The Sun. — London, England, 1853-09-08 00:00:00

REPEAL of ADVERTISEMENT DUTY. — BELL'S WEEKLY MESSENGER—the Oldest and Largest Conservative, and best Family Paper in London—lNSEßT' AD VERTISEMENTi, not exceeding Three Lines, at 2s. 6d.; Six Lines, 3s. 6d.; and 6d. for every additional line.—Office,2, tiridge-street, Blackfriars. Money Orders payable to Thomas Masters, Publisher. THE PATENT SMOKELESS FURNACES successfully adapted to land and marine boilers , coppers, pans, stills, & c. Measurements free of expe nse, with estimates for imme diate work. The increasing demand for skilled labour, however, and the vast number of orders to be executed in pursuance of the Acts of Parliament now in force, and of others coming soon into operation, render it very doubtful that the present advantageous terms can be insured for future contracts. Ascertained saving of tbel from 15 to 25 per cent. Information respecting licenses to manufacture or use the PATENT SMOKELESS FURNACES is given by Mr. JOHN LEE STEVENS, the Patentee, at the offices, 63, King William-street, City, London, where drawings, testimonials, may be seen, and references obtained to several highly respect able firms in London and elsewhere, upon whose premises the Patent Smokeless Furnaces are in daily operation. Also by Messrs. Francis Morton and Co., 10, North John-street, Liverpool, and 18, St. m a 17 , -g a te, Manchester—sole agents for those cities. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI. Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster —Directress, Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, SEPT. 8, Will be performed the Comic Drama entitled TO PARENTS AND GUARDIANS. Characters by Messrs. Alfred Wigan, Cullen ford, and Keeley; Mrs. Keeley, and Miss Mary Keeley. After which, will be presented SARDANAPALITS. To be followed by THE CAMP AT CHOBHAM. To conclude with WHAT! NO CAB ? ROYAL OLYMPIC: THEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Farren. THIS EVENING, SEPT. 8, WM be performed THE TIMES. Characters byMesara. T. Farren, J. Johnstone, William Farren, G. Cooke, and Shalders ; Mesdames Sarah Lyons and Bartlett. With SHYLOCK ; or, THE MERCHANT OF " VENICE PRE SERVED." Principal character by Mr. F. Robson. THE WANDERING MINSTREL. Jem Bags, Mr. F. Rbbaon. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. William Cooke. Last Two Nights of the present Season. The increasing popularity of the National Spectacle of the Battle of Waterloo, which has nnv completed its 74th night, has by far ex ceeded the most sanguine expectations of the Lessee, who, anxious to meet the public taste, has increased the attraction of that re nowned Spectacle of a Splendid Military Brass Band. In an nouncing the Grand Production for Two Nights more (when it must be withdrawn to make room for the New Classical Burlesque, conjointly with the Hippo Drama of Life on the TurL which has arrived at its 103 d night —a fact tmprecedented), he feels confi dent that he is only meeting the wish of his patrons, who nightly flock to this popular Establishment to witness their representa tion. To afford every possible Novelty, Mr. W. Cooke's Scenes in the Circle are entirely changed each week. The return of Miss EMILY COOKE from her Continental Tour was hailed with de monstrations of delight. She will repeat her matchless perform ance every evening. N.B.—Due Notice will be given of the First Appearance in London of Miss KATE COOKE. The long- Promised Classical Burlesque will be produced on SATURDAY, the 10th inst. THIS EVENING, SEPT. 8, And during the week, excepting Saturday, will be presented the B ATTLE OF WATERLOO. To be followed by Mr. W. Cooke's Scenes in the CIRCLE. Concluding with (103 d time) THE CHASE ; or, LIFE ON THE TURF. Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. THIS EVENING, SEPT. 8, Brilliant Routine of Entertainments —Panorama of CHUSAN, Splendid MENAGERIE, and Promenading Elephants. EXHIBITION of the MARINE AQUARIUM, a Collection of Sea and Fresh Water Fish alive, in five large Glass Tanks. The Mollusca, Zoophytes, and Crustacea procured expressly by P. H. Gosse, Esq., the eminent Naturalist. Vocal and Instrumental CONCERT. Two favourite Songs by Miss Poole, the popular English Vocalist. The whole concluding with the wonderful Tableaux of THE FEAST OF LANTERNS, brilliant FIREWORKS, and EXPLO SION of CHINESE JUNKS. Admission, Is. DAILY IVEATHER TABLE. THURSDAY, SEPT. 8, 1853. State of the wind and weather at each of the following races at nine o'clock yesterday morning. The stations are arranged in order of latitude. SOUTHAMPTON—N., strong breeze—overcast. FOLKESTONE—N., gentle breeze—overcast. TUNBRIDGE—N., gentle breeze—overcast. GREENWICH—N., gentle breeze—overcast. STROOD—N., gentle breeze -partially cloudy. SWINDON—N.E., gentle breeze—cloudy. LEIGHTON—N.E., gentle breeze—overcast. CAMBRIDGE—W., gentle breeze—cloudy. BIRMINGHAM—N.W., calm—cloudless. YARMOUTH—N., hard wind—overcast. The returns from the following places indicate the state of the weather on Tuesday morning at nine o'clock LIMERICK—S.W., calm—cloudless. MULLINGAR—N.E., calm—partially cloudy. BIRMINGHAM—N.E., calm—partially cloudy. CREWE—calm—partially cloudy. CONWAY—S.E., calm—clear. LANCASTER—W., calm—cloudless. WHITBY—CaIm—overcast. DARLINGTON—W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. SuAr---W., calm—principally clear. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tam DAT —Morning 52 min. after 4 I Evening 12 min.aft. 5 To-Meaaow—Morning 32 m i n . a ft er 5 Evening 53 min.aft. 5 TUE WEATIIEII.—Sum Ongem, SEPT. 8. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 67—highest since noon yeatorday. 53—lowest this morning and during the night. 63—this day at noon. BAROMETER, 30°05. WIND, N.—Light airs, and dull, cloudy weather. e‘ 4,r•• \TIS r ermkn -. 4 , 44, 44 n p , A .,,,,,iit ir 4 6 ; wwo r. , ' , 2 • . LONDON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1853. " I do not mind holding the plough in Van Diemen's Land, but I cannot make up my mind to do it here," was the remark fully 20 years ago of a respectable farmer to a friend who was dis suading him from emigration. The style of living expected of him in England, the parlour life which his daughters must lead, the disinclina tion of his sons to work as labourers, combined with the high rents due to the competition of his own class, convinced the sensible yeoman that England was no longer a home for him and his family. They at least could not enter upon life in the style in which he was living, and maintain it ; while neither he nor they had courage to dismiss all servants to whose work their own hands were physically competent, and to become literally working farmers, dining in the kitchen with their servants. Possibly could they have done so, they need not have taken the voyage to Van Diemen's Land. This little incident, how ever, is a striking illustration of the painful posi tion of a large number of our middle classes, and of the only remedy which they can look to. There has been a natural and growing tendency amongst the class lying between those whom the income tax begins with and the wealthy, not merely to educate and cultivate their minds, but to adopt to the utmost the indulgences and re- neraents in daily life of tho se - a b ov e them. 'T IB , whose fathers began their apprenticeship with the rough and handicraft work of their trade,are brought up merely to superintend what they situation s , see have never worked at ; or, professions, kinds are etaryships, and empl o y m ents of all demand an soughta for them which will not their hand s l': c r , o . r compel them to soil superfine black coat. The daughters, t o t o lleir in the lio.whoie mothers could do anything sweets, beyond making the to the attic, dare not vel° from the scullery eets t , i lest their hands most delicate pastry ( , r should be unfit for the The piano,feudal iii'ee,dirnawtihneg-bsZakli or embroidery. servants ri-i' the servants only way, with which the parents beg an dining at the same time with the grew up' room which was enlivened by a f ire i ii , was gradually changed as the family an impassable line was drawn between the kitchen and the parlour ; the mother and father, indeed, remain from early habits a kind of connecting link, but the children have become members o f another caste ; they are young ladies and young gentlemen of the present half century. The pipe is exchanged for the cigar, the cheerful song for the piano, and a thousand things " very proper for pa' and ma' in their young days,—whv they won't do now. ' Now this would all be pretty enough and bearable enough but for one unhappy result—the young men don't get on, and the young ladies don't go off ; the former come back upon their fathers to save them from sinking, the latter surround mamma till she looks more like a Lady Abbess than a matron. It cannot be denied that the evil, as we sup pose we must call it, is a wide-spread one. The lower strata of the middle classes are cultivating domestic and business habits which will not bring up and settle families in the world. What, then, is the remedy for it? There is none whatever but a return to working habits. While corn-laws interfered w i t h the b erant s market for his w chief product, an d labour was such a drug d e o i n at home that families g their own work was only. a ,suremeans t o fill the workhouse, ' riOnent to fall back on the ..neou it is altogether .r iu was. much less. Now dugtry Our domestia, servants are rapidly bier gain. " h e l ps ," it being questionable whether Ae:nsTall not needlan immigration of negroes or coolies, if we are to retain the mastery in our own houses, 4. Sbi THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 8, 1853. ' while the cost of keeping servants will advance rapidly. Young gentlemen and young ladies, de riving that title from dress, education, and accom plishments alone, will, if things go on as they are now doing, find it remunerative enough to use their muscular system a little more than many of them have done ; and if they can guide its exer tions by a clear head and a willing heart, they need not despair even in old England. If, how ever, like the farmer, with whose remark we began, they cannot brook the apron, the paper cap, or the smock frock at home, they can easily put up with it all in a colony. There, not only are the witnesses of their former habits left behind, but all their new associates will live in like style, or rather in no style, with themselves. Many will also be found who will sympathise with them inthe first hardships of a change which they themselves experienced. Still the remedy is the same ; there must be the change from polished idleness to plain rough work. They must take Mrs. CHISHOLM for their teacher, must doff the attire of the office, the counting-house, and. the parlour, and make up their minds to honest industry in the most un varnished sense of the phrase. On no other terms can our overdone middle classes relieve t h emse lves. Labour is alleviating its condition by emigration, in the their ecase both of f an th d o o se f who go to a better market fo those who remain to enjoy a widened one. The hundreds of young men and young women who answer i n vain every advertisement for a secre tary, clerk, or railway situation, for a nursery governess , or a teacher of every accomplishment for 201. a year, must relieve their market also. They are not wanted here ; they are not wanted 1 anywhere. In this country they only lower the salaries of the lucky ones who get a berth till the luck is hardly to be envied. In Australia, or in Canada, they are equally superfluous ; diggers in Australia, or working-farmers in Canada, espe t cially if commanding but a very moderate amount of capital, may see their way to a certain inde pendence ; but educated quill-drivers find no use for their powers but that of writing melancholy letters home. If, however, whether male or female, they have sufficient physical vigour to get over the commencement of a life of sober work, their sky soon begins to brighten. Habit soon makes all easy, robuster health and conscious independence imparts the pride of men and women to their bearing. They soon cease to be ashamed of what daily makes them aware of its advantages, and the hope of yet better days makes the young lady, from some terrace in an English town, sing merrily in a Melbourne kitchen ; or a 8.A., and even an M.A., of one of our universities, whistle as he drives his waggon to and from the baggage covered quays. For our part, we still prefer agriculture to gold digging. Van Diemen's Land is now becoming as wealthy by the gold diggers paying 4s. for the 41b. loaf; as the diggers are by keeping what they can save after such enormous expenses, and so many failures. The grower of food will for a long time have the advantage over the digger. The supplies from England or America are so distant, that all the farmers within easy reach of the Land of Gold must always have a first-rate market for their produce. The tempta tions and the risks of the agricultural life are a'so much less, and the prospect every way better for those who purpose a colonial settlement. In regard to Canada, the letter in our Friday's paper, from an old correspondent, entirely bears out Mr. RONEY'S interesting statements. There can be no doubt that the able-bodied industrious labourer, the little farmer of small capital, hardly getting a living on a few acres of land, and carting for his neighbours ; the farmer's son, active and strong, with an amount of property which here is scarcely sufficient to work properly a small farm ; the farmer himself, yet hale, with a vigorous rising family, hardly able to make two ends meet— would all find on the Banks of the Ottawa, and almost anywhere in Canada, a glorious field for their industry or their capital. An interesting festivity took place last evening at Dover, in celebration of the opening of the Lord Warden Hotel—a splendid establishment in connection with the terminus at that seaport of the South-Eastern Railway, and one which it is understood will be conducted upon a scale pre cisely similar to that of the Pavilion Hotel at Folkestone. The occasion was one possessing a twofold interest in every respect entitled to pub lic consideration. It indicated a large amount of local prosperity already achieved, while, at the same time, it augured the yet farther continuance of that success and its more extended develop ment. During the last ten years, as the Chair man of the occasion intimated yesterday, the con tinental traffic via Dover has been actually doubled, and this, moreover, notwithstanding the deteriorating effects of perpetual competition from London direct and from Folkestone. Doubled in a single decade, while the railway sys tem of the Continent may still be con sidered as, comparatively speaking, only arrived at the period of its commencement, the traffic through Dover to and fro between France and England may be reasonably expected to attain before long an increase much more ex traordinary. It is only now, as Mr. JAMES IVIACGREGOR remarked last evening, that a trunk line of 360 miles has connected the frontiers of Spain with the city of Bordeaux, while in another direction a yet larger enterprise of a similar character, a trunk line 400 miles in length, has j ust been completed between Strasburg and Bwitzerland—in addition to all which it may be confidently anticipated that Dover and Marseilles will speedily be brought together by a new route of direct steam communication. Bearing those three facts in recollection, it must consequently, we take it, be perfectly obvious that a remarkable stimulus is at this moment on the eve of being imparted to that Continental traffic, the extension of which has even now been so astonishing both in rapidity and magnitude. And of the Conti nental traffic Dover remains up to this hour indisputably the focus, or centre, or prin cipal point of radiation. Of this fact we can not possibly doubt for an instant even while we remember the sudden rise of the neighbour ing harbour of Folkestone. It becomes a matter of interest, therefore, to all those who are soli citous to observe the fulfilment of those golden anticipations, that the South-Eastern Railway Company should in all respects aid, as far as it possibly can, this advance along the path of social, physical, political, and commercial improvement. It cannot be forgotten, of course, that for the progress already made in the direction above inch cated, the country is mainly, if not exclusively, indebted to the enterprise displayed by the direc tors and promoters of that vast establishment. Without the intervention of the South-Eastern Railway Company, nothing of all this, obviously enough, could in any way have been accomplished. But for the ze al shown by the Directors of t hat company in acquitting themselves of their onerous and complicated responsibilities, we might still have bee n no t very f ar a h ea d o f that miser able old systemuner mentioned last evening by Mr. between D RICE half a dazed Wretched boat traversed the channel and at a snail's pace, with bed, cabined, and. eo ecl_Passengers literally " crib the like of which nowadays fora period during comfortably from Lo Y n li d the traveller may pro ceedfortifications ! Thank s to the Bridge to the Paris I ment, however, of the soli e . ,amirable manage th Eastern Railway Company, matters have arrived at a position wonderfully different. The original project has been happily conducted by that management mid way between the Scylla, of the public and the Cha rybdis of the shareholders —the latter being an in satiable great of diN ide , nds and the former an equally insatiable greed of accommodation. Insomuch, indeed, has the onward mo vement been exp e dit ed by the Directors in spite of all these interposing difficulties, that one of the after-dinner orators yesterday had the delightful effron ter y to tal k about the certainty of the time arriving when travellers—[don't let the reader be alarmed, we 'S ever arc act going to allude to Mr. MACAMAY lasting New Zealander !]—when travellers from China shall procure tickets at the South-Eastern Railway Station to carry them direct to Pekin. And, what was more, the charming audacity of the suggestion could be listened to last evening by a body of commercial men as not by any means extravagant. People's minds, in fact, have of late years become a cc u s tomed to these colossal notions, when telegraphic messages are flashing instantaneously between Cornhill and the Boulevards ; when electric wires can be " paid out" in a gale of wind to Ostend ; when autumnal excursions are made not to Boulogne or Weston super-mare, but to Alexandria and Constantinople ; when millions upon millions worth of gold can be shipped to the mother country from Australia ; and when the Celestial Empire is being overrun from Yunnan to Mongolia by an army of Chinese revolutionists. At such an epoch in the world's history the opening of an establishment, like the Lord Warden Hotel at Dover, rises to an importance far above the sordid level of a mere commercial speculation. It must be regarded as something worthier of consideration—as another link, for instance, in that great chain which is binding together the nations of the earth, and bringing them into more immediate association. In speaking thus we are guilty of no exaggeration whatever. We are not giving utterance to merely fantastic hyperboles. We are talking of plain matters of fact. We are simply evincing our appreciation of what we be lieve in our heart and in our conscience to be at once the channel and the security of the great civilising movement of the age—that vast railway system through which the marvellous powers of the steam-engine and the electric telegraph are rendered subservient to the social, political, phy sical, and intellectual advancement of the human • race. TERRIBLE OCCURRENCE IN THE STRAND, AND LOSS OF LIFE. This morning, between the hours of eight and nine, the greatest excitement was caused in the Strand, in the immediate vicinity of Norfolk-street, in consequence of the following frightful occurrence, which was attended with fatal results to three per sons, the destruction of a vast amount of valuable property, and serious injuries to one or two other persons. In order to make the account intelligible, it is necessary to state that, at the corner of Arundel street, the opposite side to the Whittington Club house, a great number of men have been employed by Mr. Lucas, the contractor, under the direction of Mr. Abrahams, the surveyor, in preparing the foundations for an extensive range of premises for the Messrs. Smith, the well-known newsvenders. The house adjoining the spot first named, was numbered 184, in the Strand, was tenanted by Mr. Thompson, a tailor, Mr. Henderson, a daugerreotype artist, and several other families. Fortunately, however, with the exception of Mr. Thompson and his family, the other residents were out of town, or the loss of life which we should have to record would have been far more serious than it really has been. At a few minutes after eight o'clock, a young man named George Dunn, proceeded as was his daily custom to open the shop. Having taken down one of the shutters, the glass commenced cracking. At that moment a man was driving one of Smith's express carts along the Strand, and hearing the glass breaking, he called out to Dunn, " You have broken a window, have you ?" He then noticed Dunn enter the passage, and at the same instant the whole of the lofty building fell with a crash resembling a peal of thunder, which so terrified the horse in Messrs. Smith's cart, that it refused to move an inch. At the same time articles of furniture, heaps of bricks, and heavy pieces of timber fell, some into the street, and a .onsiderable quantity amongst the men employed on the adjoining property. For the space of nearly five minutes it was almost impossible to tell the amount of mischief done, for the whole neighbourhood became completely ob scured in dust. As soon, however, as the dust had in some measure cleared away, it was found that not one brick of the building was left standing, and that every person who was in the house at the time was buried beneath the debris. Information was at once sent for the aid of the police, and. forthwith Mr. Superintendent Pearce and Inspec tors Dodd and Wilkinson arrived with a powerful body of men of the F division. The officers at once stopped. the thoroughfare, and then com menced searching the ruins for the missing parties. As soon as they had removed a few things from the pavement they heard the cries of a female be low. Mr. Dodd upon removing the grating over the vault that runs under the pavement, found that the cries proceeded from that part of the pre mises. This person was found to be a young woman, and Mr. Thompson's niece. By removing the rubbish, the police and the men engaged on the adjoining works succeeded in rescuing the young woman, who was terribly alarmed, but for tunately uninjured. She then stated that she was certain Mr. and Mrs. Thompson were in the ruins, as they were going to sit down to breakfast, when she went to the cellar to draw some ale. It was exceedingly fortunately that she did so, or she would have been numbered with the dead. The most strenuous exertions were made by all present to get to the other unfortunate persons, and after the lapse of some time, James Roe, fore man to Mr. Lucas, was found amongst the ruins that had fallen into the vacant space in which the men were at work, with his right thigh and leg broken. He was forthwith placed on the police stretcher and removed to King's College Hospital, where he remains in a state of great agony. Every one present laboured in a most praiseworthy man ner, and after the space of an hour the bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Thompson were found terribly crushed about the head and shoulders. They were likewise placed on stretchers and taken to King's College Hospital. The whole medical staff of the institution was at once in attendance, but after examining the bodies, pronounced life to be in each extinct. The police, the workmen of Mr. Lucas, &c., were next engaged till past 10 o'clock, when they at length discovered the body of George Dunn, the shopman, which wasfound terribly crushed and quite dead. This body was likewise removed to King's College Hospital. It is presumed that this unfor tunate person, on finding the glass breaking, per ceived the house was sinking, and that he entered the premises again for the purpose of alarming his employer, when the structure fell as he was passing along the passage, and by that means lost his life. The area of the intended new building for the Messrs. Smith is a most extensive one, and there can be no doubt that the catastrope was occasioned by the operations for the foundation. There have been for some few weeks at work on this site thirty labourers in the employ of Mr. Lucas, and under the immediate inspection of Mr. Abrahams, of Howard-street, Strand, the surveyor to the Duke of Norfolk's estate. It would seem that every precaution had been taken for securing Mr. Thompson's house by shoring it up, but there is too much reason to fear that the digging for the foundation was carried too deep for the props to have any secure standing, and that, consequently, their base being undermined, they gave way, and the house thus suddenly deprived of its main support fell as above described. Information of the melancholy event has been dispatched to the coroner's office, but the time is not yet fixed for holding the inquest. It was at first reported that no fewer than 16 persons had been prematurely hurried into eternity by this accident, which, in all probability, would have been the number had the other families living in the house not been out of town. The house was in the best state of repair, as some few years since over 3001. was expended on it. The latest intelligence from tho hospital reports James Roe, Mr. Lucas's foreman, to be in a most critical state. COURT CIRCULAR. EDINBURGH, SEPT. 6. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, accompanied by their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred, left Holyhead yesterday morning at half-past 8, by railway, for Edinburgh, where the Royal party arrived at 7 o'clock, having travelled through Chester, Preston, Lancaster, and Car lisle. In attendance were—the Duchess of Wellington, the Hon. Mary Bulteel, the Marquis of Breadalbane the Earl Granville, the Hon. Colonel C. B. Phipps, Lieu tenant-Colonel the Hon. A. Gordon, and Sir James Clark. MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—It is reported that the daughter n o 3 f e a u n r ietcegently to d o the e c e a s s o e n d o e f mi a n e R n o t u s s t a n t e C s m a t a h n o e s oßuTolinLt IM PION ?_On e of t ZOOLOGICALemost extraordinary G e A x nD a E o rt rd s. in ay —NOVEL imported for m any years into this country has just b een ,ded to the very fine collection of this establishment. It is th e fi rst of the kind ev er exhibited, and cannot fail rtaohis)rtosvaes eminently Sima i tt a r tn ac ad tiv ry e a. . I T t h is is de is sc a ri n be a d du b l y t natuspeci men of a blueish -grey colour ; the extremities of a beau tiful pink intermixed with blue ; it stands about 4 feet in height, and the neck and shoulders are clothed with a thick mane ; its habits are ferocious, and altogether forms a most interesting specimen of the Creator's works. MONEY MARKET CITY INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWO O'CLOCK. The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were estimated at 6,500 bales, of which 1,000 were taken for export. The market closed heavily. The sales comprised 200 Pernam and Maranhain, at 74d. to 7/d. ; 100 Bahia, at (lid. to 6id. ; 200 Egyptian, at 6d. to ls. la. ; 700 Surat, at 3id. to 4pl. ; 100 Sea Island, at 2s. ld. to 2s. lid., and the remainder American. Railway Shares continue very depressed. Uf the dried fruit trade in London, as well as of its general prospects in the country, the following particulars are supplied by Messrs. Witherby anu rlansou " There is a slight alteration in the range of our quo tations of currants, owing to an improvement since our report of the 24th ult. of ss. to tis. per cwt. on the or dinary and middling qualities, which had for some time past been negiected and dull of sale. We have thus had in each of our bi-montnly reports since Bth July, a po sitive advance to notice, each differing in character and degree : first, ss. per cwt. on new fruit, which has, how ever, since been barely supported, then ss. to tis. on fine fruit owing to purchases by the trade ; next, tis. to Bs. on the same description, the trade having resold to speculators at that advance, and now ss. to Os. per cwt. on ordinary and middling sorts, which have been taken also from the trade, principally by out-port purchasers, leaving the former in possession of compa ratively very little stock to meet a n y sudden or ordinary d eman d. (Anne fruit the quantity offering is so small, that it is dithcult to execute colonial orders. New fruit is held with equal tenacity, owing to the forthcoming crop being found to be much smaller than was expected even a mouth ago, and prices likely to open exorbitantly high. We expect in our next to report a more positive feature than as present exists in the raisin market. The accounts from Turkey leaving little hope of more than one third of a crop, Elemes have been bought at 505., and Caesines in barrels fur (it is said) outport account at 48s. Other descriptions have not ueen affected. The stock of old Vaaentias here on the Ist inst. was about 4UU tons, only two-thirds of which, ur less, are of sound quality. That of Sultanas was about 170 tons, a salad stuck in face of the short supply of New to come forward. That of Chesines, in barrels, is still extremely large. Black Smyrnas continue to be the favourite articles ; this description, Elemes, and Sultanas, cannot fail to attract notice as the season ad vances. Some large contracts have been made this week in Blacks afloat, and our highest quotation has been paid paid on the spot for fine fruit. The arrivals of Denia will be small for the present, prices having further advanced in Spain ; shipments nave been much retarded, and many charters thrown up." The Commissioners of Land and Emigration have announced their desire to receive tenders for vessels to Portland Bay on the 19th, and to Melbourne on the 24th of next month. Among the incidents worthy of notice is the re port of new foreign loans. How any parties can be found to give encouragement to these in the present state of our money market would be a question difficult to solve, if it were not that under any circumstances they contrive to make it pay, the subscribers, of course, suffering in the long run. Austria, it is asserted, has need of money, and will soon make the attempt to get it in the usua l ay. Belgium is supposed to be in the field, and srain 7 as every one knows, has been trying for some time p ast. Added to this, many of the United railways are introducing their debentures States our markets, and these compete strongly upon with similar securities issued s t b rsist y y ci ttslhe in abs Englishtain from com panies. All who desire to preventing g reater difficulties should countenancing these projects. A strange rumour has been circulated during the last two or three days, in Stock Exchange circles, namely, that the pessure of Consols upon the mar ket arises from sales made for the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The object of these sales is stated to be the purchase of Exchequer Bills, in order to maintain their premium, and the stocks sold be long, it is asserted, to the Savings Banks. If we could place any reliance in these bold but incredible assertions, we should say that the operation was not only most injudicious, but likewise unjustifiable. There is a large amount to be provided by Government next month for payment of dissentients, unless new stock is issued, but what is now alleged to be done cannot furnish the means, and while it exercises an injurious in fluence upon unfunded property, it raises arti ficially the market value of the floating debt, and makes it rule out of all proportion to the absolute condition of the money market. This is not a proper financial proceeding for an English Minister, and we doubt whether it would answer the purpose said to be intended eve* for a brief period. No one could suppose that Mr. Gladstone was answerable for the appreciation of money, for no one imagined that we should have such a deficient harvest, and that gold would be swept from us faster than it arrived ; but such being the case, without any imputation upon his judgment, and without being in any way held answerable for what some may esteem a failure in his calculations, the Chancellor of the Exchequer should raise the interest upon the bills. We have always advocated the payment of as small a sum as possible as interest upon the floating debt, because the public purse is to be considered as well as the advantage of private capitalists and bankers, but what former ministers neglected to do when there was a good opportunity, cannot be forced in an al tered state of the market. The judiciousplan would be to await the tide of events, and if necessary to raise the rate of interest. The bills drawn by the Honourable East India Company during the last fortnight have been to the following amount : Bengal ........................£78,811 12 2 Madras ......................... 15,626 16 10 Bombay." ..................... 1,702 18 8 £96,141 7 8 The settlement of the account is in progress in. the English stock market, and prices are most un favourably influenced thereby. The speculators en i a n b g le la d rg the better to buy back now ebeen are largely for next time, and by this hav means without sell causing a rise. The still unsettled condi tion of the Eastern qu es ti on , a n d the large food re quirements, embolden th e o p era t ors for a f a ll, and even the returns of the trade of the United Kingdom, showing such a large increase in exports, justify the impression and profitable employment in commercial circles. Consols lia thatv e b meconneywill continue to find ready quoted 963- to for transfer, and 961 to 9 7 for October ; but they are now lower. The New 3 per Cents. have been 991 to par, and the Reduc e d 3 per Cents. 97/ to I. In Foreign Securities there is less doing. Spanish New Deferred Bonds have been 22/, and Mexican have receded from 26i to 254. The Swedish Loan has been at 94g. Russian 41 per Cents. are quoted at 1011, and Dutch 4 per Cents. 98k to Railway Shares have been decidedly worse again, owing to the decline in Consols. London and North-Western have fallen 1/. to 1/.105.; Midland to the same extent ; and Oxford and Wolverhamp ton, South-Eastern, York and Berwick, and the other lines, proportionally. French shares have given way about ss. to 7s. 6d. on the 161. and 201. paid up. The Gold Mine Shares have been exceedingly heavy, and the Australian Banks are lower again, Union being down about 1/. The last week's railway receipts, ascertained up to this day, are in round figures as under : 1853. 1852. Great Western £23,652 £19,160 North Western South Western 14,686 14,248 Brighton 15,258 14,046 Midland 27,357 25,603 South Eastern 21,137 t 20,315 Caledonian and Edin. and Glasgow 16,150 13,924 Great Northern 16,148 13,381 Lancashire and Yorkshire 21,446 19,928 York and North Midland, Newcastle and Berwick, and Leeds Northern 30,506 27,405 The shares of the Land Companies have been lower, with but few purchasers. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY. ( Prom the Official Liat.) Business done. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities.... ...... 3 per Ceut. Consols Annuities 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1726 New 34 per Cent. Annuities lOO 99 100 994 Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860 Ditto 30 Years, Expire 10th Oct. 1859 Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan., 18 60 sa India Stock 254 6 3 6 India Bonds, £lOOO .. Ditto, under £lOOO l2 South Sea Stock Consols for Account 13th October Exchequer Bills, id. 21000 2500 2 d par Small 2 d par PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent Ditto Small . IOIA Grenada Bonds, Deferred Mexican 3 per Cent. Peruvian Bonds, 4i per Cent. B2 Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent. Russian Bonds, 5 per Cent. Ditto 4, per Cent. Spanish New Deferred, 3 per C ent. 22 1 - s 3 Spanish Committee Cert. of Coup . not fun. 6,i 4 p a Swedish 4 per Cent ......•• . ..... ...••• ••• Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch Exchange, q. per Cent. x d Ditto 4 per Cent. Certficates .. THREE O'CLOCK. Consols -- 96 i Ditto October Account . 94 7 AMERICA. (BY ELECTRIC) TELEGRAPH) SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY MORNING. The United States mail steam-ship Humboldt has arrived off Cowes, with the usual semi-weekly American mail, and dates from New York to the 27th ult. The New York papers publish the reply of Lord John Russell on behalf of the British Government respecting the proposition for a tripartite treaty with regard to Cuba. Lord John Russell, whilst admitting the right of the United States to receive the proposal, observes that Great Britain must at once resume her entire liberty, and upon any oc casion that may call for it be free to act either singly or in conjunction with other Powers, as to her may seem fit. The yellow fever in New Orleans has increased, and one of the latest reports mentions 315 inter ments in one day. Advices from Jamaica, to the 12th ultimo, state that the political and commercial situation was un changed. The steam-ship Cherokee, one of the New York and California steamers, was destroyed by fire at New York on the 26th ult. The Money Market at New York was unchanged, although the extreme pressure for money was supposed, to be over ; the banks were not disposed to take any except the shortest and best mercantile paper, and discount in most cases less than half of what is offered to them. The rates for money varied from 9 to 12 per cent. The Stock Market, after receiving a temporary check, had become firmer ; exchange firmer, at 1094 to 1091. on London, and sf. 131 c. to sf. 12ic. on Paris ; the regular bankers were larger buyers of exchange than usual. . _ Ashes were inanimate. An improved demand for breadstuffs prevailed. Cotton inactive. Flour and meal exhibited an upward tendency. Grain less active, and rather easier. Pork quiet, but firm. Coffee and sugar active in freights, owing to the break in the canal. There was little flour offering. BOARD OF TRADE RETURNS. The Board of Trade returns for the month ending the sth of August were issued yesterday, and exhibit a continuance of the remarkable totals presented throughout the year. As compared with the corresponding period of 1852 they show an in crease in the declared value of our exportations of 1,405,9181., and their general character still indi cates the extent to which they have been influenced by the Australian trade. Thus beer and ale, which in last month's returns figured for the extraordinary increase of 41,5801., now appear for an increase of 61,4591., or nearly 150 per cent. upon the quantity in August of last year. In hardwares and cutlery, and also in leather, including saddlery, the rate of augmentation, great as it was in the preceding return, is likewise considerably more prominent on this occasion. The most striking advance, how ever, is in haberdashery and millinery, which has become the most important single item in the list, and has reached a sum, for the month, of nearly half a million. A very large portion of this has consisted of ready-made clothing for Australia, and although in a country where it is more costly to wash than to buy the consumption can be estimated by no experience, there is reason to fear that supplies sent forward month after month, upon the scale now exhibited not only in this but all other respects, will prove wholly dis proportionate to any possible demand of a popula tion which, with all the increase it has undergone, is still, taking the three colonies of New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia together, not so large as that of the city of New York. Among the other largest items metals are conspi cuous, the increase being mostly in railway bars and implements of wrought iron, of which the latter only have been heavily shipped to the colo nies, the bars havin g probably been chiefly sent to the United States, to be paid for, it may be appre hended in many cases, by doubtful railroad bonds. The aggregate value of our exports during the first seven months of the year has been 49,861,6431., against 40,138,5601. in the like period of 1852, showing an increase of 9,723,0831., or more than 24 per cent., which has occurred in the following or der : Month ending Increase. February 5 March 5 919,097 April 5 May 5 June 5 1,187,558 July 5 1,003,637 August 5 1,405,918 As compared with the same period of 1851 there has boon an increase of 9,349,5871. As regards the articles of food imported and taken into consumption, the chief point for notice is an increase of 416,000 quarters of wheat, and the importations for the first seven months of the year have now reached 2,757,104 quarters, against 1,331,651 quarters in the same period of 1852, so that the total taken has been more than double. In flour, likewise, although the present return shows a decrease, there has been a large augmenta tion during the year, the supply for the seven months having been 2,955,597 cwt., against 2,417,453 cwt. nn 1852. In the seven months of 1851, however, the importation of bread-stuffs was about equal 3 that which has now occurred. The consumption of salted provisions, butter and cheese, eggs, cocoa, sugar, rice, spirits, wines, spices, tobacco, and coffee, have been excessively large, much of - the improvement in the latter article, which has steadily increased throughout the year, being attributable probably to the sup pression of the chicory adulteration. In the con sumption of tea there has been a considerable in crease since the commencement of the year, but none during the month ; the importation, how ever, has been visry large. The quantity of wine imported has also been singularly great, the total for the month being 1,119,481 gallons, against 528,502 gallons in 1852, a result in some measure to be attributed to extensive purchases on the part of dealers possess led of capital, under the expecta tion of a great future scarcity from the vine disease. Letters from Amsterdam state that the amount of silver lately sold by the Dutch Bank has been 3,500,000 guilders, or nearly 300,0001. From Brussels the advices mention the probability of a new Belgian loan. CUSTOMS DUTIES.—The Lords Commissioners' of the Treasury have canned a communication to be made to the Commissioners of Customs, desiring that the twilled handkerchief, of siimilar quality and make to Pongees, differing only in the fact of its being twilled instead of being plain wove, and called by the trade China silk handkerchiefs, because worth about is. to 2s. per piece more than the Po ngees, may be deemed to be Pongees and charged with duty accordingly. Their lordships have also desired i t to be stated that they see no objec tion to including in the tariff, under the head of China crape shawls, crape scarfs, handkerchiefs, and pieces, plain damask and embroidered, at 3s. to ss. the lb., and further, that havin g regard to the little experience which has as yet been de rived from the recent substitution of rated for ad valorma duties, their lordships are not dis posed to make any further alteration in the tariff in re ference to China silk pieces and East India goods. A.dvices from Aubstralia state that " building materials of every descriptiom continue to realise almost fabulous prices, and, notwithstanding the exorbitant charge for land carriage, yield to those willing to part with them enormous profits. A peculiar galvanised tinned iron tile, shipped from London, is much sought after, as it is not only applicable' to the roofs but the sides of houses. A few rough poles and a sufficient number of these patent tiles will afford a habitation wholly impervious to wind, snow, and. rain. They are made of large size, and pack very clomly i , costing but little for freight by measurement. The caA :bear, the tend of ' Morewood and Co., Steel Yard, , ndon t '. and :from the supply, they must be stamitied;r . h Immense rapidity. It would rather startle those, at 4C2iiie, who must send for a special labourer for each desciiption of work, to see how well the inexperienced pat' t'll4se things together here, al though the grooves and nail holes render it almost im possible to err in their arrangement."—Herald. REVOLTING CRUZ LTY OF A HUSBAND TO HIS WIFE.— On Thursday evening last, as a dissipated couple named Chalmers, residing in the notorious Croiley's-land, and in the same tenement which was the scene of the New Vennel murder, were engaged in a drinking bout, a quarrel ensued—th.o man insisting upon taking posses sion of a ricketty table which he proposed to pledge at the nearest pawnlbroker's for the purpose of raising funds to procure a fresh supply of whisky, and the wo man as obstinately determining to retain the furniture. From words they soon came to blows, Chalmers, in his drunken exasperation, seizing a heavy piece of wood, and inflicting sever:al fearful gashes on his wife's head, from which the blood flowed profusely. Not satisfied with this exhibition of his brutality, the heartless wretch became possessed of a clothes rope, which he twisted round the poor woman's neck and pulled so tightly that she would soon have died from strangulation had it not been for the timeous interference of some of the neigh bours. Upon the police being called to the house, they found Mrs. Chalmers in a deplorable state, her hair clotted with blood, her face swollen to an unnatural size, and discolourations on her neck—the effects of the applica tion of the rope. The ruffian had, however, contrived to escape before their arrival, but on the following night he was apprehended in a public-house in one of the lowest parts of the city. At the Central Police-court, on Saturday morning, where the above facts were ex piscated in evidence, the assault was found proven against Chalmers by Bailie Drummond, who, after re marking on the atrocity of the case, sentenced him to two months' imprisonment —the latter half of the period to be accompanied with hard labour. If any evidence were wanting to demonstrate the expediency of extend ing the recent act for the protection of women to ST ttr land, it is a b un d an tly su ppli e d by this and many sim i cases of daily occurrence before our police-courts.- North ,Britislt, Mail. LATEST FOREIGN FRANCE. 'v ~ i The Emperorhas granted pardons to 68 prisoners, and also to 60 others who were sentenced by courts martial to transportation to Algeria after the in surrection of June, 1848. The Emperor and Empress will return to Paris on Saturday, and again set out about the 15th for their long-announced journey to Boulogne and the north of France. Letters from Algie rs , o f th e 30 t h u l t., state that the cherif of Ouargla, and some other insurgent chiefs, were at Rouissat and its neighbourhood, with about 300 horsemen. Th e popu l a ti ons , which have furnished these contingents, are de scribed as suffering dreadfully from want of corn, since the Souf and the Oued-R it have ceased to supply them ; in fact, they live at present almost altogether on dates. Selman, the murderer of the family Ben-Djellsh, and the friend of the cheriff, had contrived to impress the insurgent tribes with the idea that Tuggurt, the principal town of the Oued-R'ir, is the last bulwark of Islamism in Algeria, and has induced them to undertake some defensive works around that place. The intelligence from Beni-Mzab represents them as still divided into two parties, one faithful to the French, and the other in relation with the cheriff of Ouargla. The latter lately made an irruption on the Beni-Isguen, who remain faithful to the French, and a considerable number of men were killed on both sides. On the frontiers of Morocco, the Mzaouirs and Mais have committed so many , acts of brigandage as to excite the serious atten tion of the authorities on the frontier. General Pelissier, to protect the tribes of Tlemcen against their turbulent neighbours, has lately ordered cer tain measures of surveillance which, it is thought, will be attended with satisfactory results. General Changarnier arrived at Interlaken some days ago. He subsequently proceeded to Bellin zona, and left that place on the 2d, with Baron Nathan Rothschild, for Piedmont. Gen. Bedeau is at present in Switzerland ; he was recently at Thoune. M. Calderon de la Barca leaves Paris for Madrid on Friday. It is not at all certain that he will de finitively accept the portfolio that has been offered to him in the present cabinet. A letter from Laon (Aisne) of the sth inst., states that the price of flour declined considerably in those towns on Saturday, but not in time to influence the price of bread for the first 15 days of Sept. The price would consequently have risen at Laon not less than. 40 centimes the 5 kilogrammes. The Prefect of the Department, imitating the course pursued by the Prefect of Paris, has assumed the responsibility of reducing the 40 centimes to 20 centimes, pro posing to the bakers to compensate them for their present loss by permitting them to continue the present rate after a fall in the price of flour. A letter from Nantes, of the 4th inst., states that the price of wheat in that town was quoted at the beginning of last week at 28f. the 78 kilo grammes, with little demand, and with a prospect of a fall. Good fresh flour was sold to the bakers at 80f. the 159 kilogrammes, and inferior flour at from 75f. to 78f., according to quality. But the news of the measures adopted by the Government surprised everybody, and stopped all business. The buyers withdrew, and the orders given for the pur chase of wheat abroad were countermanded. The speculators at the Bourse yesterday, alarmed at the substance of the last dispatch received from Constantinople, and likewise by a report that the French Government would shortly require a loan of 500,000,000 f., offered Government rentes and railway shares for sale, both of which consequently declined. The Three per Cents. opened at 78E 50c., and closed at 78c. 35c. for the end of the month ; the Four-and-a-Half per Cents. closed at 102 f. 10c. with the coupon detached ; Orleans Railway Shares, 1,250 f. ; Rouen, I,loof. ; Havre, 520 f. ; Great Northern, 875 f. ; Paris and Stras burg, 935 f. ; Paris and Lyons, 942 f. 50c. ; Western of France, 750 f. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 627 f. 50c. ; Great Central, 542 f. 80c. ; Shares of the Bank or Credit Mobilier, 830 f. RUSSIA AND TURKEY. The Post Ampt Gazette of Frankfort states, in a letter from Vienna, that the rumour of the Rus sian Ambassador there having expressed to the Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs, his convic tion that the Emperor of Russia would accept the modifications of the Note of Vienna made by the Porte, as he would regard them as unimportant, had become very general. The Lloyds of - Vienna contains a letter from Brody (Galicia) of the 30th ult., which says " Letters from Odessa state that certain firms of that place have realised, in a single day in the corn trade, upwards of 100,000 silver roubles each. Immense quantities of wheat remained in store." " A letter from Warsaw," says the Breslaw Gazette, " mentions a rumour there, in well informed circles, that the Emperor o f Russia will honour with his presence the manoeuvres at the camp of Olmutz." A certain degree of excitement prevails at Con stantinople Aug. 29, owing to the modifi c ati ons which the Divan has introduced into the Viennese note. Relying on the support of France and Great Britain, and finding itself at the head o f an arm y of 200,000 men, Turkey is inclined to go to war. Fresh troops are daily pouring in. The army in Asia numbers 80,000 men. _ _ A Cabinet Co'uncil was held on the 24th of August, and measures were canvassed for the de fence of the country. The Spanish General Prim is on the point of leaving Constantinople for the head-quarters of the army on the Danube. Omar Pasha, the com mander of that army, has changed the positions of various corps, so as to be prepared for all eventu alities. The attitude of Greece is watched with great interest by the Turkish politicians. It is said that the cholera is making great pro gress in Russia, especially in the southern provinces, where large bodies of troops are stationed. The disease has made its appearance on various points of the frontier of Eastern Gallicia. ITALY. The Modena Messenger publishes letters from Rome of the 25th and 26th ult., from which it appears that the number of individuals arrested in that city amounted to 45. Among them were the lawyer Petroni, of Bologna ; Casciani, an officer of the Salt and Tobacco Administration ; a priest of San Lorenzo ; A Lepu, the son of an apothe cary; Ruspoli, a nobleman ; Alexander Castellani, the son of a rich jeweller; and Trabalza, an em ploye of the post-office. _ _ - Numerous arrests had likewise taken place at Bologna, on the 30 ult. The Univers relates the following fact relative to the arrest at Rome of the Advocate Petroni " This person," says that journal, " did not leave Rome, like his comrade, after the city had been taken by the French, He remained there and contrived, up to the 15th ult., to baffle the police. IVl azz i n i h a d hi g hl y approved of his determination, and, without doubt, turned to use his presence in Rome during the last four years. Amongst Petroni's papers was found a letter from Mazzini, in which this letter thanks him f or th e services which he had rendered to the sacred cause, and compliments him on his address in escaping from the search of the police. A copy of the reply of Petroni was also found, in which he says :--` As to the police, do not he under any uneasiness ; I am so well concealed that I defy the devil himself to discover where I am.' " General Allouveau de Montreal, commander of the French army of occupation at Rome, went on the 28th ult. to Civita Vecchia to inspect the troops and the material. He returned to Rome on the 30th. SPAIN. The Three per Cents. were done at 441 ; the New Three per Cents., at 231 ; the Debt of the First Class, at 101 ; and that of the Second, at 5 3-16ths. AUSTRIA. The Official Gazette of Venice, of the 30th ult., says :—ln order to contradict the exaggerated rumours which have been circulated of a scarcity, we are happy to announce that the harvest has not been so bad as was at first feared, and that there arrived last week at Venice such a quantity of corn that it is difficult to find storehouses to de posit it in. Thirty-seven vessels laden with wheat and maize have entered the port. The prices, not withstanding, are quoted higher . " The Gazette of Turin, under the head of Faenza, of the 27th ult. says :—" The A ustrian ma y or of Ravenna has taken' possession of the apartment just left by the head of the police, and which this latter had previously occupied. The gonfalonier of Kerli, menaced in consequence of the scarcity of bread, and. the manner in which he had imposed a tax on the various trades, took to flight last night, proceeding to Florence." DEPARTURE OF Mae. H. B. STOWS.—The celebrated authoress of "Uncle's Tom's Cabin" bade farewell to this country yesterday at noon. She took her depar ture from Liverpool in the United States mail steam ship Arctic. She was accompanied to the steam-tender by several of the principal inhabitants of Liverpool, a mongst whom were John Cropper, of Dingle Bank, the Rev. Dr. Raffles, and several of the resident clergy. The Mayor of Liverpool (S. Hoime, Esq.) invited Mrs. Stowe to breakfast, but her time being limited she was obliged to decline the invitation. The Arctic carried out 204 passengers, besides the usual mails, and a very large and valuable cargo of merchandise. .ROCTIESTZP MACES. t, (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) MAIDEN PLATE. Hothorpe Assoio Odiham VISITORS' PLATE. ' • - .... Nine ran. SPORTING NOTES. 1 .... ST. LEGER SUGGESTIONS . The meeting which terminated at Warwick yesOrdatle was marked by no incident of sufficient significa nce s, exercase material influence on speculation on the • Lego.. The unexpected victory of Little Harry. 11,1, ever, smingly encouraged the backers of Ratal3°, who consequently figured with increased prorninency d o the betting. Additional support was also give° The Reiver, but the investments on him were not extra; ordinarily heavy. The movements connected with We° Australian have, recently engrossed the chief attention.;. their origin is apparently inexplicable, and their e n d ency is regarded with considerable doubt and perplexil. by Still his partisans are seemingly nothing dismay e d the determined hostility which he at times encounteir.; and continue to display the most unshaken c onfidence' the superiority of his chance. Notwithstanding tla all opposition, West Australian has roai ntsin a his position of leading favourite in the betting ; the position which he will, undoubtedly, hold up to t he hour of starting. Indeed it is probable that, tber teeth of all opposition, 2 to 1 will be betted on him el' "on or before the day." Rumour assigns various rev, sons to account for his seeming unsteadiness i n the A t li e r d : market ; but they are as silly as they are unfoune and must be regarded only as very weak invention et, the enemy. That the " intentions "of his ° , v/13 h; trainer, and jockey are honourable, I unhesitating ly -„„ lieve, and that West Australian will achieve the viot ° '' I confidentlyexpect. His performances and the proceedin: connected with him give the strongest s upport to t h ese convictions. Aft er W es t A us t ra li an , the next an do Ths of importance is unqu es ti ona bl y S i tti ng bourne --88 0, and true a horse as ever l oo k e d th r ough a "",,r Notwithstanding The Rei ver ' s re p or ted vast huP"', ht s . ment of form, I entertain b u t slender hopes, chance, and Rataplan will, as i n the Derby, ar° cumb to Cineas, . Jog The field for the St. Leger will be numerically ° f t he , nificant ; the subjoined list comprises the nam es . only animals likely to muster at the starting Pos t ... West Australian, Orestes, Umbriel, Honeywood, Filbert, Cineas, Sittingbourne, The Reiver, Mr. Sykes, Pug Orrock. ... io g I shall yet have further opportunities of diem' fully the comparative chances of the co mpetitor... s ; September 8. A FRESS x.'-- THE GRATHAM SAILORS' g011E• On Tuesday last, a deputation from this port hi f honour of waiting upon the Right Hon. the -7 0 of Darnley, at his seat, Cobham Hall, for the per' been interesting his lordship in the movement which be 5 ,43 36 recently making for the establishment of a sailor's t y here. The noble earl entered very minutely in v „ t t° details submitted to him by Capt. W. H. gall, on the managing director of the Sailors' Home 'O t t felt in Craven-street, and not only ex p resse d the sens e the of the advantages to be derived by our seamen frer and proposed home, but contributed a d ona ti o n of 2°`"'aG rt , an annual subscription of 31. towards its future ollPP o ffice the same time kindly consenting to accept th e ;pre' of Patron. The Sailors' Home Institution hav i c n „'",lel viously contributed 501. as also Sir Joseph' ',;',01 Bart., we understand that suitable premises have I ' 6 - toi been engaged near the water-vide, and it is °Pe that the house will be in every respect ready to re inmates by the end of the present month. roe It is truly gratifying to remark the rapid P - ic iot these admirable institutions have been recently t his A year or two ago we had but two Homes ;off v country, and those in the metropolis. We ha" Oa or are on the eve of having homes at the folY) t ports : f,s,atll o ' v Aberdeen, Belfast, Bristol, Ca r diff, Cork, ni.licr Devonport, Dover, Dublin, Du n d ee , F a lmouth/ /' stone, Glasgow, Greenock, Limerick, Liverpoo l, 41 mouth, Poplar, Portsmouth, Queenstown, Shee r o " c h i Shields, Stornoway, Sunderland, Wat e rford, W°°' and Yarmouth. When we reflect upon their utility and na tioe s l f rot portance, this great increase in the number ] 0 Homes is not to be wondered at • nor indeed, egit; the list is, is it half as long as we should wish to seed for we would have it record the name of every 6 "tbe along our entire coast ; a result which would 0040 attained were the public only half as zealous in th e as our warm-hearted lady the Queen. CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCll3ff' The fourth general quarterly meeting of this s°C' s;;° was held yesterday at th e F reemasons ' Tavern, 011- A numerously attended. re ad Viscount RANELAGH p res id e d . His lordshipoteP the report of the executive committee which s tb e. ' that the total numb er o f s h ares i ssue d duril 3 b. v g twelve months was up war d s o f 6,000, re presen t r i c y subscribed capital of 300,0001., on w hich upw e ber O f f 52,0001. had already been paid. The not e shares on the order of rights, on the termil i - iiio that day's drawing, would be no less than ,36, w ine nearly 800 had been solaced by the public d i r . , e oft" and 300 by rotation. Avery few months vrolliu g ort to entitle every shareholder, up to 1,000 and u l l oretS to select lots on estates. he number of right e , - 0 ti P , exhausted on estates actually allotted up to e foe' " was upwards of 600 ; whilst seven estates of .fi t e teen purchased yet remained for distribution. '. l-P nc ietP man said he was happy a ga i n to congra t u l a te the % c oo!' for the fourth time, on th e i r rea l an d su b s tantial ! A. so gratifying to the directors, and to all coneerl3loipt: the first quarter of the society's operations their :i t' tb, had been 6,4861. ; in the second quarter, 10,7 91 ' 'rogr es d third, 15,1641. ; and in the last, 19,7811. —the P ece do; in the last quarter being g rea t er th an i n allY_ a , r tTb atakesone. In the first quarter the num b e r of alw .. i e , was 896 ; in the last, 1,600, or near ly . &ob oe ce . ,`; amount of withdrawals from the society since r mencement was under 501., while in one of the sirb ee ee societies it was as much as 2,000/. per Wee k... e ven t . the National Society had been in existence 9 04, months, they had received 21,0001. ; this socie t Ps24 e d only established twelve months, had recei /e A p,spe_ k ii . A They had issued 6,018 shares, at 501. ; they v7 f i e o in hard cash 44,0001., and the allotments had o nly t ba place in the last five months. There wer e bere Iv • s small estates, at Hertford and Wood-green , f t bte allotments were not taken up. The estates o_jobbowp 1 ciety would not be a nuisance to their P," o j, They would rather beautify the neighbourP°of Forest-hill they had shown the good examP le f e e, 6 o -5 out ground for a church. (Hear, hear.) I ° ; dire ct 'O4 a definite conclusion would be come to tb.ictife as to increasing the salaries of the agents. ni 9 ,-yeg' r ,fer intelligent men might make 2501. or 35 ', no 7 e ti' these agencies. He believed that there vli s soel bo t, investment in England than that offered by t o' , 0 4 Not only were they well supported in this e° China they actually had applications for shares from Calcutta. (Hear, hear.) , e IG Colonel Kivox moved the adoption of the re [o4: l ci kee w Mr. H. T. POWNALL seconded the motion,._:', on the importance of the privilege of posses m otion in g hold. t" The report was unanimously adopted. seco cle bo le o Mr. ALDRICH m o v e d, an d M r . CANNEY „a r C rs , appointment of M r . J. C. B enn ett and ';: eh olde Richards, as auditors, on behalf of th e she 0 00 a tle Agr M ee to. r. d J. ARTHUR complained that theseejciers,itt n d were unknown to the majo r ity of the sh er ir roP ° 7 o i oll that due notice -had not been given of th,e, at pf° ' After a conversation, it was suggestea s if es to 21 days' notice should be given of the n a the tir e posed as auditors. Some routine business was disposed of, °Ti t s. ) ' .l '-ob l/3 ing then proceeded to ballot for allotinecinto the P close the thanks of the society were vote d chairman. . - SeP t. do .o' THE Mains.—SOUTHAMPTON, A , : q The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Na,vi a gr ie d to; 10 , pany's ship Madrid, Capt. John Weelte, s . ben Cads' with the usual mails for Vigo, Oporto, cat -'-';' 9 r go ' , and Gibraltar, 59 passengers, a full gener3"' icks" 460 value 9,000/. for Lisbon, and 10 bottles ;er, The Tartar, a beautiful new paddle-wheel stei');, gePoL o , tons, built on the new diagonal prinoiPlA'rieatal White of Cowes, for the Peninsular and - by IT„ - a til" pany, with engines of 150-horse power, nea r - 13ft,i Sumners, Day, and Baldock, of Nortbalu, near 's ampton, was tried at the measured mile i n t be on Monday, and attained a very 0 011 01 ra n to I, I.' The Tartar will shortly be sent to Cllin a ,„o ~ tween Hong Kong and Canton, in conjunc"- coinr r iiP Canton, a steamer belonging to the sam e _. cadio . r oe already on the station. The screw steam the ono/ take her departure for the Indian seas „ e 130,, of a few days, and after her arrival out, ,r l, OO and Madras, two fine screw steamers 0 ,1 ea the tr y and 270-horse power, at present e mploY eu . n d A s i : b ee, dian lines, will be placed on the Singapore in the Tian station, to convey the Australian mail s /., bei'sg o o of the Chusan and Shanghai, which ves.s,ei: loo respectively only 750 and 600 tons, wi • P"'" power have not been found to be suffil state ful, and were, in fact, only placed on till ili e rc i the first instance as experimental vessels t on s ole o suitable could be prepared. Two neAna 4003300' steam-ships, the Colombo, of 2,000 tons of power, and the Norna, of 1,100 toni!_erogor._ horse power, built by Messrs. Tod. and ill '"r ep el Glasgow, are nearly ready for sea, and preP few weeks come round to Southampton .to„ ...:on tal C o p ( for service on some of the Peninsular anc!,,u4lselet's pany's lines of steam communication. ,- 15 _,, n ,y, s'oe utnu b i t nlt eC longing to the West India Mail Steam paddle-wheel steam-ship, of 1,800 tons,,e,j diagonal principle by Wh ite, of C o wes, i !T s re ei i l o , pected here from the Thames. whererssh,e.4iTer, 11401; her machinery at the factory of Mess 1 r hill, and Co. The United States mail , t b o old t t e C 2 act t a h in u j li., D a . n la d i qh es e , pected to arrive off Cowes en route t wusituhaldarnoteaslii...s7rili houN