The Sun. — London, England, 1848-09-08 00:00:00

- ,:) -- .:Dtr73 ;Station SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock. FRAN CE. Baron DE STOCKHAUSEN was presented on Wednes day by M. BASTIDE to General CAVAIONAC, to whom he delivered letters from the King of HANOVER, ac crediting him as Minister Resident of that kingdom to the Government of the Republic. The Itloniteur states that the Ottoman Government had recognised the French Republic, and that General Aupics, the French Minister Plenipotentiary , presented his credentials to the Sultan on the 26thult LOMBARDY AND PIEDMONT. The National Savoisien of the 4th instant pub lishes a letter from Turin of the 2d instant, which states that the Austrians having imposed an extraor dinary contribution of 400,000 florins (32,0000 .on the city of Parma, to be paid within four hours, that sum not being forthcoming within the period stated, the Croats according to custom had commenced pillaging the city. The inhabitants, however, en couraged by the patriotic defence of Bologna, rung the tocsin, and ccmmenced a fearful battle, in which they were assisted by the women and children. They threw their furniture from the windows on the heads of the Austrians, and be inhabitants of the country , hurried to their assistance, armed with their imple ments of husbandry. The result of the struggle had not been ascertained. There was an emeute at Genoa on the 2d, in con sequence of the arrest of M. DE Bora, a Venetian. The books of the police were burned, and some of the furniture of the palace destroyed. DENMARK AND SCHLESWIG. Advices have been received from Hamburgh to the 6th by the steamer which arrived this morning. The Provisional Government of the Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein have refused to acknowledge the armistice lately concluded by Prussia in the name id the Germanic Confederation. The greatest jealousy of Prussia prevails among the Democratic party in the North of Germany, and it is feared that the exertions of that power to promote peace will be Tendered fruitless. Hamann.Gu, SEPT. 6.—The blockade of the Elbe, Weser, and Jande has been raised since yesterday, and the Prussian ports in the Baltic have by this time also become free. This armistice has given great Satisfaction here as well as in the interior of Northern Germany, but not in Holstein, where that course of intrigue which has been hitherto the basis of the iplazs of the Provisional Government threatens to 3make peace impossible. The conditions of the armistice have appeared in the Schleswig-Holstein papers, and created great fermentation among the Democratic party in the Duchies, especially at Rendsburg, Kiel, and Altona. The troops of the Duchies, levied by the Provisional Goirernment, have refused to obey the orders of the Prussian officers, under whose command they stood, and await those which they have requested to be sent them by the Frankfort Central Power. Some apprehensions are entertained of the German troops from the southern parts of Germany declaring in favour of the Holstein party, but such insubor dination can scarcely be expected from these troops, who are besides under the control of the: Central Tower, which has given to Prussia the entire ar rangements of the conditions of the armistice, and must consequently rather call upon them to see the orders of Prussia obeyed than to act against them. ,ALTONA, SEPT. 5.- - --The sth battalion of Sebles• 'wig-Holstein troops, recently formed, and composed of "free corps" men of TANN'S and BRACKLEN'S divi sions, have refused to move outside of Kiel, and the 7th battalion, which arrived from Eckenforde, has also refused to march further. The two Hanoverian battalions of infantry which were expected here this afternoon, on their return home, have not arrived. This morning, at 5 o'clock, the Danish prisoners from Stade, 750 men, were forwarded on to Rendsburg. KIEL, SEPT. 4.—The Assembly of the States Representatives of the Duchies was this day re opened. The conditions of the armistice were read over, as also a letter from Mr. VON AUERS. witm), who explained the concessions made by Denmark, and the advantages therein contained. Notwithstanding this letter, however, the States of the Duchies consider this armistice as an impossi bility, because, not only is it contrary to the honour of Scleswig- Holstein, but above all to that of Germany —the act of the sovereign German people is thereby annulled, and even the Central Power of Germany is not . acknowledged. In consequence of which the Assembly of the Duchies has decided unanimously upon the following motion of the Landvogt Jensen : " 1. That the Constitutional Assembly of the States of the Duchies can nither be ths'solved nor prorogued sgaio-,t 2. That any alteration in the pra6ant , F.=:;(ing Go- Tenement of the country requires the sanction of the AsA.mbly. 3. All laws passed by the Provisional Government since the 24 th of March for Schleswig Holstein can only be altered and made void by the sanction of .the As semblyof the States. " Wittout the sanction of the Assembly no new laws can be decreed or duties imposed upon the people. "3. All existing dues and taxes, as well as other State burdens will be raised by the authority of the As sembly, by the present existing Government of the country, until the 31st of December, 1548." In consequence of the above, it will be seen that the die is cast as relates to this Holstein Provisional Government. The Assembly has declared its sove reignty, and its partial refusal of the conditions of the armistice. It was known at Copenhagen on the 2d inst. that the armistice had been concluded. The auction of the condemned ships had been put off in consequence. THE LONDON GAZETTE. (THIS EVENING.) At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 4th day of September, 1848, present, the Queun's Most Excellent Majesty in Council. This day the Most Honourable John Alarquis of Brerdalbane was, by her Majesty's command, sworn of her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy (loaned, and took his place at the Board accord ingly. CROWN-OFFICE, SEPT. 5. XENBERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT PAR- LIAMENT. Borough of Derby—Lawrence Heyworth, of Yewtree, near Liverpool, Esq.; Michael Thomas Bass, of Holly bank, in the county of Stafford, Esq.; the last election for the said borough having been declared void. Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire. Lancashire Hussars—Sir John Gerard, Bart. to be Major Commandant ; William Charles Yates, Esq. to be Captain, Sept. 5. _ ADMIRALTY, AUG. 28. Corps of Royal Marines—Second Lieutenant Henry Hewett to be First Lieutenant, vice Grieve, resigned. ADMIRALTY. AUGUST 31, 1848. First Lieutenant and Quartermaster Edward Thorn borough Parker Shewen to be Captain, vice Smith, re tired on full pay; Second Lieutenant Edward M'Arthur to be First Lieutenant, vice Shewen, promotrd. WHITEHALL, AUGUST 29, 1848. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Arthur Harward, of Wirksworth, in the county of Derby, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. lIANKRUPTS. James Emmins, builder, Princes-road, Notting-hill, to surrender Sept. 15, at one, and Oct. 22, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Turquand, cfficial assignee; Fallows, Piccadilly. Joseph Robinson Towers, innkeeper, High Holborn, Sept. 20, at half-past twelve, and Oct. 24, a t el e ven, at the Co u rt of Bankruptcy. G room , official assignee, Ab hurch-lan e Lb d- Stanley, Milford-street, Bedf or d- row. , Lomba r d-street; S treet• , Abraham shire, Sept. 16, Nash, scythe plater, Netherton, Worcester- Birmingh am bisatn '(l Oct. 14, at half-past ten, at the Birmingham; _orict Court. Christie, o ffi cial assignee, ingham. Ai tteram, Knight, and Emmett, Birm- William Couch and Jo hn Davies Couch, sailmakers, ' Swansea, Glatnorg the Bristol District Court ; Sept. 21, and Oct. 19, at , Acraman, Bristol; Jones, Blaxlaridofficial assignee, or Tripp, Swansea. Roger Elliott, builder, andpimjones, Yoath, Sept. 20, and Oct. 25, at eleven, at the Exeter District Court. Hernaman, official assignee, Exeter ; Lavers, Plymouth; Pontifex and Moginie, Holborn. Joseph Bannister, thread manul s lan a t n in c ier, Lock woo d , .Mmondbury, Yorkshir e , Sept. ItE eleven, at the York Di s t r i ct Court. u Oc t. 23, at ' p signoe, Leeds ; Clarke, Ch ancery- lano e L .4e, official a on ; Ili r d , , Hadderafield ; Caries, Leed s . Lo n don Thomas Carter and George Wharton, engineers an millwrights, Gainsborough, Sept. 20, and Oct. 25, at half past ten, at the Leeds District Court. c arrick, official assignee, Hull; Scott and Co, Lincoln's-inn fields; Plaskett, Gainsborough. _ _ Absalom Humphreys, boot and shoemaker, Liverpool, Sept. 20, and Oct. 12, at eleven, at the Liverpool Dis trict Court. Morgan, official assignee, Liverpool ; Oli ver, Old Jewry-chambers, London; Evans and Son, Li verpool; Humphreys, St, Asaph. George Lowe, woollen draper, Chesterfield, Sept. 21 and Oct. 12, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Huh. --on, official assignee, Manchester. Palmer, France, and Palmer, Bedford-row, London ; Busby, Chesterfield; Binney, Manchester. _ _ Margaret Hassell, milliner, Manchester, Sept. 20, and Oct. 11, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Pott, official assignee; W. and H. P. Sharp, Vernlam buildings, Grays-inn; Rowley and Taylor, Manchester. Peter Feeney, Manchester, cloth es d ea l er, S ept. 22 and Oct.. 12, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Hobson, official assignee, Manchester ; Mil ne , P arry , Milne, and Morris, Temple; Sutton, Manchester. William Wallace and George Dormond, Sunderland, butchers, Sept. 13, at twelve, and Oct. 13, at two, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court. Wakley, official assignee, Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; Nixon, Clifford's Inn; Brunton, Sunderland ; _Cooper, Sunderland. PRICE OF SUGAR. The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed from the returns made in the week ending September 5, 1848, is 235. 7%d. per cwt. BANK OF ENGLAND. (From this night's Gazette.) An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth of Victoria, cap. 32, for the Week ending on Saturday, the 2d day of September, 1848. ISSUE DEPARTMENT. Notes Issned•• .• •• .. X. 26,883,503 X 26,883,50 5 Dated the 7th day of September, ➢ANKING D X. Proprietors' capital . • 14,553,000 Rest • • ••• • . • • 3,826,382 L'ublic deposits (in cluding Exchequer, Commissioners of National Debt, Sav ings-banks, and Di vidend accounts)" 5,021,591 ether deposits .. .. • • 8,824,607 ieven day and other bills • • .• . • 1,016,921 £33,242,•501 :Dated the ith day of September: COURSE OF EXCHI Amsterdam ...... •• .. 12 1U Dittu, at sight • ..... 11 131 i itottcrdatn .... • ..... 12 1% !katwerp • • ............ 25 75 damburgh .....•M.B. 13 10% , 'arls, 3 days' sight .. • • 25 40 Ditto, 3 months .... 25 70 ',larseilles •••• •• • ... • . 25 75 80urdeaux......... . 25 75 Frankfort on Maine.... 121 4 eetersburgh, Sit. ltble•• 36% lerlin.... • • ...... •• •• Vienna, effec. tio•• •• •• 11 Trieste, ditto.... • • .... 11 Viadrid •• .. • • ........ 46N Cadiz .. • ............ 48% 4ilbao.. • • • • .. • • ...... 3areelona •• • • ........ Sll7We 00000 • •••. •..• •- Government debt • • 11,015,100 Other securities •• • • 2,984,90 e Gold coin and bullion 12,177,567 Silver bullion • • • • • • 705,938 MARKET 426,883,505 M. MAUSLIALL, Chief Cashier. , 1848. EPAZTMEN T. Government securi- ties (including Dead Weight Annuity) .. 12,462,735 Other securities •• • • 11,368,814 Notes •.• . • • ••• • • 8,784,795 Gold and silver coin.. 626,157 1 £33,242,501 M. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier. , 1848. ,NGE.-(THIS DAY. Gibraltar.. • • Leghorn ........ ••.. •• 31 45 Genoa .. •• • • ...... •• .. 25 90 Venice........ • • . • .... Naples ...... •....... Falermo, Lisbon.•.. Rio Janeiro .......... Messina .............. ,suenos Ayres .. • ... New York, 21 dayesight ehiladelphia .......... FRICEs OF BULLION, PEE OE. teoreign Gold in bars.. X 3 17 9 New Dollars .... • . 0 4 10% eortugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0 'panish Doubloons .. 0 0 0 Silver in bars ...... •. 0 4 11% INTELLIGENCE 38% 116% 8114, 51% 11634 (From the London New Price Current of Sept. 8.) SUGAR.—To day importers of free and slave. !about Sugar were desirous to sell at further reduced terms, still exporters and home-trade buyers could not be induced to extend their, purchases. Of West India Muscovado the sales were small, and amounted only to 300 hhds and tierces, at easier rates. The quantity sold for the week is 2,363 hhds and trs, and the reduction in prices for that time amounts from 6d to Is per cwt. REPINED.—To-day refined goods were dealt in with more freedom for home trade purposes, brown grocery lumps at 50s to 50s 6d, and Standard lumps 51s to 51s 6d. Bonded Crushed Sugar is held with firmness at 26s 6d to 27s 6d per cwt. MAURITIUS.—This afternoon there was not a better demand for Mauritius by private treaty, and 923 bags at auction were nearly all taken in at full rates, good yel low at 38s to 38s 6d, fine 395, a few lots were sold, 34s 6d to 40s for good and fine, and washed at 33s to 38s 6d per cwt. EAST INDIA.—This afternoon few sales were made in Bengal privately, but 200 bags at auction went at the Lull value, low soft yellow at 35s to 35s 6d, good 37s and damp at 34s 6d to 36s 6d. FOREIGN.—To•dny there was no public sale of Forei7n Sugar, and pi ivately the small parcels sold were at rather lower rates. MoLAssEs.—This afternoon at public sale 50 hhds Treacle sold at 46s for good: 9 puns Grenada Molasses at 14s for low quality, which are reduced rates. COFFEE.—This afternoon there was no public sale, and privately all sorts were dealt in with caution, both for Rome use and exportation, although there were sellers upon former reduced terms. TEA.—There has again been no arrivals, whilst deli veries for home-trade purposes are larger than in the former week. Holders have confidence, and refrained from submitting any to public sale, whilst none is an nouuced. For Black there is much better demand, and stiffer rates are paid. Congou of ordinary clean quality sold at 8d to 81d, and good com mon 9d to 91 per lb; indeed some parties will not accept these rates. Green cannot be quoted higher, but the demand is more active, and a less quantity on offer. Holders of tea appear to be sanguine in their expecta tions as to the future range of prices, as exports from China continue to fall off, whilst our dealers hold small stocks, and consumption continues to get larger. RICE.—To-day there was more demand for East India Rice. but prices are not higher. Of Arracan 3,000 bags were sold at 9s 63, and small parcels of mid white Bengal at 12s 6d to 12s per cwt. SPICES.—BIack Pepper cannot be obtained upon lower terms, and only a moderate quantity is on offer, but there is not a brisker demand by priv.ite treaty. At auction 450 bags of Batavia were sold at 2,-}d to 28d for clean and at 2d to 24d for damaged. Of white none has :wain been offered; at auctio n p r i va t e ly a f a i r quant i ty sold b at former terms, 4d to 6d for low to tine. Pod Pepper continues to be neglected, and 125 casks at auction were taken in at 43s per cwt for :very good quality. For Long Pepper few buyers are still in the market and sellers are ready to accept 14s to 16s. Ca) enne is also dull of sale at 9d to 2s per lb. Holders of Pimento show more firmness and offered none at auction. There is no increase in the supply of Cassia Lignea, and buyers are comp-Bed to pay the stiff rates of 70s to 74s for cc? and fine, and e3s to 683 per cwt fee low to mid, but Luicrs are not disposed to enlarge their purchases. Ginv: met with little attention this week, and at a public sale of 77 barrels prices slightly de clined. For Nutmegs the market looks inactive ; at present lower prices cannot be quoted, as there is only a small supply. Mace is wanted, and prices are inclined to advance as the quantity on offer is small. By private treaty some parcels have been sold at 2s 8d to 3s for good and fine, and at 2s to 2s 7d for low to good mid. For the lower sorts of Cloves a good demand exists. SPlRlTS,—Leeward Island Rum is not offered at any further reduction, but on the part of the trade little desire has been shown to do business this week. Only 150 puns have been sold at Is 7/d to Is Si for proof. East India has been dealt in with caution at is 6d to Is 61d. Demerara is not much wanted, and must be quoted Id per gull lower. Jamaica is not cheaper, but the pur chases made for all purposes have been small. Brandy finds a more ready sale, and upon full terms. Holders are firm and the stock is small. We quote Cognac best brands of the vintage of 1846 at 4s 10d to ss. 1847 at 3s 10d to 4s, inferior 2s 6d to 3s 7d, Bordeaux 2, to 2s 4d. Geneva is in good demand for exportation at 2s to 2s id, and for home trade purposes some parcels have been taken at 2s 9d to 3s 6d for fine. British Corn made Spirits sell freely, and upon fully former terms. INDIGO.—For East India the market has still a firm aspect ; there is an improving home demand for all sorts, and soles to a fair extent have been made for export ; prices are still on the advance, and rule 2d above those of the last quarterly sale, indeed in some cases the rise is 3d per lb. For public competition on the 10th of October 6,596 chests are declared. Spanish is held with firmness, and a fair demand exists. COCIIINEAL.—This afternoon a greater desire was shown to do business in Cochineal, and 46 bags at auc tion sold at 3s 11 d to 4s for low black, and 4s 7d to 5s 6d for middling to fine. OlLS,—This afternoon a public sale of 50 tuns of Sperm Oil sold at 691 lOs to 701 for good ; 127 casks Palm, part sold at 31s for fine ; and 250 hhds of Ceylon Cocoa Nut were taken at 40s per cwt. TALLOW .—This afternoon prices were well supported for Tallow, and fine new P.Y. Candle on the spot was sold at 45s 6d, At auction 12 easks 234 knapsacks of Cape went at 49s 6d to 52s 6d; 360 casks New South Wales 42s to 45s 6d; 150 casks Odessa 42s to 458; 100 casks of old P.Y.C. 44s 3d to 458 per cwt. Henan or Commons.—Yesterday was printed, by authority, a list of the proposed charges for Parliamen tary agents, attorneys, solicitors, and others prepared by the Speaker of the House of Commons in pursuance of " the House of Commons' Costs Taxation Act, 1847." The attendance fee of a Parliamentary agent and an attorney or solicitor is from 10s. 6d. to five guineas. A sessional fee of 261. ss. is to be allowed to the agent on a Bill receiving the royal assent, which fee includes at tendance at several offices. When an agent is not em ployed, the solicitor acting in that capacity will be en titk d to the sessional fee. In cases of opposition to Bills no sessional fee is allowed. The fees to be allowed to Parliamentary agents and solicitors are set forth in the document. With respect to correspondence between solicitor and Parliamentary agent, it is directed that the ordinary correspondence between Parliamentary agents and solicitors is not to be charged to their clients, but such letters only as contain professional advice and in structions. Large sums were formerly paid on "private bills," and the table of fees now issued will doubtless afford satisfaction to parties engaged in such matters. HORTICULTURAL SHOW AT TEDDINGTON.—This floral and horticultural exhibition, which is under the immediate patronage of her Majesty the Queen Dowa ger, was held yesterday, at the Clarence Gardens, Ted dincton. About 800 tickets for admission were distri buted, and above 121. taken at the entrance. The band of the 11th Hussars, by permission of the Earl of Cardi gan, played during the afternoon, and the day being very fine the village was like a fair. Among the ladies and Queen men present were the following :—Part of the Queen Dowager's retinue, C. Baldwin, Esq., the Misses Barton, W. H. Barton, Esq., Mrs. Benson, the Misses Bowlee, William Chiilingworth, Esq., Lady Cooper, Captai n C onyng h ame, G. Dav i s, Esq.,E. Driver, Esq., Miss Graham, C. Green, Esq., Right Hon. Earl Howe, T. H. Holberton, Esq., Mrs. Hardisty, G. P. Kemp, G Maule, Esq., Miss Moore, Miss Moxon, Rev. priceS k r in o e , f Bev.plate J. A. Wilkinson, Colonel Wright, Captain West, the Messrs. Wade and families, J. Strachan, Esq., Rev. Mr. S. Simmons , Esq. , &c. seen at Teddington. sq., Th e the cottagers eilxcheeed 401. and 5 0 L d , ew of dahlias was the best ever seuhdeallm prizes amounted to between specimens of 6nebhuweixupgectations ; rhe show of garden produce by gozhdeet hpyrodpuoctaetooefs one labourer, no less than twenty dis tinctnamed Joseph Furrow , growing, besides other firusft-hraiste own 1 sad quality. CANALS. • I ' . . Dividend Names of . . Dividend Names of . .. ,-• per Companies. L g 1 per Price. Companies. Is i Ann . Price. 1 u ; Annum. v: - - I - - ichtn& Oldh 97; 51. p c 80 Macclesfield . 100 - - .larnsley •• • •1160; 121. 180 Neath ••• • • • 100 181. 3rknk&Abrgllso 51. 85 Oxford.. •• • • 100 201. 190 Birmingham; 35; 4/. 80 Peak Forest. 78 3/. - Coventry.... ;1001. 25/. - Regent's •• • • 33 1/. ss. 18 ;ierbv ••• • • ;100: 61. 63 Rochdale.. ••85 , 41. 54 Ells rre&Chs 1331 565. 47 Somrset Coal 150, 71. 10s. 130 E:e A ash •• • 100; 325. - Do.LkFd St 121 61. p. c. - ilratiddinictu ;100' 51. 77 Stfrd &Wore 140 281. 290 GrandSurrey:loo - 35 Shrewsbury.. 125 15/. - ~;rand Unionlloo 11. 103. 25 StOrirbridge.. 1451 20/. 265 Irantham .. 150 - - Severn andl Kennt & Avii 39 7s. 6d. 4% Wye Rail. 26 1/. 83. 24 f.eedo& Livrp; 100, 341. - Warwick& l . "Alcestcr .. • . 'llo' 10/. 75 Rirming. j 'OO 41. - ,eicstr &Nth 83 4/. 36 Warwick& i 100 2/. - •oughborogh 142 701. - Napt on .. Ifonmouthsh 100 81. - Worcatr Sc) 78 21. 39 IDitgomrysh 100 - , - Birming. lleltnAlwbry, 100 - - Wilts & 13rks; - 11. ' 11 .LIST OP SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICIS. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of ' Paid. Price. Annum. Share. ' -- - - X 3. d. X s. d lank of Scotland British Linen Company 81. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 195 'aledonian Bank •• • • 734 per sent. 10 0 0 210 0 ; 41. 0 ..:Ity of Glasgow Bank . 61. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 ' 11% Jlydesdale Bank •• •• • • 6% per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 1 12% ;ommercial Bank .. • • 71. per cent. 500 0 0 100 0 0 150 ~ : astern Bank •••• • • • • 61. per cent. 25 u 0 10 0 C 9/.195. Edlnb.r; Glasgow Bank 61. per cent. 50 0 50 0 s Exchange Enk of Scot 6/. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 40 Isle of Man. Company 71. per cent. 10 0 0 7 0 0 Cational Bank 6 3G per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 13% North of Scotland Bank 71. percent. 20 0 0 5 0 0 3/.155. North British Bank • • - 50 0 0 10 0 0 234 toyal Bank of Scotland N. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 I 1183 Union Bank of Scotland 8/. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 80% •Vestern Bank .. .. •• • • 81. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 69 iber; leen Fire and Life 121. per cent. 12 10 0 20 0 2% R. Accord . Life aud Fire - 20 0 0 011 0 9s Oil British Guarantee Ins. - 10 0 0 1 0 0 95 Od 'aledonian Fire Insur. 101. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 , 21 Church of England Ins. - 50 0 0 20 0 2 pity of Glasgow Life 6l. per cent. 25 0 0 2 0 0 21. 45 :dinburgh Life Insur 6/. per cent. 100 0 0 12 10 0 17 East of Scotland Life - 10 0 0 015 0 116.0 d. Eng. & Scot, Law Life 51. per cent. 50 0 0 217 6 46s 6d tercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 i 1 . nsur. Co. of Seetlnd- 51. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 7 Life Assoc. of Scotland 5/. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 1/. 7a Mercantile Life - 10 0 0 016 0 ss. pd . National Fire and Life 51. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 205.6 d North British Insur 5% Lpr cent. 200 0 0 20 0 0 22 North & West of Scot. Si. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 '17 6 .0d. Scottish Life and Guar. - 20 0 0 0 n 0 5 8. Scot. Mac and Gen. Life --1 0 0 015 0 105.0 d Scottish Union Insrnce. GUI. pr cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 II. Is itandard Life ...... - 51. per cent. 50 0 0 4 5 0 I 9/4 United Dep. Assurance 51. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 .123.0 d MISCELLANEOUS. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price Annum. Share. ..-....„ A. a. d. A. a. d. Australian Agricalturl - 100 0 0 30 0 0 Anglo-Mexican Mint.. 11, 4/. 10 0 0 10 0 0 16 Ditto, Half Shares.. - - 210 0 -.... Canada ... ••.... .. .. CI. per cent. 100 0 0 32 10 0 - Uppr Canada Bonds 51. per cent. - - - City Bonds.. • • ...... 3341. pr cent. - - 82 Comp.CppriebtrsEng. 51. per cent. 100 0 0 70 0 0 -.- Gen. Revers. & Invest. sp. c.& bs, 21 100 0 0 100 0 0 - EqrsatbelaemßNervirsglaetnioryn U. Bs. 15 0 0 14 0 0 19 5/. pr cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 91 %( Ge London Institution . • • - - - 10 Peninslr & Orient.Stm. 8/. per cent. 50 0 0, 50 0 0 55 Reversionary Int. Soc. 4341. pr cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 - Royal Mail Steam •• .• 3341. pr cent. 100 0 0 60 0 0 44 South Australian ..... 1/. per share. 25 0 0 25 0 0 14 34 Van Dieman's Land., - 100 0 0 23 0 0 - Universal Salvage.... - 25 0 0 5 0 0 - SERIOUS AFFAIR.—On Thursday afternoon, be tween three and four o'clock, a lad named Robert Syme, about sixteen years of age, residing at 47, Dale-street, lookingund e rst un d erstood Bridgeton, aotd f aeGt partyao bll t s oe g tb o hl w nea fn , wa s gksrne ao ldu shot lnet drri:dfigai firing the head while standing d n ngnoan thevolley e green of being . whatHl i f t eda w im mediatelyua up and examined, it was found that he had received a se vere wound above the left eye. After being carried home, he was attended to by Dr. Burns, Main-street, who extracted a stone or pebble of about half an inch in diameter, from between the left temple and the ear. There is no doubt that this stone must have been dis charged from the musket of o ne o f t h e soldiers. We cannot look upon this matter in the light of an accident ; and yet it is not easy to conceive th a t an y o f t h e infantry could entertain malice against this poor boy, or against the idle crowd which derived pleasure f r o m gaz i ng on the evolutions of the soldiers. It is said that one of the officers stood nearly in the range between the firing party and the wounded lad. Meanwhile, the Procurator-Fiscal is inquiring into this unseemly case. . On making in quiry, we learn that the boy Syme is not yet out of e have, on m ore than one danger. R — lC Glasgow or H s. e — ra ll ld r . occasion, had reason to allude to the import ation s of some packages of hops, the produce of the .United brew- of America, and consigned to one of the emment rew n; ing firms in the metropolis. The Amer ic an y line bas . packet ship Hendrick Hudson, from New the brought 100 packages of hops, the produce of U n i ted o S f ta t t h e e s'W articlee need tn t this a scarcely extent remark n anythat n o previous .importation occa sion, taken place, and the arrival is of considerable in terest. THE NEW FOREST PROSECU- TIONS. On Wednesday, at the Queen's House, Lyndhurst, the examinations arising out of the Government in quiries in the New Forest were continued. The ma gistrates were H. C. Compton, Esq., M.P., General Robbins, Mr. W. 11. Sloane Stanley, and Mr. Smith. Mr. Coxwell, of Southampton, appeared as solicitor for the Crown ; Mr. Brown, of Lymington, Mr. George Pocock, of Southampton, and Mr. Moore, of Wimborne, were for the defence. J. Light, the timber merchant, was charged on a further information with stealing five beech trees from Busketts, in the New Forest, in December, 1846. It was proved, on the evidence of two woodmen, that a large quantity of timber had bee n cu t i n Busketts for firewood at the period in question. At the same time some large trees were felled. One of them was very large, measuring 118 feet. The prisoner's timber waggons came and carried the larger trees away, with the exception of the very large one, which they would not bear. That tree has since disappeared. None of the trees were marked by the Crown officers for sale. On cross-examination of one of the witnesses, it appeared that the large trees were adjacent to the house of a Mr. Timpson, and that they were felled in order that he might have a better view from his windows. The prisoner was committed. J. Reed, assistant to his father, the Deputy Sur veyor of the New Forest, was then charged, together with P. Andrews, a timber merchant, Lot in custody, with stealing beech timber from Ashurst-walk. There was another charge against Mr. Reed of ap propriating to his own use moneys received for fuel wood, the property of the Crown, but this was not gone into in consequence of the absence of a material witness. Charles Holman, a young man employed by the Crown under his father, who was a foreman in the forest, deposed that he had been employed in January last to cut timber in Ashurst walk by the direction of Mr. Reed. He cut six large trees measuring alto gether as much as 500 feet. Cross-examined—Mr. Reed gave no directions to him to cut the trees. He had not heard him give such directions. He only understood he had done so. The Crown Solicitor admitted that in consequence of the absence of a material witness, and the effect of this cross-examination, he was unable to carry the case further. lie proposed to apply for a remand, but Mr. Brown, on the prisoner's behalf, said he would at once consent that the prisoner should be bound over to appear at the sessions to answer any charge that might be brought against him. The magistrates consented, and the prisoner was admitted to bail accordingly. [lt is understood that the circumstance to which the failure of the Crown in this and other cases is at tributed, is the attempt of an important witness to commit suicide. The party lies in a very dangerous state, and is quite unable to give any evidence.] G. Bowles, a keeper in the forest, and J. Coles, a wheelwright (both of whom were charged with timber stealing last week, when the cases were dis missed), were again charged with stealing five oak -trees from Boldre Wood-walk, in March or April, 1847. _ . The Solicitor for Coles applied that the cases should be heard separately, Bowles being a very ma• tenet witness for his client. The Crown Solicitor opposed the application, and intimated, moreover, that be should go into evidence as to several distinct transactions. _ The Solicitor for Bowles hoped the Court would insist upon the evidence being confined to the one charge that had been opened. The magistrates did not acquiesce in either appli cation on behalf of the prisoner. W. Hayter, parish clerk of (sorely, deposed that he had frequently carried timber for Coles. On the 22d of April, 1847, Coles engaged him to send a waggon and team of four horses for timber to Boldre Wood Lodge (Bowles's residence). Once before, namely, on the 13th of March, in the same year, Coles engaged him to go to Bowles's for the same purpose. Once in the present year, namely, on the 9th of June, 1848, he had also gone to Bowles's for timber by Coles's desire. Mr. Coles paid him for going upon each occasion. T. Hayter, carter to the last witness, deposed that he had been to Boldre Wood on several dif ferent occasions for timber. In March, 1847, he wont with four horses for " a stick." Saw Mr. Bowles, who told him to take it up and deliver it to Mr. Coles. It was a large stick. In April, 1847, he went again. Saw Mr. Bowles, who pointed out two trees. Witness took them by his directions, and dropped them in front of Coles's house. This year he had been once, and taken two trees and a piece also by Mr. Bowles's directions. Bowles and Coles were together upon that occasion. Part of the tree he had taken upon that occasion was now in a waggon outside the court. (A. large waggon load of fine timber seized at Coles's was drawn up outside the Queen's House.) Cross• examined—Took the timber along the public road in broad daylight, and dropped it in a public place. H. Wareham, apprentice to Mr. Coles, deposed that Hayter had frequently been in the habit of bringing timber to Mr. Coles's, and that he remem bered his having brought trees there last year and this year. Had assisted to work up this timber. Part of the timber was in Coles's yard that morning, and had been brought over to the court that day. Other portions had been used in Coles's trade. Parts had been used in Bowles's cottage ; part in fencing Ellingham-churchyard. This case was proceeding when the last train left, the court had been sitting throughout the day. MEETING OF MIDDLESEX MA GISTRATES. The usual periodical meeting of county magistrates took place yesterday at the Court house, Clerkenwell green ; Mr. Pownall occupied the chair. PRICES OF SHARES IN BANKS, ASSURANCE, AND OTHER COM. PANIES' STOCK. From the Official List, PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENING. LONDON. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8. 74YENT-STOCK BANKS. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per d of Paid. Price Annum. Share. Australasia .......... —4O 0 0 40 0 0 BritshNorth American 51. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 Ceylon ••••..•• • • • • • • 71. par cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 jommercial of Loudon 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 '.3olonial. Gloucestershire • • • • .• 1 15/per cent. lonian ••••••.. • • • • • • 61. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 Londn and Westmtnstr 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 21 13 0 0 — l.ondon Joint-Stock ... 61. per cent. 50 0010 0 0 Provincial of Ireland.. 81. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 38% Ditto, New. •••• • • • • 8/. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 87ational of Ireland • • 51. per cent. 50 0 0 22 10 0 Nat. Provncial of Eng. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 0 Ditto, New.• •••• • • • 51. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 South Australia ••• • • • 5/. per cent. 22 10 0 Union of Australia •• • . 61. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 2 10 0 Unbm of L0nd0n..... 61. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 10% Union of Madrid .•... 40 0 0 40 0 0 BRIDGES Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. A. s. d. X. e. d. Charing-cross.. • • 25 0 0 19N Southwrk, Nw Sub. Av. 632 12 8 3 Ditto Nw of 7% p.c. 355. per cent. 50 0 0 15 Waterloo ............ 100 0 0 4 Ditto Old Ann. of 81. I/. ss. 4d. 60 0 0 26 Ditto Nw ditto of 71. 11. 2s. 2d. 40 0 0 24 Vauxhall .• • Av. 11. 17s. 70 10 3 26 INSV&ANCE COMPANIES. Name of Company. Dividend per Amount of Share. Annum. Albion ...... • • •• • • •• alliance Brit. and For. Ditto Marine.•• • • •• • • lirltisti Commercial .. Clericl,Med.& Gen. Life Jaunty .............. f•agle • •• Scot. Law •• •• !:uropeart Life • Family Endownw t Soc. F: . eemasons' .• • • . • • •• Col,e ..... • • •• •• •• G iardian • ....• •• • • .• f inperial Fire .• . • • • I:nperial Life •• fadeninity Marine.... Law Fire • Law I I ,egal and General Life L.mdcn Fire Landon Ship ........ ytartne •............ Wed. Invild &Gen. Life Sational Lean Fund National Life•... 'illadium Lite Pelican 'IICC:IiX • • ••• Pi °teeter Life:. . : Pruvident Life.... cock Life..... ;loyal Exchange in Fire.. Mite Life Universal Life...... lidorla LitOT::: Name of Company. Birmingham. • • •. .. London..•. •• •• .. rand Junction ...... New Rivr Lndn Brdge Vauxhall ............ West Middlesex . . . 31. 10s. 61. per cent. 61. per cent. 13s. 6d. pr sh. 7s. per share 5 pr ct.& bs. 14s. 6s. 51. per cent. 5% per cent. i/: & bs. 61. per cent. 61. per cent. 51. per cent. 12 per ccnt. 12s. • 11. sh. & bs. s. d. 1 500 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 20 0 0 Stock. 100 0 0 500 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 5 0 0 Stock. 100 o 0 'OTAXS, Amount of Share. raid. Price £ s. d. 25 0 0 100 0 0 41 13 4 100 0 0 X s. d. 25 0 0 208 143 21. 10e. 41 Os, 2% 4( 165 197 21. 108. ht. per cut. 61.04. pr cnt. 100 0 0 Price, 172 81 75 55 116 M Namo of Company. C Antnercial E tit and West India E ist Country London i into Bonds • . t. Katharine Ditto 80nd5•....... Southampton •• ...... GAS-LIGHT Name of Company. British .. •• ~ Ditto Provincial.... Bristol .• • • •• • • • • • • •• Brighton • • • • .. pity of London 'ontinental Consolidat. Ditto, New • • Equitable........ • • • • Imperial • . ...... independent ... l'hcenix . ............ itateliff •••• .. ••• • • • United General Westminster Chartered Ditto, New .. .. • N. 165. 434/. per ct. 51. per cent. 8/. per cent. 51. per cent. 31. p. sh. & bs 51. per cent. 11. ss. 4s. 5/. per cent. 61. 10s. 11. 68. 10% pr cnt. WATER= Dividend per Annum. DOCK Dividend per Annum. 41. per cent. 61. pr cent. 255. per sh. pr cent. 41. per cent. 4 per cent. 041. pr cent. 21. per cent.i Amount of Share. Z a. d. Stock. Stock. 100 0 0 Stock. Stock. .. - 50 0 0 X a. d. 50 0 0 AND CONE CO: Dividend per An - num. , Amount of Share. s. d. 40 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 9 50 0 0 50 0 0 40 0 0 50 0 0 11. Bs. 101. per cent.' 51. per cent. 925. pr share 85s. pr share 455. pr share 61. per cent. 61. per cent. 50 0 0 51. per cent. 50 0 0 M. and bns. 100 0 0 4% /. pr cent. 50 0 0 3/, 50 0 0 123. 50 0 0 b 1 75 15 62 10% INDUS TRIAL SCHOOL. The reports of the several county sons having been laid before the Court, Mr. ARMSTRONG, pursuant to notice, rose to move, " That as great numbers of the male and female pri soners discharged from the prisons of this county, from being totally ignorant of any trade or business, and for want of an honest calling, have no means of obtaining a ilivel)ihdoiaotde, commission mariess,iocnonosf crime, eguent , 13, tempted again to the immediate whereby they again and again incur the penalty of the law, to the great injury of society, and heavy expense to the ratepayer of the county; it is expedient that an application be made to Parliament to empower this Court to sanction the estab lishment of a voluntary House of Industry to which such discharged prisoners may resort for instruction in some useful employment, handicraft, or trade, by the in dustrious exercise of which they may be rescued from the temptations incident to ignorance, idleness, and vice, and be no longer a disgrace to the community, and a burden on the public ; and that a committee be ap pointed to consider and report to this court on the best mode of establishing the same, and to what extent." Since he last addressed the court, upon this subject, a meeting under the auspices of the Duke of Richmond, having reference to the reformation of juvenile offenders, had been held in the City, but the resolutions passed at that meeting did not, according to his judgment, touch the evil on its merits. A meeting of the patrons of ragged schools, headed by Lord Ashley, had also been held, and one of its propositions was ; that the Govern ment should annually send out, as free settlers to the Australian colonies, a certain number of the youths that attended the ragged schools. To some extent this bad been acceded to by the Government, but when the boys were sent out they would have no knowledge of any trade or business by which they could earn a living. The main object of the proposed industrial school would be to remedy this evil, for is it those criminals, who were ignorant of any trade, would be taught one, and the ultimate result of that would be their restora tion to a respectable position in society, instead of their being again driven to crime as a means of subsist ence. The Hon. Magistrate here proceeded to give, in e m x i p n e u n t s e e d o e f ta m il a , in th taing the statistical portion of the Inspector- General of P r i sons ' R eport, to s h ow that th e ex p ense at present borne by th e co unty in the maintenance and prosecution of offenders was considerably more than the the proposed industrial school would be. The public attention had latterly been much turned to the subject of emigration, and the Government, he thought, had not given it that sanction which the sub ject required. If this industrial school was established, o t those ose providing who partooks e o l r f e i s t s w b i t e n n e t fi h e t s m w e o a u n l a d o h f a e v m e g t h r e a t o o n w t e o r Australia, and where labour could not be found, and where the artizan could not be found, all the arts of civilised life would abound. To talk of reformation in a prison was absurd. They should adopt means to pre vent crime, and the proposed industrial school would, he was sure, prove the greatest blessing the Court could bestow upon the county. Mr. B. ROTCH said he would second the motion upon two grounds; first, that it would be a disgrace to that Court that such a motion could not find a seconder; and the second ground was, that any support given to such a motion assisted the great cause of the improvement of prison discipline now in existence, and which every phi lanthropist considered wrong. Sir P. LAURIE said that he came to the Court for the sole purpose of giving this motion all the opposition he could, for he considered, if ca rried into practice , it wou l d for none the effect of placi ng a premium upon crime ; none but a criminal would partake of the benefits offered by these establishments, and those who were honest and suffering at the present moment would be tempted t t i o o n c o s t m o w t h ich crime,a prisont o would b e themselves like aotfu- turnpike-gate— of it must be passed through, before they could enjoy the comforts the school mised. He appr ehended that his Honour a bl e Friend pro Mr. Armstrong had been study ing the French Revolution, and the grand scheme which had been propounded under it (the ateliers nationaux); and if so, he had seen the result. He ob jected to this Court being made the arena of political agitation, and it was not consistent with propriety to petition Parliament. Parliament had given them cer tain powers, amongst which was the entire control of the county prisons; and they had not the power to under take the management of an industrial school. For his own part he had never seen a reformed criminal; in fact, he would walk twenty miles to see one. IL criminal could procure sympathy, but a poor, struggling, honest man could not. That was not as it should be. He saw in an Australian paper he had received that morning that at the last meeting of the Legislative Council there it had been stared that out of every hundred Government emigrants to that colony, ninety-five turned out useless or bad. He had the fact from a gentleman recently returned from Australia, and who had stated his views in a conference with Lord Palmerston, that the very best shepherds had been London pickpockets; and if a cargo of convicts and a cargo of Govern ment en igrants were to arrive at the colony to gether, the farmers would rush to the convict ship, and beg to engage the convicts in preference to the emigrants. lie must again protest against the Court taking part in political matters ; though the Court of Common Council and the Marylebone Vestry did it, it was not proper, and it would be a shame to this Court to sanction the resolution. The acts and conduct of a magistrate, and especially a body of magistrates, ought to be dignified and reserved, fur there was that in the name of a magistrate which gave more than ordinary im portance to whatever they undertook. The magistrates of this county, it appeared, had made themselves so ob noxious, that the Lou! Chanceller would not approve of list of names, 32 he believed, that the Lord Lieutenant had sent in to be placed on the commission. He (Sir Peter Laurie) had done his duty in opposing this motion, and while he trusted the Court would do what it could in the promotion of emigration and transportation, he did trust that it would withhold its sanction to the proposition at present before it. It had been agitated before, and it was the opinion of the most philanthropical individuals that the proposed scheme was a visionary affair. Mr. I3Lucx declined to give the motion his support, and quoted the following evidence, given by Lord Den man before the Setect Committee of the Lords, to in quire into the administration of the criminal law. "I greatly dread," said his Lordship,'" the effect of giving them benefits or privileges, which they never could have hoped for, but from the commission of crime. I own myself extremely jealous of the instruction given to a young felon in a trade, merely because he is a felon, and of the displacement of the honest from employment, by means of the former obtaining it. . . I hold the only legitimate end of punishment is to deter from crime, but I think I see in the theories of benevolent men, such a mode of administering the criminal law, as to encourage instead of deterring." Mr. KEMPSHAW thought that industrial schools would be a ruinous competition to the honest tradesmen. Mr. VALENTINE KNIGHT was one of those whom Sir Peter Laurie called visionaries, because they considered that industry and humanity were the best antidotes to crime, and did not think that a child once a felon, should, because it had once erred, be a felon when a man, and remain with a brand upon him to the end of his days. Mr. - A RUSTRONG, in reply, urged the importance of the motion. The motion was then put from the chair, when there appeared, For the motion 6 Against __ _ ll Majority against .. CONDEMNATION OF THE EOUSE OF CORRECTION. A presentment, signed by Mr. Rotch and Mr. Rose, two of the visiting justices of the above prison, was put in, in a hich they declare the present House of Correc tion in Coldbath-fields, to be unfit for the purposes of a prison. Fald. X a. d. 50 0 0 11 0 0 5 0 0 5 6 8 5 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 2 12 6 All paid. 4 0 0 3 0 0 36 10 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 5 13 1 2 10 0 10 0 0 2 0 0 12 10 0 12 10 0 15 0 0 2 0 0 2 10 0 5 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 10 0 0 0 10 0 9 0 0 4 0 0 Price. :PANIES. Paid. I Price. X. 8. d. 18 0 0 16 19 0 0 23 100 0 0 250 39 5 0 , 49 37 10 0 - 50 0 0 36 50 0 0 67% 40 0 0 1 64 50 0 0 50 0 46 0 0 90 0 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 SEWER RATES. Yesterday, at a meeting of the Metropolitan Sewer Cominifsioners, held at the chief office in Greek-street, Soho, an appeal was entered on behalf of the Vauxhall bridge Company against the rating of the bridge by the Commissioners of Sewers. The Rev. William Stone presided. The CHAIRMAN of the Bridge Company said that they objected to pay the rate on the ground that the charge was made contrary to the Act of Parliament, and be cause the• had no beneficial interest in the sewerage. The bridge was not drained by the Commissioners, and they therefore considered the charge to be unwarrant able. He cited in support of their claim to exemption the cases of " Eve v. Brothers," " Tracy v. Taylor," and " Soley v. Wilson." He also read an extract, showing the law with respect to sewer rateage, from " Challis on Sewers," page 265. His argument, upon the whole, was that the bridge was not the species of property intended to be rated. Mr. HUTTON said that the question was, whether the parties appealing to be exempted possessed an occupa tion of a beneficial character, for it bad been decided, over and over again, that property giving beneficial oc cupation was liable. Mr. lIERTSLET, the Order Clerk, said that there could be no question as to the benefits conferred upon the com pany by the outlay of the sums which had been ex pended in draining the approaches to the bridge on both sides. The Vauxhall sewer was a long and expensive sewer, and, as it was the fact that the Vauxhall-road was now three feet below high water mark, it was also true that, if it was not for the sewer built there, the property of the directors would be materially injured from floods, which would render the approaches to the bridge impassable. Mr. LESLIE considered that the cases cited were not in point. The saving clause of the statute under which the company acted actually condemned the course they (the company) were pursuing in resisting the rate. No doubt the directors were the representatives of a bene ficial occupancy, and the sum charted being not more than the poor-rate, could not be fairly objected to. Mr. IluTTort then moved, that the usual course for enforcing the payment of the rate in this case be adopted. Mr. CHADWICK, in seconding the motion, said that there could not be any question as to the beneficial occupancy. '!'he motion, upon being put, was unanimously carried NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 7.—There are reports in the dockyard that the Admiralty have an intention of re verting to a former plan of economy by reducing the working hours in the establishment one day in each week. The "Vesuvius steam-sloop, Commander Austin, left this morning for Woolwich, to be paid off. The jury masts of the Termagant were taken out to day. hear-Admiral de Starck died on the 4th instant, at his residence, Kensington, aged 84. The deceased was mid shipman of the Latona at the relief of Gibraltar in 1782; Lieutenant commanding the Suwarrow lugger, Liberty , brig, and Millbrook schooner, and very actively em ployed. Gazetted 1803. Vide Allen's New Navy List. By the above death Captain Sir W. 0. Pell (1813) is made Rear-Admiral of the Blue, which causes a vacancy in Greenwich Hospital. The Admiralty are expected at this port on their an nual official visit of inspection on the 14th instant. Wind, W.; moderate breezes and cloudy weather. ROYAL MARINES. Lieutenant-Colonel Stevens. of the Chatham division, is ordered to relieve Colonel Pileher in the command of the corps at Pembroke, Colonel Pileher being promoted to Second Commandant of the Chatham division. We are requested to state that Messrs. Helby and M'Crea, who passed their examinations in gunnery a few days since, as mentioned in our impression of the 4tb, obtained first instead of second class certificates. PLYMOUTH, SEPT. 6.—The Duck lighter arrived on Monday with stores from Chatham. Her Majesty's packet Peterel, 6, Lieutenant• Com mander Thomas Creser, arrived on Tuesday from Fal mouth, and the same day came into harbour to be ex amined. Her Majesty's brig Ferret, 8, Commander George Sprigg, will be paid off to-morrow. Mr. E. Elliott, draughtsman, Devonport Dockyard, is appointed Measurer, in place of Mr. G. Gcod, appointed Foreman. In consequence of the ratification of the armistice be ween Germany and Denmark, great activity prevails among the merchant vessels of northern nations, so long waiting here. Every preparation is now making for the immediate departure of shipping belonging to Denmark, Prussia, Hanover, Oldenburg, arid other northern states. Wind, N.W.; light breeze. WooLlexcif, SEPT. 7.—The Niger steam sloop, the Plumper, the Dover, and the Minx steam-vessels having been ordered to be ready for trial at an early hour to-day, the Niger had her steam up and a large party on board before 7, A.M. Shortly after 7 o'clock the Niger left her moorings under the charge of Lieutenant Robertson, assistant to Captain Austin, C. 13., with Mr. Casey, Cap tain Austin's engineer, and proceeded down the river to test the speed and capabilities of the vessel. Mr. Lang, master shipwright at Woolwich Dockyard, under whose superintendence the vessel has been built, was also on board to witness the result. The Niger went at a very moderate speed at first, owing to the number of vessels in the river, and continued at that speed until opposite Purfleet, when the Monkey steam-vessel appeared in sight, having on board the Earl of Auckland, G.C.8., First Lord of the Admiralty ; Rear-Admiral Dundas, C. 8., First Naval Lord of the Admiralty; Captain Fitz hardinge Berkeley, C. 8., Captain Lord John Hay, C. 8., and Captain Alexander Milne, Lords of the Admiralty; Captain Sir Baldwin Walker, K C. 8., Surveyor of the Navy ; Captain Ellice, Comptroller of Steam Ma chinery ; Lieutenant-Colonel Irving, of the en gineering department ; Captain Halstead, RN., and Mr. F. P. Smith, of the screw propeller de partment. Their Lordships gave the signal for the Niger to proceed at full speed, and the steam was got up, but owing to a hot bearing in one of the engines the speed was slackened until the screws were a little re laxed, when the vessel went on, and soon got ahead of the Monkey, making an average speed of 10 knots per hour, the engines making 64 evolutions per minute. On arriving opposite Sheerness their Lordships gave the signal to lay to, and came on board the Niger to witness the working of the engines, and expressed themselves much pleased will the manner in which they worked. Captain Berkeley and Captain Milne also particularly examined the manner in which the guns could be worked, and ascertained that those allotted to the vessel were too long to be used with effect, and others of a shorter de scription will be substituted. The guns at present or dered are, one 68-p oun d er of L 5 cwt., 10 feet long ; one 10-inch gun, 85 cwt., nine feet four inches long ; and six 8-inch guns, 65 cwt., nine feet long. The 8-inch guns are already on d ec k, an d the traversing platforms of the 68-pounder and 10-inch guns placed in their proper position, and ballast equivalent to the weight of the guns, and 140 men, the number of her crew, with the requisite number of shot and shells on board, in addition to the allowance for water, pro visions, and 200 tons of coals ; and yet the vessel was not within 15 inches of her regulated water line of draught, the correct draught of water during the trial being about 13 feet fore by 14 feet 10 inches aft. Their Lordships were much pleased with the performance of the engines; and when the suggestions of Captain A. Milne are adopted for her guns, the Niger will prove a war -steamer equal to any afloat. Lieutenant Robertson deserves great credit for the manner in which the experi tuents ,on this and on former occasions have been con ducted, as it is no .ordinary task to teat experizaeut6l • trials on the river where so many obstructions occur, and as their Lordships hoisted the Admiralty flag on the Niger to day, an excellent opportunity c tiers to promote a deserving and most zealous servant. After the trial their Lornships left at Sheerness for a visit at that port. • The Plumper broke down, and was towed back to Woolwich. The Lords Commissioners of the Adtpiralty occupied so much time in officially inspecting Sheerness Dcekyard that they had not time to proceed to Chu!ha►n, and re turned to Woolwich in the Dover, and arrived at Wool wich at ten minutes before seven Pm. Ti.e Niger had arrived about live minutes previous in excellent condi tion, and all on board much pleased with the result. The Niger, from her performance to-day, isexpected to•rnake 10} knots on the next trial, and she has every appearance of proving an excellent sailing vessel. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOUR.NALS. FROM THE MOONING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. TIMES.—The French Revolution of 1848 has been fruitful in phi nomena ; but no phenomenon has been more striking than the fate of M. Lamartine. His move ment and his brilliancy were those of a meteor. His obscuration has been as sudden and as startling. For two months he was the star of promise and hope that gleamed with solitary lustre athwart the darkened sky of France. Every other actor in the melodrame of its politics was viewed by some party or another with sus picion, jealousy, or dislike. The rich hated Louis Blatic, the bozo geoisie dreaded Ledru Rollin. Foreigners looked with mixed fear and distrust on men who were pledged to principles subversive of civil order, it not hostile to international concord. But Lamartine conciliated all classes and all opinions. His tone of refinement de lighted the high born end well-to do. His eloquent liberalism charmed the disciples of liberty and equality; his apparent moderation disarmed the sullenness of foreign nations, while the dash of chivalry and the op portune courage he displayed won for him the admira tion of his own. Throughout Europe there was not for two months such another man as Lamartine in fame, for tune, and popularity. But all these precious and glori ous attributes were short lived. In less than anothermonth a change came, and what a change! To any man it must have been a bitter reverse—to a Frenchman almost death. It was not that he incurred obloquy, or persecu tion, or imprisonment. Far worse—he fell into obscu rity. He became of no note, of no esteem, of no influ ence. The man in whose train the mob of Paris shouted, by whose words their passions had been lulled or their enthusiasm roused, the man to whom foreign de putations had paid homage and foreign statesmen offered flattery, became the subject for a schoolboy's moralis ings and a cynic's snarl. He sank by one sudden plunge from the pedestal of the great to the shelf of the equivocal. He exchanged fame for something which to a Frenchman was worse than infamy. is it strange that he should resent this stroke of fortune and this sample of ingratitude.? He has accordingly penned a justifica tion of himself against charges which his own ingenuity has framed. In this production, it is needless to say, there is much eloquence, more fancy, and some justice. The main and irresistible reply to it consists in the very fact that there should have been any reason for writing it. Why is not M. Lamartine what he was four months ago? Great as his powers may be, both as an orator and a poet, they will be infinitely greater than the world ever believed them to be if they restore him to hi former place. Who but an ingenious advocate would have fabricated for his opponents such a count as this, with which M. Lamartine introduces his case, viz., that he " was ardent in his ambition, but weak in the exercise of power?" Ardent in his ambition 1 " And feeble in the exercise of power!" This, too, is a gratuitous assumption; but it exhibits the rhetorician's art. It creates for him an opportunity of describing the second as he described the first Revolution; of painting the second Assembly as he had painted the first Convention. No; M. Lamartine was never accused of weakness as a member of the Pro visional Government. All people and nations remember the indefatigable orator who was perpetually addressing vast, heterogeneous, and alien assemblies; the intrepid Minister who was daily facing danger and death; the discreet correspondent with foreign states, who persisted in repudiating a policy of aggression and interference. Not only may we say on these points " Quis irecusavit but also, " Quis non laudavit 7" But what shall „e say when a man of M. Lamartine's social and political posi• lion condescends to enter into a minute detail of his pe cuniary affairs in order to meet the imputations of mal versation, corruption, and public robbery? What shall we say of the country where such insinuations against public men are lightly made and easily believed ? What shall we say of the morals and purity of a people whose statesman, so lately the god of its idolatry, is accused of having turned a desperate revolution to his own good account, and of having eked out his own fortunes from the misfortunes of his country? But what shall be said of the man who, thus assailed, deems it requisite to publish the state of his liabilities and assets, his leases, releases, acquittances, and even the transactions with his publisher? "I blush," he says, "to expose all these particulars; but the people have a right over the reputa tion of their representatives." Indeed ! This is a new doctrine. M. Lamartine's real sin is not Communism. It is not treachery. It is not love of war. It is not peculation. It is not weakness during the time of the Provisional Government. On all these points he defends himself largely; and they are all superfluous. His real sin was weakness in the Executive Govern ment. He connected himself with Ledru Rollin, a man of uncongenial sentiments and more than equi vocal character. Ile connived at his political and his personal misdeeds. He allowed Louis Blanc to play his own game at the Luxembourg, and Caussidiere and Sobrier to prepare the arms and organize the soldiers of revolt out of the funds of his Government and at the head-quarters of his police. Ile did not take a decided and decisive line at a crisis which required the most marked decision of character and action. He played fast and loose with men who he acknowledges " were capable of serving or ruining" the Republic. He who showed no fear amid the pikes and sabres of the February mobs exhibited a weakness, an irresolution, and an ambiguity, in the months of March and April, which he does not explain and cannot justify. That his own integrity remained unsullied through the glittering temptations of a revolution which had surprised him into power, and placed unexpected greatness in his hands, we are willing to believe; but that other conside rations unworthy of a statesman and a patriot operated very strongly upon his mind, and enaharrassed his reso ltition, appears but too evident from the report of the Committee of Inquiry to which this pamphlet is in tended as an evasive reply. CHRONICLE.—The policy pursued by the present French Government against the Press is not only inde fensible, but suicidal, as, without any pretensions to pro phesy-, we may venture to predict. The small number of remonstrauts in the National Assembly, and the im mense majority which has affirmed the acts of a short sighted Executive, have no weight, in their ephemeral importance, to shake our opinion against those im mutable laws of justice and of progress, which no sword, however trenchant, can cut, and no armed heel, however heavy, tread down. The Gazette de France on the one hand, and the Representant du People, or its successor, the People, on the other, may be suppressed; Cabinet Councils may deliberate, in impotent menace, whether the Constitutionnel ought to be suspended; the creed of MM. de Labourdonnaye and do Polignac may predomi nate for the moment in the heart of the Demo cratic Republic; but the Press, in our days, is as inevitable as the Church of old —it must re-appear to conquer. It is not the mere bead of a h) dra, which some martial steel, heated by party passion, may temporarily annihilate, but it is a great necessity (as immortal as the want it meets), which satisfies now, and will govern hereafter. Well may M. Emile de Girardin, with hitter irony, re produce the early articles of the National, during the infancy of the July dynasty; and well may he assume as his motto, such sentiments as the following of M. Armand Marrast and M. Armand Carrell : " Shame upon the coward writer," says the first, in 1832, " who would desert his duty because it involves a danger." " A riginte like this," exclaimed one who was saluted by his party as the consul elect of democracy, " shall not, without our protest, call itself the liberty of the press." It must be borne in mind, that the opposition to this barbarous legislation proceeds, moreover, not only from men like MM. Ledrueßollin, Theodore Bac, Felix Pyat; but from those who the most impetuously signalized their perilous hostility to the Red Republic in the hour of crisis, and on the eve of its apparent ascendancy. Foremost among the champions of order was then to be remarked the Vicomte Victor Hugo ; and no appeal was so eloquent, so admirably reasoned, so impressive, as his address to the electors of Paris at the end of last March. Now, we think him as right, as spirited, and as forcible, as he was at that time, in his recent defence of the liberties of thought, thus extravagantly outraged. " Censure and confiscation," he indignan t ly says, " are crushing, at this moment, all the organs of public opinion." Nor does General Ca vaignac, by these untoward practices, fail to provoke a more insidious hostility. The Abbe de Genoude, whose abilities are incontestible, and whose remorseless writing Sir Henry Bulwer, we remember, not inaptly compared ' to the articles of the Standard during the Wellington and Grey Administrations, has, since the extinction of his journal, presented a petition to the National Assem bly. He prays, " That the powers which he has abused may be withdrawn from General Cavaignac; that the na tion may be convoked for the nomination of a Chief of the Re-public; that a general amnesty may be proclaimed; that three Consuls may be chosen, to watch, to gether with the National Assembly, over the interests of public order and the commonwealth during the election of this prospective Chief; one Consul to be at the head of all the National Guards, a second of all the land and sea forces of the Republic, a third of the laws and justice; and that these three Consuls shall be Generals Lamoriciere, Changarnier, and M. Dupont de l'Eure." The sting of these solicitations is, of course, in the names of the two Generals thus mischievously put forward. And it ought to be a matter of fear to General Cavaignac, lest any of his military rivals should bethink him of identifying himself with the truth which he has assailed, should assert that freedom of thought which he has so wantonly injured, and prepare to sup plant the present system, by another less uncongenial to the first principles of the February Revolution. For General Cavaignac is not yet entirely at his ease in his stirrups; he has not yet traversed hi s e i g h teenth Bru maire. His " Africans" accord no preference to his own renown over that of Lamoriciere, Changarnier, Bedeau, or Bugeaud. And it must be ob v i ous that an General y has only to take advantage of som e mistake as f as that to which we have all u d e d , on the part l of the present Executive, to achieve a success which will probably subserve an ambition less mode rate than the one which at the Press, thisinstant predo minates and rul es . Acts against in them selves, are of that class of blunders which are worse than crimes ; but they are eminently so at a moment when the slightest faux pas may introvert the roles. Ili the meanwhil e, a l t h ough the despotism of the sabre alone practically reign s i n F rance, the Constitution is under discussion ; and ideologues barren, philologists as ab. surd, syllable -mongers as incurable, as any in the Coun cil of Five Hundred, are in possession of the Tribune. One only passa„.l,e in M. Pierre Leroux's voluminous dis! course appeared to us to have the slightest relation to the time in which he lives, and that only by inference. It was when he described " the Constitution of Sieyes, pillaged by a conqueror, disfigured, changed, re-model led, and fabricated to his own usage, until it suited him to alter it for another." The Constitution of M. Armand Marrast will probably have a similar fortune before long; but General Cavaignac will, we think, hardly prove its Napoleon, because that great man had at least the sense to get well into the saddle before he indulged in such arbitrary persecutions of opinion as those into which the present chief of the French Government has prematurely suffered himself to be betrayed. ADVERTISER.—The fickleness and caprice of the populace have been proverbial from time immemorial. There are few great names in history who have not had personal exrerience of this truth. Grecian and Roman, as well as English and French history, abounds with examples of illustrious men being the idols of the popu lace one day, and the objects of their execration the next. We have had a recent instance of the fickleness of popular feeling. Who could have believed that La manioc, the man whom, in April last, all France re turned, amidst the loudest acclamations, to the National Assembly—a man whose name was on every lip and who possessed a home in every heart—who could have believed that such a man should, by the middle of June, have falkn to the lowest depths of unpopularity—his name loaded with obloquy, and his very person all but shunned in the public streets ? He has just published a vindication of himself. It is a most triumphant defence. It will put his ac cusers to silence, if not to shame. Lamartine meets every charge preferred against him with all the direct ness and boldness of a man who glories in the conscious ness of his entire innocence. Some parts of his defence, in addition to their being the most complete which an accused man ever offered for himself, are remarkable for their eloquence and the nobleness of mind which they display. Lamartine has been charged with being ac tuated by ambition, in acquiring and maintaing the posi tion of head of the French Provisional Government. lit shows that so far from aspiring at the distinction, he never dreamt that it was t o b e open to any one. The overthrow of the Monarchy and the proclamation of a Republic took him quite as much by surprise as they did Louis Philippe himself. Referring to the memorable scene in the Chamber of Deputies, in the midst of which the Orleans dynasty was overthrown and a Republic proclaimed, Lsmartine graphically describes the part ho acted in that extraordinary drama. " I remained," be says, " isolated, pensive, silent, upon my bench, con templating that abrupt catastrophe which did not leave one time enough to measure its profundity. Moved even to sadness by this calamity, and this new birth over whelming a throne in a revolution, my heart struggled within me against my reason. Several of the people and of the Deputies—though they may now have for gotten the circumstance—approached me, and 'wiz* my arm in order to rouse me from my abstraction, summoned me energetically to throw myself between anarchy and my motherland, calling me by name, and impelling me towards the tribune. From that tribune M. Odillon Barrot had just descended, from the ex haustion produced by his efforts to save the monarchy from destruction. A muzket was levelled at my head from one of the galleries, but an unknown hand struck up the muzzle. In a few syllables I proclaimed myself to be in favour of a Provisional Government—a Govern ment which should grasp the crisis on the instant, so as to bring it under control. This Government gave augury, it is true, of a republic, but it reserved to the National Assembly that which I had expressed im my first words—that of which it could never be deprived, whether by faction, by seduction, or by acclama tion—the full and sovereign sanction of the definitive form of government, such as might be suitable for the acceptance of the nation." There is no appearance of personal ambition here. Neither was there the least ground to suppose that Lamartine was actuated by any personal considerations in the incidents which followed. " The voices," says he, " of the people and of those De puties who still remained in the Chamber, summoned me to designate myself the members of the Provisional Go vernment. I refused. M. Dupont (de l'Eure), the natural dictator of public esteem, was carried, in spite of his modesty, to the chair of the Presidency. He read the names which a tumultuous sitting bad selected for the formation of a Government. We could not recognise in this sitting any other authority besides the authority of danger and devotion. This danger and this devotion formed our only title. They prevented us from resign ing power, irregular though it was, into the hands of anarchy. • I accept this power by reason of the blood which flows, and which must be staunched at all price.' Those were my words: I find them re corded in the Moniteur. We marched at once to the Hotel de Ville, at the head of a procession of the people. We were carried under the shelter of sabres, and pikes, and bayonets, into the rooms stained with blood, encumbered with the dead and the wounded, even to the little table where the Government was organized. Even at that hour the great struggle commenced outside between the two republics ; the one violent, inexorable, dictatorial, terrorist—in word, in act, and in colour; the other moderate, pacific, legal, unanimous, constitutional ; between the republic which you wish, and that which you do not wish." It is clear from this, that the posi tion, as the head of the Provisional Government, which Lamartine was thus called to fill, so far from being one which was likely to minister to a man's ambition, was a situation of the most imminent personal danger. For some time after he accepted the office, his life was in constant peril. He went about, attending to his duties, with his life in his hand. Arid the return now made to him for all this—for the fatigues he endured, the anxiety by which he was harassed, and the personal danger to which he was hourly exposed, is to have his character aspersed in the most heartless manner. Such are the rewards of patriotism I THE CORN TRADE. GLASGOW, SEPT. 6.—The weather during the past week has been changeable, and iince yesterday much ruin has fallen. We have had fair arrivals of Wheat, both foreign and coastwise, and about 7,422 barrels of flour from Canada and the United States; of all other articles the supplies continues canty. Tho transactions during the week were, to a moderate ex.tt:nt, at last Wednesthey's currency. This day's market was well f attended, but the decline of prices at Mark•lane caused buyers to act with more caution, and to provide for im mediate wants only. We quote:—Wheat and Flour is. to Is. 6d. lower per boll, sack, or barrel respectivOy. There was a moderate quanity of new Wheat on show, in fair condition, ruling from 265. to 28s. per 2401 b. Barley unaltered. Oats Is. per 2641 b., and Oatmeal Is. 6d. per 2801 b. cheaper. Beans scarce at the extreme rates of last week. Peas Is. lower per 2801 b. Indian corn meal without change. BIRMINGHAM, TRURSDAY.—At Gloucester and Wor cester markets, on the 2d, the Wheat trade ruled dull, at a reduction of 2s. to 3s. per quarter. Barley, Oats, , Beans, and Peas were all quite as dear, with a good consumptive demand. This week the weather has again become unsettled, but owing to the fall in Mark-lane the transactions in all articles of the trade have been on the most limited scale. Millers offer from 4s. to Bs. per quarter under previous currency on Wheat, with which holders altogether refuse to comply. On other kinds of corn the turu is in favour of the buyer, but at no quot able reduction in price. At this day's market there was a moderate supply of Wheat, which found a fair sale at a reduction of 1. to 2s. per quarter on old, and 2s. to 3s. per quarter on new samples. Barley dull, and Is. to 33. per quarter cheaper. Oats declined 6d. to Is. per quar ter. Beans held for former prices, but no progress could be made. Peas less inquired for. The millers reduced the retail price of Flour 3s. 4d. per sack. Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from the Colonial. office for the Governor of Ceylon and Hong. Kong. The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Lady Mary Wood left town yesterday, for Hickleton Hall, Don caster. [ADVERTISEMENT.].Astonishing Cure of a very Bad Lcg of Thirty Years' standing by Holloway's Pills and Ointment.—The wife of Mr. George Bourne, but cher, of Stockton-on-Tees, suffered for tull thirty years with a dreadful bad leg, apparently originating by the bursting of a vein internally; the pain was intense. 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