The Sun. — London, England, 1846-09-12 00:00:00

MISS STRICT LA.ND'S LIVES OF THE QUEENS OF ENGLAND. THE NINTH VOLUME IS NOW READY At all the Booksellers. Fleury Colburn, PuLlisher, 13, Great Marlborcugh-street. Now ready, price 63., bound in morocco cloth, FOURTH EDITION of the NEW TIMON : A POETICAL ROMANCE (CORRECTED). 6 6 One of the most remarkable poems of the present generation. It augurs a resuscitation of our bardic glories."—Sun. " The New Timon ' Is a composition which displays bo'h beauty and power. It belongs to the school of Crabbe."—Litarary Gazette. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. RAILWAY SHARES BY PUBLIC SALE. ESSRS. LAMOND, SMALE, AND LAMOND, Railway Share Auctioneers, beg to thank their Friec'L and the Public for their continued support and patroNage, and to announce that their Public Sales of Railway Shares, &c., tAke place every Tumult 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 i.e forwarded by the first post after the sale, and the proceeds Imme diately disposed of according to instructions. °dices, Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street. London. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. EIMER TUE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY. The New Grand 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. TEAS 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 lIORN. Principal characters by Messrs. F. Mathews, A. Wigan, KinNeh, Collier, Yarnold, Bender, Silver, Richards, and Keeley; Miss Keeley, Miss Vlliars, 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. Yining, Miss Ellen Daly, Mrs. A. Wigan, &c. THEArkE ROYAL, ADELPIII. 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 ; Mss Ellen Chaplin, Madame Celeste, &c. After which. a Grand Mythological Burlesque Extravaganza, de nominated THE JUDGMENT OF PARIS ; 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 Sketch, 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. PRINCESS'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 de Solberg, Mr. Charles Mathews ; Baron Pumpernickel, Mr. Compton ; Usher, air. Henry ; Princess Blanche, Madame Vestris ; Alice, Mrs. 11. Hughes ; Marguerite, Miss Emma Stanley. To be followed by an entirely New Comic Drama, entitled THE BARBER BRAVO ; or, The Inventor of Powder. In which 3lr. Charles Mathews, Mr. Granby, Mr. Wynn, Miss E. Stanley, and Miss E. Ilonner will perform. To conclude with a new Serio-Comic Drama, entitled, A CURIOUS CASE. Mr. Aubrey, Mr. Vining; Twiggleton, Mr. Charles Mathews ; Charles Stanton, Mr. Fisher ; Edward, air. Homier Mrs. Aubrey, Mrs. Stirling. a~d'.'IDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lessee, Mrs. Frances Davidge. THIS EVENING Will be performed the Comedy of THE JEALOUS WIFE. Mr. 0411:1y, Mr. Cooper ; Major Oakly, Mr. Neville ; Charles, Mr. J. T. ; Lord Trinket, Mr. Saville ; Captain O'Cutter, Mr. Frede rie I:n,s,t, Mr. Ileslop; Sir Harry Beagle, Mr. Webb; Mrs. 11r,. Ternan ; Harriet, Mrs. Saville ; Lady Freelove, Mrs. Daly : To,lct, Mrs. Lewis; Chambermaid, Mrs. Maynard. Alter which a New Drama, called FATALITY. Bertrand, Mr. ec , q•er ; General Lovewell, Mr. Heslop ; Edward, Mr. Johnson ; Lackbrain, Mr. 11. Webb ; Mrs. Lackbrain, Mrs. Daly ; Susannah, C. Gill. To conclude with an interesting Dtama, entitled GRACE CAYTON. Characters by Messrs. Saville, Heslop, Webb; Mrs. Saville, Miss Terry, &e. Box Office open from eleven till four o'clock. • ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. .Pa.ronised by her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, Prince 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. Harwood ; Pythias, air. J. Dale ; Calanthe, Mrs. M. Brooks. Assisted by the nu merous Company, double Stud, &c. After which, magnificent SCENES of tho HIPPODROME, by the French, German, and British Artistes. • The whole concluding with the new .Necrtnnantic Ballet, en titled THE VINE-DRESSEWS DAUGHTER. Box-office open from eleven till live o'clock.—Doors open at six and commence at seven o'clock. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE: THIS EVENING Will be performed the interesting Drama of THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF LITTLE JOEY. The characters personified by the principal members of the Company. After which, the Play of THE STRANGER. The Stranger, Mr. Osbaldiston ; Baron Steinfort, Mr. niggle ; Solomon, Mr. Howard ; Peter, Mr. Forman ; Mrs. Haller, Miss Vincent. To conclude with the highly successful Burlesque of FAYRE ROSAMONDE ; or, The Bowers of Woodsteck. Fayre Rosamonde, Mr. Forman. Under the Patronage of her Most Gracious Majesty. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. EVERY MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, AND THURSDAY. VIEW of NAPLES, ERUPTION of VESUVIUS, DESTRUC TION of HERCULANEUM and POMPEII, in the year 79. A richly ornamented GOTHIC BRIDGE of STATUES has been constructed, which will 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, are on the most complete and effective scale. - Preceding the Volcanic Display, Mons. FARINELLI will descend from a Chinese Pagoda, seventy feet in height, to the surface of the lake, where a Naiad's Car will rise to receive him, 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. j9lFeeding of the Carnivore at half-past five; the Pelicans, &c., at six ; Concert at half-past six ; and the Eruption at dusk. ADMITTANCE, ONE SHILLING. LAST GRAND DISPLAY OF FLOWERS OF THE SEASON. On WEDNESDAY, September 16th, The ROYAL SOUTH LONDON FLORICULTURAL SOCIETY will hold their GRAND DAHLIA and MISCELLANEOUS FLOWER SHOW. The Promenade Concerts, extra Band, the Eruption of Vesuvius, and an extraordinary Display of Fireworks will be produced on the occasion. Doors Open at One.—Admittance, ONE SHILLING. THE WEATFIER.—SUId OFFICE, SEPTEMBER 11. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 62; Highest, 72 ; Noon, 69 BAROMETER, 30.46 —WIND N.E., cloudy. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-13RIDGE THIS DAY. 3lorning .. 18 minutes after 6.1 Evening .. 43 minutes after 6. 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— .• t. 4 ns i • . s 0 * re 7 • • $ l , • Ail v„,, , /,‘4 ,4 „ 01 _ gru l lux 4 LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 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- Sul 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, Coleshill, by his constituents of North Warwick shire, was attended, as might have been expected, by Lord GEORGE BENTINCK. After the Parliamentary guests 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 nuakers, and the leather manufacturers, and find that thirty-nine-'fortieths 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 was honourably avoided, and the conclusions, -drawn from most faithful premises, were about as cor rect as his Lordship's most ardent admirers could easonably have expected. We are told that last year " a sham cry of famine - w as 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 A tlUVitt viiec sir R. "'EEL advocated the repeal of • THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 12, 1846. "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 onerous, 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 cspacity. 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 impedie)ent in the thoroughfare, they are partakers in La 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 the 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 from 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 defencelcsa, 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—partieulars 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. PAYNE 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 ! 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 attention of the Irish landlords has been thoroughly awakened to the circumstances in which they are placed, and various suggestions are offered from day to day for the consideration of the Govern ment. Food must be provided for the starving multi tudes, and the obvious and natural source from whence that provision is to be obtained is the land of the country. The necessities of all must be fully met by the produce of the soil, before any portion can be applied to the superfluities of any. It has been well stated in the memorial of the Central Relief Committee of the baronies of Upper and Lower Dells and Fore, to the Lord Lieutenant, " that the case which they are now called on to meet differs, not only in degree, but also in the nature of the evil, from that which they had to contemplate last season." Last year there was a pressing but temporary deficiency, and there was a reasonable ground for hoping that on the arrival of the next harvest the emergency would have passed away, and that the ordinary channels of supply would have been available to the public support. That expecta tion has vanished. The evil must now be dealt with as a permanent one. It would indeed evince a sad want of foresight, an idiotic blindness, if some means were not adopted to produce a greater quantity and different quality of food for the multitude from that which has been withdrawn from their use. This can only be produced by an increased degree of cultiva tion, an extra quantity of labour applied to the soil, and a more judicious selection of the description of crops to be raised therefrom. Few who are entirely dependent on a single crop will venture on one so likely to yield no return as the potato. The farmers will scarcely be willing again to risk the chance of such a lottery, or to let their ground for such a purpose to persons who, in the event of a failure, will be wholly unable to remu nerate them therefor. There must be means adopted for the adequate employment of the labouring population, so that each man may be cer tain, in return for his exertion, of procuring a suffi ciency of plain food for himself and family, and the shelter of an humble roof. This he has a right to demand from his country, and it must be provided for him, whatever may be the difficulties, the impe diments in the way of so doing. The necessity is admitted by all—the only question is as to the means by which it may be effected. Last year large sums were raised by voluntary contributions. It can scarcely be expected that similar funds can be pro cured to meet the present distress. Many, who gave freely according to their means, would be unable to eford an equal subscription at present. Neither would it be just, if it were practicable, to look solely to voluntary gifts ; those who are disposed to act most justly to provide employment on their own estates for persons having a fair claim thereto, would also be disposed to act most generously, and thus a double burden would be imposed on them, while the heartless and inhuman would escape the performance of a solemn duty. Neither would it be just that the means should be provided from the public ex chequer ; if that were to be the case; the industry, the labour of the nation at large, would be taxed for the benefit of a class. It would shift the re sponsibility of providing for the labouring poor from the laud to which they belonged, and which is pe culiarly chargeable therewith, to the nation at large. Every consideration of justice and policy forbids such a course. The true principle is that recently laid down by Mr. MoNsEnn,,himself a large landed pro prietor, viz.—that every owner of land must employ the pour belonging to that land. If this be carried into execution, he will speedily find some productive labour on which to occupy them, and no longer permit their energies to be expended on that which can yield no return. Public works may answer very well as a temporary expedient, but in a short time all that are really useful in the district will be exe cuted, and then the lands must be charged for that which is absolutely useless, when the labour which would be required therefor might he so much more beneficially applied. That labour for which the land is compelled to pay should be employed in developing the productive power of the land. The necessity for the interference of the State is to compel a certain quantity of land to provide for a certain quantity of labour ; if the owner or occupier of that land is willing to do so,- he should be permitted to select the manner of that employment himself. In such a case he will be certain to apply it in the most bene ficial and advantageous channel. A labour rate should be imposed on the land sufficient for the remuneration of the persons requiring employ ment, but a drawback should be allowed therefrom for the actual amount paid for labour by the person chargeable. If one hundred acres of land should be chargeable with the maintenance of ten labourers, the owner should fairly be discharged .. from any pay ment, if he can clearly and satisfactorily prove that he has kept ten men in constant occupation. He should be only bound to pay the balance not so ex pended ; the means of acting on this system might be difficult but not impracticable. A register should be kept in every district of the persons for whom em ployment should be provided, and an apportionment of the quantity of labour, so as to ascertain the quan tity fairly chargeable against each acre in proportion to its value. A local board should be constituted whose duty it would be to investigate that any credit claimed by the person chargeable was a fair and bond fide one, and let them sanction the drawbacks claimed. By such means, where every member of the board would be interested in preventing any evasion of fair responsibility, a strict superintendence might be kept over the entire dis• trict, and the burden fairly and equitably distributed. I It is only by some such means that the emergency can be met. It may press heavily on some who are already embarrassed and encumbered, but, as we have already said, such persons must withdraw from positions the duties incidental to Which they are un able to discharge, and leave an opening for others who have the ability. Whether the improvidence which has reduced them to such a state be their own, or that of the persons from whom they have derived the properties, it is not reasonable that the nation should be the sufferer. The Swiss Diet, assembled at Zurich, was occupie3 during the sitting of the 4th instant in discussing the question of the League of the Catholic States. 101 cantons voted that it should be dissolved without in vitation or summons. Geneva has yeserved 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 AIIE.ANTES, the Envoy Ex traordinary from the Brazils to Prussia, whose mission related to the question of a com mercial treaty between the Zollyerein and the Brazils, has arrired at Paris en route for the Brazils, having been unable to mine 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 rowers, 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. OLSIIAUSEN, 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 Reins al fin es un Espanol," is the general observation. The marriage of the INFANTA with the Due DE IMIONTEENSIER, however, is looked upon with feelings of abhorrence by all except " the miserable monopolising minority " composing the Afrancesado faction. The Eco del Comereio 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 Herald() says— " The English Minister, who has recovered from his indisposition, returned to Madrid, from Carabanahal, on the Ist instant. Ho 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 BoIAA, SEPT. 4.—The Three per Cents. were done at 3.54- for cash ; the Four per Cents. at 213 ; the Five per Cents. at 22A- ; the Debt, without interest, at G ; and the Coupons, 201. We have received the Paris papers of Wednesday. With two very significant exceptions, the Debuts, the organ cf the Government, and the Presse, the organ of the Court, they all comment on the proposed marriage of the Infanta of SPUN and the Due DE MONTPENSIER 7 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 3d Mr. BULWER sent a note to M. Isrumuz, expressing his surprise at not having been duly apprised of the proposed marriage between the INFANTA and the French Prince. The Journal des Dads 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 used, 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 in a 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 of things, in causing prohibition by way of reprisals against foreign countries, and in impeding, by restrictions and aug mentations in the price cf 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 preser t moment offers, for 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 Debats 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 the capitalist. After dwelling on the injustice o: such a system, our Contemporary concludes as fol• lows : " For him, who is not led away by the mere jingle of words, who does not take the shadow for the sub stance, behold the last cry 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 fortunes." The Presse 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 ITloniteur. " 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 Zebra, sent by Rear-Admiral t3AzocuE, 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 Aran•lral Duke D'IsLY was to leave Paris for Excileuil on Wednesday, and, after a short stay on his estate, will return to Algeria. The Constitationnel contains the following state ment : " 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 AUTIIENTIQUE.—PARIS. SEPT. 9.—Five per Cents., 119 f. 25c. 20c. 10c. ex. div ; Four per Cents., 107 ; Three per Cents., 81f. 30c. ; Bark Actions, 3,507 f, 50c. ; Spanish Passives, 61 ; Spanish Three per Cents , 39. Exchange on London, one month, money, 25f. 67ie. ; three months, money, 25r. 521. c. • BOUR C E, SEPT. 9.—LAST PRICES.—Five per Cents., 1191. 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 Amens, 134—Direct Bombay and Madras, % Dutch Rhenish, s'/—Great Western Bengal, %—Madras,llore, and Arcot, 1 4—Namur and Liege, 2 1 4 1 —Northern of France Con stituted, l34—Orleans and Bordeaux, 8% Paris and Lyons Con stituted, 6-I{ouen and Havre, 284—Sambre and Meuse, 3% —West Flinders, 4. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. (From The Sun of Last Night.) 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. A very good business was done at Messrs. Lanaond and Co.'s sale yesterday. East Indians all sold readily at 15s. 6d. Scrips were in request at previous prices. There is a serious depression in the Belgian lines. The following are a few of the principal sales:— Great Indian Peninsular £o 5 6 - East Indian 0 15 6 Direct London and Exeter London and York Eastern Counties, York Extension ... 2 5 0 Vale of Neath Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham Caledonian Extension Goole and Doncaster Birmingham and Oxford Junction ..... 5 15 0 Norfolk Extension 2 8 0 Waterford, Wexford, Wicklow, & Dublin 0 4 6 Direct East and West Junction London and Blackwall, New ......... 4 4 0 Chester and Holyhead 25 10 0 Great Western of Bengal 0 11 0 Trt Valley, Midland, and Grand Junct 2 6 0 Manchester and Leeds• Extension Sheffield and Manchester, No. 3 2 15 0 West Riding Union Taw Vale Extension and Dock 0 11 6 Grand Union Churnet and Blythe Paris and Lyons South Midland Direct Northern 1 14 6 South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4 Leicester and Bedford East Lincolnshire Northern and Southern Connecting Reading and Reigate ••• 1 3 0 Buckinghamshire ... 1 14 6 London and Blackwell Extension Manchester and Southampton 1 4 0 The result of the meeting held yesterday of the South- Eastern Railway Company, however satisfactory to the shareholders, is not by any means to 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 are 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 foreigners. 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 been marked 981 and has just been sold as low as 981. Consols are 96 to 951 for money; and 96* for time. Exchequer-bills have been firm at 10s. to 14s. premium. Bank Stock is quoted 210 to 211, being very firm. East India Stock is at 259. The Foreign Market has been very quiet. Spanish Five per Cents. ale dull at 27, and the Three per Cents. at 38k. Nothing has been done in Portuguese; Mexican Bonds have realised 251 Eauador 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. - - ONE PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced Anns 96% 96 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 96 25'7 8 New 3 1 / 4 per Cent. Annuities 98%4 Long Annuities toexpire Jan.lB6o_lo 5-16 C LOSING PRIG ICS. 210 95% 98 1 / 2 10 5-16 259 India Stock 9 59 India Bonds, 1,000/ Ditto under 1,0001... ....... South Sea Stock Ditto Old Annuities Consols for Account.... Exchequer Bills, 1,0001., I%d lO 14 pm. 14 Ditto 5001. Ditto Small 0.1.iE CLOSING O'CLOCK PRICES PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. Dutch, 2 1 / 2 per Cent . Equador Bonds Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846 Ditto, Account 2 5 1,4 % Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent .. Ditto, Account Russian Bonds ............ 110 3 / Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. Ditto, Account 27 Ditto, Deferred ••• Ditto, 3 per Cent Ditto, Account 38% Dividends on the above payable in London. Belgian 414 per Cent 97 Dutch, 2V, per Cent., 12 Guild 5 9 1 /2 59 1 2 Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates 94 1 ,4 PRICES or PAID. BUSINESS DONE CLOSING AA( SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES. Aberdeen Amber., Nott., Boston, and Eastern Junction 2% l'3R Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush l% Aylesbury and Theme.. 1% Belfast & County Down 2% Birmin. and Gloucester. 100 l3O Ditto New l 7 l/ 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. June . 2 1 / 2 . Buckinghamshire Caledonian Ditto half Shares 2 1 4 .; — ..... Ditto Extension 2 1 / 2 — Cambrian & Grand June 42s Cambridge and Oxford.. 1% l% Central Kent 2 1 :2 . . - Chester and Holyhead... 27 1 /, — .. Churnet and Blythe 2 ••• ..... .•. Chester and Manchester 425. — Cheltexham and Oxford 2 ...... Clydesdale Junction l5 Cork, Blackrock, and Passages Cork and Killarney ... 2 1 / 2 Cork and Waterford ... 1 1 / 2 =- Cornwall Cornwall & Cent'lDevon 2% — I )erby and Crewe .2% Direct Lincoln, East Ret ford, and Sheffd. J nue. 2% — ....... .... Direct Manchester (Remington's) Ditto (gastric '5)...... 5 1 4 — .. ... ......... Direct Northern Direct Norwich 1 Dublin and Belfast June. 10 Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine Dublila and Galway..... 4 Dundalk & Enniskillen 7 1 / 2 Eastern Counties 14/. 165....... 22%% ...... ..,.. Ditto New lOl. 16s. 7% p Ditto Perpetual, 5 per • Cent, No. 1 6!.135. 4d.... ... ... Ditto ditto. Nu. 2 6!. 13s. 4d... 3 / 4 p Do., York*Extension.. 10s. ...... 2 vi% EastDereh'm andNoech 1 Eastern Union Ditto, Quarter Shares 83 1 , 4 — Do. Exten.(Harwich) 11 ......... ..... Do., Camb. and Ely.. 2 1 , 4 — East Lancashire East Lincolnshire East & West of England 1%...... Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ...... 711, Ditto Half Shares ... 10 Ditto, Quarter Shares 12 1 ,4 17 1 / Ditto, New ... 144 Edinburgh & Northern.. 10 Edinburgh and Pe r th... 3 Ely and Huntingdon ... 7 1 / 2 Enniskillen and Sligo ... 214 Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorset WA 3 Glasgow, Kilmar.,& Ayr 50 ..• ... Ditto, New .. 15' Do., 1 / 1 Shares (5 per cent. guar.) Gloue.,Aberystwith, and Central of Wales 1%...... Goole, Doncaster, &c 42s. Grand Union (Notting and Lynn l% 25% 25% 42 1 11034 38% 4 dis - 14 . . . - . . 13% 22 1 / 2 7%P 5 / 8 P 21% 23 1 4 71% 18 17% Great Eastern &Western 2 1 A..... •• G reatGrimsby and Shef- field •••• • •••. Great South. and West (Ireland) Great Munster - Great North of. Scotland 2 1 ,:', — 6reat North of EnOand..loo 2:) 9 1,4 230..... Ditto New Ditto, New . Ditto, New ireat Western B5 ' 145 ........... Ditto )4 Shares Ditto •4 Shares lO Ditto Fifths Guildford, Fare'rn, Ports- 5 ••• -- Harwich and Eastern Counties Junction ... 2 Hull and Selby Ditto 1% Shares Do. Half Shares 25 Invernessand E1gin...... 2 Ipwich & Bury St. Edm. 9 Do., do, and Norwich 2 1 / 2 — Irish North Midland ... 1% — KillarneyJunctions l l4 Kendal and Windermere 1 1 /, — I,,ricaster and Carlisle... 45 Do. New Lame, Belfast, and Bal lymena Leeds and Bradford 26 Leeds and Carlisle Leicester & Birmingham 225. Leicester and Bedford... 225. Leeds and Dewsbury ... 17% — Leiccster and Tam w., &cc. 425. Lpool., Mnchstr, & New castle Junction Liverpool and Bury London and Blackwall. 161. 135.4 d. Do. Neve Ditto Extension 5 ...... . London and Brighton SO Ditto, Fifths London and Croydon, 134 15s. 9d. 22% ...... Do. Guaran. 5 per cent. 9 LondonandGreenwich 12/ 15s4d — Do. Preference ...18117s 2d London, Hounslow, and Western London and N. Westernloo 2Ol 200 Do. Quarters .. Do., do., New Shares.. Ditto Fifths 2 Ditto, Eighths (G. J.) 12% - Do., New Shares Do . . 40/. Shares (L.M.) 6 Lond. & S.Western 41/ 63 10d 7l Do. New Consol. Bths 40 Do. New - 17% — ••• Do. New London and York 2 l /2 2 Do. % Shares London and Windsor . 1A..... Loudon, Salisbury, and Yeovil Londonderry& Coleraine 12 I/2 .. .... ....... Londonderry and Ennis killen' 12% — Lynn and Ely Lynn and Dereham l5 — • a • Manchester and Leeds... 82 ll2 Ditto 1 / L Shares Do: Quarters 2 Do. Fifths Do. Sixteenths ..... Do. Extension 42s. 2 14% p Manchester and Birmin. 40 Do. Quarters (A) 5 ...... -- ... ..... ... Do. Quarters (B) Do. Quarters (C) 1 Manchester,Buxton,and Matlock 42s. I % IA p Manchester, Birm., and Mould Junction ... Manchest. & Southampt. 2 Midland Do. Fifths 2 Do. New Do. Birm., and Derbyloo Midlnd 8; East. Counties 2%...... Midland Great Western Irish Newcastle and Darling ton Junction 25 ...... 42 3 4 D.. New Newcastle and Berwick 15 Do. North Shields ... °5 Newcastle and Carlisle...loo Newport & Abergavenny 2 1 / 2 ...... Newry and Enniskillen 4% — .•. Newark, Sheffield, and Boston ... . Norfolk 100 13 3 3 / 4.— ... ...... Do. Half Shares ..... 7 Do. Tenths Do. Extension North British ... ..... ... 25 _ 37% 38 Do. Half Shar• s Do. Fifths . Do. Carlisle Extens. 1 1 ,4 4% . . North of Norfolk 2 3 /4 Northern and Eastern... 50 Do. Scrip (issd. 5 dis.) 45 Do. Quarter Shares... 12 1 / 3 0% Do. New - •4. ••• ...... 1 N. Kent & Direct Dover 2 1 / 2 — ...... ..... North Staffordshire 42s. ..... 3 3 / 4 % p...... North Wales .. 3 %. _ . Northern and Southern Connecting Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham 2 — Nottingham & Mansfld. - •••• ....... . Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Oxford, Witney, and Cheltenham..... l% — ....... . .... Pil brow Atmospheric ... 1 .., — .. Portsmouth Direct ...... 3 3 / 4 Preston and Wyre Do. Y. Shares Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Richmond Rugby, Leamington,aud Warwick Scottish Central Do. New 2 l /2 Scottish Midland lO Do. Extension Sheffield, Buxton, Leek Potteries, andCrewe... 1% — Sheffield & Manchester 100 Do. Quarter Shares... 8 Do. Lincolnshire June. 1 1 4 — Do. & Great Grimsby. 10 Do. do. Extension 425. Shrewsbury and Birm... 2 1 ,1 2 ..... ---- •• Shropshire Union Shrews., Wolverhamp., &S. Staffordsh. June. 2 1 /0, Sligo and Shannon IN South Devon 35 — South Midland 42s. •.• South & Midlands June. 425. .. ... South StaffordshireJunc. 2 1 /2 — South Eastern & Dover 33% — . Do., No. 1 2G Do., N(.. 2. Do., No. 3 Do., No. 4 St.Alban's,'Hatfield, and Hertford Junction ... 425. — Staines and Richmond... 1 ••• Staffordsh. & Shropshire 2% — 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 2 2 1 /2 Warwickshire & London 425. Warwick and Worcester 425. Waterford and Kilkenny 8 Waterford and Limerick 22% . Waterfd,Wxfrd,Wicklw, and Dublin Wexford, ‘v aterford, and Valentia Waveney Valley 2 - Welsh Midland West Riding Union 42s. 2% p West Cornwall WestLondon,Old Shares 20 Wexford and Carlow ... 2% Wisbeach and St. Ives... 2 Wilts, Somerset, & Wey mouth .. ... lO Worcester,Hereford,Ross, i and Gloucester 42s. . „ Worcester, Tenbury, and Ludlow ........ .. 03 / 4 Worcester,Warwick, and Rugby .. York and Carlisle York and North Midland 50 Ditto 1 4 Shares 25 Do. Scarboro' Branch. 25 Do. Selby 3O Do. Extension 2O 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) . 2 .... • Calais, Dunkrk,andWest Flanders Calcutta and Diamond Harbour ...... ..... .. 75. ..... . Callao, Lima, and Pacific Coast 1 .. ••• ..• • • ......... Central of Spain ... . Ceylon s. Denierara Dendre Valley Direct Bombay and Madras Dutch Rhenish East Indian ... .... ...• ss. Eastern Belgian JUnctii. 2% Fampoux & Hazebrouk 4 Great Indian. Peninsular 53. Great Western Benga 1... ss. Great Western Canada... 3 1 4 Italian and Austrian 3 Jamaica S.Mid. Junction 1 Jersey . ... 1 Louvain ala Sambre ... 5 ... . % Luxembourg... ......... .. 4 Lyons and Avignon 2 Madras ...... 1 — Madras, Nellore, and _ _ Arcot Madrid and Valentia 2 ... .. Mauritius .. Namur and Liege Nn ofFranceConstituted 5 ...... 13 % North Jamaica 1 — Orleans and Vierzon ... 10 ..... Orleans and Bordeaux... 6 •••••• 8%- ••• .. 81 / 2 Over Yssel 1 4 Pari3 BeLyonseonstituted 5 PftriA and Wean* 0 Pam and Tionen and Strasbourg Constn Lac(' Rotwn and Havre Sar.-dr;-.: and Stnzsbourg and Bate - St. Laurcnc^ & Atlantic toilfB ':antes Con stituted ...... 5 ...... • . ..... 20 •••• ............ 14 5 ..... Toarnay„Jurtrise, Lan den, and Hasselt.-- 8 Trinichtl \Vest Flanders ...~.. .. 6 JOINT STOCK PLANKS. Australasia British North American 50 Colonial .............. Commercial of London 20 London Joint Stock London & Westminster. 20 Nation,alProv. England. 35 .) .... National of Ireland 9 ............ Provincial of Ireland ...... Union of Australia Union of London... MINES Real del Monte Unread. COURSE OF EXeRA . Amsterdam .... —C.F. 12 Ditto, at sight ...... 12 Rotterdam .... •• 2U. 12 9 Antwerp....... 4 ...... 25 15 Ilamtangh .... • .)1.13. 13 133 i, Altona. ..... .......... 3 4 ..... . ...... 0.) .NGE.—(YESTERV -- Gibraltar.. ,••••• .•• •••• 30 65 Leghorn .... ••••• • • " •• 26 Genoa ..... . •• •• Milan .. • • • • • • • • • • •• Venice •••• • • • 397 a Naples .... •.•• • • • • • 119., Palermo, per oZ• • ... • 59%- LislK)n...... ....... os Oporto... Rio Janeiro •••• • • •" '•• Bahia ........ . . .... •• ..••• Buenos Ayres .• • • New York, 21 daYs' 64 ' Philadelphia .• • • • • • • •• 7 11; v "„ - PRICES OF BU LLION, ,/ 9 Foreign Gold i n hars. •• 33 5 P o rtugal Gold coin • 0 0 , New Doubloons ••• • • • 0 4 934 , 4 New Dollars •••• •• ". 0 4 Silver in bars .• •• " • Paris, 3 days' sight . • 25 80 Ditto, 3 months...... 26 10 Marseilles .•.. • • 26 15 Bourdeanx 20 15 Frankfort On Maine.... 1221 retersbm gh, 3 U 5.... . Vienna, effee. tlo • • 10 12 Trieste, ditto ........ .. 10 12 Madrid 35% Cadiz .. •.. : 30 Barcelona • ... Seville.. •• .... • • .... ENGLAND. 4.it's Gazette.) ap32,tei 7th and Bth of Victoria, „ 4 6. p t A le T t i t E h x d re ay of Septenb er, 01,, ,1 00 1 Govern me nt debt .• 1 04,n0900 Other securities •• •" 1 3,05 1 1/3 Gold coin and bullion 2, 102 , Silver bullion • • •• " 9 160 , 4 2 401ef• M. MARSHALL, cute' Dated the 10 ill day of September, 1846. BANK OF (From last Ni An Account, pursuant to the Act the Week ending on Saturday, ISSUE DE; Notes issued.... • • • • 29,760,870 £29,760,870 lEPARTMEN T. Government securi ties (including Dead 1 2 . g6LIA , Weight AnnnitY)•• 1 252 3 t# Other securities •• " 9,13 0 41 Notes .•••••• • • • • • " bar Gold and silver coin.. 331 X 35, 1 ,1, MARSHALL. Chief e° l 1846. i o ,r_ OM 19 .•••• 301 A 145 _ 1051, 5o io dis is • 62 .... 22% - .. 23 1 /, ~. 15 1 4 p 20% ,••• - 71 20% 2 13% 16 1 / 2 ~. 112 51% :•• 21/s 2 1 / E; p 13 ... 9 ... 1 1 / 2 p 1 1 % 139 1 / 2 36 1 4. 113 ~.• •••••• • 42 1 • 11% 27;4 •• - ... 1333/4 • •• ... 38 ... 16 ,•• - ~. 301 A .7 - 3 % p BANKING D: Proprietors' capital.. 14,553,000 Rest .... ........ 3,864,479 Public deposits (in cluding Exchequer, Commissioners of National Debt, Sav ings-banks, and Di vidend accounts) .. 7,313,919 Other deposits • • 8,557,109 Seven day and other bills .. .••.• • • • • 935,830 .£ 35,229,337 Dated the 10th day of Septembe FLANDERS and HAMBURGO P ' , e ' G RATZ, AUG. 31.—The disaster by whic h iy P ott e Styria has' been visited, unhappily is not the e ri , fort' which has befallen this countryduring the la s h " a night ; within the last eleven days there he s , o - " t ee ree fh constant heavy rain, which occasionally fell in.', iipbe s a o c f corppanied by loud peals of thunder and viva 00 0, lightening. The rivers, and even the s „ tr a are . , Fare in consequence unusually swollen, c , e " pef causing considerable destruction in eve r Ji through which their course lies. Our princilleth' e r ye" which has risen to a height not known since, vane 1827, threatens destruction to the railway 9 " ; 0 0°' points, and has already interrupted the ° om for the with Marburg. Great fears are entertained 'vas district lying between Gritz E'lll ,15 a st er l the great tunnels of St. Egiddy, ‘and wherei- the 00 several days ferced its way through the, h oe for and the vaulted roof. While portions of 1413,:ce of been washed away by the rain in vsrie e2 Y;ieft ' the Veldon, the waters continue to wear ow e ?, to for, bankments of the railway, and it is not diffice 4 ";be lie" see the impediments which will be caused hY 0 1-Lich t wherever it passes through mountainous dietrirsbetec_A: abound in rivers. As the storm has not Y e ",, s iowl; it is feared that greater damage may yet b e ° 13 .- re ssel. It is probable that the King will return to of at the The latter end of next week. gin c g Journtil de Frankfort states that the 4;b e Belgium had arrived at Baden, the same de 1.9 f tb Duke de Montpensier, as well as the Quee n Netherlands. In f a n t The Journal des Debuts states that the enap Henry, who has resided for some time at Ost 10 ; about to leave this place for Ghent. The Frineeva fl companied by Mr. Calvet, his aide.de-carq• pri g his stay at Ostend his Royal Highness lived in ! Or Z it o house, and led a very retired life. Hi s name last the list of visitors as the Count - d'Aris , a landh t he Madrid. ST. PETERSEURGII, SEPT. I.—lntellig ence tkeatre of war in the Caucasus dated j v s io opc ,o Aug. 17, states that the enemy ' has not v!_ ll , t ,f ured july_ 2 l . any decisive steps since the la r st oancctohuentlsii;, ophoo7oo On the 3rd of August, heweve Staniza Troizk, the Kialaks, amounting to s°° c foo t ' men, some of whom were mounted and the rest 7341 1 , ; made an attempt to repeat the attack of tbe St e °f f The judicious measures adopted by C° l°nel pay''dear Major Artinjeff made these mountaineers rso f 1 Ov reserve e° P taclt j their boldness. In the meanwhile Cossacks, under the command of Sharitikcin'reaatt as b the enemy, whose strength was three tinics a - I. O l O OOP a own, with such impetuosity, that the " esn pe overpowered by this bold attack, sought thei r Th Oil flight through almost impenetrable forests. a d so tied with them a very considerable number of dea d c beir wounded, and left seven mutilated corpses? r h l o at ii weapons and horses, en the scene of a ction. 4 ' 6 „, -- blea middle of July a number of hostile ban d s asse.- the south of Daghistan, with the view of the netrating into the upper part of the forilPecti of Dscharobelokan on the territory .. o ! ..o t v i l e r ed, ', s e P d ISultan of Jelissne, but their plan was Clls' b ut they were obliged to return home after a shor. soe, erY bi' decisive engagement. The fortifications are the i n t ie jf proceeding with the greatest rapidity, thus s it tants are kept in check, but 61 families ha/-Gove"-; placed themselves under the protection of the _ ment. OnJuly 27 the lightning struck a povvder at the fortification of Salak, all the works vvero4's`;"ylie,l; and several buildings destroyed, offle er and OA The enemy were killed, and 33 men wounded. that an opportunity was thus afforded of enterq o P urirl and appeared in great numbers on the neign: re 17 4 ' d heights. They erected a battery and 0 1 3 e. nea dfi l a " ers 'tli c ell si by the energetic measures of the commanding rse p d were compelled to retreat with great loss, In t v isid°,l futile attacks. Disasters of another and no less ser s .,o l . o to t t; b : have taken place in various parts, owing of enlargement of the rivers, caused by them el.-1 0 1at immense masses of snow which fell in the 0 9 as well as by the continued heavy falls of rain't Intelligence has just been received that C ell i pest tinski, with his right wing, has had a suceessfo p i per ' ment with Daniel Beek, at Kaiserruh..--llata burg Sept. 8. 9. BELGIAN FUNDS.—BRUssELs, Actual Debt, 2% per Cent • Cent... ons . .. Four per . . . C . . e n . . t .• • . Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent .. •• •• •••• Three yltill I per Ditto Thirty-seven Milli ons, ditt o • • •'•• 10 1 „, Lo p an itto of hr Ditto, ditto,lB4o ...... ........ •• •• •• • 10 2 ," Ditto, ditto, 1842 ••• • • " 99P Ditto, • 96 Ditto, 1836... • • • • • • • • •• 74 Ditto of the City, • 1832 • • ... 10 04 Ditto, 1843 ...... ..... ••• '• 933 Bank ofßelgium...... . •• —Brutes Papers, Sept. 9. 1 3. . AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIEN NA ' S XI . 11 • • 5 per Cent. Metalliques.. ••.•••• • •• • • • 0 4 per Cent. ditto.... • • • ..... •• " •• •• •• ,i 8 3 per Cent. ditt0.......... • • • • • • •• •• Loan, 1834 •• •• 1, 6 s Ditto, 1839 ........... . Bank Shares ....... Esterhazy's Loan • • • •• . 178 . RAILWAYS. • •*- 13 2 The Northern, or Ferdinand •• •• ...• , 1 4 Gloggnitz ................ -. • • •• •• .• Vienna—Milan ......... ••• • •• .••• " 9 ' 2 % Pesth .• ....... ...... •• •• ......• 93 i,6 Oldenburg ........ • ......• ..... • „ •• • Apenninen ......... .•• • • " •„... ••• Pesth Bridge ..........., • • • • • —Allgemeine Zeitung, Sept. 6. B g 6. osfo HAMBURGH 13ORSENILAIL DRIB. ••°' 112 •••• Austrian 5 per Cents ...... • • • • • • • • .157 0 Bank Shares •••• '• • • -- , Anglo-Russian Loan . • ••• • • • •,,,"_,'VZ 10 0 M Russian 5 per Cent., Hamb. Certi.u.‘• -• 182* Ditto Ist series Inscription. •••• • • • •1:: 97 Ditto, Hope and Co., 3d and 4th ser io . 97 36 Ditto, in Certificate• •••••••• • • • • • • • „ -- New 4 per Cent., Hope and Co. •• • • S 8 Ditto Stieglitz •• •••• • • • " ••• ••• • 19_ Spanish New 5 per Cent. • • • • Ditto 3 per Cent ••••••• • • • • • ' • •• t . Anglo-Portuguese Loan, 234 per Cent 59 Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. • • • Ditto 3 per Cent. ••••••• • • • • . • 7934 Polish New 4 per Cent. Loan, 1844 Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent •• " National Bank Shares '"--------------- _____ ---- g S e u o n c d e ay r - e m ac o h r e n d in E g d , in a b b o o r u g t DESTRUCTION OF A PAPER -MILL 0 , of By FIIO r ~I, 'CIOCIit, 0 e ~, Edinburgh that paper-v 1 40,Pe Lasswade, the property of Messrs. Annandale elftl.to'lP was on fire. Two engines were speedily sent off to 0 11' ,: arstoisteovnen o scene of conflagration, drawn by horses p ron 3 o ID f st plied from the establis hment' of I house, but before their arrival the building w `i ; 1 0 e .! 1% r. I saac Se°,,t4t' tdl' veloped in flames as to defy the utmost efforts o- t he brigade to subdue them. Their exertions we re y e i ll i fore principally confined to attempting to 5 : .thei, dwelling -houses adjoining the mill, in wh ic :, / ic e ntly for several hours. The damage .w cut ere providentially successful, after labouring. 01,. done I " to amount to learn, is • insured. The fire originated in the rag, , It ii; but from lO,OOOl. or 12,0001., and the pr.:4 )cl - t f.,l OP _ what cause is not known.—Leriburgh _. eel lintcALDY.—During the latter end of lot 7,1 several_ l a rge boats came in here laden with berring.4 ,liv au• ( . 1 ,etlf of which was sold to two curers at Ws. per cr --- * di rest sold in the town from Is. 4d. to 2s. put . bun . 5 , though not readily bought, from the want of pots . 5, annan, a Southdown ewe dropped, the 7th 1 4 . 1 ; ' l 7t last, a fine lamb, which she carefully reared u p " . t tbe „, A E WE WORTit HAVING —At opWr_e' ..01 July. In this there we.,• i ndeed'.stli i- i ll# shepherd, in common with others, felt, flip when the same aniinal gave birth to two 60Lin,.viella so late as the 31st ultimo, both of which are "w-w -s not hing remarkable b a,..sed '7 i dis _ , 1 3 4 p 19 •••• - .... 8 1••• .•• --- ~. 34 di, . 16 1 4 . 18 1 / 2 .. 31./s 1•• ^ .• '7B ~ 28P ~ 47% ~ 71% ~ 38% , 1234 13 1 4 2 1 4 13%