The Sun. — London, England, 1845-08-28 00:00:00

Making ... Deduct 40 per cent. for working expenses 33 miles, 43 „ 54 „ This railway is brought forward with the general concurrence and approval of the country and towns through which it passes. It is now the universal opinion that this line is absolutely required by the district, and that without it the trade of this portion of the country will materially suffer, and consequently the value of property be depreciated by the competition of those neighbouring towns to which the great advantages of railway communication have been granted. Provision will be taken in the Act to allow four per cent. interest on the deposit and calls until the line is constructed. Powers will be taken in the Act to drain the marsh lands of the valley through which the line passes. • Applications for Shares to be made to the Committee of Manage melt, at the Offices of the Company, No. 2. Nicholas-lane, Lom bard-street and Mr. J. W. Soott, share-broker, &c., 3, Bartholo mew-lane, London ; to Messrs. Fisher, Lucas, and Steward, and Mr. Samuel Palmer, of Great Yarmouth ; and to Messrs. Margit son and Hartcup, of Bungay, in the following form, viz. : FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Committee of Management of the Waveney Valley and Great Yarmouth Railway Company, Gentlemen,—l request you will allot to me Shares of 201. each in the above Company, and I undertake to accept the same, or any less number, and to pay the deposit of 21. per Share, and en..iage to sign the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agree vaent in respect of the same, when required. I am, Gentlemen, your obcdisnt servant, Name in fu11........ • • ........ ..... Residence .......• ..... ......... Description . ........ .. .... Place of business ...................... Reference. ....... ...................... Address of Reference .......... • • D IRECT LONDON AND EXETER RAIL WAY COMPANY. With extension hereafter to Falmouth and Penzance, through Hammersmith, Turnham-green, Brentford, Isleworth, Hounslow, Staines, Egham, gagshot, Ascot, BfackuLal, Wokingham, Ein‘sclere, Andover, Salisbury, Shaftesbury, Sherbourne, Yeovil, Crewkerne, Axminster (with branch to Cranbonrne, Blandford, Dor chester, Bridport,.Axminster), and Honiton, to Exeter. Capital, 3,000,000/., in 120,000 Shares, of 251. each. Deposit 1/. 7s. 6d. per Share. With power to raise 1,000,0001. more, if necessary. (Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7 and 8 Vic. c. 110.) OFFICES,. No. 52, REGENT-STREET, WATERLOo-PLACE, Adjoining the County Fire Office. PROVISIONAL CO3IIIITTEE. The Right Hon. the Earl of Mexborough, Dover-street, Piccadilly, Director of the Direct London and Manchester Railway.. The Right Hon. Viscount Sidrnouth, Upper Otters', Devon Lord Henry Loftus, ISelgrave-square Sir Henry Hervey Bruce, Bart., Montague-square, and Down-hill, Londonderry Sir George Rich, 43, Lowndes-street, Belgrave-square J. R. Phillirnore, Esq., LL.D., 42, Clarges-street, Chancellor of Salis bury Juts David Chambers, Esq., Recorder of Salisbury Brigadier-General Sir Henry Pynn, 19, Clifford-street The Hon. A. Cape], Theyden House, Essex, and Park-street, Grosve nor-square Charles William Spicer, Esq., 28, Portman-square G. Thompson Jacob, Esq , Blandford, Magistrate, and Deputy Lieu tenant for Dorset W. s'. A. Delane, Esq., Bracknell IL H. Hnngerford, Esq., Dingley Park, Market Harborough, and Dover-street, Piccadilly, Director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway Francis Davvion, Esq., Grosvenor -street Richard Francis Power, Esq., 73, Eccleston-squsre, and Long- Orchard, Tipperary Lieutenant-Colonel P. W. Pedlar, Nutley House, Devon Thomas Dowglasse, Esq., Marlborough -place, St. John's Wood, Di rector of Great Eastern and Western, and Manchester and Birken head Continuation Company The Hen. henry savile, Dover-street A. W. Hillary, Esq., 66, Cadogan-place IV. L. Pope, Esq., Woodford, Essex, Director of the Oxford, South ampton, Gosport, and Portsmouth Company George Evans, Esq., Milbury-terrace, Regent's Park Francis Lloyd, Esq., Temple, London, and Bingley House, Bir mingham William Thomas Davies Lhoyd, Esq., Anglesey • R. S. -Blundell, Esq., 18, Low, r Seymour-street Joh., Allan, Esq., Gloucester-terrace, Kensington. William Basnlngilun cestello, Esq., M.D., Wyke House, Brantford COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT. John Allen, EN., Gloucester-terrace, Kensington Thomas Dowglasse, Esq., Marlborough -place, St. John's Wood, Di rector of Great Eastern and Western, and Manchester and Birken head Continuation Company George Evans, Esq., Milbury-terrace, Regent's Park A. W. Hillary, Esq., 66, Cadoesin-place W. L. Pope, Esq., Woodford, Essex, Director of the Oxford, South ampton, Gosport, and Portsmouth Company Brigadier-General Sir Henry Pynn, 19, Clifford-street, Director in the County Fire Office Charles William Spicer, Esq., 28, Portman-square H. 11. Hunger:4)rd, ssq., Dffigley Park, Market Harborough, Director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway (With limited power to add to their number.) .Exotsizza—John Braithwaite, Esq., 4, Trafalgar-square, Engineer of the Eastern Counties Railway BANKERS—Messrs. Currie and Co., 29, Cornhill Getsiclroa—D. E. Colombine, Esq., 8, Carlton Chambers, Regent-street The applications for Shares being so numerous, the Committee do not think it necessary to daily advertise the full Prospectus, but they ties;re to state that they intend to convey heavy goods such as iron, coals, &c., from place to plac e , f or which separate trains will be al lotted. Date IiTAVENEY VALLEY AND GREAT YARMOUTH RAILWAY. WITH A BRANCH TO HALESWORTH. Capital 400,0001., in 20,000 Shares of 201. etch. Deposit 21. per Share. (Registered provisionally, pursuant to 7 and S Vict., cap. 110.) COMMITTEE OF 31.IINAGEMEST. Hon. Colonel George Anson, M.P., 25, Hill-street, Berkeley-square, London William Back, Esq., Stratford St. Mary, Suffolk Calverley Richard Bewicke, Esq., Barsham House, Suffolk Emanuel Cooper, Esq., Southwark W. J. Crowfoot, Esq., M.D., Beccles Richard Hammond, Esq., Great Yarmouth Swynfen Jervis, Esq., Whitehall-place, London, and Darlaston Hall, Staffordshire John 31`Rae, Esq., Page Greenhouse, Tottenham Hezekiah Martin, Esq., Great Yarmouth Samuel Paget, Esq., Great Yarmouth (kor4e Danby Palmer, Esq., Great Yarmouth Wiliam Richardson, Esq., Charlotte-street, Bedford-square, London iCiiliam Ayscough Wilkinson, Esq., Woodberry Down, Middlesex Willi m Wilahere, Esq., M.P. for Great Yarmouth, Hermitage, Ilitchin, Herta ENoiralit—Joseph Locke, Esq. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Fisher, Lucas, and Steward, / Great Yarmouth Samuel Palmer, Esq. Messrs. Margitson Hartcup, Bungay Josiah Wilkinson, Esq , London BA. Kras—London and County Bank, Lombard-street, London, and its branches. SECRETART.—M. E. Daniel, Esq. A direct communication from Yarmouth to the Metropolis is of the utmost importance to the port and trade of Yarmouth. The pre sent route by the Norwich and Yarmouth and Norwich and Brandon Railw.,ys, now called the Norfolk Railway, conveys the Yarmouth traffic to London round by Brandon, Ely, and Cambridge, to join the Northern and Eastern Railway—a distance of 146 miles. The ter minus of the Norfolk Railway at Yarmouth is acknowledged to be most inconvenient for the London trade, and the claims which it has upon Yarmouth are confined to the communication with Norwich And the western and north-western dist irts. A very large traffic Deists between Yarmouth, Lowestoft, Beccles, Bungay, Halesworth, Harlestone, and Diss ; and also between all those important towns and Bury St. Edmund's, Stowmarket, Ipswich, and London. To supply the wants of these districts the Waveney Valley and Yar mouth Railway is designed ; and it will shorten the distance between Yarmouth and London twenty-four miles. It is intended to construct the terminus upon the best site as near to Yarmouth-bridge as practictble. The line will communicate with the quays, so as to take goods from the vessels on the river without transhipment or immediate carriage, thus saving considerable ex pense. This railway will run to the town of Beccles, thence to Bun gay (with a branch to Halesworth), t Harleston, and Diss, commu nicating there with the Eastern Union Extension Railway, and by aneans of that line to Stowmarket, Bury, Ipswich, Colchester, Chelms ford, and London. At Diss the railway will be within three miles of the important market town of Eye, to which a branch may be ad vantageously constructed. In Its course to iteccles it will cross the Lowestoft and Iteedharn line, and will afford the shortest communi cation from Lowestoft to London. The whole length of the main line will not exceed thirty-three miles, and the branch to Hales- worth will be about nine miles. The population of the district through which it runs, taking the parishes within three miles of the line, is upwards of 100,000, according to the last census. The valley be one of the richest agricultural districts in Englmal ; it produces large crops of grain, and abounds with rich pasturage, a very lar,; rcrtion of the barley is malted at Harlestone, Halesworth, Bur,pty, and Bc , cles, and supplied to the large London brewers. The export of corn and flour from Yarmouth exceeds that of any port in the kingdom, the average being yearly 435,690 quarters. 70,'00 tons of goods and 173,485 tons of coals are annually im pc rt.,:ct into Yarmouth to supply the wants of the district. There are 574 registered vessels, comprising a tonnage of 50,375, bel aiging to Great Yarmouth, and 3,400 ships yearly enter that port. . _ Upwards of 100 vessela are employed in the mackerel fishery, and 200 in the fishery ; the capital tma.loyed in these trades ex cec,i, hal:a million of money. In addition to the above, very many other fishing craft are em ployed 10 catching turbot, soles, cod, haddock, whitings, shrimps, the greater part of which are sent to London ; and, as the fishing banks of the North Sea present an inexhaustible supply of these com modities, and the metropolis an almost boundless market for cheap and good fish, it may confidently be expected that the immediate and permanent effect of a quick transit between the two places will be a vast increase in this branch of traffic ; and tt. is anticipated that large quantities of Scotch salmon will be landed at Yarmouth, to avoid the tedious passage between this part of the coast and the metropolis. An immense quantity of live stock is sent from the district of this railway to London, which, In the event of this line being made, must pass upon it. Yarmouth is increasing extensively as the watering-place of the eastern coast. A great number of houses have recently been erected, to accommodate the requirements of visitors during the season, and many others of a first class are now in course of building. The traffic on this line of road has been taken, and is estimated to produce, independently of the fish carriage, a return of £39,483 0 0 To this add for fish traffic from Lowestoft, according to the present quantity supplied to the London market, calculated at a low rate And for fish traffic from Yarmouth, according to the lame data.. 3,727 0 0 9,500 0 0 •••• • • • £52,710 0 0 •••• • • • 21,084 0 0 Leaving a net revenue 0f.... •••••• • • • • £31,626 0 0 which upon the capital of 400,0001. will make a return of eight per cent The distances will be as follows : from Yarmouth to I)iss St , wrnarket Bury St. Edmund's ~ Ipawicii ......... Colchester ....... ••• .. 71 Chelmsford .... /9 London . • • • • ... 122 being twenty-four miles shorter than the route by the present Norfolk Railway. The traffic has been taken very moderately, and it stay be fairly calculated that the amount will be very considerably increased by increased trade (particularly in fish, cattle, and grain), when the :cad is op‘ned, and the facilities 'lynch railways afford are developed to a country hitherto unaccommodated with such ad vantages. Tne line has been carefully surveyed, and no engineering difficulty presents itself. It may be constructed very cheaply and speedily. The Waveney Valley forms a natural level channel without a single impediment; and where the line leaves the valley the cuttings are not heavy, and are required for the necessary embankments in the lower :Ands. Joseph Clayton, 320, Strand. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTI's THIS EVENING Will be performed SWEETHEARTS and WIVES. Billy Lackaday Mr. Munyard; Eugenia, Mrs. Yates; Laura, Miss Woelgar. After which, will be produced, THE BUY KING; or, Petite Peccadillos. Louis XV., Madame Celeste; lie Lauzum, Miss Wool gar. In the eourse of the piece, Grand Review of the Ihfantine Infantry. To be followed by a farce. in One Act, called MRS. CAUDLE ABROAD AND AT HOME. Mr. Caudle, Mr. Wilkinson; Mrs. Caudle, Mr. Wright. To conclude with NORMA. Porno, Miss Woolgar ; Norma, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Adalgisa, Mr. Wright ; Oroveso, Miss Reynolds. Prompter, Mr. Gallot ; Principal Painter, Mr. Pitt ; Leader of the Band, Mr. Mellon. THEATI UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY. BY ROYAL COMMAND. THIS EVENING Will be repeated a New Farce, entitled ENQUIRE WITHIN. Principal Characters by Mr. Meadows, Mr. Emery, Miss Arden, Miss Grove, and Mrs. A. Wigan. To which will be added a Comic Drama, in Three Acts, BY ROYAL COMMAND. Principal characters by Mr. Diddear, Mr. Vining, Er. Emery, Mr. Turner, Mr. Bender, and Mr. Meadows; Miss Fairbro ther, Mrs. Woollidge, and Mrs. Keeley. After which, an entirely New, Original, and Novel Grand Fairy BALLET DIVERTISSEMENT, entitled LES FEES. In which Les Danseuses Anglaises will appear. To be followed by a New and Original Comedy, to be called THE GOVERNOR'S WIFE, with entirely New Scenery, Dresses, and Appurtenances. Principal Characters by Messrs. Diddear, Keeley. F. Mathews, F. Vining, and Collier, !iss Dawson, and Mrs. Keeley. To conclude with A MODEL OF A WIFE. Characters by Messrs. Meadows, Wigan, Turner, Miss Fairbrother, Mrs. Woollidge. 1 FRLNCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. LEsiEE, MR. J. M. MADDOX. The Last Night but One of the Company's performing this Season. THIS EVENING, Will be performed DON CAESAR DE BAZAN. Don Ctesar de Bazan, Mr. Waldeck ; Maritana, Miss Stanley. To which will bz added A COURT BALL IN 1740. In which will be introduced the Dances as performed at her Majesty's Bat Cos tume, with the Original Music. To be followed by THE BRIGAND. Alessandro Massaroni, Mr. Wallack ; Rubaldo, Mr. Itanoe; Ottavia, Miss Grey; Maria Grazio, Mrs. Brougham. After which, TEDDY THE TILER. Teddy Mullowny, Mr. Collins. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPIIITIIKATRE. PROPRIETOR, MR. W. BATTY. Last Week of the summer Season—Last Week of the Grand Military spectacle. • Tills EVENING Will be performed an entirely New Grand National Spectacle, em bracing the chief features of the heroic achievements of the British Arms in Northern India, called TILE CONQUEST OF SCINDE ; or, The Siege of Hyderabad. The Scenes in the Circle will be more than usually attractive, con &sting of the choicest chef d'ceuvres of the unrivalled French Equestrians. To conclucte with THE WEAVER (4' LYONS. Box-office open from Eleven till Five. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Nightly Overflow—Re-engagement of Madame Vestris and Mr. C. 'Matthews—First Night of the Fatly Extravaganza of " Beauty and tike Beast"—Re-engagement of , Alr. D. W. King. Tills EVENING Will be performed USED UP. Supported by Messrs. C. Matthews, R. Honner, Neville, Heslop, Lewis, Fredericks, Mrs. It. Honner, and Miss Martin. wilch, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. Beauty. Madame Vestris; beast, Mr. D. W. King; John Mr. C. Mathews. To conclude with TUE DRLAM Al' SEA. Placer and Pi ivate Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box otce, from Eleven to hour. A DIFFERENT SUBJECT EACH SEASON. The Brilliancy of the Pyrotechnic Finale exceeds all imagination! The Day-light View of the Colossal Pictorial Representation, suggested By HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE ALBERT, Is hailed with Universal Approbation. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. ON MONDAYS, TUESDAYS, WEDNESDAYS, and THURSDAYS, Will be presented a Magnificent MODELLED REPRESENTATION OF EDINBURGH, The Pride of Scotland and f Scotchmen. THE _MAGNIFICENT MODEL OF VENICE. THE PROMENADE CONCERTS, By the unrivalled Band of the Establishment, conducted by Mr. Godfrey. At Jmsk will take place the most extraordinary EXHIBITION OF FIREWORKS. EVER ATTEMPTED, And, as a Finale, a Grand, Royal, and Patriotic AQUATIC TABLEAU, Fifty-two feet In height, will be exhibited in the Centre of the Lake ; The PORTRAITS of HER MAJESTY and PRINCE ALBERT, Surmounted by Fame, and surrounded by Emblems and Other Devices will be introducud. This, combined with the Feux D'Artifice, the Salute and Disch .rge of Rockets from the Castle and surrounding Heights wilt form the most BRILLIANT PYROTECHNIC DISPLAY EVER WITNESSED. The Tableau d,lgned and executed by Mr. Damson. Pyrot chnist, Mr. Southby, Admission, One Shilling. Feeding the Carnivora at Five; Pelicans, &c., )tt Half-past Five; Concert at Six ; and Pyrotechnic Display at Nine. _ - TO CORRESPONDENTS. The communication of Mr. D. D. Keane is an adver. tisernent. THE WEATHEIt.—SUN OFFICE, AUG. 28. TIIERMOBIETI6R, Lowest, 50; Highest, 64 ; Noon, 63. BAROMETER, 30.3. WIND N.E., fresh breeze, and cloudy. WATER AT LON DO N-13RIDGE TUIS DA Anrning .. 27 minutes after 10 j Evening .. 5 minutes after 11. CAUSES of RAILWAY ACCIDENTS accurately described and illustrated in the PICTORIAL TIMES of SATURDAY, AucusT 30 ; Twenty other splendid En c•ravings, illustrating the Queen's Visit to Germany ; the King of the I'rench teaching the infant Compte de Paris the Art of War, &c. &c.; all the News of the Week, Railway Lists, Stocks, &c. &c To be had of all Booksellers and News Agen t s. Price Sixpence, stamped. Offic, 153, Strand. NEW _NOVEL, BY HORACE SMITH, ESQ. Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols. L 0 V E and MESMEitISAI. BY HORACE SMITH, ESQ., Author of " Brambletye House," &c. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, (;rent Marlborough-street. - THEATRE ROYAL, HAY 3; AIL:LET. LESSEE, till:. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING Will be repeated Sh'ridan's Comedy of THE RIVALS. S!r An• Ebony Absolute, Mr. W. Earren ; Captain Absolute, Mr. H. 801 l ; I , 4ulkland, Mr. Stuart, Atres, Mr. Webster; Sir Lucius O'Trigger, Mr. Hudson ; David, Mr. Buckstone ; Mrs. Malaprop, Mrs. Glover ; Lydia Languish, Miss Julia Bennett; Julia, Mrs. Edwin Yarnold. in the course of the Evening, Mr. John Parry will sing his New Song of " Young England." To be followed by HIS LAST LEGS. O'Callaghan, Mr. Hudson; Rivers, Mr. Tilbury ; Charles Rivers, Mr. H. 801 l ; Mrs. Montague, Mrs. W. Clifford. After which will be repeated a New Dramatic Sketch, entitled MRS. CAUDLE'S CURTAIN LECTURES ; or, Matrimonial Chap ters. Mr. Caudle, Mr. Buekstone ; Mrs. Caudle, Mrs. W. Clifford. Private Boxes, Two Guineas and (inc Guinea and a-Hall each. Tickets and Places to be had of Mr. L T. Archer at the Box-oil:Ice. rom Ten till Five o'clock. A. 4 wt‘ _ Yf :A . 447 2' t 7, 0 -b*pu' luffr ' „ sECOND EDITION. J" ire - WV A 41114 Prospectuses and plans of the line, with forms of application s for shares, may be had at the offices of the company as above, and of the following stock and sharebrokers—viz: Messrs. Sutton, Gribbia, and Sutton, Royal Exchange, London, also John Langworthy, Exeter ; J. B. Monday, Bath ; Potter and Co., and Ridsdala and Co., Leeds ; • Wm, Moore and Co., Huddersfield ; In these ti mes of Colonial mismanagement, the hard -Eyre and S - aw, Derby ; Sibary and Simpson, Hull ; Orayston an d Earle, York; Henry Billin g h em , Wakefield; Hopwood and Palmer, fate of our distant, but noble transmarine possessions, Plymouth ; Hall, Brothers aid Co., Cheltenham ;W. W. Dickinson, at all times harshly used, if not absolutely neg- Newcastle-on-Tyne ; W. H. Collis, Birmingham ; Myers and Birkbeck, Wm. Marshall, and Cardwell and Sons, 21:mei:ester; Muurd and 'cued, is peculi4rly cruel. It seems to be the . Co., Edinburgh ; Joh l R. Mann and Son, N o rwi c h ; A . W. M offatt , Edinburgh ; Luke Arnold, B r i stol ; John Thomas Bollard, Coventry; condition of Lord S TANLEY ' S continuance in office dames 'Watson, and Thomas Gray, Glasgow ; Roworth and Shepperly, that such of those dominions as, prior to his in _Nottingham ; and Thomas Crewdson, Liverpool. The fAiowing gentlemen are among tho,e appo i nted as Local cumbency of the C o l on i a l secretaryship, had made Ags„nt,, in furtherance of the interests of the company, from whom large and rapid advances in commercial, and cOnSe prowtuscs and applications for shares may also be obtained : auently in financial, prosp er i ty, sheuld retrograde in Egiant- Thomas Harvey, E sq . Sherbourne and Yeovil—George - Bagshot—John _Vicars, Esq. hip Haneock,Es i . b oth respects from the moment of his Lordship s in - Bracknell—Charles Cave, Esq. Crewkerne—RolA.LowmanEsq. auspicious advent to pow e r. Th e W est Indies, the . 'ET' •;•: ',rh ani—rrancisHoarner,Efe. El an d fo r I - C corge Aluoue, Esq. , 1i 4 : 146, ..r..7. -- -EL N'rY CnP ,, , Esq. and j Dorchester— Ceo. Cull,jun., E sq . i Canadas, the Australian Colonies, , all New Zealand Mei.srs.Toot and Radcliffe 1 Briiii:ort—S. H. Curtailer, Es q . i Bruton—Dyne and Son - 1 and lichrr B. Fox, E sq . , "seem to be on th e same ta l e . V exat i umi i mposts are - FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. levied (like the pasturing licences for ,Nrew South Wales) To the Provisional Ctmmittee of the Direct London and Exeter Railway Company, on the domestic co mmun it y o f t h e C olon i sts, or their Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot ma Shares, of ! trade is harassed and diminished to a fearful extent by 2‘,. ea c h, in the above Railway, and I undertake to accept the same, I • .or such teas number as y ou may appropriate to ire, subject to the , injudicious duties on all imported commodities. In ze k tdatiOns of the Company, also to sign the racessary legal docu spents, and to pay, when required, the deposit thereof of 1/. Is. 6d.every case the complaints of the colonists resolve them 3, er share. - selves into this allegation, that the interference of Down ling-street is exercised to their absolute prejudice, and tinder circumstances of obtrusiveness and annoyance, for the most part as distasteful to the local authorities as to the people placed under their charge. Some day, it is to be expected, the country will be informed, in the usual course of Parliamentary disclosures,..how it can have happened that results so discouraging and so little cre ditable to the administrative talents of the chief, within whose official jurisdiction, as it were, they have occurred, can have been produced. Here we have the graziers— there the sugar-growers, —i n one island the coffee planters,—in another the hide - curers,—to-day the fishers of Newfoundland, to-morrow the producers of ONDON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 184 h. Name in full ...... ................. Profession (if any) and professional residence in full. /Residence in ..... Reference . ....... signature of applicant Witness • • DIRECT WESTERN RAILWAY. Capital 3,000,0001., in 120,000 Shares of 251. each. Deposit IL 7s. &I. per Share. Provisionally Registered 16th of June, 1845. ..n advertsement having appeared of a Company, bearing the de lguatton of the London, Bath, and Bridgewater and Direct Western 't,'lway, the Provisional Committee of the Direct Western Railway :o announce that they are totally unconnected with the above sew' ia'• A a npneolon for shares in the Direct Western Railway continue to be D 3c :elved Jl3' Messrs. Bell, BrQdrick, and Bell, 9, BoWChurch-yard, London. IPSWICH AND BURY ST. EDMUND'S RAILWAY COMPANY. Notice is hereby given, that the FIRST ORDINARY MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS of this Company will be held at the Offices of the Company, Brook-street, IPSWICH, on FRIDAY, the 12th day of September next, at one o'clock in the afternoon precisely, for the general purposes of business. And notice is hereby given, that such meeting will also be held for the special purpose of increasing the number of Directors named In the Act of Incouporation to the number of fifteen, and for that purpose to elect Two Directors, and to determine the order of rota tion in which such increased number shall go out of office; and also for the special purpose of authorising the Directors to apply to Par liament in the ensuing session for an Act or Acts of Parliament enabling this Company to construct a Railway to Norwich, diverging from the Ipswich and Bury St. Edmund's Railway at, or near to, Stowmarket, with or without Branches therefrom ; and also of authorising the Directors to apply to Parliament in the ensuing session for an Act or Acts of Parliament enabling this Company to construct a Railway, in continua, tion of the Ipswich and Bury St. Edmund's Railway, from Bury, to join the Northern and Eastern Railway at or near to Cambridge, with or without branches therefrom ; and also of authorising the Directors, on behalf of the Ipswich and Bury St. Edmund's Railway Company, to execute the necessary Parliamentary deeds for the several purposes aforesaid, and to issue such scrip, and to adopt such measures, and make and enter into such terms and agreements, and take such steps in reference thereto, and in flirtherance thereof, as they may deem necessary or expedient. Four of the Directors will, under the Act of Parliament, go out of office at the above meeting, but being eligible for re-election, will offer themselves accordingly. For the convenience of Shareholders in London, it has been deter mined to receive scrip to be registered at No. 53, Parliament-street, as well as at Ipswich, if the party sending it writes across each cer tificate his name and address, with the application for registry and conversion, as advertised on the 2d inst. JOHN CHEVALLIER COBBOLD, Chairman. By order of the Board, JAMES F. SAUNDERS, Secretary. Brook-street, Ipswich, 20th Aug., 1845. WEST OF SCOTLAND INVESTMEN T COMPANY. The Committee are ready to receive APPLICATIONS for the office of MANAGER of this Company. As it is necessary to secure the services of a party fully qualified to fill the responsible situation, the salary will Ise sufficiently liberal to render the office an object of attention. Of course all applications will be considered as strictly confidential. Applications, with references, either personally or In writing, may be made to GEORGE BOWMAN LEECH, 133, St. Vincent-street, Glasgow, Interim Secretary. Glasgow, August 21, 1845. HE ILLUMINATED MAGAZINE for SEPTEMBER contains upwards of One Hundred Illustra ,ions and Initial Letters. The Dead Guest, from the German of Zschokke—The Boy of the Mountain—Sketches of Indian Sport— Whom the World Understood iNot—The Life and Adventures of Bob Thin—The Recreations of Mr. Zigzag the Elder—Zara, the Rich Man's Daughter—A Warning—Popular Rationale of Ghosts—Past, Present, and Possible—Fates —Reviews of Books. Price Eighteen pence. Accounts from Constantinople of the 7th have been received. These accounts announce a most important change in the Turkish Ministry. The Seraskier RIzA PACHA, who fur five years has been all-powerful at the Turkish Court, has been dismissed, and SULEYMAN PACHA has been appointed Grand Vizier in his room. This is a change with which all the friends of progres3 and civilisation must be delighted. RizA PACHA. was a bigot ; SULEYMAN is a man of education and liberal views. He was President of the Council of Justice, and has recently proposed the adoption of a scheme of public education, and the est a bli s h ment of something like re presentative government by the convocation of delegates from the provinces at Constantinople. The change is attributed to the advice of Sir STRATFORD CANNING and M. DE BOURQUENY. The following is the substance of the note on the affairs of Lebanon, which the Porte has presented to the ambassadors of the five Powers, as stated in our impression of yesterday. It an nounces in this note that, in order, if necessary, to enforce the execution of its orders, and to re-establish a peace promptly, the commander of the army of Arabia, Nami c k Pacha, will quit the neighbourhood of Aleppo, where he is encamped, and advance towards the mountain with a force sufficient to keep down the contending parties. The note then proceeds to fix the internal government of the Lebanon, by confiding it, as has already been stated, to two Vekils, viz., one Druse, the other Maronite, for each district, and a Moukotadji, who is specially charged with the interests of the government, and is to serve as the medium be tween the district and the authority of the Porte. The superior authority is represented by two Turkish functionaries, viz., the Caimacans. By this last note it is decided that the Maronite Veto! shall be the judge in all contestations between Maronites, and the Druse Vekil the judge between the Druses. Differ ences between a Druse and a Alaronite are to be decided con jointly by the two Vekils, with the right of appeal to the two Camaicaos. The Moukotadjis are exclusively charged with the police and the general administration of affairs. 'I he Porte has called upon the ambassadors to communicate to it the in structions which they are to send to the consuls of their respec tive nations in Syria. We learn from the New Zurich Gazette, of the 23d instant, that the Session of the Diet had been brought to a close on the preceeding day. The following is the President's Speech : " Gentlemen,—The business of the ordinary Diet for this year is terminated. As far as regards the Government and the care of the ordinary affairs of the Confederation it has fulfilled its task, and has done all that it was possible for it to do in its position. There remains much yet to be done, for in an assem blage of so many independent states it is impossible to proceed rapidly. Several questions, therefore, remain undecided, and cause uneasiness to the public mind ; but this has been unavoid able from the state and circumstances of the country. Let all friends of the country, and particularly the magistracy, occupy themselves energetically to accomplish this duty, which will alone give strength to the confederation." Intelligence has been received from Madrid st inst. to the At eleven o'clock that morning MANUEL GIL, a young cotton, and, all the year round, British emigrants,. settlers, planters, farmers, cultivators in both hem= spheres, north, south, east, and west, rem: strating °-_ • s in the political against w o h r at s m oo a ia y l be oo c n a d ll i e t d ion organic to which the Colonial Government of the Noble Lord has reduced—or in which, if it found, so it Will also leave them. For our own part, readily bonceding to Lord STANLEY the possession of great powers, of signal talents and (the more homely but very important praise of) good inten tions, we are at a loss to account for the discrepancy that is thus fatally palpable between his capacity and bia acts ; for aptitude for business, and his ingenuity in managing it. Jamaica protests against him as the author of her apprehended ruin ; and cries, loud and deep, are wafted hither from the Southern Ocean and the Pacific in deprecation of his measures. He, himself, seems to be at once the child and champion of incon sistency. He represents the true secret of West India depression to be, the increasing deficiency of agrastic labour, consequent on the great measure of 1834, for Negro Emancipation. Yet his vir tual reprobation of, or cold assent to, the importa tion of free Coolie labour from Bengal into Jamaica and other islands, has left them in a state which has already paralyzed their trade, and threatens at no distant day to destroy the entire property invested there in the land and its cultivation. The same Noble Lord spoke and wrote of. New Zealand, as if, after having stipulated for and established certain conditions on behalf of the rights and authority of the Home Government, he meant to take it under his peculiar protection and patronage. But New Zealand had twice already nearly expired under his embraces, when, as if disgusted with his pro tegee, he handed her over to the persecutions of the na tive chiefs, and the barbarous impetuosity of JOHN HEICI. Just before the rising of Parliament for the rt cess— that is to say, on the Bth of this month, a Bill was brought into the House of Commons by his Lordship's " Man-Friday," Mr. G. W. HOPE, entitled " a Bill to amend an Act for regulating the Sale of Waste Land, belonging to the Crown, in the Australian Colonies, and to make further provision for the management thereof;" which does not solve the problem we have above al laded to—the discrepancy between the capacity to do and the mode of doing —so remarkable in his Lordship's official career, but further illustrates the singular notions which the Noble Secretary appears to entertain of the means most available for developing and cherishing the native resources of a valuable dependency. The reason or exigency for the Bill is declared to be that— " Doubts have arisen whether, under that Act, her Majesty, or any person acting in the name and on behalf of her Majesty, can convey or alienate any waste lands of the Crown in any sueh colony by lease or demise, reserving an annual rent or. payment fur the same." And it is in the first clause declared that as to the 5 and 6 VICTORIA, C. 36-- " Nothing in the said recited Act contained shall extend or be construed to extend to prevent her Majesty, or any such per son acting i the name and on he behalf of hr Maest, as aforesaid, fro n m demising for a t term of not mere tha j n se y ven years, any waste lands of the Crown in any such colony, at an annuli rent payable to her Majesty by the lessee for and in re spect of such lauds. Provided always, that all leases so to he made and granted shall contain clauses of forfeiture and pro visoes for re-entry for non-payment of such rent, or for under letting or assignment of the whole or any portion of sueh lands by such lessee without licence in that behalf first obtained from her Majesty, or such person acting in the name and on the be half of her Majesty as aforesaid, and shall be offered by public auction to the highest bidder for the same, after due notice of such public auction given as in the said recited Act is directed, together with a specification of the lands intended to be de mised, and of the duration of the proposed term. And pro vided also, that during the continuance of any such lease it shall not be lawful for her Majesty, or any such person acting as aforesaid, to sell the reversionary estate expectant upon the determination of such lease, without the consent in writing of the lessee or other party to whom the lease may then belong." The limitation of these Crown leases to seven years is very good; but surely the disabling Crown tenants to underlet, without such licence, is at once an arbitrary and a most impolitic restriction. Arbitrary, because one can readily imagine how small a chance a tenant of the Crown, who may have seen reason to oppose the measures of the colonial authorities, will possess of pro curing such a licence, however advantageous a contract he may have entered into with third parties for under letting his lands. Impolitic, because if it be his interest to transter, or rather delegate, his holding, it is not less that of the colony and the Colonial Government ; the natural presumption being that he underlets at an advanced rent ; and that his sub -tenant paying more for the rent, will invest more in the cultivation or im provement of the property. The Crown officers cannot— if even they be disposed to do so—exercise as much vigi lance and caution in imparting this beneficial character to original Crown leases. The same spirit of interference produced all that mischief, and that long depression of the natural energies of Canada, which the home Go vernment itself has repeatedly denounced as consequent on the absurd incumbrances of the " Clergy reserves blocks of land whose tardy reclamation long prevented the clearing of the lands adjacent to, or in the midst of which they were situated. In our colonies, the primary element of improved value in every property is the im provement (the clearing or the cultivation as the case may be) of the adjoining lands. Clause 2, which reserves to the Crown, or rather authorises the reservation to it, of all minerals in any such leases of waste land in Australia, is also, in our judgment, very unwise, and behind the enlightened spirit or English legislation generally on these points. We all know how many years had elapsed be fore the Crown either discovered or dreamed of improving any former discovery of metalliferous districts in New South Wales. We have only to con trast the recent accounts received of the astonishing success and extent to which mining operations have been pushed by private British capitalists in the colony, or resident British agents there, to see all the short sighted folly of the Crown's proposed reservation of mineral rights. Lead, silver, copper, are now largely added to tae coal treasures of our Australian pos. sessions. What more legitimate or reasonable course can be taken with the private adventurers who find and work the veins, or smelt the ores that contain them, than to give them every benefit which they have merited by their industry, skill, and spirit. The Crown or the publi - : is sufficiently enriched by the indirect advantage derived from the realising so large an accession to the capital and the staples of the colony. To the power given by clause 4 to the Governor, to grant licences for the occupation of waste lands, we do not object ; but the terms of clause 5, inflicting penalties fur the un authorised possession of Crown lands, are much too asseepiug. Great tenderness should always be extended to the hard-earned homes upon the waste acquired by the enterprising " squatters" of the colony, against whom this clause is as much directed as if they were mere vagrants or bush-rangers. We have other remarks to submit on the remaining clauses of the Bill, but these we reserve to a future paper. jour.- tiN.EY and CkiII.I7.IERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QZLE.7.77.7,1t TO THREE. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 6,000 bags, including 1,000 An.erican on speculation. Prices were stea dily supported. A large business was done in shares, and they were very good. The following is an extract from the mercantile report of a firm connected with the foreign produce markets : " The greatly improved state of the weather, and as a con sequence the brightened prospects of the country relative to the harvest, are everywhere producing congratulations and thankfulness. But a short time ago all was d, übt, and in sonic quarters despondency, but the change has already brought back confidence, and inspired a cheerful hope that all will yet be well. Had our fears of a decidedly bad har vest been realised, there cannot be a doubt that misery and ruin would have been spread from one end of the kingdom to the other. Our trade and commerce would have suffered an awful derangement, and the working-classes would have become distressed in propor tion as they have for some time been prosperous. But can it be wise to perpetuate laws which absolutely prevent us from protecting ourselves when we are able to do so, against the perplexities and casualties to which we must ever be liable, from unfavourable seasons and defective harvests. That the present corn-laws do this no man can deny, and that they must ultimately be entirely abolished all rea sonable meu now fully believe. The last, months have done inure to open the eyes of the public to their inexpediency, if not their injustice, than all other labours for the last two years ; but the patience and power of the British people are such, that with no material change for the worse in our present trading and manufacturing relations during the coming winter, it is possible that they will let their voice be so feebly heard against those laws in the next session of Parliament, as to allow them still to disgrace the statute book, and to be a curse to themselves. We hope it will not be so, for past experience suffers us not to believe that the spirit of reform in Governments will ever advance any further than it is pressed ferwardp by the force of the governed." The advices by the Ashburton, from New York, reports good weather for the crops, and an active market for cotton. The improved state of feeling here, in reference to Ameri can Securities, there is reason to hope, from the tenor of our accounts, will stimulate eventually the less honest States in making some exertions to pay their debts. There have been sales of money stock this morning, and the quotations have given way a little, Consols having re ceded to 99% and 98%. Time bargains have been made upon barely the previous terms-99% to 1 / 4 . The premium on Exchequer-bills has been 51s. to 483., and India Bonds have been 665. to 68s. Bank Stock has been very firm again at 212 to 212%. India Stock is rather heavy, however, at 271. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been 102% , )1 1 , and the Three per Cents. 99% 'The Foreign Securities have been steady, but there has been scarcely any business doing in them. Spanish Three per Cents. have unproved a Wile, being 381 h % ; Portu guese Four per Cents. are 643,i ; Mexican continue fiat at 34 1 h ; Belgian Two• and-a-Half per Cents. are 624. In liailway Shares there is a good deal of activity again, and the scrips are very buoyant. The old lines have been quiet. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Bank Stock 21 2 1/ 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 99 rs 3 / 4 1 A 3 per Cent. Con so l s A uns 99 / 8 98% New 314 per Cent. Annutiez 102%% Long Annuities Expire stllJan. 1860 ll 7-16 1 , Do. 30 Years, Expire Jau. 5, 1860.. 11 3-16 India Stock 271 India Bonds 1,000/ CS 66 Ditto under 1.0001 66 Consols for Account Exchequer Bills. 114 d. 1 1 41 1,0004 'VVIA.L6 irit.Arl'ia' Massinger's Fatal Dowry (his chef d'oeuvre t wo ' to some critics, one of his greatest works accorchuB. all) was revived here last evening, with all that atte, to the mire en scene which has so favourably dis guished the managemeet or Mrs. Warner and Phelps this theatre. This play is the joint production of singer and Nat Field, the actor—to the latter, hews we are not disposed to award any large portion of drama, and we think that even Mr. Gillbrd allows much to him. That Messinger, a poor author, wog to avail himself of the name of Field, the popular se . and was thus led to announce him to the world as collaborate:a, there can be no doubt. That Field sa have given him hints as to his stage effects, &c., and t? after the book was delivered at the theatre, and du the course of the rehearsals he may have " gagged" 114 play in various parts, we can readily believe ; but el is such a p er f ect un i ty, not only of construction but thought and language, about the tragedy that we not bring ourselves to think that it was the work more than one mind. One or two of the comedy seeo indeed, we are disposed to assign to Field, because the are so disgu s ti ng t o goo d taste that we feel intuitifel l that they are interpolations; that Messinger, altholg i he might have tolerated, could not have written thea and it is only because Messinger could not have writ them that we assign them to Field. These were of couta all rigidily excised last evening, and we do not belle , that in the Fatal Dowry, as it is acted at Sadler's We there is one line of Field's, except, perhaps, the open ing scene of the second act, between Beaumelle, pert, and Florimel. The Fatal Dowry was a stock 0, 1 from the time of its production to the time of the gr er rebellion, when plays and players were proscribed, sj well as thrones and kings. For royalty there Ives ; restoration—for the d rama a revolution. The works the manly, rough, vigorous poet dramatists of t ill preceding age—works which were thoroughly and i s ' tensely English, and thoroughly a n d i ntea seli dramatic, were utterly neglected for the fiel a i heroics of Dryden, or the digustiug fiith of Airs. Apio, Behn. P oor M ess i nger was more vilely treat . than any of his contemporaries. They were suffered to rest in oblivion —h e was first plundered and then abused. Rowe, having stolen a great portion of the language and plot of the F a t a l D owry, diluted down the p roc eeds o ' , his theft with a sufficient quantity of maudlin sentimen. tality to suit the vitiated taste of his time, and produce d The Fair Penitent. Its success was complete- -- e a complete that Rowe found it to his interest to represent Messinger as an author not worth the attention of At critic or scholar more than a century. For the " Fast Penitent," the most " wishy-washy" and most imag' of dramas, kept possession of the stage, to the exclusion of the Fatal Dowry, one of the most nervous and the most moral. Even Dr. Johnson, sturdy old moralist ss he has been somewhat inappropriately called (bigoted old conventionalist better describes the cha racter of th e man )— even Dr. Johnson penne d a heavy e u l og i um on the Fair Penitent. ' , length, in the year 1786, Cumberland w i l e -, three pap ers i n hi s periodical (the " Observer ' for the purpose of drawing a comparison between the Fatal Dowry and the Fair Penitent ; and when Massirl' ger and Rowe were thus placed in juxtaposition, tho superiority of the elder writer was at once apparent. Shortly afterwards Gifford undertook his edition of Mes singer ; and from that time justice has been done to the genius of this " mighty master." This play, tb 6 Fatal Dowry, was produced at Drury-lane some fey years since, when Wallack appeared as Charalois. The version then produced is the one followed at Sadler's Wells. The following was the cast of last night Rochfort, Mr. G. Bennett ; Novell, Mr. H. Mellon' Charalois, • Mr. Henry Marston ; Young Novell, M r * Buckingham ; Romont, Mr. Phelps ; Beaumelle, Mis s Cooper ; Bellapert, Miss Lebatt ; Florimel, Mi ss Huddart. In this version the first act and the commencement of the second are given nearly as they were wr i tten by Messinger. That is a slight alteration at the conclusion of a second act, which is also an improvement. In the seen in which Charalois accompanies his father's funeral to the gates of the prison, and is there stopped by his r e morseless creditors —the procession is interrupted by th appearance of Rochfort and Beaumelle--and Br:Astor i overcome by his admiration of Charalois' virtue, r leases him by paying his father's debts, and at the stun time gives him his daughter. This not only gives 9 effective concluding scene, but avoids the awkwardnes of the marraige procession following directly upon ti funeral one. The manner in which the guilt of Beaumell is discovered is necessarily altered. In the original the dl covery takes place in a manner too gross to bo tolerate in these modern days. Charaleis having found a lett( from young Novell to Beaumelle, appointing an assigns time :fleets the guilty pair, and kill. lvoTwll. - -rru ' alteration is also judicious, but we could wish that tl I adaptor had left the catastrophe, as far as it r lates to Beaumelle, in the same state in which • /1 found it. It is a magnificent scene—is th at i n t h e o j, ; ginal, in which Charalois, calling upon old Rochfort resume once more the functions of a judge, produ before him his own daughter as the criminal ; beauti too, is the repentance of Beaumelle, which invests character with an interest which it is impossible I feel for her as represented in the adaptation ; and v, the father sentences her solemnly todeath, and seeing 0 sentence so unexpectedly executed by Charalois, the ° himself upon the body of his dying daughter in an at sl :4 of grief, a climax has been attained perhaps the heartrending in i n th e course of the drama. lir stead of this, however, Charalois appoints P °bre fort to meet hi m at t h e tomb of his father— ;to brings fo rwar d hi s accusation, and when the old a:4 has devoted his daughter to death shows her c ore siff to him and t e ll s hi m judgment has been al re to executed. H ere we h ave indeed the fine pass' Aft er of p a t erna l angu i sh from Rochfort, but it is n• 0; 0 so natural nor so effectiv,ly delivered over the d. te° over the dying d aug h ter. The piece was adm ittblp acted. Phelps never appeared to greater adv.* te tile g , than as the rough, honest, plain-speaking, bold Re itis .n n a It is one of th ose characters full ut vi gour , energ. 1: 'ts power, with an occasional dash or sentiment o t is exactly suited to tam effective, but son iste l coarse style of Phe4ss. The scene in f1 u. , 4 1 he frighten s y oung Novell (most amusingly repro iSef t ay Mr. Buckingham) into confession, and extort to Id'. ;ins a writte n p rom i se to see Beaumelle no more,% fes rwrable. G. Bennett, as Rochfort, was seder at, J o s ffective. His last scene was beautiful. The lug, gbri ° o ice of Mr. M ars t on was rather advantageous to bile than otherwise in his delineation of Churalo is. ; , ttd evidentb stuoied the character well, and tho tong it ndersioud hi s aut h or ' s meaning. As awh ole Tha-aluis was a pathetic and scholar-like perfo clnstn 'sot he must beware of an occasional tendency to Pbe i'he other characters were all well supporter I. . :ouse was cr ow d e d to excess, and the audience v rere e a husiastic in their applause. : so Jr. t custo-, recei ve boar,.is tb , Ngeti t h . len"' , to wen' r eleoo ".„, Ives be iesth." 4 , 51 , 0 4 - he red by t 'sty, rlb % so ge. 9 si pro' Do r° e , tese ton ti Pro, ts. y r , a rt disov" 4nl:4l°lrs dei a th i l i o y ig' g toi r : l l: : : trary to the hol'6" cur re tl L. , t;stinguish e . ing from 0 1 itirement ao trb of a Th.' titters fr oll/ r having be,l, Pm the loul v• at Corfu ht" one had bee ° sr his ants int, as n eitb!r AO truth in Ae weathe r market coo' .es. The yet i enerally end er Ls FLAN/ 06 land races 10 a to-day, b ut 1 prices. The I remain much Manchester Devonshire kr a ea f e r r d . f L e a d i vd b , y e ar cur race. , ail ortvriaeiveuirs:::ihsrw.oi of nefitiert)cenfisilPtee° ,A 1r EVENING, AUGUST 28, 1845 '-STREET.—(THIS DAY) Lydia Gillard was charged with stealing a trinket-box, a pin cushion, and other articles, from the stall of Mr. Samson, ;in the Lowther -arcade. James Ellard, a lad employed by Mr. Samson, said that he was standing outside one of his.employer's shops the previous night, and saw the prisoner looking at some goods. After taking some things up and laying them down several times, she put something under her shawl. He then called to the beadle of the Arcad e , and gave the prison er in charge to him. He identified the goods found on the prisoner as belonging to Mr. Samson. James Hitchcock, the beadle of the Arcade, corroborated part of the last witness's evidence. John Turner, F 156, was on duty as gaoler, at the station house, when the prisoner was brought there by the last witness. He saw her take the pincushion produced, from her pocket, and put it behind a bench which is there for the prisoners to sit upon. She was then searched, and the other articles produced were found upon her. He heard he r s'y that she took them from a stall in the Arcade, and that she was starving. The prisoner made no defence. Mr. JARDINE committed the prisoner for trial, at the ensuing sessions, for larceny. MARLBOROUGH -STREET. (THIS bAy.) DARING ROBBERY.-George Morton alias Morgan, a young man of respectable appearance, was charged with steal ing several rolls of cloth, of the value of between 201. and 30/., from the shop of Mr. James Cooper, of No. 23, New Bond street, tailor. It appeared that, between seven and eight o'clock this morn ing, the prisoner deliberately walked into the prosecutor's shop, and seizing held of the cloth from off the counter was running, as fast as he could, away with it, when he was espied by one of the shopmen, who pursued and overtook him with the stolen property in his possession. Mr. HARDWICK asked the prisoner if he wished to say any thing in his defence ?—The prisoner said he supposed it was no use his saying anything. Mr. HARDWICK asked if he was known? Police-Sergeant West, No. 10 6, of the F division, said he he was come out of pri son a convicted was at t h e w w e a e s k a or we tw ll- o k a n g o o w . n t i ki h e e f, l a a n st d t h im ad e Central Criminal Court, for robbing a shop in the Strand ; and he was then sentenced to six Months' imprisonmeot to hard labour.—He was fully committed for trial. TO THE EDITOR Op TILE SUN. SIR,—In the report of the trial of a cause of Furneau v. Smith, which appears in your paper of yesterday evening, it is stated on the authority of Mr. Thorna 3 a barriste r , that the defenda n t was a partner in the firm of Payne and Smith's, bankers. We are desired by Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smith's, to inform you that this statement, as applying to any member of their firm, is wholly without foundation, and to require that the report may be contradicted in your next publication.—We are, Sir, your obedient servants, C. New Bank-b u ildi n and H. FRESHFIELD . gs, Aug. 28,1845. AFFRAY WITH PoA cnrcns.--Nine of Lord Fores ter's keepers and watchers at Willey had a serious affray on Wednesday night with poachers. The keepers had gone out to watch his Lordship's preserves at Barrow-lane, where they had been but a short time when a large gang of poachers cane up, and began to set the gates and hedges with nets. A hard fight ensued, the the gates being armed with sticks. The poachers, finding that they were getting the worst of it, took to their heels ; three of them, named John Bowdler, an en gineer from Madele same place ; and Thomas Gough, a collier from Wenlock, Y ; Thomas Turner, an engineer from the were subsequently arrested by:police-officer Dovey. After an examination before the magistrates they were committed for trial at the assizes , t he OFFICE OTlCE.—Yesterday a notice was posted at the chief office and principal receiving-houses that Shrewsbury Chronicle. mails of the morning the Duke of Cornwall would sail from Southampton with the Egypt, the Mediterranean, Gibraltar, Malta, Greece, and the lonian Islands ; and that the next mails far the Mediterranean, Egypt, Ceylon, India and China, phi Marseilles, would be f the 3d of September, fer India, de spatched on the evening of the Bth of September. A BRIDG E WITHOUT ITS PIER IN ENGLAND.—The report that Westm inster -brid ge i s to b e pullet, down rest s , we regret toe that say, upon the s li ghtest foundation. Many people de- Clar the bridge is no better than the report.—Punch. THE iV RATHER AN D THE tenors.—We hive its yet had no encoura g i n g prolpocts of harvest. They are gloomy as the weather, and m ust always he in matters over the des tinies of which th e weather presides. The past week has been a most disheartening one to all, except, perhaps, the dealers in corn and meal, who have taken advantage of it and the pre ceding dull days to raise the price of these commodities. In our last, we mentioned that the barley harvest had commenced in the Enzie, and ere now, had we had ordinarily fair weather, some fields would have been ready for the sickle in this neigh bourhood, which is none of the earliest. Those, however, that were the most autu mnal -looking here have made but very little progress in the deepening or rather lightening their hues during several days past. A week's dry weather now would see harvest begin with us.—Aberdeen Herald. COURT-MARTJAL AT LIMERICK.—The sentence of the court-martial assembled in this garrion last June, for the trial of Lieutenant John 111`Court,depiit let battalio n R oyals, on a charge of embezzlement, preferred by Major Deane, was dismissal from, the service, and which sentence has been con firmed by her Majesty; but, in consequence of his long services and good character, that officer will be allowed to receive .he rprice of hi s commission. Mr. M'Court did not paymaster and qu ar t ermaster, and as such was providore purchase any ale an s ystep in the army. Mr. M.Court held the situa tion of of supplies to the depot.at Tralee, and subsequently at Clare Castle. i' ....eyman tailor, was shot outside the Toledo gate, having been sentenced to death by the court-martial, for stabbing an officer during the disturbances. The tran quillity of the city had remained undisturbed. The shops were in the same state as on the previous day— the doors being only half open. This plan of passive resistance was spreading. Several provin';ial towns had followed the example of Madrid, and the conductors of the Andalusian diligence complain that it is im possible to purchase anything along the road. According to the Tiempo, several eminent com mercial men had given official notice to the Chamber of Commerce of their intention to retire from business. The municipal authorities have laid in large stores of provisions, so that the inhabitants may not wait for food by the closing of the provision shops. The Minister of the Interior had opposed a proposition made in the Council to declare Madrid under martial law, and it had been accordingly rejected. The coachmen of Madrid met on the 20th to petition against the tax of six dollars yearly imposed on them by M. MoN. The Three per Cents. were done at .31fr cash, and 31i at 60 days ; 8,800,000 done. Only four operations. The other securities are not quoted. We have received the Paris papers of Tuesday. The National states that " on Sunday evening, at seven o'clock, was signed a treaty of fusion between the Company Decan-Lebeuf and the five other companies already united. For price of this abdication the ci-devant company receives 41,000 shares, or 20,500,000 f." Tuesday was the last day for submitting tenders for the concession of the northern line, and no tender had been received except from Baron ROTHSCHILD, the re - - presentative of the coalesced companies. According to the Constitutionnel the treaty concluded between France and New Grenada, on the 29th October last, has been ratified by the KING. It is announced in the Semaphore de Marseilles of the 11th, that the squadron of evolution, commanded by A imiral PARCEVAL DESCHENES, which was then lying off the llieres Islands, would sail for Marseilles towards the close of the month. The squadron consisted of the three-decker Ocean, bearing the Admiral's flag, the ships of the line-Inflexible, Triton, Diademe, Jemmapes, Neptune, and Alger, and the steam-frigate Astnodee. Little business was jdone in the Stock and Share Market of Paris on Tuesday ; but the promises of the new lines had been in considerable demand. The Three per Cents. closed at 84f. 25c. ; the Five per Cents. at 121 f. 70c. ; Orleans Railroad shares, 1,3131. 75c.; Rouen, 1,120 f.; Vierzon, 817 f. 50c. ; Havre, 9151. ; Avignon, 1,077 f. 50 c . ; Basle, 2831. 75c ; Spani s h A ct i ve, 36 1 4 ; Spanish Three per Cents., 38:y i . The following are the quotations for the new lines :- Orleans and Bordeaux ' 222 f. 50c. premium ; B ou l ogne, 1401. premium ; Troyes and Montereau, 52f. 50c. • Paris and Lyons, (Laffitte), 37f. 50c. ; ditto (Caton), 10f. ; ditto (Ganneron), 171. 50e.; North ern Line (Laffitte), 80f. ; ditto (Rosa mel), 37f. 50c. ; ditto (Pepin), 25f: ; ditto (Decan), 321. 50c. ; Tours and Nante s (Mackenzie) 20f. ; ditto (Drouil lard), 31. ; ditto (O'Neill), 10f. ; ditto (Jacques Lefevre) 4f. ; Lyons and Avignon (Lecointe), 22f. 50c. ; ditto (Talabot),4sf. ; di tto (Cotapagnie Meridionale), 13f. 50c. ; Bordeaux (Mackenzie), 2f. 50c.; ditto and Cette (Espe leta), 151. ; Creil and St. Quentin (Kysaens), 61. boc. ; ditto (Carette), 9f. ; ditto (Colbert), 2f. ; Paris and Strasbourg (Ganneron), 151. ; ditto (Bechet), 6f. 50c. ; ditto (Hinguerlot), 17t1 50c. ; Dijon and Mulhausen, par; Dieppe, 42f. 50c. ; Charleroy, 601. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, .A.tro. 27. Boulogne and Amiens.. 11 , Orleans and. Bordeaux 12 1 4 Bordeaux &M e di terran - Over Yssel ............ p Bordeaux and Toulouse - ;Paris & Lyons (Lafitte) 3% Do. and Cette - I Ditto (Ganneron's). 2% Central of Sp a i n . - 214 Dutch Rhenish Dendre Valley ... 214 'Paris and Rouen . ...... 42% Dieppe & Paris Junct. - iParis and Strasburg Dijon and Mulhouse - (Ganneron's). ........ East Indian 3 Grt Northern of France Paris and St. Quentin. - (Laffitte's) Ditto (Rosamel's) 1 4 Rouen3 and 11avre...... 31 Great Paris and Lyons. 2 1 A ;Royal North of Spain. 2% Jamaica Junction 5 ; Sambre and Meuse t 4, Do. North Midland 3% 'Strasbourg and Basle . Louvain and Jemeppe 5 Tours and .Nantes Lyons and Avignon 2 (M'Kenzie's) Luxembourgh.. Do. (Lefebvre's) ..... Namur and Liege 1 Verona and Ancona.... 3% Orleans and Vierzon .. 22 West Flanders BANKRUPTCY. -(THIS DAy.) (Before Mr. Commissioner FonnLANQux.) IN RE ALDBIIRE.--IMPORTANT. This insolvent carried en business as a butcher, at River Head, Kent, and was opposed on behalf of Mr. Moyce, a butcher. The insolvent was examined as to whether he had not re ceived a large slim of money from Lord Holmsdale, and had not increased the debt to the opposing creditor, by promising to pay that amount over. He admitted having received some money, but could not tell how much or when. The Learned Coststisstowxx said, the insolvent's answers were very unsatisfactory, and if he did not give more definite sumer' he would commit him for a month to refresh his memory. On being questioned as to his profits, he said he did not make 10s. a week. The prof t was only 11. on a bullock, ss. to 20s. on a calf, and ss. on a sheep. Mr. Moyce deposed that 31.. to 41. was a fair profit oti a bul iedalt.e.wh7sPananydthillgvebsul oe T k ,h The u Learned insolent c o k m ill t ed , u :e a t ; t b t r; satisfactory. The insolvent must pay 101. in six months, and he should adjourn the final order from time to time, to ensure future payments. BO CORN - AVERAGES. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN For the Week ended Aug. 23, 1845, made up from the Returns of th Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in England and Wales per Imperial Quarter. I BARLEY.' BYE. I BEANS. I PEAS. PRICE .. I 57s WHEAT. 101 29s 9d 22s OATS. 8(1 333 4d 41s Sd 333 lid DUTY.... 18s Od 9 s Od 6s Cd 9s 6d 24 Gd 33 Gd MARKET NE WS -(THIS DAY.) Ham' SMITHFIELD.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 15s to 4/18s ; us e ful ditto, 5/ to 5/ 8s ; fine Upland ditto, Si lOs to 5! 15s ; Clover Hay, 4/ I2sto 6/ 6s ; Oat 'Straw, 1/ 16s to 1/ 18s ; Wheat Straw, 1/ 18s to 2/ Is per load. Supply but mode rate, and trade rather dull. CUMNERLA.ND.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3/185 to 4/18s ; use ful ditto, 5/ to 5/ lOs; fine Upland ditto, 5/ 12s to 5117 s , Clover Hay, 4/ lOs to 6/ ; Oat Straw, 1/17s to 1 / 1 9s ; Wheat Straw, 2/ to 21 2s per load. A fair average supply, and a steady demand. WHITECHAYLL—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3/ 15s to 4/ 18s ; useful ditto, 51 to 5/ 8s ; fine Upland ditto, 5/ lOs to 5116 s ; Clover flay, 4/ I2s to 6/ lOs ; Oat Straw, 1/ 16s to 1/ 18s , Wheat Straw, 1/ It4s to 2i per load. Trade steady, at the above quotations. New Meadow Hay 31 lOs to 41 12s 6d, and New Clover 4/ to Si 2s per load. IVZIZAT NAMICEITS. SOUTHALL, AUG- 27.—Alth Z ough the supplies of stock on offer to-day were by no means extensive, &be demand was in a sluggish state, at barely last week's quotations:— Beef from 2s 101 to 432 d; Mutton, 3s 4d to ss; Lamb, 4s 6d to 5s 6d; Veai, 33 iOd to 4a 6d; and Pork, 23 10d to 3a 8d per 81bs. ROMFORD, AUG. 27.—Prime old Downs sold freely, other kinds of stock slowly, at late rates :—Beel, from Ss to 4s 2d; Mutton, 3s 6,1 to ss; Lamb, 4s led to 5s 8d; Veal, 4s to 4s 6d; and Pork, 3s to 3s 6d per Blb, Suckling Calves, 188 to ; Quarter-old Store Pigs, 16s to 19s; and Mitch Cows, with their small Calf, 161 to 181 15s each. LEWES, AUG 26.—Beef from 3s 4d to 4s 4d; Mutton, 4s to ss; Lamb, 5s to 5s 6cl; Veal, 3s 10d to 4s 6d; and Pork, 3s to 3s 6d per Sibs. A moderato supply, and a dull trade. NEWCATE AND LE.A.DENNALL. We had a fair average supply of each kind of meat on offer this morning. Generally speaking, the demand ruled heavy :—Beef from 2s 8d to 3s 8d; mutton, 3s 4d to 45 8d ; lamb, 4s 8d to 5s 8d; veal, 3s 10d to 4s 8d; ,and pork, 2s 8d to 4s 4d per Bibs, by the carcase. COAT. MARKET. Prices per ton at the close of the market :—Buddle's West Hartley, 17s; Carr's Hartley, 17s; Chester Main, 15s 6d : Hasting's Hartley, 16 s 6d ; H o l ywell Main, 16s 6d; Nelson's West Hartley, 17s ; New Tanfield, 143 ; Ord's Red , heugh, 14s; Ravensworth's West Hartley, 17s; Tanfield Moor, 16s; Townley, los ; West H ar tl e y, 17 s 9d ; Walls End Hilda, 17s; Walls End Killingworth, 17s; Walls End Riddell's, 17s 3d; Walls End Urpeth, 14s 6d; Walls End Walker; 17; Eden Main, 17s 6d; Walls End Braddyll's Hetton, 18s 6d; Wall s E n d E ast H etton, 17s 3d; Walls End Haswell, 18s 9d; Walls End Hetton, ISs 6d; Walls End Lambton, 18s 6d; Walls End Pemberton, 17s; Walls End Russell's Hett on , 17 s 9d ; Walls End Scarboro', 173 6d; Walls End Stewart's, IBs 6d; Walls End Caradoc, 18s; Walls End Hartlepool, 18s 6d; Walls End Heugh Hall, 17s 6d; Walls End Thornley, 16s 9d; Walls End Adelaide Tees, Ns; Walls End Richardson's Tees, 16s 9d; Walls End Tees, 18J ; and Sidney's Hartley, 17s. Arrivals sines last day, 41. DUTCH AND FLANDERS MAIL BRUSSELS, Aro. 25,—Our journals contains long ac counts of the fetes at Cobourg, in honour of Queen Victoria, who, as some of them say, is expected to pro long her visit to September 30. DUTCII FUNDS.—Arisrunem, AUG. 25. Actual Debt, 2 Money. Bills. % per Cent.... •• • ..... 63j 64 bitto, 3 per Cent •••••• •• • 76% 77% Ditto, 4 per Cent •••• • • • . 10034 100% Amore Symlic, 4 per Cent— •• • • 99% 100% Ditto, 3% per C en t.. •• • • ••. • . Commercial Company, 4% per Cent . .. 167% 168% East India Luau, 4 per Cent.......... Exchange on London, at sight • • 12 20 Two months.— ••• • • • 12 15 On llamburgh, at sight Two m0nth5............. On Paris •••• • • • • 57 50 Two Mouths. •••••. • • • • - 57 12 — Dutch Papers, Aug. 26. BELGIAN FUNDS.—Baussns, Auo. 26. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent Ditto Three per Cent. Ditto Thirty-seveu Millions, ditto - Ditto, ditto, 1840 • • •••••• • • • • • • 1017, Ditto, ditto, 1842... . . • 101% Ditto of the City, 1832 I. Ditto, 1843 Bank ofßelgium • • Brussels Papers, Aug. 26. .......... ••••• miy, AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Vizzisa, Aro. 22. 5 per Cent. 3 letalliques.... • • • • • • • . 112% 4 per Cent. ditt o ... ...... •••••••—• ••• • • 101% 3 per Cent. ditto—. ••••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • 781 Loan, 1834 ...... •• • • ...........• ••• • • • 1594 Ditto, 1839 129% Bank Shares ......... • .. • • 1626 Esterhazy's Loan •• •••• • • • •• •• •• -Allgerneine Zeitung, Aug. 23 CHAR .ING-CROSS BRIDGE COM PANY.—(THIS DAY.) The Half -yearly General Meeting of the Shareholders in this Company was held this day, at their office, 9, Villiers -street,Hungerford-market. Mr. William Hawes, Chairman of the Company, presided. The advertisement calling the meeting having been read, the Secretary read the report, of which the follow ing, is an abstract : The Directors propose the payment of a dividend, for the last three months, of nine shillings per share, n the rate of seven per cent . per annum on the capital o f t h e at Company, and also to retain a surplus of 4351. 4s. 11d. to be carried for ward to assist the next or winter half-year. The Directors desire to call the attention of the Share holders to the loan of 26,000/., which was obtained in 1842, by the mortgage of all the Company's property to the Exchequer Loan Commissioners, and a portion of which (7701.) by the condition of the agreement is to be paid off next year; but as there can be no doubt that a loan may now be rained at a much lower rate of interest than five per cent. per annum, they propose to advertise for loans on debentures, to be issued under the provisions of the new Act, for five, seven, or ten Years the interest thereon t o b e secured on the tolls of the bridge; and resolutions authorising the issue of such deben tures will be submitted to the meeting. Your Directors were anxious to have closed the capital ac count by this meeting, but not having been able to accomplish this, they can now only repeat that which they have stated on former occasions, that the estimate published in the prospectus of 1838, will be as nearly as possible correct. On the other hand, it is also very satisfactory to your Directors to find the traffic far exceeds the expectations of the original projectors of this beautiful structure ; for in the prospectus above referred to, the daily traffic was estimated at 4,000 persons, whereat, during the period the bridge has been opened, nearly 14,000 persons daily have used the bridge. Your Directors canin,t conclude this report without calling the attention of the shareholders to the increasing desire of the public to concentrate the railway traffic of the metropolis in the neighbourhood of this bridge. It is also stated in the report that the purchase of property for making approaches is deferred until something certain shall be known about the proposed railway schemes, and that the directors have not been able to come to any agreement with the Hungerford Market Company. The CHAIRMAN, in a short address, adverted to the state ments embodied in the report, and added that he had that morning had an interview with the Provisional Committee of the Central Terminus Railway Company, and they offered for the consideration of the shareholders in the Charing-cross Sus pension-bridge to lease it for a number of years at 160,0001., being double the amount originally subscribed, and also to advance 26,000/. for the liquidation of the deht due to the Exchequer Loan Commissioners, reserving the rights of the market, and also allowing the bridge shareholders to take in the proposed arrangement a moiety in shares and a moiety in money. This arrangement was, however, contingent upon the Central Terminus Railway Company receiving their Bill, and the approval of the present meeting. He should not detain them further, but proceed at once to move that the report be received. The motion being teeonded, was unanimously carried. Resolutions were then read and agreed to—" That a dividend of 9s. a share for the last three months be declared, being at the rate of 7 per cent. on the capital of the company, and that the same be paid on the II th of September next." " That the Directors be authorised, when they see proper, to raise an additional capital of 10,000/., in 3,200 shares of 3/. 2s. 6d. each, to form approaches to the bridge ; and also that the Directors be authorised and empowered to take such steps as they might think necessary to complete the arrange ments with the Central Terminus Railway Company for the lease of the bridge for a number of years, reserving the rights of the market and of the Shareholders." Thanks were then voted to the Directors, and the meeting adjourned. CRUELTY TO A HORSE.—The driver and conductor of an omnibus were on Wednesday fined 40s. each, at Marl borough -street Police -court, for cruelly treating a horse in their omnibus. They beat the horse over the legs and knees with the head of the whip to make it go on. A witness whom they called, an outside passenger, who said he " knew all about horses," declared that they beat the animal no more than was necessary to make it go on, for the horse was unwell! 1 MELANCHOLY DEATH OE A CLERGYMAN'S DAUGH TER.—During the whole of yesterday a feeling of regret pre vailed in the neighbourhood of Clapham at a fatal accident which happened to a daughter of die Rev: Benjamin Hoe, of Cure-lane. It appears that at the back of the house is a small fish-pond, and after dinner the children were usually taken to play in the garden, and the deceased among them. On this oceasion the deceased child got away from the servant, and whilst running on the bank of the pond, unfortunately stepped into it. The servant used every means to get the child out, which she succeeded in doing in a few minutes, and conveyed it to the house, when a surgeon was sent for, who promptly at tended. Every means were used to restore animation, but, as the child had been in a sickly state of health, all his efforts were useless. The Rev. Mr. Hue was at York at the time, but was expected home last night. AN ALDERMAN FINED FOR BEING DRUNK.—The Liverpool Mercury says—" Yesterday Mr. Alderman R. S. Crook, a member of the Town Council and of the Education Committee, was charged with being drunk on Wednesday evening, and assaulting police-officer No. 271. lie was tined 10s. and costs," THE HAGUE, AUG. 24.—The following particulars are sent us from Bois-le-Due :—" We have received here further details of the ravages caused at Zevenberger, by the dreadful hurricane on the 19th of this month. The roof of the new church fell in, and in its fall carried away the ceiling. Eleven houses are wholly destroyed, 66 very much injured, and 60 others damaged, though in a less degree. Three persons lost their lives ; the da mage done to effects and furniture, and to the front of the Castle is very great. GRONINGEN, AUG. 21.—We learn that orders have beet► given by his Majesty's Government topurchase in foreign countries large quan ti ties of potatoes,and to distribute them for sale in the kingdom at a certain fixed price, in order to alleviate as much as possible the distress arising from the failure of that product. BRUSSELS, AUG. 24.—Colonel Fitch, and Mr. G. L. Taylor, architect and civil engineer of London, have had an audience of the Minister of Public Works, as repre sentatives of an English Company which proposes to make a railway from Termonde to Chatelet. We have much pleasure in stating that accounts from different parts of the kingdom agree in announcing that, in spite of the long continued rains, the appearance of the crops is satitfactory ; the corn has not suffered much, and fine weather having set in, the farmers have hastened to profit by it, and expect that the harvest will be fine and abundant. Effectual remedies have been employed to check the disorder in the potatoes, and they, too, pro mise to be abundant. Colonial . LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) Loxnox, AUG. 28.—Wind N. by W., fresh breeze and cloudy. DEAL, AUG. 27.—Wind N.W. to N.N.E.—Arrd. Pales tine, Sim, Sydney; Princess Charlotte, Haugh, Coast of Africa; Prince George, Saldanha Bay; St. George, ditto; Planet, Booth, Jamaica ; Howard, Paulser, New York. Arrd. from the river and sailed, Prince of Wales, Hopkins, Calcutta; Resource, Tasker, St. John's, N ew Brunswick ; Lady Kumaway, A ver y, adras. Sld. G ra ti tu d e, Laun ceaton ; Elvera, Bombay; Amelia, Mulholland, Mauritius; Parrock Hall, St. Kitt's ; Duke of Norfolk, Jamaica; St. Clare, St John's. LIVERPOOL, AUG. 27.—Wind N.N.W. fresh.—AtTd. Whitehavem Bradley, Anti gua; Freeman, Jamaica; Speed, Brewer. Jamaica; Nymph, Nassau; Laplander, Natches; Ashburton, Howland, New York ; Union, St. Stephens, N.B. ; Hebbert, Montreal; Matilda, Montreal. 26. Sld. Wave, Smallman, St. Andrew's, N. 8.; Souter Johnny, Little, Mon treal. 27. Otlport, Belle. The Eli, Chapman, for Oahee, is at anchor near the Rock. CLYDE, AUG. 2 6.—Arrd. Lucia Carey, Watson, Halifax; Favourite, Crawford, Saldanha Bay • Alan K err, Gray, Q ue • bee. 2:3. Slu. Arrow, Guthrie, Tobago; ' 26. Scotchman, Turnbul!, Dcmerata ; Nancy Munro, Cochrane, St. Thomas. I - - -- PERCI'SSION LOCKS AND TITHES APPLIED TO THE SERvlca OF FIELD GUNS.--At the general muster of the Hon. Artillery Company, which took place at their ground in Finsbuiy-,quare, to celebrate the birth-day of his Royal High tless Pruice Albert, the double royal salute waa thus fired for the first time by the Artillery division, commanded by Captain belin, when the superiority of this me: hod, and the precision and rapidity of the explosions, as compared with the effect of tin old port fires and tubes, were very man:feet to all who wit nessed the akrviec. 'the brass goo, of the Artillery Com pany were east about the year 1t , 04, and have been recently examined, bouched, and fitted with percussion locks at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich. I , re are informed that rn railway in the country exhibits so large an incr etse o f t re fli c as the Menchester and Ptirmingliem Jibe. The receipts of the lac, two weeks, as com peted aith the corresponding petted of last year, are as fol lows: 1845. 1844. Week endi: g August 8 .£4,453 £3,035 4,216 TUISIBRIDGE.—A gentleman fishing- for " in a P stream near this town, one day last 14 e••Ic , took 6. fish 44 inch.. long, and on cutting it open, a chub, 11 aiel.es tang, Waft found in na anti. —Maidstone Jour flirt Mr. kJ. agoin oii uf,t; noon from Cremorne-gardens, Chelsea, in his cora.iatioo balloon. ttecompanied by the Hon. G- Vatisillal!. the nepl.eia Li;rd Bexley. The balloon took a south-costeii) diteetion, aud d , scended, after being to the air about twenty minutes, in Beddington Park, near Croydon. pm. 500/. ... ....... ._..,... 48 5; pus. Ditto Small •— .. .. 54 51 53 pm. eRIOE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Columbian Bonds. lB4 Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent 34% Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent — Ditto 4 per Cent. Russian Bonds. 1822, 5 per Cent llB% Ditto 3 per Cent — Ditto for the Account. Belgian Scrip, 2% per Cent. Dutch 2% per Cents -- Ditto 4 per Cent. C er tifi ca t es .. 9914 BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SRAM Aberdeen Birmingham and Gloucest er 100 ..... 132% Caledonian , to Cambridge and Lincoln Dublin and Belf a st J unct i on 2 - to Dublin and G a l way Eastern Counties Do. New 4/. 16s. ISA. p... to Do. Perpet. 5 per Ct. N o 1 . 6 1 .13 s 4d 14.. ... to East Dereham and N orw i c h 1 Eastern Union Ditto Extension Great South and W. (Irish)... 15 Great Western 20 80 212 Ditto Fifths Hull and Selby •• ... 50 . .. ...104 Ditto, Half Shares - Leicester and Bedford 22s. 2% 34 to 2% p London and Birmingham lOO •..,,.225 222... to 224 Ditto Quarters London and Blackwell 16%...... 10%,%% to -- London and Brighton 5O ..... 774 % 1 4 to London and Croydon 13/. 15 s . 9d, 26% l Do. New London anal South Western.. 41% ...... 77A ... to 76% Ditto New .. 2% 15% to London and Y0rk....... 2% 6%31... to 6% -- London, Salisbury, & Yeovil 2 1 ,4 2% to Lon. & Manch. (Remington's) - Lynn and Ely Manchester wnd Leed5......... 76 ... to . Ditto Half Share s ~... 34 .. .99 - ... Ditto 4 Shares Manchester and Birmin g h am 40 6B Ditto Quarters Ditto New Quarters......... 2 ... 10 Manch, Buxton, & M a tl oc k 22s .»_71,44 p to 7 Midland Ditto New 2 2 5 3/ 26 25 to 26% Midld. Great Western (Irish) 2% Newcastle & Darlington June. 25 Newcastle and Berwick Newcastle. Durham, and Lan cashire Junction IN North British - l5 ...... 324 ...... to North Kent Di rec t & Dover `2i 4 14 to 4% North Staffordshire North Wales 1 q Oxford and Worcester 2 14 .... 7% to 7% Portsmouth Direct _! 2 . 6 , 4 to Preston and Wyre ............ 50 ..... to Richmond - Rugby. Worcester, and Tring 1 Shrews.,Wulver., Dud., him. 2% 6V4... to 6% Shrews. & Trent Val. Union. 225. ... Shrews., lierefrd &N. Wales 2% 4% to South Devon South :;ilidland 2 2 , i 7%r to 74 p South Eastern and .Dover Ditto New, No. 3 2% ..... BAi to Staines and Richmond........ 1 South Wales Trent. Val. & Holyhead June. 1 - • to ..... /NI Waterford, Wemford,Wicalte, and Dublin Vs eicb Alitiland 2 l,k %V rster, Shrews., & Crewe Un. 1:A 4%...... to 4 fork and North Midland ....50 Dim oirlalf Shares 25 .. ... 52 1 4 ...... to Ditto Scarboro'l3ranch 25 59% to ,_;Ditto Selby. DILL°, Extension FOREIGN R.kl LWAYS. _ Boulogne and Amiens G ... 11% to 11 Dendre Valley Dutch Rhenish 3 .... 9 ...... to East India n Great Northern of France (Latfitte's) Do. Do. (Rosamel's) ... 2 ... 3% to 3% Lyons and Avignon Luxenibourgh Namnr and Liege........ , ...... 4 Orleans and Vierzon Orleans anti Bordeaux ... .. 4 .... 12 '.1).. to 11% 'aril and Lyons( LitiEtte) ... 2 Paessand Lyons(Ganneron's) 2 ..... 9 ;)i to 2% Paris and Lyons (Calm's)... 2 .... 2:li to Oh Paris and Orleans... ........ .... 20 Paris and Rouen ... Royal North o f S pa i n 2 2% to Sambre and M euse West Flanders MINE. Real del Monte,Unregistered JOINT STOCK BANKS. 25 CORONER'S INQUEST.—On Tuesday even inquest was held at the Queen's Head, Chatham, 1 Hinde, Coroner, on the body of Mr. Lackett Coker, House officer, belonging to the port of Rochester, wh. a blow on the had from a boom, while on duty on Majesty's ship Aigle, 24, Captain Lord Clarence I effect of which injury was to cause almost insmedia After examining several witnesses, whose testimon prove that the deceased met his death by his own cs in not getting away from under the boom while it lowered, the jury returned a verdict of " Accidental THE GALLANT CAPTURE OF A PIRATE BY THx PANTALOON.—Dispatches have been recei Government, officially confirming the accounts of t capture of a pirate slaver, by the boats of her Ma, Pantaloon, Captai n Will son , w hi c h appeared in yeste The Pantaloon had two men killed, and seven woun pirate had seven men killed, and two wounded. THE CHINESE LANGUAGE.—A Chines fessor" has been engaged at the Collegiate Institute pool, for the purpose of teaching the pupils the Chit which now forms a part of the curriculum of studi, fessor Hoo Siensang," we are told, speaks the " Co of his country. FAMINE AT SHOREHAM.—This town w. on Saturday by some 2,000 visitants from the mett during their stay, consumed all the " breadstuffs" and, on their departure, the inhabitants were lit about begging for bread. It is stated that, con general practice, refreshments were distributed t, Cockneys at the usual prices. Sussex Paper. SOMEWHAT NOVEL (ir TatrE.)--It is rumoured at Malta, that a gallant officer of that corps, the 42d Royal Highlanders, is about retir pomp and vanity of a military life, and seeking r, seclusion in the cloister, under the unassuming g; sian or barefooted Carmelite. _RUMOURED AFFAIR OF HONOUR. -L Malta of the 15th inst. make mention of a rumou spread, siportly after the arrival of the packet fri that a hostile meeting had taken place tween two officers of the Rifle , , in which affair so seriously 'rounded as to render it expedient f nist and the second to keep out of the «ay ; names nor dates are mentioned, there may be the story S LATE OP TRADE.—The unfavoural continues to affect the demand for goods, and th tinues quiet, without any sensible change in pric market is still very Sim, and the spinners are g contract for some time to come.--RocitnA iVlAuxor, A ug. 25.—0 n account of the wakes week, few pieces have been brought to mark those few have been eagerly bought up at goo, wool market Iris undergone little change ; prices the same, but low wools are very scarce. Guardian. IiSTINFIELD liArEs —The Dul;,, of has been induced to renew the support. so long ance•ters and himself, to the ancient race. of C' his Grace proposes to give a 501. plate to these paper. DERBY RAcrs.—We understand tt;:it fixed for Tuesday and Wednesday, the 14th and er. From the very strong feeling existing in tabliAing these race,, no d ou bt t h ey wi l l be ported. - The time fixed is undoubtedly late, hi to hold them earlier in future yeara.—Derby I tb to th• th 4 fill d I I P . 74 3= an an Um 11A ex thi las tif in( thi the Inc ter to]