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BRIGHTON, LEWES, AND TONBRIDGE WELLS DIRECT RAILWAY (HALLETT'S LINE). Capital 350,0001., in 17,500 Shares of 201. each. Deposit 21. 2s. per Share. (Provisionally Registered.) Shareholders not to be liable beyond the amount of their Shares. COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT. Chairman, Lord Alfred Hervey, M.P. Howard Elphinstone, Esq. M.P. Stephen Lowden, Esq. John Villiers Shelby, Esq. Edward Beard, Esq. Sir George Prescott, Bart. Richard Dutton, Esq. Edwin James, Esq. William H. Lidbetter, Esq. Valentine Lee, Esq. Alexander Donavan, jun. Esq. George Rennie, Esq. George Donavan, Esq. W. S. Potter, Esq. Jno. Langford, Esq. James Reeves, Esq. Nelson Kenward, Esq. George Molinens, Esq. Thomas Radford, Esq. Frederick Seymour, Esq." Jno. Taylor Hallett, Esq. John Kenward, Esq. William Kenward, Esq. Thomas Wisden, Esq. William Nash, Esq. Edward Churchill, Esq. J. Underwood, Esq. Alexander Wright, Esq. ENGINEER—Sir John Rennie, F.R.S. ACTING FRGINEER—WiIIiam Hallett, Esq. C.E. SOLICITOR—W. B. James, Esq. SECRETARY —F. H. 'Calder, Esq. BANKERS. The Commercial Bank, Lothbury Messrs. Melyneaux and Co. Lewes, and Tonbridge Wells. LOCAL AGENTS. William Polhill Kell, Esq. Lewes Robert Foreman, Esq. solicitor, Tonbridge Wells Benjamin Hall, Esq. Bursted Lodge, near Ucklield. The Committee of Management beg to state that the Allotment is being proceeded with, and the letters will be issued without delay. By order, FREDERICK H. NALDER, Secretary. 83, 13asinghall-street, 15th Oct. 1845. PLYMOUTH and NORTH CORNWALL RAILWAY, from Plymouth to Padstow Harbour, with Branches to Launceston, Devonport, and Linkenhom. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital 900,0001., in 36,000 Shares of 25/. each. Deposit, 21. 12s. 6d. on each Share. With power to decrease the capital to 600,0001. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. The Right Hon. Lord Graves, Thanckes, Plymouth Baldwin, Charles Barry, Esq. M.P. Totnes, Parliament-street Briggs, Captain Francis, R.N. 17, Edward-street, Portman- square Brown, George Augustus, Esq. 20, Gower• street, Bedford-square Cockburn, Henry D. Esq. director of the Sheffield, West Riding, and Midlands Junction, and the Hull, Birmingham, and Swansea Junction Railways Dale, Thomas A. Esq. of Birkenhead, and Malvern-house, Chel tenham, director of the Staffordshire Potteries, and Liverpool and Manchester Direct, and Birkenhead and Holyhead Junc- tion Railways Douglas, Colonel Robert, director of the London and Birmingham Extension, and Trent Valley Continuation Railways Eyre, Sir James, Lower Brook-street, director of the Birkenhead, _ Birmingham, and Brighton Union Railway Fitch, Lieut.. Colonel George, 36, York-terrace, director of the Yolk and Lancaster Railway Hair, Quintin B. Esq. director of the Great Grimsby, South Horn castle, Lincoln, and Midland Junction Railway Hamley, Captain W.M., R.N., Bodmin Harding, Joshua, Esq. Rosliston, Burton-upon-Trent, director of the Nottingham, Birmingham, and Coventry Railway Hardinge, Thomas Houghton, Esq. 23, Park-lane, director of the London and Exeter Direct Railway Heath, Wm., Esq. Grosvenor-street, Grosvenor-square, director of the Metropolitan Junction Railway Hoffman, Lewis, Esq. director of the Nottingham and South Staf. fordshire, and Dover and Bristol Railways Ker Thomas Collingwood, Esq. 46, Woburn-place Lloyd, Dr. F. B. Kensington Mactavish, Charles Carroll, Esq. 22, Rutland-gate Parkinson, John, Esq. F. R.S., Cambridge.terrace, director of the Direct Western Railway Pickwood, A. Maxwell, Esq. Penton-lodge, Bridport, Dorset, _ _ director of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway Rich, Sir George, Lowndes-street, Belgrave-square, director of the London, Southampton, and Gosport Railway Richardson, William, Esq. Charlotte-street, Bedford.square, Lon don, Deputy-Chairman of the Wexford, Waterford, and Va. Icntia Railway Ross, Captain Thomas, R.N., 58, Porchester-terrace, director of the Dover and Bristol Railway Sartorius, Admiral Sir George, director of the Northern and Eastern, and Western Junction Railways Thellussen, T. R. Esq., 16, Hyde Park -street, Hyde.park, London Webb, Richard, Esq., Calcot, Reading, director of the Somersetshire and North Devon Bank Winkworth, T W., Esq. Gutter-lane, Cheapside, director of Ras trick's Direct London and Manchester Railway (With power to add to their number.) E N GINEER—A. H. Bampton, Esq. C.E. BANKERS. - London—The Commercial Bankoflondon, Lolhbury and Hen Tietta-street, Covent.garden. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Bull and Underwood, 25, Ely-place, Holborn, London Messrs. Woolcombe, Square, Stephens, and Prance, Plymouth SECRETARY, pro tem.—Edward Hoare, Esq. This railway, being an extension of the Delabole and Rock line, the construction of which, from the deep water of Padstow Har. hour to the vicinity of Camelford, has been already authorised, will unite Padstow and the other ports on the north coast of Cornwall with Plymouth, by the shortest and most advantageous route which can be obtained, and thereby establish a complete and direct com munication between the Bristol and English Channels. It is intended that the principal terminus shall be near Sutton Pool, the centre of the established trade at Plymouth, for the im provement of which a Company with a sufficient capital has been formed. The line will cross the Tamer at or near Saltash, and pro ceeding by Callington approach Launceston, whence it will extend by Carnelford to the Delabole Quarries, and there form a commu nication with the Delabole and Rock Railway, for the formation of which an Act of Parliament, containing ample powers to construct docks and otherwise improve the Harbour of Padstow, has been obtained. Short branches will connect the line with Devonport, Linkenhorn, and Launceston. _ _ The Committee reserve power to make such arrangements with the parties interested in the Delabole and Rock Railway as may be deemed advisable for completing the line and extending the utility of the portion of the project to which the powers of their 'Act apply. Westerly winds prevailing for three-fourths of the year, it is evident that railway communication with Padstow will obtain for that harbour a great part of the trade which now enters the Bristol Channel ; inasmuch as sailing vessels would thence secure a suffi cient offing at all times to prevent the delay constantly occasioned in the ports of that channel to outward.bound ships. The im provement of this harbour will involve the construction of a break water, and thus Padstow will become the haven of refuge for that line of coast, and the seaport of the Bristol Channel. By means of this railway the most direct and expeditious con munication wilt be obtained between the southern and eastern ports of Ireland, and the whose of the north of Cornwall, Launceston, and Callington, with Plymouth and the southern coast of Devon; and in conjunction with the proposed lines of railway through the centre of Devon and Cornwall, it will afford a rapid communication with Exeter, the north of Devon, and the metropolis, on the one side, and Falmouth and the eastern ports of Cornwall on the other. By this route the distance from Launceston to Plymouth will be seven miles less than by the route through Tavistock ; whilst, in stead of gradients of l in 29 and 1 in 30, as presented on that line, the gradients on this will be perfectly easy, and well adapted for locomotive power. The line presents few engineering difficulties, and the greater part of it will be constructed at a very moderate cost. The addl. tional expense of crossing the Tamar will be most amply compen. sated for by the cheapness of the construction of the remainder of the Tine; and the capital may be relied on as being amply sufficient to carry out the undertaking. In case an Act should be ohtained for the construction of a central line of railway through Cornwall and Devon, power is reserved to make arrangements for the use of so much of such line as may be available, and the capital of this Company will be proportionally reduced; and in the event of any Company projecting a railway from Falmouth to Plymouth, and joining in the expense of the line from Saltash to Sutton Pool, the capital will be further reduced by 156,000/. The crossing of the Tamar at Saltash will be effected by a bridge sufficient to accommodate the general traffic cf the country, for which a toll will be sought. Power will be taken to purchase the interest of the owners of the ferry existing at that point of the river. The line passes through the best mining districts of the north and east of Cornwall. By means of the proposed branch to Linkenhorn, nearly the whole of the mines in the eastern part of the county will be united, and all the materials and supplies for these mines, with their produce, would be transported on this railway. The Delabole slate quarries are already in active ope ration, several steam-engines being in full work, and more in the course of erection. The traffic will be materially augmented by the carriage of slate from these quarries, and the supply of ma.. terials for their working. Added to these sources, the very con siderable traffic of passengers and goods which will be derived from the north of Cornwall and Devon, from Launceston, Calling eon, and, in fact, the whole of the productive corn country through which the line passes, and which chiefly supplies Plymouth and the Government Victualling.office ; the conveyance of Irish produce and passengers from Padstow—of timber and other building materials both from Plymouth and the north coast—of sea sand, most ex tensively used for manure, from the north coast—of lime and limestone from Plymouth—of coals for the supply of the whole dis trict, including the immense quantities consumed in the mines.- abundantly demonstrate that few lines of railway are likely to pay a higher rate of interest on the capital to be expended, both from the moderate expense of construction and the immense amount of traffic which must pass over the line. Power will be applied for in the Act to allow interest at four per cent. on the deposit and all subsequent calls until the opening of the line ; and the subscribers' liability, previous t o obtaining the Act, will be limited to the amount of the deposit on their respective shares. . The survey is in a state of forwardness, aad as the extension line and branches do not exceed thirty-six miles, there•is an actual certainty of being fully prepared for an application to Parliament in the ensuing session for an Act of Incorporation. Prospectuses may be obtained on application to Edward Hoare, Esq. secretary, pro tem., at the Company's temporary offices, 15, Basinghall.street ; to the solicitors, Messrs. Bull and Underwood, 25, Ely-place, Holborn ;" and Messrs. Woolcombe, Square, Ste. phens, and Prance, Plymouth ; to Messrs. Shewell and Sons, stock brokers, 25, Tokenhouse-yard, .London ; Messrs. Pownall and Worthington, Old Hall-street, Liverpool; Messrs. Cardwell and Sons, Manchester; Messrs. W. H. Collis and Smith, New.street, Birmingham; Mr. Luke Arnold, Bristol; Mr. James Balm; Gloucester ; and to Mr. James Stokes, Cheltenham. FORM OF APPLICATION, To the Directors of the Plymouth and North Cornwall Railway Company. Gentlemen,—l request you will allot to me shares of 251. each in the proposed Plymouth and North Cornwall Railway ; and I hereby undertake to accept the same, or any less number of shares that may be allotted to me, and to pay the deposit of 21. 12s. 6d. per share thereon, and also to execute the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required. Dated this day of October, 1845. Name in full Residence Profession or business (if any) Place of business Name and profession or business of referee Address ... I,y o UT HERN COUNTIES UNION and BRISTOL, BATH, and DOVER DIRECT RAILWAY COMPANY. Offices, 70, King William-street, City ; entrance in Clement's-lane. Capital 1,500,000, in 60,000 Shares of 251. each. Deposit 21. 12s. 6d. COMMITTEE OF DIEECTIOS. Sir RICHARD JENKINS, G.C.8., Chairman. W3I. HUGHES HUGHES, Esq., Alderman, Deputy-Chairman. Rd. Hopkins Allnatt, Esq. ➢I.D. George Harrison, Esq. Geo. Augnstuy Brown, Esq. Frederick Hewet, Esq. Janus Clift, Esq. P. Bennett Lucas, Esq. Griffin Curtis Gait, Esq. Colonel Nicolls Notice Is here Thos. S. Ric, by given, that ni Company will be received after Tui By order of lards, Esq. to applications for Shares of this ris DAY. . )1 the Directors, Et. H. GADESDEN, Secretary. October 11, 1845. AMBER-GATE, NOTTINGHAM, AND BOSTON AND EASTERN JUNCTION RAILWAY. EXTENSION TO SLEAYORD. The Committee of Management of the above Company, being de -811-011S of affording every accommodation to the public and the im portant towns in the district through which the above railway will pass, have determined to extend their line from Grantham to Slea ford. The line of country between those towns has been carefully surveyed, and will be formed at a moderate cost, and does net inter fere with any ornamental property. The surveys and plans are in a forward state, and the Committee have the assuran ce o f t h eir engi neerthat they will be ready to be deposited in time to proceed early in the next session of Parliament. By order, 846 :iLttjaVa 00 ;* -. W. F. N. NORTON, Chaingiau, 410. GOTAili, Secretary. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDI, Y EVENING, OCTOBER 16, 181. SOVEREIGN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY. (Provisionally Registered.) No. 5, ST. JAMES'S-STREET, LONDON. To be established by Act of Parliament, for the Assurance of Lives, and for effecting all other contracts depending upon Life Contingen cies, and also for granting Loans, upon a new and kighly beneficial system Capital, 1,000,0001., in 100,000 Shares of 101. each. Deposit, it. 10s. per Share. TRUSTEES. The Right lion. Lord Rossmore Sir Augustus Brydges Henniker , Bart., Hawley, Stowmarket, Suffolk Benjamin Bond Cabbell, Esq., F.R.S., F.S.A., Temple Henry Pownall, Esq., Russell-square, and Spring-grove, Hounslow Claude Edward Scott, Esq., Cavendish-square. • PROVISIONAL DIRECTORS. Lord Arthur Lennox, M.P., Chesham-place, Belgrave-square The Right Hon. Lord Macdonald Henry Broadwood, Esq., M.P., Whitehall Thomas Colpitts Grainger, Esq., M.P., Temple Charles Farebrother, Esq., Alderman, Lancaster-place, Strand John AsMarna, Esq., M.D., Wimpole- street, Cavendish-square William Tulloh Fraser, Esq., Manchester-square and Crosby-square John Gardiner, Esq., Avenne-road, Regent's Park Alexander Ogilvie, Esq., Northumberland-street Aaron Asher Goldsmid, Esq., Cavendish-square Philip Patton Blyth, Esq., Austin-friars, and Sion House, Clapton Hew William Pownall, Esq., Russell-square. AUDITORS. James Fraier, Esq., Park-square West, Regent's Park James Gerson, Esq., Conduit-street William Wallace, Esq., Austin-friars and Cadogan-place Edward Watson, Esq., St. Helen's-place, and Frognal, Hampstead _ BANKERS. hir Claude Scott, Bart., and Co., Cavendish-square. STANIAR., COUNSEL. • Mr. Sergeant Manning, Sergeant's Inn W. H. Rough, Esq., Middle Temple. SOLICITORS.—Messrs. Davis and Son, Warwick-street, Regent-street. CONSULTING PHYSICIAN—John Power, Esq., M.D., Great Queen- street, Westminster. MEDICAL REFEREES. Edward Duke Moore, Esq., Arlington-street. Francis Graydon Johnston, Esq., Saville-row. CONSULTING ACTUARY—J. J. Sylvester, Esq., M.A., F.R.S., Actuary of the Equity and Law Life Assurance Society. SURVEYORS—Arthur Mee, Esq., Carlton Chambers, Regent-street ; Frederick C. J. Parkinson, Esq., Sackville-street. SECRETARY —George Cumming, Esq. This Company, in addition to all the usual business of Assurance Companies, offers to the public a new system of loans more beneficial to the borrower, and yielding abetter return to the Shareholder, than any system at present in use. A reference to the prospectuses of the Company (which have been already advertised at length in the papers), and which contain speci mens of the tables, will show the mode by which the Company will effect these objects. , The Company will also advance money on annuity, mortgage, or other security. Prospectuses, containing specimens of the tables and forms of application for shares, and every information, can be obtained from, and applications for shares made to, the Secretary, at the Com pany's Offices, No. 5, St. James's-street, London; Messrs. Davies and Son, Solicitors, 21, Warwick-street, Regent-street; Messrs. Tucker, Barnet, and Ellis, Brokers, 'Change Alley, Cornhill ; John Eykyn, Esq., Broker, 'Change-alley, Cornhill, London ; Messrs. D. and J. B. Neilson, Brokers, Liverpool ; Robert M'Ewen, Esq., Broker, Manchester ; J. B. Mundy, Esq., Broker, Bath ; Messrs. John Robertson and Co., Brokers, Messrs. Gordon, Stuart, and Cheyne, W.S., and John R. Calvert, Esq., W.S., Edinburgh ; Messrs. Mein and Cunningham, Brokers, Glasgow; W. N. Fish, Esq., North British Exchange Company, Aberdeen ; and George Gatherer, Esq., Solicitor, Elgin. S OVEREIGN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY. otice is hereby given, that NO FURTHER APPLICATION for SHARES in this Company can be received after TUESDAY, the 28t1 - day of October inst. By order, 5, St. James's-street, London GEORGE CANNING, Secretary, PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT. ' T HE LIVERPOOL and HULL DIRECT JL CONNECTING RAILWAY, via BLACKBURN, BURNLEY AND LEEDS. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital 1,200,0001., in 60,000 Shares of 20/. each. Deposit 2/. 2s. 6d. per Share. phis line has been projected for the purpose of forming the shortest and most direct roete between the ports of Liverpool and Hull, and giving to the important towns of North Lancashire and the West Riding of Yorkshire, a direct railway communication with those ports and each other. The line, in conjunction with projected Railways from Liverpool to Blackburn, will proceed thence by Burnley, across the extensive flag and stone fields of Wersthorn, to Shipley, ,or Bradford, where it will unite with lines now in ex stence, including the Leeds and Selby line. A highly influential local and other Committee is in the course of formation for carrying out the above object, and a detailed Prospec tus will shortly appear; in the meantime, all communications, in cluding applications for shares in the usual form, accompanied by a reference, may be made to Mr. C. W. Cobby, of No. 22, Paternoster row, London, the solicitor to the Company, or to the following brokers :—Mr. T. Rayson, 32, Coleman-street, London ; Messrs. Neilson, Mr. Gillow, and Messrs. Fletcher and Sharp, Liverpool; Messrs. Ridsdale and Co., Messrs. M'Lean and Dinwoodie, and Messrs. Cardwell and Sons, Manchester; Messrs. Ridsdale and Co., Mr. Richard Binney, Mr. J. M. France, and Messss. Hicks and Co., Leeds ; Mr. Thomas Boardman, Mr. John Ratcliffe, Mr. G. Y. Booth, and Mr. W. H. Morrice, Blackburn ; Mr. Thomas Wren, Preston ; Mr. Welch, Lancaster ; Messrs. Collinson and Flint, Hull ; Messrs. Knowles and Cook, and Mr. William Mason, Bradford ; Mr. Frederick Turner, Huddersfield ; and Mr. Gorton, Bolton ; of all of whom forms of application for shares may be obtained. This project being the same in every respect as the one before ad vertised under this title, parties who had applied for shares, and desirous of obtaining an allotment in the present scheme, must renew their applications at an early period. CHAS. WM. COBBY, • Solicitor to the Company, 22, Paternoster-row, London. I WHEAT. I 3ls BAILEY. 1235I 235 OATS. EYE. 143 sI 43s 44s BEANS. PEAS. PRICE .. 57s 9d 3d 4d 34s 2d Id 4d DUTY... 183 Od 7s Od 6s Od 9s 6d Is Od 2s 6d MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) NAY IIesLiLKETS. SMITITFIELD.—OId Meadow Hay, 4/ 5s to Si 85; new ditto, 3/ 10s to 41 12s 6d; Old Clover, Si 5s to 6/ 6s; new ditto, 41 to 5/ 5s ; Oat Straw, 11 15s to I/ 17s ; Wheat Straw, 1/ 18s to 2/ per load. A fair average supply, and a steady trade. CUMEERLAND.—OId Meadow Hay, 41 8s to 5/ 10s ; new ditto, 31 12s to 4/ 15s; Old Clover, 51 5s to 6/ • new, ditto, 41 to 51 ss; Oat Straw, 11 17s to 11 18s; Wheat Straw, 11 18s to 21 per load. Supply but moderate, and trade tolerably firm. WinTEcHarEL.—Old Meadow Hay, 4/ 5s to 5/ 8s; new, ditto, 3/ 12s to 4/ 15s ; Old Clover, 51 5s to 6/ 10s; new, ditto, 41 to 51 10s; Oat Straw, 1/ 16s to 11 18s; Wheat Straw, 1/ 18s to 2/ per load. Trade steady, at the above quotations. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL, We had a fair average supply of each kind of Meat on sale. Generally speaking the demand ruled steady, and p 1 ices were well supported.—Beef, from 2s 6d to 3s 6d ; Mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 6d ; Veal, 3s 8d to 4s 8d ; and Pork, 33 10d to 5s 4d per 81bs by the carcase. MEAT Sounimx, Ocr. 15.—Prime Beasts, Sheep, and Pigs were in steady request, at fully last week's quotations. Otherwise the demand ruled inactive. Beef from 2s 8d to 4s; Mutton, 3s 4d to 5s ; Veal, 3s 10d to 4s 6d ; and Pork, 3s 10d to 4s 10d per 81bs. ROMFORD, Ocr. 15.—Although the supplies of stock were somewhat on the increase, the demand was steady, at our quotations. Beef from 2s 10d to 4s; Mutton, 3s 4d to ss; Veal, 3s 10d to 4s 6d; and Pork, 3s 10d to 4s 10d per 81bs. Suckling Calves, 18s to 30s ; Quarter-old Store Pigs, 16s to 225; and Mulch Cows, with their small Calf, 161 to 191 each. HAILSHAM, Oar. 15.—There was a steady inquiry for each kind of prime stock ; but the inferior kinds met a dull sale.—Beef, from 3s to 4s 2d; Mutton, 3s 10d to 5s ; Veal, 3s 10d to 4s 6d ; and Pork, 3s 10d to 4s 6d per Blbs. ARUNDEL, OCT. 14.—Beef, from 2s 10d to 4s; Mutton, 3s 8d to 5s ; Veal, 4s to 4s 6d ; and Pork, 4s to 4s 8d per Blbs. A fair average supply, and a steady demand. CHICHESTER, Ocr. 15.—We had a steady general inquiry to-day, on the following terms :—Beef, from 3s to 4s; Mut ton, 4s to ss; Veal, 3s 10d to 4s 8d; and Pork, 3s 6d to 4s 6d per 81bs. Suckling Calves, 18s to 295; Quarter old Store Yigs, 16s to 21s; and Milch Cows, with their small Calf, 161 to 181 lOs each. MORALITY IN THE METROPOLIS.—The number of deaths during the last week was only 786, showing a decrease of 70 as compared with the previous week. Deaths from diseases of the stomach, liver, and other organs of digestion, are much above the average, being 90 to 68; measles still continue - more than usually fatal, the number of deaths amounting to 67, average for five autumns 81. Only 29 died of-old age, being little more than one-third of the average. The violent deaths were 22, of which 10 were caused by fractures, contusions, and wounds, 7 from drowning, 3 hang ing and suffocation, and 2 from scalds. The return . gives 3 suicides. Rain in inches 1.19. THE ANNUAL FLOWER-Snow.--The great Flower Shocv of Literary Annuals is close at hand, and we hear much in praise of the " rich and rare" qualities of some of the specimens ; but we understand that one, of an entirely novel character, is likely to eclipse them all, no less in tha beauty and costliness of its pictorial illustrations, and the elegance of its " complement extern," than in the novelty and interest of its literary contents. The illustrations are all from designs made by GEORGE CATrERMOLE, expressly for this work ; the literary portions are contributed by seve ral of the most popular - writers of the day ; and the editor ship is entrusted to a lady (the Baroness Calabrella), whose approved taste and judgment secure that choice and arrange ment of the materials, and that skill in putting them to gether, which are so essential to the success of a work of this nature. The volume is entitled "EVENINGS AT HAD_ DON HALL," and we understand the " machinery" by which the various tales, &c., are brought before the reader, is of the most ingenious kind, and affords an opportunity of introduc ing personal sketches of many distinguished individuab3 in the several worlds of fashion, diplomacy, and literature. CONVERTS TO ROMANISM.—We have authority for adding to the list of recent converts toe author ßoma fniesm,,mem the name of Mr. Leicester S. F. Buckingham, the l r e e e c t ei m ve e d nth in .— to p th e e st ß . omis' h of Mary Queen of Scots," Church at o._cott about the end whowoafs FARNINGHAM FAIR, KENT.—This autumn fair was held on Tuesday for the sale of cattle. There was a tolerable good supply, and a fair share of business was transacted. Bullocks, grass fatted, sold readily at 4s. 6d. per stone. Lean beasts made prices ranging from Si. to 11/. per head ;:cows and calves (Ayrshire breed), 121. 12s. ; ditto, Durham, 13/. •ditto, down 141. Some heifers, with small calf, made 10/. y down calvi ng , 71. an d 81. a-head. The horse field was large, and prime young cart colts fit for work fetched from 211. to 30/. ; good horses fit for London or farming purposes from 15/. to 251. each; aged cart horses made a low price, and good nags, from 12/. to 21/. There were a few pens of store pigs, and those strong, and free from distemper, sold well. There were few samples of new hops offered, but purchasers were reluctant. SALE OF THE DURHAM AND SUNDERLAND RAIL' WAY.—This line has at length, after a brief negotiation, passed into the hands of Mr. Hudson, M.P., who has pur chased it on behalf of the Newcastle and Darlington Com pany. The guaranteed price is 301. per share, o r 20/. l ess than the original cost; but Mr. Hudson has agreed to re commend 33/. 6s. Bd. to the Newcastle and Darlington Di rectors, and there is little doubt that it will be the sum paid. The arrangement, we believe, was completed at Sun derland, on Friday last.—Tyne Mercury. A few days ago, George Hudson, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the York and North Midland Railway Company, gave a substantial dinner to the servants of that establishment, amounting in number to 260—including the mechanics in the locomotive and carriage shops, engine- drivers-stokers, switch men, porters, &c.. They sat down to dinner, at half-past six o'clock, in one of the large workshops appurtenant to the York station, which is 150 feet long, and 60 feet wide. The manner in which the health of Mr. Hudson was received evinced the esteem in which he is held by this numerous body of artizans. The most deafening cheers, renewed for several minutes, followed the toast. The other toasts were also warmly applauded, and the evening's entertainment passed off in a most agreeable manner. The party broke up about eleven o'clock, and repaired in good order to their re spe_tive homes, no little gratified with the enthrtainment.— Su zderland Times. • - CITY or LONDON REGISTRATION.—On Tuesday an objection was made by Mr. Quin to the name of Mr. The Barrister thou g e h r t m t e h mbers of the Anti-Corn-law Bright and two oth er retained on the register, tl.e e n l a e . Quelcore coustituting them joist occupants. League, names being of the parties should be iltheir names, and THE WATERLOO HE ROE S The Subscribers and the Public are respectfully informed that the :splendid Engraving of the "WATERLOO HEROES" is now completed. Tills most interesting and grand Historical Record of Waterloo, painted by G. P. KNIGHT,-Esq., R.A., has been in progress by the celebrated Engraver, Mr. CHALES G. LEWIS, for nearly three years, and is now brought to a most successful termination. The engraving represents "Field-Marshal the Duke of Wellington, K.G., receiving his illustrious guests at Apsley-house, on the anniversary of the glorious Eighteenth of June," and included is the Plate are most of the great " Soldiers of the age," to whom the nation owed its crowning victory at Waterloo. Henry Graves and Co., Publishers in Ordinary to her Majesty and H.R.11. Prince Albert, 6, Pall-mall. MRS. TROLLOPE'S NEW NOVEL. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., THE ATTRACTIVE MAN. A NOVEL. BY MRS. TROLLOPE. _ _ .uthoress of " The Vicar of Wrexhill," " The Widow Barnaby," Br,e Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great 3larlborough-street. Now ready in Bvo., price only 55., VOL. V. of M. THIERS' HISTORY of the CONSULATE and EMPIRE. Translated by D. Forbes Campbell, Esq., with the Sanction and Approval of the Author. Also now ready, Vol. 4, of THE NELSON LETTERS and DISPATCHES. Edited by Sir Harris Nicolas, G.C.M.G., &c. 111. A THIRD EDITION of THE CRESCENT AND THE CROSS By Eliot Warburton, Esq. 2 vols., with Illustrations, 215., bound. Henry Colburn, Publisher. 13, Great illarlborough-street. - Now ready, in 3 vols. post Bvo., L OVE, A TALE OF VENICE; MESMERISM, A MYSTERY. By HOHACE SMITH, Esq., Author of " Brambletye House," &c. " These volumes are full of interest and beauty. ' Love' is a very charming tale of Venice during the first campaign of Buonaparte in Italy. Amelia Lamedano, its heroine, is one of the loveliest and most graceful of all Mr. Smith's creations. The characters are greatly varied and ably sustained throughout ' Mesmerism' is a production of altogether a different class. Bordering on the supernatural, it Is exceedingly curious in its construction, excites an intense and thril ling interest, and with much of admirable moral, it throws much light upon the obscure, and, as yet, little understood subject of animal magnetism."—Naval and Military Gazette. . . Henry Colbum, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING Will be performed the Grand Opera of THE BOHEMIAN GIRL. Thaddeus, Mr. W. Harrison ; Arline, Miss Rainforth. To be tollowed by the Grand Divertissement of LA BAYADERE. In which Mdlles. Louise, M. Delferier, and Mille. Adele will appear. To conclude with THE BRIDE OF LA 31ERMOOR. Edgar, Mr. D. W. King; Lucy Ashton, Madame Eugenie Garcia. TlizAT.ict, itUYAL, HAIAtAic&Y.T. THIS EVENING Will be repeated the Comedy of THE HYPOCRITE. Dr. Cantwell, Mr. W. Farren; Mawworm, Mr. Buckstone. To be followed by (compressed into two Acts) the celebrated Comedy of PEED THE PLOUGH. After which, will be repeated a New Comic Drama, entitled A CABINET QUESTION. Sir Beaumont Cressy, Mr. Brindal ; Lionel, Mr. Howe; Rosewood, Mr. Tilbury; Tom, Mr. Buckstone; Miss Mortimer, Miss Telbin ; Lucy, Miss Julia Bennett. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHL THIS EVENING Will be revived THE GREEN BUSHES; or, A Hundred Years Ago. In widch Messrs. 0. Smith, Selby, Stoker; Mrs. Yates, and Mrs. Fitzwilliam will perform. To be followed by SEEING WRIGHT. To conelnde with POWDER AND BALL; ur, St. Tibb's Eve THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. THIS EVENING Will be repeated THE LAST OF THF. BRAVOES. Principal Characters by Messrs. Keeley, F. Matthews, F. Vining, Bender, Yar uold, and Miss Arden. After which, a New Farce, called NEXT DOOR. To be followed by a New and Original Comedietta, entitled PETER JENKINS; or, Fibbing for a Friend. Principal Characters by Messrs. Keeley, A. Wigan, Turner, Meadows; Mrs. Keeley and Miss Dawson. To conclude with ALADDIN and the WONDERFUL LAMP. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. THIS EVENING Will be performed DON CJESAR DE BAZAN. Don Caesar de Bazan, Mr. Wallack ; Maritana, Mrs. Stirling. After which, ADVICE TO HUSBANDS. To which will be added THE BRIGAND. To conclude with A MAN WITHOUT A HEAD. NEW STRAND THEATRE. PHILLIPPE'S SOIL'EESMYSTERIESUSES, M. Philippe has the honour to announce that, in consequence of the unprecedented success of his entertainment at the St. James's Theatre, he has taken the New Strand Theatre, which WILL OPEN This EVENING, OCTOBER 16, for the exhibition of his celebrated TOURS DE PHYSIQUE, and surprising feats of MAGICAL DELUSION. The performances will be varied by the introduction of many most attractive novelties, obtained during a recent visit to Paris. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE THIS EVENING Will be performed a New Drama, entitled THE QUEEN of P OHEMIA After which, SKETCHES IN INDIA. To conclude with THE BOYHOOD OF BACCHUS. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS. I•ROPRIETOR AND MANAGER, MR. W. BATTF. Approbation ! approbation! approbation nightly bestows its gra tifying meed upon the present novel Egyptian Hypodramatic pro duction. Fourth Week of the gorgeous, classic, equestrian, dramatic spectacle of THE BRIDE OF THE NILE, and The Lily of Memphis and The Horse of the Pyramids, with new startling effects ; twenty Tableaux, in which Sgyptian Games and Chariot Races are introduced. New and varied Scenes of Equitation, introducing the combined talents of the French Artistes. _ _ To conclude with the much-admired Drama, LE COUPE GORGE, Supported by the entire strength of the Company. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We cannot insert the letter of " Fair Play " on the New Zealand Company. THE WEATHER.—Sorg OFFICE, OCT. 16. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 53; Highest, 63; Yoon, 58 BAROMETER, 30.22. WIND S.W.; fine weather. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning .. 3 minute. after 2 ! Evening .. 22 minutes after 2 •dt ... ~, , ,1 — , ).-‘ l .ki: .. J... , .- t;,,ii, .:„.4i.. , . .;,(,),, '''(__l--4_,: , ----) - .°- , - .... th I • 0,..,_, ~ 1 , 16 . ‘,..,......f.„A * . A a '."'''• '- I T ~ -,' • m O7' oi , - 0 . IT "."'" ~ ' ' h VOI. A1R%,.,..,,,b • 1111001 t. SECOND EDITION. character are alike violated by the Commissioners in assign ieg a niche to the statue of Cromwell, the regicide." . • " And who do our readers suppose is excluded to make room for this treasonable homicide? There is to be no statue of King Charles the First." Now, the over-sensi tive attachment of the Morning Post to all that pertains to royalty, from its crown to its coachman, is here betrayed into some inacuracy. We blush to say, that in Memorandum A, at p. 9, sixty-three names, of which they unanimously agreed to report as worthy of these statuary honours, the name of the mighty Protector does not occur. In Memorandum B, p. 10, a list of fifty-eight names, as to which the "Committee were not unanimous, but decided by greater or smaller majorities," the name of Cromwell is to be found, smuggled in, as it were between those of the Marquis, of Montrose and General Monk. The Post is, therefore, premature, at least, in asserting, " that a niche is assigned" to the great and victorious champion of the rights of the English Commonwealth and people, against the unprincipled oppressions of the second of the Stuarts. That Charles 1., whose fate, as our Contemporary remarks, "is annually renewed in our remembrance by a solemn penitential service, appointed —by the Church. But the Post is at any rate consis tent. If it rave with impotent vituperation against the great asserter of English rights and liberties at home, and English power and influence abroad, it is, as in duty bound, abso lutely maudlin over the grave of a smooth-faced but remorse less ruffian like Dundee, or the " Royalist Claverhouse," or a base Court sycophant and spiritual tyrant, like his " Baud, the Prelate and Martyr ;" and he was a martyr—to his meditated but unsuccessful treason to the Protestant Church and the principles of the reformed religion. _ _ But what—leaving our unhappy Contemporary to his Jeremiads over the honours intended for " the rebel Hampden and the conspirator Russell"—what shall we say to the seven Commissioners, Lord Mahon, Sir Robert Inglis, Mr. Macaulay, Mr. Hawes, 31r. Hallam, Mr. Rogers, and Mr. Wyse? What shall we say to the seven Englishmen who, being unable to come to an unanimous resolution to commemorate with honour such a man as Cromwell, are unanimous in voting statues in this great temple of history and legislation to so " small a deer" as Richardson, the novelist, to an annalyst of no higher pretensions than " Vene rable Bede," or to a writer so entirely identified with polemical divinity and " ecclesiastical polity as Hooker," whilst the 3 find no place for David Hume, and provide no pedestal for so profound and logical a theologian as Bishop Butler ? It seems to us that they have done well in negativing such absurd propositions as erecting statues in the nation's palace to players and fiddlers ; for, with all our passion for music and our 'admiration for dramatic excellence, we should indeed have thought the sculptured effigies of " Purcell and Garrick," (gravely proposed, it seems,) in such goodly company misplaced. Mr. Hallam, even, one of the clearest-headed and most instructive of modern historians, has not escaped the confusion of ideas which seems to be contagious among these Commissioners. There are 18 niches, about the appropriation of which he is extremely solicitous. He writes thus to Mr. Eastlake : " But while it would have been easy to recommend for the 18 niches in the House of Lords, the effigies of the Arch bishop and some other ecclesiastics, with these 16 Barons, whom we find recited in the charter," &c. Now, 16 Barons, with an Archbishop (counted only for a single pre late) and " some" other ecclesiastics, therefore two or more, make at the lowest computation, nineteen. Is it Mr. Hallam's purpose to have two in one niche, like two in a bed? Let us return, however, to the two lists, A and B. It being our feeling that from this collection of " British worthies" all purely controversial writers, however illus trious in the army of polemists--and all pensioned patriots, however eminent for their talent at all times, and their pure love of country at only certain periods•of their career— should be excluded. We have no objection to Archbishops Usher and Leighton, Jeremy Taylor, Chillingworth, Barrow, and John Wesley, remaining on list B. But, in common fairness, the seven Bishops who so nobly opposed at so much personal peril, and under so many circumstances of suffering and imprisonment the delinquencies of the Sovereign and the Government, in the reign of James 11., ought to be commemorated with due honour in a hall of statues that is adjacent to the House of Peers. We have already avowed our own opinion of Charles I. Yet we must ask why it was proposed in list B to give statues to Lord Falk land and Lord Strafford, and yet to omit the unhappy but not badly intentioned monarch—able, and accomplished, and even brave Prince as he was—in whose cause both these nobles perished—the one, gloriously, on the field of battle; the other, ignominiously, on a scaffold? Why Lord Heath field should be promoted to list A, and Welfe, Aber cromby, Moore, or their illustrious predecessors in the rank of great English Captains of former centuries, the Talbot and the Chandos, be pushed back into the limbs of list B, surpasses our comprehension. These are inconsistencies that the public will indignantly resent. What can have induced the adoption of the Earl of Surrey and Cowper as amongst the noblest of our poets, to the exclu sion of Ben Jonson or Dryden, and Pope or Goldsmith, and Burns, we cannot at all perceive. For the reason we have alleged, we complain not of the omission of Walpole,. or Burke, and Grattan (both of them pensioned patriots), but why Cardinal Langton ("clarum et venerabile nomen"), the munificent founder of English education, Cardinal Wolsey, or that incorruptible and most able diplomatist, Sir William Temple, or the true martyr, Lord William Russell, should find no statues in such a collection, is a portentous inconsist ency only to be mated by the ingenious estimate of royal and military greatness which decrees a statue to his Royal High ness Field Marshal Prince Albert, but rejects the claims to a similar honour for Richard Cceur de Lion, Edward 1., Ed ward 111., the Black Prince, Henry V., and William 111. !! The declaration by the authorities and commanding officers representing England and France cf the blockade of all the harbours of the Argentine Republic, and the actual esta blishment of that blockade as to the harbours of the Re public of Uruguay (the Monte Video State, or the "Banda Oriental"), in whose behalf we have intervened—the latter being directed against those ports in the vicinity of which General ORIBE'S Buenos-Ayrean army is engaged in active operations—will soon, we doubt not, bear f ru it s . The seizure of the Argentine squadron is an auspicious com mencement of a better order of things for the outraged in terests of humanity, the insulted nationality of all the flags of European civilization, and the wrongs of their commerce. But for the very numerous en exipsetopelee2 this who interposition the political by con vulsions of South America in the last t wen ty-fi ve years h ave heaved into an agitated ythe two greatest nations of the world is probably fraught with ' moral influences, that, but for the very circumstances—un toward as they originally appeared—out of which it has arisen, would probably have slumbered, inactive, for a cen tury or two yet to come. The remoteness of those fine countries of the Now World which, heretofore, were the wealthy colonies of Spain, has hitherto proved of fatal prejudice to the governed, wheth er un d er t h e m ild despotism of their Spanish masters, or the fierce licentious ness of the dictatorships established by their native and re publican leaders in the name of liberty. So long as European opinion could be but very tardily and slightly brought to bear on the incidents attending their political progress, so long they would have continued to manifest a reckless dis r e gar d of all the ordinary principles of international law and e v en o f moral responsibility. The excitement of contending factions would have continued to absorb every other sentiment, and that sanguinary desolation which seems to be the native type of South American energy, under all conditions of cir cumstances, and in the several zones over which its sphere of action is distributed, would still have marred and neutra lised all the bounties of PROVIDENCE and the productiveness of climate by internecine wars and insane and incessant re volutions. Steam, among its other triumphs, had already brought its " disturbing forces" into play. The remoteness of their position, and the meagreness of their relations with the Old World were already becoming little more than his torical recollections to these States, when the insolent pre sumption of a military adventurer, drunk with success and blinded by his ambition, involved European subjects, their lives and property, in the same violence which he had ha bitually applied to the citizens of Buenos Ayres and of Monte Video. The lesson that will be taught by the manifestation which this lawless policy has elicited at the hands of France and England will not be readily forgotten by ROSAS or his people. They will learn to respect the political maxim which recognises the presence of the European power in the exhibition of its flag, and Roans himself may yet be signally instructed, that the governments of civilised states will sometimes visit on delinquent chiefs, who have invoked, for their own bad purposes, the cut-throat aid of such in famous auxiliaries as his " Masorca Club," the same retri butive justice which municipal laws inflict for atrocious crimes on private offenders. Ere this we should imagine that the complete defeat which another portion of his forces has sustained at Santa Fe from General LOPES, aided by some bo.lf-disciplined Indian cavalry, will have completed the effect of the loss of his fleet. For our own parts, we trust that when that national satisfaction shall have been afforded which it is the immediate object of the French and English diplomatic agents to compel, Rosas himself shall be sub mitted to the searching examinations of a duly constituted tribunal, to ascertain to what extent, if to any, he himself has been compromised in the barbarous massacre of the nine English subjects composing the Scotch family residing in, the immediate vicinity of Buenos Ayres, to which we alluded more particularly a few weeks ago, and in other of those excesses, perpetrated by the " Masorca," to which General O'BIUEN was so nearly becoming a sacrifice, and beneath which others of our countrymen, or European brethren, less fortunate than the General, have undoubtedly perished. In a merely commercial point of view, the re-establish ment of a pacific intercourse with the States upon the La Plata is an object of greater magnitude to Great Britain than some of our readers may perhaps suppose. By a reference to the Parliamentary Paper, of which we recently submitted a careful abstract, entitled " Exports and Imports" (P. P., secs. 1845, Ho. Comm., No. 651), we find the "Return for Mexico and the other States of Central and South America, exclusive of Brazil," consolidated under one head. But inasmuch as the leading articles or commodities of export and import are separately set out, it is not difficult to form a sufficiently . accurate notion of the proportions we may ascribe to the trade with Monte Video and Buenos Ayres. Taking the whole table for Mexico, &c., it results that the "aggregate" value of British and Irish produce and manufactures ex ported, last year, wa5_3,013,2671. In some of these exports the increase in five years—from 1840 to 1844 inclusive—is really astonishing. Brass and copper manufactures in the former year were to the amount of 4,9001. only; in the latter, 16423/. Hardware and cutlery rose from 76,6004 to 143,608/. ; woollen manufactures, including Yaw) from I 541,338/. to 770,7671. The imports from the same countries, during the same interval, are, as usual, returned only as " quantities," with the rates of duty chargeable thereon. But these do not the less indicate a rapidly expanding and lucrative commerce. The imports of Peruvian bark, which in 1840 were only 69,2671b5., in 1843 amounted to 303,6651b5., the duty being meanwhile lowered from 9s. 91d. to ls. per cwt. The return for " Cochineal (Granilla and Dust)," independently of the interest attaching to the trade in that precious commodity, is too instructive an exemplification of the results of a wise reduction of import duties not to merit here our especial notice. In 1840 the duty was Is. and a fraction for the cwt. of Cochineal and Granilla, and 19s. 7id• for the Dust; and the imports were 206,5501b5. In 1841, at same duties, only 67,9401b5. In 1842, 1843, and 1844, the duty being reduced to ls. and a fraction per cwt. on each, the imports were, severally, 259,9801b5., 421,7421b5., and 303,8901b5. Again, in 1840, the duty on coffee was Is. 3id. per lb., reduced in 1842 to 81e1., and in 1844 to 6d. and a fraction. The imports in creased through each successive year, from 587 3531b5. to 8,093,6391b5. But we content ourselves for the present by merely pointing out in this manner what are the capacities of the trade with these States. Let us, in conclusion, look a little further, and see what they may be made by judicious negotiation. For more than a century past the policy of the Jesuits had gradually isolated the noble region of Paraguay (situated as to South America within boundaries more land locked than even those of Poland, as to Europe) from the approach of all foreign trade. As if Nature had not suf ficiently removed her by natural features and geographical position from all access by the ocean, the jealous vigilance of that remarkable tyrant, the doctor-dictator, FRANCIA (so graphically described in Mr. ROBERTSON'S admirable Letters from Paraguay,") successfully established a species of frontier blockade for a full quarter of a century, without a single soldier, and with the most moderate Custom-house establishment imaginable. The death of FRANCIA, two or three years ago, has demolished the more than Chinese seclu sion in which he managed to keep his territory. Its natural wealth, its medicinal treasures, its vegetable products, its mineral riches, are well known; its peltry much less so than it deserves to be, for it abounds in animals that yield excellent furs. Its hides are also of first-rate quality. Connected by the mighty waters or the Parana, on the west, with the fine countries of old Upper Peru, now incor porated into the States of Bolivia—on the east by the Uruguay with Brazil, on the south by tributaries of the latter, which unite it, as it may be said, with the course of the mighty La Plata, it is not easy to exaggerate the bene ficial results to the trade of this country which a more ex tensive and carefully cultivated intercourse with Paraguay would secure. The first and indispensable step in the work of giving to such a trade a development far, very far beyond any it has ever yet attained, must be of course to secure the tree navigation of the Plata, and to establish permanent re lations of amity with the republics of which the cities of Monte Video and Buenos Ayres are now the respective capi• tals. The ultimate means of giving permanency and con solidation to such a commerce, so as to elicit all its advan tages to their full extent, will be the establishment of rail ways, for which, we venture to affirm, few countries of America will be found to offer more numerous or profitable facilities than the vast and fertile plains of Paraguay. If she be but supplied with these lines of communication, her growth will be instantaneous from her dwarfed infancy of two centuries of demi-civilisation to the gigantic maturity of a magnificent and opulent dominion. It is somewhat extraordinary that the nearest portion of the Brazilian em pire, abutting on her eastern and north-eastern boundaries, is the great captaincy or province of San Paulo, for the esta blishment of a railway through whose maritime borders a company has been fur some time past successfully organising in London. It is thus that we may hope to see, ere long, in the very heart of South America the most modern and useful of the arts of peace, avenging, in the noblest sense of the term, an interesting family of the human race for the long continued ravages it has sustained through the aggressions of destructive wars and massacres. frightful subterranean groaning filled the inhabitants around it with terror. This continued till midday on the 2d, when the mountain burst in two places with a horrible crash, and vomited masses of fire. In former times these explosions carne from the summit, where Heela has no regularly formed crater ; but this time torrents of lava flowed down two gorges on the flanks of the mountain.- Letters from Reikjavik of the 13th, state that up to that day no great damage had been done in the Syssels of Ranger valla and Arrids, situated close to the mountain, inasmuch as the openings whence the ignited masses issue are fortu nately on the north and north-west sides, and, consequently, took that direction, in which there is nothing but barren heaths. Besides, the wind having constantly blown from the south and south-west, has driven the ashes and dust towards the opposite points. From the clouds of smoke and vapour the top of the volcano could not be seen. The sheep on the heaths were driven down to the plains, but not till several of them were burnt. The waters of the neighbouring rivers near the eruption became so hot that the fish were killed, and it was impossible for any one to lord them even on horse back. Although the lava and ashes took a northern direc tion, the eruption was not known on that side of the island till after the 11th, and even as late as the 15th the people at the Syssels of Mule, iu the north-cast, were ignorant of it. In the western parts the noise accompanying the eruption was distinctly heard like the rolling of distant thunder. No thing was heard at Reikjavik." • A considerable fall took place both in Funds and Shares on the Paris Bourse on Tuesday. The Three per Cents. before the close of business fell 15c., and Northern sitans about 10f. The Three per Cents. closed at 83f. 35c.; the New Loan, at 83f. 450.; the Five per Cents., 117 f. 95c.; the Orleans Railroad shares, 1,235 f. ; Rouen, 1,055 f. ; Great Northern, 817 f. 50c.; Fampoux, 530 f. ; Havre, 870 E ; Avig non, 1,037 f. 50c. ; Vierzon, 760 f. ; Bordeaux, 690 f. ; Bou logne, 625 f. ; Troyes and Montereau, 517 f. 50c. ; Basle, 278 f. 75e. ; Spanish Three per Cents., 38 1 /, The following are the quotations for other lines :- Paris and Lyons Railroad (Lathtte), 27f. 50c. premium ; ditto (Calon), Bf.; ditto (Ganneron), Bf. 25c.; ditto (La pinsonniere), sf. ; Northern Line (Laffitte), 80f. ; ditto (Rosamel), 40E ; ditto (Pepin Lehalleur), 32E 50c.; ditto (Decan Lebeuf), 31f. 50c.; Paris and Strasburg (Ganneron), 16f. 25c. ; ditto (Hinguerlot), 14E ; ditto (Bechet), sf. ; ditto (Aymard), llf. ; Tours and Nantes (Mackenzie), 21f. 75c. • ditto (Drouillard), 4f. ; ditto (O'Neill), 12f. 50c. ; ditto (Lefevre), 61. 50c. ' • Lyons and Avignon (Talabot), 35E; ditto (Lecointe), 12f. 50c.; ditto (Compagnie Meridionale), 10E; Bordeaux and Cette (Mackenzie), 2E 50c. ; ditto (Es peleta), 14E ; Creil and St. Quentin (Kysaens,) 4f. 50e.; ditto (Carette), 81. 50c.; - ditto (Colbert), If. 50c.; Charleroi (Kysaens), 40f. ; Dijon and Mulhouse (O'Neill), If. 50c.; ditto (Alleg-ry), lf. 50c.; Dieppe (Sellieres), 40c.; Caen (Delamarre), 51. MARSEILLES, OCT. 9.-Marseilles and Avignon, 1,057 E; Boulogne, 640 E; Vierzon, 775 f. ; Orleans and Bordeaux, 700 E BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, OCT. 15. Anglo-Belgian — Luxembourg ... 2% I Boulogne and Amiens.. 13 Namur and Liege 5% Bordeaux &Mediterran North Jamaica Bordeaux and Toulouse Orleans and Vierzon .. Do. & Cette (Espeleta) Orleans and Bordeaux 13% _ _ Do. ( Over l'ssel ••• Central of Spain .. — Parls & Lyons (Lafitte) Demerara Dendre Valley Dutch Rhenish ... - Dieppe & Paris Juliet — Paris and Rouen . — Dijon and Mulhouse East Indian ...... Grt Northern of France Do. (Compte de L'Est) 2% _ . pitto (Gamieron's). 311 (Laffitte's) Ditto (Rosamel's) Rouen and Havre...... 32 1 4 Do. (Le Boeuf ) — Royal North of Spain. Do. Pepin le Halleur — Sambre and Meuse .... Great Paris and Lyons — Strasbourg and Basle . Great Western Bengal 1 5 4 fournay,Jurbise, Lan- Jamaica Junction — dent, and Hasselt... Do. North Midland — Tours and Nantes Do. Extension Jersey — Do. ( Lefebvre's) Louvain and Jemeppe.. Verona and Ancona — Lyons and Avignon.... West Flanders BANKRUPTCY-(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Commissioner SHEPHERD.) IN RE DANKS. This morning, Mr. NORTON, the solicitor, made an appli cation under the following circumstances :—The insolvent, Ann Danks, a well-known character, appeared about twelve months since before the late Sir Charles Williams, who ad journed the examination sine die, and remanded the in- solvent to prison, where she remained until the lath inat. Mr. Norton now complained that the notice served upon his client was for the 30th. Mr. Solomon, the solicitor for the insolvent, met Mr. Norton in Court the day after the dis charge, and with a smile, asked him how it was he did not attend to oppose. The notices were not prepared by the messenger, but by the insolvent's solicitor. He would not have troubled the Court about the matter, but it was well known that the insolvent had sufficient property to pay all the creditors 20s. in the pound. . . ➢lr. Commissioner SHEPHERD, upon examining the notice, was of opinion it was the thirteenth.—(Laughter.) There was a very small n.—(Renewed laughter.) He was of opinion that Mr. Norton's client had made the mistake. ➢ir. Norton—lt is evidently a trick, as it was well known he was instructed to oppose. _ _ _ Mr. Cooke and Mr. liuncan examined the notice, and gave it as their opinion that it was the thirteenth.—(Laughter.) Mr. Commissioner SHEPHERD said he could give Mr. Nor ton no assistance in the matter. MARLBORO U El-STREET. (THIS DAY.) George Baker, a shabbily dressed young man, who de scribed himself of " no occupation,' and lodging at a coffee shop, in High-street, Bloomsbury, was charged with com mitting the following robbery, at the Princess's Theatre : Caroline Smith, servant in a gentleman's family, residing at No. 9, Cumberland -terrace, Regent's-park, stated that a few minutes before seven o'clock last evening, as she was standing on the gallery stairs waiting to enter the theatre, she felt the pressure of some person's hand against herbosom, and directly missed her brooch ; at the same instant, a fellow servant that was with her, exclaimed that the prisoner had taken it. She taxed him with having done so, but he strongly denied it, and was attempting to make his way through the crowd, when some of the by standers secured him until he was taken into custody by the police in attendance at the theatre; the brooch was found on the stairs close to where he had stood when he took it from the prosecutrix's bosom; it was a camelion stone mounted in gold, and of the value of from 7s. to 10s. The prisoner in his defence said that it was impossible he could have taken the brooch, as he was not within three yards of the prosecutrix. The prosecutrix said he was close behind her when be did it. She was quite positive he was the man. Mr. HARDWICK asked if the prisoner was known. Police Sergeant No. 12, of the E division said, that he was convicted at the Central Criminal Court of utte►ing counter feit money, and sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment and hard labour. On his discharge from gaol he was again taken into custody on a charge of robbery, on which he was convicted at the Middlesex Sessions, and sentenced to six months in the House of Correction, and had only come out of prison a very short time. The prosecutrix said it would be impossible for her to appear against the prisoner if he was committed for trial. Mr. HARDWICK said, that under the c►rcumstances, he should deal summarily with the case, and convicted the prisoner, under the Police Act, sentencing him to three mouths' imprisonment and hard labour in 'Westminster Bride well. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, OCT. 16.—Wind this day at noon, S.W. DEAL, OCT. 15.—Wind S.S.W., light.—Arrd. La Belle Barbarie, Toole, Saldauha Bay ; Aldebaran, Turner, St. John's, New Brunswick. Arrd. from the River fur, Admiral Illoorsom, Knight, Sandwich Islands; Duke of Wellington, Duncan, Calcutta ; Solide, Weslermark, Rio Janeiro ; Ealing Grove, Falconer, Dominica. PORTSMOUTH, Oar. 15.—Wind S. to S.W....Arrd. Franciska, Bernet, Bahia. . TORBAY, OCT. 14.---Sld. Little John, Clarke, Morocco. Tougunv.—Sld. Lavenor, Denet, Newfoundland. ABERDEEN, OCT. 13.--And. Harriet, Mann Saldanha Bay; New Windt, Thom, Narva. SUNDERLAND, OCT. 1 s.—Arrd. Mover's Bride, Quebec. HULL, Ocr. 15.—Wind S.W., fresh.—And. Aldebaran, Miramichi. LIVERPOOL, Ocr. 15.—Wind S., light.—Arrd. Patriot King, Roddeck, Calcutta, left St. Helena 29th August ; Mars, Dunn, Buenos Ayres ; Queen of the West, Woodhouse, New York. Sid. Urgent, Hepburn, Monte Video; Ocean Queen, Heslop, Campeachy. CARLISLE, OcT. 14.—Wind S.W.—And. Edward Patten, St, John's, New Brunswick. CLYDE, OCT. 12.—Arrd. Argo, Mitchell, Quebec; Fanny, Harrower, Jamaica; Triton, Smith, Dalhousie. 13th, Eger ton, Orrin, Demerara ; Minerva, Donaldson, St. Andrew's ; Albion, Allan, Montreal. 14th, St. George, Martin, Hayti. Sld. 10th, Pandora, Campbell, St. John's, New Brunswick ; 13th, Sirion, Cavin, ditto. 14th, Bermuda, Tyne, Barbadoes. BELFAST, OCT. 12.—Arrd. Robert Kerr, Maxwell, Quebec. SHIELDS, Ocr. 15.—Arrd. Agnes barque, supposed from Sierra Leone. 14th, Gazelle, Paul, Quebec ; Edond Carle, Ings, ditto ; Agnes, Haw, ditto. The Wilhelmina, from Memel to Leith, was abandoned in a sinking state, lat. 57 S. long. 2 E.; two of the crew drowned. Ocr. 13.—S1d. St. Andrew, Robertson, St. John's. RA➢ISGATE, OCT. 15.—The Artnose, Wade, bound to Newport, got ashore at Pegwell Bay last night, but came off on the flood without apparent damage, and proceeded. LIMERICK, Ocr. 13.—The John Richards, tested off the Quay 11th inst., strained heavily, became leaky, and is dis charging her cargo. CUSTOMS REVENUE OF LIVERPOOL.—The general quarterly abstract of revenue for the United Kingdom shows a decrease, under the head "Customs," of 1,154,4924 attri butable to the reduction of various important duties; and it may be interesting to learn how much of this amount belongs to this port. From the best information within cur reach, and which we believe to be accurate, we learn that the gross receipts at our Custom-house for the quarter just past were 897,9984 against 1,324,906/. for the corresponding period of last year, showing a decrease of 426,9061. Considering that the Customs revenue of Liverpool is, on the average of late years, one-fifth of that of the entire kingdom, it may be thought that the above statement shows somewhat like a falling off in the trade of our port. It must be borne in mind, however, that we have this year lost the cotton duty, amount ing to 640,000/. per annum, nearly all collected in Liverpool ; and that the recent reduction in the sugar duties, computed at 1,700,000/. for the year, has fallen peculiarly upon this port. Taking these duties into consideration, we have rather improved our position than otherwise.—Liverpool Standard. THE NAPOLEON MUSEUM.—We are glad to find that the new purchaser of the Napoleon Museum has yielded to the request of those who were desirous that the very in teresting illustrations which it contains of the eventful career of " the foremost man of all this world," should be per mitted to remain among us a short time longer. The Mu seum, to which many interesting relics and curiosities have been added, is at present exhibiting at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, pre% iously, we regret to add, to its being removed by its proprietor to his residence abroad. We had hoped that there had been public spirit enough among us not to have suffered the museum to quit this country. NEW DEVICE BY RAILWAY STAGS.—The broken down stags, finding their former practices una v aili ng , h ave now resorted to a new practice of raising the wind, though in a small way. They now make a prrctice of going round to the different railways, and obtaining several prospectuses, under the plea of coming from some respectable party whom they name; having obtained a sufficient number, they then adjourn to the precincts of Capel-court, where they turn prospectus venders, and sell them at the rate of 2d. each to those railway speculators who cannot lose time by writing for them. GRACE DARLING.—The long-contemplated monu ment to the memory of the late Grace Horsly Darling, is about to be erected ;r♦ Bitilturgh churchyard.--Local Paper. . . ------------- is, MONEY and CUMMEIttIAI, N.LIIL CITY, QUART ER Tv T lllO. - 0 0 0 The sales of C tton at Liverpool yesterday were 0, bales, all to the trade. There was no alteration in price. Lees business was done in Shares, which were lower. b i g It is most satisflictory , to find that there is more care 7 1 exercised in the appointment of Provisional Committee.o! the new lines of railway. Those who are but casual D 1 servers of things that are passing in this now very' bu . '• e railway world, have no doubt overlooked that " tee giving names in their list of parties the chapt.cere of Directors in various schemes is being discontinued. IA is a blemish too in not a few of the schemes that ought.oc. noticed, and that is that many " Provisional " Colt men in lines some time past started are termed "Directors,,lsi new projects. We notice these fact sos it is of the most ess%„, importance that the strictest faith should be reposed Arlesb,, connected with new projects. But should assumed ... given to parties which are not warranted, it requiresout; little foresight to assert that confidence in the projeets ,lb good in the main, will fail In obtaining public support. ~, o f By the selection of good parties, locally connected, nuilig wealthy individuals who really can pay, and by ec i r u i .,,ii• stag Provisional Committee-men, the best interests of il l way extension will be forwarded. A contrary' interest hereafter lead but to disappointment. It would be a ~,,'„„ manual to the public, for any one to select the natnes oti: visional Committee-men, and annex good or bad to the . ~,, There are not any late Colonial arrivals announced al ' City to-day. SO There have been some considerable sales of Slone,' be in i to-day, and prices were lower by % per cent. fan. , " A hi day, tut the market has since in seine degree recovere7do Bank Stock a fall of DA per cent. occurred on Yo 4 „ e .. 01 closing prices. A sudden rise took place from 0r25 to vd' i ., 4 ,o the present price is 206%. Exchequer. bills ached 4 ? i i 49 to 51. Consols for the Account have been done a t - and 98%. no c. The Foreign Stocks are somewhat lower, but th 2 tra,. tions have been so few that special notice is not require:oli The settlement in the Railway Share Market has sc' ers ill been completed, yet prices, however, keep &in, ge n speaking. .r,oCg BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE 01,... (From the Official List.) - gooi Bank Stock 205 2 61 ,,', 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 96tt ,r 9B 3 per Cent. Consols Anns 9 'iN 99 New 3 1 4 per Cent. Annuties ... . ..... 99 ls 4 Long Annuities Expire sth Jan.lB6o.- 10!i India Stock 265 So D ut i h tto Se o a ld St A oc n k nuities 99 : 6 1 74 , A 9934 Consols for Account ....... . ............... - d Exchequer Bills. 1 .3 4 d IV. 49 51 JO' 0 . 1,0001. _.•l' ~ , '9 p Ditto Small — .. .. 5 , si c, MICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE %U' Chilian Bonds, 6 per Cent ..... - - 1 ..... Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per ...... 32% Ditto for the Account.... ........... 17 1 / 3 Ditto Deferred Stock ............ ... _ Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1840... - 7 0 . 1 7 4 Ditto Deferred ... ................. :3 7F 1 Ditto 3 per Cent... .................. 60 Dutch 2 1 % per Cents .................9 45/ Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates .. ~41, I 4 , Equador t . g A °' BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SBAB" 0 CLOCK. pelt ;007 RAILWAYS. PAID. , to ~,7 Aberdeen - to I' Birmingham and Gloucester 100 12 7 1 /4 ..... Birmingham and Oxford to Junction Boston, Stamford, and Birm. 22s Bristol and Exeter Ditto New Caledonian 1 . 6l, Ditto Extension . - Cambridge and Lincoln Cambridge and Oxford IA 2 ... to " Chester and Manchester Cornwall ... Coventry, Nuneaton, Bir., to and Leicester ll/ 3 3 / 4 14.,,'" to Direct Manch.(Remington's) 2 3 / 4 4 3A7o* ** to ' Ditto (Rackstrick's) ; .... •to , 5 1 / 4 ...... 7A .. 0 , l'irect Northern .. 2% 3 1 :4 ..... tom, • os et Eastern Counties Do. New 4/. 16s. 94 .t 1 5/6 ,0 1 East Lincolnshire l l 4 East and West of England... 1% 2 1470' to„, o.dinburgh and Glasgow 5O .. ... 77 •.'''', 0 Enniskillen andSligo ... 2%...... 2 ." ' ' Gloucester, Aberystwith, and 0 / . / Central of Wales Great Eastern and Western.. 2% Great South and W.(lrish)... 15 Ditto Extension Great Western •,' ~, / Ditto 1 ,4 Shares .. 50 91 .•' to Hull and Selby .. ... 50 10 4 14•••' to Irish North Midland l% 14:1- '. to Lancaster and Carlisle... ..... .25 .• 51 •••••' to / ..•• • 1 Leicester and Birmingham... 225. Leicester and Tamworth 42c. 2% „, 11 •ii to Liverpool and Leeds Direct 2% ...... 6%•71/' to ' London and Birmingham lOO 217 •"'•• to ' Ditto 1 / 4 Shares 2 Ditto Extension London & Blackwall... 16/. 13s. 4d ll-•••''•• l°" Do. New IIA 5 .. ;.. to London and Brighton. Ditto, Sixths O l/. ...... 2%•••• to g''''' London and Croydon 131. 15a. 9d....... 2 5 %4 ••' •• London, Cheltenham, Oxford, to Gloucester, and Hereford 1 ...... 14. .... t o ",„, London and Greenwich... 12!.155. 4d... 10 .... •to ' London and South Western 41%..... 79 • ..... to Do. New consolidated Bths Ditto New ... ...... ...• .... „ 2' A .. , - PIN ' ..... to "' Do. New London and York.-- 2% 6V/0 ". to , Lon.,Warwck, Kidderminster 2% , London, Salisbury, & Yeovil 2 1 / 2 3 3 / 4'74' to Lynn and Dereham Manche-n(1 and Leeds 76 ..... ...... to <l4 86 Ditto Quarters Manchester and Birmingham 40 -- • to Ditto Quarters Ditto New Quarters......... 2 ...... 14%•• •••. 3 Do. Continuation & Welsh to Junction l% 3% ..... • to Manch. Buxton, & Matlock 225. Midland • ...176. ..... to Ditto New 6 32 313 4 a`/ 4 to Newcastle & Darlington .iunc 25 ...... •••'• to ' 15 ...... 57 to , ' Ditto New Brandling ~• .“ Newark, Sheffield, and Boston 2 5 / s .. .... 678 / 6... to "- North British - .... to / Ditto, New 1 ...... 6••• •• to North Devon Northern and Eastern 45 .. 66 ...... to "'• Ditto New 1 .......... 18%, .. '... t . to - 2, North Kent & Direct Dover 2 1 A ...... 4p7e„ ••• to •-• North Staffordshire 425...... 56 r,o Id Norwich and Brandon l4 ...... 23A• ... b !,‘ Northampton, Banbury, and to Cheltenham ••• 2 ...... _ , t , .„ , Nottingham and Boston l% ...... 570 iso to ' Oxford and Worcester Perth and Inverness 31 / 9 4 ' t° 2r 2 ...... Portsmouth Directs .... tO --. 2 ...... , . .• Preston and Wyre 50....... 43%••••• to Ditto, Half Shares 21,4 ...... 10„1 , t 0 Rugby and Huntingdon 2 ...... 21tr•-‘ to - Scotti. h Central ... 2% ...... 15 • .. ... to„ Scottish Midland P t ...... 54;,_ .. to, Shrews.,Wolver., Dud., Firm 2% ...... 7 5 - iv to i , , p Shrews. & Trent Val. Union. 225...... 1. •)1 0.. t° 64 ' Shrews., Herefrd &N. Wales 2%.. 3 h 3 i'' ..• t ° 414 225. ..... ' '; South Midland ...... i„ . 1 "' ./ South Eastern and Dover o, Ditto, New, No. 2....... VA ...... • . 1 2 "•••••,-• South Wales ...„ to , Tean and Dove Valley 1%.....• 2 ' l4 ' t" Vale of Neath Waterford, Wexford, Wicklw, _ ' 21A to and Dublin Waterford, Wexford, and - i. t° '' I P ° Valentia Welch Midland Wilts, Somerset, & Sthamptn 1%... .• 41 /IP'' ' . 10 , , iVilts,Somerset, & Weymouth 2%..... 7 ••.... 11 /„ Wrster, Shrews. & Crewe Un. 1% ..... • 3 i' • .• t ° Ili York and Carlisle 0 York and North Midland .. ................. ft.o Ditto, Selby FOREIGN RAILWAYS' . to .1./•• Boulogne and Amiens 8 ti. ... Dendre Valley Dutch Rhenish l ll *. to East Indian ss. ...... to Great Northern of Franco ~/ „.• ..-• (Laffitte's) ....„ ........4 ...... 6,137 „t° , Great Western Bengal Jersey 1 . ..... to ss. ...... IP *79. to 1 ••••••- t • • .., 2 ...... 2 /II • .. .t ° ....• Lyons and Avignon Luxembourg Paris and Lyons(Laffitte) .......... : 22 :4 ...... .... it o oo,---. Parisand Lyons(Ganneron's) 2 ••• ' 'l l /.......' ' / Paris and Rouen .. . .... 2O ....... 41 Jr .... .• . to o Paris& Strasburg(Ganrern's) 2 •••••• 2h* ... t .••• Rouen and Havre Sambre and Meuse MINES. 4 3 4 ..... ot Real del Monte, Unregistered ..... 1 6 6 ............ 34:::: to 0 ------------------ ..--- I) wAI• ve itrio v "'on. ATHLONE AND SLIGO JUNCTION ow palL r ;oti 0 publish to-day the prospectus of this new c ,of f ° h etw ee i we announced some weeks ago to be in c ou_rs ie - atio n li v si .e rj It proposes to complete the direct cornrau`,', eerta l d Abe Dublin and Sligo, and the line selectedoritry, I n . i o o f t o adapted to develop the resources of the l l c the truth tio ci 0 the greatest possible accommodation to of 00, •a of - • go. I) . district. Owing to the advanced perm e 00l w ise lbe difficulty of complying strictly with thd staye thin l . oo of - - 10 Parliament, the promoters propose —on ,_,., t heist _ OO of t ';, l to undertake, for the present only, the firs d i n taA w il, sl line, namely, from Athlone to Roscornroi°llol. 0 : 1 0,0 0 ° 0 ` f it)r; co miles. For this division only a eaPitel the 165" c Wil t 11 71 0 required, which it is proposed to raise by , „,.. is line blue eil, shares, of 201. each, deposit 21. per share. v i es " tern 3° .0 3 the entire support of the Irish Great 1 sir phi :L y e:do Great Southern and Western Compaies. irseptlnaretsemngnisnteefra.vnuHreabhl3arsoncotmhpeleetnegdinteheeriitiirgiallaCSilAirtilol ‘lfill j e 11an-' na tio ll t ite line. The Parliamentary survey is reel an inti t i ll e en be completed in a very short time. Fr°ind that 1 0 this li l l3 the prospectus we are given to understaed for support of the Government will be obtain n this i , rt ,,„ res . et tlinb'e• GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY.-- .- ''' S h ale n t ''' t. i 3 lif . .•of t hu- ~t e rs• l io os • , came out yesterday, and in spite Tledir & ties Dic e f seems commanded * favourable attention.„ to par ~,t a s 0 dared, have allotted more than three-fourthsd stao;,•,iion „ interested in Leicestershire, Derbyshire, ball 0 , o " fa vei, where the demand extended to nearly d One _ S l lO be issue • ~,s5 t shares, though only 50,000 were to , the prob - 00 0 o t. , able circumstance is mentioned, nametY, , t ~. a Te en the gooL• 31 hsto- ° the surveyors have made, so as to for F 3l. g'ir'o _lib! .y.- „i t „ plans and sections being timely prepared mor ,l " MANCHESTER AND SOUTIIAMPTOI:i copal:Do ,b 6 The holders of shares in the And invested their capital in that unprobt years ago, and never yet received a 0. a ,_,,,,. a been,, ,„0 outlay,) have now a fair prospect.otf, 1 , ) . 1 1704,0t010ip f:r b t i ll e it c lr ceeert r e lluili ta T . f e ll : T .4: l small portion of their sunken ca-a', Manchesterit hay a nd r-', ° oo /, is 11 to dispose of the canal to the a ,„,, 1,0,u . _ ~,,i t a Railway Company for 30,000/., of whi .11 .... fi rin ehir' il • paid down as a deposit in January nest st t o e o tiser. JO ~,g, ~ o l— c o 0 , EXTENSIVE FIRE AT NOTTIN ,„ .„, sda y e 3 p i 0 sive and destructive fire broke out o n fh i"' used, :, sli d 0 the premises of Mr.. Bates, Nottinb_ tug batidint,2o/. smiths' shops, which entirely destroy at at ft° amount of property which is cstimatd. 1,400!, The building only Wu Wilixe_, I - Ur/dm ."-ittv , LONDON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1845. " Shall CROMWELL have a statue in the new Houses of Parliament ?" is a question that seems calculated, notwith standing all that has been written on the subject, still to form the subject of a " very pretty quarrel." As we happen to have been the first to direct public attention to the originally proposed omission of this illustrious warrior and statesman from the Commissioners' draught list of English Worthies to be commemorated in the halls of the British Legislature, we feel ourselves scarcely at liberty to exercise the option of retiring from the discussion on its revival by the appearance of the " Fourth Report of the Commissioners on Fine Arts." But, tedious as it would otherwise be to reiterate the grounds on which we are to contend for what will appear to the convictions of every dispassionate reader of English history a self-evident proposition, the wailings of the Morning Post on the delinquencies of the Commissioners cannot fail to furnish ample amusement to counterbalance everything that is wearisome in the matter. The report itself, too, is a do cument so replete with inconsistencies, that there can be no lack of novelty in the treatment of the subject, if we do not avail ourselves of some of the more startling passages upon which we have just fallen. "Commissions of Taste" and " Commissions of the Fine Arts," invariably determine in this country in miserable reports, or still more worthless constructions in brick and stone. Without a moment's hesitation we must rank the " Fourth Report;" now before us, among the number of those periodical extravagances which the British Go vernment or Parliament commit, with all pomp and circumstance, against the " taste" and the " arts" they take under their especial patronage. The list of the members of this Commission involves so incongruous an as semblage of names as to prepare us, to some extent, for the incompatible resolutions at which they arrive, while affinities of connoisseurship and taste in the Fine Arts approximate the perceptions of the Duke of Sutherland, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord Francis Egerton, Lord Ashburton, Mr. Gaily Knight, Mr. Samuel Rogers, and Mr. George Vivian— all of them munificent patrons and acknowledged judges of art, with Lord Chancellor Lyndhurst, or the Earl of Lin coln, or Mr. Thomas Wyse—it would be abundantly pleasant, did our time allow of such a diversion, to inquire. Mr. MACAULAY is too universal a genius not to make it dangerous to question the propriety of adding him to the list of the Commission ; but why Lord MAHON and the Earl of SHREWSBURY, a mediocre historian and an unsuccess ful pamphleteer, should be associated, together with Mr. B. HAWES, and Sir James GRAHAM in a tribunal of judgment upon matters connected with the Fine Arts we are utterly that "many unablesituations i t t o h i ft m ohr d e e r s s t t y a l n. The Commissioners rp o statues e d of consist ert GoGothic e f niches architecture only, adopted,whic h, in are a c c o rd - uni formlyarea a ls o narrow, o stuat o n nc o sao t nn e de]: wheretci hv e e ee d that, g ialpst ,e t u w dl iaw o etne f et 3h e , t aso i t n fva itae w uffwe s i odrtb both im h nti g ; hgh t tt h o a be t eo t n h fi vet opportu nities placednie ti t in ; s p a e n c d t i o w n e , for displaying the abilities of the artists, the last-named situations are the most important." They further submit that s ix 4 insulated marble statues might be conveniently placed in St.• Stephen's porch, and that six such statues might be conveniently placed in St. Stephen's Hall ;" and they are at once prepared to recommend that "statues of Marlborough and Nelson .be placed in St. Stephen's porch, and that statues of Selden, Hampden, Lord Falk land, Lord Clarendon, Lord Somers, Sir Ro bert Walpole, Lord Chatham, Lord Mansfi e ld , Burke, Fox, Pitt, and Grattan, be placed in St. Stephen's hall." But which is t the e porch orPrinceand ,d eblbsyei design ttni n h h ll thehtaosa fS p e s e suggestion creation of e t e Stephen, since Mr. Barry, altered the working plans app roved of b y the Lords' superintendingCore as 12,ttoh the building, his w oe find localities. of a new gallery ? At p. an but or m t enormoust th e s e m f r excrescence more last words !') determined, since the dat e of this memo randum. The principal landing place is ca lled the Nor man Porch ; the Victoria Gallery is called the Royal Gallery ; the Lobby to the House of Lords is c al led the Victoria Hall." We do not, however, attach much importance to this difficulty of ours; for, no doubt , by the close of the eat week of the next session the whole no r ie i g d n i ilg " The nam es a foot note that d oes a of various apartments have been a l t ered and fi nall y (mor e l no menclature of these portions of the fabric will be again trans formed. We hasten, in the first place, to sympathise with our afflicted Contemporary. The signatures of the Commis sioners, he observes, " sufficiently testify not only what is to be done, but what is to be left undone,'; Under both heads there is matter for deep regret. After all Sat has " recently been said on the §ulfmt . . public feeling and lationil (FROM OUR CITY CORRESPONDENT.) The long•expected notice has been issued from the Bank of England, raising the rate of interest. It is as follows "Bank of England, Oct. 16, 1845. " At a Court of Directors, held this day, it was resolved that the minimum rate of interest on London bills and notes, discounted at the Bank of England, be 3/. per cent., such bills and notes not having more titan 95 days to run." Madrid papers of the Bth state that great indignation had been excited in the capital by the dismissal of Senor VALOR, the judge who presided at the trial of Mapoz, LOPEZ, Con- TINA, and others. The reason assigned for this unconstitu tional step is that VALOR allowed some of the defendants to attack the Government, which they had a right to do, during their defence. This only shows that there is little chance of justice in a country where the judges are dependent on the Government. The Gazette publishes the following notifica tion, dated September 30, from the Finance Minister to the Royal Commissioner of the Bank of - San Fernando :—" Her Majesty the QUEEN orders me to inform you that the Trea sury having/ paid into the San Fernando Bank the sum of 135,087,579 reals, instead of the 120,000,000 ()alas tipulated in the second article of the convention concluded with that establishment on the 30th of June last, the said convention will continue in force during the next months of October, November, and December, on the terms therein stipulated." The new tax, it appears, is well paid, and already begins to ease the Finance Minister of some of his difficulties. A royal order has consequently been issued for a monthly dividend on account of the Passive Debt, amounting to 160,000/. No business was done on the Bourse on the Bth. Most of the Paris journals publish the intelligence in the Semaphore de Marseilles, announcing the surrender of 200 French soldiers to a body of Arabs under ABD-EL-KADER. The facts are thus stated in that journal, and are not contra dicted by the Ministerial papers :—" A small garrison having sent to General CAVAIGNAC for a reinforcement, which its weakness in a country in full revolt, and haunted by num bers of ABD-EL-KADER'S bands, rendered absolutely neces sary, the General, in order not to reduce the strength of his main body, selected from the field hospitals 200 men, who were sufficiently convalescent to resume their service, adding to them a detachment of Zouaves. This small column pro ceeded on its march, but was soon surrounded by clouds of Arabs, who were at once recognised as part of ARD-EL KADER'S troops, ready to inflict upon these 200 soldiers the same fate as that by which the brave men were immolated at Djemma Ghazaouat. This feeble party could not attempt to defend themselves without the certainty of falling to a man, and thus affording to the ferocious Arabs the triumph of another butchery. They were therefore constrained to do what was never before seen in Africa—to lay down their arms and surrender themselves prisoners to ABD-EL-KADER." These continued disasters have induced the Government to dispatch additional reinforcements with the least possible de lay. A telegraphic dispatch reached Marseilles on Friday, ordering the immediate embarkation of the two regiments forming the garrison of that town. Seven Government steamers were to be employed in transporting to Oran the different regiments, and the Prince DE JOL.NVILLE, it was said, would sail in command of a small fleet to the coast of Morocco, for the purpose of cruising off Tangiers and Moga dore during the operations of BUGEAUD. IBitABIM PACHA who still remains at Pisa, was expected to visit the south of France, and Paris also, if his health would permit. One of the Paris journals says :—" The Marquis DE LAvAtErrE is to set out on the 22d of this month for Lucca, to invite, in the name of the French Government, IBRAHIM PACHA to visit Paris, as soon as his health will permit. It is not sup posed, however, that the Egyptian Prince can take -this journey at present, as the air of Paris is prohibited to him as being too damp. He will pass some time probably in one of the southern cities of France." Lours PHILIPPE arrived from St. Cloud on Tuesday to preside at a Cabinet Council to be held on that day. His MAJESTY, it was said, would shortly proceed to Fontainbleau. We subjoin other extracts from the papers : "It appears from a table published by the Journal des Chemins de Fer that the receipts of the Paris and Rouen Railroad for the first nine months of the present year have exceeded those of the corresponding months of last year by rather more than 500,000 f.; those of the Paris and Orleans Railroad have increased nearly 570,000 f. ; there has been an increase of about 40,000 f. on the St. Germain Railroad; and a decrease of more than 10,000 f. on the Versailles Railroad (Right Bank), and of nearly 70,C00f. on that of the Left Bank. " The Comnierce says that the Prefect of the Dordogne has been ordered up to Paris by the Government, in order to account for the publication of Marshal Bugeaud's offensive letter. "We learn from Lucerne, by a letter of the 9th inst., that the investigation respecting the death of M. Leu is concluded, and the decision come to is, that he was murdered by a per son named Muller, an inhabitant of the canton, who has been foi some time confined in the House of Correction in the city on suspicion, but is now transferred to a more secure prison, as it has been discovered that plans were made to facilitate the escape of the prisoners in the House of Correction. Two captains in the army of that canton, named Barth and Ulmi, have been sentenced to death, for the part they took against the Government in the late rebellion; but it is supposed that the Grand Council will spare their lives." The following is an extract of a letter from St. Peters burgh of the 20th September, published by the Augsburgh Gazette " Every one here believes that the Emperor, in the course of his journey to the eastern parts of the empire, will visit the seat of war. No one envies the position of Prince Woronzoff, and the old Russian party, which obtained the situation for him, is stupified. Since the death of the Grand Duchess Alexandra, and that of General Benkandorff, the latter of whom was replaced in the suite of the Emperor by Counts Orloff and Klemmschell, the influence of the old Russian party has preponderated. The blow given to it by the defeat of General Weronzoff will, therefore, be the more severely felt. If one o f tbi sparty had succeeded in the Can. casus, the members of the Equestrian Order of the Baltic might have been excluded from office, and the influence of the German provinces wuuld have thus been diminished; but the officers who have had any good fortune in the Circassian war have been, even in the present unfortunate operation, to a great extent Germans, and it is said that if Prince Wo ronzoff fails again in his operations, the direction of the war will be entrusted to one of them." " The Gazette des Grisons states that on the night of the 7th of September a young forest, growing on the mountain of Sauzala, detached itself in the midst of fine dry weather from the main mass, and fell into the valley with a dreadful crash. On the 14th a second fall took place, and destroyed every thing in the ground below, and very nearly reached the village of Brischlaws. On the 19th, a third mass of earth gave way in the midst of a violent storm, and one house was crushed. Fortunately no lives were lost. The damage is estimated at 400,000 f. " The Kjobenhaonsposi, a Danish journal, gives the follow ing account of the new eruption of Mount Ileclat—'llecla, after reposing 80 years, threatens according to private letters, to ravage Iceland. In the night of the 14 Of Septeppr >lr Roy A Th()allij.iehererns. f a I ti CORN AVERAGES. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN For the Week ended Oct. 11, 1845, made up from the Returns of the Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in England and Wale", per Imperial Quarter.