The Sun. — London, England, 1846-09-05 00:00:00

f i '~ f ( Now ready, price 6s. THE MODERN ORLANDO. IN SEVEN CANTOS. " If Byro n ' s ' Don Juan' had never been written, ' The Modern Orlando' might have been justly regarded sts one of the most splendid effusions of the age. And it is a splended effusion. It is wild, erratic ; lively and gay ; serious aria moralising ; droll, hu morous, and witty, by turns."—Naval sad Military Gazette. Henry Celburn, Publisher, 13, Gr,eat Marlborough-street. BENTLEY'S NEW PERIODICAL Wit. INT IKS . NOR .4 RILADY, Mr. ALBERT SMITIrI3 New Story — CHRISTOPIIER TAD POLE. Illustrated by I,eech. No. 1., price Is. BENTLEY'S MODERN LITERATURE. Vol. 11. HORACE WALPOLF,'S LETTERS (Copyright Edition). Bound in half morocco, price 'BB. 6d. with Portraits. The same Work may be had in Parts (two carts making a Volume), price 3s. 6d. each. MISS MITFOREO'S Popular Story—BELFORD REGIS In one volume, neatly bored, price 65., forming the New Volume of " Standard Novels, and Romances." IV. BENTLEY'S. 11ISCELLANY for SEPTEMBER. PrtCP.. N. with Illustrat'. ons b y Leech, and a Portrait of Anderson., the Danish Poet, and entertaining Papers by W. H. Maxwell, Author of " Stories of Waterloo ;" Albert Smith, Author of " TlYe Adventures of Mr. Lejbury," and other popular Works ; Mrs. -'llustin, Dr. IV. C. Taylor. Everard Clive, &c. &c Richard Bentley, New Burlington-'•,treet. RAILWAY SHARES BY PUP,/, / c SALE. 1 1 4 E LA S AI S °NI), Railway LA ShareON Au'c',,,,n‘Seers,AbeLgEto' AND thank their ' xed support and p a t ronage, 1 4 "Aends and the Public fo r their cont A and to announce that their Public , Sales of Railway Shares, &c., take place every TUESDAY and T . , 7:113AY. at One o'clock, at the Hall of Commetaining rce instruction, Threadneed'.e-.street, L ondon, to which place, requested to b e a dd ressed, favours, conS, with a reference), are respectfully All Scrip and Share r Atstificates must be deposited, the day previous to their being Ofiered ; and aavices of results will be forwarded by the first, post after the sale, aul the proceeds lame diatelY disposed of r Arx,ording to instru c ti ons. Offices, I' L ifil of Cmnmerce, Threadneedle -street. London. ......--- ,-.......____ THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM . . C-NDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY. Triumphant success of another New Burlesquo. THIS EVENING The Performance s w ill commence with WATCH AND WARD. After which, a New Grand Operatic, Melodramatic, Romant/r j , Fairy Burlesque Extravaganza, founded on the Opera of " Obere, ) , ,, entitled THE MAGIC HORN. Principal characte:'s by Messrs, F. Mathews, A. Wigan, Kinlech, Collier, Yarnold , Bender, Silver, Richards, and Keel e y ; Mi ss Keeley, Miss Villars., Miss Fa:rbrother, Mrs. Woollidge, Miss Arden, Miss Forster, :?.Liss LttirLaw, Miss Bromley, Miss Howard, and Mrs. Keeley. To WIFE . conclude with the new Farce, entitled LOAN OF A Principal characters by Messrs. p. Mathews, A. Wigan, M • eadows, Kinloch, and Yarnold ; Mrs. V/oollidge and Miss Howard. - ._....:: THEATRE ROYAL, ADE LPHI. :: UNDER THE DIRECTIO'..{ rjle MADAME CV-LESTE. THIS EVENING Will be performed an Interesting Drama, entltled THE MTS. TERIOUS STRANGE/a. In which Messrs. T, Vright, 0. Smith, Selby, Worrell, Boy '..,e, Sanders, Greene, Calenford, Glennaire, Thomas, Waye, Go",\Ion; Miss Chaplin, _Mrs. F. Matthews, .hiss Haresdite wng, ill Miss Bl v, oks, Mrs. Lambert, Miss, Taylor, and Mada me . Ctl per'iorm. After which., a Grand Mythological Burlesque Extravaganza, de nominated THE JUDGMENT OF PARIS or, The Pas de Pip pins. Thr, characters personated by Messrs. Selby, 0. Smith, Glen naire, I.',ndon, Waye, Butler, Williamson, Aldridge, Mitchenson, Aiders'on, Ryan, Wright, Ps.al Bedford ; Miss Ellen Chaplin, Miss Taylox, Miss Harrison, 3, l'iss Simpson, Mrs. F. Matthews, &c. To I) 5 followed by an tziginal Comic Sketch, called ABRAHAM PARg.ER. Abraham Parker, Mr. Wright. ---- STRAND THEATRE, THIS EVENING. Win be performed Shakespere's Tragedy of HAMLET. The King. Mr. Waldron ; Hamlet, Mr. Gregory Laertes, Mr. Leigh Murray ; Osric, Mr. Grafton ; Polonius, 3,r, Manders ; the Queen, Miss Dorrington ; Ophelia, Miss 31. Glow - r. To be followed by THE DAY AFTER THE WEDDING. Colonel Freelove, Mr. G. B. Rivers ; Lady Elizabeth, Miss M. Glover. To conclude with the Farce of B',)3IBASTES FURIOSO. Messrs. Whittaker, Attwood, Mandel", and Miss A. Taylor will sustain the principal characters. Private Boxes, &e., nr.y— be engaged at the Box-office, from. eleven till four, and a t PI the Libraries. S'S THEATRE. OXFORD-STREET, THIS EVENING CURIOUS Will be C ;0 3 perZ,rmed a new Serio-Comi c Drama, tntKlecl, A E. Mr. Aubrey, Mr. Vining ; fwl . ggle'ton, Mr. Charles 3latb ews ; Charles Stanton, Mr. Fisher; -. JAl:ward, Mr. Homier ; bir s. Aubrey, Mrs. Stirling. After wh.;.ch. an original Comedietta, called AD` iI:CE TO HUS BANDS, General Leslie, Mr. Granby ; Frank T'. - evor, Mr. James Vining ; Mrs. Trevor, Mrs. Stirling. To be followed by an entirely New Comic D'elma, entitled THE BARBER BRAVO ; or, Ihe Inventor of Pcmcder. In which Mr. Charles Mrsthews, Mr. Granby, Mr. Wyna. Miss E. St an l ey, and Miss E. I:Fanner will perform. To coucAude with Sheridan's Drama 'or 'THE CRITIC ; or, A '' , l7 and Pull, by M r. Charles Tragedy Rehearsed. Slr Fretful Plagi Mathews. The other principal e , tiaraelers by Messrs. Honner, Ryder, Compton, Oxberry, Hants, wylin, Courteney ; Miss E mma Stanley, Miss Somers, Miss Ilonner:. Scr_ DAYIDGE'S ROYAL STR.REY THEATRE. Le3see, Mrs. Frances Davidge. Transeendant talent, brilliant. success, and crowded houses. Re- Engagement, for Six .Nig' i lts more, of the distinguished Tragic Actress, Miss Cushman, and her sister, Miss Susan Cushman, positively their last app &trance in London. THIS EVENING Will be performed Shakespere's Tragedy of ROMEO AND JULIET. Romeo, 37 Shakespere's Cushman ; Juliet, Miss Susan Cushman ; Nnrse, Mrs. Daly ; M,ercutio, Mr. E. F. Saville ; Capulet, Mr. Heslop ; Benvollo, Mr. Johr,son ; Tybalt, Mr. Fredericks; Friar Lawrence, Mr. Neville; A p c ,thecary - , Mr. W. Smith. After which 0 A entirely new Farce, entitled THE BARBER AL`T;CD THE BRAVO, ; or, The Princess with the Raven Locks. In wldeli Messrs. E. F. Saville, Neville, Lewis ; Mrs. E. F. Saville, and Miss E. T'Jrry will perform. To CO' oclude with the Melodrama of TIIE TWO DROVERS. Messrs . Fredericks, Neville, Pelham, Heslop, Weod, Lewis, Con way ;, Mrs. Daley, Miss Terry, and Mrs. Savlll:s will sustain the prin.:4l34 characters. Box Office open from eleven till &Air o'clock. ROYAL AISIPP.':TLIEATRE. Proprietor, 31r. W. ?salty. Patronised by her Most Gracious ',Eajesty the Queen, Prince -Albert, the Prince of Wales, au"... the Priaeess ltoyea. "The Merchant's Steed" triumphant. Entire change of Equestrian novelties. Last Week of ttre ' highly popular Dratria of " The :Iganieless." I EVENING c Will be performed th e TprH.i ,pular Drama of THE SrEED OF' SY RACUSE ; or, Damon's F I;ght. Damon, Mr. J. Har:wood; Pythias, Mr. J. Dale ; Calantt''d, Mrs. M. Brooks. assisted by the nu merous Company, dorule stud, &c. After which, magnificent SCENES of the FirPPORROME, by the French, Gerrrlart, and British Artistes. The whole NAMELESS. con , Juding with the popular Drama, entitled TIIE Box-office (van from eleven till five o'cl , Jelt.—Doors open at six and commence at seven o'clock. ROYAL VICTORIA T.T.TEATRE. THIS EVEN.ING a Vr.til be performed a 'most powetegl and entirely new Drama of r,,eculier and forcible ronstructirm, embracing scenes in every grade of life and eventful acts of every day's occurrence, founded on the popular work, "The Mysteries of London," entitled MARK HAM AND GREENWOOD ; or, The Brothers' Career. Markham, Mr. Seaman; Greenwood, Mr. Walton; Tidkins, Mr. Searle; Ste phens, Mr. Anker ; Count Alteroni, Mr. Higgie ; Ellen, Mrs. 11. Vining ; Isabella, Mrs. Lee. After 'which, the Burlesque of FAYRE ROSAMONDE. Fayre Rosarronde, Mr. Forman. To conclude with TIM TAILOR OF TRENT. Under the Patronage of her Most Gracious Majesty. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. The magnificent Display of FIREWORKS on and in the 'Water, representing a NAVAL ENGAGEMENT, which was received with thunders of applause at the Juvenile Gala, Wil', be re peated on MONDAY and WEDNESDAY NEXT. EVERY MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, AND T.IIURSDAY. VIEW of NAPLES, ERUPTION of VESITVIUS, /ra TION of HERCULANEUM and POMPEII, in the 'y ear 79m rjc. A richly ornamented GOTHIC BRIDGE of S TATUES has been constructed, which Will be brilliantly Illuminated ztt Night. The PROMENADE CONC ERTS, conducted 1-,y Mr Godf rey. CALYPSO'S FAIRY GROTTO, represent:to-6 in the Interior Telemachus relating his adventures to Calypso, The PYROVZCIENIC DISPLAYS, by AIX, Southby, are on the most complete, and effective scale. Preceding the Volcanic Display, M0n . ... FARINET,T,I will descend from a Cb,ne se P agoda, seventy feet I•,, '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 ',S splendhlly ornamented 'with festoons of lamps, enabling the v'.sitors to view the match , .ess collection of Carnivore by gas-light. six z Feedin Con g e o rt at 13 f the. C 1. . ar .. e 4vora at half-past fi ve; th e Pelicans, &c., at c.if. past six; and the Eruption n dusk. M On WEDNESTJAy NEXT, Septe m b er 9 , the Boys of the Royal Military Asylr.cra and Caledonian School, with their Juvenile Bands, v‘ will . pay thil. ' A nnual Visit, on which oc,easion the Pyrotechnic .....splay on tr,,, Water will be repeated. On W_ED,WESDAY. September 16, tile ROYAL SOUTH LON DO DAHLN .rI43RICULTUIRAL SOCIETY will hold their GRAND DP. SHOW, being the Last -P .othlbition of the S extra F..and, and an extraordineay Display of Fireworeason. ks will bAn e produced on the occasion. ADMITTANCE, ONE SUILLING. TILE WEATHEAL—SITN OFFICE, SEPTEMBER 5. TBERNONETER, Lowest, 57; Highest. 71 ; Noon, 7 8eR074-ETER, 30.19.—W1ND E., fine. HIGH W/.TER AT LONDON-BRIDGE TRIS TIAY. 31"ning -- 11 "minutes after 1. I Evening .. 38 atinnte.s after I. 1 / 4 • -4. - , --..7'•"1 • e r MO 'Ron 11 Notm,--f Din V fl.l 2N2..7., ebeienins LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER s, 1846. The intellipnce just received from India, in anti cipation of fle Overland Mail, and which of fords us news from. Bombay to the 18th of July, inclusively, is of a mcst calamitous character. Although we have occaslcal to rejoice over the 'tranquillity of o - ur pos sessions in Asia, we are unhappily compe lied to mourn over the calamities which have befaL len our countrymen and the unfortunate natives in th ose ter ritories. Sinde appears to have been again :afflicted with the diseases which have hitherto devastated its provinces by a triennial visitation. Cholera has re cently carried off somewhere about 8,45 1 0 souls, including natives, sepoys, and Europeans, at Kurra chee. Fever of a malignant kind has likewise car ried death among the soldiers stationed at Sukkur. With the exception, however, of these ca lamitous circunistances, the position of the British iJrces in the Fast is exceedingly gratifying. The utmost tranccaillity prevails throughout the I 'unjaub and the adjacent countries ; and, althout;ll the mortality and pecuniary disbursements justify the lamentations of the Bombay Times, it is iml iossible not to look with satisfaction at the events which have recently transpired in British India. However much the consequences of those occurrences may be , cause for regret, however much we may sorrow o ver the sacrifice of life and of specie which they involved, their ulterior result cannot but afford us consolation. Nor do we reason upon that pernicious principle of a vile means being justified by a beneficent end ; we of Course abhor that dogma as not merely c ontra distinguished from all legislative generosity, but as totally opposed to the dictates of every prudential sentiment. Our exultatiou o'er the deeds Which hive THE SUN, LONDON, S recently illustrated Asiatic history is altogether nega tive : we are satisfied with what has there transpired, simply because the result of that bloodshed and rapine must, in all human likelihood, prevent greater blood shed and more grievous rapine at a subsequent period. The victories on the Sutlej, though more sanguinary than the defeats in Caubul, afford infinitely greater reason for the rejoicings of the lovers of. humanity —not 'because the English standards were triumphant --not because Oriental warriors were vanqubhed—but because in the former case may be recognhed a more solid guarantee of the future tran quillity of those regions, and of the less probability of further hostilities and more extended carnage. There was, undoubtedly, a smaller loss of life at Caubul, in proportion to the number of conflicts and of combatants, than in such engagements as the battle of Ferozeshah and the victory of Sobraon ; but with the lesser bloodshed of Caubul there was the greater probability of future disturbances, while with the greater bloodshed of the Sutlej there was the lesser probability of subsequent massacres. The information received from Caubul is of so ex traordinary and extravagant a kind, it is so distorted by improbabilities, and so coloured by romantic de tails, as almost to render credence impossible. Accord ing to the accounts principally in circulation, over tures for the renewal of hostilities with the British have been made to the AMEEE and the associated chieftains of Affghanistan, by a Vakeel or ambas sador, irom no less august a personage than. MAHOMED SHAH BADSHAII KAJUR, the ng of Persia. The solemn reception of this illustrious Vakeel by the head of the Kuzzilbashes ; I his ceremonious introduction to the durbar ; the in terview which subsequently occurred in the Ameer's garden, between MAHOMED AKUAR KHAN and the Persian envoy, and the agreeable hob-nobbing which followed thereupon, are so invested with the colour ing of fiction, that we are almost inclined to regard the narrative as a stray leaf shaken from Mr. LANE'S translation of the " One Thousand and One Nights," than a sober dispatch received during the September of 1846. 'Whether the Shah of PERSIA be really adventurous or designing enough to instigate his neighbours, the Afghanistan warriors, to another outbreak, and whether the A3IEER has sufficient sagacity to resist the rather powerful temptation of his imperial brother, are circumstances which can only be developed by time. DOST MAHOMED KHAN, the wisest and most moderate among the Affghans, is reported to have been considerably affrighted by the daring proposition of the Persian Sovereign, and in the prudence of the AMEER'S character we possess, possibly, tb.e best guarantee that this wild and auda cious sche me will be rejected by his fellow-country men, and ultimately relinquished in Persia. Al th-Jugh the Wuzeer almost promised 20,000 Seikhs, and MAHOMED AKRAM KHAN 30,000 Kohistanees, for the expedition, on condition that its expenses were liquidated out of the Persian exchequer, we can re main satisfied until the arrival of additional intel ligence, firstly, because of the awe which has been stricken into the hearts of the Seikhs and Affghans by the prowess of our soldiers; secondly, because the envoy is not explicitly accredited ; and, thirdly, be cause of the name which DOST 111AnomEn KHAN has acquired for forethought and moderation. The directors of the South-Eastern Railway have determined to exhibit to the public the strongest proof of the necessity of some controlling power, by which the indiscreet and injurious acts of the managing bodies of the different railway companies may be restrained and checked. It would appear as if they were resolved to furnish an unanswerable artgument why the regulation of the fares should be taken out of their hands, or, at least, placed under a vigilant supervision. In every instance in which reductions of fares have taken place there has been a more than proportionate increase of the traffic, and while a great benefit has been conferred upon the public at large, the com panies themselves have derived a larger profit, have won golden opinions from the people, and at the same time obtained a larger dividend on their shares. It is hardly possible to con ceive that any body of men should be so blinded to their own interests, so imbued with erroneous views, and so totally reckless of the good opinion of the community as, at this particular period —immediately after the prorogation of Parliament, by which the possibility of legislative interference is precluded for some time at least—to increase largely the rate of charges by their different trains. This the South-Eastern Company have thought proper to do; and the case is aggravated by the fact, that they rested their opposition during the last session of Parliament to a rival project chiefly on the ground that they had Instae great reductions in their fares, which were then Ir.: , obably cheaper than almost any other trunk line in ' the kingdom. This moderation on the part of the directors of the South-Eastern Company it is gene rally supposed was the chief cause of the rejection of the North Kent line, by which a great saving in the distance to be travelled would have been afforded to the inhabitants of the greater part of the county. Dover, itself, would have been brought much (sixteen miles) nearer to the metropolis, and thus the greater part of the passengers proceeding to the continent would have been secured by the North Kent. Perhaps there is no other of the trunk lines in England that would have so much reason to fear competition, or to dread the sanction of the Legislature being granted to an opposing railway. The circuitous route, by which the greater portion of the passengers are obliged to travel, in order to reach their several destinations—the greater distance to be traversed is in itself a grievance of sufficient magnitude, and one which could only (if at all) be compensated by the greatest attention to the public interests in ell other respects, an extraordinary degree of accommodation, and, above all, a special care that partiPs should not be compelled to pay an increased price for the additional space over which they were taken. The most specious promises were held out by the directors, they complacently pointed out to Mr. MORRISON'S Committee that the fares of the South-Eastern Company had experienced a greater reduction than even those on the London and Birmingham line. The correctness of the con duct of third-class passengers was borne honourable testimony to by the chairman of the company, and, in fact, little was to be desired on the part of the managers, except, perhaps, a greater degree of punc tuality—a stricter adherence to the specified times of the departures and arrivals of the dif ferent trains. Many, on the faith of the implied promise held out by the company, took country places, calculating their expenses according to the old and long-continued scale of charges. On such persons, the nature of whose avocations acquire an almost daily attendance in town, an injury has been inflicted ; an additional expenditure of 155., 205., or perhaps 30s. per week has been rendered neces sary—a serious matter to many who are obliged to look closely to their outgoings, to manage their incomes with the utmost degree of prudence, economy, and foresight. It is not too much to say that the additional charge would in many instances have deterred the parties from a residence in Kent or Sussex, and would have induced them to select their country quarters in the neighbourhood of some rail way whose directors would not in their corporate capacitycommit an act of which each, asan individual, would scorn to be guilty. The manner too in which the increase has been effected has been most unwise and injudicious ; it has been higher, in proportion, on the class least able to afford it, and greater for short than long distances. Thus, for the entire distance the advance has been to express and first-class passeng , , ,, 10 per cent., or from 18s. to 205., and from r 16s. 6d. ; to second-class passenger?, 20 per cent., to from 10s. to 125.; and to, or ,d class 221 per cent., or from 6s. to 17:o the ss.s ib,cytdh. charge. g e 2 being the highest amount they could greater —ex. gr., the For shorter distances it is mur,h change in the old and new fares to T unb ridge Wells are as follows, viz. : OLD FARES. Express ,!, 43. °' NEW FARES. Ist Class ., d. Express l OB. 6d . 2d Class . Od. Ist Cl ass Bs. 6d. 3d Class 4s. 6d. 2d Cl ass Gs. 6d. ..... 2s. Bd. 3d Class 3s.lod. being an ; :ncrea se o f 2 21 per cent. on the first class, and nP, less than 45 per cent. on the second and third class. This increase is the more objectionable when it is considered that the passenger§ are taken 11 miles 1 additional ; the distance by road being 35 miles only, while by the railway it is 46 miles. Again, to Maidstone, where 22 additional miles must be traversed, the charge is as follows : Trains. Old Fares. New Fares. s. d. s. d. Express Ordinary first-class Ordinary second class Ordinary third-class being an increase on the express of 37i per cent., on the ordinary first-class 28i per cent., on the second-class 44 per cent., and on the third-class 50 per cent. We trust that the directors will not obstinately persist in the error they have committed, but that they will speedily, and with a good grace, yield to the strongly-expressed feeling of the public, and, by an immediate recur rence to the former charges, make all the amends in their power to the parties injured. By so doing they may obtain a pardon for their mistake ; but should they persevere, a just retribution will convince them that they have miscalculated the extent of the national forbearance. A question of considerable importance, connected with the unfortunate failure of the potato crop in the south of Ireland, has recently come before the petit sessions at Fermoy. It appears that a common custom, prevalent throughout the greater part of that kingdom, is for the farmer to contract with his labourers for their employment for a period of twelve months, and that a part of the remuneration given consists of a house, and a plot of ground for a crop of potatoes, possession of which is given to the labourer on entering into the agreement, and the stipulated price is liquidated by the labour of the tenant, at a certain rate per diem, who is said to be working against his rent. It is but justice to the humbler classes to state that hitherto these engagements have been most religiously observed and punctually ful filled on their parts; and that though the rents demanded and obtained have been very high, and far beyond the money value of the premises, scarcely an instance can be mentioned of default in giving the stipulated quantity of labour. Their entire re sources in the earlier part of the year are devoted to the cultivation of the plots so let to them : on these they expend their time, their labour, and the residue of their last year's crop as seed. And they look for ward to the return therefrom as affording the only means of subsistence to themselves and families from the time of the incoming of the potato crop. Their humble wants are satisfied with the food and shelter they so obtain, and they are enabled thereby to give their labour without any money payment therefor. In the present year, however, circumstances have differed materially from what they have been on otdi nary occasions. A fearfurvisitation of PROVIDENCE has blighted the crops, and threatened famine and desti tution throughout the country; the potato gardens, on which their little all was expended, have been totally destroyed ; the produce is unfit for human food, and not worth the labour of digging. The wretehed cottiers are left without food of any description, and without the means of procuring a single meal for their starving families. They repre sented to their employers the miserable condition to which they had been reduced, the utter impossibility that they could, continue to work out the rent agreed on ; that flesh and blood required support, and that men could not labour without the means of sustaining human nature ; they could not bear the tears and lamentations of their famishing children, and see the partners of their cares and sorrows pine away before their eyes ; and they concluded with the moderate and reasonable request that the farmers would pay the wages for their labour in cash, and permit the rents of the gardens, now a mass of rottenness, to lie over as a civil debt, to be defrayed at any future period when a more favourable state of things might exist, and there would be the possibility of a surplus to be applied towards its liquidation. This, however, was in the majority of cases refused ; they had set their seals to the bond, they had entered into a contract, which should be fulfilled per fas et nefas. The rustic Shylocks were resolved upon exacting their pounds of flesh. Those who would probably have to apply for allow ances to their own landlords demanded by the universal failure—who would justify the falling into arrears of rent by the imperative necessity that existed of sustaining their own families before any portion could be applied to the satisfaction of the claim, had no bowels of mercy for their poorer neighbours, and would not yield to the argument which they felt to be of peculiar force in their own cases. They had recourse to an old statute, 43 Geo 111., cap. 86, which has frequently been acted on in similar cases, and which provides "that labourers refusing to work, or neglecting their work during the time for which they should be engaged, might be com mitted to gaol for any time not exceeding six months, or to the House of Correction, to be kept to hard labour, for any period not exceeding three months." This stringent enactment was the power by which the farmers sought to enforce work from the starving men. The wives and children were to be driven to the workhouses, while the husbands, the fathers, would be hurried off to gaol to expiate, as criminals, the non-performance of an agreement which it was morally impossible that they could specifically per form. A number of summonses were obtained under the statute alluded to, and it is hardly necessary to say that the proceedings were watched by the multi tude with the most thrilling and intense interest. It is impossible to estimate what would have been the consequences of a conviction. It is said that hunger will break through stone walls, and we can only faintly image to ourselves the riots and disturbances that must have inevitably ensued in such a case. Extraordinary measures would, indeed, have been necessary to preserve the peace of the districts so painfully menaced. This result was, however, averted by the talent and ability of the professional gentleman (Mr. CARROLL), who conducted the defence. lie boldly impeached the previous decisions, as having been made on erroneous grounds, and argued " that the statute only applied to cases where the hiring was for money wages, or where the employer was willing to pay the labourer in cash, without making any de duction for the rent of his house or potato garden. That the agreement was only a civil contract, on which the farmer might proceed for the recovery of the debt, when due, before the assistant-barrister, or by any of the other means afforded for the recovery of such debts." A difference of opinion took place amongst the magistrates on the bench, three being of opinion that they had the power of committing the defendants to prison, and wishing to exercise that power, while four adopted the argument of Mr. CARROLL, and took the more humane, and, as it eventually proved, the more correct, view of the enactment. It was finally determined that the cases should be postponed for the opinion of the law advisers of the Crown ; and we are happy to say that that opinion has been in adcordance with that of the majority of the justices, and that it has been pro nounced not to be within the summary jurisdiction of the justices under the statute. By this decision the peace and tranquillity 0 1. th e . country will be preser ve d, an d an extra ' amount of human suffering b e averted. ..ordinary - tainly a h ar d case on th e f armers, It is cult ...e to bear it —th e re eventually fall on those best abl taut th e l oss m presentatives of the wealth '..nd property of the country. The Levant MAid has arrived, bringing intelligence f rom , Constant; Anop i e, Smyrna, and Athens. The Srr pna papers of the 21st state that ME- Ala sailed on the 17th from Constantinople, in_ the. Turkish steamer Esseri-Djedid, followed by the Egyptian steamers Nile and Boulag. The Journal de Oonstantinople of the 16th gives the following particulars of his visit : " Mehemet All, it is expected, will l e a ve to-morrow evening by the Ottoman steamer Esseri-Djedi.O. He will be attended as far as Cairo by Amid Bey, first Chamberlain to the Sultan. During the stay of Mehemet Ali in this mipital, which has been nearly a m ()nth, he has been everywhere received with marks of the ifighest distinction, and h', ; .q visit will, doubtless, tend to consoli date the relations bet ween Egypt and the mother t •ountry. During the st a y o f the Vi ceroy in the Turkish capital, be has given away i n char,!tY and pres en t s t h e en( , rmaus sum of fifty millions of piastrN. He has received ' mag nificent presents from the Sultan ;Ind Sultanas; roct tongst the number ar e a b r illi ant, weighing 27 carats, and at more than a m illi on of piastres, and six vases or' . solid gold, enriched with di amonds. " -.mined The same journal says, in reference to the rec.* 3nt disturbances in the Turkish provinces borderiu g on the Black Sea : WhO luquirY WO the 6 441 0 6409 4 at Ent3 Mi ra Y_.. - . . „ _ ATTIRDAY EVENT is being actively carried on ; the authorities in this case give proofs both of their firmness and modera tion. According to the last accounts received from the Hadjara, a second engagement had taken place, in which the rebels had been defeated. There is no doubt but that, with the reinforcements which Eumer Pacha has received from Constantinople, order will be speedily re stored. In a few days we shall doubtless learn that no thing remains of the disturbances but the punishment to be inflicted on Keur Hussein Bey, the leader of the re hellion." An Ottoman squadron, consisting of two ships of the line, three frigates, four brigs, a schooner, and two steamers, is about to sail for the Archipelago. The Athens journals of the 20th state that some fresh shocks of an earthquake had been experienced at Alessinia, which had so alarmed the inhabitants that they had encamped in the open fields. It was rumoured in Athens that some of the more turbulent spirits on the Thessalian frontier were organising an. invasion of that province with the tacit consent of M COLETTI, the Greek Minister. Some pirates had captured a small vessel off Nicaria, and had put the crew to the sword. Letters from Rome of the 22d ult. state that the Papal Government is about to contract for a loan with native and Belgian capitalists, for the pur pose of converting the rive per Cents., and thus reducing the expenditure of the State to a level with the revenue. The Legates and Delegates of the provinces have been ordered to return a list of all public functionaries, stating their capacities and their salaries. It is also proposed to enter into a convention with France for the transpor tation of condemned convicts to Algiers. The Government of Saxony has acceded to the con vention concluded between Prussia and England on the subject of international copyright. This fact is announced in the Cologne Gazette. A letter from Vienna, published in the Hamburgh Correspondent of the 29th, states that Prince MET TERNICH was occupied at Kcenigsburgh with the question of Schleswig-Holstein. `lt will be regarded generally in a federal point of view, and the resolu tion of the Diet will have the force of a law. All the German Governments are in accord on this point. Madrid papers of the 29th August have arrived. The Gazette publishes the following decree, an nouncing the approaching marriage of the QUEEN :- " We, Isabella 11., by the grace of God, and by the constitution of the kingdom, Queen of Spain, to all whom these presents may come, make known, that having re solved to contract a marriage with our cousin, Don Francisco d'Assis Maria, in order that the provisions of Article 47 of the Constitution may receive their accom plishment, using our Royal prerogative, and after having taken the advice of our Council of Ministers, we have decided on convoking, and do convoke by this present or donnance the Cortes of the kingdom for the 14th Sep tember next. To this effect we do command that on the said 14th September in this present year the Senators and Deputies be assembled in the capital of Spain for a meeting of the Cortes. " Given at our palace this 28th day of August, 1846. " I, THE QUEEN. (Countersigned) " Minister of the Interior, " PEDRO TIDAL." MADRID BOMA, AUG. 29.—The Three per Cents. were done at 36 35i for cash ; the Four per Cents. at 22 ; the Five per Cents. at 23 ; the Passives at 64; and the Coupons at 201. We have received the Paris papers of Thursday. The Constitutionnel has a long article on the sub ject of the marriage of the Queen of SPAIN, in the course of which it states that Lord PALMERSTON has expressed his objection to the marriage of the Due DE MONTPENSIER with either the QUEEN or the INFANTA. " The Alinisters," says the Constitutionnel, "readily assent to that exclusion, as respects the QUEEN, since that marriage was always refused by the Court of France ; but they will assent with less resignation to the exclusion as respects the INFANTA. The following address in reply to the Speech from the Throne, was agreed to by the Chamber of Depu ties on Thursday by a large majority. " Sire,—The Chamber of Deputies has promptly re sponded to the call of your Majesty. The will of the Charter had to be accomplished, and we were all anxious to lay before the constitutional throne our respect and our oaths. " Your Majesty announces to us that at the period of our ordinary labours you will lay before us measures connected with the domestic and foreign affairs of the State ; we will then enter into an examination of the questions which regard all the interests of the country, its prosperity, and its grandeur. But at the present mo ment we have a mission to fulfil which we love,—France has charged us to bear to you the faithful expression of the sentiments with which she is penetrated towards you and your family. "In honouring us with her suffrages, she has loudly declared that between her and you, between her and your dynasty, the alliance is indissoluble. " Siie,—Yo . o have learnt from your youth to love and serve France ; there are no trials which you have not supported, no dangers which you have not every day incurred, to secure her repose and her happiness. Pro vidence protects you, and will prolong that reign which the will of the nation has founded for the safety of our laws and of our liberties. Both your children and ours will reap the fruits of our common efforts, and, as the highest recompense, your name will live blessed and re spected in the memory of the country." In the course of the debate, M. DUCIIATEL, the Minister of the Interior, stated, in reply to N. LARABIT, that the Government had adopted measures to prevent a recurrence of the incendiary fires ; and that several incendiaries were in the hands of justice. N. LAROCIIEJAQUELIN thought it right to defend the Legitimatist party from the accusation that they were connected with the incendiaries, and the subject dropped. The Chamber at its rising, was prorogued to the ith of January. _ Mr. COBDEN arrived at Bourdeaux on Sunday. He was received by M. DUFFOUR DUBERGIER, the Mayor, and invited to a grand banquet to be given in his honour by the Free Trade Association on the 4th September, which invitation he at once accepted. The Marquis of NORMANDY has left Paris for Vichey. The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Thursday at 84f. 35c. ; the Five per Cents., 122 f. 10c. ; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,277 f. 50c; Rouen, 9CBf. 75c.; Havre, 712 f. 50c. ,• Great Northern, 720 f. ; Avignon, 938 f. ; Vierzon, 633 f. 75c.; Bordeaux, 580 f.; Boulogne, 495 f.; Basle, 220 f.; Fampoux, 400 f. ; Dieppe, 390 f. ; Paris and Strasburg, 500 f. ' • Tours and Nantes, 508 f. 75c. ; Paris and Lyons, 535 f. ; Lyons and Avignon, 495 f.; Bor deaux and Cette, 487 f. 50c.; Spanish Domestic Debt, 34 , A ; Ditto Passives, 5 1 4. The following are the quotations for the new lines : LYONS, SEPT. I.—Avignon and Marseilles, 912 f. 50c.; Northern, 708 f. 75c. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, SEPTEMBER 4. Boulogne and Amiens, 13%—Direct Bombay and Madras, % —East Indian, %—Louvain a la Sambre, I li—Namur and Liege, 2%—Orleans and Bordeaux,.B%—Paris and Rouen, 37U —Rouen and Havre, 28. THE SUN ExPaEss.--The Queen's speech was de livered by commission on Friday afternoon, and copies of The Sun newspaper containing the speech, were for warded to this city the same evening, by Mr. Murdo Young, the spirited proprietor of that promptest of all prints.— Western Times. DEATH OF SIR ROBERT PRESTON, BART.-Sir Robert Preston, Bart., the oldest of that class of title in the empire, expired at Blackadder on the 30th ult., in the ninetieth year of his age. He was born in 1757, being the only son of the celebrated General George Preston (who at one period was commander of the Royal North British Dragoons), by the daughter of James Johnston, Esq. He married his consin, daughter to John Preston, Esq., of Gorton, and had issue, amongst other children, Robert Preston, Esq., formerly a Diajor in the army, who succeeds to the title and estates. The latter are in Lincolnshire' Somersetshire, and Perthshire, and the family of the deceased were known as the Prestons Walleyfield, in the latter county. The title, a Scotch one, was created in 1637, and the sixth baronet having died in 1834 without any issue on the male line, of the first baronet, the title reverted accord ing to patent of creation to the nearest male collateral relative, the deceased, who was the representative of the first baronet's nearest brother. AN ADVERTISING VAN IN DIFFICULTIES.—Yes terday, at noon, as one of Sir Peter's " antipathies " was perambulating Seymour-street, Somers-town, covered with enormous placards, vaunting the unparallelled vir tues of some doctor somebody's lotion, the horse that drew the vehicle took fright, and singular enough, depo sited the whole freight of medical wonders in the shop of Mr. Nobbs, chemist, &c., at the corner of Charles street, and Upper Seymour-street, via the window. Luckily the fracture of a few panes of glass, and not a little threatened peril to more than one of those portly and partly-coloured vases which are certainly the most attractive if not the most harmless objects in a druggist's shop, embraced the extent of the mischief done. A SECOND BERNARD CAVANAGH. - Lord J. Manners visited at the workhouse John Harden, a pauper of diseased mind, who is now for thirty-three days without having taken a particle of solid food. The un fortunate man is little altered in person, except about the regions of the stomach, which is sunk in and quite reduced. He is compelled, with great difficulty, to take a nogging or two of broth in the twenty-four hours.— Limerick Chronicle. THE OUT-PENSIONERS Or CHELSEA HOSPITAL,-.- On Thursday all the out• pensioners of Chelsea Hospital, on being paid their quarterly pensions, received a por tion of their accoutrements preparatory to their being called out for actual service. Prince George of Cambridge, it is understood, will enter upon his duties as Commander of the southern dis trict of Ireland early neat mouth. His official residence will be at Limerick. Or, S.EPTEMBVR 5, 1A46, MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The Cotton market at Liverpool yesterday was firm. 1 1 Sales, 8,000 bales, making 66,730 for the week. The stock was 998.000 bales at the outport on the 4th of September, 1845, against 741,500 bales now.—Shares were flat again yesterday. Messrs. Lamond and Co.'s sale yesterday went offrather quietly. Little speculation is going on, from the ab sence of so many of the principal operators in the country. A good business was done. The following are a few of the sales:— Great North of India £0 5 6 Cambridge and Oxford ... 1 7 6 Reading, Guildford, and Reigate 1 2 0 Reading and Reigate 1 1 6 Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston Taw Vale Extension and Dock 0 11 0 Great Eastern and Western 1 0 0 Norfolk Extens. to Norwich and Brandon 2 7 0 London and York .. Eastern Counties, York Extension 2 7 0 Shrewsby., Wolvcrh., and South Stafford 2 8 6 Churnet and Blythe Shrewsbury and Birmingham South-Eastern and Dover, No. 1 25 15 0 Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham East Indian 0 17 0 Paris and Lyons East Lincolnshire Direct. Northern 1 15 6 Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush London and Blackwall, New . 412 0 Northern and Southern Connecting Grand Union West Riding Union ... Manchester and Southampton 1 3 0 Louvain ala Sambre - Great Western of Bengal Oll 6 Derby, Stafford, and Worcestershire Shropshire Union and Canal The private accounts received from the West Indies this morning are considered of a favourable character. It is with regret we find by the advices from the United States and Canada that the wheat, the cotton, and potato crops are likely to be short. Upon this sub ject we are thus advised:— "From extensive inquiries we believe we may safely state that almost one-fourth of the whole wheat crop will be lost from the effect of rust ; but in consequence of the rank growth, and an extra quantity of land sown, the yield on the whole will not be less than last year. " A gentleman who has sixty acres of land in potatoes in the Miami bottom, informs the Cincinnati Chronicle that his potatoes are rotting rapidly in the ground, and in digging in several parts of the field, for the purpose of ascertaining if the rot was general, he stated that the smell arising from the ones already decayed, was almost past endurance, and that he did not expect to save one hundred bushels out of the whole field. All that he has seen have the black spot described. A dealer in Cincinnati last week purchased a lot of potatoes, at which time they were apparently in good order, and when he was rolling them out for the purposeof shipping them, the head fell out of one of the barrels, when he discovered that a large portion of them were spoiled ; and upon examining them he discovered a black spot on the surface which passed through the potato. " The accounts received yesterday from Red River are quite discouraging for the cotton planter, the im proved prospects which we noticed some time ago hay ing disappeared since the visitation of the caterpillar. We have letters before us from Alexandria, under date of the 6th instant, which mention that this insect is the regular army worm, which committed such havoc in 1840, and that it has now generally made its appearance in Rapides and the adjoining parishes, threatening to inflict great injury on the crops. The same complaints begin to reach us from Bayou Sara, and some apprehen sion is felt lest the visitation should become general throughout the cotton growing region. " The first bale of new cotton, of the season, states the Republican, was received in Savannah on Wednesday, by the Central Railroad, from Macan. The staple was touch cut i❑ ginning, and the colour is represented as dull, quality about middling fair. The consignee not being able to obtain the price asked for it, 10 cts. per lb., shipped it to New York. " Indian corn and other fall crops are suffering se verely for the want of rain. It is feared that the corn will fall far below the usual average the present year. On the other hand, the wheat is abundant, and of an excellent quality, generally averaging 631bs. or 651bs. per bushel." The weekly return from the Bank of England shows the following changes, as compared with the items of its predecessor:— An increase in the notes issued of 221,900/, or to 29,875,8901. A decrease in the Rest of 58,8401., or to 3,554,3701. An increase in the public deposits of 299,2101., or to 7,142,2121. A decrease in the other deposits of 912,1581., or to 9,161,1581. A slight decrease in the seven days' and other bills. A decrease in the other securities of 617,3761., or to 12,395,4571. A decrease in the notes in the banking department to 9,449,7601. The increase in the amount of bullion and specie of 189,4021., or to 16,366,0681. Consols for Money and Account have been firm to day, the former at 96i -I, and the latter at 96,-I Ex chequer-bills have gone back a shade, as have also India Bonds. Bank Stock remains at yesterday's value. In the Foreign Stock Market we have to notice an improvement in Portuguese Four per Cents. to 48, and in Spanish to 39i for the Three per Cents. In the other Stocks the changes have been slight. The Railway Shares are mostly in dull request. ONE CLOSING PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES. 3 per Cent. Reduced Anns 95%% 95 1 / 4 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 9 6 1 4 1 /4 96 1 / 4 New 3 1 4 per Cent. Annuities 98% 3 4 98% Long Annuities to expire Jan.lB6o 1014 Ditto 30 years, Oct. 10,1859 Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 — 10 3-16 India Bonds, 1,0001.. Ditto under 1,0001. . Consols for Account.... .... . ..... - 96% Exchequer Bills, 1,0004 1 Ditto 5001. Ditto Small ... 17 20 15 pm. 15 ONE CLOSING PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK PRICES Brazilian Bonds Ditto, New, 1829 and 1839 8 8 34 88 3 % Danish Bonds, 1825, 3 per Cent BBM % 88% Equador Bonds Granada Bonds, 1 per Cent. 20% 20 3 4 Ditto Deferred 3 3 /4 3 3 4 Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents 37 37 Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent .. 47 48 47 47 Ditto, Account Russian Bonds ........... 110% 110% Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. ...... ... Ditto, Passive _6% __. Ditto, Account 27% 3 4 Ditto, 3 per Cent 39 -qv 27 3 7 4 394 'q v Ditto, Account Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent 43 43 Dividends on the above payable in London. PRICES OF BUSINESS DONE CLOSING RAILWAY SHARES PAID ' AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES. Aberdeen Amber., Nott,, Boston, and Eastern Junction 2%.. Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush l% Aylesbury and Theme.. 1% Belfast & County Down 2 1, A ...... Birmin. and Gloucester. 100 l3O ...... ......... 130 Ditto New 17% Birmingham and Ox- - ford Junction Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire June.... 23% — Boston, Stamfcl, & Birm. 22s Bristol and Exeter 75 Ditto, New Bristol and Gloucester 3O ...... Bristol and Liver. June Buckinghamshire Caledonian Ditto Half Shares...... 2% — •.• ..... Ditto Extension . 2 . .. .2 1 / — Cambrian & Grand Janc 4is - Cambridge and Oxford.. 1% l% Central Kent 2% Chester and Holyhead... 27 1 Churnet and Blyth ,, 2 Chester and Manchester 425. Cheltenham and Oxford 2 Clydesdale Junction ..... 15 Cork, Blackrock, and Passages Cork and Killarney Cork and Waterford ... PA — Cornwall ... „ .. Cornwall & Cent'lDevon 2 — Herby and Crewe ... 2% — Direct Lincoln, East Ret ford, and Sheffcl. June. 2% Direct Manchester 86 1 /, % dis 15% 13A - 11/2 1U (Remington's) Ditto (Rastrick's) 5ll/...... - .. ... ... . ..... Direct Northern Direct Norwich 1 Dublin and BelfastJunc. 10 - Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine Dublin and Galway..... 4 Dundalk & Enniskillen 7% Eastern Counties 141. 16s — Ditto New lO/. 16s. — Ditto Perpetual, 5 per Cent, No. 1.......61.135. 4d.... .. Ditto ditto. No. 2... 61. 13s. 4d... Do., York Extension.. 105....... 2 EastDereh'm andNor'ch 1 Eastern Union 35 .. ... • Ditto, Quarter Shares 8 3 4 -- Do. Exten.(Harwich) 1 7 4 3 — ......... ..... - • - -- )1 , ' /2 • , Do., Camb. and Ely 2 1 / 2 ...... East Lancashire East Lincolnshire East & West of England 1X 3 ...... Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ...... Ditto Half Shares Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% ...... D. N 12% _iitto, New Edinburgh & Northern.. 10 Edinburgh and Perth... 3 Ely and Huntingdon ... 7 1 / 2 ...... Enniskillen and Sligo ... 2% — Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorset 5 1 4 — Glasgow, Kilmar., & Ayr 50 Ditto, New Do., 1 4 Shares (5 per cent. guar.) Glonc.,Abei ystwith,and Central of Wales 1%...... Goole, Doncaster, &c... 425. - Grand Union (Noaing and Lynn Great Eastern &Western 2 4...... ........ ... GreatGrimsby and Shef field Great South. and West (Ireland) Great Munster ... 2% Great North of Scotland 2 /...... great North of Eneand..loo .229 Ditto New 5 Ditto, New . Ditto, New Great Western B5 147 Ditto 1 .2 Shares 5O Ditto Shares lO Ditto Fifths Guildford, Fare'm; Ports. 5 ... Harwich and Eastern Counties Junction 2 ...... Hull and Selby 5O Ditto M Shares Do. Half Shares 25 Inverness and Elgin ...... 2 Ipswich & Bury St. Edm. 9 Do., do , and Norwich 2% — Irish North Midland ... 1 8 — Killarney Junctions l l4 Kendal and Windermere 1 1 / — Lancaster and Carlisle... 45 Do. New Lame, Belfast, and Bal lymena IC% Leeds and Bradford Leeds and Carlisle Leicester & Birmingham 225. — Leicester and Bedford... 225. Leeds and Dewsbury ... 17% Leicester and Tam w., &c. 425. Lpool., Mnchstr, & New- - castle Junction Liverpool and Bury ... 14 .. .. London and Blackwall. 16 , . 135.4 d. i Wo. New .._. 70 1 A, 63 1 A . . Ditto Extension ...... 5 ...... .. London and Brighton... 50 Ditto, Fifths 3O •••—• London and Croydon, 13/ 15s. 9d. Do. Guaran. 5 per cent. 9 Landon and Greenwich 12115 s 4d — Do. Preference ...18117s 2d London, Hounslow, and Western London and N. Westernloo 20 5 1/ 204 Do. Quarters Do., no., New Shares.. - - ••••e• ......... Ditto Fiftl' .... 2 •• 41•••• Ditto, Eighths (G. J.) 12 1 / 2 Do., New % Shares (G. J.) — Do. 40/. Shares (L. M.) 6 Lond. &S. Western 41/ 6s 10d 71% 71 71 1 / 2 xd 72 x d Do. New Consol. Bths 40 Do. New Do. New - 20 V, London and York Do. 1 / 2 Shares London and Windsor . 1,t... London Salisbury, and Yeovil ..... ............. 2 1 / 2 ••• Londonderry& Coleraine 12 1 / 2 . Londonderry and Ennis killen - ....... .. 12 1 / 2 Lynn and Ely Lynn and Dereham l5 ..i... .- ....... ... Manchester and Leeds Ditto J' Shares Do. Quarters Do. Fifths Do. Sixteenths 614 — Do. Extension 42s. 2 3% p... 2 l /2 p Manchester and Birmin 4O Do. Quarters (A) Do. Quarters (B) ... 5 Do. Quarters (C). 1 Manchester,Buxton,and Matlock 425....... 1 1 / 2 p l% p Manchester, Birm., and Mould Junction .. Manchest. & Southampt. 2 ...-... 13-,i, 1 4 Midland . .... 100 ••• .. Do. Fifths 2 Do. New Do. Birm., and Derbyloo Midlnd & East. Counties 2% % Midland Great Western Irish Newcastle and Darling- 53 4 161 / 4 11 % 140% 37 1 4 -8 ... ton Junction 25 ...... 42% 3 % Do. New ... 1 1 0 34 T s Newcastle and Berwick 15 42 1 / 2 10% Do. North Shields ... 25 Newcastlf , and Carlisle...loo Newport & Abergavenny 2 1 / 2 . — Newry and Enniskillen 4 % — .... Newark, Sheffield, and Boston ... .. .. 1 8..... 3 4... ........ .. Norfolk .., ... Do. Half Shares Do. Tenths Do. Extension North British . ....... ... 25 ...... 35% 3B Do. Half Sham Do. Fifths .. 5 Do. Carlisle Extens. 1 1 4 — North of Norfolk 2 34 Northern and Eastern... 50 Do. Scnp (issd. 5 dis.) 45 Do. Quarter Shares... 12% — Do. New N. Kent & Direct Dover 2% — ...... ....... —.. North Staffordshire 425....... 3 3 4 p • 3 % P North Wales ... Northern and Southern Connecting Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham Nottingham & Mansfld. Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Oxford, Witney, and Cheltenham.... Pilbrow Atmospheric ... 1 ..-.... Portsmouth Direct 3 34 5 Preston and Wyre Do. % Shares Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Richmond Rugby, Leamington,and Warwick Scottish Central Do. New 2% Scottish Midland lO Do. Extension 2% Sheffield, Buxton, Leek Potteries, andCrewe... 1% Sheffield & Manchester 100 Do. Quarter Shares... 8 Do. Lincolnshire June. VA Do.l& Great Grimsby. 10 Do. do. Extension 425. .... Shrewsbury and Birm... 2%..... ....... Shropshire Union Shrews., Wolverhamp., &S. Staffordsh. Juac. 2 1 4 Sligo and Shannon 1 x South Devon... 35 ... South Midland 42s. South & Midlands June. 425...... South StaffordshireJunc. 2% South Eastern & Dover 33% 43% De., No. 1 20 Do., No. 2. Do., No. 3 Do., Ne. 4 St. Alban's, Hatfield, and Hertford Junction ... 42e. — Staines and Richmond... 1 Staffordsh. & Shropshire 2 3 / — South Wales ... ... 5 Swans. & Loughor & Ca- 2% 38 1 4 16 1 4 ..... ..• ••• ...... ... 414 meron's Stri. Coal. 2 ••• ...... ... Taw Vale Extension 2 ••• •• •• ...... Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke Vale of Neath ...... 2 •• •• ..... ••• Wakefield, Pontefract, & Goole 22% ......... Warwickshire & London 425. Warwick and Worcester 425. Waterford and Kilkenny 8 Waterford and Limerick 22% — ... Waterfd,Wxfrd,Wicklw, and Dublin Wexford, vs aterford, and Valentia Waveney Valley 2 Welsh Midland West Riding Union 42s. p West Cornwall ...... 2 ... . WestLondon,Old Shares 20 Wexford and Carlow ... Wisbeach and St. Ives... 2 Wilts, Somerset, & Wey- % P 43% 2% p - lO — mouth Worcester,Hereford,Ross, and G10uce5ter......... 425. Worcester, Tenbury, and Ludlow ............ .. ... 2% Worcester,Warwick, and Rugby York and Carlisle 2% — ...... ......., York and North Midland 50 — Ditto 1 / Shares 25 Do . Scarboro' Branch. 25 Do. Selby 3O — Do. Extension 2O — Do. East and West Rid ing Extension FOREIGN RAILWAYS. _ 3/4 1 Anglo-Belgian 4 — Barbadoes 1 ...... Boulogne and Amiens— l4 ...... 13%%.. „. ..... Bordeaux & Mediterran 2 — Bordeaux,Toulonse, and Cette (Mackenzie's)... 2 .. ... 1% Do. (Espelete's) Calais, Dunkrk, and West Flanders Calcutta and Diamond Harbour ....... ..... Callao, Lima, and Pacific Coast 1 .. ... ... .. ......... Central of Spain ..... Ceylon .. .... ss. Demerara ... . Dendre Valley Direct Bombay and Madras Dutch Rhenish 6 — East Indian ... ..... .... 58. Eastern Belgian Junctn. 2'4 . ••• Fampoux & Hazebrouk 4 Great Indian Peninsular ss. ...... Great Western Bengal... 55....... Great Western Canada... 3 1 4 ...... Italian and Austrian 3 Jamaica S.Mid. Junction 1 Jersey Louvain ala Sambre ... 5 ... . Luxembourg... ......... .. 4 Lyons and Avignon 2 — Madras 1 — Madras, Nellore, and Arcot l/ - Madrid and Valentia.... 2 •• •• • Mauritius .. Namur and Liege Nn of France Constituted 5 ...... 13% 13% North Jamaica... ...... ... 1 Orleans and Vierzon ... 10 Orleans and Bordeaux... 6 Over Yssel 4/ 3s 4d — Paris &Lyon.sConstituted 5 Paris and Orleans 2O Paris and Rouen 2O Paris and Strasbourg 13% 1% 6% Constituted 5 Rouen and Havre Sambre and Meuse ...... 8 •••• Strasbourg and Bale ... 14 ...... Bt. LUITAC4 & Atlaatio ..! ~.,.. r_7 . - - ... _ Tours and Nantes Con stituted Tournay, Jurbine, Lan den, and Ha55e11....... 8 Trinid:l West Flanders ...... 6 JOINT STOCK BANKS. Australasia British North American 50 Colonial 25 ....••• • ...... Commercial of London 20 London Joint Stock lO Landonn & Westminstor. 1:30 National Prov. England. 35 National of Ireland 2 2 1/, - ..- ....................................... provincial of Ireland ... 25 Union of Australia Union of London... MINES Real del Lionte Unregd. A 1 LLOYD'S SRIPPENG.—(THIS D -- 1 d fin L e o c w ie n a o r N w , e S a E th p e T r .. E.N.E., moderate breeze, an, has pa t GUERNSEY, SErr. 2.--The Reward, Heniker, back, with loss of bowsprit, &c.,;;,aving been in contact an American ship. al DusitAntc, SErr. 2.—Arrd. R. N. K o rker, St. John ' Clue . STANAGO, AUG. 31.—The Warner, of ,5 o altcoate, f the fro .4, -Stli bec, bound to Spey, drifted on the rocks on in a calm, but got ff.o 4 DEAL, FED. 4.— 0 Wind E.N.E.—Arrd. fro,7 , Ripe n sailed, Everetta, Darley, Sydney, New South 1,; ales; -Ewa' M'Leod, Calcutta ; Morley, Hurst, Madras ; Mars °, Callao ; Portland, Robinson, St. John's, New Bruos4ittp; Frederick Grover, ditto ; William Penn, Stevensonf,,n Elizabeth, Watson, Quebec. A body has been picked 0%01 the Gull Stream ; in the case of his watch is the ns. " F. P. Sackmann, Altona ;” and two other bodies, '13..1,1pg rently foreigners, have been picked up in the Downs, ha oats attached to their clothes. Col* LIVERPOOL, SErr. 4.—Wind Gardner7„;tto China; Crown, Fletcher, Bombay ; Lane, Wilson, ui Guard, Pa;;? ; Zanzibar and Cape of Goad Hope; Wes t ,„ rn aj b; land, Young, lid.hia; Aurelius, Virginia; 'Barlow, Poi"„ t tsf Neon], Peterson, Lul'ec. Sld. Penang, IlAwkins, ; Oscar, Frame, Trinidad ; Pakenham, BoOrne , Ja ni;l ifeA Jenny, Boyson, St. Thomas's ; Medimsch, _0 0 4 813 ;0A Orleans ; Clarbone, Lavansaller, ditto ; Meteor, •L' a ,,' plita # ditto ; Paul Jones, Watkins, Boston ; Blanschan"weisbr schard, Portland; Cambria steamer, Halifax ; Prince Edward's Island ; Triamvirate, Hunt, NewfoartelPP Sphynx, Commbeer, ditto. goot 4 CLYDE, SEPT. 2.—Arrd. Queo,7 of the Isles, Leas h ' Aitta; real ; Jamaica, Martin, ditto ,• 3n, lanthe, Hunter , ;00 Jane Redden, Buste, ditto. Sid. 3d, Villiam Glen An Hood, Restigouche. DUBLIN, SEPT. 3.—Arrd. Hugh, Fletcher, Plll3 l 9 Sii iiritieb CORK, SEPT. I.—Arrd. Salacia, Filsed, Pieta?: ; Queen, Lord, Bristol for Bermuda, leaky, out six we up from lon. 24. LIMERICK, SErr. 3.—Arrd. Stirling, Rickerby, Tatao Jessie, Charles, Miramichi. rVi e°l. BELFAST, SErr. 3.—Arrd. Rebecca, Campbell, Mira aae SUNDERLAND, SEPT. 3.—Arrd. Robinsons, bee; Milo, Weston, ditto. Sid. Isabella, Mitchell, St• New Brunswick. MARKET NEWS.—(THIS DA .' " COVENT-GARDEN. re Pine Apples, 3s to ss; HothouS:i Grapes, 33 to 4 6 ;; 0 0.-M, tugal ditto, is to 3s per lb; Apples, as to 8s perms 600 Pears, 4s to 12s per half sieve ; MoloW, 2s to rcio yeS! Peaches and Nectarines, 3s to 8s; and F;',9; o : l 9 s i g to ioO is l 6 l l l l , Filberts, 60s to 75s ; and Cub Nuts, 80s to . English Walnuts, 8s to 10d per 100; Cabbages' ' , 6 ,; :l r d, °1 11) ditto for pickling, 2s to 6s ; and Artichokes, 2s to • 39 '3 e s op t s, French Beans, is 6d to 3s per half sieve ; Potatoa 9 ' egri l e m 6s 6d per cwt; Turnips 4s to 8s; Leeks, 2d to 3 ,1 ' O 3 O p 4d to 8d per bunch ; Onions, 2s to 4s per dozen OP Tomatoes, 4s to 5s per half sieve; Mushrooms, II • per pottle ; Small Salad's, 2d to 3d per punnet. et nuNGERFORD. of repl or a We had fair average s u pplies of most articles on o pif the general demand was firm, and prices had att tendency. NEWGATE AND LEADENziA I . I.O. 'O There was rather an extensive business transact4,s Sd kind of meat on the following terms :—Beef, from c 1,351ty 3s 8d ; Mutton, 3s 6d to 4s 6d ; Lamb, 4s 10d to 5s 8d ;y ea , 5 ; to 4s 10d; and Pork, 3s 6d to 4s 10d per 81bs, carcase. Turkey Poults, 4s to 5s 6d ; Geese, 4 s is ° , 4 71 Ducks, is 8d to 2s 6d; Tame Rabbits, is 3 d to "4 Roasting Pigs, 6s to 8s; Pigeons, 4d to 8d each; Fowls, 6s to 9s; ditto Chickens, 3s 6d to 4s 6o Li door Fowls, 3s to 4s per couple. Eggs, 5s 6d to 7s Eso Fresh Butter, is to is 2d per lb. Hares, 2s 6d to Leverets, 3s to 4s; and Grouse, is 6d to 28 6(1, each. NEWPORT. I,slPto Beef, from 2s 10d to 3s 8d; Mutton, as 6d t 45A , 10 4s 10d to 5s 10d; Veal, 4s to 4s 104; a; ad 4s 10d per 81bs. toa BILLINGSGATE. 4 There was a steady demand for most .kiti tu' prices had an upward tendency. 1,0 1) WHITECHAPEL. sa ; Sato Beef, from 2s 8d to 3s 8d ; Mutton, 3s 6d to ,; 4 ,, 30 4s 8d to 5s 8d; Veal, 3s 10d t o 4s Bt - 1; and ; 4s 10d per Blbs. ito o BREAD. lis The prices of Wheaten Bread in the metrope s loaf 7d to lid; of Household ditto, 5/d to bid per 41 b BIDE MARICET. .6510! Market Hides, 561 b to 641 b, 3d per lb I°. do. lbw,. 721 b, 3d to 3 1 4c1; do. 721 b to 801 b, 3d to a1h,.. 0 .; An 9b.„- to 881 b, 3 1 /,,J1 to 4d; do. 881 b to 961 b, 4d to 41 1041 b, 4d to sd; Calf Skins, e ac h, 4s to' u," t o Hides, 13s; Lambs, 2s 4d to 2s 10d ; Shoarling " cOgi HAY DIATCHISTs. SMITHFIELD.— evr Old Meadow Hay, 31 to 41: S evi dittOlal 2/ 10s to 3/ 14s; Old Cl over , 4/ 15 s t o Si 108 ; N 11 ; ' lOs to 51; Oat Straw, 1/ 8s to 1/ lOs • Wheat . 7 . ..T o o. N a t to 11 12s per load. T ra d e d u ll, at b arely late '4 - / 4-S CIIMBERLAND.-Old Meadow H a y, 3110 --/%1 dl Ar ditto, 2/15s to 3/ 16s; Old Clove r , Si t o s o . 103 ‘;. S'is„;• d p Si lOs to 51; Oat Straw, 11 lOs to 1/ 12 s; Wir"; o l:lFir 1/ 12s to 1/13s per load. A f u ll average supply au" •to , tr ade. l'ie fi Xtt Or WHITECHAPEL.—OId Meadow Hay, 3155 t 4 l; "Wei/ 10 21 lOs to 3/ 15s; Old Clover, 41 15s to 51 14sh o olt 3/10s to 5/ ; Oat Straw, 118 s to 1/10s; Wh. 0 11 ' to 1112 s per load. Supply good, and trade vt A-39 BANKRUPTCY.—(THIS (Before Mr. Commissioner HOLRO O le IN RE SOUL. S O'S This bankrupt, who had carried on businet binder, &c., in Tabernacle-walk, City-road, e- 'o o 4 , his certificate. aPP II'-00 ditob - A The case was r a th er s i ngu l ar, as hi s 9 cre isjl" was by a letter of recommendation from all hi Teel/ i ota, Mr. BUCHAN AN , so li c i tor o f Basinghall-m ()Okra,' that he was in s tr ucte d to say t h at the aa 3ig 1,01301) perfectly satisfied with the accounts which Tb e had rendered, and also of his general conduct ;. di assignee also was sa ti s fi e d. rt 4 6 - I The letter was about to b e p u t i n t o th e ,':a 9 rsild sioner's hand s; b u t h e sa id i t was quite 1113-00i°''' the Court always went by th e o pi n i on o f t e ° trade assigness when no opposition was ma' 3 'e' ce ts? f eti His HONOUR inquired the amount of the ss - be a The SOLICITOR said that there was likely - to fair dividend. His HONOUR then granted the certificate- IN RE WALTON. f tb e Mr. DUNCAN appli e d i n this case in favour boo Est rapt, under very peculiar circumstanc e s. 'll ve ered of had sued out a fiat, but hi s H onour come I roe° ° as it was necessary that the bankrupt should P e 5 0;1 self a trader up to the present time, or that; at of c ol' ) debt during his time of trading to the anion de r w ip e, the amount of a petitioning creditor's debt tin veers ~,000 Act. The general practice of the Commissit ever, had been, not to require proof on thous aed' point, but as the petition did not set be ref' trading, his Honour required the second tc ' od d a ptly The bankrupt only owed amounts by l o agoopt , to three creditors, who had obtained J ta b and sought to prevent the bankrupt sustain lag 0 4, ..,°" to recover their own debts to the exclusion ° 0 06,0 1 One of the creditors, a Mr. Webb, had been „fari lo arl i , as also his solicitor, to prove that a d e bt o f lag A nil 501. was due. Mr. Webb, how ever , treated NO ) OP' with contempt, refusi ng t o attend, on the g Ito Pl o as there was no legal fiat, and his solicitor refuse , plc' 0 0 ), till Wednesday, before which time the fiat W' q ue e - r run out for want of prosecution ; the first s ioo t therefore, was wh e th er t h e L earned C oma 1 15 3 SD of sisted on the proof before proceeding under el l • lfe did The Learned COMMISSIONER said that if 0 1 4 P o stO trading up to the ti me was p rove d on affide not require the proef of the amount of debt, r 5 0 0 d clearly came within the meaning of the Act. td e for ; Mr. Durrcert said Mr. Webb kept avy " a pP l J ot . proving the fact; and he had therefore to or warrant against the creditor who intended PP 6 y' „t. oil of bankrupt. , t he The COMMISSIONER said that if the affloal 'with with t o of summons and refusal to a tt en d w as ra on ter UP would grant the warrant ; or h e wo uld rot case on an affidavit that the bankrupt was s ' the time of suing out the fiat. (.) „ 6 3;, h BOW-STREET.—(THIS A' bef . o l 1 William Curtis was placed at the bar d fivv,. ( Henry, charged with stealing a gold watch, an ao 00 3- property of Mr. Eccles, of Soho square, tl l3l ; 8 , 4 t ore o ne and Joseph Styles were charged with receivi ng „ 0 knowin eared to be stolen. las t ,le It ap that on the 28th of Aug' s " - s'w" 0 bs, a n( • try 'ens was was bathing at the Holborn bat h. is f!ie was in the water his watch was taken fro m t _ o pt, pocket. On discovering it he gave inforalawl, worthy, a constable on duty at the bath s ; vas ,01 ti t/ tli ts cions fell upon the prisoner Curtis, o r dered ca ke „lea t , in the engine-room. Kenworthy,(lo o o other workmen to watch him, but 13 1 ) ,.5 00 making his escape by getting thro u g n, About two hours after the robbery the o and th l'1"0 by Styles to a pawnbroker in Drury-laltaker t ab, day the watch itself was sold to a wat'-'7`" be °r o g, tenham-court road by the same prisoneire lived tog P t t Hoold, who iv ,0 0 into custody he gave information prehension of Curtis and 9 " man and wife. Hoold to be I e Mr. HENRY ordered Curtis and _ , w! er made bIS te W h . 1a led to I bet of Court while the other prison who told hi D G and chain from the prisoner Hoo h m in a sevvr. husband (meaning Curtis) found t e The prisoner Styles said that be place where he was at work. brou ht in, said ON g The prisoner Hoold, being gknow where kti got them from Curtis, but did not • 10? hed, who as* b e e them. nothing at all about the watch or c hain. Mr. the ease fort 0"0 ee tO Mr. HENRY said he must maw.' baths did not E He could not but observe that the bat Curtis was then brought in, an h cl a s n ai . d tb i l e him to be properly watched. el, Mr. Hedgman, the proprietor ss . ble. tb were watched as well as was p servants than by g ote; this occurred there were more and every precaution was takerio. chose might laver 4431, the visitors. All persons who of b of the bathtsh,astaie:l; purses or watches in the care effect was pu t d , they bathed, and a notice to that 4 .„ , kg? A d ht to '- every box. certainly oug Mr. HENRY said people we ei‘ , vantage of such an offer. __ado thiS do The primer') were then Xem§ sat: dtoiorareleepet I I Ii .