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

~.~--•- ENC II iv. et i rid to Or I Wed net(W4 Baron, 'mat:J. ' wcre ba pit.c, rity t', 1 the be" to 2o`' onarch- -t ' l iken --- taken •as -L. 141 -taken a the 31 ' L ken )1d Eno.- ;h, 10 f t, to o °l l (7 s Stubs./ s, two .th 20 a .es. The SC( ,nd a ;arker) over for:, th 15 gu Pork SO emandedt Stagg) d to a ST/,./, , 7st 7ib. Mares ; )e sold ? soli for f o 1, 141bs.; 11 ( 1 istance. 2 0 1 O 1 " 1 0 S i i) 0 o 2 dr O 0 elf o od r 3 dr Y a heat' nard's 11 a rnorc st 21b- - rlotte, 4 , Ts, 7st IP 13, 3 yr* 6 3 Y rs ' 6 irl, 5 ) 16 1.1 d, out o rs, sst Iv B s t Sliriiv Ts, 8 4 c o 4 rst 6st Stakeg' t iob aged, S ` o lc,! r yr" velioe b), Tou6rge , —Old '-ts st i t •rs, • s I ) ? 3 3 '0 yrs, 7il 2 6st yrs, Gst 10Ib• ndicap• nghart i, ter, 4 yrs , rev, 3 Yrs' nghani , 5 r f ri ialtoun, 400 Wren , 3 Jo owboy, 3 ' t yrs, 8s 1 1 t r 'e, 7st e fr 'st T 73t 9 1 3s 'Ppard , mould, 3) e. e, ;, 5 yrs, -6, al, 3 yro , 64 da, 3 ) 15 ,,',1* mstick, albeck, 4 , 1 ; Igraw, ;akes. 6 ? ' Jranns. Itaur, 5 ), f 0 le Cure, / totle, 6 Y. ;our, 5 f ged—G -Plantag e soi 5 yrs -Itochest e jj, —St. Bel 7itallen, c o(l yrs—' !Ile, 4 Y4 O l •ding Sc ro' ed—Du e. over, 4 Y,;el, r e j i g 5 yrs ' O/ am, 5 Y r a et re-not -at' er s—WincP.„, yrs —Tee j, ant, ag e g, 3 Y r . : oo yrs--- 14 , 1 0 3 yrs--' fr i yrs—Nebf 3 yrs- 4 j uld Irelo n e i: s —Mong r ,, - Ina, 4 5 yrs" •' ia, 3 3, to r 6 )thian, nus, yrs s—lle°" 11 5 ; _ i irtha r t, Get, 3 Y rS , —Retistres, ain, 4 i . ., 1.5 0 0 -MerrYwi; • 3 yrs .00 5, yrs- 14 30 1 to Ma Like of 0 ,1 rtshorno .unart).,oo idded ; e t!, ix and Ili D e winner t ° ,,,,eti lON'S., all° iley p. 000 house)••' ~.-.... 0 .......... ,f 0 AY. A dd; th 20 lu d ok e s and 00" towar ds , 4 q uarte'" of (Abd 3lei ...... •• • • ' ...... •• - •• c i'ded• th 2 5 breJ If • b 9 list • li .61 lugs Th° lenses. _at, Nice I T . 1 4. o adleY/ 9 ••• 411 -ged S kes of 5 sovs. each, with 20 added. Tw( YrB ° 1 ( 1 , - 4st 41b ;three, 6st 71b ; four, Bst ; live, Bst 121 b ; and aged, 9st 51b. The winner to pay 2 sovs. towards' ex 13e nses. The second to save his stake. Mares and gcld• kr n? allowed 3lbs. Winners extra. One mile. ptclailag s f Lucy, 3 yrs (G. Carr) 1 Lord • Dawson's b f Sister to Skipton, 2 yrs ~.rd Chesterfield's b c Twig, 3 yrs Salvia's b f Marian Ramsay, 3 yrs 4 INTELLIGENCE EXTRA. CHESTER AUTUMN MEETING, 1845.—MoNDAv. Handicap Sweepstakes of 5 soya. each, p.p. 3 1 4P00, aged, Bst—Prince of Wales, 4 yrs, 7st 6:b—Pluto, 3 Yrs, 6st 91b—Tottenham, 3 yrs, sst 111b—GibLy Young, Yrs, sst 61b—Falstaff, 3 yrs, sst 41b—Miracle, 3 yrs, 4st 41b. TUESDAY. The Cheater Handicap of 15 sovs. each, 10 ft, and 5 oaly if declared on or before the 17th inst. va9arranna, 6 yrs, Bst 121b—Inheritress, 5 yrs, Bit 51b— )Tnesour 5 yrs, Bst 31b—Aristotle, 6 yrs, 7st 121b—Light 7ing, yrs, 7st 81b—Godfrey, 4 yrs, 7st 81b—Intrepid, 4 vrs, _stBlbßeaumont, 4 yr. , , 7st 61b—What, 5 yrs. 7st Felton, B 3 4 , Yrs, 7st 51b—Extempore, 5 yrs 7st 31b—Mickey 7 8 Z2 Yrs, 7st 31b—Everton, 5 yrs, 7st—lronmaster, 3 Poussin, 5 yrs, 6st 121b—Teetotaller, 6 yrs, Est 101b 4sadeville 3 irs, 6st 71b—Cataract, 5 yrs, 6st—Warp, 4 Yrs, sst 101b—Dean Swift, 3 yrs, sst 101b-I"Auld Squire, 3 Yrs, sst 81b—Lancashire Witch, 3 yrs, sst 81b—Salopian. lstraYrsisssstt 81b—The Nobbler, 4 . yrs, sst 71b—Fair Rosamond. 71b—Helpmate, aged, sst Sib—Lady Sarah, 4 yrs, T'My Mary, p 3 yrs, sst 51b—Sinbad, 5 yrs, sst 31b— gril Nodd3 , , 4 yrs, sst 31b—Alvailley, 4 yrs, 4st 121 b Tian Ramsay, 3 yrs, 4st 121b—The Magnet, 3 yrs, 4st 121 b roaraould, 3 vrs, 4st 101b—Maria, 3 vrs, 4st 71b. Th e , DARLINGTON RACES— NVED;CESDAY. A OWn Plate of 25/., added to a Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each, pp. • the second saves his stake. Heats, mile and a quarte Dawson's Montgomery, 3 yrs ( Wint erin gh am ) 4 1 1 r . :\ a Stebbings's Hector, 3 vr , 1 "l, aged PalmerA:rr ring ' s's . Sauetsy Bird, d yrs 4 2 dr (FROM OUR OWN T.) T he week intervening between conaEseoND wi Warwick and Doncaster is Letil fillet a by the provincial meetings of Abingdon, Lich- Rochestei: and Leicester. At the fornrer, the chief race is the Marcham Park kat, e‘ , for which 22 horses were handicapped. Eight, how -11-oetr' only remain in, and out of those, as Una I imagine has t -J'covered from her recent lameness, I see nothing likely ueat Sir John Mill's Giantess, with sst. 101 b. and Alfred h e a y on her back. My belief in her success is grounded on Pi r win u t h ning in such admirable style the Queen's Vase at m n . fi e G''l'l Cup will bring together, lam afraid, but a small 17: and owing to the very heavy weight , Johno' Gaunt will the 'to carry ( 10st. 91b.) I think Mr.Etwall syLgiswill turn out but 4lnn er..Pinesapple I should not be surprised to see second ; h orn of the se venteen moderate an i ma l s name d f or t h e Pusey tlCi!.ee tSyt_akens, I cannot conceive what can beat Mr. Parr's S arsholt Tne other races call for no par aservatioPn • 41.`a't Leicester, on . Wednesday, we have rather a thin pro be n n , e . For the Leicestershire Handicap only eight have lis e Ott m by their owners • and I think the struggle will that" wee Rochester, 7st. db., and Pergularia, Est. 61b., and A y '" r e latter will be found the best of the two. 1 t iti do not think Queen Mab is likely to go for the Cup, likei:Y the Duke of • Rutland, with one of his lot, most / I L!' ,ebtain it. S e _taff eld which commences on Tuesday, we have the I •°,it, t' l r , -. l' l 're, ;vial the larra number of thirteen acceptances wre n ~l er itress, 8•t 91b7, being the top weight, and Jenny 1.0 4 ( 17 8 ', the . lOwest . . Neither of these, I im . ag'ne, will be York f ° cope with Evetton 7st., who, from his running at 1 \ ) .. 1. the Great Ebor ' Handicap, ought undoubtedly to kiootn ire to hint, and if he does not run, I expect to see 91 b., first with Rochester well up. by y„ e 2,° 1, 1 Cup would be walked over for, I should think, Tw o :',.` ll e.Y, after his winning so easily at Warwick. To the ,dow n je n ar Old Stakes there are eleven . colts and fillies set thi ok ".nd in spite of the 51b. extra Twig will have to carry, Fell, .ne.will be found the best of the lot. Tit• bit will run th at no doubt. have the Rochester Handicap no less than fifteen horses 4oe aece Pted—a high compliment to the handicapper, and end fa careful analysis of them, I prefer Hampton, 7st. 131 b., London,4(l%. Charlotte, ist. 51b., to all the others. Sept. 5, 1845. TELEGRAPH. _ - HE GRAND JUNCTION RAIL- W A AND PRINCESS ROYAL STEAMER, FROM LIVERPOOL. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. S lit o • I n Brad s h aw ' s R a il wa y an d St eam N av i ga ti on iill2.de for this month, it is announced, at page 63, that h The P r i ncess Royal, with passengers only, sails from the rernont Slip, Prince's Pier-head. Liverpool, every Wednes and Friday, punctually at 5 30 r. sr., on the arrival of the en t which l eaves L on d on at 10 A.M., Birmingham at 1 45, d Manchester at 2 P.M." I le appointments of this ship are p u bli s h e d, i n th e adver -I,,ellient I of an allude to, more prominently and att rac ti ve ly th an 'fte y . Re lyingon them, I changed the route by which I inte n d e d 'ail Scotland, and came here yesterday by the Lo n d on 'ail train,' especially mentioned in the Guide, that I might DrOceed b y the Princess Royal to Greenock, and keep engage- I lletits had made for this day in Edinburgh. The arrival of the train at Liverpool is advertised for 5 10 ) .)1. , it was about this hour when it reached the opening of tunnelthe • adjoining the terminus. Besides the time usually 4 eupied there in collecting the tickets from the pas d sen h ger v s, there was a detention of the whole train (a long an ea y i 4 e, with a multitude of passengers) for fully five minutes, la search for the portmanteau of one gentleman, who quitted t.e train a t the entrance of the tunnel ; and it was half-past r e ere the body < f the paisengers were set free at the ttlier end. t O he th ers, with myself, ha s tened a s f as t a s we could be driven ZPier. head, b u t t h e P r i ncess R oya l h a d j ust l e f t , an d was tabout 50 o r 100 yar d s di stant ; an d t h ough we h urr i e d i nto poli te te overtake her, she did not slacken her pace, and the desi st : 3 ' l ring us that our attempt would be fruitless, we ,„ loss been subjected to very great inconvenience, if not West er , i s others were in the same predicament, and as ak e 'na th r id y yet occur from similar causes if uncorrected th 11 ro „ t -- you, to suggest the necessity of either she e u - n iiA s of the ad v erti s ement, or that the Princess not depart until the arrival of the train for which tol v t''', l :at led me and others to believe she would wait. tAit l a t train had recently been late on several that time varied only from twenty to thirty . a NI It hieli e • w as no doubt the steamer would wait for t_rini l a t_ sti s io : 4 l . 4" ::: to a I advertisement , on and others e a e p n pa o r n en t t h ly is , is t o ll l4 b t ; d i .' e atner'a departure. b ue so o r .sithetlii ade known to the public whether it rnterl thai travellermay not hereafter be dis ewr s a have made, see , Ra i 7 2 not unreasonable to hope that the Grand he uot Y Company shall . so arrange as that their mail ii;Pecicv tw enty and thor thirty minutes behind . I i the „,,, a t a whole train shall not be detained, when clo a s: - `bge ""Mis, i n r•-- YLi ve L . urs, tr I seeking for the portmanteau ofnie C. ff . Sept.u4);'lB4s. /4l iflit l4 , l ' CART A CCI DENT AT . GRE . ENNTCH.—Mr. t esPe e i; t 'aYlle held an inquest last niglq in Guy's Ho!pital, / e ars .n g the deeh of Mr. Abrahim Ling, aged fort Y-nine Ilriet a ' v k coachman in the service of Mr. Wheatly, coach pro- On Sunday morning last the de e :o l44l r n returning home in a light cart with four sacks of employer's C ar hi s premises, and . wh . en the horse reached tveeusstreet Greenwich, it began kicking. The horse over red , deceased and threw him out of the cart, and t he . % re t he animal could be secured the near wheel passed over • Reeeased's body. He died on Thursday morning. Mr. t uPt ti e 4e ,,nson • house-surgeon, said the deceased had died m i tteid„, r , # l t he ' bladder, which no doubt had been caused by the THg 10:4i lSaturtlaVly,aaetlerfstit tbj3,ytAisl Honourablej d m e Al n Ni t e a m l d bv s. e , ( a r) tofh.D.r:' Southwark a rAki .wpa.s— proved, h e td. his nephews the executors, Gordon Whitbread, E sq., William Page Wood and Western Wood, to each of ;hem as well as to his brother, Robert Wood , f. ' l l: i he has left a legacy of 1,0001. To his sister, Mrs. Duns t° otb °°l ' a year; annuities to some of his niece!, and legacies !idn e e ,", and a bequest to his sister, Mrs. Watkins. The T he 1 ,.°1 his personal estate, ss hich was sworn under 81,00 . 0 ~ I .47 ( l il eatlici' to his wife absolutely. He also gives, devises, he, ,Ppoints to' her all his real estates, freehold or copyhold, to 44 n d her heirs and assigns. The will was made in March, t he 4 l . 3 th 'i he decease; died at his seat, Eitham Lodge, Kent, on A August .last in his 63th year. • Mr. ,'1,111.D BURNT TO DEATH.—Last evening 151 P- ge ld an ino n p fa St Thomas's Hospital on the body :riteeatl:eet: mot h ot e i r aftL a : ie o - d . ht years, The deceased resided I ' l3 lef"" t hwkrk. On We'dnest,,rqe-place, Great morning lastthe deceased t ti k tt ett her frock at home with two other younger children. She t ge 1)01, end went to the fir°place to dry it, when k e t. l. w hich was red hot, fell out aud set her clothes i on into f t a tmh out.r e w h,lre Mr. Harris procure( a t spas wrapped in a blanket t 'Pi e a a r Z e'l , i t hhe flames to the hospital, She where s he died the same night. ‘' e r oe.r e turned a verdict of Accid , ental death." The r% lte `ne deceased was killed about st... months since by a hop s f alling on him in Tooley-street oiheltejr4l4h A CCIDENT NEAR WINDSOR.— A man, named f `-lew e : l• Y, eng age d i n t h e fl our water-mill of Mr. Aldridge, pPDnlarge Mendstone t Rh his death on Monday last, in eonsequ a en e ce i workfedtheby fly -wheel power, being dra„g fl wheel becoming entangled INlardi.the Spyindlee. rope wheel,. with its fittings, 7ve , igh . i_ng kid 1.8.1 f t 0 a. ton, fell upon his chest, breaking three of his ribs, 71 4 41 ,ng several blood vessels. Theunfortunate man ~_•dent . t „,.; e g . reatest agony, about fifteen hours after the t 0:44. 4.. 11 , jury returned verdict of " Accidental death. Its:' l 'llik tt • r ALACE.--It has been detei m ned by the hat al Commissioners that Bishop Phillpotts h shall no f e , i e an excuse for non-residence ; 3,0001.. av Lue restoration of the palace, and in spite ofhimself 14, 4 ,.'-lae e ave to ,go through the form of resisting at his episcopal 'ltv ---- when' there, he will be constrained to exercise hos t]. - ` I 4Q 4 charity to the poor.—Bymouth Journal. O th wiy W ,7 , " ItimnExy. An extraordinary case of prarbery occurred on Tuesday night, just beyond t (e tr the Lancing side of the Adur. Mr. Charles ') °I South Farm, Broadwater, while on his return d 1 1 , ,,L,0r 7:too on horseback, about twelve o'clock, wes stoppe d bi "'or e s e. ",, e t , (tressed as " ' navvies." One of the men . seize tkidj e "Y the bridle, while the other two dragged him from nt l ' i kill - 1 ) . 41 4 _ 4 d threw him on the ground, when they knelt 2n AN. in fled his pockets of a purse containing between tgpt , Nd and silver, and a bunch of keys. One of them lim d et t to d„w out his watch, on which Mr. Trill placed e ? t ik t kh.;;• tVon the fob, and exclaimed, " Pray don't take th r. I Pel,h allti withmost extraordinary forbearance, aises pe °II, Yan a , . %%k e r. t s. 14 , rehension of interruption if they remained any for thieves made off, leaving the watch safe in the ?inYAit h One of them es edited his . dep arture in riding i t their aictria's horse. From inquiries suh=equently file that A he thieves did not cross the bridg . e , and o i ," 1 4111,"e ihf erred th a t they made the best of their way over f il i t t t he back o f ,the Sussex Pal About nine o'clock mo rn i'n the horse strayed home alone.— \ Ain t "-Atte. th e 11 A• e i I N I HE Roy AL PRESERVES AT WINDSOR. thVolttal er4se°r74ainmeth(eesvii: t ll y y o p f heas . ants and hare h s . ) , upon .ear Windsor Castle l' k :; 1 , 11 e 3 , 15 !" known for several past seasons. Strict orders tS'ot%; ; s i Md that t in,, f description is t , o 1 5 41 the t - s Min( 4 ,:or of, the Prince Consor,.. ,p Pres ery 0 . • ..i ght • es at s win l ey , a l es " one of the farms of his , 5 is e ,e,s, about eight miles frc m Windsor, game of all qt111 4 , 11411 Y abundant. Si hP cER ARRIVAL or CATTI. E PROM HOLLAND. ton~illt octal . teamv.aation Comp:Ty's steam ship the t Jolliffe arrived at Blackwall pier, yesterday fore i,l°ll, Rotterdam with another large supply of Dutch t e' o 4 - ‘ 41.1.1 ;: some very fine cows, calves, and sheep—a , ll °on'arket The supply of cattle from Holland s.ur h ir.„ Vtlt 411:tooth has been very great and the Ocean stFarn-s 4 4 14:, 1 1",11 in the - Sunday, crammed with a live Viten." no ttenum: v h e a r s ° be n been again engaged by the Dutch ),4411d will arrive in the course of to-}borrow (Satur 4large a supply. HER. MAJESTY'S VISIT TO THE CONTINENT. GOTHA, SEPT. I.—Yesterday the Queen attended' Divine service in the parish church of St. Augustine here. It is an old and sim,, le looking Gothic building, without any external ornament, standing near the centre of the city. It was formerly an old monastic edifice, but the greater portion has been pulled down. The interior is fitted up with three ranges of galleries one above the other ; the painting and ornamental portions being somewhat gaudy and theatrical, as is the case in many of the continental churches. The pulpit stands at the east end : near it, on a level with the first range of galle ries, is the ducal box, fitted up with windows, Rue., like the one at Coburg. The front of the galleries is orna mented with the arms of the Coburg and Gotha families, and a variety of heraldic devices in white and gold are displayed in various parts of the building. The church also contains a fine organ, and at the east end is a splendid painting of the Crucifixion, by Jacobus. Iler Majesty and the Prince arrived shortly after eleven o'clock, and were condu ted to the ducal pew by the clergyman. With her Majesty came the Duchess of Kent, the Duke and Duchess of Coburg, Prince Ferdi nand, and several members of the royal sulte. The Lu theran service was performed, the greater portion being chanted, and all the congregation joining. In addition to the organ, which was finely played, there was a lull military band, with kettle-drums and trumpets ; and although the music was, on the whole, %.,f a very high order, the noise at times was overpowering, and spoiled some of the most beautiful passages. The service ter minated at half' past twelve ; the Queen returned to the palace in her carriage, and the ])uke and Duchess of Coburg walked back on foot, without even a single attendant. Her Majesty afterwards drove out to Mols dorf, one of the Duke's chateass, about twelve miles from Gotha, thence to Ohrsdoz-f, a hunting lo.lgs, of which a portion stands in the territories of the Duke of Coburg, and a portion in those of Prince Hohenloe. The royal party afterwards visited Tehterhausen, where luncheon was prepared, and partaken of, and the Q teen returned to Gotha to dinner. In the evening the Queen and the Prinet paid a private visit to the tombs of the Dukes of Gotha, where the Prince's grandfather and great grandfather are inter red. The burial place is a wood,d little island, in the centre of the public park, and is reached through long hedge rows of beech and poplar, quaintly cut and trlmm, d. There is a very large sheet of water, well stocked with water fowl, on the southern side, and a little floating bridge carries the visitor over to the burial ground in a few minutes. The little islet is thickly studded with weeping willows and cypresses, dipping. their long green plumes into the glassy lake below. The pathways are bordered with flowers, and in the centre stand, not marble mausoleums, but beds of flowers perfuming the air with their fragrance, and on the adjoining trees wreaths of fl ewers and imme:ttEes and simple tablets, which indicate the names of the sovereigns who sleep beneath. The tawn has been a series of military bustle and musical excitement since eight o'clock this morning ; a grand musical feitival being arranged for this afternoon, at which a thousand singers and performers are to assist. Tho performance will take place in the open air, a large amphitheatre in front of the palace, and below the ter races, having been prepared for the performers and the audience. The grand business of the day will com mence at three o'clock, but the different military bands and sangervereins, or singing unio:is, who are to take part in the concert, are already mustering and marching in from the surrounding districts. RETURN OF THE QUEEN. BRUSSELS, SEPT. 2.—The following paragraph is from the forthcoming nuirber of the Politique :-- " A courier, who has arrived at Brussels, from Co burg, brings the positive intelligence that Queen Vic toria and Prince Albert will proceed direct from Co logne to Antwerp, and reach the latter city on Satur day, the 9th instant. Their Majesties the King awl Queen of the Belgians, the young Princes, arid all the Court, will meet the illustrious guests at Antwerp, who will be accompanied by sever.,l high personages from Germany. The Queen of England and the Prince will be entertained at a banquet in the Palace of Antwerp, by their Belgian Majesties, who will remain there for the night. Qui-en Victoria will sleep on board the Royal yacht the Vic toria and Albert, and leave early on the morning of the 7th. The banks of the Scheldt and the tower of Notre Dame will be brilliantly lighted up during her Britannic Majesty's embarkation, and there is some talk of n, fete similar to the one , -.hich took place at Cologne. Count d'Arschot and Mr. Conway, of the royal household, have gone to-day to Antwerp, in order to make some arrangements with the local authorities respecting the fete, the expenses of which will, it is said, be partly de frayed by the civil list." HAMI3L ItG AND FLANDERS MAIL. --sue--- BERLIN, AUG. 2S.—The King has conferred on Dr. Bun sen. the Ambassador and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of Great &Pain, the rank of actual privy councillor, with the title of excellency. Lviesic, AUG. 27.—The mortal remains of the eleven victio s ref the deplorable events of the 12th of August, were buried thi morning. PosEN, AUG. 15.—1 t is generally reported that M. V. Mmutoli, the president cur police, who, by his prudence and humanity during the late troubles, did great service to our town, is to succeed M. Niederotatter at Warsaw. This would be a most happy choice of our foreign department, for it would nut be easy to find another person so thoroughly acquainted with all the affairs of Polard, and so able a man of business as he. He is besides acquainted with the members of the Polish Administration, and therefore well qualified to support the in terests of Prussia in the Polish capital. It is, however, a question whether M. V. Minutoli may be disposed to accept an office, which, at this time, is not an easy one. BERLIN, Ann. 28.—The complaints made by the Saxon Government of the accounts published in the journals relative to the events at Leipsic, have led to serious results. Two Prussian journals, those of Magdeburgh and Breslau, against widch the complaints were especially directed, are said to have been wz_rned by the Prussian Government with a threat that their licenses would be withdrawn. If this news, which conies fr m a very respectable quarter, should be correct, it must excite some surpu ire, for these accounts had passed through the hands of the Prussian censors, and:the writer ran hardly be proved to have had any bad intentions, for they coincide with those of almost all the German journals. WURZBURG, Aria. 25.—A Ministerial rescript is much talked of here, which, it is generally affirmed, authorises the Post-office to open, in tl.e presence of witnesses, letters anti packets when there is reason to suspect that they may inclose prohibi , ed newspapers. In this manner the subscribers of the cfo, t Journal, whose copies come together in one packet, have been obliged, in several towns, to deliver it to the censor, who then. at his discretion, keeps back the paper, or has it sent to the subscriber. _ . ...- COPENHAGEN, Atm. 30.—This forenoon the Karnlschalka, a Russian man-of-war, passed this city, bound, it is said, to the Mediterranean. _ . A letter from Bormholm of the 25th says —" A Rus ian fleet of four ships of the line (one of them can ying above 103 guns), three frigates, and two - brigs, and a Swedish frigate, have arrived here during the storm which continued from the 20th to the 23d, and on Saturday passed Hammeren, steering west ward. On the 20th, towards sunset, the whole Russian fleet passed within cannon shot of us; nay; the largest ship of the line, with the admiral on board, passed within the merchant men that were lying at anchor, on account of the storm. We never before saw ships of the line come so near the land." BERLIN, SEPT. l.—His Majesty the King arrived to-day at Sanss.otici, on his return from Munich. BRUSIEI s, SEPT. 2.—The average price of wheat last week was 21f. 9.1 e., and that of rye 15f. 97c. Both may be im ported duty free, the export duty is 25 centimes per 1,000 kil logramntes. I he Archduke Frederick of Austria left Brussels this morn ing by railway for Germany. A courier from Coburg has arrived at Brussels with positive intelligence that Queen Victoria and Prince Albert will proceed direct from Cologne to Antwerp, where they will arrive on Saturday. The King and Queen of the Belgians, with the young Princess and the whole of the Coart will go to Antwerp to receive their august guests, who will be accompanied by many persons of dis tinction from Germany. The Queen of England and the Prince will dine with our King and Queen at the Palace. The Court will pass the night of the 6th at Antwerp, but Queen Victoria will sleep on board the royal yacht Victoria and Albert, and put to sea very early on the morning of the 7th. BELGIAN FUNDS.—BaUCSELS, SEPT. 3. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent ••••••• • • • • • . • Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent •••• • • • • Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent -. • • Ditto Three per Cent ••••••••• • • • • • • • • • Ditto Thirty-seven Millions, ditto ••• • • • Ditto, ditto, 1840 .. Ditto, ditto, 1842 •• • • ••• • • 101 % Ditto of the City, 1832 . • • • • • • • • Ditto, 1843 .. • • • • •• • .......... .... .. . 101% Bank of Belgium ••• • • • .•• • • ••••• 705 —Brussels Papers, Sept. 4. LIAMBURGH BORSENHALLE, SErT. 2. Bills. Haney kustrian 5 per Cents .. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 114% Bank Shares • • .• .. Anglo-Russian Loan .••••••• • • • • . • . • Russian 5 per Cent., llamb. Certificate. 113 112% Ditto Ist series Inscription ••• • • . .• 105% 105% Ditto, Hope and Co., 3d and 4th series.. 99% Ditto, in Certificate.... • • • • • • 99% New 4 per Cent., Hope and Co. ••• • • • 93 Ditto Stieglitz • • • •• • • • • • 91% 91% Spanish New 5 per Cent • • . • • • • • 20% 20 Ditte, 3 per Cent ••••••• • • . . • . Anglo-Portuguese Loan, 2% per Cent • • Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent •• • 62% Ditto 3 per Cent. • • Polish New 4 per Cent. Joan, 1844.• . • 86 86% Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 p:a - Cent •• • ... 87 National Bank 5hare5................ ........ •• • . . AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, AUG. 27 5 per Cent. Metalllques .. 4 per Cent. ditto • • •• • • • • ••• • •• •• •• 101 34 3 per Cent. ditto.. • ..• •• ••• • • • •• 77% Ditto, 1839 .. •• • .. . Bank Shares • • • • • • • • • • • • • . 1618 Esterhazy's Loan .... •. • • . ••••••• • • • • ItAILWAYS. The Northern, or Ferdinand .• • . • • ...... 213 Vienna—Milan ........................13314 Gloggnitz .. • • •• • • •• • • •• • • .... 1527; Leghorn • • ..... ••••••• • • • • • • •• 122 N —Allgemelne Zeitung, Aug. 30, PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, AUG. 30. Bills. Money. 100y. 2 99% St. Schuld Sch., 314 per Cent ...• • • • • Pruss. English Bonds, 1830, 4 per Cent Exchange on London, 2 months I Universal Prussian Gazette, Aug. 31. .... 6 258 6 24% SCOTCH ACTS OF PARLIAMENT The following is a list of the Acts affecting Scotland, which have passed during the last session of Parliament. I hey are as follow: _ . . • -., 1. Act for consolidating in one Act certain provisions usually inserted in Acts authorising the taking of lands for undertakings of a public nature in Scotland. 2. Act to facilitate the transmission and extinction of Heritable Securities for Debt in Scotland. . . . RELATIVE CLOS]. RAILWAY IN THE PLINCIPAL CITIES AND T( G PRICES OF SCOTLAND, AND 3. Act to simplify the form, and diminish the ex pense, of obtaining infeftment in Heritable Property in Scotland. _ _ _ 4. Act for amending the laws concerning Highways, Bridges, and Ferries in ScoVand, and the making and maintaining thereof, by Statute Service, and by the Con version of Statute Service into money. NAMES ow RAILWAYS Sept. 4. HARES 'OWNS . TN ENGLAND 5. Act to regulate the issue of Brink Notes in Scot land. 6. Act for amending an Act for making provision for Parish Schoolmasters in Scotland. 7. Act to amend the Law of Arrestment of Wages in Scotland. 8. Act for the amendment and better administration of the laws relating to the Relief of the Poor in Scot land. EXETER RAILWAY MARKET.—North Devon, 2 to prem ; Exeter and Yeovil, to prem. ; Exeter, Trp sham, and Exmouth, to a; Exeter and Creditons, 91. per share ; Eastern Counties, 211. WESTMINSTER-BRIDGE —From 1810 to 1838 this bridge cost in repairs 83,097/. 6s. 94d. From 1838 to 1844 the amount was 82,661/., and a further sum of 52,879/. was required for further works. The property belonging to the bridge only realises 7,464/. I Is. Bd. a year. Mr. Stanton, M.P., has contradicted the report that he is about to retire from the representation of Stroud. FATAL ACCIDENT AT HORNSBY. —Yesterday Mr. G. J. Mills held an inquest at the Nightingale, Hornsey, on the body of James Bondy, aged fifty-two, a bricklayer, living at Nightingale-place. On Monday night last deceased said he was determine i on getting drunk, and did so. However, at six next morning he went to his work at a house erecting in Maynard-street, Crouch-end, and whilst walking along a joist anti ruining a party wall in front of the building, he missed his lio:d of the wall and fell a depth of eight feet to the ground, and then rolled into a tank six feet deep, nearly killing a man who was at work in it. Deceased was taken out insensible, and died of concussion of the brain eight hours after the fall. Verdict, " Accidental death." SUICIDE FROM DISTRESS.—Last night Mr. Baker held an inquest at the King's Arms, Kingsland, on the body of William Blackman, aged 64, a labourer. The deceased lodged at No. 6, Abbot. street, Kingsland, and had for a number of years been employed on the road by the highway board of Hackney parish, until about five weeks since, when he was dis charged, without any ostensible cause. The deceased had made repeated applications to the board for work, but had been unsuccessful, which had so pressed upon his mind that for some time past he had been in a low and desponding state. On Wednesday night he returned home, having been trying the whole day to get some work, and went to bed. Not getting up the next morning at his usual time, his landlady ,became alarmed, and having in vain called to him through his room door, she sent for a police-constable, who broke the door open, when the deceased was found hanging by a rope fastened to the bed-post, quite dead and cold. Vet diet—" Temporary in sanity." A WATER• DRlNKER.—Yesterday a man named John Harber, living in East-street, Regent's Park, undertook for a wager of 20.. to drink a pail of water (four gallons) within half an hour, which he accomplished, drinking it by a pint at a time till he had swallowed the whole. He then declared that he would drink 12 pints of beer in as many minutes; no one, however, seemed to doubt it, and that part of his performance was dispensed with. FREEMASONRY. —On Wednesday evening a crowded meeting of the members of the Grand Lodge of the Order of Freemasons was held in their splendid hall, at the Freemasons' Tavern, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, at which the Chairman (in the absence of the Earl of Zet land, Grand Master), Mr. Rowland Alston, Provincial Grand Master for the county of Essex, presented, by direction of her Grace the Duchess of Inverness, to the Freemasons of England, the magnificent candelabrum which had been about etgl-t years since presented by that body to his Royal Highness the late lamented Duke of Sussex, while Grand Master ; the Chairman, in doing so, pronounced an eloquent eulogium on the character and virtues of the illustrious deceased Prince, and adverted to the great loss the craft had sustained by his demise, and handed in an appropriate letter from the Duchess of Inverness soliciting their acceptance of so valuable a relic, and it was also stated that her Grace had directed the cande labra to be purchased at the sale of his Royal Highness's effects, at the cost of 5001., with a view to its presentation. The valuable and highly-prized relic was received by the meet ing with the deepest enthusiasm, and it is unders ood that a general meeting of the fraternity will be promptly called for the purpose of passing an appropriate tribute of thanks to the Duchess of Inverness. THE GREAT BRITAIN.—A curious dispute has I arisen in connexion with the wagers laid as to the time in which this vessel would perform the voyage to New York. Fifteen days seems to have been generally the period selected by the betters; and the question now is, whether the time is to be reckoned by the ordinary mode of computation or by calculat ing the actual time of sailing according to the ship's chrono meter. By one method, the length of the voyage will be less than fifteen days, by the other it will be more. Thus, the Great Britain sailed from Liverpool on the 26th of July at four r. at. ; she arrived at New York on the 10th of August, at three, r at. There is a slight difference in some of the ac counts, but this appears to be the correct one. The time be tween port and port, according to dates, would, therefore, be 14 days 23 hours. But New York is 74 degrees west of Green wich, which is equal in time to 4 hours 56 minutes. The dif ference between Liverpool and Greenwich is equal to 12 minutes, which, deducted from 4 hours 56 minutes, leaves 4 hours 4.1 minutes to be added to the 14 days 23 hours; mak ing the real time v. hich the vessel took to perform the voyage 15 days, 3 hours, 44 minutes. It is a nice point; but we should certainly say that the `• fifteen days" taken as the basis of the wagers, meant fifteen days of twenty-four hours each, and taking the difference of longitude into account, the vessel did not make the passage in fifteen of such days.—Liverpool Courier. IRELAN. THE VFW, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING,. SEPTEMBER 5 1845. Darwen, and 13:)1ton, 10 1 4 7 CANlonian Extension, 376,--: Eastern Union Extension, 3;4 G.- a Grimsby and Sheffield, :Quarter Shares, 4% z --Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction; 30—Hudderstie!d and Manchester Railroad and Canal,:3o —Leeds and Thirsk, 21—Lynn and Dereham, 5 1 /,—North British, Half Shares, 10—North Wales, s—Oxford, Worm:- 1 , 2 r, aad Wolverhampton, 11—Armagh, Coleraine, and Port rush, 3—Bandon and Bantry, 21. Is. 31—Cambridge and Lincoln, 4%—Coventry, Nuneaton, &c., 3 1 4—Derby and Crewe, 514—Dublin and Galway, 6' ; i—East Lincolnshire, 3V,—East Coast, 33g—Glasgow and Dumfries, 2 3 / 4 —Graad UrTion, 755. 6d.—Great Eastern and Western, 3')4—Leicester and Birmingham, 3—Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle , unction, 7%—London and Birmingham Extension. 34 — London and Manchester (Remington's), 4 1 4—Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, 9 3 / 4 —Nottingham, Erewash, &c., 5 —Nottingham and Mansfield, 3 1 ,,—Rugby and Huntingdon, 4—South Midland, 6Y B p,—Sheffield and Lincolnshire June tion, 7—Staines and Richmond, 3%—Tean and Dove Valley, 3 3 A—Trent Valley Continuation, 3 1 4—Wakefield and Brad ford, 84 —West Yorkshire, 21 1 / 2 —Welsh Midland, 5% — York and Carlisle, 6%—lorkshire.and Glasgow Union, 44 Bs. COURT CIRCULAR. .- - - Then Royal Highne.ses the Duchess (.f Gloucester mil EL., Duke of Cambridge left Richmond Park, at half past two o'clock on Wednesday afternoon, for Bushy House, Bushy Park, and visited her Msjesty the Queen Dowager and her Serene Highness the Duchess Ida of Saxe Weimar. The Duchess of Gloucester arid the Duke of Cam bridge left Bushy House in the evening, and returned to Richmond Park. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge left Richmond Park yesterday, for town. HARBOURS OF REFUGE. 7'O THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sltt,—As your spirited journal has from time to time urged upon the Government the important subject of harbours of refuge, I respectfully solicit your indulgence for a few brief remarks respecting these great national undertakings, through the medium of your columns. It appears that a large sum of money has been voted for the commencement of a breakwater at Dover, and the policy of so large an expenditure upon such an experi mental and doubtful site, while a more eligible spot, se lected, and so strongly recommended by the Harbours of Refuge Commissioners, remains apparently unnoticed, has most justly been questioned by many maratime and practical men. The tine, noble Bay of Seaford, pot , - sessing an unusual depth of water, being about mid-way between Portsmouth and Dover, having the harbour of Newhaven (so capable of great improvements) in its im mediate vicinity, with the advantages of a coast railway near to the shore, seems unfortunately to have bee► overlooked, or to have had an inferior weight in the pre sent decision of Government. It is not an unfrequent spectacle during the prevalence of easterly winds to see a fleet of from thirty to seventy vessels, and sometimes more, of all sizes, lying at anchor in Seaford Bay, enjoy ing the natural shelter there afforded, and many thou sands of British 'Jailors are well aware how impossible it is to round Beachy Head, at all seasons of the year, in contrary winds. It is much to be hoped her Majesty's Ministers have only delayed the works at this superie.r bay for a short period only, otherwise there will be no secure shelter for merchant vessels and steamers between Portland and Dover, thus leaving an extensive and dar.- gerous portion of the southern coast entirely unprotected, and which it may be too late to lament in the event of war. I will only further remark, that the esiiinat,i (as contained in the Commissioners' Report of last year) were, for Dover, 2,500.0001., and for Seaford only half of that amount, viz., 1,250,0001. You have frequently expressed your editorial remarks ift favour of the Ba) of Seaford, and trust this great question, so highly important to the country at large, wilt again receive your early attention, and the serious consideration of the Admiralty and the Government. —I remain, Sir, yours, most respectfully, Aug. 26, 1845. A READER. Mr. HunsoN.—Our opinion of Mr. Hudson bas been repeatedly expressed. What he is he has chiefly to thank himself for. Prudi race and energy are curiously mingled in him. Natural sagacity he possesses very largely ; and he seems gifted all) with no small share of common sense. We doubt whether he has shown his accustomed tact in seeking for a seat in Parliament. Mr. Cobden, it is true, obtained a similar p ,sition, and has won very high repute as a legislator, but then Mr. Cobden is a brilliant exception to a general rule, and had the additional advantage of being very well edu cated, of having travelled through the greater part of Europe and the United States, and of having obtained very high repu tation as a political writer before he entered Parliament. Add to this the advantage of comparative youth, while his mind, in many ways, had obtained full maturity.—Railway Express. BARNET FAlR.—This great cattle fair commenced yesterday. The stock offered for sale this year was exceedingly great, and the business was brisk. The black cattle occupied a very considerable portion of the fair-field, and were in much better condition than Welsh cattle generally are at this season of the year, which is attributed to the plentifulness of pa,ture. The prices obtained was from 51. to 8/. Bs. ; Scots made 141., and fat beasts averaged 4s. per stone. Mitch cows met with ready sale at prices varying from 141. 10s. to 18 guineas, and heifers done calving 91. 9s. The sheep-pens were not exten sive : good down wethers mate ss. per stone, and lambs for stock 17s. a head. Prime young cart-horses obtained good prices, but old and inferior ones met with a dull sale. The droves of Welsh ponies were thick, and a good many were sold. Upon the whole, neat stock made 10 per cent. increase on last year's prices, and the general account from the several counties is, that there is an abundance of teed for grazing, and that the price of stock will be lower. MURDER AND SUICIDE.—On Tuesday afternoon an inquest was held at the Springfield goal, Chelmsford, on the body of William Blackburn, who attempted self-destruction by cutting his throat immediately after murdering his wife, at the village of Stondon, l%lopey, in that county, in June last, and against whom a verdict of " Wilful murder " was returned by the coroner's jury. The.man and his deceased wife had lived as servants in the house of Sir. Ffrench, of Stondon Hall, and she was found n her bedroom, lying on the bed, dead, with her throat cut. The husband was nowhere to be found, and later in the day was met with near a neighbouring wood, having also inflicted a frightful wound in his own throat. A razor was discovered in his pocket, and he acknowledged committing the injuries. He was unable to take his trial for the murder of his wife at the late assizes. Latterly he became more rational, but exceedingly dejected. A turnkey was constantly with him, and extreme exhaustion ended his days on Friday last. The jury returned a verdict " That the deceased died from the effects of a wound in his throat, inflicted by himself whilst in a state of temporary insanity." SHOCKING WAGGON ACCIDENT AT BAYSWATER. — Yesterday afternoon a man, named Vincent, was getting off the shaft of Johnson's Uxbridge waggon at Bayswater, in doing which he slipped and fell to the ground and before it was posible for the driver to stop his horses the front wheels passed over his legs, fracturing both of them in a shocking manner, and the hind wheel passed over his body. He was removed to St. George's Hospital, and without hopes of recovery. THE SILK-TRADE. —A meeting of the silk mann factmer s of the metropolis was held at the Weavers'-hall, on Wednesday, in reference to the Act of last session, known as the Silk 'We ivers Act. The object of the meeting was to adopt proceedings to carry out the Act, and it was agreed that from the 20th instant, the imperial measure of thirty-six inches in the yard (instead of the present 37 inches) should be introduced, and that the same should be reconimended for the general adoption of the trade. The mee tin g considered the new Act as a mutual protection to master; and weavers, ' a.,,d resolved to pay their men for work not returned at the rate of 36 inches in the yard, from the 9th ult., when the Act was , I passed. A committee was named to draw up a form of ticket required by the Act, and to recommend its adoption through out the trade. The resolutions were ordered to be advertised !a all the daily paper!. Aberdeen Airdrie and Coatbridge Arbroath'and Forfar .... Ditto Half Shares .... Armagh, Coln, & Portrush 13au don rnd liantry nelfast and Ballymena .. Belfast and County Down Birknlal,Lan.Szelies.inc. Birminglirn and Glo'ger Do. New (iss.at 714 dis.) silt° Half Shares Birrainglini &Oxtrd.June. Blekltrn, aill Preston I:lel:burn, I ntrwi , ,& Bolton. \V is & Livcrpl. Boston, Stanicrd and Lirni Brighton, Lewes, & 'last. Bristol and Exeter Ditto New .. • • • • • • • • • Bristol and Gloucester .. Bristol and S. Wales June. British mid Irish Union.. Caledon. and A yrsh. J une Caledon.B: , llunibar. J June Ca'ed nian • . • • • Ditto Extension • Cambridge and Lincoln.. Che,ter and Birkenhead. Ditto Nov 6lures Ditto Half Shares Ch,ster and 11. lvilead Cli,lttnhani and Oxfol d.. Chichester and Brighton.. Chuniet Valley . • • • • Clitheroc Junction ...... Clydesdale Junction Cork, Blackrck &Passage Cork and Bandon Curi and Killantcy.... Cork and Waterford ... Cork and Youghal .... . Canterbury and Dover.. Coventry and Leicester. C0rnwa11............... Derby and Crewe . • • • • • • Direct Lon. and Manelistr Diss, Ileccles, & Yannoth Direct Man.(lletningt on's ) Direct Northern • • •• • • •• Direct Norwich .• • • • . • • • Dubtn and Belfast June. Dublin, Belfast, & e Dublin and Drogheda • • • • Dublin and Galway ..... Dundalk and Enniskillen Dnudee and Arbroath . • • Ditto New .• • Dundee and Per.h • • • • • • Durham and Sunderland East Lancashire (No. 1) Ditto (No. 2) . Eastern Counties ..... • Do. New ........ . Do. Perp.s pr Ct., No. 1 Do. do. No. 2 East Dereh am & Nos wick East Union .• . • • • • • •• .. Ditto Extension • • • • • • Edinbah, Glas. ' and Dum. Edinburgh and Glanow.. Do. Quarter Shares • • • Do. New Quarter Shares Edin b. Leith, and Grantcn Do. Pref. 5 per Cent.. Edinburgh and Northern Edinburgh and Peebles • • Edinburgh and Perth.. • • Ely and Huntingdon • • •• Enniskillen and Sligo.. • • Exeter, Yeovil, & Drchstr Fit wood, Prstn, & W. Rid. Garnkirk and Glasgow • • Glasgow and Ayr . - • • • .- Do. Quarter Shares • • • • Glasgow and Greenock Ditto New......... . Ditto Pref,rezce • • • •• Glasgw, Diu fries, and Car. Glsgw, Kilmarnek, & Ard. Glasgow and Belfast Un. Goole and Doncaster .... Grand Junction ... • • .. • • Ditto Half Shares • . • . Ditto Quarter Shares .. Ditto New Quarters • • Ditto Eighths .• • • • . • • Grand Union. •• • • • •• •• Great Eastern & Western Gt Grimsby& Dl: - Extols. Gt Grimsby and Sheffield Gt Sthrn & Wstrn!lid) Ditto Extension • • • • • • Great Munster • • • • Gt Northern of Scotland Grt Northern of England Do. New 401. Shares • • Do. New 301. Shares .. Great Western • • • •• • • . • Ditto Half Share • • • • Ditto Fifths • • • • • • • • • • Guilfrd, Farehm, & Ports. Norwich . • • •• .• • • • • I I udrsfid & Man. R. & Canl Huddersfield and Sheffield B Lot and Gainsborough Hull and Selby • • • • • .... Ditto Quarter Shares.. Ditto Half Shares Inverness anti Elgin .... Isle of Jersey •• • ....... Kendal and Windermere Kingstown anti Bray .... Killarney Junctions .•• Lancaster and Cal lisle Lancaster and Preston .. Leedi and Bradford .... Ditto Extension ...... Leeds and Dewsbury— .. Leeds and Thirsk .. •• • . Leeds & W. Riding June. Leicester & Birmingham Leicester and Bedford ... Limerick and Waterford Limrek, Ennis, & Kit. Jnc. Lincoln, York, iunl Leeds Liv. Man. & (it N. of Eng. Li% erp )ol and Manchester Ditto Half Shares • • Ditto Quarter Shares.. Liverpl,Ortnskrk,& Prstn . , Lontron and Birmingham Ditto Thirds.. • • • • • • • • Ditto Quarters . • • • • • • London and Blackwall • • London and Brighton. • • • Ditto Consolid. Eighths London and Croydon .• • • Ditto New. ••••• • • • • Do. Guarant. 5 per Cnt. London and Greenwich . Do. Pref. or Privilege • • London and South West rn • Do. New Cons. Eighths Do. New, 501 Shares.. 1)o. New, 401. Shares • • London 'and York ••• • • Ditto (Bawtry) . • • • • • - London and Windsor . • • • - Dwain, Salsbury, & Yeovl Londonderry & Coleraine Londonderry & Enuiskilln Lynn and Ely .. •. • Lynn and Dereham .•... "Manchester and Leeds .. Ditto Half Shares • Ditto Quarter Shares.. Ditto Sixteenths • .... Manchstr and Birkenhead 31anchester & Birininghin Ditto Quarter Shares•. Ditto New Quarters . • Do. Con. & Welsh June. Manchestr, Bonn, & Bury Mnehstr, Baxtn, & Matlk Man. Shef. and Mid. June. Manchestr & Southavaptn Midland .. • . • • • • • • • • • • • • Ditto Fifths • • • • • • • • • • Ditto New .• . . • • • • • • • Do. Con. Birm. & Derby Midlnd Gt Westrn (Irish) Do. Extension to Sligo Newest' & DaringtnJ tine. Dt. New (Brandling).. Newcastle and Berwick • • Newcastle and Carlisle.. Nwestle, Durham, & Lan. Newport & Abergavenny Newry rind Enniskillen • • Newark and Sheffield . • • North British .......... Ditto New Shares • • • • Northern and Eastern • • Do. Scrip (iss. at 5 dis.) Do. Quarter Shares • • North Devon • • • North Kent •• North Staffordshire •• • • North Eastern • • • • • • • • • • North Union (A)• • • • • • • • Ditto (B) • • • • • • • • North Wales Mineral.. • • Ditto New Shares . • • • North Western •• • North Wales ••••• • • • • • Norwich and Brandon . • Ditto New... Not., Belvoir, & Granthm Nottingham and Boston.. Nott., Er wsh. Val. & Man. Nottingham & Mansfield Oxford and Binning. June Oxford. and Worcester Oxtbrd and Cambridge .. Perth and Inverness .... Portsmouth Direct.. •••• Preston and Wyre . . 11)itto half Shares . Do. Pref. 5 per Ct. Guar Do. Pref. 5 per Ct. & div. Preston & Wyre Estelle. Richmond & W. End June Rugby, Worcestr,&. Tring Scottish Central Scottish Midland .. Sheffield and Manchester Ditto Quarter Shares • • 7 3 AP •11/ 101sfil 1 2886t1 -P 2% p 8g 4% 218% 104 • 4161 ists6di 8 1iP 36% 23 1 /i 17 2% .33 7 , 04 13 T- I s 3 2% 73 12% 200 1744 112% 4% :9156,1 4 !2 220 3% 3% 18% 13334 s9d, I 4!tp, 79s 63s 89s 13% .1 7956(1 438 P' 1766 P IG2sr,d Ditto - ditto (No. 2) Ditto ditto (\0.3).• Sheffield and Lincoln.. • • Sheffield and Rotherham Shrovsbry & Grand June. Shrewsb.. Wor., & Crewe Shrws.,Wolv., Dndl, & Ilir Orwsbry & Vat. UAL. Shrws, llerefd,& N. Wales Slamminan • • • • • . • . South Devon. • • • • • • • • • • IN 40s p GOs p ,31s p 6% 8196 p IssG6d 1 !8359d, I :32s p 101s3 7359 d South Midland South Eastern and Dover Do. New (iss. 32/0 No. I Do. (i55.331.G5.8d.) ~ 2 Do. (iss. 301.) „3 Staines and Itlelunow.l . • • .;t•ltlordshire&Sliropshire Stirling and Dunfermline South Wales Tean and Dove Valley • Trent Valley ..... Do. and Holyhead J une. Vale of Neath.. .• • .. West London, Old Shares West End & Suthrn Conn. Wexford and Carlow . • • • Warwick and Cheltenham Waterford and Kilkenny Watrfd,Wxfd,Wick& Dub Wakefield and ItradMrd.. Waklid,Pontefret, & Gool Wakefield and Harrogate Warwick and London . West Lancashire.... • • • • Worcester and Tring.... Whitehave:n and Furness Do. New Half Shares.. Welsh Miaand • • • • • • ... We: t Cornwall • ..... West Yorkshire Wilsontwn, M.& Coltness Wilts, Sonirst, & Weytnth Yarmouth and Norwich.. Ditto New .••• • . • • • York and Carlisle ....... York and North Midland Ditto Ilalf Shares .... Ditto Scarbro' llrauch Ditto Selby • ...... • • • Ditto Extension Yorkshire & Glasgow Mi. 4%1 B%i 4 I 16653' 48% 47% 23 161 A ! 5856 d c 33s 4%1 1 5 - 236,1 1 7 pI, 468 p . . HULL, SErr. 4. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Hull and Selby, Hair Shares, 23 1 / B —London and Croydon, New, 365. p.—Blackburn, YORK, SEPT. 4, STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Eastern Union Ex ten • Lion, 3/. 14s.—North British, New:, 10% —Chthe.oe Junc tion, 6—Grand Union, 3/. I ls —Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction, 18 ja—Laincashire, Yorkshire, and North Eastern, 37g—Leeds and York, 103—Leicester and Bedford, 4-- London and York, 6 1 —Manchester, Buxton, tze., 93:j Newcastle and Berwick, 25 1 ,2 —Nottingham. Ercwash, and Alnbergate, s , 4—North Staffordshire, 6 1 7 !: —North Western, 6 I/ 2 —Welsh Midland, s—West Yorkshire, IS%—York and Carlisle, 534 SHEFFIELD, SEPT. 4. Szocx ENCHANGE.—The sales are—Birminghlm and Gloucester, 133—Eastern Counties, 21—Sheffield and Man chester, I -13 1 ,4—York and Selby 501. shares, 77122—Cam bridge and Lincoln, 5 1-16—Goole and Doncaster, 3 Grimsby and Sheffield, 17%—Ditto, Quarter shares, 4 1 A — Grimsby Railway and Deck Extensiun, 7—Grand Union (Nottingham to Lynn), 3%—London and Windsor, 2 London and York, 7—Leeds and Bradford, 6O—Leeds and Dewsbury, 39—Not tingham,Erewash, and Ambergate, 5 1-16 —North Western, 7 V 2 —Sheffield and Lincolnshire, 61. Is. 6d. —Wakefield and Harrogate, 3% p. EUDDERSFIELD, SEPT. 4. STOCK EXCHANGE. —The sales are—Cambridge and Lin coln, s—Essex and Suffolk, 31s. p.—Grand Union, 3 1 / 2 -- Glasgow and Dumfries, 2—lludderstield and Manchester, 25 1 / 2 —Leicester and Birmingham, 7%—Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 7—Manchester and Birkenhead Continuation, 355. p.—North Western, 7—West Yorkshire, 18. EDINBURGH, SEPT. 2. STOCK EXCITANGE.-The sales are-Aberdeen, 31. 155.- Aberdeen, Banff. and Elgin, 24 10s.-Arbroath and Forfar, 251.-Ditto, Half Shares, 151.-Armagh and Portrush, 2/.- Banffshire, 2/. Os. 6d.-British and Irish Union, 3/. 14s. 63. -Belfast and County Down, 3/. 155.-Cambridge and Lin coin, 3/. 10s.-Caledonian, 12/. 55.--Caledonian Extension, 3/. 12s. 6d.-Caledonian and Dumbarton, 31. 17s. 6d.-Clydes dale Junction, 91. 2s. 6d.-Direct Northern, 2/. Its.-Dundee and Arbroath, 371. Is. 6d.-Ditto, New. 181.-Dundee and Perth, 61.-Edinburgh and Bathgate, 3/. as.-Edinburgh and Glasgow, 90/.-Ditto, Quarters, 211. 155.-Ditto, New, VV.-Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Dumbarton, 1/. 10s.-Edin burgh, Leith, and Granton, 261.-Ditto, Preference, 17!. 10s. -Edinburgh and Northern, 2/. 165.-Ditto, New, 1/. 10s. 6d. -Edinburgh and Peebles, 3!. Is.-Edinburgh and Perth, 1/. 165.-Glasgow and Ayrshire, 73/.-Ditto, New Stock, 221.-Ditto, 17/. IN.-Glasgow and Belfast Union, 4/.- Glasgow and Garnkirk, 411.-Glasgow, Dumfries, and Car lisle, 31.-Glasgow and Greenock, 211.-Ditto, New Stock, 10/. 55.-Ditto, Preference, 2/.-Great North of Scotland, 3/. 55.-Inverness and - Elgin, 11. 65.-Kilmarnock . and Ar drossan, 5/. 155.-London and York, 6/. 103. - Munkland and Kirkintilloch, 33/.-Morayshire, 1/.-North British, 29/. -Ditto, Halves, 91. 55.-Ditto, One-fifth, 8/. 10s.-North Wales Mineral, New, 64 55.-Perth and Inverness, 21. 7s. 6d. -Scottish Central, 71. 145.-Scottish Midland, 21. 45.- Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester, 5!. 35.-Shrewsbury and Hereford, 1/. 18s. 6d.-Slamannan, 18/. 103.-South Midland, 9!. 2s. 6d.-Stirling and Dunfermline, 1/. 175.- Teen and Dove Valley, 3/. 7s. 6d.-Waterford, Wicklow, and Dublin, 1/. 165.-Wishaw and Coltness, 39/. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. THE CROYDON ATMOSPHERIC. Yesterday having been appointed for the purpose of publicly testing the working qualities of the atmospheric railway laid down from the Dartmouth Arms to Croydon, a distance of five and a half miles, the public, or at least that portion of it supposed to be interested in these mat - ters, was invited to witness the experiments. Among the many who were present, we noticed Lord Claude Hamilton, M.P., and several other persons of high stand ing in the scientific world. The Chairman and Direc tors of the Croydon Company were also in attendance. It had been amine ' ( d that the first "trip" should have been at two o'clock, but some unforeseen circumstances arose to defeat this intention, and it was nearly three ere the train departed from the further terminus. The last of the experiments concluded at about six o'clock. The atmospheric principle is probably known to the greater portion of our readers, but a brief recapitula tion of the principal features upon the present line may not be considered out of place. We have said that the length of railway completed is five and a half miles ; workmen are, however, busily employed in laying down tubes for the remaining five miles to London, and next summer will probably see, in a finished state, a through line to Epping (in all eighteen miles), intended to connect with the railway known as the Portsmouth Atmospheric, which received the sanction of Parliament during the bygone session. Throughout the length of line is laid down between the rails a tube of iron, having a groove in its upper surface into which a piston, some eighteen inches in diameter, is sunk, the same piston being connected with the lead ing carriage of the train. Three stationary engine:, (Itch of two fifty-horse power, at nearly equal distances, the centre at Norwood, and the remaining two at either extreme, exhaust the air from before the train, and a valve behind giving it admission, the atmospheric pres sure upon the piston drives the carriages on in exactly the same proportion with the vacuum formed before them. To prevent any loss by leakage, a leathern flap, protected by plates of iron, covers the groove. A wheel going before the piston raises the flap, while, another wheel following, closes it, and with a preparation of b( s ax and tallow, so to speak, so hermetically seals it, that not the slightest loss is in this way sustained. The ruling gradient is 1 iu 600, excepting at the crossing of the Brighton line, where the engineer has, in the most masterly manner, obviated all the disadvantages arising from a crossing on the level by leading the Croydon over the former line by a wooden bridge at an inclina tion of 1 in 50. At fourteen minutes to three o'clock, by order of Mr. Samuda, who directed the proceedings, the engines were ordered to exhaust the tube. That at Norwood, however, not being in working trim, was dispensed with, and the further engine, at the Dartmouth Arms (a dis tance, be it remembered, of five miles and a half), was alone required. The train, consisting of seventeen car riages, filled to overflowing, and weighing, probably, above eighty tons, started from Croydon at the rate of some thirty miles an hour, and continued that speed till it reached the extreme end, thus silencing for ever the scientific wiseacres, who before the Committees at Westminster affirmed that any stationary engine at a greater distance than three miles would be useless, be cause it could only insure a speed of 15 miles an hour. After a few minutes spent at the Dartmouth Arms, Mr. Samuda returned over the same ground at very nearly, if not at the same, rate of travelling. It was then deter mined to test the principle at an increased speed, and ...:fter the lapse of some time the train, with only eight carriages, was started, and with a vacuum of from 201bs. to 261bs. on the square inch, it came up to 70 miles an hour, and this too over the rising inclination of one in fifty. The return trip was equally satisfactory. The result amply verified the promises made by Mr. Samuda before the Railway Committees, and it requires no very keen perception to see, that before many years have gone by locomotive engines, like the stage-coach horses of yore, shall have left but a name behind them. The advantages are manifest, for not only is there no possibility of accident, but even with the greater, as well as with the lesser speed, the motion was such that we could write with the greatest ease, even in a third class carriage, and it might in a first-class almost be doubted whether there were any motion at all. With respect to the stationary engine-houses, they are con structed in the best possible taste, a sort of Gothic - Elizabethan, and with their high chimneys, like church spires, forming not only a striking but a pleasing fea ture in the landscape. Along the line there were crowds of lookers-on, who seemed deeply interested in the result. Mr. Samuda will continue his experiments until the line is opened, which is expected in a fortnight or three weeks. This much is evident, that the success of the principle is decisive, and that Mr. Samuda, who has been, if not the creator, certainly the improver, deserves well of his country. GREAT EASTERN AND WESTERN MEETING AT LEDBURY. The deputation of the Great Eastern and Western Railway attended at the Feathers, on Tuesday, for the purpose of laying before the inhabitants the nature of the accommodation it was the intention of that Company to afford to the town and neighbourhood. This meeting was taken advantage of by some parti,s who have put forward a scheme for a railway between Worcester, Ledbury, and Ross, running in front of Great Malvern, through the beautiful valley immediately under it, and from thence across the property of Earl Somers and Mr. Biddulph, to Ledbury, and thence to Ross, for the purpose of getting a demonstration in its favour. This object they managed to attain. Mr. Robert Biddulph having been placed in the chair, Mr. WARD, M.P., explained to the meeting that the object of the deputation was simply to pass the compli ment to the inhabitants of an explanation of the views of the Great Eastern and Western Company in regard to their town, and that he did not seek for any expression of opinion. On the contrary, he wished them to have an opportunity of weighing the merits of all the schemes that might be ()tiered to them before they pledged themselves to any in particular. lie then stated that the GI eat Eastern and Western line would run two miles to the north of Ledbury, where a first class station would be provided for the accommodation of the district, and that a branch line would be brought down the valley to any point of the town that the in habitants might consider most desirable. By means of the Great Eastern and Western Railway, the markets of Birmingham and South Staffordshire would be opened to the neighbourhood, as also those of the hills of South Wales. A great portion of the food consumed by the enormous population in the mineral districts was at present supplied by sea ; and the Great Eastern and Western was the only lire that would place Ledbury in direct and unbroken commu nication with them. In proof of this he showed that by this line the distance between Ledbury and Merthyr by rail would, with the branch, be under sixty miles ; whereas, by those lines purporing to connect South WTales with Herefordshire by the coast line, a distance of 120 miles would have to be traversed. On Mr. Ward resuming his seat, Mr. JONES, the solicitor of the Worcester, Ledbury, and Ross line, stated that, in his opinion, the Great Eastern and Western would not accommodate the town so well as his line. He did not like branch lines—they were very inconvenient ; which he instanced b y stat i ng that in the event of the train on the main line being de tained for an hour and a half, the branch line v odd ale) be detained. He thz-n pointed out that the Seuth Wales ire ,siarted:to Fishguard and got down to Swansea up to 2Teath, - "clown to Cardiff, touched at. Newport, and at pre sent stopp4 at . Chepstow, that it lied failed to pass over t'.o Severn at iduc4 Cribb, and that the Company in t:Aided to try to "ass it next session ; that the South Wales Company meant to go up to Monmouth ”nti thence to ; and that his line going from Worces:er to Ledbury and 1103 s, was on the high road to South Wales, and therefore to be preferred to the line of the Great Eastern and Western. He then re glested Captain Jones to move a resdution pleding the town in favour of his direct and independent scheme; which resolution Captain Jones accerdiugly moved, and it having bec n duly seconded, Mr. MARTIN, the banker, reminded the meeting that they had not met to discuss the merits of rival schemes, hut to hear what were the intentions of the Great Eastern and Western Railway in regard to their town; that he had never heard of Mr. Jones's scheme until he had come into that room; and he cautioned them against stultif)ing themselves by a pledge until they had had time to reli-ct on all tie schemes that were projected. Ve concluded hy moving are amendment to the effect that the meeting was not at present in a position to come to any resolution on the subject. This view of the case was also taken by the Rev. Mr. Underwood, of Bostury, and Mr. Billulph Phillips ; but Mr. Jones insistin4 on having the resolution put from the chair, it was found on a show of hands that thirty-seven o;dy were fur the amendment, whilst some fifty gentle men hod up their ban Is for the original motion. Mr. JONES then called for three cheers to celebrate h's tr:umph. We are informed, however, that every in dividual possessed of any portion of the property over 1h hich the pr of ace' lines purpose to pass was decidedly opposed to the Worcester and Ross sch, , me, and that Mr. Robert Biddulph himself had, that morning, d'rected its projector to erase his name from the list of the provi sional committee, in which it had been inserted without It's knowledge or leave. Mr. Ward and Mr. l)ouglasse afterwards took some refreshments at Mr. Biddulph's, having received their strong assurances that a branch line, with a station just at *the outskirts of Ledbury, a ould furnish all the accommodation reqUired by the town, and would certainly , be the arrangement which all the influential inhabitants would prefer.—Wetee: Juno ned of yesterday. MANCHESTER AND SOUTHAMPTON. CIRENCESTER, SEPT. I.—Agreeably to a requisition, signed by the Right Hon. the Earl Bathurst and two hundred of the most respectable inhabitants of this town and neighbourhood, a public meeting, convened by the II igh Steward, was held on Saturday last, fur the pur pose of affording them an opportunity of expressing their sentiments en the importance of the projected Man chester and S:mthampton Railway ; and a more respect able meeting was never held in Cirencester. Among the company Here Earl Bathurst, E. Hopkinson, Esq, High Sheriff of the county ; Sir T. Tancred, Bart., J. W. Lyon, Esq., F. Cripps, Esq., W. Dent, Esq., of Sudeley Castle ; Raymond Cripps, Esq., &c. James Walkin shaw, Esq., and Joseph Lankester, Esq., attended as a deputation from the' Company. Mr. WALKINSHAW, in a very clear and Perspi cuous manner, laid before the meeting the plans of the Company, and the advantages likely to arise from the projected railway. In the course of his address, he paid a high, but deserved compliment to Earl Bathurst. His Lordship (said Mr. Walkinshaw) has assured us, with all that absence of personal or selfish considerations, for which he is so re markable, that although the line should go through his park, however inconvenient it might be, and however op posed to all his early associations, still he would not allow any private feeling of his own to interfere with the course of such a great public advantage. Mr. Walkinshaw was followed by Mr. LANHESTER who also spoke with great clearness and ability. A number of resolutions were then proposed and se conded by different gentlemen, and carried unanimously. Before the meeting separated, Earl BATHURST said, —" I may take the liberty of mentioning what some of you may know, but which may not be unsatisfactory to Mr. Bowley and others to learn, that a part of the pro posed scheme (the Northern) was twice proposed by me to influential persons connected with the Great Western Railway, but without success. I proposed it by letter to an authority of the Company before the Great Western made the line to Kemble, and I proposed it orally the Ay it was opened and completed. Neither of my pro positions, however, met with any decided support ; and' think it is our duty to assist those who offer us what is most useful."—Derizes Gazette. MANCHESTER, BURY, AND ROSSENDALE. This railwaycommences in the township of Clifton, by a junction with the Manch,-ster and Bolton Railway, op posite the point where the Patricroft and Clifton Branch of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway will commence, at the distance of about four and a half miles from Manchester ; it then proceeds along the district of Out wood, and adjacent to the large village of Ringley, and continues by alternate cuttings and embankments through the most populous portion of the extensive ma nufacturing township of Pilkington, which, at the date of the last census, contained 11,186 inhabitants. On the northern border of this township, where it adjoins the parish of Radcliffe, and near the point where the railway crosses the river Ira ell, is situate the populous village of Radcliff.; Bridge, and its equally flourishing adjunct named mand-lane ; these united places contain a p .pulation of upwards of 5,000. Within the village and the itnmediat.; localities around, there are eight cotton ma nuftetories, enty-one nankeen manufactories, nine cheek and gingham manufactories, eight dye-works, five calico printing-works, five beaching establishments, and t•vo collieries. On quitting Radcliffe-bridge, the rail way crosses a rich agricultural district, and shortly afterwards the line past es over one of the principal streets of the large and increasing town of Bury. The population of the borough of Bury in 1841, was 25,912. The number of cotton-mills in the town and neighbour h 0,41 is about forty, woollen ten. calico printing concerns five, and machine-making works six, exclusive of seve ral collieries in the immediate vicinity. In a central situation adjacent to the main streets of the town, this railway will form a junction with the Bolton, 'Wigan, and Liverpool line, or, as it is frequently designated, the Liverpool and Bury Railway, which will bestow on the place most important and advantageous facilities of ac cess to Bolton, Liverpool, and the north.—Bradshaw's Gazcite. MAIDSTONE AND ASHFORD. During the last week the surveyors of the South- Eastern Company have been measuring and taking levels for the direct line which they propose to make between London and this town, with a continuation to Ashford. The line, it is said, will come through Mr. Smithe's timber-wharf in the West borough, cross the Medway almost exactly in the line of the river Len, along the course of which it will continue all through the town, thus avoiding much interference with valuable property. The station, it is said, will be in the gardens at the back of the Swan Inn, with a handsome opening to the High street, for which purpose the remov2l of several houses facing the Kent Fire•ofpice will be necessary. This is what is said—what will be done is another thing.— Maid.stone Journal. SCOTTISH CENTRAL. The first ordinary meeting of the shareholders of this railway was held on Friday within the Council Cham ber, Perth. The meeting was very numerously attended. Major William Moray Stifling, of Ardoch and Abercair ney, in the chair. The CHAIRMAN said that a full statement of the affairs of the Company would be laid before the meeting. He could assure them that no line of the same extent and importance as the Scottish Central had passed both Houses of Parliament, especially considering the great opposition they had to encounter, with so little expense. Ile then called the attention of the meeting to the report, which he requested the Secretary to read to the meeting. The Secretary then read the report of the Directors. Mr. ERRINGTON, engineer, reported that the line had been almost entirely staked out, and that the proprietors of land along the line had tfforded every facility to the Company, so that the work was commenced immediately upon the Bill passing the Committee of the House of Lords, and considerable progress had been made. The materials were as favourable as could have been ex pected. Four shafts had been sunk, two of which were already down to a level of the tunnel, and the drift mine had been commenced. The open cutting and embank ment towards the Earn were also now in progress. Shafts had also been sunk for the tunnel at Kippemoss. The working section for that portion of the line re quiring the earliest completion—viz., between Stirling and Castlecarry, was prepared, and the section of the whole line would be completed in a week. He urged the Committee to procure the laud as speedily as possible. The contractors had provided themselves with a suffi cient quantity of waggons, barrows, &c., to enable them to carry on the works without any delay. The iron rails, to a great extent, had also been provided, and the engi neers would take care that the) should be laid as speedily as possible. The CHAIRMAN then congratulated the Shareholders upon the advanced and prosperous state of the business of the Company's concerns. He was happy to say that, in their arduous endeavours to get the Act, there had not been the delay of a single hour either on the part of their Parliamentary agents, engineers, or secretary. He was glad to avail himself of this opportunity of express ing his own thanks, and those of the gentlemen com posing the Committee, for the constant and unwearied aid and assistance which the Committee had received from them. A. IL M. BELSHES, Esq., of Invermay, moved the ap proval of the report Provost WRIGHT seconded the resolution, w hich was unanimously approved of. THOMAS JACK, Esq., then moved that the seal of the Companyj litstieofShareholders. resolution, which I iE JAMES R sl A i s l A d y l7 E a s tfi q affixed toseconded the was carried, nem. con. Eqq. of Pitcairn, then :moved th e J. JOHN ITCAIR' election of the Directors. The Right lion. Lord ROLL° seconded the election, which was unanimously agreed to. Sir JOHN RICHARDSON then moved the thanks of the meeting to the Provisional Committee, which was seconded by J. Al. IsTAinxr, Esq., of Dansinane, and carried by ac clamation. The CHAIRNIN then said, it was their duty to ap point auditors, and the Directors had agreed to recom mend Mr. Watson, accountant, and Mr. Jas. Morrison, accountant, Perth, for the approval of the meeting ; of course, i: IN as open to them to propose others if they thought proper. No other party being proposed, tie recommeodation of the Directors %las unanimously agreed to. The salary for each auditor was fixed at 251. per annum. The CHAIRMAN then proposed that R. D. Kerr, Esq., should be elected permanent secretary to the company. lie left it with the meeting to fix the amount of salary to be given to Mr. Kerr. His nomination having been al•reed to, it was pr,)posed and carried that the staler, b e 400/. per urnum. The CHAIF.7".IAN gret co, that, frc,m domestic eircom stances-the :rlarqu's of Ilreadalbane was not able to oc cupy 0-4...et:air. Ile assured them that hi. Lord hip felt a deep interest in tie railway, tad would do everything to promote its late-rest. It wts then agreed that 5001. per annum should be al lowed to the Directors for the expensEs. DAvID llrreutE, E: q., of Iltintingtower, moved ft vote of thanks to the Directors, which being seconded by John Ritchie, Esq., of Cultmalunds, was carried rem. con. LT:vox-1m CoLgunourr, Esq., then moved a rote ; of thanks to the Chairman for his conduct in the. chair, at,d for his exertions in promotir.g the interests of the line. This resolution having I een carried by acclutuatiun, the Chairman made a brief and suitable reply, sad the meet ing separated. EDINBURGH, LEITH, AND GRANTON. The peenlipr situation c f the Edinburgh, Lcith, and Grantor' Railway is so marked with usefulness, that we 0, el net to plead excuse in entering •fully into its merits. The railway takes its rise from the station it the Nnrth Lridge, and pagsing by a tunnel under the New Town of Edinburgh, branches off 10 (Ironton Pier en the left, and to the Leith Docks on the right. The G ranton branch is near enrepletion, and v hen this %do able portion is open to the public, we shall then avail ourselves of the opportunity thus afforded of dilating 111011 its merits. The true interest of the Leith brarch. 10WPVCE, is not known ; bait when known, 'rust Le iighly valued. flails are to be laid round th. docks of Leith, which is an advantage not attained in any sea port in the kingdo:e. But there is a branch which civerges from the main line to the station lately pur cha..cd for the use of the railw-y, consisting of nearly 00 lineal yard% of quay on the north side of the upper harbour, on which large warehouses can be erected, and vessels can run alongside, and not only distillare or receive their cargoes without the expense of carriage, but also with this great advantage—of not being exposed to bad weather. The Leith Dock Commissioners, tieing quite alive to the importance of this railway, have it uneer consideration to deepen that part of the upper har bour, and by the f,rrnation of flood-gates above and Le low this portion of the harbour, ata very trilling expense, very extensive dock room will be formed for large ves sels, which, being always kept afloat, will remove many obstacles to the use of this portion of the old harbour existing at present. Much credit is due to the energy and spirit that his been display«l by the hoard in carry ing out their plans, and it is very much to be iegrett. d that the public attention has not been drawn at an e,,rlirr period to these plains, which it has ever been their object to carry out.— Scat-It Rai'way Gazette. HAY MARKET THEATRE. Poole's drama, entitled Past and Pfesett, was revived at this the:.tre last evening, and was received with that enthusiasm which its representation never fails to elicit when Farren acts the part of Larose. - This was one of the r arliest of those dramas founded on the French Re volutien, which are divided irto epochs, and, ce. tes, it Is one of the best—as an tc.ing play, perhaps the very best. If we mistake nut, this was also the earliest drama in which Farren delineated the various phases of old age. In the first act (1789) he is a hearty, well-formed man of 53, the faithful steward of the Mai quis St. Victor (Mr. tuart), a iering his master and his family, the friend and playfellow of young Julian de St. Victor (Miss Julia Bennett), the Mar quis's san. In the second act, 1793, he is disguised as a. wood-cutter, the friend and safeguard of his master, then a prisoner in the Conciergerie. A casket of treasure has been entrusted to his care, and religiously does he keep his trust. In the third act, 1829, he is an old man of upwards of 90. St. Victor has been murdered in the Revolution, Julian has been killed at the head of his regiment, and old Larose is living near the chateau de St. Victor, in Normandy. The son of Julian, the heir to the St. Victor property, arrives there. The old man recognises him, and, napkin on arm, serves him at table as be bad been wont of yore to serve his grandfather. lie tells the boy of the hidden casket of treasure, takes him to the chateau, and endeavours to revive his own recollections as to where he had secreted the precious treasure. The sight of the various rooms revives former recollections. He sees his old master being dragged away by the revolutionary officers—he hears the sounds of horror of that dreadful night. The boy endeavours to bring him back to the casket. lie tot. tees round and round th room—he has forgotten the spot where it is hidden. At length a casual word brings back his memory ; the casket is found hidden behind a grate ; it is brought forward ; the old man joins together the hands of the youth and of his lady-love, blesses them, and dies. Nothing can be more beautiful, more pathetic, more true to nature, more artist-like, in the highest sense of the term, than the performance of Farren in this last act. It is impossible to describe it. It must he seen—it must be felt to be appreciated. We say feet ad visedly, for it goes at once to the heart, and that so completely, that it is impossible to criticise it until, by secng it frequently, one has become casehardened. Miss Julia Bennett's young St. Victor was a very spi rited performance ; it is, perhaps, the best she has yet done. She gave the laughing joyousness of the brave, gay, high-spirited youth—the votary of love, and wit, and war—sans souci a sans six sous—to the life. Mr. H. Hull's Cunt de Florviile was very gond. In the two first acts, as the polished, empty-headed, careless fop, he was very pod ; but, in the last act, as the old beau—the man of sixty-three, the ci-devailt jeune homn.c, he was more than good—he was artistical—tEe distinction between the young fop and the old fop was beautifully discriminated, and was admirably preserved. Mr. Stuart, as the Marquis St. Victor, made mort of the character than we ever remember to have seen made of it. There is • a power and an intensity in Stuart's acting which inva riably tells in such characters as this. Farren was called for at the fall of the curtain, and it is not often that a call is so well deserved. The house was crowded ; and no doubt Past and P, escrt will draw crowded houses for many nights to came. MIDDLESEX REGISTRATION. Mr. Shadwell, the revising barrister for the county of Middles, x, has appointed the following days and places for holding courts to revise the lists of electors in the different districts of the county, viz.:— Monday, Sept. 15—at Uxbridge, at twelve o'clock. Tuesday, 16—at Bedfont. Wednesday, 17—at Brentford. Thursday, 18—at Hammersmith. Monday, 22—at Hampstead. Tuesday, 23—at Edgeware. Wednesday, 24—at Enfield. Thursday, 25—at Mile-end. Monday, 29—at Bethnal-green. Tuesday, 30—White Conduit House, Islington (King's cross district). _ _ _ Wednesday, Oct. I—(City of London)—Lovegrove's Coffee-house, Ludgate hill. Friday, 3—( Westminster district)—At the Vice- Chancellor of England's Court, Lincoln's Inn. COURT-MARTIAL AT MALTA. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sta,—ln July last you published a report of a Court, martial held upon me at Malta, on board her Majesty's ship Formidable, the decision of which was, that I was dismissed her Majesty's service in disgrace, and rendered incapable of ever serving' hl!r- Majesty, her heirs, or suc cessors. However; upon my return to this country. being strongly impressed with a sense of a wrongful con viction, I memorialised the Admiralty on the subject ; the result of which was, that the Court martial was de clared illegal, and the sentence consequently null and void, and that I was to consider myself in every respect in the same position I held prior to the trial. As you deemed a report of this matter to be of insuffi cient public importance to warrant your noticing it, trust that, in common justice, you will insert this letter. in order that I may be enabled to regain the position in society I formerly enjoyed, but which I had irretrievably lost by the injustice and harshness of the proceedings and sentence.—l am, &c., HENRY CRAMER. 29, Norfolk-street, Strand, Sept. z 1845. GRAVESEND AND ROCHESTER RAILWAY.—Tranie returns for the week ending Aug. 30'—Passengers, 17,325 amount received, 419/. 6s. PORTSMOUTH, SFFT. 4, 1845 —Letters have been received here from the squadron at Cork. By them we leers that the Admiral, whose efficiency was so much praised by the Tory Lords of the Admiralty, and who was selected by them to take the command of the squadron in preference to that active officer Sir Charles Napier, had been confined to his bed for twenty-five days. A worse appointment could not have been made. Admiral Parker's temper and health rendered him totally unfit for so trying a post. It is to be hoped in the next session that the matter will be fully inquired into. TO Vanguard's being s o much behind the rest of the squadron t a en st i does net excise much surprise here, as her trim has been cops.pletely altered, and not that which was suggested b y her gsd. lant and experienced commander. The ships , a fter refitt ing e t Cork, will put to sea on another cruise. On Tuesday Capta in Sir T men . t , l ) te ciinffip officers and h er We will venture to say * the Excellent,took ao w st ho a m affecting int an fadreedw overfarewell o f t Chads, the new captain o • better officer and kinder h earted man than Ca p tain C hide d in the service , and he has alrea dy removed could not be found some of the unnecessarily strict regulations laid down by big predecessor. EASTDO • URNE —The weather has been delightful during the past week, and the harvest is proceeding rapidly. thisflou crop ro isp t d o gar the ._i cie iirs rivitetwiln this neighb ourhood the corn is ver y fine ; the only try now greatly p a ppears to be about potatoes, which have suff ere d reatl s t e b reio d u e s lu m gi a n t g ter r , ain e s s . pec T a h l e ly los wh at e )f n Guardian. their ashore s h return ore a s from mu e h the as lrish fifteen hogsheads THE FISHERY.—The d r i v i ng b oats i n t h e M ount s ' Bay have been very successful during the last three weeks, since themeadl.slaonfyfionfe brought pil c ha r ds, and the average has been about five hogsheads each. During the past week, the total quantity secured by the Bay boats has heen about 1,000 hhds, and during the three weeks, nearly 3,000 'Ads. On Saturday last the sein belonging to Messrs. Batten and Co., shot and secured about sixteen hhds, and on the following d.y the sein belonging to Ales rs. Davy and Co., brought ashore a similar quantity. The principal portion of the fish has been placed in bulk, whilst some have been re. tailed at Is. BJ. per hundred, and distributed in the country. The prospects of the pilchard fishery, upon the whole, are very; encouraging, and the fishermen are in high spirits. We believe the succea- they have experienced during the past week or two has been rarely surpassed-3,000 hhds. at 50s. per hhd. will realise 7,5001.—and we hope our hardy fishermen will continue to be as successful as they deserve.—Penzance Gazette. THE STORY OF A ROYAL FAVOURITE.—The secret about this book is at length divulged. It is a satirical novel from beginning to end. The design of the work (says the critic of the New Monthly) is evidently a series of por traits and reflections cn passing manners and events, and few can compete with Mrs. Gore in the point which she lend to the one, and the wit and playful justice with which she ntl— sparingly lashes the other. No one, indeed, is spared. rary contemporaries are assailed in wholesale fashion—we only observed Tennyson kindly spoken of. The work wi ll , 0_ doubt, be extensively read for these very personalities; an.d I not for these, certainly for the really clever sketches of 1 14140': cratic town and cour.try life.