The Sun. — London, England, 1854-09-15 00:00:00

phalen, from Oldenburg-Brunswick, ,K7c., to Stock holm ; M. de Canitz, from Turin to Naples ; and Count Oriolla, from Rio Janeiro to Copenhagen. The Prussian Consul-General for the Principa lities will proceed to his post (says Spener's Journal), now that the Austrians have taken possession of those Principalities. The new Turkish •Envoy, Kiamil Effendi, and the members of the Legation, had the honour of being presented to the King this afternoon at Sans Souci, and afterwards dined with their Majesties. The Queen, having been prevented by a slight in disposition from leaving Pilnitz yesterday, joined his Majesty this morning. THE PRUSSIAN DESPATCH. The Cologne Gazette, under its B.lrlin head, says : --" It is known that Austria proposed to have part of the military forces of the Germanic Confedera tion placed on a war-footing. It is also known that Prussia expressed in a circular of Aug. 3 her astonisliment at that proceeding on the part of the cabinet of Vienna. But that is not all. That de spatch of Prussia drew forth a reply from Austria, in which it was said that the position of Austria with respect to her allies in Germany had been badly un derstood, and that the Prussian circular was not of a nature to throw light on that state of things. On the occasion of the treaty of April '2O, negotiations had taken place between the cabinets of Vienna and Berlin, the results of which were set down in a convention. Austria had intended to submit that convention to the Germanic Diet, and Prussia is said to have declared that she admitted, in general, the communication of that docu ment to the Diet at a ' convenient moment.' That is the point on which Austria has based her first circular despatch. The Cabinet of Berlin has at length replied in a new despatch, in which it is said that all depended on what was understood by the expression convenient moment.' This new , despatch of Prussia bears the date of the 31st of August." RUSSIA AND THE UNITED STATES. A Berlin letter iu the Post Anipt Gazette of Frankfort says : " We are able to mention the principal clauses of the maritime convention concluded between Russia and the United States of America on the 23d of July last. Tho contracting parties declare in Article 1 that the following points shall be for them unvarying principles :-Ist. The flag shall cover the cargo, with the exception of contraband of war. 2d. The property of neutrals shall be respected, even in enemies' ships, except as regards contra band of war. The contracting parties engage to extend to the profit of the trade and navigation of all States the application of these principles which they agree to in a permanent and invariable man ner. In the second article the right is reserved of ulteriorly extending these principles which are im mediately to serve as rules in all wars in which Russia or the United States may be engaged. In the third article it is stipulated that the nations who may adhere by treaty to the principles laid down in this convention shall enjoy all the rights arising from it to the present contracting Powers. The latter engage to communicate to each other all the results which may be obtained from the steps that may be taken on this point. It is finally sti pulated in the last article that 'the treaty shall be ratified at Washington within one month." -- - POLAND. It is confidently reported at Warsaw that the favourite of the Czar, the Grand Prince Nicolas, is to he created Viceroy of Poland, with an inde- Pendent Government, under the protection of Russia. The Prince, a member of the Greek Church, will first turn Catholic. ITALY. ARREST OF MAZZINI. The Journal de Geneve, of the 9th, contains the following "A letter from Berne, of the 7th, informs us that Mazzini has been arrested at Basle. He was coming from Berne, where he had spent some days in the house of a patrician, to whom he described himself as an Italian C oun t, gr eatly attached to Austria, and driven into Switzerland by the fear of the cholera. Ac cording to our correspondent, the police has discovered his residence, and was preparing to apprehend him , when he absconded, and left for Basle, under a false allact. • The Government gave notice to the authorities of his arrival and he was arrested on alighting from the diligence." A revolutionary protest is being at present ex tensively c i rcu l a t e d a t Turin, aneis sent by post to the journals ; so at least we presume from our own experience. The object of this protest is to cast a slur upon the pre sen t Government of Switzerland, for its prudence in observing a strict neutrality, and in preventing any revolutionary expeditions from being prepared in Switzerland against the Italian States. The ar gumen t s are very poor, consisting chiefly of a recapitulation of the great deeds performed by Switzerland in th e o ld en ti me to shake off the yoke of Italy, and a complaint that s h e h as now forgot ten all that glorious history, and become the faith ful ally of the Austrian police. Wherefore the writer protests against what he calls the uncon stitutional conduct of Switzerland, and declares that the Italians will revenge themselves upon Switzerland on some future day, by exercising the right of reprisal against the Swiss settled in Italy. A letter from Naples of the 4th, in the Parla ment° of Turin, states that the cholera has sub sided in the former city, after carrying off 6,000 victims. Cardinal Riario has been invested by the Icing with the Order of St. Januarius for his fearless conduct during the epidemic ; he used to get up at five in the morning, and go the round of all the hos pitals, comforting the sick, and performing the duties of religion wherever required. To relieve the most pressing cases of destitution the good prelate raised money upon his plate and upon his estates, without the slightest ostentation. The Parlamento of Turin quotes advices from Rome of the Ist., announcing that the cholera had made much progress there, and that the Chevalier Pistrucci, a well-known artist, and superintendent of the Museum of the Vatican, had died of the disorder. • FRANCE. The Emperor and Empress will, it is said, on the return of the latter from Biarritz, reside for some days at the palace of Compiegne. Great prepara tions are already being made for the reception of their Majesties ; and the hunting establishment has been sent to Compiegne. The Empress has sent a sum of 2,000 f. for the relief of the sufferers from the recent terrible fire at Saint Laurent-du-Pont, in the Isere. The do nation is accompanied by a most gracious letter from her Majesty's secretary. In some of our Paris contemporaries the portion usually devoted to what are called original articles is filled with notices of the preparations for the attack upou Sebastopol, and speculations as to the mode in which it will be made. Most of these, however, are founded on the articles which have appeared in the English journals. The Debats says : " It is admitted that the landing of troops, or the pas sage of a wide river in the presence of the enemy, is one of the most difficult operations of war, and at the same time one of the rarest. According to General Jomini, the numerous armies which the great States keep up in our days, do not allow a descent of 30,000 or 40,000 men, as formerly ; and he regards it as nearly impossible to embark an army of 80,000 or 100,000 men, with its immense apparatus of artillery, cavalry, provisions, and ammunition ; consequently, the com bined army will at the present moment have executed what that great strategical writer looked on as impos sible. The experience of history demonstrates, he adds, the difficulties of a naval expedition, den for bodies of 50,000 or 40,000 men only. There it is evident, he says, that with these restricted forces a descent ought to be attempted only against isolated colonies, or against a Power of the second rank which could not be immediately supported, or to effect a momentary diversion against a State whose troops would be occu pied at a distance from the spot by a groat war. And thus the descent which is now being effected in the Crimea with a whole army, in face of a hostile army fully on its guard, will constitute a feat of arms as striking as it is new in the annals of modern wars, and which ought to strike the masters of the art with astonishment." The question of disposing in France of the pri soners from Bomarsund has already given birth to a number of applications from various towns in Prance. Cherbourg requests to have them to aid in executing the works in its port ; Algiers for the cultivation of the ground in its vicinity ; Nantes for the drainage of the Lake of Grandlieu ; and Orlean s f or th e i mprove met of the Sologne. hat ever occupation they may be assigned (and it is certain that they will not be left unemploye d ) , they ar e sure o f humane treatment. General Count d'Hautpoul, c ommander-in-chief of the camp of the south, has announced to the authorities and to the Archbishop of Aix that the mperor will visit the camp in the month of Octo ber. Marshal Baraguay arrived in Paris yesterday, and left this morning for Boulogne. The following telegraphic despatch arrived last night :—" This night a fire broke out in the goods warehouse of the Ik ries Railroad, it is said in three different parts. Although immediate and active aid was received, the whole, among which was a great number of bales of cotton, was consumed. The warehouse was insured for 500,000 f." W e read in the Al oniteur de la Flotte :—" The Messager de la Manche announces as positive the arrival, next month, at Cherbourg, of the eAtire of our Baltic squadron. This report, if not entirely groundless, is Av least premature, as there is nothing official known as yet on the subject.. England herself is undecided what she will do with her ships. The sailing vessels are recalled, but the steamers have received no such orders. Probably the latter will only retire by degrees, according as they shall be driven out by the ice, and this hap pens some seasons earlier than others. Besides, we may be certain that as long as an English vessel re mains in the Baltic, we shall see a French vessel sharing the same fatigues and dangers." The Three per Cents. closed yesterday at 74f. 10c. for the end of the month ; the 41 per 'Cents. at 97f. 75c. ; and the New Loan, at 73f. 70c. ; Orleans Railway Shares, 1,235 f. ; Ronen, 970 f.; Havre, 532 f. 50c. ; Great Northern, 855 f. ; Stras burg, 807 f. 50c. ; New Shares, 632 f. 50c. ; Paris and Lyons, 977 f. 50c. ; Lyons and the Mediter ranean, 875 f. ; Western of France, 665 f. ; Bor deaux and Cette, 613 f. ; Great Central of France, 516 f. ; Lyons and Geneva, 532 f. 50c. ; Bank of Credit Mobilier, 728 f. 75c. SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 9th, which ought to have arrived yesterday, and those of the 10th, duo this morning, have come to hand. The Gazette contains the following circular from the Minister of the Interior to the Governors of provinces : " The liberty of printing and publishing his opinions, guaranteed to every Spaniard by the Constitution of the State, must not be extended in such a way as to cause every one to believe that he is authorised in neglect ing to obey the laws which regulate the exercise of it. The laws tend not only to prevent the press from making an abusive use of its sacred ministry, by con verting liberty into license, but also to prevent govern ments from giving false interpretations to principles, so as to impose unjust embarrassments on citizens in the exercise of such an important right. They are then a reciprocal guarantee for the press as regards the go vernment, and the government as regards the press, and maintain them both in the sphere of their rights. It is therefore necessary that the laws shall be a truth both for one and the other, and penetrated with that convic tion, her Majesty has deigned to order that your Excel lency shall scrupulously see in your province to the exe cution of the laws of 1837 and 1842, which have been provisionally re-established by royal decree of the Ist August of the present year, and by the circular of the same month. By royal order, I communicate this to your Excellency, in order that it may have full force and effect. God keep your Excellency many years. "SANTA CRUZ. "Madrid, sth September." The Gazette publishes a Royal decree which sus pends the decree of the Bth February last relative to tho Stock Exchange, and enacts that the nomi nation of brokers shall be suspended, as their num bers are to be reduced to a third. Major-General Bristow, an Englishman, who has constantly contended for liberty in Spain, and who has, been exiled by one of the preceding go vernments, has returned to Madrid. The Clamor Publico says : " Aranjuez has just witnessed deplorable events. According to some persons, cries of Hurrah for the Republic !' were set up, but others state that an at tempt to raise a Carlist band was made. What is cer tain is, that a conflict took place in which one pocr wretch was killed and another wounded ; but that the forces of the town, commanded by M. Valera, the new director, checked the movement, and made twenty pri soners, Naomi he sent to Madrid, escorted by the na tional guard." At Malaga some alarm had been occasioned by the assassination by a blind beggar of one of the commanders of the national guard. The na- tional guard immediately demanded that the man should be shot, and the Government could only tranquillise them by promising prompt and severe justice. In several other parts of the kingdom., and especially in Estramadura and La Mancha, disturbances had taken place in connection with the municipal elections. The appearance of Car list bands in the provinces of Caceres and Toledo is mentioned ; but the Espana states, on authority of a letter from Paris, that the Count de Monte molino has sent a circular to his partisans, calling on them to remain quiet, and not to attempt to light up civil war. The Duke de Valencia had not left Logo up to the 4th, but was about to set. out for Malaga to embark for Marseilles. The Duchess de la 'Victoria, wife of Espartero, passed through Vittoria on the 6th, on her way to St. Sebastian, and was received with almost frantic enthusiasm. A. French steamer, the Chacal, arrived at Barcelona on the 6th to convey back to 'France a number of poor Frenchmen without means of subsistence. SHARE MARKETS, (THIS DIY.) Shr. BRITISH RAILWAYS. 'termAn. !Olosint Price! 1 yesterday. 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Y. &NMI D 0........ . jDo.., S. Eastern Do 'Pet* &Co. !Norfolk... L.& N. W. & Midld. Stckton & Darlingt. E. Count. D 0.. . L. & N. W &Ln&Yk Do GtNorthn Cancash& Yorksh. M.llClean Stockt. & Darlingt latwestii PREFERENCE SHARES. THE FRENCH ARMY IN THE BAST. The Montteur says :—" The situation of our army in the East justly occupies the attention of the public ; persons badly informed have expressed a fear that the military administration could not sufficiently provide for all the wants of such a con siderable number of men. In order to remove all uneasiness, it is merely necessary to point out what has been done by the administration, to prove that solicitude could not have been carried further " Food.—The regular ration of meat of 250 grammes has been increased to 350 (rather more than the fib English) ; the ration of bread froth 760 grammes to 1,000 (about 21b 3ozs. English) ; and that of rice from 30 to 60 grammes. A good ration of coffee and sugar is given every day to the soldier, and replaced occasionally by a ration of wine. The distributions have been re gularly made from the very first day, and have gone on without interruption. The quantity of provisions which had been lauded on the 20th ult., on the different points of the theatre of operations, will give an idea of the zeal and efforts which have been exercised to secure the re gular supply of our army in the East : Flour sufficient for 7,670,000 rations • biscuit, for 4,830,030 ; rice, for 27,740,000 ; live cattle, for 5,200,000 ; salt beef, for 520,000 ; salt pork, for 2,140,000. To the above must be added the following supplies delivered at the end of August :—Live cattle sufficient for 2,800.000 rations ; wine, for 2,110,000 ; brandy, for 946,000; sugar and coffee, for 5,730,000 ; a further quantity of coffee and sugar for 4,584,000 rations w.is expected at the end of August. The consumption up to the end of August may be estimated at about 8,500,000 rations, leaving in store for the ulterior wants of the army 4,000,000 rations of bread and biscuit, 19,000,000 of rice, 2,160,000 of meat, and 4,870,000 of wine ) sugar, and coffee. It must be remarked that, up to the present time, two-thirds of the consumption of the army has been in fresh meat, and the same proportion will be maintained for the future. The making of bread has been secured by the means of twenty-four field ovens sent from France, independently of the permanent ovens which have been constructing on different points.—Clothing, equipment, and camp equip %re —Every man is provided with all the articles set down in the military regula tions. To these are added such others as the expe rience of the war in Algeria and the anticipation of a rigourous winter to be passed on the coast of the Black Sea have proved to be necessary for the health and comfort of the soldier. In order to meet these additional wants without taking into account the re newal of the supply of toe regular articles of equip ment there are about to be sent to the army of the East : Flannel belts 137,600 Great coats with hoods 70,000 Worsted gloves (pairs) 70,000 Sheepskin gaiters (pairs).. 70,000 Cachias 70,000 Sheepskin great coats 15,000 Cotton shirts 280,000 Shoes (pairs) 290,000 Leather gaiters (ditto) 24,000 Linen gaiters (ditto) 25,000 Boots (ditto) 21,000 Half-boot (ditto) 6,500 Drawers (ditto) 21,000 together with a large supply of blankets, tents, ves sels for cooking, and for the use of the different messes ; camping tools, pickaxes, shovels, hatchets, and every other necessary. The administration has besides sent out everything necessary for the formation of a foreign legion of 2,000 infantry and 1,000 cavalry. The service of the permanent and field hospitals has been also abundantly attended to. The arrangements made will allow for the accommodation of 8,250 sick. Each of the hospitals is abundantly supplied with every necessary. The linen supplie iis sufficient for 180,000 dressings. Every attention has also been given to the supply of such articles as may be necessary for the food of the sick, There are 15 regularly-organised pharma cies with a supply of medicines sufficient for 7,500 sick for 3 months, and there has been a central depot estab lished at Constantinople, which has a supply in reserve sufficient for 6 months. It will be thus seen that from the moment of the arrival of our troops on the theatre of war, and uninterruptedly until this day, their wants have been supplied, and that there are considerable quantities in reserve. These supplies will continue to be kept up with perfect regularity, so that no part of the service will ever be allowed to be in want." THE LICENSED VICTUALLERS AND THE BEER LAW. At a public meeting of liMsed victuallers, held in the saloon of Drury-lane Theatre, on Thursday week, it was determined, on account of certain circumstances which attended the passing of the recent act for the better re gulation of the sale of beer, to found a new association of their body for mutual defence and protection, and a committee of 20 members was appointed to draw up a series of rules, and to form its constitution, subject to the approval of the general body of subscribers. Yesterday the committee presented the rules, on which they had decided, to a general meeting, in the same place, presided over by Mr. T. B. Simpson, of Cremorne Gardens. On the motion of Mr. Foster, seconded by Mr. Grimes, the rule was agreed to which enacted that the society be called the Metropolitan and Provincial Licensed Victuallers' Defence Association, and that its objects should be to get an immediate relaxation of the beer law ; to strive for its total repeal ; to take steps to promote the urgent intereAs of the trade, consistently with the wants and requirements of the public ; and so soon as existing societies, and the paper belonging to a great number of the members, would fulfil their duty to the trade, to work with them in combined action. The other rules, which comprehended the organisa tion necessary to carry out the foregoing objects, were all unanimously agreed to, and the proceedings brought to a close by the usual complimontary Tote. MONE .ONE. Al i, it, KE 1' AND 0031.11 EECIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWO o'CLOCK. The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were estimated at 6,000 bales, including 1,500 American taken for export and on speculation. The market was very tame, and prices were un changed. The sales comprised 4,500 American, 100 Pernam and Maranham at 61d. to 0 Bahia at 6d., 800 Egyptian at 50. to 6id., and 600 Surat at 3d. to 4id. per lb. Railway Shares were quiet. Culonial produce this week has been taken to a limited extent only, and prices have varied but little. a Tallow is an article that has suffered rather decidedly, having declined. Tea has been heavy also, and in Cotton there has not been much done. There have been a few transactions in Rum, and Spices have been quiet. Sugar has been dull, and in Coffee the dealings have been limited. A mode rate business has been done in Saltpetre. The number of ships arrived in the Thames yes terday from foreign parts was 44 besides 45 colliers. There are further arrivals from Australia with bullion freights. The Indian Queen from Mel bourne arrived in the Mersey, brings 70,000 ounces, or rather less according to other reports. The Rodney from Sydney has 7,950 ounces and 6,5001. The dates are old. The increase in the rate of postage, as established by the Legislative Council of Victoria, is in itself a measure so unwise, that not even the plea of de ficient income will avail in palliation. A Sydney journalist very impartially adverts to this subject, and adduces the experience, not alone of the mother country, but likewise of New South Wales, against the revival of dear postage. The following is the view he takes : " While it is acknowledged that the Council had felt justified in the course they had taken, in imposing in creased rates of postage, mainly on a view of the utter disproportion of the postage receipts to the expendi ture incurred. in the conveyance of mails, and of the necessary extension of postal communication, Mr. La Trobe charitably trusts that these increased rates will not offer a bar to that interchange which is so much conducive to the advancement of civilisation. We thought it had been clearly under stood by this time, throughout the whole British em pire, that so far as the advancement of civilisation is dependent upon postal communication, the great art of adapting the means to the end is to make the charge for communication both cheap and uniform. After an experience of some fifteen years, the mother country has verified this truth to her full satis faction, and to the satisfaction, as was supposed, of all her colonies. We have tried the experiment in New South Wales, and an experience of more than four years attests its wisdom, whether viewed in its fiscal or in its social character. Nay, so deeply had we become convinced of its importance as a help to the cause of civilisation, that for the last two years our Government have been doing all they could to induce the whole of the Australian colonies to co-operate in placing their postal relations upon a footing of cheapness and uniformity. To the best of our recollection, the appeal was responded to favourably from every one of them, even (so far at least as her Exe cutive was concerned) from Victoria herself. And now the hoped for arrangement is rudely destroyed by this legislative blunder ! The reformatory process has been reversed, and, by the enactment of a law in direct an tagonism to the spirit of the age, the Legislature of Vic toria has made itself unenviably conspicuous amongst her colonial sisterhood." The market for United States Securities has been very dull this week. The report which gains ground as to the proba bility of a new French loan, is naturally calcu lated to interest all parties who watch the money market. The sum that will be required is stated at 16,000,0001., and if this statement be correct, it would appear that the expenditure of our neighbours for domestic as well as warlike purposes, more than keeps pace with our own. Anyone visiting France, and more especially Paris, at this moment, must be sensible of the large outlay which the State is incurring, the pub lic works department alone absorbing a good sum, but while so much is expended at home, the indus trious classes benefit, however the public burdens may be augmented. It is an evil that borrowing should have to be resorted to, but there is no al ternative when a war struggle is being carried on, between immediate and onerous taxation and re course to loans. Here we have seen great opposi tion to Mr. Gladstone's plans for raising the larger part of the war expenses by increased imposts, but the results promise to be salutary. There has been a heavy tone again in the Eng lish funds, and the quotations have not recovered from the depression which occurred yesterday afternoon. The statement about a new loan for Prance, acting upon a dull market, is the cause. Consols have been 95 tog for transfer, and from 95 g have receded t 0•95 i for account. __ __ The New 31 per Cents. have been done at 831, and since at 82:/ for special delivery. Exchequer-bills have been at Gs. to 98., and East India Bonds at 10s. premium. Foreign Securities are heavy. Spanish Three per-Cents. have receded to 371 and the Deferred to Mexican Bonds have been at 24i to 25, and Brazilian New at 96. The Turkish Scrip down to 43 to 5 premium. There are no bargains in Dutch or Russian Stocks. Sardinian have been quoted 88. The following are the nominal prices of foreign stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 6 to 61- ; Mexican, 241 to 241 ; Peruvian, 70 to 72 ; ditto 3 per Cents., 51 to 53 ; Portuguese 4 per Cents., 40 to 42 ; Russian 5 per Cants., 98 to 100 ; ditto, 4i per Cents., 88 to 90 ; Spanish Now Deferred, 181 to 18i ; ditto 3 per Cents., 37i to 381 ; ditto Certificates. 51 to 5/ ; ditto Passive 4 to 41. _ - Railway Shares have been at rather lower rates than yesterday, the effect of the settlement having in some measure passed away. The decline is most perceptible in Lancashire and Yorkshire, North- Western and Berwick. The foreign lines are still merely nominal. For the Gold and other Mining Shares there is no inquiry, the Banks are firm, though quiet, and the Crystal Palace have not recovered. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the CfJica List. ) Bu 111239 done. 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 9ss A I New 2i per Cent. Annuities India Bonds, £lOOO Ditto, under £lOOO lO p Consols for Account 17th Oct. Exchequer Bills, 24d. £lOOO Small 6 Exchequer Bonds 1858, 3 per Cent. — Ditto 1859, „ PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent — Ditto New, 1852, 4i per Cent 96 Mexican 3 per Cent. Pardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent.. ...... . Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent 374 Spanish New Deferred, 3 per Cent. lB4 Spanish Committee Cort. of Coup. not fun SA Turkish Scrip -43 Dividends on the above payable in London. HALP•PAST TWO. Consols Ditto October Account The Belfast News Letter gives the number of cases of cholera that had occurred in Belfast from Tuesday morn ing, the sth inst., to Monday night last, as follows : Number of cases, 108 ; died, 34 ; cured, 32 ; sent to hospital, 21 ; remaining under treatment, 48. The fol lowing is the return from the commencement of the disease up to the present period :—Number of cases, 735 ; died, 192 ; cured, 233 ; sent to hospital, 256 ; re maining under treatment, 48. STATE OF TRADE.—The continued inactivity in the lace trade aupears to be operating dishearteningly on the spirits of our manufacturers, and they begin to indulge the impression, that unless the long•expected improve ment absolutely sets in between the 20th and 30th inst., little hope remains of doing a successful autumn busi ness, and their hopes must be directed onwards to the spring. Meanwhile no change has occurred, and things remain exactly where they were, the protracted character of the existing dulness being regarded as its most unfa vourable symptom. The state of the American Money Market continuing still to be so unsatisfactory restricts hosiery business to home transactions ; no shipping trade is doing. The manufacturers, however, are grateful that the very multiplicity of branches into which the trade has gradually extended renders the home demand ade quate to cause fair employment to be kept up. Those unacquainted with the ramifications of the trade could scat cely, indeed, have any conception of the extent and variety of these additions to our hosiery manufactures, or the vast range included in its productions, from the s fo hosieryr tlie Austral i anis i ndebted t la o rg th e oelastic h underclot hing branches, technically known comprisingk no h w a n h3 a s jumpers p i p a e n r t s al f o o o r pantaloons," e " mhoamrkeet. It is and is t o for the maintenance of its energies in the absence of a Atom-able foreign business , —Nottingltantetireauaraion. theeseeleer coloured resources belt that 100 20 25 25 25 50 50 100 100 20 50 20 25 t3hr. I PI Aberdeen 8: Ambg. Nottng. Bost and Eastn. Junct 11 Belfast & Ballymena 11 Birming. Wolverh. & Stour Valley... '9I Birken.hd. Lancsh. & Cheshire Junct 11 Do. Chesh. & Birk., £5O and £25 Cons. .9 Do., £20...... ...... 40 Myth & Tyne original £25 (issd. at £45) 00 Bristol and Exeter... 00 Caledonian .s. Cal marthen and Car digan 50 all Chester & Holyhead 50 all Cork and Bandon 20 all Cork, Bl dr Pass 20 14 C0rnwa11 .... ., 10 13 . Crieff Junction 50 45 Dublin &Belfa.stJune 25 d Dundee Perth &Aber - deen Junction al Do. New. ..... )0 East Anglian al Eastern Counties...., )0 Eastern Union, A Stock ............... .00 De., B. Stock ......... 8:3 Do., New A. ........ 10 East Lancashire .... 10 Edinburgh& Gl asgow Edinb. and Peebles... 10 Edin.Prtii &Dundee 1 Forth & Clyde June. )0 Glasgow& S. Western 10 Great Northern ...... 10 Do., A. Stock ..... .... . 10 Do., B. Stock ........ /0 Gt. Sth. &West. (Ire. 10 Great Western..,, 10 Do. Stour Val. Rail Gua. Stk .............. 11 Irish South-Eastern, 11 Lancaster & Carlisle 4 Do., Thirds 4 Do. New Thirds...... Lancash. andYorksh BA. Do., Fifths 1 Do., Wst. Riding Un 11 Liv.Crsby.&Southpt 11 Loudon & Blaekwal 10 Lond.Bright&S.Cst Lond. and N. Westn .2 Do. Fifths 1 Do.lo/.5h.,M&8... , 2A Do. Eighths 10 London and S. Westn l 2! Do., £5O 14 Do., £4O dl Lndudrrydr Coleraine al Lndndrry. &Enuisk. !Ilanch.Shef.& Lincln 4;, Do., Man. & Lin. Un ktidland 10 Do. Birmng. & Derby dl Aidld. G. West. (Ire.) 2', Do. Half Shares 11 Newcastle & Carlisle 5.1 Newmkt.BuryExten .9i Nwpt.Aberg. &1161 ' 5 Newry &Enniskillen 11 Newry Warreupoint and Rostrevor X) Norfolk 3'. Northn.Counties Un )0 North British ill North Devon, No. 1 ill Do., No. 2 11 Do., s A Deferred 11 Do., B Guaranteed 10 N. Eastern—Berwick !O Do. do. Extension .3 Do.do. G.N. E. Purch .11 Do. Leeds ........ 10 Do. York di North London.. 8 Do. New XlO lE N.&S.Wstrn.,Hamp• stead, and City Jn 71- North Staffordshire Ili North Western al N. &S. Westrn. 1 Nuneaton, Hinckley and Leicester )0 )xford, Worcester, & Wolverhampton 4 Portsmouth )0 Scottish Central )0 Scottish Midland Shrewsby. & Heroftl ill Shropshire Union Do. A, B, C,& paid up at per cent Lll South Devon 10 south Eastern al south Wales L 5 Yrksh. & Riv. Dur 5 Do ........ . 8 itaines,Wok &Wok al 4 tockton & Darling 6 , , Stockton & llartlepl 1 . Pia Vale . Do. £lO shares. St. 11 1.3 A 31 12 22 1 1' 25 1 3i St. 10 St. 10 10 2L 25 I al St. li 25 • 1 St. ID 12 al 50 al 19i 14 1: 20 al 11, al St. 101 50 St. 10 1 16 a] 16 al 8 a] 8 a] St. 10 25 21 25 1: 50 a] St. 11l 50 50 I a] 50 a 20 1 20 20 25 a St. 1100 Do. Pref., No. 25 I 21 rl.taancs Haven Doc and Railway d Vale of Neath 11 Waterfd. & Kilkenny 11 Waterford&Limerick 6 West Cornwall 3 West End of London and Crystal Palace West London. Wimbledn k Croydoi 20 al 20 al 50 al 20 11 20 I a 10 8. 10 (a 20 21 131 1 FOREIGN. Antwerp&Rotterdam Belgian Eastn. June Beziers to Graissessac Bombay, Baroda, and Central In dia,Scrip Central of Italy Demerara Dijon and Besancon Dutch Rhenish Eastern of France Do. New East Indian Do. Extension Do. 41p. c. Bds., pay '57, convertible 17i a] 20 20 1 20 al 20 li 20 a] 20 100 a] Do. do. do., '59, do Gd: Junet. of France Gd. Tk of CanaclaA is. Do. do Do. St. Lawrence & Atlantic do. Do. Cert, of Deben , con. into Stk. till '63 Do. Comp. 6 p. c. , do. Gt. Central of France Gt. Indian Poninsulal Do. Now 5 per cent. Gt. Western of Canada Shares Do. Ms., payable's7 with option till '55 , 1 Do. do., '62, p. '56 Do, '76, p. '6 O Do. d 0 .., '73, without 0 p ti0n ................ Hamilton & Toronto Do. 6 per cent. Lake Coust. & Basle Lucca & Pistoja 5 p.c. great Luxembourg Cons tituted Shar es Do. Obligations,,, Lyons and Geneva Lyons 4 Mediterrun. ‘ladras Do. Now.,, Nlaria Antonia Do. do. New .... R . Nfolbotume Dk, d r Namur & Liege (with interest) .... Do. (ex intere s t), Northern of Franco D o .20/. Shs.late Char leroi and Erquelines guar. 3 p. c. & red. at 221/. dur, 88 yrs. from 1 Jan. 1854..., Do. 201. 3 p. c Bdp. (fmy.B.&Ams.Shs.) NorwegianTrunkPr Paris and Ly0n5,..... IDitto Bonds 1001 al, 20 i 1 20i al 100 a] 20i a] 100 al 20 1 20 11 20 1' 20 1: 20 2 33i 3 10 al 20 ' 20 al 10 a] 20 1 , 40 al 20 a] 20 a] 20 li 20 a] 20 L 20 al 10 so: 20 1 20 1! 20 ll 20 1 Paris and Orleans... (Paris and Rouen..... ParisCaen & Cherbr Rouen and Havre Royal Danish Royal Swedish Sambre and Meuse._ Do. 54 p. cent. Prof. Southern of France St. Andrew's and Quebec (A) West Flanders 20 1 21 611 Do 54 . per c. Pref._ .0 Western of France .6 West. of Switzerland .11 Wiesbaden 0 Zealand JOINT-S! .1 Australasia 1 British Colonial Bank and Loan Company 11 British N. American 5 Chartd. Bank of Asia 2 Chrtd. Buk. of India, Australia, & China 15 Colonial 0 Commercial of Lond 4 English Scottish and Australian 11 Lond. Chart. Bk. of Australia 20 London and County 10 London Joint Stock 20 Lond. & Westminster 35 National Provincial of England 10 Do. New 22 National of Ireland all - Now South Wales._ all Oriental Bank of Corporation 25 Provincial of Ireland all Do. New 1 Royal Australn.Bkg & Gold Imp Co all south Australia all Union of Australia Do. New 10 Union of L0nd0n..,, , 40 al 40 1 a] per cent. 13i 66 St. St. St. St. RAILWAYII• all Bedford and Bletchley . 100 Buckghamsh 100 Clydesdale Jc. 100 E. Lincoln gr. 6 per cent. all alas. Barr. &, Nails. Direct] all Do. New all Castr.& Dn. Fr' all firtlpl. Dk. & Railway all Hull & Selby all Do. Shares. all Do. Shares. all Lon.& Greeuw all Do. Preference all Lon., Til., &S. 100 Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent. 1.00 Do. 6 per ct. all Manch. Bath. and Matlock all Kiddlosbre' & Redcar all Nlidld.Bradfd all gorthern and Easternsp.c. all Do. 6 per et. all Do. Fixeds p all Prest. & Wyre all Do. Shares. LOO Etoystn.&llit. 18 Shef.Roth.and Gooleg.s p.c. 9i S. Staffordsh. all WearValleygr 6 per cent all Do 100 I Wilts&Somrst ,100 :Aberdeen 100 Do. No. 2,7 p. c 30 Blyth and Ty-no lOp er c. pref. (issd. at 500 100 Bris. & Ex. 4p. c. St. 5 Do. 4 p. c. Shares LOO Caledonian £lO all Chester & Holyhead Guar. 5i per cent._ all Do. do. Pref. No. 2 all Do. do. Pref. No. 2 , all Cork &Bandons jp.c l all Dundee Perth &Aber-, deen Junction all EastAnglian (X3los) 6 per cent all Do. (£z) 7 per cent 2 Do. (.£7 17s) 7p. c all Eastern Counties Ex- Itension, 5 p. c. No. 1 all !Do. No. 2 all Do. New 6 p. c. St. all Eastern Union, Scrip Guar. 6 per cent all Do. 51., 10 per cent. all Do. 101. Debentr.Sh all Do. do. 4 per cent WO East Lancash. 6 p.ets all East and West York shire June. Fifths all EdinbPrth.&Dnndee 4 per cent. L.OO Glasgow & S.Western Guar. 5 per cent._ DO Great Northn. sp. c. DO Do. 5 p. c. Redeem., at 10 p. c. prem. DO Do. 4Y p. c 8i Gt.N. of Scot. Ist Pref all Gt. Southn.&Westni. (Ireland) Eighths) 6 Do. 4 per c. Prof. St 6 Gt. Westn. (Boris & - Hants Ex. ti p. WO Do. eon. red. 4 i p.c.l 100 Do. con. red. 4p. e. WO Do. hTed. 4 p.c. all Do. Birm. Pref. Sh all Do. Chester Bp. e.P. S all Do. do. 5 p. e. do LOO Do. Birm. Gua. Stk all Do. Ches. Gua. Stk all Do. do. do all Do. do. do .... ... ..... 6 Lan. & York. F. £2O [OO Do. 6 P. c. Stock 100 'London and Brighton Guaranteed 5 p. c 100 Do. Pref., sp. e. St. WO Do. New Guar.6 p. c. 100 Lon.&N. W., Cov. & 'Cuneaton 5 p. et , 5 London &S. Western Con. Thirds all I Londonderry& Coler i Shares -- - • - -- - - -- Xll Candy. & Ennie. i Sh, all Han Shef & Lin. i Shares, No. 1. all Do. New, £lO 4i Do. a all' Ilarypt & Carl. 4 p.e all , I Do. 41 per cent. iNiDo...: 100 . Aid. Consol.6 p.c.St. 100 Do. Consol. Bristol SL, Binn. 6 per cent 11 Do. Pref. 41per cent S Norfolk Debenture 100 Do. Prof. 4p. c. Stock 100 Do. sp. c. Ext. . . 100 Do. 56 per ct. prof 100 Do. Way. Val. sp. 100 north British Iwo i V. E. Beres, 4 p.o. P. 5 Do. do. do 13 Do. Leeds 6 p.c. No.l 9 Do. do. Quarters '45 10 Do. York H.& s. Phr. all North Staffordshire 100 Oxford, Worcester, & Wolverh.Xls,6 p.c. all scot. Cent., New Prei 10 Do. 5 per cent all I south Devon, 11 J. fixed, 4i per cent all 3. Eastern (Reading Anu.) of £1 Os. 6d. ,00 Do. 4i per cent all 4.Yorksh.4p.c.Guar all 3. Wales Gila. 4p. 16 Do, do. 4 p. c all litoekton - and Dar• lington, 4 per cent 5 Do. do. do, all -3 tockton and Hartle• pool, guar. 5 p. c. till Ist July, 1856 4 Waterfd.kKilk.6p.c. all Aqua Fria . • all Anglo Austrin. Gold all A.nglo Californian 6 Australian all Australian Cordillera all Australian Freehold all Ave Maria all Baden (Gd.Dachy of) 1 all BlEenarvon Iron and Coal .. 13.5 British Iron 24i Brazilianlmp. (issued at £.5 pm all Do. Comes & Cuiatia 15 Do. St. John Del Rey A Carsons's Creek 4 Clarendon Cons. Min - Co. of Jamaica, all Cobre Copper ... 1 Colonial G01d.... all Copper Min. of Eng. all Do. Pref. 7i p. cent, 16 Copiapo all English and Austin, Copper Smeltg. Co i Fortuua ali General.. all Gt.NuggetVeinßeg all Great Polgooth. all Liberty all Linares. all I Mariquita 9 Mexija.n&S.Amerien all New Granada all New Linares Mining' and Smelting C 0.... all Nouveau Monde all Pontgibaud Silver Lead Min. & Smelt 1 Port Philip all Quartz Rock all Ithymney Iron all Do. New 11 Santiago de Cuba all South Australian 7i Pin Croft all United Mexican all Waller all I West Mariposa 12s. Worthing Mining of Australia all Yuba all lubin Coal and Iran 17?, Australian Agricult. 6 A.ustralsn.Pcific.Mail all Australn. Royal Mail 4 Berlin Water Works 40 Brit. American Land 1 Brit. tis Coln. Smeltg. and Reduction CO.. 32i Canada 100 Canada Gov. 8 p. et Jan. and July all Crystal Palace all Crystal Pal.of France 5 Eastern Steam 20 El ectri c Tel egmph(A) all Electric Teleg. of Ir. 14 Gem Steam Navigat. all General Screw Steam 10 Irish Beetroot Sugar 10 Magdalena St. Navig. all Mediteran. Elec. Tel. all Nat. Pat. Steam Fuel 5 Netherlands Land 1 N. S. W. Coal & Inter Steam Navigat. Co all N. B. Australasial 121 Nrth. ofEuropeSteam all Peel Rr. Ld. & Minrl. all Peninsular& Oriental 40 Do. Do. all Portland Iron Co 60 Royal Mail Steam nil Scot. Austral. Invest. all South Austral. Land all 'Submar. Telegraph all Do. Registered. 284 Van PiliIIII)V3 Laud ••• - 95 - 100 98 - 100 137 - 140 ii := io 100 - 102 - 50 51 25 -- 254 12i -- 134 23 -- 24 11i -11 i 21 - 2i e'i 7_ ii 58 -- 60 135 = lii ..• ... 21 : lid 36 1 ii 93 - 95 98 _:ioo ¢6- 5 1 f - i Pj 1 -- lip I -14 p 13i -13 i 22 - 24 [Closing Prices yesterday. 3j - 31 ••• ...Yd 114 116 107 - 109 100 - 102 6 -- 6A 9 9 -- 101 90 -- 92 94 -- 96 11 -- 114 17 -- 18 10i -- 11 75 -- 77 20 -- 21 10 -- 104 15 -- 154 -- id 1 137 -- 138 ••• -- ..., ••• - ••• 21 - 2i-p 7 - 8 10 - 12 8 - 9 11i- 12 - iP 136 138 It id S 7 - 90 1.03 - 106 92 - 94 3i - 4 i LT id 114 - 116 12 - 1 , 4 i - }p . 23i - 24 99 - 101 • • • • 2 1 d MINES. i - 1 l• .2 . i - : i • •• .... •• i''''' i 8 - 8i 34 - 3i if - 24 26 - 23 42 - 44 1 - 52 - 57 11 - 1 2 1 li - 2 i - iP # 1 a 8 ... 9 a I 1! 4 -- I 6i - 26 -- 28 8 - 9 3i - 31 l it : i ••• - ••• 42 - 44 65• •• -70 ••• ki =0 109 - 110 3 - 3# idi —l7i ... - ••• i •-• li • •• ..... • •• i i 1 7- il ••• - ••• 2 -- 2ix ••• - •.• 2 2ixd 37 39 1 1 2= 13 Business this day. Ntrtttons DONCASTER RACES. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) 200 SOVS SWEEPSTAKES. .Walked over, Appollonius.. PARK HILL STAKES. Honeysuckle . Jetty Treffz Eister of Mercy Three ran. DON STAKES. A.ndover Hospodar DONCASTER STAKES. Acrobat . Ivan ....... -...........might ran. ... 2 TOWN PLATE. _ Sir Rowland Trenchard .............. 1 .......... 1 King of Trumps . HuncaMunca ................................................. 3lATCH.—Meanee filly beat Miss Whip filly. NURSERY PLATE. at lb. Capucine 7 2 f by Launcelot out of ifillingham's dam f by Pyrrhus the 'stout of Comnore's dam 7 2 Palmerston 7 0 Knight of Village 7 0 Charmian 7 0 Spencer 7 0 Slave 7 0 Little Brownie 7 0 Gimcrack 6 12 Evangeline 6 12 Thetis Ainslie 6 10 Mariposa 6 9 Wheatear 6 9 10 10 tz 20 I 1' 20 al 73 'I I So' 74 3i 41 31 2$ 21 6; 6; 1041 3i x d 3 1041 i 5 254 72j I 4 ad' 25 17 db. 20 12i 25 - 20 St. 5 10 St. St. 5 WEIGHTS FOR TH. st. lb. Rylstone Dame Judith 8 4 Rotherham 8 0 Cherry Brandy 8 0 Corcebus Excitement 7 10 Triple 7 9 Mice Laycock 7 7 Hanover Alston 7 5 f by Epirus out of Pelion's dam Mrs, Rigby 7 4 Amy 7 4 Redlands Crown Pigeon 7 3 Noddy 7 2 COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.—Sept. 14. 7 2 (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON INTELLIGENCE, ARRIVALS.—Sept. 9. Amazon, yawl, Sir John Walsh, Bart.; for St. Helen's, and come into harbour to lay up Lalla Rookh, schooner, Viscount Bangor, Cherbourg and coast of France ; Sultana, yawl, Lord Colville, Boulogne; 10. Stella, cutter, R. Frankland, Esq., do. ; 12. Beatrix, schooner, Sir W. P. Carew, Bart., Torquay and other ports; Brilliant, do., G. H. Ackers, Esq., Dartmouth and other ports ; Fancy, do., Rev. R. P. Hartopp, do., do.; Seagull, cutter, A. Davenport, Esq., Plymouth. SAILINGS.—Sept. 11. Coral Queen, schooner, Earl of Selkirk, for the Mediterranean ; 12. Sultana, yawl, Lord Colville, Plymouth and other ports ; Stella, cutter, R. Frankland, Esq., Western ports and Ireland ; 13. Sea gull, do., A. Davenport, Esq., Lymington to lay up. YACHTS AT AND ABOUT THE STATION.—AIarm, Wizard, Nymph, Brilliant, lone, Aurora, Arrow, Cygnet, Vir ginia, Titania, Fancy, Beatrix, and Osprey. Numerous visitors continue to arrive. The Hon. Mortimer West has taken Belmore House ; R. Dalyell, Esq., the second cottage ; Captain Harley, Elm House; Captain Berner, R.N., Hornet Lodge—indeed there are more houses occupi e d now th an t h ere h as b een b efore 9-ii I this season. 1011 TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Srn,—Among the contradictory opinions of the medi cal profession on the treatment of cholera, I find that ordinary friction is the only one on which they, one and all, agree. There can be no such friction without mes meric influence being conveyed, yet ordinary friction is not the most efficient method of applying mesmerism, and for this reason I beg to add my mite of experience in allaying the scourge of the human race. Having attended many cases of cholera in Exeter, in 1832, as well as since that period, I beg to offer a few remarks for public consideration. As complete prostration of strength from the loss of nervous energy and severe cramps are the moat constant and prominent symptoms of cholera, I am induced to think that the vomiting and diarrhoea are only the effects of the malady, as both of these accompaniments are sometimes wanting in the most rapidly fatal cases of cholera. The exudation. of the most fluid part of the blood from the whole of the alimentary canal is accompanied with the most insatiable thirst, which must be gratified by some harmless fluid, such as cold water in quantity, even by gal lons. The powers of digestion are so much suspended as to be insensible to the salutary action of food, calomel, brandy, laudanum, or other medicinal substances, and I believe that much of either of them impedes the recovery of the patient. As the nervous system is so much ex hausted, we must endeavour to restore that from a healthy and congenial source, which can be most effectu ally and naturally done by mesmerism or friction down wards, by a relay of four or five vigorous and healthy persons, to succeed each other at the end of 20 minutes, one only of them to remain with the patient during the time. Mesmerism should be also applied by breathing warm air vigorously over the heart. A few grains of bi-carbonate of soda, with mint, may be added to the water in cases of excessive thirst. The cramp of preg nant women is relieved in a few minutes by mesmerism, and I have known patients in the collapsed state of cholera, and considered as hopeless, completely restored by adopting the above means,--I remain, sir, &c., JOHN BATTISHILL PARKER. BAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. 2i f i SCOTTISH CENTRAL. The report of the directors of this company states that the sum expended on capital account during the half year amounted to 12,2111. less 3,3501. for land sold to the Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee Railway Company, leaving 8,8611. The directors recommend that the • outlay to be incurred for the extension of locomo tive workshops and new machinery shall not exceed what is absolutely necessary fur the requirements of this company, taking into consideration th e o bli ga ti on incurred by them for working the Forth and Clyde Junction and Crieff railways, when completed. The sum of 4,0641. has been expended on waggons to meet the rapid increase of traffic. The net amount of expendi ture on the capital account to the 31st of July last was 1,615,8561. Of this sur_ 1,018,5101. had beta raised on original stock, 152,5181. on preference stock, and 417,8781. on loans, together 1,588,907/, leaving a ba lance against the company of 26,9491. The estimated expenditure for works and plant to he added to this amounts to 70,000/., so that the total deficiency on capital account amounts to 96,9481. To meet this there remains 97,4811. to be raised on preference shares,l6,oool. on loans, and 1,490/. arrears of calls on original stock, making toge ther 114,9711., leaving a surplus, after providing for every contingency, of 18,0221. The directors estimate they will be able to close the capitalaccountat 1,685,8561., or at an outlay of 70,0001. beyond the present expen diture. They state that the shareholders may rest as. sured that evey effort will be made to reduce this estimate and close the capital account below the figures stated. The estimate of the expenditure is made on a wide basis, in order to provide fully for all that is necessary to complete the line. The revenue account for the half-year shows an increase of 2181. in the passenger traffic, and 7,0601. in the goods traffic, together 7,2781. over the corresponding period of 1853. The working expenses amount to 41i per cent, of the receipts, being 2f per cent. less than those at the corresponding period of 1853, which amounted to 44 per cent. That reduction was made notwithstariding the gr'eatly increased cost of labour and material. The train miles run during the half year were 239,672, of which 148,143 were by goods trains, and 91,529 miles by passenger trains. The re ceipts per mile per goods train amounted to 4s. sid., against 3s. 9td. at the corresponding periodof 1853; and for passenger trains to 65., against ss. 10jd. per mile at the corresponding period of 1853. The increase in the receipts per train mile is most satisfactory, and is to be attributed, in a great measure, to the general r i se of rates to which allusion was made in the last report. The balance from the last account amounted to 9,2341., and the surplus profit on the half-year to 20,9161. making a disposable sum of 30,1501. The directors re commend that a dividend at the rate of four and a half per cent. per annum on the consolidated stock should be declared payable on the 29th of September, which will amount to 22,9501., leaving a surplus to be carried forward of 7,2001. The dividend of 4s. 2d. per share on the preference stock will be paid at the same time. The net revenue for the year ending the 31st of July amounted to 44,4551., and the dividend, at the rate of 4 per cent. in March last, and the proposed dividend of 44 per cent. now, to 43,3501., leaving a balance of 1,105/. ; the dividend for the year averaging 4.1 per cent. The directors regret the failure of the mea sure for amalgamating the Scottish Central and Scot tish Midland Railway Companies. A. traffic rangement has be en conc l u d e d w i th the ar- Edinbur h, Perth, and Du n d ee , S cott i s h Midland, and Dundee agnil Perth Railway Companies, for a period of seven Y eare under which th e ev il s o f competition are avoided. The ' The reve n u a e account balancee capital acco un t s h ows that 1,712,984/. had been x fapaogne ra i it d nt e 2i se d : hst; a ithi t 3te i ee l aen r , xi6ppsBahe6nno dwe , y O3 es d s r / "2 , received,hlGita9 v 45 s9nl . goBasi.bahad n ü b e u ereceived and 24,5931, expended, leaving a balance of 34,4921. The cost of working the passenger trains is at the rate of 10 . 62 d per mile, and of goods trains 9.62 d. per mile ; the average number of carriages in a train being 6.69, and of waggons in goods trains 19.63. THE DirroN AND • EXETER TEA/XING COLLEGE.— The committee of the Devon and Exeter Training Instittrion, hiving secured the services of Lord J. Russell, the Lord President of the Council, and upwards of 100 noblemen; gentlemen, and clergymen as stewards on the occaFion of the opening of the institution, have determined to celebrate the occasion with great éclat. The day ori ginally fixed was the 17th of October, but it has silted been altered to the 18th, in consequence of the noviity sessions being held on the former day. MA.REET NEWS--(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. The present week's arrival of English wheat, coastwise, has been but moderate. Fresh np to-day, the receipts by land carriage were limited, and the show of samples was small. For most kinds we had a steady demand, and fine qualities realised an advance of is per quarter. Old wheats were quite as dear as on Monday. We were fairly supplied with foreign wheat, but the imports conti i nue trifling. About an average business was transacted, and, in some instances, the quotations wars ix favour of the sellers. Floating cargoes were tolerably firm. There was rather more inquiry for grinding barley, at very full prices, but the sale for malt was dull. We had a steady sale for oats, at an advance of is per quarter. Beans and peas met a dull sale; but flour was firm. The top price of English was 50s per 280Ibs. ARRIVALS TRIO wnitz. Barley. Malt. I Oats. Flour. j 120 2,730 j 50 520 I , 1,930 I 350 800 3,839 I 300sks GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRI TISH CORN brig For the week ended Sept. 15, 1854, made up from the Returns of tte Iwpectors in the different Cities and Towns in tngland and Wales per imperial Quarter. WHEAT. I BARLEY. I OATS. BYE . BEANS. PEAS. 69i 41 30s 91 27s 61 36s 9d 46s 01 36 8 od THE SIX WEEKS' AVERAGE. Wheat. 1,770 English .. Irish .... Foreign .. WHEAT. BARLEY. I OATS. RTE. I BEANS. pEAL 62s 8d 33s 5d 28s 5d 40s 63 47s 3d 40s 6d DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN. _ —.. WHEAT. I BARLEY. OATS. BYE. — BEANO. ?sum Is Od Is Od Is Od lis Od I la 0.1 is Od QUANTITIES OF GRAIN SOLI) LAST WEEK. Wheat, 59,121; Barley, 3,491; Oats, 10,071 ; Rye, 436 ; Beans, 726; Peas, 1,153 quarters. SMITHFIELD. Although the supply of beasts in to-day's market was very moderate, the demand for all kinds was heavy, at Monday's currency. We were fairly supplied with sheep, in which only a limited business was transacted, at unal tered quotaions. Lamb is new out of season. Calves— the show of which was comparatively small—ruled dull, and late rates were with difficulty supported. In pigs very , little was doing, on former terms. Mulch cows were dill, at from.l4l. to 191, each, including their small calf. Per Blb s to sink the offals. 8. d. •d. s. d. 0. d Inferior Beasts.... 3 oto 3 2 Prime Southdown 410 5 0 Second quality.... 3 4 3 8 Large crse. calves 3 0 3 8 Prime large oxen 310 4 S Prime small d 0... 310 4 4 Large hogs 3 0 4 2 Prime Scots, ttc. 410 5 0 Inferior Sheep ...3 6 3 8 Small porkers 4 4 411 Second quality ...3 10 4 0 Sneklingcalves ..22 028 0 Prime tree. -wlled.4 2 4 S Quarter old pigs 21 0 27 0 TOTAL SUPPLY. ?WM° lef B eas t s .. 1,090 5UPPL 7. 9,500 Sheep 374 7 , 0 .... Calves . ..... 400 Calves.. *_•_ •• •••• •• •• 300 NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. The general demand was very dull, as follows : Per 81bs by the carcase. s. d. s. d. I - 11. d. I. d. Beef, inferior 3 2 3 4( Mutton, Inferior 3 4 3 6 Do., middling 3 6 3 8 I Do., middling 3 8 4 2 Do., prime large .3 10 4 2 Do., prime 4 4 4 8 Do., do. small ....4 4 4 6 j Veal 2 10 4 2 Pork, large 3 2 4 0 Pork, small 4 2 4$ BOROUGH HOP. About 80 pockets of new hops have been disposed of at from 181 Os to 211 per cwt. Yearlings are in good request, and dearer. The duty is called 60,0001 to 65,000/. This week's imports are, 533 bales from Hamburg, 18 from Ostend, 33 from Rotterdam, 16 from Antwerp, 2 from Havre, and 44 from Boulogne. The following are the prices of yearlings : Mid and East Kent pockets, 131 13s to 181 Os ; Weald of Kent ditto, 13/ Os to 15/ 15s • Sussex ditto, 121 Os to 161 Os ; an d f ore i gn, 111 O s to 13113 s per cwt. COLONIAL. SUGAR.—The market for West India has been dull this week, but generally steady. Barbadoes sold at 31s to 365, but Jamaica was taken iu at 31s 6d to 33s for low to mid yellow. Foreign—St. Croix sold at full rates, viz., 35s 6d to 37s 6d for mid to good yellow, and 38s 6d to 39s for fine. Cuba has met with a limited sale at 31s to 35s for low soft yellow to good bright grocery, and at 30s to 31s for brown, but brown low to good heavy was taken in at 29s 6d to 30s 6d, fine at 36s 6d to 37s 6d, fionettes at 385 to 395, and low to fine white at 38s to 41s 6d. Porto Rico has realised 31s to 37s 6d for low to fine yellow, and 38e for brown. Havannah brought 33s to 37s for low to fine yellow and 39s 6d to 44 s f or mid to good. East Indi a — Mauritius has been somewhat depressed, and syrupy foxey brown sold by auction at 27s to 29s 6d, low to good mid yellow at 33s t o 34 5, an d good to fineyellow at 34s to 36s per cwt. Madras has been held firmly, low pasty date to good brown went at 23s to 26s 6d, and yellow at 27s to 23s fid. Refined has been in moderate demand at 42s 6d for brown lumps. COFFEE. —Plantation Ceylon has ruled heavy, fine ord his realised 55s to 565, and low mid and mid colory 57s to 50s, but fine ord has been taken in at 525. For Mocha the demand has been dull, low mid brownish being taken in at 608 to 655, and good ord pale Mysore kind at 495. Rio was withdrawn at 43s 6(1 to 44s for common mixed brown. Jamaica has obtained 52s 6d to 55s 6d for low mid to good dull, 50s Gd to 52s for fine fine ord, and 37s to 47s for triage. RICE.—The market has been inactive, but steady. Cargo Bengal went at 10s to 108 6d. Fine white brought 12s Gd to Da l and good lls to Ils 6d per cwt. SPlCES.—Jamaica ginger realised 46s to 658 for ord and mid small, 44s to 100 s for small to mid good white, and 515 s to 9/ 5s for good to fine bold. Pimento went at sid for mid. Pepper receded ,d mid and good dull; Singa- pore selling at 60 to 7d. TEA.— There is very little doing . COTTON.—This article i s d u ll ba t steady. COCHINEAL.—A good demand has existed, and at full prices. f - SALTPETRE. —A fair business has been done. Bengal 8 per cent. refraction sold at 24sper cwt. TALLow.---The market has been dull, and P.Y.C. has declined to 64s per cwt on the spot. GREEN FRUIT.—With the exception of lemons, all other articles are dull. A parcel of the former, per Madrid steamer from Lisbon, sold by Keeling and Hunt at public sale, realised an advance of 10s per package ; Naples and Palermo in proportion. Nuts in better request than is usual at this period of the year, a preference being given • to them to other fruit, in consequence of the prevailing epidemic. LLOYD'S SPIPPING-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, Sept. 15.—Wind this day at Noon, S.W., and fine weather. MARGATE, Sept. 14.—Wind, S. W. Arrived—Charlotte, from New Brunswick. PORTSMOUTH, Sept. 14.—Wind, S.S.W. to N.W. Ar rived—H.M.S. Polyphemus, from the Coast of Africa; Gothen, Cagliari, for Gottenb erg , s h ort of provisions ; San Francisco, rom Newcastle, for Naples ; Rodney‘, Sydney, N.S.W. Sailed—H.M.S. Black Eagle, for the westward. PLYMOUTH, Sept. 14 . —Wind, W.S.W. Arrived— Jenny, from Monte Video ; Adventure, C a di z ; P r i ncess Royal, Corunns. ; Neptune, Cette, with loss of rigging and sails. FALMOUTH, Sept. 1 4 . —Wind, S.W. Arrived—Octavia, from Rio Janeiro; Frederick Grosse, Trinidad de Cuba; Jesus, Havannah ; Louisa Henrietta, Alexandria ; Batche lor, Quebec, for Truro ; Mercury, Pernambuco ; Har monie, Galatz ; John and Eleanor, Constantinople ; Franklin, Marseilles ; Sophia, Alexandria. S m Oy ic T h H , A fr m o P m To ß N u , e S no ep s t A . Wind, W.N.W. Arri ve d— Ip BRISTOL,yres. the Cast Sept. of Africa; 4..—W Horn,i nd , s. Vi nce n t; . W t .Ar r i v Exceld—F l o , e r n Newee , from Yolk ; Glaneuse, Terra Nova. _ _ GLOUCESTER, 'Sept. 14.—Arrived—Pius IX., from St. Andrew's, N.B. SWANSEA, Sept. 14.—Arrived —Charles, from Coquimbo. SUNDERLAND, Sept. 14.—Wind, S.W. Arrived —Blue Rose, from Bong' ; Success, Havre. Off Port—General Chasse, from Sabannah. Pat back—Belsey Castle, with mainmast sprung in a squall. COWES, Sept. 14.—Wind, S.W. A rrived —Alida, Maria, and Adele, from Callao ; Marbs, do. SHIELDS, Sept. 14.—Wind, S.W. Arrived—Daring, from Malta ; Emerald, Nestor ; Adelaide, and Ann Louisa, Havre. Sailed—Ulysses, for Palermo. NEWHAVEN, Sept. 14.—The Lieut. Pellot, Smith, from Sierra Leone to London, drove on shore ; after two hours was assisted off, and proceeded. LEITH, Sept. 13.—Wind, W. Arrived—Best Bower, from Hamburgh. Sailed—Corrido, for Rio Janeiro. PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. LIVERPOOL, Friday, 10.30 a.m. Wind, W., fresh breeze, and fine. Arrived—Champicn and Hornby, from Barbados ; bee (s. s.), Constantinople ; Sophia, Alexandria ; La For tuna, Marseilles ; Matilda, Antwerp ; Frances, Bahia ; Camilla, Demerara ; John Martin, Antigua ; Panaphylia, St. John's,Barlington, Quebec ; Kate, Girgenti. Off the Port--Anne Hindoo. Sailed—Salacia, for Quebec; Amelia, Shippegan, N. 8.; Elizabeth, Africa ; Edinburgh, Bay Chaleur ; Pelican, Bombay ; Wallace, Miramichi Eva, New °alexia ; Strop Rajah Rajaswaree, Jamaica •; Florist, Demerara. (Br SUBMARINE AND EUROPEAN TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Friday, 10.55 a.m. Wind, W.S.W. ; tide, 2i hours' ebb ; fine. Arrived—Nautilua, from Trieste ; Philip Laing, Gibrai: tar ; Oldenberg, Porto Rico ; Noticiosi, H"1111"11 Magnet (s), Amsterdam ; Harlingen (8), H arl ingen; Sailed—Earl of Chester, Rhine (a), Antwerp ; John Ball (a), Hanaburgh.. Paris, Boulogne for Hobart Town , City of Wind W . 1. DEAL, Friday, 9 . 45 a.m. Passed• li Wind, —•uy N. li g ht , and fine. Jamai ca , f or London. Hampshire, fr om Madras, for London ; Canada, Sailed —Her Majesty's ship Algiers, for westward; John Bunyan, for the River; Eliza, for Barbadoes ; Sandford, for Demerara. THE CLEDENCE AT S r . SrnwErds.—Some fe w wee k s since we noticed that a letter signed "A uommudaant L ,ndon newspaper, insi at Sid well's" appeared in a . • nu oppositioncr ested b y a f to e w M r r a . d G i Gallon s d er ., E .!ds v n an ce was . gelicak. , d that b tbti • ;a l l the city generally took n o i n t erest in a , b i 1 1 7_ a , an hu the in t er. We call the attention of t')e " Communi cantto the iato tfhseubescxrpiebnesressinim:t.edd by - the v:rti Protestant . ad vertisingc.oSluid'nwnel siB ,;or defraying c ' hurchwarden, Mr. Palk, in this i c t r s ed se e a n i c o e r l m i t e i g m a tbieorn, of w p h a i r c l h i a shows , b th y e c t h i e t ye right pr represented worshipful t h e mayor, the high sheriff; several magistrates, a total of thirty churchwardens from every parish in Exeter, and a goodly phalanx of Protestant citizens ; whilst the county contributes one of its members of Parliament (South Devon), several magistrates, and a sprinkling of clerical and lay supporters. What will Mr. Galton's " Communicant of St. Sidwell's say to this I—Exeter Flying alost. I,tiNH AT DU MBARTON.—Yesterday a screw steamer, of 450 tons, was launched from the building yard of Messrs. Denny and Rankin, Dumbarton. She was name d the Proserpin e , i s commanded by Captain Joseph Potts, late of the ship Trojan, and is the properly of moors. D. and G. Brynner, Greenock. ~-~ ~. 40 5 St. 25