The Sun. — London, England, 1842-09-03 00:00:00

HAMBURGH, 12'm AUGUST, 1842. HIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA, HIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of RUSSIA, AND HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF PRUSSIA, Having AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED several DIS TRIBUTIONS of MONEY DIVIDENDS, by which, though they are NO LOTTERIES, LARGE FORTUNES may be obtained, HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, are Selling GENUINE and WARRANTED SELECTED BONDS for the said DISTKIBU HONS. Persons desirous to purchase may receive. PREVIOUS to giving any order, the PRO6PECTUS with full PARTI CULARS, upon addressint, WITHOUT DELAY, a line to HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. The Public is respectfully informer! that this Theatre will OPEN FOR THE SEASON THIS EVENING, SEPTEMBER 3, when Will be performed Bollini's Opera of NORMA.—Pollio, Mr. W. Harrison; Oroveso, Mr. Giubilci; Flaying, Mr. Binge; Norma Miss Adelaide Kemble ; Adalgisa, Miss R..inforth; Clotilda, Miss Lane. Alt,r which will be prcduced a New Comedy, in Two Aets, writ en by Douglas Jerrold,'E.q., entitled GER PRUDE'S CHERRIES, OR WATERLOO IN 1835 Willorghby, Sir. Bartley; Vincent, Kr. W. Lacy ; Guibert, Mr. Diddear7 Jack Halcyon, sir. Har eY ; C rosslione, Mr. Nleachws ; Angelica, vliss Cooper ; Mrs. Crossbone, Mrs. Humby ; Gertrude. Mrs. W. hicy. Mfrs open at half-paA six , ant the I'erfbrmances begin at Seven. Dress Boxes .s.. Second l'rice 3s. 6d , First and Second Circles 55.. Second Price la ; Pi: :Is., Second Price ‘2s ; Gallery Is. Tickets and Planes for the Poxes to be taken of Mr. Whitlow, at the Box_ Office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had. Private Boxes to be had at the Box-0111 e; of Mr. Andrews, 187. New Pond-street ; M Mitchell, Old Road street ; and of Mr. barns Pali Mall. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. THIS EVENING, SEPTEMBER 3, The performances will - commence with Shakspere's Tragedy of HAMLET Claudi s, Mr. Heslo,); Poiouius, Mr. Neville; Ham. let, Mr. But or ; Ghost, Mr. Henry Hughes; Gert:ude, Mr .H. Vin , ng; Ophelia, Mies S. Foster. To conclude with ;qr. lirr.ton's celebrated Farce, entitled BATH ING, iu wh ch Mr. G. Wild will perform his original Character, Places and Private dozes may be rad of Mr. J. Kerschner, at the Cox Otiice, from Eleven till Four daily. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. First perform. c..y of a raw Fantasia, EM Strauss von Mandell" The Girandola will commence this week at Half-paat Eight. GRAND EVENING FETES, MONDAY, TUESDAY, and THURSDAY, with tho fo.lowiug matchles 4 combination of uniq e attractions: — The celet:rated MENAGERIE, recently enriched by several Zao logical rarities. e stupendous TYPO RA MIC MODEL A L-FRBSCO of ROME from the left bank of the Tiber. The PROMENADES M USICALES by the unrivalled Baud of Wind Instruments, cmr'ucteit by Mr. Godfrey including Beetho ven's Sinfonia in C minor, the Grand Due Dove Vai " from Guillaume 'fell" p rformed y Haidley and Prospere, a new se lectio . of favourite morceaux from the works of Handel. and a va riety of popular pieces. Alter the Concert the Illumination of St. Peter's, and the Giran. dole of Saint Angelo, with Southby's magnificent Pyrotechnic Spec tacl‘y, Extr.ordinary Aquatic Fireworks on the Lake, and Superb Cascad • of Fire. Admission to the whole of the Entertainments, One Shilling. Open at Ten in the Morning.—Feeding at Five.—Concert at Half past Five.—Fireworks at Half-p,.st Eight, Mon W ATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Voming 2 minutes after 01 Evening 32 minutes after 0. no other power than her own can impel her in such a disastrous course. Some of our Contemporaries, claiming to be the most enlightened and most advanced of journalists, are very busy day after day dis cussing the relative price of loaves and wheat, and in general they come to the conclusion that the former is too high. Having, on grounds which are perfectly satisfactory to themselves, arrived at the position that bakers and millers charge too much, which is _likely, and are no better than they should be, they proceed on to the assertion that some stringent law ought to remedy this avarice, and, by fixing a price for bread, compel the bakers and millers to content themselves with reasonable profits. They sigh for the re-enacting of the Assize, which would allow nothing for the use of potatoes, and leave us just as much open to ingenious pilfering as at present. It would allow nothing, too, for any discoveries in the art of making a greater number of loaves out ofa sack of flour, and would compel the baker, who could reason ably afford to sell for less, to charge the Assize price. It would make no allowance, gm, for extended or limited trade, and might ruin him who baked only a sack a week, while it would enrich a GILBERTSOII to his heart's content, who baked a hundred sacks. It is to us astonishing, that these clever people cannot see a remedy fur all this, much more simple than an Assize, and close at hand. In fact, it is so close that, like the appurtenances of the eye itself, they cannot see it, but must go far away to find a remedy. To adopt anything simple and plain would be derogatory to their dignity, and, like the pro-. jector mentioned by SMOLLETT, they could not think of cutting a cabbage with any less powerful instrument than a steam-engine. _ _ The complaint is that the millers, being few in number, and requiring considerable capital to carry on their business, are enabled to establish a monopoly of the supply of flour. They get hold of bakers, it is said, set them up in business, credit them for flour, and then make them the cat's-paws for transferring the money out of the pockets of the consumers into the pockets of the millers. This is a precise counterpart of what is done by the landowners, who, having a depend ant tenantry, thrust their hands into the pockets of the consumers, and compel them to extract some of the contents for the use of the landlords. In both cases the evil is the same, it has the same origin, and would be cured by the same means. To let in flour f►om the United States, and other countries, perfectly free, would at once, and as if by magic, put an end the monopoly now enjoyed by the millers, and put an end to their exclusive power over the baker. It would render all the onerous contrivances of an Assize of bread and all similar contrivances, so far as the millers are concerned, wholly unnecessary. As to the bakers, a similar rule would soon re duce them to reason. The Dutch and the French make excellent bread; and if they could freely import it into London the English bakers could not charge more than the price at which the foreign bread could be sold. If flour were cheap, too, from trade in flour being free, and bread were relatively dear, it might be expected that families would make their own bread, or would make girdle-cakes, or fall on a multitude of con trivances, partially to dispense with the services of the bakers, if they continued to make unrea sonable charges. Free trade, therefore, would be an instant and certain cure of the monopoly now complained of, and at once restore the millers and bakers to their proper station, of very useful labourers in the great combined operation of preparing food for society. Let us earnestly recommend this simple, natural, and efficacious remedy to the consideration of those who demand the re-establishment of an Assize on bread. A Correspondent has kindly sent us the copy of an Address to the " Spinners, weavers, and other trades of Manchester," signed " A Citizen," which he in• forms us has been extensively placarded on the walls of that town. The writer, who claims an acquaint alce of half a century's duration with the operatives, and who is neither a manufacturer nor spinner—ad dr,:•sses some: excellent advice to the working people, which we hope may not be overlooked by them. After referring to the admission made by one of the Delegates, of the immense sums lost to the working people by strikes, and incidentally alluding to their tendency to destroy kindly feelings between the em ployed and their employers, he continues :—" Let me appeal to your sober reason and right feeling—let me ask you as men, as men having wives and families dependent upon your labours--if acts of intimidation and violence have ever gained the object sought ? Have they not, in fact, been generally followed by sufferings and loss to yourselves? Put the case seriously, and I know what your answer will be. Consider too the case of your employers. During the last few years many of them, once men of property and giving regular employment to various artisans, have sunk under the pressure of the times ; others have greatly reduced their capital, in endeavour ing to maintain their position, and to keep their concerns at work ; many, too, there are of the most wealthy who have not added one penny to their capital. Again, therefore, I repeat your masters have, to a certain extent, been fellow-sufferers with yourselves during the late period of unexampled de pression." And again Violence on your part begets anger on theirs. In your excited moments you call them unjust; they, knowing how their pro perty has been falling away for years, while continuing to employ you, call you ungrateful ; and some of them have already expressed an intention, if a repetition of such scenes should occur, to take their capital and trade to other countries. Think, my friends, think of all this, and let me indulge the hope that the few points in dispute between your selves and your employers may soon terminate." In every one of these truly benevolent sentiments we entirely concur. Disputes between masters and workmen must ever be injurious to both; and we feel quite certain that if conciliatory means were adopted on both sides, no serious difference ever could arise between them. But unfortunately for them whenever they disagree, the organs of the agricultur ists, as the Tory journals call themselves, endeavour to • widen the breach by stigmatizing the one party as tyrants, and the other as slaves—the one as plunderers, living upon the sweat and toil of the other. Their object is to divert the attention of both from the operation of those legislative enactments passed by the aristocracy, for the purpose of filling their own coffers at the expense equally of the employers and the employed. Pity it is that either should be made the dupes of such roguery. We have often had occasion to reprobate the con duct of the dominant portion of the Scotch Church for many reasons, but chiefly for their encroachments on the civil power, their disobedience to the law, and the cruel sentences which they have passed on their unoffending brethren. At no time, however, did we ever read an account of their proceedings with such shame and indignation as on the occasion of the meeting of the Commission of Assembly, held on Monday, for the purpose of drawing up an address to their SOVEREIGN. Their proceedings at that meeting show that they are as disloyal as they are ungenerous, that they have no feelings in unison with the rest of their fellow-citizens, that they would willingly insult her MAJESTY by obtruding their contentions on her notice at a public levee, and disturb the satisfaction, and we may say, joy, with which she receives the congra tulations of her faithful people in the North. At that meeting it was proposed by a Reverend Gentleman, called MARGILL CRICIITON, that an address be pre sented to her MAJESTY, stating the perilous condition in which the Church was placed, and craving her M.A.. JEsTr's gracious consideration to the same. This motion was seconded not by some obscure individual, but by a man who puts himself forward as the leader of the party, and the champion of their independence. A stormy discussion ensued. The Aucbterarder case, of course, formed a prominent feature, and this same champion announced, amidst laughter, that if the decision of the House of Lords were to stand, the Establishment was broken up. This announcement was taken by the moderate party for what it was worth. They cheered and laughed, well know ing it was a vain threat ; the other side, indignant at the mockery with which this solemn declaration was receivei, hissed furiously, and tremendous q‘. - 4 • <<Nfir ` Ar ft-„21 • % " 1 ,,t, - ‘- ci; LONDON: SATURD MORNING, SEPTEMBER 3, 1842. --.0. - - As might have been expected, the present condition ofour manufacturing districts excites a great deal of a:tention abroad as well as st home. We wish we could say that either there or here an enlarged and philosophic view were taken of this important subject, which, foreseeing the future progress and condition of society, might at once instruct legislators how most safely and easily to guide it to the haven which it must reach. It is quite plain, too plain to need any proof; that the present condition of our great manufacturing population was neither foreseen nor provided for by any scheme of legislation. No statesman called into being, or organised by his regulations, that vast portion .of our productive community. It has grow❑ up, as it were, in the course of nature, and will continue most probably to grow hereafter as heretofore. What is required, therefore, is, as much as possible, to take a Pisgah view of its future condition, and make our present legislation as much as possible in accord ance with that. Journalists, at least English journalists, en gaged in the daily and turbid dissensions of par ties, cannot undertake such a task. Nor do we believe that our statesmen, who are always strugglin for party superiority, can ever success fully prosecute it. Properly speaking, it is the business of philosophers—of the great masters of thought; but we are not aware that amongst those who now deservedly rank high in that character, any one has stepped forward to lay down a chart of the necessary course of society, and pilot us out of our present difficult and dangerous position. Knowing at least the pretensions ofourneighbours, the French, to the character of philosophers, and knowing, too, that all other nations are as deeply interested in the solution of this problem as our selves, we turned with some hope to their ,pro ductions, but have only met with disappointment. The article which we copied from the (Jourrier Francais two days ago, though clever, was ex tremely shallow, and neither went to the source of our disorders nor suggested a remedy. The Journal des Debats, in a much more elaborate article, speaks of the late disturbances "as the symptoms of deep-seated internal disease, which is beyond the reach of laws." It quotes, at some length, Sir ROBERT PEEL'S " bitter ex pressions of despondence, and avowal of power lessness," which escaped from him on the last day of the session, and concludes thus : All the exertions of the Government will not avail in preventing England from continuing to glide down the descent she has entered upon. This great country is enduring the penalty of its own excesses. It is stagger ing, and must fall from the intoxication produced by its successful industry and speculation. Still infatuated with the traditional idea that it is destined by Providence to manufacture for the whole universe, and have all na tions as tributaries to its industry, it piles up produce upon produce without reflecting that rival nations have gained instruction in its own schools, and are raising up manufactories against manufactories. England accelle rates the motions of its machines without listening to the low and distant echoes of its own steps, repeated on the distant shores of its competitors. Now we totally dissent from this philosophy of the Debats, which, in truth, instead of being borrowed from the deep wells of original thought, is merely the reproduction of some of the out pourings of our ignorant Tories, dressed up in a terse, epigrarnatic style, and therefore quoted by them as a pleasing echo of their own voices. It is a narrow and false view to . suppose that England cannot continue to grow in greatness be cause other nations learn her arts. It is an error, and almost a blasphemy, to say that England is staggering and must fall from the intoxication produced by her successful industry. Successful industry never yet made a nation either stagger or intoxicated, and the Debats does France an injury, startling her back, if possible, by such an overcharged description, from imitating Great Britain's hitherto eminently successful career. Our neighbours, we fear, envy even more than they admire us, and have-tried, we believe and hope in vain, to injure our industry, while they elevated their own. We understand that their law to keep out English linen yarn has failed, and that such is the superiority of our 'workman ship, that our manufacturers still undersell those of France in their own market. The Debats, animated with a national spirit, is but too happy to borrow from our Tories their gloomy and un patriotic misrepresentations of the manufacturing industry of England. We have not found, then, in the French journals, the least explanation of the present condition of our country, and more profound re searches and more extensive political experience than fall to their lot, will be necessary to eluci date this important subject. The prominent facts are legible enough ; their causes and cure are what we require to know. With great co lonies growing up in every quarter, offering us more extensive markets than ever the imagina tion of man conceived, with the vast continent of America, both North and. South, rapidly be coming full of people, all of whom demand our assistance and offer us assistance in return, with the whole world aln lost at peace and open to our commerce, man casnot foresee the cessa tion or diminution of an ever-increasing market for our produce, would our own Legislature only permit the people to reap the rich harvest which kind Nature has bestowed *on their industry. The fate of nations, even more securely than that of individuals, is given into their own hands; and if Great Britain must continue, al ; the Debats says, to glide d.ovvn to decay, we mad rest assured that THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 3, 1842. confusion and war of words ensued. A Reverend I Professor, on being charged with the offence of " sneering," aptly replied that if he and his party did "sneer," or " cheer" (for the distinction was not made clear), " it was because they did not believe the announcement." This added fuel to the flame, and when the hisses subsided,the indignant orator, Dr. CANDLISH, said, "our enemies, then, rejoice, because they believe we are not honest men." Silence, which gives consent, prevailed, till a fourth speaker arose, but his voice was drowned amidst hisses and uproar. When on the interference of the Moderator, the storm was partially calmed, this Reverend Gentleman repelled the insinuation. " I and my party," said he, " do not believe the other party to be dishonest men ; but we believe that as they have blundered fifty times already, so they will go on from blunder to blunder, like drowning men that would catch at anything to save them." Loud hisses again resounded through the sacred hall. It was, indeed, a scene which would bring disgrace on any assembly, but in a religious assembly it amounted to profanaticn. " Beware," says the Sacred Volume, "of false pro phets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves ; ye shall know them by their fruits." We accordingly judge of men, not by their words, but by their deeds, and no better proofs could be required than this disgraceful uproar, these fierce denunciations against their brethren (whom Dr. CANDLISH called " enemies"), and these insults to the most virtuous and religious SOVEREIGN that ever ruled these realms —no better proofs, we assert, can be required that these men are not actuated by the true spirit t,f Christianity. After a long contest, the offensive motion was rejected, and a simple Address carried, but not without deep regret, and that openly ex pressed too, that they did not shoW the spirit of their fathers, the KNOXES and the MELVILLES. KNOX'S rude treatment of the unfortunate QUEEN of SCOTS, is well known. Did these men wish to follow the example, lecture her MAJESTY iri her own Palace, I and make her weep before all her courtiers? There is no news of interest in the French Journals, with the exception, perhaps, of the following ex tracts. On the question as to the probable effect of the French ordonnance increasing the duty on Eng_ lish linens and threads, the Courrier Francais says : The import duty on linen threads was for the first time altered in 1841. The distinction which existed in the tariff between certain descriptions of threads was done away with, and an average duty of twelve per cent. was imposed. The imports of linen threads increasing in France with the demands of the consumers, the complaints of the spinners recom menced, and, in order to satisfy them, the duty was raised to 25 or 30 per cent. Foreign threads, how ever, are still imported into the country, for spinning by machinery is not yet extensively established in France, notwithstanding the stimulus of a duty almost prohibitive, and our manufacturers must purchase somewhere thg thread that our own establishments cannot supply them with. During the month of July 1,319,600 kils. of linen thread were imported into France, being double the quantity that we received in July, 1841, when the duty was 12 per cent. This fact proves what we have always affirmed—the per fect inutility, as far as protection is concerned, of the ordonnance of June last. If there existed in France spinning machines in sufficient abundance to supply the linen-manufacturers, the new duty would undoubtedly have acted on the jupply from England as a pro hibition ; but as this machinery does not exist here, or at least exists in a trifling extent, it follows that the use of English threads is a matter of necessity, and that the duty of 30 per cent. established by the ordonnance, only acts as a tax on the French consumer. The English, therefore, may laugh at their ease at the ridiculous policy adopted by the present Ministry. The Augsburg Gazette states, from St. Petersburgh, that the report of the defeat of the Russians in the Cau casus had been fully confirmed. The grand expedition undertaken by General Grabbe, in the middle of June, against the Lesghiens, in accord with Prince Tschernits cheff, but not with the commander of the isolated body of the Caucasus, failed completely. This defeat is attri buted to the rashness of General Grabbe, who, being de sirous of striking a grand blow, would not listen to the advice of the Circassian chiefs who accompanied him, and advanced so far that, being suddenly attacked by the enemy, he was obliged to fight his way through the de files, without being able to give his troops one moment's repose for four days and nights. The loss of the Rus sians amounted to 6,000 men and 80 officers. Early on monday morning the Duke de Nemours ar rived at Douai, on his way to the Camp . at Saint Omer. Although no official notice of his passing through the town had been given, the civil and military authorities, and the National Guard, were in readiness to receive him. On reaching the glacis the Prince alighted, and advanced towards the authorities uncovered. Several addresses were delivered to his Royal Highness, to which he replied with great judgment, recommending union and fraternity in maintaining the free constitution of France, and thus enable the King to accomplish the great task he had undertaken, and console him for the severe blow which had so deeply hounded his heart, and filled the whole country H ith grief. In reply to an allusion to the Regency, made by the Colonel of the National Guard in his speech, the Prince said he sin cerely hoped he might never be called upon to fulfil that task ; but if it should be the will of Providence one day to impose it upon him, all his care and exertions should be anxiously devoted to insuring the freedom, prosperity, and happiness, of the country, After conversing some time with the personages by whom he was surrounded, he passed along the lines of the National Guards and troops of the garrison drawn up to receive him, speaking to the officers and soldiers in kind and condescending terms. He then took his leave, and continued his journey. A letter from Berlin, of the 22d inst.. states that Ko nigsberg and the small town of Solzen are to be con verted into fortresses, and that the port of Memel is to be protected from all attack by strong fortifications. The old castles, in the small towns of Labrian, Ragnit, and Neidenburg, are to be transformed into citadels. BOURSE--Pants, WEDNESDAY, AUG. 31. _ . , First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French 5 per Cents 120 30... 120 30... 120 25... 120 25 4 per Cents 104 50... 104 50 .. 104 50... 104 50 3 per Cents 79 35... 79 40... 79 20... 79 20 Bank of France 3255 —.3255 ...3255 .. 3255 Laffitte Bank I,ooof 1035 ..1035 ...1035 ...1035 5,000 f 5042 50...5042 50...5042 50...5042 50 Belgian Bank 775 ... 775 ... 775 ... 775 Belgian Fives lO3 ... 103 ... 103 ... 103 1840 lO4 ... 104 N ... 104 ... 104 Spanish Active ...... Neapolitan lO7 20... 107 20... 107 ... 107 Roman SUMMARY OF liE"tliS AND Vlttltc evintait, " Who runs may read.' rOREIGN. There are in Frauce 1,329 public hospitals and houses of succour, giving aid to 152,830 poor patients, and 6,275 bureaux of charity, succouring 695,932 poor persons. The female religious establishments give aid to 1,200,000 sick persons, and instruction, by means of 10,371 teachers, to 620,950 children. The Brothers of the Christian Doctrine, in number 2,136, instruct 150,000. The number of teachers in the primary schools amounts to 62,859. There are 15 deaf and dumb schools, and the number of blind pro vided for is estimated at 20,000. The French Minister of Public Works has issued a circular to the Council General of the departments, recommending them to take into their consideration the best means of preventing the recurrence of dis asters from inundations. The Minister has also com missioned M. Dumont, an engineer of the Ponts et Chaussees, to take a tour through the north of Italy, in order to study the system followed there in the embankment of great rivers and streams, so as to ad vise the Administration how far it may be applied with advantage in the valley of the Rhone. The Madrid mail of the 24th ult. brings not a par ticle of news of interest to English readers. sions will be immediately commenced, and ready for occupancy early in 1843. Numerous as are the departures at this season, the houses are filled up nearly as fast. The reduction of rent in September, being nearly half, greatly tends to fill with bathers the houses which during July and August were occupied by yacht's men now tired of the sea, and engaged with the partridges. Ventnor is also filling; the bathing is very much improved. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, FRIDAY EVENING. The business in the Money Market to-day affords hut extremely meagre materials for a report. Con sols opened at 924 for Money-, and 924 for the Account, and each party operating alter nately in small amounts, kept prices steady, and they finally left off at 921 924 for Money, and 924 93 for the Account ; India Stock, 248 250 ; Exchequer Bills, Old, 51 53 ; New, 49 51 prem. The prices of Foreign Securities were—Belgian, 1014 1021; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 524 524 ; the Five per Cents., 102 1024 ; Danish, 834 841; and Brazilian, 644 654. Some sales were forced in Mexican Bonds, and the quotations were reduced to 334. The chief operator was understood to be a party who is considerably in terested in the Corn Exchange. They subsequently left off at 344 354. The Share market showed no improvement— London and Birmingham, 185 187 ; Birmingham and Gloucester, 42 44; Great Western, 821 831; the Half Shares, 65 651; South Western, 591 60 ; North Midland, 56 58 ; the New Shares, 271 28k, ex div. ; South Eastern and Dover, 218 22* the Scrip, 31 31 ; Eastern Counties, 81 81 ; Northern and Eastern, 371 381, ex div. ; Blackwall, 71 8 ; and Brighton, 32* 33* per share. The rates of Exchange were rather lower—Am sterdam being 12 6, 12 51; Rotterdam, 12 6 ; Antwerp, 12 41; Hamburgh, 13 12, 13 114- ; Frank furt, 150* 1501 ; Paris, 25f. 75c., 25f. 80c ; Vienna, 9 551 9 56 ; and Lisbon, 521 521. The quotations of the Bonds were—Peruvian, 15 16 ; Colombian, 201 201; Portuguese Five per Cents., 341 35 ; the Three per Cents., 201 21 ; Spanish Five per Cents. ex Coupons, 16 164; and the Three per Cents., 20* 201. (From The Sun of Last Night.) The small amount of intelligence received as yet from India has caused almost a total cessation of business in the Funds this morning. Stock jobbers and merchants are alike anxious for the detailed accounts, and until they shall arrived operations are suspended. Holders of Stock are 'firm, and con sequently the prices of Consols are 924 for Money, and 93 for the Account, which is a shade above the rates of yesterday. The transfer books are closed for Bank and Three per Cents. Reduced Stock some bargains have however, been made in the latter, at 93* with the dividend ; Three-and-a=Half per Cent. Reduced, 1011; New Three-and-a-Half per Cents., 101 1011; India Stock, 249 251; India Bonds, 34 36; Exche quer Bills, Old, 51 53 ; New, 49 51 prem. In Foreign Securities, the business has been in the Dutch Two-and -a-Half per Cents., at 52/, the Five per Cents., 102/, both of which are lower than the opening prices ; and in Danish at 831. The quotation for Mexican is now 34, having been as low as 331. Transactions in Shares have been but limited, and the market is generally dull. Great Western New Shares, 60 601; South Western, 594 ; Brighton, 331; South EaStern Scrip, 61; North Midland Thirds, 28 ; and Edinburgh and Glasgow, 49, include the principal purchases to-day. The Bonds quoted to-day are—Portuguese Five per Cents., 34 ; the Three per Cents., 201; Spanish Five per Cents., ex converted coupons, 16 ; the Three per Cents., 20/, all for time. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, SEPT. 1.-Our Market to-day has been very flat, and' the only tran saction quoted is Edinburgh and Glasgow, 491.1 ls. Bd. cum div. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Rank Stock 3 per Cent. Red. ........ 93b Ditto Bonds .... 36 pm 3 per Cent. C0n5.... 314 per Cent. Red 102 Ditto New Annuities... New 3b per Cent... IOIS Ex. Bills, 1,000/....21 51 pm New 5 per Cen', Ditto - 500/...... 51 pm Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small ...... 51 pm Jan. 1860 ...... 12 11-16 Bank Stock for Acct.... Oct. 1859 Jan. 1860 l2 7-16;Consols for Acct....... 92/ FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent. — Belgian, 5 per cent Brazilian Bonds... Portuguese, 5 per cent. Ditto, New Ditto Prussian, .5 per cent. Buenos Ayres 6 per cent. IRussian,'s pet cent...... 1124 Chilien, 6 per cent .. Ditto, Metallic ..... .. .... Colombian, 6 per cent... Spanish, 5 per cent — Ditto 1824 ,Ditto, Deferred.... . 94 Danish, 3 per cent 844 'French, 5 per ceat. —f. —e. Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — i Exchange —f. —c. Mexican, 5 per cent 344 French, 3 per cent. —f. —c. Ditto, 6 per cent. 1637 Dutch, 24 per cent. 521 Peruvian, 1825, 6 per ct. Ditto, 5 per cent. .. ... 1 0 2/ SHARES. Eastern Counties Railway (23 raid) ... gi Ditto Debentures .. .... .... ..... .... ..... 10/ Gs 8d Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) ... 49 Ditto New Shares ( 3 paid .... Great Western Railway (65 paid) Ditto New Shares ( 50 paid).. London and Brighton (50 paid ) .. London and Blackwell ( paid) ...... ..... 74 London and Birmingham (90) .... ... Ditto Quarter Shares (25 paid) 49 London and South Western (4116 s 10d pd) 594 North Midland Railway (100) Ditto Half Shares (40 paid) Paris and Rouen (18 paid) South Eastern and Dover (50 paid).........paid).......... Ditto Scrip (10 paid) ... 64 COURSE OF EXCHANGE—(YESTERDAY. Amsterdam CF.I2 9 (Gibraltar ... .. Ditto, at sight I Rotterdam ...2 U. 12 91 Genoa . ... 26 Antwerp Hamburgh M.B. 13 15 Venice 47 Altona Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 65 Palermo, per oz 120 Ditto, 3 months 25 90 Lisbon Marseilles Bourdeaux 25 95 Rio Janeiro 26 Frankfort on Maine... 1514 Bahia ... 26 Petersburgh, 3Us ... 36i Buenos Ayres Berlin Vienna, effec. ft. 3 M 958 Philadelphia 46 Trieste, ditto Madrid ... Cadiz 364 Portugal Geld C0in...3 17 5 Bilbao 36 New Doubloons OO 0 Barcelona 'it; New Dollars 04 9/ Seville HIGH PRICE OF BREAD. Considerable attention having been lately directe to the high price of bread in London, the following remarks may, perhaps, be interesting : - The price of bread in Paris is regulated by law, according to a certain scale, deduced from the price of flour of first and second qualities. The following is the method of calculation adopted by the municipal officers in fixing the assize of bread : k The weight of a sack of flour is 159 kilogrammes gross, or 157 kilogrammes net. This quantity is estimated to yield 102 loaves of bread of the weight of 2 kilogrammes each ; that is, it produces 204 kilo grammes of bread. The cost of manufacturing this quantity of flour into bread, including the baker's profit, is fixed by law at 1 lf. Taking, therefore, the average price of flour, of first and second qualities, in the Paris market, as shown by the last returns, at 66f. 50c. for the sack of 159 kilogrammes, to this add 1 if. for charges of manufacture, making 77f. 50c., and divide this sum by 204, the number of kilogrammes of bread to be made from this quantity of flour, and we obtain 38c. for the price per kilogramme of bread as fixed by the last return in Paris. This is the price for bread of first quality ; the inferior is regu lated in a similar manner from-- the average price of flour of lower qualities. It is found, by making the proper allowance for dif ference of French and English weights, and the rela tive values of the two currencies of the country, that 38 cents. per kilogramme is equal to about 6d. ster ling for 41b. English weight avoirdupoise. This, although a moderate price here, is very high as compared with the ordinary price of bread in Paris. Now, since the city of Paris is constantly supplied with bread under these regulations, it is evident that bread can be made from these data, and afford a profit to the baker. It may, therefore, be seen at what price bread could be now made in London after mak ing the necessary allowance for the difference in the price of flour. If 157 kilogrammes of flour makes 204 kilogram mes of bread, then 280 lb. of flour (the contents of an English sack) ought to produce rather more than 363 lb. of bread. Since 159 kilogrammes are equal to 3511 b. Eng lish, and it costs 11f. to manufacture this quantity into bread, it must require about 7s. to manufacture 280 lb. of flour. _ _ The highest price of torn-made flour was quoted last Monday, in Mark-lane, at 475. per sack (the average as taken in France would be much lower) ; add to this the cost of manufacturing into bread—say 75., we obtain 545. ; and dividing this by 363, the number of pounds of bread which can be produced from the sack, and we obtain less than 71d. for the price of the 41b. loaf. Perhaps the cost of manufacturing bread here may be a trifle higher than in France • but it is probably fully compensated by having used in the above calcu ation the highest price of flour instead of the average price in the market. By this calculation it is obvious that the public have been paying a most extravagant price, and at tention has naturally been directed to the cause of the evil. It does not, however, appear to require much divination, and is easily traceable to the associations formed among the bakers themselves for what they of course call the " protection " of their own interests. These associations, which have existed in almost every district of the metropolis and the suburbs, regulate the price of the loaf in accordance with the opinion of the majority of the members, who will naturally enough be anxious to get the most they can out of their business. It will, therefore, at once be seen that it is this sort of combination which has sustained the price of bread against the great fall now quoted in the value of grain, and which is likely still to inflict serious injury upon the public unless remedial mea sures in the shape of an assize by the Mayor, or other mode, be speedily adopted. The great and just cry made against the high price of this chiefly-consumed commodity has not in any great measure relaxed the influence which these associations have over the trade, who hold monthly and quarterly revelries out of the fines they inflict on any of the refractory members who may be disposed to serve the public at moderate prices. To show in its proper light how these associations exercise their functions in regulating the price of the loaf, two of the rules of one of them are extracted. They particularly allude. to .the_question now under consideration. " Rule 7. That when a rise in the price of bread is agreed upon at any general or special meeting, and any member cannot from any just cause comply with such rise, he shall give notice to the Secretary, who shall immediately summon the Committee, and they shall endeavour to remove the obstacle ; but, should they be unsuccessful, they shall give notice to the Secretary to call a general meeting as early as possible. " Rule 8. Should the neighbour of any member fall his bread below the general price, such member shall immediately give notice to the Secretary to call a general meeting.' So that, in fact, the argument which several of the trade have set up in the letters they have addressed to this journal—viz., that competition would work the price to its proper level, is completely annihilated ; for it is clearly perceptible that a concentration of the trade, formed on the basis here described as an associ ation, could and would at any time destroy any tem porary opposition which might be started. The two classes of the trade, the " high price " and the " low price " bakers have, it is believed, distinct and separate societies, all working to the same end and effect. Hence it is evident, that though operating in different channels, they have the required influence on the general price—the rise or fall of one class guiding the rise or fall of the other.—Time.i. RAILWAY SHARES. Versailles, R.ll 286 25. 286 25... 286 25... 286 25 25... L.B - 95 100 ... 95 ... 100 Rouen Orleans. 567 50... 570 ... 570 Strasburg to Bale 203 75... 203 75... 203 - 75... 203 75 BEAUTIES OF THE INCOME-TAX.—It IS to be re gretted that this light, pleasing, and well-intentioned impost is by no means so popular as our " lovely" Premier fondly predicted it would be. The middle classes, with that " vulgar impatience of taxation"— to quote Lord Castlereagh's famous expression— which has always characterised them, are beginning to discover that it is as oppressive as it is un intelligible, and to resent Sir Robert Peel's medi tated invasion of the sacred recesses of their breeches-pockets, as a sort of personal affront, which it undoubtedly is. Letters, full of the sternest, and most solemn pathos, are constantly appear ing in The Sun, and other public Journals, on this touching subject ; and among them, is one, from a small fundholder, whose " income does not amount to 1501. a year.;" but who, nevertheless, was officially fleeced at the Bank last July ; and who states that he can only obtain redress, by journeying from his residence, " a distance of sixty miles from London" to Somerset Howe ; and attendin g th ere d a ily till the authorities are at leisure to hear his explanation! Of course, while in town, he must be put to con siderable expense for board, lodging, &c., which, with his coach-hire to and fro, will leave him a loser to the tune of some six or eight pounds, even should he succeed in getting back the sum of which the Bank has eased him ! Under these circumstances he feels that he has no alternative but to make a present of the sum to Government, for which we do not think it at all likely that he will receive the thanks of the Chancellor of the Exchequer! This is one instance of the lively and gracious work ing of the Income-tax. Another, is that of a young surgeon who, having filled up one Exemption Form, has had another open one left at his house; and being absent at the time from home, he has the consola tion of knowing that his whole establishment have read the second document, and are consequently acquainted w:th the fact that his.entire professional ;ncome is under 1501., which he says will most likely do hini ififinite damage in the neighbourhood where he practices. Illesa Are but two out of a hundred other instances that we - mild mention, all of which tend to show that the Income-tax is by no means a paragon of financial perfection, notwithstanding-that Mr. Goulburn declared in the House of Commons that Le wanted words to expreaa his sense of its sur passing excelleoce! Chancellors of the Exchequer are ye] y apt to go off in raptures at the idea of a new tax. A curious admission has been recently made by the Debats and the Constitutionnel. It is now found that the dreadful ordonnance or Juno against English linens and threads, will not effectually exclude them from the French markets ; this branch of industry being so much behind in France, that the English will be able to undersell the French manufacturers, even after payment of the enormous duty recently imposed. These journals throw out a hint that a further duty will be laid on. The Courser Francais, however, which takes a wider and better view of commercial affairs than the Constitu tionnel or the Debats, laughs at the idea of an additional duty, which would, it says, only operate as a premium for contraband trade in every part of France.—Letter Ifrom Paris. IVIONEY-T . A.A.7.3F - COMMERCE. The operative shipwrights of Liverpool met last Wednesday, to consider the rules and regulations of their trade. There appear to be certain differences between the employers and the men, and a deputation of the latter has been ordered to wait upon the masters to come to an adjustment. The ribbon trade was never known to be so greatly depressed as at present in Coventry. The weavers can barely earn a subsistence, and hundreds sire with out the commonest necessaries of life. A general meeting of the Shareholders of the Paris and Rouen Railway was held in Paris on the 30th of last month. This undertaking was commenced last year, and it has now made great progress. Eight thousand workmen, with engineers and overseers, are at present employed on the works. A Council Meeting was held at Manchester on Wednesday, at which the Mayor defended the conduct of the Magistrates. The colliers have held meetings at West Bromwich, and finally appointed a Committee of twelve to endeavour to come to some terms with their masters. EICTIONEENIFG., Mr. Leslie is still the only candidate in the field for the representation of Monaghan. LAW AND POLICE. Linney, the Chartist, was examined at Dudley on Thursday, for riotously creating an assemblage, and remanded till to-day. Robert Brown, a letter-carrier, was charged at Bow-street, on Thursday, with stealing a letter contain - ing money, which he had to deliver. An assistant inspector of the Post-office having missed several letters containing coin, addressed to gentlemen in the Temple, wrote a letter to a resident there, enclosing marked money, and posted it, It was found to have been non-delivered, and in the prisoner's district. A half-crown of the marked money was found upon him. The prisoner was remanded, for additional evidence, till to-day. William Maynard, a driver of a Lisson-grove om nibus, was fined 20s. on Thursday, at the Marylebone office, for furious driving. Mrs. Colonel Affieck appeared at Marlborough street on Thursday, for the purpose of recovering a month's wages from a servant, whom she alleged to have engaged by a written contract. The servant, who came forward to complain of her mistress's treat ment, was ordered to have her clothes delivered up to her, which Mrs. Aftleck had retained, the lady deter mining to carry her case to another Court. PINE ARTS. The splendid ser v i ce o f plate, weighing upwards of 38,000 ounces, executed for the Count Woronzow Dashkaw, was forwarded on Thursday in the Jupiter, for St. Petersburgh. COURT-r.A.SRIONABLE. The Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne . are now at Salzburg. The Earl of Shelburne is still residing with Lord and Lady Leveson, on the banks of the Rhine. The Earl of Besborough returned to Cavendish square a few days since. The Earl and Countess of Chesterfield left town on Wednesday, to pass a month at Bretby Park. The Earl and Countess of Mountcashel have arrived at the Pulteney Hotel from Ireland. The Earl of Cardigan has gone to join his lady in Germany. The t.ountess of Kerry has taken a house in Colne, Wilts, for the autumn. Lord Ashburton is expected to arrive to-day at Portsmouth from New York. The Chailcellor of the Exchequer arrived in town on Thursday from Ryde, Isle of Wight. Lord Dalmeny left the residence of the Earl of Rosebery on Monday, for Scotland. The Earl of Orford has returned to Wollerton Park, from a tour. ZYIZSCEI.I.ANEOVS. Leamington Spa has been especially gay this sea son. Th e three Royal birthdays in August ; a fancy bazaar in th e ruins of Kenilworth Castle; Miss Ade laide Kemble's andßubini's concerts, have with many other things, contributed to its pleasures and amuse ments. Dalkeith Palace is about seven miles from Edin burgh, an d h as a spacious park. The Regent Morton occupied it during the reign of Queen Mary, and from its character as a stronghold, it then acquired the significant name of " the Lion's den." COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, FRIDAY. — Their Royal llighnesses the Prince of W a les and the Princess Royal were taken their accustomed airing, accompaniedby the Dowager Lady Lyttelton. Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal rides in the Home Park, daily, on her little Shetland pony, accompanied by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton. With the exception of yesterday, the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal have been taken their usual morning and afternoon airings, always in com pany with the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, and on the days they have not been taken to Frogmore Lodge, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent has visited them at the Castle. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge left his residence at Kew, yesterday, on a visit to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester at Bag shot Park. The . Governor of the Bank of England and the Deputy-Governor had an interview with the Chan cellor of the Exchequer yesterday at his official resi dence in Downing-street. The Commandeur Marques Lisboa, Brazilian Mi nister, transacted business yesterday at the Foreign office. Mr. George William Hope, Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, has left town on a visit to his Grace the Duke of Buccleuch, at Dalkeith Palace, to have the honour of meeting her Majesty. The Marquis and Marchioness of Queensbery have arrived at Farrance's Hotel, Belgrave-street, from Bognor. COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT. (FRom OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. Ann. 26Th.—Breeze yawl, Thomas Leigh,. Esq., from Ireland. 28th. Galatea schooner, C. R. M. Talbot, Esq., M.P., from Si.lcombe. 30th. Rein Deer cutter, John Moore, Esq., from the Mediterranean. 31st. Harriet scho oner, John B ear d more , E sq ., f rom Cherbourg; Auror a cutter Wm. Beach, Esq., from Weymouth ; Talism an ditto, Robert Meilclam, Esq., from Torquay. AUG. 26TH.--Gitana schooner,. John Hambrough, Esq., on a cruise to the W 28th. Hebe cutte r , A . W. C or b e t, Esq., for South- SAl e L st l w N a G rd S . arnpton, left for the season. 30th. Falcon yawl, R. D en is George , YACHTS AT AND ABO UT THE for Cork. STATION. Schooners—Flirt, G a l atea Jack-o'-Lantern, Har riet, Hussar, Gem, M erlin, Circassian, Hawk, Zarifa. Cutters— Aurora, C orsa i r , Cynthia, Emerald, Fanny, Flower of Y arrow, Forest -fly, Medina, Nau tilus, Phebe, Rei n D eer, s a p p hire, Talisman. Yawls--Alarrn, Claudeeeze. P ree ze. Water Lily. ______ , given by EAST COWES PARK. On Wednesday l ast, the f i rs t o f a series of amuse ments,projector of thi s new and beaut if u l town, took place. The day was r emar k ably fine, an d the zephyrs which the enferprising and talented y, roves, abound on this l ove l y isle o f t h e sea, bringing health on their wings, add ed to the com fort of a number of eladcieelsleanntddgisepnlatly of archeremen who were present to witness an x a nd take a view of the Cosmorama, showing the g and gardens, and villas of th e p ar k as a very s h o rt period now will exhibit in in rea li ty. A fine prize bow and arrows, given to the su ccessful compe titor, Captain Wilson,q., pole by G. E. Brook s , E s • d much admiration. Among the c ompany we no ticed the lady of the Home Secretary, wh o was pre vented being present himself by an express requiring his attendance at a Cabinet Council in London - ; Gen. Sir Iknry Watson ; Mrs. and Miss Archwri L yht ; Lady Listowel • Miss Ward ; Rev. Mrs. Geneste an d Atkinson ; Mr. 'Vegg, and three or four hundred o f the neighbouring gentry. The pleasure ground s as laid out give great pro mise; and it was the gene ral opinion of the company that only residences w ere now, wanted to.make this watering place popul ar , and a place of general resort. We hear that several cottages ornee and family man- FLANDERS MA IL. ANTWERP AUG. 29.—We learn that several car goes of wheat are expected from England. All kinds of flour and bread are rather dearer at Brussels than fixed by 14th of August. Among the passengers by the Wilberforce steamer are—General Sir F. W. French, the Mexican Ge neral, Anastasia Bustamente, and Captain Jose Maria de Caldoran. -- Thereigning Duke of . Saxe Gotha, the Ki ng ' s brother, accompanied by his Aides-de-Camp, arrived yesterday from Ostend by a special train. his Royal Highness will pass some days at Lacken. Prince Esterhazy did not leave Brussels till yesterday. The Government has received notice from its Charge d'Affaires at Copenhagen, that a Royal Rescript has been published, which abolishes the charter granted in 1792 to the Danish Asiatic Com pany. Previous to this ordinance the Asiatic Com pany had balanced its accounts, and convoked the proprietors, who did not attend at the meet ing. It is said that on the settlement the pro prietors will receive 40 per cent. It appears that though the ground is prepared for the iron rail way from Lille to Roubaix, so that the engineers agree that the rails might be laid down, and the way opened in October next, this cannot be done till May next year, because the rails are not ready. Where fore ? These rails are manufactured at Aveyron, in the south of France, and as the carriage by land would be too expensive, they must be sent to a port in the Mediterranean, and brought to sea through the Straits of Gibraltar, the Bay of Biscay, &c., to Dunkirk, whence they will be conveyed by land to Lille, while there are heaps of rails close at hand, on the other side of the invisible line called the frontier. Perhaps these rails of Alais are cheaper than the Belgian rails ? Not at all ; the latter cost 200 francs the ton, and the French rails 450 francs, exclusive of the expense of the voyage; so that this vast additional expense is to be borne by France for the benefit of the great proprietors of iron works in the south. BELGIAN FUNDS.—BRUSSELS, Auo. SI. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent, 52% Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent lOO% Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent 9l --- Three per Cent. - Thirty-seven Milli ns, ditto (1840' - 11(th Loan of City, 1832, Four per Cent. 92 Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent 86 Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent 74 National Society ...„ Exchargc on London (short) ... - -Brussels Papers, Aug. 31. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, Auu. . Five per Cents. Metalliques. , 1i Four per Cents. lOO% '1 hree per Cents .. 16% Bank Shares ... ... 1062 Allgemeine Zeitung, August 27. AFFGHANISTAN. (From Colburn's United Service Magazine.) In our last, a general view was given of the position of affairs in Affghanistan, and little has subsequently appeared to better our prospects. All that we have to show for the expenditure since incurred by the feeble attempt to increase our military establishment, is the mere safety of Sale's and Notes divisions— not another step to any ulterior object. Our two corps are moving from the base of a triangle which is 800 miles in extent, and marching respectively on the other two sides ; they can give each other not the least support till they meet at the apex (Cabul). While our countrymen in India are calling loudly for satisfaction and the punishment of the perpetrators of the Cabul tragedy, and every soldier's breast swelling with indignation, we see the two divisions of the army stationary in the mountains, wanting the means of carriage for their supplies ; and how are they to procure them ? With every thing urging us on to redeem the national credit, and restore the national lustre of our arms, we are stopped on the high road by the commonest of physical impediments ; and while we ought to have in India the head of a Wellington to direct affairs, and remedy the complicated blunders, there is no one in high authority who seems to 'know his right hand from his left; and all the subordinates exercise their own discretion or folly, as the case may be. Reports have been published that the insurrection at Cabul arose from the discovery of a plan laid by Sir Wm. M'Naghten to secure the person of Shah Shooja as a guarantee ; and that the worthy Emperor of Dooranee, our very dear ally, only anticipated this measure by turning the tables on the British Envoy. 'Whether this story is true or not, the letters of Gen. Elphinstone (if they are ever allowed to see the light) will prove; but so far it appears possible enough. The Residents in India are so much accustomed to have Princes under their thumbs, and use them as puppets, that they might consider it quite a matter of business to lock up an Emperor as long as it might be thought requisite. We have had, in common with most of our country men, an ardent desire to see the honour of our arms restored, and proper punishment inflicted on the barba rians who had perpetrated the wholesale massacre on our division retreating from Cabul under the faith of a treaty, without being at all aware that any under hand proceedings on our part could have given a pre text for such an act. Should the reports just alluded to prove correct, the merits of the case will be mate rially altered, especially when we consider the cha racter of the enemy we have had to deal with : even should these reports prove unfounded, we much fear that the hopes we had entertained are not likely to be realized. The difficulties of the country, the 'nature of our force, and the total failure of the means of transport, leave scarce a chance that the army will be again able to occupy Cahill.; and consequently that, having no further object in view beyond the release of the divisions of Nott and Sale, already accom plished, the army will return within the Indus before the winter sets in. We have, indeed, on full co ns i-. deration of the circurnStancei,` little doubt that orders to that effect have been already issued. Our reasons are these :—From the vast expenditure of animals of burden on the former advance, the whole of the North of India has been drained of its stock of camels, and is no longer able to provide the means of carriage for conveying the provisions, forage, and ammunition of the army ;—that, without these means, it would be madness again to commit the troops in such a coun try. The divisions of Pollock a n d S a l e havi ng remained inactive a whole precious month, shows evi dently that they are stuck fait from this cause alone - , or they would have been, at the time the accounts left India, already in possession of Cabul. Although most painful to our feelings, we have thought it our duty to prepare the minds of our readers for the evacuation of Affghanistan. We shall look with much anxiety for the next accounts, and endeavour to find out such circumstances as may serve in any way to counterbalance this possible conclusion of one of the most unjust, unnecessary, and foolish wars, in which this or any other country ever was en gaged. FATAL OCCURRENCE.—Last evening, shortly after six o'clock, the following dreadful occurrence took place in the Walworth-road, by which one person was killed, and another so seriously injured, that little hopes are entertained of his recovery :—lt appears that two per sons, of the names of Thomas Grey and -- Stringer, the former an assistant in the employ of his brother, Mr. Grey, linen-draper, of the 'Waterloo-road, the other a carman in the same gentleman's employ, were proceed ing in a light cart along Trafalgar. street, Walworth road, when they accidently came in contact with a post at the corner of the street, by which they were both thrown from their seats into the road, and a heavy waggon, passing at the same moment, the wheels went over the chest of Mr. Thomas Grey, and left thigh of Stringer. Several persons on the spot hurried to render assistance, but it was of no avail in the case of Grey, as h e was quite dead. The other was immediately removed to the nearest surgeon's, where it was found that the leg above the knee was so crushed, that it is feared amputation must be resorted to, as the only means by which his life can be preserved. THE LATE SOLAR ECLIPSE. M. Arago, at the last sitting of the Academy of Sciences, made his promised communication relative to the eclipse of July 8, as observed by him, and other astronomers, provided with the necessary instruments, at Perpignan. No point of any great novelty was produced on the occasion, except the following, which is remarkable as a phenomenon ;—M. Arago, in th e course of his communication as to the observationa at' Perpignan, states that during the latter period of the eclipse he saw on the edge of the black disk of the moon a sort of protuberance of fire two minutes in height, and presenting an appearance like that of the glaciers of the Alps illuminated by the set ting sun. At Narbonne the appearance was that of a distant light-house. M. Litrow, of Vi enna, also noticed this protuberance, and gives to it an extent of five minutes, or the twelfth part of a degree. M. Bouvard, of Digne, distinguished luminous points proceeding from the edges of the moon, but he attributes them to divergent rays. There will naturally be much speculation as to the character of the protuberance noticed by M. Arago. Some members of the Academy have already thrown out the idea of a mountain of the sun rendered visible in the atmosphere of that body. The theory of Hers chel! is that the sun, which is the source of light and heat to us, and which has been regarded as an incan descent body,; is in reality dark and inhabitable. M. Arago, whilst he affirms that the protuberance which he observed is not of the moon---no such discovery having ever been made, even with the most powerful teles copes—does not admit that it is a mountain of the sun, not that there is anything repugnant to the laws of science, in supposing the existence of a mountain of the sun, 17,000 es in height —or, according to M. Litrow's calc of the extent of the protuber ance, 50,000—f is are only large or small comparatively, an erschell has shown that the sun by its prodigious mass might have mountains, even 120,000 leagues in height; but M. Arago's doubts are founded upon the diversity of opinions as to the character of this protuberance. This mountain, if it were one, would have presented a fixed projec tion, and the same angle to each of the observers, which was not the case. M. Arago, therefore is disposed to regard the phenomenon as one of diffrac tion. It is proposed, however, to determine this point by experiments with artificial means on the summit of some high mountain. LLOYD'S SHIPPING. LONDON, SEPT. 2.—Wind this day at noon N.N.W., light airs and cloudy. DEAL, SEPT. I.—Wind S.W., fresh—Arrd. Tenzer, Westhaven ; Tanjore transport, for Quebec. RANSGATE, SEPT. I.—Arrd. Merlin, Newcastle, for Bayonne, leaky, and with damage, having been Tull into by a ship on. the.3oth ult. off Dungeness; one of the crew missing. - _ _ PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. I.—Wind W. N. W.—Arrd. Ontario, Bradish, New York, sailed 2d ult., and pro ceeded for London ; John Line, London for Madras. OFF SWANAGE, AUG. 30.— Mozart, Wachter, Batavia. BRIXHAM, SEPT. I.—Arrd. Vine, Newport, for Leith, dismasted. •jl FALMOUTH AUG. 31.--Wind N.N.W. to W.S.W., moderate.-Arrd. her Majesty's steamer Gleaner, West Indies, left Bermuda on the 25th ult. Arrd. off, Col chester, Withers, Bombay. ; LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 1.-Wind W.N.W., fresh.-Arrd. . Independence, Nye, New York. Sid. Dan, Rio •, British Queen, Newfoundland. A ship, supposed outward bound, -- is ashore on Dover Point. CoRK, AUG. 30 -Arrd. Urania, Eleanor, Montreal. SHIELDS, Auc. 31.-Sld. Johann, Christoph, Rio. , VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.-Thalia (bark) of and for London, 17th ult., lat. 42, lon. 36 ; North America, out ward bona., 23d, lat. 44, lon. 27, by her Majesty's steamer GTittner, arrived at Falmouth. Broad Oak, Li verpool to Bahia, July 22, lat. 11 N., lon. 25 W. ; Eliza •,.., Johnstone, July 23, lat. 12, lon. 25 ; Isabel, Arica to Liverpool, July 28, lat. 16, lon. 29 ; Thomas Melk r, A 27th ult., lat. 49, lon. 13, by the Lady Lilford, ar rived 91 at Liverpool. George the Fourth (with troops), bound to St. Helena, 18th ult., lat. 41, lon. , I 3 13, by the Enchantress, arrived at Liverpool. George Welsford, for Quebec, 10th ult, lat. 43, lon. 42 ; Medora, Waterford, for Quebec, 15th ult., lat. 47, lon. 1 32 ; Tarquin, Liverpool to Boston, 21st ult., lat. 49, lon. 15 ; Sarah, Mackay, of St. Andrew's, N. 8., 22d .; ult., lat. 48, lon. 10, by the Pakenham, arrived in the ',/ Downs. Lady Margaret, London to Port Phillip, Feb. 2, lat. 39 S., lon. 43 E. ; Marquis of Lansdowne, Lon don to Timor, 15th, near the Island of St. Paul, by the Duchess of Kent, arrived at Sydney, New South Wales. John Charles, hit. 2 S., lon. 23 ; Canton, bound to Bourdeaux, lat. 45, lon. 21, by the Orixa, arrived in the Downs. Dovecot, London to China, April 16, in the Straits of Gaspar ; Martin Luther, 25th, in the Straits of Bauca ; Burnhopeside, May 18, lat. 24, lon. 52 E. ; Esk, July 20, lat. 17 N., lon. 30 W. ; Medora, lat. 19, lon. 32 ; Caroline, lat. 34, lon. 40, by the Westminster, arrived in the Downs. Otterspool and Orestes, July 8, lat. 12 N., lon. 24 W., by the Scotia, arrived in the Downs. Euphrosyne, Bris tol to Quebec, 4th ult., lat. 46, l o n. 51 ; Joh n B e ll, Bristol to Quebec, 6tb, lat. 46, lon. 47 ; Warrior, 16th, lat. 51, lon. 24, by the Jane, arrived at Limerick ; Funchal, of Greenock, 30th ult, lat. 48, lon. 28, by the Hannah, arriveil at Exmouth. Trusty, Newport to ' Newfoundland, 16th ult., lat 48, lon. 32, by the Asia, -' arrived in the Downs. SURVEYING SERVICE.—Iier Majesty's ship Fly, de spatched for the purpose of surveying Torres' Straits, a nd to afford some protection to British merchant vessels.: against the various pirate prows on that ground, arrived on her way there, at Table Bay, on the 20th June last. CAUTION TO MARINERS. The Mary, arrived at Liverpool from Alexandria, re ports having passed a shoal on the 20th of August, in . lat. 46 29 N., and long. 11 29 W. (supposed) not laid down in the chart. EXPLOSION OF FOUL AIR ON BOARD SHIP• In the schooner Mermaid, of Guernsey, at South Shields, after taking in her cargo (coals), an explosion took place, which tore away some of the planks of the cabin ceiling, and one of the bulkheads. The explosion is sup posed to have been caused by lightning, which was very vivid at the time. WALMER CASTLE.--The Duke of Wellington is occupied daily with his new duties as Commander-in• Chief, and despatches are every day sent oil to Apslei House, whence they are forwarded to Lord Fitzroy Somerset at the Horse Guards. There are no visitors here except the Marquis and Marchioness of Douro, whose health continues to improve. Lord C. Wellesley► the new Member for South Hants, arrived early in the week on a short visit to his Grace, and has since left. His Grace is in the enjoyment of better health than he has experienced for some time. Dover keeps on filling daily, and we should say there is more company in the place than was ever before seen by the oldest inhabitant. The weather continues in the daytime almost as hot as ever ; but as the days draw in, and the evenings creep out, the cool sea-breeze after twilight becomes most refreshing and health-inspir ing. A day or two more of the present fine weather will bring us a harvest home. The wheat comes to hand so matured, that in several instances we have witnessed the thrashing-machine at work in the fields.—Dover Chronicle. THE FORTHCOMING DONCASTER RACES.-- The, • most extensive prep ara ti ons f or t h e f ort h com i ng ann ual fete are proceding on all hands, with a spirit which , however liberal, or worthy of the highest degree of corn' mendation, are no m ore th an commensurate w i t h the • , important and interesting occasion. In racing mat; tern, indeed, we are treading upon the threshold of a new era. Nor is it too much to assert, that the -1 approaching races will be the greatest races ever wit nessed upon the Doncaster turf. Not only is it the great est St. Leger ever known, embracing, too, the best horses in the kingdom, and awakening a degree of rivalrY which has never been exceeded in former years, but the other stakes, angmented in amount by the liberal s pirit of the municipal body, have never been exceeded ill number, and, of course, in value, without mentioning the several valuable and important new prizes, w hich, alone, are of a formidable character. Such a bill of fare, indeed, will be hid before the lovers of racing—such a list of valuable prizes will be pres en t e d— as Doncaster never saw before, bringing into competition the first • horses of the day, from the spl en did two-year . At to "'t auld mere." The value of the several prize s alone will ensure that competition. That competition will draw together a brilliant throng to witness the re sult of struggles, the expectancy of which is bringing into exercise the experience, the jud gment , an d the skill of the respective trainers, and, eventually, of the respective jam' keys. It is almost impossible to say too much in this re spect. It is gratifying, too, to couple with the circumstance that, on the part of the authorities of the borough, no means will be disregarded to provide for the public accommodation, and to ensure the perfect safety of the visitors, the fact that the conductors of the respective inns, as well as the owners and occupiers of private . houses, are busily employed in providing comfortable homes for their several guests during the approaching and interesting week. The inquiries for lodgings are already numerous ; those for several noblemen are already engaged, including the Marquis of Westminster , the Earl of Chesterfield, &c. We hear of applicati( " for the accommodation of one party of only thirty gen' tlemen.—Doncaster Gazette. EXECUTION.—The statement in a Contemporary Of yesterday that the warrant authorising the execution 0 , Francis Bradley, now lying under sentence of death for poisoning his wife at Manchester, had been received by Mr. Amos, the Guvei nor of Kirkdale Gaol, is not, ca.. rect. As a matter of course, the warrant, when issued, would be sent to the Sheriff's office at Preston, where, we believe, it has been received. In this case there is 11 0 doubt that the unfortunate man will suffer the extreme penalty of the law to-morrow (Saturday) morning, about eight o'clock. He still continues to be regularly attended by the Rev. P. Wilcock, of St. A n th on y's : ' , Liverpool Mercury. THE LATE RIOTS IN LANCASHIRE.---We believe. that there are now in Kirkdale gaol, undergoing their several periods of imprisonment, thirty-eight prisoners who have- been tried and convicted at Preston, for being engaged in the late serious disturbances in that town. We understand also, that seventy-two of the Mew chester rioters arrived at Kirkdale yesterday, where they will remain either till the next assizes, or till a special commission be issued. There were ten cote; 'ratted from other parts of the country, making a tots , of 120 prisoners now in Kirkdale gaol, as agents in the late violent outbreaks in Lancashire.—LiverpoolMerctirp S A FE AR (From an Expi HER IV. TUURSDAY have just lean Squadron, pas: about ten - o'clo hour, foi_ the Which was ach Royal squairo ARRIVAL Three o'Cb down in the has just arriv belonging to t] when off St. .1 Royal squadr( her course, al At that time George yacht Black -Eagle ately behind yacht steamer to steady her, I driver set, tl bow. The Mc style delivered this vessel too' alongside the I man the yarC cheers with a i and enthusias ebserved that between the ti Highness Prit by. The chef on board the Was observed the loyal deti meats.' Prince couch, and imi officer, whom Fitzclarence, Her Majesty v turt hopena A j. out estnc nsy this shhs t ( from Granton ; ped astern, and when it was pr national festivii serve Prince I seemed to be gl Night was hoisted at the peak, and a br Monarch, abo' keith, left the ] ging the southi of taking the it the Monarch supposed the Aberlady Bay. At all events take place this Town Council o'clock this day At half- past accompanied 1)2 down to Grants out for tidings MonOch arrive was still on the half-past two o' At twelve Royal Georg( cast anchor port of Leith Pier, amidst of the adjacen ARRIV By the folk Berwick-on-Ti the Royal Sq on Thursday n thick and hazy WEDNESDAY Squadron is no weather. QUEEN'S EDINBURGH, difficult to givl of the exciteme the day. As ri but a dies non. have been close tion turned out diately after b streets through pected to pass. Those who had possession of tl the utmost pad Majesty's arriv The followin Course of the d putting an end reports of an ak the last two or " The Lord ell are happy that a deputati arrived from D terview with t Aberdeen, and that her lajes rangements as would be most burgh. If he land before five the city will 1 will enter the ( street, as form( (Si This armour an impression 1 averse to any upon landing, Palace. The opinion jesty will not morrow morni Company's shi] o'clock to-day, he sailed with i ng, and that b Nvioh, where ti e vening. The steam-ships B Pulled by the fog was at tha shot ahead, an The Royal sqi 61 to 7 mile from the nc were in sight. who came pas s the above. H the fog, had fr her way. It mor C annot arrive Co ceivik a mos s till continue s GL re p resent NTON day th ousan d s in expect a ti on and her R oya l The D u k e 4 from Dalk e i t h we (436 er'red Lor M r emyss and Melville, Lor Bread a lb ane, The F r i t h mated app ear broad su r f ace flag s , i n ad( i ado rne d with The R oya l th is morning, ceptio n o f th househ o ld i n Alb er t . The , night. -DALKEITE some disappoi anti of Dallrf afternoon by Albert, for it had collected the D uke of , additior, Peel) Lord GO: