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

BOROUGH ItOP VIAZIEET. New Hops, the supply of which is good, are in im proved request, at our quotations. In yearling and old parcels, scarcely any business is doing. The duty is called 205,0001. New Hops—Sussex pockets, 48s to • _ 3 08; Weald of Kent ditto, 52s to 60s; Mid and East • limit ditto, 56s to 100 s per cwt. wurincsApEL. Our market was heavy to-day, and prices bad a downward tendency. Beef, from 2s 4d to 3s 4d; Mut ton, 3s 4d to 43 6d; Lamb, 33 8d to 4s 10d; Veal, 31 2d to 4s; and Pork, 3s 8d to 4s 10d per Blbs, by the carcase. IPSWICH CORN EXCHANGE, SEPT. 26. Our market was heavy today for all grain. Wheat Could not be sold without a reduction of 2s per quarter. Barley and Oats are each rather lower. Beans are a heavy sale, at a decline of is per quarter. Peas dull. Malt and Flour looking downwards in price. PER QUARTER. PER QUARTER. Wheat 42s to 563 Beans 3ls to 36s Barley Oats. Rye.. ....... . AVERAGES FOR THE WEEK ENDING SEPTEMBER 23. Wheat Barley ...... Oats Rye 3O „ 303 Bd. Beans ... 82 to 33s sd. Peas 65 ~ 38s 2d. 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. Ho found thirteen persons in the tap-room. Their names were Nilspear, Iron, Proutten, Conway, Corbett, Taylor, Cocks, Poole, Gibbs, }Torbert, 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 Butt'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 184, was also at the Angel. Searched Morgan, and found a pike. head and fit teen ball cartridges in this pocket. Inspector Rogers L, deposed going to a house in Market...street, Borough, on the evening of Wednesday, the 16th cf August. Morgan occupied the first fluor. Mr. PARRY objected to the reception of evidence with respect to what was found at Morgan's. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL considered the evidence ad missible, but would not press the question. inspector 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 floor, containing names, addresses, and subscriptions. One had reference to the members of the " Wallace Bridgate - branch of the Chartist Association"—Mr. Lacy last. lie also found a printed plan of the mode of organisation 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 ball and primed, a canister in his hat containing a pound of gunpowder, a small box of cartridges, a pistol screw, &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 b. s-hood 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 becotr • an opposer against the physical force Chartists, because he believed they were dangerous to the com arlity,. Went about now, accompanied by a policeman. After a short adjournment the trial was proceeded with. George ravis,_ of Greenwich , was next examined by the ATTORNEY-UTENARAL—WiIetIOt a Chartist, yet had joined the Wet Tyler district at Greenwich. Joined on the 24th of May. Was accepted as a delegate to meet, with others, at the George, Old Bailey. They met on the 10th of July, the day of the trial of 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 :sited( the police van conveying the prisoners to Cold bath- Holds. It was said that a person named Haley wcridd come c,ut 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 this, statements down at his dictation two hours after Attending the meeting, and signed them after 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 writing the statements' in the 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 Malin Ewil, aged 51, p tviours and:mason's.labourers, were indicted for stealing a 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 Aln Chad wick many years, and they said he was in court and could give them a good character. Mr. Leckie, warden 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-JuneE sentenced them to be impri soned four months, and kept to hard labour. CLERKENWELL.—(THIS DAY.) Edward Squires was charged before Mr. Combe with. stealing a chair from the shop of Mr. Gilts, High stree t, Stoke Newington, upholsterer. It appeared that a policeman meeting the prisoner in the street, not far from the prosecutor's, drunk, and offering to sell the chair to the shopkeepers and to passers by, took him into custody, not being satisfied with his account of the possession, which was that ho had 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 chair 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. COMBE 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 ho took the pro perty, and was not a known offender, he discharged him. REGISTRATIONS. (THIS DAY.) CITY OF LONDON. The lists brought under revision today were those for the parishes of Cornhill, Cripplegate Within, Crip plegate Without, and Farringdon Within. An objection was taken to the name of a voter by Mr. Sidney Smith, on the ground that ono of his Chris tian names was omitted, and the Revising Barrister struck out the name from the list. WESTMINSTER Mr. Bayley, the Revising Barrister for Westminster, held his second Court this morning, for the revision of the list of voters. The parishes proceeded with to-day were St. George's, Hanover-square, St. John's, and St. Margsrct's, West minster. WEST INDIA Rum.—Arrivala of rum Are now taking place at the port of Dublin, it being compara tively a new branch of import trade at the Irish metro polis which has taken place since the reduction of duty upon the article. This is no doubt caused in an impor tant degree by the Act lust passud, altering the duties on foreign and colonial rums and shru bs, by which the amount of duty levied on those articles, when imported direct into Ireland, is very considerably less than when imported into the other portions of the United rbiDgdom. THE S 1 N, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EAST INDIA HOUSE.-(THIS DAY.) A quarterly general Court of the Proprietors of East India Stock took place to-day at the East India Com pany's House. Sir J. L. Lushiegton took the chair at twelve o'clock. MAJOR EDWARDES. Mr. SULLIVAN. before the regular business of the Court was gone into, proceeded to call the attention of the Court of Directors to the unprecedented con duct in India of Brevet-Major Edwardes, and ventured to express a hope that the Court would mark in some signal manner its sense of the high estimation in which they held the intrepidity, valour, and determination the Gallant Lieutenant—now, he was happy to say, a Brevet-Major. The CHAIRMAN said that by a resolution of the Court of Directors, on the 13th of the present month, it was unanimously agreed that Brevet-Major Edwardes should be presented with a gold medal—(Hear, hear)—and that resolution had been most cordially approved of by . the Board of Control.—(Hear, hear.) HISTORY OF INDIA. Mr. Sergeant STORKS wished to know whether it was the intention of the Court of Directors to purchase th' work of Professor Wilson and others, which was a con tinuation of Mr. Mills's History of India ? The CHAIRMAN said the work was a most expensive one, and it would be for the proprietors to say whether, in the present state of the Company's finances, which he was sorry to say were not very flourishing, they ought to incur such an expense. LITERATURE. THE QU.EENS OF ENGLAND. By Agnes Strickland. Vol. XII. and last. Cordially do we congratulate Miss Strickland upon the accomplishment of her arduous and ambitious undertaking—the " Lives of the Queens of England." The volume now before us completes a work as in- structive as history, and as interesting as romance. The biographies of the Queens of England, while . they are fraught with that- individual interest which is inseparable from biography, have an additional and almost a peculiar value in an historical point of view. The 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 teries of their domestic lives, we, at the same time, unravel many political knots which have baffled the ingenuity of many philosophers. But, apart from the political interest of the history of the Queens of England, there is another and a higher attraction in the perusal of such a work. A Noble Lord (Lord Palmerston, if we mistake not) once observed at a scientific meeting that by an ac quaintance 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 humble 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 stagg ered 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 ccn spicuous for their personal charms and others for their 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 Elisabeth 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 Elivabett.? Who has not been interested in the romantic court• ship of Prince Charles and Henrietta M aria, 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 equals 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 H . ? 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 Strickland not to pause in her historical labours until she has added Caroline to her gallery of regal portraits. DEFENCE OF LAMARTINE. (Continued from 7he Sun of yesterday.) EIUHTIi ACCUSATION. It is not, however, in these explanations that cam be recognised the true motives for the system of non exclusion recommended to the National Assembly by M. de Lamartine, in regard to the formation of the Executive Commission. Those motives, otherwise inexplicable, arc discernible in the mysterious fact of the complicity existing between two men. Let us throw aside all feelings of modesty, and dare to copy the words which have been actually printed. " 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 ceived no less than forty thousand francs. The re ceipt is still preserved. Threatened, no doubt, with the disclosure of such a transaction, one can readily understand that M. de Lamartine had only the alternative of alliance or infamy. This is not all. M. de Lamartine has dilapidated the public fortune. 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. He 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 sense light upon the first cir cumstance. I was a writer. Oppressed with re sponsibilities, I earned my subsistence by my la bours. 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 ,pished, through the me dium of sentiment, to gain over, before public opinion, a cause which had so often failed before the 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 Mondes. 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 ai 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 gm 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 clude 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. lf, 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. NINTH ACCUSATION. Let us pass on to my next crime :—I have abstracted 'welve 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 7 n England. Here I must acknowledge, at once, that I am very much embarrassed, for Ido not even know, at this moment, whereabouts the public treasury is situate 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 chests, 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 hare really discovered these chests of the public treasure, and if I have despoiled them of their con 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 cation, I shall not long continue quietly in the enjoy ment of my millions Is it necessary for me to add thatl will give all the fruits of my peculations, snore than that, that I will give all my fortune, and all my honour into the bar gain, to whomsoever will point out to me that banker in London, of whom the Morning Chronicle has made mention, and who will, moreover, point out to me these houses purchased, these lands acquired, these debts liquidated. The truth is, that I had no other moneys at my dis posal beyond two hundred and ninety-three thousand francs of secret funds for the ordinary diplomatic purposes, to expend in mi ss i ons , i n informations and in useful influences of a ll ki n d s , a t A moment, too, when it was necessary t o see e verything with the eyes of the Republic, to supp l y th e suspended action of the agents of the mon arc hy, r ecently overturned, and when, moreover, I wa s a t one and the same time Minister of Foreign Affairs and Member of a Dicta torial Government. I shall hare to give a full and explicit explanation in order to justify the propriety of the distributions and the reality of the employment of this sum, appropriated under the responsibility of my administration in this particular department of the public service. Vet this is the only portion of the funds of the Republic from which I have had the power to deduct these imaginary sums dispatched by me to foreign countries, or devoted to the payMent of my personal debts l If my accusers cannot perceive the moral impossibility of my pretended peculations, they must at least recognise its arithmetical im possibility. I will proceed further, I will afford a still clearer explanation to those honest but credulous' men, who are incapable of inventing these whisperings of hatred, but who allow them to be buzzed into their ears without knowing how to reject them or how to dispute their veracity. A decree of the Convention commanded all representatives of the people, retiring from power, or returning from any mission, to render an account, at the tribune, of their private fortunes, for the purpose of convincing the nation that they had not increased their own possessions by robberies frum the public fortune. I love that decree. I will suppose it to be still in force ; and I will now give an account of my private fortune, such as the most in quisitive might desire, to my friends and to my enemies. On the first of last January, fifty-three days before the Republic, my general fortunes consisted of about two millions, five hundred thousand francs, in lands, in houses, and in moveables such as were derived from offices and from my literary productions. My debts amounted to six hundred and sixty thousand francs. Nothing is more easily verified than these two calculations, by lands, by contracts, and by mort- gages. But, they say to me, you had in 1847 debts to the amount of eleven hundred thousand francs, and your liabilities are now little more than six hundred thou sand. You have therefore disbursed five hundred thousand francs? You have therefore paid your creditors out of the public treasury ?—Citizens ! Th is in all this only one small difficulty. It is tha these five hundred thousand francs of debts were disbursed by me six months before the Revo 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 the ' Girondists, And from four lituidred and fifty thousand TEDIPLE OF JUGGERNAUT. Mr. PoYNDER then brought forward, pursuant to no tice, his motion relative to the annual money payment to the Tempi() of Juggernaut, and moved that it be dis continued. _ _ Mr. MARRIOTT 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 be 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 soever 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 order. 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 order. THE PRINTER OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.-It is stated in a daily paper, that Mr. Luke Hansard has been dismissed from the lucrative office of printer to the House of Commons. MR. WEBSTER'S WALKING STICK. Mr. Webster has been presented by a clergyman with a walking stick bearing 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 Yorh 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 if:any sheep or lambs imported or brought into this country appear at the time of their importation to be infected with or labouring under the variola ovina, or sheep pox, such sheep and lambs, 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 3 esterday, afforded the best proofs that some change is necessary to render the streets in any respect passable without 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 are removed forms another nuisance. _ . . MONEY MARKET.—The price of gold at Paris is 131 per milk, which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 104 d. per ounce for standard gold, gives an ex change of 25.484; 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 Hamburgh is 436 per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 104 d. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13.101; and the exchange at Hamburgh on London at short being 13.8/, it follows that gold is 1.03 per cent, dearer in Hamburgh than in London. The course of exchange at New York and the par of exchange obileta • London een is Englandlo9 per cent., and America being 109 23-40 per cent., it follows that the exchan g e is 0.58 per cent against England; but the quoted exchange at New York beir , for bills at GO days' sight, the interest must be subtracted from the above difference. THE WEST I\IIDDLESEL CONGREGATIONAL aASSO CIATION.—Yesterday evening, at half-past six o'clock , a numerous meeting of the ministers and su pp orters of the churches and chapels connected with the \Vest Middle . sex Congregational Association, was held at the East 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, in the chair, and there were present. the Rev. Dr. Morrison, the Rev. Mr. Cumming, the Rev. Mr. Ilarrison, 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 catedin 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 imrossible 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. JERSEY.—.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 tween the walls at the southern head is greatly facili tated by the double line of rails, extending from the old south quay to the new pier head, a distance of upwards of 200 yards, along which the material of the old prome nade is conveyed for filling the new pier. The slip from Victoria Pier to low water mark will be com menced forthwith.—Guernsey Star. Lieutenant George F. Ruxton, aged 38, of the 89th Regiment, died at St. Louis, on the 29th ult., of dy sentery. He was the writer of the Blackwood series en titled "Life in the Far West," and had obtained some fume by his volume of " Adventures in Mexico and the Rocky Mountains?' He arrived at St. Louis a few weeks previous to his death, with another British officer, who, supposing him to be convalescent, proceeded with General Brooke for the Upper Mississippi. nations Ox.—Considerable excitement was caused on the afternoon of 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 veral attempts were made to arrest its progress, but without success, and proceeding down Manor-street it ran in the direction of the railway station. Here some men endeavoured to tarn it, and in doing so, a butcher 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 in its course encountered Mr. Clark, the auctioneer, who, im mediately he saw it approach him, endeavoured to save himself by placing himself against the wall. The aril 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 attacked 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 bruises, is not materially iejared.—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. 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 11,43. 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. 1). Grainger, &q. Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial Office from the Governor-General of Canada; and also from the Governors of the other :North American Cokes. Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from the Colonial Office for 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 novelist, 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 ar e also p ublished by him :—" The B ee -hunter," by the author of the " Pilot," &C. ; 2. " Amymone," a story of the days of Pericles, by the ' author of " Meth, the Egyptian ; 3. The Second Edi tion of Sir E. Bulw er Lytton's historical romance " Harold, the Last of the Saxon King ; 4. " Sadness and G'adness," by the Hon. Adela Sydney ; and 5. " The Rival Beauties," by Miss Pardoe. THE SALE AT STOWE.—BuCKINGIIAM, SEPT 26. —The sale was recommenced this morning i n the pre sence of a very large audience, Mr. Edward Manson offi ciating. Aft e r a few lots of glass, with which the cata logue w opened, had as been offered. i disposedhe bedstead of, the u furnitures usedby of the japan -rooms the Queen Dowager when visiting Stowe some few years since was the principal feature in these apartments. It t drga y i gcbt aci t y : 6 t e tohl hyfe Q e was put in at 301. and ultimately knocked down for 851., t or within 51. of the sum given by Mr. Walesley, of Northampton,erlvworked ohnatrjegrke.:psievi te. chased : .o h dr Inc e , oAeat b lsni e s ig d ensodto a uel n i rde d e ms betweentd o einu, t h grpi e n during tte u h,od r el n d i andtau3r,e weresb o e l - . aan screen, ftbuDohheereideugnestohth.he state bedstead prepared for her excep 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 ()lily 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 01 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, the 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 Horse, ' Uxbridge, EVENING, francs, the proceeds of my patrimonial estate of Peronne near Macon, sold by me at this period. If you will, seek further information upon these mat tev, my lands sold, my purchasers, my attorneys, my publishers, my creditors, my deeds, 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 acts. 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 23,1 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, y ielding altogether the sum of five hundred and forty thousand francs. 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 hi 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 name, my liberty, and my 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 ! SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET FIRST OCTOBER MEETING. Australasia .......... Britsh North American Ceylon .. • . • • • • • • • • • • "Jommercial of Loidon :lolonial.. .. •••• • • • • . Gloucestershire .. • • • • lonian • • • • • • ........ Lomln and Westminstr Ditto •• • • • • • • • • . • • • London Joint-Stock . • . Provincial of Ireland • . Ditto, New.• • • • • • •• Sational of Ireland •• Sat. Provincial of Eng. Ditto, New... • • • • •• South Australia . • • • .. Union 01 Australia.. • • Ditto •• •• ....•• •• •• Union cf London. •• •• Union of Madrid .••.. Charing-cross .. .... • . Southwrk, Nw Sub. Av. Ditto Nw of 7% p .c. Waterloo .......... . • Ditto lila ditto of 71. Vauxhall .... • • • AT. Name of Company. TUESDAY. Match 100, h ft. First half of Ab.M. Col. Peel'sVert Vert., Sat 21b (Nat), beat Lord Strath. 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 BOPS. 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 sous. each, and 5 only declared, &c.; for three yrs old and upwards. Duke of Rutland's Paladin, 3 yrs, 6st 91b (E. Sharp) Mr. Wigram's Keraun, 3 yrs, Est 121 b Mr. Rolt's Collingwood, 5 yrs, 9st 41b Lord Exeter's Cocoa Nut, aged, 7st 71b Sir J. Ilawley's Due an Durras, 6 yrs, 7st 71b Colonel Peel's Vert Vert, 4 yrs, ist llb Mr. Pettit's Blunderbuss, aged, Est 121 b Lord Clifden's Tamarind, 3 yrs, 6st 101 b Mr. Elwes's Antelope, 3 yrs, 6st 61b Lord Orford's Craftsman, 4 yrs, 7st 11b ... Betting-3 to 1 agst Cocoa Nut, 6to 1 agst Due at Durr.is, 6 to 1 agst Keraun, 7 to 1 agst Tamarind, 7 to agst Antelope, 7 to 1 agst Craftsman. Keraun and Paladin with Cocoa Nut and Due an Durres in waiting, made the running to the cords, where they were jained by Vert Vert and Collingwood, A very tine race home with this lot, ended in favour of l'aladin by a head, the other four so close together that the judge could not place a third. Run in 1 min. 15 secs. Match, 200, h ft. First half of Ab.M. Mr. Greville's Paqult., Bst 4!b (Nat) 1 Sir J. Hawley's Banshee, Bit 413 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. Lust half of Ab.M. The third to receive 100 sovs. out of the stakes. (30 Subs.) Mr. Payne's Glauca, Bst 1 Ilb, includ. 61b extra (Nat) 1 Mr. Wreford's Wet Nurse, Bst 51b 2 Lord Clifden's Czarina, Bst 51b 3 Lord Albemarle's Grasshopper, Bst 51b ... 4 Mr. B. Green's The Arab, Bst 71b 0 Field-Marshal Grosvenor's His Excellency, Bst 71b... 0 Colonel Peel's lone, Bst 51b Mr. Roberts's The White Lady, Sat 51b Mr. Watts's Andros, Bst 71b 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. Ditto Old Ann. of 81. ... (Robinson) INS' Name of Company. Birmingham. • • •• • • •• cart London..•• • • •• •• Grand Junction • • • • •• New Rivr Lndn Brdge Vauxhall • • • • •• .• • • • • West Middlesex • • • Name of Company. 51. per cent. 71. per cent. 61. per cent. 51. per cent. 15/per cent. Gl. per cent. 61. per cent. 61. per cent. 81. per cent. 8/. per cent. 51. per cent. 61. per cent. 51. per cent. 51. per cent. 61. per cent. 61. per cent 355. per cent. 11. 55. 4d. 11. 2s. 2d. 11. 17s. 31. 10s. 61. per cent. 61. per cent. 138.6 d. pr sh. 7s. per share 5 pr ct..B; be. C JMlllt rcial ••••••••• East and West India... East Country •••• • • • • London ••• • • • ..... . • Ditto 80nd5........ SUE atharine ..... Ditto Bonds • • • • • • • • Southampton • • • • • • • • 14s. 61. 51. per cent. 534 per cent. 1/". & bs. 61. per cent. 61. per cent. 51. per cent. 12 per cent. 12s. 11. sh. & bs. U. 165. 4%1. per ct. 51. per cent. 81. per cent. 51• per cent. s. d. 40 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 Amount of Share. X. s. d. 632 12 6 50 0 0 100 0 0 31. p. eh. k bs. W. pwr cent. 11. ss. 4s. 51. per cent. 61. 10s. 11. 61. 10% pr cnt. 'AT EX-' Dividend per Annum. 21. 10s. 70 10 3 Amount of Share. 6. d. 500 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 20 0 0 ... o ... o ... o ... o 21. 10s. 4/. per cnt. 61. Os. pr cnt. 100 0 0 500 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 5 0 0 Stock. 100 0 0 Paid. X. E. d. 25 0 0 'O7ILKS. Amount of Share. X s. d. 25 0 0 100 0 0 41 13 4 100 0 0 raid. British .• •• ...... Ditto Provincial .• • • Bristol • • •• • • • • •• •• •• Brighton • • • • • • •• • • • • City of London .. • • •• Continental Consolidat. Price. 100 0 0 Amount of Share. X s. d. 25 0 0 41. per cent. 61. pr cent. 255. per sit. 51. pr cont. 41. per cent. 4 per cent. 4%1. pr cent. 21. per cent. AND CO: Dividend per Annum. Paid. X a. d. Stock. Stock. 100 0 0 Stock. X s. d. Price _ Stock. 208 143( 41 Os. 26 4% 165 197 Price, 172 81 75 55 116 1 4 _ Ditto, New • • .... • • Equitable.• •• • • —•• Imperial • • .... • • • • •• Independent London .... ••.•• • • • 50 0 0 Amount of Share. 11. It. ss. X. 8. d. 40 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 118% 21 101% Paid. Price, 101. per cent } 20 0 0 bl. per cent. 20 0 0 101. 100 0 0 925. pr share 50 0 0 85s. pr sharej 50 0 0 455. pr share; 50 0 0 61. per cent. j 50 0 0 61. per cent. 40 0 0 , 50 0 0 50 0 0 5/. per cent. , 50 0 0 or. 'lOO 0 0 4N, 1. pr cent. 50 0 0 3/, 50 0 0 12s. 50 0 0 A. a. d. 18 0 0 19 0 0 ... o ,00 0 0 250 39 5 0 - 37 10 0 - 50 0 0 30 50 0 0 67% 40 0 0 64 AO 0 0 50 0 46 0 90 0 50 0 Ditto.. • • • • • . • • • • • • l'hcenix ..... • • • • .• .• _ Match, 100, h ft. T.Y.C. Mr. S. Stanley's St. Ann, Bst 21b, received from Mr. Payne's Woodcraft, Bst 71b. Post Sweepstakes of 500 Boys each; one to the post. T.Y.C. (3 Subs.) Lord Stanley's Escalade, Bst 31b ... (Butler) 1 Lord Orford's cby Sir Hercules—Firefly, Bst 71b ... 2 Lord Exeter's cby Voltaire—Mecca, Bst 71b ... 3 Betting-4 to 1 on Escalade, who mado all the run ning, and won in a canter by two lengths. Run in 1 min. 16 secs. Itateliff .. •• • .••• • • • United Genefnl • • • • • • tVestininster Chartered Ditto, New • • • 10 0 0 31 75 15 52 10N Ditto New • • • • - C.a.NrILX. S . • . , . I 4 DPridend Names of I? .Dlvidend Names of r ., riP ce ~, 1 per C.ouipanies. A ; per , ' Companies. Price. - 1 AT111111:51. c Annum.l --------1----------- ------- ---Z ----- X I X kshtn& Oldh! 97 51. pe 1 80 Afacclestleld • 100 - - arnsley.• • • 160 121. 180 Neat h ••• . • • 100 18/. 3rknk&Abrg :150 81. 85 Oxford .• •• • • 1001 201. 190 Birmingham 35, 41. 80 Peak Forest. 781 3?. - Coventry..• •'' 100 251. - Regent's •••• 33 i 11. ss. 18% I, ert , ) , ' ••. • • ,100 61. 63 Rochdale.... 851 41. 54 Ells 1 ro&Chs , l33 568. 47 Somrset Coal )50 71. 10s. 130 e;:ev‘ ash • • •1100 32i. - Do.Lk Fd St 12 I 61. p 1. . c. 290 - tirandJ unctnlloo 51. 7 7 St eil &Wore 140 '2B 51* - grandSurrey , loo , - 35 ShrewsbUrY , . 125 rand Union 100' li. 105. 25 Stotabridge.. 1451 201. 285 ;rantham • •1150 j - - S evern and / 261 11. 8, • 8 4 Kennt & Ant' 391 7s. 6d. 436 Wye Rail. Lee,ls& Liyrplloo, 34/. - Warwick& too 41. - I,eiccster ••••1140; 101. 75 Itirmlng. 1 I l.elcstr &Nth' 831 4/. 36 W arwick& 1 100 31. '. - .oughboroghll42l 701. - Nap ton. • 1 Nlonmouthsh,lool Si. - Worcstr &1 78 21. 39 lintzomrysh 100; - - Itirming. s.leltnMwbry 100; - - W ilts & Brks - 1L 11 LIST OT SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES. 1 Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. ------------ s. d. 4 s. d 1 tank of Scotland British Linen Company Si. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 195 C a l e donian Bank ••.•• 7% per sent. 10 0 0 210 0 41. Os 1 City of Glasgow Bank . 61. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 11% Clydesdale Bank •• • • ••6% per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 125( . Commercial Bank •• • • 71. per cent. 500 0 0 100 0 0 148% Eastern Bank.. ••• . • . 61. per cent. 25 u 0 10 0 6 91.195. Edinb.k Glasgow Bank 61. per cent. 50 0 50 0 5% Exehangellnk 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% North of Scotland Bank 71. per cent. 20 0 0 5 0 0 31.155. 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 8/. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 80 western Bank.. ••• • • • 81. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 67% Aberdeen Fire and Life 121. per cent. 12 10 0 20 0 2% B. Accord. Life and Fire - 20 0 0 011 0 Os Od ilritish Guarantee Ins. - 10 0 0 10098 Od Caledonian Fire Insur. 101. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 21 Church of England Ins. - 50 0 0 2 0 0 2 City of Glasgow Life.. 61 . per cen t. 25 0 0 2 0 0 21. 43 Edinburgh Life Insur. 6/. per cent. 10 10 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 1 1 17 5 0 0 0 11..0d. East of Scotland Life.. - E ll n er g cts B B 10 2 1 0 7 0 6 468 11 6 d clontsUrLaanwceLCiofe. 7 5 1 1 ; P e e r r c ce e n n t t . . 100 0 0 0 Life Assoc. of Scotland 51. per cont. 1 Insur. Co. of Scotlnd.. AI. p er cent. 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 1 0 0 0 0 11 7 68 10 0 0 010 0 43. Od. Mercantile Life . •• •• - National Fire and Life hi. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 2022.20 d N or th British Insur. ••5%1.pr cont. 200 0 0 20 0 0 North & West of Scot. 61. per cent. 2 10 0 0 1 0 0 172.0 d. S co ttish Life and Guar. - 00 0 011 0 ss. Scot. M as. and Gen. Li fe - 10 0 015 0 105.0 d Scottish Union lnarnee. 6%1. pr cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 11. Is St an dard life •••• •• • • 51. per cent. 50 0 0 45 0 S 4 United Dep. Assurance 51. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 128.0 d MISCELLANEOUS. Dividend Amount 1 Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. ---- -.--- . X. s. 4. A. s. d. Australian Agriculturl - 100 0 0, 30 0 0 - Anglo-Mexican Mint.. 11. 4s. 10 0 • 10 0 0 16 Ditto, Half Shares.. - - 3 5. 114 1 p. e p r r. c c e e n n t t .. - 210 0 - , Canada ... • • .... •• •• Uppr Canada Bonds Gt. per cent. 100 0 0 32 10 0 26 % City 80nd5.......... - - 82 l Comp .Cppr linrs Eng. 51. - per cent. 100 0 01 70 0 0 - Gen. Revers. & Invest. sp. c.& 1)1,21 100 0 0 100 0 0 - Equitable Reversionry 51. pr cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 91% GCR.SteamNavigation 11. Bs. 15 00 . 14 0 0 - London Institution ... 10 - - - Peninslr & Orient.Stm. 8/. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 57 Reversionary Int. Soc. 4%1. pr cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 - Royal Mail Steam.... 3%1. pr cent. 100 0 0 60 0 0 „ - - South Australian ... - 11, per share. 25 0 0 ; Van Dieman's Land.. - 100 0 0 23 0 0 - 25 0 0 5 0 0 - Universal Salvage.. • • - Match, 200, h ft. First half of Ab.M. Lord Strathmore's Brocardo, 5 yrs, Bst, received from Mr. Sandford's Isis, 4 yrs, 7st 101 b. Sweepstakes of 10 soya. each; for two yrs old, 6st 71b; three, Bst 71b; four and upwards, 9st; the winner to be sold for 50 sous., if demanded, &c. T.Y.C. Mr. Elwes's Don't say-nay, 2 yrs ... (Dockeray) 1 Sir J. llawley's Banshee, 2 yrs Lord Clifden's Guizot, 2 yrs ... Betting-6 to 5 agst Don't-say-nay. Won by a length. Run in 1 min. 17 secs. The Buckenham Stakes of 300 soya. each, h ft, for two yrs old, colts, Bst 71b; fillies, Bst 41b. T.Y.C. (2 Subs.) Colonel Peel received forfeit from Lord Exeter. After a lapse of fourteen years, the First October of old, one of the best of the Newmarket Meetings, has been extended to four days, with an aggregate of racing that, in more favourable times, would have ensured a great attendance; that it has failed to do so is to be attri buted to the gloom produced, in the first instance, by the badness of the Doncaster settling, and increased by the melancholy termination of the career of a nobleman, who was not less distinguished on the turf than in the Senate. The weather, which was cold and wet, helped to eutralise a list that, in the quantity and character of the sport, has never been approached in a First October Meeting. Further Arrivals — Bo rneo, Ploughb oy,Rochester,The Highland Fling, Hotspur, Tuscan, Lady Mary, an d Traitress. Justice to Ireland arrived on Saturday from Doncaster. ENTRIES FOR WEDNESDAY. Handicap, for two yrs old. T.Y.C. Raillery, Jane Eyre, and Rodney. Handicap. P.M. Wanota, 4 yrs—Moodkee, 4 yrs—Diplomatist, 4 yrs —Contessa, 4 yrs—Hinchinbrook, 3 yrs—Lola Monter., 3 yrs—Due an Durras, 6 yrs, 501. Plate. D.I. Diplomatist, 4 yrs—Tufthunter, 4 yrs--Antelope, 3 yrs—Black Doe, 3 yrs—Swiss Boy, 3 yrs.: NEWMARKET, TUESDAY NIGIIT. Sweepstakes. T.Y.C. Jane Eyre, Bst 71b —Rodney, ast 71b —Raillery, 7st 111 b. D.M. Handicap. Wanota, 4 yrs, Sot 101b—Diplomatist, 4 yrs, Bst 101 b —Due an Dtu'ras, '6 yrs, ist—Lola Monte; 3 yrs, 6st 101b—Moodkee, 4 yrs, Est 101b-13ichinbrook, 3 yrs, 6st 41b—Conteasa, N . yrs, sst 41b. 3,1 A:pc . rIES—WEDNESDAY. St. Rosalia receives . from Second Sight, and 'Miniver from Gretna Green filly. The match between Farthin g ie and Dark Lady is (AI by consent; and that between Retail and the Agnes filly viii not be run. TuEsbAv. BET PING AT MANt:IIISTER. s.-12 to 1 agst Laneste THE CESAREWITCH STAKE . rough (taken) -12 to 1 sgst . Backbiter-12 to 1 4 Bt Surplice-20 to 1 agst Palma (te.k.'en)-20 to 1 agst_P i a c ia (taken) -25 to apt —25 to 1 agst Peep o'Day .3 0 Y paken)- 33 . .0 1 agst Inheritress-33 to 1 agst Tisiph, Poynton. ',--20 to 1, THE CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES. agst Fore closure (taken) -20 to 1 a g st an y o aler. TRIENNIAL STAKES —ll 10 5 tip, % Elth iron (trlen)— 3to 1 agst Tadmor ( token) -5 to 1 a g s t Nina 're TA'TTTRSALL'S, MONDAY.— Erratum --Esceade's price for the Oaks was quoted yesterday, by Eldi!itm,' . (e, at 17 to 1 instead of 7 to 1. u- —' -----,t FATAL TERMINATION TO A WAGER. --Yesterday an inquest was taken by Mr. W. Payne, the City Coroner, in the board room of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, on the body of Edward Henry Robinson, aged 25 years. The 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. He reached the second-floor plat form, when he got into a conversation with a felat low workman, who bet the dece ased a pet of beer thhe would not climb up underneath the ladder with his hands only more than six rounds high. The deceased commenced the wager, but before he completed it his I .iands slipped, and he fell with great violence to the ground, whereby ho received a compound fracture of the left thigh. He was removed to the hospital, where he died on Saturday evening last, epilepsy having super vened. 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 deceased Nobleman in the representation of the town. The Protectionists are anxious to invite Lord John Manners, as being one of the leaders of the party, and as being an intimate friend of Lord George Ben tinck. Mr. G. P. Bidder , the engineer of the Norfolk D RU NKENNESS.—In some parts of the country magistrates are calling upon persons c• —1 of re- line, has been spoken of by a section of the Liberal elec tors. Mr. Baxendale, who was for a long time past ac peated acts of drunkenness to find surety r -ood their b lively associated with Lord G. Bentinck in the Norfolk behaviour, and not providing the bail, ;oa th . tcp , thew Estuary, has also been mentioned as the deceased Noble for a limited period. This can be done, , r a rliaweht passed in the 24th of lor • . ender an Act of 1 ILI m, 'S probable successor. i ds i• SE PTEMBE R 27, 1848. PRICES OF SHARES IN BANKS, ASSURANCE, AND OTHER COM- PANIES' STOCK. From the Official List, PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENLtiG• LONDON. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2G. JOINT-STOCK B.GLNIES. Divideud per Name of Company. Amount of Share. Annum. Name of Company. Albion • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Alliance Zrit. and For. Ditto Marine. • • • • • • Atlas . • • • • • • • British Commercial • • Clericl,Med.& Gen. Life County ....... • • • . • • • Crown •• •• •• •• Eagle .. • ...... • • • • Eng.& Scot. Law •• • • European Life ••• • • • Family Endowmn t Soc. Irreemasone .•• •• •• • • Glaardian .• •• •• •• .• Imperial Fire •• •• •• •• imperial Life • • •• •• •• Indemnity liarine•• •• Law Fire • •• LAW Life •• • • ••• • • • .. Legal and General Life London Fire ........ London Ship ........ Marine • • • • • •• • • • • • • Med. Irrelidilt Gen. Life National Lean Fund.. sational Life• • • • Palladium Lila Pelican .. •• • • • . •• •• l'acenix • • • • otector Life....... Provident Life • Rock Life.. ........ iLoyal Exchange San Fire. • Ditto Life .•... Universal Life Viaoria Life . GAS-LIGHT Name of Company. 25 0 0 100 0 0 .50 0 0 100 0 0 10 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 20 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 40 0 0 BRIDGES Dividend per Annum. 'CE COMP, Dividend per Annum. DOCKS• Dividend per Annum• raid. Z s. d. 40 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 20 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 20 0 0 13 0 0 10 0 0 25 0 0 10 0 0 22 10 0 35 0 0 10 0 0 22 10 0 25 0 0 2 10 0 10 0 0 40 0 0 60 0 0 40 0 0 Paid. X is. d. 50 0 0 11 0 0 5 0 0 5 6 8 5 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 ! 2 12 6 111 ➢Aid. 4 0 0 3 0 0 36 10 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 5 13 1 2 10 0 10 0 0 2 0 0 12 10 0 12 10 0 15 0 0 2 0 0 2 10 0 5 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 10 0 0 0 10 0 9 0 0 4 0 0 FRAN CE. [The following appeared in our Fourth Edition of yebterday]:— The lidependant of the Mouths of the Rhone announces that Prince Louis NAPOLEON had been eleetcd representative in Corsica by an in: rnense majority. M. SAUTETRA, 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 Fretlch man, have never lost the quality of a Frenchrnan, 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.' fhe object of this proposition is obviously to incapacitate or disqualify all the Bonapartes and the Duc de Bordeaux. SICILY. The Scilian 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 he pointed out to thorn by the Executive as the provisional seat of the Administration till the enemies of Sicily .hall have been driven from their city. Any public functionary who should fail to repair t o th e provisional capitt:tl within the 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. r. "4. The present decree applies to all parts of the kingdom e hich may hereafter fall into the hands of the enemy. " 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, Girgenti, 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 1,200 Neapolitans. 1,000 wounded had 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. 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 had 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 bad been pensioners on its funds, and 54,6111. had been distributed in monthly pensions. The finances of many of c oft h h a e rit o y ld i s V u e b re in a scribers very ha ro ving p i sp ne e r r e o as us ed sta t t h e e , 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 babince in hand of 1671. 7s. 7d., and that a balance of 3211. 1 ls. 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 property of the society amounted to 6,8701. Mr. LAWRENCE Tnomrsorr 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." He liLd every confidence in the directors, hut he wanted to know how it was that the lute secretary, who had given security for 500/., sl ould 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. iCbtrb 92tititon NEWMARKET RACES. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) handicap for two yrs old. T.Y.C. Handicap. Raillery ... Wanota Duc an Durres ... Muckikee ... Contess3... Sotterley Dover ... ... walked over ... 1 ... 2 ••• ••• I St. Leger Stakes. ... 3 ... 4 ... 1 ... s MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS. ..-...--_ NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, SEPT. 23. 1546. 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 Diseases of the Skin, &c. ••• ••• ... Malformations... ••• ••• •" ••• Premature Birth ••• ••• •• •• Atrophy ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• Old Ago ••• •.• ••• ••• ..• Sudden ... ••• ••• •• • ••• ••• Violence, Privation , C old, or Intemperance.. Causes not specifie d ... ... ... .., 23 ... 32 ... 43 ... 25 DEATUS FROM •LL CAUSES •• • -- Population linumeraied, 1841 West Districts... 300,711 North D.,tricts.. 375,971 Central Distrizts 373,653 East Districts ... 392,444 South Districts.. 501,190 Totals... ..... 1,948,369 Males ••• Females Average weekly Deaths, 18434. Five Summers. , 142 , 182 , 178 , 219 , 251 1,038 Deaths in the Week. 130 170 198 259 281 972 ••• 1,038 ••• ••• 541 ••• ••• 497 BIRTHS IN THE WEEK. Males ••. Females ... ... 6311 ... 612 Total ... -.1,250 Dov Ea.— On Monday, Mr. William Davison, boatman, better known along the co t a h s e ts of England, i , b sa ' a r jv a nc if dtn c e pt , re( Flanders, dtr reonfrom drowning, n t hel a l g n , d number n f p b e y rsons w c h o o g s n e o lrv e e n s he m by jumping overboard, departed this life. Ills name and exploits were everywhere known, and have been talked of for years, from bis da ring intrepidity in going oft to the shipwrecked mariner s and vessels in distress, and in crossing the Channel with dispatches in perfect hurricanes, %hen no other boat's crew but his own would attempt to launch and put to sea. —Canterbury Journal. TAT SALMON FisimaiEs —The salmon fisheries north of the Tweed closed on Thursday. The fisheries in the Tay have been unproductive and unprofitable to the lessees upon the whole. The takes were pretty fair in Feb ruary, but fell off greatly in March and April. They im proved, and were about an average is May ; but from the beginning of June to the close they have been far under the average of ordinary seasons. At some of the stations they were all but a total failure. The principal circum stance in favour of the tacksmen has been the high price maintained tbroughout the season. This has been with out precedent; and although partially accounted for by the increased demand in the London marketZmust also be taken as a proof of the general unproductiveness of the fishing over the whole comitry. I I