The Sun. — London, England, 1844-08-27 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM LATE ENGLISH OPERA HO IiSE. Under the Management of Mts. KEELEY. Another great Achievement Successfully Triumphant I ! I To attempt toeulogise the gorgeous splendour of the New Extrava ganza of "Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, or New Lamps for Old Ones," would be a work of supererogation ; the Manage ment, therefore, contents itself by simply stating that it will be repeated every Evening ! THIS EVENING, AUG. 27. Will be repeated a New Drama, entitled MARTIN CHUZZ LE. WIT. Principal characters by Messrs. B. Younge, F. Vining, Emery, F. Mathews, A. Wigan Meadows, Kinloch, Turner, Stanton, J. W. Collier, Yarnold, Sanders, and Keeley ; Miss For tescue, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. A. Wigan, Mrs. Woollidge, Miss Groves, Mrs. Usher, Miss Turner, and Mrs. Keeley. To conclude with an entirely Original, and much better than New, Grand Operatic, Romantic, Melo-Dramatic, Burlesque Extra vaganza' founded on the celebrated Eastern Pale, in the Arabian Nights' Entertainment, entitled ALAI/DIN AND THE WON DERFUL LAMP; or, New Lamps for Old Ones. With very extensive New Scenery, Machinery, Dresses, &c. Principal cha racters by Mrs. Keeley, Messrs. F. Matthews, Turner, A. Wigan, J. W. Collier, and Keeley; Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Woolli ige, Miss E. Chaplin, Mrs. A. Wigan, Miss Turner, MI .s James, Miss Carson, Miss Hunt, Miss Reede, &c., &c. PRICES OF ADMISSION.—BaIcony Boxes. 4t. - Upper Boxes, 35.; Sis.'3 Gallery, 6d. Second Price—Balcony B o xes, Ps. ; Upper Boxes, Is. 6d.; Pit, is. Private Boxes on the itilc,my Tier (holding eight persons), Two Guineas. Private Boxes on the Second Tier (holding eight persons), One Guinea and a-Half. Private Boxes on the Pit Tier (holding six persons), One Guirea. The Box-Atice is open from Ten to Four o'Clock, under the direc tion of Mr. Grogan, late of Covent-garden Theatre. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. BATTY. Nightly overflows o the wonders to the wonders of Mr. Carter, the Lion King—Mr. Batty and Trained Steed Beda. THIS EVENING. AUG. 27, Will be repeated the Eastern Spectacle of MUNGO PARK; or, The Lion Tamer of the Niger. Karfa. the Arab, Mr. Carter, wh rein he will introduce his beautifu ]performance with his trained animal., lions, tigers, &c., in the cage, and on the open stage drive a •lio i in harness. Combats with the monarch of the forest, and other new extraordin ry feats. Entire Change of the Scenes In the Circle. __ To conclude with an entire new Equestrian, Military and Naval Spectacle, entitled THE CHINESE WAR; or, The Conquests of Amoy by British Arms. New Scenery, Dresses, Appointments, &c., to realise the recent triumphs of England's Army and Navy. Feast of 250 Lanterns. _ _ Acting and stage.mmager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. Box.opice open from Eleven till Five. Lessons in the Art of Riding by Mr. R. Smith. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Last Nights of the Opera Company. THIS EVENING, AUG. 27, Will be performed FRA DIAVOLO; or, The Inn of Terracina. Fra Diavolo, Mr. D. W. King; Lord Alicash, Mr. S. Cowell; Lo. renzo, Mr. E. L. Hime; Giacomo, Mr. Leftlex ; Lady Allcash, Miss Betts; Zerlina, Miss Romer. After which, a New Operetta, written by J. B. Buckstone, Esq., and comps ed by E. Fitzwilliam, Esq., entitled a SUMMER NIOHT'S LOVE, supported by all the Vocalists. To conclude with TH E WA ttLOCK OF THE GLEN. Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box office. from Eleven to Four. STRAND THEAT RF. THIS EVENING, AUG. '47, Will be performed MARTIN CHUZZLEWI T. Young Martin Chuzzlewit, Mr. Rance; Old Martin Chuzzlewit, Mr. Ayliffb; Jonas Chuzzlewit , Mr A ttwood ; Montague Tigg, Mr. Roberts; Tom Pinch, Mi. Biddies; Mr. Pecksnift; and Mrs. Sairey Gamp, Mr. H. Hall; Mary Graham, Mrs. Coleman Pope. To be followed by THE SPITALFIELDS WEAVER. Mr. Simmobs, Mr. Wright; Adele, Mrs. Montgomerie. After which, a New and Original Burlesque, entitled THE WON DERFUL LAMP, in a New Light, bein; an Illustrated Version of Aladdin. Abanazar, Mr. Paul Bedford; Aladdin, Mr. Wright ; Princess Badroulbadour, Miss E. Stanley. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. Two entirely New Pieces, and numerous additions made to the Company, including Mr. J. Hudson Kirby, Mr. Binge, Mr. T. H. Lacy, Mr. Aldridge, Mrs. W. West, &c., arc. THIS EVENING, AUGUST 9.7, Will be performed a New operatic Romance, entitled LA CATARINA ; or, The Diamonds of the Crown. Henriques, Mr. T. H. Lacy; Rebelledo, Mr. Dale; Mugnoso, Mr. Aldridge; Diana, Miss Hamilton; Catarina, Miss Vincent. After which, the laughable Farce of NO. Sir J. Doubtful, Mr. Seaman • Hurricane, NIL James; Frederick, Mr. Binge; Lady Doubtful, Mrs. W. West. To conclude with JACK AND THE BEAN-STALK ; or, The Lad that knew how many Beans made Five. Jollibuffa, Mr. John Herbert ; Jack, Miss Vincent. Private Family Boxes, £1 Is. OcL and £1 lls. 6d. IN CELEBRATION OF PRINCE ALBERT'S BIRTHDAY. LICENSED VICTUALLERS' SCHOOL. PATRONESS—HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN. THE GOVERNOR and COMMITTEE beg to announce that they have engaged that highly popular place of public resort, THE ROY AL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, FOR THIS DAY, AUGUST 27. In addition to the usual a tractions of the Gardens, including the unequalled and far-famed MENAGERIE, The BURNING of LON. DON, PROMENADE CONCERTS in Two Parts, the Splendid Band of the Establishment, conducted by Mr. Godfrey, The cele brated RUSSIAN FAMILY KAN PROWL IZ, in full Costume, will sing a variety of their National Melodies, HI RR MAYER, the Magic Siffieur, Brilliant DISPLAY of FIRE-WORKS, &c., a GRAND FETE and FANCY FAIR will be held on each day, and a Series of Entertainments will be provided for the numerous Com pany anticipated, which cannot fail to ensure the support of the Sub scribers to the Institution and the Public generally. The beautiful MODEL of VENICE will be exhibited free of extra charge. The children of the School will attend on both days of the Fete. An extra Military Band is engaged. Ticket..., One Shilling each (which will be admitted on either day), may be had of the Governor and Committee, of the past Trustees and Committee, at the School-house, Kennington-lane, and at the Office, 1 27, I.leet-street. The Gardem will be onened at One o'clock on each day: with a Royal Salute and the National Anthem. GRAND ARCHERY FETE and BALL-PLAY by the lOWAY INDIANS, at LORD'S CRICKET-GROUND. Trial of Skill by the Children of the American Forest and Prairie for several Prizes. First Time of Indians Encamping in Europe. During the Ball-play of the loway Indians, when encamped at Hoboken, opposite New York, 26,000 persons visited them in one .day. The public are so licited not to crowd too close to the players during this interesting game, as a large arena is necessary to give it due effect. The In- Cams will arrive at Two and depart at Six precisely, THIS DAY, AUGUST 27, and four following days. The Squaws will erect the Wigwams Immediately after their arrival. The Exhibition (except ing the Ball-play and Archery Fete) will be on an elevated platform. —Admission, Is. No re-admission. EGYPTIAN HALL, PICCADILLY. IMPORTANT NOTICE. ONE SHILLING Admission to TIIE NAPOLEON MU SEUM, the most magnificent and extensive Collection of Histo rical Curiosities and Works of Art ever known to have been formed by One Person, during Twenty -five years of elaborate research, at a cost of 60,000 guineas, and to completely illustrate, hi the most in structive and interesting manner, the most important part of Euro pean history, viz.—CHARLES 1., OLIVER CROJIWELL, and LOUIS XIV., to the deaths of GEORGE 111., and the EMPEROR NAPOLEON, in 1821. This unique Museum has been visited often, daring the last and present year, by the Royal Family, the Duke of Wellington, the Foreign Princes, Ambassadors, and their Ladies, also, many thousands of the Nobility and Public ; and the Pro prietor has recently been able to increase, by several very tine pictures, Br.c., his previous almost inerelible number and variety of 31 .1 83 . Works of Art, and a multitude of valuable Roller, and other curiosities, in this most instructive and. as hundreds have said it ought to be, a National Museum. Ysry thousand have Inspected it, and THIRTY PRINCIPAL EDITORS of the PUBLIC PRESS bave stated that It (nigh' to be seen by every oae. The price of admis lion is reduced to ONE SHILLING. _ _ Tt►e NAPOLEON MUSEUM is to be seen only at the "Egyptian Hall," Piccadilly. daily ti cm Ten till Dusk. THE WEATHER.—SIIN OFFICE, Arc. 27. TdERMONETER, Lowest, 51; Highest, 64; Noon, 63, BenomnTEß, 30.14.—Win, N.W. Nam e number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the freezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is ulually placed opposite 30, and rain at 29. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning ... 6 minutes after 1 I Evening ...;32 minutes after I • . ~, . .6c.. - , • „.....-...\.=1-4,..... , ~. n .41, li( , c „,.1 i ) 4 1, ,- jA%,:•::s44''k •i . < V , 1 ',". 4 '; 447 A mitCmo : '-' la% •,-: '. ~,(o*& . , . • %;:. . 't-:4,_ _164, ir.7 .- _, 5. 1 7,,,.,:,'', e s)PAr - NA. • .4e.k.t, , • :,-7........., , tiiii-ww- " ,, ,'!;l,jr N .., ' • . - ... _ , • 4 :: - ,-;7'. - ;.. .. Irk . ..:' LIE U • •,-- - A v ',.,"•....Y r , • ' °Rorr ' , r; ''.,,,, .:, . • , itn ,, . ' l ' l ' 4, . AVIAN' SECOND EDITION. flafl LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1844. From articles published in the Trinidad Standard, and other colonial papers, we perceive, with regret, that gloomy apprehensions are entertained by our colonists with regard to the prospects that open to them, in connexion with those reductions of the duties on foreign free-grown sugar and coffee, which are to take effect in the month of November next. When Mr. MILES'S proposition for a countervailing reduction on the import duties on our own West India sugars, &c., was under the consideration of the Legislature, we discussed the general policy of the Ministerial measure too largely to render it expe dient for us again to treac of it. But we cannot shut our eyes to the grave consequences of any legislation, however sound in principle, or just to the fair claims of the British consumer, which are to flow from an Act of the Imperial Legis lature in this instance, if the Trinidad Standard he right, to our possessions in the West Indies. The Trinidad journal certainly compresses a very serious dilemma into the following observations :—" Allowing, always, for his, perhaps, not yet established presump tion that, in order to enable our own colonial pro duce to compete in the English and other markets with foreign produce, favoured by these reduced rates of duty, it must absolutely be produced by our planters at a cost considerably less than that which it now incurs." But here is the dilemma. The cost of production has been already lowered to its minimum, under the existing scale of protecting and discrimi nating duty. Reduce this scale of duty on the competing of foreign produce, and it will require, to realise any profit whatever on the British, that the expense of producing it should be materially lessened. But if the minimum rate of remuneration for which the needful labour can be got, in Trinidad, for example, has been already established and acted upon, any less rate of wages will fail to command that amount of labour without which this produce cannot be raised at all. Again, if under the present minimum rate of wages, the crops realise prices which barely suffice to keep so the planters going , a hi g her scale of wages wo u ld absorb all profit, or rather, so certainly entail the loss of the capital engaged in the transaction, that the lands themselves will be allowed to run out of culti vation. This is shortly the argument of the colonists. The Trinidad Standard says— "lt is to be presumed that hitherto the employers have never given higher wages than they could possibly help—that the rate of wages is reduced to the lowest figure to which they could bring it under the existing circumstances of the colony. how the proposed reduc tion of expenditure is to be effected, therefore, we cannot conceive, unless it be made to hinge on the alternative of abandonment of cultivation altogether, or some other co ercive measure. We fear that the painful alternative re ferred to will unhappily force itself upon not a few from the pressure of circumstances and the total impossibility to withstand the ruinous competition to which they will now be exposed." Now, we agree with the City Correspondent of a Morning Contemporary, that " it cannot be supposed that Governr;lent would wittingly go the length of converting her MAJESTY'S West India possessions into barren and useless wastes. A due regard for the wel fare of the emancipated blacks is alone sufficient to guarantee the colonies against the indulgence of a dis position so detrimental to their interests." But there are other reasons, of high political expediency, which will very obviously preclude our Government from any notion of throwing up that footing we have so long possessed on the Antilles and on the American main. We cannot afford, were the former to become a chain of barren rocks to-morrow, to relinquish a chain of island posts from whence we in some sort command the Gulf of Mexico, the coasts of the United States, and no inconsiderable portion of the seaboard of South America. To abandon Trinidad would be to sacrifice one of the most fertile and im portant of these posts. If this alternative, then, is to be dismissed without being dwelt upon for a moment, it will be for Government to devise some remedy— efficient, extensive, and immediate—for a condition of things the more discouraging, inasmuch as it is thus simply and fairly stated by a journalist resident on the spot. The evil, which is felt to be so near at hand, is the more appalling, inasmuch as it is not to be treated as if it might prove only a temporary visita tion, and one, therefore, to be endured under some reasonable assurance of being speedily withdrawn. If the cultivation of Trinidad, or any other of these important colonies, be once allowed to run out, and the soil to return to fallow, it is certain, from the ex hausting nature of the crops it has been made, during so many years, and under such powerful and forcing pro cesses, to raise, that a protracted and ruinous interval must elapse before it could be put again in heart, again reclaimed from its original tendency to the rank exuberance of useless vegetation, or again sufficiently cleansed and turned to be fitted for the usual course of its tropical husbandry. These con siderations, too, are wholly irrespective of the enor mous amount of waste, decay, or deterioration of machinery, mills, boiling-houses, &c., &c., from which the enormous capitals now invested in them can reap any returns only through the sustained activity of their operations. The remedy required, as we con ceive, is that which we have so often pressed upon her MAJESTY'S Ministers, the solemn duty of extend ing to our West Indian colonies, without those illi beral, coarse, nay, fatal drawbacks, which have hitherto formed the subject of complaints at once so well founded and so unnecessary. Let the immigra tion of free labour from any quarters, so that it be efficient, be encouraged, under some plain, unvexa tious, intelligible, systentof control and appropriation. Give to the Coolies of Bengal and others, who are anxious to carry their labour and their industry Thither, the amplest and most facile means for doing so. To the colonists leave the fullest benefit of that market of coloured free labour, in which, as in all other markets, competition will determine the legiti mate wages of labour. The lands will be cultivated, the crops raised and collected, prepared and exported on terms far lower than those which the planters are now compelled to provide for, whom we have righteously denuded of all compulsory authority over prtedial labour, without providing any means, hitherto, commensurate with the deficiency our own act has thus occasioned, of voluntary or emancipated labour. By giving expansion and protection to some such improved scheme of immigration, we doubt not that the just interests of the planters might be con sulted and improved, without compromising the title of the home consumer to cheaper prices ; and without infringing, by one line's breadth, on that sacred circle of emancipation, which the British Legislature has traced around the expatriated and heretofore enslaved races of negro labourers throughout the wide circuit of her transatlantic possessions. In the press of other matters claiming our early attention, we have found but little time, hitherto, for the perusal in detail of Sir JAMES GRAHAM'S Bill " for the better regulation of Medical Practice throughout the United Kingdom." But we have mastered its contents sufficiently, to pronounce an opinion upon its general bearings, and to be enabled to indicate some features of palpable inconsistency, unfairness, and inexpediency. The Bill, in its pre sent form, is certainly one of the worst specimens of the excess to which the genius of central legislation may carry its advocates. In their laudable endea vours to abolish the evils of that partial, interrupted, and local law-making, which has so much marred many institutions derived from our ancestors, that were of the very wisest kind in princi ple, they are apt to produce a species of mischief at the least as much to be de- precated. From a scheme, defective by the num ber of its jurisdictions or the conflicting character of the powers which these exercise, they are prone to pass to a system, more or less impracticable from the limi tation of its faculties, to a range of operation by no means co-extensive with the multiplied and varying, demands on their exercise, and only to be set in mo tion from a single centre. The result of these sacri fices to the one element of consolidation may be de fined, in a word, as a defect of adaptation. There are infinitely more demands, or more classes of demands to be met and satisfied than machinery, of this centra lised character, can adequately treat. But the Bill in question has more specific vices, besides this ge neric one. Its enactments are tyrannous as well as invidious. They throw a degree of imputation on the skill, competency, and character of vast bodies of a liberal profession, who will vainly plead against the requi sitions of some of the clauses before us, touching pro bationary examinations in some cases, certificates in others, &c., &c. ; the best of testimonials, supplied by the terms of their professional experience and prac tice, and the esteem and confidence wherewith they are regarded by their patients and connexions. The capital error of the Bill appears to us to be this— that it proposes, for the future, to treat with indiffer ence, or absolutely to reject, the positive evidence of merit and theoretical knowledge, implied by the previously-passed examination of the successful can didate for a diploma or professional status in medi cine, or surgery, (under the practice which has for many years past obtained in London) ; and to substitute in place of this qualifying title a new species of certificate of registration, to be granted by the clumsily-contrived councils, the creation of which would appear to be the real and paramount, though but incidentally avowed, object of this Bill. From one or two circumstances of prima fcicie suggestion, as the Bill is printed, we should infer that Sir JAMES GRAHAM must promise himself a long tenure of office. Thus, it is carefully stipulated that " the Secretary of State for the Home Department shall be President of the new Council ;" and again, that " he shall be empowered, from time to time, to nominate one of the members of the Council appointed, as aforesaid, by her MAJESTY, to be Vice-President of the Council." Here are two of the favourite, besetting, aims of all Sir JAMES'S measures in his official capacity, developing themselves even in this embryo of a Legislative Act, which cannot be born till next session. Sir JAMES'S vanity and love ofpower are to be tickled by the occupa tion of the President's chair; his love of patronage to be gratified by the nomination of some toady, probably, whose hand even now perhaps is dimly traceable in the concoction of the Bill—to that of Vice-President. What business with, or relation to, or affinity for, the presidency of a medical board (unless it be an indo mitable passion for opening letters) a Home Secretary of State can find in himself, we are quite at a loss to determine. The preceding clause, 9, may perhaps furnish some clue to this puzzle in clause 10. By clause 9, the salaries of the mem bers of council and other officers are to be detertnined by the Treasury. Qy. ? Will the president rank as a member of the council ? Will the Treasury, in that case, overlook the " equitable claim" of their good colleague, the Home Secretary? The author of " Corn and Currency" must have fretted his very soul out, under the compulsory though silent sanction he was compelled to give to the Premier's, monster-blunder, his Bank Charter Bill. In the course of his new medical studies, possibly the notion of a presidential salary may have flitted before the forecasting mind of Sir JAMES in the type of an emollient lenitive." But we will not travel further, on the present occasion, into the detail of the clauses. A medical friend complains to us, with much show of reason, that the general scope of the preamble it self is distinctly and most iniquitously favourable to the success of medical empiricism and quackery, and is signally calculated:for the discouragement of regu larly educated and duly qualified practitioners. It withdraws the protection hitherto afforded to the public from the reckless audacity, the m i sc hi evous ignorance, and the unhesitating presumption of the former class of medical "professors." By repealing, at one swoop, all the salutary restrictions heretofore im posed upon them, inadequate as even they have proved for the purposes of a sufficiently stringent control— ' the health and lives of the public have been set up as a free mark, as it were, for their fatal experiments. But Sir JAMES (who certainly has no reason to be well pleased with his present standing in their estima tion) distinguishes between the public and the public servants. The "gentle public" are to supply open, un restricted, moor-shooting to these unqualified gentry, who may wound, or bag, or scare, or destroy just as many victims as they please. But the army, the navy, the East India service—public hospitals, infirmaries for the poor, &c.,—these are street preserves, into which the empirics, who are thus let loose on society at large, may by no means trespass. Enough for them, we should suppose, that they are left, by implication, the honour of being doctors of the public! What guarantees are to be exacted from those gra duates who, under subsequent clauses, are to qualify before the new board, as licentiates in medicine and surgery, or as surgeons, after rigorous examination, we find shadowed out in clauses 13, 14, 15, 16, &c. But they who are still to be authorised to practise—on the public—minus the honours, advantages, and emoluments accruing from the registered certificates of which they will be deficient, for aught that we can see to the contrary, will not be troubled for any guarantees at all as to their education, skill, or proficiency ! They may deal with the most complicated diseases of the digestive organs, although the previous extent of their medical or pharmaceutical education may have been limited to ascertaining the different intensities of a solution of an ounce of Epsom salts and an ounce :of jalap ; their experience of cerebral sensitiveness, to the vary ing effects of an ordinary narcotic draught, and a concentrated preparation of morphine. The utmost amount of their physiological researches may not have possessed them of the important distinctions be tween muscular contraction and vascular irritation ; but they will deal, at a moment's notice, with cases of organic derangement that may require all the patho logical learning of a second HUNTER to detect, or all the surgical skill and precision of a BRODIE or a LAWRENCE to operate upon. Now it is very certain that nothing has more tended to improve and advance the medical sciences—to extend the range and instruct the enterprise of opera tive surgery—than those more modern restrictive Acts which have been passed during the last seven or eight reigns with the avowed and wholesome purpose of dis couraging the irresponsible practice of incompetent empirics. The education which it was, by reason of those Acts, incumbent on the regular practitioner to acquire, has necessarily become a very expensive and elaborate one. The vast amount of talent, care, and research which has been devoted, year after year, to perfect this scheme of edu cation, has prodigiously facilitated the most re markable and precious discoveries of modern days, in all the higher branches of chemistry, of anatomy, physiology, and surgery, and therefore, in the appli cation of therapeutical agents. But in exact propor• tion to, and coincidently with these advances in the great march of all medical science, have been the increased sacrifices of time, money, and application, the additional severity of intellectual discipline and ex tensive study, which medical students in all classes have made and given to the completion of their curriculum. By what magical sympathy is Sir JAMES GRAHAM induced to give to quacks,—who have little or nothing of this preparation, these qualifications, that knowledge, those laborious studies—to justify their empirical practice—the advantages, the legitimate advantages, that should justly and exclusively remain with men who have adequately prepared themselves for the able and conscientious discharge of the in valuable and most responsible duties to society, which it is the honourable privilege of their profession to render ? We have received Madrid journals of the 19th inst. The QUEEN, with her mother and sister, was ex pected to enter the capital on the 20th. According to the Heraldo, the Moors were busily engaged in repairing the fortifications of Tangiers, which were said to be defended by fifteen hundred infantry/ while there were four thousand cavalry around the town. The English Consul had returned from Gib raltar and resumed his official duties. The Three per Cents. were done at 27 1-16 for cash, and 27+ at sixty days ; and the Five per Cents. at 20i at sixty days. We regret to find, from the Paris papers, that the same hostile feeling towards this country still pre vails, with little prospect of abatement. On the pre sent occasion we admit that the French have grounds of complaint, but they ought not to confound the feelings of one anonymous and indiscreet writer with those of the whole English nation. To impute any thing like cowardice to the French people, only shows a want of common honesty, a wilful departure from truth, and a malevolent spirit. Ninety-nine Eng- lishmen out of a hundred admit the bravery of the French to the utmost extent; and, if proofs were wanting, it is :only necessary to look back to the great victories gained by their armies, not under NA roLEort only, but under every French General, over the best troops of almost every Continental State. The editors of French papers have no occasion to re but the charge, and they would have acted wisely had they treated it, as it deserved, with contempt. The details given in the telegraphic dispatch from Marshal BUGEAUD are very meagre. He states that 800 of the Moors were killed on the field of battle, but does not give the number, of the French killed, nor any idea of the forces under his command. This battle, unfortunately, will only render peace more diffi cult. It will make the French desirous of further suc cess, and exasperate the fanatical Moors. No addi tional intelligence had been received from the French squadron, though accounts from the south of Spain announce that the firing of cannon had been heard in the direction of the Straits of Gibraltar, and that Larache, and some other small places along the coast, had been bombarded. A letter which ap peared in a morning Contemporary, stating that the Emperor of MOROCCO had acceded to all the de mands of the French when the Prince de JOINVILLE commenced the attack on Tangiers, has called forth remarks from several of the papers. The Journal des Debats which has access to authentic information denies the statement. " We know not," says that journal, " if this letter be authentic, but in any case it is a tissue of errors more evident the one than the other. Every one now is aware that the EMPEROR refused four out of the seven conditions submitted by Spain ; and as to what concerns the reclamation of France, it is only neces sary to remind the reader that he demanded the missal of Marshal BUGEAUD, whose presence on the frontier no doubt was very galling to him. There fore, either the letter in question is apocryphal, or the person who wrote it was singularly misinformed. We have reason, on the contrary, to believe, that the reports of the English Consul himself contain conclu sions quite opposed to him, and it was only after being convinced the EMPEROR was seeking merely to gain time, that the Prince de JOINVILLE resorted to sum mary measures. It is also right to observe, that the news received a short time previous to the action of the 6th, announcing as certain the conclusion of an accommodation, was communicated to the French Consul at Gibraltar by the English Governor, and thus transmitted to the French Government; and, nevertheless, the news did not emanate either from the Commander of the French squadron, from the Consul-General of France, nor, as we believe, from the English Consul-General." The French Funds were more firm on Sunday. At TORTONI'S considerable business was done, when the Three per Cents. were quoted at 80f. 70c., having risen about 35 centimes since Saturday. ANOTHER MONSTER Tnanar.—The cheap Sunday excursion train on the London and Brighton Railway, on Sunday last, exceeded in magnitude all the other monsters with which this railway has of late teemed. No less than 78 carriages, containing 2,123 passengers, left London-bridge in the morning, and after spending the day in Brighton, returned in the evening. In order, however, to avoid the inconvenience experienced on former occasions from the delay in providing a large number of passengers with accommodation, the train was divided into three portions, each of which was dis patched as soon as full. By this arrangement the earlier part of the train was in Brighton before the time an nounced, while the rest were not more than half an hour behind time • whereas, on the previous Sunday, the whole number were delayed upwards of two hours and a half. The passengers spoke highly of this ar rangement. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 27, 1844. SUMMARY OF NEWS AND VittbUr Optnion. " Who runs may read." FoR.ExeN. The Court of France has gone into mourning for eight days for her Imperial Highness the Grand Duchess Alexandra of Russia, whose mortal remains were to have been deposited in the Imperial family vault on the 16th inst. _ _ Accounts from Gibraltar announce that a heavy can nonading was heard on the coast of Africa on the 12th, which was supposed to be the Prince de Joinvillo bom barding Azzila ; and more cannonading was heard at Cadiz, in the same direction, on the 14th. According to letters from Constantinople of the 7th inst., Sir Stratford Canning has obtained satisfaction for the insult offered by a Russian pilot to the British flag. The pilot is to be punished in an exemplary manner. Letters have been received from Athens of the 10th, when Greece was perfectly tranquil. An amnesty had been granted to all those who were engaged in the in surrections during the months of May and June last, with the exception of General Grivas and eight others. The elections were still going on. According to the Paris Refornie, officers of engineers and of the artillery had been sent to inspect the bat teries along the coast, and place them in a proper state of defence. The Grand Duke of Hesse has issued an ordonnance, declaring that in future the Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse is to have the title of Royal Highness. An article in the Journal des Debats announces that, notwithstanding the bad weather, the crops have pre served a good appearance throughout Normandy, and promise an abundant produce. The Queen of Wirtemberg arrived at Frankfort on the 20th, and left on the following day for the banks of the Rhine. The King and Queen of the Netherlands were expected to arrive on the 23d, on their way to Weimar, to be present at the baptism of the son of their daughter, the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Saxe Weimar. The reigning Duke of Saxe Meiningen is amongst the last arrivals at Frankfort. The Imperial Court of Russia has gone into mourning for three months, for the late Grand Duchess Alexandra. Great preparations are at present making at Milan for the forthcoming meeting of the Italian scientific con gress, which it was feared, owing to the recent political movements in Italy, would not take place ; but the Pre sident; Count Borromeo, has just issued his official an nouncement, stating that the opening is fixed for the 12th of September, and is to take place this year at Milan. The savans will hold their morning sittings at the Palace Brera, and for itheir evening meetings the Palace del Marino has been put in readiness. The re union is to continue until the 27th of next month. The opening of La Scala was postponed from the 17th to the 21st instant. LAW AND POLICE. At the Central Criminal Court, Henry Brown, 41, Emma Brown, 16, and Elizabeth Jones, 23, were in dicted for feloniously making counterfeit shillings and sixpences, and also for having in their possession moulds calculated to make counterfeit coin. They were all con victed, and Mr. Baron Gurney sentenced the male pri soner and Elizabeth Jones to be transported for twelve years ; and Emma Brown was ordered to be kept to hard labour for six months. Thomas Corby was indicted for feloniously forging an acceptance to a bill of exchange for 61., with intent to defraud William Franks. The jury found him not guilty, as it appeared that the acceptor had authorised the prisoner to use his name, and the acceptor's wife had received a portion of the proceeds of the bill. The Recorder sat in the New Court, where John Mullett, convicted of horse stealing, was sentenced to be transported for ten years. A domestic servant, named Elizabeth Hughes, was convicted of robbing her master, and sentenced to be imprisoned for a year. In passing sentence, the Re corder remarked upon the great number of cases of rob bery by domestic servants in the calendar, a crime which must be suppressed by the intervention of the law. William Fisher, convicted of stealing a pipe of port wine, the property of his employer, was sentenced to fif teen years' tran , portation. John Riley, a lighterman, aged 20, for stealing 38 gal lons of brandy, on the sth of gust instant, the property of the East and West India Company, was sentenced to be transported for ten years. A the evening sittings, before Mr. Commissioner Bullock, Mary Ann Smith, aged 20, and Charlotte Wil liams, o(ias Mary Ann Smith, were convicted of stealing 35 handkerchiefs, value 405., the property of Elizabeth Knox, there being a former conviction against Williams. The jury found them guilty, and the Court ordered Smith to be confined for six month, and Williams, other wise Smith, to be transported for seven years. llarriet Thomas, a young woman who has frequently been in custody, was committed from Guildhall by Mr. Alder man Brown, charged with stealing a diamond pin from Mr. Gray, a merchant, of Dublin. She had snatched the pin from his breast on Ludgate-hill. Mr. Gray wished her to be summarily punished, but the Magistrate re fused, and bound Mr. Gray over to prosecute. A very respectably-dressed man, habited in full black, and white cravat, and who gave the name of Frederick Grosjean, a tailor and draper, living at 99, Quadrant, was brought before Mr. Hall, the chief magistrate, at %Bovi-street.-charged with having caused an obstruction in front of St. Paul's church; Covent-garden, by collect ing a crowd, and refusing to withdraw when requested by the police. The defendant, who had attracted a crowd by preaching in front of the church, was admonished and discharged. John Smith was convicted from Clerken well on seve ral charges of robbing furnished lodgings. At Queen-square, John Jones, a labouring man, was charged with wilfully breaking one o f t h e gas l amps i n Marsam-street, Westminster. The defendant, who had been refused a night's lodging at the station-house and at the workhouse, said he was two hundred miles from home, and had not tasted food for two days, and being unable longer to walk the streets, had broken the lamps in the constable's presence, in order to be taken up. Mr. Burrell said that persons could not be allowed, because they were in distress, to destroy the property of the parish contractor, which offence subjected him' to a penalty of 51. Defendant must pay 7s. 6d., the amount of damage, or be imprisoned for ten days. The man appeared very thankful, and was locked up. Several vendors of fruit and toys were fined for ob structing the Knightsbridge foot pavement, by placing their baskets thereon. Mary Anna Jones was remanded from Marylebone, on a charge of having " stolen" a silk umbrella, the property of Miss Maria Louisa Riviere, the proprietress of a school for young ladies, at 25, George-street, Camden town. The prisoner had called at the school on a rainy day, and stated her intention of placing two young ladies there, and on her departure had borrowed an umbrella, which, it is needless to say, was never returned, and the address which she had given Miss Riviere could not be found. John Blake, John Rogers, and Sarah Smith, charged with havin g b e en concerned i n stea li ng f urn i ture , Szc.,. to a considerable amount, the pr o p er t y o f M r . John Dyke, Park-place, Paddington-green, were remanded. At Lambeth-street, Saul Fichell, a German Jew, was charged with robbing his employer, Mr. Adolphus Lip man, outfitter, 86, Pearson-street, Ratcliff highway, of one gold and nine silver watches, value 351. The pri soner owned having taken the watches, and said he was instigated to it by a person who was a notorious coiner, in Rosemary-lane. He was remanded to give time for the apprehension of his accomplice. A respectable-looking c from table- v 10l ip. okoinrgs h man Stevens, but which, it is known, is a fictitious name, was committed, having deserted his wife. ot: who gave his name Chas. reet, for one month, for At Union Hall, James Cheek, collecting-clerk in the employment of Messrs. Taylor and Co., vinegar makers, of Long-lane, Bermondsey, was charged with embezzling several sums of money from his employers, and was remanded. _ George Bonchee, a member of the swell mob, was charged before Mr. Broderip, at the Thames Office, with assaulting Mrs. Elizabeth Cook, a lady residing at Mus well-hill, llornsey, with intent to commit a felony. The prisoner had attempted to pick her pocket on board one of the railway Gravesend steamers. A policeman said that robberies had been very frequent among the pas sengers in the steamers between London and Gravesend, and the swell mob took advantage of the crowded state of those vessels occasioned by the cheap fares. He was committed. COURT-WASHIONABLB. The Prince of Prussia, upon his visit to the York race course on Thursday, was received at the Grand Stand by the Marquis of Normanby, who accompanied his Royal Highness on to the course, and subsequently partook of a dejeuner with the Prince, at the residence of General Brotherton, the commanding officer of the troops sta tioned in that city. The Earl and Countess of Wilton have been entertain. ing during the past fortnight a distinguished party at their villa residence, Binstead, near Hyde, amongst whom may be mentioned the Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburgh Strelitz, the Duke and Duchess of Beau fort, :and Lady Augusta Somerset, Baron Nieumann, Lord and Lady Robert Grosvenor, Lord and Lady Ash ley, Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, the Countess of Jersey, and Lady Clementina Villiers, Lord Charles Manners, &c. The Noble Earl and Countess are going to Bad minton next week on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, to meet the Prince of Prussia and a select party. The Earl of Yarborough and the leading members of the Yacht Squadron have arrived at Plymouth from Cowes, and proceed on a cruise to other western ports. Lord and Lady Francis Egerton have arrived at Buxton, on a visit to Lady Charlotte Greville, from Worsley Hall, Lancashire. The Austrian Count Anersperg and his son have re turned to the Clarendon Hotel, from York races. The Marquis of Douglas, accompani ha ed by the Marchioness (Princess Mary of Baden), s arrived at the Clarendon Hotel, Leamington Spa, where they pur pose remaining for a few days, and thence proceeding to Hamilton Palace, North Britain. The Earl of Bessborough and Ladies Ponsonby have arrived at Bessborough H o use, Kilkenny, from Caven dish-square, at which seat the Noble Earl and family have made arrangements to pass the autumn. The ar rival of his Lordship at his paternal estates was welcomed by his tenantry with every possible mark of esteem. Count Nesselrode, and his daughter the Baroness Seebach, accompanied by the Countess of Stockelberg, proceeded from Brighton on Saturday on a short visit to the Duke of Norfolk. M. Kisseleff, the Russian Chargé d'Affaires at Paris, left Brighton on Saturday for Dieppe. The Marquis of Conyngham arrived in Harwich harbour last week, from the Isle of Wight, in his splendid yacht the Flower of Yarrow. Lords Cranstoun and Gardner are among the distin wished tourists to the Cumberland and Westmorland lakes. Their Lordships enjoyed a few days' sport on the moors near Brough, when on a visit to the Rev. Mr. Barham, M.A., at Appleby Castle, Viscount Sandon and family are at present staying at Burnt Norton, near Chipping Campden, Gloucester shire. Colonel and Baroness North and Miss Doyle have re turned to Arlington-street, from their villa at Putney hill, where her Ladyship has been residing for the last three weeks. The Baroness and family will leave their mansion in Arlington-street this week, for Wroxton Abbey, where extensive alterations are going on. Sir Edward Kerrison, Bart., M.P., and Lady Kerrison are surrounded by a select family circle at Oakley Park, the Gallant Baronet's seat, near Eye. The Earl and Countess of Meath have left town for the Continent, intending to pass the winter abroad. Viscountess Ashbrooke and the Hon. Miss Flower left town on Wednesday last for a tour in Germany. _ _ ASISCEMULIII MOUS. On Sunday, in Smithfield market, between four and eight o'clock in the evening, there were no fewer than 37 preachers haranguing large mobs of persons, some of whom attentively listened, but by far the greater num ber reviled. A Parliamentary return has been published, showing the number of schoolmasters in Scotland who have vacated their berths in consequence of the late secession. The amount is stated to be 92, and several are still un der suspension for having joined the seceders. The number, it may be observed, is very small, considering that there are 12,000 parishes in Scotland, with each one schoolmaster at least, and many of them two. It appears from a Parliamentary return, that for the half-year ending the sth of July last, the total quantity of refined sugar exported from the United Kingdom as merchandise was 112,242 cwts., and the amount shipped as stores 4,853 cwts. The exportation as merchandise in the six months was, from London, 92,328 cwts. ; 19,752 cwts. from Liverpool ; 41 cwts. from ports on the Clyde ; and from other outports 121 cwts., making the total 112,242. The Earl of Stradbroke has been appointed Vice- Admiral of the coast of Suffolk, an office which was pre viously held by the late Marquis of Hertford. The Noble Earl is visiting his estates in Ireland. The Palace of Holyrood is now to be thrown open to all visitors, on payment of a small fee, namely, one shil ling for a party of six. This is not by way of admission money ; but merely to remunerate the servants for their trouble in showing the different apartments A model farm has been established at Berry Pomeroy, on the estate of the Duke of Somerset. General Goldie having resigned the Speakership of the House of Keys, at the Isle of Man, last week, Lieu tenant Taubman was chosen to the office. The 72d Regiment, stationed in the county of Lime rick, are daily expecting the route for Cove, to embark for Gibraltar. Last week a white swallow was shot by a young gen tleman at Innerleithen. It was observed playing about with some common swallows, and had attracted the at tention of several persons by its conspicuous dress. It was stuffed as a curiosity. THIS DAY'S NEWS BANKRUPTCY.-(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Commissioner FANE.) IN TEE MATTER OF ROBERT BANISTER. In this case, which has been so prominently before the public, it may be remembered that the bankrupt had carried on an extensive business as a draper in Portsea, and who had absconded, after disposing of the greater part of his stock below cost price. This day a Mr. Coleman was examined touching the receipt of certain moneys which he was alleged to have received from the bankrupt. The COURT seemed to consider that the publication of the evidence would tend to injure the interests of the body of the creditors. CRIMINAL COURT-(THIS DAY, OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Baron GURNEY and Mr. Justice IVIGETmAx William Windley, 20, a labourer, was charged with a rape on the person of Hannah Hale, a widow, at Leyton stone, and John Harknett, a labourer ; Jeremiah Wake ling, a baker ; William Scarborough, Henry William Watts Irving, Edward Lingard, and James Windley, were indicted with being present and aiding and assist ing in the commission of the crime. The facts of the case and its atrocity will be in the recollection of our readers. The prosecutrix swore, most positively, that all the prisoners committed the crime. Mr. Ballantine conducted the prosecution. Mr. Pren dergast defended Wakeling and Hartnett ; and Mr. Charnock Scarborough, Ashford, Lingard, and Watts. Windley was undefended. The facts of the case are totally unfit for publication. Windley, in his defence, denied the committal of the offence, and stated the prosecutrix was rolling drunk on the day when it was alleged the offence was committed. Mr. PRENDERGAST, at the suggestion of the Court, declined addressing the jury on behalf of John Harknett and Jeremiah Wakeling, and the Jury, under the direc tions of Mr. Baron Gurney, acquitted them both. Mr. CHARNOCK then addressed the Jury for all the pri soners, except Windley. The Learned Counsel also called several witnesses who deposed to the prosecutrix being very drunk on the day in question, and one wit ness spoke to seeing her and Windley together in rather an equivocal position. Mr. BALLANTYNE addressed the jury in reply. Mr. Baron GURNEY summed up. The jury found them all guilty, and the COURT sen tenced them all to transportation for life. NEW COURT. (Before the RECORDER.) MANSLAUGHTER.— James Briggen, milkman, was placed at the bar, charged with unlawfully causing the death of Anne Jones, by criminal negligence in driving a horse and cart. Mr. Horry conducted the prosecution ; Mr. Clarkson defended the prisoner. It appeared from the evidence that the deceased was coming, on the 9th of July, from Stepney, in the direc tion of Whitechapel. She was walking on the road, it being more smooth that the foot-path. The prisoner was coming in the same direction, driving a cart at the rate of ten or twelve miles an hour, and the left wheel of the cart struck the deceased on the shoulder, which threw her down, and killed her almost immediately. It was proved that the prisoner was drunk when the accident took place. It appeared that the deceased was a respectable young woman and recently married. Several respectable witnesses gave the prisoner a good character for sobriety, honesty, industry, and inoffensive ness. The RECORDER said that this was a very serious case, and the Court would have felt called upon to sentence the prisoner to transportation were it not that his neigh bours flocked round him in the hour of need, and gave him the very best character. But it was a duty which he owed to the public safety to visit the prisoner with an imprisonment which would be an example to others. The sentence upon the prisoner was, that he be im prisoned in the House of Correction and kept to hard labour for nine calendar months. GUILDHALL.—(THIS DAY. A working-looking man was placed at the bar charged with having stolen a quantity of potatoes, the property of a market gardener named Hyde, residing at Croydon, but who keeps a stall in Farringdon market. The complainant said that he left his stall for a couple of hours on Tuesday last, and on his return found that sieve containing the potatoes in question had been walked off. He afterwards discovered them in Field lane, in the shop of a Mr. Fenton, who had bought them from the prisoner. Mr. Fenton, eating-house-keeper, proved having bought them from the prisoner. Mr. Alderman BROWN—This looks bad against you. What can you say for yourself ? Prisoner—l bought them from another man, quite promiscuous in Farring don-street, and am as innocent as a blessed baby. Mr. Alderman BROWN did not give implicit credit to the prisoner's statement, and sent him therefore to Newgate. BOW-STREET.—(THIS DAY.) A tall able-bodied man named Robert Holloway and Margaret Hall, were placed at the bar charged with committing a violent and unprovoked assault on Mrs. Anne Bennet. The complainant stated that she with her husband and cousin went into a public-heuse in St. Martin's-lane last night, and while standing at the bar the prisoners came in. They were intoxicated, and they had not been in the house many minutes before the female fell upon the prosecutrix and knocked her down with a large key, which cut her eye severely. While she was down, the male prisoner struck her with a stick on the head. The prosecutrix had never seen them before in her life. The prisoners did not attempt to palliate the offence, and, _ Mr. TWYFORD committed them to the sessions for ,rial. UNION-HALL. —(THIS DAY.) Thomas Stephens was charged, before Mr. Traill, under the following circumstances. On the preceding night the prisoner was observed, by a young man named Miller, to approach the shop of a cheesemonger, at Walworth, and take a piece of bacon, with which he walked away. The witness Miller went after the prisoner, and accused him of the theft, and at the same time attempted to secure him. The prisoner, however, resisted the attempt, and, taking aim at the witness's head, threw the bacon, with all his force, at him, and struck him with such violence as to lay him prostrate on the ground ; and he then endeavoured to escape, but was secured by another person, after a sharp pursuit. The witness exhibited a swollen and black eye, from the effects of being struck with the bacon. The prisoner was remanded. Sarah Smith was charged with robbing children of their clothes. The prisoner was seen lurking about a court in which a number of children were playing, and when a favour able opportunity presented itself she took up a child in her arms and having taken it into the dark passage of a house, took off its shoes and stockings and was pro ceeding to divest it of all its clothing when she was secured. The prisoner, being suspected of robbing a great number of other children, was remanded. The Earl of Haddington and the other Lords of the Admiralty are expected to leave town to-day, for Portsmouth, in order to commence their annual tour of inspection. Lady Innes, wife of the late and mother of the pre sent Sir James Innes, died at Edingight House, Banff shire, on Friday lest. MONEY AND COMMERCIALNE WS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The prices of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday did not undergo any alteration, and a fair business was done. Exporters took 1,000 bales, and the total sales were 6,ooo—viz., 600 Surat at lid. to 3id.; 150 Pernam, sid. to 6, d.; 100 Maranham, sd. to sid.; 200 Egyptia n , 6id. to 7id.; and the rest American, 3 3 .11. to sid. French Railways were more in demand, b u t Birmingham, Mid land Counties, and Eastern Counties were dull. Bir mingham and Gloucester, 1071; Chester and Birken head, 314 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 67; Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton, 17; Great Western, Half, 83 ; Lancaster and Preston, 39; Liverpool and Manchester, Half, 53 ; Ditto Quarter, 35; London and Birmi ng h am , 220; Midland Ditto, 106; Preston and Wyre, New, 37; Sheffield and Manchester, 841; Lyons and Avignon, 1/. 18s.; Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux, 11. 165.; Lynn and Ely, 3i. A plan for the formation of a railway to connect the metropolis with Richmond has been announced, - and at a meeting of the principal tradesmen of the latter, held a day or two since, it ‘i as unanimously agreed that the line would be highly advantageous to the town, as well as to those places through or near which it will pass, such as Barnes, Wandsworth, Putney, &c. It is intended that the railway shall be formed on the Surrey side of the river, and to be connected with the Hunger fordruspension-bridge. A most easy and rapid com munication will thus be formed between the west end and that delightful and favourite place of resort. There is not a single colonial arrival of any importance to announce this morning. The Stock Market has been in a very active condition this morning. Consols for Money and the Account have reached 98f, but are now a shade lower. The Commissioners bought 5,000/. Reduced Three per Cents. at within it per cent. of par. Money is more plentiful, and the premium upon Exchequer Bills has advanced to 765. The Three-and-a-Half per Cents. have been in good request. A fall in Belgian Bonds to 1024 has just occurred. Dutch Stock is rather heavy. French Three per Cents. have advanced a trifle, but Portuguese Stocks are cheaper than yesterday. Spanish Consols remain at about 22k ; the Three per Cents. at 331 ; and Mexican at 35i a. There was a fall in the London and Birmingham, in the Birmingham and Gloucester, in the Brighton, and most of the other Railway Shares this morning. A good deal of business has been done. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Bank Stock 199% 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 3 per Cent. Consols. Annuities 9 9,( 98% 3% per Cent. Annuities, 1818 98% 35 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 10 2 14 % % New 35 per Cent. Annuities ..... .... ........ Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860 l2 9-16% Ditto 30 Years, Expire 10th Oct. 1859 Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan. 1860. India 80nd5,1,000... ........ .. ........ ..............« Ditto under 1,000 93 Consols for Account ••.....•........•..•.....• 99% 99 India Stock Exchequer Bills, I%d. I%d. 1,0001. ........................ ........« 74 76 pm. 5001...».«.».«.».«,«.».. ••••• ..»., 74 76 pm. Ditto 5ma1............. ..... Ditto Advertised FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent ll4 Belgian Bonds, 5 per Cent 102% Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent. .... ........ Ditto Deferred Stock 15% Ditto Debentures Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent. Ditto Converted 43% Ditto for the Account .. ......... «. ..... Spanish! Bonds Five per Cent 18447 22% Ditto for the Account Ditto Three per Cent. ........ Ditto for the Account. 33% Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent 42 Ditto Deferred French nentes, 3 per Cent Exchange 2sf. 50c. Dutch 23( per Cents 61% Dutch 5 per Cents ,100%% New Loan, 5 per Cents. (1837) PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. aAILWAYs. PAID. Pee SH•II2. Birmingham and Gloucester...". 100 ~»..... 109 to Chester and Holyhead Dublin and Cashel Eastern Counties Ditto New Registered Si. 6s. Bd. Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O . ... .... Ditto % Stares Great Western Lancaster and Carlisle London and Birmingham. lOO .........218 ..... to 217 Ditto New Thirds 2 36% to Dit o % Shares 2 25%.,... to 26 London and Blackwall 16% ...... 7% .... to London and Brighton 5O .... ..... 48%% ... to London and Greenwich London and Greenwich (Preference) 18% London and South Western 41% Ditto Eighths ii Lynn and E1y.... l% .. 3% Manchester and Birmingham ... 40 Ditto % Share- Midland Counties - Newcastle an d DarlingtonJunct. 21 ...... 4836% to North British 254 ..... 3 '...- to -. Trent Valley York and North Midland Ditto 56 Shares 25 Paris and Orleans Parisand Rouen 2O 37N - ,to Rouen and Havre MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, AUG. 26.—There is no material change in prices, but stock is more freely offered.—Bristol and Gloucester, 544 ; Blackburn, Burn ley, and Accrington, 2 9-16 ; Bristol and Exeter, 801 ; Churnet Valley, 3s. prem. ; Huddersfield and Manches ter, 21 7-16 ; Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester, 1i prem. ; London and Brighton, Eighths, I Is. 3d. prem. ; Manchester, Bury, and Rossendale, 5 7-16 1; Manchester and Birmingham, 53i ; MARKET NEWS—(THIS PAY.) HAT MARKETS. SMITHFIELD.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3/15s to 414 s ; Useful ditto, 416 s to 4/12s ; fine Upland ditto, 4114 s to 51; Clover Hay, 41 103 to 6 / 6 s ; Oat Straw, 116 s to 11 8s ; Wheat Straw, Il 8s to 11 lOs per load. Supply rather limited, and trade on the whole, dull. CUMBERLAND.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 18s to 4l 6s ; Useful ditto, 418 s to 41145; fine Upland ditto, 41 15s to 5/ ; Clover Hay, 4112 s to 61; Oat Straw, 11 7s to 11 9s; Wheat Straw, 11 lOs to 11 12s per load. The best Meadow Hay sold steadily, at full prices ; but, other wise, the demand was extremely inactive. WHITECHAPEL.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3115 s to 414 s ; Useful ditto, 41 5s to 41 12s ; fine Upland ditto, 4/ 14s t• 51; Clover Hay, 41 15s to 6/ lOs ; Oat Straw, 116 s to 1/ 8s ; Wheat Straw, 11 8s to 11 lOs per load. A fair average.supply, and a sluggish demand. New Meadow Hay sold at from 31 to 4/ 4s; and New Clover, 41 to Si 5s per load. COLONIAL SUGAR.—The market for British Plantation has been without change, about 400 hhds having been sold at previous prices. The public sales have consisted chiefly of 290 bushels, Java, which sold at 17s to 225, for good brown to mid white, being comparatively cheap, but so small a parcel affords little guide to the market gene rally. The quantity of British Plantation landed last week at the East and West India Docks was 729 hhds, 97 tierces, 103 barrels ; and there were taken for home consumption 1,139 hhds, 153 tierces, 919 barrels. The stock in the same places is 11,631 hhds, 1,732 tierces, 2,021 barrels. COFFEE.-665 bags Ceylon, British Plantation kind, 168 bales Mocha, and 327 bags Rio, were offered by auction ; the Ceylon and Mocha were chiefly taken in, the former at 71s to 80s for fine ord to mid colory, British Plantation kind. The Mocha was withdrawn. Only part of the Rio was disposed of at 30s for com mon mixed good ord quality. Rum.—The quantity landed last week at the East and West India Docks was 308 puns, 55 hhds. There were taken for home consumption 243 puns, 16 hhds, and exported 211 puns, 77 hhds. The stock in the same places is 10,134 puns, 2,089 hhds. SALTPETRE.-1,126 bags were mostly taken in above the value, viz., at 26s 6d for 5 per cent. refraction ; per cent. refraction sold at 24s (and one lot 24s 6d), being previous rates. SPlens.-1,150 chests Cassia Lignea, and 514 Pepper, all the former found buyers, but at very low prices, viz., at 50s 6d to 61s for mid coarse to good mid quality, partly in large bundles, being a decline of fully 2s. The latter was taken in at 2id for mid to good black Sumatra. TALLow.—P.Y.C. is firm at 41s 3d to 42s per cwt on the spot, and Town 43s 6d cwt. TEA.—The market is steady, prices not undergoing any fluctuation. COTTON.—There have been one or two private sales at steady rates. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DA Y.) LONDON, AUG. 27.—Wind, N.W., fresh breeze, and fine. DEAL, AUG. 26.—Wind, A.M., W. N. W. P.M., N.W. to N.N.W.—Arrd. Auguste, Block, Havannah, fo r Bremen. Ski. Cornwall, Cork and Bombay; Fair Aca dian, Ichaboe; Elizabeth, Mirarnichi. OFF DOVER, AUG. 25.—Rotterdam, Nova Zembla, Princess Sophia, and Graef van Hogendorp, all from Rotterdam, for Batavia. PORTSMOUTH, Auc. 26.—Wind, N.W.—Sld. Vernon, Madras; Ann Elizabeth, Surinam; Findon, Quebec. COWES, Auc. 26.—Arrd. Whig, Baldwin, Havannah and Baltimore; Sarah, Foster, Matanzas. FALMOUTH, AUG. 26.—Wind W. to N.W., moderate.— Arrd. Hayle, Sampson, Laguna. Off, Mary Russell, Turnbull, Luna, sailed April 20, on freight about 150,000 dolls. ; Hiram, Emaun, New Bedford, for Rot terdam ; Breadalbane, M'Neil, Calcutta ; Margaret Con nell, Maxted, Valparaiso, sailed May 3, and proceeded to Bristol, on freight about 43,000 dolls. ; Antelope, Asplet, Rio, sailed June 30, and p rocee d e d f or Rotter dam. The Tagus, M'Farlane, bound to Liverpool, which put back to Valparaiso, April 20, leaky, would have to discharge. The Pandora, of Waterford, waterlogged and abandoned, with loss of rudder, was fallen in with and taken in tow for sixteen hours, 16th inst., lat. 47 lon. 15, by the Mary Russell. GLOUCESTER, AUG. 26.—S1d. 574, Quebec. SWANSEA, Auc. 26.—Arrd. John Ilawkes, Richards, Prince Edward Island. BEAUMARIS, AUG. 23.—S1d. Cleopatra, Bombay. The Mercy, from Menai Bridge to Quebec, took the ground off this, while in tow of a steamer, but floated next tide without damage. CORK, AUG. 24.—Arrd. Dorcas, Ball, Ichaboe. Sid. Brothers, St. John's ; Puo, Quebec. LIVERPOOL, AUG. 26.—Wind, N.N.W., moderate.— A rrd. Mary Queen of Scots, Kelly, Pernambuco ; Pylon, Putman, Mobile • Admondack, New York ; Eliza Ann, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Zanoni, Dal housie. Sld. Nenevo, Ramonceto, Havannah ; Cairo, Boston ; Ward, Chipman, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Palmerston, Montreal. ADERYST WITH, AUG. 24.—The Spencer Wynne, Parry, in leaving the harbour on the 22d instant, struck on the rocks of the Marine-terrace, and became a total wreck. Crew and part of materials saved. We have reason to believe that an action for breach of promise of marriage has been already commenced by a beautiful and accomplished young lady, possessing landed property in one of th e m idl and counties (Leices tershire), against a wealthy young nobleman, who has recently entered into the holy bonds of matrimony. HAMBURGH MAIL. (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) ST. PETERSBURG'', AUG. 13.—The Emperor 1?o.. announced to his people the l amen t e d d ea th of al' daughter in the following manifesto:— "By the inscrutable decree of God our paternal heart has been visited with a severe affliction. Our dearly beloved the Grand Duchess Alexandra IN T icotajewne, consort of Prince Frederick of Beer Cassel, after a long and severe illness, was prematurely delivered on the 29th of July (Aug. 10) of a Prince, who was baptised by the name of William, and die d soon afterwards. Our beloved daughter died shortif afterwards, with deep sorrow, yet humbly resigned t° , the mysterious will of Di v i ne P rov id ence. W e doubt not that all our faithful subjects, who so lately made fested such cordial parti c ip a ti on i n our j oy on T h marriage of our beloved da ug ht er w ill now unite wit" us in feelings of grief and in prayer to the Almighg for the repose of her pure and gentle soul in te" eternal mansions of the virtuous." On the day of the death of the Princess the Court went into mourning for several weeks. ST. PETERSBURGII, AUG. 13.—After the derive* the Princess felt herself relieved, and conversed for hi considerable time with her beloved parents, brother and sister, and other relati ves , w h o were a ll assemble d round her in the last hours of her life. At four in the afternoon she took an affectionate leave o f the: l , l all, and fell into a tranquil sleep from which she never awoke here below. Sh e ex pi re d a t a quarter befor e five. The body of the Grand Duchess, as wells' that of the Prince, were embalmed yesterday, a w will be conveyed to-night without pomp from Zarsinr jesela to the cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul' Hamburgh papers, Aug. 23. ST. PETERSBURG'', AUG. 16.—The mortal reno o9 of the Grand Duchess Alexandra are deposited to-del in the cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul. The Military Governor of St. Petersburgh has ! fr . ceived, this morning, the f o ll ow i ng I mper i a l R es erir in his Majesty's own hand, and hastens to commo n ' . cate it to the inhabitants of the capital. " After following the mortal remains of my b e ' d loved daughter to their final resting place, the impulse. my heart is to desire you to announce to the inha b e l i tants of the capital h ow d ee pl y a ll our h ear t s are . fected by the general interest which they have nol a li fested, as well during the long and mortal Dine° ; our beloved daughter, as lik ew i se on h er deat h, an lastly, on this night. These exp ress i ons o f t h t gen era feeling are, indeed, not new to me ; hitherto thei t have been displayed only in days of j o y, b u t mine has pleased God to try us by the most painful loss. We submit to his unsearchable will, and what eita be more consolatory to our paternal hearts than tb . e , affecting proofs that our sorrow is th e un i vers al sorr .. : of the whole people entru s t e d t o us b y God. "8 thank them for this affection which is our consolatio n, and gives me strength to proceed in my ardue s , course. May those mortal feeling s b e th e pledge Ph the future happiness." ALARMING FIRE IN ST. GILES'S—(THIS 1./I.)' • About eleven o'clock in the forenoon a fire broke out a narrow street called Maynard-street, off Buckridc street, in the very heart of all th a t now rema i ns of t o once noted " Rookery." A p or ti on o f the premises w in the possession of Messrs. B r id ge an d C o ., the extensi ve cork-cutters and manufacturers of No. 29, High-str ee t ' St. Giles's, who deposited there a large quantity of nufactured and raw stock i n consequence o f w h i ch t o b utmost consternation and al a r m p erva d e d t h e o neighbourhood. An area of only about one-tenth of to original size of the " Rookery" now stands in coan quence of the new line of street, from Oxford-street Holborn, and in this small, and more particularly Mar nard and Buckridge-streets, a large portion of the t is ; possessed inhabitants had cr a mme d t h emse l ves , s o t r when the first alarm of fi re was g i ven , t h e greatest CO_.,„ t r fusion prevailed in conse quence o f t h e e ff orts o f t he p 7 ., people to save their furniture. F or t una t e l y , how the fire having broken out in the day time, it was ace t discovered, and information f orwar d e d to t h e clifferen ,0 Fire Brigade stations. In a short time no less than ' o f engines were upon the spot, and a plentiful supply A water being at hand, the fl a m es were s p ee dil y su bdeM without doing any considerable damage. Owing to T. number of thieves and dari ng c h arac t ers w hi c h i n fest 'P o i neighbourhood, it was necessary to have a strong body police to keep order. f ASTLEY'S THEATRE.—After the various pet,o r ances which at this theatre generally precede the equ t e bt , trian feats of the circus, and after Mr. Carter ( 216 1 4 Lion Tamer of the Niger) h as ex hibi te d hi s extrao rdill • power over the lions, ti gers , an d pant h ers, b o th t. 11,4 cage and on the stage, a miniature horse was e xhibit in the circus. This w on d er f u l li tt l e an i ma l, which • called Tom Thumb, is we ll ma d e , an d something „e Shetland pony, though not so shaggy ; he stands c7 l l twenty-five inches high, and weighs but 731bs-, presented to Mr. Batty by the celebrated e questrl a ., Mr. Wells, and has not his equal in the three kingde ss Tom Thumb (the ori g i na l) w ill appear i n t h e e ircus a Astley's, we are told, d ur i ng th e wee k i n a miniet • , carriage, which has been b u ilt f or hi m by Mr. Beat of Soho-square, and which will be drawn by this I= l o , horse. Man, carriage, and horse will all th en b e in P a _ portion, and such another equipage is only t o be probably, in the description of fairies. LEICESTER -SQUARE.—The enclosure of this squ ill' is at present in a very dilapidated and disgraceful ce o ; dition. The iron raili ngs h ave i n many places h e . e „ taken away, and, until the last few days, when the it habitants have placed a constable for its protectioutr(3, has day and night b een a scene o f most disorderly conduct. The title of the property to the enclosure disputed. EGG Two THOUSAND YEARS OLD.—An egt . brought the other day from the island of Ichaboe, Y ot i master of the Eliza Kincaid, t o L e i t h , w hi c h was 11) ...., e cl at a depth of twenty-fi ve f eet f rom the sur f ace , o ' o , must, therefore, according to the best calculation , b ee % been upwards of 2,000 years old. It is now to be 9 fi r at the National office, in Argyle -street. —Glasgow tional. ; bout SUICIDE AT CHELSEA.--MiSterday morn i ng, o p a quarter to one o'clock, Mr. Jerome, of No. 8, Ol e o s street, Chelsea, w as p ass i ng a l ong C heyne-wa lk, he observed a woman walk down the floating pierfrlhe site to Manor- s t ree t, an d prec i p i tate hersel f into water. He raised an alarm, an d d rags were 11110°,,5',. iv or . stantly in use, but the un f or t unate woman, w h o salt' mediately, was not recovered. 0 18 DAILY MAILS TO AND FROM BELGIUY. ,- ; t he following notice ha s b een i ssue d by comma ' gu sh Post-Master-General :—" G enera l Post-office, Atle'-o 1844.—The Belgian G overnment h av i ng entered ill`ee , lc contract for the conveyance of mails twice in each "Id between Dover and O s t en d, i n addition to the PLe:too communication by Briti s h : pac k ets, mails for lie.,s"the will in future be m a d e up at this office every day ""sel• week (Sundays excepted), and return mails frora glum will be due in London daily, with the lik e ception." ° PRICE OF BREAD.--Yesterday the p r ices 0f bre _Jett fell generally in th e me t ropo li s i d. per quartern Iv 7, account of the abund an t h arvest. The general Prl-09 now 7d., although at many of the underselling b ° it is 6d. i 9 We believe that in th e b eg i nn i ng of October /oat intended to call out the pensioners for training, but , e 4 only two days, inst ea d of five, will this y ear be ell ) P 1°) for that purpose. BRIGHTON, SATURDA Y EVENING.. , --The Faro- p W ; t• tain Harty, arrived f rom Di eppe this afternoon, I„;ers, hours and th ree quarters, with fifty-five ness,eljje among whom wer e L a d y H otham, the Marquis Jet' Granja, the Ma rqu i s D e l a Caltovar, Mrs. Swifl um „geo vis and family, & c . Ab out one-third of the pas se jt - ose were enabled to clear their baggage at the Custom' from and proceed to London by the last regular train vi be here, at half-past six ; the rest of the passengert 4 ,o were desirous o f p rocee di ng to London this elector were forwarded by a special train, the Railwai o ar patty always affording this greed accommodation tu n det packet passen gers , arr i v i ng from Dieppe or Havr e, 0" similar circumstances. a On Friday afternoon last, between four anger o'clock, as C a pt a i n Al exander Seton, of the 7 4th 1- ` went, was riding his horse on Chatham Lined for animal, on passin g th e stan d s a b out be i ng e reel ho e Kea the accommod a ti on o f v i s i tors, took fright and direr across the lines at a tremendous pace, taking the t oe tion of New Brompton. The Captain seemed t 0 to lost all contr o l over t h e animal, which, in atteteP ti f e et clear the fence round the lines, caught with its W e al . osS the top rail, and th ere b y t h e horse and rider f el l the violently to th e groun d, C apta i n Seton being Wler 000 horse. He was conveye d to h i s quarters in Chat Barracks, where he lies in a very precarious sta te. 005 , IMPORTANT T O C LERKS , COMMERCIAL TaAlrEed ifl &e.—ln the case of Kynaston v. Crouch (rers . - erect our Bristol assi ze i n t e lli gence ) , a j u d gment was ; 00 0 which, if confi rme d, w ill pre j ud i cially a ff ec t oil c. state of confidential serv a n t s , an d must tend to ply:oe obi° of continual insecurity numbers of re;rst ~re sr lastic ° individuals. It was ru l e d b y his 140: e aship (Mr . Patteson), that in case of any committed by any person or persons, the cuer; o vere Pbt of bankruPt e t o confidential servants of the said person or pert 00 0 ' liable to be called Upon, by the assignees of tu t , ri ptef' for all sums paid by thm after the act of ban; i t Os although they did not, or could not, know wb e ., of the t committed His Lordship admitted the harde7 ion , law, and hoped he was wrong in its interpretam wits directed a verdict to be recorded for the pla,in_tdoiage° leave to mov e t o enter a nonsuit, or to re d uce tee direc t! to such an amount as the Court above might Bristol Mercu r y. late r nee t' WOOD PAV EMENTS AND FEVER.-At a " in lan ing of the W es t m i nster Medical Soc i et y, Dr' tbe drew attention to the probable extension of fev er vote metropolis from the extension of wood pairelneaving Ass his statement it appeared that, when wood_p sev ere: taken up for repairs there might be observed rt ta atee , inches below the surface, the pores of the wood n io o b with black matters, from the decomposing Tri o , the stances which are carried down and absorbou,:i ope o o r, water. These, on further decomposition, 1 atmospheric slpikheelryictoinevvuarpiotray,tbe,esipdreosdwuchiincgh stc;wswuoebtiti:Alieribeiedf°olofitod..l by the water employed in watering the s . tr . e e s , ing from rain. These he considered would typhoidgr'e tend and prolong the influence of that low forin o .? , fever which has been common in the metry s p no tts: ou t he r iler Majesty's steam-frigate Blazer w aurvei re) coast Admiralty.—Yorkshire o dm fSircaairtyyos Scarborough, Gazette.gagedinking a the , Ic a x iot A o s A r nt tl ihm s e l i ed l i n i f t ; Tu C es A d T a c y ll , at `Pest W W H o A e L , E S s a — m L bu E rg ßw h s a t t e tme rs k ot w t as he d m ee a p de ma u d p e on th t e h ir em app b ea_ t rr nali a - ves w ho V t e ; ceeded in capturing 79. 101 10s, per ton.—Scotch Bcformers Theyblu,babaerzetsteo.ld at 91.