The Sun. — London, England, 1839-09-24 00:00:00

E D IT I ON. NEW NOVEL BY MISS BURNEY. Just ready, in 3 vols. post Bvo. THE ROMANCE OF PRIVATE LIFE, BY MISS BURNEY". 1 HenryColburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlorough-street. • Orders reeeived by all Booksbellers. IS Majesty the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA, and His Majesty the KING of PRUSSIA, having ATGIUSED and GIiARANTEED several DISTRI- Bli, lONS of MONEY PREMIUMS , which (though they t are i 0 LOTTERIES). offer many possibilities of obtaining LARGE FORTUNES, HtINE BROTHERS at HAMBURGH, are NOW SELLING SHARES for the said DISTRIBU.. TrONS. Persons desirous to purchase may receive, PREVI , OUS to giving any order, the PROSPECTUS and PAR• TI'CULARS, upon addressing, WITHOUT DELAY, a line to __ HEINE BROTHERS at HAMBURGH. I'. S. THE NEXT AUSTRIAN DISTRIBUTION con tains Portions from TWENTY POUNDS and upwards, to !TREE THOUSAND, SIX THOUSAND, and TWELVE THOUSAND POUNDS. The DISTRIBUTING DAY being the 2d of litutch, there is plenty of time for becoming a Sfiarehoider therein. BUT FOR THE NEXT PRUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION, which contains Portions trom NINE POUNDS TEN SHIL LINGS and UPWARDS, to TEN THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED POUNDS. TAKING PLACE IN NEXT MONTH, there is NO TIME TO BE LOST for those desirous to avail themselves if tihat DISTRIBUTION. Shares clearing off rapidly, a eai.rable RISE in PRICE will occur at the end of this WMI2. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. THIS EVENING, Slier. 24. Will be presented an entirely new and original Nautical Drama, in Three Acts, entltled ARMSTRONG, THE SHIPWRIGHT. Bouben Armstrong, Mr. T. P . Cooke ; Abel Armstrong, Mr. E. F. Saville; Annis Mildred, Mrs. H. Vining; Bona, Miss Martin. Ater which (32d time) the successful Nautical Drama of BEN - :20 A TswAIN ; Or, SAILOR'S SWEETHEARTS. Bea Bowling, Mr. T. P. Cooke. To conclude with, PETER THE Q REAT AND PAUL THE MARINER. Petty. the Great, r. Neville ; Paul Cloutenhe Mr. W. Smith. Lisbesh, Miss Martin. „ L OYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GAIWEIs. s. UnAer her &lAJESTY'S IMMEDIATE PATRONAGE. THIS EVENING aid THURSDAY, SEr T. 24th and 26th. LAST WEEK OF THE GRAND PROMENADES MUSICALES ET CHAM PETRES, By the unrivalled Band of this Establishment, Conducted b♦ Mr. Godfrey. Exhilition of the Wonderfully-intense and beautiful new Light KONIAPHOSTIC, Under the superintendence of Mr. H. Carter. And the ERUPTION of MOUNT HECX.A. Admission One Shilling. Feeding Hour Five o'Clock—Concert at Six. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Er. Polack asks too much of us. If we had inserted any part of Tait's criticism on his book, we should have felt bound to insert his correction. As we have not done so, we • must decline the insertion of his letter to the Editor of Tait's :Magazine. It is left with our publisher for him. 1-11(:11 WATEIt AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Mora in 5...... 21 minute 3 after 3 I Evening ... 31minute. atter 3. .4), ' . • ,*- -• , ' - • 1 .0, ,I 11 11( +. b C agitate for repeal of the Corn-laws, when they have just urged the Government to put down agi tation for the Charter? If the middle classes rely on the support of the Chartists, they will find themselves deceived, and that they have pushed their dread of political discussion much too far. PusLius affirms that the repeal of the Corn-lays will not enhance the rate of wages. We differ from PuBLI us. The Corn-laws pro hibit all trade with Norway, and much trade with other corn-growing countries, which would be restored or increased by the abolition of the Corn-laws. Not only, therefore, would prices fall, as our Correspondent admits, but there would be a greater demand for labour. The competition would then be amongst employers who should get workmen, whereas it is now amongst workmen who shall get employers ; and that change in the relative situation of parties, would enable the workmen to prevent wages from falling in proportion as prices fell. In fact, there would be more food on the whole, and a greater proportion would fall to each man's share. We admit that a greater quantity of 'manual labour is employed in producing food, than in pro ducing manufactured articles of equal value. Machinery is much more used in the latter than i❑ the former. Hence it seems to be inferred, that to import food, which is to he paid for by the pro duce of machinery, is to substitute machinery for labourers, and so to throw labourers out of em ployment. But it by no means follows that for every quarter of wheat imported, one less would be grown at home. The reverse i 6 the truth. Not a grain less would be grown at home and we should have the additional quarter which our own soil cannot produce, brought from some other country. We should have a greater quantity of food than at present, by the whole quantity imported. A larger quantity of foreign corn, says Sir JAMES GRAHAM, was imported last year, than ever before, and contemporaneously with that importation, a larger breadth of land has been sown with corn, than ever before. The importation has added to our food without lessening :by a single blade the production of the home commodity. Our skilful art:zans, therefore, have not the slightest reason to fear that the aboli tion of the Corn-laws will make the peasantry com pete for employment with them, while it will in crease their employment and their wages. They have much more reason to dread the lumper-fed Irish, who would be kept at home, or driven thither by the abolition of the Corn-laws, than the English peasantry. But if it were to be admitted that the abolition of the Corn-laws would enable our people to sup ply their wants by substituting machinery for labour, is not that exactly what all the honoured improvers of the world, from the first inventor of a spade to JAMES WATT, have been attempting ? We argue not with those who are enemies to ma chinery, but with those who make it and use it, and they will agree with us that if the Corn laws do, according to the supposition, com pel our people to obtain their subsistence by blind, ignorant, hand labour, instead of that skilful labour which is the offspring of mo dern knowledge, they are opposed to the progress of civilization. From the beginning of time till now it has been the ambition of man to make the elements work for him. The Corn-law ad vocates say that our skilful people shall not extend their dominion over the elements ; the wind must be unused, and steam lie idle, that the community may be fed by the irksome labour of the plodding pea sant, instead of the unwearying labour of machinery. PUBLIUS, and the class to which he belongs, can never consent so to brand the skill of their own hands, and the knowledge of their own minds, as to support the Corn-laws, because they substitute human toil for the toil of machines, out of deference to the prejudices and interests of landlords and tithelords. LONDON : TUESDAY, SEPTE lIBER 24, 1839. Sir JAMES GRAHAM (see his speech else where) tries to frighten and (lisp the Cumberland farmers. A suddien alteration of the Corn-laws, he says, would lower the value of the farmers' capital. Ifeit would, it would lessen his outgoings. He would Nye less rent to pay, wages would fall, the price of seed corn, of the keep of his family and tattle, of his clothing, and every thing he uses and consumes, would fall in proportion, and his esepenses would be much diminished. He could not sell his capital, we grant, for as much as at pre sent, but he does not want to sell it ; he wishes , to keep and use it, and the real question for his consideration is, would not his capital yield him as large a per tentage, as much real profit, as at pre , sent ? We have no means of calculating this ' problem exactly—it is for practical men ; but our im pression is, as the farmer is the greatest employer of manual labourers, in proportion.to his capital, of any master, that the reduction of his expenses would more than eompensate the fall in the price of corn ; and that he would be a gainer by the abolition of the Corn-laws. The farmer mum not, however, consider only what his capital may be worth at present, but what it would be worth on an average. He must in elude the year 1835, when wheat sold for 355. the quarter, as well as 1838, when it sold for 88s. The true criterion for him is the average price of wheat forthe last ten years, not its present exorbitant price ; and what it might fall below the average iby the free importation of corn, is what he must juke by. We apprehend the average price for the last ten years has scarcely exceeded 55e., and during that time the farmers have suffered more years of distress than of prosperity. Instead of the abolition of the Corn-laws, then, reducing the value of the farmers' capital one haft: as Sir JAMES GRAHAM asserts, one-fifth is the utmost at whi c h 'rational political economists have ever calculated the reduction. The farmers could not possibly he ;inech injured by the abolition of the Corn-laws, .whaiever•might be the fate of the landlords. We agree. with Sir JAMES GRAHAM, that the abolition of the Corn-laws would ruin those land lords whose estates are mortgaged for more than they are fairly worth in the market. We admit, too, that the abolition of the Corn-laws would in jere the tithe lords ; but as neither landlords nor retie lords contribute in anywise to the growth of wheat, to ruin them would by no means ruin the eerieultare of the country. Does Sir JAMES GRA II A.M dream—can he for one moment assert, that the skill of the farmers and Ithe industry of the labourers would be destroyed or diminished, if they had neither landlords nor tithe-lords to share their produce ? He speaks as a mere landlord seeking to humbug his confiding hearers, when he asserts that the withdrawal of ti;e tax on the farmers' food, en the food of hi s la bunters and his cattle, and of the paupers he must support, which Sir JAMES support, falsely calls protection, • would drive title rand out of cultivation, and reduce the nation to dependence on foreigners. That is often refuted twaddle. Poor frightened man— . let him caini his soul ; the nation never can be so ' dependent for food, the growth of every clime, I l i ; it. is at this moment for cotton, the growth I:alrnoirt of a si:.:gie country, with which we ': lave been and may again be at war. Such 'aeen:l.etaafe, however, is at present most forcibly proved, by the condition of the ~ UnitedSiatec, to he mutual ; for the Ante ricans as much require our market for their cotton I as we require their cotton to keep our manufacturers ' 1; at work. Sir JAMES may rest assured that the time is gone by when the landlords will be able to : Make riteir fears and their interests the guides of other men's-judgment. . There is one part of his address which is espe 'te-i-alle worthy of notice, Sir JAMES asks " what i`d"lenxislbe the situation of our immense population tumitttyefour millions crowded into the space o f I ` v6 ) l fterois islands, and looking for the supply of ' t he. 4 '' daily b rea d, not only to Europe, but to all • P."-t , of the world?" He adds " history would afford no , parallel to the scene o f di stress — to t h e str if e o f ,-,.,,, TY P *41 Q111; which would re called n i I • i*o play 'when twenty-four million s of people, confined witlin our narrow limits, sho u ld be reduced to the extremity of want and actual famine." But what iSir JAMES supposes, is now actually Our twenty four millions of people, , the case. lin,.c.onnned by the 1 Corn-laws within our narrow are actually i reelneed in many cases to the extremit of . want and actual famine. This is the case in Wiltshire, where the agricultural labourers starv e on 7s. week ___en The celebrated Auchterarder case seems to ac- Ireland, where an insufficiency of i Jumpers • is the quire additional interest as it proceeds towards the only food of the people—and, alas, in England, ge - a en t. It is not long since the Rever end nerally, where the wretched Irish standard of subsist- 9uemen the presbytery humiliating of Lethendy were ine enceis fast becoming, as the reduction from wheaten positio n Of culprits at the bar of the Court of Ses to barley bread in the most flourishing agricultural s k i merited It where they received a severe but well distriets of England shows, the standard of an reprimand from the President of that Court for their English labourer's comfort. There is somxthing in contemptuous defiance of its authority. It is not the tone of the Right Hon. Baronet's . speech o f at all unlikely which` we approve, but his defence of • a 'tax on the terarder will e „oon have to undergo a still more un pGor man's bread, that lie may pay the chargespleasant discipline. They are now in that pecu with which his predecessors burdened Nether! , liarly disagreeable predicament commonly called a is a disgrace to any man pretending to a charac- " cleft stick." Their ecclesiastical superiors, to ter for common honesty, to say nothing of a gen- whom they have sworn obedience in spiritual things, tleman so religiously honest as Sir JA ME , : I command them to a c t i n a certain w -h'l the GRAHAM ay, se tete GRAHAM ! civil court in Scotland, hacked by the solemn de- While we are on this subject We must advert to 1 . cision of the House of Lords, has declaredlil that to the lett* of our Correspondent PUBLIUS. Know- i act so is to set the law of the land at open defiance. tng that he has a good deal of information, I Out of t hi s dilemma there seem s to b e no ready and perceivin g th at his observations coincide with ! means of escape. By one horn or t h e other the those of the Charter, we are obliged to conclude Presbytery are in a fair way of bein g gored. that the working-class es w ill not interfere - i The Commission of the General Assembly hay cure a repeal of the Corn-laws. The Charter asks ing directed the Presbytery not to proceed to the ,Now the middle classes can expect the Chartists to ' ordination and settlement of Mr. YOUNG, the pre- The contest for Clerkenwell has terminated in the election of Mr. FAULKNER. Whichever of the candidates might have been successful, he would have done honour to the principle of allowing the people to choose their own pastors. If the one candidate, in careful and assiduous attention to his pastoral duties, in real Christian charity, and a blameless life, so the other, in a popular eloquence, and great zeal in the cause of the Church, stands much above the average of the clergy, Honour, then, to the popular or voluntary principle, which the priesthood, in the young days of Christianity, set aside on false pretexts, the more easily to secure the supremacy of their order. But a little closer examination convinces us that the electoral principle in this case, like other things for which the priesthood should provide, is much perverted. Clearly only those should take part in the election, like the members of Dissenting congregations, who are in terested in the result. In Clerkenwell, however, all the householders being rate-payers, includ ing Dissenters, Catholics, Jews, infidels, and the congregations of half a dozen Chapels, have votes ; and the electors are susceptible of being influenced by a variety of motives at variance with those which ought to guide their deci sions. Hence canvassing, cheering, mobs, placards, squibs, carriages rattling about bearing the names of the candidates, and all the bustle, noise, and not of a political contest. In spite, however, of these disadvantages, in spite of the fact that the whole body of the householders in this extensive parish concur in the election, instead of its being con fined to the congregation of the pastor, the result does honour to the voluntary principle. If those who watch over the public concerns in Church and St!ite had ever thought of doing their duty they would not have allowed the anomaly we have just noticed to grow up, and certainly would not aliovv it to continue. When the parish was thinly peopled and all the parishioners belonged to the Church, as in the Catholic times, to allow all the householders to concur in the election of the clergyman was excellent, but now when only a small port►on of the parishioners frequent the particular Church at which the elected clergyman perforim any duty, it is shorn of most of its beauties. Sul lied, however, as it has become, it is still better than a nomination by a worldly-minded Bishop or a libertine Nobleman. We are not disappointed, nor indeed sorry to find, that the LORD MAYOR is harassed by com plaints from publicans about the non-observance of the 42d clause of the New Police Act, as inter preted by his Lordship and some other Magis trates. While one obeys the injunction of 'his Lordship, ten, somehow or other, evade it, and will continue to evade it, notwithstand ing his determination that the law shall be respected. All his five hundred City policemen would not suffice to make this law respected. And why ? Because absurd and arbitrary regulations like this, raise up a spirit of opposition which no police force can overcome. Before a law can be he respected, it must be made reasonable and just, and there must, besides, be a perfect unanimity among those who are to carry it into effect. This is not the case, notwithstanding the assertion of his Lordship. Mr. BURRELL, on Friday, decided at Queen-square, that the publican was not obliged to clear the house at twelve, s• that, as the case at present stands, one man is fined in the East for what another may do in the West with impunity. Before the law is respected, the LORD MAYOR will concur i❑ Mr. BURRELL'S opinion, and leave the publican as before, to an swer for the good conduct of his customers, without expelling them by force._ THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 1639. sentee, it was proposed at a late meeting, that, in conformity with this direction, a positive refusal should be given to the memorial of the Earl of KINNOUL, the patron, and Mr. YOUNG, demand ing that the latter gentleman should be taken on trials, in the usual way, by the Presbytery. That motion was met by another to the effect that as the Presbytery had taken no steps in the case without the direct orders of the General Assembly itself, it would be better to give the go-by to the sentence of the Commission, and simply let the memorial lie upon the table for the present. This was ac ceded to ; but this course not proving satisfactory to the memorialists, they, it is said, are preparing to commence an action of damages against the Presbytery, the result of which will, most pro bably, be fine or imprisonment, or perhaps both—a fit consummation of the arrogant attempt on the part of the Church of Scotland to ride rough shod over the civil power. She will discover, to her cost, that it is too late in the day for such antics. By the packet ship, St. James, which arrived at Liverpool yesterday, we have received New York papers of the 2d instant, inclusive. The following extracts from them include all the news they bring of any interest. All was tranquil on the Canadian frontier. The account of the capture of the Spa nish slaver, L'Amistead, is ex!ractcd from the New York Morning Herald of the 28th ult.: CAPTURE OF THE SPANISH SCHOONER L ' AMISTEAD. This famous piratical vessel, about which so much has recently been said, has been captured, and the anxiety is, therefore over. She, together with her black crew of fifty-nine men, and three whites, were seized on Tuesday morning last. in Gardener's Bay, west of Montauk Point, Long Island, by Lieut. Charles W. Chauncey, of the United States Surveying brig Washingion. In the after noon she was towed into New London, where she will probably remain till tl,e time arrives for her to be given up to the Spanish authorities. It appears that the blacks put into Gardener's Bay for water, and part were ashore when the schooner was cap. tured. They had plenty of provisions on board, and also specie and small arms. Some accounts say, that there are two hundred thoasand dollars in coin stowed away in her hold. Many of the blacks were stark naked and had belts containing doubloons tied around their waists. One negro leaped overboard when Lieutenant Chauncey boarded her, but was brought ton with a pistol shot, but not, however, till he had cut the belt from his body, holding five hun dred doubloons. They were- very flush with their money, and had paid the farmers, on Long Island, a doubloon per barrel of water. When two days out from Havans, with the exception of the two sailors who jumped overboard, all the whites had been murdered, includieg Mr. Carries, and his nephew, Mr. Ring. But since her capture by Lieutenant Chaun cey, we learn that thre e o th ers were save d f or t h e purpose of navigating the vessel. One at a time of the three whites were permitted to come on deck and manage the vessel for them. When the Sun could be seen, the blacks knew which way to go, and therefore the white man did as they wished, but in the night, and when the weather was thick, he changed the vessel's course, and in this manner got her over on our coast. The black crew had no idea of becoming pirates, and all they wished was to be free and in their native country. But they have missed a figure. SICKNESS AT TUE SOUTH.—For the last three weeks, intelligence has reached here of the appearance of the yellow fever in Charleston, Mobile, Augusta, and New Orleans, and the daily increase thereof. Yesterday's ad. vices mentioned that the citizens of each place were leaving in great numbers far the interior to escape sicknr.ss and death. Business had entirely ceased, and each mart wore a gloomy appearance. At first strangers were only swept off by the disease, but it has now assumed such a malignant character, that those acclimated were dying at the rate of dozens . per day. In New Orleans, on the 18th ultimo, in the Charity Hospital alone, 17 patients were admitted-15 of whom had the yellow fever, and nine died ; on the 19th 39 were admitted, 28 with the fever, and 14 deaths ; and on the 20th, up to 5 P.M, 29 were taken in, 21 with the fever, and 9of them had died. For the week ending with the 17th ult. 136 yellow fever patients had been admitted into the hospital, of which 42 had died, 48 discharged and the balance remained sick. The total number of interments in the same week, of persons ts ho had died with the fever, reached one hundred and fifty- three. In Mobile the epidemic has been equally severe, and fatal. All business has been suspended, and the citizens find their only safety is in flight. From the 12th to the 19th ult., twenty-one cases had bJen reported by the Board of Health. On the 19th nine cases occurred, three on the 21st, and two on the 22d ult. The Advertiser of the 23d stated the health of the city was then improving, and that a pure atmosphere, which had prevailed for the two days previous, had produced very favourable effects. During the week ending the 18th ult., 35 persons died in Charleston, including whites and blacks, 26 of whom were of the yellow fever. A disease bad made its appear ance in Augusta, Georgia, which the doctors pronounced a bilious congestive fever, but which is undoubtedly the yellow fever. In four days, ending with the 25th ult., fifty new cases had occurred. The people were so much frightened, that large numbers were leaving the city for the country. The fact is, the South is remarkably unb i galthy this year, and there is no disguising it. Not for the last ten years has there been so much sickness in the sou:hern sec tions of the country as during the present season. People are dying off, and others fleeing the cities to escape the contagion. NEW YORK MONEY MARKET, &c. SATURDAY, AUGUST 31. There was considerable improvement in the Stock mar • ket to-day—the sales were larger than for several days before, and prices of nearly every description sold ad vanced on previous rates. The advance in prices was as follows States &ink Shares, 1 per ct. ; North American Trust and Banking Co., 1 ; American Exchange Bank, 1 ; Stonington Railroad, 1 ; flatten!, ; ware and Hudson Canal, Dry Dock Bank, and Ken tucky do, each 1 per cent. on yesterday's rates. There was but a moderate amount of business done in Exchange on England for the packets of to-day, and rates ranged at 481 dollars a 483 dollars (8 a 8 . 1. per ct. ) the £ sterling. Bills on France .522 if. a 525 f In the money market there appears to be rather an im proved feeling—wising, however from no othei real cause than the general understanding, that has been" got"abroad that no farther calls are to be made at present by MC Bank, on other Banks for specie. The Philadelphia, North American of this morning, says : " In money matters we have no farther change to note," We learn from the Louisianian of the 21st inst. that business at New Orleans, of every kind is nearly at a dead stand. There had been no transactions in cotton for some days, and a few bales of the new crop were on sale, held at 13 a 14 cents, but they du not meet with purchasers. The following is a table of stocks, sales, and prices, at the principal ports fur the week, previous to the dates affixed:— Stock. Sales. Prices. Remarks. N. York, Aug. 13, 29,000 3,3 , 10 9/ a 14, , , firm. 22, 3,351 500 ]O-a 14 failing. N. Orleans, ... 17, 14,169 700 814 al2 decline 3 cts. Chaeleston, ... 24, 3,835 116 11 a 11i ' firm. Savannah, ... 23, 653 55 11 Columbia, ... •• • - - - decline 2 eta. SrATIC OF I ',ADE. —The hotels in this city are rapidly filling up with the traders from the country ; but as yet their purchases have not been to an extent to cause ally great degree of animation is the different markets. • The' probabiiity is that the present week will show an increase of business, more especially as nionyy affairs are assuming a more favourable appearance. The stocks in the hallos. of importers are largely increased by every arrival, but prices do not show any actual decline, although there is some disposition to curtail the usual credit. The activity on the lakes is represented as very great. Ibe immense crops of Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, and Michigan are now coming actively forward. From all pints on the lakes cargoes of wheat, pork, hides, and flour, make their way to Buffalo as the outlet to the markets of the eastern cities,. where its arrival is expected in payment of the goods that are now about to be purchased. CoTToN.—There has been a continuance of the mode rate operations in this article, which we noticed in our last remarks. Sales have been made for shipment, chiefly at prices which evince no change. Is the southern ports the markets remain exceedingly dull; a few bales of new cot ton continue to make their appearance at the different sea ports, all giving promise of the general quality of the crop about to come forward. The prevalence of disease in the principal cities, vaill, undoubtedly, check the advance of trade. SOUTH AMERICA. IMPORTANT FROM MEXICO —Bustamente, since his as suming the Government, has annulled all the acts of Santa Ana, particularly the contract at London for a loan of 130,0001. He has relieved General Thomas Andrade of the penalties incurred bti him in riot returning to Mexico within the time fixed by the amnesty of 1835. He has formed a new Cabinet, which is composed of the following men :—Juan de Dios Carnedo, Minister of Foreign Affairs; Luis G. Cuevas, Minister of the Interior ; Xavier Eche verria, Minister of Finance. Bustamentc has also re established the liberty of the press, and appointed General Gaona Governor of the Castle of San Juan de Ulloa. Vera Cruz is now commanded . by the brother-in-law of Santa Ana, General Coro, who, when he learned that General Gaoua had been appointed Governer of the castle, eeclared that he would not allow him to take possession of that fort, ana that he had 200 men, including the convicts, under his command, to oppose him. Santa Ana had not been assassinated, as reported, but was still intriguing for the Dictatorship of Mexico. Letters from Moscow of the 3d inst., mention a curious circumstance which occurred at the Impe rial Review of the Camp of Borodino, which has had the effect of greatly disquieting the Autocrat. Nlictim,As arrived at the camp on the Ist, and while the troops .were shoutin g_ " Long live the EMPEROR t." " Lon g li ve the Dynasty of ROMA . - NOW !" and " Glory t o Russia !!' - softie 'pasoni unperceived, thrust into the hand of thousands of the soldiers, at one and the same instant, a denun ciation of the despotism of the CZAR in abrogating, the nationalitv,and oppressingthe inhabitants of un fortunate Poland. T healarm of treason was given in an instant, but no information could be obtained as to the individuals who had thus braved the fury of the Siberian bear in his very den. General Count BENKENDORFF, chief of . the Imp er i a l Police, sent detachments of his eimssaries to pay domiciliary visits to every house in the town and neighhourhood in the hope of discovering the dis seminators of the treasonable placards, but on the 3d it does not appear that any of them were discovered. This incident is said to have thrown a damp over the mind of the CZAR, Rho begins to imagine that, after all, his life, even when surrounded by the, legions of the empire, is in the power of his ene mies. Of course this account will be very much mitigated in all its sterner features when it reaches us through the German Papers ; and we may even expect to hear that the AUTOCRAT laughed at such an attempt to intimidate him. But whatever at tempts may be made to conceal the truth, it is certain that the EMPEROR betrayed serious alarm, and that the whole of the Imperial family labour under continual fears of his assassination by some of his victims in Poland. There is no news of any political or general inte rest in the French Journals of Sunday. Seven columns of the Constitutionnel are filled with a Report of M. TESTE and a Royal Ordinance rela tive to new modifications in the constitution of the Council of State. The recognition of the Queen of SPAIN'S authority by the Basque Provinces has been followed by a suspension of the prohibitory regulations enforced by France while the Provinces were under the dominion of the Pretender. The number of Carlists who have already sought shel ter in France is estimated at nine thousand, inelud• ing one thoUsand officers. - The Gazette . de France has an article on the note addressed by MEHEMET ALI to the Consuls of the Five Powers, in which, however, we • fii:d nothing which has not been repeatedly said upon the subject. The accounts from Madrid are of the 15th inst. The dissolution of the Cortes was talked of as among the measures contemplated by the Govern ment. On the 14th the Minister of Finance addressed the Chamber of Deputies at great length in defence of the new loan, which had been cen sured as extravagant by M. CALATRAVA. The discussion was productiVe of no result. The fur ds continued firm, and the public joy unabated. On the 15th, one bargain for 200 ; 000 reals was trans acted in the Fours, at 27 fer 30 days, with one premium. The Ancient Fives, 31 for cash. Non. Consolidated Vales, 22,800 piastres, at 14 to the 30th of September, with .premium ;28 bargains on the New Fives, for Time of 54 days, at 31k, without premium, and 301 for Cash, 32} for 60 days, with 1 premium. Debt without interest, Ancient at 10i for 60 days, and 6f- for Modern, October 23. Exchange on London .384 paper for 90 days. MONEY AND COMMERCIALNEWS CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCh. The London line-of-packet ship St. James his arrived from New York with papers to the 2d of September, Leven days later. PHILADELPHIA, SEPT. I.—Our market for the past week has been flxtremely dull, and the operations limited to a supply for immediate wants. The circumstance is no doubt to be attributed to the scarcity of Money. United States Bank Shares, 1061 7i. (From Montreal papers to the 31st August.) LOWER CANADA.—The weather has been for some days unfavourable to the grain harvest. On Saturday night there was a heavy fall of rain, with some thunder. It is reported that his Excellency the Governer-Getieral will shortly quit Quebec, and his departure from this Go. vernment will not take place before the ensuing Spr:tiff. Toe Quebec papers, received to the 29th August, do not contain any political intelligence of consequence. All remained perfectly tranquil in the Canadas. A Jamaica mail has arrived, brought by the Skylarks sailed on the 18th of August, from St Thomas oa the 17th of August; Cape Henry, 231 of August. By the above conveyance we have received Jamaica papers to the 18th of August. His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to issue a Proclamation, bearing date the 15th inst., proroguing the House of Assembly to the 10th day of September next. " We regret to state that the disinclination of many labourers to resume their work in several properties in the parish of Trelawney, as mentioned in our last, still exists ; they ask exorbitant wages to be paid them daily, and where they agree to pay rent they insist on a yearly lease. This is acting up to the advice given them on the Ist inst., in the Baptist Chapel, by Mr. Knibb." The Carthagena Papers of July 4, state that the Senate of New Granada had granted secondary privileges to the ports of Panama and Buenaventura. We are very sorry to learn that instead of being better employed the people are running foot races, or witnessing them ; at Annatto Bay, the labourers being so near the race course have not yet, the 14th, resumed labour. We have received Barbadoes papers to the 4th August. ST. VINCENT'S ,—This Colony is also fast verging to destruction, the crop will be deficient this year one-fourth. The inhabitants had found it necessary to deny a state ment in the Colonial Gazette, of 9.h July last, purporting to be written by a person of that island, and stating thai the people were working with the greatest contentment. We have received the Port of Spain Gazette (Trini dad, 9th August)._ Accounts from Tobago state that the sugar crops are now nearly over for the season, so far as there is labour to take them off the ground—with a number the expectation being, that one-half will be the standard. The smaller estates have generally been more fortunate than the larger, some of the former having made crops beyond the,average of a few former years ; but the latter, from defectiveness of manuril assistance, will be able to make but very dis heartening. returns. We hive Demerara Papers of the 24th, and the Rapti Gazette of the 30th. The British Guiana Bank has declared a dividend of 3i per cent. for the half-year ending 30th June. THE FUNDS. Consols, which left off yesterday at 9On Money, for Account 91k, opened with an improvement this morning, and may be quoted 91A- for the Account, and 904 for Money. Exchequer Bills, 3 5 premium ;in India Bonds, nothing done; Bank Stock for the opening, 187 188 ; India Stock. 249 250. In the Foreign Market Spanish Ac!ive is the chief speculation, and maintains the leavi ng o ff pr i ce of 321 i ; Three per C ents. Portuguese, 361 i ; 244 i Colombian 394 :f ; Mexcaii. 281 1 ; Brazilian, 751 761 ; Dutch Two. ana-a- Half per cents., 535544; Five per Cents. 1031 104. P:SICES OF STOCKS THIS Sank Stock 3 per Cent. Red. 31.er Cent. Cons. 90 , 4%1 I 3., per Cent I)itto Red. ............ DAY AT DYE O'CLOCTI. India stock - Ditto Bonds pql South Sea Stock .-- Oki Annuities New Ditto New 2 per Cent 'A% 3per Cent. Annuities, 1751 New 5 per Cent. ---- Exch. Bill., X. 1,00 0 -... l 3 pm [link Long Annuities to ex pire Ditto ' 501?... 5 6 4 pin Jan. 5, 11 , 60 Ditto Small 4 6 pin Oct. 10, 1859 j.,,n, 5, 186....... ............ --- Ditto Advertised Jan. 5, 1880 - Bank Stuck for A ccourt...lsB 7% April 5, MO — India Stock for Account ... Jan. 5. IV7O — Consos for Account ...... .. 9.1 1 N PRICES OF FOREIGN FU Nth; TIIIB DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Routh' Peruvian Bonds lB;,', 19 t etgian Bonds Ditto Account - Portuguese Bonds . Brazilian Bonds Ditto Account Euenos Ayres Bonds — Ditto, :1 per Cent. 24%% Ditto Aecount Chilian Bonds ......-- ...... ... Prussian Bonds - D. tto Accot, t Coltinltif an Bonds Ditto Account ~ — Ditto Account Columbian Bonds, lik24. ... 11214 Spanish Bonds .. ...... .....3213 , 43,i4 I)itta Account ':2%% Ditto Account ;i2% ti, N, Danish Bends Ditto Account D Fren e c f l y i r , r s e4 per cent . —. Li: 1 - 5- Greek Bonds!.. Ditto Betide, 1625 —, ----- 4 per cent ...." —l*. —,.... Ditto Acoount - 3 per cent...—. —f. --r: Moxitun Bonds, 5 per Coat -- Exchange. —f. —c. Litt° Account — . Dutch, 2!..c, per cent. o4 Ditto. 6 per Cent — Ditto Account 51 .4 DdiciAttont .....«........ 28% Ditto, 5 per cent ...... . 104 :n fgeaP9l l / a n. ........ ......... ..... Ditto Account — ------ -- PRICES OF SHAKES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. (Juited Mexican (Issued at 2/. pm.) Leaden ,iird Blackwall Railway l3 10!;1, , , -4anchoster and Birmingham Railway. T ... ! . !l 18 7 HALF PAST ONE. Extract of a Private Letter from Canton : Captain BRiott t o convey '• The ship Ariel, tak e n up by Government Despatches home to the Red Sea, will there await au answer to the deputation of merchants to our Go_ vernment on the position of affairs in Canton. How the business will terminate entirely rests on the British Govern ment, and it will be impossible to conjecture what will occur in the interim. " The Americans have two ships of war here, and we only one, and it is feared she was going to leave, notwithstand ing application had been made to her to remain fur the protccLon of the British subjects here." --- Very little business has being doing in the course of the morning, in either of the markets, although Consols have a firm appearance, and may be quote 4 at present 91i .1 Account ; Money 901 ; Exchequer Bills, 3 - 6 premium ; Bank Stock, for opening, 187 i. In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active maintains the price of 323- ; Portuguese, 361 i; Three per Cetus., 24k; Colombian, 321; 28 a ; Brazilian, 763 ; Dutch Two-and.a- Heir per Cents.,.s-1i; Five per Cent*., 1031 ; Spanish Passive, 81 , • D. ferred, 151. BOMBA Y. -- We - have been favoured with the fol lowing extract from a private letter, dated Candahar, June 5, 1839:--" A melancholy event occurred within a few miles of this camp on the 28th ult. Lieutenants Inverarity and Weimer, of the 16th Lancers, went out on a fishing excursion a distance of about six miles from the encamp. ment ; and, on their return, unarmed, about nine o'clock at night, the first named officer, having preceded his friend a few minutes, was attacked, in a mountain pass, by a party of from fifteen to twenty armed Affghans, and barbarously murdered. Lieutenant Weimer, who came up a few mi nun•s afterwards, had a miraculous escape. He had, luckily, a stick in his hand, with which he warded off a sword cut made at him, so as to receive only a slight c u t on his forehead. H e had to fly for his life, and, the put_ 'F nit of the murderers - -being arrested by the plunder of the Imgg,age, he succeeded in reaching the encampment, where he procured a guard, and returned to the assistance of his friend, who was found alive, but died almost iminc diatety afterwards." B tt USS ELS, SEPT. 21.—Extraordinary exertions are making in the section of the iron railway from Brus sels to Hal. The engineers affirm that this section may be opened at the end of September. In Worcestershire an entire parish experiences disfranchisement this year, in consequence of the omissiun of the overseers to publish a list of qualified electors en the church doors. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. (THIS DAY.) Cases wholly unfit for publication occupied both Cob ts the whole of the morning. MARLBOR UGH.STRBET. (THIS DAY.) THE NEW POLICE ACT v. THE BILL STICKERS.-. George Avcrell was brought before Mr. .Lo - Na, the presiding Magistrate, on the following charge, Police Constable, No. 133 C, stated thit he took the defendant into custody at three o'clock this morning, seeing him in the act of sticking a printed bill against some scaffold hoarding in front of one of the Club-douses in Pall-mall. The police have.received orders to apprehend all persons so offending. The hoarding belonged to Messrs. Grissell and Peto, the builders. The MAGISTRATE, believing the defendant had acted through ignorance, said he should not inflict any fine on the present occasion. The defendant left the office with a number of his fra ternity very much chop-fallen. AMr Charles Lather, a respectable tradesman, re siding at No. 56, Pcland-street, Pickford-street, was fined ss. for refusing to pass on in the Quadrant, when directed to do so by a policeman. The constable stated that the conduct of the defendant caused a number of boys to assemble and obstruct the footway. The defendant said he was only speaking to two of his brothers. He paid the'fine, strongly protesting against its injustice. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) HUNGERFORD MARKET. There were few supplies, a the weather being fine, the market was better attended. In prices there was but very little variation. Turbot Bs. to 255. ; Cod, 2s. 6d. to 10s. ; good Salmon, Is. 6d. to 2s. per lb. ; Soles, 10d. to 3s. 6d. per pair; Beef, 7d. to BFI. ; Mutton, 7FI. to BFI. ; Veal, Bd. to BFI. ; Pork, 7d. to 8-id. per lb. Vegetables very fresh and green, and in good demand-prices as before. CITY FISH MARKET. Fish still scarce, and prices high ; trade tolerably good, Turbot, 7s. to 255. ; Cod, 2-. 6d. to 10s. each ; Soles, is. to 4s. per pair ; Oysters, 12s. to 40s. per bushel ; Good Salmon, Is. 6d. to 2s. per lb. ; Whitings, sd. to 10d. each; and Had dock, Is. to 2s. 6d. HAY MARKETS. The supplies were good, and the condition, owing to the weather being liner, was better than for some time past. The demand better, and prices firmer. Hay, 60s. to 955.; Clover, 80s. to 120 s. ; Straw, 325. to 445. per load. TEA MARKET. There w:s considerable talk in this market, occasioned by the late news from canton, but very little business transacted. Prices firm at last vve,k's ad ante. SPIRIT MARKET. There was but little passing in any description of Spirits. Proof Leeward Rum 3s. 7d. ; Good Jamaica 4s. 6d. ; Brandy of moderate quality 3s. to 4s. 2d. ; Geneva Is. 10d. ; and British Corn Spii its 10s. 2d. TRADE WITH CHINA. (From the Canton Free Press of May 11.) We recorded in our last that an edict has been received by which ships were allowed to lade, and in fact according to which the trade was to be opened, and passage boats were allowed to leave Canton carrying passengers, The latter part of this edict was in so far complied with, that several boats left on Monday morning for Macao with passengers and letters ; but to guard against any of the 16 individuals at that time ordered not to leave, escaping, the Kwangheep and a posse of other officers, followed by the Hong merchants, were assembled at the embarking place bearing the euphonious appellation of Jackass-point, and every passenger about to embark was called upon by name, and had to identify his claim to it by showing his face. This ceremony, including the searching of trunks, &c., occupied a great number of Mandarins about four hours, when the boats were at last allowed to depart. The boats' crews detained here during our imprisonment left in them, they not being allowed to float their ships' boats, high and dry in the square during the last six weeks. A good many people, particularly such as were not per manent residents here, embraced this opportunity to leave Canton, and we believe that, sailors included, the boats took away from here between 40 and 50 individuals. On the day before yesterday (Thursday evening) it was known that an important edict fermi the - ismchae had been received, and various were the rumours concerning it in our community ; but this morning the following translation became known : " From the Kwangchow Foo to the Hong merchants, communicating the order of the Commissioner, Gover nor, and Lieutenant-Governor regarding the punish ment of foreigners for dealing in opium. " Choo, by epecial appointment Prefect of Kwangcbow Foo, issues commands to the original Hong merchants, and to the several senior and other Hong merchants for their full information. " He has now received from Lin, the high Imperial Commissioner, &c., Tan, the Governor of the two Kwang, and E. the Lieutenant-Governor of Kwangtung, the fol lowing orders : " It appears that the English superintendent Elliot, the American superintending officer Snow, and the Dutch superintending officer, Van Basel, have presented addresses, requesting that they all should return home at the head of the people and the vessels of their several nations. •• These addresses coming before us, the Commissioner and the Governor, and being duly authenticated, we reply. " China has, indeed, no need of commercial intercourse with outer Barbarians. But because you have come from far over the seas it cannot bear to push you utterly away; you have enjoyed the overshadowing, the comprehensive, and deep benevolence of the Great Emperor, who has eiven sanction to the trade with Kwangtung—you who nave come to the ten itory of the Celestial Empire, not only eat of the herbage and trod the soil equally with the people of the land, but have also, by your buying and sell ing, acquired very rich advantages. It is naturally your duty to rest in your stations, observing the laws. But for tens of years past you have, on the contrary, employed a thing hurtful to men as means of gaining and possess ing yourselves of people's wealth. " The Great Emperor, anxiously regardful of the ge. geral well-being, has therefore declared his pleasure that this should be severely prohibited. And if th laws be not plainly declared how shall the future ingress be put a stop to ? While now, all you superintendents and consuls aforesaid are aware that the prohibitory enactment, t,f tee Celestial Court may not be opposed. you are ,yet anxious in regard to points of difficulty as relates to your own countries, and request that at the head of the people and vessels of your several countries, you may altogether take your departure to return home. "'Those of the foreigners whose names are prominent as having been habitual sellers of opium, have already, ere this, been ordered away. But besides Jardine and others, e.bo have gone away back to their countries, there yet remain many lingering behind. If, indeed, all leave China for ever, there will of course no opium gain admit tance into the inner land, and this evil may be removed. e After, then, the lull completion of the present deli- veries, let it be even as requesied. It shall be left to you entirely to return to your countries. You will not be allowed t, make pretexts for procrastinating and delaying. And after you have thus returned ycu will not be allowed to come again. Let there be no turning backwards and forwards, no inconstancy, whereby investigation and pro ceedings thereon will be involved. " We proceed to issue these orders, commanding the Prefect immediately to enjoin the orders on the original Hong merchants, and on the several senior and other Hong merchants, that they may plainly enjoin the same on the stveral superintending officers aforesaid, that they, having knowledge thereof, may offer no opposition. This having been received by the Prefect, he proceeds to issue these commands. When these reach the said Hong merchants, let them immediately enjoin the same painly on each of the said superintending officers, that they may hive knowledge thereof, and offer no opposition. A special command. • litook(waog, 19th year, 3d month, 25th day, (Bth May, 1839.)" We believe thet owing to its importance, and the conse quent irregularity of its being transmitted to Captain Elliot through the Hong merchants, that officer refused to receive this document, which was at the same time trans. mitted to the American Consul, and to the Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce that was. From it, it will be seen that any foreigners may leave Canton after the deli very of the 20,283 chests shall have been completed, but that any one applying now for leave to go will not be al• lowed to return. Those that under present circumstances remain in Canton will be subject to the laws lately pro mulgated against the smugglers of opium, that is, to capi tal punishment. Under such conditions, and the facility of accusation, where for condemnation rigid proofs may not be required, most foreigners are now preparing to leave, and their doing so will probably disabuse the Chi nese of their so often avowed belief that " without tea or rhubarb the Barbarians cannot live." The purport of this edict is, of course, of paramount import.nice, but besides it, a good many annoyances of a minor kind are being inflicted on the residents here. We mentioned before that they were not allowed to go into the back streets or the Hongs to transact their business, which, to be done, must be intrustea alto7ether to the honour of the Chinese; since this :morninv, it appears, previous orders are to be executed, and workmen have been all day busy preparing the foundation of a wall and railing to be run up close to, and in a parallel line with the factories, leaving their inhabitants for recreation the small space of four paces only. Besides, no more than one inlet into the suburbs of Canton is in future to be allowed us—all the others are to be blocked up. The guard of about 70 Cooll.ies in front of the factories, which we mentioned as having• taken the place of about three times the number in our last, still remains, and the boats, though not so s)rnmeti,•ically arranged to the eye, continue to guard the few landling places. Communication with Whampoa has, however, become unrestricted, and boats are daily coming and going. RUNJEET SINGH. (From the Bombay Times of the 27th of July.) Among the remarkable incidents c.rinected with the death of Runject Singh, none is more worthy of be;ng corded and noted than the fact of four princesses, his wives, and seven slave girls having b een perm i tted to burr, thew selves on his funeral pyre. The sacrifice of his sieves is indeed an atrocious . cruelty, enacted apparently for no other purpose than that of adding dignity to the funeral pageant ; and We hope that the British Government, in its c ommunications with Rurruk Singh, or Dhian Singh, who seems to have been the real director of the obsequies, will not fail to convey a strong intimation of its cerie upon this most barbarous proceeding. Which of vo. when reading in Southey's wild poem, the Curse of Keiiama, the description of Arvalan's funeral, the burning of his two Queens, and of the whole train of female slaves, could have imagined that he would live to behold the incredible fiction realized to the death, at the obsequies of a prince in close alliance with Great Britain ? Yet so true it is, that the poetic description of Arvalan's ima ginary funeral becomes, with a very trifling adaptation, the Even as regards the four princess= 5, Gudden, B lent- Alice, Rajkover, and Hindeer, there are eircurnstaue. s which seem to render their sacrifice inexcusatele. In the c.se under consideration it appears that, with the princesies (not with the slaves be it remarked, they were not wor li the ceremony) the form of dissuasion was gone through. But howhappens it that the same multitude which succeeded in restraining Dhian Sing in his pretended attempt at self. combustion, could not move hand or foot to prevent the Raines 1 The reason is too clear. Dhiati Singh was wanted: he had a living part to play, both for himself and the Court of Lahore ; and those who locked forward to reap benefits from his power were too wise'to allow him to carry his pretended wish into execution; they would have received little thanks from him living, little reward from him dead, had they taken him at his word. But the Queens were not wanted; their jewels, theirjaghires, their pensions—all these were wanted, and they themselves were n the way. The perpetration of this tragedy shows, in the first place, how low our moral influence is even where our political influence is most powerful. It shows, in the second, bow futile is the hope that India would ever regenerate herself under native rulers. Here is the Sikh nation, in full inde pendence, power, and wealth, with all the elements of pro gress in its possession—professing, too, a new and freer creed, untrammelled with caste or any other venerable fet ters derived from antiquity; yet the present tendency of the national mind is evidently to retrograde towards the ideas and the customs of past ages. most exact historical record of the real obsequies of the ;ate monarch of Lahore. GERMAN PAPERS. HANOVER, SEPT. 7.—The Magdeburg Journal published an article, dated Hanover, Aug. 21, stating that his Majesty the King had invited Lord Lyndhurst and other persons. from England to consult with than on what should be done in case the Queen of England should die without issue. We should have thought that the style and spirit of this article sufficiently characterized it as coming from a quarter, which, with out any knowledge of the circumstances and views of the Court, wished to Say something ill-natured. How comes it then that the Franconian Mercury calls the article half', official, and builds upon it all sorts of con clusions and reaisOnitgi, which are all incorrect, because they rest on manifestly false suppositions. LEIPsIG, SEP.' 17 .—Th2 Leipsig Gazette contains an official notification of his Majesty's resolution to convoke the estates of the kingdom, which are to meet Oa the sth of November next. St. PETERSEURISH, SEPT. 11.—Our journals contain besides accounts of the visit of the Emperor to Boro. dino, the following IMPERIAL ORDER OF THE DAY TO THE ARMIES. " Children—You see before you the monument which bears testimony to the glorious deeds of your com rades. Here on this spot the arrogant enemy fancied twenty-seven years ago, that he could overcome the Russian army, which defended its religion, its Czar, and its country. God, pu nished his followers, the bones of 'the ' insolent intruders were scattered from Moscow to the Niemen, and even entered : Paris. The time is now come to com memorate the glory of that great day's deed. May the memory of the immortal Alexander be endeared to all ages! By his firm will Russia was saved.. Eternal honour to our comrades who died the death of heroes, and may their great deeds serve as an example to us to the latest posterity. You will always he the hope and the defence of your Emperor, and of our common mother Russia. (The original is signed by his Majesty's own hand.) 6 , NICHOLAS. " In the camp near the village of Borodino, August 26 (Sept. 17) 1839." The Minister of War has also published a rescript of the Emperor for increasing the pay of all officers who were present at the battle. HAM➢URG, SEPT. 19.—The Bishops of the Greek United Church, i. e. not belonging to the Russian Church, but united on certain conditions with the Church of Rome, have petitioned the Emperor to be admitted with their flocks into the Russian Greek Church. This petition has, of course, been granted, and between three and four millions of Russian subjects are thus withdrawn from the supremacy of the Church of Rome and placed under the Synod of St. Petersburg. —Hamburg Papers, Sept. 20. _ . . iTELLit AN r UNDS—BaussEte, SEPT. 21 Actual Debt, 23 per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent lOl% Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 pefCent. 92% 3 per Cent. 7IN. Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent Society of Commerce, Oiper Cent lO9 Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent.... ...... ..... National Society . — --Brussels Papers, Sept. 21. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIEwris, Sam 15 Five per Cents: Metalliques Four per Cents. Three per Cents. • SI% Bank Shares 1525 —Allgemeine Zeitung, Sept. 18 HAMBURG BORSEN HALLE, Serr : _t"o. __ Isills. Money. Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank Shares 1522 1520 A n :lo- Russian Loan lo7k Hr. - % Russian 3 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate Inscription, Ist Serifs — Russian 5 per Cent. Hops and Co. 3d and 4th Series 97% 97N Ditto in Certificates Dutch '.stoat Debt, 2t per Cent 53 5‘. ) .N, Ditto 5 per Cent lOl Polish Bonds New Ticket Angle. i 'stash Loan, 3 per Cent 7oi 71U Norwegian Loan, 1 , 34, 4 per Cent.... lOl% EXCHANGES O LONDON. HAMIWRO, SEPT. 5 , 4.—Tw0 months, 13. PET, RSBURCH, SEPT. 13.—Twomonths,0 39% %. Lewsic, SEPT. mo ths, 6. 14. SEPT. 17. —Three months, S. 21. STOCKHOLM, SEPT. 13.—Seventy.five days, 11. 30, SPAIN. A Madrid Journal publishes the following letter, addressed by the Earl of CLARENDON to General ALAVA, her Most Catholic Majesty's Ambassador at the Court of London : Grosvenor-cresent, Aug. 24. I regret that absence from London should be the cause of the unavoidable delay which has taken place in acknor k dging the receipt of your letter of .the 17th, in which, according to the instructions of me hethtel‘finise Excellency communicated benevolent tro f State, your sentiments which her Eajesty the Queen Regent has been pleased to express with reference to the speech lately delivered by me in the 1-kuse of Lords on the affairs of Spain. It will be easy for you to be!icve that this communication has afforded me the greatest satisfaction, and fills me with gratitude towards her 31hjesty. I have been witness for nearly six years of the conduct of that august Princess; of her constant desire to promote rational liberty in Spain, of her indefatigable zeal and more than maternal solicitude for the interests of her subjects, and her intrepidity and va lour in the midst of circumstances which few Sovereigns have had to encounter. I should consider myself most happy in seeing that her Majesty believes that I have rendered some service to the cause of the Queen, by endeavouring to disprove the ca lumnies and falsehoods which, from so many interested mo tives, have been circulated for the purpose of injuring the Spanish nation. I confide in your Excellency to have the goodness to present to her Majesty the expression of my gratitude. and if it may be permitted, to renew the wishes which I have so often done in person to her Majesty for triumph of the cause of the Queen, and its necessary consequences the prosperity of Spain. I beg of your Excellency, likewise, to present my col-. dial thanks to his Excellency Don Evaristo Perez de Castro, as well as to his colleagues,not only for tha goodness with which they have received the statement of facts which I made in the House of Peers, but for the very handsome manner in which they have expressed their opinion. I am particularly grateful to your Excellency for the friendly manner in which you have carried into effect tht, instructions of your Government : and I yet hope, though having ceased my official relations with Spain, still to co operate with your 'Excellency in promoting the good of a country which has the advantage of a representative like yourself, who enjoys the esteem and respect of all classes in England, whatever be his principles and political opi nions. I am, &c. CLARENDON. PREPARING TO BE BURIED.—An " oddity,' of the name of Leigh, who for some years filled the honourable office of master of a flat, navigating the river Mersey, and by industry, and a rather more than ordinary share of good luck, has accumulated a small independency, is spending his latter days in Warrington, in making pre parations for his funeral, which, to appearance, seems to occupy the whole of his thoughts. Some years ago, he procured a large oak chest, fastening with secret springs, in which his mortal remains were, after death, to be depo sited ; but that idea has now been abandoned, and a new coffin has been procured. In shape, it is a beautiful model of a pleasure -yacht, and was built •by Mr. Clare, of Sankey, of old English oak plank, inch thick. It is provided with mainsail, foresail, and gaff topsail, and on the stern is inscribed the name of " Admiral Nelson." In length it measures 8 feet two inches, Last week it was brought into Warrington, mounted on wheels, and accompanied by its owner and a fiddler, and followed by a crowd of wondering spectators. Its final destination is fixed upon to be the St. James's Cemetery, at Liverpool, to which place, on its " bill of lading" being complete, it is to be drawn by horses, and followed by a certain number of John Leigh's fellow_ flatmen, for whose refreshment on the way a large cask of ale is to be placed on the deck of the vessel. John Leigh's tombstone is a l so provided. It is or na m ente d' b y the of which th e l ast f our may be picture of the flat Victory, and asntdarsa. rauthrerierrurdicearrheparreesesounita, t ti v a e n u o v f the lin sun, m esof po o e o t n ry , T lalcen as a specimen. They run as foll ow : M a y God be our pilot, and steer us the right way, And all our fleet anchor in Heaven's bright bay, The seas I have seen, and the ships I have pssed, But the Lord will call us all down to our graves at last." —Preston Observer. A CHILD TO BE GIVEN AWAY. --An adver tisement has appeared two or three times, within as many days last past, addressed, " To the rich without children," any one of whom, on application to the " highly connected" parents, who are now poor, may h ave t h e i r " nee ly born infant boy, without the slightest difficulty on their part 1" The parents will give away their child to any person rich enough to keep it. When the smashers enter a shop to pass counter feit coin they never have more than one piece, fearful of being detected. A confederate accompanies them to the door with counterfeit coin to supply the smasher, but should the latter be detained the confederate decamps, and, for fear of being taken, flings the base money through the iron grating into the sewer. This accounts for the base money found in sewers, as stated at a late Coroner's inquest. WINDSOR, MONDAY.-Hur Majesty rode out on horseback in the Park this afternoon, attended by a numerous party from the Castle, among whom were the Hon. MiSs Spring - Wee, La*, Charlotte Dundas, Baroness Lehzen,..ivliss - Qutntin, Earl Cowper, Colonel Wemyss, Earl of Surrey, and Sir George Quentin. Tne Countesst Cowper and Siuldwich, the Bon. Miss Pitt, and the Hun. Mrs. George Campbell left the Castle .imniciiiately atter the Royal equestrian party, in phaetons. • • The Earl and Countess of Uxbridge are expected to Join the Royal Dinner Party this evening at the CaStle, •• . • • A slight cold prevented her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent gOinj to Church with the Queen on Sunday. The Duke of Cambridge left Kew yesterday, on a visit to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester , at her residence, Bagshot Park. Viscount Palmerston . arrived at his residence in Great Stanhope-street yesterday morning from Windsor Castle. _ . The' Earl of Minto left town on Saturday for his seat, Minto Castle, Hawick, Roxburglishire. The Chancellor of the Exchequer returned to town yesterday from the seat of his father, Stratton Park, Hants. The Right Hon. H. Labouchere has arrived at Norman Court, Stockbridge, from Stowey, Somor setshire. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial Office, from Sir Howard Douglas, Lord High Com missioner of the lonian Islands. FASHIONABLE IN TEL LIGENCE. ARRIVALS. Mr. Chas. Cavendish Grey'lle, in Grosvenor-place ; Mr. and Lady Emily Pusey and family, in Grosvenor-square; Lord Ingestrie, from Ford Castle, Northumberland • Ver non Smith, Esq., M. P., from N o rth am p ton ; Si r Edward Lytton Bulwer, Bart., M. P., in Charles -street, Berkeley square ; the Countess of Kingston, in Hall-place, St. John's Wood ; the Marquis of Westminster, in Upper Grosvenor street ' • George Vivian, EN., in Albema r le-street; the Hon. James Kenneth Ho war d, i n M ount-street ; Maier Archer Ryland, from Paris; Sir Walter Riddell, Bart., in Lincoln's Inn Oldsquare, from the North ; Sir John Vaughan, from St. Leonard's; Admiral Sir Edward Cod' rington, in Eaton-square ; Thos. Sugden Holbein, Esq.. t:om Boulogne.- _ _ _ DEPARTURES. Lord Wharneliffe, 'for Chatsworth ; the Countess of Kerry, for BotAood ; Lord and Lady Southampton, for Northamptonshire.; Lord and Lady Vernon and family, on a Continental tour; the Dowager Lady King, for Chert sey ; Lieut.-General Sir WilliaM Henry aud Lady Louise Clinton, for Herts ; Mr. William Denison, M P.. for the Deribies, Surrey the Dowager Lady Beauchamp Proctor, icr ; Colonel Barkley, for the New Forest. CHANGES. Lord Frederick Rtzelarenee, at - Etat House, near Cold stream, from Doncaster ; Sir Robert Bateson, Bart., M.P. at Belvoir Park; Lord and Lady Morley, at Saltram ; the Hon. Thomas and Lady Enima de Vesey, from Wilton House, near Salisbury, for Southampton ; the Rev. Ed' ward and. Mrs, Bankes, at Corle Castle, Dorset ; Captain and Lady Caroline Baillie Hamilton, at' Thatne Park, front' Oxford ; -Vice-Admiral 'Sir Wm. Gage, at Lord Abing don's, Wytham Abbey;' the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Tolle roache, at their seat, Huntsmore Park, from Brighton. IN t DITION. COURT CIRCULAR. UNIVERSITY IN TELL IGENCE. OXFORD, SEPT. 21.—Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge padsed through this city on Wednesdny, on their return from their visit to the Earl and •. Countess Of Jersey at Aliddleton-park, when they viewed the I.3ntauic Gardens, which they were prevente d " from seeing on Saturday by the . unfavourable state of tb weather at that time. Lord Bra3brocki, has presented the Rev. John Warren Hyes, of Wadhain College, to the rectory of Aborfie.idr Berkshire, to which he was instituted by the Very Rev. th° Dean of Salisbury. The Town-council of this Corporation elected on M° l 7 day last the' Rev. John Perkins, o f Ch r i s t Church, one O f the city lecturers (of wh om t h ere are f our ), i n t h e roonl ° f the late Rev. Mr. Hyde. e The Lord Bishop of Bangor and th e R ev . t h e Wa- M - lt of Ruthin, have elected the Rev. Edw ar d L owr y Bare ; well, of Jesus College, to the head Mastership of Ru t. — School. We understand that her Majesty the ah em • Dowager intends to vi s it th e E ar l an d Countess of v e1 . 1 ,, bigh at their seat, Nun e h a m, W arw i c k s hi re , i n the wars of the ensuing month. r incess Their Royal Hi g h nesses th e P r i nce and 4 P Thurs. of Capua arrived at Ki nme l P ar k, S t . A sa ph, on day last, on a visit to Lord Dinorben. Lord Stanley and Lord Sefton will entertain large parties at Knowsl e y an d C roxtet h H a ll, d ur i n g the Liver pool autumn meeting, which commences next week. The Duchess of Gordon, who has been on a short visit to the Duke and Duchess of Richmond, at Gordon Castle, has returned to Huntley Lodge. The Dowager Marchioness of Northampton re— ' turned to Coolhurst, on Wednesday last, from a visit to Mrs. Smith, at Bersted Lodge, Bognor. The Earl and Countess of Delaware and LadY Elizabeth West have returned to Buckhurst Park, Soso*. from a visit to the Earl and Countess of Warwick, at 'OP' wick Castle. Viscount Holmesdale has joined the Viscountuas at Wellesbourne Hall, Warwickshire, from a shooting e cursion in the north. The Dowager Lady Brownlow, the Hon. M iss Cust, Sir Wm. and the Hon. Lady Middleton, Sir Georg: and Lady Wombwell, &c., wove among the fashionable staying at . Aldeburgh last week. Lord and Lady Sou.hampton, who have loeen making an extensive tour on the Continent during the past two years, passed through town a few days days back, on heir way to Whittlebury Park, To%cester. We are hippy to say that both the Noble Lord and his Lady are in enael lent health. Sir "James Graham, Bart., M.P., and Lady Graham returned to Netherby, their seat in Curnb, trland, on Monday last, from a tour in Scotland. Lord Colville arrived at Brighton, on Thu rsday last, from town, with the intention to reside some we, tks at that esteemed - watering place. Lord and Lady Stanley arrived at Knowsley Park, the seat of the Earl of Derby, new: P, escort, ura Thursday last, from a visit of several rtieeks to their seat Ballykiston, Tipperlry. The Earl Howe, accompanied by Lord Curzon and family, has left Bushy Park for Gopsull Hall, Iseices tershire. Lord Wm. L e nnox and the Hon. Captain Pitt"H hive left Gordon Castle, where they have been visiting the Duke and Duchess of Richmond. The Eat' of Eldon left Shirley, his seat near Croydon, early in the past week, for Rushyford, Durham. The Countes Stanhope and Lad y Wilhelmin 4 Stanhope left town early l as t week, on a tour of visits in the north. It is rumoured at Cheltenham,, that Mr. Fitz.. hardinge Berkeley, having married a 'lady with 200,0001.0 will retire from political life, and lye as a country gent le " man.— Worcester Journal. 11TH LIGHT DRAGOONS __This regime"' notwithstanding the many contradictory reports, is tort srrt to remain in Canterbury' until next year. The Bait of Cardigan entertained the officers of. the regiment at a splen did dinner, at Hale's.place on the T.3th instant. Th e .. fine band of the corps was in attendance. An affair 'at honour between Captain Jones and Li.eut. Hussey of dul l regiment, took place on the afternoon of the 17th instant, at the gravul-pits contiguous to the barrack. After a° exchange of shots, by which the Captain was slight!y touched in the arm, an arraugemen t took place throug ° the interference of their seconds. 'l,'h e origin of the differ ence between them is not known. By the storm on tlf evening of the 17th instant, the surgeon of the reghoor nearly lost his life. A large roughg to t house he occupied, fell and passed. tg the roof anti floor of the upper story, destroying every thing in its course. The surgeon was passing from one room to another at alf° time, and one pace more would have sealed his fate' i " . United Service Gazette. LIGHT SOVEREIGNS.--Th e Spectator is ti tl4.6 in error in uposing that th ank e B of England ma kei money by light sovereigns. The clerks are i n structed to rrject light gold in all cases, and there can, consequentli be no such practice as receiving at one price and paYi t lif away at another. Light sovereigns are returned upon the public, the Bank being of course in no way responsib t ir, for their weight. T he Spectator suggests, as a mear.s A giving annoyance to the Bank of England, that r•e°P l f . having to receive sovereigns at its counters shoal .d eonw prepared with scales, and themselves egeir:n them' bbeelfoow the re the clerks s of the Thise t establishment, re'Lusin a vet` refusing irksome business, and, under the eircu'mstances a e have mentioned, of no sort of - use. The Special° may feel satisfied that, of the sovereigns said to have bee r i lately t en d ere d b y Mr. Jaudon, not one was taken that di not come up to the legal weigla. Much trouble would 1 'a spared, both to the Bank and the public, if the form' er were authorized to stamp sovereigns of undue weight whe A" ever they happen to be presented. We trust enough hi is, at all events, been said in explanation to convince t h e Spectator th at t h e c implaint of " A Stockbroker," w h o imposed upon the Times with his statement—an snot kl* mous statement it is to be observed about his one 50 , le' reign, is too frivolous to call for any further cos Pi deration. We believe we may, however, add I ha! saf,ty that the clerks of the Bank never pay or receive phi by tale, but invariably by weight. The weight is the tot, and this determines the number, There is no such I as receiving and paying simply by the pound or ounce u 1 1 ' less it be for melting = Morning Post. r , • SOCIETY FOR RELIEVING THE rioUs,2LE: POO R .This institution, after having saved nr7;ns . /Ives, 1° now in Possession of property to be applied fur, the ski, tie purpose to the amount of 10,041/. 53 6d. 1 - her btf the Queen Dowager is an annual subscriber to the mei int of 10/., and several people of 'the first rank in.:the cotr4 are amongst the contributors. On the 11th inst. an explosion of fire-datr . , p to, place in a coal-pit near St. Etienne, to the ' atruction a large Number of persons. When the lay' accounts I pit Nineteen dead bodies had been extract e d f rom t h e 17 it. Thirteen horses had also bt:en killed t h e explosion. Last week a cat raised tt rat at Wike, whi h he at i l n d g , meloousneltyedptuhrseulectabl.:stso,ok itself to a eons-pit nig at and deseended.the rope. ..offrhe eat, in the ardour of pursuit, followed down the rope , 7 .7'0 4 both animals were found dead at the bottom by..tharb Leeds Intelligencer,