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

DAILY WEATHER TABLE. State of the Wind and Weather at each of the following places at Nine o'clock yesterday morning. —The station., are arranged in order of latitude. • - - PLYMOUTH—Wind S.W., strong breeze—heavy rain. CHELTENHAM —Wind E.—cloudy. WORCESTER—Wind S.W.—fine. BRIGHTON—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—overcast. HASTINGS—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—overcast. SOUTHAntrrox—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—foggy. FOLKESTONE—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—overcast. TUNBRIDGE—Wind S. W., gentle breeze—overcast. BAsuitogroKE—Wind S., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. GREENWICH—Wind S.S.E., gentle breeze—overcast. Swnmos—Wind S , gentle breeze—overcast. OxvoßD—Wind S.E.—cloudy. GLoncEsnut—Wind E.—cloudy. CHELMSFORD —Wind S. by E.—cloudy. COLCHESTER—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. CAMBRIDGE—Wind S., gentle breeze—overcast. Bianinsomed—Wind S.—cloudy. SrArrozo—Wind S.E.—cloudy. Yeastouni—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—cloudless. Noawrcg—Wind E.—cloudy. In/vim—Wind S.W.—fine. Nom/cm:um—Wind S.—fine. LINCOLN—Wi n d S .— fi ne. I : IO LYHEAD—Wind N.—heavy rain. CHESTER—Wind S.E.— heavy rain. SHEFFIELD—Wind S.E.—cloudy. LivEn.r oot—Wind S.—heavy rain. ALki,rantsrEa—Wind W.—rain. BULL_Wind E.—cloudy. LEEDS— Wind N.E.—rain. YORK —Virind S.—cloudy. SCARBOROUGH Wind S.W.— c l ou dy. DARLDIGTON....Wind NEwcasma—Wind S.W.—cloudy. The returns from the following places indicate the state of the wind and weather on Wednesday morn i ng at nine o'clock : IlltruszcGAß—Wind S.W., strong breeze — overcast. KINGSTOWN (DUBLIN) Wind E.N.E., calm—overcast. PETIMBOROITGII.— rt in d S. W., calm-- overcast. CREWE—Wind S. W , gentle breeze - overcast. LamcAsTap—Wind S., calm—overcast. Vie S , gentle breeze foggy. SWAP—Wind S.E., gentle breeze—foggy BEArrocri—Wind S.E., gentle breeze—overcast. Miss BELEMER.—Frednicica Bretner, the Swedish novelist, was to start for home in the Atlantic on Saturday, the 20th. Miss Bremer has been in America some two years, during which time she has travelled in all the Atlantic and Mississippi States, and has seen much of American society and neatly. Soon after her return she will publish her notes and observations, and Mary Howitt will translate and pub lish, in London, an English edition. H ER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. PLAY-HOUSE PRICE .NIGLITS. It is respectfully announced to the patrons of the Opera, and for the accommodation of the numerous visitors still in London, that TWO MORE NIGHTS will be given, viz. : —This Evening (Friday), September :26, and To-Morrow Evening (Saturday), 27. THIS EVENING, Rossini's celebrated Opera, IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA. Rosin, Madlle. Sofle Cruvelli ; Il Conta d'Almaviva, Signor Calzolari; Figaro, Signor Lorenzo ; Basilio, Signor Casanova ; and Bartolo, Signor Balanchi. After which a Divertissement, Le Bolero, Mdlles. Rosa, Esper, Julien. and Lamoureux. To be followed by the Last Scene of the admired opera, ANNA BOLENA. Anna Bolena, Midlle. Barbieri Nini. After which, selections from Weber's Opera, DER FREISCHUTZ. Agatha, Madlle. Fiorentini. To conclude with a Divertissement—Quadrille Franeahl from Les Cosmopolites. TO-MORROW EVENING, September 27, Bellini's celebrated Opera LA SONNAMBULA. Amina, Medic. Sofia Cruvelli; Elvino, Signor Calzolari; Count Rodelpho, Signor Lorenzo ; Lisa, Madlle. Feller. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box-olllce of the Theatre. The Opera to commence at Eight o'clock. Prices—Pit, ss. Gallery, Is. 6d. Pit Stalls, 10s. 6d. Gallery Stalls, ss. Boxes—Two Pair, 215.; One Pair and PitTler. 11. 1 Is. 65.; Grand Tier, 21. 25.; Box Selt9, 55., 65., and is. S T. JAMES'S THEATRE, King-street, St. James's Under the Direction of Mr. Barnum, of New York. KATE AND ELLEN BATEMAN, (Only Eight and Six years of age.) Re-engagemunt of the Bateman Children. THIS EVENLNG, The performances will commence at a Quarter past Seven, with TURNING THE TABLES. After which THE SWISS COTTAGE : or, Why Don't She Marry? Natz Teik, Ellen Bateman; Lisette Geirsteiu, Kate Bate man ; Corporal Max, Mr. Bateman. Tarentella by Marille. 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. Elias*, T. Matthews, M. Milano, and Madlle. Therese Cushnie. Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, 2s. Private Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets may be secured at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Liurary, 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-LANE. Under the Management of Mr. Thomas M'Collam. 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 WEEkS LONGER, thus affording all classes an opportunity of witnessing these ells tingaished 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, via. : Dress Boxes, 35.; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is. 6d.; Gallery,is. ; Upper do., 6d. Doors open at Half-past Seven, to commence at Eight. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARRET, ItTr. B. Wet ter, able Lessee and Manager, Ole BromPton• THIS EVENING, Will be performed a new comic Opera, entitled THE QUEEN OE A DAY. Sir Henry Vere, Mr. Stuart ; the Sheriff, Mr. Caulfield ; Timothy Turnwell, Mr. Weiss; Walter, Mr. W. Harrison; Lucy Lovelace. Miss L. Pyne ; Cicely, Mrs. Caulfield. To be followed by a new comic Drama, entitled GRANDMOTHER GRIZZLE. Sir Oliver Pippin, Mr. Lambert; Percy Pinch becke, Mr. Parr:elle; Phil Fuddle, Mr. Buckstone ; Mrs. Griselda Pinch becks and Little Steve, Mrs. Fitzwilliam ; Polly Willows, Miss A. Vining. After which an entirely new Farce, entitled GRIMSHAWI BAG. SHAW and BRADSHAW I Grimshaw, Mr. B:ckstone ; Bag- Shaw. Mr. H. Be .ford; Towzer, Mr. Selby; Emily, Miss A. Vining . With LEND ME FIVE SH ILLINGS. Mr. Goli g h t l y , Mr. Buck stone. TII2I.I.TRE ALOYA.L, Under the direction 01 Madame Celesta. Mils EVCiNING, Will be performed GIRALDA ; or, The Miller's Wife. Den Japhet della Tromba, Mr. P, Bedford Don .fit fumel de Bivar, Mr. Parseile; Gil, Mr. Honey; the Grand Duchess, Miss Emma Harding; Giralda, Miss K. Fitaivilliam. After which, the laughable comic Drama, entitled THE FOREST ROSE! and the YANKEE PLOUCkIiBOY. Jonathan Ploughboy, Mr. J, Si'sbee; Bellamy, Mr. Worrel; Harriet Miller, Miss Wool ger ; Sally Forest, Miss E. Chaplin. To be followed by a new comic Opera, entitled GOOD NIGHT, SIGNOR PANTALON. Doctor Tititofolo, Mr. Paul Bedford; Signor Pantalon, Mr. Honey ; Loll°, Miss Woolgar; Columbine, Miss Kath leen Fitswilliam. To conclude with the Farce of FORTUNE'S FROLICS. Robin Roughhead, Mr. Emery ; Dolly, Miss Ellen Chaplin. ROYAL PRINCESS's TALA.CRE, OXFORD-RTREET. Under the Managemontot Mr. C. Kean and Mr. Keeley. THIS EVENING, . . Shakespere's riay of TWELFTH NIGHT. Characters by Messrs. Keeley, Harley, Addison, Meadows, J. Vining; Miss Phillips, and Mrs. C. Kean. After which, A MODEL OF A WIFE, in which Miss Murray ,, Mr. Addison, Mr. Meadows, and Mr. A. Wigan will appear. To conclude with a new grand spectacular Extravaganza aken from a Tale, by Washington Irving), entitled THE ALIIAM (t RRA or The Three Moorish Princesses. Characters by Messrs. Meadows, Harley, A. Wigan, Wynn, Cooke, Flesmore ; Misses Murray, Vivaria Robertson, Leclerc, Keeley, Mdlle. Auriol, and Mrs. Keeley. Private Boxes, &c., to be had of all the Booksellers, and of Mr.. Massingham ; of whom also places may be taken at the Box-office , Oxford-street, from Eleven till Four o'clock. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Yestris. Sole Lessee, Mr. Charlea Mathews. THIS EVENING. Will be performed COURT BEAUTIES. Characters by Messrs. C. Mathews, Roxbyr, F. Matthews, G. J. Vining, Baker; Miss St. George, and Miss Oliver. To be followed by roTLY A CLOD. Characters by Messrs. C. Mathews, Suter, Bel 'lngham, Itoxby ; and Miss M. Oliver. To corm:ace with CHARMING. Characters by Messrs. Suter, F. Matthews, Eorncastle ; Madame Vestris, Mrs. F. Matthews, Mrs. C. }Env, Miss St. George, Misses Martindale, Ellis, and Eosins Wright. • ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee and Manaer, Mr. W. Farron. PEIIS LIV EN I 1•1 O, Great Attraction - Roars of Laughter at the new Farce. Will be Performed the VICAR OF WAKEFIELD. With, I'VE EATEN MY FRIEND. Jellytop, Mr. Compton. 'ro be followed by GRANDFATHER WiIITEHEA.D. Grandfry they Whitehead, Mr. \V. Farrell. To conclude with ALCIS I' IS. - LUNCH'S PLAYHOUSE AI•TD STRAND THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. W. It. COPELAND, Liverpool. Enzagement of the Tyrolean Troubadour, F. J. Eskens. Two New Pieces. THIS EVENING, The Dramatic Bubble entitled THE SHOT TOWER. Princi - pal characters by Messrs. Davies, Rogers, and Miss Marshall. After which a new petite Comedy, entitled THE HOPELESII3 PASSION, by Messrs. Tilbury, Davis, Morton; Mrs. Copeland, and Miss Maskell. To be followed 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, entitled GODIVA, THE LADY Olr COVENTRY. Characters by Messrs. Davies, J. Rogers, Norton , Romer, Maskell, Attwood; Mesdames Marshall, C. Horsman, E . Romer, Morcelli, and Maskell. The prices or admission are arranged as follow :—Orchestra 4s; boxes (first circle), 35.; (second circle), 2s. ; Pit, is. Doors to be opened at Half-past Six, and the performances to sornmenee at Seven precisely. A second price will be taken to the Boxes only at Nine o'clock !--tret circle, 25.; second circle, Is. Private Boxes One Guinea and e Half each. ..118 ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Under i - V.e Patronage oi her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert. Pror rioter anil Manager, Mr. W. Batty. The most successful and popular Theatre in London. Another Week of Glorious Triumph. The most attractive Spectacle ever produced—crowded to tlfte ceiling nightly. THIS EVENING, Will be performed the grand Spectacle, entitled MAZEPIPA ; or the Wild Horse of Tartary, which has been revived, in conse quence of numerous applications from Persons of all Nations to wit ness the magnificent Spectacle. With Batty's Grand Scenes of the Arena, embracing the largest Equestrian Company in Europe, represented by Foreign and British Male and Female Artists of superior talent. To conclude with an admired Ballet. Tickets to be had at the Bea-office from Eleven till Four daily. stage Manager. M.r. T. Thompson. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. LAS I' 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 Modern 31usic—English Glees, Catches, Madrigals, and Songs, by Miss Messent, Messrs. Young, Hill, Manvers, and Leffler. All ths unique and varied amusements of the Establishment, con cluding with a most brilliant inimitable display of Fireworks, by Sonthby. Doors open from Nine in the Morning. Feeding of the Animals at Five. Concert at ADM S Fifeworks at Nine. ix. ISSION—ONE SHILLING. WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE Tam DAT —Morning 16 min. after 2 Evening 38 min after 2 To-Moasow—Morning 1 rain. atter 3 1 Evening 22 min after 3 THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 26, 1851. THE WEATHER.—SuN OFFICE, SEPTEMBER 26. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE, 61—highest since noon yesterday. 41—lowest this morning and during the night. 51—this day, at noon. BAROMETER, 29/2. Worn W.N.W.—cloudy, with sunshine occasionally. Hei. eitillit gitlt - - LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1851. Wonderful as have been the achievements already accomplished during this memorable year of 1851, perhaps the most extraordinary of all has yet to be 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 had 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 Kentish village of Sandgato. 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, Coos 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 were 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 Hindostan. 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 MA3ESTY and those of the Republic 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, Brussels, 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 as we are by this time with such astounding wonders, we can, in some measure at least, realize the likelihood of the miracles of science we have spoken of as approaching just now the period of their accomplishment. The feeling of satisfaction which we experienced from the aimouncement by Sir GEORGE GREY, in reply to a question put to him by Mr. CHARLES LUSHINGTON, that the subject of amending the law for the regulation of lunatic asylums was under hie consideration, was considerably allayed by the subse quent statement, made in the last week of the late session of Parliament by the Earl of SHAFTESBURY, that the task of introducing a measure to effect that object would, d ur i ng th e 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 duce us to place the slightest trust in any measure for the amendment in the laws relating to lunacy in the framing of which himself or his colleagues of the Lunacy Board shall have any share. We cannot but remember that, whilst the only good and efficient portion of the present law was introduced into it by Mr. THOMAS DUNCOMBE, in 1845, in spite of the strenuous opposition of the Noble Earl (then Lord ASHLEY), all the bad portions of it are exclusively the Noble Lord's own handiwork. In the year 1845 Sir JAMES GRAHAM, then the Home Secretary, re ceived the Parliamentary support of the Noble Lord ; and the Right Hon. Baronet imagined, it would seem, that, like " the wizard MICHAEL SCOTT," he was bound to find perpetual employment for the mis chievous and meddlesome activity of his supporter; accordingly, in order probably to divert the attention of the Noble Lord from the factory measure, a Lunacy Bill was suggested to him, and the present law is the consequence. " The principal feature," as the late Lord CASTLEREAGH would have 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 existenee 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 nothing 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. BROTHERTON 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 had 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 FRIPP, EDWARD SAMPSON, PURNELL B. PUR NELL, and GILBERT LYON, M.D., commences as follows : " The visitors have felt it to be their duty to inquire into the cause 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-admission of such four patients on the Bth of January, after an absence of only ono day ; of the admission, under a new 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 the 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 visitors 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 he 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 ho had legal advice that all these papers were correct, so as to be received and passed by any court of law; still that there were some trivial in accuracies and informalities, such as the 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 be still refused to produce them, and asked 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 amenable to prose cutions for raisderannours especially created by the Act to the number of above 280." Among other things, it appears that Mrs. Hewxn, the matron of the asylum, was in the habit of signing the name of Dr. Fox to various documents, and of transmitting copies of such documents 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 one hundred and five. A wife has been admitted into the asylum upon the order of her husband, and upon the authority of one certificate only, and that certificate aigned by her husband. A letter from Dr. H. H. 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 Loan CHAN CELLOR has called upon the Commissioners to state how it comes to pass 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 Avenementdu Peuple and the Presse, MM. VACQUERIE and ROUY, 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. VACQUERIE, addressed 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. VAQUERIE to six months' imprisonment and I,ooof. fine. The Advocate-General then: demanded judgment by default on the responsible editor of the Presse, M. Rout, and the Court condemned him likewise to six months' imprisonment and I,ooof. 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. GRIM and M. Kum 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 Patrie—" 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." JOBAED, 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 his past life. In compliance with his request the Abbe COGNET 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 to-day I should be here ?" The Debats, 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 deft oiency has been largely compensated for by other pro ducts, especially by that of coffee." On the other hand the Debats 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 1850 ; while of the increase only 62,000 belong to French vessels. There is something wrong here, adds the Debats, 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. 15c, for the end of the month; the Three per Cents. opened at 561. 55c.; Rouen, 565 f.; Havre, 231 f. 25c.; Great Northern, 458 f. 75c.; Avignon, 208 f. 75c.; Vierzon, 427 f. 50c.; Basle, 1481. 750.; Bor deaux, 385 f.; Paris and Strasburg, 355 f.; Tours and Nantes, 263 f. 75c.; Amiens to Boulogne, 258 f. 75c. BUSINESS DUN E. IN FOREIGN itAILWAY 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, 1 3 4—Namur and Liege, 6—Northern of France, 143—Paris and Rouen, 22% —Paris and Strasbourg, 11- Rouen and Havre, 93g—Sam bre and Meuse, 31,x. Cik 6.111 /4 ,I. 'w ‘ ~* , l 4\ ~ 1' li 1 4 , E"._,....„.r.t.„ 4 . 6 L , - ~ ' iiik A' • qi f l i o • -„ 4 - ~‘' .o ._•P`lf.3- Z ..,F' ." 'AL . .t 7 :A 0, , 01 ` . 14' 4) s 'i. , - ,7 .,,,,i4 , ..- •.to ' ‘ ,4 i' , ' ' .:- 4' . V, - I ': '' , .;' „, "Mot* ' SPAIN. Madrid journals of the 20th have arrived. Their contents are altogether unimportant. MADRID BOLSA, SEPT. 20.—Three per Cents., 35i; Five per Cents., 16j, both money. No Ex change. GERMANY. The Cologne Gazette of the 24th states that the now 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 SCHWARZENBERG, 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 Majesty has obtained another victory. I have in my hands the Imperial orders abolishing the constitution, and all that appertains to it. This is very good news, but I mast request, gentlemen, that you will cot display your joy in public, lest any demonstrations against the Government should ensue." SWEDEN AND NORWAY. The Oedelsthing (Chamber of Nobles) has 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. His MAJESTY, accompanied by the EMPRESS, the principal members of the Imperial family, several foreign princes, and attended by the high officers of state and 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 head of which the EMPEROR 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 wards held a grand levee, and in the afternoon re viewed the Life Guards. The E3IPEROR has addressed the following rescript to the chief director of roads, highways, and public works, General Count KLEINMICLIEL " Count Metre AudrEzewitsch,—When the eonstruc• tion of the Peter burgh and Moscow Railway was de cided upon, eight yenta ago, I confided to you the car rying out of the undertaking projected by LEI e , under the conviction that the v. , al which you had always dis played in my service was a guarantee tor the result. With heartfelt pleasure 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 and my whole family have accomplished the journey from Petersburgh to Moscow. " On this occasion I have seen with the highest satis• faction the immonse—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 alcno 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 Petorsburgh-Moscow line will be completed by the 13th of November ❑ext, 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. 111‘11ale 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 OF ST. DUNSTAN, ClTY.—Yesterday after noon a general meeting of the inhabitants assembled in the vestry-room, for the purpose of appointing an overseer, in the place of Mr. Mills, deceased, when Mr. Dalby, of Fleet-street, was unanimously elected to that office. INFLUX OF SHlPPlNG.—Yesterday the 1013 g 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 401. 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 boats 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 BICESTFR. —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. SUNK.—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 melting 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 her:in, and moored her at.Birkenhead. —Liverpool Chronicle. KOSSIITII.—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." THE LATE MURDER AT ANNAS.---CONDUCT OP 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 defence, 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 those 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 neigbonrhood of Edinburgh is an important branch of agri cultural operations, and the prices obtained are looked to 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 considered 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 mulch cows in this district continues as great as at any for mer period.—Scotsnion. ACCIDENT TO ONB OF EARL FITZHARDINGB'S HUNTS. MEN.—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 his rider, and fell over with all his weight upon him. Kit was taken up insensible, having received severe internal bruises. Cheltenham Examiner. • 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 'luesday. from Haddo House, Meldrum. 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. ,000/. ; 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 Pols, died three days ago, aged 108. He preserved his 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 ear 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 moo, residing in King-street, Long-acre, as well as several other interesting relics belonging to the Romans. CITY OF LONDON HOSPITAL FOR DISEASES OF THE CassT.—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 ►B4B, 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 bis 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 bu 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 Underley 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 for 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 31. or 41. per cwt. Most of the hops brought in have been sold at prices varying from 5/. 12s. to 71. 7s. The duty is declining, owing to reports of the hops coming down light, and is now called from 17,0001. to 18,000/. FIRE.—On the 12th inst. a destructive fire took place at Baughurst, near Wolverton, 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 oflucifer matches in the hands of children, as the above disaster 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. THE EDINBURGH ANNUITY TAX.—We understand (says the Scotsman) that, at a p r i va t e mee ti ng o f th e t o wn council on 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 visal. In this work, we believe, they proceeded some length, and with an unanimity which augurs well for the satisfactory adjustment of the measure. THE SHARE MARKETS. znxTass RAILWAYS. Paid. Nominal Prices, Railways. Aberdeen.. .. • • • • Ambergate, Nottinglima, Boston, & E. Juncion Bebast and County Down Birming., Woirorhamp., an Stotir Valley • • Birkenh., Lan., & Cheah June., late 331.65. Bd.. Do. Chest. & Birtenhd., 501. 13;251. Consolidated Do., do., 201. • . .. iristel and Eaoter.. laledenian • • • • • • ;heater and Holyhead .. 1 Dublin and Belfast Junet. Dublin and Kingstown.. Dundalk and Enniskillen D and ee, Perth, and Aber- leen Junction .. • Do., New .. East AngL•an (251, L. & E. and L. & D.) •• •• Do. (181. E. & H.) •• Eastern Counties .. Eastern Union, class A, late E. U. shares • • Do. do. do. .. Do. do., B & C shares East Lancashire • • •• D. New quarters • • East & West India Docks and Birm, Junc. Edinburgh au3 Glasgow Ellin., rerth, and Dundee] Glasgew and South-West,' Do. do. G. D. &D.ateck Great Northern • • • • Do. halves, A, deferred' Do. halves, B, 6 per ct. Great Southern and Western, Ireland Great Western .. Lancaster and Carlisle .. Do. thirds •• •• •. Lancaster and Preston .. Lancuhire and orkshire Do. quarter al ores .. Do. fifths .. • •• Do. West Riding ITnion Leeds Northern • • • • Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport .. .. • - London and Blackwall Do., Tilbury Ext. Scrip London, Brighton, and south Coast London and N.-West4rn Do. do. quarters . Do. firths Do. 101. sh., M.&IS (c) London and S.-Wastern Do. new 501. Do. new 401. Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock • • .. Manchester, Sheffield, & Lincolnshire .. Do. Manchester and Lincoln Union • • Midland .. .. . • Do. 501. shares .. .. De. liirmiaq & Derby l Midland Gt. West. (Ire.) Newcastle and Carlisle.. Do. quarter shares .. Newmarket • . .. Newport, A.bergavenny,l and Ucreford Newry and Enniskillen • . gewry, IV arrenpeint, & Restrevor orfolk Do. New 201. shares•• Northern Cof nties Union S'orth •• North Devon •• • • North Staffordshire •• North-Western •• North & S th.-West. June. Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton.. Scottish Central .. 4cottialo Midland .. Do. new .. Shrews. & Birm., Class A Do. Class 8.. Shrews. & Hereford., Old Do., do., Now •• Shrewsbury and Chester (Nor. W. Min.) • • .. Do. "'sires •• •• Do. Osweotry •• .. Do. New.. .. •• , hropshire Union •• • • Do., A, B, C, & D, fully paid up at per cent • • South Devon .. South• Eastern .. • • south Wales.. •• south Yorksh. and River Atieff., Roth., awl Goole, South Division .. Stockton and Hartlepool iwinsea & Loaghor, &c. Taff Vale .. Taw Vale Extension ..1 Thames Haven Doak and Railway .. • • Vale of Neath .. • . Waterford and Kilkenny Waterford and Limerick, Waterford, Wei., Wick. and Dublin .. .. West Cornwall West London .. .. • . Whitehaven and Farness York, Newc., Ft Berwick Ditto and Newcastle Extension •. Ditto G.N.E. purchase! York and North Midland! LINES LEAS: Railways. Leasing Companies. Barks and Hants E. 5 per Cent. Bir. and Oxford Junc.,callsduly paid, or with a guarantee • • Do., without a guarantee .. Vol., & Dud.,calls duly paid, or with a guarantee • • Do., without a guarantee • • Buckinghamah. Clydesdale June Lin., Guar. 6 per Cont. • • Gloucester andl Dean Forest Hull and Seiby Do. X, Shares Do. 14 Shares Leeds and Brad. Lon. and Green. Do., Pref. .. Lowestoft, Gd. 4 per Cent. • - Do., 6 per cent Middlesbro' and Itedcar, 6 p. et N. & East, 5 per Cent. •• bo. New Preston and S Wyre . • • • Do. Shares A Read., Guild., and Reigate .. Roy. & llitehin Jo. Shop. Ex.. Shef., Roth. and Goole, 5 per et. South Staffords. Wear Val. 6 per Cent. gua. .. Do. do. Do. do. Wilts and merset .. Gt, Western Do .. .. DO .• •• Do .; Lon. & N. W. C aledonlan G. Northern) Gt. Western Yk. & N. M. Do .. • • 'Midland S. Eastern .. Norfolk • • Do .• • • Stockt.& Dar E. Counties . Do • • L. &N.W. &La.& Y. j l Do -• • • S. Eastern ~ G. Northern, Lanc. & York Mr. M'Clean Stock.& Dar. Do .. Do .. Gt. Western .14EFER: 9% to 936 4% - 434 934 - 10 13 e.• 11 d. 201 76 —7B 11% 11% lby. 1t 23 —2l d. •• ....• •• 24( -8 1% -2 6 -64 3% - 4 214 - 3 14% - 14% 49 —5l 26 —2B x.d 4 5 1G 104 sill 5 514 x.n 12% 12% x.n, 35 —36 x.cl 79% —120 1 4 .1 76 —7K - x.d 7j4 8 34ip x.d 54 —54% x.di 8% —B%d. 6N,— 6q, d. 103 i 11% X 6l( 7 z.d 91. -92 Ilan( —114 3 4 2 —24 p. 0,6 2 p. 114 — 11 P. 81 1 A —BA% BR, dis 8 7 die. 2 - 2 26 -27 3 1 4 —2% die. 4654 46 13 18% dis. 21 23 X • • ...- • • 7% -7% 4% —3% die. .. die. 18 —2O I 14 —l2 die. 8 —2% Ws. 5% —b% 8% —8% die. 56d 1 8. % P IS 1414 15 1534 8 9 614 716 6% 414 414 534 436 dia. 12 —l4 6 7 934 —lO% % % dis. 3% —3% d. 12 -14 1956 - 19% 27 -27% 4 3 did IL -13 164 166 x.d 16 —l5 x.d • , .... •• d. .. 8 18) x.di 7 —6% d.xcil 3% —3% cl.st( Ali 18% 'IXED R: 16 li x.n 5 x.n 12% 1.11 80 1 4 % 80 77 7% p [x.d 54 % 53% % 6% x.d 91 92 114% 114 24% 13% 81% 82 33 45%3 )6 16 Nominal Prices. 34- 1 p. 29 -SO 28 -29 8 -10 p 7 - 9 17% - 17% 44 - 46 3314 -33 X 1 34 - 2 34 P 100 - 102 50 -51 23 -24 99 - 101 113( - 11% 2334 - 24% 13 - 14% 54 —56 4 —6 p 42 —44 x.d 8 9 p.x.d 22 -22 7% -8% 1% - 2 p. •• • • $% 3 dis. --• •• •• 2b3i 26% 90 -91 SHARES. Business done to-day. 9 1i }4 X Railways. I "a. I Nominal Prices. 'Business dese to-day. Aberdeen Aberdeen, No. 2, 7 pr. Caledonian 101. .. • . Chester and Holyhead Band. Per. & Aber. Jane, East Anglian (31. 10s.) per cent. .. • • •• 1 Eastern Counties Exten.,' b per cent. No. 1 .• Do. No. 2 .. • • • • Do. New 6 p. ceat. Stock' Eastern Union, Scrip guaraa. 6 per cent. Do. 101. Deben. Shares . East Lancashire, 6 per cent. quarter shares .. E. & W. York. Juno. bths Edin. Per. & Dun. 5/ p. ct. Glasgow & S.- W. Comet. Gt. Northern, 5 per cent. Great South. & Western (Ireland) eighths .. Lancashire and York shire, F. 201... • • • Do. 6 per ct. Stock • • Leeds Northern, 6 per cent., No. 1.. • • Do. quarters, 1848 London, Brighton, and South Coast guar. 5 per et., late Croydon thirds De. pref., S p et. Stock, 1851, from 501. share. E Do. new guar., 6 per ct. Lon. & N. West. (Coy. & Nuneat.) 5 per cent. 9. London & new .. Manch., Sheffield, and Line., guar. shrs., No. I Do. new, 101. Do., 6/. .. Midland Con. 6 p. c. stock Do. Consol. Bristol & Binning., 6 per cent... Do. Bristol & Giouces. Norfolk Extension po. guar. 5% per cent. Do. Waveney Valley .. North British • • • . Oaf. Wor. &W 01. 151.6 p.c Shrewsbury and Birm. New Guaranteed Shrews. and Ches. (Nor. W. Min.) 8 per cent. South Devon •• •• •• South-Eastern, 434 p. ct. West London,l st Cl. (101.) Do. 2d Class de. (par) York, Newc., and Berw., , . Gt. N.of E. Par. .. York and North Midland IL and S. Parch. .. Boulogne and Amiens .. Central sof France (Or leans and Vierzon) •• Demerara Dutch Rhenish •• • • East Indian • • .. Do. do. do. .. Great Indian Peninsula.. Ditto ditto .. Louvain a la 6amre Luxembourg .. Ditto • • • • .. • • Madrid and Valentin .. Maria Antonia • • .. Ditto, New .. Namur and Liege ,„ Northern of France .. Orleans and Bordsaus Paris and Orlean.s Paris and Rouen Paris and Strasbourg .. Rouen and Havre .. Sambre and Menso •• Tours and Nantes .• Totirnay, Jurbise, Lan den and Hassan Weff I handers .. 7 .. - N 104 —l5 x.d % U da.d 134 -13 t par U p 3( die par 1034 10 li 934 —1034 •• •• 34 dIS. par •• ••• •• 13)4 13% % - % P. 129 - 131 .. --- .: p .. -- .. p 2% -2% p. 1034 —II% x.rf 11% 11% x.dj % 34 p x.d 127 - 129 15 -16 4% -4% 4% -4%, )4 - % P 9% - 10 14% —l5 x.d 12 —l4 15% —IN x.d i 3% 44, x.d 1% 1 U dis. I'OELEIGN. all I 10% —lO% 17 -1714 5% —47 i 2 % — 3% P. % - % 1)- % - % P• 34 - ii 134 - IN 7 9 3 —4 6 —6U 14% 1454 4ii —4% dad 33 22 —221 i 6 —l,f4 die. 9 — 9 M 2% —a(3 9%- (Th. 1% 7 2% 100 8 6 8 11 13 4 4714 100 4 2 0 100 all all 10 all all 27168 8d 834 Ili_ 11 Z S • 0 BuSille as j raid. NoMinal PriCe3• • Australian .... ••• • •• 4 4 1arocba Range .. • • ... 113 0 3}j sllaenarvon Iron sand Coal all •• •• Bolanos Scrip • • • •• '• British Iron.. • • 13 5 .. •• Brazilian Imp, • (is. 5/. p.) 24% .. •• Do. Cocaes and Culaba all •• •• ad Do. St. John del Rey • • 15 18% I6A Cobre C0pper.........40 35 -- 34% Copiapo N ; 14— 7% General.. ......... all 13 Mexican& S. American 9 3% Real Del Monte, Unreg. Do. Black Debentures. •• Do. Red Debentures .. •• •••• Santiago do Cuba .... 10 2 Tin Croft ...........„ .. 7 8 United Mexican • .......28 28% 3 •••,. 2 NOXIITT STOCX 33.11.NZS 35 Australasia ............ all 38 6f , % British North America.. 50 45 —46 Colonial .... • • ........ 25 10% 11 Commercial of London.. 20 25 -- 26 London Joint Stock .... 16 18% 1711 Lom4on and Westminster 20 28% —29 National Provincial Bug. 35 •• Do. New ............ 10 •• " National of Ireland ...• 223 18% 17% Provincial of Ireland•• • • 25 42 —44 Do. New .. - • •..... all 15% 16 % Union of Australia .. all 35 3 6 % Do. New ........ 234 3 Union of London •• —• • 10 10% 144 Tinton of Madrid all . Pta - 5C31.3C41.73V0 tT5. Canada ••..•• •• I 32% 1 48 -- 49 Oen. Steam Navigation . 14 26% — 2B Pepin. & Oriental Steam. all 64 —66 Ditto ditto Royal Mail Steam •• Settling days in the trio] I /di I •• SCEILL.a.NVOU S. 32% 48 49% 14 26% 28 all 64 —66 10 15 15 , A, 60 78 b 0 % JOr iih of September. Ticket dal 29th. Account day. 16th ' 33 ~,t h Lble for the errors of the (XVII, interested correspondents.) tered sliares. 15th an, (we cannot be answers will not be influenced by C MONEY and COMMERCIAL " 1 "; nek CITY, TWO 0'01,.,- es* The sales of Cotton at Liverpool mated at 7,000 bales,of taken for 5 esterdsferreeen— wera i export. The market closed firinlieg,,,slw alteration in prices.—The Share Market we P. — at higher prices. te ° . In the Colonial and Foreign Produce Alar llets cif si has, this week, been a moderate supply of the Pi ri th p 101 1 "well, 5 i ll {te e l l' staples, and prices have kept considered, for buyers have upnot ver y Wg° (nrve Sugar and Coffee have just barely gone at tbe '" r t iot ciuo:ations. Rice, Tea, and Tallow have have beau r o t cheaper. fir Saltpetre has been steady, and l e e elsr A e d _ or m; t _but Indigo droops, 21,060 chests being.i'for W I f rates. he u ensuing auctions. Cotton was lola ot e , Hemp has been firm and in request, 1)1810 The consumption of Tea in London tbis year t° ihs. l° inst. has been 21,366,000 lbs. against 20,1661° w the corresponding date last year. The emigration season is now drawing to $ c— in e sots' stl ber it f has not been by any means inactive. T hi3 , l ll Tr o persons who have gone to our colon i e s is tw i t, nerally than last year, and: Canada esP ecitali als - li cA a great increase. In proportion to its PI: 11 0 c anada receives usually more inataigr ati a i ll the United States, a fact seldom bc4 ,d - mind. The problem now to be e °ll ' - r 000 whether Australis, with its inviting g olci A - e e- f6t , will oo offer a great counter-attraction, An' -° O 4l O labourersmpete more stroeely with America for tb e of Europe. ow l' The intelligence from the Continental M°l3el - of about the same tenor to-day as previous'''. pobJio There is not quite such an animated market fe fr ysol Securities, and the quotations are flatter, viitb„loo°l other assignable cause than the usua l reeh'ii for profits after an advance. Consols have been 963.111 for Transfer and Account, but they are no; only 9 ',,' A bo le Money. The Three per Cent. Annuities of 17 , " oil. Exchequer-bills 96. East India Stock has been fi rm . °l 4 l io dil xcequer-bills are steady at 43a. to 46 0 .' '''" Bonds at 475. premium. . 08 0 Foreign Stocks have been almost nominal' 9° lit st 411. been doing. Peruvian Deferred Stock has beell otei ° lti , Spanish Five per Cents. have been done at ''''' ete t $ 6 l may be called 20i to i. The Three per CO"' A - 0 111 to 3,1, and the Passive 5i to i. Sardinian J3°l),-.0%00; p p a o id toh up have been at 82,i, and the Scrip / 8 21 : - obor Four per Cents. are 94 Mexican 5 / 1 7°- II 26* to -a. a tea 0 Although a large business is being trans c e l° Railway Shares, the amount is by 00 : f l) equal to what it was yesterday, an d ee Pri n ce o lA : . more in favour of buyers. The sttlement er P — e gt oo rdOv i is approaching, and will operate upon prices, 4 11- O ret. ,l Western particular lines have been bulled or beciiew . e es. estern have gone back to 801 and 80, Lae ciiilb t ll l 4 o °. Yorkshire to 53/- I, North Western to 11 4 , E 56 , - T dell; shire to 141, and others in proportion. The ae" ~ 0 01 1) flux of speculative buyers within the last few d d l i g . . 1° to be chiefly from Liverpool, and -13- I°- the large bullion imports, if v eb lo in order to settle up, but if Abe 'Oll or the speculators showed thevaselvea jeglO' or willing to take up the shares for money' ille h l o n ele fe e r would speedily right itself. We apprehend, e-iiir proco o ter that, as in most similar oases, the buying very slow, so seriously has railway propeeri l e e° sl (l . l dividends and made the sport of garahl ell6 „i r, for the current talf-ycar should je B oi r r oar hope of the future, allowing that the traffic I/I— rily decline when the Exhibition closes. OSP Ia et, 0 0, FRICRS OF BRITIsa FUNDS O'C°LISOECIC.% Ts' 9°" 9 6 3 ,m. k :4-m t ‘ . ,consols Aurnii;i- , 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1726 ' 7. :::: 9 9 6 6 %1h 1 4 6 1 P Ihtia Mock India Bonds, 1,000/. Ditto under 1,000/... Console for Account ....." ***** 47 P 46 P xcheeuer Bills. ******** —....— 9 1 6 4 1 : 2‘ . 4 6 9 1,0001. 5001. ... 43 46 p .0 Small, .. .., E 43 46 P 0 00 lti e PRIORS OF FORIGN FUNDS. O'COLNEOCg. 166 0 brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. ***** -- li 4 Ditto, Account - 9 6 ! Grenada Bonds, 1% per Cent - , )11 ~..wan, 5 per 0; ,ex Jan. Of:nip: —' 4 11 Peruvian Bonds, 5 per Cent... — , 10 .. • Jo tlit Ditto, Deferred4 l ; Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent. Ditto, Scrip 2% Spaalsh ': per eta. iB4O - 9 0 Ditto. Account Venezuela Bonds, 2', 2 i per ent —.ad° Lo ii• ' Dividends on the abo C ve payable in 9 3 Dutch 2 1 ,E per Cent. 12 Guild -- - 5, Ditto 4 per Cent. Certifluates LLD Y LYS SHIPPIN G.—( T.„, 14 v - W 1) .; °fie. i s Al• ) LONDON, SEPT. 26.—Wind at Noon iv"' rate breeze and cloudy, but dry weathe r. Q u e be c, CARLISLE, SEPT. 25.—The Anne Mall, fr°°lbeil and acrd.ieollffohveerre, carry lug erday a , w a a n y d gtroopurnnadsetds, cairotrsaiZto, 1 06 &c i3F ., oß a wl n sET d oy le :s s E e p m T b . e2dso._edAinrrtdh.oTsoaunedh..rae.nov, _ A_ opiii.ri 4 . fdabli te' rve o Jamaica; Monmouth, Cuba; sC—ubWind dcl.B.W.l3tlAar:lll-cilesi icy' 11, 8 G h L L O V E , ST Q E u R e , b e c. 25 1-A Addison, A NEWPORT, SEPT. ec• bucto; Jane, Queb SEPT . • Cobden, Wilm' • in N.W. fl °°" mg: on. FLEETWOOD, SEPT.25.—Wind VT . " 4.trfel. 11 ff i" yille, Quebec. Rio tI G N r D a E ri R d L e 25 .....vir.rrd.N iv ......sia. siob:, Arr V ° I QUEENSTOWN, SEPT. 24.—Wind W.---- -- a. fr ° ‘ tANCDa,rosliEnpeT, .Mi 2 ra s m ._ ie w hi. jad _. . ~ 0 isr 5 V. ge '4 gi l ' S Alt• Manners, Hope, Quebec; Sappho, Quebec. - Ni Calcutta. ~.t . LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 25,—Wind S.S.r, .; , 0 0,0 00 0, Arrd. A Pkeaix, Antigua ; Industrious l ' f r sio Armicesli;a,mMariria,mricahtia;goMaaianchsensdterß, ahi. Callao;' '14.'00 QCs oco os 3 o tas i 0 ; Grande; Lindesfame Jamaica; Alice Ja t ' e ri ° h r le° „, /° O, Helena, New Orleans; ' flmes Colder,,r6re be e ' Sussex, Montreal; Margosteen Quebec ' LitrtiCrielid. Quebec; Charles, Quebec; Lydia' Ariliellribf 11,70$ Conqueror, Quebec ; Margaret, Prince E cifig' " sera v heo Sid. Ann Hope, Tampico; Byzantium,, State Rights, New York; 'Sophia Bo rbicige' O f Pc Ambrosine, Bonny; Staffordshire, 13osto r '' a fro 111 Earl of Eglinton and Davenport. fe nd cl‘i SUNDERLAND, SEPT. 25. The Euphenith °f I ° Ston e Dundee, has been wrecked on the Noe , nad D a E ; AL, SEPT. 25. 7 -Wind S.W ; 1 4 f/' crew and greater part of stores saved. , n , if ' are' OW 0$ et Arrd. Gwalior, Manila; Zion, oalcutts; .; 0 0; n o* 10 .•-•:' to, Ocean Wave, St. Lucia; Cairo, ef ° , ''' Foe, barque, St. John's; Munoz, River Gattibeldworec'ev• Mazatlan, for Hamburgh ; Johannes, Pi'. St* Y- QtateSt Bremen; Estafette, New York; United .--- A soot' .0 rence; Honors, Carthagena. °to , a 0 AMSTERDAM, SEPT. 23.—The Ons Getior ia goet• to London, put into Dellzr, 19th inst., l erl '' le Ri o probably have to discharge. I,,,Abfit ' - _,,nob ; COWES, SEPT. 25.—Wind W.—Arra. -.•— Lwow neiro; Hesperia, Havannah ; Magna Cholla' e Georg ' Harmonien, Matanzas. d, POOLE, SEPT. 25.—Wind W.N.w . .__Arr ci. fr a, Newfoundland; Nelson Packet, Newfounde,g---Afir ~, DI • Is• '' : r , . - d .' PLYMOUTH, SEPT. 25.—Wind S.W" - - 'rioli --t heY -i Colonic, Jacmel; Anne, New Brunswick' , s ro; 4- 06; brador. Off port, Mary, Batavia, for Rotter" 0,10 Joseph, Singapore, for Antwerp; Itociciar' flavenry, Bombay; Ellen, Jamaica. ~. at Yi n b it, Ili ° OFF THE EDDYSTONE John Plinio 7 q,-,p0," 40 FALSIOUTH, SEPT . - , •d W. Arrd• -- ' j loe - ' Janeiro; .., 2o.— ,'S ID • . SIO 1 OzE, Havanuah. Off port, 111°3 ' for Ilamburgh; Hebe, Jamaica. ....... 0 i CI - SP Afidiall" 0 t li ECIAL EXPRESS TRAIN..-....Tbe --: ,„,, e k, :rt ° special train would run at a reduced rate frm nigh ~,,e1 have Doncaster on the Leger day, returning the same,:', 'oo9troo been informed that the said special tr?".„ poe',/o. only one passenger from Worcester, and picket 'rivorce, its progress either at Droitwich olßronisgrove.-- al Journal. ell er ly gptb' SOUTH-SEA Hs half-year ,e ,er at tu Af t a meeting of proprietors took place yesterdaY:6 cba ir. ~t os. Sea House, the Hon. H. P. Bouv6rie in bonoa d e ' clue' the usual preliminaries, a statement of the ~orairl L ad read, from which it appeared that 4,5001. st" l b‘,..100 tila tAheconnrceiststaeroywfoarsmnaelsbt uafitceisnstehdatvoinisnspbeeeuth tr e so ' s cid' meeting broke up. 11% % 16% lb% 3 2% X 19 19 % 8% 18 x.d 'TILLS. Business done to-day. 139 140 10X a.d x.d 6 14% % 174, 100 100 423 100 4734 all all all 1 634 16 2-8 all 126 all 2% 10 all all ILT Paid. IS II 6 8% INC: 4 % % 6%6 98% ,8% li 131% -~' a