The Sun. — London, England, 1839-09-07 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION. NATIONAL CONVENTION. The Convention sat yesterdai at Eleven o'clock. Mr. FROST in the Chair. DISSOLUTION Or THE CONVENTION. The motion of Dr. TAYLOR for the dissolution of the Convention, which he had moved on Wednesday, having k e n _mid, together with the amendment, proposed by 4111fr•f- - • .i, Mr.. '0 1 1313:1 said be believed the rule laid down far tar discussion was that a second amendment amid sot be proposed until the first was disposed of. lb the melhwbile, however, the Convention would perhaps allow him to state the course he wished to his pursued. He was decidedly in favour of half Dr. Tay bilk Incttion; he was 'decidedly in favour of an immediate liisolution of the Convention ; but he could not agree to the latter part of the Doctor's motion, because it would ism the effect of excluding the members of the present Convention from being elected a member of any subsequent Cenvagnion that might be formed. He had stated thus kWh, in order to set himself right with the public and his constituents, becatise, from the statements that appeared in The Suit Newspaper, it appeared as if he had taken a directly opposite course. - Mr. O'Brien then proceeded to read an address, in which he had embodied the opinions that he thought existed among the members of the Con vention tit the last discussion on Wednesday, andwhich he should propose that a Committee should be appointed to correct and draw up. If they agreed upon dissolving, it was absolutely necessary to tell the country why they dis solved; and it was also necessary that they should point out to the country some means of carrying on the agita tion, so that it would not spread apathy among them. The following are some of the leading points of the ad dress 1-.. The reason for dissolving the Convention was that they were of opinion that in ordinary times the Convention Icould not with safety to itaelf, or with advantage to the cause, mistime a bolder position, or recommend more de ' cisive measures than it had already done, but in the present extraordinary times, to recommend stronger measures would bring the people into peril, and to advise ) weaker ones would insure defeat, becaush at the present moment there was a semblance of law or justice shown to the working classes. The people must remember that in . abandoning the Convention, they were not abandoning the cause, but the step had been taken to place it on a more secure foundation. I As Radical Associations the people could do no more good, its their association was suppressed by ;the violence of the rulers of the land. The only course, therefore, left to the people to pursue was, to convert their taartist Associations into Election Clubs, and DO make themselves candidates for Parliamentary ho -1 nours.—( Hear, hear.) He (Mr. O'Brien) had been in several parts of the country, and he was convinced that the eaeral feeling was that the Convention could not do much good, more especially since the new system of pre , scriptiosa had prevailed.—( Hear, hear.) He was, there fore of Opinion that it was absolutely necessary that they ( should *solve, whether they liked it or not. —( Hear.) With respect to leaving a Council there, he I thought bet ought to be made the subject of separate consi .l deratont, dad as soon as Mr. Hartwell's amendment was dis paved of he should bring the subject before the Convention. Mr. F. O'CONNOR—What do you intend to do with that dpliment..-which you have just read. s .. 3.1 Y. O'BRIEN—That is part of my speech, and I have read it tor the purpose of showing the course we should be jut • tified in adbpting. It will be for the Convention to say i, whether they will agree to it or not. Mr. PITKEITHLEY supported that part of the motion of 1 Dr. Taylor which recommended the dissolution of the Convention. He had opposed the calling of the Conven tion together at the present time, as he was convinced that else grnater number of its members would cot come, and that even if they did they could not do any good. He was convinced the people were sick and tired of the sittings of the Convention, and he believed the general opinion was, .when the advertisement was issued, calling the Oonvention together, that it was only to meet to dissolve or adjourn.—( Heir, hear.) He considered they could have adjourned the Convention as well with the few mem hers that were in town as calling the members together by the advertisement tbat bad been published. The ge neral opinion was, that the Delegates did more good in their own neighbourhood than they did sittin g r , in London -wasting the time of their constituents. Unless they. dissolved themselves now, be believed the people would send another Cromwell among them to to-n them out.--( Hear, hear.) It was clear to him that the Government was becoming weaker and Wezker every day, but the Convention sitting there did not increase their woakness but strengthen it.--( Hear, hear.) Mr. CARDO W:l3 surprised that there should be two opi nions with respect to the question of dissolving the Con vantion. He had been asked by many persons what the people were to do if the Convention was dissolved, but they were equally anxious to know what they were to do if they sat. It the Convention was disf,olved , the delegates might still be candidates to sit in another Convention. He should, therefore, vote with Mr. O'Brien for the first half or Doelioe Taylor's motion, for the dissolution of the Convention. .dr. PITKEITHLEY hoped Doctor Taylor would withdraw the latter part of his motion. Doctor TAYLOR—lndeed I shall do no such thing.— (Laughter.) Mr. BEANS was in favour of a dissolution of the Conve - tion. leaving the constituencies free to elect whom they chose. Mr. BARRINGTON sAid that his constituents at Notting ham 4inderstood there would either be an adjournment or a dissolution of the Convention. Mr.' JAMIDA TAYLOR couttnded that as the Convention Was not seit-elected, it had no power to dissolve itself— ( Hear)— r therefcre he should oppose a dissolution. He was, however, in favour of an adjournment, but was against the appanment of a Committee to act in the interim, for be would not delegate the powers of the Convention to any man. Mr. HARTWELL was opposed to the dissolution of the 1 Convention, because no one could tell what events might turn pp in the meantime. He also proposed, as an addi. non fo the amendment he moved yesterday, " That the ConrenAon, on receiving and adopting the above Report, ' , adjourn its sittings." Mr. aTEISgit concurred in the views expressed by Mr. JanieLfri.r. Mr. LOWREY thought it was absolutely necessary that a Committee should remain in London. Mr. O'coaireoe was in favour of an adjournment. Since yesterday he had read a speech of Dr. Taylor's in Carlisle, in which the Doctor denounced the minority of the Con vention as being traitors, spies, and cowards. That cer tainly was a most insolent way of treating the Convention, and he did not wonder, therefore, at the Doctor's moving aille resolution he h a d. If an ythi ng cou ld ten d to d estro y t ) fie Convention it was making such charges, without bringing forward any facts to substantiate them.-- (Hear, hear.) He thought it was most ungenerous, most unfair ; and most cowardly, for any member of the Convention behind the backs of other Members, to take advantage Of their absence, and endeavour to bring the whole body into disrepute. He thought the better way would be to adjourn the C onvention, but, certainly, not to dissolve it, because if they established electioneering clubs, a body with administrative powers would be required to sit in Louden. He, therefore, entirely approved of Mr. Hartvell's amendment. If that was carried, he should then support the proposition for leaving a small Council in London, composed of such Delegates as those from Hall, Nottingham, and other places, who had just been sent up, because their constituents would think it an insult to haoothem sent back the moment they arrived in London to join the Convention.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. HIARNEY mid he had for some time considered himself as veritably being no longer a member of the Con vention, but as the trust reposed in him by his constituents had never yet been withdrawn, although be had not at tended the Convention for some time, he would take leave to make a few observations. He knew nothing of the conduct of his colleague, Doctor Taylor, at Carlisle, or elsewhere. What had been refuted might be true or not ; but in his short time he bad had such experience of the calumnies of newspaper mongers that he was very seldom believed anything h e saw i n the' newspapers. But, re viewing all that hadVassed, and seeing the circumstances in which the Convention were now placed, he was com pelled to come to the conclusion that he was only doing an act of justice to himself and to those whom he repre sented in supporting the motion of Dr. Taylor. When the men whom he represeated had withdrawn their confi dence from the Convention, it was but right that he should withdraw himself too. He had received a letter from the Northern Political Union of Northumberland and Durham, stating That his (Mr. Harney's) constituents in the north no longer required him to attend the Convention, and in forming him that the Union had come to a resolution to send no more Delegates to the Convention for the present, as it was attended with great expense, and had done little or no service f or secur i ng the people their liberty; but that they would be doing more good with their moue' by supporting the wives and families of thirty of their fellow-countrymen, who were suffering imprisonment and punishment through the imfvecile con duct of the Convention. That being the opinion of his constituents, and they having agreed to such a resclution, he felt bound to support the motion of his colleague, Dr. Taylor. The conduct of the Convention on the t s , reat treastilioia of the N a ti ona l H o lid ay f u ll y j ust ified the court try n e foe s dissol u ti on . A t a very ear ly p er i o d o f its sittings ae had called on the Convention to cease fron.' what he conceived to be a temporising policy, and to adopt a more energetic course o f policy. received was that he asa traitor and T a h s e py o . ll, ' he been.sn calumniated ,w lyFaanbsewlyerhande calansies knew they were fal se. men who uttered the base had stated that sixty The Northern Liberator tlai4,:uens.aend colliers were ready to turn out on the had the Convention abided and the Weir, and a muc h better spirit would have b ybe ditissplaoyreidgiinnalLanveoate shire and **shire ; and even ineil* gham, had the Cenventioardered a strike, that striklerrflwinould have taken place to a very great extent. Mr. CARPS:Y:I'22I—We had a letter from HBeiarmr ibnegham, treating they would not keep the h o lid ay. _ Mr. HARNEY said that several memb ers of differen't T a ra r. d ) • Unions had assured him quite the opposit e wou l d have beeens the ease. But even supposing the wor st , h e would assert that /cad the strike been ordered, and h a d t h e Convention stook to the 12th of August, the strike would have been universal in the three no/them counties—Northumberland, Durham, and Cumberlaitd ; but, to use the language of his constituents, " the organisation of two years the im becility of the Convention had broken down in two weeks." It was immaterial to him whether the Convention dissolved or adjourned, but for the Fake of his own character as well as for that of the cause, he would never think of tAking his seat there again. The Convention would find that no support would be rendered to it by the country. It WdB said the Convention had no power to dissolve itself. That was a mere quibble—if they burned the majority of them might go to sleep without any fear of beiag disturbed or called upon to resume their functions in the Convention.—( Hear. ) Ile hoped he had not given once to any one individual.— ( Hear.) If h e had advanced any erroneous opinions, or saki .%anytbing that was false, the members present could con viet him of his error. CAnrawrita would not have troubled the Con vention, bad it not been for the serious charges which their friend and brother Delegate (Mr. Harney) had brought against the Convention. For his own part he had nothing to find fault with, either as to the tone or the matter of the accusations.—(Hear, hear.) If they were true the Convention had covered itself with utter disgrace, and the sooner it annihilated itself the better. But that was a matter of opinion.—( Hear , b ear- ) His (Mr. Carpenter's) constituents had no -desire that the Convention should be dissolved, and be believed many gentlemen could state the same with respect to their constituents. —( Hear, hear.) Then, as to the conduct of the Convention in regard to the National Holiday, he would venture to think and hope—nay, he would venture to say, it was not true that the conduct of the Convention in reference to the holiday, had destroyed the organization that had been going on for two years. Mr. HARNEY—I said a particular portion of the country. Mr. CARPENTER would make some observations with reference to that portion, but what was the worth of the facts on which Mr. Harney grounded that serious accusation ? He denied that the Convention had ever prohibited the national holiday. All they said was that from information which had reached them they were of opinion that the people generally were not prepared for carrying out the holiday, but they did not by any means prohibit it ; they only did not recommend it. The Council of the Northern Political Union went further—they determined that the national holiday should be held, and gave orders ac cordingly. The people of those three best counties, however, thought proper to obey the order, as it was called, of the Convention rather than that of the Political Council of the North. Mr. O'BRIEN—The fact was they obeyed neither. They neither carried out the Sacred Month nor the three days. Mr. CARPENTER—They at all events disobeyed the orders of the Council if they did not accept the recom mendation of the Convention. Mr. Harney said the Council had come to a resolution denouncing the Con vention as a useless body—in that opinion he (Mr. C.) would probably join under the present circumstances.— (Hear.) There was one circumstance, however, connected with the resolution, which, if true, would give him pain. There was a remarkable coincidence between the language of the resolution and that reported to have been used by Dr. Taylor, while addressing meetings at Carlisle and other places in the North. Now he would ask Dr. Taylor whether he had denounced the majority of the Convention as spies and traitors, for he would never believe that be bad used such language until he heard its from his own mouth. Dr. TAYLOR—I said a large minority. Mr. CARPRNTER—Very well. Now allow - him to ask whether before that resolution was come to he had any intercourse with the Council ? Dr. TAYLOR—NO. Mr. CARPENTER—Or any correspondence with them ? Dr. TAYLOR—Every day while I was in the North. Mr. CARPENTER—It was altogether singular, the simi larity of the language ; and it was a fact that Dr. Tajlor actually brought up the letter dismissing him as delegate from Durham in his pocket ; but it was certain that his in fluence there was so small that anything from him against the Convention would have little weight. Mr. Harney, as Member for Durham, denounced the Convention for incon sistency and vacillation upon the question of the sacred month, and said the people of Durham had been all prepared for it and determined to carry it out, but that in consequence of that vacillation they had lost all confidence in the Convention. There was another re presentative from Durham—be was present when the consideration of the holiday was most improperly forced upon the Convention, at a time when the majority of the members were out of town. He determinedly opposed the fixing of the 12th August ; and said if the Convention determined upon that day, the men of Durham were not prepared, and would not carry it out. He not only gave these as his sentiments, but be produced a letter from the Council, and one from the Chairman of a public meeting of his constituents, approving of his conduct, and directing him to oppose the motion. Mr. HUSSEY said Mr. Knox distinctly said the people of Durham were prepared to keep the holiday, but that he could not support them as he did not think they were pre pared. Mr. CARPENTER said Mr. Knox powerfully opposed the proposition, and produced and read letters both from the Council, and his constituents approving of his conduct. The whole fact was, that gentlemen who had been de ceived as to the preparedness of the country now came forw,,rd and denounced the Convention, because, as a body, they nad not been deceived. He could assure Mr. Harney that he was fully borne out in saying, that from no one place in the kingdom had the Convention received notice that they were prepared to carry out the holiday by them selves ; all said they were prepared to join with the rest of the country in doing so. He felt perfectly certain that oven the constituents of Mr. Harney would not hold their dissatisfaction with the Convention long after they were made acquainted with the facts which were laid b , 2fore the Convention. He had said at first that they would soon get rid of the exkenaes of both kinds—the timids had left them long ago, and the present was an attempt upon the putt of the enthusiastic, to push the Con vention further than the majority thought it prudent to go. All were agreed in the necessity of suspending their sittings for a time, but as a body—not self-elected—as a body not elected or nominated by Councils of Unions, it was their duty to remain in their present character, ready to be called together when any sudden emergency arose which called for their interference. With these feelings, if the amendment before the Chair should be negatived, he would propose another in accordance with these views. Dr. TAYLOR then rose to reply. He begged to tell Mr. Carpenter that the resolution condemnatory of the Convention, and withdrawing him from the Convention was passed a fortnight before he went to the north, and vrai not sent up to him because his constituents expected to see him daily. He was perfectly convinced the people of Durham were quite prepared for the sacred month, and would have carried it out had not the Convention stultified itself by interfering and altering the resolution appointing it for the 12th Aug. The Convention in his opinion had no power to do so ; they ought to have used the power given them by their constituencies at the simultaneous meetings, and not have asked for advice, but have ordered the holiday to commence. The men of Durham were all prepared to carry it out on a scale that would have settled the whole questioc, bad it not been for the chopping and changing of the Convention, which interfered with them at the eleventh hour, and so sacrificed a few men who were not to be so fooled. Mr. O'Connor said, though be cared not for the Convention, or for the consti- tucncies of those against him, would he not care for the resolutions of the Scotch Delegates? Now he would say this, that neither English obstinacy, Irish blarney, nor Scotch caution—( Laughter)—would prevent him from pressing a resolution which he conscientiously thought was ' necessary. Mr. O'Connor had also taunted him with cowardice, and with wishing to get to a place of safety. They were all very brave until they were tried ; but per. haps before they met again events might have proved it for them, who deserved the name and who not. For his part ' he considered the place of safety to be at the head of a body of well organized armed men, who were determined to work out their freedom, and he would do all in his power to place himself in such a position a 3 soon as possible. He cared neither for the Whig nor the Tory press, nor did he believe Mr. O'Connor himself regarded what they said very much, and therefore he should never be induced to withdraw his motion on such a ground as that. It was also said that he had kept the Convention on a sick bed, but if such was the ease, he would give them a healing salve, such as was recommended to the Swiss when they were a long time absent from their country. He would say to them, " go home—your !services are no longer required here." Mr. O'Connor bad read an extract from the Car- lisle paper, in which it was reported that be (Dr. Taylor) had denounced the Convention as traitors, spies, and cowards, and he might have added murderers. What be had really said was that there were spies, and traitors, and cowards, among them, and be did not hesitate to repeat it, because no one would deny that there were among them, from the Birmingham blackguards down to Baillie Craig, men who did not possess their confidence, or that of the people of the country. He asked them what they were now doing—what business had they there ? Nothing, but merely to spend the bard earnings of the people without doing anything in return.—( Hear, hear.) It was their duty to return home, and see the document which be held in his baud carried out to its fullest extent. Mr. Jackson had asked, were the people anxious for a dis solution of the Convention ? What he suggested was let them dissolve, and if the people disapproved of it, they could return 60 new delegates in their stead.—( A laugh.) He for one would most decidedly object to a Committee or Council of seven being appointed. He would not depute his power to any seven men, nor would he give them authority even to write even a single line. It was said that the Convention had no power to dissolve, but the members had seldom questioned their powers on other occasions, and he did not see why they should new stick upon a mere technicality—if their constituents did not approve of their dissolving the matter could be easily rectified. Mr. O'Brien had complained of tke reports in The Sun Newspaper, but he (Dr. Taylor) felt himself bound to state that the words were correctly reported. It was not the fault of The Sun newspaper, but of Mr O'Brien himself, who should have corrected him (Dr. Tay lor.) He would conclude his observations by pressing his motion for the dissolution of the Convention, substituting Saturday the 14th, in order to afford the Convention time to wind up its affairs. Mr. O'BRIEN intimated that whether the motion or amendment was successful, he should move an amend ment, the object of which would be to dissolve the Con vention, and put forth an address assigning their reasons for such a step. The amendment of Mr. Hartwell, for the adjournment of the Convention and the appointment of a Committee of seven was then put in the first instance, when th ere ap- peared, For the amendment Against it One member did not vote. The CHAIRMAN (Mr. Frost) gave his casting vote in favour of the amendment. _ w Taylor h f e o r r e t a h p e p e dilution of 5 the T C h e o n F o v r o e i r g n i t t n h i o a e n l n w o a e t s t i 0 1 ° t n h n e o f p p u t r . —. Against it l6 Majority —l The motion was consequently lost. be had had g O'B i ves a n ta o N then ti e e, for pr t oos h p e ed the a dissolutionmnd e oft m b e e n of which t C onventioi on the 14th inst., with the adoption of an address, setting forth the reasons which had induced them to do so. Mr. O'Brien proceeded at some length to urge the necessity and advantages which would result from the dissolution o g f lo t r i i ? o e u p s aresvert they bad hody,and do w n h e ic sc which be they said would be the most h motion fo r ulterior measur e In the c ad our ll se gre o ed fh t i o s ob servations ho said that no person could have much confi dence in the judgment or discretio n of Dr. Taylor, when he had declared his intention of putting himself st the Ihead of an armed body . of men as the place of grektest saf,,ty. Dr. TivLna denied that be had ever used such words. Several Members said he had, and others said he had not. Mr, O'BRIEN concluded by moving his amendment to the effect that the Convention should be dissolved on or before Saturday, the 14th inst. As to the Address, it was hii intention to bring it before the Convention to morrow. Dr. TAYLOR, in seconding the amendment, deprecated the expressions Mr. O'Brien had attributed to him. Mr. O'CONNOR thought they ought to adjourn, and let their constituencies dissolve them if they thought proper. He should, therefore, oppose the amendment, and pro pose that the word " dissolve" should be struck out, in order to insert the word " adjourn" with a recom mendation to their constituents to dissolve them. _ The question was then put, as to Whether the Conven tion should adjourn or dissolve, on or before the 14th inst. And, upon a division, the numbers were— For dissolving For adjourning H The CHAIRMAN then gave his casting vote, in favour of the dissolution of the Convention on the 14th instant. Mr. 0' CO NOR said, that the Convention having now come to the determination to dissolve, he trusted that every mem ber would give his best attention to the proceedings during the next week, in order that they might lay before the people an account of what they had done, accompanied with a recommendation of the course that would be proper to be pursued in future. He trusted, also, that in the con sideration of this subject all angry feelings would be laid aside. TZB &DDILBSII. Mr. PITIZITHLEY thought that a Committee ought to be appointed to draw up an address to the people. Mr. O'CoNNoa would move that a Committee of five should be appointed for that purpose. Mr. PITIEZITHLEY seconded the motion, which was car ried unanimously, and Messrs. O'Connor, O'Brien, Jones, Frost, and Lowrey, were appointed to act as such Com mittee. Mr. O'CoNNoe said, although he considered the Con vention as virtually dissolved, he should continue to sit as a Convention, though alone, until his constituents required him to give up the trust they bad placed in his hands. Mr. CARPENTER would write to his constituents, com municating to them the vote that the Convention had come to, stating at the same time that he was quite ready to act upon it as they thought proper, and that if they desired him to continue to do as he had hitherto done, and he found other constituencies.doing the same, he should consider it to be his duty to remain a Member of the Convention, notwithstanding the vote for its dissolution. The Convention then adjourned till this day, at eleven o'clock. MANCHESTER AND BIRMING HAM EXTENSION RAILWAY MEETING AT TAMWORTH. A meeting of the inhabitants of Tamworth was hold on Saturday last, the 31st August, to consider the steps advisable to be taken in regard to this measure. The Mayor presided. The meeting was addressed by the Right Hon. W. Yates Peel, Mr. Stokes, and other influential parties, and resolutions were passed urging the shareholders to a renewed application to Parlia ment. A vote of thanks to the Members for their support of the Bill in the late Session was also adopted and acknowledged by Sir Robert Peel and Captain A'Court. The Right Hon. Baronet ; in rising to ac knowledge the vote of thanks, was received with loud and repeated cheers. He commenced by expressing the pleasure which be experienced in coming amongst them on an occasion like the present, when, with out the slightest reference to political questions, they could meet together to discuss, he trusted in perfect harmony, the common interests of the town and neighbourhood.—( Cheers.) He assured the meet itg that the expression of their approbation, so kindly and unanimously accorded, amply repaid him for any labour and trouble which he might have had in promot ing the Bill w hi c h was t h e su bj ect o f cons id erat i on that day. He trusted he might say with truth, that how ever active the part he had taken in political life, and however various the occupations in which it had in volved him, he had never forgotten the duty which he owed to his constituents, a duty which he consi dered paramount to every other. They were all aware, in consequence of the great opposition which the Bill bad met with in Committee, that they were unable to carry into effect a measure which was of the utmost importance to the town of Tamworth, namely, that of being placed on the great line of communication between London and Manchester. He hoped, how ever, they would not feel dispirited by what had passed, or suppose for a moment that the failure of the measure last Session was final and conclusive.—(Hear, hear.) It was utterly impossible that any opposition which could be brought to bear against the measure could prove effectual ; and if its opponents did not feel that that the Manchester and Birmingham Extension Rail way would prove a formidable competitor to the existing railways ; that it would accommodate the inhabitants of important districts, and command a vast amount of traffic, they might depend upon it they would not have been half so persevering or determined in their hostility to the measure, which he bad not the slightest doubt would be ultimately carried.—(Loud cheers.) He would ask any man to look at the position of the metro polis on the one hand, and of Manchester on the other, and then to look at the direction which the Stone and Rugby line proposed to take, and say whether the opposition of any rival line was likely to be success lul.—(licar, hear.) What, he asked, was the state of the ease as regarded the Extension Railway ? Simply, that it brought the great manufacturing district of Man chester nearer the metropolis by thirteen miles, one ninth of the entire distance. But in addition to this, the line was so particularly favourable as gradients that they might consider it further shortened by several miles. Thus, therefore, by effecting the communication between Stone and Rugby, an actual saving of at least twenty miles was effected.—(Hear, hear.) Well, it might be asked, were there any great engineering diffi culties on the line ? So far from this being the case, it was one of the most favourable lines ever projected. It passed up the valley of the Tame and Trent, and would not require the formation of a single tunnel. Indeed, there never was a more favourable line proposed than that which was projected from Stone and Rugby. Under these circumstances he could not but entertain a confident expectation, that at the earliest possible period, namely, the next Session of Parliament, the Bill would be passed for enabling the Company to carry into execution this project.—(Renewed cheers.) If they were teSing to obtain from the legislature an advantage to which they were not fairly entitled, he, for one, candidly ac knowledged, that he would not be an advocate for the measure ; but he felt that Tamworth bad a just claim to be placed on the high road of railroad-steam commu nication with the metropolis and other important dis tricts, and therefore he felt that they ought to be zea lous in insisting on this right.—(Cheers.) Let them examine, for a moment, the nature of the opposition arrayed against them. First of all, they had the oppo sition of the Canal Companies. Now, he thought, on reflection, that the Canal Companies should feel that they were not so deeply interested in opposing this line as they imagined. He thought it had never been shown that the carriage of heavy goods was not the chief object of the line ; and that the Canal Companies were interested in promoting the construction of railways as a meansof encouraging the intercourse between distant quarters of the kingdom, and calling into life new ener. pies.—(Hear, hear.) Let them again consider the nature of the opposition offered by the other great Com panies. The Railway Companies which appeared as op ponents in Committee against the Bill were chiefly the London and Birmingham, the Midland Counties, and the Liverpool and Birmingham. With respect to the London and Birmingham, he could not help thinking that they had seen ground for changing their opinion of the measure. It was quite a distinct company from the Grand Junction ; their interests were in no way identi fied ; and it appeared to him that the London and Bir mingham Company would profit by the construction of the line. The only traffic it would take from them would be that between Birmingham and Rugby ; but at Rugby the Extension Company would open into this line an immense addition to their usual traffic ; and he there- fore thought they could not look upon the line as a for , midable competitor. With respect to the Midland Counties Railway, nothing could be more preposterous than the opposition it offered to the measure. There was some vague notion of making a line from Derby to Manchester by the Churnet Valley ; but all who were acquainted with the localities of this country must know that any line passing through the Tame and Trent Valley must have a manifest advantage over a line passing through a district in which the engineering difficulties were of the most formidable character. With resneet to the opposition of the Grand Junction and other railways, it was merely necessary to observe that they were using against the Manchester and Birming ham Extension Railway precisely the same arguments which had been used against themselves by the turn pikes and canal proprietors, and which, at the time, they treated with the utmost indifference and disrespect; and as for the town of Birmingham opposing them on the ground that they had vested interests in the present line of communication, and setting that up as an argu ment to deprive the towns of Lichfield, Tamworth, and other places, of those advantages to which they were ,justly entitled, it was a plea that no rightly constituted tribunal would for a moment listen to. It was an argu ment founded upon monopoly, and nothing else.— (Cheers.) There existed no obligation on the part of the Grand Junction Company to take Birmingham on its line; if so, it might have formed a weighty objection. to the Extension Railway ; but a more direct route having been discovered, he wished to know what argu ment, founded on good sense, could be used against the people of Manchester and London having the benefit of a direct intercourse.(Hear, hear.) They had heard it repeated ig Committee, day after day, that it was only the saving of an hour between Manchester and Loudon. Now, ithey found in the present day, a very different estimate of an hour in travelling to what they did bef;ore railways were invente.d, and he hoped to see the day svhen Manchester and London would be only eight hours apart. When this took place, the value of an hour would be very different to what it was in times when it took two or throe days to make the journey ; but if the people of Manchester, to whom time was money, found that they could make the distance in an h our l ess by thi s railway than any other mode of conveyance th e y m i g ht depend upon it that they would give the shortim line the preference. (Cheers.) Again it was objected, that as it would be necessary for the Extension Com pany to join the London and Birmingham line tif THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, S Rugby, the latter would be enabled to throw any ob. tructions they though proper in the way. Now he, (Sir It. Peel) had .too much confidence in the good sense and honour and justice of the London and Bir mingham Company to suppose for an instant that they would throw any obstructions in their way. Nay more, he believed that it would not be for their interest to do so ; but should the event prove otherwise, of this he was sure, that that same Legislature which granted them their monopoly, would never for a moment tole rate them in throwing obstacles in the way of another company.—(Hear, hear, and c h eers .) The only other point on which he felt it necessary to .make an observation was the opp os iti on o ff ere d by the landowners on the line ; and he must say that he had a great respect for these p a rties, and for the circumstances in which th e y were pl ace d ; and he thought the proprietors of railways were bound to deal liberally with them, and to make great concessions for the loss of their property and for the violence done to their feelings.—(Hear.) The more humble the man, the more would he respect the feelings which induced him to retain possession of his land.—(Cheers.) He trusted, therefore, that the Railway Companies gene rally would adopt the principle (which he felt certain the Extension Company would see the justice of acting upon) of dealing most liberally with the proprietors of land.—(Cheers.) There was one gentleman, Sir George Chetwynd, from whom they had experienced a very formidable opposition, the railway passing for four miles through his demesne. He was al most the only landed proprietor who had ap peared against the railway, b u t h e did h ope t h at , on application, Sir George w ou ld b e i nc li ne d t o f orego the opposition which he at present entertained to the measure.—( Hear, hear.) The mee ti ng wou ld now t a k e three circumstance s into consideration. First, the saving of twenty miles in the line ; secondly, the great majority of landowners who were in its favour ; thirdly, that the Company was most respectable, and prepared with the money to make the line, and ready to incur the risk. With these three elements, then, was it possible, he would ask them, that any opposition could prevail against it ? His opinion was that it was not ; and he there fore trusted that the meeting would continue to give to the Company their cordial support, and show to them that their opinions respecting its advantages remained un shaken and unchanged. Could any one doubt for a mo ment its benefit to the town of Tamworth ? Tamworth had been pointed out before the railway was thought of, as the natural line of communication between London and Manchester, and it only remained to them now to give to the proprietors of the Extension Committee the assurance that the opinion of the great mass of the inhabitants of Tamworth, representing the intelligence and property of the town, was in favour of it, and he need hardly say, if such was the case, that they might rely upon his (Sir R. P,'s) persevering and cordial support.—(Cbeers.) Since he last had the pleasure of meeting them, experience had tended to confirm the advantages of railroad travelling, both as regards safety, economy, and rapidity. It was at one time doubted whether any benefit would arise from adopting this new mode of transit ; and he acknowledged that it was impossible to see the momentum with which passengers were carried along, without feelings of apprehension for their safety ; but experi ence had shown that, although there might be occasional accidents, yet, on the whole, commu nication by Railways had been proved to be vastly superior in point of safety, as well as velocity, to the old method.—(Loud cheers.) He perfectly well re collected that many of his own friends had hinted to him doubts whether the adoption of Railroads would not lower the price of oats ; and some went so far as to say that horses would be a complete drug.—(Laughter.) Many of those who now heard him were able to form a correct estimate of the real value of such apprehensions. The fact was, that all these great improvements rested on each other, and worked together to promote the general prosperity of the community,—(Cheers.) The Right Hon. Baronet concluded by expressing his opi nion that there should be no unequal taxation on this point, that all modes of communication should be left entirdy free, and that the present rate of tolls charged by Railways was too high, greatly too high, for their own interests.—(Loud cheers.) OPEN lONS OF WORKING MEN. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,--1 am astonished to see Mr. Day, of South wark, who, they tell me, is a Radical, bringing forward Mr. Walter, a Tory, for Southwark, who is, I under stand, a partner in the Times paper, an enemy to all reform. What have the Tories done this last sixty years? Looking over a book of the most remark- Ale events in George the Third's reign, one thing I observed was, that they borrowed five hundred and twenty-nine millions of money. What for ? To carry ou a war against the liberties of the people, and tax the necessaries of life to pay the interest. The Corn Bill, the Sugar and Tea duties, make the loaf 4d., sugar aid. a lb., and tea 2s. 2d. a lb. dearer. Butter would be 6d. a pound cheaper, if the duty was taken off the corn and butter. I can remember fresh butter 6d. a pound, and flour 30s. a sack ; and if we had the taxes taken off the necessaries of and put on property, we should have it so again, which would not hurt men of property. For if I had 1001. a year from the Funds, and I was taxed 20 per cent., having my provi sions so much cheaper, I should be able to keep my family as well, and have money in my pocket ; and my poor neighbour, with his littlo, would be able to live. Trade would increase, and wttges would be better, as I can remember before the war. I know this would be the case. There ought to be tax on houses and lands, on funded property, and profits ar i s i ng f rom a ll Compa nies where a dividend is paid ; but not on shopkeepers, who for one year may gain a hiu ndred, and the next lose as much. As both the Tories and Whigs have been weighed in the balance, and found wanting,—as they both declare we shall have no more reform—and none but devils would tax the necessaries of life therefore I hope, in every town where there is isn election, the electors will bring forward the Radicails, and let us try them. If there is not a reform there will t be a revolution. I do not know one person in Southwark t. hat is satisfied, amongst the working classes or little tradesmen. The e!ectors have it in their power to save the country, and they ought to vote for those men wb o will endeavour to get these heavy burdens removed from the poor. The Poor-law is an evil, and must b e altered, but nothing compared to the taxes on the! necessaries of life. I think Mr. Roebuck, the late M ember for Bath, would be voted in for Southwark, if h,a were brought forward. I hope some tradesman will brio ig forward a Radical, and they shall have my vote ; I nev er will any more vote for a Whig or Tory.—l am, Sir, 'our humble servant, W. C., A WORKING MAN, And Elector of ti le Borough of Southwark. Southwark, August 29, 1839 . r?,PTEMBER 7, 1839. FROM LAST N'IGHT'S GAZETTE. WAR-OFFICE, SEPT. 6, 1839. 6th Regt. of Dragoon Guards—Cornet L. Z. Cox to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Hawkins who retires ; P. Buc hanan, gent., to be Cornet, by 'purchase, vice Cox, Sept. 6. Ist Regt. of Dragoons—Cornet L. Palk to be Lieutenant by purchase, vice Madden, who retires, Sept 6. ; A. Ricketts, Gent. to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Palk, Sept. 6. 3d Regiment of Light Dragoons—Ensign G. Webb, from the 64th Foot, to be Cornet, without purchase, vice Gray, deceased, Sept. 6. Ist Regiment of Foot—Assistant-Surgeon J. Hutchison, from 11th Light Dragoons, to be Surgeon, vice J. B. Kell, who retires upon half-pay, Sept. 6. 2d Foot--Ensign D. J. Dickinson to be Lieut., without pur chase, vice Sparke, deceased, January 30 ; Ensign T. Addi son to be Lieut., without purchase, vice Nixon, deceased, Janu ary 31; L. J. M'Pherson, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Dickinson, September, 5; C. Darby, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Addison, September 6. _ _ . 45th Fo — ot--Captain F. O. Montgomery to be Major, by purchase, vice Webb, who retires ; Lieutenant J. Stawell to be Captain, purchase, vice Montgomery ; Ensign E. L. Tickell to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Stawell ; W. C. Armstrong, Gent.., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Tickell, Sept. 6. . . 56th Foot—Lieutenant J. Charlewood to be ^ Captain, by purchase, vice Henry, who retires ; Ensign S. Oakeley to be Lieutenant, by purchase, ♦ice Charlewood ; G. W. Patey, Gent : , to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Oakeley, Sept. 6. 64th Foot—Quartermaster-Sergeant J. Howes to be Quarter master, vice J. Carr, who retires upon half-pay, Sept. 6. 92d Foot—Lieut. R. Pitcairn to be Captain, by purchase, vice Buckley, who retires; Ensign A. P. Miller to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Pitcairn ; T. W. Davies, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, ♦ice Miller ; Sergeant- Major J. Forbes to be Quartermaster, vice J. Calder, who retires upon half-pay, Sept. 6. • Royal Newfoundland Veteran Companies—Assistant-Sur geon W. Sall, from the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Grant, who exchanges, Sept. 6. HOSPITAL STA rr.—Assistant-Surgeon J. D. Grant, from the Royal Newfoundland Veteran Companies, to be Assistant- Surgeon to the Forces, vice Sall, who exchanges, Sept. 6. Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Wilts. William Pleydell Earl of Radnor, to be Deputy-Lieutenant, Aug. 10 ; William Pleydell Earl of Radnor to be Viee-Lieu tenant, Aug. 17. SLAVE VI ;SSELS. It appears by a Return just printed by order of the House of Commons, that the " number of Slave Vessels brought before the several C , flirts of Mixed Commis sion for adjudication since the first of January, 1838, to the latest date to which the same can be prepared," was fifty-two. Two were Sp anish, one was Brazilian, all the others were Portugue: is. The return of their tonnage is not complete, bu .t forty cases out of the fifty-two give a tonnage of 5, 329. The report of the number of slaves is only complete for twenty-six vessels, I and they had on board 8,000 ::laves. In every case ex- Icept two the decree of th e Court was forfeiture. There are two examples of re: ;t itution, and one of them is a Spanish vessel. In forty- si wen cases of which the returns are complete the pro c eeds of the vessel and cargo were 28,9791. and afte r paying the expense of condemnation and sale, . and of breaking up, the moiety which remained for distribution in 47 cases was 11,1891. to be sl iared amongst about 20 vessels yielding a prize money no t much more than 500/. for each vessel. Though the f coin of our cruizers for their arduous service is not great ~ the loss of the Portu guese is considerable, and shows that their profits must on the whole be enormous, wb et 1, in spite of such losses, they still find the trade profita bl e, and grow rich by car rying it on. Eight thousand f laves stopped in transitu, and saved from slavery, wh 3,ch is probably not above the half captured, for they we we found in only 26 out of the 52 vessels, in conjunction with . the fact that enough are still carried safely over tc r make the trade profitable, is an index to the vast extent ;to which this abominable traffic is carried on, despite of the exertions of our humane people. We believe, in fact, with Mr. Buxton, and other advocates of slave abolition, that more Negroes are now carried from Africa into sla very than ever before, and that their transmission acros s the ocean is accompanied by greater sufferings and mo re cruelty than formerly. WESTERN I i VA GGERIES. How TO S TOP A N -- EWS --..r , i , A PER.—Call at the office and fork up the arrearages, an d order it to be stopped, like a Haan ; and not refuse to to Jo it out of the Post-office, and sneak away like a puppy. —Fort Wayne Sentinel. ACKNOWLEDGMENT.—.— -A miller had his neighbour arrested, und er t h e charg eo f stea li ng w h ea t f rom hi s mill, but being unable t D substantiate the charge by proof, the C ourt adjudge d t h at t h e m ill er s h ou ld ma k e acknowledgment to the ac :eused. " Well," says he, " I have had you arrested fo r stealing my wheat. I can't prove it—and am sorry II ir it." UsEFuL.----There is a finger-post on the road near Lake Erie, w hi ch bears the following inscription :_.. .‘ When this po s t i s s i x fi tet under water, this road will be impassable." A GOOD CORRESPONDI INT,—" Are you going west next week, Mr. T. sa k i ; a ),Ady; " Yes, I think I shall," was the reply. W 7 0, .if 2 knew where to write, and who to write to, I wouh I ite to my uncle in Ohio." VALUE OF WHIGS IN A tai ß RICA The Weekly Humbug" is the title of a new' p i per just issued at New York. It must be a whig paper, —New York Gazette. ----- , CONVERT TO CATHOLIC! sm.—Miss Newton, daughter of the Rev. Robert Newt, ,n, the celebrated Wes leyan Methodist minister, has (it i 3 stated) embraced the Roman Catholic faith.—aester ( !ourant. DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY. WILLIAM JOSEPH MARSHALL and JOHN GLOS TER MARSHALL, wholesale grocers, Cousin-lane, City. BANKRUPTS. JOHN BAKER and GEORGE WALLIS, farriers, Edward-street, City-road, Sept. 21, at two, and Oct. 18, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Winter, Williams, and Williams, Bedford-row ; Alsager, Birchin-lane, Cornhill, official assignee. JOHN ROBINSON, cheese-factor, Shavington-cum- Grasty, Cheshire, Sept. 17, and Oct. 18, at two, at the Castle Inn, Newcastle-under-Lyne, Staffordshire. Pinniger and Westmacott, Gray's-inn-square, London ; Warren, Market- Drayton, Shropshire. GEORGE LANGRIDGE WILLIAMS, builder, Port land-road, Marylebone, Sept. 21, at one, and Oct. 18, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry; Hudson, Old Jewry. GEORGE RYALL CORRY, glove manufacturer, Yeovil; Somersetshire, Sept. 17 and Oct. 18, at twelve, at the Ante lope Inn, Dorchester. Douglass and Cragg, Verulam-build ings, Gray's-inn, London ; J. T. Vining, Yeovil. WILLIAM RA BE Y, leatherseller, and ironmonger, Redruth, Cornwall, Sept. 11 and Oct. 18, at eleven, at Pearce's Hotel, Truro. Clarke and Tanqueray, Bishopsgate Church-yard, London ; Stokes, Truro. WILLIAM EDWARDS and THOMAS HENRY BLACKBURN VENOUR, builders, Leamington Priors, Warwickshire, Sept. 20 and 23, and Oct. 18, at two, at the Lansdowne Hotel, Leamington Priors, Warwickshire. Swain, Stevens, and Co., Frederick's-place, Old Jewry, London; Whateley, Birmingham. WILLIAM PREEDY, grocer, Oxford, Sept. 20, and Oct. 18, at nine, at the Mitre Inn, Oxford. Amory, Throg morton-street, London. THOMAS ROGERS TAYLER, bill-broker, Portsea, Hampshire, Sept. 14, and. Oct. 18, at one, at the Fountain Hotel, Portsmouth. Goodeve, Raymond-buildings, Gray's-inn, London ; Minchin and Oake, Portsea. DIVIDENDS. G. D. Watts, grocer, Great Massingham, Norfok, Oct. 15, at four, at the Red Lion Inn, Fakenham, Norfolk—W. Moore, innkeeper, Newark-upon-Trent, Nottinghamshire, Oct. 17, at six, at the Castle and Falcon Inn, Newark-upon-Trent—C. Reesby, maltster, Stamford, Sept. 30, at eleven, at the o ffice of Mr. Jackson, Stamford. CERTIFICATES.—SEPT. 27. G. J. Burnham, sen., and G. W. Burnham, jun., druggists, Bedford—W. J. Potter, victualler, Little Compton-street, Soho—J. Ransford, coal-merchant, Leamington Priors W. Moore, innkeeper, Newark-upon-Trent. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. J. S. Fisher and T. Fisher, linen-drapers, Holborn-bridge-- J. Dudley and C. Dudley, gilt toy makers, Caroline-street, Birmingham—R. Litler, J. Stringer, and W. Mann, white salt manufacturers, Northwich, Cheshire (as far as regards R. Litler)—J. Bremner, jun., and G. Chapman, tailors, Saint Augustine's-parade, Bristol—W. Hedley and W. Atkin, spin ners, Gateshead, Durham—E. Rodkett, B. Brierley, and W. Prest, cotton spinners, Blackburn, Lancashire (as far as regards W. Prest)— IV. Harrison, S. W. Harrison, and G. Pawson, ship brokers, Newcastle-upon•- Tyne (as far as regards G. Paw stm)—N. Wakeman and J. Willson, carpenters, Tiverton street, Newington—T. W. Lyes and E. Lyes, tailors, Judd street, Brunswick-square—S. Cherrill and M. Cherrill, jewel lers, Newcastle-place, Clerkenwell—J. W. Maddox and T. Prestige, linen-drapers, Tavistock-street, Covent-garden— A. Jackson and J. Braham, watch-makers, Bristol—J. Butler, sen. and J. Butler, jun., file-manufacturers, Sheffield— W. Syrette and E. Davies, shoe warehousemen, Evesham, Worcestershire—J. L. Fernandes, sen., J. L. Fernandes, jun., and N. L. Fernandes, worsted spinners, Wakefield, York shire (as far as regards the said N. L. Fernandes) — W. Smith, J. Dick, and L. Fuller, Glasgow, ('so far as re gards) L. Fuller—J. Anderson, J. Kennedy, and W. Han uington, potters, Portobello, near Edinburgh. Music.—The Jamaica planters were formerly accustomed to maintain that the harpy condition of the negroes in a state of slavery was attested by their passion for dancing and singing. We do not know whether the white inhabitants of the West Indies imbibed a love o song from the sable sons of Africa, but our attention has been called to some excellent specimens of music com posed and published by Mr. . Francis Egan, of Kingston, Jamaica, two of which are now before us. The first, en titled " Oh I water for me," will soon become as popular among the tea-totallers on this and the other side of the Atlantic, as " God save the Queen" at a Cabinet dinner; and the " Tear," from the pen of Samuel Rogers, well adapted to thaw the froien sensibilities of the most obdu rate old bachelor. The young ladies are under a thousand obligations to Mr. Egan, for thus rendering them more completely invincible. IMAGINATION OF FACTS.—There are many things in prose as well as poetry which we read and un derstand sufficiently well for the comprehension of the ge neral scope and tendency of the given work, yet which we never realise to our imaginations as facts, or supposed facts, without the ingress of certain adventitious circum stances inducing a home-searching view of the literal truth. This is not only the case in reading books, but in our affairs of life, and knowledge of actual things. We believe, know, and understand very well that a certain number of men are shipwrecked, murdered, and starved every year ; but let us be suddenly called upon to imagine a drowned, murdered, or starved man lying before our feet, and we shall feel that our previous impressions were vague idealisms of the fact, and that we never were con scious that the thing was a reality. But, in proportion as people possess and exercise the power of calling the mental facultis onward to the imaginary realization, or inward ♦ision of the embodied truth, so is the depth and breadth of their comprehension and sympathy with men and books. Our dormancy in realising known or admitted facts will become apparent to every one Rho ex amines himself on the point—Monthly Chronicle. TRICKS OF HORSE-DEALERS.—A friend of mine was once done in the following way. He repaired, with more cash than wisdom, to the stables of a horse dealer, and having selected a nag that he thought would suit his purpose, demanded the price. The dealer, per ceiving his customer to be a little green, immediately asked about 15 pounds more than he meant take, and finding that the price was not objected to, began no doubt to think himself an egregious ass for not having demanded more. He therefore requested my friend to look round his stables, and to try some other horses, and while thus em ployed, dispatched a message to a confederate, who quickly arrived as a stranger, and unhesitatingly bought the horse first brought out at all the money that was asked for him, declaring be bad never picked up such a bargain. In this assertiat he was strenuously backed by the dealer, who regretted that my friend had not decided at once upon taking se cheap a horse himself, and added in a whisper, " Offer him five pounds for his bargain, Sir; I know something about him, he'll sell." " Upon this hint he spake," and to some purpose too, for he of course got the horse, and learned a lesson in dealing into the bargain —his purchase turning out, when minus the ginger and threats of the coper's yard, a very sorry beast indeed.— Old Sporting Magazinefor September. TRICKS OF PARIS.—The day I purchased them (bracelets) was marked by the following singular occurrence. I was walking across one of the bridges in Paris, when a well-dressed man suddenly threw himself over the parapet into the Seine. Fortunately he fell in a place where the water was not very deep, and he was speedily rescued from his perilous predicament. A crowd immediately surrounded him—l amongst the rest. He opened his eyes, and his words were Ma enfans—mes pauvres enfans I—My children, my poor children 1' These piteous exclamations moved me, and I immediately gave the man a couple of Napoleons, they being all the money I had about me. " Lord bless you, sir," said an English man, whom the occurrence had also attracted to the spot, " he's done that already three times this week. He regu larly drowns, or poisons, or stabs himself four or five times every week." " Good God !" said I; " what does he do that for ? Is he mad ?" " Mad I no," returned the man : " he is a devilish clever fellow on the contrary, and picks up a good deal of money in this way. It's an excellent business. He lives better by dying five. or six times a week than Ido by working hard." " What ! is he an im postor, then ?" cried I, naturally indignant at the gross manner in which I had been impoad upon. " That's a harsh word, sir," answered the man ; "but he's something like it, though."—Pickwick Abroad. I went this morning to see the specimens of Daguerrotype exhibited by M. Giroux in the Rue de Coq St. Honore. They are very beautiful, and entirely unlike those which have been exhibited in England. I cannot give you a better description of them than by stating that they resemble very much the appearance which the objects have upon the table of the camera obscura itself Every thing is represented minutely and clearly ; but unless the plate be brought near the eye, there is little effect: whereas the specimens shown in England are pictures like any others at a certain distance. M. Giroux is making a fine harvest of the exclusive privilege of selling the apparatus which has been granted to him by M. Daguerre, for he charges 425 f. for a case containing the necessary mate rials, and boasts of having sold 150 cases during last week. As the cost of a complete set of materials cannot be to him more than 100 E, he must have cleared more than two hundred and fifty pounds sterling in a single week. The charge for one of the plates purchased separately is 6f., and in the event of failure in taking the objects it may be cleaned fifteen times, so that it is not likely ever to be a decided failure. With skill, however, the experiment is generally successful in two or three operations. In each of the cases which he sells there are only six plates for as many pictures.—Paris Correspondent. PRICES OF CANAL, DOCK, ASSUR ANCE:COMPANY SHARES, &c. egc.&,. LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPT. 6. Number Dividend Prim of per CANALS. per Shares. Annum. Paid. Share 1 , 7 66 7 per cent. Ashton and Oidham-Average97l. 184. sh. 129 ,082 41. Ashby ..e-le-Zt .....h A -.Rage Ilfil.sh 71 1,200 ........ Basingstoke lOOl.O 5 1 , 00 5 5/. Brecknock and Abergavenny 150 .0.. - 8,0001-1912 h. 91 6s. Birmingham, 1.16 th share 8 1 4 1.8. 711. 223 4 000 ~ ...... Ditto an d Li verpoo l Junctl*M sh. 100 pd '26 600 31.. Bridgewater and Taunton .100/ sh. all pd - 400 4/. Chelmer and Blackwater 1001. sh. 101 500 481. Coventry !00/.sh. 690 4,545 Croydon - 2,0601 41. Os. Dudley - 000 141. Derby 1001. sh. 155 30,000 4 per cent. Danube and Mayne ...... .. 411. 13s. 4cl .pd 264 3,575; 41. Ellesmere and Chester.. Average 133/.QII. 83 231 62/, Erewash ' 001. gn. 81'0 1,297 30/. Forth and Clyde ....Average 4001.165. tn. 610 ~600 10 Grand Junction WO/. sh. 185 2,6491 11. Grand Union 1001. sh V 5 :1,500 Grand Surrey 0,000/ 41. per cent. Ditto (optional) Loan lOOl. 63 3 896 600 131.125. Bd. Glamorganshire, Aver. cost 172/. 13s. 4si. 2201 749 Ht. Grantham 1501. sh. 203' 6,238 2/. Os. Huddersfield Average 571. 6s. fid. sii. 36 100 Kensington 100 sh, all pd. 10 5,923 1/. ss. Kennet and Avon, Aver. 39/.lBs. 10c1. sh Th . 2,8971 301. Leeds and Liverpool 100/. sh. 750 545; 154/. Leicester l4O/. sh. 230 1,897 61. Os. Leicester and Northampton Aver S 3/. Ins. 90 2.400 101. Monmouthshire 1001. sh. 202 150 101. Melton Mowbray lON. eh. 200 500 251. Mersey and Irwell 100/. sh. 560 3,000 11. 10s. Macclesfield 1001. sh all pc/ 51 247 171. Neath 1001. sh. 325 2,400 51. Peak Forest Aveh.ge about 78/. sh. 104 1,418 12s. Regent's (or London) Av. 331. Ifis. Bd. sh. 12 5, 1 369 6/. per cent. Rochdale Average 85/. sh. 110 500 81. Shropshire 1251. sh. 138 800 9/. 10s. Somerset Coal 150/. sh. 150 3,r00/. 41 per cent Ditto Lock Fund Stock l2l. 10s. Bh. 111 700 401. Stafford and Worcester l4O/. sh. 7101 500 91. Shrewsbury 300 9/. Stourbridge ........... ....... 1457. sh. 330 3,647 2/. Os. Stratford-on. AVM za rerage 791.95. tsd. sh. 45 533 161. Swansea 100/. sh. 280 3.762 11. 15s. Severn and Wye and Railway Av 351. sh. 39 2,6004,h. 221. 10s. Trent and Mersey, I share 1001.8 h. 530 8,149 1,0005h.1 , q. Warwick and Birmingham 100/.sn 280 I,oooish.l '" 980 151. Warwick - .' isia in , m , lOO/.Bh. 201 5,000 4/.os. Worcestcr and Birmingham Av. 781.83. sh. 71 5.000 25s Wilts and Berko Average 67/. 10s. Bd. sh. 28 Am 3i. IN i t iev and Essington 125/. sh 75 46 905 11. Wey and Arun llOl. h. 22 DOCKS. 1,060650 ft sh. o . p. c. Commerc al OOOl. sh. 68 1,1 East and West India Stock 109 3,238,31041. 60s. p.ct. London Stock 63 Ditto iSonds lOl 2,209 21. 19s. Bristol 68,124/. 51. per cent. Ditto Notes, various amounts ll3 1.152,752 5 percent. St. Katharine Stock 109 500,000 41 per cent. Ditto Bonds lOl , 200.000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds for 10 years lOO 4.500 , .... Deptford Pies "01. sh. 20/. pd 10 BRIDGES. 1,600 10s. Hammersmiti 5O/. sh. 21 7,•1,31 Southwark, Old 1,700 I/. 15s. Ditto, Now, of 71r cent. 5O/. sh. 14 5,000 Waterloo 5,000 225. Od. Ditto, Old Annuities of 81. fio/. pd 23 5,000 19s. 3d. Ditto, New Ditto of 71 401. pd 21 10,000/ 5/. per cent. Ditto Bonds l2O 5,848 17s Vauxhall ....... ...,Av9rage 701. 10s. 3d. sh 251 ASSURANCE' COMPANIES 2,000 .3/ Ins Albion 50,000 [ s ln eT d . c i r c t 'l Alliance Britisn &Foreignloo/.sh. 101/. pd 15 50,000 6 per cent. Ditto, Marine lOOl. sh. 51. pd fil 24,000 ;l per sh. Atlas 1,200 ph. 5/. Birmingham 1 ire .. ...... -2501. sh. 55/. pd 107; 10,000 41 percent. British Fire 250/. sh. 50/. pd 40 12,000 6/ per cent. British Commeroal 504 sb. 51. pd 6 5,000 51. percent. Clerical & Medi •r 1 Life, ICO/. sh. 2/10s pd 4 4,000 2/ 15s County 1001. sh. 10/. pd 43 20,000 ss. Eagle or, f a nd 30/ bs.3 per cent 1 Economic Lit. lOOO/. sh, 250/. pd 400 ''''' 2,271 225. per cent. European Li '€l/ , h all pd 22 .50,000 2s. Ditto, New 201.:h 2/. pd li , ,000,0001. 6/. per ct Globe Stock 122 20,000 5/' Guardian lOO/. sh. 27,4/ pd 381 10,000 s. (id. Hope 2,100 5/. 7s. fid. Imperial Fire 500/ sh. 50/. pd 1371 7,500 9s. Imperial Die 100/. sh. 101. pd loi 13,450 41. percent. Indemnity Marine ...... ...... 110/. sh. 8/. pd 'l5 2,020 31 108 Kest Fire 50/. sh. all pd 92 3/, Ditto Life 5O/. pd 79 10,000 Ifis. Law Life 100/. sh. 10/. pd 29; 5.001 , 10s. London, Fin., 251. sh. 12/. 10s. pd It-I 3,900 10s. London, Ship 25/. sh. 12/. 10s. pd lBi 1,000,000/. ... ..... Minerva Life 1001. sh. 500,0001. National Loan Fund 2/. ss. pd II 30,000 St, per cent. Palladium Lito 50/. sh. 2/. pd 21 Ss 50,000 4/. per cent. Protector Fite 2O/. sh. 2/. pd ;Fs Od ..?,500 I/. Provident Lite lOO/. sh. 10/. pd '2O 1)0,000 ss. Rock Life 20/. sh. 1/. pd 6i 0;220/ Si. per cent. Royal Exch,,ge Stork_ '221 6,000 5 p,:r cent. University Life lOO/. sh. 5/. pd 5; 50,000 4 per cent.. United Kingdom Life 100/. sh. 51. pd . 7e JOINT STOCK BANKS, (5,000 S per cent. Agric and Cum. of Ireland 251. sh. 101. pd 5.000 Australa-la 4Ol. sh. 40!. pd 64f 10,.108 10 percent. Bank of Birmingham SCI. at). Ink pd 13 (0,000 10 per cent. Birmingham Bank.... 5Ol. sh. 10/. pd 23f 3 ),000 5 per cent. London and Westminsterlool sh. 20/. pd 22! 00,000 5/. London Joint Stock 5 0 /. sh. 10/. pd 12 - .3,000 4 per cent. Lancaster 1001. sh. 201. pd 50 .25,000 Liverpool 1001 sh. 101. pd 23/ 50,000 7i per gent Manchester and Liver-1 501.0). 151 pd 12 pool District 20,000 7 per cent. Manchester 100/. sh. 25/ pd 27 20,000 Provincial Rank of lrelandloo/. sh. 25/. p6l 44! 70, 00 National Bank of Ireland 5" 1. sh 174!. pd 16 10,000 5 per cent. National Provincial Eng. 1001. sh. 351. pd 34.1 10 00(') , ...... .. Ditto New lOl. eh. 101 pd 9i 10,000 Gloucestershire 5O/. sh. 10/, pd 20 6,000 10 per cent. Hampshire 50/. sh. 51. pd 9 GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES. 2,500 16s Od Beth 2Ol. sh. 10/. pd 23 5,000 British 4O/. sh. 161. pd Is 5,000 i s . l di e y s e l t i Ditto Provincial 201. sh. 19 pd 25 928 5/ lOs Birmingham 5Ol. sh. 98 1,250 2/ Os Bristol 2,250 13/ 103 Brighton 2O/. sh. 111 t 750 31 les Ditto, New 2Ol. sh. 18/. pd 9 2,471 4 1 1 per cent. Brighton General 201. sh. all pd 17 1,000 6/.103. Continental Consolidated 751. 62;1, pd 105 1,000 101. City of London lOO/. sh. all pd 195 1,000 61. Ditto, New lOO/. sh. 601. pd 114 4,000 3/.05. Equitable 5O/. pd !.:6 10, , '00 21 per cent. Imperial 800 51. per cent. Isle 'lf Thanet 251. sh. 20/. pd 18 2,350 6/. per cent. Independent 3Ol. sh. all pd 5 , ; 9,000 4/. per cent. Phoenix 50/. sh. 391. pd 294. 1,000 4/. per cent. Ratcliff 100/. sh. 80/. pd 611 1,000 South Metropolitan 5O/. sh. 19/. pd 17 0,200 4/, per cent. United General 5Ol. Bh. 461. pd 36 240 51. per cent. Warwick 501. sh. 50 400 5/. per cent Wakefield 25/. sh. 22 2,000 3/. Westminster Chartered 0,000 12s. Ditto New 780 51. per cent. Yarmouth 201. sh. 18/. pd WATER WJI4KS. 1,800 10s. Birmingham 251. sh. 251. pd 20 1,434 6/. East London lOOl. sh. 166 5,500 21 lOs Grand Junction Average 411 13s. 4d. sh. 67i 2,000 21. Kent loo' sh. 45, 372 101. Liverpool Bootle 2201. sh. Ms 1,500 21106 New River London Bridge Water Ann 62' 6,146 2110 s Manchester and Salford .lOO/. sh. 54 1,000 4 per cent. South London 1001. sh. 104 4,294 4/, West Middlesex Average 631. 12s. 9d. sh. 1,360 1114 s York Building Co. Lessee Prop 1001. sh. 35 IRON RAILWAYS. 6,300 .... ..... Birmingham and Derby an/. pd 75 9,500 • Birmingham and Gloucester 15, , 00 Bristol and Exeter 1001. sh. 25 pd '7é 660 Calcutta and Saugur 5Ol. sh. 2/. pd 0 7,500 Cheltenham and G.Western 1001. sh. 30/ 4 3,000 Clarence lOOl. sh. 100/ pd 351 12,000 8 000 , 60,000 ... Grand Junction 1001. sh. 95/. p 202 Great North of England -.01. pd 24; 5,000 Great Western lOOl sh. 65/. pd 64 2,000 Hartlepool 1001. sh. 1001 pd 125 8,000 Hull and •elby 501. sh. M. pd 191 10,000 Leeds and !Manchester 1001. sh. 5/. pd 194 2,100 34 per cent. Leeds and Selby. .... , lOO sh. 65 1,500 11.55. Leicester and Swannington .501. sh all pd 751 5,100 10 per cent. Liverpool and Manchester 10(3. sh. 100/. psi 195 10 per cent. Ditto Quarter Shares '2s/. pd 6j :36,000 ... ...... London and Brighton. 12,000 London and Black wall 501. sh 101 pd i 1 10,000 3 per cent. London and Greenwich - 201. sk. 20/. pd 131 , 25,000 London and Birmingham 100/. sh. 90/ pd 139 Ditto Quarter Shares 5/ pd 211 36,090 .. London and Southampton Av. 381, 17 8 i cl. 42 } 1 London and Croydon Trunk IR/. po II 6,000 ... ...... Ditto New Scrip. 12,000 London Grand Junction 50/. sh. 5/. pd 0 1:3,000 Manchester and Leeds ...1001. sh. 601. pd 621 1)1,000 Manchester and Birmingham 701 sh 18/, 5 Ditto Extension -, 1 pd I North Midland 100/. sh. 751 pd 65 Northe7i and Easterli 1001. sh. 251. pd 131 2,600 Preston and Wyre 50/. sh. 304 pd 361 :18,000 South Eastern and Dover l5/. pd 0 1,000 10/. per cent. Stockton and Darlington lOO/. sh. 240 9,000 ... ...... Thames Haven 501. sh 2/. 10s. pd 1,400 Westminster and Greenwichiso/. sh. 21. pd 0 6,000 York and North Midland 50 . sh. 301. pd 38 ...... __ MINES. 8,000 Albion Copper 5l. s 1/. lii 12 4,000 11. 51. Alten 151. sh. 121. :s pd 10 10, 000 ~,_.,... Anglo Mexican, iss. 5/. pm.lool. sh. a , , d 1 Ditto Subscription 95/, 1, 9* 2,000 10/. Bolanos l5Ol. sh :ill p i 971 10,000 1/, IN . Brazilian Imp. iss. 5/. pm 351. sh. '2Ol pd 20 8,000 Macaubas & Cocaos United 251. sh. '2 , 1. pd 12 11,000 Ditto St. John Del Rey 201. sh. 141 pd 31 10,000 Bolivar Copper Company 20/. sh 201. pd Bi, 10,000 Ditto Scrip 104 sh. 10/. pd 91 20,000 British Iron 5Ol. sh. 50/ pd 81 6,000 British Copper 5/. sh. 411. pd 1 Cats Branca 6i/. Al 8 ...... •.. Candonga 7/. pd 6 10,000 11 Copiapo 20/. sh . 13/, pd 10 8,500 ... Columbian, iss. W. pin.... 551. sh. 551. pd 31 2,830 31. English l2l its. pd 3 20,000 General Mining Association2o/. sh. 18/. pd 7 6,155 Mexican Company 100/. sh. 5514 pd 41 3,000 Polberou Consols. lO/. sh W. pd 4 11,500 Real del Monte, Unregistered 7 Ditto Loan Notes l5O/. pd IGO) 30,800 United Mexican, iss. 2 pm.. 40/. sh. all pd li Dan. Scrip 2 Ditto New Scrip ' 5/ pal 4 West Cork 50/. sh. 50/. pd 381 LITERARY INSTITUTIONS. 1,000 London, with Bronze Ticket......7sgs. sh. 16 1,500 700 King' College 1001. pd 19 MISCELLANEOUS. 10,000 15 s . Australian Ag r i cu lt ura l.lool . sh. 2641. pd 43 6,000 4/. per cent. British American Land Company 23/. pd 9 10,000 61. per cent. Canada Company 100/. sh. 30/. pd 30 200,000 5/. per cent. Upper Cana,la Loan 9l City Bonds, 4 per cent lO4, 20,000 11. 6s. General Steam Navigation 151. sh. 14/. pd 25 101. per cent. Hudson's Bay Stock 254 2,000 11. London Corn. Sale Rooms Av. 751. sh. 194 8,000 Caoutchouc Company: 1211. pd 12' New Brunswick Land Comp/my J:oi pd 2,754 5/. per cent. Reversionary Int. 50c....100/. sh 100/. pd 135 2,633 51. per cent. Ditto New 100/. sh. 851. pd 114 4,000 10,004 4 Os. Van Dic_nen's Land lOOl. sh. 17i1. pd 9 LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES. JULY 27, 1839. BANKS. 1,500,0011 t. 6/. p. ct. Bank of Scotland ...SS/. 6s. Bd. sh all pd 1781 . 2,000,0081. 54 p. ct. B yal of Scotland 100/. sh. all pd Mgr. 500.0004 8 P. ct. British Linen Company..2s 1120010.151..h,5,.h,.5.110:1(0,11)1,.1.1..pippiddd 5,000,0004 61. P. ct. Commercial ...............5 001 . sh. 1001. pd 173 1 50 0 . 000 4 a o ct. National .................. .100/.sh. 10/. pd 16/, 2,000,0001. 6/. p. ct. Glasgow Union 111, 4,000,01.01. 4p. ct. Western of Scotland 2OOl. sh 40/. pd 601. INSURANCE COMPANIES 100/. sh. 10/. pd 19/.10: .51.0005 h 61 p. ct. Scottish Union 100/. sh. 10/. od 13//, 11; ' ,1 5 .1% ) otpp..ectt.. Hercules s ce Co. of Scotland .101. sh. all pd 10/: Os. 50,000 6p. ct. North British 2001, 1,000 sp. ct. Caledonian Fire 5,000 op. ct. Editihurgh i.,a 100/ h • Pld 14/ 01, 100,000 Si p• et. West of Scotland MISCELLANEOUS 4,810 Edin. And Was Un. Can a lso /. sh. all pa 10/ ... ..... oittc Allocated .............. pct. s h. all pd 47 ,. 5,4 00 super cent. Edinb. Jouit Steck W ater.2s/. sh. all pd 354, - Carroll Iron t ornpany ...2501. sh. all pd 44/ „inch 3 15 per cent. Shotts Iron bounacry ...... 50/ .s h 44/, pd 54/ t O,OGO *,--- " pe r veal.. Edinburgh & ~ .eith Glass.2o/.sh. 164 pd SI, 4,500 10 pe r cent. Edinburgh Coal Ga 5..... 25/. sh. a ll pd 50/ 4 :150 10 Per cent. Glasgow Gas . .............. ..25:. sh. alld 7 ,., 74 per cent. Leith Coal (l as ...............2ill. p 50 , . ;,200sh. all pd 11 5/1/ Edinburgh and lalkeitli Rewayso/. MI 371. ......... :..01) s net . i ,,,pt, kvi r table 1.0, ,',, ..,,,,, -.V. gh.,141 0 . ill/ .0•••1•1.....01.,..................s SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCE. —Lately a swal low's nest, containing three young birds, fell down from the window of a house in Rdlokshaws. They were fully picked up by the proprietor, and placed in an old hat on the tile, to which the parents resorted, and fed them regularly. On learning the disaster, a general mueter of the swallows instantly took place on the roof of the house, and after the matter had been duly discussed, which was done with greater order than takes place at some of our political meetings, they immediately proceeded to build a new nest, which they finished in about two hours.—Paisley Advertiser. EVENING EDITION. THE MARKETS.-(YESTERDAY.) PRICE OF BREAD. The highest price of Bread in the Metropolis is 10d. for the 41b. oat. Wood Bread may be had at St. d. PRICES OF SEEDS. Per Cwt. Per Quarter. New English fled Clover...sos. Sts St. Foin a-4 -4 ..", Old Ditto /mu -s -a. -s Rye Brass -s 40s, 440 New Foreign Ditto ...-s. 60s. f,3s r,,, , , e y Grass Old Ditto Ditto s .-4 Linseed, for feeding -s 4ss. 52' New White Clover 4ss. 555. 6,5. Ditto, for sowing -.5. 545. slis Old Ditto Ditto -s. -s. -s. Ditto, for crushing...--s 42s es New Trefoil -a. 18s. 3/'s Canary -s 70s. 80s. Old Ditto -a. los 2.2 s Hemp -s 53; 40s. Trefolitim Per Bushel. English Carraway -s. 545. 58s. White Mustard...lls. Od. 14s. ad. Foreign Ditto -3. 50s. 5.,.s Brown Ditto l7s. Od. 21s, Ms Coriander -s 20s. 25s Tares ss. 6,1 Bs. 6,:l Rapeseed, Engl..h tine per Last) 301. 3! 1 Foreign 281. 301. PRICES OF HOPS. Farnham . ,icke. , , (per cwt.) 0 Os. 0/. Os. to 0!. OS. East K ~,t Pockets Ditto Bags ": los. 0. ' 0: to .4:' 4s. Mid Kent Pockets 3l. 103. 4/. - 10s. to 5/ I:2r. Ditty Bags 3. 100. 0 Os t 4. 4. Os. Sussex Yearlings Ol. Os. 31. 3s. to 3/. 10a. Old Olds Old Duty estimated at 230,090/ Four pockets of New Hops arrived at market this week, and sold at 70s. per cwt PRICES OF LEATHER, Pcr lb. d. to d Per lb. d. to d. CropHides,3 to 401 b each I 1 lai gorse Hides, i ennui... 12 22 ---- 4 , ' 50 V/ 16 -- Spanish 13 2 4 _to 60 Bull Hides ..... ~ Butts, V triol ... ---- Engi sh .... 15 24 -- 70 100 Foreign t oreign Hides Dressing Hides .. ..... 11 14 Kips . ----- —Shaved... 13 17 8a5 , 15... Bes Saddlers' Hides... 15 l 6 B e lli es Horse Hides, English ... 11 I ' Shout ers Call Skins, if rounded :2cl. to 4d Nor lb. more. PRICE (W OIL. RapeOil,brown, pe ton, 3 ,- I.os.—Ref , ed,37/.es. —* inseed 'il, 261.1 04 Linseed oil Cake at the Mill (11540), 13/. os.— Rape Cake, per ton, 71. PRICE oF TALLOW, S , JAP, tic. per 1121 b. Town Tallow s:s. 6d. gel w Soap... Yellow Russia si s. Id. Mottled White Soap Ditto ... Melting Stull .... Ditto Rough PRICE OF RAW FAT, per stone of 81b. Price of Tallow (as stated by the Tallow Melters) 2s. 10%cl. PRICE F. CANDLES. The price of good Store andles in the Retail Shops is as follows :-- Candles, pa dozen, Ss. Od. ; inferior, ; Moulds, 9s. (Id. Si4ence per doze, discount for cash, COAL MARKET. s. d Adair's Bell, Itobson & Co. Hartley 18 9 Holywell Main 2l 0 Original Windsor's Pnntop 2 l 0 Tantield Moor 22 West Hartley 2l 6 Willington 2l 0 Wylam. Walls Endßraddyll's Helton '42 9 Wal s End Haswell Walls End Hettoo Walls End Lambron 23 :1 Walls End Russell's Hetton 1.3 0 Walla End Stewart's z3 hips arrived since I d. Walls ii:nd Whltwell 22 0 Walls End Hartlepool 23 3 Walls End Adel: ide Walls'End arrington Tees '2O ! S , Walls End Claver ng 11b W •Ils End Gordon ....... Walls End Seym*ur Tees 2l Walls End Tees 22 Walls End Tennant 0 Blythe. rz Cowpen Howard'.. Netherton ?Jain 13 9 Naas End Devonshire .ast market-day, 88, (From the London New Price Current of September 6•) SUGAR—The importers of West India have generally refusk.d to submit to lower prices this week, in some instances, however, Sugars have been sold rather under previous rates, but the demand has been limited from the grocers, they taking only suffi cient to supply their immediate wants, brown Berbice at 62s ; grey Tobagoes 63s 6d; Dominica, not so good in colour, but with more grain. 64; 61; Jamaica, g- , od grey 654 61; and good yellow Autigua at 65s to 665; 100 hhds Barbadoes at public sale went rather lower for mid dling qualiti-s, but, other kinds fetched previous rates; the prices paid were 65s to 68. 6d for middling to fine quality. Tnis afternoon there was little life in the market, both grocers and refiners continuing to purchase cautiously; the reduction fur the week is generally 6d. per cwt. REFINED —The home trade have purchased sparingly of Refitted goods, lumps equal to the standard have been sold at 82a to 82- 6d, and common brown lumps at 80s gd per cwt. For shipping, goods refined under bond brae been in good demand; Gushed has brought 34s 9d to 355, and Loaves 40s to 45s per cwt; in Dutch under 33s 6d then: are no sellers; MAURITIUS.-Good yellow fetched 66s to 66s 6d, good middling 64s to 65-, low to middling 62s 6d to 63s 6d, good to fine brown 61s 6d to' 625 6d, middling 60s 6d to 61s, low foxy 58s 6d, low middling greyish 62s 6d to 63 6 4 and middling 64s per cwt. This afternoon 4,216 bags were offered at public srAle, nearly the whole were sulphurous, and being only suit,able for the pan they sold is under former rates, good to MI bright yellow went a t 64 s to 66 5, m id 62s to 635, tow m id 60s 6d to 61s 6d, mid b rown 5 9 s to 60s, and low mi d 56s 6d to 57s 6d, clean kinds brought nearly former rates. EAST INDIA.-Bengal continues in good request by tb s home trade, and the rates previously established have bee p fully supported ; 5.400 bags at public sale s o ld freely, Iniu tiling to good yellow at 63s 6d to 653 6d, fine strong wbite 70s 6d, good 68s to 68s 6d, middling 67s to 67s 6d, ordi nary 66s to 66s 6d, and washed 64s to 665. This afternoon the auctions consisted of 1,089 baske ts Java and 425 bags Manilla; the former were all taken at stiff prices, viz, fair grey at 26s to 275, and mid yell c4ll 23s to 253, there were buyers within 6d of these priceft; the latter sold at 19s 6d for very low dark brown, and O s to 185 6d for washed, being their full value. less FOREIGN.-For yellow llavannah there has Leen . 1 1 inquiry, and the priv a t e p urc h ases h ave been. rill a "1 scale, but the pikes of last week have been su pported white continues in request, and 400 chests hive 'oeen disposed of privately at 43s for good quality be: Ang on a par with previous rates. This afternoon too boxes white Wivan•nah, and 300 chests Bahia, were offered at public sale ; the former sold at high prices, viz. mid dry white at 4Q3, and washed at 35s a 360 per cwt ; the latter was near i ty all taken in above its value, viz. low to good dry grey and white at 26s a 30s, ord or fine brown 20s a 23s per cwt. COFFEE.—The trade have bought cautiously of Br al' id Plantation and the purchases hav e b een l ess by prilka,"; contract, but the mer c h ants h av i ng supplied the Inar-- sparingly, have lair:vented any decline in prices ; at sue" tion 94 casks Jramaica found buyers, middling at 10 3 1 121 s, fine and fi ne fi ne or di nary 1093 to 1143 6 d, g ood ordinary 961 to 101 s 6d, and low ordinary 81s to 955. This afternoon there was no auction of British Planta tion, and the few sales privately were at former rates 967 bags Domingo, and 236 bags East India were offered at auction : the former was taken in at 49s to 50s for or dinary and good ordinary mixed, being is a Is 6d abo ve . its value, th ere were b uyers at 48 s 6d, and the latter sol d at 61s 6d to 645. RUM, BRANDY, AND HOLLAND& —The announcement of a Government contract for 80,000 gallons of Rum, has caused a brisk demand for Leewards, principally for the lower strengths, and the' purchases have amounted to 650 puns, at prices equal to those of last week, proofs to 3 per over fetching 3s 6id a 3s 7id, 4 to 6 ever 3s 8d a 3s 9d , 9to 12 ovt r 3i 10d a 4 13 to 15 over 4s 1d ats 4,2 d, 16 to 19 over 4s 3d a4s 4d. Jamaica is hel d firmly, but there has not been much doing ; the sales are only 100 puns, 28 per cent overproof at 5s 10d 30 to SI over 6 , , and 32 to 34 over fine quality at . 6s 6d per gallon. 700 puns have been received since this day week —Brand , of good quality has sold to a fair extent, and prices are on the advance.—Geneva has been in fair request at 2s.^ — " Buitish Corn Spirits are selling at lOs 2d per gallon. Oas.—This afternoon 340 tuns Southern at public sale were principally sold at 231 to 251 103 for low mid dark to fine pale quality. Spices.—Cassia Lignea, middling quality, has brcragb! 60s, and good 64s In Malabar Pepper the operztion e have been limited ; and at a public sale of 2,564 robing , prices gave way id per lb; good and fine half heavy selling at 4d to 4id ; and fair at 30. East India Ginger has been taken sparingly. In West India there is no alteratio!._ Nutmegs are held firmly, but th e demand has. b ee n 010 for small lots. This afternoon 215 bags Bourbon Cloves . at public 5310 were taken in at Is Cid for good middling, tahieh is rather below previous rates. • _ _ SALTPETRE.—This afternoon the market was flat; there were two public sales of Rough, consisting of 2,986 bags Calcutta, only half of which found buyers at prices 6 , under the last auction, 11 t o 10i per cent re f ract i on solo at 23s 6d to 245, 6 per cent 23 s 6d t o 24 5 , 51- pe r cent 24s 6d, and 41 to q per cent, 25s to 25s 6d per cwt. TALLOW is 49s on the spot, and 48s 3d a 48s 6d to ar rive in the last three months. This afternoon 364 cask 9 P Y C were offered at auction, and partly sold at 499 t ° 49a 3d for first quality. TEA.—The Monthly Auctions have terminated, having lasted only thrr.le days. In the absence of further iac counts from Cant on as t o th e f u ture positi o n th e t ra de wo: be in there, the dealers, having purchased pretty freely 1 ": the sales of last week, and apprehensive of the state of the money market, were not inclined to add to their stocks of Tea; ; and the importers, confident that the further P s, 11 sible arrivals this year must be small,, and that the quan tities of future seasons must be materially diminished u. 7 the recent disarrangement of the China trade, were firm i° holding prices up to the recent sales' value, and in mall cases withdrew large parcels rather than submit to those rates. The amount of business done has been therefore veil limited, and the alterations in prices very immaterial. Since the sales a good many breaks have been sold, prinel pally of the common and blackish leaf kinds of Congou at Is 5d to Is 10d, and the prices paid are equal to those of ast week. SECOND-HAND PLATE PURCHASED.. A. B. SAVORY and SONS, Goldsmiths, No. 14, Core 7 J l London ( oppos i te the Bank of England), inform Execateru others, wishing to dispose of Second-hand Plate, that, f r° , l3 ; having a rea d y sa l e, t h ey can offer more advantage•us than can usually be given by the Trade ; payment may e'tm, j . he recei ve d i n cas h, or t h e amonnt a ll o e d i n exchange '- other silve. GENTLEMEN'S ELEGANT FLAT GOL D WATCHES are offered, price Nine Guineas each, of 49i ;;1 suited to wear in the waistcoat p oc k e t, eng i ne t urne d c ases, ,„ enamel dial, and hand to mark th e s e con d s . Th e movements ago on the celebrated horizontal cons t r u ct i on , w ith go ing full 7 continue going while winding, j ewe ll e d, & 0 ., an d warrant ,. a T. COX SAVORY'S, Watchmaker, &c., No. 47, Cornhill (Sevin doors from Gracechurch-street ), London. N.B. Second-hand Watches, Plate, &c. purchased in oxehang ,wssyws..7.l.sas, BIRTHS. On the 3d inst., at Glocester-place, Southsea, Portsteo'ath, the lady of Captain Robert Moresby, Indian Navy, of 'a On and daughter. On the 4th inst., Mrs. Charles Henshaw, of a daur:hter. On the sth inst., in Arlington-street, Piccadilly, Mrs• r." ward Moore, of a son. On the sth inst., at Great Russell-street,, the wife of th e Rev. Robert Morris, of a son. MARRIED. On the 3d inst., at Walton-on- the-h:;11, Lancaster. the B ev ' Thomas Clark, M.A. , Incumbent of Ch r i s t Church, Presto to Louisa, second daughter of the late Willi a m Rigby,° n Moss-house, West. Derby. D LE7; . On the 2d ;nst., Martha, the wife of David D. Inglis, Esq . ' of Devonshire-place. London : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG' No. 112, Strand, at The Sun °dice, No. 112, Strand , 1 ' the county of Middlesex..—Saturday, September 7, 181n4