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LAMOND, SMALE, AND LAMOND, Railway Share Auctioneers, beg to thank their Friends and the Public for their continued support and patronage, and to announce that their Public Sales of Railway Shares, &c., take place every TUESDAY 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. Alt Scrip and Share Certificates must be deposited, the day previous to their being offered ; and advices of results will be forwarded by the first post after the sale, and the proceeds hnme diately disposed of according to instructions. Offices, Hall of Commerce. Threadneedle-street. London. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. UNDER THR MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY. Triumphant success of anoth:n* New Burlesque. THIS EVENING The performances will commence with WATCH AND WARD. After which, a New Grand Operatic, Melodramatic, Romantic, Fairy Burlesque Extravaganza, founded on the Opera of " Oberon," entitled THE 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. Wooßidge, Miss Arden, Miss Forster, Miss Laidiaw, Miss Bromley, Miss Howard, and Mrs. Keeley. To conclude with the new Farce, entitled LOAN OF A WIFE. Principal characters by Messrs. F. Mathews, A. Wigan, Meadows, Kinloch, and Yarnold ; Mrs. Wooilidge and Miss Howard. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII. UNDER THE DIRECTION" OF MADAME CELESTE. THIS EVENING Will he performed the Comedy of PAUL PRY. Celonel Hardy, Mr. Lambert ; Paul Pry, Mr. Wright; Grasp, Mr. 0. Smith ; Somers, Mr. Worrell ; Mr. Stanley, Mr. Thomas; Harry Stanley, Mr. Boyce, Frank Hardy, Mr. Braid ; Witherton, Mr. Selby ; Mrs. Subtle, Mrs Laws ; Marian, Miss E. Harding ; Phcebe, Miss Ellen Chaplin. After which, a Grand Mythological Burlesque Extravaganza, de nominated THE JUDGMENT OF PA aIS ; or, The Pas de Pip pins. The characters personated by Messrs. Selby, 0. Smith, Glen aire Linden Waye, Butler, Williamson, Aldridge, Mitchenson, Alders ' on, Ryan, ' Wright, rani Bedford ; Miss Ellen Chaplin, Miss Taylor, Miss Harrison, m iss Simpson, Mrs. F. Matthews, &c. To be followed by an original Comic Sketch, called ABRAHAM PARKER. Abraham Parker, Mr. Wright. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. THIS EVENING Will be performed Shakepere's Comedy (with Music) of TIIE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR. Sir John Falstaff, Mr. Granby; Mr. Ford, Mr. J. Vining; Mr. Page, Mr. Ryder; Sir Hugh Evans, Mr. Charles Mathews; Master Slender, Mr. Compton; Mrs. Page, Madame Vestris ; Mrs. Ford, Mrs. Stirling; Anne Page, Miss Georgians Smithson. After which, an entirely new Serio-Comic' Drama, entitled, A CURIOUS CASE. Mr. Auhrey, Mr. Vining; Twiggleton, Mr. Charles Mathews ; Charles Stanton, Mr. Fisher ; Edward, Mr Honner ; Mrs. Aubrey, Mrs. Stirling. To conclude with an entirely New Comic Drama, entitled THE BARBER BRAVO ; or, 7he Inventor of Powder. In which Mr. Charles Mathews, Mr. Granby, Mr. Wynn, Miss E. Stanley, and Miss E. Honner will perform. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lessee, Mrs. Frances Davidge. Transcendant talent, brilliant success, and crowded houses. Re- Engagement, for Six Nights more, of the distinguished Tragic Actress, Miss Cushman, and her sister, Miss SLUM Cushman, positively their last appearance in London. THIS EVENING Will be performed Shakespere's Tragedy of ROMEO AND JULIET. Romeo, Miss Cushman ; Juliet, Miss Susan Cushman ; Nurse, Mrs. Daly ; Mercutis, Mr. E. F. Saville ; Capulet, Mr. Heslop ; Benvolio, Mr. Johnson ; Tybalt, Mr. Fredericks ; Friar Lawrence, Mr. Neville; Apothecary, Mr. W. Smith. After which an entirely new Farce, entitled THE BARBER AND THE BRAVO ; or, The Princess with the Raven Locks. In which Messrs. E. F. Saville, Neville, Lewis ; Mrs. E. F. Saville, and Miss E. Terry will perform. To conclude with the favourite Drama of THE ROVER'S SECRET. Principal characters by Messrs. Saville, Johnson, Fre dericks, Lewis, IleslDp ; Mrs. Lewis, Miss Terry, &c. Box Office open from eleven till four o'clock. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Patronised by her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales, and the Princess Royal. " The Merchant's Steed " triumphant. Entire change of Equestrian novelties. Last Week of the highly popular Drama of " The Nameless." THIS EVENING Will he performed the popular Drama of THE STEED OF SY RACUSE ; or, Damon's Flight. Damon, Mr. J. Harwood; Pythias, Mr. J. Dale ; Calanthe, Mrs. M. Brooks. Assisted by the nu merous Company, double Stud, &c. After which, magnificent SCENES of the HIPPODROME, by the French, German, and British Artistes. The whole concluding with the popular Drama, entitled THE NAMELESS. Box -office open from eleven till five o'clock.—Doors open at six and commence at seven o'clock. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. THIS EVENING Will be performed a 11;SiWuerWand entirely new Drama of a peculiar and forcible construction, embracing scenes in every grade of life and eventful acts of every day's occurrence, founded on the popular work, "The Mysteries of London," entitled MARK HAM AND GREENWOOD; or, The Brothers' Career. Markham, Mr. Seaman ; Greenwood, Mr. Walton ; Tidkins, Mr. Searle ; Ste phens, Mr. Anker ; Count Alteronl, Mr. Higgie ; Ellen, Mrs. 11. Yining ; Isabella, Mrs. IA e. After which, the Burlesque of PAYEE ROSAMONDE. Fayre Rosamonde, Mr. Forman. To conclude with DOMINIQUE, THE DESERTER ; or, The Gentleman In Black. Under the Patronage of her Most Gracious Majesty. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. EVERY MONDAY, TUEADAY, WEDNESDAY, AND THURSDAY. VIEW of NAPLES, ERUPTION of VESUVIUS, DESTRUC TION of HERCULANEUM and POMPEII, in the year 79. 3 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 -elating his adventures to Calypso. The PYROTECHNIC DISPLAYS, by Mr. Southby, are on the most complete and effective scale. Preceding the Volcanic Display, lions. FARINELLI will descend from a Chinese Pagoda, seventy feet in weight, to the surface of the lake, where a Naiad's Car will rise to receive lim, and bear him to his chrystal home. The Glass Conservatory Is splendidly 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. THIS DAY, SEPTEMBER 2, The Boys of the Greenwich Hospital School, with their splendid Band, will pay their Annual Visit to the Gardens. On this occasion, in addition to the matchless attractions of the Gardens, there will be a brilliant Display of Fireworks on and in the Water, representing a Naval Engagement between a Brdish Frigate and a Pirate, the Bands playing " Britons strike Home," and " Rule Britannia." The School will arrive at four o'clock. ADMITTANCE, ONE SHILLING. TO CORRESPONDENTS. PRICES OF POTATOES IN THE LONDON MARKETS.—In reply to a letter received from a correspondent, on the sub ject of the prices of potatoes in the Borough and Spits Melds markets, we may observe, that those which have been lately inserted in our reports have referred to several very superior qualities, received chiefly by railway from distant parts of the country, and which have proved free from disease. He will observe that our general quotations refer to the value on ship-board, and not to those parcels which have been sorted. Of course, when the diseased and otherwise out-of-condition qualities are sold separately, miserably low rates are obtained for them ; but such information would be of no service what ever to the distant growers, whose potatoes are invariably disposed of in bulk. The potatoes grown in the immediate vicinity of the metropolis—nearly the whole of which are brought to market in the early part of the season—do not, generally speaking, produce so much money as those grown in the north. THE WEATHER.—SIIN OFFICE, SEPTEMBER 2. THERMOMETER, Lowest, b 4; Highest. 67 ; Noon, 68. BAROMETER, 30 39.—WIND N.N.E., fine. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRLDGE THIS DAY. Itternina 27 minutes after 10. I Evening .. 10 minutes after 11 .16, eet ' i 47,4:, 4s, 4", t, . t, !&: . 4t > •,:z. i t - _ , ' _ . 1 , , x u '.*', • AI 0 ' ', ~. : , .• ..., . 44-Vi5..1344:''' ' ' ~s, .1% , "j 0 r , t, ..,,...ear. ~, ..., c:.,...„... SECOND EDITION. i*tnintif 4.ltatt LONDON, WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 2, 1846 Accounts from Ireland are both encouraging and alarming. The proceedings already taken by Government for the amelioration of the miseries of its people, and the character already acquired by the Ministry and their officials, as friends of that popula tion, have instilled a balm into Irish society; have allayed all the heartburnings and discontentment of the multitude ; and have prepared the way for the better: egislation and the social re-organization of that populous, but impoverished community. In this re spect the aspect of Ireland is all sunshine; in another it is all darkness and desolation. Preceding intelli gence of the failure of the potato crop was but feebly indicative of the reality. By former packets we wert assured that the murrain 1 ad developed itself with immeasurably greater rapidity, and had committed even at this commencement of the season infinitely greater devastation throughout the country than on the occasion of its appearance in 1845. Terrible, however, as was this picture, it is as nothing to the confirmations of the account, now arriving week after week at Liverpool and Bristol. From one extremity of Ireland to the other—eastwards, westwards, north wards, and southwards—that vegetable pestilence has extended, withering the foliage of the adjacent hedges, blasting the verdant stalks and leaves of the potato plant to a brown and pestiferous decay, and soddening the tubers with the most ineradicable rottenness. That beautiful epithet, applied to his country by MOOHE and his brother melodists, is no longer appli cable. " The Emerald Island" is now a mockery to a land reeking with noxious vapours and fruitless fields. The "green isle of the ocean" presents a landscape now more deplorable than wilder nesses of sand. Its population behold their toil in cultivating the earth rendered useless by an alarming freak of nature ; they find their scanty provisions turning into poison round their hovels ; they hear of considerable quantities of oats and wheat exported from the markets of Lime rick and elsewhere, and they are assured, as they turn to obey the promptings of hunger, by devouring their infected potatoes, that they might with equal wisdom consume proportionate quantities of arsenic. No language, however sombre, can convey any adequate impression of the mournfulness and the inauspicious gloom which pervades the inland, and even the sea ward districts of Ireland. Nevertheless, it is suffi cient briefly to say that such is literally the con dition of her people. We have no ambition to harrow, the feelings of the public by detailing the pangs of their countrymen. We never took pleasure in lingering over the woes of UGOLINO, or over such spectacles of sufferings as that described by DANTE, in his narrative of purgatory, where one phantom tore the hair and scalp of his enemy off with his teeth, and glanced up for an instant at the bard with his jaws dripping with blood, and clogged with hair from the prosecution of his devilish banquet. Our sympathies do not attract us in such a horrid direction. A calm and explicit statement of the broad fact will be amply sufficient for our purpose :—the potato crop is destroyed throughout Ireland—cholera has already appeared in those quarters where the contaminated roots have been devoured—starvation and contagion must inevitably follow, unless efforts are made to eradicate the dis• ease already generated, and to supply the deficiency by the importation of provisions and the giving em ployment to the sufferers. Impressed with the reality of the emergency, it becomes of next importance to inquire whether the movements and propositions of the Executive are proportioned to that emergency. We think not. The Administration has proceeded upon the right prin ciple ; we believe the various members of the Cabi net to be actuated by the most generous sentiments towards the Irish population, and yet we are per suaded from our hearts that more remains to be done, if they would effectually allay the social and corpo real and moral pangs of that heretofore doomed and luckless race. Soothing syrups are inadequate to calm a body so racked and tormented ; the devil, by which its constitution is rent and contorted, must be exorcised before anything like a healthful calm can be restored. Fifty thousand pounds—calls upon baronies—recommendations to the merchants of Ireland to import Indian corn and meal for home consumption, and such like precautions, are not suffi cient, we are assured, to restore the community to peace, plenty, and contentment. They are, as pre liminary measures, admirable. And for having so far answered to the call of a whole nation for protec tion and assistance, the Government has acted wisely and nobly. It has, indeed, entitled itself to the emphatic commendations and support of Mr. O'CoN NELL. "I am bound to say," exclaimed the Libe rator, on Monday morning, " I am bound to say the Government shows the utmost degree of anxiety to afford relief!" That is precisely the position of the question. Lord JOHN RUSSELL and his colleagues have shown themselves, and we believe them to be, the true friends of Ireland. They have shown them selves to be thus animated with sentiments of good will to that island by the conciliation of their Parlia mentary and Ministerial behaviour, by the appoint ments under Government, by the expressions in which they have alluded to Irish destitution and Irish distress. They have shown it in the measures passed through both Houses immediately before the prorogation of Parliament. The Ministers have indeed evinced the utmost anxiety to relieve ; but the question immediately under consideration is, not as to the anxiety to relieve, but as to the relief itself. We are compelled to think thus from the calamitous condition of Ireland ; and, thinking thus, we are most anxious for activity, acti vity, activity. Nevertheless, we are really sanguine of the ultimate safety and happiness of Ireland, because we are likewise sanguine that her MAJESTY'S Ministers will be as vigilant as they have already proved them selves wise and generous. According to our promise we resume the consi deration of the Report of the Committee of Rail ways. The other recommendations on the Com mittee are, first, that " No future lines, either for main trunks or branches, should be ceded, except for terms of years." We do not think that the policy of this suggestion is quite so clear as that of the others to which we have already called attention, now that the principal and most remunerative lines have been already constructed or sanctioned by the Legis lature, and a variety of other projects have been embarked in, which have only been postponed until the next session of Parliament; which, if then ap proved of, could not in justice or equity be made sub ject to the operation of a law not in existence when the capital was subscribed and the preliminary expenses incurred. The lines which are not included in either of the above categories do not afford so tempting a prospect to capitalists desirous of per manent investment, as to lead to the supposition that they will be undertaken and carried into execution, if the proprietors are to be entitled to them only for a limited term of years, in place of in perpetuity, as heretofore. The Government must, therefore, in all pro bability, either construct them with the public money, or suffer the wants of the country to 'remain unpro vided for; either of which courses appears to us highly objectionable. We think that the Government should never enter into competition with the subjects in fair and bond fide speculations; the prosperity of a country is owing to the wealth of individual mem bers more than to that of the State itself. And we think that greater happiness and benefit to the nation, in general, will be obtained by the large amount of capital represented by railway, being permitted to remain in the hands of the proprietors, than if it had, on the expiration of the terms of years for which they had been conceded, become the exclusive property of the State. We think the true and just principle is, that the most perfect freedom of action should be conceded to every person in any enterprise in which he may think it desirable to embark. If the Government are to be suffered to become traders, to embark ha any project or under taking, because it appears likely to prove profitable, the natural and probable result will be, that indivi dual enterprise will be extinguished in that particular branch where the nation itself starts as a competitor and rival. We profess ourselves to be free-traders in the most extended meaning of - the term, and we con ceive that, by such an interfe.muce, the energies of the people would be cramped and fettered. The public have a right to demand: that the fullest con trol and superintendence shall be exercised by a com petent body over the enanagt!ment of the different companies, so that the nation al interests should not be prejudiced by the exclusi ye rights conceded to them, but with that exception„ - which necessity de mands, it should be left in the hands of the pro prietary. The second recommendatit m, that full and ac curate accounts of the pr( )cce dings of railway companies, embracing their • whole receipts and ex penditure, shall be laid from ti rat to time before Par liament, we fully assent to ; the greatest degree of publicity, should be given to all their acts in order that it may be fully tested wh ether the mode of their management is correct in pr inciple, and beneficial both to themselves and the pubaic in its results—in deed the due control and superir itendence, the necessity of which we have advocated, de anands this publicity to give it effect. The third and fourth recommenda tions, we have already alluded to, and expressed our approbation of, and also the filt la, which has already been partially acted on by the formation of the new ' railway board, to which all the necessary powers will be accorded next session. The preliminary inquiries thereby suggested will be valuable, not merely in deciding what lines are necessary for the supply of the wants of the country, and how far a given project may be conducive to that end, and providing Par liament with such information as may be of use to enable it to legislate in the way most beneficial to the public, but also in materially diminishing the extraordinary amount of preliminary expenses, legal and otherwise, the magnitude of which is one of the greatest blots and abuses on the English system. The Parliamentary expenses of the Great Western Rail way are stated to have been 1,0001. per mile, of the London and Birmingham 6501. per mile, and of the Eastern Counties, of fifty-one miles, 45,0901., while the other preliminary expenses amounted to no less a sum than 48,6501., making no less an expenditure than 93,8401., before one single shilling was expended in the actual construction of the works. This fearful waste of the public money is a grievance to which there must be placed some limitation. If returns could be obtained of the solicitors' bills of costs and other expenses incurred during the progress of the mania last year, in the several schemes that never even came before Parliament, or did not obtain the legislative sanction, a sum total would be presented that would astound the public. When it is stated on good authority that the solicitor's account in one Bill, which never went beyond the Standing Orders' Committee of the House of Commons, amounted to no less a sum than 82,000/., and this exclusive of the expenses of engineers, and various other outlays, some notion may be formed of the aggregate of the 700 schemes, and upwards, which came to an untimely end, or at least did not receive the sanction of the Legislature. They certainly manage things far better in France, in this respect, when we find, that in the Rouen and Havre line, the expenses incurred in the inquiry before the board, and up to the time the Act was obtained, amounted to only 7001., about the one-hundredth part of what it would have cost in this country—indeed, we fear that the great facility given to the creation of costs and law expenses was the original and ex citing cause of a very large proportion of the crude and undigested schemes by which the country was last year deluged, and which did so much mis chief in its results. A lawyer wanted business, and forthwith a railway was got up for his especial benefit. He had his staff of provisional committee men ready, who, dazzled by the premiums at which every new scheme came out, and, reckless of the lia bilities and consequences entailed upon themselves, too readily lent the sanction of their names to any undertaking. The only remaining recommendation is, " that the companies should he obliged to carry the Post-office mails by passenger trains, free of all charges, and at times when there are no passenger trains for the ad ditional expense thereby occasioned." Now we cannot assent to this suggestion. We see no reason why the Government should be permitted to take the property or the labour of individuals without a fair recompense therefor ; every facility that is re quired for the public service should be given, and at a fair and reasonable rate; but that pressing into the public service gratuitously what may be obtained by paying for it, is one of the most objec tionable features of a despotic power. We think that point may be fairly left to the control and super intendence of the new board, to decide on a fair and equitable adjustment of the question between the companies and the public. The same may be said of the case of soldiers, sailors, and other bodies of men in the public service, the alterations respecting which have not been considered by the Committee. On the whole the report may be considered a most valuable document, affording data and premises on which the public may be enabled to arrive at just and reason able conclusions ; and much is due to Mr. MORRISON and his coadjutors for the zeal and ability with which they conducted the inquiry entrusted to their charge. It appears that the person who sent the box of explosive materials to the Prince of SAMos, at Con stantinople, with the intention of murdering his Highness, and the explosion from which wounded his servant and physician, is a certain CONSTANTINE STAMATIDES, the friend and associate of M. COLETTI, the Prime Minister of Greece, of M. PISCATORY, the French Ambassador at the Court of Athens, and who accompanied the French Admiral TUEPIN as inter preter, during his recent voyage in the Archipelago. The question of the Jesuits was considered by the Swiss Diet, which was held at Zurich on the 25th of August. On the question being put to the vote, the following were the results :—For the abandonment of the question, 81 states ; to declare the question a federal affair, 101 states ; to summon all the states to repel the Jesuits, 94 states ; to invite only Lucerne to expel them, 81 states ; to invite the three other states to adopt that measure, 71 states ; to prohibit any further reception of the Jesuits, 101 states. We learn from a letter, published in the German Gazette of Frankfort, that the Austrian Government had consented to take off the sequestration placed on the property of the Princess CZARTORYSKI in Galicia, on the Prince signing a written engagement not to interfere in the affairs of Poland. The latest intelli gence from Galicia is to the 18th ult., and is pub lished in the Cologne Gazctte. It is as follows : " We learn from Tarnew,of the 16th, that the peasants of Wolga, near Dembetza, to the number of 200, excite d by a Jewish emissary, assailed the Chateau of Wolga, and pillaggd it. The owner of the chateau escaped with great difficulty. On the receipt of this news a detach ment of cavalry left Dembetza for Wolga, and dispersed the band, taking 26 prisoners. The principal leader, however, escaped. This event has caused so much alarm among the gentry, that they all lett their country houses and sought refuge in the towns. Tarnow is full of re fugees. The reports in circulation, that disturbances had taken place in the circles of Lt.mberg, is without foundation—everything remains tranquiL" The King of DENMARK has accepted the resigna tion of the Prince of AUGUSTENBURG as Commander in-Chief of Schleswig-Holstein, and discharged him from the office of President of the Regency of the the Duchy. Major-General Ltizow is appointed Comm . ander-in-Chief. His MAJESTY has, however, continued to the Prince of AUGESTENEURG the emo luments of the offices held by him as a pension. A letter from Ystad, in Scania (Sweden) of the 24th, says : " The King and Queen of Sweden have been attacked with the measles, while on a visit at the Chateau of the Count de Piper, at Krageholm, but are now in a state of convalescence. The disorder has been very prevalent in this province during the summer. The Prince Royal and Prince Augustus have also suffered from it, but slightly. The squadron of evolution has brought back Prince Oscar from St. Petersburgh to Calscrona. His reception by the Emperor of Russia was most gracious. The Prince Royal and Prince Gustavus are to be present at the manoeuvres of the camp in Silesia, and will after wards visit the Courts of Dresden and Munich. The Queen-Mother Rill not return to Stockholm until their Majesties are perfectly recovered." The Augsburgh Gazette publishes a letter, dated Athens, August 13, which states that the Govern ment had submitted to the Chamber a Bill, declaring that two-thirds of the surplus of the receipts over the expenditure of :the year 1845.6, should be employed in payment of the interest and sinking fund of the debt due by Greece to England and Russia. Madrid papers to the 26th have arrived. On the evening of the 25th there had been a grand reception at the Palace in honour of the file day of the Infanta LUISA FERNANDA. The question of the QUEEN'S marriage still occupied the public atten tion. The Members of the Cabinet, it is said, are divided ; some being in favour of Don FRANCISCO D'Assls, others of a Prince of Coburg. The majority, however, are in favour of Don FRANCISCO. MADRID BOLSA, .AUG. 26.—The Three per Cents. w ere done at 34 for cash ; the Four per Cents., at 214 ; the Five per Cents., at 22 ; the Debt without Interest, at 64 ; and the Coupons, at 204. We have received the Paris papers of Monday. The following article on the policy of the new POPE is from the Journal des Debeits. It is important as showing that the French Government will support the Sovereign Pontiff in the career of liberality which he has adopted, provided he continues to maintain legality and order, the best guarantees for the main tenance of which are to be found in the timely con cession of necessary reforms. After praising the appointment of Cardinal Gizzi and the measures hitherto adopted by that Minister, the Journal des Debcits thus proceeds : "It may be affirmed that the moderate party hae never THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 2, 1846. been really constituted in Italy until the accession of the present Pope. Before his time public opinion remained unfixed. The too convenient doctrine of despair was still holding back a great number of persons, when the measures adopted by the new Pontiff gave encourage ment to those who were desirous of progressive improve ments without any violent shock or disorder, and preached observance of the law. The success of the loyal addresses presented to the present Pore by the in habitants of the legations produced a woed,rful effvet, and induced all men to enter upon the same path. We now learn from all parts that the extreme parties are routed, and that moderate opinions remain master of the field. We see with great satisfaction this easy conquest of peace and of the principles of genuine liberty. The moral support 9f enlightened nations cannot be wanting to those who, by legal means, endeavour to bring about improvements, and aspire to effect their object by other means than rebel lion or disorder. A party proposing to itself to obtain grand reforms by legal means, and without disturbing the tranquillity of the people, undertakes the most glorious, but at the same time the most difficult, task that can be given to man to accomplish. Although mo derate opinions have in a short space of time made such remarkable progress in Italy, it does not follow that those who profess them possess already all that is neces sary for attaining their object. To effect great ends, it is not sufficient that a party should be numerous—it should, above all things, be well disciplined. Now, al though on the other side of the Alps, the majority may be imbued with moderate ideas, organization is want ing, and without that success is not possible. We do not, in saying this, allude to that organi zation of secret societies, concealing themselves in caverns, and frequently amusing themselves with setting up vain symbols ; we mean the avowed and openly manifested organization of a powerful party, acknowledging the authority of superiors, and acting with openness and perseverance in the face of day, be cause their intentions are pure, and they are desirous of never departing from the line of legality. The satisfac tion, which men experience when they quit the tortuous path of plots and schemes, to take their stand on the open ground of legal resistance, on which they may always fight with their faces uncovered, ennobles the soul and elevates the heart. On this ground the contest may be greatly prolonged—it may present the most diverse phases ; but final success can never be doubtful, if the men who are contending for it are truly impressed with a sense of their duty, and consider their task as a grave undertaking which merits all their attention, and for which they ought, if called on, to sacrifice all their interests and all their pleasures," According to the Constitutionnel, there was a report current in Rome, that the King of SARDINIA had written to the Pont, complimenting him on the amnesty and the promise he had made of granting liberal institutions to his subjects. " This," says the Constitittionnel, " would be a most important fact. The existence of a friendly understanding between the Roman and the Piedmontese Governments would be a death-blow to the retrograde party, and to Austrian influence. The approbation expressed by King CHARLES ALBERT had, it appears, inspired courage to Cardinal Grzzr, the Secretary of State, who had addressed a note to the King of NAPLES, complaining of the hostile intentions he had mani fested towards the Pontifical Court." It would appear from the following article in the Epoque, the journal par excellence of M. GIIIZOT, as if the French Minister for Foreign Affairs wished to exploits the visit of 18RA.1111% PACLIA to Europe to his advantage : "Amongst the various problems for the future," says this other Ministerial journal, " which the eastern question has left hitherto unsolved, there is one which we avow has caused us some uneasiness. The heredi tary succession in the family of Mehemet Ali, that afflicting concession, which force alone wrested from the Porte, hc.s not yet been consecrated by fact. Mehe met Ali is the first of his race, and the Divan has not yet renounced a secret hope of one day re-establisbirg it; authority over Egypt. If, therefore, an opppor tunity can ever arrive for Turkey to make a last effort to accomplish this object, it will undoubtedly be at the mo ment when the death of Mehemet Ali, shall, for the first time, raise the question of succession. It is not that the rights of Ibrahim Pacha appear to us doubtful, for Europe has formally recognised them ; but it is well known, and the page of history forcibly reminds us of the fact, that the momentary crisis which ordinarily attends every transmission of sovereign power, offers a very seductive opportunity to the intrigues of the am bitious and to the objects of reactionists. There exists, perhaps, in the particular condition of the family of Me hemet Ali elements of discord which may be perfidiously acted on. The law of succession has hitherto re mained a dead letter, thanks to the long career of the reigning P► ince. It has put forth no root, neither in the family nor among the people, and the traditions of Orientals are not of a nature to give it a power beyond the reach of all dispute. On the other hand, Ibrahim Pacha is not the only son of Mehemet Ali, and he is not even the only one that has given proofs of high capacity, and that enjoys consider able influence over the people. Ibrahim, it is true, com mands the army, but Said Pacha commands the fleet; and Abas Pacha participates largely in the labours of the Government, and has been able more than any other to acquire the love and confidence of the Viceroy, his father. Who can say that the mind of Said or of Abas would not be accessible to the insidious counsels which might excite in them the demons of ambition and jea lousy? A dispute relative to the succession, where each of the pretenders could have his party, might lead to civil war, put everything in doubt as to the question of Egypt, and deliver her up to foreign intrigues and exigen cies. Superficial minds may be but slightly struck by such provisions as these. Without being ourselves inclined to exaggerate their importance, we nevertheless think that, in face of the well known disposition of the Porte, when it is considered, too, what indefatigable perseverance England is capable of using to obtain a result so important as that which would deliver up to her the Isthmus of Suez, it would be a want of common foresight not to seriously reflect on the subject. We think it was wise to dread that the Porte and England would be equally dis contented to recognise in the heir presumptive of Mehemet Ali, the worthy accomplisher of his father's work, and that they would hold themselves ready to shake his power, in order to impose on him their wishes. The French Government, therefore, used a wise and skilful policy when it persuaded Ibrahim Pacha to accept the invitation of the Queen of England. The oppor tunity was, in fact, favourable, not only for obtaining from the Government of Great Britain an implicit re cognition of the rights of the hero of Nezib as the here ditary Prince of Egypt, but also to overthrow all the hopes which might have been nourished by the Govern ment of Constantinople. England has now saluted Ibrahim Pacha as the future sovereign of Egypt ; only a few days since Sir Charles Napier solemnly proclaimed his right, and Lord Palmerston, the Minister of Fo reign Affairs, joined in the declaration. Now, and in consequence of the visit of Ibrahim Pacha to England, the British Government has formally pledged itself' as to the question of succession in Egypt. The Opposition, with that clear•sightedness which distinguishes it, could only discover in all this affair an act of servility on the part of our Ministers towards our rivals on the other side of the channel. The Opposition must allow us to think differently, and to congratulate our Government for having known how to take advantage of circumstances in order to secure as much as possible fresh guarantees for the peace and independence of Egypt, w hose strength and prosperity are so necessary to the triumph of the policy and interests of France." In the same paper we find the announcement of the departure from Paris of Prince CALLEAIAEL the Minister from the Porte to the Court of her Britan nic MAJESTY. This is, we believe, the first instance in which the SULTAN has ever sent a Christian as his representative to a foreign Court. The Prince DE JOINVILLE and his fleet were in the Bay of Naples on the 22d. HENRI was on Sunday removed from the Luxem bourg to the Conciergerie. The potato disease is spreading in all parts of France. In the neighbourhood of Paris and in the department of the Oise, more particularly at Cressy, it has manifested itself with the greatest virulence. The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Monday at 83f. 75c. ; the Five per Cents., 121 f 50c. ; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,2731. 75c. ; Rouen, 9621. 50c. ; Havre, 700 f. ; Great Northern, 7121. 50c.; Avignon, 9181. 75c. ; Vierzon, 6281. 75c.; Bordeaux, 577 f. 50c.; Boulogne, 4851. ; Troyes and Montereau, 3621. 50c ; Pa►is and Stras burg, 497 f. 50c.; Paris and Lyons, 528 f. 75c.; Lyons and Avignon, 490 f. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 4851. ; Spanish Ac tives, 33%; ditto Domestic Debt, 32 3 / 4 ; ditto Passives, 5 1 ,1. MAnsalnnEs, Aua. 27.—Marseilles and Avignon, 913 i. 75c. ; Northern, 710 f. ; Paris and Lyons, 5251. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, SEPTEMBER 1. Boulogne and Amiens, 13% —Direct Bombay and Madras, % Dutch Rhenish, 6% —East Indian, % Great Western Bengal, % --Jamaica South Midland Junction, —Louvain ala Sambre, 1% — Luxembourg, 1% —Namur and Liege, 4N—Orleans and Bordeaux, 8% —Paris and Lyons Constituted, 5% Sambre and Meuse, 4%. PRICE OF GOLD.—The premium on gold at Paris is 16 per mille, which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 10 1 4 d. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25 55 ; and the exchange at Paris on London at short being 25 75, it follows that gold is 0.87 per cent. dearer in London than in Paris. By advices from Hamburgh the price of gold is 434 1 % per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 10 1 4 d. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13 93 4 ; and the exchange at Hamburgh on London at short being 13 1011 2 , it follows that gold is 0.34 per cent. dearer in London than in Hamburgh. The course of excharge at - ICew York on London is 108 per cent., and the par of exchange between England and America being 109 23-40 per cent., it follows that the exchange is 1.58 per cent. against England. But the quoted exchange at Nevi York being for bills at 60 days' sight, tke interest must be deducted from the above difference. REPRESENTATION OF RoCIIESTER.—A meeting of the electors of the city of Rochester is about to be convened, to take into consideration the propriety of forwarding a requisi tion to Ralph Bernal Esq., M.P., inviting him to become a candidate for the re presentation' of their city at the next general election. WESTNINSTER-BRIDGE.—A meeting of the inhabit ,ants on the Surrey side of Westminster -bridge was held last night, at the New Inn, Bridge-road, Lambeth, for the pur pose of considering the best means to be adopted for protect ing their interests in the event of the bridge being pulled down. It was resolved to memorialise the Lords of the Treasury in favour of adhering to the old site. A good deal was said of the present inconvenience sustained by various classes of the public ; and it was stated that omnibuses went over the bridge 630 times a day, and 730 in summer; these were now paying 151. 15e. a day in tolls, or above 5,0001. a year. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The Cotton Market at Liverpool was rather dull. sales, 10,000 bales. Shares were rather heavy. Messrs. 'lmond and Co.'s sale yesterday was well at eniled, and very good prices were obtained. Some of he scrips show a considerable rise. The following are a few of the principal sales:— Louvain ii la Sambre, • £l 6 0 Reviirg +tod Reiate .. 1 2 0 Northern and Southern Connecting Oxford, 11 , itney, and Cheltenham 0 10 6 Shropshire Union and Canal Cambridge and Oxford Grand Union ... 0 15 0 Over Yssel South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4 3 7 0 Taw Vale Extension and Dock 0 10 6 Eastern Counties, York Extension 2 8 0 Ambergate, Nottingham and Boston Boston, Stamford, arid Birmingham Great Eastern and Western 0 18 6 Churnet and 131vt he Reading, Guildord, and Reigate 1 2 0 London and York ... 2 3 0 Manchester and S.,uthampton 1 0 0 Great North of India 0 5 0 East Indian 0 17 0 West Riding Union Paris and Lyons Direct Northern 1 15 0 Great Western of Bengal 0 11 0 Norfolk Extens. to Norwich and Brandon 2 5 0 Boston, Newark, and Sheffield 0 17 0 An important sale of furs and skins has been com menced this morning at the Hudson's Bay Company's House. A system of exclusiveness appears to belong to the Corporation —most of the lots were bought in. There were very nearly 40,000 skins and Furs offered for sale. The state of the United States money market is thus described:—" The money market is quiet, without on the one hand any large demand for purposes of busi ness, or on the other a disposition by banks and private capitalists to loan freely. The Government have not yet, as far as known, made any issue of Treasury notes, and the impression seems to prevail that the determination at present is to exhaust the balances in the banks before putting any in circulation. Whether they will be as readily absorbed when it is un derstood that the Government has no other means of paying, as they would be now while it is optional to pay Treasury notes or money, may admit of a question. " It is quite certain, however, that unless the expenditures of the war have been greatly ex aggerated, not only must the issue of Treasury notes be resorted to, but the amount authorised will be exhausted before the assembling of Congress can give authority for additional issues. We look upon this as highly probable, whether the war ceases or not. The receipts from customs prior to the Ist of December can • not be expected to be large, as all merchandise upon which the duties is reduced and which is not wanted for sale before that time will undoubtedly be warehoused. It will not surprise us if the Secretary of the Treasury should be compelled to issue the Treasury notes from the commencement at the full rate of interest, or, if the war continues, that they should fall in value so as to prevent their issue in conformity with law, and em barrass still further the financial operations of the Go vernment." The Consol market has been rather heavy to-day. The price for the Account is now at 961, and for imme diate transfer, 96. Bank Stock is heavy at 2081. The premium upon Exchequer-bills has just been quoted at 21s. premium. In Mexican and Portuguese Bonds a great deal of business has been transacted to-day, in the former at 261 to 4, and in the latter at 45 to 46. Brazilian Five per Cents. are at 891. The Share market is not animated to-day. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Bank Stock 20 8 14 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 96%% 3 per Cent. Consols Anns 96% 96 New 31/ per Cent. Annuities Long Annuities Expire sth Jan. 1860 lO 7-16 % Do. 30 Years, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 lO 3-16 India Stock 259 1 / 2 South Sea Stock Ditto Old Annuities 96 Consols for Account Exchequer Bills. 1 3 / 4 d. 1 1 / Q cl. 1,0004 5001. ....... 21 pm. Ditto Small — .. 19 21 pm. PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent B 9 l/ Equador Bonds Mexican Bonds, 1846, 5 per Cent 26lk 1/2. Ditto for the Account Ditto Small Portuguese 4 per Cents 4 5 34 45 46 Ditto for the Account .... 45 1 ,E 46 45 1 4% 45 Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1840 — Ditto for the Account Ditto Deferred Ditto 3 per Cent Ditto for the Account 37% BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK RAILWAYS. PAID. rzx SNARE. Aberdeen Amber., Notting., Boston, &c 2% 2% to 2 Armagh Coleraine & Portrush 1% Aylesbury and Thime . . Belfast and County Down .. 2g .. .. Bideford and Tavistock ..... 1% — to Birmingham and Gloucester..loo ......129 Do. New (iss. at 7% dis.) . 17% — to Birmingnam & Oxford Juno... 2 Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction 274 — .. ... to Boston, Starlit , & Birming... 225. Bristol and Exeter Do., New Bristol and Gloucester 3O Bristol and Liverpool Junc... 2% — to Buckinghamshire.. Caledonian Ditto, Half Shares Ditto, Extension Cambrian and Grand Junct.. 425. Cambridge and Oxford Central Kent 2 l /2 — to Chester and Holyhead 2 7 1 /2 2 6 1 /2 to Churnet and Blythe.. ...... .. 2 Chester and Manchester 42.3. Cheltenham and Oxford Clydesdale Junction Cork, Blackrock, & Passages 225. Cork and Killarney Cork and Waterford Ph...—. Cornwall 1A to -- Cornwall and Central Devon 2% — ...... to Derby and Crewe 2% to Direct Lincoln, East Retford, and Sheffield Junction.— 2% to Direct Manchester (Rem.)... 2% ..... - Ditto ( Rastrick's) - sii — to Direct Northern Direct Norwich 1 Dublin and Belfst Junction.. 10 Dublin, Belfast, & Coleraine 2% — to Dablin and Galway .... to 4, ....•.. Dundalk and Enniskillen ... 7 1 A ...... Eastern Counties l4/. 16s 223i to 23 Do. New lO/. 16s 7 % 3 /4 p to Do. Perpet., 5 per ct. No. 1,6/. 13s. 4d — Do., do. N 0.2,61. 13s. 4d.. to Do , York Extension East Derehani and Norwich 1 Eastern Union - Ditto, Quarter Shares Do. Extension to Harwich 1 y ..... Do. Cambridge and Ely ... 2' 1 ; 2 — to East Lancashire East Lincolnshire East and West of England... 1% — ...... to Edinburgh and Glasgow Ditto, - Half Share; lO ..... 18 - Ditto, Quarter Shares l 2 l /2 — Do. New Quarter Shares... 12% — to Edinburgh and 10 Northern ... . -- Edinburgh and Perth 3 to Ely and Huntingdon Enniskillen and Sligo 2 l/ .2 — to Exeter; 'Yeovil, & Dorchester 5M Glasgow, Kilmarnock, & Ayr 50 — ....„ Ditto, New .- Do. IA Shares (5 per ct. gua.) 12 1 / 2 ..... Glouc., Aberystwi th, and Cen. of Wales Goole, Doncaster, Sheffid., &c 425....... % dis. to Grand Union (Nott. & Lynn) 1% %... .. to Great Eastern and Western... 2 1 / 2 . to Great Griwsby and Sheffield 10 Gt. South. & West. (1re1and)25...31 1 A 30IA 31 1 / to 30%x. i, Great Munster 2 l /2 ..... . to Great North of Scotland 2 l /2 — Great North of England 100 ......227 1 / 2 to 228 1 / 2 Ditto, New Ditto, New ... 15 ...... Ditto, New Great Western Ditto, Half Shares SO Ditto, Quarter Shares Ditto, Fifths _ _ 20 .... .. _ Guildfd,Farehm., &Portsuath. 5 Harwich and E. U. Junction 2 .... . Hull and Selby 5O 104% ..... . to Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% 2l Ditto, Half Shares Inverness and Elgin ,to Ipswich & Bury St. Edmunds 9_ Do. do. and Norwich Irish North Midland isle of Aahohne Killarney Junction Kendal and Windermere 1%...... ...... to Laticasttr and Carlisle 45 Do. New 5 ...... Larne, Belfast, & Ballymena 425. ...... .... , to Leeds and Bradford Leeds and Carlisle ...... 2% — to Leicester and Birmingham... 225. Leizester and Bedford 22s. _ _ !.4eeds and Dewsbury Leicester and Tamworth, &c. 425. Liverpool, Manchester, and .Newcastle Junction 2/2 to Liverpool and Bury l4 7,ondon and Binning. Eaten. 1% — to London -':i4; Blackwall...l6l. 13s. 4d B l4 x d to Do. New 3 — to Do. Extension Loudon r.nd Brighton ...... ... 50 Do. Fifths 3O ...... 411 / 2 •••••• to London and Croydon...l3/. 15s. 9d 23 x d... to Do. Guaranteed 45 per Cent. 9 . — - London and Greenwich... 12/.155. 4d... Ditto Preference .........181 17s 2d... London, Hounslow, &Western 2 . .... London and North IN estern..loo ......206 Do. Quarter Shares ...... .. 2 Do. do. New ...... ........... . 16 p to 15% p Do. do. Fifths Do. Eighths G. J. 12% — to Do. New Quarters ...G. J.._ Do. 40/. Shares.....L. &M. 6 London and S. Western.... 411.65. 10d. 72% x d to Do. New consolidated Bths.. 40 Ditto New Do. New . . 14 London and York... ...» 2% 2% to Ditto Half Shares London and Wind4or ..... .... 1A,....., -- - London, Salisbury, & Yeovil 2 1 / 2 — Londonderry and Coleraine... 1214 Londonderry and Enniskillen 12 1.,, — Lynn aria Ely Lynn ard Dereham 51anchz.stcr and Leeds l. •• ••• ...'- Ditto Ralf Shares Ditto Quarters Ditto Fifths Ditto ! 4 :%tecrttts ... ... ''', Do. Extol :ion Mancllest.tr and Birntii.gi.au 40 Ditto Quarters (A) Ditto Quarters ( ts ) Ditto Quarters (C) I Mauch: Buxton, & Matlock 425. Ilanchest,i, Birmingham, and MouldJunction Manchester and Southampton 2 Midland lOO .....140 Ditto Fifths Ditto, New 24 ..... Midland, Birm., and Derby...loo ..... Midland and Eastern Counties 2% — to 141idld. Great Western (Irish) 12% — to Newcastle & Darlington .iunc. 25 — to Ditto New Newcastle and Berwick Do. North Shields 25 ...... ... .. to Newcastle and Carlisle Newport and Abergavenny. . 2 1 ,1 — to Newry and Enniskillen ...... 4% — ...... to Newark, Sheffield, and Boston 1% — Norfolk Do. Half Shares - Ditto Tenths Ditto Extension North British Ditto Half Shares Ditto Fifths 5 .. Do. Carlisle Extension l.. 44%%... to North of Norfolk N4>rthern and Eastern 5O - Ditto Scrip (iss. at 5 die.)... 45 Ditto Quarter Shares - Ditto New North Kent & Direct Dover 2% to North Staftbrdshire ...... 425. North Wales 3 l /2 • • North. & South. Connecting 2% - Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham Nottingham and Mansfield... ..... .. to Oxford, Worcester, and Wol verhampton Oxfd., Witney, & Cheltnham 1% to -- Pilbrow Atmospheric Portsmouth Direct Preston and gyre Ditto, Half Shares Reading, Guildford, & Reigate 425. Richmond Rugby, Leamington, and Warwick Scottish Central ... 12 1 / 2 .. ... to Ditto, New, .. Scottish Midland ... 10 Ditto, Extension 2 l/2 Sheffield, Buxton, Leek Pot teries, and Crewe Sheffield and Manchester ...100 Ditto 1 4 Shares 8 Shrewsbury and Birmingham 2 1 / 2 ..„.. 2% to Shropshire Union Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and S. Staftordsb. Junction 2 1 / 2 ..... ...... to Sligo and Shannon is .. .. to South Devon South Midland 42s. ... .. South and Midlands Junction 425....... South Staffordshire Junction 2 1 /...... 341 to South Eastern and Dover ... 33%...... 43 1 4 to Ditto, New, No. 1 Ditto, New, No. 2 l2 Ditto, New, No. 3 Ditto New, No. 4. 2 l /2 31% to St. Alban's, Hatfield, and Hertford Junction Staines and Richmond 1 Staffordshire and Shropshire 2% — to South Wales Swans. and Loughor and Ca meron's Stm. Coal ...... ... .. 2 Taw Vale Extension Tring, Reading, & Basingstoke 51 — ...... to Vale of Neath Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole 2 2 1 /2 — 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 Welsb Midland 2 1 / 2 .... West Riding Union 42s. West Cornwall West London, Old Shares ... 20 Wexford and Carlow Wisbeach and St. Ives Wilts,Somerset,&Weymouth 10 ...... Worcester, Hereford, Ross, , and Gloucester ... ......... ... 425. Worcester,Tenbury,&Ludlow 2% — 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 Boulogne and Amiens l4 ...... Bordeaux and Mediterranean 2 Bordeaux, Toulouse, & Cette (Mackenzie's) Bordeaux, Toulouse, & Cette ( Espelete's) Calais, Dunk, & W. Flanders 2 Calcutta & Diamond Harbour 7s. ..... ... to Callao, Lima, & Pacific Coast 1 ...... Central of Spain Ceylon .... ss. - Demerara. Dendre Valley Direct Bombay and Madras ss. .... . Dutch Rhenish 6 . ... 61A, to East Indian Eastern Belgian Junction.... 2 1 /i ...... Fampoux and Hazebrouk..... 4 Great Indian Peninsular 55 ....... v i to Great Western Bengal ss. Great Western Canada 31 / 4 ---- Italian and Austrian Jamaica S. Midland Junction 1 - Jersey Louvain a la Sambre L uxem b ourg Lyons and Avignon 2 - Madras Madrid and Valentia Mauritius 1 Namur and Liege Nn. of France Constituted ... 5 ...... 13 1 / 8 .-- to North Jamaica 1 Orleans and Vierzon - , Orleans and Bordeaux ... .. 6 . 8%....., to Over Yssel 413 s 4d.... _ Paris and Lyons Constituted 5 - Paris and Orleans... 2O Paris and Rouen .. Paris & Strasbg. Constituted 5 Rouen and Havre ... 20 Sambre and Meuse - Strasburg and Bale l4 ...... to St. Laurence and Atlantic Tours & Nantes Constituted 5 Tournay, Jurbise, Landen, and Hassell Trinidad... ..... ... 2% West Flanders 6 - JOINT STOCK. BANKS. Australasia - British North American .... 50 Colonial Commercial of London London Joint Stock London and Westminster. .. 20 National Provincial of Engld. 35 o National of Ireland Provincial of Ireland Union of Australia 25 Union of London ... 10 MINES. Real del Monte, Unregistered COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—(YESTERDAY.) Amsterdam ......C.F. 12 8% Gibraltar - Ditto, at sight ...... 12 5% Leghorn .............. 30 65 Rotterdam ...... 2U. 12 9 Genoa 26 15 Antwerp.............. 26 15 Milan Hamburgh ......M.B. 13 13% Venice Altona.• ........ •• Naples • ....• •• 3936 Paris, 3 days' sight 25 80 Palermo, per • • 119 Ditto, 3 months .. Marseilles • . 80urdeaux......... • • 26 15 I Rio Janeiro •••••• •• • • 25 --------- -____ Frankfort on Maine.... 122% Bahia - Petersburgh, 3 U 5.... . • Buenos Ayres ....., _ Berlin ................ New York, 21 days' sight Vienna, effec.flo •- • ... 10 12 Philadelphia .......... .£ Trieste, ditto.... • • .... 10 12 r aters OF BULLION, PER OZ. Mach id ••• • • ..... . Foreign Gold in bars.. 3 17 9 ... 35% Cadiz • • ... : .• • • .... 36 , Portugal Gold Coin .. 3 17 5 Bilbao. . ... New Doubloons .. 0 0 0 Barcelona • Seville .. ..., „ ........ Silver in bars ........ 0 41 i % LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, SEPT. 2.—Wind this day at noon North, light pleasant breeze, and fire clear weather. DEAL, SEPT. 1. Wind N.N.E. Arrd. Prince George, Tate, Quebec, for Shields. Arrd. from the River and sld , Marie Laure, Moore, Mauritius ; W e lli ngton, Vellacott, Cap e of Good Hope and Madras; Whampoa, Willis, Demerara; Neptune, Rundle, Quebec; Triton, Smith, Quebec; Abraham Young, Corney, Quebec. LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 1. - Wind N.N.W.— Arrd. Isabella, China; Agnes, Johnstone, Honduras; George, Key, Hon duras; Hampden, Cowan, New Orleans; Fredonia, Lunt, New Orleans; Essex, Welsh, New Orleans; Cronstadt, Hatch, New Orleans; Rappahannock, Drummond, New York; Lady Huntley, St. John's, New Brunswick; Kestril, Turner, Quebec; Jane, Potts, Quebec; Mandane, Hutchin son, Montreal; M. A. Fleming, Fitzgerald, Newfoundland. Off port, Walton, St. Domingo ; Bridget, —. Sld. Aug. 31st, Corfu, M•blann, St. John's, New Brunswick; Nymph, Nicho las, Labrador. Sept. 1, Juliet Erskine, Watkins, St. Thomas; Triton, Robe, La Guayra ; Parsee Merchant, Poole, New Orleans; Ellen Brooks, Boston : Sir H. Huntley, Halifax. REDCAE, SEPT. I.—The Harbinger, Parke, of and from Scarborough, bound to Wm kworth, and the Mariner, Lucas, of and from Plymouth, bound to Seaham, ran on the rocks off this place this morning in a tog, but got off and proceeded, apparently with little damage. OFF SClLLY.—Perseverance, Miller, Quebec, for Lynn; Hercules, Quebec, for London. BRISTOL, SEPT. I.—Wind N.E., fresh.—Arrd. Providence, Reid, Quebec. Sailed, Broom, ‘V hite, Quebec. MILFORD, AUG. 30.—Arrd. Wellington, Scott, Quebec; Elenor, Hetherington, Quebec. THE OCEAN.—The deepest part of the ocean which has been sounded is one mile and sixty-six feet in depth If we suppose its medium depth to be two miles, the water in it would cover all the dry parts of the earth, if it could be spread over them—to the depth of about 31,680 feet, or six miles. MARKET NEWS -(THIS OZ. 4 CORN EXCHANGE-WEDNESM. y. The arrivals of English Wheat for our market this 1 1. '7 1 ! have been somewhat on the increase, and of very sePe r ,t quality. The show of samples of both reel and white bei l c l b a moderately extensive, the attendance of buyers srnall±_ 9 ,„d the weather very favourable for harvest work, the def a i i; was in a very depressed state, at Monday's decline in ' . c ,ae tbrel:„:11 \\ he: next to nothing was ding, and, 41 The instances, the currencies had a. (town ward tendency. _r„ best parcels of new English Barley were selling at vegiii, high rates, though in middling condition; but other 4 its ties commanded very little attention. Superfine wide Malt Malt was in good request at fully previous quotation s, the value of other kinds was steadily supported. Alt ho tt the supply of Oats was good, the trade was firm, at fu11Y.,, ; week's prices. In Beans and Flour very little Wa s dowb but Peas were held at very high rates. • ARRIVALS. 13arley. 140 qrs. English ...... Irish ........ Foreign ...... Wheat. 1,400 qrs. 2,000 Oats 50 QM vioto::, 1 0200' ...--- - I 6,870 kali, 1,160 qrs. NVIIITECHAPEZ. h rivi se Prime meat was in good request at full prices; °Woos the trade ruled dull. Beef from 2s 8d to 3s Sd; "`,,. 6d; 3s 4d to 4s 6d; Lanab, 43 Gd to 5s 6d ; s Veal, 3s 6d to s. and Pork, 3s 8d to 4s 10d per 81bs by the carcase. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE' (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) BETTING AT MANCHESTER.— TrEsra l A hs cat s LEAMINGTON" STAKES.-5 to 1 agst Camera , '" t yit (taken)-5 to I agst Sister to Pergularia-6 to 1 gg s J. Gerard's two (taken)—lo to 1 agst June (taken)' rap eth THE GREAT YORKSHIRE STAKES.— 7 to l agst "`; DO' (taken)-7 to 1 ag,t QuadruFed (taken) -10 to 1 ag s " tasa freely) ST. LEGER.-6 to 1 agst Sir Tatton S) kes (taken 9 gst 6to 1 agst Traverser-8 to 1 agst Brocardo- 10 tog to I Fancy Boy-10 to I agst Grimston (taken free/3) -- 1 jo t against lago (taken)-18 to 1 agst Poynton- 30 t° Sting, CORNWALL and DE VON CENT RE RAILWAY COMPANY.—(THIS A meeting of the shareholders in the above to o.. called by the committee appointed by the rroprle. the for the purpose of ascertaining the present stat e el Company, was held this day at the London Taver n ' D. W. nerve . ), Esq., took the chair. t the A lengthened report was read, which stated theeoe committee had used every effort to obtain a conf er be et with the directors of the line, which had howeve r a slt unsuccessful. The report then went on to dote fits ; acts of the directors from the period of their , j meeting in November, 1845, to the present peried' i dab committee recommended that vigorous measures sbn" re t adopted for the purpose of compelling the direet°lo/ refund the deposits, at the same time they r ecoil: l ° 3e ( the that the shareholders should meet any overtures of directory, with regard to the expenses already ins in a liberal spirit. ree l The CHAIRMAN then remarked, that after the reel which had been read, the shareholders, he truste d ;:fillei agree in considering that the committee had OP the purpose for which they had been appointe l " erg purpose was three-fold. First, they had to O c jitio o how the company had been managed ; in what con The i they stood ; and what were its future prospf ets. he l d Chairman, after adverting to tbe meeting of directorkie before the Bill came before Parliament, when holders were assured that so perfect were the plo d pre the us estimates, that no opposition need be contemplate..teeoi ceeded to detail the proceedings before theCormnp pet' the House, when so far were the plans from be l l 1 feet, that the Bill only stood a four hours W5.'010 was then scouted as most inaccurate a ncl feet in all its parts. Such was the Po' ad of the scheme. The number of shares issued h. a e poi 120,000, and of this number 11 9 ,700 had been Pa,',,d realising a capital of 295,2471. The directors "'" pended 68,536/., which included- a min and Truro Railway of 35,000/. He (the Cl ': cos ji did not for a moment suppose that this per ne- :ers i l be sustained, and deducting it therefore the d.l i r ee ibeeg: still a sum of 38,5361. to account for. P, 19 .; ,.00°,' then that the shareholders would have some ri ,t" h Vho r e than 40s. per share to be returned to them. J-P" repot man, after some further remarks, moved that tbeosere be adopted and printed for the use of the shar e/1 00 1e Mr. HoPOOOD seconded the resolution.' OA ; unanimously. 131.0 Mr. HOPGOOD then proposed, and Mr . ‘ , 5 10 payme nt to theroo, seconded a resolution, " That a Committee of n v- a s til holders be appointed to carry out the r ecomo n ee ig g,. A ,r in the report. Mr. D. W. Harvey, Mr. John Archibald Boyd, Mr. C. Craddock, and Mr' Cohen, were appointed the Committee. b illing re, The CHAIRMAN then suggested that s for, share should be entrusted to three gentlem en purpose of compelling the director to refund the d portion of the deposits. sec ond Mr. ABRAHAM proposed, and Mr. BBN/l A3I s ugt d a resolution in accordance with the Chairre s ,i n ' be e, tion, and Mr. D. W. Harvey, Mr. Richard O le 4 Mr. Archibald Boyd were nominated accord in gce After some remarks from other speakers, tiortibetote awarded to the Chairman and Committee, s° d ing separated. SECONDARIES'.—(THIS (Before Mr. Secondary PoTTEIL) .4; 1 R. AND E. DELL v. bk 41 1 RAILWAY LIABILITIES..-- This Was an netL ° A - a fer t et by the plaintiffs, as civil engineers, against the " n " e lles", Captain —, and managing director of the O a . -- the °- Leeds and York Railway Company, to re eefe' of 4691. ' 3s. 6d., for work done and performed . eO 5 The plaintiff's counsol said that he should l'i; e to prove in evidence that the defendant was i t ) l e adner manager of the company. He had simplY tb io„ e , was not indebted, and did not appear to sup WO It appeared that the services of the plaintiffs n uot ltt required at the eleventh hour to complete the c t o - 0 00, 1 , / specifications for submission to the RailvvnY of the House of Commons. These were oe ting fore the 30th of November, but plaintiffs 11°' f r eat instanter, insisted on receiving a guarant ee o noty board to pay the amount due up to Novetnberc'es to all the expenses att en d an t on g i v i n g the ne tt parish clerks. A ss To prove this the secretary of the cornPon/ and also the c l er k t o M r . B uc h anna n, strThe eet, who proved the notice, &c. SECONDARY summed up, and the jell r verdict for the full amount claimed. -- - A . 10, / 0 BOW -STREET.—(THIS Michael Keating, was charg e d with assaultf ie f g O f i or; tin, of the Bth company Ist havalion Gre na u t .: - as tb The complainant said that hs was on orb e ,"bilv at the Queen Dowager's Palace 1t..4t evelP°s„'alfse'irie prisoner sudd en ly w ent i n t o his sentry bo%,°-t 00'0o self there. Wit ness ma d e th e pr i son ct get q s; in P to induce him to go awa y, b u t h e wculapersl,ester),„o‘ into the box ; and when witness angri l j give him into custody, struck him so sever ea e retv face as to cut his lip and cause it to ble r W itness then gave him in charge. he took t A - 0 6 , Policeman A6l proved that when vv . as blew" :O wner in charge the complainant's 13 1 ° u , '" N:- w as The only excuse offered by d J would joa was drunk. He hoped the ma.lstr ste with him, as he was . a nd his wife eto` very poor, h ell been brought to bed with twins. 4 Mr. HENRY said that drunkenness vvi i- c i s lif ry whatever. Such a brutal assault as this, esl 3 ' d ? or r itf committed on a soldier viho was quietly 1‘. 13 0 , 0 ' f o al' executing his duty, must be punished with 0 1 , eir e tl? However he would make some allowance fort wittivrr stances of the prisoner, and would let huh comparatively low penalty of 3/. or one :n°¢ , " sonment. the prisoner _ O4 ico t V i "o 4 MARLBROI-STREET.—(Tx.. ti A man, who gave his name as Samson charged with assaulting a girl in the street.d The complainant, Mary Ann Hishlim st a v A ti ve Portland-street this morning, between e er e o ntl ig c oA; o'clock, when the defendant carne uP h t co r° to take liberties with her, which she reser ver, 0 plained of to the policeman. The Pr is° o ,. quence, struck her a severe blow on t he J$ 41° 114' The defendant admitted the charg e. A similar charge was preferred ag ainst 01"'d son by Ann Barrett. n s 1 1 ' 15 '1, The complainant said the man vi - vos st to along Birmingham-street, where she t s pol e ve• when he came up, although she had n? th e ri dro c ` og i rII o c b he wantonly struck her a severe blow e r - ro e Police-constable C 49 corroboca t e e d dao t The MACISTBATE ordered the &leo. to pay 31., or go to prison for one Le°/) succeeded din of lan t d h 46 fly at the top of Muirton tAe superintendentG ckoD filaan finally i ly. county p oie d a i tee ea be , j bank, 11° , 01 10 til e il 1 :1 after a great deal of fine play, and ronc u ‘ s i dry'' 01 ! Itio,' - 'O , The fish was a truly excellent speenn''' .of t he v" - ir _ 'eighed 321bs. It was sold in the course ° ,foroit 21_a good morning's job.—Perth Adrertisero' eetilitibeel' lection of plants and flowers, HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.--The firsot olie ll igg iir e JO ° autumn season was held yesterday aft erigi-13'0514° .- ' ll°' was taken by R. W. Barchard, Esq. There , (00 el t' o rb the It,,b ig o i 1 :1 iaclie_inw3o: tifrienr!!::tge,::si:/':$1811, W the society were predominant. Atn°l3g6tr of fr oll l4 ). e: hounced to the meeting was the last nun,begeect.,eoPA of wh i c h those ' the plod 0r• Batava," a publication by the king of - 14 : ° ,. e ; in ''. 0 0 `:0 0 5 Barnes, gardener to Lady Rolle, at it - ic gi% e !,4 1 . 1 ) t l i r .; ere exhibited three pine apples of g i g /1 / 4 ater e3 ;eo . 0 ';i/ Loddiges, of Hackney, contributed so me ;star P O O t O.P, The extract from the Meteorological Reg: Ang t b, i e' from 4ta u , 90 te ,,P g c o i gardens since the last meetin ,, AnF l . 5, 113 et , Ape September, gave—Barometer, highest, inch., lowest, August 18th, 29.539 inc,,tilofie;.7,lV highest, August 6th and 7th, 84 deg. F. , t ';' n -ftrA s ', / ,;fifffre ° , 14th, 44 deg. F.; whilst the quantity of r4,;sioill'4l,e,iii tilt THE GOVERNMENT OFFICES AT , mi ts o f j Ir l o ie° —lt has now been determined that the It" A rcot 4 0, er sury and Home Office shall be altered. Le,eg n:00,..hil great c improvements made at the cljefr'e - :esN y th P Theca towards Downing-street. Men ," tor AcP frnidiog m° ~,, gaged in erecting thq necessary sea — , e tlie, o ,i o L if purpose. , gonatkr,ol‘,- t,„"1 TROTTING EXTRAORDINARY.---,," ' „ n cler"al o ',av,, in which Mr. Jenks, of trotting notoriet, and 1"011_,/ I: his brown cob in harness nine miles CO a h twinfto" di t an hour of the time from sarting, came e r ll ,:i e , r 1 1 . 9 :0 0 0$, P ; and Slough. In the same match he it-1"-e t i l e ,- i 'fo• beat Johnny Broome's (the pugilist) mare e l i r In vti ocl l '4 o ,l tance, and giving her three and a beach a l • g The stakes being fifty sovs. a-side for te tr ottO r 0 1 '01 match excited a good deal of interest in and,t: act e c e ly V I and attracted a good ninny sporting n' e l '' - i - nits , Cc` 3 ' , Dlr. '' e oe o'o deal of betting, the start was made. , ia re, 0 0 at 0 , in at the winning mark before Broome s ",ipe ni l , et 0 the nine and a half miles of road in twenty: , .r, oo tvo fifty-two seconds, a feat unprecedented r„p dle - 1 .0 9 trotting. An objection was made that t he c 0 )0, fairly, but was a scrambling gallop, and be tb o lo t in dispute. ~.tain t"t,itlell ELECTION NEWS, —It is now ee..--- ~c oe,-- Towline and Mr. Disraeli will again oft° Shrewsbury.— Staffordshire Mercury.