The Sun. — London, England, 1850-09-05 00:00:00

list \,.................._...._._._._._.______ th,k Ntte klie y, ady Milton Franchise, Shannon, and 'ky, 'ae.w rk . ?,, km a , , VV. S. namilton, Halifax; George 1 4 thw, t ,,, t 8 erf.:d, N.,wfoundlaud. Ilzw tl4i i ~, EPT.4.Th &Isar and Helen schooner, 404"-ir L 0nc,',..., L 1 v. Uicli, air, availing with Ith's . bow sPrit, by :Ares; of wi s ather off the North ropi, 0 r0.., 4 ' "PT. 4.—The Neptune, Llacelly to I, l :titl i 1 P's )11 the Newcome Sands, fids with the 1 1, 4 45e: 4 " w ill become a total wreck. Naleo Ch -se% JOLY l s . —The Hiram, of Memel, aubriand, of Bordeaux, have been con '4l ac ' k l• The Orator, for Sydney, truck on I the Mar tttLi.quesas Island, and has been con ei hi .4.---Wind E.—Sid. Briton, St. John'e, , :t . tit ce , Nor Aran SEPT. 4 .—Sld. Triumph, Halifax; Ottet,,, Itiebibucto. :‘'liet;;;°EPT. 4.—Wind E.—Arrd. H.llf. steamer ,1110"ardi from the coast of Africa; John Peal, llktlis,tll4e. Otilitt,h,.• 4.--Wind N.E. to E.N.E., light.- 4' metcalfe, Clark, Quebec. 0)0aie1,1 S EPT. 4 Wind N E.—Arrd. Lord . 1, , R:i'lhi Quebec• Tagil; Woodruff,, Que b( c ,' Ili ; 'll',l'dliate. 4.--Wijad -. N.N.E.—Arrd. Marra, ikk itt...........____. 1, 1 )1 tt%. 4 1 Nl2* s.-. 1( 'l' II IS DAY.) ) z: 4l "rife - tf t t azal xmliammEriara.. I to ? p r i e , s. ruled „ very in.ctive tu-dsy, at abou q) 011, 1 1(11 ; LI u i eer, from 23 2d to 33 4d; Mutton. 13 51 4 4 18 :, 3 4 4d to 4s 4 i ; Veal, 33 to 3. 8d; tzil 1.4.... p r Bibs, by the carcase. '4 4 . 4 4, 544,,411 bIikELKETS. 'io ‘l O O, km , :- 4 . —We had a very inactive trade 0' 1 1 ° some instance, prices were some 'l4l'o t 0 4,.43. weak.—Beef, from 2s lod to 3s 8d; 4 ?„41.3.14ttib, 3s 8d to 43 6d; Veal, 3s 2d to V I „ 11) , 4 4 1 1. 8 4) 3 i 8d per 81bs, to sink the offal. ylall price, 4.---Plme Down Sheep moved off i s d:lailoi„ In other kinds of stock next to ' , P .54 7 , 1 Ler , B s eef, from 2s 8d to 3s 8d; Mutton, t ot, rs os t o 134-,0.1 8d to 48 6d; Veal, 3s to 3s 8d; !lOtlitrt er B , 8 , , i per Sibs. Suckling Calves, 18s I.ll t ' lB , wi th ;Zia Store Pigs 16s to 225; and k t :i.Sa t. iueir small Call, ' l6/ to 181 each. 11,11.14111,jet:7"9ur market was very inactive, yet I, c t i to ti , 3 : 2 /11 t rly km ) " 114 Straw, 11 34 to 11 9. per load. Bopported.—Beef, from i. 3s n h d ) t itt4tx t ° 38 gi per 4 8 a n) 2d; iamb, 4s to 4s 6 , a kit b... 1 1/ 4 .,,t Iviza.a..xETs. 6- le. . -..., ow Hay, 21 103 to 31 18s; Clover, %It, i it i ita„...see and trad e d u ll . litttt4 04,2 4 044 ad c'sv Ray, 21 10 3 to 41 Os; iltise , fil Ili and Straw, 1/ 3s to 1/10 . per load. Pv.3 I) P I Y and' N i,..1 0 _.......... ? „;a steady demand. • it ` O4 / 10 - " e adcw Hay, 21 8s to 3/ 18 ; 141 th e '; and Straw, 1/ 23 to 119- per load. -40're quotations. kw 114 it . ./i A ~, t vti t, ,, -a-VERA GE S. to PRICES OF BRITISH CORN ,10 dtr,„7e:.,2850, made up from the Returns _o_f , the_ e 1444.4rter. '+‘i.atiesand Towns in .Emgland and IN al \ l , 41 ' 1Z111211.4/.1 okra. 1 RTE. 1 WEANS. I PEAS. li I 4 4 ,_b1/1 1 4 44 17s 9d 1 23s 4d 1 28, lid 126 s lid tk 'lllP 7? 4' i 0 4 t T1 F° " I GiN c94N• PEAS. /1,4 1 1 E3 „ 1 3 oa 1 l a s " O'd I B I E S A' Z' 1 Is Od 1, ;1141e1,1112AAN SOLD IN THE PAST WEEK. . . 41;4 ..5,__._.._._:,::...................._._Lc..._...__it iarters.te4 4 3 l 12a,,,ta, 0,215 ;Rye, 338 ;Beans, 3,049, k TiT AI.TI 170 t Lt , 7,"ERSIEN—THIS DAY Miells —`-'IION OF RECORDER. i v . hv i I? a full )Itti , 4 court of Aldermen assembled st „ for th e „„ i t ,ls e I , y fo r ~eurpose of nominating ai . id ap -o'o, t L 'ale election of Recorder, in the tti% te t .44 Yor . t I ,°', dk ceased. 4 ,,_ F ( Tit the chair. i i i'lgafora Preliminary arrangements, and sore 1 / 4 1 (1 4 44 'site " Pal members of the Court, it w,•• s t ilt ! , the 204utitsiyuitst:t that the . day of election be fixed 44:4141 fl - ----__________ _ je,411; t'Proi,kI."UNCIL—(THIS DAY.) !i'°l'fi'vf4,i'l4l4tlti°t4th('efetht' above proceedings, t hi e s q tr. uteh wa s h . ourt of Common Council, .h 41 3 likely to occupy a great portion t ~ Chi • i' --4 ET•—( T HIS DAY.) 0t t 1e , j 1, t11: 1 ,,, 4 Porter, late in the employ of 1 4 4,, r.ti lelale druggists, was placed in the i tt t i ed fr S k t p lat o f i;! -2", ch i. le&arged with robbing his master h o , % Ili :4104 k il'.o evidence of the principal m -114 latt s i gtinent that on the 27th of Octoter als eft the counting-hotese for a few mi t% „eaati nc . „la desk open. On his return the iroicip;irona it. No notice was . taken of h. k m ifiq u i,_ng day 221.105. was missing from Ntk 11 % ,,, .Y was Instituted, and the prisoner I Yetterdaahsconded„ Nothing was heard cf L Oa hj , when he was apprehended . at d 4 h ._°4 4 l2nß taken to the station he denied l 4 t; . N s & t.ho employ of Messrs. Coles, or i i )l 4,l l 44 : llabtle ti In 1 1.0,. k ki ktot t4b litit lt EE T.—( THIS DAY.) N l •N or e kr. /1:---Elizabeth Wilson was placed at 4be kr Inahato charged with stealing from 4 t,, tll ,v' t W illiam NT' c i il .4 4 11, e 44 - Norton, 150, Regent-street. th e . soli e . , i; Pi 4 ,Pri 6 "°r, of vo l - N: 4l erDorset-street, attended on be• IY { th h " d ePOs il ‘k e t kil is tt b ont e- that about a quarter to eleven tikivcili iirl 0 t iiing to bed, when he heard a tt ill 4 r than n ens opening the door a man gave ( l se t , r e th atl and went away. He had not vtl i _, kid aced%mut Y i 'a h Put h e e, when the prisoner came 1, ' t tili iia et 4 ,,, a r arms round his neck. Prose ) I j i ii : 4 hi Y' and on her leaving him he imnie '''ed: I t man w atch. He was about going in ltiih t i t sk Lai c : ti me up and asked him where Mr. 4 t 4, 1 14 1 ;1) a nd 0 witness could reply, a eon oh, N I Plyi m „ asked him if he had been robbed, kVe t th e ~, ill the affirmative the man ran off. stOthwitil-Oestsble then went after the woman, ,1 a a r lu W arivick-street, when the con -11 Pk 46 Q 4te h fro ti , %et , h.,.., ra her hand. Y i a• "toe, ""ng corrohor ted the latter portion ik,Nt 4 m d "idellep 4 'ti t fa l ili a r eesed h ' ii, 1 01,, eli qn t c Court at considerable . , length t l ;,s, i t , •ft ( k ei. ,, when iii,l l 4 l , tl h rOa t til. " o Upon remanding her until Tues. li 'to b ° left 4 fl; )rd time for the apprehension k ik t 4 r. t the cir 1 n who 4, Jones, cu ar, as well as the ma " Who viers no doubt confederates ikl,,, Itj'--_""`"*---!---________ step 'i h _ It 1 104 L A I- 4 CUSTOMS AT Oft! t hat LE NHEIM. k 11. ,al l ther e j 'h o g 11 1 „ 1314 d,,, , ! some, not very remote, pro •:IV 041,, ' i °.elng her unenviable distinction tt l iLst . the _nation in the world which allows in N t 'etle e , t monuments of her national glory 1 il l I ltle t ° turn their trust to a source of V i lls 4 clsert ° th errl.elv ti h i,, , itn ..., and es. The system is about . , ski , cr owd 3in the course of the coming 'tt 4l,, lt t li , k b Otty, alcr the who will visit the ' l st . 8 ad • um political) capital of the 1 1 ‘,.Ple ee o.tn. itted to see, without fee or toll, 4i1,,, ca'ri!il, I.,lnteriors which contains—amongst ' t : :it ki,foritishut Illustrious Britons, and many 1 ~:', it s othe.e.rt, which no other nation has stir kli4tBteet atrn,t.iori would conceal—no moan- A; N: tb ,!'hi eh ,f [i iiFet but the word " Circurn k'S to q %, L o wile intended for a eulogy became p l li. itt'tvtib e hi t abut you" was as necessary a t I. li t t ile .., ° l e d ti;i 4 th.e visitor of St. Paurs . as . to . a N. 11 ,1 pied otth i , ''' a uey on a day of exhibition. Ittr il 7re ge. ,, to " a tomb in Westminster Ab -1i:1611,4te. neehUrchill was less . aspiring, but k,,t kt f, AV,ll at he B . _ a a l , n e e e d d not only vi . ctor l ies e ti; t i l 3 itt th oa lk t d; i a tilon vast other valuables, a a h l) e r s in a e r y oy a st n a d te a al do ll kilt! 'lure etUrssqUe and beautiful in the king ,\i' to d' 3°t °e Cent ' -Re e d Uries ago, of her who was 111, 4 0 114,, 4, k en her gravestone as 1 , to 's "di non Rosa Munda." this q the ' • ,i,t t l :t t et: ltt b,s, niedpit‘.eful distich . might well be . 6 Iliti of one 'pr her favourite bower, the ~t te w f of hi rti c't the greatest monarchs Eng- ILA 11 --.. Whn inserted the emerald in the liki k r ts 01 D N . ar k ,. et, nu _ _ . ti t ;04, 411 ' 1 4 of s!, -e redolere solet." Vk ti so , of ah 'il . e garden is not improved by h';4 4 , 4 lk ) i;ls buii"zn-come tax for seeing it. A i 'Lai, ` a Sly pea se. 01 ' the Duke on the domain, at g,_thi 4 ll i li e t s c a ll ed The edifice is not beautiful. It Nstki, e !ati not),,4teift. But it is very far from d ipit ,is " grandeur is evident, although, O ti L i :A upon attained. It justifies Swift's k tits t c hee„ y tbe architect, Vanbrugh : t S, I NP 4 41 Id lattn;, 3ll him, Earth, for he t 4 id t ti t e ffmb r f s a heavy load cn thee." 10 04 4 . N i tre s t o re as it is, the tolls now exacted l liji t l ,hop u t hilig eti e B °' When you visit Blenheim 1 1 Ito g ßil a te neata s hilling at the gate for ad ttitio,lt k t th e re charged a shilling for being i, i t ti t : t l l l, i ti t o tti t i li t a , , cl i l il e s i On the ground floor—another IL tk 0 11 ,,, ‘lO/4, a p-another for the garden ; and ~k4l)pl i " If l l' e for the drink at Fair Rosa fA'"r4, Sta Y e ll find l thirty ‘pt tt_ ,- eo ti y twenty or k o t , A l i °tangly told, " This is a very 11),„ ep Cal ,_ . • 4 ) 'Pe r be'"blill • , i1,, N 4 ! t In g the Y intend to relieve us from the Ith„tti l i l i t Y hi l ,vstit le ( t I Y People in the w0r1d...v310 ' 4 10 4 - 4 , - cUt tr , c 't Public mounments. Are the , t? 5 rev m i 'Xit Us as the only people 'o e t hue from the exhibition of their IN 'rh 1. e N 1 i, lll4t . " ielt T C------ Sit - lip .Atr i •IH-The transfer books of 0;d h 1, rid tones will '4 . \l , !lA N S Y, the I be closed from Friday, the If pbe 41, e 18th of O ctober. /Ala ti lt ,ft k , t ,,a 13 0 , .1, Il ty °1 "0. - 0th -s 'ar b oos ell AT THE BANK OF ENG -0.-4 th,;8,4„.0f October for the unde , mentioned ennui ktitii, a ‘ tit i i t A t i at ' Sto,k: r r next, will be closed and opened it, a , l l4 l N, 4 l ls,,i itt nf ei ctol ' 3 r e c r ea Friday the 13th inst., to 1,-t of ‘, 14 )1 1 ,: UN? t° ditto • ii. Three-and-a -Quarter per lip l k .B NAst 1 ' the ' Reduced Three per Cent. An 4.vt ?%, tro'loties_ fry-'h inst., to Friday, the 18th of N c4 4 r * . t t 41 ditto lli ditto to ditto; Annuities for Ytt• 0 °to ditto lt t° ll. Wttl s Y that • 1 ),,.° ti,tif lr lt h v l l 'cle' s r „ we believe that there is no kst 'st f t r• 4 ta r en tsal to accept the invitation ad -444441;t1tie14(1e1. l e v, b „ °(l 3:, of the electors of the Uni ipt Rr. Oaten viii "nuerstancl that it is most pos ‘'aPetitaltila.s l',;,.'i t : r e c t i t be made to Mr. Loftus % 41 . i era rto blr. Turner, the present TIIE SUN, LONDON, Some excitement wlis caused by the squatters lo cating on unoccupied lands around the city, but the whole rnttter was corning up tor legal a4ijudi cation be'ore the proper courts, aid would be settled in that way peaceably and without further disturbance. South San Francisco was rapidly becoming a place of great resort for shipping. The case and safety with which many of the largest ships had discharged at that place had made it a very desirable anchorage. It was considered the most ,favourable place for storage on the bay, particularly on account of its protection from fire. It had the purest water for ships' pur poses, and would ultimately be a place of considerable commercial importance. From a Sacramento paper we extract the following description of an extraordinary lump of gold, the largest, it was said, that had ever been found in Ca• lifornia " Last evening we examined the largest lump of gold we believe ever dug in California; it is a sioxture of quartz and gold, the whole weighing 301 b. (360 ounces) troy, From the tests made, it is ascertained the lump contains about 231 b. of pure gold. This mammoth piece aas dug from a ravine in the dry diggins between the North and Middle Forks of the Yuba River (the location being known as the Jeer. Crow diggings). by Mr. W. H. Jules, of New York City, and Mr. J. Grives, of New Orlean4. The first of these had been a year in the dig gings, and had not averaged over 10 dulls, per day. Him self and partner had taken possession of an old hole which bad bee❑ worked out and deserted by two negroes. Finding that they could not work to advan'.age without draining the v, a•er off, they dug a trench or canal, and as soon as the water disappeared commenced work. They had worked several hourF, whin oue of them thought he espied a piece of gold jutting out from the earth in the canal which they had dug to carry off the water from the main hole. He stooped to examine it, and, finding it to be the pure metal, he drew forth his c.se knife, scraped the dirt loose around it, while it con tinued to grow larger and larger, until the 301 b. lump above mentioned rolled out at his feet. They kept the matter a profound secret, and started off to Marysville, where they were offered 10,000 dolli. for it, which they refused. They are exhibiting it at M'Knight's Sutter Hotel, at 50 cents per bead. The ravine from which this mammoth lump was taken is nothing more than a small brook, running through a flat; the ground rises gently on the sides, arid is covered with a rich coat or grass. It was found about two feet below the surface. The young men are on their way home, and expect to realize a fortune from exhibiting it in the States." COMMERCIAL IN fELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, Aua. 24. Money Magret—The Stcck market was heavy to-day at the First Board with a moderate business. Govern ments were in demand and improved per cent. under the advices from London. At the Second Board the market was better, and Erie went up to 75. Reading was also better and in demand. The sales for Readir , g tor the last few days have been enormous. In Ea• change there has been but a moderate business for this steam r. The transactions include bills on London at 10 to 10i per cent. premium; and Paris, st. 211 c. to sf. 22i-c., 60 days; little done on the other places. We quote on Amsterdam 401 c. to 40-Ic.; Antwerp. sf. 234 c. to sf. 25c.; Hamburgh, 358 c.; and Bremen, 794 c. to 80c. Cotton—The demand continued active at steady prices until the reception of the Europa's telegraphic advices yesterday, when there was little or nothing done. We do not vary our quotations. The receipts at all the shipping ports are, 2,054,073 bales, against 2,695,407 to same date last year—a decrease this season of 641,334 baler. The total foreign export this year is 675,855 bales less than last, say 462,068 bales decrease to Great Britain, 82 996 decrease to France, 90,040 de crease to north of Eurppe, and 36,751 decrease to other foreign ports. The shipments from southern to northern ports are 6,507 bales less this season than last; and there is an increase in stock of 38,565 bales. The sales since our last are 9,500 bales—we quote:— Atlantic Ports. Gulf Ports. Inferior Low to good ordinary l - l2ic. 12 12ie. Low to good middling .._ I2i —13 e. 12i 13le. Nliddling fair to fair Fully lair to good fair Good and fine none. none. The arrivals have been from— Gdlveton ... ... ... 846 bales. New Orleans... ... ... 405 Georgia ... ... ... 795 South Carolina ... ... 1,637 Total ... ... 3,683 bales. Total import since Ist inst. 10.530 baler. Export from Ist to 20th August. 1850. 1849. Cotton bales ... ... 38,110 8;047. EXPORT FROM THE UNITED sTATEe. Since Ist of September, 1849 Same time, 1848 Domestic Goods. Export from Ist to 20!h August. 1850. 1849. Cotton goods, packages Grain—New wheat is coming forward to a fair ex tent from the west and south, but with a moderate de mand for milling, prices are without particular change. The sales are-5,000 bushels prime white Pennsylvania, at 1 doll. 24ic.; 3,700 good new Indians, 1 doll. 3c.; 30,000 Canada white, last week, 1 doll. 15e. in bond; and 8,3C0 newGenessee and free Canada on terms not made public. Rye is in moderate supply, and a little higher. The sales are 14,500 bushels, at 632tc. to 64c. in the slip, and 642 c. to 65c. delivered. Oats are with out particular change; we quote river and canal, 40c. to 44c.; Jersey, 37c. to 40c.; and Canada, 39c. to 41e. Two cargoes Southern yesterday brought 34, cash. Corn was in good supply and fair demand at previous rates until yesterday, when, after the Europa's telegraphic advices were received, higher prices were demanded; no sales, hon ever, were made at an improvement, but the market evidently closed with increased firmn,ss. The sales ate 112,000 bushelz;, at 622 c. to 63c. for mixed Western, to which the supply is mossly confined, closing at 63c., 60e., and 61c., for heated, and 642 c. to 65c. for round ellow. Export, from August 1 to August 20. 1850. 1849. Bushels. Bushels. Wheat ... 19.952 9 680 Corn ... 4,860 186,249 Flour and Meal-The improved feeling in the flour market, noted as existing for some descriptions in our last, has since become general, and with a very good de mand both for export and home use; prices generally have slightly advanced, and the market closes with firm ness and buoyancy, the conviction being prevalent that rates have reached their lowest point. Canada is in active and lower, with sales of 4,000 barrels at 3 dolls. 50c. to 3 dolls. 621 e. for sour; and 4 dolls. 50c. to 4 dolls. 621 c. for superfine No. I in bond. The sales besides Went-Saturday, 14,000 barrels; 9,000 for ex port; Monday, 8,500; and yesterday, 12,000; one-half for Export. We quote sour, 3 dolls. 621 c. to 3 dolls. 871 c.; tine, 3 dolls. 50c. to 3 dolls. 75e.; superfine No. 2, 3 dolls. 621 c. to 3 dolls. 75c. ; ordinary State, old, 4 dolls. 25c. to 4 dolls. 37ie.; common State, 4 dolls. 373-c. to 4 dolls. 431 c.; straight State (both fresh ground), 4 dolls. 431 c. to 4 dolls. 50c.; favourite State, 4 dolls. 50c. to 4 dolls. 621 c.; mixed Ohio, Indiana, &c., 4 dolls. 250. to 4 coils. 371 c.; mixed Michigan, 4 dolls. 371 c. to 4 dulls. 43 4 4 c.; strai_ ht ditto and good Onto, 4 dolls. 434 E.. to 4 dolls. 50c. ; fancy Michigan, 4 dolls. 56fc. to 4 dolls. 62ic.; pure Genessee, 5 dolls. 371 c. to 5 dolls. 50c. for old, and 5 dolls. 50c. to 5 dolls. 684 c. for new; fancy Ohio, 5 dolls. 371 c. to 5 dolls. 50c.; fancy Genessee, 5 dolls. 75c. to 6 dolls.; extra Ohio, 5 dolls. 50c. to 5 dolls. 684 c; and extra Genessee, 6 dolls. to 6 dolls. 50c. Southern has been in fair demand, but closes heavily at previous rates, with sales of 4,000 bbls. at 5 dolls. 25c. to 5 dolls. 31- 4 1 -c. for mixed, and 5 dolls. 314 c. to 5 dolls. 37ic. for straight brands, 5 dolls. 75c. to 6 dolls. 121 c. for fancy, and 5 dolls. 75c. for new Baltimore, &c. Rye flour is without change; the sales are 1,000 bbls. at 2 dolls. 87ic. to 2 dolls. 934 e. Corn meal remains firm, with a good demand at previous rates; the sales are 500 bbls. Jersey at 3 dolls. 12ic. cash. Export, fronf i lst to 20th of August. 1850. 1849. Wheat flour, barrels... 89,369 57,016 Provisions-Ohio pork has been in bitter demand, especially yesterday, and for mess some improvement was rcaliz-d, closing firmly; the sales are 3.000 barrels, at 8 dolls. 31ic, to 8 dolls. 37c. for prime; 10 dulls. 3lic. to 10 dolls. 434 e. for mess, mostly 10 dolls. 371 c.; and 9 dolls. Via. ter thin mess. Beef is in steady and rather increased request, and some 300 to 400 barrels have again changed hands within our range. 150 barrels of beef hams brought 12 dolls. 50c. Ohio lard is steady. with a fair cemand for home use, the sales are 700 barrels, at *. to 6l i c. for prime, and 500 kegs 7-.}. Cut meats have been more active than for some time past, and we note sales of 800 casks at 32c. and 6c. for dry salted shoulders and hams, and 51z. to 6e. for pickled hams. Export from Ist to 20th August.. 1850. 1849. Beef ... barrels 1,139. 668 Pork ... 5,025 4,321 ..• - Lard ... kegs 1,294 4,545 Iron-The market for various descriptions is without particular change. We notice sales of 250 to 300 tons Swedes, at 80 dolls. to 81 dolls. ; 450 ditto, Scotch pig in yard, 20 dolls. ; 500 ditto, from the wharf, 20 dolls. 25c., with some in a small way at 20 dolls. 50c. ; all on the usual time ; 90 ditto, wrought scrap, 25 dolls. 25c. cash ; and 100 ditto cast scrap, on terms not made public. Freights-To Liverpool there has been rather less firmness, though the engagements have been consider able. We notice 2,000 bales of cotton at 3-16 d. to id., mostly 7.32 d, 15,000 barrels of flour, Is. 6d. to is. 9d.; 20 hhds. tobacco, 205.; 11,000 bushels wheat, 5d., &c. To London last week, 30,000 bushels wheat, 3d. To Glasgow, 1,20 U barrels flour, Is. 9d.; 200 resin, Is. 6d.; and 50 ashes, 17s 6J. To Havre there is more offering. To Amsterdam, 75 barrels ashes, 17s. 6d.; 100 resin, 2s. and 1, , 20 e n t e o l n ia tons measurement ) staves at2s goods, dolls. 2os per A 1,0 British 00. schooner for TELEGRAPHIC REPORTS. _ _ NEW ORLEANS, Auausr 20. Cotton has advanced 4. 2,500 bales have been sold at 124 to 12i for• middling, and 12i for good middling. Freights to Liverpool are 7-16 d. NEW ORLEANS, AUGUST 22. The cotton market is dull. The sales yesterday only reached 300 bales, at 124 c. to 121 c. for middling. BANWBN 'BON COMPANY.-111 pursuance of an order far the sale of this undertaking, under the Joint- Stock Companies Winding -tip Act from the Court of Chancery, the property near Neath, cousistiug of 537 acres of mineral ground, and 3 1 /i males of tram-road, with fur naces, &c., was put up to auction at Swansea last week, but Do bid being offered, it was bought in. This is the second sale of property under the Winding-up Act, the first being that of the Norwich Yarn Company, which failed to find a purchaser. AMERICAN NEWS, L IV;11. l' COL, WEDNESDAY. By the Toy al mail steam-ship Pacific, Captain West, which arrived in the Mersey at eleven o'clock this morning, after a fine run of tsn days and sixteen hours, we have advices from N.-w York . to the 24th ult. She brings 43,000/. and 6,000 Mexican dollars on freight. Political affairs had exhibited no very important features since the departure of the Csinbria, the chief event being the Senate's sanction of the Fugitive Slave Bill, the object of which is to provide for the settlement of questions regarding escaped slaves. Previously amendments were added to the measure, rendering the United States' marshals responsible for the safe-keeping of such slaves as might come under their charge. Curiously enough, a very peculiar erne bearing upon the provisions of the Bill, had arisen at Harrisburg, three negroes having been arrested at that city on the 22d, and examined on an ostensible charge of horsestealing in Virginia. According to general belief, however, the charge was merely a ruse to obtain possession of slaves who had escaped, and great popular excite ment had been caused thereby. At Richmond, on the 19th, thirty-two slaves employed on a plank road suddenly disappered, and up to the last accounts had secured their flight. Numerous similar cases constantly occur in the American journals. Letters from Richmond of the 22. i ult. give the following details relative to a remarkable slave insurrection, reported in our accounts by the Cambria:— "An insurrection, in which 400 slaves were to be en gaged, was disc.vered at Lowndcs County, Alabama, lait week. The rendezvous of the negroes was fired upon by the whites, killing one slave and wounding twenty others. The slaves then fled. It is said that the slaves were incited to the insurrection by an abolitionist, for whose apprehension a reward of 6.000 dolls. has been offered. Large Farties are in pursuit of him. He is supposed to have fled towards Charleston. A general ma-nacre is supposed to have been intended." It was expected that the House of Representatives would shortly enter upon the discussion of and pass the measures sent down from the Senate on the Californian and other questions of a similar kind. Out of Congress much interest, and perhaps some anxiety, had been caused by reports of an unpleasant nature from Texas relative to the policy of that state towards New Mexico. Telegraphic dispatches dated Galveston, Aug. 18, say : " The Legislature met on the 12tb. The Governor's message was received. It proceeds to speak of the un warrantable assumption of power of the Federal execu tive, by direct interference with the municipal affairs of the Soverign State. It pronounces disunion useless; no reliance must be placed on the delusive hope of justice to Texas, but we must assert and maintain our rights al all hazards and to the last extremity. The only course left is the immediate adoption of necessary measures for the occupation of Santa Fe, with ample force to repel the arrogant and rebellious spirit existing. Should such measures produce a cot:filet with the present authoritit s, unlawfully established, and sinks the confederacy to its centre, Texas will stand exonent , d before the world. Authority is asked to raise supplies for two mounted regiments for the occupancy of Santa Fe, also fur a mi litary force sufficient to enable the civil authorities to execute the laws—it says, however willing Texas may b 3 to dispose of a portion of her North-Western terri tory, no respectable party could accept of the proposi tions embraced in the Compromise Bill, but if a propo sition bad been offered to purchase that part north of 34 deg. latitude, with proper guarantees and observance of the rules of annexation, it would have been satisfac tory. The news of the engrossment on Pearce's Senate Bill, with the President's message respecting Governer Bell's letter, was received at Galveston on the 17th, and produced great diasa istletion. The papers say the message will arouse feelings of indignation throughout the State not easily allayed." It should be mentioned, however, that at the date ef the Governor's message the Senate had not pasted the 10,000,000 Dollars Indemnity Bill to recom pense Texas for the country surrendered to New Mexico. Accounts received by telegraph from New Mexico report very curious and discreditable proceedings on the part of the new authorities of that embryo state. A member of the Senate attended to assume his seat, presented his credentials, and was admitted. Oa learning that he would vote against them, however, he majority, acting alike illegally and tyrannically, voted to unseat him. On that step being adopted, a large number of senators, disgusted, withdrew,leav ing in the chamber not sufficient to form a quorum. Nevertheless the majority proceeded to transact busi ness. The point in dispute was the preference of a state to a territorial government. Rumours were current i❑ Washington to the effect that a misunderstanding existed in the Cabinet. Our accounts contain no definite intelligence on the point. A new democratic organ was about to be established in Washington. A rumour which prevailed to the effect that in formation had been received at Washington of ex tensive frauds by the Government officers in Califor nia is contradicted by the New York Courier and Inquirer. Professor Webster had lately confessed, it is as serted, a premeditated arrangement for the murder of Dr. Parkmen. On the 30th ult., Friday last, the guilty man was to be executed. Advices from Canada, dated "Toronto, August 22," state that great excitement had been created by the secret sale by Government of public roads that cost 900,000 dollars, for 300,000 dollars. Public op position was so strongly expressed that the Govern ment had determined to repudiate the bargain. Our Mexican advices extend to the 27th of July. The cholera was disappearing from Vera Cruz, but at Puebla it was Increasing fearfully. The Mexican papers were almost unanimously opposed to the Tehuantepec treaty, on the ground that it gave the United States too strong a power over the southern frontier. The arrival of the Ohio at New York from Ha vannah puts us in possession of late advices from Havannah. The officers connected with the Lopez expedition were still in confinement ; but it was con fidently expected that they would shortly be released. The o}lio had on freight 100,0!)0 Mexican dollars, and 13,000 dollars in gold dust. From Hayti we have intelligence of the settlement of the dispute between that Republic and Dominica. Our adv!ces contain the following particulars of the transaction : " The treaty with the Republic of Dominica has been ratified with the British Government. A note, by Lord Palmerston, ace♦ pts the mediation proposed for the ter mination of the war with the inhabitants of Hayti. ID view of this, the British Consul charged with the nego iation has given a banquet, to which all the authorities had been invited, together with the Archbishop. After this a ball was given at the palace of the Governor. The representatives of France, England, and the United States having been engaged in these arrangements, all prospects of disturb.inces are at an end , particularly as there has bees a formal protestation on their part against any invasion of the Dominican territory by the Haytians." We have Venezuelan advices to the 31 ult. It was the general opinion at Puerto Cabello that General Guzman would be the successful candidate for the Presidency. The election was proceeding tranquilly. The PhiladOia and Crescent City had arrived at New York with two weeks later advices from Cali fornia, and above one million dollars in gold dust, including a block of ore bearing quartz weighing 193 pounds, filled with gold. The news from the various mining districts is of so varied and complicated a character that it is almost impossible to arrive at correct conclusions. One reason for this is the fact that upon the Sacramento and its tributaries the operations had not fairly commenced, and, as most of the operators there were erecting dams and digging races, they were compelled to await the fall of water in the streams before they could suc cessfully work their locations. Nearly one-half' of the whole mining population, during the months of May and June, were engaged in surveying, while awaiting the subsiding of the waters, and the consequence had been that many new and important discoveries had been made upon the head-waters of Feather River, and between that and the head of Sacramento River. This was the supposed locality of the Gold Lake. Explorations had been made on both sides of the coast range at the sources of Trinity River, and, although some rich and valuable agricultural country had been discovered, yet the prospects for mining in that country were poor. The whole region of Humboldt Bay, so far as it had been explored, seemed well adapted to agri cultural purposes, and the timber is described as the finest in the world. The accounts from the southern mines do not appear very flattering, although opera tions had been carried on steadily during the whole winter and spring. The yield appeared to be regular, although not so great as in the northern mines. The Gold Lake diggings, lying at the head of Nelson's creek, are at such an altitude above the level of the plains, that the atmosphere is pure and invigorating. Gold had been found in great abundance over a large tract of quartz region. The richest deposits were believed to be at a distance of ten feet below the surfece. The gold was coarse aid beautiful. At this place men could make from 100 dolls. to 500 dolls. a day with ease, according to trustworthy accounts. At one spot in the northern mines four men from the State of Maine were making an excavation in the bank when the earth caved in and crushed them instantly. Around Nevada City, a new town in this region, gold had lately been found scattered promiscuously over the hills, mixed with the very topsoil, where the earth was light and dusty, like ashes. There had been some fighting with the Indians at Trinity City, the Indians being the assailants. The Indian town was thereupon captured and burnt, and. three Indians were taken, tried by jury, and shot. Sacramento city was steadily progressing and im proving, not only in business, but in size. The city had doubled in population since last March. HURSDAY EVE LITERATURE. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF LEIGH HUNT ; with Reminiscences of Friends and Con temporaries. 3 Vols. Thi-ougheut the long list of prose writers whose names adorn the annals of English literature, we cannot remember one more thoroughly delightful to ourselves than the author of the present " Autobiography." it requires, we are perfectly aware, a very considerable amount of temerity to utter any such explicit opinion during the lifetime of a man of letters. So great, how ever, is our contempt for this species of critical reservation, that we acknowledge ourselves ready at all times, on occasion, to set it openly at defiance. Because a man happens still to be in the flesh, we cannot for the life of us see why his excellences should be overlooked, or his gifts or accomplishments depreciated. It appears to us a very scurvy trick, that of compelling intellectual celebrities to graduate through the grave to the honours of a full and per fected reputation. Yet such has long been the cus tom in society, insomuch so that the majority of persons are disposed to underrate, in every possible manner, the merits and capacities of their contempo raries simply from that very circumstance, because they are their contemporaries. Against such indi viduals we cannot with sufficient earnestness express our sentiments of complete and diametrical opposition. It is these people who make up the number of howlers after the good old times," meaning the times of bloodshed, and brutality, and ignora❑ce • and who, shutting their eyes against all that is noble and com mendable in these latter days, proclaim the present age an age of decadence and degeneration. Tney little reflect that the same depreciative cries have been raised in all ages without distinction. They fail to recognise their own likeness in the person of that Smellfungus celebrated in the " Sentimental Journey." Our abomination of the whole class is so cordial in its nature, that it is with a secret rapture that we call to mind the manner in which one of the genus was " put down" by the surly indifference o Dr. JohLson It is related of this un, fortunate Wight by Washington Irving, that after sitting for a short time in the presence of the great moralist, -he got up to take leave, expressing a fear that a longer visit might be troublesome. "Not in the least, sir," said Johnson ; "I had forgotten you were in the room." So entirely do we dissent from their views upon most subjects, that in scarcely any can we detect that moral poverty which they declare to be everywhere now a-days prevalent. In our native literature, for ex ample, we yield the palm in scarcely any particular to preceding generati o n s . In history, if we have not a Robertson or a Lyttl e t o n, we have a greater than either in Macaulay. Among our poets, if we cannot number Robert Herrick or Suckling, we have a Barry Cornwall and a Tennyson. As a novelist we cannot claim a Fielding or a Smollett, but we can boast of a Dickens. After the utterance of opinions like these, somewhat less surprise may be felt at our rashness in designating Leigh Hunt as one of the most delightful prose writers in the language. Delightful at all times, he becomes especially so whenever his subject will allow of his being more than usually conversational. It may be conjectured, therefore, how pleasantly he can gossip in that most conversational of all kind s o f authorship, autobiography. Out of his own personal recollections he has contrived to compile three vo- lumes so charming in their character that we have perused them from first to last with unflagging avidity. Everywhere fascinating, his style assumes to itself an unusual grace, where, like his favourites, the old Italian writers, " his prose falls a-talking of his poetry." His own remembrances are fruitful of incidents, humorous or pathetic, during the years which followed his birth, on the 19th of October, 1784, at the beautiful village of Southgate in Mid dlesex. His reminiscences of friends and contemporaries furnish him again with an additional store of the most relishable anecdotes. One while, for example, he re minds us, with an almost audible chuckle, of Charles Lamb's exclamation to a brother whist player re markable for hands more clever than clean--." M., if dirt were trumps, what hands you would hold l" Another time he tells us of Coleridge's remark on hearing of the death of his savage old schoolmaster, " It was lucky that the cherubim who took him to heaven were nothing but faces and wings, or he would infallibly have flogged them by the way !" Hear our autobiographer again in his most jocular mood recounting a circumstance connected with a visit once paid to him by Wordsworth. " Under the study," says he, " in which my visitor and I were sitting, was an archway, leading to a nursery ground; a cart happened to go through it while I was in quiring whether he would take any refreshment; and he uttered, in so lofty a voice, the words, Anything which is going forward,' that I felt inclined to ask him whether he would take a piece of the cart." As he observes immediately afterwards, " Lamb would certainly have done it," but then Lamb was so peculiarly constituted that, a s Leigh Hunt says of him in another part, and in his own most felicitous manner, " One could have imagined him cracking a jest in the teeth of a ghost, and than melting away into thin air himself, out of a sympathy for the awful." It is iu these epigrammatic sketches of character that our author is ever most happy, touching each one's identity off with peculiar vividness in a few syllables. What an exquisite notion he gives us of Mrs. Spencer, where he calls her " a delicious little old woman, the delight of all the children of bar acquaintance." Then hear him talk of the morning reader named Salt, who was remark able for speaking in his throat, " with a sound as if he were weak and corpulent," and famous also at Christ Church, for saying " murracles" instead of " miracles"—and you have the man at once conjured up before you visibly, corporeally, and most cer tainly audibly. Equally graphic in their force are the descriptions given towards the commence ment of this autobiography of the author's childish recollections, not only at the time when his family were struggling on "between quiet and dis turbance, between placid readings and frightful knocks at the door, and sickness, and calamity," but likewise on the memorable occasion when a certain old lady of quality astounded him "by letting her false teeth slip out, and clapping them in again. I had no idea," says he, " o f t h e existence o f suc h ' " phenomena, and could almost as soon have expected her to take off her head and re-adj ust i t. " Ab ou t this period it is that he calls to m in d see i ng M r . Pitt, thin and gaunt, in a blue coat, b uc k s ki n b reec h es , an d boots, powder and pigtail, " with his hat off his fore head and his nose in the air." When he heard Pitt, moreover, speaking in the Commons in his " loud, important, and hollow voice," and when the persons he appealed to said " Hear, hear," our author, like a child as he was, thought that they s a id "D ear ! d ear !" i n objection, and wondered that Pitt did not seem in the least disconcerted. Anything, h owever , as c s l i o n i g ster t s hr a o t ugh ch h ri i s s t m c e h m u o r r c: y h receives a flavour racy of ou r author's hiut mmattersnot whether recollections of childh oo d or o f man h oo d, y allu p d ro in ce g ss to o t f he P probability once the mon astery garden, he says, called tWhehevn the Garden, and in all very " Its only delicious crop for many years has been pavement." Calling to mind one of his schoolfellows, who made game even of the terrible pedagogue Boyer, he says of the former," He felicitously, , too, he not pencils otl the get it out of my head that the Americans are Englishmen was a regular wag ; and would snatc h h i s j o k es out of the very flame and fury of the master like snakdra owherfe.elhice it w g y o a n n . k " ffees, w with the poetry and romance taken out of them ; and that there is one great coun ter built along their coast from north to south, behind which they are all standing like so many linendrapers." He describes the bust of Fa broni (a late good-natured critic and bishop), erected to his memory in the Campo Santo at Pisa, mention ing that the features are so full of a certain jolly gusto, that he longed to have eaten macaroni with him—and we behold the bust at once, as Leigh Hunt depicts it, with Fabroni for ever " living in inscrip tion," and " looking treats in stone." Equally ad mirable is his mention of the fresco paintings in that same cemetery by such men as Orgagna, Memim Giotto, and Benozzo—pictures in which the figures represented " are like a dream of humanity during the twilight of creation." His words, moreover, are quite as epigrammatic in defining the charactistics of a whole country as in recording any of the minor details of his composition. Having observed that "Italy is a land of volcanoes, more or less subdued," he suddenly exclaims, "it is a great grapery, built over a flue." When commenting on the sense of wonder with which the Italians regard British hardihood and rashness, he remarks that " An English mail-coach, with that cauliflower of human beings a-top of it, bumping from side to side, would make the hearts of a Tuscan city die within them." Once w hil e , expatiaating on the picturesque appearance of the Genoese domiciles, he says, " some of the windows have vines trailed over them, not in the scanty fashion of our creepers, but like great luxuriant green hair hanging over the house's eyes"—a description somewhat kindred to one in the sixteenth number of " David Copperfield." If our author, who has a keen eye for colour, sees a fisherman with a red cap on, floating in his boat across the bay of Naples, he says of the cap, i t i s like a scarlet bud in the blue atmosphere." He meets in Piedmont with an Italian gentleman, Whose name, says he, " was a piece of music—Luigi Rivarola." Who can describe a sailor's la alk aboard ship during rough weather better than Leigh Hunt ? tt He rolled about," says he, speaking of a genuine Jack Tar—" he rolled about with the vessel as if his feet had suckers" The w h o l e account given in this por tion of the " Autobiography" of the . voyage towards the Mediterranean, when "the winds and rain toge ther ran blind and howling along the vessel's side," • is worthy, in its surprising vividness, of a similar in cident in the history of Pantagruel. The boat, into the small cabin of which the author and his family k were huddled, in its tumbling about is said to have ING, SEPTEMBE " looked like a wash-house in a fit." " Here it was," be writes, I did toy best to do my duty and keep up the spirits of those at out me ; and your nervousness being a great dealer in your joke fantastic, I succeeded apparently with all, and certainly with the children." Of his success with his children he gives an illustration, in which the droll and the horrid are strangely mixed together. Some unfortunate ducks were on this vessel, " kept in miserable coops, over which the sea constantly break ing, the poor wretches were drenched and beaten to death." Having mentioned this, Leigh Hunt descends to the consideration of his children in the cabin be low, who, not being aware of any danger, " were as gay as confinement and uneasy beds would allow them to be. With the poor ducks," he continues, "I made them very merry one night by telling them to listen when the next sea broke over us, and they would hear an acquaintance of theirs laughing. The noise they made with their quacking, when they gathered breath after the suffocation of the salt water, was exactly like what I said : the children listened, and at every fresh agony there was a shout." To us the whole scene is wonderfully natural. Although our author, in his way of recording it, deals for once rather lightly with the painful, be is exquisitely sensitive in regard to the horrible, as may be seen from his manner of re counting the following hideous act of cruelty : "It was during ley infancy, if I am not mistaken, that there lived at Hampstead (a very unfit place for such a resident), a man whose name I suppress lust there should be possessors of is surviving, and who was a famous cock-fighter. He was rich and idle, and there. fore had no bounds to set to the unhappy passions that raged within him. It is related of this man, that, having lost a bet on a favourite bird, he tied the noble animal to a spit in his kitchen before the fire, and notwithstand ing the screams of the sufferer and the indignant cries of the beholders, whose interference he wildly resisted with the poker, actually persisted in keeping it there burning, till he fell down in his fury and died." Insomuch has the writer of this autobiography an abhorrence of regarding the pain of any living crea ture with indifference that for the first time, perhaps, since the death of the father of angling, he here speaks with peculiar severity of Izaac Walton. As a species of relief to the last quotation we transcribe the fol lowing most humorous description, in which the author is alluding to the period of the threatened in vasion of England by the French, when he himself - was enrolled among the St. James's Volunteers : " We had been a regiment for some time, without a colonel. The colonel was always about to be declared, but declared he was not; and meantime we mustered about a thousand strong; and were much amazed, and, perhaps, a little indignant. At length the moment ar rived—the colonel was named; he was to be introduced to us; and that nothing might be wanting to our dignity, he was a lord, and a friend of the minister, and nephew to the victor aforesaid. Our parade was the court-yard of Burlington House. The whole regiment attended. We occupied three sides of the ground. In front of us were the great gates, longing to be opened. Suddenly the word is given, ➢ly iord is at hand!' Open burst the gates —up strikes the music. 'Pre.ent arms!' vociferates the major. "In dashes his lordship, and is pitched right over his horse's head to the ground. " It was the most unfortunate anticlimax that could have happened. Skill, grace, vigour. address, example, ascendancy, mastery, victory, all were, in a manner, to have been presented to us in the heroical person of the noble colonel; and here they were, prostrated at our feet —ejected—cast out—humiliated—ground to the earth; subjected (for his merciful construction) to the least fellow-soldier that stood among us, upright on his feet." In the midst of the intense drollery of this description, we can detect the sarcastic tone of the author of " Captain Sword and Captain Pen ;" as also in the witty sentence previously occurring, that " a bullet is of all pills the one that most requires gilding." Occasionally our author takes too broad a license with the language, as where he coins such words as " unforgivingnebs," " untimeli ness," and " unyieldingness. ' But whenever, as it sometimes happens, his verbal coinage is for the sake of a joke we welcome it with rejoicing instead of depreciation. It is thus on the occa sion when a friend gives him a vine stick as a souvenir of Italian scenery. The giver, he says with a jocularity that would have tickled Elia amazingly, " came to Mariano to take leave of us ; so we christened the stick, as they do a seventy-four, and he stood rod-father." From the more serious sections of the narrative we would eagerly present to our readers those in which Leigh Hunt makes his peace with the memories of Lord Byron and Sir Wal ter Scott, writing of them both in a manner that does honour to his gentleness of heart, and proves be yond all gainsaying his manliness and magnanimity. As about the most attractive features in the auto biography, we reserve them for the perusal of all persons in the original, satisfied that by so doing we shall be holding out to the intelligent a scarcely re sistible temptation. One passage, however, relating to Sir Walter Scott, we must be permitted to transcribe—it is a passage which, as far as the esti mation of the noble-minded is concerned, will be like crowning Leigh Hunt with a crown of laurels :-- "It can be of no consequence to the memory of such a man what I said or thought of him, whether before his death or after; but for my own sake, since I am forced to speak of such things in a work like the present, I may be allowed to state, that whatever hostility I was forced to maintain with his politics, and so far with him self, I had the pleasure of expressing my regret for the mistakes which I bad made about him, long before I ex perienced their ill t frees. I will add, that long after those effects, and when he was lying sick in London on his way to his last home, I called every morning at his door (anonymously; fur I doubttd whether my name would please him) to furnish a respectful bulletin of his health to a daily paper, in which I suggested its appear ance; and I will not conceal, that as I loved the huma nities in his wonderful pages, in spite of the politics which accompanied them, so I mourned for his closing days, and shed tears at his death." It is said by our author, when speaking of Sir Walter in regard to genius, that he was " perhaps the least quotable for sententiousness, or wit, or any other memorable brevity, in the whole circle of illustrious writers." The remark is novel to us, and, we cannot help thinking no less correct than novel. Certainly the same thing cannot be said of Leigh Hunt himself; of which, if further il lustration be required, we could give them from this very work before us abundantly. Thus, for its sen tentious humour, the following mention of Mr. Kin naird is to the last degree admirable—it is in evidence of his loyalty :—" After dinner he b egge d that God save the King' might be played to him on the piano forte; to which he listened as f his soul had taken its hat off." Contrasting broadly with this, what a fine thought that is that the world is not old enough to know better than it does, " because we yet live but in the tuning of its instruments." Of poetry Leigh Hunt always talks with the taste and genius of one qualified to discourse on that divine inspiration. In stance this his question, " Who does not learn to love everything in the all-embracing sweetness of poetry ?" And again, "It is our business to be grateful for what a poet sets before us, rather than to be wishing that his peaches were nectarines, or his Falernian champagne." One more laughable anec dote we must cull from this delightful autobiography. It is as follows : " An amusing story is told of Thornton, which may show the quick and ingenious, but, perhaps, not very feeling turn of his mind. It is said that he was once dis covered by his father sitting in a box at the theatre, when he ought to have been in his rooms at college. The old gentleman addressing him accordingly, that youngster turned in pretended amazement to the people about him, and said, Smoke old wigsby, who takes me for his son.' Thornton, senior, upon this, indignantly hastens out of the box, with the manifest intention of setting off for Oxford, and finding the rooms vacant. Thornton, junior, takes double post-horses, and is there before him, quietly sitting in his chair. He rises from it on his father's appearance, and cries, Ah, dear sir, is it you? To what am I indebted for this unexpected pleasure?'" In writing with the gusto of a humorist of the meet ing between the little Prince of Monaco and the Emperor Napoleon, Leigh Hunt expresses an uncer tainty as to whether it took place on the occasion of Napoleon's journey to or his return from Elba. It was in the vicinity of - Cannes, at the commencement of the triumphal march to Paris, which inaugurated the famous Hundred Days. Another portion of the work, which having simply regard to details,seems to us to require emendation, is that in which our author, with out naming his authorities, fixes Cuccaro as the birth place of Columbus. Apart from all such minor particulars, these three volumes of " Autobio graphy" form an inestimable contribution towards the history of British literature. They 3 ield, moreover, a thousand beautiful tokens of excellence, on the part of their writer, justifying those who have come to look upon his name as one among their "household words," a name associated with the love of Paulo, and the woods of Rimini, and those pastoral charms abounding in our English land scapes, in the delineation of which, in melodious verse, Leigh Hunt has acquired for himself a sweet and enviable celebrity. Between the publication of his Autobiography and the present criticism upon it, the author's elder brother (mentioned affectionately in its pages) has breathed his last, a circumstance which can only tend to increase the sympathies to wards Leigh Hunt of those who, like ourselves, know him merely through his writings, while it can only deepen their aspirations for his owls longevity. When penetration is guided by malevolence and hate, it sees only that which is superficial; but when bene volence and love direct it, it fathoms men and things, and may hope to attain unto the most elevated mysteries. Eliza Cook's Journal. CONVICTS FOR HOBART TOWN,—The hired convict ship Hyderabad is appointed to sail from Queenstown, Ireland, with 400 male convicts, on Thursday next. • _ _ We understand that Captain Herbert Wynn, of the 7th Fusiliers, will offer himself as a candidate for the representation of the county of Montgomery, on Protectionist principles, in consequence of the death of his uncle, the Right lion. Charles Williams Wynn.—Herald. R 5, 1850. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. It is rumoured in naval eirclei that Lord Francis Russell, brother of the Premier, is about to resign the command of her Majesty's ship Tweed. The reason assigned for this step is o ins;, it is stated, to a reproof administered to his Lordship by the Admi ralty for not taking proper precautions to secure the health of his crew during the prevalence of the fearful epidemic that has ravaged nearly the whole of the south-east coast of America. We have received letters from our private corre spondent in the Tagus up to the 29th of August ; at that time Commodore Martin's squadron was lying there, with the exception of the Encounter and Con flict ; the former would probably proceed to the Me diterranean to join the fleet under Admiral Sir Wil liam Parker. The latter vessel was to go on to Gib raltar, and return with stores for the Lisbon squadron. The late order issued by the Admiralty for the ad mission of assistant surgeons into the ward and gun rooms has given general satisfaction ; and, on board the Prince tteßent (the commodore's ship), the com mander and his messmates did not wait for the issue of the general order, hut immediately on the arrival of the packet announcing the decision of the board they invited Dr. M'Leod and his two brother officers to join their mess, where they were received in the most cordial manner. In our list of ships now in commission we acci dentally omitted the Cygnet, brig, of 8-guns and 80 men ; the Dolphin, brigantine, of 3-guns and 65 men—both on their way to the coast of Africa. We also did not insert the names of three or four small tenders at Sheerness, as their crews are borne on the books of the flag-ship—their names are, the Rennie, Hope, Ceres, and Thames. The Firefly, steam-sloop, 3 guns a n d 220-horse power, has been commissioned at Woolwich,. by Commander George A. Seymour • she will take out the October mail to the coast of Africa. PORTSMOUTH, WEDNESDAY.—The Lords of the Ad miralty embarked last night, about 8 o'clock, on board their yacht, the Black Eagle, for the Channel Islands, and, most probably, Cherbourg. . This morning the Lightning steam-vessel, Vice Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane,' Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Napier, and other distinguished officers on board, sailed at 8 o'clock for Cherbourg. The Fire Queen steam-yacht, with Captain Cheds, C. 8., on board, and a large party of . offlOrs of the Royal Naval College, also sailed this 'indrping, Cherbourg. The steam-packets Prince. Albert and Lindsey, the property of the local steam-packet companies, also sailed this morning for Cherbourg, well freighted with passengers to witness the gr a nd review of the French fleet. • . The Blenheim Indiaman, one of the fleet of Messrs. Smith, sailed at 6 o'clock yesterday evening' for . cutta. This splendid ship is' frigate-built, is pierced for 48 guns, and has been pronounce'd by the dock yard authorities as quite Oble to carry that number of, 32-pounders. She is 1,660 tons, builders' measure ment, and 210 feet from stem to stern. The officers of her Majesty's ship Blenheim, 60, Captain Hen derson, C. 8., lying at Spithead, spent a considerable time on board, and expressed their admiration of their namesake in marked terms. On leaving the ship the men, the crews of her Majesty's ships and officers, gave the Indiaman three hearty cheers and one cheer more for her prosperous voyage and safe return, which were acknowledged right lustily. She then set sail with a full and valuable cargo, and every cabin occupied. The Fanny tender, Second Master S car l e tt, sa il e d this morning, with a large party of naval officers, for Cherbourg. The Dragon steam-frigate, Captain Giffard, went out of harbour to Spithead this morning. The Portsmouth yacht sailed this merning, with Captain Charles Eden and party, for Cherbourg. PLYMOUTH, SEPT. 3.—Admiral de Mackau, formerly Minister of Marine for France under Louis Philippe ; le Comte de Kerouartz, Capitain de Frigate ; and M. Fourgunot, arrived on Monday at Elliott's Royal Hotel. They have called on the Port Admiral Sir William Hall Gage, Commodore Superintendent Lord John Hay, and the heads of other public de partments, have visited the dockyard and inspected men-of-war, &c. These distinguished visitors leave to-morrow (Wednesday) for London. The Lord's Commissioners of the Admiralty are expected here, on an official visit, on Thursday. Commcdore-Superintendent Lord John Hay hoisted his broad pennant on board the St. George, at twelve P.M. on Friday, when she was put in com mission. Admiral Moresby hoisted his flag, blue at the mizi.n, on board the Portland, Captain Henry Chad, on Monday. In the evening it was struck again, the Admiral having gone on leave of absence. The crew oftfie packet-brig Crane were paid wages on Monday, when she sailed for Plymouth. The steamer Flamer is hourly expected. On ar rival her crew are to be pain wages, and she is to convey the mails to the coast of Africa, touching at Madeira. Le Sanspareil block-ship will not be launched until the first spring-tides in October. The frigate Trincomalee and the brigantine Pan dora are ordered to be brought forward for commis sion; and the steam vessels Vulture, Vesuvius, and Vir ago are also to be brought forward. One hundr d and forty shipwrights have been taken from Le Sanspareil and placed on the Portland, to get her in readiness to be taken out of dock the next spring-tides. She is very defective, and will require to be lifted, caulked, and new coppered. It is stated that the Dublin, America, or Lancaster could be got ready in much less time. Wind—N.W., light breeze. APPOINTMENTS. Woomvica, SEPT: 4.—Commander George A. Seymour (1845), to the Firefly steam-vessel, of 220- horse power, commissioned this day at Woolwich. Lieutenant John Trevenan (1850), recently pro moted from the Ocean, 80, flag-ship at Sheerness, to the Firefly. Lieutenant John Corbett (1846) to the Excellent gunnery-ship at Portsmouth. Acting -Master G. It. Barnes (second master of 1846), to the Firefly. Paymaster and Purser (acting) William Thom, re cently Clerk of the Victory flag. ship at Portsmouth, to the Firefly. Midshipman Edward White, to the Por*and, 50, flag-ship of Rear. Admiral Moresby, C. 8., for the Pacific station. Master's-Assistants James H. Laurence and John Jones, to the Firefly. Clerk G. W. S. Hire (1850), to the Firefly. Naval Cadet John Liddel, to the Portland. Acting Gunner John Metchear, to the Firefly. The Buzzard steam-sloop has had her bottom covered with copper sheathing, and was taken out of the dock to-day, and placed under the shears at the west side of the basin. The Rosamond, 6, steam-sloop, of 287-horse power, was taken out of the inner basin to-day and into the dock vacated by the Buzzard being taken out. The Wasp steam-sloop will be ready for commis sion by the end of the present month, and commis sioned in the early part of October to take out the November mails to the coast of Af r i ca , w h ere s h e i s to be stationed. It is the intention of th e au th or i t i es to send steamers only in future to the coas t o f Af r i ca , as they are the most efficient for the supp ress i on o f the slave trade. The sailing vessels are to be all withdrawn so soon as a sufficient number o f s t eamers can be got ready to take their places. THE SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH BETWEEN CALAIS AND DOVER. DOVER, The c w i ret asunder n successfully among submerged last week WEDNEA h Ir a7 b the rocks at Cape Grisnez , where the physical con figuration of the French coast has been found unfa vourableplace of holdfast or fi x t ure. All communication for ati i n n coast and co as t has oo conse quently been ot suspended for the pres en t. Th e precise point where the breakage took place is 200 y ar d s out ass twee a - t sea, and just where the twenty miles of electric line that had been streamed out from Dover joins on to a leaden tube, designed to protect it from the surge beating against the beach, and which serves the pur pose of conveying it up the front of the cliff to the telegraph station on the top.-,This leaden conductor, it would a ppear, was of t oo so f t a texture to resist the oscillation of the sea, and thereby became detached from the coil of gutta percha wire that was thought to have been safely encased in it. The occurrence was, of course, quickly detected by the sudden cessation of the series of communications that have been sustained since the first sinking of the electric cable between here and the Cape, though it was at first a perplexing point to discover at what precise spot the wire was broken or at fault. This, however, was done by haul ing up the line at intervals, a process which disclosed the gratifying fact that since its first sinking it had remained in situ at the bottom of the sea, in conse quence of the leaden weights or clumps that were strung to it at every 16th of a mile. The operation was accomplished by Messrs. Brett, Reid, Wollaston, and Edwards, who have been attending to the ma nagement of the telegraph without intermission, and who are now, with their staff, removing the wire to a point nearer Calais, where from soundings it has been ascertained that there are no rocks, and where the contour of the coast is favourable. It is thought that for the present leaden tube a tube of iron must be substituted, the present apparatus being considered too fragile to be permanently answerable. The experiment, as far as it has gone, proves the possibility of the gutta percha wire resisting the action of the salt water, of the fact of its being a perfect waterproof insulator, and that the weights on the wire are sufficient to prevent its being drifted away by the currents, and of sinking it in the sands. During the period that the wire W BB perfect messages were daily printed by Brett's Print ing Telegraph, in legible Roman type, on long strips of paper, in the presence of 8 numerous French and _ " 4 1 - e 2 \., Tik" j. • English audience ; but it is not intended' to' of the wire for commercial and newspaper IStitglir until the connexion of it with the telegraplia of .fla? ' smgv South-Eas , ern and that now c:in r ileted on the Other side from Calais to Parii is effected.- Should the one . . wire answer, it is intended eventually' to run out 20 , ., • = or 30 more, so' as to have a constant - reserve in tilie : - event of accident in readiness. , This' huge reticula- 1 tion of electric line will represent 400 mileqief tele' graph submerged in the sea, 'and as $O4ll - bei , a considerable distance apart, 'a total 'Water"width of six or eight miles in extent. .1 I 4 SADLER'S WELLS THEATR4. We are rejoiced to find that the praiseworthy ef forts of Messrs , •Greenwood and Phelps, in the cause of the legitimate drama, continue to be erowntd, with success. During the past week Hamlet has been alternated with Leigh Hunt's Legend. of Florence, and the house has been exceedingly well attended every night. Tali(-.n as a whole, the Hamlet of Mr. Phelps is, perhaps, the best on the stage; the Claudius of Mr. George Bennett is a thoroughly Shaksperiqn performance,, while the Laertes of Mr. Wailer is all that can be desired. An actor of the power and ca-' pabilities of Mr. •'Waller has long been wanting on the London boards. Since the days of Charles Kemble we have had no good juvenile tragedian ; An- • derson was thu best, hut he wanted polish, and was too heavy ; but in Mr. IValler we have combined - the i power of an artist with the polishof a finished gentleman. ' We admire his I.4ertes much, and should ', i*e to see him_ .in some of the juvenile heroes of our .old4ragedies, cr in some of our legitimate comedies, many of the best of.which have been laid on the shelf, because we .have had no actor, of late years, capable of acting genteel comedy of the hi g h es t or d er . , Last evening Sheridan Knowles play,. William Tell, was presented-with a powerful cast, • and all the ad vautages of appropriate scenery and costume. Wil liam Tell is a part in which the prominent attributes of Mr. PhelpVs' acting have full scope, and in which be turns them to the greatest advantage. His per formance on this occasion was one .of the most effec tive efforte,in which he illustrated the gallant bearing of the patriot and the tenderness of the parent, with great force and felicity of expression. .I.t produced a corresponding effect upon the auditory, who received it throughout with the most emphatic marks of tip. ,probation. George Bennett, •filled; the part of ~Gf s ier. It would be an injusticete his merits not to ,notice the admirable manner in which fie pourtrayed - the despotic-and cruel dispositions of the- tyrant. Miss E. Travers enacted - the part of Agnes in a style to warrant an opinion that she will be a most deair 'ahle acquisition to the corps dramatique in the charac ters which it is understood she will have to sustain in the course of the season. The play was completely successful, and was received throughout with the-most decided approbation. When the curtain dropped Mr. Phelps had , to make his acknowledgments to the audi ence for the applause with which they greeted his performance. The amusing farce, Uncle 'Mark, ,fol lowed, which continues to elicit the mirth of the frequenters of the theatre. We were happy to see the spirited management so well supported by public patronage. The entertainments of last night were witnessed by a crowded and highly respectable audience. SURREY THEATRE. The opera of Otello has been produced here after somewhat novel fashion. The adapter, casting aside the libretto generally used, has substituted for it Shakspere's own words, and adapted to them Rossini's music, thus realizing the idea of " Music married to immortal verse." The cast was a strong one, Travers being Otello, Borrani lago, and Miss Anne Rimer Desdemona. She was indeed and in truth " the gentle lady married to the Moor." The Otello of Travers was a fine, manly, impassioned performance, and although he was last night evidently suffering from a cold, he exerted himself to the utmost, and was much applauded. The great part of the opera, however, was the lago of Borrani. His acting was magnificent, his singing perfect. We know of no artiste on the English lyrical stage who can ap proach Borrani in this character, none on any stage who could surpass him ; and we say this with the full remembrance of what Tamburini was, and what Bor rani is. As regards the principal artistes the opera was admirable, but the orchestra stands sadly in need of improvement. Tne band is undisciplined, and the conductor seems quite unequal to his work. The opera was well put on the stage, and was throughout much applauded. The house was crowded. PRINCE'S THEATRE, GLASGOW, (From the Glasgow Citizen.) A very agreeable operatic company has been performing here during the week with a fair share of success. It includes the new prima donna, Miss Louisa Pyne, and the popular primo tenore, Mr. W. Harrison ; besides being further strengthened by the well-known vocalists, Mr. and Mrs. Weiss, and Mr. 11. Corsi. Among the operas produced those of La Sonnambula and The Bohemian Girl have been the most successful. The latter was performed last night. Miss Pyne is not remarkable for power, but her style of vocalization is singularly pleasing, and her execution of " I dreamt I dwelt in marble halls" was last night greatly ad mired by the audience. Sbe is somewhat petite in person, and is supposed by many to bear a striking resemblance to the Queen. Mr. Weiss was effective in the pathetic air, " The heart bowed down," and Mr. Harrison was throughout excellent. The opera went off with eclat. To-night, we observe, La Son nambela is to be repeated. ROYAL SOUTH LONDON FLORI- CULTURAL SOCIETY. Yesterday the last flower show for the present season of this flourishing society was held at the Surrey Zoological Gardens. The principal flowers exhibited were dahlias, hollyhocks, and verbenas, all of which were in excellent condition, evincing marked progress in the cultivation of these standard favourites. The dahlias indeed were generally excel lent, and nearer perfection in the grand requisites of colour, form, and size, than we remember at any former show. The stove and greenhouse plants were of course at this season of the year in limited number, but what there were excited general ad miration. The fuschias were scanty, but very Sne. Roses and antinhinums were also shown, but the former under unfavourable circumstances, the season being too far advanced, and the latter too few in number, to warrant an opinion. The fruit, too, was scarce, but what there was looked most, tempting, On the whole the show was a g ood one, and indeed better than the somewhat unfavourable state of the i , kyey influences of late had led us to an; ticipate. The day being warm and sunshiny, the gardens were crowded with visitors from the corn. mencement. The following are the principal prizes awarded : Miscellaneous Plants—Gold Victoria medal, Mr. W. Cole ; gold Albert medal, Mr. G. Stanley; ditto, Mr. Fraser. Dahlias—Gold Albert medal, Mr..J. Robinson; large slyer Linnean medal, Mr. Rowden;; small ditto, Mr. Black ; large silver Victoria medal, Mr. Turner. Seedling Dahlias—Small silver Victoria medal, Mr. Bragg. Fancy Dahlias (three blooms)—, Small silver Victoria medal, Mr. J. Edwards. Holly. hocks—Large silver Albert medal, Mr. Parsons; small silver Victoria medal, Mr. Bircham. Ver benas—Small silver Linnean medal, Mr. Black. Messrs. Hamp, Allen, White, Holder, Paul, Francis, Keynes, Smith, Sparrey, arc'; also gained prizes. Earl Grey has returned to his seat, Howick-hall, Northumberland, from a tour. GALLERY OF ILLUSTRATION.--The Diorama illus trating the routs of the " Overland Mail to India" still com mands the most brilliant patr,onage. During the past. week the exhibition has been honoured with the following dis tinguished personages:- The Sardinian Minister, thq Turkish Ambassador,Chichester, the Bishop of Duke of Cleveland, Marquis ofCamden, Marquis of Donegal, Countess Charleville and party, Earl Westmoreland knd party, Earl of Chichester, Earl and Countess Harrington, Earl cardigan, Earl and Countess Glengall, Earl Belfast, Earl and Countess Granville, Lord 'Bateman, Lord Ashley, Lady Campbell and party, Lady Ross, Dowager Lady Abingdon and party, Sir Ralph and Lady Howard, Sir Robert Booth, Sir C. P: Shakerley, Sir J. Dennis, Colonel:011'4+y, Mr. B. D. Disraeli, M.P., Mr. Scholetield, M.P., {cc., &c. Trust him with little who, without proofs, trusts you with everything, or, when he has proved you, with nothing.—Eliza Cook's Journal. CITY IMPROVEMENTS.—The removal of the houses in Cannon-street to make room for the new thoroughfare from Elackfriars to London-bridge is rapidly progressing. The destruction of. the .buildings between Budge row and Cloak-lane has been atittpleted, and the churchyard enclosed. Operations have been commenced from the corner of Pm?! not-street, and in the course of a few days nearly twenty, houses will be entirely removed. Two new and handsome houses have been already erected along the line of the new street. • Jana lionsEs.—The arrivals of horses by the steamers from Ireland continue to take place to an extent entirely without precedent. The steam -ship Preussischer, Adler, just arrived from Cork, brought no less than 77 horses, and the steamer Duke of Cambridge, alio just arrived from Cork, brought 72. DCAPE or AN ASSASSIN. — Peter Leudwig , o n e of the assassins of the Prince Lychnowski and General d'Auers wald; who was lately condemned by a criminal court of Electoral Hesse to hard labour in irons for life, escaped a few days ago from prison, and succeeded in reaching France. -• It is not known where he has, accreted himself, but the Mi.. Mister of the Interior, on the application of the • Hessian . authorities, has given orders that no pains shall be spared to catch him, and he has also sent a description of his person'' ' to the poling and gendarmerie. • . , , . New •Zr-ALasin.--;-At about half-past six o'cloelc . yes t er day. morning the. four 'Ships the Creel-0' SOrneur: -Randolph, ,Cressy, and .Charlott e - Ba il ed ,: ta ki ng ou t 6001. of the,Canterbury .colonists and several other, psenge M O4 ' Since Monday, the'day of tlie leave-twin r g J dinner giyen to. the ,labobriiig' class of the colonistA t 'Write ' s Hotel, ny di rection of the committee of the association, none of this clan have landed at ;Gravesend, although a number of their friends ant relatives remained in the town until the sailing cf the ships yesterday.