The Sun. — London, England, 1848-09-27 00:00:00

MOROUGII 3101. r. New Hops, the supply of which is good, are in im proved request, at our quotations. In year ,, a an s parcels, scarcely any business is doing. Ile duty i, called 205,000/. New Hops—Sussex pockits, 48s t' , 5 ,95; Weald of Kent ditto, 52s to 603 ; MU and Ea, Dent ditto, 56s to 100 s per cwt. WHITECHILPEZ. Our market was heavy to-day, and prices hr.d downward tendency. Beef, from 2s 4d to 33 4i; Mut ton, 3s 4d to 4s 6d; Lamb, 3s 8d to 4s 10d; V(1,1 3 12 d to 4x; and Pork, 3s 8d to 4s 10d per 8113 s, by th, carcase. IPSWICH CORN EXCHANGE, SEPT. 26. Our market was heavy to-day for all grain. Whea' could not be sold without a reduction of 2s per ipart( r Barley and Oats are each rather lower. Bears are a helm) , sale, at a decline of is per quarter. Peas dull. Malt and Flour looking downwards in price. PER QUARTER. PER QUARTER. Wheat 42s to 56s Beans 3ls to 36: Barley Oats... 2os to 25s Malt 49s to 57: Rye.. ....... .... 28s to 30s Flour, per sack 43s to 47. AVERAGES FOR THE WEEK ENDING SEPTEMBER 23. Wheat Barley 230 / f 32s 7d. Oats Rye 3O „ 303 8,!. Beans B2 „ 33s sd. Peas 65 ~ 38s 2J. TRIAL OF THE CHARTIST CONSPIRATORS. CRIMINAL COURT.—(THIS DAY. OLD COURT. CONTINUATION OF THE TRIAL OF CUFFEY, FAY, AND LACY. Mr. Baron Platt and Mr. Justice Williams took their seats on the bench at ten o'clock. Superintendent Rutt (L division) deposed to going, With a number of constables, to the Angel. Webber- Street, Blackfriars-road, about five o'clock on the evening of the 16th of August. Ile found thirteen persons in the tap-room. Their names were Nilspear, Iron, Proutten, Conway, Corbett, Taylor, Cocks, Poole, Gibbs, Herbert, Norton, Corbett, and Samuel Morgan. Mr. BALLANTINE objected to the reception of this evidence, as there was no evidence to connect the pri soners with any proceedings there. Mr. Baron PLATT considered the evidence admissible, since the meeting at Webber-street formed part of the alleged conspiracy. Sergeant Rutt said he saw weapons taken from several of the parties, and produced two powerful pike-heads, taken from Conway, who had them under his coat. There was much confusion. Cochrane, 108 L, corroborated Sergeant Rutt's testi mony. Harris, 6 L, gave similar testimony, adding that he found seventy-five rounds of cartridges in a handker chief under a seat.. L 21 proved searching Nilspear and finding a breast plate between his shirt and waistcoat, and a pike-head, which were produced. Found a sword behind the door of the room. Baker, 112 L, proved finding a dagger, a pike-head, and a screw wrench on Proutten. Slaymaker, L 124, searched Cocks, and found a card in his coat-pocket, showing that he was a member of the National Chartist Association, April 3, 1848. Collins, L 1E 2 4, was also at the Angel. Searched Mc rgan, and found a pike- head and fifteen ball cartridges in his pocket. Insiector 'ttogers L, deposed going to a house in Market-atre'et, Borough, on the evening of Wednesday, the 16th cilE August. Morgan occupied the first floor. Mr. PARRY objected to the reception of evidence with respect to what was found at Morgan's. The ATVORNEY-GENERAL considered the evidence ad miasible, hut would not press the question. Inspect or Hawes proved searching the house of Lacy, entitled the Charter Coffee-house, Strutton-ground, Westminster. Found some books in a club-room in the first flour, ccntaining names, addresses, and subscriptions. One bad reference to the members of the " Wallace Bridg ate branch of the Chartist Association"—Mr. • Lacy last. He also found a printed plan of the mode of orgartisation recommended by the Chartist Association. All'the books and documents were handed in and read. Took a person named Jones into custody at the coffee house, on whom were found two pistols, loaded with ben and primed, a canister in his hat containing pound of gunpowder, a small box of cartridges, a pistol earew, &c. Mr. Eagle, jun., proved the hand writing of a plan to be in the handwriting of Mullins. Thomas Barry, shoemaker, said he was a member of the "Robert Emmett Brigade," which held its meetings at two places—one section met at a beer shop in Shoul der-street, and the other in Beer• street, in the neigh - botrhood of the Edgware-road. Had heard Mullins speak at one of these meeting places several times. The witness detailed the proceedings at these meeting places a short time before the arrest of the prisoners. The prisoner was cross-examined, and admitted having been committed to prison for a month for poaching, and for four months for stealing three half-quartern loaves. • Never attempted to induce any one to Join the physical force movement. Was a moral force Chartist. Had becon e an opposer against the physical force Chartists, because be believed they were dangerous to the com munity. Went about now, accompanied by a policeman. After a short adjournment the trial was proceeded THE PRINTER OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. is stated in a daily paper, that Mr. Luke Ilansard has been diemissed from the lucrative office of printer to the House of Commons. MR. WEBSTER'S WALKING STICK.—Mr. Webster has b -ete presented by a clergyman with a walking stick bee ring this inscription—" Constantinople, September, 1846.—The Honourable Daniel Webster, Marshfield, Massachussets, United States of America, for whom this Daphne-wood stick was cut on the borders of the Bos phorus, where Mahomet 11. and the Greeks had their last field battle, before the subjugation of the latter." — .New York Daily Tribune. The Gazette of last night contains an order in council, giving directions for bringing into operation the Act of the last session to prohibit the importation of sheep, cattle, or other animals, for the purpose of pre venting the introduction of contagious or infectious dis orders; and it further enacts, that ifs s any sheep or lambs imported or brought into this country appear at the titne of their importation to be infected with or labouring under the variola ovine, or sheep pox, such sheep and 1 tuabs, and all other sheep and lambs imported or brought into this country in the same ship or vessel with any sheep or lambs which appear to be diseased, shall be seized and detained by the officers of Customs at the port of import; it enacts also that the circumstances of such seizure shall be forthwith reported by such officers to the Commissioners of Customs and the Board of Trade; and if it be certified to the former board by any veterinary surgeon appointed by them to inspect such sheep that they are infected with such disease, that they may, if they think proper, cause such sheep or lambs to be forthwith destroyed. Directions also may be given for further detaining or destroying all or any other of the sheep or lambs which may have been imported into this country with the diseased animals, or for re turning them to their owners, subject to any conditions which may be prescribed, and on the payment of any ex penses incurred by the Commissioners of Customs in respect of their detention. THE STREET-SWEEPING MACHINE.—We under stand that it is intended to extend the operation of that useful instrument, the street-sweeping machine. The state of the streets on Saturday and Sunday last, and yesterday, afforded the best proofs that some change is necessary to render the streets in any respect passable wi.hout being covered with mud. The present mode of cleansing the streets is perfectly inadequate. It is not regulated by any system, and the clumsy and careless way in which the sweepings arc removed forms another nuisance. MONEY MARKET.—The price of gold at Paris is 131 per mine, which, at the English Mint price of 31 17 141. per ounce for standard gold, gives an ex change of 25.481; and the exchange at Paris on Loudon at short being 25 30, it follows that gold is 0.72 per cent. dearer in Paris than in London. The price of gold at Hambargh is 436 per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 100. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13.101; and the exchange at Hamburgh on London at short being 13.81, it follows that gold is 1.03 per cent. dearer in liamburge than in London. The course of exchange at New York on London is 109 per cent., and the par of exchange between England and America being 109 23-40 per cent., it follows that the exchange is 0.58 per cent against England; but the quoted exchange at New York being for bills at 60 days sight, the interest must be subtracted from the above difference. TLIE WEST MIDDLESEX CONGREGATI O'NA u'cIo L Ack, ssoa - crAT ioN.—Yesterday evening, at half past six numerous meeting of the ministers and supporters of the churches and chapels connected with the West the Middlesex Congregational Association, was held at E end Chapel, East-end, Finchley, for the purpose of re ceiving the report of the various ministers on the pro gress of the association. Mr. Walker, treasurer of the association, iu the chair, and there were present the Rev. Dr. Morrison, the Rev. Mr. Cumming, the Rev. Mr. Harrison, the Rev. Mr. Baker, &c. The Chairman ob served that he was deeply impressed with the import ance of the object they had that evening assembled to support, believing that they would effect the dissemina tion of the principles of Christianity as they were incul tattd in the Scriptures. Dissenters and Independents, by uniting together in the way proposed by the association, would be enabled to carry out those views, and he was happy to say that there was a strong disposition among Christians of various denominations to unite for such a purpose. Resolutions in support of the association were agreed to unanimously, and several reverend gentlemen addressed the meeting upon them, after which thanks were voted to the chairman, and the meeting separated. The Dunse and Reston branch of the North Bri tish Railway is making so very little progress that it is las r 0 tsible to fix any definite time when it will be opened. —Glasgow Paper. We are happy to learn, as respects the interests of the Mount St. Bernard Hospice and Leicester-square Soup Kitchen, In consequence of the pressing demands on its funds, her Majesty the Queen Dowager yesterday most munificently forwarded a donation of 201. J ERsEI N—Two hundred and fifty men are now employed on the works at the new pier, including stone cutters; the works proceed rapidly, and the filling be tweenso uth quay bytheh t w e t walls doublel t s the t new elwin the pisoutherner oe fr rails, h ea4hae extendingnad head ws t i a s pn cigreatlyea. from oo fm the old ur phwe facili tateda slip rdi s of 200 yards, along which the material of the old prome nade is conveyed for filling the f rom Victoria Pier to lo w water mark will be corn rnenced forthwith. —Guernsey Star. Lieutenant George F. Ruton, aged 38, of th 89th R e giment, died at St. Louis, x on the 29th ult., of dy e sen t e ry. He was the writer of the Blackwood series en tith d Lite in the Far West," and had obtained somo fame by his volume of " Adventures in Mexico and the Rocky Mountains." He arrived at St. Louisa few weeks p re vious to his death, with another British officer, who, supposing him to be convalescent, proceeded with General Brooke for the Upper Mississippi. Futtious Ox..—Considerable excitement was caused on the afternoon o f Monday last by the appearance of an ox, in an excited state, running along Mosley-street, apparently from the vicinity of the cattle market. Se veralwiiho attemptswithout success, andre inagrrdesotwnitsmplogrr.setsrse,ebt but ran in the direction of the railway station. Here some men endeavoured to turn it, and in doing so, a butcher madeprocee t d o had a very narrow escape, the ox having run at him, but he managed to escape by striking it on the forehead with his hat, and seeking refuge behind a barrel. The animal now became much infuriated, turned off by the road leading from the station to Pilgrim-street, and nits course encountered Mr. Clark, the auctioneer, who, median ly he saw it approach him, endeavoured to save himself by placing himself against the wall. The mal, however, attacked him, knocked him down, tore part of his clothes, and bruised him severely about the head. Fortunately it proceeded without doing him fur ther injury, and rushing up Pilgrim-street it attac ked Mr. Nicholson, plumber, and after giving him a toss with its head proceeded onwards up Pilgrim-street, where it was shortly afterwards secured. Mr. Nicholson fell upon his shoulder, and, with the exception of a few bruist s, is not materially injured.—!Newcastle Journal. ACTS OF PARLIAMENT. — In the late session of Par liament, commencing on the 18th of November and end ing on the sth of September instant, 133 public Acts received the royal assent. with. George Cavis,_ of Greenwich, was ne xt examined by th e ATTORNEY-CiENARAL—WaS:a O t a Chartist, yet had joined the Wat Tyler district at Greenwich. Joined on the 24th of May. Was accepted as a delegate They of the trial of met on the 10th of July, the day Ernest Jones. Mullins said at that meeting that it was a shame the Chartist prisoners then about to be tried should be allowed to go to prison without a strug gle. It was said that Cow cross would be a good place to attack the police van conveying the prisoners to Cold bath-fields. It was said that a person named Haley would come cut and lead the Irish on that occasion.— Attended meetings up to the 10th of August, and made communications to Superintendent Marks the next day of what happened the day before. 'The superintendent wrote his statements down at his dictation two ours after atten ding the meeting, and signed them afte r the state ments had been read over to him.—(A paper was handed to the witness, who stated that it contained the informa tion he gave to the superintendent of the meeting on the 15th of August.) He did this, because witness could not read. Inspector Marks of Greenwich, deposed to writin g the statements in th e' way vouched to by the witness. (The trial was proceeding when our report left.) MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. (Before the ASSISTANT-JUDGE.) Thomas Collins, aged 27, and Mattin Etvil, aged 51, paviours and'mason's.labourers, were indicted for stealing k quantity of paving stones the property of Mr. Chad wick, the contractor, and of the Commissioners of Paving, for the city of Westminster. Mr. PRENDERGAST, who appeared for the prosecutors, stated the quantity and value of property of this kind which was plundered, far exceeded anything that the jury, or many in court could be aware of. It was necessarily much exposed, and it was only the day before the alleged robbery by the prisoners, that an entire load of granite blocks was carried off from the same stone heap in Weymouth-street. In consequence of the recent robberies, a watch was set, and the prisoners were seen to wheel a truck up to the heap, and had partly filled it when they were taken into custody. Their defence was that another man employed them to fill the truck, and that they thought it was all right. They had both been in the employment of Mr. Chad wick many years, and they said he was in court and could give them a good character. Mr. Leckie, w arden of Westminster House of Correc tion, said he knew them well, and they were " always alternately in and out of prison," for assaults and drunkenness. Mr. Chadwick did not respond to their appeal, and the jury found them Guilty. The ASSISTANT-JUDGE sentenced them to be impri soned four months, and kept to hard labour. _ CLERKENWELL.—(THIS DAY.) Edward Squires was charged before Mr. Combo with stealing a chair from the shop of Mr. Gilts, High stree t, Stoke Newington, upholsterer. It appeared that a policeman meeting the p ri so ner i n n the street, not far from the prosecutor's, offering to sell the chair to the shopkeepers and to p a ssers by, took him into custody, not being that he satisfied with his account of the possession, w hich was Dad found it in the road. Mr. Gilts was positive that the chair was in the shop half an hour before the prisoner was taken, but wished the magistrate to deal leniently with the prisoner, as it might be that he took the c h a ir in a drunken lark ; besides , there were children about the door, and it might have got pulled out into the street, which would give some colour to the prisoner's defence, as he was so very drunk at the time, and might imagine it was " treasure trove." Mr. CO MBE said (at first) that Mr. Gilts must con vince a jury of that, but at length, in consequence of the prosecutor's unwillingness to press the charge, and the fact that the prisoner was drunk when he took the pro perty, and was not a kno wn offender, he discharged him. REGISTRATIONS. (THIS DAY.) CITY OF LONDON. The lists brought under revision today wore those for the parishes of Cornhill, Cripplegate Within, Crip plegate Without, and Farringdon Within. Au objection was taken to the name of a voter by Mr. Sidney Smith, on the gr a ound that ono of hi s Chsterris tian names was omitted, nd the Revising Brri struck out the nameWEom the list. fr ST MINSTER. Mr. Bayley, the Revising Barrister for Westminster, b aid his second Court this morning, for the revision of to list of voters. The parishes proceeded with to-day were St. George's, H swver-square, St. John's, and St. Margaret's, West in taster: Wan' INDIA Rum.—Arrivals of rum are now tal; jog p19.c0 at the port of Dublin, it being cornpara tiv ely a. new branch of import trade at the Irish metro pc; H s which has taken place since the reduction of duty u 4,- on the' article. This is no doubt caused in an inapor tiara i iegre e by the Act last passed, altering the duties ion fort igit and colonial rums and shrubs, by which the amount of duty levied on those art i c les, when im p orted direct ' to Ireland, is very considerably less than ii, when imp, V' ed into the other portio ns of the United iiiDgdoin. '' lATERAT CUE. THE QUEENS OF EAGi AND. Ey Agnes Strickland. Vol. XII. a7;d last. Cordially do we congratulate Miss Strickland upon the accomplishment of her arduous and ambitious undertaking—the " Lives of the Queens of England." Che volume now before us completes a work as in • ,tructive as history, and as interesting as romance. Übe biographies of the Queens of England, A% bile hey are fraught with that individual interest which s inseparable from biography, have an additional and drnost a peculiar value in an historical point tf view. l'he history of the royal ladies who have worn the English crown constitutes a not unimportant chapter in the history of England. In unravelling the mys eries of their domestic lives, we, at the same time, unravel many political knots which have baffled the .ngenuity of many philosophers. But, apart *rum the political interest of the history 0 1. We Queens of England, there is another tied a higher attraction in the perusal of such a wok. A Noble Lord (Lord Palmerston, if we mistake not) :once observed at a scientific meeting that by an ac quairitance with astronomy men are at once rendered proud and humble, —proud to find that it is given to man to discover the mysterious secrets of nature, and tumble by a sense of their insignificance when con trasted with the immensity of the universe. A feel ing very similar to this is called forth by a minute acquaintance with the private history of the great ones of the world. In perusing these royal biogra phies, for example, the commonest among us may hold his head a little higher on discovering that, despite the jewelled diadem and the ermine robe, kings and queens feel and think as he does, while, at the same time, the proudest may for a moment be staggered by such a revelation of the instability of human hopes and the worthlessness of human grandeur, as is afforded by such a history. Morally, his torically, and politically, therefore, such a work as that just completed by Miss Strickland is valuable and interesting. The biography of Queen Anne, which fills the twelfth volume, completes the series ; that of Matilda, the wife of William the Conqueror, commenced it. Between these two royal ladies a group of very various but for the most part attractive characters intervene, some celebrated for political glory and some fur domestic virtues ; some con spicuous for their personal charms and others for tY eir mental and moral qualities. Many incidents connected with the Queens of England have been familiar to most of us from our youth upwards—inci dents, perhaps, partly traditional and partly imaginary, but for that very reason more attractive—" beloved as fable and believed as truth." Who, for instance, is not familiar with the picture of Eleanor sucking the poison from her husband's wound, or of Philippa of Hainault interceding for the burgesses of Calais? Who is not acquainted with the infamy of Isabella abandoning Edward 11. to the tortures of Berkeley Castle, and then endeavouring to shield from the just vengeance of her son " her gentle Mor timer ?" Who is not familiar with the broken French of the bashful Katherine, when she responded to the wooing of the royal soldier, as set forth by the faithful pen of Shakspere ? Who cannot conjure before him a glimpse of Margaret of Anjou and the robber in the wood ? Who is not familiar with the memorable words of Elizabeth Woodville, when before her marriage with Edward IV. she told him " she was not good enough to be his wife, but too good to be his mistress ?" Who is unacquainted with the seraglio of the English Bluebeard, or the regal glories of the great Elisabeth? Who has not been interested in the romantic court , ship of Prince Charles and Henrietta Maria, and who, again, that ever once perused the narrative has not been haunted with the remembrance of Mary of Mo dena escaping by night with her infant in her arms ? By the agency of incidents such as these the Queens of England are more or less familiar to us all, but this familiariaty, so far from diminishing, only enhances the attractions of an accurate and elaborate history of those Queens such as has been penned by Miss Strickland. But not only is the theme interesting and important in itself, the in dustry and ability of the fair authoress have considerably increased and developed its interest and importance. With a most unwearying and praise worthy patience and perseverance, Miss Strickland has delved into the hidden stores of antiquity, and brought to light whatever served to illustrate her work. Her patience in collecting materials fully quals her taste and discrimination in making use of them. That patience, that taste, and that discrimina tion, added to Miss trickland's known eloquence of style, have combined to render her work a most valuable addition to modern history, and a most in valuable acquisition to that innumerable class of persons who love to be amused as well as instructed. In bidding (for the present only, let us hope,) farewell to Miss Strickland, we have one question to ask her. Why has she concluded the " Queens of England" with Queen Anne ? We are well aware of the delicacy and difficulty which must have been attendant upon any delineation of the royal ladies of recent times, even the Queen of the third George, is perhaps too proximate for his tory, and the wife of George 1., the unhappy Sophia of Zell, cannot rank as a Queen of England—of that England in which she never set foot. But what does Miss Strickland say to Caroline, the consort of George 11. ? Her history is not too recent for investigation, and most assuredly it is a history well worthy of Miss Strickland's searching analysis. Caroline was, perhaps, as politically powerful as even Elizabeth herself. Caroline's name is as much associated with the records of the time in which she lived as is that of her coadjutor Walpole. It is, moreover, almost necessary that a faithful history should be written of this Queen, because different contemporary accounts render her character most incomprehensible. Her great ability and her great political influence are unquestioned, but there are two opinions as to her individual disposition. For instance, there is a well known anecdote told in evidence of her never refusing any of the King's requests. It is said, that when he would ask her to walk out with him, when ill-health rendered her incapable of such an exertion, she would bathe her feet in cold water, in order to acquire a little temporary strength, by which she was enabled to accompany him in his promenade. Some com mentators cite this occurrence as an evidence of her deep sense of her conjugal duties, while others de clare it was only an instance of her continual habit of stooping to conquer. It is to clear up such points as these, and to furnish us with a correct portrait of this really remarkable woman, that we call upon Miss Stri,kland not to pause in her historical labours until she has added Caroline to her gallery of regal portraits. COURT CIRCULAR. BALMORAL, SUNDAY.—Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert attended Divine service this morning, at the parish church. Service was performed by the Rev. Mr. Anderson. Her Majesty was attended by the Countess of Gains borough, Viscountess Canning, the Right Hon. Sir George Grey, Sir James Clark, Bart., Mr. Anson, and Captain the Hon. A. Gordon. The General Board of Health yesterday held its first sittings at Gwydyr House; the President, the Right lion. the Viscount Morpeth, in the chair. The Board was attended by Professor Owen, Dr. Southwood Smith, Dr. Sutherland, of Liverpool, and R. D. Grainger, Esq. Dispatches wer e received yesterday at the Colonial Office from the Governor-General of Canada; and also from the Governors of the other North American Colonies. Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from the Co!cilia' Office fur the Governor of Gibraltar. Viscount Morpeth has returned to town. HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN.—We are requested to announce, that the new romance by this distinguished no velist, entitled " The Two Baronesses," will be pub lished to-morrow, Thursday, the 28th instant, by Mr. Bentley, of New Burlington-street. The following novels and romances are also published by him:--" The Bee hunter," by the author of the " Pilot," &c. ; 2. " Amymone," a story of the days of Pericles, by the author of " Azeth, the Egyptian ; 3. The Second Edi tion of Sir E. Bulwer Lytton's historical romance " Harold, the Last of the Saxon Kings ;" 4. " Sadness and G'adness," by the Hon. Adele Sydney ; and a. "The Rival Beauties," by Miss Pardue. THE SALE AT STOWE.--BUCKINGIIAM, SEPT 26. —The sale was recommenced this morning in the pre sence of a very large audience, Mr. Edward Manson ofn elating. After a few lots of glass, with which the cata logue opened, had been disposed of, the furniture of the japan -rooms was offered. The bedstead used by the Queen Dowager when visiting Stowe some few years since was the principal feature in these apartments. It was put in at 301. and ultimately knocked down for 851., or within Si. of the sum given by Mr. Walesley, of Northampton, for the state bedstead prepared for her Majesty the Queen. The bed and other furniture be longing to the bedstead realised between 401. and 501. extravagantly worked by the Duchesshigh. A e n interesting pro lo v t ed a an s e c x r c e e e p n - , tion to this rule, having been bought for 51. 7s. 6d. An ottoman, with stuffed seat and an embroidered cover, sold for 33 guineas. An Oriental japan cabinet realised 26i guineas, and all the other lots proportionately good prices. The sale will be resumed to-morrow, but in con sequence of the arms and armour in the basement pas sage (numbering about 50 lots), included in the cata logue of the day, having been withdrawn, there are only about 60 lots to be sold. On Thursday the sale will be of a very interesting character. MIDDLESEX REGISTRATION. — The barristers ap pointed to revise the list of voter in the election of knights of the shire for the county of Middlesex have intimated their intention of holding their courts accord ing to the following arrangement :—October 3, the Three Pigeons, Brentford ; October 14, tbo Black Dog, Bed font; October 16, the Windsor Castle, Hammersmith; October 17, the New Globe Tavern, Mile-end-road; October 18, the Green Man, Bethnal-green; October 19, the White Conduit House, Islington; October 20, the Sussex Hotel, Bouverie-street, Fleet-street; October 21, the Vice-Chancellor's Court, Westminster-hall; October 23, the Chandos Arms, Edgeware; October 24, the King's Head, Enfield; October 25, the Jack Straw's Castle, Hampstead-hill; October 26, the White Hone, Uxbridge. TUESDAY. Match 100, h ft. First half of Ab.M. Col. PeersVert Vert, Bst 21b (Nat), beat Lord Stratle more's Bedouin, Bst 71b. Betting-7 to 4on Vert Vert. Won by a length Run in 54 secs. The Grand Duke Michael Stakes of 50 sous. each; for three yrs old, colts, Bst 71b; fillies, Bst 31b. (23 Subs.) Lord Clifden's Surplice Mr. B. Green's Flatcatcher ..• Betting-11 to 4on Surplice, who made all the run. ning, and, without being headed, won by half a length Run in 2 min. 24 secs. Match 200, h ft. A.F. Duke of Bedford's Malmesbury, Bst 71b (F. Butler) beat Mr. Moore's Wilmot, Bst 41b, by a length. 3tol on Malmesbury. Run in 2 min. 34 secs. Handicap Sweepstakes of 20 soya. each, and 5 only i declared, &c.; for three yrs old and upwards. Duke of Rutland's Paladin, 3 yra, Est 91b (E. Sharp) 1 Mr. Wigrare's Keraun, 3 yrs, 6st 121 b ... 2 Mr. Roles Collingwood, 5 yrs, 9st 41b 0 Lord Exeter's Cocoa Nut, aged, 7st 71b 0 Sir J. llawley's Duc an Durras, 6 yrs, 7st 71b ... 0 Colonel Peel's Vert Ve r t , 4 y rs. 7st llb ... Mr. Pettit's Blunderbuss, aged, Est 121 b ••• ... 0 Lord Clifden's Tamarind, 3 yrs, Est 101 b ... 0 Mr. Elwes's Antelope, 3 yrs, Est 61b 0 Lord Orford's Craftsman, 4 yrs, 7st llb 0 Betting— 3 to 1 agst Cocoa Nut, 6 to l agst Duc an Durras, 6 to 1 agst Keraun, 7 to 1 agst Tamarind, 7 to 1 agst Antelope, 7 to 1 agst Craftsman. Keraun and Paladin, with Cocoa Nut and Duc an Durras in waiting, made the running to the cords, where they were joined by Vert Vert and Coiling wood. A very fine race home with this lot, ended in favour of Paladin by a, head, the other four so close together that the judge could not place a tl it i i ir a d tc . h, l 2 i o u o n , i h n f l t. mirp ir l s s t half sees of Ab.M. Nfr. Greville's Paquite, Bst 41a (Nat) 1 2 Sir J. Elawley's Banshee , B st 41 b 2 Betting-6 to son Paquita. Won by a length. Run in 50 secs. The Hopeful Stakes of 40 soya. each, h ft; for two yrs old. Last half of Ab.M. The third to receive 100 sous. out of the stakes. (30 Subs.) Mr. Payne's Glauca, Bst 111 b, includ. 61b extra (Nat) 1 2 Mr. Wreford's Wet Nurse, Bst 51 b 2 Lord Clifden's Czarina , B st 51b ... 3 Lord Albemarle's Grasshopp er, Bst 51b ... 4 Mr. B. Green's The A rab, Bst 71b ... 0 Field-Marshal Grosvenor's His Excellency, Bst 71b... 0 0 Colonel Peel's lone , Bst 51b 0 Mr. Roberts's The White Lady, Bst 51b 0 Mr. Watts's Andros, Bst.7lb 0 Lord Exeter's Turban, Bst 71b Betting-6 to 5 agst Glauca, 7to 2 agst Czarina, and sto 1 agst lone. Glauca took the lead, made all the running, and won easily by a length; half a length be tween second and third, Grasshopper fourth. Run in 53 secs. rtirtur ACCUSATION. Let us pass on to my next crime :—I have abstracted twelve hundred thousand francs, or two millions of money, from the public treasury. I have paid my debts ; I have purchased lands in France, and houses in England. Here I must acknowledge, at ence, that I am very much embarrassed, for I do not even know, at this moment, whereabouts the public treasury is situated, if it is not at the official residence of the Minister of Finance, a Minister with whom I have never had any communication whatever, and all whose operations are submitted to ordonnances and verifications without number, besides being supervised, figure by figure, under the Court of Accounts which the Republic allowed to continue in vigorous operation—in such a manner that a single centime could not be taken from the cheats without their being able to trace it back to its source, or without their following its vestiges to the hands of its possessor through the whole labyrinth of the for malities and regulations of the Exchequer. My ac. cusers may therefore remain in perfect tranquillity. If I have really discovered these chests of the public treasure, and if I have despoiled them of their ccn tents in the presence of the innumerable responsibili ties by which they are guarded and encompassed, and in the presence of the innumerable officials who have audited the accounts for their registration and verifi catliosni,t I ne s c h e a s l s l a n r o y t f l o o r ng in c e o t iti a n d u d e th qu at ie l tlyin enjoy ment of my millions ! will the fruits of my peculations, more than that, gthivaet a I l I will tlte give all my fortune, and all my honour into the bar- Match, 100, h ft. T.Y.C. gain, to whomsoever will point out to me that banker ~ Mre.,S. Woodcraft,Stanley's S t3 t. st A 7 n lb n, Bst 21b, received from Mr. a s M m o o rn reo in v g er in mention,London, n d o f w w h h o o the m wi 11, Po st 3 Sweepstakes of 500 sovs each; one to the pos'. T.Y.C. (3 Subs.) these houses purchased, these lands acquired, these Lord Stanley's Escalade, Bst 31b .., (Butler) 1 debts liquidated. Lord Orford's eby Sir Hercules—Firefly, Bst 71b ... 2 moreover, point has made 1 . Lord Exeter's cby Voltaire—Mecca, Bst 7lb ... 3 The truth is, that I had no other out to me moneys at my dis- Betting-4 to lon Escalade, who rands all the run posal beyond two hundred and ninety-three thousand ning, and won in a canter by two lengths. Run in 1 francs of secret funds for the ordinary diplomatic min. 16 secs. Match, 200, h ft. First half of Ab.M. purposes, to expend in missions, in in formations and Lord Strathmore ' s Brocardo, 5 yrs, Sat, received from in useful influences of all kinds , at a moment, too, Mr. Sandford's Isis, 4 yrs, 7st 10 Ib. when it was necessary to see e ver y thing with the Sweepstakes of 0 sous. each; for two yrs old, 6.,t 71b; to eyes of the Republic, to supply the sus p ended action be e re so e id B f s o t r 7 5 1 0 1) 1 ;s sous., if i r d d em ur nd a e r d ds, B, 9 o st; the winner of the agents of the monarchy recently overturned, Mr. Elwes's Don't.say.nay, 2 yrs .S. (Dockeray) 1 . 3 and when, moreover , I was at on e and the same time Sir J . Hawley's Banshee, 2 yrs ... ... ... 2 Minister of Foreign Affairs and M ember of a Dicta- Lord Clifden's Guizot, 2 yrs ... ..„ ... .. torial Government. I shall have to g ive a full and lenßgettntingß—nen into I s m a in gst l7 D gee on s 't-say-nay. Won by a explicit explanation in order to justify the propriety The Buckenham Stakes of 300 soya. each, h ft, for two of the distributions and the reality of the employment yrs old, colts, Bst 71b; fillies, Sat 41b. T.Y.C. (2 Subs.) of this sum, appropriated under the responsibility AfterColonell Peel r f ec fo eive t d forfeit fro: L F ?r s d t E co rt e e t t o e b r. atree besto four t een e t e h n e y i e s tr w s, mar e ket tr meetings. er ha o s f of ray administration in this particular department old, one a of of the public service. Yet this is the only portion of been extended to four days, with an aggregate of racing the funds of the Republic from. which I have had the that, in more favourable times, would have ensured . a power to deduct these imaginary sums dispatched by Er e t r:t d at t t n e n t d h a e n ce l ; e t e b m at p i trots produced, d ile i d n t t o h de first ) i s t instance,oeat t c3iy me to foreign countries, ssr devoted to the payment a the ,Udness of g loom Doncaster settling, and increased by my personal debts ! If my accusers cannot perceive whohy termination of the career of thane nob lm t a b n e , the moral impossibility of my pretended peculation% _ wa s not The s s weather,distinguishedwhichwas coldh e turf wet, l l ielped they must at least recognise its arithmetical im tuet.salise a list that, in the quantity and character of possibility. b to en e a e the sport, has never been approached in a First October I will proceed further, I will afford a still clearer Meeting, explanation to those honest but credulous men, who y 3, r; Fling Hotspur, 'Tuscan, Lad Mar , a d are incapable of inventing these whisperings of Traitress . Justice to Ireland arrived on Saturday from hatred, but who allow them to be buzzed into their Doncaster. ENTRIES Arrivals—Borneo►Ploughboy, Rochester, The ENTRIES FOR WEDNESDAY. ears without knowing how to reject them or how to dispute their veracity. A decree of the Convention R a il H a ndicap, for two yr s old. T.Y.C. lery, Jane Eyre, and Rodney. commanded all representat ives of the people, retiring Handicap. D.M. rs—M from power, or returning fr om an y m ission, to render Wanota, 4 o odkee, 4 yrs—Diplomatist, 4 yrs —Hinchmbrook, 3 yrs—Lola Monte; an account, at the tribune, of their pri va t e fortunes, —ConteDs y sac n , a 4Y D rs urras , 6 yrs. for the purpose of convinc in g the nation that they 3 Y 1.8.- a 501. Plate. D.I. had not increased their own po sse ssions by robberies Di p lomatist, 4 yrs—Tuwiss fthunter, , 4 yrs : —Antelope, 3 NEWMARKET, TUESDAY NIGHT. suppose it to be still in force ; a n d I will now give art Sweepst akes. T.Y.C. rs—Black Do e, 3 yrs —S Boy 3 yrs from the public fortune. I love th at decree. I will Y . account of my private fortune, such as th e most in- J a ne Eyre, Bst 71b —Rodney, Sst 71b—Raillery, 7st 111 b. D.M. Handicap. quisitive might desire, to my friends and to my enemies. Wanota, 4 yrs, Sst 101 b —Di p lom a tist, 4 y rs, Bst iolb On the first of last January, fifty-three days before —Due an Durra s, 6 y rs, 7st—Lola Montez iolb—Moodkee , 4 y rs, bat 101b—HichinbC 3 yrs, 6st ook, 3 yrs, the Republic, my general fortunes consisted of about t wo millions, five hundred thousand francs, in lands, 6st 41b—Conte:isAa,T3CyarsE,S5—stw4_113E.DNESDAT. in houses, and in moveables such as were derived fr ' n 2 ,t. filly. G ß r o e s tn al a ia G r r e e c e e n ives from ,r S h e e c m ond at S h ig b ht t , w an n d F M ar in th iv in er . from offices and from my literar y productions. M y g ale and Dark Lady is off by consent; and that between debts amounted to six hundred and Sixty thousand 'itetail and the Agnes MA filly will not be run. T VE SDAY. francs. Noth in g is more easily verified than these BETTING AT NCIIESTER.-- two calculations, by lands, by contracts, and by mart' THE CESAREWITCH STAKES.--I MA 4 . rough (taken) -12 to 1 agst Backbiter—I 2 to a,. gages. ; Surplice-20 to 1 9.gst Palma (taken) -20 to 1 agst Dacia But, they say to me, you had in 1847 debts to tilts' —25 to 1 agst Peep o'Day Boy (taken)--33 05 to 1 agst amount of eleven hundred thousand francs, and your Inheritress- 33 to 1 agst Tisiphone (taken) — to 1 agst 12 to . 1 agst Lanesbo liabilities are now little more than six hundred thou- P°7InIitr6ABIBRIDGESIIIRE STAKES. other. 20 to 1 agst Fore , sand. You ha ve therefore disbursed five hundred \ closure (taken) -20 to 1 agst any thousand francs ? You have therefore p aid your TRIENNIAL S T AKES.- 41 to 5 agst Elthiron (taken' creditors out of th e p ublic treasury ?—Citizens ! There is in all this o nl y one small difficulty. It is that these five hu ndred thousand francs of debts were disbursed by me six months before the Revolu- 3to 1 agst Tadmor____(taken)-5 to 1 agst Nina. tion. And from what funds was I enabled to make , this disbursement of five hundred thousand francs in 1847 ? From three hundred thousand francs paid into my hands by the publisher of the History of thel i Girondists, and from four huudred and fifty thousand TATTTRSALL'S,MONDAY.—Erratum—Escalade's price f 0 7 tlio oaks was quoted yesterday, by mistake, at 17 CO of 7 to 1. 1 taste DRUNICENNESS.—In some Fats of the countre- y magistrates are callin g upon persons convicted of r peated acts of drunkenness to find surety for their good behaviour, and not providing the bail, committing them cur a limited period. This can be done under an Act of et. rliament passed in the 24th of James I. T P, ST _INDIA OUSE.—( I HIS I) AY.) A cogrterly gelit:ral Court of the Proprietors . of :as' India :7; t (WIC to,,k plt.e3 to-(Lk)' at the East Intim Ccni vany's euse. Sir J. L. Lushing,ton took the chair at twelve O'Cloch MAJOR EDW ARDES. Mr. SULLIVAN, before the regular business of tit Jourt was gone into, proceeded to call the attentiot. if the Court of Directors to the unprecedented con !net in India of Brevet-Major Edwardes, and venture) o express a hope that the Court would mark in som , .ignal wanner its sense of the high estimation in whirl. hey held the intrepidity, valour, and detertuination ce he Gallant Lieutenant—now, he was happy to say, a Brevet. Major. The CHAIRMAN said that by a resolution of the Court tf Directors, on the 13th of the present month, it was manimously agreed that Brevet -Major Edwardes should presented with a gold medal—(Hear, hear)—and h a t resolution had been most cordially approved of b: .he B ,ard of Control.—(llear, hear.) HISTORY OF INDIA. Mr. Sergeant STORKS wished to know whether it was he intention of the Court of Directors to purchase the cot k of Professor Wilson and others, which was a con 'nnation of Mr. Mills's History of India ? The CHAIRMAN said the work was a most expensive ,ne, and it woul I be for the proprietors to say whether. n the present state of the Company's finances, which he was sorry to say were not ver) flourishing, they ought o incur such an expense. TEMPLE OF JUGGERNAUT. POFNDER then brought forward, pursuant to no ice, his motion relative to the annual money payment ft,. Temple of Juggernaut, and moved that it be dis. continued. r. Nlanniorr seconded the motion. Mr. FIELDEN was addressing the Court on the motion when our report left. POST-OFFICE NOTICE. The following notice was issued by command of the Po,tmaster General this morning :-- With a view to simplicity and economy in the ac counts of the money order office, it has been found ne cessary to lay down the following rules:- 1. Every money order issued on or after the 6th October, 1848. must be presented for payment before the end of the second calendar month after that in which it was issued, (for instance, if issued in October, it must be he presented for payment before the end of Decem ber.) otherwise a new order will be necessary, for which a second commission must be paid. 2. As already notified to the public, if an order be not presented for payment before the end of the twelfth calendar month after that in which it was issued, (for instance, if issued in October and not presented before the end of the next October,) the money will not be paid at all. 3. As, after once paying a money order, by whom ,oever presented, the office will not be liable to any further claim, the public are strictly cautioned a. To take all means to prevent the loss of the money b. Never to send a money order in the same letter with the information required on payment thereof. c. To be careful, in taking out a money order, to state correctly the Christian name as well as the surname of the person in whose favour it is to be drawn. d. To see that the name, address, and occupation of the person taking out the money order are correctly known to the person in whose favour it is drawn. 4. Neglect of these instructions will lead to delay and trouble in obtaining payment, and even risk the loss of the money. These instructions, together with some others of minor importance, will be found printed on every money ordcr. LONDON t IVHD _ E. DEFENCE OF LAMAR.' 1N (Continued from 2he Sun of yestaday.) EIGHTH ACCUSATION. It is not, however, in these explanations that case be recognised the true motives for the syste 211 o f non exclusion recommended to the Na tional Assembly by M. de Lamartine, in regard to the fo rmation of the • Executive Commission. Those motives, otherwise inexplicable, are discernible in the mysterious fact of the complicity existing between two men. Let us throw aside all feelings of m odesty,and dare to copy the words which have been a ctuall y p rinted. " The Minister of the Interior found among the papers of his Administration written proofs of the venality of his colleague under the Government of Louis Philippe. M. de Lamartine was a stipendiary of M. Duchatel. During the last year alone he re ciived no less than forty thousand francs. Tile re ctipt is still preserved. Threatened, no doubt, with the disclosure of such a transaction, one can read;ly understand that M. de Lamartine had only the illternative of alliance or infamy. This is nut all. M. de Lamartine has dilapidated the public fot tone. On the very morrow of the 24th of February he abstracted twelve hundred thousand francs, or two millions of money, from the Treasury. With the fruits of this exaction he has managed to liquidate his debts after the manner of Caesar or Cataline. Ile has purchased lands in France and houses in London." I condescend to reply to this accusation, not on my own account, but for the sake of the Republic. The whole secret of the existence of the enemies of states men is, the dark determination sometimes formed to destroy the men in order to render the institutions impossible. Let us at once throw some light upon the first cir cumstance. I was a writer. Oppressed with re sponsibilities, I earned my subsistence by my la hours. In 1844 I wrote a tragedy in the furtherance of a cause which has always been a subject of sacred interest to myself—the emancipation of the black slaves in our colonies. I wished, through the me dium of sentiment, to gain over, before public opinion, a cause which had so often failed before the law. In the year 1848, a month anterior to the Revolu tion of February, M. Buloz, the manager of the French Theatre, offered to purchase my work for the purpose of displaying it in the most brilliant light possible, first in his capacity as manager of the French Theatre, and secondly as editor of the Revue des Deux Monde:. The full amount verbally decided upon between ourselves was forty thousand francs. When we were on the very point of writing out the agreement, M. Buloz said to me, " I will write immediately to M. Duchatel ; for the funds of the Theatre Francais are derived from two sources—the proceeds of the theatre itself, and the pecuniary aid given to the establishment by the Chamber of Depu ties. This allowance from the Chamber obliges me to obtain the approval of the Minister of the Interior a: to the employment of these funds in regard to all my theatrical engagements." I was until then igno• rant of this very natural connexion of compatibility, existing between the Minister of the Interior and the Director of the French Theatre. But, fearing lest this might give rise even to so much as the appearance of a relation, of a monetary kind (remote though it un doubtedly was), between me (a Deputy of the People) and the Government, I refused, on the instant, to con• elude any agreement in which the funds of the Go vernment and the authority of the Minister seemed to have a participation. The contract between us was consequently at an end. If, therefore, there is the testimony which Calumny declares she can produce in proof of my venality, let her make her disclosure ! She can only convict me of an excess of scruple, of delicacy, and of susceptibility. M. Buloz is here to speak. WEIDAY Viv, v ~~~ SE isill,g.l‘4 I? It ?itt francs, the proceeds of my patrimonial estate of P(ronne near Macon, sold by rue at this period. If you will seek further information rii:on these mat ters, my lands sold, my purcha- . ers, my attorneys, my publishers, my creditors, my deed?, and my re ceipts, will, more even than myself, yield a peremptory and decisive answer. As to the movement of my disposable fortune since the day on which the Republic was established, since the moment of my accession to power even to this day, behold it ! I have been compelled to borrow a hundred and ten thousand francs for the purpose of disbursing a hundred and five thousand. The money-lenders, the publishers, and the creditors who have been repaid, are all here to attest the accuracy of these assertions. lam ready to produce these witnesses to whomsoever may be now particu larly incredulous. Their names alone are a sufficient testimony of the sincerity and morality of these acs. It is evident, then, that the source of my partial disbursements in 1848 was not in the public treasury, but in the chests of my friends and of my creditors. I blush at being compelled to reveal and thrust forward these private statistics ; but the people have a supreme right to the reputations of their repre sentatives. Let us on then, still further. Shortly before the 231 of February, I had, at different dates, concluded arrangements with book sellers, with publishers, with capitalists, and with pro prietors of journals, for the production of my literary works, past, present, and to come, 3 ielding altogether the sum of five hundred and forty thousandfrancs. I hoped, through the fruits of my arduous toils, to pay off my creditors in a few years, preserving meanwhile my patrimony to a numerous and beloved family, and to a still more numerous family of labourers who live upon my capital. The cares of public affairs and the crisis of events, which I did not wish to cause any injury or inconvenience to honest and generous contractors , compelled me to cancel all these agreements and forced me to disburse again the various advances which I had received. I therefore sacrificed five hundred and forty thousand francs voluntarily to the Revolution. Behold then the benefits which I have acquired from the Republic ! Behold the real trea sure which was buried in my conscience in order to reserve myself in perfect freedom for the labours and the necessities of my country ! Ido not regret one iota of this fortune of the man of letters which has been thus sacrificed by the man of politics for the foundation of a new order of things. I would joyfully sacrifice not only the rest of my fortune, but my na me, m y libert y , and m y life ! Let our properties, our reputations, our very indivi dualities themselves, be ground down and pulverized in the movement of human affairs, so that the Con stitutional Republic be founded, so that the People be aggrandized in knowledge, in morality, in rights, and in happiness! Behold the sole justice and the sole recompense which I demand from my generation and from my country I SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET FIRST OCTOBER MEETING. ... (Robinson) io4n, --- PRICES OF SHARES - - - IN BANKS, ASSURANCE, AND OTHER COM PANIES' STOCK. From the Official List, PUBLISUED EVERY TUESDAY' AND FRIDAY EVENING. LONDON. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26. JOINT-STOOD BANNS. Dividend 1 Arz.ount Name of Company. per of Paid Pricc P Annum. Share. t,l ,--- -- - - y £ I. d. 1 s. d. Australasia .... ••• • • • - 40 0 0 40 0 0 - II Brits!' North American 51. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 - b Jeylon ••••..•• • • • • •• 71. pr cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 - : )ounnercial of Loxdon 61. per cent. 100 0 0 23 0 0 - `„, lolonial .••• • • • .... • • 51. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 - 11 Gloucestershire •••• •• 15/per cent. - - - lonian .. •• • • ...... • • 61. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 - r Londu and Westininstr 61. ter cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 20 a - - 13 0 0 - '...ondun Joint-Stock .• . 61. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 - Provincial of Ireland.. 8/. per cern. 100 0 0 25 0 0 38 Ditto, New.• ••• • . - 81. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 - National of Ireland .• 51. per cent. 50 0 0 22 10 0 - 1 Nat. Provncial of Eng. Cl. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 0 - Ditto, .••• • • • • 51. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 - South Australia •••• .. 5 / per cent. - 22 10 0 - r Uilion of Australia.... 61 . p er cent. 2 0 0 2: , 0 0 - t Ditto •••••••• • • • • • • - - 210 0 - Union of London..• .. 61 . pe r cent 50 0 0 10 0 0 - i Union of Madrid .• •• • - 4 O 4O 0040 0 0 - (i - s lIRIIIGES t Dividend Amount i Name of Company. per of Paid. Prkc, Annum. Share. t ----- --- -- i. a. d. X. E. d. s Charing-cross •••• .• • • - , _ 25 0 0 19 , , , 4 t Southrk, N Sub• Av. - 1 632 12 8 - 3 Ditto Nw of 7% p.c. 355. per cent. 50 0 0 - 15 8 w vr Waterloo .. •.• •••• • • • - 1 00 0 0 - 4 60 0 0 28 i Ditto Old Ann. of 81. 1/. 5 5. 40 . - Ditto Nw ditto of 71. 11. 2s. 2d. - 40 0 0 24 I Vauxhall .... ... Av. 11. 17s. 70 10 3 - 26 INSURANCE COMPANIES. 1 Name of Company. I per Dividend Amount of Paid. Price Annum. Share. - --- - .E a. (1. ' £ s. 41. Albion ••••••• • •• •• • • 31.105. 500 00,50 0 0 75 %lliance Brit. and For. Cl. per cent. 100 0 0, 11 0 0 - Ditto Marine. ••• • • • 61. per cent. 1100 0 0 i 5 0 0 - Was .••••• • • • .• ... .. 13s.Gd.pr sh. 50 0 0 5 6 8 13 Itritish Commercial • • 7s. per share 50 0 0 I 5 0 0 - Clericl,Med.St Gen. Life spr ct.& bs. 100 0 0 10 0 0 19 oJutity .• •••••• • • • • • • 31. 100 0 0, 10 0 0 - Crown -••.••••• •• •• 14s. 50 0 0 5 0 0 12 4agle .. •. - . ..... .... 6a. 50 0 0 , 5 0 0 - Eng.& Scot• Law .... 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 i 212 6 - European Life •••• •• 5 per cent. 20 0 0 All pal& - Family Endownw t Soc. 41. & ha. 100 0 0 4 0 0 , - Freemasons' .•• • • .... 61. per cent. 20 0 0 , 3 0 0 - lioLe, ... ••• • .• ...... 61. per cent. Stock. 1 - - Gdardian ...... -- - 51. per cent. 100 0 01 36 10 0 1 - Imperial Firs ........12 per cent. 500 0 0 , 50 0 0 1 208 faiperial Life •• •• •••• 12s. 100 0 0 10 0 0 14% lademnity Marine.. - 11. eh. & bs. 100 0 0 513 1 - Law Fire •••••• • • • • • • - 100 0 0 210 0 - LAW L ire- ••• • • • .... 11. 16s. 100 0 0 10 0 0 - Legal and General Life - 50 0 0 2 0 0 41 Os. L:inden Fire •••• • • • • 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 13 London Ship •••. • • • • 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 13 darine • • •••••• • • • • • - 100 0 0 15 0 0 11ed. inylld&Gen. Life 4%1. per ct. 50 0 0 20 0 2% .s.tional Lean Fund.. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 - at a l ife ••.• - ... Si. per cent. 100 0 0 5 0 0 - PAlladium L Lila 5l. per cent. 50 0 0 20 0 2 Pelkan .. ••.••• . • - - - - 1 , 'neenix •• •• • 31. p.sh. ikbs. - - 154 • Piotector Life.. • • - Provident Life •••• • • • • 11. ss. 100 0010 0 0 26 1 4 Rock ife •••••• • • • • • • 45. 5 0 0 010 0 4 % L I 'loyal Exchange ...... 51. per cent. Stock. -- 165 Sin Fire - ... •••• .. . 6/. 1 0 s. - - 197 l•itto Life ... • • • • .• • IL - Os. - e Universal Life.... .... 10N pr cot. 100 0 0 9 0 0 - 25 V iotoria Life • - - 4 0 0 - S, WATER-WORKS. e Dividend ' Amount n Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. -------- i .€ a. d. £ 7. d. --- Birmingham. •••• • • • • 18s. 25 0 0 25 0 0 - East London..• •••• • • • 81. 100 0 0 - 172 Grand Junction •• •• •• 21. 10s. 41 13 4 - 81 31. 100 0 0 - 75 New 11Ivr Lndn - Brdge 21.105. - - . 55 Vauxhall ••• • • • .....• 1 W. p er cnt. 1100 0 0 - '''' West Middlesex .• . •61.05. pr ent.l - , -1161 i DOCIES. ------------------------ 1 Dividend Amount Name of Company. Annum. Share. £ B. d. £ s. d. C ,mmercial .• • • ....• 41. per cent. S tock. 118 % East and West India... 61. pr cent. Stock. E tst Country •• . ... 255. per sh. 100 0 0 10134 21 London .• •• • • ..... • . 5/. pr cont. S tock. Ditto Bonds •.• • • ... 41 . per cent. St• Katharine ........4 p er cent. Stock. 73% Ditto Bonds ••• • • ... 4 % 1 . pr cent. Siutliampton •• • • •• 21. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 ; GAS.-LIGHT AND CONE COMPANIES. -----_ Dividend Amount Name Annum. Share. -------- -------.--- --- X. s. d. X. a. d. British ••••••• • • • • • • • 11. ;40 0 0 18 0 0 16 Ditto Provincial.. • • 1/. Bs. 20 0 0 19 0 0 23 Bristol . • ••• • • ...... 161. per cent. 20 0 0 ilrigliton City of London .. •• • • 101. ,100 0 0 100 0 0 250 ...:outinentalConsolidat. .pr share 50 0 0 39 5 0 Ditto, Now • • ...... 85s. pr share 50 0 6 37 10 0 1 Equitable.. ••••• . •• .. 458 . pr s hare 50 0 0 50 0 0,; 36 Imperial • • .......... 6/. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 67:% Independent ......... 6/. per cent. ,40 0 0 40 0 0 64 Londou•. •••••• • • • • • • 50 90500 0 1 — 5 O 0 0 50 0 Vhcenix .••.. • • ...... 51. per cent. 150 0 0 46 0 0 31 ilatelitT .. •••..• • • • • • 51. 1 (100 00'A0 0 k 75 eitited General .• .... 4%1. pr cent. \5O 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 15 Westminster Chartered 31 , 0 52 Ditto, New •••• • • • • 12s. 50 0 0 10 00 , 10% C.11.1%7121.265. , i Names of ;' 2.. , ,DPrideud ~b . , Names of la; Dividend Companies. 111 i per I ' "'" e ' Companies. :a P er Price. .0 Anntun. 1 c [Annum.' v.: -----1-1-- - ------ _ -- -- ,X I X lahtutc OM ; 97' 51. pe I 80 Macclesfield . 100 - i - 3arnsley. •• • 'l6Ol 121. 180 Neath ••• • • • 100 181. rkuk&Abrg i i 150 1 51. 85 Oxford.. •• • • 100 201. 190 itirmingham ' 35 1 41. 80 Peak Forest. 78 3/. - J oventry..- 1001 251. - Regent's ••• • 33 11. ss. 18*!• ; ', ort,v ••. • • 100 61. 63 Rochdale.. •• 85 , 41. 54 Ells i re&Chs 133 565. 47 Somrset Coal 150' 71.105. 130 &rev, ash • - 100 32!. - Do.LkFdSt 12161. p. c. - grand.] unctii 1001 5/. 77 SHIN &Wore 140 281. 290 .IrandSurreyllool 145 - 35 Shrewsbury .. 125 1 01. 285 51. - .rand Unionl 100 i 11. 108. 25 S tonrbrid g e.. 2 irantham - 150 - - Severn andl 26 11. 80. 24 Sennt St Avu 39 1 7e. 6d. 47 , ,i Wye Rail. j Leeds& Livrp 100' 341. - Warwick&l . Leicester .... 140 101. 75 Ilirming. j 'OO 41 ' t.elestr &Nth 83 41. 36 Warwick& I 100 31. - ..oue;hborogli 142, 701. - Nap ton.. Nionmouthsh 100 1 81. - Worcstr &I 79 21, 39 Mntoemrysb 100 - - Binning. MeltnMwbry 100 - - Wilts & Mks - 11. 11 CAST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES. -------,---_ Dividead Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. I Annum. Share. ----- ----- ----- \--- . X s. d. X a. d 1 .tank of Scotland British Linen Company 81 . par cent. 100 0 0 1100 0 0 195 ] Caledonian Bank •• •• • 7% percent. 10 0 0 \ 210 0 41. Os • \ city of Glasgow Bank . 61. p er cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 1154 Clydesdale Bank •• • • ••6% per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 12% Commercial Bank Eastern Bank •••• - • 61. per cent. 25 u 0 lO 0 C 91.195. Edinb.Se Glasgow Bank 61. per cent. 50 0 50 0 5% Exchange link of Scot.. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 37 isle of Man. Company 71. per cent. 10 0 0 7 0 0 - National Bank ...... -6% per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 13% Northof Scotlandßank 71. per cent. 20 0 0 5 0 0 3/.155. North British Bank .• • - 50 0 0 10 0 0 2 Royal Bank of Scotland 51. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 118% Union Bank of Scotland 81. per cent. 100 0 0 :-0 0 0 80 'Postern Batik •••• • • - 81. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 \ 67% :Aberdeen Fire and Life 12 1 . per cent. 12 10 0 20 0 2% B. Accord. Life awl Fire - 20 0 0 0110 Os Od ilritish Guarantee Ins. - 10 0 0 1 0 0 Os Od aledonlan Fire Insur. 101. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 21 Church of England Ins. - 50 0 0 20 0 2 City of Glasgow Life.. 61. per cent. 25 0 0 2 0 0 21. 4s Edinburgh Lite Insur. 61. per cent. 100 0 12 10 0 17 East of Scotland Life.. - 10 0 0 0 015 0 1 1 8 . 0 d. Eng. & Scot, Law Life 51 . per cent. 50 0 0 217 6 46 s 6 d Ilereules Insurance Co. 7 1 . per c ent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 i 1 lipmr. Co. of Scetind.. at. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 0 7 0 11. 68 Life Assoc. of Scotland 51. per cent. 10 0 0 1 Mercantile Life -•• .• - 10 0 0 010 0 45. Od. National Fire and Life 5 %1. i p . p er r cen t . 10 2001100 00 0 000 20 0 0 0 0 20 2 5 2 .0,1 North British Insur. •• 1 0 0 175.0 d. i North & West of Scot. 61. per cent. 20 0 0 011 0 ss. Scottish Life and Guar. 5 Scot. Mas. and Gen. Life - 10 0 015 0 105.0 d Insrnce. GAO. pr cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 i 11. Is Scottish Union 51. per 1 cen t. 50 0 0 4 5 0 9% ' 'an laid Life • • • • • • • • 1 Cnited Dep. Assuranc e 51. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 023.0,1 ATISCEXAMANEOUS. P Dividend Amount ' Name of Company. per of \ Paid. Price , Annum. Share. 1 ---------- I f X. s. d. \ Z. s. d. Australian Agriculturl - 100 0 0 30 0 0 - ✓ Anglo-Mexican Mint.. 11. 4s. 10 0 0 lO 0 0 16 Ditto, half Shares.. - - \2lO 0 - O Canada .. •••••• • • • • • GI. per cent. 100 0 0 32 10 0 20 d Uppr Canada Bonds 51. per cent. - - - City Bonds.. •• . • .... 3%1. pr cent. - - 82 n Comp. C ppr Mors Eng. 51. per cent. 100 0 0 70 0 0 - Gen. Revers. & Invest. sp. c.Lbs, 2/ 100 0 0 100 0 0 - Equitable Ileversionry 5 1 , pr cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 911 Gem . Steamli avigatlon 11. Bs. 15 0 0 14 0 0 - London Institution ... - 10 _ - Peninslr & Orient.Stm. 81. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 57 Reversionary Int. Soc. 4%1. pr cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 - TS Royal Mall Steam.... 3%1. pr cent. 100 0 0 60 0 0 - South Australian ... - 11. per share. 25 0 0 25 0 0 - ?z, Van Dientan's Land.. 100 0 0 23 0 0 - - Universal Salvage .• • • - 25_____ . 0 0 50 0 - FATAL TERMINATION TO A WAGER.--YeSterdfly an inquest was taken by Mr. W. Payne the City Coroner , in the board room of St. Bartholomew's Ilospital, on the he body of Edward Henry Robinson, aged 25 years. deceased was in the service of Messrs. Piper, the builders of Bishopsgate. On Friday he returned from dinner, and ascended a ladder placed against a scaffold on his employers' premises. lie reached the second floor plat form, when he got into a conversation wlth a fellow he wor k m an, who bet the deceased a pet of beer th at wou ld not climb up underneath the ladder with his bands only more than si h x rounds high. The deceased comme nced the wager, but before e completed it his h an ds slipped , and he fell with g reat violence to the ground, whereby he received a compound fracture of the left thigh. He was removed to the hospital, where h died on Satur da y evening last, epilepsy having super e v ened. The coroner and jury strongly condemned the system of making such foolish wagers, after which a verdict of " Accidental death" was recorded. THE LATE LORD GEORGE BENTINCK.—The Town Council of Lynn intend holding a meeting during the course of the present week, for the purpose of adopting an address to the Duke of Portland, condoling with his Grace on the death of Lord George Bentinck. Rumour is already rife with regard to the election of a successor to the &ceased Nobleman in the representation of the town. The Protectionists are anxious to invite Lord John Mann( rs, as being one of the leaders of the party, and as being an intimate friend of Lord George Bell: tinck . Mr. G. P. Bidder, the engineer of the Norfolk line, has been spoken of by a section of the Liberal elec inekdeceasedi Noble man's elec tors. Mr. Raxendlile, who was for a long time past ac tivelyassociated s also been slth a Lord mentioned G . Belist the u the , o Norfolk le. Estuary, a man's probable successor. The thirtieth annual meeting of this society was held yesterday, at the City of London Tavern, to re ceive the report of the directors, to pass the accounts, and to elect officers for the year ensuing ; Mr. Henry Pownall in the chair. The SECRETARY (Mr. George Mence) read the re port, by which it appeared that during the past year eight new pensioners bad been elected on the funds, and that on the 2d October next four more pensioners would be elected ; that there were now 53 pensioners on the funds of this institution (31 men and 22 women), the men receiving 275. per month, the women 18s. per month. Since its establishment in 1818, 862 poor, decayed, and aged persons had been pensioners on its funds, and 54,6111. had been distributed in monthly pensions. The finances of the charity were in a very prosperous state, many of the old subscribers having increased the amount of their respective annual subscriptions from 12s. to 11. That it was intended to hold a festival early in the spring, when a strenuous effort would be made to add to the permanent funds of the insti tution, and the Duke of Bedford, K.G., has kindly consented to be president of the society for the ensuing year. The Archbishops of Canterbury and York, and the Bishop of Llandaff, had also consented to be vice-presidents. The late Luke Addington, Esq., had left the charity a legacy of 2001. The report concluded with a statement of the accounts of the charity for the past year, showing a sum of 782/. 25., paid to pensioners, a balance in band of 167/. 7s. 7d., and that a balance of 321/. lie. 3d. was claimed by the charity to be due from the late secre tary (Mr. H. F. Richardson) who resigned his office in September last year. The funded prcperty of the society amounted to 6,8701. Mr. LAWRENCE THOMPSON moved the adoption of the report. Mr. FOREST (late treasurer of the Lambeth Pen sion Society) moved, as an amendment, " That the report be received, with the exception of the state ment of the accounts." Ile had every confidence in the directors, but he wanted to know how it was that the late secretary, who had given security for 500/., should have been allowed to retain so large a sum of , money in his hands, and that the directors should agree to give him two years to pay the amount of his - deficiencies ? Some discussion arose on this matter, but the ex planations of the directors being deemed satisfactory, Mr. FOREST withdrew his amendment . - The report, together with the statement of ac counts, were then unanimously adopted. The Duke of Bedford was then appointed presi dent, Luke James Hansard, Esq., treasurer, and the directors of the past year were re-elected. A vote of thanks was passed to the directors and the chairman, and the meeting broke up. MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS. NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IS THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, SEPT. 23, 1548. Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases 393 Diseases of Uncertain Seat ... ••• ••• 45 Turbercular Diseases... ••• ••• 157 Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses— 102 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 36 Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of Respiration 78 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion... ... ••• ••• Diseases of the Kidneys, &c. ••• Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles 04 Diseases of the Skin, &c. ••• ••• Malformations... ..• ••• ••• s% Premature Birth ... ••• •• ••• Atrophy ••• ••• ..• ••• ••• Old Age Of • ••• ••• ••• ••• Sudden ..• ..• •.• •.. Violence, Privation, Cold, or Intemperance s " s ' Causes not specified ... 64 ... 12 ... 5 ~. 3 IEATIIS FROM ALL CAUSES ... 1,038 Population Average wee kly Deaths Enumerated, Deat hs, 1843-7. In the 1841 Five Summers. Week. West Districts... 300,711 . • 142 .•• 130 A North D.Aricts.. 375,971 •• 182 ... 170 i s Central Districts 373,653 ... 178 .•• 198 .od. East Dis t ricts ... 392,444 •.. 219 ... 259 6d South Districts .. 501,190 ... 251 ... 281 - - 681 T0ta15........ 1,948,369 Od. Males 01 ell• ••• Females ... ••• BIRTHS IN TUE WEEK. Males ... Females ... ... 1,038 -. 541 497 ~. 638 ... 612 Total ... ... 1,250 TUE WEATUER AND LIARVEST.--The weather during the past week has been exceedingly favourable for harvest operations. Scarcel y a speck been visible on the horizon till yesterday morning, which was cloudy and dull. The sky continued overcast through out the whole day, and, about five in the afternoon, a 4i thick and drizzling fog came up with a moderate breeze from the south-east, which gradually veered in a n 1 easterly direction. The fog still continues this morning, and we fear much that it will, to a considerable extent, tend to produce heating in the stooks. We trust, how ever, that it will blow off in the course of the day. This, we are happy to say, is the first specimen of foul weather with which we have been visited since her Majesty's arrival. The harvest in Lower Deeteide is now well got in, but in the uplands, and on heavy soils, we are sorry to state that there is still much to do. The yield of the crops which have been got in has generally been found to be satisfactory. Turnips are looking well, but would be benefited by rain.—Aberdeex Herald of Saturday. TAT SALMON F IS HERIES. salmon Taihnnedmy ; April.bu t T f fisheries heym . no rth of the Tweed c losed on Thursday. The fisheries in the Tay have been un p roductive and unprofitable to the lessees upon the w hole. The takes were pretty been farFeb ruary,ttyfairrinomuntdheer proved, beginning andu f June t fell oe o rffengreatly bto o uttha en i n close oesree March ge they have the average of ordinary seasons. At some of the stations they were all but a tota l fail u r e. The principal circum stance in favour of the tacksmen has been the high price the increased maintained throughoutdem dem a nd a i t n h e t he season. by a l This e h e a u s n b t e e d en fer with out precedent; and although partially On proof o o f n the day e g u e n ni ir r ry a .. l ui a p Williamro du c t ve n s_ o a ver the better k n w o h w o n l e along Londonth e co market, must also be tbho epa taken tfimoshva inEn ' DOVER. -- France, Flanders, and Holland, ess Davison, of bytahsets e o e f gb E em ng e l n an e d f , " Jumper," from the number of persons whose lives he saved from drowning, by jumping overboard, departed this life. His name and exploits were everywhere known, and have been talked of for years, from his da• ring intrepidity in going oft to the shipwrecked mariners and vessels in distress, and in crossing the Channel with dispatches in perfect hurricanes, when no other boat's crew but his own would attempt to launch and put to sea. —Canterbury Journal. EXEMPTION FROM POOR-RATES.-011 the 31st ult. an Act was passed (11th and 12th Victoria, chap. 85) by which a former Act is continued for a year, exempt ing inhabitants from liability to be rated as such in re spect of stock in trade or other property to the relief of the poor. FR A N CE. _ ;~Y [The following appeared in our Fourth Edition of yesterday]: — The _bac:pendant of the Mouths of the Rhone announces that Prince Louis NAPOLEON had been elected representative in Corsica by an immense majority. M. SIUTSYRA, representative of the people, proposed the following amendment to article 42 of the Constitution relative to the election of President :—" The President must be born a French man, have never lost the quality of a Frenchman, be thirty years of age, and at the time of his elec tion have resided on the French territory for at least five years without interruption.' The object of this propcsition is obviously to incapacitate or disqualify all tl.e Bonapartes and the Due de Bordeaux. SICILY. The S!cilian Parliament has, in its sitting of the 14th instant, passed the following resolutions :- 1. All civil and military authorities of Messina shall repair to that borough which shall be pointed out to them by the Ex( cutive as the provi , ional scat of the Administration till the enemies of Sicily shall have been driven from their city. Any public f un ctionary who should fail to repair to the provisional c a p ital within Lb!, time fixed for that purpose shall by this sole act lose his place, and besides he shall be liable to a prosecution. " 2. Persons carrying on a correspondence, no matter whether in writing or not, with the enemy or with the so-called authorities of the Bourbon at Messina, or taking office from the enemy, shall be guilty of treason, and are hereby condemned to capital punishment. "3. The crimes against the safety of the State, men. tioned in this decree, shall be tried by special court martial. "4. The present decree applies to all parts of the kingdom which may hereafter fall into the hands of tho nemy. " Palermo, Sept. 14, 1848." The accounts from Messina, of the 13th instant, published by the Corriere Mercantile of the 20th, mention that Lipari had made its submission, and that the communication by land had been re-opened between Milazzo and Messina. The towns of Nolo, Girgeuti, and Catania had sent deputations to Mes sina to offer their submission. Considerable agita tion prevailed at Palermo. M. de Cassibile, elected Syndic of Messina, had issued a proclamation in the name of the General Government, promulgating an amnesty, from which the chiefs of the revolt alone were excluded. Messina had been declared a free harbour. It would appear that the Royal troops lost, in the recent collision, 450 artillery soldiers, 600 Swiss, and 7,200 Neapolitans. 1,000 wounded bad been conveyed to Reggio, and 700 to Naples. The Sicilians had 1,000 killed, besides a number of women, children, and old men. The whole loss on both sides was estimated at about 7,000. THE CITY OF LONDON GENERAL PENSION SOCIETY. r