The Sun. — London, England, 1842-09-01 00:00:00

~~~% i "on Cbch. of the manu ated by the them by the overnment— ills, furnaces, dle, not with es to' resume t rid of their ?s ; and if we r Correpon ;urers are de- it organs—to parishes, or ,ntry, and see r patriarchal ly number of cult would be is heard the Ur. FERRAND a-law League L for thus re in in the pre • that has read 2uarterly Re e Times, ern Lould threaten and leave the the labouring 7ays protested rations. The ue never ap- L half the vio a of the New mbers of the !w Poor-law, Int. The in of the rising , t. The real They came ey had dis the country. Ise of Corn t, and that if .tient remedy. d to give him the opening neral distress, g, and unre -ally dealt in. that the evil of their sal ded ; measure )3 , a flourish of last ; but still Lion of the pe suffered on, mounted that iament would ty importance ie aristocratic it was that ?.L's promises he figurative the working [at they were eam, to a full keir wives and ption was at rments would ) humanity of were bitterly as a natural 'sive stupidity g foreseen it, rers may have their insolent -e quite wrong :ial retirement the ignorant Knowing, as ; right arm of no' diffieultr' le upon them, ;o know, and ments, if they r spirit, that g opposed, are lourishing he persons in his plentiful use s, eggs, and a ready mar- clothe their Lnd other fine :nents of hus- If foreign and ir, coffee, r.nd true interest oven with the ?silent of the published all e the popula political free' ristian means His address ssoeiation in O'CoNNELD I counter ad ject of w hich ictest ties of he people of mutual ar nations that ligious pre ungenerous 00, can have society, the the Society ho has ever incalculable noral power ;riumphantly the Catholic leform ; and titer physical iplishment of regarded as stem adopted he history or gratitude of 2d on 'without relatives and in the end is to carry o countries, wid renounce proclaimed and Ireland 'e to be con' intries, or I If an Irish.. h hat, would earing Irish ie best bond unity, there d the words [shed frout too, that wledge and •dity and Vhat would vithin their with other larket, or to .mers would , the people in process wild beasts Ireposteroes 'our of free removal of commercial he Frenbli e 7,7RENciI PAsQviso , passing of !8, 1842• ) much Al' w fected by the vote of the Char - fiber of Peers, which you announce to me in the letter I have this moment received; t 6 delay an instant in requesting you to he the organ of informing the Chamber—until I can in person testify to them how much I am touched by their proceeding—of the emotion which their unani mous vote has caused me. " Nothing could he more conformable to the dearest wish es o f my heart than to see the statue of my be loved son, whom I can only lament, as close to mine after his death as he had himself been to me during the whole time that Providence preserved him to me. " The Queen and all my family join with me in be seeching you to be the interpreter of our sentiments to the Chamber of Peers. " You have long known, my dear Chancellor, what my feelings are to yourself, and I have great pleasure In again repeating them to you on this occasion. " Your affectionate, " LOUIS PHILIPPE." The disturbances in the English manufacturing districts are commented on at considerable length in the French Journals. The Courrier Francais has a long and clever article on the subject, which con cludes as follows : " The working population in England, and the ca pital which is to find them employment, are out of proportion to the demand for their employment. New markets must be opened for the produce of the indus try of England, or she must resign herself to behold ing scenes of distress which will be beyond all ima gination. The English Government has made two attempts to gain its object. The first was the expedi tion against China, which originated with the Whig Ministry, with the intent of breaking down, by the force of cannon-shot, the barriers within which the Chinese had isolated themselves, initiating them into our ideas and wants, and creating in that country a n.:w world of purchasers. The second, which is the work of the Tories, is the reforma tion of the commercial tariff. This is not suf ficiently complete and radical to have any imme diate influence on the prosperity of the country. They have not had the effect of opening the English market to the produce of France, Germany, or the United States, and consequently have not offered to these nations any inducement to admit the manufactures of Leeds, Birmingham, and Manchester. In fine, foreign corn is excluded from this measure. Sir Robert Peel, who has proclaimed himself to be the advocate of freedom of commerce, and has declared that all en deavours, by prohibitory laws, to regulate the rate of wages must be in vain, has attempted, by his Corn law, to obtain a direct influence over the rate of wages, by insuring to the agriculturists a high price for their corn. At this time the harvest in the United States exceeds the wants of their own population by 3,000,000 quarters. If the English were at liberty to purchase this corn, it is clear that the Americans would take in exchange the iron of Birmingham, the lihen of Ireland, and the cottons of Manchester, and consequently the workmen of these places would have a regular increase of employment. But as the Corn laws prevent England from supplying herself with corn from the United States, the Americans are at the same time deprived of the power of purchasing, those manufactures with which England would other wise have to supply them. This is the well-gr minded reproach cast by the adversaries of Sir Robert Peel upon the Tory Ministry." The French Chambers were prorogued on Tuesday, after sitting for a month. The following is a trans lation of the Royal Ordonnance to that effect : "Louis Philippe, to all present and to come, greeting. " The Chamber of Peers and the Chamber of De puties are prorogued until the 9th of January, 1843. Our Minister, President of the Council, Minister Secretary of State at the Department of War, is charged to be the bearer of the present proclamation to the Chamber of Peers.—By the King. " LOUIS PHILIPPE. " Tuileries, Aug. 30." " The Committee of Deputies of the vine-growing department, at a meeting held with the principal Members of the Cabinet, have received an assurance that, during the next session of the Chambers, mea sures favourable to the interests of those whom they represented would be brought forward. It appears certain (says the Moniteur Parisien) that the recess will be employed in preparing treaties of commerce with several of the Northern States of Europe, and with South America. In the mean time the Com mittee is engaged i n collecting all the documents ne cessary for justifying the claims that it is commis sioned to urge. " Tne official part of the Moniteur of the 30th an nounces that the King has received the Pope's answer to the notification of the death of the Prince Royal. " The D u k e of Nemours is to return from his tour at the beginning of September. M. Dumont, en gineer, has been directed by the Minister of Public Works to visit the north of Italy, in order to examine the mode employed in that country of embanking the great rivers, and to give information to the depart ment of public works on the application that may be made of this mode in the Valley of the Rhone. " The Councils-General will be invited to state their views on the measures necessary to protect several parts of our territory from the action of the rivers. "In a circular addressed to the Prefect, the Mi nister of Public Works points out the principal ques tions on which the opinion of the Council- General is required.— Commerce. BOURSE—PARIS, TUESDAY, AUG. 30. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French 5 per Cents 120 5... 120 15... 120 5... 120 15 4 per Cents 104 50... 104 50... 104 A 0... 104 50 3 per Cents 79 25... 79 40... 79 25... 79 35 Bank of France 3260 -.3260 ...3260 .. 3260 Belgian Fives lo2 ir ... 102 102 i ... 1021 _ _ 1840 lO3l ... 103 i ... 1031 ... 1031 Spanish Active 22 ... 22 ... 21i ... 21 Passive New Deferred 9* ... 9* ... 9* ... 9* Neapolitan lO7 ... 107 ... 107 ... 107 Roman R.AILWAY SHARES Versailles, R.B ...... 287 50... 287 50... 287 50... 287 50 L.B 95 ... 95 ... 95 ... 95 Rnuen Orleans Strasburg to Bale 205 ... 205 ... 203 75... 203 75 BELGIAN FUNDS.—Baussrms, Atm. 30. Actual Debt, 234 per Cent, Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent lOO% Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent 9l Three per Cent.... . ***** Thirty-seven Milli ns, dtttp ,s, Loan of City, 1832, Four per Cent 92 Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent 136 Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent ... 77 National Society . Exchange on London (short) - -Brussels Papers, Aug. 30, Ai IS I'HI A N 1 1 1) N Db.—VIENNA, AUG. 22, Five per Cents. Metalliques : Four per Cents Three per Cents... 7 6 14 ~, Bank Shares ... ................. ••••••••••••esee 1631 Allgemeine Zeitsag, August 26. THE ROYAL GEORGE. Watson's General Telegraph-office, 83, Corn hill, London, September 1. TELEGRAPH STATION, SPURN (HULL).—The Royal squadron passed at 2 P.m. on Tuesday. FLAMBOROUGH-HE AD STATION (TUESDAY). —At 4 , 30 P.M., her Majesty's yacht, Royal George, hove in sight, towed by two steamers, and accompanied by five others. In passing, a signal was made from the Royal George to the Telegraph Station, but from the distance the squadron was off, (14 miles) and from fttreme thick weather and rain, the flags could not be distinguished. CORN AVERA GEM. L ., GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN, For the Week ended Aug. 27, 1842, made up from the Returns of the Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in England and Wales per Imperiald. QuOatsarter. Wheat l 7J. 8ean5 ........ 234. lid sos 4 Barley 27s. 3j. 1 Rye . . AVERAGES OF THE LAST SIX WEEKS. Mlo t r A; 1 6 en..ng WHEAT. BARLEY.I OATS. RYE. , BEANS. rEtSt --- Ju ly 23 65 4i 27 10 21 6 34 9 35 1 :34 0 A ao 63 9 0 21 5 35 11 34 7 33 10 Aug. 6 13 5B 11 27 6 20 2 32 9 34 1 34 7 2;1 56 5 i'6 9 19 5 31 6 31 8 133 )1 e 7 ..." 4 FEHIAI AGGREGATE AVERAGES OF THE SIX WKPSS 604. ld. 1 Oats ~,,...... 2 is. 3d.1 Beans ......... 34.. 3tt arl e.t. ........ `..74. 6d, 1 Rye DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN. Barley ... 12s ..... (11. Oats ...... . ocl. I ?lye THE MARKETS.—(THIS DAY.) COLONIAL MARKET. There was little alterationsin prices, and but a small Mount of business done. West India Sugar brought full prices, with a fair demand. White Bengal was in• quired after ; yellow sorts went off at full prices. Of Mauritius some parcels sold at the previous value. In ( - 3 fiee no change could be quoted in prices. Rice in good requ es t a t st iff pr i ces . S a ltp e tr e s carce, and high prices were paid. TEA MARKET. The public sales progressed with much the same elm ra as previoesly i ; the attendance was good, and the xPerebants displayer; firmness by buying in and with 9rawing large parcels rail2fr than accept lower on some late rates for some sorts. Common Congou was sold at 84d. to Is. 8,1td., and blackish fe2 f is. 9d. to 2u.. 4d. per lb. and fine sorts at TALLOW MARKET. 47The market was very quiet, but with few sellers under s• 9 (1• on the spot, and 48s. for delivery in last three months of the year. WHITECHAPEL HAY MARKET.. There was a very moderate supply with a heavy trad e ; prices without alteration. Clover, 21. los. to 'ravr I °s• ; Hay, 2/. s s . t o 4/. 4s . ; N e w Hay, 31. to 4/. ; , 11. Bs. to 11. 12s. The Batavier steam-ship, from Rotterdam, landed a t Katherine's wharf yesterday afternoon, 13 cows, admitted under the new tariff, not for slaughter, the 1 4, 11 , 01 e of th em b e i ng i n calf, but for bree di ng purposes . r n n, F Cows are o f th e s h ort h orne d b ree d , an d v ery small. -Luis• we believe is the first importation of the kind by the Batavier, which brought over at the same time a great quantity of poultry for Leadenhall market. 11 1:21- AND Sub Ur Opinion. Who runs may read." POMEXGIV. The Paris journals comment but slightly on the discussion on the Regency Bill in the Chamber of Peers. The DeWs, whilst it admits that the speech of the Marquis de Dreux-Breze was remarkable for urbanity, expressesits regret that he should have felt himself bound by considerations of party to bring forward arguments opposed 'to the Constitution, and at variance with the attachment to monarchical prin ciples, which he must feel. The French Chambers having been prorogued on Tuesday by Royal - Ordonnance to the 9th of January, the Ministers have ceased their receptions. His Ma jesty on Tuesday afternoon received the Peers, and was to leave that evening for Eu, where the Duchess of Orleans continued very indisposed. The Presse announces that a batch of Peers would be made during the recess, hut that no Deputy would be included in it. Th' Committee of Deputies of the vine•.growing department, at t meeting held with the principal members of the Cabinet, have received an assurance that, during the next session of the Chambers, mea sures favourable to the interests of those whom they represent shall be presented. It appears certain, says the Moniteur Parisien, that the recess will be em ployed in, preparing treaties of commerce with several of the northern States of Europe ; and with South America. In the meantime the Committee is engaged in collecting all the documents necessary for justify ing the claims it is commissioned to urge. The Spanish Minister of War had addressed a cir cular to all thd military authorities, enjoining them to afford the customs officers every aid in their power for the repression of smuggling. A band of twelve miscreants, calling themselves the Twelve Apostles, are infesting the environs of Toledo, and committing all sorts of outrages. The Mannheim Gazette quotes a letter from Berlin of the 22d, stating that a certain mystery still sur rounded the events which had recently occurred in the Russian capital. The account of the sudden death of Count Orloff had been confirmed by the re ports of travellers. Accounts from Constantinople of the 10th state, that letters had reached that capital from Trebisond, stating that the Persian troops had suspended their hostilities along the Turkish frontier. The energetic representations of the Envoys of Great Britain and Russia had induced the Shah to adopt that resolu tion ; there was consequently every hope that the difference which had arisen between Persia and Turkey, would be amicably adjusted through the mediation of those two Powers. The Porte had trans mitted orders to the army on its way to Bagdad to suspend its march. PUELIC OPXNXON. The Times observes, in an article suggested by the present state of the northern districts —" W e do earnestly trust that those in charge of these districts are pursuing a decided course ; but we confess these accounts do not evidence that full protection to labour to which we hoped their present force was adequate. It is not enough to fill the prisons ; nay, if it be true, as we see it reported, that thousands of persons are now in confinement, we cannot help fearing that a recourse to that ultima ratio has been even too indis criminately adopted. Men, like boys at school, do not fear punishment in a crowd. Arrest—nay, punish ment itself—loses its effect, as it appears in this case to have done, by being made so common. It is the right man whom we want to catch, and to punish him heartily and unsparingly ; ,the chastisement of a ran dom selection from the blind mob, unless it be such as is administered on the moment and on the spot, can produce little result. We should sincerely re joice, fur example, to think that there was any pros pect of visiting with condign punishment this barba rous outrage on Mr. Cooper. For acts of this kind —committed not in the heat of any contest, not in any form of self-defence, however culpable, by no accident, from no immediate provocation, but delibe rately, from mere revenge, and, we may say, in cold bloodacts simply of intended murder—as no pal liative is conceivable, so no pains, we trust, will be spared to bring the perpetrators to justice, and no misplaced lenity shown them if they can be secured. The seditious assemblies, the affrays with police, the breakings of windows, the sturdy begging, the turn ing out of hands—all these, none of which are things safely to be overlooked by the law, are yet infinitely less urgent - in their demands for stern and severe re pression than brutal outrage: Nor can we conceive any more wretched symptom of the state of the ope ratives themselves than the fact, if fact it turn out to be, that the mass of them sympathise with or con nive at such cruel and unmanly acts of their brethren. Such occurrences, joined, to the robberies which are announced as commencing around Stockport, must lead, if we are not mistaken, to some more extensive and complete organization of the neighbourhood than has yet taken place." The Herald says:—" Every one remembers the fable of the trumpeter who was taken prisoner in battle, and who pleaded with the enemy for his life on the ground that he had drawn no sword in the quar rel. True,' replied the captors, but though you did not fight, you were the cause of the affray ; but for the stirring notes of_ your trumpet there would have been no conflict. You deserve the death that awaits you. We commend this apologue to the at tention of the peaceful fraternity which numbers amongst its brotherhood so gentle and meek a mem ber as Joseph Sturge, the late candidate for Notting ham; and present President of the National Com plete Suffrage Union,' now .sitting i n Bi rm i ngham. This quiet Quaker, who would fain fight only by proxy, has affixed his signature to a letter to the Irish people,' calling upon them to co-operate with the disaffected in England to break in pieces the teeth' of those whom he is pleased to term its ' oppressors.' This epistle, somewhat different from those which serve the Society of Friends for their moral guidance breathes a spirit of hostility to the laws and institu tions of this country appropriate enough in one who all his life has fattened upon famine and grown wealthy upon popular distress. This truculent man of peace vindicates his claim to belong to those who especially proclaim their charity and goodwill to all mankind, by striving with as much vehemence es his nature will permit, to stimulate the impressionable Irish to assist him in carrying out his own selfish views." The following appears in the. Chronicle :—" The mischievous quackery of Sir Robert Peel's Corn-law is becoming so generally felt, that its most ardent supporters have little confidence in its continuance. Laborious puffs of it are coupled with announcements of failures in Mark-lane, which are significant proofs of its commercial advantages. It is found that the agricultural interest may be injured without any other being benefited, and that a sliding scale may be adjusted with such masterly skill, as to derange and dissatisfy every class of the community. The happy contrivance, which insures that corn shall come in, not gradually but in a mass, is proved, by experience, to keep up the price of corn while the people are in distress, and the farmers have none - to sell, and to de press it considerably on the eve of a promising har vest, when the farmers are looking forward to good markets for the means to pay rents not liable to de pression. This monument of ConServative sagacity is found even to aggravate that one mischief, which all parties agreed in attributing to the old Corn-law. Instead of repressing, it has given new vigour to gambling speculations in the first necessary of life ; and if we attach any importance to the failures, the embarrassments, and the alarm which every hour seem to increase in Mark-lane, the corn trade has less than ever of the steadiness and regularity which would induce men of capital and caution to engage in it. Hence this chef d'oeuvre of Sir Robert Peel's tinkering will not last very long, and Parliament may be called upon, even in the next session, to clear away the botch-work, and make some more statesmanlike and effective adjustment of the question." We quote the following remarks, suggested by the present price of bread, from the Post :—" The exces sive disproportion between the price of wheat and that at which bread is retailed by the bakers, con tinues to form the subject of just complaint by the consuming public. There can be no doubt that, con nected with the sale of bread, much abuse and unfair practices exist in some quarter. Some blame the millers, some the bakers, and some both. Certain it is, that while wheat is cheap bread is dear, and that the charges made for the manufacture of the article are greater than the public can justly and honestly be expected to submit td. We are no friends of cheap.. Bess, in the s N l N az i g l j m o e s a e n e in t g he som we e r ti k ile a s n a r p e p e l e ie i d ve to a that fair word. W ffarm value er existing_ t o et r fa e i l r y s t p ir r d ie f e o g r , na hi e s a l s a u b r o e u d r b , y I th V t e 4 s l i v a i n sh d a r t d h s e . other party concerned, are entitled to remunerat . ion in the country. The baker, the miller, and every . for the services they render the consumer in stepping iri b e t w een him and the producer of the ' raw mate d when we see wheat fal lin g ten rial.' But these rewards , t o be fair, mustr twenty berela tive; an e the price of the poor man's loaf is per cent., ~ which imperatively calls up nearly stationary, a.. evil is . d t i h s e cl e o o s n ed sid t e h r e at e ie n n or w m .h i e ty the o r f li a ble to contin there be no corrective power app gencies of this kind." to which of late, that , p we have so frequently referred , The Advertiser says: —" If th.. tention of Psign: hn Russell has already intimated hia 11 , E ar liament, bp rurA not true, there is one thing abundantly ing the leadership of the Liberals ndautly clear, namely, that it ought to be true. If we have are sure, Lord John's own satisfaction , we have, that he nwoet proved to of the prod ean v noe t l oe longer s e a x t e i r s e t i otnh the of f u e n v e lr . y o n b d oyf else,e a d e r THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 1, 1842. Opposition with credit to himself or advantage to the country. Nature never intended the Noble Lord to play any-prominent part on the stage of political life. I.le,is at a crisis like the present intellectually, as well as physically, unfit fer the leadership of a powerful party. When the Tories were prostrate and almost extinguished as a party 'by the heavy blow which the Reform Bill, immediately on its passing, gave them, the leadership of a person of Lord John's calibre might have been tolerated ; but the moment that a re action had commenced, and every successive week saw the Tories swelling their minority of 150, it was high time that the. Whig Lordling should be uncere moniously thrown, overboard, and a person chosen to succeed him, who, in addition to moral courage, supe rior talents as a debater, and enlarged views as a statesman, should possess a strong sympathy with the people —one, moreover, who, • instead of lagging be hind the spirit of the age, should be prepared to lead the nation, as well as the Liberals in Parliament, in the onward road to further and far more extensive re Corms." ONII7- TZAD -C 0 WIME At the annual meeting of the Consolidated Trefoil Mining Company, held yesterday in the Poultry, the Report stated that the sale of copper for the last month was 127 tons; and there was now tin to the v al ue of 2001. ready for. market. The assets amount only to 1,7231., the diminution being occasioned by a decrease in the quantity of the ore. At Manchester great numbers of the coarse spin ners and power-leom weavers still -remain out, but peace is kept : nearly fifty mills are in full work, and about a score partially so. At Glossop, an attack has been made on Mr. Shipley's works, and in the affray four persons were severely wounded. At Birmingham agitation has entirely ceased. LA W INTELLIGENCE. BANKRUPTCY.-(THIS DAY). IN RE MESSRS. WHITE AND LAMBERT. Under the fiat which had been already frequently before the Court, a point was raised on the part of Messrs. Morley and Co., extensive ship- Drokers and commission agents, with respect to their right to prove against the separate estate of Lambert, or against that of the partnership. It appeared the baArupts had carried on business as wharfingers and wareho uselt eepers, and that a quan tity of goods, belonging to Messrs. Morley, had been consigned to their care, and a verdict subsequently ,given against them in favour of Messrs. Morley, for some alleged damage the goods had suffered whilst at their wharf. It was contended that previous to the date of this verdict the partnership had been dissolved. —The proof was allowed against the joint estate. Debts to the amount of nearly 7,C00/. were proved at this sitting, in sums varying from 1,0001. to 101. IN RE THOMAS AND JAMES WEST. The bankrupts in this case had been extensive mercers and drapers. The aggregate amount of debts proved against the estate was 14,7501. After the admission of a few proofs the choice of assignees was proceeded with, when Messrs. Anderton and Leigh were appointed. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET.--(THIS DAY.) The disgraceful system of extortion, so lately prac ticed by the men Fitzgerald and others, upon people of the highest respectability, must be fresh in the memory of all our readers ; and the facts which came out upon the evidence at the examination of the pri soners at Bow-street and Marlborough-street, and their subsequent trial at the Old Bailey, left little doubt in the minds of the police and others conversant with such matters, that the Fit zgera ld s were no t the only people who had practised such a shameless and disgraceful system of extortion. This morning a well-dressed man. apparently about 35 years of age, who gave the name of Thomas Addy, but whose real name is believed to be Robert Hyde Eddy, was placed at the bar under the following cir cumstanc3s:— Mr. Henry Bellamy . Webb, of 31, Great Queen street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, stated that on Saturday, the 20th ult., as he was proceeding along Hemming's row,- on his way home, he was met by:the prisoner, who accosted him with " A fine night, Sir," or some thing of that sort. Witness shortly replied that it was. The prisoner made one or two other common place observations, to which witness, being not at all desirous of his company, replied very briefly. At length, on arriving at Castle-street, Leicester-square, as the prisoner still kept close to him, witness turned round to him, and said "I don't know what you mean, I don't want anything to say to you, why don't you go away about your business ?" The prisoner made no reply, and witness thought he was gone, but on reaching New-street, Covent-garden, witness observed the prisoner still at his heels. Witness took no notice however, but pursued his way towards the Piazzas, near-Covent-garden Market. When he arrived there the prisoner came alongside of him, and accosted with " D your eyes, what are you going to give me." W itness asked him what he meant, when he said "D— -you, if you don't give me some money I'll charge you with an unnatural offence ;" and a policeman happen ing to come up at the time the prisoner gave witness into custody, and he was taken to the station-house where he remained till the Monday morning follow ing. On I%iondav he was brought up before the Magistrate, but the prisoner, deterred no doubt by the rigorous proceedings, which in the meantime had commenced against some of his associates, did not appear to prefer his charge. Witness was in conse quence discharged without the case being entered into. Witness then proceeded to the Old Bailey, where the Grand Jury were sitting, and preferred an indictment against the prisoner for feloniously as saulting witness with intent to rob him, and the pri soner not appearing to answer the indictment, a war rant was issued for his apprehension, and placed in the hands of Inspector Plume, of the C division, under which warrant the prisoner was apprehended last night in Castle-street. Witness had not the slightest doubt that the prisoner was the man who accosted him, and gave him into custody on the 20th ult., as above stated. There was not the slightest ground for such a charge. The prisoner, in defence, merely stated that he had received a wound in the head, and did rot know half his time what he was doing. Such must have been the case when he accosted Mr. Webb in the manner stated. Mr. HALL said it was a case for a jury, and fully committed the prisoner to take his trial at the next Old Bailey serrions. LLOYD'S .SHIPPING—(rius DAY.) LONDON, SEPT. I.—The weather changed this morn ing about one o'clock. and has continued to rain without much intermission since. Wind, this day at noon, S.W., moderate breeze. hazy, with rain. DEAL, AUG. 31.—Wind N.W.—Arrd. Sappho, Dun lop, China ; Peruvian. Block ; and Elizabeth, Moffatt, Calcutta ; Westminster, and Orixa, Ager, Singapore ; Enterprise, Moxey, Demerara ; Pakenham, Warren, Laguayra ; Helene, Westward. Sld. Olivia, Algoa Bay ; Claremont, Demerara ; Arno, New Orleans ; Tyne, Quenec ; London, Halifax ; James Harris, Pugwash. OFF DovEn, AUG. 31.—Janet, Brown, New York. OFF THE WIGHT, AUG. 31.—Glaphyra, St. Kitts. PORTSMOUTH, AUG. 31.—Wind N. to N. N. W.— Arrd. Switzerland, London. POOLE, AUG. 31.—Sld. John King, Bristow, Cape and Mauritius. SALCOMBE, AUG. 30.—Arrd. Era, Hingston, Rio, sails split and short of water. Arrd. off, Thisbe, Chartres, Jamaica ; Jeannette, Bleekschmidt, Porto Rico for Ham burgh ; Anna Krilling, New York for :Bremen. l'Ar.mouTH, Auc. 30.--Wind W.S.W. to N.N.W.— Arrd. Wm. Campbell, Primrose, Jacmel, left June 27. Arrd. off, Rambler, Le Gypt, Monte Video, and sailed for London ; Willia m (l ate Ch r i sto f ), Q u ebec. BRISTOL. AUG. 31.—A rr d. E ar l o f Liverpool, Neves. CLYDE, 'Alm. 23.—S1d. Levenlass, Montreal ; New York, New York. _ . LIVERPOOL, AUG. 31.—Wind N.W., moderate.—Arrd. Sarah Birkett, Atkins, Valparaiso ; Yarmouth, Monte Video ; Alice, Amwell, Barbadoes, sailed 2611 i ult. ; Etching, Segur, Porto Rico ; Swan, Blanchard, Ha vannah ; Francis. Westcott, St. John's, N.B. ; Ara minta, Quebec ; Lady Lilford, Scott, Bombay. Arrd. of, Joseph Hume, Africa ; Independence, New York ; Fernandez, Ann or Albert, Arcturus, Hill, Quebec. DUBLIN, Atm. 29.—S1d. Princess, St. John's, N.B. SCILLY, Auc. 30.—The Emma, Percival, which arrived here the 22d from Ancona, is discharging her cargo (wheat), to repair her keel, having struck on a reef near that port on leaving, June 18, and had put back next day. MONEY and _C6MMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE The great abundance of money has at length had its effect upon the Bank of England, the Directors of which establishment has issued a notice reducing the rate of discount to 31 per cent. Until this appeared the funds were exceedingly heavy, but it raised the pride of Consols to 923 for Money, and to 93* for the Account, and has given great firmness to the market; Three per Cents. Reduced, 938; Three-and-a-Half per Cents. Reduced, 1013 ; New Three-and-a-Half per Cents., 1004 101; Bank Stock, 168 169 ; India Stock, 250 252; Exchequer Bills, Old, 51 53, New, 49 51 prem. But little has been done in Foreign securities, prices remain nominally without alteration, but none are officially marked. The quotation for Mexican is 35 351. Rather more business has been transacted in Shares; Great Western have been sold at 82, the Half Shares GO ; London and Birmingham, 186 ; Brighton, 33 ; South Western, 601 601 ; South Eastern, 22 ; Black wall, 73; Greenwich, 5 ; York and North Midland, 90, the Half Shares 361. A single quotation for Spanish Three per Cents., at 201, is the only notice of the Bonds to-day. The letters from Spain to-day announce the fact that the Finance Minister has been unable to conclude negotiations with the Bank of San Fernando, or any capitalists, for a loan. The security offered was the monopoly of quicksilver, after the expiration of the con tract with Rothschild. This presents another instance of injustice towards the principal creditors of that country. Ahnost the whole of that article finds its way here, where it is largely consumed, and since the contract in question has been in existence, the price has been arbitrarily raised from about ls. Bd. to 4s. per lb., while not one sixpence of the enormous profit made either by the Spaniards or the contractors, though derived from the English, has found its way to those whose propeq in justice it is. With the fact of this poverty in the '1 reasury being declared, the agents are putting forth high-sounding ad vertisements about conversion, and threatening exclusion from the benefit of the scheme, if advantage be not taken of it before a specified period. NumerouS inquiries have been made as to the benefit to be expected, but they are certainly pro fliThrtl- blematical. The only benefit appears to be in ing an opportunity for the emission of •any quantity of spurious stock. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Bristol and Exeter 7O •• • 444 45i to 44 4 Edinburgh and Glasgow ...... Ditto New „. .„0 ...... 34 to Great Western . Ditto New Ditto Fifths London ant' Brighton „... hA . ..... iia .. to London and Blaokwall ............ 14 . 1 #..... ... to London and Birmingham .......•• 90 •....•186 ...... to London and South Western ... 41 1 ,6 soi to sok South Eastern a n d D over ... ...••• 50 ...... 22„„„ to .-_, York and N mth Midland... ..•••• 40 ...„. po Ditto New Shares.,,. ~,•••t• 20 •••••• 36i to MANCHESTER SOCK Ei'XCHANGE, AUG. 31.—WQ have had a quiet market to-day. Manchester find Birmingham, 244,-2b ; Manchester and Leeds, 72 73 ; London and Smith Western, 628 On; Sheffield and Manchester, 31* 32k. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. CITY, .WEDNESDAY EVENING. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF :THIS DAY. TlMES.—Allusion was made, a very short time back, under this head, to. the discouraging situation of the various projects connected with steam naviga tion across the Atlantic, since when they appear to be hastening at an accelerated pace towards final aban donment and ruin. The refitting Ot the ominous " ten-gun " brigs by the Admiralty, is 'talked of, to supply, the place of the steam-vessels Of the West In dia Atall.Packet Company ; the Great Western Steam ship. Company, trading between Bristol and New York, are stated publicly to be in such pecuniary difficulty as to be compelled to bring the whole con cern to an early close ; and the North American Mail Company, the only party now left to prosecute the enterprise of steam communication with America, are appealing to Government and to the trading interest to afford them a more efficient support, without which they must also throw up their contract, and that rapid and safe mode of intercourse be finally re linquished. lt will be quite apparent from thg : previous history of the last-named company, that they must 'form the chief dependence of the two countries in this respect, and that if they cannot succeed none can. It is stated to be composed of about 30 proprietors only, and to differ from joint-stock concerns gede..nilly.in confiding the whole management to two indifiduals, Mr. G. Burns, of Glasgow, and Mr. David Myer, of Liver pool, who are the individuals recognised by Govern ment as the contractors. Though usually termed "Cunard's line," after' Mr. Cunard, of Halifax, that gentleman is only one of the general proprietors. On the 4th of July, 1840, they commenced the first voyage of the contract service of carrying the American mails, for which the Government was under agree ment to pay 60,0001. per annum, but within nine months the managing partners made the mortifying discovery that the undertaking was a losing one, and that the whole capital they had em barked in it must be sacrificed unless they could obtain some further assistance from Go vernment. On the representations they made, a rehearing of the case was permitted, and after a most rigid investigation into their affairs, in the course of which it was proved, though they carried a great number of passenters and light cargo besides, that their receipts cow not cover the expenditure, an addition of 20,000ta year was conse quently made to their allowance from the Govern ment. With this advantage, they were encouraged to struggle on since that period with this undertaking, but still find, with their large capital of 300,0001., arid the intelligence and industry brought to bear on its employment, that it returns no profit. These statements are denied, it should be observed, from a publication at Liverpool, apparently under the influ ence of the parties engaged in this undertaking, but there is no reason, for believing that it has given an untrue or an exaggerated account, of their situation, which, if they did, would be easily exposed, and re act upon themselves, and hence ttlmay be admitted that the manner in which their appeal-1 - s - to be dis posed of has become a public question. After making this admission, however, the mode of dealing with it is by no means rendered so clear by the parties themselves as it ought to be in such a case. They advert vaguely to possible attempts at competi tion with them, based upon the wreck of other under takings, and seek, perhaps too eagerly, to establish what ought to be self-evident, after the experience acquired under their own contract, that no under taking for steam conveyance across the" Atlantic can succeed, unless united with the service of the Government in the transport of the mails. Any department of the Government, to which in regular course their appeal ought to be made in a direct manner, would require some better guide, and, demand of the complainants not. only an exposition of the grievances under which• they labour, but some specific suggestions of such a remedy as they themselves feel to be applicable to their situa tion. If the terms of their contract are still too low, let them state, what ought to be a matter of no difficulty after the long experience they have gained, what terms they do require to work the contract with that advantage to _themselves to which they are honourably entitled, and the question would then speedily be brought to some issue. The Government cannot, and the public will not, through indolence and inattention to such matters generally, do anything to keep off that rivalry which the North American Mail Company seem to dread, and which, if their position is a sound one, they ought as little to apprehend as the Bank of England. or the East India Company the puny attempts of any petty trading Corporation. The contract with this Company has been im pugned on the ground that it is a monopoly, and bad in principle, and that the management of such an undertaking should devolve upon the Government itself, at whatever loss, as one Means, among others, o' gradually creating an efficient steam naval force; but we should prefer leaving - AINIn private hands to those of the Admiralty or and - oiter public de partment. The dangerous and laborious service in which they are to be employed secures a supply of vessels of the best class and upon the best principles; and therefore, leaving all other advantages out of the question, we should be glad, not only to see the Korth American Company secured in permanence to the public service, - but an attempt made to re organize on better principles, and under more prudent management, that West India Company of which the ruin is pronounced to be all but certain. To return to the old vicious system of the West India packets and ten-gun brigs is a misfortune ; to recede from the great project for a communication by steam with America, so long successfully worked, and to the fu ture success of which the want of money is the only impediment, is a national disgrace. . Future improve ments in this navigation may render that profitable hereafter which is not so at present; but if the chain is once broken, any attempts of that kind will be without a motive. However eligible the Southarapton dock may be for the landing of the East and West India mails, the dissension which was exhibited between the di rectors and some of the shareholders at the half yearly meeting held to-day at the Company's offices is, to say the least of it, discouraging to its complete success. There appears to be that want of co operation and cordiality between the executive and constituency which, if persevered in,' cannot fail to damage the undertaking in the public estimation, since, while on the one hand captiousness is shown to the objections which two or three of the shareholders make to the proceedings or the manner in which the business of the Company has been conducted, it can scarcely be expected, on the other, that con cession will be made in order to secure that unanimity on general matters which is at all times essential to the well-being of any public under taking. According to the Report which was read to the shareholders, there is every reason to believe that the docks are in that stye—of forwardness which will admit of their "being opened at an early period for the reception Of vessels, and hardly a doubt can exist, should the directors be able to pacify those shareholders who are clamorous against past proceedings, but that the undertaking will ultimately gain a revenue of some consequence. The introduction of the interest of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam-packet Company. is reckoned on as increasing in public favour the pretensions these (locks have for support ; and as this is the case, it seems to be fully imagined that the packet-statical, when once established at the port, will bring a vast accession of other trade. The Report, on the' whole, was certainly considered satisfactory; but the great complaint alleged against the management of the Com pany is, that the expense of the construction of the docks, as far as they have already gone, has d ou bl e d the estimate, which. was put in for the completion of the whole undertaking. It was pointedly remarked at this meeting, as well as at the Black wall Railway meeting yesterday, that it was much tQ ho rtgretted that some legislative enactment doss not provide for the levy of pains and penalties on engineers whQ nish such delusive statements. The Consol Market has declined to--ciay about one quarter per cent., some sales aCied, it is supposed, on account of the Beach banks, having brought thy. ward more stock than was required to mge4 The_ de mand of the jobbers. It mus't also ho borne in mi n d that the late advance, which is .0 all hands admitted to have been rapid, will probably have shown persons in the eharaeter of realizers who w(Illid otherwise have . colitinned supporters of iyiees. Money has not increased beyond ow rate of 1i to 2, although the half-monthly settlement in the Foreign market took place, • . , SUN,—The " bear" party haVing ceased operations, at least for the present, the Market recovered its firmness, and Consols left off at 92i for Money, and 93 for the Account ; Bank Stock, 1671 1681 ; India Stock, 251 252 ; Exchequer Bills, Old, 51 53 ; New, 49 51 prem. More disposition has been shown to purchase Foreign Securities, and during the last few days several . parcels having been taken quietly out of th e ,Market, via** arc consequently rising, with the prospect offmther Improve ment. Belgian Stock w as 1 01 1 ;D utch Two-and • a-Half per Cents. 521 % 5,?.i; thOlive per Cents. 102 40211, Danish, 84 81 ancrUraiilia n , 641 65 1 . ThQ ctigUtiol i fp,r Mpiean was 35i 351. The prices of Shares exhibittd further decline upon those of yesterday; Lod and Birmingham were ltA 188 ; Birtningbtutt and Gloucester, 42 44; Great Western, 821 84; the Hall!' Shares, 65 651 ex div.; South Western, ox div. ; North Midland, 57 5q t the New Shares, 27/ 281 ex div. ; South E aster and Dover, 211- 221 ; Eastern Counties, 81 n and Northern and Easter, 374. 38i each div. ;Brighton, 33 334 per Share. The quotations of the Bonds were—ce.Jumbian, 20 20A; Peruvian, 15 16 ; Portuguese Vivo per Cents., 331344; the Three per Cents, 2(1 0 ; Spanish Five per Cents,, t to 2csi 214 - ; the Three per Cents., 20 201. rapers from Sydney to the 3d April have be en re . ceived this afternoon, but th e y d u , not appear e s add t s an t p p re facts to the last which carne to hand. The market s are represented to be extremely good, a nd t he the Colonists to be still further improved. GREAT NORTH 01? ENGLAND RAILWAY COMPANY. The thirteenth half-yearly meeting of this Com pany was held in their office in Northgate, in Dar lington, on Tuesday last, the 30th instant, G. 11. Wilkinson, Esq., in the chair. The Report of the Directors was agreed to, recom mending a dividend of IL ss. per share for the 1 half-year ending June 30, 1842, being after the rate of 2i per cent. per annum. From the half-yearly statement of account it appears the Company's re ceipts have been 33,5431. 10s. 6d., making with the reserve fund of 4,2681. 13s. sd. the sum of 37,8121. 3s. 11d., and that the disbursements of the Company have been 21,040/. 13. 9d., leaving a balance available for dividends 13,7721. 2s. 2d., out of which the Com i panv will pay 1/. ss. per share, as stated above, exclusive of the income tax. It ought to be Men tioned that only three months' maintenance of way is included in the disbursements, it having been agreed, at a previous meeting of the Company, that the expenses of maintaining the way for one year from the opening should be debited to the capital account. The following is a portion of the Report : " The Directors have to report that since the last meeting of the Proprietors, the Royal Assent has been given to an Act of Parliament, authorising the entire abandonment of that portion of the Great North of England Railway situated between Shincliffe West -House and Newcastle. The Company is thus relieved from the very heavy responsibility of having to at tempt the execution of works of great cost and unusual magnitude. The sanction of the Legislature - has also been obtained to the plan, already submitted to the Proprietors, of forming a Railway to Newcastle, by means of a Company on whose Shares a fixed divi dend of six per cent. is guaranteed for ten years by the various Railway Companies interested in the mea sure. The shares in the new Company have been all taken up, and the ground staked out, and in part purchased. " During the last half-year, almost the whole of the Company's engagements for materials and/ contract work have been discharged, and the contracts closed, with the exception of two, which are expected to be shortly settled. The only works of any consequence remaining, are the bridges at Darlington Bank-top and Haughton-lane, which will be commenced im mediately. " The Directors observe with satisfaction, that in coal, merchandise, lime, and fish, and in,the local traffic generally, there is a progressive increase ; at the same time, they cannot avoid the expression of their disappointment, that the general revenue is below what, judging from the experience of all other lines, they conceived they were warranted in anticipating. " In drawing a comparison with the receipts of last half-year, it will he remembered that the first half of the year is invariably less productiv e th an th e l a tt er half. The number of passengers conveyed during the last six months has been—first class, 14,833; second class, 25,486 ; third class, 37,620 ; making in all, 77,939." WOOLWICH-WEDNESDAY. INCOME-TAX. MEMORANDUM. The folldiving letter from Messrs. Cox and Co., with one to them from the Hon. Board, relative to the stoppages to be made from the Officers of the Ordnance Corps, on account of the Property-tax, is circulated for the information and guidance of all Officers of the Royal Regiment of Artillery. H. D. ROSS, Deputy Adjutant-General. Deputy Adjutant-General's 'Office, Woolwich, Aug. 28. " Craig's-court, Aug., 1842. " SIR,--Having received a letter from the Board of Ordnance, relative to the stoppages to be made from the Officers of the Royal Ordnance Corps, on account of the Property-tax fro m th e 6th o f April last, we beg to forwsrd herewith a copy of the same, and shall feel obliged by your causing it to be promulgated in the Horse Brigade and several Battalion offices, for the information and guidance of the parties concerned. " The Officers who take up their pay from us, specially on the Ist of the month at Woolwich, will have the gcodness, conformably to the enclosed letter, to deduct from the receipts they may present on Thursday next, the amount of the tax for six months on their pay and such allowances as are liable to the charge. We have, &c. " COX -and CO. " Major-Gen. Sir H. D. Ross, K.C.8." " Office of Ordnance, Aug. 24, 1842. " Gentlemen,—l am directed to communicate to you the following orders, which the Board, at the suggestion of the Ordnance Commissioners of the Property and Income-tax, have been pleased to give, with a view to facilitate the assessment and collection of the tax in this department, viz. " The Beard desire that you will stop the sum of 7d. in the pound on account of the Property-tax from all sums paid by the Ordnance through your agency, to the officers of the Royal Artillery, Royal Engineers, and Royal Sappers and Miners, except the following allowances, viz.—mess allowance, forage allowance, travelling allowances, marching money, allowance to captains of companies, for repairs of arms, &c. " That you will carry the sums so stopped by you to a separate account to be called the Property-tax Account,' the said sums to be paid over in such man ner as the Commissioners may hereafter direct, " That the said deduction of 7d. in the pound be made from every issue on account of the military pay, allowances (except those before-mentioned), and emo luments of each officer, whether the aggregate annual amount of his annual income be less than 150/. or not; and should any officer claim to be exempted from the tax on his military pay, gre., 'On the ground that the aggregate annual amount of his income is less than 1501., and is wholly derived from such pay, &c., such officer is to transmit to the Ordnance-office a notice and declaration, if he be in Great Britain or an affidavit if he be in Ireland, or abroad, accord ing to one of the accompanying forms, as the case may be, for the decision of the Commissioners of Property-tax, and if the claim to such-exemption shall be admitted, the amount of tax stopped and deducted will be repaid to the officer. " But if an officer's whole income being less than 1501. a 37ear, be derived partly f rom his military pay, &c., and partly from any other source, his claim for exemption, if he be in Great Britain, must be made to the Commissioners of the Civil District, in which he is stationed or residing, upon a form which may be o')1 ained from the assessor of the parish, and the cer tificate of exemption of such Commissioners is to be transmitted to the office of Stamps and Taxes, Somer set House, London, in order that the assessment on the officer's military pay, may be discharged. " If the officer so claiming exemption be in Ireland or abroad, he is to transmit on affidavit of the fact of his income from every source being under 150/. per year, to the Ordnance-office, as betore directed in the caae of his income being wholly derived from his pay and military allowances. "I am inconelusion, to signify the Board's further desire that you will stop the arrears due from the 6th of April last inclusive, from the next issue of pay, to the said officers of the Ordnance Military Corps, Medical awl Field Train department, as well as the amount of the tax on that issue. " G. BUTTER, for the Secretary. " Messrs. Cax and Co." NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, AUG. 31.—The Calcutta, 84, Capt. Rich, at Plymouth, has had her orders to pay off countermanded, and is now preparing :to proceed to Quebec, to bring home a regiment from Canada. The Lords of the Admiralty have returned to London from their official visit to this port. The levees of the First Lord, the Earl of Haddington, we-re numerously attended, and mr:ilied by much urbanity and kindness. The Numa transport, Lieut. Ward, agent, has gone to 01,4tham to land her invalids from the West Indies. She brought home Major-General Elrington and Captain M‘Mall3r from the 47th Regiment, which was left healthy, although much mortality had previously prey ailed, - Letters from the Southampton, 50, flag-ship of Sir Edward King, from Simon's Bay, Cape of Good Hope, of Ist June, report all well, and daily expecting the arrival of the new Admiral in the Winchester frigate, when she would proceed to England, to be paid of at Chatham, The Isis, 50, was shortly looked for, from the South American station. The Andromache, 26, was at the Mauritius. _ _ The corvette 6r;;ies, 18, is commissioned at this port, by Commander the Hon. S. Carnegie, reported to proceed to the Brazils. She is to have a crew of 140 men. The new sloop Frolic, 16, is to be commissioned shortly. Captain William llendry is the projector of her. She is a fine commodious vessel, infinitely supe rior to the old 28-gun ships; is of 510 tons, and is to have a crew of 150 men. The Sappho, 18, Commander Parry, is to be dis mautied ant paid off at Plymouth, whither she has 149iNeded. The next vessels from the West Indies will be the Pilot, 18, Racer, 16, and steamer Gleaner. The islands were left more healthy than for many mouths, The Admiral, Sir Ch arles Adam, was at Halifax. "The new steamer Thunderbolt, on her arrival from Glasgow, will be commissioned, according to report, for the Mediterranean. The brig Fantome, 16, has left the west coast of Africa, with despatches for the senior officer at Rio de Janeiro. The Formidable, 84, was at Gibraltar, and the Thunderer, 84, at Cadiz, on th e 2 0t h J uly. Crews healthy. The former was to make a short cruise along the Morocco coast. The Crocodile, 26, Mr. Elson, master, commanding, is hourly expected to arrive with troops from Quebec, and the steamer Phoenix, from the Mediterranean. At Spithead—No vessel of war. ZANY" AND POLICE. There are now 735 prisoners in Stafford goal : a special commission is expected to be opened early in September. Henry Knott, John Samuel Crispin, arid Lucy Smith were charged at Guildhall yesterday, with conspiring to defraud Messrs. Everett and Co., blacking manufacturers, Fetter-lane, of that com modity to the amount of 41. 4s. The prisoners were remanded till Friday, for further evidence. John Levy, a Jew, was finally examined at Clerkenwell yesterday, charged with stealing seventy four yards of woollen cloth, value 451., from a woollen-draper in Clerkenwell. He was committed for trial, but will be broUght up again on Tuesday, the property in the meantime to be traced. • At Marlborough-street yesterday, Frederick Martin was charged with stealing various articles, the property of the Duke of Beaufort ; and his Grace's servants, and fully committed. Michael Mahon, was brought up at Greenwich yesterday for final examination, charged with malici ously cutting and wounding Jane Featherstone, a married woman, residing at Deptford. He was committed. Yesterday, Henry Clotheer was convicted in a mi tigated penalty of 255., at Lambeth-street, for working an illicit still in his house. LITER,AnY AND scxExTirxc. At Strasburg, a scientific congress is to meet on the 28th of September next. Seven hundred and fifty savans,. from different parts of Europe, have already announced their intention of attending it. SPORTING. _ _ Partridge shooting commences to-day. Good sport was anticipated, as the birds are abundant, and the fields cleared of corn; but the rain, we fear, will disap point many cockneys. The studs of Colonel Anson, the Marquis of West minster, and Lord George Bentinck are about to be disposed of. There seems to be quite a mania among the aristocracy at present to get rid of their horses. COURT-PASRIONABLE. The Duke and Duchess of Bedford are expected at Woburn Abbey to-morrow. The Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne will arrive at Vienna, towards the eloSe, of the month. Earl Delawarr left Upper .Grosvenor-street on Monday, for Buckhurst Park, near East Grinstead. The Earl and Countess of Mount-Edgcumbe are expected home from Germany about the end of October. • _ The Earl and Countess of Jersey arrived yesterday at Turville Park, near Kingston-on-Thames, upon a visit to the Lord Chancellor and Lady Lyndhurst. The Earl of Lansdale has gone to the new hotel, Slough. Viscount and Viscountess Maynard are about to proceed on a tour through Switzerland. Viscount Cantalupe left town on ' Sunday for the Colonel Lowther has arrived at Lowther Castle, from a tour. Lord Rivers arrived on the 28th at Brussels. On the same day Prince Esterhazy, the Austrian Ambas sador to the Court of Great 13ritttini,' also arrived at Brussels on hi , t way from Vienna to London. His Highness was to set out for London on the same day. '.S7.XSC3II.3Li&NEOV.TS. An oak still stands in Bowthorp Park, 15 yards in girth, in the enormous hollow of which parties of a dozen at a time may dine.• The length of the shelves in the new portion of the British.ltluseum is eight miles, those in the library at Munich fifteen miles, and those of the King's library in Paris twenty miles.. The first contains 260,000 volumes, the second 500,000, and the third 650,000. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. (RECEIVED THIS I)AY.) ABINGDON RACES.—WEDNESDAY. The Foal Stakes of 50 isovs. each, h. ft. One mile. (4 subs.) Hon. S. Herbert's Nessus, Bst 71b walked over The Marcham Park Stakes of 25 sovs. each, with 40 added, 15 ft., and 5 only if declared; the second saves his stake. Two miles. (22 subs.) 11 declared. Mr. Scott's Mosque, 4 yrs, Bst (Butler) 1 Mr. Forth's Vibration, 3 yrs, 7st 41b 2 Mr. Graydon's Helpmate, 6 yrs, 7st 121 b Mr. Wroughton's Mobarek, 5 yrs, Bst Mr. Collett's Isaac, aged, Bst 91b Mr. Isaac Day's Tamburini, 6 yrs, Bst 1016 Won by a head. The Pusey Ifern Stakes of 5 sovs. each, with 20 added ; winner to be sold for 200/., &c. Two miles. (16 subs.) Mr. Lucas's The Traitor, 3 yr.! (Evans) 1 Mr. Pryse's Australia, 4 yrs Mr. Etwall's Pelerine, 4 yrs Mr. Blandy's Wildfire, 3 yrs Mr. I. Day's Viola, 4 yrs A fine race. The Berkshire Stakes of 10 sovs. each, h ft, with 15 added, winner to be sold for 80 soya. Heats. (11 subs.) Mr. I. Day's m, by Nimrod, out of Busk, 5 yrs, 9st Olb (Wakefield) 1 5 Mr. Herbert's Teetotaller, 3 yrs, 6st 71b Mr. Blandv nd Romance, 3 yrs, sst 131 b. 6 3 3 Lord Ban:ington nd Maid of the Mill, 4 yrs 3 4 4 Mr. Pusey's President, 4 yrs, ist. 121 b Mr. Legg's My Pet, 3 yrs, Est! 4 dr The Old Berkshire Hunt Stakes of 10 sovs. each h ft. Gentlemen riders. Heats, two miles. (5 subs.) Mr. Legg's Stickler, aged walked over. CHELMSFORD RACES—WEDNESDAY. The Cup • Stakes of 10 sovs. each. The winner to be • sold for 3001., &c. Three miles. (6 subs.) Mr. Nightingale's Ajax, 4 yrs, Bst 71b (Sly) 1 Mr. Rogers's Prosody, 3 yrs, 7st llb •W on easy. The Town Plate of 501. Winner to be sold for 120/. Mr. Smith's Appleton Lass, 6 yrs, 9st 21b...(51y) 1 1 Mr. Skingsley's Fame.. 4 yrs, Bst 111 b 2 2 Sir John Tyrrell's Miss Sally, 3 yrs, ist 3 dr 'Won in a canter. The Hylands Stakes of 10 sovs. each, with 50 added. Last half mile. (5 subs.) Mr. Ongley's The Gipsey Queen, 2 yrs, Bst 31b (Sly) . 1 Mr. Coleman's Jamal, 2 yrs, Bst 51b General Yates's Rook's Nest, 2 yrs, Bst .51b Won easy. Match, SO says., one mile.—Mr. Casidy's Miller's Maid, 9st (Casidy, jun.), beat Mr. Smith's Economist, Bst., in a canter. ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY• The accounts received this morning from Adding ton Park, state that the strength of the venerable Primate has not decreased. Dr. Chambers and Dr. Ferguson are in attendance upon his Grace. N otw•ithstanding the unfavourable state of the weather, the inquiries at the Palace this morning were exceedingly numerous. A bulletin, of which the following is a copy, was exhibited at Lambeth Palace : " llis Grace has passed another tranquil night, and his strength has not decreased." " Addington Park, Sept. 1, 1842." GREAT NORTH OF ENGLAND RAILWAY. Traffic returns for the week ending Aug. 27, 1842 : Passengers Merchandise 4 409 0 0 £1,569 7 6 Corresponding week last year ...£1,586 7 6 Darlington, Aug. 31. W. 'O'BRIEN, Secretary. TILE PosT-orricE.—The London district carriers have addressed a memorial to the Right Hon. the Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury, begging their Lordships' attention to a statement of grievances, and the painful situation in which they are placed, in conse quence of the inadequate remuneration received by them, when compared with their arduous and fatiguing duty. There are, it appears, 674 twopenny post letter-carriers, out of which 80 only, of the seniors, receive a salary of 255. a week, and the remaining 594 each 20s. per week —an amount fixed 28 years ago, when the duty required was not more than one-third of the duty incumbent on each, and discharged by each, at the present time. The London district letter-carriers have lately been charged with the delivery of all ship letters, and all foreign and inland letters, which arrive by coach and railroad at all times in the day, after the General Post-office delivery which, with the increased and increas ingpenny postage, requires the services of these letter - earners 14 or 15 ha s l c a o b m o ur ca ge u ll sed by the adoption of the The petition has been signed by a bankers, merchants, and tradersin Llhaoorugnro number v r d s n e . y day. o In Harbour—St. Vincent, Victory, Exi Imaum, Orestes, Sylvia, Echo, and flag tens Brighton Gazette. HOP INTELLIGENCE. WORCESTER, Ave. 31.—110 p-picking commence partially in this district on Monday last, and next week it will be general throughout the whole planta tion ; and from the very favourable reports received on Saturday and this morning, there is no doubt but that the produce will be abundant, and the sample ex cellent. The duty has been gradually rising forsome time past, and bets are made at 18,0001. to 19,0001. There is scarcely any thing doing in the market. Nu hops have been weighed since our last report.— Wor cester Journal. MAIDsTows, AuG. 30.—We understand that many of our extensive planters commence picking their hops this day, which-is full ten days earlier than the ave rage period, owing to the fine and propitious summer that we have had. With some very few exceptions, a more beautiful crop as to quantity and quality has not presented itself of late ; the poles are not - so hea vily laden with bine as in some years, but the fruit on them is thick and richer in proportion ; and as our agricultural neighbours are highly extolled for their excellent mode of cultivation, we trust they will equally excel in their picking, curing, and packing; their-coin modity will then give but little more for their factors to do than to present their samples in order to supply the extensive demands that may be expected, on ac count of the almost generally good quality of this year's growth, and the very low state of all stocks - on land. Maidstone Journal. POST OFFICE NOTICE.---The following notice has been put up at the Post-office :—" A bag will be made up for New York from this office, to go by s t eamer . Letters will be in time if posted on Friday next." Two LIVES LOST.—At a very early hour on Mon day morning two gentlemen left London for the purpose of proceeding to `I, oolwich to witness the departure of . her Majesty for Scotland ; but, melancholy to relate, ih passing through the Pool the nose of the boat struck against a barge, near the entrance of th e London Dry:ks, and in an instant went down. Two men in a collier wit nessed-the occurrence, and instantly got into a boat and: rowed to the spot, but were too late to render any assist ance. Their names were Lloyd and Preeinantle, the former was in his 26th year, and was on the point of nrar riage with a daughter of a wealthy merchant in the ti ty. The bodies have not yet been found. Mr. Free.nantle was 30 years of age, and had a large scar in Ors; palm o f his hand. RAPID " JUSTICE."—On Tuesday s Itt the New Court, Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey, the Common Sergeant, assisted by Mr. Aldermtru Farebrother, pre sßed for the purpose of trying the minor charges of felony, when in the space a two hours and a-half, namely, from nine until half-past eleven o'clock, the Learned Judge tried twenty prisoners, each trial aye ' raging just seven minutes and a-half. Within this space of time the prisoner had to be called up, the indictment to be read, then to plead, the examination of witnesses, cross-examination and speeches of counsel, and the MID', ming up of the Learned Judge, consultation of the Jo - LT, and verdict. NEW MEN OF WAR.--The Superb, a new ship of the line, of eighty guns, is appointed to be lamiched on Tuesday next, at Pembroke Deck-yard ; and on the same day the Albion, of ninety guns, will be launched at Plymouth. The Admiralty have ordered the new war-steamers, now building at the dock-yards, to be named the Rattler, Rocket, Ruby, Scourge, and Gladiator. The Board, in consideration of the hard work performed by the rope-makers, hest ordered the superannuation pensions of that class of workmen to be increased from 201. to 241. per annum. FIRE IN SIDNEY'S-ALLEY.—Last night, about half past seven o'clock, a fire broke out on the premises be longing to Messrs. Bycroft, known as the . Leicester square shawl and fur emporium, at No. 54, Sidney's alley. The light caught some 13russels lace, es an, assistant was lighting the gas, and thy; whole of the stock of valuable goods in a short time was eompleviy in flames. Property to the amount of at least 1,0004 was destroyed. It was ensured, and the loss will fall upon the Sun, York, and North of England offices. A gentleman named Coy received several severe burns while endeavouring to extinguish the fire. The same premises were wholly consumed by fire about two s years ago. EXPORT OF 'MANUFACTURED GOODS TO TIM UNITED STATES. —At no period for many years has the quantity of British manufactures shipped to the United States been so small as it is at present. If even a packet bhip gets a freight of 250/. or 300 L, it is considered very. good as things go now. Passengers are the most profit able kind of freight, and they continue to be very nu merous. The packet ship Patrick Henry, which sailed. on Friday, carried out 20 cabin and 250 steerage passen gers, whose passage-money would yield not less than 800/. Her freight on goods did not reach 3001.—Shef field Iris. THE LATE LOSS OF LIFE IN LOUGH SWILLEY.— Twelve of the bodies of the unfortunate men v. ho were drowned in Lough Swiliey on the 7th inst., have been found within these few days. One, that of a man named Sweeney, a man of large stature, and roe erful limbs, WAS found floating off the Hawk's Nest, on the west side or the island of Inch. The other eleven Were discovere.# between Buncrave and Linsfort. One of the survivor s tells an affecting story respecting five of these. He Fays that when the b oat upset, he instau tly sank to the bentom, but soon rose again to the surface, and, on `looking around, and stretching himself, intending to swim to wards the shore, his brother came up so t'ame to him, that his head touched his outstretched arm. He (the survivor) then laid hold of the boat, Eat extended one of his legs in the hope that his brother would take advan tage of the offered support, awl be kept afloat till a boat should eome to their assistance. At this moment four others hose close to them, when the four and his brother caught each other in a deadly grasp, and sank to rise Ito more, locked in one another's arms. Last week a hook from a drag-line caught in the clothes of one of them, and the Ave bodies were hauled up in the same position in which they had disappeared, the struggles of death and the tossing of the waves not having separated them in, their last embrace.—Derry Sentinel THE HUNGERFORD AND LAMBETH SUSPENFION FOOT-BRIDGE COMPANY.—Yesterday the ital.:yearly general meeting of the Directors and Proprietor s of the Hungerford and Lambeth Suspension Foot-'bridge Com pany was held at the office of the Com Any, Villiers. street, Strand, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the last half-year's proceedings and the election of three Directors, &c. ; Mr. Wm. Hawes, Deputy Chair man, presided. The Directors' and Engineer's Reports were read, from which it appeared that the works were progressing rapidly to completion. The Chairman said that he had to ask the Proprietors' sanction empowenng the Directors to raise a sum of money for the completion, of the undertaking. A loan of 26,000/. would be re-. quired. The Directors thought it more advisable fro borrow than to make a further call on the Sharelmide...s. Various questions were put by several of the Prorrietors, when in reply the Chairman stated that therovvere 400 shares in a state of uncertainty, amounting to about 4,7001., the arbitration of 200 of which had oeen under taken by the Earl of Devon, their Chair-Juin ; and that the expenses attending the works had been 5,0001. less than the contract; and he further stated that the Com pany was not in debt. It having been resolved that the Report be received, adopted, printed, and circulated among the Proprietors, the Directors were empowered to borrow the money they required. Messrs. B. Hawes, G. Vaughan, and G. F. Walker, were re-elected Direc tors. The meeting then broke up. CORONER'S INQUEST.—Mr. Higgs, the Coroner r.Ol - yesterday held an iuquest at the Du', 4 rw s Head, St. Martin's-street, Leicester-square, respee.ing the death of Don Pedro de Legano-i-Martin, aged. 37, a distinguished o ffi cer of th e Sp an i s h arm y, whoa 3.11 1822 raised a regiment to defend the Palace when it was assailed, for which service he received the' tiny ,ks of the * Cortes. He was also a P.G.M. of the Fr;-eraasons. In consequence of no notice of the death of the deceased having been sent to the parish authorities, and the wife having for a time after the deceased lucked up the room and left the house, it was deemed necessary to have the body opened, as, if the deceased bad destroyed himself the Order of Freemasons undertake the funeral. It appeared by the evidence) that the deceased resided at the house of Adolphe Ciayez, No. 22, Green -street, Leicester-square, Or. Sunday, he was called up by the deceased's wife, who said deceased had b een taken very ill at three e7clOck in the morning. Ile went to Dr. Seaton's, in Leicester-square, but could make no one bear. He saw a Frenchman, who told him he would send a French surgeon. Witness went home, but finding no one had arrived, went out again, and on his return the deceived, was dead. His wife and a young man were pres&A. In answer to questions put by the Jury, he said the wife s tayed in the room until five in the afternoon, when- sire went out, and took the key with her. She came 7 .)ack the next day, Nothing, np to that time, had done to the body. lie had not put his shutters up, .nor had he sent notice to the beadle. Mr. Bainbridfse,, of No. 86, St. Martin's -lane, surgeon, who had open.&. the body, said that death was caused by aneurism of t:tte heart of very long standing. The widow, through t h e B aron d e Bolder), said, that the deceased had eater, a light supper on Saturday night, and went to bed at ten o'clock, but he was very ill during the night. A W.rdict of" Natural Death " was returnee. REGISTRATION OF VOTERS. IN CITIES AND BOBGUGHS.—On. Sunday next and the following Sunday, the lists of persons objected to, and of those claiming to be registered, are, or ought to be publi s h e d, an d a f fi xed on all the chu rc hl and chapel doors of the various parishes, and are kept by the overseers for perusal at all reasonable hours, without fee, during the first ten days preceding the .15th day of September. It is not required in cities and boroughs that voters should be personally served with notice of objection as in counties. Reformers should, therefore, inspect the list in order to see that. • their names are not objected to, and also inspect the list of claims, with a view of preventing persons from belly , . put on the register wh o are not ent i tled. Those persr ,ns who are objected to must appear themselves, or some one on their behalf, to prove their qualification befor e the Revising Barrister, who holds his Court sow e tine between the 15th of September and the 25th of October, of which due notice will be given, and posted 'on all the church and chapel doors in boroughs. The General Steam Navigation Comparly's steam ship, Wilberforce, Captain Stranack, arrived from Ant werp at the Brunswick Wharf, Blackwell, this morning, at nine. In consequence of thick-eveat:ner, her pastage occupied nineteen hours and a half, being- one hour and a half after her usual time. She brings Belgian papers of Wednesday. ERRATUM.--The Secretary of the London and Blackwell Railway Company is Mr. Kennel], not Kill naird, as given in The Sun yesterday. S tr N *7, •gf .• , t .v.-,4 tea_ I .) XtrictS.N.l