The Sun. — London, England, 1849-10-03 00:00:00

THE CA N'ADAS. for immediately the world had been informed that the Now ready, in 2 vols., with Maps and Plates, 215. bound, age of permanent tranquillity had arrived, lo! the L'AC AD IE; or, SEVEN YEARS' EXPLORATIONS in BRITISH AMERICA, " mindquakes" of revolution convulsed all the states With Sketches of its Natural History, Social and Sporting Scenes, &c. By Sir JAMES E. ALEXA NDER, K.L.S., &c. of the continent; and immediately after w® have On the Staff of the Commander of the Forces in Canada, Author of been assured that Peace is not only possible but cer " Travels in the East, in Africa," &c. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. tain, lo ! the brands leap forth from the scabbards of Turkey, of France, and of England, to resent an insult offered to all the liberal Governments of the world, through the violation of the first principles of humanity (principles accordant not only with Christianity but with Mahometanism) by the despotic rulers of Austria and of all the Russias. So ! the bubble—very gorgeous, no doubt, from the prismatic brilliancy of its colouring—has scarcely floated over our heads before it has burst—an infi nitessimal drops of the stalest suds of the most frothy of intellects! It is remarked by the habitual panegyrists of the AUTOCRAT, by those who discredit the accuracy of the reports recently received from Constantinople, and who, therefore, ridicule the idea of there being the least prospect of war, it is remarked by these sagacious publicists, that " much alarm " has been excited in consequence of the haughty attitude as sumed by NicnoLas in his bearing towards our ancient ally the SULTAN. GOD forgive them ! these traducers of England and encomiasts of the CzAR. " Alarm," forsooth ! We would wager that the predominant feeling throughout the population of these islands, so far from being that of alarm, is one of unalloyed satisfaction at the pros pect of a vengeance so long looming from Britain towards the partitioner of Poland, the assailant of Hungary, the despot of Siberia, the torturer of the nuns of Minsk, the robber of Wallachia, and the conspirator against the freedom of Western Europe " Alarm," forsooth I on the part of England—and on the part of England when her cause against Russia is the cause of humanity, of liberty, and of civiliza tion These misrepresenters of the character of the English people are surely worthy eulogists of NICHOLAS, the Emperor of all the Russias For ourselves, we look forward not with trepidation but with eager solicitude to the result of the events at present transpiring at Constantinople. BANVARD'S true original PAINTING of the MISSISSIPPI and MISSOURI RIVERS, exhibited by com mand of her Majesty the Queen, and 11.R.H. Prince Albert, and royal Family, at Windsor Castlr, NOW OPEN, at the EGYPTIAN HALL, PICCADILLY, every horning, at Half-past Two, Even ing, at Half-past Seven. Admission—Lower Seats, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. " That there was any other original painting of these rivers is an impudent imposture."—Louisville Democrat. THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET. Mr„ rt. Weht.r. ;cote Lessee and Manager, Old Brompton. The public is respectfully informed that this popular establishment is OPEN for the Season THIS EVENING, ®Will be performed the Comedy of MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING. Don Pedro, Mr. Vandenhoff; Benedick, Mr. J. Wa'lack ; Dogberry, Mr. Keeley ; Verges, Mr. Buckstone; Beatrice, Mrs. Nisbett ; Hero, Miss Jane Mordaunt. Aft , r which the Farce of SEPARATE MAINTENANCE. Jane P en nipother, Mr. Keeley ; Mrs. Pennipother, Mrs. K eele y ; Jane Briggs, Mss P. for on. To conclude with the highly success ful Farce, ca lled an ALARMING SACRIFICE. Bob Ticket, Mr. Buckstone ; Susan Sweetapple, Mrs. Fitzwilliam. On MONDAY, Oct. 8, Mr. MACHEADY will make his first ap pearance in London since his return from America, and commence his first series of his Farewell Performances previous to his retire ment from trite stage at the end of June next. Due notice will be given of the appearance of Mr. and Mrs. KEAN. The Box-offlee will be open on Thursday, under the direction of Mr. I. T. Archer. ---• rtiEAruts. ROYAL. ADELPIII. Under the direction of Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, Will be performed the popular Drama of MARIE DUCANGE. Principal characters by Messrs. Boyce, 0. Smith, Wright, Worrell, and Madame Celeste. After which a new Farce, entitled A BIRD OF PASSAGE. Mr. Carry Chick, Mr. Wright; Mr. Chaunt Ginger, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Mr. Charles Pu , Ler, Mr. Boyce; Ernest Hopeful, Mr. Worrell ; Mrs. Waters Rummer, Mrs. Frank Matthews. To be followed by a novelty in the shape of A MOST UNWAR RANTABLE INTRUSION, which will be committed by Mr. Wright to the annoyance of Mr. Paul Bedford. To conclude with ANIMAL MAGNETISM. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Vestrift. Sole Lessee, Mr. Charlei Maths WS. THIS EVENING, g Will be presented a comic Drama, called TIIE GARRICK FEVER. After which, TIIE FOLLIES OF A NIGHT. To be followed by the Musical Drama, entitled THE SENTINEL. concludo with BOX AND COX. Droll tuxes, os.; Upper Boxes, ts. ; Pit, 25.; Gallery, Is. No talc-price to any part of the house. The New Itox-oftce, No. 2, Wellington-street, is open to the swhl•r: , ley. from Tan till Six. PRINCESS'S THEATRE:. Mr. J. M. Maddox, Sole Lessee and Manager. TIIIS EVENING, Will be performed the celebrated Opera of DON GIOVANNI'. To conclude with a new Extravaganza, entitled THE FIRST 'WILEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. nder the Patronage of her Majesty the Queen, his Royal Illghiess Prince Albert, &c. • THIS EVENING, Will be performed Fitzball's grand Equestrian Spectacle, entitled TIIE PROPHET, lit which Mr. W. Wtst will appear. .!towed by an inimitable display of SCENES IN TIIE C by the first Equestrian talent of the day. To conclude with a favourite Farce. Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. iIIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Trns DAT —Morning, 23 min. after 2 1 Evening, 30 min. aftsT 2 co-Niousow Aornlng, 59 min. after 2 Evening, IS min. after 3 I i Et, WEATkiEIi.—SUN OFFICE, OCT. 3. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 42; Highest, 51; Noon, 5 BAROMETER, 29.45. Wind E.S.E.—dull, rainy weather. TO CORRESPONDENTS. " J. J., New North-street, Red Lion-square," is informed that the "long list "referred to is paid for—and well paid too. oi4e Another melancholy illustration has been afforded of the injurious, we may add the fatal consequences of the loose and careless manner in which statutes, even of the most vital importance, are framed under the system of legislation so justly complained of by Lord BROUGHAM, in his admirable letter to Sir JAMES GRAHAM " On the Making and Digesting of the Law," to which we have repeatedly directed the public attention. The Act that has just been 44 weighed in the balance and found wanting," which has been proved to be utterly inadequate to carry out the intentions of Parliament, or to meet the exigen cies of the glaring and intolerable nuisance for the mitigation or suppression of which it was enacted, was no ancient law, passed when the science of legis• lation was but little regarded or cared for—it was no amateur effort introduced by a private Member and hurried through both Houses, without due attention being paid to its salutary previsions. A monster grievance was found to exist, endangering not merely the health, but the lives of many of her MAJEsTv's subjects. The appalling practice of in- tramural interments had been carried on, not merely in the heart of the British metropolis, but in all the towns and cities of England, with the utmost reck lessness, and a total disregard not merely of the sani tary condition of the people, but of the commonest principles of decency. The green and festering remains of recently buried bodies were daily turned up, and exposed to public observation, in order to make room for new corpses. Many had fallen victims to the polluted state of the atmosphere, en gendered by the loathsome and heartrending exhibi tions. Many talented and enthusiastic men had explained the too probable results of such a state of things, and had warned the Legis lature of the imperative necessity of providing a prompt and suitable remedy for the palpable evil. The voice of public indignation and abhorrence had been audibly heard cursing the culpable remissness of our lawgivers. A fearful pestilence, advancing to our shores with giant strides, appealed, trumpet•tongued, not, merely to the sympathies or the justice, but to the fears of the representatives of the people• It was vain to hope that its progress could be altogether arrested, or the fell visitation averted, but the melancholy experience of former years proved that its ravages might be materially mitigated by the removal of the predisposing causes, which rendered the people peculiarly liable to disease and in fection. Pre-eminent among these causes was the overcrowded state of the metropolitan and other graveyards situated in densely inhabited localities. The plague was rapidly approaching. Nay, many victims had perished before the meeting of Parlia ment, though the numbers were small in comparison to those who subsequently fell before the destroyer. Under such circumstances it was manifest that the session could not elapse without some large and corn prehensive measures of sanitary reform being submitted to the consideration of Parliament, and receiving the legislative sanction. Much time was consumed, and the greatest care apparently bestowed, in framing measures adequate to the emergency. Draftsmen of considerable experience, to whom the duty of drawing Government Bills usually devolved, were instructed to prepare measures bestowing ample powers on the General Board of Health "to issue such directions and regulations as they should think fit for the prevention and mitiga• tion of epidemic, endemic, and contagious diseases.' In such a crisis the powers should manifestly be o: the most extensive character, and minor provisions, that might be desirable in ordinary cases, should be totally disregarded. Such was the state of affairs when the " Bill to amend the Nuisances Removal and Diseases Prevention Act" was introduced, and passed as the 12 and 13 Victoria, cap. 122. By this sf atute it was hoped that the abomination could al; length be got rid of wherever it arrived to an inordinate pitch. The Board was thereby authorised " to provide for the cleansing, purifying, ventilating, and disinfecting of houses, dwellings, buildings, and churches, for the removal of nuisances, and generally fur preventing or mitigating such epidemic, endemic, or contagious diseases, in such manner as to the said Board may seem expe dient ;" and it was also enacted " That it shall be lawful for the Board of Health to cause inquiry to be made by a superintending inspector, or by such other ways and means as the said Board may deem fit to direct, into the state of the burial grounds in any part of England and Wales excepted from the powers of the Public Health Act of 1848, or in any populous city, town, or place in England and Wales, to which, for the time being, the said Act has not been applied; and if it appears to the General Board of Health that any such burial-ground is in such a state as to be dangerous to the persons living in the neigh bourhood thereof, it shall be lawful for tho said General Board of Health to issue such orders as the said Board may think fit for the application of such disinfecting substances, and for the adoption of such other measures of precaution in relation to the premises as may, in the opinion of the said Board, tend to lessen or remove the danger to health." To ordinary comprehensions no law could be couched in language more distinct or unequivocal ; no enactment could be more comprehensive or in telligible. 6.1 t shall be lawful for the said General Board of Health to issue such orders as the said Board may think fit for the application of such disinfecting substances and for the adoption of such other measures of precaution in relation to the premises (i. e., burial -grounds) as may in the opinion of the said Board tend to lessen or re move the danger to health." Surely no board of guardians or owners of grave yards could evade or despise the mandates of a body endued with such unlimited authority. The hearts of sanitary reformers rejoiced at the prospect of amelio• ration thereby afforded. But— " 0 caeca mens mortalium!" Alas, the disappointment of human wishes and human expectations ! When the statute was tardily resorted to, after eighteen weeks of pestilence, during which the cholera had raged with the most terrific violence, carrying off no less h THOUSAND VICTIM, it w as found that the THIRTEEN framers of the Act had exhibited the customary disregard of the ordinary rules of legal interpretation the same laxity of expression that had been so frequently de plored by judges, and which had elicited . from a Learned Chief Justice, when endeavouring to con strue an unconstruable statute, the exclamation that " The Legislature tannot be deemed inops consilii, but we may lament to find it magnas inter opes,iaops." On Thursday, the 27th ult., the managers of the Whitefield Chapel burial-ground, in Tottenhaui- court•road (a private place of interment, belonging to a highly respectable congregation of Dissenters), appeared by counsel at Bow-street Police-court to answer the charge of refusing to obey an order of the Board of Health, under the seal of the said Board , whereby they were, in pursuance of the section above referred to, " ordered and required to cause the dis continuance of interments in the burial-ground of Whitefield Chapel, Tottenham-court-road." The validity of the order above referred to was argued at considerable length by able counsel on both sides, and Mr. JARDINE, the presiding magistrate, after fully considering the provisions of the Act, dismissed the summons, conceiving that the Board of Health had not the power claimed, and that they could not enforce the closing of any burial-ground, however over-crowded, and teeming with pestilence and in fection. However deeply we may deplore this decision, we cannot censure the worthy Magistrate. He was placed in the position of a judge, and it was his duty to adjudicate, not according to his own wishes or what he considered to be most desirable, and for the public welfare, but according to the known laws and customs of the land as expressed in established prece dents that have been sanctioned and respected by the sworn interpreters. The consequences of his judg ment may be very formidable, but they are not ascribable to Mr. JARDINE, but to those who drew up, considered, and finally carried a measure, which the Learned Magistrate, in common with the bar risters on both sides, unanimously agreedlin denouncing as "one of the most lamentable instances of legisistive bungling they had ever met with." Thousands of lives may be sacrificed through the culpable negligence or palpable incapacity of our legislators, and, unfor tunately, no remedy can be provided until next year, when the Act amending an Act of the preceding year will itself be amended in turn. New errors will, most probably,: be committed, unless the sugges tions of Lord BROUGHAM be carried into execution, and a board or court be established, of competent persons, to which every measure introduced in either House shall be referred for examination before it re ceive the sanction of the Legislature. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the Paris journals of yesterday. General LAMORICIERE, according to the Moniteur, has not left St. Petersburgh on his return to Paris as was stated on Monday in La Patrie. The trial of the persons accused of having taken part in the revolutionary movement at Strasburg on the 14th of June is to commence on the 17th inst. M. JULES PAYEE has been retained to defend M. Kass, editor of the Democrat du Bas Rhin. General BEDEAJ has arrived in Paris. A Cabinet Council, simultaneously with the Cabinet Council in Downing-street, was held yesterday at the Palace of the ElysOe Nationale—the PRESIDENT of the Republic presiding on the occasion. It is stated that the difference between Turkey and Russia and Austria was the subject of its delibera- tion. A letter from Bale states that several inhabitants of the departments of the Upper Rhine, who had taken refuge in Bale after the revolutionary move ment of the 13th of June, have received orders to quit that town within 48 hours, and to retire eight leagues from the French frontier. A letter from Lucerne states that M. STRUVE, the Chief of the Baden insurgents, has, on the demand of the Grand Duke of BADEN, been ordered to quit Switzerland. He has accordingly taken his departure for England through France. An awful skrimmage appears to have taken place at the theatre of the Porte St. Martin, on the occa sion of the performance of the new piece entitled Rome—the " gods" misconducting themselves so far as to be carried off by the gene d'armes to cool down under the refrigerating influence of incarceration. Doubts are still entertained as to whether M. DUrAURE will retire from the Cabinet; but a large majority conceive that the Government will con tinue as at present constituted. The National Assembly met to-day to elect its President, four Vice-Presidents, and six Secretaries. M. DUPIN, having obtained 339 votes out of 479 votes, was proclaimed President of the Assembly until the Ist of January, 1850. M. MICHEL DE BOURGES, his competitor, obtained 107 votes. The four Vice-Presidents elected were Messrs. Baroche, by 330 votes ; Daru, by 338 .; Benoit d'Azy, by 312 ; and Bedeau by 271. The six Secretaries returned were Messrs. Arnaud de VArlege, Lacaze, Peupin, H.eckeren, Berard, and Chapot. NAPOLEON BONAPARTE (JEROME) laid on the table of the Assembly yesterday a proposition for the abrogation of the _law . banishing the Bourbon family. It was reported in the National Assembly that M. DE FALLOUX bad resigned the Ministry of Public Instruction. The budget for 1850 hes been printed, and is about to be distributed to the members of the Assembly. The expenses of the year, those of the sinking fund being maintained, will amount to 1,591,232,077 francs. The receipts are only estimated at 1,270,953,849 f., leaving a deficit of about 320,000,000 f. PARIS BOURSE.—TIIESDAY, OCT. 2. The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Tuesday at 55f. 75c.; the Five per Cents. at 88f. 40c.; Orleans Railroad Shares, 742 f. 50c; Rouen, 525 f.; Havre, 263 f. 75c.; Great Nertkern,434t. 75c.; Avignon, 220 f.; Vierzon, 300 f.; Basle, 101 f. 25e.; Boreaux, 407 f. 50c.; Paris and Strasburg, 5311. 25c. ; Tours and Nantes, 290 f. BUSINESS DONE IV FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, Ocr. Anglo Italian (late Italian and Austrian), —Boulogne and Amiens, 5 3 / I —East Indian, 3 N l —Northern of France, 3% dis.— Orleans and Bourdeaux, .27( 1 —Rouen and Haire, 93 Sambre and Meuse, 2. , 4 .C. , - ,1 cui•mAi. .. . .0" •,- - .N ). -.7 V ' 1 t 413 1. 44VA •• ': • i,----4-, , _,T.-7-fr-c•-•.' ~,..\ ~ N7 4 4 , :,: 4, 49-* " - 3- 4 .g,.5;•., '- ._ ...A , , i'• 1 •••- .- -,-, v - - ',,, ,1• ,- '' ~' :.- ,-.. : -z: , ~a ."•:' .•1- 4. ,..-,-/,,- rt A,•- : ,..- , r • .074 • ,Ror, • , i ,•.„,, ,,.:, . „.. - -.: , ,'.,•: --- --_-=A: • „.. ' . THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 3, 1849. ,03.1'",rentn LONDON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1849. Yesterday a Cabinet Counci, of extraordinary im portance, was held at the Foreign• office, for the consideration of the course to be pursued by the British Government in consequence of the intelligence received from Constantinople. The suddenness and urgsncy of the summons issued at the instance of Viscount'•'i'ALirEßSTON, and the alacrity with which that summons was responded to by his colleagues, are sufficient indications that the Administration is aware of the necessity for vigilance and promptitude. Indeed, the policy adventured upon by the Ambas sador to the Sublime Porte—a policy at once so bold, so sagacious, so humane, and so magnanimous—left to the Cabinet at home no other alternative. We are sanguine, therefore, that instructions weredispatched last even ing from Downing street to the embassy at Constan tinople, authorising Sir STRATFORD CANNING to act in full pursuance of a course which has already ex cited the unqualified admiration and the uncondi tional sympathy of the population of the United Kingdom. Not a man amongst us but felicitates in his heart a Government which, at a period of such extreme emergency, is so fortunately represented at the Ottoman Court as by the present Ambassador at Constantinople. Throughout a ;prolonged and dis tinguished career as a diplomatist, it has been re cognised by the more scrutinizing that his Excellency Sir STRATFORD CANNING, %bile inheriting much of the patriotic daring of his illustrious relative, once Prime Idinis'er of England, has added to this a calm and serene appreciation of the responsibilities of his posi tion, a profound and indomitable determination when ever the dignity of his country has been imperilled, a candour which has propitiated even his antagonists, a probity of action which has disarmed intrigue, and an experience which has commanded the respect of his own Government-, and the confidence of the Sovereign to whom he has been accredited. Not only, however, in the instance of the British Envoy at the Turkish capital have the people of England cause for deep self-gratulation, but a yet greater reason for: satisfaction is diicoverable in the character of the statesman who is now, fortunately for this country, acting as her MAJESTY'S Foreign Secretary. Altogether, we cannot but conceive that the circumstance of Sir STRATFORD CANNING, being at this moment our Ambassador at Constantinop'e, and the fact of Lord PALMERSTON being at the same moment at the head of the Foreign Department, afford guarantees to the English community that the lane of the empire will suffer no deterioration in reference to the rupture which has taken place between the Governments of the SULTAN and the AUTOCRAT. Nothing could more forcibly illustrate the truth of Sir CHARLES NAPIER'S arguments and the j ustice of his remonstrances, in regard to the present state of the navy, than the acknowledgment that England is re presented in the Mediterranean at such a crisis by merely five sail of the line, when the immediate presence of his fleet _in' the Dardanelles has become rather a matter of necessity than one of mere prudence. Nothing could more conspicuously de monstrate the . folly of those wiseacres who h ave latterly been crying out so loudly for a reduction in our naval armaments than the urgent want now visible o f a powerful congregation of line of-battle ships in the vicinity of the Golden Horn. Nothing could by any possibility have revealed more glaringly the absurdity of those dreams of universal peace and ever lasting arbitration which have of late deranged the judgments of men hitherto regarded as persons gifted with at least some small modicums of common sense, than the coincidence of these sullen portents of war exploding along the shores of the Bosphorus so im mediately after the chaunting of the lo Realm of an übi q uitous amity. Let the reductionists but once obtain an irresistible influence over the war de partments of the Government, and then farewell to our maritime supremacy, to our colonial strength, to our commercial greatness, to our Indian Empire, and to Phat potential dignity which i s ever associated with the voice of a representative of the British SOVEREIGN. Let the Peace Lunatics once acquire a paramount command over the Councils of the English Monarchy, and then adieu to the power, the glory, and the stability of the great empire of the Anglo- SaNams. Fortunately for England, however, the occurrences now transpiring in the. Turkish metro polis will po far to dissipate all the golden illusions and t i;rial castles of the visionaries of omnipresent 'conciliation, and of the dreamers of human perfectability. The blow just struck at St. Sophia has transformed the CINDERELLA of Peace from a princess into a slip shod slattern, has changed her steeds into mice, andlmetamorphosed the glittering coach of arbitration into the veriest and greenest of pumpkins. The mockery, the delusion, and the snare stands suddenly exposed to our ridicule. And, certainly, if all the peoples of Europe had conspired to destroy a certain gingerbread reputation they could not by any chance hare acted more felicitously— SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 27th ult. which have arrived contain no news whatever of importance. MADRID BOLSA, SEPT. 27.—The Three per Cents. were done at 28 for cash ; the Four per Cents. at 111; the Five per Cents. at 111 for paper ; the Debt without interest at 4; and the Coupons at 7. GERMANY AND THE NORTHERN STATES. AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY. A thousand extravagant reports were afloat on the 28th ult. at Vienna, the first of which was that Comorn had surrendered the day before, uncon ditionally. Some letters from the Austrian capital were to the effect that intelligence had been received there by telegraph, announcing that hostilities had terminated, the garrison having yielded on assault, after a severe resistance. These assertions, we need scarcely say, must be swallowed cum grano sails, seeing that the correspondence in which they are contained are replete with the grossest and most palpable mis statements. The Cologne Gazette of yesterday has no news from Comorn ; but it affirms, on the authority of Vienna letters of the 27th, that KOSSUTH and his companions were already safe on board a British man-of-war. PRUSSIA. Accounts from Berlin of the 29th say—' " The interpellation of Beckerath on the German question, fixed for to-day, drew a considerable audience to the Second Chamber. But the Ministers were not ready with an answer, so that public expectation has been baulked," TURKEY AND RUSSIA. Letters and papers from Constantinople, dated the 19th ult., confirm everything already announced in our columns as to the rupture between the Govern ments of the SULTAN and the AUTOCRAT. It appears that the final decision of the Ottoman Government was communicated to M. DE TITOFF at the close of an extraordinary Cabinet Council held at Kouroulschiime, in the house of the Seraskier, MEHEMET ALI PACHA, late in the evening of the 16th ult. Prince RADZIVIL embarked on' board a Russian steamer at Bouyukadere, and steamed off to Odessa. FUAD EFFENDI, at present Commissioner- General in Moldo-Wallachia, was elected, it appear s , as Envoy Extraordi nar y t o th e CZAR, on the rejection of the name of CIIERIB EFFENDI by the Divan. It was only on the evening of the 18th that the Ministers of Russia and Austria were informed of the departure of a Chamberlain of the Palace for Bucharest with an autograph letter of the SULTAN in reply to that of the CZAR, with all the necessary instructions to FUAD EFFENDI, who was ordered to start, w ithout delay,.for St. Petersburgh or Warsaw, for the purpose of seeing the EMPEROR himself. The reply of the Emperors of R Ii and AUSTRIA almuitted month at the the latest, s ;nde h m inri ad his voyage to 3 i i la e ,sh x iepte is steutthLi thought, gN 2 h O th, o at r she2ci countermanded Smyrna and the islands of the Archipelago. The ee fleetca stlesis o to n b t e he a ß rm o e sp d h a o n r d us e4 a i r uipp eto e h d e . fortified. s of Immense exertions are being made by all classes the Turkish population to find funds for carrying on that "holy war," which in the name of common " humanity" appears to be imminent. The Minister of Finance places 40,000,000 at the command of the Minister of War. The young SULTAN offers an equal amount from his private purse, and many of the ,Dittssujuieit have already opeuedsubscriptions. HOLLAND THE HAGUE, OCT: I.—The Ministers who have just retired have, by order of the KING, published the report which they made to his MAJESTY when they tendered their resignation. In this report the Ministers state the motives which induced them to adopt this decision ; they were, the disunion which prevailed betweenithem and the Second Chamber, and especially the difficulties which they encounterd in replacing those Ministers, who had resigned their offices some time since. The Staats Courant publishes the law adopted by the States-General, ordering that the silver money coined by virtue of the law of the 30th October, 1846, shall he withdrawn from circulation, and in such epochs, and in such a manner as shall be determined ulteriorly. A second law declares that at a given period gold coin of five to ten florins shall cease to be a standard coin of the realm. In order to facilitate the exchange of these coins, paper money is to be issued of the value of at least ten - florins, to an amount which shall not exceed thirty millions of florins. This paper money, the total amount of which shall be exactly equivalent to the quantity of gold contained in the Netherlands bank, shall be withdrawn from circulation at latest, on the 31st De cember, 1852. A sum of 750,000 florins is appro priated for covering the expenses resulting from the carrying out of this measure. Nothing appears yet to be decided respecting the re-composition of the Ministry. The KING intends to prolong his stay in the ca pital another week. This decision is naturally com bined with the new Ministerial combination. It is inferred from the reply made by the KING to the address of the Second Chamber, in answer to the Speech from the Throne, that his MAJESTY has not only decided upon accepting the resignation of the whole body of Ministers, but that none of the former members of the Cabinet will take any part in the new Cabinet. Prince HENRY of the Netherlands is gone to Lux emburgh, in order to be present at the opening of the States. Lieut.-Colonel Vex SWEITEN has been appointed Governor of Sumatra.—Dutch papers, Oct. 2. ITALY. Accounts from Rome of the 24th ult.' state that on the preceding forenoon M. MORCIER (sent en mission from Paris to the Eternal City) had arrived. It was believed that, after conferring with M. CoR CELLES and the General-in-Chief, M. MORCIER, would proceed to Naples. The best results were anticipated from his mission. The Risorgirnento of Turin quotes letters from Genoa of the 27th ult., stating that GARIBALDI, not baying been allowed to land at Tunis, has been transferred to the Sardinian island of Madeleine, where he is treated with the greatest consideration. On the 23d there was a grand spectacle in honour of his HOLINESS at Naples—the benediction of the people. The POPE, dressed in white, presented him self on the royal balcony, amidst twelve cardinals, in their scarlet robes, and after a short prayer, blessed the thousands who were kneeling in the piazza below. The cannon then boomed from all the forts around the harbour, after which the crowd sang the hymn to Pio NONO. LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, OCT. 3.—Wind E.S.E.; light airs, with heavy rain at times. DEAL, OCT. 2.—Wind N. to N.N.W.—Arrd. Queen, Quebec; Somersetsbire, River de Loupe. Arrd. from the River, Benjamin B. B. Green, Mauritius. Arrd. from the River and aid. , Lucelle, Algoa Bay; Cuba, Boston. OFF BEACHY HEAD, SEPT. 29.—Vesta, St. Croix. OFF MARGATE.—Dasb, Carletto, Newfoundland. OFF ILFRACOMBE, SEPT. 30.—Adelaide, West Indies. SOUTHAMPTON, OCT. 2.—Wind E.—Sld. Dee steamer, West Indies. PLYMOUTN, OCT. I.—Wind variable.—Arrd. Frey den, Enruth, Bombay. Sld. her Majesty's steamer Hecla, Sierra Leone; her Majesty's ship Alarm, Halifax. LIVERPOOL, OCT. 2.—Wind variable, Northerly.— Arrd. Princess Victoria, Johnston, Maranham, aid. 16th Aug.; Adelaide, Moor, Cuba; Kilby, Howes, Mo bile; Tuscarora, Turley, Philadelphia; Montezuma, Kendall, Montreal ; Virginia, Calvert, Quebec. Ist. A large fleet of homeward bound vessels was passed on the 16th of September off Coroo (wind easterly and light) by the Princess Victoria, arrived here from Maranham. Off Port, 2d, Harmony, St. John's, New Brunswick; Z , tland, ditto. Arrd. Niagara steamer, New York, left 19th ult. Sld. Ist, Persian, Apalichicola; Constellation, New York. 2d, Gipsey, New Orleans; Sir Charles Napier, ditto; Mlnteauma, New York ; St. George, ditto; Gertrude ditto; Fides, Boston l Michael Angelo, ditto; Barkhill, Newfoundland ; Elizabeth, ditto. OFF FALMOUTH, OCT. 2.—Wind N.-Ist. St. Vincent, Young, Sydney, New Brunswick; Kielsing, Franzen, St. Thomas's, and sailed fur Flensburg. Vloutirmax.-. OCT. I.—W ind E.—Arrd. John for. rocks, Sanderson, Africa, for Liverpool, with foretop mast sprung. FLEETWOOD, OCT. 2.—Sld. Usk, Valparaiso. BELFAST, SEPT. 30.—Wind E., fresh gales.—Arrd. Spring, Bell, New York, with loss of foretopmast, top gallant mast, yards, rigging, and sails. BELFAST, SEPT. 30.—1 t has blown a heavy pale for the last 24 hours from E.; Oct 1. this morning it is mode rate.—The Smack Conductor, of Tubermery, supposed in ballast, went on shore at the entrance of Larne Lough on the 29th ult., and has become a wreck; crew drowned. The Raven, of Maryport, for Bangor, is on shore near that place and sunk; crew saved. • STRANGFORD, OCT. I.—The Active, from Dublin to Whitebaven, (iring a heavy gale from E.S.E., yester day, struck upon Ballyquinton Point rocks and broke up; crew saved. PETERHEAD, OCT. I.—The Superior, Arbuthnot, of this port, was lost 12th June; crew saved. WHITBY, OCT. 2.—The Joseph Colbin, of Goole, in being towed into harbour broke her tow-rope, and drifted against the pier, carried away topmasts, stove her stern, Etc., afterwards went on shore westward of the pier and sunk, with her stern washed out; crew saved. The Tyne, of Ramsgate, which struck upon an anchor and sunk yesterday, has been got off and brought up. The Black Diamond, Thompson, of Stockton, which got on shore yesterday has become a wreck. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY. CORN-EXCHANGE:-WEDNESDAY This week's arrival of English Wheat, coastwise , l3;s been confined to 1,260 quarters. The quantity fresh up to-day by land carriage was small, yet the demand for all descriptions was in a very depressed state, at barely Monday's quotations. Bather a liberal supply of foreign Wheat, 9,810 quarters, has reached us. Selected qua lities were held at full prices, but the value of the mid dling and inferior kinds was almost nominal. The show of English Barley was very small, that of foreign good. All kinds ruled heavy, but we have no actual decline to notice in value. We were very scantily supplied with Malt; nevertheless the sale for 'that grain was very de pressed, at barely last week's currencies. The quantity of Oats on offer was not large. The Oat trade ruled dull, at the late decline in value. Both Beaus and Peaa were lower to purchase. Indian Corn Meal and Flour ruled heavy. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. There was a very tame rEurket for Cotton at Liver pool yesterday, the sales being only 4,000 bales, includ ing 1,000 for export, &c. In prices there was Lo alte ration.— In Railway Shares but little business was done at lower quotations. The consumption of many principal articles, as ascer tained by the Customs and DLck Reports, appears to bs satisfactory, the London deliveries of several important articles having increased during the nine months of the present year compared with 1848. The augmenta tion VI Sugar amounts to 15,509 hhds. and tierces of British Plantation, 70,109 bags of Mauritius, 51,424 of Bengal, and 25,141 of Madras. In Rum the increase has been 668 puns., and Indigo, Cochineal, and Spices show better, while in Coffee there is a slight decrease. The intelligence by the steamer from America is to day very amply given per electric telegraph, and by the aid of Bain's patent we may expect a great improvement hereafter in this mode of communication. The letters are not delivered yet, but the view taken of the commercial reports is decidedly favourable, and justifies the expec tation of a large " fall trade." The rate of exchange continued favourable for England, being at New York 1091 to 110. Of the Cutton crop we have again rather tudavourable statements. A matter of political interest, noticed in these papers, has engaged considerable attention in the City, viz., the offer of passports to the French Ambassador at Washing- ton, on the ground that he had addressed an impertinent letter to the American Government. There is a curious coincidence between this affair and another that occurred at the time of the last French republic. Citizen Genet was the first representative sent to the United States, and managed somehow to affront the then President, General Washington. This led to his recal, but ho never returned to France, having married the daughter of the Vice-President of the Union, Mr. Clinton. The Overland Mail has arrived sooner than was anti cipated. At Calcutta, up to the 20th of August, trade was moderately brisk, and the rate of exchange on Lon don was Is. lOid. The Bombay Money market was easy, and business generally had somewhat improved, cotton goods especially being in great demand at ad vanced rates. This information, together with the Ame rican accounts, cannot but have a favourable influence in our manufacturing districts. The meeting at the Hall of Commerce to protest against the so-called Sunday labour system, for in re ality the Post-office authorities deny their intention to introduce it, is attended by a large number of officials and their friends, including a few ladies, while the peti tion is being signed, of course, by any straggler who drops in to wile away half-an-hour. The truth of the matter seems to be that Mr. Rowland Bill's energetic reforms make him somewhat unpopular with those who would prefer the "jog-trot" plan of olden days, and a good pretext is now found to assail him. It is in the public interest that this gentleman has labosred, and public support he ought to have. The English Stock market opened rather heavily upon the news of the American dispute with France, but information having since arrived that Russia will not be likely to beard England and France, and that the refugees will be sent over here, a stronger tone is now observable, and Consols, which were 91i to 92, are 9'4 4 for Transfer, and 921 for Account. Exchequer bilis have realised 41s. to 425.; and India Bonds 795. and 775. premium. The Foreign Securities have been heavy. Mexican ex. the January coupons, have been done at 264 to 26 4 ; Buenos Ayres Stock has been dull at 40. Peruvian Bonds are 534 cx. dividend. Danish Five per Cents. have been marked 98, and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 524 4. Spanish Three per Cents. have been quoted 334, and Portuguese Four per Cents. are nomi nally 29 to 30. The Railway Share market is inactive again, but in some instances firmer. Caledonian have touched 134, Great North of England 212, and North Stafford 10. The French lines are depressed, however, Boulogne and Amiens having been 54 to 4, and Rouen and Havre 9} to 4. Great Western, Eastern Counties, and York and Berwick have been a little flat. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) 8 per Cent. Consols Anna Long Annuities, Exp. Jan. sth, 1860... Do. 30 Years, Expire Jan. 5, 1860... 8% India Stock Do. Bonds, 1000 1 79 77 p Ditto under 1.0001 Consols for Account ... 92 92 LA Exchequer Bills. I ;id. 2d. March. June. 1,0001. 5001. — 41 39 p Small — 41 p PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent... 40 Danish Bonds 1825, 2 per Cent.... Ditto, 5 per Cent Equidor Bonds 3 li Mexican Bonds, 1846, 5 per Cent., Coupons Ditto for the Account 2 6 3A th Peruvian Bonds, 4 per Cent 53% ex d. Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent,lB4o Ditto Account . 16% Is Ditto Passive Bonds 3% Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent Cent Ditto Account Venezuela Bonds Ditto Deferred 6% Dividends on the above uavable in London. Dutch 2% per Cent., 12 Guild ... 521; 2 5 / Ditto 4 ner Cent. Certificates ... 61 ex diT Ditto for the Accdunt BII,E gUsly"Ft‘s PONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK RAILWAYS. PAID. Pas Boise. kl‘erdeen Ditto, Preference VA lailicr., Notting., Boston, &c. 6 'qrshire and Galloway Belfast and County Down .. 26% .. .. 3erks and Hants Extension (Gt. West. l'erpet. 5 per ct.) 6 riirmingtaru & Oxford J unot., calls duly pd, or with guar. 20 - Do., without a guarantee... 20 4 , . 4 firmingham,Wol., & Dudley, calls duly pd, or with guar. 10 ... . Do., without a guarantee... 10 (firming., %Vol., & Stour Val. 131.14 s — Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction.. Boston, Stamf., & Birming...7l. 4s. % p... to Bristol aid Exeter Do., Thirds Buckinghamshire.. — 17% —.... to Caledonian Ditto, New 10/. Preference 10......9 1 4 %IA x. 1. to Ditto, Clydesdale Junction 50 Chester and Holyhead.... 5O ..... 11% to ..... Ditto, Preference Clarence. .... - i.e.,. to - Do.; let Class, 6 per Cent... 10 Do., 2d Class, 5 per Cent... 10 Do., Gov. Loan, 4 per Cent. 10 ' — to Direct London & Portsmouth 5 1 4 — to to to coDuunbldianikanadnßdelEfansntisJkuinucetnion..... 40 2 East Anglia, 251. L. & E., mad L. & D . Ditto, 18/., E. & H lB ... .. Do, 3/. 105., 6p. Ct. Pref. 3% — Eastern Counties Do. New Guarant. 6 per Ct. 10 Do. Exten, 5 per ct. No. 1,6/.135. 4d .. IA p... to Do., do N 0.2,6/. 133. 4d... ....• to Do., Northern & Eastern... 50 Do., 5 per cont. Ditto, New ......k..... ... 43 . .... ...... to Eastern Union, Class A (late E. U. Shares) ......•.. .. 25 - •••••• to - Ditto, ditto, Class A, ditto 3 1 ,E — Ditto, do, Class B (I. &B) 25 •••••• —. •••••• to Ditto, do, Class C, ditto... 22% — to Ditto Scrip (gua. 6 per ct.) 20 East Lancashire •—• Ditto, New .. ........... .... . 25 Do., New Quarters Do., 6 per Cent. Preference Quarter Shares East Lincolnshire 25 — to Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O •••••• —. Ditto, Half Shares Edinburgh and Northern ... 25 .... . . Ditto, New port Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorchester 2% —. Exeter and Exmouth 2ls. Glasg., Dumfries, & Carlisle..B/. 6s.Bd — .. ... to ddasgow Kilmarnock, & Ayr 50 — to "" • - . _ DO.Preference Consolidated ..... .. ... to Great Northern 2O '' ' 7 1 / 2 %... to Do. 1 A A Deferred ..... . _ _ Do. 13 6 per Cent. Do., 5 per Cent. Pref.. ..... _5 1 4 to Gt. South. & West. (Ireland) 47 1 ,1 291,; to 28 1 ,4 Great North of England .100 .212 ..... to Ditto, New 404.... ..... .. .. 40 Ditto, ditto - Ditto, New 30/. ... 30 ... Ditto, New 151...... ..- ..... 15 ...... . Great Western ...100 ...... 57 3 / 4 Ot• •• to SSI. Ditto, Half Shares SO Ditto, Quarter Shares Ditto, Fifths 2O _ _ to Do. New 171. l5 .. . ..... to Hull and Selby 6O Ditto, Half Shares ...... 25 Ditto,Quarter Shares .. 12% — ...... to Lancaster and Carlisle.... -... 50 Do., Thirds .. Lancashire and Yorkshire ...100 ..... ...... to Ditto, ditto, M. B. & B ... 96 Ditto, ditto Ditto Half Shares .. 46 Ditto Quarters 22% to Ditto Fifths lO Ditto. Thirds l5 . ..... 4A 1 A... to Do., New Guar. 6 per cent Do. Liverpool and Bury... 46 Do. (Hudders. and Sheff.) 50 Do., West Riding Union... 9 .... • Do., Preston and Wyre ... 25 ...... Do., do., Half Shares (A) 10 — to Leeds and Bradford ............ 50 ..... —. to Leeds and Thirsk ...«........• 50 •••••• .... to Do.,do.,Prefer., 6 per Cent. 5 ..... to .... Do. Pref. Quarters, l 848.:. 9 Liverpool,Crosby, andSouth port 10 London & Blackwell --all. 65. Bd.— 3 14...... t o _ Lond., B right., & South Coast 100 Do., New Si., gua. 6pr Ct.loo Do. Guaranteed sper Cent. 9 ... to De. Preferential, 5 pet:Ct., 50 ..... to Ditto, ditto ......... ..1852 50 t London and Greenwich... 121 . 15 x. 4 d... to o Preference . Ditto London & North Western.....loo lll% 112 to 111 1 4 Do. New Quarters. l2 Do. Fifths ..................... 7 ..... 8 1 ,i • t o Do. 40g. Shares...X. & M 85 ..... Do. 101. ... M. and B. (C.) 1 London and S. Western...—. 50 Ditto, New 50/........ . ..... 42 1 4...... Ditto, New 401............. .. 34 Do., New Scrip, 1848, Pref. 7 Per Cent .......... .. ... 5 . ... 6% •to Londonderry and Coleraine... 25 Do. Half Shares ..,... ..... 8%.. .•• "''' •• "' °-- Londonderry and Enniskillen 25 Do., Half Shares 5 L.lvestoff, guar. 4 per ct Ditto (guar. 6 per cent. ... 13 Manch, Buxton, & Alatleck 5 Manchr, Sheffield, and Linc.100 Ditto IA Shares(No. 1) ... 23 ...... Ditto, ditto (No. 2) 25 Ditto, % Shares (No. 3)... 124 ...... Do., New 101. Preference.. 10 ..... Ditto, Grimsby Br. Sheffield 50 Ditto, ditto. ......... . l9 Ditto, ditto .... ll% — Ditto Sheffield and Linc. 22 1 /,...... Ditto, Grimsby Dock ...... 25 Ditto, Man. & Lin. Union 41.25.... 7,7 b1id1and........ , .... ........ ...100 Ditto, Consol. Preference...100 Ditto,:so/. Shares ...........30 Midland, Birm., and Derby...loo ..... Midland, Consol. Bristol and Birmingham, 6 per cent.... 100 Midland, Bristol and Glouc. 42 ... .. Ditto ditto 221. 7s. ... .. Ditto,ErewashVal., Pref... 50 Midland, Leices. and Swan aington (8 per ct.gua.)....100 .... . lI idld. Great YV'estem (Irish) 50 51iddlesbro' and Redcar. 6 per cent. guar. - Sewctlitle and Carlisle . 100 ..... Ditto Quarter Shares . .... 25 ... .. - Newmarket Ditto Extension Scrip... 21. 12s. Newport Abergy., and Herd. 6 to Newry and Enniskillen ...... 7 Newry, Warrenpoint, and Rostrevor .... 20 Norfolk IOO Ditto New 20/. l5 Ditto Guaranteed 5 per ct 20 Do. Do, 5% per cent 45 ... ••• Do. do. Waveney Valley.. 2 Northern Counties Union. ... 4 North British .. .. ... ...... . 25 ...... x.d to Ditto Half Shares. ..... ..... 12 1 ,E 5 Do. Quarters Ditto Thirds:..— .... 6 1 4 Ditto, Preference 3 I,E North Staffordshire.... . 17 1 ,E North Wales North Western 13% ..... to Oxford, Worcester, and Wol verhampton Reading, Guildfd., & Reigate 15 Royston and Hitchin Scottish Central: ... . ..... 25 ... .. ... to Scottish Midland ..- ....... .... 25 - Ditto, New 2 2 1/ — to Shrewsbury and Birmingham 12 - Ditto, ditto, Class B. 8 Ditto,' New Guaranteed 8 Shrewsbury and Hereford .. 4 Shrewsbury and Chester (Nor. W. lain.) Ditto Halves, Ditto... 9 ... Ditto, Uswestry 18%...... Ditto ,New)... Ditto 8 per Cent. Pref....... 10 ShropshireiU nion 5% ... .. 2 South Devon .. ... ... 50 .. ~, Ditto, Preference ...... .. ... 25 South fitaflordshire....... B l. South Eastern Ditto, No. 2.; ... Ditto, No. 3. Ditto, Reg!stered No. 4.... 10 ...... Ditto, Scrip No. 4.. South Wales South Yorkshire, Doncaster and Goole , 10 Sheffield, Rotherham, and Goole (N. D) Gua. 5 per ct. 14%...... ... to -.- Do. do. (South Div.) 5 - to - . _ Swans. and Loughor and Ca meron's Stm. Coal ..... .... . 7 Taw Vale Extension Thames Haven Dock and Railway l 7 l/ — Vale of Neath Waterford and Kilkenny 2O ...... Waterford and Limerick ... .. 47 %••• .. Waterford, Wexford, Wicklw, and Dublin Wear Valley 6 per Cent. Guaranteed ... ...... 50 ...... Do. do. do. Do. do. do. West Cornwall Whitehaven andiurness l6 ... .. ..... to Windsor, Staines, and South Western...... l4 Wilts, Somerset,&Weymouth 45 I ork, Newcastle, and Berwick 25 Do. and Newcastle Eaten. 20 ..... 121... Do. G. N. E. Pur. or Pref. 8 Do. Hartlepool Dk. & Rly. 100 York and North Midland .. 50 Ditto, Preference FOREIGN RAILWAYS. _ Anglo Italian (late Italian and Austrian) ...... 5% — to Boulogne and Amiens 2O .. ... 5)1 3 1 10/ 2 to Central of France ( Orleans and Vierzon) .... ..... Demerara. Dutch Rhenish ? 8 11A %..• to .... East Indian Great Indian Peninsular 5 .•..•• ..... . to Do. Do ..... .... ....... ... 10s. Louvain ii la Sambre ........ 7 1 4 — ...... to Luxembourg Ditto Madrid and Valenti* Namur and Liege..... . . ....... 20 ... Northern of France 14185..... 3% dis... to Orleanf, and Bordeaux ... 7 ..... Paris and Orleans... 2O Paris and Konen Paris & StrasbourTr ..,.. ..... 11 Rouen and Havre Sambre and Meuse Strasburg and Bale ..... ...... 14 Tours & Nantes ... .. .. 11 Tournay, Jurbise, Landen, and Hasselt . West Flanders B 3 /4 — ....... to Ditto ..... ...... ......444 8 1••••• •••••• ...... to : . JOINT bTOCK BANKS. Australastp, ..,,,„ .,....410 ..... British Nort4American .....50 . .... Colonial ....... .. . r 25 ..... . .. to Commercial of rontion London Joint Stock F Loßdori and Westminster... 20 ...... 243% National Provincial of Engld. 85 Ditto, New National of Ireland , ..... 22% — ... .. to Provincial of Ireland , '" - ,25 'Ditto, New ...... . . ...'...'... 10 _Union of Australia Ditto, New .. 24 — to Union of London .. 10 Union of Madrid ......... ...... 40 MINES. Anglo Mexican lOO ...... Asturian . . ...... ..... ... ..... 15 ~.... Australian ... 4 Barrossa Range... ...• 283. — Blaenarycn Iron and Coal ... 50 Bolanos Scrip Pthish Iron Brazilian Imperial ..... .. ... 24 1 4 — ..... to Ditto Cocaes and Cuiaba... 30 Ditto St. John Del Rey ... 15 . — Cobre Copper - to General .. . ... , .... 20 Real del Monte, Unregistered . Do. Black Debentures — Do. Red Debentures ..... .... Santiago de Cuba. United Mexican COURSE OF Amsterdam ...... •• .. 12 434 Ditto, at sight . • .... 12 3% Rotterdam .... • • .... 12 5 Antwerp ••••••• • .. • • •• 25 90 Hamburgh .....•M.B. 13 14% &ltona .• a••••• •• •••• Paris, 3 days'sight .... 25 52% Ditto, 3 months .... 25 77% Liarseilles .......... •• 25 77% Hourdeaux.... . 25 77% Frankfort on Mains.... 122% Petersburgh, SB. Rble.. 367. Berlin • • • • • • Vienna, effee. So • ..... 10 48 Trieste, ditto.... • • .... 10 48 Madrid 50% Cadiz •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• 50% Bilbao.. • • •• .. •• •• •• •.1 Barcelona •• •• •• • • •• •• 5evi11e........ •• •• •• .. Malt. I Flour. Wheat. Barley. 1 Oats -- (l — rs. Q — rs -- . Qrs. -- Qr -- s. 1,260 320 560 540 Sacks 470 English ...... 5c0tch........ Irish ....... Foreign .......i 9,-610 - 1 2,170 3,330 6,160 BOZIOUGH HOP IVX.A.ILHET. The demand for the best new Hops is steady, at very full prices. In yearling and old Hops exceedingly little is doing. The duty is called 85 000 L New flops— Suss( x Pockets, 61 to 71; Weald of Kent ditto, 61 108 to 71155; Mid and East Kent ditto, 71 10 to 101 per cwt. WHITECHAPEL. Our market was extremely heavy to-day, at barely stationary prices.—Beef from 2s 4d to 3s 4d; Mutton, 2s 10d to 3a ad; Veal, 3s Od to 3s 6d; and Pork, 3s 4d to 4s-per Sibs. by the carcase.' SUNDAY LABOUR IN THE POST OFFICE.—(THIS DAY.) A crowded and influential meeting was held at the Hall of Commerce this day, the Lord Mayor in the chair, at which resolutions were passed unanimously , against Sunday labour in the Post-office, and a me morial to the Government agreed to. A full report of the meeting will appear in our next edition. The Gazette of last night contains addresses which were presented to the Queen on the occasion of her Ma jesty's return from Scotland, and which were graciously received by her Majesty from the following places : The mayor and magistracy and corporation of Berwick ; the mayor and corporation of B irmingham; the nobility, elergy, gentry, and other inhabitants of Darlington ; the clergy of the deanery of Durham ; the mayor, alder men, and burgesses of Derby ; the mayor and corpora tion of Gateshead ; the clergy of the cathedral and city , of Gloucester ; the mayor and corporation of Glouces ter ; the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of Newcastle. upon-Tyne ; and the mayor, aldermen, and councillors of the city of York. Copies of some of these addresses were given in our paper of Monday. The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor leaves town this week for Scrivelsby Court, Lincolnshire, the seat of the !lon. S r Henry Dymoke, Bart., where a distinguished circle will assemble to meet him. MERCII - ANT SEAMEN'S C OEFOR ATION. -- YeStertlBy afternoon a quarterly court of the Corporation for the Relief of Seamen in the Merchant Service, their Widows and Children, was held at the office of the society, 211, Birchin-lane, Cornhill; Mr. George Lindsay in the chair. The minutes of the last court having been read and confirmed, Mr. Freshfield was elected on account of the corporation; and after the disposol of some busi ness of a routine nature, the meeting adjourned. A committee was then formed for the consideration of up. wards of 60 applications for pensions and relief. FOREIQN HOPS.—The three or four importations of hops from Belgium, during this season, have now been succeeded by an arrival of 52 bales of this article of merchandize by the vessel Commerce de Gand from Ghent, the produce of Belgium. This arrival comprises considerably more than the whole of the previous im portations collectively, end therefore it is of much in terest, inasmuch as no importation of hops to such an ex tent has before taken place from any of the European states, EXCHANGE. iGibraltar•• •• •• •• •• •• •• Leghorn ........ ...... 31 22% Genoa •••• •• ....••••.. N 45 Xilan .••••••••••••••• Venice........ •• •• .... Naples ...... • • ...... 403, a ealermo, per0z........ 121% Messina .............. 121 Oporto" .. •..... • • .. • • 63% Rio Janeiro .......... 26 Buenos Ayres .. ••.. • • New York 21 days'sight Philadelphia .... •• .:.. FILICZ3 OF BULLION, YES OZ, Foreign Gold inbars.. £3 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0 Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0 New Dollars •• .. • . 0 4 9% Silver In bars ...... • . 0 4 11 % SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY MORNING. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-ship Ripon, Captain Moresby, has arrived here with the heavy por tion of the India and China mails. Her dates are— Alexandria, September 16; Malta, 21st; Gibraltar, 27th. She brings 88 passengers, specie valued 14,0001., and a full cargo. The Hindostan, with the outward Indian Mails of 20th from Southampton, arrived at Gibraltar on 25th ultimo in 4i days, and proceeded to Malta. The Iberia sailed from Gibraltar for Southampton on the evening of the 26th ult., to touch at Cadiz, Lisbon, Vigo, and Oporto, for the Peninsular mails. METROPOLITAN PARKS.—In the year 1833 a Se lect Committee was appointed in the House of Commons, to consider the propriety of establishing additional pub lic parks and places for exercise. The Committee having considered the matter, repotted that the number of such places were insufficient then for the requirements of the public, and recommended that five additional sites should be appropriated for the establishment of public parks and walks. Now, since that period, sixteen years ago, what has been done? Victoria Park, such as it is, has been partly formed; and the very best site for a public park in the neighbourhood of London, viz, Copenhagen fields, has been suffered to be entirely destroyed, and almost every footpath in that neighbourhood closed against the public, which, at the time above mentioned, they had full enjoyment of. Hackney-downs, too—these would form a noble park. But there are boards up to say that the ground is to be let for building purposes; although I believe it is or was common, or laminas land. But no measures have ever been taken, at least that I am aware of, to secure this beautiful spot for the use of the public. Ido not mean to blame the present Govern ment for all this. Of course they cannot be answerable for the misdeeds of their predecessors. But I must say that I think it very hard, that when the sum of 150,0001. should be lavished upon additions (the propriety of which is very questionable) to a single palace, which ht already cost no one knows how much, and such immense sums should be expended upon the new Houses of Par liament, so little should have been done for the suffering million. The builders are not blameless in this matter, for the reckless way in which they have covered every available spot of ground without reservation; and this they will find out the error of before long, or I am very much mistaken.— Corr espondent of the Builder. SIR JOHN FRANKLIN'S EXPEVITION.—The cylinder picked up and sent to the Admiralty only contained in telligence to the 30th of June, 1845, from Sir John Franklin's ships, which had already been heard of sub sequently to that date. A poor man working at the incendiary fire in North-street, Bridport, on Friday evening, was taken ill, and died of choleraic symptoms on the following day OVERLAND MAIL INDIA. We have received dispatches from Bombay of Sep :ember 1, and Calcutta of August 30. No later dates rrom China. The Punjaub was quiet, and indeed the same may be said of India at large. Intense interest was felt at Calcutta at the investigation in progress respecting the vast delinquencies discovered in the Post-office departments, nearly the whole of which appear to have been grcssly corrupt. Sir C. Napier returns to England in March. Sir W. Gomm is expected to succeed him. Illoolraj is to be transported beyond the seas for life. The cholera had broken out in the Hastings at Bombay. Five midshipmen and several seamen were taken ill, and two of the former died. Five officers fell victims to the disorder at Jaulna during the month of August. A great many casualties occurred from the disease at Poona among the men of the 10th Hussars, and 64th and 83d Foot. At Calcutta trade was moderately brisk in all its branches. Exchange ts. 10 d. for first-class bills at six months' sight. At Bombay, the money market was easy. Ex change on London six months' sight Is. 10a. Trade in general had somewhat improved, but particularly in cottons, in which there had been a great demand at advanced prices. The direct mail from England due at Malta on the 24th ult., had not arriv, d on the 26th at 4 P.7[. (From the Bombay Times of Sept. 1.) SUMMARY.—Since the issue of our last Overland Summary on the 25th of July, scarcely any event of great public interest has occurred in our Eastern Empire. Up to this date the rains had been plentiful at Bombay, but scarce in the interior; for the next • ten days it poured in torrents at the Presidency, ten inches having fallen in twenty-four hours, and eighty three within two months. Up to this time the north-west provinces were threatened with famine, and the supplies are still in many places exceedingly . scanty. Around- Lucknow and Ghazeepore scarcely a shower had fallen betwixt the bes ginning of July and middle of August. On the whole, however, the season has been favourable, and promises to be productive. The police investigations at Calcutta, next to the weather, furnish the most important news of the month ; the inefficiency and misdoings of the police having long formed subjects of public scandal. Go vernment was at length compelled to take the subject up by the clamour of the press. A commission was appointed to receive complaints ; they sat for a fort night with open doors, and all the evidence laid before them had been published. From this it appears that the heads of almost every department in the establish ment have become so deeply involved to natives within theirjurisdiction as to be open to the gravest imputa tions. The chief magistrate exercised no surpervision or control over the others, nor kept any separate records. Government property was sold to the chief creditor of the members of the establishment at half the price offered for it by others. The cash thus received was thrown into a box, into which were thrust all varieties of property which fell into the hands of the police —money, watches, jewels, specie, &c. No one knew who kept the key ; no account was kept of the goods, and a very small proportion of them seem ever to have been accounted for. The price of the property just referred to was received in 1846 —up to the present time it has not been accounted for ; tenders made four years since by intending purchasers of police pro perty remain still unopened ! Warrants were issued by the chief magistrate and remained for years un served. One influential native employe was known to keep an extensive gambling establishment, where gambling was at all hours of the day seen by the po lice to be in progress —no one interfering. Crimes of all kinds were hushed up and compounded for, and the whole of the subordinates seem to have been in the last degree corrupt. Such has been the system prevailing for years in the commercial capital of Ben gal under the very nose of government Is it to be won dered at that belief in the corruption of the provincial police and police-courts should be almost universal ? The senior magistrate of police is generally selected from the civil service—the appointment is worth 2,5001. a year : the junior magistrates are sometimes officers in the army, sometimes lawyers, but that rarely—most frequently some friend, protege, or dependant of some man of influence, whose qualifica tions have never been tested, or in all likelihood thought of, and who has had no previous training or experience— his chief recommendation probably being that be is encumbered, and needs the appointment. In India we have no public meetings, no popular assembly, and no means of making grievances known but through the press, and our rulers occasionally make it a matter of boast in their official letters that they never see the newspapers ! There has been a great outcry again :4 the Post-office as well as the police in Gangetic India. Newspapers are charged by weight, so that before they can pass for single postage they must make use of the smallest sized sheet to be found in the meanest provincial town in England ; the paper must be as thin as a bank-note. In our rainy season, if near full weight, it absorbs moisture so rapidly as to be charged double postage at its jour ney's end ; the postage on a daily paper from mode rate distances amounts to Si. a year. The mails are carried in leather bags on men's heads, and so negligently made up that they occasionally reach their destination in a state of pulp. Thousands of rupees are annually abstracted from letters, and every variety of misconduct prevails. At the presidencies the salary of the postmasters is from 2,0001. to 3,oool.—the heads of the departments are civilians, who have been judges or collectors of revenue, and never saw the inside of a post-office till they came to preside over it. At out stations, officers in the army get postmasterships as perquisites—the duties in every case being performed by subordinates. The subject has been a standing grievance time out of mind, but there is not the slightest appearance of its meeting with attention. Sir Charles Napier, it is now generally understood, resigns his appointment and returns to England in March. lie .has had no occasion to take the field, and has attempted no reform in the army during his stay. Much was expected of him, and his departure will be subject of general regret. Sir W. Gomm, late Governor of the Mauritius, said to have been the original nominee meant by the Horse Guards to supersede Lord Gough, will, it is said, succeed him. He is the youngest Lieutenant-General in the service ; he has had no experience in field service or command —but then he has got influence. Another report is, that Sir Charles Napier will be succeeded by Sir W. Cotton, now Commander-in-Chief at Bombay, who is said to have had the promise of the appointment be fore the panic that sent out Sir Charles arose : in this case it is said Sir William Gomm will come to Bom bay. There is a rumour that Lord F. Fitzclarence will be our new Commander-in- Chief here :if so, the nomination will be the result, as that of Lord Falk land is understood to have been, of the direct inter ference of Royalty—Lord Frederick being a major general of 1841, with at least half-a-dozen seniors in the Queen's service in India. Were this system introduced, we might have majors or lie,utenants colonel with local rank placed over the heads of those who commanded in the field be fore they were born.—The judgment of 4the com missioners by whom Moolraj was tried, has been published ; it is a very able and interesting document, clearly establishing the fact that the Punjaub insur rection was not the result of conspiracy or disaffec tion, but mismanagement ;—that had we properly selected the season or the force, or attended to the request of Moolraj for secresy, there would have been no revolution at Moulton; had the most ordinary decision been displayed, the revolt would have been put down before any one dreamt of a general rising. I Moolraj has been ordered to be transported beyond seas—nearly the severest punishment a Hindoo can suffer. Profound tranquillity prevails throughout India. There has been another change of Ministry at Hyderabad (Deccan). We have at Bombay just had a sharp attack of cholera amongst the ships ping, originating in the rotten hulk Hastings. On the 21st ult. five midshipmen and several seamen were taken ill almost simultaneously; two of the officers (Schneider and Elder) have been cut off. The whole of the people on board were instantly removed, and the vessel subjected to a purifying process, which too clearly disclosed the cause of the epidemic. Four officers were cut ,off by cholera at Janina in the course of last month, viz., Captain the Hon. C. A. Butler, 21st M. N. I.; Surgeon G. E. Edgcome, sth M. Cavalry; Assistant-Surgeon J. E. Porteous, M. H. A.; and Ensign J. W. Freeling, 33d M. N. L There have been a great many casualties from the disease at Poona amongst the men of her Majesty's 10th Hussars and 64th and 83d Foot. Lord Falkland returns to Bombay in a fortnight's time. Sir W. Cotton prcceeds shortly on a tour of inspection I through the souther n di v i s i on . ,811 COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. BOMBAY, SEPT. l.—Shortly after the departure of the last mail, a considerable amount of business was trans acted. The demand, however, was soon satisfied, as the - supplies were abundant. Now that the communica tion with the coast has . been re-opened, we l oo k for ward to en early renewal of active business in the chief articles of import. The monsocn up to the present time throughout India is more favorable than it has bees for many years. Money is exceedinly plentiful, and there is little demand for it. THE MONEY MARKET.—There still continues to be a large amount of capital seeking employment ; in fact, we have never known money so plentiful in Bombay as it is at present. Large sums aro daily paid into the Treasury to be converted into 5 per cent paper, and we have heard, upon, very good autlivnty, that about ~ • . .1