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The New Grand Fairy Burlesque Extravaganza, entitled " The Magic 110111," 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, ill consequence, respectfully announced for repetition every Evening till farther notice. THIS EVENING The performances will COinneiTcev;iftiWATCll AND WARD. After which, a New Grand Operatic, Melodramatic, Romantic, Fairy Burlesque Extravaganza, founded on the Opera of " Oberon," entitled THE MAGIC HORN. Principal characters by Messrs. F. Mathews, A. Wigan, Kinloch, Collier, Yarnold, Bender, Silver, Richards, and Keeley; Miss Keeley, Miss Villars, Miss Fairbrother, Mrs. Woollidge, Miss Arden, Miss Forster, Miss Laidlaw, Miss Bromley, Miss Howard, and Mrs. Keeley. _ . _ To conclude with Mr. Selby's Popular'Farce of BOOTS AT TIIE SWAN. Characters by Messrs. Keeley, J. W. Collier, F. Vining, Miss Ellen Daly, Mrs. A. Wigan, &c. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHL UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE. THIS EVENING Will be presented the popular Drama, entitled ST. 'MARY'S EVE ; or, A Story of the Solway. The principal characters by Messrs. Worrell, Wright, 0. Smith, Lambert, Cullenford, Braid, Waye ; Miss Ellen Ch4lin, Madame Celeste, &c. A*er 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, .N; iss 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. Comptjm ; Usher, Mr. Henry; Princess Blanche, Madame Vestris ; Alice, Mrs. H. Hughes ; Marguerite, Miss Emma Stanley. To be followed by art entirely New Comic Drama, entitled TIIE BARBER BRAVO ; or, he Inventor of Powder. In which Mr. Charles Mathews, Mr. Granby, Mr. Wynn, Miss E. Stanley, and Miss E. Bonner will perform. To conclude with a new Serio-Comic Drama, entitled, A CURIOUS CASE. Mr. Aubrey, Mr. Vining ; Twiggl,ton, Mr. Charles Mathews; Charles Stanton, Mr. Fisher ; Edward, Mr. Homier ; Mrs. Aubrey, Mrs. Stirling. STRAND THEATRE. The suceess of Mr. GREGORY In the character of " Glo'ster," in " Richard the Thirl," was again most triumphant ; he will, con sequent'y, have the honour to repeat that character TO MORROW. THIS EVENING Will be performed the Comedy, entitled, IS HE JEALOUS ? After which, THE HONEYMOON. To conclude with Shakspere's Tragedy of THE MERCHANT OF VENICE. Shy;ock, Mr, Gregory. Private Boxes, Places, and Stalls, may be engaged at the Box office, from eleven till four, and at al the Libraries. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY TIIEATRE. Lessee, Mrs. Frances Davidge. Tfl IS EVENING Will he performed Sbakevere's Tragedy of HAMLET. Hamlet, Mr. Macready; Laertes, Mr. hurray; Oscic, Mr. Saville, Grave digger, Mr. H. Webb ; Ghost, Mr. Cooper ; Gertrude, Mrs. Ternan ; Ophella, Mrs. Charles Gill. To conclude with an interesting Drama, entitled GRACE GAYTON. Characters by Messrs. Saville, Heslup, Webb; Mrs. Saville, Miss Terry, &e. Box Office open from eleven till four o'clock. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Patronised by her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, Prince 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 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 new Necromantic Ballet, en titled THE VINE-DRESSER'S DAUGHTER. Box-office open from eleven till five o'clock.—Doors open at six and commence at seven o'clock. 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 cnorro, representing in the Interior Telemachus relating his adventures to Calypso. The PYROTECHNIC DISPLAYS, by Mr. Southby, are on tho most complete and effective scale. Preceding the Volcanic Display, Mons. RARINET.LI will descend from a Chinese Pagoda, seventy feet in bright, 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 Carntvora by gas-light. Feeding of the Carnivora at half-past Rye; the Pelicans, &c., at Six ; Concert at half-past six ; and the Eruption at dusk. On WEDNESDAY. September 16, the ROYAL SOUTH LON DON FLORICULTURAL SOCIETY will hold then GRAND DAHLIA SHOW, being the Last Exhibition of the Season. An extra Band, and an extraordinary Display of Fireworks will be produced on the occasion. ADMITTANCE, ONE SHILLING. THE WEATIIER.—SUN OFFICE, SEPTEMBER 11. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 62; Highest. 72 ; Noon, 69 BAROMETER, 30.46 —WIND N.E., cloudy. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning .. 33 minutes after 5. f Evening .. 54 minutes after 5. oil timing P511AT.6 LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1846. The English are naturally a very humane people. Some of them, however, are so fond of fun that they will not allow their philanthropy to run to the ex treme of excluding them from participating in an occasional amusement, even where the performances should produce feelings more akin to pity than wonder. The surgeon, not content with gloating over the various physical contortions of the toad, whose gradual death he has compassed by some well-devised potion, oftentimes renews his delight by subjecting the body of his victim to a galvanising process, and becomes enamoured with his professional skill, and the mock resuscitation of the unfortunate animal. Much in the same way is the huge and bloated carcase of protectionism being cruelly trifled with after its vio lent death. For our own part, we think there is something shocking to the senses in these painful spectacles. It would have been infinitely better quietly to have interred the defunct monster. We have not been favoured with a sight of his last will and testaments we must, therefore, suppose it is in strict accordance with a dying request that his mam moth remains should be exhibitedpro bono publico in various towns and cities of this fair land. The executors took their embalmed treasure down to Coleshill this week, and held a grand anatomical inquest. The usual experiments were gone through with wonder ful precision, and the spectators were amazed at the explanations given of the prodigious strength of which this tremendous relic of a past age must have been possessed. The dinner to Mr. NEWDEGATE, on Wednesday, at Coleshill, by his constituents of North Warwick shire, was attended, as might have been expected, by Lord GEORGE BENTINCK. After the Parliamentary 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 makers, and the leather manufacturers, and find that thirty-nine-fortieth s are consumed at home," his authority reached its highest pitch, and rapturous applause greeted that important an nouncement. his Lordship's intellect was never more sportively inclined. Everything like a perversion of fact 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 , A.. - , . 44 - 6 „.. ..- • - _,, , , tf. „ .." • (IX I ' M., --- . i g-Z ~,.. W . ...' .5 ° • 4 ). ~ • W , ? • , A 4 0 .... 4. 1 11 4 ,.• • , ...., , • FOOk ai 0 'lll -- • ~f ir:‘- i ‘. - ~. ,7 ir. Ai, .e: Rr •x 0 ' 4 ',..g. , 1 "2 1 :,' 1 ,7 -.'4 , z, -- 4 _ E 0 ,I , ~,, Sir (... 'ectl • - "' ° . .......777,7",.:' ,1 '..4% l 4 . TIIE SUN,_ LONDON, VRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMI3ER 11, 1846. was got up to serve the purposes of the Adminis tration." Our recollection serves us that the Ministry declared that Ireland vAas threatened with famine, and also that when Sir R. PEEL advocated the repeal of the cern-laws, he distinctly urged his appreb-n:don 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 realiiy—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—throtighout 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 l i 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 uncorapensatory 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. NEWDEG&TE 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 halloocs on in the same strain :—" Go at the first opportunity to the poll, and if your landlords won't go with you, look after your own interests." We are forcibly reminded of the poet's line— "A change came o'er the spirit of my di•eam." Of the general efficiency and organization of the metropolitan police we are thoroughly satisfied. The duties of that extensive body are so peculiarly on erous, and, notwithstanding this, their fulfilment is usually so charac terised 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 corn narable enerew with that necessary for the purging of with all the minor specimens of immorality and in subordination, from the avenues of this enormous city. The preservation of decorum throughout London necessitates the utmost vigilance, the most untiring activity, the most imperturbable self-possession, and the most continuous zeal in each individual of every separate corps. Now, considering the extraordinary surface covered by the metropolis, and taking into account the astonishing multitude of its inhabitants, it is impossible to deny that a very remarkable amount of decorum is preserved in its thoroughfares, and that very circumstance demonstrates, ipso facto, that the various members of the metropolitan police are vigilant, active, self-possessed, and zealous in the habitual performance of their duties. We, there fore, repeat our previous observation :—We are fully persuaded that the metropolitan police, as a body, is most intelligent, efficient, and well organised. In acknowledging the merits of the class we are, nevertheless, by no means disposed to allow the delinquencies of the individual to pass unre proved. Cases have occasionally arisen in our police courts in which the existence of an insolent and do mineering spirit has been manifested among the very agents of peacefulness and justice. Policemen have sometimes availed themselves of the respectable authority with which they are invested for the in dulgence of the most disreputable violence. They have not unfrequently come before the public as, those most contemptible and intolerable of characters, Jacks-in-office. Armed and paid and clothed for the maintenance of the local and general laws by which the social condition of the empire is regu lated, they have become at times merely the agents of their own grovelling passions. They have merged themselves into the terror of blind courts and the despots of bye-lanes. Whenever " the insolence of office" is thus miserably developed in our metropolitan police, common sense tells us that the offender should not merely be visited by condign punishment, but that, especially where the circum stances are of an aggravated character, he should be immediately discharged from the body, and rendered, with certain restrictions, incapable of being further employed in that capacity. Otherwise the members of the police force would be liable to become contami nated by association with such individuals. We have been induced to consider the advisability of such a proceeding as the one just mentioned from the facts which have been disclosed on the recent trial of a constable in the G division of the metropo litan police, and the particular circumstances of which case are referred to in the report of the Middlesex Sessions, printed in another part of The Sun. A more flagrant case we do not remember. We have frequently had the misfortune to read accounts of ruffianism perpetrated in various quarters of England, and in various territories of the globe; but within the scope of our memory we cannot call to recollec tion any one incident combining so much of the in decorous and the brutal, so remarkable for gratuitous cruelty, for brazen-faced lying, and for audacious insolence. We have no intention to garble facts merely to suit a purpose, for we have no purpose whatever to suit, unless it be the purpose of express ing our abhorrence of anything like tyrannical con duct, be it tyranny under a sceptre or a broomstick, from an emperor down to a policeman. Here is a respectable female, the wife of an honest tradesman, walking along Whitecross• street, accom panied by an equally respectable woman, her neigh bour. They are the cause of no impedi-, - ,ent in the thoroughfare, they are partakers in 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 re Teets w ith the most contemptuous impertinence. Nor are these the only parti culars which tend to render this case so pe culiarly flagrant; the victim of this petty tyranny from a police-constable of the G division is not merely a defenceless, harmless, and respectable woman, but she is a woman eight months advanced in pregnancy. In consequence of the brutality of this man (or rather of this person dressed in the garments of a man), the consequence of this violence towards a woman in an advanced stage of pregnancy is, that she vomited blood imme diately on returning home. She was exceedingly bruised and ill for a considerable time afterwards. 'We are not surprised when we view these parti culars—particulars so calculated to excite our indig nation—we are not surprised that the Learned Counsel, Mr. CLARKSON, should have felt convinced that the Counsel for the defendant " could not even suggest anything to the prejudice of this highly respectable woman ;" but we were marvellously astonished that Mr. 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 ailbrd against any similar exhibition of petty despotism in the metropolitan or provincial police forces. With the sentence passed upon the defendant—namely, an imprisonment for merely a single calendar month !—we must ac• knowledge ourselves anything but satisfied. The jury find him guilty, and he is sentenced to this imprisonment for one calendar month ! Not a syllable is reported to have been said respecting his discharge from the metropolitan police. Surely it is not intended that a man who has thus grossly insulted and maltreated a preg nant woman, should, after having been found guilty of that charge by a jury of his countrymen, and after having undergone a certain punishment (however disproportioned to his offence) in consequence, should be allowed to continue in his former position, with fresh opportunities for insulting and maltreating the wives of respectable citizens ? We cannot suppose this to be possible. The Swiss Diet, assembled at Zurich, was occupied during the sitting of the 4th instant in discussing the question of the League of the Catholic States. 101 cantons voted that it should be dissolved without in vitation or summons. Geneva has reserved her opinion —Neufchatel, St. Gall, and Bale Town will refer the matter to their cantons. In the event of re sistance, ulterior measures will be taken. In the Hainburgh Boersenhalle of the 4th inst. we find a letter announcing the failure of the commer cial policy of the Zollverein, both as regards the United States and the Brazilian empire . . The Con gress at Washington has rejected the terms of the commercial treaty which the Zollverein had proposed to conclude with them as disadvantageous and insuf ficient, and the Duke'`of ABRANTES, the Envoy Ex traordinary from the Brazils to Prussia, whose mission related to the question of a com mercial treaty between the Zollverein and the Brazils, has arrived at Paris en route for the Brazils, having been unable to come to any understanding with the Zollverein on the subject of his mission. We find it stated in the Nuremberg Correspondent of the sth instant that the project for marrying the Queen of SPAIN to Count TRAPANI was defeated by the Austrian Government. The Northern Powers, although they would have preferred the Count DE AIONTEMOLIN for the husband of the Queen of SPAIN, have determined to abstain altogether from active interference. Inc . IA, t; ablArlire 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. OLSIIAUSEN, whose arrest the document declared to be arbitrary and illegal. Aladrid papers to the 4th inst. have been received. The news of the marriage of the QUEEN with a Spanish Prince has been received with universal sa tisfaction throughout the provinces. "El esposo de neustra adorada Reina al fin es un Espanol," is the general observation. The marriage of the INFANTA with the Due DE MONTPENSIER, however, is looked upon with feelings of abhorrence by all except " the miserable monopolising minority" composing the Afrancesado faction. The Eco del Comercio goes so far as to declare that Spain will not suffer so " exotic a Prince to take up his abode even for a moment in the palace of her kings." The Heraldo'says— " The English Minister, who has recovered from his indispdsition, returned to Madrid, from Carabanahal, on the Ist instant. He had intended to repair to St. Se bastian for the benefit of his health, but it would appear that, owing to the important questions under discussion, he has given up the journey, and determined to return to this capital." The brig of war. Ebro, sailed from Carthagena for Civita Vecchia on the 31st ult., having on board dis patches for the Spanish Minister at Rome, and the Esperanza states that positive orders have been given to have the QUEEN'S trousseau ready by the 18th of this month. MADRID BoLea, SEPT. 4.—The Three per Cents. were done at 351 for cash ; the Four per Cents, at 21i ; the Five per Cents. at 22A- ; the Debt, without interest, at 6i ; and the Coupons, 202. 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 SPAIN and the Due DE MONTPENSIER, but the only additional information on the subject in any of them is to be found in a short paragraph in the Constitutionnel, in which the writer expresses a belief that on the 33 Mr. BULWER sent a note to M. IsTuarrz, expressing his surprise at not having been duly apprised of the proposed marriage between the INFANTA and the French Prince. The Journal des Debats has, we are rejoiced to see, declared itself in favour of the principle of free trade. The following is its declaration : " We do not hesitate to say that our choice is made. We are advocates for free trade, in the sense that we consider it an object which ought to be attained gradually, and by constantly approaching towards it as far as circumstances will permit. The pro tective system, interpreted by prohibition, for it is always in that sense that the term is used, may be very favourable to a particular branch of industry s p ec i a lly 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 of the raw material at home, those branches of manufactures in which the country succeeds the best. It gives a bad direction to national capital, and maintains an artificial and burdensome state of things, by creating factitious industries, which live as in a hot-house, and do not produce results equivalent to the labour they absorb. It institutes and tends to perpetuate inequalities when the law has wished to give to every citizen equal facilities. The great majority of those who support it are led astray by prejudices and by false cal culations. They have not correctly estimated and placed in parrallel what it costs and what it produces, not only to the State and to the country, but to themselves. They only see the apparent profits, and deceive themselves as to the charges. The 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 Debais 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 of such a sy6tem, our Contemporary concludes as fol- lows : " For him, who is rv , t lc:d away by the mere jingle of words, who loes not take the shadow for the sub stance. behold fae last cry of the preti , nded protective system; a duty, or rather a multitucie of duties, which cross and clash with one another, tl-e 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 privileg, , either from blind shame, 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 clamp 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. Th e o pi n ion 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 Moniteur. " A report is in circulation," says the Courrier Francais," that a rather warm altercation has taken place between the commander of the French brig of war Zebre, sent by Rear-Admiral 3AzocuE, 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 13-.ly of Diego-Suarez." The Marshal Duke D'lsLy etas to leave Paris for Excileuil on Wednesday, and, after a short stay on his estate, will return to Algeria. The Constitutionnel 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 Augusi." Cocas AUTHENTIQUE —PARIS, SEPT. 9.—Five per Cents., 119 f. 25e. 20c. 10c. ex. div ; Four per Cents., 107 ; Three per Cents., 84f. 30c. ; Bank Actions, 3,507 f. 50c. ; Spanish Passives, 61 ; Spanish Three per Cents , 39. Exchange on London, one month, money, 25f. 671 c. ; three months, money, 25f. 521 C. .1.30UW.E, SEPT. 9.—LAST PRICES.—Five per Cents., 119 E 10c. ; Three per Cents., 84f. 30c. ; Bank Actions, 3,510 f. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, SEPTEMBER 10. Boulogne and Amiens, 13 1 ,4 —Direct Bombay and Madras, % Dutch Rhenish, 5 1 ,4—Great Western Bengal, %—Madras, Nellorc, and Arcot, 34—Namur and Liege, 2 1 4--Northern of France Con stituted, 13 1 /—Orleans and Bordeaux, 8% Paris and Lyons Con stituted, 6—Rouen and Havre, 28% —Sambre and Meuse, 37 —West nulers, 4. READING, GUILDFORD, AND REIGATE RAILWAY COMPANY. (THIS DAY.) The first general meeting of the proprietors at the ; ^ David Salomons, Esq., took the chair. The advertisement calling the meeting having been read, The report was then read. It stated that the 'capital of the: company was 800,000/., in 40,000 shares of 201. each. The directors were happy to refer to the arrangement entered into with the South-Eastern Rail way, by which they leased the line when completed to the company at a rent of 41 per cent. per annum, and the clear half of the profits. The amount of receipts was on the Reading, Guildford, and Reigate line 55,1601. 13s. Bd., and on the Reading and Reigate 38,2061. 9s. 9d.; total 93,3671. 3s. sd. PAYMENTS UP TO THIS TIME. Reading, Guildford, and„ Reigate £23,222 18 6 Reading and Reigate 14,074 7 11 37,297 6 5 Showing a balance in hand of £56,069 17 0 The CHAIRMAN said that after the statement so fully put forth in the report he would de tain them but a few moments while he briefly referred to tie conflict they had passed, and the victory they had achieved, in the last session of 7 !arliament. It had cost them some anxiety and some money, before they were enabled to defeat the opposi tion of the Brighton Company. lie was happy, how ever, to be enabled to say that they had done so. They had united now with the South-Eastern Company a company which was worthy of every confidence, although he was yesterday painfully obliged to differ from the course pursui d by the directors. The Chairman then read the opinion expressed by the South- Eastern Company of this line, but their good opinion had been even underrated ; for the immense piv•senger traffic which would flow to the ports of debarkation had not been sufficiently taken into account. The Chairman then explained, that as their direction was rather unwieldy, it had been deemed advisable to reduce the number from 14 to 10, those gentlemen being bal. lotted for. In conclusion, he moved the adoption of the report. Mr. GOWER seconded the motion. Resolutions were then passed, fixing the directors at ten, with a salary of 1,0001. a year among them, three auditors at 201. each ; and Mr. John Bailey was elected secretary, with a salary of 3001. per annum. Thanks were then given to the chairman and directors, and the meeting separated. SUPPOSED MURnEß.—Yesterday afternoon an in quest was held before Mr. W. Baker, at the Royal Pavi lion Tavern, New-road, Whitechapel, respecting the death of a male infant, unknown, whose body was found in a water-closet, on Tuesday last. Mrs. Ann Burgis stated that she resided at No. 35, Lambeth-street, liThitechapel. On Monday last, while in the water closet at the back of the premises, she discovered the body of the deceased, and with the assistance of a neigh bour named Rose, she succeeded in recovering it shortly afterwards. Witness further stated that there was another water-closet adjoining theirs, which was an open one, and any person could gain access to it by passing through White Bear-yard, adjoining their pre mist s. Mr. Carrington, a surgeon, in Leman-street, deposed that the body was a Lull grown male infant, it might have been dead four or five days. There was a large quantity of paper found in the mouth of the de ceased. The jury, at the suggestion of the coroner, returned a verdict of " Found dead." VOLUNTARY SOLITARY CONFINEMENT.—Aftor the Royal Sailor, on her passage from Norfolk to Antigua, had been four days at sea, her cook was suddenly missed, and it was supposed that he had fallen overboard. On the arrival of the vessel at Antigua, to the astonishment of the crew, on unloading her cargo, they found the cook comfortably stowed away amongst bags of corn and peas, where he had formed himself a berth about the size of a puncheon, which he plentifully supplied with bread, having also constructed a tube, through which he drew water from an adjoining puncheon. Thus he lived 30 days. The following is the cause assigned for this sin• gular conduct :—A short time previous to his disappear ance the bread made by the cook for the use of the cabin was condemned as bad and uneatable by the captain, who, in instructing the mate to discontinue the use of flour, remarked, in allusion to the waste occasioned, that "it might as well be thrown overboard." This observa tion was understood by the cook, as he himself states, to allude to himself, which, in consideration of his imperfect . knowledge of th e l anguage , m i g ht not unreasonably be inferred; and his secretion, he alleged, was a measure of self-preservation. He descended the scuttle leading from the cabin to the room beneath, thence through a small opening in the bulk, and had gradually wormed a pas sage to his retired quarters. A French soldier, named Delpech, serving in the army of Africa, who was made prisoner by the Arabs, on September 23, 1845, lately escaped from the tribe with whom he had been left, and reached Lalla• Ma ghrina on Aug. 2. He gives an account of the ma'sacre of the French prisoners at the deira of Abd-el-Kader, which perfectly agrees with the statement formerly pub lished by Rolland, the trumpeter, who escaped some months baek.—Galignani, FOREIGN ICE.—It seems that we have not yet an nounced the last arrivals of ice for the season, from the north of Europe, a vessel having arrived from Greenland with a cargo of ice on board, which, according to the size of the ship, may be computed as containing from 150 to 200 tons weight of this singular article of mer chandise. MOIEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, Q UARTER TO THREE. The Cotton market at Liverpool yesterday was stem+ • ;, at previous rates, Lut less animated. Sales, 5,000 bales, including 500 American, and 600 Surat, fir exprtatir-n. Shares were dull. The result of the meeting held yesterday of the South- Eastern Railway Company, hoNN ever satisfactory to the shareholder:, is not by any means so to those who are compelled to traverse the line. The subject has been much talked of this morning, and it cer tainly was expect, d that some better reasons would have keen 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 inereesing dissatisfaction prevailed upon the interftrence 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-Quartar per Cents. and other Stocks. This security has been marked 9q-, and has just been sold as low as 98+. Consols are 96 to 951 for money; and 96-k for time. Exchequer-bills have been firm at 103. 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. ate dull at 27, and the Three per Cents. at 38-1. Nothing has been done in Portuguese; Mexican Bonds have realised 251 i f . Enuador 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 CLOSING PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES. Bank Stock .211 210 210 —.... ........... 3 per Cent. Reduced Anns 96% 96 :36 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 96 25% 95% New 3 1 % per Cent. Annuities 98%'% 98% Long Annuities to expire Jan. lB6o 10 5-16 10 5-16 India Stock 259 259 India Bonds, 1,0001 — Ditto under 1,0001... — 20 South Sea Stock — Ditto Old Annuities Consols for Account-- .......... Exchequer Bills, 1,000/., I%d lO 14 pm. 14 Ditto 5001. s- ••• 13 pm. 13 Ditto Small ... 13 pm. 10 Manchester, Birm., and Mould Junction Manehest. Southatnpt. 2 1 1 / 8 •• ••• Midland lOO .. . 139 % Do. 1 ift Its 2 Do. New Do. Birm., and Derbylo.l Ea=t. Counties 2 Midland Great Western Irish Newcastle and Darling ton Junction 25 42 3 4 Do. New Newcastle and Berwick 15 ...... 27 1 % 5 4 Do. North Shields 25 Newcastle and Carlisle...loo Newport &Abergavenny Newry and Enniskillen Newark, Sheffield, and Boston Norfolk Do. Half Shares ..... 7 Do. Tenths Do. Extension North British ..... 25 Do. Half Shar. s Do. Fifths 5 Do. Carlisle Extens. North of Norfolk ..... Northern and Eastern 5O Do. Scrip (issd. 5 dis.) 45 Do Quarter Shares... 12% 3Ol/2 . _ Do. New N. Kent & Direct Dover 214 ...... ....... North Staffordshire 42s. ...... North Wales Northern and Southern Connecting Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham Nottingham & Mansfid. Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Oxford, Witney, and Cheltenham.... Pilbrow Atmospheric ... 1 .. Portsmouth Direct 3 34 — Preston and Wyre Do. 1 / 4 Shares Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Richmoad 1 1 ,4 1391,,:z 304 113 42 3 / 4 11% 273/4 3014 3 4P % dis Rugby, Leamington,and Warwick Scottish Central Do. New 21,...... Scottish Midland lO Do. Extension Sheffield, Buxton, Leek Potteries, andCrewe... 1% Sheffield & Manchester 100 Do. Quarter Shares... 8 Do. Lincolnshire June. VA Do. & Great Grimsby. 10 - Do. do. Extension 425. .... ...... .... Shrewsbury and Birm... 2 1 ,2..... .. .... Shropskire Union Shrews., Wolverhamp., &S. Staffordsh. June. 2 1 / 2 Sligo and Shannon l% - South Devon South Midland 42s. — South & Midlands June. 42s 42s South Staffordsh ire Junc. 2% South Eastern & Dover 33% . Do., No. 1.. 2G Do., N 0.2. Do., No. 3 Do., No. 4 St.Alban's,'Hatfield,and Hertford Junction ... 425. — ........ Staines and Richmond... 1 - ••• •••• ........ Staffordsh. & Shropshire 2% South Wales ..... ...... ... 5 1 Swans. & Loughor &Ca meron's Stm. C0a1.... Taw Vale Extension ... 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 1 / 2 — ••• Waterfd,Wxfrd,Wicklw, and Dublin Wexford, W aterford, and Valentia Waveney Valley ... 2 - Welsh Midland West Riding Union ...... 425. . ..... 2 , , , p 2% p West Cornwall 2 .. WestLondon,Old Shares 20 Wexford and Carlow 2% ____ ••• — 16 1 4 18% 3% 2 - ••• ...... .... - 2 - •• ••• •. ...... - 54 _ - 2 - •• •• ..... .. -- Wisbeach and St. Ives... 2 Wilts, Somerset, & Wey mouth Worcester,Hereford,Ross, and Gloucester Worcester, Tenbury, and Ludlow Worcester,Warwick, and Rugby York and Carlisle 2% ... ... .• ••• York and North Midland 50 Ditto 1 / a Shares Do. Scarboro' Branch. 25 Do. Selby Do. Extension 2O Do. East and West Rid- ing Extension FOREIGN RAIL WA YS. Anglo-Belgian ... 4 Barbadoes 1 Boulogne and A miens... 14 Bordeaux & Mediterran. 2 nrjoix, Toulouse, and Do. ( Espelete's) Calais, Dun krk, and West Flanders Calcutta and Diamond Harbour .... Callao, Lima, and Pacltie Coast 1 ......... Central of Spain ... Ceylon Demerara Dendre Valley 97 47% 71 1 /, 38% 121(4 13 1 / i _ Direct Bombay and Madras „, Dutch Rhenish East Indian ... ..... .... ss. Eastern Belgian Junctn. 2 1 / 2 Fampoux & Hazebrouk 4 Great Indian Peninsular ss• Great Western Bengal... ss. _ . GreatWesterneanada 3q ...... Italian and Austrian 3 Jamaica S.Mid Junction Jersey Louvain 11. la Sambra Luxembourg. Lyons and Avignon Madras Madras, Nellore, and Arcot lds Madrid and Yalentia.... 2 „ Nlauritius Namur and Liege Nn of France Constituted 5 ...... 13 1 A North Jamaica............ 1 Orleans and Vierzon ... 10 , — Orleans and Bordeaux... 6 ...... 8 1 / 2 ...... 8% Over Yssel Paris etLyonsConstituted 5 Paris and Orleans 2O Paris and Rouen 1 1 ... 5 ... • Ni 4 2 1 14 Paris and Strasbourg Constituted Rouen and Havre Sambre and Meuse ...... 8 .... 3% Strasbourg and Bale ... 14 St. Laurence & Atlantic Tours and Nantes Con stituted .. Tournay, Jurbise, Lan den, and Hasselt....... 8 Trinidad West Flanders ...... .... 6 - ••• JOINT STOCK BANKS. Australasia British North American 50 Colonial 25 Commercial of London 20 London Joint Stock London & Westminster. 20 National Pros-. England. 35 National of Ireland 22% 2 O l/;... ......... Provincial of Ireland ... 25 Union of Australia Union of London... lO MINES. 21% 13% 28 31/? 20 1 / 2 Real dcl Monte Unregd. 3 3 % 33/4 LLOYD'S SHIPPIN G.-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, SEPT. 11.—Wind N.E.—Light airs, and hazy. DEAL, SEPT. 10.—Wind N.N.E. to N.E.—Arrd. Mohawk, China ; Mercator, Korteland, Batavia, and sailed for Rotter dam ; Balden, Hall, Sourabaya, and sailed for Gothenburg; Carrilican, Alf,oa Bay; Janes, Tynes, St. Vincent; London, Freeman, Jamaica; Dryope, Moffatt, North America; Charles Ferdinand, Fechter, New Orleans, and sailed for Bremen ; Superb, Gatebell, Virginia, and sailed for Rotter dam ; Merwede, Van Dresshen, New York, and sailed fur Holland ; Amethyst, Booth, Pugwash, for Wisbeach ; Maria, Clark, Quebec; Sane and Ann, Walker, Quebec; Horatio, Smison, Quebec ;.H. M. S. Nautilus, from a cruize. OFF THE START, SEPT. 2.—Mayflower, New York, for Antwerp. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE-FRIDAY. The present week's arrivals of English Wheat have been on a moderate scale ; yet the show of samples here to-day was small. All descriptions moved off steadily, at fully, but at nothing quotable beyond, Mon day's prices. Foreign Wheat was held for an advance of fully is per quarter ; yet, as the buyers were not disposed to give any more money, no actual improve ment in value can be noticed. All kinds of Barley— the supply of which was small—moved off readily at extreme currencies. We had a good demand for super fine Malt, at a trifle more money. In other kinds very little was doing. The Oat trade was firm at a further advance in the quotations of 6d per quarter. Both Beans and Peas were higher. Flour very steady. ARRIVALS. I Barley. 710 qrs. English .. Irish Foreign Oats Flour. 970 qrs. 2,180 sks 4,510 - 1,130 -- ONE CLOSING O'CLOCK PRICES PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. Dutch, 2% per Cent . Equacior Bonds Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1E46 — Ditto. Account Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent .. Ditto, Account Russian Bonds ...... 110% Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. Ditto, Account 27 Ditto, Deferred — Ditto. 3 per Cent — Ditto, Account ...... ........ Dividends on the above payable in London. Belgian 4% per Cent ... 97 97 Dutch, 2% per Cent., 12 Guild.... 59% 59% Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates 94% 94% PRICES Or PAID. BUSINESS DONE CLOSING , I.ILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES. Aberdeen Amber., Not:., Boston, and Eastern Junction 2%..... 17s 1: Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush l% Aylesbury and Thame.. 1% Belfast & County Down 21/2 — . Birmin. and Gloucester. 100 130 Ditto New l 7 l/ 32 .... ... ...... 32 Birmingham and Ox- Ford Junction Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire June.... 2 3 / 4 . — Boston, Stamtil, & Birm. 225. — Bristol and Exeter 75 Ditto, New Bristol and Gloucester... 30 ...... Bristol and Liver. June . 21/2...... Buckinghamshire Caledonian Ditto Half Shares...... 2% — ••• ..... .•••• Ditto Extension ... .. 2% Cambrian & Grand Jane 42s Cambridge and Oxford.. 1% l% Central Kcnt 2% Chester and Holyhead... 27 1 : 4 •• ••• Churnet and Blythe Chester and Manchester 425. Cheltenham and Oxford 2 Clydesdale Junction ..... 15 Cork, Blackrock, and Passages Cork and Killarney ... 2% Cork and Waterford ... 1% — Cornwall Cornwall & Cent'lDevon 2% — 1 )erby and Crewe ... 2% — Direct Lincoln, East Bet ford, and Shedd. June. 2% — Direct Manchester 314 25% 25% 42 1 / 2 1101 i dis - 1% 14 IJictuilcds - alck 5)...... 3% ...... -= .. ... Direct. l'orthern Direct Norwich Dublin and BelfastJunc. 10 Dublin, Belfast, and Cole:Tire Dublip and Galway..... 4 Dundalk & Enniskillen 714 — Eastern Counties 14/. 16s 22 I ILA 2 2 1 /2 Ditto New lO/. IGs. 7% p 7% p Ditto Perpetual, 5 per Cent, No. 1.......61. 13s. 4d.... Ditto ditto. No. 2... 61. 13s. 4d... :.% p Do., York Extension.. 105....... 2)-li% EastDereli'm andNoech 1 Eastern Union Ditto, Quarter Shares e t — Do. Exten.(llarwich) 1% — ......... ..... Do., Camb. and Ely.. 2 1 / 2 — East Lancashire East Lincolnshire East & West of England 1%...... Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ...... 71% 71% Ditto Half Shares ... 10 Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% ~.... 17% l 7 l /2 Ditto, New Edinburgh &Northern.. 10 - Edinburgh and Perth... 3 ...... Ely and Huntingdon ... 7 % Enniskillen and Sligo ... 2% _ Exeter,Yeov",& Dorset WA 3 bia., g uw, h.iii,ar.,6..A..yr 50 Ditto, New ... .. 15 . — Do., % Shares (5 per cent. guar.) .. .. 12% — is P 23 1 4 Glouc.,Abet ystW ith, and Central of Wales Goole, Doncaster, &c. .. 425. Grand Union (Notting . and Lynn Great Eastern &Western 2% ... . GreatGrimsby and Shef field Great South. and West (Ireland) Great Munster ... 2 1 / — Great North of Scotlavd. 2 1 / 2 Great North of England..loo .22 9 1%, 230 230 Ditto New 5 Ditto, New • ... Ditto, New Great Western B5 145 Ditto 14 Shares ...... .. 50 Ditto -A, Shares lO Ditto Fifths Guildford, Fare'm, Ports. 5 Harwich and Eastern Counties Junction ... 2 (Lill and Selby Ditto 14 Shares Do. llalf Shares 25 — Inverness and Elgin 2 .... Ipswich & Bury St. Edm. 9 Do., do, and Norwich 2 1 / — Irish North Midland ... 1% — Killarney junctions l l4 Kendal and Windermere I li:. — Lancaster and Carlisle... 45 ••• Do. New Larne, Belfast, and Bal lymena Leeds and Bradford Leeds and Carlisle Leicester & Birmingham 225. — --- ....... -.- Leicester and Bedfard 22s. l / 2Ni% dis•-• Leeds and Dewsbury Leicester and Tam w., Scc. 425. Lpool., bincilstr, & ,New castle Junction Liverpool and Bury London and Blackwell. 16/. 135.4 d. ... Do. New 304 145 811 A 70 3 /, % dii. Ditto Extension 5 ....., London and Brighton... 50 Ditto, Fifths 3p London and Croydon, 131. 15s. 9d. 22% Do. Guaran. 5 per cent. 9 LnndonandGreenwich 12115 s 4d — Do. Preference ...18117a 2d London, Houmlow, and Western 62% 22% London and N. Westernloo 2Ol 200 199 Do. Quarters .. Do., no., New Shares.. Ditto Fifths Ditto, Eighths (G. J.) 12% Do., New 4 Shares (G. 2.. ). — Do. 40/.Shares(L.M.) 6 Lond. & S.Westein 411 6s 10d 7l Do. New Consol. Bths. 40 Do. New Do. New London and York 2 l / 2.- 2 Do. 1 ,4 Shares London and Windsor . 1A... Loudon, Salisbury, and Yeovil .... ... -.. 2%..... Lendonderry&Coleraine , 12%. — ..... Londonderry and Ennis killen 12% Lynn and Ely Lynn and Dereha rn ...... 15 Manchester and Leeds,.. 82 112 Ditto 1, Shares Do. Quarters Do. Fifths 3— Do. Sixteenths ..... Do. Extension 42s. Manchester and Birmin. 40 Do Quarters (A) Do. Quarters (II) ... 5 Do. Quarters (C) 1 Manchester,Buxton,and • _ _ 20 1 / 1 2 1 - 16% BlatlQck 423. 1%% p.. , 1 P Wheat. 3,820 qrs. 1,430 Malt, 2,360 qrs. ES OR. OUCH 31110 P IVIRLEXZT. A very large quantity of new Hops has come to hand during the present week from Essex and Kent, in excellent condition. Thie, together with the prospect of a large growth, has produced considerable caution on the part of the dealers; and, in some instances, lower rates have been sub mitted to. In yearling and old Hops nothing doing. The duty is backed at from 195,000/. to 200,0001. New Kent Pockets, 51 5 s to Cl 8s ; ditto, susses ditto, 41 10s to 51 15s. 2,980 S mxTzErxxx.D. The supply of Beasts was seasonably extensive as to num bers, but or very midt:ling quality. The priniests Scots &c., moved off steadily, at fully Monday's quotations. In all other kinds, only a limited business was doing, at late rates. We bad on bale 380 Beasts, 83 0 sheep and Lambs, and 66 eel) wer e btlt mod, Calves from abroad. The number?. of Sh, rate, while the Mutton trade was film, and previoto e gi p , were readily supported. The same ob , e rvati. 11 may b sold plied to Lambs. Calves, the supply of which was goo , . freely, at bill prices; but Pigs tom aided - try a tten tion. Mileh Cows we, e a dull sz.le, at from 16/ to 191 each. Per tilts. to sink the offal. s. 2 , t o 5 ' 8. d. s. 2 Second qtmlit Inferior Beastsdilto. 3 .... 2 12 3 6 Coaro 3 0 Secondew quality oolledd iW 4 ditto 4 0 , y, 2 8 Prime large Oxen.. 3 8 3 SoutbdownlVetlicrs 4 6 Prime Sects •• • 4 0 4 2 Ditto out of the wool •••••• Large coarse Calves 310 4 6 Large Hogs ..... • 3 410 Prime small ditto .. 4 8 410 Small Porker s ••• • 4 19 0 Suckling Calves ..18 0 29 0 Quarter old rigs ••16 " 5 8 Inferior Sheep .. . 3 6 3" 10 Lambs • • ..... "• 4 - *- SUPPLY AT MARKET. I pigs. I Sheep. I Calves. 180 8,480 389 NE — WC-ATE AND LEADMNILAII" We had a very steady demand, at full prices. At per stone, by the Carcase. et() 3 1d• • 0 iteef, s. d. s. d. ; Inferlor• ••• .. 2 Bto 2 10 , Mutton, inferior • • , g 4 „ middling .....3 0 3 2 middling 4 prime large .. 3 4 3 6 1 prime small .. 3 6 3 8 , Pork, large •••• • • " ! 4 410 seal.... ••.. • • • • 3 8 4 Bj small .• •• • • - Lamb. 4s 8d to Is 82. j_ Beasts. 1,031 PALACE COURT.—(THIS 11g (Before W. BRENT BRENT, Esq.) RINCARD VON HELM. ac tiOn The plaintiff is an advertisino agent, and " rl ig. was brought to recover the sum of 3/. 15s. fo r adot ments inserted in the .Belfat Mercantile 1 ? , g ister. V o Mr. LOCKE stared the ease. The defendant Hoe for Helm professed to have discovered a grand sre l "" t he the cu: e of the toothe-ache, which was alivertised Iced plaintiff by defendant's orders. The charge w ere for to be very rca-onable, and the jury gave a verdict to "' amount claimed. V. SINCLAIR. In this case the COLEMAN defendant was summoned, under voy Small Debts Act, to show cause why he did no,. he 71. 10s., debt and costs, according to the order of 2L Court. It appeared that he had been ord ered to Paldebt, in a week and the remainder at 53. per week, the wh ea being due for washing done for him five years 001 t he he was out of work. Instead, however , of 1 3 .aP fl° ers oo, instalment, he filed his schedule in insolvency I, P at en expense of 41. The Learned JUDGE said that if he could Pal • that he could have paid the 21. off his deb t ; a cifp—tgica ment would, therefore, be made out, but lay in tP" till defendant's protection expired. GUILDHALL.—(THIS DAY' ) A Jo ne s, 0 William Macdonald, alias Archbold, alia s young man who had been brought up on the same body on a former occasion, was again brought custotiiiiis, fore Mr. Alderman Hunter and Mr. Alderman Challis, charged with robbing the chambers f Mr..G a _e_f s g te e ?a r t e l : derick Pollock (of the Middle Temple), l) son of the Lord Chief Baron. ble b Various articles of clothing and other proPe r '' awa had been pledged by the prisoner at variou s P. - s od b h r is okers, were identified by Mr. Pollock's 1000st:ea. tleclerk, as part of the property stolen frorn rnan s apartments. It appeared that tile s i e ha t th e were not taken at one or in the same day, but "„- r aja thief paid repeated visits, and helped himself ae e ,"), ia to his convenience. A key exactly fitting the fi et Mr. Polluck's outer door was fotind on ib e h r r-s° , le , when he was taken into custody, with a fr es :i gi b o a f li br in his hand, by a police-constable, on the occasi old last visit. When brought to the station hour ',,edesti' that he was induced to commit the theft t hrour biag tution, as he was almost starved. But upo fo a him a watch was found concealed in his trouse-stiotlie also some halfpence. The account which he g s e cW mistrates now was one' of a very commonr-„ t bb d racer amongst gentry of his calling, namelY, bti w property was given him by a young man be k 4 bob never seen before, &c. The prisoner was committed upon those e ,_ ha t r o g e ;ot e t was ordered to be brought up again in a w eek, ga ols to others which the police - fate expect to souswan him. au the The Aldermen expressed much displeasure, to a t. conduct of some pawnbrokers who had negle,U.iejsstied tend this day, and directed summonses to uu, liat leP. compel their attendance on the next exa mi BOW -STREET .—(T HIS -11 1 * ; ' Iga' rer with l William Dickson, a ragged little old charged by Roche, a Mendicity Society's °' e t he begging in Holborn. by te The prisoner had been brought here ye i n 50 0 ; same officer, who had found him begging 1 4 of the; 0 ampton buildings. A number of letters, 3-oead pomp directed " To Sir Hugh Munro, Bart.," we r° ' ° ‘ e as CO him. lie stated that he was not begging , bst a tch far o pelled to stand at the corner of the street to vv ho 05 ltd person who was to be sent to meet him, and I' 3l Oe be known to him by a certain sign, viz. that t whe n _ es return his salute in a particular manner. , o " a id tae ws person who was to know him by this sign s LI t, O l i o him, he was to follow him wherever be re p o t esP t ja. labours would then be at an end. He coak tror est li o : e a why it was necessary for him to mee t the 55 O known" in this mysterious manner , but he W as t l e to do so, and the officer was mistaken in suPP he peaP eo he was begging, for he was only saluting t of t h oe who passed, in order to ascertain whether 11 3 , ve , was the person who was to meet h i aaa' re person was to come from Sir Bush N t5 ,,,, 11 0 1 In one of the letters produced Sir Ilt i n 1 ho tel was requested to send " some person w" - , 0 0 - f s icl know" to conduct him to head-quarters, or tot fort ha d or private house." Sir H. Munro, being s. es t e t b e t, g that he knew nothing of the prisoner, exceP, -- , s ing, hid' been very much annoyed by continually Mere ''..; ging letters from him, and had sometimes re t i r i at b ofl? 0 ,' The prisoner, however, still insisted On tb n e ro RneVi r in v. statement, and added that Sir Hoe, Admiral Pieks.°l well, and knew that he was the son.'" -- ",„ ( , n3 e of A citsi tist As, however, he said that the Christian Dickson was William, and Mr. Jardine it was Archibald, his Worshi said b e co 1 " l ' i sone r "pa the Pr'wnitf and credit to that statement. He believed an imposter, but on account of his e vident n, fl i s bed t general ill health, he would let him go unP" f eiags time. He was then discharged. this mo• t he On the prisoner being placed at the bar en er a t • 0 g The officer stated that, he found the pris ten chl ge M aine lainneodt that same place he was yesterday. He wa s b . s c lid n e u t S t A his hat to every one that passed, but wit ne bis P ec-e tbe any one give him anything. He found ill an d il l number of letters directed to v arious per sons, o r same strain as those produced yesterday.- , the Poi, Mr. JARDINE said, that it was evideraeed ot • ri ,.. was insane, and as he was thoroughly coa rt e i f evy's w° be he must send the prisoner up to St. -i't.,,,, n t , eed to house to be examined by the medical °wee" rt ° clealt with according to the New Act. ''''' The officer, Roche, undertook to take the P ris°l'' Y. ) the workhouse, and he was then removed. ----------1 CIS pk, „ MARLBRO'-STREET. --- . l : n s p c ' - ne e Henry Paul, a well dressed young la'a.Tdister,loo the bar this morning, charged with eatingcr, , f a lsa in company with some others, 4 4' of fire. his 01 0- 0 ,0 Constable C 120, said he was on duty t st , et• , o 0 about half-past three o'clock, in Marshall- .s e e ese: ° kiret a cab catne along at a furious pace' and the 1-010 wit it were making a great noise, and crYine s i s ing Of fire," with vehemence. People were %ora l go t and giving windows in alarm, and inquiring the pa gab it In 0 1 the time the policeman came up with the env 0 ;14 into Golden-square, where they were in we re 1,1., the starting the fire escape. Three persons cif toLeed outside and two within, but the rnonli - ahan - d - n eht constable attempted to capture them, a . • fie r '',. - ,5 0 the cab and endeavoured to make off:, mosa, ° ,, - , 10 1 38 , the defendant, however, who was one 0 1 [4 sgov,, - , la outside giving the alarm, and another, agal°,,-d b° ' -il could make no charge as he w • inside , 6 ' . not say that he had been creating the noise'cofrehertltecih Police. cons Lble Peter Skelly, 104 la rrai, r it thisl,hwei witness, d and an t d s e a n id ie t d he cries were ci l ti . i t t h e i ti p, 4. - N A u n. ° : oo,lo , having had al) raising the alarm. fell" --s clee Mr. HARDWICK said the conduct 0. the d a holt e t he de tten h his companions was such as might have de lica te Q 5,, of with most serious effects on persons i n to psi .. '' in the neighbourhood, and ordered hin 3 .. go to the House of Correction for 21 dai" . ---------" , pit v..) the 111ARYLEBONE.--(TOI 10 °l to '' A ha tta I John Sutherland, a private of - the ' 2,1 ;" 0 -- a nsw e rsof Grenadier Guards, appeared this dait to °A . Oord' summons issued against him at the I lts s .-eet• ' ' Ann Carter, residing at No. s,llenrietta- " 1° street. rl, ° f aboutWe' The complainant, a pretty-looltin,gwgel years of age, stated, that being in T `„ - , g oing t° , 4 bee i t a weeks, on a visit from Oxford, she ""- "' e ecosie" f 1" for tvi° ° oet i l friend, and that the defendant suddenly g lass 0 ei e ave a he s' t 0 Hyde-park, and asked her to go ands • fn at t - la -f with him, which she declined, telling thenhl ' ,WV/ b et time to go about his business ; that b e re d to aloes' her and pulled her along, and endeavou __ he r e_ t ao up the first street they came to, en d that ', w oe o' her 1 , OA vouring to escape from him he struck Neck. laina nt send ° gel n. answer to Mr. RAITLINSON, On l a st that this occurred about eleven o'cloc ~.too i le of" -ea evening. lace, - -r . 10e5 be Mr. James Halloran, of 22, G ro ve-P _ ha 0 1 _, tli said, that he and several other person.s , to gr . i._ 0 :4 ,1 the transaction, recommended complainn! he t11" . , 5 soldier in charge, which was done. Tb ab et ° w e' her to the station-house, and that the a s t, rg :Of v i°leli to take the charge as she showed no re I .° at ris e d but merely pointed to her neck. .d abl e still) e ftil Mr. RAWLINSON expressed const er ani then the mention of the latter circumstance, a 10 4 on de Defendantfen d an t admittedfii rh i answers tt h to e b t a h: st e c h c a o r s g t e e ct -, tb e g irl , fl oti 1 n' denied having struck her. i n cowl ge Mr. Wellington Guern.ey. who roost tleman's evidence. d d it a s a Mr. Halloran at the time, fully c'Or.arsuborated tb S oii , Mr. RAwLINSON said he regar e 411)s _ grac eful outrage. He shou ld fine him • The fine was paid. Sunday Irwin Bence reached Edinburgh aing., ,a Ofi DESTRUCTION OF OF A 1"----------APEIZ-MILL BY rig di' Paper-1101P, ~01 scene of conflagration, drawn by Lwisswade, the property of Messrs• Annandale ann_ 00 bouthathlfa'-tparstoiswevnen o'clocktir, toot s son fire. Two engines were speedily sent off,,,uoir horses proooo/30e plied from the establishment of lktr. Isaac Sentt,,,, eti' v house, but before their arrival the building' wlis.,:e fico . e r loped in flames as to defy Theirtm efforts o. Be bigade to subdue them. exertions vvoer:avt" (be fore wen. principally confined to attempting t,i.,h ettief d ing-houses adjoining the Oil, in *"... ' ioees ne 1 S sandyNYere p for 0 0 r t, i dsecvnetirajilyh „suuresc:bluhlt,, dciaftwe raglea do ri negv, 10, i, j v to auwunt to 10,000/. or 12,000/., and like lr-"..10ft, learn, is insured. The fire originated in Oh rows. but from what cause is not known.--Adifibug i