The Sun. — London, England, 1844-09-11 00:00:00

LONDON AND YORK RAILWAY.:—The Shareholders are informed that the Capital of the Cozipany has been increased to 5,000,0001., and that the whole amount is now subscribed, so that no further applications fur Shares can be receiN ed. It has bean farther determined that the Trunk Line of the London and York Railway shall pass from Doncaster by Selby to 'York, and that a branch shall be made from Doncaster to Wakefield, and ano ther from Lincoln, on the banks of the Foss and Witham to Boston, and further, that seven of the directors of the Wakefield, Lincoln, and Boston projected Railway Company shall be forthwith added to the directors of the London and York, and that seven of the latter shall retire, and the se. arate scheme of the Wakefield, Lincoln, and Boston projectors be merged in this undertaking. (Signed) E. B. DENISON, Vice-Chairman. FRANCIS MOWATT, Vice-Chairman, In the absence of the Chairman. BARKER, ROSE, and NORTON, Solicitors to the London and York Railway. J. R. MOWATT, Secretary. Lothbury, London, Sept. 10, 1844. Countersigned on . behalf of the Wakefield, Lincoln, and Boston projected Railway Company. JOHN M. LAWS. JOSEPH HEGAN. THEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM, SE LATE ENGLISH OPERA HOU. Under the Management of Mrs. KEELEY. Another great Achievement Successfully Triumphant I ! I To attempt to eulogise the gorgeous splendour of the New Extrava ganza of " Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, or New Lamps for Old Ones," would be a work of supererogation ,- the Manage ment, therefore, contents itself by simply stating that it will be repeated every Evening I THIS EVENINII, SEPT. 11, Will be repeated a New Drama, entitled MARTIN CHUZZLE. W lr. Principal characters by Messrs. R. Younge, F. Vining, Emery, F. Mathews, A. Wigan, Meadows, Kinloch, Turner, Stanton, J. W. Collier, Yarnold, Sanders, and Keeley; Miss E. Chap in, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. A. Wigan, Mrs. Woellidge, Mita Groves, Mrs. Usher, Miss Turner, and Mrs. Keeley. To conchl(' with an entirely Original, and much better than New, Grand Operatic, Romantic, Melo-Dramatic, Burlesque Extra. vaganza, founded on the celebrated Eastern Pale, in the Arabian Nights' Entertainment, entitled ALADDIN AND THE WON DERFUL LAMP; or, New Lamps for Old Ones. With very extensive New Scenery, Machinery, Dresses, &c. Principal cha racters by Mrs. Keeley, Messrs. F. Matthews, Turner, A. Wigan, J. W. Collier, and Keeley; Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Woolli ige, Miss E. Chaplin, Mrs. A. Wigan, Miss Turner, MI al James, Miss Carson, Miss Hunt, Miss Reede, &c., PRICES' OF A I)l4lSglON.—Balcony Boxes, 41.; Upper Boxes, 95.; Pit 2s.'l, Gallery, 6d. Second Price—Balcony Boxes, 2s. ; Upper Boxes, Is 6d.; Pit, Is. Private Boxes on the tiolc , )ny Tier (holding eight persons), Tao Guineas. Private Boxes on the Second Tier (holding eight persona), One Guinea and a-Half. Private Boxes on the Pit tier (holding six persons), One (luireo. The Box-,)slice is open from Ten to Four o'Clock, under the direc tion of Mr. Grogan, late of Covent-garden Theatre. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. BATTY. Nightly overflows, and Re-engagement of the wonders of Mr. Carter, the American Lion King. THIS EVENING, SEPT. 11, Will be repeated the French Equestrian Military Spectacle of the LION OF THE DESERT AND THE FRENCH IN MOROCCO. Abdallah, the Outcast Arai), Mr. Carter. New Scenes of the Circle. To conclude with the new Euestrian, Military and Naval Spectacle, entitled THE CHINES E WAR; or, The Conquests of Amoy by British Arms. New Scenery, Messes, Appointments, &c., to realise the rccent triumphs of England's Army and Navy. Feast of 250 Lanterns. Acting and stale-manner ) Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. Box-office open from Eleven till Five. Lessons in the Art of Riding by Mr. R. Smith. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. IMMENSE ATTRACTION. MADAME VESTRIS AND MR. CHARLES MATHEWS, FOR THIS WEEK ONLY. THIS EVENING, SEPT. 11, Will be performed USED UP. Sir Charles Coldstream, Mr C, Mathews. After which, rHE LOAN OF A LOVE 1. Peter spyk, Mr, Charles Mathews; Gertrude, Madame Vestris. To be followed by the Farce to of TWO IN THE MORNING. Newpenny, Mr. Vale ; Stranger, Mr. Charles Mathews. To conclude with the RENT DAY. Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box cffice, fro n Eleven to Four. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. THIS EVENING, SEPT. 11, Will be per formed Shakspeare's 'tragedy of HA NI LET. Hamlet, Mr. J. Hudson Kirby; Gertrude, Mrs. W. West; Ophelia, Alias Vincent. After which, JACK AND THE BEANSTALK; or, The Lad that knew how many Beans made Five. Jollibuffa, Mr John Herbert; Jack, Miss Vincent. To:conclude with the favourite burletta calved MAI a or WIFE Rakewell, Mr. Seaman : Ready, Mr. John Herbert ; Lidy Rake. well, Miss Hamilton • Fanny (with Songs), Miss Louisa Lyons. Private Fa mily Boxes, £1 ls. Od. and X 1 1 Is. 6d. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. EXTRAORDINARY AND NOVEL ATTRACTIONS. On MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, and T d URS DAY, throughout the Season, the Gardens will open with the following attractive Novelties : THE PICTURESQUE GROUNDS—FEEDING OF THE ANIMALS—UNRIVALLED MENAGERIE. MODELS of VENICE and LONDON in the OLDEN TIME, Painted by Danson and Telbia. The sensation caused by this unrivalled pro:luction is beyond all former precedent; the artist, the amateur, the casual observer are all struck with its extraordinay beauty and fidelity of delinea tion, and are unanimous in pronouncing it the most wonderful ex hibition ever witnessed. To view it only as a vehicle for the terrific display at Dusk is unjust; it should be seen in the cairn stillness of the quiet Evening, with its Towers and Steeples reflected in the spa.. cious Lake, to be filly appreciated. Beethoven's celebrated Battle Sinfonia ' descriptive of an En gagement between the French and Englisi Armes. The Evening PROMENADE CONCERTS on Mondays, Tues days, Wednesdays, and Thursdays comucted uy Mr. Godfrey , are upon a scale of more than usual excellence; hut words fail In doing justice to the awful representation of THE GREAT FIRE 01. LONDON. Its fearful I:h.iracteristics are truthfully pourtrayed, but at the same time so beautifully blended with the Wonders of the Pyrotechnic Art, that delight is predominant over terror; and the Thousands who nightly crowd the Gardens hail it with acclamations, and admit that :2 outl,by, ;he Unrivalled Pyrotechnist has achieved a matchless triumph. The taidens and Zoological Collection are in the most perfect state, and combining so many and interesting features, are by far the most attractive lounge in or near the metropolis. Doors open at Nine—Feeding of the Animals at Half-past Four— Concert at Half-past Five,—Conflagration at Dusk. Admittance, One Shilling. lOWAY INDIANS, at VAUXHALL GARDENS. Equestrian, Archery, Hal Play, and other Fetes, THIS DAY. Mr. Catlin, having made arrangements for these famous and spa cious grounds, will turn the Fourteen loway Indians loose for a few days, where they can be seen to great advantage in all the freedom of forest life. Their tents pitched, forming a picturesque encampment, in front of which they will give the War and other Dances, the Ball Play, Target Shooting, and Riding; the whole party of men on horse back, on their own saddles, of splendid construction, in a spacious ground, and fully equipped for the chace or war, with shield and quiver, bow and lance, as seen in the native wilds and prairies of America. The Exhibition will continue from Three o'clock till Six. Doors open at Half-past Two. Admittance One Shilling. Schools half price. EGYPTIAN HALL, PICCADILLY. IMPORTANT NOTICE. DNS SHILLING Admission to THE NAPOLEON MU SEUM, the most magnificent and extensive Collaction of Histo rical Curiosities and Works of Art ever known to hive been formed by One Person. during Twenty-five years of elaborate research, at a cost of lin,ooo guineas, and to completely illastrate, in the most in structive and interesting manner, the most itnportaht part of Euro pean history, viz.—CHARLES 1., OLIVER CROMWELL, and LOUIS XIV., to the deaths of GEORGE llf., and the EMPEROR tPOLEON, In 1821. This unique Museum has been visited often, during the last and present year, by the Royal Family, the Duke of Wellington, the Foreign Princes, Ambassadors, an .1 their Ladies, also, many thousands of the Nobility and Public ; and the Pro prietor has recently been able to increase, by several very fine pictures, &c., his previous almost incredible number and variety of MSS., Works of Art, and a multitude nt valuable /teller, and other callosities, in this most instructive and, as hundreds have said it ought to be, a National Museum. Mary thousand have insitected it, and THIRTY PRINCIPAL EDITORS of the PUBLIC PRESS lave stated that it ought to be seen by every one. The price of admis- Pion is reduced to ONE SHILLING. The NAPOLEON MUSEUM is to be seen only at the "Egyptian Hall." Piccadilly. daily ti om Tea till Dusk. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Our Correspondent, who writes from the Junior United Service Club, is perfectly correct. THE WEATHER.—SIIN OFFICE, SEPT. 11. YIERMOMETER, Lowest, 47 ; Highest, 64 ; Noon, 6 BAROMETER, N.E. IsTarz.—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the freezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is u many placed opposite 30, and rain at 29. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. M inning ... 52 minutes after 0 1 Evening ... 12 minutes after 1 e ' , .0 • u,„ , • At 4 4 ! ,„ ‘ 7,14 10 6, U SECOND EDITION. ruin it) LONDON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1844' On Mond.ty last Mr. O'CoNNELL made his appear ance in the Hall of the Repeal Association for the first time since his escape from the undesired em braces of the Richmond Penitentiary. As might have been anticipated, his reception by the thousands who thronged the hall and all the avenues approach ing to it, was enthusiastic in the extreme ; and it was full a quarter of an hour before the acclama tions ceased, and the great lion of the day was allowed to address his excited audience. His speech, though comparatively calm, was very decided in its tone, and advocated the expediency of continuing the Repeal agitation with renewed energy. But its chief point may be found in the following significant passage :—" I shall now lay before you," said Mr. O'CosNELL, " a plan which I frequently proposed last year ; I mean the collection of the Preservative Society for Ireland, consisting of a body of three hundred gentlemen sitting in Dublin. The point is surrounded by legal difficulties, and must be ap proached with serious consideration. My plan is shortly this— that three h un d re d gen tl emen f rom t h e various counties in Ireland should meet on a certain day in Dublin, and that their title to meet sho . uld be the handing i n o f a hundred pounds ea d ch h ,theythe should appoint a t reasurer of their ow working of their ow n f unds. I do not a i n nten a d va tl t ni e t they shall initiate y any t hi ng, but that they shall control everything, and th at the Repeal Association shall be completely governed by them, and not ven ture on any act without their previous sanction. A body of this kind would comprise so many of the wealthy and influential of Ireland, that it would be an effectual check to any rash, revo:utionary outbreak, and would be a steady drag on the wheel of the movement. It would be of that bearing on society and high station, that it could enter into treaty with Government,—it could arrange its own plans with Ministers, and stipulate terms. And here let me say, that I quite agree in making the experi ment of a federal Parliament. I want any Parlia ment which will protect Ireland, and I ask for no more. I will this day week move for a Select Committee to consider the possibility of such an assemblage as I have just spoken of, and to prepare cases to have laid before the most eminent lawyers of England and Ireland." There are two points in the above passage —to. say nothing o f th e l ea di ng propos iti on conta i ne d init—whi c h are well worthy of attention. The first is, Mr. O'Corrmes announcement of his intention to take no further step of moment—such, for in- stance, as the gathering together of the three hun dred Repealers, with each a hundred-pound note in his breeches pocket—without previously getting the best legal opinions on the subject—an intention which has no doubt been materially quickened by his very natural dislike to pay another visit to the Rich mond Penitentiary. The second point is, the speaker's evident apprehension of the progress of the Repeal movement, which, in case it should become too democratic and anarchical in its tendencies, he proposes to check by the counteracting influence of three hundred Repealers of birth, fortune, education, and intelligence, who would have every possible in ducement to prevent the mere mob of agitators from getting too much in the ascendant. This is the first time, within our recollection, that Mr. O'Corninu. has ever expressed the slightest apprehension of the effects of popular sway in Ireland. Up to this period he has invariably worked with the people—we here use the term people in its most comprehensive sense— but now, he seems to think it not impossible that in the progress of the Repeal agitation they may be too much carried away by wild, impracticable theories of liberty, and consequently he proposes to raise up a sort of moderating, if not antagonistic, authority, in the form of a Society consisting of individuals who from their position in the social scale cannot be expected to have any very ardent sympathies with the mob, but will make a point of checking them, whenever their movements become embarrassing to the interests of the higher and middle classes of Irishmen. The proposition is a remarkable one, con sidering the quarter whence it emanates. It is just as if a GRAccuuS should raise up an aristocratic bar rier against the encroachments of the democratic principle ! Mr. O'CorizaLL's object in making it is clearly two-fold. First, to restrain within becoming limits the wishes, the feelings, and the movements of the Irish masses as the work of agitation proceeds ; and, secondly, to enlist the sympathies of the higher and middle classes of his countrymen in the cause of Repeal, by convincing them that they have nothing to fear, inasmuch as there will be a Preservative Society, possessed of immense influence, to stand be tw•een them and the mob. Now this is all very well in theory, so long as Repeal continues to be as distant and improbable a remedy as it con fessedly is at present; but were an unforeseen conjunction of circumstances ever to favour its pro gress ; were it once to begin seriously to occupy men's minds in England, in consequence of the proved inability or disinclination of Government to deal justly by Ireland ; moreover were the vast masses of the Irish people, instead of ardently hoping for the advent of Repeal, to be fully impressed with the conviction that it was close at hand—in such an excit ing state of things, the influence of Mr. O'CoisnaLL's aristocratic Preservative Society would be as naught ; the mob-orators and the mob-leaders—and plenty of both would be sure to spring up in the Association and else rihere—would carry all before them, by holding out the wildest hopes and promises to the deluded populace ; and the three hundred members of the Preservative Society would, in the universal frenzy of the moment, be as surely over whelmed, as the Girondists were by the Jacobins, during the first stormy outbreak of the French Revo lution. The spirit of St. Andrew-Agnewism, notwithstand ing the numerous public rebuffs it has received, and he ridicule with which it has been treated, by the more rational portion of the community, is far from being yet extinct among us, but even now and then gives such unquestionable indications of vitality as satisfies us that it needs only a little encouragement to become as active a nuisance as ever. It is not a fortnight since a respectable individual named GRANT was convicted at Brighton of having sold newspapers on Sunday, notwithstanding that the practice is a common one in the metropolis and many other of our great towns and cities ; and has been so far from injuring either the religious and moral feelings of the people, that it has, in fact, been productive of consi derable benefit, by keeping some hundreds employed in pleasant and instructive reading during those hours which they might otherwise, from the want of such harmless occupation, have spent in the coffee-room or the gin-palace. It is not a fortnight, we repeat, since this conviction of an unoffending tradesman took place at Brighton ; and no later than last week, the magisterial authorities of Gravesend, resolved not to be behindhand with their Sussex brethren, enacted a farce of a somewhat similar character. The leading incidents in this egregious farce are as follows : WILLIAM BRADSHAW, a poulterer, was charged in the Police-court with having pursued on Sunday, the Ist instant, his ordinary occupation of weighing people for money. Inspector OXLEY stated that he saw the defendant on that day weighing several persons in a machine on Windmill-hill, for which he received the sum of one penny from each indi vidual, and consequently he believed this to be his ordinary occupation. In defence, it was urged by the accused's solicitor, that he was a poulterer by vo cation, and that his weighing-machine was merely a harmless mode of amusing himself and ethers on the day in question. This defence, regarded even in a legal view, to say nothing of its common sense re commendations, ought to have been successful, since the law only prohibits people from following their ordinary calling on the Sabbath, and makes no refe rence to their extra-ordinary occupations or amuse ments. The argument, however, was overruled by the magistrate, who, in the excess of his puritanical zeal, declared that he would convict in every proved case of Sunday trading or Sabbath breach, until the scandal of it was for ever removed from the regene rated town of Gravesend ; and then descending from generals to particulars, the august official concluded by fining the defendant five shillings and costs. We cannot imagine a more absurd conviction than this, or one less likely to answer the purpose which the magistrate professes to have in view. Surely he cannot seriously mean to put his threat into execu tion ! If he be really resolved to convict all those who are found guilty of following their ordinary vocation on the Sabbath, Heaven help the doomed inhabitants of Gravesend! What is to become of the Sunday steam-boat travelling to and from that un happy town ? What, of its numerous publicans, its proprietors of tea-gardens, its hotel-keepers, and all that large class who derive no slight portion of their income by catering to the tastes of the shoals of Cockneys, in whose eyes a Sunday pleasure excur sion to Gravesend is a matter of no slight moment ? Are all these to be subjected to harassing annoyances and persecutions, because the magisterial authorities of the town happen to be fanatically disposed ? Be cause Mr. OXES is " virtuous," shall there be " no more cakes and ale" at Gravesend ? We have no pa tience with such pharisaical cant! We have ever strenuously protested against it, and shall ever con tinue to protest, for to interfere with the harmless Sabbath recreations of the people, is the very worst means that can be adopted for promoting a religious feeling among them. If their amusements be such as are at variance with propriety and social order ; if they tend to produce a breach of the peace, and rouse evil passions among those who engage in them, then, let them be put a stop to, since common sense and justice alike call for their discontinuance; but if they be manifestly inoffensive, and render those happy and contented who would otherwise be devoured by spleen and ennui, then, so far is it from being the duty of a magistrate to endeavour to put an end to them, that it is his duty rather to encourage, or at any rate to abstain from all petty and vexatious interference with, them. A Sunday crusade against railways, steam-boats, wherries, the baker's oven, and the old woman's fruit-stall, never yet made a people religious, and never will make them so. Accounts from Madrid, of the 3d instant, an nounce that Government have now no doubt of a large majority of supporters in the new Cortes. The result could hardly be otherwise, considering the unconstitutional and despotic conduct of NARVAEZ and his colleagues. The Heraldo, a Government paper, thus boasts of the victory gained over the Opposition " The resuit of th e e l ect i ons of the presidents and secretaries of th e b ureaux in the twelve wards of the capital, has been favourable to the Parliamentary can didates ; the pure Monarchists, wh o presente d them selves to dispute the victory, were left in an insignificant minority. The conduct of th e P rogresistas, who sacri ficed their private resentments , and c ame f orward in a j few districts to ointhe Parliamentary electors i n com bating the Absolutists, is entitled to our most sincere praise, and ought to be , at the same time,a severe lesson for those who indulge in the hope of bringing us back to the days of the Torquemadas. No ; a ll t h e Liberals would form an invincible phalanx, the moment they should perceive that the institutions, conquered at the price of their blood and fortune, were in danger. Moreover, the show of strength made by the Absolutists in Madrid, has only tended to cover them with a ridicule which has fallen on the respectable persons who figured on their lists of candidat e s. ' The Three per Cents. were done at 27/ at sixty days ; the Five per Cents. at 19i ; and the Floating Debt at 601 at sixty days. Though the Ministerial journals of England and France have been publishing from day to day articles showing, or rather pretending to show, the condi• tions on which an arrangement has been come to with regard to the Otaheite affair, it was impossible to ascertain what they really were. At one time PRITCHARD was to be " thrown overboard" alone— at another time he was to be accompanied by D'AUBIGNY and BRUAT, while it turns out that the Englishman is to be the only sufferer, neither BRUAT nor D'AUBIGNY is to be recalled. There is to be no disavowal of their acts—the expression of simple regret, and the offer of an indemnity to Mr. PRITCHARD, are all that the English Government have obtained for "a gross outrage, accompanied by gross indignity." But we will allow the French Ministerial journal to tell the tale. " What did the Opposition journals say scarcely three days back ?" asks the Journal des Debats, with an air of triumph. " They said that M. GUIZOT had offered to disavow and recal Capt. D'AUBIGNY. They added that Eng land, not satisfied with the sacrifice of M. D'AUBIGNY, in addition demanded the disavowal and recal of the Governor, M. BRUAT. In a word, the whole polemics of the Opposition, for nearly a month, have turned on these two hypo theses, which served as a pretext to a thousand de clamations against either the weakness and baseness of M. GUIZOT, or the intolerable pride of England. The truth is now known. Did M. GUIZOT offer to disavow and recal M. D'AUBIGNY ? No, since M. D'Auaioxy is neither disavowed nor recalled. Did the English Cabinet demand the disavowal and recal, not only of M. D'AUBIGNY, but still more of M. BRUAT ? Through whatever phases the negotiation may have passed, one thing is certain, that the ar rangement is concluded, and that M. BRUAT is no more disavowed and recalled than M. D'AUBIGNY. M. GUIZOT must, therefore, be praised for his firmness if he refused the double sacrifice demanded from him; and the English Cabinet must be lauded for its loyalty and moderation, if, after a more mature examination, perceiving that there had only been, on our part, a want of proper forms in the employment of a right, it withdrew part of its demands. The Op position was so imprudent as to lay its siege before hand. It reckoned, at least, on the recal and destitu tion of M. D'AUBIGNY. All their :pieces were ar ranged in battery to open on M. GUIZOT, the day when it should be understood the sacrifice was consummated. What then happens ? This intractable England, which will have war at any price, is satisfied with a regret and a blame expressed by our Government. This Minister of Foreign Affairs of France, who wants peace at any price, has not even offered what the Opposition supposed he would offer. He has not yielded. Reckoning on the wisdom of the Govern ment of England, he adhered to his first propositions, and at last brought Lord ABERDEEN anti Sir P. PEEL over to them. No disavowal, no recal ! The expres sion of a simple regret, and the offer of an indemnity to Mr. PRITCHARD ! Here was an occasion even for the Opposition journals to congratulate themselves on a result which they must have a so little expected. But, no, had M. BRUAT and M. D'AUBIGNY been recalled, Mr. PRITCHARD sent back in triumph to Otaheite, the ultimatum of which so much has been said, and of which the National, as late as Thursday last, detailed the dishonourable conditions accepted by the Minis try, there could not be a greater lamentation over the humiliation of France. The National is of opinion that the hour of our downfal has struck, and bewails our ruined greatness, and all that apparently because M. GUIZOT did not offer the disavowal and recal of M. WAusioNr, and because England did not demand the disavowal and recal of M. BRUAT. But we shall not have war ; we shall not even have a Minis terial crisis. No, we shall not have war; two great nations will not tear each other to pieces for a futile subject of dispute ; two great Governments have had the good sense to come to an understanding in place of obestinately differing about a false point of honour ; two Cabinets which pride themselves on having for four years maintained a good intelligence between the countries which they govern, hare declined offer ing to the world the odious and ridiculous spectacle of a policy of peace, ending in a war of the most foolish character! Let those bewail whose plans and hopes are deranged by peace ! That war which they thought they almost held within their grasp escapes them, and they must now seek another quarrel ! For our parts, we hope that the wisdom o f the two nations, and the two Governments, will con tinue to confound their sinister designs ! We shall not e en have a Ministerial crisis, and that is what afflicts; the Opposition, which is only warlike because the 31 inistry is pacific. The Opposition did not ex pect so happy and so honourable an arrangement; all that it said for the last fortnight proves it, and the anger it feels at being mistaken proves it still more." Well. If this be a settlement, to use the words of Sir )1 ()mar PEAL, " perfectly consistent with the honor xr and the interest of both countries," all we can say is. that his idea of honour is very different from that itr almost every other Englishman. Indeed, the Frenczh Opposition journals admit the fact, for while they ptretend to blame M. GUIZOT for yielding one inch, they say the conditions are dishonourable to both countries. " They bring dishonour," says the Nati( 'nal, "on M. Pima, because, after having in solent y and publicly demanded an ample repara tion, lie should not have been contented with a paltry (mesquine) reparation." The Courrier Fran cais re, :Icons, that about 1,0001. will be offered to Mr. PRITCHARD ; but, at the same time, expresses z hope that ela en this sum will be refused by the Chambers. Some hope, however, still remains that the affair is not so , bad as represented by the French journals, and we w ill, therefore wait, though impatiently, for some more distinct explanation from the English Govern ment. The following are miscellaneous extracts from the papers r.—The National says— " M. Cormenin is on the point of going to Spal n. The Gover !merit under the Regency of Espartero, coi isulted the Hon.. Deputy on the formation of the Coui icil of State ; and as the Cortes, who are to meet on the 10th of next month, will have to deliberate on this gm stion, M. Co rnienin will probably be requested to give his ad vice upon it to the Ministry, and assist in drawn ig up the proposed law." The Bentinelle of Toulon, of Friday, says— " Ministerial orders have been received for prittiing our larger steam-ships upon a war footing, and for tuspecting with care the batteries on our shores; but as ,to the ar maments of the ships in disponability and con mission, which have been lately talked of, no arrangemel Its have been made tending to confirm them. It is not *certain that the Prince de Joinville will come to Toulon, as an nounced several days ago: because, according to recent dispatches from the Minister of Marine, the I 'rince's squadron is to be repaired at Cadiz, where hi s Royal Highness will wait the further instructions of tl ie Go ment. The transport Aube is appointed to carry out the requisite stores for refitting his squadron." A letter from the camp of General LANOR ICIERE states that 25,000 horse of the son of ABDEJSRA after having been so severely beaten by the French at Isly, were in their disordered retreat atti tcl zed by the Kabyles and Berberes, and horribly cut u . p • The Espectador of Madrid, which has mad * its re appearance, states that General NARVAEZ I lan pur chased, for 3,000,000 rials, the ancient hotel •of the Marquis de TRANSTAMABE. We read in the 21 wdon nais of the sth : " The Aemodee steam-frigate, which has just as 'rived here, has brought an Aide-de-camp of the Pr in* :e de Joinville, and urgent dispatches for the Gover at vent. An estafette was immediately sent off to Paris. It ap pears certain that the Prince will wait at Cadiz fof • the reply of these dispatches, and in this case his Royal llighness cannot arrive at Toulon before the cnd of the month. We are informed that the squadron w hicb Was on the point of returning to France is to rem; . in until further orders, part at Cadiz, and the other par t on the coast of Morocco. The attack upon the island o f Moga dore by the Moors appears to have decided the Prince on accepting new measures." THE BOURSE—MowDiz, Szrr. 9. _ First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French Five per C snts, essliv 120 . • 120 05 .. 119 95 .. 119 95 Fours., ox div...... 102 28 .. 102 20 .. 102 20 .. 102 20 Three per Cents.• •• • 81 85 .. 81 90 .. 81 30 .. il 90 Bank of France Laflitte Bank, I,ooof. ShareslCBo ..1080 —lOBO •• 1 04 ' 0 5,000 f. Sharesso6o ..5060 ..5060 ..5 06( 1 Belgian Bank . .. 655 .. 655 .. 355 .. 45* Belidsut Fives, 1831— • • 104 .. 104 104 .. 1f,4 Is4ll .. Threes 76 50 .. 76 50 .. 76 50 76 50 Spanish Threes •••.•• •• .• 343 .. 34} 34} .. Active 303 .. 31 30 31 Passive ...... •••••• 6 . • 6 .. 6 6 Old Deferred • • • . 7 .. 7 .. 7 .. 7 Dutch Two uuA-a-half 62 .. .. 62 Er^ -42 THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 11, 1844. Portuguese Five per Cents • • 44i .. 44+ .. 44} .. 44; Neapolitan...... . 9$ 2$ .. 9$ 25 .. 9$ 23 .. 9$ 25 RAMA •• •• •••• •• •• .•• •• •• 100 .. 1041 .. 1041 .. 104 k RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain •.•••••••••••• 91 5 .. 515 .. 915 .. 915 Versailles, A.B.— ...••••••• 390 .. 390 .. 383 75 .. U 5 L. 11.• •• •• •• •••• 253 75 .. 253 75 .. 252 50 .. 253 75 Rouen ...........• •• •• •••• 987 50 .. 990 .. 987 50 .. 990 Rouen to Har•.... Orleans .... ..... ••-••• •• 282 50 .. 982 55 .. 982 50 .. 982 SO Strasburg to Bale•• •• •• •• •• 247 SI .. 250 .. 247 248 75 Avignon to Marseilles•• •• •• 765 .. 765 . 765 .. 765 RAILWAY SHARES 7011 THE ACCOUIsTT, SEPTEMBER 15. St. Germain _ 925 .. 930 .. 920 .. 927 50 Versailles,R.B.•• •••••• •••• 382 50 .. 387 50 .. 382 50 .. 387 50 L.B.•••••• •••• •• 255 .. 255 .. 252 50 .. 253 75 Rouen .... .. .... ••••• • • • • • 987 50 .. 992 50 .. 987 50 . 988 75 Rouen to Havre•• •• -• • ••.•• 755 Orleans .• •. •. .. 767 50 .. 755 .. 760 •• 985 .. 982 50 .. 982 50 Strivaburg to Bale • • 247 50 .. 250 Axignoa to Maraelllea• •• • .. 247 50 .. 250 .. 76 .. 70 THIS DAY'S NEWS. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. (THIS DAY.) Thomas Chaffens, well-known to the prize-ring and a frequenter of Ben Caunt's sporting-rooms, in St. Mar tin's-lane, was charged with committing an unprovoked and violent assault on a private in the Scots Fusileer Guards. The complainant was quietly standing in the street when the defendant came up to him, and, without saying a word, struck him with his clenched fist be neath the left eye, cutting his cheek to the bone. The defendant alleged that the complainant had in sulted his wife, but this was clearly disproved by wit nesses. Mr. MALTBY said the assault was a most gross one, and he should, therefore, impose a fine of 4/., or one month's imprisonment with hard labour. The defendant said he was unable to pay the fine, and he was, accordingly, sent to gaol. Frederick George Pemberton, a young man of very fashionable appearance, described on the charge-sheet as of " No. 31, St. James's-street, gentleman," was brought up, on a Judge's warrant, on an indictment found against him " for unlawfully and ingeniously keeping certain common gaming -rooms, gaining -booths, and marquees, in the parish of St. Ann's, in the liberty of St. Alban's, in the County of Hertford." Mr. MALTBY directed that the prisoner should be im mediately taken before one of the Judges at chambers. The offence for which the prisoner stands indicted was committed at the last Gorhambury races. Indictments of a similar nature against several other well-known sport ing characters have also been found. UNION-HALL.—(THIS DAY.) Frederick Spicer, groom, in the service of Lord Hun tingtower, was charged with stealing a suit of livery, the property et' his Lordship. From Lord Huntingtower's statement it appeared the prisoner had been in his service since May. On Monday he absented himself, and inquiries being made, the pri soner was found in a public house intoxicated, and when he subsequently became sober he refused to deliver up the livery. His Lordship therefore gave him into custody. The prisoner said that he thought he had a right to the livery, as his master had promised to buy him a suit when they came from Scotland, a promise which he did not keep. Lord Huntingtower said that he bad no wish to press the charge of felony, and only wanted the restoration of his clothes. After some difficulty the prisoner at length consenter to return the livery, and he was discharged. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. EAST SURREY RACES--(YESTERDAY.) The St. George's Handicap of .5 sovs. each, two ft. Heats, twice round and a distance. (8 Subs. ; 6 of whom declared.) Mr. Werninck's Patchwork, 5 yrs, 9st, walked over. Free Handicap of 3 sov. each, and 20 added. Heats as above. (7 Subs.) Mr. Hepple's Lady Flora, 6 yrs, Bst 81b (Pattison) 1 1 Mr. Cook's Molly Mogg, 3 yrs, Bst 21b Mr. Wilson's Dart, 5 yrs, Bst 41b Mr. Werninck's Patchwork, 5 yrs, 9st 41b Won easy by three lengths. The Hunters' Stakes of 2 sovs. each, with 15 added. Heats, twice round and a distance, over 5 hurdles (7 Subs.) Mr. Wiltshire's Delusion, aged, lOst (Drewett) 1 1 Ur. Bladon's Palsamon, 6 yrs, lOst I Ilb Mr. Cowderay's Ascot, aged, 9st Mr. Paget's Bess, aged, 9st 3 0 Mr. Lamb's Donald Caird, aged, lOst 71b 0 0 Won by a length, after a good race. (RECEIVED THIS DAT.) LICHFIELD RACES—TUESDAY. The Two-years-old Stakes of 10 sous. each, with 20 added. Last half mile. Mr. Copeland's My Mary (Marlow) I Mr. A. W. Hill's Salopian The following were not placed Colonel Anson's Piquant(' Mr. E. Peel's Frances 0 Mr. Halford's Outcast 0 Mr. Meeson's b f by Jereed, dam by Bustard The Staffordshire Stakes of 20 am. each, h ft, and 5 ft, only if declared. Two miles. Mr. Ongley's Roderick, 5 yrs The Members' Plate of 501. Heats, two miles. Mr. Flintoff's Countess of Lichfield, 4 yrs l. 2 1 Mr. Shirley's Nonsuit, 5 yrs Mr. Barton's Glideaway, 3 yrs n 3 3 Mr. Wilson's Disowned, 4 yrs 0 dr ABINGDON RACES. - - - - The Produce Sweepstakes of 50 sous, each, h ft. One mile Mr. Sadler's Barricade (Brick) I Mr. Pryse's Jack Cade _ . Mr. Isaac Day's f b Bubastes out of Zelinda 3 The Cup, by subscribers of 10 sovs. each ; three yrs old, 7st 21b ; four yrs, Bst 71b ; five yrs, 9st 21b; six yrs, 9st 71b; and aged, 9st 91b. Mares, &c., allowed 31b. Winners of 100 in 1844 71b. extra. The second to save his stake, and the winner to be sold for 500/. Heats, two miles and a half. Mr. Hook's Una, 6 yrs (Treen) 1 Mr. J. Day's b c by Mazeppa, out of Busk Mr. F. Clarke's Arcanus, 5 yrs 3 Mr. Bristow's Pharaoh, 4 yrs 4 Mr. Etwall's Mainstay, 3 yrs 5 The Holme Park Stakes of 10 sovs. each, 5 ft, and 15 added. Winner to be sold for 1001. Heats, Abing don Course. Mr. Etwall's Venatrix, 4 yrs ............... (Abdale) 1 1 Sir J. Monro's Sangaree, 5 yrs 3 2 Mr. E. Tull nd Brenna, 4 yrs Mr. J. Day's Loadstune, 3_ yrs 2 4 BETTING AT MANCHESTER.—TUESDAY. GREAT YORKSHIRE STARES.-4 to 1 agst Mickey Free (t), 8 to 1 agst Rowena (off), 8 to 1 agst Ash tead Pet, 10 to 1 agst Glossy (t), 10 to 1 agst Advice. Sr. LEGER.-7 to 2 agst The Cure (off), 7 to 2 agst Ithuriel (off), 6 to 1 agst Red Deer, 8 to 1 agst Princess, 8 to 1 agst Valerian, 9 to 1 agst Bay Momus, 14 to l agst Godfrey and Lightning (t). Miss PEEL.—The accounts received this morning from Drayton Manor, Staffordshire, are, we are happy to state, somewhat more f avoura bl e , b e i ng to the effect that some slight amendment in Miss Peel's state took place yesterday evening. The inquiries were very numerous this morning at Sir R. Peel's residence in Whitehall-gardens. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, SEPT. 11.—Wind N., fresh breeze, and fine. DEAL, SEPT. 10.---A.M. Wind N.N.W. to N.N.E. p.m. N.N.W.—Arrd. John Watt, Donovan, China ; expe rienced a succession of hard gales about the middle of June ; Lucy Sharp, M`Fee, Manilla ; Murdoch, Page, Valparaiso ; Ocean, Antigua. OFF FRESWICK, SEPT. s .—Fergus, Quebec, for Hull, after striking on Guisner's Island off Hoy. INVERKEITHING, SEPT. B.—The Belle, of Boness, from Charleston to Malmo, was stranded on Mickery yesterday, has lost rudder, and is bilged—cargo dis charging. CLYDE.—Arrived Eclipse, Michigan, St. John's, N.B. LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 10.—Wind N.W., moderate.--Acrd. Kingston, Burt, Calcutta ; Rosalind, Gale, and Ocean Bride, Bombay ; Kathleen, Africa ; Stirling, Burns, Mo bile ; Samuel Hicks, New York ; Scotia, Richibucto ; Troubadour, and George Ramsey, Quebec. The Iron Duke, steamer, from Dublin, was in contact this morning, near Beaumaris, with the Parana, Wilson, hence to Montreal, when the latter foundered; master and five men drowned, five saved ; the former lost bowsprit, &C. SINGAPORE, MAY 211.—The Charles (Belgic brig), Woed, hence to Manilla, was lost off the coast of Borneo, Feb. 17. The Johanna, Young, from Semarang to this port, struck and grounded on a reef to the S.E. of the Rabit and Coney, Bth inst., but floated off, and anchored with the tide off Taiyong Rue on the 12th, without much damage. CALCUTTA, JULY 14.—The Time, Grisewold, hence to China, has put back from Kedgeree leaking. BOMBAY, JULY 31.—The Royal Admiral, Garbutt, from Newpo r t t o Ad en , was wr ecked upon the Prong, near to Col a b a Li g h t H ouse , 31 s t inst. Materials saved; ship and cargo sold. CALCUTTA, JULY 6.—The Thomas Young, Rumford, hence to London, and Firth, Powell, hence to Bom bay, have put back from Kedgeree leaky. The Camaien, Barnett, from Li ver p oo l t o thi s port is lost off the Mizen at Kedgeree. HONG-KON G , JUNE 18.—The Amelia, from Sy d n e y to Manilla, was tota ll y l os t on St. Bernardino Point, April 30th, d ur i ng a severe ga l e a t 8., ow ner and five men drowned. Th e B encoo l en , lost sails. i The For tescue, Hall, cast aw a y f ore a nd . mainmasts n the same gale. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.—We have to acknowledge the courtesy of our Contemporaries the Evening Free man, The London Sun, and - Dublin Monitor, for placing at our disposal the proceedings on the Writ of E rror in the House of Lords. By an extraordinary edition of the Freeman on Wednesday the public were put in pos session of the opinions of the judges delivered on Mon day; and yesterday, through The Sun and Monitor, we had the result of the judgment as delivered by the Lord Chancellor, after the voting of the law Lords on Wednes day. The Dublin Evening Post also brought the intelligence to town yesterday.; From these journals we have made extracts which will be found in another column.— Tua'n Herald. The following distinguished persons hare visited Astley's Royal Amphitheatre during the past evenings, to witness Mr. Carter, the American Lion King, with his wonderful trained animals, the French in Morocco, Scenes of the Circle, Chinese War, Feast of Lanterns, &c. :—His Royal Highness the Prince of Pru ;sia, his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, his Serene Highness the Prin, a Mecklenburgh Strelitz, Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, Lord Combermere, Lord Head ford, Lord Stannes, Lady Seymour, Sir Wm. Martins, Sir M. Fleetwood, Hon. De Lacy, Hon. Mrs. Wyndham, Col. Wyngard, Col. Angerstoin, Capt. Forbes, &c., MONE IC AND COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. There was a quiet market for Cotton at Liverpool yesterday. Sales, 3,000 bales, including 200 for export, and 100 taken by speculators. The sales comprised 400 Pernambuco at 54d. to 61d., 100 Egyptian at 6 1 1 d., and the rest American at 31d. to 51d. per lb.—South- Eastern and Dover, and French Shares were dull, but a fair business was done in other railways. Birmingham and Gloucester, 112 ; Bristol and Gloucester, 56 ; and Cashel, 9i; Glasgow and Dumfries, 11 ; Glas gow and Greenoc, 124 ; Graad Junction, 2174 ; Ditto, Quarter, 534 ; Hull and Selby, 66f ; Liverpool and Manchester, New, 35i ; London and Birmingham, 218 ; Ditto, 321. Shares, 37} ; Ditto, Quarter- Shares, 25f ; London and South-Western, Eighths, 3i ; Manchester and Birmingham, Quarters, 5* ; Manchester, Bolton, and Bury, 115 ; Midland Counties, 1061 ; North British, 5, ; Sheffield and Manchester, 94 ; South- Eastern, 38f ; Ditto, New, 114 ; Lyons and Avignon, 1 18-20 ; Paris and Lyons, 2i ; Paris and Orleans, 39. There are no ship arrivals to-day with later intelli gence from the colonies or foreign parts. The letter-bags brought by the Overland Mail have arrived before the usual time, not having been looked for until to-morrow or the next day. The contents of the papers are amply given elsewhere, and we may ob serve that trade was dull owing to the season of the year, but that if excessive supplies are not shipped, there is considered to be a prospect, owing to the political tranquillity more generally pre vailing, not only in our own territory, but also on the frontiers, of our improving trade ere long. As to China, there I% as some difficulty in procuring payment for goods, barter being difficult to the necessary extent in older to make remittances. The affair at the Bank of England continues to excite a good deal of conversation. Burgess, the clerk who has absconded, together w ith th e p ar ty who represented Mr. Oxenford,seems to have carried out his plans with a good deal of daring, and to this circumstance, probably, is in debted to his success. The discovery of the fraud has doubt less, however, been made earlier than was anticipated, and this affords the only hope of the capture of the parties. The companion of Burgess does not appear to be known except from his personal appearance. Another fraud by different parties has been reported. The West India steamer is still due. The Public Securities have been a shade better to-day, but business is not active. Consols for present transfer have been marked 991 to 4, and for time 994 to 1,-. Ex chequer Bills are worth 745. to 765. premium, and East India Bonds 945. premium. The New Three-and-a- Half per Cents. for special transfer are 1011. Spanish Stock is improving, and there is some little speculation going on. The Five per Cents. realise 23f to 4, and the Three per Cents. 34i s. The Portuguese Converted have been firm at 46 to f. Mexican Bonds are 36k to 35k. Peruvian Stock has been 24f to 25. Brazilian New Bonds are at 85. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. realise 624 to The Railway Shares are rather drooping, as sellers predominate. ERITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the ()facial List.) i -- - --- --- 3 per Cent. Consols. Annuities. .... .. ....... 99%5‘ X% 3% per Cent. Reduced Annuities loz% New 3% per Cent. Annuities 10 , 34 Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1800 — Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan. 1860.... ....... South Sea Stock 11534 Ditto Old Annuities Consols for Account ••••••••••• .......... •••••••• •• 99 % % % Exchequer Bi ll s, kd. 11 •• 6d. 4 00 04 ..... ••••••••••••••••••• •-••............ '76 Pad. 5001.....•..• •••••••••••••••• ... •........... 76 pas. Ditto 5ma1r........,......... ....... ..... 76 /4 pin. Ditto Advertised. FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. Columbian Bonds. 1 434 Mexican Bonds, 1337, 5 per Cent. Ditto Deferred Stock 15% Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents. 24% % 23 Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent. Ditto Converted 46 Ditto for the Account Spanish Bonds„ Five per Cent 1840 2 3)4% Ditto for the Account 23%F. Ditto Passive Bonds. Ditto Deferred Ditto Three per Cent. ..... .............. Ditto for the Account 34334 Dutch 234 per Cents l2 %% Dutch 5 per Cents. ........ PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. PAID. Psi REAR'. Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings... 5 ..... .... 434 Bristol and Gloucester 3O .... ..... 5534 Caledonian Chester and Holyhead ....... ........ 5 .... ..... 6%% to Chichester and Brighton Dublin and Cu1ie1....... ........ . ..... 234 1136.... to 1234 Eastern Counties .."•........•....... 15 ••••••••• 11 Ni i •••••• te ..-. Glasgow and Dumfries l l4 Great Western Ditto )6 Shares •••••••••• 50 ..... ..•• 29% to Ditto Fifths l2 ..... .... 27 16%... te 27% Harwich (Braithwaite) Lancaster and Carlisle Leaden and Birmingham. lOO 2lB London and Brighton lO ......... 47%% ... te Ditto Loan Notes London and Greenwich ...... ...... 12% London and South Western 41% ...... 77 72...... te 77% Ditto Eighths fi, ... ... * 9 % . , ; .. t. London and Croydon London and York 2% 4%34.... to 5 1 4 Manchester and Leeds 70 124 Midland Counties . , ....... 100 Newcastle and DarlingtonJunct. 21 North British I .... 53( to South Devon _ .... i _714 liouth Eastern and Dover Ditto New ........... Trent Valley York and North Midland ......... 50 ......... to Ditto Selby Scrip — 56347 to 54 Orleans. Tours, and Bourdeaux 1 ......... 21% MANCHESTER STOCK EXCIINGE, SEPT. 10. —The market continues active, with a good general demand, and e.t impiovcd pricao, Barnaley Junction, 34 Chur net Valley, 3L 6s. 3d. and 3i ; Dublin and Belfast, 3i ; Huddersfield and Manchester, 2 15-16 ; Lancaster and Preston, 40i ; Ditto, Three-Quarter Shares, 26 ; Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester, 4i ; London and York, 4* ; Manchester and Leeds, Quarters, lq ; Manchester and Buxton, 21. 13s. 9d. ; Preston and Wyre, 17i ; Sheffield and Manchester, 95; Ditto, Quarters, 13i; South-East ern, 39. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN-EXCHANGE-WEDNESDAY. Sinco Monday, the arrivals of English Wheat have been only moderate, and the show of samples of that grain was limited. The finest parcels were quite as dear as on Monday ; but other kinds were a mere drug. In Foreign Wheat, next to nothing was doing, at late rates. Barley and Malt were a dull sale, at barely stationary prices. Oats, Beans, and Peas, were quite as dear. ARRIVALS. Wheat. Barley. Oats. I Flour English. 1,530 qrs. 110qrs• 1 680 qrs. I,o4osacks. Irish - Foreign 5OO 2,530 Malt. 310 qrs. 860 VINITZCZAPZZ. Although the supply of each kind of Meat was but moderate, the general demand ruled heavy, at barely previous rates. Beef, from 2s 4d to 3s 4d ; Mutton, 2$ 6d to 3s 8d ; Lamb, 3s 4 t l t o 4 s E d ; V ea l , 38 4 d to 4s 4d ; and ork, 2s 6d to Ss 10d per Blbs, by the carcase. A supplement to the Gazette of last night gives, at length, a programme of the ceremonial at the baptism of his Royal Highness Prince Alfred Ernest Albert, un Friday last. The programme has already appeared in our columns. We regret to learn that the accounts received from Drayton Manor yesterday morning are of an unfavour able tenour, and the most alarming apprehensions are entertained of Miss Peel's eventual recovery ; although it is impossible to foresee how soon a f avoura b le change m ay develope itself. We understand th a t th roug h ou t yes terday the youthful patient experienced great diffi culty in breathing, and her throat was much ulcerated. The subjoined particulars are extracted from a private letter received from Fazeley ye s t er d ay a f ternoon by the three o'clock train :—" Miss Peel continues in a very alarming condition, all the symptoms remaining unabated; she has passed a very restless night, and the most in tense anxiety is experieneed by Sir Robert and Lady Peel for some favourable change. There is reason to believe it is a fever of the worst form that the youthful invalid is suffering from, it having originated from a cold. Miss Peel was taken ill on Thursday last, and the disorder has gra dually increased ever since." Mr. Stevenson, private secretary to Sir Robert Peel, received letters from the Right Hon. Baronet yesterday afternoon by express, in which Sir Robert writes—" We continue in the greatest anxiety." Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, the Duchess of Rent, the Duchess of Gloucester, and Princess Sophia sent mes sengers to the private residence of Sir Robert Peel yes terday afternoon to learn if any fresh information had been received from Drayton Manor, and to request that all particulars regarding the health of Miss Peel should be transmitted to them respectively. The inquiries were very numerous, the Earl of Jersey, the Marquis and Marchioness of Ailsa, the Earl of Shaftesbury, and Lady Harriet Corry, his Excellency the Dutch Minister, his Excellency Chevalier Bunsen, the Countess of Verulam, Sir George Murray, Viscount and Viscountess Hawar den, Mr. and Mrs. H. Twiss, the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress, &c., being among the personal calls. THE RIVER STEAM-B OAT PIERS. —Th e propr i etors of the various floating piers which have of late been thrown out both on the Middlesex and Surrey shores of the Thames, for the embarkation and debarkation of steam-boat passengers, have very recently received the following circular :—" Sirs—The committee appointed to regulate the navigation of the river Thames have caused a survey, by competent persons, to be made of the various floating piers for the use of steam-boat passen gers in the river, and from their report that the same are unsafe, and an obstruction to the inshore navigation, the committee have directed a model and plan to be pre pared by their officers of a suitable pier on piles, which in every case will be required to be substituted for those now in use. I have the directions of the committee to inform you that the plan and model will be ready for your inspection at the Town Clerk's-office, Guildhall, within fourteen days from this date, immediately after which the committee will be prepared to receive an ap plication for a license to construct a pier in that form in substitution of that which now adjoins your premises.—l am, Sir, your most obedient servant, N. SAUNDERS, Water Bailiff. Mansion House, Sept. 5, 1844." DARING ATTEMPT A T S TE ALIN G A L ETTER BAG. —lnformation was yesterday circulated to all the sta tion-houses throughout the metropolis, that on the morn ing of Sunday last, the Bth instant, a desperate attempt was made to rob the postman at Beckenham, in Kent, of his letter-bag. It appears that between eight and nine o'clock that morning, as the postman was proceeding along Hays-lane, in the parish of Beckenham, he was attacked by a man of gipsy appearance, who, seizing the bag, attempted to wrest it from his hand. A des perate, struggle, however, took place between them, and footsteps being heard approaching, the fellow took to his heels across the fields. The fellow is described as about twenty-four years of age, five feet ten inches high, dressed in a flannel jacket with blue buttons, corduroy trousers, a red handkerchief tied round his neck, but no hat or cap. SUMMARY OF NEWS AND Vubltt ®ptnton♦ " Who runs may read." POAZIGIN. On Sunday Louis Philippe received the English Am bassador, the Minister of Marine, the Prussian and Tus can Ministers, and General Preval. The King of the Belgians, accompanied by General Hane and Baron d'Arnim, the Prussian Minister at Bel gium, left Bruv els, on Saturday, for Ostend, to receive the Prince of Prussia on his return from England. The Prince will not, says the Independence of Brussels, pro ceed to that city, but leave for Holland by Antwerp. The Princess de Lieven has returned to Paris from Baden and Dieppe, and taken her abode at the Hotel Talleyrand, in the Rue St. Florentin. The Pi ease announces that Captains Bruat, Governor of the French establishments in Oceania, Le Pi &lour, and Vaillant, are promoted to the rank of Capitaine de Vaisseau—first class. The promotion of Captain Bruat is in right of seniority. The road between Rome and Naples is again infested .by robbers ; and two diligences having been recently at tacked by them, travellers have been compelled to make the voyage by sea, in French steamers. General Pailhes, who resides generally at St. Germain. en-Laye, but had gone to Estissac (in the Aube) for the shooting season, was found on Thursday dead in one of the coverts near Diery Saint Julien, with his dog couched by his side. It has been ascertained that the cause of his death was an attack of apoplexy. The Groenland, which has just been lost on the coast of Morocco, was built at Rochefort, and her engines made at the foundry of M. llallette. She cost 820,000 f. A steam-frigate, with her hull, masts, rigging, apparatus, and armament complete, is reckoned upon an average to be worth 3,000,000 fr., and this must be the estimated loss of the Groenland. She was one of the four transatlantic packets taken into the naval service for the Mediter ranean. An officer who had perused the letters from Muley Abderrhaman to his son, found in the tent of the latter, writes, according to the Constitutionnel,—" We have laughed heartily at the epithet with which the Sultan salutes her Majesty of England on communication to his son the note of Mr. Hay. ' See what is demanded of me by this witch of a Queen (Chilana, in Arabic, signi fying a cursed or devil of a witch, or anything that may be thought equivalent).' The whole of the great Chris tian family is placed on the same level by the spirit of these fanatics." The Courrier Francais., says Galignani, has another long article abusing Sir Robert Wilson, the Governor of Gibraltar, and imputing to him a series of intrigues against French interests. We cannot conceive what the Courrier means by these attacks, for they have not the slightest foundation in truth. The public conduct of Sir Robert Wilson, in his present position, is the best answer to such calumnies. The Journal de Rouen notices the following singular rencontre :—Two days ago, at the moment when an equestrian statue in bronze of the Duke of Wellington, brought from Paris in the Luxor, was about to be landed on the quay to be shipped for England, the Tancarville arrived with the statue of Napoleon, destined by the King to be erected at Ajaccio. They were consigned to two different houses, between whom a dispute arose as to the precedence in their being landed, during which the effigies of the two great captains stood face to face on the decks of their respective vessels. The commandant of the port decided that Napoleon should be the first landed, and the Duke the first to be re embarked. LAW AND POLXC3II. At Guildhall, two fine-looking lads, brothers, named George and John Axtell, were charged before Sir John Key, with breaking into the chambers of Messrs. Harvey and Co., merchants, Barnard's Inn, and stealing about 301. worth of apparel, the property of William E. Harvey, clerk, residing there. Sir J. Key regretted to see two lads, respectable in appearance, in the felons' clock ; but, for the ends of justice and the protection of the public, it would be his duty to commit them for trial. William Timberlake, alias Cooper, and George Jack son, alias Contison, were charged on re examination, at Union Hall, with stealing twelve sovereigns, six silver spoons, and several articles of jewellery, the property of Edward Brundell, 24, Agnes-street, Waterloo-road. The circumstances attending the robbery have been already fully described. One of them was also charged with forgery. The prisoners reserved their defence for an other trbunal. Mr. Traill said it was his intention to commit the prisoners for trial on the two charges of rob bery. With respect to the charge of forgery, as the case was not complete, he should order the prisoners to be brought up again on Friday. At Lambeth-street, Mr. Norton was engaged for some hours in hearing charges preferred against one class of watermen plying at Alderman-stairs, Lower East Smith field, by others of the same craft, of violation of the Act of Parliament by which their calling is regulated. The Watermen's Act provides, in order to prevent ac cidents, and protect the passengers, that not more than two boats shall at any one time pull within a certain distance of a steamer on her mooring in the river, and then close to the gangway. Latterly, however, on the approach of the Dublin and Cork steamers off Alderman stairs, they are immediately surrounded by a number of boats, and the confusion thus occasioned is attended with the greatest possible danger. The charge of plying out of their proper turn was satisfac torily proved against the defendants, who ex pressed contrition for what they had done, and promised not to violate the law for the future, upon which Mr. Norton inflicted a mitigated penalty of 10s., declaring at the same time that for all future offences he would impose a penalty of 54 .COVET-WASZIONAMLE. The Duke and Duchess of Somerset entertained a select circle at dinner at Wimbledon I:: ark on Monday. The following were among the distinguished individuals present :—The Prince and Princess Doria Pamphili, the Earl and Countess of Shrews!bury, the Duchess of Inver ness, Lady Davy, the Earl of Belfast, Lord and Lady Cottenham, Lady and Miss Hall, M. de Koudriaffsky, Count Gregory de Koudriaffsky, Count Dmitry de Nes selrode. M. and Madame Oury attended, and performed a selection of favourite music in the evening. A dinner was given in Londonderry on Friday to Sir Robert and Lady Sale, when upwards of 180 sat down. The mayor, William Haslett, Esq., occupied the chair, and was supported by a number of the clergy and gentry of the county. A ♦ariety of toasts were given and re sponded to, and the entertainment passed off with much eclat. The Duchess of Inverness is staying with the Duke and Duchess of Somerset, at their villa at Wimbledon Park. Prince and Princess Doria Pamphili Landi and the Earl and Countess of Shrewsbury have also arrived on a visit to the Noble Duke and Duchess. The Countess of Beauchamp has been lately a visitor at Worthing, where the Earl's sister, the Countess of Longford and family, are sojourning, and some other families are still remaining there for bathing. The Duke of Sutherland gave a ball to his tenantry at Dunrobin Castle on Wednesday, in a pavilion, erected for the occasion near the castle. The attendance was numerous, amounting to about 300, including the Duke, the Marquis of Stafford, Lord and Lady Blantyre. Dancing was kept up till four in the morning. A quad rille band, from Inverness, was engaged, and the Duke's piper poured forth his spirit-stirring strains. Madame La Comtesse Fluhault (Baroness Keith) the Lady of the Minister of the King of the French at the Austrian Cotirt, accompanied by the Misses Flahault, have arrived at Mivart's Hotel, from Vienna. Prince and Princess Doria Pamphili and family, have also arrived at Mivart's Hotel, from Alton Towers, accompanied by the Earl and Countess of Shrewsbury. lIICISCELLANnous. It has been determined that the Royal Exchange sha.. be thrown open to the public between the 12th and the 17th of next month, the day to be appointed by her Majesty. It is said that the trade between Liverpool and the Mediterranean never was so brisk as at the present time. One of the first acts of Mr. O'Connell, after leaving the Richmond Penitentiary, was to forward his own sub scription of 51. to the Duncombe Testimonial, the regu lations of that prison having prevented him from doing so earlier. The repeal rent for the last week amounted to 575 is. 6d. The majority of the Marquis of Chandos was celebrated at Stowe on Tuesday with great rejoicings. Among other parties present on the occasion was the Lord Chan cellor with his lady and daughter. A dinner was given at Belfast on Thursday to Robert Burns, the eldest son of the Scottish poet. When his health was proposed he said he was not without a strong tie to the Green Isle. His sister was the widow of an Irish gentleman, who, when alive, resided at New Ross, and his second brother, Colonel Burns, was the widower of an Irish lady. _ On Tuesday - the Precursor, a fine steam-vessel, Capt. Harris, which has been purchased by the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Company, at an enormous expense, left Southampton to assume her station in the East Indies. She was built by a Glasgow Company, which did not proceed in their enterprise, and had been in the market at 100,0001., but was purchased by the Peninsu lar and Oriental Company for 45,0001., without repairs. She is 800 tons burden, and carries engines of 550-horse power. Her destination is Calcutta and Ceylon, from the former of which places she is intended to carry the Government mails to Suez. ARRIVAL Or THE ROYAL CHILDREN IN BRIGHTON —A special train, consisting of her Majesty's carriage, between two other first-class carriages, and a couple of carriage trucks, bearing two of the Queen's private car riages, arrived at the Brighton terminus yesterday afternoon at a quarter to six o'clock. The engine was driven by Mr. Cubitt, and Mr. Crowley, one of the Directors of th• London and Brighton Railway (who with Captain Kelly, the chairman, and Mr. Ottley, the secretary, had received the royal party at New Cross), accompanied the train to Brighton. Arrangements had been made for the reception of the royal party, a part of the platform being carpeted. Six of her Majesty's horses were in waiting, and in about five minutes these were attached to the royal carriages, and the Prince of Wales and his royal brother and sister, together with Lady Lyttelton, left the terminus, and entered the Palace gates at five minutes to six o'clock. CHINESE PROVERBS. —I he tombs open every mo ment, and close for ever.—lt is from what people say, that we judge of the value of their silence. —Memory rather counterfeits wit than supplies it; a thousand re collections are not worth one thought.—With money the dead can be made to speak; without it even the dumb will not be silent.—Whoever seeks nothing but how to do men good, can never be deceived by them.—Captain Pidding's Chinese Olio. THIRD REPORT OF THE MISSIONERS ON THE FINE Cl AO WITH APPENDIX. We resume our extracts from this important &e ll e / . silents. With the terms of the papers Nos. 1,2, andi the Appendix (a list of the c o nt en t s o f w hi c h Append we gave in a former paper), our r ea der s are 0re1 . .. a too well acquainted to m a k e it ex p e di en t here ... o4 i peat them ; but No. 4 is a " Letter from the -to Hon. Sir Robert Peel, Bart., res p ec ting & Monuments to Men distinguished for Civil Service* addressed to Mr. Eastlake the Secretary to the col; mission, and dated " Whitehall, August 17, 184 This letter does appear to us to contain the gerT i o all the absurd blunderings and inconsequences have hitherto marked the progress of the two Houses, and their decorative embelli s hments. I ' o , also eminently characteristic of Sir R o bert's eg°l3sot e By his own showing it was the wish of Parliare jeo that he should do one thing. He takes it u 0 himself to do another ; and Mr. Barry—distract it seems to us between his homage to some not iLe' r i fortunate suggestions on the part o f P r ince (to which we have already referred), and this patron of ing expression of the wishes of the P rem ier—does substantively carry out either object ; b u t exPatig ite ' s, in the attempt, into the costly and ill-j u dged exe res te cence of the new Queen's Gallery. Sir Robert c 0 mences his letter to Mr. Eastlake thus— " Dear Sir,—A proposal wa s recent ly made ia, tit t e s House of Commons that the Com m i s si one rs shoul° o empowered by her Majesty to inquire into the best aie' oe of doing honour by public monuments, in sculptnr e r painting, to be erected at the public charge to the P i ' re mory of men entitled to the gratitude of their CO by eminent civil, literary, or scientific services." es A very intelligible proposal, surely; a propess' so , which (one would have thought) any body of uninformed or uninspired by th a t ro y a l afflatus tll; constitutes A, B, and C into "a Commission on " f i t. Fine Arts," might very well deliberate and repo er But Sir Robert, like some pedag o g ue f e arful of ace taxing the powers of his promisin g pupils, red cos and alters the " theme" which the H ouse of Coranl would have set them, and reca s t s it after his °o to diluted and wordy manner, thus— " I was unwilling to devolve on the Commissioners; general inquiry of this nature, not immediately e e ir nected with the original object for which the Coan, sion was appointed; but I willingly undertook to rel e il mend to her Majesty to give to the Commissioners be authority to consider whether there i s an y p or tion of o f edifice intended for the accommodation of the House s e as Parliament, or of the buildings con nec t e d w ith that be five, which could with advantage and proprietf to allotted to the reception of monuments such as ther ie a which I have above adverted, and to report their try to her Majesty, not only with regard to the partlq ote site of such monuments, but, inithe event of an apprer es t site in connexion with the New Houses of rarlia° 3 o being recommended by th e C omm i ss i oners , w ith regal to the principles generally which should govern thF be j lection of the names to be honoured by so distingel e e f a record of national gr a tit u d e , an d t o the best sets& combining the public acknowl e d gmen t o f em inent sei with encouragement to the arts in this country." tio s Now, the reader will not f a il to b ear in mill is d oo se the one object common t o th e p roposa l o f the Ir t i s a of Commons, and Sir R o b er t P ee l' s recommelle a ot s, to her Majesty, was the erec ti on o f monUel e ses a either in sculpture or pai n ti ng , t o th e h ono ur of t.eeo men whose services to.the co un t r y h a d en titled t i le s to such a manifestation of the national grat it u de. to sT i , Barry, who was clearly re f erre d t o on l y for infe r o af tion, and his opinions as to th e capacity and Me en o s, location possessed by his b u ildi ngs for such stti;jo, &c., in his "Report" to M r . E as tl a k e a ddresses h sel to other and very different m a tt ers ; — o n whie I ' o 4 contend, it was never meant h e s h ou ld b e consulted, The consequence of this m i s t a k e , on M r. B a rris roe, is to commit him to the e x pr ess i on o f muc h nell s : s ts and suggestions at utter vari ance w ith a ll good 'si r and propriety. He is also betrayed into sell of f, marks on the highest bran c h o f th e poetry ° f ba d which it had been much better fur hi s reputation of he kept to himself. There was no necessity, s t o l e rate, for his announcing them to all the w orld. ivies first instance of Mr. B arr y' s supereroga tory 11 ° to the Commissioners occurs in this passage " I may, however, mention that, in addition t O O . statues of royal and m ilit ar y personages, w hi c h Ire, t ss mended to be placed i n th e n i c h es f orm i ng part of or architectural decorati on o f th e severa l h a ll s , t h o se of e. o jo ment men of this c oun t r y, w h o h ave at variou s Pe e ri or t, distinguished them se l ves i n th e advancement of po t science, and literature, but whose services ilsv, a ss e• hitherto been specially recorded by any public se*" ledgment, might form part of the series." of Of what possible value can these eclectic nolil o e Mr. Barry's, as to th e p ar ti es t o b e " s i ng l e d out be re all the world" for the posthumous distinction co i contemplated, be, to a Commission numbering esse its members men so p ro f oun dl y rea d i n al. t oe branches of lea rn i ng an d t ra diti on connec t e d with history and institutions of this country, as Lyndhurst and Lansdowne, Aberdeen, J. 1111 „j 0 1, Melbourne and Palmerston ; as H a ll am an d Mace'tse Knight and Rogers ? Far more seemly and te) ., purpose is the pr o f ess i ona l statement which folloe's ; 0 . " The following is an enumeration of the nicheL P i vided for su c h p ur p oses i n the several parts of the iierif ing:—ln Westminster Hall, 12; in the Victoria G e " r as , 106; in the Quee n ' s P orc h, 4; in the House Of 69; 18; in St. Steph en ' s H a ll, 12 ; i n the Centra l IslaS.: l is making altogether 220 n i c h es , averag i ng seven fe e height." But perhaps Mr. Barry's taste for " scu'P s tet was of so elevated and c l ass i ca l, an d pure a ebsl l i - s ed that it is well to h ave e li c it e d f rom h i s i n f o rmed u• critical judgment some hi nts f or the judicious e t i k ol tion and arrang emen t o f t hi s portion of the 0 ; 0 ' el' records to be r a i se d t o th e memory of our greab hero ie We think, involuntarily, of heroic ages and :hie" statuary; of the divine, but simple forms, i o ta Grecian art chiselled from the unconscious rec t ; t ierl immortal legacies, to be b equea th e d b y the insi o f the of antique genius t o th e pass i onate revere nce b e remotest posterity. Alas ! Mr. Barry seems ° To ill imagined hi mse lf i n Si r Robert's crowded 01° 0 0 Whitehall-gardens a mong th e g ild e d castes of 111 .44 Parisian found r y. H e wou ld d e b auch ou r rf, l 4 by taste, nourished as th a t has been for years r - ffil d such wholesome nutri men t as th e contemp l a tion ° I . t he simple forms of the Theseus and the Illyssust draped compositions of Phidias and Lys l Pl 3° , s extant in the virgin purity o f th e i r original 111, by the vile and barb arous accessor i es o f t h e dec o ages of Greek and R oman greatness. ab ° e fOl tion, be it remember e d, was one o f t h e most sill-fade! indications of debas e d gen i us i n t h e mos t cleg' rs o9fr and brutalised ages of the lower empire, and the vi bets superstitious darkness of the Greek Church/ s ce coloured stones were use d t o repa i r t h e disanP eS rth e of architectur a l d es i gn , an d t h e vestments °footle° Virgin and the Saints were profusely gilded, to wji i e b that indolent and lifeless worship of the senses , ble t 9,1 was no longer genui ne or pure enoug h t o be js fix its contemplations on less obtrusive sylnw" celestial piety and innocence. le a n ! " Those in the Vi c t or i a G a ll ery, Q ueen ' s rerfsaer sf• House of Lords, might be of bronze gilt, but illuf t ; s tle' avoid false lights an d e ff ec t s , t h e g il d i ng s h ou ld b e or unburnished. to,t ) " In other parts of the building above adverted . 0 Of, statues might be of coloured marbles, in harmonY prevailing tone and colour of the architectural d e cors no se And then, again, as to the drawing-room If o rtii i tionalities" (as General Fladdick has it in „ s e t ire s Chuzzlewit"); if M r . B arry i mperat i ve l y ins' s ' 00' glitter and the gilding of the statues that are wool into contact with the well-bred company a sse fe et; within the walls; th e o th ers , w hi c h are to be P er out of doors or any where—about and all °Y e OA, u building—these stat ues " o f t h e l ower class es '„ a ilcie: were, he remits in th e na k e d ness o f t h e ir "tites bronze to the pelting of the elem en ts, with el sr ad' compunction as if h were giving them orders l" mission into a poor-law union-house. ssa tlCi " The statues should invariably be of bronl. 0 , count of the imperishable nature of that mater y, 0 0 0 ' on the exterior of the building might be left to Oe the here t sal colour of the metal, but in the interior, wh e el light will be much subdued, I would recomuleleld golds they should be coated with matted or unburnisu d as being best calculated to render the statue tes t tive, and allow of it s b e i ng seen to t he grey vantage." 4,0 01 e But Mr. Barry rec o ll ec t s th a t h e h as got an 55 .10 07 nibus" confided t o hi m ; an d i n t h e mos t lsusille oto so' manner he thus deter m i nes t o consu lt the "ac e s Tbes/ dation" of his met a l an d mar bl e passen gers. ` to o t' s do appear to be i n - s id ers .) They are, ac tuallYt ops for be subject, lik e d r i vers and cabmen, to regal e ' their standing !" tj o° " The principl e w hi c h h e would a d op t f o r the ir tie ii s t of the monuments generally, is that of confining 11 tl e r e 9 such portions of the building only as might, without inconvenience, be open to the pubSlooo ,s 0 proper and efficient control, and such regnie' might be deemed expedient. This principle, id a ei f amount of accommodation that could be P ecw- is ills' public monuments, as well as their arrangement, gees ts . trated in the acc om p any i ng p l an ; b y w hich it s S e; that Westminst er H a ll might contain 5 8 stet 4 ; tb Stephen's Hall, 16 ; the Central or Octagon Ile ri ll 'olet Corridors leadi ng t o t h e H ouses of Lor d s and , -/% 35 co' 20; and the P u bli c C orr id ors and W a i t ing-0° in 0 .1: nected with the Committee-rooms, 69; ma king of accommodation for 187 statues. The Crgred and Stephen's Chapel, which is proposed to be restorer to which convenient access will be made from Weff o eo , Hall, which would also afford accommodation for 14 monuments." cliwe He thus pr o c ee d s t o recap it u l a t e his plan a nd tl l ° sition. Th e rea d er cannot f a il t o be struck 2: 1 .0e! insignificant, n a y p a lt ry , pro p o rtions of 2%si og l.o e s/ (see precedi ng p aragrap h) f or s t a tues, aver a g to ssait about seven feet high ! The fact is this adaP on' the edifice can have formed no pit l S a OA art of the eleSll6o after ginally contempl a t e d by Mr. Barry. prop to and it is c l ea r the means have no p to the end. Now, for 'Westminster Abbey to o re: " The cloister of the chapel, which is sls,a, se cryp t ' stored, and will be connected with the hall ane L" A l ice': might afford accommodation for thirteen statues, SS, OO O, externally ; and a surface of wall for mural An o et,l( a I t°4 l, th Isq it 4 4' dies'% t b