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Now ready, price 63. THE MODERN ORLANDO. IN SEVEN CANTOS. P s yr,n'l ' Don Juan' had never bi,n written, The tiotlern Or:mlo ' been justly regarcl,,cl as of the most sPleadid i2ie age. And it is el - Fusion. It is vviA, err; I.c; IS Ind gay; serious a:.,. drbll, hu- Incrous, a-,(1 w•Atz - , turl2j."—Naval an Gazette. Henry Lelbuili, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. MR. BENTLEY'S NEW PERIODICAL WORKS. Now READY. Mr. ALBERT New Story—CHRISTOPHER TAD POLE. Illustrated by Leech. No. 1., price Is. RENTLEI"B MODERN LITERATURE. Vol. 11. 'HORACE WALPOLE'S LETTERS (Copyright Edition). Bound in half morocco, price Bs. 6d. with Portraits. The same Work may be had in Parts (two Parts making a Volume), price 3e. 6d. each. MISS MITFORD'S Popular Story—BELFORD REGIS In one 'volume, neatly bound, price 6s , forming the New Volume of " The Standard Novels and Romances." BEN'TLEY'S MISCET ZANY for SEPTEMBER. Price 2s. Gcl., With Illustrations by Leech, and a Portrait of Anderson, the Danish Poet, and entertaining Papers by W. li. Maxwell, Author of " gtorles of Waterloo ;" Albert Smith, Author of " The Adventures of Mr. Ledbury," and other popular Works ; Mrs. Austin, Dr. W. C. Taylor, Everard Clive, &c. &c Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. RAILWAY SHARES BY PUBLIC SALE. NIE L S Railway T.Al‘l s ( l ) lar -N e ALtion S e e A r sl to thank their Friends and the Public for their continued support and patroxage, and to armounce that their Public Sales of Railway Shares, &c., take place every TuEsnAy and FRIDAY, at One o'clock, at the Hall of Commeree, 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, an i the proceeds imme diately disposed of according to instructions. Officer, Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street, London. THEATRE ROYAL, LYEUM. UNDER .THE MANAGEMENT OF M RS. KEELEY. Triumphant success of another New Burlesque. TH EVENING The performances will com lS mencl with WATCH AND WARD. After which, a New Grand Operatic, Melodramatic, Romantic, Fairy Burlesque Extravaganza, founded on the Opera of „ Oberon," entitled THE I.AGIC HORN. Principal characters by Messrs. F. Mathews, A. Wigan, Kinlech, Collier, Yarnold, Bender, Silver, Richards, and Keeley; Miss Keeley, Miss Villars, Miss Fairbrother, Mrs. Woollidge, Miss Arden, Miss Forster, Miss Laidlaw, Miss tromley, Miss Howard, and Mrs. Keeley. To conclude with the now Farce, entitled LOAN OF A WIFE. Principal characters by Messrs. F. Mathews, A. Wigan, Meadows, Kinloch, and Yarnold ; Mrs. Woollldge and Miss Howard. TREATKE ROYAL, ADELPIII. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE. THIS EVENING ATI be performed an interesting Drama, entitled THE MYS TERIOUS STRANGER. In which Messrs. Wright, 0. Smith, Selby, Worrell, Boyce, Sanders, Greene, Cullenford, Glennaire, Thomas, Waye, Gordon ; Miss Chaplin, Mrs. F. Matthews, Miss Harding, Miss Brooks, Mrs. Lambert, Miss Taylor, and Madame Celeste will perform. After which, a Grand Mythological Burlesque Extravaganza, de nominated THE JUDGMENT OF PA ; or, The Pas de rip ping. 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, Simpson, Mrs. F. Matthews, &c. To be followed by an original Comic Sketch, called ABRAHAM PARKER. Abraham Parker, Mr. Wright. STRAND TFIEATRE. TIILi EVENINU. Will be performed Shakespere's Tragedy of HAMLET. The Ring, Mr. Waldron ; Hamlet, Mr. Gr gory; Laertes, Mr. Leigh Murray; Gsric, Mr. Grafton; IVonius, Mr. Sanders; the Queen, Miss Dorrington ; Ophelia, Miss M. Glover. To be followed by THE DAY AFTER: THE WEDDING. Colonel Freelove, Mr. G. B. Rivers ; Lady Elizabeth, Miss M. Glover. To conclude with the Farce of I3O3IBASTES F 1.11, 1 .030. Messrs. Whittaker, dittwood, Slanders, and Miss A. Taylor will sustain the principal characters. Private Boxes, & may be engaged' at the Box-office, from eleven till four, and at all the Libraries. .PRi.NCESS'S Tti BATHE. oXFORD-STAEET. THIS EVENING Will be performed a new Scrio-Comic Drama, entitled, A CURLOIT CASE. Mr. Aubrey, Mr. Vining; Twiggicton, Mr. Charles Mathews ; Charles Stanton, Mr. Fisher ; Edward, Mr. Renner ; Mrs. Aubrey, Mrs. Stirling. After which. an original Comedietta, called ADVICE TO HUS BANDS. General Leslie, Mr. Granby ; l'rank Trevor, Mr. James Vining ; Mrs. Trevor, Mrs. Stirling. To be followed by an entirely New Comic Drama, entitled THE BARBEII BRAVO ; or, '; he Inventor of Powder. In which Mr. Charles Mathews, Mr. Granby, Mr. Wynn, Miss E. Stanley, and Miss E. Honner will perform. To conclude with 'Sheridan's Drama of THE CRITIC ; or, A Tragedy Rehearsed. Sir Fretful Plagi - iry and Pufi, by Mr. Charles Mathews. The other princ'pal characters by Mears. Honner, Ryder, Compton, Oxberry, Harris, Wynn, Courteney; Miss Emma Stanley, Miss Somers, Mies Honner, &c. Vllitit:'S I:0 IA I. SURREY THEATRE. Lessee, Mrs. Frances Davidge. Transcendent talent, brilliant SUCOCS4, and crowded houses. Re- Engagement, for Six Nights more, of the distinguished Tragic Actres.f, Miss Cushman, and her sister, Miss Susan Cushman, positively their last appearance in London. THIS EVENING Will be performed Shakcspere's Tragedy of ROMEO AND JULIET. Romeo, Miss Cushman; Juliet, Mss Susan Cushman ; Nurse, Mrs. Daly ; Mercutis, Mr. E. F. Saville; Capulet, Mr. Ileslop ; Benvolio, Mr. Johnson; Tybalt, Mr. Fredericks; Friar Lawrence, Mr. Neville; Apothecary, Mr. W. Smith. After which as 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 Melodrama of TIIE TWO DROVERS. Messrs. Fredericks, Neville, Pelham, Ileslop, Wood, Lewis, Con way ; Mrs. Daley, Miss Terry, and Mrs. Saville will sustain the principal characters. Box Orlice open from eleven till four o'clock. WAAL AAi Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Patronised by her Most Gracious 3Nesty the Queen, Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales, and the Princess itoyal. "The Merchant's Steed" triumphant. Entire change of Equestrian novelties. Last Week of the highly popular Drama of " The Nameless." THIS EVENING WM be performed the popular Dfama of THE STEED OF SY RACUSE; or, Damon's Flight. Damon, Mr.J. Harwood; Pythias, Mr. J. Dale ; Ca!anthe, Mrs. M. Brooks. Assisted by the nu merous Company, double Stud, &c. , . _ . After whicb, magnificent SCENES of tho HIPPODROME, by the French, German, and British Artist, s. The wiwle concluding with the Npular Drama, entitled TEE ITAIN:ELESS. itox•ottice open from eleven till five o'clock.—Doors open at six and zommenee at seven 4rcloetc. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. THIS EVENING Will he performed a most powerful and entirely new Drama of a peculiar end forcible egmstruction, 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. niggle ; Ellen, Mrs. H. Vining; Isabella, Mrs. ee. After which, the Burlesque of FAY RE ROSAMONDE. Fayre Rosamonde, Mr. Fornt n. To conclude with THE TAILOR OF TRENT. Under the Patronage of her Most Gracious Majesty. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. The magnificent Display of FIREWORKS on and in the Water, representing a NAVAL. ENGAGEMENT, which was received with thunders of applause at the Juvenile Gala, will be re peated on MONDAY and WEDNESDAY NEXT. EVIi al" 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 relating his adventures to Calypso. The PYROTECHNIC DISPLAYS, by Mr. Soutliby, are on the mast complete and effective scale. Preceding the Volcanic Display, Nions. FARINELLI will descend from a Chinese Pagoda, seventy feet in haight, to the surface of the lake, where a Naiad's Car will rise to receive him, and heafhim to his chrystal home. The Glass Conservatory is splendidly ornamented with festoons of lamps, enabling the visitors to view the matchless collection of Carnivora by gas-light. Feeding of the Carnivore at half-past live ; the Pelicans, &c., at six : co , ieert .xt half-past six ; a.,:1 the Eruption at dusk. On WEDNESDAY NEXT, September 9, the Boys of the Royal Military Asylum and Caledonian School, with their Juvenile Hands, will pay their Annual Visit, on which oceasion the Pyrotechnic Display on the Water will be repeated. On WEDNESDAY. September 16, the ROYAL SOUTH LON DON FLORICULTURAL SOCIETY will hold their GRAND DAHLIA SHOW, being rho Last Exla.hltion of the season. An extra Band, and an extraordinary Display of Fireworks will be produced on the occasion. ADMITTANCE, ONE SHILLING. THE WEATHEIL—SIIN OFFICE, SEPTEMBER 5. THER3IOMETER, Lowest, 57; Highest. 71 ; Noon, 7 BAROMETER, 30.19.—W1ND E., fine. rirlA wATFR. AT 1,0; , IDON-I'lltItOE TILES DAY. Morning .. 11 minutes after 1.1 Evening .. 38 minutes after I. - ...... 4_ o.' ,j • , s o. alil PM, ...• . . ,„ IS " -- _4 !-• 74 - -AM- . '47 7 .4C - ."." • - - .01,1111iNsali ;-tilty- ~,... . ~ 0 , , ,. 1:i so ~.vt..:trigriai - '.. - Ats:it = . r ' -. . 7 ., : ,. 4 r•mo A ' • " oii,Vaarm i je•' i •."-:-, - ~. z , ^ 4 " . •.,, , .., -, JI•E fl f ,:, re , ' - ,#•,,,,,..4.- - .:, ).' % -: ' , ,•.- ', -. SECOND EDITION. r~nnV4tit LONDON, SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 5, 1846. The intelligence just received from India, in anti cipation of the Overland Mail, and which affords us news from Bombay to the 18th of July, inclusively, is of a most calamitous character. Although we have occasion to rejoice over the tranquillity of our pos sessions in Asia, we are unhappily compelled to mourn over the calamities which have befallen our countrymen and the unfortunate natives in those ter ritories. Sinde appears to have been again afflicted with the diseases which have hitherto devastated its provinces by a triennial visitation. Cholera has re cently carried off somewhere about 8,490 souls, including natives, sepoys, and Europeans, at Kurra ace. Fever of a malignant kind has likewise car ried death among the soldiers stationed at Sukkur. With the exception, however, of these calamitous circumstances, the position of the BritMl forces in • the East is exceedingly gratifying. The utmost tranquillity prevails throughout the Punjaub and the adjacent countries ; and, although the mortality and pecuniary disbursements justify the lamentations of the Bombay Times, it is impossible not to look with satisfaction at the events which have recently transpired in British India. However much the consequences of those occurrences may be cause for regret, however much we may sorrow over the sacrifice of life and of specie which they involved, their ulterior result cannot but afford us consolation. Nor do we reason upon that pernicious principle of a vile means being justified by a beneficent end; we of course abhor that dogma as not merely contra distinguished from all legislative generosity, but as totally opposed to the dictates of every prudential sentiment. Our exultation over the deeds which have rplil SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMI3ER 5, l B 46. recently illustrated Asiatic history is altogether nega tive : we are satisfied with what has there transpired, simply because the result of that bloodshed and rapine must, in all human likelihood, prevent greater blood shel and more grievous rapine at a subsequent period. The victories on the Sutlej, though more sanguinary than the defeats in Caubul, afford infinitely greater reason for the rejoicings of the lovers of humanity—not because the English standards were triumphant —not because Oriental warriors were vanquished—but because in the former case may be recognised a more solid guarantee of the future tran quillity of those regions, and of the less probability of further hostilities and more extended carnage. There was, undoubtedly, a smaller loss of life at Caubul, in proportion to the number of conflicts and of combatants, than in such engagements as the battle of Ferozeshah and the victory of. Sobraon ; but with the lesser bloodshed of Caubul there was the greater probability of future disturbances, while with the greater bloodshed of the Sutlej there was the lesser probability of subsequent massacres. The information received from Caubul is of so ex traordinary and extravagant a kind, it is so distorted by improbabilities, and so coloured by romantic de tails, as almost to render credence impossible. Accord ing to the accounts principally in circulation, over tures for the renewal of hostilities with the British have been made to the AMEER and the associated chieftains of Affghanistan, by a Vakeel or ambas sador, from no less august a personage than MAHOMED SHAH BADSHAII KAJUR, the King of Persia. The solemn reception of this illustrious Vakeel by the head of the Kuzzilbashe3; his ceremonious introduction to the durbar ; the in terview which subsequently occurred in the Ameer's garden, between MAHOMED AKBAR KHAN and the Persian envoy, and the agreeable hob-nobbing which followed thereupon, are so invested with the colour ing of fiction, that we are almost inclined to regard the narrative as a stray leaf shaken from Mr. LANE'S translation of the " One Thousand and One Nights," than a sober dispatch received during the September of 1846. Whether the Shah of PERSIA be really adventurous or designing enough to instigate his neighbours, the Affghanistan warriors, to another outbreak, and whether the AMEER has sufficient sagacity to resist the rather powerful temptation of his imperial brother, are circumstances which can only be developed by time. DOST MAHOMED KHAN, the wisest and most moderate among the Affghans, is reported to have been considerably affrighted by the daring proposition of the Persian Sovereign, and in the prudence of the AMEER'S character we possess, possibly, the best guarantee that this wild and auda cious scheme will be rejected by his fellow-country men, and ultimately relinquished in Persia. Al tholgh the Wuzeer almost promised 20,000 Seikhs, and MAUOMED AKRAM KHAN 30,000 Kohistanees, for the expedition, on condition that its expenses were liquidated out of the Persian exchequer, we can re main satisfied until the arrival of additional intel ligence, firstly, because of the awe which has been stricken into the hearts of the Seikhs and Affghans by the prowess of our soldiers; secondly, because the envoy is not explicitly accredited ; and, thirdly, be cause of the name which DOST MAHOMED KHAN has acquired for forethought and moderation. The directors of the South-Eastern Railway have determined to exhibit to the public the strongest proof of the necessity of some controlling power, by which the indiscreet and injurious acts of the managing bodies of the different railway companies may be restrained and checked. It would appear as if they were resolved to furnish an unanswerable argument why the regulation of the fares should be taken out of their hands, or, at least, placed under a vigilant supervision. In every instance in which reductions of fares have taken place there has been a more than proportionate increase of the traffic, and while a great benefit has been conferred upon the public at large, the com panies themselves have derived a larger profit, have won golden opinions from the people, and at the same time obtained a larger dividend on their shares. It is hardly possible to con ceive that any body cf men should be so blinded to their own interests, so imbued with erroneous vie ws, and so totally reckless of the good opinion of the community as, at this particular period --immediately after the prorogation of Parliament, by which the possibility of legislative interference is precluded for some time at least—to increase largely the rate of charges by their different trains. This the South-Eastern Company have thought proper to do; and the case is aggravated by the fact, that they rested their opposition during the last session of Parliament to a rival project chiefly on the ground that they had made great reductions in their fares, which were then probably cheaper than almost any other trunk line in the kingdom. This moderation on the part of the directors of the South-Eastern Company it is gene rally supposed was the chief cause of the rejection of the North Kent line, by which a great saving in the distance to be travelled would have been afforded to the inhabitants of the greater part of the county. Dover, itself, would have been brought much (sixteen miles) nearer to the metropolis, and thus the greater part of the passengers proceeding to the continent would have been secured by the North Kent. Perhaps there is no other of the trunk lines in England that would have so much reason to fear competition, or to dread the sanction of the Legislature being granted to an opposing railway. The circuitous route, by which the greater portion of the passengers are obliged to travel, in order to reach their several destinations—the greater distance to be traversed is in itself a grievance of sufficient magnitude, and one which could only (if at all) be compensated by the greatest attention to the public interests in all other respects, an extraordinary degree of accommodation, and, above all, a special care that parties should not be compelled to pay an increased price for the additional space over which they were taken. The most specious promises were held out by the directors, they complacently pointed out to Mr. 11lomusoN's Committee that the fares of the South-Eastern Company had experienced a greater reduction than even those on the London and Birmingham line. The correctness of the con duct of third-class passengers was borne honourable testimony to by the chairman of the company, and, in fact, little was to be desired on the part of the managers, except, perhaps, a greater degree of punc tuality—a stricter adherence to the specified times of the departures and arrivals of the dif ferent trains. Many, on the faith of the implied promise held out by the company, took country places, calculating their expenses according to the old and long-continued scale of charges. On such persons, the nature of whose avocations acquire an almost daily attendance in town, an injury has been inflicted; an additional expenditure of 155., 205., or perhaps 30s. per week has been rendered neces sary—a serious matter to many who are obliged to look closely to their outgoings, to manage their incomes with the utmost degree of prudence, economy, and foresight. It is not too much to say that the additional charge would in many instances have deterred the parties from a residence in Kent or Sussex, and would have induced them to select their country quarters in the neighbourhood of some rail way whose directors would not in their corporate capacity commit an act of which each, asan individual, would scorn to be guilty. The manner too in which the increase :has been effected has been most unwise and injudicious; it has been higher, in proportion, on the class least able to afford it, and greater for short than long distances. Thus, for the entire distance the advance has been to express and first-class passengers 10 per text., or from 18s. to 205., and from 15s. to 16s. 6d. ; to second-class passengers 20 per cent., or from 10s. to 12s. ; and to the third class 22i per cent., or from 6s. to 7s. 4d., being the highest ar count they could possibly charge. For shorter di stances it is much greater—ex. gr., the change in the old and new fares to Tunbridge Wells are as folio ws, viz.:— OL n FARES. NEW FARES. Express...-. ........ Bs. 6d. I Express los. 6d. Ist Class .. 2d Class 3d Class . 2s. Bd. 3d Class 3s.lod. being an inei 'ease of 22f per cent. on the first class, and no less tt &an 45 per cent. on the second and third class. This increase is the more objectionable when it is consider( 'd that the passengers are taken 11 miles additional ; the distance by road being 35 miles only, while by the railway it is 46 miles. Again, to i\laidstone, where 22 additional miles must be traversed, the charge is as follows : Trains. Old Fares. New Fares. s. d. s. d. Express Ordinary first-class Ordinary second class 4 6 6 6 Ordinary third-class being an increase on the express of 37+ per cent., on the ordinary first-class 28+ per cent., on the second-class 44 per cent., and on the third-class 50 per cent. We trust that the directors will not obstinately persist in the error they have committed, but that they will speedily, and with a good grace, yield to the strongly-expressed feeling of the public, and, by an immediate recur rence to the former charges, make all the amends in their power to the parties injured. By so doing they may obtain a pardon for their mistake ; but should they persevere, a just retribution will convince them that they have miscalculated, the extent of the national forbearance. A question of considerable importance, connected with the unfortunate failure of the potato crop in the south of Ireland, has recently come before the petit sessions at Fermoy. It appears that a common custom, prevalent throughout the greater part of that kingdom, is for the farmer to contract, with his labourers for their employment for a period of twelve months, and that a part of the remuneration given consists of a house, and a plot of ground for a crop of potatoes, possession of which is given to the labourer on entering into the agreement, and the stipulated price is liquidated by the labour of the tenant, at a certain rate per diem, who is said to be working against his rent. It is but justice to the humbler classes to state that hitherto these engagements have been most religiously observed and punctually ful filled on their parts; and that though the rents demanded and obtained have been very high, and far beyond the money value of the premises, scarcely an instance can be mentioned of default in giving the stipulated quantity of labour. Their entire re sources in the earlier part of the year are devoted to the cultivation of the plots so let to them : on these they expend their time, their labour, and the residue of their last year's crop as seed. And they look for ward to the return therefrom as affording the only means of subsistence to themselves and families from the time of the incoming of the potato crop. Their humble wants are satisfied with the food and shelter they so obtain, and they are enabled thereby to give their labour without any money payment therefor. In the present year, however, circumstances have differed materially from what they have been on ordi nary occasions. A fearful visitation of PROVIDENCE has blighted the crops, and threatened famine and desti tution throughout the country; the potato gardens, on which their little all was expended, have been totally destroyed ; the produce is unfit for human food, and not worth the labour of digging. The wretched cottiers are left without food of any description, and without the means of procuring a single meal for their starving families. They repre sented to their employers the miserable condition to which they had been reduced, the utter impossibility that they could continue to work out the rent agreed on ; that flesh and blood required support, and that men could not labour without the means of sustaining human nature; they could not bear the tears and lamentations of their famishing children, and see the partners of their cares and sorrows pine away before their eyes; and they concluded with the moderate and reasonable request that the farmers would pay the wages for their labour in cash, and 'permit the rents of the gardens, now a mass of rottenness, to lie over as a civil debt, to be defrayed at any future period when a more favourable state of things might exist, and there would be the possibility of a surplus to be applied towards its liquidation. This, however, was in the majority of cases refused ; they had set their seals to the bond, they had entered into a contract, which should be fulfilled per fas et nefas. The rustic Shylocks were resolved upon exacting their pounds of flesh. Those who would probably have to apply for allow ances to their own landlords demanded by the universal failure—who would justify the falling into arrears of rent by the imperative necessity that existed of sustaining their own families before any portion could be applied to the satisfaction of the claim, had no bowers of mercy fur their poorer neighbours, and would not yield to the argument which they felt to be of peculiar force in their own cases. They had recourse to an old statute, 43 Geo 111., cap. 86, which has frequently been acted on in similar cases, and which provides " that labourers refusing to work, or neglecting their work during the time for which they should be engaged, might be com mitted to gaol fur any time not exceeding six months, or to the House of Correction, to be kept to hard labour, for any period not exceeding three months " This stringent enactment was the power by which the farmers sought to enforce work from the starving men. The wives and children were to be driven to the workhouses, while the husbands, the fathers, would be hurried off to gaol to expiate, as criminals, the non-performance of an agreement which it was morally impossible that they could specifically per form. A number of summonses were obtained under the statute alluded to, and it is hardly necessary to say that the proceedings were watched by the multi tude with the most thrilling and intense interest. It is impossible to estimate what would have been the consequences of a conviction. It is said that hunger will break through stone walls, and we can only faintly image to ourselves the riots and disturbances that must have inevitably ensued in such a case. Extraordinary measures would, indeed, have been necessary to preserve the peace of the districts so painfully menaced. This result was, however, averted by the talent and ability of the professional gentleman (Mr. CARROLL), who conducted the defence. He boldly impeached the previous decisions, as having been made on erroneous grounds, and argued " that the statute only applied to cases where the hiring was for money wages, or where the employer was willing to pay the labourer in cash, without making any de duction for the rent of his house or potato garden. That the agreement was only a civil contract, on which the farmer might proceed for the recovery of the debt, when due, before the assistant-barrister, or by any of the other means afforded for the recovery of such debts." A difference of opinion took place amongst the magistrates on the bench, three being of opinion that they had the power of committing the defendants to prison, and wishing to exercise that power, while four adopted the argument of Mr. CARROLL, and took the more humane, and, as it eventually proved, the more correct, view of the enactment. It was finally determined that the cases should be postponed for the opinion of the law advisers of the Crown ; and we are happy to say that that Opinion has been in accordance with that of the majority of the justices, and that it has been pro nounced not to be within the summary jurisdiction of the justices under the statute. By this decision the peace and tranquillity of the country will be preserved, and an extraordinary amount of human suffering be averted. It is cer tainly a hard case on the farmers, but the loss must eventually fall on those best able to bear it—the re presentatives of the wealth and property of the country. The Levant Mail has arrived, bringing intelligence from Constantinople, Smyrna, and Athens. The Smyrna papers of the 21st state that ME HEMET ALI sailed on the 17th from Constantinople, in the Turkish steamer Esseri-Djedid, followed by the Egyptian steamers Nile and Boulag. The Journal de Constantinople of the 16th gives the following particulars of his visit : " Mehemet Ali ' it is expected, will leave to-morro w evening by the Ottoman steamer Esseri-Djedid. He will be attended as far as Cairo by Amid Bey, first Chamberlain to the Sultan. During the stay of Mehemet Ali in this capital, which has been nearly a month, he has been everywhere received with marks of the highest distinction, and his visit will, doubtless, tend to consoli date the relations between Eey pt and the mother country. During the stay of the Viceroy in the Turkish capital, he has given away in charity arid presents the enormous sum of fifty millions of piastres. He has received mag nificent presents from the Sultan and Sultanas; amongst the number are a brilliant, weighing 27 carats, and valued at more than a million of piastres, and six vases of solid gold, enriched with diamonds." The same journal says, in reference to the recent disturbances in the Turkish provinces bordering on the Black Sea : " The inquiry into the disturbances at Erzerouw is b-incr, actively carried cn ; the authorities in this case give pro,ffs both of their fii'mnss and niodera- Lion. According to the la:it accounts r,ceived from the liajare, a .second engainent ha f t•,ken plac, , , in which the rlfels had been defeated. There is no doubt but that, with the reinforcements which Earner l'aena has received from ;ol).stantinopl. , , order will be speedily nf storcd. Ina ictv days we shall doubtless learn that no thing remains of the disturbances but the puni,ihment to be inflicted en Keur Hussein Bey, the leader of the re bellion." An Ottoman squadron, consisting of two ships of the line, three frigates, four brigs, a schooner, and tw•o steamers, is about to sail for the Archipelago. Ihe Athens journals of the 20th state that some fresh shocks of an earthquake had been experienced at Messinia, which had so alarmed the inhabitants that they had encamped in the open fields. It was rumoured in Athens that some of the more turbulent spirits on the Thessalian frontier were organising an, invasion of that province with the tacit consent of M COLETTI, the Greek Minister. Some pirates had captured a small vessel off Nicaria, and had put the crew to the sword. Letters from Rome of the 22d ult. state that the Papal Government is about to contract for a loan with native and Belgian capitalists, for the pur pose of converting the Five per Cents., and thus reducing the expenditure of the State to a level N,sih the revenue. The Legates and Delegates of the provinces have been ordered to return a list of all public functionaries, stating their capacities and their salaries. It is also proposed. to enter into a convention with France for the transpor tation of condemned convicts to Algiers. The Government of Saxony has acceded to the con vention concluded between Prussia and England on the subject of international copyright. This fact is announced in the Cologne Gazette. A letter from Vienna, published in the Hamburgh Correspondent of the 29th, states that Prince MET.. TERNICH wAs occupied at liwnigsburgh with the question of Schleswig-Holstein. It will be regarded generally in a federal point of view, and the resolu tion of the Diet will have the force of a law. All the German Governments are in accord on this point. Madrid papers of the 29th August have arrived. The Gazette publishes the following decree, an nouncing the approaching marriage of the QUEEN :- We, Isabella 11., by the grace of God, and by the constitutian of the kingdom, Queen of Spain, to all whom these presents may come, make known, that having re solved to contract a marriage with our cout,in, Don Francisco d'Assis Maria, in order that the previsions of Article 47 of the Constitution may receive their accom plishment, using our R , yal prerogative, and after having taken the advice of our Council of Ministers, we have decided on convoking, and do convoke by this present or donnance the Cortes of the kingdom for the 14th Sep tember next. To this effect we do command that on the said 14th September in this present year the Senators and Deputies be assembled in the capital of Spain for a meeting of the Cortes. " Given at our palace this 28th day of August, 1846. " I, THE QUEEN. (Countersigned) " Minister of the Interior, " PEDRO PIDAL." MADRID BOLSA, AUG. 29.—The Three per Cents, were done at 36 3.5 i for cash ; the Four per Cents. at 22 ; the Five per Cents. at 23 ; the Passives at and the Coupons at 201. We have received the Paris papers of Thursday. The Constitutionnel has a long article on the sub ject of the marriage of the Queen of SPAIN, in the course of which it states that Lord PALMERSTON has expressed his objection to the marriage of the Duc DE MONTPENSIER with either the QUEEN or the INFANTA. " The Ministers," says the Constitutionnel, "readily assent to that exclusion, as respects the QUEEN, since that marriage was always refusel by the Court of France; but they will assent with less resignation to the exclusion as respects the INFANTA. The following address in reply to the Speech from the Throne, was agreed to by the Chamber of Depu ties on Thursday by a large majority. " Sire,—The Chamber of Deputies has promptly re sponded to the call of your Majesty. The will of the Charter had to be accomplished, and we were all anxious to lay before the constitutional throne our respect and our oaths. " Your Majesty announces to us that at the period of our ordinary labours you will lay before us measures connected with the domestic and fbreign affairs of the State ; we will then enter into an examination of the questions which regard all the interests of the country, its prosperity, and its grandeur. But at the present mo ment we have a mission to fulfil which we love,—France has charged us to bear to you the faithful expression of the sentiments with which she is penetrated towards you and your family. _ _ _ "In honouring us with her cuffiages, she has loudly declared that between her and you, between her and your dynasty, the alliance is indissoluble. "Sire,—You have lournt from your youth to love and serve France ; th,re are no trials which you have not supported, no dangers which you have not every d a y incurred, to secure her repose and her happiness. Pro vidence protects you, and will prolong that reign which the will of the nation has founded for the safety of our laws and of our liberties. Both your children and ours will reap the fruits of our common efforts, and, as the highest recompense, your name will live blessed and re spected in the memory of the country." In the course of the debate, 11. DUCHATEL, the Minister of the Interior, stated, in reply to M. LARABIT, that the Government had adopted measures to prevent a recurrence of the incendiary fires ; and that several incendiaries were in the hands of justice. M. LAROCIIEJAQUELIN thought it right to defend the Legitimatist party from the accusation that they were connected with the incendiaries, and the subject dropped. The Chamber at its rising, was prorogued to the 11th of January. Mr. COBDEN arrived at Bourdeaux on Sunday. He was received by M. DUFFOUR DUBERGIER, the Mayor, and invited to a grand banquet to be given in his honour by the Free Trade Association on the 4th September, which invitation he at once accepted. The Marquis of 'NORMANDY has left Paris for Vichey. The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Thursday at 84f. 35c. ; the Five per Cents., 122 E 10c. ; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,277 f. 50e ; Rouen, 968 f. 75c. ; Havre, 7121. 50c. ; Great Northern, 7201. ; Avignon, 9301. ; Yierzon, 633 f. 75c.; Bordeaux, 580 f.; Boulogne, 4951.; Basle, 220 f. ; Farnpoux, 400 f.; Dieppe, 390 f.; Paris and Strasburg, 500 f. ; Tours and Nantes, 508 f. 75c. ; l'aris and Lyons, 535 f. ; Lyons and Avignon, 495 f.; Bor deaux and Cette, 48 L 50c. ; Spanish Domestic Debt, 34 1 4 ; Ditto Passives, 514. The following are the quotations for the new lines:— LYONS, Siv'r. I.—Avignon and Marseilles, 912 f. 50c.; Northern, 708 f. 75c. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, SEPTEMBER 4. _ . . _ . Boulogne and Amiens, 13%—Direct Bombay and Madras, % --East Indian, % —Louvain ala Sambre, —Namur and Liege, 2%—Orleans and Bordeaux, 8% —Paris and Rouen, 3714—Rouen and Havre, 28. THE SUN EXPRESS.—The Queen's speech was de livered by commission on Friday afternoon, and copies of The Sun newspaper containing the speech, were for warded to this city the same evening, by Mr. Murdo Young, the spirited proprietor of that promptest of all prints.— Wedern Times. DEATH OF SIR ROBERT PRESTON, BART.—Sir Robert Preston, Bart., the oldest of that class of title in the empire, expired at Blackadder on the 30th ult., in the ninetieth year of his age. He was born in 1757, being the only son of the celebrated General George Preston (who at one period was commander of the Royal North British Dragoons), by the daughter of James Johnston, Esq. He married his consin, daughter to John Pre , ton, Esq., of Gorton, and had issue, amongst other children, Robert Preston, E‘q., formerly a major in the army, who succeeds to the title and estates. The latter are in Lincolnshire' Somersetahire, a n d Perthshire, and the family of the deceased were known as the Prestons Walleyfield, in the latter county. The title, a Scotch one, was created in 1637, and the sixth baronet having died in 1834 without any issue cn the male line, of the first baronet, the title reverted accord ing to patent of creation to the nearest male collateral relative, the deceased, who was the representative of the first baronet's nearest brother. - - AN ADVERTISING VAN IN DIFFICULTIES.—Yes terday, at noon, as one of Sir Peter's " antipathies " was perambulating Seymour-street, Somers-town ' covered with enormous placards, vaunting the unparallelled vir tues of some doctor somebody's lotion, the horse that drew the vehicle took fright, and singular enough, depo sited th. wh,le freight of medical wonders in the shop of Mr. Nobbs, chemist, &c., at the corner of Charles street, and Upper Seymour-street, via the window. Luckily the fracture of a few panes of glass, and not a little threatened peril to more than one of those portly and partly-coloured vases which are certainly the most attractive if not the most harmless objects in a druggist's shop, embraced the extent of the mischief done. A SECOND BERNARD CAVANAG Lord J. Manners visited at the workhouse John Harden, a pauper of diseased mind, who is now for thirty - three days without h av i ng ta k en a particle of solid food. The un fortunate man is little altered in person, except about the regions of the stomach, which is sunk in and quite reduced. He is compelled, with great difficulty, to take a nogging or two of broth in the twenty-four hours.— Limerick Chronicle. THE OUT- PENSIONERS OF CHELSEA HOSPITAL.-- On Thursday all the out pensioners or Chelsea Hospital, on being paid their quarterly pensions, received a por tion of their accoutrements preparatory to their being called oat for actual service. Prince George of Cambridge, it is understood, will enter upon his duties as Commander of the southern dis trict of Ireland early next month. His official xesidence will be at Limerick. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The Cotton market at Liverpool yesterday was firm. Sales, 8,000 bales, snaking 66,730 for the week. The stock was 993.000 bales at the outport on the 4th of September, 1845, against 741,500 bales now.—Sbares were flat again yestereay. Messrs. Lamond and Co.'s sale yesterday went offratber quietly. Little speculation is going on, from the ab sence of so many of the principal operators in the country. A good buSiness was dune. The following area few of the sales:— Great North of India £0 5 6 Cambridge and Oxford Reading, Guildford, and Reigate 1 2 0 Reading and Reigate 1 1 6 Ambergate,Nottingham, and Boston Taw Vale Extension and Dock 0 11 0 Great Eastern and Western 1 0 0 Norfolk Extena. to Norwich and Brandon 2 7 0 London and York ... 2 3 0 Eastern Counties, York Extension ~. 2 7 0 Shrewsby., Wolverh., and South Stafford. 2 8 6 Churuet and Blythe Shrewsbury and Birmingham South-Eastern and Dover, No. 1 25 15 0 Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham East Indian 0 17 0 Paris and Lyons East Lincolnshire Direct Northern w 1 15 6 Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush London and Blackwell, New Northern and Southern Connecting Grand Union 0 14 0 West Riding Union ... 5 2 0 Manchester and Seuthampton 1 3 0 Louvain ala Sambre Great Western of Bengal Oll 6 Derby, Stafford, and Worcestershire Shropshire Union and Canal The private accounts received from the West Indies this morning are considered of a favourable character. It is with regret we find by the advices from the United States and Canada that the wheat, the cotton, and potato crops are likely to be short. Upon this sub ject we are thus advised:— " From extensive inquiries we believe we may safely state that almost one-fourth of the whole wheat crop will be lost from the effect of rust ; but in consequence of the rank growth, and an extra quantity of land sown, the yield on the whole will not be less than last year. " A gentleman who has sixty acres of land in potatoes in the Miami bottom, informs the Cincinnati Chronicle that his potatoes are rotting rapidly in the ground, and in digging in several parts of the field, for the purpose of ascertaining if the rot was general, he stated that the smell arising from the ones already decayed, was almost past endurance, and that he did not expect to save one hundred bushels out of the whole field. All that be has seen have the black spot described. A dealer in Cincinnati last week purchased a lot of potatoes, at which time they were apparently in good order, and when he was rolling them out for the purposeof shipping them, the head fell out of one of the barrels, when he discovered that a large portion of them were spoiled ; and upon examining them he discovered a black spot on the surface which passed through the potato. " The accounts received yesterday from Red River are quite discouraging for the cotton planter, the im proved prospects which we noticed some time ago hay irg disappeared since the visitation of the caterpillar. We hare letters before U 3 from Alexandria, under date of the 6th instant, which mention that this insect is the regular army worm, which committed such havoc in 1840, and that it has now generally made its appearance in Rapides and the adjoining parishes, threatening to inflict great injury on the crops. The same complaints begin to reach us from Bayou Sara, and some apprehen sion is felt lest the visitation should become general throughout the cotton growing region. " The first bale of new cotton, of the season, states the Republican, was received in Savannah on Wednesday, by the Central Railrbad, from Macan. The staple was much cut in ginning, and the colour is represented as dull, quality about middling fair. The consignee not being able to obtain the price asked for it, 10 eta. per lb., shipped it to New York. " Indian corn and other fall crops are suffering se verely for the want of rain. It is feared that the corn will fall far below the usual average the present year. On the other hand, the wheat is abundant, and of an excellent quality, generally averaging 631bs. or 651bs. per bushel." The weekly return from the Bank of England shows the following changes, as compared with the items of its predecessor:— An increase in the notes issued of 221,9001, or to 29,875,8901. A decrease in the Rest of 58,8401., or to 3,554,3701. An increase in the public deposits of 299,2101., or to 7,142,2121. A decrease in the other deposits of 912,1581., or to 9,161,1581. A slight decrease in the seven days' and other bills. A decrease in the other securities of 617,3761., or to 12,395,457/. A decrease in the notes in the banking department to 9,449,7601. The increase in the amount of bullion and specie of 189,4021., or to 16,366,0681. Consols for Money and Account have been firm to day, the former at 96i I, and the latter at 96 ;i s • 1. Ex chequer-bills have gone back a shade, as save also India Bonds. Bank Stock remains at yesterday's value. In the Foreign Stock Market we have to notice an improvement in Portuguese Four per Cents. to 48, and in Spanish to 39i for the Three per Cents. In the other Stocks the changes have been slight. The Railway Shares are mostly in dull request. BRITISH FUN DS THIS DAY AT ONE O'OLOC.K. (From the Official List.) 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 965A% 3 per Cent. Consols Anna 96% N I New 31/ per Cent. Annuities LongAnnuitios Expire sth Jan. 1860 l O l/ Do. 30 Y ears, Expire Oct. 10,1859 lO% 3-16 India Bonds 1,0001 29 Ditto under 1.0001 Consols for Account ..... Exchequer Bills. I%d. I%d. 1,0001. 500/. ...........«........ 17 20 15 pm. Ditto Small — .. 17 20 15 pm. PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent Ditto New Bonds, 1829 and 1839 88 3 4 Dan:sh Bonds 1825, 3 per Cent BBIA% Equador Bonds 3% Granada, 1 per Cent. . Ditto Deferreu Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent 37 • Portuguese 4 per Cents ... 47 48 47 Ditto for the Account . 4 7 14 48 Russian Bonds. 1822, 5 per Cent... 110% Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1840... Ditto for the Account ..... 27% % Ditto 3 per Cent 3 9 1/ Ditto for the Account 3 9 14% 39 Venezuela Bonds. 2 per Cent 43 Dividends on the abbve payable in London. BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. RAILWAYS. PAID, Pxa SHARE. Aberdeen Amber., Notting., Boston, &c. 2% 2 l/ to Armagh, Coleraine, &Portrush Aylesbury and Theme Belfast and County Down 21/ 2 Bideford and Tavistock ...... Birmingham and Gloucester..loo ......130 Do. New (iss. at 7 1 % dis.) . 17 1 / —, Birmingeam & Oxford June... 2 Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction... Boston, Stanif, , & Birming... 225. Bristol and Exeter Do., New Bristol and Gloucester Bristol and Liverpool June... 2 1 / — to Buckinghamshire... 42s. Caledonian Ditto, Half Shares Ditto, Extension Cambrian and Grand Junct.. 425. - Cambridge and Oxford - Central Kent 2 l /2 — - Chester and Holyhead `2 7%.. . ... - Churnet and Blythe 2 - Chester and Blanchester 42s. Cheltenham and Oxford Clydesdale Junction Cork, Blackrock, & Passages 225. Cork and Killarney 2 l / 2...... Cork and Waterford l% — Cornwall Cornwall and Central Devon 2% — ...... to Derby and Crewe 2% to Direct Lincoln, East Retford, and Sheffield Junction 2% to Direct Manchester (Rem.)... VA ..... - Ditto( Rastrick's) S VI .. .. Direct Northern Direct Not wich ... 1 - Dublin and Belfast Junction.. 10 - Dublin, Belfast, & Coleraine 2 1 / — to Dublin aad Galway Dundalk and Enniskillen ... 7 1 /.x ...... Eastern Counties 141. 16s — to Do. New lO/. 16s — - to Do. Perpet., 5 per ct. No. 1, 61. 13s. 4d... to Do., do N 0.2,6/. 138.4 d to Do , York Extension los. East Dereham and Norwich 1 Eastern Union 35 Ditto, Quarter Shares By — ...... to Do. Extension to Harwich Vs — •••... to Do. Cambridge and Ely ... 2% — to ...... East Lancashire ______ _ East Lincolnshire ... 14 — ...... to East and West of England... 1% — - Edinburgh and Glasgow SO Ditto, Half Shares Ditto, Quarter Shares l 2 l /2 — to Do. New Quarter Shares... 122....~ Edinburgh and Northern ... 10 Edinburgh and Perth Ely and Huntingdon Enniskillen and Sligo . VA-- -1/ go ,72 — to —. Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorchester 5 1 4 — Glasgow, Kilmarnock, & Ayr 50 ...... Ditto, New Do. j Shares (5 per ct.gua.) 12% ...~ Glouc., Aberystwith, and Cen. of Wales Goole, Doncaster, Sheffid., &c. 425. Grand Union (Nott. & Lynn) 1% ...... ... to Great Eastern and Western... 2% — —.... to Great Grimsby and Sheffield 10 Gt. South. & West. (Ireland) 25 Great Munster 2% — ...... to Great North of Scotl an d 2% — to Great North of E ng l an d 100 ......229 Ditto, New 5 — to Ditto, New l5 ...... Ditto, New l l/: • • . • • • to Great Western Ditto, Half Shares SO Ditto, Quarter Shares Ditto, Fifths 2O Guildfd.,Farehm., &Portsmth. 5 Harwich and E. U. Junction 2 .... . Hull and Selby Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% — to Ditto, liAlf Shares _ 25 ...... --, .•«., V? ••••• Inverness and Elgin 2 ...... Ipswich & Bury St. Edmunds 9 Do. do. and Norwich Feish North Midland Isle of Axhulme - Killarney Junction Kendal ar.d Windermere LancarAzr and Carlisle 45 Do. New 5 10 3 4 to Larne, Fell - 4st, & Ballymena 425. Leeds and Bradford Leeds and Carlisle ..... 2% — to _ _ Leicester and Birmingham... 22s — to LeiLestes and Bedford .... ..... 225......: % dis to Leeds atcl Dewsbury Leicester. and Tamworth, &c. 425. Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction DA 2 1,4 to 2 Liverpool and Bury l4 - London and Birming. Exten. 1% - London .‘: Blackwall...l6l. 13s. 4d — to Do.liew 3 — to Do. Extension London and Brighton Do. Fifths London and Croydon...l3/. 15s. 9d — to Do. Guaranteed 5 per Cent. 9 . ..... London and Greenwich... 12/.155. 4d... Ditto Preference lBl 17s 2d.. London, Hounslow, &Western 2 . .... --- to London and North Western..loo 20 5 1,x...... to 204 Do. Quarter Shares Do. do. New ...... ........... Do. do. Fifths Do. Eighths G. J. 12% — to Do. New Quarters ...G. J. -- Do. 40/. Shares L. &M. 6 — to London and S. Western.... 41/. 68.10 d 71 1 % 71 to 71 Do. New consolidatedBths.. 40 Ditto Yew ......... ..., . 17%.. .. 26 Do. New .... . 14 Lmden and York.-- ...... 5 2 1 / a — ..... to Ditto Half Shares London and Windsor ..... .... 1% — to London, Salisbury, & Yeovil 2% — to Londonderry and Coleraine... 12% — to -- Londoziderry and Enniskillen 12% ...... to Lynn and Ely Lynn and Dereham Manchester and Leeds B2 .• ... -- Ditto half Shares — 38 ...... 54 Ditto Quarters Ditto Fifths Ditto Sixteenths ........... 6 1 4...... Do. Extension Manchester and Birmingham 40 Ditto Quarters (A) Ditto Quarters ( B) Ditto Quarters (C) 1 ..._ Manch. Buxton, it Matlock 425. Manchester, Birmingham, and MouldJunction Manehester and Southampton 2 Midland 100 .. . Ditto Fifths Ditto, New Midland, Birm., and Derby...loo ... .. Midland and Eastern Counties 2 5 / . % to - M idld. Great Western (Irish) 1.4 — to Newcastle ez Darlington June. 25 Ditto New Newcastle and Berwick Do. North Shields 25 Newcastle and Carlisle lOO ...... Newport and Abergavenny. . 21 .Ai Newry and Enniskillen ...... 4 1 ,1 — ...... to Newark, Sheffield, and Boston 1% 3 /4 ...... to N - orfolk 2O Do. Half Shares ' ' 7 Ditto Tenths Ditto Extension North British Ditto Half Shares, ll Ditto Fifths . 5 — to Do. Carlisle Extension LIZ ~. North of Norfolk Nerthern and Eastern 5O — to Ditto Scrip (iss, at 5 dis.)... 45 . Ditto Quarter Shares Ditto New North Kent & Direct Dover 2% to North Staflbrdshire 42s. North Wales 3 l/ .2 ..... North. & South. Connecting 2% -- Northampton, Banbury, and Che:tenham Nottingham and Mansfield... ..... .. Oxford, Worcester, and Wol verhampton Oxfd., Witney, & Cheltnham 1% — Pilbrow Atmospheric - Portsmouth I)treet .. 3 3 / 1 — to Preston and Wyre 2s' Ditto, Half Shares .. . . Reading, Guildford, & Reigate 425. 1 Richmond Rugby, Leamington, and Warwick Scottish Central ... 12% — .. ... to -, Ditto, New, 2% to Scottish Midland .... ........ ... 10 Ditto, Extension 2% to Sheffield, Buxton, Leek Pot teries, and Crewe l% Sheffield and Manchester ...100 Ditto 14 Shares 8 _ _ Do. and Junct. _1 1 %...... Do. and Great Grimsby ... 10 — Do. do. do. Extension... 425. — Shrewsbury and Birmingham 2%...... ...... to Shropshire Union Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and S. Staflordsh. Junction 2%..... ...... to Sligo and Shannon l% .. .. to South Devon 35 South Midland 425...... 5 4 p... to South and Midlands Junction 425....... ..... to South Staffordshire Junction 21/ ...... South Eastern and Dover ... 33%...... 431% to Ditto, New, No. 1 Ditto, New, No. 2 l2 Ditto, New, No. 3 Ditto New, No. 4... ... ...... 2% — - St. Alban's, Hatfield, and llertford Junction Staines and Richmond........ 1 Staffordshire and Shropshire 2% — to South Wales Swans. and Loughor and Ca meron's Stm. Coal Taw Vale Extension Tring, Reading, & Basingstoke 5 1 ,4 — ...... to Vale of Neath Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole ... 22%...... Warwickshire and London... 425. — Warwick and Worcester 425....... ...... to Waterford and Kilkenny Waterford and Limerick 22%...... Waterford, Wexford, Wicklw, and Dublin Wexford, Waterford, and Valentia Waveney Valley Welsh Midland 2% ..... West Riding Union 42s. ...... 2% p.. to West Cornwall West London, Old Shares ... 20 Wexford and Carlow 2% — ...... to . Wisbeach and St. Ives ... 2 Wilts,Somerset,&Weymouth 10 ...... Worcester, Hereford, Ross, and Gloucester ... ......... ... 425. Worcester,Tenbury,& Ludlow 23 % to Worcester,Warwick,& Rugby 425. — York and Carlisle 2% to York and North Midland .. 50 ...... Ditto, Half Shares .Ditto, Scarboro' Branch Ditto, Selby ~ Ditto. Extension Ditto East and West Riding Extension ..... 1 FOREIGN 'RAILWAYS. Anglo-Belgian — •• Barbadoes ••••.• 1 Boulogne and Amiens Bordeaux and Mediterranean 2 Bordeaux, Toulouse, & Cette (Mackenzie's) Bordeaux, Toulouse, & Cette ( Espelete's) Calais, Dunk, & W. Flanders 2 Calcutta & Diamond Harbour 78. Callao, Lima, & Pacific Coast 1 Central of Spain Ceylon Demerara. Dendre Valley Direct Bombay and Madras ss. ..... Dutch Rhenish ••• 6 - East Indian - Eastern Belgian Junction.... 2% ...... Fanipoux and Hazebrouk Great Indian Peninsular Great Western Bengal ss. Great Western Canada 34 ...... Italian and Austrian Jamaica S. Midland Junction 1 Jersey Louvain a la Sambre Luxembourg Lyons and Avignon Madras Madrid and Valentia Mauritius Namur and Liege......... Nn. of France Constituted ... 5 ...... IVA...— to North Jamaica 1 Orleans and Vierzon Orleans and Bordeaux ... .. 6 ...... ....„ to Over Yssel 413 s 4d..... Paris and Lyons Constituted 5 Paris and Orleans 2O --. ...... to Paris and Rouen Rouen and Havre 20 Sambre and Meuse 8 to Strasburg and Bale St. Laurence and Atlantic.... Tours & Nantes Constituted 5 Tournav, Jurbise, Landen, and Hasselt Trinidad % ..... 2 1 / 2 West Flanders JOINT STOCK BANKS. Australasia British North American .... 50 Colonial Commercial of London London Joint Stock .... ...... 10 London and Westminster. .. 20 National Provincial of Engld. 35 National of Ireland 22% ... .. to Provincial of Ireland ... 25 Union of Australia Union of London ... 10 MINES. Real del Monte, Unregistered ANOTHER EARTHQUAKE IN ITALY.--MARSEILLES, Auc. 31.—The inhabitants of Leghorn were only begin ning to recover from the alarm into which the earth quake cn the 14th had thrown them, when they were again surprised by a similar warning. The Archimede, which came in yesterday from the coasts of Italy, brings tidings, that on the 27th, at a quarter past ten in the morning, a severe shock of earthquake was felt at Leg horn. The Archimede has no writtkon details of this fresh calamity, arising, no doubt, from. her having been on the point of departure, and her mails made up. • LLOYD'S SHIPPiNG.-(TITIS .1101 LONDON, SEPT. s.—Wind E.N.E., moderato breeze , * 4 fine clear weather. ras Put GUERNSEY, SEPT. 2. —The Reward, Renik' r ' back, with loss of bowsprit, &c., having been in contahct w an Americ ship. DUNDA LK an PT. 2.—Arrd. R. N. Rorker , St. 00,- STAN SE LGO, , AUG. 31.—The Warner, of Saltcoa tm, from ° be; bound to Spey, drifted on the rocks on t he 2131•4 tilt, in a calm, but got off. River_ O r d , DEAL, FEE. 4.—• Wind E.N.E.—Arrd. from the sailed, Everette, Darien Sydney, New South Wales ;9_, u f e ri p M'Leod, Calcutta; Morley, Hurst, Madras; Marion, D". c . k ; Callao ; Portland, Robinson, St. John's, New Bru nsw d l itto; Frederick Grover, ditto ; William Penn, Stevenson, in Elizabeth, Watson, Quebec. A body has been P i c ked 1 1 P e the Gull Stham ; in the case of his watch is the n anj ,d.. "F. P. Sackmann, Altona ;" and two other bOdieS , sP yi rig rently foreigners, have been picked up ill the Dciwns, oats attached to their clothes. Colol LIATERPOOL, SEPT. 4.—Wind N.—Arrd. Garci ner 'xtto ; China; Crown, Fletcher, Bombay ; Lane, Wilson , " 1 ore . Guard, Pain, Zanzibar and Cape of Good hope W„ es „ t i f a sbi land, Young, Bahia; Aurelius, Virginia; Barlow,l„utLuti; Neord, Peterson, Lubec. Sid. g, Hawkins, Oscar, Frame, Trinidad ; Pakenhain, BOUrner " I ' 1 ( le S Jenny, Boy son, St. Thomas's ; Medimsch, /30:FrPrence, Orleans ; Clarbone, Lavansaller, ditto ; Meteo r, 14d—flier ditto ; Paul Jones, Watkins, Roston Blanseba,r, W ei b, schard, Portland; Cambria steamer, Halifax • Zite" ii 'idi Prince Edward's Island ; Triumvirate, Hunt, Halifax; Sphynx, Commbeer, ditto. I, ga t ' CLYDE, SEPT. 2.—Arrd. Queen of the Isles, Leas-, ditto; real; Jamaica, Martin, ditto; 3d, iguthe, Hunter, derso Jane Redden, Buste, ditto. Std. 3d, William Glen Hoo Du d, B ß uN es , ti s g E o rr uch . e B.—Arrd. Hugh, Fletcher', Pug''',l sl l3 . n . t" Cgli ,. CORK, SEPT. I.—An d. Salacia, }llse& Pietou; , bo' Queen, Lord, Bristol for Bermuda, leaky, out sr w up from lon. 24. chi tsg° nisi LIMERICK, SEPT. 3.—Arrd. Stirling, RickerbY, Pa Jessie, Charles, Mirami. cbi BELFAST, SEPT. 3.--Arrd. Rebecca, Campbell, 3Prile. SUNDERLAND, SEPT. 3.—Arrd. Robinsors, Milb :Too urn bec ; Milo, Weston, ditto. Sid. I sa b e lla, Mitchell , S t " Gla New Brunswick. HULL, SEPT. 3.—Arrd. Gem, Presley, Richebtlet°*oiobi. Mearne, Hourton, Quebec; 4th, Mentor, Wright , Igiru MARKET NEWS.-(THIS "Air COVENT-GAREEN• 45; he l; Pine Apples, 3s Hothouse Grapes, 33 bog"h. tugal ditto, is to 3s per lb; Apples, 3s to 83 per A4 eso'' Pears, 4s to 12s per half sieve; Peaches and Nectarines, 3s to 8a; and Figs, 43 1 1 1 0 ° 1 ! )5 d; Filberts, 60s to 75s ; and Cob Nuts, 80s to 903 1 1 1' 0 15 , ' English Walnuts, 8s to 10d per 100 Cbb es 6 ' 13°.' ; a ag per , ditto for pickling, 2s to 6s; and Artichokes, 2s to 35 0, French Beans, is 6d to 3s per half sieve ; Potatoes, core - , slons, 2s to ''' r d o zeo; 6s 6d per cwt ; Turnips 4s to Ss; Leeks, 2d to 3di nt rote f s ' i 4d to 8d per bunch ; Onions, 2s to 4s per doze% 6‘l l° Tomatoes, 4s to 5s per half sieve ; Mushrooms , ' per pottle ; Small Salads, 2d to 3d per punnet. gel HITNGBRFORD. offer! We had fair average supplies of most articles 011 01) 10"" the general demand was firm, and prices had 3'l tendency. NEWGATE AND LEAD 1D AO: • egctho There was rather an extensive business transsc 25 kind of meat on the following terms :—Beef, fro fl : l col, 36 t o 3s 8d ; Mutton, 3s 6d to 4s 6d ; Lamb, 4s 10d to 5s 8d; s, 1)1 63 ; to 4s 10d; and Pork, 3s 6d to 4s 10d per - to 3 ,i; carcase. Turkey Poults, 4s to 5s 6d; Geese, ' to p are f Ducks, is 8d to 2s 6d; Tame Rabbits, Is each; Roasting Pigs, 6s to 8s; Pigeons, 4d to 8d 6d ; )10 Fowls, 6s to 9s; ditto Chickens, 3s 6d to 45 ,• 5 pe t Eli door Fowls, 3s to 4s per couple. ET 53 3d ° lto 55 Fresh Butter, Is to is 2d per lb. arcs, 2s 6 _, u , Leverets, 3s to 4s; and Grouse, is 6d to 2s 6d ea' 1), NEWPORT. 4 8 4 ; Vl ° Beef, from 2s 10d to 3s 8d; Mutton, 3s 6d to, s p o rt, 4s 10d to 5s 10d; Veal, 4s to 4s 10d; and 4s 10d per 81bs. ' , h BILLINGSGATE.. , of There was a steady demand for most kW' 65 prices had an upward tendency. toll ) WHITECSA.PEZ. A Sti; g d 0 Beef, from 2s 8d to 3s 8d ; Mutton, 3s 6d to I , 5$ 4s 8d to 5s 8d ; V ea l, 3 s 10d to 4 s 8d ; and 13°I. 4s 10d per 81bs. oofe BR 41b EAD. are, The prices of Wheaten Bread in the metroP ° 7 7d to lid; of Household ditto, 51-d to 6Ad per "w - to RIDE MAR NET. do. 6 s e ib Market Hides, 561 b to 641 b, 3d per lb ; A (10. 4i bto 721 b, 3d to 3%d ; do. 721 b to 801 b, 3d to 3 ! 4 :. ; ( 10. 9 ij0re to 881 b, 3%d to 4d ; do. 881 b to 961 b, 4d to 4 1 / 4 " ' 63 ; to 1041 h, 4d to sd ; Calf Skins, e ach, 4s t o 10 6 j '- Hides, 13s; Lambs, 2s 4d to 2s 10d; Shearlinget dit to, si RAT MARXISTS. Ise if to, SMITHFIELD.—OId Meadow Hay, 31 to 41 : w 2/ 103 to 3/ 14s; Old Clover, 4/ 153 5/ 10s; lOs to 51; Oat Straw, 1/ 8s to 1/ 10s; Whea t to 1/ 12s per load. Trade dull, at barely late to 45; CUMBERLAND.—OId Meadow Hay, 3/ I°s t • I' l°l2' o 4 ditto, 2/15s to 3/ 16s; Old Clover, 5/ to 5/ 1 0 ,e ' be st Si lOs to 51; Oat Straw, 11 lOs to 1/ 12o; dA ak 1/ 12s to 1113 s per load. A full average suPP I P all Jit t° ' trade. 7 ,l lO WrirrEcHAPar..—Old Meadow Hay, Siss to t 9 red l ll o 21 lOs to 3/ 15s; Old Clover, 4/ 15s to 51 14 , trit,l r ' 31 lOs to 5l ; Oat Straw, I/ 8s to 1/ 10s; Wl"' duly to 1112 s per load. Supply good, and trade veil GE.,-(YE ° 50 66 1$ Gibraltar • • •• • • " lv Leghorn • • • • • • • • „ .• ••• Genoa .. ••••• • • • „ • Milan .. • • • • • • • . • " Venice.. ••• • • • ••••I I! • Naples .••• • • ' •52 Palermo, per 05 ' • .• " Lisbon.... • • • • • • ' • 3 5 Rio Janeiro •• • •• Buenos 9 Ayr0,.;, ; 54 o p New York, 9 1 ' •• • • rt l ; Yhil pawls O Dos• 1 ~ 0 Forei g n Gold 11 ,0 •• 0 0 Portugal Gol d •• 0 4 1 . 1 '0 New Doubloons ' i 4 •• • •• N ew Dollars .„ Silver in bars • " COURSE OF EXCHA Amsterdam ......C.F. 12 8% Ditto, at sight ...... 12 5% Rotterdam .... •• 2U. 12 9 Antwerp ... 26 15 Hamburgh 13 13% Altona . Paris, 3 days' sight .... 25 80 Ditto, 3 26 10 Marseilles .. • ....... 26 15 Bourdeaux.... Frankfort on Maine.... 1223 Petersburgh, 3 U 5...... Berlin Vienna, effec.flo— • • 10 12 Trieste, ditto.... 10 12. Madrid ........ 35% Cadiz •.. : ........ 36 Bilbao.. • ............. Barcelona .......... Seville.. •• ............ PA IT) BANKRUPTCY.—('PHIS (Before Mr. Commissioner 1. 101 ' 13g" b ole IN RE SOUL. ,55 O eno This bankrupt, who had carried on basi c ,i cala e binder, &c., in Tabernacle-walk, City - r oa°' licpti re, The case was sing,_ his certificate. as ePP o e t tl it° l was by a letter of recommendation from e' bi Mr. BUCHANAN, solicitor of Basingbe„igliee-vts that he was instr uc t e d t o say that the be l 4c perfectly satisfied with the accounts wbf-nt The ° bad rendered, and also of his general conn li- • SO, r c, assignee also was satisfied. the 00'4 The letter was about to be put suit e onnec.slo/ sioner's hands; but he said it was cltbec tilei the Court always went by the opinion s de• p v f trade assigness when no opposition Ic a ! fe" His HoNouß inquired the amount cn it ' l ly to 0- The SOLICI T O R s a id that there was fair dividend. .e e ste. His HONOUR then granted the cer tin b l' I 't r tiP ‘ IN RE WALTON. of th ,li Mr. DUNCAN applied in this case in favou r The th rupt, under very peculiar circumstances• siaerr; had sued out a fiat, but his Honour e ° ,,i 0r0..,ed how o r 400 as it was necessary that the bankrupt 5- ha t be of •,-14 self a trader up to the present time, or t _ o pt "00 ° 4 , debt during his time of trading to th9l 3 ?v_ ii der pow the amount of a petitioning creditor's debt n we rst ec oo ever Act. aThed been point, but as the petition did not i s e to bet; 5 , 7 , trading, his Honour required the secon a he yoa, The bankrupt only owed amounts jatis 6A t e en ne , r n a o l tprtaoctriceequofirteherrCoootnf moioss:oooo:rovte,tboi! to three creditors, who had obtainatfijog ere and sought to prevent the bankrupt sa sttll , - l of ao t 4 s i na r l e s c oo o f recover se theirscorleidcii solicitor, to t oa d e pm b r t o s rv. prove that the he babt ,ti e h x ad c de l b o b : o e e tfi ' d - 0 1 9 rd dc ot s bu i rcitt 50/. was due. Mr. Webb, however, tret t e e gre eP ott eti o with contempt, refusing to attend, on t ' r 4 4 : 1PI ta there was no legal fiat, and his solicitor re' ll 'ot u e gti cti' till Wednesday, before which time the flAfittst over run out for want of prosecution ; the -10155-60 therefore, was whether the Learned C e , ri e l r th e oo f h P r ao siited on the proof before proceeding ti nt i''! t b e 41 The Learned COMMISSIONER said tba k plial l t be p a ' trading up to the time was proved 00 A : b t, as ` , D id not require the proof of the amount of 'Act. to f or clearly came within the meaning o f the 0 011 olihe Mr. DUNCAN said Mr. Webb k , f e o P: e A to to tre o proving the fact; and he had the r- deo rice warrant against the creditor who inte rs . t of s e bankrupt. f fidso de out , h e a ofs The COMMISSIONER said that •-, e 0 . 0 6 00 witup to of summons and refusal to at . ten:: o ,i'id . g:trttd er would grant the warrant ; or be ,t vva , case on an affidavit that the banla il y the time of suing out the fiat. R w E as Eq William C: t rr is B 0 W_Q - .-----t i b ,,, t . i., Ap , o t ol i henry, charged with placed ; ld Watch 11,1%bega Ago property Mr. of Eccles, stealing ago- , antlP. then Joseph Styles "Pros. them were charged with r th knowing em to be stolen t last onset, 4 It appeared that on the 28th. of Atigas- a 0 .- of secutor was bathing an con, t e at the Holborn baths 9 too t e, 4 was in the water his watch was taken frontstioo to ii pocket. On discovering it he gave inforte wbose joy worthy, "ions fell l a constable on duty at the baths , elf 0: upon the prisoner Curtis, wh° ordered one de cl 1 , in the engine-room. Kenwortby so cee 4 ,10 0 1 other workmen to watch him, but he WI ) 01' making his • theb f t no s c st escape by getting the o b il ia t he tot' l a —'''-1.'!..-....--rrt litbie 6 .)9,lt'citil:;yre.)'llll:o About , , two hours after the robbery aver iv du): Styles to a pawnbroker in Drury l' io r in t oel l te ly the watch itself was sold to a watchran,,,,hen,, or iham-court road by the same prisoner. ,` a t o O' er n$ into custody he gave information which le,,,,eth prehension of Curtis and Hoold, who Eve ( ' " ot man and wife. e ti' l ‘ eii Mr. HENRY ordered Curtis and Hoold to IS fo ce. , te ti of Court while the other prisoner made his a e tbo serer and chain prisoner Styles said that he receivetoici hid t he chain from the prisoner Hoold, who ' o ver s husband (meaning Curtis) found them in 5 5- t 611° place where he was at work. aict t hat g ot The prisoner Hoold, being brouo•ht in , I, c re h e , j got them from Curtis, but did not'know l' i - el° 10 them. t hat he Curtis was then brought in, and said t cl‘` We nothino. ,at all about the watch or c hain. for ~ to Mr. HENRY said he must remand the case of see' He could not but observe that the baths did 0 red ./ tb . 1 , him to be properly watched. bs sa w, t io Mr, Hedgman, the proprietor a the b 3t ~,, the e ri ; were watched as well as wasp ossible. 1 an batP at ect this occurred there were more serVantS t ' tO Villei r and every precaution was taken at all mighttiors lo ve vole 4 the visitors. All persons who chose per l in deor-h°e op purses or watches in the care of the , pu t 1- ffect 005 P they bathed, and a notice to t.t e , p OP ta l c " every box. ,ht to Mr. HENRY said people certainly oub are vantage of such an offer. ded till Hits JAY The primers were then realtin L I I i 'A