The Sun. — London, England, 1839-09-12 00:00:00

EYEN ENG EDITION. Haying expressed his since F. Tre ~3 4.5 contrition, and the most poig'ant regret at his past - .ndiscretions, is of assured that, since ALL IS RIGHT at his place ot business, there remains no difficulty but - what his promised petstveranee in a proper course will effectually overcome ; while habits of industry in his favourite occupation, or in any other honourable p ursu it, ac co mpanied by r igid frugality, will enable him speedily to satisfy every just demand, and to become at once a worthy and respectable member of society.—London, Sept. 12. TO THE PROPRIETORS OF EAST INDIA STOCK. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, ALTHOUGH I have not had the good fortune to succeed upon the Ballot taken this day for a seat in the Direction of your Affairs, I feel so confident of success on the next vacancy, not only from the assurances of continued support a hich I have received from those who have kindly favou , ed me with their suffrages, but also from the accession of numerous and powerful friends now released from previous engagements, that I have no hesitation in pledging myself to come forward ar.in on the first vacancy that may occur. Allow me t`.) return my grateful acknowledgments to those Prepriefras who have thus far honoured me with their valuable support, and to assure them that when I attain the object of my anakdtion, my zealous endeavours shall be used is promoting tae happiness and prosperity of our native fellow-subjects in India, as the best means of securing the interests of the East India Company, and the permanency of the British Empire in Asia. I have the honour to be, very respectfully. Ladies and Gentlemen, Your obliged and obedient servant, W. H. SYKES, Lieutenant-Colonel, Bombay Army. 47, Albion-street, Hyde-park, Sept. 11. - - TO THE PROPRIETORS OF EAST INDIA STOCK. LADIES 't4 I) GENTLEMEN, Ibeg leave to return my most grateful acknow ledgments for the high honour which you hays conferred upon me, in electing me to a Seat in the Direction of your Affairs, and to assure you, that it shall be my constant aim and endeavour to prove myself deserving of the confidence you have been kindly pleased to repose in me, by a faithful, zealous, and independent discharge of the duties of that important situation. 1 have the honour to be, Ladies and Gentlemen, Your very faithful and obliged servant, JAMES WEIR HOGG. 40, Upper Grosvenor-street, Wednesday Night, 10 o'clock, Sept. 11, 1839. RESULT OF THE BALLOT. James Weir Hogg Colonel Galloway Colonel Sykes 373 Major- General Robertson Just reads', in 2 ye's. aro., MEMOIRS OF HIS OWN TIME ; Ineludinz The REVOLUTION, the EMPIRE, and the RESTORATION. I3y LIEUT.-GENERAL COUNT MATTHIEU DUMAS, Private Secretary to Napoleon. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty. NEW WORK by the AUTHOR of " STORIES of WA- TERLOO." Now ready, in 2 vols. Bvo., with Characteristic Illustrations and Portraits, VICTORIES of the BRITISH ARMIES. By W. H. MAXWELL, Esq., Author of " Stories of Waterloo," " Wild Sports of the West," " In every page of this work there is either some eloquent description, some trait of heroism, or some lofty memorial of our national prowess. In vigour and rapidity of detail, in spirit-stirring and picturesque description, and in the power of representing a m►ghty conflict, there is scarcely any mili tary author who can equal the present writer."—Naval and Military Gazette. 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Reuben Armstrong, Mr. T. P. Cooke ; Abel Armstrong, Mr. E. F. Saville; Annis Mildred, Mrs. H. Vining. After which (22d time) the successful Nautical Drama of BEN BOATSWAIN ; Or, SAILOR'S SWEETHEARTS. Ben Bowling, Mr. T. P. Cooke. To conclude with, THE BREWER OF PRESTON. ROYAL SUR'aEY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. Under her MAA - ESTY'S IMMEDIATE PATRONAGE. THIS 'EVENING, SEvr. GRAND PROMENADES MUSICALES ° ET GUAM- PETRES, Dy the unrivalled Band of this Establishment, Conducted by Mr. Godfrey. • Exhibition of the Wonderfully-in•ru.n and beautiful new Ligh KONIA Under the surinten:lenec of Mr. H. Carter. And the ER LPT/ON of MOUNT HECLA. -Admission One Shilling. Feeding Hour Five o'Cleck—Concert at Six. The Eruption of Heela, with all the other unique Entertain. ments, every 3ln,oday, Tuesday, and Thursday. ' Nina WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO.)IORROW. 50 minutes after 4. I Evening ... 9 minutes after 5. .e , . - -.'". 4 :- . 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The same official organ contains the following not less gratifying announcement, which entirely confirms what we stated yesterday respecting the omission of all reference to the Treaty of Bergara in the QUEEN'S Speech at the opening of the Cortes:— " Despatches of the 3d inst. from Madrid, announce that on that day letters from General Espartero had been received, announcing that, in consequence of a conven tion which, according to the instructions of his Govern ment, he had concluded with Maroto, the latter, as well as Simon Torre, Urbistondo, and Iturriaga, had joined the Queen's cause. The Duke of Victory added that he had embraced the Carlist General in presence of the troops, who had thus become brothers, and piled their arms. This news, on being announced to the Chamber of Deputies, was received with a unanimous burst of applause, and the feeling was so general that it seemed to absorb all opposing opinions." Everything now depends upon the promptitude and patriotism of ESPARTERO. If lie pursue with activity the resolute course which he has recently adopted, he will not only secure a lasting peace to -Spain, but he will establish for himself claims to the eternal gratitude of his countrymen. On the other hand, if he fail to make use of his present ad vantage, and suffer the ardour of his troops to eva porate before again leading them against the enemy, it is possible that the Pretender may still be able to overshadow Navarre, Arragon, and Cata lonia, with the standard of rebellion. Already, ac cording to the Carlist accounts, the Pretender, at the head of eleven battalions, is on his march from Lecumberri, to join ELro in Navarre, who is said to have obtained a second victory over General DIEGO LEON, who lost 1,500 men in the engagement. We suspect, however, that this second Carlist vic tory is a pure fiction, and that were we to subtract seven battalions from the number of the Pretender's military escort, we should not represent him in a more destitute plight than he really is. Still, if he succeed in joining CABRERA, and will suffer him self to be guided, as he must, by that sanguinary chief, it will cost the QUEEN'S Government great trouble to drive him out of the Peninsula. Now this entirely depends upon the promptitude of ESPARTERO, and per haps more than all upon his conduct towards the rebellious Provinces which have just recognised the QUEEN'S authority. In these Provinces the people languish for peace, and will assuredly be come discontented if they find that they have but exchanged one military despotism for another. Al ready reports are rife of a growing disaffection among the Basque peasantry, fomented, no doubt, by secret agents of Don CA RLOs, and the regular clergy or monks ; and this disaffection will increase, unless the people are made speedily to feel the advantages anticipated from their abandonment of the Pretender's cause. Everything is now favourable to a speedy termina tion of all hostilities. Letters from Catalonia of the 4th inst. state that the Carlists have recently been several times beaten in that province ; and, ac cording to accounts from Saragossa, CABRERA meets with nothing but a succession of reverses. The statement respecting CABRERA is contradicted by the Carlist correspondence from Arragon, in which it is asserted that he routed at Livia the united divisions of Generals HoYos and ASPIROS ; that he ordered a levy en masse of all able to bear arms between the ages of eighteen and fifty ; and that he had prevailed upon the Bishops of SIGU ENZA, ORIHUELA, and MONDONEDO, by whom he is accompanied, in the true spirit of ecclesiastical rulers of the Church Militant, to excommunicate any individual who may so much as pronounce the word peace I What a satire is this upon the .peace-diffusing spirit of the Gospel I Don CARLOS, by the advice of the Princess of BEIRA, his Consort, has not only broken up his Court but dismissed from about his person every per son unable to bear arms. He has likewise appointed the Infante Don SEBASTIAN, Generalissimo of his Forces, and EGUIA, Chief of his Staff. His apo logists pretend that no more than between 6,000 and 7,000 troops laid down their arms with MA ROTO. This is a matter of secondary consequence. The great point gained is that two provinces have been restored to the QUEEN'S Government, and that the QUEEN'S General-in-Chief has been placed in a position to enable him, if he take the proper steps, to put an immediate end to the miseries which desolate the finest Provinces of the Peninsula. There is very little domestic news of any politi cal interest in the Paris Journals of Tuesday, the whole of which we have received this morning. Rumours of changes in the Cabinet are rife, but we can trace them them to no infallible source. The number of bankruptcies declared before the Tribunal of Commerce of the Department of the Seine, was, for the month of July, 91 ; and for August, 108, being an increase of 17. The Moniteur Parisien, of Monday night, contains the following additional information rela tive to the insurrection at Zurich, communicated by telegraph to the French Government : " STRASBURG, SEPT. 9. "THE PREFECT OF THE LOWER RHINE TO THE MINISTER OF THE INTERIOR. " A new despatch from Basle, of the 7th, gives the following details :—' In the insurrection of yesterday the people took by assault the Arsenal and the Town-hall of Zurich. A Councillor of State was killed by a soldier whilst attempting to harangue the people. The Govern ment has been overthrown, and a Provisional Government named. The peasants are flocking to Zurich, and the Diet is calling up troops.'" Both the Moniteur, Parisien, and the Journal des Debats, contain detailed accounts of the origin of this insurrectionary movement, but they are in all respects similar to the statement which ap peared in The Sun of yesterday. The contests of the Radicals and Apostolicals in Switzerland, will have no influence whatever beyond the bounds of the Republic. ( From the French Papers.) The Moniteur publishes several reports of Rear- Ad miral Leblanc, Commander-in. Chief of the French blockading squadron before Buenos Ayres, giving an account of various operations of the naval forces under his orders. One of them contains the report of the proceedings of Lieutenant La Tocnaic's expe dition to the Arroyo d'Atayala, where,' as _our readers already know, he set fire, on the 9th of May, to 21 vessels anchored in that river. On the 9th - of June another expedition of the same kind was directed by Lieutenant Fabre, of the schooner La Forte, into the river Sauce, DON,. TRURSDAY, SEPTEI 13ER, 12,18 N. LONDON: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1839. When we stated yesterday that Toryism was gathering strength, and was spreading over the land, we by no means meant to imply for one instant that such a lying, base, fraudulent, op pressive system was growing into favour with our Intelligent people. As they increase in knowledge they grow daily more averse from it. The State priesthood, the Corn-law making landlords, the men who borrow the public credit at no interest, and charge the public six per cent. for the use of it, the monstrous practices of taxing the community to enrich sugar planters and timber carriers, have all of late been more generally and more vigorously attacked, both in Parliament and by the Press, than before, and are obviously growing, by their own false and hateful nature, into disrepute. The prodigious exertions made to sustain them are proofs of their decay. When the Church was perfectly se cure and at her ease the priesthood slumbered ; they have been roused into activity by their danger. When the landlords were perfectly safe, they instituted no societies, hired no press, and bribed no men of talent, to defend them and their bread tax. They equally disregarded the bitter sarcasms of the Corn-law Rhymer, and the deductions of Colonel TOR-, RENS. That the several bands of selfish monopo lists are now compelled to make great exertions, and to be at no little cost to achieve a temporary triumph for Toryism, is a proof that this unnatural system of fraud and coercion is beginning to be pro perly estimated by the public. We foresee its triumph from the weakness of the present antago nist power to Toryism ; from the dissensions amongst Liberals ; from the want of organization which is perceptible in every patriot framing and following his own plans to promote the public welfare; and from the bulk of the people having come, such has been the unfortunate result of the conduct of the Whigs, to hate them worse than they hate the Tories. United by an instinct of self-preservation, the Tories will act together till they get possession of the Govern ment, and w e can only expect that their disputes and dissensions will be fatal to themselves when they co me to share the plunder. At present they are power of the Court, b ut chiefly kept in check by the that will keep them off for only a short t i me, unless the Whigs be aided by the people, and of that at present we see no prospect. The schism between them seems widening every day. Every day, as at Manchester, the unrepre sentedTli show their hostili ty to the Whigs. them that the Whigs se e k to attain anobjec e t te is suffic ient last year the repeal of th e C orn -l aws, w enlist the people against it. T o sp i te the Whig% h een they are ready even to spite thems e l ves . Ireland, because the Whigs have, by comparison, just to her, will stand by them ; but E ng l a nd, to which, by comparison, they have been grievously unjust, will oppose them. I n d ee d , i t may be doub ted, whether the encouragement t h ey have given to agitation in Ireland, and their per secution of political opinions in England, have not of crated to produce a strong prejudice against them amongst the %% orking classes of England. They see the parent of agitation there to procure political rights, honoured and rewarded, and they see the chiefs of such an agitation here committed to pri son , an d t h eir un j ust an d unmerited suffer ings made a theme of ridicule and mockery in Whig Journals. They are exposed to the sarcasms of the Whig press, while the Irish agitators are rewarded with office. In England that produces a prejudice unfavourable to Ministers, and makes the people look with less abhorrence on their op ponents than on them Whether the Whigs have gone. over to Toryi sm or net though their acces sion to that jobbing, corrupt fraternity of politicians would be a strong evidence of the increase -el the Tories—they are suspected by the working unrepresented classes, of being traitors, and that suspicion alienating the one from the other ) gives a prodigious comparative strength to Toryism. We are reminded by an Evening Contempo rary that the state of the country when the Tories were in office in 1830, was much worse than at present. That is perfectly true, both as respects our domestic and our foreign relations. The nume rous complaints then made, however, ended in driving the Tories from office, placing in it Lord Grey and the Whigs, to ensure us peace, reform, and retrenchment. We hope the analogous but by no means equal condition of the country in 1839, m ay not end in another change of Ministry, sub stituting the Tories for Lord MELBOURNE, to ~alVe us civil war, coercion, and extravagance. Weh ope, hope, too, that the country is not entering into a cycle of changes in the Ministry, narrowing with every successive change, forced on by distress amongst the people, and alarm for the public safety. Undoubtedly such a condition of the country drove the Tories from office, and it would seem, at least according to the Tory press, a similar condition now threatens the existing Ministers with a similar fate. We should like, however, to be informed by what art the Tories, who were so unsuccessful before 1830, are to govern the country suc cessfully in 1840 ? In the ten years which will then have elapsed though they seem to have learned nothing, the people will have made prodigious progress. The generation now coming on the stage, and having the active parts to per. form, have had the benefits of an education at Me chanics' Institutes and schools of art. Political science has been much studied and much improved, and the Tory principles which were so alien to the national progress in 1828 and 1829, that Sir ROBERT PEEL was obliged to give them up, and so hostile to the national prosperity in 1830, that he could govern the country no longer, will be more alien to the national progress in 1840, and more hostile to i!s prosperity. Can the Tories suppose that the Peers, and the Church, and the corrupt influences we yesterday alluded to, have been more than ever firmly fixed in the national affections by the rude shocks they have received during the last ten years ? They cannot be quite such drivellers, and they must, therefore, be sensible, that if the Whigs can not govern the country, for them the attempt to govern it must be hopeless. They may get into office we grant, but to follow out the principles of Toryism, persecuting the Catho lics, snubbing the Dissenteis, insulting and coercing the unrepresented, steadily refusing all relief to dis tress, and all redress to political grievances, holding fast by every abuse, and every absurdity in the Constitution because it is old and worn oat—for them to follow out the principles of Toryism in office is as impossible as to arrest the tides or chain the winds. Sir ROBERT PEEL'S reign— acknowledging, as he has acknowledged, that Ireland would be his greatest difficulty—would be shorter than that of the Whigs, and it would close in general distress and general discontent. In fact, the principles of Toryism are wholly un suitable to the present condition of society, when almost every man, whether for good or for evil, forms his own opinions about Government, and insists that every institution shall be justified by reason or is unworthy of obedience. If we can not keep the Whigs in office, and cannot have peace and prosperity under their rule, from a Tory Administration nothing can be expected—unless in deed it wholly abjure Toryism—but disturbances, contests, and revolution. The Duke of WELLINGTON IS not the only Irishman of the present day, who, gifted above the generality of the human race, with a vigorous mind and a clear judgment, begins, to the sorrow of his friends, to exhibit the ravages of time. There is another Irishman whose failings the enemies of Mr. O'CONNELL delight to point out, and to contrast with one or two of the exhibitions which his Grace made during the last Session. In the one, they say, there may have been an error of judgment, he may have formed a hasty conclusion, and persevered in it, with his usual firmness of purpose ; but in the other there are the strongest symptoms of decay—increasing bigotry in his creed, and the wildest delusion, that ere he steps into the grave it will become the creed of Christen dom, and of the civilized world. Though rejecting any such imputation, we cannot avoid blaming Mr. O'CONNELL for incessantly pressing upon the Protestants of England and Scotland the excellence of the Catholic faith, and the rapid strides the only " true religion" is making throughout these domi nions. The people of this country have, in vat numbers supported the claims of Catholic Ireland to be placed on a footing of equality with Prote s ta n t s and Presbyterians, in doingsso they have been assailed by the enemies of religious liberty, by every possible abuse— charged with endangering their own religion, and encouraging .another that never ceases its attempts to make proselytes, and that never will cease its Jesuitical attacks on Protes tantism till it again acquires the ascendancy over the minds of the British people. What madness, then, in Mr. O'CONNELL to publish a manifesto to the whole world, giving but too strong a colour ing to these imputations—telling us Protestants, that our faith leads to infidelity--that Catholic chapels, and convents, and colleges are rearing their heads in every quarter of the island—and that the day is fast approaching when all Christians will be gathered into " the one fold of the one Shepherd." Even if there were any truth in the statement, why should he injure his cause, and the Protestant friends who have long supported that cause, by proclaiming the fact, and magnifying it to an extent that would give credence to the other wise improbable, ridiculous, and harmless prognos tications of the M‘GHEEs and the O'SuLLivANs ? We are utterly incredulous of every word he has uttered about the increase of Popery in this country, except in one spot, and that spot he has omitted to mention—the University of Oxford. In England, but more especially in Scotland, where he says " the increase is still more striking," the antipathy to Popery is as strong, though not so violently expressed as it was in the days of kNox ; and perhaps it requires only some more manifestations of this sort from Darrynane Abbey, to revive that spirit which levelled to the dust all the Catholic temples in the north—drove a bigotted Catholic race from the Throne of these realms— and fixed for a century and a half a stigma on all the Catholics of Great Britain and Ireland. In the Highlands of Scotland there has long been a numerous class of Catholics, who flock to Glasgow, the capital of the district, where they find employ ment, and multiply in proportion. There is a vast increase also from Ireland ; but as to conversion to any extent, we regard it as a pure dream of a san guine imagination ; and, notwithstanding all that may be said about the increase of nunneries and convents, we are confident that the proportion be tween the two sects, making allowance for these natu ral causes, has long remained stationary. It ill be comes a Catholic to impute infidelity to Protestan tism. Where, in any Protestant country, did infidelity in its most frightful shape spring up so rapidly and to such an extent as in Catholic France ? And what says Latrobe now of Catholic Mexico?--" ever there may be in other Itoman Catholic coun tries, in Mexico there would seem to be no me dium between the grossest and most debasing su perstition and idolatry, and scepticism and infi delity." And if any one can wonder that such should be the result, we refer him to the true pic ture of Catholicism as drawn by Mr. O'Connell himself :—" Again reflect that any man who be comes a Catholic from having been a Protestant loses the freedom, the ease, and the individual in dependence of Protestantism. He enters a religion in which he is restricted by fasts, by abstinence, by Lenten penances, by the humiliation of auricu lar confessio n , by the subjugation of the pride of the u n d erstanding (the most insidious and cher i s h e d of any species place— of p r id e ), an d th e adoption in its "0h 1 tami ng t h ought to human pr id e " — of an entire submission in spiritual matters to the authority of the Church." Save us we say from s ich a subju3ation. 111 1 .2 StTN LO carry the tyrannical law into effect, often withont success, and because they cannot pert'otrn an im• possibility they are threatened with the loss of their licences, Mr. HOBLER, the Solicitor, has given a Concise and proper definition of this obnoxious clause:— " By its defective enactments it de nied justice to the public and the publican, and it did not do justice to the Magis trates themselves." The fact is, the law, as propounded, is an utter absurdity in a free country, and cannot be carried into effect. The practice of shutting up houses at a fixed hour has had a fair trial; both the Legislature and Magis• trates virtually pronounced it a failure, and, conse quently, left the fixing of the hour to the publican himself, at the same time making him respon sible for any disorder or breach of the peace. There is nothing in this Act that warrants the belief that the Legislature raw any necessity for enforcing the old regulation—the Government, we are convinced, had no such intention, yet by their silence on the subject, they are incur ring the entire blame, and raising up political enemies in every club, debating society, and public parlour in London. The Tories cheer on the ac cusers, and scoffingly remark—" It, remained for the Whig Government to put down political dis cussion, and make the very commencement of the Sabbath hateful." But this is only the beginning ; the outcry is increasing every day ; and by the time the large theatres open the evil will have increased tenfold, and hundreds cf thirsty throats will curse the Government that inflicted on them such a grievous and unnecessary deprivation. These may appear trifling considerations to men engaged in mighty affairs, but no wise States man will neglect them. Trifles often influence the government of mankind. A ballad, by one who knew them well, was considered of vastly more im portance than a law, and the HOME SECRETARY may find that foolish regulations about the sale of beer, or about the hour of going to bed, may do the Ministry an injury which the best Administra tion of the land cannot counterbalance. The news from the Spanish frontier continues to be very favourable. In the Moniteur of Tuesday we find the following telegraphic despatch : " THE SENERAL COMMANDING THE. 20TH MILITARY DIVISION between the point Of Indio and the Arroyo d'Atalaya, where he succeeded in burning seven smugglers, after a sharp engagemtNlt with a patty of Argentine troops, in which he lost a mid-NO:lan Mid tWo seen= killed, awl lied Hine wounded. A large cutter was also set on fire by the French on the same day, two miles west of La Recolleta. The Duke and Duchess of Orleans, in their excursion into the district of Oloron, on the Ist inst., were most cordially received by the Basque population, with many . demonstrations of national peculiarities. A guard of honour of the young men of the country, on their small active horses, accompanied the Prince and Princess. Basque dances were performed by the young men and women wherever they stopped, and the whole population turned out to welcome their Royal Highnesses. The weather wrong the mountains proved to be bad, but,. notwithstanding the heavy rain that fell, the Duke several times reviewed on foot the National Guards assembled in his honour. The Prince and Princess visited many places of interest, and expressed themselves highly gratified by the beauty of the scer.try. A sirnikr reception was given to their Royal Highnesses next morning on leaving Pau, and passing through Nay and Coarraxe. At the latter place the Duke and Duchess visited an ancient tower, with which some recollections of Henry IV. are closely connected ; and afterwards, as they passed by the chapel of Beltharram, where the ecclesiastics of the place received them, they entered the sacred edifice, and heard the Domine salaam fac regem sun. ' % The Viscount ess D uc h ate l, w ho had attended the Duchess in her excursion along the skirts of the Pyrenees, received, on taking leave, a magnificent bracelet, studded with diamonds. Their Royal High nesses left ample tokens of their munificence at all the places they visited. THE FRENCH PRESS AND THE QUEEN OF SPAIN'S SPEECH. The Speech of the Queen Regent of Spain on opening the Session of the Cortes does not find many admirers in the Parisian press. The Constitutionnel observes that amidst all the parade of Ministerial labours it was to have been hoped that something more explicit would have been said in favour of the unhappy creditors of the Spanish Government, who are so anxiously waiting for some act of justice respecting their claims. The Constitutionnel observes that the Queen did well to appeal to the pru dence and patriotism of the Cortes for the future manage ment of affairs in Spain, but it has little expectation that the appeal will take effect, as the majority of the Cortes arc de cidedly hostile to the Ministry, and nothing is known of constitutional government in Spain beyond overturning Cabinets by intrigue and Parliamentary votes. In five years, says this Journal, men of all parties have been tried in the Ministry, and Spain has become worse rather than better by each change. The fault lies in the want of cen tralisation, without which no Government can have the least power of working out any important Reform. The Siecle observes that the most important feature in the open ing of the Cortes was the splendour displayed in the toilette of the ladies, as if they had hoped to influence votes by dia mond ornaments and lace veils. No effect, however, was produced by this display, says the Siecle, for of a hundred Deputies present, very few were seated on the Ministe rial side. The Dehats makes no comment on the speech. It observes merely that the most important fact, the treaty with Maroto, and the prospect which it opens of the pacifi cation of Spain, could not be mentioned in the speech, as the parties were then only in negociation. The Journal de Paris is almost solitary in bestowing unqualified appro bation upon the speech, which it regards as a frank expose of the state of affairs, and a sincere indication of the desire to bring about in every department salutary reform. The Courrier Francais says the Crown is prodigal of promises, and profuse in the use of the flowers of rhetoric with which they are made ; but it sees with pleasure the disposition to improvement which is manifested in the speech. The Courrier, like the Constitutionnel, expresses its disappoint ment at the slight way in which allusion is made to the claims of the creditors of the Government, and regards all efforts to revive national credit in Spain as hopeless, until something honourable and positive be done as to the Na tional Debt. The Temps appears to regard the allusion of the speech to the creditors of Spain as sufficiently in dicatiye of the intentions of the Crown, but admires the vanity of the Government, which, whilst admitting that it has not a penny in the treasury, talks of the immense re sources of the State. The National dismisses the speech in a very few words as prolix in matters of secondary in terest, and reserved on every essential point. The Quoti dienne and Univers give the speech without comment; the other Carlist paper, the France, does not think it worthy of a place in its columns, even as a document of curiosity for those who refuse to acknowledge the government of the reigning Queen. URS E.—.PARIS, TUESDAY, SEPT. 10. ,i„t Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Price. Price French 5 per Cents llO 50 ... 110 SO ... 110 75 ... 1 0 75 3 per Cents Bl ... SI 10 ... 81 ... S 1 10 Bank o: erance 2770 ' ...2781 "41770 ...2781 Lattitte Bank I,ooof. Sh lO6O ...1060 ...IWO —lO6O 5,002 f. Sh 5220 ...5220 ...5215 ...5215 Belgian 5 per Cents 103% ... 10344 ... 10314 ... PSI Bel:;ian 3 per Cents 72 13 ... 72 15 ... 72 15 ... 72 15 Bank 703 ... 790 ... 785 . 755 Spanish Ac ive 3O ... a)% ... 29% .. ... 214 Passive 7 14 ... 74i ... 7 ... 7% New Deferre i Old Deferred il, y ... 13% ... 8% ... 6% Portuguese 3 per Coots 22% ... 22% ... 22% ... 22% Nea_olitan Roman ll2 ... 103 ... 102% ... 102% KAILWA Y SHARES. -.— . St. Germail Versailles, IL B 550 ... 550 ... 550 ... 550 L.B. 315 ... 315 ... 312 .0 ... 312 50 Havre Orleans . Strasburg to Bale BELGIAN NUNDS—BituasEta, SEPT. 10. Actual Dela, 2Sj per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent 1 013( Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 92% --- 3 per Cent. 71% Loan of City, 183'2, 4 per Cent — Society of Commerce, 4S4perCent ll5 Rank of Belgium, 5 per Cent ............. National Society . - -Brussels Papers, Sept. 10. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Viwia, SEPT 2. Five per Cents. Metalliques Four per Cents. Three per Cents. Bank Shares .. 1533 —A/Igemeine Zeitung. Sept. 7 PRUSSIAN FUNDS.— BERLIN, SEPT, 6, Bills. St. Schuld. Sch., 45;, per cent. lOl, Prussian English Loan, 1830,4 per cent 103 k, .B;xchange on Lendop, three months 6 20% —Prussian State Gazette, Sept. 7. Money. 103 102% Lettsrs from Constantinople, of the 28th ult., have been received, but they merely repeat the stale gossip about the determination of MEHEMET ALI not to give up the fleet. The rigid Mussul mans and the Ulemah are said to be in favour of a scheme of Russian protectio n , w h ereas a ll t h e Reform party are desirous of seeing the French and English fleets at anchor in the sea of Marmora. The following is the comparative force of the English and French fleets at the entrance of the Dardanelles : FRENCH. Gunsd ENGLISH. Guns. Montebello ( Rear - Ad - I Princess Charlotte (Ad miral Lalande l2O reiral Sir R. Stopford) 104 Hercule ....• lO9 Rodney 92 Jena( Rear-Admiral Las- !Asia B4 susse) 9O Powerful Santi Petri 9O Bellerophon BO .... .. Diademe 9O Vanguard 9O Jupiter 9O Talavera 74 Trident Triton B6 Pembroke 74 Genereux B6 Total 847 Total 756 MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.--Yesterday, at St. George's Church, Hanover-square, by the Rev. G. Deanes, James Bonar, Esq., of Kimmerghame, N. 8., to Mary, eldest daughter of the late Sir Patrick Murray, of Ochtertyre, Bart. The bride was given away by her uncle, the Right Lion. Sir George Murray, G. C. B. Miss L. G. A. A. Murray, the only daughter of Sir George and Lady Louisa Murray, officiated as bridesmaid. The cere mony was performed in presence of the principal members of both families. The splendid dejeune given by the Lady L. Murray on the occasion, in Be!grave-square, was at tended by the Dowager Countess of Galloway and Lady C. Stewart, and the Ladies Capel ; Sir Edward, Lady H. Paget, and the Misses Paget ; Lady Grey, Lady and the Misses Douglas, Mr. and Mrs. A. Bonar, Mr. W. Bonar, Colonel and Mrs. Churchill, Mrs. Campbell of Lochnell, Mr. aad Mrs. A. Murray, Mr. and Mrs. Gartshore, the Misses Murray of Ochtertyre, Captain Houston, Mr. Geo. Hope, &c. VIENNA, SEPT. 2.—The Hungarian Diet, which has been assembled for some months, but done little good, now promises at' last to proceed in a more satisfac tory manner. The Deputy Ruda, on account of whose exclusion so much noise has been made, has announced his intention of voluntarily giving up the dignity of a Deputy, by which the chief cause of the stagnat►on of the Diet would be removed. BRUSSELS, SEPT. 6.—The nomination of M. Falck as Minister from the Netherlands at our Court has been hitherto in some degree uncertain. We now learn that this nomination has been officially announced to our Government.—lndependent. The Constitutionnel of Flanders gives an account of 8 dreadful accident on the section of the railway from Peteghem to Courtray, on which the workmen are now employed. A train of waggons used for conveying sand, impelled by a locomotive, was somehow forced off the rails, and eight of the workmen dreadfully injured. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge left Kew Palace to-day for Mid dleton Park, on a visit to the Earl and Conntess of Jersey. The Duke of Wellington arrived at Apsley- House yesterday from Weimer Castle, expressly to present a new stand of colours to the 45th Regiment. The Duke of Norfolk is about to give up farming. His Grace has given instructions to his agent to sell off all the lice and d, a 1 stock at Mendel Park Farm, including his Grace's Southdown flock. ROTHIEMURCHos.—The Duke and Duchess of Bedford's party consists of the Marquis and Marchiftess of Abercorn, Mrs. and the Misses Balfour (of Balburnie), Lords Cosmo and Alexander Russell, Mr. Edwin Land seer (the artist), Mr. and Mrs. Ellice, Lady Georgiana Russell, Lord Ossulston, &c. Mr. and Lady Elizabeth Bulteel have arrived at Fleet, their seat mar Devonport, from town, for the winter. IMPROVEMENTS AT CLAREMONT. For some time past very considerable improvements have been making at Claremont House, Claremont. Nearly 300 workmen have been engaged. IMPROVEMENTS IN KING'S-ROAD,CIIELSEA. --A correspondent states that Government have given in structions for the wall belonging to the Royal Asylum in the King's•road to be taken down, and iron railing erected in its place. The road in this part being narrow, several yards are to be thrown into the road to make it in a line with Sloane-square. The boys' workshops are to be erected on the south side of the building. This road is one of the most fashionable rides out of town during the season. The improvement will considerably benefit the Marquis of Westminster's estate and Lord Cadegan's. MARk - ETS..-(THIS DAY) BUNGERFORD MARKET. Tie market preseGted much of its usual appearance, both as to supplies and business ; PriCeS were much as last quoted. Turbots, ss. to 18s. ; Soles, 10d. to As. per VC-it ; Lobsters, 10d. to 3s. Good Salmon, Is. 3d. to Is. Gd. per lb. ; Cod; to 8s: ; Beef, 7 1 ,4 d. to SO. ; Mutton, lid. to Bid. ; Veal, Bd. to 9d. ; Pork, 71d. to 8(1. Of Vegetables the suiply was good, and the demand was lively—prices ntcadv. WHITECHAPEL MARKET. Country killed meat is in small supply, and prices were lewd. Pork, 4s. to 4s. Bd. ; Lamb, 43. 4d. to ss. ; Mutton, 3s. Bd. to 4s. 2d. ; Veal, 3s. Bd. to 4s. Sd. ; Beef, 3s. 2d. to 3s. Bd. BILLINGSGATE MARKET. The supplies were much of the same character as they have been of late, the demand tolerable and prices steady. turbot 5s to 18s • Good Salmon is 3d to is Gd per lb. ; Lobsters 10d to 3s 6d ; Soles 10d to 3s per pair ; Cod Is 6d to Ss ; Oysters 12s to 40s per bushel ; Whitings 4d to 10d; Haddocks 10d to 2s Gd. HAY MARKETS. The supplies were moderate, but the demand was g ood ; prices rather lower. Hay, 60s. to 100 s. ; Clover, 80s. to 115 s. ; Straw, 365. to 445. per load. • ; MONEY AND COMMERCIALNEWS. CITY TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, WEDNESDAY.—We have had a very good demand for Cotton to-day and yesterday. Prices have been fully maintained. The sales, 6,000 bags, chiefly to the trade. Our arrivals this morning are again few in number. Some anxiety is experienced for the arrival of the Ham burg mail, which was due on Monday, and has not yet arrived. The Brazil mail is also due. It is rather cheering to observe the return of our cove. reigns from the United States : the packet ship from Philadelphia has brought a freight of 100,0001. to Liver pool. Should these welcome arrivals continue, we Lye no doubt that the coffers of the Bank will be replenished. THE FUNDS. Consols opened this morning at the leaving off prices of yesterday, 91f Money; 91:11 for the Account, with little doing as yet, owing to the Foreign Market being the order of the day, where the speculation in Spanish draws the attention of the speculators. This being rather a dull morning it effects rather the nerves of the Bulls and Bears in Spanish. Spanish has receded from the leaving off price of yesterday, which was 28-4 1 1 ; and at present may be quoted 27i1 ; Portuguese also lower, closed at 321 33, at present 3241; Brazilian, 781; Colombian, ; Mexican, 28 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 541 1 1; Five per Cents.,lo4i. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS sank Stock - 3 per Cent. Red. S per Cent. Cons. 1 BIA I% IA 354 per Cent Ditto Red. •.. ..• DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. India Stock Ditto Bonds '0 ti pm South Sea Stock Old Annuities New Ditto New 1% per Cent 9SX 9 New 5 per Cent. - Bank Long Annuities toexpi re Jan. 5, 1860. ......... . - Oct. 10, 1859. Jan. 5, 1880 l4 1-18 Jan. 5, ISSO April 5, 188(1. 3 per Cent. Annuities, I7A SS% Exch. Bills , £l,OOO f 7 5 7 pm. Ditto 500...6 fi 5 7 pro. Ditto Small 9.0 ... 9 5 7 pm. Ditto Commercial Ditto Advertised ..... pin Bank Stock for Accoulit India Stock for Aocount Jan. 5.1970 —l Consos for Account 9i% 7 , ,, ii PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAI AT ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds Peruvian Bonds — Belgian Bonds Ditto Account Brazilian Bonds Ditto Account Buenos Ayres Bonds ... Ditto Account Chilian Bonds _ Ditto Accot, t ~ Columbian Bonds — Ditto Account — Ditto Account — Ditto Metallic — Columbinn Bonds, 1824...32!4 14 3 Spanish Bonds . ......9.7N 34 5,4 534 Ditto Account 32% 3% 3 Ditto Account.... 2 % 8 '7% Si Danish Bonds Ditto Account — • Del , Trecl ............. ......13 7,, tA •,,i Greek Bonds French, 5 per cent. —t. —c. Ditto Bonds, 1825 — ' 4 per cent. —f. —c. Ditto Account — 3 per cent. —f. —c. Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent. Exchange. Ditto Account i Dutch, 2% percent. 54 % 3 4 ".4 Ditto, B per Cent —; Ditto Account ... 5 ','i , Ditto Account 9 3 1 ,4 % Ditto, 5 per cent .. ..... ... Neapolitan Ditto Account , PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per .share Bristol and Exeter Railway Company 25 llt3 E stern Counties Railway l6 =42 `Yi 6 South Eastern and Dover (New) ......... ~.......,, l3 2 , 4 Co:onial Join: Stock I.Litk 25 29% HALF-PAST ONE. The Hamburg and Dutch mails have not yet arrived, which may be attributed to boisterous weather, as we hear that three ships are on shore in the Cattegat, two Ameri can and one English vessel ; one of them has a very valu able cargo on board. The famous contractor Ardoin has arrived from Paris, it is :uppesed to put a finish to a Spanish loan, to be con tracted for in London, the terms of which have been in ne gotiation for some time past, but could not be brought to a conclusion. . In the Foreign Market, in the early part of the morning, every description of Stock had a heavy appearance, since which a re-action has taken place, and the various Stocks have improved, in particular Portuguese, which has got up 2+ per cent., owing to a report that the slave trade dispute has been settled. Poituguese Stock has got up from 321 to 34+; Spanish has improved from 271 to 281; Colom bian from 321 to 33; Mexican, 28+ #; Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents., 54k. Consols have also advanced to 911 Account; Money, 91+ ; Exchequer Bills 6 7 5 7 prem. ; India Bonds nothing done; Bank Stock shut. Spanish passive, 81; Deferred, 131. An alarming accident occurred on Sunday, at Washeaborough, near Lincoln. Mr. Perring and his niece were standing at the window during a thunder storm, when the electric fluid forced in the window, and drove Mr. P. and the child to the further end of the room. Both were taken up insensible, and continued so for some time. Mrs. Perring was sitting by the fire-side and sus tained not the least injury.—Boston Herald. A RCHITECTURE OF NOSES.—" You arc quite right, mother," said Nicholas, "quite right: he is a fine fellow." " Good looking, too," sa'd Mrs. Nicideby. " Decidedly good looking," answered Nicholas. " What may you call his nose, now, my dear ?" pursued Mrs. Nic kleby, wishing to interest Nicholas in the subject to the utmost. " Call it ?" repeated Nicholas. "Ah I" returned his mother, " what style of nose—what order of architec ture, if one may say so. lam not very learned in noses. Do you call it a Roman or a Grecian ?" " Upon my word, mother," said Nicholas, laughing, "as well as I remember, I should call it a kind of Composite, or mixed nose. But I have no very strong recollection upon the subject, and if it will afford you any gratification, I'll observe it more closely, and let you know." " I wish you would, my dear," said Mrs. Nickleby, with an earnest look. " Very well„' returned Nicholas; " I will."—Nickleby. Toll bars originated in 1267, says the Mirror, on the grant of a penny for every waggon that passed through a certain manor ; the first toll was collected a few years after, for mending the road in London between St. Giles's and Temple-bar. A commercial treaty between the French Go vernment and the State of Eastern Uruguay, was signed at Monte Video on the Bth of April last. By this treaty the trade of France with the State of Uruguay is placed on the footing of the most favourable nations. INCENDIARY FIRE AT BOLTON.—EarIy on Saturday mordng last a fire was discove ei i a the me chanics' shop at the mill belonging to Mr. Adam Kay, in Mawdesley-street, Bolton. An alarm was given ; the town's engines were immediately brought out, and the fire was extinguished before it could communicate to any other part of the mill. On Sunday night last, about ten o'clock, a fire again broke out in the upper room of the same mill, and assistance was as readily given as on the former occa sion. The fire was extinguished. On Saturday morning, after the fire had been got under, cotton was found in ae mill saturated with oil of turpentine ; and on Monday morning, after the general bustle usual on such occasions had subsided, on examining the mill, the cotton and a number of the cops were again found to have been covered with the same liquid. It was also noticed, during the fire, that occasionaal bursts of large flame took place as if from some exceedingly combustible substances ; and this, in some measure, accounts for the immediate destruc tion of the roof. There is nht the slightest doubt that the mill was wilfully set on fire. —Manchester Guardian. ~ By our accounts from Norway we learn that the Storthing had adopted, and that the King had sanctioned, three resolutions of some moment. The first abolished the duties imposed since 1802 upon wines and brandies on entry into Christiansand to the profit of the poor. The second authorises the town of Drammen to establish a com mercial exchange in conformity to the law of 1818, which grants to Christiania a similar establishment. The third gives the privilege of the commercial rules as at Christi nia to the districts of Vaterland and Fjerdingen and to the adjacent parts, and determines the conditions and charges imposed upon parties engaging in that commerce. Intelligence from Rome states that a Pontifical notification, dated the 3d ult., had been issued, declaring that in the free port of Civita Vecchia, as in that of An cona, the unloading or embarkation of merchandise re quired a declaration of the Customs charged to del'ver gratis a permit for either of these operations. Special instructions, issued the 9th ult. determine the time for the presentation of the manifesto, of the other papers, and of the necessary declaration, the mode of searching vessels, the delivery of the permits, and the verification of the mer chandise declared. A trout weighing forty-five pounds, and mea suring three feet in length, and sixteen inches broad, is stated, by the Fed , ral of Geneva, to have been caught on the 7th inst., in the Lac du Bourget, near Aix-les-Bains, in Savoy. At the Assizes, in Liverpool, it came out that clay had been used, of late years, in the manufacture of soap ! Some makers, it appeared, introduced as much as 50 per cent. of clay We can positely state that the Marquis of Waterford has not determined to have a tournament at Ford Castle in the ensuing year. However :mother pageant of the same chivalric character is spoken of. Although we are now on the eve of autumn, the thermometer has not been so high any other part of tho summer as it was on Tuesday and Wednesday last, nor has the weather been so favourable for ripening the growing crops as it was on these days. The Ornithological Society have come to the determination of hatching the eggs of all their rare birds by means of the Eccaleobion, instead of intrusting them to the caprice of the parent, as in tho latter case thy have generally failed. LAUNCH OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY'S ARMED STEAMER, SESOSTRIS.—The launch of this beau tiful vessel took place on Tuesday, from the dock-yard of Mr. Pitcher, at Northfleet. The Sesostris is a first class vessel, built by order of the East India Company, for the express purpose of protecting their trade in the Indian Seas. She is a magnificent boat, of the best order of naval architecture, and is altogether worthy of the im portant post assigned her. Shortly after the launch was over, the Directors and their friends returned to Black wall, where a sumptuous entertainment was provided at Lovegrove's, the Brunswick Hotel, over which Sir Richard Jenkins, G. C. 8., M. P. , presided. A courier was despatched on Nonday last to Lord Walsingham at Venice, to inform his Lordship of the late Rev. Lord's death, and his own accession to the title. COURT CIRCULAR, WEIinESDAY,—His Serene elites the Duke Ferdinand of Saxe Coburg Gotha, with the Princess Victoire, and Prince Augustin. and Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg, left the Castle this morning, for Woolwich, to embark for the Continent. Her Ma jesty and the King and Queen of the Bclgians, and the Duchess of Kent, accompanied their illustrious relatives to the place of embarkation. The loyal Cortege left in the following order :—ln the first carriage and four were the Queen, the Queen of the Belgians, the Princess Victoire of Saxe Cobourg, and Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg. In the second carriage and four were King Leopold, the Duchess of Kent, the Duke Ferdinand of Saxe Cobourg, and Prince Augustus of Saxe Coburg. Two of the Royal car riages and four followed . conveying Lady Lyttleton, Baroness Fenyevessy, the Earl of Fingal, the Hon. Colonel Cavendish, and Colonel Wemyss. The Royal party left the Castle unaccompanied by any escort. Prince Esterhazy 'nd Count Valentine Esterhazy rode out on horseback this morning in the Great Park. Immediately after which, his Excellency and the Count left the Casale for London. Madame d'llooghvorst, the Hon. Miss Pitt, Lady Harriet Clive, and Count d'Arschot, drove out this afternoon, in a carriage for an airing. Viscount Melbourne walked on the Terrace of the Castle this afternoon. The Queen, King Leopold, and Queen Louisa, and the Duchess of Kent, attended by the Royal Suite, re turned to the Castle this afternoon. The Right Honourable C. Poulett Thomson left yesterday for Portsmouth, to embark on the Pique for Canada. The Right Hon. R. Lalor Shiel left town yesterday for Ireland. _ _ . The Earl of Lichfield, Postmaster-General, has ar rived in town from Buxton. Viscount Lismore and family left Farratice's Hotel yesterday for the seat of his Lordship, Shawbally Castle, Ireland, - . Lord and Lady Holland have arrived at Eastbourne. THE LATE WM. WILKINS, B.A.—We are re quested by a correspondent to state that the late Professor of Architecture to the Royal Academy was not the nephew of Dr. Wilkins, of the India House. And in addition to the edifices we have enumerated, we recollect that Mr. Wilkins designed and executed the East India College at Haileybury, St. George's Hospital, Corpos Christi Col lege, and additions to Trinity and King's Colleges, Cam bridge ; and besides his literary works already mentioned, Mr. Wilkins's Magna Grecia, and editorial labours upon the works of the Dilettanti Society, place him, as our cor espondent justly observes, amongst the most accomplished scholars of the architectural school.—lllorning Paper. LORD STANLEY'S CATTLE SHOW.— The cattle show established by Lord Stanley on his estates in this county has been attended wish the most favourable results. The emulation created in the breeding and feed ing of cattle has effected a very considerable improvement in that department of the farmer's pursuits. It must be remembered that his Lordship, in order to bring about this desirable end, expends certain sums yearly as pre miums to be distributed amongst such as produce the best description of stock. The sum announced for this year amounts to 311. los. If other landed pr.,prictors would only follow the laudable example set by Lord Stanley on their several estates, the results, we have no doubt, would be equally beneficial to the country.— Tipperary Pape,-. HIGHLAND SOCIETY'S GREAT DINNER.— There being no room in Invcrness sufficient to accornmo- date the large and distinguished party expected to dine at AfT daY the cattle show on the 3d October, and no provision being LORD FRANCIS EGERTON.—On ~.0 11 , made for defraying the expense of an erection for the pur. last, his Lordship left Worsley, accompanied, we belie”! pose, except by voluntary contribution, or making the by his eldest son , for Cowes , Isle of Wi g ht, where _Ma price of the ticket so high as not only to render the din- yacht is stationed , in which he is to sail for Ital y , whither. nor exclusive, but also to defeat its object, the Committee also his lady and other members o f his famil y will proeted_ appointed to superintend the arrangements for the dinner, in the course of a few weeks , and , we believe, it is tfees-r of which Mr. Mackenzie, banker, is convenir, have resolved intention to winter there. —Manchester Paper. upon trying the effect of a voluntary subscription to defray THE LATE LORD WALeneGHAM.--Th iS the expense of a large pavilion, which will accommodate Nobleman, whose unexpected demise took place at his the guests. The subscription in town is going on admi- seat Merton Hall, Norfolk, was in holy orders ; Arch; rable , the subscriptions being limited to 1/. and down- deacon of Surrey, Prebendary of Winchester, Rector of wards. In the counties the subscriptions vary from 11. to Fawley, Southampton. The - Noble and Rev. Peer was in 51. and upwards —lnverness Courier. his 62d year, and succeeded to the title on the death of his CONTEMPLATED REDUCTION OF POI.ICE brother George, the third Lord, who was unfortunatel y ESTABLISHMENTS.—( From a Correspondent. )—A consi. burned to death , at his house in Harley-street , o n the gam ! derable reduction is about to take place in the establish. day that his lady met her death in consequence of the sa► ~ talents of the different Police Offices, to the extent, it is accident. Lord Walsingham married a daughter of ~ said, of about one-third of the existing role of old officers. North , Bishop of E xeter, and i s succeeded in ;:is title V . o u r A It is expected that those who are retained will be desig- his eldest son, the Hon. Thomas de Gray, nor~ 1.4 nated " Ushers," and furnished with gowns similar to Walsingham. those worn by the officers of the superior Courts; and IMPERIAL BANK.—At an extraordinary meet''' . their salaries will be augmented to an amount commensurate ing of the Shareholders in this company, the resolution with the loss sustained by their deprivation of the fees on passed at the extraordinary meeting of shareholde rs on warrants and summonses, the execution of which has the 22d August, for making a further call of 51. Pe r devolved on the Metropolitan Police. The new arrange- share, was confirmed, and, we believe, was yesterday Coo. ments will, no doubt, be officially promulgated in the firmed by the board of Directors. A meeting of the claim' course of a few days. ants on the bank, takes place, we believe, to. day. , n o At the Watford Petty Sessions yesterday, an ap- BOROUGH OF BOLTON.—LieutenaLit - C °l Ai e f plication was made on behalf of Mr. James Toovey, of Edward Anthony Angelo has been appointsade this- the Rose and Crown Inn, Watford, for a license fer an Commissioner of Police, under the new police act, Jo,, r , .. hotel, to be called the Clarendon Arms, at the Watford borough, at a salary of .500/. a year.-21Ianchester Ul a ' - Railway Station. The case, from some circumstances dian. connected with the application, appeared to excite very The rampart of division between England and considerable interest. It would seem that the Birmine- Scotland with the chain of castles from the Forth to the ham Railway Company, at the conclusion of their works,' Clyde, which reminds us of many interesting historical had a piece of ground of considerable extent left unoccu- facts, was erected by Agricola, in the year 84. pied, and it was understood that the Company would not build either an hotel or a public-house of any description THE LATE TOURNAMENT —We un derstand that it has been determined by the company asse . neNe eo d r * : upon this ground, and upon that understanding several he Tournament at Eglintoun Castle, to subscribe 's in public-houses were erected near the station. Since then, t • piece . of plate, to be . presented to the Earl of E g linte . n; h ' i ; however, the Company Ilan built a large hotel, which remain . ' family for ever in commemoration of has been let on lease to Mr. Toovey, and an applica tion was made at the general licensing day for a splendid and successful entertainment. The following license. The Magistrates, however, directed the noblemen and gentlemen to form a committee g application to stand over until this day, when Mr. merit :—The King (the Marquis of Londonde f rTy a ) ",a , ,tc,i Goldsmith, of Watford, appeared in support of the an- Marshal ( Sir Charles Lamb), and the Judge of the Li t s h i e t ( Lord Saltoun), the Knights of the Tournament , plication, and Messrs. Fellowes and Pugh attended for the Duke of Montrose, Lord Burghersh, Viscount Chelsea, purpose of opposing it. The grounds on which the Sir George Head, Honorary Secretary. license was sought were that the house would be an ac. - Some time ago a match was ;Dade between e a: commodation to the public, and especially to first class Hon. Baronet of this neighbourhood . and an English g , e passengers, for whom at present there was no adequate tleman to row a Scottish .. built gig, manned by Clyu accommodation. Memorials praying for the license to be boatmen, against a similar vessel of Loudon manufacture, granted signed by Earl Clarendon, Lord Verulam, the Earl of Essex, Sir Charles Corvine, the Mayor of St. and worked by Thames rowers. T he m atch is to tak e Albans, and a number of magistrates were also in.— place on the M erse y, an d , we b e li eve , comes off ne xt put Mr. Fellowes addressed Bench in opposition to the month. The Scottish boat has been built by M r. Thome, grant of the license, and said, that if the Railway Corn- Nicol of this town, whose fame in the manufacture err pany had acted with more candour the present opposition boats of every kind extends far and wide. A sh7 r . would not have been brought forward. They h a d a ll time ago, two genteelly-dressed individuals called at ir along given out that they would not erec t a pu bli c- h ouse g Nicol's work-shop in this town, professedly to pure persons ouses, had and invested ilnwthe their Companycapit al in tu rn f e o d u r roundothe-r or contract for a boat. One of them, who acted a,: at this place, and on the faith o f t hi s un d erstandin spokesman, endeavoured to teach his tongue the kit houses, h' and sought to obtain a license for this house, and if they brogue, but with very indifferent success, as the Cocknel pronunciation ever and anon interfered. A he ' l _ obtained it they would have the power of saying that no- the fellow of the Nicol Jarvis, built by Mr. Nicol for.; one should go to the rails but through their house, and gentleman in Dublin, was the avowed object of tbel e unless they drank their beer. He hoped that in times search ; but no sooner had they got into the place w`h is e, r . Irish like the present, when all monopolies were so much looked the boats were kept than the eyes of the Cockney Ir . if, after, that the Magistrates would pause before they gave man picked out the intended match-gig, and Mr. Nicol their sanction to such an enormous monopoly as might be saw him feeling and handling about it in a way that co_. raised if they granted the license as prayed. With vinced him that he was well acquainted with boat-mait v i l f, respect to the me r it s of the case, h e s h ou ld be p re p a r e d t o Mr. Nicol then told him that he knew his errand . e t a ° contend that the public-houses already upon the spot well , but he thought it would Kaye been more mati o lf e g were amply sufficient for the accommodation of the public, have explained his object at the first. The parties lo o ia;, o and that there was no nec e ssity f o r a fresh one. The confused, hut could not deny the justice of Mr. Nie be Magistrates made inquiry r e l a tiv e t o the nature o f the suspicions, and slunk away. The above statem ent we P__%it building sought to be licensed, and it appeared that some fish upon Mr. Nicol's authority , and qu i t e agree "...,'e. portion of it was at present used as a meeting room by the him in thinking that the conduct of his visitors was S u Company, but there was no communication between it what suspicious.— Greenock Advertiser. . and the intended hotel. It was also stated that in the FOSSIL FISHES FOUND AT MANCHESTEIV--- event of any forfeiture of the terms of the lease, the hotel At the late meeting of the British Association at Binning'. would conic into the occupation and possession of the ham, in the geological section (C) on the Wednescl a Y.i Company. After a good deal of discussion, the Court Mr. Bowman exhibited a number of specimens of f og 1 was cleared, and in about half an hour the Magistrates fishes from Manchester, and submitted a communica tio n decided that they would grant the license. Mr. Fellowes upon them from Mr. E. W. Binney. Scales and e immediately gave notice of appeal. the sauroid fish, megalichthys, are found in the Laacasbif ELECTRO-I\'IAGNETIC NAVIGATION.—Mr, coal-field, in the low coal shales above the millstone grit, Faraday recently received a letter from M. H. Jacobi, and as far up as the fresh water limestones of Ardwiei c • dated St. Petersburg, on the application of electro mag- Remains of diplodus, ctenoptychus, holoptychus, and paise ° . netism to navigation ; and Mr. Faraday has caused it to niscus are found in greater abundance, though not so extei. l _ be inserted in the London and Edinburgh Philosophical sively disseminated. The specimens exhibited were fro four Magazine for the current month. The following is a short three quarters mine of St. George's-road, and the _ extract from this curious paper:—" In the application of foot mine of Pendleton. Some are found in a rock e . ei,., electro-magnetism to the movement of machines, the most posed of the shells of a cypris and a species of inte_ru a important obstacle always has been the embarrassment and conchus, indicating a tranquil deposit of the bed as _T e d teeth of difficult manipulation of the battery. This obstacle exists lagoon of a tropical climate. Some specimens are f e o: . , no longer. During the autumn of 1838, an d at quite close to Ihe coal, but none have as yet been ola r s i . . l e ,e " a season (in 1839) already too advanced, I made, as contained within it. The state of preservation, an d ' les,. A as you will have learned by the Gazettes, the first Position in which the fishes occur , at the latter place, _ lea d experiments in navigation on the Neva, with a ten-oared to the conclusion that they have been suddenly dest ro y shallop, furnished with paddle wheels, which were put in by water highly charged with decayed vegetable matter•of motion by an electro-magnetic machine. Although we ENORMOUS CABBAGE.—An early ee'bbage be , voyaged during entire days, and usually with ten or twelve the extraordinary weight of 271b5., was brougW to t P r persons on board, I was not well satisfied with this first trial, office, for inspection, on Monday week, which the b ea e rn a . for there were so many faults of construction, and want of informed us grew in the garden of Mr. Fergas s t vi; insulation in the machines and battery, which could Netherholm, parish of Kirkmahoe. It was at out: -we not be repaired on the spot, that I was terribly annoyed bulkiest and most beautifully shaped head of the kiln' do All those repairs and important changes being accom- ever saw ; and as the bearer had no idea of consigning ~... 1 plished, the experiments will shortly be recommenced. The welcome a windfall to pot editorial, we presume it maY be of the past year, combined with the recent im- seen at the seed shop of Mr. Thomas Kennedy.—D ui ' E resorted A U CT AUCTIONS.—Iii N th s a . provements of the battery, give as the result, that to pro- fries Courier. duce the force of one horse (steam engine estimation), it racy more HORS will require a battery of twenty square feet of plating dis n—atillhornseo-There, if tenure in a convenient manner, but I hope that eight to ouchance to look at a dealer's horse, you will probably entertained by the discourse of two fellows, square feet will produce the effect. If Heaven pre. You serves my health, which is a little affected by continual at but not to y ou, respectingqualities of' the labour, I hope that by next Midsummer I shall have the wonderful Otled'' animal of equipped an electro-magnetic vessel of from 40 to 50 . your attention is drawn to. If worth ten p re: you will probably hear something of the following new horse power I" " S'help me God, Bill, sound as a rock, an' only comin' -. _ HORRID NUISANCE —THE DUSTMAN'S BELLthis apncltaicoens.is confecle:f Tom Smith druv him grass. There—l know'd him yen AND THE New POLICE ACT. —Yesterday, whilst the at- in tention of Mr. Coombe, the Magistrate of Hatton-Garden, hour and twent minutes, an'then rid him with the fox was occupied in a case of importance, he was interrupted hounds all da y andhe co ni,dhom e in the evenin' as gal by the horrid ringing of a dustman's bell, adjacent to as a lark 1 I ' d ore nor a are say he von% fetch much more the office, when he immediately ordered an officer to pro- score, an' I means to have him if he goes anythi n g coed outside, to inform the fellow makingthe directe noise, to like that price. Yen he's in condition I think he desist, and caution him upon the impropriety of causing ,„„ da 4 , , ;an' sieh ti - the ee aemesi. toss as you can see such discordant sounds, and the penalty he was liable to. Lor' DP repaired to the spot, goer 1 You need not cough him, Sir ; Inspector Jenkins . and obeyed the you, his vind's as clear as a vistle. He can go longer nor directions of his worship, and the offender soon put the you'd like to ride without stoppin' !" At length the horse , to instrument under his arm and bolted off, but when he got goes to the hammer. Some friends, who are put u. a 1 some distance off, he commenced the nuisance' again, toeetfu the perfect annoyance of the inhabitants, especially the ' b'lanimated bidding goes on, until thin j, distance, w i e an tion ot more nervous portion of them. Mr. Coombe' advised' the scheme, get about him and keep you at a re. _, . ing the horse must be cheap to attract the admire the officers to caution such persons first before measures were adopted to put down the nuisance, harsher so many good judges, you are perhaps indue .. t e n a nod yeur head to the auctioneer, when the DI" MORTALITY OF SEAMEN.—It Ifas been com puted that for every sixteen sailors who die of all diseasea, just bid the very money he must be exactly worth ; _°_ .s .. ding his reached eighteen guineas. You find you h a a _ v r e , eleven die lay drowning or in wrecks; that the number of strange to say, no one of all the numerous host so anxioou_ British ships which are lost is about one to twenty-five ; to possess him offers a penny above you. What is still rt . i r .. u. that very few short of two thousand perish annually in the pleasant, you are urged on by some low vagabondhas7; mighty deep, chiefly Pu re to the value of three million s annually is absolutely lost purchased him, hopes you will " remember him for his as ,_ from ship wrec k, by w hi c h property your elbow to buy the horse, who, when to the nation, an d hund re d s o f widows and thousands of commendation :" or, which is still more probable, be _'; children are th rown on the cold and precarious charity of permission to bid for you, assuring you that his , hr s oth_ ct thefrequent cause of t hese s ip cheap. This kind friend eventually asks a guicßie public; th a t t h e more fro h• dealers will not bid against him, and that you will thie ,‘- e .„; , wrecks is intemperance, and that in the case of those who I the horse your . .. ,, and thus • lO/. horse costs Pu..nzat'ame are saved from such sudden death and a watery grave, 1 for buying him, the average lif e o f seamen i s , from hard service, finished 1 twice as much as he is worth.—Uld Sporting Maga at forty-five. 1 for September. .. ____.—......- EVENING ED,ITION. IF MESS AWFUL EXPLOSION • PIGOL7 AND WILD'S POWI S L DARTFORD-FIVE LIVES LO `'A ' 7 .R.MILLS AT O.) Monday morning, a few minutes after., sof the an awful explosion took place on the prern - 4, ' •.47en o'clock, above-named gentlemen , which threw down and rt. ' ttcrc i the corning-house, the whole of the implerne - A. i ," (1 materials contained therein, in every direction ; Not, , we regret to add, five fellow-creature's lives have 1). 'en sacrificed in the tremendous shock, which spread dirtni'Y throughout the town of Dartford and its vicinity, on a which was distinctly felt ; and the explosion heard, 6% 1 Maidstone, 6. distance of twenty miles. An inquisition was taken on the premises before Mr.- C. J. Carttar and a highly respectable Jury on Tuesday. Mr. Robert Wilks, a partner in the firm of Pigou and Wilks, deposed that he knew the whole of the de ceased ; they had all been workmen on their premises, and were perfectly steady, sober melt. He had been I,n the corning-house about a quarter befo:e ten o'clocK, where all the deceased were employed %via: the excep tion of Prescott, who was in a boat in t he canal, it being his duty to convey the powder from the corning house to the house where the next process takes place, and and which is on all occasions moved from place to poce with this caution to prevent accident and danger b," avoiding friction. However there is every reason to be lieve that he must have subsequently gone into th e corning-house, from the position in which his body was found. The corning-house was completely surrounded by a mound of earth at least twenty feet high, and a great number of trees. The body of Prescott was blown over the mound into the di'ch or canal on on the opposite side. The explosion took place about ,•,!-er minutes after 10 o'clock, and as soon as his alarm had aliated, the deceased Prescott was found as described , having lost his right leg, which had been severed frorn . the body close up by the fork of the thi g h, and his left arm from its socktt. When first found he was almost sensible, and said to witn,”s, " For God's sake do something for me." Although in his senses he did not appear to be aware that he had lost either of his limbs, and for ten minutes spoke rationally ter the persons about him, and said in five minutes more be would have been away from the building. After the lapse of that time his sufferings commenced, and so exer.leiatiog were they, that the poor fellow asked them to dash his brains out to stop his agony, and in about two minutJs afterwards he ceased to exist. One of the sufferers, a man of 16 stone weight, was thrown over the embankment ; and upwards of one hun dred yards on the other side of ;:. His right arm had been blown off, and was found about thirty yards to the left of the body. Another, a lighter man, was found in meadow upwards of 120 yards over ti,e embankment , where he appeared to have fallen, his clothes singing the grass, and to have afterwards rebounded at ;cast 25 feet further, where similar marks of fire were mane on the grass turf, his body being nearly severed in two aerJss the abdomen. There is not a vestige of the corning-house to be seen, it has been so completely razed. The trees sur rounding the buildng - were greatly injured, some of them being destroyed by losing their branches, and others blown down. The CORONER shortly s l immed up, and t he Jury, after a slight consultation, rettnlned a verdict---,‘ That the deceased persons had come by their death in conse quence of the explosion of a gun.po a ,der corning-mill , which belonged to Messrs. Pigou and Wilks, situated in the parish of Wilmington, Kent." • / 44 '"""