The Sun. — London, England, 1855-09-29 00:00:00

lIIONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two o'CLocK. The Liverpool cotton market yesterday ruled steady, and the sales amounted to 6,000 bales, of Which 1,000 were taken for export and on spcu lation. Mid Uplands realised 51d. ; Mobile, 6d. ; and. Orleans, 6d. per lb. The Railway Share tarket was buoyant, at an advance of Ad. per cent. / 34 the principal lines._ _ In the circular of Messrs. Smith and Charles the following statement is given respecting the oondition of trade in Russia : "The St. Petersburg advices are to the 20th Sep 'tuber. The Exchange was 35-1 to 36 1-16th. 300 91 c8 tallow taken on the spot at 111 re. 200 casks, en 4 te,.. to Korno, at 115 re. There had been despatched nta St. Petersburg and the interior 36 to 40,000 casks of L 4ll ow, an d it is estimated that there are about 40,003 441 is more to be disposed of. Taking, therefore, the ex treme estimate in both cases, it appears that the total 114 antity of tallow available for exportation this season is Locut 80,000 casks. Looking at the fact that the average '/Portation of tallow from Cronstadt for the 30 years i t liding with 1853 was 127,310 casks per annum, d for 1 4 ,e five years preceding the declaration of ward t was AOOO casks, and that the prices ruling in our market for Ne article since 1853 have been such as to stimulate pro duction, we have, in the estimates of the production of . 41 4 season, now before us, a most direct proof of the in rY this war is bringing upon the productive powers of assia." The extent of the demand for accommodation 11 Pon the Bank of England, during the week to the ‘ 2 d inst., shown by the weekly balance sheet, 48 fully as large as was represented. The cause we • e xplained at the time as being rather a preparation for the advanced rate of discount, and a provision Itainst possible contingencies, than a pressure of 11 le extreme characterwhich such an extraordinarily l'apid addition to the securities would imply. Although it is probable that during the first por ttieu of the current week similar circumstances , ead their weight, we can scarcely suppose the in _ Nage to have been in the same ratio, and may Isther expect it to diminish, now that 5 per cent. %barge is established and speculation is discouraged. F3 tich an amount of loans and discounts has not, for 4 long period, figured in the Bank assets, and one of two conclusions is inevitable : either there is an dense trade doing, or financial operations of ~,fore , than usual magnitude have been undertaken. "e first supposition we believe to be erro lieeus, the grain imports being the largest ,°temercial absorbent, and most other branches 41 11 . g kept within very moderate limits. The fall off in the exports to Australia and other coun les,l the United States perhaps excepted, is the 'eat corroboration of this view. There is, however, 44 auxiliary and by no means unimportant strain 1 li Pen the currency in the elevated prices of all raw t eateri a l s and articles of food. The experience of t t r !elilies may be taken in Petto as that of the nation. :Ileery article of consumption exacts an outlay far be -1,.°11d that of less prosperous or more abundant veriods, since the ample employment afforded by th e War to a mass of persons ordinarily restricted L ~,,' the merest necessaries, brings them in as buyers ' comparative luxuries, while the diminution of t he stocks and the deficiency of the production up "01(18 the market prices against the old opponent dear money. Passing on to the balance-sheet of . "e Bank, the following changes are observed in . r 4 trast with the previous week : , Active circulation b ullion Decreasie Decrease i Rest b Increase ‘ l lblic Deposits Increase other Deposits Increase Coen-Day and other Bills ... £19,408,435 305 035 13,268,607 429,848 3,657,207 12,503 8,389,892 551,361 11,266,877 120,115 1,000,541 Increase 4 0vernment Securities 10,401 12,498,067 Decrease 301,301 Other Securities 18,509,278 Increase 1,120,494 Notes unemployed 7,286,815 Decrease 109,985 8 yesterday afternoon the Foreign Exchanges t y'Q , generally higher. Paris, OO days, 25 GO to hamburg 13 8f to 91, Amsterdam 11 191 to ) Frankfort 119 i to f, and Trieste 11 26 to 30. h The Board of Trade Returns for the month end- August 31st, 1855, have been issued, and k‘l t • en in comparison with those compiled for the e period to Sept. 5 last year they present some T l teresting changes. The aggregate exports for i q t s month, this year, are given at the value of e 91,473/., showing an increase of 107,7591. over !, h () ae of last year, which is very satisfactory, things considered. The augmentation is appa -4t in coals and culm, cotton yarn, linen yarn, ‘ 4 olinery, silk manufactures, thrown sk, and IP °olle n and worsted yarn, but there was il a falling ti. of linen manufactures, cotton manufactures, :berdashery and millinery, and hardwares and tlery. The imports were smaller of live animals, flour, cochineal, flax, hemp, mahogany, raw cloves, pepper, pimento, tallow, wine and 6. (1 °1, but there were increased receipts of tea, ia lignea, cinnamon, nutmegs, quicksilver, rice, t : 43 I ta oil, opium, currants, indigo, wheat, oats, jee, and cocoa. The shipping returns show an ~.4 ,ease in the tonnage of the clearances of vessels ; 41 Ployed in our foreign trade, but the entries aro qiresented by a smaller amount. tt l'he shipments of the precious metals direct eta London during the week ending last Thurs comprised 74,500 ounces of silver, and 9,670 ' 4ll ces of gold, together with 3,2781. There has not been much animation in the Eng- Stock Market, but the decrease in the bullion ing smaller than was anticipated prices are 1 4 intained. Consols have brought 88i to ft for l'alisfer, and 88/ 2 - 1 for account, being now 88h 1 2 , 1 /4 Ei cl 881 Exchequer Bills are 3s. discount to Premium. Foreign Stocks are quiet, but Turkish 6 per Ce nt. Bonds have further improved, being up to and 87. The Scrip is 11 to 12 discount. Pe til'ian Stock is 75 to 761, being flatter. Equador L N is firm at 5. 4L The following are the nominal prices of foreign :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 18 to 20; r i,,t l ) 211 to 211 ; Peruvian Four-and-a-Half per 75 to 77 ; ditto Three per Cents., 57 to 59; 4,, () ltuguese Four per Cents., 43 to 45 ; Russian 4 'e per Cents., 97 to 99 ; ditto Four-and-a-Half tt Cents., 85 to 88 ; Spanish New Deferred, to 191 ; ditto Three per Cents., 38i to 39 ; it to Certificates, 41 to 41 ; ditto Passive, 4 to 5. Railway Shares showed rather more firmness, ; 44 rallied in most cases from the closing rates of ' e terclay. Midland were ss. better, also South stern and Vale of Neath, but the total transac ,(ltla were limited. Antwerp and Rotterdam were `4ot lower, and Eastern of France were up 10s. aria and Lyons lose and Great Western of 4 _ ll acla about ss. ~ l i;s,idßanks were inactive. Canada Land 'lled heavy. 14 rrISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLCA.) „ ( Prom the Official List. ) 1, Business done Ir., r Cent. N Bonds,Consols Annuities Zi LlOOO 6 oitto, under £lOOO 6 ..° ,^Nols lor Account, 12th October ....... , ;teheqner Bills, 24d. 2d. £lOOO .... .. t 500 3d 1 p 1 p Small . t e hequer Bonds 1858, 3i per Cent , 98i 9 Ditto 1859, ~ „. 98i 9 Pt) L't4 lCE dor Bonds OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Ota. r;lvia n B on d s, 4i per C ent ~ i nte for the account 7SA 6i x d dinian Bonds, 5 per Cent. t Il itto for the Account B4 i Oktnst i Bonds, 3 per Cent 384 bitto New D e f erre d, 3 per C en t. I , yitto Passive 4i 4 ,,l'kieli Bonds, 6 pe r cen t — Ditto for the account B6 5i 7 61 D itto New Scrip, 4 per Cent. ni v omdQ on the above nayahle in London. Irian Bonds, 2i per Cent. ex. 25 fr — Ditto 4 per Cent. Ex. 25 fr' Consols Ditto for the Account TWO O'CLOCK. FBs 88t OeAFroLD ACCIDENT IN BERMoNDsEY-sTREET.—Yes -24 ,1 -4 3' a fine young man, named James Car.nard, aged t Year s , fell from a scaffold a depth of 40 feet, and sus- I t :: 1 tcl a compound fracture of the legs and other injurieM. Was conveyed to Guy's Hospital, where he remains " Precarious state. e 7 4 r , THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENINfI, SETTEM'BER 29. 1865 SHARE MAR KE TS. (THIS DAY.) RAILWAYS. RAlLvrias. 'Aberdeen._ Ambp;. Nottng. Bost and Eastu. Junct Belfast & Ballymena Birming. Wok )rh 21 Stour Va11ey..... ... Birk_nhd. LancsL. & Cheshire JTinct Do. Chesh. & Birk., £5O and 225 Cons. Do., £20..... Rlyth &Tyne origina' £25 (issd. at .£4s' ) Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Carmarthen and Car digan Chester & Holyhead Cork and Bandon Cork, Black, & Pass Cornwall e T Junction Dudlin&BelfastJunc Dundee Perth &Aber deen Junction Do. N , w East Anglian Eastern Counties Eastern Union, A Stock De., B, Stook Do., New A East Lancashire Edinburgh & Glasgow Edinb. and Peebles Edin.Prth &Durdee Forth & Clyde Jun Furness . Do. Extension Glasgow & S. 'Weston. Great Northern Do., A. Stock Do., B. Stock Gt. Sth. &West.(lre ) Great Western Do. Stour Val. Rail Gua. Stk Irish South-Eastern. Lancaster & Carlisle Do., Thirds Do. New Thirds Lancash. andYorksh. DD., Wet. Riding Un. Liv.Crsby.&Southpt London & Blackwali Lond. Bright & S.Cst. Lond. and N. Westn. Do. Fifths Do.lo/. 5h.,M&8...0 Do. Eighths London andS. Westn. Do., £5O. Do., £4O Lndndrry& Col eraine Lndndrry. & Ennlsk • Vanch.Silef.& Lincln Do. Shares, No. I Do., Man. & Lin. Un Midland Do. Birmng. & Derby Midld. G. West. (Ire,) Do. Half Shares Newcastle & Nwpt.Aberg. & He(' Newry & Enniskiller Newry Warrenpoint and Rostrevor. . Norfolk Northn.Connties Ern North British North Devon, No. 1 Do No. 2 _ _ Do., A Deferred Do., B Guaranteed N. astern—Berwiel; Do. do. Extension .., Dodo. G.N.E. Purch Do. Leeds Do. York North London Do. New £lO N.&S.Wstrn.,Hamp stead, and City Jn North Staffordshire North Western N. & S. Westrn. June ' Nuneaton, Hinckley, and Leicester Oxford, Worcester, dr Wolverhampton Portsmouth Se...a - ash Central Scottish Midland Shropshire Union South Devon South Eastern 1 South Wales S. Yrksh. dc Riv. Dun Do Staines, Wok. &Wok] 'Stockton Darlin Stockton di linrtlepl. Taff Vale .. Do. £lO shares_ Do. Pref., No. 1 Thames Haven Dock and Railway Ulverstone & Lanes Vale of Neath Waterfd. & Kilkenny Waterforcl&Limerick West Cornwall West End of London and Crystal Palace West London. Wimbledn & Croydon Closing Prices yesterday. 24 31 - 4 ••• .... ••• 7i - 7i 16 - 15 14 - 15 9 - 3< 87 - 89 58i - 594 i• 7 fa ••• 5 - 4 6} - 7 12 - 13 91 - 93 f,9 - 71 49 - 51 91 - 9i 16i - ••• .... 72 - 74 85i - 6 67 - 69 `22 - 99 - /01 54i .--- 55 fig - 6 7 6 7p 75a 76 fi* q 95 97 91/ 924 2t lid 1 i 4 la - 1 1 814 - 82 94 -84 i 84 74 I 23 - 23 7 .- 8 64} - 65 36 - 38 12 =l4 li - 2} 46 - 48 25i ... 26i • •• -... ~ 68/ - 01 8 - 71 46 - 4 12 - 13 451 461 91 - 98 . 7i - 7 -5/ ... -- ... 24 - 26 105 107 ' 76 78 41 43 12 13 56' —57 i 31 5 32 2d par 33 -- 35 ••• ••. .... .. 19 20 3- 4 19 - 21 5- 7 4 2d FOREIGN. Antwerp&Rott,rdnm Belgian Eaetn. June. Beziors to Graissessa.c Bombay, Baroda, and Central Indi a, Scrip Demerara Dutch Rhenish Eastern of France . Do. New East Indian, g. 5 p.c Do. Erten;ion D 0.4 p. c. Eds., pay '57, convertible Do. do. do., '59, do Gd. Tk of CanadaA is Do. St. Lawrence St. Atlantic do. Do. Cert. of Deben., con. into Stk. till '63 Do. Comp. 6 p. c., do. Gt. Celitral of Franc , . Gt. Indian Peninsula guar. 5 per cent. Do. New 5 per cent. Po. Extensions...... Do. C , Great Luxelnbourg Constituted Shares Do. Obligations Gt. Western of Canad Shares Do. Bds., payable's7,' with option till Do. do., '62, p. '56... Do. do., '76, p. D do., '73, without option Hamilton & Toronto Do. 6 per cent. Lake Corlett. & Basle Lucca dt Pistoj a 5 p. c prof Lyons and Genova Lyons dt Mediterrau Madras Do. Now Maria Antonia Do. do. New --- Namur & Liege (wits interest) Do. (ex interest) Northern of France. D 0.201. Slis.late Char leroi and Erqueline, guar. 3$ p. c. & red. at 221/. dur. 88 yrs. from 1 Jan. 1854 Do. 20/. 3 p. c Bds (fmy.B.dr Ams. Shs. I NorwegianTrunkPre' Paris and Lyons Ditto Bonds Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen..... ParisCaeu &Cherbrg. Rouen and Havre Royal Danish Royal Swedish Sambre and Meuse_ Do. 5i p. cent. Prof Scinde Southern of France St. Andrew's and' Quebec (A),. West Flanders Do 5i per c. Pref Western of France Wept. of Switzerland Wiesbaden Zealand JOINT-ST& Australasia British Colonial Bank and Loan Company' British N. American Chartd. Bank of Asia Chrtd. Brk. of India, Australia, & China :0 City 5 Colonial 0 'Commercial of Lond .11 f.7,nglish Scottish and Australian Chart .11 Loud. Chart. Bk. of : Australis 5 Ditto New London and County.. London Joint Stock.. Lond. & Westminster National Provincial of England Do. New National of Irelaud.. New South \Yalta.— Oriental Bank of Corporation I Provincial of Ireland Do. New Royal Australn.Bkg. & Gold Imp Co south Australia Union of Australia Do. Now I Union of Loud 21 2 4 - 2 i- 1 1 par i p 34i —35 i 94 10 22i 23 li li •• •. 81 - • 1G - 17 62 - 64 91 - 93 3 - 31 5- R r P - iP .011 .."'.. ••• 3 - 3i 21 4 - - 38 24 - 24 ?, 99 - 101 114 - 116 116 - 119 107 108 224 - 234 112 - 114 ... '-' .. ... - Ai.. 5 ,- 6p 19;- 20 p 7 9 11? 2 - 3 5 - 1 5 5 - 5 4 , 33i - 12 - 12?, - 9 421 - 4g, ii - ,i 6 •.• --- ... ... - pm 20 21 - 2 - 111 8 - I -li p ... - pm ..• - ••• 31 - 4 ••• - I 9 - INp ii - 19 BANKS. 87 - 89 d par d iai6 53 - 55 p • e, ..... ••• 16i 171 19;-20d Id 38 401 ••• ...... •,, • 35 - i 6 40 - 42 52 - 54 • •• ....." ye. 40 - 41 68 - 70 8 - 9 Business done this day. LINES LEASED "I FIXED RENTALS RAILWAYS. Leasing Companp • lostns rrico yester lay. Bedford and BletelllQy Buckghamsh. Clydesdale Jc. Col. Stour Vy. Sud. and Hal. B. Lin. g. 6 pc. Glas. Barr. & Neils. Direct Do. New Glstr.& Dn. Fr Hrtlpl. Dk. & Railway Hull & Selby Do. Shares. Do. Shares. Lon.&Greenw Do. Preference Lon.,Til., &S. Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent. Do. 6 per ct. Manch. Bxtn and Matlock Middle'av' & Redcar London t N. West L.&N.W. Caledon E. Un. E. C Gt.Nrthn. Caldonian. Gt. West Yk. New. & Berw. Y.&NM Do.. S. Easter] Do Peto 1k Co. m Norfolk Do L.& N. W & Midi& Stckton & Darlingt. idland I%ndld. Bradfd Newmarket Bury Exten... N.& Est.s P.C. Do. 6 per et. Do. Fixt. '5 p Brest. & ;:e En. Coun, E. Count. D 0,., Do L. &N.W &Ln&Yk Do Do. Shrs. A Roystn.& Hit. Shef.Roth.and Goole g. 5 p. c. Shrews. &Her, S. Staffordsh. Wear Valleygr 6 per cent Do Wilts&Clomrst Gt Northn 'Lancash & Yorksh. T. Brassey 31.31 Clean Stockt. & Darlingt Do c4tWeetn. PREFERENCE SHARES. 112 - 116 108 - 112 91 - 93 9G - 99 151 -- 16 3 - 4 51 - G 1 - I P - ! 124 - 1 I • •• ..... ..... li - 59 1172 -lis 107 - 109 99 101 i BP 9i - 10 6 -- 6i 95 -- 97 80 -- 85 t 5 -- 87 9i -- 101 16 -- 16 10 10 70 -- 72 184 -- 194 94 -- 9 13i _l4 $d 134 136 ••• "".' ••.. 12i -- 13 - 1' 135 - 137 96 - 98 4i - 4i 96 -98 89 - 91 3 - 34 •. ..• i id 100 - 102 13i —14 j par 22i 23 98 100 i'6 = fi. ••• : li 2:P ••• .".... 11• i 3 ... 2d 92 - 96 100 - 102 27 - 29 iiii - 107 12i -- 13 23 -- 24 1113 -- 115 21 - 21 90 - 2 - i 56 - 58 130 - 134 8 2f f — 21 d 304 314 8) Sal Business this day. THIS DAY'S NEWS ELECTION OF LORD MAYOR. (THIS DAY.) The election of Lord Mayor for the City of London took place to-day at the Guildhall, and in consequence of the rotation falling on Alderman Salomons more than ordinary interest was evinced, the citizens looking on his election as an important event, in recognising to a greater extent than has hitherto been the case the right of the Jews to an equality of citizenship. At twelve o'clock the Lord Mayor in his state car riage, accompadied by the Sheriffs and Under-Sheriffs of London and Middlesex, and preceded by the usual city officers, left the Mansion-house, and proceeded to Guild ball, where he was joined by a large number of Aldermen and Common Councilmen, who shortly after walked with him in procession to the church of St. Lawrence, Old Jury, to attend service in accordance to time-honoured custom, Mr. Alderman Salomons being one of the number. The liveries of the new sheriffs, Messrs. Kennedy and Rose, presented a marked contrast to that of their pre decessors, and their plain appearance was the subject of much comment by the numerous bystanders who had congregated to witness the civic pageants. The Lord Mayor, sheriffs, aldermen, &c., returned to the hall about 1 o'clock, and shortly after proceeded with the interesting and important business of the day. The attendance of the Livery was very small, and by far the greater portion of them belonged to the Jewish persuasion, who had taken up their position immediately in front of the hustings, some considerable time before that appointed for the election to take place. The appearance of Mr. Alderman Salomons was hailed with a burst of hearty applause. The TOWN CLERK (Mr. Sergeant Mereweather), in the absence of the learned Recorder and Common Sergeant, addressed the Livery, reminding them of the privileges and duties that devolved on them in electing a proper person to fill the high and important office of Lord Mayor. He then read the following names, from which the Livery were requested to select two gentle men to be returned to the Court of Aldermen for the election of one of them. Alderman Salomons, T. G. Fin nis, W. Lawrence, Sir W. Carden, D. A. Wire, J. Car ter, W. Cubitt, and Sir H. Muggeridge. _ _ The names of Aldermen Salomons and Finnis were received with acclamation, but that of Sir W. Carden with hisses and cries of "No Maine Liquor Law," &c. Mr. Sheriff KENNEDY then declared the show of hands was in favour of Mr. Alderman Salomons and Mr. Alderman Finnis. (Cheers.) _ _ _ The Lord Mayor, with his brother Aldermen, then retired to the Court of Aldermen, for that body to elect one of the two gentlemen returned to fill the office. On their return to the hall, The TOWN CLERK announced that the election had fallen on Alderman Salomons. (Loud cheers.) Mr. Alderman SALMONS then came forward and thanked the Livery for electing him to the office of Lord Mayor. He was not insensible to the responsibilities attaching to the important office, nor unaware of the new circumstances attending it, with which he was more pessonally concerned than any other person who had been previously elected to the office. (Cheers.) He assured them that be would do his utmost to fulfil all the duties of the office. Twenty years bad elapsed since he was elected to the important office of Sheriff of London and Middlesex, since which time many changes had taken place, not only in England but in Europe, all more or less tending towards the extension of the rights and in terests of the people, and more especially the extension of the rights of conscience. (Cheers.) Mr. Deputy HICKS moved, and Mr. Deputy REEVE seconded, a vote of thanks to the late Sheriff. (Cheers.) A resolution was also carried, congratulating them on the mark of distinction they bad received from the Queen, in consequence of the late visit of the Emperor and Empress of the French to the city. Sir H. MIIGGEBIDGE and Sir C. CROSLEY both re turned thanks. Mr. D. HOLT moved, and Mr. A. MOORE seconded, a similar vote of thaaks to the Lord Mayor. Mr. JONES, of the Strand, addressed the Livery, and contended the Lord Mayor had neglected his duties in not giving the Livery an opportunity of meet ing to defend their ancient rights against the threatened attacks of the Legislature. He thought the visit of the Emperor of the French to this City was no honour to them, because it was paying homage to a man who had trodden down all the rights and liberties,of her people. (Hear, and tremendous uproar.) The resolution was, however, carried, and the LORD MAYOR, in returning thanks, defended his conduct from the aspersions cast on it by Mr. Jones, amidst loud cheers. The business being completed, the meeting separated. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Holroyd.) IN RE JOSEPH MOSES. This was a meeting for last examination. The bank rupt was described as of 133, 134, and 135, Lower Marsh, Lambeth, glass and china dealer. The balance-sheet commenced July, 1854, and ended 1855, and showed debtor to creditors 6,1171. 17s. Cre ditor—By good debts, 21. 6s, 9d.; bad ditto, 5621. 19s. ; property given up, 918/. 10s. ; excepted articles, 201. Loss supposed upon realising stock, &c., by assignee, 1,0811. 14s. 6d. ; loss upon trade, 1,3061. 10s. ; private expenditure, 374/. 16s. 4d. ; statement January, 1854, 7631. 4s. 3d. The bankrupt passed. IN lIE THOMAS LEIGH. This was a meeting for last examination. The bankrupt was described as of Wellingborough, wine merchant. The balance-sheet, which was prepared by Mr. But ter; commenced January, 1854, and ended August, 1855, and showed debtor to creditor s , 9051. ; ditto holding se curity, 5311. ; profits, 3991. ; good debts, 1291. ; doubt ful, 7/. ; property given up, 1501. ; ditto in hand of creditors, 598/. ; trade expenses, 4111. ; domestic and personal ditto, 2011. ; law ditto, 361. ; excepted articles, 201. ; losses, 2241. ; deficiency at commencement, 571. The bankrupt passed his examination. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. A man named Harris was charged before Alderman Humphrey with stealing two pewter pots from the Ship public•house, The barmaid stated that having lost a dozen pots within a week the prisoner was suspected ; and yester day after he left the house she followed him and found he had two in his posAession. He was committed iFor two months. ROBBERY AND INGRATITUDE.—Mary TV7tite, remanded, charged with stealing five sovereigns and other articles, was again placed at the bar. It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner ar rived hero from Ireland about three weeks since in a destitute condition, and was afforded temporary shelter by ➢lary Daly, an Irishwoman, and a widow, residing at 6, Plough-cuurt, Newgate-street. In the course of conversation the prosiecutrix stated she had saved five sovereigns, which she kept in a box in her room. On Wednesday morning she went out, leaving the prisoner in charge of her room ; and, on her return, she found her gone, her box broken open, and the money taken away. Since the former hearing the police bad ascertained she had taken numerous articles out of pawn.. Mr. Alderman Humphrey ordered the various articles and money found to be given up to the prosecutrix, and sentenced the prisoner to three months' hard labour. THAMES. ROBBERY OF EIGHT SOVEREIGNS BY A SEAMAN. — Peter Donald, a seaman, belonging to the ship Claren don, was brought before Mr. Yardley charged with stealing eight sovereigns from John Manuel, a man of colour, residing at No. 13, Market-hill, Shadwell. The prisoner is a tall, scraggy-looking man of colour with grey hair. The prosecutor, a Lascar, belonged to the ship Norden, and was sent up from Newca3tle a few days ago by the owner of that vessel to john another ship bound to the East Indies, but the Lascar and many other Indians after signing an agreement to proceed from Glasgow to Calcutta in a ship refused to embark on board'a steamer provided for them, and which was to convey them to Glasgow. The prisoner, -who was re presented to be an idle, dissolute, and dishonest fellow, belonging to a foreign ship in. the dock, had mixed with the Lascars, and 'been drink ing with them at their expense. A few days since the prosecutor received 10 sovereigns from the agent of the ship to distribute among his; shipmates. Ho put the money in a white handkerchief, and went to a public-house with the prisoner, who suddea3y snatched the handkerchief containing the money from the Lascar, and made off with it. Another Lascar confirmed the evidence of Manuel. Marshall, a police constable, No. 20 H,. said that Manuel had complained to him that a girl ran away with his money, and Mr. Glazier, an interpreter, said he had seen the prosecutor and the prisoner together fre• quently in the course of the week. He had had much trouble with the Las ears, who received their advances and would not join the ship provided for them. Mr. Yardley said if the Lascars did not proceed to sea and fulfil their agreement they would be reduced to tha same miserable condition as the wretched•looking object the (prisoner) before him. He did not believe the prisoner was ever po.segsed of eight sovereigns in his life, and there was a great doubt whether he took the money; however, there was quite sufficient to justify him in remanding the prisoner till Monday. DETAINING A CAPTAIN'S EFFECTS.—Captain John Mitchell, the mater of the ship • Lady Napier, from Dastzic, applied to Mr. Yardley for a summons against Captain Williams, the owner of the ship, who he said had detained all his.clothes, nautical instruments, and effects, and refused to pay his wages. Mr: Yardley—You were summoned here a few days ago by the seamen ? • Captain Mitebell- - Yes, sir; the owner did not furnish me with any funds to pay them, and he won't give me my wages. Mr. Yardley—What cause does he assign ? Captain Mitchell—lie says I am in debt to the ship, bat I can prove I am not, and that he is 401. in my debt. Mr. Yardley—Then take a summons against him for 401., and I will ascertain when the case is heard whether he has any right to detain your things. The summons was then made out. A DESPERATE FELLOW—ASSAULTS ON POLICEMEN.-- David Fraser, an athletic seaman, 27 years of age, Ise longing to the ship Early Bird, was brought before Mr. Yardley, clrirged with being drunk, disorderly, and riotous, and with assaulting Mr. Henry Overall, a castry cook, of No. 171, St. George-street, alias Rateliff High way, and also assaulting Frederick Marshall and John Greathead, police constables Nos. 20 and 31 H. It appeared that the prisoner sought shelter in Mr. Overall's house while it was raining last night, and when the rain ceased the shopkeeper asked him to depart, which he re fused to do, and struck the prosecutor a tremendous blow on the nose, which bled profusely. The two con stables were called in to secure the prisoner, and he at tacked them and kicked them about the legs. Mr. Yardley fined the prisoner 405., and in default of payment committed him for 21 days. SOUTHWARK. MELANCHOLY AND FATAL ACCIDENT TO A CHILD.— John Perks, a carman in the employ of Messrs. Barton, plumbers, Bethnal-green-road, was brought before Mr. A'Beckett, charged with causing the death of a child unknown. Josiah Welsh, police-constable 499 A, mid be was on duty in the Southwark-bridge-road about 3 o'clock yes terday afternoon, when he was called into Gravel-lane, where he found a child lying dead, and the prisoner, who had a horse and cart heavily laden with lead, was pointed out to him as having driven over it, and caused its death. The prisoner, who said it was quite an acci dent, was then taken to the station-house. Mr. A'Beckett---Is there any one in court who wit nessed the occurrence Charles Hoff, a fishmonger, residing at No. 2, Gravel lane, Southwark, said he was standing at his door about 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon, when he saw the prisoner driving a cart towards him. The horse shied at another vehicle crossing it, and became unmanageable, and the prisoner, in trying to pull it up, fell backwards in the cast. The latter went on the pavement where two young children were playing, when the horse kicked one into the road, and the wheel passed over the other's head, pressing it quite fiat. Witness lifted up the child, but it was quite dead. Thomas Trevelyon, a cooper, residing in Park-street, said that he witnessed the occurrence, and he considered that it was purely accidental. The prisoner said he had been more than ten years in his present employ, and he could assure his worship that it was an accident, and he was extremely sorry for it. Mr. A'Beckett told him an inquest would be held ; therefore he should remand him until Tuesday next, but at the same time he would take his o wn recognisance to appear on that day. STATE OF TRADE. (Front the Manchester Guardian of this day.) MANCHESTER, Sept. 28.—Our reports have latterly exhibited a progressively increasing dullness of trade, which has now attained a pint at which the great body of buyers suspend all operations that are not impe rative. This we might naturally expect to be the case with prudent men, under monetary circumstances which have compelled the Bank of England to advance the rate of interest three times in the course of four weeks. In the present week the buyers have had an advantage/of most things as compared with last week : but that ad vantage is hardly a quotable one. As values are not subjected just now to anything like a test, the safest way is to avoid details and to deal only in general state ments. Since this decline commenced, yarns may be broadly stated to have lost fully id. per lb. on an ave rage of the middle and lower counts ; while in goods, the giving way is scarcely so much as that, but may be represented by lid. to 3d. per piece upon shirtings and madapollams. BRADFORD, Sept. 27. Wool : The market is now well supplied with all combing wools, and for which the rates of the past two or three weeks are steadily main tained. Yarns : The contracts for the corning month cannot be made on easier terms than for the one near ending. The demand for spools continues equal to the production. In reeled yarns there is more doing, with no stocks on band. Pieces : There is a satis factory amount of business doing in the warehouses, and in grey goods. The supply is nut greater than the de mand, but there is great complaining about prices. LEICESTER, Sept. 27.—Having been holiday time there is nothing fresh to remark upon, except that the cessa tion of Government orders has produced a stoppage of some machinery, and a flattening in the demand for worsted and lamb's-wool yarns. Wools retain their value, but are not so much sought after. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) COVENT GARDEN. We were heavily supplied with fruit and vegetables. The trade ruled steady, at full prices. FRUIT.—Pine apples, English, 3s to Gs per lb; colonial do., is to 3s each ; hot-house grapes, is 6d to 4s Od per lb ; foreign ditto, Od. to Os Od ; melons, is Od to 5s each; peaches, is Od to Gs ; nectarines, is Od to 4s per dozen ; apples, is Od to 3s Od per half sieve ; pears, is Oil to 3s per half sieve ; Orleans plums and green gages is to 2s per punnet ; apricots, 6d to 2s Od per doz. ; common plums, 2s 0 1 to 4s per half sieve; cherries, 2d to 6d per pound; lemons, 4s to 8s Od per 100 ; oranges. 8s to lls per 100; fil berts, 5s to Gs per doz. lbs ; cobnuts, Os to Os ; almonds, Os to Os per lb. ; walnuts, 6d to 10d per 100 ; figs, l s Gd to 4s Od per doz ; strawberries, Od to Od per pottle ; goose berries, is 61. to 2s Od per half sieve ; currants, 3s Od to 4s Od per half solve ; raspberries, 2d to Gil per pottle. VEGETABLES.—White cabbages, Gd to is 3d per dozen; red ditto, 2s to 5s Od per dozen ; French beans, is 3,1 to is 103. per half sieve ; brocoli, Od per bund. ; potatoes, 50s to 95s per ton ; vegetable marrow, 4d to is per doz. ; peas, 3s to 5s Od per bushel ; broad beans, is Odto is 9d per half sieve ; turnips, 2d to 4tl per bunch ; carrots, 4d to lid per bunch ; cucumbers, Os Id to Os Gil each ; garlic, ed to Os 8d per pcund ; spinach, is Od to 2s Od per sieve ; old onions, Os to Os per bushel ; new ditto, 2s Gil to 4s per doz. bunches; leeks, 2d to 3d per bunch ; shallots, 4cl to Gd : horse-raddish, 2s Od to 4s Od per bundle ; parsley, 21 to 3d per bunch ; celery, Os Oil to is 3d per bunch ; endive, is 3d to 2s 3d per score ; beet, is Od to 2s per doz. ; parsnips, Os Gil to is Od per dozen ; small salad, 2d to 3d per punnet ; mushrooms, is 6tl to 2s Gil per pottle ; artichokes, 4s to 6s per doz. ; cabbage lettuces, 10d to is Gd per score ; sorrel, Gd to is per half sieve ; radishes, is to is 3d per dozen hands ; tomatoes, is to 2s Oil per punnet ; chillies, is to is Gil per 100; Brussels sprouts, is Od to 2s Od per half sieve ; capsicums, is to 2s per dozen; walnuts pickling, Gd to is per 100; cauliflowers, 3s to 6s per doz. NE VPGATE AND LEADENHILL. Turkeys, Os Od to Os Od ; Geese, 5s Gd to lOs Od each ; Ducks, 2s Gd to 2 s 9 d ; tame Rabbits, Os Od to Os Od; wild do., is to is Gd each ; Pigeons, Gd to 8d each ; large Surrey Fowls, Os Od to Os Od ; middling, 2s Od to 3s Od ; Chickens, is 9d to 2s 3d ; Capons, 3s 6d to 4s 61 •, Hares 3s Od to 4s Od ; Grouse, 2s Od to 2s 3d each ; Guinea Fowls, 2s Gd to 3s Od each. Ostend fresh butter, lis Gd to 12s 6d, and English lls Gd to 14s Gd per dozen lbs. English Eggs, Ss Od to Os Oil ; French ditto, 5s Oil to 7s Od per 120. _ _ NEWPORT. Beef from 3s Gd to 4s Gd ; mutton, 3s 8d to 4s 83 ; lamb, Os Od to Os Od; veal, 4s Od to 5s Od; pork, Od to 5s Od per Blbs. WIIITECIIAPEL. Beef, 3s Gd to 4s 6d ; mutton, 3s Gd to 4s Sd ; veal, 3s 10Ito 5s Od ; pork, 3s 6 1 to 4s 101 por Sibs, by the carcase. BILLINGSGATE. Turbots, 2s Gd to 21s ; Brills, is Od to 7s each; Salmon, is 4d to is Oil per lb ; Cod Fish, 2s Gd to 8s each; Soles, ls to 3s Od per pair; Eels, 8d to is Od per lb; Lobsters, Gd to 3s Gd ; Crabs, Gd to 3s Od ; Whitings, 3s Gd to 8s per doz. ; Common Oysters, 12s to 20s ' • Natives, 50s to —s per bsh ; Mackerel, 50s to Os per 100 ; Smelts, is Gd to Os Od per doz.; Skate, Gd to Od per lb; Shrimps, is Gd to 2s Gd per gallon; Bloaters, is Od to 2s Od per doz. ; Fresh Herrings, Gs Od to Os per 100. ; Scotch do., Gd; Sprats, 8s Od to Os Od per bushel ; Doreys, 2s Od to lOs each; Haddocks, 6s to 128 per doz. ; Pike 6d ; Sturgeon, Gd per lb ; Prawns, Os Od to 7s; Mullets, Gd to is Gd ; Plaice, 4d to is each ; Halibut, Gd per lh ; Flounders, is to is Gd per dozen. BREAD. The prices of wheaten bread in the metropolis are from 10d to 11d; of household ditto, B id to 9:!(1 per 4113 loaf, HIDES AND SKINS. Market hides, 561 b to 041 b, aid to Od. ; 641 b to 721 b, aid to 4d ; 721 b to 801 b, 4d to Od ; 801 b to 881 b, 4d to 44d ; 881 b to 961 b, 4id to 4,;(1 ; 961 b to 1041 b, 40 to 5d ; 104 to 1121 b Od to Od ; upwards, Od to Od ; Horse hides, 6s 6d to Os Od; calf skins, light, 2s Od to 3s d ; ditto, full, 6s 6d to Os Od ; Polled Sheep, 38 9d to 4s O 4d ; Keats, Os Od to Os Od ; Half-breds, 3s 1d to 3s Bd. ; Downs, 2s 10d to 3s 4d ; Lambs, 2s 8d to 4s Od ; Shearlings, Os Od to Os Od. ITALY. TURIN, Sept. 25.—The news of the King's health received this morning is most satisfactory. The diplomatic rupture between this country and Tuscany has not yet been accommodated, but with the good offices of the representatives of France and England it is hoped that it soon will be, and the reply of the Court of Tuscany to the proposals made by this Government is now hourly looked for. If that reply should be to accept them, it may be presumed that the members of the Sardinian egation at Florence will immediately return to their posts, whatever subsequent arrangements may be made to meet the prejudices of the Grand Ducal Court. _ _ An order for reinforcements for the Crimean army has been issued by the Minister of War in Turin. They are to consist of 1 lieutenant, 1 sub lieutenant, 2 sergeants, 5 corporals, and 96 privates from each regiment of the line, and 1 captain, with subalterns, non-commissioned officers, and 320 privates of the Bersaglieri. It does not appear, however, that any measures have yet been taken to fill up the vacancies which will be caused in the home forces by so large a draft, and there are not a few in Piedmont who think the country has already been left too unprotected against sudden dangers. An extra levy for this purpose will soon be inevit able, to replace the present and further reinforce ments that may speedily be required, if another action should be fought on the Tchernaya, as seems to be anticipated. A despatch received yesterday from Cagliari in forms us that Mr. Brett was to commence laying down the submarine telegraph cable from Cape Spartavento to Cape Boua this morning. The cable was on board the sailing vessel Result, which would be towed by the English steamer Star, and accompanied by the French steamer Tartar, on board of which was M. de la Marche, hydrographic engineer, charged by the French Government to assist in the operation. Cholera is rapidly on the decline in northern Italy. Throughout the Lombardo-Venetian pro vinces there were only 162 cases reported on the 24th inst., and the ( orriere Mercantile of Genoa says it should not consider it worth while to pub lish official returns if the Municipality did not do so. In Florence and Leghorn there is still much disease, though the authorities there do their utmost to conceal the fact, the result of which will probably be that people at a distance will believe in its existence there long after it has really ceased, and so their secret system will defeat itself by keeping travellers away from their towns. HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD.--11eadow hay, 3/ 15s to 61 Cs ; clover ditto, 5/ Os to 6l 12s ; and straw, 1/ 8s Od to 11 14s Od per load. Both hay and straw moved off slowly, at full prices. (.3IIMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, 4/ Os to Cl 10' ; clove] do., 51 Os to 61 15s ; and straw. 1/ lOs to 1/ 15s per load. A fair average supply and a sluggish demand. WHITECHAPEL.—MeacIow hay, 3/ 17s to 6L 6s ; clovoi do., 5/ Os to 6/ 15s ; and straw, 1/ Ss to 1/ 13s per load. Trade tolerably firm, at full quotations. r ." t -A" 14- 14"1 I* * 4 , T it a '44 SUN OFFICE, Six o'Clock. IRO.NIVASTERS' MEETING. HANDSWORTH, SEPT. 28.—The usual meeting preli minary to the quarterly meetings of the Staffordshire and Worcester ironmasters was held at the New Inn in this place to-day ; and the recent circumstances of the trade imparted to it a peculiar interest. The attendance was not remarkably numerous, but members or repre sentatives of the principal firms in the district were pre sent. It is well known that since the last quarterly meet ings, when the price of bar-iron, so far as the resolu tions of the trade could determine it, was 8/. per ton, many if not the whole of the first-rate Staffordshire houses have upon new contracts asked and obtained 91. So general, indeed, has this advance been, it may be said for several weeks past, excepting in the case of a few needy manufacturers, to have ruled the trade. There were persons who, notwithstanding, refused to entertain new contracts, even at the generally understood advance, and who sought for a still further enhancement of rates. The question under discussion to-day was therefore not the maintenance of the old price of 81.. per ton for bars, but whether it should be 91., already virtually adopted, or a still further advance, the amount to be fixed upon if such advance were deemed advisable. Mr. Foster, of Stourbridge, one of the most eminent ironinas-. ters in the district, proposed that the price of bars should for the ensuing quarter be 9/. 10s. per ton, or an advance of 1/. 10s. upon the last quarter's declaration ; and this proposition, as we understand, was supported upon various grounds, but chiefly on account of the increased demand for iron and the exorbitant price of pigs and raw materials generally. The makers of pig iron at the present moment have, according to the opinions of some manufacturers of finished iron, the market completely in their own hands ; and, unless they reduce their terms, it is contended, bars, sheets, and hoops must of necessity go up. It was contended, however, by others that 9/. was a remunerative price, that the money market was tight, that the present demand might probably be but temporary, and that if a further advance was declared the iron men of the district might be expected to seek for an immediate proportionate rise of wages. These considerations appeared to have most weight with the meeting, and after considerable discussion the price of bar iron for the ensuing quarter was fixed at 9/., and a corresponding rise in hoops and sheets. The prices of coal, ironstone, and limestone are not determined by these preliminary meetings, and even those of iron are after all subject to the confirmation of the regular quarterly meet ings, which will commence at Walsall on the 9th of the ensuing month. The greatest unanimity, however, pre vailed at the meeting to-day, and there appears little probability. of a change. It is quite certain that the ironmasters can now deter mine upon an advance with greater certainty of its being maintained than they could 6 months_ago. At that time there were several insolvent houses anxious to sell al most at any prices they could obtain, and by their un derselling to an immense extent inflicted a great injury upon the more reputable firms of the district. These for the most part are now extinct, and the trade is conse quently placed in a more certain and healthy condition. Confidence appears to be re-established, and, although the money-market, in consequence of the proceeding of the Bank of England, is disturbed, commercial credit is apparently restored. SINGULAR CASE. At the Salford Town-hall, on Thursday, a man named John Griffiths was brought up on remand, before Mr. Trafford, charged with unlawfully obtaining and running away with 715/., under the fallowing circumstances : Some time since the prisoner was in partnership with Mr. Farrell (as joiners and builders) ; they became bank rupt, and their partnership ceased. Afterwards two persons, named Brownbill and Lawton, carried on busi ness with Griffiths ; but as some of Messrs. Farrell and Griffiths' accounts remained to be settled, an excuse ex isted for Griffiths being frequently about Messrs. Brown bill and Co.'s premises. A short time since the Lanca shire and Yorkshire Railway Company sent notice to Messrs. Brownbill and Co. that they were prepared to pay the sum of 715 d. in question. The notice was in the following terms : " Notice.—You aro requested to apply for the payment of your account, amounting to 715/., on Friday, the 21st inst., at one o'clock. If you cannot, then the authority at the foot must be signed in favour of the party autho rised to receive payment on your account." This was signed by the treasurer of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, and it was received by Messrs. Brownbill and Co. at their place of business, where it had no doubt been seen by the prisoner, who, on the day in question, presented himself—not at one o'clock, but at a much earlier hour— at the offices of the company, and obtained cheques for the amount, which he go t cashed during the morning, and which was discovered when one of the firm went to the company's offices, in tending to receive the cheque. Griffiths was pursued and apprehended, but only 15s. of the money was recovered. Messrs. Brownbill and Co. gave the company notice that Griffiths was in cus tody, but the railway authorities replied, "He has robbed you, not us, and you may prosecute if you please." Messrs. Brownbill and Co., on the other hand, contended that the company ought to prosecute. Grif fiths was therefore discharged, there being no charge against him. To explain the above singular proceedings (says the Manchester Guardian) it must be stated that the rail way company, by prosecuting Griffiths, would have ad mitted that the money was obtained from them, and that they were therefore liable to pay Messrs. Brown bill and Co. the whole a mount ; and the company do not of course wish to pay the money twice. Messrs. Brownbill, by prosecuting, would have admitted their receipt of the money, and thus have invalidated th e i r present supposed claim upon the railway company. Had the 7151. been recovered with the prisoner, there would probably have been no difficulty as to who should pro secute. THE FAILURE AT THE REDAN. An old soldier remarks that the failure of the English attack on the Redan ought to open the eyes of the British people to the followi ng s t art li ng f acts : That the military engineering dep ar t men t i s deficient in skill and practical knowledge. That the mismanage ment of the army by the governing powers is fearful to contemplate. That thousands of veterans are first s laughtered by the criminal incapacity and negligence of the Government ; and raw recruits are called upon to attack a strongly fortified position, defended by pro perly trained troops, and under disadvantages arising from engineering deficiencies sufficient to defeat the best -conducted operations. That the English Staff, as at present constituted, are absolutely destructive. That there is a deficiency of regimental officers with their re giments ; and that, whilst the conduct of those officers who have stuck to their men anti done their duty is Lighly meritorious, there is a large class of men in the British army, holding commissions, who have deserted their regiments, and shirked the perils of the service in the field, in a way which requires immediate correction, both for the credit of the service, and as a fair compli ment to their more honourable compeers. What has poor England done that she should be humbled in the eyes of the world ? She has delivered herself up, bound hand and foot, to a helpless aristocracy, and has not the courage to break her bonds ! In the meantime, all honour and glory to our brilliant allies, who have nobly won Sebastopol ! ORIGINAL ANNEXATION Or THE CRIMEA TO THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. The manifesto published by the Empress Catherine upon the occasion of her troops entering the Crimea, to annex it, in 1783, has more than an historic interest at the present moment. The following is a trans:ation Petersburg, August 1. We, Catherine 11., by the Grace of God, Empress and sole Monarch of all the Rnssias, &c. Our last war against the Ottoman Empire having been attended with the most signal successes we had cer tainly acquired the right of reuniting to the territories of our empire the Crimea, of which we were in possession : we, however, hesitated not to sacrifice that, with many other conquests, to our ardent desire of re-establishing the public tranquillity, and of confirming the good under standing and friendship between our empire and the Ottoman Porte. This motive, induced us to stipulate for the freedom and independence of the Tartars, whom we had redaced by our arms ; hoping to remove for ever, by this means, every cause of dissension, and even of coolness, between Russia and the Ottoman Porte, ex posed too often to these inconveniences by the form of government which then subsisted among the Tartars. Great as were our sacrifices and our efforts for realising those hopes, they were soon, to our great regret, consider ably diminished. The restlessness natural to the Tartars, fomented by insinuations, the source of which is not un known to us, caused them easily to fall into a snare laid by foreign hands, which had sowed amongst them the seeds of disturbance and confusion to such a degree as to induce them to labour for the weakening, and even the total ruin of an edifice which our beneficent cares had erected for the happineSs of that nation, by procuring them liberty and independence, under the authority of a chief elected by themselves. Hardly was their Khan established according to this new form of government, before he saw himself deprived of all authority, and even obliged to desert his country, to give place to an usurper, who would again subject the Tartars to the yoke of a do minion from which our beneficence had released them. The greater part of them, as blind as they were ignorant, had submitted to that usurper; the rest, thinking them selves too weak to resist, would infallibly have yielded to his yoke ' • and thus we should have lost the f r uits of our victories, and the principal recompence for the sacrifices which we willingly made at the last peace, if we tad not instantly taken under our immediate protection such of the well-disposed Tartars who, prizing the blessings of their new political existence, lamented their being forced to submit to the usurper who had expelled their lawful Khan. By thus effectually protecting them, we furnished them with the power and the means of choosing a new Khan in the room of Sahib Gheray, and of establishing an administration analogous to this state of affairs. It was to attain this end that our military forces were put in motion ; that a considerable body of our troops were ordered, notwithstanding the severity of the season, to enter the Crimea, where they were subsisted at our ex pense, and obliged to exert the power of our arms for the support of the good cause, in order to recall such of the Tartars as were estranged from it by their revolt. The public is not ignorant tbat a rupture between Russia and the Ottoman Porte had very near ensued upon this occasion ; but thanks to the Divine assistance, we disposed matters in such a manner, that the Ottoman Mete again acknowledged the independence of the Tartars, and the validity of the election of Schaghin- Glieray, their lawful sovereign. Notwithstanding all the inconveniences above mentioned, as long as we were sustained and animated by the hope of re-establishing the repose necessary to the advantage and preservation of good neighbourhood with the Ottoman empire, we regarded the Crimea, according to tenour and letter of the treaties, as a free and independent country, confin ing ourselves solely to appeasing the troubles which pre vai'ed amongst them. From our love of peace we found in this conduct a sufficient recompence for the great ex penses incurred by it ; but we were soon undeceived in this respect by the fresh revolt occasioned in the Crimea last year, the encouragement of which always flowed from the same source. We have been obliged, in conse quence, to have recourse again to considerable arma ments, and to cause troops to enter into the Crimea and the Cuban, whose presence is become indispensable for maintaining tranquillity and good order in the adjacent countries. The sad experience of every day demon strates more clearly that if the sovereignty of the Otto man Porte in the Crimea was a perpetual source of discord between our two empires, the independence of the Tartars exposes us to subjects of contention no less numerous and important, since the long servitude to which that people have been accustomed has rendered the greater part of the individuals incapable of valuing the advantages of the new situation procured for them by that independence of which we sought to give them the enjoyment ; and which, laying us under the neces sity of being always armed, occasions not only great ex penses, but also exposes our troops to inevitable and con tinual fatigues. The efforts they made to extinguish the flame of dis cord, in succouring the well•intentioned of that nation, exposed them to the violences of the seditious and ill-in tentioned, whom we were willing to leave unpunished, in order to avoid even the shadow of an act of sovereignty, so long as we could cherish the least hope of at length restoring good order, and preventing, by this means, the essential interests of our empire from being injured. But to our great regret, all these measures, dictated solely by our love of humanity, tended only to bring upon us losses and damages, which we have the more sensibly at heart as they affected our subjects. The loss in men is not to be appreciated —we will not attempt to estimate it ; that in money, according to the most moderate calcu lations, amounts to upwards of twelve millions of roubles. To these particulars is to be added another of the utmost importance, both in its object and with regard to its consequences. We have just been informed that the Porte has begun to lay claim to the exercise of sove reignty in the Tartar dominions, by sending one of its officers at tb e head of a detachtnent of troops, to the island of Taman, who has even proceeded to cause the officer to be publicly beheaded who was sent to him by the Khan Schaghin-Gheray with a commission only to inquire of him what were the motives for his arrival in that island ; and what evidently proves the nature of the mission of this commandantof the troops is, that he made no difficulty in declaring openly to the inhabitants of Taman that he looked upon them as subjects of the Porte. This decisive, though unexpected step, convincing us of the inutility of the sacrifices we had made upon the last peace, annuls, in consequence, the engagements we had contracted, with the sole intention of firmly establishing the freedom and independence of the Tartars, and sufficiently authorises us to enter again into the enjoyment of those rights which we had lawfully acquired by conquest ; the more so as it is the only means remaining for us to secure hereafter a solid and permanent peace between the two empires. Animated, therefore, with a sincere desire of confirming and maintaining the last peace concluded with the Porte, by preventing the continual disputes which the affairs of the Crimea produced, our duty to ourself and the pre servation of the security of our empire equally demand our taking the firm resolution to put an end, once for all, to the troubles in the Crimea ; and for this purpose we re unite to our empire the peninsula of the Crimea, the island of Taman, and all the Cuban, as a just indemnification for the losses sustained, and the expenses we have been obliged to incur in maintaining the peace and welfare of these territories. In declaring to the inhabitants of those countries by the present manifesto that such is our Imperiai pleasure, we promise them, for us and our successors in the Im perial throne of Russia, that they shall be treated upon an equality with our ancient subjects ; and that in taking them under our high protection, we will defend against all people their persons, their estates, their tem ples, and the religion they profess; that they sh a ll en j o y the most ab s olute liberty of conscience, without the least restriction, in the public exercise of their worship and their ceremonies, and that i not only the nati on i n gene ral, but also each individual n particular, shall partici pate ia all the advantages enjoyed by our ancient sub jects. But we also expect, from the gratitude of our new subjects, that, touched with these favours, they will be sensible of the value of this fortunate revolution, which removes them from a convulsed state of disturb ances and dissensions, to one of entire security and per fect tranquillity, under the protection of the laws ; and that, striving to imitate the submission, zeal, and fide lity of those who have long had the happiness of living under our government, they will render themselves wor thy of our imperial favour, beneficence, and protection. Given at our Imperial residence of St. Petersburg, the Bth of April, in the year of grace 1783, and in the 2lst year of our reign. (Signed with her Imperial Majesty's own hand) CATHERINE (L. S.) 1 2 all 13 all all 2 tO Aberdeen Do. N 0.2. 7 p. c Blyth andTyno lOper c. pref. (issd. at 50i) Bris. & Ex. 4 p. c. St. Do. 4 p. c. Shares Caledonian £lO Chester & Holyhead Guar. 52s per cent Do. do. Pref. No. 2 Do. do. Pref. 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Can ... ... 00 :$: Van ,Diemen's Lam) t 134 ....1 144 - 54i 5 4/ 51 75/ 6k 91i 21 2 82 1 2 65 4i 5i 34i I 43. I 691 i 9 70 r hilt IDo.. al l all all all 98' 6a i i pm pm 108 1 100 i 100 961 8 SERIOUS FRAUDS BY A FRENCH NAVY CONTRACTOR. The Maritime Tribunal of Brest has just been occu• pied for seven days in trying 23 persons on the eharge of defrauding the state. Notwithstanding the immense length of the trial, the main facts of the case are simple enough :—The principal prisoner, a man named Turrel, who since 1829 has been master tailor in the dockyards of Toulon, had, it appeared, been accustomed during all that time to appropriate to his own use the cuttings of cloth entrusted to him to work up into uniforms, though he ought to have accounted for the greater part of them to the state ; and it further appeared, that , being re• markably skilful in his trade, he invented a new system of cutting, which enabled him very materially to in crease his depredations. Nor did he confine his fraudu lent operations to cloth alone, but extended them to stuffs for linings, linen, and other things which were required in making clothes. As the value of the goods confided to him annually was very considerable —that of the cloth alone being upwards of 1,000,000 f. — his illicit gains were exceedingly extensive ; the pre cise amount of them could not be ascertained, but he married his daughters with 500,000 francs each, i and he is now in possession of a very large fortune. Of the twenty.two other prisoners one was the wife of Turrel, and she was accu s ed o f having aided him in hi s robberies; nine were d e al e rs in T oulon , charged with having purchased his booty knowing it to be stolen ; t wo were li e utenants in the navy, named Banda and De monteil, both members of the Legion of Honour, and in vested with the task of superintending the making and distribution of the clothing for the navy—and the charge 1 against them was that they had tolerated T urr el's rob beries, and bad indirectly profited by them, by obtaining from him presents of money and other things &c. ; and, finally, all the other p r i soners , w h o w' loan°, were in Turrel's employment, were charged with having io dif ferent degrees assisted in th e f rauds an d par ticipated in the profits of them. M. B erryer d e f en d e d Turrel with great eloquence, but the Tribunal declared him guilty, and sentenced him to two years' imprisonment and 10,000 f. fine, also to pay a sum of 40,000 f. by way of restitution to the state, an d 5,093 f. costs. All the other prisoners were acquitted, with the exception of one ; Montigny, Turrel's foreman, and he was sentenced to i two months' imprisonment and 25f, fine. 4 , ~': ~< 25 St. St. 25 812 e 1,7 20 20 20 20 20 100 5 5 5 20 20 20 6 20 100 100 100 20 20 50 50 100 100 100 . 100 all 100 all all 100 100 100 all 82s. 100 100 100 3i 100 all all 13t 1E 68} 9 45i 6 194 i 24i i 107 23b 3 ex d 10 St. 20 60 1 0 St 26f 13i 20 I St. St. St. St. St. 50 12. 12 10 St. 16> 5 St. 20 12i 25 20 St. 10 1.0.6 1100 1100 all all 2 100 100 100 100 100 100 1100 1100 5 all all all 100 100