The Sun. — London, England, 1849-08-22 00:00:00

COMPLETION OF BITRRE'S ANDE GENTRY. Now Ready, in 1 vol. royal Svo. L , price 25 D B. bound, The SUPPLEMENT and INDEX to BURKE'S HISTORY OF THE LANDED GENTRY OfEngignd, Scotland, and Ireland, Completings important national Work • The SUPPLEMENT comprises the History and Genealogy of 500 additional Families, with new particulars respecting the Families ooutained in the first two volumes. The INDEX comprises references to all the individuals (upwards of 100,000) mentioned in the Work. _ . . Henry Colbarn, Pablimber, 13, Great Marlborough-street. ROTAI; ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. LAST TWO EXTRA NIGHTS AT REDUCED PRICES. The DirentorAhave the honour to announce, that the Season having been completed on Saturday last, they have, in compliance with a very generally expressed wish, made arrangements to give TWO ADDITIONAL PERFORMANCES previous to the closing of the Theatre for the present Season, and on such a Reduced Scale of Prices as will place it in the power of a very extended circle of Musical Amateurs to witness some of the most attractive of the Grand Lyrical Dramas, which have gained for the Royal Italian Opera an European celebrity. TO-MORROW, THURSDAY, August 23, a GRAND COMBINED ENTERTAINMENT, embraeing the most attractive portions of Meyerbeer's Two greatest Works—viz., LE PROPHETE and LES HUGUENOTS, and also including in one Evening's Entertainment, the whole of the principal Artistes of the Establishment. The per formances will consist of the Second and Third Acts of LE PROPHETE, Including the celebrated Frost Scene, with the Quadrille des _ _ Patineurs, and the Grand Coronation Scene. The principal characters by Madame Viardot, Miss Catherine Hayes,. Signori Mario, Tagliafico, Lavia, Rommi, Soidi, Mei, Polo nini, and Marini. To conclude with the Second and Third Acts of Meyerbeer's grand Opera, LES HUGUENOTS. The principal characters by Mesdames Grisi, Dorus Gras, BeMai, Angri; Signori Mario, Tagßatko, M. Massol, Luigi Mei, Lavia, Polonini, Rommi, Soldi, Talmo, and Marini. On FRIDAY NEXT, Aug. 24 (instead of Saturday), most posi tively the Last Night, and by particular desire, Mozart's Opera, DON GIOVANNI, In which Madame Viardot will perform the part of Zerlina for the first Urns in England. Donna Anna, Madame, Grist ; Donna Elvira, Mdlle. Corbari ; Zerlina, Madame Viardot ; Don Ottavia, Signor Mario ; Don Gio vanni, Signor Tamburinl ; 11 Commendatore, Signor Tagliafico ; Ma setto, Signor Polonial ; and Leporello, Signor Marini. The Opera will bo supported by a Triple Orchestra and Double Chorus. Composer, Director of the Music, and Conductor, Mr. Costa. The prices on the above occasion will be as follow :—Boxes for four persons, Pit Tier, 21. 2s. ; Ditto, Grand, 31. 3s. ; Ditto, Ist and 2d ditto, 2/. 28. ; Ditto, 3d and 4th ditto, ii. I is. 6d. • Orchestra Stalls, 10s. 6d. ; Amphitheatre Stall s, ss. ; Pit, ss. ; Amphitheatre, 28. 6d. The performance will commence at eight o'clock precisely on each evening. Tickets and Stalls may be had at the Box-office of the Theatre and of the principal librarians. fiIEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Mr. R. Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager, Old Brompton. THIS EVENING. Will be performed THE HOP PICKERS. Principal characters by Messrs. Lambert, Boyce, Wright, Paul Bedford, Hughes, Mun yard, 0. Smith, Cullenford, Worrell, Madame Celeste, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. F. Matthews, Miss Taylor, Miss E. Chaplin, &c. After which a new grand Extravaganza, entitled THE DEVIL' VIOLIN AND THE REVOLT OF THE FLOWERS. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Under the Patronage of her Majesty the Queen, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, &c. 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 Mackrte 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 Most 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 most perfect and life- like ex hibition. Celebrated German Band and Chorus. Engagement of Mr. Roberts, the celrated Welsh Harper. The N o bility, Gentry, and the Public bb are respectfully informed that this favourite place of fashionable resort is open every MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, AND THURSDAY. Danson's gigantic modelled Panorama of 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 Songs and Ballads by the Misses Wells and Mr. George Tedder— Solos by Richardson (Flute)—Violin 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 oy real troops —and final tableaux In honour of the " Hero of a hundred fight,." REFRESHMENTS.—The frequenters of these Gardens have long complained that Refreshments from 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, A.m. ; feeding of the animals at Five ; Pelicans and White Bears half-past Five ; Concert at Six ; Storming of Badajoz, at Ten.—Admission One Shilling. TO-MORROW the Boys of the Greenwich Hospital School, accom panied by their Band, will visit the Gardens. THE SEA SERPENT AT LENGTH.— This celebrated but hi therto apocryphal monster is no longer a doubt—he will make his first appearance shortly at this Establishment—that is, his head may be relied on, and his tall, should it arrive in time. TtiF WEATHER.—SuN Onacz, Auo. 22. THER3IO3IETER, Lowest, 58; Highest, 69; Noon, 65 BAROMETER, 30.28. Wind W.—light airs and cloudy. [UGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tula DAT Aorrting, 28 min. after 4 1 Evening, 48 min. after 4 0- qoaaow—Morning, 5 min. after 5 1 Evening, 24 min. after 5 tr e tsv i „Ming 1111'. LONDON. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1849. The present is a busy and an anxious period for the railway interest throughout the entire country. The general half-yearly meetings of the several companies have been or are about to be held, statements as to the position and prospects of the different lines sub. mitted to the shareholders, and, what is perhaps most eagerly desired, dividends declared from the profits that have been actually realised for the first six months of the present year. the various reductions of ex penditure are explained, and dwelt on with a pardon able complacency by boards of directors, as affording some consolation for diminished profits and abridged dividends. The nature of the traffic, and the reason able expectations of its speedy increase, afford ample grounds on which to expatiate, and from which the hope of a " good day coming " may be collected. Every matter on which the shareholders may desire information is expatiated on, and if the report, or the opening speech of the chairman, should not be considered sufficiently explicit, there are parties ready to answer any inter rogatories and to submit to a searching cross-exami nation by any shareholder. Full advantage has been taken of the opportunities thus afforded, and a vast quantity of additional information is placed before the public in consequence of the recent meetings. The transactions of the Great Western and South- Western Railways, the two great trunk lines pro ceeding to the westward, and having metropolitan termini, may be considered of importance, second only to those of the leviathan company—the London and North-Western. The rivals of the broad and narrow gauge had to render accounts of their proceedings, and to offer reduced dividends Jo ,their pro prietors; the prospects, however, are not altogether gloomy, and notwithstanding the falling off of divi dend so painfully perceptible to every shareholder, some cheering anticipations for the future were ob tained. The prices of both Companies' stock have, in fact, improved, notwithstanding the reduction ; and stronger evidence could not be afforded of the conti nued confidence of the public in the integrity of the management, and of their belief that the worst has already been encountered, and that no further misfor tunes are to be dreaded. The directors are not likely to enter into expensive Parliamentary contracts, or rashly to assume new liabilities. A perpetual peace has been proclaimed between the gauges ; and although the former wars have entailed heavy bur dens upon the present proprietors, it is well to know the evils that are to be encountered, and to be assured that nothing of a similar class is henceforward to be provided for. The dividend of the Great Western Company for the half-year, ending the 30th of June, is declared to be after the rate of 4 per cent. per annum. This is, indeed, a sad falling off, when it is considered that 8 per cent. was the usual dividend ,until within the last few 3, ears, and that nothing below 6 per cent. has ever been announced. The reasons for the change were, however, sufficiently cogent to command the unanimous assent of the shareholders. It was, indeed, a painful, although a judicious step, and one by which the permanent welfare and prosperity of the company will be materially promoted. The unnecessary ex penditure that took place in more prosperous times on branch lines, that have been either abandoned or are no longer in progress, has been written off, and the interest of th e sums so lost, and also the subscrip tion not at s to other com pan i- s presentholders have for the reven ue of , paying any dividend cr interest to their share first time been charged to the the current half-year, in place of to capital, as w,s formerly profits the case. Were it not for this alteration, the net of r wo uld have justified a dividend at the rate cen t. per annum, with a small balance over. per adoption of a course, on the propriety and expediency of which there can be no second opinion, only enabled them to recommend a dividend at the rate of 4 p er cent. per annum ; after payment of which a surplus of 18,0201. 9s. 10d. will remain unappropriated, ap plicable to future dividends or to such other purposes as may be required. The directors deserve credit for having regarded the real interest of their constituents by stopping " any increasing burden upon the future receipts of the company," and also for providing for a reserved fund, gradually to meet engagements or to extinguish unproductive capital. Two other circumstances must be briefly noticed. The lease for working the Bristol and Exeter line having expired on the 30th of April last, no complete analysis of the traffic for the half- year could be made by way of comparison with that of former periods. The gross revenue earned by Great Western lines exclusively during the first six months of the present year has increased by 13,0001. over the corresponding period of 1848. In the expenditure there has been a reduction of 29,4004 from the corresponding period of 1848, and of 15,4001. from-the last half-year. In the South-Western Company the dividend declared is after the rate of 31 per cent. per annum. There has been an increase of net revenue on the half-year of 37,2511., but there is an addi• tional amount of capital entitled to dividend of no less than 2,814,0331. This great increase is the real cause of the reduction of the dividend that has just been announced, and not any falling off of revenue or increase of expenditure. Like the Great Western Company, the revenue is now for the first time chargeable with the interest of a large unproductive expenditure. No further charge can, however, be made. After the present month there will not be a single new line or branch in progress ; artd the directors have given a solemen pledge that "no further engagements in relation to the lines suspended or not commenced will be entered into until the matter shall have been again formally submitted to the reconsideration of the proprietors specially con- vened for that purpose, and until the whole of the shareholders shall have an opportunity of recording their votes, and a decided majority shall have determined in favour of the prosecution of the undertaking." Under such circumstances there is every reason to join in the favourable anticipations of the directors, " that from this period the affairs of the company will progressively mend," and "that at no future period will they be in a state of such depression as at present." The anniversary of NAPOLEON'S birth has passed by almost unnoticed, yet since the EMPEROR last received congratulations at the Tuileries, no fifteenth of August has witnessed the BONAPXRTE family in such fortunate circumstances as this last one. Even a year ago, although Louis Finial-re had ceased to reign, it was a matter of dou bt whether the heir of the once Imperial family might be admitted into Republican France. Co nscious, however , of the strength of the Republican spirit which animated her, France welcomed back the exile. She welcomed with joyful enthusiasm the nephew of BONA PARTE, not the heir of the EMPEROR. As such—as the representative of that BONAPARTE who had con solidated the triumphs of the first revolution—NAro- LEoN-Louis received almost unparalleled proofs of popular favour. He was chosen by acclamation the first guardian of the popular rights. He was chosen that the magic of his glorious name might give strength and stability to the young Re public. The Citizen BONAPARTE responded to the call ; he became the first PRESIDENT of the French Republic. That election was a beautiful commemo ration of the nation's gratitude to her great be. nefactor. " Le peuple encore le revere, Oui, le revere." That election placed Louis NAPOLEON in a proud position—the Chief of one of the chief nations of the earth, chosen by the unanimous voice of a great people. It is a position prouder than that to which Prince Louis once aspired, when in his infancy he was considered as Neroixox's heir. It is a position second only to that which will immortalize for ever the name of NAromiox-Louis, when at the expira tion of his Presidentship he shall resign into the hands of the people the power they so reliantly en trusted to him. Then, indeed, he will hold a position which the best among us may be forgiven for envying. No longer shall the " CINCINNATUS of the West" have " Bequeathed the name of Washington To make men blush there was but onei" for the glory of WASHINGTON will be eclipsed by LOUIS NAPOLEON, inasmuch as in his case the temptation is greater and the opportunity more se ductive. But the temptation will be resisted May we not dare to prophecy as much ? although, we must confess, our " wish is father to the thought." May we not venture to prophecy .that you, NAPOLEON- Louis, the chosen guardian of the liberties of France, will, by one act of sublime self denial, cover yourself with a glory far ex ceeding that which shone around your cradle ? Is it possible that you can be led away by the delusive whispers of designing men ? Is it possible that some phantasm of the brain, " some yet imperial hope," can render you blind to the glorious path now open before you ? Be not deceived ! The choice before you is not between empire and obscurity, but between glory and destruction. You may, if it so please you, refuse the solid advantages proffered to your grasp, but you will not clutch the glittering phantom of imperial pomp—that is gone by for ever ! The future will decide this all-important question, all-important to the PRESIDENT individually, but to France a matter of minor consideration. Her liberties, we hope and believe, are now established on too firm, because on too popular a foundation, to fear assault or un dermining from the most bold and crafty foe. The skill of the " modern ULYSSES " was unequal to that task, and even the name of NAPOLEON, if (which GOD forbid !) it become antagonistic to those liberties, will be powerless. Liberty has invariably a progressive course ; tyranny, frequently, as a natural consequence, follows anarchy but only for a brief period. The'spirit of the nation cannot retrograde. Can a man put on the garment of a child ? Could our people now bend themselves to the feudal laws ? These are questions which require no answer. As firmly as we believe that our own country enjoys (to a great extent) the blessings of popular freedom, as firmly and unmovingly as, we believe, that ere long all Europe, even the dominions of NicnoLes, will (in a mitigated degree, perhaps, at first) participate in those blessings —so firmly do we believe it impossible that Republican France will again kneel at the footstool of an Emperor. " What, they who burst the bondage their fathers bore so long, That oppression had seemed saered in its venerable wrong, What, they who have outspoken, and the whole world obeyed, With its princes and its monarchs on their high thrones afraid— What, shall they learn the courtier's lisp, and shall they cringe and sue?" The elevation of the Consul BONAPARTE to the Imperial dignity can only be accounted for, and perhaps excused, by the unparalleled circumstances of the times and his unparalleled glory. Such an hour and such a man will never arrive again. For France we have no fear : only Louis individually will be affected by the close of his Presidentship. He may choose between ridicule and renown. In the latter . case may al most be applied to him the panegyric on the abdicat ing Roman— " His greatest glory was that hour Of self-upheld, abandoned power." This sentence would be the most glorious motto LOUIS NAPOLEON could have inscribed upon his tomb. If realised it, will be his infallible passport to the admiration and gratitude of posterity. MANCHESTER 'TRADE REPORT, TUESDAY.—The continued advance in the Cotton Market has had the tendency of keeping up the firm feeling in the goods market which has existed for some time. As many large orders are now nearly approaching completion, there was some tendency to relax as to demand, but the late increased advance in the raw material has operated as a check to any downward tendency, and prices are as firm as ever. Business, however, has not manifested that briskness which for a length of time has charac terized the market, and as the export trade has consi derably fallen off, some re-action may be, for a time at least, not unlikely. The business that is being done, however, is not inconsiderable, and of a most healthy kind. The transactions connected with the home trade are satisfactory, and strong hopes are still cherished of a brisk autumn trade. TRADE or PAISLEY.—Trade continues brisk, and we are informed that for the last ten years there has not been such a demand for weavers. Weavers for some kinds of fabrics cannot, indeed, be had. For the finer descriptions of harness work, in particular, it is very bweahvaidn weaving in of abundance,tarttar t an fabrics; are now and a la s rg th e e ly y di e fficult to obtain hands. The draw-boys, who used to employed d e r i e n p t r h e e . fitablefimndp e than drawing harness, weavers • is, cannot obtain their services . e paying descriptio n h as b een refused, andthat , and less remunerative characters preferred. Printed goods are still makin g i n considerable quantities; and the manufacture of tartan fabrics goes on as briakly as eTer.—Benfrewshire Advirti4cr. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the Paris papers of yesterday. It is evident from the following article in the Debate, that the POPE is by no means inclined to do those things promised in his name to the French As sembly by his sponsor, M. DE TOCQUEVILLE. On the contrary, the re-establishment of the Inquisition, the seizure of all the copies of DIODATTS translation of the Bible, the arrest and imprisonment of Dr. ACBILLI, solely because he is a Protestant, all tend to prove that Pius IX. takes for his model the hero of M. DE FALLOUX, who planned, in conjunction with the French Parti-Pretre of that day, the mas sacre of St. Bartholomew, rather than the pious, tolerant, and liberal-minded GANGANELLI, between whom and MASTAII FERRETTI it was at one time thought there was some resemblance. The article in the Debate is as follows : "It is impossible for us to conceal the deep and in creasing regret which we feel in seeing the return of the Pope to Rome indefinitely postponed. We know the excellent and paternal feelings of Piux IX.—we know that he is animated with the most prudent and liberal intentions—we know, by his reiterated declarations, that he comprehends all the extent of the reforms which the Government of his states demands. We think we also know that the power the more directly interested in the pacification of Italy—far from contradicting the councils given by France, on the contrary supports them. We are, therefore, persuaded that if the Pope himself comes and resumes his place in his capital, he would personally exercise his prerogative in quite a different spirit from that shown by his present delegates. What has taken place in Rome since the commandant of the French army considered it his duty to hand over the eivil Government to the pontifical commission? We do not speak of the measure connected with the paper money—a measure which we consider ill-advised, which has ruined and dissatisfied the middle classes, but which may perhaps be justified by reasons of political economy. What we allude to, and what we think we have a right to complain of bitterly, is the precipitation with which the commission of three cardinals successively re established the institutions and the customs which were the most decried and condemned of the previous regime of Pius IX., such as the vicariat-general, the inquisition into the existence of all citizens, and the ecclesiastical judicial power. The reform in the judicial organisation was one of those measures w hi ch h and pub li constantly c ly accepted r Governmente e F o r m en na c e h nded,aud th e the mo st himself"o the idea, and had formally expressed his intention of st warmly had in troducing the principles of the French civil code into the administration of justice in his states. It is for this n we shall hail with the livliest satisfaction the re turn of the Pope into his states, for we are sure that he will not suffer the abuse which is now there made of his authority. But while waiting for his return the French are there, and they must not be there for nothing. We are morally responsible for what is done in such parts of the Pontifical territory as we occupy militarily; and when we see already the re-establishment of certain institutions, added to useless acts of violence against persons, we cannot allow ourselves to be indifferent wit nesses of such a spectacle, and appear to sanction it by our presence and by our silence. We consider that France has fulfilled her duties towards the Papacy; she has others to perform towards the Romans —towards the opinion of all the Italian peninsula—of all liberal En rope—and we may add, towards herself. We certainly feel the deepest respect for the sovereignty of the Pope, and for his perfect independence; we nevertheless think that both the one and the other woutd be very weak without us, and that after having accepted the sword of France, there would be no humiliation in accepting some of her counsels." But it is not merely the affairs of Rome which are embarrassing the French Government. The following letter, which appears in the semi•oficial Patrie, proves that the French Government regard with almost equal anxiety the state of affairs in Piedmont : " The extreme party in the Chamber of Deputies ap pear to have the upper hand. The left will have 90 votes, while the constitutional right will find a difficulty to muster 40. Since the nomination of the President a compromise had been attempted by the right, which did not put forward any candidate, and gave their support to a man belonging to the moderate left centre. The de• mocratic party, however, would listen to no compromise. To what will this state of things lead us? To anarchy or to absolutism. You are already aware that a dis discussion has been opened on the treaty of peace, and that the Ministry would in all probability meet with an immediate check. The opposition has allowed itself to be carried away by the exciting language of MM. Cabella, Bianchi, Giovanni, Cadorne, and Valerio. It thought that it was not necessary to have a war of 'words, but one of facts—a systematic war. It began by refusing to sanction the treaty, Will this ♦ote lead to the overthrow of the Ministry? Ido not think it will. Any other Ministry whatever must, before any other thing is done, submit the treaty of peace to the approbation of the Chamber, for there is not a moment to be lost; there is a necessity for its so doing—a fatal necessity, I admit, but against which it is useless to struggle. And suppose that the Government should be mad enough to again attempt the game of force and chance, is it not clear that in three days the Austrians would be at Turin?" In which case France, we may add, will be com pelled to do that which she ought to have done long since, draw the sword in support of Italian inde pendence. The National publishes a letter from Constaninople, which gives the following details of the bargain between Russia and Austria. The writer says— " I terminate my letter with a piece of very grave news. There can be no doubt of the fact, that Austria has agreed to cede the mouth of the Caltaro to Russia. Caltaro is only at some leagues' distance from the Turkish port of Antivari, and of Scutari, the capital of Albania, and not far from the lonian Isles. The Divan and Sir S. Canning have energetically protested against this surrender, and have announced that they consider it to involve a casus bell. Has France become Russian to such an extent as to hold her silence in pre sence of so exorbitant a circumstance?" This statement is corroborated by an article in the Presse (the organ of the Russian party) which makes a precisely similar statement. The PRESIDENT of the Republic has taken up his residence at St. Cloud, where he proposes to remain during the vacation. M. DE PALLOR' has gone to the baths at Neris, :and the Marquis of NORMANDY has left Paris for the coast. A letter from Toulon of the 17th inst. announces hat accounts have been received from Gaeta which leave no doubt as to the intention of the POPE i 0 return at no distant period to Rome. M. DE Court- CBLLES is expected every day at Toulon. The Medi- terranean fleet remained at anchor in the harbour. Father VENTURA is at present at Montpellier. He has been refused passports to Paris. The following exquisitely ridiculous paragraph ap pears in the Corsaire on the subject of the meetings of the Financial Reform Association. Mr. Lusn- INGTON, and the Reverend Mr. SPENCER, who are staunch Free- traders, will smile to see themselves classed among the Socialists, who are the legitimate offspring of Protection. " If," says the Corsaire, " the gracious SOVEREIGN of Great Britain is desirous of preserving her triple crown, she must, what ever may be said, oppose the development of radical meetings. If you wish for a Government par eacellence, lo to the United States,' said Mr. LUSH: ING TON to the people three days since, and the people of London clapped their hands. Aristocracy, so ar rogant for us, is no longer spared. In speaking of sl economical eoeo, oonoo p r e a s on e r r e reforms, annum. u m fuo s mr , .t givingh A n R e v. d t h i: e l r rd. QUEEN S B r R E O N u c G z a u DA said, d I DOWAGER G E' whatn does he want with 5,0001. (125,000 f.) which is al lowed to him? And the bastards of CHARLES 11. , why are rich presents mad e t o them?'—(Loud a p. plause.) But there is something more serious still. ' I declare loudly that if the taxes are not decreased the internal tranquillity of the country will net long continue.' In fact, it is Socialism advancing towards civil war. Let our neighbours across the Channel now taunt us; they resemble us more than they are aware of." • The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Tuesday at 54f. 10c.; the Five per Cents. at 89f. 50c.; Orleans Railroad Shares, 7601.; Rouen, 5301.; Havre, 245 f.; Great Northern, 421 f. 25c.; Avignon, 223 f. 75c.; Basle, 102 f. 50c.; Bordeaux, 3981. 75c.; Paris and Strasbourg, 353 f. 75c. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, AUGUST 21. Boulogne and Amiens, 6 1 ,4—Duteh Rhenish, 1 4 East Indian, 4—Namur and Liege, 6—Orleans and Bordeaux, 2% —Paris and Rouen, 20 IA ex div.— Sambre and Meuse, 2%. SPAIN. Madrid journals of the 16th ha ve arrived. _ _ Mort and PIDAL have bo t h resigned. Senor SAN TILLAN will, it is supposed, succeed Mom as Finance Minister. MADRID BOLSA, AUG. 16.—Three per Cents., 25 9.16 ; Five per Cents., 11i. Coupons, 7. Bank of St, Ferdinand, 80 paper. Exchange on London, 60 65. ILLNESS OF THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBBURY.— We regret to learn that the postponement of the re opening of our parish church is occasioned by the indis position of his Grace the Primate.—Maidstone Journal. ALLEGED MURDER. AT GLASGOW.—A man named Alexander Brock, residing at No. 37, High-street, com mitted an assault upon his wife, Martha M'Kellar or Brock, on Saturday afternoon, from the effects of which she died almost instantaneously. The circumstances which led to the fatal occurrence are stated to be as follows ;—Brock, who is an engineer, and a steady man, had given his wife some money either o❑ Friday night or Saturday morning, for family purposes, but which she had misspent in getting herself' intoxicated. On his coming home to dinner on Saturday the fire was out, and the house empty. He accordingly went to a brother in-law's, who resides in the New Vennal, in search of his wife, where he found her, to a certain extent, the worse of liquor. On leaving the house together a quarrel en ;tied, which ended in his knocking her down. She rose, however, and followed him down the High-street to the close in which their own house is situated, where the quarrel was again renewed, and he pushed or threw her down upon the stair, and kicked her with so much vio lence that she was killed on the spot; at least when Dr. Shaw, who was immediately sent for, arrived, life was extinct. The deceased was severely cut about the fore head. Brock was apprehended and lodged in the police office on a charge of murder.—North British Mail. :A 4- 4 1 1 al. Vet - IGUl'llt 11 :6'''' t 2O * ' ... .-. ...r - 6.1 J., 4.0,110, Dial, .4 4 T • M 07 .4 ' ico r , --- - ' .i. AY EVENING AUGUST 22, 1849 MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were about 8,000 bales, and included 2,500 American, 300 Pernam, 200 Bahia, 700 Egyptian and 300 Surat taken on speculation. The sales reported were 5,000 American at 4d. to 6d., 600 Pernam, &c. at 54d. to 6d, 1,000 Egyp tian at 6d. to 6id. 400 Bahia at sid. to 5 d., 6UO Surat at 31d. to 4id., and 100 Sea Island at 10d. to ls. 3d. per lb. The market closed very firm. The trade, however, buy with less spirit, but speculators were active.—Rail way Shares were firm,;with a considerable business doing. The Corn Market is without alteration to-day, and the business doing is but limited. The Stock Markets abroad are described as having been quiet, but the important news from Hungary was not then known. The West India advices appear to read somewhat more favourably. The weather was better in several of the colonies, and there was a more hopeful disposition in a few quarters. The Demerara Assembly had pro ceeded to business. A very able report bad been made by Mr. Walker upon the subject of labour, &c., and in this ho strongly recommends the farming out system as the only means of meeting the want of labour. The habits of the peasantry seem to have deteriorated, and their appreciation of dress and luxuries has greatly diminished. Under these circumstances efforts should be made to raise them again in self-estima'ion. It is satisfactory at any time to hear of exertions making, or to be made, by the American States for the payment of their debts, but there is in some instances still a great difference of opinion as to the moral as well as the legal claim which the foreign creditors have. The New York Herald defends Mississippi to a great extent, although admitting that the Legislature approved highly of the sale of the Bonds. The fact is, however, that there is a great difference between borrowing and re paying, and, without eatering at length into the matter, we may be permitted to hope that the Mississippi people will despise quibbles, and act honourably, even at a sacri fice. The paper above referred to states— "No one denies the existence of the law, and the course pursued by the Legislature after the loan was negotiated; but it was the business of the purchaser to see whether the Legislature had power to make such a loan or not, as the valise of the bonds issued depended entirely upon that. This is, in our opinion, the only just ground for repudiation; and to the principle in volved we are indebted for the preservation of the most important institutions of the country. Leaving out of the question entirely the rea sons given by the Governor at the time of the suspeasion of the Union Bank, that the stipulation that the State Bonds should not be disposed under their par value, had been departed from, and that the Bank of the United States could not, by its charter, legally pur chase the Bonds, and falling back upon the fact th a t t h e law passed by the Legislature, authorising the loan, was unconstitutional, it is clear that the bondhold ers have no legal claim upon the people of the State of Mississippi. As we have heretofore remarked, the only hope of the bondholders is in a compromise. They must abandon their claims and leave off browbeating, and it is possible, although not very probable, that some arrangement will be made. The legality o f the claim never can be, and never will be, acknowledged; but the people of Mississippi feel disposed to do everything in their power to relieve those who have been duped by a set of swindlers, whose operations for boldnes and extent were at the time unparalleled. " The finances of Mississippi are steadily improving, and before the lapse of many years the interest on the acknowledged indebtedness of the State will be provided for. Delinquency is far from being repudiation, and nothing is wanting but the ability to promptly pay the interest on the non-repudiated debt, as it accrues. The people have the will without the means; but every frac tion of both principal and interest accrued and accruing will be ultimately paid:" We hope matters may turn out as here stated, and that people subscribing to any future loans will recollect that they are expected to have a knowledge, not only of financial matters, but likewise of the complicated political institutions of a country. The Funds are rising upon the news of the Hungarian settlement, although there is not a great deal doing. Consols bring 92Z- to 93 for transfer, and 93 to 93i for account, being per cent, better than they opened. The New Three- and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been quoted 934 to 94k. Bank Stock is worth 199 to 200. Exche quer-bills have been lower, viz., 435. to 475. premium. For some purpose or other, money, therefore, is evi dently in demand. The Foreign Securities have been quiet, Mexican have fluctuated a good deal, and are lower on the ground of Senor Angroiz's resignation. The quotations have been 27i- to 28k. Equador are now in favour, being 4to 11-. Brazilian Small are 81. Portuguese Four per Cents. have been quoted 29. Spanish Five per Cents. are 184 to and the Three per Cents., 34g. Railway Shares are still improving. ONE O'OCLCK. o Lnsi x 0 ,- 'ltrol ti OF BRITISH FUNDS PRICES. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced Anne ...... 3 par Cent. Consols Annuities 92% 93 93 New 3 1 4 per Cent. Anu5......: 93 3 / 4 94% 94 Long Anne. to expire J an. 1860 India Stock — _ India Bonds, 1,0001. ....... ...... .. -- Ditto under 1,0001.. ....... ....... 74 p South Sea Stock Ditto Old Annuities Ditto New Annuities ... 90% 90 1 4 Consols for Account 92 3 18 93% 93 Exchequer Bills. PA& & 2d. 1,0001. June 44 47 43 46 p 46 p 5001. June Small. June 44 47 43 46 p 46 p I"RICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS ONE °LORIN O'CLOCK. PRICES. Brazilian Bonds Ditto, New, 1843 . Bl Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent. Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent . ....... Ditto, 3 per Cent Equador Bonds Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846, with Coupons-- ..... Ditto, Ex Coupons Ditto, Account . 2BN% 27 7 1 8 28% Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents — 53% Portuguese 5 per Cents. — Ditto, 4 per Cent 29 Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. Ditto, Passive Ditto. 3 per Cent 34% Dividends on the above payable in London, Dutch 2% per Cent., 12 Guild. Ditto. 4 Der Cant. Certificates 83% 831% PRICES OF PAID. BUSINESS DONE CLOSING RAILWAY SHARES. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES. Aberdeen Do. Preference ...... 6% A mber. Nott., Bosten, and Eastern Junction 6 ...... ... — Ayrshire and Galloway.. 7% Belfast & County Down 25 Berks & Hants Extens. (Gt. West. Per. 5 per ct.) 6 Birmingham and Ox ford Junct., calls duly paid, or with a guaran. 20 Do, without guarantee 20 . ... Binning, Wolverh'ton, and Dudley, calls duly pd, or with guarantee 10 ..... Do. without guarantee 10 Birming.,Wolverh'pton, and Stour Valley 13! 145... Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junc.... 20 Boston, Stamfd & Birm. 71. 45.... Bristol and Exeter 9O ... .. Ditto, Thirds Buckinghamshire ... 16/. 4s. Caledonian Ditto, Quarter Shares 12%..... Ditto, New 10/. Pref... 10 Ditto,Clydesdale Junc 50 Lnester and Holyhead... 50 Ditto, Preference Clarence Do. lsz, 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 June. 40 — Dundalk & Enniskillen 22% — East Anglian, 254 L. & • E. and L. and D...... 25 Do. 184, E. & H.... 18 j Do., 3/. 105., Pref... 3% , — Eastern Counties........ 20 ....., 8% Do. New, Gua. 6 per ct. 10 - •••••• ......... • Ditto,Extension, 5 per Cent., No. 1 61.135. 4d.... % % p.....,... % p Ditto ditto, No. 2...61. 138.4 d... - Do. North. & Eastern, 6 per Cent. Ditto. 5 per Cent.... 50 Ditto, JA Shares Do. New Eastern Union, Class A (late E. U. Shares) 25 Ditto, Class A. ditto... 3% — Do., Class B (1.1& B.) 25 Ditto, Class C, ditto... 22%. .... Do. Scrip (6 per cent.) 20 ...... 19% East Lancasb're Ditto, New Ditto, New Quarters 6% — •• Do., 6 per Cent. Pre ference Quarters ... 6% — 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. Ulasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle - Glasgow,Kilmar., & Ayr 50 ...... Do. Preference Consul. Great Northern Do., % A Deferred ,EiDo., %B 6 per Cent... 7% 5% Do., 5 per Cent. Pref. 5 ...... 3% 8 ....... ;real South. and West. (Ireland) G mat North of England 100 - •• Ditto, New, 40/ 4O Ditto, ditto Ditto, New, 30/ 3O Ditto, New,ls/... ...... 15 .. .. Great Western 100 ...... 77 ~, .. ......... Ditto, 1 4 Shares 5O Ditto, % Shares Ditto, Yiftbs. ..... Ditto, New 171........ 15 ... Hull and Selby .. ...... 50 ....„ — ............... Ditto, Half Shares ... 25 Do. Quarter Shares... 12% _ .. ........... Lancaster and Carlisle... E 0 ....... ••• •• Ditto, Thirds Lancashire & Yorkshireloo „„ _ .. ............. ••• Do. do. M. B. & 8.... 96 .. .......... Ditto, ditto Ditto, % Shares ......... Do. Quarters .... Do. Fifths... x.d 1t3 . X 3 3 % 34% 13 1 ,4 8% 19% 26% 391/4 8 3 / 4 ..... 5 1 4 3% 32 774 6% GERMANY AND THE NORTHERN STATES AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY. RUMOURED SURRENDER OF GEORGEY. The Wiener Zeitung of the 17th inst. publishes the following TELEGRAPHIC DISPATCH. "His Excellency Feldzeugmeister Baron Haynau to his Majesty the Emperor. "His Excellency the Feldzeugmeister Baron Haynau informs his Majesty the Emperor, by means of a courier, who will reach Schonbrunn by the evening train, that on the lath of this month, at Vilagos, the rebel chief Georgey, together with a great p ar t o f hi s army, amount ing to between thirty and forty thousand men, laid down their arms and surrendered at discretion. " By the Imperial Commander of the City. announcement until it is o A t buyg credit. o t l h 7 r l f t 3 eh 4viai s dence, for we c anno t believe. " corroborated ;lrV ei Vienna, in the existence of guilt so black and of treason so atrocious as must be that of GEORGEY if the above statement be true. The guilt of the American AR NOLD was as nothing in comparison with what that of GEORGEY must have been, if at the head of 40,000 men he has laid down his arms. It is true the praises which have of late been lavished on him in Russian and Austrian reactionary journals seem to indicate that he has been engaged in some trans action' with the oppressors of his country, and for some time past rumours have been cir cu l a t e d o f t h e probability of his deserting to th e A us t r i ans ; b ut we cannot yet believe that GEORG EY can h ave b artered his fame and sold his country for Russian gold. An evening contemporary has the followin g "It appears from information which reached Warsaw on the morning of the 16th of this month, that th e Hun garian Diet had dissolved itself, after surrendering its powers to Georgey. This act was followed by an un• conditional surrender to the Russians, on the part of Georgey, in the name of all persons in arms aga i nst t h e Austrian Government. This event took place at Arad, on the 11 tkinstant. " The same account gives particulars of the raising of the sieges of Temesvar and Karlsburg, and of the second defeat of Bem by the Russian troops under General Luders, in the Rothenthurm defile. The engagement took place on the - sth of August, when the combined forces of the Russian Generals Luders and Harford simultaneously attacked Beni, and totally dispersed his corps, taking 15 , pieces of artillery, upwards of 1,000 prisoners, and killing or wounding about as many more. " An arrangement had been entered into between the Russian Field-Mar/Alai and Georgey, in virtue of which a commission, composed of an officer from each of the three belligerent parties, was to proceed immediately to all the divisions of the Hungarian forces, to put a stop to further hostilities." The Wiener Zeitung also publishes the following dispatch from HAYNAIT, announcing the relief of Temesvar " Soldiers !—The privations and fatigues sustained by you upon your difficult march from Pesth hither, the bloody battles of the Theiss and Maros, and the hard fight of yesterday, which lasted twelve hours, have been crowned with the brilliant result of the relief of Temesvar. " In this achievement you will find the reward for all the hardships and dangers endured by you with the most manly patience and cheerfulness. You will find that reward in your own breasts. You aro the liberators of those heroes who, already hard pressed by a siege of three months, soon, perhaps, through want, would have been condemned to the sad necessity of being obliged to acknowledge rebels as their conquerors. By the speed of your marches, which is matched by few examples in the history of warfare, by your bravery, you have rescued the most important bulwark of Lower Hungary. Soldiers I—Our beloved chivalrous Emperor will ac knowledge these your deeds. Your praise from his own lips is, I know well, the highest reward for which you strive. I, the witness of your courage, of your perse verance, can only express to you my thanks for the joy ful readiness with which you have executed my commands on all occasions, even the most difficult. I express once more my expesotion that you will preserve the same constancy and valour in the further course of this war, and conduct the same thereby to a speedy and glorious end.—Head-quarters, Teraesvar, August 10, 1849. HAYNAU, F. Z. M. WOIILGEMUTH, the new Governor of Transylvania, arrived at Hermannstadt on the 26th Ult. KOSSUTH was, it is said, at Pancseva. On the 14th a disturbance occurred in one of the minor theatres of Vienna, which is indicative of the popular mind. A drama founded on the current events of the day was produced at the Arena, in which the red-cloaks (the Croatian cavalry of Jella chich) were represented conquering the Hungarians. The suburbans hereupon raised such a row that the performance could not proceed. Letters from Szegedin, of the 24th of July, puts us at last in possession of a clear and coherent account of Hungarian operations from the 6th to the 24th of that month. They show us the real position and prospects of Dembinski up to the 24th of last month ; and by recapitulating the antecedents of Georgey, confirms and explains the account of his victory over Grabbe on the 28th of July. That victory is, we see , now admitted by th e Vi enna papers. The Ort Dezeische Press* of the 15th of August states, that it has learned on good authority, " that General Grabbe has been driven back upon Comorn by Georgey." From the 24th of July darkness again falls over the events in the region of Szegedin, and from the 28th upon those in the vicinity of Onod. Intelligence respecting Georgey, received by way of Warsaw, appears to us of a questionable character. According to the Warsaw intelligence, a great battle had been fought at Nagy-Karoly, between Georgey and Paskiewitch, in which the Russians had the better, and took 6,000 prisoners. The date of this battle is not specified in our dispatches, but it would appear to have taken place (if it all) about the 9th of August. Nagy-Karoly is about fifty English miles E.N.E. of Debreczin, and seventy to the S.E. of Tokay. Georgey is represented as retreating before Grabbe and Osten Sacken, in a southerly direction, while Tcheodajeff, with the 4th corps, preceded Pas kiewitch, through Debreczin, to cut him off from the road to Grosswardein. Nagy-Karoly is the point at which the roads from Debreczin and Tokay meet, and no doubt Georgey would be, if defeated, as the last Russian bulletin gives out, compelled to fall back on Transylvania by the road of Nemethi Szatmar and Nagy- Banya. One reason why we suspect this news to be fabri cated is the utter want of any apparent motive for Georgey to advance to Nagy-Karoly. VIENNA, AUG. 17.—The W iener Zeitung of the 16th says, that according to authentic intelligence, the Imperial army has again occupied Raab. Per sons who brought this intelligence add, that this has been effected without striking a blow. The second corps of the Hungarian army, under KLAPKA, which is said to number 30,000 men, has effected a retrcgrade movement, and has fallen back upon Comorn. The insurgent troops which were stationed at Schutt have returned to Gutta. PRUSSIA. In its sitting of the 18th the Chamber of Deputies of Prussia resolved to form a Committee of 21 mem bers to revise the Constitution. The King of Prussia has conferred the Order of Military Merit on General P&ITTWITZ, and the Order of the Red Eagle, second class, on General BONLN. BADE The military murders of unfortunate civilians by order of drum-head courts-martial continue in Baden and the Palatinate, where a reign of terror infinitely more ruthless than that of ROBESPIERRE and DANTON has been inaugurated in the much-abused name of order, by the lawless soldiery of the reactionary Monarchists. The Deutsche Zeitung announces the condemnation and execution, at Rastadt, of M. Boning, one of the leaders of the Baden insurrection. He was shot on the 17th instant. M. Boning was a native of the duchy of Nasfau, - and tho oldest of the insurgent chiefs. He was the leader of the Swiss Free Corps, and equally implicated in the former insurrections which had disturbed the peace of the Grand Duchy of Baden. The same paper announces the execution of Charles Hofer, a schoolmaster from Altendorf, who was shot at Mannheim on the 16th inst. He too had been a leader of the Badish insurgents, and by his terrorism he comp e ll e d th e po p u lation of his di s t r i c t to enlist in th e revo l ut i onary arm y, a n d o pp ose t h e advance of the Prussian troops. FRANKFORT. The ,birthday of the Emperor of AUSTRIA was celebrated on the 18th with military honours by the garrison of Frankfort. ITALY• in effecti ng It seems t o b e certain that GARIBALDI h as succee d e d Tuscan paper s s t ates that his w if e di e d a t Chi ogg i a, his escape to Venice. One of the after having giving premature birth to a still-born child. Letters from Gaeta state that the POPE is far from well, and that his person presents a swollen appearance which is probably owing to the malaria prevalent at Gaeta, in common with so many other parts of the Italian sea. coast, during summer and autumn. Rumours are not wanting with respect to this indisposition, for a far different cause is by some assigned as its origin than air, and suspicions are already awakened that drugs have been administered to the POPE, calculated to remove him gradually from a scene of action in which he has taken such a principal part. It is also averred that a dispositio n on the part of Plus to grant some concessions favourable to his subjects induced the Sacred College to this step. Such an accusation is, however, too tremendous to reproduce otherwise than as a mere report. The Collsotorship of Customs at Newcastle is vacant by tho death of Sir Cuthbert Sharpe. Do. Thirds ....... ...... . 15 ..... . Do. New Guaranteed 6 per Cent.. Do. Liverp. and Bury 46 Ditto (Huddersfield and She.) Do. (W. Riding Union) 9 Do. (Preston & W 3 re) 25 Do. % Shares (A)... 10 f eeds and Bradford 5O — Leeds and Tbirsk ...... 50 Ditto, New ...... ...... Do., Prefer., 6 per C. 3% — Do., Pref. Qar., 18 'S 9 Liverpool, Crosby and Southport. lO London &81ackwa11...... 12% — London, Brighton, and South C0a5t........ 50 - ••• Do. Guarant. 5 per ct.. 9 Do. Prefer. 5 per cent. 50 Ditto, ditto 18.'2 50 .. ... Ditto, New 5/., guar. 6 per cent. -. 5 London and Greenwich 12/15s 4d... Ditto, Preference .. . 20 London and N. Western 100 l3O Ditto, New Quarters.. 12 Ditto, Fift,s 2 - 6:/ /4 Do. 40/.Shares(L. M.) 30 Do. 10/. (M. & B.) C. 1 ..... Lon •-. &S. W, stern ..... 50 ... ......... Ditto, New 50/. ...... 42%...... Ito. N. ew 40/. 34 Ditto, Thirds 16?.135.41... die Do., New Scrip, 1848, Pref. 7 per Cent. on Deposit, and 5 per Cent. on Calls Londonderry&Coleraine 25 . Do. % Shares... ...... ... 33 / 4 — , , Londonderry and Enms kiilen 25 .—.— Do. % Shares 5 ...... ...... ....... Manehester,Buxton,and Matlock Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire...loo Do. Quarters (No. 1) 23 Ditto ditto (No. 2)... 25 D 0.% Shares (No. 3) 12 %...... Do. New 101. Pref..... 10 ...,.. — , Ditto, Gt. Grimsby ... 50 Ditto ditto . ......... 19 Ditto ditto ..-.. ll% Ditto Sheffield and Lincolnshire 22%. ... . Do., Grimsby Dock... 25 ...... Do., Manchester and Lincoln Union..... 41.25. Midland ...... ........... 100 ....._ 63 63 3 / 4 1 / 2 3 / 4 Do. Consolidated Pref.loo . .... ... Do., do., 501. Shares 30 ..... 15% Do. Birm., and Derby 100 Do. Consol. Bristol and Birming., 6 per et.... 100 Ditto, Brist. & Glocstr. 40 ...... Ditto ditto .... .18/.123.6/1.... Do.,ErewashVal.,Pref. 5U Ditto, Leieest& Swan nington, 8 per ct. guar.loo ...... Midland Great Western Irish Middlesbro' and Redcar, 6 per cent. zuar Newcastle and Carhsle 100 ...... Do. Quarters Newmarket Do. Extension Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford . 6 .••••• Newry and Enniskillen 7 Newry, Warrenpomt, and Rostrevor Norfolk ...... ...... 100 Do. New 201. .. ... 15 Do. Guaranteed 5 pct. 20 Do. Guaranteed SLA pc. 5 Do. Lowestoft(4 per ct) 20 Ditto (6 per ct.) ..... 13 Do. do. Waveney Val. 2 ...... Northern Counties Union 4 ...... North lirnish ........ ... 25 ....... 12 7 8 Ditto, Halves .. Ditto, Quarters - •••• 23 4 Ditto, Thirds .... .. .. 8 , 4 .. .. ..... . Ditto Preference • 3 1 / ..• . North Staffordshire ....IV A __ 11 th % North Wales . 3%.......— North-Western . 13%.... Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton • Reading, Guildford, and Reigate l5 ..... 16'8 .. Royston and Hitchin Scottish Central Scottish Midland Ditto, New Shrewsbury and Birm... 11 ...... Ditto ditto. Class B. 7 ....... 2 1 4% Ditto, New Guaranteed 8 ........ .. ...... Shrewsbury and Herefd. 3 .......,. Shrewsbury & Chester (Nor. W. Min.) Ditto Halves ... ditto 9 . .... _ . Ditto Oswestry 18k...... Ditto New Do. 8 per Cent. Pref lO .—... Shropshire Union South Devon Do. Preference South Ste ffordshire 84..,.... South Eastern Do., No. I Do., N 0.2. Do., No. 3 Do., Registered No. 410 .. ...... Do., Scrip No 4 South W ales . 3B South Yorkshire, Don caster, and Goole lO .. Sheffield, Rotherham, & Goole (N. Div.) Gua ranteed 5 per cent. 13 Do. do (Sou. Div.) ... 5 Swans. & Loughor & Ca meron's Stm. Coal. ... 7 ....• ........ . Taw Vale Extension ... 8 ••••• ...... Thames Haven Dock and Railway Vale of Neath Waterford and Kilkenny 20 Waterford and Limerick Waterfd,Wxfrd,Wicklw and Dublin Wear Valley 6 per Cent. Guaranteed ... .. 6O ...... Do. do. do. Do. do. do. West Cornwall ..... 6 .... .. iY hitehaven & Furness 16 Windsor, Staines, and South Western........ 12 Wilts, Somerset, 8s Wey mouth York, Newcastle, and Berwick.. ........ 25 19 34 ••• Do. Newcastle Entail, 20 ....... 13 5 4 3 / 4 1 / 2 ..... Do. G.N.E.Preference 8 4% %•••• Do. Hartlepool Dock and Railw ay York and North Midland 50 28% 28 Ditto, Preference lO FOREIGN F.AILWAYs Anglo Italian (late Ita lian and Austrian). Boulogne and Amiens 2O ...... ........ Central of France (Or leans and Vierzon) 2O Demerara ..... ... 17% Dutch Rhenish East Indian Great Indian Peninsular 5 Do. Do. ... . Ws. Louvain la Sambre ... 7%........ ... Luxembourg Ditto Madrid and Valentia... 2 Namur and Liege 20 ... Northern of France l4l. 8x... dis. ...... Orleans and Bordeaux.. 7 ...... 2 3 / Paris and Orleans ...... 20 ...... Paris and Rouen 2O ex.div Paris and Strasbourg ... 11 ...... Rouen and Havre ...... 20 Sambre and Meuse 2O 2% Strasbourg and Basle ... 14 Tours and Nantes ll • Tournay, Jurbise, Lan den, and Hasselt ...... 20 West Flanders 8 3%.• Ditto ... ..... JOINT STOCK BANKS. Australasia British North American 50 ...... Colonial 25 .•••.• ......... Commercial of London 20 London. Joint Stock lO .. London & Westminster. 20 ...... 24% National Prov. England. 35 ....... Ditto New... ..... 10 National of Ireland 22% ........ Provincial of Ireland ......... Ditto, New ..... 10 Union of Australia Ditt0,New.............. Union of L0nd0n......... 10 ...... 10 1 ,4 Union of Madrid ...... 40 ....... Anglo-Mexican lOO ••• a. 4 • Asturian Mining Com 15 ....... Australian 3 Barrossa Range ... . Blaenarvon Iron & Coal 50 Bolonos Scrip ...... .... British Iron Brazilian Imperial ...... 24 1 / 2 — BrazilianCocaes&Cuiaba 30 ...... Do. St. John Del Rey 15 ... g% Cobra Copper General 2O Real Del Monte, Unreg. Do. Black Debentures — Do. Red Ditto ... ..... Santiago de Cüba United Mexican _ LLOYD'S SHIPPIN G—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, AUG. 22.—Wind this day at noon, W.S.W.; light airs and cloudy. CLYDE, Aun, 19.—Arrd. Souvenir, Doncaster, Mon treal; Jane Brown, Leitch, Montreal. Sid. 18th, Echo, Berbice; Elijah Swift, New York. DEAL, AUGUST 21.—Wind W.N.W. to W.S.W.— Arrd. 17th, Anstel, Kernkaap, Rio de la Haite, for Amster dam; Brothers, Calcutta; Envoy, Kellerick, Callao ; Bathurst, Warming, Honduras; Braamspunt, Suart, Amsterdam, for Surinam; Sovereign, Campbell, Per nambuco; 21st, Catherine Elizabeth, Merritt, St. Vincent. Arrd. from the river and sailed, Brothers, Dron, Brazils; Trafalgar, Robertson, Madras; Earl of Hard wick, Brown, Bombay; Mathilda, Cottier, Point de Galle. LITERPOOL, AUG. 21.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrd. James, Prince Edward's Island. Sld. 20th, Nymph, Beyrout. 21st, Mail, Cape of Good Hope; Jane, San Francisco; Sandford, Bahia; Rosendale, Bahia; Temandro, Ma tanzas; Contractor, Vera Cruz; Ocean Queen, Boston; Archer, Prince Edward's Island. SWANSEA, AUG. 21.--Id. Balgownie, Coquimbo. PILL, Auo. 21.—Wind W.—Sld. 20th, Brocket, Quebec. 73 p 74 p 53 4% 4% 37 8 130 143,4 63% 15% 89X 114 16% 223 x d 13 1 4 193 / 4 13‘, 41/8 28% YORK RACES. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) The Dunde. Stakes of 15 sous. each, &c. The Alp ••• • • ••• ••• ••• ••• Athelstsne ..• . o. The Prince of Wales' Stakes for two yrs old. The Italian Seven ran. Won by a length. The Knavesmire Stakes. Thringarth walked over. The Queen's Plate of 100 guineas. Canez 3U •• • ••• •• • ••• ••• ••• Glen alvon ••• English ...... 5c0tch........ Irish • • Foreign ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Wheat. I Barley. 1 Oats. I Malt. Qrs. 1 Qrs. 880 6,010 I 2,730 10,070 CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Commissioner BuLLoca.) FELONIOUSLY CUTTING AND WOUNDlNG.—Catherine Murphy, a spinster, aged 18, was indicted for feloniously cutting and wounding William Reynolds, with intent to do him some grievous bodily harm. The complainant was a draper in the City, and a short time ago the prisoner, who was an abandoned woman, came into his shop to look at some dresses; a quantity was shown to her, from which she selected one, which she was about to carry away when his attention was called to the important fact that she had neglected to pay for it. She disputed the statement, an d insisted that she had placed the money on the counter. Th e prosecutor, however, felt satisfied that she had not, and told her' that unless the money was forth coming a policeman should be called in. Upon this intimation she became very violent, declaring that the prosecutor was a thief, and threatening to do for him if he did not let her go; but he was determined she should not escape in that manner, and while one of his shop men went to seek an officer he laid his hands upon he r to prevent her running away. No sooner had he done so than she drew a knife from her pocket and stabbe d him in the forehead, inflicting two or three dangerous wounds. The jury found her Guilty, and she was sentenced to seven years' transportation. MA RLBRO'-ST REET— ( THIS 1)A- 1( )* Thos. Spike, a servant out of place, was brought befor° Mr. Hardwick, charged with having assaulted a poo r widow named Hannah Goode, by striking her on th e head with a pewter pot. The complainant, whose clothes were comp letelf saturated with blood, deposed that on the previous Crew ing she was standing at the bar of the Wheatsheaf Pub" lie-house, in Upper Rathbone-place, when the detendao t came in, and having called for a pint of beer entered into conversation with her. After conversing for some moments he got into a violent passion, and threw t whole of the beer over her. On her remonstrating with him on such ungentlemanly conduct he took up the emPtY bV' 4-,.-, I - it" °i: 'Y,ll.4 l '` -4 t ‘, a; c- 4,, 4,3 4 AZ/ ' e, 4,4 i 44 ' MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN-EXCHANGE—WEDNESDAY The total supply of English Wheat received up to our market this week, has been only SSO quarter:, wholly of the present year's growth. Today, the show of samples was small ; yet the demand was in a sluggish state, at from 40s to 53s per quarter, being Monday's prices. The condition of the new Wheats was good. From abroad, we have received 6,010 quarters of Wheat. Selected qualities were held firmly, at full prices; but all other kinds met a very slow inquiry, at barely late rates. No English Barley at market, and the show of foreign was trifling. On the whole, the Barley trade ruled steady, and last week's currencies were fairly supported. Malt ruled heavy ; yet we have no actual decline to notice in its value. As several arrivals of Oats have taken place from abroad, the Oat trade was less active than on Monday, at that day's currencies. Beans, Peas, Indian Corn, Meal and Flour were much neglected. Flour. Qrs. Qrs. Sacks. 1,990 2,980 3,070 3130:MOUGH ECOP 11f/ILILIEET. Three pockets of new Hops have arrived from Sussex and been disposed of at from 101 to 11153 per cwt. Fine yearlings are rather scare, and quite as dear as last week. In other kinds of Hops, next to nothing doing. The plantation accounts are considered unfavourable, and the duty is called 70,000/. to 75,0001. Yearlings —Sussex pockets, 31 103 to 41 Its; Weald of Kent ditto, 31 8s to 4l 12s; Mid and East Kent ditto, 31 153 to 71 8s per cwt. WHITECNAPEZ. For each kind of meat, the supply of which was by no means large, the demand was in a sluggish state, on the following terms:—Beef, from 2s 6d to 3s 6d ; Mutton, 2s 10d to 3s 10d; Lamb, 3s 10d to 4s 10d; Veal, 3s Od to 3s 6d; and Pork, 3s Od to 3s 10d per 81b, by the carcase. COMMISSION OF LUNACY ON MR. VICARS, OF LIVERPOOL.—(THIS DAY.) The proceedings under the commission de lunatic° inquirendo, issued by the Lord Chancellor, to inquire into the state of mind of Mr. Vicars, of Liverpool, was resumed this morning, before F. Barlow, Esq., one of the Commissioners of Lunacy. Mr. Vicars, the alleged lunatic, was present, as he was yesterday, during the whole of the proceedings. Richard Formby was called and examined by Mr. WILLS—Is a physician, practising at Liverpool since 1813. Had had experience with respect to unsoundness of mind. Had been a visitor with magistrates to lunatic asylums fur thirteen years. Had visited Watton Lodge ' Asylum. Saw Mr. E. Vicars at that asylum in the spring of 1847. Examined his case. The first time he saw him he said he would take no food; that it did him no good, that it went into the calves of his legs, and that people were sent to lunatic asylums by electricity. Witness always saw Mr. E. Vicars every time he visited the asylum with the magistrates. Visited him twice at the request of Dr. Lichfield to ascertain his state of mind, and he satisfied himself that Mr. Vicars was not in a state of mind to manage his affairs; that he laboured under great delusions, and was not fit to be at large; and signed a certificate with Mr. Churton to that effect. On being further pressed, the witness said Mr. Vicars might be fit to be at large, but not to manage his affairs. Lie might be wrong, but that was his opinion. His mind was in that state that it might be operated on by the de lusion he was under. Had not seen Mr. E. Vicars till yesterday, since he escaped from the asylum. Cross-examined by Mr. MALlNS—Visited the Asylum with the magistrates every three months. There are .about thirty patients. Thought the maximum time they took upon each visit, to consider Mr. Vicars' case, was about five minutes. Witness's first visit to the asylum, after the 27th of February, 1847, was on the 15th April, and he had perfect recollection of seeing NI!: Vicars onlthat day, and that he then told him his food dia him no good ; that he had neither stomach or bowels, and that his food went to his heels. Witness did not test Mr. E. Vicars on the ordinary affairs of life, or upon money affairs. Had been told by Dr. Lichfield that Mr. E. Vicars was a hard drinker. Witness though! that Mr. E. vicars wa s com p etent , a f ter convers i ng w ith him upon all subjects, except that of food. Saw Mr. O• Vicars on the 26th July, but had no minute of what took place. Recollected Mr. Vicars saying upon that occasion that electricity made men mad. He said nothing about his food; he was then mad upon another point. Witness was quite satisfied upon that occa sion that Mr. Vicars had been properly detained. Visited Mr. Vicars on the 14th September, and the same delusion remained. Visited him again in January, 1848, and found him in the same state. Visited bins again in April, July, and October, but no entry was made in the books with respect to Mr. Vicars' case. Was certain that in 1848 Mr. Vicars said that insanity was also produced by Indian hemp. When witness visited Mr. E. Vicars with Mr. Churton he thought they must have been with him half an hour or more, but he would not undertake to say it lasted five minutes. Witness thought that people might be made mad by brandy, opium, and Indian hemp, as they made people drunk and they were then mad. Re-examined by Mr. WiLLs—Delirium tremens often led to permanent madness. Dr. Southey, examined by Mr. RoLT—Had seen Mr- Vicars twice at the house in July last. On conversing with Mr. Vicars the first time he saw nothing to lead him to suppose his mind was unsound. On the second interview he touched upon the points on which Mr. Vicars was said to have delusions, and be appeared to have curious notions of the power of electricity. He also said that lunatic asylums were fitted up with batteries, and that ho had himself felt the effect of them. The witness considered it was a delusion ; but upon all other points he remained rationally and well. He appeared like man that had delusions, but who, if he took care of him self, and kept from all excitement, would recover. But he could not say that he was sane for all purposes. Cross-examined by Mr. JAMES—Mr. Holding, the solicitor to Mr. E. Vicars, requested him to give him such a report as he thought Mr. Vicars' case required. There was much yet to be dis covered with respect to electricity, and it was. not surprising that a partially-educated man should have exaggerated notions of it. He believed that upon all ordinary cases Mr. E. Vicars was sane, and it was his impression that it would be crusl to confine him. Madness arising from delirium tremens was easier cured than any other madness. By the CommissioNEß—Witness thought it would be hard to deprive Mr. E. Vicars of his civil rights. (This statement created applause in the court.) Wit ness thought Mr. Vicars also was fit to be a free agent in the disposal of his property and his person, and the management of his affairs. In answer to a question from one of the jury, the witness said he should not think himself justified in giving a certificate that would confine Mr. Vicars in a lunatic asylum. Mr. Vicars was then examined by the Commissioner , and gave most rational answers to all the questions put to him. He admitted that he bad had delusions, but be believed now they were the effect of delirium tremens. The jury, after hearing the explanations and answers given by Mr. Vicars, stated that they were all satisfied that Mr. Vicars was not of unsound mind. The announcement was received in court with much cheering. The result of this verdict will be to give to Mr. Vicars the management of his person and his prO. perty, and to set him at liberty. 't pot, an felled I Wound: ttandcz the ho !Doer in defe what h, Pint, THE (ADI It Iv arrived the Boi the tin existed, by the . ease s h until t( of the head An DOn p the title racter tabl e d Po e rtrail th tn iv a r li s e . s - admiral attempt b 7 both Climb E lope ; th attempt, .I}ldiCiOU time of hand son cessf u l ' T rumps eveni ng Mr. w, and Mr TO T " TI3 E 1 OF Ey BERT] Subsci Or to an 3 formed t * * * All fu Yoi Subscript] Subscript 80 n, Es subscript; W. T. W. 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