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HAMBURGH, 12TH AUGUST, 1842. Taus MAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA, HIS MAJESTY the EI4IPER.OR of RUSSIA, AND HIS MAJESTY THi KING OF PRUSSIA, .Ravin g A UTHORISED and GUARANTEED several DIS TRIBIDITIONS of MONEY DIVIDENDS, by which, thou g h they are NO LOTTERIES, LARGE FORTUNES may be obtained. HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, are Selling GENUINE and WARRANTED SELECTED BONDS facturing industry has many advantages besides those of employing an increasing population, and adding to the value of their estates. We refer to the subject again on this account, and should be happy if we had any information of value on this important subject to lay before our readers. In fact, manufacturing industry, as it continu ally evolves new trades, is an ever new subject, and neither its advantages nor disadvantages are accurately known. It has been treated, too, when examined and discussed, in the spirit of partizanship. Factory Committees and Truck Committees have looked only at one narrow point, and the whole has been condeinned on very partial evidence. Dr. URE and Dr. TAYLOR, though his "Notes"form an instructive andvaluable book, we regret to say have both exhibited a partizan spirit, and make us suspect that they have a purpose in view beyond establishing the truth. All parties, as far as we are aware, have failed to separate what is essential from what is accidental to manufacturing industry, which has thus been made to bear the blame which pro perly belongs to a totally different system. For example, it is well known that manufac turing industry in Switzerland is attended with none of the disadvantages which accompany it in England. The reason of the difference is to be found, we believe, in the prior condition of the people, the different distribution of property which prevails in the two countries, and the legislation on food, which is a subject only indi rectly connected with manufacturing industry. We shall advert at present only to the prior con 'dition of the people. Our manufacturing districts are filled with Irish, and the descendants of Irish, and the wretched prior condition of these people who im ported their habits and manners into Liverpool and Manchester, is the main cause of the wretched condition of the manufacturing popu lation. Their competition with other labourers necessarily tended to degrade all to their standard. Nor was the prior condition of the agricultural labourers of England much better. It is re corded, said Sir J. GRAHAM on June 17, " that in the workhouses in Bedfordshire there were fifty or sixty able-bodied men in close confinement, desiring labour but obtaining none ; and even in Sussex, what was the state of the labouring classes there ? Why, that they were working in gravel-pits, dragging their trucks like beasts of burden." Some of these men, accustomed to live in workhouses, and drag trucks like beasts of burden, migrated, as is well known, to the manufacturing districts, and carried their habits with them. They improved there, as Sir JAMES GRAHAM also stated : It was at a very considerable time after that the migration which has been spoken of took place. He said it was at a period of unexampled prosperity in the manu facturing districts. Dr. Kay had himself an opportunity of observing in the manufacturing districts the improved condition of these people. For a time they worked well, they shared the prosperity of the district, they were faith ful, and their condition was changed to this state from a state of oppression under which they had suffered in the agricultural districts, wherethe system of roundsmen pre vailed, where they worked, not according to their own wishes, but were reduced to take what they could get. They changed their former unhappy condition for several years of prosperity while the season of manufacturing prosperity continued ; they had their cottages, and ample wages ; they subsisted in comfort; and it was not until the unhappy revulsion which occurred in those districts, that they were reduced once again to reap the fruits of comparative misery. Our manufacturing industry, then, or factory system, found men " suffering under oppression in the agricultural districts" of both England and Ireland, obliged to take what they could get, and glad to take the much better wages, though still low, which were offered them in the manufac turing districts. Now, when the factory owners could obtain the services of the landlords' slaves forverylittle more than the landlords gave them, why should they give a greater sum ? The com petition of the labourers to get the good work and wages they offered, would not allow them to give more, and thus it was the prior condition of the agricultural labourers in England and Ireland, which determined, in a great measure, the wage; in the manufacturing districts, and gave into the hands of the factory owners a mass of helpless labourers entirely dependent on their will. They have not treated them, probably, any better than the landlords. Thus the degradation of the masses in the manu facturing districts is not the consequence of the species of industry there practised, but of the. previous condition of those who lived in a state of oppression in the agricultural districts. Remembering what the Irish are at home, and remembering, too, what the English agricul tural labourers are, we apprehend that there must be something morally wholesome in manufacturing industry, after all the revulsions inflicted on it by legislation, to have saved these people 'from destruction, and even to have ele vated them and improved their condition. It is proved, beyond a doubt, that the manufacturing population, recruited, as it has been, from the English and Irish peasantry, is now far above the level of either. We have said enough, we believe, to show, which is all we aim at, that the subject of ma nufacturing industry requires a much more ex tensive investigation than it has yet received, to enable the public to form a correct opinion of that peculiar, and, we think, most auspicious, part of our social condition. for the said DISTRIBU LIONS. Persons desirous to purchase may receive. PREVIOUS to riving any order, the PROSPECTUS with full PARTI CULARS, upon addressinC, WITHOUT DELAY, a line to HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. THIS EVENING, SEPTEMBER 12, Will be. produced a New Play, in Five Acts, by the Author of "The Provost of Bruges," called LOVE'S SACRIFICE; or, the RIVAL ME CHA NTS.—Matthew Aylmer, Mr: Vanden hoff; Paul Lafont, Mr. Cooper; Eugene de Lorene, Mr C. Pitt; St Lo, Mr. W. Laey; Jean Fuse, Mr. Meadows; Margaret Aylmer ; Miss Van denhoff; Hcnninic de Vermont, Mrs. W. Lacy; Jenny, Mrs. Hum by; Marion, Mrs. Urger. After which will be repeated the New Comedy, in Two Aets, writ. ten by Douglas Jerrold,'EN., entitled GER CRUDE'S CHERRIES, Lilt WATERLOO IN 1835.—Willoughby, Sir. Bartley; Vincent, rr. W. Lacy ; Guibert, Mr. Diddear Jack Halcyon, Mr. Har.ey ; Crossbone, Mr. Meadows; Angelica, amiss Cooper ; Mrs. Crossbone, Mrs. Iluinby ; Gertrude. Mrs. W. Lacy. Doers open at half.past Six, and the t'srformances begin at Seven. Dress Boxes is., Scaond Price 3s. fid First and Second Circles Is., second I'rice Is. (kl.; , 3s. Seeone Price 2s. ; Gallery Is. Tickets and Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Whitlow, at the Box °dice, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had. Private Boxes tip be had at the Box-Otti, e ; of Mr. Andrews, New Bond-street; Mr. Mitchell, Old Bond street; and of Mr. :amt-Pall Mall. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. THIS EVENING, SEPTEMBER 12, Will be performed Shakspeare's Tragedy of OTHELLO.—OtheIIo, Mr. Butter; lago Mr. Elton; Roderigo, Mr. R. Honner ; Cassie, Mr. J. Webster ; besdemoaa, Mrs. R. Honner; Emilia, Mrs. Henry Vaduz, After which, a New Farce, in One Act entitled OUR HOUSE; or, LODGERS IN LONDON. To be followed by the celebrated BELL MELODIST. To conclude with the admired Drama of DARNLEY ; or, the ICIN-G and the FREEBOOTER of the KEEP of CASTLE HILL. —Lad Da. nley, Mr. Webster ; Will Elliot, Mr Heslop ; Edward Burnette, Mr. Walton; Ellen Todd, Mrs. H. Hughes. Piecom mut Private Mies may be had of Mr. J. Kerschner, at the t cx °Mee, from Eleven till Four daily. MEATRE-ROYAL, ENGLISH OPERA-HOUSE. M. Carter, the Lion King, having recovered from his indisposition, will re-appear, with his wonderful trained animals of the be:art. A Great Life in Dubin !" THIS EVENING, SEPTEMBER 12. Will be performed the Burletta of MY FELLOW CLERK lactic, Mr. W. Howard 5 Victim, Mr. Oxberr Y; Fanny (with Songs), Miss Holmes, Alter which, NI. CARTER. the Lion King, will appear in a new Oriental Drama, written expre:sly for bins by J. 'l. H. ines, F.sq., called I'HE LION KING ; OR, THE BRUTE TAMER Or' THE I),:iEßT.—Omer, the Lion Tamer, M. Carter. To conclude wi h a Novel Burletta, wril ten by Pierce Egan. Esq., Mil of fan, ftolie, and whim, called LIFE IN DUBLlN.—Cerin thian Tem, Mr. Win. Howard ; Jerrt' , Mr. J. T. Haines; Jemmy Green, far. Oxiierry ; Logic, Mr. Hol ngsworth ; Mrs. Green, Miss ;I. 3telvill Kate Brilliant, Miss Prescott W ar d e; B e t se y 'tasteful M Los It, s, au s ; Rose l)ashall. Miss Beresford. jir.xes, is. Pit, :s.— Gallery, Is. Doors open at Half-past Six ; nimence at Seven; ,c Half-price, a Quarter before Nine , Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Grogan, at the Private Box-office ; and of 3les.srs. Andrews, Mitchell, Sams, and Daily, at their Libraries. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. GRAND EVENING FETES, THIS DAY, and THURSDAY NEXT, with the to lowing matchless combination of uniq e attrac tions : The celebrated MENAGERIE, recently enriched by several Zoo.. b?icat lthe stupendous artie 1 YPO R AM IC MODEL ALFRESCO of ROME lrorn the left bank of the Tiber. The PROMENADES MUSICALES by the unrivalled Band of Wind Instruments, conducted by Mr. Godfrey including Overture and Marche Triomf.bale—Quadrilles, " Le Voleur," and " Prince of Wales' "—Pot Pourr:s "Jocko," " Fra Diavolo," " Melange de Danses," and " Ein Strauss von Handel"—A new selectio from the woks of Handel—Grand Due " Dove Vai" from " Guillaume Telt " performed i y Haddley and Prospere— Glee " Mynheer van Dunes ''—Spanish Danc. - And Grand Papal State March. After the Concert the Illumination of St. Peter's, and the Giran dola of Saint Angelo, with Southhy's magnificent rotechnic Spec racl,r, Extraordinary Aquatic Fireworks, on the Lake, and Superb Ca.catte 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 Eight, TO-MORROW, be ides all the above unique Entertainments, a superb FLOWER SHOW and magniticent Fireworks!—Open at One o'clock. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. THE LAST FLOWER SHOW OF THE SEASON. TheC636IIWEE of the ROYAL SOUTH LONDON FLORI CULTURAL SOCIETY have the honour to announce that the GRAND AUTUMNAL DAHLIA SHOW, and Miscellaneous Ex hibition of FLOWERS, FRUIT, and VEGETABLES, takes place TO-MORRGW, SEPT. 13. SEVENTY-THREE GOLD and SILVER MEDALS _ . will be awarded as Prizes. Two Gold and Twenty.one Silver Medais for Dahlias, in stands of 2.4, and 50 dissimilar blooms ; and Fifty other Prizes for Miscellaneous Plants, Asters, Hearts'..ease, Rose., Cut Flowers, British-grown Fruit, Pines, Grapes, Vegetables, Or chides, Specimen Plants, Seedlings, &c. Besides the Exhibition of Floral and Horticultural products, which is confidently expected to be unusually rich, varied, and extensive, the whole of the popular Entertainments for which this Establish ment is so widely celebrated, will be given on a scale of grandeur eclipsing all previous efforts. Admission One Shining. Gates open at One Concert at half-past Five. Fireworks at Eight. gnbjects for Exhibition must be in the Gardens before Ten o'clock, or they will positively be excluded, the great number of entries ren derirg it necessary peremptorily to enforce this rule. Prize Lists and Regulations for Exhibitors may be had at the Gar dens, or of the Honorary Secretary, li. H. Cunning. Esq. HIGH W &TER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. %forams.... 47 minutes after 6I Evening IS minutes after 7. LONDON: MOND AY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 12, 1842. We - showed, on Saturday, that agriculture cannot possibly employ an increasing population. We showed, that the more knowledge is brought to bear on it, the fewer hands are required to obtain• equal quantities of food. We remarked, too, that employment of fewer and fewer hands in agriculture had been in progress from the beginning of civilization. We may add, that every person acquainted with the subject knows that thrashing-mills, moved by water, and vari ous other contrivances for diminishing labour, are in use in Scotland—that fewer bands, in pro portion, are employed in agriculture . there than in. England—and that English farmers, to be able to compete with Scotch farmers, must adopt their methods, which will make still fewer hands be required in England to produce the raw material of our food. Some persons may run away with the notion that more land may be brought into cultivation, and that thereby more hands may be employed ; but in the present condition of society, nothing of the kind will, or can be done, on an extensive scale, except it be profitable for the capitalist, after paying all charges. Now at present, with the mere show of one good harvest, the price of wheat is down to a mere remunerative price. To cultivate land that has never yet been ploughed, except it be the parks of the nobility, will cost more than to cultivate the land at • present under the plough. But when the price of corn does not more than pay that cost, when it is only.necessary to have two or three successive goodharvests to involve the farmerin distress,wh en the scientific improvements going forward tend to increase the supply and lower the price, it seems to us clear that the first and indispensable Condition to bringing more land under cultiva tion with a profit, and employing an increased number of hands in agriculture, is to increase the • numbir of the customers of the agriculturists. In other words, to make it profitable to bring waste land into cultivation, the commercial and mane. facturing population of the empire must increase. Before agriculture can find any additional em ployment for our increasing population, there fore, the manufacturing population must be em ployed.and augmented. We need not, to confirm this view, remind our readers of the great exten sion ofagriculture in consequence of the increase of The manufacturing population ; but we will be b4611 - d tO say tuat this has do ne and extend agriculture more to improve than all the Acts of Par liament that ever were made, and than all the agricultural societies that ever existed. All other stimuli to production united, are - as no tiling compared to an increasing deniad. r Ali these are plain matt ers of fac t, i and we might suppose that the st a t esmen and public writers of England, knowing, as they must, the tendency of population to inc rease, and that th e condition of society is only healthy when popu lation can find room to increa se , should have been filled with unsreakable gratitude to the Giver of all Good, for bestowing on England, by her manufacturing skill, the means of providing employment for an ever increasing number of people. We might suppose, bad not facts con vinced us of the contrary, that our statesmen would embrace every opportunity to extend ma nufacturing- industry; that far from laying obsta cles of any kind in its path, they would be as careful as a mother with her infant who is just beginning to walk, to remove every one out of its way. We might suppose that the landowners in particular should be exceedingly desirous of promoting and extending a species of industry which at once increases the number of their cus tomers, and finds profitable employment fur the surplus hands on their estates; and when we find public writers and statesmen, and find' landown ers in particular s endeavouring to check the in crease of manufactures, their folly seems to us to amount. to absolute fatuity. Asthese men, how ever, for the national sins, are endowed with pa litical power, and as their interest is, in this re spect, closely bound up with the national g oo d , it is very desirable to convince them that mann- ~S 4l l 4..*.v. .4111 D: ~ 4 434; 1. kg , _ ;§AtiA. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, SUNDAY.—Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent attended Divine Service this morn ing in the parish church. The Rev. W. Bowyer officiated. Lady Charlotte Dundas and Sir George Couper, Bart., were in waiting on her Royal Highness. Yesterday her Royal Highnees the Princess Royal rode in the Home Park on her Shetland pony, and afterwards in a small landau, drawn by one of the domestics. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales was taken an airing. In the afternoon the Prince and Princess were taken a carriage drive in th e G reat P ar k , an d aga i n to-day their Royal Highnesses have been taken airings. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visits the Royal infants daily. Dispatches were received in town yesterday from Dusseldorf, dated Wednesday, the 7th inst., announc ing the illness of his Majesty th e Ki ng of Hanover, and hir.; subsequent favourable progresss towards recovery. The King was very ill on Sunday the 4th inst., but on Monday night was declared by his physician out of danger, and from that period up to the time of the departure of the dispatch on Wednesday, his Majesty, we are happy to state, was going on fa vourably. His Excellency Count Kielmansegge, the Hano verian Minister, a ft er the receipt of the intelligence, forwarded accounts to her Majesty the Queen Dowager, at Bushy House, Bushy Park, and to the members of the Royal Family. Mr. John Thornton, Deputy Chairman of the Stamps and Taxes, had an interview with the Chan cellor of the Exchequer on Saturday, at his official re sidence in Downing -street. Sir James Graham left town on Saturday for Cowes, Isle of Wight. E XP ORTATION Or MAcniNza Y at the Manchester .—The following letter on this subject has been received Chamber of Commerce :—" Office of Committe e o f ---- , ',—ln rep Privy Council for Trade, to Tradey,oaWr letter r ll of Whitehall, Bth S ls e t p i te n m st b an er t: 1842. SC addressers macine t r o y directed by the Lords of the Com , mittee of Priv Council M l r. a M m acgregor, relative to the exportati on of for Trade to inform you, that my Lord s h av e recently recommended the Lords Com missioners of her Ma j esty ' s Treasury to grant permission tha ex t to port certain c l ass es of machinery, to which hitherto p er mission has not been granted. Amongst the machinery f or which permission has recent l y t h us b een granted, is i nc l uded machinery for the sp i nn i ng of cotton and wool ; and it is the intention of my Lords to recom menda the adoption of the like course as respects all IT - chinery for spinning well as other substa,nces, excepting those which are used and manufacturing the above, as in, or applicable to, the spinning or manufacture of flax, tow, linen, or lace. —I am, Sir, your obedient servant, jJOHN GEoRuE SH AW LEFEVRE.—Thomas Boothman, un., Esq." ANECDOTE BY JOHN ITOCKINGS, THE " BRUMMA GEM BLACKsairrx."—Hockings, " the Bir.ningham black smith," in a lecture at Leicester, urged the ladies to be ardent advocates of teetotalism ; the men would then be sure. to " sign the pledge." lie was one day, he said, at a scientific lecture, when the lecturer was dilating upon the attractive powers of the Inagnet--defying any one to show or name anything which could surpass them ; he (Hockings) accepted the challenge, much to the lecturer's surprise, when he told him that woman was the Magnet of Magnets—for if the loadstone on the table could attract a piece of iron for a foot or two, there was a young woman who, when he was a young man, used to attract him thirteen miles every Sunday to have a chat with her. NORWICH UNION LIFE OFFICE. A numerous body of the assurers in the above Society met at their - office on Friday last, to receive the Report of the Directors, and to take into con sideration their recommendation on the propriety of declaring a bonus on all policies affected previous to June, 1841. E. T. BOOTH, Esq., having taken the chair, S. BIGNOLD Esq., the Secretary, read the ad vertisement which convened the meeting. The CHAIRMAN then rose and said, that he had much pleasure in meeting so large a number of the Proprietors on the present occasion ; he would state to the meeting that some circumstances, which it had been out of their power to control, had been the reason of their not having been called together some what earlier, but he could assure them the time had been well employed in making the accounts more complete. He was happy to think a few—circum stances had occurred which had created a more friendly feeling than had existed among them on former occasions, and the prosperity of the establish ment had greatly increased.—(Cheers.) He hoped after the Report had been read, that all angry feeling, which had previously existed against this office, would cease—that whatever might have been the feelings, or however high might have been the words used against the office on any former occasion, they would now be buried in oblivion—(Hear, hear)—and that every one of them would endeavour, by every possible means in their power, to promote the interest of the establishment.—(Cheers.) In conformity with a resolution passed in January last, they had now placed before them a full and clear statement of the affairs of the Company, with the view of declaring what shall be the amount of the bonus. He would now call on the Secretary to read the Report, after which he would be glad to answer any question that might be addressed to him.—(Cheers.) The SECRETARY, having read the minutes of the former meeting, then read the following Report : " The Committee of Directors have much satisfac tion on meeting the assured this day, enabled as they uow are to lay before them the result of the transac tions of the Society for the year, from June, 1840, to June, 1841, with the balance-sheet at the latter period. " They regret that some little delay has taken place in calling the present meeting, which must be attri buted to the anxious desire of all concerned that the accounts should be fully examined, and the calcula tions made on the most accurate data ; but they have now every confidence in stating that these oliects have been accomplished, and it affords them very high gratification to acquaint the Members, that the sur plus resulting from the operations of the Society during the year from June, 1840, to June, 1841, has considerably exceeded the average of the previous four years.—(Cheers.) "The accounts for that year have been carefully investigated by Mr. James, who reports that he has pursued the same course of examination which he had previously done. Upon this subject he states : " The policies and premiums have been ascertained with the same care. The valuation of those policies and premiums have been made by Mr. Galloway upon the same basis ; and the same test has been applied to those several valuations as heretofore adopted, and fully explained in my Report of December last. The debts and liabilities have been most carefully ascer tained.' " On the subject of these accounts, showing a ba lance or profit of 39,3361. 18s. 2d. upon the transac tions of that year, Mr. James observes : " This profit for the year 30th June, 1840, to 30th June, 1841, being much more than the average of the previous four years, it may perhaps be as well to offer some remarks in explanation. When I stated in Ja nuary last that the probable year's working or profit of your Society to the 80th June, 1841, would be equal to the average of the previous four years, I was well aware that there were circumstances in favour of the year above alluded to, to insure a full average of the previous four. The interest on the surplus, 30th June, 1840, would of itself form a large increase ; the reduced rate of expenses of management would be in full operation for that year, whereas it had been only partially felt in the previous four ; and lastly, I was sensible that the year's mortality had been most fa vourable, and although running against the Society -as regards the annuities and endowment contracts, the loss upon that class of insurances would be much overbalanced by the gain upon whole life and short periods. These three matters, therefore, will fully account for the year's profit, 30th June, 1840, to 30th June, 1841, being more than the average of the four years 1836 to 1840.' " The year's profit here referred to by Mr. James raises the surplus assets at the 30th of June, 1841, to 183,0161. 10s. 6d., and on laying the details of the balance sheet before the Committee he remarks--JI have no hesitation in reporting that, in my judgment, the several valuations and calculations forming the items in such balance sheet may be considered as truly made, and with perfect safety in reference to the future. The debts and other liabilities may also be relied upon as correct and true ; the reverse for future management or expenses in realization of the premiums is taken with perfect safety, as regards the probable future charges ; and upon the whole I feel satisfied that the surplus as above set forth may be considered a correct and safe surplus, and applicable for division amongst the assured. "The Committee of Directors have the most im plicit reliance upon the judgment of Mr. Galloway, by whom the several valuations of the policies and pre miums have been made—supported as those valuations are by the calculations of Mr. Morgan, the Society's Actuary—as well as upon Mr. James, by whom the accounts have been examined and closed, and the re sults as above set forth drawn out ; and they have therefore no hesitation in recommending the declara tion of a bonus. In order that such declaration may be made on perfect and true data, a correct list of pre miums has been drawn out upon which the bonus should attach, amounting to the sum of 2,341,7041. 15s. 11d. An account or valuation has also been prepared to ascertain the bonus which four-fifths of the above-mentioned surplus of 183,0161. 10s. 6sl. will give ; from which its appears that a bonus of 10 per cent. would require, in present money, 141,3541. 19s. 2d., being equal to 234,1701. 9s. 7d. in reversion ; the latter being, therefore, the amount which would be actually attached to the policies. The declaration of this bonus would leave a surplus of 5,058/. ss. 3d. beyond thc. one-fifth (36,6031. 6s. ld.) reserved in conformity with the deed of settlement, making together, the sum of 41,6611. 1 ls. 4d., un touched and unappropriated. " The above calculations are made upon the several policies in existence in June 1841, although part of those policies have terminated by death since that period. " After mature consideration given to the subject, the Committee feel that the holders of this class of policies, are justly and fairly entitled to share in the surplus • and they, therefore, recommend this meet ing to declare a bonus accordingly—viz., 10 per cent. on the total amount of premiums received upon all policies for the whole period of life, which were in existence on the 30th June, 1841. " The members of the Society will bear in mind that, in the declaration of any bonus at this time, when the Society has existed upwards of thirty-three years, the number of years, and the great amount of premium over which that bonus is spread, must have the effect of reducing the nominal per centage. The senior members, however, will find, that their bonuses, extending back to the date of every policy, will yield them an advantage fully commensurate with a higher rate of per centage, attaching to a more limited period of time. entertjr a e ak f n e e referring rb n hayy g i ts, thatltBo42) which ar t alludes o f th e to or thela st f a c Report " The Committee cannot close this Report without Societymost premiums n other iumusn doeffir considerablyet offices, s e awghe ofwhilst t lower ffroty forty-five- fi th v a e n , ar t e h in suredo tose sixty, this Society only gradually etratrtall(2Bwhtho easett a a approaches reta s t t nho Societiese rates adopted ! o, h pt 7 ied se ad o by f t fi h c te e h i. s r , em an iu d m th s e o d f iff ot e h re e n r e g re s i e g nn enhanced c i in d beentacc umulateet;ll;;Csi.nce s b t o it n u u t s i e o s n , w th o e u m ld a h gn av it e ud be e e o n f those assigned at interest, for the purpose of increasing is la the fund so accumulated, if not distributed, would now have amounted to many hundred thousand pounds. " Under these circumstances, the Committ ee f eel assured that the memb ers ma y fairly urge upon their connexions the propriety of joining this institution, whose strength and utility must increase with its magnitude." After which the cash account to June, 1841, was read. 1 Mr. Alderman FAREBROTHER said, in conformity with the wish expressed by the Chairman, he (Mr. Ald. Farebrother) would ask one or two questions ; but he wished it to be distinctly understood, it was not with the view of disturbing the harmony of the meeting.—(Hear.) He was sure the answers which he should receive would satisfy all present. He would ask Mr. James if the accounts now made out and submitted to the Proprietors, were based on those made by him in 1836 ? Mr. JAMES, the Accountant, replied, they were. The balanco had been brought forward, which had formed the data upon which they had acted.—(Hear.) Mr. Alderman FAREBROTHER—In 1839 a long discussion took place in reference to the allowance to be given to Mr. S. Bignold, as Secretary. The Exa miners had recommended that it should then b e I 2,0001. a year, but some Proprietors present thought it should be 2,5001. a year, taking into consideration his father's services, as well as his family's claims. He wished to ask Mr. James whether, in making up the accounts, he had given credit to Mr. Bignold for 2,000/. or 2,5001.? Mr. JAMES replied. Since 1839 Mr. Bignold had only drawn for 2,000/. a year on account of salary, and 250/. more for coals, repairs, and expenses. Mr. Alderman FAREBROTHER observed, that on that occasion he had taken the liberty of asking Mr. Bignold to waive the discussion of the question; and- THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 12, 1842 leave it open for a futu re period, as it would then tend to disturb the harmony of the meeting.—(Hear, hear.) Here a long and.friendly discussion took place be tween various parties in the room; and it was evident the general feeling was in favour of increasing Mr. Bignold's salary to 2,500/. a year ; this was confirmed by the following resolution having been put and car ried without one dissenting voice. The CHAIRMAN said a resolution had been moved and seconded, which he would put to the meeting. " That it appearing by the statement of Mr. James, in answer to the question of Mr. Alderman Fare b-other, that the Secretary has only drawn for the sum of 2,0001. per annum since December, 1839, in stead of 5 per cent. on the premiums, to which he is en titled under the deed of settlement, which was con firmed at the last general meeting, this meeting, taking into consideration all the circumstances of the surrender by him of his vested interest under the deed, recommend the Committee of Directors to place his remuneratiou finally and definitively at the sum of 2,5001. per annum from November, 1836." This was unanimously adopted. The SECRETARY then rose and said, He could not sufficiently express his thanks to those gentlemen who had put so liberal a construction upon his conduct. He begged them to look at the state of the Society at the present moment. He felt it would bear a com parison with nine-nenths of the societies in London.— (Hear, hear,) He was grateful for the expressions which had fallen from Mr. Ald. Farebrother. The Rev. Mr. BAILEY, Vicar of Stoke Holycross, then rose to move the receiving of the Report. He was glad to think the Society had increased in public confidence, and was receiving the public support. — (Cheers.) He hoped the Proprietors would exert themselves in favour of the establishment ; if they did it would rise still higher, not only at home, but in the opinion of the whole world.--(Cheers.) He would now move, "That the highly satisfactory Report sub mitted by the Directors to this general meeting, be received, adopted, and printed, for circulation amongst the members of the Society." Mr. LOCKWOOD, in seconding the resolution, said, he gladly responded to ev ery thi ng w hi c h h a d fallen from the Reverend gentleman. Mr. T. BIGNOLD would infirm the meeting, that the gentleman who had seconded the resolution for receiving the Report was the father of the Society ; he standing No. 1 survivor in the books.—(Hear.) Mr. R. J. H. HARVEY, one of the Trustees of the Society, begged leave to move that the bonus recom mended in the Report be immediately carried into effect. After the close examination which the ac counts had gone through, and the clear exposition of that day, they could not hesitate carrying it out. He would therefore move—" That pursuant to the re commendation of the Directors a bonus of ten per cent. be now declared on the amount of premium received, in respect of all policies in existence on June 30, 1841, and effected for the whole duration of life." Mr. R. STEWART having seconded the resolution, The CHAIRMAN put it to the meeting, when it was adopted. Here a question arose relative to the most equitable mode of dividing the bonus, which was explained by the Directors, who said, they had felt the force of it themselves; in consequence they had taken the highest legal opinions on the question, which were in favour of the mode now adopted by them. nut A v lr t . h A eir ld m er o m st a to perform; it was an pnleFasAinn g E r c d ß u o t t remarked, they had ex pression of their gratitude to the Directors for the able manner they had carried themselves through one of the most severe ordeals men had ever passed.— (Loud cheers.) He would, therefore, move—" That this meeting desire to express their unqualified confi dence in the integrity and judgment of the Directors, and in their full determination to watch over the future interests of the Society, and also to offer to the Chairman their best thanks for Ms valuable services this day." Mr. LLOYD, of Birmingham, had great pleasure in seconding the resolution, having been one of those who had been appointed to examine into the conduct of the Directors. He felt that the thanks of the Pro prietors were eminently due to the Chairman and Directors for the arduous duties they had performed while in office; they had carried out all that had been recommended to them by the Examiners—(Cheers) — and he (Mr. Lloyd) had travelled several hundred miles to speak to the point at this meeting, which he did with the highest satisfaction.—(Cheers.) It was then carried with acclamation. The CHAIRMAN could assure the meeting that the conduct which had received such expressions of ap probation this day, would continue to be pursued by the Directors, and he hoped at their next meeting they would be found still equally deserving of the confidence of the Proprietors.—(Cheers.) Those who have regularly attended the general meet ings of this Society which have so frequently taken place of late years, must have marked the ~hanged. tone on this occasion. At their first assemblage in 1837, great distrust- was manifested, doubt and anxiety was marked on many a brow, the question on their mind was, are our families to be provided for at our death, or not ? The number at that period who used to assemble from far and near, did not lessen the anxiety. London, Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, and Bristol, sent their inhabitants to learn the worst of their fears. After passing a most searching examination of their affairs, the Proprietors have now reaped a nother harvest, by dividing nearly a quarter of a million of money among them (this being their fourth bonus upon their paid up capital), which, but for the unmoved integrity, clear foresight, and patient p e rseverance of the officers of the Estab lishment, would have fallen a wreck to the foolish im becility of a few weak alarmists. S i PANCR A S, CONTRACT. MONEY M -7— irrAitl( --- and ---- CITY NEWS. CITY, SATURDA Y EVENING. The English Funds closed flatly, but without any particular cause that could be assigned b eyon d th e general depression of business, Consols leaving off at 92i sellers for Mousy, and 93 93* f or t h e A ccount ; India Stock, 249 251 ; Exchequer Bills, Old, 51 53 ; New, 49 51 premium. The prices of Foreign Securities showed a slight improvement. Belgian, 102 103; Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents., 521 521; the Five per Cents., 1024 102/ ; Danish, 833- 84*; and B raz ili an , 67 68. The quotation for Mexican Bonds was a shade below yesterday, owing to a disposition to sell which had been shown by certain influential holders, and they were last marked 354 36. The downward tendency in London and Birming ham Railway Shares, which hae fo rme d th e p r i n cipal feature in the Market this week, has to-day been checked, and they have been currently sold at 179 181; Birmingham and Gloucester, 42 44 ; Great Western, 82* 83 i ; the Half Shares, 59/ 601 ; South Western, 58i- Egg North Midland, 56 58 ; the New Shares, 27 28 ex di v . ; South Eastern and Dover, 22 221 ; E as t ern C ou nties, ; Northern and Eastern, 37i- 381 ; Black wall, 7 71; and Brighton, 331 33 er share. The quotations for the Bonds were :—Colombian 20i 214 ; Peruvian, 15 16 ; Portuguese Five per, Cents., 35 35* ; the Three p er C ents., 20/ 214 ; Spanish Five per Cents., 164 164 ; an d th e Three per Cents., 214 214. DEPRECIATION OF PROPERTY.—On Saturday last, four pair of looms, in good condition, with six lathes, some of them having double boxes, and a large quantity of jacks, treadles, and other articles, used in handloom weaving, were sold in the New Market-place for Bs. ! To those at all acquainted with the subject, this fact will at once convey an adequate impression of the dreadfully depressed state of the handloom weaving of this district, a branch of manufactures, w hi c h , at one period, was the source of much prosperity a n d en j o y men t t o h un d re d s o f families, and the means of opulence to many. These ma terials were bought by a baker, or some such person, to use as firewood, and would fill two moderately sized carts. They must have cost the first possessors about 201. On Monday, at the s ame p l ace , a pair of looms, with lathe and gearing complet e , wa s sold for 1 0 d. While the looms stood at 10d., a bystander said they were worth Is., and the auctioneer, mistaki ng knocked them off to him at that sum. Then came an ex planation and a dispute, hi s o bservation for a bid, which was settled by the looms being sold to a former bidder for the sum mentioned.— Bolton Free r Press. M. What a row there would be in the land if the laatllords' estate s or a mount above described. o r the parsons' tithes, were depreciated to a tenth of th Wh a t inquiries would b e calle d f o r, what compensation demanded, what new tax at i on pro posed, to save from in jury and destruction, th e eaters of rent and the eaters of tithes!--ED. Sun.] NEW GOVERNOR OF GIBRA L TAR.—General Si r Robert Wilson has been appointed Governor of Gibral tar, in succession to Sir Akxattler Woodford, K.C.8., whose term of service i s expired. Sir Robert Wilson ' entered the army in 1793, and served i n Flande rs and Holland in that and th e s ; succeeding year ; in the rebel lion in Ireland in 1798 in Holland aga in in 1799 ; in the Egyptian camp a i gn of Cape of Good Hope in 1808. and raised and commanded the Lusitanian Legion in 1808 and 1809 in Spain and com missions army 3 , s i nfolltltoiswsia:_, 1801 ; at the capture of the Portugal.. He also served in several campaigns with the and %.'ith the Austrian arm i7g4;Lieutenant, Oct. The dates of his 31, 1794 ; Captain, s 1802 ; Colonel, 25th of Jul • September 21, 1796 ; Major, 28th of June, 1800 ; jPeoinolarlnnteadtl,y,Germatiy, and France, Lientenant-Colonel, 27th of February, Major-General, 4th of June, 1813 ; Lieutenant. General, 27th of May, 182.5; General, 23d of November 1841. Ile was appointed Co lonel of the 15th Hussars on the .20th of December, 1836. In August, 1821, the na me a sir Robert Wilson was erased from the army list, in consequence of his conduct 1810 ; at the funeral of Queen Caroline. He was at the same time deprived of various f ore i g n decorations be?•towed upon him. S!r Robert will repair to Gibraltar in Oc tober in one of the Mediterranean steam vessels.— United Service Gazette. THE ANTI-CORN-LAW L EA G VP, we observe, does not ' mean to lie idle. It is a b out to d i spa tch lecturers into the agricultural district s , an d the fa ll o f prices, which they will no doubt expl a i n, will make t h e farmers their will ing auditors. Is has also advertised a series of prizes for the best essays on the Corn laws as they affect the condition of the working farmers and agricultural la bourers. This is an excellent subject. AIIDDLESEX. The Directors of the Poor ot te :aid P I;:eet at St. Pancras .iorlihouse, on TUESDAY, the •?7th day of September, instant, at Ten o'clock in the Forenoon, to receive 'FENDERS, and to contract with some person or persons, for the supply of BUTCHERS' MEAT for the use of the poor of the said Parish, to Eater, 1843. Forms of tender and Particulars may be obtained on application at the Workhouse. Tenders, sealed and endorsed " Tender for Butcher's Meat," to be sent in not titer than the above hour ; and parties ten dering, or some person on their behalf, are required to be in attendance at the said meeting. By order cf the Directors, JOHN 11PGAHEY, Clerk. 1, Gordon-street, Gordon-square, Sept. 10, 1842. ~ C' n (t .,..,,, , „ , „.„0,.4.4„.„ ...,.,„ ,_ r;` bpi ` , ~.„A nt, ~....,-,... - a4'. tact4,..ii*"-;,,,'7',)itton SUN OFFICE Three o'Cluch The manner in which the trial of the rioters at York was conducted by the Judges, and the prosecutors for the Crown, and the amount o punishment inflicted on those convicted, has, we believe, given general satisfaction, and, as far as we are aware, no complaints have been made on any of these points even by the friends of the unfortunate sufferers. Lord DEN MAN and Mr. Justice MAULE gave a careful con sideration to every circumstance of palliation ; the Counsel for the Crown showed great for bearance; and the Jury, much to their credit, in every case where they could interfere with pro priety, recommended the prisoners to mercy. Only one severe sentence was passed, but look ing at the nature of the offence, robbing a soldier while senseless and bleeding from an assault committed by one of the rioters, no other result could be expected. The prisoner convicted of this crime was nut, like the other prisoners, en gaged in a novel and unfortunate experi ment to obtain better wages and • better treat ment from their masters, but had joined them probably for the purpose of' plun der, and thereby not only brought his punishment justly on himself, but also did great injury to those operatives with whom he became associated. He was sentenced to banishment for ten years. The more conspi cuous of the other offenders, and chiefly those who had tyrannically attempted to control the freedom of labour by stopping mills and vio lently compelling the hands to leave off work, were sentenced to various periods of imprison ment, from eighteen to three months; several were sent to prison for only fourteen days, com puted from the time of their arrest; and a great number were discharged, with a simple admoni tion. The results, therefore, as far as relates to the trials at York, are more favourable than many persons anticipated ; and it is only due to the Judges and Jury to state, that the country is under great obligations to them for thus exhibit ing a merciful disposition, which not only has benefited the unfortunate prisoners brought be fore them, but has served as a precedent for the Judges and Magistrates in other districts. At the Salford Sessions the Bench of Magistrates imitated this example, and, unlike County Magistrates in general, seemed to feel for the misguided men, and mitigated the puu:shments as far as they could consistently with a due regard to the rights of property, and the peace of the country. It is fortunate, therefore, that such Judges presided on the occasion, and that a tone was not given to these prosecutions by renegade Whigs, who are blind to the crimes of the rich, cruel and unforgiving to the poor, and ever anxious to confirm the sincerity of their apostacy by deeds which even the party who has adopted them are ashamed to acknow ledge. Had two Judges that we could name presided at the York trials, the whole charac ter of these proceedings might have been changed, and the spirit of discontent and irrita tion, which the humanity of Lord DENMAN and Mr. Justice MAULS will tend to allay, would have broken forth with tenfold fury. Some men have no idea of the blessed effects of lenity ; they vainly believe that the law, independent of public opinion, is all powerful ; and, blind to the dic tates of common sense, and led astray by their high notions of absolute power, never discover their errors till, by some serious resist ance, they find that the law, when administered in opposition to the feelings of the community, is only useless and dangerous in proportion to its violence. Happily these absurd and-mischievous notions are now losing ground. The public mind revolts against unnecessary severity; and instead of concurringin the decisions of Judges that have no idea of leaning to the side of mercy, invaria bly sympathises with the guilty sufferer. If even more lenity had been shown to some of these rioters, the ends of justice would have been fully answered. Where violence was resorted to, and industrious men driven from their employment, and compelled to join the crowd, contrary to their own convictions, the offenders have little claim to leniency. But it ought to be borne in mind that some of these persons had been suffering for years under great deprivations, and probably were driven to these lawless deeds, not only by want, but by a foolish impression that a general strike would ultimately raise the price of labour. They have now seen their folly, and it remains, therefore, for the Executive to con- sider whether, in all cases where the offenders had previously been men of good character, the term of imprisonment might not be shortened. Perhaps there is not an instance on record of such a general rising accompanied with so little injury to property. " The failure of the late attempt," says Lord BROUGHAM in a letter on the subject, " to make the distress so prevalent a means of disturbing the peace, is most creditable •to the people. Even in the few instances of some misguided persons for a moment forgetting their duty, they showed a distrust of themselves and of each other, the result of that habitual respect for the law, and aversion to illegal proceedings, which so honourably marks the character of Englishmen. This great merit should not be forgotten by their rulers." In these just and hu mane sentiments we fervently hope the rulers of the people will concur, for they may rest assured that by a merciful administration of justice the Executive acquires public respect, and the law additional authority and strength. Our Portuguese news is of the stli inst. A majority of 66 votes to 14 carried the vote of confidence, so that the Ministers will hang toge ther for a tew weeks longer. Lord ABERDEEN'S new proposal for tariff reductions had been re ceived by the Lisbon Cabinet. His Lordship offered to give up the 20 per cent. additional ad valorem duty on Portuguese wines, and to sub stitute a duty of 3s. per gallon. He further con sented to a heavy import duty on British wool lens exported to Portugal, for the purpose of protecting the cloth manufactures of Portugal. From Madrid we have news of the 3d instant. The capital continued tranquil, and a rumour prevailed that the Cortes would meet for the despatch of business on the 20th inst. M. OLOZAGA was about to proceed on a commercial trade mission to Belgium and Holland, between which nations and Spain the most amicable rela tions at present exist. Our Ambassador, Mr. ASTON, had obtained the liberation of Prince LICHNOWSKI, arrested at Barcelona for boasting of having served in the army of DON CARLOS, and for having insulted the Government and the local authorities. The Patriota contradicts an assertion of several Madrid Journals, that dui Government was nego tiating a loan, which was to be guaranteed by the mortgage of the Philippine Islands. The Three per Cents. were done on the 2d at 21 7-16 at 60 days; and the Five per Cents. at 26i. There is not much political news in the French journals cf Friday and Saturday. Dullness reigns over all Europe. In vain does the King of PRUSSIA make long journeys and longer speeches—in vain does the King of the BEL GIANS ride post from Brussels to Paris, and from Paris back again to Brussels—in vain do con spirators dog Imperial heels on the banks of the Neva—and Spanish patriots make bonfires to cele brate victories over Cazlisni the 51xnbre aspect of dullness is reflected from '2 very country and countenance west of the Caspian. The Paris journals, in a few instances, have made mighty efforts to dissipate the stagnant appearance of things in France. One, for instance, tried the blowing up of a bridge by a new infernal ma chine, but it was hardly so much as copied, and only read by printers. The Patric tried its hand at a report that the Government was about to establish a bench of Bishops in the French Chamber of Peers. The Univers, however, the organ of the priests, by promptly contradicting this report, leaves no room for doubt or surmise upon the subject. That journal says : " The Government is not so enamoured with the clergy as to entertain such an idea, and even if it did, we doubt its being bold enough to risk its realisation. On the other hand, we may safely venture to assure La Potpie that the episcopacy, clergy, and Catholics of France would not see in that act a great subject of joy ; and we hesitate not to declare that five prelates would not be found sufficiently devoted to the existing order of things to accept such a favour with resigna tion. The c: cation of ecclesiastical peers would but slightly increase the influence and political power of the clergy, and might often compromise its moral power, the only means by which it can hope to bring back to the real faith the men of the present day." There is the usual sprinkling of murders, assassinations, and robberies, in the French papers, but the horrible and the disgusting are little read, save by ladies of very nervous tem perament, and the dowagers of a byegone age. The Penny Magazine put an end to the New gate Calendar. We have, however, contrived to glean sundry extracts from the French journals, most of which will be found interesting : The Gazette de France, of Friday evening, contains the following mysterious announcement :—" M. de Molene, Juge d'lnstruction, and M. Mongis, Substitute of the Procureur du Roi, were on Thursday sum moned to Joinville, near Saint-Maur, by a mysterious circumstance, relative to which it is to be hoped that the officials journals will give some explanation. It appears that the preceding morning a dreadful ex plosion took place on the bridge of Joinville from an infernal machine, which was placed there, filled with balls and other projectiles, by none of which, fortunately, was any person wounded. These Ma gistrates have not been able to discover either the object or the authors of this machine, of which the shattered remains alone were left." The Commerce of Saturday morning, in allusion to the above, says :—" It was not on Tuesday, as the ac count would seem to indicate, that the explosion took place, but on Sunday, before five in the morning. The machine, which was placed under one of the arches which extend over part of the meadow, appears to have been formed of a tin box about a foot long, and it would seem that the hour and place were chosen for no other purpose than to ascertain what effect the apparatus would produce. The pieces of iron inclosed in the box have left their marks on the stone arches, but no real damage has been caused. The authors of this attempt, and their motives, have still to be disco vered. It is said that the persons who were arrested in the first instance by order of the Mayor hare been set at liberty." BOURSE---PARIS, SATURDAY, SEPT. 10. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French Fives (ex div.) 118 70... 118 85... 118 70... 118 80 Fours (ex div.) 102 95... 102 95... 102 95... 102 95 3 per Cents 80 25... 80 25... 80 25... 80 25 Bank of France 3265 —.3265 ...3265 .. 3265 Laffitte Bank I,ooof 1035 ..1035 ...1035 ...1035 Belgian Bank 7BO ... 780 ... 780 780 Belgian Fives 1840 los* ... 105* 105* 105* Spanish Active 22 ... 22* ... 22 ... 22* Passive Old Deferred 31-, ... 3i ... 3. ... 3i Neapolitan... lO7 ... 107 25... 107 ... 107 25 Roman RAILWAY SHARES _ _ Versailles, L.B 92 50... 95 ... 92 50... 95 R. B 260 ... 260 ... 257 50... 257 50 Rouen Orleans. 582 75... 582 75... 582 50... 582 50 Strasburg to Bale 205 ... 206 25... 205 ... 205 A USTRI A N FUNDS.—VIENNA, AUG. 31. Five per Cents. Metalliques • , Is 9 Four per Cents. IOU% Three per Cents... 1 6 7 /s Bank Shares Allgemeine Zeitung, Sept. 5. HAMBURGH BORSEN HALLE, SEPT. 9. Bills. Money. Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank Shares 1653 1651 Anglo-Russian Loan 109% 10:9% Russian 5 Der Cent., Ist series, Certificate 10 3 ,4 103% Inscription, Ist series Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co., 3d and 4th Series 93 971. s Ditto in Certificates 97%. 97y, New 4 per Cent. (1840) B9 89 t 4 Dutch Actual Debt, 214, per Cent. ......... Ditto 5 per Cent. Polish Bonds - New Tickets lllB Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent. Spanish, New 5 Pvt . Cents. EXCHANGES ON LONDOY. HAMBURG'', SEPT. 9.-13 9%, Two months 13 8, PETERSBURG, SEPT. 2.—ThreeMonths, 372. pence. RIGA, SEPT. I. —Three Months, 38. STocKtioun, SEPT. '4 —Seventy-five days, 12 11. PRUSSIAN FUNDS,—BERLIN, SEPT, 6, Bias. Money St. Schuld Sch., 4 per cent....... ..... .. 10414 103% Prussian English Bond:, 1530, i per cent. 162% Exchange on London --- 6 24g, Prussian State Gazette, Sept. 7. We are glad to correct an error which appeared in our Guildhall Police report on Saturday, which might be injurious to a respectable young man. It was stated that " Henry Bulpit and Francis Court were placed before Sir Geo. Carroll, charged," &c., whereas Mr. Court only appeared to give evidence. It will be seen, also, from the report, that after full inquiry, the Magistrate dismissed the charge against Mr. Bulpit, and remarked that " Mr. Bulpit's good character placed him above suspicion of doing wrong." MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS, CITY, QUARTER TO VAREE. The prices of the English Funds eontinvde flat, with but little business ; jobbers, however, .10 not appear inclined to force stock upon the mar'Aiet, and hence business is solely confined to real in v, estments. In the present state of the market, .the effect of the payment of the October di' vidends is looked for with some anxiety, the current rate for the employment of money for commercial pur poses not exceeding 21 per cr.;nt. ; when the sums thus issued are thrown upon it, it is supposed that the speculators for a fall, should tt.ere be any, will be severe losers. Meanwhile, the more experienced dealers are holding off, and. scarcely any bargains have been made for time during the last ten days. Consols are 921; 928 for Mon( 7 rather buyers, and 93 for the Account; New Three-and-a-Half per Cents., 101 1011; Exchequer Bills, Old, 51 53 ; New, 49 51 prem. A small amount of Reduced Three per Cents. have been sold, although the books are closed against public transfers, at 1011. Foreign Securities have been comparatively neg lected ; holders are, however, firm. The transactions to-day have been Dutch Two-and-•a-Half per Cents., 528 ; Brazilian Five per Cents., 67 for Money and 68 for the Account. The quota ttion for Mexican Bonds is not quite so good, being Scarcely anything has been do ae in Shares—South Western have been sold at .59 ; Eastern Counties 81; the New Shares, 81. 4s. 2d.; the Debentures, 101. 9s. 2d.; Croydon, 10,i ' • Blackwall, , 71-; North Midland, Thirds, 191; and York and North Midland New Shares, 36/.. Bargains for time have beer I made in Colombian Bonds, 20i ; Spanish Five pt r Cents., l 61; and in the Three per Cents., 214. Private letters from. the :manufacturing districts this morning, speak more fa vourably of the state of trade, and arise of prices is, respected. PRICES OF SHARES T 'HIS DAY AT ONE. R A ILWAYS. P. aid. Per :',hare. Eastern Counties Ditto New 6/. 6s. &I. Ditto Debentures Si.. 6s. Bd. 10/. 9s. 2d. London and Blackwall . .... ICk ..... . London and South W es t ern ... 4/3i , London and Croydon ( T run k) ... 1 59 .31.... .10 ,•• to • - 3 - - 6 .4 t t to Paris and Rouen ... .... • ••.... . ••• to V ° D r tt a o n and e N v ;r s tb h b d . l . a . .. .. .. ............ 1 2 C 0 ) JOINT TOCR BANKS , London Joint Stock ............ 10 .13 London and 'Westminster .. 20 •23 MANCHESTER STOCK EY_CILAI NGE, SEPT. 10. There is no improvement to-a yin our market, but prices are tolerably firm. i 1 anchester and Bir mingham, 234 ; North IV r iidland, 57 ; Ditto Halves, 28 ; London and South Westerr4, 59 591; Edinburgh and Glasgow, Quarters, 54 51._ EPARTURE OF VIIE J3FtITISH QUEEN FOR NI YCRK. (FROM OUR COR RE SPONDEN ' f.) COWES, SEPT. 11.—The B steamer British Queen left this port for New fork at thirty minutes past eleven this morning. SI ie took on board nearly 70 passengers here, and brot ight fi ve w i t h h er f rom Antwerp. Sh e h a d only abo at GO tons freight. The wind was light from the N.ll ". F ,he is likely to have a fine passage down Channel. The Earl of Shannon has his beautiful castle and grounds at East Cows the favourite residence of the late John Nash, Es( I. T B _HE bODY OF A UENTI +ENIA N FO: JND IN THE R IVER THANES, WITH AN DIME' IsE SUH OF GOLD AND SILVER ON }us PERSON.—Yes',erclay morta l ig, between eleven and twelve o'clock, th. e body of a g,.in tleman, apparently about 45 years of age, was found in t 'se River Thames, off Rotherhithe, by some watermen •oceeding in their boat down the river. They got the fat , dy into their boat, and conveyed it on sh';re to the work,/ Ouse. On search ing the person Of. 'the deceased gold am 4 i silver moneys, to a large amount, were found, as also agc ad watch and key. The deceased was dressed in a blue frock-coat, black waistcoat, dark trowsers, and Wellirq ton boots, black silk handkerchief ; linen not marked The body lies at the workhouse to be owned, and to.. ay lait a Coroner's Inquest. r At e A.ND Vittiltc 14; ptutoit. " Who runs may read.' POR.EIGN. The leading articles of the French journals are either on subjects respecting which all the interest, as far a.s the public at large are concerned, has been ex hausted, or respecting which they feel no interest at all. The Constitntionnel has devoted two columns to remarks on the recent ordonnance of the King of t Prussia, and it promises to return to the subject. The Coarrier Francais, arguing upon the old adage that where there is a great deal of smoke there must be some fire, observes that there m us t h ave been tt some foundation for the various rumours which haVe been current of an attempt to assassinate the Emperor of Russia, and then goes on seriously to account for the supposed danger in which the life of the Emperor;„.,- is placed by the despotic manner he exercises his power over his subjects, and more particularly over Poland. • The Grand Duke of Baden having sent the Count de Lassolaye to Strasburgh on the occasion of the', visit of the Duke de Nemours, to compliment the ,4 Prince in the name of the Grand Duke, General Mar quis de Laplace was sent afterwards to Carlsruhe,. by the Duke de Nemours to express his thanks for this attention. Before the return of the Marquis de L place, the Grand Duke conferred on him the Cross of the Order of the Lion of Zachringen. • Some of the Madrid Journals state that M. Olozaga has been charged by the Spanish Government with.a special mission to Prance and Belgium, and that his departure was to take place in a short time. It is stated that negotiations are on the tapir be tween the Spanish and Dutch Governments, for the conclusion of a treaty of commerce for the introduc7 tion into Spain of Dutch linens. The Charge d'Affaires of Holland, Baron de Gro' „ vestins, has already submitted the p rov i s i ons of,thi'l slid Treaty to the Cabinet of Madrid; and as a. Com' mittee, of which Senor Olozaga is a member, has been appointed to mak e a R eport t h ereon, the journey 0,. the Hon. Deputy i s s t a t e d t o h ave reference to that'..: object. cf A letter from Desden, September 3, announces thir, i arrival of Prince Milosch in that t own on th e 28tb,',, i :1 ult. He dined on th e 31 s t w i t h t h e R oyal Fam ily tol at Pillnitz, the day after with the Austrian MiniSteq:.: ; ! and the succeeding day with the Ambassador or: 1 Russia. He was received at Court, as Well as by the corps diplomatique, in the most flattering manner. PUDLIC OPINION. The Scotsman comments on the impropriety of ;the. Non-Intrusion journals attacking the Queen for net attending worship in the High Church, and says "Her Majesty comes to Scotland on a pleasure excursion, and does what the meanest of her ~, subjects is privil ege d t o d o — wors hi ps God at •. cording to the forms of the Church of . which she is a member; and a set sf intolerant bigots represent this simple and 'proper act oe an insult to the people of Sce tland, and the harbinger of per secu ti on an d despof,sm ! These per . sons, while ravin g a b ou t lib er t y o f_ conscience, walk' deny their Sovereign the humble privilege which the Turks grant to their Christian .s laves ! Her Majesty may be very friendly to the hiu k ; but, in its present attitude of defiance to the law,l what might be a harm less act of courtesy in other cll.( annstances, would bee sacrifice of her regal dignity." In allusion to the present combination existing among the bakers, the Cambrian remarks ;--.4 , We ar e no advocates fel* Government interference in matte° . 1 of trade ; hut if tradesmen,, especially bakers, cony bine in the manner they had don?. It is quite time the old system of 'assize" was restored, and th: price of bread fixed by th .e authorities, e is done at present in Paris.' PIZONEY—TIZACIE—COMMERCE. The total amount of property insured against 1 by fire in the three kingdoms , for the year 1841 '' 735,000,0001.; the groF,s amount of farming stock i x ' . sured is 50,000,000/. Steady trade is again expected at Halifax. At gal l ; chester fears of a reaction in the cotton districts hil r f operated on the market this last week and the sale -0 ) cloths h as diminished. ochdsle and Leeds have ~ proved, but at Bradford buyers have been scarce, and prices a shad e l ower . Though the towns 01 Manchester and Salford ,i 0 main quiet, there are several thousands who have 7,i yet resumed work. At Staleybridge, where r' strike first commenced, the bulk of hands has gone, ; but the rest are very unsettled. At Bolton all !'7ll mills are at work ; at Buvy, all but two. Er.:CLESI ASTICA.I6. The venerab',e W. Strong, D.D. Archdeacon, • Northampton , an d C anon o f Peterborough, exiiiret t h his residenc e at Peterborough, on Thursday, :the '" inst., a ge d . 87 . Dr. Ireland, the late Detan of Westminster ,.l f as ' son of a tradesman in Dev on. He made a contimn' o v tour tutor to a Noblem an ' s son a b out the time• '1 the French Revolution. On his return he bee7A,•, Vicar of Cr ,ydon, married a lady nearly retan e l the Baring family, and from the preferment of or.. bendary rose to his deanship. NAVAL AND MILITARY. eto Ot The ship Montagu. of P er th, l a d en with c(!;:44 struck, on the 2d of March last, on a reef nnic Helen's shoal, near D amp i er ' s S tra i ts, and. slrf.nti, after sank. The crew were saved by means of 074, ' and after suffering great privations, were picket / , 4 by a London v esse l b oun d f or Manilla, wl J ere, . were landed. Sh e w a s a fi ne vesse l , and o wile° Thomas Graham and Sons, of Perth. LAW AND POLICE. Three men and one woman were brought he 0( 1 the Magistrates at Manchester, on Friday, cbar9 . with. conspiring to create a turn-out of hands at o p mins. They wer e all comm itt e d f or trial. Parluef was preliminarily offered to two of th e men if t' would return to work, b u t t o prove themselves oe flints" they preferred the chance of hard lobeu e and imprisonment. ~ LITERARY AND SCIENTITIC, I‘ l , Professor Liebi g , th e di s ti ngu i s h e d c h em i s t, at tended several scientific meetings in Leeds earl `Fake ; field last week ; h e i s on l y 32 years o f age, an d travel s with Dr. Playfair. THEATRICAL. Rossini's Senaramide will be brought out at Covel lo ° Garden without delay ; the two principal charac te being personated by Miss A. Kemble and Mrs. Alfri be Shaw, being the first appearance of the latter on English stage. Fanny Ellsler arrived at B er li n on the 29th vitsoi and in the evening was serenaded by the mem bess., the orchestra of the I m p er i a l t h eatre, under her dows at the Hotel d'Ems. She has engaged to twenty nights at Berlin. SPO7RITING. The great sale o f bl oo d stock by Messrs. Tsttl 31.514:101 and Son, cons i s ti ng o f t h e Earl of Chesterfield ' s • of the Hon. Ge orge A nson ' s stud, took place at El r e Park, on F r id ay . All t h e high-priced horses 10'1, up " r , at from 1,000 to 2,000 guineas were, without ( tion, bought in. A bay filly, by Touchstone, . duced 300 guineas, but the rest of the sales we re most wholly confir.ed to those under 100 guinea 5 ' C OURT - rasmaomkrair. nd The Queen Dowager has taken the mansion grounds of Lord De Mauley, called Cranford - .1?S" ' for two years, and intends, by the advice of her sicians, to pass the .winter there. Lord De Grey is expected from Frankfort, in James's-square, at the close of the week. Earl Powlett has returned to Hinton St.. W irt ' Somersetshire, from a tour. Lord and Lady John Russell intend tes rema in Endsleigh Cottage, Devonshire, until the e fst November, and then they in tend to retr ire to 1 P — grave-square, for her Lady•slaip's confine' ,vent. 0 1 Sir Robert Peel is expected to visit the Duk e Northumberland, at Alnwick, on 7 is return •" - , - ).l' Edinburgh. ItaIt3ESCELLANEOW 3. W The preparations for the e ,reester Ax• -- Festival are rapidly completing, I P:J( 1 w i th t h e n ew leries, and the other seats, ar2cov arnodation afforded to 2,500 and upwa r d s .• M. Gudin, the painter, h as , peir Lion of the Netherl an d s. ar— on King of Holland. confhad.m d the O h rd m er b e y ' tbe o 0 NATIONAL GALLERT.—The (caller- was cloa° - A Saturday , fe,r the usual vacation six 3 weeks. to aa'a interesting additions have just been rov .- f tbß the coThecti on o f p i ctures; these as e " The Murder 0 00 Innocents,' by Raphael, properly speaking, a cart°ts of is phiced at the top o f th e staircase , beside the cart oo Agristini Carracci, the Triumph c f Galatea, and o ' 3 oo' pbedus and A urora. T he cartoon' by Raphael $ 11513 f th e nally present e d b y P . H oare, Es g . to the trustee s z o o Foundling H os pi ta l ; t h ey hower,;;, have found it ti Of appropriat e " a bidi ng place " in the National Gallerii'dooF the will of Mr. Hoare, the truste es o f th e H os pital en" sell the carto on; t h e y h ave thei fore lent it, but th e ,00 ice°, as good as a g if t. thi s cart( on is framed, and roldri behind two lar gr , s h eets o f p l ate glass. The ot her non is a fine prxtrait of the lat., Sir D. Wilk ie ' v .r4e i r ' i and presentee. by Mr. Phillips, t' ne academician. 1 : 1 -oi,' trait is placed Over " The Vilb 'go estival" o f Sire a 1,10 He is dray in with a cloak gracefully thrown o v i A pd shouldecs , and he holds in I its right band a craY, c e .'',:aaft . paper. uring the season, which terminated on Si'L",,tor.' there psis been an unpreceden l Ledly greit.t numbero( . , - • to the G a ll er y. • The following anecdote used to be relnte byp a t h late Mr. Farrit, for mauy years a p ot L ecar y at t f ° Ore General Hospital :—The wife o f a manu f ac turer works, living - ;31 Christmas -street, Bristol, some 1 1 0 the back, one day commanded her servant to go Ig o gir • attic, and bring some article th a t was nee ded. returned. " Vhere have you left th e c andle ?', s tt ee mistress. "I stuck it, ma' am , i n th e b arre l of bla c k . gni' there." "Go," rejoined th e m i s t ress , ver y cooll) 9 0 . 1 0. 56 bring the candle CIO\ vra, and take care you drop n° & 0 0 upon the seed." Tim maid had stuck a liglitedhutt into a barrel of guiqow d er ! Sh e returne d un Slierbourne Journal LAW z~su~.v The Ccur va2ation, an for bail, of eight count The insole mer and car oppOSed by whom he ha( It appear, that he had favour of hi latter Was in the opposi ng Mr. Corn insolvent to I ziven up to The insoly business as liberated up( final hearing. in his schcdul Was incurred buted his ins( of money in which he styl Bail having solvent was lil SURREY These Sessi Bench:f CA l i n ger-lane, heavy, co n t a i n joritv of whon The Court !nterest-to the be taken to-rn( William Cle was Placed at William •Le 'stated. that he 1110 t„ a b out .4 risoner and till nocked him di hly took a silo - was given into The officer v that this was a The father o . very hardwork the time more t Mr. Alderma well of him he and commit him -Elizabeth At P l. egnancy, was 'tie different chi I VARYL rAropence Ti the bar on the f Sergea n t 34, Railway, st a t e d cahs, which cons square terminus refused to drive which was wait cau ght the reins f endant got so vi & Ince of a brothel str the way they eet, defer t o rescueand him. tor some of the would have been Policeman 88. statenient. 11 ,r• RAwursis4 rated ease , and fi oatmtelHu g h e . fu rously. driving d'anpr of the lie Tw o Witnesses .his cart at the rs ran - Against . I pieces 4 when he Titct "Idagistrati William i h i h i' ll :i e p hs' at f boards e l lrnc . eli n o u rt t emh h il o Peeg n t rti i i a ho n lo t eT i e l us l f h Vd e Nr d : as h thd:No e r : ne: ( '' disc-overy of the he . immediately knocked her dow ie. she 7 proceedect though she had .prisoner,_ yet s h e v Mr. TRAI LL sa arainst such an i] have cause to repe The mother ha' urination, he was ( THE MAR. CO: . ,a q , u s i a l r f i l o i s r i t y t f w , r e e b s e t h l ; s s u o a f p r p r l i i , tvari ced 4 s ~ and 11,1,0nday's prices. l"Y at form er tern er, quarter adva nc Zal,flst quoted. 4 I VALS OF GRA rpgii th .. I When r:h.. ........... :: 2'821 °III ......... 13,019 Wh e _ ...._ .t,lied (old) raw . .! ..... ..........7.-- W hite (old) .... . .........---:-........1ted1892)...... ............._ •---- L in p e r . ii . tVe . .. ... -- - -----VV 1 4 ,!fe(1842) . ... ........ - ine . . ......... ~..........7- 7 Superfine ..... /4( .. k Superfine.... . free ..... i kriv .. .. " ..................... ,„.............. iieiinzi .. ........... Dui. . Malting ............. „,,.........:... .......... t.'eUeill!le Ne w.... ....., ...... `......., l' i ,reY, New.... ....._ _±tapte New . ..... • ......--.2 yl/pt 80i1er 5..... ." ...... . • The supplies wet for the best qualiti( 2d. bigher, and V t Pig's little doing, the prime and smal IKI, and prices IA 4,a robs, 28,020; CI t° 4s. 6d.; Mutto 4s ' 4cl ' ; Pork, 2s. ( 1 rNaci , Theee Was a go nd Common C Is. sid., C as h , per I 'PAL 47.5. gdsP k ept up, on the %Pet -months tri Onths of th r,onsuz good b us i ness , ution, 1114-- Li p nseed and Oil ttoytrs SH L.1.0/11:10.11, SEPT. "rier.eSfrom N.N.W IkiL, SEPT. 10.— n'4,114, Strickland, lilikcjaiarabotti,•c a T s c i h d a . rsl u , l, bust , Montserrat I'mngstown, South S( ,Iklustry, M`Fee, Ti 'l,,ighbury, Falconer, Clorinda, Fo 'ktnaica; Florence, bovEn, SEPT. 11.- Aastrali • Falcon, Aus trali a ' , trt, Buenos Ayres ; litleneN Peacock, M tiIIIBTOL, SEPT. 11 LIVERPOOL, SEPI ' e fx St. Helena July lite,. being ashore -I,l4delphia ; India valpakpaso to this pc 14, 1 pert of cargo th 'AT Holyhead this Holyhead and bowsl3l 44stance. lirtt/Tl3y, SEPT. 1( ~4 Scarborough, is '4lcrials saved. THE Klr (From 4_,TANoyER, SEPT to - the bar n"'" 'lraiews of th e 411(I noW c o n fi nel , 4 t t e .happy to see, 1r ,11q-the fever h as a l 'eeov4i may be ex The, latest bulleti • - very go o d n i g h t, '1144-so that he wa ireetnstances and to be looked for 4sa4ng, J)oetor "