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MEXICAN CONSOLIDATED FIVE PER CENT. BONDS. The DIVIDEND due on these Bonds on the Ist April, 1844, will ie PAID at the Office of the undersigned on TUESDAY, the IA Oc tober proximo, and on every subsequent Tuesday, Thursday, and 3aturday, between the hours,of Eleven and Two, until further notice. Coupons must he lett at least four clear days for examination. Lists and other information may be obtained at the Office, 26, lUstin Friars. F. DE LIZARD' and CO. Just ready, in 3 vols., post Bvo. LUCY H A R D I N GE. Being a Sequel to " AFLOAT and ASHORE ; or, the ADVENTURES of MILES WALLINGFORD." By J. FENIMORE COOPER, Esq. iuthor of " Tke Pilot," " The Last of the Mohicans," " The Deerslayer," &c. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. Oct. 1, price One Shilling, the First Number of THE NEW EDINBURGH REVIEW ; A CRITICAL JOURNAL AND MAGAZINE. CONTENTS :- Advances since the Peace—Lord Malmesbury's Diary and Cor tespondence—Mrs. Shelley's Rambles in Italy—Life of Lord Chan tellor Eldon—True Origin of ,-;ypsies—Autobiography of a Living Writer—Character of the Americans—The Cycle of Nature—lmpor lance of Trifles—.Memoranda by a Public Character of Eminence— Royal Etiquette—Monuments to the Great—The Old Edinburgh Re- Viewers—Hints to Lawyers—lmperfections of Science, &c. London : Hayward and Adam, 4S, Paternoster-row. THEATRE trOYAL, HAYM ARK! - T Will OPEN for the SEASON on MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, with the same Talented Company that h.ts hitherto obtained such "pularity and distinguished patronage, with a revived Comedy, a Comic Drama, and a Pot , ular Farce. Box-office to be opened on Saturday, the 28th instant. THE 3TRE ROYAL, ADELPHI, Less. e, Mr. B. WEBS 1 ER, XVII OPEN forthe SEASON, untie- the Management of IVladame CELESTE, on SA r URDAY, SEPTEMBER 28. During the recess the Theatre has been entirely repainted and decorated in the tno , t costly and elegant style by Mr. 'l'. Irelano ai.d assistants, the Boxes so arranged as to give a perfect vi: w ,f the stage, and in eveiy . . - epartraent strict attenii. n paid to the comtort ant conyerdence of If e public, . - nd perfect Ye:itilator, throughout the Theatre. A splen. 'did new chandelier in glass has been i troduced at con , iderable ex pense, executed by Mr. Phillips. Also, a new cuttain, ano a new act drop designed and paint d by Mr C. Marshall. 1% ew Manage. went, Old Favourites, and New Pieces. LIS C OF COMPANY. Madame Ce'este Miss A' gelyne Mr. 0. Smith Mrs. Yates Miss Maurice Mr. Wilkinson Mrs. Fitzwilliam M es Lot.sdale Mr. i... Selby Miss VVoolg..r Miss Fleming Mr. Cowe 1 Mrs. F. Mathews Miss Simpson Mr. NI aynard Miss Chaplin :His.; Joh nsol Mr. Wert ell Miss E. Harding Mss Bell Mr. Cullenford Miss Vernon Miss Taylor Mr. Sande: s Miss Thimes Mi Huthon Mr. Cooper Miss Worrace Mr V. right Mr. Liodon Mrs. G•enny Mr. l'au , Bedford Mr. Sylvestt,r Miss Brooks Mr. C. Dibdin Pat Mr. tilenny Miss Joists V.r. J Viniv ' s. Mr. Mitchensoa Miss Schmidt Mr Lambert Mr. Fenton. P:ompter, Mr. Galbt ; Principal Painter, 'dr Pitt ; Leader of the Band, Mr. ;.lellon.—Lo \--ea, e will be opened on Thursday next, from Ele, en till I' our. Private Boxes to be had at the Theatre, and at all the princ pal Li,raries. THEATRE ROYAL LYCIA.JM LATE ENOLISti HOUSE. Uniler the llnnagcmert nt Mrs. KEELEY. Another great Achievement Successfully Triumphant ! ! I To attempt to eulogise the gorgeous splendour of the New Extrava eansa at " Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, or New Lamps fer Old Ones," would be a work of sui.ererogation ; the Manage otent, therelbre, contents itself by simply stating that tt wilt be itipeatea every Eveniiig! THIS EVENING. SEPT. 21, Will be repeated a Nvw Drama, entitled MARTIN CHUZZLE NV IT. Principal characters by Messrs. R. Younge, Vining, Emery, F. • l. , ..theivs, A. Wigan, Meadows, Kinloch, Turner, Stsiiton, J. W. Collier, Yarnoid, Soldiers, and Keeley; Miss E. C:lapin. Miss vsiosilear, Mrs. A. Wigan, Mrs. Woollidge, Miss Groves, Mrs. Usher. Miss Turner, and Mrs. Keeley. To car..it:de with an cabs: ly Original, and much bitter than New, Gramt o,e7atie, Romantic, Melo-Dramatic, Burlesnee Extra vaganza, founded on the celebrated Eastern Vale, in the Arabi -in rsi.gtits' ntertainmee.t, entitled ALADDIN AND THE WON DERFUL LA MP ; or, Near Lamps for Old Ones. With very extensive Sis. lScenere, Machin -ry , Dresses, &c. Principal cha Titters by I..irs Keeley, Messrs. F. Matthews, Turner, A. Wigan, J W. Collier, and Keeley ; Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Woolli • ge, Miss E. Chaplin, Mrs. A. Wigan, Miss Turner, Mt s James, Miss Carson, Miss Hunt, Miss Resile, &c. PRICES OF A D miss 10 N.—Balcony Boxes. 4;.; Upper Boxes, 25.; Pd, 28.'; Gallery, fd. Second Price—Balcony Boxes, ; Upper Boxes, is lid.; Pit, P. Private Boxes on the tialcony 'Fier iliolding eight persona. Tao Guineas. Private Boxes on the Second tier (holding eight persons), One Guinea and a-Half. Private Boxes on the Pier . rsritiiirie six perssins), One GM' es. . _ „.. . rhe Box- Lf ee is open tYoin Ten to Four o'Clock,, uneer the direr. ;lon of Mr. Grogan, late of Covent-garden Theatre. ASTLP.Y'S 110'i :IL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS. Prt.prietor. a d Mafiager, Mi. BATTY. Nightly overflows, and Re.engzgement of the wonders of Mr. Carter, the American Limit King for this Week. 11-11,i EVI- NINO, SEPr. 24, Will be repeatei the French Eque , trian y Spectacle of the LION OF' TIIE DESERT, or, THE FRENCH IN MOROLICO. Abdallah, the Outcast Ara., Mr. Carter. New Scenes of the Circle. To conclude with the new E I.Acstrian, Militery and Naval Spectacle, entitled THE CHINESE WA it, or, The Conquesti of Amoy by Britiih Arms. New Sce.iery, Diets.ses, Appointments &c., to realise the r' cent riunript.s or En4lind's Army and Navy. read of 230 Lanterns. ,:tng and staire:emager. Mr. W Broadfoot. Box-office open from Eleven till Five. Lessons in the Art of Riding by Mr. It. Smith. DAVIDGF's ROYAL SURREY I'HFATRE. Immense itCceieroithe:;'rotector" and " The Road.of Life"— Continued Engagement of 14r. G Wild. THIS i!7V ENING SEPT. 24, Will be performed THE PROTECTOR; or, THE REBEL'S GAUNTLET. Ch. racters by Messrs. F. F. Saville, H. Hughes, Hicks, Mrs. 11. Hughes, Mrs it Wnner, &c. • After which, 1 E ROAD OF LIFE, tupoorted by Messrs. G. Wild, R. Hoarier Neville, Rogers, Mrs. H. Hughes, Mrs. flicks, Miss E. Terrey, A To conclude wit., ANGELS AND LUCIFERS, in which Mr. G. Wild will p-rroi in his Original Character. Places sod Private Boxes to ne had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box. (Alice, fro n Eleven r.) Four . ROYAL VICTORI -I THEATRE. THIS EVENING, SEPT. 24, Will he perform. d GUY M kNNERING. Colonel Mannering, Mr. Osbaldiston ; Henry Bertram, Mr. singe; Lucy Bertram, Miss Vincent ; Julia Maquering, Miss Louisa Lyons ; Meg Merrilies, Mrs W. West. With an Ethiopian Entertainment by the celebrated A ‘IERICAN SO UT H Eti N MLN3TftELS, introducing the most neautful of their N.tive Melodies. Af•er which, A DEAD SHOT. Mr, Timid, Mr. J. Herbert ; Louisa Lovetriek, Mi•s Vincent. Te conclud , with GIOVANNI IN LONDON. Don Giovanni, Miss Louisa Lyons; Leporyllo, Mr. J. Herbert. Private amily Boxes, -£1 Is lid. and 41 lit nel. STRAND IHEAT Ch, THIS EVENING, SEPT. 24, Will be perforrn,d M LITIN CHUZZLEWIf. Young Martin t buzz:mit, Mr. moe ; Old Martin Chuzzleait, Mr. AylifTe; Chuzz:,wit, Mr A wood, Montagne flag, Mr Roberts; Tom Pinch, Mr. Bithiles . Mr. Peeksniff, and Mrs. Sairey Gamp, Mr. H Hall; II iry Graham, Mrs. Co;eman Pope. After which, B NKS, THE BAGMAN. Supported by Messrs Wright, Bel•ford, and Miss E tqapley. To conclude with an Original Burlesque, entitled THE WON DERFUL LAMP, in a New Light, heir; an Illustrated Version f Ab,nazar, Mr Caul Bedford; Aladdin, Mr. Wright; Princess Budroulbadour, Miss E. Stanl.l. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. LAST' WEEK U iWO EXTRAORDINARY AND NOVEL A ITRACTIONS. On MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, and T -IU RSDAV, throughout the Seazo,, the Gardens will open with the following attractive Noveitie, : THE PICTURESQUE GI3OUNDS—FEED ENG OF THE ANIMALS—UNitIt Al. LED MENAGERIE. MODELS of VENICE aiid ONDON in the OLDEN TIM E Painted by Damson and Telbm. Elsa sensation caused by this uarivalled production is beyond all former oracedent; the artist, the amateur, the casual observer are all struck with its extraordinay beauty and tidehiy of delinea tion, and are unanimous in proitouncing it the most wonderful ex hibition ever witnessed. To view it only as a vehicle ter the terrific di-p:ay at rusk is unjust ;it should be seen in the calm stillness of the quiet Evening, with its Towers and Steeples reflected in the spa cious Lake, - Ar tully appreciated. Beethoven's cslebrated Sinfonia, de criptive of an En gagemeiit between Or, French and Etiglis Armes. The Ev.t.iing PROMENADE ONCEKTS on Mon 'aye, Tues. days, Wednesdays, and Thursdays eirtitucted uy Mr. Godfrey, are up n a scale of more than usual excellence; uords fail In doing justice to the awful representation of THE GREAT FIRE 01. Li NDON. Its fearful en , racteristies are truth fullviourtrayed, but at the same time so ueau , ifutly blended with the Wonders of the Pyrotechnic Art, delis ht is preilomiitant over terror; and the Thousands who nightly cr3wil the Gardens hail it with acclamations, and admit that -oirii‘tiy, lie Uorivislled Pyrotechnist has achieved a matchless triumph. The 'r it dens and Zoological Collection are in the most perfect state, .cat coinbining so many and interesting features, are by far Coe most .u , ra,tive launi4e in or near the iretrci.uli, Doors open at Nine—Feeding of the Animals at Half-past Four— Concert at Half-past Five.—Conflagration at Dusk. Admittance, One Shilling. LAsT WEEK.-THE NAPOLEON =MUSEUM ..... The Manager begs respectfully to inform the Nobility, Gentry, and The Public, that the very Extensive sot „Magnificent cA Ft .i.EWS 114.USELL54 will CLOSE on SATURDAY NEXT, the 28th instant. 4r, Admi=sion is One Shilling. Egyptian Hall, Plccatititr, September 21, 1811. THE WEATHER.—Stm OFFICE, SEPT. 23. TtIERMOXETIin, Lowest, 46 ; Highest. 61 ; Noon, 56. BAROMETECP, 29.78.—NYLND, N.E. NOTX.—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the freezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is trually placed oppcsite 30, and rain at 29. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY: M >r;ing minutes after 0I Evening 2tl minutes after 0 7 ; 2 i ~r, i ' tZ . l, - ,, - ; ‘ '•t; t. rig' . it '..„,- .. 0 ... ..., , , ‘,.... , r i . ;;.,, a t -,1,,N0 - -,..i.. t i • , - , --- t - ..c. , - ' i• :t: 17'77' .7f, 1.,2__._ ht 0 '''' - o(' ' ' - * l l irt I rain in DuN, UESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2s, 1844. The nomination of candidates for the Northern Di= vision of Lai,cit,ilire took place on Friday last at Lan caster, and then-, being no opposition, Mr. J. T. CLIF TON was returned. In returning thanks to his con stituents, the Hon. Member, after making the usual electioneering boast that " this was the proudest moment of his life," took the opportunity of observ " I have stated to you a few of my political opinions in my address, and" now that I have the honour of s:andin g befor e you in the proud situation of your representative, I tell you that I will support Cons,•rvativt: Government. I will support that Government long I ,:mi;ins Conservative, for believe it, is ,L strong- fit to rule a 111 ~.;'- Brea, and mighty b:ltion. It I did not retain the inde pendence of cliaJ.icter which befits a gentle man, I should not be a worthy representative of 'one of the finest crunCe3 of England." . In the course ol his I):;riiameptao' lzWours Mr. CLIFTON, we fear, will n to !lad that inde pendence and Conservwi , in do not harmonise very well with each other, b u t that, in order to maintain the one, he mu-t make s acrifice °l' the other. It is nil very well for him to make a boast of his " io•lependonce” ,:a the haitings, for the term is a 1 0;e. oil teals with the commu nity ies, it is an and 4.4.coarno dating one, and commits the speaker to nothing ; but should he venture upon putting his boast strictly into practice, he will soon find out that he has essayed At task which occasionally will be found difficult, if :not wholly impracticable. Suppose, for instance, he had teen in Parliament during the last session, how would he have ree,nciled his notions of " indepen dence' with his support ofa Conservative Government? 1..0 co mmon with sc o re s ()for hyr Cow , orv,iti vi•s would in.i . vitably have b een dragged through Ciie dirt by the 3 imister—compelled, in fact, to vote just as he I pleased, on the penalty of being proclaimed an oppo nent of Government, and taunted with a wish to bring in the Whigs, and so seriously injure the prospects of Conservatism. The last session was a particularly ticklish one for independent Conservatives, damaging not a few of them in the estimation of the right-thinking portion of the community, and we hardly anticipate that the next will be much more favourable to the character of these would-be independent members. In fact, to be a good Conservative, in Sir ROBERT PEEL'S sense of the term, is merely to see with his eyes, hear with his ears, decide according to his conviction, and vote at his dictation. Is Mr. CLIFTON prepared to act in this easy, accommodating manner ? If he be, he will certainly redeem his pledge of supporting a Con servative Government, but he will just as cer tainly falsify his hustings boast of indepen dence. But enough of this gentleman, whose prin ciples are little to our taste, for in the first place, there is much that is vague and unintelligible about them ; and secondly, where they are intelligible, they savour rather too strongly of that Toryism which ever has been, and will most likely ever continue to be, a foe to the progress of all rational improvement. At the Nomination to which we have been alluding, a gentleman named LIVESEY made several very excel lent and pertinent strictures on the subject of, what is falsely called, the Protective system. " Protection," he said, '• is put forward as a cry on behalf of the ' farmer and the agricultural labourer. They are always put forward as if there were an eternal sympathy for them ; but the truth is—and it ought to come out—that the protec tion is not for the farmer or the labourer, but for the landlord. It is a protection for rents. Farmers are only middle-men ; whatever they receive goes even tually to the owner of the land. You have heard many speeches about protection, but you have never yet been told the plain truth that it means protection for rents." If this truth has never before been blurted out so boldly as it is here done by Mr. LIVESET, it has at any rate been pretty generally guessed at ; and but few people who have the slightest pretensions to good sense are any longer at a loss to account for the desperate tenacity with which— despite all justice, all reason, all humanity— the monopolists still persist in clinging . to the corn laws. Ihe sacred interests of their breeches pockets, or rather what they fancy to be such, are embarked in the question ; hence their determined hostility to free-trade. There is nothing enlightened—nothing enlarged or magnanimous in their opposition ; they regard the matter simply as one affecting themselves' and keep the just claims of the people to a system of unfettered tr; , de wholly in the back-ground. An yet these are the men who are incessantly taunting the free-traders with their mean selfishness, and vaunting their own superior disinterestedness ! Shame on such barefaced hypocrisy ! It is long since we have perused a record of the acts of any public body with feelings of indignation much more intense than those which have been ex cited in us by the conduct of the Poor-law Commis sioners in the matter of the Master of the Bradfield Union Workhouse. In recurring to the facts con nected with their treatment of the individual elected, by irate of the board of guardians of Bradfield, to that office, it will be unnecessary for us to charac terise proceedings which will tell their own tale, and carry their own comment to the mind of every un prejudiced person under whose notice they may be brought. But we should be wanting in our duty as public journalists, were we not to denounce, in the strongest and most emphatic manner, not so much the arbitrary and insulting manner as the unconstitutional principle of the conduct adopted by the Commissioners in this affuir. It is nothing to urge in their vindication that, in the New Poor-law Act itself, the powers complained of are clearly vested in the Board at Somerset House. There has not been a session of Parliament, for many years past, in the course of sshich some flagrant blunder of detail, or some anomaly at common law, or some violation of the constitutional rights of the subject, has not been in corporated into the preamble or enactments of more than one statute, which, on that account, it has been found necessary to repeal, or " alter and amend" by an Act, remedial or explana tory, in a subsequent session. Fr.)in the careless and mischievous hurry with which Bills of all kinds are dispatched at the approach of a recess or a dissolution—especially in the House of Commons— poor-ia w legislation has certainly enjoyed no peculiar exemption. Were this not the fact, it would be im possible to understand how Parliament could have overlooked, in the existing New Poor-law the as sumption of a right of control over private judgment —an unquestionable infallibility—of official opinion, which at this time of day none but the Grand Llama of TIIIBET, the Pope of ROME, or the black King of the Ashantees claim to exercise to the extent in sisted upon by the Somerset House junta. For what are the facts ? In brief, that in the month of April last, in consequence of a vacancy occurring in the office of union workhouse master for the Brad. field union (Berks), the guardians proceeded to elect a qualified person thereto, by an unanimous vote of a board of twenty-eight ; that their appointment in this instance was for a term of three months upon trial ; that the Commissioners having objected to the election, as in due course reported to them, on the grounds that the party elected (a Mr. BRANOWIN) was " an inexperienced man," and that " his affairs were in an unsettled state ;" the guardians remon strated that he could not be justly considered as " in experienced," because he had been for five years an active member of their own board, bore a high cha racter there, and was greatly respected by all who knew him, and that he was not amenable to the im putation on account of his affairs, since he had met his creditors in a most handsome manner, and they were fully satisfied, under the circumstances, with his composition of 15s. in the pound. And what ensued on this remonstrance ? The Commissioners withdrew their objection to BRANGWIN on the score of pecuniary embarrassments; but without condesceading to assign any reason for their order, directed the guardians to proceed to a fresh election. Let it not be forgotten, in estimating the character of this freak of official impertinence, that this board of guardians necessarily consists of elected rate payers interested in, and conversant with the business of their own locality, the moral characters and busi ness- talents of their co-parishioners, or ratepayers, and neigbours ; that they give their services in the administration of their strictly local trust gratui tously; that the Poor-law Commissioners are (to their own singular satisfaction) fixtures in a certain desecrated portion of Somerset House, London, re ceiving for the discharge of their duties, performances of this kind included, extremely ample salaries. So the Bradfield guardians, conceiving that it was more than probable they were more competent judges (being on the spot, and having personal, and even official knowledge of the man) than the Poor-law Commissioners could be of the eligibility of BRANGWIN for the office of master, adhered to their former resolution in his favour. The " Great Council of Three," exasperated at the contumacy of these guardians, on the 28th of May fulminated a " bull," threatening to proceed against BRANGWIN, and actually "incapacitate him from holding any office under their commission there after, if he persisted in holding office any longer." BRANGWIN, like a half-penitent king of old, worn out by the thundering invitations from the holy father, to resign his crown into the hands of the successor of St. PETER, resigned his appointment. The board proceeded, as they had done in the first instance, to ad vertise for candidates ; and, lo ! the indestructible BR.INGWIN was again unanimously elected by a hoard of eighteen irreclaimable guardians. There was a voice of anger, as yet "not loud hut deep," in Somer set House. The Great Council, however, concealed for it ti me t h e i r t err ibl e resen t men t. Th e y mere ly issued, on the 18th of June, an order for BRANGWIN'S dismissal, and a polite "request" to the guardians to proceed to the election of another master, in hi.. s'ead, at their earliest convenience. On that day week, the 25th, they once more announced their re solution to take legal proceedings against him, if he should presume to continue in office after the 2d of July then ensuing. Some interviews and corres pondence on this subject now ensued between the guardians and Mr. PALMER, M.P. for Reading; and the latter " being satisfied," it is said, " that the Poor-law Commissioners had been influenced by pri vate" information given to them, desired BRANGWIN not to resign, as he once more offered to do, but to re toill hi, ‘ituation tenet: ora rily. On the 9th of July the idexol able Commissioners renewed their threats, accompanied with the intimation, that if he THE SUN. LONDON„ TUESDAY MORNING, S_EPT.r., persisted in keeping his office they would stop the payment of any salary to him accruing from it. After further correspondence with Mr. PALMER, the board requested of a Mr. HOPKINSON to be favoured with any information re flecting on BRANGWIN, which he had brought before the Commissioners. This request was forwarded in a letter. That letter remains—unanswered. But what followed will not, we predict, remain unnoticed, so soon as Parliament shall have re-assembled for the dispatch of business. Up to this point, the highest offence of the hoard had been, that, whether among those who replied to their advertisement there were no stray German Princes, among the host of foreigners who are now perambulating England, or no specula tive pauper-dietarians of rank and station adequate to satisfy the expectations of the fastidious Commission ers, and themselves ambitious of this magnificent ap pointment—or for what other reason soever—BRANG WIN, the guardians' own choice, was always the favourite and the elected candidate. But now the guardians dared to " appeal unto C.XSAR:' They insolently asked to be admitted into the presence of Poor-law " Commissioners"—that more dignified abstraction than Majesty itself. " On the 20th of July the board wrote to the Poor-law Commissioners, offering a deputa tion to wait on them at any time or place they might appoint, to explain, and endeavour to come to an ar rangement. On the 30th July, the Commissioners again refused to sanction the appointment, or to receive a deputation of guardiars to explain—when the board passed a resolution not to elect another master until the charges against Mr. BRANGWIN were made known and proved." Hereupon an Assistant Poor law Commissioner attended the board, and announced the nature of his instructions from the Great Coun cil of Three, by summoning the high delinquent BRANGWIN before the Bench of Reading Magistrates, who convicted him of the high crime of having dis obeyed the commands of "Commissionery," and fined him in the penalty of—one farthing! BRANG WIN in his turn solicits advice from 'the board, and they order him to remain in the house and officiate as master. On the 27th August a motion at the board to replace him by electing some other master falls to the ground without even a se conder. On the 10th September the High Commis sioners of Poor law, by order under their great seal, command the board to proceed to such election within one month, or failing therein, to answer proceedings to be instituted against them in the Court of Queen's Bench. Under these circumstances, there was a public meeting held in the Town-hall of Reading on Saturday last, at which resolutions were unanimously come to, expressive of unqualified approbation of the course adopted by the Bradfield guardians of the views entertained of the conduct of the Commissioners, and the course to be adopted as to further communi cations, &c., in this matter, and of sympathy with Mr. BRANGWIN, on whose behalf a subscription has been opened. We have been thus particular in commenting or. the various stages of this case from a conviction that it cannot fail to awaken public attention throughout the country to the dangerous and oppressive powers vested—by a very defective law—in a very absurdly constituted Commission, and their inevitable tendency to result in excesses of this ridiculous, but at the same time overweening, insolent, and intolerable character- The speeches of Mr. MATHEWS, Mr. WALTER, and Mr ALLNUTT, were, at the Reading meeting, temperate, manly, and most effective. Accounts from Lisbon to the 16th have been re ce'ved. They are void of interest. The Cortes open on the 30th inst. It is expected that COSTA CABRAL will have a majority of 22 in the Chamber of Depu ties, but that he will be in a minority in the Peers. SA DE BANDEIRA, PALMELLA, all the old friends and supporters of Don PEDRO—the men to whom her most faithful MAJESTY owes her throne—are opposed to the doings of COSTRA CABRAL. Accounts from Madrid of the 14th and 16th inst. have been recived. M. MARTINEZ DE LA RoSA has, in compliance with the earnest entreaties of the Queen-Mother, at length consented to accept the office of Minister for Foreign Affairs. The decree appointing him to that department is dated the 21st August. The Gazelle of the 14th announces that six bat talions of infantry and three squadrons of cavalry had bean ordered to Navarre. The regiment of Castille, quartered in the neighbourhood of Madrid, marched for that destination on the 14th. Cabinet Councils were continually held, and they had never been so fre quent since the accession of the NARVAEZ Administra tion. Their real object, though every where talked of, had, however, not transpired, and the public formed many conjectures as to the precautions which the authorities were adopting. For several days past the garrison had been kept under arms, -Ind the police had been extremely vigilant. It was very generally believed that the principal cause of these measures was a dread of a Carlist insurrection. Letters from Bayonne of the 18th speak of the propability of an outbreak in the northern provinces. They state that several roving bands of desperados, calling themselves Carlists, have made their appear ance In the mountains of Catalonia, and commit all sorts of outrages. These desperados will be soon amply provided with arms, for ten thousand muskets were landed on the 11th, near Barcelona, under a fire from Fort Monjuich. However, the contrabandistas managed to effect their object. The electoral returns show that the Ministry will have a considerable majority even should there be a split in the Moderado party. Teruel alone had elected Progresistas, and it was only in Navarre that the Carlists had met with success. It is said to be the intention of the Ministry, on the meeting of the Coates, to bring forward a Bill for replacing the senate by an upper Chamber, the members of which will be elected for life ; another for modifying the law on the public press ; another for important changes in the organisa tion of the national guard, and a change in the Con stitution tending to reduce the popular influence. Several reductions have been made in the adminis trative military establishments, with a view to lessen the budget for that branch of the public service. According to a general statement put forth in the official Gazette of the 15th, the genaral direction of the public Treasury has drawn, from August 1 to September 13, to the account of the San Fernando Bank, a sum of 55,271,871 reals, viz., for the Queen's household, 2,978,099 reals; for the Foreign Depart ment, 630,000 reals ; for the Department of War, 32,027,192 ; for the Marine, 3,445,750; for the Fi nances, 14,065,951 ; and for the Interior, 2,124,879. Another return says that in August 66,962,417 reals have been collected in the provinces. Out of this sum the San Fernando Bank has received, in payment of the credit of 50,000,000 opened by it to the Go vernment in the month of August, 42,033,202 reals ; for the clergy and public worship, 10,894,901, as being the amount of the contributions destined to that twofold object, and of the secular clergy's prop( rty and 14,034,314 for the expenses and costs of justice, &c. From another return it would appear that in August the provinces were to pay 50,000,000 reals into the San Fernando Bank. The effective sum paid into it is reckoned at 42,033,202 reals. By adding the proceeds of the Post-office, Cruzadas, lot tery, and mines, the amount of 44,009,996 reals is obtained. M. Pio PITA PIzARRo, late Minister of Finance, died on the 16th at San Sebastian. frigate, he does not require much time to arrive at the highest dignities in the State. We should, nevertheless, wonder at this rapid promotion, if it was granted to an ether officer ; particularly it the latter, aster maintaining that steam-vessels alone presented a complete security, had had the misfortune to lose the finest specimen of that description of vessels in our navy." We find in the French official papers the following statement, relative to the much-talked-of corres pondence imputed to officers of the Warspite. "M. Eugene Bero, the King's consul at Gibraltar, has just informed the Minister of Foreign Affairs that Mr. Walls, the commander of the English frigate Warspite, went, on the 6th instant, to the consulate, with an Artil lery officer of the English garrison at Gibraltar. The object of this visit was to protest officially against the letters published in the Times by pretended officers of the Warspite. Mr. Wallis has, besides, signed a written protest, which was to appear the same evening in the Gibraltar Chronicle, and an inquiry has commenced on board the Warspite, by order of the English Govern ' ment ' to discover the authors of the letters published by the Times." The Journal des Debats adds to this statement the following particulars : " Captain Wallis declared to our consul that he had come to protest as loudly and energetically as depended upon him against the shameful things published by an English journal, by individuals calling themselves officers of his frigate. He added that the step which he had taken was official, and he requested the consul to an nounce it officially to his Government and the Prince de Joinville. Captain Wallis is an old and brave officer of the British navy, and has performed the most honourable services. He expressed to the French Consul his indig nation and deep mortification that such infamous pro ductions should have been dated from on board his ves sel, and did so with an emotion and an energy which proved the sincerity of his words. This emotion was the more natural, as Captain Wallis declared himself full of just admiration of the courage and skill shown in his presence by the officers of the French navy at Tan giers and Mogadore, and as the captain during his so journ on the coast of Africa had been treated by the Prince de Joinville with a politeness and a kindness for which he felt the most lively gratitude. Captain Wallis also expressed a hope that he would return to England in time to be able to solicit the honour of being presented to the King of the French. The Captain of the Warspite was to deliver to the French Consul a letter for the Prince de Joinville, and had applied to the Governor of Gibraltar for the insertion in the Gibraltar Chronicle of a protest which has of course been published. Already several superior officers of the garrison of Gibraltar had expressed to the French Consul the indignation which they felt at the letters which had apps arrd in the English journal. The promptitude and susceptibility with which public opinion in England had already protested against a publication► which it would now be in bad taste to notice too severely had almost effaced the remembrance of it ; we hope that the spontaneous and honourable proceeding of the cap tain of the Warspite will remove every trace of the pub lication. It appears that an inquiry is taking place on board the Warspite to discover the authors of the letters published in England ; that they will be severely punished, and that the English Government itself has given orders on this subject. We do not think it ne cessary to say that the French Government has had no thing to do with this determination, and that it under stood too well what is dee to its own dignity and that of the French navy to take any official notice of an incident which at the utmost could only lead to an interchange of personal communication. The officers of the British navy and army have felt that they alone were compro mised by such sad imprudence, and the honourable. man ner in which they have repaired it can only raise them in their own esteem as it does in ours." A Correspondent of the Constitutionnel writes from Malaga on the 9th inst.:— "I have just been informed that Abd-el-Bader was, on the 2d, in the vicinity of Melilla, a Spanish strong place on the coast of Morocco, situate at an equal dis tance from Oran and Tangiers. We have not heard whether the presence of the Emir in that part of Mo rocco was the result of some new encounter with the French troops, or if he came there to watch the move ments of the Spaniards, whose arrangement with the Emperor could not be known to him at the time. The fact is, that he was on the 2d at Alazum, a small town three leagues south-east of Melilla, with 1,800 cavalry and some infantry." Reports were in circulation in Paris on Saturday that ABD-EL-KADER had been taken, but they could not, up to the hour of post, be traced to any authentic source, and the rumour had produced no effect on the funds. The treaty with Morocco continues to be the subject of animadversion in all the Opposition journals, and they all ridicule the ennobling of Marshal BUGEAUD. "We are sorry for the worthy Marshal," says the Constitutionnel, " and his well-known good sense will no doubt induce him to think as we do, that the Ministry, in creating IC.m a Duke, intended to do him no service. France has lost all taste for titles of nobibity, and the legislators of 1830 perfectly appreciated the sentiment of the country when they suppressed the penalties enacted against the illegal assumption of honorary distinctions. 1-lablic opinion admits and tolerates through habit aris toer,:tic denominations transmitted by inheritance, or conferil.Kl by the empire. Beyond these, every duke, count, or baron, has to encounter the unavoidable shafts of ridicule. The laurels of Isly will not protect the new duke against them, and we regret it. M. Bugeaud, who was so loi2 c : the point of attack of extreme parties, had succeeded in b 'i l encin g t h em , and securing to hi mself, as a military man, ~ h e legitimate respect of his political opponents. Why co,-wteract that fortunate change in public opinion which re gilered full justice to one of the most distinguished men in the country ? Why spoil the effect of a victory, and wound, for mere amusement, the susceptibilites which a great number. of zealous friends of the institutions of ilnly feel as lively as the partisans of Radical opinions ?". The Reforme of Saturday has a long article on the subject of Irish affairs, in which O'CoNNELL is rated soundly for not holding the Clontarf meeting. "By holding that meeting," it says, " He would have placed himsel; in the situation which he occupied before his contest with the Queen's Bench ; he would have consecrated the rights . of Ireland and his own, and gained a moral victory ; by abandoning that resolution, he evinces uncertainty ant. Sear, and in politics such an admission is an irreparable dt.-(eat." The article concludes in these words : ---- " O'Connell cannot now destroy his own work. The seeds of liberty and independence which he has soN.'" from his triumphal car have sprung up and extended over the green hills of his country. His past services and his influence, his new police and his new allies, will tend n to retard the day of emancipation. Miraheau also u marchttc.m,ptaenddt(ocsetra"yhtehlemedby the im a me o n n se torrent. The of a ti ;he was carried alum same fate awaits O'Connell ; he may quietly retire to Derrynane Abbey, to rest after the struggle ; twenty Irishmen will be found, who have regarded as serious his patriotic harangues, to take his place. Uno avulso non ddicit alter." The Llfoniteur Parisien announces the return of Marshal SOULT to Paris for the 28th inst. The Constitutionnel says— " All serious affairs are postponed until after the King's voyage. On his Majesty's return will be dis cussed the new mode of raising the loan, and the list of the names which are to appear in the next promotion to the Peerage will be definitively settled. It will, it is said, be very numerous. The following are already mentioned as being designed to participate in the promo tion—viz., Generals Jacqueminot, Doguereau, Bonne main, and Durrieu ; Baron de Sers, Prefect of the Gironde ; MM. Benjamin Delessert and Pedre Lacaze, formerly Deputies ; MM. Debelleyme, De Marmier, and De Montozon, now Deputies ; and M. Victor Hugo and Marshal Bugeaud. As to M. St. Marc Girardin, we can affirm that he is not to be included in this promotion." The Globe of Friday, in the course of an article on the subject of a communication, by railroad or canal, between Alexandria and Suez, says— " The reports that have been spread as to the secret machinations of Russia and England, for dividing the East between them, has been completely, and, in a mea sure, officially denied. The English Cabinet, called upon for an explanation, has declared that they were en tirely unfounded. Consequently there remains nothing of these pretended secret treaties but the overtures made by the English East India Company to the Pacha of Egypt, for the improvement of the communication be te een Europe an/ Asia, across the Isthmus of Suez, by means of either a canal or a railroad, uniting the Medi terranean with the Red Sea. Surely nothing can be more simple, more natural, more to be wished for, for the benefit of all nations, than the realisation of such a plan." It is evident, from the following article in the Na tional, that the progress of the reorganization of the Polytechnic School is destined to encounter a serious opposition : We have received the Paris papers of Friday and Saturday. The following telegraphic dispatch ap pears in the Moniteur of Friday : " BAYONNE, SEPT. 19.—M. Martinez de la Rosa has accepted the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The official Gazette, of the 16th, publishes the decree appointing him to that post, which is dated Aug. 21. " Majcr-General Pavia was named, on the 15th, Cap tain-General of Navarre. On reckoning the ballots, it was found that the Ministerial party had completely triumphed at the elections of Madrid." In announcing the promotion of the Prince DE JOINYILLE, the Moniteur says---" This just recom pense, awarded to the chief of the French naval force employed on the coast of Morocco, is for the personnel of that squadron a first testimonial of the high satis faction of his MAJESTY, and will be followed by a general notice, comprising the rewards to be granted to the members of the expedition who have merited them, as soon as the propositions of his Royal High ness, to this effect, shall have reached the Minister of Marine." The Reforme thus sneeringly animadverts upon the Prince's promotion : " When a man comes into the 'world a captain of a The Committee appointed to organise, or rather to disorganise, the Polytechnic School, is not yet prepared to execute its monstrous commission. It even appears that some of its members shrink from the responsibility which they incur in the eyes of France in making any change in an institution of which it has hitherto been so proud. In the first place, M. Tupinier has excused him self on account of ill-health, and he has been replaced by General Tholoze. M. Dode de la Bouneire, a General of Engineers, w a s a p po i nte d P res id e nt of the Committee, an officer who occupied a distinguished rank amongst the students of the school ; but he did not wish to com promise his reputation, and he resigned the Presidency, which was then offered to M. Doguereau. M. Doguereast is a Deputy who never speaks in the Chamber except on the subject of bullets. This person has placed himself at the head of what is called the party of military re action. He asks what necessity there exists for a poly technic school ? He asserts that it is necessary to sweep away the science of mathematics, which has produced so many independent characters. Let the Committee pro ceed. This long-established school has representatives in the two Chambers, in the army, in the navy, iu the press. and in every public department. The Committee will have to account to public opinion, and we shall see whether M. Doguereau M. d'Haubersatr , and others, will be bold enough to destroy what fifty years of con stant application had raised.' The Pharamond steamer arrived at Marseilles on the 17th, from Algiers, which she left on the 15th. She brings no news of importance respecting the army, or the movements of ADD-ELACADER. On the 14th a Te Deum, at which Marshal BUGEAUD and all re present, was 4 'nr the the civil and military authorities performed at the principal church of Algiers victory of Isly. THE BOURSE-SATURDAY, SEPT. 21. Highest Lowest First Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French Five peremts,ex Olv 118 85 .. 118 85 .. 118 85 .. 118 85 Fou.s., ex div.. •• .• 103 25 .. 103 25 .. 103 25 .. 103 25 Three per Cents.•• •. 81 80 .• 81 85 .. 81 80 .. 81 80 Bank of France••.•••. 3060 ..3062 50 .•3660 —3062 50 Laftitte Bank, I,ooof. Sharesl6Bs ..1085 ..1085 .. 1085 5,000 f. Sharessoss ..5057 50 .•5050 ..5057 60 Belgian Bank .•........••.• 665 .. 665 .. 665 .. 665 Belgian Fives, 1840 .•• • .. 1051 .. 1051 .. 1051 .. 1051 1542.....•.• 1671 •• 1071 .. 1071 .• 1071 Spanish Passive . 51 .. 51 .. 51 51 Active . 3ll .. 311 .. 31i .. 311 Portuguese Five per Cents • • 46k .. 461 .. 461 .. 461 Neapolitan . 98 60 .. 98 60 .. 98 60 .. 98 60 KORIIIII ••••• • • • • • ..... • • • • 105 .. 105 .. 105 .. 105 RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain .• • • • • • 925 .. 925 .. 925 .. 925 Versailles. R. 8.- ........... 386 25 .. 386 25 .. 386 25 .. 386 25 L.B .. 257 50 •. 258 78 •• 257 50 .. 258 75 Rouen ••••• • • • • • ........•• 995 .. 995 995 .. 995 Rouen to Havre•• • • Orleans ..•. .. 755 .. 990 •• 755 .. 755 .. 986 25 .. 986 25 Strasburg to B ....... ..... . 260 .. 261 25 .. 260 .. 261 25 RAILWAY SHARES FOR THE ACCOUNT, SEPTEMBER 30 . St. Germain •••••• •• .• .• 927 50 .- 527 50 .. 927 50 .. 927 50 Versailles, R. 8.. • • • • ...... 386 25 .. 386 25 .. 386 25 .. 386 25 L. 8.•• •• •• 260 .. 260 .. 260 .. 257 50 Rouen ••.• •• •• •• •• •• 995 .. 995 .. 993 75 . 993 75 Rouen to Havre.... • • • • • • • • 755 755 .• 755 .. 755 Orleans Strasburg to Bale•• •• •• •• 260 .. 261 25 .. 260 . 261 25 The subjoined communication has just reached us from Spain ; it is from a gentleman who has hitherto shown himself well informed on Spanish affairs : "The following intelligence is of such a serious nature that lam almost induced to withhold it. It is said the health of the Queen of Spain is in an alarming state, so much so, that Queen Christina has taken precautions to secure the Regency for herself during the minority of the Infanta Luisa Fernanda. It may be that the march of troops for Navarre is not unconnected with the health of her Majesty ; as her death at the present moment would infallibly cause a general rising of the Carlists.—Post. SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY AFTERNOON. - The Pacha, Oriental and Peninsular steam-ship, Captain Burney, arrived this afternoon at half-past three o'clock, bringing the Peninsular mails and the fol lowing passengers :—Captain Taylor, Mr. Annesley, Colonel Brown, son, and three servants, Mr. Allan, Mr. Sallar, Mr. Corridor, Mr. Beddome, Mr. Martin, Mr. E. Bailharn, Mr. A. Bluck, P. Felmires, and the Hon. F. Ellis, son of Lord Howard de Walden. Her dates of departure are from Gibraltar, Sep tember 13; Cadiz, 14; Lisbon, 15. Her Majesty's ship, Warspite, the steamers Sydenham and Vesu vius, were at Gibraltar, as likewise the Danish frigate Thetis, and Hecla steamer. At Cadiz were the French ships Jemmapes, 90, and Suffren, 90, with the flag of the Prince de Joinville, the brigs Cassard and Pandone and steamers Montezuma, Espadole, Vedette, and Basilie ; also two Spanish brigs of war and two steamers. At Lisbon were one French cor vette, one Portuguese frigate, a corvette, and her Ma jesty's ship, Caledonia. Her Majesty's ship, Albion, from Tangiers, arrived at Gibraltar on the 12th cf Sqtember, and on the same day sailed the Vesuvius with the British Minister, Mr. Bulwer, on board. The Pacha spoke the brig Amanda, of Leith, off Oporto, bound in, all well. She had fine weather, with light variable winds the whole passage. She brings four oxen. THE LATE REPORTED SAILING MATCH BETWEEN THE FRENCH BRIG OF WAR ADONIS AND THE VINDICTIVE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—llaving just seen, with more surprise than I can express, a paragraph in The Sun, copied from the Globe French journal, in which it is represented that the Adonis had sailed with the Vindictive in the Pacific, and had had a considerable advantage over her, and that, on the return of each to Europe, the Adonis had maintained the same advantage, I am led to observe that I feel assured that these statements have been made wholly unknown to my worthy friend, Captain the Viscount St. George, whose cha racter stands too high ever to have sanctioned their insertion, because no such occurrence ever took place as a sailing match between the Adonis and Vindictive. It is true that the Adonis was at Callao in the month of January last, when the Vindictive sailed on a trial with the American frigates United States and Constellation, and when she beat the former about five miles and the latter full fifteen miles, in a run of eight hours, going from five to seven miles an hour by the wind ; but, to my great disapppointment, the Adonis did not join in this race, she having remained at anchor in Callao roads. _ _ About ten days after this, I think on the 2d of February, when the Vindictive was under easy sail, exercising in the Bay of Callao, the Adonis was ob served bearing out, on her way to Valparaiso and France. I immediately steered towards her, the wind being very light, in order to bid Captain St. George and his officers farewell, and on our approaching very close to her, I directed our band to play the French national air, which was acknowledged by the French officers taking off their hats. We then separated ; the Vindictive hauling in the opposite tack towards Callao. It being very nearly calm at this time, it would have been impossible to have tried the rate of sailing, had I wished to have done so ; but having beaten the American frigates, I did not like offering to try the Adonis unless her Captain had invited me to do it. Thus, Sir, you will see that the statement about the epaulettes is quite imaginary, at least so far as it relates to the Vindictive. Possibly it may have oc curred with some other of our ships, for as the Adonis left Valparaiso for France in the month of March, it cannot be a matter of surprise that she should have reached the English Channel before the Vindictive, which did not quit Valparaiso until the month of May. As to the sailing qualities of the Vindictive, all I can say is, that during our voyage round the world, we never met with any vessel that could compete with her. When she was first commissioned, and we were sent to to the Downs to receive the King of Prussia, the Warspite appeared to have the advan tage of us, but the Vindictive was then nearly a foot too much by the stern. 's had no trial of : Oing whatever with any ship in the Channel previous to ( ) ;Ir going to China. On that voyage we were only - 6;5 days under canvas from Torbay to Hong a...kl five at anchor. We sailed from England Kong, the 21s t. of Mani), and anchored at Hong-Kong on June, having reached Madeira in four on the 19th Of' crossed the line on the 16th day, and days and a hai! , e good Hope on the 40th day from m passed the Cape believe ever did more than this, England. No ship, and all the qualities of tee Vindictive are quite equal to those of her sailing. 2 I most happily avail of this occas ionavail to express the gratification it afforded me during the whole of my services in tl:e Pacific, and especially during the execution of my *delicate duties at Ota heite, to have been on terms Df friendly intimacy with the French officers with whom I had inter course ; and from the captains of the French merchant ships, also, I repeatedly received grateful acknow ledgments for the aid I had aftbrded them whenever they needed assistance; and T trust, whenever I may again be called into active service, that I shall find opportunities o evincing the same good feeling. I have the honour to be, Sir, &c., I. TOUP NICOLAS, Late Captain of the Vindictive. Devonport, Sept. 19. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,--I'Why are the hospitals of London built in such conspicuous and fashionable places? Is it that our gracious Queen and her family, together with our aristocracy, may more easily catch the fevers which have of late been so frequent in the metr•polis ? Why are not such hospitals built some distance from town, and not immediately under the nose, and in the midst of a vast population ? Surely this requires some egnsideration.—l am, Sir, yours, &c. A CONSTANT READER. London, Sept. 22. Tuaricn RAILWAYS.—Four Companies yesterday delivered into the office of the Minister of Pubic Works the lists of their Shareholders for the Orleans and Bor deaux Railroad, with deposits of 800,000 f. each, the stipulated caution-money. The following are the names of the competitors for the grant, which is to be awarded on Oct. 5, viz. : 1. Messrs. Paterson and Mackenzie, of London, and Calon, jun., and Lehideux, of Paris ; 2. Messrs. Marcuard and Co., with M. Anthonard as Pre•. sident ; Messrs. Blacque, Certain, Drouillard, and Co., with M. de Rumigny, as President ; 4. Messrs. de Roths child Brothers. Before Wednesday next the Minister will announce, after having examined the lists, which of the Companies are admitted into the competition. The lists of Messrs. de Rothschild and Messrs. Blacque, Certain, Drouillard, and Co., were not delivered till half-past eleven at night. Ou October 5 will also be awarded the grant of the Orleans and Vierzon Rail road. Two Companies only—viz., that of M. Casimir Lecomte and the Orleans Railroad Company—•ha%a de posite 1 their lists and caution-money.— Galignani of Saturday. CONTRACT Tort Coar,.—A. contract for 4,000 tons of coal for the use of the Mediterranean packets was awarded yesterday to M. Talabot at 3f. 344 millimes the metrical quintal (about 2241 b. English). The coals are to be delivered at Marseilles. There were six tenders. —Galiynani. IMPORTANT FROM MONTS VIDEO.--LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY EVENING.—The following very important intel ligence, being part of a letter to a commercial house here, was posted in the rooms of the Underwriter's As sociation this afternoon :—"Bahia, July 30.—The latest dates from Rio are to the 17th inst. ; the packet had been detained in consequence of a new treaty, the ratification of which is to be sent on by her. It is also reported that Monte Video is again to be a province of the Brazils, she having solicited the protection of the empire, under the guarantee of Great Britain and France. It is evident that there are preparations made for sending troops to the River Plate." —[This news re quires confarmatton—ED. Sun.] 11V(13ER 24, 1844. SUMMARY OF NEWS AND ip4ittr (a Wilton. 1470 runs may read." rost: 4 .l ll ax• On Wednesday evening their Majesties the King and Queen of the French received the Turkish Ambassador and the young' Egyptian Princes, the Minister of Marine, the Count de Grave, and M. De Larue. On Thursday evening their Majesties received the Count de Salvandy and M. de Pongerville. M. Cailli, aide-at-camp of the Minister of War, and who took part in tile affair of Isly, arrived at Marseilles from Algiers by the ,last packet, and immediately conti nued his route for Para. The Count de Low•enhielm, the Swedish Minister, ar rived on Thursday in Paris, from his visit to Sweden. Admiral de Moges is arrived in Paris. The Eagle war-brig, which was fitted out at Cher bourg, sailed from Toulon on the 14th for Mogadore, on which station she is to remain until further orders. Duke Alexander of Wurteroburg and his suite arrived on Tuesday last at Strasbourg. We learn from the Toulon journals that very great preparations are making in that town to give a brilliant reception to his Royal Highness the Prince de Joinville. It is said that deputations from several departments will arrive at Toulon on this occasion. The Courrier Francais states that there are now build ing in the different French ports twenty-three ships of the line, nineteen frigates, two brigs, three schooners, and ten transports and store-ships, besides six steam frigates, of 450 and 550 horse power, eleven steam cor vettes of 220 to 320 horse power, and seven smaller steam ships of 80 to 160 horse power. We learn from Tunis, by a letter of the 31st ult., that Admiral Parceval Deschtines, and the captains and other officers of the Ocean, Neptune, Marengo, and Alger, of the line, and the steam corvette Cataiun, had been pre sented to the Bey at the Bardo by M. de Lagan, the French Consul-General at Tunis. Their reception by his Highness is said to have been most cordial. A letter from Rome of the 9th, quoted by the Consti tutionnel, states that the dispensations of consanguinity necessary for the marriage of H. R. H. the Duke d'Aumale with his cousin, the Princess Caroline of Naples, were signed on the Bth. The Princess and the Duke d'Aumale are both in their twenty-third year. The Government has received accounts of the arrival of the members composing the French Embassy to China at Singapore on the 2d of July. Rear-Admiral La Susse is to proceed to Dieppe, with the vessels under his command, to take part in the cere mony of the inauguration of the statue of Duquesne. The Rodeur, Government cutter, has left Havre fur the same purpose. Don Carlos, the Princess his wife, and the Prince his son, returned on Monday last to Bourges from the baths of The twelfth session of the Scientific Congress has just finished at Nismes, after its seventh sitting. The Con gress voted the following recommendations to the Go vernment :—A pension fund for workmen—an irrigation Bill—the execution of the laws relating to workmen's livrets —the creation of a special ministry for agriculture —the alleviation of the wine trade—the suppression of the title of officier de saute—and the immediate abolition of negro slavery. The vintage has commenced in the neighbourhood of Bordeaux, and it is stated that the wine will be of good quality. The Gazette de France of Friday evening says—" This morning at six o'clock, M. Meunier, Commissary of Police, accompanied by two agens de surete, visited the residence of M. Aubry-Foucalt, responsible editor of the Gazette de France, and arrested him. He was taken to the depot of the Prefecture, and immediately afterwards removed to the prison of Sainte Peagie." We learn from Trieste that the roadstead of that place is to be converted into a harbour. The cost is to be covered by an additional house-tax. The attempt made by the Italian revolutionists who had taken refuge at Malta and at Corfu, to enrol bands of adventurers in Albania in order to organise another ex pedition against the Roman States had, we hear, com pletely failed. The Suabian Mercury informs us that serious dis turbances took place at Presburg on the Bth inst. be tween the inhabitants and some of the persons attached to the service of the Deputies of the Diet. It becamo necessary to call out an armed force, and before th( tumult could be quelled one man was killed, and, sixteen were wounded. A letter from Berlin states that the King has kis, created a new branch of administration, under the title of Ministry of Grievances, the object of which is to pay special attention to such complaints as the citizens may have to make against ecclesiastical, administrative, and judicial iunctionaries. A letter from Munich, of the 13th, states that a company of English capitalists is now there, with the intention of establishing manufactories on a large scale. Mezari-ben-Ismail, agha of the Bey or Mascara and Mostaganem, arrived at Marseilles on the 17th, with his two sons and his suite. The Augsburg Gazette states from Berlin that there it., great probability of Bohemia joining the German Cus toms Union, but that the arrangement will in the first instance be made for a period of only five years. COITIgir -----VALSFILIII2. A. 7113629.. The Count and Countess de la Feld, and Mr. and Lady Caroline Russell, who arrived from Germany last week, left town on Saturday, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Limerick. at South-hill Park. Lady Justinia Bailey left Brighton on Friday, by the Fame, for Dieppe. The Fame returned to Brighton on Saturday, with Lady Cole among her passengers. The Baroness Brunnow, who is occupying a mansion in Calverley Park, Tunbridge Wells, has been indiposed for some days past. but is now convalescent. His Excellency Baron Brunnow having been prevented from accompanying Count Nesselrode to Woburn Abbey on Thursday last, left town on Saturday mornb g for Chatsworth, the seat of his Grace the Duke of Devon shire, where a distinguished party have been invited to meet that illustrious foreigner. Baron Brunnow does not accompany the Count in his Scottish tour, but will re turn to town this day. The Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Bowles have left Fladgon's Hotel for the Isle of Wight on a tour. Sir Robert and Lady Peel have taken a house on Eastern-terrace, Brighton, and were expected there with their family yesterday. The heal.h of Miss Peel continues improving, and the change of air will, according to the opinion of the young lady's medical attendants, soon re store her to complete convalescence. Sir ( lifford and Lady Constable, who have been making a tour on the Continent, are expected to return to Burton Constable in the course of the ensuing month. M. de Koudriaffsky left town on Saturday for Willey Park, Shropshire, on a visit to Lord Forester. Mr. L. W. Buck, M.P_ and Mr s . B uc k, h ave arr i ve d at Marston Hall, North Devon, from the Continent. MISCELLAMMOVII. A trial of new compositions by the members of the Society of British Musicians took place on Saturday afternoon, in the Hanover Rooms, by a numerous band, led by Islr. R. Hughes. The compositions entered upon the list for trial consisted of a symphony in C sharp minor, by G. A. Macfarren ; a symphony in D minor. by C. Horsley ; overtures by Messrs. Rackstraw, W. S. Nfacfarren E. Stephens, a n d A. Mi tc h e ll— the latter is totally blind. The specimens produced on this occasion evinced very great merit. At present there are practising, in England and Wales, 15,000 attorneys. They have contributed, in stamps for their articles, to the revenue, 1,500,0001. ; for their cer tificates, 100,000/. more, besides their annual licenses. A few nights ago a destructive fire (which is supposed to have been caused by an incendiary) broke out upon t l:e premises of Mr. Parsons, a farmer, at Braml, y, near Basingstoke. In the course of less than an hour, a barn filled with barlep a stack of wheat, and a beau-rick, were totally consume°. Saturday evening, the White Fast of the Jewish nation, which is one of the severest fasts in the year, commenced at half past five o'clock, and will termi nate this day at sunset. So strictly is this fast observed by the "ancient people," that, during its continuance, they partake of no kind of nourishment, not even water. Oh Sunday morning, at daybreak,"the Jews might be seea wending their way to the City swift gogues, clothed in the habiliments of death, over which they wear a white surplice, and continue in fasting and prayer in the synagogue the whole of the day, wearing their shrouds and other death garments. The fa't is in commemoration of the rebellion of the Children of Israel, and the consequent dispersion of the twelve tribes. The following singular arfl rare (if not unique) oc currence has just taken place at the royal aviary, in the Home Park, at Windsor. It having been deemed advisable by Mr. Walters, the superintendent of her Majesty's aviary, in order to improve the breed of the genuine Dorking fowl, that it should be crossed with that of the Cochin-China fowl, the ne cessary arrangements were nitide for that pur pose. A Dorking hen, which has roosted for some time past with the fowls from China, has recently been in the habit of laying twice, and sometimes thrice a week, eggs containing double, or two distinct yolks. Mr. Walters, determining to try the experiment of at tempting to hatch one of these double-yoked eggs, placed it, with several other eggs, under the hen. The result was, that two chickens were produced from this single egg ; one is a cock bird, of the pure Cochin-China breed, and the other is a hen chick, of the Dorking genus. Her Majesty has an elegant Erard pianoforte on board the royal yacht, also another at Blair Athol, which was sent thither by the Queen's express command. EFFECT OF LIGHTNING UPON THE BRAIN.—A re markable case, illustrating the powerful effect of this agent upon the nervous system, is detailed in the last number of the Lancet. The patient, a young lady. was seated in the country, at an open window, contemplating the horrors of a thunder -storm, when she was suddenly struck by a flash of lightning. Transient insensibility was produced, followed by a violent fit of hysteria, in tense headache, tic doloureux, drooping of the eyelids, and sickness, which existed with little intermission for several months. The patient, however, ultimately re covered, the stroke not being sufficiently powerful to annihilate at once the functions of the brain, and pro duce sudden death. An instance like this should operate as a warning to those who wilfully neglect the means of safety when placed within their reach. RAILWAYS AND THE TRUSTEES OF COMMON ROADS.—M r. Vignoles, in his evidence before the Rail way Committee in May last, mentioned a case in connec tion with the St. Helen's Railway, where the Company were compelled by the caprice of the trustees, to expend 10,000/. additional in carrying a common road over the line, instead of under it, as proposed by Limself, the engineer—the one road being in every retpezt as good as the other.—Railway Record. CNEY AND COMMERCIAL NE W S. CITY, MONDAY EVENING. The English Securities closed very quietly—Consol s at 99'1 K for Money, and 59* to par for Account. Bank and India Stocks were supported up to the close, There was a firm market for Brazil Bonds,_ which realised 89 to 894 Colombian were 141 *. Mexicia realised 374 to 4, an d Peruvian 254 to 26. Dutch Tvvo and-a-llalf per Cents. were 62* to 4. The additional transactions in Railway Shares have been these:—Birmingham and Gloucester were 2 Ditto, New, 8; Bristol and Gloucester, 15; Chester 0,13 : llolyhead, 14; Dublin and Belfast, 24 to 4; Dublin and Cashel, 7)1; Eastern Counties, New, 41 ; Grand Junc - tion, 113; Great Western, H a lf Sh ares , 37 ; Brighto n + Loan Notes, LI ; Croyd on , 24 t o 4 ; Manchester and Leeds, 50; Newcastle and Darlington, 25 to 251; Whit .. haven and Maryport, 1 ; Yarmouth and Norwich, 8, and Paris and Rouen, 18+ I premium. (From e Sun of Last Night.) The Cotton Market at Liverpool was dull on Sa" turday, and prices continued depressed. Sales 2,500 bales , including 300 for export and 200 taken on speculation . Shares were rather stronger, with a moderate business doing.—Birmingham and Gloucester, 104 ; Bristol sod Gloucester, 461 ; Chester and Birkenhead, 334 ; Du b. lin and Cashel, 101 ; Ditto and Belfast, 5 ; Glas' gow and Dumfries, 1 1-5 ; Ditto and Greenock, 121 ; Grand Junction, Halves, 106 ; London and BirminghaTi 214 ; Churnet Valley, 41 ; Manchester, and Leeds' Halves, 524 ; Midland Counties, 107 •, Sheffield an d Manchester, 934 ; South-Eastern, 381 ; Ditto, New, 12 t1 Lyons and Avignon, 21. ls. 6d.; Central of France, s 9 20. At length evident symptoms of the recommenceme nt of business in the new Royal Exchange are becomiai apparent, much to the satisfaction of the merchants a n all those who have an interest in commercial operation It is somewhat extraordinary that so long a per'w: should have been permitted to elapse before the n e " building has been brought to a completion, it being ar f nearly seven years ago since the old building was " e , stroyed by fire. We are glad to state the Committee ° f Lloyd's, with a view of extending the advantages wh ich c u that establishment affords to the mercantile interests, ir tend to afford additional accommodation, and the B aum scription will be reduced in one if not both departments' The tenants of the old Exchange are making P parations to take possession of Their various ap ments ; but we hear that there are general complaints the increased rent they will have to pay for their iota lions. This is hardly fair towards them, the more ft) at they have for so many years been greatly inconvenienced in their business, by having to submit to indifferent Or commodation elsewhere. The workmen have this niorn• ing commenced levelling the ground around the nr ir „ edifice, which we understand will be gravelled, in or der that, should the weather be fine, her Majesty, Fri gv ; Albert, and the civic authorities may pass around th outside as well as view the inside of the Royal Exchang: High prices, we are told, have already been offered tb r i view of the royal banquet which is, on the occasion ° f the opening, to be given in the area of the 'Change. The Funds open firmly to-day with a limited bus ines doing, and the Hebrews are absent from the ma rke r t. The accounts from the Continent are satisfactory gr o rally, but there is no particular feature in them. T,,D e on is some amount of stock for delivery to-morrow so ld , Saturday in one parcel, but still, as the purchases' oir about equal, the market is firm. Consols realise 94 0 . 991 for Money, and 994 to par for Account. Exch e q u do Bills have been marked 765. to 745., and India 11 , ° 11 ,,, 935. to 945. prem. East India Stock is at an 101; to 285, and Bank Stock to 2074 and 208. The C ° missioners gave 994 for Consols. Scarcely any business is doing in the Foreign 3.- f al i ‘ e ta t Spanish Actives obtain 234 to 4, and the Three per Ce ll o , 344 tot Mexican are supported at 374 to 4, and re t, Tian have been quoted at 254. Dutch Five per C°l are 1004. The Railway Shares continue to wear rather O W appearance, but prices are generally supported. PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCg• (From the Official List.) per Cent. Consols. Annuities .....»....».».«.».. 9 4% India Stock India 80nd5,1,000... .. .......... 94 Ditto under 1,000 Bank Stock for Account ....... ...... ..... 20 7 .g Consols for Account .....„„ ....... 100 4 ' 11 " Exchequer Bills, 1 lid. 1 Yfid. 5001 75 74 olz Ditto Small ............ 78 74 paa. , Ditto Advertised PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CL ( 41exica.s Bonds, ' 837.5 per Cent. ..... Sit Ditto for the Account Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents. Ditto for the Account Spanish Bonds, Five per . Cent Ditto for the Account 239t Ditto Three per Cent •••••••••••••••••••••••• ..,"" i L Ditto for the Account ....... ... ....... ............. 0', 71 '3 Dutch 5 tier Cents ......... ...............—.............. N v " PRICES OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK . ILAILWAYD. PAID. PEA SNA ILL .0. S. . Birmingham and Gloucester . lOO ......... 101% •••••to .."., Bristol and Exeter Bristol and Gloucester 3O .... ..... 47 ....... ..., Chichester and Brighton...." ...... 5 - Dublin and Belfast Junction ...... ... 2% ...„ 5 ••• ". to - Dublin and Cashel. ... 234 ll ....."• to Eastern Counties .... , ........• .._ 25 Ditto New Registered..„.. 81. 6s. ed . ... l3 •—••"" go * 0 Great. Western ........ ................ 75 145 •••••••" to ...- Ditto 4 Shares •• ......... • ••••••••• 50 ••..•..•• 86 •". to' Ditto Fifths. Lancaster and Carlisle 5 6% """ to 0 London and 8irmingham...................100 •...., 213 ......... to ... Ditto New Thirds 2 3 514 ,41 ". to '' London and Blackwall.... ....... .... 16% .....• 6 % ••"" to London and Brighton . ... ......".. 50 47 ••• .- to •••,.. London and Greenwich --........ 12% .. lO li ".. to 15 ' . London and South Western ..... 41% ..» 7 4 '''''' to ••• Ditto Eighth 5....................... % „."." 2 •••: to -''' London and Y0rk....... ........ 2% 4g Ali .' to Manchester and Leeds .-- 7O .... ... " 0 - 0 Ditto % Shares 3O "''' se " "" t ~ Dit o Shares to 2 ......... 12 ..... ~.., Manchester and Birmingham Midland Counties lOO lOB% ....•• w ••• • to Newcastle and Darlington Junct. 91 4 6.. ....•• 0 ... ... South Devon 5 .... ..... N ...... - t0 „. South Eastern and Dover 33%...... 5834% •°. .. - Ditto New ...... .... ... .......... 1 0 1. Trent Valley - "' to ""' Narmouth and Norwich lB ..... .. 29% .... to 10S York and North Midland Ditto % Shares 25 ......... 50%... ~,, , Ditto Selby Scrip — ........ . 36% ....... I'm s Orleans. Tours, and Bourdeaux} to 1 ......... 151111% (d'Anthouaid's C0mpany )... ..... Paris ..nd Orleans ......... .•- 20." .. ,,h MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, SEPT' 0. - moderate business has been done to-day, without _..a alteration in prices, except in Trent Valleys, v ihich p . kb.r. ta in good demand, at much higher rates :—Bis c ii „d er sfie , Preston, 8* ; Churnet Valley, 41. 4s. 4d. ; 1- "*. - Dialr 1,4/ ; a Railway and Canal, 01 • London and Yor k It all -0 , p res to d chester and Birmingham, Quarters, 5 ;,. fail All i Wyre, preference, 38i ; Trent Valley, 9j ' CP Lyons, 2 13-16. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. £5 l 10. Bask Stock 3 per Cent. Red 9, t i — t DittoDD p Indian ttißot tißNool lo S el5001:: : 0c d51A,A 1C. n.n.n. .... n . : .. u. . :. ..i .ti.. .. e.: " .e.. : ... .1 : li ii .:4 vv_l_..... P - 3 per Cent. Cons. 3% per Cont. Red New 3)4 per Cent. — Ex. 00W • 134 ' 74 FL, New 5 per Cent. Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small ...... .... ..... ~,,i Jan 1560 .-- Bank Stock for Acct... 59* Oct. 1959 Consols for Act..... 0 Jan. le6o lndia Stock for Ac ct... 0. FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per Cent ..... ... Portuguese, 5 per Cent . 5. ° ....- Belgian, 5 per Cent ..... ...... Ditto, New Ditt0......: „ Brazilian Bonds ,........ Prussian,s per .7 . .. ..7 Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent... ,Russian, 5 per Cent..., ..-,. FA Chllian, 6 per Cent .....»..... 'Ditto, Metallic ........""*„. g 4 •• Colombian, 6 per Cent Ditto, 1824 ............. Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent — Ditto, Deferred......""....J. ....4. Danish, 3 per Cent ..„,f, ,C Greek, 18_.5, 5 per Cent — Exchange .... ...... ......., J, Mexican, 5 per Cent Ditto, 6 per Cent., 1837 — Dutch, 234 per Cent." :100, Peruvian, 1825, 6 per Cent — Ditto, 5 per Cent ...." SHARES JOS, Birmingham and Gloucester (100 paid)... ...... ... 15,0 Ditto, New Shares, 17% paid ........ .... ........... Ar, Bristol and Gloucester, 30 paid ....................... '-60 Chester and Holyhead ( 5 paid) . . ..........•»'"•• - 5 * Dublin and Belfast Junction, 234 paid.... ........ .0 Dublin and Cashel, 2% paid ...................... I Eastern Counties (23 paid) • ....... ...foe .... i, Ditto Registered ail 6s ed paid) .......... ..•••" 915, Grand Junction, 100 paid .............................. ... 145 " Great Western (75 paid' .. ................ ....•••• g/ Ditto Half Shares, 50" paid ......... .... .. ............ “ 41., Lon ion and Brighton (50 paid) ........ ............ " 1 ,.! Ditto Loan Notes, 10 paid ........ . ....... . .......... ~„,1" London and Greenwich (12t. lto. ... Paid) ..... ...... I f, Londoo. and South Western (411. 6s. 10d. Pa'" , '" .. Ditto Eighths (15s. paid) .............................. I " London and Croydon (Trunk) ........... . .......... ... 4 London and York, 2 34 paid .............................. 10,4 Manchester and Leeds (70 paid .. •. r ...... "'" 46 Newcastle and Darlmgron Junction , -- 11 p a id "N. , 0., Yarmouth and Norwich (18 paid) ........... ..... 0 2874 Paris and Rouen. 20 paid • .......... ........ ....... ... morning FRANCEnsi i i r ig , The following was received at Lloyd's Yester AND monocco. 34 - - :— T he't e r m s of tb t h o G s e Fee i r b t tredh r e r e en a et a m l eh t t b a y iss r np :o di a f r eee : nc Pe a e :p i s :3: c ; a ti ll r i b r B : s i r e 4l e s o u b l e e v i cl i . between the Moorish ad doubtless, a re been Tangi promulgated through inl understand they ers t ' an w d ill first rs instance, and none outsher--I;'3tiletti'i‘T'veniwa.ol drawal of the troops from the frontier---eIP" si r tbe Abd ' -el-kader from chiefs who commenced hostilities—arwl sett lsole °t the bound Morocco—pupa °. of ary, as demanded by France. OW ° some portion of his fanatical pc: le il l ' - "Itisto be hoped that that treaty.wil not no .ti tothe Emperor of Morocco any serious troul? to i doubtful how far he o 0 some of his warlike tribes, and particularly thoseout the frontier of Algeria, to enable him •to etirl,,g , his_ engagements relative to the expulsion of •Fv`_'•,, 0 Kader from the Moorish territory. The Prowysoi pulation, as it s yer Joinville's squadron is now at Cadiz, refitting,. r it probably, waiting supplies from France wh it :oo o of the ships are very will return as soon as equipped. It is sa'id that _ ter , not having more than five or six days' conslitg some more. , 0 "The Ifl lil l' •b if , short of provisions and loot n exi e, line-of-battle ship, whicl 0 Algesiras, with 200 sick and wounded 011 now at Tangiers, as also her Majesty's ship uu-001(1° Spanish frigate. I understand that orders hill_ E , 3 „pot sent for the evacuation of the island off g° l6 7r i cis i which will of course raise the blockade but no o beets communication of the opening of the pOrt hea l Y et received here. if a lti# " Their c , squadron lost a large portion of the hO . Scout beet, hors, and it was fortunate they were so gilt fatit h ve av u e re b d ee b n y itnheexwtreeamtheedra,nogrers.ome of their shills '''''" 0 0 "The Triton, line•of-battle ship, and sorne:ste9o the have, it is stated, gone to Mogadore, to bring °Pod garrison and stores on the island. The Suffre'.:4ool two steamers, on board one of which was his„Visi highness, sai'ed yesterday from Tangiers for -,. At i , there to get pratique, and to go to Cadiz. ..9 11. t0 0° mina has dispatched the Formidable to 0 1 . 6 'i ' tbe the only matters now at issue are thosq of Swedes and Danes, who repudiate furthe,-Peo of their annua' tribute to the Emperor of 3 113 ', l A , ' i (Signed) "J. LONGLANDS COVVEP over to "13 ' S. The Spanish Consul-General Went °lt' his 3 uls consul! *A the IN to wed ou t .esuviu s , 44r. Bulw treaty was F LAN llaghnes teiceste 11 / itley Queen STAT] t tAorit Wi n d s° , tlll % eve Th e Rob ert t„, tdz e h eci ci6 seat, r v i ely "hiteb A de kission 8 1 3 0 o ne zd M c ul , "idho u 41.4de. Lord fr om E 1101 / Actin' Jitto, *num Ditto Coin. in La ail !Cacho Dute t 1 1( fw %N.} de