The Sun. — London, England, 1851-08-20 00:00:00

NOVEL by the Author of " The Wife's Sister ; or, The Forbidden Marriage." Immediately, in Three Vols. "OTICE—LIFE and its LESSONS. By the Author of "The Wi!e's Sister." (Niece of the celebrated Novelist, Miss Austen.) Also now ready, in 3 vols., )ERCY HAMILTON, the WESTMINSTER BOY. By Lord W. LENNOX. Tu. "ILARA CAMERON, the BELLE of the SZAON, 3 vols. W. Shoberl, Publisher, 20, Great Marlborough- street. .0 Immediate orders should be forwarded from all parts of the o'alltrY, so as to prevent disappointment. H ER MAJESTY'S TREA.TKE. GRAND EXTRA :TIGHTS. THAL ttERG'S New Grand Opera, FLORINDA ; or, THE MOORS IN SPAIN, (For the Last Time.) It is respectfully announced that a Grand Extra Night will take piece TO-MORROW EVENING, when will be produc,d the new Grand Opera, composed expressly for her Majesty's Theatre by Sigis mund Thalberg, the Poem by Scribe, the Italian Libretto by Glan non!, entitled FLORINDA ; or, THE MODRS IN SPAIN. With new scenery by Mr. Charles 'Marshall ; the costumes eXe toted by Miss Bradley and Mr. Coc,mbes ; under this superintendence of Madame Copere; the Mise en Scene by Mr. A. Harris. Count Julian, Signor Lablache; Forinda, Mdlle. Solie Cruvelli ; Rodrigo, Signor Calzolari ; Teodomiro, Mdlle. liarle Cruvelli ; Favila, Mr. Sims Reeves ; and Manuzza. Signor Coletc. To eonclude with a Diverti,sement from II Prodigo. Applications tor Boxes, Stills, and Tickets to be made at the Box-office of the Theatre. The o,era to commence at Eight. H ER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Madlle. CERITO. The Subscribers are respectfully informed that an enga , ement has been effected with Sldlle. CERITO for the last two remaining nights of the ,u. scridtion, and that sne will hays the honour to appear on SATURDAY and TUESD IT next. ST. JAMES' S T HEATRE. Mr. BARNUM, of New York. respectfull y announces that he has made arrangements with the Lessee of the above Theatre (which will commence immediately otter the French Play Seaeon), for the purpose of introducin g to the British pu.,iic those celebrated juvenile dramatic artistes. _ . . KATE AND ELLEN BATEMAN, (Only Ei-41,t and Six years of age_) These children have excited in their own country the meet un bounded enthusiasm, and Mr Barnum feels confident that the ex traordinary develoirnent of intellect which character' zes all their personations will secure the approbation of a community where true genius has 'ever been acknowledged and appreciated. To give due effect to their representations he has secured the services of a TALENTED AND EFFICIENT DRAMATIC COMPANY, comprising many Metropolitan Favorites. The First Performance will be given On MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 25th, 1551. On vihiela occasion will be presented the Fifth Act of Shalcspere's Tragedy of RICHARD 111., In which ELLEN BATEMAN will appear as "KING RICHARD III." KATE BATEMAN and as " RICHMOND." In addition to which will be produced, for the First Time in Lon (l4n, an entrely new Petite Comedy (translated from the French of M. Scribe, " Le Marriage Enfantin," expressly for Kate and Ellen 134 teman). entitled TIIE YOUNG COUPLE; With other Attractive En.ertainments. Full Particulars will be duly announced. Private Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets may be repsecu at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library-, 33, Old Bonthstreet ; at all t rincipal Libraries and Music Sailers ; and at the Box-office of the Theatre, wh,ch is open daily from 11 till 5 o'clock. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Last - Night but Two of the Subscription. Wednesday, August 20. Mesdames Sontag, Fiorentini, and Sofle Cruvelli, LE is OZZI DI FIGARO. It is respectfully announced that, in compliance with the gene ally expressed desire, a Subscription Night will be given HIS EVENING, in lieu of the last Saturday of the Subscrip tion (viz., August 31). All ivories and ticket*, therefore, for that ening, will be available for this (Wednesday) Evening, August 20, lien will be presented Mozart's chief-d'oeuvre, LE NOZZI Di FIGARO. With the following powerful Cast:— Susanna, Madame Soqtaz ; the Countess, Madame Floret:Phil ; herubino, Madlle. Sofle Cruvelli ; Count --limey:ye, iignor Colletti; Figaro, Signor Ferranti ; Basilio. Signor Mercuriali ; Antonio, Signor all ; Don B irtolo, Signor Labiache. To conclud,, with a Grand Divertissement from Il Prodigo, by M. Paul Taglioni, comprising the celebrated Pas de Poignards, by Mdlie. Carolina Rosati, supported by Mesdlies, Kohlenberg, Rosa, Esper, Julien, Lamoureux, Dantoni, Aussandon. Pascales, Alle grini, Soto, Soldainsky, Emma, Eliza, Lavinia, Beale, and the ladies of the corps de ballet. Applications for;BoXes, Stalls, and Tickets, to be made at the Box Office of the Theatre. The Opera to commence at Eight e'cleck. On Friday, Grand Extra Night.— Fidelio. Last time. Leonora, Madlle. 'otie Cruvellt. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Success beyond any former rrece lent—Crowded Houses Nightly Under the Management of Mr. Risley, li'Collum, and Company. Fourth eek of the incomparable AMERICAN ant FRENCII EQUESTRIAN TROUPE. Public attention is directed to the present scale of prices : Dress Boxes, 3s ; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is. 6d.; Gallery,ls. ; Upper do., 6d. The patrons of this establishment are respectfully informed that this popular company, consisting of Madlle. Caroline, Mr. M'Callom, Mr. Stone, on his Wild Horse, Mons. Loisset. Madame Brower, and Young Baptiste, can only perform la England for a short period. boors open at Hall-past Seven, to commence at Eight. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Ti. Webster. 3 , oie Leases .nu Manager, Ut Itromptor. THIS EVENING, Will be performed a aew am, original comic drama, called GOOD FOR NOTHING. Tom Dibbles, Mr. Buckstone ; Harry Collier, Mr. Howe ; Young Mr. Simpson, Mr. Clark ; Nan, Mrs. Fitzwitliam. To be followed by a new comic Opera, entitled THE QUEEN OF 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. After which an entirely new Farce, entitled GRIMSUAWI BA G SHAW ! and BRADSHA W ! :With LEND ME FIVE SHILLINGS. THEATRE itUYAL, ADELPHI. 17nder the direction of Madame Celeste, MIS EVENING, Will be performed THE GREEN BUSIIES. Connor O'Kennedy, Mr. Parselle ; Wild Murtogh, Mr. 0. Smith ; Muster Grinnidge, Mr Wright; Jack Gong, Mr. Paul liedford; Miami, Madame Cele,te ; Geraldine, Miss Ellen Chaplin. _ To be followed by a mw comic Opera, entitled GOOD NIGIIT. SIGNOR PANTALON. Doctor Tititofolo, Mr. Paul Bedford • Signor Pantalon, Mr. Honey ; Lelio, Miss Woolgar; Columbine, 311 s Kath leen Fitzwilliam. To conclude with the Farce of FORTUNE'S FROLICS. Robin Roughhead, Mr. Emery ; Dolly, Miss Ellen Chaplin. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management ot Mr. C. Kenai and Mr. Keeley. THIS EVENING, Will be performed a new and original Comedy entitled LOVE IN A MAZE. Characters by Messrs. J. Vining, Keeley, A. Wigan, Marley, Addlsoa ; Mrs. Keeley, Mrs. Winstanley, and Mrs. C. Kean. After which a new Farco called APARTMENTS. "Visitors to the Exhibition may be accommodated," in which Mr. and airs. Keeley will appear. tu eunclude with a new grand spectacular Extravaganza (taken f.cm a Tale, by Washington Irving), entitled THE ALHAMBRA ; or The Three Moorish Princesses. Characters by Messrs. Keeley, Marley, A. Wigan, Wynn, Cooke, Flexmore ; Misses Murray, Vivash, Robertson, Lecierq, Keeley, Mille. Auriol, and Mrs. Keeley. Private Boxes, egx., to be had of all the Booksellers, and of Mr. stassingham ; of whom also places may he taken at the Box-ofbce, Oxford-street. from Eleven till Feur o'clock. COURT BEAUTIES. To be followed by KING CHARM ECG. To conclude with A PRACTICAL MAN. itoYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. 'finder the Management of Madame Vestals. Sole Lessee, Mr. Cha:les Sf athevra- THIS EVENIN(4, Will be performed -- • ---- ROYAL OLYMPIC TIiEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. W Farren, Great Success of Angelo. EVENTsit, Will be performed ANGELO; or, The Tyrant of Padua. Charac ters by Messrs. H. Farren, Diddear, W. Farren, jun., Kinloch, Clif ton; Mesdames Stirling, L Howard, Adams, and Ellen Turner. After which THE FIRE-EA IER. With the DREAM AT SEA. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. tiae ratronige of her .11ajesty and am Royal ilignatti Prince Albert. rfetor and Manager, Mr. W Batty. Notwithstanding the great success of the pre , ent Entertainments, Mr. Batty has engaged Mr. Henri Fra:iconi and his highly-trained Steeds, who will shortly appear. _ LUIS EVENING, Will be performed the grand Spectacle, entitled MAZEPPA ; Or the Wild Horse of Tartary, which has been revived, in conse quence of numerous applications from Persons of all :Talons to wit less the magnificent spectacle. To be milowed by new Scenes of the Circle, introducing an en tirely new Company of English, French, Italian, and American Artistes. To conclude with the Farce of JACK JUNE. e.ex-etrice open Mom bilevej till Four Stags Manager, Mr. T. Thompson. PUNCH'S PLAYHOUSE AND STRAND THEATRE. Lease, Mr. W. R. COPELAND, Liverpool. THIS EVENING, Will be performed a new Comedy, entitled KENSINGTON' GAR. DENS, With a Dramatic Bubble entitled THE SHOT TOWER. Princi- Vi characters by Me,srs. J. Reeve, R gers, and Misa Marshall. After which a new Burlesque, e ,titled GODIVA, THE LADY OF OVENTRY. Characters by Messrs. J. Reeve, J. Rogers, Norton, Romer, Maskell, Attwood; Mesdames Marshall, C. nommen, E. Romer, NI -- °rcelll. and Jlaskell. To conclude with a. new Farce, entitled MY WIFE'S FUTURE HUSBAND. The prices of admission are arranged as follow :—Orchestra 48; boxes (first circle), as. ; Doors to be opened at (second circle), 2s. ; Pit, Is. Halt.past Six, and the performances to 00airnence at Seven precisely. A second price will be taken to the Boxes only at Nine O'clock —first circ l e , 28.; second circle, lc private Boxes One Guinea and a Half each. LAST WEEK PUT ONE OF MONS. JIJLLIEN. KOVAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL tiARDENs. Danson's Colossal PICTURE of the TEMPLE of JANUS in the Mternal City— Splendid Menagerie —Performing Eie phant/r—V rome nade Concert, by the elite of Mons. J ullieu's unri va ll e d Band --a Solo each evening by Herr Koenig—English Gle es and Madrigals, by those eminent Vocalists, Miss Messent, Manvers, Young, 11111, and Leffier—Pianoforte , Mr. Jolle y —Co nduc•or, Mons. Julhen, concluding with a brilliant display of Fireworks, by Sonthby. Doors open from Nine in the Mor nin g . Feedi ng the Animals at half-past Five. Concert at a Quarter to Seven. Fireworks, at H a l f _ part Niue. ADMISSION-ONE SHILLLNG. lIIGII WATER Al LONDON BRIDGE "Tuts DAY —Morning 0 min. after 6 J Evening 1 3 rain after 7 To-Molaow—Morning 42 min. after 7 I Evening 14 min att ar a TO COR RESPONDE sTTS. We bag to assure our Liverpool Correspondent, who complains that The Sun of neither Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday last has come to hand, that the three numbers were duly directed and posted. The mysterious disappearance in t, ansitu of newspapers transmitted by the post is, unfortunately, of no rare occurrence, sod reflects anything but credit on official vigilance. No communication can be attended to unless authen ticated by the name and address of the writer. Rejected communications cannot be returned. , 41 ; 4, A - • • ,•• , 4 . ‘ . -6.0 „,,t4 r • n 14%00.* •. r '4 44 • * *' • 1, THE WEATH ER—SUN OFFICE, AUGUST 20 THERMOMETER, IN THE SHALE 65—highest since noon yesterday. fit—lowest this morning and during the night. 70 —this day, at noon. BAROMETER, 30'33. W I' ht breeze and fine sunshiny weather. DAILY WEATHER TABLE. State of the Wind and Weather at each of the following places at Nine o'clock yesterday morning. —The stations are arranged iu order ofitne latitude, ster t PLYMoLTTR—Wind E CHELTENHAM VVind , S.—ie—partially cloudy. WoßcE.sTzlf—Wind S. fine. 'nreeze PORTSMOUTH—Wind N.E.—very fine. GosroßT Wind .N.E.—very fine. BRIGHToN—Wind N E 9 gentle breezte—loucdlo . i udless HasTrios—Wind N., gentle bre eze _ SoTHAMPTON— Wind S.W., gentle b reeze e lI cloudless. FoLKESTONE— Wind N.E., gentle breeze— p TuxBRIDGE—Wind N.W., gentle breeze— cioury, cloudy BasmosToKE—Wind N E., gentle breeze—cloudless. . .es. GREEN W ICH— Wind N.E , gentle breeze- cloudless. BwfxDots—Wind S., light airs—partially cloudy. OXFORD —Wind E.—fine. GtoucEs - rzu.—Wind S. W.—very fine. CHELMSFORD—Wi n d N.W.—very fine. COLCHRBTER—Wind N.W., calm—partially cloudy. CAMBRIDGE—Wind E., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. Bumf NOHAM—',S ind E. —very fine. STAFFORD—Wind S.— fine. Wind N., strong breeze--partially cloudy. NORWICH—Wind N.—fine. Immix—Wind N.—cloudy. DERBT—Wind THE SUN NorrreasiAm—Wind N.E. fine. L lNG°L s—Wind N.—very fine, IforNirEAD—Wind S.—cloudy. CHEsrEs—Wind S.— cloudy SHEFFIELD—Wind 'N.S.W.—fine. LrvEupooL—Wind S. by E.—fine. MANCHISTER—Wind S.—cloudy. HULL.—Wind W.—fine. LARDS— Wind S. W.—fi ne . Yorm —Wind W.S.W.—fine. NEwcAszi ind S.W.—fine. Bgawicx—Wind S.W.— fine. thAsaow— W ind N E —cloudy. EDINBURGH—Wind S.W. fine. The returns from the following places indicate the state of the wind and weather on Monday morning at nine o'clock : 'ooLx—Wind N.W., calm—overcast. PECTERBOROUGII—‘ , I ind S.W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. Caswg—Wind E., gentle breeze—overcast. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29 862 in. The mean temperature was 64.6 Q, which is 3Q above the average of the same week in ten years The mean daily temperature was about 8° above the average on Tuesday and Wednesday, and was above it on every day of the week except bunday and Monday. IQ At mina g'utr. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1851, CLOSE OF THE EXHIBITION. The close of the world's fete of Industry is fixed for the 11th of October. On that day the Crystal Palace will shut its doors, and the Exhibition of the Industry of all Nations, after a career of success as unprecedented as the Exhibition itself, and as the Palace in which it was contained, will cease ; the World's Fair will be over. The consequences, however, of this magnificent and glorious work will last, and produce a beneficial and humanizing effect fur ages to come on the various nations who have taken part in this great congress of the world's best men. Friendships have been formed among men of different climes, pro fessing different religions an living under different Governments, which cannot be broken. No longer will the calumnies with -Liken every free nation (and more particularly our own) have been of late years assailed by those who hate industry because it leads to self-reliance and self-government, obtain credence. No! will be the reply of our visitors, we have seen the land, we have conversed with its people, and we know, therefore, that you say the thing which is not. War is a eame which, were their subjects wise, Rings would not play at;" and this peaceful assemblage of the industrious and talented of all nations is, of all things, calcu lated to bestow upon men that wisdom which is so much lauded by the poet. Prince ALBERT is the real Apostle of Peace, and the Great Exhibition the only real and genuine Peace Congress. The success of this great work has been so complete that none have ventured to deny it; but certain grumblers have contended that the trade of the metropolis has suffered in consequence. On this point we join issue with the grumblers. That the exaggerated, not to say impossible, expectations of certain very sanguine and very greedy persons have not been realised, we readily admit; but we contend that more, much more money has been spent in London than during any former season since 1814, and, what is better still, the expenditure, instead of being concentrated in the hands of a few wealthy aristocrats of the shop ocracy, has been expended among a large number of small traders, and has thus afforded a greater sti mulus to general industry and diffused a larger amount of comfort among a greater number of reci pients. Taken as a whole the Exhibition is unparalleled in the history of human industry ! The idea of establishing such an Exhibition was as original as it was great, the magnitude and beauty of the Exhibi tion-building was as unprecedented as the idea of the Exhibition, and the Exhibition itself surpassed in beauty the most exaggerated expectations, whilst its success outran the fondest hopes of the most san guine of its projectors. Prince ALBERT has acquired for himself an immortality which the proudest monarchs and the most successful conquerors might envy. He is the first Prince who has ever linked his name indissolubly with the progress of industry all over the world—the only progress that can secure to the nations " Peace on earth and good-will to wards men." " What are you doing, Join ?" said a master to his servant. " Nothing, Sir." " And you, Tuomas ?" " Helping JOHN, Sir" For the last two years the Board of Health and the Board of Sewers have been the JOHN and the Tnoseas of the British public. Tile' excellent members of these Boards have talked more diffusely than did, according to MUSTAPHA RUB a- DUB KEELI KHAN, even the Congress of the United States of America ; they have reported upon all ima ginable subjects, recommended the adoption of all sorts of plans, possible and impossible, discoursed as learnedly on stinks as though they had studied the subject practically in the city of Cologne, where, ac cording to SAMUEL TAYLUH COLERIDGE, seventy six distinct and separate stinks may be discovered by even an uneducated nose, in the course of a walk of half a mile ; they have told us we were poi soned by the foulness of our drains, poisoned by the foulness of the water supplied to us by the water corn ' panics, stifled in consequence of the ill-ventilated state of our habitations ; they have reported all this and much more, and then re-reported and then re published the re• report in another form, but they have absolutely done nothing. Those filthy cesspools and choked drains, which two years since we were told had, if not produced, at least aggravated, the cholera, which was at that time raging to a fearful extent, still continue as filthy and as choked as though no Board of Health had ever de nounced them. The Thames, which ought to be a source of health to the inhabitants living on its banks, by supplying them with an in exhaustible supply of pure water and of pure air, is a filthy polluted stream of stinking sewage, generat ing malaria through its whole course, and propagat ing pestilence as it goes along. The water supplied by the water companies, which two years since was declared by the Board of Health to be unfit for use, and in many cases absolutely poisonous, is still sup plied in quantities as scanty, and of quality as delis terious ; and here we have the cholera again making its appearance, and finding us quite as unprepared to resist its attacks as we were two years since, notwithstanding the Bard of Health, which declared at the time that cholera was a disease the approach of which might, by the proper adoption of sanitary measures, be abso lutely prevented, has been sitting ever since, and has had nothing to do but to devise measures for such prevention. We have said the cholera is approach ing, and we found our statement upon the weekly re turn of the Regi - tray-General just published. The deaths in London have risen from 873 in the third week in July to 1,061 last week. In the correspond ing week of 1849, when the cholera was at its height, the deaths were 2,230, but the deaths during the last week are more numerous than during any corres ponding week of the last ten years, w ith the exception of the years 1847 and 1849. Of these deaths 156 were from diarrhoea, which has been progressively increasing for the last six weeks, and 28 from cholera, which has also been progressively increasing, from 9 six weeks since, up to 28 last week. There is, perhaps, no occasion for immediate alarm ; and if the Board of Health did its duty, and exercised the power which it possesses, of insisting on the pr per drainage of houses and on the immediate closing of all the metropolitan graveyards, the probability is that we should have no very serious in ert'," of the ragitiltuce but whilst the Board of Health LONDON, suffers such a state of things to remain as the Regis trar• General reports is at this moment existing in Taylor's-place, 'William -street, Borough, we cannot be entirely without apprehension. Mr. ELLIOTT, the registrar of the district, thus describes the present state of Taclor's-place, in his remarks on the case of a child who died there of scarlatina maligna : " Taylor's-place comprises three small houses in a yard, the entrance to which is in William-street, but there is no thoroughfare. A boy aged 7 years, brother of the deceased, died in the same house on the 23 August of remittent fever and pneumonia. The statement of the mother, when giving information on Friday regarding nuisances by which the occupiers have repeatedly been annoyed, appeared so extraor dinary that I requested that it should be made in writing, and have accordingly received the accom panying letter from her husband:— • About six or seven weeks ago a watercloset to our yard was open,-cl for the purp,se, as was said, of making a drain. It was found full; and ins ead of being emp tied properly by a nightman, a considerable quantity of the soil was removed in open tiny past cur door, and de posited in a waterclos e t common to ant three houses composing Taylor's-place, in one of which I reside. A few days afterwards a part of our yard was taken up, and a further quantity of the soil depositkl two or three feet below the surface (in spite of remonstrance) and covered over; and bad not the police interfered, a much larger quantity would have been laid there, although oppusite and within two or three yards of my win dow. On the sth of Augurt, in a remarkably short iime, during the temporary absence of my wife, the ground under my door was opened in search of a drain, aUh ugh my son was at that time lying dead; but on rtturning from my employment, finding the place in such a sate, I immediately filled it up. Two days afterwards it was opened again (as also a further portion of the yard) and kept open, to no purpose, for two days; when, through the interfer&nce of some one, it WAS filled up. I have had the whole of my four chil dren dangerously ill almost at the same time, and two of them have died. My son was carried off two or three weeks ago, after an illness of less than 24 hours; his sister is lying dead, and the eldest boy is now ill. I firmly believe this calamity has happened inconsequence of what I have stated above; and I should be glad, fur the sake of others, if some friend would take the trouble of putting the case in train for inquiry. Since writing the above I am informed that the medical gentleman who attended my children has confirmed my suspicion regarding the true cause of their illness.' I have visited the spot, and been informed that a woman living in another house has been ill ever since the occur renct4 to which the statement ref-rs." What shall we say of the vigilance of the Earl of SHAFTESBURT and his Board if they were ignorant of the state of Taylor's-place ? What of that activity and zealous attention to the performance of their du ties, of which the Noble Earl made such boast the other day in the Howl, of Peers, it, knowing the ex istence of this foul officina of pestilence, they supinely suffered it to remain ? At all events. here is such a strong prima facie case against the Board as to render it the duty of the Government to authoritatively call upon them for an explanation, and should that explanation be unsatisfactory, or should the Board continue its present do-nothing course, we hope the Minister will infuse a little new blood into it by placing at its head a thorough practical man of busi ness, who will enforce upon his colleagues the neces sity of reporting a great deal less and doing a great deal more. It is time that the philanthropic talker made way for the active worker. Some time since we directed the public attention to the proceedings of the Bears of the Stock Ez• change with reference to railway property. Shares in the most eligible companies were depressed to little more than one-half of their real value. Sinister ru mours were industriously circulated for the purpose of terrifying bond fide holders, end inducing them to send their stock into the market to be diTosed of at any price that the not very tender consciences of the ursine fraternity might deem it right to offer. Mean while persons, who were not perhaps the owners of a single share, were selling thousands of pounds' worth with the most reckless indifference as to the mode in which they could perform their portions of the con • tracts if their speculations should prove unprofitable, and the purchasers should demand the actual de livery and transfer of the stock. They trusted, in fact, to bringing the property still lower, and being enabled to pocket considerable differences, utterly careless of the ruin they might bring on many fami lies, who, it induced by fear or necessity to part with their shares, would be deprived of at least half their fortunes. They succeeded but too well for some time. There was a market constantly falling—prices sitiking. day after day, until at length they succeeded in depreciating the quotations in the leading trunk lines to an almost ridiculous extent. A panic was excited, and nothing appeared too absurd ; the good shared the fate of the bad, and North-Westerns, Great Westerns, South- Westerns, South-Easterns were alike peppered by the indefatigable Bears. We exerted ourselves to the utmost to resist their machinations, and we are happy to say that our efforts were not altogether un successful. We explained the nature of the trans actions, showed that more than nine-tenths of the sales were merely nominal, and emphatically cautioned all bonti fide holders against allowing their fears to obtain the mastery of their reason, so as to induce them to submit to such serious sacrifices as a transfer of stock at that time would have rendered inevitable. The prudence of this advice soon became apparent. Timid sellers no longer rushed madly forward to sell at any price that could be obtained, while capitalists became anxious to make investments on the very favourable terms that could be obtained. The Bears were caught in their own traps, and were compelled to disgorge a consilerable portion of their ill-gotten gains before they could succeed in extricating them selves from the untoward positions in which they were placed. The shares of the London and North- Western Company, which had been quoted in April, 1850, at and below par, rapidjy rose to 127 or 123. The improvement in Great Westerns was even more re markable. That was the line especially favoured by the " speculators for a fall," and they actually suc ceeded in bringing down prices to 47 or 48, indeed, we believe the quotation was one day 46, although it had never paid less than 4 per cent., and there was not the slightest probability of any further reduction taking place. We need scarcely remind our readers that these very snares were within less than twelve months worth 90, although every step was resisted by their inveterate opponents, who sustained heavy kisses in their unavailing attempts. They have now, however, recovered their courage, and are once more endeavouring to play a similar game to that of the winter and spring of 1849-50. We trust, however, that the proprietors will not again be misled, or suffer themselves to be made in struments in the hands of their mischievous adver caries. We would earnestly desire, for their own sakes, that they should despise the unfounded rumours that have been or may be circulated, that they should decide for themselves the real value of their property, and not part with it at a lower rate, under any pos sible circumstances. We would also warn them against lending their stock on any inducement, as the practical effect of such loans is to enable the Bears to carry on their projects, and to depreciate the pro perty of the person, to whom they are apply ing for the accommodation. " Accommodation," forsooth! As well might a burglar apply to the master of a house for the " accommodation'' of a crowbar, offering to pay very liberally for its use, or a high wayman borrow from a traveller the arms which he had for his own protection. What just cause, we ask, is there for the sudden fall that has taken place in the shares ? The London and North-Western have been done at 118, and yet, perhaps, the accounts and the entire state of affairs have never been more encouraging, as Mr. Wax justly remarked at the half-yearly meeting, held on Friday last. The usual dividend, after the rate of 6i per cent. per annum, has been fully maintained, and there is still an available balance of no less than 124,0771. 7s. sd. in the hands of the bankers, to be carried to the next half-year's accounts. "Oh I but," say the alarmists, " that dividend was not actually earned. It was necessary to take 8,0001. from the reserve fund in order to pay it." Granted ! But a si milar demand is made on that fund, at this period every year, and fur a like purpose, and generally to a greater extent. It was, in fact, with that object that the reserve fund was instituted to meet such claims, and keep the dividends equal. The net profits of the autumn half-year are generally much greater than those of the first six mon hs; a portion of the excess is, consequently, set aide at the February tneeting to provide tor the anticipated de ficiency at the August meeting, and the proprietors may well be congratulated on having the amount re quired so very "Oh but,' OB4iII mfttt tha.croakets ) " much more WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 20 4 1851 should have been realised, on account of the Exhibi tion and the extraordinary stimulus thereby afforded to railway traffic; and if we only get 5f per cent, now, how can we hope to maintain the same rate when the Crystal Palace has been removed or con verted to another purpose ?" The answer to this is equally simple. The Exhibition has unquestionably increased the receipts largely, as will appear by the next half-yearly accounts; but a very small portion of it—what in fact was realised in June (in May there was nothing doing)—came into the present account, and that was more than absorbed by the extraordinary preparations that were rendered necessary, all of which were charged against the revenue of the present half-) ear, while their fruits are in course of realisa tion, and will be distributed in the spring. We be lieve we may safely assert that the last half-year's revenue was rather injured than improved by the opening of the Exhibition. This ground of objection is, therefore, removed from under the feet of the ca villers. The dividend after the rate of 5f per cent. per annum we regard as being fully as safe as the dividends in the public funds, and indeed we shall feel considerable disappointment if a gradual improve ' ment be not perceptible ere many years have elapsed. We may say the same of the other great lines which have maintained their usual rate of dividend ; we trust, at all events, that any alarm which may have been entertained by our readers will be allayed, and that shareholders will not consent to make undue sacrifices through any foolish and unaatrranred timidity. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC-. We have received the Paris journals of yesterday. The Tours and Nantes Railway was opened with great ceremony on Sunday. The Minister of Public Works was present, and in the course of his speech apologised for the absence of the PRESIDENT of the Republic. Serious disturbances have taken place in Ardeche, for which the celebration of the festivals of the Church were made the occasion. The Prefect has in consequence issued the following proclamation : "INHABITANTS OF THE ARRONDISSEMENT OF LAR• HJ SHAKE MARKETS BUITISB SCILITAITAYS. Railways. Aberdeen.. •• Ambergate, Nottingham, Boston, & E. ,Itineion Belfast and County Down Woiverhamp., and Stoar Valley •• Birkenh., Lan., & Chesil June., late 331. 6s. dd.. Do. Chest & Birkenbd., 501. & 251. Consolidated Do., do., id!. Bristol and Exeter.. • - Caledonian .. • . Chester and Holyhead .. Direct Lond. aad Portsm. Dublin and BellastJunct. Dublin and Kingstown.. Dundalk and Enniskillen Dundee, Perth, and Aber- dean Junction .. .• Do., New East Anglian (251. L. & E. and L. & D.) Do. (181. E. & IL) .. Eastern Counties Eastern Union, class A, late E. U. shores .. Do. do., B & C shares tact Lancashire .. .. Do. New quarters .. Edinburgh an.i Glasgow Ellin., Perth, an. 4 Dundee Exeter and Exmouth .. (11 &rip, w and South- West, Do. do. G. D. & C. stock Great N ,, rth ern .. Cie halves, A, deferrecll • Do. halves, B, 6 per ct. Great ebuthern sad Western, Ireland .. Great Western .. •• Do. Niw, 171. .. . Lancaster and Carlisle .. Do. thirds •• .• Lancaster and Preston .. Lancashire and Yorkshire Do. quarter shares Do. fifths . Do. West Riding Union Leeds Northern .. .. Liverpoo,, Crosby, and Souhport London and Blackwall Do., Tilbury Ext. Scrip London, Brighton, and South Coast • • London and N.-Water] Do. do. quarters •• Do. fifths Do. 101. sh., &PI (c) London and 8.-Western Do. new 501. Do. new 401. .. :• Manchester, Baton, and Matlock ktancheatar, Shaftleld, k Luicolnshire Do. Ntancheator Lincoln Meen •• .tdland •• •• •• •• Do. 501. shares Birraing & Derby Midland Gt. Weat. (Ire.) l Newcastle and Cariiale De. quarter shares .. Newmarket „ • .. N ewport, A berkraveiny, _ . and Ilereiord Newry and Enniskillen.. Newry, Warrenpoint. & Roetrevor .. Noriolk • • •• •• Do. New 201. shares.• Northern Counties Union !North British.. .. North Staffordshire Narth-Western .. North & Sth .-West. June. Ixtord, Worcester and Wolverhampton.. .. Scottish Central .. Paid. 17% 100 1 1 0 100 K 6 V 100 -- all U 18 4 100 47% 100 12% 4 2 0 100 100 47% 16 23 ell 126 AT Nominal Price.. 9% to 9%( 4% —4% IA - 10)( 13 —ll dig. •• •. .. - •• 80 -$ 1 10% - 10% 15% - 16% •• 22 —9O lie. -3 13 - b% 4 -4% 3% -3% 13 -13% 27 -29 4% - 5% 16% • 16% 11% -5% 12% - 12% SOX -• 39% •79 —BO z.d t.43,‘ 13% z.d 79 —.Bl 834 9 p 44 - 48% 9K sh ttls. a. 9% 10% • ..w • 6% - • 6% 91% -92% 118 -119 254 —3 p. _ap. 3 p. 79 —•0 x.ct 11 —lO &bac' 9 —.lltis.x.d 1% 9 26% 27% 213 i —8% WI. 89% 40 21 20% 31a. 19 21 •• •• -73 i 11 J -- dir. —.. dia. IT -19 14 —l3 dlr.' 3 —3% 411 s. b% —6 9 4 - 9}ol/. P 145 -15 15 - 15% 7 4% —4% 8% dl4. lb —l7 734 334 10 3)4 3 1 4 41, 13 -14 21% - 21% 27% - 23 4 -- de. - 10 I • - •• 163 - 170 .. —.. dia. li 11 dia. • • ••• •• .. - .. • • •• CIL 17 - 1734 S —7% clic 11% 354 Oa. 16} s 17 rxxzzo Business done to-day. SO% 10% ib% it 11% It 14% b% % [z.d 30X 79% PO 13% z.d 49;( % 9% 6 % % I 92% 92 Si 1104 1194 119 1 247 i 23 J 4% 803 % U :EA 96% 1/ CI. 40 % % %% 14 5 % X 21% % 2i% 1734 li fi 12% l 7 16% 'ALL. Leasing Business Railways. comp . 's ,. Paid. Nominal Friss& dons to-day. Barks and Rants Ex. 5 per Cent. Gt. Western 6 34 1 p. Bir. and Oxford Junc.,callsduly paid, er with a guarantee •• Do .. all 99 —3O Do., without a guarantee .. Do .. all 2$ —99 Llirm., WoL, & Dud.,calls duly paid, or with a guarantee .. Do —lO p Do., without a guarantee •• Do • . • • le 7 0 • x.l Buckhaghamsh. Lon. &N. W. all 17 34 17% 17 34 ClvdesdaleJunc Caledonian all 44 —46 E. Lin., Guar. 6 per Cent. .. G. Northern all U 3334 Gloucester and Dean Forest Gt. Western 20 2 8 p Hull and Selby Yk. kN. U. all 103 104 Do. % Shares 1)0 .. all 51 —59 Do. ', Shares Do •• all 33 —24 Leeds and Brad. Midland • . all 101 103 Lon. and Green. S. Eastorn.. all 11 1 4 - 11% 1)o., Pref. . Do .. all 2334 3434 94 Lowestoft, Gd. 4 per Cent. • Norfolk •• all 14 — l6 De., 6 per cent Do all • • —•• Middleebro' and Redcar, 6p. ct Btockt.is Dar all N. & East, b per Cent. .. E. Coanties . all 6$ Do. New . Do 43 4 p Preston and SL. & N.W. all 43 —45 Wyre • • La.& Y. Do. 34 VharesA Do 1034 834 —934 p. Read., Guild., and Reigate .. S. Eastern • • all 31% —29 11% 1134 2 Roy. & Hitchin G. Northern 634 434 634 o. Shop. Ex.. Do .. .. 2 p . Shef., Roth. and Goole, 5 per ct. Lanc.kTork 18 11 6 .. South Stafford'. Mr. id 'Clean 234 3 du. Wear Val. 6 per Cent. gun. Stock.& Dar. all 15 —36 x.d Do. do. .. Do .. • • all Do. do. .. Do • • .• all .. Wilts, Som., & Weymouth .. Gt. Western all —• • lcErw. 1171.&1,211 , Railways. I Pitt ,/jOminal Prices. Business does to-day. Aberdeen. No. 2, 7 pr. ot. 2 34 • • —• • CHS. Caledonian iOl. • • 10 6X 756 Chester and Holyhead .. all 1 4 4% 1556 1 5 31 Dund. Per. & Aber. June, all - East Anglian (31. 1011.) 6 per cent. .. .. • • all 1% Eastern Counties ratan.. per cent. No. 1 all par )4 p 34 % 34 Pin Do. NO. 2 .. all % dis par di' Do. clew 6p. cent. Stock 10 10% 10% 1034 Eastern Union, Scrip gnaran. 6 per cent. •• all 11% 11% 11% Do. 101. Deben. Shares . all • • East Lancashire, 6 per cent. quarter shares .. all • •-• •• E. Br. W . York. Jane. ISths all Edln. Per. & Dun. 61 p. ct. all 34 dis. par Glasgow & Conaol 100 • at Nerthern. 5 per cent. all 13% 11% 1334 Great south. & Western (Ireland) eighths 5 34 134 P. Lancashire and York shire, F. 201... • • Do. 6 per ct. Stock .. 100 .• •• Leeds and Think, 6 per cent., No. 1.. • • .. 11 p Do. quarters, 1845 • • 0 • p London, Brighton, and South Coast guar. 5 per et., late Croydon thirds 100 Do. pref., 5 p et. Stock, 1851, from 501. share. E 100 4 Do. new guar., 6 per in. 100 • London & S.-W., new .. j 334 y p.x.d Londonderry and Ennis killen, shares ID „ Manch., Sheffield, and Line., guar. airs., No. 1 all 11% - 1534 Do. new, 101. all ma 12 Do., 61. 3 % P Midland Con. 6p. c. ~lock 100 Do. Consol. Bristol & Birming., 6 per oent... 100 126 130 188% 127% Do. Bristol & (lioness. 48 • • Norfolk Extension .. all 18 —l6 o. guar. 5 34 per cent. ail 434 Do. Waveney Valley ..- I " North British .. 4% --5 Oxf. Wor. &W 01.151.6 p.c 6 % I P Shrewsbury and Birm. New Guaranteed ..au 10 1036 Shrews. and Ches. (Nor. W. Min.) ot per cent, all 18 1534 South Devon .• • • a u 13 —l4 South-Eastern, 434 p. ct 10 •• Waterford & Kilkenny. 5/. 1 -• • —" • • West London, lst Cl. (101.) all • • —• • Do. Id Class de. (par) all ** •• York, Newc., and Berw.. Gt. Nof E. Pur. all 16 1634 5 4 —4% York and North Midland H. and S. Pura. .. 10 134 —l% CS. 1•0 3113XCIllf. Boulogne and Asilens all 1034 in% 10% Central of France (Or leans and Vierion) •• all 17 17% Demerara .. .„ all Dutch itheniah •• 8 4% —44 die. 3% East Indian .. • • 16 a p. Do, do. do. .. Great Indian Peninsnla•• all Ip. Ditto ditto .. 3 % —4% p. Louvain ala Sambre .. 7% _ Luxembourg .. 1 13( Ditto •••• .. .. 10 2% —2% Madrid and Valentin .. tir M a a J u l ittur a o An al to dew n L l i a ege 471 kal 6 7 a ki gg s : x 64 10 % 5% 74 Northern of France •• 16 14% l i% 14 34 Orleans and Bordeaux .. 9 4% 454 41*. 4% Paris and Orleans .. all 34 Paris and Konen .. .. all 23% 2436 x.d x.d Paris and Strasbourg .. 17 3% —6h, 34. 1154 % ionen and Havre 9% —9% 34 lambre and Meuse .. au 536 334 ['ours and Nantes • • .. 6 9% 9 34 lb' r:oumay, , Jurbise, Lin den, and Hassel! all/1 ••••• • • 'PollElia4llll . t 3% 2 12 ivintrzs. Paid Nominal Prices,. i Busaiess doo to-day. Australian 4 1% —2% Barossa Range . Bleenarvon Iron and Coal all • • —•• Bolanos Scrip .......... •• British 1r0n............ 13 5 —•• Brazilian Imp (is. 51. p.) 24 34 —•• Do. Cocaes and Culaba all • • Do. St. dotal del Rey •• 15 18% 19% Id 18% Cobra Copper • .... 40 35 363{ 31% 3% 4% Ceplapo ••..• • • • . 14 634 —7% General— • • •• ........ all 13% —l4 Mexican& S. American 9 3% —4% Real Del Monte, Uureg. % % Do. Black Debentures. .. .• Do. Red Debentures •• •• Santiago de Cuba ...... 10 3 —a% Tin Croft .. • . • . •• .... • • 7 8 United Mexican 25 2 8,4 2% —2% JOINT STOCK BANNS . Australasia .... •• ••• • • • all 35 British North America.. 50 45 —46 45 C010nia1..............25 10% 12 Commercial of London.. 20 25 46 34 London Joint Stock .... 10 18% 17% 1834 Lon•lon and Westminster 20 27% —29 National Provincial Eng. 35 .. —•• Do. New 10 •• •• National of Ireland .... 22% 18% 30% Provincial of Ireland.. 25 42 —44 Do. New .. all 15% 16% Union of Australia all 35 3634 Do. New 23` 3 Union of London • • 10 13% -- 14% Union of Madrid all MISCELLANEOUS. Canada ••.. • • ••• • • • 32% 48 —49 Gen. Steam Navigation . 14 26% —2B Penin. & Oriental Steam. all 611 —B9 Ditto ditto 5 11 9 xd Royal Mail Steam ..•• .. 60 711 —BO (We cannot be answerable for the errors of the Official Lilts, and will not De influenced by interested correspondents.] MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TWO O'CLOCK. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were esti mated at from 6,000 to 7,000 bales, of which 1,000 American were taken for export, and 1,000 on specula tion. The market was very firm, and American were 11. per lb. higher; all other kinds without alteration.— lit- Share Market was dull, and prices suffered a fur ther considerable decline. There are numerous sales to-day in the Produce Markets. The rates at which bills of .exchange, dated 90 days, were negotiated yesterday afternoon upon the principal continental cities, were all higher, Paris being at 25 25 to 30, Amsterdam at 11 18 to 114, Hamburgh at 13 8 to 84, and Trieste at 11 15 to 51. Tne result of the meeting of the Spanish Bond holders we stated yesterday, and we find upon inquiry that it appears to give satisfaction. It is quite true, nevertheless, that there are many parties who would have preferred an indignant rejection of the con fiscatory plan embodied in the law which M. Bravo Mu rillo has induced the Cortes to sanction, but these par ties are either wealthy or do not perhaps consider that the whole case is surreueded with difficulties. If they can afford to wait, the miserable families who have fur years existed upon a mere pit tance, are not in the same happy position, and therefore will, however reluctantly, come into the unjust compromise. The general remark is that the debtor is dishonest and insensible to the high tone of moral feeling that obtains among other European countries, conse quently it is wiser to get what is offered. One thing, at least, should be well understood. Spain deserves no thanks, no eulogy, no gratitude. She has her own reward, for in the preamble of the Bill she boasts of national faith, public principle, and so forth, ad nauseam. Still we believe that the Spanish people are not to be confounded with their Government, the study of which. for years past, has been only to en. rich its several Members and Queen Christina and her favourites. Any one who objects that the resources of epatn will not enable her to do more, shohld remember that her forbearing and generous creditors do not ask more than she can grant. f hey simply desired that Spain seould keep her d, bt and interest intact, pay ing what she could afford now, and more hereafter. This, however, was too honest and straightforware a c urse for any Minister at Medria, and accordingly halt the interest in arrear was unblushingly cut off, and the debtor told the claim ants they must take what they could get. Had the pro posal not been accepted by the meeting yesterday, .he Spanish Government would have gone on quietly paying the (field. rids to the minority who bent in their assent privately, or might even have declared that as a newjority did not acquiesce, the law should not be car ried out, and there would bre possibly a delay of one or two years more. Under these circumstances, strong as is our feeling against the Spanish G ,vernment, we think the bond hold- rs had no other course but to accept, nor do we consider it would have been practicable to apportion the money between those who held their bonds with the coupons attached, and those who had cut them off and sold them in the open market. In this "piping time" of railways, when a new scheme is quite a rarity, there needs some special recommendation to induce participation in it. The Western Railway of France, comprising the section front Paris, through Versailles to C, artres, La Louppe, and Le Mane, hay been conceded to Messrs. Peto, Geach, lirassey Betts, Fox, Henderson, and Stokes. The con ditions appear to be very favourable, and the Govern ment guarantee a minimutn rate of profit of four per cent. per annum on all the capital. There will be 880.0001. however issued in class A shares, and these will receive the whole guarantee so as to yield six per cent. . . --- In the Amsterdam market on the 18th inst. home Stocks were well supported. Foreign Stocks were without any particular variation. Dutch Two-and-a- Balf per Cents. 58 13-16. The English Stock Market has been without anima tion. Console bring 96} to 96} fur Transter, and 96f for Account. The New ihree and-a-Quarter per C, have been 984 to 99; and the Three per Cents. 97 to 97k. Bank Swek has been at 2151. The premium on Each , tier-bilis is 445. to 475. The Fqreign Market hue been dull. Spunibh Five per Cents. have remained at 20 ; and the Three per t'ents have been 38. Mexican Linda are better ; viz., 28f to ; Ptrnvitin Five per Cent. Stock has been 90 to 91; Dutch Twu-aud-a-Half per Cents. have been voted 59 to 59i Railway Shares have been rather fluctuating, but on the whole better. _ _ We hear. from good authority. that the returns to be published next Saturday will show an increase of nearly a quarter of a million in the Bank bulliun. ONE - HICES OF 13EITIII FUNDS O'CLOCK.: BulN Ito Ck. . . . 3 per Cent. Redueed Anna. 97 1 97 3 i.e‘ Cont. Consols Anruitzea... -.. 96 1 ,4 13 / 4 , %TAN. 34 per Cent. Anna_....... Long Ann& to expire .1 an. trig() -16 7% Unto. 30 years, Oct. 10.1859...... 7 3-16 I ~u, mincle, 1,0004_ Ditto ander 1,0004_ , ....... .louth Sea Stock C r.0,1i , Lo: Account ,•••• •• 96 4 "..: 'chequer bur& 14„.j. 1,0001. 500/. .. 44 47 p Small. .. .. . ., 44 47 p ONE YRICESI OF FORVION trUNDS. O'CLOCK CLOSING PRICES. 215% 97% 96 1 7 2 99 7 53 p 56 p 107 4 4 96% 41 p 47 1, 47 p PRICES 91 3 / a 92 55 78 28 28% 434 321 A rev hay. .inrifif., 5 per Cent. ....... Ditto, Small ........ ....... • •••••• Buenos Ayret. Bonds. 6 per Cent 55 rAnish 80nd5,1826,3 per Ceut. 7 4 Di 4)can, por t ,ex Jan. Coupe 2 B l /s Ditto, A ccount Peruvian Bondo. 5 Per Cori' Ditto, Deferred Portuguese ti per Cents. nit tn. 4 per Cont. Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent. Ditto, Scrip S• per t.Jesit. tB4l. ....... Ditto, Account Ditto. 3 per Cent Dividends on the above payable in London. Belgian, 4 1 / 9 per Cent. Dutch 2% per Cent. 12 Guild 53104 % die 93 3 4 59% or btrti Ebttton YORK AUGUST MEETING. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) The Dundas bakes. Radulphui Deceitful 1 ••• ... 2 Match. Prince Cando° colt beat Young Hawthorn, but both Vivancliere Iris horses ran the wrong course. The Yorkshire Oaks. Prestige ... Won by a bead. LATEST BETTING. rsolt NANDICAP. 2 to 1 apt N4noy 8 to 1 ag st Maid of Mafihata ... 1 ... *0 0 3 LLOYD'S Sit tl-'YI 6.—t Tuts DAB''.) LONDON, Atm. 20.—Wind this day at noon W. to S.W., light bicf ze. and fine clear. %eat her. OFF EXMOUTH BAR, Aua 19.—William, Quebec. PILL. Alio. 19 —Wind N W.—Sld. F..am, Africa. BRISTOL; AUG. 19 —Witai W. I s W.—Arrd. Feliza, Trinniad ; Ealing, Nev, a ; c„ qcy, Jama i ca. GLOUCESTER, AUG. 19 —Arrd. Ann, Quebec. Sld. Irrland, Que ,, ee ; JosP; h 4, Quebec. NEWPORT, AUG. 19.—Wine N.—Sld. Stanley, St. Thomas ; El;z i Jenkins, Ntw York ; Janetta, Portland, United Status., ABERYSTWITII —Sid. Ann Davies, Quebec. OFF V% lIITBY Qut.hec. for tirimahy. 1 DEAL, AUG, 19.—Wind N.E ; P M., E.N.E,—Arrd. Kuniovv'illetu 1., Batavia, for Amsterdam; Hamburg!), Rio Janeiro, for Bremen. Arrived from the River and Sailed. Tropee, St Andrews, N. B. PETERUEAD —Arrd. Eclipse, Greenland, with 120 tuna seal oil. CLYDE, Ano, 18...-Arrd. Captain, Demerara. Sld. Eliza Stewart, CaleuVa. DUBLIN, Ana 18.—Wind W.N,W.—Arrd. Ottawa, (Zvi), c; Maly, Antigua; Everthorpe, St. John's, New Brunswick. 0 UTMAMPTON, AUG. 19 —Wind S E.—SU Ii era steamer, S)dney, New South Wales. PLYXOUTII, Aua. 19.—Wind HooghlY l Pod Philip. Q port, Ccopetitcr, Disaritiu. WATERFORD, AUO. .w vr.s.W."" Arr To ntle,Qu toc. Sld. Orinoco, Quebec. QUEENSTOWN, AUG 18.—Wild b.W.—Arrd. Ar boha, Callao; Mart , a Day, Pernambuco; Hebe , Q uebec, Off , port. Grace ant Cakeopea, Mauritius; Esse x, lebsbe, MONROVIA, JUNE gO. —The Meteor. of Sierra Lila c is reported to have foundered at sea off the Gold Co'ast all hands saved. , MARKET NEWS -(THIS DA 1. / <is - CORN EXCHANGE-WEDNES DAI ; The supply of English Wheat here to-day was Wel; and chiefly composed of Monday's unsold samples. weather being very favourable for harvest work, and th° attendance of buyers limited, the demand for all kindoe, Wheat of home produce was dull in the extreme, 6; almost nominal currencies. From abroad, upvierds,% 5,000 quarters of Wheat have come to hand. ~elec-1 samples of both red and white sold at barely previou rates. In other kinds, scarcely a transaction took Ploneoi Barley met a very dull inquiry, but importers were n sellers on lower terms. The Malt trade ruled beeTYII late figures. The arrivals of Foreign Oats being goo d i 20.310 quarters—the Oat trade was dull, at gouda r e prices. Beans, Peas, Indian Corn, and Flou r Wer e offering on lower terms. Very favourable accou nts : ha o We re reached us respecting the general appearance n' potato crop. Wheat. English • • • • • • Irish •••••• • • Foreign ...... GENTIERE. "During the last mouth your arrondissement has been the theatre of serious disorders; each votive fête has been marked by attempts at murder. At Orguac and at Labxstade cries menacing death have beet, uttered; at Laurec eight gendarmes, drawn into an odious snare, wh. n assailed by upwards of 400 insurgents at once, who wounded them all sever ly, have owed their safety to their courage. These facts are not isolated ; they are connected with a vast system of agitation ; the hand ,it these men shows Itself in all directions, these votive jites afford them pre text for these aieetings, at which they orgaeiz , scenes of disorder and murder. To the present I have re spected your old customs ; I could not without pain de bar you of your amusements, but in presence of such events hesitation is no longer permitted. You will find attached hereto a decree by wnich such lees are inter• dieted during the months of August, September, Oc tober, and November, 1851. Good citizens will hail this measure with joy—they will call to mind that these fifes bring deeolatten into numerous families, and they will cheerfully sacritic.. some pleasures for sake of the public peace. As to the men of disorder, they are warted ; it they persist in their projects they will be come amenable to justice , and shall be dealt with ac cordingly (Signed) " The Prefect of l'Ardeche, " EIENRI CHEVREAU. " Lareentiere. Auz. 12, 1851." The Marquis of isIORM&NBY has left Paris for the Pyrenees. There has been a severe hailstorm in the neigh bourhood of Lyons, from the effects of which the crops have suffered severely. The Bourse WWI almost completely deserted. The Five per Cents. opened at 95f 65e., and closed at the• same price for the end of the month; the Three per Cents closed at 571. 40c.; Orleans Railroad Shares, 8901 ; Rouen, 6101.; Havre, 2411. 25c.; Great. Northern, 466'. 25c.; ttvi t ooe, 206 f 250.; Vierz,,n, 431 f. 25c.; 13 este, 153 1 '. 75e; Bordeaux, 393 f. 75c ; Pattie and Strasburg, 362•. 50c.; Tours anu Nantes, 271 f. 25c.; Amiens to Boulogne, 270 f. B.'SII ESS t iN ruItEUUN KAILH AP, v 1 nib LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, AuG. 19. Boulogne and Amiens, 10. 5 i East Indian, 18 3 ' —Great Indian Peninsula. s%—Northern of France, 14A—Paris and Rouen, 25% ex div. SPAIN. Madrid journals of the 14th have arrived. E'CLIDERO had been elected for Seville by a large in.jority Gli-T CORTINA. 111Anfttn BOLSt, AUG. 14 —The Three per Cents. were done at 364 for time ; the Four per Cents. at 15}; the Five per Cents at 171; the Debt without Interest at 61 ; and the Coupons et 81. GERMAN Y. The German journals state that the settlement of accounts in the Germanic Diet has given rise to great difficulties. The States which sent contingents to Holstein and Baden demand indemnities, on the ground that the intervention interested all the Con federation. Darmstadt refuses to pay any sum until an indemnity shall be paid for her troops employed in Baden. Prussia demands several millions from Baden for her intervention in the Grand Duchy, but Baden refuses to pay. A letter from Vienna, of the 13th, states that an agent of the Danish Government had arrived in that city with dispatches, demanding the withdrawal of the Austrian troops from Holstein. DEN IVIA RK. The Borsenhalle of hamburgh states that the Austrian Government claims from that of Denmark an indetnnity of eight millions of florins (rather more than 16 millions of francs) for its intervention in Holstein. The King of DENMARK had a narrow escape on the 14th. The horses of his carriage took fright and ran away, but were fortunately stopped in time to prevent any injury to his MAJESTY ; the carriage, however, was so much broken that the KING had to return to his palace on foot. A letter from Copenhagen of the 14th states that Mr. STEPHENSON, the engineer, and three agents of a compny, are lo treaty with the Danish Government for the formation of several lines of railroad. ITALY. The Piedmontese workmen, who are to visit the Great London E 011bition, at the expense of the com mission formed at Turin for the purpose, are to be t out for London on the 27 , h instant. The Mohitore Tuscan of the 13th announces the creation ut a tubetia Cun,ulate.General at St. Petersburg h. The Costituzionale of Florence of the 13th instant contains the following It tne facts I am about to communicate to you did not proceed from a diplom•tic source I should not consider them d. serving of attention. Of late, clandestine proclamations, violently attacking the Grand Duke and his Minister Beldasseroni, who is accused of having sold the country to Austria, have circulated in Tuscany. Those proclamations advocate the annexation of Tuscany to Piedmont. Thanks to the activity and ability of a Tuscan agent, the origin of these proclamations, written and printed in Turin ' and beyond doubt , under the eye and direction of the Mar quis of Azi giio, has been discovered. There actually txists in Tuscany a Piedmontese party, which recog. DIZ“8 Ili its chief Neri Coraini, Marquis of Laiatico, b , o , ber of the Duke of Carigliano, the present Minister of Foreign Affairs, and to h him the famous lawyer Bal. eagnoli, who, in 1847, called Charles Albert the S. ord of Italy ; the Abti Raphael Lambraschini, well-known clasaical writer; the Man quis Gino Capponi; Count Bar tolonnei; and other le a-known peraonag.s. All are in• timately connected with the Marquis of Az, , glio, who reside d a long time in Tuscany, and actively laboured with him, in 1848, at the time of the annexation of Lombardy to Piedmont, to prevail on Tuscany to follow the i xample of Lombardy. Two emigrants lately saileo from Genoa furnished with a certain number of these proclamations, and amply supplied with money and letters of recommendation from M. d'Azeglio, landed at Leghorn, where the Austrian authorities, informed of their arrival, arrested them. Embarrassed at their po sition, and on being promised impunity, they confessed. and adduced proofs that they were the mere agents of the great statesmen who reign as despots in the Palace of Piazza Castello, at Turin, in virtue of the support afforded to them by Lord Palmerston. We will see how they can vindicate themselves against so serious a charge." The correspondent of the Constitutionale is evi dently an Au,triau spy, and his letter an emanation from the forgery department of the Austrian Chan cery, put forth as an excuse for a meditated attack upon Piedmont, which can be withdrawn ahoald Austria not deem it prudent to carry out her brigand intentions. The Opinione of Turin, of the I 6 7h inst., quotes the following letter, dated Milan, 14!ti : "I was told yesterday that all the officers end soldiers on lave of absence had been ordered to return to their corps, and that at Verona all the retired officers bad been recalled. A portion of the latter are to be reinstated in the army, and those who should not be fit for active service are to be employed in the strong places. Some persons suppose this measure to be dictated by the more and more menacing attitude of the French army in Italy. Others believe that it has been inspired by the want of tresh troops, to protect the Hungarian, Polish, and Transylvanian frontiers, where the Rustians will be obtiged to withdraw their troops to repair the checks they have suffered in Caucasus. Notwithstanding the pressing demands of Radetezky, the army in the Lora bardo-Venetian kingdom is not to be increased, through a want of money. The troops quartered in other parts of the empire are p%id in taper currency; but those stationed iu Italy could not live if they did not receive their pay in sprcie." Boulogne and Asilens .• Central of France (Or leans and vlerzon) .. Demerara • • •• •• Dutch ithenish • • .. East Indian • • „„ Do. do. do. .. Great Indian Peninsula • • Ditto ditto .. Louvain ala Sarnlne _ Luxembourg .. Ditto .. Madrid and Valentin .. Maria Antonia .. Ditto, New Namur and Liege .. Northern of France Orleans and Bordeatui . Paris and Orleans .. Paris and Rouen .• .• Paris and Strasbourg .. Rouen and Havre .. Sambre and Meuse Tours and Nantes • • .. GREAT W ESTERN R A ILWAY Docis Tt .c pro. Tourn4 ) , durbtse, LAII. posed to raise an additional capital of 60,9404 by 1101 T chuff den, and Hassel! 19r the PlirPcito vi the sadortaking , Wostrisaaors icottob Midland .. Do. new Ahrews„& Birn. , Chilli A Do. ,31aas LS.. • .. shrews. itz Hereford., Old Do., do., New Ahrewabory and Cheater (Nor. W. Nita.) Do. ilalves Uo • osweatry Do. Net .. „ shropahire Union Do., A, B, C, & D, ftilly paid up at per cent .. +anti) Devon South- Eastern .. .• mouth Wales.. , touth Yorksh. and River Dun .. • • .. rlheft., Roth., and G o ol e , South Division Stockton and Hartlepool ,nmes Yt Loughor, Taff Vale .. T.S. Vale Extension .. Thames Eleven Doak and Hallway ti ale of Neath Waterford and Kilkenny Waterford and Limerick, Waterford, Wex., Wick. and Dublin „ „ West Cornwall West London . .. Whitenaven and Furness York, Newc., & Berwick Ditto and Newcastle Extension .. Ditto G.N.E. purchase! York and North Midland LINZ'S sass, kRRIVALS THIS WEEK Malt. i OW. -- ... 0 _— --__!....--.--- 01' Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. . QrS. 060 470 50 1,480 -- - 2, 210 t k : 20,310 1 g 410 - 1 j_.---- Barley. 5,290 I 10,170 BOROUGH HOP MARKET. OUT The plantation accounts being more favourable] y' market is heavy at .barely stationary prices. 05,000/. to 100,0001. ViTHITECHAPEZ. sfb: Our market is in a vary inactive state, as folio . sd; Beef, from 2s to 3s 2d; Mutton, 29 4d to po rk, Lamb, 3s 8d to 4s 8d; Veal, 2s 6d to 3s 4 d; *" 23 6d to 3s 6d per 81bs by the carcase. SECONDARIES'.--(THIS D A Srj i : ll There were only two undefended cases in the list, °b wt. were of no interest. At present there is not 61 ! / 10 record before the Learned Secondaries, and thejurL r e• dismissed with an intimation that they would „ iv e summoned when required. Duri ng t h e t erms the 0 1 " 06 - are on Wednesdays and Fridays, but during the l oaf tion they are uncertain, and depending on the specified in the writ directed to the sheriffs. CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS OLD COURT: (Before Mr. Justice ERLE.) THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATI.N IN THE gel Henry Charles Page, aged 30, described as an ioterP r ' r aid was charged with feloniously shooting at John f r 'lecke, with intent to kill and murder him. gel ° The prix Der applied to the Court to peer," 00 trial for a few days, on the ground that a lady silpoi a material and necessary witness for his defence b s , c orci yet arrived from Boulogne, and Mr. Justice Erie d er that the case should stand over until Friday. e e' William Muzzall, aged 25, clerk and Thomas u:dipf Young, aged 22, also a clerk, were indicted for 06 '00 a letter containing two bank notes value 101. ene b ; ter one bank note value 51., the property of the Post o3) General. AO Mr. Clarkson, with whom was Mr. Bodkin ep t i Huddlestone, appeared for the prosecution; °r/ ,` . 0. _ I Ballantine and Mr. Parry appeared for the prfs ol3- re m The circumstances connected with the charge W e i tbr a somewhat singular character. I n September leo it) letter containing the notes in question was pe ere d O f : Southampton, by a person named Fairo. It t /- P dressed to a Mr. Farrand, residing at Graveeee bi t - was duly dispatched from the office in Southerno o4 l, it never reached the hands of the party to le pt r it was sent. At this time the tw ° eir Boners were engaged in the Gravesend r t ito office as clerks. Intormation of the non-arrival fat' letter, together wito the number of the note.., p a g itiO warded to the Post-mast, r-Gen. ral, who caused investigation to be made into the ma-ter, but . 0 .e ° ,; f0 0); was heard of any of the not es until the lath of P i : ber, when one of the 5/. notes returned to the 8 0 ,7111 0 it was traced to a stationer i n Pi ccadilly w here " 1 00 been changed a f w days previously b9y a persettp h gyp bought a quantity of postag e s t am p s t h ere . On t% of June, the first of the 101. notes found its 6 0; the Bank, when it was traced to a person living at 10 0 , port, in Sussex, and on th e 4th ot July the seco o or° note came in, and was traced to a chandler, wholl e , sfa it from one of his customers, but who ,bat custoel' e al 4 he could not tell. So far, however, nothing tranoP! r obr, implicate the prisoners in the robbery, and the d r' bitity is their guilt would never have been taloa ° lee it not been for the domestic perfidy of the Pr; dr Muzzall. He, it would seem, married 13',1 bel ceased wife's sister, and a few weeks ago he tarr ,bl 4 out of doors to take up with another woman, tel li nstir that he had ben consulting some law book Whit - , 1 11/ fled him that their marriage was void, and tu`-rtiel had no legal claim upon him. While 10 0 tb f from this cruel treatment, she gave information t police authorities, which led to the arrest of t b l e eti; soner on the present charge, and the subsequent 1 1 , 8 fication of Young as the party who chauged t" ot eo note at the stationer's shop in Piccadilly. She 6 ` bo t! that about the period when the letter was said been forwarded to Gravesend Muzzall cam e hol 3el :eb wanted her to go out and get two 101. not es cbs „ "i l ei She refused to do anything of the sort, declari,eg i be o belief that be hal nut come honestly by them, 6 13 1 ' 4 - 0, he confessed to her that they had been given to P c teo, " Tom Young," the other prisoner, who had e%t r h is bio them, with another note for Si., from a letter ty tli i - oli, er , arrived from Southampton. Meanwhile the V s Young resigned his situation, which he bad bald t bd eight or nine 3 ears. at Shepherd's-bush, and wb e jo iri Post-office began to make inquiries about the I? sof I. e s I. tter, and to talk ab o ut s earc hi ng the press Clark, she was induced by Muzzall to go up t : „, and place the two ten pound notes 'Wag' hands of Young. Such was the case / " s tstr the prisoner, us disclosed by the oPeni r4 „vort y , merit of the L earned Counsel, and afterwards surb o bje" by the evidence. In the course ot the inquiry °j o s el., iron was taken to the adwisbibility of the wera all be o l dunce, on the ground that she was prima fac ie ~„I , lt 1- 4 1 of one of the prisoners; but the woman bee - o live al xamined with the view of showing that she wa r „c 1 01 1" to the marriage of :Viezzsll with an elver sister , P - io terl she was married to him after the deith of be r t' o tiol e The marriage the Court held to be void; but the c o f 0 . 1 for the prisoner contended th a t, as th e moth er se l f deceased wife was livi ng , s h e oug h t t o h a ve bee' of' to prove the sisterhood, an objection which 11 / 911 ruled by the Bench. „pie) (The case was proceeding when we went to NEW COVET. John Dowling. 56. described in the calendar ! "Afar 1 3 .0 , 1° bourer, pie:need guilty to an i n di ctmen t chtsrPo with stealing seven pound s an d a h a l t o f pepper' perry of the St Katherine's Dock Company, trap - A in the port of London. e CI; The prisoner pleaded pov er ty, an d h o ped s would pass a lenient sent ence , as h e h a d s ix Br io children, and did not lik e t o go home w i t h o ut s'" .4 crust of bread to give the m . The RECORDER said he was a f ra id t h at Was Eibietio Oa of the prisoner when b e f ore t h e C ourt on a Pre c elusion. f eA The prisoner d ec l are d t h at h e h ad been 011 o f ployment f u r a cons id era b le t i me, though he had It get an honest living. JOY - A police-constable said the prisoner was e1:139 ,1 O g g, pumping water cu t o f t h e b o ld o f t h e vesse l, 01.1 "ifi receive 14s. a week. He had three shilling s i fs pocket when taken into custody. h i t s The RECORDER wished to know how long - had been dead? The prisoner —Three year& or s , The RECORDER observed that the prisoner ' sentations respecting poverty were believed re cetf f , Court on the last occasion, and he accordingli h " o res l i e p a lenient sentence. In the present instance, ro e there seemed to be DO foundation fur the st- inil t ,"lio and even if the prisoner were induced to e el ' pau Aef theft from poverty, it was necessary that d ie Ce v is should be protected against such depredatioe s. .ni ta t , the circumstances the Court wou ld sen tences 31 0 0 v months' init,risonment. Hi s c hild ren w ouldrv ° oe rbs A o ; in the interval be taken care o f by the law, A f" be much better looked aft e r than when und er tecrion of their lather. The prisoner was then removed. BOW-STREET.—(THIS DA l f l io °' Thomas Millar, lately eellec•ing clerk in the se- oce r i; the proprietors of the Patent Journal office , G" lane, was cha rge d w i t h em b ezz li ng sums of n e t' , considerable amount, th e p ro p er ty o f hi s emPl`V e atSe ll as It appeared from the evidence of Mr. p p Parkin, one of the proprietors, that the P r .„'tbe discharged, on the 26th of February last, ir n w tn er. f ,;l) , vice of the firm, of which he (witness) was 1 311r %pdP,' , ,i Messrs. Barlow and Payne, as patent ages," , ; ushers of the Patent Journal. Some time at' eb blO ad of charge he sent in accounts of various sums P h " forl it io lected in the name of their house, both in l' to it, pay ments or fees for agency, and as subscriptiel3d to 6 7‘ Journal. The sums so acku. wledged arnouete ott otilf a g ainst which he set off claims of commission el n g uee t ( o to 48/., and leaving a deficit of 16/.; but s ub `lielP „ ia the prosecutors discovered that a very ecl' o per amount besides had been taken up by the P ri their name, and had not been accounted for. In answer to the Magistrare, 100' Mr, Parkin said that th e prisoner's selar en f "I all t-000e# week, with the additi o n of a per centage cullrcied. it hetee r , The solicitor for the prosecution stated, that g‘nriee,fiff, they bad ascertained several cases against she r to-e'ff they were prepared to go on only with tbreease oe cii which were for small amounts, being in each, c p . , ,,tden t o or :e guinea paid as subscription to theJourna‘'d for Was given of air( such pa) ments not acc ount' tot the Journal office. 1 ; 1 ed t so Mr. outlier, in cross-examination, e. e- 4 00 Messrs. Perkin and Co. bad sent anuther,t`chorr„ travel over the prisoner's ground before they the ir c . n o ' s him. They bad in this way secured some e r brou gh towers who tist d to du business with them t_ for 11 1 4 prisoner. The prisoner was now in busihe" ... Tin self. He had obtained some of their custoni.er'_ , ei i i ra e v'; did not ascertain that he was in business fur/310:10rost three weeks or a month ago. They bad. 01tha b;rn sooner because they could net find him, i ' scuo ion, Af, r stun'. further evidence, and much prisoner wi.,s di-charg.d. v LAMBETH.— (THIS PA Y.) h for ° Mr. N orton, Clayton Kti:i brought up at this et,urt we r j _ E on a charge of wilful perjury. Yeste:o", I** prisoner Appouctri before the magistrate *6 1M........% WO] Hem havin g circurn prisorie while r deny ti lir: Pri, one Mr. text. The S&L the R O3 11 °t 1 wag ,n 4- ' 4 wson r ePutat , 'ant eff, Frankli at Ai„ Gosport gated tl spirited than lo 40 ----