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RAILWAY SHARES BY PUBLIC SALE. ESSRS. LAMOND, SMALE, AND LAMOND, Railway Share Auctioneers, beg to thank their Irriere, and the Public for their continued support and patronage, and t o announce that their Public Sales of Railway Shares, &c., take place every TUESDAY and FRIDAY. 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 tho first post after the sale, aril 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. The New Grind Fairy Burlesque Extravaganza, entitled " The Magic Horn," having been, on each occasion of its representation, received throughout with the most cordial marks of approbation and delight by crowded and fashionable audiences, is, in consequence, respectfully announced for repetition every Evening till further notice. THIS EVENING The performances will commencewith WATCH AND WARD. After which, a New Grand Operatic, Melodramatic, Romantic, Fairy Burlesque Extravaganza, founded on the Opera of " Oberon," entitled THE MAGIC HORN. Principal characters by Messrs. F. Mathews, A. Wigan, Kinloch, Collier, Yarnold, Bender, Silver, Richards, and Keeley; Miss-Keeley, Miss Villars, Miss Fairbrother, Mrs. Woollidge, Miss Arden, Miss Forster, Miss Laidlaw, Miss Bromley, Miss Howard, and Mrs. Keeley. To conclude with Mr. Selby's Popular Farce of BOOTS AT THE SWAN. Characters by Messrs. Keeley, J. W. Collier, F. Vining, Miss Ellen Daly, Mrs. A. Wigan, &c. THEATItE ROYAL, ADELPHI. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE. THIS EVENING Will be presented the popular Drama, entitled ST. MARY'S EVE ; or, A Story of the Solway. The principal characters by Messrs. Worrell, Wright, 0. Smith, Lambert, Cullenford, Braid, Waye; Miss Ellen Chaplin, Madame Celeste, &c. After which, a Grand Mythological Burlesque Extravaganza, de nominated THE JUDGMENT OF PAKIS ; 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, Miss Simpson, Mrs. F. Matthews, &c. To be followed by an original Comic Stetch, called ABRAHAM PARKER. Abraham Parker, Mr. Wright. To conclude with the Farce of A NABOB FOR AN HOUR. Characters by Messrs. Worrell, Lambert, Munyard, Miss Harding, and Mrs. Frank Matthews. FRLNCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. THIS EVENING Will be performed a New Comic Drama, in Three Acts, entitled LOVE'S TELEGRAPH. Count Theodore, Mr. J. Vining ; Arthur dtit Solberg, Mr. Charles Mathews ; Baron Pumpernickel, Mr. Comptpn ; Usher, Mr. Henry; Princess Blanche, Madame Vestris ; Alice, Mrs. H. Hughes ; Marguerite, Miss Emma Stanley. To be followed by an entirely New Comic Drama, entitled THE BARBER BRAVO ; or, 'I 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 a new Serlo-Comic Drama, entitled, A CURIOUS CASE. Mr. Aubrey, Mr. Vining; Twiggleton, Mr. Charles Mathews; Charles Stanton, Mr. Fisher; Edward, Mr. llonner ; Mrs. Aubrey, Mrs. Stirling. STRAND THEATRE. The success of Mr. GREGORY in the character of "Glo'ster," in " Richard the Thirl," was again most triumphant; he will, con sequently, have the honour to repeat that character TO MORROW. THIS EVENING Will be performed the Comedy, entitled, IS HE JEALOUS ? After which, THE HONEYMOON. To conclude with Shakspere's Tragedy of THE MERCHANT OF VENICE. Shylock, Mr, Gregory. Private Boxes, Places, and Stalls, may he engaged at the Box °Pace, from eleven till four, and at all the Libraries. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lessee, Mrs. Frances Davidge. THIS EVE SING Will be performed Shakespere's Tragedy of HAMLET. Hamlet, Mr. Macready; Laertes, )Ir. Murray ; Osric, Mr. Saville, Grave digger, Mr. IL Webb; Ghost, Mr. Cooper ; Gertrude, Mrs. Ternan ; Ophelia, Mrs. Charles Gill. To conclude with an interesting Drama, entitled GRACE GAYTOX. Characters by Messrs. Saville, Ueslop, Webb; Mrs. Saville, Miss Terry, &c. Box Office open from eleven till four o'clock. ituYAL Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Patronised by her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, Pzinee Albert, the Prince of Wales, and the PriNcess Royal. Immense hit of the New Spectacle, " The Steed of Syracuse" hailed with tumultuous acclamations, THIS EVENING Will be performed the popular Drama of THE STEED OF SY RACUSE ; or, Damon's Flight. Damon, Mr. J. IIarwood; 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 new Necromantic Ballet, en titled THE VINE-DRESSER'S DAUGHTER. liox-oflice open trom eleven till five o'clock.—Doors open at six and commence at seven o'clock. Linder 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 be 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. Southby, :.re on the most complete and effective scale. Preceding the Volcanic Display, Mons. PAT.I.INELLI will descend from a Chinese Pagoda, seventy feet inlVe.ight, to the surface of the lake, where a Naiad's Car will rifle to receive him, and bear him to his chrystal home. The Glass Conservatory is splendiilly ornamented with festoons of lamps, enabling the visitors to view the matchless collection of Carnivore 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. On WEDNESDAY. September 16, the ROYAL SOUTH LON DON FLORICULTURAL SOCIETY will hold their GRAND DAHLIA SHOW, being the Last Exhhition of the Season. An extra Band, and an extraordinary Display of Fireworks will be produced on the occasion. ADMITTANiM, ONE SHILLING. THE WEATIIER.--Surt OFFICE, SEPTEMBER H. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 62; Highest. 72 ; Noon, 69 BAROMETER, 30.46.—W1ND N.E.; cloudy. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE, TIIIS DAY. Morning .. 33 minutes after 5. I Evening .. 54 minutes after 5. I 0 „ .. ,..! ,;.*. , S elT 1 00 NA(, ''' f ,, % '4 - ' ' ) ) c o il =C'efs.l7-y-\ T' FAINI. --.21.-P . Z '''''.' , •.„..,tzg' ..4Atllf,-74.—Aeli, -- . 1 ',"„A47 ,4 ~ v.- ~,, „, 111 c i,- k .17(-4.. 1,14.44. . ;tort :,..+l-- -4. -='• '4-',,,,,- . 0'0 1 'e ,, ,2 ' I NE*: Itening gitit LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1846. - The English are naturally a very humane people. Some of them, however, are so fond of fun that they will not allow their philanthropy to run to the ex treme of excluding them from participating in an occasional amusement, even where the performances should produce feelings more akin to pity than wonder. The surgeon, not content with gloating over the various physical contortions of the toad, whose gradual death he has compassed by some well-devised potion, oftentimes renews his delight by subjecting the body of his victim to a galvanising process, and becomes enamoured with his professional skill, and the mock resuscitation of the unfortunate animal. Much in the same way is the huge and bloated carcase of protectionism being cruelly trifled with after its vio lent death. For our own part, we think there is something shocking to the senses in these painful spectacles. It would have been infinitely better quietly to have interred the defunct monster. We have not been favoured with a sight of his last will and testament; we must, therefore, suppose it is in strict accordance with a dying request that his mam moth remains should be exhibitedpro bono publico in various towns and cities of this fair land. The executors took their embalmed treasure down to Coleshill this week, and held a grand anatomical inquest. The usual experiments were gone through with wonder ful precision, and the spectators were amazed at the explanations given of the prodigious strength of which this tremendous relic of a past age must have been possessed. The dinner to Mr. NEWDEGATE, on Wednesday, at Coleshill, by his constituents of North Warwick shire, was attended, as might have been expected, by Lord GEORGE BENTINCK. After the Parliamentary gues ts had bespattered each other with every description of fulsome praise, Lord GEORGE delivered one of his usual harangues, which for purity of reason, comprehensiveness of mind, and elegance of diction, was strictly on a par with all his former orations. His sentiments were listened to with undivided atten tion. The statistics into which he entered seemed to be based upon most authentic data, and when he told his hearers "to look at the saddlery and harness makers, and the leather manufacturers, and-find that thirty-nine-fortieth s are consumed at home," his authority reached its highest pitch, and rapturous applause greeted that important an nouncement. His Lordship's intellect was never more sportively inclined. Everything like a perversion of fact w as honourably avoided, and the conclusions, drawn from mo-t faithful premises, were about as cor rect as his LordAip's most ardent aclniirers could easonably have expected. We are told that last year " a sham cry of famine was got up to serve the purposes of the Adminis tration." Our recollection serves us that the Ministry declared that Ireland was threatened with famine, and also that when Sir R. PEEL advocated the repeal of the corn-laws, he distinctly urged his apprehension that, whatever might be the amount of failure in the potato crop of the past year, it would be considerably worse in the present. Whose was the foresight—Sir R. PEEL or Lord G. BENTINCK'S ? At the dinner in question, the latter thus expressed himself :—" Now, I regret to say, we find that the feint has become a reality—that the potato failure has spread from one end of the kingdom to the other— from the Land's-end to John-o'-Groat's—throughout the whole of Ireland, and the whole of the countries bordering on the Atlantic." A pretty broad admis sion this of the precautionary policy and foreseeing wisdom of his late political chief. But this was not conceded without an object. The fact that grain maintains a fair price, notwithstanding Sir R. PEEL'S measure, stuck in the protectionist's throat. This belied his own predictions in St. Stephen's. In order, therefore, to prevent the farmers becoming contented, Lord GEORGE is forced to confess that his spirit of vaticination would have been fully sustained if Sir R. PEEL had not turned out a greater prophet than himself, and that hence corn obtains a good price only because the potatoes have failed. It is quite beneath his notice that the price of wheat may be, and is, in a great _measure, maintained by the vast increase in our population causing a corresponding consumption, and it is also beneath his consideration that the merchants, with foreign ports to resort to, can regulate supply with demand far better than such intermeddling politi cians as his Lordship. But, if the Noble Member for Lynn considers he has satisfactorily accounted for the present remunerating price of grain con sistently with its future uncompensatory one, perhaps he will, on some future occasion, account for the great prices which land has fetched whenever it has been very recently put up for sale. We can, perhaps, furnish his Lordship with a key to the solution of this mystery. The purchasers have, in every in stance, formed a very correct estimate of his Lord ship's judgment, and have not felt deterred in placing their own in competition. It is amusing to notice how these reckless mono polists change their tactics with circumstances. For merly it was viewed by them as nothing short of high treason for tenants and farmers to vote diffe rently from their landlords—the latter being pre sumed to be so much more enlightened, and capable of judging in matters of legislation, than the former. But, now that the House of Lords and the great landowners of the country have altered their opinions ) $ the farmers and tenants are exhorted to the exercise of an independent opinion of their own, and to discard all the precepts of rebellion which were taught them down to the year 1846. Mr. NEWDEGATE tells his consti tuents—" You are true-born freemen, you have a right to exercise your own discretion and judgment : your country and the constitution expects that you will exercise the franchise according to your opinions and judgment. Gentlemen, I say this here fearlessly." Lord GEORGE hallooes on in the same strain :—" Go at the, first opportunity to the poll, and if your landlords won't go with you, look after your own interests." We are forcibly reminded of the poet's line— "A change came o'er the spirit of my dream." Of the general efficiency and organization of the metropolitan police we are thoroughly satisfied. The duties of that extensive body are so peculiarly on erous, and, notwithstanding this, their fulfilment is usually so characterised by propriety, that our opinion respecting the force collectively, if prejudiced in any particular, is certainly prejudiced in its favour. To preserve order and decency in a metropolis of such vast dimensions as London, even when its inhabitants are previously awed into something like social sobriety by our constitutional enactments, by the stringent bye-laws of our capital itself, and by our aggregate municipal regulations, is an office of no little diffi culty, and entailing no insignificant responsibility upon its agents. The cleansing of the Augean stables, though delineated by the mythologists as an almost impracticable undertaking, required, never theless, scarcely equal courage, and scarcely com parable energy with that necessary for the purging of depravity, rioting, drunkenness, and obscenity, with all the minor specimens of immorality and in subordination, from the avenues of this enormous city. The preservation of decorum throughout London necessitates the utmost vigilance, the most untiring activity, the most imperturbable self-possession, and the most continuous zeal in each individual of every separate corps. Now, considering the extraordinary surface covered by the metropolis, and taking into account the astonishing multitude of its inhabitants, it is impossible to deny that a very remarkable amount of decorum is preserved in its thoroughfares, and that very circumstance demonstrates, ipso facto, that the various members of the metropolitan police are vigilant, active, self-possessed, and zealous in the habitual performance of their duties. We, there fore, repeat our previous observation :—We are fully persuaded that the metropolitan police, as a . body, is most intelligent, efficient, and well organised. In acknowledging the merits of the class we are, nevertheless, by no means disposed to allow the delinquencies of the individual to pass unre proved. Cases have occasionally arisen in our police courts in which the existence of an insolent and do mineering spirit has been manifested among the very agents of peacefulness and justice. Policemen have sometimes availed themselves of the respectable authority with which they are invested for the in dulgence of the most disreputable violence. They have not unfrequently come before the public as, those most contemptible and intolerable of characters, Jacks-in-office. Armed and paid and clothed for the maintenance of the local and general laws by which the social condition of the empire is regu lated, they have become at times merely the agents of their own grovelling passions. They have merged themselves into the terror of blind courts and the despots of bye-lanes. Whenever " the insolence of office" is thus miserably developed in our metropolitan police, common sense tells us that the offender should not merely be visited by condign punishment, but that, especially where the circum stances are of an aggravated character, he should be immediately discharged from the body, and rendered, with certain restrictions, incapable of being further employed in that capacity. Otherwise the members of the police force would be liable to become contami nated by association with such individuals. We have been induced to consider the advisability of such a proceeding as the one just mentioned from the facts which have been disclosed on the recent trial of a constable in the G division of the metropo litan police, and the particular circumstances of which case are referred to in the report of the Middlesex Sessions, printed in another part of The Sun. A more flagrant case we do not remember. We have frequently had the misfortune to read accounts of ruffianism perpetrated in various quarters of England, and in various territories of the globe; but within the scope of our memory we cannot call to recollec tion any one incident combining so much of the in decorous and the brutal, so remarkable for gratuitous cruelty, for brazen-faced lying, and for audacious insolence. We have no intention to garble facts merely to suit a purpose, for we have no purpose whatever to suit, unless it be the purpose of express ing our abhorrence of anything like tyrannical con duct, be it tyranny under a sceptre or a broomstick, from an emperor down to a policeman. Here is a respectable female, the wife of an honest tradesman, walking along Whitecross-street, accom panied by an equally respectable woman, her neigh bour. They are the cause of no impedi7oent in the thoroughfare, they are partakers in no disturbance. This very reputable police-constable of the G division thereupon accosts the former, calling her " a common woman," commanding her in the most insolent man ner to be off, offering " to bet a quartern of gin that she was a common woman," and at last, on her remonstrating with him for his behaviour, assaulting her with the most unnecessary brutality, and under nie most scandalous circumstances. The woman is committing no offence when she is called by the most opprobrious epithet ; her arms are pinched and twisted ; she is dragged off by main force to the station-house ; she is almost fainting, from ill-treat ment and distress of mind, on her way thither; a false charge is entered against her, before the super intendent; and when she is At last discharged front custody, as in no degree culpable, her shawl is thrown in her face, and she is treated in all respects with the most contemptuous impertinence. Nor are these the only parti culars which tend to render this case so pe culiarly flagrant; the victim of this petty tyranny from a police-constable of the G division is not merely a defenceless, harmless, and respectable woman, but she is a woman eight months advanced in pregnancy. In consequence of the brutality of this man (or rather of this person dressed in the garments of a man), the consequence of this violence towards a woman in an advanced stage of pregnancy is, that she vomited blood imme diately on returning home. She was exceedingly bruised and ill for a considerable time afterwards. We are not surprised when we view these parti culars—particulars so calculated to excite our indig nation—we are not surprised that the Learned Counsel, Mr. CLARKSON, should have felt convinced that the Counsel for the defendant " could not even suggest anything to the prejudice of this highly respectable woman ;" but we were marvellously astonished that Mr. PATNE should have so far ex ceeded what was thus anticipated from him, as to have accused the plaintiff and her witnesses of false hood,to have asserted, without any reasonable evidence, that this wife of a tradesman—this woman big with child—had joined in an uproarious mob,and above all to have actually maintained—and that without disprov ing the bruises and the blood-vomiting—that more violence was not used than was necessary I We shall not comment upon the indelicacy, extravagance, and almost cruelty, which are of themselves so manifest in this style of defence. We care not so much for the manner in which the defendant or his legal advisers endeavour to palliate his brutality, as for the example which the punishment of this man should afford against any similar exhibition of petty despotism in the metropolitan or provincial police forces. With the sentence passed upon the defendant—namely, an imprisonment for merely a single calendar month !—we must ac knowledge ourselves anything but satisfied. The jury find him guilty, and he is sentenced to this imprisonment for one calendar month ! Not a syllable is reported to have been said respecting his discharge from the metropolitan police. Surely it is not intended that a man who has thus grossly insulted and maltreated a preg nant woman, should, after having been found guilty of that charge by a jury of his countrymen, and after having undergone a certain punishment (however disproportioned to his offence) in consequence, should be allowed to continue in his former position, with fresh opportunities for insulting and maltreating the wives of respectable citizens ? We cannot suppose this to be possible. The Swiss Diet, assembled at Zurich, was occupied during the sitting of the 4th instant in discussing the question of the League of the Catholic States. 10f cantons voted that it should be dissolved without in vitation or summons. Geneva has reserved her opinion—Neufchatel, St. Gall, and Bale Town will refer the matter to their cantons. In the event of re sistance, ulterior measures will be taken. In the Hamburgh Boersenhalle of the 4th inst. we find a letter announcing the failure of the commer cial policy of the Zollverein, both as regards the United States and the Brazilian empire. The Con gress at Washington has rejected the terms of the commercial treaty which the Zollverein had proposed to conclude with them as disadvantageous and insuf ficient, and the Duke of ABRANTES, the Envoy Ex traordinary from the Brazils to Prussia, whose mission related to the question of a com mercial treaty between the Zollverein and the Brazils, has arrived at Paris en route for the Brazils, having been unable to come to any understanding with the Zollverein on the subject of his mission. We find it stated in the Nuremberg Correspondent of the sth instant that the project for marrying the Queen of SPAIN to Count TRAPANI was defeated by the Austrian Government. The Northern Powers, although they would have preferred the Count DE MONTEMOLIN for the husband of the Queen of SPAIN, have determined to abstain altogether from active interference. A meeting of the principal inhabitants of Kiel (Holstein) took place on the Ist, to consider as to the best mode of proceeding relative to the arrest of M. OLSHAUSEN, one of the leaders of the anti-Danish movement. An address was voted and presented to the burgomaster, calling on him to use his utmost energy in procuring the release of M. OLSHAUSEN, whose arrest the document declared to be arbitrary and illegal. Madrid papers to the 4th inst. have been received. The news of the marriage of the QUEEN with a Spanish Prince has been received with universal sa tisfaction throughout the provinces. "El esposo de neustra adorada Reina al fin es un Espanol," is the gem ral observation. The marriage of the INFANTA. with the Duc DE MONTPENSIER, however, is looked upon with feelings of abhorrence by all except " the miserable monopolising minority" composing the Afrancesado faction. The Eco del Comercio goes so far as to declare that Spain will not suffer so " exotic a Prince to take up his abode even for a moment in the palace of her kings." The Iferaldo says— " The English Minister, who Ms recovered from his indispositi on , re t urne d t o Madrid, from Carabanahul, on the Ist instant. He had intended to repair to St. Se bastian for the benefit of his health, but it would appear that, owing to the important questions under discussion, he has given up the journey, and determined to return to this capital. The brig of war. Ebro, sailed from Carthagena for Civita Vecchia on the 31st ult., having on board dis• patches for the Spanish Minister at Rome, and the Esperanza states that positive orders have been given to have the QUEEN'S trousseau ready by the 18th of this month. MADRID BOLSA, SEPT. 4.—The Three per Cents. were done at 351 for cash ; the Four per Cents. at 21i ; the Five per Cents. at 22-k ; the Debt, without interest, at 6i ; and the Coupons, 20i. We have received the Paris papers of Wednesday. With two very significant exceptions, the Danis, the organ of the Government, and the Presse, the organ of the Court, they all comment on the proposed marriage of the Infanta of SPAIN and the Duo DE MONTPENSIER, but the only additional information on the subject in any of them is to be found in a short paragraph in the Constitutionnel, in which the writer expresses a belief that on the 33 Mr. BuLWER sent a note to M. ISTURITZ, expressing his surprise at not having been duly apprised of the proposed marriage between the INFANTA and the French Prince. The Journal des Debats has, we are rejoiced to see, declared itself in favour of the principle of free trade. The following is its declaration : We do not hesitate to say that our choice is made. We are advocates for free trade, in the sense that we consider it an object which ought to be attained gradually, and by constantly approaching towards it as far as circumstances will permit. The pro tective system, interpreted by prohibition, for it is always in that sense that the term is useol, may be very favourable to a particular branch of industry specially protected, while in its infancy, but once that a country has taken great strides ins manufacturing career, the system, it will be seen, becomes injurious ; it arrests the progress of the arts which it pretends to protect, and which often believe themselves efficaciously pro tected ; it opposes the natural order or things, in causing prohibition by way of reprisals against foreign countries, and in impeding, by restrictions and aug mentations in the price of the raw material at home, those branches of manufactures in which the country succeeds the best. It gives a bad direction to national capital, and maintains an artificial and burdensome state of things, by creating factitious industries, which live as in a hot-house, and do not produce results equivalent to the labour they absorb. It institutes and tends to perpetuate inequalities when the law has wished to give to every citizen equal facilities. The great majority of those who support it are led astray by prejudices and by false cal culations. They have not correctly estimated and placed in parrallel what it costs and what it produces, not only to the State and to the country, but to themselves. They only see the apparent profits, and deceive themselves as to the charges. The present moment offers, fur the organization of international exchanges on a more libEral footing, conditions extremely favourable, and which may perhaps never be again found, if not now taken advantage of." The Debat; then proceeds to examine a number of cases in which branches of French manufactures and produce, now under the protective system, are mani festly faVoured, not for the useful purpose of aiding their development, but in order to put money, at the expense of the consumer, into the pockets of tihe capitalist. After dwelling ou the injustice of such a system, our Contemporary concludes as fol lows : eie " For him, who is not I away by the mere jingle of words, who does not e the shadow for th e sub stance, behold the last ry of the pretended protective system; a duty, or rather a multitude of duties, which cross and clash with one another, are levied on the public, and when every account is drawn out and balanced, these innumerable taxes resolve them selves into a premium for the benefit of three or four branches of manufacture, which hold their privilege either from blind chance, or from political combinations, of which even the remembrance is lost, but the influence of which survive the idea that dictated them. These duties have not only the effect of taking money from the pockets of those who have been persuaded that they were to gain by them; but they cramp_labour by taking up its time, and by imposing advances which are often above its strength; they cramp it because the restrictions with which they are attended exclude the use of better materials; they are, in fact, injurious to it in a thousand other ways. The protective system is only supported by the effect of a misunderstand ing. The opinion of the public, of statesmen, of legislatures, and of the majority of those interested, has gone on a false scent. The result of public discus. sion ought to be to demonstrate this fact to the most incredulous, and after the explicit and striking avowal made by Sir Robert Peel in full Parliament of the error which he had up to that time entertained on the point in question, we cannot see what it could cost any one to admit on which side the truth lies, and to follow in that path, taking at the same time every precaution recom mended by prudence to avoid sudden shocks and mis- 1 fortunes.' The Precse takes up the cudgels for the protec tionists, but our monopolists will not thank it for its aid, for it argues that a free trade in corn is all right enough, because the corn trade is governed-by laws particular and exceptional, but that a free trade in manufactures is a thing to be abominated. The fallacy of the doctrine of protection is proved by comparing the arguments of the upholders of that doctrine in England and France. They are inconsistent. If the one is right, the other must be wrong. Not so with the doctrines of free trade. The arguments of the free-traders of France and England, or any other country, are, if not identical, perfectly consistent with each other. Truth is ne cessarily always consistent with itself, and free trade is truth. A royal ordonnance appears in the Moniteur, or dering an augmentation in the number of officers of the royal navy. Captains of ships of the line are to be increased from 100 to 110 ; captains of corvettes, from 200 to 230 ; lieutenants, from 600 to 650 ; and enseignes from 500 to 550. The funds necessary for this increase of naval officers have been already pro vided for in the supplementary credits of the Budget. The names of the officers promoted in consequence of the above decision are given in the Moniteur. " A report is in circulation," says the Courrier Francais, " that a rather warm altercation has taken place between the commander of the French brig of war Zebre, sent by Rear-Admiral BAZOCUE, Governor of Bourbon, to cruize on the coast of Madagascar, and the commander of an English corvette. It is stated that this incident, which appears to have a cer tain degree of importance, is connected with the oc cupation by the English of an important point in the Bay of Diego-Suarez." The Marshal Duke D'lsix was to leave Paris for Excideuil on Wednesday, and, after a short stay on his estate, will return to Algeria. The Constitationnel contains the following state. went : " If we were to credit a letter written to one of his relatives by a soldier of the Ist Regiment of Engineers, now in Africa, on the frontiers of Morocco, the company to which he belongs was surprised and massacred by the Arabs. Only ten men escaped—an officer, two corpo rals, six soldiers, and himself. The affair is said to have taken place in the first days of August." COURS AUTHENTIQUE.—PARIS, SEPT. 9.—Five per Cents., 119 f. 25c. 20c. 10c. ex. div ; Four per Cents., 107 ; Three per Cents., 84E 30c. ; Bank Actions, 3.507 f. 50c. ; Spanish Passives, 6+ ; Spanish Three per Cents., 39. Exchange on London, on e mon th, money, 25 E ; three months, money, 25f. 524 c. BOUR6E, SEPT. 9.—LAST PRICES.—Five per Cents., 119 E 10c. ; Three per Cents., 841. 30c. ; Bank Actions, 3,510 f. • BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, SEPTEMBER 10. Boulogne and Amiens, 13;4—Direct Bombay and Madras, % Dutch Rhenish, 514—Great Western Bengal, %—Madras, Nellore, and Arcot, lA—Namur and Liege, VA—Northern of France Con stituted, 13;4—Orleans and Bordeaux, 8% —Paris and Lyons Con stituted, 6—Rouen and Havre, 28)4—Sambre and Meuse, 3% —west Flanders, 4. READING, GUILDFORD, AND REIG ATE RAILWAY COMPANY. (THIS DAY.) The first general meeting of the proprietors at the above Company was held this day, at one o'clock, in the London Tavern, for the transaction of business. David Salomons, Esq., took the chair. The advertisement calling the meeting having been read, The report was then read. It stated that the capital of the: company was 800,000/., in 40,000 shares of 201. each. The directors were happy to refer to the arrangement entered into with the South-Eastern Rail way, by which they leased the line when completed to the company at a rent of 4i per cent. per annum, and the clear half of the profits. The amount of receipts was on the Reading, Guildford, and Reigate line 55,1601. 13s. Bd., and on the Reading and Reigate 38,2061. 9s. 9d.; total 93,3671. 3s. sd. PAYMENTS UP TO THIS TIME. Reading, Guildford, and:Reigate £23,222 18 6 Reading and Reigate 14,074 7 11 37,297 6 5 Showing a balance in hand of X 56,069 17 0 The. CHAIRMAN said that after the statement so fully put forth in the report he would de tain them but a few moments while he briefly referred to the conflict they had passed, and the victory they had achieved, in the last session of Parliament. It had cost them some anxiety and some money, before they were enabled to defeat the opposi tion of the Brighton Company. He was happy, how ever, to be enabled to say that they had done so. They had united now with the South-Eastern Company a company which was worthy of every confidence, although he was yesterday painfully obliged to differ from the course pursued by the directors. The Chairman then read the opinion expressed by the South- Eastern Company of this line, but their good opinion had been even underrated ; for the immense passenger traffic which would flow to the ports of debarkation had not been sufficiently taken into account. The Chairman then explained, that as their direction was rather unwieldy, it bad been deemed advisable to reduce the number from 14 to 10, those gentlemen being bal. lotted for. In conclusion, he moved the adoption of the report. Mr. GOWER seconded the motion. Resolutions were then passed, fixing the directors at ten, with a salary of 1,0001. a year among them, three auditors at 201. each ; and Mr. John Bailey was elected secretary, with a salary of 3001. per annum. , Thanks were then given to the chairman and directors, and the meeting separated. Surroszp MURDER.—Yesterday afternoon an .in lion Tavern New-road, quest was held befo r e Mr. W. Baker, at the Royal Paw death of a male infant, unknown, whose body was found Whitechapel, respecting the in a water-closet, on Tuesday last. Mrs. Ann Burgis stated that she resided at No. 35, Lambeth-street, Whitechapel. On Monday last, while in the water closet at the back of the premises, she discovered the body of the deceased, and with the assistance of a neigh bour named Rose, she succeeded in recovering it shortly afterwards. Witness further stated that there was another water-closet adjoining theirs, which was an open one, and any person could gain access to it by passing through White Bear-yard, adjoining their pre mises. Mr. Carrington, a surgeon, in Leman-street, deposed that the body was a full grown male infant, it might have been dead four or five days. There was a large quantity of paper found in the mouth of the de ceased. The jury, at the suggestion of the coroner, returned a verdict of " Fouad dead." VOLUNTARY SOLITARY CONFINEMENT.—After the Royal Sailor, on her passage from Norfolk to Antigua, had been four days at sea, her cook was suddenly missed, and it was supposed that he had fallen overboard. On the arrival of the vessel at Antigua, to the astonishment of the crew, on unloading her cargo, they found the cook comfortably stowed away amongst bags of corn and peas, where he had formed himself a berth about the size of a puncheon, which he plentifully supplied with bread, having also constructed a tube, through which he drew water from an adjoining puncheon. Thus he lived 30 days. The following is the cause assigned for this sin gular conduct:—A short time previous to his disappear ance the bread made by the cook for the use of the cabin was condemned as bad and uneatable by the captain, who, in instructing the mate to discontinue the use of flour, remarked, in allusion to the waste occasioned, that "it might as well be thrown overboard." This observa tion was understood by the cook, as he himself states, to allude to himself, which, in consideration of his imperfect knowledge of the language, might not unreasonably be inferred; and his secretion, he alleged, was a measure of self-preservation. He descended the scuttle leading from the cabin to the room beneath, thence through a small opening in the bulk, and had gradually wormed a pas sage to his retired quarters. A French soldier, named Delpech, serving in the army of Africa, who was made prisoner by the Arabs, on September 23, 1845, lately escaped from the tribe with whom he had been loft, and reached Lalla- Ma ghrina on Aug. 2. He gives an account of the Massacre of the French prisoners at the deira of Abd-el-Kader, which perfectly agrees with the statement formerly pub lished by Rolland, the trumpeter, who esca p ed some months back.—Galignani. FOREIGN ICE.—It seems that we have not yet an nounced the last arrivals of ice for the season, from the north of Europe, a vessel having arrived f rom Greenl a n d with a cargo of ice on board, which, according. to the size of the ship, may be computed as containing from 150 to 200 tons weight of this singular article of mer chsucliae, MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. 'The Cotton market at Liverpool yesterday was steady, at previous rates, but less animated. Sales, 5,000 bales, including 500 American, and 600 Surat, for exportation. Shares were dull. The result of the meeting held yesterday of the South- Eastern Railway Company, however satisfactory to the shareholders, is not by any means so to those who are compelled to traverse the line. The subject has been much talked of this morning, and it cer tainly was expected that some better reasons would have been given than those adduced for such an increase in the amount now demanded by this Company. Upon most other lines the prin ciple has been of late to reduce, not to increase, fares. It remains, however to be seen whether the South-Eastern Company will not be compelled to pro vide a cheaper mode of conveyance than they now fur nish to those who arc compelled to use their line. There are accounts from the Brazils to-day but not much intelligence of interest has come to hand. We learn that increasing dissatisfaction prevailed upon the interference of Government with the property of de ceased foreizners. The Chambers had taken the subject up, and probably the result would be a more liberal course of policy on the part of the Minister of Finance, under whose auspices interference in such matters is generally carried on. The exchange remained much about the same. Stocks are flatter this morning, and there is less doing, on account of the closing of the transfer books this even ing for the New Three-and-a• Quarter per Cents. and other Stocks. This security has becn marked 93i, and has just been sold as low as 98k. Consols are 96 to 95i for money; and 968 for time. Exchequer-bills have been firm at ins. to 14s. premium. Bank Stock is quoted 210 to 211, being very firm. East India Stock is at 259. The Foreign Market bas been very quiet. Spanish Five per Cents. al e dull at 27, and the Three per Cents. at 381 Nothing has been done in Portuguese; Mexican Bonds have realised 25i -. Equador Stock is at 31. Russian Bonds are worth 1101 ; and Belgian Four-and•a-Half per Cents. are 97. There is very little doing in Shares, and they keep steady in price. - - ORE► cLosrNG PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES. Bank Stock .211 210 210 3 per Cent. Reduced Arms...—. 96% 96 96 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 96 25% 95% New 3 1 4 per Cent. Annuities 98% 1 4 981 Long Annuities toexpireJan.lB6o 10 5-16 10 5-16 India Stock 9 59 259 India Bonds, 1,0001 - — Ditto under 1,0001... South Sea Stock — Ditto Old Annuities Consols for Account... 9 61 96% Kxchequer Bills, 1,0001., 11! d lO 14 pm. 14 Ditto 500/. Ditto Small oXE CLOSING PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK PRICES Dutch, 2% per Cent .. Ecuador Bonds Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846 — 25% Ditto. Account ... ..... ...... 25%% 25% Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent .. Ditto, Account 42% Russian Bonds ........ 110% 110% Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. Ditto, Account 27 27 Ditto, Deferred — 17 Ditto. 3 per Cent — Ditto, Account . ... 38% 38% Dividends on the above payable in London. Belgian 4 1 / per Cent 97 97 Dutch, 2% per Cent., 12 Guild 59% 5914 Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates 94% 94 1 , PRICES OP PAID. BUSINESS DONE CLOSING RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES. Aberdeen Amber., Nott., Boston, and Eastern Junction 2%..,... 17 g1 l% Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush l% Aylesbury and Thame.. 1% Belfast & County Down 21/..i Birmin. and Gloucester. 100 Ditto New 17% 32 .... . ........ 32 Birmingham and Ox- ford Junction Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire June.— 2 3 / 4 Boston, Stamfd;& Birm. 225. Bristol and Exeter 75 Ditto, New Bristol and Gloucester... 30 ...... Bristol and Liver. Junc . 2 1 / 2 .-- Buckinghamshire ...... 425. Caledonian Ditto Half Shares...... 2 1 4 — ... ..... ..... Ditto Extension Cambrian & Grand June 42s Cambridge and Oxford.. 1% l% l l% Central Kent 2% Chester and Holyhead... 27% — . • -- Churnet and Blithe 2 Chester and Manchester 425. Cheltezham and Oxford 2 Clydesdale Junction ..... 15 Cork, Blackrock, and _ _ Passages Cork and Killarney Cork and Waterford ... 1% — Cornwall Cornwall & Cent'iDevon 1 )erby and Crewe 2 % Direct Lincoln, East Ret- _ _ ford, and Sheffd. June. 2% Direct Manchester . ( Remington's) - ...... ......... Ditto (Rasstrick's) 54.— - .. ... - Direct Northern Direct Norwich Dublin and Belfast Junc. 10 Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine Dublin and Galway..... 4 Dundalk & Enniskillen 71 ,4 Eastern Counties 141. 16s 221 IA 2 2 1 /2 Ditto New lOl. 163. 7% p 7% p Ditto Perpetual, 5 per Cent, No. 1.......61. 13s. 4d.... . .. . —: Ditio ditto. No. 2... 61. 13s. 4d... :. 4 p % p Do., York Extension.. 10s. ...... 2 1 4 IA 24 EastDereh'm andNor'ch 1 Eastern Union 35 Ditto, Quarter Shares 8 3 4 Do. Exten.(Harwich) 1, — ......... ..... Do., Canal). and Ely.. 21 2 .., East Lancashire East Lincolnshire East & West of England 1%...... Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ...... 71 1 / 7 l l /2 Ditto Half Shares ... 10 Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% Ditto, New ... 12% Edinburgh & Northern.. 10 Edinburgh and Perth... 3 ...... Ely and Huntingdon ... 7 1 / 2 ...... Enniskillen and Slim:. ... 2 1 % Exeter,Toovil,& Dorset 5 1 4 3 lila,gubv, iiiiruar.,6.Ayr 50 Ditto, New ... ...... .. 15 Do., Y I Shares (5 per cent. guar.) Glouc.,Abei ystwith, and Central of Wales 1%...... .. -- Goole, Doncaster, &c... 42s Grand Union (Notting and Lynn l% — ............. Great Eastern &Western 21 / 2 .••.•• ••... GreatGrimsby and Shef- - field Great South. and West. . . (Ireland) Great Munster 2 14 Great North of Scotland 21h...... _ - Great North of England..loo .229% 230 230 Ditto New 5 Ditto, New Ditto, New Great Western B5 145 , Ditto lh Shares 5O Bl% B ll Ditto I% Shares Ditto Fifths 2O — Guildford, Fare'm,Ports. 5 ... .. Ilarwich and Eastern Counties Junction ... 2 ...... Hull and Selby 5O 105% lO 5 l /2 Ditto M Shares Do. Half Shares 25 50% Inverness and Elgin Ipswich & Bury St. Edm. 9 — Do., do , and Norwich 2 1 / 2 .4. Irish North Midland ... 1% Killarney. Junctions Kendal and Windermere 1 1 / 2 Lancaster and Carlisle... 45 Do. New - Lame, Belfast, and 13al lymena Leeds and Bradford Leeds and Carlisle Leicester & Birmingham 225. — ... ......." Leicester and Bedford... 225....... 1 / 2 % 5 / 8 di5..... % dis. Leeds and Dewsbury ... 17 1 / 2 _ . Leicester and Tamw., &c. 425. Lpool., Dincbstr, & New castle Junction Liverpool and Bury ... 14 .. ... London and Blackwall. 161. 135.4 d. Do. New Ditto Extension ...... 5 ..-.. ... _ London and Brighton... 50 Ditto, Fifths London and Croydon, 131. 15s. Yd. 22% ...„. 22% . . ' Do. Guaran. 5 per cent. 9 London and Greenwich 12/ 15s4d Do. Preference —lB/ 17s 2d London, Hounslow, and Western London and N. Western loo 2Ol 200 199 Do. Quarters Do., no., New Shares.. Ditto Fifths Ditto, Eighths (p. J.) 12 1 ,x ...... Do., New 1 / 4 Shares (G. J.) — — Do. 40/. Shares (L. M.) 6 Lond. & S.Western 411 6s 10d 71. Do. New Consol. Bths 40 Do. New Do. New London and York 2 l /2 2 Do. 1 / 2 Shares London and Windsor . 1% — London, Salisbury, and Yeovil ~...............21 , 4...... Londonderry & Coleraine 12 1 / 2 — ..,... ......... Londonderry and Ennis killen l 2 l /2 Lynn and Ely Lynn and Doreham l5 • ... —. Manchester and Leeds— 82 112 Ditto Ipf, Shares Do. Quarters 2 - Do. Fifths Do. Sixteenths ... 6 1 % — .. Do. Extension 42s. . ~... 2 1 -/,% p 2% p Manchester and Birmin. 40 Do. Quarters (A) 5 ...... -- Do. Quarters (B) ... 5 Do. Quarters (C) 1 Manchester,Buxton,and Matlock 42a, ...... 1%% p l% i) Manchester, Birni., and Mould Junction ..... — Manchest. &Southampt. 2 ...... 11 '; 3 O ••• Midland lOO ... .139 1 /L Do. Fifths 2 Do. New Do. Birm., and Der1)31 , 100 Midlnd& East. Counties 2%...... Midland Great Western Irish . 12 1 ,4 ...... _ Newcastle and Darling- ton Junction 25 ...... 42 3 % ., Do. New Newcastle and Berwick 15 ...... 27% 3 4 Do. North Shields ... 25 Newcastle and Carlisle...loo Newport &Abergavenny 2% — Newry and Enniskillen 4'/ — . _ Newark, Sheffield, and Boston ... ..,.. 1%.• ... ••• ........ .• Norfolk lOO 13 3 34... .. ......... 1333 Do. Half Shares ..... 7 Do. Tenths Do. Extension North British ... ..... ... 25 Do. Half Shares ll ...... 16 16 ..... ... 1 Do. Fifths Do. Carlisle Extens. 14 4% ~. North of Norfolk Northern and Eastern... 50 Do. Scrip (issd. 5 dis.) 45 Do. Quarter Shares... 1214 30% Do. New N. Kent & Direct Dover North Staffordshire North Wales 2 1 / 2 - 33 4 % P........ 3 % P 31 / 2 - . Northern and Southern Connecting 2% - Northampton . , Banbury, and Cheltenham 2 Nottingham & Mansfld. -- Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Oxford, Witney, and Cheltenham.... Pilbrow Atmospheric ... 1 ~.. Portsmouth Direct 3 3 /4 Preston and Wyre Do. 1 /0 Shares • 2% Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Richmond Rugby, Leamington,and Warwick Scottish Central Do. New 2 1,4 Scottish Midland lO Do. Extension 2 l / 2.- Sheffield, Buxton, Leek Potteries, andCrewe... 1% Sheffield & Manchester 100 Do. Quarter Share Fe... 8 Do.LincolnshireJunc. VA Do. & Great Grimsby. 10 - Do. do. Extension 425. .... .......... Shrewsbury and Binn... 21/2..... .. .... Shropshire Union Shrews., Wolverhamp., &S. Staffordsh• "lune. 2% Sligo and Shannon l% South Devon B5 ..... South Midland 42s. — South & Midlands June. 42s 42s South Staffordshire June. 2% South Eastern & Dover 33 1 / 8 — . Do., No. 1 26 Do., No. 2. Do~ No. 3 Do., No. 4 St.Alban's,'Hatfield, and Hertford Junction ... 425. — Staines and. ichmond,— 1 Staffordsh. & Shropshire 2 3 / 4 South Wales 5 Swans. & Loughor & Ca meron's Stm. Coal. ... 2 Taw Vale Extension ... 2 ••• .. •• ...... Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke Vale of Neath Wakefield, Pontefract, & Goole 22% ......... Warwickshire & London 425. Warwick and Worcester 425. Waterford and Kilkenny 8 Waterford and Limerick 22% Waterfd,Wxfrd,Wicklw, and Dublin Wexford, 1s aterford, and Valentia Waveney Valley 2 Welsh Midland West Riding Union 42s. West Cornwall .. 2 ........ WestLondon,Old Shares 20 Wexford and Carlow ... 2 1 / 2 Wisbeach and St. Ives... 2 Wilts, Somerset, & Wey mouth Worcester,Hereford,Ross, and Gloucester 42s. . ..... Worcester, Tenbiny, and Ludlow Worcester, Warwick, and Rugby . York and Carlisle 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 Amiens... 14 ...... ..... ... ..... Bordeaux & Mediterran. 2 Bordeaux,Toulouse, and Cette(Mackenzie's)... 2 .. ... Do. (Espelete's) Calais, Dunkrk, and West Flanders Calcutta and Diamond Harbour ....... Callao, Lima, and Pacific Coast 1 ......... Central of Spain ... . Ceylon Demerara Dendre Valley ... .. 4 ...... Direct Bombay and Madras Dutch Rhenish 6 .. 5% .4% East Indian ... ss. Eastern Belgian Junctn. 2 1 / 2 .•• Fampoux & Hazebrouk 4 Great Indian Peninsular ss. Great Western Bengal... ss. Great West ern Canada... 3% ...... Italian and Austrian 3 Jamaica S.Mid. Junction 1 1 se ••• -..... ••• •• 000000000 Jersey Louvain it la Sambre ... 5 ... . Luxembourg 4 Lyons and Avignon% 2 Madras Madras, Nellore, and Arcot Madrid and Valentia Mauritius .. Namur and Liege 1 4 so 2 ... .. - 1 6 ./ /2 Nn of FranceeoriStituted 5 ...... 131 North Jamaica 1 Orleans and Vierzon ... 10 ...... Orleans and Bordeaux... 6 ...... 81/ 2 ...... Over Yssel Paris BELyonsConstituted 5 Paris and Orleans, 2O Paris and Bonen _ . Faris and Strasbourg Constituted Rouen and Havre Sambre and Meuse . 8 .... 3 7 / 8 4- 3 Strasbourg and Bale ... 14 St. Laurence & Atlantic — Tours and Nantes Con stituted Tournay, Jurbise, Lan den, and Hasselt....... 8 Trinidad West Flanders ...... .... 6 - ..» ... - JOINT STOCK BANKS. Australasia British North American 50 Colonial 25 Commercial of London 20 London Joint Stock London & Westminster. 20 National Prov. England. 35 National t+f Ireland 2 2 1 /2 20 1 / 2 Provincial of Ireland ... 25 Union of Australia Union of London... lO MINES Real del Monte Unregd. LLOYD'S SHIPPIN G.-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, SEPT. 11.—Wind N.E.—Light airs, and hazy. DEAL, SETT. 10.—Wind N.N.E. to N.E.—Arrd. Mohawk, China ; Mercator, Korteland, Batavia, and sailed for Rotter dam ; Balden, Hall, Sourabaya, and sailed for Gotbenburg • Carrilican, Algoa Bay; Janes, Tynes, St. Vincent; London, Freeman, Jamaica; Dryope, Moffatt, North America; Charles Ferdinand, Fechter, New Orleans, and sailed for Bremen ; Superb, Gatehell, Virginia, and sailed for Rotter dam; Merwede, Van Dresshen, New York, and sailed for Holland ; Amethyst, Booth, Pugwash, for Wisbeach ; Maria, Clark, Quebec; Jane and Ann, Walker, Quebec; Horatio, Smison, Quebec ; H. M. S. Nautilus, from a cruize. OHIP THE START, SEr7. 2.--Mayflower, New York, for Antwerp. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE-FRIDAY. The present week's arrivals of English Wheat have been on a moderate scale ; yet the show of samples here to-day was small. All descriptions moved off steadily, at fully, but at nothing quotable beyond, Mon day's prices. Foreign Wheat was held for an advance of fully is per quarter ; yet, as the buyers were not disposed to give any more money, no actual improve ment in value can be noticed. All kinds of Barley— the supply of which was small—moved off readily at extreme currencies. We had a good demand for super fine Malt, at a trifle more money. In other kinds very little was doing. The Oat trade was firm at a further advance in the quotations of Gd per quarter. Both Beans and Peas were higher. Flour very steady. English ...... Irish Foreign ...... Wheat. 3,820 qrs, ARRIVALS. I Barley. 710 qrs. Oats 1 Flour. 970 qrs. 12,180sks 4,510 I - 1,130 1,430 Malt, 2,360 qrg. BOROUGH HOP reT.B.I7,IIOET. 2,980 A very large quantityof ness , ilopsl7scare to hand during the present week from Essex and Kent, in excellent condition. This, together with the prospect of a large growth, has produced considerable caution on the part of the dealers; and, in some instances, lower rates have been sub mitted to. In yearling and old Hops nothing doing. The duty is backed at from 195,0001. to 200,000/. New Kent Pockets, 5/ 5s to 6/ 88; ditto, Sussex ditto, 41 108 to 51 15s. SMITHFIELD. The supply of Beasts was seasonablr ex t e nsive as to num bers, but of very middling quality. Übe primests Scots, &c., moved off steadily, at fully Monday's quotations. In all other kinds, only a limited business was doing, at late rates. We 114 d c sale no Beasts, §heeP and Lambs, alp I s 6 Calves from abroad. The nurr rate, while the Mutton trade were readily supported. The plied to Lambs. Calves, the su freely, at full prices; but Pigs tion. Mileh Cows weie a dull Per 815 s. to s. d. s. d. Inferior Beasts 2 10 3 0 Second quality ditto. 3 2 3 6 Prime large Oxen 3 8 3 10 Prime Scots Large coarse Calves 3 10 4 Prime small ditto Suckling Calves 18 0 29 0 Inferior Sheep .. - abers of Sheep were but mod was firm, and previous rat same observation may be ap ripply of which was good, sold commanded very little atten sale, at from 161 to 19/ each. ,if.k the offal s. d to s. Second Quality-ditto 4 0 4 2 Coarse-wool l e dditto 4 2 4 4 Southdown W e thers 4 6 4 8 Ditto out of the wool Large Hogs •••• • . 3 8 4 Sall Porkers . 4 8 410 Quarter old Pigs • —l6 0 19 0 I / ambs •• .• ...... 4 8 5 8 1 pigs, 180 Beasts. 1,031 SLTITLY AT MARKET. I Sheep. I Calves. 8,480 . 389 NEWGATE .B.ND ZE.A.DENELS . X .X. We had a very steady demand, at full prices. At per stone, by the Carcase. d. to s• d ' s. d. s. •A 6 3 4 1" ieef, inferior.... to 2 2 8 10 Mutton, inferior •• - 0 2 - middling ••• • 3 0 3 2 -- michiling•• 4 4 4 6 - prime large •• 3 4 3 6 I -- prime •••• 4 6 4 2 - prime small • • 3 6 3 8 Pork, large •••• • • • • •", 4 41 0 3 8 4 8I- small •• .... Lamb. 45 id to 5s 8d PALACE COURT.-(THIS (Before W. BRENT BRENT, Esq•) The plaintiff is an adverti • 13 INCA RD V. VON HELM. sing agent, and rase was brought to recover the sum of 3/. 15s. for adve meats inserted in the Belfast Mercantile Register. ,n, Her v - Mr. LOCKE stated the case. The defendantfor Helm professed to have discovered a grand specific the the cu, eof the toothe-ache, which was advertised by a plaintiff by defendant's orders. The charge were proye the to be very reasonable, and the jury a verdict for gave amount claimed. the action COLEMAN V. NCLAIR. In this case the defe n d an t was summoned, under the Small Debts Act, to show cause why he did not P s .l_ 71. 10s., debt and costs, ac c o r ding to the orde r of 1,1211: Court. It appeared that he had been ordered to paY, eht in a week and the rem a i n d er a t s s . per week, tbe ahema being due for washing done for him five years fig°+ the he was out of work. Instead, however, of paYl r i b,„ l3 , instalment, he filed his sch e d u l e i n i n solvency ill Pe r at an expense of 4/. l 4/. for The Learned JUDGE said that if he could p a Y that he could have p a id th e 21. o ff his debt ; a C °l l o ee ment would, therefore, be made out, but lay in t he till defendant's protection expired. GUILDHALL.—(THIS DA- 17 ') s a William Macdonald, ali as Archbold, alias J" e ,, - ,.' g e young man who had b een b roug h t u o f t the same e h p on a former occasio n , was aga i n brought up in custooYilis fore Mr. Alderman Hunter and Mr. Alderman• charged with robbing the cha m b ers o f M r . George " re d derick Pollock (of the Middl e Te m pl e ), barrister' son of the Lord Chief Baron. hich Various articles of clothing and other property, had been pledged by the prisoner at -- various Ps;: c i brokers, were identified by Mr. Pollock's laundress sy his clerk as part of the property stolen from that en tleman's apartments. It appeared that these the were not taken at one or in the same day, but thco,.„„. thief paid repeated visits, and helped him ' self accorel"? ch to his convenience. A key exactly fitting the - e . no er Mr. Pollock's outer door was found on the Pt i ' oc ile when he was taken into custody, with a fresh " - ibis in his hand, by a police-constable, on the occasion 90 last visit. When brought to the station-house, heApesti.. that he was induced to commit the theft through Y i3 - Lo g tution, as he was almost starved. But upon seers and him a watch was found concealed in his trousert t he also some halfpence. The account which he gave[cha magistrates now was one of a very cornmenPlite:t t he racter amongst gentry of his calling, namely , tP" baa property was given him by a young man whom he never seen before, - &c.'but The prisoner was committed upon those charges' was ordered to be brought up aga i n in a week , t o e r a iaSt to others which the p o li ce expect to substantiate tlio him. t ' the The Aldermen expr esse d muc h displeasure , ate conduct of some pawnbr o k ers w h o h a d neglectea dto tend this day, and di rec t e d summonse s to be i s s e ' compel their attendance.on the next examination. BOW-STREET.—(THIS DA- J.l os William Dickson, a ragged little old lust' with charged by Roche, a Mend ic ity Society's offi ce " begging in Holborn. A by the The prisoner had been b roug ht h e re yesterw ; aY so - o th' same officer, who had found him begging ' n the° ampton-buildings. A number of letters, mo st n u pon directed " To Sir Hugh Munro, Bart.," were fo und coat' him. He stated that he was not begging, but wil l f e e a pelled to stand at the corn er o f th e s treet to wet was to person who was to be sent to meet him, and wil° o boe° be known to him by a certain sign, viz. that they a the return his salute in a particular manner. AV;J i e m eet person who was to know him by this sign sheni" n a bts him, he was to follow him wherever be went , „, a % plail l labours would then be at an end. He could not - „ t why it was necessary for him to meet the " Gr e ' rgeo oh I t known" in this mysterio us man ner, but he via s , tb to do so, and the officer was mistaken in supp os ' ea eop le he was begging, for he was only saluting the 100 who passed, in order to ascertain whether all The was the person who was to meet hial•g o oroi person was t o come from Sir Hugh, on! In one of the lett e rs produced Sir 1:114D 1 01 0 9 was requested to send " some person when 3 hO L know" to conduct him to head-quarters, or to some osio or private house." Sir H. Munro, being' sent ft VA that he knew nothing of th e p r i soner , exce pt that " eer been very much annoyed by con ti nua lly re ceiving A 10. ging letters from him, and h a d some ti mes reliell"dbiS The prisoner, however, still insisted on the truw w " eira statement, and added that Sir Hugh Munro k, fAcksoo• well, and knew that he was the son of Acoirledtelrl7 As, however, h e sa id th a t th e Ch r i s ti a n nateer7eined that Dickson was William, and Mr. Jardine as ruld ne t g "° it was Archibald, hi s W ors hip s aid he °Asoner to tal credit to that statement. He believed the Pl o nity 1113 , is an imposter, but on account of his evident n i „ u i s hed general ill health, he would let him go OP" time. He was then discharged. te orni e e g t ; On the prisoner being placed at the bar to- the • The officer stated that he found the Pr isnae toucb in6 same place he was yesterday. He was b tlS) d r id not sge his hat to every one that passed, but witne ss e;c ocket!' any one give him anythi ng . H e f o und in his pocket! in tr"' number of letters dire c t e d to var i ous persons , s ame strain as th ose pro d uce d yesterday. , e , risen. er Mr. JARDIN E said, that it was evident iw-l a f this , was insane, and as h e was t h oroug hly convi ece ws he must send th e pr i soner up to St. Andre and to worms house to be e xam i ne d b y the medical of ficer ' a to dealt with according to the New Act. The officer, Roche, undertook to take the P rla• °ler the workhouse, and he was then removed. S DAY) MARLBRO'-STREET.—( g laced Pn Henry Paul, a well d resse d y ou ng man , '' a c jisturb a the bar this morni ng , c h arge d w ith creating n false al °ce in company with some others, and g iving in , of fire. ee this 133 , nr : Constable C 120, said he was on on , ' treek, b e e p about half-past three o'clock, in Marshali's e esons a cab came along at a furious pace, and cr Y il'g raising t 1139 the out h e ir it were making a great noise, and w ere fire," with vehemence. People na ticularS., got windows in alarm, and inquiring th e r r cab it had 'of the time the policeman came up with the into Golden-square, where they were tbe starting the fire escape. Three persons dot outside and two within, but the moment ' io dent - t all sh h were in the constable attempted to capture them, rie g io the cab and endeavoured to make off. •L' a ea ~,o the defendant, however , who was one o f thos too l t' A outside giving the alarm , and another, agai nst To OW could make no charge as he was inside, and ,4 not say that he had been creating the noise. ° bolo' Police constable Peter Skelly, 104 C, e, er ve r- ieg• ;tit this T h witness, d andant deniedsa i th the havingcries w h e a r d e a q n u y i t t b e d 0 °- raising the alarm. ing y 0 nd , r ds° ed Mr. HARDWICK said the conduct of the tic' e- etten'eb his companions was such as might have been t ; ecaL o v r with most serious effects on persons in &b e t OS. , in the neighbourhood, and ordered him to Pi go to the House of Correction for 21 days. MARYLEBONE..—(THIS o f ti-L a John Sutherland, a private of the 2d t tn u: l ,, i , ° , e er g rA y . Grenadier Guards, appeared this day, summons issued against him at the Ann Carter, residing at No. s,Henrietta-stre about I° street. of a - t hree The complainant, a pretty-looking girl' two or t years soon age, stated, that being in town jo n i,g to "D ee r ill week, a visit from Oxford, she was g,: oc osted h e e- o te to friend, and that!the defendant suddenq 0 , glass e ' instan7t, Hyde-park, and asked her to go and 110,1'9 at the 1 of with him, which she declined, telling ° lsl r o a id 11 ° 1 ,a time to go about his business ; that lie t hen dr a g h a her and pulled her a lo ng , ant endeavour on her en th e up the first street they came to, and that tw i ce on vouring to escape fro m him he struck her de neck. In answer to Mr.' RaveLresote last Ou that this occurred about eleven o'clock ~t As evening. a Brotnr -cl e a Mr. James Halloran, of 22, GrOVe-PI3C WhO " give the said, that he and several other persons t o gl We d the transaction, recommended complain ant 4. b e toll° d fuse soldier in charge, which was done. T hat „ t re ergee- . D ee, complainant Sun that her to the station-house, and that the s yee fen to take the charge es she showed no marks ei ; e a t but merely pointed t expressed considerable her neck. able su r P r ' r s I d o t e Mr. RAWLINSON then on othnedmeentdioa n u t o f f () for theh Defendant admitted that he had accost 41 the „ e wit h is l a a t r t i e s r w c er irc t u o m o s i t e an ch ce a , r ; te n .. d denied having struck her. that g Mr. Halloran at the time, fully corroborates t ens' Mr. Wellington Guerneey, who was in conaP a- : ea mos. tleman's evidence. graceful outrage. He should fine him 40s. Mr. RAWLINSON said he regrtrded it as The fine was paid. Sunday y T m nu ti c ri z ii t i oz OF A PAPER -LL ---- nY F 1 . 3.6 : -.2° 11i 11- ge a nce reached Edinabbuorugthin;hlfaPt als'tolstte)vnenpa°Peejr°-entlllll3, 11!ee L s, sswade, the property of Messrs. Annandale and Soh' the was on fire. Two engines were speedily sent o tt to srtip scene of conflagration, drawn by horses promPtlY plied f r om the establishment of Mr. Isaac Scott, „: w a ,5 so e.- house, but before their arrival the building veloped i n fl a mes as to defy the utmo •t efforts of the fire bri g ade t o su bd ue them. ' Their exertions were the t.e; fore d principally confined to attempting to save th e welling-houses adjoining the mill, in which Inca were providentially successful, after labouring._d t santly for several hours. The damage done is e o amount to 10,000/. or 12,000/ and the property% ft ~ learn, is insured. The fire originated in th e Vi o ls; b • burg h rr 1 ut fro 34 OM cause is net lcuowu.---4dis • 1 1 / 4 139 k 36 1 4 113 42 11% 2731 30% 16 1 4 18 1 , 31/s % 2%p 47% 71% 38% 123/4 13 1 4 2 1 % 13% 28 34 20% LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 11 1 1846. 1