The Sun. — London, England, 1848-10-06 00:00:00

Jae I might be prosecuted for high treason without diffi culty. lie appealed, then, to the jury to reject all doubtful documents found in the portmanteau, ou the grovel that the lives of many men hereafter would de pend on their decision. As to the evidence of Dobbin, he would pass over it ; far the association, per; ectly legal a itself, could not in the progress of the case be converted into one that was illegal by the evidence of suctea man. They would remember that Mr. O'Brien on the 22d of' July was at Enniscorthy. It was an nounced on that day in Dublin that the Habeas Corpus Act was to be suspended. Mr. Dillon and Mr. Mesgher left Dublin to inaierm Mr. O'Brien of that fact, and their belief that he was to be arrested. Mr. O'Brien left the house where he was staying ; and what could be more natural than that he should wish to save the gentleman in whose house he was staying ? What. then, took place? The ruling object in 11r. O'Brien's mind was from that moment to escape arrest. Every speech he made from that moment expressed that idea. Mr. O'Brien believed that they would give him no trial, but that Lord Clarendon meant, as he had the power to do, to keep him in gaol for nine months. Ile thought that that was unconstitutional, and he determintd to resist arrest. That *as the cause of all that followed. But that was not high treason, and so they would be told from the bench. He came now to another branch of the case, and he approached it with alarm. The revolution strengthened apace. The wild and ferocious conduct pursued by the arch traitor in Kilkenny was—ascending a round tower and ooming down again. Never again should he look upon any of those monuments of our an citnt faith without thinking of the Attorney-General and high treason.—(Laughter.) It would have been better if the Attorney-General had not attempted to give so preposterous a bearing to the innocent circumstance of Mr. O'Brien spending sixpence to ascend the Round Tower at Kilkenny. lie now came to the 24th of July. All the speeches that had been referred to up to that day expressed the same idea—that the people would not let him (Mr. O'Brien) be arrested under a warrant that would thrust him into prison and allow him no trial. He admitted that Mr. O'Brien did wish to keep the people about him—to keep the colliers about him—to prevent his arrest. His sole object was his personal security. But his conduct from the first to the last was irrecon cilable with the notion of his intending to kill the Queen. The Learned Counsel, after commenting with severity upon the manner in which the speeches were represented by the policemen who were brought forward to prove them, said he had finished that branch of the case ; but he felt too much exhausted to proceed further with his address that evening. The COURT at once acceded to the suggestion of the Learned Counsel, and the proceedings were adjourned until to-morrow morning. CHOLERA-PRIVY COUNCIL. DUBLIN, Txtrasn.ty.—A meeting of the Privy Council was held at Dublin Castle yesterday after noon, the Lord• Lieutenant presiding, when it was de termined to put in force in this country the Act passed last session for the prevention of cholera or other epidemic diseases. The Council was attended by the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Charlemont, the Right Hon. F. Shaw, and Sir William Somerville, Chief Secretary. The following proclamation, agreed to by the Council, appears in an Extraordinary Gazette issued last night : " By the Lord-Lieutenant and Council of Ireland. it C " Whereas by an Act, passed in the last session of Parliament, intitnled An Act to renew and amend an Act of the tenth year of her present Majesty, for the more speedy removal of certain nuisances, and the pre vention of contagion% and epidemic diseases,' after re citing that it is expedient that when any part of the United Kingdom shall appear to be threatened with or affected by any formidable epidemic, endemic, or conta gious disease, measures of precaution should be taken with promptitude, according to the exigency of the case, it is enacted, that in Ireland, the Lord-Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors and Privy Council of Ireland, may, by order or orders, to be by them from time to time made, direct that the provisions in the said Act contained for the prevention of epidemic, endemic, and contagious diseases be put in force in Ireland, or in such parts thereof, or in such places therein respectively, as in such order or orders respectively may be expressed, and may, from time to time, as to all or any of the parts or places to which any such order or orders may extend, and in like manner revoke or renew any such order, and subject to revocation and renewal as afore said, every such order shall be in force for six calendar months, or for such shorter period as in such order shall be expressed: " And whereas the United Kingdom appears to be threatened with a formidable epidemic disease, in con sequence of the progressive advance of such a disease to the western portion of the Continent of Europe; " Now, we, the Lord-Lieutenant and Privy Council of Ireland, in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in us as aforesaid, do hereby order and direct, that the provisions contained in the said hereinbefore recited Act, for the prevention of epidemic, endessic, and contagious diseases, be put in force throughout the whole of Ireland, immediately from and after the date of this order: " And we do hereby further order and direct, that this order shall continue in force for six calendar months, from and after the date hereof. " Given at the Council Chamber in Dublin, this 4th day of October, 1848. " MaiiirgaE BRADY, C. CHARLEMOMT. " FRED. SHAW, WM. M. SOMERVILLE." ROYAL CALEDONIAN ASYLlll4.—Yesterday a special general court of the governors of this institution was held at the Scotti,h Hospital, Crane -court, Fleet -street, for the purpose of empowering the directors to retain girls in the institution until they attain fifteen years of age, instead of iourteen, and also to receive the report of the committee respecting the appointment of the secre tary and superintendent; his Grace the Duke of Buo clench in the chair. Mr. Simpson moved, and Mr. Lindsay seconded, the following resolution s—" That the bye-laws Nos. 29 and 30 be suspended, for the purpose of enabling the governors to proceed to the election of six boys on December next." After some slight discussion the motion was carried. The next resolution was pro posed by Mr. Lindsay, to the effect " that the female children be permitted to remain in the asylum until they become 15 years of age instead of 14." This motion was seoonded, and a protracted discussion ensued,in which Messrs. Donaldson, Sutherland, Lindsay, and others, took part. At length an amendment was moved as fol lows :—" That the Committee be allowed to retain four girls, from fourteen to fifteen years of age, for instruc- Lion in household and other duties, as a reward for pre vious good conduct, with the concurrence of the friends of the children." The amendment and the original motion were put by the Noble Chairman, and the former was carried. The next question that engaged the at tention of the court was the proposed sale of stock, to the amount of 7501. Three per Cent. Consols. After some conversation the proposition was deemed to be inexpedient. The resolution of the Court of Directors of the 19th of September last was then brought forward for confirmation. The effect of the resolution was the appointing of Mr. Renton, to perform the combined duties of secretary and superintendent. A long and very angry discussion took place upon the point, and ultimately the motion was carried. Thanks were then voted to his grace for his conduct in the chair, and the court broke up. LAUNCH or A STEAxma.--On Monday last, the 21 instant, a splendid new steam-ship, the property of the Peninsular and and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, was launched from the building -yard of Messrs. Pilcher, at Northfleet. She was named the Bombay, and it was understood is intended to form one of an improved line of steam communication with India, between Suez and Bombay. She is of the burden of about 1.300 tons, and is to have engines of 450 horse power. The launch took place at a quarter before four P.m., and the vessel went off in fine style in the presence of a numerous concourse of spectators. Another beau tiful vessel, of the same tonnage and power, now con structing, in the same yard fur the Peninsular and Ori ental Company, is nearly ready for laenching; and both vessels were, by the connoisseurs, in naval architecture present, pronounced to be unsurpassed for their beauty of model and sonndness of construction. The builders entertained the directors of the company, and a large party of friends, to a sumptuous collation after the launch. DEATH or Ma. P. LAI:MENTZ CAMPAELL.—We regret to annum:we the death of Mr. P. Laurentz Camp bell, late secretary of the South-Western Railway. Ile expired suddenly on Wednesday night. The following notice, which appeared in the Railway Chronicle of the 30;h of St•ptember, contains the facts connected with Mr. Campbell's retirement from office. We are sure that the remarks favourable to the deceased gentleman will meet with a response from all who knew him : The secretaryship of the London and South-Western has changed hands. Mr. Laurentz Campbell, who has so ably fulfilled the duties of that office, has been forced by ill-health to resign the arduous duty of managing that large and valuable property. All who have watched the progress of the great contests in which the South- Western has recently and victoriously, been engaged must know that the talents of Mr. Camp bell were severely tasked ; and they must also know with how much zeal and energy he forwarded the interests of that company. His health has been sacrificed to his duty ; and although for a long time the directors have trusted that he might be able to return to his duties, and once more give them the advantage of his services, yet the prospects of his case are such that he has not been able to give them any hope of being able to resume his official duties with efficiency ; and he has finally tendered his resignation. In these circumstances we must simply tender our expression of the sympathy and esteem which universally follow Mr. Campbell into his retirement, and of the earnest hope which his friends entertain, that the relief from further responsibility may tend to soothe his spirits and alleviate his disease. Mr. Wyndham Harding, who succeeds Mr. Campbell as manager and secretary of the line, will have arduous duties to perform. He comes into office in very tfifficult times, and on a line which occupies a place in the debatable land of the gauges, which has hitherto been the place of greatest danger. Mr. Harding, how ever, brings to his task great advantages—long experi ence in all the details of railway traffic and railway management, and a thorough training to the duties of secretary ; and adds to these advantages administrative talents and the education and position of a gentleman. We congratulate the shareholders on this judicious choice of their directors." THE PENINSULAR MAlL i r—The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-ship Madrid, which arrived at Southampton yesterday, brings advices to the follow. ing dates :—Gibraltar, Sept. 28 ; Lisbon, Sept. 30 ; Oporto, Oct. 1 ; Vigo, Oct. 2. The freight consists of 68 packages of specie, 14 casks gum, 3 cases leeches, 729 boxes grapes, 129 ditto lemons, 1 box diamonds, 1 of plate, 24 boxes eggs, and 20 parcels sundries. TriE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, OCTOBER 6. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 54; Highest, 66; Noon, 70, BAROMETER, 30.23. WIND S. ; fine sunshiny weather. ~ .. . it iii. , • . -""" . ) V 4.. • IP' s ~., g__ _ 4__ ---,.. - m . n oik . l k ,f, Its... = fir m ~ . . • 3 ~ p....,,.., 4 - , s il t . 44 1 ; , I*4 - "A. "' bi x 7 prZikeio , .W'''''' #' I;.' i: 1, '''• r" V ' / 1 ..1 ' ~,,, •: r • MILDRED VERNON IS NOW TO BE lIAD AT ALL TILE LIBRARIES. THE FRENCH IN AFRICA. On Tuesday, October 1711 i, will be published, in post B vo., NARRATIVE of a CAMPAIGN with a FRENCH COLUMN, under Marechal Bugeaud, directed aaiast the Kabiles of Algeria; together with au Account of the Ad ventures of M. Suchet in search of the Cantu of the Emir Abd-el- Kader. By DAWSON BORRER, F.R.G.S., st embre Correspondant de la Societe Orienta'e a Paris. Author of "A Journey from Naples to Jerusalem." London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. •rHEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. -L, Mr. BUNN has the honour of announcing that he will OPEN this THEATRE for the usual Winter Se 3son on MONDAY, OCTOBER 9, When will be performed the Opera of MARATANA, and the Ballet f THE AMAZONS, and being enabled by an arrangement entered into with the Directors of the Royal Italian Opera to avail himself of the vast resources of that celebrated Establishment, the Entertainments will be supported by a mise en scene never yet given on the English stage. With the view of representing the Performances submitted to public patronage in an equally efficient manner, he submits the names of the principal Artistes with whom he has entered into engagements : FOR GRAND OPERA. &maxi AND CONTRALTI.—MdIIe. Nissen (principal singer from the Imperial Theatres of Italy and St. Petersburgh), Miss Burner, Miss Bassano, Miss Wallace (sister of the composer, her first appear ance), Miss Nelson (her first appearance on any stage), Miss Messent, and Madame Stoltz (the renowned singer irons the Grand Opera at Paris). Hasse AND BAILITONES.—Mr. Borrani, Mr. Whitworth, Mr. Bur dini, Mr. H. Corti (principal buffo from the Theatre Royal, Dublin), Mr. S. Jones, and Mr. H. Phillips. Tx:sot:J.—Mr. W. Harrison, Mr. Herberte (his first appearance on the London stage), Mr. Barker, and Mr. Sims Reeves. The Orchestra has been entirely re-arranged, and selected from the first talent, on a greatly increased scale. Musical Director, Signor Schira. The Chorus will be augmented to an unusual extent, and will com prise the best voices in the country. Chorus Master, Mr. Land. FOR GRAND BALLET AND SPECTACLE. Didlles. Plunkett and Sophie Fuoco (both from the Grand Opera de la Nation, Paris), Mdlle. Celeste Stephan, Mdlle. Moncelet, .Mdlle. Gaillot, and Mdlle. irnal (all from the principal Theatres of Paris), Mdlle. Louise, and Mdlle. Maywood (principal danseuse from the San Carlos. Naples) ; M. Petipa and M. Desplaces (both from the Theatre de la Nation. Paris), M. Jules (from the Grand Opera La Scala, at Milan), M. Paul. Mr. W. H. Payne, Mr. T. Matthews, Mr. Cormack (from the Theatre Royal, Liverpool, his first appearance), M. Maxi lier (his first appearance these eight years), and the most renowned Dancer now on the Continent, M. Durand ; with a more numerous aad effective body of Corps de Ballet, Figurantes, and Promeneusea, than has ever yet been engaged in an English Theatre. Amongst other novelties of the season will be produced the new Ballet of " The Amazons," now performing with great success in Paris), and a new grand Ballet by M. Barren (expressly composed for Mdlle. Plunkett.) The celebrated Opera of " Haydee" (the last production of Messrs. Scribe and Auber, and adapted to the English stage by Mr. Lavenu), will be instantly produced. A grand Opera, in three acts, composed expressly for this Theatre y Mr. W. Y. Wallace. " The First Wulpargis Night" (th" Poem by Goethe, and the Mu sic by the late Dr. Mendelssohn), will be given in a dramatic form by all the immense resources of the Theatre. A celebrated Musical Work (dramatised for the first time by J. P. Planche) is in preparation, and will be produced as speedily as the magnitude of the subject will permit. A new grand Opera, entitled " Kenilworth," by Signer Schira ; and a grand semi-ser:a Opera, composed expressly by Mr. W. Balfe. An entirely new Ballet will be produced fur the debut of Mdlle. Maywood. Numerous treaties are pending, and amongst others, an answer is daily expected from the celebrated Herr Pischek. Principal Scene-painters—Messrs. Grieve and Telbin. Property Maker—Mr. Blamire. Ballet Masters—MM. Barrez and Mazilier. Under Ballet Master—Mr. B. Barnett. Stage Director—Mr. G. Ellis. ENTRANCES AND PRICES OF ADMISSION. Grand Entrance, Bow-street.—Grand Tier Boxes, 31. 3s. ; First Tier Boxes, 21. 2s. and 11. I ls. 6d. ; Pit Boxes; 21. 2s. ; Stalls, 10s. 6d, ; Single Admissions to a Private Box on the First Tier, 7s. Bow-street Entrance.—Pit, 3s. 6d. Piazza Entrance.—Public Boxes, 55.; Gallery Amphitheatre, 2s. 6d.; Gallery, Is. 6d. Half-price to take place, as usual, at Nine.—To the Public Boxes 35.; Pit, 2s. ; Amphitheatre Galley, Is. 6d. ; Galley, is. Doors open at Half-past Six, performance to commence at Seven. The Box-office is open from Ten till Five, under the direction of Mr. John Parsons. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. rnder the direction of Madame Celeste During the Recess this Theatre has been entirely re-decorated, tke original designs by Digby Watts, Esq., executed by Mr. Sang. A new Stage, Curtain, Act Drop, and Chandelier. An approved sys tem of Ventilation, &c., &c. The Private Boxes enlarged, Backs added to the Seats, and Stalls rendered more comfortable. THIS EVENING Will be performed RORY O'MORE. Atter which, THE IRISH LION. To conclude with TILE MARRIED BACHELOR. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Vestrls. Sole Lessee, Mr. Charles Mathews. THIS EVENING, Will be performed a comic Drama, entitled ANYTHING FOR A CHANGE. Characters by Messrs Harley, C. Mathews, Horner; Miss K. Fitzwilliarn, and Miss Marshall. After which, COURT BEAUTIES. To conclude with THE CRITIC, Dress Boxes, ss. ; Upper Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 29. ; Gallery, is. No sail-price to any part of the house. The New Box-office, No. 2, Wellington-street, is open to the Public every day, from Ten till Six. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Mr. J. M. Maddox. Sole Lessee and Manager. During the Recess this Theatre has been re-decorated and embel ished in a superb and costly manner by Mr. Hurwitz. A new Chan delier has been fitted, and the best arrangements have been made for the due Ventilation of the Theatre, and the comfort and convezience of the audience. THIS EVENING, Will be performed the Opera of LA VIVANDIERE. After which. PAY ME! OR IF YOU DON'T--.., To conclude with the Ballet of LA ROSIIERE. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. The Last Week of the Season, arrangements having been made for the appearance of the Equestrian portion of the Establishment at Edinburgh. Triumphant success of the Popular Equestrian Spectacle of Maseppa, which has been nightly received with enthusiasm. Unparalleled Equestrian Feats. THIS EVENING, Will be performed Lord Byron's Ilippodrarnatie Spectacle of SIIZEPPA ; or, The Wild Horse. To be followed by the inimitable EQUESTRIAN and GYMNAS TIC EXERCISES in the ARENA. To conclude with the Farce of THE SECRET. Box-office open from Eleven till Flve. • Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. TO CORRESPONDENTS. No communication can be attended to unless authenti , cated by the name and address of the writer. Rejected communications cannot be returned. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning .. 8 min. after 7 Evening .. 4 min. after 7 eiTtltifnit LONDON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1848 . Reductions in the national expenditure have be come a necessity. Unless Ministers are prepared to yield upon this point to the imperative demands of the population, no Government can be of long stand ing. During the last three centuries the principal anxiety of our rulers has been to render the national revenue compatible with the national expenditure, to make the two accounts tally with each other, to balance the annual income and the annual disburse ments of the nation. Hitherto the difficulties of the undertaking have been overcome by a gradual in crease of taxation. The public credit has been mortgaged. Year after year the burthen of an additional impost has been saddled upon that unfor tunate wight, 'yclept JOHN BULL, insomuch that the notion of his "basking in the sunshine," such as was imagined by a caricaturist of the eighteenth century, becomes nothing less than a piece of the bitterest satire and the most unconscionable ridicule. Happily for our posterity, however, we are becoming alive, at last, to the absurdity of the old system. We experience, through the direful urgency of our position, the folly of postponing the anxieties of the country by a patchwork system of accumulative imposts. In every particular we find the arithmetical anecdote of" Sand• ford and Merton" exemplified; the farthing nails multiplying to an enormous and appalling aggregate. As surely as we are the most sedate, because the least revolutionary people in Christendom, we are in like manner the most heavily-taxed race in the two hemispheres. Among the early Christians it was the custom in every little act of existence to make an offering of intention, or to utter an aspiration of devotion to the GOD of Peace. Among ourselves it is not only a custom but a State necessity to pay our tribute to the I God of Mammon in every trivial detail of municipal or domestic life. Taxation has assumed to itself, almost impiously, something of the Divine attribute of übiquity. If we walk along a gravelly footpath it is present in the trituration of our shoe leather. If we look out at window it floats elfin-like upon the sun beams. If we wash our hands it bubbles up among the soap suds. If we amuse ourselves with a news• paper it stares at us through the lattice-work of the red timbre. If we slake our thirst with a flagon of wine, it floats down our throat with the bee's-wing. We cannot even call out in despair with CHRISTOPHER SLY, "For GOD'S sake, a cup of small-beer !" without tasting the worm wood of taxation in the flavour of the hops. Its elasticity adapts itself even to the small ness of small beer. It soars up among the cordage of the balloon, and sinks down into the profoundest excavations of the mine. It is now monstrous, and now insignificant, but never disappears ; it fluctuates with the fluctuations of trade, with the demands of appetite, and with the graduations of luxury ; it ap proaches us through all our senses ; we breathe it in the air, which it may be said to impregnate like a moral mephitis ; we eat it, we drink it, we see it in the light of the day; it haunts us like an evil con science ; it dogs our heels like a robber ; it clings to us like a burr or a parasite ; it seems in all essential respects to be at once eternal and omni present. Such has taxation become in these kingdoms under the auspices of a succession of aristocratic administrations. Whenever there has been a deficit at the close of the financial year, that deficit has been satisfied either by a loan leading to an impost, or an impost warding off a loan. The bed upon which the nation has been stretched has been deplorably Procrustian : and the Chancellor of the Exchequer has officiated by a sort of imprescriptable right as the national torturer armed with his official instruments of agony—the saw, and the axe, and the rack, and the pincers, and the thongs of financial legislation. The whole system of Government, as far as the income of the country is concerned, has been nothing better than a hereditary plan of botching and cobbling. The result is visible ; and the re medy, at length—thanks be to GOD I—obvious. In the course of the last Parliamentary session Mr. Hunts proclaimed that the time was come when the people of England would no longer consent to be fleeced and pigeoned for the advantage of a bevy of place-hunters ; and he declared that nothing would satisfy the population but an immediate and extraor dinary diminution of the national expenditure. Mr. HuME was right. Following in the footsteps of the veteran Reformer, the representative of Montrose, Mr. COBDEN demanded from the members of the Cabinet an instant reduction in our naval and milis tart' estimates. Mr. COBDEN was wrong. Any act of economy would be preferable to a par simony displayed towards our sea and land service, towards our wooden walls or our bat talions, towards the soldiers and the sailors, who deserve better from their country than to be shelved as hangers-on, or to be discharged as an ex pensive and idle luxury. The State cannot yet spare its defenders. The social system is not yet sufficiently consolidated to enable it to dispense with its bulwarks, And it is quite clear to our comprehension that those who talk of doing away with the substantial founda tions of the empire, under the impression that universal and eternal peace is practicable, are literally —building castles in the air ! Nol Atalantis has not yet arrived. Utopia has not yet glimmered above the horizon of this century. Icarie is still far away in the realms of dream land, or fairyland, or whatever land it may have been in which the imagi nations of M. CABET, of Sir THOMAS MORE, and of Lord BACON have delighted to expatiate. We must be content to act in a manner more decidedly common place. 'We must forego the flimsy and aerial fascina tions of whatever is merely Icarian, Atalantian, or Utopian. And here we would recommend to all financial reformers the example, the brilliant and illustrious example, afforded by the new French Republic that Republic which Toryism delights to ridicule as a fantastic frivolity, but which every successive day proves to be more and more an active institution of benefactions. According to the report recently delivered in by the Committee of Finance—a report containing the corrected budget of receipts and expenses for the year 1848—it appears that extraordinary reductions have already been effected in the general expenditure. And the reduc tion is applied, moreover, in the most rational direc tion. No reduction, or rather, we should say, no notable reduction is observable in the budgets of War, Marine, or Public Works. The War budget, for example, remains fixed at 432,254,724 francs ; 1 the Marine budget has been increased by 6,583,615 francs up to a total of 151,978,520 francs ; and the Public Works budget has been arranged at 217,323,688 francs. The reduction is of a very different character ; it is a reduction applied to the salaries of diplomatic and consular agents ; a reduction, moreover, the remarkable nature of which may be at once recognised by a glance down the following catalogue : Brussels ... 40,000 f. Constantinople ... 80,000 London ... 150,000 Madrid ... 80,000 Naples ... ... 60,000 Rome ... . 90,000 St .Petersburgh... 120,000 Vienna ... ... 90,000 Athens ... ... 40,000 Berlin ... ... 70,000 Copenhagen . . 40,000 The Hague ... 50,000 Lisbon ... 40,000 Mexico ... 60,000 Rio de Janeiro ... 60,000 Stockholm ... 40,000 Washington ... 60,000 instead of 70,000 f. 100,000 - 300,000 - 170,000 - 100,000 - 120,000 300,000 - 200,000 70,000 - 100,000 50,000 70,000 60,000 80,000 - 80,000 50,000 80,000 Further extracts from this extraordinary report of the Committee would demonstrate still more vividly the extent of these enormous but most judicious reduc tions, reductions applying not only to the salaries of the Republican ambassadors, but to the incomes of the prefects appointed in the various departments. In regard to the payment of the latter, the memorable law of the gBth Fluviose, Year VIII., has been re adopted, and a reasonable scale of compensation by law determined. Again may we repeat the old adage—" They manage these things better in France." And our Constitutional Reformers would do well not to disdain profiting, for once at least, by the example afforded to them by the humanity of the French Republicans. It is impossible to estimate too highly the im portance of the subject to which M _IIARLES ENDERBY has directed the public attention in a state ment just published by him, explanatory of the necessity, and the means of re-establishing the British Southern Whale Fishery. If it be regarded merely as the opening of a new channel for the profitable investment of capital, affording a rich promise of ample returns for the amount that should be invested in the undertaking, the project would be well worthy of attention, but it possesses a much stronger recommendation than any that can be derived from it as a source of merely private emolument. It aims at the resuscitation of an important branch of our national industry —at restoring that trade that has been practically lost to the country, and providing, by British skill and British enterprise, the supply of an article in constant demand, which has been suffered to fall, in a vast degree, into the hands of our Transtlantic brethren, the most formidable rivals of our country in mari time affairs, and which a continued negligence on our part will altogether deprive us of, and transfer to the navy of the United States. In the course of last year we repeatedly alluded to the convincing arguments brought forward by Mr. ENDERBY, in a pamphlet published by him on the sub ject, and detailing the extraordinary advantages that would result from the formation of a colony on the Auckland Islands, devoted entirely to the carrying out with spirit and energy the whale fisheries in the South Seas. The monetary difficulties that prevailed on every side at that time, the universal distrust and want of confidence, prevented the project from receiv ing the consideration it so eminently deserved. Indeed, at that period it would have been impossible to have obtained general support for any undertaking, however promising it might appear and certain of ultimate success. A more favourable period has now arrived, however, and Mr. ENDERBY has again submitted his scheme and proposed the formation of a new company, in order to carry out his objects in the most efficient and energetic manner. Her MAJESTY'S Government have exhibited their sense of the national importance of the con templated undertaking. A grant has been made to Mr. ENDERBY of the Auckland Islands, the station selected by himself, and possessing every requisite for carrying out the project in the most efficient manner. The Board of Trade has expressed its willingness to recommend that a Royal Charter of Incorporation be granted to the proposed company when formed, limiting the liability of the share holders to the amount of their respective subscriptions. The Chief Secretary for the Colonies has instructed the Governors of Australia, Vkn Diemen's Land, and New Zealand to aid the success of the enter prise in any manner possible; while the Lords of the Admiralty have transmitted a similar ()Her to the commander of the squadron on the New Zealand sta- tion. Few projects have been submitted to the public with such powerful recommendations, or which pos sessed so great a certainty of the most influential support. It has, however, inherent merits that render a failure nearly impossible, if only a clear stage be afforded, and that at least is insured by the recog nition and adoption of the Government. Mr. ENDERBY, in the pamphlet to which we have already alluded, has clearly proved that the South Whale Fishery can no longer be profitably carried on by large vessels sailing directly from and returning to England. Ships of large tonnage and enormous expense would be necessary for that purpose, and a great waste of time and labour would thus be occa sioned, for these vessels would too frequently re turn with half or quarter the cargoes they could easily and conveniently carry under a better syetem. This necessity would, how ever, be altogether superseded by the plan suggested by Mr. ENDERBY. lie proposes to establish on the islands to which we have already alluded, and which are situate in latitude M South, and longitude 166 East (nearly due south of New Zealand), a whaling station, from whence the vessels employed in the fisheries might start, and to which they should return with their produce, storing up the oil, ready for re shipment, tolEngland directly, or to adjacent colonies, where transports could at all times readily be pro cured, and where the necessary supplies of stores, provisions, I ce . (over and above the produce which the islands themselves might yield) could be obtained. By these means there would be vessels especially constructed for the purposes of the fishers, lyi ng at a convenient station, from whence they might reach the scene of their operations in a brief period, and at the very season when they would be likely to obtain the greatest success in their undertaking. In Mr. ENDERBY'S own language, " There would a/war be ships on the whaling grounds, or returning from thence with pro duce to the station ; alwitys supplies of oil awaiting shipment to England, and always full cargoes on the way thither. There would, in fact, be a constant stream of produce flowing, so to speak, into the station from the various fisheries, and out of it to England ; consequently, as the supply of oil in the home market would thus be both regular and abundant, prices would be moderate and steady. By these means a very considerable saving of expense would be effected, not only in the outset, but in the whole of the ulterior proceedings, and a system be established beyond the risk of failure." We are unable to set forth all the advantages de tailed by Mr. ENDERBY in his statement. We shall, however, take an early opportunity of returning to the consideration of this most important subject. In the meantime we commend the project to the consi deration of capitalists, by whom we doubt not that the small sum required, 300,000 i. in 6,000 shares of 50/. each, will speedily be made up. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the Paris papers of yesterday. After the article of the Constitution excluding all paid functionaries from the Legislative Chamber had been agreed to on Wednesday, it was discovered that the effect would be to exclude all military and naval:officers ; b 1 SARRANS proposed to make at once an exception in their favour; General CATARINAC; however, suggested the propriety of making other exceptions, and of postponing the consideration of them until they came to the consideration of the organic laws, which suggestion was ultimately adopted. The following is a report of the subsequent pro ceedings of the Assembly, from which it will be seen that all the articles of the Constitution, down to 41, which regulates the election of President, have been agreed to : " Art. 31. The National Assembly is permanent. Nevertheless it can adjourn to any period which it determines. During the whole course of the proro gation a Commission, composed of the members of the bureau and of 25 Representatives, named by the Assembly by ballot and by an absolute majority, has a right to convoke it in case of urgency. The Presi dent of the Republic has also a right to convoke the Assembly." The two first paragraphs were adopted, and the latter was kept back for the period when the attribu tions of the President should be determined. M. Duplan proposed the following additional article :—" The National Assembly shall fix the place of its sittings : it determines the number and im portance of the military forces, which shall be estab lished for its safety and for the maintenance of the respect which is due to it, in the town where it may have fixed its sittings," which, after a short discussion, was adopted. " Art. 32. The representatives are always re eligible."—Adopted. "Art. 33. The Members of the National Assembly are the Representatives, not of the department which elects them, but of the whole of France."—Adopted. " Art. 34. They cannot receive from their consti tuents any fixed directions as to their votes."— Adopted. " Art. 35. The representatives of the people are inviolable. They cannot be molested, accused, or judged at any time for the opinions which they have expressed in the National Assembly."—Adopted. "Art. 36. —They cannot be arrested in criminal matters, except in fiagrarate delieto, nor prosecuted, un less after the Assembly had authorised the prosecu tion."—Adopted. M. Flandin proposed the following additional paragraph The case in which the representative is taken i n fr gros t e delicto shall be immediately brought be fore the Assembly, who will m a i n t a i n or annu l th e arrest." Several Voices—That is the law—that is the rule. M. Flandin observed that the object of his amend ment was to say that no longer delay should take place between the arrest and th e demand for authori sation to the National Assembly than was strictly and absolutely necessary. M. Dupin said that although the arrest might take place in flagrante della°, it was nec es s a ry t o o btain the authorisation of the Assembly before any pro ceedings could follow in consequence of it. The As sembly would, therefore, always be the judge of the validity of the arrest. M. Flandin said that a long delay might notwith standing take place between the arrest and the de mand (or authorisation t o procee d . M. Deslongrais demanded what would ba done in the event of the prorogation of the Assembly taking place in the meantime.—Unterruption The additional paragraph was then put to the vote, and after one doubtful trial adopted. M. Trousseau proposed to add to the clause the words, 10 Or to th e C omm i ttee charge d w i t h its powers during its prorogation." M. Vivien said the lion. Gentleman appeared to consider it as admitt e d t h at the permanen t Committee of the Assembly would be vested with its powers. It was not thus that the matter bad been understood. The Committee on the Constitution meant only to give a single power to that Committee—that of con voking the Assembly. It could not therefore agree to the amendment of the Hon. Gentleman. The amendment was put to the vote, and rejected. M. Rayne! proposed the following additional article :—" Th e res id ence o f a representative cannot be subjected to the visits of the agents of the autho rities."—(Exclamations, and laughter.) Numerous v o i ces —The previous question. The President announced that M. Raynal had con sented to p os tp one hi s amendment until the proposi tion of M. Laurent (de l'Ardiehe) on the inviola bility of representatives was discussed. " Art. 37. Each representative of the people is to receive an indemnity, which he cannot renounce. The Pr es id en t ca ll e d on M. Albis du Salze to de velop his amendment. M. F. de Lasteyrie said that the proposition of the Hon. Gentleman was not an amendment , as it con fined it se lf to d eman di ng th e rejection of the article. M. Abbal proposed the following amendment : "Each r e p resentat i ve o f the people is to receive an indemnity, which he cannot renounce, and which cannot exceed 450 f. a month." The amendment was put to the vote and rejected. The Pre s id ent ca ll e d on the Assembly to p rocee d with the discussion of Art. 37 of the Committee. .M. Ch aron oppose d t h e ar ti c le, which, i n hi s op i • mon, ought not to be inserted in the Constitution. If the indemnity grante d to th e representative s was an affair of circumstance, a democratic expedient— (Murmurs)—it might be accepted ; but it was ne cessary to send it to the organic law. What would be truly democratic would be a general declaration that all fun c ti ons s h ou ld b e pa id. He wo u ld repeat, that it would be better to suppress the article. M. Dalbis du Salze said that he had thought that after the b u d get and the Const it u ti o n had b een voted, their mandate would have been fulfilled and their powers expired; he thought thut the indemnity de creed by the Provisional Government would only have been tempora ry .—(Vi o l ent mu rmurs, and cri es o f "Divide, divid e .") I n every po i n t o f view the prin ciple of inde mn it y wou ld b e b e tter pl ace d i n the organic electoral law than in the Constitution. M. Dufaure—/lon. Gentlemen might be certain that the principl e o f an i n d emn ity p a id f or represen tatives w as i as not a m ere expe di en t, but a co ns ti tut i onal IN act. thout the indemnity, to accord to all citizens the power of b e i ng e l ecte d wou ld b e an o di ous decep tion.—(Hear, hear.) Without the indemnity an im mense number of citizens from want of fortune would, not be able to sit in the Chamber, Art 37 was then put to the vote and adopted, not a single member rising against it. "Art. 38. The sittings of the Assembly are public. Nevertheless the Assembly can form itself into a secret committee on the demand of a number of re presentativEs fixed by the regulations."—Adopted. " Art. 39. The presence of one- half of the members of the Assembly, plus one, is necessary for the vali dity of the vote of a law."—Adopted. "Art. 40. No Bill, save in cases of urgency, shall be definitively voted, except after three deliberations, at no less than ten days' distance from each other." M. de Saint Priest proposed to adjourn the discus sion on that article to the next day.—(Loud cries of "No, no.") As this was objected to, he should pro pose to reduce the delay to five days. This was agreed to by the Committee, and the ar ticle thus amended was adopted. The Red Republicans have determined to vote for the election of President by universal suffrage, as have the Club of the Institute, of which MM. ARAGO, PAGNERRE, and MARIE are members. There are various and conflicting rumours in cir culation as to divers Ministerial changes said to be in contemplation. According to one of these, General CAVAIGNAC is, in the event of the election by universal suffrage of the President being carried, to go out of office, when he will be succeeded by General LA MORICIERE: as President of a Thiers' Cabinet ; another rumour is, that MM. SENARD and VAuLa- BELLE will retire from the Cabinet, and be succeeded by MM. DUFAIIRE and LEON DE MALLEVILLE. M. RAS?AIL has addressed a letter to the Assem bly, praying that he may be daily conducted from Vincennes to the Assembly and back under escort, in order that he may attend to his duties as a represen tative of the people. The Presae gives the following, but without vouch- ing for its authority : "It was rumoured last evening in certain diplo matic &Jona, that the Austrian Cabinet had formally rejected the mediation of France in Italy. If this news be correct, it can only be explained in one man ner, viz., that M. Bastide and Lord Palmerston had not accepted the bases put forth by Au ;trig, and that the Imperial Cabinet had then broken off the nego tiations." Lyons was the seat of a disturbance on Tuesday, which at one time wore a very serious aspect, and might have been followed by alarming consequences. Some of the recently dissolved Gerdes Mobiles of that town took possession of the Prefecture, and kept the Prefect a prisoner for some time. He was, how ever, released by a regiment of dragoons, who ex pelled the mobiles, and took military possession of the Prefecture. The mobiles then attacked a guard house, but were repulsed. They then paraded the streets with a red flsg, but were charged' by the soldiers, and dispersed immediately. The Courrier de Lyon. says :—" It is hoped that this echauffouree will not have any other consequences. Still we think the authorities would do well to be on their guard." The question of the election of President will not, it is said, be made a Cabinet question. The debate on the subject was opened yesterday by M. FELLS PIAT, who was followed by M. DE TOCQUEYILLE. It will probably last some days. Should it be de cided that the President is to be elected by universal suffrage the election will probably take place in January. General LEBRETON, who is charged with the mili tary defence of the National Assembly, has written a letter to the President, in which he says that as the Minister of War, for motives which he cannot under stand, has changed all the arrangements he had adopted for defence, and which required the employ. ment of three battalions, he declines to accept the responsibility of events, though ready to receive the orders of the President. With the three battalions he would, he says, pledge his honour that the As sembly should be inviolate. In consequence of the proceedings of the Minister of War, the General twice tendered his resignation to the President of the Assembly, but was refused on both occasions. Orders have been given for the immediate establish ment of a Custom-house at Havre, independent of the Custom-house at Rouen. Encouraged by the hospitable reception given to the National Guards of Paris on their recent visit to London, the National Guards of Havre, it appears, contemplate a visit to the banks of the Thames. BOURSE—PARIS, THURSDAY, OCT. 5. THREE O'CLOCK.—The Bourse was in a state of great agitation to-day, in consequence of the rumours afloat. It was said that fighting was going on at Lyons; that the Austrians had refused the mediation; that General Cavaignac was going out. Still the Funds, after some slight sympton of weakness, became firm, and then the report spread that General Cavaignac and the Club of the Rue de Poitiers had come to an understanding, and that he was to be elected President of the Council for one year certain. A fact which is considered as showing the want of confi dence in the present state of affairs is the price to which gold has arisen. To-day at one period Napoleons were at a premium of 20. For the Account, the French Three per Cents. have risen 5c.; Fire per Cents. have fallen 10c.• ' Loan has fallen 10c. For money, th e Th ree per Cents. have risen 15c.; Five per Cents. have risen 10c.; Loan has fallen 25c.; Bons du Tresor not quoted; Bank of France Shares have risen bf.; Belgian Bank Shares and Stocks are not quoted; Spanish Active not quoted; Three per Cents. at yesterday's prices; Roman has risen per cent.; Rothschild's Receipts have risen I- per cent. Exchange on London (thirty days), 25f. 40c. ; ditto (ninety days), 25f. 20c.: Railway Shares are nearly the same as yesterday, with the exception of Rouens, which have fallen 5f., and Northerns, which have fallen 2f. 50c. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, Our. 5. Northern of France, 6 %—l'aris :and Lyons, 4 , 4—Paris and Rouen, 15 1 4—Paris and StrasUourg, VA—Tours and Nantes, 1;A. SPAIN. Madrid journals of the 90th ult. have arrived. The number of political prisoners that have been sent from Cadiz to the Phillippine Islands amount to 306. MADRID BOLSA, SEPT. 30. -- Three per Cents., 191 to 3-16. Five per Cents., 10f cash, and 10} after the close. Coupons, 6 sellers. Passive Debt, 3i to nk Shares, 40 to 45. Exchange on London, 48 20. PORTUGAL. By the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Company's ship Madrid, which arrived at Southampton yester day, we have advices from Lisbon to the 30th ult., and from Oporto to the Ist inst. Orders were given on the 30th for the arrest of several Liberal and Miguelite leaders. It was rumoured that an understanding had been come to between the Septembrista party and Don MIGUEL, and that the latter had consented to the conditions proposed by the former as the price of their assistance. The conditions were—recognition of the foreign debt, subject to adjustment (reduction of interest), certain revenues guaranteed for the regular payment of dividends, liberty of the press, regular convocation of the Cortes, extended suffrage, excluding military and naval employes from the fran chise, a general amnesty, &c. The Carlist insurrection in the Spanish provinces bordering on Portugal is becoming every day more formidable. A Carlist Colonel from La Mancha, said to be the bearer of dispatches from the Count DE MONTEMOLIN, has come as a passenger in the Madrid. Portugal continues tranquil for the present, but there can be no doubt but that the Miguelite and Septem brista Chiefs are rapidly organizing their now united forces. The Bishop of BEIJO is dead, and Count VINIIAES LS SO ill that he is not expected to recover. The vintage had begun rather earlier than usual, the rains having set in on the 23d ult., after an un usually dry winter. The showers having, however, been slight and transient, with sun and wind, the grapes, instead of rotting, have been softened and im proved ; and the quantity of wine, which promised to be rather small, had been greatly increased without injuring the quality; the wine farmers were there fore in much better spirits. Her MAJESTY'S brig Racer was in the Tagus. It is said that the Portuguese Ministry have pro posed terms for the renewal of the commercial treaty with Great Britain,:which have been rejected by Lord PALAIERSTON. The Prince DE JOIN VILLE is expected at Lisbon en route for the Brazils. Lisbon bank notes were discountable at 39 to 40 per cent. Exchange on London for 30 days' sight, 520. for 1,000 reis, and at 90 days' date, 52id.; on Paris, 538 to 547; llamburgh, 47i ; Amsterdam, 43 ; Genoa, 533 ; Trieste and Vienna, 380 ; Naples, 660 ; Ma deid, 850; Cadiz, 910; Oporto, 3.Bths per cent. The Portuguese Five per Ceigts. were last quoted 47i to 48i, and Four per Cents. 39 41 ; Bank of Portugal Shares, 436 dolls, to 437 dylls.; Oporto Bank Shares, 223 dolls. to 226 dolls. for bank-notes; Spanish doubloons, 14,570 to 14,600; sovereigns, 4,490 to 4,500; Spanish, Brazilian, and Mexican dollars, 920 to 923. GERMANY AND THE NORTHERN STATES AUSTRIA. A letter from Vienna, of the 28th, says— "ln a few days an Imperial manifesto will be issued to the Austrian Italian provinces, in which the system of the future government of Italy will be fun damentally developed, and the guarantee laid down for the new order of things. This is so generally called for by the necessity of the case, that it is diffi cult to conceive why it was delayed so long ; its appearance, even at this late hour, may be attributed to the intervention of a Court which is very friendly to Austria. We are able to state that an invitation has - been sent from this capital to all the participators in the treaties of Vienna, to co-operate in the Italian mediation." The French Government has, it is said, protested against the invasion of Hungary by JELLICHICII. 11UNGARy. - - The PreBlcru Gazette of the 17th of October, under the head Pesth, September 27, says— " Count Mensdorf has arrived in all haste from Vienna. He is bearer of the order for the troops to retire, but he probably comes too late. Among some intercepted letters of Jellachich, some have been discovered compromising the Archdukes Francis Charles Louis and John. Jellachich complains that the Court have not sent him men and money, of which he had need. He desires that the Emperor should issue a manifesto calling on the Hungarian troops to come over to his side on pain of high trea son. The Minister of War, Mossaros, has put him self at the head of 6,000 men to march to the assist ance of General Jellachich. Redoubts were being erected at Buda and Pesth. By the last accounts the Croation army was within three leagues of Buda. The Bann has established his head- quarters at Scheilweissenbourg. The Magyar General offered no opposition." Intelligence from Pesth, of the 29th, states that the Bohemian Cuirassiers, who formed JELLACHICIIIS advanced guard, had been defeated by the Hunga rians, who had retaken Comora. It was rumoured in Vienna, on the 30th, that Count CAMBER(}, who had been dispatched from Vienna to take the command of both the Hungarian and the Croatian trocps, had been assassinated on the previous day on the Bridge of Pesth. PRUSSIA. The Cologne Gazette, of the 4th of October, says— " The Central Power has called on our Government to withdraw its ambassadors from all foreign Courts." The state of siege of Cologne was raised on the 2d instant. BADEN. STRUVE has been handed over to the ordinary tri. bunals to be judged. FRANKFORT. In the sitting of the German Parliament of the 21 instant:— JAIIN moved that certain members of the Left, being on all hands acknowledged to have been aiders and abettors of the late riots, should be ordered to retire from the National Assembly, and that their substitutes be called in. The motion was referred to a Committee. A vote of thanks, after some unimportant discus cussion, was then awarded to General VON WRANGEL. The President and Vice-Presidents of the As , sembly for the month were next chosen. The resul was : President—HElNElCU VON GAGBRN, 307 votes ou of 377. Ist Vice - President—SnursoN, of Konigsberg, 215 votes, out of 367. 2d Vice-President—RlESSEß, of Hainburgh, 224 votes, out of 368. The House adjourned soon after one P.M., having previously decided upon a mere matter of routine, as to the further discussion of the " Fundamental Rights." SAXE WEIMAR. Letters from Saxe Weimar of the 30th ult. men tion the occurrence of an emeute. It appears that a soldier had been arrested for a breach of discipline, and the Republicans demanded he should be released. On this being refused the crowd commenced to fire on the corps de garde, and an officer was wounded. Fifty men came up. Ten minutes were then given to the crowd to retire ; they refused to do so, and a charge with the bayonet was made. They then dis persed, but again assembled up to ten o'clock. At that hour tranquillity was established. SAXON Y. Upwards of 20,000 men had assembled in Thurin gia to aid STRUVE. The troops are stated to be in a state of insubordination, and there is every proba bility that ere long a revolution will take place in this kingdom. SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN. _ • _ RENDSBURG, OCT. 1.--M. STEDTMAN has formally announced that negotiations at Berlin relative to the armistice are so far advanced that the question will soon be definitively settled. There is to be a new Government, of which M. BESELER Will be the Pre sident, and General Borcipt Minister of War. ITALY. PIE1)I%1ON T. It was reported at Nice that Genoa had declared itself a Republic, but the report needs confirmation. LOMBARD Y. The Milan Gaze& of the 29th states officially that at the request of the French Minister to King CHARLES ALBERT and Marshal RADETZKY the ar mistice had been prolonged for thirty days. RA DETZKY has addressed the following report on the affairs of Italy to the German Parliament : "It is not as conquerors or oppressors that we have drawn the sword in Lombailly ; we have only done so to defend our just rights. Nothing could have prevented us from dictating the,terms of peace to our enemy in his own cap i tal, but we stopped our victo rious march on the confines of our own territory. In acting thus, we wished to prove once more to the whole world, and even to our enemies, that in success Austria shows as much moderation as she exhibits firmness in adversity. We do not bring to the people despotism or oppression, but liberty —perhaps more liberty than they know how to bear, consistently with their welfare. " German influence has been long established in Lombardy, which has been long a fief of the German empire, and thus it has passed into the possession of the illustrious House of Austria. " To renounce our influence over that country would be to commit treason, not only against Austria, but against the whole of Germany. I address these words to you, gentlemen, to whom Germany has confided the duty of establishing her unity, her position in the world. Lombardy enjoyed unexampled prosperity—it was the same with Venice, which, lately excited by agitators to offer an obstinate resistance, rose against the sway of Austria when we were attacked in the midst of profound peace, with unheard of treachery, preaching against us a real crusade, carried to such extremity that the very name of a German was enough to bring upon the bearer ignominious, cruel, and barbar ous treatment. Our cause was too just for God n o t t o permit it to triumph. I continue to reckon on th at Di v i ne protection—l reckon, also, for the futur e , not on l y upon t h e sympathies of Germany, but upon h er a id an d ass i s t ance , should I require for I com b at not exclus i ve l y f or Austria, but for t Ger many and h er woun d e d h onou r. Receive, gentlemen, as will every true German, the bt to expression of my warm gratitude;have weight and my . words ought German emperors significance in the eity where the were crowned in former days. " RADETZKY, Field Marshal. " Head quarters, Milan, Sept. 27." We regret to have to mention the death of Mr. C. J. Hambro, of the firm of Messrs. C. J. Hambro, Son, and Co., of Old Broad-street. Mr. flambro had been es tablished in London nearly 50 years, and, dying at an advanced age, he leaves a large amount of wealth be hind him. The firm has been engaged in active busi ness with Russia, Denmark, Germany, and other northern countries of Europe. Mr. Hambro Js said to have com menced his career as one of the clerks of the house of Hecksler, of Hamburgh, a firm of great consequence in its day. WINDSOR CASTLE, THURSDAY EVENING. —Her Majesty, the Prince Consort, and the royal children, with all the members of the Court, will arrive at the Castle on Monday next, and remain until after the birth-day of the Prince of Wales, when the Court goes back to Os borne for a week or two. AMERICAN NEWS. ARRIVAL OF THE WASHINGTON. SonTIIA?.IPTON, TitußsDAY.—The a:earn ,TECLE.. Navigation Company's ship Washington, Captain J Johnston, jun., arrived off Cowes, Isle of Wight, at 4 P.m. this afternoon, with mails of the 20th ult. from New York. The Washington brings only a few passengers, about 50,000 dolls. specie on freight for Havre, and an assorted cargo for Bremen. The Washington has had rough weather towards the latter portion of her passage. After transhipping her mails, passengers, and specie in a small steamer for Southampton, she proceeded on her voyage to Bremen. We have received files of American papers by this vessel one day later than those brought by the Hibernia from Boston to Liverpool, but the intelli gence is very meagre and unimportant. The New York money, produce, and stock markets had undergone no material change. Cotton remained firm ; sales, GOO bales. Flour was unaltered; rye flour quiet. The stock market remained depressed, but quotations had not varied considerably. Ex change on London as before rendered. Subjoined are the latest markets received by tele graph at New York : NEW ORLEANS, SEPT. 18, 8 P.N.—The cotton market continues steady, with sales of 2,000 bales. Flour rules firm, with fair demand. We notice sales of 1,100 barrels of choice Illinois and St. Louis brands at 5 dolls. to 5 dolls. 25e. In corn there is considerable business doing, and sales have been made of 16,000 bushels at 52c. to 56c. Lard is held firmly, with sales of 2,000 kegs handsome at 100. to 10ic. NEW ORLEANS, SEPT. 19.—The cotton market con. tinues steady. We quote fair at 6ic. Moderate sales of Illinois flour were made at 5 dolls. Wheat is dull at 75c. Corn remains firm and in fair request at 52c. to 55c. Mess pork is selling in a small way at 13 Sales of sugar at 34e., and lard, in barrels, at Bc. to BiC. BALTIMORE, SEPT. 19.—There was but little done in our markets to-day, and prices generally were without change. We quote Howard street flour at 5 dolls. 37ic., and prime red wheat at 1 doll. 4c. to 1 doll. 7c. ALBANY, SEPT. 19.—Receipts by canal within the past twenty-four hours :—Flour, 5,700 barrels; wheat, 4,900 bushels; corn, 3,200 ditto; barley, 2,700 ditto. The flour market was steady in the sales of 2,000 bar rels, including the various Western brands, at 5 dolls. 681 c. to 5 dolls. 871 c.; the former figure for out of order. In grain no transactions were reported; dealers waiting later advices. BUFFALO, SEPT.l9.—Receipts within the past twenty four hours :—FI our, 5,000 barrels; wheat, 34,000 bushels; corn, 22,000 ditto. The market for flour was steady, and prices firm. Transactions reach 3,000 barrels, at 4 dolls. 87ic. Wheat—We notice sales of 8,000 bushels —Ohio, at 1 doll. The operations in corn reached 5,000 bushels, at 45c. to 47c. WEST INDIA MAIL. The Royal Mail Company's steam-ship Medway, Captain Symonds, arrived at Southampton yesterday morning about nine o'clock. She brings the usual West India mail in charge of Lieutenant W. Smith, R.N., Admiralty agent. Her dates of sailing are— Chagres, August 1 ; Carthagena, Sept., 1 ; Jamaica, Sept. 7 ; St. Jago de Cuba, Sept. 5 ; D emerara, S ept. 4 ; Trinidad, S e pt. 6 ; Barbadoes, Sept. 9 ; Grenada, Sept. 7 ; St. Kitts, Sept. 11 : Nevis, Sept. 11 ; Porto Rico, Sept. 13 ; St. Thomas's, Sept. 14 ; Fayal, Sept. 28. The freight consists of 79,438 dollars, 341,512 dollars in gold and gold dust, 1,0561. in British coin, 382,863 dollars in platina, 8 cases of tortoiseshell, 50 tierces of coffee from Jamaica, and 320 bales of sarsaparilla. The Medway brings upwards of sixty passengers, amongst whom are Lieutenant-Colonel Reid and lady, late Governor of Barbadoes ; General Prim, late Governor of Porto Rico ; Major Jervis, 72d Regi ment; Captain Sharp, ditto; Lieut.-Colonel Guman, ditto; Rev. G. J. Bailey and four political deputies from Guadeloupe. The crops are well spoken of, but there is a great want of labourers to gather them in. Jamaica was very healthy, but not so the windward islands. The island of Guadeloupe has sent to France by the Medway four Deputies, to congratulate the Republic and to request the National Assembly to take the slavery question into their immediate consideration. Sir Charles Grey, Governor of Jamaica, met with a severe accident by a fall from his mule, causing a serious injury to his spine. His life was despaired of when the Medway left. The seasons have been good, and crops promising. The threatened disturbances had not taken place, and all remained quiet. Some estates have again commenced planting, but still crops cannot be average ones. Money very scarce and trade stagnant. The Colonial Bank, it was expected, would wind up ; and as the Planters' Bank issue is withdrawn, it is supposed that a large issue of island paper will be put in circulation to supply the defi ciency. The merchants, where practicable, are wind. ing up their concerns. General Prim has returned in the Medway from Porto Rico, on account of ill-health; also Lieutenant- Colonel Reid, the late Governor-General of Bar badoes. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. JAMAICA —KlNcaTosr, SEPT. 7.—lt is with much pain that we are again obliged to report a continuance of excessive dulne.,s, not only in the Kingston markets, but in those of the whole island. It is not possible to effect sales with anything like activity and buoyancy. Every article of commerce is negle cted of the consumer causes it to be p urchased. No ono want until the direct buyings not any speculation any article to awa it a at d t e h m e and. present otherln da thinkswords, of there i in Kingston. As a significant fact, we may m en ti on t h at the falling off in the revenue arising f rom the duties on enumerated articles, imported into this island between the sth April and sth July last, as compared with the corresponding period last year, is no less a sum than 10,5021. Flour-325. to 355. per barrel. Meal still rules high, from 16s. to 18e. 6d. per barrel. Sugar is rather m ore p l entiful than at our last issue, and has sold at a decline of ls. per 1001bs. on former quo tations. Rum rules at 3s. 4d. per gallon for consumption—equal tonede 2s. for export at i on. we may report an upward ncy. Tobacco—Cavendish may be quoted at Bd. per lb. for eighteens and twenties, which are the most saleable sizps. Corn—Jamaica corn has been sold in small quantities by the ne groes f rom the mountains at 2s. 6d. per bushel in Old Harbour, and at 3s. in Spanish Town. Although, as we have noted, the quantity that has been brought down for sale is small, it is greater than usual, and would warrant the assumption that the labourers who have been thrown out of emplo3ment by the abandon ment of the sugar estates, are turning their attention to the produce of this article. Wo have h ear d o f severa l pen-keepers who are following the example. Too much cannot be said in favour of the experiment. American sells at 6s. 6d. per bag of two bushels for yellow, and Colombian at 2s. 9d. to 3s. per bushel. Exchanges on London—Colonial Bank, 90 days, 1 per cent. premium; ditto, 60 days, per cent. ditto ; di tto, 30 days, 2 per cent. ditto; Jamaica Bank, 90 days, 1 pi r cent. premium; ditto, 60 days. if per cent. ditto.—De Cordova's Mercantile Intelligencer. NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE RAILWAY. -•-• This line from Crewe to Burton, will be opened for the convey ance of goods and passengers on Monday next, the 9th instant. Notices to that effect have been published by the company. THE MANCHESTER AND SOUTIIPOFeT RAILWAY.-- At the half-yearly meeting, on Wednesday, of the Man ch( ster and Southport Railway, the business was brief, and soon disposed of. From the report it appeared that the directors intend to proceed at once with the Connect ing link of the line, through Wigan, between the east and west portion of the Liverpool and Bury Railway. This line will be opened before the 3 . Ist Decemb er, an d under the terms of arrangement with the Lancashir e cahnedstlerroraknd s shire ou i t t h a p il o w r aLycompany will be co- ent i t l ed to. The shareholders in the Man dividends from that date on the capital upon the works. From the statement of accounts it app eared that 189,912/. ss. had been received, and 111,0104 been ex pended. The balance to the credit of the company was • 78,9021. 4s. 6d. A portion of the line, th ree miles in length, is intended to be opened simultan eous l y with the Liverpool and Bury Railway. GRAND DINNER TO SIR CHAR LES NAPIER..-- Last night a splendid entertainment was given to Sir C. Napier, at the Queen's Head, Cheltenham. The Earl o f Ellenborough presided, and upwards of 1 00 persons were amongstwholp were Count M etaxa, Sir Jasper tk en ison, , Admiral Sir C. .Coghill, th e li on. R. pr A es n t Curam, Sir Duncan M'Dougal, Lieutenant -General Sir Loftus O:way, Lord Northwick, Lordlunally,thsemEiathrl, of Ellenborough (in the chair), Major-Generals Balline, Swiney, Allan, and Tickell; Lieutenant-Gene rals hl‘Pherson, Podmore, and Greenstreet; /Nora Kennedy, Willet, Jeffrey, Graham, Clunes, and Hume; Lieutenant• Colonels Graham, W y lli e, Austen, Abbot Harrison, Hutchinson, Seton, Gray, Lloyd, White, Fiddes, Fuller, Cox, Kirby, and Burlton; Colonels Clarke, Kennedy, Croker, Pearce, Gardner, and Drake; Captains Iredell, Yonge, Robertson, Frobisher, Hay, Kirwan, Litchfield, Sc. Clair, R.N., Knight, and Pennell, besides M.P.'s and th e clergy and gentry of th e t own . COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS' SCHOOLS.—Yesterday morning the quarterly court of the supporters of the above school, fur the reception of the orphan and neces sitous children of commercial travellers, was held at the London Tavern. The report stated that, in consequence of the increase in the number of scholars, it had been found necessary to appoint another schoolmistress. During the past quarter the treasurer had received, in subscriptions, donations, &c., the sum of 905/. 6s. 6d., being a considerable increase over the amount received in the corresponding quarter last year. The amount now in the treasurer's hands was 1,330/. 16s. 6d. THE LOST SUM AT TIIE HONITON BANK.—The Exeter Gazette rcmarks—`• We have just heard that there is every probability of this matter being explained in a way perfectly satisfactory to the parties most inte rested. It seems that a demand was made on the bank for taxes, the amount was sent to the Bank of England in Bank of England notes—part of the 390/. which Hel lier brought back from Exeter. In the excitement and bewilderment of the stoppage, this payment may have been overlooked." 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