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

- ----- RER MAJESTY' S THEATRE. PLAY-lIOUSE PRICE NIGYITS. It :s respectfully announced to the patrons of the Opera, a nd for the accommodatlm of the numerous visitors still in London, 2110 TWO MORE NIGHTS' will bs given, viz, :—This Ev,iiing (Friday), September ;A, and To-Morrow Evening (Saturday), 27. TIIIS EVENING, Rossini's celebrated Opera, IL BARBIERI: DI SIVIGLIA. Rosin%llle. Sofie Crave ; II Conta d'Almaviva, Signor Calzolari; Figaro, Signor Lorenzo; Basillo, Signor Casanova ; and Bartolo, Signor Balanchl. After which a Divertissement, Le Bolero, Wiles. Rosa, Eeper, Julien, and Lamoureux. To be followed by the Last Scene of the aimired opera, ANNA BOLENA. Anna Bolena, Muille. Barbieri Nini. After which, selections from Weber's Opera, DER FIIEISCIIUTZ. Agatha. Madlle. Florentini. To conclude with a Divertissement—Quadrille Francais from Les Cosmopolites. TO-MORROW EVENING, September 57, Bellini's celebrated Opera LA. SONNAMBULA. Amine, Madlle. Sofia Cruvelli; Elvino, Signor Calzolari; Count liodolpho, Signor Lorenzo ; Lisa, Madlle. Feder. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, a nd Tickets to be made at the Box-office of the Theatre. The Opera to commence at Eight o'clock. Prices—Ott, ss. Gallery, 2s. Gd. Pit Stalls, lOs. Gd. Gallery Stalls, ss. Boxes--Two Pair, 215.; One Pair and Pit Tier, 11. l Is. 6,14 Grand Tier, 2!. 2s. ; Box Sc tt.3. 55., 63., and 7s. S T. JAMES'S THEATRE, King-weer, St. James's Under the Direction of Mr. Barnum, of New York. KKATtJ AND ELLEN r ATE MAN, (Only Eight and Six year 3 of age.) lte•cngagemnnt of the Bateman Children. THIS EVENING, The performances will commence at a Quarter past Seven, with TURNING 'PRE TABLES. After which TILE SWISS COTTAGE : or, Why Don't She Marry? Katz Telk, Ellen Bateman; Lisette Geirstein, Kate Bate• man ; Corporal Max, Mr. Bateman. Tarontella by Madlle. Therese Cushnie and M. Milano. To be followed by tile laughable Farce, entitled THE SPOILED CIIILD. Little Pickle (with Songs), Kate Bateman ; Tag, Ellen Bateman. To conclude with the Ballet Divertissement, entitled EA PERI. Principal characters by Messrs. M. Ellar, T. Matthews, M. Milano, ,and Madlle. Therese Cushnie. Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, 23. Private Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets may be secured at Mr. MitChell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street; at all the principal Libra ries and Muik Sailers ; and at the Box-office of the Theatre, Which is open daily from 11 till 5 o'clock. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LINE. IJVIer the Management of Mr. Thomas M'Collum. Information to the Million. In consequence of the extraordinary excitement caused by the announcement of the intended departure of the American and French Equestrian Troupe, the management have been induced, at a great personal sacrifice, to make further arrangements with the proprietors to continue 'IVE WEEKS LONGER, thus affording all classes an opportunity of witnessing these dis tinguished artistes previous to their provincial tour, which positively commences on the 26th of October next. The Italian Brothers, Edward and Jean Bourteller having created the greatest possi'ile sensation, will appear every evening in their miraculous entertainments, in addit!on to the popular company, consisting of Madlle. Caroline, Mr. M'Collum, Mr. Stone, on his Wild Horse, Mons. Loisset, Madame Brower, and Young Baptiste. Particular notice—The prices will remain as heretofore, viz.:— Dress Boxes, 35.; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is. 6d.; Gallery, Is. ; Upper do., 6d. Do ors open at Hall-past Seven, to commence at Eight. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Air. B. Webster:, Lessee .ind Manager, Or, War... OD. Tills EVENING, Will be performed a new comic Opera, entitled THE QUEEN OF A DAY Sir Henry Vere, Mr. ; the Sheriff, Mr. Caulfiel; Timothy Turnwell, Mr. Weiss Stuart; Walter, Mr. W. Harrison; Lucy Lovelace. Miss L. Pyne ; Cicely, Mrs. Caulfield. To be followed by a new comic Drama, entitled HER GRANDMOER lda Pinch- GRIZZLE. Sir Oliver Pipdin, Mr. Lambert; Percy Pinibecke, Mr Parsclle; Phil Fuddle, Mr. B uckstone ; M. O becke and Little Steve, Mrs. Fitzwilliam ; Polly Willows, Miss A. Mwr which an entirely new Farce, entitled GRIMSHAWI BAG- Emily, Aliss A. Vining. SHAW ! and BRADSIIA.W I Grimshaw, Mr.. B:ckstone ; Bag- Mr. Golighfly, Mr. Buck shaw. Mr. 11. Be iford; Towzer. Mr. Selby; With LEND ME FIVE SIILLLINGS. stone. TILEATHE ROYAL, AJ)ELPHI. Under tiae direction of Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING. Will be performed GIRALD.I; or, The Miller's Wife. Don Japhet della Tromba, Mr. P. Bedford, Don Manuel de Bivar, Mr. Parselle; Gil, Mr. Honey ; the Grand Duchess, Miss Emma Harding ; Giralda, 3kllss K. Pitzwilliam. After which, the lauchable comic Drama, entitled THE FOREST ROSE I and the YANKEE PLOUGHBOY. Jonathan Ploughboy, Mr. J. Si;sbee; Bellamy, Mr. Worred ; Harriet Miller, Miss Wool ger ; Sally Forest, Miss E. Chaplin. To bo followed by a new comic Opera, entitled GOOD NIGHT, SIGNOR PANTALON. Doctor Tititofolo, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Signor Pantalon, Mr. Honey ; Lelio, Miss Woolgar; Columbine, Miss Kath leen Fltzwilliam. To conclude with the Farce of FORTUNE'S FROLICS. Robin Rouglihead, Mr. Emery ; Dolly, Miss Ellen Chaplin. stOYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORII-TREET. Under the Altnagementof Mr. C. Keaa and Mr. Keeley. THIS EVENING, Shakespere's tiny of TWELFTH NIGHT. Characters by Messrs. Keeley, Harley, Addison, Meadows, J. Vining; Miss Phillips, and Mrs. C. Kean. After which, A MODEL OF A WIFE, in which Miss Murray, Add'son, Mr. 'Meadows, and Mr. A. Wigan will appear. 'Co conclave with a new grand spectacular Extravaganza (taken tran a Tale, by Washington Irving), entitled TILE ALIIAMIt RA ; or 'Alto Three Moorish Princesses. Characters by Messrs. Meadows, Harley, A. Wigan, Wynn, Cooke, Flexinore ; Misses Murray, Vivuh, BAberW o n Lecierq, Keeley, Mdlle. Anriol, and Mrs. Keeley. Private) Boxes, &c., to be had of all the Booksellers, and of Mr. if as•singh.im ; of whom also places may be taken at the Box-office, OXford-street , from Eleven till Four o'clock. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Crider the Management of Madf.me VestriS. 6ole Lessee, Mr. Char:es Mathews. THIS EVENUsia Will be performed COURT BEAUTIES. Characters by Messrs. C. Mathews, Roxby, I". Matthews, G. J. Vining, Baker; Miss Si. George, and Miss M. 0; fiver. To be followed by ONLY A CLOD. Characters by Messrs. C. Mathews, Suter, Bel. linghOch, Roxby ; and Miss M. Oliver. To conclude with _ . KEW, CHARMING. Characters by Messrs. Suter, F. Matthews, Irorncastle ; Madame Vestris, Mrs. F. Matthews, Mrs. C. Horn, Mies St. G. , orge, Misses Martindale, Ellis, and Itosina Wright. I. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Farren. EVEN 1-^;(4, Great Attraction - Roars of Laughter at the new Farce. Will be periormcd the VICAR OF WAKEFIELD. With. I'VE EATEN MY FRP.:ND. Jellytop, Mr. Compton. To be followed by GUANDFATIIEIt WiiITELLEAD. Grandfa ther Whitehead, Mr. W. Far:en. To conclude with ALCeST IS. --- PUNCH'S PLAYHOUSE AND STRAND THEATEE. Lessee. Mr. W. IC. COPELAND. Liverpool. Engagement of the Tyrolean Trou6adour, F. J. EskenS. Two New l'ieces. THIS E V EN ING, The Dramatic Bubble entitled THE SHOT TOWER. Princi pal characters by Mesrs. Davies, lt , gers, and Miss Marshall. After w.iich a new petite Comedy, entitlel THE HOPELEsS PASAON, by Messrs. Tilbury, Davis, Morton; Mrs. Copeland, and Miss Maskell. To be followed by a new Farce, called A FIGURE OF FUN ; or, the Bloomer Costume, in which Messes. Rogers, Attwood, Hudspeth, and Miss Marshall will appear. With a new Burlesque, e :titled GODIVA, THE LADY OF COVENTRY. Characters by Messrs. Davies, J. Rogers, Norton, Rouser, Maskeil, Attwood; Mesdames Marshall, C. Ilorsman, E. Romer, Morcelli, and Maskell. Tt,e prices` of admission are arranged as follow :--Orchestra stalls, ; bores (hfsi circle), 35.; (second circle), 2s. ; Pit, Is. Doors to be opened at Hall-past Six, and the performances to lOnatnence. at Seven precisely. A. second price w::1 he taken to the Boxes only at Nine o'clock ctrele, Is.; i;econd circle, Is. Priv,te ;loxes One Guinea and a Half each. ASTLETS ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Under tee I'atronage of her ,Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert. 1 , 0-rfetor an„' Manager, sir. W. Batty. The most successful and popular Theatre in London. Another Week of Glorious Triumph. The most attractive Spectacle ever produced—crowded to the ceiling nightly. THIS EV:NiNG. Will be performed the grand Spectacle, entitled MAZEPPA ; or the Wild Horse of Tartary, which has been revived, In conse- Anence of numerous app . ...c:ztions from Persons of all Nation) to wit /Ilse the tuavnticent Spectacle. With patty's Grand Scenes of the Arena, embracing the largest Eqn.T. ,, Erlan Company in Europe, represented by Foreign and British Male and Female Artists ol superior talent. To wtielude with an admired Ballet. Tlckel a to be had at tiro liox-oillee from Eleven till Four daily. Stage Maria ter, Mr. T. Thompson. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. LA4r WEEK BUT ONE. EVERY EVENING, (Saturday excepted.) Danson's Colossal Picture of the Templo of Janus in the klternal City—Splendid Menagerie—Performing Ele phants--?romenatio Concert, by the unrivalled Band of the Es tablishment, conducted by Mr. Godfrey, choice programme of Ancient and Modern Music —English Glees, Catches, Madrigals, and Bongs, by Miss MPssent, Messrs. Young, Bin, Mowers, and Letter. All the unlque and varied amusements of the Establishment, con elu.ling with tl most brilliant inimitable display of Fireworks, by South by. Doors open from Nine in the 3forning. Feeding of the Animals at Five. Concert at Six. Fireworks at Nine. ApM ISS lON—ONE SHILLING. W & TER AT LONDON BRIDGE Tire DAT —Morning 15 min. after 2 f Evening 38 min after 2 T)-Moutolv—Morning I Atin. after 3 I Evening 22 min after 3 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 in order of latitude. PLYMOUTH—Wind S.W., strong breeze—heavy rain. CHELTENHAM —Wind E.—cloudy. WORCESTER—Wind S. W.— tine. BfammoN—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—overcast. HASTINGS—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—overcast. Sowrx.smrroN—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—foggy. FOLKESTONE—\ ind S.W., gentle breeze—overcast. TIJNBRIDGr —Wind S.W., gentle breeze—overcast. BASINOSTOKE—Wind S., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. GREENWICH—Wind S.S.E., gentle breeze—overcast. Sw - nmoN—Wind S , gentle breeze—overcast. OXFORD—Wind S.E.—cloudy. GLOUCESTER—Wind E.—cloudy. CHELMSFORD—Wind S. by E.—clondy. COLCHESTER—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. CAMBRIDGE--Wind S., gentle breeze—overcast. SHUSH NGRAM—W ind N.—cloudy. STAFFORD—Wind S. E.— cloudy. YArtatonTß—Wind S. W., gentle breeze—cloudless. Norovica—Wind E.—cloudy. Irkraicx—Wind S.W.—fine. N orTINGHANt —W ind S.— fine. 1.1.-Nco HO/. THEAD--W Ind N.—heavy rain. CHESTER—Wind S.E.— heavy lain. SHEFFIELD--Wind S.E.—cloudy. LIVERPOOL--.Wind S.—heavy rain. Dimwit !ESTE —Wind NV—rain. liuLL—Wind F.—cloudy. L i , zias .-- Wind N.E.—rain. y oß K—Wind S.—cloudy. S CARBORO UGH Wino S. W.—cloudy. DAELO. GTO N..."rind S. W.—eloody. NEWCASTLE—Wind S.lV.—cloudy. The returns from the following places indicate the st a t e o f the wind and weather on Wednesd a y morning at nine o'clock : V.,truira.irt— Wind S.W.. strong breeze—overcast. KINGSTO (DUBLIN) —Wind E.N.E., calm overcast. PaTzn - sorionc H—Vi ind S. W., calm—overcast. Csewss—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—overcast. LANCASTER—Wind S., calm—overcast. w arzeY—Wind S , gentle breeze ti,ggy. SIIAP—Wind S.E., gentle breeze—fbggY• REAT - rocii—Wind S.E., gentle breeze—overcast. MISS BlLEMER. — Fredericka li'remer, the Swedish novelist, was to start for home in the Atlantic on Saturday, the 20th. Miss Bremer has been in America some two years, during which time she has travelled in all the Atlantic and Mississippi States, and has seen much of American society and scenery. Soon after her return she will publish her notes and observations, and Mary Ilowitt will tunalate and pub lish, in Lpncion, an Eni;h4ll ediiipn. THE WEATHER.---S UN OFFICE, SEPTEMBER 26. THIMMONSETER, IN TUN SHAD% 61—highest since noon yesterday. 41—lowest this morning and during the night, 51—this day, at noon. BAEOMETEF., 29.72. WIND W.X.W.—cloudy, with sunshine occasionally. 4-7 , 4 'Ol freb kt* ' ,pct • 1.1 4 • • ro},;',Y • " e \ MOfIS > 7, '4 • • o ' Litter- Ana LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 185 Wonderful as have been the achievements alrentl.r accomplished during this memorable year of 185/ , perhaps the most extraordinary of all has yet to be recorded. It may be calculated with some degree o f certainty that by the time our broadsheet of this evening goes to press England and France will be effectually linked together by means of the electric telegraph. From the report of yesterday's proceed ings in the Channel in reference to this remarkable enterprise, it will be perceived that every preparation had been made for the immediate completion of a project hitherto conducted under the most brilliant and encouraging auspices. The marvellous and almost miraculous annals of science contain no chap ter more enthralling than that already dedicated to the narrative of this unparalleled under taking—one which cannot fail to shed a lustre on the age, while it must tend inevitably to unite the most hostile nations by a friendship not the less calculated to prove permanent from the circum stance that its continuance will be mutually advan tageous. Everything associated with the great work here adverted to, cannot fail to be peculiarly attrac tive even to the most phlegmatic members of the population, appealing irresistibly to their sympathies, and exercising a boundless charm over their imagina tions. Even when the inhabitants of the two coun tries have become habituated to the marvel of this su bmarine interchange of intelli g enc e , th e r ecor d o f it s original establishment will still continue to be fraught to them with fascination. They will revert with undiminished, or rather, if possible, with increasing interest to the facts narrated this day by ourselves and our contemporaries, and will ponder over those de tails as having transpired in the famous year when the peoples of the world flocked to the capital of Great Britain to witness the unprecedented splendour of the Great Industrial Exhibition. Reference to the account furnished elsewhere in this evening's impression of our journal, will show the satisfactory manner in which the wire of the submarine telegpagh between Dover and Calais was payed off in the Channel yesterday. It will be seen from the narrative of the reporter, that the vessels having charge of the great cable destined to connect together the shores of France and England arrived in Dover Harbour by four o'clock in the morning —the vessels engaged in the enterprise, consisting of three steam tugs attendant upon the Blazer, on board of which latter had been duly coiled the whole of the twenty-five miles of gutta percha and metallic tubing required in the operation. Several distinguished members of the scientific world appear to have taken part in the expedition, which shortly after sunrise, namely, at seven o'clock, A.M., started for the shores of the Republic, having previously landed one end of the cable on the South Foreland, and placed in guard over it a party of competent superintendents. While the distance between the extremities of the wire gradually increased as the Blazer receded from the English side of the Channel, the maintenance of the line of communication was announced by a feu de joie being fired through the whole length of twenty-five miles of wire to the temporary station established on the South Foreland, constituting, as is well said, a species of " electrical cannonade," the detonations of which were continued at regular in tervals throughout the day, the several discharges being responded to by reiterated acclamations. Those who wer© fortunate enough to witness the proceedings could not but be profoundly interested in an event so eminently attractive to the philosopher and the experirnentalist. So triumphantly successful was the conduct of the entire enterprise, that long before midnight the submarine telegraph had been laid to within two miles and a half of the French coast, cu riously enough, in a position exactly between the little fishing place of Sanngat, in the Pas de Calais, and the Kentish village of Sandgate. This morning will, of course, have witnessed the completion of the whole of this arduous and wonderful undertaking, so small and comparatively insignificant a portion of the enterprise last night remaining to be accomplished. Throughout the passage of the Blazer across the Channel, it may he interesting to mention that repeated communications were dispatched to and fro between the vessel and the South Foreland, not merely by the neelle telegraphs of HENLEY, REID, Come. and WHEATSTONE, but also by the printing appsratus of Messrs. BRETT, the original projectors of the submarine telegraph, and by the monosyllable " fire" being given from side to side, followed by the ignition of fusees and the consequent detonation of what has already been termed the " electrical can nonade." Each of these explosions must have sounded in the ears of those parties who were engaged in the operation as an additional encouragement, and as a kind of supplementary augury of the success likely to attend the whole of the transaction. Nothing, in short, could by possibility have been more satisfac tory in every respect than the progress made in the carrying cut of the intentions of the two Go vernments. lamediately on the establishment of the station on the coast of France a direct line of instantaneous communication will have been fixed between Dover and Paris, a line extended in England to London and on, on, on northwards to Edinburgh, while it will ultimately stretch across France through many of the principal capitals of Europe to the further extremity of the continent, branching off ulteriorly by the upper shore of the Adriatic along that direct route which is to unite, by a series of trunk railways, the mother country with Ilindostan. Imagination becomes bewildered indeed by the unlimited specula tions suggested by this most astonishing enterprise, an enterprise which will at once render immediate communication possible be• tween Paris and London, between the Foreign-office in the Rue des Capucines and the Foreign-office in Downing-street, between the Councils of her Britan- Die MAJESTY and those of the Republic PRESIDENT. An enterprise, moreover, which will, before long, by necessity, enable us to hold a correspondence withi❑ an interval of a few minutes with persons resident in the capitals of Spain or Belgium, of Austria or Russia, of Italy or Switzerland—messages flashing back• wards and forwards perpetually between London, Madrid, Brussels, Turin, Lucerne, Vienna, and St. Peteraburgh. Incredulity may be expressed by some on the perusal of these conjectures, but whoever would gainsay the speedy possibility, or rather, we should say, the certainty of these things, must have forgotten, or may be ignorant of the marvels which have long since been of daily recurrence amongst ourselves : they must overlook the fact that while they may be strolling indifferently over the flag. stones of the Strand there are questions and answers flashing to and fro between the offices respectively situated at Charing• cross and in Liverpool—a few inches under the pavement—silently, but with un erring certainty—outstripping the winds—bewilder ing the fancy—and rendering man little less than a n.agician by means of the simple but everlasting laws. of electricity. Familiarized as we are by this time with ouch cstounding wonders, we can, in some measure at least, realize the likelihood of the miracles of science we have spoken of as approaching ju s t now the period of their accomplishment. The feeling of satisfaction which we experienced from the announcement by Sir GEORG 6 GREY, in reply to a question put to him by Mr. CHARLES Lu.inisGroN, that the subject of amending the law for the regulation of lunatic asylums was under his consideration, was considerably - allayed by the subse quent stateineLt, made in the last week of the late session of Parliament by the Earl of SHAFTESBURY, that the task of introducing a measure to effect that object would, during the course of the ensuing ses sion, be in all t t probability Qb confidedie.Eari are n to ot The ontecedeats of h d' Ice us to place the slightest trust in any measure f ar the amendment in the laws relating to lunacy in ' dee framing of which himself or his colleagues of the Lunacy Board shall have any share. We cannot but ;remember that, whilst the only good and efficient portion of the present law was introduced into it by Mr. THOMAS DUNCOMBE, in 1845, in spite of the strenuous opposition of the Noble Earl (then Lord ASHLEY), all the bad portions of it are exclusively the Noble Lord's own handiwork. In the year 1845 Sir JAMES GRAHAM, then the Home Secretary, re ceived the Parliamentary support of the Noble Lord ; and the Right Hon. Baronet imagined, it would seem, that, like "the wizard Menem. SCOTT," he was bound to find perpetual employment for the mis chievous and meddlesome activity of his supporter; accordingly, in order probably to divert the attention of the Noble Lord from the factory measure, a Lunacy Bill was suggested to him, and the present law is the consequence. " The principal feature," as the late Lord CASTLEREAGH would have said, "on which the measure hinges" is the appointment of a Board of Commissioners to license and to inspect all the lunatic asylums in England ; the chairman of that has been, from its first appointment, the Noble Lord himself. He has been its chief director and manager, be has attached his signature to all its reports, and he is consequently responsible for the manner in which it has performed its duties. We have from time to time directed the attention of the public to the manner in which those duties have been neglected ; we have frequently denounced that Board as " a mockery, a delusion, and a snare." The facts brought forward in various courts of justice by the Alleged Lunatics' Friend Society have proved to de monstration the continued existence of the worst abuses in the very best managed private lunatic asylums, yet still, year after year, the Commissioners of Lunacy have inserted, in their reports the stereo typed statement, that " the abuses which formerly existed in private lunatic asylums no longer take place in those under their superintendence," and to these reports we invariably find appended the signa ture of the Noble Lard. Time after time we have indignantly denied the truth of this assertion ; in in stance after instance has the Alleged Lunatics' Friend Society proved its absolute falsehood ; and from a quarter from which we least of all expected to re ceive such a confirmation of our views, we have at length a distinct admission that the Alleged Lunatics' Friend Society have been all along right, and that the Noble Lord and the Commissioners have been all along wrong. In the debate in the House of Commons on the Bill introduced by Mr. LACY for placing religious houses under the surveillance of the civil authority, the Noble Earl (then Lord ASHLEY) is reported to have said, on the 15th May, 1851— " If this Bill is framed on the principle of the Lunacy Act, I do not hesitate to say nothing can be more defective. The inspection of private asylums is not only imperfect, but is performed most unwillingly." Leaving to the Earl of SHAFTESBURY to justify as best he may the statements of the Chairman of the Lunacy Board with the assertion of the Noble Lord the Member for Bath, we respectfully submit to Sir GEORGE GREY that the author of those conflicting statements, the legislator who on his own confession stands convicted of having framed a law " than which nothing can be more defective," is not exactly the person to whom should be entrusted the task of pre paring a measure for the amendment of the laws for the regulation of lunatic asylums, and to the LORD CHANCELLOR that it is his duty to lose no time in re lieving from the further discharge of their duties gentlemen who, according to the statement of their own chairman, perform those duties not only imper fectly, but most unwillingly. To the imperfect man ner in which those duties are performed the very valuable report of the Alleged Lunatics' Friend Society for the year 1851 furnishes abundant evi dence, From that report it appears that "various applications have been made to the com mittee by persons who have been confined as lunatics on the most frivolous grounds, as set forth in the medical certificates, such as having adopted the Vegetarian system"—what says Mr. BROTHERTON to this ?—" religious delusions " (not specified)—this, we presume, was before the delivery by Lord ASHLEY of his celebrated Lydian speech--" aversion to family or friends, excessive drinking, propensity to indulge in the grossest slanders, a total disregard of truth, and other similar reasons." And the Committee also find that, "in some cases, where the original certifi catfs have been informal or insufficient, the Com missioners in Lunacy have allowed them to be amended after the party has been placed in confine ment, although the Act requires that the medical certi ficate shall be , signed and dated the same day on which the patient shall have been examined by the medical man, and before the party can be legally confined." Indeed the Commissioners seem to imagine that their principal duty is to screen delinquent proprietors and medical officers of private lunatic asylums from the consequences of their misdeeds, and to aid, assist, and connive at their violations of the laws ; for in their last half-yearly report to the LORD CHAN CELLOR, the Commissioners of Lunacy have omitted the names of the medical gentlemen and others who are proprietors of asylums, thus adding to the diffi culties of discovering the place of confinement of any patient, and rendering it impossible to detect whether or not any of the Commissioners in Lunacy, or the medical men signing the certificate of any patient, are or are not connected with the proprietors of the asy lums, and consequently rendered by the law incom petent to act, and when their attention was drawn to the omission their only excuse was that it had been done for abridgement and convenience in printing their report. The entry by Mr. BRANSBY PURNELL (the excellent chairman of the Gloucester Quarter Sessions) and 'his colleagues, the visiting justices of Glouc estershire, in the visitors' journal at the asylum of Heiner HAWES FOX, M.D., at Northwood, which is published as an appendix to the report of the Alleged Lunatics' Friend Society, abundantly proves bow imperfectly the Commissioners in Lunacy must have performed their duty of inspection. This report which is dated 17th June, 1851, and is signed WIL LIAM FRIPP, EDWARD SAMPSON, PURNBLL B. FUR• NELL, and GILBERT LYON, M.D., commences as follows : " The visitors have felt it to be their duty to inquire into the cause for the extraordinary entries which they found in the books of this asylum, made by 1)r. Henry Hawes Fox, and which wero there unexplained; the first on their visit on the 7th of January last, of the discharge of four of his patients on the previous day; the others on their next visit on the .24th of February last, of the re-admission of such four patients on the Bth of January, after an absence of only ono day ; of the admission, under a new order and certificates, of a patient on the 10th of January last, who was then, and had been for many years previously, a patient in the house, and who had not been di•charged from it, and of the discharge of another patient on the 10th of February last, and of his admission on the 22d of the same month, no cause being entered for such charge and admission. At this last visit, Dr. H. H. Fox, having verbally assigned as the reason for these discharges and read missions, that he had been advised to have these effected, the visitors requested him to produce the orders and certificates in these cases. This he declined, acting, as ho said, upon the same advice, and though the law was shown and explained to him, he persisted in his refusal. Tho visitors told him that they had no wish, if ho produced them, to animadvert upon mere inaccura cies, but that they could overlook nothing untrue, no thing fabricated, nothing interpolated by him or by others of his establishment to make what was not legal, legal; and that he must take the consequences of their non-production. He stated that all th e o r d ers and eel.- ificates had been carefully examined, and he assured he visitors that he had legal advice that all these papers were correct, so as to be received and passed by any court of law; still that there were some trivial in- accuracies and informalities, such as the t-s not tailed and the i-s not dotted, which prevented their being in exact accordance with the requirements of the Act of Parliament.' But he still refused to produce them, and asliel for five days' delay to obtain fresh advice." The result of that fresh advice was that the Doctor thought it best to produce the documents, and the result of such production was to show that " by his acts (we quote the words of the magistrates) Dr. H. H. Fox has rendered himself amenable to prose- cutions for misdeumneurs especially created by the Act to the number of above 280." Among other thingq, it appears that Mrs. HAWKE, the matron of the asylum, was in the habit of signing the ❑ame of Dr. Fox to various documents, and of traturnittirg copies of such documents to the authorities ; that of patients illegally received by Dr. H. H. Fox upon the authority of one certificate only, without due cause assigned for the same by the person making the order, there are fifty-four. Altogether of patients illegally received there are one hundred and five. A wife has been admitted into the asylum upor. the order of her husband, and upon the authority of one certificate only, And that certificate signed by ber EVENING, SEPTEMBER 26, 1851. husband. A letter from Dr. H. 11. Fox to a person making an order states, " If there be any inconve nience in getting a second certificate it can be dis pensed with until after admission." And to another, " The second (certificate) can be procured at my house if more convenient." We have not space sufficient to go into the details of all the facts recorded in this most valuable docu ment, to which we would fain direct the attention of all those who during the course of the ensuing session may be called on to legislate on the matter ; but we do most earnestly invite the attention of the LORD CHANCELLOR to the manner in which the Com missioners of Lunacy have performed their duty of inspection as regards the Northwood Lunatic Asy lum. During the whole period the visitors' book of the asylum shows regular entries of all the Commis sioners of Lunacy, those entries are of a laudatory character, and the Commissioners either failed to dis cover, or neglected to report the existence of (to use the words of the Gloucestershire magistrates) " a system in which all the barriers created by the law against illegal and improper orders and certificates, and against the illegal reception and detention of patients, have been broken through and utterly disre garded." %Ve trust that ere this the LORD CHAN CELLOR has called upon the Commissioners to state how it comes to pass that they failed to discover the facts which the inquiries of the Gloucestershire ma gistrates so soon brought to light. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the Paris journals of yesterday. The responsible editors of the Avenernent du Peuple and the Presse , MM. VACQUERIE and hour, w ere tried on Wednesday before the Court of Assizes of the Seine for publishing the letter of M. VICTOR HuGo, with comments said to be seditious. M. Rout made default. M. DESMAREST, for the de fendant, M. VACQUERIE, addres ed the Court at great length. M. VAcQusxli also made some ob servations, and the President summed up. The jury brought in a verdict of guilty without extenuating circumstances. The Court condemned M. VAQUERIE to six months' imprisonment and I,ooof. fine. The Advocate-General then, demanded judgment by default on the responsible editor of the Presse, M. lour, and the Court condemned him likewise to six months' imprisonment and 1,0001. fine. The Government has issued a decree dissolving the Municipal Council of Melun, and suspending the mayor of that town for three months from his functions. The National Guards of Pontevy have been dis armed. On Wednesday the PRESIDENT of the Republic passed a portion of the garrison of Paris in review in the Champ de Mars. Some other reviews are to follow. Mme. GRISI and M. sIARzo have arrived in Paris, en route to the Russian capital ; TAMBURINI is also on his way thither, and Al. ALARY will follow shortly after. We read in the Patrie—" The calm and stagnation which now reign permit the PRESIDENT of the Re public to go and reside at the palace of St. Cloud, where he will pass some time. The Council of Mi nisters will be held alternately at Paris and St. Cloud. This fact is a sufficient answer to the rumours which still agitate, though feebly, the political circles." JOBARD, the young man who assassinated a re spectable young married female at the theatre at Lyons a few days ago, though she was a perfect stranger to him, has been subjected to several inter rogatories by the examining magistrate, and a minute investigation is being made into all the cir cumstances of his past life. In compliance with his request the Abbe CCGNET went to him three days ago. The moment the venerable priest entered the cell the prisoner flung himself on his knees, and attempted to speak, but sobs and tears choked his utterance. After a while he became calm enough to refer to his crime; and he demanded, with the most affecting earnestness, if he would be allowed to live long enough to expiate it, by repentance. He spoke of his father, who is a gamekeeper near Dijon, and of his mother and sister, and expressed profound grief at the agony he had caused them to endure. He expressed the wish to attend divine service; but, as he is in secret confinement, that could not be allowed. On being told so he cried, " Alas ! not many days ago 1 attended mass at Dijon—and who would then have said that to-day I should be here ?" The Debats, examining the late Customs returns, says:— " The importations for the last eight months give Customs duties to the amount of 70,406.000 f. In 1850 the amount for the same period was 81,229,0001.; and in 1849, 84,277,000 f. Here, then, is a continuous falling off, and it is idle to put it on the sugar duties—the latter show, it is true, a decline of 4,000,000 F., but this deli ciency has been largely compensated for by other pro ducts, especially by that of coffee." On the other hand the Debats notices a steady in crease in exportations of wines and spirits, and of corn, as well as of machines, millinery, porcelains, glass, and crystal, with cotton, woollen, and other goods. This paper compl a i ns o f low state of the merchant marine. The amount of tonnage of vessels in and out for the eight months of this year is 2,741,000 tons, or 276,000 tons more than for the corresponding period of 1850 ; while of the increase only 62,000 belong to French vessels. There is something wrong here, adds the Debats, either in our tariffs or our navigation system, and calls for inquiry into the subject. The Bourse was feeble, with little business doing. The Five per Cents. opened at 921., rose to 92f. 40c., and cloyed at 921. 15c. for the end of the mouth; the Three per Cents. opened at 561. 55c.; Rouen, 5651.; Havre, 2311. 25c.; Great Northern, 458 t. 75c.; Avignon, 208 x. 75c ; Vierzon, 427 f. 50c.; Basle, 1481. 75c.; Bor deaux, 385 f.; Paris and Strasburg, 3551.; Tours and Nantes, 263 E 75c.; Amiens to Boulogne, 2581. 75c. BUSINESS Dk.).'s r. IN truittEloN &AIL vi A al' THlt LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, SEE-r. 23. Boulogne and Amiens, lOta —Central of France (Orleans and Vierzon), 17 - Dutch Rhenish, 3—East Indian, 21 Great Indian Peninsula, 4 —Luxembourg, 1 —Namur and Liege, 6—Northern of France, 143—Paris and Rouen, —Paris and Strasbourg, 11- Rouen and Havre, 9s—Sana. bra and Meuse, 314. SPAIN. Madrid journals of the 20th have arrived. Their contents are altogether unimportant. MADRID BoLsa, SEPT. 20.—Three per Cents., 35k; Five per Cents., IGi, both money. No Ex change. GERMANY. The Cologne Gazette of the 24th states that the new Austrian loan is a failure, th e su b scr i pt i on not exceeding forty-eight millions, notwithstanding the coercive measures of the Government to extort sub scriptions from the towns and communes. The Prince SCLIWAnZENBERG, Military Governor of Lemberg, announced to his officers in the following remarkable terms, the Imperial ordinances of the 20th of August :--- " Gentlemen,—l have to inform you that the a rm y o f his Imperial Majesty has obtained another victory. I have in my hands the Imperial orders abolishing the constitution, and all that appertains to it. This is very good news, but I must request, gentlemen, th a t y ou w i l l izot, display your joy in public, lest any demonstrations against the Government should ensue." SWEDEN AND NORWAY. The Oedelsthing (Chamber of Nobles) has passed the project of law on the emancipation of the Jews. Both the Oedelsthing and Volksthing (Chamber of Commons) had abolished the Jewish disabilities as existing by the fundamental law of the constitution, but this could not place them on an equality with other Swedish subjects, or in fact enable them to benefit of the privileges granted them so long as the private legislative order was of an opp os it e nature. The Government accordingly submitted a further project, by which these differences would be recon ciled, and the complete emancipation of the Jews guaranteed. This project has been carried by a la rge ma j or i ty. The Jews, therefore, will in future be permitted to settle in Sweden and Norway. RUSSIA. The inauguration of that stupendous work, the railway which connects St. Petersburgh and Moscow, took place on the Ist. . _ MS MAJESTY, accompanied by the EMPRESS, the principal members of tbu Imperial family, several foreign princes, and attended by the high officers of state and a numerous suite, quitted St. Petersburgh at six o'clock in the morning and arrived at Moscow at half-past eight in the evening. At the terminus they were received by the civic authorities, the regiment of the Guards, and a splendid staff, at the head of which the EMPEROR went into the city amid the firing of guns and the acclamations of the people. Early the next morn ing the Imperial party, accompanied by their guests and suite, went in state to the cathedral, where a solemn thanksgiving was offered. The CzAit after wards held a grand levee, and in the afternoon re vievved the Life Guards. The EMPEROR has addressed the following rescript to the chief director of roads, highways, and public works, General Count KLEINMICIAEL : "Count Petro Ancirczewitsch,—When the construc tion of the Peteraburgh and Moscow Railway was de cided upon, eight years ago, I confided to you the car rying out of the undertaking projected by me, under the conviction that the zeal which you hod always dis played in my service was a guarantee tor the result. With heartfelt pleasure I now see my wishes realised; and although the work is not yet completed, it is, never theless, so far advanced that, as a first trial, a large di vision of the Guards was transported by it, and I and my whole family have accomplished the journey from Petersburgh to Moscow. " O❑ this occasion I have seen with the highest satis faction the immense—in short, the astoundingly stupen dous works which combine all the essentials of perfect taste and suitability. It is impossible for me to refrain from acknowledging that it is by your laudable and ex traordinary zeal and energy alone that this important Government scheme, which will confer the most essen tial and important benefits upon the country, has been carried out with such great rapidity. While I thus do full justice to your active and untiring energy, it is at the same time highly agreeable to myself to express again my sincere and cordial acknowledgments for your laudable services. Experience of your zeal assures me that the Petorsburgh-Moscow line will be completed by the 13;h of November next, and thus throw open to the public a more rapid, and at the same time easier mode of communication in the empire. " I remain your sincere wellwisher, " Moscow, Sept. 3." " NICHOLAS. We understand there is no truth in the report that Dr. APHale is expected to preach in St. George's Catholic Church next Sunday morning. Lord Cranworth and Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce will be Lords Justices in the Csurt of Appeal under the new Act. Their successors as Vice-Chancellors are not yet named. Mr. Sharman Crawford, M.P., and other Protestant gentlemen, acted as collectors at the Roman Catholic chapel of Bangor, near Belfast, on the occasion of that edifice being consecrated by Dr. Denoir, a few days ago. PARISH OF ST. DUNSTAN, ClTY.—Yesterday after noon a general meeting of the inhabitants assembled in the vestry-room, for the purpose of appointing an overseer, in the place of Mr. Mills, deceased, when Mr. Utility, of Fleet-street, was unanimously elected to that office. INFLUX of SHlPPlNG.—Yesterday the long con tinued easterly wind shifted round to the south-west, and enabled the homeward-bound vessels, who have been beating about the Chops of the Channel for some weeks past, to bear up for port, the Downs is completely filled with merchant men, and upwards of 200 vessels were reported yesterday at Gravesend. The greatest activity was yesterday observable in the docks and river quays. A WHALE IN A Fix.—On Friday forenoon, as Mr. Lamb, of Greenock, was rowing along in a small boat, with two lads, near the mouth of Garelock, they discovered a whale grounded on the shore, when they immediately rowed towards it, and, after a vigorous struggle of two hours, succeeded in dispatching it with a boathook, when it proved to be a whale of the bottle• nose species, measuring 22 feet in length. It was towed to Greenock, and exhibited to the public on Saturday. We believe the carcase was sold for the sum of 40/. The appearance of this monster of the deep in our waters caused considerable excitement among the denizens of the coast; and before the monster was secured numerous boats put out to sea in chase, armed with pitchforks, spades, boathooks, rusty swords, and every offensive weapon that could be laid hold of. After it had taken the ground and before it was killed it created a dread ful commotion in the water, blowing and lashing the sea into foam, and sending the spray from twenty to thirty feet into the air. The huge fish measured between six and seven feet in diameter, and the tail was six feet broad.—Daily Mail. THE LATE RAILWAY CATASTROPHE AT BICESTER. —At the meeting of the directors of the Buckinghamshire Railway Company, held a few days since, it was resolved that the directors of the London and North-Western Rail way Company, the lessees of the Buckinghamshire line, be urged to adopt the recommendations of the jury of the in quest held at Bicester on view of the persons killed by the late accident. It is believed that the directors of the Lon don and North-Western Company will adopt the sugges tions. They have issued a notice for all trains to halt on passing Bicester, and also one to the engine -drivers, requir ing them to pass every station carefully. The sufferers at Bicester have this week been visited by Mr. Hester, of Ox ford, in co-operation with Messrs. Dawson and Woodward, the resident medical attendants. The patients are all de scribed as progressing favourably. On Saturday they were visited by Sir H. Verney, M P., and his lady, and on Tuesday by Major Dewes, and on Wednesday by the above Baronet again. It is said that Mr. Porter, the company's representa tive, has compromised with about fifty of the passengers for losses and injuries sustained by them; but that none of those seriously injured have received more than a supply of cash where needed for immediate use. SCHOONER SUNK.—On Wednesday night, between eight and nine o'clock, a very serious accident occurred on the Mersey. As the Tranmere steamer Fanny was crossing the river from the landing stage, when off Monk's Ferry she came in violent contact with a schooner at anchor, which soon afterwards sank ; the persons on board the latter haring barely time to save their lives in the schooner's boat, and the steamer with difficulty being disengaged from the sinking vessel. The accident is attributed to the darkness of the night and the want of sufficient signals to denote vessels at anchor in the route of steamers. The schooner was the Dove, of Amllwch, from Runcorn to Dungarvon, laden with salt; and on the salt mel ing the schooner floated, and drifted out with the ebb tide as far as the Formby light ship The steamer Britannia, of Tranmere, went to her assist. ante, towed her:in, and moored her atßirkenhead.—Liverpoo Chronicle. KOSSUTIL—Mr. Gilpin has given the following notice of motion in the Court of Common Council :—" That this court do present an address of congratulation to Louis Kossuth, on his liberation from captivity, and arrival in this country, and that the said address be presented in open court." THE LATE MURDER. AT ANNAS.....-CONDUCT OF THE PEASANTRY.—On Sunday, the 13th September, about two hundred men assembled on the lands of Ednagreena, be side Annas, where the boy Bl`lntaggart was murdered, and cut down and made up the corn of Mrs. Dl'Quillan, the sister of the murdered boy, who came forward tor the defence, and gave such extraordinary evidence on the late trial. It will be recollected that her husband, who was, it is said, somewhat implicated in the late barbarous mur der, left the country for America before the late trial. The stewards selected to stand over the two hundred men and see them work were Kieran and Hamill, the fa thers of the two men charged with the murder, and those two fathers held the position of bailiffs over the reapers, amidst the cheers of two hundred Sabbath desecrators.— Newry Examiner. SCOTCH TURNlPB.—Raising of turnips in the neigbourhood of Edinburgh is an important branch of agri cultural operations, and the prices obtained are looked to with interest. Sales of this season began rather earlier than usual, and in several cases the appearance of the crop was not very favourable. Still the prices :obtained are generally consid red good. IW. to 161. per acre, according to kind, and quality, and locality, have been readily obtained, and some realised as high as 191. per acre, though three miles from Edinburgh; showing, although much has been said about the ravages from pleura, that the demand for food for milch cows in t'is district continues as great as at any for mer period.—Scotsman. ACCIDENT TO ONE OF EARL FITZHARDINGR'S HUNTS MEN.—A few days since, one of the Noble Earl's huntsmen, known to the field as " Kit," met with a serious accident, which, it is feared, will disable him for life. While riding out with some young hounds, two of them got into a pool, where they were in danger of being drowned. In order to reach them, Kit, who was on an old horse, mile at a high fence, which the animal refused twice; the third time, however, he rose to his leap, but striking the fence, he threw his rider, and fell over with all his weight upon him. Kit was taken up insensible, having received severe internal bruises. - Cheltenham Examiner. ARRANGEMENTS OF THE COURT.—We understand that her Majesty and the Prince Consort, with their illus trious children, will leave Balmoral Castle early on the morn ing of the 7th of October, for the south, and that her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent and suite will leave Aber geldie on the following day, for Frogmore House. The Earl of Aberdeen arrived on a visit to her Majesty, on Tuesday. from Haddo House, Meldrum. FAILURES IN DUNDEE.—The same causes which have operated upon business during the last three weeks have been, since our last report, increased in intensity by the failure of two other flax-spinning and manufacturing firms, with liabilities to the amount of quite 90,000/. ; fortunately, however, and in contrast with the previous failures, both estates, it is understood, will produce fair dividends to their creditors —Dundee Advertiser. A man named Bernadec, of Prayols, near Foix, died three days ago, aged 108. He preserved his faculties to the last, and his death was caused by his being knocked down by a cow. DISCOVERY OF ROMAN COINS AND POTTERY IN CANNON -STREET, Crnr.—Yesterday afternoon as the work men were digging a foundation fora new house, at the cor- ner of Lawrence — Poulteney-lane, Cannon-street, City, they discovered, at the depth of twenty feet, several ancient Roman coins, in good preservation, as well as Roman pot tery of an early date, which was most carefully preserved by Mr. William Stewart, foreman of the me l, residing in King-street, Long-acre, as well as several other interesting relics belonging to the Romans. CITY OF LONDON HOSPITAL FOR DISEASES OF THE GUEST.—The quarterly meeting of the board of manage ment of this institution took place on Wednesday, at the Hospital, Liverpool-street; Mr. Henry Waite in the chair. From the medical report which was then presented, it appears that 2,096 patients have been admitted to the benefits of the charity since the 31st December last; the weekly attendance at the present time averaging 505; and the total number re lieved since the first establishment of the hospital in 1848, amounting to 9,585. Considerable interest was manifested in the progress now making in the erection of the new hos pital at the Victoria Park, which was commenced in June last, under the distinguished auspices of his Royal Highness Prince Albert. The works, it was stated, are rapidly ad vancing, and the committee have appealed to the public for further aid, in order that the building may be completed for the reception of in-patients as early as possible. Other bu _. siness was then transacted, and the meeting adjourned. - - The Earl and Countess of Bective, who have been on a visit to Mr. Alderrman Thompson, M.P., at Underley Hall, Westmoreland, have gone to Headfort House, Ireland. The Earl of Cardigan, who arrived in Portman square early in the week, from his shooting-quarters at Foyers, Inverness-shire, has since left town f ,r Deane Park, Northamptonshire, where the Noble and Gallant Lord will receive company during the shooting season. The Earl Ducie is recovering from his recent severe indisposition, at Tortworth, Cornwall. • WORCESTER, SEPT. 23.—As yet we have but a moderate supply of new hops at market; there were about POO pockets in at the fair, and '2OO or 300 more on Satarday, and we are sorry to Lind that our worst fears as to the da maging effects of the wind and cold the last week in August have been fully realised, the quality being very various; and although there are some choice samples, a large quan tity of those already shown are very interior, which will cause an extreme diiference in price, perhaps equal to 31. or 41. per cwt. Must 01 the hops brought in have been sold at prices varying from 51. I'2s. to 71. 7s. The duty is declining, owing to reports of the hops coming down light, and is now called from 17,000/. to 18,0001. FIRE.—On the 12th inst. a destructive fire took place at Bangburst, near W , :lverton, Hants, the property of his Grace the Duke of Wellington, by which a barn and its contents were totally destroyed. This is another instance of the dangerous use of Inciter matches in the hands of children, as the above disaster was caused by a boy six years old rub bing one against the wall, and letting it fall among the straw. The property was insured in the Liverpool and Lon don Fire and Life-dike, THE EDINBURGIIIANNUITY TAX.— We understand (says the Scotsman) that, at a private meeting of the town council en Tuesday, the first practical step in the way of legislating for the settlement of the annuity-tax was taken. The draft of a Bill to be introduced into the House of Com mons next session was laid before the council for their re visal. In this work, we believe, they proceeded some length, and with an unanimity which augurs well...for the satisfactory adjuatment of the measure. TIRXTIS 8 32-S.XLV7AYS. Railways, Paid. Nominal Prices, Aberdeen.. .. •• • • Ambergate, Nottingham, Boston, & E. Juncion Belfast and County Down /Arming., Wolverhamp., and Btoar Valley .. Birkenh., Lan., & Chesh June., late 331. 6s. Bd.. Do. Chest. & 501. & 251. Consolidated De., do., 201. tristcl and Exeter.. • • :aledonian THE SHARE MARKETS. !hester and Holyhead t)ublin and Belfast Janet. 1) üblin and Kingstown.. Dundalk and Enniskillen D .untee, Perth, and Aber leen Junction .. • • Do.. New .. East Anglian (251. L. & E. and L. & D.) • • .. Do, (181. E. & H.) .. Eastern Counties .. Eastern Union, class A, late E. U. shares .. Do. do. do. .. Do. do., B & C shares East Lancasaire .. 1).,. New quarters .. East & West India Decks and Birtn June. .. Edinburgh ant Glasgow Edin., Perth, an,?. Dundee Glasgew and South- West, Do. do. G. D. &C.stock Great Northern .. Do. halves, A, deferred Do. halves, 13, 6 per ct, Great Southern and Western, Ireland .. Great Western .. Lancaster and Carlisle .. Do. thirds Lancaster and Prastoh Lancashire and 1 ..rkshire Do. quarter at ; , res Do. fifths Do. West Riding Union Leeds Northern Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport London and Blackwall .. Do., Tilbury Eat. Scrip London, Brighton, and, . - South Coast .. London and N.-Western Do. do. quarters .. Do. fifths .. Do. 101. sh., M. 8413 (c) London and S.-Westent Do. new 501. Do. new 40/. Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock • • • • .. Manchester, Sheffield, &' Lincolnshire .. Do. Manchester and Lincoln Union Midland .. Do. 50/. shares .. Do. Birming & Derby Midland Gt. West. (Ire.) Newcastle and Carlisle.. Do. quarter shares .. Newmarket • • • • .. Newport, Abergavenny, and lieretord Newry and Etuaiskillen • • Newry, Warrenpoint. Rostrevor .. Norfolk Do. New 20/. shares.. Northern Counties Unionl worth British.. North Devoa North Staffordshire •. North-Western .. • • North & Sth.-West. June. Oxford, Worcester and. Wolverhampton.. .. Scottish Central .. Scottish Midland :: Do. new .. Shrews. & Birm., Clas s A Do. Class 8.. Shrews. & Hereford., OW Do., do., New .. Shrewsbury and Chester (Nor. W. Min.) •• Do. Halves .. .• •• Do. Oswestry •• h D r o o• p s N h e r w e Union " : • Do., A, B, C, & D, tally paid up at per cant •• South Devon South-Eastern South Wales.. .. vieuth Yorksh. and River Dum Sheff., Roth., and Goole, South Divisiou Stockton and Hartlepool Swansea Loughor, &c. Taff Vale .. Taw Vale Extension .. Thames Haven Dock and Railway ale of Neath Waterford and Kilkenny Waterford and Limerick, Firaterford,. Wex., Wick. and Dublin .. • • West Cornwall .. West London ~ Whitehayen and Farness York, N ewe., & Berwick Ditto and Newcastle Extension .. Ditto G.N.E. purchase l York and North ALidland 21 9 all all 95 100 all 1 13 4 47 1 .6 100 100 49 4 2 0 100 100 47% all 2b 9% 17% 19 all all all 1 6% 6 2-3 9% to 9% 4( —4% 9% - 10 13 —lld. zd • • •••1 .. 76 78 14 11% Ibjy 23 —2l I. •• •• 2% - 3 1.3( - 2 6 - 614 3% - 4 N, -3 144-14• X 49 —M 26 —2B x.d 4 5 1G x.n 14 12% x.O 35 —36 x d 79% 60►( 76 — 7x x.d, 7 36 —834 p .. - .. 54 8% —B%d. 65i 6 d. 10% 11% .. .. 6% 7 zd 91 - 92 1144. —114% 2 !8 P ';‘ 2 p. 81% 804 SR I din 8 7 dlB 1% - 9X 26 -27 dia. 45% 46 19% 18% die. 21 23 %: .4% 4% —3% dia. .. —•• die. 18 —2O 14 —l2 Ms. 3 —2% dls. 5% —5% 3% —B3 dia. %dim. P 15 —15% 15 —15% $ 9 6% N 6 % 6% N —X34 b)i —45 i 12 —l4 6 7 9% 10% % % dls. 3j —3% d. 12 -14 19!i - 19% 27 27% 4 —3 d. xd 11 -13 [64 166 x.d .. .. dis. 16 —l5 x.d •• —• •• 4. •• 'm •• • —• • dia. 18 18% x.d N 63( d mold 3% —3% d xd 18i Its% ,8 1 4 18 x.d AT LINES LEAS. FIXED 'TAX.S. Leg Bsiness Railways. Com as pan in iss. Paid . Nominal Prices. ! d one u w _ day. llerks and Hants R. 5 per Cent. Gt. Western 6 3G 1 p. Bir. and Oxford Junc.,callsduly paid, or with a guarantee •• Do •• • • all 29 —3O Do., without a guarantee .. De .. • • all 28 —29 2irm., WoL, & Dud ~calls duly paid, or witk a guarantee •• Do .. 15 8 —lO p Do., without a guarantee •• Do • • .. 15 7 9 r Buckingliamsh. Lon. &N. W. all l 7 17% Clvdesdaie June Caledonian all 44 —46 E. Lin.. Guar. 6 per Cent. ••, G. Northern all 334 —33 N Gloucester andl Dean Forest IGt. Western 20 134 25 1 , p Hull and SelbylYk. &N. M. all 100 102 De. ji Shares; Do •• all 50 — 5l Do. Shares Do .. all 23 —2l Leeds and Brad. 'Midland • • all 99 101 Lon. and Green. S. Easters .. all 114 11% Do., Pref. .. Do .. all 235! —24 h, Lowestoft, Gd. 4 per Cent. • • Norfolk •• all 133{ 1434 13 De., 6 per cent Do .. • • all —•• Middlesbro' and Redcar, 6p. ct Stockt& Dar all .. N. & East, 5 per Cent. •• E. Counties . all 64 —56 55 Do. New .. Do • • • • 43 4 —6 p Preston and S 1.. &N. W. ail_ 42 —44 X. Wyre • • • • &La.& Y.. 1 D 0.34 Shares ADo .. • • 11 8 9p. x.d Read., Guild., and Reigate .. S. Eastern all 22 224 Roy. & Hitchin G. Northern all 7X 8 , o. Shep. Ex.. Do .. •• 2 p. She., Roth. and Goole, 5 per ct. Lana. & York 18 11 6 South Stafford!. Mr. M'Clean 934 334 • 3 db. Wear Val. 6 per Cent. gua. Stock.& Dar. all .. Do. do. .. Do .. •• 25 2634 2q36 Do. do. .. Do .. .. 25 Wilts and So merset .. •• 4 Gt. Western 100 90 —9l 'REFS; SHARES, ie Railways. Paid. Nominal Prices. Business dole IS, to-day. y, :h Aberdeen dis. it Aberdeen, No. 2, 7 pr. ct. 2 34 • • —• • Caledonian 101. • • 10 7 73( Chester and Holyhead .. all 143{ —l5 z.d x.d C, Dund. Per. & Aber. June, all 3E —3l d.x.d ;8 East Anglian (Si. 103.) d 6 per cent. .. .. all 134 —l% Eastern Counties Exton., per cent. No. 1 .. all par —4 p pm N Do. No. 2 all % dis par Do. New 6p. cent. Stock 10 1034 10% _ Eastern Union, Scrip guaran. 6 per cent. .. all 936 1034 10 Do. 101. Dehen, Shares. all • • —•• Lt East Lancashire, 6 per cent. quarter shares .. all •• •-• '" d E. &W. York. June. sths all • • —• • Ellin. Per. &Dun. 5i p.ct. all 34 die. par Glasgow & S.-W. Consid. 100 • • —•- Gt. Northern, 5 per cent. all 1334 13 % Great south. & Western g (Ireland) eighths .. 5 % P. Lancashire and York shire, F. 201... 8 • • —• • dia. x.d Do. 6 per ct. Stock .. 100 129 131 1313( Leeds Northern, 6 per s cent., No. 1 •• 11 p Do. quarters, 1848 .. .• —,„ p London, Brighton, and South Coast guar. 5 per et., late Croydon thirds 100 .. Do. prof., 5 p ct. Stock, 1851, from 501. share. E 100 . Do. new guar.. 6 per ct. 100 .. „ 139 140 Lon. & N. West. (Coy. & , Nuneat.) 5 per cent. •• 13% .„ ' London &S.-W., new 6 3% —2% p. ' blanch., Sheffield, and guar. shrs., No. 1 all 10)4 1130 x.d ( Do. new, 101. •• all 1134 11% x.eli W. 3 % % p x.d Midland Con. 6p. c. stock 100 Do. Consol s Bristol & Binning., 6 per cent... 100 127 129 • Do. Bristol & Glances. all • • —•• Norfolk Extension • . all 16 —l6 )0 . guar. 534 per cent all SU Do. Waveney Valley .. J 2 • • North British .. 4% —4% Oxf.Wor. 01.151.6 p.c 6 34 —% p 6 34 Shrewsbury and Birm. New Guaranteed .. all 934 —lO Shrews. and Ches. (Nor. W. Min.) 8 per cent. all 14% 15)4 x.d z.d South Devon .. .. all 12 —l4 South-Eastern, 434 p. ct. 10 .. Westtondon,let Cl.(101.) all .. —• • Do. Id Class the. (par) all •• York, Nowe., and Berw., Gt. N of E. Fur, all. 15% 16% x Do. .. b 3% x.d York and North Midland 11. and S. Purch. .. 10 —l3 f dig. rOSLEIGN. Boulogne and Amiens .. all 10% 10% Central of France (Or leans and Vierzon) .• all 17 17 5 4 Demerara .• .• Dutch Rhenish • • • • 8 5% 474 dis. East Indian IS 334 p. Do. do. do. • • 90 . Great Indian Peninsrda.. all 34 P- D!tto ditto .. 3 34 % a 4 P. Louvain ala Saml.re 734 . —• • Luxembourg .. 8 % Ditto • • •• •• •• 10 134 Madrid and Valentin .. • Maria Antonia • • .. 1716 s 8d 7 9 Ditto, New .. 834 3 —4 Namur and Liege a ll 6 6 4 6 • Northern of France .. 16 14% 1434 14 % Orleans and Bordeaux .. 9 4% 4x4 d.xd Paris and Orleans .. all 33 —35 Paris and Rouen .. all 223 E 2 2 % Paris and Strasbourg .. 17 6 Lus• Rouen and Havre .. ~ all 9 Sambre and Meuse .. all 9 2 / 3 53 t dis. 3 Tours and Nantes .. 16 Tournay, Jurbise, Lan don, and Hassolt .. all • t 1 West Elaudera 8% 1% Tr 2% 174 100 100 8 6 8 Nominal Priv& Australian .....• ...... .. - .• IN -3% %roma Range .. •• tilaenarvon Iron and Coal Bolanos scrip British Brazilian Imp. (is. N. p.) • • .... •• De. Cocace and Culaba Do. St. Jobn del Rey• • Cobre Cogl•os • ••• Copiapo ... •••• • • • • • • Mexican & S. American Real Del Monte, Clureg. Do. Black Debentures. Do. Red Debentures .. Santiago do Cuba ...... Tin Croft •• • • • .. - .• lIN - 19% 37 -V% Of i i -7% 1 8 3‘ - 1 4 % 4 % % -- % 2 - 3 - 8 3 - 2 MC, BANJUL 45 -46 •-1110 25 -• 2 8 q 18 2 ti -171 i 2834 22!4 United Mexican 30EN' Australasia British North America.. Colonial Commercial of London.. London Joint Stock .... London and Westminster National Provincial Eng. National of Ireland .... Provincial of Ireland.... Unica of Australia •• ih3„ - 1714 42 - 44., , 1,5% 16% 35 ' —3i3 3 31 ,4 isli —14% Do. Now Union of London ..... Union of Madrid Canada :SCEL I 323 LANZOTTB. 48 49s 26% 28 • 64 —66 15 —l5 78 80 % fot tee •ptem b er. Ticket cIaYS A cco unt days. 16th AO 30w• 101 le errors of the Olicial ci correspondents.) Hen. Steam Navigation . Penin. & Oriental Steam. Ditto ditto Royal Mail Steam Settling days in the ma tercel shares, 15th an, ith of Sc] i 29th. (We cannot be anewen will not be influenced by de for tt terestei ______--------. gE 10' MONEY and COMMERCIAL,I T O CITY, TWO (1 11. ";, r e etli . mated T he a s t a 1 7 e s ,o o o f o Cotton b a tf. which Liverpool I,s y o e o s t e A r el l : Y e ri " c ; ; „ . t a il ° t o r: : taken for export. The market closed firt al Y'arta l ° l ' alteration in prices. —The Share Market was ...- ' ,„ thee at higher prices. In the Colonial and For *gn Produce M arkel " ' . 1 of the f i ri" i; has, this w, ek, been a mod el staples, and rices have keertatuetpsuvoPeraPryeYwell, 6 { b ell' forward Lot considered, for buyers have ° Sugar and Coffee have just noc gone a tile former quotations. Rice, Tea, and b a r e l y Tallow have been r b l i osl cheaper. r Salipetre has been steady, and C A e ee c Ise! f fi or m;but Indigo droops, 21,060 chests being ' for ful , the ensuing auctions. Cotton was bt a o sestl e . ,' rates. be Hemp has been firm and in request, be l ' t belv . .T consumption of Tea in London this Year to lbs, t° Inst. has been 21.366,000 lbs. against 20,1 66,°' . the corresponding date last year. 0 6 0°1 The emigration season is now drawing to a cli orobe it has not been by any means inactive. T he n et g e. of persons who have gone to our colonies is i st g - b o st nerally than last year, and' Canada eaPeeiellY4l,tioe, a great increase. In proportion to its pope' tbso Canada receives usually more in 3mi g il u il rti ill the United States, a fact seldom ` l°- j e Os mind. The problem now to be s° l/ ` - icsh r e r whether Australia, with its inviting gold ° far offer a great counter-attraction, and so pliis compete more stron g ly w i t h A me rica for t he 6- - labourers of Europe. lir g lie° The intelligence from th e C on ti ne ntal Men e Y - is of about the same tenor to-da as pre viousli' i o blio There is not quite such an animated market f°r-sti3o/4 Securities, and the quotations are flatter, with° ll - o cl other assignable cause than the usual realDiji fof profits after an advanc e . C onso l s have been 961 4 for transfer and Account, b u t th ey are n ow only 966 Ole Money. The Three per Cont. Annuities of 1 " 011 1 been at 96. East India St oc k h as been firm e 1 jobEx chequer-bills are steady at 435. to 465., a 0 Bonds at 475. premium. lithel3° _ ee F o oreign Stocks have been almost nominal, so l4ll' s b doing. Peruvian Deferred Stock has been /1 1 btli Spanish Five per Cents. have been done at °; 36i may be called 20i to i. The Three per Cent °. A ll ; e fellf to 3i 4 , and the Passive 5i to i. Sardinian Ot co unt' paid up have been at 821, and the Scrip is 2i 7000 Dutch Four per Cents. are VI. Mexican 5"41‘41- 26i 0 d i ll Although a large business is being tra ols-te oil Railway Shares, the amount is by 130 ; : e0 equalmore in to what it was yesterday, and P r " - 0 5 0 00 1 favour of buyers. The sttlement of t he e ar dia is approaching, and will operate upon prices' ecc- Gres t as particular lines have been bulled or beve d ' it f oci Yorkshire Western have gone back to SOf and 80, La 04611 :/,' e lics , s to 53: 7 : 11, North Western to 114, E as t i s ' h're to 1 , 4,i, and others in proportion. The ' 3 , tl ': cl oai 3 flux of speculative buyers within the last few l' 6 / 4 to tothe be chiefly from Liverpool, and oviegoot in large bullion imports, necessitates bijo order to settle up, but if the i r tt i3ol4 or the speculators showed themselves ' 001 t o wh r oao w t: willing sisnpigne speedily must take yst ri guhpt similar th i fc e sae sf s fe h .s a , rteibirs,oef buying money,urying apprehend' h h e 0 : 11 . e il le o r, prOce" I I ter very slow, so seriously has railway pro erlY heerl 4 - t ij. di fered with, and made the sport of gaPmblera. '"°101 dividends for the current baif-year should inq i ir t e gc e hope of the future, allowing that the traffic will • I:6 rarity decline when the Exhibition closes. y E T 04 QUARTER TO • - -- 1 ? Consolr, - , 96 -t ; Ditto Account, Oct. 14 ... .... 96 1 1 iA C ,'' BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT 'ONE O'ldm()' (From the Official List.) 4 3 per Cent. Consols A nne . 96% 8 per Cent. Annuities, 1726 India Stock 9 61'q Do. Bonds, 1000/ 47 P Ditto under 1.000/ Consols for Account 9OO EKchPrlnerßille 14d. 1,0001.... _ 43 46 P , out _ 43 46 P Small PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'Cb l'eruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent • 41% Do. Deferred IA Sarrdinian Bonds, 5 p er C en t. l du Do., Scrip bpanisb Bonds, 5 per Cent,lB4o 2 034/ Ditto Account Dividends on the above payable is 1 1 : 034°r1. Dutch 2 1 4 per Cent., 12 Guild Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates "la D Le l I F l I ii, a s ' , n 26. —Wind : bPuTlthNderyGAatnw•N—neeaoom(rhonTeear.;:nyo:tlDl-::S.0:01c. Q;itsiitigise:rwatitil' L L Ao ( bN ; nSEsn,PTEScpI: SHIPPING.—( rate L c 8,2 1 1 n r c r ld. d : oawnfelloil'Ed over,yhl . i e es r s e epc y maT e rb. s re t : : dsi r dn. d_ eg a d y Aai , wnr a ra n t dyh d . eTt grounded sooapunn acdha.st s, 0 ti t o t r s e i d r a e a t s b t e , 1 1 e 1 1 d -at hie. Jamaica;BßlSTO L A , lo S nm Er o r u . th 2 , SEPT. 2 5.—Arrd. tab Lady, Quebec. ~ iii ebi' GLOUCESTER, bum); Jane, Quebec. * Cobden, A}SE lV A i , lm .„L in p g T i . o 2 n s . , A •Clio a NEWPORT, SEPT. 25.--Wend N 19 . - -s ''' iii . • A Wi lli° Sw• • L.• Nicholson, Cuba. VO °lf- FLEETWOOD, SEPT. 25.—Wind N.W.--Arrd. ville, Quebec. o cieb' QUEENSTOWN, SEPT. 24.—Wind W._-A oil 4 —Wind ; I ; 06. Rio Grande; Caroline, Mira m i c hi. ... 2 44f rci 4 SUNDERLAND, SEPT. 25.—Wind W. S ' W D I3O Manners, Hope, Quebec ; Sapph o , Quebec. S ld• Calcutta. NI LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 25.—Wind S.S.W.; ~,I ' ''l 6c lesg ' Arrd. Pbceaix, Antigua ; Industriouspar-i-voocig' Amelia, Miramichi; Manchester, Callao;lg sr Y t S ° Arica; Mail, Patagonia and Bahia; Inconstoo:oicsi Grande; Lindesfams, Jamaica; Alice Jane , /11 1 ,5 ton; Helena, New Orleans; James Calder, Cksr-ifitest Sussex, Montreal; Mangosteen Quebec; Cla ll Quebs c i ; Quebec; Charles, Quebec; 4dia Jg`iien r Y , , 1 5 lsts" Conqueror, Quebso ; Margaret, Prince Edwards cos; Sid. Ann Hope, Tampico; B yzan tium, V elli nueV e; Rights,'State New York; Sophia B O ff 13 0 r ur bidge, '.' Ant brosine, Bonny; Staffordshire, I3oston. arl of Eglinton and Davenport. W I ! E SUNDERLAND, SEPT. 25.—The Eupbenia ,l3 f 61 - /3 1{Qc• - • Dundee, has been wre c k e d on the Nave S tone crew and greater part of stores saved. 1 4 . Si ' . DE ; AL, SEPT. 25 —Wind S.W.; 1 0 r . " 1" G re. Arrd. Gwalior, Ma n il a; Zi o n, Calcutta; eicer°'olei barque, Ocean St. J V c:b a n ve 'l: ; SL Munoz, Lucia River ;eair G o' am " b B :; i 7L l P ° r i e l,llll")7 nada Mazstlan, fur Hamburgh ; Johannes, 1 31111 7.4,14 0°. Bremen; Estafette, New York; United 5151e8, - I , rence; Honors, Carthagena. Rol itcje AMSTERDAM, SEPT. 23.—The Ons Genogelb oo d i fi• to London, put into Deltzt, 19th inst., le skYt probably have to discharge. , Bio l ir COWES, SEPT. 25.—Wind W.—Arrd. Pas° LloYa, 00111; neiro; Hesperia, therannah; Magna Chart s, Harmonien, Matanzas. Georg e ' POOLE, SEPT. 25.—Wind Newfoundland; Nelson Packet, Newfound i r. Ar PLYMOUTU, SEPT. 23,—Wind S.W. so N. 14 ,• S ::,., La: Colooia, Jacmcl; Anne, New Brunswick; ri t)ri-- geo r ' brador. Off port, Mary, Batavia, for Rotterclau;sicoittli Joseph , Si"gaiir P, for Antwerp; lioc kliff ' Havenry, Bombay; Ellen, Jamaica. ~ vi n ceat• 13 ;0 OFF THE EDDYSTONE.—Jub n Pink, al. • •- hie , AP' FALMOUTH, SEPT. 25.—Wind IV. .Arrd. Sophie, Dios, Rio 0 - Janeiro; Fox, Ilavannab. Off port, for ilaciburgh; Liebe, Jamaica. W'N.W.---Arrdd. Ix pany announced, in large posting m1NEW1N1M11111M1M1NE................. i d COITV SPECIAL l-"‘ .EXPRESS TILAIN.---The 311d1a13 , i a t A , eek , ' ' to special train would run at a reduced rate froni 7., ht , P 7, Doncaster bills, last Ns.„, fee ster.,.. hay on the Leger day, returning the same• e been informed that the said special train w oo 00 only one passenger from Worcester, and picked uPwercester its progress either at Droitwich or 13romsgroY. Journal. , e ner ol SOUTH. SEA HOUSE.—The half-yearly r c li ttr the p 0 , r meeting of proprietors took place yesterday at Ai° chair' b was Sea House, the Hon. H. P. Bouverie in the d deb' . ' the usual preliminaries, a statement of the bbb ews io clai read, from which it appeared that 4,500/. still t .l e ice, 0 A committee was next appointed to inspect the bY t i, tb° rall 3 a cte the necessary formal business baying bees t meeting broke up. 16—'115tere. Business done to-day. VA % 4 % % 11% % 16% 16% 16 x.n x. 12. l2' x.n 80 1 4 3. 80 77 z.d 7 % P 51 34 153%x.d 6% x.d 91 92 1144 114 24% 13% 81% 82 33 45% U % 16 19►( 19 % k aH. 15 4 1 13 0 13 5 24}i '2B 2 8% ' STOI rrzx " .--.- 4 :1 41; 0. .~___ _~~~r 6 6 9 8% 8 K 34 4ec 14,