The Sun. — London, England, 1849-08-07 00:00:00

emarkable particular, the local government of Hungary is conducted by the people, whilst in Austria the whole machinery of Government is conducted by boards of commissioners, who aro responsible only to the Govern ment, and not responsible to the people.— (Hear, hear.) So that, while in Hungary the people aro educated to government in their county meetings, and in other meetings by which local government is carried on, in Austria, there is no such education, and all energy is crushed by the host of officials who are employed by the Government. (Hear, hear.) Gentlemen, I will only detain you while I mention what appears to me to be a little error fallen into by a speaker who preceded me, and who said that at the beginning the Austrian Government meant well. I beg to refer you to a work which is of standar d autho rity on all questions relating to Hungary—to Mr. Perkins's " Travels in Hungary and Transylvania." That work was published ten years ago, and there that author very distinctly states that all those great ques tions of reform, extension of the suffrage, equalization of taxation, perfect religious tolera tion, all those measures carried under the government of Kossuth in 1847 and 1848, were then contended for by the liberal party in Hun• gary, but were uniformly opposed by every possible means and intrigue by the Austrian Government. — (Hear, hear.) Gentlemen, I will not detain you further, except by moving this resolution, and assuring you how heartily I wish, as I am sure you wish, that the noble exertions of these patriotic men may be crowned with success.—(Loud cheers.) Mr. PowELL seconded the resolution, and it was car ried unanimously. Mr. P. BENNETT moved that this meeting views with lively satisfaction the determination of the Ottoman Government not to allow the Russian troops a passage through the Turkish territory. Dlr. PHILLIPS seconded the resolution, and in doing so, he took occasion to denounce the Times as an enemy to freedom, a curse to the country. and a scourge upon the poor man, whom it was always vilifying. It was a dis grace to a nation boasting , as it did, of being the freest, the most enlightened, and the most liberal in the world; and if he were not out of order, he would move a vote of censure upon the editors and proprietors.—(Cheers.) The CLIAMIAN intimated that something of that na ture could be moved presently. The resolution was then put and carried unanimously. Mr. WILSON then moved " That the thanks of this meeting are justly clue, and are hereby given, to the Liberal press who have so generously and nobly advo cated the cause of Hungarian independence. And this meeting utterly repudiates the anti-national doctrines promulgated in the Times newspaper against the Hun garian nation, believing them to be contrary to the feelings of a large majority of the British people." No thing could be more detestable or more derogatory to the interests of the press than the conduct of the Times towards Hungary.—(Cheers.) But while he said thus much, it was his duty, as it was his delight, to point out a paper which had really stood forward in defence of the rights of man and the cause of Hungary.— (Hsar, hear.) The Sun bad acted a glorious part in this struggle.—(Cheers.) It had not only writ ten in a graphic spirit on behalf of the Hungarians, - it had lent its aid to get up a most excellent and muni ficent subscription on behalt of some Hungarian refugees, who had sought shelter in this co untry.—(Cheers.) That subscription had been of great u se to those brave and gallant men ; and no friend of liberty, no man who valued political freedom , or reli g ious toleration, ought ever to forget this splendid and generous advocacy of The Sun.—(Cheers.) Mr. MANNING was delighted in having allotted to him the task of seco ndin g this resolution, but, with the permission of the meeting, coinciding, as he did, in every word they had just heard, he would beg to extend the same meed of praise to the Weekly Dispatch and the Standard of Freedom —(Cheers.) The resolution was then put and carried by acclama tion, three enthusiastic cheers being afterwards given for The Sun. Mr. WILSON then produced a copy of the Times, which he proposed should be burnt, a proposal which met with some slight objection, and a remonstrance from Colonel Reid that it was folly to follow an example which history taught them had sacrificed the innocent and not the guilty. The great mess of the meeting, however, insisted upon Mr. Wilson's suggestion being adopted, and the paper was set on fire amidst three dismal groans, the Chairman observing, as the flame blazed up and illuminated the room, that the paper burning contained the very articles which misrepre sented the proceedings at the Marylebone meeting. A memorial to the Crown, praying her Majesty to in struct her Foreign Secretary to recognise the indepen dence of Hungary, and an address to Kossuth, were then adopted, after which a unanimous vote of thanks was passed to the Chairman, and the meeting, which was most numerously attended up to the close, broke up. ITER. MAJEaSTY'pAGTHEATRE. MAD GRAND EXTRA NIGHT - The Nobility, patrons of the Opera, and the Public are respect fully informed that a GRAND EXTRA NIGHT will take place On THURSDAY EVENING, an which occasion Madame SONTAG will have the honour to ap pear in one of her favourite characters, with various Entertainments I a the Ballet Department. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box-office of the Theatre, where Pit Tickets may be obtained as usual, price 10s. 6d. each. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Last Night but One of the Subscription. THIS EVENING, When will be performed IL DON GIOVANNI. To conclude with LES PLAISIRS DE L'HIVER. Application for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be mado Che Boa-office of the Theatre, where Pit Tickets may be obtained, as usual, price 10s, 6d. each THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMAREXT. Mr. B. Webster, Sele LegsTHISE Will be presented the celebrated Drama, entitled Mr 0 . THE GREEN BU SHES ; or, A Hundr ed Years Age. Murtogh, . Smith ; Dennis, Mr. Cullenford ; Jack Gong, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Grinnidge, Mr. Wright ; Captain Dartois, Mr. Worrell ; Madame St. Aubert, Madame Celeste ; Geraldine, Miss E. Chaplin; Nelly O'Neil, Miss Weolgar. To be followed by a novelty in the shape of A MOST UNWAR RANTABLE INTRUSION, which will be committed by Mr. Wright to the annoyance of Mr. Paul Bedford. To conclude with THE DANCING BARBER. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. under the Patronage of her Majespy the Queen, his Royal Highneu Prince Albert, &C. M. Jean Mare in his extraordßoulinant.a performances on Le Glebe ry The following eminent artistes form the greatest amount of female equestrian talent ever engaged in this or any other establishment at one time : MdUes. Adelaide Shude, Valentine, Louise Touirnaire, La Jeane Josephine ; Miss Woolford, Barrand, Davidson, Avery, and L a Petite Jeanette. In addition to the above Mr. Batty has great pleasure in announc ing that he has engaged that peerless equestrian Marie Macarte, whose brilliant triumphs on the Continent and in America have ac quired for her the appellation of the Equestrian Enchantress. THIS EVENING, The performance will commence with a Grand Military Equestrian Spectacle, entitled MOOLTAN and GOOJERAT ; or, the Conquest of the Seikhs. To be followed by an inimitable display of SCENES IN THE CIRCLE. in which Marie 3lacarte will appear, supported by the first Equestrian talent of the day. To conclude with a favourite Melodrama. Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. IMMENSE AND UNPARALLELED SUCCESS. Under the patronage of her Moe t, Gracious Majesty, her Majesty the Queen Dowager, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, &c. The Public Press has unanimously pronounced the Storming of Badajoz to be the moat pernct and life-like exhibition. Celebrated German Band and Chorus. Engagement of Mr. Roberts, the cel,brated Welsh Harper. Last Week of Miss E. Rowland and Mr. G. Tedder. The Nobility, Gentry, and the Public are respectfully informed that this favourite place of fashionable resort is open every MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, AND THURSDAY. MITISOWS gigantic modelled Panorama ef the TOWN AND FORT OF BADAJOZ, pronounced by the voice of public opinion to be the most perfect and life-like exhibition ever presented —Splendid Menagerie—German Band and Chorus—Vo cal and Instrumental Concert—Several Favourite George Songs Tedder — and Ballads by Miss Ellen Rowland and Mr. Solos by Richardson (Flute)—Violln and Violoncello by Viotti and George Collins, varied alternately—and other at tractions, concluding with a vivid representation of the Storming of Badajoz, pourtraYing the advance of the British army—bombard ment and attack —gallant defence—rush to the breach ny real troops —and final tableaux in honour of the " hero of a hundred lightr." REFRESHMENTS. —The fl - equenters of these Gardens have long complained that Refreshments fro m the Confectionary-rooms only could be procured. Arrangements have been effected, and a distinct portion of the Gardens set apart, where Refreshments may be had of the first quality, and at the usual Prices. Doors open at Nine o'Clock, ex. ; feeding of the animals at Five ; Pelicans and White Bears half-past Five ; Concert at Six ; Storming of Badajoz, at Dusk.—Admission One Shilling. TO CORRESPONDENTS. " A Constant Reader."—The will of Peter the Great, contained in our impression of the Ist instant, was translated into English for The Sun from a French ' journal, if we recollect rightly, the Commerce. TUE WEATHER.--Sox OancE, Auo. 7. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 52; Highest, 70; Noon, 70, BAROMETER, 30.15. Wind Southerly—fine weather. 111011 WATEK AT LONDON iIttIDUE. Tine DAT —Morning, 49 min. after 3 I Evening, 6 min. after 4 To-Nfoaaow—Nlorning, 22 min. after 4 1 Evening, 41 min. after 4 . 44 %. ; - MA4 . 1 • ...4.l<r; • V ;'7 • • ,04 04,1'4N , ••,.• • •DR6I 4 * 1" . r . m o , , e 4 timing 'A,II( LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1849. A very extraordinary proceeding has been taken respecting a very extraordinary h a w ry perso n recently. married Lo A M O NTES, Countess of Lansfeldt G EOR GE TRAFFORD HEALD E sq., of her M AJES ie TT 8 Life Guards, was yesterday arrested on a char bigamy, and co nve y ed to Marlborough-street Pr e of c ourt, where she was held to bail in the sum of 1,00 01. c for her appearance to answer the charge on a future day. It appears that the lady—then ELIZA RosA ANNA GILBERT—was marries in the month of July, 1837, to THOMAS JAMES, Esq., a lieutenant in the 21st Regiment of Bengal Native In fantry, and that she shortly afterwards accompanied her husband to India, from whence she r this country in the year 1841. Proceedings were shortly afterwards taken in the Ecclesiastical Court, and a decree for a divorce a mensa et tharo THE SUN, ....,..- was pronounced in the year 1842. Since that period no intercourse or communication of any kind took place between the parties. The lady entered upon a theatrical career, and attained great influence over the then King of BAVARIA, who conferred upon her the title and estates of Lansfeldt. She returned to this coun try in the early part of the present year, and on the 17th of July last was married to GEORGE TRAFFORD HEALD, Esq., a gentle man of large fortune, who only attained his majority in the month of January last. Yesterday morning the lady was arrested when getting into her carriage, and conveyed to the police station, no pre vious notice or intimation of the charge having been given to her or Mr. HEALD. The prosecution was instituted by the aunt and former guardian of Mr. HEALD. That gentleman not only did not complain, but, on the contrary, appeared to be greatly annoyed at the course adopted. During the entire investigation he exhibited the utmost tenderness of manner and devotion to the ac cused party. He, at least, was not deceived in any particular. At the time when he entered into the con nexion, he must have been fully cognizant of the former marriage, and of the various incidents of the eventful career of the lady ; indeed all the circum stances had long been matters of public notoriety, and it would be difficult to find a person who could justly plead ignorance of them. Now, in the beginning, there are two parties in jured, who have a just right to claim redress—the firs . ; or the second partner. It is a formi dable crime, and one which the interests of society require to be visited with severe punishment where some artful and designing man betrays a young and innocent female, and blights the prospects of her future life. A female can never recover her former position in society ; she is literally sacrificed, and if possessed of any fortune, that also falls into the hands of the betrayer, to whom, probably, it formed the chief incentive ; she can scarcely hope to form an honourable alliance, and her condition is truly pitiable. The deserted wife, too, will have just grounds of complaint. She may be left in distress and poverty, unable to provide food for the unfortunate children of the marriage. The person, whose offence occasions so much misery, is justly subjected to stringent penalty, and in aggravated cases may be transported beyond the seas for seven years. Any mitigating circumstances are, however, invariably taken into account, and if the conduct of the first wife deprived her of sympathy, and the second was at all cognisant of the circumstances, and not deceived by false pretences, the punishment is merely nominal. The offence however, is by no means of so heinous a character when the alleged bigamist is a female. The injury to the second husband is by no means so grievous as it must necessarily be to the second wife. His future prospects will not be in any degree damaged or im paired ; he can easily form another alliance, and the former void marriage will never be regarded as a shame or reproach. The former husband is the only party really injured, and he must come into court with clean hands to entitle him to public sympathy. Now for eight years past there has been no correspondence or connexion of any kind between Captain JAMES and his wife. In 1841 he relinquished her society, and the following year he obtained a divorce in the Eccle siastical Court, which, although not a vinculo matri ntonii, or such as to warrant the parties in again en tering into wedlock during each other's lives, still made them cease to have any interest in, and to be perfectly indifferent to, the acts of each other. Under such circumstances, when Mr. HEALD was not deceived, and when Captain JAMES had no /oc - us standi in court, the offence, even on the very case made for the prosecution, would be of the most trivial character. The lady asserted that a full divorce was obtained, of which Lord BROUGHAM was cognizant. If so, the charge would of course fall to the ground, and the parties would have just cause of complaint on the unwarrantable proceedings that were taken. But, were it otherwise, we venture to say that no public prosecutor would think of sending such a case to trial. The punishment would be merely nominal even if a conviction could be obtained, which, in the absence of any proof of communication for seven years, would be more than doubtful. When, therefore, aprivate party, influenced solely by personal motives, chooses to step forward and to can-- cise a power which should only be permitted on public grounds, no: extraordinary favour should be shown ; the case should be clearly and unequivocally made out to justify a remand, or the holding the accused to bail. In the present instance there was no legal evidence of the former marriage—no evidence that the Countess was aware of the existence of Captain JAMES, nor was it even shown that he was alive at the time of the recent marriage. The only scintilla of testimony on this point was, that on the lath of June the name of a Captain JAMES appears in the effective list of the 25th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry. It is ;not shown that it is the same person, and even if it were, there is no knowing that ,be survived the casualties to which military men in India are espe cially liable until the 17th of July following. The charge, then, being of so trumpery a character, with so many mitigating circumstances, and in the absence of all legal proof of the commission of the offence, the case should have been dismissed by the magistrate. Another illustration is thus afforded of the evil working of the'present system, and another proof of the necessity for the appointment of a duly qualified public officer, whose sanction should be necessary to the institution of any criminal prosecution. Does the stage exercise a beneficial or a pernicious influence upon the community ? Is it an intellectual benefactor or a perverter of public morals ? This by no means unimportant question has this month occupied the attention of the Eclectic Review, a periodical generally remarkable for ability and liberality. The result of this consideration is a sweeping condemnation of theatres and theatricals individually and collectively. The article in question asserts as an established fact that " the influence of the stage has been and is adverse to morality," and, in cor on of this assertion, bids us " interrogate the unfortunate outcasts that throng our streets, or the youths that crowd our hulks and penitentiaries, and they will tell us that their ruin was begun and completed in the theatre." Supposing this to be a fact, how, according to the Eclectic, is this state of things to be remedied ?—by the total suppression of all theatres ! "We have no hesitation in saying," ob serves the writer of this article, " that the licensed theatres of London do more to deprave the popula tion than all its churches and chapels do to reform it. Her MAJESTY'S Government professes to be inter ested in the suppression of juvenile delinquency. We believe their professions. Why, then, are the theatres licensed, when it is an ascertained fact that they are the chief sources of juvenile criminality ?" Now, while we deplore as sincerely as the most anti theatrical of reviewers the evils which are mixed up with the many noble characteristics of the drama, we differ entirely from the proposed suggestion. Ac cording to this theory, if every system not wholly perfect is to be doomed to entire annihilation, what human institution can be preserved ? It is surely a wiser and a more Christian course to reform rather than to destroy. Granted that some, unhappily too many, individuals derive evil instead of good from attendance at the theatre, because their corrupt nature entirely perverts the purpose of the institu tion, is it not so with all things ? Does not the very press itself, the noblest and most valuable of all human contrivances, does not the printing-press, in the hands of some depraved wretches, produce the most pernicious effects ? But, because we have bad books and poisonous publications, shall we put an end for ever to types and printing-presses ? The cases are exactly parallel. Whatever the Eclectic may think to the contrary, the drama rightly employed is a most effectual moral and intellectual teacher. No lessons are so potent as those of example, and most of our b es t an d rea lly popular plays enforce some moral lesson. Occasionally some attractive villain may obtain a share o f most cases a strict poetic im ap a p te la s u t s h e e ; pl b o u t t in and justice popular animates a enlists the sympathies of the spectators. The true hero, the self-conqueror, the sacrificer of self, invari ably wins the hearts of the gods "of the gallery. And is it nothing, among men like these, that their sympathies, too much concentrated on self, and their intellects habitually crushed by the pressure of con flicting circumstances, should for a brief hour be called forth, and given a new impetus and a new vigour ? The delicate occupants of the private boxes may look upon a play as an amusing pastime ; to them, perhaps, it is nothing more. Their minds and tastes are daily feasted and refined by intellectual intercourse, by the perusal of the thoughts of master-minds, and by the continual enjoyment of divine sounds at the opera-house or the concert-room. The theatre might be for ever closed, and their intellects lose nothing. Very different is it with that large and unhappy class who have "the brain seared, the heart riven" by the threefold bondage of ignorance, sorrow, and sin. And yet these illiterate "clods of the earth" thrillingly respond to the genius of SHAKSPERE ; these callous hearts weep over the woes of DESDEMONA, and burn with indignation at the iniquities of RICHARD. Considered [thus, the stage is, and might be yet more so, a potent helper in the regeneration, moral and intellectual, of the multitude. Still we confess also, and with profound sorrow, that the stric tures of the Eclectic are in a measure justified. Rerome has ere now sought the stage (vide the Anti- Corn-law meetings) to make herself heard. Let her, then, in gratitude for the triumphs there so signally achieved, leave behind some traces of her footsteps. The nation has recently been agitated with the ambition of purchasing the house of SHAME ERE. Let us remember that our theatres are the true house of SHARSPERE—Iet us make them worthy of so honourable an inhabitant. Thus shall we worthily signalise our national appre ciation of the greatest of Englishmen, and thus shall we derive the fullest benefit from the rich legacy he has bequeathed us. Reform is better any day than destruction. We would not have the door of one theatre closed, but we would have every theatre worthy of its appellation—the Temple of the Muses— the Muses whose attractions are ever worthless when unaccompanied by the Virtues. How is this desirable end to be attained ? The numerous cases of alleged poisoning that have been tried in different parts of the country during the present assizes show the fearful extent to which that most horrible crime has recently been carried. The details of an ordinary murder case are sufficiently sickening; when we find a person influenced by a desire of vengeance, or, perhaps, by a more sordid motive, wilfully and deliberately planning the death of his fellow-man, and coolly watching the death pangs of his victim, a feeling of inexpressible horror arises, we cannot sympathise with the blood-stained assassin. Notwithstanding the natural repugnance to capital punishment, we recognise the justice and expediency of the law that declares " whoso sheddeth man's blood by man shall his blood be shed"—that pronounces the life of the murderer to be forfeited, and that the extreme penalty of death can alone ex- piate his enormous guilt. But there is something peculiarly harrowing when poison has been selected as the instrument of death, when the sanctity of the domestic board is invaded, and the fatal cup adminis tered by one loved and cherished, in whom the utmost confidence is necessarily reposed. There is a deep and deadly treachery that excites the utmost loathing and abhorrence ; we cannot adequately express our indignation at the crime, or our detestation of the offender ; we cannot conceive how guilt of so heinous a character could enter into any mind, however depraved, or by what motives the offender could be influenced. The most sacred duty of life is violated, and the object to be attained is generally of the most trivial and paltry character—indeed, in the majority of in stances, the mere love of crime, the feeling of the Thug, who described the intense rapture with which he beheld the expiring struggles of his victim, can alone be assigned as . the cause of that offence. In the common class of cases the victim is usually either the enemy of, or at least a stranger to, the murderer. Some fancied wrong or indignity nerves the arm to the fatal blow, but in cases of death by poison, the injury is inflicted on the nearest and dearest. The husband perishes by the hand of his wife, of one who had sworn at the altar " to love, honour, and obey him." The mother takes the life of her own offspring without the slightest remorse, and if impunity should attend the earlier offences, the fatal practice is resorted to again and again until detection. Three cases have been'tried during the past weelc:of wives for poisoning their husbands, and two convic tions liftva hPan nbtftined. Wo =hall not n^w awoll on the particulars' of the evidence where the jury felt themselves justified in giving the accused party the benefit of the doubt. She had ever lived on the most affectionate terms with her unfortunate husband; the arsenic (the poison usually administered) had been openly purchased, and the jury believed that it was possible that the deceased might have taken the fatal draught by accident. But the circumstances of the other cases are worthy of notice—not for the purpose of gratifying a morbid and depraved taste, but of considering whether some obvious precautions might not be adopted to check the crime that has unhappily become so prevalent. In the Coventry division of Warwiekshire, MARY BALL was tried'and convicted of the murder by poison of her husband, TaoatAs BALL. The prisoner, it appeared, had purchased one pennyworth of arsenic for the alleged purpose of killing bugs. It was sold to her openly, and with out any difficulty or objection being made. She bad, it appeared, acquired a dislike to her hus band, and an unfortunate attachment towards another man. The means of his removal were in her hands; the carelessness of the chemist from whom she had purchased the arsenic, acted as a temptation, and the wretched woman yielded thereto. The poison was administered, but in so bungling and careless a man ner that the cause of death was obvious to the most superficial observer. The husband was cut off without time for preparation, and the still more unhappy wife is to expiate her awful guilt upon the scaffold; and these are the consequences of the undue facilities that exist for any person obtaining the most subtle and deadly poisons without check or restraint. In sen tencing the miserable woman, the Learned Judge declared that " he was willing to believe that the poison was bought innocently, and that she had suffered her mind to become familiarized with the idea of using so deadly an instrument." Could a stronger illustration be afforded of the absolute necessity of some legislative enact ment prohibiting the sale of deadly poisons, except on the prescription of a medical practitioner, or on the authority of a magistrate or clergyman ? The case of MARY ANN GEHRING, who was found guilty at Lewes, for the Guestling poisonings, a full report of whose trial appeared in our impression of Thursday last, is of a still more appalling character. In her case it was not a solitary victim, nor was there any attachment to another party, or jealousy on the part of her husband by which she could be actuated ; not only did she deprive of life the father of her children, the man to whom she had been for many years united, but she also deliberately sacrificed two adult sons, and attempted the life of a third. The only motive that could even be suggested for this manifold criminality was, that she might obtain the insignificant sums payable by the burial club to which her husband and children belonged, on the death of members. A few shillings only could have remained available after defraying the necessary ex penses of the funeral (al. 3s. 4d., it appeared, was the entire sum paid on the death of each victim); and yet for that paltry consideration she sacrificed the lives of those by whose labour and industry herself and family were maintained, and brought upon herself the awful vengeance of the offended law. In this instance also we find the same carelessness as to the sale of poison. During the past year she purchased arsenic on no less than seven different occa sions ; thrice at the shop of one chemist and four times at another, and there ,was not the slightest concealment or attempt to avoid notice on any occasion. It will, therefore, be manifest that it is not sufficient that a chemist should personally know the person desirous of purchasing poison, or some party by whom he or she may be accom panied. Poison should not be entrusted lightly to the hands of ignorant persons who might apply it to an improper purpose. It should only be delivered on the order of a physician or magistrate, and then with such distinctive marks that its deadly nature should in every instance be immediately perceptible that the chances cf its being taken by mistttke might be greatly diminished, if not altogether removed. Mea sures should also be adopted for regulating the prae. LONDON, TUESDAY tice of burial clubs, wiich have unhappily been found to act as such incenti'es to the crime. As the Chief Baron justly remarled in his charge to the grand jury, at Lewes, " If there be guilt, the payment by the burial club appexs to be the cause of that guilt, or at least intimateVlconnected with it; if there be innocence, it seemsto be the foundation of an unjust charge." Under ny circumstances it appears to be productive of the worst consequences, and it is there fore essential that the matter should be strictly inves tigated, and that stitable enactments should be passed to mitigate the graving evil. 'IIIE Fl NCH REPUBLIC. We have received the Paris papers of yesterday. The following article, which appears in the Con stilationnel, on tie subject of Sir CHARLES NAPIER'S letters on the staff of the English navy, is well worth attentive perusal "England doesnot limit her ambition to the possession of a fleet capableof meeting all the eventualities of war and contending wth honour. Her colonial position, her commerce, and tae duty of maintsining her high poli tical influence in he world, render it necessary for her to keep up an rgerwhelming navy, which will not per mit any Power ti conceive the possibility of contending with her at sea. What have we seen just occur? France has been compiled to interfere in Italy between the Pope and his suijects. An army has been sent by her to Civita Vecchia. With the aid of our steam frigates 30,000 men, with a cons id erable materiel, have been trausportod in a few days from Toulon to this Roman Fort. That has been done with out emburrasenaent, without noise, and so rapidly that the inhabitants of Civita Vecchia were ignorant that an expecition was fitting out until they sew it appear in their port. This result, which does honour to the activity of our navy, has not escaped the atten tion of Englard. An examination has taken place as to what are car means of transport. A list published of cur navy his been seen to contain fifteen steamers of 540-horse power, two of 540, and one of 650—capable of carrying tvto thousand soldiers, and, in case of need, to , Ning another vessel carrying an equal number. The English then threw their eyes on their own steam navy. ' They perceived that their war steamers—much more numerous than curs—were not altogether superior in force. This equality is but apparent, and yet this appa- rent equality has thrown Englind into a state of uneasi ness. The resentment expressed against those who have allowed England to be humbled to this pretended equality, has been so violent as to threaten the stability of one of the institutions which appear the most stable iu England—the Board of Admiralty. Sir Charles Napier, exaggerating the real state of things, does not even admit equality between the steam navies of the two countries. Aeccreing to his account, England hes only three stertm•fri2ates, the Sidon, built after his own pine; the Terrible, of 800-horse power, carrying 24 guns; and the Odin, of 560-horse power, with 12 guns. All the rest, he sty's, whatever may be their tonnage and their horse power, are incapable of carrying sufficient guns with the nee,easary quantity of coal, and have no accommodation to carry 2,000 troops, however urgently required. In order for this reasoning to possess any weight it must be proved that all our steamers of 450- horse power and upwards possess the qualifications which Sir C. Napier considers as indispensable. Unfortunately that cannot be dose. Under any circumstances that would not give to that part of our fleet any superiority over that of Great Britain, or even place it on an equality with her. It must be considered that the beses of that part of the naval establishment of France are the trans- Atlantic steam-packets, the construction of which was ordered under the Ministry of March 1, 1840, for the two-fold object of employin' them in commercial navi gation and reselling them, in case of need, as men-of war. Beyond those, our merchant marine has not a single steamer capable of being converted, in case of need, into a vessel of war. Our fifteen or eighteen steam frigates constitute all our steam navy, How different is the situation of Great Britain ? The English commercial marine possessed oa the Ist of January last 1,113 steamers, measuring together 150,541 tons. Out of this number 35 are of the same dimensions as frigates, 67 are from 600 to 1,000 tons each, and 173 are sufficiently large to carry swivel guns, such 93 those used by the war steamers. The owners of these vessels are hound in case of war to place them at the disposal of the Go vernment, and it has been proved by a recent in quiry before the House of Commons, that the crews, including the engineers and stokers, would in the event of the country being threatened, readily enter into the service of the State. England, therefore, cannot conceive the slightest apprehensions on the subject of her independence. To admit the possibility of a sur prise from the French army, we must suppose that it must be landed on the English territory without any previous declaration of war. The English, it is true, did not give the Danes any previous notice when they bombarded Copenhagen, and took possession of the Danish fleet; bnt France does not act in that way, and under any circumstances it would be difficult to assemble 30 steam-frigates and 60,000 men at Cherbourg without its being known. A surprise would, therefore, have little chance of success. As to the definitive issue of a war of that kind, the glance which we have just thrown on the reserves of the English navy make it evident that it would not be favourable. No one in France dreams of such a thing, and Sir C. Napier must allow us to say that his alarms need not be very great." The sudden announcement by M. PABST, the Finance Minister, of his intention to contract a loan, appears to have created come surprise on the Bourse. His intention to do away with the juggle of a i ki SAD_ 116 fund meets with general approbation. The ilfoniteur publishes a decree, signed by the PRESIDENT of the Republic, summoning the Councils- Generals to open their session on the 27th instant, and to close it on the 10th of September, throughout the departments of the Republic. The Councils of each Arrondissement are to meet on the 16th of September, and to continue their sittings for five days. It is announced that a camp is to be formed in the department of the Upper Rhine, and to be composed of the sth division of the Army of the Alps. The mu nicipal authorities of the town of Thann and Cernay, in whose neighbourhood the camp is to be placed, have offered to pay the expenses of the indemnity de manded by the proprietors of the land to be occupied by the troops. The PAESIDENT of the Republic has addressed the following letter to General OUDINOT : My dear General,—l am glad to be able to congratu late you on the success you have met with in entering Rome, notwithstanding the powerful resistance of those who defended it. You have preserved the character of your arms. I beg that you will make known to the gene rals who were under your command, and to the troops in general, how much I have admired their perseverance and courage. I hope that the sanitary state of your army will continue good as it is at present, and you will soon be able to return to France with honour for our army and with advantage for our influence in Italy. Re ceive, my dear General, the assurance of my sentiments of esteem and friendship, "LOUIS NAPOLEON, The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Monday at 53t. 80c.; the Five per Cents. at 88f. 10c.; Orleans Railroad Shares, 7651.; Rouen, 522 f. 50c.; Great Northern, 4221. 50c.; Avignon, 220 f.; Vierson, 300 f ; Basle, 100!.; Bordeaux, 397 f. 50c.; Paris and Strasburg, 353 f. 75c.; Tours and Nantes, 306 f, 25c. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, AUGUST 6. East Indian, 3 5 Great Indian Peninsular, st/4—Luxem bour4 21a ex in.—Namur and Liege, 6 Northern of France, dis.—Paris and Rouen, 21 1 1 1 —Rouen and Havre, 10—Sambre and Meuse, 2%. GERMANY AND THE NORTHERN STATES, AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY Accounts have been received from Vienna to the Ist of August. Official accounts had been received of the defeat of the Russian General USTRAUOFF by the Hungarians, of his retreat into Moldavia, and of the fact that the Hungarians had followed him into the Principality, from which they intended to expel the Russians. Ihe Camarilla of Austria is exceedingly irate at the reception given in England to the Hungarian envoys, and its members endeavour to vent their impotent malice by refusing the Austrian visa to any English passports except thosq given by the Foreign-office or by the Austrian Lega tion. The same course has been pursued with regard to United States passports. Russia has adopted measures of a still more stringent character, and no Englishman or American citizen is permitted to cross the Russian frontier. It would not, perhaps, be amiss if Lord PALMERSTON were to retaliate by putting the Alien Act in force against the various Austrian absolutist refugees who have abused the hospitality of England by intriguing with, the English Tory Peers against the Government of the country which has afforded them hospitality. We should have no objec tion to see the same measure meted out to METTER. NICEL which he so long meted out to others. PRUSSIA. The King of Prussia, on the 3d instant, laid the foundation -stone of the monument intended to be erected to the memory of his father, in the Thier Garten, at Berlin. The whole of the Royal Family were present, and, with the ICING, were well received. The number of cases o f c h o lera aro diminishing. SWITZERLAND. Letters from Geneva announce the arrival of the Triumvir MAZZINI in that city. TURKEY. The Agram Gazette, under the head Bosnia, July 3.1, gives th e f o ll ow i ng accoun t of the progress of the insurrection in Bosnia. This insurrection has been Tormented by th e R uss i an s, and the Agram Gazette is the organ of JELLACPICEI, therefore its stietements must be received with reserve. It says— "7 he insurgents, to the number of 12,000, have quitted Posviz3, and have arrived at Bihac, where they summoned the Puha Bkcevic to open the city gates. The Pz.clia replied that he could do so only by order of the Sultan, upon which the insurgents attacked the fortress. The Yachts has been defending the fortress for three days with his adherents, which do not exceed 300 in number. They have been obliged to have reeourse to their cannon, and the Pacha has sent to demand as sistance from Bosnia. Unhappily, the Government of Bosnia is unable to comply immediately, being obliged, in the first instance, to procure orders from Constan tinople. Mahorsed Bey and Effeadi Bey have fled to Oitraca, where they have entrenched themselves. A fine has been set upon the head of Keric, the prin cipal of the insurgents. An attempt has already been made to assassinate him, which, however, proved abortive. Accounts have been received from Wallachia and Moldavia at Constantinople. Sickness and famine prevail to an awful extent throughout those princi palities. The track of the Russian army is marked by the ruins and smouldering remains of entire towns and numerous villages. All the crops have been trampled down by the Muscovite cavalry, and the putrid bodies of the slaughtered inhabitants by the road side have brought on a pestilence. Com merce is at a stand, and the merchants are all bank rupts. Petitions are daily pouring in upon the Sultan and his Ministers, who send them on to the representative of the Czar, but no attention is paid thereto. The Turkish army is kept upon a war footing, and should the Magyars given the Russians and Austrians a severe check, there is every hope that Turkey will oin them in expelling Russia from the Principalities. I I' A Y. . Accounts have been received from Rome to the 28 t h ultimo. Monsignor D'ANDREA, Archbishop of Meletene, has been named by the POPE Extraordinary Coin mis.lioner for.the.Provinces of Umbria and the Patri mony of St. Peter. The Roman Journal Of the 26th ult. publishes the following letter • addressed by the Sultan A➢DUL MEDGID to PADRE ARSENIO, Superior of the Arme nian monks : " We have been apprised that the Armenian Catholic monks of the order of Anthony, established at Rome near the Vatican, and esteemed for a length of time amongst the most faithful subjects of our; empire, are us ing every effort in their power to procure their co-reli gionists, our subjects; the advantages of education and morality, the foundation of wisdom and happiness. We have spontaneously sent to the said monastery the por trait of our person, cur Imperial cypher, and ourimperial standard, to give .them a proof of our satisfaction and of our special protection." Monsignor Btutst, Pontifical Commissioner Ex traordinary for the Four Legations, published the following absurd and tyrannical notice at Bologna, on the 2ithult.:— " All discount on the exchange of any description of paper money is prohibited. Anybody violating this no tice £hall be punished by a fine of not less than five crowns, or mere than 100 crowns, to be applied to the purposes of the Treasury. Should the transgressor be not a trader, he shall• be imprisoned for a period of not less than one month, nor more than two months. The directors of the police are strictly recommended to take measures for ihe prompt execution of this command, and to receive all information effered to them, so that the transgressors may be punished with all the rigour of the law." - Accounts from Bologna of the 30th state that the municipal council of that city had pronounced itself unanimously in favour of the maintenance . of the con stitution in the Roman - states. In consequence of this act the Papal and French authorities had resolved to dissolve the council. A report was. current in Florence that GAMBALDI had defeated a large Austrian corps which had at tempted to arrest his progress. He had afterwards, it was said, marched slowly in the direction of Ri mini, whilst the Austrians were occupied in burying their dead.. CRICKET.—(THIS DAY.) SURREY (IVITH ROX AND BILLYER) !Y. ENGLAND. Thii match Is as- resumed this morning at Ken nington-oval. The :following is the score up to Ow o'clock:— _ SUrlßEY—rincT INNINGS. Brockwell—b Mynn .. ••• ••• Julius Caesar-4 Hinkly Chester—b Mynn .•• ••• Box—c Pitch, b Afyon... ••• ••• • N. Felix, Esq.—b Hinkly ••• C. Coltson, Esq.—c. Guy, b Hinkly • J. M. Lee, Esq.—c Mynn, b Hinkly Martingell—b Hinkly ..• ••• Sherman-0 Nicholson, b Clarke ... • Hillyer—c Hinkly, b Clarke ... Day—not out ... ... ..• bB, 3, nb 0 ... • Total ... ..• ••• • ENGLAND —FIRST INNINGS. W. Nicholson, Esq.—b Hillyer A. Haygarth, Esq.—c Day, b Hillyer Dean—b Hillyer ••• ••• .•• Pilch—c Day, b Sherman Parr—b Hillyer . • ••• •.• Guy—b Hillyer ••• ••• .•• A. Mynn, Esq.—b Day .•• ••• Hon. Colonel Liddell—not out ••• Clarke—run out ••• •.• ••• Hinkly—b ••• ••• Lillywhite—c b Day ... . . 86, w 0 ••• ••• Total SURREY—SECOND INNINGS. Brockwell—b Lillywhite , . Julius Ctesar—hit w, b Clarke Chester—b Lillywhite Box—c Hinkly, b Clarke ... N. Felix, Esq.—c Mynn, b Clarke ... C. Coltson; Esq.—st Nicholson, b Clarke ... J. M. Lee, Esq.—not out ... ... Martingell—b Clarke ..• ••• •• Sherman—c Dean, b Clarke ... Hillyer L-st Nicholson, b Clarke ... Day—b Hinkly... . . 80, w 0 ... ... ... Total ... I. ZINGARI V. LEAMINGTON. This match came off on Parr and Wisden's ground, Leamington, yesterday, there being a numerous and fashionable attendance, including Lady Leigh, Lady Guernsey, the Hon. Misses Leigh, &c. The following is the score at the close of the first day's play:— I iIIINSIAIII - FIRST INNINGS. E. Hartopp, Esq.—b Wisden ... Hon. R. Grimston—b Wisden ... C. Morse, Esq.—b Wisden C. J. Harenc, Esq.—b King H. Vernon, Esq.—b King H. Fellows, Esq.—b Wisden Captain Mundy—not out ... Hon. F. Ponsonby—b Wisden ... H. B. Mayne, Esq.—b Wisden H. G. Nethercote, Eeq.—b Wisden Rey. IL Pickering—run out ... 810, w 0 Total ... LEAMINGTON-FIRST INNINGS. ion. E. Leigh—b Fellows ... G. E. Baker, &q —b Fellows Palethorpe—b Fellows ... ... Lord Guernsey—b Fellows ... H. King, Esq.—b Fellows ... Wisden—b Fellow s ..„ Hon. A. Wrottesley—b Fellows Mr. T. I. Rose—not out ... 89, w 3 ... ... Total ... ETON V. WINCHESTER. This grand match was won yesterday by Eton, in one innings, and 27 runs to spare. The following is the score:—Eton, first innings, 189—Winchester, first in nings, 80; second innings, 82; total, 162. ISLAY TONTINE ASSOCIATION.—Perhaps the grandest and at the same time the safest tontine scheme ever proposed to the public is that for the purchase of the Island of Islay, the rental of which at present is 20,0001. a year. For the pur chase of this island it is proposed to raise a capital of 600,0001., in 12,000 501. tontine shares, each shareholder to appoint a nominee, and the whole body of nominees to be in sured out of the rental, so that, as they lapse, the shareholders will receive back the amount of their subscriptions. A decennial division of the accumulated rental to be made amongst the shareholders whose nominees survive, and the last surviving share holder to become possessed of the whole estate. The projectors are a number of merchants and bankers of Glasgow, and, uniting as it does the cer tainty of life, assurance and the excitement of the lottery, being, in fact, a lottery in which while it is impossible to lose it is possible to win a high prize, we cannot doubt of its popularity. The advertise ment, which appears in another column, fully explains the scheme. Bentley's Miscellany for August is as full as ever of " light reading for travellers"—tales, poetry, literature, sporting, music—and, among all, none perhaps more worthy than some gossipping "Recollections" of Lady Blessington, including, incidentally, much of Lord Byron, whom, of all women except his sister, Mrs. Leigh, the Countess had the tact and heart to manage thoroughly. The Coroner's Clerk continues his inte. resting revelations, and the ever popular author of the " Stories of Waterloo" gives a true romance under the title of " Albert Murdock." The reader will be highly entertained by the picture of Parisian manners in " Marriage I la Mode de Paris." The "Freshman's Dream" is the production of a writer who, if we do not greatly err, is destined to be one of the most popular of the day.. We commend the "Dream" to all freshmen. The " Sporting Pictures" of Sylvanus make us au fait in all matters pertaining to the turf, and abound in entertaining anecdote. To another class of readers " The Patmos of Luther," the Castle of Wartburg, will possess attraction. Tartini's estimate of the ever-charming S on t ag w ill b e devoured by the lovers of the Italian Opera. There are many other entertaining papers, too numerous to mention. —Evening Paper. The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor (Sir Jas. Duke) and suite, and several families of distinction, embarked at S.. Kathdrine's Wharf on Sam day evening, on beard the General Steam' Navigation Company's steam-ship C.1)4,4; e for gainburgh. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QU.ARTER TO THREE. There was a very active elernand for Cotton at Liver pool yesterday, and prices were a shade higher. The sales were estimated at 14 ,000 bales, 5,000 of which were taken for export and s'p eculation.—liailway Shares were quiet, but prices were fi em. The letters and papers by the Niagara steamer, have been delivered to-day, and end a few items of news to what has already been publis'bxd. The demand for ster ling bills of exchange was moderate, and the rates were a little lower than by the provious packet. The amount of United States' sock issued to foreigners, for the week ending the 20th ult., v►as 179,000 dollars. The value of the merchandise imported into the New York district, except that sent to the warehouse, and the amount of duties received during the week ending the 19th ult., was as follows :- 1847. 1848. 1849. Totalmerchandise 1,497,876 1 ; 884,119 2,248,425 Specie 9,99f 23,130 17,899 Cash received The importers were filling •ap their stocks for the fal trade, and the bulk of the ieciportation was therefore entered for consumption. Whether the said fall trade will take off the) very ample supplies trom Europe, remains to be seen. From what we glean the railway com panics of the States have in many instances been as badly managed as the local banks, or perhaps a more fitting comparison would be, with some of our own undertakings; nor shall we be surprised to hear very shoreey of committees of investi gation being popular on the other side of the Atlantic. Messrs. Ross and Charlton, of Quebec, write coecern ing tradirg matters, that— "As our produce trade in. the west is gradually in creasing in magnitude and importance, we have deter mined on issuing our circular—weekly during the business season, for the information of our friends in Upper Canada and the United State:;, as well as to send by the English mail on each Saturday. This must eventually become the shipping port foie the greater portion of the produce of the country boreering on the lakes, and we have to notice daily with pl es sure the arrival of sailing and steam-vessels, with full cargoes, direct from ports on the lakes, and most of all wheich, we are happy to say, have got remunerating freigb is upwards." Government has reduced. the toll on Wheat passing through the Chambly Canal, Indian Corn, Barley, Rye, Oats, Potatoes, Beans, Seeds and vegetables of all kinds, from one halfpenny and a. farthing per bushel to one eighth of a penny. Accounts of July -5, frornVenezuela, state that it is re ported that General Paez had again disembarked at Coro, for the purpose of meeting President Monagas. Dates from Hayti, of July 2,utfirm that the monopoly law .having been re-eraablished caused much dis satisfaction, and a new revolution was expected. The weather was excessively dry, and had done much harm to the crops. In Ecuador provisions were very scarce. Lima dates are to the 12th May - . Very stormy discussions were expected in the Senate, owing to the determined oppo sition existing to the administration of General Castillo, whose Ministers are accused of tyranny because they had exiled many parties of note who were considered to be implicated in a conspiracy. Bolivia was unsettled, General Belzu's pronuncianteuto against Velasco having caused excitement, especially as the latter was supported by Ballivian. The Continental advices advise steady markets gene. rally for public securities. At llamburgh on the 3d instant there was a decline of J i in the rate of exchange on England, viz. to 13 9. The Funds were quiet. At Amsterdam the Three- and-a-Half per Cents. were quoted 521 9-16 in the subscription-rooms on Sunday. The tendency was more favourable for Spanish Bonds. The cholera continued bad in various parts of Holland. At St. Petersburgh, on the 27th ult., the general export trade was brisker, and higher rates were paid for some articles. Freights, which had been very low, were im proving. The general aspect of the Stock Market here is still exceedingly passive, there being, in fact, very few parties here to deal. The French loan also will have some in fluente, but it is sincerely to be hoped that it will not be taken here, although we fear, from the abundance of money, that efforts will be made to push some of it upon the British public. Consols have realised 1..2i -!Z, but are now rather buyers at the latter quotation. The New Three-and-a garter per Cents. have been 94 to 1. Exchequer bills have been 48 to 51, and India Bonds 81 to 84 premium. The foreign market is steady, the chief transactions being in Spanish Five per Cents., at 18i to 191. Brazilian old bonds have realized 85k. Mexican Stock has been 27 to 271, and Venezuela 26. Dutch Two-and a-Half per Cents. have been marked 52i to is Railway Shares are very heavy again, and nearly all lower, chiefly from want of business. East Indian have risen. ... 170 and Cheshire Juno.... 20 Boston, Stamfd & Birm. 71. 4s. ...... Bristol and Exeter 9O ••• ...... ..• Ditto, Thirds buckinghamshire ... 161. 4s. Caledonian Ditto, Quarter Shares 12 1 / Q — .... ...... , Ditto, Non 101. Pref... 10 - ••• •••1.4•••• D' ,Clydesdale June 50 -A tto,Cly desaaie u L.... - _ Chester and Holyhead... 50 ...... Ditto, Preference l5 eeeeee ..... Clarence Do. let Class, 6 per Ct. 10 Do. 2d Class, 5 per Ct. 10 ...... ••• Do. Government Loan, 4 per Cent. - Direct London & Ports mouth ..... Dublin and Belfast Juno. 40 ...... Dundalk & Enniskillen 22% East Anglian, 251., L. & E. and L. and D....•• 25 — Do., 18/., E. & H.... 18 Do., 3/. 10s., Pref... 3% a... 1% , Eastern Counties... Do. New, Gua. 6 per ct. 10 ...... 11%...... Ditto,Extension, 5 per Cent., No. 1 61.135. 4d.... % p Ditto ditto, No. 2...61.135. 4d... ... ..... , Do. North. & Eastern, 6 per Cent. Ditto. 5 per Cent.... 50 Ditto, 1 4 Shares Do. New 43 Eastern Union, Class A (late E. U. Shares) 25 . Ditto, Class A, ditto... 3 1 / 2 Do., Class B I. & B.) 25 Ditto, Class C, ditto... 22% 2 ..... Do. Scrip (6 per cent.) 20 ...... .. ... East Lancashire Ditto, New Ditto, New_Quar tors 6 1 %..... Do., 6 per Cent. Pre ference Quarters ... 6q...... - ..... , East Lincolnshire ...... 25 Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 Ditto, Half Shares .. 20 .. Edinburgh and Northern 25 — Ditto, Newport Exeter,Yeovil, & Dorch. 2% — , Exeter and Exmouth... 21s. Glasgow, Dumfries, and _ Carlisle - ..... Grlasgow,Kilmar , & Ayr 50 ...... Do. Preference Consol. Great Northern Do., 1 12 A De'.'erred Dr - B 6 71/ --' O •A per Cent... 7 1 / 4 . Do., 5 per Cent. Pret'. 5 meat South. and West. (Ireland) Great North of England.loo ....• • .. . Ditto, New, 404 ..... ... 40 — Ditto, ditto 35 ...... .......•••••• Ditto, New, 301 Ditto, New ,15/ l5 .. .. Great Western 100 Ditto, 1 / 4 Shares 5O ...... — , Ditto, 1 4 Shares Ditto, Afths.. ..... ..... 20 Ditto, New 171— ..... 15 ... Hull and Selby .. ...... 50 Ditto, Half Fuvres ... 25 Do. Qaarter Shares... 12 1 / 4 Lancaster and Carlisle... 50 ••• • Ditto, Thirds Lancashire & YorkshirelCo Do. do. AI. B. & 8.... 96 .. '....... Ditto, ditto Ditto, 1 / 4 Shares ...... 46 ... .. _ ...... —..." ro. Quarters .. ...... 221,; lB .. ' .. ' Do. Fifths... ......... ... 10 Do. Thirds l5 .•••• .. Do. New Guaranteed 6 per Cent. UNE O'OCLCK. CLOSING PRICES OF iiRITIS a FUNDS MCP S. 3 I.er Cent. Reduced Amns ...... 92 % 3 /4 92% 3 per Cent. Console Annuities 9 2 3 /4 % 92% N. , :w 3 1 4 per Cent. Anns.... - Long Aims. to expire Jan.lß6o Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859 India Bonds, 1,000/. Ditto under 1,0001.. .. .- Bl 84 p 84 p Consols for Account Exchequer Bills. I%d. & 2d. 1,000/. June 4B 51 p 500/. June Small. June PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian Bonds Ditto, New, 1829 and 1839 Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent ... Ditto 3 Der Cent. . Grenada Bowls, 1 per Cent. Ditto, Deferred —.. 3 1 A Mexican, 5 per Cent.lB46, with Coupons Ditto, Ex Coupons ...... ...... 27 Ditto, Account . .. 27% Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents — Ditto, 4 per Cent. Active... Portuguese 5 per Cents. — Ditto, 4 per Cent — 29 1 x d. Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. Ditto, Account ............ Ditto, Passive Ditto, 3 per Cent Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent 26 26 Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch 2 1 h per Cent., 12 Guild 52% % 52% Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates 81% 81 3 / 4 PRICES OF PAW. BUSINESS DONE CLOSING RAILWAY SHARES. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES. Aberdeen Do. Preference ...... 6 1 4 — ... Amber. Nott., Boston, and Eastern Junction 6 ...... ... ........ -.. Ayrshire and Galloway.. 7% — Belfast & County Down 25 Berks & Rants Extens. (Gt. West. Per.s per ct.) 6 Birmingham and Ox ford Junct., calls duly paid, or with a guaran. 20 Do, withoutguarantee 20 , ... Birming, Wolverh'ton, and Dudley, calls duly pd, or with guarantee 10 ..... 1)o. withoutguarantee 10 Birming.,Wolverh'pton, and Stour Valley 13/. 145... Birkenhead, Lancashire, OLOSLIti G PRICES 65 84% 93% 54 Do. Liverp. and Bury 46 ...... ..... DT() l i-1 , dderslield and Shoff.) .. 50 o. (W. Riding Union) 9 . ... Do. (Preston Wyre) 25 D 0.% Shares(A)... 10 ...... Leeds and Bradford 5O - Leeds and Thirsk ..... . 50 - ••• ..... - Ditto, New .... 50 - •• •• • -. Do., Prefer., 6 per Ct. 3%...... Do , Pref. guar., 18 iS 9 Liverpool, Crosby and Soul Ir,ort . 10 - London & 81ackwa11...... 12 1 A London, Brighton, and South C0a5t........ 50 ...... 36% 37 x.d 57%x.e 4 Do.Guarant. 5 per ct.. 9 ...... ..• ... - Do. Pref. 5 per tent.... 50 .. ..• Ditto, ditto 1852 50 Ditto, New 51., guar. 6 per cent. - 4•• •••• •• • ..... .. London and Greenwich 12/15s 4d... ... . •••••—• D ten, Preference .. . 20 I oudon and N. Western ItX) ...... 129 130 ti 2 . Ditto, New Quarters.. 12 ...... 15 .... ..... Ditto, Fifths v. ••• •• 7 ........ 0 .1 p i p. 7 Ai Do. 404 Shares(L. M.) F 0 — Do. 10/. (M. & B.) C. 1 . —,.- Lon - l. &S V 4 ~ b aern .... 50 .. 34 1 ,Q 35 Ditto, New 501. - u. 4Ut . 34 Ditto, Thirds 161.135.4d.... Do., New Scrip, 1848, Pref. 7 per Cent. on Deposit, and 5 per Cent. on Calls ... 5 •.•••• 0000000 . Londonderry&Coleraio, , 25 Do. 4 Shares ni — Londonderry and Ennis killen 25 Do. % Shares MancheJter,Buxton,and Matlock Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire...loo ...... Do. Quarters (No. 1) 23 •••• )itto ditto (No. 2).: 25 . D 0.% Shares (No. 3) 12 V 2 — Do. 'flew 101. - Pref..... 10' Ditto, Gt. GrimsßY ... 50 Ditto ditto . ......... 17 •••••..•• Ditto ditto .. Ditto Sheffield and Lincolnshire 2O . Do., Grimsby Dock 25 Do. Manchester and Lincoln Union..... 41.25. — ......... Midland ..........100 Do. Consolidated Pref.lUO 51 p 51p 51 p 27 271/s D.., do., 501. Shares 30 ... 16% Do. Birm., and Derby 100 D..Consol.Bristol and Birming., 6 per ct.... 100 Ditto, Brist. & Glocqr. 40 Ditto ditto .... .18'.125.6d Do.,Erew,shVal.,Pref. SU Ditto, Leiccst.& Swan iiington, 8 per ct. guar.lco Midi 'lid Leat Western IC-1 47l !z Middiesbro' and Redcar, 6 per cent. guar. Newcastle and Carlisle.loo Do. Quarters . 25 Newmarket Do. Extension .........21. 12e.... Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford • 6 ....•• Newry and Enniskillen 7 Newry, Warrenpoint, und liostrevor Norfolk . lOO Do. New 201. Do. Guaranteed 5 p at. 20 Do. Guaranteed s%pc. 5 ...... Do. Lowestoft(4 per at) 20 Ditto (6 per et.) 6% 1 1 ex in. 23% % P 5/ 8 P 8 1 lA2 15 1 4 15 1 / 2 1014 65,5 i _ 16% 126 1 4 ri 1.8% Do. do; Waveney Val. 2 ...... N rthern CuuntiesUnion 4 ...... North Briz,io.ll ........ ... 26 .... , Ditto, Halves .. Ditto, Quarters - Ditto, Thirds .... .. - 81 / 4 - - -*- — Ditto Preference North Sti:.ffordshire ... 17 1 , 1 12% 12 ex.int. 12 1 4 it.i North Wales - North-Western ....,..... 13% Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Royston ana Hitchin ... _44.. ... ex.int......... — x a _ :icottish Central - Scottish Midland 25 . ..... -,.... Ditto, New Shrewsbury and Birm ll Ditto ditto. Class B. 7 ...... ......... Ditto, New Guaranteed 8 ...... ......... ••••• 10% Shrewsbury and Herefd. 3 ...... Snrewsbury & Chester (Nor. W. Min.) ~. Ditto Halves ... ditto 9 Ditto Oswestry ...... 18 Ditto New Do. 8 per Cent. Pref lO Shropshire Union 8 mth Devon.. Do. Preference So lth Staffordshire tiouth Eastern Do. ,N o. 1 Do., N 0.2. Do. ' No. 3 30 Do., Registered No. 4 10 Do., Scrip No 4 South Wales South Yorkshire, Don caster, and Goole lO Sheffield, Rotherham, & Goole (N. Div.) Gua ranteed 5 per cent. ... 14% — Do. do (Sou. Div.) 5 Swans. & Loughor & Ca meron's Stm. C0a1.... 7 Taw Vale Extension ... 8 Thames Haven Dock and Railway l 7 l/2•••••• Vale of Neath Waterford and Kilkenny 20 — Waterford and Limerick 47% Waterfd,Wxfrd,Wicklw and Dublin Wear Valley 6 per Cent. Guaranteed ... ...... 50 ...... ••• Do. do. do. ... 25 - Do. do. d 0:... 15 .. ••• ..... ..• West Cornwall 6 -•••, ..•.• 21% - x. 4 - x 4 30% W hitehaven & Furness 16 Windsor, Staines, and South Western ..... 12 Wilts,Somerset,& Wey mouth 45 York. Newcastle, and Berwick..... ........... 25 Do. Newcastle Eaten. 20 D. G.N.E.Pretercnce 8 ... .. 3%%........... Do. Hortlepool Dock and Railway , York anti Northilidiand 50 ...... 30% Ditto, Preference lO FOREIGN RAILWAY 6 Anglo Italian (late Ita lian and Austrian). ... 5 Boulogne and Amiens... 20 Central of France (Or leans and Vierzon)... 20 Demerara Dutch Rhenish ...... East Indian ...• B l4. 3%% 4 31 30% ' yam LLOYD'S SHIPPIA 6—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, AUG. 7.—Wind this day at noon S., fine, but rather hazy. DEAL, Ana. 6.—Wi n d N.N.W. t o S.S.W.—A r rd. Georgians, Riley, Quebec. Arrd. from the River, Governor M`Lean, Cape Cosst Caste; Columbine, New York; Elizabeth, Quebec; Hercules, ditto. Arrd. from the River and sailed, Medium, North America; Essex, St. John's, New Brunswick; Prince, Quebec; Messen ger, Constantinople; Galga, Lisbon. LIVERPOOL, Ana. 6.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Mahaice, Demerara; Swallow, Laguna; Thomas Mellor, Paraiba; Symmetry, New Orleans; Shenandoah, Philadelphia; Jumper, St. John's, New Brunswick. Sld. Ann Jane. Shanchai; Marosion, Singapore; Renown, Brazils; Sarah Sands, New York; Uriel, Boston; Ab e rfoyle. Quebec; Ann, Montreal; Carteretta, Newfoundland. Off port, William Penn. The Chatham from New York to Cork foundered sth ult. in lat. 43, lon. 48, after being in collhion with the Corea, from Liverpool to New York. COWES, Auc. 6.—Wind S.E.—Sld. Voluna,_Q u ebcc. OFF THE START.—Belvedere, Charleston, for Ant werp. IDEFORD.— Sld. Secret, Quebec. BRISTOL, AUG. 6.—Wind S.E.—Arrd. Eliza Francis, Matanza; Olympus, New York; Yorkshire, Quebe g i Fororitel Quebec. Gr eat Indian Peninsular 5 - oq Do. Do. ... .. ... 10s. Louvain ala Sambre ... 7% Luxembourg Ditto Madrid and Valentia... 2 •••••• Namur and Liege •••••• 20 ... .. 6%,. ••• 6 Northern of France l4/. 85... dis. ex.i dis.x.a Orleans and Bordeaux 7 ...." - Paris and Orleans ...... 20 Paris and Rouen 2O ...... 21 Paris and Strasbourg Rouen and Havre ...... 20 ...... Sambre and Meuse 2O ..... Strasbourg and Basle ... 14 Tours and Nantes ll - Tournay, Jurbise, Lan den, and Hasselt ...... 20 West F1ander5............ 8 3 4.. ... Ditto... B% JOINT STOCK BANKS. Australasia British North American 50 — Colonial Commercial of London 20 — London-Joint Stock London & Westminster. 20 National Prov. England. 35 ..... Ditto New... ..... ...... 10 National of Ireland 22%...... .... ........ ... Provincial of Ireland - ......... •• ••• Ditto New ..... ..... 10 - ••••0 Union of Australia Ditto,New••• ...... .. ••• 2%•..... . — Union of London, lO ...... ... ex.div... x.d Union of Madrid 40 — MINES. Anglo-Mexican lOO Asturian Mining Com... 15 Australian — Barrossa Range Blaenarvon Iron & Coal 50 Bolonos Scrip ...... .... British Iron Brazilian Imperial ...... 24% ••••• BrazilianCocaes&Cuiaba 30 Do. St. John Del Rey 15 •••••• Cobre Copper General 2O Real Del Monte, Unreg. Do. Black Debentures — Do. Red Ditto ... Santiago de Cuba lO United Mexican 28% ..... 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