The Sun. — London, England, 1850-09-30 00:00:00

F rn atid ruc~ t!; ec d upon v,s3els from the empire of 11,..rec00 five days of observation." MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE —MONDAY. Much ivaetivity prevailed in the I aeing country markets held en Saturday. English Wheat—the sup plies of which were censiderably on the increase—de clined in value quite Is per quit ter; and inferior Foreign Was lower to purchase. Fun Oats were mostly held at full prices; but all other spring Corn, including Flour, Was very dull. Letters from New York to the 20 h inst. state that only a moderate business was doing in Bread-stuffs, Lt about statiereary prices. In the continental markets the trade was very far f.ote active. The aggregate arrivals of English Grain up to our raarke', last week, were very moderate. From abroad, We rectived 15.023 quarters of Wle et, 2,747 Barley, 5,874 Oats, 295 Beats, 137 Peas, 32 Tame, 6,738 Lin seed, 7,799 Itapese: d, 48 Musterdseed, 189 sundry Seeds, 7,850 brls and 4,421 sacks of Flour The extensive repairs going on in the Old Exchange, in consequence of the late fire, have greatly iuterfered with business. Several of the leading factors continue to be accommodated in the new mat ket. Fresh up this morning the arrivals of English Wheat coastwise were somewhat extensive, and wholly of the present year's crop. Tee samples from Essex and Kent came to hand in good condition; but those from Cam bridgeshire, &c., were mostly light and shrivelled. By land carriage the receipts were seasonably extensive, consequently the stands were well filled. Although the Lumber of buyers in attendance was tolerably extensive, the demand for all kinds of Wheat of home produce, Owing chiefly to the large supplies of foreign Flour pressing for sale, ruled heavy at a decline in the prices of Monday last of fully is per quarter, and a total clear ance was net effected. Offers came to hand from the east coast to ship Wheats at drooping currencies, but the amount of busi ness doing was small. We were tolerably well, but not to say heavily, supplied With Foreign Wheat. Selected samples of both red and White were mostly held at fully previous rates, but damp and inferior parcels were the turn in favour of the buyer. Notwithstanding that the supply of both English and Foreign Barley WAS very moderate, the Barley trade ruled inactive. In the quotations, however, we have no change to notice. Malt, the supply of which ready for delivery was not large, met a slow sale at last week's currencies. Good sound Oats were scarce and quite as dear. In ferior parcels were a dull sale, but not cheaper. For Beans the inquiry was wholly in retail at late figures. Peas moved cff slowly, but we have no change to notice in prices. Indian Corn and meal nominal. The Flour trade was heavy, and, in some inaances, foreign and ship parcels wer e is p er sack, and 6d per barrel loner. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. Whsat—Essex & Kent, , Malt—Chevalier • • • • .. 525 to 55s Red, New .• .. 415 to 465 Oats— Yorkshire and Ditto,White, New 42s C2i Lin . colnsh., Feed. 16s 17s Norfolk and Lin coln, Red.. •.. 393 44s Youghal and Cork, Ditto, White ••• • .• 41$ 468 Black .•••. • . 14 16s Irish, Re 1.••••• .. —s —s Cork, White .• • l 4s 176 Ditto,White ••••.. —s —s Scotch, Iced. •• • • 188 k2s 4 3re—Oid .••••• .. .. .. 26s 27s Beans—Tick .•••• • • •• 25s 29s New, .......... .. 28s 293 . Pigeons .•• • • • .... 28s 346 Barley—Grinding .•• .. 21s 23s Peas —Grey .. •• • . .... 28s 306 Malting, .•• • . .... 25s 27s Maple . . ..... .... 26s 328 Chevalier •• • • ... 28s Os White. ••••• . • . . • 2Gs 295 Malt—Suffolk and Nor- Boilers ••••. . . . . 30s 349 f01k... •• • ...... 43s 48s Flour—Town -made... 35s 406 Brown ... ... . ..• • 40 s 42s Suffolk ••••• . • . . • '29 5 33, Kingston and Ware 47s 51s Stockta & Norfolk 29s 34 5 SEED. The demand for Linseed and Rapeseed is firm, and late rates are well supported. New Canary is very dull, and lower to purchase. Tare3—the supply oother f seeds which is lar ge —h a ve a downwsrd tendency. All !vie heavy. Several purchases of Linseed-cakes have been made fur the Dutch markets, but at low prices. The stock of foregn Clover-seed, in bond, is 28,333 CWiS. Turnlp,White, per bush. 103 to 12s Red and Green.. 103 12s Mustard, Brown„ new 93 11 3 White, new • • • ... Gs 6d 7s 6d Tares, New Winter .. 5s Od 6s Od Old .... • • • ..3s 6d 4s Od Canary, t per quarter • . 56 s 62s Ye grass..... • ... 243 30s Clover, Red Ett . ,. (cwt.) 32s 4 S' White ••• • •, 325 48s Foreign Red.. •• .. 303 44s White.. 285 41s Trefoil les 225, SMITHFIELD. The past week's imports of foreign stock into London have been again very extensive, even the time of year Considered, they having amounted to not less than 7,872 almost wholly from Holland, and in improved con dition, if we except a portion of the Beasts. The fol lowing statement shows the quarters from whence the stock has been derived DiPoRT3 INTO LONDON IN TIM IAST WEEK. From Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. Amsterdam 59 ... 911 ... 6 3 196 Harlin en l9O ... 1 , 314 .. 80 .. ronnin g En 440 ... 33,„, Rotterdam 367 ... 2,271 ... 67 268 ... 65 Ant werp Nieu Diep 79 1,007 ... ... 10 13 .. Do r & 65 '225 ... 7 1 ... 17 ... Ostend... Guernsey 1 ... Carraway ••• • • • ...... 293 33s Coriander ••• • • • 193 21s llenipseed, per quarter 343 355 Linseed, Eng• Sowing • • 54s 5Gs Crushing . ..... • . 403 43s B a ltic •• • • sB s 44s Odessa •••••• • • • 423 4Gs Linseed Cake,pr. l , ooo— •• • • . 8/ Os 91 03 Foreign, per ton 6108 71 53 R a pe Cakes, pr ton 4 / 59 4/ lOs Rapesecd,New,prlst24l Os 261103 2G ... - -•- - -- - .. ......... —.-- -- Total .... 1,217 .. 5,787 ... 133 ... 446 ... 274 The importations during the corresponding weeks in 1849, 1848, and 1847, were as under: — Beasts. Sheep. L a mbs. Calves. ... Pigs. 1849 ...... 1,1 22 ... 4,408 ... ... 165 21 260 ... 27 P 45 950 ... 3,123 ... —. 1847 1,117 ... 5,119 ... -—. 206 ... 16 At the outports, the supplies have no t extended 1,000 head, chiefly sheep , cal ves, and pigs. No purchases of atock have been effected in Spain for some time past, as the whole of the supplies from that coun tr y disposed of here and at Southampton have entailed sevrre losses upon the importers. The foreign Pigs selling in this market are not worth more than 2s or 2s 2d per 81bs. 13 Y sea, from Ireland, 31 oxen have come to band since our last report. Notwith standin g the heavy imports last week the show cf foreign stock here to-da as y w comparatively moderate. From our own grazing dis trict'? the receipts of beasts fresh up this morning were Considerably less than those reported on favouthis d ble ay se i nnight. The weather being more ra for slaughtering, and the attendance of buyers on the increase, the beef trade ruled some what active, at an advance in the quotations of from 2d primest Scots was 4s per Sibs. T he Bullock supplies from Litt. eolnshire, Lieuestershire, &c., comprised 2,560 short horns. From other parts of England they amounted to 400 Herefords, run's, Devons, &c. The remainder of the supply was chiefly derived from Holland. heThere e Was a considerable falling off in the supply of S quality of which was by no means first-rate- All kinds Commanded a ready sale, at prices advanced quite 2d per 81hs; the primest old Downs selling readily at 4s to 4s 2d p er 8 lb s B:bs . With Calves w e were scantily supplied While the Veal trad e ruled firm, at 2d to 43 per more money. Prirr e small Porkers moved off as dear as freely, at a rise of 2d per 8 lbs. Larg e Do g s were quite last week. S. d. to s. d. Inferior Slaw • • 3 0 3 2 Second qual. Sheep 3 4 3 6 C iarse-weolled ditto 3 8 310 ' Southdown Wether 4 0 4 2 Ditto out of the wool 0 0 0 0 L ar ge Hogs •••• .• 3 2 3 6 Small Porkers • • 3 8 4 2 Quarter old Pigs ..17 0 23 0 TOTAL SUPPLY AT MARET. Pigs. Sheep. I CalvKes. I 1 23,310 188 1130 FOREIGN SUPPLY. EMU. I Sheep. Calvert , 8f Pies. 868 I 4,0T0 94 NEVIGILTS AND 36E,A.DEBYLU ILL. Our markets have been well supplied quality is by "luaus prime. Generally speaking, owing to the mild ness 01 the weather, the demand has ruled very inactive, and prices have been with difficulty supported. At per stone by the Carcase. to s. O. d. to s. d. s. eci ,inferior•• •• . 110 2 2 I.ln tt o n, inferior 2 8 3 mid dling ••• .. 2 4 2 6 ---- mid me •• dling.. 3 6 3 8 primelarge •• 2 8 2 10 ---- pri .. 3 0 3 2 Pork , la r g e •• .• 0 4 2 3 6 Veal prime small " -• •• •••• 210 3 6 -- small.. ...... 3 6 BOROUGH AND SPITALPIELD9. Dating the week the arrivals of home-grown Potatoes up to tl.e.le markets have amo unted to about 2,000 tons, wholly by land carriage and in excell ent condition. 'rhe inapoiti from abroad have been confined to 10 bags from Rotterdam. We have a slight improvement in the de mand for selected samples, at full prices. In other kinds very little is doing. Per 8114. to sick the offal. s. d. to s. d," Inferior Beasts-- 2 2 8 Seecmd quality .• 2 16 0 3 4 Prime large OlteR•• 3 6 3 8 Prime Seots Large eon:: Calrea 3 0 3 6 Prime:small ditto •. 3 8 4 0 Suckling Calvea lB 0 26 0 Lambe 0 0 0 0 Reasta. 1.1'03 BOROUGH. Kent and Essex Were , per LOU ... 503 to 70s Kent and Essex Middling ... 30s to 455 Chats ... 25s to 30s SPITALFIELDS . Kent and Essex Sham, per ton ... 50s to 703 Kent and Essex Regents... ... 50$ to 70s Middling Ware ... 303 to 453 Chats ... 25s to 303 ZOROUGIEI SOP M.A2,IILET. Very liberal supplies of new Ho p s, a few being from Farnham, have reached us since our last report. on the On the Whole, an extensive business is doin g in them, following terms, which it must be understood are futon', consequently cash, prices:—New East Kent Pockets, 90s to 1205; New Weald of Kent ditto, auto 86s; New Sussex ditto, 65 s to 75s per cwt. The is estimated at from 215,0001. to 220,0001. Yearling and old Hops aro almost nominal. WOOL. Very extensive imports of Wool took place into Lon don last we. k, viz., 269 bales from Algiers; 291 ditto from Gibraltar, 65 from Naples, 231 from Bombay, 206 from Adelaide, 16 from Cons:autinople, 1,380 from Mel bourre, 171 from the Cape, 615 from Hobart Town, 81 from Hainburgh, 605 from Geolong, 1,953 from Algoa flay, 515 from Port 13enufoit, 1,073 from Sydney, 13 from Jamaica, and 47 frchn Mogadore. Although the private contract market is well supplied, the demand rules teady at very full prices. The following quotations of British Wool are furnished by Messrs Marsh and Edin corough:—Down Ewes, is to Is id per lb; ditto, Hog- Fytts, is 2d to is 3d; ,halt -bred ditto, is 3d to Is 3d ; fleeces, Is 2d to is 3d; Swinton ditto. Is to is Oid; Lincoln ditto, ls; ditto, Hoggetts, is 0/c1 to is Ild; Tombing skin, lid to is 2 d; new ditto, 91 to 100; cannel wools, Ild to is 3d; blanket ditto, Gd to 11d. TALLOW. Our St. Petersburgh letter states that a steady busi was doing in Tallow there, at very full prices chiefly Purit.g, the past vvr, 1< f 4 000 c30.7.i. col,otat, thi.ve cume in. Ibis unporiadou had huti a de pressing cif, ct upon this market, and the quotations 1: ave giVen way Gd ler cwt. To-day P.Y.C. on the spot is selling at 39s to 3Ss 9d for new, and 38s 3d per cwt for old. For delivery all the year the nearest quotation iy 38s 9i per cwt. Toti.n Tallow is 38s 31 to 38s 6.1 per cwt net cash; Rough Fat, 2s 2d per Sibs. 1846. 1847. 1848. 11849. 1850. 6,53 16,47913,722 , 1 33,737 22,940 Stock this day ••• • • 46s Od 47s Od 47s 01 1363 9cl to' 38s 3d Price of Y. C. ••• • [ to Cs 01 to Os 01 to Os Od 368 61 to 39s Od Delivery last weak • • 2,30•2 2,6 e 8 1,026 2,290 I 2,2 2 Ditto from Jane 1•• • • 20,93 24,947 , 30,725 23.163 27,798 Arrivals last week • 244 3,000 7,634 6,948 4,029 Ditto from Jane 1 16,837 30,9,7 41,516 36,427 I 21,614 Price of Town .. 453 Od 508 6d 49s 6d 39s 6d 418 03 STATEMENT OF TALLOW SHIPPING AT ST. PETERSBURGII. 1850. I 1849. I 1848. I 1847. 1846. Tallow dispatched Casks. Casks. Casks. Casks. Casks. from Cronstadt to Sept. 14, 0.8. 48,656 59,094 67,654 66,487 42,826 In shir.s loading and lighters 24,737 23,473 23,233 20,954 24,841 Total loaded eff, Otis Sept., O.S. Loaded afterwards• • • ... 35,585 33,617 44,4a3 45,555 Total at the cicse of the navigation-. .. 118,132 129,`04 131,864 113,223 London• 19,508 20,414 34,258 27,646 15,463 Liverpool ••• Bristol Other English por ts 3.170 6,867 8,0x3 7,057 6,472 Ireland ••••• • • • . . 2,942 4,005 3,544 5,217 4,690 Scotland .• .. • • Germany • • France ••... • • . 2,165 4,920 54 4,340 854 48,6;6 59,094 67,654 66,487 42,826 MANSION-110USE.—(THIS DAY.) A young German, named Meyer Levi, was brought be fore Alderman Gibbs, charged with assaulting Patrick Martin, and wounding him on the head with a chisel. It appeared that on Sunday evening the prosecutor, who was the worse fur liquor, was in the neighbourhood of Petticoat-lane, and excited the indignation of a num ber of Dutch and German Jews, by applying to them some offensive epithets about their religion and location in this country, and a scuff:l3 ensued in which the pro secutor received a wound in the head, which he declared was inflicted by the prisoner, who bad a chisel in his hand. The prisoner denied the charge. Several of bis German friends, who witnessed the transaction, stated that the prosecutor first struck the prisoner, on which the prisoner returned the blow, but not with aoy instrument; and added that the wound was an old one, and not occasioned at the time of the dis turbance. The policeman who took the prisoner into custody stated that the blood was flowing from the wound when be first saw the prosecutor. Mr. Alderman GIBBS said, when foreigners came to this country they were too ready to introduce their cowardly custom of stabbing, but he should endeavour to repress such conduct, by punishing all parties who were brought before him for assaults of this nature. The prisoner was ordered to pay a fine of 205., or be imprisoned for 14 days. BOW-STREET.—(THIS DAY.) Theodore Staines, a foreigner, who described himself as a novelist to some of the London journals, was charged with the following assaults. Charles George, an artist, deposed that he was going alorg St. Martin's-lane last Saturday night when he met the prisoner flourishing a crab stick which was leaded at the end. Witness endeavoured to avoid him, but was unable as the prisoner dashed forcibly against him. Witness turned round to expostulate with him, but the prisoner pretended that he was the aggrieved party, and, raising the stick, struck him a violent blow. He was about following the assault up, but was pre vented by the arrival of the police, to whom he was given into custody. On his road to the station the pri soner kicked police-constable 108 F with such force that he was unable to continue on duty, and on being taken charge of by another officer he bit a piece of cloth out of his two coats. Had he not had his great coat on, the prisoner must have bitten a piece of flesh from his body. Mr. JARDINE, having remarked upon the brutality of the assaults, fined him 302. for the assault on George, add sentenced him to a week's imprisonment fur the assaults on the constables. MARLBRO'-STREET.—(THIS DAY.) EXTENSIVE ROBBERY BY A SHOPMAN.—Robert Symonds, a well-dressed young man, and Susan Harris, were placed at the bar before Mr. Hardwick, the former prisoner charged with having stolen property to the amount of more than 80/., belonging to his ers employ, Messrs. Lawson an d Parnell, drapers, &c., 211, Oxford street, and the latter with having received the same, well knowing it to have been stolen. William Harrison deposed that he was barman at Mr. Gurney's, the Clarendon Tavern, Oxford-street, and that he had known the prisoners for about a month or five weeks by their coming to the house some times together. During that time the male prisoner had been in and the h a bit of leaving parbels in the care of witness, when he left them he said if the young woman called she was to have them. The male prisoner left about a ado paresis in all. The woman called several times otter that, but she never took away any of the parcels herself, she and the other prisoner generally being together when they were removed. About eight o'clock on Saturday evening last the prisoner Harris came to the bar, and asked it Mr. Harris (meaning the male prisoner) had been there. Mr. Gurney answered " No, he had not." She then left, aed by Mr. Gurney's orders, he followed her, and saw her go to Messrs. Law son and Parnell's, Oxford street, where she stopped and looked in at the window. In a few minutes the pri soner Symonds came out and spoke to her, and imme diately returned into the shop. He then came out again with a pair of steps which he placed against the window, and then walked with the woman for about a dozen yards. Witness then saw him hand her a parcel, and she then left him. On witness's return to his employer's e told him what he had seen, and while he was talking she came in and sat down in the tar, as she said she was very tired, and would wait for the mule prisoner. Mr. Gurney then sent him to acquaint the prosecutor of the whole of the proceedings. Mr. Lawson stated that he was in partnership with Mr. John Parnell and that the prisoner had been in his e mploy . since April last, and not the least suspicion wa s entertained of his honesty. On Saturday night, from information he received from the last witness, he went to Mr. Gurney's, and was shown a number of parcels, which he opened, and found them to contain a quantity of his property, consisting o f pieces of lace , silks, VelVetP, sa tins, some d( zen pairs cf kid gloves, silk eteekings, and other articles now produced, worth about 80/. lie immediately gave the woman in charge, and returned to his resi dence, and, having procured a cab, called the prisoner Symonds outside, placed him iu it in custody of a con stable, and then drove to Mr. Gurney's, where witness confronted him with the woman. They were both then conveyed to the station. Witness subsequently searched the prisoner's boxes, and found several pairs of drawers with his private mark upon them. He afterwards w ert with the constable to No. 19, Cooper-strethere et, Cifounty-road a , whew the female prisoner lodged, and d great deal more of his property. He also found a con siderable quantity of drapers' tickets, and other articles necessary for the business of a draper's shop. Macdonald, 65 11, corroborated the evidence of the last witness. Mary Bridge, the female searcher at the police-station Dilarylebone-lane, said she searched the prisoner Harris o n Saturday night, and found a parcel u pon her, taining six pairs of kid gloves and a piece of ribbon, which were identified by the prosecutor as his property. In reply to the charge, the prisoner pondsSymo said, he had purchased a po rtion of the goods, as eed to enter into business on his own account. The larger portion be admitted taking from the prosecutor's shop. The woman said she was not aware that the property was stolen, or she would not have received it from Symonds. The prisoners were both fully committed for trial. A "Mune INCIDENT.—At the last settling-day a t Tattersall's, an officer who bad to receive largely, by acci dent let fall two 1001. notes. Another officer, _a friend, who there was standing by , pick ed u p the notes, and was about retu wa ru ing them to (as he th ou g ht) the right owner; but a third party, who had seen the notes upon the ground, and had watched the party who had picked them al This gen tleman (who had formerly been in the two servban - ice , went up to the party and said, I have dropped went p you heard of any person finding them ?" "Yes," says the other, " I have just found them, but I thought they belonged to Captain The notes were immediately handed over to the claimant, and nothing more was heard of it for some days, when the real owner, having di scover ed his loss, com municates with his friend who was present, and, of course, out came the secret. Application was immediately made to the gpnt'eman to refund, to which a reply an of mot was explanationt offen sive nature was returne d. Thereupon demanded, but the bird—we will not say shark—had gone to Boulogne, where he was followed by the principal and his friend, and the result was disgorging the notes and a most abject apology.— United Service Gazette. DARING BURGLARY IN SussEx.--During the night of Friday week a daring burglary was committed ton. by th r ee men in the house of the Rev. 0. E. Vidal, of where t got two common watches. One of them then went to Thethe Rev. Gentleman's slee p in g a p artment and awoke him. ruffi wore a blue mask. In cue hand he held a tallow candle, and the other grasped a sword, which he brandished backwards and forwards, threatening Mr. Vidal he would use it, if he made any disturbance. In a few minutes he left the room, and immediately a second ruffian, of shorter stature and stouter build, entered the apartment. Like the first, he was masked, had a lighted candle, and carried for a weapon the handle of an axe. He demanded where the money was, and being told it was down of sta i r and, he insisted on the Rev. G en tl em an's getting out ed, going with him to get it. On their reaching the study, Mr. Vidal -bowed them the drawers where the money was de posited, but they, f in ding they were locked, demanded the key, and lie was forced t o return up s tairs, guarded by one of ie burglars, to give it to him. Ha vin g reached the sleep jug-room, Mr:Vidal gave up the key, and earnestly remon. stra o d te with the ruffian armed with the he sword, him f the fate which must await him reafter, if he remindin even escaped punishment in this world. The burglar, however, insisted on the Rev. Gentleman's returning immediately to the study, though still undressed, and, on his hesitating, dragged him down to the stairhead. Having once more leached the study, the fellow proceeded to rifle it, obtaining nearly 401. Air. Vidal remonsttated with him, on which, using violent threats, he placed the sword across the Rev. Gentleman's throat, saying, if lie made a noise, he would use it. One of the other men was then calleded- in, room, whilst finally , the Rev. Gentleman w as locked up in the b the darieg scoundrels quietly went down stairs and took tea. Missionaries from the Irish Tenant-right League are forthwith to visit the agricultural d dis tutricts o res f England, and by means of public meetings an lec, to solicit support for the new movement. THEATRE ROYAL PRINCESS'S. Alter a doue,lisi cereer of Lorne seree or eeght years—after haying ben alternately a concert•room, an opera house, a vaudeville theatre, in short, "Everything by turns, and noshing long—" this beautiful little theatre has been rescued from its previous—in every sense of the word—" doubtful character," and, under the management of Mr. Charles Kean and Mr. Robert Keeley, is new de voted to the service of Sbakspere, and of genuine English tragedy and comedy. It opens under the most favourable auspices ; the names of Mr. Charles Keaa and Mr. Keeley, as managers, afford a sufficient guarantee that nothing will be permitted, either before or behind the curtain, which can be in the least offernive, either to public morals or to good taste, and her Majesty has in this instance come forward as the especial patroness of the legiti mate drama by taking a box for the season; the Royal box is situated at the extreme end of the dress circle, and has been fitted up with great taste and elegance. Messrs. Charles Kean and Keeley have collected around them a company which, in the present state of dramatic affairs, may well be called strong ; indeed any company numbering among its ordinary members Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean, and Mr. and Mrs. Keeley could not be considered otherwise then strong; but when we find them sup ported by Harley, and Wigan, and Meadows, and James Vining, and Ryder, and Miss Phillips, among the old favourites, and when we find among the new recruits that most gentlemanly young actor Mr. Belton, and that unctious old man Addison, we feel that we should be doing an injustice to the management did we not give them the credit of having collected tcge ther the most efficient company in their power, and of having availed themselves of all the unengaged talent in the market. The house has been thoroughly cleansed and renovated, and the scenery is entirely new. The theatre opened for the season on Saturday evening, and within five minutes after the doors were opened it was crowded in every part by one of the most respectable, most orderly, and most attentive audiences ever congregated together. All the notabilities of the literary or of the fashionable world at present in London were gathered together there to celebrate the inauguration of the now " Royal Princess's'' as the temple of the legitimate drama, and the play chosen for the occasion was well chosen ; it was Shakspere's most vivacious, most amusing, per haps greatest comedy, Twelfth Night. The cast was perfect, there was not a single weak part in it. Mrs. Charles Kean, of course, was Viola, a character which she has long since made exclusively her own, and which she performs with a piquancy and buoyancy so chastened by surpassing grace and modesty as to render it a perfect marvel of genuine comic acting. In no character, perhaps, is the versatility of Mrs. Charles Kean so manifest as in this of Viola ; how strong is the contrast between her joyous and somewhat saucy " I am the man," and the tender pathos which she infuses into her reply to the Duke, "A blank, my lord she never told her love," yet each is equally appropriate, equally perfect ; how richly, humorously comic is her acting in the duel scene, how excellent her personation of the character throughout. We are glad to find that Mrs. Charles Kean has had the good taste to discard the old tra ditional page's costume, and to dress Viola as a Greek boy. Next to the Viola of Mrs. Charles Kean, the most admirable piece of natural acting in the comedy was the Sir Andrew Aguecheek of Keeley. He is the most perfect representative of the foolish knight we have ever had ,in our time. In Keeley's hands he is indeed a foolish and a faded gentleman," and in the Cabinet Shakesperian gems Keeley's Sir Andrew Aguecheek is worthy to take its place by the side of his Verges. Mr. Addison was a hearty Sir Toby Belch, and Harley as the clown was in admirable fooling; the little song which serves as epilogue was given with true Harleyan quaintness. Meadows as Malvolio was the very essence of self-sufficient pomposity—the importance and dignity of his strut was admirable, and in the letter scene ho was superb. Miss Phillips was very lady-like as Olivia, and Mrs. Keeley's Maria was full of mischievous fun. Mr. James Vining made more of the little part of Fabian than we have ever seen made of it. Mr. Belton was a most gentlemanly Duke, and Mr. Ryder a very effective Antonio. The scenery, painted by Mr. Gordon and Mr. Lloyd, was entirely new and very beautiful, and there were none of those hitches in the working of it which too often occur on a first night. At the conclusion the applause was enthu siastic, and the curtain again drew up and discovered the whole of the performers. The National Anthem was then sung by Mr. Ransford, Miss Ransford, Mr. Ransford, jun., Miss Annie Romer, Mrs. Keeley, Miss Mary Keeley, and the rest of the com pany. Then there arose a universal cry for Mr. Charles Kean, who at last had to come forward and bow his acknowledgments to the audience. A bustling and amusing farce by Mr. W. Bayle Bernard, entitled Platonic Attachments, followed the comedy. Mr. Thistledown (Mr. Keeley), a middle•aged gentleman, having abjured the life of innocent dissipation he has been previously leading as a bachelor, is living with his wife (Mrs. Keeley) in a quiet suburban retreat, dividing his time between the pursuit of gardening and domes tic happiness. But, although a doating husband, Mr. Thistledown is not quite proof against the charms of beauty in other women; and having acci dentally accosted a young lady in the City, a shower of rain, which comes in the nick of time, gives him an opportunity of proffering his umbrella, to be re turned at her convenience at his place of business in the City. One day, whilst watering flowers in his garden, Mr. Thistledown is surprised by the appearance of an old boating friend of his, Tom Rawlings (Mr. A. Wigan, who by the by came in for his share of friendly recognition by the audience on presenting himself), on the garden wall. This friend declares he is in pursuit of a fascinat ing female whom he has several times seen in the neighbourhood, and whom he has recognised either by her dear little black bonnet, or her robin-tailed polka. The lady is no other than Mrs. Thistledown, who, pet ceiving in Tom her pursuer, de sires his instant departure from the house. Tom, however, who is acquainted with Mr. Thistledown's peccadillo with the young lady of the umbrella, threatens disclosure to the wife, unless he is then and there invited to remain, Miss Milman (Miss Murray), a young friend of Mrs. Thistledown, but who is unknown to her spouse by name, happens just now to step in to tea, being on a visit to some friends in the neighbourhood. In this young lady the un fortunate Mr. Thistledown recognises his fair incog nito. After suffering all the agonies of imprisonment in a melon frame to escape exposure and questioning by his wife, the unlucky umbrella at last appears upon the scene, having been brought from the neigh bour's house for Miss Milman. Mrs. Thistledown re cognises the umbrella by the peculiarity of its handle, and the full tide of conjugal jealousy is about to burst upon the head of the unfortunate Mr. Thistledown. But Tom Rawlings adroitly gets his friend out of the scrape by unscrewing the knob of Mr. Thistledown's umbre lla and placing it on his own, to which his name and address are affixed. "Thus are Mrs. Thistledown's suspicions allayed, never, it is hoped, to be revived, and Mr. Thistledown, by way of " tag," steps forward, and, after a gentle hint to gentlemen under such circumstances, exhorts all ladies, when umbrellas are lent to them, to be cautious as to the manner of returning them. Mr. Keeley has a part well suited to him. His look and attitude of stupe faction, which gradually assume the shape of a mesmeric trance, at encountering the knob of the unwelcome umbrella, was an exquisite piece of satire on the mesmeric art. Mrs. Keeley oscillated between the extremes of love and hate ; and Mr. A. Wigan had a dashing helter-skelter part, admirably suited to his bustling, mercurial style of acting. Loud applause followed the descent of the curtain. A ballet divertissement followed, in which Mr. Flex more, was a satyr, and Madlle. Auriol and Madlle. C. Lecle:cq were nymphs. The brillancy of the dancing of the ladies, the extraordinary tours de force of Flexmore, the beauty of the scenery, and the gracefulness of the groupings, secured the success of this divertissement, which was received throughout with marked applause. ACCIDENT 10 THE MARQUIS OF HASTINGS AT LIVEnpOOL.—On Friday evening an accident befel the Mar quis 1, of Hastings, which had well nigh proved fatal. His Lordship holds an ensigncy in. the 52d Regiment, now in Everton, near Liverpool. After dinner on the ev enin g stated his Lordship took a stroll alone, and in his ramble wandered into the neighbourhood of the docks. About eight o'clock the policeman on duty in Novascotia, whilst at a short dis tance beyond the bridge crossing the gut leading from George's to the Canning Dock, heard a splash in the water, in a southward direction, towards Canning Dock, and after wards a cry of distress. Several persons immediately pro ceeded to the spot, and the individual immersed, who proved to be the Marquis of Hastings, was rescued with considerable difficulty, and in a very exhausted state. He was at once taken to the receiving-house at the south end of the Prince's Dock, and the usual restorative applications having been used, his Lordship was enabled to return to his quarters in a few hours, not, however, without leaving an intimation that he should be again heard of by those who had so zeal ously tended him. It would appear that his Lordship being a stranger to the locality in which the accident occurred, in, walking forward lie tripped over the guard-chain surrounding the gut of the dock, and, not knowing his poition, in en deavouring to extricate himself front his difficulty fell from the quay into the water. His Lordship was in the water for nearly ten minutes, and having completely exhausted him self in swimming, was in the act of sinking when assistance came to his rescue. His Lordship is now perfectly con valescent. MILITARY KNIGHT Or WINDSOR. —Captain An drew Ellison, late of the Eoth Rifles, has been appointed a Military Knight of Windsor, in succession to Lieutenant Ragg, deceased. period of 28 years, 25 of which were passed in the 60th Re- Captain Ellison's service extends over a giment. lie entered the army as an ensign in 1107, and re tired upon half-pay unattached in May, 1832, and from the service 112 1835. SACRED SOCIETY. niceceors ti,i, iostitu:ion have been for a cnsiderable tiuxe engaged in making extensive im provements in Exeter Hall, calculated to remove its defects and enlarge its capabilities as a lccality for musical performances on the greatest scale. The alterations consist price:pally, first, of the removal of the fist plaster ceiling, and its re-construction of wood, in a curved form, upwards of twelve feet higher in the centre than formerly ; secondly, of the removal cf the four square pillars, with the beam and cornice over them, in front of the great gallery; an improve ment which, combined with the additional height gained over the gallery, will obviate all the objections formerly made on the grounds of want of ventilation and difficulty of seeing or hearing; and, thirdly, of the taking down the central portion of the wall at the east end of the hall, and rebuilding it on a line with the walls at the back of the recesses ; thereby allowing the organ to be thrown hack seventeen feet. The affect of this last alteration will be to gain much valuable space in that part of the room, and to remove the great inconvenience hitherto caused by the two divisions of the chorus at each side cf the organ being so completely separated by the projection of the in strument as to be unable to see or hear each other. The organ itself i 3 to receive great alterations and additions, with the view of increasing its power and efficiency. These important operations are to be com pleted early in November, and the next series of con certs is to commence immediately afterwards. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, SEPT. 28.—Michaelmas Term begins October 10. A few days before the term commences the Vice-Chancellor, at twelve o'clock, rekigns his office with a Latin speech, and a new nomination takes place, which is announced to convocation. Most of the colleges and halls meet either on October 12 or 19. NEW ConnEGE.—Mr. Cadwallader Egerton, from Winchester, has been admitted to a fellowship at this college as founder's kin. MAGDALEN HALL.—The Rev. W. V. Ryan, M.A., of this ball, has been appointed principal of the Church of England Metropolitan Training Institution. SHIP LETTER BAGS FOR THE BRITISH COLONIES IN OCTOBER. The following vessels are appointed to sail during the ensuing month for the undermentioned British colonies, and will convey ship letter bags under the regulations of the Act of Parliament with respect to ship letters and newspapers :—Algoa Bay—The Heroine, on the Ist of October, from the London Docks ; the Archimedes, on the 2d, from the St. Katharine Docks • and the Falcon, on the 2 0 th, from the London Docks. Port Natal—The Wilhelmina, on the Ist, from Liverpool; and the Dreadnought, on the 25th, from the St. Katharine Docks. Cape of Good Hope—The Giaour, on the Ist, from the Lon don Docks. Ditto and Bombay—The Havering, on the 25th, from the East India Docks. Ditto and Ceylon—The Albemarle, on the 4th, from the Lon don Docks. The Mauritius—The Pauline Hough ton, on the Ist, from the West India Docks. Sydney, New South Wales—The Glenbervie, on the Ist, from the London Docks ; the Prince of ! Wales, on the Ist, from ditto; and the Tartar, on the 20th, from Portsmouth. Port Philic—The Maitland, on the 2d, from Plymouth ; the Geelong, on the 14th, from the London Docks; and the Himalaya, on the 15th, from ditto. Adelaide, Port Philip, and Sydney— The Anglia, on the 20th, from Plymouth. Adelaide, and Port Philip—The Petrel, on the 10th, from Liverpool; the Duke of 'Wellington, on the 11th, from Ply mouth ; the Pestonjee Bomanjee, on the 15th, St.,Katharine Docks ; and the Success, on the 25th, from Portsmouth. New Zealand—The Cornelia, on the ht, St. Katharine Docks. Port Lyttelton, New Zealand—The Isabella Herens, on the 21st, East India Docks. Western Australia—The Mary Ann, on the Ist, London Docks; the Union, on the 10th, St. Katharine Docks ; and the Anne Robert son, on the 10th, from the West India Docks. St. Helena—The Aden, on the 20th, London Docks. Sierra Leone—The Madras, on the Ist, West India Docks. River Gambia—The Kate Kearney, on the 10th, from the London Docks, (Newspapers for these colonies, by private ships, must be prepaid ld. each, or they will not be forwarded. The postage on letters optional.) Madeira, &c.—Mails will be made up on the evening of the Ist proximo (to-morrow), for Madeira, San Nicholas, St. Vincent (Cape Verd), Sierra Leone, and the Island of Ascension, to be for warded by her Majesty's steamer Firefly, appointed to sail on the 2(1 irom Devonport. ,Newspapers to Madeira, &c., 2d. each, and letters ls. 10d. per half ounce, which must be prepaid. Sierra Leone, &c.— Newspapers free, letters ls. per half-ounce; the pay ment of the postage optional. The sale of surplus stores at the Eastern Counties' workshops, Stratford, on Tuesday and Wednesday, was at tended by agents from various railway companies, and the prices realised were considered good. A large amount was realised by the sale. It is stated that owing to the reduc- tions in the number of hands employed, and the late strike, there are between 200 and 600 railway bands of various classes in Stratford alone without employment.— Esser Standard. DETERMINED SUICIDE.--OD Friday Wm. Adams, aged 66, an inmate of Marylebone Workhouse Infirmary, was found in one of the water• closets, his intestines protrud ing from his. stomach, which he had cut across with a razor. The torture which he endured from triple stran gulated hernia drove him to the commission of this dread ful act. BUST OF MR. VERNON,m--This Melnor;fil. from a few artists and admirers of Mr. Yernon's princely gift t. *he country, has just been placed in the entrance-hall of Marl borough-house. It is the work of Mr. Behnes, who has produced a most striking and spirited likeness of the deceased gentleman, one that cannot fail to be immediately recog nised by all acquainted with his features. Independent of the undoubted resemblance it bears to the original, it is ex cellent, regarded simply as a work of art. It stands on a square pedkstal of scagliola, whereon are inscribed the names of the contributors and the purpose of their testimonial. The position in which it is placed is admirable as regards light and the colour of the wall at its back; but standing behind Gibson's group of " Hying and the Nymphs," though at a little distance from this, it may easily escape recognition by visitors who proceed at once to the picture•ruoms.—Art Journal. SUICIDE.—On Saturday Mr. H. M. Wakley held an inquest at the Sun, Newman-street, Portman-market, on Richard Pryor, aged forty-eight, viho was found suspended by a handkerchief from the ceiling of Lis back kitchen, 33, Newman-street. Mr. Pell, a neighbour, cut him down, and Mr. Tucker, surgeon, was instantly called in, but life was ex tinct. Thomas Nolby stated that the deceased was clerk of the works at Lady Vane's, under his cousin, Mr. Arva. On the day preceding his suicide deceased was greatly excited in consequence of a portion of a balcony which he had erected at Lady Vane's being several inches too short. He called witness out of Lady Vane's drawing•room, and, having bit terly complained of the above deficiency, said that he did not know what to do, as he would lose 161. or 17/. thereby. Then, taking up a penknife, he rushed at witness, exclaim ing, " Either you or Mr. Arva must die." Witness pinioned deceased, who said, " It's all right ; its only a flow of blood to the head." Witness then brought him home. He had been under Dr. Roe's care two years ago for insanity, and was put under restraint. Since then he placed himself under Dr. Coffin's treatment. The jury returned a verdict of " Insanity." A vast chain of associations is often spread out before the mind, by a few simple words, and those associa. tions are nine times out of ten totally different from any that the speaker intended to awaken.— Eliza Cook's Journal. It is stated upon professedly good authority that the average yield of wheat for this county is not more than three-quarters to the acre. Some of the qualities are so poor that in last Friday's market at Lincoln sales took place at the low rates of 225. per qr. The choicest samples realised 51s. ; so that the difference in qualities is 295. per qr.— Starnford Mercury. CONFIRMATION. — SeveraI young gentlemen who were confirmed on Thursday, got drunk at the Crown and Sceptre, North-street, and behaved with violence and in decency. One of them, boasted that he had been con firmed, and that he had afterwards committed one of the seven deadly sins; "and he knew which was best." Bishop Phillpotts's hands had been laid on their heads without allay ing the devil within them; it seemed as if they had all their bad passions stirred up by whatever cause; one of the ex cited youths behaving with great indecency to the landlady's daughter, was bundled out by the worthy father.— Western Times. • RIVERS IN TUB WEST of SIITHERLAND.—The following note, dated Lochinvar, lath instant, arrived a post too late for our last :—" To-morrow is the finishing day of the salmon angling of 1850, and never-has there been so few fish taken on the Inver and Kirkaig rivers. The late rains flooded the rivers to such an extent that there ware few fish taken. Since Monday last the rivers have fallen and the sport improved. Jeans, of 181 b. ; Walter Strickland, Esq., the following day, took a 25pouuder ; Thomas T n e Hon. Henry Gage killed one fine fish Esq., and a f ew o th er gentle men, have taken several good grilse, and it is now that th e fish are taking the rivers here. It is a pity th a t th e ang li ng does not continue for a longer period-- the Act of Parliament should vary. All the rivers on the west coast should not open till the Ist of April instead of the Ist of February, and be two months later of closing."—lnverness Courier. Workmen are at present employed in placing posts along the octroi wall of the Left Bank, to support the w ires which are to lead from the central office to the ter minus of the Orleans and Lyons Railways. On the line from Paris to Orleans and to Tours the works are so far advanced that in a few days electrical telegraphic communications may take place between Paris and Tours. Golignani. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.,.--OH Saturday an in quest was held on Jane Ellis, aged 33, the wife of Mr. Ellis, eating-house-keeper, 63, Paddington-street, Marylebone. It appeared the deceased, who was pregnant, was passing be tween a table and the fire-place on Sunday week, when her muslin dress caught the flames, and she was so burned that her stays were destroyed before the flames could be extin guished. Her infant was born, died three days afterwards, and the following Friday she died from mortification of her wounds, although Messrs. Adams and Chumlev, surgeons, did all that skill and science could suggest to slave her life. Verdict, "Accidental Death." RATTIER IMPUDENT.—About half past eight o'clock on Thursday night three gentlemanly-dreseed young men were seen to knock vigorously at the door of the House of Correcticn, in St. John-street, Nottingham, and then run away. When the porter answered thereto, he found a number of broken knockers tied to the bell-handle.—Kotts Guardian. Madame Poitevin, the wife of the Well-known aeronaut, yesterday made a balloon ascent from the Hippo • drome on the horse which her husband employs. She was dressed in a riding habit, and before starting paraded round the Hippodrome. She rose slowly amidst the applause of the spectators. Her husband and another person were seated in a car placed above her, Gailynani. AMERICAN NEWS. LIVERPOOL, Sk.rT. 29. By the royal mail steam-ship Hibernia, Captain Lang, we have advices from New York to the 17th instant, and in addition by telegraph, via Halifax, to the 20th instant. The dispatches brought by the Cambria were delivered in New York on Tuesday night, being in ten days and a few hours from Liverpool. This is the first time such a feat has been accomplished. Washington intelligence received this morning mentions further piratical intentions on Cuba, and that the American Government stands prepared with preventive means. The House of Representatives passed a Bill appro priating three million and a quarter dollars prospi,c tively to meet instalments under the American indem nity treaty. Payment will be made by arrangements with Baring's house as before. The stock market shows advance on nearly every description, especially fancy. Sales—Government Sixes of '67, 106 ; '6B, coupons, 118 i. Reading Railway has advanced to 59. The cotton-market has been nearly cleared of all parcels at quotations of Hibernia's sailing. The quotations of corn and flour unchanged, but the market duller. Our dates from Mexico are to the 19th ult. The session of Congress had been..opened with a majority of the Conservative party. The Bill for abolishing the slave-trade in Columbia had been ordered for a third reading by a majority of 22. The Bill for the delivery of fugitive slaves had passed the House by a vote of 109 to 75. A vote had been taken in the House condemning the present ad valorem anti-protective tariff by a ma jority of two. The public enthusiasm for Jenny Lind continued unabated. The Earl of Elgin was at New York. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, SEPT. 17.—1 n stocks the market is very buoyant, and the demand active ; the inquiry for Government was fair, and the market is steady. In exchanges the market is heavy, and the supply good. Bills are only in moderate demand ; leading sterling sells at 10 to 101, and fair bills at 9i to 9i. Francs are scarce and firm, at 5 dolls. 20ic. to 5 dolls. 21c. Cotton—Our market maintains the firmness noticed for the last few days, in spite of the decline in Liver pool as per accounts brought by the Canada. The sales are limited, less by the demand than by the in difference of holders, who will offer no concession from the highest rates quoted. Inferior, 121 c. to 121 c. ; ordinary, 121 c. to 13c., 12ic. to 13c., Hie. to 131 c.; middling, 133 c. to 13ic., 131 c. to 131 c., inc. to 14c. _ _ _ Ashes are firm, with a good demand; sales 150 barrels, at 6 dolls. for pearls, and 6 dolls. 12c. for pots. Breadstuffs—ln flour the market is very firm. Meal is not so buoyant. Wheat is in good demand, with light receipts, and holders firm. Corn market opened firm, but with moderate de mand. Market closed heavy. Rye quiet ; sales 3,000 bushels, at 70c. Oats firm and in good demand. Freights generally held firmly, at 2s. for flour to Liverpool. Cotton 3-16 d. to 7-16 d. Corn sd. to ofd. nominal. To Havre 3c. dull. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. Niagara, Constitution, Minnesota, Empire State, Francis P. Psge, and Emma Fields, from Liverpool ; the Independence, from London ; Warren, from Glas gow ; and Zurich and Mortimer Livingstone, from Havre, have arrived at New York ; the Tyrrel, from Newport, at Baltimore ; the Emily, from Liverpool, at Boston; the commerce and Essex, from Cardiff, at Charleston. The Margaret Walker, from St. John's, for Liver pool, ashore on Sable Island ; will be a total wreck. The Alexandria, from Glasgow, at Boston, with loss of sails, and leaky ; one man overboard. The barque Covenanter, from Quebec, for Liverpool, is ashore at Matane; the Pegasus, from St. John's, for Liverpool, sprang a leak on the Bth inst., and put back waterlogged ; the Clarence, from Newport, at Virginia ; Eromonga and Caledonian, from Glasgow, Vere, from London, and Jane Steward from Lime rick, at Montreal; Devonport, from Liverpool, at Savannah; John Wilson, from Dumfries, and Sir H. Pottinger, from Cadiz, at St. John's, New Bruns wick. The ;hip llelen, which sailed from St. John's, for London, on the 31st ult., put back on the Gth inst., making a deal of water, having been ashore on Grand Manan. The ship oronet, of Dublin, and three other ships, went ashore on the sth inst., at Matane. The Coronet is badly strained, but is ex pected to be got off. The Francis P. Page, from Liverpool, at New York, was in contact with the Duke, of St. John's on the 9th inst., and carried away the latter vessel's mizenmast, main-yard, and wheel, and round-house. WEST INDIA and MEXICAN MAILS SOUTHAMPTON, SEPT. 29.—The royal mail steam ship Severn, Captain Vincent, arrived this day at four o'clock, from the West Indies, with the usual mails, in charge of Lieutenant T. Strover, Admiralty-agent. On her homeward voyage the Severn experienced light contrary winds on her passage to Fayal, and for three days alter leaving it. Tba latest dates brought by the Severn are— Chagres, .aupk--* 98 ; Carthage na, August 31 ; Ja maica, Sept. 7 ; Porto ilteu, 13 - 0 , • St. Thomas, Sept. 12 ; Fayal, Sept. '23; Jame], Sept. U ; Martha, August 19; St. Juan de Nicaragua, 25. The Severn has only brought home seventeen pas sengers. She brings on freight 1,262,456 dollars on mer chants' account, 9 barrels of ginger, 8 barrels arrow root, and 42 packages sundries. Stations of her Majesty's Ships—At Valparaiso, July 30, her Majesty's steamers Gorgon and Driver, and Nereus store-ship ; at Ce:11ao, August 13, her Majesty's ship Atii, and Naiad store-ship; at Grey Town (Mosquito kingdom), hin Majesty's brig Per sien and her Majesty's ship Bermuda; at Jamaica, her Majesty's ship Imautn—her Majesty's ship Indefatigable sailed from Jamaica for Grey Town. on the sth September; at Vera Cruz, her Majesty's brig Helena; at Antigua, her Majesty's ship Alarm. Stations of the Company's Steam-ships—The Thames arrived at St. Thomas's September 2, and proceeded to Crtagrf.‘s the Trent arrived at Chagres August 26, with mails from England ; the Clyde, Gulf of Mexico ; the Conway arrived at Jamaica September 7, with English mails of August 17 ; the Eagle and the Derwent, on the 'Western Island routes. The Severn spoke the Medway on the 24th of September, at 7 A.m., eastward of Graciosa, on her outward passage. JAMAICA. Our dispatches from Jamaica by the present mail, which extend to the afternoon of the 7th, are quite of an unimportant character. Since the departure of the previous steamer the island had been visited almost incessantly by heavy rains, St. Dorothy's parish forming perhaps the only exception. There were some cases of sickness, but they were not re ported to be of a very serious character. The roads have been much destroyed by the heavy weather, and the corporation of Kingston have voted a hundred pounds for the repairs of the city of Kingston alone— an amount which, our correspondent writes, will be insufficient to put them in proper repair. On the Ist of September the hundreth anniversary of the erection of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews' Synagogue took place in Kingston. On the same day a black female, who recollects the erection of the building, died at the very advanced age of 160 years. The Commissioners appointed by the Assembly to consolidate the laws of the island were actively en grged, and were likely to be prepared with the con densed volume by the time the Assembly met, which was expected to be in October. The cotton movement progressed with increased energy. A tnasdnic ledge had been formed by the brethren at the north side of the island, in the town of Fal mouth. The country was quiet. Exchanges on London.—Jamaica Bank, GO days, par ; ditto, 30 days, I per cent. prem. Colonial Bank, 9C days, par ; ditto, 60 day, per cet. prem.; ditto, 30 days, 1 per cent. prem. SPANISH MAlN.—lnformation was given by a person to het Majesty's vessels lying in Grey Town Harbour, that the N icarquans were about making a descent on the town ; accordingly the Persian and Bermuda dispatched armed boats to op pose them, but soon found it was only a false report ; they were lying, when the Severn left, with their boarding netting triced up, and guns in the boats all ready to start at a moment's notice. he American steamer Orus has run on shore in the Colorado River in attempting to reach the Lake of Nicaragua, and the small steamer Director, which arrived on the 22d of August, is now landing her surplus stores, and will proceed in a few days to assist in getting her off. The Orus has received no damage, as she is only on a sandbank. She ran on ground on account of the engineer being on deck instead of at tending to his duty. MARKETS.—Business has been so unusually dull during the past fortnight, that we have scarcely any sales to r e p or t o f a w h o l esa l e nature. The only article which passed with some degree of freedom from the hands of importers was flour, tor which there was a slight speculative demand. JAMAICA MARKETS. (From De Cordova's Mercantile Intelligencer.) KINGSTON, SEPT. 6.--33usiness Juts been so unusually dull daring the pasteortnight, that we have scarcely any sales to report of a wholesale nature. The only article which passed with some degree of freedom from the hands of importers was flour, for which there was a slight speculative demand. Flour-1,200 barrels Alexandria have been sold at 365. to 33s , the sales opening at the former figure and gradually declining to the latter; hut the greater quantity was placed at 345. We report also sales of 200 barrels Baltimore at 345., 450 barrels New Orleans at 325., and a damaged lot of the latter, about 280 barrels, at 295. by auction. Importers' hands are no w very nearly cleared. Meal is dull at Rice—East India is in better request and freely placed at 13s. 3d., to 13s. 6d. per 1001bs. for ordinary to good, but some parcels are held for higher rates. Clean l'e..tna has changed hands at 16s. Carolina has also advanced and is firmly held for 195., at which rate a parcel of 10 tierces has been moved. Butter—Further arrivals of Irish, to the extent of Goo firkins, have occurred; but our last rate (10(1.) is firmly maintained, though the article is but in moderate re quest; and con only be moved in small quantities. At auction, 150 kegs American tainted were knocked down at sd. 50 kegs prime, just arrived, have been taken at Bd. Bread—The sales have been 150 barrels New York packed crackers at 181.; 50 barrels Jamieson's at 21 s. ; and 100 barrels pilot bread of the latter brand at IBs. The large size of this bread is detrimental to its sale. Watson's is wanted. Oil—There is not any at market. Salmon is wanted, and small parcels would command very fair rates. There is nut any on hand. Pork continues in light supply. We quote mess at 765., and prime at 625. to 645., with a moderate demand. Hams—No sales of English have reached us. A lot of Virginia was placed at 6id. per lb. Good American are wanted. Soap—Steele's may be quoted at 105.6 d. and I Is. 6d. for 48 and 561bs. feather, and 15s. for 561bs. crown. There is not 601bs. crown on hand. We have not heard anything of other descriptions. Candles—The supply has greatly diminished, and the market is becoming bare. We quote assorted sizes at 6id., but this rate is not freely given. Cheese—D. G. commands 10id. to I Id., and American 9d. per lb. Beef is still very scarce. Tongues are also scarce, and American pigs' would command 385. per half-barrel. Rum—Large sales for exportation have been made at Is. 6d. per gallon, proof 21. Some parcels for consump tion have been taken at 3s. 3d., duty paid. Sugar commands 18s. 6(1. to 21s. per 1001bs., with only a moderate stock at market. Coffee has not jet come down in any quantity to market. Pimento—Small parcels as they ars brought in are taken at 4d. per lb. The crop in St. Ann's has failed to a considerable extent. Logwood may be quoted at 325. to 40s. per ton, as in quality. Freights—Tonnage is abundant, with very little de mand. Gold—Columbian doubloons command i to 1 per cent., and American 2 per cent. premium. Malt—The stock of bottled malt of all descriptions is very heavy, and not more than 7s. 6d. per dozen can be obtainQd. _ _ _ Salt— 300 sacks Liverpool stoved have changed hands, in one lot, at 4s. 93. Smaller parcels are moved at 5;. Tobacco—Cavendish is scarce and in some demand at 14d. per lb. Exchanges—On London: Jamaica Bank, 60 days, par; 30 days, per cent. prom. Colonial Bank, 90 days, par; 60 days, I per cent. prem.; 30 days, 1 per cent. prem. RETURN OF THE NORTH STAR FROM THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION. The North Star, Master-Commander James Saunders, arrived at Spithead on Saturday, at eleven A.M, from the Arctic regions, we are sorry to say, without bringing the smallest tidings or news of Captain Sir J. Franklin or his people. The North Star sailed from Greenhithe about the middle of May, 1849, laden with stores and provisions for the north west searching ships, and the last accounts that were received from her were brought to England by Cap tain Lee, in a whaler, dated the 19th of July, in that year. There has, therefore, been much fear expressed for the safety of this ship, which has happily been re lieved by her safe arrival. On the 29th of July, 1849, when the North Star was proceeding up Baffin's Bay, and between the Devil's Thumb and Melville Bay, she was beset in the ice, from which every effort and exertion was made to extricate her without success, and sbe consequently drifted about in the pack, in daily expectation of being nipped or crushed by the heavy floes, or overwhelmed by the bergs that towered occasionally far above her masthead. She slowly drifted to the northward, till the 29th of September, when Commander Saunders, having been sixty-two lays in the ice, found his vessel off \Voles tenhohnes Island, and the sound apparently clear of ice. It blew a gale at the time, and sail having been made in the ship, she was forced through the floe and safely anchored in the sound the same day. While beset on the ice several bears were seen, but only one shot. On the 29th the North Star was again under weigh, and ran further up Wolesten holmes Sound, and a safe bay was found and the ship made secure. The bay was called after the ship, North Star Bay, the ship lying about half a mile from the shore. The ship was now made snug for the winter ; sails were unbent, the masts struck, and the ship housed over, and made as warm and comfortable as circumstances would permit. The ice soon after took across the sound, so that the crew could have walked on shore. The cold was intense ; but two or three stoves warmed the ship, and the crews were cheered up and encouraged with all sorts of games and amusements, occasionally visiting the 3 1 .". v r-irrise of skylarking. There was, un fortunately, hut little game to shoos. r - o, met - counts gave this place a high character for deer and other animals; but the crew of the North Star never saw a single head of deer, and other animals were scarce ; about fifty hares were killed. Foxes were numerous, and a number shot, but none taken alive. A few Esquimau: families occasionally visited the ship, and one poor man was brought on board with his feet so frozen that they dropped off. He was placed under the care of the assistant-surgeon, Dr. Rae, who paid him much attention, and his legs were nearly cured ; but he died from a pulmo nary disorder after having been on board some six weeks. The crew of the North Star continued healthy, only four persons died on board, and these not from the rigour of the climate, but from other ailments. From the excellent arrangements made by the com mander and his officers to keep the crew of' the vessel cheerful and happy, they do not appear, on the whole, to have passed an unpleasant time in their winter quarters—though, from several accounts, their provisions did not prove so good as could be wished. On the Ist of August the North Star was liberated from her tedious imprisonment, and she sailed from Wolestenholmes Sound. But in Ross's Bay she again got into pack ice, where she.remained beset for days. She then succeeded in getting through it, and reached on the 6th of August Possession Bay, near the en trance of Lancaster Sound, where notices of the North Star's arrival and state were landed. She then pro ceeded up Lancaster Sound, opposite to Prince Re gent's Inlet, to Whaler Point, where she anchored on the 13th. She remained oft Wheeler Point endese vouring to get in for 24 hours, but the ice was too closely packed along the coast, and there being no chance of a break-up, notices were landed, and the North Star proceeded to the opposite coast to en deavour to land provision at Port Bowen, Port N;el, or Jackson's Islet, but all these places were so com pletely blocked up with heavy land-floes of ice that the ship could not get in to either place ; she there fore bore away for Navy Board Inlet, in lat. 73 deg. 44 min. N., long. 80 deg. 50 min. W., and in a small bay named Supply Bay, in the inlet, she landed her surplus provisions—covering up the tea and other dry articles, and leaving the proper notices and direc tions of their whereabouts. She remained here five days, and then went to Pond's Bay. On the 21st of August, at the entrance of Lancas ter Sound, the North Star fell in with and commu• nicated with the Lady Franklin, Captain Penny, and her tender, the Sophia, all well. Captain Penny re ported that Captain Austin's ships had got through the ice in Melville Bay, on the 15th of August, and she had left them on the 17th off Cape Dudley- Digges ; that some of the vessels would proceed, if the ice would permit, through Barrow's Straits, to examine and explore Banker's Land. On the 22d of August, the North Star spoke the Felix, Captain Sir John ROES, all well. On the 30th of August she communicated with the Prince Albert, Commander Forsythe, who stated that he had been trying to get places, but was pr evente d b y the land ice ; that he had seen Capt a i n Austin'su s Austin Channel; that C a ptain A into Port Niel and oth er the In trepid steam er t o ex plore some parts of the coast , a nd ships sd in gone 'Wellington in the would visit Pond's Bay; that one of the small . American searching vessels was on shore near Bar row's Bay, but as the ca p tain had declined the • assist ance offered by the Prince A lbert it was su pp osed she v'old come off without damag e. 'We are sorry to state that none of the vessels with which Commander Saunders had communicated had gained the smallest information respecting Sir John Franklin, although this spring has been most favour able tor the exploration in Batfin's Bay, from the early breaking up of the ice. The North Star finally left Pond's Bay for Eng land the sth of September, and has had a good pas sage home, coming to the westward and southward of Ireland, and up the Channel to Spithead. She has been, we understand, a rn, st comfortable vessel, and her commander and officers have worked well together with a praiseworthy spirit, and by their example and tact the ship's company have been kept in cheerfulness and good humour (the best preservatives of health on such an occasion), and we hope the Admiralty will deem the senior officers worthy of promotion. We give-their names:— Master-Commander J...rces Sau..ders, a mkster of 1838. Second Alas!er Joh❑ Way, of 1838, passed for master 1842. Assistant-Surgeon Dr. JaME3 Rae, of 1841. Clerk-in-charge James Rutter, 1837, passed in 842. It will be seen that the above-named officers are gentlemen of long standing in the service, and on this occasion we hope to see them receive the due reward of their onerous service and exemplary conduct. Master-Commander James Saunders, with Dr. Rae, lauded at Portsmouth dockyard at half-past twelv e o'clock with his dispatches. The former was ordered by electric telegraph to proceed to London, which he did accordingly by the half past two train. The Prince Albert, Commander Forsythe, may be shortly expected, as she was about to follow the North Star for England. COURT OF ALDERMEN. On Saturday, after the election of Lord Mayor for the year ensuing, a Court was held in the Council Chamber. Mr. Alderman and Sheriff Carden presented the return of the City prisons, which had been handed over to him and his colleague by their predecessors in office. ELECTION OF STEWARD OF SOUTHWARK. Tne Lord Mayor nominated Mr. William Payne, of the bar, and coroner for the city of London, to the office of steward of Southwark, vacant by the death of the lion. C. E. Law, the late Recorder of London; sod The COURT unanimously confirmed the nomination upon the motion of Alderman Humphery. ➢lr. PAYNE returned his most grateful thanks for the favour just conferred upon him, and said it was but the continuance of kindnesses commenced 27 years age, when he first became an officer of the cor poration. It was a source of much gratification to him to be able to say that he was the senior officer of the City, and he assured the Court that he should use every exertion to show that he was not un deserving of the approbation exhibited in this new Act of liberality.—(Hear, hear.) THE NEW RECORDER OE LONDON. The LORD MAYOR ELECT requested to be informed by the Town Clerk whether any communication had been made to Mr. Wortley, who had been elected to the important office of Recorder, upon the fact of his appointment ?—(Hear, hear.) The new chief magis trate and sheriffs were interested in the question, and an introduction to the 'Cursitor Baron on Monday would be the commencement of the ceremonial duties to be performed by the Learned Gentleman. No doubt the Common-Sergeant would be able to testify to the qualifications of those who were entering upon the duties as well as to the merits of the gentlemen who had completed the period of their appointment ; but it would be satisfactory to the Court to be in formed at what time the Recorder would be ready to undertake the performance of his own duties. The TOWN-CLERK said the usual course on such occasions was, he believed, to summon the gentleman newly-appointed upon motion made in the Court. He was not aware that any motion of the kind had been made, but no doubt a notice to attend would be at tended with due effeet.—(Hear, hear.) Alderman HUMP HERY—Certainly it is neceasary to obtain some information upon the subject for the reason assigned by the Lord Mayor Elect, but there is another reason for desiring to be enlightened upon the subject. We are not aware whether the Re corder knows any thing at all about what we have done for him. We do not know that we have not conferred upon him an unexpected and an unhoped for hor,our.—(A laugh.) The LORD MAYOR said, he trusted that the Court would as soon as possible communicate with the Learned Gentleman on the subject of his appointment and the necessity of an immediate attention to the du ties of the office. Alderman SIDNEY said, it was quite obvious that upon the appointment of a gentleman to an office no tice should be sent to him of what had taken place. Was it not the case that it was contrary to custom to elect a person to a City office who had not been a freeman for two years ? Was it not a necessary qualification that a candidate for the office of Re corder should be free of the City for that period ? If so, he wished to be informed whether Mr. Wortley was possessed of that qualification ? Alderman HumrnEur said, he did not suppose the appointment could be at all affected by any regula tions with regard to the freedom of the City. The TOWN-CLEF& said, the candidates for law offices were exempted from the obligation to become free at all, and there were several instances in which Recorders never took out their freedom. Upon the motion of Alderman HUMPHERY, se conded by Alderman SIDNEY, it was then ordered that notice should be immediately sent to Air. Wort ley of the fact of his election to the office of Recorder. - It is well known to the old members of the Corpo ration that Mr. Newman Knowlys, who retired from the Recorderbhip in 1833, and was succeeded by the late Mr. Law after having been Common Sergeant and City Pleader for several years, never was a free man of the city of London. Upon the motion of Alderman W. HUNTER, se conded by Sir CHAPMAN MARSHALL, the thanks of the Court were unanimously voted to the Rev. W. Marshall, chaplain to the Lord Mayor, for the admi rable sermon preached by the rev. gentleman on that day before the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Sheriffs at the church of St. Lawrence Jewry. The Court then adjourned. RHUDDLAN ROYAL EISTEDDVOD. On. WRJJALI 2 1 .1.V...1L1NV. - The nail VVIIIC/1 took place !ast evening was magnificently attended by the nobi lity and gentry of Wales. At the hour appointed for the commencement (nine o'clock) several persons had arrived, and notwithstanding the wind blew a fury, and the rain came down in torrents, before ten o'clock the place set apart for dancing was filled to inconvenience. About this time Lord Mostyn ar rived, and was received with loud plaudits. Soon after the ball was opened by Lady Mostyn and Sir W. Shiply Conwy, Esq., with a country dance. After several dances had been performed, the wind, which had continued blowing a perfect hurricane, caused the roof to creak, and occasioned great alarm • many per sons, thinking it unsafe, left the place. Miss Mostyn was carried out in hystericks, and one or two other ladies fainted, and nothing could prevail on them, after their recovery, to return. The alarm was not altogether groundless ; the wind blew so strong that the covered footway leading to the castle, measuring some fifty yards, was levelled with the ground, and the flag at the top of the castle was blown to ribbons. The confidence, however, which was placed in those gentlemen who had sur veyed the castle after the late accident, caused no diminution in the dancing, the dance being kept up until near five o'clock, without any accident occurring. This morning the remainder of the prizes were contested for, and after the closing of the festival, Mr. Jones (Talhairn), the architect, came forward and expressed a wish that an architect or surveyor should examine the building at his expense, and report whether the blame of the late accident rested • with him, or with the contractor. • The committee immediately appointed a competent person to survey the building. COURT CIRCULAR. BALMORAL, SEPT. 26. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert went out walking this morning. His Royal Highness afterwards went out shooting. In the afternoon her Majesty drove in an open carriage, accompanied by her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent and the Princess Royal ; the Mar chioness of Douro being in attendance on her Majesty. The dinner party this evening will include her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady Augusta Bruce, Baroness Spetb, the Earl of Aberdeen, and Sir George Couper. Sir Edwin Landseer left Balmoral this morning fur Strathspey. • SEPT. 27. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert writ out walking this morning. I❑ the afternoon her Majesty drove in an open car riage, attended by the Marchioness of Douro. The younger members of the Royal Family took their usual exercise. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge arrived at his residence, in St. James s Palace, on Saturday night. FEMALE ORPHAN ASYLUM, LAMBETH.--Much icterest was excited in this institution yesterday morning. on the occurrence of the first thanksgiving Sunday since the lamented death of the late royal president, the Duke of Cambridge. The chapel and the royal chairs were hung with black, and the 160 orphan girls appeared en deep mourning. The sacred edifice was crowded to hear the Rev. J. Jessopp, the morning preacher ; after which the school-room was opened to the public, when the Rev. Stephen Reed Cattley, the chaplain, most feelingly addressed the guardians and orphans, and distributed purses containing five guineas each to five young women, who, having been brought up at the asylum, had faithfully served in private families, and attended to receive this reward of good service. Her i'lliajes:y has lately become patron, and the Luke of Cambridge has succeeded his royal father as president of the institution, founded in 1758. EXHIBITION OF 1851.—The Central Committee of Denmark has forwarded its demands for space to her Ma jesty's Commissioners. From this it appears that the Danes prepose to exhibit printing machinery, porcelain painted and bisque, shell carving, bronzes, clockwork, rifles, musical in struments, furniture, ivory turnings, stylographic plates, oil, cloths, laco, wool-netting, randers gloves. with leather speci mens, fur carpets, stearme candles, playing cards, white glue, and statuary. An order in Council appears in Friday night's Gazette, assigning a district fur ecclesiastical purposes to the consecrated chapel at Broadatairs, Kept.