The Sun. — London, England, 1851-09-26 00:00:00

H ER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. PLAY-HOUSE PRICE NIGHTS. It is respectfully announced to the patrons of the Opera, and fbr the accommodathn of T he t numerous NlGHTSvisitors still in London, that WO MORE Will be given, viz.:—This Evening (Friday), September :26, and, To-Morrow Evening (Saturday). 27. THIS EVENING, Rossini's celebrated Opera, IL BARBIEItE DI SIVIGLIA. Rosina. Madlle. Sofia Cruvelli ; H Couto d'Almaviva, Signor Calzolari ; Figaro, Signor Lorenzo ; Basilio, Signor Casanova ; and Bartel°, Signor Balanchi. After which a Divertissement, Le Bolero, Mines. Rosa, Esper, Julien. and Lamoureux. To be followed by the Last Scene of the almivd opera, ANNA BOLENA. Anna Bolena, Mullle. Barbieri Nini. After which, selections from Weber's Opera, DER FREISCIRITZ. Agatha, Madlle. Floreatini. To conclude with a Diyertissement—Quadrille Francais from LOS Cesinopolites. TO-MORROW EVENING, September 27, Bellini's celebrated Opera LA SONNAM LAMA. Madlle. Cr u yelli; Elvino, Signor Caizolari; Couni godolpho, Signor Lorenzo ; Lisa, Madlle. Feller. Application 3 for Box e, Stalls, and Tickets to be male at the Box-nit:ea of the Theatre. The Opera to commence at Eight o'clock. Prices , —Pit, 55. Gallery, 2e. 6d. Pit Stalls. 10s. 6d. Gallery Stalls, Ss, Boxes—Two Pair, 213.; One. air and Pit Tier, 11. 11s. 6d.; Grand Tier, V. 25. ; ilox Sects, 3, L an d 7s. ST. t r AM E S'S THEAT RE Tiing-street, St. James's Under thc Direction of Mr. Barnum, of New York. KATE AND ELLEN BATEMAN, (On y nt ancl Six years of age.) of the Bateman Children. ne•engagerne , EVENING, The performances will comn - tence at a Quarter past Seven, with TURNING TILE TABLES. After which THE SWISS COTTAGE : or, Why Don't She Marry Natz Teik, Ellen Bateman; Lisette Geirstein, gate Bate man ; Corporal Max, Mr. Bateman. Tarantella by Madile. Therese Cushnie and M. Milano. To be followed by the laughable Farce, entitled THE SPOILED CHILD. Little Pickle (with Songs), Kate Bateman ; Tag, Ellen Bateman. To conclude with the Ballet Divertissement, entitled LA PERI. Principal characters by Messrs. M. Ellar, T. Matthews, M. Milano, And Madlle. Therese Cushnie. Boxes, 4s. ; Pit. 2s. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, 25. Private Boxes. Stalls, and Tickets may bo secured at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street; at all the principal. Libraries and Music Sellers ; and at the Box-office of the Theatre, Which is open daily from 11 till 5 o'clock. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LINE. Under the Management of Mr. Thomas M'Collum. Information to the Million. In consequence of the extraordinary excitement caused by the announcement of the intended departure of the American and French Equestrian Troupe, the management have been induced, at a great personal sacrifice, to make further arrangements with the proprietors to continue FIVE WEEKg LONGER, thus affording all classes an opportunity of Witnessing these dis tinguished artistes previous to their provincial tour, which positively commences on the 26th of October next. The Italian Brothers, Edward and Jean Bourteller having created the greatest possible sensation, will appear every evening in their miraculous entertainments, in addition to the popular company, consisting of Madlle. Caroline, Mr. M'Collum, Mr. Stone, on his Wild Horse, Mons. Loisset, Madame Brower, and Young Baptiste. Particular notice—The prices will remain as heretofore, viz.:— Dress Boxes, 35.; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is. 6d.; Gallery,is. ; Upper do., 6d. Lox's open at Halt-past Seven, to commence at Eight. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. '3 r. 8. Webster, tiole Lessee and Manager, Utu HrOMPton• THIS EVE PING, Will be performed a new comic Opera, entitled THE QUEEN OF A DAY Sir Henry Vere, Mr. Stuart ; the Sheriff, Mr. Caulfield ; Timothy Turnwell, Mr. Weiss ; Waiter, Mr. W. Harrison ; Lucy Love. ace. Miss L. Pyne ; Cicely, Mrs. Caulfield. To be followed by a new comic Drama, entitled GRANDMOTHER GRIZZLO• Sir Oliver Pipdin, Mr. Lambert; Percy Pinchbecke, Mr Parsr.:l:e ; Phil Fuddle, Mr. Buckstone ; Mrs. Griseida Pinch becks and Little Steve, Airs. Fitzwilliam ; Polly Willows, Miss A. Vining. After which entirely n ew Farce, entitled GRIMSHAWI BAG SHAW ! and 88, kDSHAW I Grimshaw, Mr. B:ckstone ; Bag shim. Mr. H. Be ifOrd; Towzer, Mr. Selby; Emily, Miss A. Vining. With LEND ME FIVE SHILLINGS. Mr. Golightly, Mr. Buck atone. TLIEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHL Under the direction of Madame Coles* THIS EVENING, Will he performed GIRALDA ; or, The Miller's Wife. Don Japhet della Tromba, Mr. P. Bedford , Don Manuel de River, Mr. Parselle; Gil, Mr. Honey ; the Grand Duchess, Miss Emma Harding; Giralda, Miss K. Fitzwilliam. After which, the laughable comic Drama, entitled THE FOREST BOSE! and the YANKEE PLOUGHBOY. Jonathan Ploughboy, Mr. J. Silsbee; Bellamy, Mr. Worre.l; Harriet Miller, Miss Wool ger ; Sally Forest. Miss E. Chaplin. To be followed by a new comic Opera, entitled GOOD NIGHT, SIGNOR PANTALON. Doctor Tititoiblo, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Signor Fantalon, Mr. Honey ; Lelio, Miss Woolgar; Columbine, Miss Kath leen Fitawilliam. To conclude with the Farce of FORTUNE'S FROLICS. Robin Rong•iihead, Mr. Emery ; Dolly, Miss Ellen Chaplin. x 0 YAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Managementol Mr. C. Kean and Mr. Keeley. THIS EVENING, Shakespere's flay of TWELFTH NIGHT. Characters by Messrs. Keeley, Earley, Addison, Meadows, J. Vining; Miss Phillips, and Mrs. C. Kean. After which, A MODEL OF A WIFE, la which Miss Murray, Mr. Addison, Mr. Meadows, and Mr. A. Wigan will appear. To 000eiode with a new grand spectacular Extravaganza (taken from a Tale, by Washington Irving), entitled THE ALIIAMP.IIA ; Of The Three Moorish Princesses. Characters by Messrs. Meadows, Harley, A. Wigan, Wynn, Cooke, Flounore ; Misses Murray, Ylvash, Robertson, Leclerc), Keeley, Mdils. Auriol, and Mrs. Keeley. Private Boxes, &e., to be had of all the Booksellers, and of Mr. fittoringhana ; of whom also places may be taken at the Box-office, (Word-street, from Eleven till .F cur o'clock. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management or Madame Vestris. bole Lessee, Mr. Charles Mathews. THIS EVE:RING. Will be performed COURT BEAUTIES. Characters by Messrs. C. Mathews, Roxby, Y. 3latthew3, G. J. Vining, Baker; Miss St. George, and Miss M. Oliver. To ho followed by ONLY A CLOD. Characters by Messrs. C. Mathews, Suter, Bel. linghara, Roxby ; and .Miss M. Oliver. To coneloOta with KINII CHARMING. Characters by Messrs. Suter, F. Matthews, Horncastle ; Madame Vestris, Mrs. F. Matthews, Mrs. C. Horn, ]Liss St. George, Misses Martindale, Ellis, and Rosins Wright. ROYAL OLYMkIC TIIEATRE. Lessee and Marmger, Mr. W. Farron. •71 , .; Great Attraction - Roan of Laughter at the new Farce. Will pp performed the VICAR OF WAKEFIELD. With, I'VE EATEN MY FlilEici). Jellytop, Mr. Compton. To be followed by t:ItANDFATHEIt WHITEHEAD. Grandfa ther Whitehead, Mr. W. Farren. To conclude with ALC ES IN. PUNCH'S PLAYHOUSE AND STRAND THEATRE. 1.4.2. e, Mr. W. U. COPE LAND, Li vert , oro. Engagement of the Tyrolean Trouadour, F. J. Eskena. Two New Pieces. THIS EVENING, The Dramatic Bubble entitled THE SHOT TOWER. Princi pal characters by Messrs. Davies, It , gets, and Miss Marshall. After widen a new petite Comedy, entitle I TILE II IPELECS PASSION, by Messrs. Tilbury, Davis, Morton ; Mrs. Copeland, and Miss Ma.skell. To be billowed by a new Farce, called A FIGURE OF FUN ; or, the Bloomer Costume, in which Messrs. Rogers, Attwood, Hudspeth, and Miss Marshall will appear. With a new Burlesque, e.ultled GODIVA, THE LADY OF COVENTEY. Characters by Messrs. Davies, J. Rogers, Norton, Romer, Maskell, Attwood; Mesdames Marshall, C. Horsman, E. Romer, Morcelli, and Maskell. The prices of admission are arranged as follow :—Orchestra stalls, ; boxes (first circle), 35.; (second circle), is. ; Pit, Is. Doors to be opened at Hall-past Six, and the perfonnancas to sotnmence at Seven precisely. A second price will be teen to the Boxes only at Nine o'clock --first circle, 25.; second circle, Is. Private Boxes Ooe Guinea and a Half each. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPIIITHEATKE. Under clO Patronage of her Majesty And his Eoyal Highness nine° Albert. Pro-rotor aid Manager, Mr. C l - The most successful and popular Theatre in London. Another Week of Glorious Triumph. . . The most attractive Spectacle ever produced—crowded to the ecling nightly. THIS t I INN I SG, • Will be performed the grand Spectacle, entitled MAZEPPA ; or the Wild Horse Tartary, which has been revived, in conse quence of numerous ape:: rations from Persons of all lianons to wit ness the magnificent. Spectacle. With !fatty's Grand Scenes of the Arena, embracing the largest Equestrian Company in Europe, represented by Foreign and ltritish Yale and Female Artists of superior talent. To conclude with an admired Ballet. Tickets to be had at the Box-ortice from Eleven till Four daily. zstage Mr. T. Thompson. :OPAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. LAS r WEEK BUT ONE. EVERY EVENING, (Saturday excepted.) Danson's Colossal Picture of the Temple of Janus in the Eternal City—Splendid Menagerie—Performing Ele phants—Promenade Concert, by the unrivalled Band of the Es tablishment, conducted by Mr. Godfrey, choice programme of Ancient and Alodern Music—English Glees, Catches, Madrigals, and Songs, by Sias M‘ssent, Messrs. Young, ifill, Manvers, and Leffler. All the unique and varied. amusements of the Establishment, con cluding with a most brilliant inimitable display of Fireworks, by Sounly. Doors open from Nine in the Morning. Feeding of the Animals at Five. Concert at Six. Fireworks at Nine. _ _ _...... ... ..., ADMISSION-ATE .SIIILLING. 1114 -' l i AT T.Z)NI , ON BRIDGE Tato DAY —Morning lc, min. after 2 I Evening 38 min after 2 T-Itoaaow—Morning 1 rein, atter 3 1 Evening 22 min after 3 DAILY WEATHER TABLE. State of the Wind and Weather at each of the following places at Nine o'clock yesterday morning. —The stations are arranged iu order of latitude. PErmotrar—Wind S.W., strong breeze—heavy rain. CnEETztm.a.m —Wind E.— cloudy. W oncEsTEn—Wind S. W. line. Blau's-cox—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—overcast. HASTINGS—Wind S. W., gentle breeze—overcast. FoirritAndrros—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—foggy. FOLUESTONR— Wind S. W., gentle breeze—overcast. TUNBRIDGE —Wind S. W., gentle breeze— overcast. B.4_3ll , l4SToKE—Wind S., gentle breeze—rartially cloudy. GREENWICH—Wind S.S.E., gentle breeze—overcast. fivrmuc.)2N—Wind S. gentle breeze—overcast. OXFORD—Wind S.E.—cloudy. GLOUCESTEE.—Wind E.—cloudy. CHELMSFORD —Wiwi S. by E.—cloudy. COLCUESTEP.—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. ( .4strutmov.—Wind S., gentle breeze—overcast. BIRMINGRAM—W ind S.—cloudy. BTAFFoB.D—Wind S. E.—cloudy. YA/tldoUTH—Wind S. W., gentle breeze—cloudless. Isoawrou—Wind E.—cloudy. Iry :Lou—Wind S. W.—fine. NOTTINGIIAM— Wind S.—Line. LENcoori—Wind HOLY HEAD—Wind N.—heavy rain. CIIESTEP.—Wind S.E.— heavy rain. SFIYFIIELD—Wind S.E.—cloudy. LivicttrooL—Wind S.—heavy rain. NIATICHISTER—Wind W. —r a i n Hui L--Pfind E. —cloudy. • LEEDS—Wind N.E.— rain. Forts-Wind S.— cloudy. SCARDCRO G Wind S. W.— c l oudy. DAR T.T.N OTOS-- Wind S. cloudy . IG .ISTL E— Wind S.W.—cloudy. The returns from the following places indi ca t e t h e state of the wind and weather on IVednesd a y morning at nine o'clock : ercast Munuiscan—Wind S.W. strong breeze—o vercast. Korus•rowx (DunninK)—Wind 1.t;..N.E., celle_o, . PF7rg "° ll "l 76ll-- W and S.W., calm—overcast. C:MCWE—WincI S. WV., gcntle breeze— ovQrcarj• Larvcasirzn— Wind S., calm—overcast. Vi nernr—Wind S , gentle breeze— foggy. St/Al.—Wind S.E., gentle breeze—foggy. BEATrocK—Wind S.E., gentle breeze—overcast. Miss BREMER..Fredericka Brerntl*, the Swedish novelist, wai to start for home in the Atlantic on Saturday, the - 20:11. %iiss Brinier has been in America some two years, during which tiara she has travelled in all the Atlantic and 11liimi8sippi States, and has seen much of American society and sceisay. Soon after her return she will publish her notes and observations, aad Mary Howitt will translate and pub lish; ill Loadou, An English edition. THE SUM, THE WEATHER.—SuN OFFICE, SErTF3nER 26. • THERMOMETER, IN THE SHAD& 61—highest since noon yesterday. 41—lowest this morning and during the night. 51 , -thin day, at noon. BAROMETER, 2912. Win W.N.W.—cloudy, with sunshine occasionally. ..1 4 ... „„...,,*,,,,, t , 4.7.---t-„,4fr.E. 3e... , ps 4 . d ot.. ...a tf . 1. :.. / r t h il. : i • Pt 0 . , ....,4*'• '.. ttlli 1;1 ..,,c. (4 - itnina uith LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 185 Wonderful as have been the achievements already accomplished during this memorable year of 1851, perhaps the most extraordinary of all has yet to he recorded. It may be calculated with some degree of certainty that by the time our broadsheet of this evening goes to press England and France will be effectually linked together by means of the electric telegraph. From the report of yesterday's proceed ings in the Channel in reference to this remarkable enterprise, it will be perceived that every preparation bad been made for the immediate completion of a project hitherto conducted under the most brilliant and encouraging auspices. The marvellous and almost miraculous annals of science contain no chap ter more enthralling than that already dedicated to the narrative of this unparalleled under taking—one which cannot fail to shed a lustre on the age, while it must tend inevitably to unite the most hostile nations by a friendship not the less calculated to prove permanent from the circum stance that its continuance will be mutually advan tageous. Everything associated with the great work here adverted to cannot fail to be peculiarly attrac tive even to the most phlegmatic members of the. population, appealing irresistibly to their sympathies, and exercising a boundless charm over their imagina tions. Even when the inhabitants of the two coun tries have become habituated to the marvel of this submarine interchange of intelligence, the record of its original establishment will still continue to be fraught to them with fascination. They will revert with undiminished, or rather, if possible, with increasing interest to the facts narrated this day by ourselves and our contemporaries, and will ponder over those de tails as having transpired in the famous year when the peoples of the world flocked to the capital of Great Britain to witness the unprecedented splendour of the Great Industrial Exhibition. Reference to the account furnished elsewhere in this evening's impression of our journal, will show the satisfactory manner in which the wire of the submarine telegraph between Dover and Calais was payed off in the Channel yesterday. It will be seen from the narrative of the reporter, that the vessels having charge of the great cable destined to connect together the shores of France and England arrived in Dover Harbour by four o'clock in the morning —the vessels engaged in the enterprise, consisting of three steam tugs attendant upon the Blazer, on board of which latter bad been duly coiled the whole of the twenty-five miles of gutta percha and metallic tubing required in the operation. Several distinguished members of the scientific world appear to have taken part in the expedition, which shortly after sunrise, namely, at seven o'clock, a.m., started for the shores of the Republic, having previously landed one end of the cable on the South Foreland, and placed in guard over it a party of competent superintendents. While the distance between the extremities of the wire gradually increased as the Blazer receded from the English side of the Channel, the maintenance of the line of communication was announced by a feu de joie being fired through the whole length of twenty-five miles of wire to the temporary station established on the South Foreland, constituting, as is well said, a species of " electrical cannonade," the detonations of which were continued at regular in tervals throughout the day, the several discharges being responded to by reiterated acclamations. Those who were fortunate enough to witness the proceedings could not but be profoundly interested in an event so eminently attractive to the philosopher and the experimentalist. So triumphantly successful was the conduct of the entire enterprise, that long before midnight the submarine telegraph had been laid to within two miles and a half of the French coast, cu riously enough, in a position exactly between the little fishing place of Sanngat, in the Pas de Calais, and the Kentibh village of Sandgate. This morning will, of course, have witnessed the completion of the whole of this arduous and wonderful undertaking, so small and comparatively insignificant a portion of the enterprise last night remaining to be accomplished. Throughout the passage of the Blazer across the Channel, it may be interesting to mention that repeated communications were dispatched to and fro between the vessel and the South Foreland, not merely by the needle telegraphs of HENLEY, REID, COOK. and WHEATSTONE, but also by the printing apparatus of Messrs. BRETT, the original projectors of the submarine telegraph, and by the monosyllable " fire" being given from side to side, followed by the ignition of fusees and the consequent detonation of what has already been termed the " electrical can- nonade." Each of these explosions must have sounded in the ears of those parties who ware engaged in the operation as an additional encouragement, and as a kind cf supplementary augury of the success likely to attend the whole of the transaction. Nothing, in short, could by possibility have been more satisfac tory in every respect than the progress made in the carrying out of the intentions of the two Go vernments. Immediately on the establishment of the station on the coast of France a direct line of instantaneous communication will have been fixed between Dover and Paris, a line extended in England to London and on, on, on northwards to Edinburgh, while it will ultimately stretch across France through many of the principal capitals of Europe to the further extremity of the continent, branching off ulteriorly by the upper shore of the Adriatic along that direct route which is to unite, by a series of trunk railways, the mother country with Ilindostan. Imagination becomes bewildered indeed by the unlimited specula tions suggested by this most astonishing enterprise, an enterprise which will at once render immediate communication possible be• tween Paris and London, between the Foreign-office in the Rue des Capucines and the Foreign-office in Downing-street, between the Councils of her Britan- nic ALoasTY and those of the Ttepublic PRESIDENT. An enterprise, moreover, which will, before long, by necessity, enable us to hold a correspondence within an interval of a few minutes with persons resident in the capitals of Spain or Belgium, of Austria or Russia, of Italy or Switzerland—messages flashing back wards and forwards perpetually between London Madrid, liruszcls, Turin, Lucerne, Vienna, and St. Petersburgh. Incredulity may be expressed by some on the perusal of these conjectures, but whoever would gainsay the speedy possibility, or rather, we should say, the certainty of these things, must have forgotten, or may be ignorant of the marvels which have long since been of daily recurrence amongst ourselves : they must overlook the fact that while they may be strolling indifferently over the flag. stones of the Strand there are questions and answers flashing to and fro between the offices respectively situated at Charing-cross and in Liverpool—a few inches under the pavement—silently, but with un erring certainty—outstripping the winds—bewilder ing the fancy—and rendering man little less than a magician by means of the simple but everlasting laws of electricity. Familiarized 23 we are by this time with liuch astounding wonders, we can, in some measure at lec.t, rPaliz3 the likelihood of the miracles of science we have spoken of as approachiog just now the period of their accomplishment. The feQlin. , z, of satisfaction which we experienced from the announcement by Sir GEORGE Guar, in reply to a question put to him by Mr. CHARLES LUEHINGTON, that the subject of amending the law for the regulation of lunatic a3ylums was under his consideration, was consideraly allayed by the subse quent statement, made in the last week of the late session of Parliament by the Rai of SHAFTESBURY, that the task of introducing a measure to effect that object would, during the course of the ensuing ses sion, be in all probability confided to his care. The antecedents of the Noble Earl are not such as to in- LONDON, duc us to place the slightest trust in any measure fo r the amendment in the laws relating to lunacy in th framing of which himself or his colleagues of the L unacy Board shall have any share. We cannot but re member that, whilst the only good and efficient portion of the present law was introduced into it by M r. THOMAS DUNCOMBE, in 1845, in spite of the sti .enuous opposition of the Noble Earl (then Lord As; LEY), all the bad portions of it are exclusively the Noi )le Lord's own handiwork. In the year 1845 Sir JAMES GRAHAM, then the Home Secretary, re cell Led the Parliamentary support of the Noble Lord ; ane t the Right Hon. Baronet imagined, it would see: m, that, like "the wizard MICHAEL SCOTT," he wa a bound to find perpetual employment for the mis chievous and meddlesome activity of his supporter; se cordingly, in order probably to divert the attention of the Noble Lord from the factory measure, a Lu nacy Bill was suggested to him, and the present law is the consequence. " The principal feature," as the' late Lord CASTLEREAGU would hare said, "on which the measure hinges" is the appointment of a Board of Commissioners to license and to inspect all the lunatic asylums in England ; the chairman of that has been, from its first appointment, the Noble Lord himself. He has been its chief director and manager, he has attached his signature to all its reports, and he is consequently responsible for the manner in which it has performed its duties. We have from time to time directed the attention of the public to the manner in which those duties have been neglected ; we have frequently denounced that Board as "a mockery, a delusion, and a snare." The facts brought forward in various courts of justice by the Alleged Lunatics Friend Society have proved to de monstration the continued existence of the worst abuses in the very best managed private lunatic asylums, yet still, year after year, the Commissioners of Lunacy have inserted, in their reports the stereo typed statement, that " the abuses which formerly existed in private lunatic asylums no longer take place in those under their superintendence," and to these reports we invariably find appended the signa ture of the Noble Lord. Time after time we have indignantly denied the truth of this assertion; in in stance after instance has the Alleged Lunatics' Friend Society proved its absolute falsehood ; and from a quarter from which we least of all expected to re ceive such a confirmation of our views, we have at length a distinct admission that the Alleged Lunatics Friend Society have been all along right, and that the Noble Lord and the Commissioners have been all along wrong. In the debate in the House of Commons on the Bill introduced, by Mr. LACY for placing religious houses under the surveillance of the civil authority, the Noble Earl (then Lord ASHLEY) is reported to have said; on the 15th May, 1851— " If this Bill is framed on the principle of the Lunacy Act, I do not hesitate to say noticing can be more defective. The inspection of private asylums is not only imperfect, but is performed most unwillingly." Leaving to the Earl of SHAFTESBURY to justify as best he may the statements of the Chairman of the Lunacy Board with the assertion of the Noble Lord the Member for Bath, we respectfully submit to Sir GEORGE GREY that the author of those conflicting statements, the legislator who on his own confession stands convicted of having framed a law " than which nothing can be more defective," is not exactly the person to whom should be entrusted the task of pre paring a measure for the amendment of the laws for the regulation of lunatic asylums, and to the LORD CHANCELLOR that it is his duty to lose no time in re lieving from the further discharge of their duties gentlemen who, according to the statement of their own chairman, perform those duties not only imper fectly, but most unwillingly. To the imperfect man ner in which those duties are performed the very valuable report of the Alleged Lunatics' Friend Society for the year 1851 furnishes abundant evi dence. From that report it appears that "various applications have been made to the com mittee by persons who have been confined as lunatics on the most frivolous grounds, as set forth in the medical certificates, such as having adopted the Vegetarian system"—what says Mr. BROTUERTON to this ?--," religious delusions " (not specified)—this, we presume, was before the delivery by Lord ASHLEY of his celebrated Lydian speech—" aversion to family or friends, excessive drinking, propensity to indulge in the grossest slanders, a total disregard of truth, and other similar reasons." And the Committee also find that, "in some cases, where the original certifi cates have been informal or insufficient, the Com missioners in Lunacy have allowed them to be amended after the party has been placed in confine ment, although the Act requires that the medical certi ficate shall be signed and dated the same day on which the patient shall have been examined by the medical man, and before the party can be legally confined." Indeed the Commissioners seem to imagine that their principal duty is to screen delinquent proprietors and medical officers of private lunatic asylums from the consequences of their misdeeds, and to aid, assist, and connive at their violations of the laws ; for in their last half-yearly report to the LORD CHAN CELLOR, the Commissioners of Lunacy have omitted the names of the medical gentlemen and others who are proprietors of asylums, thus adding to the diffi culties of discovering the place of confinement of any patient, and rendering it impossible to detect whether or not any of the Commissioners in Lunacy, or the medical men signing the certificate of any patient, are or are not connected with the proprietors of the asy lums, and consequently rendered by the law incom petent to act, and when their attention was drawn to the omission their only excuse was that it bad been done for abridgement and convenience in printing their report. The entry by Mr. BRANSBY PURNELL (the excellent chairman of the Gloucester Quarter Sessions) and his colleagues, the visiting justices of Gloucestershire, in the visitors' journal at the asylum of HENRY HAWES Fox, M.D., at Northwood, which is published as an appendix to the report of the Alleged Lunatics' Friend Society, abundantly proves how imperfectly the Commissioners in Lunacy must have performed their duty of inspection. This report which is dated 17th June, 1851, and is signed WIL LIAM FRU?, EDWARD SAMPSON, PURNELL B. Pura- Eau., and GILBERT LYON, M.D., commences as follows :-- " The visitors have felt it to be their duty to inqu:re into the caw.° for the extraordinary entries which they found in the books of this asylum, made by Dr. Henry Hawes Fox, and which were there unexplained; the first on their visit on the 7th of January last, of the discharge of four of his patients on the previous day; the others on their next visit on the .24th of February last, of the re•admissiou of such four patients on the Bth of January, after an absence of only one day ; of the admission, under a now order and certificates, of a patient on the 10th of January last, who was then, and had been for many years previously, a patient in the house, and who had not been discharged from it, and of the discharge of another patient on tho 10th of February last, and of his admission on the 22d of the same month, no cause being entered for such charge and admission. At this last visit, Dr. H. H. Fox, having verbally assigned as the reason for these discharges and re-ad missions, that he had been advised to have these effected, the visitors requested him to produce the orders and certificates in these cases. This he declined, acting, as he said, upon the same advice, and though the law was shown and explained to him, he persisted in his refusal. The visitcrs told him that they had no wish, if he produced them, to animadvert upon mere inaccura cies, but that they could overlook nothing untrue, no thing fabricated, nothing interpolated by him or by others of his establishment to make what was not legal, legal; and that ho must take the consequences of their non-production. He stated that all the orders and cer tificates had been carefully examined, and he assured the visitors that be had legal advice that all these papers were correct, so as to ba received and passed by any court of law; still that there were some trivial in- accuracies and informalities, such as tho t s not tailed and the i-s not dotted, which prevented their being in exact accordance with the requirements of the Act of Parliament.' But he still refused to produce them, and aslcei for five days' delay to obtain fresh advice." The result of that fresh advice was that the Doctor thought it best to produce the documents, and the result of such production was to show that "by his acts (we quote the words of the, magistrates) Dr. H. H. Fox has rendered himself ammable to prose- cutions for misdemeanours especially created by the Act to the number of above 280." Among other things, it appears that Mrs. lIAwEE, the nr.tror, of the asylum, was in the habit of signing the name of Dr. For to various documents, and of transmitting I copies of such documpnts to the authorities ; that of patients illegally received by Dr. H. H. Fox upon the authority of one certificate only, without due cause assigned for the same by the person making the order, there are fifty-four. Altogether of patients illegally received there are ono hundred and fire. A wife has been admitted into the asylum upon the order of her husband, and upon the authority of one cottificato only, And thos cartificat© aigrAtd by bet FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 26, 1851. husband. A letter from Dr. 11. 11. Fox to a person making an order states, "If there be any inconve nience in getting a second certificate it can be dis pensed with until after admission." And to another, "The second (certificate) can be procured at my house if more convenient." We have not space sufficient to go into the details of all the facts recorded in this most valuable docu ment, to which we would fain direct the attention of all those who during the course of the ensuing session may be called on to legislate on the matter ; but we do most earnestly invite the attention of the LORD CHANCELLOR to the manner in which the Com missioners of Lunacy have performed their duty of inspection as regards the Northwood Lunatic Asy lum. During the whole period the visitors' book of the asylum shows regular entries of all the Commis sioners of Lunacy, those entries are of a laudatory character, and the Commissioners either failed to dis cover, or neglected to report the existence of (to use the words of the Gloucestershire magistrates) " a system in which all the barriers created by the law against illegal and improper orders and certificates, and against the illegal reception and detention of patients, have been broken through and utterly disre garded." We trust that ere this the LORD CHAN CELLOR has called upon the Commissioners to state how it comes to piss that they failed to discover the facts which the inquiries of the Gloucestershire ma gistrates so soon brought to light. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC, We have received the Paris journals of yesterday. The responsible editors of the Avenement du Peuple and the Presse, MM. VACQUERIE and Rour, were tried on Wednesday before the Court of Assizes of the Seine for publishing the letter of M. VICTOR HUGO, with comments said to be seditious. M. ROUT made default. M. DESMAREST, for the de fendant, M. VACQU E R IE , addres-ed the Court at great length. M. VACQUERIE also made some ob servations, and the President summed up. The jury brought in a verdict of guilty without extenuating circumstances. The Court condemned M. VAQUIRIE to six months' imprisonment and I,ooof. fine. The Advocate-General then demanded judgment by default on the responsible editor of the Presse, M. Rour, and the Court condemned him likewise to six months' imprisonment and 1,000. fine. The Government has issued a decree dissolving the Municipal Council of Melun, and suspending the mayor of that town for three months from his functions. The National Guards of Pontevy have been dis armed. On Wednesday the PRESIDENT of the Republic passed a portion of the garrison of Paris in review in the Champ de Mars. Some other reviews are to follow. Mme. Gum and M. MARIO have arrived in Paris, en route to the Russian capital ; TAMBURINI is also on his way thither, and M. ALARY will follow shortly after. We read in the Patnie—" The calm and stagnation which now reign permit the PRESIDENT of the Re public to go and reside at the palace of St. Cloud, where he will pass some time. The Council of Mi nisters will be held alternately at Paris and St. Cloud. This fact is a sufficient , answer to the rumours which still agitate, though feebly, the political circles." JOBARD, the young man who assassinated a re spectable young married female at the theatre at Lyons a few days ago, though she was a perfect stranger to him, has been subjected to several inter rogatories by the examining magistrate, and a minute investigation is being made into all the cir cumstances of bis past life. In compliance with his request the Abbti CUGNET went to him three days ago. The moment the venerable priest entered the cell the prisoner flung himself on his knees, and attempted to speak, but sobs and tears choked his utterance. After a while he became calm enough to refer to his crime ; and he demanded, with the most affecting earnestness, if he would be allowed to live long enough to expiate it, by repentance. He spoke of his father, who is a gamekeeper near Dijon, and of his mother and sister, and expressed profound grief at the agony he had caused them to endure. He expressed the wish to attend divine service; but, as he is in secret confinement, that could not be allowed. On being told so he cried, " Alas not many days ago I attended mass at Dijon—and who would then have said that today I should be here ?" The Debate, examining the late Customs returns, says:-- " The importations for the last eight months give Customs duties to the amount of 70,406,000 f. In 1850 the amount for the same period was 81,229,000 f.; and in 1849, 84,277,000 f. Here, then, is a continuous falling off, and it is idle to put it on the sugar duties—the latter show, it is true, a decline of 4,000,0001., but this defi ciency has been largely compensated for by other pro ducts, especially by that of coffee." On the other hand the Dibals notices a steady in crease in exportations of wines and spirits, and of corn, as well as of machines, millinery, porcelains, glass, and crystal, with cotton, woollen, and other goods. This paper complains of the low state of the merchant marine. The amount of tonnage of vessels in and out for the eight months of this year is 2,741,000 tons, or 276,000 tons more than for the corresponding period of 1860 ; while of the increase only 62,000 belong to French vessels. There is something wrong here, adds the Debals, either in our tariffs or our navigation system, and calls for inquiry into the subject. The Bourse was feeble, with little business doing. The Five per Cents. opened at 92f, rose to 92f. 40c., and closed at 92f. 15e. for the end of the month; the Three per Cents. opened at 56f. 55c.; Roue., 565 f.; Havre, 231 f. 25e.; Great Northern, 4581. 75c.; Avignon, 208 f. 75c.; Vierzun, 427 f. 50e.; Basle, 148 f. 75e.; Bor deaux, 385 f.; Paris and Strasburg, 3551.; Tours and Nantes, 263 f. 75c.; Amiens to Boulogne, 2581. 75c. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN FLAIL W A It, AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, SEPT. 25. Boulogne and Amiens, 10 1 4 —Central of France (Orleans and Vierzon), 17—Dutch Rhenish, 3—East Indian, 21 Great Indian Peninsula, 4—Luxembourg, 13/,, —Namur and Liege, 6—Northern of France, 1446—Paris and Rouen, 22 1 4 —Paris and Strasbourg, 11- Rouen and Havre, 9ha—Sam. bre and Meuse, 3%. SPAIN. Madrid journals of the 20th have arrived. Their contents are altogether unimportant. MADRID BOLSA, SEPT. 20.—Three per Cents., 35i ; Five per Cents., 16f, both money. No Ex change. GERMANY. , The Cologne Gazette of the 24th states that the new Austrian loan is a failure, the subscription not exceeding forty-eight millions, notwithstanding the coercive measures of the Government to extort sub scriptions from the towns and communes. The Prince SCIIWARZBNUERG, Military Governor of Lemberg, announced to his officers in the following remarkable terms, the Imperial ordinances of the 20th of August : " Gentlemen,—l have to inform you that the army of his Imperial AI ijesty has obtained another victory. I have in my bands the Imperial orders abolishing the constitution, and all that appertains to it. This is very good news, but I must request, gentlemen, that you w ill not display your joy in public, lest any demonstrations against the Government should ensue." SWEDEN AND NORWAY. The Oadelsthing (Chamber of Nobles) bas passed the project of law on the emancipation of the Jews. Both the Oedelsthing and Volksthing (Chamber of Commons) had abolished the Jewish disabilities as existing by the fundamental law of the constitution, but this could not place them on an equality with other Swedish subjects, or in fact enable them to benefit of the privileges granted them so long as the private legislative order was of an opposite nature. The Government accordingly submitted a further project, by which these differences would be recon ciled, and the complete emancipation of the Jews guaranteed. This project has been carried by a large majority. The Jews, therefore, will in future be permitted to settle in Sweden and Norway. RUSSIA. The inauguration of that stupendous work, the railway which connects St. Petersburgh and Moscow, took place on the Ist. Ills MAJESTY, accompanied by the EMPRESS, the principal members of the Imperial family, several foreign princes, and attended by the high officers of state end a numerous suite, quitted St. Petersburgh at six o'clock in the morning and arrived at Moscow at half-past eight in the evening. At the terminus they were received by the civic authorities, the regiment of the Guards, and a splendid staff, at the heed of which the EtkIPEROR went into the city amid the firing of guns and the acclamations of the people. Early the next morn ing the Imperial party, accompanied by their guests and suite, went in state to the cathedral, where a solemn thanksgiving was offered. The CZAR after ards held a grand levee, and in the afternoon re viewed the Life Guards. The EMPEROR has addressed the following rescript to the chief director of roads, highways, and public works, General Count KLEINHICHEL : cided up, eight " Count Petro A n dr cze wi tsc h,—W h e n the construc tion of the PeterAburgn and Moscow Railway was de oncar- rying out of th e un d erta ki ng pro j ec t e d by me, under 3 ears ego, I confided to you the the cmviction that tiro zeal which you had ulwa3s dis played in my service was a guarantee for the result. With heartfelt plenure I now see my wishes realised; and although the work is not yet completed, it is, never theless, so far advanced that, as a first trial, a large di vision of the Guards was transported by it, and I tad my whole family have accomplished the journey from Petersbu:gh to Moscow. " On this occasion I have seen with the highest satis faction the immense—in short, the astoundingly stupen dous works which combine all the essentials of perfect taste and suitability. It is impossible for me to refrain from acknowledging that it is by your laudable and ex traordinary zeal and energy alone that this important Government scheme, which will confer the most essen tial and important benefits upon the country, has been carried out with such great rapidity. While I thus do full justice to your active and untiring energy, it is at the same time highly agreeable to myself to express again my sincere and cordial acknowledgments for your laudable services. Experience of your zeal assures me that the Petersburgh-Moscow line will be completed by the 13th of November next, and thus throw open to the public a more rapid, and at the same time easier mode of communication in the empire. " I remain your sincere wellwisher, " Moscow, Sept. 3." NICHOLAS. We understand there is no truth in the, report that Dr. M'Hale is expected to preach in St. George's Catholic Church next Sunday morning. Lord Cranworth and Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce will be Lords Justices in the Court of Appeal under the new Act. Their successors as Vice-Chancellors are not yet named. Mr. Sharman Crawford, M.P., and other Protestant gentlemen, acted as collectors at the Roman Catholic chapel of Bangor, near Belfast, on the occasion of that edifice being consecrated by Dr. Denoir, a few days ago. PARISH or ST. DUNSTAN, ClTY.—Yesterday after noon a general meeting of the inhabitants assembled in the vestry-room, for the purpose of appoi n ti ng an overseer, i n t h e place of Mr. Mills, deceased, when Mr. Dalby, of Fleet-street, was unanimously elected to that office. INFLUX or SHlPPlNG.—Yesterday the long con tinued easterly wind shifted round to the south-west, and enabled the homeward-bound vessels, who have been beating about the Chops of the Channel for some weeks past, to bear up for port, the Downs is completely filled with merchant men, and upwards of 200 vessels were reported yesterday at Gravesend. The greatest activity was yesterday observable in the docks and river quays. A WHALE IN A Fix.—On Friday forenoon, as Mr. Lamb, of Greenock, was rowing along in a small boat, with two lads, near the mouth of Garelock, they discovered a whale grounded on the shore, when they immediately rowed towards it, and, after a vigorous struggle of two hours, succeeded in dispatching it with a boathook, when it proved to be a whale of the bottle-nose species, measuring 22 feet in length. It was towed to Greenock, and exhibited to the public on Saturday. We believe the carcase was sold for the sum of 4(1. The appearance of this monster of the deep in our waters caused considerable excitement among the denizens of the coast; and before the monster was secured numerous boars put out to sea in chase, armed with pitchforks, spades, boathooks, rusty swords, and every offensive weapon that could be laid hold of. Atter it had taken the ground and before it was killed it created a dread ful commotion in the water, blowing and lashing the sea into foam, and sending the spray from twenty to thirty feet into the air. The huge fish measured between six and seven feet in diameter, and the tail was six feet broad.—Daily Mail. THE LATE RAILWAY CATASTROPHE AT BICESTER. —At the meeting of the directors of the Buckinghamshire Railway Company, held a few days since, it was resolved that the directors of the London and North-Western Rail way Company, the lessees of the Buckinghamshire line, be urged to adopt the recommendations of the jury of the in quest held at Bicester on view of the persons killed by the late accident. It is believed that the directors of the Lon don and North-Western Company will adopt the sugges tions. They have issued a notice for all trains to halt on passing Bicester, and also one to the engine -drivers, requir ing them to pass every station carefully. The sufferers at Bicester have this week been visited by Mr. Hester, of Ox ford, in co-operation with Messrs. Dawson and Woodward, the resident medical attendants. The patients are all de scribed as progressing favourably. On Saturday they were visited by Sir H. Verney, M P., and his lady, and on Tuesday by Major Dewes, and on Wednesday by the above Baronet again. It is said that Mr. Porter, the company's representa tive, has compromised with about fifty of the passengers for losses and injuries sustained by them; but that none of those seriously injured have received more than a supply of cash where needed for immediate use. SCHOONER Suau.--On Wednesday night, between eight and nine o'clock, a very serious accident occurred on the Mersey. As the Tranmere steamer Fanny was crossing the river from the landing stage, when off Monk's Ferry she came in violent contact with a schooner at anchor, which soon afterwards sank; the persons on board the latter having barely time to save their lives in the schooner's boat, and the steamer with difficulty being disengaged from the sinking vessel. The accident is attributed to the darkness of the night and the want of sufficient signals to denote vessels at anchor in the route of steamers. The schooner was the Dove, of Amllwch, from Runcorn to Dungarvon, laden with salt; and on the salt mel lug the schooner floated, and drifted out with the ebb tide as far as the Formby light ship. The steamer Britannia, of Tranmere, went to her assist ance, towed ber:in,and moored her at.Birkenhead.— Liverpool Chronicle. KOSSUTIL—Mr. Gilpin has given the following notice of motion in the Court of Common Council :—" That this court do present an address of congratulation to Louis Kossuth, on his liberation from captivity, and arrival in this country, and that the said address be presented in open court." TUB LATE MURDER AT ANNAS.--CONDUCT OF THE PEASANTRY.—On Sunday, the 13th September, about two hundred men assembled on the lands of Ednagreena, be side Annas, where the boy M'lntaggart was murdered, and cut down and made up the corn of Mrs. M'Quillan, the sister of the murdered boy, who came forward for the defecce, and gave such extraordinary evidence on the late trial. It will be recollected that her husband, who was, it is said, somewhat implicated in the late barbarous mur der, left the country for America before the late trial. The stewards selected to stand over the two hundred men and see them work were Kieran and Hamill, the fa thers of the two men charged with the murder, and thoe two fathers held the position of bailiffs over the reapers, amidst the cheers of two hundred Sabbath desecrators.— Newry Examiner. SCOTCH TURNlPS.—Raising of turnips in the neigbourhood of Edinburgh is an important branch of agri cultural operations, and the prices obtained are look e d t o with interest. Sales of this season began rather earlier than usual, and in several cases the appearance of the crop was not very favourable. Still the prices obtained are generally consid. red good. 12/. to 161. per acre, according to kind, and quality, and locality, have been readily obtained, and some realised as high as 191. per acre, though three miles from Edinburgh; showing, although much has been said about the ravages from pleura, that the demand for food for milch cows in this district continues as great as at any for mer period.—Scotsman. ACCIDENT To ONE OF EARL FITZHARDINGE'S HUNTS MEH.—A few days since, one of the Noble Earl's huntsmen, known to the field as " Kit," met with a serious accident, which, it is feared, will disable him for life. While riding out with some young hounds, two of them got into a pool, where they were in danger of being drowned. In order to reach them, Kit, who was on an old horse, rode at a high fence, which the animal refused twice; the third time, however, he rose to his leap, but striking the fence, he threw kis rider, and fell over with all his weight upon him. Kit was taken up insensible, having received severe internal bruises. Cheltenham Ecaminer. ARRANGEMENTS OF THE COURT.—We understand that her Majesty and the Prince Consort, with their illus trious children, will leave Balmoral Castle early on the morn ing of the 7th of October, for the south, and that her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent and suite will leave Aber geldie on the following day, for Frogmore House. The Earl of Aberdeen arrived on a visit to her Majesty, on Tuesday. from Haddo House, Meldrutn. FAILURES IN DUNDEE.—The same causes which have operated upon business during the last three weeks have been, since our last report, increased in intensity by the failure of two other flax-spinning and manufacturing firms, with liabilities to the amount of quite 9 . .,0001.; fortunately, however, and in contrast with the previous failures, both estates, it is understood, will produce fair dividends to their creditors —Dundee Advertiser. A man named Bernadec, of Prayols, near Foix, died three days ago, aged 108. He preserved hie faculties to the last, and his death was caused by his being knocked down by a cow. DISCOVERY OF ROMAN COINS AND POTTERY IN CANNON -STREET, ClTY.—Yesterday afternoon as the work men were digging a foundation for a new house, at the cor ner of Lawrence Poulteney-lane, Cannon-street, City, they discovered, at the depth of twenty feet, several ancient Roman coins, in good preservation, as well as Roman pot tery of an early date, which was most carefully preserved by Mr. William Stewart, foreman of the me', residing in King-street, Long-acre, as well as several other inte res ti ng relics belonging to the Romans. CITY OF LONDON HOSPITAL FOR DISEASES OF THE CHEST.—The quarterly meeting of the board of manage ment of this institution took place on Wednesday, at the Hospital, Liverpool-street; Mr. Henry Waite in the chair. From the medical report' which was then presented, it appears that 2,096 patients have been admitted to the benefits of the charity since the 31st December last; the weekly attendance at the present time averaging 505; and the total number re lieved since the first establishment of the hospital in 1 848, amounting to 9,585. Considerable interest was manifested in the progress now making in the erection of the new hos pital at the Victoria Park, which was commenced in June last, under the distinguished auspices of his Royal Highness Prince Albert. The works, it was stated, are rapidly ad vancing, and the committee have appealed to the public for further aid, in order that the building may be completed for the reception of in-patients as early as possible. Other Ott siness was then transacted, and the meeting adjourned. The Earl and Countess of Bective, who have been on a visit to Mr. Alderrman Thompson, M.P., at' I.lnderley Hall, Westmoreland, have gone to Headfort House, Ireland. The Earl of Cardigan, who arrived in Portman. square early in the week, from his shooting-quarters at Foyers, Inverness-shire, has since left town fit Deane Park, Northamptonshire, where the Noble and Gallant Lord will receive company during the shooting season. The Earl Ducie is recovering from his recent severe indisposition, at Tortworth, Cornwall. WORCESTER, SEPT. 23.—As yet we have but a moderate supply of new hops at market; there were about 900 pockets in at the fair, and 200 or 300 more on Saturday, and we are sorry to find that our worst fears as to the da maging effects of the wind and cold the last week in August have been fully realised, the quality being very various; and although there are some choice samples, a large quan tity of those already shown are very inferior, which will cause an extreme difference in price, perhaps equal to 3/. or 41. per cwt. Most of the hops brought in have been sold at prices varying from 51. 12e. to 71. 7s. The duty is declining, owing to reports of the hops coming down light, and is now called from 17,0001. to 18,0001. FinE.—On the 12th inst. a destructive fire took place at Baughurst, near Vir, ner ton, Hants, the property of his Grace the Duke of Wellington, by which a barn and its contents were totally destroyed. This is another instance of the dangerous use of lucifer matches in the hands of children, as the above disester was caused by a boy six years old rub bing one against the wall, and letting it fall among the straw. The property was insured in the Liverpool and Lon don Fire and Life-office. TSB EDINBURGH ANNUITY TAX.—We understand (says the Scotsman) that, at a private meeting of the town council en Tuesday, the first practical step in the way of legislating for the settlement of the annuity-tax was taken. The draft of a Bill to be introduced into the House of Com- mons next session was laid before the council for their re- viral. In this work, we believe, they proceeded some length, and with an unanimity which augurs well _for the satisfactory adjustment of the raceme. REXTISR RAILWAYS. Railways. Paid. Nominal Prices, Aberdeen.. .. • • • • Ambergate, Nottingham, Boston, & E. Juncion Belfast and County Down Birraing., Woiverhamp.., any Roar Valle; Blrkenh., Lan., & Cheeb Junc., late 331.65. 8d .. Do. Chest. & Birkenhd.,l 50/. & 251. Consolidated Do., do., 201. • . tristol and Exeter.. laledontan !heater and Holyhead .. z.)ublin and Belfast Janet. Dublin and Kiagstowa.. Dundalk and Eaniskillan D.mdee, Furth, and Aber-, leen Junction .. Do.. New .. East Anglian (2g. L. & E. and L. & D.) Do, (181. E. & IL) .. Eastern Counties .. Eastern Union, class A, late E. U. shares .. Do. do. do. .. Do. do., 13 & C shares' East Laneastdre D. New quarters •• East & West India Docks and Birm. Jung. .. Edinburgh an Ctlasgoac Edin., Perth, and Dundee Glasgow and South- West, Do. do. G. D. & C. stock Great Northern Do. halves, A, deferred Do. halves, IS, 6 per et. Great Southern and Western, Ireland .. Great Western .. Lancaster and Carlisle . Do. thirds Lancaster and Preston .. Lancaf,hire and) orkahtre Do. quarter al .. Do. fifths .. . .. Do. West Riding Union Leeds Northern .. Liverpool. Crosby, and SotithpOrt • • London and Blackwell .. Do., Tilbury Ext. Scrip London, Brighton, and South Coast .. London and N.-Western Do. do. quarters Do. fifths .. Do. 101. all., M.& IS (c) London and 8.-Westors Do. new 501. Do. new 401. Sfanchester.Buaton, and Matlock .. Manchester, Sheffield, & Lincolnshire Do. Manchester and Lincoln Union .. Midland .. Do. 501. shares • . Do. ilirming & Derby Midland Gt. West. (Ire.)', Newcastle and Carlisle.. Do. quarter shares .. gewniarket Newport, Abergavonny, and Hereford .. .. Newry anc Enniskillen.. Newry, Warrenpeint, • Roitievor .• .. • • storfolk • • • • .. • • Do. New 201. shares..' Northern Counties Union North British.. .. .. North Devon • • • • North Staffordshire North-Western .. • • North & Sth.-West.Jtme. Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton.. .. Scottish Central .. 1 Scottish Midland .. Do. new .. Shrews. & Birm., Class A Do. Class 8.. Shrews. & Hereford., Old Do., do., New .. Shrewsbury and Chester, (Nor. W. Min.) • • .. Do. Halves Do. Os westry Do. New.. ihropshire Union .. Do., A, B, C, & D, fhily paid up at per cent ionth Devon .. South-Eastern .. .. South Wales.. .. Routh Yorksh. and River Dun .. • • .. Shaft., Roth., and Goole,' South Division .. Stockton and Hartlepool iwansea & Loughor, &c. Taft Vale .. Taw Vale Extension .. Thames Haven Deek andl Railway .. • • Pale of Neath .. . Waterford and Kilkenny Waterford and Limerick, Waterford, Wax., Wick. and Dublin .. .. West Cornwall .. West London .. ViThiteaaven and Farness York, Newc., 8c Berwick Ditto and Newcastle Extensioa Ditto G.N.E. purchase York and North Midland THE SHARE MARKETS. LINES LEAS 9% to 934 41i - 43 94 - 10 13 —lld. ad 76 —7B 11% 15yi 93 —9l d. 2% 3 1% 2 6 —sl4 3% -4 21,‘ -3 143( - 14% 49 -51 u 6 -28 x.&l 4 - 5 1G 164 x.n) 54 a.n 12% 12% x.n, 36 —36 a d 79% 804 76 —74 x.d 7% B%p x.di .. .. 54 —504 x.d 8% —8% d. 6% N d. 10% 11% o% * i x.d 91 - 92 114;( —114% 2% —936 p 2 P. 1 36 —11 P 81% —BO4 934 836 di3 8 7 die. 2% -2% 26 -27 3% —2% clis. 45% —46 194 195( 413, 21 —23 •7% = •7% 4% —3% die. .. —•• dia. t 8 —2O 14 —l2 die. 8 —2% ells. 5% —5 8% —8% die. VIC % P 15 —15% 15 —15% 9 6% —7% 6% 4% —4% 5% 434 Ells, 12 —l4 6 7 9% 10% % % di% 3% —3% d. 12 - 14 19% - 19% 27 - 27% 4 3 d.adj .. - .. 11 -13 [64 166 x.d .. -- •• Us. 16 —l5 x.d • • —•• a.; •• •••• •• Ws. 18 1834 z.d N —6% dul l 3% —sib d xkli 18% 18% FIXED R: AT Railways. Leasing 0.1. N om i nal Business Corapanies.Prices, done to-day. Barks and Rants Ex. 5 per Cent. Gt. Western 6 34 1 p. Bir. and Oxford Junc.,callsduly paid, or with a • guarantee •• Do .. • • all 29 —3O Do., without a guarantee .. Do .. • • all 28 —29 girm., WoL, Dud.,calls duly paid, or with a guarantee •• Do .. .. 15 8 —lO p Do., without a guarantee .. Do • • .. IS 7 9 p Buckinghamsh. Lon. 86N W. all 17 34 17% Clydesdale June Caledonian all 44 —46 E. Lin., Guar. 6 per Cent. •• G. Northern all 333( 33% Gloucester and Dean Forest Gt. Western 20 134 234 p Hull and Selby Yk. &N. M. all 100 101 De. % Shares Do .. • • all 50 —5l Do. y( Shares Do .• .. all 23 —2l Leeds and Brad. Midland . • all 99 101 Lon. and Green. S. Eastern all 113( 11% Do., Pref. .. Do .. all 2334 24 34 Lowestoft, Gd. per. Cent. • • Norfolk • • all 1334 1434 18 Do., 6 per cent Do .. • • all Middleslaro' and Redcar, 6p. ct Stockt.& Dar all .. N. & East, 5 per Cent. •• E. Counties . all 54 —36 55 Do. New .. Do • • • • 43 4 —6 p Preston and s L. &N. W.} all 42 —44 x.d Wyre .. •• L & La.& Y. Do. % Shares ADo .. • • 11 8 9p. x.d Read., Guild., and Reigate .. S. Eastern all 22 223( Roy. & Hitchin G. Northern all 7% —8 Li o. Shep. Ex.. Do .. • • 634 13( 2 p. Sbef., Roth. and Goole, 5 per ct. Lanc.tc York 18 11 6 .. South Staffords. Mr. M'Clean 934 3 dis. Wear Val. 6 per Cent. gua. Stock.& Dar. all Do. do. •• Do .. • • 25 25 34 25 34 Do. do. •. Do •• 25 .• ••• Wilts and So merset .. •• i at. Western 100 90 —9l , Ezrzn: mc: SHARES. Hallways. I Paid. I Nominal Prices. 'Business dose to-day. Aberdeen Aberdeen, No. 2, 7 pr. et. Caledonian 101. .. • . Chester and Holyhead .. Dund. Per. Sc Aber. June, East Anglian (31. 10G.) 6 per cent. .. Eastern Counties Exton., b per cent. No. 1 .• Do. No. 2 .. Do. Kew 6 p. cent. Stock Eastern Union, Scrip guaran. 6 per cent. • • Do. 101. Deben. Shares . East Lancashire, 6 per cent. quarter shares .. E. & W. York. June. sths Edln. Per. & Dun. 5i p.ct. Glasgow & S.- W. Consul. Gt. Northern, 5 per cent. Great South. & Western (Ireland) eighths .. Lancashire and York shire, F. 201. .. • • • • Do. 6 per et. Stock .. Loeds Northern, 6 per cent., No. I .. • • • Do. quarters, 1848 .. London, Brighton, and South Coast guar. 5 per et., late Creydon thirds Do. pref., s p et. Stock, 1851, from 501. chars. E Do. new guar., 6 per ct. Lon. & N. West. (Coy. & Nuneat.) 5 per cent. •• London &S.-W., uew blanch., Sheffield, and Linc., guar. stirs., No. 11 Do. new, 101. .. ..1 Do., 61. Midland Con. 6 p. c. stock Do. Consel. Bristol & Binning., 6 per cent... Do. Bristol & Glouces. Norfolk Extension gnar. 534 per cent. Do. Waveney Valley .. North British Oaf. Wor. &IN 01.151.6 p.c Shrewsbury and Bina. New Guaranteed .. Shrews. and Ches. (Nor. W. Min.) 8 per cent. South Devon . .• ..1 South-Eastern, 434 p. et.l West London,l Cl. (1010 1 Do. Sd Class do. (par) York, Newc., and Berw., Gt. N.of E. Piz. .: Do.• York and North Midland IL and S. rurch. .. Boulogne and Ainlane •• Central e Franco (Or leans and Vterzon) Demerara . Dutch Rhenish East Indian •• Do. do. do. .. Groat Indian Peninsula.. Ditto ditto •• Louvain a la bani%ire Luxembourg •• Ditto • • • • • • • • Madrid and Valcntia Karla Antonia .. Ditto, New Namur and Liege Northern of Prance .. Orleans and Bordeanz Paris and Orleans .. Parts and Rouen Paris and Strasbourg .. Rouen and Havre .. Sambre and Meuse Tours and Nantes .. Tournay, Jurbisa. Lan don, and llama e! WWI FlanclOri I 13.00 Asturian • • .. •• • • •• •• • • A.ustrallan , ••• • •• %aroma Range .. • • Blaenarvon Iron and Coal Bolanos Scrip . ...... . • - British Iron.. .• •• Brazilian Imp. (is. 5/. p.) —a% .. •••• •• Do. Cocaes and Cula-bAI Do. St. Jobn del Rey.. Cobra Cop', er • .... .• • Copiapo .. ••• •• • .. General.-- ....... •• Mexican& S. American Real Del Monte, tjureg. Do. Black Debentures. Do. Red Debentures .. 1 Santiago da Cuba ...... 18% -1 9 Ya A -3 1 % 634- 7 % 13% - 14 3'y - 4 % M -NI Tin Croft .............. United Mexican. ...... TOXN7 - 2 - - 3 -8 a - 2 itaNI CIL 3g -ZS 45 -46 lox •- 11 25 -• 26g 18;4 - 17 28% - 29 Australasia ............ British North America.. Colonial • • ... Coiamorcial of London.. London Joint Stock .... London and Westminster National Provincial Eng. Do. New ........ •• National of Ireland .... Provincial of Ireland.... Do. New .. ...... Union of Australia .. • • .. ....... DA - 1734 42 -44 155 - 16 g 35 - 36 % 3 - 3 'i lEN - 14% Do. Now ........... Croton of London ..... crown ut itadnd Canada Gen. Steam Navigation . Penin. & Oriental Steam. LANZCVS. 48 49)4 26% 28 64 —6B 15 15 1 4 78 8036 'ptember. Ticket d Accoun t days, 16 1. 0 ' OO to errors of tke 0 correspondent...) Ditto ditto Royal Mail Steam ...... Settling days in the moi tered shares. 15th an, nth of Se] d 29th. ►ble for till interested (we cannot be answer will not be influenced by K g WS . MONEY and COMMERCIAL, ti ;hck, C TWO am-reestr The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterdel we ; tor l mated at 7,000 bal e s, of w hich 1,500 Merrico7.l e:at°P9:o.lll-on-eweeligLPs::: frlfeetilbleri•l' taken for export. The market closed fir lll4 'ire ill F alteration in prices. —The Share Market O a ' at higher prices. k 1. tili ai ll . In the Colonial and Foreign Produce ga r -8 Astir has, this week, been a mod supply of the Pr biot i staples, and prices have kept very e off sr ° ree f considered, for buyers have l l and Coffee have just b e a e r t el qmnations. Rice, Tea, and Tall y ow g hav e rdec bil n cheaper. Saltpetre has been steady, . 11 t, - deci vr t , firm; but Indigo droops, 21,060 chests Men for e ll for the ensuing auctions. Cotton iv" l ',.,:i a g °f t rates. Hemp has been firm and in quest , e","„ v-6 : 1) , The consumption of Tea in Londi?nrtebis Yra;oo;Thililbo'r inst. has been 21.366,000 lbs. against 20,1eu i the corresponding date last year. c lote sij The emigration season is now drawing to a Ober t has not been by any means inactive. The,,Prof of persons who hav e gone t o o ur colonies is """0,00 nerally than last year, and: Canada esPechaVotisof Et great increase. In proportion to its e ll th °ll Canada receives usually more imw i g rsl :o the United States, a fact seldom 7 r e e d mind. The problem now to be fl cij r g lot* whether Australis, with its inviting e ci a ' e o 1 ,,, °r will offer a great counter-attraction , an- l id' compete more stroegly pith America for th e i labourers of Europe. P rittil The intelligence from the Continental genii is of about the same tenor to-day as previousl34 01 0 There is not quite such an animated War kel ltit' d l i Securities, sad the quotations are flatter ,l " - .60 0° ' other assignable cause than the usual resh'-ifst profits after an advance. Consols have 10 09 0 6 4 i i' l fransfer and Account, but they are now 0 01 1 ',, 2 6 0 16 , Money. The Three per Cent. Annuities a 1 '; $6ll l been at 96. East India Stock has been fir al , 4 il d - lo n Exchequer-bills are steady Bonds at 475. premium. l lo° Foreign Stocks have been almost norninsi,o°ll44lF been doing. Peruvian Deferred Stock bag been ; 604 at 431. to 4610 " Spanish Pave per Cents. have been done 6S 21:1.1 e 661 may be called 200 to j. The Three per CO"' :01 to 3, 4 , and the Passive 5* to i. Sardinian p on dioo 3 upl' t paid up have been a t 821, an d t h e Scrip is 21 • sbor Dutch Four per Cents. ar e 921. Mexican St 260 to 0. 0 1 0 Although a large business is being trans mOlll 0111 Railway Shares, the amount is by 0 13° : 3 , gre equal to what it was yesterday, and, r hre tl / 1 . more in favour of buyers. The ettlernent et t• noo ° rdio .t P is approaching, and will operate upon pricest, a— GO; as vir particular lines have been bulled or bel l bit s 011 " estern have gone back to 804 and 80, Leo cal- :1,60 1E Yorkshire to 531 0, North Western to 114, lis A d e ei l ', shire to 144, and others in proportion. The B A I3- 0 ssi" flux of speculative buyers within the last feW 'l'd ' CI to h be chiefly from Liverpool, and ° ll- 0 1 . / . t e large bullion imports, necessitsto polio in order to settle up, but if t he 6 . 0 4 , oror the speculators showed themselves -010 wouldwilling to take up the shares for money, a/e l : 901 speedily right itself. We aelge hend ' is °ll4llbl e tleat, as in most similar cases, the buying p ro bee p ia le ' f very slow, so seriously has railway properlY b egi rl ered with, and made the sport of garable ra ;, f re goy' dividends for the current half-year should iO n ri - se er hope of the future, allowing that the trafOG "" , n sti 6 rarily decline when the Exhibition closes. C ij i' c O , ;ItI , CICS OF BRITISEL FUNDS CecTICIC. v 11 " 96° g„ : .1::: - , t :iota& 1 - 1 , 7 1, 1 fr i , • 011 8 per Cent. Annuities , ' 1726 ' :: 9 9 6 6 114 47P [ndia stock 2614 49 P, Adia Be -- 1 96 india bonds 1,0004 Ditto under 1,0004 47 p_ Consols for Account xcbuquer 14d. 1,000/. 500/. ... 43 46 p a Small, .. .. oNE 11 11 04 PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCIL 0 Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. .- ..... ji Ditto, Account Grenada Bonds, 1% per Cent - M ~.iean, .7) per Ct., ,ex Jan. Uoups —. 41 Peruvian Bonds. 5 per Cent- Ditto, Deferred Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent. Ditto, Scrip 2% 0 S?anish 5 per (Eat. 1840 — 0 Ditto. Account Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent — ndolu / Dividends on the ab o ve payable in Londe' 9 s Dutch 212 per Cent. 12 Guild — Ditto 4 per Cont. Certificate,' ~. -----= LLOYD'S_ S 1 - IIPPIN br H IS viLAr) LONDON cc . ; LONDON, SEPT. 26.—Wind at Noon W. l4 ° . rate breeze and cloudy, but dry weather. , to We CARLISLE, SEPT. 25.—The Anne Mary, fro eie / 'd arrd. off here yeatet day, and g r o unded outside ‘'' t, be" and fell over, carrying away topmasts, toren36l &c., and lies embedded in the sand. n , ilk „ 0 , FOWEY, SEPT. 25.—Arrd. Touch-me-not, ... --b lfr a Co gri. BRISTOL, SEPT. 25.—Wind S.W.--A ll- ,.h ' '- ~ Si cill' t i s GLOUCESTER, J amaica; Lad) Jane, Quebec . ,Q uebe Monmouth , Quebec. Cuba; Addison, Buctoa. et bucto;gi o °ll°P NEWPORT, SEPT. 25.—Win d N Vir --- cl. . . A WOO' Cobden, W liming! on. FLEETWOOD, SEPT. 25.—Wind N.W . . A rr " . k 0 0.4 vibe, Quebec. SEPT. 25.—Arrd. Lanaheste., j _ A w.—Art d'iPa \,. A . , 7 .. -- .71( 14% —l5 x.d it k d x.di 134 -1% par U p M die par 1034 10% 934 10% Rio Grande; Caroline, 11 24 i . ram W ie i h n i k .. w C N a ' r o S g . 4 ",,i, SUNDERLAND, SEPT. 25.—Wind Vi r ."'L W l A . l3° S ° Manners, Hope, Quebec; Sappho, Quebec. RP' ' alcutta. 1 4 . C Barba sky ,o ; LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 25.—Wind S • S • W.; u' Arrd. Yhcenix, Antigua Industrious , . . °l ; virootlim Amelia, Ar Miramichi; Manchester, Callao,_' Ab r i at, r ice„Mail, Patagonia and Babia• Inco1191:001 Grande; Lindesfame, Jamaica; Alia:, Jape,' ::10 111° . h °} Helena, New Orleans; James Calder, ,v_,: r of°2. o " Sussex, Montreal; Mangosteen , Quebvc,• Quev-d; Quebec; Charles, Quebec; Lycha WileurY., j o lso ' Conqueror, Quebec; Margaret, Prince Edward: orss Sld Ann Hope, Tampico Byzantium, lrel(20011 State Rights, New York; Sop hia'B bidge, ,e, ur Om Arnbrosine , Bonny; Staffordshire, Bo ston. .., Earl of Egl inton and Davenport. a oC I t; fr Q°. : fall o SON DERLAND, SEPT. 25.—The Euph erua, Dundee, has been wrecked on the Nave St° s crew and greater part of stores saved. g 2 .1 T r DEAL, SEPT. 25 —Windlo r.,.,1,..' to. Lire' Arrd. Gvvalior, Manila; Zion, Calcutta; v',";,, 'OP",', nada; Ocean Wave, St. Lucia; Cairo, Juica'e"korlll„f"" barque, St. John's. Munoz, River Gambia; , nr e, 1 "" Mazatlan, for fi ' Baltuo" Dar amburgh ; Johannes, of,. Bremen ; Estafette, New York; United Ststefh toc it ranee; Honors, Carthagena. flos 1 1 AMSTERDAM, SEPT. 23.—The Ons Gouoli_erhaild 01 to London, put into Deltzt, 19th i ns t., lciii , - . • .1 1 e probably have to discharge. ow Cows, SEPT. 25.—Wind W.—Arrd. Pasinh 014 . 1111 01/ neiro; 11 .....esperia, Havannah; M a gna Cfttios, - Harmonien, Matanzas. - Go ol e ' POOLE, SEPT. 25.—Wind W.N.Vir.- - A rrc a . Newfoundland; Nelson Packet, Newfoundloo*,,Arrd. PLYMOUTH, SEPT. 25.—Wind S.W. to N. 14: a ,' it . Jilv. Colonis, Jacmel; Anne, New Branswick; P l° eei lri brador. Off port, Mary, Batavia, for otterdsool,oool Joseph, Singapore, for Antwerp; floe H a venry. Bombay; Ellen, Jamaica. • aen / ' it'D OFF THE EDDYSToNE —John rink, St. " n o, ' FALII ' u ri jii , SEPT. 25. —Wind W. Arrd. S4foloseirL), 474 db. I Janeiro; -c'ux II Off p ort, Ilion, S" , avannah vi: /Pi p. 1 for liatnburgh; Liebe, Ja.rnaioa. %die. par 13% - , 13% % - % P. • •• die 29 131 131% • • .-- .... p • • •••• . . p ~...........--_ _ c i lfg a el; SPECIAL EXPRESS TRAIN,---The 3 iL ° lc, th- 4 ,, pan): announced, in large posting bills, last vs!,.eorecilier..4 specialDoncaster train would run at a reduced rate from W pig t i f. Iv o have been informed that the said specia l Doncaster o❑ the Leger day, returning the P n ' e ai inv s° on tr in o ne ,„. picked uPirocer" only one passenger from Worcester, and its progress either at Droitwich or Brorasgrore f i l l Journal. gib - SOUTH-SEA HOUSE.--The A ~ fit tbe '''fte r meeting of proprietors took place yeeteruk7 r. $ 1 • • tile cl l/1 bt It Sea House, the Hon. H. P. Bouverte In bon a de d e* the usual preliminaries, a statement of the ,v, by 0 4 read, from which it appeared that 4,500 L st ill bv .fall' t he A committee was next appointed to inspect tbe I WO, o tral lsa the necessary formal business having ben meeting broke up. baltyearll "itb. % - % D. % - % P• is Ix 7 —9 3 4 6 14% 1434 4% —4% dad 33 — 35 tN 22% —2 2 N 6 9 — 9 4 i%- 3 4 *R. Ws. 6 14% % - 1% -,iii 17i 10u 100 8 6 8 100 all 1 13 47 4 100 100 42 4 2 0' 100 100 47% 3% 23 9% 1754 all all all 1 6% 16 2-3 all 126 3 9 all all 25 • • .." • • •• -. •• 2 % - 2 % P• log 11% x.d . 11% 11% x. 41 % 34 P IA) 127 - 129 15 -16 4 -4% 4% - 4S 34 -it P 93 -10 14% 15% x.d 12 14 .. ..... •• I 5 —16% x.d —4% x.cll 1% 1U die. 10i - 10% 17 -17 3( ronZIGN. 17163 8d 8)4 883111088 done to-day. 9 % % % 4% % 11% 34 16% 16% 3 2% X 6%6 16 5i x.n 5 x.n IN x.n 80 1 4 % 80 77 x.d 7 :4 P _ _ 54 }i 5”1-- 6% x.d 114% 114 24% 13% 81% 82 45 % % 34 16 91 92 98% 19 1 4 19 36 18% 111 z.d [834 % 'BLS. 130 140 MK %.d s.d PI LI NES , I Nominal prices. 1 eaid: 15 4 1 13 0 la 5 24)4 N 2 8 \ ' STOI B/X :scEL: aU 234 10 all all all all all 100 all