The Sun. — London, England, 1852-10-19 00:00:00

•••••••10......1•••••••••••14.1. 0. ....... _ LONDON and NORTH-WESTERN s RAILWAY. Notice is hereby given that an Extraordinary or Special General Meeting of the London and North-We Railway Company will be held. at the Easton Station, London, on Wednesday, the 3d day of ;November next, at One o'clock in the afternoon precisely, to con- Oder and approve, or otnerwise, a proposal for the union of the London and North-Western and Midland Railway Companies, and If 50 determined, to authorize an application to Parliament, for an algamation of the two uniertakings, and the adoption of such Am Other steps in reference thereto, as may be thought expedient. Dated this ibtli day of October, 1852. THOS. SMITH, Deputy-Chairman of the Board of Directors. H. BOOTH, Secretaries. CHAS. E. STEWART,I Office, Euston Station, London. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. farewell Season of Mr. Benjami u ING,bstsr as Lessee and Manager. EVES Will be performed the admired Comedy of THE ROAD TO RITIN. Principal characters by Messrs. Stuart, Leigh Murray, Lamtert, A. 'Wigan. and Miss Rosa Bennett. Afte, MARr which, the successful new and ori g inal Farce of BOX and COXRIED and SE TTLED. To conclude with the successful new Farce of THE WOMAN I ADORE. THEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM. THIS EVENDIG The rerformances will commence with (second time) THE MYSTERIOUS LADY. Characters by M ssrs. C. Matthews, F. Matthews, Belton, Baker, and Miss M. Oliver. Af er which USED UP. Sir Charles Coldstream, Mr.o . Matte Matthews I . To be followed by TAKING BY STO RM. Characters by Miss I. Dickenson, Miss J. St. George, Mr. C. Matthews, and Mr. Sitter. To conclude with (second time) the new Farce, called A OUT OF WINDOWS, Characters by Messrs. Roxby andIIOISSE Baker ; Mrs. Macnamara and Miss Martindale. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster • Directress, 3iadame Celeste. THIS EVENING Will be performed th powerful Drama of THE GREEN BUSHES, or a Hundred Te ars Ago. Cuaracters by Madame leste, , S. Emery, Miss Wcolgar, Messrs. Paul Bedford, G. Honey, 0. Smith &c. To conclude with the Historical Drama of JACK saErrmw. Jack Sheppard, Mrs. Seeley; Blueskin, Mr. Paul Bedfor. PRI ROYAL NICESS'S TLIEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. un d e r the Management of Mr. C. Kean. TIIIS EVENING, win be perform ed THEAPRIMA DONNA. Principaliss Robertson, eharacters try Messrs. Walter Lacy, ddison, and Cathcart; M and Miss Death. A f te r which the new Melodrama, entitled MONT ST. MICHEL ; , The Fairy of the Sands, in which Mr. Wright will appear. To conclude with the Farce of TIIE SPITALFIELDS WEAVER, In which gr. Wright will sustain his original character. ASTLErS ROYAL AMPELITHEATRE. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty. rjaparalled Feats of Darin;, both Equestrian and Gymnastic, Contirine to Amuse and Delight the Crowded Aticliences of this Fashionable Place of Amusement. Vneriuivocal and Triumphant Success of the Madlles. Ellsler on on the Double Tight Rope, whose graceful and finished execution has gained for them the far-famed titles of Cerito and Taglioni throughtut the kingdom. They appear every everting, together with a combination of fhe most brilliant performances in the Circle by Native and Foreign Artistes of the first celebrity. Doors open at Halt-past Six o'clock; Box-oftce open from Eleven to to lour daily. PORTRAITS WELLINGTON AND SOULT, WITH MEMOIRS AND AC-SIMILES OF THEIR HAND WRITINGS. A PORTRAIT OF THE DUKE QF WELLINGTON TOGETHER WITH THE MOST SPLENDID LIKENESS OF SOULT EVER TAKEN, BY WYON, FOR WHICH THE MARSHAL SAT SIX TIMES, IS THIS DAY PUBLISHED, AT THE SUN OFFICE, 112, STRAND, PRICE SIXPENCE. Sun Office, Oct. 16, 1852. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tsui DAT —Morning 34 min. after 3 Evening 56 min. after 3 To.Moaaow — Morning 17 rain. after 4 1 Evening 40 min. after 4 18. THE WEATHER.—Stmt OFFICE, Ocronim THERMOMETER, DI THE SHADE. 31—highest since noon yesterday. 38—lowest this morning and during the night. 46—this day, at noon. BAROXIITEB, 30.34—A sudden rise since yesterday. Wn W.NW., light breeze, and fine sunshining weather, There was a dense fog all the morning. DAILY WEATHER TABLE. State of the Wind and Weather at each of the following places at Nine o'clock on Saturday morning.—The stations are arranged iu order of latitude. HairroGs—Wind E., gentle breeze—cloudless. Soorn-satrrorr—Wind N.W., strong breeze--overcast. Fowzrorsz—Wind N.E., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. Turcerupoz—Wind N. E., strong breeze—partially cloudy. GREEN WlCH—Wind N., gentle breeze— cloudless. Tnooo—Wind N., gentle breeze—cloudless. T.EIGHTON —W Ind N.E., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. C ,Lcanterisa—Wind N.E., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. a.,csiouTif —Wind N., strong breeze—cloudless. The returns from the following places indicate the state o; the wind and weather on Friday morning at nine e'c,(ck POOl.l {—Wind Vii. E-. gentle breeze. gotTnEAD--Wind N , w>ntle breeze—frosty. LANCASTER, —Wind S., cal W JITTBY-- ind S., gentle breeze—overcast. DARLINGTON-- Vt . ind E., gentle breeze—overcast. .3.t,„, 0 Vairitirta LONDON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1852. Philosophers, who, of all people in the wide world, are most enamoured of the mysterious—whatever they themselves may say to the contrary—can now happily look forward with some degree of confidence to the delight of a grand Japanese Revelation. Eleusia was nothing to it. The most inexorably enforced taboo ever indulged in by the elders among the savages of the AlarcilesaF, never tended so remarkably to pique the curiosity of the more inquisitive. Here is a coun try of extraordinary dimensions, which has been, in a political sense, so to speak, hermetically sealed from the rest of the nations of the earth during no less pro tracted an interval of time than the last two centuries! It is at length about to be forced into some communi cation with the external multitude—thanks to the generous cnterprize of the United States' Govern ment. For it must be observed that the expedition which has been so long talked of, as about to proceed to Japan from the ports of the American Republic, has been only for a while delayed, not altogether abandoned. The interruption is simply attributable to that unlucky squabble about the British Fisheries, which appears to be undergoing the process of an amicable settlement, owing to the better judgment of Mr. WEBSTER and the energetic resolution of Lord IV I ALME3BU Rr. Almost immediately may be antici pated, therefore, the intelligence that the vessels en gaged in the underta kin g alre a d y specified have set out for their vary singular place of destination. It is impossible not to await with peculiar eager ness the result of this novel and humane enterprise. For ourselves, we look forward to that result with Some such interest as we might suppose would be 'wakened among the generality were a balloon to soar off to one of the planets under the direction of some experienced aeronaut. Not can the comparison be regarded as in any way so very extravagant, seeing that Japan is to the rest of the world almost as untrodden a region as the surface of the moon or of Jupiter. Seriously speaking, we may assert that we know rather more about the inhabitants of the Flying Island than about the hitherto almost in scrutable and nearly fabulous Japanese. GOLOWNIN ' it is true, has giv en us an account of the latter, but an account by no m eans so categorical or explicit as that furnished in reference to the former by LEMUEL GULLIVER. The wonder is how this ignorance could have so long survived th e app li cation of the steam engine to the purposes of navigation. Travellers have penetrated in all directions, it would seem this solitary exce p tion. Chin a has been 'with traversed f ro m end to end by t he Jesuit missionaries. BASIL HALL has to ld us all we want to know about Lon Choo. HERmANN. MELVILLE has described the manners and customs in vogue among the naked exquisites of .I.Tukuhiva. FRANCIS HEAD has taken us, as it were on the crupper, in a gallop across the Pampas. JAMES LOSS has conducted us (shiver ng) down to the antarctic shores of Victoria land. WILLIAM PENNY has induced U 3 to accompany him (with our teeth chattering) to that remote arctic strait which lies to the nor'-west of the Queen's Channel. We have ransacked the exhumed ruins of Nineveh with AUSTIN LAYARD. We have even reached with BAYARD TAYLOR the golden gravel strewing the paths of El Dorado. A learned gentle man named SQUEERS—who, by the way, ought to bring an action 054iust blr. D.Raios, for casting odium upon his patronymic—has given us the topo graphy of those forest-cities of the West which were flourishing in marble magnificence long before the first mason had carved a stone for the vaunted halls the Alontezamss. Another gentleman, not less learned, named SLEE MAN, has described with astonishing minnuteness, the architectural monu ments of Hindostan. We are familiar with the lilliputian republic of Marino. We are inti mately acquainted with the miniature oligarchy of Montenegro. Nay—it was only the other day that a young lieutenant of the Royal Navy of Old England, putting spurs to his horse, clambered up the acclivities of the Libanus, and ventured to domesti cate himself among the dreaded chiefs of the Ansayrii. The Right Hon. BENJAMIN DISRAELI had proceeded there already in romance : but the Hon. FREDERICK WALPOLE went there in reality—and by this time, under thanks to the indefatigable press of Mr. BENTLEY, we have been enabled in that, as in so many other quarters before then, to fathom secrets which had hitherto seemed to be altogether unfathom ible. Everywhere, indeed, about the surface of the globe, have we been conducted by that Great Power which Sir BIJLWER LYTTON has so grandly idealized 13 the Genius of the Lamp—everywhere (because Central Africa, according to our notion, must be entirely excluded from the category, seeing that, on the principle of the " sour grapes," we don't want to go there any longer)—everywhere, we repeat, have we been ushered in the north, in the south, in the east, and in the west—everywhere but within the ocean-frontiers of Japan ! And Japan, let it be remembered, is no little obscure corner of the globe, to be overlooked by reason of its insignificance. Japan is a group of four large and flourishing islands —Jezo, Niphon, Sikok, and Kiu-Siu—commanding attention, if only for the extent and grandeur of its marvellously fruitful territories. It comprises no less than five imperial cities—Jedo, Sakai, lleaco, Okosaka, and Nangasaki. It contains a population variously estimated at from 15,000,000 to actually 50,000,000, the general and most rational impression upon the subject, being that its inhabitants number as many as those of the French Republic, the fore most among the races of the European Continent. Added to all which, it has be®n declared, upon autho• rity, that the capital of the Japanese is more populous than our own monster metropolis—GoLoWNlN actu- ally talking of 8,000,000 as the reputed number of the citizens of Nangasaki! It is to this wonderful empire that the civilized races of the world are at length about to be formally introduced by means of the gallant undertaking adventured upon by the democratic statesmen of Washington. Cannon balls, it is true, may probably be the sugar-plums of com pliment thrown to the Japanese by the "great guns" of the United States ; for, when we speak of being introduced to the mysteries of Japan, it must be un derstood that Artillery is to be the Master of the Ceremonies ! Whatever particulars have hitherto been collected to gether in reference to the sources of Japan, or in regard to the customs of the Japanese, have only been calcu lated to whet the popular appetite for the marvel- lous, and to enhance the public eagerness for some more searching and more widely extended investigation. It matters little, perhaps, to the merchant whether the people in those quar- tars robe themselves at a funeral in white by way of mourning ; whether the advance of preg nancy among their women is marked by the wearing of a red crape scarf ; or whether they distinguish their more honoured guests by the presentation of a plate of snakes delicately stewed and adroitly seasoned. Such eccentricities are recorded of them, no doubt, but that matters little to the princes of trade either at New York or at Manchester. Possibly, moreover, it may be considered as a circumstance of moment only in the more recondite contemplations of Mr. WAKLEY in his capacity as the Coroner for Middlesex, that the young gentlemen of Japan are in the habit of reliev ing themselves of the tedium of existence through the fashionable suicide effected by dexterously ripping open the abdomen. Why the young ladies of the same country should presume for a moment that they enhance their beauty by blackening their teeth, or extracting their eyebrows, may seem a question of trivial import to those not wholly infatuated by the virtues of Mr. ROWLA.ND'S renowned Odonto, or of his dainty Kalydor, or, still more, of what Lord BYRoN has celebrated as his " incomparable oil Ma cassar." But surely it must be admitted that while the verification of such rumours may be gra tifying to comparatively small sections of the civilised community, a multiplicity of other state ments of more moment in reference to Japan and the Japanese, demand the more careful and sedulous at tention of every active and enterprizing population. For a thousand reasons, therefore, we await with the most fervent solicitude, the completion of the interest ing project upon which the Ministry at Washington has determined to adventure. As the expiation of many flagrant acts of inhumanity, we look forward to the desired vengeance with emotions of very peculiar satisfaction. We rejoice at the expedition, in fine, for, inasmuch as it will tend to bring 30,000,000 or 40,000,000 more of GOD'S creatures into communica tion with the rest of their fellow-men—breakin g asunder that monstrous and unnatural system which has for two centuries insulated Japan from the bulk of the great family of mankind, shutting them out, generation after generation, from the chance of parti cipating in the marvels achieved by Science, in the skill acquired in Art, in the comforts secured by In dustry, and denying to them at once, and by the most effectual means, the blessings of Christianity and the advantages of Civiliz stion. Two eminently practical persons have just favoured those of our middle classes, who purpose to improve their condition by emigration, and those who would rise in life in this country, with some excellent advice. Mrs. Cmsnored at one of her " group meetings" of clerks and governesses, reported in the Sun of Saturday, and Mr. PETO ; incidently and by example, in his speech at the meeting of the Builders' Benevolent Institution, which appeared in our paper of Friday. Mr. PETO has been one of the most successful men In his line in the kingdom ; but he has deserved his success. It has been achieved in the right way. No employer of labour has done more for the comfort and instruction of his labourers than Mr. PETO ; and no man has enjoyed more their good will and respect. 'We have frequently heard of his arrangements for their convenience, and the Bishop of NORWICH bore public testimony to his ad mirable plans for their religious instruction, only wishing that he could claim so excellent a master as a Churchman. His benevolent contributions and sub scriptions are seen in almost every list ; while by far the handsomest chapel in London, belonging to his denomination, is that (nor is it the only one) which he himself erected in Bloomsbury. To him, too, in no unimportant sense, we owe the Great Exhi bition of 1851, for all was at a stand-still for want of means, till he headed the guaran tee fund with 50,0001. ; an act not the less generous and noble because the money itself was never wanted. It cannot be wondered at that be has been decidedly the most popular candidate in two elections at Norwich, in two of the railways connected with which city he had been so largely engaged. Well, Mr. PETo tells all our young men whom it may concern, and all their parents who wish to put their sons in the way of making a fortune, that he attri buted all his prosperity to beginning at the begin ning. "He attributed all his success in life to an early course of training in the workshop, where he became acquainted with those :details which never failed to enable men to carry out great works?' Mr. PETO'S has not, therefore, been a royal road to wealth, nor is such a road open to more than a very few. Most of the men whom people are apt to call "lucky" are rather men who knew what work was, and who, like Mr. PETo, have had the judgment, foresight, and decision to make use of advantageous openings. W e spoke of his example, and we advert ed not only to the general example we have just mentioned, but to a special incident connected with the meeting. Our Saturday's paper records also the QUEEN'S visit to the Tubular Bridge, erected over the Menai Straits by Mr. ROBERT STEPHENsoN, on the same day as the meeting was held ; and it ap pears that Mr. PETO, chairman of the Chester and Holyhead Railway Company, had received a special ummons from her MA JESTY, through the L O RD CHAMBERLAIN, to attend h er on that occasion. Mr. PETO had made, however, a prior engagement to preside at the meeting of the Builders' Benevolent Society ; and as it was, of course, too lat.:: to alter the day of the meeting, he, " though he could assure them he was by no means disloyal, felt it to be his duty to return a respectful message, stating that he had made a previous promise to this institution, which it was impossible for him to pass." WELLINGTON or NELSON would have made the same reply; and it is impossible not to perceive that Mr. PETO owes his present position, in no small degree, to that habit of abiding by his duty, which he exemplified on this occasion. We are confident her MAJESTY felt grati fied at finding that she had a subject capable of acting thus. The speech of our admirable female lecturer, Mrs. CHISHOLM, ought to be read by the class to whom it is addressed throughout the kingdom ; it will, indeed, do none of us any harm, but the thousands of unhappy persons who as clerks and governesses are respectably starving to death, or pining in back sitting rooms, should study every line of it. Mrs. CHISHOLM tho roughly knows all phases of society—the bush,the sheep run, the Australian town, the suburban farm, on one side of the globe ; and the accomplished unmarried earre•nothing families of girls, the slim, well-dressed, numberless lads wanting situations, or but just able to make ends meet in them, of old England. Yes, she knows them all quite well—and she tells the young ladies here, " if now you can only wash up the things of the house, and toss your own beds, and be your own laundresses, and make the puddings and pies, why, you may go (with some friend, of course), and you may be an independent lady." Mrs. CiiisnoLm is plainly of opinion, though as a lady she does not say that in plain English, that such young ladies may very quickly become mistresses in Australia ; and she is herself evidently one who would prefer doing the work of her own house, to being a domestic Protestant nun, under the sovereign control of some superior in purse, with that charming charge, a little large family—a charge too troublesome for the said supe rior. How true also is Mrs. Cnisnoem's picture of the sufferings of our clerks :—" I have been horri fied," she says, " at seeing men coming to speak to me on the subject of emigration, whom, from their appearance, I took to be sixty years of age, but when I inquired, I found the same not more than forty-five or forty-six. It was not illness, but care and anxiety that gave them this premature old age. It is this daily anxiety that destroys many more than the work they have to do. In this country, pride, or the keeping up appearances, as it is called, has been more destruc tive, has done much more harm, and caused more do mestic misery, than ever the cholera did when it was among us. (" Hear, hear.") But there is no neces sity for this in the colony. There you can do many things which you would not wish to do here." As with the ladies, however, so with the gentlemen. They must be willing to work; that is, not merely to fill up time with something, but to work as shep herds, or anything else. They are to lock up their broadcloth and Wellingtons as soon as they take ship —no man can work in these things—and with the workman's short jacket they will feel able to set about sem; Nog, and inclined to do it too. If they cannot at first do as much as a practised shepherd, they wil l by degrees be able ; and when a man and his wife can earn 401. a year, and everything found them, any in dustrious person can earn enough for himself from the very first. Children, Mrs. Cnisuoem describes as an actual fortune ! Hear it, poor clerk, not knowing what to do to keep a wife and half-a-doze n lit t l e ones in health, f oo d, an d c l o thing, in some narr ow , un wholesome, back street—hear what these costly cares may be worth—worth pecuniarily to you :—" In the colony a child of nine years of age Can earn its bread. Children are a help to their parents; they are no burden or expense in the colony. I de clare I would rather go to the colony with twelve children, than with 12001. in my pocket." The one indispensable condition of success, however, is work. Fathers and mothers, lads and lasses, must all start for work' ; for work and independence, how ever !—not for ill-rewarded anxious clean-fingered toil, with the continual fear of the Union House be fore their eyes. We thought, while glancing over Mrs. Cnisnoesa's speech, pencil in hand, and marking many more passages than those we have quoted, bow our friend CARLYLE would enjoy it. Such a chapter on work !—on doing—not on palavering as scribbling, but downright doing. " Yes, yes," we thought we heard him hastily exclaim, " Yes Mrs. Ceirsimeet, that is the sort of men you must make them into. Men ,fit to dig and to delve GOD'S good earth; no longer your counting-house flunkeys, your mousta chorised dandy-coated sixpenny-chop diners, tripping to and fro on their thin-soled Wellington's,—but working men—in working fustia., and working hob nailed shoes ; with appetites that would make them look rather cross at sight of only said sixpenny chop. _Yes, they will then achieve something better than copying long rows of figures, or folios of manuscript, to hip weak tea, and breathe foul air at night. Yes, Mar'm, get them to work and you will have translated them from purgatory to paradise ; and they will bless you in all their generations for teaching them that to use their GoD-given muscles, was the way to become men—real men—men in both body and soul." At a former meeting Mrs. CHISHOLM gave some im portant advice as to the necessity of emigrant ships being always provided with a separate compartment for the provisions taken on the voyage by the passen gers ; one key of such apartment to be in the hands of a person chosen by the passengers, another in the keeping of a ship's officer. Mr. LINDSAY, the great ship-master, who was present, highly approved of Mr. C.'s suggestion, declared his intention to adopt it, and recommended decidedly iron ships as the best and safest. Mr. Be LOWE, M.P. for Kidder minster, who has lived in Australia, followed, strongly recommending the colony, not as a gold country merely, but for agricultural purposes. He called at tention to one point which Sir JOHN PAKINGTON ought not to overlook for an hour. It is notorious that the great stream of agricultural emigration is to the United States ; probably many of our readers may not be aware that we actually, so far as in us lies, binder the settling of Australia by charging 1/. per acre for land, while the Americans charge but a dollar ! Not only do we persist in saddling our colonists with the scum of our prisons, at a great additional cost to ourselves; and not only is the voyage unavoidably more expensive to the emigrant, but to convicts and distance, we must add the objec tion of selling our waste land to our own people, at four or five times the price at which foreigners will sell them the same commodity. Turn which way we will, every colony, great or small, proclaims the need of a comprehensive, generous, and vigorous mind at the head of our Colonial Department. As we re marked on Saturday, India, the Cape of Good Hope, Canada, Australia, and minor colonies too, now need a first-rate man—a man able to bind them by other ties to the British Crown than those of continual in terference and thwarting in local matters. It was remarked by one of the most philosophic minds that ever applied itself to the consideration of questions of public polity, that " the chief danger to the Church was from the Church itself." Without waiting to apply this to the injury done to the Church by the Oxford party, or by that " Right Reverend Father in GOD, lIENaY, Lord Bishop of EXETER," or by pluralists, like MOORE and PRETTYMAN, We shall now point to an evil of considerable magnitude— namely, the avowed and open (and we might add shameless) traffic in Church preferment. Every day supplies us with materials for regret and remark on this point, but we shall confine ourselves to the traffic which appears advertised on one day. A recent number of a morning contemporary con tains four advertisements, one following the other, in which the practice is distinctly shown. The first an nounces, very briefly and significantly, that " Five thousand pounds will be given for an advowson, o f adequate value, in a desirable county. A good resi dence, offices, &c., and very early legal possession, rare essential. A large population objected to." This is rather plain and undisguised. Of course, the advertiser is a clergyman, who, at his ordination, made a solemn d e claration that he believed he was called by the lie SFLMT to become a Minister of the Gospel ! He iII:US the command of 5 ,0001 , and wants to invest it more advantageously than in the Three per Cents. Be seeks a Church living " of adequate value," and it must be " in a desirable county" (suited, no doubt, for huntin g, urther thetaoti must ng, fishing, be and pleasant soci e ty). F " a good residence, ofs( Les, &c."—by which is probably mea n t a fine range of shoaling, THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 19, 1852. stables and conch-houses. These, and " very early legal possession," are essential. And, to mark how entirely the reverend advowson seeker throws over board all consideration of the duty to which he is vowed as a minister o!' religion, a large population is specially noted as "objected to." There is candour, at all events, in this advertisement. The man wants to make the most of his money, with the greatest personal comfort, and the smallest personal trouble. When such men minister at the altar, need we wonder that "the Church is in danger ! " This 5,000/. gentleman will not have much trouble, for the three advertisements following his notice to buy, severally emanate from parties who want to sell. The first announces that there is to be disposed of, by private contract, the advowson and next presentation to a rectory in Suffolk, near Bury St. Edmunds. " There is a parsonage house, with suitable offices, and 57a. lr. 34p. of glebe. The tithes' commutation rent charge fixed at 4151. 3s. 7d. The present incumbent is in the 63d year of his age." Taking the land as probably worth about 21. an acre, as it is in the vicinity of the county town, here is an income of about 5291. a year, which would yield ten per cent. on the 5,000/. ; but, unfortunately, the man in possession is in the 63c1 year of his age, and (as the clergy are proverbially long-lived) this would be rather too much to wait : at sill events, if the " residence and offices" were very good, that would have been stated, and the population may be large, which is " objected to," with the drawback, also, that Suffolk may not be considered by the purchaser " a desirable county." We must pass on to the next advertisement. This announces that in Kent, about five miles from Rochester, is "to be sold by private contract," the advowson and next presentation to a rectory," "with a convenient residence, offices, garden, and about seven acres of glebe ; the tithes have been commuted at 7741. per annum." Nor is this all,—there is also on rate the advowson of another rectory in Kent, subject to the same inconsistency, " with a superior residence, coach house, stabling and offices, garden, pleasure• grounds, and about fifteen acres of glebe." This clerical para dise is only one mile from the other, and " the tithes have been commuted at about 6001. per annum." Here are the exact things :—Good houses, stables, grounds, with nearly 1,4001. a year, and (as if to crown all) " the duty in each case is single, and the population small." Kent, it must be admitted, is " a desirable county," and ens service in the week is light indeed ! But, alas ! —surgit amari aliquid—" the present in cumbent is 61 years of age." He may live until 80, with so good an income, in such a fine county, and with so little to do. It is obvious that Advertiser No. 1, who wants " very early legal possession," is not likely to wait until this incumbent makes a mortuary vacancy ! The preceding advertisements all emanate from pri vate individuals. The first, with a modesty rare in a man worth 5,000/. in paid cash, merely gives ini tials—the others give references to highly re spectable individuals. The last, which we must now notice, is an advertisement (" by order of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England") of " the patronage, advowson, donation, presentation, or nomination of and to the church of in the parish and town of Liverpool." The particulars are fully given, and describe the present minister as of 56 years of age. After his decease , resignation, or removal, " the nomination and right o f p resentation of the Minister or Chaplain" of this church is to be sold "in perpetuity." Then comes a description of the emoluments, which " consist of stipend of 230/., payable half yearly out of pew rents, together with the surplice fees and other emoluments heretofore be longing and usually received by the minister or chap lain, all which emoluments are secured by Act of Parliament. The patron will have the appointment of the clerk and sexton, whose stipends are payable out of pew rents, and secured by the same Act. The repair of the church devolves on the Corporation" of the borough, and the patronage at present rests in " the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses." The sale is to be "by tender," addressed to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England. Now, reading this last advertisement, we do not wonder at the three which preceded it. If the Church Commissioners, acting under Parlia mentary sanction, and including (we believe) several of the Bishops —if this public Board thus openly deal in the buying and selling of church livings, can we wonder that private individuals do the same ? Ii no case is it even hinted at that the future incumlent shall have high character, attain ments, or piety. So much money is to be obtained, and beyond that cone of the vendors, public or private, object to"a m large ocare populati on " (b ecause i t would. The man with 5,0001., who will involve the usual clerical duties), would be as eligible as the most pious minister that could be found. We recomnend " The Ecclesiastical Commission ers," if they should ever edit Johnson's Dictionary, to omit, as wholly obsolete, the word " Simony," and its variots meanings and applications ! Iler Majesty, as an especial mark of honour, has conferred on tte noble, gallant , and distinguished Marquis of L late oma nd° C nder n ' ntr el -C B in 'G l; C te . f i, i .'the companion in ar m s of the the Garter held by the illus trious Duke. The Marqiis of Winchester, it is reported, will be the new Lord• Lieutenant of Hampshire, vice the Duke of Wellington -1n appointment which give general satis faction. ST. JAMEes THEATRE.—ORGANOPHONIC BAND.— These performances were visited durng last week by nume rous and fashionable audiences, amongst whom were his Excellency the Baron Rehausen, Viscomte and Viscomtesse d'Alte, the Marquis of Titchfield, the Marquis of Northamp ton, the Viscount Cranborne, Lord Burghersh, Sir Ralph Howard, Sir George Wombwell, Mr. George Tomlin°, Major Mountjoy Maityn, Mr. Fortescue, Mr. Bligh, Mr. W. Dela field, Mr. Berland, &c. The present, it will be seen, is the last week of the performances in London, and doubtl ess th e curious in such matters will avail themselves of these few opportunities of hearing this certainly unique performance. John Ridgeley, Esq., and Mrs. Ridgeley, and Sam Smith, Esq., and Mrs. Smith, of Baltimore, U.S., have left the Clarendon Hotel, Bond-street, for Liverpool, en route for America. ANOTHER LETTER OF THE DUKE.—The following characteristic letter of the late Duke, addressed to a lady engaged in getting up a charitable sale, has been for warded for publication to the Cork Constitution:— Lon don, May 17, 1817.--F. M. the Duke of Wellington presents his compliments to Mrs. —. To aid i n promot ing an object of charity is one thing—to send a s i gnature for sale at a bazaar is quite a different one. To do the latter might prove 'ery injurious to those with whom th e sen d er [this, as well as we caa decypher it, is the word] of the sig nature might have pecuniary relations. F. M. the Duke of Wellington toerefore declines to do the latter. But he en closes a pecuniary contribution of 5/. to the charity which Mrs. N. desires to promote. ELECTIO4 PETITION. --It is understood that among the petitions from Ireland against undue returns at the late elections there will be one on the part of Lord Dunkellin against the returi? of Mr. M. J. Blake for Galway. His lordship has been advised by couucil to proceed on various grounds, and it has not yet, it would appear, been finally decided which shall be selected. GENERAL I XING-IN 1108P7AL.—A quarterly court of the g overnors of this i nst i tution was held yesterday at the hospital, York-road ; Mr. A. Robinson in the chair. The minutes of the weekly boards were read and confirmed. From them it appeared that the receipts of the charity during the last quarter had been 971/. Os. 6d., includi ng a balance of 339/. I s. 7d. from the preceding quarter, in the hands of Messrs. Drummond and Messrs. Cocks and Bid dulph. The expenditure during the same period was 3411. 6s. 3 1 4 d., leaving a balance in the hands of the trea surers of 629/. 64.2%d. The number of out-patients attended and assisted during the quarter was 98; of in-patients, 68. The number at present in the hospital, 18. The court then adjourned. AGITATION TOR THE B A LLOT.—A requisition is i n course of signature addressed to the High Sheriff of Clare, calling upon him to convene a county meeting, to p e ti t i on Parliament in favour of the adoption of vote by ballot at a ll future elections, is the means of securing a free exercise of the franchise, ant of preventing a recurrence , of such cala mitous affrays as that which took place at Six-mile-Bridge during the recent election. The Munster News states that the 'requisition Las been signed by " the two county m em . ben3, ten magistrates, one hundred and thirty Poor-law guar dia.ns, and a number of other gentlemen and freeholders." Le/AL NASAL BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.—The ordi- I 09 0 y quarterly court of this society was held yesterday at 1 /Willis's Rooms, St. James's, Rear-Admiral Sir Watkin Owen Pell (one of the trustees of the institution) in the chair. The minutes of the previous court having been read and con firmed, the secretary, Mr. George H. Skead, master R.N., submitted to the meeting the usual financial statement for the quarter commencing Ist July, and ending 30th Septem ber last, which showed that the total receipts of the society from all sources daring the three months had been 1,251/. 91. 9c1., including 1181. 7s. Gd. for annual subscriptions, and MO/. 2s. 6d. for donations, 148/. of the latter item having been received from; the executors if the late Captain Shaw. The total disbursements amounted to 753/. 9s. 10d., leaving a balance in favour of the society of the sum of 500/. 19s. 11d. The report was received and adopted, after which correspon dence was read by the secretary. One letter read was from Admiral Sir Wiliiau Parker, announcing his acceptance of the office of one of the vice •presidents of the institution, and intimating his intuition to increase his subscription to three guineas per annum from the period of his appointment as full admiral. Sir Villiam Parker also forwarded an extra i rk l a donationnd of fsl.pi Portsmouth s ail n o o u f t t h h , funds.eof the of acceptance, honorary by lr . K corres ponding next t ho society proc that e a e t deato port, th e was electionhk ew likewise n the i fie d. The managing committee for the ensuing three mouths, and having disposed of the remaining busilleSS, which 1V45 Of a pUnly formal ;limiter, it atlioarnocl. MONEY AND COMMERCIALNEWS. CITY, Two o'CLocK. The sales of 'cotton at Liverpool, yesterday, were estimated at 10,000 bales, of which 500 American, and 500 Penams and hlaranhams were taken for ex port, and 2,000 American on speculation. The mar ket closed firmly at previous rates. The sales com prised 7,000 American, 800 Penams and Maranhams, at bbd. to ni.; 70 Bahia, at 6' 4 5 d.; 800 Egyptian, at 54d. to 6d.; and 1,500 Surat, at to 541. per lb. in Railway Shares a good business was done at higher prices. At the indigo auctions 2,089 cwt. passed yesterday, of which 798 were withdrawn, 540 bought in, and 751 sold at rates fully equal to those of Friday ; 400 cwt., Madras, only partly sold from 4i. to Bd. advance. The railway meetings announced are the follow ing Aberdeen, 21st October, Radley's Hotel; Dijon and Besancon, 26th October, Paris ; Great Indian Pen insula, 29th October, office ; London and South Western, 26th October, London Tavern. The directors of the North British appear to have been wrongfully taken to task for not paying the dividend on the Preference Stock. In truth, how ever, they have no option in the matter ; one of the original shareholders having initiated proceedings in the Scotch courts to restrain such payment. We are told that, if the opposition be persevered in, the suit may last two years. Really, such frittering away of means is much to be deplored. In making a call of 10s. per share (making 8/. 17s. paid), due the 15th November next, the directors of the Fleetwood, Preston and West Riding Junction, annex the following : " I am instructed to inform you that the Longridge Company, having refused to carry out the recent agree ment, by which four-fifths of the profits of the line were secured to that company, and one-fitth to this com pany, and having insisted upon the full rent of 3,0001. per annum, your directors thought it inexpedient any longer to work the lice, or to pay such rent out of calls. This determination induced the Longridge Company to re-enter upon their line leased by them to this company, consequently this company is released from the liability of 3,0001, per annum. " The present call is made to pay the large balance owing to the bankers, and entirely to free the company from debt. Unless some arrangement should be pro posed, obviously for the advantage of the shareholders, the directors believe that no further call will be re quired." The Committee of Spanish American bondholders received this morning the subjoined communication from Mr. Mocatta, their agent, dated " Guayaquil, Ist September, 1852 ": " I have the honour to inform you that the National Assembly have elected:General J. M. Urbina,,President of the Republic, and that he will take the oath of his high office tomorrow. I deem this favourable, as I have reason to believe his views are favourable towards a fair arrangement of the Foreign Debt. The Assembly will now proceed with financial matters, and I am in communication with the " Committee of Public Credit," who, I am happy to say, are recommending a measure to give the executive ample powers to treat with me. I shall within a fortnight have the advantage of Mr. Cope's assistance, as he is coming from Queto, of which I shall avail myself of, whenever I deem it essential so to do. I shall now have a constitutional government to treat with, which has not been the case until now, thus the cause of delay in my proceedings. I have nothing fur ther to communicate at present, remaining, &c. E. MOCATTA. By the British barque Enterprise, 35 days from Port Philip to Valparaiso, we have dates to the 28th July. This vessel had been sent over in ballast, for the purpose of procuring flour and provisions. The mines continue to increase in richness and quantity of gold, and further discoveries were making in all directions. Provisions of all kinds were scarce and high, and it was thought that large importations would be required to meet the demand of the present emigration. The English Funds are very buoyant. Consols bring 1001 to for transfer, and 1001 to for Account. The New 3+ per cents. are 103+ to Bank Stock is 222 to 224, being still rather flat on account of sales. Exchequer Bills are 763. to 78s. premium. Foreign Stocks are generally lively, but Spanish Deferred have not quite reached yesterday's rates, being 251 /. Mexican have advanced to 25 to 25i ; Buenos Ayres are in demand at 78 to 81 ; Turkish Loan is fluctuating, but on the whole better, being 5i to 6. There is some uneasiness concerning Minis terial changes at Constantinople, but the contractors are stated to have convinced the committee of the Stock Exchange that they had full authority to make the loan in the way they did. The Spanish Bondholders' Committee are very pro perly, discussing the expediency of moving again to promote the claim of the coupon holders. Railway shares continue very good, but there is not so much doing. French shares are buoyant. Gold mines are in favour still. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK (From the Official List. ) ask. PRICE 3 OF BRITISII FUNDS O'CLOCK. Bank Stock ....... 3 per Cent. Reduced Anne. a % 3p tr Cent. Console Annuities lO O l4 Ix, New 3 1 .4 per Cent. Anna 103% India Stock India 1,000/. South Sea Stock Ditto Old Annuities C ;mole for Account .. ' , Cxcnequer Bills. 140. March. 1,0001. .. 5001. CLOSING PRICES. Smatll, CLOSING PRICES. ONE PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. Brazilian Bonds, Small Buenos Avres Bonds, 6 per Cent.... 78 81 79 Grenada Bonds, Deferred........... 211 / 2 Mexican 3 per Cent 2 51 5 25 1 / 8 Peruvn. Bonds, Deferred 3p. Cent lO3 Rnssian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent llB% 118 3 / 4 Ditto. 44. per Cent Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent. Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent 51. 93 51% 3 , 8 Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent 2 5 5 /Ei 3 / 4 26 5 1 3 / 1 Turkish Loan, 6 per Cent., 1852 4 34 6 5% 7:3i 6 1 % 5% F renc h Mantes, 4% per Cent. losf. Belgian dond3, 5 per Cent 9 8 3 78 Dutch Exchange, 2 1 ,4 p. Ct. 12 Guil 65 65 IA Dutch Exchange 4 p. Ct. Certificates 96 96 3 / a % Ditto 80nd5....... 95% 9558 6 QUARTER TO THREE, ... 100 i i ... 100} Consols ••• Ditto Account. Nov. 13 ... TIIE COTTON TRADE. We have received through favour of Mr. James Irvine, Liverpool, the following report N EW ORLEANS, 25th Sept., 1852.—The inquiry during this week has been quite animated; factorsmeet jog the demand freely, were enabled to recover a part of the decline of the previous week, and to maintain prices, notwithstanding the heavy receipts, stiffening freights, d u ll exc hange market, and unfavourable accounts by the last two steamers from Liverpool. Saturday, 2,000 bales were sold; Sunday, the Pacific's advices were received; Monday, the sales were 6,0 t) 0 bales,with firm prices; Tues day, rates stiffened and 5,000 bales were sold; Wednesday, the Africa's accounts of 11th September, from Liverpool, came to hand, and 3,300 bales changed hands; Thurs day, 4,000 bales • yesterday, 2,700 bales; and to-day, as fares reported, ;bout 1,500 bales, the market closing firm at our quotations. " The demand is becoming more general, the principal purchases are for Great Britain and the North, some oc casional lots being taken for Spain, Genoa, or Havre, for which latter place a ship of about 1,800 bales has been laid on. Various lists have been bought on speculation for resale here, as with a continuance of the unfavourable accounts from the country, a further ad vance in our prices is expected by many. We quote to day for strict classification, good stapled cotton:—ordi nary to good ordinary, 8/ 9; low middling, 9/ 1 0 ; good middling, 10i j; unfair, 10i i; fair to good fair, 11 12. " The receipts continue liberal, being for the week 29,626 bales, against 17,985 bales same period last year. A small portion of the cotton coming to hand now is only below middling; the fine descriptions, however, are becoming very scarce, and the market does not offer any more the same splendid assortment we had some weeks ago. With regard to the growing crop the advices re ceived during the week do sot show any improvement; on the contrary, the complaints of damage by rot and bollworm aro on the increase, and the prospects for another large crop are daily becoming more faint. " Freights are firm. Little alteration in Exchange. " SCHRODER AND QIJENTELL. The Government Gazette of St. Domingo (El ECO del Ozan 2a) of the 12th ult. refers to the advertisemeit lately put forward in England for a loan of 750,0001. for that republic, and states that the proposal was never authorized in the slightest degree. It adds that the accounts given of the resources of the country had at the same time been greatly exaggeratsd, while the statement was also incorrect of its being at peace with its neighbours. THE YACHT AMERICA. --Another acceptance of Lord De Blaquiere's challenge has been made. Lord Lon- desborough has offered to run a schooner of 180 tons 0 .51 just laid down for him b y the Messrs. L y min g ton, of Poole, " against the America , u p on an y course which Lord De I- . quiere may name—the match to be for 1,000 guineas beingneasandthtoe be sailed in the m onth of Se p tember n ext , that ear li es t period at which this vessel can be built, and her proper trim found. A CCIDE NT AT RICHMOND. —One of the po li ce f orce on duty at Richmond has met his death under the following melancholy circumstances : —lt appears that he was e n night duty, and was on Sunday morning, ing, about three o ' c l oc k, se en by h by his superior officer river side, a short distanee from Richmond. As he did not make his appearance at the time, station-house at the proper fears were entertained in his regard, and after the lapse of some time, and every in quiry having in the meantime been made, without success, the river was dragged from an early hour in the morning, until about four o'clock in the afternoon, when hls body was life e o y v i oecretati being waslt immediately removed to the dada house, ' 1440 eztnact, where it await as iziptlit. THE SHARE MARKETS. BRITISH RAILWAYS. Nominal Prices. 28 to 28 6 -6 10 10% 64 5 1 A dis 21% 22% 3 —2% dis. 100 —.102 50% 50% 21 21% 14 1 ,E 151/ it 6 dis. 7%- 814 4% - 4 1 4 3 - 3'% 1 1 % - 1 1 LA 9 -9% • • • •• • 6 --- - 6 % 57 -59 75% -76% - 28 78 -80 41 -43 116 -118 47% - 48% 96 -96% 82 -84 10 —ll p 84% 85 3 3 , 4 3 1 4 dis. 3 2 1 4 dis. 17 17% • • •• - •• 8% -8% 2 !ip 104 105 119 1194 2% 31/ P 134 1 3 4 p 89% 90 1 4 54 5 dis. 5 4 dis. 17 —lB 32 1 4 3314 3 1 ,‘ 3 die. 77 77 1 ,E 42 —44 47 -48 3% 2 3 Adia. 2 —2% 43 —45 die. 34% 35 7 —6% dia. 2 2 1 % 1 1 ,4 die. 4 1 ,‘ 4 1 4, dia. 3 Sfi - 4 1 ,ip. 48 -49 82% - 84% 55 -57 68 -72 ••• '''''' ••• 2 1 1 ,‘ dis. 19;4-20% 9% 104 14%, 15% 3y B -3 1 .1 d. dis. 22 —23 75% 76 3 4 41 —4114 14 —l5 par , p ••• ••• 16 -Ph 2 1 4- 23 123( -13% 6y B - 21 1 4 - 22 1 4 93A, - 10% 8 —7% die. 2 di& 50% 51% and Coleraine, 10 RENCE SHARE 1' = i'6B 100 - 103 1834, - 19% dis. lA p 6 -6% 5 -3% 3% -3% I% 2 p 1 1 4 I%p x.d 14% 15 17 -17% 9 -. 9% ... ''' ... 234 -3% ••• --- ••• 125 - 127 8%- 9 1p 107 109 %dis. par 151 154 •• • -- ... ... "'''' ... 3y&- 3% p 13 -15 ii 9 —lO 11U 12 5 As 73 P %die. —3( p y i dis. %p 148 - 150 par % p 22 22% 5%_ 6 1% 2 93 —95 2IA - 2%P 11% - 11% t7%-18% 15% —16% %dirs.— par 25% - 25% •.• - ••• 19 -20 % % dia. 102 104 5 —5% par-- p Item, 4% per cent., :D AT FIXED R. lip 8% 6,1$ 4i 8 3 / 4 11% 102% ,112. ENTALS. Leasing _____ Railways. Comp a nies N om i nal Business Companies PrICAS. to-day. Bdf. & Bitch., all p Lon.&N.W ... -- Bir.& Oxt., gua. all Gt. Westn 29% —l6 Do. without, all p Do. .. 29 —3O Bir.Wolv. & Dud.,l guar....... all pd. Do. Do. without, a ll p! Do. Buckinghash. all p Lon. &N.W 107 109 Clydsdale Jc., all p Caledoni an 51 —53 E. Lin., gua. 6 per cent 100/.pd Gt.Northn. 147 149 Gloucest. & Dean, Forest all pd Gt. Wastm. 32 —B3 Hartlepl. Dk. & S Yk.Newl -- ..• ••• Railw....all pd 1 &Berw. Hull & Selby, a ll p;Yk. &N . 113 115 Do. Halves., all p Do. 2 13 7 % -- 2 14 8 % 14% % Lon. Do &QuGarretns.w, all a all S. Eastern Lowestoft., gua. Do. Do. 6 p. et., all p D o. per cent...all pd Norfolk _..-- 15 . % Manch. Buxtn, ( 14. 8,7 -CWI 3 —3% & Maack, 51,4 P 1 &M. Middlesbr' & Red car,lo774 $ S u tk id t l n an & d D . ar 1 . 0 . : . , --_, 109 114% 6 1)1' E. Counties 63 —65 Midl n d Brdf., a a l l i l p N r . e BL Lt trr E 6 ,"& 135. 1, Pc y 1 y , c ; e' , all l 1.& N . WI "'_ "'all paid 1 . & La. &Y f Ditto, Halves, A, 100/. pd Do. Roy. & Hit.,looLp Gt.Northn 149 —l5l Do. Shep. Ex., all Do. l4B —l5O Shf. Rth. & Goole, sp. c., 18.11.6 p Lan. & Yks .. ... S. Staffdsh., 9% p Mrlq•Clean % IA die. Wear Val. 6p c., all, Stckt& Dar 30 . 31 Ditto ditto, all pi Do. Willa Iw44‘,Westzs , Jlo4 3 4 ..- Log I Railways. Aberdeen 1001. paid Amb., Not., Bost. & E. June. Bir., Wolv., and Stour Valley . . all pd. Birk., - Lan., .& Ch. Jet., late 331. 65.8 d., 28/. pd. Ditto, Chest. & Birk., 50/. & 251. Cens., all pd. Ditto, 20/. ... 18 1 4 pd. Brist. & Exet., 100/. pd. Caledonian _lOO/. pd. Chest. & Holyh., all pd. Cork & Bandon, tzll pd Dub. & Belf. Jct. 45/ pd. Dundlk & Ennis., all pd. Dundee, Perth, & Aber- 1 deen June. all pd. Ditto, New all pd. East Anglian (251. L. & E. and L. & D.) all pd. Do (18/. E.& all pd. East. Counties ... all pd. Eastern Union, class A, late E. U. shrs., all pd. Do. do. do. 6/. pd. Do., do., B. & 0., all pd. East Lancashire ...all p E. & W. India Docks and Bir. Junc., all pd Edinb. & Glas., 100/. pd Edin.,Per.& Dun. 100/. Glas. & S.-West., 100/.p Great Northn., 100/. pd D 0.% s. A Stk., 100/. p Do. B Stock,loo/. p Gt. S. & W. Irold., all p Great Westn., 1001. pd Lane. & Carlisle, all pd Do. Thirds, 11/.13.4 pd Lane. & York., 1001. pd Do., Fifths l5 pd Do.,W. Rid. Un. 11 54 p Leeds Northern, all pd Liv.Crsby & Sthpt. all p Lond. & Blackw., all pd London, Tilbury, and Southend 3 pd Lon.,Brig.& S. Ct 100 p Lon. & N.West.,lool. p Do. Fifths l2l. pd Do. 101.,M &B (c) 1/p Lon. & S.-West 100/. p Do. New 501., 42% pi! Do. New 401... . 341. - pd Lou. & Enniskil., all pd Man. Shef. & Lin.,loo/p Do. Manch. & Lincoln Union 4/. 2s. pd Midland 100/. pd Do. Bir. & Derby 1001. Mid. Gt. Wt. (Ire.) 47 Do. 1 ,4 Shares, 17% pd Newcas. & Carl. all pd Newmarket lOO/. pd Newport, Abergaven., and Hereford —l4/ pd Newry & Ennisk. p Norfolk lOO/. pd Do. New 201.... 20/. p North. Coun.Un. 3 LA pd North British _lOOl. p Nth. Devon, N0.1,13/.p Do., No. 2 6% pd Do., IA A, def....a1l pd Do., IA B, guar. 51. pd North Stafford. 17% p North-Western...all pd N. & S.-W. Jam 8 p Oxf.,Wor., &W.,100/. p Scottish Central 1001. p Scottish Midld., 100/. p Shrews. & 8ir....100/.p Do. do. Shrew. & Her 8/. p Shrewsbu. and Chester (Nor. W. MM.) all pd Do. Halves all pd Do. Oswestry all pd Shrop. Union _6% pd Do. A, B, C, & D fully pd. up at per cent.... South Devon all pd South-Eastern 100/. pd South Wales all pd S.York. & Riv. Dun 15/. Do. Do. 51. pd Stirl. & Dunferm. all p Stock. & Har. 1.6/28.3d. Taff Vale 126/. pd Thames Haven Dock and Railway ...191. pd Vale of Neath...l7/. pd Waterfd. & Kilk. all pd Waterfd. & Lim. all pd West Cornwall 131. pd West London ...all pd Yk., New. & Ber. 1004 Do. & New. Ex. 20/. p Do. G.N.E.purc. 10/. p York & N. Mid.lool.pd Londonderi PREF] Aberdeen all pi Do. No. 2, 7 per ct. all Bris. & Ex., 4 p. ct. Stk Do. 4 p. c. Shares, 5/. pd Caledonian, 101. 100/ p Ches. & Holyhd. all pd Cork and Bandon, 5 per cent. p Dundee, Per., & Aberd. Junction all pd .Anr(3/ 10s)6 p c. all Do. 5/0 7 per ct. all p Do. 71175) 7p.c. '2 p Eastern Counties Ex., sp. c., No. 1 all pd Do. No. 2 all pd Do. New 6 p. c. Stk. all Eastern Union Scrip, Guar. 6 per ct....a1l p Do. 10/. Deb. Sh. all p East Lancashire, 6 per ct. Quar. Shrs. all pd East & West Yorkshire Junction, sths all pd Edin., Per. & Dun. s', per cent. all pd Gias. & S.W. gua 5 p.c. Gt. North. 5 p. c 100 pd Do. 5 p c. red. sc 100 p Great South. & West. (Ireland) Bths all pd Gt. West. (Berke & H. Ex. 5 per cent.)...6 pd Gt.W. fixed 4% 100/. p Lancashire and York shire, F. 20/. 6/. pd Do. 6 p. c. Stk. 100/. p Leeds Northern, 6 per cent. No. 1 13/. pd Do. Qrs., 1848...9/. pd London & Brig. guar. 0 per cent. ...100/. pd Do. Pr. 5 p c. Stk. 100/. Do. Con. 5 p c,1852 all Do. N.Gr. 6p c 1001. p Lon. & N.-W. (Coy. & Nunet.) 5 p. c. 1001. pd Ln. & S.W. Co.3ds. Si. p Lon. & En. % Sh. all pi Man., Sheff., & Lincn. Qr. Sh., No. 1...a1l pd Do. New, 161. ...all pd Do. 6L ............ 3/. pd Maryport and Carlisle, 4 per cent ....... a 1 l pd Do., 4 % per ct. 6 % p Mid. Con. 6 p c St. 100/. Do. Con. Bris. & 13ir., 6 per cent.... 100/. pd Do. Erewesh Val. all p Do. Leic. & Swanning. 8 per c. Guar. 1001. p Do. Pref., 4i p.c. 51. p Norfolk Exten all pd Do. Gr. 5% pet all p Do. W.Val. 5 p.c. all p North British 100/. pd North Stafford....all pd Oxf. Wor. & Wol., 151. 6 per c ent.... 100/. pd Ditto ditto ... 6/. pd Shrews. & Bir. N.G. all Shrews. & Ches. (N.W. Min.) 8 per c....a1l pd Do. 5 per cent. 10/ pd South Dev0n...... all pd Do. New I pd St.-Est. (R ea ding An. nuities)...l /. Os. 6d pd Do., 4% p c 100/. p' Sth. York. 4p c gd. all Stock. & Hart. gd. 5 p c u ntil July 1,1856, all p Waterford & Kilkenny, 6 per cent. 3l. pd York, New. & Ber. all p Do. Do 5/. pd York & N. Midland H. and S. Parch. 10/. pd South-Ea LINES LEAS] Buoiness done 30 1 A 101 53% 3 4 % 4% i 3 11% a 211 81 1 % 1 96 1 4 Pm. 853' s 3 ,4 11,4 18% % ByB 104 1 4 ' 7 i % 119% 14 32% 3 8 4' 44 224 99i4 June. 76 78 80 Railways. Cent. France (0.V.) all Charl. & Erquel all pd Demerara all pd Dijon & Besancon, 4 pd Dutch Rhenish... Bl. pd East Indian all pd Gt. Indian Penin. all p Grnd. June. of Fra. 4 pd Great West. of Canada Shares ...... 5 1 / 4 pd Louv. a la Sambre 7 1 / 4 Luxembourg ...141. pd Do. (Railway) 10/. pd Do. 1 1 / 4 pd Do. (Canal) _2 l / 4 pd Lyons & Avignon, 5 pd Madra5......... 4 1 / 4 pd Maria Antonia 27 1 / 4 pd Do. New Namur & Liege all pd Do. ex int all pd North. of France, all pd Do. 201.3 p. c. 13(1:1, all pl Orleans & Bor 11/. pd Paris & Lyons 101. pd Do. Bonds ... 12 pd. Paris & Orleans all pd) Paris & Rouen pd Paris & Stras. ...all pd Paris, Caen, and Cher bour & g . 4 pd Rouen Havre...all pd Sambre & Meuse all pd St. Andrew's & Quebec (A) 4/. pd Tours & Nantes 17/. pd West Flanders all pd West. of France 9/. pd Nomine 1 Prices. 15% 16 1 3 A 2 p 3 /, , dis. 7 1 4, 8 p 2 21 p Iv - PA p par 1 p 7 - 7 1 4 4 , 4 - 4y, 1 - iy, DA -1, 5% - 6t. p 3 - 3y 4 p 7 - 9 2 - 3 7 %- 8 - 7 30 - 30;4 13 7 / 8 - 14% M 57 -59 35 -36 30 -30 LA 2 -2% p 16 1 ,4 - 17 9% - 10% . dit.. 4% q 34, 6 i,i 7 p. Agua Fria all pd Anglo-Californian, all p Asturian 151. p Auetralaaian 21. pd Australian 51. pd Austr. Freehold all pd Ave Maria all pd Brit. Austr. Gold all pd British Iron 131. ss. p Braz. Im. (is. 5 p) 24% Do. Coca. & Cui. all p Do. St. Joh. del R. 151. Carson's Creek all pd Cobra Copper 4O/. pd Colonial Gold 11 pd Copiapo 14/ pd Eng. & Aust. Cop. all p General all pd Gold Mountain all pd Grd. Duch. Baden, all p Great Polgooth all pd Lake Bathurst all pd Liberty ... all pd Lon. & Cal. Gld Quartz Crushing Com all pd Mariquita.... all pd Mexi. & S. Amer. 9/. p New Granada all pd Nouveau Monde, all pd Port Philip all pd Quartz Rock all pd Santiago de Cuba 10 3 A South Australian, all pd Tin Croft 7l. pd United Mexican all pd West Mariposa all pd Yuba 1 paid MINES. % p dis. p 1 ,4• 1 p 3 / 4 5 / 8 ass dis.' dis. 9 1 8 5 6 7y— 73/ % dis. par 43 —45 i ii 6 —6 %% P % dis. Butineo done to-day. 7 54 ' % die. %dia. par PA 2 p 14— Y E; dis. % % P 5 4 3 dis. %dis. par 4% yi Adis. % P 9 1 8 % p dis. 11 1 A 12% ift Ytt 12 —l3 7 1 4 8 Adis.— par %p r-sTocK BANK, 58 59% 57 —5B 15 —16% 29 —3O %i JOINT Australasia all pd Brit. Nth. Amer. all pd Colonial 251. pd Corn. of London 20/. pd London Chart. Bank of Australia Lon. & County 20/. pd London Jt. Stk. 10/. pd Lon. & Westm. 20/. pd Nat. Prov. Eng. 35/. pd Do. New lO/. pd Nat. of Ireland 22% p Orient. Bk. Corp. all pd Prey. of Ireland 25/ pd. Do. New all pd Roy. Aust. Bkg. & Gold Importing Corn. Ipd Union of Austral. all pd Do. New 2% pd Union of London 10/. p Union of Madrid all pd 28% 914 18% - 19% 32 - 331 4 46 - 46% riy. 1: ió 38 -39 46% - 47% 16% 8 - 17% 31 1 MIS Austral. Roy. Mail, 4 p Canada 32% pd Copper Miners of Eng land . . all pd Do. Preference, 7% pdi Crystal Palace ... 5 pdl Eastern Steam...2s. pd Elect. Tel eg. Ireland 1 p Gen. Stm. Nay. 141. pd Gen. Screw Steam Ship ping Company...so/. p Irish Beetroot Sug. 24 p Netherlands Land, 2 pd Penin. & Or. St. all pd Do. Do. ...151. pd Royal Mail Stm. 601. pd UniTersal Emigration and Colonization. 21. p 10% lii 1 -1% 49% - 50% 6 -6% 17 -18 ;CELLANEOUS. 3 - 4 50 -51 4 3 % 16:4 17% 2 3 4 3O 2% 1% 1 % 5 % ly k s % 36 - 37% 29 -30 4 7 / 8 -5% 50 -51 x.(.1 2 -12% 1 1 9 % 85 - 86% 41 - 41 1 ,4 79 - 801/z 79 8 asi MARKET NEWS--(THIS DAY) II AY MARKETS. &amp.'Er.n.-141eadow Hay, 2/ 15s Od to 31 17s; Clod, ditto, 315 s to 41 15s Od ; and Straw, 116 s to 1/ lls p er 10 Supply good, and trade dull. Pet JE CUMBRLAND.--Aleadow Hay, 21 17s to 4/ Os; Clo ditto, 3/ ris Od to 4/ 15s; and Straw, 1/ 8s to 1/ 14s por A full average supply, and a sluggish demand. ~,f e r WIIITECHAPIL.—Meadow Hay, 2/ lbs to 3/ 15i ; (1. ditto, 3/ 5s Od to 41 17s ; and St raw , 116 s t o 11 12 1 per los Trade dull. COLONIAL. std ° ' Sugar.—The market is firm, and tends tiPyi - „ e cl There are still many home and export b u y ers . Be Tye is 44s Gd to 48s for low to fine grocery lumps. , l ye quantity of British plantation landed l as t we ek o' „ e s East and West India Docks wa s 2397 hhd s 144 tie:l o yi 874 barrels. There were t a k en for borne constio 3 P,"lo 1968 hhds 273 tierces 546 barrels. The stock i 9 same places is 20,073 hhds 2424 tierces 4407 barreg 6 4 Coffee.—Native Ceylon i s i n d eman d , an d planttit brings very full prices. N a ti ve goo d ordinary ow" 46s 63 to 46s per cwt. o t Rum.—The quantity landed last week at the 1 6 , and West India docks, was 1,329 pun c h ens 7 hogsbehisoto There were taken for home con sum pti on 282 pulloP-0, 10 hogsheads, and exported 69 punchens 53 hogsb e t il The stock in the same places is 13,224 punc h e ns hogsheads. 0 1 Rice.—At auction 2,395 bags B enga l p ure ly du d Ils 6d to 12s per good white. Madras, 752 I * realised 108 to 105 6d for good oink. 1 11/ Sago-259 boxes were sold p u bli c l y at 1 6s 6d to for ordinary and middling small brown. Arrowroot-500 tins J ama i ca was ta k en i n pt per lb. at g5l Saltpetre—At aucti on 22 6 b ags Bengal sold fr 6d to 26s Gd for l ow an d m i ddling, 7/ to 9 per nen , " "' fraction. Spices—Pimento, 255 bags off e r e d by auction, r,,olgilyet sid to sid f or m iddli ng an d goo d middling. (P „ IO 250 barrels, 27 cask s J ama i ca p ar tly so ld a t 35 3 to for very ordinary small to good middling white. t o Tallow—P. Y. C. is 43s to 43s 3d per cw t. on spot, and Town 455. Cotton—There is a brisk market w i t h an iroPN-1 /14 tone. Tea.—Large purchases are s till ma d e prirs telP Common to good ordinary oongou 9id to MI per lb' LLOYD'S SHIPPING -(THIS DAY) • LONDON, OCT. 19.—Wi n d at noon, S.W.; light °l with fog. r tb° DEAL, OCT. 18.--Wilid N.N.E. Arrived 'row,. t o River,.Columbine, New Orleans. Arrived from thel' h i s . ii and sailed, Trafalgar, Sydney, N.S.W.; Mary, 13 003 .4;ol Bromleys, Algoa Bay ; Deds, Neves and St. Index, do. and do.; Courant, Boston. SOUTHAMPTON, Oct. 18.—Wind Plats, West Indies. he oo CARDIFF, OCT. 18.—The General Chasse has ' towed across to Penarth West Mud, severely Bal i" where she fills with the tide, and will be discharge d 4,), QUEENSTOWN, Oct. 17.—The Helms after being(llu n c ss i.ik Y iolir a: Liverpool to Cadiz, sunk 12th in tact with the Prince Hendrick, Liverpool to Port K R of leaky, &c., and landed the W I/ which put in to-day the former. rpo °' hCeasrBRISTOL.SHIELDS, OCT.O V a lpar ai so, CT . 1 B;wTh which S p t u i I t 1 i b n a g e s k hi l r e e ak o y f , I ; I l r e c t oo —The Resource from Dordt -t g ra elg on the bar, , and will be surveyed. V I ; PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 18.—Th e Metropolitan opifeo,o don to Glasgow, sunk this morni ng off Beachf"„l to a fter being in contact with th e Z o ll vereen, Danzig, which has put in with loss of cutwator and f glso s prit sprung, and landed crew and passengers ° f orm er vessel. this WHITBY, Ocr. 18.—Th e Brothers, off and fo r 201.• port from France, whi c h was on shore at EassingtoV' - Sept.. has been towed in here. LIVERPOOL, Oct. 18 . —Wind E. Sailed, Willie'', r to Newfoundland ; U rsu l a, Bombay; Thos. and W. 10 0 Rico; J. C. Calhoun, Philadelphia; G. A. Phelps' York. Off Port—Eleanora. d Olt LOWESTOFFE, OCT. 18.—The John (sch), of Ar-13 has been on the Holm Sand. QUEBEC, OCT. 2 . —The Clipp e r o f A rran has ° r o i l; from Donegal with loss of mizen-mast and quarter: l ,, from contact with the Margaret Ann from .elym°, li . g 1 ° RYMER, OCT. 15.—The Medea,Ch • r l5-ci ruins London, on s h ore i n the Hommegal, has been g ns and into Erns. co ot POOLE, O CT . 18.—Wind, E . S . E . Sailed, Triton! Newfoundland, BOSTON, OCT. 15 —A vessel, either a ship er f „,, fi tS of about 250 tons burthen bottom up, and all berLbof lying alongsid e , and supposed to be either Fre"- 31, American build, was passed 26th September, lilt ' lon. 69. p• risP NORDEN, OCT. 16 . —T he Maria Angelina, o f - IV berg, Danzig t o B or d eaux, has been wrecked °yea. Memmert, part of cargo and material and crow sereptil WATERFORD, OC T . 17.—A sun k en vesse l, sill r oofs a schooner, with h er b roken masts, about s i x tee ; water, was passed b etween the Salters and Lioolt et l ~, i: SPECIE.—Th e arr i va l s o f t h e prec i ous _ip ported yesterday were very large, compr i s i ng 684,uv"tb by the Africa f rom N ew York, and 9 56 , 028 d 0 1 .9. ` e ' , o ooi4 Orinoco from the N ing Neat Indies, maii in all about • 412 ' 4 aterliDg. 35% 6 13% % 78% 771 3 8% 7% 42 2% 6% 7% 23 93 1 4 72 % 534 4 3% y a 10. I.OI I A I 74% 94M 144 154 2 12 6 Pm. pm.