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THE NEW HISTORICAL ROMANCE. Now ready at all.the Libraries, in 3 vols. post Bvo., H E C Z A R IN A; I. an HISTORICAL ROMANCE of the COURT OF RUSSIA. By MRS. HOFLAND. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. MRS. TROLLOPE'S NEW WORK. Just ready, in 2 vols. dewy Bvo., I VISIT TO ITALY IN 1841. By Mr, TROLLOPE, iuthor of " Paris and the Parisians," " Vienna and the Austrian - 4," "Domestic Manners of the Americans," &e. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street, Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty. HAMBURCIII, 12TH Aucusr, 1842. II IS MAJESTY the EMPEROR. of AUSTRIA, HIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of RUSSIA, AND HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF PRUSSIA, Rtring AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED several DIS- T qtRUTIONS of MONEY, DIVIDENDS, by which, tb-righ they are NO LOTTERIES, LARGE FORTUNES nay be obtained, HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, %:e Selling t;ENUINE and WARRANTED SELECTED BONDS for the said DISTAIBU f lONS. 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Admission to the whole of the Entertainments, One Shilling. t )pen at Ten in the Morning.—Feeding at Half. past Four „—Con c:it At Five., Fireworks at Eight, NEWSPAPER STAMPS. i:xtract from a Return of the Number of Newspaper Stamps, at One Penny and On Hal f p enn y , issued to the several Newspapers in England, Scotland and Wales, from the Ist of April to 30th June 1842, inclusive : Number Amount of of Advertisement Stamps. Duty. Courier .. • Globe Standard I;UN. ------ HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. °ming.... 57 minutes after 6 f Evening 29 minutes after 7. 1 4* , 4 Z - e 7 4 k , , .I.slazig. • • 41, 4, .;;# ‘rtie - qt LONDON: WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 28, 1842 The Marquis of WELLESLEY wisely retired from public life in 1835. Since that period he has grace fully cultivated the Latin muse, and has proba bly been, as is said, the delight of his friends, but he has taken no part in public business. Ru- Mour indeed says that he rentonstrated. against ahe Affghan war, and wrote to Lord ELLENBO -110'1:oil to express his approbation of the order to withdraw the army. In losing him, however, the public has not lost an active, vigorous states-; man, but one who, - full of years and honour, had previously retired, worthily, to pass the close of his life in the privacy of his family. If that ne• cesarily lessens the public grief for the loss of a statesman, it must enhance the public respect for the man. We cannot allow him to pass to the grave without saying a few words of our own on such a remarkable person. We find his name mentioned in the corre-' spondenee between Mr. PITT and the Duke of ItUTLAND, copious extracts of which are pub fiAed in the last number of the Quarterly Re r!eu,, and we will quote the passage to show how early he was distinguished:— Among the few persons for whose employment Mr. Pitt himself expresses a wish in these p le , es, it is in teresting to trace the name of one who has since at tailed such high renown in the public service, and who still survives in a green and hono . ural old age — the then Earl of Mornington, the prete.it Marquis 'Wellesley. In a letter of August 9th, 1784 (Lo: d Mornington being then but twenty-four years of age) Mr. Pitt says:— " The ;immediate ol have in writing at this moment is to state to you - some circumstances relative to Lord Mornington, and to beg you to let me know how far the ideas I have conceived on the subject cor respond with yours. I find he considers himself 4' ••- entitled, from the assurances he received both from you and me (either personally or through Lord Temple), before you went to Ireland, to expect the ' earliest mark of the favour of Government in that country Which its circumstances could admit of. He expresses a full disposition to have made every allow ance for the exigencies of a new government, at so cfitical a time, but I think he seems to imagine that there was an appearance of his pretensions being post poned, either without sufficient grounds, or without their being so confidentially stated to him as he sup posed. he gad a claim to. He seems at the same time feel a real zeal for the interests and credit of your government, and a strong sense of the marks of your , serselal frVid- J hip. I am very anxious, for all our sakes, that there should be no misapprehension on the subject, both from a high opinion of him, and from fueling (as I am sure you will) a great desire that any tiling like an engagement, or even a reasonable expa: tation, should not be disappointed." And on the 15th of August following the Duke of Rutland thus replies : • " I can have no hesitation of sayi n g that Lord Mor nington shall have the first office which may fall worthy of his acceptance. His inQ rits are very great, which I am sure lam one of the first men to allow. Morning er ton, as I have rlways sta ted t o him, stands first f or interest much at whatever may off . I have his heart, as well from from a convictionprivate regard as of his powers to render the public essential service." In the same year (1784) he was elected a Member of the British House of Commons, and was from that time till 1835, during the long pe riod of 51 years, continually and prominently engaged in public affairs. We may,•for our pur pose, distinguish in - his life four epochs, and speak of him as Governor-General of India, be tween 1797 and 1806—as connected with the Go rernment at home between 1807-1812 —as the advocate of the Catholic claims between 1812 and 1822, and as the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1822, with an intermission between 1828_ 1833, till 1835. He was in the first period the successful administrator of a great empire, o f which he much extended- the bounds; in the second, he was the most conspicuous advocate of a vigorous prosecution of the war in the Pe ninsula, and contributed by his councils, as his illustrious brother did by his arms, to the rescue of Europe ; in the third, he was the zealous and steady advocate of religious freedom ; and, in the fourth, he endeavoured to carry into effect the prin cipl es of his own policy, and realise in Ireland that peace between rival sects, which, on principle, lw said, would be the consequence of abolishing political distinctions on account of religious dif ferences. He took the lead in fbur great schemes of policy, extending our dominion in /Fiala, opposing BONAPARTE in Europe, pro moting religious freedom in his native country, for the first time, r i v al sects to arid bringing , tfe practical belief, - however they might diff er might a b ou t another world, that in this they live in harmony together. In each we find something suitable to his years; and if, in the prime of manhood, he was en g aged in schemes of national aggrandisement, in his declining life he was better employed in promoting freedom, peace, and improvement, amongst his fellows. He was, no doubt, active andconspicuous in Par liament ; in the Treasury, of which he was a Lord; and at Court, where he was a favourite, before he went to India; but it was only in 1797, when he was appointed to succeed Lord CORNWALLIS in the government of that country, that - public attention became fixed on him. In general, the splendid success of his green years makes men admire more his administratioa in India than the better points of his riper years; but when we recollect what CLIVE and HASTINGS, the clerks of a trading company, had achieved in India, in opposition to France, before he went thither, and when we recollect that he was only the second statesman having a large body of Royal troops under his orders, who ad ministered the affairs of that country, with no French forces to oppose him; when we recollect the feeble and disjointed resistance which could be offered by the native Powers, we cease to be dazzled by the splendour of his Indian govern ment, and prefer his exertions as a statesman at home, to his conquests in Asia. The effects of the latter may possibly be transient, and the sort of meteoric empire we have there founded may as speedily sink in darkness as it has risen in splendour; but we are assured that the effects of his labours to rescue Europe from military ty ranny, and to give religious freedom to his na tive land, will endure for ever, and be for ever leading points in the history of civilization. We are forbidden, both by our limited space and limited time, from entering into the details of his conduct, in both dissenting from the Whigs, who depreciated our military exertions in Europe, and in censuring the Tories, who persisted in making them on a feeble and un worthy scale, and in frittering them away on many objects instead • of concentrating the na tional energies on one; we must content ourselves with remarking, that on the great question of the Peninsular war he took a line for himself, and contributed, in the first instance, more than any other statesman—perhaps more than any other man, except hisillustrious brother—to bring that war to a successful issue. Neither can we enter into his praise-worthy exertions to form a broad and comprehensive Administration after the death of Mr. PERCIVAL, to which end he was commissioned by the Prince Regent ; nor can we notice the narrow " per sonal animosities" by .which the Tory states man of the day tgwarted his well-meant patriot ism. He did not succeed, and one of his bigoted and worst opponents, Lord LIVERPOOL, took his place, and prevented all concessions to religious freedom till they were wrung from the weak ness of the Government, to its confusion and dis grace. Neither can we dwell on his ad ministration of Ireland, which is, we think foolishly, said not to have been success ful, because it was not very brilliant. But when it is considered how much he was ham pered by Orangemen in Ireland and bigots in the Cabinet, that he governed the country in peace, and contributed to raise the Catholics to power and influence, reflect on !im much ho nour. It is his merit to have set the example, under much less favourable auspices than Lord NORMANBY, of a conciliatory policy ; aid to have laid the foundation of that better system of governing Ireland, which has ever since been carried out. We must content ourselves with merely hinting at these prominent features of his varied policy, and leave to those who were better acquainted with him, and have more leisure, the task of presenting us with a com plete view of the long career of this accomplished statesman. We cannot close without remarking that his extensive public life, connecting him at one end with the sinking CHATHAM, and at the other with the rising GLADSTONE, or with PEEL in the full blaze of his power, comprises almost a century of events, and designates some very great changes in the Views of statesmen - , and tite 1 character of Government. CtfATLlAN's....policy lay chiefly in war and aggrandisement, and he thought little or nothing of that improvement of the people at home, which now mainly occupies public men. The Marquis of WELI,ESLEY, in his career in India, followed the principles of CHATHAM'S policy. He lived to learn better things and if it be true that he re monstrated against the Affghan war and praised the withdrawal of the troops, he had - become, with the progress of events, a con vert to the opinion that there is more danger than profit in extending an empire. The vigour of his days was passed before the present policy of attending to domestic improvement came into vogue, and it is rather the fault of the time at which he was born, than .of any defect in his character, that he was not deeply versed in those doctrines of political economy which have in latter times occupied public attention. There are proofs in his speeches that his practical states_ man hip, though enlightened, was not based on theoretic truth ; and if he was favourable - to the extension of commerce in India, he was not un favourable to monopoly at home. AVe have no recollection that the Noble Marquis ever took an active part in discussing *such important sub jects as the taxes on food, the laws for the regu lation of the poor, the education of the people, the-improvement of their health and haNtations ; in fact, all these, with many kindred subjects, have grown into public importance, marking a great improvement in the thoughts and views of statesmen, at a time of his life when it was probably as impossible for him to acquire new habits of thought as to become a fleet run ner. When he began his career, policy was , founded on some vague and ill-defined principles, which did not include the well-being of the people as the primary object; when his career is closed, policy is based on facts ; and the well-being of the people—though there is much ignorance of the means by which statesmen can promote it—is professedly the single object they have in view. The beginning and the end of his career thus designates a great change in the principles of Government, which he contri buted to bring about, which is, perhaps, more worthy of study and elaborate exposition than even the life of this distinguished man. We deeply regret to see the vile passions of disappointed diplomatists overflowing into the Liberal Press; and still more' do we regret that the reasonings orthat class of men—by no means instrumental in promoting the general happiness —should be suffered to poison the stream of Liberal opinions, and taint the cha racter of the Liberal party. It is not Tess just and benevolent than it is now com mercially expedient to cultivate a good under standing between the people of England and of the United States. Of the free-trade party, that is the especial business. They dwell truly and justly on the vast resources of the United States, and they hold out the full participation in them, ensuring endless prosperity to both countries, as the rich and certain conse quence of abolishing our own laws restricting commerce. No journal has more ably enforced their views than the Morning Chronicle ; but of what avail can be its arguments, when its oppo nents, and our opponents, can turn round on it and bring proofs from its own writings that anti-national feelings would at all times endanger these great commercial advantacres..Yeslt r.lay that journal contained the followin;passage, which is as much at variance as possible with all the doc trines and feelings jealous and narrow-minded ° f tiie fre a e s - t r t a n d e e rs, mostand i i i s i i n s ! . ' clnevous Tory diplomatist could desire --- . " The account published yesterday y of the dinner to painful n ' LOO Ashburton, at N el , sequel to the scene at Bost v o tis difficult to or l k, is an appropriate con ceive anything more occu pied by Lord Ashburton, to th e post the feelings of a d then . real Englishman filling t h a t n h having just wh e icli uncontrollable concluded such a treaty, than burst of triumph and exultation from the Americans on that occasion."' ~ broke Eve n forth ha d persuaded himself ' the negotiator before that evening that he had concluded a treaty fair between the two countries, he must have retired from that feast with heart aching with the secret conviction that the interests of America had triumphed in his negotiation over those of England. A true Engli3hman would have passed a sleepless night after witnessing such a scene. Lord Ashburton no doubt had refreshing dreams of the future prosperity and greatness to which he had helped the United States to advance." A real Englishman, then, must see with horror the prosperity of the United States. But there was one true-hearted Englishman at that feast, Lord JOHN HAY, and one Liberal and en lightened Irishman, Mr. G RATTAN, who certainly did not share the feelings 'of the Chronic/e. There are thousands of persons in England, too, who, when they read that account, were as much delighted with the proceedings as those who were present at the feast. A hatred or jealousy of America forms no part of their character. If Lord ASHBURTON have contributed to its future prosperity and greatness, he may justly be proud of it, for he has also contributed, at least, to the peace of the two countries; and, we be lieve, to the prosperity of both. The writer in the Chronicle is evidently incapable, at present, of believing, like Lord ASH BURTON himself some time ago, that there is a game at which both parties can win. He fool ishly fancies, contrary to all experience, and con trary to all the principles on which commerce is based, that because one gains another necessarily loses. The fact is not so, and a treaty which puts an end to disputes about literally nothing, must be a gain to both. The passage in the Morning Chronicle im plies a deep anti-national feeling—a jealousy and a hatred of the prosperity of America—with an abhorrence of its liberties, which, out of the diplomatic and high Tory circles of England, no Englishman, we believe, shares. It was delightful to us to learn of the extreme pleasure which the Americans felt at the com pletion of the treaty, for it was a proof that, in spits of many incendiary writers—in spite of sympathisers and expatriated men of a bad cha racter, who labour to nourish hostility between the people—the Americans cherish feelings of friendship towards us, and cherish an earnest desire to be at peace with England. We saw in their joy a full assurance of the permanent continuance of tranquillity, and of the permanent realization to both countries—in spite of hostile tariffs—of the prodigious commercial advantages which the free-traders promise. One of the most cheeritig features, indeed, of the whole transaction is the proof it affords that numerous incendiary writers and unpatriotic statesmen in both countries have failed in exciting amongst the people those hostile feelings which are contrary to their true interests. Notwithstanding the insidi ous efforts of artful diplomacy the people of both countries, we rejoice to. say, are animated with the most friendly feelings, which not only made the task of negotiating a treaty of peace easy and pleasant, but which would brand the Go vernments of both countries with eternal dis grace if they had failed. We trust that a growing conviction in the writer in the Chro nicle.— giving birth to future improvement— of having neglected an opportunity of acquiring honourable fame and consolidating peace between two brotherly nations, which require only peace and trade to be mutually prosperous, may be at the bottom of those unjust, unfriendly, peevish, and jealous sentiments with which the Chronicle overflows, not only towards Lord ASHBURTON, but towards the Americans. Mr. O'CoNNELL, in his capacity of Head Paci ficator of Ireland, has renewed—•what he whim sically calls—his " peaceful agitation" for that very anti-pacific measure, the Repeal of the Union. This agitation, which usually sets in with the autumnal equinox, is formally an nounced through the medium of a "Letter to the People of Munster," wherein the Lord Mayor of Dublin—the most tempestuous Lord Mayor on record—strenuously exhorts his " fel low-countrymen to be up and stirring," assuring them that "Ireland expects every man will do his duty," which duty, it seems, consists in bully ing England, so as to frighten her into a conces sion of the Repeal. By way of encouragement, Mr. O'CONNELL assures his countrymen that our " domestic and foreign relations are such, that if the Irish people, in sufficient numbers demand the restoration of their Parliament, that demand becomes irresistible." He adds that, "if at the time the recent riots in England were at their height, Ireland had been or ganized with three millions of enrolled -Repealers, Sir ROBERT PEEL, who before yielded to a combination of not more than one million, would have gladly conceded the Repeal of the Union." Mr. O'CONNELL here alludes to the Premier's concession of Catholic Emancipation ; and infers that because that measure was granted, Repeal—were proper exertions used—would be granted also, as a matter of course. Now nothing can be more wretched than this so phistry. Emancipation was conceded because justice, common sense, and expediency alike demanded such concession ; because the House of Commons and the Cabinet were split into nearly equal parties on the question, and were, in consequence, hampered in their movements; because, in short, it was more dangerous to refuse than to yield the boon. But is this the case—is it ever likely to be the case—with the Repeal of the Union ? Are justice, common sense, and expediency con cerned in the dismemberment of the empire ? Is the House of Commons divided on the question ? Do the Cabinet entertain two opinions respecting it? . In a word, is it practicable, and, if practicable, is it safe ? Mr. O'CONNELL must know—no man better— that the answer to all these questions must be against Him. All the great parties in the State have already declared their invincible determina tion never to concedeßepeal, and certainly nothing has occurred of late that should induce them to relax in that determination. But this is not the only blunder that Mr. O'CONNELL is guilty of in his Letter. Here u is a still more absurd one. He tells his countrymen that there is "inclina tion almost universal among them to procure the Repeal;" and yet, in the very next sentence, he modestly con tents himself with demanding" three millions of signatures," just as though—notwith standing this " universal inclination,"—he wholly despaired of getting more ! This is poor reason ing, and such as we should scarcely have expected from a politician of Mr. O'CONNELL'S practised shrewdness. We entertain no feelings of towards the Hon. and Learned Gentleman; on the contrary, we admire the general liberality and far-sighted ness of his views, and are oftener battling by his side than against him ; but on the ques tion of Repeal we are opposed to him in toto. It is an idle delusion—the mere phantom of an excited imagination, which nothing short of a miracle can ever fashion into a reality. Why, then, does Mr. O'CONNELL still cleave to it with such pertinacity ? Sane on all other sub jects, is he a Monomaniac on this alone? If it be the stimulus of agitation that his active spirit requires, surely he can find fitter questions for agitating than the impracticable one of Repeal ! Arc there not the tithe rent-charge—the ex tension of the suffrage—the due promotion of Irish manufactures—the shortening of ,Par. liaments—and, lastly,' the protection of the ballot ? Here. arc questions fur agitation quite sufficient, we should think, to engross one man's attention, even though that man be Mr. O'CoN NELL; and on each and all of these,we shall be proud to be found combating by his side. - But Repeal —it is asheer impossibility, and consequently to agitate it, is as ridiculous as to tilt, like Don QUIXOTE, With N 1 ind-mills. Granted, how ever, that it could be carried ; what would be the inevitable consequence ? A decided break-up of the unity and integrity of the empire; an attempt at a Republic in Ire land; a general convulsion, in which the chief finallyßepeal e r b s y w: ra ul y, cl o f b e w I t d e p hle a f s r u e ff s t e o r r e a r t s and i o ; nat the request of the Irish people themselves, of the present established form of Imperial Legislation. No Englishman can read without shame the numerous acts of fraud, robbery, and forgery, committed in ourepublic establishments. It was THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 28, 1842. the habit of the people of this country, at one period, to boast of the integrity of officers in Government departments, and to draw a favour able comparison between the conduct of these functionaries and that of foreigners in similar situations; who were very generally described as persons guilty of . taking bribes, and rob biug their oWn _Governments, to make up 'for their paltry salaries. In Spain and Italy, possibly, practice of this kind prevails still, yet :though insnfficient pay Cannot justify either fraud or robbery, - their effenceS are venial when compared with many of those committed in Eng land. In Government offices here the pay in general is gond; the salaries of the principal clerks and officers are ample, ^nd the labour comparatively light ; yet we find an income of 400/., or even 1,8001. a-year, does not secure the public against Ekchequer frauds, or the Trea sury against the robberies of public servants. The public had scarcely ceased talking about the f o rgeries of . SMITH, which for some unexplained cause were to a certain extent hushed up,' when it was discOyered that another disgraceful system of plunder was carried on in the Custom-house by officers receiving excellent salaries. The in vestigation of this affair appears to be made even with greater secrecy than that respecting the forged Exchequer bills; but report states that the Treasury has been defrauded to an enormous amount, and that but for this defal cation, the Custom-house returns would in some quarters have exhibited a very different appearance. We cannot believe plunder to such an extent has been "committed, but beyond all doubt it is most extensive, and great numbers are , implicated. The public, however, who are the' sufferers, have a right to know every par r ticular connected with such disgraceful transac tions, and we trust, therefore, that a full and public -investigation will be instituted. Possibly some of these gentlemen, with salaries of 4001. a-year, have powerful patrons, and may attempt to escape public indignation and public punish ment by paying a penalty for their crimes. This mode of settling the business, however, will not satisfy the country, and in order that all such suspicions maybe set at rest, it is the duty ,of Government to bring the delinquents at once before a public tribunal. We fear the Cus tom-house officers are not the only persons guilty of such practices; but in most other departments affairs __are better managed, and the Commissioners and Directors keep a better look out after those under them than the Board of Customs. It is certainly little to the credit of these well-paid gentlemen that a system of plunder like this should have been carried on to such an extent, and so long, without their know- ledge. Sir ROBERT WILSON has been well rewarded for deserting his party. After he was turned out of Southwark, for voting contrary to pledges made to his constituents, he was restored to his rank in the Army by the late KING, having received some 10,0001. from a gene rous public for the loss of his Commission, and he is now appointed to the important situa tion of Governor of Gibraltar. The salary, it is said, is to be raised, and he may therefore reckon upon a snug berth for life. We cannot help thinking there are many meritorious officers of consistent politics and of long standing in the Army, who have much better claims for this office. We suppose that Lord STANLEY, who presented Sir ROBERT to her MAJESTY, has a fellow-feeling on the subject, and rejoices to promote a man who set him. the example of walking over to the enemy. The accounts from Lisbon of the 19th inst. possess some interest. The Corte.s had been prorogued on the 15th till the Ist of December, when they are to meet to pass the Diuro Wine Company Bill, and other Government measures left unfinished. A fresh change of Ministry had taken place; but this is an event of such common occurrence in that country, that it Hardly deserves notice. The Ministers of Ma rine and Justice have retired. The Duke of TERCEIRA has given up the Foreign-office, but remains Minister of War and President of the Council as before. COSTA CABRAL continued in the'llome Department, and Baron TOJAL in that of Finance. The Ministers chosen were GOMEZ DE CASTRO, Foreign Department; SOUSA E AZEVEDO, Justice and Ecclesiastical Affairs• 7 and FALCAO, Marine and Colonies. Baron TOJA.L was negotiating an advance of 1,200 contos upon the decitna, &e., with the Bank and Confianca Company, and if able to raise it on moderate terms, would not issue treasury bills on the,decima, which he intended otherwise to do. The Tariff question was expected to be pro moted by the appointment of GOMEZ DE CASTRO to the Foreign Department; but it was thought probable that the offer would be to reduce at present such duties as have already been pro posed, and leave the more difficult questions for another year. A Brazilian frigate had arrived at Lisbon; to escort the future wife of the young Eluperor of BRAZIL to that country. The French papers of Sunday contain no news of importance. We have received Marseilles papers of the 23d, but they give no account of the Levant I%lail, which is now overdue some days. SIDI BEN ARAen, called the Serpent of the Desert, former Minister of ACIIMIT BEY, last Bey of Constantino, passed through Aix on the 17th, on his way to Nogeut-le-Rotrou, which has been assigned him as a residence by the French Government. lie had been sentenced to twenty years' hard labour, for having issued false coin, and confined in the fortress of the island of St. Marguerite, on the coast of Provence. Having been lately pardoned by the KING, at the inter cession of his son, he was liberated on the 13th, by the Prefect of the Var, and intrusted to the keeping of an officer of the staff and a brigadier of gendarmerie, who were to conduct him to Nugent. A letter from the St. PeterThurgh correspon dent of the Univers states, that " the Emperor NICHOLAS could not dissemble his anger at the publication of the recent allocution of the POPE, and had determined on recalling his Axlbas ,, ador from Rome, and to cease all intercourse, with the Pontifical see. In the meanwhile his MAJESTY per Severed in his system - of persecution towards his Roman Catholic subjects. He had lately enjoined the Dominidan friars throughout his empire to give in to the authoryies a list of all Their penitents,-threatening, is case they ,should refuse to comply with the injunction, to have them arrested and conveyed under a militar3 escort to the fro n tiers of the empire." " The EMPEROR knows well," Continues the writer " that the Domi n i ca ns c order ann ot,:withOut violating their consciences, conform to his decree , and has idominions, expedi entrather for banishing accordinglyt ot reli religions devisedr ns dei .thi sfrom than recur to a brutal and unjustifiable decree of exile." The Austrian Observer of. the 17th announces the presence of Prince MICHAEL of Servia, with his uncle EPHRAIM, and his mother, Princess LINDICZA, in the quaran tine' at•Semlin. Wu T s- CHITSII, who w as in B e lgrade, quitted it under pretence of going to Panciewa, but suddenly appeared in Semiendua, and thence hastened to seize the park of artillery at Kragujenatz. Prince MICHAEL and his mother hastened together to engage the foe, but their troops fled after a few shots. A provisional Government has been formed of five members, with PETROMEWITSCH and WUTSCHITSH at its head, and deputies from the seven districts have been sununoned to Bel grade to give counsel, until the Porte shall have decided what to do'under the circumstances. A letter i n th e Augsburg Ga zette, d ated the 12th, from the frontier„ s ays that PETROME WITSCH, WUT IMITSCH, aim ea c h at the thron : and. that.th e . n umber of exiles to SCHI TSH, and S. Semlin daily increeses. Th. e answer of Pri n c e e, a MICHAEL to the invitation addressed to him by the insurrectionists to return, was in the nega tive. To th e remar k's of the ConSuls, KIAMIL PACHA observed that the Consu ls were but corn mercial agents, and had in no Wise to trouble themselves with polities. It seems that- the Russian Consul, as well as the English, French,' and Austrian, protested and declared they could acknowledge no Prince of Servia but Prince MICHAEL. The Co►nmissioners of the Porte, on the contrary, maintain their right to have a new royal family elected. The following remarks on the linen trade of Belgium and France are taken from the Consti tutionnel The insufficiency of the new - protecting duty on linens becomes daily more manifest. Things remain just as bad as in 1841, except that instead of being ruined by English competition we are so by Belgian. Belgium, proportionally produces more linen than England, and is consequently a more dangerous rival. M. Lelievre has fully shown this in a pamphlet sum ming up the linen question. The French manufac turer, says M. Lelievre, - payS 48 francs duty on his thread, whilst Belgian linen can enter at a duty of 30 francs; Thus it costs 12 francs less to import 100 kilogrammes of 13elgign linen_than to imprt the same quantity of English thread. The state of things in 1841 would be 'preferable for the French linen manu facturer; for at present thread is, and will be, much cheaper in Belgium, and the Belgians retain immense advantages. Such is the industry of the Belgians, that notwithstanding the progress of machinery, their women continue to spin in stray and idle hours, and thus add to the production a great quantity and a better kind of the article in demand. In order to protect linen weaving in France, the only means would be to limit the quantity of importations from Belgium. Let an average be taken of the importa tion of the last twelve years, and whenever the impor tion of the year from Belgium surpasses that quan tity, let the duty be increased. It is to be hoped, that if the Ministry do not adopt this measure, the Chambei' of Deputies will; when it comes to examine the treaty.—C'onstitutionnel. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, TUESDAY.—The Queen and Prince Al- Dert took their usual morning walking exercise this morning, and their Royal Highnesses the Prince of \Vales and the Princess Royal were taken an airing in the Park. Lord Rivers has succeeded the Earl of Hardwiche as the Lord in Waiting on the Queen, and Captain Duncan has succeeded Mr. R. Ormsby Gore as the Groom in Waiting on her Majesty. Tha latter have taken their departure. His Excellency the Prince Castelcicala arrivel at the Castle to-day on a visit to her Majesty. The Earl of Lincoln, Admiral Sir Robert Stopford, Major Ge neral Sir Henry Wheatley, and General the Hon. Sir William Lumley, arrived - on a visit at the Castle. In addition to the above, and the Illustrious visitors staying at, the Castle, the Royal dinner party this evening will include ier Royal Highness the Du2h9ss of Kent, Lady Charlotte Dundas, Mr. George Edward and the Hon. Mrs. Anson, and Colonel Arbuthnot. Baron Koller took his departure to-day. The unfavourable state of the weather this after noon, prevented her Majesty and her Illustrious visitors, including their Royal Highnesses the Duchess and the Princesses Augusta and Mary of Cambridge, taking a drive. The Earl of Aberdeen arrived in town yesterday from a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle. His Exce:leacy the French Ambassador visited the Noble Earl after his arrival at the Foreign-office. His Lord • ship left town in the afternoon on his return to Wind sor Castle. Lord Wharnclifle, Lord President of the Council, arrived in town on Monday nightfrom his seat, Wort ley Hall, Yorkshire. His Lordship visited Sir Robert Peel yesterday afternoon at his residence in Whiteh - , Yardens. The Chancellor of the Exchequer lefc town yester day, for Ryde, Isle of Wight. The Right Hon. Henry Ellis transacted business at the Foreign-office. CIRCULATING MEDIUM AT HONG KONG. The following has been received at Lloyd's : " Office of Committee of Privy Council for Trade, Whitehall, September 26, 1842. " am directed by the Lords of the Commit . tee of Privy Council for Trade to transmit to you, for the information of the Committee at Lloyd's, Copy of Proclamation issued by her Majesty's Plenipotentiary in China, on the subject of the circulating medium at llong Kong. " I am, &c., J. MACGREGOR. " The Secretary at Lloyd's." cc PROCLAMATION. " With reference to the desirable object of prevent ing disputes and laying down some defined system regarding the'circulating medium in this settlement, his Excellency Sir Henry Pottinger, Bart., her Ma jesty'S Plenipptentiary and Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British subjects in China, is pleased to promulgate the following brief rules, which are to be considered applicable to all common bazaar purchases, and barter, hire, &c. &c.; but not to interfere with or affect what may be termed, mercantile transactions : and are to be in force in the Island of Hong Kong during the gracious pleasure of her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain. _ _ _ " Ist. The following coins are to b 3 deemel leg. 1 tenders : - - vv " Spanish, Mexican, anl their dolars, and their component parts. " Company's rupees and other component parts. Cash,' or the copper coin current in China. "2d. Dollars of whatever denomination or device, and whether whole or chopped, are to circulate at par with reference to each other, always provided that they be of the proper weight and standard. " 3d: Two and one quarter's Company's rupees shall be considered equal to one dollar. Ode rupee and two annas (or half a quarter) equ tl to half a dol lar, and three quarters of a rupee (or twelve annas) equal to one quarter of a dollar. " 4th. Twelve hundred (1,200) cash (copper coin) shall be equal to one dollar; six hundred (600) to half a dollar ; three hundred (300) to a quarter of a dollar; five hundred and thirty-three (533) to one Company's rupee ; two hundred and sixty-six (236) to half a rupee,; one hundred and third -three (133) to one quarter of a rupee. _ "4th. Any other coins, whether British or Foreign, not enumerated in the preceding rales, are not to be deemed a legal tender, but they can, of course, be sold or otherwise bartered in the blzaar, according to their intrinsic value. " 6th. Cash (copper coin), at the rate laid down in the 4th rule, will be sold to any individual requiring it in sums .of not less than fifty dollars, on application to the Treasurer and Secretary to her Britannic Ma jesty's Superintendents of trade.---God save the Queen. "Dated at Hong Kong, Government House, this 29th day of March, 1842. (Signed) " HENRY POTTINGER. "Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary, &c. &C." QUICK TRAVELLING.—The General Steam Naviga tion Company's favourite steam-ship Rainbow, Cap tain John Fife, that left Antwerp on Sunday after noon, landed her passengers at the Brunswick Pier, Blackwall, the following morning, having made the run across in 16 hours, a perforMance that cannot be equalled by any other vessel. The General Steam Navigation Company's m packet Giraffe, Captain R. Stranack, arrived on Sun day, from Rotterdam, with a number of fashionables, and the Dutch mail of Saturday. The passage oc cupied only 21-/ s . hours. • The General Steam Navigation Company's mail paCket.Caledonia, Captain H. Cheesman, arrived off the Tower ;at; six o'clock on Monday morning, from Hamburgh, with the mail of Friday. She_ also brought over eighty sheep and a number 6( oxen for the London market. THAMES • NNEL. —The Rotherhithe staircase is now being carried on rapidly towards completion, and the whole undertaking begins to assume a finished appearance. This evening the members of the Me chanics' Institution purpose visiting it, and it is to be kept open till late for their accommodation. A CARGO or WILD BEASTS.—EarIy on Monday morning,the powerful steamer Monarch arrived at her moorings off the Custom-house, her decks being almost covered with cages containing an extensive collection of wild animals, a trans-shipment from Hull. Among them were a remarkably fine young lion from Zanzebar, a pair of striped hyaenas from India ' a very beautiful pair of the Sasin antelopes from the borders of Persia, the horns of the male nearly two feet long, forming a perfect spiral, a most interesting specimen of the gnu antelope, from the Cape of Good Hope, called by the Dutch boers of South Africa the Baas or Master, from his great strength ; and one of the most formidable of the monkey tribe ever brought to this country. .The last animal stands nearly four feet high, and appeared to be a distant relative of " Happy Jerry," of departed memory. He inhabits the mountains of Arabia, and is the Derrias or Wood Baboon, known by the Arabs by the name of " Re bah," or Child of the Sun. The whole of the' cargo was landed at daylight, and forwarded in vans to their destined resting-place, after all their wanderings, at the Surrey Zoological Gardens. SUNDERLAND—THE NEW TARIFF.—The amount of duties received on the exportation of coals between the sth July, 1841, and the sth September, 1841, did not amount to 1201.; whilst, under the new tariff, up- wards of 2.0001. has been received, for the exporta tion of coals, in one month !—Sunderland Times. BAY Or BISCAY.—Some English capitalists, ac cording. to the Railway lifoniteur, have in contempla tion to form a line from Bordeaux to Vigo, Bilhoa, and Santander, and so form a communication with Falmouth, Southampton, and London. PILCHARD FISHERY.—MOUNT'S BAY.---The pil chard fishery here is, so far, a complete failure with respect to the scans, and very little is doing with the drift-boats. A few winter mackarel have, however, been taker..—Cornwall Advertiser, S pi A n gg ca Fa e TJ AND Ith r apintaii. " Who runs may read.' PORMEGN. A partial change of Ministry has taken place in Portugal. The Cortes, after a very unprofitable and wrangling session, was prorogued on the 19th until the Ist of December. • • . Our Madrid correspondence is to the 18th, but con tains no news. Nothing doing on the Madrid . Bourse. The King of the French was expected on Sunday at St. Cloud, previous to going to Fontainbleau, unless the wetness of the season should prevent the Royal Family spending the vintage at the latter place. The King and Queen of Prussia, travelling under the names of Count and Countess De Goellern, arrived at Rastadt on the evening of the 21st, and left on the following morning for Friburg. The Leipsic Gazette of the 21st inst., mentions the existence at Breslau, in Silesia, of a society of Com munists, professing the same doctrines as the asso ciations' of England and France, but who, to save ap pearances, pretended to meet for Christian purposes. The grand inauguration of the Walhalla, in Ger many, takes place on the 18th of October next, when the King of 13avaria solemnly opens it in person. Abd-el-Kader has now stationed his camp in the valleys of Chelif, where he has at least a thousand men at his command, with other parties. PUBLIC OPINION. Thelieridd gives the following sketch of the late Marquis 'Wellesley's Indian policy :—" The states manship of the Marquis Wellesley was characterised by getiius,. by purity of conduct, by patriotism, by justice,' by wisdom, and by success. He saved British India by his prudent sagiicity and resolute • defensive operations from foreign 'aggression and in ternal hostility secretly combined; he greatly and justly' extended the limits of our eastern empire, and by-that extension improved the condition of the mil lions whom his successful policy brought under the dominion of his grateful Sovereign ; in laying down the Vice-Royalty of India he claimed—in vain—at the hands of his mercantile employers for his fellow citizens at home full and complete participation in 1 the trade and commerce of that mighty empire which his energy and wisdom had preserved and enlarged, and he returned home to have his services unappre ciated, his objects mis -stated, his motives maligned, and his administration slandered by envy amongst seeming friends, by malice amongst disappointed in triguers, and by faction amongst blindly infuriated politicians ; he was, however, amply rewarded by the applause and approbation of that great Minister—Mr. Pitt—who had discovered his youthful merits, and given mighty but worthy employment to his preco cious maturity ofjudgment. The mantle of Pitt de • scended on the Marquis Wellesley." The Chronicle has the following observations : " A courageous following out of the policy chalked out by the Whig Ministry, and partly followed out by the present Administration, would relieve us from accumulating embarrassments and impending dangers, restore prosperity to the manufacturing districts, without inflicting disaster on the agricultural. If any of our readers still doubt this latter assertion, let them refer back to Mr. Greg's letter detailing his visit to the Lothians. The wealthy manufacturer is also a farmer ; and he has shown, in a very striking and - - - satisfactory way, the beneficial influence which would result to agriculture from a sound policy with respect to the Corn-laws. Sure we are, that neither our agriculture nor our manufactures can stand the pre sent system. Sir Robert Peel's Corn-law is not — cannot be—a permanent measure. The question of wages has been raised—that of rent is following; and peace requires that both questions should be equitably and speedily settled." The Times thus alludes to the Ashburton dinner at New York :—" In our yesterday's paper appeared an account of the dinner given by; the principal mer chants and others of New York to Lord Ashburton. Whatever may . .be the feelings with which different parties in England may regard some clauses of the treaty now concluded, it is at any rate with no small satis - action that they must observe the warmth with which all parties in the United States join in hailing the establishment—we may very nearly say the re establishment—of friendly relations between these two great countries. Perhaps in nothing do we see the effects of this Noble Lord's mission so fully as in the turn which it seems to have given to popular feel ing. A lover of peace, reading the speeches which that meeting produced, can hardly fail to congratulate himself upon the change which has taken place since the mutabile vulgus of New York were clamouring for the conviction of I\l‘Leod, and. the Government scarcely bold enough to affront public opinion by dis. countenancing the sympathizers of Buffalo." The Post says :—" We are enabled to state that by the treaty on the eve of conclusion for the regulation of the Stade toll, the King of Hanover will lose at least one-fourth of his toll revenue, and that his Ma jesty voluntarily submits to this sacrifice from a ge nerous desire to promote the interests and convenience of commerce in general, and of -British commerce more especially. The intended treaty will simplify , the mode of levying the toll by the removal of all un necessary and troublesome forms. The duty is hence-. forth to be imposed upon the cargoes exclusively, and will, therefore, fall upon the consumers, while it will be too insignificant to -deter them from the purchase of a single yard or pound of British manufacture that they would have bought had Lord Palmerston's un just and insolent proposal been carried into effect. At the same time, the shipping interest of Great Britain will be highly benefited by b e i ng f ree d f rom a ll f ees , charges, an impediments whatever." IVIONEY—TRADE—COMMERCE. Twenty warehouses and;hes;;;;heotalrittrnber of buildings destroyed by fire at Liverpool. On Sun day evening the remains of a man were dug out of the ruins. The cotton saved is being carted away ; and on Monday a meeting of five of the principal insurance agents took place to manage the salvage and settle the claims, but they have not yet come to any satisfactory account of the actual Toss Every mill in Manchester is now at work with its full complement of hands, excepting two. The same is the case throughout the counties of Lancashire, Cheshire, and Yorkshire. Bolton, perhaps, is the only exception. The twenty-third annual meeting of the City of London General Pension Society took place on Mon day at the London Tavern. The Report stated that the vested funds amounted to 4,3141., and the balance in favour of the Society on the last year's accounts was 2091. 2s. 10d. The number of pensioners at pre sent is 36 male and female, all above 60 years of age. ELECTIONEERING. Owing to the elevation of Major Vivian to the Peerage a vacancy occurs in the representation of the barough of Bodmin. Mr. Robartes, the nephew of Lady Agar, is already canvassing the electors, for the eldest son of Sir Joseph Sawle on the Liberal inte eit ; and Sir Samuel„ Spry, its former representative, has al o is lied his address. TAW AND POMICM. Three men, connected with the riots at Stalybridge were committed for trial to Chester on Saturday; and two others on the same charge at Hyde. The Special Commission for the county of Ch•rster is fixed for the sth of October. John Edward Stevenson, alias Edward Williams, was charged at Lambeth-street on Monday, with hav ing obtained goods to a considerable amount from va rious tradesmen by fa!se pretences. He was ordered to find bail to re-appear on Monday next. Isaac Moxon, late ostler at a tavern in the Commer cial-road East, and George Jarvis, a farm-labourer, were on Monday re-examined at the Thames Police office, on a charge of being concerned in a burglary committed at Manor Farm, Essex. The prisoners were remanded till Monday next. LITERAEY AND SCIENTIFIC. The celebrated violinist • Baillot; whose decease we have announced, requested that there should be no pomp at his obsequies ; they were accordingly very simple, and without music. He was heard to remark at the late funeral of Ch eru bi n i, " I k now not w h y there are so many lights, and so much music, fur a man who can neither see nor hear ?" M. Arago, in the name of the Commission of the Academy at Paris, has expressed his unqualified ap probation on the invention of M. Gaubert, for the composition of printing types by means of machinery. Mr. Henry Hertz has just been appointed Pro fessor of the Piano at the Conservatoire, Paris, in lieu of M. Adam, the patriarch of pianists, who is 83 years of age, and the father of the composer. • The prize of 101. offered by Mr. Macready, for the best song and chorus in As You Like It, has been awarded to Mr. Henry Smart, nephew of Sir George Smart. COURT-F,AsHzoNAnLE. The Duke of Wellington arrived at Apsley House on Mo :clay, f.-om Windsor Castle. The Marquis and Marchioness of Normanhy have been visiting the Duke of Devonshire during the past week, at Chatsworth. The Earl of Mexborcugh is staying at Warwick Castle. _ _ The Earl of Aberdeen left town on Monday for Windsor Castle. _ _ _ The Earl of Verulam arrived in town on Mond .4r from Gorhambury. , Lord Stanley leaves town in the course of the week for Lancashire. _ The Earl and Countess of Chesterfield leave Getling Lodge, at the end of the week, for Newmarket. ",:fISCELL/ITJECI:7S. The bakers at Windsor, still keep up their high prices, and are charging 'lid. for the loaf, which every where else in the neighbouring towns sells at 5 and less. _ _ Lord Ashley is at present engaged in making in quiries into the condition of the miners, for the pur pose of mTiving at their real • state, and ascertaining what improvements can • be made in their condition. • The conclusion of the -Worcestekalusical.Festiv al was celebrated by a ball;. at which three . hundred ° f the principal families of the nobility and. gentry county attended. - • A sunken rock, off St o k e -Church, .D a rtitouth which is not laid down .i n any;chart,.• and Occasio ns frequent damage to • vesselS, has been ordered to ha ve its accurate position ascertained.in as MONEY -and COIVIALERCiAL NEWTS CITY, TUESDAY EVENING. r,, A slight improvement was 'visible in the condition of the Money market in the afternoon,. and Consel s - left off at the prices of yesterday, being ~924 924 Money, and 922-924 for the Account. India St° c ::: was about 2 per cent. worse, the rate b e ing 247 Although money was in greater demand, but in ore .t l from an apprehension that it may he wanted than;, any .actual pressure, the premium on Exchequer remained at 50 52 for the Old, and 49 51 for th e 1 New issue. ,7 The prices of Foreign Securities were rather het• i ? t ter, although no decided change ha s t o be observ e° ,o! Belgian Bonds were 102 103; Dutch Two-and-a -11 T, per Cents., 51i 514; the Five per Cents., 102 10 2 4 Danish, 83 84 ; and Brazilian, 66 67. 35 1;4 The quotation for Mexican Bonds was 354 - with but the smallest amount of business. don' The Share-market showed more fi r m n ess ; Lon- 4 , and Birmingham were 182 184; Birmingham 11 4 Gloucester, 39 41 ; Great Western, 81 82 ; Half Shares, 582 59.4 ; South Western, 574 s „`", z ;" North Midland, 56 58 ; the New Shares, 2 7 South EaStern and Dover, 224222 ; EasternCouli ti l i • 84 84 ; Northern and Eastern, 8 9 ; BlackW 3 64 7 ; and Brighton, 34 344 per share. o A decided improvement was seen in the rate , Exchanges, especially on Paris, which was quoted 51 i 25f. 80c., 25f. 85c. ; Amsterdam, 12 6, 12 6.-f; 11() ; terdam, 12 64 ; Antwerp, 12 44, 12 44 ; Hambu r g Q l 13 114, 13 HI ; Frankfort, 1504151 ; Genoa, 2 6 „ ° ,;' 25 90,; Marseilles, 25 85 ; Leghorn, 30 30, 3 9,f; Vienna, 9 554, 9 564 ; Madrid, 36* 364 ; 521 524 all at three months. The quotations for the Bonds were-Colomb ia ' ' 204 21 ; Peruvian, 15 16 ; Portuguese Five m r . v:: Cents., 354 352; the Three per C en ts., 21 Spanish Five per Cents., 154 164 ; the Three. Cents., 201 21. ea t. , A speculative demand, which had arisen for d ings in Spanish Bonds, has been suddenly c hecked o lf the announcement that M. Calatrava has in c oursed preparation a complete account of the liabilities 3 , 5 „ sources of the income of Spain. Senor Calatl o g resided for many years in England, and, during t time, earned the reputation of being a highly honeuroi• able and straightforward man of business; hisKod, ceedings since his accession to office have not' such as to alter the opinion of those who then him, but rather to strengthen it. The subject of Indian finance has at length bee aff to be seriously considered, and the discussion. !°_, - Tiji General Court to-morrow is look e d f or ward..to",,, anxiety. This, it is supposed, will be protractt a 7. o great length, as the notices of motion for an of the Affghan war will naturally include .a.deloi the policy pursued. That the revenues of India :, l e been seriously (commercially) trenched upoo i ylW yond a doubt and it is to be feared that the re' may be severely felt at home. (From The Sun of Last Night.) The heaviness in the English market contlll.o.. and the gloom appears to have increased ; no P erti of lar cause can, however, be assigned. Consols opego, at 921, dropped to 921, and are now 9.4 921 f°, l l. hre e ney, and 921 92 2 ,- for the Account. New and-a-Half per Cents., 1001 1001 ; India Stock' 01J 249; Exchequer Bills maintain their price, th e 50 52 and the New, 49 51 premium. icn Dutch Bonds are the only Foreign Securities pe te r, have been dealt in to-day, and prices are a trifle b e d ,, , the Five per Cents., 1021 1021, and the Two -11 , 11 0 1 Half per Cents., 511. There is no official quo'` for Mexican. Cuba Bonds, Six per Cent., SO• rAe re! The Share Market is flat.—Great - VVr ilt oo ! Halves, 59 59i; South Western, 57-1- ; 131.1 W 341 341; South Eastern, Scrip, 111 11-' mitt chester and Birmingham, 211- 22; Midland Ca u- .. :4 60 ; and Great North of England, 811 Spanish Five per Cents. aCI6, and the Thre e Cents. 201, are the only bonds quoted to-da.),' Intelligence to the 29th of July has been rec,4o from Bucnos Ayres. A large po.'tion of the is occupied with accounts of the celebration 9-,0 anniversary of the declaration of independence9t appears to a great extent to have superseded bPB,OI-04 in which it is stated there was no new featurei 1:) .) 1 14 1 ' a trifling re-action in the rate of exchanges , was 3d. on England. A Correspondent alluded on Saturday to th e f spects of the foreign holders of the bonds e ist ioa , State ; these papers give the amount in circa' IR at 31,840,742 dollars, of which it 1 4;le i : estimated the greater part is held in r), A l O The price here is 191, and the' last quota n ° to Buenos Ayres 68; the enormous difference tiei - be traced - to the fact that the home ereditorocise 9 receives his interest, while the foreign onej s ei i feq with pleas of inability to pay., The great ril A r e Sfr to be found in the system of speculating on th e i n tif . Exchange by parties who, in reality, are - 0 f . ; %,: s ic l ' slightest degree individually interested, Whe re '6ll l° enormous fluctuations are caused to the injury bona fide holder. In fact these operation s ° „ t iloa,' / o f t o premium for non-payment, by" enabling th, e States, by means of agents, to buy up thei r res eal" tions at one-sixth of what they profess to repdopteti Were the holders to unite, measures t he, 3 be ob' whereby something like an instalment w h oulu tained, and a guarantee for the future. (26." MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, •:1 1 :r 1 " ,rioe f ; We cannot report . any improvement ill DP, Manchester and Birminghpm, 211 ; Londo u r Brighton Loan Notes 11i.,35. 9d.; L a ncast e 1-. Preston, 281 to 291 ; London and Birmingb ° e 91' to 184 ; Union Bank, 81; Manch e ster .Assurane ' CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. tog Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red. 3 per Cent. Cons 92/1 Ditto Old Annuities •'' 3i per Cent. Red — Ditto New A nn uities•• • sll New 3i per Cent... looa Ex. Bills, 1,000/- •- 93 ' 49 11 4 lsblw 5 per Cen', . Ditto 5001... " 49 r Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small ..... • Jan. 1860 Oct. 1859 Jan. 1860 l2 7-16,Consols for Acct. ••••" FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent. ... !Portuguese, 5 per Belgian, 5 per cent L Ditto, New Ditto ........ • Brazilian Bonds — Prussian, 5 per cent. ." Buenos Ayres 6 per cent Russian, 5 pei cent. --' Chilian, 6 per cent Ditto, Nletallic ..... ..". 1 6 ) Colombian, 6 per cent — Spanish, .5 per cent" . . Cuba Bonds, 6 per cent BO Ditto, Deferred...• f. Ditto, 1824 — French, 5 per cent. "*" ......f Danish, 3 per cent Exchange .......•••• Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — French, 3 per cent. Mexican, 5 per cent — Dutch, 2i per cent. ... Ditto; 6 per cent. 1837 Dittb, 5 per cent. Peruvian, 1825,6 per ct. SHARES. A I London and Greenwich R 4d 1 . !.•. , ' ... London and South Western (4116 s 10d pa) Yi London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) ...) Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) ............ Ditto Quarter Shares ( 2 paid) Manchester and Birmingham (40 paid) •- Counties Railway (100 paid) :0 Northern and Eastern (45 paid) ............ North Midland Railway (100) ...... ••• ;:t 4 i Ditto Half Shares (40 paid) ....... .... l e Ditto Thirds (W. 13s. 4d. paid) •• 191 Paris and Roue.] (18 paid) South Eastern and Dover (50 paid)... ....•• I) Ditto Scrip (15 paid) "•°. COURSE OF EXCHANGE—(YESTERb 4 a4o Amsterdam CF.I2 9 Gibraltar 3 ; 1 4 : 0 Ditto, at sight Rotterdam! 2U. 12 9 'Genoa ............. Antwerp Hamburgh M.I3. 13 14i Venice ..... ............ on Altona "alermo, per 0z....... " Paris, 3 days' sight 25 65 - Palermo, per oz. ...... : .. . 00 , 1 Ditto, 3 months 25 90 Lisbon ........ . ...... •.. 51, Marseilles ' OP . Bourdeaux 25 95 Rio Janeiro . ... . . .... ' . x'l7 Frankfort on Maine l5ll Bahia . ................. ''. •':4 Petersburgh, 3Us Berlin days 51 g , i e Vienna, effec. fl. 3 M 959 Phil a d e l p hi a ........ .....co do e Trieste, ditto lO PRICES OF Bill 1,10149 1 1 0 Madrid .. . .._ • 3 ' Cadiz 36; Po r t u g a l G o ld Con]..-0 0 bilbao 36 New Doubloons •••••" .0 0 Barcelona Seville ... 36 Silver in Bars..• '' ''' COWES, /SLE OF WIG1 0# : (PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) ri.l4, rV ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON INTELLiu' ,0 7- 0 GRAND SAIL ING M ATCH FOILONE POUNDS.—Several ma t c h es h ave t a ken Pu l ' season' between Mr. John Congreve's r ittteo Corsair, of 84 t o n s , an d M r . R o b er t Meilaana y r r Il i ° , yacht Talisman, of 87 t ons , i n w hi c h the fora2‘jr,P) been victorious ; but s) hi g h an o pinion ba ct ne if ; of his pet y ac ht, th a t h e o ff ere d to sail belibroet against the Corsair for 500/. or 1,000/. i r bis c ta't offer Mr. Congreve accepted, the yachts to," S toll four P.M. on Thursday neat, round theth at and hack. The 1,0001. is posted, and we i r o ll :t .l °, / no acc:deni may occur, but that the best win. Some thousands will change hands in Iv° c V e i The town continues very full for the sea E 1:01 0 , following families are still with. us :—Th a Countess of Errol, Earl and Countess of GO' the Countess of Darnley, Sir James and 143 d/ lie fj ham, Sir Edward and Lady Harriet r4eii . 'riVtlj Godolphin, Lord F. Beauclerk, Sir IlenrY,er nn Sir Bellingham and Lady Graham, :11Ir. SP e t - La",l Lady De Horsey, Lady Poore, Lady Paul )!{il Elizabeth Hone \Tele General Truman, 100°,1 may, Mr. Rictetts, ill-. Burgess, :Mr. x• Co l lte` Mr. J. Congreve, and Mr. Aluilins. Th e %5 11.- rl; of Wilton has_applied for a h ouse for Octeb er ioi e 5 Lady liitzroy Somer se t a nd seve ral other _00,0,7 for whom there is no want of accommodat ion, families having left for the season. . f: . ,