The Sun. — London, England, 1842-10-17 00:00:00

EIGHT THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED MONEY DIVIDENDS will be divided in NEXT MONTH, amongst 8,200 SELECTED Bonds of the LOAN nciotiated in the year 1820, anriGUARANTEED by the GO VERNMENT and his Royal Highness the GRAND DUKE of BADEN. 1 Dividend 50,000 Florins ...... 1 do. 25,000 " 1 do. 12,0(0 " 1 do. 10,000 " 1 dn. 5,000 " 8 do. 1,000 " 10 do. 500 " 10 do. 200 2.X) do. 110 200 do. 105 467 do. 100 7,300 do. 94 50,000 Florins 25,000 " 12,000 ~ 10,000 " 5,000 " 8,000 " 5,000 " 2,000 " '22,000 " 21,000 '' 46,700 " 686,200 " 14,200 Money Dividends, amounting to 892,900 Florins, or £74,400 Sterling Money. 8,200 SELECTED Bonds, each of which is sure to obtain on of the above Dividends. Largest Dividend £4,166 13 4 Smallest Dividend £ 7 16 8 12 fi4:rins equal to £1 sterling, a trifle more or less, as per he day'A exchange. ALL THE DIVIDENDS PAYABLE WITHOUT ANY DEDUCTION WHATEVER. Direct for the few Bonds which are still on sale, WITHOUT DELAY, to HEINE BROTHERS at HAMBURGH. Bonds are on sale NOW at £l3. Against the end of this Month the price will rise to £l4, and the Sale will close in the first dais of November. Those who remit £l5 BEFORE the 29th instant, will re ceive an order for £2 upon our London Bankers, together with the Bond. To those ordering too late for being attendrd to, their remittances will be returned by first post. HEINE BROTHERS. Hamburgh, October 4, 1842. THEATRE ROYAL.. COVENT-GARDEN. THIS EVENING, OCT. 17, Will be presented Shakspeare's Tragedy of MACBETH. Macbeth, Mr. Vandenhoff ; Macduff, Mr. Charles Pitt; Banquo, Mr. Cooper; Lady Macbeth, Mrs. Salzberg ; Hecate, Mr. Leffler; First Witch, Mr. Bartley; Second Witch, Mr. Meadom3 ; Third Witch, Mr. Harley. After which Gletry's Opera of RICHARD CtEUR DE-LION. Richard, Mr. Travers ; Sir Owen, Mr. Leffler; Blondel. Mr. W. Harrison ; Florestan, Mr. Horn.. castle; Guillot, Mr. Binge ; Antonio, Miss Poole ; Wilhelm and Collette, Master and Miss Marshall; Matilda, Mrs. Vidal • Laurette, Miss Rainforth. Doors open at Half-past Six, and the Performances corn ; mence at Seven. —Dress Boxes is., Second Price :Ss. 6d. ", First and Second Circles 55., Second Price 2s. 6d. ; Pit 3s Second Price 2s. ; Gallery Is. Tickets and Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Whit low, at the Boz-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had. Private Boxes to be had at the Boa-office ; of Messrs. An drews, 167, New Bend-street ; Mr. Mitchell, Old Bond-street ; and of Mr. Sams, Pall Mall. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. THIS EVENING, OCT. )7, Will be presented a Drama, by Douglas Jerrold, Esq.. en titled THE HAZARD OF THE DIE. Principal Characters by Messrs. Lyon, 0. Smith, Maynard, H. Beverly, Wright, Paul Bedford, Wilkinson, Mrs. H. Beverly, and Miss Chaplin. After which, THE DAUGHTER OF THE DANUBE. The Imp, Mr. Wieland ; Fleur-des-Champs, Mdme. Proche Giubilei ; " The Frightful, Spiteful, Old Bachelor," Mrs. H. P. Grattan. To be followed by the Burletta of DOBSON and Co. To conclude with NORMA. Pollio, Mrs. H. P. Grattan ; Norma, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Adalgisa, Mr. Wright. Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. Doors open at half-past six, commence at seven o'clock. DAVJDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Continuation of the Nautical Dramas, in consequence of the immense overflows attracted by the heart•stirring acting of Mr. T. P. Cooke, the only acknowledged Salim. on the Stage. THIS EVENING, OCTOBER 17, Will be acted Mr. Albert Smith's new Drama, called BLANCHE HERIOT, which has met with most decided success. Neville Audety, Mr. H. Hughes ; Hugh Laneret, Mr. N. T. Hicks; Herrick Evenden, Mr. J. Webster; Blanche Heriot, Mrs. R. Honner. After which, BLACK EYED SUSAN, with the Original Cast. To conclude wish OUR HOUSE; or, LODGINGS IN LONDON. Places and private Boxes to be had of Mr. J. Kerschner, at the Box-office, from eleven to four. HIG/I W ATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. vornin 34 minutes alter 0 I Evening 49 minutes after 0. the rural community. Railways has nearly put an end to their occupation, and must tend to lessen, if not to extinguish, sucii classes of men. We are by no means of opinion that rail ways have caused any great diminution of employment for horses and coaches, fbr where one long stage before plied there are now a great number of short stages, of cabs and omnibuses. Little or no employ ment actually depending on the rearing and maintaining horses , has been lost. Some of the persons connected with the long stages have become omnibus and cab drivers, and probably, by being dispersed, have improved in character and station. So far as the servants of inns have been superseded by porters and servants con nected with railways, the change is advantageous, for the discipline maintained amongst the latter makes them in general quite models of propriety. They live not in public-houses, and do not, as the rule, pass their spare hours in drinking and smoking. Policemen on the railway line must be watchful and steady, or they cannot retain their situations. Next come the guards and conduc tors, who are continually under inspection, and must be, at the least, as careful and steady as the guards of coaches. Great as is the skill of a coachman, and many of them were, latterly, most respectable, steady men, it cannot be compared, we think, to the skill of the engineer, who has superseded the coachman. We know of no class of labourers connected with coaching to be compared to the stokers, who are always occupied during their working hours ; or to the smiths, who make and repair the stupendous machines, that are at once horses and carriages, and give motion to the whole mile long trains. A a great many more carriages are required for railways than for com mon roads, and the use of the former has not diminished the employment of coach builders and coach smiths. ' The principal and most noted change of em ployment is the substitution of the thousand in telligent and tolerably well educated mechanics who contribute to the perfection of a railroad, for the stable boys and idlers who congregated about great coach houses and great posting houses. The mechanics live in a comparatively cultivated and informed society, and we could, if it were worth while, quote Lord BROUGHAM'S authority for their being some of the most enlightened and best behaved persons in the community. Such a change in employment is every way ad vantageous. It is a type of those changes which are going on in every part of society—which would go on more rapidly were politicians to in terfere less—and of which the gist and principle is to substitute skilful machinery, the produce of the mind of man, for untutored animal power. No persons have a higher opinion, we believe, of railways, than ourselves. Great as is the celerity, the ease, certainty, safety, and convenience of railway travelling, are quite as surprising ; yet we venture to doubt whether their moral benefits, substituting home for inns, and intelligent me chanics for the loungers of the tap and the stable-yard, be not quite as great as their phy sical advantages. We made a few observations, in the course of last week, on the law of nations in reference to the free navigation of rivers ; and we then laid down the principle that the interest of the people governed is the basis of all the rights of every Government. A larger or more comprehensive principle can scarcely be desired or conceived, for it concedes to every nation everything which is for' its benefit. According to our view of free trade, which is every day, we believe, becoming more prevalent, all the new tariffs enacted in England, France, Germany, the United States, &c., are proofs that these nations are not really aware of what commercial regulations and laws are for their benefit. At least great disputes pre vail here as to our own tariff, as they prevail in America as to its tariff, and France, England, and America, will all, probably, join in condemning the tariff of the Zoll Verein. But if nations are not yet well aware what laws and regulations will promote their own interest, if that interest is the basis of all the rights of Governments, and of all international law, it follows, that as nations become enlightened as to their own true interest, the rights and duties of their Governments must be changed, and the international law must be also changed. On this principle, we are averse from pinning our faith to the dicta of GROTIUS or VATTEL, or Herr Von MASTERS, on the rights of Governments concerning rivers; particularly when those assumed rights extend to interdict or control commerce, with which Governments have properly nothing whatever to do. The necessity of occasionally revising and changing international law, seems, in fact, established by the frequent changes that have been made in the customs of Europe. It was formerly contended that a nation might do with the rivers which pass through it as it liked; but that was at length found to be wholly untenable, and, at the Congress of Vienna, it was declared that the navigation of all rivers which form the boundaries of States, or pass through several States, " shall be entirely free, from the points where they become navigable to their em brouchures, and that no one who conforms to the police arrangement, shall be debarred the privi lege of navigating them for commercial pur poses." It was further declared, that " duties ex acted shall be regulated with a view to encourage commerce and facilitate navigation." That was ' a great change on the old principle, that every State might do what it likes with the rivers which pass through it, and shows conclusively, we think, that we must not rely on ancient authorities to inform us what ought to be the laws of nations. It is well observed by the Spectator, from which we copy this brief notice of the treaty of Vienna, that by Lord ASHBURTON'S treaty so much is not conceded to the United States as England would have been bound to concede to , any other Power a party with her to the treaty of Vienna. St. John's is a boundary river, and the Americans may justly claim to have as free use of it as the inhabitants of New Brunswick, for " commercial purposes." " The privilege," says the Spectator, " conferred upon American produce is in reality a boon to the New Bruns wickers." There never was a more idle cry than that attempted to be raised against Lord ASHBURTON for conceding this privilege to the Americans without exacting some favour in return, unless men are to insist upon being paid for serving themselves." The last words put the right on its true bads. It is the interest of New Brunswick and of England that the right should exist ; and those persons who would have the Government claim a power to prevent the exercise of this right by the Americans, require it to take upon itself the power to injure its own people. Both the theory we have laid down, and the practice of the Congress of Vienna, seem to us to establish the great principle, that the benefit of the people is the basis of the rights of every Go vernment, and, of course, of all international law. But as what promotes the benefit of nations is yet only darkly known, it is the duty of intelli gent and enlightened nations, like the English and Americans, and the intelligent and enlightened journalists who hold the pen for them, to study what will promote the benefit of nations, and to make the rights of Government and interna tional law conform thereto, instead of seeking in the pages of writers what were the customs of Sovereigns in less enlightened times than the present, and endeavouring to keep our usages in conformity to their barbarous practices. Let us, for example, apply this doctrine to our own right of search for British seamen. It is utterly im possible that it can be for the benefit of the people of England to impress the seamen ; it is not, therefore, for the national benefit to seek to retain a power over them for ever ; it is not, con sequently, for our advantage to insist on search. ing American vessels for Eng .lish seamen, and the claim to search them ought at once to be g racefully resigned, so that anot h er source o f contention between these two great nations may be dried up for ever and ever. The Tories say that the Tate of wages rises and falls with the price of provisions. Suppose it true, let us see what follows. The Tories have assed a tariff, the object of Which is to lower prices; but as the rate of wages will be reduced in proportion, the working classes will get no benefit from it. That tariff principally affects meat and things which are as the rule now beyond the reach of the labouring classes. It lowers prices, therefore, to the opulent, whom the Tories pretend not to benefit. The persons who will , chiefly benefit by this reduction of prices are those who have nothing to sell but money, who possess an annuity. In fact, the Tory mea sures, according to the Tory doctrine, will benefit the money classes at the expense of the pro ducers, and not benefit the labourers. So their policy, on their own theory, accords not with their professions. If they are not errant political swindlers, they are the most ignorant men that ever attempted to govern a State. We are happy to see, by the Morning Chronic& of Saturday, that the inference we drew from the conduct of Lord SYDENHAM, and the language of the Globe on Friday, is incorrect. The Whigs, by the Chronicle, praise the conduct of Sir C. BAGOT, but they lament, as well they may, that it did not fall to the lot of a Whig to consummate Lord DunuAm's policy. Why did not Lord SYDENHAM attempt it, instead of using all the influence of the Government to ensure the continued superiority of a few? We regret, that we have given the party less credit than it deserves on this occasion; but having made itself the advocate of war, and having scouted, by its demands to restrain the navigation of the Maine, the doctrines of free trade, we were afraid that it meant also to desert its principle on the important question of deferring, in the Govern ment of Canada, to the opinion of the majority. Lord ABINGER'S recent Charges at Chester and Liverpool, which have occasioned such general dissatisfaction throughout the country, have been commented on by Mr. COBDEN—as will be seen by reference to a report in another column of The Sun—with a fearless honesty of purpose that does the Hon. Gentleman infinite credit. After disposing of his Lordship's unwar rantable assertion, that " the disaffection of the working classes does not seem to originate in any voluntary feeling of their own respecting their privations, or the high price of provisions," by showing that during the last session, two millions of petitions for the repeal of the Corn-laws, and three millions of petitions for the Charter, making five millions in all, spoke in the most emphatic terms of the privations to which they were subject, and their extreme suffering for want of bread—after thus triumphantly refuting the Noble and Learned Lord's sophism, Mr. COBDEN proceeded to convict him of the grossest ignorance as respects the question of wages, on which, it may be remembered, he dilated in his Liverpool Charge with all that pert, dogmatic self-sufficiency so common to shallow pretenders, who wish to be thought oracles of wisdom. "It is deeply to be deplored," ob served the Hon. Member for Stockport, " that his Lordship shouldso far forget the proper func tions of his office, as to be attempting to lay down the law which governs wages, when his only duty, as I understand it, is to lay down the law of the land. At all events, if he under take that, supererogatory duty, he should make himself a little better acquainted with the laws of political economy before he meddles with the science." Hard hitting this, but the blow, though a floorer, is richly deserved. Lord ABINGER has shown no compassion for, what he is pleased to call, the ignorance of the working classes ; and it is but just and fitting that no quarter should be given to his own grosser and more inexcusable ignoiance. Mr. COBDEN concluded by remarking, " I con fess that the charge of the Noble and Learned Lord, in which he implicates the great body of the working classes in felonious and treasonable designs—l confess I think that charge has been so calculated to prejudice the cause of those who h av e been tried at the Special Commis sion, that if a motion was made in the House of Commons for an address to her MAJESTY to remit the sentences of those men convicted, pursuant to the Charge of the Noble and Learned Lord—l say if the words of the Learned Judge be cor rectly reported—l should vote in favour of such a motion." There is a boldness and manliness in these observations of Mr. COBDEN that merit the warmest praise. We will even go further, and say, that we earnestly hope that the Honour able Member will himself move the Address to her MAJESTY, which he alludes to; for if ever there were judicial Charges that deserved to be rigidly inquired into by Parliament—first, from their being filled to overflowing with extraneous matters, and secondly, from their perverting those extraneous matters on which they expa tiated, so that they must necessarily have confused and bewildered the judgment of those who heard them, and who were, in no slight de gree, liable to be influenced by them—in a word, if ever there were Charges violating in the most barefaced and deliberate manner the first princi ples of commonsense, they are the two delivered by Lord ABINGER at Chester and at Liverpool ! The Special Commission, which was opened at Liverpool on Monday, closed its proceedings on Thursday, and that at Stafford [terminated en on Saturday, after protracted and numerous trials, which occupied the Court for fourteen days. It is some relief, certainly, to know that these melancholy investigations are at an end; but, on looking at the results, no one can fail to be affected by the sufferings which the unfortu nate and misguided victims have brought on themselves and their numerous families. Some have been transported for life, great num bers for periods varying from twenty-one to seven years, and probably not fewer than two hundred have been condemned to imprisonment, generally with hard labour, in their native coun try. While many lament the severe sentences passed on some of the prisoners, and feel regret that so many of their countrymen have thus been made outcasts from society, it cannot be denied that grievous offences were committed, that much property was wantonly destroyed, and great alarm created through extensive dis tricts by riot and plunder. But these men have not only injured themselves, they have done great mischief to others, and not a little damaged the cause which some of them professed to serve. To Chartism they have ann givenadn theirt: po a rl heavy i co b rene l rs o ft oaN w vri nmh l a oy n iv r d ng era g re e i ap • e t ae a anc a t : d ue f i so s ueu c l s o o a u ft no n d carrygr a e n t i e tt ; oniaa complaint.lt The result, however, will be a lesson to the p m ab en li , e w in ho in i d n , ju a r t e ld a m g a o do d ly cause p b t y . a p l i a ly ri s n ic i a n l g tb ti r ie ce ing to compel the higher and middle classes, and not a few of the lower classes also, to accept all the points of the Charter, whether they approve of them or not. On reviewing the melancholy scene altogether, it affords great matter :for congratu lation that the Criminal Code was revised before this outbreak, and that the old Tory system of hanging criminals for similar offences, has been, we trust, for ever abolished. In the days of ELDON, and St DMOUTH, and CASTLEREAGII, deeds like those which have lately disturbed society, could not have been expiated without the sacrifice of many lives, while not one of the convicts on this occasion has been doomed to death. We have given elsewhere a few extracts from WlLLlen's Income-tax tables, and recommend the little useful publication to the attention of all those who come within the operation of this new infliction. They are so arranged as to show at sight the amount of the duty on fractional as well as integral sums; and besides contain some in teresting statistical information. W e have received all the Paris papers, from which we are glad to learn that the negotiations for a revision of the Post-office re gulations between the two countries are going on most favourably', and are likely to be brought to a speedy conclusion. France, it appears, is anxious to grant every facility for the rapid and cheap transit of letters from England to Mar seilles, and thereby obviate those useless and vexatious delays and interruptions of which this country has had just reason to complain. The following intelligence on the subject is taken from Galignani's Messenger of Thursday : 'We have great pleasure in stating, that the propo sitions for a revision of the Post-office tariff between France and England, submitted to the English Go vernment on the part of the French authorities, have been received in a spirit which promises the desired results, although there are still, we learn, some diffi culties to be surmounted. The bases of the prospec tive arrangementi are understood to be as follow :-- The French Government consents, as regards all let ters to and.from England and France, to apply the same tariff as for letters in the interior of this country ; and the English Government, on its part, agrees to reduce the uniform charge of ten-pence to three-pence, so that a letter from Paris to London, or from London to Paris, which now costs two francs, would only cost nine-pence in London, or ninety cents. (18 sous) in Paris and the postage for letters beyond the weight at which the single rate is now charged, would experience a reduction on the same scale. In addition, it is offered by the French Govern ment to reduce considerably the charges for the transit of letters from England through France, to the East Indies, and other, points. In noticing these propositions, the credit of originating which is, we are assured, due to the French Government—although they were met in a spirit of corresponding liberality by the English Cabinet and the Post-office authorities, whose routine, however, does not admit of quite so prompt a termination of the formalities as could he wished—we think it right to allude to the exertions made by the French Government in 1836, to effect the improvements in the postal relations which then took place between the two countries, and by which the necessity of pre-payment of postage was dispensed with, and a reduction made in the rate of postage then charged. The reform of 1836 was considered a great amelioration, as indeed it was ; but the spirit of pro gress since that time has been such as to render a larger concession necessary, both as regards the mer cantile relations between England and France, and the general international intercourse, which has au mented considerably, in spite of the postal barrier that still existed. The new treaty will, therefore, give universal satisfaction in England and in France, and we trust that nothing will occur to prevent its being speedily put in force. • The Constitutionnel has a long article on the official returns of the exports and imports of Great Britain, and, of course takes a gloomy view of the results. After adverting to the competi tion which English goods meet in almost every market, and the increase of manufactures in Belgium, France, the German Customs' Union, and Switzerland, it thus sums up the details : Statesmen of England are well aware of the dangers of their position, and they seek in another hemisphere a remedy against the present evils, as well as those which threaten them for the future. India, glutted with English produce, and impoverished by incredible exactions is no longer so profitable a market ms formerly, but China, on the other hand, offers im mense resources, and the English would willingly gain entrance there by force. In America, it i 3 di plomatic agents who are entrusted with pushing the commerce of England ; and all the south of that vast continent is at present actively canvassed by English emissaries. These efforts are worthy of attention, as they give to our assertions a strong support. One may, in a certain measure, follow there the anxiety and the failure of Great Britain, at the same time that they give an idea of the measures which the Cabinet of London endeavours to realise, in order to substitute new markets for those which appear to slip from it in Eu rope. The Presse has the following remarks in re ferance to the mission of Sir HENRY ELLIS to the Brazils : Some politicians, alarmed at the transformation now in progress in the South American States, and at the departure of Mr. Ellis, the English agent, for renewing the commercial treaty between Great Bri tain and Brazil, have inquired whether France means to take any part in the measures that are preparing. These grave affairs will not be treated of without our concurrence. Baron de Langsdorff will shortly be at his post, a small French squadron will be cruising off Rio de Janeiro, and, we believe, the Minister of Foreign Affairs has given positive instructions that the interests of Brazil, so dear to France, and im portant to •all Europe, may be defended. The inde pendence of Brazil in the transactions relative to the abolition of the slave trade cannot be too strongly protected; and any solution similar to that imposed upon Portugal would be peculiarly injurious to the maritime rights of all nations. The events now being accomplished at the extremity of the Gulph of Mexico ought to be watched with the utmost care. M. Alley de Cyprey, our Minister to the Mexican Government, is on the spot, and his capacity cannot be questioned. We earnestly hope that Mexico will repossess itself of its power over Yucatan, which has none of the qualities neces sary to constitute a separate State, and we would have a French squadron sent to this point to maintain the rights and interests of our allies. Mexico has no longer any question with France to unravel—the best intelligence ought to be established between the two countries ; and we do not think that England could find any fault with the appearance of a Friench squadron in those waters. An English fleet was pre sent during the expedition of Admiral Baudin against Vera Cruz, and France, we know, made no remon strance against it. It would be but an act of prudence to imitate in this respectthe conduct of our neighbours. STOCK EXCHANGE, QUARTER TO Two O'CLOCK, THURSDAY.—Five per Cents. cash, 118 f. 80c. ; Threes, 80f. 15c. 4 • , : 77 • - ..." 4111% ' 4 "11 111. , S 11177 _.---N•AVOIL;4" 41.,_,Iftwev. (itz ,ut. LONDON MONDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 17, 1342. The Horning Post, in throwing doubts on some observations on the effects of railways in diminishing the general prosperity of the coun try, has some judicious remarks on the change ra ttler than the lessening of employment, by the use of new Coatrivances, which, sire: should wish that journal always to remember. Speaking of such places as Hounslow and Barnet, our Con temporary says— But we must demur to the soundness of the con clusion that these " deserted villages" are the cause of the general distress, since they no doubt produce much activity in other quarters, and the difference hetwen the large sums they receive, and the divi dends paid to shareholders, must go into the pocke& of working people of some kind or another, and thence - to the purchase of such commodities as these people consume. There is, however, much reason to doubt that the innkeeping business has at all kept pace with the increase of travelling in England. The railroads enable people to do without the accommoda tion of inns. Formerly, if a man were coming up from Liverpool, or Manchester, or York, to transact business in London, he would probably spend a couple of pounds by the way, going and returning, at the roadside inns. Now he gets from his own home to London, or from London to his own home, without spending more than a shilling in some luncheon-pa. lace on the railway line. But if he does not eat at the inns he eats at home. True ; but then he pays only what the thing costs, whereas at the inn he " distributed" about three or four times the cost of the viands. There may be something in this. The railroads, while they pay ten per cent. to rich people, who embarked capital in them, cut away many of the profits of the poorer sort. The same doctrine, of course, applies to all kinds of machinery, all the extra profit made by ; which will certainly be invested in some kind o f new production or other, and find its way into the yockets of some clas s o f wor ki ng people. .g M on 9y-making men," says the Editor of the Struggle, p ublished in the heart o f th e manufactur ing districts, and well acquainted with the habits ." never accumulate ; th at i s to say, of capitalists, they never lay it by, for as it respects the actual possession of cash, they are often amongst the barest. They either sink it in trade, or place it in the bank, whence it is lent on interest to others who are short of capital. In either case it is used in such a manner as to find employ ment." What master manufacturers gain, there fore, by improved machinery, and by cheapening production, they immediately put out to use, and the greater their gains the greater is the sum which they so putout; the greater of course, also, is the demand by capital for labour, and the more - .the labourers are benefited. That is a clear and plain deduction front the admission of the Post, and we hope that our Contemporary will not 2.gain accuse machinery of lowering wages, or cheap-production of injuring the labourer. Having thus entered the Post on a right track 1)y its.own impetus, ne proceed to notice, which our chief object in making the quotation, the beneficial change in morals and in employment y - bich our Contemporary proves to be the conse que ace of railway travelling. Sojourning in inns has 1. -nig been felt to be a great discomfort to donies.'ic men, and has been long stigmatised as unfavourable to morality by religious teachers. Raiicvays, in a great measure, enable travellers with inns. to dispense . They pass from their borne to the other extremity of the island in a few hours, ami rarely, or never, have occasion to stop at an inn by the way. The o ld system of travellers drinking every half-dozen miles is quite at an end; if thereby innkeepers have suff ere d, many ho:neF, we believe, have been mad e hap pier, ai l d i - ouch money saved from taverns has been spent in q. more beneficial manner. Tlie - chate're w liich that indicates in employ s. incnt 'M no t undot.c'rving of notice. Travellers '""1'1 3111 , 6 ," at "ions F. p e od considerable sums of :money :on wa i ters , b oo ts, and chambermaids, Persons whose Occupations, however respectable the individuals, require no gi •eat degree of talent or skill. So the use of stage coaches gave em ployment at every coach and posting-boil to a considerable numb er o f helps, riding b ostler s, grooms, stable oys, loungers about the tap, half mendicant s, half labourers, ready for any kind of job—to ride a spare horse, to carry a parcel, to run with. a letter, to deliver a message—a great body of persons wh o were neve r tra i ned to any continuous patient Oil, and were amongst the commu nity.i At least it is consis least skilful and the lea : it elevated of the - tent with a ll our early impressions to believe that .um were, next theto multitud es w h o 93 about coaching iitable portio n o f ichei?s, perhaps the ,least cre. THE SUN. LONDON, MONDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 17, 1P42, COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, SUNDAY.—This morning the Queen and Prince Albert, and the Royal Suite, including the Countess of Dunmore, Lord Byron, Colonel Arbuth not, and Sir E. Bowater, attended Divine Service in the Little Chapel at Cumberland Lodge. The Rev. Mr. Cooper officiated ; his text was taken from the 4th chapter of the Gospel according to St. John, and the 15th verse—" The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water that I thirst not, neither come hither to drink." _ Her Royal highness the Duchess of Kent attended Divine Service at the Parish Church, New Windsor. The Rev. Wentworth Bowyer and the Rev. Mr. Co plestone officiated ; the latter Reverend Gentleman preached an excellent Sermon from the sth and 7th verses of the 6th chapter of Deuteronomy, " And these words which I command thee this day shall be in thine heart, and thoushalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shall talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up." Yesterday morning her Majesty and Prince Albert rode out in the Home Park in their favourite little phaeton, her Majesty driving; afterwards, his Royal Highness, attended by Lord Byron, Sir E. Bowater, and Colonel Arbuthnot, enjoyed the sport of shooting, and returned to the Castle to lunch. In the after noon her Majesty and the Princess Royal rode out, attended by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, in a pony carriage and four, followed by the Countess of Dun more, Hon. Georgiana Stanley, and Hon. Clementina Hamilton, in another pony carriage and four. Prince Albeit accompanied the Queen on horseback, at tended by Sir E. Bowater and Ihn. Sir W. Lumley. The Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal were taken their usual airings. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady Charlotte Dundas, and Sir George Couper, Bart., joined the Royal dinner circle in the evening. General Sir Robert Wilson, Governor of Gibraltar, attended at the Colonial-office on Saturday, and took leave, on his departure from town, to embark for his government. Saturday was the birthday of his Majesty the King of Prussia. His Excellency the Chevalier Bunsen, the Prussian Minister, gave an entertainment in honour of the day at his residence in Carlton-house-terrace. General Sancho, the Spanish Minister, transacted business on Saturday, at the Foreign-office. The Chancellor of the Exchequer left town on Sa turday, for Ryde, Isle of Wight. Dispatches were sent off from the Colonial-office on Saturday evening, for the Earl of Elgin, Governor of Jamaica, and the Governors of the other West India Colonies. Dispatches were received on Saturday afternoon at the Colonial-office, from Sir Charles Bagot, Governor of Canada, and the other North American Provinces. shortly expected i n I re l an d , on a visit to his estates in Lord Stanley, w h o i s now at Knowsley Park, is the county of Tipp erary. We believe that we may now confidently state that it will not be long before we shall be honoured by the presence of her Majesty in Brighton although the pre cise day is not yet fixed upon. Mr. Henry Saunders, the Inspector o f P a l aces, arr ived at the Pavilion on Thursday eveni ng ; Post contains th e f o ll ow i n g :-----" We announced on Saturday, on the au th or ity of and yesterday t he L o r d Chamber lain arrived.—B r i g h ton H era ld. VISIT OF THE QUEEN TO IRELAND.—The Evenin g a Chester paper, that our Most Gracious Sovereign, a ccompanied by Prince Albert, intended v i s iti ng this country during the ensuing summer. It is now stated that the latter end of July is the period fixed for this auspicious event. In addition to the reception which awaits her Majesty and her Royal Consdrt at the Viceregal Lodge, in the Phoenix Park, the Duke of Leinster, Lord Powers court, the Earl of Kenmare, Marquis of Sligo, the Marquis of Downsbire, and the Marquis of Abercorn, are prepared to ent er t a i n t h e illustrious visitors. Foal-Gtono E .---O n M on da V I last week, the Right Hon. Sir George M urra y, Master-General of the Ordnance, and Governor of Fort -George, paid a visit to this fortress. After inspecting the works, accom panied by the staff and officers of the garrison, Si r George partook of luncheon at Major Fraser's, the officiating Governor, and set out for Perth in the evening, passing through Inverness. -- Inverness Courier. SUMMARY OF NEI-S` AND titibitc ottiton. " Who runs may read." FOILEIGN. A letter from Belgrade, 28th ult., in the Augsburg Gazette, mentions a rumour that the Ottoman Porte has disavowed the conduct of the Turkish Pacha, Shekib Effendi, in the recent Revolution of Servia. It is added, however, that the rumour did not ema nate from such a source as to command credit. Ac cording to this letter, several persons had been de tected in a conspiracy to poison Prince Michael, and had confessed that they had received the poison which was found concealed upon them from the chief of the insurrection. The following changes are announced at Paris as about to take place, if not already effected : Marshal Oudinet is to quit the office of Chancellor of the Legion of Honour to become Governor of the Invaliiles. Mar shal Gerard is to replace him in the Legion of honour, being in his turn succeeded by General Pajol in the command of the National Guards of the department of the Seine. It is also stated that Lieut.-Gen. Tiburce Sebastiani has been appointed to the command of the Ist Military Division, that General Dariule enters the reserve of the Staff of the army, being succeeded by Lieut.-General Durocheret in the military com mand of the city of Paris. Major-General Aupick, Commander of the School of Application of the Staff, is to become the Aide-de-Camp of the Due de Ne mours, his place being taken by Major-General Cami nade, head of the Military school of St. Cyr. Major- Gen. Carre is to obtain this last-named appointment. A letter from Algiers states, that at this season last year there were about 250 or 300 ships in port ; this year there are not more than 30. Tile works for the erection of the citadel of Mont rouge, forming part of the fortifications of Paris, were adjusted on the 13th inst. The Hotel St. Georges, in Paris, has been ordered to be ready for M. Thiers, who returns at the end of the month. The Marquis of Padua, son of General Arrighi, has just been married to Mlle. Honore, daughter of the widow of Admiral de Rigny, by her first husband. The Brussels journals announce that the King of the Belgians will open in person the legislative session of 1843, on the Bth of November. MONEY-TRADE-COMMERCE. The weight of bread, equal to our 41b. loaf, now sells at Paris for money which corresponds to our sixpence and half a farthing. The present current price in London is Bd.—this is for the first-rate qua lity. The second-rate at Paris sells for 41d.—in London, 61d. PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS. A new road has been cut from the Westminster road to the Palace New-road ; and two new streets, called Canterbury-street and Howley-street, formed near the Archbishop's Palace at Lambeth. Dr. Reid, on Thursday night, delivered a lecture at the 'Westminster Mechanics' Institution, on the system of ventilation introduced into the House of Commons. The lecturer stated that if his plans were largely carried in private buildings, instead of tall ugly chimneys, such as now seen, London might dis play numbers of high and ornamental minarets. NAVAL. AND MILITARY. A meeting of the Committee of the Seamen's Hos pital for all nations, was held on board the Dread nought on Friday, when it appeared from the Report that 869 patients had been admitted into the hospital during the past quarter, out of whom 220 were con valescent. The balance in the hands of the trea surer amounted to 971. 16s. LAW AND POLICE. A respectable master-baker, named Richard Royer, was brought up at the Edgware Special Sessions on Friday, after a remand, on the charge of having mur dered his wife. A young man named Cowell was the chief witness, who was shown to have perjured him self, and the prisoner was discharged. Frances Rugg., a widow, Henry Rugg, arid Geor g e Stevens, were on Friday charged at Lambeth-street with uttering a forged receipt on the Court of Chan cery for 1801. and upwards. The prisoners were re manded till Tuesday next. COURT-PASIIIONJIBLE. His Serene Highness Prince Estherhazy will leave England the beginning of next month. The Earl and Countess of Essex have returned to Cashiobury Park from a visit to the Duke and Duchess of St.. Alban's, Redbourne, Lincolnshire. The Dowager Countess of Pembroke leaves Sava nach Lodge this week, for Wilton House, Salisbury. Viscount and Viscountess Evelyn have, during the last month, been seeing company at Cawdor Castle, Scotland. His Excellency the Russian Ambassador is reco vered from his recent illness. Lord Cowley left the Clarendon Hotel on Friday to return to his Embassy at Paris. The family of the Hon. Col. Cavendish returned to Burlington Gardens on Monday last, from their villa at West-end, Hampstead. MISCELL ANEOUS. The two Acts of Parliament respecting bankruptcy and insolvency will come into force on the Ist and 11t h of November. The ten new Commissioners will preside in country districts in cases of bankrupts and insolvents, whilst the six London Commissioners will, it is said, determine cases in London. The Liverpool Special Commission closed on Thurs day, when the respective juries were dismissed. VICTORIA THEATRE. The recently-produced domestic drama Grace of Gray bids fair to rival in popularity the most suc cessful of its predecessors of the same class, for the production of which this theatre, under the present management, has become so celebrated; and the new drama is well deserving of its popularity. It abounds in striking situations and variety of incidents. This, of course, was to be expected, for without these two requisites no domestic drama could live a night; but, what we hardly expect to find in a drama of this de scription, is an artistically-constructed plot and care fully-written dialogue ; both these, however, we do find in Grace Gray, and to these we attribute a con siderable portion of its success. Miss Vincent per formed the heroine with that intense feeling for which she is so celebrated. Her Grace Gray has added considerably to her well-earned fame. Mr. E. P. Saville, as Saaveda, has an opportu nity of displaying the versatility of his talents, of which he well knows how to avail himself. His personification of the Count, in the second act, is first-rate. His manner of easing Mr. Peter Pipkin (Gardner) of his watch and snuff box, after cleaning him out at ecarte, tells admirably. In his delineation of the Count, Mr. Saville has hit exactly the line which separates the slangish polish of the fashionable swindler, from the unpretending politeness of the well bred gentleman. The comic portion of the piece is well supported by Miss Martin, Mr. Gardner, and Mr. Paul. The scenery is very good, and considering the intrinsic merits of the piece itself—the talent displayed by the actors, and the ex cellent manner in which the whole is put upon the stage, we think the management may fairly calculate upon the piece continuing to attract crowded houses for a long time to come. We see by the bills that Nicholas Nickleby is in preparation here. Mr. Os haldestone is playing a safe card in producing this piece. We well remember the admirable delineation of Smike, by Miss Vincent, at the City of London Theatre, and doubt not but she will prove as attrac tive here in that character as she did on the other side of the water. LLOYD'S SHIPPING. LONDON, OCT. 15.—Wind this day at noon, W. to N.W. moderate breeze, fine weather, occasional fogs. DEAL, OCT. 14.—Wind N N.W. to W.N.W., light. —Ski. King William, Hobart Town ; Dailius, Cal cutta; Reward, Jamaica; Thomas Wood, Aden ; Little Grace, Sierra Leone. OFF THE WIGHT, OCT. 10.—Governor M'Lean, Mayo, —. VV ESTPORT OCT. 10.—Arrd, Mary Jane, Long more, St. John's, N.B. FALMOUTH, OCT. 13.—Wind, E., moderate.— Arrd. off, Tartar, Byron, Guayaquil. OFF PENZANCE, OCT. 13.—Ambassador, Tait, Rio Janeiro. CLYDE, OCT. 13.—Arrd. Isabella, Hyndman, Ja maica. Sld. Lyra, Demerara. YOUGHAL, OCT. 1] .—Arrd.Wellington, St. John's, New Brunswick. OEF CORK, OCT. 10.—John Taylor, Ballery, Africa ; Ellen Brooks, Day, New Orleans. LIVERPOOL, OCT. 14.—Wind, N.N.W., light.— Arrd. Jane Walker, St. John's, New Brunswick. Sailed Irian, Lima ; Horsboro, Valparaiso; Kingston, Africa. Arrd. off, Thos.Lee ; Acadia, steamer, Boston. LONDONDERRY, OCT. B.—Sld. Barbara, Mauritius. SCILLY, OCT. 12.—The Caleb Angus, from Aus tralia, has come into the Quay to stop her leaks. The Brigand (iron steamer), from Liverpool and London to St. Petersburgh, struck on the Bishop Rocks this morning, and sunk in deep water, crew saved. NEWPORT, OCT. 14.—The Brigantine, George Can ning, of Yarmouth, arrd. here, was run on board by the Car, of Greenock, whilst at anchor; has several planks stove, two anchors broken, and whole frame much shaken. SUNDERLAND, OCT. 11.—The Return, Young, of Dundee, with coals from Shields to Leith, was run ashore on the Bamborough Sands, with much da mage, having keen in contact with the Apollo, of Montrose. SOUTH- SEA FISHERY.—The following whalers were at New Holland on Feb. 9 :—The George end Martha, Smalley, of London, 400 blls. sperm and 1,400 whale; Plato, Buller, of London, 1,600 blls.; and the Arabian, Gardner, of London, with 550 blls. sperm oil. MONE Y and COMMERCIAL, NE WS. Cm', SATURDAY EVENING. The purchases on account of the East India Com pany were, as it was stated yesterday, continued ; these, with several small investments, gave an in creased firmness to the funds. Consols left off at 931 932 for Money, and 932 93 for the Account ; Bank Stock, 164 166 ; India Stock, 250 252 ; Exchequer Bills, 55 67 premium. The prices of Foreign Securities were—Belgian 103 104 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 522 52i; the Five per Cents., 100 1001 ; D an i s h, 83 84 ; and Brazilian, 63 64. The quotation for Mexican Bonds continued to decline, they being last market 328 32 1 1. The Share Market showed some improvement; London and Birmingham were 182 184; Bir mingham and Gloucester, 40 41; Great Western, 82 83 ; the Half-shares, 60 601; south Western, 57/ 571 ; North Midland, 57 58 ; the New shares, 28 29 ; South Eastern and Dover, 221 23 ; Eastern Counties, 84- q; Northern and Eastern, 351 36-4; Black wall, 6 61; and Brighton, 368 36a pr. share. The quotations of the Bonds were Colombian 20 201; Peruvian, 15 16 ; Portuguese Five per Cents., 361 37/ ; the Three per C en t s ., 211 221 ; Spanish Five per Cents., 16 16i ; th e Three per Cents., 208 21. By comparing the returns of the average weekly assets and liabilities of the Bank of England, for the twelve weeks ending the Bth inst., with that termi nating on the 10th Sept., the following result will be perceived:— LIABILITIES. £ .£ Circulation, Now Last time Increase 290,000 Deposit, Now Last time ... 9,833,000 Decrease .. 465 ; 090 ASSETS. Securities, Now Last time 00 ,573,000 23,159,000 Decreaso Bullion, Now 9,633,000 Last time 9,177,000 Increase ... .... Rest, Nov Last time Balance.. 45.000 (From The Sun of Saturday Evening.) The Funds continue firm, and several purchases have been made for investment, but none of any par ticular moment, beyond one of 10,0001. Reduced, by the Government broker. Consols are 931 931, for Money, and 93 for the Account, which is fixed for the 24th of November • Three per Cants. Reduced, 92:1; Three-and-a-I-lalf per Cents. Reduced, 1001 ; New Three-and-a-Half per Cents., 1011; Bank Stock, 164 166; India Stock, 250 252 ; Exchequer Bills, 55 57 prem. In Foreign Securities there has been scarcely any thing done, and prices are without alteration ; the ap pearance of the market is, however, flat—Dutch Two and.a-Half per Cents., 52 , 1, and the Five-per Cents., 1001. A speculative demand has arisen for Mexican Bonds, which are now quoted 321, having been 32i and 321. The Share Market has presented no feature worthy of notice, beyond a greater inclination to purchase. London and Birmingham have been sold at 183 ; Eastern Counties, 81; and Brighton, 361. The Bonds quoted to-day are—Colombian, 20i; Portuguese Five per Cents., 37/ ; the Three per Cents., 221 ; Spanish Five per Cents., 161 ; and the Three per Cents., 20i. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, OCT. 13.—Our market continues very dull and inactive. London and Birmingham New 321., 301 ; Manchester and Bir mingham, 194 201 ; Manchester a n d L ee d s , 691 70 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 45/ 46 ; Manchester and Liverpool District Bank, 101. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH, FUNDS. flank Stock 3 per Cent. Red. 923 3 per Cent. C0n5..... 93g 3i per Cent. Red... 1000 New 3i per Cent... ...... 101 g l'srw 5 per Cen'. Long Annuities to expire Jan. 1860 ...... Oct. 1859 Jan. 1860 l2 9-16 India Stock 251 i pm Ditto Bonds ...... —pm Ditto Old Annuities ... Ditto New Annuities... Ex. Bills, 1,000/....2d. 57 pm Ditto 500/...... 55 pm Ditto Small ...... —pm Bank Stock for Open. India Stock for Acct... Consols for Acct. FUNDS. FOREIG Austrian, 5 per cent. — Belgian, 5 per cent Brazilian 80nd5.... BuenosAyres6 per cent. 22i Uhilian, 6 per cent. Colombian, 6 per cent — Ditto, 1624 Cuba Bonds, 6 per. cent 79 Danish, 3 per sent Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Mexican, 5 per cent 32i Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Peruvian, 1825, 6 per ct. 16 SHARES. Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid) ..... Ditto New Shares ( paid) Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) Great Western, (65 paid) I hit° New Shares (50 paid London and Brighton (50 paid) :36 London and Blackwall ( paid) ..... London and Birmingham (90) London and South Western (4116 s 10d pd) 57 Manchester and Birmingham (40 paid)... .. 191 North Midland Railway (1(10) Ditto Thirds (211. 13s. 4d. paid) .. 18 South Eastern and Dover (50 paid)......... Ditto Scrip (15 paid) Portuguese, 5 per cent. Ditto, New Ditto Prussian, 5 per cent. Russian, 5 pei cent — Ditto, Meta11ic....... Spanish, 5 per cent. l6h Ditto, Deferred.... French, 5 per cent. —e. Exchange French, b 3 per cent —f.—,.. Dutch, 21, per cent. s2i Ditto, 5 per ,en:. 100 i THE QUARTER'S REVENUE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—In order properlyio describe the deficiency in the revenue, I consider that the amount of the pro perty-tax, 313,8441., ought to he added to the sum of 67,4731., and the deficiency made 381,317/. It is a well-known fact, that the Government has not re ceived one single penny at present from the property tax. The sum of 313,8441., stated to have been re ceived has only accrued by means of a reduction of expenditure, and not as a yielding or productive tax to the Government. The sum of 314. in the pound has been deducted from the amount of the half year's dividends which have been paid ; so that the Govern ment has paid 98/. 10s. 10d., instead of 100/. ; there fore the sum held back, viz., 1/. 9s. 2d., is not an ad ditional sum of money in the hands of the Treasury. A part of the sum of 313,844/, also arises from mo ney stopped back from Government salaries ; and even a large sum—part of that stated to have been received —will have to be returned to claimants whose incomes are under 150/. per annum. A tax on the Funds and on Government salaries never can be a producing tax ; it merely acts as a reduction of expenditure. By such reduction the Government has much more to ap ply to other purposes. Suppose, for instance, that the Customs duties were expressly provided to pay the dividends, and the sum to be paid was one million, and afterwards a tax of five per cent. were put on the dividends ; if the Customs duties did not produce the million, as before, the Government would not benefit the five per cent., although the creditors would be mulcted that amount. I am, Sir, yours, &c. Ilfracombe, Oct. 13, 1842. R. W. D. BANKING HOURS. (From the Atlas of Saturday.) A proposal for altering the hours of business amongst the bankers and monied men of the City, by shutting the banks at four instead of five P.M., as at present, has given rise, during the past week, to much discussion, and to some of even an angry character. On the one hand it is urged that the change would be attended with very little inconvenience to the public, and with very great advantage to the bankers' clerks. Now, whilst from principle and inclination we are al ways disposed to regard with a favourable eye any pro • position which tends to increase the comforts, and to di minish the labours of the middling classes, yet we cannot admit thattheproposed change in the hours of keeping open banks would "be attended with little inconvenience to the public." We will take one example ;that will suffice, though we could name at least fifty. The example is drawn from the commercial department of bills of ex change. An hon es t t ra d esman gives his acceptance in the usual course of business. When he gives it, he has every reason for believing that he shall be pre pared to meet it on the day it will become due. But he is disappointed in the receipt of money ; his customers are backward in their payments ; and a somewhat large bill is returned to him protested for non-payment, and he must at once meet it, or lose his credit. The consequence is, that the dis heartened and wretched man is obliged to run half over London to get five pounds here, and ten pounds there, very often in cheques on bankers residing at the antipodes of Pall-mall and Penchurch street. At last he succeeds in his ob:ect, and his 1 hands hold within them the money's worth—but not the money ; for though he has the cheques, and they are all good, he has to get them cashed ; and miles must be walked—many miles—before he will be able to go to the banker holding his acceptance, and pay it in due course and order. But the fatal hour of four would strike before this could be . effected, and th e honest tradesman would be annoyed and cot: founded, as well as injured and disgraced. We have addressed ourselves to a fact of every-day occurrence where the extra hour of four to five would be of vast import ance. Another objection has been made, arising out of the second delivery of letters by the Birmingham train at such an hour as to rende r it i mposs i ble to t rans act the business directed to be d one at t h e Stock Exchange on the same day, if the banks closed at four. The Dowager Lady Blackett has returned to Port-- man-square, from Thorpe Hall, Surrey. Mr. William Stanley, who had filled the office of Secretary to the Poor-law Commission in Ireland, has just been appointed Secretary to the Police Com missioners of Dublin. AM ERICAN NEWS. ARRIVAL OF THE ACADIA. LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY NIGHT. Another very speedy passage has been per formed by the British and North American Mail steamer Acadia, under the command of Captaill Ryrie, wide), arrived in the Mersey this night, about eight o ' c l oc k. Sh e left Boston on the eveni ng o f t h e fi r st, and Halifax on the 3d i ns t., a t 5 with 36 passengers, and has, con s e quen tly, made t he entire voyage in 13 days, inclusi ve o f s t o ppages. The Columbia arrived at Halifax at six P.M. Oa the 2d inst., and proceeded on to Boston. Our files of New York papers extend to the 30th ult. inclusive, being one day only later than those previously received by the Great Wes; tern. They contain no further intelligence of importance. • From Canada we learn that the LegislatuFe hadl, been prorogued to the 14th of November , when it was a n ti c ip a t e d a dis.iolution would tak e place. T. C. Aylwi n , P. P. f or P on t N e uf, had been Appointed Solicitor-General for Canada East. The previous accounts of the success of the Mexicans in Yucata n are i n a grea t measure confirmed, but it would appear th a t n o vessels were taken at Laguna. • The brig Impulse, from Baltim ore to Kin"' '• ton, was wrecked on the 3d o f S e pt e mber, ue Cayugus reef; after havi ng t a k en o ff the crevi and passengers of th e s hip St. L ou i s , which( vessel was totally destroyed by fir e o n her Pas''' sage from Boston to New Orl e a ns . All Ilan" . _ were saved from the Impulse. >: • • The rate of Exchange on London was firm at 108 108•1 ; on Paris, 51. 311 e. 51. 30c. t Cotton was in somewh a t b e tt er req uest" - a steady prices. Flour, on the contrary, was l • saleable, on rather lower terms. Her Britannic Majesty's steam-ship Dee, four days from Nassau, bound to England, touched at Bermucl e ,. • on the 9th instant, took in coal, and proceeded on' b. el voyage. The steamer Medway, bringing the English ora ll y to August 1, arrived here on the I s t, an d exc hange, ' mails with the Dee, from Ha va nn a h, w hi c h arris'e"J on the 4th inst. They sailed on the sth. plot the storm on the 3d and 4th the Medw a y w as °bp to take shelter at Cock rane's anchorage. FROM BERMUDA.—By the J. H. Stephens, arre7, this morning, we have the Royal Gazett e to the instant. It is filled, to the exclusion of almost evarl e i thing else, with the boundary treaty l a t e ly coneW- between this country and Great Britain. FROM NEW BRUNSWICK.—By the steamer IT9Af.,,ri tress, from St. John's, we have received the paPer% , that place to the 26th inst. The steamer Colurrn , :'; Lieut. Rostright, under the control of C a pt.Ovve i .' . ; who acts as Commodore, has arri v ed a t Campo., to be employed in the survey of the Bay of FuUuc the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and other waters adjact. • to the provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Soub ed -• and Sable Island. The Columbia is to be employ a during the ensuing winter months i n exploring me n surveying the George's Bank. Capt. Owen has . ,b ee ns long employed in similar duties on the coast of -4- 111- and elsewhere. It is announced in the Halifax papers that lier, e ; after the steam-packets will sail fr o m Halifax Liverpool on the 3d and 18th of each month, w i n o ( ther those days fall on Sunday or not. They wi l l course leave Boston on the Ist and IGth of c ae month.—Boston Daily Advertiser. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS. 50 ; RATE OF SALES AT THE STOCK EXCHANGE, SEPT:, :$6,000 New York sixes, 1860 '>r 1,000 Kentucky Bonds 25 Shares North American Trust Co .....•• 4 A' d' 18 Shares Ohio Lif e an d T rus t C 0........ .. „iri 25 Shares Moha w k R a il roa d ..., ........... 3 5 1 /, ' '• 25 Shares Stoningt on Railroad ............ 1 ,7 - 0/ 1 / 4 ,0 85 Shares Auburn and R oc h es t er Railrd. The sales at the Board to-day were light. Dio 71 e,e40r• Railroad closed at a decline of 1, and Sts 11111 0: res !,:,• Railroad of 4. per cent. on our final quotations•cf•J• ,f terday. Kentucky Bonds improved P 's cent...4i, sale of North American Trust Companytock 7 made at 24. NEW YORK MARKETS, SEPT. ASHES.—SaIes of about 150 barrels each 4:X1 71 ''001 a i pearls, the former at 5 dol. 50c., the latter at 6 cle',: h Onot COTTON.—The sales yesterday amounted to; °T, - ,0 ,61 4. - „.0 550 bales. 601:90 11 FLOUR AND GRAIN. —The market for f rii" tion of flour is very heavy, and though soffi„e i tiliaie g . ` o „ 4 are asking 4 dol. - 56fe. for Ca 3 n .le a l, l , _ fl , e y ou e ci t ru s so e ct i 4bedeoni 62 }c. a at 4 4 d0i d . 0 7 1. 5c 5 . 0c. R 3 dol 25c. • *6O Wheat is in rather more request. Prime * 4) . ; „th bring 90 cents, while inferior is dull of sale at a 10" . . 0 less rate. Rye is worth 58 a 59 cents ; Soutlw! corn 54 a 55 cwts. weight, and Jersey 58. e rc r i 6l : ll'l7ha'6l9 : .1 . AMERICAN PIRACY. The following is an extract from a letter date, d . New York, Sept. 29 : " I send with this a new novel, published' i t : London, called ' Percival Keene.' The 0 3 4 .4 copy was received by the Great Western, an re-published in thirty-three hours after its arrivli here, and sold for 121 cents (about 6d.) al l over our City, in a paper called the New World." THE ROUTE TO SUF 4 Z. A few days ago we saw in a Contemporary a r'i; graph, in which the land journey from Alexandr ia Suez was described as most uncomfortable, in conse quence of the bad condition of the horses and carriag e . , employed. It would seem, however, that the w rit had drawn upon his imagination for his fitcts, beca ti t , the Marquis of Tweeddale, no bad judge of such the ters, gives quite a different version of the story i n t letter of which we subjoin a copy : " Suez, Aug. 22, 1842 ' " SIR-I can have no hesitation in saying tbat r t, have been very well served in travelling the D e lv both in regard to transport as well as lodging i ' De carriage and horses were of the best kind for the sert, the carriage being easy, and the horses go° l3, an very steadily driven by Mr. Hill. (Signed) " TWEEDDAL• ) " To Mr. Raven, Messrs. Hill and Co., Egg t: ler f SOUTHAMPTON, OCT. 14.—The Oriental stearr,rl; ' will be relieved fromquarantine to-morrow. the unusual shortness of time that she will have n ur mained at the Motherbank is owing to the able bill of health she brought from A le w ic- st dria. The Dee leaves S ou th a mpton for the ,V a e s / Indies to-morrow, in the middle of the " j ! eighty-seven passengers already booked to g ° in her. The Tay, whi c h arr i ve d here yestercloi,,,is,;,- the first West India steam e r that had reached this port at the time she was due, a n d this notwiths.oo ing she was detained two d a y s a t N a3 sau, takitht theimmense quantity of bulli on which she hr°o" it home. This punctuality is so far satisfactorf . n y's shows the likelihood that the W e st India C om p than arrangements will be performed more regularlY they have been. Isabella 11., Queen of Spain, completed on the I % tli t inst. the twelfth year of her age. This is the a_te,„, which, according to the text of the anc'ent law, the minority ceases. b o ut • BRISTOL SUGAR-MARKET ' OCT. 14. - much appearance of business, there has de s• ', demand for sugars of good quality, at stewlY PA other . : .ARAMANS' BANKRUPTCY, BRISTOL. 4- 11 , meeting under this fiat was held on FruillY4o,,' Commissioners, after hearing further arfaill e-„ 4 Aleh cided against the validity of the deed of girt , Phi decision the produce of th e l a t e sale of pictu w, is declared to be the private estate of l‘ft• Acraman. S SUSPECTED MURDER.—On Wednesday 113 .,4 i i fl n was found, in a mill-pond, in the parish Om an, 'lbo ' next Sittingbourne, the body of a young w,,„isef had, it is thought, been murdered, from the bruin th e which she had received and then thrown 1 11— , in pond. She eig te ou is rh r o e o s d p . ect T ab h l e y dproenssded,hebiuotngasstrallte" J. Prentis,_ miller, of Milton.—Kent Herald. l e :Pea RAPID VEGETATlON.—Somesurprise was r ,,,c by a Correspondent the other week at hearing 0,7„„a , s . econd crop had been obtained from the same gr,"t t n . f one year by Mr. M. Brown. This was 1 11 °%,,,re actorily explained by Mr. Brown ; Kit we cor something still more surprising for the ear of ourfroot 0 respondent—namely, the raising of a third er°1 3 "4111 , " '- the same ground ! This has been done by OUr 1141 1 / 4 friend Mr. Moor of Houghton, in the g arden .Jt Stordy, of Cros , -hill. After taking two er°P,, t () first tatoes off the ground, he planted a third in 11 : d t he week in August ; and on Thursday lot we h ' tio g- - pleasure of partaking of a dish fi-oto thatt. C ro ted• ; and certainly finer flavoured potatoes we neveolot, They were of large size, and the crop 11)1. o f t er We were also shown by Mr. Moor a snliV ie ' r oar potatoes grown from seed raised this year!---1 c v stance, we believe, almost unparallc!cd• ". i„ it planted the second week in .\ Food size, and preent mo.-t till the6 e is Mr. Moor s intention to let them w gro mas. From a tree in the same gard en in `sereNvoi c 0 ,1;0 1. _ • wonders have been witnessed, a dozen pears s ea chi • this week, which weighed upwards of 12 010°,0r and measured 12 inches each rou nd • rrb yr called the English Ball. 1! ,, t ' duced into this country front in perfection till Mal•ch or A pt.' • w• Cal wit Pe( s ettle la 11 li T 1 ?f u 14 t 4%4 , Fa i n th "La , Pk% B. 1 C. 1 n• 1 t. I ~. , S•T, o C. f / Pi D. 1 ~' Il exec to b xttr 1 i( Pro