The Sun. — London, England, 1845-09-26 00:00:00

) uitiCiL• of public bilsv coo' , at ti le, tIO c'E'cb°°,l o a r to wer .,ee , e ot ailisP _ les; e he dared t ad of t he %) T o l e e° d o e ; re d , c ati d ou lettiG :. ‘i v e 3 e t'fig th! ia writ aci I ' l o f he i" PIT flosPitsl4' Go' be t/ a stb e , df or 5 al fel b e irelle 0 0 a of rat Ali a'r tbat th e • it , 3r , s da); ne riL t he 5 'o' ttee , wort ite W r , 1 11 ipo ll u t 1 0 , r rig",ere i : frre'&o s ' ie t, in tb °cc' s ' iro" t° o , .. 11 ° Trlo , ay c op iirPf e ar )011' la ver t„, COURT CIRCULAR.. N illt:`? l ' TRUESDAy --The Queen and Prince Albert, ' at ll N "l ll ied bY the Prince of Wales Prince Alfred, the 40',..1,vellaiiYnalii,tand the Princess Alice, ;rived at the Castle .Re 7 ' L 4 t ; S past two o'clock this afternoon , from Osborne 4 gim ent of Life 11 ight, escorted by a esketh, Guards, under the command of Lieutenant tier e p o tra nnee. 4 ll y est stienal the P(rce e t the . r e e rr rec ee e d iv N ed ep a i t .erp principa f l Q T r ii teCloraHrternaa).`t.ing, Colonel s Bowles , and the Hon. and Rev. h tl 'e o' 0t °3. 0. 1 Party left Osborne House at a quarter before h. clv ag el 1 -- 4 1:, tte el dby the Countess of Gainsborou„h, -4th il -er "-au.Y L yt a telt ti n e Mr. G. E. Anson, and ColonelhAra -Ilkeiaft'ret:essed theh°' spor . t trminus, and prof i eed F ed arn.h v o_ ,7 ell 41410°4 South -Western the Castle. Railwa je t : Majesty and Inc e Alb en route to . The b p e rt and the Royal Family are in . excellent health. l'et4, ll o e 1.8 the town rang a merry peal in honour of their The tti the Castle. Wa iti 9. °.,' Misses Kerr and Napier, Maids of Honour__ e in . 1 ? Z l)111.71"'le Master of the Household, and Colonel Berk he arquisinpead, Groom in Waiting, arrived to-day. T el-P ' Q ted ° l' °trill: m(le, Lord in Waiting to her Majesty, is l a th 0 arrive at the Castle. o e after kilout walki Poen her Majesty and her Royal Consort went il t e he dogitiellipathrke. pleasure -grounds adjacent to the Castle oil the j ea ul s . te e'l L ie Val Family were taken . out this afternoon -., or private terrace and in the pleasure-grounds. 41:`coy,„ Ncp_,Q-"t3lP-NIT OF II R ROYAL HIGHNESS ,IleSda°,P RANOVER. E A courier arrived in town . on E ---------2---- THE CROWN :: 041 : 11ecoai l ,3 r t u at t , f t e f r r n o in Hanover with dispatches for his W xc a e e n l - - ~ ~ Icielmannsegge: for the Legation in town, 134 Stinesafe delivery of the Crown Princess of H over , of a ~ oon, the inst., at half-past three o'clock t °,, th t onnee 'Pt-". h sown Princess and her infant are doing quite 14 . t tellige 0, 41 by hie of the auspicious event has been com_m es uni ; C e Qui;e1;18 Majesty the King of Hanover to her Maj m m _ -- `rs or t h: iller Majesty the Queen Dowager, and the me ' Val ...:..............__ __amily in England. 1 1 4N° il . l l - R - 7 — NE w SPEC. 444 'peculation m an i a at present existing has ex - itilelt all railroads torivers; and having almost run ,tile war over the dry land, has at length plunged into . ql4 he per' , S h tettni for the million at twopenee per head ri.tiny,°„44eilowed u by steam for the billion at one i7lita fft-,,'' the cotopaPny is now being formed to supply_ Zen t'a;„' tne quadrillion at one halfpenny. We have ille44o....llll;e4ttivraleit, si ht of the prospectus, from whion o p°n a view of in n a series The c i ontemlated company is pro of canals to be lizikitly.thlt (31148:rrethwaYs along g the . principal thoroughfares,. 1 ) ,. a % zoo .rof Grand Junction Tank, to be supplied tta.,iltoero t i t t - e e u zi oee d o ti nu n zt i i t o h n th \l e 'a c t s e n r- a w l b o y r . ks. Each house may d ues f l_ earrb„ Pnt . s of water 1 s means wil l o h f e t the t e cistern, :IktiZ ied e onap ai f 3 7 l . g . ti t a . e n ir um wa h t e e r p u o r p f em s t rs o a th ll e s l t e e v a e m l e o r f s the . c ll an h a e l 4tr ut,,_ Poli to 1)1Y t hroughout the principal streets w o l _f uo th us e 44trii....-41,4144,1rotiwtt:e_i it is calculated that the superfluous L ondon tea-kettlesmay be so concen ethlt°7.l7:wrigndtihee,lomcsocimotivs without any expense . to 1 . 4 tee : .... 4 The following is a list of the managing Nlon T bnzie A /001114a , Provisional Shareholder in gal Swine - Esq., Chairman of the Lightning, 81. r ,Pll4„,_4llerpeteu'alProvisional Director of the Daisy. th7 e 4 litilth Jones, Director of the Cream of ji a haulieVtilo'n'eYo,oarnod Grand y Middlesex Water-works "A il° Pe, Es ~Pan-. Deputy -Chairman of the . Bee, Miele togone of the Provisional Proprietors )4 44 °' the A nt. Palluice Mo nmouth , Esq., Mortgagee of the aff Y (l °Wndil ly. b ° /44thus, and Deputy-Bill Discountertothe ---Pui,ch. IlZie 4T°biIiP4II24,TRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. l arge , are re ?AsoZ lotbrizetTLrY, that and the Public at I ligh ,: e ' T 0. 4011 tb‘sar this Establishment WILL OPE N 27, 1845, on , easio r , w ,,, tte,'W EVENING, SEPTEMBER 14 4 thl ,li per for the Tilt ENCHANTRESS. lir: /11%'erist ;r*P°rralli ; Nunez Mr. H. Horricastie; tenter sct)fel Ylvio, Mr 'N'ir ; Doctor Duke , th e o per le Miss homer. Harrison. Duke d'Aqu i l us la, tastique, ithi er l Tlit, 1/1, 4 ' evil! be Producd a New Grand Ballet Fan . . *4 ttirf ; Prince C`-'t MAIDFN. Duke Laurent de Med l s ) , ert .sl : et leh,, e, ,)tdne. 09 1 0 de Mcdicis, M. Petipa; Massaehio, 51, Atatue' -.' ille 4 6 1 1 ,'' ; Princess Beatrice, Mdlle. Adele; the Adele Dimiatre. TRA.A.,p— , -- 7,----____________ Lxiii,,,„ROYAL, HAYMARKET. S(W i n be ~ 4 , • WEBSTER. 4 4 Itri; e Peated ti, TRIS EVENING 4,' 404 ale. to ..ie celebrated Comedy of KING O'NEIL ; Ott • c C aPtzi n !a l B ,. the , XV., Mr. Howe ; Duke de Richelieu, Mr.. r olititi ' l llit? ss ~,'„eil. Air. Hudson; General Count Dillon, .. 1 - or, Tye vtrttr :,:Itaiatruon, Mrs. W. Clifford: 'Marchioness de Cier 1.108/Nt,pleb, wiel!etti D uchess de Manly, Miss Telbin. 144 1 1k i .. W. ts,ritai•repe.fited a New Comic Drama, entitled A Mr. a, Brindal ; T o 4 rtir„erle ll osewoc a:lr _ Beaumont . Cress hALs t Nlow ' ii ss Telbi . , Mr. Tybury, Tom, y' Mr. Buckstone ; (10, 0 .'4 4 ed by , N ew n andi.,, Miss Julia Benett. _HE 4 0 e; l ir • poi.,, Original Comic Dram?„ entitieu - 1 - ttlirrli..N' *l'eeit_.••Laces, Mr. Hudson; Captain Breval, s.l_r. •r e. '' Ykrh434 4„„mwing, Mr. l 3 uckstone; Mrs. Breval, Miss_ r• I tlve r '''llch, - ,i'ld. -"Y Gillett, Miss Julia Bennett ; Mrs. Lacey, airs. ki t kkr e . With •19 11b HIS LAz J'ri v • Cl l , 1 4- 3 , ~,_ , T LEGS. O'Callaghan, 4 1ek 'ate II - 41. ' Chles Rivers, Mr. H. Holl : Mrs. Mon , 4. eta II ~, Mr, Hudson e ; °I II T en t 1 e 3 tr. 4 . Fi ve be had of Mr • I. T. Archer at the Bo l a-office (''clock. 11141 In. TR A . ----- ;;----_____________ .„,„ *.ft Tkic-4.41-TRE ROYAL, ADELPHT. ECTION OF MA li , vn h CELESTE. 4Zebsal,s4Aneated ~1),IltTIIIS EVENING DAME flibi'ara . '"augiv.,„"ew raina, entitled CLARISSE; or, The 1.4 7 , 11, 5 ,. . , It' aauatt,.rbitio--nr• mllart_ial. 11Ir. Webster ,• John Cabot, Mr. h .. - 0 4 1 i 1, 5 Cele., r ' "'right ; Galon, Mr. Paul Bedford; ' : 44 "lei e '' Will be e ; Min i t a, Miss wooigar. iera I" ni L° will x,,,!' rePeated, THE BUY KING; or, f . !_tit i e . T o 4 try . 5 eol 4 . se ji. kadanie Celeste ; De Lanzum, Miss "'. w e Alift h e foil t he Piece, Grand Review of the Infantin Wool tit ° kb °W ed 4 41. Azib y a farce. in One Act, called MRS. CAUDLE , Ay t,,, t At en "right "`ME. Mr. Caudle, Mr. Wilkinson; Mrs. and , ~ - s ti ,. ~ • '''W' Siefionk!ellei; Principal Painter, Mr. Pitt ; Leader of the bklietirlThßl; ,t,IREATRE .0, 1 , A T 4 Att a ' lIE MANA6-;••'''''''' LYCEUM. ELEy. ,cf ;! of 4, open ttENT . OF M a ItB KE e!, Night with the Forty ,lk, ,„ ,‘ eves„ ,---Great sneezoei Peter Jenkins." 11,4 l'elTerined THIS EVENING ba - 741 4 ; or, p. a New and Original Comedietta, entitled PETER ilqVa, ' e l% All i ng for a Friend. Principal Characters Miss ,i't t aii gall, Turner, Meadows; Mrs. Keeley and Miss k 4 DI) `,..,kion °W eil bY a lc • 4-, to, -.'S w--,ew and Original Comedy, to be called THE .41,att4cs, I,i,i;', with entirely New Scenery, Dresses, and tll le.'enet ; • Vinin eiPal C haracters by Messrs. Diddear, Keeley. llniq es Char wi th ng.pand Collier Miss Dawson. and Mrs. Keeley. kJ ' atiq 'aaract '''''Lli. SESAME • A Night with the Forty 4 ft keel er s by -Ale s • ' or, yd ..- l'ot , el ; m iss _ _ sis. Wigan, F. Mathews, T y ur ir n b er . , t Y h a er r: , l i a!rs . ie.-!,,ler! mri,,m4i,N sen, Woollidge, Miss , a l'ot a Vd il oa,: i i i I '''' 1- ' '-ss Turner, Miss Hicks, '''''\ ti k kotn!, °Dell dallY, tinder the direction of Mr. Grogan Miss Howard, AS4 A Ptt r , LEIN. - 'I'D "?111 ROYAL tr,ob E'roi t ,s, AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS. lieti,,„ leeetrLaPProa'tlnbniklANAGEß' MR. W. BATTY : kl'Decta' Fe a "i'ull th e „_:-• aPprobation ! nightly bestows its gra .,_ rhelee4,-.tortiE Ittee,,-k:°,,ferilielt,gonrngveaolu,sE, g c 3 l 7) ass ti i an c, equestrian, dramatic 1171 ; h i ,' 4 lty 1 , 4 1 rse 0 411 1. OF rHE NILE d The Lily of Memphis Llloa tie abl, ailz l the 1. 3 , ra i ,an A. Ne w ed. ,in w hich ~, M ds. with new startling effects ; *ea ts c arnl „. 4 . -1 13 Alan Games and Chariot Races are 4.4ll..torlerie rneVel°A"nt.7B Of Equitation, introducing the combined . ilore„,', elat:lC4ll." ea e s i t i es ; 0 '-' ' 5 est;°i'lee 01),-4,10.N.014.,.,g will conclude with an entire new Actin,' Irtealol.,,Eleven illl' or, the l Et t e:f Equestrian 'tuition given T a zo , as e .er and Stitge Director , Mr. T. Thompson. bAV/tat, 0111 h e S 11°Y.Ai. 8 EY THEATRi: ,1,17,1t1et; o,.,,Perrorniea „.,TIIIS RytistusTa. k4e, itieji;nai AN'siellaksPeare's Traged BETH, with Auklel , :e l la, k i ! Lan% hi r • mr. H.Hu g h e s ; Illacduff, Mr. c be f, i S. it v i , 4r• Fredericks • Duncan Mr Heslop • Lady rth °w ed b Milk; li eeate lilr' L ' . rs ' elrect• by Mi lk; PETI'i • etlier. t Qi ii ,1, 1 110 .. 1 ; 01 1 of m r. 1 ., r , ES DANSEITSES ANGLAISES i ,*4lO 1, ... a lai ti ,?B,,des koisso.nitie.p.ton?. in their celebrated .. Pts p d as e 41 ° ) " ; eltiel e 1 " h as de ra tita 4 u , e, !n the ..ourse of which, a ora4"6tll at9tril Naa,atilleely Nautical Drama, entitled TOM STAR etersorna,,, I„ r e tv ornp a - . a, ay 'alllan's Pride. Supported by thr entire Elever•t•ra.rwe! to be bakof M. Kerschner, at the Box- LA - 7 ----- ----m, ~.. 41„ ... FIPTi t - ' E LIE igr --.....--.-- i .-- ( --..- ) ------ ‘4lb,CUpttki. InaI X , E K OF T O NE. 0 '-') lITEst,AIT: ZOOLOGIC COMET. NS .'1(112lZL Wi ll b :-.WEbNESDAYSAd THIIIISDAYS, Lti Tr::::_e.q:lll:sintiilll.l:4::;eitn;NbtedrAT,p•Asiraota,toraginflOk'n' Lanni) INBITRGH, 11 ?“ e 4 .I'4E MA,l•...l?'agerie----Giraffe and Chimpanzee. DEL OF ENICE, ,COtNCERTS, 1 411 Ex ii ikt beusia,aili,dlf the 4;1,0 1 1114. n 1.. .! t"k a 1,4418411 e turio;tconcluctedbyMr. Godfrey. 1, 1 , g r a fte,resevottattlitL WORKS EVEelttlagdiZY of the COMET, which T ED ,Arial 4 11 1. 4 "1 the eatriaenn h fty. t . wo ''' 4 3 a p_ , le jleight gal, f Gigantic Model; 14 ' D Ol ° , t la het ivlti.e4ii6iteinillitz arid Patriotic $,... 'I ItA,l'Ng, lt ' wl , ll be exhibited r' ,13, 'llaonatea ~._ „ 1-4, R 3, , A Jr.srry aDullp Centre of the Lake ; b RrIN•CE ALBERT. .ilt,,,i',-elnbia OV.,e,lae, and surrounded' knitt,traZ With 147viees will he IntrodiT r' mblems and Lt . \ .t be Castl "z 'Artifice, the Salenclut.: and Discharge of I , ,r,,,, and surround' c.a 44 14 • 'iuTEc ii N /0 mg lieights will form the most ~. i _ i _, th e (,_ . Acin,,__,o DISPLAY EVEn wiTNESsED. at 44" r stvora "uarin..One Shilling. li ' 1;1 ) - Da't 11ve l anal4Pyaarottreenhurni;cDilisnanpl4' &e at E '' ig at ht n . 're ' 110"ll.e, i•l)OClfess no Rent ___-- th el ba . :l 4 i l tile p,"" will 1 ret ------- urn to Fro ore i ,1.41,,cet()..... will ‘.."litinent, to..rno 1, w in ,, or PrOceed from D • I T° w afternoon.. The I ,e'",,,,e, wh ere ~,.. , Oyer . to the metropolis, and l a ; ' r a ri a A ,"•'• ,1103ral Righneis is expected to . ( 1111 8 le o clock . and 1. a f , el alar h' • (tt C 1013esS PNl tci to Part s at Ary of Abercorn are rek t i i , ~ erykie Lodge,where 114 ‘u, the close et the Autumn. attention of the power Your Committ Nv:hv i:e, proceeded to consider the subject with that L YONS and AVIGNON R AIL WAY. h its importance demanded; and in pursuance gheanveraallls;,earaefvested in us, as a Committee of Finance, we WITH A BRANCH TO GRENOBLE. (COMPAGNIE CHASTELLUX.) ully considered the subject of the City income Capital, 110,000,000 f. (4,400,000/0 in 220,000 shares of 500 f. i s loamelacir bebre iatpliplitehde view of ascertaining if any, and what in Public (201.) each. Of which one-half is subscribed in France, and the other half is to be toe ards such improvements, and having e us accounts showing what has been expended subscribed in England, and considered as the English capital. Deposit,Share. racter i n ti and improvements of an extraordinary cha- To provide the usual caution money required by the French Govern 7 'hate s of th 'e last ten years, and having had prepared esti- silent, which will be returned without deduction in case this Coat iihnUities e saving likely to arise by the lapse of the life parry shall not become the lessees of . the railway. theorinno_ above referred to, as well as the probable increase PRESIDENT.—M. Le Comte de Chastellux, Pair de France Income fro m DIRECTORS IN FRANCE. ue wh ole _ . some other sources ; and after duly weighin takin g th:ut, we agree as to the propriety a this Cour g t L L c e 3 G i c a n ai era uis l C d o o m p t i e on Friant, Aide-de-camp du Rot of 20 ,000 i. Courseiri S uggested, and beg to certify that a sum Le Comte Lanjuinais, Pair de France IIP" ' the Cit a - 3' be applied annually out of, and charged . M. Cordler, Depute same t o i,,, Y coal duty during the next twenty years (the 3131. iEdoitrdiCAtuallta.ril,eAneslrmalindir Genie des Messagerles Generales ditty) , t " . _u r le the loan of MAO/. already charged on such M.3loaiuiteree'aulet alents .:,I%,"'.nots effecting further public works and improve - Al. De Lespinasse, Depute P ° SeS as thisa e t hic City, in such manner and for such pur- Le Marquis de Graves Mr, If ittt ° Lilt may from time to time order and direct. Le General de Toloze Alr. ' RRIsoN moved that the report be agreed to. Le Compte Alphonse de L'Huillier D'Orcieres of t • Ht lit D'Orient de Bellegarde ,he stron,, ' 11 -1 on seconding the motion, spoke in terms •, • , • --best a pprobation "Il eitte of the recommendation of the Vadvan tage ', and congratulated the citizens upon the immense M su . c e o sa ste o , ne Chef de la Nelson Berthod, Neveu et Coate de Chalon arge ans:ind,ii.ch, must result from a judicious application of Le Comte de Sleyes, Depute u roughi a "Qat sum to the improvement of the populous DIRECTORS IN ENGLAND. kr li r ". • James Atkin, Esq., Liverpool, Director of the London and South. tr, W4B then toi a j n ° ,' N. E 3 also spoke in favour of the report, which Western Railway John David Barry, Esq., Paris, Director of the Orleans and Boar or ora—_ ; lll°ll Sly, and amidst loud acclamation, agreed deaux Railway It is belie- to be carried into effect. Thomas Cooke, Esq., Manchester, Director of the London and Bir- 4rll luen, ed iere d that the improvements will be immediately minghain Railway William Jackson, Esq., Birkenhead, Chairman of the Chester and Birkenhead Railway R. W. Kennard, Esq., London, Director, of the Northern and Eastern Railway William M`Kenzie, Esq., Paris and Liverpool, Contractor for Public Works Richard Paterson, Esq., London, Chairman of the Northern and Eas ern Railway William Reed, Esq., Paris and Twickenham, Director of the Paris and Rouen and Rouen and Havre Railway George Stephenson. Esq., C.E. Sir Joshua Walmsley, Liverpoool °mops OF THE COMPANY—No. 11, Old Jewry Chambers, London. BaNxEns—Messrs. Glyn and Co., Lombard-street ; Sir Claude Scott, Bart. ' and Co., Cavendi s h- square. BANKERS IN Liviutpooz--llni on Bank of Liverpool. BANKERS IN MANCHESTER —Messrs. Cnnliffe, Brookes and Co. ENGINEER IN CHIEF— Robert Stephenson, Esq., C.E. SOLICITORS—Messrs. Bevan and Anderson, 2, Adelphl-terrace, London. SECRETARY—H. Mimardiere, EN. The line from Lyons to Avignon is to be constructed under the law of the 16th July, 1845. The whole line, together with a branch to Grenoble, is to be made by the Company, and to be completed within four years from the date of the Ordinance confirming the adjudication. The constituted Company will have all the rights and powers which the Government itself exercises in the construction of public works. The Government reserves the power of purchasing the lease at the expiration of nineteen years from the /adjudication, paying for the residue of the term to the Company an annual sum, calculated on the average of the nett proceeds of the five best of the preceding seven years, but not in any event less than the nett proceeds of the last year of the seven. The Company will be constituted a " Societe Anonyme." The adjudication of the Line will probably not be delayed beyond the present year. If the lease be obtained on favourable terms (and no other terms will be sought or accepted by this Company), the Line will be a most valuable one. It forms the only remaining link in the great chain between the German Ocean and the Mediterranean. The local traffic, especially of merchandise, is already very great, and with the said and developinent to be given by the railway, will be far greater. The Rhone cannot compete with the railway, because, although navi gable one way, its extreme rapidity renders it practically innavi gable up the stream. It has been considered desirable to associate for the English direc rion persons of acknowledged practical skill and experience in the construction, working, and management of railways, and it cannot be denied but that this object has been attained. The Directors take all requisite powers for conducting and con cluding negotiations with the French Government, tendering for and accepting a lease, and generally enabling them to carry out what ever they may deem expedient in the interest of the Company. They also expressly reserve to themselves the right to increase or diminish the amount of capital stock and the number of shares, or either, and to adopt such other modifications in those respects as they may consider necessary or advantageous. The amount of each share is to be payable as follows :—Two-thirds on allotment; two otner tenths, if required by the French Govern ment, before the lease shall have been obtained ; the remainder by tenths, as the Directors may see requisite, but at intervals of not less than titre., months between each call, until the whole 20/. shall have been paid up. - London, Sept. 24, 1845. Applications for shares are to be addressed, not later than the 6th of October next, to the Offices of the Company, No. 11, Old Jewry Chambers, London ; or to Messrs. Beavan and Anderson, 2, Adelphi terrace ; and all applications must be made by filling up and sending the printed form, which is not to be detached from the prospectus, to be had on application at the Offices ; and of Messrs. Beavan and Anderson i- Nssiiit, iiil, ttttrtt Th e ; . AIE, . , 4, a 414 i i, ~ tkp Just ready, In 3 vols., post Bvo . THE LADY OF &ILAN; Or, FIDELITY unto DEATH. Editikl by Mrs. THOMSON, Author of " Ragland Castle," " The Chevalier," &c. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. 13, Great Marlborough -street. riIHE FIFTH VOLUME of M. THIERS _IL HISTORY of the CONSULATE and the EMPIRE, A Sequel to his " History of the French Revolution," Translated by D. FORBES CAMPBELL, Esq., With the sanction and approval of the Author, Will be ready for delivery with the Magazines on the Ist of October. Orders received by all Booksellers. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THE WEATHER.-Su OFFICE, SEPT. 26. . THERMOMETER, Lowest, 42; Highest, 59; Noon, 55, BAROMETER, 29.80. WIND W.N.W.; fine weather. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning .. 43 minutes after 9 J Evening .. 22 minutes after 10. SECOND EDITION. 7 ; 4 .g o , r_v•hc., , . 9 -.. .1 t' , . 41. , i- / -' ' --4 .' ''''' V . 7 IN y\ • Z ' , 4 a .-;-. . ‘' . 17,, ''' '''', •cos ' ,LY OIT ,-. , .. f,'- , k I . ' Jenfax,t :,--k;ult LONDON, FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 26, 1845. Those who are in the habit of reading our articles of Naval Intelligence" must have remarked that, although we are told, from time to time, that a 12-gun brig, or a sloop, or a small frigate of 32 or 36 guns, has been laid down, we hear of scarcely any " new lines" for ships of war, of the first, second, third, or even fourth rates. As for those enor mous war-steamers, of which the country has heard such abundant promises, since Sir C. NAPIER'S show up of their cardinal blunders and organic deficiencies of construction, their utter incapacity—in some, to bear even—in others to find working room for—the heavy armament which they were expressly designed to carry, they seem to have ever since slumbered in the limbo of good intentions. They are, as it were, high and ambitious visions of Admiralty dreamers, reduced, it is true, into substantial frameworks of • timber andiron ; but, for any purposes of completed efficiency, as utterly unavailable to the service of the country as the spectral craft of the " Flying Dutchman." They are instructive specimens of the ingenious art of producing ships, pierced for guns of very heavy calibre, which when got on board they cannot safely carry, or for which, if they can carry them, there is not room and space enough provided to work them. It must not, however, be supposed that, practically, there is any formidable difficulty in the way of building war-steamers of capacity, armament, and immersion, in all respects accu rately fulfilling the conditions of their design. We need not go far for the proof of this important fact, seeing that in the Great Britain our builders had already accomplished more than the exigencies of such war-steamers would de mand. The Great Britain (perhaps too enormous to be pro posed for a model in this case) can readily carry forty-four heavy guns. We have not, at present, a single war-steamer turned out in any of her MAJESTY'S dockyards that can do the same. But other maritime powers (we ought to blush at the acknowledgment) have far exceeded us in the magnificence of the war-steamers they have built. True, indeed, for capacity and tonnage, the world has not yet seen a rival to the " Great Britain." If, however, the United States have not, in their naval architecture, yet turned out val bulwark of 3,480 tons, they two years since sen rth their " Missouri" for the admiration and wonder of Europe, with her tremendous armament of forty heavy guns, her length of 250 feet from stem to stern, and her capacity of 2,300 tons. A month has not elapsed since we saw, riding in an English harbour, a steam frigate of equal dimensions and armament from Russia, and under the Imperial flag ; but she, too, was built, it appears, by the builders of New York. The Missouri, it is well known, was utterly consumed in the Bay of Gibraltar; but the Russian has gone to exhibit her strength and her pro portions in the Mediterranean or the Black Sea. It is high time that the public should be apprised to what the invincible reluctance of the Admiralty to take the lead in turning out first-class models of first-class war-ships is owing. It is in vain for them to fall back on the professional reputation of the Go vernment surveyors and builders. Whether the fault be attri butable, which we do not believe, to the defective science or care of the naval architects, or to injudicious and arbitrary in terference with them in other quarters, which we strongly suspect to be the case ; the fact of excessive failure in the r oyal building yards is too notorious to be disputed. Sir C. NAPIER and Captain BERKELEY have demonstrated, beyond 'all cavil, the absurd discrepancies between the calculations relative to extension, displacement, &c., &c., and the ac tual results, after launching and stowing, of a dozen of these lamentable and very costly impositions in the shape of new sailing ships and new steamers produced by her MAJF.sry's servants. But on the face of these exposures, despite of these practical admonitions, we do not even attempt the building of these superior steamers whose employment must exercise so large, not to say pare: mount, an influence on the event of any future naval war. All that is done (we do not now speak of what is promised), in the way of ship building, is, to turn out small craft exactly of the kind which all the odds imaginable would devote to imme diate capture or destruction, if we did not know against what adverse superiority the intrepidity of our seamen can contend. But it is absolutely wicked, as well as presumptuous, to permit it to be risked in the sort of contest against overwhelming forces, to which, as we are now goingon, we are abandoning it, and with it the lives of the many brave and devoted Britons who will assuredly exhibit it. Why, we repeat, does the Admiralty studiously refuse to imitate the example of the United States' Naval Depart partment in the timely improvement and organisation of the service confided to it? Is the same petty, illiberal, jealous, and over-vaunting spirit still in its councils, which, under the disastrous Secretaryship of Mr. WILSON CROKER, conti mued not only to send out, but tobuild 32 and 36-gun frigates to fightegainst the great 44 and 50-gun frigates of ,AuleOca , j 411..• 4 , . • •"`• ~c IdiC'~,~ because it would have been too great a compliment, forsooth, to the enemy which his presumptuous incapacity affected to despise, to build in imitation of their models? The disastrous issue of so many encounters in which we were worsted by far superior force, the ships of the enemy being equal always to higher rates than those to which they nominally belonged, and far outdoing us in the calibre and weight of their metal and their manning ; this disastrous issue might have taught the present Board of Admiralty, msuredly, the wisdom cf . our not being left, in the event of a war, to commence opera tions with the most essential arm of our Naval force re duced in strength and magnitude far below those of the same arm belonging to our antagonist. We cannot believe that Lord HADDLNGTON or Sir GEORGE COCKBURN would willingly countenance any feeling of rivalry so low spirited and paltry as that which we firmly believe to have been mainly instrumental to the war with America of 1812, Yet, why is it—and the fact cannot be too often impressed on our readers--that when the formidable superiority of large steamers has been so signally tested in the enterprises of commerce, and the extension of all intercourse and corre spondence between the remotest points of the globe, by the noble vessels such as the " Great Western" - and the " Great Britain," produced by our pri vate builders, the Royal Navy should be altogether deficient of steam-ships capable of competing with thoze which America has built or Russia possesses? Not a moment should be lost, we venture to insist, in getting afloat at least one such gigantic thunderer, to serve as a nucleus for a fleet of worthy consorts. If the requisite tonnage and arma ment cannot be readily combined, for the present, at least, let the armament be associated with steam power. An example suggests itself to us as an apt - one for showing how this sort of compromised power could be made in a moment available. There is, if we mistake not, now lying at Blackwall, in dock, the " Great Northern " steam-ship. She was' built, very lately indeed—(within a twelvemonth or to) — on the most useful and important principle of combining all the sailing power and properties adapted to her enormous length and great . capacity, with the motive power of the screw-propeller. When the wind and weather serve she is to be sailed without working the latter, So as to economise her fuel and machinery. These are to be employed, on the other hand, when tempestuous weather and adverse winds render it more expedient to apply steam to the screw. Her trials have manifested her perfect achieve ment of these objects, than which we can imagine none more admirable or valuable. She is built to carry forty 18-pounders. Her great height and her length render her a most formidable floating battery, and her facilities of sailing, steaming, and changing rapidly her position, are probably unsurpassed. Whether, being docked, this noble craft is for sale we have no means of knowing. If she be, might it not be well worth while for the Admiralty to become her purchasers ? If not, can there be any objec tion to use her lines with any required extensions or improve ments in the construction of still superior steam frigates ? Sir GEORGE COCKBURN, we remember, frankly admitted, as well he might do, the great obligations the navy of this country was under to the builders for the Yacht Club, in re spect of signal improvements introduced in the art of ship building, equipment, &c., in turning out some of these beau tiful pleasure vessels; which are the admiration of foreigners, and are justly the 'pride of the British public, as well as of their p r i va t e owners. Wh y should the Admiralty hesitate to introduce similar or analogous improvements into steam-ship building after the models supplied by the builders of Bristol and Liver- pool, Greenock and Londonderry? If we are not mistaken, so strong has hitherto been the prejudice against adopting a foreign model, that the old Canopus, captured at Aboukir, ever since she was incorporated into ouinavy, retained among all candid or qualified judges the same credit her hull has . _ _ acquired in the recent experimental cruise, of being one of the most perfect specimens that even the French builders had ever produCed. But not a single ship ha s ever been 'Mid down on her model, renowned as it is for symmetry and strength. Can the illiberality cf the 1812 to . 1814 administration of the Admiralty be still alive at its Board, or in some of its subordinate bureaux? -- • We know not how to bring ourselves to believe it; yet the matters to which we have alluded raise a strong inference that such is the 'fact. And the miserable parsimony with which the Board has pretended to test the merits of so im portant an invention as Captain TAYLOR'S floating break water (by laying down small sections of fifty or sixty feet long only, moored as slackly as possible off the Hove Coast- Guard station), strongly corroborate this inference. We have received Madrid journals of the 18th inst. The Gazette of that date contains a royal ordonnance, with in structions sanctioned by her DIAJESTY for the organisation of the new corporations. The same official journal announces the arrival of Mr. BRUNEL with a party of engineers, to be employed on the North of Spain Railway. The works had already commenced. The QUEEN had received a splendid tiara set with diamonds from the SULTAN, valued at 5,0p0t No business was done on the Bourse on the 18th. • The Paris . 3loniteur announces that the Government had ----- received a dispatch from Captain DF-SFOSSES, commandant of the French station on the Isle of Bourbon, giving an account of the unsuccessful attack made upon the fort Tamatave, in Madagascar, by the French corvettes the Berceau and Zelee, and the English sloop of war the Conway, with:the in tent of repressing the acts of violence and spoliation com mitted sgainst the merchants of the two nations. The French loss amounted to 19 killed and 40 wounded. This fort, it appears, is on the eastern coast of Madagascar, in the coun try of the Betimsaras, occupied by the Hovas tribe, who had subjected the rest of the natives. Before this, Tamatave and the adjoining country were governed by a native King, under the protection of the French ; but on the occupation of the territory by the predecessor of the present Queen, the French undertook an expedition against him, captured the town, which was afterwards evacuated on the conclusion of a treaty of peace and commerce. The present Sovereign, ' who is styled QueenllllArtJAKA, violated this treaty as regards Fri trice, and at the same time adopted hostile measures against all foreigners who refused to become naturalized subjects of her 3IAJESTY. The following letter from the Isle of Bourbon, which is publishe d in the Journal des Debats; gives an account of the attack, with its unfortunate results: " The Government of Bourbon having been informed that by a decree, to be carried into immediate execution, all fo reigners in Madagascar were bound to get themselves made naturalized subjects of the Hovas, under pain of expulsion, the French corvettes Berceau, Captain Remain Desfosses, and Zelee, Lieutenant Fierreck, having on board detachments of ma rines for reinforcing the garrisons of St. Marie and Nossi Be, sailed for Tamatave, where they were joined by the English sloop.of- war Conway, to demand explanations, and, if neces , nary, to protest against the decree. The French and English commanders united in endeavouring to enter into communication with the Hova Government, and wrote to the Queen, requesting a suspension of the measure. All was in vain. Their letters were not only unanswered, but were never forwarded to the Queen. The dwelling of a French merchant was plundered, and in conse. quence a landing was resolved upon. Unfortunately, no precise information as to the state of the fortifications and the real force of the Hovas could be obtained. About 300 men, French and English, were landed, under the command of Lieut. Fierrick. Theyadvanced, and carried with the bayonet the first redoubt, al though it was well defended. The same success attended an attack upon a second redoubt, which was much stronger. But these gained, the assailants found themselves opposed by a wall, twenty feet high, well furnished with artillery, and girded by a deep ditch. The disappointment and vexation of the small but brave band; on finding before them an impregnable fortress, and the necessity for a retreat, may be easily conceived. But both French and English had sustained considerable losses. M. Bertho, ,enseigne de vats seats, and M. Ducimetiere, sub-lieutenant of infantry, were killed in the breach ; and Lieutenant Fierrick, an officer of the marines, and four cadets in that service, were more or less severely wounded. Amongst these last is distinguished M. de Grainville, cadet of the first class of the Berceau, who seized and retained a flag of the enemy, which both French and English rivalled each other in e.ndeavouring to gain. The young de Grainville crowned his gal lant conduct by dividing the flag, and giving one-half to the Eng lish I The losses of the English were in proportion to ours, and among them was an officer." Of course the affair cannot rest in this position, and we shall consequently soon hear of another expedition for the protection of the English and French traders in the island. The Constitutionnel has a long and lugubrious article on the state of the naval inscriptions. According to the report published by Admiral MAcknu, the numbers available were —On the Ist of January, 1834, 89,524 seamen; the Ist of January, 1844, 109,410; and on the Ist of January, 1845, 112,462, exclusively of 10,384 ixiarins de recruitement, and 12,810 inscribed workmen. "Upon the first glance," it says, "this appears to be a gratifying increase, but an inspection 'is now going on which will be attended with a diminution of at:leastllB,ooo,=.and this must be:followed by a:second reduction. Taking the same ,bases for the inspection as those of 1834, upon a number of 12,500, there must be a total reduction of 27,000, which will leave the maritime inscription at 98,000. Still further reductions mast follow, for good seamen enter I r the mercantile service of othe r s t ates b ecause they receive better pay there, and thus escape from a conscription, which 3ncludes all seamen from the age of eighteen to fifty, with out offering an equivalent compensation." The following are miscellaneous extracts from the PaPers:— On Monday, at Eu, the King, accompanied by the Prince and Princess of Salerno, the Ministers of Marine and Commerce, Generals Atalin and Gourgaud, the Marquis tie Dalmatle, the Marquis de Brancaccio, and Colonel Dumas, took an airing in the park of the chateau, and afterwards visited the college and the church of that establishment, in which are the tombs of the family of Guise. His Majesty was received at the college by the Prefect of the department, and the Mayor and municipal council of the t own. " A letter from Naples, of, the 9th Instant, states that the Palace of Butera, at Palermo, had been prepared for the reception of the Empress of Russia and her numerous suite, and that her Imperial Majesty will be escorted from Genoa to Sicily by three or four frigates. " A great number of Polish refugees from France, England, and Belgium, have passed through Leghorn on their way to Smyrna, where they are to assemble preparatory to proceeding to the Caucasus, to join the Circassians in the war against the Russians. According to the Courrier de Marseille, the good people of that city, and the French generally, have been hoaxed by the per sonage calling himself Mohammed Ben Serrour, cousin of the Em peror of Morocco. He is neither prince nor ambassador, nor per sonage of any importance, and has contrived to leave Marseilles just in time to avoid explanations, taking away with him a veiy handsome watch that he had received as a present from the autho. rities. " Railway projects in Belgium are succeeding each other with such rapidity,' . says the Independance of Brussels on Monday, ' that soone there will not be a single commune without its railroad. At . Aefll -€:2 i. 1 4.'f., • - r S;/..7 , " * . f. 51. .--. 1.. 4 5,,n 5: :. H , ,,,,, y ,'''* - s , i„...i -, N , _.....,_:, . ? ~,.., •,.. • i • , ' &.• i..- (• t..... : i , ~.-,,... i p ; „,...„, ~, , i ~.. ..,-- - ---1 .4 t . 1'• . ' -I A : '. r . ..4;tc. . 4 . " * ,ix ~ , •,,,, V • N 3 - ... 4- ,42 ti•• • ,.. • . 4. _ ....„.., ..- ••,.,,,,,- 0 . , ,, 1 11111 P• ' presext two new ones are announced, viz., a line to connect Jem. napes with Nieuport by Tourney, Msnin, Ypres, and Dixtnude ; and another from Brussels to Lille by Flobeck, Ellezelles, and Tourney, with branches to the right towards Deynze by Aside narde, and to the left towards the basin of Charleroi." The Three per Cents. were done on the Paris Bourse on Wednesday at 83f. 65c.; the Five p er C en t s. , 117 f. 90 c. ; Spanish Thre e p er Cents., 391.; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,250 f. ; Rouen, 1,075 f. ; Havre, 880 f. ; Basle, 285 f.; Vier zon, 7451. ; Bordeaux, 685 f.; Boulogne, 640 f. The following are the quotations for the new lines :- Paris and Lyons Railroad (Laffitte), 26f. 25c.; ditto (Ca- Ion), Bf. ; ditto (Ganernon), 10f.; ditto (Lapinsonniere), 4f. 50c.; Northern Line (Rothschild), 820 E; ditto (Llffitte), 76f. 25c.; ditto (Rosamel), 40f. ; ditto (Pepin Lehalleur), 30f. 50c; ditto (Decan Lebeuf), 30f. 56c.; Paris and Strasburg (Ganneron), 16f. 25 c . ; di tto (Hinguerlot), 15f. ; ditto (Be chet), 5E 50c.; ditto (Isot), 101.; Tours and Nantes (Mac kenzie), 12f. 50c.; ditto (O'Neill), 15E ; Lyons and Avignon (Talabot), 84f. 25c.; ditto (Lecointe), 22E 50c. • Bordeaux and Cette (Mackenzie), sf: 50c. ; ditto (Espeleta), 151.; Creil and St. Quentin (Kysaens), 6f. ; ditto (Carette), 6f. 50e. ; ditto (Colbert), 3f. 50c.; Charleroi, 2f. 50c.; Dieppe, 40f. ; Fampoux, 15f. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, SEPT. 25. Anglo-Belgian. .......... - Luxembourg Boulogne and Amiens.. 13 Namur and Liege Bordeaux &Mediterran 1% Orleans and Vierzon .. - Bordeaux and Toulouse - Orleans and Bordeaux 13% Do. & Cette (Espeleta) - OverYssel ••• - Do. (Mackenzie's) .. 2 1 4 Paris& Lyons (Lafitte) 8 Central of Spain 2 Ditto (Ganneron's). 3 1 4 Dendre Valley Dutch Rhenish - Dieppe & Paris Junct - Paris and Rouen . 42% Dijon and Mulhouse - Paris and Strasburg East Indian Grt Northern of France Do. (Compte de L'Est) - (Laffitte's) - Ditto (Rommel's) - Do. (Le Boeuf) 3% Royal North of Spain. 2%4 Do. Pepin le Halleur - Sambre and Meuse .... 8 Great Paris and Lyons 2 IA Strasbourg and Basle . - Great Western Bengal - Tournay,Jurbise, Lan- Jamaica Junction - dent, and Hasselt... - Do. North Midland - Tours and Nantes Do, Extension Jersey 2% Do. (Lefebvre's) - Louvain and Jemeppe.. - Verona and Ancona - Lyons and Avignon.... - West Flanders 7 SECONDARIES.-(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Secondary PorrEn.) ROSS AND CO: V. CURTLs. The plaintiffs in this action are wine and spirit merchants, and the defendant is the landlord of the Royal Oak public house, Earl-street, Seven-dials. The action was brought to recover the sum of 2/. 12s. Gd. for spirits supplied, and the de fendant pleaded in person that he never was indebted. To prove the case the plaintiffs' cellarman was called, who deposed to the delivery of whiskey to the above amount, and that the defendant had himself written a receipt for it in the delivery book. The jury found for the plaintiff. The SECONDARY said it was a very clear case indeed of sham plea. The costs would be increased by the plea from Si. to 151. This was the only case set down for hearing. BANKRUPTCY.-(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Comissioner S 1 1E111E11.0.) IN RE LAZARUS. This bankrupt, who had carried on. business as a dealer in new and second-hand clothes in Marylebone and Wigmore street, came up to pass his last examination, and was opposed by the trade assignee. • The assignee said that he objected to the accounts in toto ; that the debts amounted to nearly • 2,0001, three-fourths of which were on accommodation bills; there were no assets, the whole of the bankrupt's property had been swept away by an execution, at the suit of a Mr. Lyon Samuels, upon ac commodation bills, and to account was rendered. The bank rupt had stated to him, in the presence of the official assignee, that he had not kept any books, that be had made up his accounts from memory, which failed him, so that he could not give any details. The bankrupt had had extensive deal ings in accommodation bill transactions with a person named Davies, who was examined yesterday before Mr. Commissioner Evans, who had adjourned the case, on the ground that the bankrupt's property had beat seized by Mr. Samuels (above referred to) for a debt of 1,5531., of which there was no de tailed account, and that Learned Commissioner said it might, perhaps, be founded on fraud, and that it was a public duty-to refuse to pass a man on such accounts. The Learned COMMISSIONER Said that it must be shown to him that there was a falsification of accounts to justify him refusing to allow the bankrupt to pass. The only way to punish him was to refuse his certificate. -The grounds now urged would properly apply on that occasion. The assignee said, that if accounts like these were passed against the express rejection of them by the assignee, he himself had better be made bankrupt to-morrow. Mr. LEWIS (the bankrupt's solicitor) said he should like to have the working of the fiat.—(Laughter.) The bankrupt said he had paid him 20 or 30 per cent. The assignee —Now speak the truth. • Bankrupt—Then I should say 40. Mr. LEWIS—Now you have got the truth, or near to it. Tim bankrupt _-said he -had sued out the fiat to defeat Samuel's execution; that Samuel's debt was for accommoda tion bills for 5751. in favour of Davies, and he could not say to what amount accommodation bills had passed. The Learned CommissioNEß said he should pass the bankrupt, as no delay couldimprove the accounts. MARLBOROUGH -STREET. (THIS DAY.) Joseph Thomas, a young man dressed as a tradesman's porter, was placed at the bar, charged with the following daring robbery :—About nine o'clock last evening, the pri soner, who had for some tim e b een noticed lurking about Sackville-street, Piccadilly, contrived to slip unobserved down the area steps of the residence of Dr. Richard King, of No. 27 ; and entering the kitchen, in which none of the servants at the moment happened to be, he seized hold of a tray of knives and forks, no doubt mistaking it for the plate basket, which was standing on the same table, and contained plate to the amount of between 501. and 60/. As he was leaving the kitchen he was met:by the cc ok, who, suspecting he was a thief, seized him by the collar, on which he threw the knife box and contents into the sink, and made a desperate strugggle to get away, threatening to knock the girl's brains out if she did not loose her hold. The young woman, how ever, retained her grasp of him, and screaming loudly for assistance, Dr. King, and some gentlemen who were dining with him, rushed down stairs to her aid and secured him. On his being searched at the station-house about 20s. in silver were found in his possession. Mr. HARDWICK asked if he was known. Inspector Aggs, of the C division, said, that the prisoner could be identified as the party who had committed two other robberies of plate if he was remanded, to allow the necessary time to bring the witnesses forward. It also appeared that latterly numerous robberies of plate have been of late effected at the west end, by a person an swering the prisoner's description. The plan he adopted was either by sneaking down the area while the servants were engaged in some other part of the house, or knocking boldly at the hall-door, and stating that he was sent by some trades man in the neighbourhood to inquire for some article or an other to be repaired. While the servant went to make in quiries of his master or mistress, leaving him standing in the hall, his appeara nce an d manners not exciting the least sus picion, generally made his way to the dining-room, and carried off the whole of the plate laid for dinner. In every case it would - appear that he had ascertained by some means the hour at which the family dined, and the robberies were gene rally committed about half an hour before the dinner party assembled. lie was remanded until this day week. CLERKENWELL._(THIS DAY.) James Connolly, aged 16, and John Silk, aged 10, well known thieves, were placed at the bar before Mr. Greenwood, charged by Mr. Robert Duke, chief usher belonging to this court, with having been concerned in picking his pocket of a silk handkerchief. Mr. Duke deposed, that on Thursday evening last, at half past eight o'clock, he was walking through Goswell-street, when he felt something kick his heel, on which he turned round, and saw three persons behind him, but having no suspicion at the time of any robbery, he proceeded a little way on his journey, when he missed his pocket-handker chief. He then wentback, and at the corner of Sutton-street, Clerkenwell, he saw the prisoners and another boy,in company with each other, and Connollywas holding up his (Duke's)hand kerchief in his hand, exhibiting it to his companions for exa mination, whilst they were laughing and giggling. Duke seized the prisoners, and tying their arms together, took them to the station-house, and on their road thither Connolly said he would pay for the handkerchief if he would let him go. Connolly sail he picked up the handkerchief, and two others found on him he purchased in Field-lane, Holborn, of a Jew. _ Silk said he saw his friend pick up the handkerchief and he went over to him to ax for his req'lars, or halves. Mr. GREENWOOD fully committed Connolly for trial, but the evidence not being sufficient against Silk , he was,dis charged, with a caution as to his future conduct. NORTH WALES RAILWAY. (THIS DAY.) An adjourned general meeting of the Shareholders in this Company was held to-day, at the London Tavern, Bishops.. gale-street, Wm. Chadwick, Esq., in the chair. The advertisement convening the meeting having been read— The CHAIRMAN said that they were all aware that the meeting was . merely called for the :purpose of affixing the seal to the register of Shareholders. You arc aware that we are precluded from any other business ; but if any gentleman present chooses to ask me any question, I shall be happy to answer him. A SHAREHOLDER wished:to know wheth er any arrange merit had been made, or was in course of making, with th e Chester and Holyhead Company? The CHAIRMAN said that negotiations were then pendi ng , but they had not yet assumed an official character; as soon, however, as they did so the result would be reported to the Shareholders. . _ There being no other business to be gone through the meeting broke up. - SOUTH - EASTERN AND CONTI NENTAL STEAM-BOAT COMPANY.— (THIS DAY.) The first general meeting of this Company was held to-day at the South-Eastern Railway station, London-bridge, Wm. M'Gregor, Esq., in the chair. The advertisement calling the meeting having been read, and the common seal of the Company affixed to the register of proprietors, The CHAIRMAN briefly addressed the meeting. He said there was no business for the meeting to transact. They had been called together in compliance with the deed of settlement, and to learn the progress which had been made in carrying out the objects of the Company. The'report which would be submitted to them would furnish the necessary information. TIIR_SECRETARY then read the report, to the effect that 11,043 shares had been issued, on which 41. each had been paid up, realising a capital of 44,172/. The Company had got five iron boats constructed, and others were in progress. There was not time yet for a dividend to be declared, but by the next meeting, in February ensuing, it was fully expected that there would be one. _ The report having been received and adopted, the meeting iin►hediately afterwards adjourned. Viscount and Viscountess Sidmouth, who have been sojourning at Hastings, have left that watering-place. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 4,000 to 5,000 bags, all to the trade. In prices there is not the least change. 300 Maranbam realised 5%d. to 6 3 / 4 d. ; 300 Surat, 3 1 4 d to 3 3 %d. ; 400 Egyptian, 6%d. to 7%d. ; and from 3,000. to 4,000 American, 3:Y i d. to sd. In Shares a moderate business was doing. It has been mentioned by almost all- our Contemporaries, as an extraordinary fact, that a large shipment of salt has just been made from Liverpool to Calcutta. The fact is so, and in calling attention to the matter, it ought to be stated that at the last annual meeting of the General Shipowners' Society the report of the Committee stated— " Many subjects involving the interests of shipping have engaged the attention of your Committee. Among them may be enumerated a proposal to endeavour to open the markets of India and China for British manufactured salt, &c." It is satisfactory to find that the objects of the Committee are likely to be realised. There are not any late arrivals announced in the City to day of importance. • Competition for the construction of foreign lines of railway appears to be as strong, as far as the extension of com munication on the Continent is concerned, as in this country. A new party is in the field, and a most powerful body too, in order to compe t e f or t h e L yons and Avignon Railway. At the head of the list of the Com mittee of Management is Sir John Easthope, M.P., and there are the names of Mr. J. L. Ricardo, Mr. Walter, Mr. Ardonin, &c. There is no question as to the importance of the line. We are desirous of noticing that the party of the name of Wetenhall, brought before the Lord Mayor for an assault, is not Mr. James Wetenhall, the publisher of the Stock Ex change Lists. As for very many years the writer of this City article has received much iaformation upon money matters, &c., from him, a ready desire ought to be shown to "place the saddle on the right horse." Consols have receded to 98 1 4 for the Account, and for Money to 98 1 ,x. The quotations are now a shade better. Exchequer-bills keep firm. India Stock is steady at 268. Not half a dozen• bargains were reported in the foreign funds to• day. The only fresh prices are, for Danish, 90 ; for Spanish Three per Cents., 38; for Dutch Two-and Half per Cents., 60; and for Equador, 5. There is a heavy m ar k e t for nearly all the railway shares to-day. The Cambridge and Lincoln look firm. The quo tations 'piths French lines are also pretty steady. . BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) 3 per Cent. Consols Anna 98%x Long Annuities Expire sth Jan. 1860 Do. 30 Years, Expire Jan. 5, 1860.. 11% India Stock 268 Consols for Account 98 1% 1 4 Exchequer Bills. F%d. I%d. 1,0001. 500/. ........ ..... 49 47 pm. Ditto Small — 4 B 4B pm. MICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Danish Bonds 1825, 3 per Cent._ 90 Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent,1841... Ditto 3 per Cent 3B Dutch 2 1 ,4 per Cents Equador 5 BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. RAILWAYS. PAID. Pint SHARE. Aberdeen Bristol and Exeter Ditto New 5 2 ...... 14 10%...... to Caledonian Ditto Extension .- Cambridge and Linc o l n ...... 1% 5% ... to •4% Ditto. New Chelmsford and Bury .., ..... 1% 2 34%... to Chester and Holyhead l5 ...19% 20 25 1 / 2 to 242 Cork and Waterford • 12...... 24 to Coventry, Nuneaton, Bir., and Leicester l l4 4% 4... to 54 Derby, Uttoxet er , and Staff'd 2% 3% t o Direct Manch. (Remington's) Direct Northern ... ......... .. 22 3 2%... to 3% Dublin and Galway Eastern Co un ti es Do. New 4/. 165.. .7 p. to Do. Perpet. 5 per Ct. No l. 6/.13s 4d Ditto, ditto, No. 2. ...W. 13s. 4d....2 % p to Eastern Union Ditto Extension East Lincolnshire l4 . . .... 7 Edinburgh and Gl asgow 5O ..... 76 ...... to Ditto 4 Shares 12% l 9 Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorchester 2 3 4 3% to GrndUnion(Notting.kLynn) 1% 430A... to Great South and W.(lrish)... 15 . 251..... to Great North of England...... 100 ...214 1 ,& 215 1 / to 214 Ditto New Great Western Guildford, Fareham, Portms 2 1 ,4 4 Hounslow Western Hull and Selby .. ... 50 10 4 1,4.,.... to Leicester and Bedford 225....... 3 2%... to 3% p Leicester and Tamworth 42s. 44 to 5 Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction London and Birmingham ...100 220 ...... to 'Ditto Extension London and Brighton. ...... .. 50 Ditto Consolidated Bths 35 Ditto, Sixths O% London and Croydon 131. 15s. 9d. 23% to London and South Western.. 41%...... 78 to 79 Do. New consolidated Bths.. 20 Ditto New - London and York... ..... London and Windsor' .. 1 Lon.,Warwck, Kidderminster 2% 4% Londonderry and Coleraine... 2% 5% to Maneheiter and Leeds 76 ..... ...... to Ditto Quarters Manchester and Birmingham 40 4 orters... ...... 2 ...... 14 13% t o 141 A Ditto 00 New Quarters Quarters......... Manch. Buxton, & Matlock 225. Midland lOO 169 to Ditto New 2 25% to Midld. Great Western (Irish) 21 / 2 Newcastle &Darlington;cunc. 25 ...... 61 1 / to 60% Ditto New Brandling Newcastle and Berwick Newark, Sheffield, and Boston 2% 5% to 5 North British, ex Dalkeith & Hawick l5 264 to North Devon North Ke n t & Di rect Dover 2% 44 to North Staffordshire North Wales 3%. ... 434% 634 p to Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham Nottingham and Boston l3' Notting.,ErewshVal.,&Manc. Oxford and W orcester 2A l4l Oxfrd, Witney, & Cheltnham 1% 2% to Perth and Inverness Portsmouth Direct Rugby and Huntingdon Scottish Midland ... 1% 4 14 ... .. to Shrews.,Wolver., Dud., Birm. 2% Shrews. & Trent Val. Union. 225. ... .. 2% % p to Somersetshire Midland .........2% 3 34..... to South Midland 225...... 7 South Eastern and Dover ... 33%...... 43 Staines and Richmond........ 1 Tean and Dove Valley l% 3% t o Trent Valley Trent V a l. & H o l y h ea d J une. 1% 3 ,4 4 to 3 Welch Midland 2l ..... . 4%14... to Wilts, Somerset, & Sthamptn 1%... .. 2%... to Wilts,Somerset, &Weymouth 2 1 2 ...... 54 to 4 3 / i Wrster, Sh rews ., & C rewe U n. 1 % ...... 3g York and Carlisle 2 3 /4 5%14— to York and North Midland ... 50 ll 5 Ditto Half Shares 25 .. ... 57% to 59 Ditto Selby FORE Bordeaux, Toulouse, & C IGN ette RAILWAYS. (Mackenzie's) Bordeaux, Toulouse, & Cette (Espelete's) Central of Spain ... Demerara . Dendre Valley Dutch Rhenish 5 ...... 11%%... to East Indian Great Northern of France (Laffitte's) Do. Do. (Rosamel's) ..... ... 2 ...... 3% to Great Paris and Lyons.. ..... .. 2 Great Western Bengal ss. 0%% ... to Jersey 1 Lyons and Avignon Luxembourg Namur and Liege......... 4 Orleans and Vierzon Over Yssel 4/ 3s 441.... ~ 4 p ... to Paris and Lyons(Laffitte) ... 2 Paris and Lyons(G anneron ' s ) 2 ... .. 3%4 to Paris and Rouen 2O - to Royal North of Spain 2 • ..... 2%..... to Sambre and Meuse Tours & Nantes (Mackenzie) 2 MINES. Bolanos Scrip ...... 6 Real del Monte, Unregistered ..... 4 3 4 5 to 4% ERRATA—III our quotations of Tuesday read South Mid land 6%, and Scottish Midland 4.%. --- LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, SEPT. 26.—Wind W., light, and fine clearweather. DEAL, SEPT. 25.—Wind S.W., moderate.—Arrd. Palmer ston, Goodwin, Bahia for Stettin ; Charles Hamerton, Stain cliffe, St. Domingo. Arrd. from the River, and sld., North Briton, Heard, Hobart Town. PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 25.—Wind W.S.W.—Off port, Indian, English, Saldanha Bay. CLYDE, SEPT. 24.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Evergreen, St. John's, New Brunswick. Sid. Rowley, Demerara. LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 25.—Arrd. Mirzapore, Hickman, Cal cutta ; The Duke, Bissett, ditto ; Archer, Lugan, ditto ; Groudille, Cape of Good Hope; Cestrican, Bombay; James Reid, Wylie, St. Domingo ; Balius, Pendlebury, Jamaica; Diana, Craig, Nassau, &c. ; Sea, Edwards, New York ; Mary Ann Henry, Roy, Halifax ; Joseph Porter, Gaskel, St. Stephen's. Sld. 24, Royal Merit, Oldes, Columbia River ; Mimi, Erquiaza, Hava nna h. 25. J uana , Wil son , V a lparaiso; Ocean, Willerton, Rio Janeiro; Huddersfield, Kerby, African, Viola, Goodridge, Hayti ; William Scott, Honduras. The Chaplain, from St. John's, New Brunswick to England, has put in to East Machios full of water, and is supposed to have been bored by the crew. JERSEY, SEPT. 23.—Lord Anson, Renouf Barbadoes. DUBLIN; SErr. 24.—Wind N. W:--Arrd: 21st, Campbell, Campbell, Trinidad; Grace Darling;, Lanerty, Richebucto. 22d, Bristol, Maxwell, St. John's, Ne•w Brunswick. Sld. 22d, Clorinda Stafford, Miramichi ; 23d, John Lyons, St. John's, New Brunswick; 24th, Chieftain, Campbell, St. John's, New Brunswick. .CORK ; SEPT. 23.—Wind N.E.—Sld. Isabella, St. Andrews. OFF GALLEY HEAD, SEPT. 22.—Lady Huntley, Saldanha Bay. WHITBY, SEPT. 25.—Wind S.W.—Acrd. Leo, Holdforth, Quebec ; Sapheras, Brown, Quebec. Hum., Suvr. 25.—Wind S.W.—Bri taunia, Wear, Buenos Ayres ; Eagle, Prin ce Ed war d' s Islas d ; Absarus, Braila. MILFORD, SEPT. 24.—A topsail-yard schooner, of about 50 tons, was seen to go down in St. Bride's Bay yesterday, about two P.M.; crew supposed to have perished. The Bishop of London confir med forty-two young persons in the British church at Havre, on Tuesday; his Lord ship afterwards proceeded to Caen, to bold 4 confirmation Mort:. I 1. MARKET NEWS.--(THIS DAY.) Wheat. 5,540 qrs. English .. Irish ........ Foreign...... Oats. I Flour. 1,690 qis 3,9601k5. 4,710 28,570 I NEurGATZ LEAIIENHALL, There was rather more doing here, and prices were well supported COLONIAL. SUGAR.—The demand has rather fallen off, owing to the very large arrivals. The fact is, however, that the contrary winds have for a long time kept out supplies, and now they are all coming in together. West India sorts are rather cheap this week; 100 hhds. Barbadoes went at 54s to 55s 6d for fine yellow, and at 49s to 51s for mid. East India Mauritius has been dull of sale, and rather lower, and Bengal does not support previous rates, being at present in but limited demand. REFlNED.—Standard lumps have been 67s to 68s per cwt., and brown grocery lumps 66s to 66s 6d per cwt. FOREIGN.— These samples have been quite neglected. COFFEE.—British Plantation sorts are held for about pre vious rates, but there is very little doing. Low and mid sell best; ord to fine fine ord Jamaica has been taken at 72s to 75s per cwt. Ceylon has been dull of sale at 47s to 49s for low to good ord pale, but at auction 635 bags were taken in at 47s for low good ord. Mocha has been in wane demand, but the supply is very limited. Fair and mid clean garbled has been sold at 62s to 66s per cwt. Java, and foreign sorts generally, have been dull. COCOA.—Trinidad has been taken in at 42s 6d to 44s 6d per cwt. SPICES.—There has been a good inquiry for Pimento, and full prices have been obtained. Low to fine is 3d to 3 3 / 4 d per lb. A good demand has been experienced privately for Black Pepper. Sumatra has realised 2%d to 2%d, and Malabar 3 1 / 8 d to 3%d. 2,512 bags Penang partly sold at '2 l / t d to 3d for damaged. Cassia Lignea'has been quiet. RUM.—There is not much doing. SALTPETRE.—There is a full supply of this article, and prices, therefore, are rather heavy. RlCE.—Less animation has prevailed in the demand for this article, and consequently prices are barely so high. Bengal, low to fine white, has realised 19s to 23s per cwt. Abroad the quotations keep up. TALLOW.—There has been a firm market for P.Y. C., which is in good demand at 41s 3d to 41s 6d per cwt on the spot for new, and at 405 9d to 41s for old. Town has been 41s 6d to 42s per cwt nett. TEA.—The market has been steady, but there is not an extensive business doing. DRURY-LANE THEATRE.—We are most gratified to hear that every prospect presents itself of this establish ment being highly patronised during the ensuing season, boxes and stalls being already secured by her Majesty and her Majesty the Queen Dowager; by the Dukes of Devon shire, Leeds, and Beaufort; 'by the Lords Chesterfield, Shel burne, Seaham, Munster, Glamis, Suffield, Erroll, Dupplin, Pembroke, &c.; Count De &milks, Count Kielmansegge ; Sirs C. Shakerl , y, Henry Webb, John Gerard; Hon. D. Pul teney ; Col. and Mrs. D itch; Major White; Messrs. Baring, Spencer Cowper, Errington; F. Gower, De Bathe, C. Seymour, Cunningham, Williams, Salomons, Gold,smid, Arcedeckne, Twiss, Clayton, Hume, Beech, &c. NEw SHELLS-AND GRENADES.—Captain Billette, of the French navy, has recently invented new shells and grenades, which are said to have greater destructive powers than any hitherto known. These projectiles, when fired at a ship, do not pass through her side, making a simple hole, but explode in the act of striking, and cause a large rent, and spread a combust.tble matter in every direction which it is impossible to extinguish, and the ship struck cannot escape from being burnt. Captain Billette has been appointed to the command of the Meleager, in which he is to go into all the ports of France to form depots of his shells and grenades, and give instructions as to the mode of using them to the Marine artillerymen. WOOLWICH, SEPT. 25.—(From our Correspon dent.)—The Black Eagle steam-vessel, Mr. S. B. Cook, master commander, left Woolwich at twelve o'clock today, with Rear- Admiral William Bowles, one of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, for Sheerness and Chatham. The Monkey steam vessel, Mr. Bryant, master-commander, left Woolwich for Dover and Plymouth, and conveyed the party that brought the Dragon steam-frigate to the river back to Plymouth on their return home. Vice-Admiral Richard Matson visited Woolwich Dockyard to-day, to witness the progress of the works on the Grampus, 50 guns, and the Terrible steam-vessel. The latter is having her masts put up. CHERTSEY FAIR, SURREY.—Yesterday, this autumn fair was held in the usual fair-field at Chertsey. Although not large, this is considered a good market for the sale and purchase of lean stock. The supply of cattle this year was tolerably good, and made the following prices :—Cows (with small calf), 151. to 17!.; ditto down calving, 12/. to 141.; heifers, from 71. to 91. ; beast, grass-fatted, averaged 14/. ; lean stock, for stalling, from 61. to 10/. ; good Southdown ewes (early lambing) worth 265. to 28s. a head ; old ditto, 17s. to 20s. ; wethers, two guineas ; tags, 255. ; lambs, 16s. There was a good sprinkling of horses, which, young and fit far farming purroses, fetched 18 to 20 guineas; inferior ditto met with a dull market. ST. JAMES'S PAllK.—During the last few days a large number of _workmen have been busily engaged in laying down new iron pipes in St. James's Park, for the purpose of fur. nishing Buckingham Palace and several of the Government offices with a more abundant supply of water. MONUMENT TO LIEUTENANT WYLDE.—We under stand it is the intention of some of the friends of the late Lieu. tenant Wylde, R.N., to erect a suitable monument In Dunbar churchyard to his memory, and that of his gallant associates, who lost their lives In the cause of humanity on the 20th ult.—Edinburgh Witness. One of the women employed in cutting rags in the mills of Messrs. Tanner, at Cheddar, lately made the discovery of a 101. note in ripping open an old pocket. It appears to have been issued by Messrs. Cavenagh and Co., of Bath, who failed in 1825. Bath Chronicle. DEATH FROM EXCITEMENT. — Yesterday Mr. Baker, held an inquest, at the Three Colts, Grove.street, Hackney.wick, on the body of Mrs. Mary Harper, wife of a baker, residing in Union-place, Bethnal.green. It appeared ftom the evidence of the husband that the deceased had an interest in the above public. house, which is to be pulled down for the formation of the Vic toria-park. A knowledge of that circumstance had unsettled her mind, and kept her in suspense relative to the final disposition of the property in question. On Sunday week last she was cupped for pain in the head, and recovered sufficiently to attend to her domestic avocations. On Monday morning she expressed a wish to walk out with her husband, and just as he was ready, she was seized with violent headache and pains in the eye. Her husband immediately hastened for a surgeon, but she expired during his absence. Verdict, " Natural death." The Bishop of Exeter consecrated the new church of Allhallows, Exeter, on Monday last. DEATH OP TWO BROTHERS BY DROWNING.—On Thursday Mr. Baker held an inquest at the Duke of Sussex, Hag gerstone-bridge, on the bodies of Edwin William and William Adolphus Payne, of the respective ages of eight and eleven years. It appeared from the evidence, that about half. past one o'clock on Wednesday morning, a man named Black was employed in paint ing and glazing at No. 9, Bridge.place, Haggerstone, when his attention was suddenly drawn by observing the head and hand of a boy in the waterstruggling beneath the arch of the bridge. A lady who was also passing at the time gave an alarm. Several persons immediately ran to the rescue, amongst whom was a young man named John Devereux, employed in the East India Com pany's warehouses, at Poplar, who, seeing the danger of the chil. dren, threw of his coat and plunged into the water. He dived successively after the bodies for about two or three minutes, when be was taken out in a most deplorable state of exhaustion. Both bodies were ultimately taken out by a waterman by a boat-hook, and conveyed to the Duke of Sussex, where several medical gen tlemen were promptly in attendance, who for upwards of two hours ineffectually endeavoured to restore animation. How the children came into the water was a matter of perfect conjecture, and the jury, at the suggestion of the Coroner, returned an open verdict in both eases of "Found drowned." THE HAGUE, SEPT. 21.—Their Royal Hignesses the Prince and Princess of Orange left the Hague the day before yesterday for Stuttgard. The Goes Courant says the harvest of rye, barley, wheat, peas, and oats, which was begun at a good time, and in fine weather, has been almost wholly got in during three weeks, in which the weather has been constantly fine. This is to be grate fully remarked, especially as we have now again much rain. The quantity and quality are good. The Stoats Courant confirms the melancholy accounts from Surinam. It says—" Billious fevers have broken out among the new Colonists, of whom 30 are dead, and several others are confined to their beds." Later accounts are rather more favourable. THE HAGUE, SEPT. 22.—We regret to say acts th of that the day before yesterday, and yesterday i n the evening, so me violence took place against some mealmen. The : police and some military were soon at hand. some persons, as we hear, were arrested. Today the mealmen's shop s were again opened. DOVER (Extract of a lett?r.)—On I uesday last an excursion-party, got up by several respectable tradesmen of the town, started from Dover to Boulogne. The early part of the morning being exceedingly fine, there were up wards of 200 passengers. At a quarter-past nine o'clock they g i n faces. Jenkins), but left Dover harbour in one of the South-Eastern Railway Company's fine vessels (the Princess Maanudde,sCmailpitah with band playing, colours flying, alas ! before they had been long at sea, it came on to ' rain hard and blow quite fresh; but that powerful vessel, with wind right a-head, gallantly ma d e her passing to Boulogne, ' with upwards of 200 pe rsons on board, is two hours and a half. Unfortunately, the gale increased, and the rain fell in torrents the whole dayas it was arranged they should return the same evanin t g, at nine o'clock, many . of them pulled uncommonly long ac s c at the idea of crossing the Channel upon such a •storin night ; but they were soon happily relieved by the courtes y of the committee,. who de termined not to return till the r next morning, at half-past nine o'clock, which gave them the greatest satisfaction, as it enabled them to refresh themselves for the passage home, and, as it turned out, in the morning the gale had not de creased ; but being assured by the committee that they had crossed in worse weather, and that they had got one of the finest vessels in the world, and a first-rate crew, to steam them to Dover, we left Boulogne at the time appointed, and arrived home in two hours and five minutes, through a tre mendous sea, many of them more dead than alive. The charge was only 3s. each way. NEW STREETS.—The continuation line of street from Farringdon.street to Clerkenweli is named Victoria-street. The street from Whitechapel to Spits!fields, to connect with the I.ondou Docks, Is to bo called Christchurch street, -.,_ CORN EXCHANGE-FRIDAY. Compared with those of the preceding week, the arrivals of Eng lish Wheat up to our market since '_Monday have been tolerably good, though by no means large. The weather being fine for harvest work in the north, and the stands better tilled than for some time past, the demand to-day for Wheat of home produce was in a sluggish state. The finest qualities of both Red and White, however, sold at the late advance in the quotations; but the middling and inferior kinds must be considered Is per quarter cheaper, and a clearance was not effected. Of fine foreign Wheat the show was small, nevertheless, the sale for it was heavy, at an abatement of is per quarter. The inquiry for Wheat under lock w, s trifling, hence holders were more moderate in their demands. No new Barley at Market. Grinding sorts were in request at full prices, but other kinds hung on hand. The demand for Malt was not so active as on Monday, but we can notice no alte ration in value. Nearly 30,000 quarters of foreign Oats having come to hand, the Oat trade was dull, and the inferior parcels had a down ward tendency. Beans and Peas supported Monday's quotations, but Flour hung on hand. ARRIVALS. Barley. 430 qre. 520 38,870 I 740 Malt. 3,340 qrs. SIYZITZFIZLD. The supply of Beasts beily , seasonably large, and the attend ance o f buyers small, the Beef trade was in a very sluggish state, and Mon day's prices were with difficulty supported. From Holland and Ger many we received 110 Oxen and Cows, 400 Sheep, and 13 Calves. Sheep—the number of which was small—sold briskly, and previous rates were readily maintained. In Lambs a steady business was transacted, at full prices. Calves moved off slowly, and the quota tions had in some instances a downward tendency. Pigs were quite as dear. Mitch Cows were selling at from 16/ to 19/ each. Suckling Calves, 18s to 30s ; and 'Quarter old Store Pigs, 16s to 21s sack. Beasts, 713 ; Cows, 98 ; Sheep and Lambs, 6,620 ; Calves, 342; Pigs, 291. BOROUGH HOP MARKET. Since picking has been commenced, about 2,000 pockets of New Hops have arrived here from Kent and Sussex in good condition. Nearly the whole have found buyers, at from Si 10s to 71 for Weald,of Kents, and 616 s to Si Us for Sussex. In Yearlings a steady business, is doing, at full prices. The duty is called 165,0001 to 170,000 t. n~~. EXPLOSION AT A FIREWORK MANUFACTORY, AND LOSS OF TWO LIVES. Between eleven and twelve o'clock yesterday forenoon Ufa inhabitants of Harlow West Marsh were alarmed by a loud. explosion, which was ascertained to have proceedod from a manufactory of fireworks, carried on in a house situated hu a row of buildings known as the "Back -row." On arriving at the spot alluded to, the spectators were horrified at per ceiving the scorched and mutilated remains of a man lying in the yard of the house where the explosion had occurred- The upper part of the house itself was on fire, but the flames shortly afterwards subsided, and the lower part of the house; the entire of which consisted of two stories, remained un injured. From an examination of the premises it was ascer tained that the explosion had taken place in a room on the: second story, carrying away the greater portion of the roof, and demolishing the wall separating the two rooms of which the floor consisted. The two rooms presented a scene of com plete destruction, the furniture and other fittings being shat tered into innumerable fragments. Doubled up in a corner or the room lay the body of a youth, dreadfully crushed, araj quite dead. It appears that the entire house was rented by a matt named Jackson, whose remains were discovered on the out side of the premises, and who, assisted by his son (the youth. whose body was found in the room), carried on the business of a firework manufacturer. The workshop was on the upper story of the house ;. but in what manner the explosion cc— curred, cannot, of course, be ascertained. It is a fortunate circumstance that the explosion was confined to the upper part of the house, as there was a large quantity of rockets and other combustible material stowed away on the first floor of the building. But little damage was sustained by the adjoining houses, in consequence of the explosion having 7 evidently taken a perpendicular direction. An inquest on. the bodies will be held this day ((Friday), at twelve o'clock, before Mr. J. Hammond, the deputy-coroner. I DESTRUCTIVE FIRE—(TRIS DAY.)—Between tte if hours of four and five o'clock this morning a dreadful fire was discovered in the shop of Mr. 'Wright, boot and shoe maker, Wandsworth road, known as the Railway Mart. The utmost promptitude was evinced by the neighbours and police to save the family, in which they succeeded, and in five minutes the engine of Messrs. Beaufoy, chemical merchants, was in. full operation on the burning mass. Every exertion was for a time useless, and the house from top to bottom was all on. fire. The destruction of the adjoining houses was considereA inevitable, when, at this juncture, two of the London Esta blishment, with a West of England engine arrived. Water was sufficient for all, and by half past four the fire was ex tinguished, but all the property of Mr. Wright was consumed, and serious damage was also the consequence to the adjoining houses. Mr. Wright is insured in the Sun and Phoenix Fire 'offices. BATHS AND WASH-HOUSES FOR THE LABOURING CLASSEB,—Yesterday the baths and wash-houses for the labouring classes in the parish of St. Pancras, now in course of erection mound the base of the extensive reservoir be longing to the New River Company, in the Hampstead-road, were thrown open for the inspection of the public. The site for this building, occupying about 7,000 square feet, hag been handsomely presented to the committee by the New River Company at the nominal rent of ss. per year, and the raised by voluntary contributions for the purpose of the erection amounts to about GOO/. The building (the entrance of which is in George-street, Hampstead -road ) extends around the east, south, and northern sides of the reservoir, and, the arrangements made and rapidly pro gressing towards completion will provide 30 single baths, 20 for men and ten for women, 5 vapour bath s , an d 2 large plunging baths. the washing department accommoda tion is provided for 64 washing compartments, &c. he whole of these compartments are exceedingly commodious, having steam-pipes and all other necessaries for boiling and cold water, as occasion may require. The plunging baths are very capacious, the larger being GO feet long and 30 feet wide', and the smaller 40 feet by 20. To a poor man or woman the charge for a separate cold bath containing GO gallons of water will be one penny, and a warm bath two-pence, fresh water and clean towels being provided for each bather. There are a few higher priced baths, differing only from the others in having more expensive fittings. The charge for the use of a double washing-tub, with an ample supply of hot and cold water, of the coppers, drying-room, and ironing app aratus, will be at the rate of one penny for three hours. There is but little doubt the establishment, when completed, will. prove of great benefit to the poor of the neighbourhood.. The establishment is expected to be got into operation in the course of a few weeks, although it is stated that 3001. more is required to effect its completion. SPLENDID STAG.—A few days ago J. Grant, Esq, younger, of Glenmorieton, killed a stag, which weighed up wards of 20 stone, sinking offals !—Edinburgh Advertiser. Viscount and Viscountess Newport and the Hon. Colonel and the Hon. Mrs. Anson will reside at Egerton Lodge, the hunting-box of the Earl of Wilton, at Melton Mowbray, during the approaching hunting season, as the Earl and Countess of Wilton have made arrangements to visit Italy this winter. SOUTH SEA STOCK.—Yesterday a Quarterly General Court of the Proprietors of South Sea Stock was held at the Company's house in Threadneedle. street, Mr. C. Frank; the Sub.: Governor, in the chair. The Court was very thinly attended. The minutes of the last Court were read and confirmed. The chairman then said that the present was a half-yearly general Court, held in pursuance of the charter, at which It was necessary to elect a Committee of seven gentlemen to inspect the bye-laws. He then read the names of the gentlemen forming the present Com mittee, and said that each of them bad the necessary amount of the Company's stock (2,0001.) to qualify them to be on that Com mittee, and he should, therefore, move that they be re-appointed. The motion was put and carried. The chairman then said that,. in pursuance of one of the bye-laws, an account of the bond debt of the Company would now be read. The secretary read the ac count, after which the chairman said there was no other business before the Court, and it was thereupon adjourned. ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.— An accident occurred to the luggage train, which contained a great number of third-class passengers, on Tuesday morning, on its journey from Exeter to Paddington. One of the trucks, laden with timber, became disconnected, by the breaking of a chain, from the truck in advance, and swerving across the up and down rails, caused a stoppage on the line for upwards of two hours. The lug, gage.train, which left Paddington at half-past six, and the hal& past seven and the half-past eight o'clock down trains, were de tained close to where the accident occurred until past ten o'clock, when the line was cleared of all obstruction, and they proceeded onwards at an interval of five minutes between the starting of each. The up-trains were also similarly delayed. Considerable alarm was occasioned to the third-clan passengers in the luggage train, who, fortunately, with the exception of a few slight bulses, escaped unhurt. DARING AND ADROIT ROBBERY._ Yesterday, be tween the hours of ten and three o'clock, a most daring and adroit robbery was committed at the house of Mr. Scargill, residing n 5 Stanhope.street, Hampstead.road. It appears that Mr. Scargill and his niece are at present staying at Southampton, the he hou re_ se being left in charge of an old domestic. Yesterday mor ning g to ceived a letter as he supposed from his master, with .directionsoelock, at be at the Vauxhall terminus between ten an e d c e tc.d leve to arrive its which hour the letter stated Mr. Scargin he conceived to be a town. Thrown off his by v notes , e s co t somasiv e genuine document, the man gu ard was waiting till after two o n i, wchwaalt e, h s t u o pptin ti g m h e is ; m a as nd ter a h n si e d. r premises, et stealing thereltom to enter the absence rour a l th Ol ie , other articles of a portable nature, witlt altered his determinati on. Drerurrnrug valuable plate, and many which the robbers contrived to effect their escape without do-. tection. T HE PENINSULAR MAIL.—The st eam - s hi p P aella arrived at Southampton yesterday, with the mails frost Gibraltar to the 17th instant, Cadiz 18th, and Lisbon 20th. She did not call at Oporto. The news is not of much import ance. The Queen of Portugal, and the. King Consort re turned to the capital from their visit to Thomar, on the 12th. Costa Cabral had been raised to the peerage, with the title of Count de Thomar. The Court left for Cintra on the 13th, where the Queen held a levee and drawing-room on the 16th to celebrate the birth-day of the Prince Royal, who completed his eighth year. The importation of English cotton goods into Portugal is said to be rapidly declining, in consequence of the vigorous measures which the Spanish Government has taken for the prevention of smuggling from the Portuguese frontier. RAILWAY COLLISION.—This morning, in conse sequence of an accidental collision of trains on the London. and Birmingham Railway, the letters by post were delivered by an extra delivery. ROWING MATCH BETWEEN ROBERT NEWEL AND HENRY CLASPER.—The scullers contest between Henry Clasper., the champion of the Tyne, and Robert Newel, the crack London waterman, who twice rowed against Robert Coombes for the Thames championship, has at length been agreed upon. The stake is to be 50/. a side, Newel giving Clasper 101. to come to London, and the event is to come off on the 18th of October. The first deposit of 201. a-side is to be made at Jem Parish's, the Spotted. Dog, in Strand.lane, where other preliminaries will be arranged with respect to this great event. It will be a rare race, and one of considerable sporting interest. The distance is to be from Putney to Kew. THE LATE FIGIIT.-PATMENT OF THE STARES.- This disputed affair in reference to the stakes in the fight betweem Caunt and Bendigo is now settled by the stakeholder yesterday. giving up the battle money, viz , 4101., to Bendigo, who gave a. bond of indemnity to the stakeholder to hold him harmless in thet event of any proceedings being adopted against him by Caunt. Tont Spring hasbitherto acted as the representative of Caunt, claims any intention of taking legal proceedings in the matter, sot that under this declaration the matter is now likely to end. Ben. digo now retires from the ring as the Champion of England, in the possession of the belt and the pecuniary accompaniment. lie has signified his intention of not fighting again, but will give up thq belt when fairly claimed, THE UNITED STATES. LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 25.—The packet ship Sea, Captgin. Edwards, arrived in the Mersey at an early hour this morn ing from New York, which city she left on the 3d inst. The aspect of affairs had not undergone any change from the date of our previous advices. The movements of no United States' troops towards Texas are noticed in the journals, but the details are uninteresting here. The quotation of exchange on London on the 2d v.ts 109 f to 110. Money continued in moderate demand at 6 p r cent. per annum. The native American steamer Marmora, W. A. Page com mander, had sailed from New York for this port, on the afternoon of the 2d inst., with 16 cabin and. 24 steera ,e passengers. We have not received any intelligence of her. The following is from the New York Herald:— " THE WAR. "We have no further accounts from the seat of war :a Mexico or Texas, nor from New Orleans nor Washington. Everything still remains in doubt, and enshrouded in my.+- tery, Rumours are thickening of every kind and variety, but nothing tangible apppears on the face of them. Some •4' the latest accounts state that the Mexicans have yet made I o appearance on the Rio Grande ; others fear that Genet a 1 Taylor is in danger. It appears from the best informatio derived from various sources, that the War Department -it Washington hasmade some grave blunders in fitting out the expedition to Corpus Christi, where General Taylor has fixed his head-quarters. It seems from this statement that the artillery companies have been sent there without prop.A. cannons ; and that to render these troops of any service in case of an attack from the Mexicans this Government is compelled to forward cannon fit for service. Strong con , - ments are made on this statement against the President; but we think with no justice nor discretion. If the fault hus been committed, it must rest with the head of the War D.:.- partment, Secretary Marcy. "If there is any truth in the accounts we have received from Vera Cruz, the Mexicans must have reached the Eio Grande before this time. If they pass it, we may expect so , a to hear of some action of a very important nature betwee the two armies. We hear nothing further of privateers, bt.t the anilety or the republic is increasing every day, ail - beit:3- -- eager to learn what will be the result of the declarations. threats, and protestations put forth by Mexico, as well va the preparations made by the United ,States Gov ernment to repel attack." • ;- { 2,