The Sun. — London, England, 1848-09-13 00:00:00

TIIE NEW NOVEL. Nowr ay, at all the Libraries, !n 3 vols., MILDRED VERNON. A TALE OF PARISIAN LIFE, IN THE LAST DAYS OF THE MONARCHY. By HAMILTON MURRAY. " You're not a moral people, and y - eu know it, Without the aid of too sincere a poet."—Byron. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. NEW HISTORICAL ROMANCE. Will be published on 15th September, No. 1., Price Oae,Shilling, of THE KING'S MUSKETEER. An Historical .{omance of Old Parli and the Iluguenots. BY PERCY ,•. ST. JOHN, _ . The " King's Musketeer" will be illustrated in a novel style, and will extend to Twelve Iv-umbers. TAIT'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, pub bliMed Monthly, price Is., the cheapest of the Literary and Po'itical Periodicals. Loudon : Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. Edinburgh : Sutherland and Knox. HIGHLAND DESTITUTION. This day is published, price Sixpence, THIRD REPORT of the EDINBURGH SECTION of the CENTRAL BOARD for the RELIEF of DESTITUTION in the HIGHLANDS and ISLANDS of SCOT LAND, for 1843; containing Documents, ilmstrative of their Relief Operations. Putd s'ied for the Committee, by William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London ; of whom may be had the First and Second Reverts, pr ce Gd. each. IRISH. AMELIORATION SOCIETY, In course of being incorporated by Royal Charter. Capital, 500,0001., in 101. shares. The Right lion. Lord DE MALLEY, Chairman. Major General M'LEOD, Chairman of Committee of Works. Offices, 2, Waterloo-place, and 6, King William-street, City. For the Employ men t o f the Peasantry in the preparation of Feat Fuel and Charcoal (by a simple patented process, the exclusive pro perty of the Society, insuring large profits), and by the removal of the peat rendering the land fit for immediate cultivation. Applicants for Shares will not become liable under any circum stances for more than the amount of Shares they may agree to take, as they will not be required to sign any Deed until the Charter shall have been granted, so limiting their liability, and nothing will be required beyond One Shilling a Share until the first station shall have proved the undertaking successful. JAMES BLAKE, Secretary. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the direction of Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING Will be performed, THE WRECK ASHORE. Miles Bertram, Mr. Boyce ; Grampus, Mr. 0. Smith ; Martnaduke Magog, Mr, Wright ; Alice, Mrs. Yates ; Bella, Miss Woolgar. To be followed by the celebrated Comedy of PAUL PRY. Frank Hardy, Mr. Stoker; Wither;on, Mr. Cullenford ; Somers, Mr. Wor rell ; Colonel Hardy, Mr. Lambert ; Mr. Stanley, Mr. Thomas ; Harry Stanley, Mr. Boyce ; Paul Pry, Mr. Wright ; Grasp, Mr. 0. Smith ; Eliza, Miss M. Taylor ; Mariaff, Miss Emma Iltrding ; Mrs. Subtle, Mrs Yates ; Plicebe, Mis Woolgar. To conclude with the Farce of SHOCKING EVENTS. In which Mr. T.ambert, Mr. Worrell, Mr. Munyard, Miss Harding, and Miss Chaplin will perform. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Under the direction of Mr. Kerschner. Engagement of the Sadler'a Wells Company for Six Nights only, THIS EVENING Will be perfornlikil the Popular Play of THE LADY OF LYONS. Claude AI elnotte, Mr. Phelps; Pauline Deschapelles, Miss Cooper ; supported by the Sadler's Wells Company. After which the admired Drama of NORA El CREINA. To conclude with Nautical Drama of BEN THE BOATSWAIN. Manager and Treasurer, Mr. B. S. Fairbrother. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Last Week but Three of the Season, arrangements having been made for the appearance of the Equestrian portion of the Establishment at Edinburgh. Appearance of M. Plege, th- renowned Tignt-rope Dancer, and of Mr. G. Parish, in his astonishing exercises en the Slack-rope. Triumphant success of the Popular Equestrian Spectacle of Mazeppa, which has been nightly received with enthusiasm. Brilliant career of Lady Godiva. Unparalleled Equestrian Feats. THIS EVENING, Will be performed Lord Byron's Hlppodramatie Spectacle of MAZEPPA; or, The Wild Horse. To be followed by the inimitable EQUESTRIAN and GY3INAS. TIC EXERCISES in the ARENA. To conclude with a Grand Pageant, entitled LADY GODIVA AND PEEPING TOM OF COVENTRY; or, Clearing the Toll. Box-office open from Eleven till Five. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. Attraction unprecedented. LAST FLOWER SHOW of the Season THIS DAY. Third appearance of MISS TOWNSEND. Continuation of MISS SARA FLOWER. The DAYLIGHT VIEW of ROME, by Hanson. Superb and Unique MENAGERIE. grand Display of FIREWORKS, by the Messrs. Southby. No Extra barge. MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, and FRIDAY. View of Rome —Promenade Concerts, Vocal and Instrumental, ea ,, i , leted by 31r. TUT i ON. The splendid bland of Solo Performers Iran es 3lessrs. 11. Collinq, Ciotti, George and Viotti Collins, Richard son, Sec.—Two Solo , will be pertormed each Evening by Artists of Eminence. - Several favourite Songs and a I .uet by Miss Sara Flower and Miss Townsend—The Programme will contain a choice selection of popular Quadrilles and Waltzes —Also to he seen, .luring the day, the beautiful enagerie—Shakspere's House—The Magic Bridge— and other novelties will be exhibited, the whole concluding with a most magnificent and not to be rivalled display of Fireworks, which elicited such rapturous app ro b at i on on t h e occas i on o f M . Jull i ews Benefit, by the Messrs. Southhy Gates open at Ten A.m.. Feeding Time Five—Concert at Half-past Five—Fireworks at Half-past Eight The Last Grand Flower Show of the Season will take place THIS DAY, September 13, on a Scale of most extraordinary magniAcence for the exhibition of Dahlias, &c. Admission: as usual, One Shilling. THE WEATLIER.—SON OFFICE, SEPTEMBER 13. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 40, Highest, 54; Noon, 55 BAROMETER, 30.36. WIND S.W.; fine sunshiny weather. lIIGII WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning .. 50 min. after 1 1 Evening .. 10 min. after 2 fd e r )• o.t l j .. .., :7 , ~,,,, ctu, ISM , '.. ...,, k,c:' , ~, P , ik .. : 0- t. 5,914 -, . -:>`• - ''l .>, ..; ' C 4 - , :, ' s,,' 4 " - t hi E u , 4i , i 41. •3! 0 .4 s ~ -1,i,7.) 1 , , , :-.A - • ~, , .: 14 41/4.1.14,e: (SA • - LONDON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTMIBER 13, 1844 Among the many evils resulting from the Cacoethet Loquendi with which certain Members of the House of Commons were afflicted during the course of the past session, one, and that not the least in importance, has been the forced postponement of many measures, the immediate passing of IN hich was absolutely neces sary for the redress of crying grievances, or for the protection of the liberty of the subject. First in im portance among these is a measure for amending the law of lunacy, and we had hoped that even if it had been found impossible to pass such a law during the last session, we should at least have had an inquiry before a Select Committee into the working of the present law, so as have had some data on which to found a measure for the amendment of the law, during the course of the ensuing session. The ne cessity for the immediate institution of such an in quiry is becoming every day more apparent ; and it is also abundantly evident that nothing short of a Parliamentary inquiry will be sufficient. No redress is to be expected from the Executive. The decision of Lord DEN MAN in Mrs. SIIETTLEWORTU'S case is, so fir as alleged lunatics are concerned, a virtual re- pe:il, not only of the law of Habeas Corpus, but of the safevuards (weak enough in all conscience) which the Act of 8 and 9 Victoria, cap, 100, throws around the unfortunate per-on who is incarcerated on a charge of insanity, and leaves all such entirely at the mercy of the Commissioners. Any at tempt to procure an inquiry into the conduct of the Commissioners by application to the Home office, or to the Chancellor, is worse than useless. The Commissioners are looked upon as part and parcel of the system of bureaucracy, of which the Home Secretary is the chief, and therefore he covers them with his official shield, and, however strong may be the case made out against thein,`to the Home Secretary, " there does not appear to be the slightest ground of complaint." Such was the answer of Sir G. GREY to an application drawing his attention to a case in which, to use the words of the secretary of the Alleged Itamatics' Friend Society, who made the application, " the law has been plainly and confessedly violated," and one of her Majesty's subjects has been unjustlyand illegally deprived of his liberty for eighteen months. The case, which is an admirable illustration of the working of the certificate system, and of the systematic manner in which mad house keepers and their medical satellites habitually break the provisions of the law, and of the slovenly and careless way in which the duty of inspection is performed by the Commissioners, is as follows :—ln the month of November, 1846, a gentleman applied to the superintendent of a lunatic asylum in the country to take his uncle (who resided in the neighbourhood, of London) and have him confined as a patient. The in gentleman gave th e su p er i n t en d en t an or d er , fill e d up the usual form on such occasicns, in which it is stated, ,, agreeably to th e sc h e d u l e o f t h e A ct Bt h an d 9th v ICTORIA cap. WO, that there were no special c i rcumstances preventing the patient being p examined s before admission ara!e/y by t wo me di ca l practi tioners. The superintendent,eP ing this stat ement, Which ho wever, notw i thstand _ appears on th e face of the order, s , :rit on th e same day, with ou t havin had any medical certifi cate whateve r g lodgings of the a ll ege d lunaticver I g a keeper t o th e hood neighbour hood of London, w h o seized ' the by force, and in spite o f t h e aatalrleg e d l unat i c al es of hi s n u 3mt thein the friends, conveyed him to the lunatremi c ons country. This was done, it was alleged, a stance of the gentleman who give th e or d er, in which n under his own hand, he solemnly declared, that "there, were no special circumstances preventing, the patient being examined before admission by two medical prac titioners." Arrived at the asylum in the country, he was examined by one medical practitioner, and shut up for the night. The next morning he was examined in the asylum by another country medical practitioner. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 13, lBlB. the alleged lunatic was set at liberty, and now re sides in private lodgings. Here then was a case in which the law was violated, and in which the party aggrieved had no opportunity of appealing to any authority until ten months after his incarceration--in which the Commissioners, notwithstanding such vio lation of the law, continued him in custody, although they themselves admitted that he was not insane, and in which they neglected to take the evidence which the alleged lunatic offered to prove that he was of sound mind, taut in which superintendent, Commis sioners, and all concerned, released the alleged lu natic from his confinement the moment they found a stir was made about the case, and thus tacitly admitted that they had been guilty of neglect and carelessness at least, if nothing worse. The representation of the case, as made to Sir GEORGE GREY, conveyed a dis tinct charge of laches against the Commissioners in Lunacy, and yet so completely is the Home Secretary blinded by the, heaureaucratic spirit which impels every official to keep the public from prying too closely into official secrets, that he directs his secretary, Mr. WADDINGTON, to inform the committee of the Alleged Lunatics' Friend Society " that there does not appear to be the slightest ground for complaint in this case." It is as useless to complain to the Home office of the Commissioners of Lunacy as it was under the GRAHAM regime to complain of the Poor- law Commissioners, and as a Parliamentary inquiry into the conduct of the Poor-law Commissioners brought to light abuses of so flagrant a nature as to necessitate the sacrifice of the Commission, so do we believe a Parliamentary inquiry into the conduct of the Commissioners in Lunacy would be followed by a similar result. In prosecuting their inquiries as to the best means of promoting the dispatch of public business in the House of Commons, the Select Committee appointed for that purpose entered into a minute investigation of the mode adopted in the French Assembly and in the American House of Representatives. Their in formation on these heads was obtained from the highest sources, M. GUIZOT being their informant as related to France, and Mr. CURTIS, of New York, who had been some years a member of Con greys, answering for America. The com parison thus instituted between the three Houses of Legislature tends to exhibit in a great degree the admirable qualities of our own. The English House of Commons was the type of both the French and American Chambers. "In the be ginning of our Constituent Assembly at the Revolu tion," said M. Guizor, " MIRABEAU asked ETIENNE DUMONT to give him a sketch of the proceedings of the English House of Commons, and ETIENNE DU MONT gave to MIRABEAU such a sketch ; it became the model of the first rules of our National Assembly ; so that in the beginning of our Revolution the pro ceedings of your House of Commons became the source of ours. In 1814, when the Charter was granted by the KING, the same rules were adopted, with some changes." In the same manner Mr. CURTIS says, " The rules and orders of the House of Representatives at the establishment of the Government in 1789 were nearly the same as those of the House of Commons. They have been since considerably varied, chiefly from the necessity of facilitating the dispatch of public business." Thee it appears that the general organization of the British House of Commons has been adopted in the Assem blies of France and America, while in both these countries some practical alterations have been made for the purpose of facilitating the dispatch of business. Being likewise anxious to promote this very desirable olject, the Committee of Inquiry proceeded to con sider these alterations, in the hope that the English [louse of Commons might, in its turn, be benefited by the « , xample of France and America. The prin cipal points of consideration were the practice of closing a debate (La cloture) which exists in France, and the " One-hour rule," which cuts short the speeches of the orators of America. The &lure is thus described by M. GUIZOT 6 , I t w as not in the first rules of the Constituent As sembly, but it was introduced afterwards. Before it was introduced the debates were protracted indefinitely, and not only were the debates protracted, but at the e rri, when the msj , irity wished to put an end to the de bate, and the minority would not, the debate became very violent for protracting the debate; and out of the lieuse, among the public, it was a source of ridicule. Many laughed at the debates, and then a measure for demanding the closing of the debate was introduced. Die proceeding is this—a Member, or some Members, call 'La citture,' the President puts it to the vote, and if a nanber in the minority wishes to object to it, to oppose the closing of the debate, he can speak if he wishes, but only one can speak. Lie gives his argument against closing the debate, and the House hears his argu ment, and then the Speaker puts this question—' Must the debate be closed? " In answer to questions from various Members of the Committee, and a very apposite case exemplified by Sir H. PEEL, M. GUIZOT still further developed the practical effects of the cloture. He also declared it as his opinion that the power had never been made use of to put a stop to!liscussion in an oppressive manner. " Upon some special occasions," he ad• mitted, "the minority have complained that the debate was closed; but generally, when the question has been decided in the affirmative, the minority have submitted without difficulty. I think the majority never abused that power." So thinks M. GUIZOT, and so it may be in fact; yet, not withstanding such a supposition, we think it would be advisable to pause before any such arbitrary regulation is introduced entire into the house of Commons. In the House of Commons freedom of speech, with a facility to ex- ercise that freedom, is not only a desideratum, but a necessity. It is true that long and dry discourses are most wearisome, and that some speakers appeal rather to the dormant than to the intellectual &cut- ties, as is evidenced by the empty benches around them and the crowded sofas above. Still, tedious as some speeches may be, it is better, infinitely better, that the public time should be occasionally wasted, and weary legislators indulged with a doze at the public expense, than that by an untimely use of the clOture a debate should be put an end to ere the subj ect h as been half discussed, and some praiseworthy measure be stifled in its birth. Better let us be annoyed by all the abuses attending a free dom discussion than suffer that freedom to be in any the slightest degree interfered with: The They each gave a certificate authorising his incarce ration as a lunatic, and each alleged as the fact on which he had formed his opinion, that the patient had threatened to destroy himself whilst under the influence of intoxicating drinks. Now, as neither of these gentle men had ever seen or had the slightest personal acquaintance with the alleged lunatic, until after his incarceration in the asylum, and as it is not very pro bable that while so incarcerated he was permitted to have access to intoxicating drinks, we presume they must, after the manner of Sir JCHIN FALSTAFF, have known " the fact" " by instinct.' The alleged lunatic remained incarcerated in the asylum for ten months before he was visited by the Commissioners in Lunacy. When introduced to them he informed them of the illegality of his seizure, and complained of the injustice of his confinement; and on his appealing to the superintendent, that gen tleman declared, in the presence of the Commis sioners, that he had never seen the least symptom of insanity in the alleged lunatic since he had been in the asylum. The Commissioners told him, on going away, that they would do something for him shortly. Two months after this he had another visit from the Commissioners, who informed him that there was no charge of in sanity against him, but that he must remain where he was, as he was incapable of taking care of him self—but stated no fact in support of such opinicm. The alleged lunatic at once emphatically denied the justice of the conclusion at which they had arrived, and for proof of his competency to take care of him self, referred them to several of his relatives, to the lady at whose house he was lodging when he was seized, to his usual medical attendant, and to a person at whose house he had lodged for nearly 20 years, Shortly afterwards he communicated a statement of his case to the Alleged Lunatics' Friend Society. The Secretary called on the persons to whom the alleged lunatic had referred the Commissioners (not one of whom, however, had ever received the slightest com munication from the Commissioners), who fully bore out all the statements made by the alleged lunatic to the society. The committee of the society applied to a well-known nobleman, who is as remarkable for his humanity as he is for his high scientific attainments, and who is a magistrate for the county in which the asylum is situated, and in a short time same, or a very similar argument applies to the American " One-hour rule." Mr. CURTIS speaks highly in its favour ; he says it has greatly facilitated the dispatch of business and improved the quality of the speeches. This rule would be most unwelcome, and little beneficial in St. Stephen's. It is true it would materially condense Mr. ArsTay's indignant denunciations of Lord PALMERSTON, hut also it would disagreeably put a stop to those displays of eloquence of which the House of Commons is oc casionally the theatre. Who would not lament were the oratorical displays of Mr. MACAULAY (though unhappily the rule would not now apply to him), were the fervid eloquence of Mr. SUEIL, the brilliant sallies of Mr. DISRAELI, or the statesmanlike orations of Lord JouN RUSSELL and Sir ROBERT PEEL con fined to sixty minutes by the clock I The Committee has done well in recommending neither the American nor the French mode of shortening a debate. With all its faults, the original system of the House of Commons is superior to those of its imitators. Its faults are those of its individual Members—faults of which, we trust, last session has seen the last display. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the Paris papers of yesterday. In consequence of the vote of the Assembly on Monday, on the subject of the laws relating to the press, M. EMILE DE GIRARDIN has retired from the editorship of the Presse, and intends if elected to carry on war against the Republic from the tribune. In speaking of the vote of the Assembly, M. DE GIRAR DIN says, " The bearing of this vote is immense. The authority of the chief of the executive power is now unlimited. The liberty of the press has ceased to exist in France." It would appear from the electioneering pla cards with which the walls of Paris are covered, that M. Emma DE GIRARDIN has formed a coalition with Prince, Louis NAPOLEON and with M. EMILE THOMAS, ex-DirEctor of the Ateliers Nationaux. This union, representing as it does military despotism, socialism, and Or leanism, is not so strange as at first sight it appears. They are all united by their hatred to the Republic of order, equality, and obedience to the law. M. DUPOTY, who under the Louis Phillipist regime was imprisoned at Mont St. Michel, by order of the Chamber of Peers for " moral complicity" in the plot of QUENESSET is also a candidate. The case of DUPOTY was the first in which M. HEBERT ventured to propound his atrocious doctrine of moral complicity. It would appear as if the union between the Thiers party and the Government had not been effected, inasmuch as we find in the Constitutionnel a bitter attack on the appointment of M. PASCAL DUPRAT as Minister to Vienna. The success of Prince Louis NAPOLEON at the ap proaching election for Paris seems certain, and some persons are so sanguine as to imagine that his chance of being elected President of the Republic is by no means a bad one. Should, however, such an election appear probable, it would rally round the Government all Republicans of every variety of opinion. In- deed, it is. said that M. FLOCON intends to propose a law fur the exclusion from the Assembly of all the members of all the families which have ever reigned in France. The passing of such a law would at once crush the hopes of all pretenders. The debate of the Constitution was yesterday con tinued, and the Bth article of the preamble was agreed to. A Bill demanding five millions of francs for the colonization of Algeria was introduced by General LAMORICIERE. TheMoniieur publishes the following official con tradictio❑ of the report which appeared in some of the papers of the speech alleged to have been addressed by General CAVAIGNAC to the decores of June on the subject of French mediation in the affairs of Italy : "Numerous conversations, and often strangely incor rect, are ascribed to the President of the Council. But till now it has not appeared that the questions treated were sufficiently grave to require rectification. It is impossible, however, to leave without reply articles of newspapers, from which it results that the Anglo-French mediation had been imposed on Austria. Such allega tions, calculated to affect the just sentiment of the dig nity of governments, must be energetically rejected. The Government of the Republic has only had to em ploy wise, firm, and measured considerations in the Italian question. The character of menace remained as far from its thoughts as from its language. It was in compatible with ihe nature of its relations with the Austrian Government." Count I'ExELI arrived in Paris on Monday on a mission from the Hungarian Government, and was at once received by General CAVAIGNAIC. The Committee on Legislation has adopted the pro position of ➢I. Louis BLANC, the object of which is to interdict the publication of acte4 craccumlion in the newspapers before the day of trial. BOURSE.—PARIS, MONDAY, SIPT. 12. THREE O'CLOCK.—There was very little business done to-day, and both Rentes and Railway Shares were ex ceedingly heavy. The Rentes went down towards the close of the day, and their last prices were about per cent. below those of yesterday. There was, on the whole, an uneasy feeling, both as regards the internal affairs of France, as shown by the approaching elections, and the state of Italy and Germany. For the Account, the French Three per Cents. are the same as yesterday ; Five per Cents. have fallen per cent. ; Loan has fallen 50c. For Money, the Three per Cents, are about the same as yesterday ; Five per Cents. have fallen 25c. ; Loan has fallen 25c. ; Bons du Ti Cur not quoted; Bank of France Shares are the same as yesterday ; Belgian Bank Shares and Spanish Active not quoted ; Rothc child's Receipts are the same as yesterday. Exchange on London: 30 days, 25f. 35c.; 90 days, 25f. 27ic. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, SEPT.. 12. Boulogne and Amiens, 6—Orleans and Bordeaux, 134 — Paris and Lyons, 4 lA. TUSCANY. The demands of the insurgents at Leghorn are— "l. A re-organization of the National Guard and arming the reserve of the same. " 2. - That the fortresses should be garrisoned by two birds of the Naional Guard and one-third troops of the "3. The abrozation of the extraordinary powers granted by the Chambers to the Government. " 4. A general amnesty, or rather oblivion of the past.' VENICE. A letter from Venice of the Ist inst. has the fol owing : " Our Government has received intelligence that the Pope is about to recal his troops. If that should take place and we are left to our own resources, it will be impossible for us to defend all our positions on the land side. Happily for the last few days the Austrians have left us unmolested, sad they have even decreased the number of troops which blockade our city, " The Sardinian fleet is still in the port, and as long as the sea remains open we can receive provisions, which tends to k ep up our courage, since it appears certain, that no intervention on the part of France will take place. God grant that the offer of mediation may prevent any renewal of hostilities, and that the cora munication with the continemt may be open to us." HAMI3URGH MAIL. BERLIN, SEPT. B.—Z he Ministerial crisis has had a very unfavourable influence upon the funds and rail. way shares. VIENNA, SEPT. 7.—The exchanges closed flat, from an impression, it is said, that a new loan has been de cided upon. - 11A3IBURGII lIORSENHALLE, San. 9. Bills. Money. Hanoverian Loan,s per Cent...... •• • • 99 98% kuiltrian 5 per Cents ................ Bank Anglo-Russian Loan ............... 95 94 Russian 5 percent., 'lamb. Certificate. 90% Ditto let series Inscription .. . ... ••• • • • Ditto, ?lope and Co., 5 per Cent..... • • Ditto, in Certificate •. • ..........• .. • • 863 New 4 per Cent., Hope and Co. ••• • • • Ditto Stleglitz .. . ........ ••••• • • • • Spanish New 5 per Cent.......... • ... 7% Ditto 3 per Cent .•••••...• • • • • • • • • I 7 S Swedish Loan, 4 per Cent. • ....... •• • • Ditto, for 1845 .......... ••.• • . • Anglo-Portuguese Loan, 236 per Cent • • Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent ••• • • Ditto 3 per Cent. •••...••• • • • • • • • Polish New 4 per Cent. Loan, 1844.. • • Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent ••• • • • 67 611 % National Bank Shares.... .. ••••• • • • • • — THE NEW RAILWAY DISTANCE SIGNAL. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sls,—The new signal described in this day's San, and said to be Mr. Stovin's, and fitted up by Messrs. Stevens and Sons, is " my invention," and this sig nal was di s played at the M a r qu i s of Northampton 's Conversazione, two winters ago !! ! And, like my other signals, have been gradually adopted by all the rail ways, not only in Britain, but on the Continent, and I have never yet received one farthing of value from one or other of the railway companies. Do have the kindness, then, to allow me the credit of the invention, at least, as an act of justice, and oblige Your obedient servant, the inventor, R. RETTIE, C.E. We understand it is intended that the marriage of , Lord Burghley, eldest son of the Marquis of Exeter, with Lady Georgians Pakenham, daughter of the Countess (Dowager) of Longford, and sister of the present Earl, shall be solemnized in the early part of next month. ACCOUCUEMENT OF THE EMPRESS OF BRAZIL.-- Her Majesty the Empress of Brazil was safely deli vered of a son and heir to the throne on the 19th of July last. TIIS CONDE DE MONTEMOLIN.—The Conde de Menternolin and H.R.H. the Infante Don Fernando Joseph, accompanied by the Duke of Medina Sidonia, lilt town early yesterday morning for Alton Towers, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Shrewsbury, where the august Princes met a large and distinguished party, comprising the Duchess of Inverness, Viscount and Viscountess Villiers, Viscount and Viscountess Mahon, Count Ludolf, Lord and Lady Lyndhurst and Misa Copley, Lady Rolle, Lord and Lady Waterpark, Lady Margaret and Mr. Littleton, Sir Robert and Lady Peel, Lady Acton, Sir Robert and Lady Throckinorton, &c. Many of her guests are expected at the Tower► before the close of the week. The Princes Grassalkovich, accompanied by the Countess Murray, returned yesterday to Mivart's Hotel, from visiting Lord and Lady Brougham, at their beau tiful s, at in Cumberland. WINDSOR, TUESDAY EVENING. THE STATE APARTMENTS.—The opening of the new line of railway to Dstchet continues to materially increase the number of visitors to the state apartments. Ever since the opening of the new line the applicants per day have averaged upwards of tour or five hundred, and to-day the first train brought down nearly seven hundred, and every successive train throughout the forenoon added something to their number, until the lower ward of the Castle, the North terrace, &e., were crowded like a fair, with men, women, and children, each party furnished ' With its basket of provisions. On the 4th the National Guards of Pisa and the adjacent country were marching towards Leghorn, but it was feared that all the forces that could be mustered would not be sufficient to quell the insur rection, and there was a talk of soliciting CHARLES ALBERT to send 6,000 men. It was also proposed to demand from France to lend to. Tuscany for a year the foreign legion of Algeria. A demand has been made to the Consuls of En gland, France, and America, to order the crews of their vessels, which were in the port, to land, but hitherto it has been refused ; the town is, however, threatened with pillage, and the Tuscan Government has declared that, for the present, it is not in a state to protect foreign property. The Chambers assembled on the ad at Florence, in Secret Committee, when these propositions were sub mitted to their corsideration :—One from M. GUE.• RAZZI was to send Commissioners to Leghorn to treat with the insurgents, and while this was being dis cussed a telegraphic dispatch arrived from Leghorn demanding, on the part of the insurrection, that GusaAzzi should be sent to treat with them, with full power from the GRAND DUKE and the Chambers. The proposition was unanimously rejected, as it was considered that to treat with insurgents was to abdi cate power. Florence is tranquil, but the events which are passing at Leghorn cause a certain degree of un easiness. Letters from Leghorn of the sth inst. state that on the preceding day General TORRES, who had con- stituted himself Commander of the popular forces in that city, had signed the following convention with COSTA-REGIIINI, Colonel of the Tuscan troops, and Commander of the fort of the Porta-Murata : " This day, the 4th of September, 1848, the city of Leghorn being in possession of the people, and the fort of Porta-Murata in the power of the troops, wishing on any terms to avoid a second effusion of Tuscan blood by fraternal hands, the following arrangement has been concluded:-Ist. Good harmony shall be entirely re-established between the people and the troops. For that purpose the troops of the line or the army of the Grand Duke of Tuscany shall immediately re-enter the city. No troops shall remain to guard the fort, but the artillery, consisting of the same number of men as are there at present. 2d. The troops of the line shall be replaced in the fort by one hundred men of the Civic Guard and by one hundred Polish refugees composing the guard of General Torres. 3d. There shall not be any change made in the institutions of the country, conformable to the wishes of the fairthful and wrong city of Leghorn. 4th. It is understood that the troops shall remain under the command of their officers. sth. The military posts in the city shall be guarded by the Civic Guards, the reserve, and the troops of the line, without distinction." The Genoa Gazette, of the Gth inst., contains the following, dated Leghorn, 4th : " The palace of the Governor has been abandoned, and the people are sole masters of the city. As the absence of a centre of action might be the occasion of disorder, the inhabitants appointed in the evening, before the Towa hall, a Committee to watch over public security, until the return of the deputation sent to Florence. The Commissioners chosen were Messrs. C. Venzi, A. Petrarchi, G. La Cecilia, R. Roberti, and A. Sgaral lino. The latter, who had returned from the country two days before, declined accepting for some private motives. The Committee immediately published a letter from the deputies, stating that they had been obliged to wait several hours at Pisa for the departure of the train, and requesting their fellow-citizens not to be uneasy if their return was delayed. In the meantime, they had, they said, thought proper to expose the real situ ation of affairs to the Governor of Pisa, requesting him to retard the departure of the troops which might be sent against Leghorn, and that that functionary had acquiesced in their demand. The Committee afterwards took measures to compel the bakers to furnish the regu lar quantity of bread, to procure guns and bail car tridges, and to provide quarters and food for the soldiers of the legions intended for Venice. The inhabitants were forbidden to quit the city. The Commission, however, gave :regular permissions to certain persons whose presence was not indispensable. It subse quently held a conference with the superior military au thorities, at which Colonel Bernardi, the Commander of the Civic Guard, Commander Tonum, and the Com mander of the. Artillery, Ponticelli, were present. It was agreed by common accord, that a proclamation should be published, announcing the evacuation of the forts by the troops and their return to their respec. tive barracks. The night has passed tranvilly, the people guarded the barricades with the greatest vigilance. Sixty soldiers were set at liberty this morning, who were imprisoned for having refused to fire on the people; many of them have refused to return to their regiments. The announcement that 400 soldiers, with some pieces of artillery, had arrived from Pisa caused some excitement. It appears that General Torres had consented to take the command of the armed citizens in case any collision should ensue. The Commission, which was to have waited the retur❑ of the deputies, dissolved itself this morning, in conse quence of General Torres having invested himself with the supreme authority." SPAIN. Madrid journals of the 7th have arrived. General CORDOVA on that day left Madrid for Cata lonia. Great apprehensions are entertained of an out break at Seville, and of an attack on the Duke of MONT." PENSIER on the occasion of the christening of his infant child at the cathedral. The DUKE has ren dered himself exceedingly unpopular by his refusal to intercede for a commutation of the sentence of transportation to the Phillippines arbitrarily passed on certain political prisoners by NAaysEz, Without giving them a trial. CABRERA is at Vedra—Boctuisis's column is at Ripoli, and a Carlist conspiracy has been discovered in Gallicia. The Maestrasgo is completely in pos session of the Carlist bands. 111Anam BOLSA, SEPT. 7.—Three per Cents. are quoted 19/ buyers, 1 sellers; Coupons, 7 sellers • Passive Debt, 3, buyers, 1 sellers; Bank Shares, 50 sellers ; Discount on Notes, 31; Exchange on Lon don, 48. SWITZERLAND. Letters from Berne, in the Allexmeine Zeitung, in. form us that on the 3d instant the Diet assembled for the purpose of declaring the acceptance of the Federal Constitution. It appears that 15} cantons, with a population of 1,899,517, voted in its favour, against 5} can tons, with a population of 177,656 souls, which were opposed to it. Tessino, with a population of 113,923 souls, has not yet voted on the question. The appointment and investiture of the State func tionaries will take place in Berne in the course of the autumn. The National Council will consist of 111 Members thus distributed amongst the various cantons, viz. :—Berne, 20 ; Zurich 12 ; Lucerne, 6 ; Uri, 1 ; Schwyz, 2 ; the Upper Valais, 1 ; Lower Valais, 1 ; Glaris, 1 ; Zug, 1 ; Friburg, 5; Soleure, 3 ; Basle (city), 1 ; Basle (canton), 2 ; Schaffhausen, 2 ; Appenzell on the Rhine, 2 ; Appenzell beyond the Rhine, 1 ; St. Gall, 8 ; the Grisons, 9 ; Argau, 9; Thurgau, 4 ; Tessino, 6 ; Valais, 4 ; Neufchatel, 3 ; Geneva, 3 ; and Vaud, 9. BANKRUPTCY.—(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Commissioner lionnoYD.) IN RE FRY AND CHAPMAN. A dividend meeting was held under the estate of these bankrupts, who were bankers in St. Mildred's-court, Poultry. There is about 4,0001. available for a further dividend, which will be officially declared in a few days. Fr/M.—Last night between eleven and twelve o'clock, a fire broke out at the house of Mr. Fortescue, baker, Charles-street, Middlesex Hospital. The fire was discovered by the inmates by the smell of smoke, and they got out of the house. The engines from Wells-street and King-street were promptly on the spot, and the fire was extinguished, but not before considerable (Image had been done in the kitchen, which was com pletely gutted, and the kitchen-stairs destroyed. The fire is supposed to have been occasioned by a spark from cradle fslling upon sous linen. GERMANY AND THE NORTHERN STATES. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, SEPT. Z.—The question of the EaleE anit's right of sanction had a most favourable result in the Assembly this day ; it was adopted by ac clamation without being put to the vote. Yesterday the deputation of the Hungarian Diet, consisting of 200 Members, arrived here to request a decisive and definite answer is regard to the policy which the Austrian Government intend to pursue in respect to Hungary and Croatia. The deputation will wait upon the EMPEROR to-morrow to demand from him in person the answer to this important ques tion. The EMPEROR has fixed an audience to five of the members of the deputation. The Hungarian Ministry, which has been rendered more feeble every day by Kossuru's politics, is now on the eve of its certain dissolution. Prince ESTER* lIAZY has already sent in his resignation, and the other Ministers intend to follow his example. The defeat of the Hungarians at the Roman en campments has been officially confirmed. On the other hand, it is also officially announced that the Hungarians, under Colonel Kisz, took the enemy's position at Perlas on the 2d of September. The Berliner Zlachrichten contains the following answer from the Minister WESSENIIERG, in reply to the late French note, brought by the French Envoy de la Cour, relative to the Italian question : " Austria has been all alongiready to acknowledge the mediation of England and France in the Italian question, but as the recent events in Italy materially changed the basis of the negotiations, and Austria is about to negotiate a separate treaty of peace with the King of SARDINIA, it is nevertheless disposed to receive the mediation of France in all the negotia tions for the pacification of Italy." The French envoy has sent this satisfying reply of the Austrian Cabinet by a courier to Paris. The Emperor NicuoLAs has declared that as soon as the French cross the Alps he will send an army of 200,000 men against them. PRUSSIA. The Ministers sent in their resignations to the KING on th Bth, but his MAJESTY did not formally accept them, The KING, however, had sent for M, BECKERITH, and had, it was said, commissioned him to form a new Ministry. FRANKFORT. Various private letters from Frankfort agree in the opinion that from the present feeling of the Deputies, we may confidently expect that at their next delibe ration (on the 11th) on the armistice, they will agree to its ratification. Our correspondent gives the following as the con stitution of the new Ministry :—Dahlmann, without portefeuille ; Warm, Foreign Affairs ; Von Mayern, War ; Von Hermann, Commerce ; H. Simon (of Breslau), Justice; and Compes, Finance. SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN. The infantry of the Hamburgh contingent re turned to-day to Hamburgh from Schleswig. The Schleswig-Holstein Assembly has sent a very detailed remonstrance to the armistice concluded be tween Denmark and Germany, to the National Par liament at Frankfort. BERLIN, SEPT. B.—The Assembly had a short sitting early this morning for hearing the protocol, and a letter from the President AUEESWALD an nouncing the intended resignation of the Ministers to his MAJESTY, and the necessary prorogation of the Parliament till Monday next.—Hamburgh Bonen halle, Sept. 9. RUSSIA. The Augsburg Gazette, alluding to the rumours cir culated by several continental papers of a fresh mili tary conspiracy in St. Petersburgh and Warsaw, posi tively denies their authenticity on the authority of direct communications from Russia. There is not a trace of anything like conspiracy. On the contrary, in asmuch as any revolution in that empire must ne cessarily originate with the higher classes of society, the movement would in all probability be rather op. posed to, than in favour of, the new ideas of the day. The very endeavours of the CZAR to ameliorate the social condition of the lower orders, especially the serfs, are a source of great dissatisfaction to the aristocracy. :‘ ITALY. SICILY. The following is the latest intelligence from the seat of war in Sicily : Extract of a letter from Messina, of the 2d inst.:--- " The accounts which reached Naples from Sicily on the 30th ult. caused the greatest agitation. It was an nounced that in Palermo the Provisional Government presided over by Ruggiero Settimo had been over thrown; that a Republican Government had been estab lished in its place; and that several provinces in the island, which were opposed to Republican ideas, were looking forward anxiously to the arrival of the expedi tion which was fitting : out at Naples. On the evening of the 30th ult.' the expedition, which consisted of 10 steamers and a frigate, having on board 3,500 men, left Naples, and reached Reggio on the following day, where several regiments were prepared to embark. Two steamers commenced to carry troops to reinforce the citadel of Messina, where there are now about 10,000 men. "The city of Messina presents a very formidable aspect in appearance; the defence will, doubtless, be very reso lute, but the result of the struggle cannot be doubtful. All the houses in the town are completely dismantled, all the furniture having been sent into the country, and only a few mattresses left to shelter those who fire from the windows. The streets are completely unpaved and covered with bsrrieades; men of all classes, priests, monks, and children work at them night and day, but they have none to direct there, no professors of the science, and these ill-constructed ramparts cannot long resist an attack of cannon. The combat will be fierce and sanguinary; but the Sicilians, although determined to fight to the last gasp, have no chiefs, their arms are bad, and their forts are ill placed and badly defended; their only weapons, indeed, are their courage and their deadly hatred of the Neapolitans. Reinforcements have arrived from Palermo, but in small numbers. " SEPT. 3, SEVEN A.3l.—The fire has been oponed for the last hour on both sides, the citadel bombards the town, and the town replies with energy ; its firing is good, but almost all the shells burst in the air. The steamers from Reggio, bringing fresh stores and troops, have just arrived. The troops will be landed at a spot about six or seven miles distant from the town, while the forts continue to tire on it. Another landing will be effected on the eastern side, so that Messina will be placed between three fires, and nothing but a short though desperate resistance can be expected, unless the heroism of the inhabitants effect a miracle. "The ships anchored in the roadstead have been obliged to haul off to a greater distance, as the shots were fall ing in amongst them. The French frigate Psyche left ih a no b s o tph u ie t ta a rloi w tayd e s ek since for the Adriatic, but her pl ace h as been supp li ed by the Panama for the protection of French su bj ects, and to form an asy l um for those Sicilian women and child ren w h o ma y re quire it. Th e same has been offered by the ships of all nation s "HALF -PAST SEVEN.—For the last half-hour the firing from the town has somewhat slackened, while that of the fort has become brisker. No intelligence has yet reached the town of the landing of the royal troops." The Constztutionnel, in a postscript to a private letter, says— "At the moment of the departure of the French packet-boat the combat was very desperate, particularly on the part of the Swiss troops, but the Sicilians every where had the advantage. " The people bad attacked the citadel, and bad de stroyed a part of the fortress, which was protected by forty pieces of cannon. The Sicilians, in order to carry a redoubt, had waded up to their waists in the water. " All Sicily was marching to a man to defend their national independence. " The people have everywhere displayed the most extraordinary bravery; the youngest children have emulated their elders in the most daring feats of heroism. " On the app roac h of the Neapolitan squadron. Rug giero Settlmo published a proclamation to the Sicilians calling on them to stand firm in the defence of their liberties, and h o ldi ng out to them the strongest h opes that a few h ours would show them the fut i l i ty o f every attempt on the p art of their tyrants, them." any longer to enslave The Marseilles Nouvellistc says-- which had " While w e are writing these lines, the Tancrede post-office steamer, w hi c h has arrived with the Levant mail, bri ngs us letters which confirm comp l ete l y those following note h as b een sent to us: — " `The command er of the p•ist-office steamer Tan crede, which arrived this morning from Malta and Italy, declares that on the 3d current, at seven in the morning, twenty gun-boats, forming part of the Naples squdron, as wall us th e citadel, co mme nced firing on the town of Messina. A first disembarkation took place without success, and at the moment of his departure (half past five) the advantage was on the side of the town, which had silenced the gun-boats as well as two baltions of the Neapolitan citadel.' The Foreign Securities continue as dull as ever. Spanish Three per Cents. have receded to 22i, and the Five per Cents. to Il,}. Portuguese Four per Cents. are nominally 21 to 22, Brazilian 74 to 76, and Mexican 16i to 17. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents, about 44i to 44 _ Railway Shares are still flat, and a large business can. not be effected. ONE CLOSING Pi. i (st. cs OF BRITISH FUNDS O'CLOCK. PRICES. Bank Stock 3 ~er Cent. Reduced Arms 8 6 1,4 861,, 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities B6 86!;, 86 New 3% per Cent. Anu5....... B7 87% 86% 667 , t4 tong Anna. to expire J an. 1860 Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 B% 8% India Stock 23 7 1 /2 2371A 2 , ndia Bonds, 1,0001. ....... ...... Consols for Account, Oct. 17 Exchequer Rills. 2 1 ,id. & 2d. 1,0001. March ...... 32 29 p 29 p 1,000/. June 23 p 23 p 5001. Much. 5001. June ... 26 p 26 p Small, March .. .. 32 29 p 23 p Small, June PR ICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS of O'CLOCK. CLOSING PRICES. Brazilian Bonds Ditto, Small — 76th Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent..... Ditto. 3 per Cent 45 45 1 ,E 454, Portuguese 5 per Cents. — Ditto 4 per Cent _ , Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. Ditto, Passive Ditto, 3 per Cent . . .... ....... Venezuela Bonds, 2% per Cont 4l Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch 2 1 4 per Cent., 12 Guild —4:, PRICES OF PAID. I3USINESS DONE CLOSING I , AILWAY SHARES. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES. Iberdeen 5O ...... Amber. Nott., Boston, and Eastern Junction 3%...... Ayrshire and Galloway.. 2 1 ,4 2 Belfast & County Down 17 14 Birmingham and Ox (rd Junction .... ... 20 Birmingham, Wolver hampton, and Dudley 10 ..... Birming.,Wolverh'pton, and Stour Valley 13/. 145... Birkenhead, Lancashire, anti Cheshire Junc.... 10 ...... . ........ Boston, Staintil & Birm. 5 ... .. Bristol and Exeter B5 ... .. 49% 49% Ditto, Thirds ..- ..... 25 Luckinghamthire... 14/. 4s. Caledonian Ditto, Half Shares .. 8 3 / 4 ...,, — ..... — Do. New 10/. Pref..... VA Ditto,ClydesdaleJunc 50 Chester and Holyhead... 4744...... 21 1 ,,i 19% Ditto, Preference l5 Clarence - - Do. Ist Class, 6 per Ct. 10 ...... Do. 2d Class, 5 per Ct. 10 Do. Government Loan, 4 per Cent. .. lO ..-.. ... — Direct London & Ports mouth Dublin and Belfast June. 30 ...... Dundalk & Enniskillen 20 ...... East Anglia, 251., L. & E. and L. and D...... 25 ..-.. Do., 18/., E. & H.... 18 - Do., 3/. 105. - Eastern Counties........ 20 Do. New Guaranteed 6 per Cent. Ditto,Extension,s per Cent., No. 1 ~61. 138.4 d.... Ii dis 1 Ditto ditto, No. 2...61. 13s. 4d... Do. North. & Eastern 50 Do., 5 per cent. - Do. Quarters ..- Do. New Eastern Union, Class A (late E. U. Shares) 25 Ditto, Class A, ditto... 1 Ditto, Class B (I. & and B.) Ditto, Class C, ditto... 17 1 ,4. .. ..... Do. Scrip (6 percent.) 10 -- Ditto, ditto Ditto (C. & E.) guar. .'..""'"••• 5 per cent East Lancashire ........ Ditto, New ... 19 ..... .. .. Ditto, New Quarters 6k — ....... ... Do., 6 per Cent. Pre- ....... ference Quarters ... 4k..„.. East Lincolnshire . 23 die -Are ... - ••• •••... 000000 Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 Ditto, Half Shares ... 15 .. ... Ditto, Quarter Shares 1214 ... .... ....... Edinburgh and Northern 25 Ditto, New.. 6 14 — ......... ......, Ditto, Newport Ditto, ditto, New 3 3 / 4. .... -............ Exeter,Yeovil, & Dorch 2% — ..... .... Ditto, New - ..- ..... •••• ........... Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle ...... .. .81.65. 8d.... Glasgow,Kihnar., & Ayr 50 ...... __ - Ditto, New ... ...... 4O . ..... Great Northern Do., London and York 214 ...... ..... t reat South. and West. ( Ireland) ... 4 2 1 /i ...... 21 1 ,4 Great North of En g l an d . lo o ......230% 230% Ditto, New, 40/ ...... ... 40 Ditto, ditt0............ 15 - 65 Ditto, New, 30/ - Ditto, New, 15/... ...... 14 .. •• • .. Great Western 9O ... .. 77% 78 ... - - Ditto, 1 ,4 Shares 6O Ditto, 1 ,4 Shares Ditto, Fifths. 2O Ditto, New 17/... .. . 13 ••• - 91 i Huddersfield and Manch. 28 --- :"7 Ditto, Thirds _. 9 .... Hull and Selby .. 5O ...... Ditto, Half Shares 25 ..... Ditto, IA Shares Lancaster and Carlisle 5O ...... Ditto, Thirds Lancashire & Yorkshire 93 ..... Ditto, ditto Ditto, % Shares ...... 43 ... .. Do. Quarter Shares... 1 71 / 2 —, ••• • •• 7•.... ..... Do. Fifths... /13 Do. Sixteenths ....... .. O A 5 Do. Thirds (Reg.).•••• 13 ••••• ... ......... ••• V A Do. New, Gua. 6 per et. 21,4 2V ....... ... 2% . .............. —. D p i o ito Livl / 2 erP ( . l= l l ß lu ar Z 43 .... D ° d i . r ( e a W r : i t i a:k I . e d n fi d e n (3 l d , d o( P S a o h e n e ) f t 1 . e 1 . - ) . 5 4 : .............. ..... Do. (W. Riding Union) 6 .• ~, --...... ..... .. Do. (Preston & Wyre) 25 Do. i, Shares (A)... 9q... .. .. ........... Leeds and Bradford Leeds, Dewsbury, &e.... 50 .....• --- Do., Half Shares 25 ........ .. ••"• .... .. Do, •••—• . (blue) Scrip.-- 2%... „ —.....— Leeds and Thirsk ...... -- Ditto, New ...... ....• 3O .................... Do., Prefer., 6 pa r CL 3 1 ,2' .... .... ... .. --•.... ....... Liverpool, Crosby and - Southport . ........... 3 12 ...... _ Liverp., Manchester, and LopoNlideo.wnattlielatuelajcokunnwial:l:.:l:3:/.2i8.(1.....ii -..;-- it... — 4 1 4 ..... MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 3,500 bales, of which 1,000 were for exportation. American realised 3id. to Sid: per lb. The demand was fair, although the market was quiet and well eupplit d.. _ In - Railway Shares, during the first meeting of yes terday, th,re was an improvement, and the market was very good; but in the afternoon a blight reaction oc curred. The Continental accounts are of no pirticular interest to-day, but in well-informed quarters here there is a stronger impression that the Holstein affair will be ami cably arranged. The Corn - Market is reported to be steady, and, owing to the small stocks on hand, we find that some parties conneeted with the trade are anticipating continued firmness. Tne accounts from Ireland and Scotland are not quite so favourable in respect to the crops, and, under any circumstances, supplies are likely to be needed. The fact of the cholera having broken out at Ham burgh, where 18 cases proved almost immediately fatal, is calculated to excite vigilance here, and will prove very inconvenient to the commerce of this country, owing to the probable establishment of quarantine. A very ingenious statistician remarking upon a plan which he has conceived, and which he entitles "the sub stitute for all taxes " states as follows: " Taking the population of the United Kingdom at 28 millions— s. d. About lin 22 of the population would pay weekly 1 8 „ lin 28 If /9 „ 3 0 „ liu 40 ft PI , „ 410 „ lin 56 11 „ 7 0 tt ff , 9 lin 87 ~ 9 5 12 3 lin 155 ~ ~ ii , PI ,f II OP ~ lin 350 15 7 /V ~ TIP 1 in 1,400 ~ 19 3 " The above could be collected at a cost of a quarter per cent. It would be a substitute for all taxes, and be paid by one-seventh of the whole population. If books were opened in every parish for parties to enter their names, stating the sum each would pay in lieu of taxes, the whole amount could be ascertained before the re moval of the present imposts. The farmer who pays 601. a year for malt pays a direct tax of 301. if the taxes were named in the bill; the price of barley is reported at 3s. 3d. to 4s. a bushel, the price of malt 7e. 6d. to Bs.; the " outcast" pays the expense of converting the barley into malt. To this must he added the tax on sugar, coffee, tea, hops, wines, spirits, bricks, assessed taxes, income-tax, &c., &c. The relief from all these would relieve him of poor rates, county rates, and commitments for crimes arising from the present system, and he would poisess the power of growing on a farm the most profitable produce, which the Excise•laa a now prevent. These observations apply more or less to the interests of all classes. The preceding scale is formed from the law of gravitation, that governs the visible creation. hence the per tentage increases in the duplicate ratio from halt per cent. to five per cent." The English Stook Market has been dull this morn ing, and the quotations are barely maintained. The transfer books are shut for Bank Stock, Long Annuities, and Reduced Three per Cents. East India Stock is at 2371. The same uncertainty exists yet with respect to the two millions of stock to be issued, and it has been asserted, though probably ,on no sufficient authority, that the Bank of England will advance all the money needed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and manage quietly the disposal of the Consols ' which are quoted 86 to i for Transfer, and 86i to i for Account. Ex chequer-bills are 295. to 325. premium for those of March. London, Brighton, and South Coast 5O Do. Guarant.s per ct.., 9 -7 1 '1114". ***** "" " Do. Pref. Co n . 5 per ct. 50 .. Ditto, ditt0...... 1852 50 ..... ••• 6 per cent. •••••• ' r ' M Ditto, Preferen ce ... 18, 17a 2d... London and N. Western list ll2 lll ~• •. Quart e r, (L. 5 B.) 22 . _ .... . - 6V Ditto, New ...... 6%x iU Ditto, Fifths .... .. .. 2 ..... 5 1 4 ... Do. 40/.: -, hares(L. M.) 25 — Do. 10/. (M. & B.) A. 9 - Do. 10/. (M. & B.) B. 9 ...... —..•-• •••••••• ".. ..- Do. 10/. l AI. & B.) C. 1 ..... Lond. &S. Wester n 5O ...... 3614 37% 4• • 3714 ... Do. New 50/. ... Do. New 401 ...• Do. Tenths (Consol.) .50 ... Ditto ditto .. .... 40 d irty............. Ditto. Thirds .... - 111. 13s. 4d sc4 %. dis ....... 5% Do., New Scrip, 1848, Pref. 7 per Cent. on Deposit, and 5 per Cent. on Calls —I/. 13s. 4d --• .. ....... .... . a. London, Salisbury, and Yeovil ...._ . ........ 1% — Londonderry and Ems-. kiihn Lowestoft (4 per ct.) .... Ditto (6 per ct.) ..... 3 Manzhester,Buston,and !VI atlock... Manchester, Sheffield, , and Lincolnshire...100 Do. Quarters (No. 1) 18 N. .... Ditto ditto (No. 2)... 25 Ditto ditto (No. 3) ... 7% — ........- • ... "J., Ditto, New 10/. Pref... 10 Ditto, Gt. Grimsby -. 35 Ditto ditto . ......... 11 Ditto ditto Ditto Sheffield and Lincolnshire 12%. ... Do., Grimsby Dock... 17% — ... ... Do., Lianchester and •••• Lincoln Union..... 41.2 a. — Midland ......... .......100 .... 36 ...... .• ..... Do. Consolidated Pref.loo Do., do., 501. Shares... 24 ... .. 11 10% .... Do. Itirm.. and Derbyloo Do.Consol.Bristol and .... Birming.,6 per ct.... 100 Ditto,Bri6t. & Grioestr. 38 . ..... ........... ... '''' Ditto, ditto ... .. ...... 141. 185.... ningeon, 8 per ct.guar.loo Midland Great Western Irish Middlesbro' and Redcar, 6 per cent. guar. N,wcastleano Carlisle-100 Do. Quarters 25 ...... .... ........ .. Newmarket.... ........ . .... Do. Extension .........21. 125.... Newport, Abergavenny, ' - and Hereford ...., Newry and Enniskillen 7 N ewry, Warrenpoint, 5 1 and Rostrevor ...... . 20 Norfolk ••........ ....... ••••190 Du. Nei, 2os. ....,... 10 Du. Extensi on 5 p et. 20 Do. Guaranteed 5 1 ,s i pe. 5 Do. do. Waveney Val. 2 ...... v,,rth ern C ount i es li n i on 4 ...... North British ••........• 25 .• ••• 19 18% ••.•••••• Ditto, Halves .. Ditto, Quarters,. Ditto, Extension O% ..... .. ........ ... Ditto, Thirds North & South-Western 2 North Staffordshire 12%..... 7%% .......... North Wales . 3% — ... ......... ... North-Western .... Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Reading, Guildford, and Reigate .. lO Royston and Hitchin ... 13 - Scottish Central".... ... • 25 ...... 23 22,i Scottish Midland 25 Ditto, New Sheffield, Rotherham, & Goole (Nor. Div.) ... 7% —, ... .....,••• ....i; • Do. do (Sou. Di v .) ~. 4 Sh -,-, waburs and Bina... 9 Ditto ditto, Class B. 5 - Shrewsbury and ilerefd. 2 ...... Shrewsbury & Chester (Nor. W. Alin.) Ditto Halves ... ditto 8 ...... ...... Ditto Oswestry ..... 16 Ditto New Do. 8 per Cent. Pref :tropshire Union ...... 4 NAiti, Devon.. Do. Preference South Staffordshire 5% 1 otith Eastern .. ...... ... : 3 3% 23%.... Do., u. 1... ......... ... 24 D0., N 0.2. Do., No. 3.. ..... ...... 25 ...... Do., No. 4 Thirds ... 10 - 6% South Wales - South Yorkshire, Don caster, and Goole Swans. & Loughor & Ca meron's Son. C0a1.... 6 raw Vale Ext ens i on ... 6 Thames Haven Dock and Railway ........... 17% Vale of Neath ... .. 4 - Waterford and Kilkenny 17 1 %.•.. Waterford and Limerick 45 Watertd,Wxird,Wicklw, and Dublin Wear Valley 6 per Cent. ... Guaranteed ... .. ...... 42 3 / 4 ...... .. Do. do. do. ... 25 Do. do. do. ... 9 ..... ... ..... West Cornwall. .... ....• •-•, West London ....... .... 20 •••• Do. Do. Ist Class ... 20 Do. Do. 2d Class 2O ••• W , hitehaven & Furness 13 Windsor, Staines, and •-• South Western ..... ... 94 ...... Wilts, Somerset, & VII ey mouth York. N ewcast l e, and Berwick. ......".."... 25 Lo. Origivai New and Berwick .. 1),1 Extens ion N o . 1. 15 Do. do. No. 2. ... 1 5 . Do. G.N.E.P re t erence 8 ...... 7% % 7N York ,nd North Midland 50 "X 10% ........ Ditto, Preference ...... 10 Do. Eas t and NN't-st iiia ing Extension FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Anglo Italian (late Ita lian and Austrian). ~• 41 4...... .-- • ..... Boulogne and Amiens... 20 .....• 6 Central of Fra nce (Or leans and Vierzon) ... 17 ...... Ceylon 1 ,4 .•.... .. Demerara ............... ... 12% ..... . ... Dendre Valley... ......... 4 - Direct Bombay and ..... Madras .................. ss. . ... Dutch Rheni East Indi sh ........ 7%.... -- . •......... """ an ....... ........ 3 1 4 -- ...... -•' ' --- ..... Great Indi an P en i nsular '4 — .....' Louvain ala Sambre ..• 7% .... . Luxembourg.... ......... 7 .... Madrid and Valentia... 2 ....... Namur and Lie ge ...... 2 0 ... .. 4 i% Northern of France....- 12 ...... 6% ..., . Orleans an d Bordeaux 6 Paris and:Lyons . 11 .•• ... -- .. Do. Do. . Paris and Orleans ...... 20 ...... Paris and Rouen ........ 20 .......- Paris and Strasbourg ... 8 ..... • Rouen and Havre Sambre and Meuse 2O ....• 2% 1 4 2% . Strasbourg and Basle ... 14 - -- ... Tournay, Jurbise, Lan den' and Hasselt ....• 20 ...... .-- West Flanders ..... - ..... 8 3 4.... JOINT STOCK BANKS Australasia 25 Provincial of Ire! mud ... n Ditto New.. ....•...••• 10 •• •••••• -- -- Union of Australia ..... 2 5 ••• . -.- Ditt0,New.............. 2%. . .1...... ... . Union of London... ..... 10 ...... 10% Union of Madrid LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, SEPT. 13.—Wind this day at noon N.E., light breeze, and fine clear day, cold weather. DEAL, SEPT. 12.—Wind N.W. to W.N.E.—Arrd. Columbus, Short, Bombay. Sld. Olerd Van Nea, Bata via ; Kelsick, Wood, Berbice ; Trekroner, Rio Janeiro ; Maria Lehmann, Matanzas. OFF DOVER.—NiChOisOU. Moffatt, Richibucto. 07F WEYMOUTH, SEPT. 9.—Skagman, Batavia, for Gottenburg. PLYMIPUTH, SEPT. 12.—Wind N. — Sld.Walmer Cattle, Sydney, New South ip. Wales ; Johnstone, ditto ; LiPidt rrd. Richard Hicks, Hill, Char' ii. l o ,o o w aw E a T y , , s P EpT ort . Amfi L ri ti ar E d; ll , P CD O 3 O ad L, veisi S ,), E ß P Da T r( . ,br i ab 2 dic . 7:B; W a i rnidd leston, for Dort. pNS New MARGATE,fwn Y ptioo:1 ek;;ElizabethMon t real . s Rp.Off 1 Dublin. bl t i o n. N. S N lflTer A o r in rct es Frances, Calcutta ; Tapley,: rice ; E x press , me, Leone ; Princess Royal, At . .. _ pe l no V 2rt a lote s ,: h E. i , n eg g ddu r atrrt n oiesr;t M seEs o om. b fze i lrwlhd; Atlas. at to; Eu ver) wet s t ate, have been landed to-day from the Louise, Picquet, from Dunkirk to London, which went on shore on Pureness Rock yesterday. SWANSEA, SEPT. 12.—The Singleton schooner, with copper ore, sailed hence for Liverpool three weeks since; and has not since been heard of. LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 12.—The E m bl em , Fi nc b, f or Stralsund hus pet back leaky, having struck un the bar of the Victoria Channel. WEXFORD, SEPT. 11.—The Alert, Conolly, for Glow ewer, in going down the harbour, struck at Gulbar t and was afterwards obliged to run on the mud with about three feet water in her hold; her cargo is being discharged. HUNA (PENTLAND FRITH), SEPT. 10.—The schooner try, Green, of Yarmouth, from Liverpool to Stral sund, struck on St. John's Point, St. John's Sound, Pentland Frith, and it is expected she will go to pieces next tide; crew saved. OFF HASTINGS, SEPT. 12.—Greyhound, Hutchin, Cape of Good Hope. PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 12.—Wind N.N.E.—Arrd. Heyne6, Vera Cruz, for Hamburgh. Sld. Earl of Hard wicke, Ceylon and Bombay, Devonshire, Cape of Good !lupe and Madras. FALMOUTH, SEPT. 12.—Wind N.N.E.—Arrd. George Sutton, Hatton, L,brador. Sid. British Queen, St John's, New Brunswick. BRISTOL, SEPT. 12. Wind N.E.-.131d. 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