South Midland.....,, 42s. — South & Midlan'as June. 425...... South StaffordF:nire June. 2 1 / 2 South Ea,teru & Dover 33 1 / 8 Do., No. 1.., 2O Do., N«. 2. Do., No. a Do., No. 4 St. Alban's, Hatfield, and Hertford Junction ... 425. - ........ •—• Staines and Richmond... 1 1 ....... ........ Staffordsh. & Shropshire 2% Souto Wales 5 Swans. kLoughor & Ca meron's Stm. C0a1.... 2 Taw Vale Extension ... 2 - Trin,, ,, , Reading, and Basingstoke Vale of Meath 2 -•-• ..... •• • 20•/ 3 Vs P - 3% 4% Wake&Li, Pontefract, & Goole Warwickshire & London 42s % dis Warwick and Worcester 42.. — Waterford and Kilkenny 8 — Waterford and Limerick 221 / ,', — .... ........ ... Waterfd,Wxfrd,Wicklw, and Dublin Wexford, waterford, and Valentia Waveney Valley ... 2 ...... Welsh Midland - 21' West Riding Union 425....... 3 I ,_l p West Cornwall West London,Old Shares 20 Nexford and Carlow ... 21,;, Wisbeach and St. Ives... 2 Wilts, Somerset, & Wey mouth Worcester,llerefo r d,R oss' and Gloucester 425.....,. Worceater, Tenbury, and ... Ludlow ...... .... ... ... 2% ...... "'Worcester,Warwick,and Rugby York and Carlisle 2%..,,, :;_i •••••• ••••• 34 p - 3A York and North Midland 50 Ditto % Shares .. 25 Do . Scarboro' Branch. 25 Do. Selby Do . Extension Do. East and West Rid ing Extension FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Anglo-Belgian 4 Barbadoes ... 1 Boulogne and A miens... 14 Bordeaux & Mediterran. 2 Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette (Mackenzie's)... 2 .. Do. (Espelete's) -... 2 .... . Calais, Dunkrk,andWest Flanders Calcutta and Diamond Harbour .... Callao, Lima, and Pacific Coast 1 .. ... ... .. ......... Central of Spain ... Ceylon - Demerara 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 Western Bengal... ss. Great Western Canada... 3 1 4 Italian and Austrian 3 Jamaica S.Mid. Junction 1 Jersey. Louvain ala Sambre ... 5 ... . 1% Luxembourg... . 4 Lyons and Avignon 2 — Madras Madrid and Valentia.... 2 ... — Mauritius 1 Namur and 'Liege Nu of France Constituted 5 ...... - North Jamaica' ... 1 Orleans and Vierzon ... 10 ...... Orleans and Bordeaux... 6 ...... 8 3 / 4 Over Vssel 4l3s 4d — Paris &LyonaConstituted 5 Paris and Orleans 2O — Paris and Rouen Paris and Strasbourg Constituted Rouen and Havre ...... 20 Sambre and Meuse ..„.. 8 .... Strasbourg and Bale ... 14 St. Laurence & Atlantic — fours and Nantes Con stituted ..- ..... 5 Tournay, Jurbise, Lan den, and Hasselt....... 8 Trinidad West Flanders JOINT STOCK BANKS. . 40 Australasia British North American 50 Colonial 25 Commercial of London 20 London Joint Stock lO London & Westminster. 20 National Prov. England. 35 . National of Ireland 2 2 1 / x. Provincial of Ireland Union of Australia Union of London lO . MIN Real del Monte Unregd. COURSE OF EXCHA Amsterdam .. C.F 12 8% Ditto, at sight Rotterdam ...... 2 U l2 9 Antwerp • .. ilamburgh .... • • M.B. 13 13% &Rona • • . ..... . • • .... Paris, 3 days' sight 25 80 Ditto, 3 months...... 26 10 Marseilles • . Bourdeaux..* Frankfort on Maine 122% Petersburgh, 3 Us Berlin Vienna, effee. flo ••• • • Trieste, ditto.... • • Madrid ...... Cadiz •• •.. : 68 1 h 38% 13% - % 23 % 4 - - rES. gGE.-(YESTERDAY.) Gibraltar • • . • - Leghorn ..... • 30 65 Genoa Milan Venice.......... • • .... Naples 39% Palermo, pr oz .... 119 Li5b0n................ 52% Oporto ...... 52% Rio Janeiro • ....... 25 Bahia , Buenos Ayr es ........ New York, 21 days' sight Philadelphia ..... PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ. Foreign Gold in bars.. £3 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin .. 3 17 5 New Doubloons 0 0 0 New Dollars • ... .... 0 4 9% Silver in bars ........ 0 4 11 8i1ba0................ Barcelona ............ Seville ..... ........... COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen and Prince Albert walked yesterday fore noon in the pleasure grounds of Osborne House. Lord John Russell arrived in the afternoon at Osborne House, on a visit to her Majesty. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales. Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, took airings on the beach, and in the plantations of Os borne House yesterday. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, accompanied by her Royal Highness the Princess of Prussia, left town shortly before twelve o'clock yesterday, for her residence, Bushy House, Bushy Park. Her Majesty and her Royal Highness were attended by the Countess Haack, the Earl of Denbigh, and Count Puck ler. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent arrived at Bushy House, to pay a visit to the Queen Dowager, from her residence, Frogmore House. A - dejeune was served to the august party. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent took her departure in the afternoon for Frogmore House. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, her Royal High ness the Princess of Prussia and suite, returned to Marl borough House yesterday, in two carriages and four. Mr. H. Barkly, M.P., and Mr. Macgregor had an in terview with th,. Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday. Le Commandeur Marques Lisboa, the Brazilian Mi nister, transacted business yesterday at the Fureign Office. The Milbank Prison Commission held a meeting yes terday at the Milbank Prison. The Chairman of the Customs had an interview with - ~ . qterrlf4y. Mr_ Higham, Secretary and Comptroller General to the Commis sioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, had also an interview yesterday with tha Right Hon. Gentleman. Dispatches were received yesterday, at the Colonial office, from the Governor of the Mauritius. Dispatches were sent off last evening from the Colo nial-office, for the Governors of the West India colonies. Lord John Russell left his residence, at Wimbledon, yesterday morning, for Osborne House, Isle of Wight, via South-Western Railway. The Right Hon. H. Labouchere left town on Monday, for Ireland. LLOYD'S SHIPPIN•G LONDON, SEPT. I.—Wind this day at noon N.N.E., light breeze, and cloudy. DEAL, Au°. 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. DurlaNEss, AUG. 29 —Arrd. Helena, St. John's, New Brunswick. Off port, 31st, Stadacona, Irons, Montrose. PORTSMOUTH, AUG. 31.—Wind S.W. to N.W.—Arrd. Prince Albert, Sebor, New York, and sailed for London. Off 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 ; Phoenix, Graves, Antigua; Jamaica, Bailey, Jamaica; Apollo, Hewitt, St. Domingo ; Hannibal, Foote, New Orleans; Thomas Bennett, Eldrige, Charleston; J. R. Skiddy, Luce, New York ; Ashburto n , H ow l an d, di t t o; 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 ; Sp ar t an , P rowse , Prince Edward's Island ; Union. Montreal ; Dewdrop, Williams, L a b ra d or . 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.—Sld. Eliza, Lowe, Newfoundland ; Ceres, James Kesbury, Newfoundland. MARYPORT, AUG. 28.—Sld. Trafalgar, Quebec. YOUGHAL, AUG. 28.—Arrd. Emily, Coombes, Quebec. Sld. 27th, Dominica, Storak, Quebec. PORTINBLAER, 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. TIIE FRENCH FLEET.—Lloyd'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. OSTEND, SEPTEMBER I.—Lord Dunkellan and Mr. Gregory. M.P., arrived here on Saturday by the General Steam Navigation Company's steam ship Triton, from Lon don, after a fine trip of only ten hours. The Duke Noza and suite, Lady Bruce, and Colonel Su!titan rived' on Sunday by the same Company's steamer Soho, direct from London. SOUTH SEA. WHALE FISHERY.—III the course of the present week a letter has been received from one of the crew of the Mohawk, which left this port last year on a whalir.g, excursion. She sailed from this on the 23d of May, 1515, and arrived at Appinam, Lombock Straits, on the 23(1 of November. The letter is dated the Ist of December, andat that time the crew had captured one Sperm whale, front which they obtained fifty-two barrels of oil. She crew wet e all well.—Berwick Advertiser. ANOTHER FATAL ACCIDENT AT LONCTON. —On Wednesday a mo , t lamentable accident occurred at Mr. Sparrow's Gould-street, coal-pit, Longton. Some boys were playing together on the pit-bank, when the clothes of one of them, named John Ford, about eight years of age, became entangled with the chain attached to the engine drum, which, in revolving, drew the child with great force against a portion of the machinery, and crushed his neck and one arm in a frightful manner. The unfortunate boy survived the accident only about two hours. An inquest was held at the Three Tuns Inn, yesterday, before W. Harding, Esq , and a verdict of " Accidental Death" returned.—Staffetdshire Mercury. SUICIDE AT CHELSEA.— Shortly before eleven o'clock on Monday a young woman, whose name, residence, or con nexion was not known, committed suicide in the river Thames, very nearly opposite Creoderne Gardens entrance, by jump ing from the embankment into the water. Although the clothes of the deceased remained in sight several minute=, from the want of a boat very little exertion could be made to save her. From her dress and appearance it would appear that she had been leading a life of profligacy and prostitution. • DESTROYING HOpa.—The hop-planters in the coun try round the neighbourhood of Gravesend are subjected to continual depredations, in consequence of the influx of strangers in that locality, and men are, in consequence, em ployed to watch the grounds, more particularly on Sundays. Added to the petty depredations of the visitors, others have been found to carry on a sort of wholesale plunder, by cutting the bine from the poles, and then retailing the sprigs to the multitudes who visit Gravesend. On Thursday last Henry Edward Hughes, a watehnan of Gravesend, was detected in carrying away the greater part of a bine from one of the poles in Mr. Clinch's garden, at Craig's Farm, Held. He escaped from the custody of the men who had him in charge while the constable went for handcuffs, and when overtaken he drew a knife and threatened to stab them ; but he was ultimatelysecured and lodged in the station house at Gravesend, and on Friday he was brought before the county magistrates at Rochester, and was held to bail to take his trial at the next quarter-sessions at Maidstone. The punishment for this offence is imprisonment for any term not exceeding three years, or transportation for 15, or not less than No, years. • intatai' 11AL LONDON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1846 Wherever a reformation is necessary, there, in Vane, it will assuredly make its appearance. However b;igoted 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 ; b e.fo re Motu's fragment of a history, and RALEIGH'S H ist. Dry 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 dig nified 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 sizars of the universities. The custom of carrying a horse's tail upon our heads, in the shape of a flowing peruke, las been in like manner abolished, and the covering ;afforded by nature preserved. Wooden ploughs have given place to others more capable of penetrating the glebe. Political constitutions have been modified from the compilation of the codes of LYCURGUS and jusvatiAN, to the production of the Code Napoleon rt the commencement of this century, and are still 11;ndorgoing gradually improvements. As human THE RIVER PLATE. FALMOUTIff, AuG. 30.—Her Majesty's packet Express, Lieutenant Herrick, came in this afternoon with the Brazil mail, having left Rio Janeiro on the Ist of July, Bahia the 12th, and Pernambuco the 20th. She brings on freight about 40,0001. in diamonds and gold, and several passengers. The Express left at Rio her Majesty's ships Crescent, Grecian, Peterel, and Renira, the last awaiting the arrival of the Seagull packet from England to take her mails to the River Bate. Mr. Hamilton,.. the British Minister, had quite re covered from his late attack. This vessel brings no more recent intelligence than was brought by the America. Business continued limited as regarded imports, Which was, in part, attri butable to the holidays ; but the primary cause of the prevalent dulness was the fact of the market being superabundantly supplied with almost every description of goods. Discounts continued without change, and the wants cif the market were fairly met. The exchange at Rio when the packet left was at 27d., but accounts three days later had been rec eived at Bahia, previous to her leaving that port, which quot ed 27id. Freights at Rio were as follows:—Antwerp, 3 " ; Channel, 355. to 405.; London, 455.; Trieste, 325. t 0405.1 United States, 50c. to 60c. The Express spoke on the 24th inst., in lat. 46 14 N. , long. 16 22 W., her Majesty's ship Orestes, from th e Mediterranean, and parted company on the 29th, eir, t , h : Lizard. Spoke on the 26th, in lat. 47 23 N., long. I ",i W., the barque Pearl, from London for Montreal; 9 , 11 '" signalised, on the 28th, in lat. 48 30 N., long. 10 20 II•f the barque Atlas, outward bound. The Etnilia from Liverpool, and Thorwalsden, from London, arrived at Rio, June 30. MONTE VIDEO, MAY 30.—0 n the 23d instant M r ' Ouseley formally presented his credentials to this Go vernment, as Minister Plenipotentiary on a special rn i f 'ion to the Oriental Republic of the Uruguay.. l i r e Ouseley delivered the following speech, wherein t. views with which England and France entered upon to intervention are declared to remain unchanged:— Lo " I have the honour to present to your Excellency ktu..„ credentials which the Queen, my august Sovereigne.l7, been pleased to entrust to me, accrediting me as b eriu t jesty's Minister Plenipotentiary on a special mission tw .the Oriental Republic. In fulfilling this gratifying d u ; lam directed to assure your Excellency of the e ste° and regard of her Majesty, and of the hearty wishes COi tertained by the Queen for the welfare and prosper it y ° the Republic of the Uruguay. "On arriving at this capital I had the honour of de; Oaring, conjointly with the envoy of France, the 0h.1e% of the joint mission, in these terms:—' The object of l e b o l mission is pointed out by the treaties of 1828 and 1 8 ' that is to say, the complete and absolute indepen d l e , of the State of the Uruguay. But to render this io pendence real, neither the Argentine troops, nor I fl t ti te d dron, nor other controlling influence, can be per tn " B 4 to remain in the country; but the Oriental people p age be left at perfect liberty to elect the chief to Preeleie over their destinies, in the mode pointed out by 1 " constitutional laws.' no "Further, that no desire of exclusive advantage, is wish for undue influence, nor the remotest idea of ters'eBa tonal acquisition, actuated the Governments of E n g i r i t y and France. The restoration of peace and the s ec° th e of the independence of the Oriental Republic wer e t o objects of the plenipotentiaries. Those views real unchanged. e A resort, by constitutional means, to free el reti° t ll o for the highest office of this Republic, or a ret, n , rli t ee that state of peace-essential to the welfare of o" fl y states of La Plata, that would at once render be pry sence of the representatives, and the employment h a ps forces of the intervention unnecessary, is still on t o pily prevented by the continued invasion and occoP a of the interior by a foreign army. eto " Much as I deplore this state of things, to it ; „ien indebted for the honour of being c h arge d with a m is s of to the Government of the Oriental Republic', n l3 , e presenting my letters of credence to your Excell elici. ro, The reply of President Soarez was studiedly m e wl, finding nothing whatever for congratulation in th e h fi o 0 1 except as regarded Mr. Ouseley personally, w siu • least has won general confidence by his honoura ble cerßutit of conduct. es* y rd words alone will neither raise the siegey. nel. 10 complish any of the ends of the special noisel ° , ll ", their face Rosas is " as unbelieving as a Jew'' t e oca e are' rather his security that, after all, it will not an d to blows. And while, perhaps, recently tor e i n fe ecb struck with savage wonder at the exhibition of sn o ws forbearance, allied with boundless power, he safelY o ral his laugh, and hurls his ribald decree at the 133 mediators. The appearance of a few thousand European e rete comprising cavalry soldiers and artillery, to coseP to oe with the national army here, would almost I n t esto neously effect this country's independence; without the struggle may lest for years. v i n ea JUNE 2.—lntelligence of an important victory „ore six days ago by General Rivera, at Las Vivoras, 'ore, division of the invading army, commanded by reached town this morning by a vessel from La ' c 'noo' A bulletin waspublished early, containing the °p o or ing particulars, communicated in a letter from the.ttvgieg manoer-in-Chief to the Minister of War. Th e i ' l ee red of merry bells which ensued, and the joy felt n - v eil heart and pictured in every countenance , had long strangers to Monte Video. Dur ing Rivera's genius for stratagems is proverbial. "L i ttle% • this brief campaign we have already seen hill? r ‘ u s eio, i one into practice. Even On the very night of his f°„' barking, by means of which he employed the en e re, 1 /' • some time in cannonading a place that they fo u- e itet s ' entering, to contain nothing but a few fires and r o goo' he succeeded in rescuing 600 poor people whn e3 toro had impounded in Las Vivoras. te eter r 4 • Tem. which ho hao ju3t executed has been per successful. et em ote According to an intercept e d letter from sac' t ieoP) • Oribe, Rivera was shut up on the coast, " herine sealed," with nothing to depend o n but his h, el l e g b e • their " gringos." Montor o h a d, f or d a ys, been 0 : 0 11 t1 f▪ ore him, watching his ever y mot i on , an d quite o f Pr e. , pounce on him. On the 27th, Ri vera m ade fein t do ece , , , paring to evacuate L as V acas ; ca ll e d i n his 5 s ie 3l posts, and towards ni g htf a l, or d ere d so me of te son', craft to get under we i g h an d sa il out o f the P r o m t c , toro, on receiving thi s i nte lli gence , wen t Ming 10 5 ' ts bed ; but, befo re many h ours, h e h a d, poor inyorili everything, including his muger de campana , escaped himself with his life and shirt. n iciit ieljs . Private letters from Colonia, and comni n ,, r re,„„h e , from the British vessels of war stationed the re 'i r goi , rate the extent of the defeat. The country' s* Vacas to Colonie s is now entirely free. The following is his dispatch : GLORY TO THE REPUBLIC ! Q 1E346' General Quarters, L as Vi vora s, 2 li e facti ° ' I have to inform your Excellency, for the ,:oigh o t es ` of the Government and the public, t h a t on te cow the 27th the brav e di v i s i on under my irci n eln th e mand obtained a complete victory over h tl e iv alree a rn , h )f enemy's force, in number 1,100 men, of t• - ,. ten days commanded by Montoro. For upwards ; en ding I,r °"? enemy had lain in front of us, his bile e the Curupi to the village of' Las Vivoras, of ;nfon tri chief resided, surround by a small battalion ' and six pieces of artillery. hi p si t j; Having obtained an exact knowledge o f his cO O and placing the'utmost confidence in the zeal ei e of my soldiers, I conceived, and, in conjunction ,e'tl`ttech! officers, arranged the plan of a rapid and decisiLtreee on his advanced posts, to terminate on his very ve l ' merits and guns at Las Vivoras. g i At half-past 6 o'clock in the evening orders vier 14 1 !: and at 8 our column was in motion. Colonel B l ie 4 )1 directed to lead on the attach in our front, w ith c ool; ritcd battalion of Vascos and 2 d Lamers, under t ha t Is t mand of Espihosa, protected by Colo ne l L e baud er bsr battalion, and the piece of artillery commanded taro lleley. Oaleifilt,a7l-adsa,esomespcoosretd picket k a e c t o , m a p n a d n y th o e f uiaspailtey,l4:el gores, I under Paunero, an d was under the orders o f C o ra— f 0 Mora. 01 0' 00 In this ord er , a b out 9 o ' c l oc k , t h e a d v ance" r bi log , the enemy was encountered. The Vascos, n it ` tfo lie c e them, drove them in on the reserve, and wit hou t ii then again were driven ba c k on the main bc :46 consisted of about 300 men, commanded by iori• Caballero. a. alit+ lb . 0 15 " After some resistance, the whole took to e' i r te ir doning their horses, and throwing down their of Nothing impeded the rapid march of our coleh" D C l i e for te s 11 • at once threw itself upon Las Vivoras, an.- or Baez, with his Vascos, obtained a complet e tri o! d e got, the Republic. Regardless of all resistance, a r i ttr o e ir ing the heavy discharge of musketry lo ci they went in and bayon e t e d th e artillsryu'' gel , of guns. dir ectl iJ t° At 12 o'clock the rout was complete in, II A fa llen r c(l and every thin g b e l ong i ng to t h e enemy a ls a our hands, alr ea It is 8 o'clock i n th e morn i ng . We Pave ?s f sPieel dia 05 ' lected 80 pris on , rs 2,0 00 h orses , 6 P'ee—e (1 d e • artillery, with a b un d ant mun i t i ons , 2,00 0 suis .9 1/ and an immensity of materials besides. bit e one i p a ' On our side we have had no other lo ss t all killed, an officer wouneed, and another brillb longing to the Vasco battalion. F CCI at f IP 5 This, most excellsnt S ir, is t h e result operation of my division since our re-em i u tio s Colonia ; add to which, the important I ) °_ e e eaor e Vacas, gareisnned and fortified with 17 p ie It a re ' re r, lery, including those now taken. With i l ?,, 11 00 pc c ` than a thousand souls, of families rescued bor tion of whom were driven from their homes , — th eir Go' up in Las Vivoras, like a herd of beasts, by of the barons oppressors. I strongly recommend to the consideratiogniottere vernment the officers, troops, &C. FRUCTITOSO a th 5 VII It is hoped that Rivera's success nieein e t t o 7 es v . e tte ll e o o f a hearty co-operation on the part of u ! ode penc le t to for by that combination alone can tbe ; brolig h this state be realty secured, or matte happy re juxs or 4 h ...... on i o ,e n . r d a e b ) l , e t i h ss e ue jo fo y r . the nr c ' l G O ' celebrating another victory obtained by a army: 12 Republic over a detachment of the inv . sv l it o t : i, . 0 4 rbaldi sallied out from Salto on the 20E" the 0 0 hfien*nesigonf iiiityortietset Vide of men of the Italian Legion, and 200,. four leagues' distance from the town, ° from 500 of t of Lamas and Ferrara, in number f toetersll ri After a brisk fight the Italians were le . t u srfa re• field and of the enemy's materiel, this vi t ee dt horses—the most important acquisitio. ra _ e‘ ,, , in p re , The dispersed bodies fled across the -A l'„ e ' li eurieu stre eg rection of Rio Grande; and Colonel,' of covo, ctia:hatlry ; art3e ceeded in the male direction on the 24 ht be cavalry force, with which he will interrup e, the 'eS munication with that province. • ote ntiof sri o e y 1 $ The note address ed by t h e Plemp. Government of ,Buenos Ayres, on the ..% is c ko! 1 i, ; e k ( by 4 NI