The Sun. — London, England, 1842-09-02 00:00:00

'LAND. 4UADRON ty it appears )rfordness on about half -3 received by Coast-guard beach. The •ds the roads 1-easterly di out at sea. by the dis heads of the s supposed to er becoming s reduced to Yarmouth it the :Minerva, • to the state— 's arrival the Is off' Aldbo— lid :lot take running up whei sud ght towed by id prevously close, or, ac- Lere. At the s considTed on at abut at half-pest ewcastle, 01 yal squadrol and reported iat the Roya. nast-head to ny's steamer ridge-wharf, en two and was to have , but it had evening it 1 the north a heavy sea. r PIER. ranton Pier, been under of a private expense of hough it is less a mo'.e n ding-place, his Grace's and a half pier is 1,700 , for the ac t sizes. A the length g and land ?Atreme end dth, with a the largest t all times. ced for the night, to be of which a ed. So far speeted this owes a deep vill be com- of masonry on the pro pier. The Med shortly which have traordinary h, and aye quarry was 3t - it to Lon -2 tons, and itter, in the tsses mrgh-road, ole expense road, corn— Grace has vith scarlet 3 as cannot xrm in the more im )mmanding- landlord at > follow : ht will be rly, to the ;pond with being one The gang reach the •rival take son. The ead of the r Majesty Duke, Sfr tion of the ivity, and worthy of generally. yrepara ving-room g engaged and in the 1-room, a rig the ne e brilliant to grace a lip of that >od House e arrange indispen- om Tay- the Ad tg's Park, on whom Holyrood the Mar the Duke uchess of wlet, Sir ) IL and bery and Edward lay, Earl rne, Earl ived. Dwark have just louse to intending railway convey and from nearly re before e unable, ONDAY. d distin and his LX. of the' ,eld yes address in Scot lbly, in )bserva be pre on her ieartfelt Scottish Diffe ; was a ground •eed.") some • bring )re her MILTON v, stat urch of r's s ra.. Imittee tion. IC 1110- yve in ed this e, and those nposed to re ubject h was ructed d the Mr. ,CUNNIii-G;JA.M. support•Pd the motion -of—Dr. • • Make llaa Mr. JAMES MONCRIEEF, advocate, and Mr. MAC burr RHIND, having stated their approbation of Dr. Buchanan's motion, the vote was come to, and as there were three motkons, it was necessary to take three votes. The first was taken on the motion of Mr. Crichton and Dr. Buchanan, when the latter was carried by a majority of 68 to 25. The vote was then tak en b etween D r. Makellaf ' s motionand Dr. Buchanan's, when the former was carried by a majority of 88 to 60. The COmmission again met about a quarter-past four, when the draft of an address to the Queen was read . by Dr. Lee, and unanimously agreed to. Dr. Lee also produced the draft of an address to Prince Albert, whiCh was also agreed to. Some conversation then ensued as to the best mode of presenting the address. It was stated that the Church had the privilege, in common with th e Edin burgh C o r pora ti on an d the Universities, in the case of addresses received personally, of having them received by her Majesty on the throne ; but there being a doubt as to whether this honour would be conferred on any public body on the 'present occasion, a Commit.; Inittee was appointed to make the necessary inquiries, and report to the Commission on Thursday. HER MAJESTY'S VISIT. Some conversation then took place respecting the arrangements for her Majesty's reception. Baillie RICHARDSON stated the result of an inter -view which the Lord Provost and himself had had with the Duke of Buccleuch on this subject. Her Majesty, according to the information furnished by his Grace, was to arrive in travelling order, without the usual State accompaniments, and wouldpass pretty quickly up the Granton road and through the city. She would unquestionably stop to receive the keys of the city from the Magistrates ; but his Grace hoped they • would detain her Majesty for as short a time as pos sible, in order that she might proceed to Dalkeith Palace. Bailie TnomsoN expressed considerable surprise at the apparent want of respect manifested to the city by her Majesty's advisers, in having not only sent no offi cial notice either of her Majesty's visit or of the ar rangements respecting her movements, but in not hav ing even answered the communication addressed to the Government so far back as thirteen days ago. If her Majesty's arrangements were not altered, it Would create much disappointment, and might be pro ductive of very serious results. Several other members of Council expressed them selves in sknilar terms ; and the result was the appoint ment of a Committee to communicate with Sir Robert Peel, or some other of the Officers of State, or membe rs o f t h e Privy Council, in order to try and get her Majesty to alter her arrangements for the gratification of the inhabitants. The, Council then adjourned. THE PALACE OF HOLYROOD • " PALATIU3I SANCTX CRUCIS." Bring my armour bright, and my coursAr white, 'Tis not each day that a warrior hight May see a Royal bride ! Then helmets glance, and gleams the lance, Throughout the vasty wolde ; And brake and bramble glitter gay • With pearls and cloth of gold, tiolyrood, to which an imaginary sanctity has long attached —which has been the residence of a long line of Kings --the histories attached to which are con nected with the splendid, and many of the dark, Spots on Scottish annals, is now about t o rece i ve o ur Illustrio us Q ueen and Sovereign within its walls mand precincts. Royalty will once more throw into agnificen ce t h ose halls and chambers which have for ong time been dim and silent. The present Royal visit will tend, in some degree, to excite in the minds of the loyal people of Edina no faint idea " of the days of other years," when the presence of its Monarchs communicated splendour and animati on t o t h e ancient metropolis, inspiring it with a proud consciousness of the remote antiquity and hereditary independence of the Scottish throne. James V. is supposed to have been the first who gave rise to this stately fabric, from his having, as the old chroniclers relate, " in the spring of the year 1525, founded a fair palace in the Abbey of Holy rood-house, and three reat tours till res t i nto, when be Pleas e d t o come. " S o says says "Pitscottie's Chronicle," and who will doubt it? On the Bth March, 1326-7, Robert Bruce held his fount eenth Parli ament w i th the church of Holyrood 4 +4 , 4 ey ; and Edward Baliol held his Parliament in also e s ame pla ce i n F e b ruary, 1333-4. Robert 111. occasionally resided here when he came to Edin burgh, and here granted the remission to Alban y and Dougla s , for his son Rothsay's death. JamesL and his Queen also resided at Holyrood, where, on the 16th October, 1430, she was delivered of male twins; one of whom (James II.) succeeded his father, and was crowned here on the 25th March, 1437. In June,l449, that Prince was married in this favoured place, to Mary of Gueldres. He was also buried here, in August 1460. Holyrood was thus the scene of four of the principal events in the personal history of James his birth, coronation, marriage, and burial. James 111. took up his abode here " while he gladdened Edinburgh with his presence ;" and "on the - 13th of July, 1469, was maryit in HoJyrood House, in greate dignitie, with Margaret, the King's douchter of Norway, Dasie, Swasie, and Denmark. (Old C'hron. at the end of Wyntoun.) James IV. was also married here, and Young, the herald of that King's marriage, at the age of thirty, to Margaret of .England, in her u the following curious account off o itrteenth year, gi ves " After all reverences done at the church, in order, the King transported himself to the Pallais, through the cloistre, holdynge allwayes the body, Quene by the and hys hedammer. bare, tyll he had brought her within her ch" The same monarch, also, on the 16th February, 15 05-6, ratified in Parliament his gift of 20 merks from the great customs of Edinburgh, for the main tenance of a chaplain to sing in the chapel, within his palace of Holyrood, and for his fee in keeping the Palace. In 1506 the palace appears to have sustained some injury by fire, on the 17th of April in that year, lie granted a charter to the Earl of Huntley, in which he recited, that the Earl's title deeds had been lately consum e d b y fi re, i n h i s l O dging within the 7 11a1 palace.—(Parl. Rec. 523.) u uring the inroad of the E ar l o f H er tf or d, i n t h e minority of Queen Mary, this p a l ace , w ith th e a bb ey, Were burnt by the English army ; they were both, how ever, soon rep a i re d, w h en th e palace became a larger building than the present, and consisted of five co urts , Upon her re t urn to S cotland, Queen Mary took Possession of this palace, on the 19th of April, 1561, and on the 29th of July, 1565, her marriage with B enr3r, Lord Darnley, was solemnised in th e adjoin 1148' abbey church, a t five o'clock in the morning. The assault and murder of David Rizzio was per tetrated in this palace on the 9th March, 1566. His ' 100 (1 is still said to stain the floor of one of the oldest tartments. On the 15th May, 1567, the hall of L 413 Palace was th e scene o f th e same Q ueen ' s un f or- Kmate union with James Earl of Bothwell. They 24°0n, however, abandoned Holyrood House, in conse .uence of th e th reatene d se i zure of their persons ; fled rum it to Bothwell Castle, and thence to the Castle of Dunbar. After being brought back to her own Palace, from the unfortunate affair of Carberry-hill, Sh e was removed to Lochleven Castle, as a prisoner t o b r l ife. After Mary's remov a l f rom H o l yroo d H ouse, th e articl es o f va l ue b e l ong i ng to her were seized by : e Nobles, an d h er p l ate or d ere d to b e coined, for ans wering,, their pe c u n i ar y d eman d s . trifling alterations and r e p a i rs were ma d e i n t he Pala ce , un d er t h e di rect i on o f In i go Jones, about e time of James the Sixth's return from Denmark h his Queen, who was solemnly crowned i wi th the .accustomed rites, in the abbey c n h l u s r 9 cll o . , 11°1Yrood-house, indeed, appears to have been a fa vourite residence of James VI. until his succession to th e English throne. It was here that his Queen was del ivered of th e P r i nce Henry Frederick, and the Princess Elizabeth, who was christened here on the s ' of December, 1796. eit A cze ft n e s f r o a splendid recep ti on b y th e M ag i strates an d Edinburgh, Charles I. was crowned in the ab bey ch urc h of Holyrood, on the 18th June, 1633, with unwonted ce remon i es , an d per h aps unexampled sPlend o G ur. Great part of the p a l ace was d estroye d b y t h e sol 'Tiers of Cromwell, after which it appears to have re d in a rui nous condition until the Restoration, i v n en an orde r was i ssued by Charles 11. for repair rag it . In consequence of this mandate, the present Bruc e, fabric was designed by Sir IVilliam b a celebrated architect of that reign, and built toted Yeabtert Mylne, mason, A.D. 1671-8. a partiality to the Catholics, that King insti -4 Popish College in the abbey of Holyrood," fid published rules for it on the 22d of March, 1688. Chil drenf aith. were here to be educated gratis in that printer, lie also appointed one Watson, a Popish who to be King's printer in Holyrood House, ne obtained also a right from the Privy Council to Printaee all the prognostications at Edinburgh, which the for arrived many books bearing in their title pages e imprint " Holyrood House." OE . the 23d of November, 1686, the King's yacht from London at Leith, with the altar, vest mens ire th e 1 ages, priests, and their appurtenances for on z.el•ation of Popish worship in the Royal chapel. Andrew's day (Nov. 30) the chapel was con secrated by holy water, and a sermon by Th e eff ects of th's • • nifest. In ---eee 1_ I imprudence became ma Wedrington. Muer, 1 688 the populace of Edinburgh medi tea rev ' th er i i. 4 1 8 e. The students of the University plisb ney proceeded to Holyrood House to accom joined . d es i g uard 6, i gn on th i s unconscious structure. The of e a L.:Posen. and fired on them, under the direction Walla*'but, having surm6unted this oh- stacle, they forced the doors of the chapel, and, aLer destroying the ornamental parts of the building, car ried off the furniture to the cross, where it was burned in zealous, triumph. In the year 1745, the you - rig Chevalier Charles, during his residence in Edinburgh, took possession of the old apartments, built by James V., and a few weeks afterwards, the Duke of CuMberland, on his return from the field of Culloden, occupied the same rooms, and the same bed, which is still remaining. Subsequently to this time, the palace was much neglected for many years. Ab9ut five and forty years since; however, the Barons of the Exchequer caused the whole buildings of the palace to undergo a tho rough repair. Shortly afterwards the Royal apartments afforded an asylum to the unfortunate exiles of the Royal family of France; Monsieur, then Count, dr'Artois, and his two sons, the Dukes D'Angoul eme an d Berri, with many others of the French nobility. These illus trious strangers, after a residence of several years in this palace, left Scotland in 1799, after expressing a high sense of gratitude for the generous treatment they had experienced from the Magistrates, Nobility, and Gentry. During his residence in Holyrood House, his Royal Highness had frequent levees, which were extremely brilliant, and attended by the first personages and characters of the country. Many of these Royal refugees have since returned to Holy rood House, and it is not many years since they filially left it for their native country. Among the curiosities shown, are many articles which belonged-to Queen Mary :in particular a bed of Mary' s which is of crimson damask, bordered with green stalk tassels and fringes, and is now almost in tatters. The trap-stair is also shown, through which passage Lord Darnley and the other conspirators rushed in to murder David Rizzio, while the Queen was supping with the Countess Argyle. The armour of Henry Darnley and James VI. appears in the room from which the musician was dragged. Through out the . suit of apartments some good pictures are shown : one in particular, the gallery, of a dark and solemn appearance, which contains one hundred and eleven portraits of the kings of Scotland, from the re puted time of Fergus I. down to the time of the Re volution. These portraits were all hacked and slashed and many large pieces cut out of them by General Hawley's troops, in 1745, when quartered here. This gallery is now used at the election of the Sixteen Scot tish Representative Peers. His late Majesty, George IV, visited this palace on the 15th August, 1821. A vast concourse of people at tending him on his landing at Leith, to the Palace of Holyrood, where the Lord Provost and Town Coun cil of Edinburgh presented a congratulatory address. On the 17th his Majesty held a Court here, and on the 20th, a Levee, at which addresses of the different public,bodies in Scotland were received. On the 22d, he repaired, accompanied by a grand procession, from the Palace of Holyrood to the Castle, escorted by the Highland Clans, tinder their respective leaders, in full tartan costume. On the 23d he reviewed the troops on Portobello Sands, amid an immense assem blage of his Scottish subjects. On the 24th the King made his appearance at a ball given by the Peers at the Assembly-rooms, and on the following day dined with the Corporation in the Parliament House. On Sunday, the 26th, his Majesty attended divine service in the High Church, and soon after service proceeded to Dalkeith. On the 27th he embarked at Queens ferry, and immediately set sail for the Thames, where the Royal squadron arrived on the 30th, when his Majesty-landed at Greenwich, and proceeded thence to Carlton-house. COURT CIRCULAR. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester left Bushey-house, Bushey-park, where her Royal High ness had been staying on a visit to her Majesty the Queen Dowager, yesterday morning for her residence in Bagshot-park. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge ar rived in town yesterday from his residence at Kew. In the afternoon his Royal Highness attended at the Horse Guards, and afterwards returned to Kew. The Chancellor of the Exchequer arrived in town yesterday from Ryde, Isle of Wight. Dispatches were sent off last evening fer the Go vernors of the West India ColoniesAfrom the Colonial office. The splendid service of plate, weighing upwards of 38,000 ounces, executed for th e C ount W oronzow Dashkaw, was forwarded yesterday in the Jupiter for St. Petersburgh. The magnificent centre-piece, en riched with devices from the legend of St. Geoige and the dragon, the titular saint of Russia, had, together with other principal pieces of the service, been sub mitted to her Majesty and Prince Albert. The style is that of Louis Quatorze. ILLNESS OF MISS ADELAIDE KEMBLE. --- BRIGHTON, AUG. 31.—Our readers are already aware that Miss Kemble was announced to sing at a morning concert in Brighton on Wednesday. A great number of reserved seats were taken, and we may judge the disappointment experienced by those who had purchased tickets on reading a handbill, of which the following is a copy : " 81, Harley-street, Cavendish-square, " Wednesday Morning, Eight o'Clock. " Dear Sir,—My daughter, Miss Adelaide Kemble, is so seriously indisposed this morning as to render it impossible for her to go to Brighton. I regret this disappointment very deeply, and can only offer her services for Brighton and Worthing, at any future day you may select. Yours very respectfully, " C. KEMBLE. " P.S.—The early hour of the morning, as well as the shortness of time, prevent my sending you a medical certificate, which, however, I will do in the course of the day. " C. K. " Mr. F. Beale." Most of the company were not aware of this till they entered the room, but being already d resse d f or the concert, they seemed determined to hear as much as could be provided for them, and Miss Rainforth, Mr. Balfe, Mr. Weiss, Madame Dulcken, and Don F. Huerta gave great satisfaction by their respective per formances. ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY. The accounts received yesterday 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. Notwithstanding the unfavourable state of the weather, the inquiries at the Palace yesterday were exceedingly numerous. A bulletin, of which the following is a copy, was exhibited at Lambeth Palace : " His 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 409 0 0 £1,569 7 6 Corresponding week last year ...£1,586 7 6 Darlington, Aug. 31. W. O'BRIEN, Secretary. Loss OF LIFE IN A BRICK-KILN.—Some sensation was created yesterday in the neighbourhood of Maiden lane, Copenhagen-fields, by the report that four boys had been found in a brick-kiln, and that fatal conse quences had been the result. Upon inquiry it was ascertained that about a quarter before six o'clock, police-sergeant Shaw received information that four lads had been discovered by John Paisley and Charles Tubley, brickmakers employed in Rhodes' fields, in the brick-kiln. The police-sergeant immediately proceeded thither, and with the assistance of other con stables, succeeded in drawing out the lifeless bodies of two lads, and in rescuing two others, apparently in a lifeless state. Assistance having been procured, the victims were removed to the St. Pancras workhouse, and the bodies of the deceased boys were deposited in the dead house adjoining the workhouse, and the re maining two having been attended by a surgeon, they were removed to the University College Hospital. PARLIAMENTARY PETITIONS.—During the last session the number of petitions for a repeal of the Corn and Provision Laws, and in favour of free trade, amounted t o 3,585, with 1,590,636 signatures ; while against the Government measure on the Corn-laws, there were 185 petitions, with 104,533 signatures. In favour of the abolition of the system of Church patronage in Scotland, there were eighteen petitions, with 17,689 signatures ; and for an increase of emolument to the parish school masters of Scotland, were 22 petitions, with 111 sig- natures. PROPERTY AND INCOME-TAX EXEMPTION.—The great boon proposed by the Minister to exempt every person from this tax whose income does not amount to 1501. yearly, is likely to be lost altogether by vast num bers, in consequence of the mode which has been adopted in carrying the Act into operation. The asses sors, whether ander the authority of the Tax Office or not it is not presumed to state, do not deliver at the houses the printed form for claiming exemption ; and if such form be not properly filled up, signed, and sent in to the assessor in due time, no return of duty—whether stopped at the Bank, or assessed on houses and paid by the tenant, or assessed on the party for profits from trade or profession, however small the income may be— will be made. Therefore it behoves every person, whose whole income, from every source whatever, does not amount to 150/. per annum, immediately to call on the assessor of the parish for a printed exemption form, and to have it filled up properly, and returned to him with- out delay, or the Peel blessing of 31. per cent. will be assuredly levied on every person, even it his income is only Si. per year. A letter from Bologna states, that on the 13th two floors of the Abbadia, a benevolent institution, gave way with between 700 and 800 poor workmen in them, bearing everything to the ground. Immediate aid was afforded, but a length of time elapsed before all the vic tims of the accident could be extricated from the ruins. Three persons were killed, and npwards of 70 wounded, some of them dangerously. SPORTSMAN. Major Calder Campbell—a dextrous versifyer— contributes a gossiping, desultory paper to the cur rent Number of this periodical, under the appropriate title of " Rough Recollections of Rambles Abroad and at Home," in the course of which he introduces a wild legend respecting a Hebridean mermaid, which serves to vary the contents of the " Sportsman." The plate representing " Grouse Shooting" is appropriate to the season ; and, as an engraving, does credit to the artist. LA BELLE ASSEMBLES. The Number before us is embellished with a por- . trait of a very pretty y oung g i r l , w h o i s represented in the act of meditation ; apparently her thoughts are of an enlivening nature, for her eye is singularly bright, and a smile plays about her lips. The en graving is explained by some pleasing lines of the late Mrs. Maclean. The literary contents are neither better nor worse than usual. THE GREAT WESTERN MAGAZINE. The whole of this Number is occupied by a series of two-and -twenty letters on the correlative position of the United States and England. The mutual inte rests of the two countries are discussed with freedom, and not unfrequently with ability, as regards their credit, commerce, and political relations. The writer, who is an American, endeavours to remove many in ternational prejudices, which at present interfere with and mar mutual confidence. BRITISH FRIEND OF INDIA MAGAZINE. " The War in China" presents a resume of the British operations, both naval and military, which have accompanied the proceedings on thos, shores. A paper on the " Commerce of Bengal" gives some valuable returns on that score, not elsewhere to be met with : each of them respectively show a vast in crease during the last five years. As exhibiting, however, a, sad lack of requirement of intellectual food, the returns show that while there is imported brandy to the extent of about five lacs and a half, only three lacs of rupees worth of books and pamphlets are received from Europe. An interestingat )11e yof other articles on the affairs of India makes up a very readable Number. THE CHURCHMAN. Painter. A. paper treating on the late insurrectionary, move ment among the working classes, attempts to investi gate the causes of this fifteen days' strike, but of course finds no ultimate solution of the question. " The Queens of France" furnish a recapitulation of the unhappy lives or fates of those born to the cares of Royalty. " College Life in France" commences an account of the insurrection of the Breton College boys against the " Catechism of the Empire" ordered to be observed by Napoleon. A proposal appears among the correspondence for an Hospital or College for Superannuated Clergymen. FISHER'S COLONIAL MAGAZINE. The recent defeat of the British troops at. Port Natal, renders a notice of that South African settle ment of interest at the present moment. Details show that it possesses great advantages for agricul ture and commerce, and evidence appears to show that the native black proprietors have never shown themselves hostile to the trade and establishments . of the whites. " A Tour through Egypt and the Delta" has some entertaining notes on the ancient Bubastis. " An Account of Hang-Chow-foo," one of the lead • ing cities of the Chinese empire, derives interest from the fact, that our troops have probably made their march upon it from Ningpo before this, and that the next mail may bring some important news respecting this olden capital of Southern China. MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS The following are the results of " A Table of Mortality in the Metropolis, showing the Number of Deaths from all Causes Registered in the week ending Aug. 27, 1842." The Table is issued from the Office of the Registrar-General:— Weekly Average 1838-9-40-1 Total. giT i fft - FO; Years Epidemic, Endemic, & Contagious Diseases 93Summers ' 191 190 Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses 151 150 149 Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of Respiration ... o;seases of the Heart and Blood-vessels Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion I CAUSES OF DEATH. Diseases of the Alleys, &c Childbed, Diseases of the Uterus, &c 2 $ 10 Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles 6 5 6 Diseases of the Skin, &c Diseases of Uncertain Seat ll9 95 104 o'4 Age, or Natural Decay 6l 54 69 Deaths by Violence, Privation, or Intern- perance - 23 23 25 Causes not specified Deaths from all causes . 895 Average Weekly Deaths B4B 912 Population: Average Death enu Weekly in merated Deaths the 1641. 18.13-9-4 U-1. Week. West—Kensington, St. George ( Hanover-square), Westmin- Four I Four ster, St. Martin in the Fields, Ye rs. Summers. St. James North—St. Mary-le .bone, St Pancras, Islington, Hackney 365,660 162 149 167 Central—Saint Giles and Saint George, Strand, Clerkenwell, Holborn, St. Luke, East Lon. don, West London, City of London ...373,806 163 174 170 East—Shoreditch,Whitechape , Bethnal Green, St. George in the East, Stepney, Poplar 392,498 206 193 219 South—St Saviour, St. Olave, St. George( Southwark),Ber mond,ey, Newington. Lam beth, Camberwell, Bother hithe, Greenwich .... ...438,060 221 203 210 DISTHILTS. Total 1,870,727 912 846 895 It is stated that under the term Metropolis are cemprised the 32 districts herein mentioned, which include the City of Lon don with and without the walls, the City and Liberties of Westminster, the out-parishes within the Bills of Mortality—. and-the parishes of St. Marylebone, St. Pancras. Kensington, Fulham, Hammersmith Chapelry), St. L u k e (Chelse, Pad dington, St. Mary ( Stoke Newi ng t on ), S t. Leonardßrom ley), St. Mary-le-bow, Camberwell, Greenwich, St. Nicholas and St. Paul (Deptford), and Woolwich. The population, as enumerated in 1831, was 1,594,890; and in June 1841, was 1,870,727. The weekly average for 1838, 1839, 1840, and 1841, was obtained by dividing the deaths in the four years by 208, and the deaths in the four winters by 52. TIMNIRATUfiE IN THE WEEKS ENDING I Aug. 20. Aug. 27. 86 ° 80 0 61 58 72 68 1,1842. Highest Lo;est Daily Mean .... ......... General Register Office, Sept. We hear that the Count and Countess St. Aulake do not intend to return to the French Embassy until the middle of the month at the earliest. His Excellency has been indisposed at his hotel in Paris, with a bilious at tack, from the effects of which be has recovered, ~,_ f~ . 4' *I , t .:f ~V :* f ;q ii THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 2, 1842, THE MAGAZINES. MONTHLY MAGAZINE. We have here a very agreeable, social, chatty, sort of blank-verse poem by Leigh Hunt, which he calls A Rustic Walk and Dinner." There are many subtle, fantastic, and some - fine thoughts scattered through this poem, which hreathes, the very spirit of placid enjoyment, and deserves special praise for the grace and freshness of its scenic -descriptions. The next article, which is in prose, furnishes us with an account of a " Progress through the cities of the Loire and the Seine," in which there is nothing of particular interest, except a sketch of the town of Saumur, which, it may be remembered, figures con spicuously in the Memoirs of Madame De la Roche jaquelin. "On Young People, and My Love of Them" is a cheerful essay, penned in a kindly view of feeling. Old maids and old bachelors—arcades ambo —whose bump of selfishness on the occiput is usually as large as an ostrich-egg, will turn from this essay with contempt, hut it will come home to the hearts of all parents. The remaining articles, whether in prose or verse, are of an average order of merit. NORTH OF ENGLAND MAGAZINE. The present Number of this Magazine contains some remarks on the " New Taxes," not a few of which are as intelligent as they are seasonable. There is also an able essay on M'Cullagh's " Histo rical Lectures," which were noticed some weeks sine in The Sun. METROPOLITAN MAGAZINE. The clever Oriental tale of " Sarvingdroog" is here continued, and with unabated spirit. The descriptive portions of it, in particular, are remarkable for their graphic skill and energy, and the occasional snatches of rhyme exhibit no ordinary powers of versification. " Letters from Abroad to a Friend at Cambridge" give some passable sketches of Swiss scenery. The lake of Constance, strange to say, disappointed the writer's expectations, who merely remarks that it " resembles a branch of the_ open ocean, without any striking beauty of its coasts." SPORTING REVIEW. There is an animated description in this Number of a "Hurricane at Curacoa," which is from th e p en o f Colonel Hamilt on Smith, who—as is evident from the minuteness and fidelity of his details—must have/ been an eye-witness of the impressive scene he describes. " Hyde Marston" is by, the Editor. It is an enter taining story, hastily written, and full of incident. SPORTING MAGAZINE. The illustrations to this number are very creditable specimens of engraving. One is entitled ' Lading a Brook," and another, a portrait of two dogs, the pro • perty of her Majesty and Prince Albert. The first is the best, the sparkling lights of the sunny, tumbling brook being adroitly managed, and the perspective true to nature. Of the literary contents, the most amusing specimen is Mr. Mills's sketch of the " Sport ing Life of England." MONE Y and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, THURSDAY EVENING. The sales of Ihney Stock having been con tinued in the afternoon, prices gave way still further, and Consols finally left off at 921 921 for Money; and 92i for the Account ; India Stock, 251 252 ; Exchequer Bills, Old, 53 55 ; New, 49 51 prem. The prices of Foreign Securities were—Belgian, 1011 1021; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 52/ 521; the Five per Cents., 102 1021; Danish, 84 85 ; and Brazilian, 641 651. Mexican Bonds were lower at the close of business, the quotation being 341 The prices of the Shares were—London and Bir mingham, 185 187 ; Birmingham and Gloucester, 42 44 ; Great Western, 82 83 ; the Half Shares, 59i 601 ; South Weitern, 60 61 ; North Midland, 56 58 ; the New Shares, 271 281 ; Eastern Counties, 81 81 ; Northern and Eastern, 371 381; Blackwall, 71 8 ; and Brighton, 33 331 per share. 'The returns of the Brighton Railway show a great advance upon the past week, the passenger traffic amounting to 3,9501., and the sum from goods 452/., making a total of 4,402/. The quotations of the Bonds were —Peruvian, 15 16 ; Colombian, 201 204; Portuguese Five per Cents., 334 34 : 1 ; the Three p er C en t s ., 20 201 ; Spanish Five per Cents., 16 161 ex Coupons; and the Three per Cents., 201 201. (From The Sun of Last Night.) 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 price of Consols to 923 for M oney , and to 931 for the Account, and has given great firmness to the market; Three per Cents. Reduced, 93i ; Three-and-a-Half per Cents. Reduced, 1013 ; New Three-and-a-Half per Cents., 1001 101; Bank Stock, 168 169 ; India Stock s 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 35g. Rather more business has been transacted in Shares; Great Western have been sold at 82, the Half Shares 60 ; London and Birmingham, 186 ; Brighton, 33 ; South Western, 60+ 601 ; South Eastern, 22 ; Black wall, 73 ; Greenwich, .5 ; York ,and North Midland, 90, the Half Shares 36k. A single quotation for Spanish Three per Cents., at 20+, 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. Almost 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 propertyin justice it is. With the fact of this poverty in the Treasury 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 blematical. The only benefit appears to be in afford ing an opportunity for the emission of any quantity of spurious stock. MANCHESTER STOCK ExcuANGE, AUG. 31.—We have had a quiet market to-day. Manchester and Birmingham, 24k 25 ; Manchester and Le e d s , 72 73 ; London and South Western, 62k 63k; Sheffield and Manchester, 311 323. CLOSING PRICES. - BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red. 3 per Cent. C0n 5 ...... 921 Ditto Old . Annuities ... 91 Si per Cent. Red... 1011 Ditto New Annuities... New 3i per Cent... N'w 5 per Cm' Ditto 5 001...... 49 pm Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small ...... 49 pm Jan. 1860 ...... 12i Bank Stock for Acct.... Oct. 1859 Jan. 1860 'Consols for Acct....... 92i FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent.... Portugliese, h per cent. 56 Belgia n , 5 per cent Ditto, New Ditto Brazilian 8 0n d 5 ..„...... Prussian, 5 per cent. Bueno 8 Ayres 6 per cent. Russian, 5 Pe.' cent....,, Chilian, 6 per cent Ditto, Metallic..... „ Colombia n , 6 p er cen t — Spanish, 5 per cent 2l Ditto, 1824 — Ditto, Deferred.... Danish, 3 per cent B4& French, 5 per cent. —f. —e. Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Exchange — f —c. Mexican, 5 per cent 341 French, 3 per cent. --f. —c. Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Dutch, 21 per cent. 521 Peruvian, 1825, 6 per et. Ditto, 5 per cent. SHARES.. Bristol "Ind Exeter (70 paid) 4l Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) ...... Ditto New Shares ( 3 paid ............ 3 1 Great Western Railway (65 paid) ........... 82 Ditto New Shares (50 paid)........... 60 Ditto Fifth (4 paid) ....................... a London and Brighton (50 paid).. ......... . • itto Loan Notes (10 p a id) ............... 104 London and Blackw a ll ( pa id) ..... 18 7 6 a London and Birmin g h am ( 90) •• -..gi ) Ditto Quarter Shares (25 paid) ............ 48* London and Greenwich R ailwav ( 12115 s 4d pd) 5 London and So u th Western (4116 s 10dpd) to i South Eastern and Dover (50 paid). ........ 22 York and North Midland (50 paid) ... ...... 90 t Ditto New Sh ares (20 pa id ) .................. 36a EXPORT OF MANUFACTURED GOODS TO THE UNITED STATES. -At no period for many years has the quantity of British manufactures shipped to the United States been so small as it i s at present. If e ven a packet ship gets a freight of 250/. or 3004 i t i s c onsidered very good as things go now. P assengers 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. R APID " JUSTICE." —O n Tuesday, i n the New Court, Centr tl Criminal Court, Old Bailey, the Common Sergeant, assisted by Mr. Alderman Farebrother, pre s Wed for the purpose of trying the minor charges of felony, when in the space of two hours and a-half, namely, from nine until half -past eleven o'clock, the Learned Judge tried twenty prisoners, each trial ave 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 sum ming up of the Learned Judge, consultation of the jury, and verdict. NEW MEN of WAR.--The Superb, a new ship of the line, of eighty guns, is appointed to be launched on Tuesday next, at Pembroke Dock-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 docklyards, to be named the Rattler, Rocket, Ruby, Scourge, and Gladiator. The Board, in consideration of the hard work performed by the rope-makers, has ordered the superannuation pensions of that glass of workmen to be increased from 201. to 241. per ail - 1111m: FIRE IN SIDN EY'S-A LLEY.—Wednesday night, about halfcpast seven, a fire broke out on the premises be longing to Messrs. Byoroft, known as the Leicester square shawl and fur emporiu m , at No. 54, Sidney's alley. The light .caught some Brussels lace, as an assistant was lighting the gas, and. the whole of the stock of valuable goods in a short time was completely in flames. Property to the amount of at least I,OOOL 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 years ago.. THE LATE LOSS OF LIFE IN LouGH SwILLEy.— Twelve of the bodies of the unfortunate men who 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 powerful limbs, was found floating off the Hawk's Nest, on the west side of the island of Inch. The other eleven were discovered between Buncrave and Linsfort. One of the survivors tells an affecting story respecting five of these. He says that when the boat upset, he instantly sank to the bottom, 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 close to him, that his head touched his outstretched arm. He (the survivor) then laid hold of the boat, and extended one of his legs in the hope that his brother would take advan tage of the offered support, and be kept afloat till a boat should come to their assistance. At this moment four others rose close to them, when the four and his brother caught each other in a deadly grasp, and sank to rise no 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 five 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. PRESTON GUILD.—NOW that the tranquillity of the town and of the surrounding districts is perfectly re stored, with every probability of its continuance, a great deal of interest is taken throughout the county at the approaching Guild Merchant Festival ; the anni versary of which only occurs once in twenty years. The Guild of Freston is unique, there being no resemblance to a similar institution in any other part of the king dom, whilst the memorials remaining in the archives of the Corporation trace its first celebration to 1329, in the second year of the reign of Edward 111., since which period they have been held every twenty years, with scarcely any i ntermission. The Guild Merchant Festival is held on the Monday after the . Feast of the Decollation of St. John the Baptist, and is always duly announce icl by advertise ment in the Landon Gazette. The nelebration has, at Ammer periods, attracted a vcry, large attendance of the surrounding nobility and gentry. ; and on the last occasion, in 1822, was attended by the late Earl and Countess of Derby, the Earl of Stamford and Warring ton; Lord and Lady Skelmersdale, Mr. Just:e2Park, and many other distinguished visitors. Political excitement and agitation now being over. the present 'meeting is likely to be no less distinguished in point of interest or attraction. THE HUNGERFORD AND LAMBETH SUSPENSION FOOT-BRIDGE COMPA NY.—Wednesday the half-yearly general meeting of the Directors and Proprietors of the Hungerford and Lambeth Suspension Foot-bridge Com pany won'. held at the office of the Company, 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 empowering the Directors to raise a sum of money for the completion of the undertaking. A loan of 26,0001. would be re quired. The Directors thought it more advisable to borrow than to make a further call on the Shareholders. Various questions were put by several of the Proprietors, when in reply the Chairman stated that there were 400 shares in a state of uncertainty, amounting to about 4,7004, the arbitration of 200 of which had been under taken by the Earl of Devon, their Chairman; and that the expenses attending the works had been 5,000 Mess 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-eleeted Direc tors. The meeting then broke up. CORONER'S INguasT.—Mr. Higgs, the Coroner for Westminster, OH Wednesday held an inquest at the Duke's Head, St. Martin's-street, Leicester-square, respecting the death of Don Pedro de Legano-i-Martin, nerd 37, a distinguished offi cer o f t h e S pan i s h army, who s in 1822 raised' a regiment to defend the Palace when it was assailed, for which service ho received the thapks of the Cortes. Ile was also is P.G.M. of the Freemasons. In consequence of no notice of the death of the deceased having been sent to the parish authorities, and the wife having for a tine after the deceased locked up the room and left the house, it was deemed necessary to have the body opened, as, if the deceased had destroyed himself, the Order of Freemasons will not undertake the funeral. It appeared by the evidence that the deceased resided at the house of Adolphe Gayez, No. 22, Grebn-street, Leicester-square. On Sunday, he was called up by the deceased's wife, who said deceased had been taken very ill at three o'clock in the morning. He went to Dr. Seaton's, in Leicester-square, but cou'd make no one hear. 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 deceased was dead. His wife and a young man were present. In answer to questions put by the Jury,-he said the wife stayed in the room until five in the afternoon, -when she went out, and took the key with her. She came back the next day. Nothing, np to that time, had been done to the body. He had not put his shutters up, nor had he sent notice to the beadle. Mr. Bainbridge, of No. 86, St. Martin's-lane, surgeon, who had opened the body, said that death was caused by aneurism of the heart of very long standing. The widow, through the Baron de Boldero, said, that the deceased had eaten a light supper on Saturday night, and went to bed at ten o'clock, but he was very ill during the night. A verdict of" Natur a l Death " was returned. Arrived last week, at Liverpool, the ship Cheshire, from the Mauritius, having brought home the orphan family of the late Lieut.-Gen. Sir Lionel Smith, the me lancholy details of whose death, and that of his wife, Lady Smith, were published a short time since, both having died within three days of each other in the month of January last. The heir to the title has just entered his ninth year. YORK, AUG. 31.—1 t has now been arranged that the Chartist prisoners against whom bills have be e n found will be tried by the Judges at the present Assizes in the ordinary course. Mr. Maule has left the pro secutions to be conducted by the county in the usual way. This will no doubt be a great saving of expense, and the Judges deserve the highest credit for their readiness to take upon themselves so onerous a duty, after the labours of such a circuit as this. The case of Armytage and others for a riot at Leeds, is appointed to be taken to-morrow, before Lord Denman, who will finish the civil business to-day. Numbers of -travellers of all classes are passing through this city, on their way to Scotland. Sir Robert Peel arrived on Monday, and stayed all night at the Deanery. Dr. Cockburn's first wite was a sister of the Right Hon. Baronet. ONE OF THE FORCE.—Our Leeds Correspondent states that David Hill, one of the Leeds Police Force, has bolted to the States, after having made use of his authority for every purpose except the prevention of crime. His last appearance in Leeds was in the cha racter of a fence, in which he obtained change for a stolen Bank of England note for 1001. ; the whole of the change, however, except about 11/. he left at home, so that it would appear lie had been obliged to make a more sudden bolt than he had at first contemplated. He was under recognizance to appear at York Assizes in a case of forgery, but so sudden became the emergency that he had not time to wait until the trial came on, and the pri soner will, we suppose, be entitled to " the benefit of the (policemen's) act." From a letter which the delinquent has written to his wife, it seems that he sailed from the Mersey, for Boston, on Friday last.— York Courant. 11 EIYARDS TO FIREMEN.—Some days ago Mr. Clark, the landlord of the Duke of Gloucester public ho:ise, in the New-road, Whitechapel, appeared at the Lambeth street Police-court to show cause against an order being made upon him for the payment of the re wards to the firemen belonging to two of the brigade engines for attending at an alleged fire at his h o u se . Mr. Clark declared that no fire took place at his house, but the fireman produced a witness who swore that he not only saw a quantity of smoke, but sparks and flame issue from the chimney. Mr. Henry, upon this testi mony, was about to make the order on Mr. Clark, when the latter made a formal complaint against John Pross, one of the brigade firemen, No. 16, for gross misconduct at his house, and the ease stood over for the production of witnesses. It his since been fully gone into, and the conduct of Pross being fully proved, both by Mrs. Clark and other witnesses, to have been most insulting and offensive, Mr. Henry, after remarking on his im proper conduct, disallowed the reward, and ordered Pross to pay it back to Mr. Morse, the churchwarden of Stepney, who had handed it to him on the production of his affidavit that a fire actually took place, and that his was the first engine. MELANCHOLY DEATH FROM FIRE-ARMS.—We re• gret to have to record another death from the incautious use of fire-arms, under circumstances which, from what we have heard, throw a great degree of culpability upon the accused party. It appears that, on Tuesday forenoon, a young ' man named Joseph Henry B enne tt, a p up il to Mr. Ilan surgeon, Cookridge-stre e t, was amus i ng him self with hfiring a loaded pistol at a mark. Ile was in his master's surgery, and having charged his ,pistol with ball, imprudently pointed it several times at a groom in Mr. Ikin's service, who threatened him with punishment if he did not desist, telling him that he would be sure to have some accident. This, however, it appears was no warning ; for he presented the pistol at a young man named John Dunwell, brewer and assistant ostler at Mr. Wharton's, he fired, and the ball having e n t e r e d hi s breast, ho fell and instantly expired. The inquest was summoned on Wednesday morning.—York Courant. An episode of high interest in the proceedings of the late M. Pfaffenhoffen, to recover the money , alleged by him to have been advanced to the French Princes during their first emigration, and which he stated to have amounted to nearly 1,000,000 fr., occupied the Tri bunal Civil on Thursday, in a cause between the Count de Montalivet, as Intendant-General of the Civil List, and M. Paul Perier ' against 21.111 e. Ida Pfaffenhoffen, the heir of the deceased Pfaffenhoffen, and the heirs of a M. Ar nold. It will be recollected that M. Pfaffenhoffen, not 1 1 having been able, during the Restoration, to obtain pay ment of his debt, followed Charles X. to Edinburgh, and there commenced an action against him, and was on the point of arresting his person, when the house of M. Perier, under the direction of a personage who was not named, but who, it appears, from the proceedings be fore the tribunal, was no other than the present King of the French, interfered through one of their clerks, M. Arnold, and saved the ex-Sovereign from the disgrace of a personal arrest, by paying .to M. Pfaffenhoffen 100,000 f., and engaging to pay him a life annuity of 10,000 f., to cease in the event of his recovering the debt, and further, on the condition that in that event also he should return the 100,0001. advanced. Pfaffenhoffen, however, it was stated on the pleadings oa the part of the plaintiffs, faithlessly violated his part of the contract, by receiving by himself, or through his agents, the whole of his claim, except 40,000 f. left in the Caisse des Con signations in the settlement of the affairs of Charles X. after his deposition. To this sum of 40,000 f. the Count de Montalivet laid claim, in his official capacity as repre sentative of the King. Mlle. Pfaffenhoffen admitted the legality of the demand, but raised some technical objec tions, on the ground that the representatives of M. Ar nold, who signed the contract at Edinburgh, and who was since dead, had not been made parties. This, by an interlocutory proceeding, was done, and the case came to a final heari ng y es t er d ay , w h en the tribunal decreed the 40,000 f. to be paid over to the Civil List, and ordered Mlle. Pfaffenhoffen to pay all the general costs of the proceedings, but directed that those of making the re presentatives of M. Arnold a party to them should be borne by the demandant. It appears from the pleadings that the transactions at Edinburgh were conducted with such delicate secrecy that Charles X. never knew who it was that relieved him from his embarrassment. The Radical de' Cahors states that lately, as the prison-van was removing some prisoners, one of them expired just as the vehicle arrived at Gramat. The con ductor was obliged to take the dead body into his seat, as the regulations require that, dead or alive, they must be delivered at the place of their destination. On the 23d ult., a woman named Bonnin, of Aval lon, in the Yonne, being in a state of ferocious madness, attempted to murder her own daughter, a girl aged 14, by plunging a knife several times into both her eyes. The poor girl is not dead, but there were very slight chances of her life being saved. The insane mother is in safe custody. A few nights since, tiVo convicts, condemned to twenty years' hard labour, named Soffiet and Potiron, escaped from the prison of La Fleche. They had been brought from Brest to give evidence respecting a mur der committed near Foulletourte, in 1840, and had been placed in cells one above the other, on the ground and first floors. Potiron, who was above, contrived to tear up the flooring and get down into his comrade's room. They then sawed the iron bars of the window, and got into the yard, and by means of a long ladder, which they found in the cellar, they got over the wall, and dropped into the yard of a neighbouring house, and thence got into the street. As soon as their flight was discovered, the alarm was given, end they were arrested ?Alt morning at Durtal. THE ROYAL GEORGE. Watson's General Telegraph-office, 83, Corn hill, London, September 1. TELEGRAPH STATION, SPURN (HuLr.).—The Royal squadron passed at 2 P.M. on Tuesday. FLAHROROUGH..IIEAD STATION (TUESDAY).-At 4, 30 P.m., her Majesty's yacht, Royal George, hove in sight, towed by two steamers, and accompanied by five other s . In passing, a signal was made from the Royal George to the Telegraph Station but from the distance the squa d ron was off, (14 miles) and from extreme thick weather and rain, the flags could not be distinguished. • LLOYD'S SHIPPING. LONDON, SEPT. 1.--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, Auc. 31.—Wind N.W.—Acrd. 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 ; Clare Mont, Demerara ; Arno, New Orleans ; Tyne, Quebec ; London, Halifax ; James Harris, Pugwash. OFF DovEn, AUG. 31..---Janet, Brown, New York. OFF THE WlGar, 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, Atrc. 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. FALMOUTH, AUG. 30.—Wind W.S.W. to N.N.W.— Arrd. Wm. Campbell, Primrose, Jactnel, left June 27. Arrd. off, Rambler, Le Gypt, Monte Video, and sailed for London ; William (late Christof), Quebec. BRISTOL, Auc. 31.—Arrd. Earl of Liverpool, Neves. CLYDE, AUG. 23.—S1d. Levenlass, Montreal ; New York, New York. LIVE R POOL, AUG. 3l.—Wind N.W., moderate.—Arrd. Sarah Birkmt, Atkin's, Valparaiso ; Yarmouth, Monte Video ; Alice, Amwell, Barbadoes, sailed 26th ult. ; Etelcina, Segur, Porto Rico ; Swan, Blanchard, Ha vannah ; Francis, Westcott, St. John's, N.B. ; Ara minta, Quebec ; Lady Lilford, Scott, Bombay. Arrd. off, Joseph Hume, Africa ; Independence, New York ; Fernandez, Ann or Albert, Arcturus, Hill, Quebec. SHIELDS, AUG. 30.--Sld. Diantha, Boston, U.S. Dunurtg, A LTG. 29.—S1d. Princess, St. John's, N.B. SCILLY, AUG. 30.—The Emma, Percival, which arrived here tie 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 to put back next day. VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.—John, Poole, to Newfound land, lat. 49, lon. 15, by the Glaphyra, arrived off the Wight. Thomas Coutts, London to China, with troops, May 7, in the Straits of Sunda ; Regulus, Port Philip to Batavia or Singapore, May 13 ; Belvidera, Ba tavia to London, June 31, lat. 37 S., lon. 20 E.; Chris. tina, Bombay to Liverpool. July 30, lat. 3 N., lon. 24 W. ; Rosendale, Bahia to Liverpool, Oct. 17, lat. 42, lon. 35, by the Orixa, arrived in the Downs. Gazelle, bound to Quebec, 2d ult., lat. 47, lon. 58 ; Cataragin, Liverpool to Quebec, 26th ult., lat. 51, lon. 10, by the Arcturus, arrived at Liverpool. Lion, of Glasgow, Kertch to Civita Vecchia, 25th July, off Cape de Gatt ; American barque Rochdale, from Amsterdam, '2Bth ult., lat. 49, lon. 6, by the Lady Mary, arrived at Falmouth.. Commodore, Llanelly to Naples, 2d ult., in the Straits of ; Ranger, bound to Marseilles, 9th, off Cape St. Vincent ; Catharina, Newport to Naples, 18th, lat. 43, lon. 12, by the Leadbitter, arrived at Falmouth. Marga ret, Ancona to Falmouth, out thirty-five days, sth ult. ; Majestic, from Calcutta, 19th ult., lat. 44, lon. 16 ; Rising Sun, Liverpool to Vera Cruz, 24th ult., lat 48, lon. 11 ; Albatross, Salcombe to Vigo, 28th ult., lat. 49, lon. 7, by the Queen of Britain, arrived at ditto. Re ward, of Hull, lat. 45, lon. 53 ; Dolphin (ship), from Limerick, lat. 49, lon. 12, by the William, arrived at Falmouth. EAST INDIA SHIPPING. Arrivals—Sappho, Dunlop, from China, in the Downs, sailed 31st March, St. Helena 7th July . ; Peru vian, Black, from Bengal, in the Downs, sailed 10th April, St. Helena 7th July ; Elizabeth, Moffatt, from Bengal, in the Downs, sailed 30th March, St. Helena Ist July.; Westminster, Michie, from Singapore, in the Downs, sailed 7th April, St. Helena 30th June ; Orixa, Ager,.from Singapore, in the Downs, sailed 27th April, St. Helena 9th 'July • Lady Lilford, Scott, f rom Bom bay, at Liverp oo l, sailed 18th April, St.. Helena Bth July. Arrivals at St. Helena.—Cynthia, Johnson, July 6, from China, and sailed Bth, to Salem ; John Graham, Turner, 7th, from Ceylon, and sailed Bth, to London ; Perseverance, Corkhifl, Bth, from Singapore, and sailed 9th, to London ; Trident, Gow, Bth, from Calcutta, and sailed Bth, to Havre ; Welteneden, Lupeke, Bth, from Batavia, and sailed Bth, to Rotterdam ; Indefatigable, Moller, Bth, from Singapore,, and sailed 9th, to Ant werp ; Pearl, Burrows, 9th, from China, to London ; Falcon, Anstruther, 9th, from Mauritius, to London. Departure from St. Helena.—Strath Eden, 'Wolfe, July 7, to London. Arrival at Sydney, New South Wales.—Cecilia, Bur rell, April 2, froth Launceston. The Renown, to sail April 6, for Liverpool ; Jane, for London, April 10 ; Cairo, for London, April 8. Arrival at Nelson, New Zealand.—Bolton, Robinson, March 13, from Port Nicholson. NOTICE TO MARINERS. NEW BEACON NEAR ANCONA. Th• following has been received at Lloyd's : Admiralty, August 31, 1842. 5112,—1 am commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to transmit to you herewith an extract of a dispatch from her Majesty's Consul at Ancona, for the information of the Committee for managing the affairs of Lloyd's, respecting the erection of a beacon near that port. (Signed) JOHN BARROW. Extract of a letter dated Ancona, August, 1842 : " I beg leave to state that a beacon has been erected on a rock, near the entrance of • this harbour, called the Volpe, and generally known to seamen as the Wolf Rock. The beacon consists of %cannon let into the rock, with its mouth upwards, in which an iron staff is inserted, and surmounted by a flat square piece of iron, altogether twenty feet high. As English vessels have frequently run against this rock, I beg to add the following par ticulars : The Volpe is situated within the vicinity of the St. Clemente Rock, which lies between the northern part of Point Ancona and the lighthouse. Within less than a cable's length of the above rock (Volpe) there are nine fathoms water, but a rapid and strong current is con tinually running on this coast from north to south. ", (Signed) Consul." HOP INTELLIGENCE. WORCESTER, AUG. 31.—Hop-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 favourabl e re p or t s r ece i ve d on Saturday and this morning, there is no doubt but that the produce will be abundant, arid 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. No hops have been weighed since our last report.—Wor trader Journal. MAIDSTONE, 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 com modity will then give but little more for their Wors 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 ver y l ow s t a t e o f a ll s t oc k s on hand.—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 steamer. Letters will be in time if posted on Friday next." Two LIVES LOST.—At a very early hour ou Mon day morning two gentlemen left London for the purpose of proceeding to Woolwich to witness the departure of her Majesty for Scotland ; but, melancholy to relate, in passing through the Pool the nose of the boat struck against a barge, near the entrance of the London Docks, 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 Freemantle, the former was in his 26th year, and was on the point of mar riage with a daughter of a wealthy merchant in the City. The bodies have not yet been thund. Mr. Freemantle was 30 years of age, and had a large scow in the palm of his hand. TUE POST-OFFICE.—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-carrier s , out of which 80 only, of the seniors, receive a salary o f 255. a week, and the remaining 594 each 20 s. 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 has commenced ; which, with the increased and increas ing labour caused by the adoption of the penny postage, requires the services of these letter-earriers 14 or 15 hours every day. The petition has been signed by a large number of bankers, merchants, and traders in London. The late rains have . done immense damage in the neighbourhood of St. James's Park ; one of the drains in the Green Park having blown up with a loud explo sion, and overflowing the road to the extent of three or four feet. The lower part of Buckingham Palace has been inundated • and the res id ences o f t h e K i ng of Ha nover, Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, Duke of Sutherland, and the Duchess of Kent, have been seriously injured. At Clarence House, the water at one time rose to up wards of six feet, and the domestics had a narrow escape with their lives. A SWISS SHAM FIGHT TURNED INTO A REAL BATTLE. We find the following almost incredible statement in the Commerce :—" One of our subscribers; an Officer at the camp of Thoune, has transmittei to us the following details of a military fete, begun happily enough, but which terminated in a tragical manner : " Camp of Thoune, Aug. 25. " For the last fortnight a camp of 4,500 men has .been formed in the plain of Thoune, a small town in the canton of Berne, under the command of Colonel Rilliet r eonstant. formerly in the Grand Army. There are eight battalions of infantry, and four companies of carbineers, artillery, and cavalry of the several can tons. On Sunday last the Federal' Diet, now assem bled at Berne, passed in review this body of troops, in presence • of several foreign officers, particularly the Due de Raguse. An immense crowd *as present at this review, which took place in splendid weather, at the foot of the majestic mountains of Stockhorn. Yesterday a mock fight took place. The passage of the river Aar was effected by means of a flying bridge, and then the troops divided into two bodies, and fought in the open ground. One body fell back to the foot of Mount Chasseral, the other turned its , position by the passage of the Wiesen, and, by a su dd en a tt ac k, com p l e t e l y route d it, and pursued it to the village of Grosse- Naar. Mere, unfortunately, the defence was no longer a mock one. The character of the Swiss, who would be rather killed than retreat, gained the mastery, and a dreadful conr.bat ensued. Not less than GO men are wounded, and eight killed by the sword only. A horseman, who, from being unable to bold his horse, had broken into a square, gave the signal of this disaster, which, it is to be hoped, will be followed by no other unpleasant circumstances. The camp is to be immediately broken up,. though it was to have lasted a month." FASHIONS FOR SEPTEMBER. (From the Ladies' Magazine of Fashion.) This month being termed by modistes, "la morte saison," there is no particular novelty in aiticles of toilette ; the warmth of the weather durin g sho lsst month has made the demand for light articles of ch'Se3 very general ; embroidered organdys, mou sse li ne gazes, bareges bayaderes, foulards diaphanes, eoliennes balsorines of silk, &c. &c. Sleeves 11azarin, corns posed entirely of rows of black lace, put on one above the other from the wrist to the elbow, form one of the accessories of dress very likely to be continued during the winter, as well as the sleeve Diane de Poitiers, also of black filet. Peignoirs of organdy, worked with lilac or blue braid, are novel and pretty ; they are with pelerines to correspond, and the skirt closes at the side with silk buttons. Muslin dresses are embroidered on the tucks as well as between them. Bonnets continue to he worn inclining over the face ; those of tulle with wreath of lilies of the valley, and bouquet of the same flower inside, are among the prettiest. Camails continue in general favour ; are seen in every variety of material ; black lace ones have been ornamented with bouillons of black satin, and those formed of rows of white lace have ruches of pink ribbon dividing the lace. Mantelets Leine de Chypre, manchettes Louis XIV., Mazarin collars, those a la chevaliere, cannezous, with inlets, embroidery, and small folds, to wear with skirts of silk, and fichus paysannes, are all fashionable. Lace rather increases than diminishes in favour. Camails are preparing for the autumn of gros de Naples and satin, of a new and elegant style; it is thought they will be lined with shswy colours; they are to have small square collars, forming only one piece, with the revers of the front decousses en bavasoises ; this collar and revers to be ornamented by rich embroidery in Arabic de signs; the arm-holes, also encircled by embroidery. Caps without crowns, and those with lappets raised up at the side by a pin with gold or coral head, are fashionable, but that a la Vennoise is most admired for neglige ; it is composed of one piece of very clear muslin, with bavolet; the papillons are very narrow, and turned back over the forehead, then enlarging round off very low at the ears, en rosace. (From the World of I'm/lion) Head-dresses.—Our young nobility still wear little or no ornament on their heads; flowers continue to be much worn, but we see, also, a great many deco rated with white or black lace, relieved at the sides with very small scarlet flowers falling low on each side. A very elegant style of coiffure is that of a lappet or veil thrown partly over the head, and raised on one side with a beautiful full-blown rose, or camelia au eceur blanc. The hair is still being worn 'in full ringlets on each side, the back part tastefully arranged in plaits caught with a splendid Josephine combe, a tulle scarf or veil being passed through the loops at the back, forming a very graceful appendage to the appearance of the head. - Bonnets.--The extreme heat of the weather render ing it necessary to shade the face as much as.possible, have induced our elegantss to adopt the fashion of wearing their bonnets as much over the countermove as can 'be consistently worn so as to be becoming. Some of the fancy open-work straw bonnets are ren dered very becoming by being lined with a pretty colour, such as cherry-Colour, pink, or blue, either in a silk or a lighter material, according to the taste of the wearer ; they are mostly decorated with wreaths or bouquets of fancy field-flowers. The black and white lace trans prent bonnets are also much in vogue ; they are ex tremely light and pretty when trimmed with bouquets of lilac and black hearts-ease ' white or crimson pop pies, and light branches of the barberry bush, forming a hunch placed at the side, with two long ends of ribbon streaming from it. The hair being worn in full ringlets on each side with this style of bonnet, render flowers almost unnecessary in the interior. Dresses.—We have been favoured with a sight of a most distinguished kind of dress, which has just been designed for a fair and Noble Duchess, being a dress or robe of Nankin des Indes, embroidered in soutache of sky-blue silk. The sleeves, poignets ; cape, skirt, and corsage, all ornamented in the same manner, the blue design forming a great relief to the Nankin ground. Another dress also claimed our attention of a totally different character, being a robe of black tulle, the corsage half high, and long sleeves, demi large ; the under dress of a rich peach-coloured gros de Naples, with short sleeves, the jupe or skirt trimmed with broad flounces of lace. DIVING BELLS FOR OUR MEN OF \VAR.—COM mander Henry Downes, R.N., the Hon. Director of the United Service Institution, has suggested a plan which, in cases of need, he thinks may be found of use. He re commends that in line-of-battle ships, .and in the larger frigates, one of the tanks for water should be so con structed as to do, if required, double duty (viz., of tank and diving-bell ; such to be stowed at the mouth of the hatchway, and the first one to be emptied); he suggests, that instruction in the use of the diving-bell be given to the officers and men who are in training on board the Excellent. Little need be said as to the advantages of having ready at hand, and at such trifling expense as it is presumed such a contrivance would incur, for most naval men will, on reading this, be• able to recollect positions in which they have been .placed where such an instrument might hare proved not only useful,_ but per haps even to the saving of their ship. One instance may be adduced wherein a trial has already been made ait U a ship's tank, and most successfully too, under the skilful and persevering exertions of Captain Dickinson, R.N., in recovering the treasure wrecked in the Thetis frigate. CRICKET.—The match between Sussex (with Ful ler Pilch) and All England, terminated yesterday (Wed nesday) in favour of Sussex by six runs. A different re sult was fully expected at the close of Tuesday's play, when England had five of their best wickets to get only 03 runs ; and several bets of 2 and 3 to 1 were made in their favour. Dean commenced the bowling yesterday morning, and Mr. A. Mynn scored a four, another four was obtained, and a wide ball, and no wicket down. Shortly afterwards Mr. Alynn was neatly Caught off' the point by Hawkins, amid , B ar ker filled th e vacant place. Two more runs and Sewell was bowled out by Lilly his wicket was soon dis posedground was now very great. fir. I r t . e excitement t i e y m n ennftool thefollowed, of for two runs ; and shortly aft er t hi s B ar k er ' s stumps were scattered by a rattler from Dean, and Sus sex claimed the victory, the Sussex wicket-keeper. Box, catching the ball as it flew through the stumps, and put ting it into his pocket according to. custom. SUSPICIOUS DEATH IN A HOUSE OF ILL-FAME.— On Wednesday an inquest, commenced on Tuesday, was coutinued before Mr. Higgs, at the : Feathers, Dean street, Westminster, on the body of Mary Apo Trim mell, aged 50. From the evidence it appeared that on Monday last the deceased quitted the service of Mr. Davies, of Lower Crown-street, Westminster, and went with John Wells, a private in the Scots Fusilier Guards, to No. 5, in the Almonry. At about ten o'clock a woman in care of the house said she heard a heavy fall on -the stairs leading from the room into which deceased had gone, and upon going to the place saw her lying insen sible and bleeding on the landing. The soldier was then gone. Deceased died in half an hour. Several of de ceased'a friends said that they had reason to think she had been robbed, and that the wound on the head, from which her death arose, was the result of being thrown down stairs. She left her master's at four o'clock in the afternoon with 15s. in her pocket; and when found h a d but fourpence. A parasol, a blue spotted handkerchief, and a brooch were clso missing. 'the daughter-in-law of deceased went to the soldier the next morning and asked him for the brooch, when he denied all knowledge of it, but upon being told by a female named Spanswiek that it was useless to deny it, as he had himself offered it to her, he said deceased had given it to him. Deceased had been heard to say, when talking of two soldiers who were paying their addresses to her, that she was surer one of them "would do 'iv her some way or other." After hearing further evidence last evening, the jury re tnrned a verdict, " That the deceased died from the e ff ec t s of a.broken neck in a brothel, kit, in what manner there was no evidence to show." The Batavier steam-Aip, from Rotterdam, landed at St. Katherine's wharf on Wednesday, 13 cows, admitted under the new tariff, not for slaughter, the whole of them being in calf, but for breeding purposes. The ems are of the short horned breed, and very a _me& This. we believe, is the first importation of the lid by the Batavier, which brought over at the same tle2o great cuantity of poultry for Lesdenball market, r