The Sun. — London, England, 1852-09-30 00:00:00

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Is old; o f the of th c 3 whic h D. in) , 1 ? fin) '- to f) th i e 4 ral.• , t 81b; D. J'i 2 ,rs) - Ler) Mode ,nd th° re ge(t) clue ole (t) ! to be .Solt' _Odd d ; for . (3 over d, the l up- THE SUN, `HE FRE BELGIUM. trees:— " Art. 1. The cathedral of Marseilles shall be rebuilt on its present site, and in proportions suitable to the in. cress of the population, and the importance of that great city. " Art. 2. To that effect there is opened an extraordi nary credit of 2,500,000 E, to be divided into ten yearly sums cf 250,000 f. each. The application of this credit to the construction of the cathedral shall take place us boln as the city of Marseilles shall be prepared to pro vide for the surplus of the expense. " Art. 3. The Ministers of Public Instruction and of Finance are charged, each as far as concerns him, with the execution of the present decree, which will be in settcd in the Bulletin des Lois. " LOUIS NAPOLEON. " Countersigned H. FORTOUL, "Minister of Public Worship. " Given at Marseilles this 26th September." The following is the reply made by Prince Lours NAPOLEON to the address delivered on his arrival at Marseilles, by the Mayor of that place : " I thank you for the kind words which you have just addressed to ms. I have long desired to see Mar seilles, and am anxious to become well acquainted with its wishes and wants. Be well assured that I offer up prayers for the development of its commerce and pros perity. I desire that the solicitude of my Government shall extend over your city, shall protect its great inter' sts, and secure its future. The south as well as the north, the south-west as well as the north-west, shall have an equal share in the protection of the Go vernment." This brief speech was followed by loud cries of " Vive l'Empereur !" The following was his reply to the address of the Bishop of MARSEILLES on the 26th : " Monseigneur,— I am deeply touched with the thanks which you address to me in the name of the Church and of society, which I have been enabled to defend in difficult times. Religion is, as you have very justly ob served, the basis of all society and of all government that has the sentiment of its destinies; and it is it which constitutes my force and guides me in the way on which I have entered. I hope that your prayers will call down the benedictions of Heaven on the entire accomplish ment of the mission which I have received from the con fidence of the French people." At half-past three the Prince laid the first stone of the new Bourse. To the address presented to him by the President of the Chamber of Commerce, his High ness replied that, " He was well pleased to be able to give that testimony of interest to the commerce of Marseilles, and that his desire was that Marseilles, more and more flourishing, should co-operate in realising the great idea of the EMPEROR—that the Mediterranean ought to be a French lake." The Prince afterwards was present at a jousting match, and then passed the troops in review. The review at the Prado attracted an immense con course of spectators. The weather was magnificent. The cry of " Vive l'Empereur'!" proceeded both from the troops and the spectators. The Prince distributed crosses of the Legion of Honour, and after the re• view he went on the road of the Prado as far as the sea, where the corvette Reine Hortense was waiting to receive him. He visited the port of Frioul, and returned to Marseilles by the grand port, through a complete forest of vessels, dressed out in flags, all the yards of which were manned. The whole popula tion of the town were assembled on the quays, and on the roofs of the houses. More than 60,000 voices, at the same time, raised the cry of " Vive l'Empereur I" This enthusiasm went on increasing, when the Prince got into his carriage at the Cannebiere. The win dows were all occupied, and every voice proclaimed the Empire. When the Prince went to the ball at nine o'clock in the evening he found an immense crowd of the People assembled on his passage, to renew with en thusiasm the acclamations of the day. All ranks and all classes of society evidenced the same sentiment of love and of respect. The town was, as on the pre vious evening, resplendent with light; 5,000 persons Were already in the salons when the Prince entered. Cries of " Vive l'Empereur 1" and the loudest ap plause, saluted him on his arrival, and were every his renewed. The same applause hailed him on his departure; throughout all his passage the crowd WIN as numerous and as animated at halt-past eleven at night as it had been in the former part of the day. The Prince left the next morning, at nine o'clock, for Toulon. The crowd was immense on his passage, With the repetition of the same cries and the same enthusiasm. The Archbishop of EPHESUS, the envoy of the POPE, accompanied him. He landed at Toulon at half-pest three on the 27th, after n very 1 : 1 e passage, accompanied by the squadron and all the steamers in the roadstead. The following are the latest telegraphic dispatches : "Toulon, Sept. 27, Four o'clock Afternoon. " The Prince is now passing throug h t he streets of Toulon amidst an enthusiasm which it is impossible to describe. The crews of the vessels raised one sole cry Vive l'Empereur l' and the whole town has responded 1.0 it. The squadron saluted wit h its thousand cannon. Toulon„ and its roadstead presents a s p ectacle as ins- Posing as magnificent. "Half-past Four Afternoon. " The Prince landed at the arsenal at half-past two. He ent on foot, attended by the civil and military authori ties, to the Maritime Prefecture in the midst of an im reuse concourse of the people, who hailed h im with the I : 3 . :tdest acclamations, and an increasing cry of Vive pereurl' In an hour there will be a review of the troop s of the garrison and of the marines. " Six P.N. "The President has reviewed the troops in the Champs r ) Mars. His Highness was everywhere received on ellll a passage by a population intoxicated with joy , who Only uttered one and the same cry of Vivo l'Em- Pereur !' " The Prince has just returned to the Maritime Prefec ture, where his Highness is about to receive the func tionaries and the constituted bodies. All the city is taking holiday, and strangers are flocking into it The Independance Beige states that the real object of the mission of M. BACCIOCHI to Constantinople is to euusult with the SUL TAN respecting the removal of AuD-EL•KADER, whom the PRESIDENT has re- Solved to set at liberty in a short time. The great annual reiraite of the clergy of the a rch-diocese of Paris will commence on Monday. A bUmber of the provincial clergy have arrived to take got in it. Th e retra i te consists i n ret i rement t o St. Ulpice, and in passing the time in prayer and religi ous conferences. - - - A. railway has just been made on an inclined plane Up the side of the mountain of the Roule at Cher bourg, and a steam•engine of two-horse power placed at the top of it, by which the materials necessary for the fort now building there are brought up. The weight drawn up each time is 1,200 kilogrammes ; the length of the inclined plane is 140 yards, and its P e rpendicular height 85 yards. This mode of pro ,edieg has be en i nven t e d by a y oung eng i neer o f vherbourg, named FOSTAIN. The Bourse was firm until the close of business, Tt s hen th e pr i ce of Government securities declined. The f'on r - an d, a - Hal f per Cents. opened at 104 f. 45e., rose to pl4f. 60 e . , an d f e ll su b sequently t0,104f. 35c., at which ( !,°Y closed for the end of th e mont h ; t h e Th ree per dente. closed at 78f. 15c.; Orleans Railway Shares, b isOor. Rouen, 900 c; H avre , 421 f. 25c. ; Great Northern, ( ~( 2 11. 25e.; Avignon, 525 f ; Basle, 328 f. 75 c . ; P ar i s an d Strasburg, 7571. 50c.; Paris and Lyons, 828f.75c.; Lyons a nd A v i g non, 630 f.; Western of France, 6701.; St. Di aler to Gray, 542 f. 50c. It Wm NESS DON I IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, SErr. 29. Charleroi and Erquelines, 16%—Dijon and Besancon, 3:y B ~u,.rand Junction of France, s%,—Luace , nat . )ourg, 5 N r __ Auidrap 25/ P Paris and Lyons, 22%—1-aris, Caen, and i'herbou rg i° 1 / . i _Qambre and Meuse, 10 /B—Western of -111 :Ice, 121 SPAIN. The journals of the 24th have arrived. t 'he former announcement of the death of Duke of 0 , 4 / l Azi was a little premature. lie died at two 4:lock in the night of the 23d. In the morning the 1 ,,P 8 of all the churches were tolled, and minute guns ,:re fired . The body was placed under the care of a Zird of honour of halberdiers, and a picket of gre- V i liers were stationed at the door with arms reversed. thethe Ministers inscribed their names at the hotel h e deceased. The QUEEN, who greatly esteemed 111 : 13 old D u k e , h as g iven orders that b e shall have a k o l ie funeral, and that the Court shall go into ti t iming for three days. Her MAJESTY has a l so in tattl4ted that she would attend the funeral, Whi c h is t ake place at the church of Mocha. The precise r; 4 ,q the distinguished soldier was ninety-five an d a - .4 " Years. ql .t t l h e Epoca says that the QUEEN has ordered that lih ni ,Qe honours due to a Marshal of the Spanish army t.,; . be paid to the memory of the Duke of WEL- Ive!oN, with the exception of a religious service, kli eg Cannot take place on account of his having been ptee, taut; Gazettestates that in the course of last mouth lt s ''e sto c k o f different kinds, to the amount of tit at ' 9 2 5 ,756 rec.'s, was presented for conversion, and tit t „,6oe new stock created in its place amounted to the of 5 1,462096 reals. 2? Royal decree the Normal School of Philosophy e en suppressed. ti ah " early convocation of the Cortes for a short ses -I,,continued to be talked of. " 0 trial of th e H era ld o and other journals had., tißi,c been put off for a day or two, in c onsequence o f se - ; C . veral of the jurymen who bad been chosen being ob- We jec 2, ted to. have received the Psris journals of yesterday. lADraD Bourtsr, SEPT. 24.—The Three per Cents., 47 1.16 ; Exchange on London, 50 30 paper. In execution of Article .54 of the existi ng Coesti tution, the conspirators in the affair of the infernal machine will probably be tried by the High Court of Justice. The Patric, in referring to the machine, says : "It has been ascertained that the machine was con atruced with great skill. The cfficters of artillery who have been called io to examine it have declared that it was made in such a manner that it would have produced the most terrible effects, whilst the persons who fired it off would have been out of the reach of any injury." The following decree was placarded in the streets of Marseilles the day after the arrival of the PRES": DENT :--- " Louis Napoleon, President of the French Republic on the report of the Minister of Public Worship, de 1 GERMAN Y. The Diet of Darmstadt, which was prorogued on the Ist July, is summoned to meet on the 29th. A letter from Berlin, of the 24th, states that the less elevated state of the temperature has checked the progress of the cholera in that city. An official re port which has been just published there has tended much to reassure the public mind. Only three new cases had occurred on the 233. The news from Posen and Western Prussia was also less alarming. The King of PRUSSIA arrived at Hanover on the 24th from Berlin, and, after a short delay, proceeded on his way to Oldenburg. The ratifications of the treaty concerning the suc cession to the throne of Denmark, of the 3d of May last, have just been exchanged at Vienna in presence of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, in the usual forms. The Emperor of AUSTRIA passed a grand review of 40,000 troops on the 22d at Pestb. They con sisted of 40 regiments of infantry, 16 of cavalry, 24 batteries of artillery, and several companies of the reserve. The EMPEROR, who wore the uniform of a Field-Marshal, was received on his arrival by the Archduke ALBERT, who commanded the troops. His MAJEsTy was accompanied by the Hereditary Grand Duke Of RUSSIA, the Prince Royal Of WURTEMBURG, the Prince Regent of BADEN, and the Prince Royal of SAXONY ; and was followed by a numerous staff, together with a great number of English, Russian, French, and other foreign officers. The English Ambassador, the Earl of WESTMORELAND, was in the uniform of a General, and wore the Cross of Saint Theresa, which was given to him in 1815. The filing-off of the troops occupied an hour and a half, and whilst it was taking place the bands played the national hymn of Russia. ITALY. The Ojicial Savoy Gazette quotes a letter, from Turin, of the 24th, in which it is stated that the coolness between Sardinia and Rome is far from being mitigated, and that the Sacred College has addressed remonstrances to Monsignor RICCARDI, Bishop" of Savona, for not showing himself directly hostile to the Civil Marriage Bill. TURKEY. Accounts from Constantinople of the 15th say that the great event of the day is the removal from the capital of two celebrated antagonists to the Re form party—HALlL PACHA and SAAFELTY PACHA• The first bas been named governor of the province of Brussa, the second is sent to take charge of the Turkish islands of the Archipelago. These nomina tions have given rise to much animadversion among the Ministers. When RizA. PACHA and SAAFELTY PACHA, with HAUL PACHA as Grand Admiral, assumed the reins of government, the finances of the state were in a most embarrassed po sition. They restored them to a sound basis, and reformed the currency. The army was a shadow, they left it a substance, and even their enemies declared that of all the efforts made to reorganize and reform, it is in the army they have been most successful. The grand fault was, in the eyes of diplomatists, that they were too inde pendent ; they would not allow the - Porte to be dic tated to on every occasion, and insisted that Turkey should fly on her own wings. Be that as it may, the probabilities for this party to return to power is lost for the time. People in general are very ill-disposed towards the Government for having effected the loan. The conditions might have been more favourable, and num bers of wealthy Turks would give their money o❑ lower term?, notwithstanding that the legal interest is 12 per cent. throughout the whole of the empire. One great result is, it is said, that the Bank of Con stantinople ceases its operations by the month of No vember. The Government has lost immensely by it, but those persons immediately interested and em ployed in the establishment have realised princely fortunes. It is well known that the SULTAN bad made a concession to M. LAMARTINIi of an extensive farm in the neighbourhood of Smyrna. M. L. has leased it to an English gentleman on certain conditions, which have not been accepted by the Government. An Armenian company, however, offered a sum of 8001. per annum for twenty.five years : on the Government conditions, which has been agreed upon, and ratified by all parties. The result is that the SULTAN'S grant has been converted into an annuity of 8001. for twenty-five years, for the exclusive benefit of M. LA MAETINE and his heirs. Orders have been issued for the return of the two naval divisions that have been dodging about the Ar chipelago. They have been ordered up for the end of this month, and will immediately enter the Impe rial arsenal in the Golden Horn, in time to be safe from the storms of the approaching winter. How can the Turks ever pretend to a good navy by keep ing their ships at anchor years and years in the ar senal ? and even when the ships are sent out, they are as soon ordered back, before the sailors have time to get over their seasickness. COURT CIRCULAR. BALMORAL, TUESDAY. Her bbjesty drove yesterday in the open carriage, accompanied by the Princess Royal, the Princess Alice, and the Princess Helena. His Royal Highness Prince Albert went out deer stalking. The dinner party yesterday included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, her Serene Highness the Princess Hohenlohe Langenbourg, and his Se. rene Highness the Prince Hermann of Hohenlohe Langenbourg. The Prussian Minister transacted business yester day at the Foreign-office. RAILWAY CALLS. The following tabular statement on railway affairs will be interesting to the reader:— CALLS DUE IN OCTOBER. 1 .1 I 1 Number Call. ~ ti a'a Shares. Belgian Eastern Junction*... Cork and Bandon New Pre- 21,250 ference Cornwall, 20/. Dublin and Drogheda, New 7,680 84,380 37,000 25/. Preference London, Tilbury, and Soutb- end Exter sion Lycns and Avignon* .. Paris and Lyons Bonds* Western of France* 70,000 100,000 272,640 150,000 742,950 5,828,077 Amount previously called in 1852 Total called in 185 2 16,571,027 • The proportion called by foreign companies is 543,8901.; but the holdings of English proprietors are not known. EXTENSIVE FIRE IN BRIGHTON. —Shortly before two o'clock yesterday morning, a fire was discovered in the house of Mr. Bickford, jeweller, King's-road. The houses adjoining being built entirely of wood, and merely faced with what are called " mathematical tiles," were soon in a blaze. Mr. Chase, chief officer of the police, and several other members of the force were speedily on the spot, and the hose having been attached to the water-plugs the fire was got under and eventually subdued. The three houses, however, occupied by Mr. Bickford, Mr. Gay (toyman), and Mr. Dixie (optician), with their fragile contents, were des troyed, the interior presenting only the appearance of black and charred rafters and beams. VISIT OF MR. FORBES MACKENZIE TO HIS CON sTITUENTs.—We learn that it is the intention of Mr. Forbes Mackenzie to visit his constituents on Monday next, and that he and his colleague, Mr. Charles Turner, will be in attendance at the Town-hall each day during the week, from eleven o'clock, A.m., for the purpose of receiving depu tations from the several commercial bodies, and of meeting those parties who m a y wish to wait upon them on public business. This, it will be remembered, used to be the prac tice of our Members in the good old our T E present Members. —Liverpo o l Stand ard. Navigation narTvrnrign.oEttio vp. W EATHER n o c n iz s vA i m d T e n ra E te rt in IN n CLIANNEL.—RAMSGATE, Y si from S.S. s y. — ast evening it c ame on to blow hard in s q ualls to S.V. At 8.30 r.m. the South-Eastern Steam tstea)Tsretuhgeers.She had made two attempts to g e t i nto D Princess Maude, came in from Calais withpan ' xs o y ver i but the sea was eo heavy the harbour flag Was hauled down, and signals made for the steamer to run for Ramsgate, which harbour she made without any Ramsgate,h Belgian an m d mail l lsatregaembearr 11140. a l ar med at the ineffectual passengers and th e difficul ty, much to the relief of the p assen g ers, many of wh om were at temptste made to land at Dover. At 7.30 A.I. t hi s morn i ng also oblige d to seek shelter in n harbour. is ROW runrut, down for the ,-, ma il , Wcias f a io e In Ostend, with about thirty 001 'llOO THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 30, 1852 LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY. By the arrival, this forenoon, of the United States Mail steam-ship Arctic, Luce, c Anmander, we h ave received N ew York l e t ters and papers to mid-day of the 18th inst., when the Arctic sailed. She brings 106 passengers, and specie valued at 80,0001. sterling. When the Arctic sailed the Pacific, of the same line, was within a few hours' sail of New York. The Atlantic was also passed on Sunday last, in lat. 51, long. 27. The Royal Mail steamer Niagara, with the mails from Liverpool, had arrived at Boston on the 15th, and the screw-steamer Glasgow, from Glasgow, had reached New York on the 17th inst. The Hon. S. R. Ingersole, United States Minister to the British Court, was among the passengers by the Arctic. The American schooner Hannibal had been fired into by a British cutter on the prohibited fishing grounds. Further vigorous preparations were being made by Peru to defend the Lobos Islands against American aggression. From Cuba we learn that all was now quiet there. Not an American newspaper was allowed to be landed in the island ; and a Mr. Smith, the purser of one of the American steamers, was prohibited from setting foot on the Spanish chore upon any pretence whatever. There were 700 political prisoners at Havannab, but no executions. At Boston, on the 16th, a dinner was given to the Hon. Thomas Baring, the distinguished representa tive of the banking-house of Baring Brothers and Co., at the Revere House, at which a number of the principal citizens were present. Mayor Seaver pre sided, and discharged the duties of his position in a very acceptable manner. He gave a cordial welcome to the honoured representative of the mercantile class of England, to which Mr. Baring responded in most appropriate style. His speech was replete with sen timents of the most friendly character to America. He passed a warm eulogium upon New England, and the high character of the city and citizens of Boston. The Hon. Edward Everett responded to Mr. Baring's compliments upon the United States in a most elo quent manner. Mr. Baring was still staying at the Revere House, Boston. We learn from Canada that Lord Elgin has been recalled, and that the post of Governor-General has been offered to Lord Harris, whose political views are more in consonance with those of the Derby Ministry. The Cross of the Bath has been conferred upon the Hon. Dominick Daly, and he has been pro moted to the governorship of New Zealand. His Excellency the Governor-General of Canada and suite, the members of the Cabinet, and many Mem bers of both Houses of Parliament, and several in vited guests, embarked on the 10th inst. for the Sherbrcoke celebration. The three million Pennsylvania Railroad Loan was taken for the Barings and Rothschilds, at 103 dolls. 20e. for every 100 dolls. Secretary Webster and Mr. G. B. Duncan have, it is stated, commenced an action against the city of New Orleans for the sum of 50,000 dolls,-25,000 dolls. each, as a remuneration for their services in the case of Mrs. General Gaines. At Albany one of the editors there has been fined 350 dollars for a libel upon a Mr. Fisk, who was tarred and feathered by the anti -renters some years ago. Nearly the whole of the business portion of Rae venna, Obio, was burned down on the 15th inst. The loss, it is estimated, will be from 40,000 dolls. to 60,000 dolls. The Washington National Intelligencer of the 17th, referring to the fisheries question, says,— " It having been announced, by advices from England a week or two ago, that the fishery difficulty had been ' amicably settled; some of our most intelligent eastern journals are speculating on the nature of the settlement referred to. We presume there has been no new ar rangeraent entered into, even if any has been on either side thought of or proposed. All that was meant, as we believe, by the late accounts from England was, that the British Ministry had disclaimed the adoption of any new policy, or the enforcement of any more stringent regulations respecting the fisheries than bad been ob served prior to the lategroundless flare-up in this country ; in short, that the British Ministry had no thought of adopting any new line of conduct in the premises, but meant to leave the subject, both in principle and prac tice, just where the treaty of 1818 placed it, and where it has remained ever since." The following dispatch from Sir John Pakington to the Governor-General of Canada, on the subject of the fisheries, was transmitted by his Excellency to the Canadian Parliament on the 13th instant : "Downing -street, May 27. "My Lord,—Among the many pressing subjects which have engaged the attention of her Majesty's Ministers since th- it assumption of office, few have been more im portant, in their estimation, than the questions relating to the protection solicited for the fisheries on the coasts of British North America. Her Majesty's Government have taken into their serious consideration the represen tations which have been received on the subject from Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward's Is land, end more recently from Mr. Hineks, on the part of Canada, and have not failed to observe that while active measures have teen taken by certain colonies for the purpose of eneouluging their fished's:, and of repelling the intrusion of foreign vessels, it has b-en a subject of complaint in New Brunswick that impediments should have been °tiered by the policy of the Imperial Govern. ment to the enactment of bounties considered by the kcal Legislature essential for the pr o t ect i on of its trade. ‘• Her Majesty's Ministtrs are desirous to remove all ground of complaint on the part of the colonies in con sequence of the encroachments of the fishing vessels of the United States upon those waters from which they are excluded by the terms of the convention of 1818; and they therefore intend to dispatch as soon as possible a small naval force of steamers, or other small vessels, to enforce the observance of that convention. These ves sels will, of course, be confirned to the performance of the duties with which they are specially charged, and the commanders will be enjoined to exercise a careful discretion in the very delicate office of interfering with vessels belonging to foreign and friendly Powers. " With regard to the q uest i on of promoting the fisheries of th British colonies by means of bounties, her Majesty's Government, although desirous not to sanction any unnescosary deviation from that policy which re gulates the commerce of this country,ar e still disinclined t o prevent those colonies, by the interposition of im perial authority, and especially pending the negotiations with the United States of America, for the settlement of the principles on which the commerce with the Bri tishopolicy welfare and pro s p er i ty. which they may d eem most fr from adopting North American colonies i s h erea f ter to be carried on, " Entertaining these views it i s t h e intention of her Majesty's Government to advi se t h e Queen to give her conducive to theirpting w the n assent to au Act passed by the Legislature of Prince Edward's Island in the session of 1850 for the promo tion of its deep-sea fisheries; and they will be prepared to give favourable consideration to any Acta for a similar purpose which may be passed by the Legislatures of the other North-American provinces. --I h ave , am, " JOHN S. PAHINOTON." The Southern Rights party of Alabama had no minated Governor Troupe for the Presidency, and General Quitman for the Vice-Presidency. "This party," says the New York Herald— "ls gaining great force, and it is possible it navy largely contribute to the throwing of the election into the House of Representatives. There are now the six following nominations in all: General Pierce Democrat. General Scott ... Whi g , Daniel Webster .. Union Whig. J. P. Hale Freesoiler. William Goodell... ... Liberty man. Governor Troupe Secessionist. "If the secession party make a good fight, and co operate with the tickets ofithe North, they may succeed in preventing either of the old party organizations, un less they are very strong, from having a majority, and the decision would thin have to devolve upon the Rouse of Representatives. In that event Pierce will be stirs of his election, for there is a majority of Democrats' in the House. Thus he is doubly armed, and in eiery possible contingency the triumph of the democracy seems certain." Tha Independence of yesterday, the 29:h, states, in a postscript, that it has just learned the resignation of the Ministers, announced to the Assembly at the commencement of the sitting. This event is conse quent on the result of the election for President of the Chamber of Representatives the previous day, when M. DELAHAYE obtained 54 votes, and M. VERHAEGEN, the Government candidate, only 46. Tneletes at Brussels, in celebration of the decla ration of national independence, concluded on Sunday. The proceedings of that day consisted of the execu tio❑ of several pieces of music by the different singing societies ; of the distribution of prizes to persons for works in the Flemish language, and to those who had distinguished themselves by acts of courage and de votedness; of some dramatic spectacles in Flemish; finally, of a magnificent dispiay of fireworks. The two Royal Princes attended the theatrical perform ances, and were greeted with enthusiastic cries of " Leve de Koning ! Leve de Princen !" o 10 of 15 0 11 15 0 1 2 0 0 '4 0 0 13 001 42,500 7,680 56,252 7,400 40,000 50,000 68,160 50,000 A Whig demonstration occurred at Washington on the 17th. The friends of Mr. Webster bad s great gathering at Boston on the 15th. Numerous other political meetings- had occurred. The li o n. J. p. Hale had accepted the Freesoil nomination for tte Presidency. 'en railway accidents, attended in some cases with "atal consequences, had occurred within three days. Letters from Havannah of the 11th instant state :hat the Government, apprehending an immediate in vasion, continued to exhibit great alarm. The es pionage and domiciliary visits system was in full force, and arrests were, in consequence, very nume rous. The purser of an American iteam-ship, the Crescent City, having been charged with publishing a letter in the New York papers relative to the state of affairs in Cuba, the authorities, on his next arrival at Havannah, placed a guard on the steamer, and pre vented the purser from landing. The American journals brought by the Crescent City were re turned on board, with an intimation from his Ex. cellency that " the captaia might return ihe papers whence they came, as his Excellency bad no idea that her Majesty's loyal subjects committed to his charge should have their minds contaminated by studying the pernicious doctrines of liberty inculcated in those unbridled journals." The health of Ha vannah was greatly improved. The Royal mail steam. ship Dee arrived on the 10th from Vera Cruz. A French steamer of war, the Ardent, was in the port of Havannah, and two or three British frigates were cruising off the coast. We have advices from the city of Mexico to the 2d, and from Vera Cruz to the 4th inst., received via Havannah. The .New York Herold has the fol lowing : " The immense crowd of people of Guadalajara had been well received in Mazatlan. From that port 200 mria and four cannon had been embarked for Altata, and 100 men were about to depart by land. All were going to Culiacan, in order to depose the Governor, It Ives , receipts have been returned by the vessels which brought them. IButter is inactive. Irish is generally held for 11d, but for a parcel of 75 firkins, 1041 has been accepted. No other operations have transpired. Halifax i s move d :Jowly at Bid. We quote American at Bd, with a very limited inquiry. Bread--Crackers are very dull of sale, but there is L ,also in foromeinqujiirmyited demand. Watatsnd. on's Pilot, at 15 $ . H ome - ma d e Beef is wanted. Brandy—Some operations in Martell's dark and pale does tog ethernot have occurred more urredat 63. i bond. an 56. il ssy , s d The e f u or e merta p lo a n le e brings 6s. We have heard of a sale of 6 Mids. " Cha mote" at ss. All descriptions are in large supply. Cornmeal has declined to 203. Coffee—There is not any at market. Corn—American is in very little demand at Bs. per bag. Cheese—The supply of D. G. is so limited that none but retail transactions can occur. These have been effected 13d. a 130. per lb. Flour—There were sales of old and new Baltimore in the early part of the fortnight. at 325. and 325. 6c1.; but subsequent operations were effected at 31s. 6d. for Bal timore, and 31s. fur Philadelphia. The stock is rather heavy. Freights—There is not any offering. Doublo Gold ons are not wanted American at p er cent. premium. Hams—Lancashire may be quoted at Bd. We have nothing to report of American. Twenty barrels Irish have changed hands at 6d. per lb. Malt—The market continues overstocked with all de rathescriptions, except bottled strong al e , w hi ch is perhaps r wante. reported that the unfitness of the General Governor would be declared, and that the re-establishment of Ge neral Santa Anna would be proclaimed. " The commander of Oxkutzal writes to the General Commander of the State cf Yucatan as follows: —' 400 rebel Indians, proceeding from Maecarche, and led by Zacarias May, on the .1 1s t of August, at one o'clock P.M , attacked the population of that state; they were at once repulsed in three skirmishes, leaving on the Eeld 10 dead and another severely weeded.' " The advices from Guadalajara state that, according to the Siglo XIX. ,' the mission of the ambassadors to Don Gregorio D'Aila has been useless. On the 17th ult. 600 meu and four pieces of artillery were to depart for Lagos in order to expel Senor Portillo; but these troops were dispersed in their march by the arrival of General Yanez, who was at Aguascalientes, and Senor Noriega, who, according to the same paper, are parti z tog of the dictatorship of General Santa Anna, to which Senor D'Avila is opposed. The authorities of the canton of Colotlan and the department of Poculo have given their adhesion to the legitimate authori ties. The Brujula publishes the acts of Ayuntamientos of fluejuear, Ameca, Zap ot l ane j o , Z scoa l co , A toyac , and Mineral d e H ostot i payullo, in which a Provisional Government is a l so recognized. According to the same paper, it appear s that Aden de la Garcia, Tala, Curquio, Magdalena, and Teuchitian, had also acknowledged the Provisional Government. The Indians were continuing to commit the most horrible depredations; they invaded Sombrerete, in the State of Zacatecas, and killed 22 men, nine women, and a girl. " A correspondent of Oajac a remarks, that all the per sons who remained from the convoy of Major Bernard have left Tehuautepec to return to the United States. The letters from Orizaba mention the arrival of General Maria', with a body of cavalry including the troops of Don Vill a s ena , o f P ue bl a, and on the day of the depar ture of the cou r i er t h e i nfantry arrived. It was thought that operations would soon begin. By a vote of 15 against 12, the Council of the Government declare that it had not the right to discuss the opinion of the commit tee of the Government for convocation of Congress. "In the supplement of the journal Zempoalteca of th e Ist inst. is contained a telegraphic communication sent to the Minister of Relations by the Political Chief of Orizaba, manifesting to his Exc e ll enc y the apprehension of the inhabitants or that city t h at t h e i r town w o uld soon be the theat re o f a cotflict between the two parties. They also co m pl a i n o f t h e immense loss which their manufactures and their commerce will have to suffer. The last news by th e E ng li s h steamer reported that an other pronunciamento had been made at Tampico, and that the inhabitants had declared that they should not acknowledge the Government of Senor Cardenas, if he was elected again as governor. "As for the grave question of Tehuantepec, the Mexican Government has received an answer from Washington. Mr. Alfred Conklin g was expected to arrive in Mexico in a few days to take the place of Mr. Letcher, wh o was reca l led to the United States. " The brigad e o f G eneral U raga, which is at Puebla, had received ord ers t o go to G uadalajara. This brigade comprised the whole m ilit ary f orce of the Republic, and is the only one in which the Government has confidence. Senor Don Juan do la Granja has finished the telegra phic line from Vera Cruz to Mexico, and is about to undertake the construction of another lin e from Mexico to Guanajuato." ADDITIONAL E vP PARTICULARS. E C A U (Br TELEGRAPH FROM NEW ORLEANS.) " The last advices from the city of Mexico stale, that Rebolledo had proposed to surrender, provided the lives of himself and companions were guaranteed. The Vera N L S A , R s S E . pr. 15. Cruz Legislature requires an unconditional surrender. " The insurrection continues at various places. The insurgents occupy Cordova, the authorities having fled to Orizaba. " The commissioner from the General Government to Jalapa had returned unsuccessful. " Affairs at Guadalajara were still in confusion. " The Indians were committing great ravages in Za catecas. " The Oajaca Legislature demand an extra session of Congress to settle the Tehantepec question." Telegraphic advices from Texas and New Mexico state that the cotton crops of Texas had suffered from worms and the rain, but would nevertheless give a large yield. The Mexican Government had enforced a full tariff on goods for the Chihuahua trade, in consequence of which at immense stock would be de tained at El Passo. Caravajal was at Roma, without means or men, waiting for movements in the interior of Mexico. There continued to be a demand in the New York stock. market for State stocks and Government securi ties, and the prices were sustained. Speculative stocks were not in demand, and prices were lower. The :3,000,000 dolls. Six per Cent. Bonds, due 1880, convertible until 1890, of the Pennsylvania Central Railroad Company, hal been taken in Philadelphia at 103 20-100, for account of Messrs. Baring, Brothers, and Rothschild. The bid was for the whole or none. The total bid exceeded 10,000,000 dolls., some as high as 105 per cent. The market was well supplied with foreign exchange, and rates were heavy. On London, 110 to 1101; Paris, 5.121 to ; Amsterd am , 41 to 418; Hamburgh, 36-i 3 to 368; Bremen, 794 to 79k. The money-market was abundantly supplied at pre vious rates. Mercantile paper was plentiful, but the higher standard of credits were scarce. Cotton was is good demand, with a light stock on the market; the sales for the week were-9,350 bales, at an advance of ic. to lc. per lb. Ashes had slightly declined in prices, 800 barrels pots having been sold at 44 dolls. to 4 dolls. 684 c. per barrel; 200 barrels pearls brought 5 dolls. 56e. The markets for both wheat and flour were heavy and inactive, and, for im mediate delivery lower prices would be taken. In dian corn was in moderate demand; the receipts were large, and prices had a downward tendency. Provi sions were in fair demand, without alteration in price. Scotch pig iron Ives in good demand ; sales to a fair extent had been made at 24 dolls. cash to 25 dolls. six months, and in some instances 26 dolls. 30c. six months had been obtained. Swedish brought 75 dolls. per ton. Naval stores were in moderate de mand. There was a good demand for tobacco, and prices continued very firm; 650 hhds. had been sold at sc. to 9ic. for Kentucky leaf, and 10c. per lb. for strips. Freights to London—Tobacco, 255. to 30s. per hhd. , flour and weal, 2s. per barrel ; wheat, 64d. to 6id. per bushel ; and measurement goods, 15s. to 30s, per ton. THE WEST INDIES. SOUTHAMPTON, WEDN ESDAY Niaar .—Th e R oya l mail steam- s hi p L a Pl ata, Captain William Allen, has arrived o ff t hi s port with the usual Westlndi a, Gulf of Mexico, Pacific , and Oriental American mails. L a Pl a t a h as accomplished a highly success ful voyage b o th t o an d f rom the West Indies, and the satisfactory an d rap id performance of the first passage out and h ome con t rasts most favourably with the comparative inefficiency, i n point of speed and regu larity, of the ne w s hi ps constructed specially for this route by the West I n di a M a i l Company La Plata's dates are — Chagres; September 8 ; Greytown, Sept. 8 ; H avannab, Sept. 9 ; V era C ruz, Sept, 4; Tampico, Sept. 2 ; J am aica, Sept. 10 ; Demerara, Sept. 9; Trinidad, Sept. 9; Barbadoes, Sept. 11 ; St. Thomas's, Sept. 15. La Plata brings 91 passengers; and on freight specie value 1,374,76 E dolls., of which 329,217 dolls. are on account o f the M ex i can dividen d. Her freight list also comprises 306 serons of cochi neal, 7 serous of jalap, 78 bales of tobacco, 28 bales and sundry mer chandise ; also th ree ponies, as a present from the President of Mexi co to the Prince of Wales. At Jamaica bu s i ness h as been dull. The produce market has become i nactive as far as sugar and rum of sarsaparilla, 92 cases of cigars, were concerned. Of p i mento the receipts of the new crop were limited. The intellige nce f rom the country parishes present the " seas ons " as h aving set in very heavily. Exchange —O n London Jamaica Bank, 90 days, par; on Ne w Y ork, 60 days, to 1 Fer cent. pm. 1001 b. The state of th e public health in Jamaica was small - pox more satisfactory, thell-pox having sensibly abated. l Sugar w as quoted 225. per Oil—Cod is scarce. We quote it nominally at 28. 7id. per piton. _ Piinento—Fourpence is generally asked and readily paid for the few parcels of the new crop which have us yet come in. Rice—Some 600 bags of Patna and Bengal have changed bands in small parcels, the former at 21s, and the latter at 19s. to 20s. per 100 lbs. The demand is however slackening, and we have heard that Patna has been refused at 20s. 6d. We have nothing to report of Carolina. Rum—Sales to some extent have been effected at le. 3d. in bond—but for 40 puns, northside, coloured, proof 191. 2s. has been paid; the good inquiry has, however, very considerably subsided. 1 Soap—The sup - ply of all kinds is very considerable ; but only retail operations are occurring. Tobacco—We have nothing to report of this article, except that it is in very heavy supply. Tongues—lrish pigs are wanted. Twenty half-bar rels have changed hands at 565. There are some Ame rican at market. GENERAL SCREW STEA..II SHIPPING COMPANY. The ordinary half-yearly general meeting of pro prietors in this undertaking was held yesterday at the London Tavern, Mr. J. Ellis in the chair. There was a very numerous attendance of shareholders. The SECRETARY (Mr. J. L. O'Beirne) read the following report :- 4 . The directors, in submitting to the proprietors a re port of their proceedings, together with the accounts for the half year ending on the 30th June last, desire to re new their expression of confidence in the successful issue of the extended undertakings into which the company have entered, and are gratified to be able to state that the trade with the French and Dutch coasts steadily maintained itself, while the mail contract service to the Cape of Good Hope increased its traffic during the period embraced in this report. At the last half-yearly meet ing attention was directed, amongst other matters, to certain changes which were, in the opinion of the directors, desirable for the interests of the company in their contemplated enlarged operations. The directors having subsequently matured their views on the subject, submitted them in a series of propositions for considera tion at an extraordinary general meeting, specially con vened for that purpose in May last, when they were unanimously adopted, and the board proceeded to carry them into effect. They have now the pleasure of in forming the proprietors that a supplemental charter has been granted by her Majesty, which empowers the com pany to raise capital in shares of 201, each; to issue five 20/. shares, proportionably, in lieu of the present 1001. shares; and to borrow any sum not exceeding one fourth of the paid•up capital. The deed necessary to give effect to the provisions of the supplemental charter and to your resolutions has been drawn, and in a few days will be ready for signature, after which the new shares will be issued. The directors heartily con gratulate the proprietary on the completion of these measures. After the meeting in May, and when an application to the Crown for a supplemental charter had been made, tho directors invited subscriptions for the capital still required for the purposes of the company, and they have now the satisfaction to state that the shares which they have resolved to issue were forthwith taken up by par ties whose position brings weight to the company. The board have also to mention that, having considered it due to the existing shareholders to give them the oppor tunity of accepting a certain proportion of the new stock to be issued, the privilege was largely taken advantage of. The subscribed capital is now 715,0001., an amount sufficient for the present purposes of the company. To extend and consolidate the interests of the company, the directors ar plied for and have obtained a contract for out leas than seven years, on satisfactory terms, from her Majesty's Government, fora mail service between Cope Down and the principal settlements, as far as Port Natal. the Sir Robert Peel has arrived at the Cape to e.,in crience this service, and she will be joined as esriy as possible by the Bosphorus. The directors have also the gratification to announce that the new and extended service to India, vit2 the Mauritius, was opened by the Queen of the South in Juno last, followed by the Llarbinger, Lady Jocelyn, and Indiana. The proprie tors may be well proud of these noble ships, which have commanded the unqualified admiration of the naval and mercantile world, and of the public at large. The Calcutta, Mauritius, Hydasper, arid the Argo will sail in succession, and doubtless prove equal to those which have preceded them. In new en terprises publio confidence is in general but slowly secured. It will therefore be specially encouraging to the proprietors to learn that this Indian service has opened favourably; each succeeding ship has taken an increased number of passengers, while the next ship, the Calcutta, has already a larger number engaged than any of her predecessors. The directors are happy to add that the advices from the foreign agencies are also fall of promise. In requesting the attention of the pro prietors to the accounts and balance-sheet now presented to them, the directors have to state that the net sum of 3,4021. 9s. 10d. had been placed to the credit of the reserve fund, which now amounts to 16,9451. 2s. Bd., while the insurance fund has been increased by 2,1541., and amounts to 6,7331. 9s. In conclusion the directors recommend that a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent, per annum be paid for the half•year ending 30th Juno last, tree of income-tax." The financial statement showed that the total re ceipts had been 52,6641. 65., and the expenditure 45,0161. 5.5. 9d., leaving a balance of 7,6481. on the capital account. Accounts from Barbadoes state that the fever was not so viol en t, and fine rain had fallen on the island. In St. L uc i a the weather bad been squally, and the heat som ew h at mitigated. The island was free from all ala rm i ng diseases, although many persons, fearing the ap proach of yellow f ever, h a d removed to the higher parts of the island. The yellow f ever s till continues its ravages in Martiniq ue . A. few cases had occurred in St. Thomas's. The CHAIRMAN, in moving that the report and ac counts now presented to this meeting be, received and adopted, and that a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, free of income-tax, for the last half-year, ending 30th June last, be paid to the proprietors; and that the same be payable forthwith, said he would now take the liberty of making a few remarks on the principal points referred to in the report which had been just read, and on certain items which bad been presented to their notice. This would familiarise the objects which were worthy of the consideration of the proprietors, and would lead, he trusted, on their part, to the same view of the position of this company which the directors entertained. He could not but repeat the congratulations which the board had addressed to the proprietors in the report, as to the required capi tal which bad been obtained. When, indeed, they looked at their position this time twelve months since, and what it was now, they must all feel it to be a matter for great satisfaction that they had been en abled to raise the company to a condition in which they could bear comparison with any great maritime corporation afloat.—(Hear.) It could not fail to delight the proprietary to know that they bad got a supplemental charter, the effect of which had been in every respect to improve their property. As he had had occasion to state at the former extraordinary ge neral meeting, there could be no doubt that, in the present feeling of the public mind, there was a diffi culty in respect to the 1001. shares; but by means of the supplemental charter which bad been obtained, certain changes had been made iu the deeds, which he thought would greatly facilitate the working of the company. They had by this supplemental charter obtained the privilege of making bye-laws for the common good, and thus great and substantial advan tages which could not fail to please all parties. Again, while the statement of their accounts was the story of their monetary condition from the Ist of January to the 30th of June last, the board had to tell them what he must be allowed to call their political history since the meeting which was held in March last. He was happy to state that after the Cape mail contract ceased, and they had obtained from the Government one for an extended service to I n dia, a question arose as to bringing back the return mails from the Cape of Good Hope; and the company made arrangements to send the Helles pont, the Bosphorus, and another vessel on that ser vice, and the bargain which had been made, he was glad to say, had proved a profitable one to the com pany. In the next place, they bad heard from the report that they had obtained a contract for the con veyance of the mails, by the route of the Cape, to Port Natal, touching at the intermittent ports. The directors were of opinion that it was not desirable that any one else should trade upon the ground which they called their own. There was an incipient com pany started, some notice of which had appeared in the papers ; and upon that fact appearing, the di • rectors resolved that, whether they had the contract or not, they would place their ships on that route, and inaiutain it against all new comers —(Hear, hear.) The board entered into negotiations with the Govern ment, which ended in the manner he had stated ; and they had the contract for the same period as they had for the Indian mail service. Turning now from that subject to the continental trade, he was please to say that, comparing it with the corresponding half-year, the half-year ending the 30th of June last showed a great ,iroproverueut. The trade with Ilarliuggn And The year's Demerara journals are nearly barren of news, the Legi s l ature not hav i ng b een i n sess i on. The we ather continued distressingly hot, and a good deal of sickness pre va iled in the colony, but not of a very fatal type. S ugar - ma king progressed f avoura bl y , and th e young t canes gave great prom i se f or next The P ac ifi c St ea m Navigation Compa n y' s steam crop. Trade was excessively dull. steam ship Bogota bad arrived at Panama, with mails from the west coast of South America, and dates from Valparaiso, August 15 ; Lima, August 22. She had on freight 193,000 dolls. for transmission to England. The accounts from Mexico are unfavourable, both financially and politically. REVIEW OF MARKETS. (From De Cordova's Intelligencer.) Business has again been dull and limited for the most part to ordinary retail operations. We notice a decline in the value of, and inquiry for flour and meal, which is to be attributed to the freer receipts of native vegetables. In these results rice is beginning to share to a certain extent. Codfish in tierces bats rather improved in value, owing to the moderate arrivals, and herrings and mac kerel of prime quality aro wanted. The produce market is again becoming inactive as far as rum and sugar are concerned. Of Pimento the re ceipts of the new crop are yet very limited. There is not any coffee on offer. The last intelligence from the country parishes repre sents the seasons as having set in very heavily. Alewives are almost entirely neglected. Occasionally a small parcel is taken as a substitute for herrings, but the demand is very uncertain, Nearly all of the recent ~.._ _______--- Rotterdam had improved considerably. The Dunkirk for them, he had kept them for them, be had trade had never been a profitable one, and up to this pea given them to them on their own terms to a It was the riod it had on!) , been maintained in the hop e that it ! extent when they wanted them, and when they Certainbad would be improved. But the other day, whilst the di- not funds to pay for thetra.—(Hear, hear.) rectors were notdesposed to give up the trad e altogeth er , I boast of the board, and it must be a boast generally they resolved to withdraw one of their ship s ; and a s ; among the proprietors, that they were doing a greate noon as this determination was known to th e director s I amount of work than was ever performed by an; of the Great Northern Railway of France, they ex- maritime company. They were now bringing - f or : pressed their regret at the step which had been taken. I ward 1,800 tons ships month after month. The Ahern But the answer of the directors of thi s comp an y w as of the South had been followed by the Lady Jocelyn, I simply that they were not disposed to carry on un- and then succeeded the Indiana. 7h Calcutta, whi c h profitable trade, and if they felt it desirable to do so, was to follow her, had had her trial trip do i the it would be for them (the French company), t o tak e river yesterday, and had performed it to thewn great measures to appoint ships of their own. Through th e satisfaction of the directors. She made ten and a half instrumentality of this company's broker, howev er , knots, and the engines in working surpassed the an arrangement had been since made with the Great most sanguine expectation s of those who were on Northern Railway Company of France, by which, board. He believed that the Calcutta would sail from the Ist September last, they a gree d to give a a t th e time appointed, end that in a month she certain allowance to each vessel on each ship's would be followed by the Mauritius and the voyage. This would give the Screw Steam Com- Hydaspes. In order to carry out these great parry a fair return for the capital which they in- operations, the most strenuous exertions had been vested in this branch. The proprietors would made by the ship-builders and others. As for likewise have seen that the board had resolved t o their builder, Mr. Mare, he had spared no expense in. remove the station of the Indian packet ship s fr o m offering rewards to his men in order that there mightt London to Southampton.—(Hear.) It was desirable be no disappointment to the expectation s of the COI that he should state that this was a step which had pany or of the public. Of the Messrs. Maudsla n ' not been taken by the board without long and anxious the engineers, of four or five of their ships, he used consideration of all those points which were in- not speak. Their exertions had only been such as he volved in a question of so much importance to the in- expected. For the next ship, and the ship whi c h was terests of the company. The main difficulty of their to follow, Messrs. Boulton and Watt were at this ships remaining in London as their station was that time making the most indefatigable exertion% and there were no docks sufficiently capabl e o f re ce i v i ng putting themselves to a considerable expense in, order them, and letting them out at the particular times that the company might suffer no disappointment which were necessary for ships engaged in the packet In conclusion, he must express his opinion that whil e service to India. Ships mi g ht b e e x p ose d t o detenti on the company was managed with unity of purp ose at Blackwell, from the crowded state of the river, for with prudence, and with sufficient energy, it would, seven or more days. T h us it might happen that a prosper ; but some time ruust be allowed for the full foul might render a ship in- development of the capabilities of an undertakhag of loaded coal barge coming efficient, and put the company t o an ex p ense o f 10001, such magnitude. lle would now move that the or more. The directors, therefore, had to consid e r report be adopted, end that a dividend after the, rate the risks which attended such classes of ships at, all of 5 per cent. per annum be payable on the la s t times in th e River Thames. T he next difficulty was year endin g J une 30. half to get docks which should be at all times and s e as ons Mr. Jonasore seconded the motion. available without incurring a considerable expense. A SHAREHOLD ER said that the charges for passen- On due consideration of these several points it was gars to India were larger than those of the Peninsular resolved by- the directors to open a commu- and Oriental Steam Packet Company. nication with the Southampton Dock Company The CHAIRMAN said that the company provided and the directcrs of the South-Western Rail wa y their passengers with every necessary and luxury Company, who had severally agreed to an (with the exception of body linen) during the voyage, arrangement which was of a nature highly satis- and that these were well worth 20/. on a voyage to factory to this company, and would promote the gene- India. ral interests of the proprietary. The resolution for the adoption of the report was stead of any nominal loss by H e believed that, in-the removal of their then carried unanimously, and a dividend of 5 per ships to Southampton, and taking into consideration cent , declared. the delivery of cargoes in London and at On the motion of Mr. CURRY, a resolution was also Southamp ton, there would, no doubt, be a Salnomi ga i n , an d passed, voting the cordial thanks of the meeting to intrinsically there would decidedly be g The the chairman and directors, for their zeal and attention Southampton Dock Company had granted this asso- to the affairs of the company, and voting them 3,0001. ciation the best position in their docks; and they had per annum for their services—the same to date from got full half an acre of ground for a mere son g , th e I s t of January last. where they could build storehouses and workshops of Some routine business having been disposed of, the various sorts, which would be of use in their econo- meeting separated. mical expenditure; and, in addition to this, the Southampton Dock Company had given them the use of dry docks whenever they might require them, after due notice being given. The proprietors would, he hoped, believe him when he said that these pro ceedings had not been taken without great delibera tion. Another matter to which he would next ad vert, and which he hoped would be satisfactory to the proprietors, was that the board of directors had taken a piece of ground in Cannon-street, on which they proposed to erect the future home of the company. They were now paying a very large rent for very inadequate and inconvenient offices. They hoped when the building was finished, to let out a part of the premises to advantage; so that he trusted the ad ditional expense to the company would not be very considerable, while there would be abundant facilities for transacting all the business which he hoped the extended advantages of the company would bring to them.—(Hear, hear.) By-and-by be intended to ration. propose as a resolution, to rescind a resolution of the general meeting, which was passed in the year 1849, the purport of which was that the company should insure two-thirds of the risks on their ships by the public, and that the other third should be taken by themselves. Now, in the present position of the company it did not seem desirable that the ratio of risk therein adopted should be persevered in ; because the proprietors would see, for instance, that in the case of the smaller ships, where the risks were from 7,0001. to 8,0001., they would take 2,5001., whilst on their larger ships they would incur risks involving amounts to the extent of 20,0001. It seemed to the board of directors, after mature deliberation, more desirable to take a certain sum on each, whether the whole risk or not, but still preserving the principle of the resolution of the board, that they should not exceed one-third by the company. The insurance fund now amounted to 6,7331., but as that fund ex tended and increased yearly, so in proportion they should regulate their mode of assurance, and that in the end he hoped the company would have a fund of such an amount that they might become their own insurers. The board felt that in that fund alone they had the germs of future prosperity. When the re venues of the company should be fully developed they would derive from their insurances 30,0001. or 4000/ a vf:ar, giving a dividend of 5 or G per cent. when the whole of the capital should he brought into play. L was a great thing to look forwerd to the building up of this insurance fund, and thet they would have this resort when times hereefter right not, for a period, be so prosperous as they were now ; it was a matter of consolation to have that to create a dividend which • THE MINIE RIFLE. The following circulars and circular memorandum have been issued for the guidance of the colonels cos mr a " d ants of the respective divisions o f R oya l ines t Portsmouth, Plymouth, Chatham, and Woolwich, with reference to the above•nanted arms : " Deputy Adjutant- General's Office, Aug. 17,1852. " Sir,—The Lords Commissions of the Admiralty having been pleased to signify that a supply of rifle muskets, as per statement, will be furnished by the Ord nance Department to the several divisions of Royal Marines, which muskets are to be taken in charge as a portion of the armament of the corps. "2. 'rho annexed Government memorand um i s for warded for you r information and guidance with refer ence to the distribution of those (to Chatham, 100; to Portsmouth, 150; to Plymouth, 100; to Woolwich, 100) among the parade companies of the di v i s i on under your command, and also respecting the allowance of ammu- "3. And you will be pleased to ob►erve that those arms are, till further orders, to be retained for practice at the divisional head quarters. By command, "JOHN OWEN, Deputy Adjutant-General." " CIRCULAR MEMORANDUM. "LlQrse uards, 24, . "The Commander-in Chief G desires Ju that the lBs2 rifled muskets now in the course of supply to the troops, which it is proposed shall in the first instance be furnished at the rate of 100 stand for each regiment, and the arming of the recent augmentation of the infantry thereby be provided for, may he distributed in equal numbers among the companies of each regiment and depOt, and placed in the hands of the best and most expert marksmen. " An arrangement has been entered into with the Ord nance Department, by which the troops armed with these muskets will be placed, in respect to practice ammunition, on the same looting as rifle corps, and allowed 90 rounds annually, two-thirds of which are to be issued in the spring, and the remainder in the autumn. "F being, however, very desirable that the practice with these improved arms should be extended beyond the individuali in whose poisessioe they may in the first in ctrancr ht,vo been placed, the Ortlu.nee Department will ba prepared to issue a farther treei:2l end moiler allow ance to corps stationed c'so-t4in io%litics were ,lyre is ample ran t ze for prletiee, our, visiion forwarded thr,ug,h this ti , p,lrtm , at; t.ut such additional p 'mon must in a ll ca, e , b e , de'lLe:ed, fTorn ihe established annual supply of ()rain try practic! umnamition. Ny command, "G BROWN AdjutaLt•Giii-y_lal." they otherwise would not have.—(Hear.) But there was not only 6,7337. to the credit of the insurance fund, but there was also the colli.ion risk fund, amounting to 1,8681. 103., to meet any contingency, and which sum might, perhaps, have been coupled with the other sum. So that for the purpose of meeting risks the company, at present, had really a fund of 8,5001. On the other side of the account he was glad to draw attention to the reserve fund of 16,9451. 2s. Bd. That fund, which was in accordance with the rule laid down and approved by the board of their superintendent for the valuation of the depreciation of their ships, was f u lly ample for the purposes in tended. It was stated in the report that the Indian packet service had been opened in June last by the Queen of the South. Some of the gentlemen whom he addressed were present when that ship was tried, and it was a pleasant thing to say that he thought they owed their present position, in a great degree, to the effect she created in the public mind. She was the admiration of everyone who saw her, and espe cially of those who were present on the day of trial ; and for some days after that occurrence, from Lewis ham to Belgrave•square, everybody talked of the Queen of the South. She went on her way, but a little mishap occurred and she was obliged to put back into Plymouth, but happily it was found that the ac cident had occurred from an oversight at sea, and that the ship could not proceed on her voyage; and whilst the directors regretted the untoward circumstance which had occurred, they at the same time derived great satisfaction from learning, after the closest examina tion of the hull and machinery by the official autho rities of the Government and by Lloyd's agent, those gentlemen declared the Queen of the South to be one of the finest ships they had ever gone over, and she started under as favourable circumstances as could be expected by any one. How the ship was fitted out-- how she performed her business, gentlemen might probably have learned from the letters of the passen• gers which had appeared in the newspapers. But something had been said about the vessels not having been provided with coals at a certain place ; and for the satisfaction of the proprietors he would state that the board had had great difficulties to contend with from the demand for shipping for the Australian colonies, in getting coal s; b ut their arrangements were now perfected, and he believed that in future there would be nothing but what would be highly creditable to the cornpany. E very co mpany, how ever, must have, i n t h e i r early stages , some diffi culties to contend against, which would check their onwarl progress ; but, on the whole, he thought this company had much to be satisfied with. As might be expected, in respect to passengers and freights, their first ship was not well filled, nor could it be anticipated that it would be. Those who knew the nature of such a service must be aware that it must be well commenced before the public confidence could be obtained for it. On the other hand, it was satisfactory to be able to inform the proprietors that their progress in relation to the number of passengers had been very rapid, and, indeed, extraordinary he thought. In the first large ship (the Queen of the South) their passege•money was not quite 2,0001. ; in the next ship, the Lady Jocelyn, it was 2,7001.; in the next, the Indiana, it realised 4,4001.; and in the case of the Calcutta, which would sail next month, the amount of passage money up to the present time was 5,000/.—(Hear, hear.) The number of passengers taken out were—by the Queen of the South, 30 ; by the Lady Jocelyn, 39 ; by the Indiana, 54, and the number already secured by the Calcutta was 65. These passengers were embarked for Cape Town, Calcutta, Ceylon, &c., and an analysis of their diffe rent destinations showed that the larger number of passengers were for distant ports instead of for the nearer ports. In the Calcutta there were already se cured 16 passengers for the C a p e , f or C ey l on 11, Madras 16, Calcutta 22, makin g a l toget h er 65 pas sengers, and passengers still wer e com i ng in, so that he hoped at a future time he should be able to say that she was the first full ship.—(Cheers.) Next he must refer to the extraordinary rapidity with which the ships had been brought forward. Ile did not mention this with a view to enhance the services of the directors, who had only done their duty ; but they might boast of their builder, their engineers, and their superintendent, and of their unceasing efforts for the promotion of the interests of the board. He could not speak too highly of the services of Mr. Mare, which had been great indeed. He might say of that gentleman that he had built ships according to contract, and had made a good t hi ng of it, it might be said; but it was not fair to leave the matter here. That gentleman bad built ships " Deputy Adjutan , -(i.11.-I:ie 6 t )fii,e, Sept. 10, 1852- "Sir,—l ;Ini directed by the 1), pot)? Adjutant Gene rz)l to r•cquAnt )ou that rr, B o f ordn autm h Eov he , .11 trgrif.stcd to supply 260 rifled mumlirts in adchlion to the r umber of the Min ti rifld in charge and in course of supply for the use of the division under your comrnard. " 2. Theo 200 rifled muskets are to be taken in charge and included in the established numbsr of the common musket. 3. The following proportion of the foregoing rifled muskets are to be in pos , ession of men when embarked en board her M jesty's ships--viz, first-rates, 25; second rates, 25; third-rates, 20; fourth-rates, 17; fifth -rates, 15; sixth-rates, 10, sloops, 6; smaller vessels, 3. " 4. Thn quantity of ammunition for such muskets is to be according to the present establishment, but the whole of the ball cartridges are to be made up, instead Of supplying thy: materials, as at present, for a portion. The quantity for present use at the division is to be sup plied in the first instance on your requisition, and here after according to establishm ent. S. R WESLEY, Assistant Atijatant- General." "Deputy Adjutant-General's Office, Sept. 27, 1852. " Sir,—The Lords Commiisionera of the Admiralty having signified to the puty Adjutant-General that 500 Mime rifles and 1.200 rifi.) ramkets are supplied to the Royal Marines, their Lordships are pleased to direct that both otEN-rs and men be frcquently and caratu!ly trained iu toe use of this new weapon and in measuring distances with accuracy. "2. And I urn to request that you will give effect to their Lordships' commands accordingly, forwarding to this office a quarterly return of the ball practices of the arms in ques•ion for the intormstion of their Lordships. " JOHN OwEN, Deputy Adjutaut•General.» D e p u y Adjutant-General's Office, Sept. 27, 1852. " Sir,—The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty having been pleased to signify their directions that a trial shall take place (as early as possible), in w e t as well as dry weather, with the following muskets, a n d at the ranges specified, with a view to ascertain their re spective qualities, viz :- 10 Mille rifles, Ranges. 10 rifled muskets, yds. yds. yds. yds. yds. 10 muskets, present pattern, at 200 iOO 400 500 600 with 10 rounds of proper ammunition for each musket for each range respectively, " I am desired by the Deputy Adjutant-General to request that you will cause such directions to be given as you may deem best calculated to carry out the commands of their Lordships, transmitting the tests of the firing agreeably to the anm xed form at t h e expiration of practice, accompanied by such remarks as may be deemed necessary to explain the qualities of each description of arm. "S. R. WESLEY, Assistant Adjut Lnt-General," - - ELOPEMENT.— GALWAY, Tin ESDAY.—AbOIIt three o'clock yesterday mor n i ng t h e i n h a b itants of the little village of Athenry, county Galway, were disturbed from their slumbers by the sound of carriage wheels driving rapidly over the shingled road an d h a l t i ng at the hotel door.Pre- sently a loud knocking announced that the parties required admission; the waiter immediately obeyed the summons, and the occupants of the carriage were ushered in. Fifteen minutes scarce'y elapsed when a car drove up in hot pursuit, and it became known that Mr. of Castlebar, had eloped with a daughter of the late Captain ,of the county Mayo. The car contained her brothers, who immediately demanded their sister, which was refused. Pistols were called into requisition, and were it not for the timely interference of H. M. Cormack, Esq. S j.,' and a party of police, the conse quences might have been serious. The lady, who is only 18 years of age, and has a large fortune in her own right, refused to leave the partner of her flight. However, she at last consented, and so the matter rests for the present. The young cavalier having lost his fair one, and being the worse for having taken too much of the "native" to drown his sorrow, got into a row with the postmaster, who inflicted on him a severe castigation. The matter will come before the magistrates at petty sessions. THE LATE HERLFORD MUSICAL FESTIVAL. --The accounts of the late festival of the three choirs of Worcester, Glocester, and Hereford, held at the lost -named city, have just been ma .e up, and show a much mere favourable result Ilan had been anticipated. It appears, from these accounts, that the attendance at the recent festival, notwithstanding other provincial attractions, was greater than at either of the three previous meetings, and that the liabilities of the stewards will be less than has been the case for a considerable period. with the exception of 1837. A final meeting of the stewards and committee of the festival h as b een held, at which the accounts were passed, and at which, on the motion of the archdeacon, seconded by the Bishop of Hereford, a cordial vote of thanks was passed to Mr. Townshend Smith, the conductor, for the very admirable manner in which he bad discharged his onerous and important duties, The Hereford meeting has now weathered the storm ; the open ing of new railways to that city will insure success for future Hereford festivals. ARRIVAL OF THE AMERICAN MINISTER. -- The Hon. Joseph H. Ingersoll, of Philadelphi, the plenipoten tiary appointed to succeed Mr. Abbott Lawrence, arrived in Liverpool yesterday, by the Arctic. His fellow-citizens in Philadelphia intended giving a banquet in his honour ere he quitted America, but he declined for want of time. RHYL, SEPT. 29.--The Prince of Wales sloop, llss been wrecked ; crew saved. LON DON, • AMERICAN NE WS. ARRIVAL OF THE ARCTIC , u ~ F. MT' Mao' 1 1 2 0 0 2 3 dr I d 50 knd a 0 1 2 3 0 o o '' o woll ske° the i for L 1 I 2 3 ; dr. into r of rica the of for iti 'ore