The Sun. — London, England, 1852-09-20 00:00:00

A DAMANT LIFE AND FIRE ASSUR ANCE COMPANY. Temporary Offices, 28, Bloomsbury-square. Capital 100,0001., in Shares of 11. each ; first call ss. per share. Liability of Shareholders limited to the amount of shares held by each. Attention is particularly called to the novel and peculiar advan tages offered by this Company. The whole of the premiums paid during health, for live years or upwards, may be converted into an " immediate annuity" for the remainder of life, should a member become incapable of continuing his annual payments. Thus—suppose a man of 30 to pay 501. a year for 20 years, making together 1,0001., and then to become unable longer to pay this amount, he would be entitled to such an imme diate annuity for life as 1,0006/1. w 1 27 1. 6d d h . a ann ve p u ur an c y hased . him at the age he originally assured, viz., 561. A certain return to the assured of at least one-third of all pre miums received. Six mon ths are allowed beyond the days of grace for the payment the policy with th e S oc i e t y . of all p re miums, on depositing Apolicy may be renewed at any ti me after the day when the pre po mium actually became due, at the original rate of premium; back payments and interest thereon being duly paid up at the end of that time, provided the medical report is satisfactory. Medical referees, in all cases referred to them, paid for their re ports :—One guinea up to 5001. proposed assurance, and two guineas if 5001. and above. Lif e policies free of stamp duty to the assured. Assurances are effected, by way of provision against members being attacked with Paralysis, blindness, and insanity, and every other affliction, bodily or mental. Mariners' risks whilst afloat 30s. per cent. extra. Twenty-Bye per cent. of the entire profits of the Company is ap propriated for the formation of a relief fund, for the benefit of parties assured for life (who shall have paid five years' premiums consecu tively), as well as of aged or distressed proprietors (who shall have paid all calls and deposits), to assist them in emigrating, educating their children, or for such other purposes as the Court of Directors may think expedient. Loans granted on personal and other securities in connexion with a policy for one-fourth more than the amount borrowed. Persons assuring for life, without any participation in the above advantages (except the policy free of duty), will be charged two thirds of the tabular rates only. Appearances before the Board dispensed with in all cases. FIRE DE PARTMENT. The experience of existing offices proves that their largest profit 15 derived from that class of insurance designated " common risks." This Company is established to effect fire insurances of this cha racter principally. Every description of common risk will be taken at Is. per cent. The contents of private dwelling-houses insured in one amount (pictures, prints, and drawings excepted). Under this novel system the insurer obtains a reduction of premium, in comparison with the rates charged by all other existing fire-offices, equivalent to 50 per cent. In all cases of total loss the whole amount insured will be paid at once. Thus, for the first time since the estab lishment of fire offices, the prudent man who insures his property will be placed in the same advantageous position as the prudent man who assures his life. For the first time the value of the pro perty Insured will be estimated before the insurance is effected, in stead of after the thing to be valued has been destroyed. Seven years' insurance charged the premium and duty for six years only. Attendance at the office daily from 10 to 4, on Saturdays from 10 to 2. Applications for shares and prospectuses to be made to the brokers, Messrs. Samuel Smith and Son, 4, Bank-chambers, Lothbury, or the temporary offices, 28, Bloomsbury. square. Agents wanted, to whom a liberal commission will be given. FREDERIC LAWRANCE, Managing Director. ALLSOPP'S PALE ALES. BARON LIEBIG ON CERTADT LATE ANONYMOUS ADVERTISEMENTS. Extract of a Letter dated Munich, 12th September, 1552, from Baron Liebig to Mr. Henry Allsopp, Brewery, Barton-on-Trent. "To my great astonishment and concern, my attention has lately been called to several anonymous artieles and advertisements beaded by my name, such as in the -, whose author altogether misrepresents the motives of my remarks, and even goes so far as to say `that I had neve r ana l ysed your beer, nor per h a p s ewer in my life,' and t o a ll ege a retr actation on my part statement. of the tasted it e original "I emphatically declare that I had not the slightest knowledge of these anonymous articles, the contents of which I entirely disapprove of; and that in every respect I adhere to the statement made in my letter to you, which certainly you were, and are at perfect liberty to publish. [T. No. 6.] 1 " Munich, 12th September, 1852. NEW ROMANCE BY THE AUTHOR OF THE " SCARLET LETTER." In 2 vols, post svo•, cloth, 215., T HE BLITHEDALE R OMANCE. NIEL HAWTHORNE By NATHA— „ „ „„._ ~, HAWTHORNE, Author of " The Scarlet Letter, The igon.se ex o e f r : s he e Gables," Sze. S o e f ven a tree " The Blithedale Romance is the intellectual Poet, of one who is eager to read whatever Nature has to teach, and P e iri boo tu i a l l is ha o s v t rer actionw . who has the faculty of uttering in words Meals derived from his royal mistress. • . , . lug with energy and thonght.''—Times. London: Chapman and H a ll , 19 3, pima= Y. - - THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Mr. B Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager, Old Brompton. THIS EVENING, Will be performed the celebrated Adelphi Drama of JACK SHE P pARD, by Mrs. Keeley, Messrs. Paul Bedford, S. Emery, and 0 Smith ; Miss Laura Honey, Miss Ellen Chaplin, &c. To conclude with the celebrated Comedy of PAUL PRY. ROYAL PREkTCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. C. Kean. THIS EVENING,WiII be presented (2d time) a new petite Comedy, called THE PRIMA DONNA. Principal characters by Messrs. Walter Lacy, Addison, and Cathcart • Miss Robertson, and Miss Heath (her 2 d appearance on a public stag' e). Atter Which, THE CORSICAN BROTHERS. Penapal charac ters by Messrs. C. Kean, W. Lacy, Ryder, MegAlows , J. Vining, J. Chester; 3fiss Phillips, mi ss R o b er tson, miss Murray, and Miss C. Leclercq. To conclude with A ROL AND FOR AN OLIVER. The Boa-office is open daily from 11 till 5, ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Crowded houses to witness the performance of the American Won ders, Miss Ella and Young Leon, who, in their daring feats, surpass all others in the Equestrian Circle, and may be truly named the Phenomena of the day. Also the Brothers Seigrist on La Perche, the most astonishing performance of the kind ever witnessed. Mr. Alfred Cooke and his talented family will appear every evening. There will be an entire change of Scenes in the Circle. The doors open at Half-past Six o'clock; the Performances commence _ at Seven. Half-price at Half-past Eight. l idmisidon—Stalls, ss. ; Dress Boxes, 45.; Upper Boxes, 35.; Pit 2s. ; Gallery, Is. • Upper *allery, 6d. Tickets to be had at the Box-Office from Eleven till Four daily. Stage Manager, Mr. Leclercq. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. F OUR EXTRA NIGHTS. TO-DAY, September 20, by particular desire, a Grand Union Gala of all the Novelties of the Season. TUESDAY, 21, and WEDNESDAY, 22, are Juvenile Nights, Fireworks at Half-past Eight. THURSDAY, 23 (most positively the Last Night of the Season), Grand Extra Display of Fireworks and Flight of Five Hundred Rockets, to be wituessed nowhere but at these Gardens. Great Combination of Attractions—Music, Zoology, Floriculture, and Fireworks. Danson's Modelled Panoramic View of Mount Etna will positively be removed after this week, in order to commence with the p repa rations for next season. GRAND VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL CONCERT. PRINCIPAL VOCALISTS—Miss Messent, Miss Clara Henderson, Mr. Young, Mr. Manvers, and Mr. Leffler. Conducted by Mr. J. L. Hatton, who will preside at the Pianoforte. PatticrPAL Irtsrauxerrrai, SonorsTs—Messrs. J. Richardson (Flute), Waffle (Clarionet), Lazarus (Clarionet), Viotti Collins ( Violin) Cial (Trombone), Collinet (Flageolet), Sidney Pratten (Flute), and Conductor of the Orchestra, Mr. C. Godfrey. Exhibition of Danson's Colossal Daylight View of MOUNT ETNA and the CAVES of VULCAN and the CYCLOPS—Splendid and interesting Menagerie—Promenade Concert by Godfrey's un rivalled Military Band—Various Amusing Novelties—Concluding at Dusk with a Grand Pyrotechnic Exhibition by Messrs. Sonthby, representing the Interior of the Mountain (the Pandemonium of the Ancients), with the Caverns and Forges of Wean and his Cyclops, the Whole terminating with the Eruption df Mount Etna and a Grand Tableau on the Lake of Thetis, and the Nereiads receiving the Armour of Achilles. Doors open from Nine A.m. Feeding the Animals at Five. C o n- Quarter-past Six. Fireworks at Nine. ADMISSION, ONE SHILLING. PORTRAITS OF WELLINGTON AND SOULT , WITH MEMOIRS AIND FAC-SIMILES OF THEIR HAND- WRITINGS. A PORTRAIT OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON TOGETHER VITII THE MOST SPLENDID LIKENESS op SOULT EVER TAKEN, BY w Yoiv, FOR WHICH THE MARSHAL SAT SIX Tu iEs IS THIS DAY PUBLISHED, AT THE SUN OFFICE, 112, STRAND, PRICE SIX PEA CE. Sun Office, Sept. 20, 1852. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tam DAY —Morning 9 rain. after G Evening 35 min. after 6 To-Molulow —Morning 2 attn. aitor 7 I Evening 37 mfr. after 7 THE WEATHER.—Stng OFFICE, SErr. 20. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 61— iighest since noon yesterday. 4 6—iowest this morning and during the night. €o ins day, at noon. BATI , TrLITER, 29.63. W.N.W.— dull, cloudy weather, with heavy showers occasionally; Afternoon, sunshine. s DAILY WEATHER TABLE. _, _ .' -a ta of the Wind and Weather at each of the following P 'MI at Nine o'clock on Saturday morning. —The stations aro arreng-d in order or a ' tit d p lll o4 TlLn4 , L Q l6 4 %.l — nd ‘ E 'llui d N.E l ,gen u tl 6 e . breeze—partially cloudy. Yin _strong breeze.—beavy rain. HA - maga:4— socriliAmpi3O:_4(l4l;;(eatle breeze—rain. FoLicir..srmNE—Wi nd ~§.._. strong breeze—heavy rain. T u ,„„.. Rmo ,--. A r itui E ° , E si , gentle b reeze—overcast. BASINCISTOKE --Wind *l t I ,On g breeze - overcast. GREEN \ , ,-/cH_ Wind s.E , gentle breeze—overcast. Wind N. gentle b; gentle breeze—heavy rain. STE:GOD zeze—overcast. LEIGHTON-- IN ind , S. E., genti e e ztt—overcast. YaßaiouTrr—Wind S.E., strong nig Places i ndicate The returns from the follow the wind and weather on Friday indicate the state of " moraine et nine 0( ck po orx ......svi n d N,E„ gentle breeze PaTt gY iall So 0 THAMPTON-- Wind N.W., stron g b re " Y f cloudy. BASINGSTOKE—Wind N.E., gentle breeze— _. . . , . ~ _ y cloudy. (7 7v, y ni oybrgytTc.vi,lr Z - 1 6 i: Mel& LONDON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1852. Cavillers were not wanting in 1850 to deride the project of the Exhibition, but, more particularly, to its reception. c ons t ruc t e d o f ridicule the design of a crystal and iron for reception. It cannot very soon be forgotten how triumphantly the success of that extraordinary and unparalleled enterprise falsi fied the predictions of each representative of the miserable family of Smellfungus. So triumphantly, indeed, that there is not left amongst them any more vitality of hatred than can be found in the roe of a shotten herring. The reconstruction of the glass edifice at Sydenham is, therefore, being effected with out the revival of any of those sinister hints or sneers of depreciation to which the public, two or three seasons back, were so accustomed. There is, probably, not to be found in the three kingdoms an individual bold enough to jeer at the schemes of the Crystal Palace Company as impracticable or extravagant— always excepting, of course, our dear friend Colonel SIBTHORP. Yet those schemes are of a magnitude and of an apparent complication so remarkable that, four or five and twenty months ago, they might have been reasonably viewed by the generality as more suitable for the dreams of a visionary than for the prospectus of a commercial association. The truth is that, in 1851, so many seeming miracles were ac complished by the ingenuity of Sir JOSEPH PAXTON, by the industry of Sir CHARLES Fox, and by the zeal of Sir RICHARD MAYNE, that people have almost abandoned the old-fashioned custom of betraying, or, indeed, of possessing, emotions of astonishment. If matters go on in this way much longer the organ of " wonder" may be quietly sponged out of the chart of Phrenology. It is the fashion, by the way, of the new generation to be prepared against any surprise whatever. Insomuch that the petit maitre of our day—ennuyee, blasé, " used up,' or " what you will"—lik e pl e asant Sir CHARLES COLD. STREAM, or rather that is to say, in other words, like find be our delightful C H A R LES MATHEWS, the characte_ incomparable rcan namesake and impersonator of t hat pry even into the flaming abyss " nothing in it." Neither can o this self-possession Vesuvius, altogether incomprehensible in an age when marvels are rendered mere matters of everyday occurrence to our children. There was a drama produced on the stage of Covent-garden some time back, which had the servantsgoodfort in th fortune to e p b re e se tw oo twice of played by h er MA JESTY'Sof her MAJESTY. It was from the hand of the veteran LEIGH HUNT, and was called " A Legend of Florence." In this drama we remember one Fuevio DA RIYA is made to speak as follows—his remarks being uttered in the age o LEo X., and in one of the streets of old Florence : what his dao should goo " The w ild man ' s d ream , Or what he mi g h t h ave dreamt, when at his wildest, A h n , d to the ci v ili zed man, his common place : so rs e, not reverencesti still in tn alourselves,alter." As, in time Ine a c o " Till chariots run some twenty miles an hour ?" suggest, his companion, derisively. " Ay," says DA RIVA, " thirty or or y f t. " " Oh! oh! Without horses? Say, without horses." " Well, to oblige you,—yes" " And sailing boats without a sail! Ah! ha! Well, glory be to poetry and to poets! Their cookery is no mincing! Ah! ha! ha! They certainly, while they'ra about it, do Cut and carve world's oat with their golden swords To which poor Alexander's was a pumpkin." Not merely, however, have the dreams thus humour ously imagined been long since realized by the fiery dragon of the steam-engine, carrying us upon the seas without a sail, and upon land thirty or forty miles an hour without horses—but in a thousand other particulars the phantasies of the day-dreamers of old have become, indeed, our daily commonplace. When. our portraits are taken by the sunbeam, when we can talk a thousand miles apart with flashes of lightning, when we can grow coffee from a transparent solution, and read with our elbows by clairvoyance, and dis cover planets not with the accidental sweep of a teles cope, but with the precision of an algebraic calcula tion,—it is scarcely possible that there should be much room left for the simple emotions of surprise or amazement. The wonderful achievements of 1851 seem to have set the finishing seal to this self-collected complacency. By the beginning of that memorable year we had seen a palace sprout from the greensward of Hyde-park as magically as the famous structure built in a single night by the genie of the ring for Prince ALADDIN ; and a palace that contained more gorgeous curiosities than were ever conjectured to be possible by the imaginative young lady who told the Sul tan Caliph the stories of the Arabian Nights' Entertain ments. The rapidity with which the Crystal Palace of the Exhibition was constructed, under the auspices of Fox and PAXTON, was such, in truth, that the public are now prepared for " anything" in re ference to the labour of its reconstruction amongst the rural scenery of Sydenham. When we hear, therefore, that the foundations are al ready hastening towards their completion, the in telligence comes to us as a mere matter of course. We are not at all astonished at the catalogue of the materials employed—the hundreds of bracings, the thousands of girders, the millions of railings, the miles of gutters, the acres of glass, and the moun tains of sashbars. We feel no amazement at the news that the gardens are already being marked out for future cultivation. It sounds to us simple enough to be told that OWEN JONES and DIGBY WYATT are tra velling here and there into the remotest corners of the European Continent, to collect ideas of novel decora tion and embellishment. Dr. LATHAM has of course undertaken the management of the ethnological de partment. Professor ANSTED has of course accepted the office of arranging the geological illustrations. We shall only be surprised if FARADAY does not bot tle up some of the electric belt of Saturn in a Leyden Jar for the shelves of the Crystal Palace Laboratory, and if OWEN does not add to the zoological treasures of the establishment an infant Mastodon or a sucking Pleisiosaurus. Some of the guessers at intelligence announced a week or ten days ago, that Mr. DISRAELI had pre- pared his Budget, submitted it to his colleagues, re ceived their unanimous consent to all its propositions, and was quite ready to make his financial statement as early in November as was practicable, consistent with the swearing in of the new Parliament, the pass ing of the Standing Orders (which, by the way, ought to be carefully revised, inasmuch as they often override Statutes of the Realm), and the disposal of the routine business following the election of Speaker, the delivery of the tell-nothing document called "The Speech from the Throne," and the mock discussions on the Address " which, as usual, is merely an echo f the R oya l S peech. " Now, we very much doubt the truth of this circumstantial assertion. It is ex- eheiswtede trernely _ _... probable that Mr. DISRAELI, as Chan llor of o ut h i Exchequer, h as a ppli e d himself, w ith the many i dnidfelt Honourable of National Finance ; y and ability, to master for the Ro: to ourable Gentleman is deter mined, we prean ta earn his salary, and to fulfil the expectations ' of h ills friends and followers. It is probable, also, that henedeaasysoketched the rough plan of unulrikto be at once popular resedvterally, up a budget which will that be may even and productive. It is not consult some li ....s co..eaguesely , e c o u ra t pleted his on the leading points which have occ u ; cal and tangible ; but that h e ha: him as practi budget, and has got it in his pocket with the Cabinet "approved" endorsed UpPlinfid-drY' pears as unlikely as that Colonel s imni _ it, ap "" should become Chairman of the Crystal Palace C ompany ' or that GEORGE FREDERICK YOUNG should s peak corn_ won sense ; or that Major BERESFORD should walk down " the shady side of Pall-mall," arm-in -arm with his correspondent, FRAIL, the Shrewsbury bar ber; or that JOHN O'CONNELL should come over for the express purpose of dying on the floor of the House;" or that Vice-Chancellor STUART ;hould support " Chancery Reform ," or that Row- LAND HILL should propose a return to dear postage ; or that Brother JONATHAN should cease to grasp and brag; or that Punch should ridicule Whig absurdi ties; or that JOHN BRIGHT should suddenly become the Parliamentary mirror of politeness and gentle courtesy ; or that, in short, any other very unlikely And unexpected event should suddenly occur " To overcome us, like a summer cloud." On the contrary, we think that Mr. DISRAELI has Yet some weeks of hard labour to undergo, before he can have his budget into anything at all approaching what tailors call " ship-shape." The laws of taxa tion' now existing, are altogether wrong in principle, and they cannot be maintained much longer in their present shape. There is the Income and Property tax, to commence with, which every one (except i Government officials, who dislike the anticipated trouble of a change in the system), admits to b e un j us t , oppressive, and unequal. This we have shown b 0 often (and we venture to say) so forcibly, that we not I waste w ords upo n t h e subject here. All this impost can not remain as it i s . If a man h ave 5001. a yea r , derived from professional i n d e e m d it that labour; if another have 5001. a year, accruing to him from rents of houses ; if a third have a like 500/. a year, from landed property, surely their cases very widely differ. The professional man's income, which would stop altogether, or be greatly reduced, from ill health, competition, or other casualties, is worth a very small rate of purchase : it is not worth two years' purchase, under such personal contingencies, but we shall take it at 1,0001. The property in houses and other buildings, on leases with various terms to run, is worth about fifteen years' purchase, or 7,500/. The landed property, yielding the like income, is worth thirty years' purchase, or 15,0001. But, under the present tax, all these are made to pay the same 141. lls. Bd. This is the first point which Mr. Dls- RAELI will have to adjust. If the actual value of each income were taken, and subject to the usual rate of interest, the professional man would pay 21. 18s. 4d., 0 1. n ol l l o B o s. /.,,d. on his 7, interest 0f520,0007. ; 0/. :antd the hehouse-owner, 21/. 17s. 6d. on his 15,000/. Thus the man with personal and uncertain income would raise ill. 13s. 4d.; the house-owner would pay 3/. Ps. lid. less than he does now; and the landed proprietor, with a fixed and certain income, would very properly be called upon to pay 71. ss. 10d. more than he pays at the eesinene ty t q . ua ß li ysuch equalized and adj us t e d paymen t s and unfairness of this tax would be removed. The richest would proportionably make the greatest payments, as they ought to do I In any revision of our system of taxation, the pro bate and legacy duties must be equalized, and on the same principle (of making these duties fall heaviest on the wealthiest) which we would apply to the income and property-tax. Nearly twenty years ago the thought ful mind of WILLIAM COBBETT applied itself, in and out of Parliament, to reform the crying evil of this system. In those days it was considered vastly un genteel to challenge the principle of our taxation, and besides this, COBBETT, who was a giant with his pen or in the lecture•room, was dwarfed in the Senate. To spite him, to render his work useless, and to please Lord ALTHORP (an honest breeder of cattle and sheep, but very little of a statesman), his motion was rejected. It was a good motion, for all that, and would meet with a different reception now. The probate and legacy duties are very unequal. They cannot be avoided and must be paid. Most of the property bequeathed by will is rated to these duties, and if a man leave no will, the probate duty is made some fifty per cent. more than if he had. The evil is that, having been imposed by law-makers who them selves are great owners of real property, the duties are graduated so that real property is excluded from their operation ! So much for class legislation. Thus, if A possess a landed estate worth 50,0001., and B leave behind him 50,000/. in money, and both leave this real and personal property to C, be will have to pay neither probate nor legacy duty upon the real property (the landed estate), but he must pay 750/. probate duty, and 5,0001. legacy duty, on the personalty (the money), and this indepen dent of the proctor's charges and of the court fees, including those that make up the 14,000/. a year of the Mammoth Pluralist, the Reve• rend JOHN .1 1 rloonE, Registrar of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury —as son of a defunct Arch bishop ! If C had been a child or other descendant of B, he should pay 5001. legacy duty ; if he had been a brother, or brother's descendant, he should pay 1,5001. legacy duty; if a brother of B's father or mother, or the child of such, the legacy duty would be 2,500/. , if a stage further in the relationship, C should pay 3,0004 —in each case paying the 7501. as probate duty, which would be increased to 1,125/. of the personal property passed without a will. Here, then, is heavy taxation on the succession to personal pro- perty, which it may be generally presumed a man's industry or ability makes, and a total exemption for real property, which he inherits, as one of the "fruges cons-tnere natl." The heavy taxation falls on the industrious—the light taxation on the aristocracy and landed interest. Nay, so far as the personal . . estate can be applied to p a y debts and incumbrances on the real, it is not taxed, and thus a great amount of even the personalty of the aristocracy and landowners wholly escapes probate and legacy duty. Now, the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, if he means to equalize taxation (as he has promised) must either abolish these duties—which he cannot afford to do—or subject all property, real as well as personal, to their payment. If he honestly attempt this—and he may fail, through the power of class legislation— he will do more to establish an honourable reputation than if be had delivered a score of eloquent orations. Will his landed•interest colleagues let him attempt this act of financial justice ? Judging by the number of cases for trial at the late assizes, amounting, with those of concealing birth, to no less than twenty-six, infanticide must have increased to an extent unparalleled hitherto in this country. Though the convictions were com paratively few, yet it is painful to feel pretty sure that this is due, for , the most part, either to the merely legal imperfection of the evidence, or to the reluctance of juries to be instrumental in the inflic tion of capital p un i s h men t. The j u d ges who tried these twenty- s i x cases , if giving us th e i r own view of the verdicts of acquittal, would doubtless express their fears that most of the unhappy mothers had been guilty of the crime imputed to them. What can be done in such a state of the question ? It is clear that a crime of this magnitude cannot be tolerated in a civilized and Christianized state ; it is clear also that juries, feeling as most men feel when called upon to give a verdict involving the life of a fellow creature, will lay hold of every flaw and loophole in evidence as a pretext for acquittal ; and such defects can generally be readily found by a clever counsel, interrogating a humane surgeon or other witnesses. Indeed, it may well be questioned by a juryman of scrupulous conscience whether he ought to convict with the remotest chance of error, when he thereby inflicts a punishment precluding the possibility of rectifying his awful mistake, should he make one. It is by no means easy to compensate for imprisonment or banishment, suffered through an erroneous verdict; but for death, suffered through a juror's error, there is, of course, no remedy. By no means unfrequently (considering the agonizing painfulness of the case) it has been found, but too late, that innocent persons have died by the hands of the hangman. It scarcely admits of a doubt that numerous executions of the guiltless took place when a wilful Sovereign and the Bank of England were inexorable in hanging for forgery. Juries cannot, therefore, be expected to relinquish their strong desire to acquit, if possible, in capital cases. We have, indeed, heard it remarked that infanticide, like suicide, is a case almost beyond the reach of law ; that a mother's love to her off• spring is so strong, that nothing but partial insanity could nerve her arm to destroy it. That a kind of delirious frenzy, generated by the awful social punishment inevitable on her fall, and in part to be endured by her offspring also, if she spare it, renders her a scarcely accountable agent. We have indeed heard this very statement from the lips of a most in telligent surgeon. It is not one, however, on which we think a legislator can act, except in the way of . moder a ti ng the penalty. Without wishing, therefore, v i Il i 0 ltahteinlne a o s f theholiest t to extenuateies instincts the of of so n a tu monstrous re,a sthe a ought t y venture murder of th e innocent who had just become suscep tible of m a t ernal love and help, by the hands of its own muothhter, to we inflict nearly al ways yet I), the the sternest same punishment ask whether law g as for the murder of an ad u lt. Much might be said, no doubt, most helpless state on the claims of a h uman being in its ofmurdered law. Yetthe murdered under c ircumstances in which he i s as helpless as an infant itself. A n d here, after a ll (without on adult is ne offering a word in defence of a most irrational and wicked practice), is the undeniable difference between killing in a duel and real murder. But further, the mother, in murdering her child, has feelings t o oier _ come which are unknown to the duellist and the mur derer. The latter have to surmount only the or- dinary aversion of human beings to injure one ano ther ; and the most terrible penalty the law can inflict is unquestionably deserved, to say the least, by the man who takes from another the one thing which men value above all else ; for " all that a man bath will he give for his life ;" and as the penalty is deserved, so, if expedient, it is justifiable to inflict it, as a needful counterpoise to the promptings of revenge or thirst for gold. How different with the mother ! Except in a very few of the lowest cases, she hears with unut terable feelings of tenderness the first cries of her new-born babe. An instinct, common in part to her with the inferior animals, would prompt her rather to endanger her own life than to hazard that of her babe's. Where the natural barrier is thus all but insur mountable, it must be some almost irresistible impulse which carries the unhlppy mother over it—an impulse far less controllable than that which impels to ordinary murder. It is also to be borne in mind that feelings which, unlike revenge or avarice, call rather for our sym pathy than our reprobation, really drive the distressed and almost bewildered mother to the commission of her dreadful crime. Do we then apologise for in fanticide ? Assuredly not. We only suggest that it does differ from ordinary murder. The female, sensi tive enough to find in the shame of her fall a rack on which she is tortured out of her natural feelings, is just the one to have had those feelings most strongly. We could hardly be human not to sympathise with the unbearable mental distress to which not unfre quently a too generous confidence has brought her, while we should scarcely be human if we could sym pathise at all with the motives to ordinary murder. If a father, or any other man, had murdered the help less infant, no punishment could be too severe when the motives must have been so mean and so vile. It may be added, too, that in the adult the law has, after all, more to protect than in the new-born child. Every juror, we apprehend, intuitively perceives that the mother who has destroyed life as it was com mencing has not done the same thing, nor caused the same amount of suffering as the murderer of the adult. The death of the latter is a cruel infliction generally on a circle of mourning relatives and de pendants ; but vve need not dilate on the obvious dif ference here. i d soning, the s ent i ment so happily distinguishing civilise would from feudal times, of the sacred ness o f human life ; yet it i s t hi s very sentiment, which, in the jury - box act ua ll y acqu i ts, if poss i ble, the mother who t a k es the life of her babe ! We a pprehend, th en, that some modification of the civilised l a w might do something towards arresting the pro gress of thi.A . Tainful crime. In an over-peopled country, whEn early marriages are frequently impos sible, and yei the shame of forfeited virtue so great, the temptation to the unnatural crime of infanticide may often be great, and severely punished it must he. But if a punishment could be found which would be sufficiently severe, and at the same ti me no t cause juries and jud ges t o wave r i n th e di sc h arge of their office, it surely were well worth the trial. With the maudlin tenderness for crime indulged in by some sen timentalists, we have no sympathy what ever. It harmonizes neither with the dictates of morality nor religion, nor, indeed, with the manly good sense of Englishmen ; but, on the other hand punishments at all severer than the safety of society, or the nature of the offence demand, are proverbially, known to defeat their own end. We commend the subject to the consideration, at least, of humane and intelligent law-reformers. COURT CIRC ULAR. BALMORAL, SEPT. 17. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert remained at the Shiel of Aut-na-Giuthsach yesterday morning, th e Hon. Mary S e y mou r b e i ng in at tendance on h er M a j esty. The Prin ce o f Wales and Prince Alfred went yes. terday to Birk Hall and the Linn of Muick, attended by Mr. Gibbs. The express conveying the news of the death of the Duke of Wellington reached her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert yesterday after noon, when on an expedition to the Dhu Loch, west of Loch Muick, which place they had reached from Aut-na-Guithsach. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness were deeply grieved at the r ece i pt of the mournful intelligence, and immediately returned home. Orders were immediately given for countermanding all invitations to the Castle. The Countess of Desart has left Balmoral, and been succeeded in her duties as Lady in Waiting to her Majesty by the Viscountess Jocelyn. D' —notches were received at the Colonial•ofice on Saturday from the Governors of Hong-Kong, Cey lon, the Mauritius, Labuan, Malta, and from the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands. Dispatn.hes were sent off on Saturday to the Go vernors of Malta, Ceylon, and Hong-Kong, and to the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands. IiER MAJESTY'S SOJOURN in the NORTH CRATHIE, FRIDAY.—To-day her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert took short walks about " The Hut" and Lockmuick in the forenoon, and re turned to Balmoral in the evening by the same road as that over which they drove on Wednesday. The Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, tuad the Princesses visited the Linn of Dee this afternoon, driving up the south side of the river, through the Ballochbui Forest and Castletown of Braemar. Their Royal Highnesses were accompanied by Mr. Gibb, and on their return called at Corremulzie Cottage, and took tea with Mr. and Lady Agness D u ff. Th ey returned to the Castle, and joined their Royal parents in the evening, after a day of much enjoyment. SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH. BETWEEN IIOLYHEAD AND DUBLIN.—An Royal °barter, is being amalgamation between the Electric Telegraph Company and the Irish Submarine Telegraph The principle upon which and consists in insulating Company, cthaer rci carried loeunt r of e ow c r e manufacturing f f t a l e y nc ut incorporated fna gc t u thisrobject.at by the i‘miiial made, a, the wire ropes for the Admiralty are 1 I constructed,iswnrks' where or twisted into a rope, differs means of. indiarubber as well as gutta p e r ce interior .hempen rope, which is are passed through an anhydrous solution, and then covered . f e r r o i o m Trh t ew h s a ier t ,ea h s f i tb t e h yr e hitherto being adopted, lai u p ,but again passed through different, anhydrous solu tion. The whole is then passed through a wire rope with spunyarn, and formed into a ma chine, worked by steam, which encases the interior core in a metallic wire rope, formed of 12 separate strands of 6 wires each, or 72 wires, in all forming a solid 3-i nc h ca b le. These plaits or close convolutions of wire are th oug h t preferable to the singal spiral wire, as calculated to give greater flexi- i bility and strength, and to prevent any portion of the cable from becoming unstranded. As it is m anu f actured it is payed off the machine and formed nto Flemish co il. Th e cable is 70 miles long, a llowing 10i miles for conti ngenc i es , the distance from shore to shore being Only 60 miles. Th ere wire, are to and of this be four wires,lBo mareakcompleted.ing a tota of 280 mil es o f copper l CONVEYANCING COUNSEL.--Another feature in the new Chancery practice to be adopt e d will be the ap pointment of conveyancing counsel. It is lawful, according to the 41st section of the kith and 16th of Victoria, cap. 80, for the Lord Chancellor to nominate any number of convey ancing counsel in actual practice, not less than six, who shall have practised as such for ten years at least, to be the conveyancing counsel upon whose opinion the Court, or any judge thereof, may act in the cases mentioned, , and to supply such vacancies in such list from time to time, and to distri bute the business among such counsel in such order and manner as the Lord Chancellor shall de em fi t. By the pre ceding section, the court and judges sitting at chambers are empowered to receive and act upon the op i n i on of convey. ancing counsel in actual practice in all cases in which, ac cording to the present practice of the Court and the Master's office, it has been usual for the Mater to require or receive the opinion and aid of conveyancing counsel. The Taxi ng Master is to regulate the fees to be paid to conveyancing counsel. DEPARTURE OF THE CANADA, STEAM "SHIP; FOR IiALIFAX AND BOSTON; AND OF THE SARAH SANDS, SCREW -STEAMER, FON AUSTRALIA. — On Saturday aft ernoon the British and North American Royal Mail steam-ship Canada, Lang, commander, left Liverpool for Tialifax ana Boston, with 140 passengers, a fair cargo, and the usual mails, for the United States and the British American pro vinces. During the same night the screw-steamer, S arah Sands, Thompson commander, also left the Mersey, f or Queenstown, where she will take on board the London mails of the 20th, and depart for Australia on the 21st. There were only about 180 passengers on board when she left the Liverpool dock, but it is expected that upwards of 400 alto gether will proceed in the Sarah Sands to Melbourne f rom Queenstown. REPRESENTATION OF BURY ST. EDMUNDs.--M r. Stuart's acceptance of the Vice-Chancellorship havin g created a vacancy in the representation of this borough, and b Mr. E. H. Banbury, the l a te Member, having declined to contest the borough, an invitation was sent to J. A. Hard castle, Esq., the late Member for Colchester, and that gen tleman has accepted the invitation, and has issued an address to the voters of Bury. Mr. Hardcastle on Thursday morning commenced an active canvass, accompanied by the leading members of the Whig party, and was well received by th e Liberal electors. From the well-known liberal principles of the Hon. Gentleman, and his not being a stranger to the town (he having been educated at the King Edward's Grammar School), it is expected that the coming contest will be very close, the last election having been—in spite of all the influence used by Mr. Stuart's friends—lost by only ni ne votes. Mr. J. 11. P. Oakes (son of a banker in the town) i s the Derbyite candidate, LONDON DISPENSARY. —On Friday the usual quarterly general court of the governors and subscribers to this charity, established in 1777, was held in the board room of the institution, Church-street, Spitaifields, for the purpose of receiving the managing committee's report, and upon other business. The report stated that the charity was making satisfactory progress, and that the average number gTEsNepAaßraltAeNd.._ of patients, which was about two hundred per month, had of late been greatly exceeded, most of the cases being those of fever. This had caused a much. larger expenditure of the the A me c e E ti s n funds placed at the disposal of the committee, and they, therefore, expressed a hope that the public would come for wth-aerdand enable them still further to extend the benefits of charity. The minutes of the last court having been read Over throw, au inmate of St. Mary Magdalen Hospital, at Wot ton, near this ; da city, celebrated his hundred and second birth- An aged man, named Over dreyn onWednesday last, surrounded by some of his chil dren.On completing his hundredth year, the jolly old 111 gentlemanmiles offered to wager that he would walk a couple of 11 within an hour, but h is friendsdeclined to accept the I ch allenge.-- Glou challenge,—. Gloucester Journai. , SEPTEMBER 20, 1852 rorarsarz. s. Nomine 1 Prices. Bush' e. done today. THE SHARE MAAKETS BRITISH RILXZWAys Railways. Nominal Prices. Aberdeen 1001. paid Amb., Not., Bost. & E. June. Bir., Wolv., and Stour, Valley all pd. Birk., Lan., & Ch. Jct., late 33/. 65.8 d., 281. pd. Ditto, Chest. & Birk., 50/. & 25/. Cons., all pd. Ditto, ditto ... 18 1 4 pd. Brist. & Exet., 1004 pd. Caledonian ...100/. pd. Chest. & Holyh., all pd. Cork & Bandon, all pd Dab. & Belf. Jct. 451. pd. Dundlk & Ennis., all pd. Dundee,Perth, & Aber deen June. Ditto, New .. all pd. East Anglian (25L L. & E. and L. & D.) all pd. Do (181. E.& H.)all pd. East. Counties all pd. Eastern Union, class A, late E. U. shrs., all pd. Do. do. do. 6/.pd. Do., do., B. & C., all pd. East Lancashire ...all p E. & W. India Docks and Bir. June., all pd Edinb. & Glas.,loo/. pd Edin.,Per.& Dun. 1001. Glas. & S.-West,looLp Great Northn.,looL pd D 0.% s. A Stk., 100 L p Do. % B Stock,looL p Gt. S. & W. Ireld., all p Great Westn., 100/. pd Lane. & Carlisle, all pd Do. Thirds, 11/.13.4 pd Lane. & York., 100/. pd Do., Fifths 14/. pd Do.,W.Rid. Un. 11%p Leeds Northern, all pd Liv.Crsby& Sthpt. all p Lond. & Blackw., all pd Lon.,Brig.& S. Ct.loo p Lon. & N.West, 100 L p Do. Fifths 121. pd Do. 10L,M &B (e) lip Lon. & S.-West 160 E p Do. New 501., 42% pd Do. New 401 341. pd Lon. & Enniskil , all pd Man. Bus. & Mat. all p Man. Shef. & Lin.,loolp Do. Manch. & Lincoln Union 41.25. pd Midland 100/. pd Do. Bir. & Derby 1001. Mid. GLWt. (Ire.) 47% Do. % Shares, 17% pd Newcas. & Carl. all pd Newmarket IOOL pd Newport, Abergaven., and Hereford ...121 pd Newry & Ennisk. 7% p Norfolk 100/. pd Do. New 201. S. 15/. p North. Coun.Un. 3 5 pd North British ...1001. p Nth. Devon, N0.1,13Lp Do., No. 2 6% pd. Do., % A, def....a1l pd Do., i 4 B, guar. 5/. pd North Stafford. 17% p North-Western...all pd N. & 5.-W. June. 8% p Oxf.,Wor., &W.,1001. p Scottish Central 100/. p Scottish Midld., 100/. p Shrews. & Bir 100Lp Do. do. Shrew. & Her 81. p Shrewsbu. and Chester (Nor. W. Min.) all pd Do. Halves all pd Do. Oswestry., all pd Shrop. Union ...6% pd Do. A, B, C, & D fully' pd. up at per cent..,. South Devon all pd South-Eastern 1001. pd South Wales all pd South Yorkshire and River Dun 15E pd Do. Do. 51. pd Stirl. & Dunferm. all p Stock. & Har. 16/2s. 3d. Taff Vale 126/. pd Thames Haven Dock and Railway ...191. pd Vale of Neath...l7L pd Waterfd. & Bilk. all pd Waterfd. & Lim. all pd West Cornwall 13/. pd West London ...all pd Yk., New. & Ber. 100Lp Do. & New. Ex. 20/. p Do. G.N.E.purc. 10/. p York & N. Mid.looLpd PREF, Aberdeen......... all pi Do. No. 2, 7 per ct. all Bris. & Ex., 4 p. ct. Stk Do. 4 p. c. Shares, 5/. pd Caledonian, 10/. 100/ p Ches. & Holyhd. all pd Cork and Bandon, 5 1 ,E per cent. 1 y p Dundee, Per., & Aberd. Junction all pd E. An.(3/ 10s)6 pc. all Do.(Si.) 7 per ct. all p Do. 7/17s) 7p.c. 2 p Eastern Counties Ex., sp. c., No. 1 all pd Do. No. 2 all pd Do. New 6 p. c. Stk. all Eastern Union Scrip, Guar. 6 per Do. 101. Deb. Sh. all p East Lancashire, 6 per et. Quar. Shre. all pd East & West Yorkshire Junction, sths all pd Edin., Per. & Dun. 5% per cent. all pd Glas. & S.W. gua 5 p.c. Gt. North. 5 p. 0.100 pd Do. 5 p e. red. sc. 100 p Great South. & West. (Ireland) Bths all pd Gt. West. (Berke & H. Ex. 5 per cent.)...6 pd Gt.W. fixed 4% 1001. p Lancashire and York shire, F. 20/. _6l pd Do. 6 p. c. Stk. 100/. p Leeds Northern, 6 per cent. No. 1 13/. pd Do. Qrs., 1848 _9/. pd London & Brig. guar. 5 per cent. ...100/. pd Do. Pr. 5 p c. Stk. 100/. Do. Con. 5 p c,1852 all Do. N.Gr. 6 p c 1001 p Lon. & N.-W. (Coy. & Nunet) 5 p. c. 1001. pd Ln. 84 S.W. Co.3ds. Si. p Lon. & En. 1 ,4 Sh. all p Man., Sheff., & Linen. Qr. Sh., No. 1 all pd Do. New, 101 all pd Do. 6/. 31. pd Maryport and Carlisle, 4 per cent all pd Do., 4 , 4 per ct p Mid. Con. 6 p c St 1001 Do. Con. Bris. & 6 per cent.... 1001. pd Do. Erewash Val. all p Do. Leic. & Swanning. 8 per c. Guar. 1001 p Do. Pref., 4i p.c. 5/. p Norfolk Exten... all pd Do. Gr. 5% p et. all p Do. W.Val. 5 p.c. all p North British 1001. pd North Stafford....all pd Oxf. Wor. & Wol., 15/. 6 per cent.... 1001. pd Ditto ditto ... 31. pd Shrews. & Bir. N.G. all Shrews. & Ches. (N.W. Min.) 8 per c....a1l pd Do. 5 per cent, 81. pd South Devon all pd Do. New 1% pd St-Est. (Reading An nuities)...lL Os. 6d pd I Do., 4 1 ,E p c.... 1001. p Sth. York. 4p c gd. all Stock. & Hart. gd. 5 p c until July 1,1856, all p Waterford & Kilkenny, 6 per cent. Si. pd York, New. & Bar. all p Do. Do 5l. pd York & N. Midland H. and S. Purch. 101. pd LINES LEASE 26 to 26% 5% -6% 10% - 11 9 Bd. 19 -20 ••• ... 99 101 41% 42 20 —20% 14% 15 1 4 7 5 d. 6% -7% 0 8 - 454 3 -3% 11y, -11% 8 .-.. 8% W I -6% 18% - 28% 57 —59 70 —72 x.d 24% —25% ••• 74 —76 40 —42 113 —ll5 45% 46 96% 97 82 —B4 x.d 10 —ll p x.d 85% 853/, x.d 3% —3% cliax.d 2 % —2% dis.x.d 18% 18% 8 - 104 1 4 -1p 1203 , ,,, -.121% -3% p 91 •••••• 2 p -.92 dis. 4 dis. 16 —l7 ac.d 3 — 33 28% 29% 83( 2 3 4 dis. 77 , 77% 42 —44 ••• - ••• 47 -49 3 di& 1% 43 —45 9 % —8% dis. 30 -81 7 —6% dia 2% 2 1 4 1 % die. 4% 4 % dis. 4% 5%p. 47% 48% 77% 78% 55 —56 x.d, 68 —72 ... ... 2 —l% dis. 20% - 21% 10% - 10% 15 -16 3 1 i -2% (1. , . dis. 20 —2l x.d 71 1 4 72 1 4 x.d 39 3 / 1 40% 15 —l6 x.d Par —3. p x.d ••• - ••• 169 -171 2% - 3 12 -14 21 - 23 % 3% - 10% 67 -68 8 - 2 7 / 3 2 5 4; di& 48% 49% ail a - - ... 105 - 107 ••• - ••• 100 - 104 18 -19 1 4 dis. % p 6 x.d sy s 3% —8% 1 5 / 8 I' , s p 1 54, -- 1 7 / 8 p 14% -143 A 17 - 171,i 9%- 9% 8% -9% %- 1 p 107 - 109 %dis. % p x.d 150 152 ••• ••• 4 p 13 —l4 x.dl 9 -10 11% -11% lii - % p MIS. % p Va di& •-•• %p [4B - 150 22 par —23 P 6 x.,6 93 —95 x.di ,• .... ••• 2%- 2%p 10% = fix 17% —18 y& 7 /g-1? p 15 —l6 x.d , %dis. par 25X -26% x.(l' ••• ••• 19 —2O x.d % li dis. 102 -- 104 5 -5% % - % P ILT FIXED 99 42% 11% 8X G% 3i 755 i 75 114 45% 46 96% 8X 18% 77% 30% 30 13% 13 48 40% 11 /8 49 1 ,4 NS. 18 15% RENTAZI if; Railways. Muir Let is Leasing to-di v . Companies. Nominal Prices. agnm.......• • I :77........... ••••••.... Bd f• & Bitch., •••• ••• all p Lon.& N.W . . ••• Bir.& Oxf., gua. all Gt. Westn. 293 —3O Do. without, all pl Do. Ilir.Wolv. & Dud.,/ guar..... all pd Do. Do. witout, all p, Do. Buckinghash. all p Lon. &N.W ... ••• Clydsdale Jc., all p l Caledonian 52 —53 E. Lin-, gma. 6 per! cent .. ... 100/.pd Gt. Northn. 150 152 Gloucest: & Dean r Forest... Hartlepl. Dk. & S Yk.New.l ••"' ••• Raliw....all pd l l &B erw. Hull Selby, all pYk. &N 113 115 Do. Halves., all p Do. Do. Q uarts., all p Do. 27 — 2B Leeds & B r d f., all p, Midland lO7 109 108 , 4 Lon. & Greuw., alliS. Eastern 13U 14 4, Do. Pref....all pd Do. Lowestoft., gua. 4 per cent...all pd Norfolk „. 19 —2O I Do. 6 iSliddle sb p.ee& t., Red- Do. ~, ear, 6p. c., all p Stktn&Dar . . —• ! N. & E., SP. c., ail E. Counties 63 — 65 64/4 Do. 6 p. et., all p Do. Do. F. 5 p.c all pd Do. - ••• ~ ••• Presto. & W yr e, f L.& NAV 1 all paid 1 &La. &Yf " ' ... Ditto, Halves, A R , 100/. pd Do. .. . . t.,100/.p Gt.North.n. 149 . lul- Doy & lli Do. Shep. Ex., all Do. 811 f. Rt ll - & Goole, sp. c., 1 8.11.6 p Lan. & Yks ... ••• S. Staffdsh., 9% pilgrA , l•Clean 3.i. „4, die. Wear Val. 6p c., all ' S tckt& Dar 30 3 '. Ditto ditto, all pl Do. Wi1 ,,,,, &Scat. 144 Gt. Weati ra 104 ••••• 105 I Business done to-day. 70 x.d x.d 86 85% Pm x.d Railwava Cent. France (0.V.) all Charl. & Erquel all pd Demerara all pd Dijon & Besancon, 2 pd Dutch Rhenish... Bl. pd' East Indian all pd Gt. Indian Penin. all p Grnd. June. of Fra. 4 pd Louv. a la Sambre 7% Luxembourg ...141. pd Do. (Railway) 10/. pd Do 1d Do. (Canal) 2% %p p d Lyons & Avignon, 5 pd Madras 2s. pd Maria Antonia 27i pd Do. New 8% pd Namur & Liege all pd Do. ex int. all pd North. of France, all pd Do. 201.3 p. c. Bds, all p Orleans & Bor 111. pd Paris & Lyons 101. pd Do. Bonds ... 12 pd. Paris & Orleans all pd Paris & Rouen ...all pd Paris & Stras. ...all pd Faris, Caen, and Cher bourg. 4 pd Rouen & Havre...all pd Sambre & Meuse all pd St. Andrew's & Quebec (A) 4/. pd Tours & Nantes 17/. pd West Flanders all pd West. of France 6/. pdi Agna Fria all pd Anglo-Californian, all p Asturian 151. p Australasian 21. pd Australian 51. pd Anstr. Freehold all pd Ave Maria all pd Brit. Austr. Gold all pd British Iron 131. ss. p Braz. Im. (is. 5 p) 24% Do. Coca. & Cui. all p Do. St. Joh. del R. 15/. Carson's Creek all pd Cobre Copper ...401. pd Colonial Gold 1/ pd Copiapo 141 pd Eng. & Aust. Cop. all p General all pd Gold Mountain all pd Grd. Duch. Baden, all p Great Polgeoth all pd Lake Bathurst all pd Liberty .. all pd Lon. & Cal. Gld Quartz Crushing Corm . all pd Mariquita... all pd Mexi. & S. Amer 91. p New Granada all pd j Nouveau Monde, all pd Port Philip all pd , Quartz Rock all pd Santiago de Cuba 10 3 4 South Australian, all pd Tin Croft 7l. pd United Mexican all pd West Mariposa all pd Yuba 1 paid JOINT• Australasia all pd Brit. Nth. Amer. all pd Colonial 25/. pd Com. of London 201. pd London Chart. Bank of Australia Lon. & County 201. pd London Jt. Stk. 10/. pd Lon. & Westm. 20/. pd Nat. Prov. Eng. 35/. pd Do. New lOl. pd Nat. of Ireland 22% p Orient. Bk. Corp. all pd Prov. of Ireland 25/ pd. Do. New all pd Roy. Aust. B kg. & Gold Importing Corn. Ipd Union of Austral. all pd Do. New 2% pd Union of London 10/. p Union of Madrid all pd 5 4; Ys P % dis. y i p 7 3 4. — 8 3 .4 P 2 254, p 1 1 ILA p 714-- 734 434 - 5 15( -1% 1%- 1 1 4 3% - 4 0 1 ; - - 25Ap 7 9 2 - 3 8%- 9 6%- 7 273% - 28% 13 7 / 8 - 14% 11% - 12% p 57 -56 34% - 35 29 - 29% DA -1% p 14% - 15% JO - 10% ... ... dis. 4% 5 4% - 4X p. MINES. % % p par y a , p 71 - %1) a 1 Y 8 die. % % die. % % dim., • • 6 • ..... • • 7 • - %dia. par 44 —46 Y's — %P % % dis. % di& dis. par 154 3 p 1 ,4 dis. %p 3 4 %dis. par 4 5 dis• 3 / a 3 4 p %p U l / 2 -12% y l dis.— par 12 —l3 6 3 % , 4dis.— par 3/8'.1) -STOOK BAN: 55% - 66 57 -59 15 -16 29 -30 4 - 5 18 % - 19 31 -33 44 -46 183 4 ici 38 —39 x.d 46% 47 16/ 8 17% ••• - 49% - LP% 6 -6% 17 -18 zarscELLaramou, Austral. Roy. Mail, 4 p 3 4 Canada 32% pd 50 —5l Copper Miners of Eng land Do. Preference, 7% pd Crystal Palace ... 5 pd Eastern Steam...2s. pd Elect. Tel eg. Ireland 1p Gen. Stm. Nay. 141. pd Gen. Screw Steam Ship ping Company...sol. p Irish Beetroot Sug. 2i p Penin. & Or. St. all pd Do. Do. ...151. pd Royal Mail Stm. 601. pd Universal Emigration and Colonization, 21. p 30 - 30% ••• •••••• ••• 4% 8 ,-5 % i;i l'i•6% ••• --- ••• 2 -2% 84 -- 86 3 5% le% 78 79% 2% 3 sq % y s 8 28 1 4 71/i 5 4% 8 1% Iy s _ , 3 " 8 % 'YE ; 7 28 % y s 28 22% 3434 295% 3 1 8 30% 5 3 / 4 % 16 • 10% 4% 11 10% 114 % GM, 7% 7 45 1% 1 0 748 98% 97% 16 33% % MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TWO O'CLOCK. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool on Saturday were estimated at 8,000 bales, of which 1,000 American were taken for export, and 2,000 on speculation. The mar ket closed very firmly. The sales comprised 6,500 American, m 250 Pernatn and M aran h a at 61d. to 7d., 200 Bahia at 6-0. to 6kd., 400 Egyptian at bid. to Bd., 600 Surat at 4d. to 4fd., and 40 Sea Island at Is. 9d. to 2s. 4d. per lb.—ln Rail way Shares only a limited business was done at lower prices. The Corn trade is very dull this morning. The Railway meetings announced are the following:— Caledonian, Sept. 22 —London Tavern. Irish South-Eastern, Sept. 25—Dublin. Lancaster and Preston, Sept. 20—Lancaster. London and South-Western, Sept. 24—Terminus. Maria Antonia, Oct. I—Florence. Midland, Oct. 2—Derby. Newmarket, Sept. 29 —London Tavern. North and South-Western, Sept. 20—Office, Rouen and Havre, Sept. 30—Paris. Shrewsbury and Birmingham, Sept. 20—Wolverhampton. Shropshire Union, Sept. 23—Shrewsbury. Tourney, Jurb., Lauden, and Hass, Sept 30—Brussels. Accounts from Belgium state that the treaty of com merce between that country and France was exciting opposition and remonstrance on the part of the silk manufacturers at Lyons and the vine growers at Bor deaux, the dates under the new arrangement being augmented. The French Government, in the interest of its own subjects, will endeavour to procure a modifi cation, but it must exercise, we presume, more liberality itself, ere a fair claim can be established. The Amsterdam Stock Market, on the 18th inst., was dull except for Dutch Four per Cents. Spanish Bonds were animated, but at lower rates. Austrian and Hes sian Stocks were rather feeble. There had been a can celment in the presence of authorized parties of 29,977,135 florins of Treasury bills, in virtue of the law of Decem ber, 1845. Through India and by the Overland Mail, there are advices of July 1 from Sydney. The general news is very satisfactory. The accounts from the Northern Mines (Maitland district) are fully as brilliant as those by the last Over land Mail. The discovery had so increased the traffic between the:Hunter River and:Sydney that a new Steam boat Company was in the course of formation at Maitland, with 40,0001. capital in 4,000 shares at 101. each, and a good dividend was anticipated without affecting the position of the old company, the traffic being double the amount it was capable of accommodating. From the Western mines some fine specimens of pure gold nuggets, one especially of ten pounds weight, had arrived at Sydney, and were purchased at 65g. 6d. per ounce : however, the operations of the miners at the wet diggings were, for a time suspended in consequence of the waters of the Turon being so high as to cause many of the richest beds to be overflowed; however, this district has been more than compensated by the discovery of dry diggings in the dividing range fifty miles west of Molong, which were turning out ex ceedingly rich; 6 oz. per day had been obtained per man by one party. The gold here is found in crystallized quartz. A railway was projected from Melbourne to Alexander. Tho steamer from America is just telegraphed. The English Stock Market has been very firm, in the absence of any particular activity. The large amount of specie exported last week does not exercise any depressing influence, because it is anticipated that there will speedily be an influx from Australia and by the West India steamer. Consols have been 100 to for Transfer, and 100 k to I for Account. Exchequer bills have been 745. and India Bonds 87s. premium. Foreign Stocks have been livelier, and tend upwards again. Mexican have advanced to 251 t, and Peruvian Deferred are 653- to 66, Grenada Deferred are marked 12/. The Turkish Loan has been up again to 9i and 10 premium. Portuguese Four per Cents. have been dull at 384. Spanish Three per Cents. have advanced to 50f and 51, and the New Deferred to 23/ The Passive Bonds have been at 614 to and the Certifi cate is at 3. Sardinian Stock is quiet at 95/. The Austrian Loan is 4/ to 51- premium. Russian Bonds have been at 119, and Dutch Four per Cents. at 99. The line of railway from Charleroi to Erquelines is to be opened on the 11th of next month. In the mean time coaches aro running to connect it with the North of Franco Railway. Railway Shares have been very dull, but prices have not been further reduced, and Great Northern and North Stafford are better. Oxford, Worcester, and Wolver hampton, York and North Midland, and Caledonian, are also higher. French Shares aro generally dearer, and Belgian very animated. Gold Mines are in more request, at fuller prices in several instances. United Mexican are tending up wards still, end I m p er i a l B raz ili an fl u ctuate a good deal. QUARTER TO THREE. nrius;lo 100 •.. .•, Ditto Account, Oct. - 13 ... ... 100 1 i BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK (From the Official List.) 3 per Cent. Consols Anne. .110% y, 100 India Stock .... ..... _ „ ...................... .. 227 Do. Bonds, 1 0001 Consols for Account lOO% i Esschau her Hills. 140. March. 1,000/. ......................... 500 i. ... " Small 70 p 121 120% 15% 29 1 ,4 % eltiCE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Scrip, 5 per Cent. tirenada; 1 1 ,! per Cent. Ditto Deferred M xican Bonds, 1846, 3 per Cent 25% Vs r eruvian Bonds, 1840, 6 per Cent — Do. Deferred 3 Cent. Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent Ditto, 4 per Cent 38% lit Uaiian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent ll9 Ditto 4% per Cent. ....... Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent. 9 53 Spanish Bonds, 3 p er C en t. Ditto, New Deferred Ditto Passive Bonds 6%9i , per Spanish Corn. Cert. Coup. not funded.. Turkish Loan, 6 per Cent. % 10 P nividends on the above payable in London. Dutch 2% per Cent., 12 Gull — Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates......... 99 - -- LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(THIS DAY 2 LONDON, SEPT. 20.—Wind at noon W.N.Virn ug h breeze and cloudy at times. WATERFORD, SEPT. 18.—Wind N. to E.S.E.--Sich Baticola, Pictou. LEMYIG, SEPT. 13.—The Elises Minde, H u ll to Chr is.. tiansand, was wrecked on this coast yesterday during * ga H le b e lß re lL s n av , e tEPT. 16.—The Eendreight, Fie Bfte ns ur% to Aberdeen, sunk the 13th instant , 54 N., .1 aft being in contact; crew saved and landed here. be) MALTA, SEPT. B.—The Hebe, Kaifa to Livery'oo.i - put in with damage, having been struck by lightning , is CONSTANTINOPLE, SEPT. 4.—The Catherine. Gala:. to United Kingdom, arrived here prior to 2d instant, L' transhippiner caro to epair damage. PLYMOUT g H, h SEPT g . I 9. -The schooner Dart, or t big port, Fowey to Cardiff, sank yesterday off the LiO rd; crew s PENaved an landed here. ZANCE, d SEPT.:I9.—The Commodore, f osted OP Neyf Dublin and Arklow to Newcastle, has been assi totally dismasted off the LiZiid. WEXFORD, SEPT. 19.—The Bhurtpore of and frcl likelys t Liverpool jNDtoE R becomeL to AN N p eW a wrOrleans,eck; crew is port, has been SwE wrecked k e l d 9 passengers landeog Brid DEAL, SEPT. 19.—Wind N.Vir.--D'u• aline, a from the River and aid., Jeannette, Ceylon.—Arrivt d from the River, Mary, Cape of 000 i b Waterloo, Sydney, New South Hope; Gateshead, Madras; Laura, Africa. Arr.l.r n.—eaTrhheeres.choon,,i Alertv south Union, s °- Waterloo, Town; Hopewill, Melbourne, New w ales; Marlborough, hf ioirdeH, amcabpurgh ditto; . Janet, Calcutta, ditto; Arlemesia, Cape of Good Hope and mitebel, Port PhiorP., Ceylon;_ Sidney, Ceylon; John O'Gaunt, BoTebaye.; Apprentice, Bussorah; Eliza Hart, Cape of Good fci Ambassab , Tobago; Ocean Queen, New York ; Glenswelly, Qua ec. COWES, SEPT. 19.—Wind S. to S.S.W.--Arrd. Can Al to: DARTMOUTH. — Off 0 1.4 Ne ptune, Laguna, for Bremen. ' Cape H S a l y d t . i a n Escort, for Il L a a ra b Labrador. ; 'Valparaiso; PLYMOUTH, SEPT. 19. Wind W. N.W.-- Sid. Persia!) Tfutb : Port Philip; Emigrant, Port Philip; Time and Melbourne. HARWICH, SEPT. 19.—The Lord Farnham, to London, has been towed in with loss of forerasst, all maintopmast sprung, &c. e, LIVERPOOL, Setibil SEPT. 19.—Wind N.B.—Sid. Sedgere . 0 nw Calcutta; ard, Evangelist,Naw Orleans; San Laurie,Francisco; Charleston Cumber ; o n b d a , d o i t e ti: cock, New York; Canada steamer, Boston; Sarah Sso_.;, steamer, Melbourne; Angelina, San Francisco. Off or t, Only Son, Thomas Lee, and Louisa. The Mail :steal from as Dublin, aground in the Ruth Channel, got oft ..!:f o arrived here without damage. Asia steamer, r" York, arrived off Holyhead at 8 A.M. BRISTOL.—Arrd. Jaseur, Africa. Sld. B a rbara, ditto. , . ••••••• MARKET .NEWS.-(THIS DA _.5..--. CORN EXCHANGE.-. HAN GE.--(MO NDAY.) re The leading country markets, held on SaturdaY, a : e at 0 well supplied with home-grown Wheats, ehi eu f - QS T A h t er t e be wa O s U a tp l O a r ir tS in f q o u re ir i new crops, and in somewhat improved cfounlillitgiounciatdioescri: the whole the demand ruled steady, at Beans, Peas, and Flour wero the turn dearer, but ot he r foreign for Wheats ßarley, articles commanded very little attention. ivied The whole of the Continental markets bale CO t, , he in a very depressed state, at drooping currencies. In United States the trade has been dull. were qu ite ag Meg. I, t last The arrivals of English Grain up to our nia" l3- • e d w e rece , ! T to, week were very moderate. From abroad 15,651 quarters of Wheat, 1,273 Barley, 51,951vae. seed, 38 Mustardseed, 10 sundry Seeds, at 3psre7vsiosuseshir, s 606 Beans, 7 Peas, 180 Tares, 4,845 Linseed, 20 POP a , 22,160 barrels of Flour. , a full average supply Coastwise ceived fresh up to this morning's market from D'" and Kent, but its general quality did not exhibit anyt e signs of improvement. By land carriage and sample ~13_ receipts were seasonably good, and we observed a Ir a heavy and well-conditioned parcels amongst t he the the whole the stands were fairly supplied; whilst, c pro :: demand for all descriptions of Wheat of hone a was in a sluggish state; but we have no change to u ee tice in the currencies of Monday last. o f Whea t The atter) and we of millers, both town and country, was limited, aw l ",_ w hich grail had a heavy pressure of Foreign Flour, operated against the sale for English Wheat. t the For forward delivery next to nothing doing; 9 43 ,.. ;_ growers evinced no disposition to accept lower ra tu- e .x. The show of foreign Wheat, fresh as well 0 "l es granary, was tolerably extensive. Fine dry 1 12 - g moved k‘ off freely, at full quotations; but low and in iu- 7 12 1 - 0 'eds oommended very little attention, at barely late rates. Floating cargoes of Wheat and Indian Corn vier° much neglected, The arrivals from the westward llaya increased. We were but moderately supplied with bot h Eagl and foreign Barley. On the whole, the trade wa s steady' at fully last week's quotations. In Malt, the show of which was but moderate, very little was doing at late rates. _ Very large quantities of foreign Oats being on obosit:, the Oat trade was heavy, but no actual decline took Plisa.r in prices. Beans were in moderato supply sa d jai request. The quotations were well supported. In Peas very few transactions took took place. Prices, however, were fi Indian Corn was dull, and the demand for Flour wall inactive, at last week's currency. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. to 605 Wheat—Essex & Kent, Malt—Chevaller•• •• • .33° Red .... new 34 sto 40s Oats Yorkshire and 210 Ditto •.•• .. .. old 40s 50s Lineolnsh , Feed. 16s 246 Ditto, White new 38s 48s Potato ..:•••• • •' .• • • 231 Ditto.. .... .. old 43s his Youghai and Cora, ll3O Norfolk and Lin- Black ••• ••• • • 6 ; 200 coln, R 51..... 410 45e Cork, White .• • ••• I n ; y4s Ditto, White .• •• •. —a —s Scotch Feed. •• •• , 6 ; 330 Rye—Old ••• • • • ...... 31s 328 Beans Tic ' ... -- -_ k••• • .. , 30 365 New. .. .. .. .. .. .. 31e 333 Pigeons ••••• • " '' `"„ 330 Barley—Grinding... •. 24's 26s Peas—Grey ..••• • • • :: 3 1 ,, i 345 Malting . ........ 28s 303 Maple .• • ..... 320 33 5 Chevalier .... .•. 31a 32s White... •• •• "'' 310 35 0 &(alt—Suffolk and Nor- Boilers ...... ••• ,i 43s folk .... ...... .. 528 57s Fl our —Town m . 'ade.." - -29 S 35° Brown .•..... .. .. 445 503 Suffolk •••• " ' • ' 350 Kingston and Ware 51s 58 0 Stocktis 8c 24 0 dolk 335 .the Large supplies of foreign stock were received port of London last week, the total arrival h a t ri v i l amounted to 12,167 head. During the corresponut period in 1851, we received 7,853; in 1850, 7001113 1849, 6,200; in 1848, 5,500; and, in 1847, 7,520 h es IMPORTS INTO LONDON IN THE PAST Wt 111" pi e s. From Beasts. Sh ee p. Lambs. C a lves. °- 12 Antwerp Amsterdam 55 1,349 1 • 02 •-• Hamburgh Gluckstadt Ostend. ••• Dordt Harlingen ~••• .... ••• _ 50 288 85 ... ". 7 ••• 558 .. 1,227 85 •• Tonningen.... 698 ... 449 ... 54 ••• !/-; Nieu Diep 65 ... 1,395 ... -7 167 - Rotterdam ... 644 ... 3,228 ... 7 u • .---- _ , 427 ••• 596 how of foreign stock here to-day Total .1,939 9,020 .., 185 •-• The s poor condition: tensivo, but at least two-thirds of it was ill In prices no material change took place. Notwithstandg ing that the supply of home-ted Beasts on offer NI . again very extensive as to number, there was a bothsco of the Beasts changed hands wa s again very.ex sity of really prime stock. The attendance of , town and country buyers being large, nearly the rib"! obtained Mondaylast. The primes ad 4s per 81bs. From Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, a Northamptonshire we received 2,800 short-horns; fa d, other parts of England 600 of various breeds; an Scots. from Scotland 70 horned and polled With Sheep we were tolerably well, but not to saY heti ; vily supplied, the time of year considered. Prime Down . ou resillislae. and half-breds moved off steadily, at full currencies Most other breeds met a slow sale, and late rates per barely supported. Lamb is now out of season. The demand for Calves, the show of which was tolerablY good, wad not so active as on Friday; nevertbele.6l prices were maintained. We had a fair inquiry for rig s ' in the value of which no change took place. i Per Sibs. to sink the offal. B . d. tO S' A. d. to 0 2 s. d . lterior Beasts-- 2 4 6 f r iterio: Sheep •• .. 22 3 U Second quality •••• 2 8 3 2 Second qual. Sheep 3 8 3 ', Primo large Oxen.. 3 4 3 8 Coarse-wooiledditto4 0 446 Primo Scots ......3 10 4 0 Southdown Wether 4 4 a Large coarse Calves 3 2 310 Ditto out of the wool 0 9 ° 3 ii Prime small ei :4 ; tto .. 4 0 4 4 Large Hogs ......2 10 Suckling Calves —2O 0 2 4 0 Small Porkers .... 3 8 -, "" Lambs .......... 0 0 0 0 Quarter old Pig 0 s —l2 2x " TOTAL SUPPLY AT MARKET. F 2 'O B'9 ll. O E:Lll SurrL cal t 3 . v2". lr. Beasts., I Sheep. 1 5,513 Beas t s i Sheep. I Calves. rigs. 1 2,081 1 8,510 262 60 A Statement and Com p arison of the Supplies and Prices of Fat Stock ex hibited and sold i n Smithfield Cattle Market, on Monday , Sep t. 22, 1851, and this day, Monday, StiPt• 20, 1852. .4 . 4 . ... . . : 13:8F2:202, Per 81bs., to sink the offal& Sept. 22, 1851. B. d. s. d. Coarse and inferior Beasts ... ... 2 2to 2 4 Second quality ditto ... ... ... 2 6 2 8 Prime largo Oxen Prime Scots, &c.... ... ... ... 3 2 3 4 Coarse and inferior Sheep.: ... 2 8 210 Second quality ditto ... ... 3 0 3 4 Prime coarse-woolled ditto "• ••• 3 6 3 8 Prime Southdown ditto .3 10 4 0 Small 1 Lambs... ri m s b el si.11).00. Porkers r . e Large coarse . Calves ::: ... 2 8 " Prime small ditto ... — 3 3 8 269 IC S , hialves Calves s s : .. a .. n .. ...d . . ::'1:- ... Lambs . . :::: : .. . ... : : : .. : : 3 1 2 : SUPPLIES ON SALE, • SEPT. 23, 1850.—8 I S B h s, jeß;epyrpaing2ds4,l:lloBl2l-41.b93.,_2139,e8a510t5;, Calves, 2 s B h l e ; ep P , ig 3 s, 0 , rz2MAR Ga min jug D MEADENIZAX•Sei o r o ir a shoe, tshueppaelineseroalf edaecmhankdindbaosfbMeceoamtebseoinmgewchnatthientslnc: 5ept.20, 1852 0. d. e. 2 402 6 2 8 3 34 3 - 310 4 ° 3 2 8 3 6 3 3 10 4 0 4 4 4 4 00 0 u 3 2 3 10 40 4 4 2 8 10 3 3 3 16 5,51 3 23,90 0 332 I 340 432sts, 4,872; 550. ,t 200; Calves, Tref ° Th, 441 411 3 b altd , litto Th e v'tir ' 4 1 1 3p t j.: 9 , ; 1 4 he • s