The Sun. — London, England, 1845-09-05 00:00:00

ENO nd to 0 g 0 " Wedg e ` BOA B ) , E 0 o va. ' I were 136 ' L plenti, ° the li—talld ken to n , :onarar akea !,n I—tak es k Tas—t• —taken and the aken , Old Li) ;DAT'. r I ich, 1 ° "jo rton Sl i to (7 its, two DAY. with 2 0 j, %hes._ Ir. ). -- The . and A cb (Barker) ........ ed over . with I Sy , s or, d par" , 0 4 demarl' .(stagg , y. ded to I, 7st _ 7lu ' r ' e f Jst. 31 , 11 ,6 , sow, I be be sold 201, 01 r t distalifr ii .j 0 )1.) 0 v o 0 3 - ar o by a b e tA. D'S R" monarga , evil sst 21b' i %harlotteii yrs, 76 0 ham, 3 Jo kali, 3 1 10 , Girl, 5 of. oti t o:, yrs, d Ss' sit agt yr.,9 5 , 7 st 4` cit , rs, 6st 3 . k ' e b 1 ire 5 1fi d 0 e ' Si f — st 8 i ss C lav el l ' om Tout Ob-0 1, —Zela, ' 4 , lio, 3 i 11 ', 4 1 1 ~ 3 yrs, ' O , ), 4 yrs , 10 0 4 yrs , 6st 1 F.S. Handicap , ottingr; ' ' "- . 15 '' 4 meter, 3 0, Wren, Y 0, ottinghs „ i rd Salto uP T my li r re, l3 's! ,:-eiloyibor cap. 4 ,4 yrs, 0 yrs, 7 0 's, 7st 41171 er Cup. „11 , 5 yrs, 1 i rUI ShePPad ! ronnioUso 'arse. ,bus, 5 no l to; al, 31 ,0 i walda, roomst'' , •Welbecs' MEE' I Stakes• ,NcLuDV)ibill '5 a dded; e 0 0 ; six an to ( I 'he winne r ipe 50 sovs.• 0 211 b. On I hitehou 9o ::: .............. ....... 11 9 Ch .... N% . "in°Bl. .E.A with 2O s ad 1 d: Fillies 11130,:'0%, tolva"A ) 1 -' i r r s e.e-quart (Abds iel .•••• - .••••'"',.•. 4 ......... ~..• y rs .... . a dd with " si f,b in" 1 0 4 five, lg 00%8 e n ell ic e s s. l i. BVIoscilel) ........... 5 •...... .... ......... - - The All-aged Stakes of 5 sovs. each, with 20 added. Two yrs old, 4st 4lb ;:three, 6st 71b ; four, Bst ; five, Bst 121 b ; six and aged, 9st 51b. The winner to pay 2 sovs. towards ex penses. The second to save his stake. Mares and geld ings allowed 3lbs. Winners extra. One urle. Mr. Kitching's br f Lucy, 3 yrs (Cr. Carr) 1 Mr. T. Dawson's b f Sister to Skipton, 2 yrs Lord Chesterfield's b c Twig, 3 yrs Mr. Salvin's b f Marian Ramsay, 3 yrs ..... 4 "EXTRA. CHESTER AUTUMN INTELLIGENCE MEETING, 1845. -MONDAY. Handicap Sweepstakes of 5 sous. each, p.p. Tippoo, aged, Bst—Prince of Wales, 4 yrs, 7st 61b—Pluto, rs, 6st 91b—Tottenham, 3 yrs, sst 1 llb—Gibby Young, Yrs, sst 61b—Falstaff, 3 yrs, sst 41b--Miracle, 3 yrs, 4st 41b. TUESDAY. The Chester Handicap of 15 sovs. each, 10 ft, and 5 only if declared on or before the 17th inst. Corranna, 6 yrs, Bst 121b—Inheritress, 5 yrs, Bst 51b— Winesour, 5 yrs, Bst 31b—Aristotle, 6 yrs, 7st 121b—Light fling, 4 yrs, 7st 81b—Godfrey, 4 yrs, 811:—Intrepid, 4 vrs, 7st 81 b—Beaumont, 4 yv, 7st 61b—What; 5 yrs, 7st 511)- 11111 ton, 4 yrs, 7st 51b—Extempore, 5 yrs, 7st 31b—Mickey ,Tree, 4 yrs, 7st 31b—Everton, 5 yrs, 7st—lronmaster, 3 yrs, vaudeville, 5 yrs, Est 1211)—Teetotaller, 6 yrs, Est 101b— vaudeville, 3 yrs, 6st 71b—Cataract, 5 yrs, 6st—Warp, 4 yrs, sst 101b—Dean Swift, 3 yrs, sst 101b—TAuld Squire, 4 yrs, sst 81b—Lancashire Witch, 3 yrs, sst 81b—Salopian, 3 yrs, sst 81b—The Nobbler, 4 yrs, sst 71b—Fair Rosamond, 4 Yrs, sst 71b—Helpmate, aged, sst 51b—Lady Sarah, 4 yrs, sst 51b—My Mary, 3 yrs, sst 51b—Sinbad, 5 yrs, sst 31b— April Noddy, 4 yrs, sst 31b—Alvanley, 4 yrs, 4st 121b— karian Ramsay, 3 yrs, 4st 121b—The Magnet, 3 yrs, 4st 121 b -- Ironmould, 3 yrs, 4st 101b—Maria, 3 yrs, 4st 71b. DARLINGTON RACES—WEDNESDAY. The Town Plate of 25/., added to a Sweepstakes of 5 SOY& ea ch, p.p. ; the second saves his stake. Heats, mile and a ....quarter . Dawson's . Montgomery, 3 yrs (Winteringham) 4 1 1 Stebbings's Hector, 3 yrs 1 3 3 • Palmer's Betsy Bird, 6 yrs DI r. Waring's Saul, aged (FRost OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) The week intervening between Warwick and Doncaster is well filled up by the provincial meetings of Abingdon, Lich field, Rochest er , and Leicester. At the former, the chief race is the Marcham Park Stakes, for which 22 horses were handicapped. Eight, how ere C, only remain in, and out of those, as Una I imagine has not recovered from her recent lameness, I see nothing likely 1 3 beat Sir John Mill's Giantess, withlolb. and Alfred a Y on her back. My belief in her success is grounded on er W inning in such admirable style the Queen's Vase at rls niouth. The Gold Cup will bring together, I am afraid, but a small t e ld , and owing to the very heavy weight John o' Gaunt will ti a l me to carry( 10st. 21b.), I think Mr. E twall's/Egiswill tarn out Ni'lnner. Pi ne - app l e I s h ou ld no t b e sur p r i se d t o see secon d ; 11 of the seventeen moderate animals named for the Pusey t9nl Stakes, I cannot conceive what can beat Mr. Parr's Hie tY-one or Sparsholt. The other races call for no par eillar observation. Zt Leicester, on Wednesday, we have rather a thin pro etZinle• For' the Leicestershire Handicap only eight have 1 )e I ) :,,ft in by their owners ; and I think the struggle will that",",ween Rochester, 7st. 51b., and Pergularia, 65t.61b., and 4.`u r e latter will be found the best of the two. / do n o t thi n k Q ueen Mab is likely to g o f or the C u p, lik l n eY the Duke of Rutland, with one of his lot, most eiY to obtain it. stAt Lichfield, which commences on Tuesday, we have the tor t f°rd shire, with the large number of thirteen acceptances wr I nheritress, Bst. 91b., being the top weight, and Jenny feu en ' 68 f-, the lowest. either of these, I imagine, will be y_nd to cope with Everton 7st., who, from his running at wi „ r k for the Great Ebor 'Handicap, ought undoubtedly to //,,'" Next to him, and if he does not run, I expect to see g_ton, 7st. 91b., first , ' with Rochester well up. 1 3 „ 4 ,,,i1e Gold Cup would be walked over for, I should think, ardley, after his winning so easily at Warwick. To the dcr°-Year Old Stakes there are eleven colts and fillies set w!), and in spite of the 51b. extra Twig will have to carry, %think he will be found the best of the lot. Tit- bit will run 11, I have no doubt. I—" r 'z'r the Rochester Handicap no less than fifteen horses 41'e accepted —a high compliment to the handicapper, and "Pon a careful analysis of them, I prefer Hampton, let. 131 b., 4nd L aclY Charlotte, 7st. 51b., to all the others. London, Sept. 5, 1845. TELEGRAPH. • THE GRAND JUNCTION RAIL "AY, AND PRINCESS ROYAL STEAMER, FROM LIVERPOOL. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sta,—ln Bradshaw's Railway and Steam Navigation Guide for this month, it is announced, at page 63, that 2 . 1 The P r i ncess R oya l , w i th passengers only, sails from the Xgremo n t Slip, Prince's Pier-head. Liverpool, every Wednes day and Friday, punctually at 5 30 r. m., on the arrival of the train which leaves London at 10 A.M., Birmingham at 1 45, and Manchester at 2 r. M." The appointments of this ship are published, in the adver tisement I allude to, more prominently and attractively than those of any other. Relying on them, I changed the route by which I intended travelling to Scotland, and came here yesterday by the London mail train, especially mentioned in the Guide, that I might proceed by the Princess Royal to Greenock, and keep engage ments I bad made for this day in Edinburgh. The arrival of the train at Liverpool is advertised for 5 10 ; it was about this hour when it reached the opening of the tunnel adjoining the terminus. Besides the time usually Occupied there in collecting the tickets from the passengers, there was a detention of the whole train (a long and heavy "e , with a multitude of passengers) for fully five minutes, in %search for the portmanteau of one gentleman, who quitted Ay e e train at the entrance of the tunnel ; and it was half-past ore the body tf the passengers were set free at the other end. t n ° dl t h e e_r!, with myself, hastened as fast as we could be driven Then erier- head, but yard Princess al had just left, and was bo at u° ,2at 5 0 or 100 s distant ; an d though we hurried into wi ee ovitake her, she did not slacken her pace, and the c le , ist e ,i . "uring u s th at our attempt wou ld b e fruitless, we h "Q. tp ; tir l d been subjected to very great inconvenience, if not II V e t e v i l °thers were in the same predicament, and as ab eti "‘tav, i', l vs 'Y yet occur from similar causes if uncorrected ll o „ n g - t°llßh to c i* ,, te-t the necessity of either „ „tat ad, yon, th e unid nom of the advertisement, or that the Princess I v , e rtiser n p depart until the arrival of the train for which ra°cieri4utolit butthat . 4S told ' l4 led me and others to believe she would wait. this train bad recently been late on several Its that as the time varied only from twenty to thirty arriv a l , there was no doubt the steamer would wait for Nulitioch, in the advertisement, was made, apparently, .It of‘ the stemer's departure. is 1 ° be so " distinctly mad, known to the public whether . it PPoin ted Or not, that travellers may not hereafter be dts °ceasion and ,rnisled, as I and others havo c been on this , „ • iu ttetio n e ll , ,also, not unreasonable to hope that the Grand a , tig allway Company shall so arrange as that their . mail 'spe c i„„ not twenty or thirty minutes behind . their time, and to 01 that a whole train shall not be detained, when close It ellge e te rrairmi, in seeking for the portmanteau of one pas- P---Yours, truly, C. D. ler P °ol , Sept. 4, 1845. Wi l :, l ‘AL CART ACCIDENT AT GREENIVICII.—Mr. t h . l4 ro Payne held an inquest last night in Guy's Hospital, ye a r ' et ing the death of Mr. Abrahim Ling, aged forty-nine p r i e r t a s a coachman in the service of Mi.. Wheatly, coach pro e or, of Greenwich. On Sunday morning last the de teoatsed was returning home in a light cart with four sacks of Ci 4t° his employer's premises and when the hone reached I)oreus-street, Greenwich, it began kicking. The horse over tes:erred,the deceased and threw him out of the cart, and the .° ,ll,„" an, linal could be secured the near wheel passed over A. aa - 14 -a wd s body He died on Thursday morning. Mr. tof bou . geon said the deceased had died from aec ruP i I l e r the b ladd e e - r su w r hich ' no doubt had been caused by the 4, 1 nt• Verdict, " Accidental death." "R LATe w Fsg M.P. — rho *ill of ~ - BENJAMIN 00D, ~1 , . . 0 4 s atu 'n,e late Honourable Member for Southwark was proved al hipr'ay last by the executors, Gordon Whitbread, E sq., Els a nephews, William Page Wood and Western Wood, tc - ' to each of them, as well as to his brother, Robert Wood, fater: l "„,% 3 h as left a legacy ' of 1,0001. To his sister, Mrs. Duns ii'4,4 a year; annuities to some of his nieces, and legacies other s du e . '113(1 bequest to his sister, Mrs. Watkins. he I,_°llnB personal estate, which was sworn under h 0001.,89, ana wtitle aths; to his wife absolutely. He also gives, devises, h e ; aPpoints to her all his real estates, freehold or co hold to N a lid her heirs and assigns. The will was made in March, ab e l 3 The deceased didathis seat, Eltham Lodge, Kent, on ', A ei th ° f August' last in his 63th year. P e , ailarraa BURNT TO DEATH.—Last evening Mr. at I l e held an inquest at St. Thomas's Hospital on the body Naith ln h et *Donald, aged eight years, The deceased . resided tar eet eer mothe r at No. 6, Gr . :ve-place, Great Guildford- Ala left I' '3°l4/Mark. On Wednesday morning last the deceased 'lett e lt at home with two other younger children. She th e „ ... e 't her frock and went to the fireplace to dry it, when firerkela which was red hot, fell out and set her clothes on kelt Sh e ran into the street, where Mr. Harris procured a ter' t ° ,, (l , Put the flames eut. She was wrapped in a blanket . 4hee;"ed to the hospital, where sl-ie died the same night. fitheeti returned a verdict of " Accidental death." The pock or' deceased was killed about six months since by a B eA t '' hops falling on him in Tooley-street. :rtek-11‘4bL ACCIDENT NEAR WINDSOR.—A . man, named ,r, ei,„ WY, engaged in the flour water-mill of . Mr. Aldridge, ,` tare met with his death on Monday last, in consequence i -cIN -rge g r indstone, worked by water power, being draggee orm,tno by the rope of the fly-wheel becoming entangled itn spindle. The wheel, with its fittings, werghin, all Y half a tun fell upon his chest, breaking three of his ribs, L i 'ed , rtt r ° l'lq several blood vessels. The unfortunate man '''',lll /l i n the greatest arronv about fifteen hours after th , e k ,„ -- The jury returned; verdict of " Accidental death." ''-ecl-'llllt PALAcE.--It has been determined by the lar, esitstical . B . Bishop Phillpotts shall no Med for' e an excuse for non-residence , 3,0001... have been °II pill the reiteration of the palace, and in spite of himself .l b tk ;,_ i tleu o ll „ av e to go through the form of residing at his episcopal r'slite-s-when there, he will be constrained to exercise hos , /1 1 4 ,, i ticl charity to the poor.—Rymouth Journal. * " it wAy R 11FRIC —An extraordinary case of OD , gh_44LY r obbe AZtSez p.a, on the On side Tuesday night, just beyond the of the Adur. Mr. Charles e , ye d .47; 0 the Lancing On B ri 1 1 1 1 1 , of South Farm, Broadwater while on his return 1,7 thr u g ton on horseback, about twelve ' o'clock, was stopped Os h o p - 'nen dressed " navvies." One of the men seized 'es ''e by the bridle, while the other two dragged him from • s kitii lot and e , and threw him on the ground, when they knelt on 4 w 114 • - I rifl ed 1 1 . p k ts of a purse containing between 71. Nis 41 (Old and s'irver e , and a bunch of keys. One of them Nil 1 Pt " to draw out his watch, on which Mr. frill placed 1 1 1°13 4 ) 4 : l e d uPon the fob, and exclaimed, " Pray don't take the l:Ps, he a " With most extraordinary forbearance, aid . ed, per rAer " a Pprehension of interruption if they remained any ,tia l .: rthe thievesmade off, leaving the watch safe in . tie !a - ; B l , :itr t .One of them expedited his departure in riding From inquiries subsequently it ieli, it he ir victim's horse. h hi ves did not cross the bridge ttitellittlee inferred t t h t et they made the best of their way over 4 a l I i tt the back of the Sussex Pad. About nine o'clock 4/49/ieff°llewing morning the horse strayed home alone.— i, or Gazette. \,` , At„tp, th gier e - 4 1 N TILE ROYAL PRESERVES AT WINDSOR. th' roy al more game (especially pheasants and hares) upon 4 kti 43 Preserves in the vicinity of Windsor Castle this year, t e v e, be eh b Fen known for several past seasons. Strict . orders UP st et ' son that not a sinele head of any description is to O% thonttl the return to Windsor of the Prince Consor. tt LP Preserves at Swinley, also one of the farms of his Lids is'ighness, about eight miles from Windsor, game of all •Ptlte'llially abundant. Bi: r ile . 4 11 t It ARRIVAL OF CATTLE FROM HOLLAND. 4 lii,iii. mo ral Steam Navigation Company's steam ship the iikN, f ro Jolliffe arrived at 13lackwall Pier, yesterday fore ; ett, V,tilu Rotterdam, with another large supply of Dutc i ll 1 1.1.0 o ,` 1 " ding some very fine cows, calves, and sheep—all for ti v kia „_°" market. The supply of cattle from Holland during k t lth . a •.onth has been very great, and the Ocean S tit h sam-ship, ii , te frrrived in the river on Sunday, crammed a live i 4stale:til Rotterdam, has been again engaged by the Dutch I )swii h kld will arrive in the course of to-morrow (Satur " Wargo a supply. THE 8 t_ N, LON DON, _FRIDA Y _EVENING, SEPTEMBER 5 1845. HER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO THE CONTINENT. GOTHA, SEPT. I.—Yesterday the Queen attended Divine service in the parish church of St. Augustine here. It is an old and simple looking Gothic building, without any external ornament, standing near the centre of the city. It was formerly an old monastic edifice, but the greater portion has been pulled down. The interior is fitted up with three ranges of galleries one above the other ; the painting and ornamental portions being somewhat gaudy and theatrical, as is the case in many of the continental churches. The pulpit stands at the east end : near it, on a level with the first range of galle ries, is the ducal box, fitted up with windows, &c., like the one at Coburg. The front of the galleri-3s is orna mented with the arms of the Coburg and Gotha families, and a variety of heraldic devices in white and gold aro displayed in various parts of the building. The church also contains a fine organ, and at the east end is a splendid painting of the Crucifixion, by Jacobus. Her Majesty and the Prince arrived shortly after eleven o'clock, and were conducted to the ducal pew by the clergyman. With her Majesty came the Duchess of Kent, the Duke and Duchess of Coburg, Prince Ferdi nand, and several members of the royal suite. The Lu theran service was performed, the greater portion being chanted, and all the congregation joining. In addition to the organ, which was finely played, -there was a full military band, with kettle-drums and trumpets ; and although the music was, on the whole, of a very high order, the noise at times was overpowering, and spoiled some of the most beautiful passages. The service ter minated at half-past twelve ; the Queen returned to the palace in her carriage, and the Duke and Duchess of Coburg walked back on foot, without even a single attendant. Her Majesty afterwards drove out to Mols dorf, one of the Duke's chateaus, about twelve miles from Gotha, thence to Ohrsdorf, a hunting lodge, of which a portion stands in the territories of the Duke of Coburg, and a portion in those of Prince Hohenloe. The royal party afterwards visited Tehterhausen, where luncheon was prepared, and partaken of, and the Queen returned to Gotha to dinner. In the evening the Queen and the Prince paid a private visit to the tombs of the Dukes of Gotha, where the Prince's grandfather and great grandfather are interred. The burial place is a wooded little island, in the centre of the public park, and is reached through long hedge rows of beech and poplar, quaintly cut and trimmed. There is a very large sheet of water, well stocked with water fowl, on the southern side, and a little floating bridge carries the visitor over to the burial ground in a few minutes. The little islet is thickly studded with weeping willows ani cypresses, dipping their long green plumes into the glassy lake below. The pathways are bordered with flowers, and in the centre stand, not marble mausoleums, but beds of flowers perfuming the air with their fragrance, and on the adjoining trees wreaths of flowers and itionottilles and simple tablets, which indicate the names of the sovereigns who sleep beneath. The town has been a series of military bustle and musical excitement since eight o'clock this morning ; a grand musical festival being arranged for this afternoon, at which a thousand singers and performers are to assist. The performance will take place in the open air, a large amphitheatre in front of the palace, and below the ter races, having been prepared for the performers and the audience. The grand business of the day will com mence at three o'clock, but the different military bands and sangervereins, or singing unions, who are to take part in the concert, are already mustering and marching in from the surrounding districts. RETURN OF TEIE QUEEN. BRUSSELS, SEPT. 2.—The following paragraph is from the forthcoming number of the Politigue :-- " A courier, who has arrived at Brussels, from Co burg, brings the positive; intelligence that Queen Vic toria and Prince Albert will proceed direct from Co logne to Antwerp, and reach the latter city on Satur day, the 9th instant. Their Majesties the King and Queen of the Belgians, the young Princes, and all the Court, will meet the illustrious guests at Antwerp, who will be accompanied by several high personages from Germany. The Queen of England and the Prince will be entertained at a banquet in the Palace of Antwerp, by their Belgian Majesties, who will remain there for the night. Queen Victoria will sleep on board the Royal yacht the Vic toria and Albert, and leave early on the morning of the 7th. The banks of the Scheldt and the tower of Notre Dame will be brilliantly lighted up during her Britannic Majesty's embarkation, and there is some talk of a fete similar to the one which took place at Cologne. Count d'Arschot and Mr. Conway, of the royal household, have gone to-day to Antwerp, in order to make some arrangements with the local authorities respecting the fete, the expenses of which will, it is said, be partly de frayed by the civil list." HAMBURG AND FLANDERS MAIL. BERLIN, Atm. 28.—The King has conferred on Dr. Bun ten, the Ambassador and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of Great Britain, the rank of actual privy councillor, with the title of excellency. Leirsre, Atm. 27.—The mortal remains of the eleven victiu s of the deplorable events of the 12th of August, were buried this morning. POSEN, AUG. 15.—1 t is generally reported that M. V. Minutoli, the president of cur police, who, by his prudence and humanity during the late troubles, did great service to our town, is to succeed M. Niederotatter at Warsaw. This would be a most happy choice of our foreign department, for it would not be easy to find another person so thoroughly acquainted with all the affairs of Poland, and so able a man of business as he. He is besides acquainted with the members of the Polish Administration, and therefore well qualified to support the in terests of Prussia in the Polish capital. It is, however, a question whether M. V. Minutoli may he disposed to accept an office, which, at this time, is not an easy one. BERLIN, Auc. 28.—The complaints made by the Saxon Government of the accounts published in the journals relative to the events at Leipsic, have led to serious results. Two Prussian journals, those of Magdeburgh and Breslau, against which the complaints were especially directed, are said to have been ws.rned by the Prussian Government with a threat that their licenses would be withdrawn. If this news, which comes from a ♦ery respectable quarter, should be correct, it must excite some surprise, for these accounts had passed through the hands of the Prussian censor►, and:the writer can hardly be proved to have had any bad intentions, for they coincide with those of almost all the German journals. WURZBURG, Atm. 25.—A Ministerial rescript is much talked of here, which, it is generally affirmed, authorises the Post-office to open, in tl.e" presence of .witnesses, letters and packets when there is reason to suspect that they may inclose prohibited newspapers. In this manner the subscribers of the Franc/int Journal, whose copies come together in one packet, have been obliged, in several towns, to deliver it to the censor, who then, at his discretion, keeps back the paper, or has it sent to the subscriber. COPENHAGEN, Au°. 30.—This forenoon the Karnlschalka, a Russian man-of-war, passed this city, bound, it is said, to the Mediterranean. A letter from Bormholm of the 25th says—" A Rus-ian fleet of four ships of the line (one of them carrying above 100 guns), three frigates, and two brigs, and a Swedish frigate, have arrived here during the storm which continued from the 20th to the 23d, and on Saturday passed Hammeren, steering west ward. On the 20th, towards sunset, the whole Russian fleet passed within cannon shot of us ; nay; the largest ship of the line, with the admiral on board, passed within the merchant men that were lying at anchor, on account of the storm. We never before saw ships of the line come so near the land." BERLIN, SEPT. I.—His Majesty the King arrived to-day at Sanssoaci, on his return from Munich. BRUSAILS, SEPT. 2.—The average price of wheat last week was 21f. 99c., and that of rye 15f. 97c. Both may be im ported duty free, the export duty is 25 centimes per 1,000 kil logrammes. The Archduke Frederick of Austria left Brussels this morn ing by railway for Germany. A courier from Coburg has arrived at Brussels with positive intelligence that Queen Victoria and Prince Albert o ill proceed direct from Cologne to Antwerp, where they will arrive on Saturday. The King and Queen of the Belgians, with the young Princess and the whole of the Court will go to Antwerp to receive their august guests, who will be accompanied by many persons of dis tinction from Germany. The Queen of England and the Prince will dine with our King and Queen at the Palace. The Court will pass the night of the 6th at Antwerp, but Queen Victoria will sleep on board the royal yacht Victoria and Albert, and put to sea very early on the morning of the 7th. BELGIAN FUNDS.—Bstyssms, SErr. 3. Actual Debt, 2;6 per Cent ..... Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent ......... Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent.... Ditto Three per Cent • . Ditto Thirty-seven Millions, ditto ...... Ditto, ditto, 1840 . • ••• • • • • • ...... • •• • • 101% Ditto, ditto, 1842•....... ...... .• 101 % Ditto of the City, 1832 Ditto, 1843 . Bank of Belgium • —Brussels Papers, Sept. 4. HAMBURGH BORSENILILLE, SEPT. 2. Bills. Money kustrian 5 per Cents • • • • • • • • • • • • • 114% Bank Shares • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •• • • •• • • • • 1650 Anglo-Russian Loan . ... ........ Russian 5 per Cent., Hamb. Certificate. 113 112% Ditto Ist series Inscription.. .• • • 105% 10514 Ditto, Rope and Co., 3d and 4th series• • 993 Ditto, in Certificate.. •••••• . • • • • ..... 993 New 4 per Cent., Hope and Co. ••• • • 93 Ditto Stieglitz .. • •••• • • • ••••• • • • • 91% 91% Spanish New 5 per Cent . 20% 20 Ditto 8 per Cent Anglo-Portuguese Loan, 234 per Cent • . Dutch Actual Debt, 23¢ per Cent ••• • • 62 3 Ditto 3 per Cent. ••••• • • • • . Polish New 4 per Cent. Loan, 1844.... 86% 86 1 4 Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent •• • • 87 National Bank Shares• • • •• • • ••• • • • AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Vizrais, Auu. 27- E. per Cent. hletalliques• •-• •• • • ••••• • • • • • 11234 4 per Cent. ditt0........... ............ 1013 ditto... 3 Loan, 1834 Ditto, 1839 ••• • • • •• • • ••• • • • 1293( Bank Shares . • Esterhazy's Loan •••• • • • • •••.••• • • • • • • RAILWAYS. The Northern, or Ferdinand • .• .• 213 Vienna—Milan .• • • • • • • Gloggnitz •• • • •••• • • •• ... ••••• • • .. 152? Leghorn ••• • • . Pesth Allgemeine Zeltung, Aug. 30. PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BMIN, Auo. 30. Bills. Money. St. Schuld Sch., 3% percent ••••• • .. • • 100.. i 994 i Pruss. English Bonds, 1830, 4 per Cent.. Exchange on London, 2 months •• • ..... 625 6 24n Universal Prussian`Gazette, Aug. 31. SCOTCH ACTS OF PARLIAMENT The following is a list of the Acts affecting Scotland, which have passed during the last session of Parliament. They are as follow:- 1. Act for consolidating in one Act certain provisions usually inserted in Acts authorising the taking of lands for undertakings of a public nature in Scotland. 2. Act to facilitate the transmission and extinction of Heritable Securities for Debt in Scotland. 3. Act to simplify the form, and diminish the ex pense, of obtaining infeftment in Heritable Property in Scotland. 4. Act for amending the laws concerning Highways, Bridges, and Ferries in Scotland, and the making and maintaining thereof, by Statute Service, and by the Con version of Statute Service into money. 5. Act to regulate the issue of Bank Notes in Scot land. 6. Act for amending an Act for making provision for Parish Schoolmasters in Scotland. 7. Act to amend the Law of Arrestment of Wages in Scotland. 8. Act for the amendment and better administration of the laws relating to the Belief of the Poor in Scot land. EXETER RAILWAY MARKET.—North Devon, 2 to 21 prem ; Exeter and Yeovil, to prem. ; Exeter, Top sham, and Exmouth, to i; Exeter and Creditons, 91. per share ; Eastern Counties, 21/. WESTMINSTER-BRIDGE.—From 1810 to 1838 this bridge coat in repairs 83,097/. 6s. 9i-d. From 1838 to 1844 the amount was 83,6611., and a further sum of 52,879/. was required 'for further works. The property belonging to the bridge only realises 7,464/. 11a. Bd. a year. Mr.\Stanton, M.P., has contradicted the report that he is abourto retiro.fr4m the representation of Stroud. FATAL AcciDEirt, AT IloaNsny.—Yesterday Mr. G. J. Atills held an inquest at the Nightingale, Hornsey, on the body of James Bondy, aged fifty-twot a bricklayer, living at Nightingale-place. On Monday night last deceased said he was determined on getting drunk, and did so. However, at six neat morning he went to his work at a house erecting in Maynard-street, Crouch-end, and whilst walking along a joist and turning a party wall in front of the building, he missed his llo!d of the wall and fell a depth of eight feet to the ground, and then rolled into a tank six feet deep, nearly killing a man who was at work in it. Deceased was taken out insensible, and died of concussion of the brain eight hours after the fall. Verdict, " Accidental death." SUICIDE FROM DISTRESS.—Last night Mr. Baker held an inquest at the King's Arms, Kingsland, on the body of William Blackman, aged 64, a labourer. The deceased lodged at No. 6, Abbot-street, Kingsland, and had for a number of years been employed on the road by the highway board of Hackney parish, until about five weeks since, when he was dis charged, without any ostensible cause. The deceased had made repeated applications to the board for work, but had been unsuccessful, which had so pressed upon his mind that for some time past he had been in a low and desponding state. On Wednesday night he returned home, having been trying the whole day to get some work, and went to bed. Not getting up the next morning at his u.tial time, his landlady became alarmed, and having in vain called to him through his room door, she sent for a police-constable, who broke the door open, w hen the deceased was found hanging by a rope fastened to the bed-post, quite dead and cold. Verdict—" Temporary in , sanity." A WATER- DRlNKtlt.—Yesterday a man named John Harber,living in East-street, Regent's Park, undertook for a wager of 203. to drink a pail of water (four gallons) within half an hour, which he accomplished, drinking it by ,a pint at a time till be had swallowed the whole. Ile then declared that he would drink 12 pints of beer in as many minutes; no one, however, seemed to doubt it, and that part of his performance was dispensed with. FR EE MASONRY. —On Wednesday tvening a crowded meeting of the members of the Grand Lodge of the Order of Freemasons was held in their splendid hall, at the Freemasons' Tavern, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, at which the Chairman (in the absence of the tart of Zea land, Grand Master), Mr. Rowland Alstony ProVintial Grbhd Master for the county of Essek, prepentcti, by direction of her Grace the Duchess of Inverness, to the Freemasons of England, the magnificent candelabrum which had been AMU etght years since presented by that body to his Royal Highness the late lamented Duke of Sussex, while Grand Master; the Chairman, in doing so, pronounced an eloquent eUlogitint bn the character and virtues of the illustrious deceased Prince, and adverted to the great loss the craft had sustained by his demise, and handed in an appropriate letter from the DieheSS of Inverness soliciting their acceptance of so valuable a relic, and it was also stated that her Grace had directed the cande , labra to be purchased at the sale of his Royal Highness's effects, at the cost of 500/., with a view to its presentation. The valuable and highly-prized relic was received by the meet ing with the deepest enthusiasm, and it is under's. Doti that a general meeting of the fraternity will be promptly called for the purpose of passing an appropriate tribute of thanks to the Duchess of Inverness. THE GREAT BRITAIN.—A curious dispute has arisen in connexion with the wagers laid as to the time in which this %essel would perform the voyage to New York. Fifteen days seems to have been generally the period selected by the betters; and the question now is, whether the time is to be reckoned by the ordinary mode of computation or by calculat ing the actual time of sailing according to the ship's chrono , meter. By one method, the length of the voyage will be less than fifteen days, by the other it will be more. Thus, the Great Britain sailed from Liverpool on the 2tith of July at four ; she arrived at New York on the 10th of August, at three, P.M. There is a slight difference in some of the ac counts, but this appears to be the correct one. The time be tween port and port, according to dates, would, therefore, be 14 days 23 hours. But New York is 74 degrees west of Green wich, which is equal in time to 4 hours 56 minutes. The dif ference between Liverpool and Greenwich is equal to 12 minutes, which, 'deducted from 4 hours 56 minutes, leaves 4 hours 44 minutes to be added to the 14 days 23 hours; mak ing the real time which the vessel took to perform the voyage 15 days, 3 hours, 44 mioutes. It is a nice point; but we should certainly say that the fifteen days" taken as the basis of the wagers, meant fifteen days of twenty-four hours each, and taking the difference of longitude into account, the vessel did net make the passage in fifteen of such days.—Liverpool Courier. RELATIVE CLOSING PRICES OF RAILWAY SHARES IN THE PRINCIPAL CITIES AND TOWNS IN ENGLAND SCOTLAND, AND IRELAND. NAMES or RAILWAYS. Aberdeen • • • . Airdrie and Coatbridge Arbroath and Forfar .... Ditto Half Shares .... Armagh, Coir., & Portrnsh Bandon and Bantry Belfast and Ballymena .. Belfast and County Down B rim hd.Lan. & Ches.Jnc. Birmingham and Glo'ster Do. New (iss . at 7% dis.) Ditto Half Shares .... Birminglun & Oxfrd.Junc. Blckburn, and Preston.. Blckburn, Darwn,& Boltn Bolton, Wigan, & Liverpl. Boston, Stamfrd and Birm Brighton, Lewes, & Hast. Bristol and Exeter... Ditto New. • .... Bristol and Gloucester Bristol and S. Wales June. British and Irish Union.. Caledon. and Ayrsh. June Caledon. & Dumbar. June. Caledonian Ditto Extension ...... Cambridge and Lincoln.. Chester and Birkenhead.. Ditto New Shares .... Ditto Half Shares .... Chester and IL lyhead Cheltenham and Oxford.. Chichester and Brighton.. Churnet Valley . • Clitheroe Junction ...... Clydesdale Junction Cork, Blackrck & Passage Cork and Bandon Cork and Killarney Cork and Waterford Cork and Youghal Canterbury and Dover... Coventry and Leicester.. Derby and Crewe . • • • Direct Lon. and Manchsta• Diss, Beccles, & Yarmoth DirectMan.(Remington's) Direct Northern • • • • • • • • Direct Norwich . • • • • • • • • Dublin and Belfast June. Dublin, Belfast, & Coln e Dublin and Drogheda. • • • Dublin and Galway . • • • • Dundalk and Enniskillen Dundee and Arbroath . • • Ditto New • • • • • • Dundee and Perk •• • • Durham and Sunderland East Lancashire (No. 1) Ditto (No. 2) Eastern Counties . • • .. • • Do. New . • • • • • • • • • • Do. Perp.s pr Ct., No. 1 Do. 6. ' No. 2 East Dereham & Norwich East Union . • • • • • • • • • • • • Ditto Extension • • • • • • Edinbgh, Glas., and Dum. Edinburgh and Glasgow.. Do. Quarter Shares • •• Do. New Quarter Shares Edin b. Leith, and Grantors Do. Prof. 5 per Cent.• Edinburgh and Northern Edinburgh and Peebles • • Edinburgh and Perth. • • • Ely and Huntingdon •• Enniskillen and Sligo.. • • Exeter, Yeovil, & Drchstr Fltwood, Prstn, & W. Rid. Gamkirk and Glasgow • • Glasgow and Ayr. • • Do. Quarter Shares.... Glasgow and Greenock • • Ditto New . • ... •. •• .. Ditto Preference • • • • • Glasgw, Dmfries, and Car. Glsgw, Kilmarnck, & Ard. Glasgow and Belfast Un. Goole and Doncaster • • • • Grand Junction . • • • . • • • • Ditto Half Shares • • • • Ditto Quarter Shares • • Ditto New Quarters • • Ditto Eighths . Grand Union . .... • • • • • • Great Eastern & Western Gt Grimsby & Dk Extens. Gt Grimsby and Sheffield Gt Sthrn & Wstrn (Irind) Ditto Extension .• • • • • Great Monster • • • • • • • • • • Gt Northern of Scotland Grt Northern of England Do. New 401. Shares • • Do. New 301. Shares • • Great Western •••• •• •• • • Ditto Half Shares • • • • Ditto Fifths ..—.......• Girlltl.d, Farehm,Bo Ports. Ilarwieh . • • ............ Hudrsfld & Man. ii.BiCan Huddersfield and Sheffield Hull and Gainsborough Hull and Selby.. • • Ditto Quarter Shares • • Ditto Half Shares • • • • Inverness and Elgin •• •• Isle of Jersey . • • • Kendal and Windermere Kingstown and Bray • • • • Killarney Junctions .•• Lancaster and Carlisle Lancaster and Preston .. Leeds and Bradford Ditto Extension .. • • Leeds and Dewsbury. • . • Leeds and Thirsk .•• • . . Leeds & W. Riding June. Leicester & Birmingham Leicester and Bedford ... Limerick and Waterford Limrck, Ennis, & Kil. Jne. Lincoln, York, and Leeds Liv. Man. & Gt N. of Eng. Liverpool and Manchester Ditto Half Shares • • • Ditto Quarter Shares.. LiverpLOrmskrk,& Prstn London and Birmingham Ditto Thirds • • • Ditto Quarters .• • • London and Blaekwall . London and Brighton. • Ditto Consolid. Eighths London and Croydon Ditto New . ••• • • • • Do. Guarant. 5 per Cnt.• London and Greenwich.. Do. Pref. or Privilege • . London and South Westrn Do. New Cons. Eighths 1)o. New, 501 Shares.. Do. New, 401. Shares.. London and York ....... Ditto (Bawtry) London and Windsor.... Londu, Salsbury, & Yeovl Londonderry & Coleraine Londonderry & Enuiskilln Lynn and Ely ...... .... Lynn and Dereham ..... Manchester and Leeds Ditto Half Shares .. Ditto Quarter Shares.. Ditto Sixteenths . • •. • . Manchstr and Birkenhead Manchester &Birminglim Ditto Quarter Shares • . Ditto New Quarters ... Do. Con. & Welsh June. Manchestr, Boltn, & Bury 3lnchstr, Buxtn, & Matlk Man. Shef. and Mid. June. Manchestr & Southamptn Midland .. • • • • • • • • • . • • • • Ditto Fifths • • • • • • • • • • Ditto New .• • • Do. Con. r, irm. & Derby Midind Gt Westrn (Irish) Do. Extension to Sligo Newestl & DaringtnJunc. New (Brandling) Newcastle and Berwiek• Newcastle and Carlisle Nwestle, Durham, & Lan Newfort & Abcrgavenny Newry and Ennis.killen• . Newark and Sheffield . • . North British • • • • • • • • Ditto New Shares .• Northern and Eastern Do. Scrip (iss.at 5 dis ) Do. Quarter Shares • . North Devon North Kent • • •• ++ • • • • • • North Stafrordshire North Eastern .• • • . • • • • • North Union (A). • • • • • • • Ditto (13) • • • • .• North Wales Mineral— Ditto New Shares • • • • North Western :++• : s • • North Walt9l L.. ia; i + N - orivich and Brandon Ditto New. • • • • • • • • • • • Not., Belvoir, & Grauthm Nottingham rind tOsioh• • Nott.,Erwsli• Arai. & Man. NottinghaM.& Manspold gifttrd and ttirtnitig. MA!: oxford and Worcester • • Oxford and Cambridge Perth and Xn.ycnieS • : • • Porbirlottili Direct.:.... Preston and Wyre • DittO Dd. si:er Ct. onar Do. Pref. 5 per Ct. & div. Preston & Wyre Richmond & W s :Rpajtine Win'cesti; Sc Tring Seottish Central, ... .. • • ScottM Midland.: • . • • • • Sh_eTeld and Ditto (barter Share• • Ditto ditto (No. 2)• • m) Dltio, di (P - o. A).: Sheffield and Lincoln.. • • Sheffield and Rotherham Shrewsbry& rtiftudjUnt. Shrewib., Wor., & Crewo Shrws.,Wolv., Diu & Bir Shrwlbry & Trut Val. Shr*S; Slamannan • ... • • ;. South Devon • • • • . • . • • • • South Midland:. • • •• .• South Entitein and Dover Sept. 4. 4y, 7%P r 1 IA 7-P, 12Ti p p ' 10% 5 1 4 3' 8 1 ,f 3 47 , 2 218 1 / 2 104 - SUP Sept. 4. 4% 101s61 1 ,2;6d 4% 6156 d 34% 47X /3, 1011 36% 23% 17 3Fs G 4 40 1 ,4 2% 73 12% 34 200 191S0 1 22 4 0 8 5 _ 8% 44 6 - 4 g l g . i , - - ISept. Sept 4. 4. 5% 31153 3%' 379 6% 18% 73§3d Do.NeW (iss.32/.).n. 1 Do. (i55.331:68.8d.) ,; fiksi ;; Staines and Richmond . • • Staffordshire & Shropshire Stirling, and DunfernahrilS South Write?! t; Teen and DoVe Valley' • • Trent ,• • • • • •,; • • • Do. anqllob•headdiinE. ','Ate of Neath .. • • • • • West London, Old Shares West End & Sothrn Cohn. tlt:d Carib* • • ; • Warwick and Cheltenham 15956d1 4% 4 liS64 48% 133% 5889.1 15 - 889 d 4 - !ip I 183s9dj 438 P 17s 6 P 7% 17% 40s p 60s p 1315 P, Waterford and Kilkenny Watrfil,Wxfd,Wiek& Dtib Wakefield and liradtbrd Waldid, Pontefret;& Gool Wakefield and Harrogate Warwick and London West LaiMisllirt Worcester and Tring.. • Whitehavn and Fumes% Do. New Half Shares• • 914 4i4 !32s p Welih We.t C0rnwa11..... .... West Yorkshire ilsontwn, M.& Coltness Wilts, Somrst, & Weymth Yarmouth and Norwich .• Ditto New . • York and Carlisle .. • Yor!c and North Midland Ditto Half Shares !a‘4 4% Sept. 3. 41i 4% 79s 63s 89s 13% 7956 d Ditto Scarbro' Branch Ditto Selby • • • • • • • • .• Ditto Extension ...... Yorkshire& Glasgow iln. HULL, SErr. 4. 16 - 2s6d l " 8 Is6p 16556 d, 9% 2% )5 3% 2% w ~i 3i4 24 '4 - j - s p STOCK ExcnaweE.:the sales are—Hull and Selby, Half 23}4-London and Croydon, Nov, 365. p,—Blackburn, Darwen, and Balton, 10 1 4—Caledonian Extension, 3% — Eastern Union Extension, 3% G: a Grimsby and Sheffield, Quarter Shares, 4 1 / 2 —Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction, 30—Huddersfield and Manchester Railroad and Canal, 30 —Leeds and Thirsk, 21—Lynn and Dereharn, 5 1 4—North British, Half Shares, 10—STorth Wales s —Oxford, Worces ter, and Wolverhampt on , 11—Armagh, Coleraine, and Port rush, 3—Bandon and Bantry, 2/. Is. 3d.—Cambridge and Lincoln, 4%—Coventry, Nuneaton, &c., 3%—Derby and Crewe, 5 1 / 2 —Dublin and Galway, 614—East Lincolnshire, 3 1 / 2 —East Coast, 3%—Glasgow and Dumfries, 2 3 /—Grand Union, 755. 60.—Great Eastern and Western, 3%—Leicester and Birmingham, 3—Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction. 7%—London and Birmingham Extension, 3 1 / 2 -- London and Manchester (Remington's), 41 4—Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, 9 3 4 —Nottingham, Erewash, &c., 5 —Nottingham and Mansfield, 3 1 / 2 —Rugby and Huntingdon, 4—South Midland, 6%p.—Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junc tion, 7—Staines and Richmond, 3 1 / 2 —Tean and Dove Valley, 334—Trent Valley Continuation, 3 1 4—Wakefield and Brad ford, 8 1 / 6—West Yorkshire, 21 1 / 2 —Welsh Midland, 5 1 4 3 _ York and Carlisle, 6 3 / 4 —Yorkshire and Glasgow Union, 44 Bs. YORK, SErr. 4. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Eastern Union Ex ten • sion, 31. 143.—North British, New, 10% —Clitheroe June. tion, 6—Grand Union, 3/. 11s —Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction, 18%—Lancashire, Yorkshire, and North Eastern 3%—Leeds and York, 10 3 %—Leicester and Bedford, 4-2 London and York, 6%—Manchester, Buxton, &c., 9% — Newcastle and Berwick ' 25 1 4—Nottingham. Erewash, and Ambergate, WA—North Staffbrdshire, 6 1 / 6—North Western, 6 1 ,4—Welsh Midland, s—West Yorkshire, 18%—York and Carlisle, 5%. SHEFFIELD, SEPT. 4 STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Birmingham and Gloucester, 133—Eastern Counties, 21—Sheffield and Man chester, 143 1 /,' 2 York and Selby 501. shares. 771/2—Cam bridge and Lincoln, 51-16—Goole and Doncaster, 3 Grimsby and Sheffield, 17% —Ditto, Quarter shares, 4 1 4 Grimsby Railway and Dock Extension, 7—Grand Union (Nottingham to Lynn), 3%—London and Windsor, 2 London and York, 7—Leeds and Bradford, 60—Leeds and Dewsbury, 39—Nottingham, Erewash, and Ambergate, 5 1-16 —North Western, 7 1 4—Sheffield and Lincolnshire, 61. Is. 6d. —Wakefield and Harrogate, 3% p. LUDDERSFIELD, SErr. 4 STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Cambridge and Lin coln, s—Essex and Suffolk, 31s. p.—Grand. Union, 3 1 / 2 GlaFgow and Dumfries, 2—Huddersfield and Manchester, 251/—Leicester and Birmingham, 7% —Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 7—Manchester and•Birkenhead Continuation, 355. p.—North Western, 7—West Yorkshire, 18. EDINBURGH, SEPT. STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales arc-Aberdeen, 3/. 155.- Aberdeen, Banff. and Elgin, 2/. lOs -Arbroath and Forfar, 25L-Ditto, Half Shares, 151.-Armagh and Portrusb, 21.- Banffshire, 21. Os. 6d.-British and Irish Union, 3/. I4s. 6d. -Belfast and County Down, 31. 155.-Cambridge and Lin coln, 31. 10s.-Caledonian, 12/. 55.-Caledonian Extension, 3/. 12s. 6d.---Caledonian and Dumbarton, 3/. 17s. 6d.-Clydes dale Junction, 91. 2s. 6d.-Direct Northern, 2/. Its.-Dundee and Arbroath, 37/. Is. 6d.-Ditto, New, 181.-Dundee and Perth, 61.-Edinburgh and Bathgate, 3/. 35.-Edinburgh and Glasgow, 901.-Ditto, Quarters, 21/. 155.-Ditto, New, 151.-Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Dumbarton, 1/. 10s.-Edin burgh, Leith, and Gran ton, 261.-Ditto, Preference, 171. 10s. -Edinburgh and Northern, 2/.165.-Ditto, New, 1/.los. 6d. -Edinburgh and Peebles, 3/. ls.-Edinburgh and Perth, 11. 165.-Glasgow and Ayrshire, 731.-Ditto, New Stock, 221.-Ditto, 17/. 10s.-Glasgow and Belfast Union, 44- Glasgow and Garnkirk, 411.-Glasgow, Dumfries, and Car lisle, 31.-Glasgow and Greenock, 211.-Ditto, New Stock, 10/. 55.-Ditto, Preference, W.-Great North of Scotland, 3/. 55.-Inverness and Elgin, 1/. 65.-Kilmarnock and Ar dro!san, 5/. 155.-London and York, 6/. 10s. -31onkland and Kmtilloch, 331.-Morayshire, 11.-North British, 29/. -Ditto, Halves, 9/. 55.-Ditto, One-fifth, 8/. IN.-North Wales Mineral, New, 6/. 55.-Perth and Inverness, 2/. 7s. 6d. -Scottish Central, 71. 145.-Scottish Midland, 2/. 45.- Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester, 5/. 35.-Shrewsbury and Hereford, 1/. 18s. 6d.-Slamannan, 18/...105.-South Midland, 9'. 2s. 6d.-Stirling and Dunfermline, IL 175.- Tean and Dove Valley, 31. 7s. 6d.-Waterford, Wicklow, and Dublin, 1/. 165.-Wishaw and Coltness, 391. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. THE CROYDON ATMOSPHERIC. Yesterday having been appointed for the purpose of publicly testing the working qualities of the atmospheric railway laid down from the Dartmouth Arms to Croydon, a distance of five and a half miles, the public, or at least that portion of it supposed to be interested in these mat ters, was invited to witness the experiments. Among the many who were present, we noticed Lord Claude Hamilton, ALP., and several other persons of high stand ing in the scientific world. The Chairman and Direc tors of the Croydon Company were also in attendance. It had been arranged that the first "trip" should have been at two o'clock, but some unforeseen circumstances arose to defeat this intention, and it was nearly three ere the train departed from the further terminus. The last of the experiments concluded at about six o'clock. The atmospheric principle is probably known to the greater portion of our readers, but a brief recapitula tion of the principal features upon the present line may not be considered out of place. _ _ _ _ We have said that the length of railway completed is five and a half miles ; workmen are, however, busily employed in laying down tubes for the remaining five miles to London, and next summer will probably see, in a finished state, a through line to Epping (in all eighteen miles), intended to connect with the railway known as the Portsmouth Atmospheric, which received the sanction of Parliament during the bygone session. Throughout the length of line is laid down between the rails a tube of iron, having a groove in its upper surface into which a piston, some eighteen inches in diameter, is sunk, the same piston being connected with the lead ing carriage of the train. Three stationary engines, each of two fifty-horse power, at nearly equal distances, the centre at Norwood, and the remaining two at either extreme, exhaust the air from before the train, and a valve behind giving it admission, the atmospheric pres sure upon the piston drives the carriages on in exactly the same proportion with the vacuum formed before them. To prevent any loss by leakage, a leathern flap, protected by plates of iron, covers the groove. A wheel going before the piston raises the flap, while, another wheel following, closes it, and with a preparation of bees wax and tallow, so to speak, so hermetically seals it, that not the slightest loss is in this way sustained. The ruling gradient is 1 in 600, excepting at the crossing of the Brighton line, where the engineer has, in the most masterly manner, obviated all the disadvantages arising from a crossing on the level by leading the Croydon over the former line by a wooden bridge at an inclina tion of 1 in 50. At foulkteen minutes to three o'clock, by order of Mr. Samuda, who directed the proceedings, the engines were ordered to exhaust the tube. That at Norwood, however, not being in working trim, was dispensed with, and the further engine, at th Dartmouth Arms (a dis tance, be it remembered, of five miles and_a half), was alone required. The train, consisting of seventeen car riages, filled to overflowing, and weighing, probably, above eighty tons, started from Croydon at the rate of some thirty miles an hour, and continued that speed till it reached the extreme end, thus silencing for ever the scientific wiseacres, who before the Committees at Westminster affirmed that any stationary engine at a greater distance than three miles would be useless, be cause it could only insure a speed of 15 miles an hour. After a few minutes spent at the Dartmouth Arms, Mr. Samuda returned over the same ground at very nearly, if not at the same, rate of travelling. It was then deter mined to test the principle at an increased speed, and after the lapse of some time the - train, with only eight carriages, was started, and with a vacuum of from 201bs. to 261bs. on the square inch, it came up to 70 miles an hour, and this too over the rising inclination of one in fifty. The return trip was equally satisfactory. The result amply verified the promises made by Mr. Samuda before the Railway Committees, and it requires no very keen perception to see, that before many years have gone by locomotive engines, like the stage-coach horses of yore, shall have left but a name behind them. The advantages are manifest, for not only is there no possibility of accident, but even with the greater, as well as with the lesser speed, the motion was such that we could write with the greatest ease, even in a third. class carriage, and it might in a first-cla.ss almost be doubted whether there wero any motion at all. With respect to the stationary engine -houses, they are con structed in the best possible taste, a sort of Gothic- Elizabethan, and with their high chimneys, like church spires, forming not only a striking but a pleasing fea ture In the landscape. Along the line there were crowds of lookers-on, who seemed deeply interested in the result. Mr. Samuda will continue his experiments until the line Is opened, which is expected in a fortnight dr three weeks. This much is evident, that the success of the principle is decisive, and that Mr. Samuda, who has been, if not tile creator, certainly the improver, deserves well of his country. GREAT EASTERN AND WESTERN MEETING AT LEI)BURY. The 4eputation of the Grtat Eastern and Western Railway attended at the Feathers, on Tuesday, for the purpose of laying before the inhabitants the nature of the t.lfit'ottittootlation it was the intention of that Company to afford to the town and neighbourhood. 'this meeting was taken advantage of by some parties who have put fonteird a scheme for a railway between Worcester, Ledbury, and Ross, running in front of Great Malvern ; through the beautiful valley immediately under it; and frOm thence across the property of Earl Somers and Mf! biddulph; to Ledbury, and thence to Ross, for the purpose of getting A demonstration in its favour. Thi§ object they managed to atitilfi: Mt. Robert Biddulph having been in the chair, WAttii, M. 1.; explained to the meeting net the Objett of the deptitation was simply to pass the compli ment to the inhabitants of dti tiiplansition of the views of the Great Eastern and Western Company its regard to their town ; and that he did not seek for any expression of *filth): Clei the eontrary, he wished them to have an opportunity of weighing the merits of all the schemes that might be offered to them before they pledged theft seltes to any in particular. He th( n stated that the Great Eastern and Western line would rut two miles to the north of Ledbury, where a first class Station would be provided for the accommodation of the district, and that a branch line would be brought dot 4 in the *alley to any point of the town that the in- _ habitants might consider most desirable. By means of the Great Eastern and Western Railway, the markets be ket f s Birminghamof and South Staffordshire would opened to the neighbourhood , as also those of food hills of South Wales. A g reat p ortion of the ood consumed by the enormous population in the mineral districts was at present supplied by sea ; and the Great Eastern and Western was the only line that would place Ledbury in direct and unbroken commu nication with them. In proof of this he showed that by this line the distance between Ledbury and Merthyr by rail would, with the branch, be under sixty miles ; whereas, by those lines purporting to connect South Wales with Herefordshire by the coast line, a distance of 120 miles would have to be traversed. Oa Mr. Ward resuming his seat, Mr. JONES, the solicitor of the Worcester, Ledbury, and Ross line, stated that, in his opinion, the Grcat Eastern and Western would not accommodate the town so well as his line. He did not like branch lines—they were very inconvenient ; which he instanced by stating that in the event of the train on the main line being de tained for an hour and a half, the branch line IN oald al-o be detained. He then pointed out that the South Wales line started to Fisliguard and got down to Swansea up to Neath, down to Cardiff; touched at Newport, and at pre sent stopped at Chepstow, that it had failed to pass over the Severn at Heck Cribb, and that the Company in tended to try to pass it next session ; that the South Wales Company meant to go up to Monmouth and thence to Ross ; and that his line going from Worcester to Lcdbury and Ross, was on the high road to South Wales, and thercrore to be preferred to the line of the Great Eastern and Western. He then re quested Captain Jones to move a resolution pleding the town in favour of his direct and independent scheme, which resolution Captain Jones accordingly moved, and it having bet n duly seconded, Mr. MARTIN, the banker, reminded the meeting that they had not met to discuss the merits of rival schemes, but to hear what were the intentions of the Great Eastern and Western Railway in regard to their town; that he had never heard of Mr. Jones's scheme until be had come into that room; and be cautioned them against stultifying themselves by a pledge until they had had time to reflect on all the schemes that were projected. He concluded :by moving an amendment to the effect that the meeting was not at present in a position to come to any resolution on the subject. _ _ This view of the case was also taken by the Rev. Mr. Underwood, of Bosbury, and Mr. Biddulph Phillips ; but Mr. Jones insisting on having the resolution put from the chair, it was found on a show of hands that thirty-seven only were for the amendment, whilst some fifty gentle men he!d up their hanls for the original motion. Mr. JONES then called for three cheers to celebrate his triumph. We are informed, however, that every in dividual possessed of any portion of the property over which the projected lines purpose to pass was decidedly opposed to the Worcester and Ross scheme, and that Mr. Robert Biddulph himself had, that morning, directed its projector to erase his name from the list of the provi sional committee, i❑ which it had been inserted without his knowledge or leave. Mr. Ward and Mr. Douglasse afterwards took some refreshments at Mr. Biddulph's, having received their strong assurances that a branch line, with a station just at the outskirts of Ledbury, would furnish all the accommodation required by the town, and would certainly be the arrangement which all the influential inhabitants would prefer.-IVormtel Journal of yesterday. MANCHESTER AND SOUTHAMPTON. CIRENCESTER, SEPT. I.—Agreeably to a requisition, signed by the Right Hon. the Earl Bathurst and two hundred of the most respectable inhabitants of this town and neighbourhood, a public meeting, convened by the High Steward, was held on Saturday last, for the pur pose of affording them an opportunity of expressing their sentiments en the importance of the projected Mari-• ehester and Southampton Railway ; and a more respect able meeting was never held in Cirencester. Among the company were Earl Bathurst, E. Hopkinson, Esq , High Sheriff of the county ; Sir T. Tancred, Bart., J. W. Lyon, Esq., F. Cripps, Esq., W. Dent, Esq., of Sudeley Castle ; Raymond Cripps, Esq., &c. James Walkin shaw, Esq., and Joseph Lankester, Esq., attended as a deput3.tion from the Company. Mr. WALKINSHAW, in. a very clear and Perspi cuous manner, laid before the meeting the plans of the Company, and the advantages likely to arise from the projected railway. In the course of his address, he paid a high, but deserved compliment to Earl Bathurst. His Lordship (said Mr. Walkinshaw) has assured us, with all that absence of personal or selfish considerations, for which he is so re markable, that although the line should go through his park, however inconvenient it might be, and however op posed to all his early associations, still he would not allow any private feeling of his own to interfere with the course of such a great public advantage. Mr. Walkinshaw was followed by Mr. LANKESTER who also spoke with great clearness and ability. A number of resolutions were then proposed and se conded by different gentlemen, and carried unanimously. Before the meeting separated, Earl BATHURST said, —" I may take the liberty of mentioning what some of you may know, but which may not be unsatisfactory to Mr. Bowley and others to learn, that a part of the pro posed scheme (the Northern) was twice proposed by me to influential persons connected with the Great Western Railway, bet without success. I proposed it by letter to an authority of the Company before the Great Western made the line to Kemble, and I proposed it orally the day it was opened and completed. Neither of my pro positions, however, met with any decided support ; and' think it is our duty to assist those who offer us wat is most useful."—Devizes Gazette. MANCHESTER, BURY, AND ROSSENDALE. This railway commences in the township of Clifton, by a junction with the Manchester and Bolton Railway, op posite the point where the Patricroft and Clifton Branch of the. Liverpool and Manchester Railway will commence, at the distance of about four and a half miles from Manchester ; it then proceeds along the district of Out wood, and adjacent to the large village of Ringley, and continues by alternate cuttings and embankments through the most populous portion of the extensive ma nufacturing township of Pilkington, which, at the date of the last census, contained 11,186 inhabitants. On the northern border of this township, where it adjoins the parish of Radcliffe, and near the point where the railway crosses the river Irwell, is situate the populous village of Radcliffe Bridge, and its equally flourishing adjunct named Stand-lane ; these united places contain a population of upwards of 5,000. Within the village and the immediate localities around, there are eight cotton ma nufactories, twenty-one nankeen manufactories, nine cheek and gingham manufactories, eight dye-works, five calico printing-works, five bleaching establishments, and two collieries. On quitting Radcliffe-bridge, the rail way crosses a rich agricultural district, and shortly afterwards the line pass es over one of the principal streets of the large and increasing town of Bury. The population of the borough of Bury in 1841, was 25,912. The number of cotton-mills in the town and neighbour hood is about forty, woollen ten, calico printing concerns five, and machine-making works six, exclusive of seve ral collieries in the immediate vicinity. In a central situation adjacent to the main streets of the town, this railway will form a junction with the Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool line, or, as it is frequently designated, the Liverpool and Bury Railway, which will bestow on the place most important and advantageous facilities of an cess to Bolton, _Liverpool, and the north.—Bradshazv's Gazette. MAIDSTONE AND ASHFORD. During the last week the surveyors of the South- Eastern Company have been measuring and taking levels for the direct line which they propose to make between London and this town, with a continuation to .Ashford. The line, it is said, will come through Mr. Smithe's timber-wharf in the West borough, cross the Medway almost exactly in the line of the river Len, along the course of which it will continue all through the town, thus avoiding much interference with valuable property. The station, it is said, will be in the gardens at the back of the Swan Inn, with a handsome opening to the High street, for which purpose the removal of several houses facing the Kent Fire•oflice will be necessary. This is what is said—what will be done is another thing.— Maidstone Journal. SCOTTISH CENTRAL. The first ordinary meeting of the shareholders of this railway was held on Friday within the Council Cham ber, Perth. The meeting was very numerously attended. Major William Moray Stirling, of Ardoch and Abercair ney, in the chair. The CHAIRMAN said that a full statement of the affairs of tho Company would be laid before the meeting. He could assure them that no line of the same extent and importance as the Scottish Central had passed both Houses of Parliament, especially considering the great opposition they had to encounter, with so little expense. lie then called the attention of the meeting to the report, which he requested the Secretary to read to the meeting. The Secretary then read the report of the Directors. Mr. ERRINCTON, engineer, reported that the line had been almost entirely staked out, and that the proprietors of land along the line had nfforded every facility to the Company, so that the work was commenced immediately upon the Bill passing the Committee of the House of Lords, and considerable progress had been made. The materials were as favourable as could have been ex pected. Four shafts had been sunk, two of which were already down to a level of the tunnel, and the drift mine had been commenced. The open cutting and embank ment towards the Earn were also now in progress. Shafts had also been sunk for the tunnel at Kippemoss. The working section for that portion of the line re quiring the earliest completion—viz., between Stirling and Castlecarry, was prepared, and the section of the whole line would be completed in a week. He urged the Committee to procure the land as speedily as possible. The contractors had provided themselves with a suffi cient quantity of waggons, barrows, &c., to enable them to carry on the works without any delay. The iron rails, to a great extent, had also been provided, and the engi neers would take care that the, should be laid as speedily as possible.' The CHAIRMAN then congratulated the Shareholders upon the advanced and prosperous state of the business of the Company's concerns. He was happy to say that, in their arduous endeavours to get the Act, there had not been the delay of a single hour either on the part of their Parliamentary agents, engineers, or secretary lie was glad to avail himself of this opportunity of experess ing his own thanks, and those of the gentlemen received from tweeh,jefhorthtehe constant frotii them. and unw earied A. H. M. B v , sim e, Esq., of Invermay, moved the ap proval of the report. seconded the resolution, which was Provost WRIGHT f. , " E v s e q d .,then moved that the teal of the Compan y s hould be affixed to the list of Shareholders. I:sis:Rs a j in lic s l Av, Esq., seconded the resolution, which was carried, item. con. JOHN PITCAIRN, Esq., of Pitcairn, then :moved the election of the Directors. The Right Hon. Lord Rol,Lo seconded the election, which was unanimously agreed to. Sir JOHN RICIURDSON then moved the thanks of the meeting to the Provisional Committee, which was seconded by J. M. NAIRNF, Esq., of Dunsinane, and carried by ac clamati,-c. The CHAIRMAN then said, it was their duty to ap point auditors, and the Directors had agreed to recom mend Mr. Watson, accountant, and Mr. Jas. Morrison, accountant, Perth, for the approval of the meeting ; of course, it was open to them to propose others if they thought proper. No other party being proposed, the recommendation of the Directors was unanimously agreed to. The salary for each auditor was fixed at 251. per annum. The CirAininAN then proposed that R. D. Kerr, Esq., should be elected permanent secretary to the company. He left it with the meeting to fix the amount of salary to be given to Mr. Kerr. gie nomination baring bees agreed to, it was proposed and carried that the salary b e 400/. per annum. The CHAIRMAN regretted that from domestic circum strnees the Marquis of Breadalbane was not able to oc cupy the chair. He assured them that his Lordship telt a d( ep interest in the railway, and would do everything to promote its interest. It was then agreed that 5001. per annum should be al lowed to the Directors for the expenses. DAVID llyrcum, Esq., of Huntingtower, moved a vote of thanks to the Directors, which being seconded by John Ritchie, Esq., of Cultmalunds, was carried nem. con. LUDOVICK COLQUROTIN, Esq., then moved a vote of thanks to the Chairman for his conduct in the chair, and for his exertions in promoting the interests of the line. This resolution having been carried by acclamation, the Chairman made a brief and suitable reply, and the meet ing separated. EDINBURGH, LEITH . , AND GRANTON. The peculiar situation cf the Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton Railway is so marked with usefulness, that we need not to plead excuse in entering fully into its merits. The railway takes its rise from the station at the North Bridge, and passing by a tunnel under the New Town of Edinburgh, branches off to Granton Pier en the left, and to the Leith Docks on the right. The Granton branch is near completion, and when this valu able portion is open to the public, we shall then avail ourselves of the opportunity thus afforded of dilating upon its merits. The true interest of the Leith branch, however, is not known ; bat when known, must be highly valued. Rails are to be laid round the docks of Leith, which is an advantage not attained in any sea port in the kingdom. But there is a branch which oiverges from the main line to the station lately pur clia_ed for the use of the railway, consisting of nearly 700 lineal yards of quay on the north side of the upper harbour, on which large warehouses can be erected, and vessels can run al_ongside, and not only discharge or receive their cargoes without the expense of carriage, but also with this great advantage—of not being exposed to bad weather. The Leith Dock Commissioners, being quite alive to the importance of this railway, have it under consideration to deepen that part of the upper har bour, and by the formation of flood-gates above and be low this portion of the harbour, atavery trifling expense, very extensive dock room will be formed for large ves sels, which, hying always kept afloat, will remove many obstacles to the use of this portion of the eld harbour existing at present. Much credit is due to the energy and spirit that has been displayed by the hoard in carry ing out their plans, and it is very much to be regretted that the public attention has not been drawn at an earlier period to these plans, which it has ever been their object to carry out.—Scetch Railway Gazette. HAY MARKET THEATRE. Poole's drama, entitled Past and Presert, was revived at this theatre last evening, and was received with that enthesiasm which its representation never fails to elicit when Farren acts the part of Larose. This was one of the earliest of those dramas founded on the French Re volution, which are divided into epochs, and, certes, it Is one of the best—as an r.c . ing play, perhaps the very best. If e mistake not, this was also the earliest drama in which Farren delineated the various phases of old ago. In the first act (1789) he is a hearty, well-formed man of 53, the faithful steward of the Marquis St. Victor (Mr. E tuart), arising his master and his family, the friend and playfellow of young Julian de St. Victor (Miss Julia Bennett), the Mar quis's son. In the second act, 1793, he is disguised as a. woodcutter, the friend and safeguard of his master, then a prisoner in the Conciergerie. A casket of treasure has been entrusted to his care, and religiously does he keep his trust. In the third act, 1829, he is an old man of upwards of 90. St. Victor has been murdered in the Revolution, Julian has been killed at the head of his regiment, and old Larose is living near the chateau de St. Victor, in Normandy. The son of Julian, the heir to the St. Victor property, arrives there. The old man recognises him, and, napkin on arm, serves him at table as he had been wont of yore to serve his grandfather. He tells the boy of the hidden casket of treasure, takes him to the chateau, and endeavours to revive his own recollections as to where he had secreted the precious treasure. The sight of the various rooms revives former recollections. He sees his old manta. being dragged away by the revolutionary officers—he hears the sounds of horror of that dreadful night. The boy endeavours to bring him back to the casket. He tot ters round and round the room—he has forgotten the spot where it is hidden. At length a casual word brings back his memory ; the casket is found hidden behind a grate ; it is brought forward ; the old man joins together the hands of the youth and of his lady-love, blesses them, and dies. Nothing can be more beautiful, more pathetic, more true to nature, more artist-like, in the highest sense of the term, than the performance of Farren in this last act. It is impossible to describe it. It must be seen--it must be felt to be appreciated. We say felt ad visedly, for it goes at once to the heart, and that so completely, that it is impossible to criticise it until, by seeing it frequently, one has become case-hardened. Miss Julia Bennett's young St. Victor was a very spi rited performance ; it is, perhaps, the best she has yet done. She gave the laughing joyousness of the brave, gay, high-spirited youth—the votary of love, and wit, and war—sans souci et sans six sous—to the life. Mr. H. Roll's Count de Florville was very good. In the two first acts, as the polished, empty-headed, careless fop, he was very good ; but, in the last act, as the old beau—the man of sixty-three, the ci-devant jeune homme, he was more than good—he was artistical—the distinction between the young fop and the old fop was beautifully discriminated, and was admirably preserved. Mr. Stuart, as the Marquis St. Victor, made more of the character than we ever remember to have seen made of it. There is a power and an intensity in Stuart's acting which inva riably tells in such characters as this. Farren was called for at the fall of the curtain, and it is not often that a call is so well deserved. The house was crowded ; and no doubt Past and Present will draw crowded houses for many nights to come. COURT CIRCULAR. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Gloucester an .1 th Duke of Cambridge left Richmond Park, at half past two o'clock on Wednesday afternoon, for Bushy House, Bushy Park, and visited her Majesty the Queen Dowager and her Serene Highness the Duchess Ida of Saxe Weimar. The Duchess of Gloucester and the Duke of Cam bridge left Bushy House in the evening, and returned to Richmond Park. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge left Richmond Park yesterday, for town. HARBOURS OF REFUGE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,—As your spirited journal has from time to time urged upon the Government the important subject of harbours of refuge, I respectfully solicit your indulgence for a few brief remarks respecting these great national undertakings, through the medium of your columns. It appears that a large sum of money has been voted for the commencement of a breakwater at Dover, and the policy of so large an expenditure upon such an experi mental and doubtful site, while a more eligible spot, se lected, and so strongly recommended by the Harbours of Refuge Commissioners, remains apparently unnoticed, bas most justly been questioned by many maratime and practical men. The fine, noble Bay of Seaford, pos sessing an unusual depth of water, being about mid-way between Portsmouth and Dover, having the harbour of Newhaven (so capable of grea t i mprovements ) i n i ts im mediate vicinity, with the advantages of a coast railway near to the shore, seems unfortunately to have been overlooked, or to have had an inferior weight in the pre sent decision of Government. It is not an unfrequent spectacle during the prevalence of easterly winds to see a fleet of from thirty to seventy vessels, and sometimes more, of all sizes, lying at anchor in Seaford Bay, enjoy ing the natural shelter there afforded, and many thou sands of British tailors are well aware how impossible it is to round Beachy Head, at all seasons of the year, in contrary winds. It is much to be hoped her Majesty's Ministers have only delayed the works at this superior bay for a short period only, otherwise there will be no secure shelter for merchant vessels and steamers between Portland and Dover, thus leaving an extensive and dan gerous portion of the southern coast entirely unprotected, and which it may be too late to lament in the event of war. I will only further remark, that the est imates (as contained in the Commissioners' Report of last year) were, for Dover, 2,500,0001., and for Seaford only half of that amount, viz., 1,250,0001. You have frequently expressed your editorial remarks in favour of the Bay of Seaford, and trust this groat question, so highly important to the country at large, wilt again receive your early attention, and the serious consideration of the Admiralty and the Government. —I remain, Sir, yours, most respectfully, Aug. 26, 1845. A READER. Mr. HupsoN.—Our opinion of Mr. Hudson has been repeatedly expressed. What he is he has chiefly to thank himself for. Prudence and energy are curiously mingled in him. Natural sagacity he possesses very largely ; and be seems gifted also with no small share of common sense. We doubt whether he has shown his accustomed tact in seeking for a seat in Parliament. Mr. Cobden, it is true, obtained a similar position, and has won very high repute as a legislator, but then Mr. Cobden is a brilliant exception to a general rule, and had the additional advantage of being very well edu cated, of having travelled through the greater part of Europe and the United States, and of having obtained very high repu tation as a political writer before he entered Parliament. Add to this the advantage of comparative youth, while his mind, in many ways, had obtained fah maturity.—Railway Express. BARNET FAlR.—This great cattle fair commenced yesterday. The stock offered for sale this year was exceedingly great, and the business was brisk. The black cattle occupied a very considerable portion of the fair-field, and were in much better condition than Welsh cattle generally are at this season of the year, which is attributed to the plentifulness of pasture. The prices obtained was from Si. to 81. Bs. ; Scots made 14/., and fat beasts averaged 4s. per stone. Mulch cows met with ready sale at prices varying from 141. 10s. to 18 guineas, and heifers done calving 91. 9s. The sheep-pens were not exten sive : good down wethers ma !e ss. per stone, and lambs for stock 17s. a head. Prime young cart-horses obtained good prices, but old and inferior ones met with a dull sale. The droves of Welsh ponies were thick, and a good many were sold. Upon the whole, neat stock made 10 per cent. increase on last year's prices, and the general account from the several counties is, that there is an abundance of feed for grazing, and that the price of stock will be lower. _ MURDER AND SUICIDE.—On Tuesday afternoon an inquest was held at the Springfield goal, Chelmsford, on the body of William Blackburn, who attempted self-destruction by cutting his throat immediately after murdering his wife, at the village of Stondon, Mopey, in that county, in June last, and against whom a verdict of " Wilful murder " was returned by the coroner's jury. The man and his deceased wife had lived as servants in the house of Mr. Ffrench, of Stondon Hall, and she was found n her bedroom, lying on the bed, dead, with her throat cut. The husband was nowhere to be found, and later in the day was met with near a neighbouring wood, having also inflicted a frightful wound in his own throat. A razor was discovered in his pocket, and he acknowledged committing the injuries. Ile was unable to take his trial for the murder of his wife at the late assizes. Latterly he became more rational, but exceedingly dejected. A turnkey was constantly with him, and extreme exhaustion ended his days on Friday last. The jury returned a verdict " That the deceased died from the effects of a wound in his throat, inflicted by himself whilst in a state of temporary insanity." SHOCKING WAGGON ACCIDENT AT BAYSWATER.— Yesterday afternoon a man, named Vincent, was getting off the shaft of Johnson's Uxbridge waggon at Bayswater, in doing which he slipped and tell to the ground and before it was possible for the driver to stop his horses the front wheels passed over his legs, fracturing both of them in a shocking manner, and the hind wheel passed over his body. He was removed to St. George's Hospital, and without hopes of recovery. TILE SILK-TRADE.—A meeting of the silk manu fact.", s of the metropolis was held at the Weavers'-hall, on Wednesday, in reference to the Act of last session, known at the Silk Nl' e.tvers Act. The object of the meeting was to adopt proceedings to carry out the Act, and it was agreed that from the 20th instant, the imperial measure of thirty-six inches in the yard (instead of the present 37 inches) should b.) introduced, and that the same should be recommended for the general adoption of the trade. The meeting considered the new Act as a mutual protection to masters and weavers, and resolved to pay their men for work not returned at the rate of 36 inches in the yard, from the 9th ult., when the Act was passed. A committee was named to draw up a form of ticket required by the Act, and to recommend its adoption through. out the trade. The resolutions were ordered to be advertised !I I all the daily paper,. :~v , r - i ss r. 4 t- • ' MIDDLESEX REGISTRATION. Mr. Shadwell, the revising barrister for the county of Middlesex, has appointed the following days and places for holding courts to revise the lists of electors in the different districts of the county, viz. : Monday, Sept. 15—at Uxbridge, at twelve o'clock. Tuesday, 16—at Bedfont. Wednesday, 17—at Brentford. Thursday, 18—at Hammersmith. Monday, 22—at Hampstead. Tuesday, 23—at Edgeware. Wednesday, 24—at Enfield. Thursday, 25—at Mile-end. Monday, 29—at Bethnal-green. Tuesday,3o—White Conduit Ilouse,lslington (King's crof•s district). Wednesday, Oct. I—(City of London)—Lovegrove's Coffee-house, Ludgate•hill. Friday, 3—(Westminster district)—At the Vice- Chancellor of England's Court, Lincoln's Inn. COURT-MARTIAL AT MALTA. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—In July last you published a report of a Court martial held upon me at Malta, on board her Majesty's ship Formidable, the decision of which was, that I was dismissed her Majesty's service in disgrace, and rendered incapable of ever serving her Majesty, her heirs, or suc cessors. However, upon my return to this country, being strongly impressed with a sense of a wrongful con viction, I memorialised the Admiralty on the subject ; the result of which was, that the Court-martial was de clared illegal, and the sentence consequently null and void, and that I was to consider myself in every respect in the same position I held prior to the trial. As you deemed a report of this matter to be of insuffi cient public importance to warrant your noticing it, I trust that, in common justice, you will insert this letter, in order that I may be enabled to regain the position in society I formerly . enjoyed, but which I had irretrievably lost by the injustice and harshness of the proceedings and sentence.—l am, &c., HENRY CRAMER. 29, Norfolk-street, Strand, Sept. 2, 1845. GRAVESEND AND ROCHESTER RAlLWAT.—Traffic returns for the week ending Aug. 30t--Passengers, 17,325; amount received, 419/. 6s. PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 4, 1845—Letters have been received here from the squadron at Cork. Hy theta we learn that the Admiral, whose efficiency was so much praised by tk. Tory Lords of the Admiralty, and who was select ed by them to take the command of the squadron in preference to that active officer Sir Charles Napier, had been confined to his bed for twenty-five days. A worse appointment could not have been made. Admiral Parker's temper and health rendered him totally unfit for so trying a post. ft is to be hoped in the next session that the matter will be fully inquired into. The ent o u f re the to offi_ a ce y ra a e h r i en, d as th h e er r t e r s i t m of ha t s he be sq e u n a c d o r rn on . doesV a ng n u o a t rd e ' x s c i : e being much s o m surpriseuch bhe pletely altered, and not that which was suggested by her ga l. g e willfarewell v lant and experienced commander. The ships, after refitting at Cork, will put to sea on another cruise. Tuesday Captain and men of the Excellent, whom he handed over to Captain betterChad'' officer and kinder hearted man than Captain Clads could not be found in the service, and he has already removed tHhaestinnegws captain n a m of ost he a r ff . ect w in some of the unnecessarily strict regulations laid down by his Sir T. EASTBOURNE.—The predecessor. weather has been delightful eoelso,ssw ohfi harvest chthhisa proc eedi n g vee i r s ospui ttore a t p a e pe ar a delugingt o b e a r b a l) n u s t . potat oes, during the past week, and th e In this neighbourhood the corn is very fine , the only e y. lh g g g r eatly poor t r l r y ayp i i di s now fro m a serious matter, especially when flour is dear.—Brighton Guardian. THE FISHERY.—The driving boats in the Mount Bay have been very successful during the last three weeks, since their return from the Irish Fishery. Many of them have brought ashore as much as fifteen hogsheads of fine pilchards, and the average has been about five hogsheads each. During the past week, the total quantity secured by the Bay boats has been about 1,000 hhds, and during the three weeks, nearly 3,000 hhds. On Saturday last the rein belonging to Messrs. Batten and Co., shot and secured about sixteen hbds, and on the following day the sein belonging to Messrs. Davy and Co.. brought ashore a similar quantity. The principal portion of the fish has been placed in bulk, whilst some have been re tailed at Is. Bd. per hundred, and distributed in the country. The prospects of the pilchard fishery, upon the whole, are very encouraging, and the fishermen are in high spirits. We believe the success they have experienced during the past week or two has been rarely surpassed-3,000 hhds. at 50s. per hbd. wilt realise 7,5001.—and we hope our hardy fishermen will continue to be as successful as they deserve.—Penzance Gazette. • THE STORY OF A ROYAL FAVOURITE.—Thei secret about this book is at length divulged. It is a satirical novel from beginning to end. The design of the work (says the critic of the New Monthly) is evidently a series of por traits and reflections on passing manners and events, and few can compete with Mrs. Gore in the point which she lendsru the one, and the wit and playful justice with which she nn sparingly lashes the other. No one, indeed, is spared. , rary contemporaries are assailed in wholesale fashion r k r-wweill, nly observed Tennyson kindly spok en of. The w, of d n o o u t f b o t, r be th e e s x e W , c n e s r h t r a e i l n y ly re f a o d r the for these very iirsoenteahlir and aristo cratic town end country life. ; s '?: _. ~~~, V 4l