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Nrw IDITIOI OF BOWDLER'S FAMILY SHAKSPEARE. L' Volumes fey the Pocket, price Five Shillings each, On Novels:lbw I will be published, in fcp. Bvo., the First Volume of a New Edition of BOWDLER'S FAMILY SHAKSPEARE. In which nothing is added to the Original Text ; but those Words and Expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a Family. A New Edition, to be completed in Six Monthly Volumes, price Is. each. " We are of opinion that it requires nothing more than a notice to bring this very meritorious publication into general circulation." — Edinburgh Review. London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Mr. B. Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager, Old itromptan. Being his Farewell Season as Lessee and Manager. THIS EVENING, The neW comic Drama of THE FOUNDLINGS, by Messrs. Bad/- stone, Keeley, Leigh Murray, and Howe Mrs. Fltzwilliam, &c. After which, THE WOMAN I ADORE. To 'include with YOUR LIFE'S IN DANGER. THEATRE ROYAL, &DELPHI. Lessee, Mr. B. Webster Directress, Madame Colette. Real Attraction. 9th appaasacoa of Madame Celeste since her return from America. THIS EVENING, wai be performed TB GREEN BUSHES. by Madame Celeste, Miss Weolger. Messrs. Paul Bedford, Emery, Honey, &c. To conclude with the celebrated Adelphi Drama of JACK SHEP PARD. &attar.= Wild, Mr. S. Emery; Owen Wood, Mr 0. Smith ; J ac k Sheppard, Mrs. Keeley ; Blueskin, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Thames Darrell, Miss Ellen Chaplin ; Winnifred, Miss Laura Honey. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. C. Kean. THIS EVENING, Will be presented THE PRIMA DONNA. Principal characters by Messrs. Walter Lacy, Addison, and Cathcart; Miss Robertson, and MLss Heath. After which, THE CORSICAN BROTHERS. Principal charac ters by Messrs. C. Kean, W. Lacy, Ryder, Meadows. J. Vining, J. Chester; Miss Phillips, Miss Robertson, Miss Murr a y , Leclercq. and Miss C. To conclude with THE SPITALFIELDS WEAVER, in which Mr. Wright will sustain his original character. The Boa-office is open daily from 11 till 5, A Sl' LETA ROYAL AMPIIITELEATRE. Tinder the Patronage of her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty. Open Avery Evening, with the Largest Equestrian Establishment in the World. --- Most Gratifying Success 1 Sixth Week of the Equestrian Entertainments. The immense applause bestowed by crowded houses is a convinc ing proof of the daily increasing popularity of this favourite place of amusemen t The Brothers Se.grist will introduce their new per formances of Feats of Strength in the air. In addition to which Mr. Batty h a s engaged the 5f adlies. Ellsler, who will make their appear ance on the Doub'e light Rope; likewise will be displayed Globe Ascension, Vaulting, the Nicolo Family, and the m s s tn Scenes in the Arena, embracing all the principal artistes in the establish ment. The doors open at Half-past Six o'clock; the Performances commence at Seven. Half-price at Hall-past Eight. tdmlailon—Stalls, 55.: Dress Boxes, 45.; Upper Boxes, 38.; Pit, 2e. ; Gallery, Is. ; Upper Gallery, 6d. Ticket; to be had at the Box-office rrom Eleven till Four daily. Stage Manager, Mr. Lecloreq. PORTRAITS WELLINGTON AND SOTJLT, WITLI 1123101R3 AND PAC-SIMILES OF TIM= HAND- WRITI\C S. A PORTRAIT OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON TOGETIIER WITH THE MOST SPLENDID LIKENESS OF SOULT E. V E T E. EN, BY Tt YON, FOR WHICH THE MARSHAL SAT SIX TIMES IS THIS DAY PUBLISHED, AT THE SUN OFFICE, 112, STRAND, I' :ICE SIXPEACE. Sun Office, a:t. 12, 1852. HIGH' WATER AT LONDON 11E11)( 4E. Tie DAY —Morning 22 after I Evening 53 rain. after 1 To-lioneov.-51.0ri0:.‘ 11 Limn after 2 j Evening 30 rain. atter 2 THE WEATHER.--Sox OFFICE, OCTOBER 13, TILE.E.MOMETH,R, CI THE ,SHADE. 50— lighetit since noon. yesterday. 40- o owmt this morning and during the night. 51—this day, at noon. Briy,omwrrat, 30.42. Win E.S.E.—dull, cloudy weather. DAILY WEATHER TABLE. &ate of the Wind and Waather at each of the following ptice,3 at Nino o'clock yesterday morring.—The stations Ara arranged in order of latitude. _ _ _ asTisafo— 'Wind N.E. gentle breeze—partially cloudy. FoLicit.sTotsz—Wind gentle breeze—partially cloudy. GREEN W IClT—Wind N., gentle breeze—cloudless. 15 .- nao.D ...Wind N. E., gentle breeze—cloudless. Swiziwin— Calm—cloudless. C MX/WATER—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—cloudless. Lir-mount—Wind N.E., strong breeze—cloudless. fie returns trom the following places indicate the state of the wind and 'weather on Monday morning at nine LUMOVICK-Wind N.B. gentle breeze—partially cloudy. Mumxim.....a— , i Ind N.W., gentle breeze—overcast. 31.Tua.an--Wind N., strong breeze—rain. seAs-rEa—.Wind N.Y., calm—cloudless. nriagr—Wind N., gentle breeze—overcast. DA it NUJ ca— Wind IY.N.W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. Bair—Wind N. h. W., calm—principally clear. Zurrooic— Wind N., strong breeze—cloudless. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29.634 in. The mean temperature of the week was 46'3°, which is b 9 below the average of the same week in ten years. The mean daily temperature waa below the average on every day of the week. The air was coldest on Friday, when the mean was only 398.°, or 12° below the average. The wind was in the south-west on the first three days, and generally in the north• wept afterwards. ~1,, , ' 7 l. f, - Z 1,5t,,,, ; .Z;:2, - , - -: 4 A - .;.:-.-:,'? 1 ,,,, \ '4. '• A ~tl r. . 4 L,4,, ,... ~,- - ~..,,, s:: ..,:,, --1- ~, ,,:s c 'Pli - , . - 9 7 . 4 -7 ,,!1‘ • 10-4 ,. '" .4 T ~'- i4"-. ..- ri I • '-',- gek, wilumula Ults c* 7 LONDON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1852. W e would not undervalue the services of her MAJESTY'S Privy Council, not even of the eighteen new Councillors from the " unworked diggings" of Lord DERBY, recently added to the list. These latter will doubtless bring some virgin gold to her MA- JaiTy's intellectual treasury, and if there should be much dross or matrix mixed with the precious metal, assuredly in these days the art of refining is pretty well understood. We think, however, that her MA.. JESTY'S Public Council, is become oF quite equal value, probably in the eyes of Monarchy itself, certainly in those of the public and of her MAJESTY'S Cabinet, with bar Privy Council. It is etiquette indeed for the Solons composing a Government of the day, and the ex•Solons who lately composed one, to seem not to know the discussions going on in the daily and better weekly papers. It would not be quite the thing for my Lord JoRN RUSSELL, or my Lord DERBY to answer in form a leader in the Times or the Morning post, much less to avow that such unauthorised ad vice bad effected a Cabinet decision. But such argu ments are taken up and replied to, not only by the How Member for —, when refuting the H on . liamber for —; but even by the " Nobl e D u k e on the ripe answering the " Noble Lord on his left." Some dozen of her MAJESTY'S public council (although their names appeared not in the Court Circular) did, moreover, assuredly accompany Royalty to Balmoral itself, and aided greatly both the PRE.. MIES and him Royal Mistress in their deliberations. How perplexed would both have been without their accustomed public advisers! As to the sage of Hughenden Manor, we are per fectly sure that he watches with anxious interest all the leaders and letters which have lately occupied public attention on the income-tax. Amply supplied with information from the best " official sources," and competent himself to no mean difficulty, he yet finds in the papers of the day cont r ib u ti ons b y wr it e rs i quite his equals on this subject ; he finds facts and thoughts, which his best officials ignore or overlook, stated, developed, and argued on with power. He is aware, too, that this is all done by her MAJESTY'S pwehe council. It s sittings are o p en t o a ll concerned. If he knows not what is debated and decided in this open Cabinet, the public does, and a hundred M.P.'s will soon inform him. wh a t, indeed, can any reasonable statesman do, acquainted with the Tim es ? Did unless thoroug hl y not She great Duke even mske his greatest political blunder through refusing to read aright the Times in which he lived ? Without the Daily News how could he hope to conduct the daily business of the empire ? Even Lord PALMBRITOY'S official information was generally a day at least too late ; and the latter, when it did arrive, found the answers all cut and dried for transmission. Without a Morning Chronicle and Advertiser, the routine of Dovvniug•mtn , tt must infallibly rock its inmates in ton protracted a slumber. The value of a Standard is unquestioned amongst men of such tender moral susceptibilities as politicidna in ofl:ce. What dese crations of antique, and almost forgotten, principles m ight they not be guilty of without a friendly moni- for to remind them of the sacredness of Vested Wrongs ! Drawing nearer to ourselves, no one will deVith4 a Foreign Secretary ought to be well ac oYSI We of the Press have indeed been denominated the Fourth Estate, and certainly no measure which an un • questioned majority of our body has passed, has failed ultimately to pass also the other three estates of the realm; neither has any measure on which we have put our veto, been able to escape a veto of the third estate, whatever favour it may have bad with the other two. But probably the lesson bequeathed us by the great man who has just left us, has disposed us to look upon ourselves in a more courtly light. We wish to remember that we are in her MAJESTY'S service. We think her MAJESTY will own, that for loyalty to her person, and for fidelity in giving advice, open at the same time to herself; her Ministries, her Lords and faithful Commons, and all her subjects too, she has not a better servant in the realm than her Ma jesty's public council. Sometimes, indeed, when she is supposed to be out of hearing, we quarrel rather rudely► among ourselves (not more so, however, than the literati did in learned Latin half a century ago) ; and sometimes we lash pretty severely some of her MAJESTY'S paid servants ; she may be assured, how ever, that this is done purely for her own sake. She would otherwise find them utterly unmanegeable. Her MAJESTY may have thought that, because so - many Ministries of late have taken office, as they have avowed in the Houses of Parliament, out of genuine pity for her MAJESTY'S forlorn condition, when all her servants have been seized with a resig nation fit—because one Ministry pitied her in a pstticoat quarrel, and another in a militia fix, and the like—that they cherish for hera special reverence and kindness. We beg to assure her that, however loyal and generous the self-denying accepters of her offices and her thousands a year, may be, we, who would at hr public command be happy to render her any service gratuitously, we who do labour to perform her such invaluable service, requited only by our mens conscia recti,— we are not only her cheapest, but her most service able servants. We make their service) if that be possible) worth the money ; and we beg to make one humble request to her MAJESTY, to ask one acknow ledgment of our services, that on the only occasion on which she addresses her subjects—when rank and nobility, male and female fashion and elegance ere crowding around her, when her Lords and faithful Commons are on tiptoe to catch a sight of th© something which has been so long looming in the future—that she would then, solemnly from the throne, with the voice which interests 30 millions of her subjects, declare her obligations, and the obligations of all her servants, to her MAJESTY'S public council. A specimen of one of its most important services is now before our eyes. Letters and articles on the income .tax. Mr. BABBAGE and the economists, en deavour to bewilder Mr. HUME and the actuaries. Tax each kind of income alike, says Mr. BABBAGE. rax them according to their varied values, say the actuaries. Tax 1001. a year over the counter, and 1001. a year from land alike, says Mr. B. Capitalize them, say the actuaries, and the one pound will sell for 20 years' purchase, or 2,0001, the other at most for not more than six or seven, is, at most 700/. Ought the two to pay alike ? Yes, say s Mr. 8., the shopkeeper's ICO/., lasts, say, ten years, and pays ten taxes. The landowner's lasts an endless number of years, and pays perpetually. To this it is answered, there is an evident fallacy somewhere. You may compel the one man to pay the same annual tax as the other, but no sophistry can convince him that it is just for him to do it. The landowner in wardly boasts while he says it's all fair; the shop keeper is inwardly sure of being wronged, though a senior wrangler may silence him, and a House of landlords make him pay. But in our public council all parties are pitted fairly against each other, and an actuary shows conclusively (see his letter in The Sun of Saturday) that one fallacy at least is this—reckoning the two incomes, as if they were both entirely incomes. Whereas the 1001. a year from land, or Consols, is purely income, leaving the capital quite untouchea ; while the income from any temporary source is com posed of income and capital too, inasmuch as it con sumes the capital itself in a certain ratio every year— consumes it so completely that the capital vanishes when the income ceases to the individual. We will not enlarge, but leave Mr. DISBAELI, and each tax payer under schedules D and E to ponder this valu able suggestion. To us it seems pretty clear that where the actuaries, men whose business lies, and whose lives are spent in, the study of the values of every kind of income, are unanimous on a question like this, no honest legislators could hesitate to prefer their guidance to that of theoretical mathematicians, economists, none of the latter, more over, agreeing among themselves. Nay, it were even conceivable that both may prove to be right. The mathematician may determine almost mechanically by his formulae the work which a steam-engine and its machinery will do, but we should take final counsel with the head mechanic in the factory when one en gine was to be made. Be could tell us what it would do, allowing for friction and other things, of which the theorist has but vague conceptions. And possibly the BABBAGES may be mathematically right, but practically and socially wrong. The market value, the thing known to the actuary, is without question the only test of value for actual life. " A thing is worth what it will sell for." If not taxed according to what it will sell for, it is, therefore, not taxed ac cording to its worth. Another circumstance, too, is pretty much over looked. We mean the increased trouble given to the State by incomes from land and most fixed sources. Nothing is more exposed than land and its produce —nothing more the creature of law than the public funds ; and if trade and business are dependent upon public order, so is the cultivation of land. If the tradesman's person needs the protection of the State, so does that of the landlord; but that which is already become property is open to the direct attacks o f every kind of fraud or violence. Not only does the man who derives his income from realized property enjoy a more valuable income, he also en joys one which needs more protection from the State. He who has a hundred a year, and two thousand pounds whenever he likes to sell it, ought to pay more than he who has a hundred a year, with 500/., if he sells it now, and nothing to sell at all in five years hence. The former also ought to pay more, because he makes annually more work for the State, in insuring his property against fraud and violence. Bethlehem Hospital (or rather its governors, trea surer, matron, and medical ocer), is now upon its trial. Fifteen months ago, on complaints made be fore them, as to mismanagement of that lunatic asy lum, the metropolitan Commissioners in Lunacy com menced an investigation, which has been reported at length in some of the public journals, has ex cited much indignant comment, and has indis putably proved that the greatest abuses have been allowed, by those who were pa id to prevent it, to exist in the management of the unhappy p€ople confined and coerced there. The healai and the feelings cf the unfortunates in Bethlehem appear to have been much uncared for. In the heart of this metropolis what ought to have been a , " She struck him as being very much altered in appear ance, and very emaciated ; she was very much thinner than when she went in, and ' her bones were almost projecting through her akin.' Her mind was much less wandering ; but her countenance was very anxious and dejected, and she looked miserable altogether. She had no paralysis, but squinted a little, which was not the case before she went in. She was labouring under diarrheas. He did not examine her person, and could not say whether there were any wounds. He saw her face, but forgets whether he noticed the marks that evening or not. Believes it was that evening or the next morning her mother said, Oh! Mr. Taylor, my girl has been terribly ill-treated, and I wish you to look at her,' and be then particularly examined her body all over, and had a written account ()fit somewhere. There was, to the best of his memory, a plaao' or mark on the upper lip, and one on her cheek also. The wit ness then, in answer to a variety of questions, detailed the various marks and wounds upon the patient's body, on the ankles, knees, hips, elbows, &c. She died on the morning of the 22d, four dap after leaving the hospital, and we' examired the body. By 6 we' ho meant Dr. Wood, the resident alaehecary of the hospital, his part ner, Mr. Crisp, and himself. The immediate cause of her sinking was (lien - heel, and want of food. She did not refuse her food after she came cut. Witness said to her,' Hannah, now you must take what I tell you;' ahE said she would, and she did. When ho said she dit d from want of food, ho meant the combined effects of taking very little nourishment with constant (Hern:el completely exhausted her. She was labouring under diarchms when she came out, and died of that and exhaustion. He particularly noticed that she had no paralysis. When he and his partner were about to commence the post morteni examination the morning after her death, Dr. Wood came in. The body was very emaciated, and On re were the wounds already describes, but he really could not say what they arose from. The places' on her ankles caused him to suspect whether they had not been bound. Ile thought she bad been bound. It appeared to him as if there had been tom e fetter or band age , or li ga ture, but others might give a different opinion. The other wounds could not have been from ligatures—they must have been caused by some violence or external applications. He did not sup pose they bad been caused by picking or scratching. Hi e impression was that she had been ill-treated, but te could not say in what way the wounds had been pro duced. It might have been by tumbling about, or by being struck or bruised in some way. She might hav e been rubbed on the fleer, but ho was decidedly of opinion that they were not self-inflicted or body sores." Further, "he was now ready to admit, after all that he had heard and all that had passed, that Mies Hysore had been harshly used in the hospital. The night before she died he went to the hospital to try to see Dr. WOOD, to obtain more information about the wounds and marks on her person. Dr. WooD was not within, and be saw the matron, who told him that she believed it was from the cut ends of the straw, but she had not heard of them before. She said she bad been told of them since, but was not aware of them previously. She was not aware when Miss HYSON left the hospital that she had any wounds upon her person." Of course not. It will presently appear how little trouble Mrs. HUNTER (the matron) gave herself about the patients. There was the Case of Miss WHETTINGHAM, delicate girl, who " had no marks or bruises on her body when she went in," on January 9, 1851. After her admission her mother and some of her friends went to see ber, and it was two months before this was allowed, and then " she appeared to be in great distress, and cried bitterly. The mother entree - 4 her not to do so, and bbe said, cannot help it ; I cry all night.' She said ' Look at my fingers' (one of them was very much swollen); and when witness in quired the cause she said it was one of the nurses, and she also showed her bruises all down the side ; but wit ness had not the opportunity of seeing any more, When asked why she did not complain to Dr. WOOD, the poor creature said it is of no use complaining to Dr. WOOD. While they were talking Dr. WOOD happened to come up, and the mother showed the bruised hand and the marks on her side, and he showed the swelled hand to one of the nurses, and asked, How is this ?' The nurse said, Oh, that is an old affair.' The joint of the finger was very much swollen. The name of the nurse was ELIZABETH. Her daughter told her that it was not that nurse who had given her the bruises, bat that ELIZABETH used to beat her with the keys. The bruises were not caused by her tumbling about, but she at one time had the misfortune to fall and hurt her hip, and the least push or blow given her by the nurses would throw her down. Her daughter slept for three months in the basement story—she said she never slept on anything. but the bare straw, and no night clothes whatever. Witness had no opportunity of examining her bed and bedding, as she was not admitted into the place where her daughter slept. Every time the . poor girl saw her mother she complained of ill-treatment, and the mother and friends unfortunately thought it was One of her delusions. On the second visit she com plained that, being awake all night, she overslept her self, and the nurse came and dragged her by the hair o f her head to make her get up, and shook her so violently that it brought on a violent fit of coughing. On an other occasion her face appeared very much swollen with constantly crying. The patient was discharged cured on the 7th of June. Before she left she said she would certainly make a complaint when she went before the committee, but Mrs. HUNTER begged she would not, as ELIZABETH, the nurse, had a mother to keep, and the poor girl, being a feeling young per son, agreed not to make the complaint. The matron stood beside the patient when ,she went before the committee, so that she could not say anything. She had since gone to her relatives in Somersetshire, in the hope that change of air might further benefit her. Among other things which she told her mother after she left the hospital was that on one occasion she was going to take a bath—whether she did not du it pro perly or not could not be ascertained, but no less than three of the nurses forced her in again, and ill-treated her very much, and she begged never to be put in a bath again. She also complained of their calling her most shocking names, and of very bad language being used towards her." Miss MORLEY'S case resembled the two others. She came out of Bethlehem covered with sores and abrasions, the consequence of neglect, and was three weeks before she recovered from these injuries. Dr. :NESBITT, in his letter to the Commissioners, said the sores and abrasions were evidently the consequences of neglect--that the patient uniformly complained of the treatment to which she was subjected in Beth lehem Hospital—that she had nothing but straw to lie on, and there was no attempt to interpose any kind of protection between her body and the straw—that it hurt her much, and she had no clothes even to cover her. She described her whole treatment to be harsh and coarae,and the recollection of it to inspire her with horror —that the nurses were in the habit of giving her nicknames derived either from the colour of her sk iih i e n a or bru fr t e e m . h i e i r e andadbsits, thata n t d he t p h a a t t ie t n h t ey is r tr e e m at a ed rka h b e le r for truthfulness." Some of the evidence went to show that the pa tients in the basement story (a place of punishment, it would seem,) used to be turned out every morning into a room floored with stone flags, there washed with mops and cold water, and the lunatics' clothes put on them without their bodies being dried after this mopping ! Mr. JOHN EDWARD JOHNSON, treasurer for the last three years (and virtually the manager of Beth lehem Hospital), gave evidence meant to be exculpa tory. He stated that he had assigned to the matron the "moral treatment of the patients, and by this he meant " proper exercise and employment ;"—that he himself went round the hospital about once a fort " If you repave a patient from the upper story to the basement, to whom do you report it?—./ do not report it. The physicians aid the resident medical man would soon find out that thepatient had been removed, and if they thought it wroni, they would alter it. " You do not report it then—do you enter it in any book ?—I have a book in which I make entries from (14 to day, and if I vere to put a patient in a different ward, I should erase the name from No. 1 or No. 3, or from the basement, aathe case might be. It is a book where I put down the tames of the patients. Ido not say it is my duty to do es, but in it I record it, if a patient is removed from No. 2 or No. 3, or any other ward. " Who is that book seen by?—No one. I keep it for my own satisfaction. I have never been directed to keep a book of the kind, bat I do it. " The patients sometimes refuse to take their food; how are they treated who so refuse?—Why, the nurse. and if one is not suffisient, two will feed the patient. I have often gone myself, and I know Dr. Wood has often gone to see a patient of this kind fed. it has occurred that the stomach-pump has been used in extreme cases. " Do you know whether the medicines prescribed for the patients are duly administered?—.No, I du not. "Do you trust to the nurses?—They are directed to be administered by the medical man, who gives the medicines to the nurses with directions. " But you leave no means of knowing that the nurses fulfil their duty in this particular?—No; my only se curity is having for the head nurse a woman who ban been there some years, and in whom wo have confidence. " Are you aware that any of the female patients in the basement sleep entirely naked on loose straw, with out any thing being interposed between the straw and their bodies?—No, I never saw that. I will not say I never saw it, because I did when I first came there. "how many years ego?—Eleven, and then I made an applicatiun for troug,is to enclose the straw. "It is only recently that the straw has been placed into covers?—lt is only a recent thing on the basement. " Formerly they used to be put into the straw without any cover?—yea, with a blanket put upon them. Do you mean a blanket placed between the body of the patient and the straw?—No, not with regard to the patient herself, bat the bedding. The patient was pre timed to have some sort of clothing or covering about her, such as her fLoriel, or her shift. " And a biaLket over her?—Yes. " She was placed on the straw ?—The blanket first on the straw, and thm th , . patient. " And then a bliuket over the patient?—Yea." We need not go on. There is no use in proceed ing with the disgusting details of this Mrs. HUNTER, whose humanity appears developed and exhausted in the crowning effort of her matronship, that eleven years ago she appied for troughs to confine the straw in which the btsement patients sleep! A farmer's lad would have done as much for his master's pigs ! Of course, the matter is not to rest here. The treasurer and the matron are eminently entitled to be relieved from the further management of Bethlehem. Tio whole system there must be changed. It is too bad for human cruelty and carelessness to make miserable those whom it has pleased GOD to afflict with the loss of reason. , , (0' fl g quainted with the whole Globe. What a figure has ' even the veteran WEBSTER just cut, through his ig norance of Peruvian Islands; and we can assure Lord MALMESBURY that a great many Englishmen think he has much more need to shut himself up to study in his department, than has Mr. BENJAMIN DISRAELI. The last rays of the Great Luminary, we are confident, cannot be too much prized. A climate where, however cloudy and dubious the morning, the Evening Sun is always seen, enjoys at least the most pleasing soothing light of nature ; and every statesman knows that almost from time immemorial The Sun has, with his evening rays, expressed for him intelligence for which he must otherwise have waited the long night through. But a word about the light shed on everything by The Sun, must be quite superfluous. Adverting to our weekly coadjutors, too, it may well be feared that without a Spectator some more deeds of special darkness might escape publicity ; without an Econo mist we are quite sure they would gat into far worse scrapes with Messrs. COBDEN and BRIGHT, and irritate Mr. HUMS perhaps almost fatally : and with out an Examiner, not only our statesmen, but our judges of all sorts, our courts of justice, and even our juries, would often be far more right in their own eyes, and wrong in those of the public, than they now are. public bleesingbas been converted into a public nuisance. The treatment of the lunatics has been a hundred times worse, in its systematic cruelty, than that of the worst criminals. In short, whathas transpired makes us blush for humanity, makes us lament that, in the middle of the nineteenth century, lunatics should be treated as badly as they were when the philanthropy of HOWARD gave the first impetus to the amelioration of the disci pline in prisons and lunatic asylums. It is impossible that this state of things can be allowed to continue. It should have been prevented and corrected by those high and mighty personages—literally the master and the mistress of Bethlehem—namely Jour; EDWARD JOHNSTON, treasurer of the United Hospitals of Bridewell and Bethlehem, and HENRIETTA HUNTER, the matron. There is the case of Miss HANNAH HYSON. She was admitted as a patient to Bethlehem. Her medical attendant had been seeing her for three weeks before. She was thin, but not greatly ema ciated ; her body was free from wounds, her bodily health had been "of average goodness" for two years before, and her disease was hysterical mania. She was " temporarily lunatic" when he signed the usua paper for her admission, and had refused her food for two or three days before she left home. She en tered Bethlehem on April 4, 1851, and Mr. CHARLES TAILOR (her medical attendant) saw her again after she had come out, at the end of a fortnight's con finement. night, and aioays with an attendant ; —that be went to the basemen , more frequently than elsewhere ;—that, " only so far as the general rules go," he made no inquiries as to the bodily condition or omforts of the patients :—that the medi cal examinstm of 400 patients occupied about one hour (or lesdhan one minute to every six lunatics), and that the oed-rooms were not visited or examined. But the evience was that of MTS. HENRIETTA HUNTER, tbematron, a lady who really seems better suited for a budoir in May-fair, than so vulgar a place as Bethehem. She recognises the treasurer as her master—;he controlling authority, who visited the hospital Ace a fortnight. We annex a part of her examinaion " Do you beep any notes of what you see?—lf any thing very plmicular occurs, I make a memorandum. " Yen wouldnot report it to anybody?—lt is not part of my duty. I never been directed so to do. AMERICAN NEWS. ARRIVAL OF THE PACIFIC. LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY MORNING. The American mail steamship Pacific has just arrived here, direct from New York. She brings advices to the 3d inst., 106 passengers, and 420,000 dells. in specie on freight. Just before the departure of the Pacific, a tele graphic communication had reached New York from New Orleans, stating that advises from Cali fornia to Sept. 1, with two millions of dollars, were on the way to New York. We do not learn, how ever, that she conveyed any political news of im portance. From Havannah later dat es h a d arr i ve d a t N ew York, which reported the arrest and conviction of several persons connected with the p a p er ca ll e d th e Voice of th e reported that th e F renc h Go vernment had intimated to the Cuban G overnmen t, ce Poise dears. and I that in case an invasiin of Cuba was att emp t e d b y t h e People, was d, the e m pk five of whom were t o b e exe cuted, American people, they might calculate upon the aid of France to repel the invaders. COMMERCIAL NEWS. The papers and letters by this arrival report busi ness very brisk in all the marts of commerce through out the Union. Money was more scarce, and slightly higher rates demanded. In the Stock Market the demand was moderate, and in price there was not any change. Cotton—ln cotton there was but little doing. Holders were not pressing sales, and the quotations received by the last mail fully sustained. Breadstuffs—The market rather quiet, and not any important sale had taken place. Holders were wait ing further advices frota England. Western Canal flour, 4 dolls. 50c. to 4 dolls. 52ic.; Genessee prime wheat, :1 doll. 10c. to 1 doll. 12c. ; Indian corn, round yellow, 70c. to 72c.; Indian meal, 3 dolls. Vic. to 3 dolls. 75c. Provisions—ln the market for provisions a larger business was doing, but prices unchanged. Freights are not changed since last advicea. A Privy Council will be held at Windsor on Monday next, the 18th. SIR E. BELCHER'S SEARCH FOR SIR JOHN FRANKLIN.—We have heard that intelligence has been re ceived from the squadron commanded by Sir E. Belcher, and led by him up the Wellington Channel, to the effect that, from what they have discovered floating down the Channel —remains of whales, bears, and other animal substances— the party have been led to the conclusion that not only is there food for mankind in that direction, but that the float ing portions of whales and bears form the relics of what have been actually consumed by human beings. Sir E. Belcher has by this time moat probably explored the regions pronounced to be accessible by Captain Penny, but injudi ciously abandoned, and has thus confirmed the truth of Penny's testimony. It is fearful to contemplate the conse quences of a year's delay in following the track presumed to have been taken by Franklin, as of course hopes of effectual succour must be diminished by the year's postponement of that search which Penny so warmly suggested on the spot, and which he so nobly volunteered to undertake on his return to England last autumn.—Herald. Nis sr ammeusEs.—Some little curiosity was ex cited in the principal thoroughfares yesterday, by the pa rading of several very elegant vehicles marked as " The Pattern Omnibuses of the Grand Junction Omnibus Com pany." They were taken to Scotland-yard, and the Guild hall, where they were inspected by several aldermen and gen. tlemen, and also by Mr. Yardley, on the part of the Com missioners of Police. The public accommodation has been consulted in the new omnibus. The inside passenger can enter without stooping, and go without jostling, there being a handrail at :each side overhead. The seats are broader and longer than general, the width being gained by a closer approach of the aides to the wheels, effected by an Ingenious modification of the springs. The outside passenger can as cend easily by a side-step ladder, the heightening of the roof accommodates the outside passenger also by elevating his seat. The appearance of the vehicle is exceeding light and elegant, and though carrying less than an ordinary omnibus by two cwt., it is actually stronger and 304 cheaper in cost. There is a bell outside by which the conductor signals to stop, and one inside by which the passenger ac quaints the conductor of his wish toget: out. A patent break, also under the control of the coachman himself, affords the means of stopping the vehicle instantaneously. The plan to be adopted by:this new company in regard to fares is that of a penny a mile throughout; and they are to have stations and waiting-rooms for their customers, adding also to the usual business of carrying passengers, the conveyance and delivery of parcels to every part of London. How THEY PUNISH TREASON IN PERSIA.—We mentioned a few days since the attempt against the Shah of Persia. We now learn that Hajee Suleiman Khan, accused as the instigator of the crime, was seized, his body carefully drilled with a knife in parts which would not at the moment cause death ; pieces of lighted candles were then introduced into the holes, and, thus illuminated, carried in procession through the bazaar, and finally conveyed to the town gates, and there cleft in twain like a fat ram. The Kurret-il•Ain, better known as Bab's Lieutenant, or the Fair Prophetess of Kazoeen, who since the late religious outbreak had been kept a close prisoner at the capital, has been executed with Hisi o l a verylajPst) r s e l c ig e h lN t -e n d a t t h u r r e e e slug wounds in someth edz” nethers . shoulders, but all - - DRURY-LANE THEATEE.—We are requested to state that the obloquy which has attached to the committee of Drury-lane Theatre, on the ground that it hired the theatre to persons who were incompetent to keep it open for a week, is not founded on fact. The lease of the theatre for the half •year commencing in June is not in the hands of the committee, but in those of the manager of Covent-Garden Theatre. Wrrrs nF ExrcurtoN.—An important alteration is made by the Common Law Procedure Act with respect to writs of execution. They are not to remain in force for more than one year, unless revived. THE SHARE M AitKETS. XiArrISH 3ILELTLV7ALYII. Nominal Prices. 27 to 27% 6 -6% loy a —lo% 7 6 dis. 20% 21% 3% 3 die. ' 100 --102 47% —4B x.d 20% 21 14% 15 1 4 7 6 die. 7 - 8 4% -4% 3 -3% 114 - 11 ;i 8% -9% 5 7 / 8 -6% 18% - 13% 57 -59 73 -75 24% - 25% 78% - 79% 41 -43 Railways. Aberdeen 100/. paid' Amb., Not., Bost. & E. June. Bir., Wolv., and Stour Valley all pd. Birk., Lan., & Ch. Jct., late 33/. 65.8 d., 28/. pd. Ditto, Chest. & Birk., 501. lk 251. Cens., all pd. Ditto, ditto ... 1814 pd. Brist. & 100/. pd. Caledonian ...100/. pd. Chest. & Holyh., all pd. Cork & Bandon, all pd Dub. & Belf. Jct. 45/. pd. Dundlk & Ennis., all pd. Dundee,Perth, & Aber deen June. all pd. Ditto, New East Anglian (251. L. & E. and L. & D.) all pd. Do (18/. E.& H.) all pd. East. Counties ... all pd. Eastern Union, class A, late E. U. shrs., all pd. Do. do. do. 6/.pd. Do., do., B. & C., all pd. East Lancashire ...all p E. & W. India Docks and Bir. June., all pd Ediub. & Glas.,loo/. pd Edin.,Per.& Dun. 100/. Glas. & S.-West., 1004 Great Northn., 100/. pd D 0.% s. A Stk., 100/. p Do. 4 B Stock,loo/. p Gt. S. & W. Ireld., all p Great %Veen., 100/. pd Lane. & Carlisle, all pd Do. Thirds, 11/.13.4 pd Lane. & York., 100/. pd Do., Fifths l5 pd Do.,W.Rid. Un. 11%p Leeds Northern, all pd Liv.Crsby & Sthpt. all p Lond. & Blackw., all pd London, Tilbury, and Southend pd Lon.,Brig.& S. Ct.loo p Lon. & N.West.,looL p Do. Fifths 121. pd Do. 10/.,M &B (e) lip Lon. & S.-West 100/. p Do. New 50/., 42% pd Do. New 401 341. pd Lon. & Enniskil , all pd Man. SI) ef. & Lin.,loo/p Do. .Manch. & Lincolnl 116 —llB 47 1 / 4 48 1 / 4 95% 96% 82 —B4 10 —ll p 84 84% 3 a ny 3 1 / 4 dia. 3 2 1 / 4 die. 18 —lB% ••• ........ •• 8% — • gys 1 3 %- 2 p 103;4 - 1045 119 - 119 1 4 - p - I%p 89 — 90 6 5 di& 5 4 dis. 16 3 / 4 —I7X 30 1 ,4-31;i Union 4/. 2s. pd Midland 100/. pd Do. Bir. & Derby 1001. Gt. Wt. (Ire) 47 Do. Shares, li pd Newcas. & Carl. all pd Newmarket lOO/. pd Newport, Abergaven., and Hereford ...141 pd Newry & Ennisk. p Norfolk lOO/. pd Do. New 201. ... 201. p North. Coun.Un. pd Nom, British ...1001. p Nth. Devon, No.l, 131. p Do., No. 2 6% pd Do., 4 A, def....Wl pd Do., JA B, guar. 51. pd North Stafford. 17% p North-Western...all pd N. & S.-W. Junc. 8 1 A, p Oxf.,Wor., &W.,100/. p Scottish Central 100/. p Scottish Midld., 100/. p Shrews. & Do. do. Shrew. & Her 81. p Shrewsbu. and Chester (Nor. W. Min.) all pd Do. Halves all pd Do. Oswestry all pd Shrop. Union pd Do. A, B, C, & D fully pd. up at per cent.... South Devon all pd South-Eastern 1001. pd South Wales all pd S.York. & Riv. Dun 15/. Do. Do. Si. pd Stirl. & Dunferm. all Stock. & Har. 16/23. 3d. Taff Vale 126/. pd Thames Haven Dock and Railway ...191. pdt Vale of Neath...l7/. pdl Waterfd. & Bilk. all pd Waterfd. & Lim. all pd West Cornwall 13/. pdi West London ...all pd Yk., New. & Ber. 1004 Do. & New. Ex. 20/. Do. G.N.E.purc. 10/. p York & N. Mid.loo/.pd 8% -23 i dia. 76% 77 A 42 —44 47 -49 3% 2%dia. 1% —2% 43 —45 :)i -32% .. 7 6 dis. 2% —2% % 3.4, die. 4 3 / 8 —4% dia. 334 -4 1 ,4 p. 46% - 47 , A 85 -86 55 -57 68 -72 ••• --- ••• 2 —l% dia. 20 —2l 10 10% 15 —l6 Sy s —3% d. x.d di& 21 1 4 22% 74% 75%, 41 41 1 4 14 —l5 Par % P 169 - 171 2%- 2% 13 - 13% 6% -6% 21% - 22% 9% - NA 67 —6B 8% 8 dis. 2% —2% dis. 50 —5l PREPZ Aberdeen all pd Do. No. 2, 7 per et. all Bris. & Ex., 4 p. ct. Stk Do. 4 p. C. Shares, 5/. pd Caledonian, 10/. 100/ p Ches. & Holyhd. all pd Cork and Bandon, 5% per cent. 1% Junction all pd E. Ang.(3/ 10s)6 p c. all Do. 5/.) 7 per ct. all p Do. 7/ 17s) 7p.c. 2 p Eastern Counties Ex., sp. c., No. 1 all pd Do. No. 2 all pd Do. New 6 p. c. Stk. all Eastern Union Scrip, Guar. 6 per ct....a1l p Do. 10/. Deb. Sh. all p East Lancashire, 6 per ct. Quar. Shrs. all pd East & West Yorkshire Junction, sths all pd Edin., Per. & Dun. 5% per cent. all pd Glas. & S.W. gua 5 p.c. Gt. North. 5 p. 0 100 pd Do. 5 p e. red. sc 100 p Great South. & West. (Ireland) Stile all pd Gt. West. (Berke & H. Ex. 5 per cent.).. .6 pd Gt.W. fixed 4% 100 L p Lancashire and York shire, F. 201. . . 6 1. pd Do. 6 p. c. Stk. 1001. p Leeds Northern, 6 per cent. No. 1 . l3/. pd Do. Qrs., 1848 —.91. pd London & Brig. guar. 5 per cent. ...100/. pd Do. Pr.s p c. Stk. 100/. Do. Con. 5 p c,1852 all Do. N.Gr. 6 p c 100/. Lon. & N.I.- (Coy. & Nunet.) 5 p. c. 1001. pd Ln.& S.W. Co.3ds. Lon. & ED. 1/4 Sh. all p Man., Sheff., & Linen.' Qr. Sh., No. 1 all pd Do. New, 16/. all pd{ Do. 6/. ...... .. 3/. pdl M a ryport and Carlisle, 4 per cent. all pd Do., 4% per ct 6% Mid. Con. 6 p c St. 1001. Do. Con. Bris. & Bir., 6 per cent...loo/. pd Do. Erewash Val. all p Do. Leic. &Swanning. 8 per c. Guar. 100/. p Do. Pref., 41 ( p.c. 51. p Norfolk Exten._ all pd Do. Gr. 5 1 ,E p ct. all p Do. W.Val. 5 p.c. all p North British 100/. pd North Stafford all pd Oxf. Wor. & Wol., 15/. 6 per cent.... 1001. pd Ditto ditto ... 3/, pd Shrews. & Bir. N.G. all Shrews. & Ches. (N.W. Min.) 8 per c all pd Do. 5 per cent. 101 pd South Devon all pd Do. New PA pd St-Est. (Reading An nuities).-1/. Os. 6d pd Do., 4 1 ,¢, p c.... 100/. p Sth. York. 4p c gd. all Stock. & Hart. gd. 5 p c until July 1,1856, all p Waterford & Kilkenny, 6 per cent. 3/. pd York, New. & Bar. all p Do. Do 5/. pd York & N. Midland H. and S. Parch. 101. pd ••• - •• 106 - 108 1 - 60 103 x.cl l 18 —l9 36 die. —34 T) 6 -6( 5% -8% 3% -3% 1 5 ,is 1 7 43 p 1%-- l'is p 14% 15 17 -174 9 -9% 2%- 3% 8% - 9 % 1p 107 109 4i die. par 151 154 34- 3% p 13 - 13% 8% -9% 11% - 12 %- 3it p Via. % p %dis. %p 148 - 150 par—idp 22 22% 5% 6 1% 2 92 —94 2%- 25/8p ... - ... 11%-113 17u 18% t —13 ii P 15% 16 3 4 dia. par 25% -253 i ..-... ••• ••• 19 .... 20 0... ... ••• % . % dia. 102 .. 104 5 -- 6 % MINES LEASE: AT FIXED RENT Ai Leasing • Business Railways. to-day. Companies. Nominal Prices. --,---- Bdf. & Bitch., all pLon.&N.W Bir.& Oxf., gua. all Gt. Westn. 29% % Do. without, all p Do. Bir.Wolv. & Dud., guar all pd Do. Do. without, all p, Do. Buckinghash. all plLon. &N.W .. • Clydsdale Jc., slip Caledonian 51 —53 E. Lin., gua. 6 per cent 1001.pdGt.Northn. 14 7 149 x..d Gloucest. & Dean Forest all pd Gt. Westrn. 32 —33 Hartlepl. Dk. & 'Yk.New.l ••• ••• Railw....all pd 1 &Bervr. Hull & Selby, all p Yk. &N 113 115 Do. Halves., all p Do. Do. Quarts., all p Do. Leeds &Brdf.,all p Midland Lon. & Grenw., all S. Eastern 13% 14% Do. Pref....all pd Do. Lowestoft., gua. 4 per cent...all pd Norfolk Do. 6p. ct., all p Do. Manch. Buxtn, fL. & NW} 3 & Matick,s p 1 &M. Middlesbr' & Red car, 6 p. c., all p Stktn&Dar N. & E., sp. c., all E. Counties 63 —65 Presto. tic Wyre, L.& N.WI all paid 1 &La. B,y f ••• Ditto, Halves, A, 100/. pd Do. ••• P Roy. & Hit.,loo/.p Northn 1 149 151 Do. Shep. Ex., all' Do. ll4B 150 Shf. Rtb. & Goole, 5 p. c., 18.11.6 p Lan. & Yks S. Staffdsh., 9% pi AlrAPClead dia. 8% Wear Val. 6 p c,.,allStekt& Dar 30 —3l Ditto ditto, all Do. W te, 8 ,44%24:. I CAN; Wi11,A104% 105 business done to-day. 27% 48% 48 % x.d 11% 18 5 a 24% 25 77% 78 43 117 47% 96% (95% 84%84 P 104 103 118% % 82% 90 31% 3( 32 76% % 341 32% 13% % 48% 47% 55 70% 70 75 % 41 101% ar.d Pin 1 3 A Pin 14% 125 126 108% 119 25% % P FOREIGN. Railway& I Nominal Price& Cent. France (0.V.) all Charl. & Erquel all pd Demerara all pd Dijon & Besancon, 2 pd Dutch Rhenish... Bl. pd East Indian all pd Gt. Indian Penin all p Grnd. June. of Fra. 4 pd Louv. a la Sambre 7% Luxembourg ...141. pd Do. (Railway) 10/. pd Do. 1 1 ,4 pd Do. (Canal) 2% pd Lyons & Avignon, 5 pd Madra5......... 414 pd Maria Antonia 27 1 ,E pd Do. New Namur & Liege all pd Do. ox int all pd North. of France, all pd Do. 20L 3 p. c. Bds, all p Orleans & Bor 111. pd Paris & Lyons 10/. pd Do. Bonds ... 12 pd. Paris & Orleans all pd Paris & Rouen ...all pd Paris & Stras. all pd Paris, Caen, and Cher bourg 4 pd Rouen & Havre...all pd Sambre &Meuse all pd St. Andrew's & Quebec (A) 4l. pd Tours & Nantes 171. pd, West Flanders all pd, West. of France 61. pdj ••• - ... 16% - 16% 2 —2% D 1 %dis. 7 3 A— B % p 2% 2% p 1 5 / 8 1 7 / 8 p 7 3 / 4 4 3 4 sy, ly s 6 61 7 6 3 3 9 1,1, p 2 3 8 - 8 1 4 6 - 7 31% - 31% 137 8 - 14% . 16% -. 16 3 4 p 58 -60 35% - 36 31 -31% 2% - _2 7 / 8 p 173 k -17% 10% -10% ••• -- ••• 41,41 _ . 434 7 5 4; 7 %s P. MINES. % % 1 ) par % p Agua Fria all pd Anglo-Californian, all p Asturian 151. p Australasian 2/. pd Australian 5/. pd Austr. Freehold all pd Ave Maria all pd Brit. Austr. Gold all pd British Iron 131. ss. p Braz. Im. (is. 5 p) 24% Do. Coca. & Cui. all p Do. St. Joh. del R. 15/. Carson's Creek all pd Cobre Copper ...401. pd Colonial Gold 1/ pd Copiapo 141 pd . Eng. & Aust. Cop. all p General all pd Gold Alountain all pd Grd. D uch. Baden, all p Great Polgooth all pd Lake Bathurst all pd Liberty ... all pd Lon. & Cal. GM Quartz Crushing Com all pd Mariquita.... all pd Mexi. & S. Amer. 91. p New Granada all pd Nouveau Monde, all pd Port Philip all pd Quartz Rock all pd Santiago de Cuba 10% South Australian, all pd Tin Croft 7l. pd United Mexican all pd West Mariposa all pd Yuba 1 paid 3 / 4 P 11 dis. % dis.l 5 7 7;4, 8 %dis. %I ) 43 —45 % % P 6 64 y a % di& 11 4 dia. %dia. par 2—2 p • dis• 4 %P 7 / 8 % die. p 4 3 / % % dis. % % %P 1 A ) dis.! 11 —l2 % 12 —l3 4 5 4 3 13 8 7 5 / %dis.— par N i '-STOCK ELLNILES. 58 —59% 67 —5B 15 —16% 29 —3O JOINT• Australasia all pd Brit. Nth. Amer. all pd Colonial 251. pd Com. of London 201. pd London Chart. Bank of Australia Lon. & County 20/. pd London Jt. Stk. 101. pd Lon. & Westin. 201. pd Nat. Prov. Eng. 351. pd Do. New lOl. pd Nat. of Ireland 22 IA p Orient. Bk. Corp. all pd Prov. of Ireland 251 pd. Do. New all pd Roy. Aust. Bkg. & Gold Importing Com. Ipd Union of Austral. all pd Do. New 2 1,4 pd Union of London 10/. p Union of Madrid all pd MIS Austral. Roy. Mail, 4 p Canada 32 pd Copper Miners of Eng land . . all pd Do. Preference, 7 1 h pd Crystal Palace ... 5 pd Eastern Steam...2s. pd' Elect. Tel eg. Ireland 1 p Gen. Stm. Nay. 141. pd Gen. Screw Steam Ship ping Company...soi. p Irish Beetroot Sug. 2 p Penin. & Or. St. all pd, Do. Do. ...151. pdl Royal Mail Stm. 601. pdl Universal Emigration and Colonization. 21. p 3%- 4 18% - 19% 32 - 33% 44 -46 18% -20 38 -39 46% - 47% 16% - 17% 1 -1% 49% - 50% 6 -6% 17 -18 ICELLANEOUi 3 -• 4 50 -51 36 - 37 1 ,4 29 -30 4% -5% 50 —5l x.d 2 85 86% 35% 79 80% 33/4 3 % 41 1 4 41 MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, TWO O'CLOCK. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were esti mated at 10,000 bales, of which 2,000 American were taken for export and on speculation. The market closed firmly, with a borderline. tendency. The sake oompriacd e,vou ts.mencan 1,270 Pernam and Maranham, at 6id. to 71d., 200 Bahia at 6id. to 6id., 400 Egyptian at 60. to ls. 6d., 1,000 Surat at 3d. to 5d., and 40 Sea Island at ls. 10d. to 2s. 6d. per lb.—Railway Shares were steady. The Indigo auctions have been going off rather quietly. Good and firm marks, however, have sold well at previous rates, but the middling, when unsupported, has been easier. The steamer Pacific has arrived with accounts from the United States of one or two days' later d a t e . Bu siness generally continued brisk, but cotton and bread stuffs were rather quiet. The amount of specie on board is 420,000 dollars, but of this a good deal is for the continent. Foreign bills of exchange were scarcely so high yes terday. Paper dated 90 days brought 25.45 to 50 on Paris, 12 to 12.0 k on Amsterdam, 13.8 to 8i on Ham qurgb, and 11.48 to 52 on Trieste. Silver is still in demand. In the Amsterdam Stock Market on the 11th inst. there was not much done in Ducth Bonds. Spanish found numerous buyers at better prices. Portuguese were in rather more demand. Russian and Austrian Bonds were much the same. The Banking Institute has re-commenced its sessional soirees, and last evening Mr. Francis, of the Bank of England, gave an interesting lecture upon the advan tages of " Commercial Crises," which elicited many in• structive comments. Alderman Challis most efficiently presided, and Mr. Gilbert and other gentlemen of in fluence were present. The Stock Market, although scarcely so buoyant as yesterday, continues good upon the whole, and the pay ment of the dividends will probably have a sup porting influence, although foreign affairs will be rather anxiously watched, and the abstraction of bullion for foreign loans and railway undertakings will be a counter-attraction to our steady-going Three per Centi: The official notice from the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt has been issued and the purchases of stock will no doubt be periodical, as usual. Consols have been 100 k to 1, and are now 1001 1 for Transfer. For November 11 the quotations are 10011. The rate of "continuation" has slightly increased, this being the settling day. Bank Stock has improved to 224 and 225, and East India Stook is worth 276 to 277. Exchequer-bills are 745. to 775., and India Bonds 84s. premium, a further advance. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. bring 1031 to 1. Foreign Securities are not so active. Spanish Three per Cents. have been 501 and the New Deferred 251 1, being lower. Portu guese Four per Cents. are worth 381. The Turkish Loan is down to 71 to 81 premium. Peruvian Bonds have been 1011 to 103 ex-dividend, and Chilian 105, leaving a alight improvement for the latter. Mexican are nominally 241 to S. The Account is working in the Share-market, and Railways are not quite so good. Upon the old lines the "continuation" is about I to 1 per cent. for the fort night. French Shares, though coming higher from Paris, are not quite so good here. Mines are all dull. QUARTER TO THREE. 001 18011 ... 100 k i Ditto Account Nov. 13 ••• ... 1001 BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List) Bank Stock 224% 224 225 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities... ...... 9 9 5 4 3 3' 3 per Cent. Consols Anne. /4 100% %I% New 3 1 4 per Cent. Arias. 103n 1 Long Annuities, Exp. Jan. sth, 1860 6/ 8 India Stock 277 276 Do. Bonds, 10001 B4 p South Sea Stock Ditto Old Annuities Consols for Account .100%5% Exchequer 13ille. 130. March. June. 1,0001. 500/ Small PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent....... — Ditto, Small Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent lO5 Danish Bonds 1825, 3 per Cent — Ditto, 5 per Cent. ~ Peruvian 80nd5,1849, 6 per Cent lO3 101 % ex d ...... IA Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent — Ditto, 4 per Cent 38% Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent 97 % 34 Spanish Bends, 3 per Cent. Ditto, New Deferred Ditto Passive Bonds 6% Turkish Loan, 6 per Cent......., 7 74 8% - p Dividends on the above payable in London. Belgian, 2 1 / 2 per Cent Ditto, 4% per Cent 9B il, Dutct. 2% per Cent., 12 Guil. — Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates 96X The impolicy of the course pursued by Sir Charles Wood last February in refusing to take the opportunity of saving the public money by reducing the interest on Exche quer•bills continues to be demonstrated, and another in crease has taken place in the high premium borne by those securities. The payment of the quarterly dividends has brought in many purchasers, and the March descriptions left off yesterday afternoon at 741. to 765., and the June at 72a, to 75a, Buainepa done to-day. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(THIS .DAX• LONDON, OCT. 13.—Wind at noon N., light breeze and fine clear weather. DEAL, OCT. 12.—Wind N E., moderate and squally.-- And. American Congress, New York; General 111. D onald, Africa. And. from the Rirer,and ald. Cornelius, Minima, Sydney, New South Walec; Derwentwater, Launceston, Van Diemen'd Land; Ruby, Trinidad; Alice, Jamaica; Lady K. Barham, ditto; Princo Albert, New York. LIVERPOOL, OCT, 12.—Wind E.S.E.—Arrd. Lady Worsley. Bombay; Chesterhohne, Quebec. Sid. Beeja pore, Sydney, New South Wales; Mary Cannon, Cal cutta; Alfred the Great, ditto; Andover, Ceara; ,Timau dra, Monte Video; Theckler, Rio Janeiro; Liverpool, Jamaica; Magistrate, New Orleans; Windermere, ditto; Berkeley, Charleston; Clare, Yarmouth, U.S. Off port, Pandora, Islay; Forest Monarch, Quebec; Norfolk Hort:), Emma Ileyn, and Constitution. FALMOUTH, OCT. 12.—The Sarah schooner, of Bristol, Newport for Wilmington, was abindoaod in a leaky state 9th Oct., 49 N., 7 W.; crew saved. PLYMOUTH, OCT. 12.—Wind E.N.E.—SId. Minerva, Port Wellington; Tamar, Port Philip. LONDONDERRY.—Arrd. Mary Ann, St. John's, New Brunswick; Fanny, Quebec. BELFAST, OCT. 11.—Wind N. to N.W.—Arrd. Mien, St. John's, New Brunswick. FALMOIiTH, OCT. 12.—Wind E.N.E., moderate, and fine.—Sid. Queen, St. John's, Newfoundland. NORDEN, OCT. 9.—The Jorge 'Wecher, Amsterdam to Stettin, is stranded on the Island of Juest; crew saved. NOEDWYK, OCT. 9.—The Elizlhetb, from London, has been wrecked to the southward. WYK, OCT. 9.—The Frau Christine, Shalsemel to Poole, is on shore to the northward; crew saved. CONSTANTINOPLE, SEPT. 30.—The: Clorinda, Tee ganrog to England, has put in leaky and is transhipping her cargo. The Pierre Emile, Ibrail to England, hoi put in with damage. The Solo, the Danube to England, has been wrecked in the Black Sea; ship and cargo totally lost, and six men drowned. MARANHABI, AUG. 7.—The Peltorna, Liverpozl to Acapulco, put in yesterday, having been on shore. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS D►AY.) CORN EXCHANGE—WEDNESDAY To-day's market was very scantily supplied with all kinds of English Wheat. The attendance of millers was limited, yet the demand ruled stea dy, and 1.4 total clearance was effected, at fully Monday's advance in the quotations. For forward delivery a fair amount of business was doing. This week's imports of foreiga Wheat are 14,270 quarters, chiefly from the westward. Good and dry parcels moved off freely, at very full prices. In other kinds comparatively little was doing• We bad a steady but by no means brisk Inquiry for float ing cargoes. The sale for Barley was firm, and selected malting parcels were the turn higher. Malt was gage as dear as last week. Oats sold freely, but no actual improvement was noticed in the quotations. Beans Peas, and Flour were very steady. ARRIVA.LitiTiIIs WEEK. Wheat. Barley. Malt. English 36 r :Cli 3,ll ors 5?5r18,6 '.rich .... .. .. Foreign ......I 14,2?0 I 1,120 6% 31 %30% 19 27 % ifi 31% 3 1 8 31 Oats. I Flour- 1—.....—... Qrs. Sack& ;370 3,00 7,580 -- - 1 9,900 .. 1103ZOOGnt 1101. bet.b.:;,tait3ST. All good and fine Hops eommhud a steady sale, al very full prices. In other kinds very little is doing. The show of samples is large. ViTELZTZCHAPEL. Prime Beef. Muttuo, end Pork sold readily, at full! previous rates. Otherwise, the dcmand was in a sluggiso state. Bo( f, from 2s 4d to 3s 41; Hutton, 2; 10d to 4s 2d; Veal, 2s 8d to 3.1 10d; Pork, 23 81 to 4s Od per 81bs by the eareaos. SHERIFFS' COURT.—(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. RYLAND THORNINOTON V. M'CARTIIy. This was an actio❑ brought to recover the stun of 5/. 45., for the hire of a barge. Mr. Duncan appeared as counsel for the plaintiff, Pail l Mr. Beard, from the office of Mr. Buchanan, Basingh2.l l4 street, for the defendant. The case was of a rather peculiar nature, deperitiog almost on circumstantial evidence. By the evidence of one witness, the barge had bee¢ hired on defendant's account, but after the lapse of several days, it was found made fast off the East India Docks, and the oars locked in. The plaintiff's servants seized the boat, and held possession. Defendant denied all knowledge of the hiring which was trade in his name; and although it might We been moored off his premises, he knew nothing about it; The Learned JUDGE said eleven day s had elapse°, from the time of the hiring to the time of di scover y o' the barge; any one might have used it in the interini. The evidence was, therefore, too slight to justify a jildr ment for the plaintiff. Plaintiff was, therefore, nonsuited. NEW MUSIC. COMO, COMO. Ballad by Alexander Lee; the Poetry by F. Enoch. FAIR MAGGIORE, also by Alexander Lee Wa d F. Entsch. A boon, indeed, from the land of song and , 4 1 poetry may thes e t w i n an d most charming ballads Pi: uoustuered. The airs ar e f res h and teeming with such suavity to the ear of every listener as the lanai of which they tell teem to the eyes of every beholden There is a "linked sweetness," too, in each accompalt ment that gives th em a mer i t qu i te their own, en`; adds very materially t o th e b eauty o f b ot h words art: air. The frontispieces to these graceful songs are no only effective but artistic. It is seldom we el, grouped together in so small a compass, as the prig' of either one of these ballads, the happy rendezvou s , of what may really by termed "poetry, painting, eu ° music." THEY SAID MY LOVE WOULD CHANGfri WITH TIME. Written by F. Enoch; comps by Stephen Glover. The symphony of this song, which comment andante con expressione, is peculiarly pathetic sr original, and introduce s mos t appropr i ately the pla in' tive air to which it is attached. The refrain of th e verses is exceedingly melodious, and we may troll say the musician speaks as well as the poet. THEATRE ROYAL PLYMOUTI-1, Several excellent additions have been recently rase a to the company performing at this theatre ; amour them Mr. J. W. Ray, Mr. G. Smithson, Mr. Elsbe! Shaw, and Mrs. Woollidge. On Monday wee; Colman's comedy of Who Wants a Guinea was per' formed, with Popping the Question, and on T u eelial Mr. T. C. King played Duran in the Exile. Tb l talented and deserving actor, whos e engagemen t P . A. the Theatre Royal Dublin prevented his longer stet in Plymouth, took his benefit on Thursday, wil e ...! Ingomar was p ro d uce d , and very effectively Pe`, formed. At th e conc l usion of the piece Mr. Klee and Miss Huddart were loudly called fur, and er,, peered amidst d ea f en i ng applause. Miss }Judder` retired, and when the applause bad subsided, igr ; King, in a sh or t, nea t, and elegant speech, returne: his sincere thanks for the kindness which he had e . O perienced, and gra tifi e d th e au di ence by the pleas o intelligence, that at no distant period he should again favour them with a visit ; w h en , a f ter paying a veR high compliment to Mr. Newcombe, the lessee, 0 ° left the stage. Mr. Le Clercq's ballet comique, th e Boatmen of the Ohio, has been played throughout the past week with signal succes s , an d i s followed up 113 the present by a new nautical ballet from the sato° ingenious and masterly arranger, in which Dbl. Louise Le Clercq, and th e several members of that most clever family have scope for the display of their brilliant and accomplished dancing, and admirable pantomimic action. NEWMARKET RACES. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) Sweepstakes of 50 EOVS. each. Nicotine... 1 ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• Alkali colt ••• ••• ••• ••• S ••• ••• Matoh-2E')lus beat Foehr.bers• Handicap for Two Yrs Old. Kitty of Coloraino filly ••• .. 1 - • ••• .•• Pag Orrock ••• ••• ... ... ... ... Town Plate, Morning Star ... ••• ••• Derby ... ••• ••• ... ••• •••• Salopian ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• 8.• ••• ••• ••• •I• vabirb Zllttion+, Handicap. D.M. Exeter ... ... ••• ••• Herbert ... ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• Sweepstakes. T.Y.C, Pitfall ... ••• • lon filly ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• .• ••• Match.—Mount a i n Fl ower beat. Wharwhoop. .• Bedford Stakes. Ninny Hammer .. Gossip ... 1 ... _ !.! ••• GLASGOW AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY,..-Tra,,,— „Iv, fa the week ending Oct. 9, 1852:-- Passengers (24,026), goods end parcels, horses and carriages.. £4,362 15 9 Corresponding week in last year 3,916 011 - . --- At the meeting of the Agra and United Servi ce t Bank for the half-year ending the 30th of June,l the net profits during that period were stated at 37,673/, the rate of upwards of eleven per cent. per annum• dividend was then declared at the rate of nine per een c i leaving 9,0331. to be carried to the reserve fund, which soul,. thus amount to 70,065/. Another meeting was fixed to, be held on the 28th ult. to consider the expediency of removoit the head office from Agra to Ca.lpitta, a large majority of t"' gharelwidere bein ftvrour oft at niemurepi being at THE We ht The ( graphic " After bnd perso to the hal tnusiastic from four Which hat nt his ent 3 . ,000 go frvq uent i j Peilted to crowd wa he was to constant 13 tort." "his I o'clock. funotionar parture. acchwatic ereetod b large lettc the crowd and enthu' ceived at t emnicip%l inscriptior impossible every face Prince thri will leave An noon 1 the Chare excellent." The sp.! Bordeaux DUFOUR Chamber be given PRINCE'S "I acc: . me by the ing your magnifica) my journe ceived. " The of !make myst the beautif real evants. result. "I may from pride More direc testify a d( respecting heretofore in h s • — CAP The pt price the f and the dai t hen, that ueoeuse ea amid the ‘, 0 0 the fl: 'Five I'En LO" Charleroi P uteh R '3f Prance ".,Northern a id Strasb , iu use e. Madrid Th ev stet . on , Ala -NTr EN I t Was ' ° R,ed for t va the tc)( )Ps of Pirf orn , WELL] artily . A the troop that had erected fi Areceded , The B 1 talf-pesel tinted in MADE] 44Lehang The II at4dt ohIVA th e ItEsc Granl4 the ev The f l3 r the ;tw een a °nista tl ccessf t rtiti on to fi ber. A 1 -1 thi ` 4 ' th e / listme of duk e AI Ab We -s TaxA c 'thq ofthe that J "at that tat 111 ,„ eLts yourieet T H SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER l3, 1852. 16% 17% 10