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THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. 'Under the direction of Madame Celeste. -, at hit of the new Comic Drama of tliralda ; or, the Miller's Wife. THIN EVENING, 'lll be performed an entirely new Comic Drama, in Three -', entitled GI ; or, The Miller's Wile. Philip, Mr. hes ; Don Japhet della. Tromha, Mr. Paul Bed , ord Don Manual ivar, Mr. Boyce ; Gil , Mr. Wrigit ; the (A*And Duchess, Miss na Harding ; Giralda, Miss K. Fitzwilliam. :ter which 111:4 LAST LEGS. O'Callaghan, Mr. Ita,lson ; Julia • . :Ks, Miss Ellen, Chaplin. to be followed by a new and original Farce, in the Vulgar Tongue, to be called JACIC ICI Ta.e. GBEEN ; or, Hints on - [l unette. To coneude with THE DOUBLE-BEDDED ROOM. Characters De Mr. Lambert, Miss E. CLaplin, &c. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEA rRE, OXFORD-STREET. The Public is respectfully informed that this Theatre is open for the Season, under the Manazeme , st of Mr. C. Keaa and Mr. Keeley. THIS EVENING, Will be performed Shakes;,eare's Tragedy of HAMLET. Hamlet, Mr. C. Kean ; 4.rphelia, Mrs C. Kean T ,, be followed by a new Farce, called PLATONIC ATTACH MENTS, in wh ch Mr. Keeley, Mr. A. Wigan, and Mrs. Keeley will appear. To conclude with a Ballet Divertissement, in a hich Mr. Flexmore, Miss Carlotta Leclercq, and Madile. Auriol will appear. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Great success of Giralda and the New Farce. THIS EVENING, Wirl be performed GIRALDA ; or, the Invisible Husband, sup ported by Messrs. Leigh Murray, G. Cooke, W. Farren, xn., Comp ton ; Mesdames. Stirling and Leigh Murray, Madlles. Louise and Adak.. After which THE OLDEST INHABITANT, in which Messrs. W. Farren. Compton, Diddear, Norton; Mesdames Bartlett, Adams, and - mien Turner will appear. To conolude with the PRINCESSES IN THE TOWER. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. - Under the Patronage of her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty. Crowded Houses to witness the attractive and magnificent Spectacle of Mazeppa, which, with brilliant novelties in the Wonders of the Arena, form the most varied and attractive Entertainments in the Metropolis, which will be continued for this week only. Fifth Week of the accomplished Vocalist, Miss Annie Hardie, who wil sing a favourite Ballad. THIS EVENING, Will be produced Lord Byron's gorgeous Spectacle of MAZEPPA ald the WILD HORSE. Mazeppa, Mr. N. T. Hicks. To be followed by a changeable petite Ballet, by Madlle. Gardeni, Amelia Bridges, and La Petite Jeannette, called 'the HUNGARIAN WOODCUTTERS, on the Double Tight Rope. Th 3 new Scenes in the Circle, and first appearance of Mr. Hen derson, the wonderful Somersault-thrower , In the course of the evening Miss Annie Hardie will sing a favourite Ballad. To conclude with a favourite Farce. Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. DIGIT WATER Al LONDON BRIDGE. Tau DAT —Morning 51 min. after 10 i Evening 29 main. after 11 To•Moasow— Morning 47 min. after 11 I Evening 0 rain. atte; THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, OcroBEK 2. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 55—highest since noon yesterday. 41—lowest this morning and during the night. 54—this day, at noon. BAROMETER, 29.82. A rise of nearly half an inch since yesterday. WIND N.W.—cloudy, with occasional sunshine. 4 .. ..‘ . T4 ..... A -....,,4 .. 1 , 11 7 041: p4 . q ° S , ~..,•_,„ ---.:, J.,,,,-_,„ ? ,),..,.,„ : „.„.;,,,,4 • Di,...,..,:: ~., entna ‘..1131/. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1850 In endeavouring to carry out the great work of retrenchment in the offices of the national Exchequer, the attention of the financial reformer has latterly teen directol rather closely to the merits or neces sities of diplomacy, and to the extravagant sums w i',ll which its numerous agents are severally re munerated. An appendix to the " Report on Official Salaries," recently published and laid before Parlia ment, contains, in addition to the classification under the Act 2 and 3 William IV., cap. 116, the salaries attached to the offices immediately subordinate to the respective Ambassadors or Ministers Plenipoten tiary. From this catalogue of the incomes derived from the public Treasury of England by the cultiva tors of the diplomatic science, it will be observed what unnecessary thousands are squandered upon a system carried out on a scale altogether too prodigal and complicated. Where one judiciously selected representative of the English SOVEREIGN would, to say the least of it, be amply sufficient to perform all the duties required in this particular department of the public service, no less than four different classes of diplomatic ministers, and, in one astonishing instance, no less than nine various grades of diplomatic appointment, are deemed, most erroneously deemed, by the Government to be abso lutely essential. Among the numerous distinctions, for example, there are the ambassadors and plenipo tentiaries, there are the envoys and ministers pleni potentiary, there are the secretaries of embassy and the secretaries of legation, and, besides all these, there are the charges daffaires and a swarm of paid attaches. At the Courts of the three principal nations of Europe, namely, at those of Austria, France, and Russia, there are four diplomatic representatives of her Britannic MAJESTY. At St. Petersburgh, for example, we have au envoy and minister plenipotentiary at 6,0001. per annum; at Vienna, an ambassador and plenipoten tiary at 9,0001. per annum ; at Paris, an ambassador and plenipotentiary at 10,0001. per annum. Besides these, we have in the French capital a secretary of embassy at 1,0001., a first paid attache at 4001., and a second paid attaché at 3001. per annum. In the Austrian capital, again, we have, besides our ambas sador, a secretary of embassy at 9001., a first paid attache at 3501., and a second paid attaché at 2501 . per annum. In the Russian metropolis, in like manner, besides the envoy and minister plenipoten tiary, there are a secretary of legation at 7001., a first paid attaché at 4001., and a second paid attaché at 3001. per annum. The extraordinary instance to which we have alluded, where at one single Euro. pean court England supports no less than eight re presentatives or employees subordinate to her ambas sador, is no other than that of the embassy to Con stantinople. There it is that, with an ambassador at 7,0001., are coupled together a secretary at 8001., an Oriental secretary at 5001. a first paid attache at 3001., and a second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth paid attaché, each at a salary of 250/. per annum. Thus dividing and subdividing among nine persons labour that might be readily performed by one individual, aided, mayhap, in case of necessity, by an Oriental secretary Somewhat more moderate in character than the foregoing, there are the embassies from England, con sisting each of an envoy and minister plenipoten tiary, a secretary of legation, and a paid attache at the Courts of Spain, Prussia, the United States, the Two Sicilies, Portugal, the Brazils, the Netherlands, Bolgium, Sardinia, Frankfort, Greece, Saxony, Mexico, Tuscany, and Wurtemburg. In the instance of Tuscany it is true that the paid attaché is resident at Rome, not at Florence ; but in all the ether cases the three officials particularised are established toge ther in the metropolis of the kingdom, republic, or principality to which they are accredited. As to the various payments of these very numerous diplo matic agents, it may be observed that in Madrid the ambassador has his 6,0001. per annum, in Berli❑ 6,0001., in Washington 4,5001., in Naples 4 0001., in Lisbon 4 000/., at the Brazils 4,000/., at the Nether lands 3,6001., in Brussels 3,600/., in Turin 3,600/., in Frankfort•on-the-Maine 2,600/., in Athens 2,500/., in Florence 2,0001., at Mexico 3,6001., at Saxony 2,000/ , and 2,000/. also at the Court of Wurtemburg. In addition, moreover, to all these pay ments there are others of salaries appertaining to the paid attaches and secretaries of legation, ranging up from 2bol. to 600/. per annum. At Bavaria, England is satisfied with having simply an envoy and minister plenipotentiary, accompanied by a secretary of legation ; so also, be it observed, at Denmark, Sweden, Hanover, Switzerland, and Buenos Ayres ; the salaries of the envoys ranging from 2,0001. up to 3,600/., and thasa of the secretaries of legation being, on the average, 500/. per annum. In six other quarters of the globe, namely, in Central America, at Monte Video, and at New Granada, in Peru, Chili, and Bolivia, our Government maintains, upon a rather more rational arrangement, charges d'of faireg, with a diplomatic allowance of 1/. per diem, in addition to consular salary as consuls-general, Surveying the whale of the elaborate scheme here referred to--,urveying it, that is to say with the scrutinizing win of a Financial Reformer, it is scarcely possible to refrain from ex pressing a most earnest solicitude that its strange and useless extravagance may be very speedily diminished, and in lieu of the prese n t costly system, a new one, more reasonable in the proportion of its salaries, and, at the same time, more efficient in its working caps• I city, established. Until some change of this descrip tion-be accomplished it will be idle to congratulate ourselves and the country upon the progress or the prospects of national retrenchment. The tendency of recent legi,littion has been to ex tend materially tl-As summary jurisdiction of magis trates, and to do away in many cases with trial by jury, an institution once valued by the British na tion. It is as , erted that there is a saving of time and expense under the new sy stem, thst criminals are brought to justice more promptly, while the pockets of the ratepayers are spared the heavy demands that would otherwise be made for the investigation of trifling cases. It is of course desirable that punishment should follow crime with as little delay as practicable, and that offenders should expiate their misdemeanours while the act is recent and fresh in the public recollection. But we desire to have good law as well as expeditious law, and we strongly object to the removal of the chief safeguard and protection for really innocent persons—the trial by jury—which is founded on the constitutional principle that no man shall be deemed guilty of any offence unless found to be so by the unanimous verdict of twelve of his peers. It is unfortunately but too notorious that magis trates frequently resort to their summary jurisdiction beceause they entertain serious doubts whether, under the circumstances, a jury could be found to convict the accused party. Many active justices are disposed to credit almost any charge that may be preferred, and to consider the appearance of the accused in cus tody as tantamount to complete proof of guilt. There are in every rural district certain persons suspected of an undue propensity for game, a love of poaching,. against whom th e j us ti ces an d cons t a b u l ar y are deeply prejudiced, and of whom any charge, how ever trumpery, will be readily credited, and acted on to the full extent of the powers vested in the person who is constituted the sole judge of the law and of the fact, without any appeal being permitted from his in frllible Three months' imprisonment, with hard labour, may be regarded as a very trivial matter by some of the economists, who profess such intense anxiety to diminish the expenses ( f criminal prosecutions ; but it may, and in the majority of cases will, prove the ruin, the absolute, irretrievable ruin, of the victim, whose cha• racter will be for ever blasted and prospects destroyed by such an event. During the period of his confine ment he will be associated with degraded beings, who will find him the fitter for their purpose if he be smarting under a sense of injustice. His demoraliza tion will speedily be effected, and he will be discharged from gaol a very different person from what he was when entering its gloomy gates. His chance of obtaining employment is wholly removed. Who will take into his service the man who had been convicted in due form of law, and who had served his time in the society of even greater criminals than himself ? lie will necessarily be driven to crimes of greater magni tude, until eventually, exiled from his native land, while his miserable family, who had been obliged to seek re fuge in the union workhouse during his first and un merited imprisonment, will continue within its walls, and become permanent burdens to the ratepayers. The expenses of criminal prosecutions may be reduced, but the poor-rates will be considerably increased by the change ; the charge will, in fact, only be trans ' ferred from one head to another, and there will be no real saving, perhaps the effect may be of a very dif ferent character. But it is not merely that innocent persons are oc casionally, we might say frequently, unjustly convicted, but guilty men are often permitted to escape, either scot free, or with a penalty so utterly disproportioned to the offence as to amount to prac tical impunity. One man may resist a most gross ' and unjustifiable aggression by a policeman, and be committed to hard labour for two months, while an other, in " a playful mood," may attempt to bore a hole in the head of an unoffending person with a chisel, and, after seriously wounding the injured party, add to his offence by bringing perjured witnesses to give a false colour to the transac• tion, will be fined 303., or in default fourteen days' imprisonment ; and in a neighbouring court, a miserable hurdy-gurdy player may be " sent for a month" for the atrocious offence of receiving a few coppers from the passers -by. The decisions are, in fact, so various, that it is impossible to suppose that the same code of laws could be administered in such opposite manners. Lest it might be thought that we have exag gerated the comparative enormity of a person who had committed a serious offence, we would refer to the case of a Dutch Jew, named MEYER Luvl, who was brought before Mr. Alderman GIBBS on Mon day, charged with having stabbed an Irishman in the head with a chisel. A❑ old Irish dealer had, it appeared, got tipsy on Sunday, and some Jews of the neighbourhood were anxious to have a lark with the drunken man, and dealt rather roughly with the complainant, who was anxious to take care of his countryman. The prisoner, however, carried his " fun " rather further than the others, for he struck the unfortunate man on the head with a chisel, which, " after penetrating the skull, took an oblique direction and peeled the skin off part of the nose." The policeman who came up found the complainant in a dreadful condition, his wounds bleeding fresh and manifestly just inflicted. "The lamb," as he was termed by some of his friends, produced several witnesses to prove that he was an injured man, the complainant having assaulted him without an effort at retaliation, and that the injuries complained of had been occasioned by a fall down stairs a fortnight before. The worthy Alderman, however, expressed his unqualified disbelief of the entire statement. He declared " that the prisoner bad, upon the clearest evidence, been guilty of a most dangerous assault. He lamented that he should have occasion to say that foreigners were very much in the habit of resorting to deadly weapons in cases of dispute, and he feared the example bad its imitators among the people in this country. As a magistrate he should do all in his power to check so atrocious a practice, and to discountenance the perjury by which it was attempted to be justified." This was perfectly right, and would have been exceedingly valuable if followed by a severe sentence, or by sending the case to trial at the Central Criminal Court, where an adequate punishment might be inflicted for the out rage. But the prisoner was allowed to escape for a fine of 303., or, in default of payment, fourteen days' imprisonment in Bride well, with hard labour. This was not an example to deter others from resorting to deadly weapons, or from bringing forward perjured witnesses for the defence. We know not what could have induced Mr. Alder man GIBBS, who is generally a most efficient magis trate, to permit the ruffian to escape so easily from his hands. We can only ascribe it to the soothing influences of the civic festivities. THEODORE Hoox has described the magical effects of surrounding cir cumstances on'a judicial functionary, who, after tast ing " a corked bottle," pronounced the heaviest sen tences, but was exceedingly lenient on quaffing claret of the right bouquet, and an approved vintage. Al derman GIBBS must have been in a happy state of mind, indeed, when delivering judgment on " the lamb," for his playful attempt on the head of the poor Irishman. STEAM TO SMYRNA.—Yesterday morning, at ten o'clock, the General Screw Steam Shipping Company's ves sel Hellespont, Capt. W. Watts, arrived off the Custom house, in 16 days 5 hours, from Smyrna, including stoppages at Malta and Gibraltar. She was laden with 140 tons fresh figs, 11,2001. specie, a general cargo, and eight passengers. This is the second cargo of fruit which has arrived in the Thames direct from Smyrna this season. The first cargo was by the Propontis, on Tuesday last. WRECK OF A SCHOONER.—On Saturday week, during the heavy storm which took place in the Channel, the schooner Charles sunk off Cardinal's Point, Holyhead. She left this port on Friday, and was laden with coal, for Dublin. All on board, consisting of the captain (Thomas Heath), his wife, two children, and three men, perished The vessel was part owned by the captain, and the other half by Mr. Samuel Fryer of this town. She was not in sured.--Liverpool Mercury. THE BRITANNIA.—The tubes of this great struc ture are to be entirely roofed in to protect them from atmos pheric influences with galvanized tinned-iron, for which pur pose 66,000 square feet will be required. MURDER OF A TOLLBAR-KEEPER.-011 Saturday morning last it was discovered that the tollbar between Todmorden and Hebden Bridge had been broken into, and James Smith, from forty to fifty years of age, who was the toll-collector, was found in his bed with his threat cut, and quite dead. The drawers had been ransacked, and blood was found in several parts of the house. On Sunday morn ing a man was taken into custody on suspicion of having committed the murder. On Monday he was taken before the magistrates at Todmorden and remanded. Smith was a single man, and resided by himself at the bar-house. He had lately been the means of getting the prisoner lined 5/. The prisoner had stated he would be the end of Smith. The convict Hannah Curtis, who was left for exe cution at the last assizes for Gloucester on a charge of poison ing her husband at Frampton Cottrell, has bad the sentence commuted into transportation for life. THE Si 0 - N, LO N DON, THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the Paris journals of yesterday. The Journal des Debats fu.s a I , ver i but sopi‘isticul article from the pen of M. ST. M taC GIRARDIN on the Wiesbaden circular, in which the wii y Orieani-t seeks to cij2le the Legitimatists after the manner folio jog. He says— " We do ia.t pretend to be able to convert the Legiti matists to our doctrines, or to obtain from them a solemn disavowal of them. We prefer, in order to show that between them and us the difference is not so great as they thought and said, to point to the effect produced on them by the circular of Wiesbaden. That document had not perhaps any other evil than to enunciate a little too crudely the old doctrine of the Legitimatist party. That which was only a thing said over again, has ap peared to the Legitimatists themselves to be a paradox and a challenge thrown down to the spirit of the age; so much are they of their time without knowing it, without wishing it; and so much the better, for that is a part of their force. They feel what we feel—they think what we think. Only they have other affections, which caused them to imagine that they had other opinions. They had even a little neglected to inspect their old doc trines, not doubting that they would recognise them when they saw them. It is almost the contrary which has occurred to several amongst them, and as they had themselves changed, they believed at first that it was their doctrines that had changed—a very natural error, but which ought to serve as experience. Political prin ciples are not made to shut up in museums, but to exist in society in the midst of its customs and its ideas, to set them right, at the same time to acquiesce in them, by a mixture of perseverance and justice uf mind." M. FREDERICK BASTIAT, representative of the people, who for his exertions in the cause of free trade may be called the COBDEN of France, died last week at Nice. The Bulletin de Paris states that M. LUCIEN MURAT has left for Turin, charged by the PRESIDENT of the Republic to use his efforts to arrange the difference between Piedmont and the Court of Rome. The review which bad been fixed for Tuesday at Versailles has been postponed to the following day, on account of the uncertainty of the weather. The D Aats publishes a letter from Ostend, of the 29th September, which says :—" The Queen of the BELGIANS is still in a state of suffering, which forces her to the most absolute repose. Her august mother, Queen AMILIE, is expected at Ostend on the Bth October, together with the Duke DE NEMOURS, who, it is said, will remain till the 15th." The Assemblie Nationale was seized yesterday for the publication of an article stating that M. DE PER SIGNY had gone to London to endeavour to raise a loan for the PRESIDENT of the Republic, who had already spent the three millions granted to him by the Legislative Assembly. Pais BOURSE, OCT. I.—Latest Prices—Five per Cents., 92f. 25c. ; Three ,per Cents., 57f. 30c. Bank Actions, 2,270 f. 6;USINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TIIE LONDON SI'OCK EXCHANGE, OcT. 1. Boulogne and Amiens, B , 4—East Indian, 9k—Namur and Liege, 7 1 4—Northern of France, 14 1 A,—Rouen and Havre, 1014. SPAIN. Madrid journals of the 26th ult. hare arrived. The He - raldo states that Sir GEORGE HENRY NI CHOLSON was amongst the persons killed by the over turning of the stage coach from Valencia to Barcelona MADRID BOLSA, SEPT. 26.—The Three per Cents. closed at 35i cash ; the Five per Centg. at paper ; Coupons, 8 ; Debt without interes:, 4 paper. GERMAN Y. The Prussian Staats Anzeiger of the 29th ult. publishes three dispatches from the Prussian Go vernment to Baron THIELE, the KING'S Ambassador at the Court of Hessen, and to the Hessian Go vernment at Wilhelmsbad. Two of these dis patches, which bear the date of the 12th and 21st tilt., are signed by Count BRANDENBURG, but the third is dated the 26th uit., and bears the signature of Baron RADOWITZ, the new Secretary for Foreign Affairs. The first two dis patches express the regret of the Prussian Govern ment that the ELECTOR should have been induced to resort to measures which are foreign to the Consti tution of his country, and advise him with all pos sible speed to return to the path of legality and justice. They protest that his appeal to the Frank fort Council can only add to the difficulties of his position ; that Prussia cannot recognize the compe tency of that Council to dispose of and to decide in the afft.irs of Germany ; that Prussia protests against any measures that may be resorted to by the mem bers of that Council in their fictitious capacity of a " Diet," and that his Majesty the King of PRUSSIA reserves to himself the liberty of " making any fur ther decision which may be required by the duty he owes to Germany in general and to his own country in particular." The dispatch which Baron RADOWITZ has ad dressed to the Hessian Government, refers to and recapitulates the warnings which are contained in the above-mentioned documents, by protesting against any inferences that may be drawn from the resolution of the Frankfort Council in the Hessian question. The Cassel Gazette, the official organ of the E'ector of lIESSE, which is at present published at Wilhelms bad, states, in its number of the 28th ult , that it not true that the Hessian Cabinet has received any communication from that of Prussia, declaring the resistance of the people legal, and the proceedings of the Cabinet unconstitutional. Tne German Journal of Frankfort states, from Cassel of the 28th ult., that M. lIASSENPFLUG, Mi nister of Finance of Electoral Hesse, had given orders to the Treasury to pay 44,000 thalers to the Minister of War, and to the railway, to provide an express train for the conveyance of a battalion of troops to Giessen. A committee had been formed for provid ing for the payment of the salaries of public func tionaries in the event of their not being paid by the State. As a specimen of the manner in which information is manufactured at Vienna, we give the following amusing paragraph from the Austrian Correspondent of the 26th ult. :—" The Austrian refugee, FRANIC, who was employed in the brewery of Messrs. BAR CLAY and PERKINS, has been dismissed, for having excited the workmen to commit a violent assault on General IlayNau. Mr. PERKINS has been twice interrogated by a member of the Cabinet. The English Liberals, who are naturally partisans of the working brewers, pretend that they cannot be prosecuted, either for felony or misdemean our, because General HAYNAU does not prosecute. But they forget that under certain circumstances, when the question is one of offence towards a friendly power, and of reciprocity, an order of the Privy Council may condemn to transportation for life, and that Lord PALMERSTON may take that measure without engaging his responsibility before the Perlis. DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES. The Kolner Zeilung has a telegraphic dispatch from Hamburgh, of the 30th ult., stating that a general movement has taken place along the Schleswig-Hol stein lines, that the troops advanced against the Danes, and that an engagement ensued, in the course of which the fortified city of Friedrich. stadt was bombarded on the morning of the 29th. The city of Tonningen was carried and occu pied by the Holsteiners, after an engagement which lasted two hours. A party of Danish prisoners was brought to Lunden. A skirmish is said to have taken place at Breckendorf. At ten o'clock on the morning of the 30th, Frede rickstadt was still in possession of the Danes, but the bombardment continued. The Holsteiners captured 217 prisoners in Tonningen. ITALY. The Paris Moniteur du Soir of Monday night has the following : " We are assured that news has been received to-day of the Piedmentese Ministers having sent in their resig nation to the young King. The members of the Cabinet wish to leave to new men the task of negotiating a friendly arrangement between Piedmont and the Papal Court." We read the following in the .Risorgimento of Turin of the 27th ult.:— " Yesterday, at the general sitting of the Magistracy of Appeal of Piedmont, Advocate-General Persogiio presented a requisition for the purpose of obtaining the exile of Monsignor Franzoni, and the sequestration in the bands of the Economate of the property belong ing to the archiepiscopal see of this diocese. Both these propositions were admitted by the judges, in con formity with the conclusions of the law-officer of tt Crown." To this information the Opinione adds that thir teen judges out of fourteen pronounced the condem nation of Monsignor FRANZONT, and that the latter was to be escorted to the frontier on the following day. GALLANT CONDUCT OF A NAVAL OFFICER.-00 Wednesday last a little girl, whilst playing on the wooden bridge crossing the Mill Goit, at the bottom of Kirkgate, accidentally fell into the water. Several persons were pass ing at the time, but none interfered to save the child until Captain 11. C. Binstead, R.N., who happened to be coining by, saw the occurrence. He immediately threw off his hat and coat, dashed into the stream, and succeeded in bringing the girl sate to shore. A few moments later, and the efforts of her gallant preserver would have been in vain, as the current is very strong at that particular part of the river, and would probably have absorbed her in its vortex but for the timely rescue thus afforded.— WaksfieldEraminer. THE OIL FISHERIES.—The ship Emma, just ar rived from St. John's, Newfoundland, has brought 168 casks of seal, and 117 casks of cod oil, 715 bundles of seal skins, '29 packages of cod liver oil, and a quantity of cod fish ; and the vessel Symmetry, arrived from the same place, has brought 224 casks of seal oil, 32 casks of cod, and 80 casks of cod liver oil, and a variety of other productions of that distant fishery of North America. DEATH BY DROWNING.—Mr. Henry Lahiff, eldest son of 11. Lahiff, Esq., of Cloon, in the county of Galway, went to bathe last week in the Surges, on the snore of Spod dal, in spite of the remonstrances of his friends, and was drowned. WEDNESDAY EVENING OCTOBER . _2 3 1.6(), L'o., do. 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Preference Consolidated -.-. - .. - Gloucester and Dean Foragt.. 14 Great Northern . ........ ..... 25 ... - 13%% 3 / 4 to - Do. % A Deferred ..... ... 12 1 ,4 41 4 1 4 14 to - DJ. 1 4 B 6 per Cent....... 12% 9 % to - Do., 5 per Cent. Pref....,,, 12% ...... 114 to - Gt. South. & West. (Ireland) 50 ...... 35 Ditto, Eighths ... ..... 2% - to - Treat North of England 100 - - Ditto, New 404 ~.. ..... - - 40 - to - Ditto, New 304 Ditto, New 151.-- ...... 15 ..-.. - - Great Western ........ .. .. ...100 Do. Now 171 - ... .. to - Gull and Selby 5O - ...... to - Ditto, Half Shares .. ...... 25 - ...... to - Ditto,Quarter Shares ... 12% - ...... to - Lancaster and Car1i51e........ 50 - to - Do., Thirds .. - :.ancashire and Yorkshire ...100 Ditto Quarters 2 3 1,4 ...... to - Ditto Fifths lO .. ... 2 - Ditto. Thirds. lB ...... - Do., New Guar. 6 per cent. 10 - - Do. (Hudders. and Sheff.) 50 - to - Do., West Riding Union... 11 1 4 .... . - .. to - Leeds and Bradford ..... -..... 50 ..... 92 3 % . to - Leeds and Thirak . ...... 50 Do. ,do., Prefer., 6 per Cent. 6 . - die.... to - Ditto, ditto... - - Ditto, ditto ..... ... No. 3 5 - to - Do. Pref. Quarters. 1848... 9 - to - Liverpool, Crosby, and South port. - .. .. to - London &:Blackwall --W. Cs. 3d Lend., Bright., & South Coastloo - Do. Guaranteed 5 per Cent. 9 ...... - - De. Preferential, 5 per Ct., 50 ...... - - Ditto, ditto 1852 50 ..... - - Do., New, gua. 6pr Ct.... 100 - ...... to - London and Greenwich... 121. 15e. 4d - ...... 10 - Ditto Preference - London & North Western.....loo 11 5 14 'o 115 Do. New Qoarters., l7 - Do. Fifths l2 ..... - Do. 101. ... M. and B. (C.) 1 Lo - Rion and S. We5teru.......100 Ditto. New 50/........ .. ..... 4234...... - - Ditto, New 40/. 34 Do., New Preference - to - Londonderry and Coleraine... 25 Do. Half Shares Londonderry and Enniskillen 25 - - Do., Half Shares 714 ...... - ...- to ..... Lswestoff, guar. 4 per ct 2O - to - Ditto (guar. 6 per cent. ... 13 - ... .. to - ktanch Buxton, & Matlock 514. - • ..... ':' - Manchr, Sheffield, and Linc.loo - Ditto 4 Shares ( No. 1) ... 25 ...... - .. - Do., New raan. & ew 10/. in. Union Preference.. 4. 20. .. - • . Ditto, die Midland.. lOO 43 43% 4214 to 43 Ditto, Cons°. Preference 100 Ditto, 501. shares ..... ...... 35 l 3 l /2 13... to 13 1 4 gidland, Birm., end Derby...loo ... - Midland, Consol. Bristol and Birmingham. 6 per cent.... 100 - ~ ... to - tlidland, Bristol and Glouc. 46 ... - - Ditto ditto 297. 16s. 6d .. -• - Ditto,ErewashVal., Pref... 50 - - ilidland, Leices. and Swan liington (8 per ct.gua.)....100 .... . - - g idld. Great Western (Irish) 4714 - - Viddlesbro' and Redcar. 6 per cent. guar. 5O - to - gewcastle and Carlisle . 100 .._.. - - wotk o Ditto at Quartert . Shares . .... 23 - . 25 ... .. - toto = Newmarket Ditto Extension Scrip... 21. 123 — Newport Abergy., and Herd. 6 Newry and Enniskillen ...... 7 Newry, Warrenpoint, and Rostrevor .... 20 ..... ... .. to Norfolk ...... ..... 100 ...... 16%..... to Ditto New 201. l5 ...... ._.... to Do. Extension ~ ......... ... 20 Do. Guar. 5 1 ,% per cent... 5 Do. do. Waveney Valley... 2 Northern Counties Union ... 4 , rorth British .. .. ...... .. . 25 ...... 7 1 4 % to Ditto, Preference ... 5 North Staffordshire........... 17% North Western . 17 Oxford, Worcester, and Wol verhampton Preston and Wyre Do. Half Shares (A) 10% to R..ading,Guildtd.,& Reigate 18 i - toyston and Hitchin ..... .. 6 1 4 ;)o. Shepreth Extension... 1 1 / 2 ..... - ... S'cottisb Central -cottish Midland ... 25 ••... to Ditto, New... . S'irewsbury and Birmingl,am 13 1 4 8 1 8,% die. to •-• Ditto, ditto, Class 8... 9% 6 , ?•A dis.... to Ditto, New Guaranteed 8 hrewshury and Hereford .. 5 ihrewsbury and Chester (Nor. W . , :iin. ) - ...... to -- Ditto Halves, Ditto... 10 ... Ditto, Oswestry 2O ...... Ditto (New)... Ditto 8 per Cent. Pref....-. 10 .. ... S . iropshire Union 6% - .. -outh Devon i 5O ..•••• ...• ••• to --• Ditto, Preference ...... .. ';outh Staffordshire B% .. •••.. to south Ei.storn ...... .. ... 30 ......`40 5 8 , 4 x.(l to Ditto, Registered No. 4.... 10 -oath Wales .. South Yorkshire, Doncaster and Goole l5 4teflield, Rotherham, and Goolt (N. 1)) Gus.. 5 per ct. 18 1 ,4 — ... .. to Do. do. (South Div.) 6 'wans. and Loughor and Ca meron's Stm. Coal ..... .... . 10 Vow Vale Extension limes Haven Dock and Railway ..„. 17 1 ,E — gale of Neath ,.. 13 Waterford and Kilkenny 2O ...... Natertord and Limerick ... .. 47%..... Water! ord, Wexford, W icklw, and Dublin .. 3 Wear Valley, 6 per gent. Guaranteed ... . 'so ...... ...... to Do. do. do. Do. do. do. West Cornwall _ 71 .6 ~._ Vhitehaven and Furness...." 20 ." Arindsor, Staines, and South Western.— _ l 4 ~.... -- Wilts,Somerset,&Waymoutli 50 — ... to York, Newcastle, and Berwick 20 1 6 14 A... to Do. and Newcastle Exten. 20 ••.... to Do. G. N. E. Pun or Pref.. 9 Do. do. . ........... ..... 17 Do. do. Do.Hartlepeol Dk. & Rly. 100 York and North Midland ... 50 ......2O to 21 Ditto, Preference lO --- ...... to FOREIGN RAILWAYS. tnglo Italian (late Italian and Austrian) 6% to —, tioulogne and Amiens 2O ..... 834 1 4... tO Central of France ( Orleans and Vierzon.) Demerara. ............ ........ ... 17X..... Dutch Rhenish ........ . ....... 8 East Indian Ditto ... 2O ..... Great Indian Peninsular 6 ...... Do. Do 1 34 — to Louvain 11 la Sambre ......... 7 1 / 2 — ...... to Luxembourg Ditto Madrid and Valenti& Namur and Liege.... .. 20 ..... 7 1 4 1 4% to Northern of France Orleans and Bordeaux ... .. 7 ..... ...... to Paris and Orleans... Paris and Rouen Paris and Strasbourg ......... 14 ..... 7% to Rouen and Elavre 2O ...... 10'4 ...... to Sambre and Meuse itrasbarg and Bale ..... ...... 14 Yours & Nantes ... —. .. 14 fournay, Jurbise, Landen, and Hasselt . ........ ...... .. 20 West Flanders B% — •...... to MINES. Anglo Mexican lOO ...... - Asturian ............« ... ..... 15 ..... Australian ....... 4 ...... 33g to -- Ba rrossa Range Blaenarvon Iron and Coal Bolanos Scrin — — to British Iron .. 1 3 14 — Brazilian Imperial •••• ••• ••• 24%...... ... ••••• to - Ditto Cocaes and Cuiaba... 30 - Ditto St. John Del Roy ... 15 Cobre Copper ..........«.... 40 General Real del Monte, Unregistered .. .. .. ... to Do. Black Debentures E — to Do. Red Debentures ..... .... Santiago de Cuba ......... ...... 10 — Tin Croft United Mexican JOINT STOCK RANKS. Australasia British North American .... 50 ....... Colonial ................ 25 ...... 24 .. Commercial of London ...... 20 ...... London Joint Stock ..... lO ...... London and Westminster... 20 National Provincial of Engld. 85 — Ditto, New ....... .... 10 ...... National of Ireland..., 22% — _.... t o ..... Provincial of Ireland Ditto, New ........,... ..... 10 Union of Australia Ditto, New .. 2% — ...... to Union of London .. 10 - Union of Madrid DEATH OF LADY AUGUSTA NIEUMANN.--We re gret to announce the demise of Lady Augusta Nieumann, eldest daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, and wife of Barcn de Nieumann, formerly Austrian Minister at the Court of St. James's. Her Ladyship died in childbed at Vienna, and her remains, which arrived in this country a few days since, are to be interred in the family vault at Badmin ton this day. MO2-ILl' and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TWO O'CLOCK. Ti,e sales of Cotton at Liverpool yeeferee y ;.ere esti mated at 6.000 bales, of w Nub 500 Amer:can and 500 Egyptian were taken for export, and 2,000 American on seecel ation. The market closed firmly at full prices for all hieds, and common American a shade against the buyer. The sales comprised 4 : 500 American, 250 Perno.n and Maranham at 8d to Sp, 400 Egyptian at Sid to 9V, 600 Surat at 5d to t'ilo, and 20 Sea Island at 18 4:ld per lb.—ln Railway Shares a good business was done, hut the markei closed rather heavily. Various interesting items of commercial information are contained in a letter from Messrs. Schroeder and M a nning, dated New Orleans, the Ist instant, and we select especially those that refer to the crops of the most important staples. First, as to Cotton, it is stated that the total receipts, at all our ports, up to the latest dates, amount to 2,071,477 bales; asd the crop, when ultimately made up, will probably vary but little from 2,100,000 bales. As our tables will show, nearly the whole deficiency in our receipts has fallen upon Great Britain, our exports to that country having been 247,829 bales less than last year, whilst there is an increase io our exports to the northern ports of 8,032 bales. The question as to the probable extent of the next crop of cotton is one of most absorbing interest, and theohances for or against are watched with great anxiety. There can be no doubt that the planting season has been the most unfavourable one known for years, and that, up to the middle of June, the prospects for the crop were less flattering than for several previous years, At this pe riod, however, a very favourable change in the weather took place, and from that time until now the general sea son has been highly favourable. Although the reports from the country are still somewhat contradic tory, it appears generally conceded that a wonderful change has been operated in favour of the plant, and as gloomy as were the prospects some mome months ago, as certain are they nose for a fair crop, provided the re mainder of the season be propitious. The plant being backward in comparison with other years, a late and lenient fall is required to attain this desirable result. It being of course impossible, et this time of the year, to state the probable extent of the crop with any degree of accuracy, we can only mention that the most general estimates run from 2,200 to 2,400 bales." In tobacco there have been material changes this year. Up till April prices had risen materially, but had subsequently given way, and the market continued dull for a considerable period, the continental letters being unfavourable, and buyers keeping aloof. "At this time of the struggle between buyers and sellers, in the month of June, holders began to receive a most opportune aid in the shape e funsatisfactory advices about the growing crops of tobacco, which has proved a powerful support for the maintenance of the value of the article. Buyers, perceiving the uselessness of further efforts under such circumstances, found themselves compelled to yield the victory to their adversaries, and are entering the market again, one, after the, other, although operating with caution and reserve. The French and Spanish contracteurs likewise came forward and operated to some extent, and thus the market became relieved. The accounts about the crop getting worse instead of better, and a great deal of the tobacco on sale being in consequence withdrawn by order of the owners in the interior, the market being under no pres sure of stock, regained all its former buoyancy; and although the operations have ever since been on a mo derate scale, prices are now, at the close of the season, as high as ever before, and for some qualities even higher, The buyer for the French regie, perceiving the bad business he had entered into, by contracting to furnish 4,500 hhds. of tobacco, at an average of si-c. per lb., for which he found himself obliged to pay 2c. per lb. more, held back as long as he saw a chance for a decline in prices. As this had vanished, he took several cargoes, together about 2,500 hhds., which have gone forward to different parts of France. Whether the balance of the contract is to be bought later, or whether the completion of the same hat been abandoned, under payment of forfeit, is not yet known. The quality of last y ear's tobacco, generally speaking, w as a poor one, and has by no means turned out as good as all advices from the interior about the same led us to believe. It has thus again been proved that such reports cannot be relied on, and that it is useless to pronounce upon the quality unless the tobacco has actually come to hand. The instructions fur not selling given by persons who have the growing tobacco-crop under their eye and observe lion prove that planters are sincere in representing the prospect for the same as a most gloomy one, and all information which we receive from our own correspon dents coincide withh this view of the case. It appears that planters have been thwarted more than ever before in their labours, and that every species of enemy has assailed the plant, such as flies, cold, wet, and dry weather, each appearing as the most inopportune periods. Thus, the crops planted are not only much less than aimed at, but much behind in time; and it will require, therefore, a very genial fall to bring the crop to maturity, and to allow planters sufficient tim •to gather it. Although, as it is yet impossible to state what the result may be, yet we would venture to say that our next year's receipts will be between 45,000 and 50,000 hhds. Whether such a small crop, followed upon already four short ones, will furnish a sufficient quantity ler the consumption of the world, particu larly in the face of deficient crops also in Vir ginia and Maryland, remains to be seen. Whilst there are many parties who predict a further rise of prices as inevitable under the circumstances, so much appears to us as pretty certain, all expectation of a decline must for some time be abandoned. "In relation to the new crop of L )uieiana Sugar, we must remark than, in common with all other crops, its ,arly progress was retarded by an unusually unpropi tious spring. Fur nearly three months, however, the weather has been particularly favourable for promoting the growth of the cane, and the prospects are now, that with a favourable fall the next crop will at least equal, ,f not exceed, the preceding one ; for what has been lost by overflows, ample compensation will be made by a materially extended cultivation. "A remarkable feature of the season is the very large falling off in the receipts of Flour and Grain, which has mainly resulted from deficient crops. "'r ho first cargo of new Coffee arrived on the 18th September, 1849, which was earlier than usual, and the greatest p rtion was sold at Bic. and 9c. per lb. This cargo, as well as all others, sold before the sudden de cline in prices took place, gave fair profits to the im porters, but more than double of such gains have been lost again on all Coffees sold at the afterwards much re duced rates. The losses have, indeed, been very heavy, amounting on many cargoes to 10 dolls. per bag, and taking it altogether, the season's business has been a very unsatisfactory one to the importer. Late accounts from Rio, just received, and stating that the next new crop of Coff ee will materially fall short of the estimates, has brought about a specu lative movement, and several holders have withdrawn their stocks from the market; others have raised their prices, and are asking 11c. The highest price paid as yet is 103-c. Stock in first hands, 25,000 bags." The Amsterdam market on the 30th ult. was quiet. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents 57 1-16. ou unsatisfactory, s fatc realizedto ry, the ,6 eiva i r The English Stock Mark e t h as been steady, although having the recommenced.intelligence from Holstein Consols n s is is for Transfer, and 964 i for Account. Exchequer-bills have been milked 635. to 665., and India Bonds, 84s. to 87s. premium. The Foreign Securities have been in moderate re quest. Spanish Five per Cents. 18i• 1, and the Three per Cents. 38. Mexican Bonds have realized 311 -le Grenada have been 184, a decided advance ; and Vene zeule are firmer at 33. Portuguese Four per Cents. have been quoted 33 1, and Spani s h Three per Cents. 38k. Dutch T w o - and - a - Halt per Cents. a r e 57i. Shares, although n o t at the highest rates latelyiaiil"o'bilYtained, are still c omparatively buoyant, and with a good deal doing in them. QU4IRTER TO THREE. Conanls ... 96 j Ditto Account 964 BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. / From the Official List.) g per Cent. Consols Anna . .............. 96 1 %1 5 40i India 5t0ck................................... Do. Bonds, 10001 ...... 84 87 p Ditto under 1. 0001 ............... 84 87 p South Sea Stock Ditto New Annuities Consols for Account 96% Exchequer Bills. 1 1 ,4 d. 2d. March. June. 1 ' 069/ . .. ...................... 66 b 3 p 50 01........ •••• ............ 66 63 p S mall ........................... 66 63 p PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Danish Bonds 1825, 3 per Cent—. Ditto, 5 per Cent Grenada, 112 per Cent. Mexican Bowls, 1846,5 per Cent., Coupons Ditto Ex Jan. Coupons Peruvian Bonds, 4% per Cent — Ditto Deferred Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent 66 Ditto 4 ner Cent. Russian Bonds. 1822, 5 per Cent — Ditto 4% per Cent 974% Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent lB% Ditto Account ...... . SDanish Bonds, 3 per Cent , 1840 Venezuela Bonds ... Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch 2% per Cent., 12 Guild • 57% Ditto 4 Der Cent. Certificates BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SIIAIIES AT ONE O'CLOCK RAILWAYS. PAID. PEA SHARE. berdeen Ditto, Preference .- si ... dm.— to Boston, &r 8 iii . ........ •••• • to kmber.,Nottin. At - to to k yrshire and G a ll away n, &c. 7 1 / 2 .••..... 3cifast and C oun t y D own .. 32 .. .• 3erks and llant s E x t ens i on (Gt. West. P er p e t.s p er ct.) 6 ...... —' '•••• to 4 irmingham & OxfordJunct., calls duly pd, or with guar. 20 ...... •• •• .to Do., witho u t a guarantee... '2O ... -- ''' Birmingham, W 01.,& Dudley, calls duly pd, or wit h guar. 15 ... . —' to Do., witho u t a guarantee... 15 -•• • Binning., \V o l., & St our V a l . 131.14 a • '— Birkenhead, Lancashire, and 1 - Cheshire Junction.. .......... 26 Bristol and Exeter .. 100 Buckinghamshire ........... 17 1 ,4 —.. .. to Caledonian • ....... 5O ..... 8 1 / 3 ...... to Ditto, NOW 107, Preference 10 5 % „...• to Ditto. Clydesdale Junction 50 Chester and H01yhead......... 50 ..... 10 ...... to Ditto, Preference ........... 15 Clarence Direct London & Portsmo u th 5 4 --• .......... : tto° Dublin and Bel . IstJunction.. 45 Dundalk and Enniskillen ... 30 - ...... to East Anglia, 25!. L. & E., mad L. & D ... - ..... to —. Ditto, 18/., E. & H....... 18 ... Do, 31. 105.,6 p. Ct. Pref. 3% — ..... to EXCHANGE, ,COURSE Amlic Mara .... •• • . 11 19 3 ,4 Ditto. three months 12 1 Rotterdaiii .....• 12 Iy, Antwerp 25 55 Brussels . • i 5• flamb,:rgh ......M.B. 13 10U Altona • • • .... Paris, 3 days'sight 25 32 Ditto. 3 months .... 25 52 1 ,.‘ 4 Marseilles .. .......... 25 55 130urdeaux......... . Frankfort on Airdrie.... 120 1 ,4 Berlin Vienna, effec. fib •••• • . 11 59 Trieste, ditto 12 0 Petersburgh,Sil. Rble.. 87 3 ,4 Madrid •• .. • • ........ 49% Cadiz • • • • • • • . • • • • • • • • 4934 Barcelona • • ........ 5evi11e...... •• • • • • •• Gibraltar • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Leghorn .. ••.. • • 80 80 4enoa • • .... .. •• .. 26 0 Allan ........ Naples 41 ealermo, peroz •••• • • .. 123 Oporto ............ .. .. 63% Rio Janeiro .... .... • • Buenos Ayres .. .• New York, 60 days'sight Philadelphia ?BIM; 0) BULLION, PEI( on, Foreign Gold in bars.. £3 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0 Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0 New Dollars .... •• 0 4 10% Silver in bars ...... •• 0 3 0! ii LLOYD'S SHIPPIN G.-( THIS DAY.) LONDON, OCT. 2.—Wind at noon N.W., moderate br e. ze, and dry weather. PARIS, OCT. I.—The Jenny, Stockholm to Nantes, has put into Boulogne leaky, having been on shot e. YARMOUTH, OCT. 1.--The West Chirton has lost bow sprit and fore-topmast, but has proceeded to London under jury bowsprit and topmast. TORBAY, OCT. I.—Sld. Trent, Shanghas; Acosta, Cape of Good Hope; Agnes, Kingston; Stanora, New foundland; Skyrocket, Mogadore. FALMOUTH, SEPT. 30.—Wind N., strong gale, with violent squalls.—Arrd. Protomilia, Harrisor, Bombay. Off port Elbe, Rio Grande, and sld. for Hamburg!). QUEENSTOWN, SEPT. 30.—Wind W., squally.—Off port, Lovely Mary, Pottinger, Newfoundland. SHIELDS, OCT. I.—Wind N.N.E., fresh.—Arrd. Cor sair, Stevens, Quebec; Adelphi, Iroon, ditto; Chace, Thompson, ditto. MALDorr,IOeT. I.—The schooner on shore in the River yesterday was the Maria of Exeter, from Cardiff, and has been got off. DEAL, OCT. I.—Wind N. to N.W., squally.—Arrd. Caroline, Porto Rico; William Inglis, Rodgers, St Domingo; Essex, Miramichi. Arrd. from the River, and sailed with the rest of the outward-bound, James Dean, Honduras. SWANSEA, OCT. I.—Wind N.N.W.—Arrd. Theron, Hall, Quebec. Sld. William, Nicholson, Cuba. PWLLHELI, OCT. I.—WindN.W., fresh.—Arrd. Nestor, Glaister, Quebec, for Aberdovery. LIVERPOOL, OCT. I.—Wind N. to N.N.E.—Arrived Wuzeer, Sutherland, Calcutta; Mary Millard, Buenos Ayres, sailed 6th August; Mary Honnsell, Baker, Pa raiba; British Queen, Wise, Antigua; Fernandez, Tre garthen, Porto Rico; St. Louis, Bunker, New York; Charlotte Thompson, Bombay; Blanch, St. John's, New Brunswick; Jessie Byrne, Boallenhouse, ditto; Defence, Quebec. Sld. Solo, Rio Janeiro; Waterloo, New York; Montezuma, ditto. The Zelia, Buenos Ayres to Havre, has been wrecked on the Panda Rock near Monte Video. YARMOUTH, OCT. I.—The Janet, Newcastle, to Boulogne, was struck by a sea off Dimlington yesterday, and foundered; crew saved. LOWESTOIT, OCT. I.—The Hercules run upon the Holm Saud yesterday; assisted off into the Roads, making water. CLYDE.—Arrd. Margaret Poynter, Marres, Demerara; Atalanta, Taylor, Barbadoes, and sailed for Liverpool; Argyle, Fletcher, St. John's, New Brunswick; Eliza, Darkee, St. John's, New Brunswick; Nerio, Day, Hon duras. Sld., Sidney, Melbourne; Chieftain, Ceylon and Madras. RAMSGATE, OCT. I.—The Johannes, Amsterdam, to New York, which put in here Sept. 29 leaky, has com menced discharging. MARKET NEWS.--(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE-WEDNESDAY. A large portion of the supply of English Wheat on sale in to-day's market was the refuse of that exhibited on Monday. The attendance of both town and country buyers was small, and only a limited business was trans acted in Wheat of home produce, at the late decline in value. The imports from abroad this week have amounted to 8,310 quarters. Five dry samples were mostly held at full prices, but the middling and inferior kinds were the turn in favour of the buyers. Although the supply of Barley, both English and foreign, was small, that grain met a very dull inquiry, and late rates were with difficulty supported. We had a very slow sale fur Malt at last week's currencies. Good sound Oats were quite as dear, but damp qualities wet a slow sale Upwards of 4,000 quarters have arrived from Ireland. Beans, Peas, Indian Corn and Flour were very dull. English • • scotch-- • • • • [rish Foreign ...... ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Malt. I Flour. Qrs. 1 Qrs. 1,250 310 Qrs. I Qrs, 1,90 2,680 1,0 - - 4,580 8,310 39 3,060 WHITECHAPEZ. - - - Sacks 780 Each kind of Meat commandt-d a steady sale, at an advance in the quotations of last week of quite 2d per 81bs. Beef, from 2s 2d to 3s 6d; Mutton, 28 10d to 3s 10d; Veal, 3s 2d to 3s 8d; and Pork, 38 2d to 4s 2d per 81bs by the carcase. BOROUGH HOP MARKET. The supplies of new Hops continue large, yet a good business is doing, at full prices. Duty 215,0001. to 220,0001. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. (Tins DAY,) Mr. Sergeant Adams sat this morning at the Sessions house, Clerkenwell-green, to give judgment in the fel lowtig case of THE QUEEN ON THE PROSECUTION OF THE PAR , CHIAL VESTRY OF PADDINGTON V JOHN GORE, MESSR,. G. AND W. COLLINS, MESSRS. STAPLETON AND HOLDS WORTH. HENRY TAME, AND JOHN DARKE, DUST CONTRACTORS. Mr. Sergeant ADAMS said he sat this morning exclu sively for the above cause. It was arranged before he went out of town that he should go over the defendants' yards, which are situated on the banks of the Regent's Canal at Paddington, to see what state they were in, and to give judgment this morning. Having left t )a , n immediately after his inspection of the yards, he was not prepared to take any steps at present, but he in tended paying the yards a second visit to-morrow morning. On Sunday night he received a letter from the defendants' solicitors, i❑ which it was suggested that, he should read the briefs on both sides, and to which he had no objection. He would therefore postpone hib judgment until next month. - Mr. PARRY said he thought there was no objection to leaving the briefs for his Lordship's inspection, and asked for a copy of the letter sent to his Lordship, if there was no objection. Mr. SergeantAn/I.ms said there was none, and a copy was agreed to be sent. The - Court shortly alter adjourned. MANSION-11 0 THIS DAY.) James Harman was brought before Alderman Gibbe on the following chargP:— John Story, police-constable, said he went last night about half-past six o'clock to the Queen's Hotel, Al dersgate- street, late the Bull and Mouth, and took the prisoner, who was sitting in the smoking-room, intc custody on suspicion of being the person who had robbed three commercial travellers of 351. while he was staying at a hotel at Leamington. His appearance corresponded exactly with the description advertised in the Hue and- Cry. Witness immediately sent a telegraph message to the proprietor of the hotel, and a gentleman who could identify the prisoner arrived in London this morning by an early train, and was then present. The prisoner bad only four sovereigns and a shilling in his possession. John Hale, of the Castle Hotel, Coventry, said the prisoner came to his house on Friday, the 24th of August last and stayed until the following Wednesday. when he left for Leamington, sayieg that he would return in a day or two, but he did not again make his appear ance. He left a carpet bag behind containing some old articles of dress, but forgot to pay his bill, which amounted to 21. 15s. From the description given of the prisoner he bad no doubt, he was the party who com mitted the robbery at Leamington. Mr. Itoby, Superintendent of the Leamington police, stated that the money had been abstracted from the pockets of several coats which were hanging up in a room at the hotel. None of the gentlemen who had lost it could be heard of, but he expected they would be in London in a few days. Mr. Welch, a warehouseman in Cheap , ide, identified the prisoner as one of the persons staying at the hotel at the time of the robbery. Mr. Alderman Gums remanded the prisoner for a week. BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.) Daniel M'Neven, a private in the 2d battalion of the Coldstream Guards, was charged under the following oircumslances It app,ared that the prisoner was, yesterday afternoon, drinking in front of the bar of Corby's public-house, in Hungenford-market, in company with his corporal and another private. After being there for some time, the corporal ordered the prisoner to the barracks, which order he refused to comply with. The corporal told him that unless he did, he Should report him, upon which he felled the corporal to the ground. The prisoner then became exceedingly violent, and smashed several glasses which were on the counter. A constable being called in he was conveyed to the station, but as he pissed Wil liamson and Wale's, the silversmiths, in the Strand, he deliberately ran and butted his head through a large square of plate glass. On his road to the station, he be haved with such violence, that it rtquired the united efforts of three constables to bring him to Bow-street, and whilst in the charge room, he struck another con stable who was standing by to the ground. Mr. HENRY remarked that the charges were of a most serious nature, more especially as the prisoner was a soldier. lie would, therefore, send him to prison for a month for the assault, and in default of paying for the damage done to the glans, to be further imprisoned for fifteen days. (:LERKEN WELL.—( T H IS DAY.) A middle-aged respectable-looking man, named Hughes %as charged before Mr. Combe with stealing tour coats, the property of Mr. Wright, a goldsmith, resid ing in Clerkenwell. About a fortnight ago, the prose cutor was brought before the Alderman at Guildhall, but not being prepared with a fine at the moment, was likely to be removed to Giltspor-Areet Compter, when the prisoner, with apparent generosity, tendered his ser vices, saying that he knew some of Mr Wright's con nexions, and, moreover, had some infltn nee in that police court. The result was that the prosecutor gave him a note to a friend in Bedford-row, who bud four coats be longing to the prosecutor, which were to be delivered to the prisoner for the purpose of pawning them for two or three pounds for Mr. Wright's release. The prisoner received also sixpence for omnibus hire. It appeared that he delivered the note, received the coats, pawned j ti .cm for six and thirty shillings, but forgot his w . ay bse, l4 to Guildhall. Yesterday, Mr. W r i g ht me t hi m i n Hor . born, recognised him, and asked what he did with the clothes? He said he pawned them, and immcdia!eli afterwards was mt t by a creditor, who threatened to lock him up in Whitecross street if he did nct pay him illy mediately. He also made the protestations of honour and promises of payment in such cases usual. lie vial remanded for further inquiry. NEWMARKET RACES. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) Cariboo . Bullfinch Plate of 501. Sweepstakes of 100 sow. T.Y.C. Constarco Argo ... Sweepstakes of 50 sous. each. T.YC. Exeter Renter Match.—The Lioness beat the Roman. The Second Triennial Stakes, for 3 yrs old. Clelia Compass Zadoc FIRE AT NEWlNGTON.—Yesterday afternoon a fi t/ . 4 broke out in the pre m i ses b e l ong i ng to Mr. Pinnegar, el, colour, and Italian warehouse keeper, No. 1, Cross-stree'S Newington-causeway. The flames commenced in the baer, ment warehouse, owing to Mr. Pinnegar's nephew taking : light to look after s ome goods i n that part of the build i e g s In the course of a f ew m i nutes after he had left den!. volumes of smoke an d a l arge quantity of flame were sef i issuing towards the s h op, and forthwith messengers wen dispatched in every di rect i on for the aid of the engines. 'lf, firemen were enabled t o su bd ue the flames, but not until cos' siderable damage was done to the premises and stock trade. Whilst the West of England engine was proceedi ll along London-road to th e fi re, a girl, apparently about twe years of age, made an attempt to cross from one side to t!' other. Ward, the d r i ver , on seeing the danger she was s endeavoured to stop the speed of the horses • but before Pi could do so she was th rown down between the animals, a n ii , every one who witnessed the occurrence expected to find,,s poor creature crushed to death. The driver, fortunately DI; the presence of mind to pull the horses in a zigzag mane s . ; and although th e s h oes of the girl were trampled by t' horses off her feet, she escaped comparatively uninjured. FIVE MEN DROWNED.—About five weeks si o ; the end of the ve r y l ong wooden bridge crossing the rii:d Wye, opposite the v ill age of Glasbury, in Radnorshire, down, having been left without repairs for two or tIST, years, while the count i es of R adnor and Brecon were i!l'of gating the question of liability to its repair in the Cous's e , Queen's Bench, an d t h e question had only just been u, tided against Breconshire when the bridge fell. A s a te' porary means of crossing, some of the neighbouring mall trates made arrangements for ferrying passengers over I' s! , large boat, whi c h was worked by means of a rope and lies, and it answered the purpose very well until Satuse morning last, when, at the second trip, the rope broke, a s 3 o j one end being still f ast, i t drew the boat under water, As seven men who were in it were left to the mercy of l s r, flood, which was much swollen by high rains in the P, vious night. O ut o f t h e seven two only (including the f e d ryman) were resc ue d. T wo of those who perished were fa, and son, and th e ot h er three have left large families. 'lli bodies only were f ound _up to Monday. There is 1012 reason to fear th a t t h e rope had been partially cut by se o 1 . s e evil-disposed miscre ant ; b ut i t is very singular that fourtP persons had just made a safe trip before the accident. CITY SEWERS. —At the meeting yesterday of O s Commissioners, Deputy Peacock in the chair, Deputy complained of the di s t ur b ed state of the street and the dies sive smell of gas. Deputy Harrison defended the Centr e ; Gas Campany. Alderman Sidney said that in many Pi s se e the pavement had b een replaced in a very defective maned Deputy Holt said th at all complaints would be hushed W. they saw the b r illi ant mariner in which the City woule s b si lighted up prese n tl y. T his assurance appeared to console Commissioners, who proceeded to fine tiore, the dust cw tractor, twenty s hilli ngs, for the ill manner in which his s'lo vangers had performed their work in certain streets. Tr reply to Alderman Sidney, Mr. Simon said his annual s port on the s an i tary state of the City wouid be publisbeu November, but that h e s h ou l d require the expendituse o s 11 about 301. for a chemi ca l analysis of the Bagshot Heath 4 other water. E very competing water company had its nig s chemist, and l ie w i shed for an unbiassed analysis. li,b6 some conversatio n it was agreed to pay the money, and Court adjourned. MERCHANT SEAMEN'S FUND.—Yesterday a VII terly general meeting of the governors of the corporation el s the relief of s eamen, &c., in the merchant servi ce , w as Ls at the offic es i n Birchin-lane, Cornhill, Mr. George Linu'a in the ch a i r . T he minutes of the last court were read eSS I . confirmed, and receivers of dues were appointed for thee" e l ports of Dund a lk and Bridport. The meeting th en r esoll itself into a comm i ttee, and proceeded to consider the nallisier, ous applicati ons for relief from sick and disabled sestets and widows. Pensions and temporary relief were ordered the applicants, and the court adjourned. of EXPIRING LA WS. — Yesterday being the 14_,0 October, s evera l Acts of Parliament expiring were fun:o continued for an o th er year and to the end of the then 13` session. dinong the number was the Loan Societies Act' BRISTOL. —This city was yesterday visited bl o t storm of unusual violence. The lightning, for the spa ce a, an hour, more resembled that of the tropics for intensityt b s vividness than what is u , ual in our temperate climate. 0 . hailstones were of l arge s i ze, and the thunder like one e e s o tinned ro ar o f artillery. It was with great difficulty men could keep their footing against the pelting of the P l io less blast. We much fear we shall hear of great damag e the surrounding district. DREADFUL ACCIDENT AT NINE ELMS.—Yestell s evening Mr. P ayne, jun., held an inquest at St. Thorn $ Hospital on the body of Thomas Pennythorne. aged 3:+ ,r railway labourer, who lost his life under the following tressing circumstances. It appeared from the evidenc e 11 , Thomas Sherlock, a porter in the employ of the Se li ss i Western Railway Company, that on the 4th ult. witness: s . others were employed at the goods yard, at the Nine Eir s to station, in fixing a new crane for raising heavy goods w re . the trucks. A hole, twelve feet deep, had been dug t s e s e ceive the bottom part of the crane, and over the hole a gni legs was fixed, with greys attached, for the purpeee 0 lowering the cr ane , which was in parts, when in lowerine,S portion wei g hi ng about 500 cwt., by means of a block it fall from th e s h eer-legs, a swing was given it to cause l' er go into th e p os i t i on it was required, which caused the sll!sa legs to cant over, and in falling they struck the deee e rss a perfect stranger, but who had (who was yard to seek for work) on his breast, knocked him down, the just come into u a the legs fell on the top of bins. He was raised from t he ground in a senseless state, with an extensive wound on 6 top of his head, the skull broken, and the brain protrudi e ; tie was placed in a cab, and conveed to the above inst i . t c fr, tion. Mr. Vane, the house-surgeon, said deceased W 55 ,.,j3t1 witted with an extensive fracture of the skull, with the P 7l driven into the brain. Everything that it was possible t o done for him, but he gradually sunk, and died on Mom:, morning last f rom the effect of the injury. Verdict, `` cidental death." ReFostass IN CHANCERY. —Three Acts were P 8956 11 in the late session to effect some reforms in the Coll'4 l . Chancery, and may b e regarded as the precursors of esilsol sive alterations. It is probable that the Masters' offices vi a , be thrown open to the public. Two of the Acts will give e ta ditional duties to the Masters, and it will be necesiss throw open th e i r o ffi ces for the protection of the public. ,The Acts will come into force on the Ist of next month. Sd, first Act was passed on the 15th of July; it is intitiu 0 , 5 " An Act to Diminish the Delay and Expense of Proceeel irl b le in the High Court of Chancery in England." Under 100 Act parties may " concur" in stating cases for the oPl ° o l of the C ourt, without going through the expense and de o f of a suit ; and further, by an order, on the application s , executors or administrators, one of the Masters may °of. tain the debt s and liabilities of deceased persons. These Act relates to th e practice and proceedings of the Cel ls o " se Palatine of Lan caster, b y virtue of which some improve° ti will be mad e i n i ts court. The third Act was p asse d on . 0% sth of August, " to consolidate and amend the laws relal l e y to the con veyance and transfer of real and personal proPe vested in mortgagees and trustees." This Act confers a d $ tional powe rs on the court over mortgagees and trustees I'o summary manner by making orders. The Masters of be t?) Court will be called upon to assist, and therefore it has be come an important question whether their offices should thrown open to the public. CASTING OF A COLOSSAL STATUE AT HALIFA...' $ Our readers may recollect of a proposal to have a bronze ta e of a colossal statue by Leyland, at Halifax, made and erecte d at the entrance to a railway tunnel in than, vicinity. The suggestion, we perceive, has been so far acted on that a bra g , cast is being made; the first portion of it, one of the leg .a weighing eight hundred weight, having been already cast,* the statue named " The Anglo-Saxon Chief;" but wheti l o its destination be that suggested, we cannot say. The 1 4% 0 is in a bent and intensely listening attitude, conceived to be poetically appropriate to such a position ; and it doubtless"( would be so, even though the ancient Anglo-Saxon's idea s ( the iron horse an d hi s train were no more refined than that 0f one of his own p os t er i ty the other day, who, on first opeaLs his eyes on the monster, described him as "a muekle snort; beast that ga ve a great screech when it saw him, and into a hole." W e scareely believe, however, that the mod e rn " Anglo- • axon" would have dared to listen at the hole his ancestor of bronze.—Builder. POWER OF ELECTION BY AN APPRENTICE WHET II/1: OR NOT HIEWILL SERVE BEYOND THE T IME OF ATTAIN is nig MAJORITT.—MA NCHESTER P OLICE COURT.-- In th case J. Davis h a d b een bound to Mr. Younghusband, .011ibe for a term whi c h would expire when the apprentice would 05 abou 23 yea rs o f age. The boy did not intend to se'L, longer than wh en h e attained his majority; he had, ho l d ever, gone on wo r ki ng for five months after he was 21, ,'d then he suddenly ceased work, and refused to fulfil the Sem mainder of the contract. It was argued that his work i n g after he was 21 const i tuted an a ffi rmance of the cont r act' and that be h a d th ere b y rendered himself liable to serve remaining portio n o f hi s apprenticeship. It was pro ved, hia however, that the b oy h a d b een dece i ved by his father ihrs age, and he did not make the discovery that he had attain e d his majority until about five months after be was 21. g r .. Maude, who took t i me to consider whether, „ under the . 4 cumstances, the app rent i ce h a d not, as required by the Ac made his electio n i n a " reasona b le time, " on Tuesday 01 decided that the app rent i ce cou ld not b e compelled to c o__ , plete the contract, on the ground that his intention to 2,d affirm at bad been frustrated by the d ece pti on w hich 'is been practised upon him by his father.—Manchester PaPer. A NOVEL MODE OF STEALING TURNIPS. --o 1 Sunday aftern oon l as t as M r. George Cole, s w it c hman on th e Eastern Union line, who is stationed at the north end of th, tunnel, was lookin g along the line of railway in the direction of Handford Hall, hi s a tt en ti on was arrested b y t h e sea° of ,a dog in a turnip-field belonging to the railway conWel; Seeing the dog hunting about the fi e ld i n a rat h er peculiar way, Mr. Cole walked some little way down the line to en• able him the more closely to watch the dog's movements. Having walked to within 160 yards of where the dog so*; Mr. Cole distinctly sirw him put his head down and draw . turnip from the field and carry it immedi a t e l y i n to the lan e adjoining, where he saw three persons standing. The de having left the turnip with these men, he w a s aga in sent ov er into the field, and drew another turnip, which he conve; to the men stationed in the lane in the same way as be " 1 the former one; the dog having repeated the same act three or four times successively, each time conveying a turniP,4 his supposed master and companions, and suspecting that Cole was making his way to the place where they were 10 '' cated, with an intention to take them into custody,th e a / ran away as fast as they could, followed by the_ piptvo.-- animal.—lpswich .Express.