The Sun. — London, England, 1837-09-26 00:00:00

Bank Stock. 3 per Cent. Red. 33 per Cont. Cons 91% `2 14 per Cent........ ........... Ditto ... New 3% per Cent. 99 1 , 4 New 5 per Cent.— Bank Lon aAnnuitiesto expire Jan. 5, 1860 Oct. 10, 1859 Jan. 5, 1860 an. 5, 1880 April 5, 1880 °Jan. 5 1870 —l lithium ...... •—••• ............ Pm. PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian Bonds . Belgian Bonds BDitto Account - ras ilia n Bonds ..—..... „. Ditto B hellos AyresAccount Bonds ..... Chilf Dittn Account Bonds Ditto Account .... vokirribian Bonds ....... •••• Ditto Account Ditto — Cllurnbian Bonds, 1824, Dinish Bonds Greeßonds ... Ditto Account ...... k Ditto Bonds . , 1825 Ditto Account 2 - 2 lidezman Bonds. 5 per cent Ditto Account Ditto, 6 per cent. D itto Account Neapolitan ~ r, r.. - .:: D,c: Ai - ~ ..):.i.: o•c:-.:_ r .`,~ India Stock _FO Ditto Bonds 48 pm. South Sea Stock -- Old Annuities New Ditto 3 per Cent. Annuities. 1751 — Exch. Bills, £l,OO O 47 49 pm. Ditto .500 47 49 pm. Ditto Small pm. Ditto Commercie: Ditto Advertised — pm Bank Stock for Account - India Stock for Account Consols for Account THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. I Peruvian Bonds Ditto Account — Portuguese Bonds — Ditto u Accont Ditto New Bondi — Ditto Account • •dnl4 Ditto, 3 per cent. 28% G Pruisian Bonds — Russian Bonds, 1822 ... ...... Ditto Account — Ditto Metallic ...........» Spanisn Bonds — Ditto Account — Ditto 80/W.3,183i In% Ditto Account 19 .70‘% French, 5 per cent ......108f. —c. 4 per cent —f. —c. ---- 3 per cent. --... Exchange Dutch, Scl, per cent. ..» ..... ..53 1 ,i 3 Ditto Account — Ditto, 5 wer cent lo23's3# Ditto Account — PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share h ara z titan Imperial Mining Co. (Issued at 51. pm.) '- ) t ) - 9.6 66 53i gyi at Western Railway Company 55 %% Rr3lghtoa Railway Company 5 1 13 15 B EI rth Midland Railway Company Colonial ritish North k 25 American Bank 20 18 24N 5U Ban ......__ Arrived. MAILS. Due. Arrived. Due. Arrived. • Due ° Am erica........., 0 ' 1 France ...... ...... 0 1 Lisbon 0 0 B r ,, ~ 0 R - ....... ....... 0 - 0 Guern. is Jersey 0 1 Malta 0 c l efts Ayres.. 0 0 Hamburg ..... ... 0 0 Mexico 0 1 art hageua...... 0 0 Holland .......... 0 0 Ostend 0 0 ... ....... 0 0 Jamaica 0 0 Sweden.... ..... .. 0 .........______- Flanders 0 o Leewardlslands ti 0 Waterford 1 }UGH Mona, WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TOMORROW. .„,..,...!. .."...16 minutes after 0. I Evening......4o minutes after 0. HE SPECTATOR of NEXT SATURDAY, (the 30th September), will begin PRACTICAL MEA SURES. The First Number will deal with the CIVIL LIST and its Pensions. 9, Wellington-street, Strand. THE PUBLISHERS' CIRCULAR is intended I th as a conce n t ra t e d me di um f o r the first announcement and publication of all Literary Works and New Editions. 3,000 copies 791 be regularly circulated, GRATIS, in single copies, amon Literary Persons, Book Societies, and Retail Booksellers in the !J(nited Kingdom. 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LIVERPOOL LINE. o largo and powerful Steam Ships MANCHESTER and CITY of LONDONDERRY, ran from Liverpool to Oporto, Lisbon, Cadiz, Gibraltar, and Malaga, every fortnight. Apply to J. Martin and J. G. Burns, 9, Buchanan-street, Glas tV ; to Martin and Co., Water-street, Liverpool; and at the otkimular Steam Navigation Company's Offices, frl, St. Mary Axe, London. WILLCOX and ANDNRSON, Mama:erg. _ puoguir cat.: .. o f THE SUN NRWSTAPER commenced this day at 20 minutes past Three o' Clock. % 4-••••1 -1 11 -, ,z-,-,., r , 4 4: , 1 (0,,i-' ..___L.o - Itifriya, -,,,,,- , A ...„ ~. t k.,4.44 jav tt;<-,'-;%._,,,i,,z-,:li '.137,r , ,5 4 ,4Le, , "' ' ' , ..''''''' j bz ax ~, _ 4 at 4. ~,.i , LONDON : TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 26, 1837. The Times of this morning urges what it calls, ‘,‘ liberal su b scr i pt i on by th e Conservatives for res oring Constitutional Irish candidates to the seats tfrom which they were ousted at the last elec tion, b y perjury, forgery, and every description of fraud"—the ini " its Those We say, urges this notable subscrip tion in ts auost energetic and vituperative style. " The object," observes our Contemporary, "is of an importance paramount to that of almost any other object. It is to relieve the people of England from a p acked, fr audulent, an d rotten majority of Mr. DANIEL 0 CONNELL's journeymen agitators, not one of whom, we verily believe, has a right to show his face within the 11 "se of Commons otherwise than by an order for the stranger's gallery." This is pretty well from an organ of that party whose practices, in the way of bribery, inti idation, and all corrupt influences, have been so noto rious during the late elections! Our Contemporary ex- P re sses himself as if he actually thought he would be "nsidered sincere in his virtuous abhorrence of him P a cked, fraudulent, and rotten" majoriti es ! Let i " look a t many o f t h e l a t e Conservative returns — et him remember Hull, Berwick, and many of the countie s he re an d i n S co tland, where Tories were re turned by means of the most unblushing system of corruption, and cease to write in such a high-flown I t rain about " f rau d u lent and rotten" majorities, &c. 1 7 this in s t ance , as i n mos t o thers where the faction 'gcs a complai n t, it does not come into Couit with clean hands. A Tory complain of unconstitutional Practices at e l ect i ons I W as ever such sickening cant ? What has occasioned the present very general demand f or the Ballot ? What induced those to become con -I"tS to its imperative necessity, who but one short Y t ear ago would sooner have chopped off the ir ri g ht . . a nd than a d voca t e such an experiment ? The fl agrant conduct pursued by the Tories, and their Nl b e , ll- paid, unscrupulous electioneering a g ents. De r'" that p a rty of the influence they der ive Om the pecuniary resources of the Carlton C lub ; in -44.1 into them something like conscience ; burden them wi th that sor t o f w h o l e some restraint which results fromll moral principle, and we should soon see the real : t ura of the strength they possess in the country. fe /t hing but their utter disregard of all honourable e l3 -ng has enabled them to return so many of their Cl a qua to Parliament, who representing, not the opi t?' of their cons tituents, but the exchequer of the oa ui tl "loo Club, are pr e pared to speak and vote, with fro reserve or stint, just as they may receive intimation head -quarters. And yet the faction, thus un acru in Pc tons as t o th e means by w hi c h it ma intains its w;:t , ten ce, has now the audacity to taunt the Reformers 0 corruption, b r ib ery , an d so f or th ! Why," no 4 t he Time s , i n a fi ne plirenzy of independence, " do petitions: O CONNELL Melbournites threaten us with _. ° na: in their turn ? They are at liberty to do so, 1 wit hom any other than such formal notice as the tai:este.quiotes, they have full license from the Conserve- Petit.'° Pressent to the House of Commons as many pray the a 3 they like. We challenge them to it. We t o ieta t o raise the largest sum that they can bor w, be f or gs or isseal, and l a y them together in a single heap p eti ' e su bseription fund wherewith to carry on a war of c , I°l4 . They shall hear from us or from other ° ll l :ervativ m no yell —no, nor a whisper of complaint." ca l l c‘ c siderate—this is, what JOHN REEVE would mg it stron g ly" i n th e wa y of generosity ere fore such unwonted forbearance on the part of the ors s ? ! And Because they know and feel that they are e ballthy party, and trust therefore that they will be b e `,l° hear down whatever opposition the Reformers aga:Lust Cum maLters. But Cuis hope shall not avail them, for the Liberals are every where on the alert ; especially in Ireland, where they are very busy collecting subscriptions to counteract the insidious manoeuvres of the Tories. We are much pleased to perceive the favourable re ception which the National Loan Fund Life Assur ance Society is meeting from the public. The more this admirable Institution is known, the more will s value be appreciated. It will be seen by a report in another column, which we have extracted from the Worcestershire Guardian, that a Committee of gen tlemen of influence in the City of Worcester has been formed, to support and give effect to an under taking which promises, and indeed cannot fail to secure, the greatest advantages to those who avai 1 themselves of its benevolent provisions. Advices have been received from Madrid to the 18th. At that period the Carlists were slowly retreat ing in the direction of Siguenza, as deliberately fol lowed by ESPARTERO, who was then between Alcala and G uadalaxara. It was presumed to be the in tention of the Carlists to form a junction with the troops under ZARIATRGIJI. Every thing was per fectly quiet at Madrid, where ORAA's corps was every moment expected to arrive. On the northern coast military matters appear to be at a stand-still since the disastrous affair of Andoain. It was at one time feared that the British prisoners, amounting to nearly 200, who fell into the hands of the Carlists by the cowardice of the same Spanish regiment that ran away so dis gracefully at Hernani, would be put to death by virtue of the Durango decree. It now appears that the threat of General O'DONNELL to retaliate on e Carlists in his power had had the effect of saving—for a time at least—the lives of our brave but unfortunate countrymen. The men who survived the catastrophe of ANDOAIN, have declared that they will never again fire a shot in company with Spaniards. The Colonel of the In fante regiment has been put under arrest by General O'DONNELL. The only important piece of intelligence brought to day by the foreign mails is the birth of an Heir to the throne of Portugal. This auspicious event took plye on the 16th inst., between 11 and 12 o'clock at night. The ceremonies observed on this interesting occasion will be found described in another column. Ac cording to some accounts, however, the manifesta tions of joy exhibited by the inhabitants of Lis bon, were neither general nor brilliant. Whether it is that the people are impressed with the belief— which we believe to be well-founded—that the Court is secretly abetting the Chartists, who are in open re bellion against the Constitutional Government, and therefore refuse to participate in celebrating an event with which the happiness of the Royal Family is so intimately connected—or that anti-Monarchical principles have taken deep root among the Portuguese, we know not ; but the young Prince has not met with the cordial welcome from his future subjects which at one time was anti cipated. One of the Lisbon journals devotes only a few lines to the announcement of the intelligence, which it inserts among the paragraphs of ordinary news, as if it were unworthy of particular notice. The Prince is a fine healthy child ; as fair as his father, and as fat as his mother. He has been baptized, but has not yet formally received his name and title (Don PEDRO FERNANDO Duke of OPORTO) owing to the absence (in rebellion) of the Duke of TER CEIRA, who is the proxy, it would appear, of the Em peror of BRAZIL, the godfather. This is rather an " untoward" circumstance. Nothing decisive had takes place between the con tending parties in the north up to the 20th, when the last advices left Oporto. Braga seems to be the spot selected for the final encounter. The Chartists were attempting to concentrate their forces at this point, while it seemed to be the object of LAS ANTAS and Bomtiqm to prevent their junction, and cut them up in detail. In this they had not been altogethet success ful, AS BOMFIM, who was pursuing SALDANIIA, had not been able to effect the passage of the Douro, but had been obliged to retire upon Altneida. LAS ANTAS left Oporto on the 14th—one account says the 15th—and marched upon Braga with 3,000 or 4,000 men. If he could bring the Chartists to action before they were joined by SALDANIIA'S corps, augmented as it might probably be by the revolted brigade of LAS ANTAS, he would in all likelihood demolish them. But there is no calculating on what Portuguese or Spanish armies may do, except that they will do any thing rather than fight. They have not the least objection that their battles should be fought by foreigners—let them take all the knocks and welcome. These, and the morta hatred of the parties whom they have sated from destruction, are their sole reward. All the merit and all the glory belong to the brave, the heroic, the invinci ble Portuguese ! We have received the French Papers of Saturday. They contain little intelligence of any importance. The successes of the Carlists i❑ Spain seem to perplex • the French Government a good deal. The effect of these successes upon the approaching elections is feared. The following are extracts : PARIS, SEPT. 23.—(Private Correspondence of the Con stitutionnel.)—St. Jean de Luz, Sept. 19.—Three days ago it was reported here that the English prisoners taken on the 14th and following days had been shot ; a piece of news which I deferred sending, to you, as I could not be lieve such an atrocious act. However, this report not being contradicted, still keeps its ground, and to-day the accounts given by some persons who came from the frontiers, appear to confirm it. They, however, reduce to 40 the number of the victims, which was at first stated to be 200. An inquiry is going on relative to the defection of the ri f ;ht of the infantry. The Colonel is in prison at St. Sebastian. He says that his corps refused to fight. It consisted of two battalions ; one of which is now at Oria• monde, the other at Fontarabia. TotuoN, SEPT. 10.—We have scarcely vessels enough in port to execute the orders of the telegraph, which is at work from morning to night. We have four steam-boats, two of which are undergoing a thorough repair, the Ramier and the Styx ; the Fulton and the Cerbere have to repair some damage to their machinery ; so that the Crocodile, which arrived this morning from Bona with the news of the landing, must leave again immediately. The Admiral Pre fect has just ordered the Captain of this packet to take in his coals and be ready to put to sea ; he will be the bearer of the dispatches which are announced for to-morrow, and are to be delivered without delay. Yesterday evening, at seven o'clock, the telegraph brought orders to dispatch a steam-boat instantly ;we had only the Courier ; and the Prefect having given the strictest injunctions to the Captain to depart in the night, the steam boat was already out of port at ten o'clock in the evening. —Journal des Debuts, Sept. 24. Pnats, SEPT. 9.4.—C010nel Maberly, secretary to the English Post-office, is now at Paris, where he is concert ing with M. Comte, Director of the French Post-office, measures for an improvement in the conveyance of the mails. Yesterday morning, accompanied by Lord Low tiler, he visited the manufactory of the French mail-coaches. —Supplement to the Commerce, Sept. 24. M. Martin has been appointed Minister Plenipo tentiary from the King of the French to the King of Ha nover. The Sheriff's carriages of the present year are said to cost 1,0001. each. In speaking of the weather the Natches Free Trader says —" The powerful sun is shaded through day by those heavenly parasols, the clouds ; wo get a mouthful of air even at midday, and a dart of thunder and rain nearly every evening. _ _ The E:nperor of Austria, as a mark of especial fa vour and friendship, has conferred ou his Majesty the King of the Netherlands the Grand Cross of the Hungarian Order of St. Stephen ; and on Baron Robert Fagel, the Netherlands Ambassador in Paris, the Grand Cross of the Order of Leopold. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, SEPTE4BER 26, 1837. FINE A RTS. THE GRAND REFORM BANQUET. Hodgson and Grans, London, 1837. This work, whether considered as an engraving or a painting, must have cost a world of labour ; but, speaking generally, it has been labour well bestowed, though we have objections to urge against the painting which are almost inseparable from the nature of the subject. Mr. Haydon has crowded his canvass too much with figures, the consequence of which is, that he has not been able to do justice to more than one half the portraits that he has attempted. His cha racters are sadly in want of elbow-room ; the majority of them are huddled confusedly together, so that it is not without some difficulty that we can ascertain which is which. We think it would have been far better if the artist had introduced fewer figures ; for then lie would have been enabled to give us more accurate and vivid resemblances. However, taken as a whole, his painting is an imposing work of art, and in its pre sent form, as an engraving, bids fair to obtain a very general circulation. Some of the likenesses are ex cellent, and can be recognized at the first glance. Such, for instance, are those of Messrs. Hume, bun combe, Bulwer, and Hobhouse ; Lords Grey, Gle- nelg, and Stanley—especially the last, to whose earnest and intellectual expression of countenance the artist has done every possible justice. As for Lord Brougham, his portrait is a decided failure, which is a great defect, for the most eloquent champion of the Reform Bill in the Upper House will be sure to be among the first sought out in a work like the present. Another fault we find with Mr. Haydon, and one very characteristic of him —as we remember to have observed in his celebrated Mock-Election in the King's Bench—is the theatrical and somewhat affected style of his heads. It is full time that he should rid himself of this mannerism, which is by no means indicative of what is called, the " poetry of painting," though it is too much the fa shion of our modern artists to think so. The engrave r of this production is Mr. Bromley, who has carefully considered and executed his task, so that the original should lose nothing in his hands. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TIIELVE O'CLOCK. Gibraltar Papers to the 17th instant, and Malta Papers to the 7th September, have been received this morning. From Malta we have the subjoined : .‘ We have the happiness to show a continued reduction in the cases of cholera. There remained at last report 52 ; new cases 28 ; deaths 14 ; recovered 33 ; remained 33. Military Hospital, none ; Naval Hospital four remained, one death, three recovered. Goza, 22 remained ; new cases, 20 ; 15 deaths ;21 recovered ; six remained. Up to this period the daily number of new cases and deaths stood as follows :—August 30, new cases 7, deaths 2. August 31, new cases 9, deaths 6. Sept. 1, new cases, 9 ; deaths, 3. Sept. 2, new cases, 2 ; deaths, 3. Return of the new Cases and Deaths by Cholera in the Islands of Malta and Goza, from the 3d to the sth Sep tember, 1837, both days inclusive : In Malta, New Cases 14 Deaths . . 12 In Goza, ditto 15 Ditto . . . . 10 Letters from Naples of the 19th ult., received via Corfu, states that the deaths by cholera, which had been raging there since the month of April, had fallen to 10 and 12 per day. The advices from Sicily state that great consternation prevailed there, in consequence of the prevalence of cho lera. Many of the inhabitants had fled from Palermo. THE FUNDS. Consols closed yesterday at 92 for Money, and 924 / for the Account ; opened, 91*. Exchequer Bills, 47 40 ; India Bonds declined to 48 50. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active closed 191 to Ex-Coupons ; Portuguese closed 40k ; opened at same ; Three per Cents. 26i ; Mexican, 28i 29/ ; Colombian, 25k 26 ; Dutch Two.and-a-Half per Cents., 521. HALF-PAST ONE. Consols have been during the morning at 92k for the Account, with little doing ; there is not a feature in the market worth observation : for Money, 917 c. Exchequer Bills, 47 49 ; India Bonds, 48 prem. ; India Stock, 260. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active, which was 29/ 20, with Coupons, receded to 19t-, owing to a report that the prices came lower from Paris. The above not being confirmed, a re-action took place, and Spanish may be quoted 19i- with Coupons ; Portuguese, 40} ; Three per Cents., 26 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 53. Money is in demand in the house. TBRAB O'CLOCK. Consols for th• Account, THE FUNDS.—C BRITISH ,OSING PRICES. FUNDS. tank Stock Omniam ' ~ per Cent. Red. 9271, India Stock ..... 4BO 92 Ditto bonds ....... ......... 5O 3 per Cent Cone --. South Sea Stock ........ ........ 3!,., per Cent. 9 —___ 22:99142 .I D p)i i it t tt t t. i . ) . ( N ) Annuities e ld wAp itie ~.......................... I!.', per Cent Red New '.%4 per Cent. I.x. Bills, 11100/ "%d. ... 49 pm. I per Cent. Assented Dissented — 49 pin Ditto 5001 Long Annuities to expire 44 pm J.: a IWO — Bank Stock for Opg. ........... ._ Luba Stock for Act. ...... , ...... Oct 18.2) — Jan. 18110 l47i Consolc fir Act. ................... THA Portuguese UNil Bonds, 5 per cent...._ tto, NGW Ditto .................. 40 1 / ,', n A t tr4 i t i r x i n a , n, s s pe pr , c i e i rt ..... —__ Br. zilian Bonds Ituenas Ayres, 6 per cent — Milan, 6 per cent Ditto. Metallic " ":: N''' DSP D rk ßl. : la it i )s' tc t n l i . s t ts, c t h . :: , k° l 2: , C l : : : ) 2 o l : 3s : ss s P l n o t e :K e l lii i r r : r i c c' a c c e t Se i n e i l :L it l 'etr . l .....! : . el .. irli . it :................... —l- 1 9 9% Colombian, 6 per cent . Ditto, 1834 Danish, 3 pz-r cent French, 5 pet cent. ...... ...1!q8f. —c Greek Bonds, 1525,5 per cent — Exchange 5 ; 1 1 ,e p r e c r e c n e t n . t ........ ..... .L . 5 : 10. _ 5 2 ° C : Mexican, 5 per cent. 53 Ditto. 6 percent., 1825 ....... reruv,an. 1925, ft per cent. ... SHAitES. Great Western Railway London and film:swan Railway London and Southampton Railway 29 London and Croydon Railway London and Croydon Railway (Scrip) 5 South Eastern and Dover Railway 4 No other variations in the Prices of Shares since our One o'alsc', List. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MONDAY.—W e have received the Liverpool Cotton Market of yesterday's date, as follows :—We had few buyers here to-day, an d the Cotton Market has been rather dull. The prices of American kinds barely supported. The sales were only 2,000 bags-200 Maranhams, Bd. to 81d. per lb. ; 60 Ceras, 81d. to 9d. ; 100 Egyptians, Bid. to 10d. ; 2 0 0 Surats, 4-id. to .51d., mostly for export ; and the rest Ame rican—the bulk at 6d. to 7d. per lb. The Reformers of IVlarylebone are about to comme morate the triumph of independence in that borough by entertaining their popular representative, Mr. Hall, at a public dinner, at the Chalk-farm Tavern, to-morrow, the 27th inst. That veteran Reformer, .T. E. Hovenden, Esq., has consented to preside on the occasion. Two partridges have been shot at Alston, in the neighbourhood of Preston, perfectly white, not a coloured feather being found on either bird. On the same estate two others of exactly similar plumage have also been seen. We believe it is now visible to the world that Mr. Assheton Smith, of Vaenol, considers the Borough and Corporation of Carnarvon as under his exclusive patronage, and the Member for the Boroughs as his nominee ; and we believe that he would be bitterly disappointed if the County Member was to consider himself in the light of any thing else than a Vaenol nominee, as he parades him in that character in season and out of season, and that not in the most decorous manner, or lie would have had more decency than to have fixed the Sabbath as the day, and the Vestry of the Cathedral as the place, in which to hold with the Lord Bishop of this diocese a political meeting. We merely mention this en passant, because the thing did take place, and because it is an answer to the assertion that the Bishop never interferes in politics.—Carnarvon Herold. A corn-chandler at Oxford has adopted the long , wished-for plan of announcing a competition in the sale of the first necessaries of life. The following are the prices he now advertises them at, which the London consumers of bread corn will see differ widely from those which they pity Brown flour ... 4 d. per quartern. Good family ditto 5l The very best Good household bread 5,1-d the 41b. loaf. Excellent seconds flour 40s. per sack. POLITICAL GAMNS.—A public dinner was given last week at Thetford, to celebrate the return of Messrs. Bagge and Chute fur West Norfolk, when of c ourse the note of triumph at the recent victory was sounded loud and long. Colonel Rushbrooke, the Member for West Suffolk, grew sportive on the subject, " Not in this county alone," said he, " but in those of Essex and Suffolk, the Conser vative party have been playing the game of All ?ours, with the most complete success—(Cheers)—while their adver saries have been somewhat less prosperously engaged in an other old-fashioned game, called B eggar m y Arei9hbour— (Laughter)—a game which win, I trust, from its ut ter hopelessness, soon become obsolete." Of course the Co lonel t r eats all the Ministers as knaves, but it seems likely th e y will prove trumps, for it is evident they have no intention of cutting, unless when Parlkment meets the turn-up is a g ainst them. • COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE (THIS DAY.) We have French and Malta mails in town this morning. The latter informs us that the cholera had sensibly declined, and that commerce was reviving ; from the former we learn that the markets for Colonial produce in France were not so firm. Other markets much as last reported ; particulars below. The imports at the port of London show not any East or West India produce. The only articles worthy of no tice arc Speltcr and Foreign Butter. Of the for mer 35,234 plates have arrived, and of the latter 3.925 casks. There are but few vessels arrived off our coasts that are not reported ; the shipping season is now advancing to a close, and a great number more cannot be expected from any quarter. l'he sales of Colonial and other produce advertised for the week are heavy, amongst which those of Sugar, Coffee, Co coa and Spices are the most prominent. There are also some large sales of Saltpetre advertised. In the face of these sales Saltpetre is flat, but not lower. The loss of that fine packet ship Don Juan has created a great sensation in all our Markets and places of resort to-day. The money which the packet cost building is said to be immense : some say 40,0001. That no specie or lives were lost has been a matter of great congratulation. The vessel was insured for 25,000/. The letters are all preserved. SUGAR, B. P.—The quiet of last week still continues in this market, and prices are without variation. Refined Sugar is 335. for fine Crushed ; and 745. for Lumps to pass the standard—but little doing. TEA is very firm in price. The stocks are light, and the deliveries good. Sricas.—There are numerous enquiries after Pepper, Cassia, and Pimento. Speculations are attracted to them; prices same as last week. SILK.—The stock is light. A steady business is doing, at firm prices. COTTON in the London market is in fair demand, at firm prices. The Liverpool accounts this morning are good. INDIGO secures a steady demand both for Spanish and East India, at the recently advanced prices. In Dyewoods nothing doing of moment, either public or private. PROVISION MARI-CIT.—In this great market the only varia tion is in butter, which is 2s. per cwt. lower for Irish and Foreign, in consequence of large arrivals. TALLOW.—P. Y. C. is dull again to day at 895. 6d. to 395. 9d. --- DRUG MARKET.—There is no business doing here but for immediate consumption. Prices coatinue very uniform with what they have been for some time. FOREIGN COMMERCIAL. The accounts received to-day from the Continent are of very little commercial interest. At Havre the Cotton-market was flat, and the sales insig nificant, although holders had given way. Coffee is reported in less demand, and the quotations barely supported ; the same with French Colonial Sugar, the stock of which is, however, daily diminishing, being now only 6,700 hhds. against 17,500 hhds. at the same time last year. Seed Oils are still on the advance at the markets in the North of France, and the trade is stated very lively. From Bordeaux Rums are reported suddenly to have ad vanced, and considerable transactions had been effected at the improvement. Brandy for forward delivery was on the de cline. Very large parcels of Gum Senegal have been taken on speculation, but the prices are kept secret. The accounts from Portugal arc without any mercantile intelligence worth noticing. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) DEAL, SEPT. 25.—Wind E. N. E., fresh.— Came down from the river—The Derwent. Redden, for Hobart Town ; Emma, Howard, for ditto ; Reliance, Haselwood, for Demerara ; and James Cruikshank, Young, for ditto, from Shields. Au American barque, from London to New Yolk, passed at five, p.m. The brio on the Goodwin Sands yesterday reported the honing der Nedeolander, from Padang, having gone to pieces. Several boats have brought on shore different articles from the wreck. PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 25.--Wind E. SEPT. 25.—Arrived the Josephine, Volkert, from Gottenburg ; Mercan, Oelsman, and Aurora, Wilkins, from Memel. GRIMSBY, SEPT. 25.—Arrived the Wilhelmina Henrietta, Kruise, from Dantzic. , YARMOUTH, SEPT. 25.—Arrived the Wilhelmina, Schost, from Gottenburg. Conic, SEPT. 23.—Arrived the Anne, Harris, Gibraltar. PLYMOUTH, SEPT. 24.—Wind E. S. E.—Arrived the Trent, Middleton, from Pugwash ; Henrietta, Kalhon, from Memel ; Marianne, Schmidt, from Dantzic. Off port, the Juno, Tokkes, from the Havannah ; Amphitrite, Rcnty, from New York, FALMOUTH, SEPT. 24.—Wind E., strong gales and squally. —Arrived her Majesty's steamer Medea, from the Mediterra nean—left Gibraltar 17th inst., Cadiz 18th, Lisbon 191 h, Oporto 20th, and Vigo 21st. Off port the Helena, Kasten, orn Memel. GLOUCESTEk, SEPT. 24.—Arrived the March, Reckinson from St. Petersburgh. MILFORD, SEPT. 24.—Arrived the Queen of the Isles, Lewis, from the River Gambia. LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 24.—Arrived the Experiment, M'Leod, from Santander. Sailed the Eccles, Paul, for Calcutta ; Periian, for Singapore. WHITEHAVEN, SEPT. 24.—The Cumlaerland, from St. Pe. tersburgh to Lancaster, supposed to have sunk near the latter port, was fallen in with the 22d instant, on her beam ends, by the Elizabeth, Potts, from Cardiff to Lancaster, which took her in tow for several hours, but the sea rising, was obliged to cut the hawser off St. Bees Head, and make for this port. The Countess of Lonsdale steamer immediately went in the direction described, but not being able to discover her, it is supposed she must have been fallen in with by some other steamer, and taken to the Isle of Man. DOVER, SEPT. 25.—A great number of casks and cases, supposed to be part of the cargo of the Padang, from Amster dam to Batavia, wrecked on the Goodwin Sands, have been landed here to-day. MILFORD, SEPT. 23.—The Neleus, Jewell, from Swansea to Lisbon, which put into this port the 10th instant leaky, is discharging to repair. - _ The Don Juan steamer, from Gibraltar, was wrecked on Tarifa Point, 16th inst. ; crew, passengers, and mails saved. LOSS OF THE DON JUAN STEAMER. British Consulate, Cadiz, Sept. 18. I regret excessively to acquaint you that the Don Juan steamer, with the mails on board for England, struck during a dense fog, about four o'clock in the afternoon of Friday, the 15th, on a rock close to Tarifa Light-house. commonly called Tarifa Point, and is now a complete wreck. Providentially no lives were lost. Most of the passengers returned to Gi braltar, from whence you will receive further particulars. P. S. The late commander of the Don Juan has come in since in the Medea, from Gibraltar, and, I presume, is going home. The agent to Lloyds' at Gibraltar had sent assistance to the wreck. I communicated the fate of the Don Juan as I learnt it myself late last evening, to Captain St. John Mildmay, commanding head officer in this Bay; and as her Mrjesty's ship Trinculo, Captain Coffin, got under weigh this morning, at clay-light, and is gone to the eastward, I presume she has b ee n ordered by Capt. Mildmay to Tarifa. Farren opens at the Olympic in Squire Broad lands, in Dance's farce of The Country Squire, and will afterwards appear as Mr. Oddbody, in a new burletta en titled Advice Gratis, in which also Mr. Stocker will make his first appearance. Little Keely will make his re appearance in a new burletta called The New Servant, in which he will play Inigo Mastic°, and his clever little wife will make her first appearance here as Xarifa, in the same entertainment. In the favourite vaudeville of The Loan of a Lover, Keely resumes his character of Peter Spyk ; James Vining, Captain Amersfort ; and Gertrude, Madame Vestris. The house has been entirely renovated, and looks as fresh as it did last season, when it was done up afresh. The band is numerous and efficient, under the able direction of Mr. W. Penson. On Saturday an Inquest was held at the Court House, Leeds, on view of the body of John Bailey, aged 22, who was in the employ of his father, Mr. James Dailey, a hatter in Briggate. The unfortunate young man had been married about a year to a respectable female from Holbeck. It appeared that on Thursday afternoon last, deceased had been thinking and card-playing with some company at a public-house, both unknown, and that by marking the cards and other stratagems and devices they had cheated him out of a sovereign, and he having de tected the imposition, refused to pay the amount, left the house, and was followed into the street by the parties, who threatened to maltreat him if he did not pay the sovereign. Two of the police having made their ap pearance, the impostors, fearing that they would get into trouble, walked away, and the deceased afterwards met a companion in the street, to whom he related the above circumstances, being the worse for liquor at the time. He requested his companion to wait in the street until he went into two druggists' shops ; when he came out of the latter he stated that he had purchased three-penny worth of mercury to poison some rats with at his mother in•law's, at Holbeck. In the evening they went to the theatre, and the deceased ga%e his companion an apple, which, on tasting, took the skin from his mouth, and he desisted from eating any portion of it. The deceased left him to go into another part of the house, and he saw no more of him. Bailey shortly afterwards returned hone, and began vomiting very violently, and medical aid was promptly procured, but in the course of the night lie ex pired. Verdict—" That the deceased died in consequence of havin g administered to himself poison, while labouring under temporary insanity." The Irish steamers are now daily arriving at the BroomielaW, Glasgow, with their hold chock-full of new grain and oatmeal, and their decks completely crowded with tine young horned cattle, sheep, and lambs, and a great deal of beef, which is retailed by the dealers at abco.", penny a pound less than the butcher-market prier. kinds of Irish agricultural produce is abundant in a' ket, with t h e except i on o f b utter, w hi c h i s sc• v and course dear. o'at man The English vessel 117acome, ( - 71 ".tain William Russell, from St.. Petersburg'', ballad fr , c ' Plymouth, was wrecked on the Coast of Jutlart,, Qn 'ale 18th inst. The crew and a part of the cargo, wm % Vved, CITY REGISTRATION-THIS DAY Before Mr. Cam°. The Court was still engaged with evising the l'sts for the parish of St. Botolph, Aldgate. The first objection was one taken by the Turks azainst the name of Aaron Freight. His rating and occupation were proved, as also the pay ment of his taxes by Mr. Jones. In his cross-examination the witness said he spoke like a foreigner, but that did not satisfy him that Mr. Freight was a foreigner, because he had known many whom he knew to be English Jews, who, having been in foreign countries, when they returned had as much of the foreign accent as Mr. Freight. There was nothing more foreign in the ap pearance of Mr. Freight, than there was in the generality of Jewish countenances. He was spoken of in the neigh bourhood as a foreigner ; but that, in his mind, proved nothing. Mr. Rowcroft called Benjamin Hog, who deposed that he called on Mr. Freight, and in conversation he told him that he was a foreigner—that he belonged to Russia, of which country his father and mother were natives. Cross-examined by Mr. Tijou—He had been employed by the Conservative Association to go and make inquiries. He had not been paid yet, but he expected to get something ; still he would speak the truth. He did explicitly tell Mr. Freight that he came from the Conservative Association, and to inquire whether he was a foreigner. Mr. Freight said he was a Russian, but he had been fourteen years in London, and he considered that was sufficient to put him on a par with the natives. Witness was a tailor. In the course of the cross-examination i\lr. Tijou said some persons had been hired for the purposes of deception and perjury. Mr. Rowcroft very indignantly denied the imputation. His instructions to all persons sent out were that they should distinctly tell from whom they came, and that if the persons would satisfy the inquirer that he was not an alien, they would give him no further trouble. Mr. Tijou did not doubt Mr. Rowcroft's assertion as to the instructions given by him, but he was perfectly aware that one of their agents had represented himself as from the Reform Association, and that he bad committed per jury. He was in a condition to prove that. Mr. CRAIG was satisfied with the evidence in this case. He would not, in any case, hold that a man speaking with a foreign accent must be an alien—that would not be suffi cient proof, because many natural born subjects went to foreign countries, and on their return spoke with the foreign accent : but in this case the evidence was that Mr. Freight acknowledged himself a foreigner, and not only so, but went further, and said he thought " a residence of 14 years ought to entitle him to the privileges of a native." Name expunged. (Before Mr. MYLNIZ.) Mr. Wilmot claimed to be put on the register for a house in the parish of St. Mary, Colechurch. Mr. MYLNE—I think, Mr. Wilmot, I have seen you here before. Your name is already on the list. Mr. W.—Yes, Sir. I occupy a house in St. Stephen, Coleman-street, for which I am on the list ; but as I think it will shortly be pulled down, in order to make sure , of a vote, I claim now for a house i❑ this parish. Mr. Goodeve—And I believe your name stands in the list of Liverymen ? Mr. \V.—Yes, it does. Mr. Goodevc—That might satisfy you. Pray, how many more lists do you want to be on ? You cannot claim as an occupier of two houses. Mr. M YLNE—Certainly he can if he likes. Mr. W. then proved his rating payments and occupa tion, and his claim was allowed—the Revising Barrister observing that he would now have a choice of three polling places at an election. CRIMINAL COURT.-T HIS DAY. SENTENCES. The RECORDER, accompanied by the Sheriffs and other City functionaries, took his seat on the Bench this morning at halt-past ten o'clock, for the purpose of passing sentence upon the various prisoners convicted during the present Session. To be imprisoned for One Month—Mary Lely, Cor nelius Neale, Samuel Hood, Evan Jones, William Deane, and George Spencer. To be imprisoned Six Weeks—Mary Anne Lubbick, John M'Mally, and Robert Noy. To be imprisoned for Two Months—Bridget Price, Mary Anne Rupkins, and Jeremiah Foster. To be imprisoned for Three Months—Anne Wells, Mary Powel, alias Cowdroy, Jane Robins, William Francis, William Race, George Harte , Edward Smith, Joseph Clarke, William Jones, John Browne, William Ward, John Lewis, James Shirley, John Cooper, John Wood, James Cannon, Andrew Rennie, Richard Fell, Thomas Richard son, John Stewart, and James Pringle. . . , To be imprisoned Three Months (three weeks in Solitary Confinement) Anne Oaks, Jane Watkins, Margaret Smith, James White, George Stanwin, Samuel Russell, William Burne, Michael Norton, George Johnston, Thomas Hillyard, Robert John Arnold, James Mitchell, Henry Cloudsley, Robert Lockyer, John Beagle, John Thompson, Henry Chennimant, John Way, Thomas Sellin, Thomas Matthews, Thomas Boulter. To be imprisoned for Six Months—Bridget Scanlan, Sarah Harwood, Julia Dwyer, Mary Willick, Mary Charl ton, Thomas Ofileys, Thomas Kirk, James Knight, George Wilkman Bevan, Godfrey Kennedy, John Simms, W. Davis, Thomas Standage, Roland Owen, John Thomas, George Pearce, James Bowles, James Stevenson. To be imprisoned for Nine Months—Mary Oat. To be imprisoned for Twelve Months (three months solitary confinement) Hannah Sullivan, Bartholomew Cunningham, John Fort, William Smith, Nicholas Walker, Richard Pike, William West, Richard Russell, William Platt, Joseph Harrison, George Browne, Thomas Seymour, William Swaine, William Pellin, William Mobbs, Thomas Williams, John Copeman. To be imprisoned for Two Years—Thomas Hill, John Davies, John Coates. To be transported for ,Seven Years—Elizabeth Read, Mary Hale, Mary Lucas, Catherine Lyons, Mary Smith, John Hughes, Robert Hicks, Wm. Cowdroy, Wm. Bell man, Robert Newton Payne, Edward Ricketts, Edward Bradshawe, Cornelius Driscoll, Wm. Wagstaff, William Gales, Henry Noel Wilkinson, John Davis, John Smith, James Adams, Wm. Jackson, Thos. Fitkins, Samuel Ken dall, Thos. Wm. Roseviere, Joseph Gibbs, John Kingston, John Hanning, Charles Curslake, John Callaghan, James Edwards alias Wells. To be transported for Fourteen Years—Ann Wilson, W. Stevens, Thos. Young, jun., James Moore, W. Major, James Davis, Michael Flynn, Thos. Lyn, John Scarmell. To be transported for Life—Margaret Kidner, Edward Collins, Richard Wilson, Isaac Dodman, Wm. Morgan Mordecai, Charles Thompson, John Saunders, James Wilcox, John llennessey alias Curtain. The Court then adjourned to Monday, October '23. The King of Prussia has allowed several of his officers to proceed to the French head-quarters at Algiers, and to participate in the expedition against Constantine, to afford them an opportunity of perfecting themselves in their military studies. Count Pozzo di_Borgo has consented to return to his embassy at the British Court. The Count is expected with his suite at Ashburnham House on the Ist of No vember. _ _ M. de Poggenpohl, who is said to have been ap pointed by the Emperor Charge d'Affaires to the Infante Don Carlos, and who is now in Paris, was formerly, we believe, Secretary to the Russian Ambassador. ENGLISH OPERA ElousE.—Last evening Miss Rainforth undertook the arduous duty of appearing as Leonora in Beethoven's opera of Fidelio, and although the performances of Schroeder Devrient and Malibran had been so familiar to the English public as to render the attempt somewhat hazardous, yet Miss Rainforth over came all these difficulties, and her efforts were crowned with complete success. Without servilely imitating Dev rient, or, like Malibran, overacting some of the scenes, Miss Rainforth had cauglat sufficient of their spirit to render full. justice to the c.iaaracter ; her acting was good throughout, and excellera in the prison scene ;. her singing was also ex tremely good, and the trio, at the end of the first act, be tween her, Rocco (Seguin), and "Mareelliae (Miss Poole); the duet in the second, act, between her and Rocco, and the finale, were loudly an d d eser vedly applauded—the two last being horaoured with unanimous encores. We have much also 'ea, praise in the singing of Miss Poole , than whom IV6 have never heard a better Marcelline. We heartily congratulate Miss Rainforth on her success. The oPt,ra was followed by a concert, in which Belle, Fraser, 'Seguin, Sapio, and Allen took a part ; and the perform ances concluded with The Little Laundress, in which Miss Rainforth played with spirit the part of Madelon. Yesterday an Inquest was held at the London Hospital, in the Mile-end-road, before Mr. Baker, the Co roner, on the reuiP2ms of Thomas Cornbes,a. dock labourer, aged 40 his limit-, drunk nearly a q uart of full-strength rum. Mr. ye'.rs, who died i n that institution in consequence of ,era medical . s tudent, stated that tldeceasedwas '''z'aight 't o the hospital in a state of insensibility on Friday evening. lie smelt very , s t r ong of rum, and he in conse quence a pplied a stomac h -pump, and evacuatc s d nearly a qua rt of rum from t he stomach. He used all the usual mean s to rally and restore the deceased, but without suc cess, as he died in a short time afterwards. It further ap- peared that he had been employed on the rum quay at the West India Docks, and got what is called " sucking the monkey," and drunk such a quantity that he become almost immediately insensible, and was conveyed to the hospital. The jury returned a verdict of " Natural death, produced by drinking a large quantity of rum." LISBON. SEPT. 17.—The long-expected and anxiously-lookethfor event has Lit length taken place. The Queen was de livered of a son and heir, about half-past eleven last night. This happy event was immediately wade known to the in habitants by the discharge of rockets and the firing of a salute of one hundred and one guns from the Castle of St. George, followed by a salute from the Portuguese vessels in the river. The church beds were set ringing, and late as the hour was, many persons immediately displayed lights at their windows, so that the city was, in an in stant, partially illuminated. The Royal Infant is s.tid to be strong and healthy ; and though the Queen suffered consi derably, she is now doing well. Tue Supplement to the Diario published on the occasion, states that all the Ministers of State, the President of the Cortes. the Di plomatic Body, the President of the Municipal Chamber, the Principal Authorities, Civil end Military, all the Great Officers of State, the Ladies of Honour, and many other persons of distinction, were admitted into her Majesty's presence immediately after the accouchement, according to custom in such cases, and signed the document testamentary (:o the delivery, which was drawn up according to the forms prescribed by law, and submitted to them by the Chief Secretary of State. The infant Prince was immediately, I believe, baptized by the Cardinal Patriarch. This afternoon, the Prince, now by title Kiug Don Ferdinand, went with a numerous cortege to the Cathedral, where the birth of the Royal In fant was registered. In the evening a ge nera l, i n d ee d, I might say a universal illumination, took place over the city. In walking through many of the principal streets I did not observe a single house in which lights were not displayed. The usual mode of illumination here is by hanging glass lanterns, lighted up by olive oil, on each side of the windows. Owing to the height of the pauses (five or six stories being lit up), and the great inequalities in the situation of the city, a general illumination has a singular and brilliant appearance Fire works were let off from various places, and the day was altogether one of rejoicing. I have not heard of any dis turbance. All the vessels in the river displayed their gay est colours to-day, and a salute was fired by all the men-of war at one o'clock.—Morning Chronicle. MRS. FRAZER AND THE STIRLING CASTLE. Documents and numerous other apparently authentic confirmations of the truth of Mrs. Frazer's extraordinary narrative continuing to appear from day to day, it may be as well to acquaint the public—more particularly that por tion disposed to succour the lady in a pecuniary point of view—that there are circumstances connected with her history calculated to impeach her veracity to an extent likely to awaken suspicions that she has been practis ing a very artful, and certainly very successful hoax. That she has visited some of the localities and perhaps ex perienced many of the hardships she describes is unques tionable ; but there is also reason to believe that she has been drawing extensively on a certain faculty said to be much in request among imaginative poets. On her first arrival in England, at Liverpool, from Sydney, she applied to Mr. Dowling, police commissioner, for assistance to enable her to proceed to London, where she alleged she had friends, who would contribute to her support. At the date of this application (some four or five weeks, we , believe, before the narrative of her sufferings appeared in the papers) she was very indifferently attired, her clothes being, as she said, procured from the parties in Sydney to whom she was indebted for the kindnesses she experienced after her re. turn thither from amongst the savages. Mr. Dowling, satisfied that she was in the distress she represented, ac quainted the Mayor and parochial authorities of Liverpool with her ease, and arrangements were made for affording her the assistance she solicited. According to appoint ment, she called at the parish office in Fenwick-street, and again recspitulated the details of her shipwreck in the Stir liszy Castle, and subsequent privations and sufferings, that have since been published under the head of Mansion house police. In reply to some questions put to her re specting the savages with whom she professed to have been so long domiciled, she detailed a few particulars, compared with which the marvels witnessed by the renowned Mr. Lemuel Gulliver would seem very common-place matters indeed. Among other singularities she said the barbarians had large tufts of blue hair growing upon their shoulders in the form of epaulets, and that teir heads were quite denuded of hair, with the exception of the crown, from which streamed a large portion of the same texture and co lour as the matelial forming the shoulder ornaments. Mr. Dowling's confidence in her veracity immediately underwent a considerable dimiuution, and, ordering her con templated relief to be suspended for some time, he sent for the captain of the vessel in which she arrived from Sydney. The captain being absent on business, the mate came in his stead, and evinced considerable reluctance to give any in formation relative to the person calling herself Mrs. Frazer. After a good deal of hesitation, however, he admitted that she was in no distress whatever ; that she had abundance of clothes of a very superior description ; and, moreover, that she was married to the captain, whose name is Green, and consequently could want for nothing any woman in her sphere of life had a right to expect. It will be recollected that this Green was mainly instrumental in corroborating her statements before the Lord Mayor at the Mansion house. Upon being taxed with her imposition in representing herself destitute, and avoiding all mention of her marriage to Green, she said that he had treated her with great harshness, and she was desirous of separating from him, and going to London. Mr. Dowling then procured the attendance of Green himself, who did not deny the feet of his being married to her, and consented to supply her with the necessary moans of prosecuting her journey to the metropolis. Some time after this they were seen repeat edly in Liverpool, promenading the principal streets, and at church, she being dressed very showily, with a white veil, bracelets, and other indications of a well-stocked wardrobe. Nothing further transpired in Liverpool respecting her, and the police authorities then regarded her statement merely in the light of an attempted iradd, of which nu merous insmnees are perpetually falling within their cogniz- Ho xever, upon publicity being given to her reve ,ations before the Lord Mayor, Mr. Dowling deemed it his duty to address his Lordship on the subject, acquainting him with the facts just narrated. His Lordship, strange to say, has never taken the slightest notice of Mr. Dow fing's letter, not even so far as to acknowledge its re ceipt. Having interested himself very warmly in her be half, he is probably not anxious to admit that his sympathy; has been excited by one entitled to it in a less degree tha n he at first imagined. The following is a copy of Mr. Dowling's letter referred, to above, and is dated so far back as the 26th of last month : " Central Police-office, Liverpor " My Lord—Finding that a person calling herself - Mrs. Frazer, the widow of the unfortunate master of the Sti ;ding Castle, has been making a statement to your Lordelaip in order to excite the compa3sion of the humane and 'obtain money, I think it my duty to acquaint you that she landed here some few weeks back awl applied to me, detailing the same circumstances of distress as those which appear to have interested your Lordship in her behalf. I communi cated with the Mayor and parochial authorities of the town. who most humanely entered upon the plerssing task of giving her effectual relief ; but on the second interview I had with her an evident exaggeration of her sufferings whilst in captivity caused a suspicion, and her- relief was suspended till inquiries were made, when it turned out that she had married in Sydney, New South Wa'ses, the master of the vessel in which she arrived here (the, Mediterranean packet), who is a man in good circumstances, and who, it now appears, accompanied her to London (leaving his vessel here in 'lock), no doubt solely for the purpose of raising money 'oy imposing on your Lordship and the public. Her husband, 'whose name is Green, is the person who so warm-hearteMy confirmed her statement before your Lordship. " Her explanation upon the discovery of her imposition atterepted here was, that her husband (Green) used her very ill, and she wished to go to London and separate from him ; and he on being sent for agreed to furnish her with the means to go ; after which, however, they remained here some time, and I saw her on more than one occasion ele gantly dressed. The mate of vessel states that she had a very good wardro be, and it is certain that, as the wife of Greene she cann ot be in thsress. ‘; 1 am, my Lord, your Lordship's most obedient servant, (Signed) " M. M. G. DOWLING, --Morning Post. " Commissioner of Police." 7 uce . POST-OFFICE REFORM.—We are glad to learn that there is at last some prospect of Mr. Has plan of cheap postage obtaining a fair trial. We have taken the trouble of inquiring, and we find that some of our commercial and trading houses in town pay upwards of SO/. a-year for post age's. Taking the average postage of each letter at Is.— and this, we are aware, is low—the saving to each of the houses we have referred to, by the adoption of Mr: Hill's plan, would be upwards of 701. a-year! Surely such a stun is worth looking after, evon by the wealthiest of our nier eliants.—Aberdcen llcralrl. It is estimated that there are about 2,000,000 horses in England of the value of 25,000,000/. sterling. Of these the number charged with duty amounts to rather more than 340,000, the total a mount of duty being about 430,0001. Not more than 1,000 of these horses are blood or race-horses, contributial,- to the revenue only about 1,5001., or 1-220th part of the whole duty. The royal stud at Hampton - cour t consists of nearly eighty horses, mares, and colts. Prince Michael Radzevil, who, during the last Polish insurrection, held at one time the chief command of the revolutionary army, has returned to Warsaw.