The Sun. — London, England, 1853-09-27 00:00:00

ONDON and NORTH_ wES¶I E R N and to terrify l eg iti ma t e h o ld ers, was exceedingly RAILWAY. natural, and might have been anticipated w ith ou t TENDERS FOR SLEEPERS. parry The Directors of the Loudon and North-Wcste rn Rttnlvtly, end any extraordinary degree of foresight, or pretended are prepared to receive TENDERS for TWO /IU.,DI.ED and tioirs said forms of powers of va ti c i na ti on. B ut that bona fide capi tenderFlFTY THOUSAND SLEEPERS. Spec if Ica may be had on application to the undersigned. The tenders must be sent in on or Letore 12th October next. talists, st ou t coun t ry gent l emen, sturdy yeomen, _ By order, CHARLES E. STEWART, Secretary,and comf or t a bl e re ti re d tra d esmen, who - only Secretary's Office, Euston Station, London, Sept. 26, /. 8 .) 3 . looked to the security of the dividends, and would not think of disturbing their investment even for the purpose of realising a considerable premium, should participate in the panic, and lend their , aid to enhance the difficulties of the emergency, has, we confess, both pained and astonished us. But, then, they were frantic with terror, and pressing their stock upon the market for unre served sale. The energetic efforts of stronger minded and more patriotic individuals to support prices and prevent the accounts so humiliating to the national character from being borne to the AUTOCRAT, the terror of whose name had pro duced such calamitous results, were thus neutralised. The partial improvement that had been effected for a short time was com pletely set aside, and Consols closed at 91,-; a deterioration of more than nine per cent, within four months, while Shares were again lower, the London and North Western being below par, and other less favourite lines at heavy discounts ! ! To understand the full extent of this general deterioration of property of every description —a deterioration unparalleled within any similar time —we shall simply refer to the quotations of some of the leading Stocks, and Shares, and Securities on a day taken at random from our files in the month of April, and compare them with present prices. The 3 per Cent. Consols were, on the Bth of April, 10n . 1. On the 26th of September they were 947 it, a f a ll of 9 per cent, in the capital value ; and yet, on the former period there was a great probability of a reduction of interest from 3to2ior 21 per cent. East India Stock was then 261. It is now 240. East India Bonds were 48 premium. They are now 10s. discount to par. London and North-Western Railway Stock was then 121 to 121 k. It is now 99 to 100-- a fall of 21 per cent. Great Western, was then 99-.} . 3, it is now 78 9 ; South-Western 911 21, it is now '72 74 ; South-Eastern then 761 7, now 57 8 ; Eastern Counties then 13i 1, now 112 ; Great Northern 83 4, now 69 70 ; Midland then 75/ 76/, now 55 6 ; York and North Midland then 60 61, now 42 44 ; and York and Berwick 69 70, now 56 58. But why multiply examples ? Everything shows that the fall in railway shares has been from 20 to 30, or, in some instances, nearly 40 per cent. ; and we believe that the general depreciation on the accu mulated and realised property of the country has been, on an average, 15 per cent. ; or assuming that realised property, according to the general estimate, at six thousand millions, a loss of nine hundred millions sterling, or one hun dred and twenty millions more than the national debt. This is a pleasing boon, for which we are chiefly indebted to the Emperor NICHOLA S, and partly to the proceedings of the Directors of the Bank of England, aided and assisted by the timidity and nervousness of our capitalists. There is one description of security, and one only, that has escaped the general depreciation. It is right that attention should be called to the fact that Bank of England Stock maintains the same price now that it did in April, the price then being 225, the present quotation 224 6. This simple circumstance speaks trumpet-tongued as to the nature of the tactics carried on by the Directors. They have schemed and manoeuvred to improve their own dividends at the expense of the com munity, entailing losses to the extent of many hundreds of pounds sterling for every 20s. profit gained for the proprietors. We cannot suppose that they could have believed that the results of their operations would have been so very disastrous. But they evoked the spirit which they are now unable to subdue. They sowed the whirlwind, and they are reaping the storm. Let them now reflect on the deplorable consequences of their proceedings. Let them not be misled by the ful some panegyrics of contemptible toadies, who applaud their prudence and foresight (GOD save the mark), and think their sole object should be to paralyse the efforts of industry. They have nearly as much to answer for as NICHOLAS himself in producing the present crisis, and if we take measures to blunt the fangs and pare the claws of the great Bear, we must also prevent the Directors from obtaining powers ',be reckless abuse whereof has led to such disas TIIEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LAME. Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith. LAST FIVE NIGHTS of Mr. GUSTAVUS V. BROOKE. THIS EVENING, SETT. 27, Will be performed THE LADY OF LYONS. Supported by Messrs. G. V. Brooke, A. Younge, Edgar, Moorhouse, and Belton; Mesdames Anderson and Belton. To conclude with THE FOUNTAIN OF BEAUTY, in which Miss Featherstone and Miss E. Ormond will appear. Reduced prices us usual. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPET. Proprietor. Mr. B. Webster —Directress, Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, SEPT. 27, be performed GENE VI E VE. Characters by Messrs. Parselle, G. Lee, Leigh Murray, C. Selby, Bedford, Keeley, 0. Smith, &c. ; Miss Woolgar, and Mrs. Keeley. After which, will be presented SARDANAPALUS., To be followed by THE CAMP AT CHOBIIAIf. To conclude with COMING OF AGE. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. William Cooke. Mr. W. Coma feels the greatest pleasure in announcing that the Grand Mythological Burlesque Spectacle each Night increases in attraction, and the pleasing and instructive nature of the sui ject has already gained the attention of Parents and Guardians, who nightly flock to the Amphitheatre with their younger branches to witness the astounding and classical effects introduced in this un rivalled production. In order to keep up the uninterrupted chain of novelty, an engagement has been entered into with Signor CARLOTTI and Signor FRANCOIS, who will introduce their matchless Feats as performed before the Rajah of Nagpore. These extraordinary Artistes are pronounced incredible. ,rous consequences. One word, before we conclude, to legitimate and bona fide holders of stocks and shares. Let them abstain from sacrificing their property at present prices. Let them refuse to play the game of their opponents, but hold on steadily. They will find that there will be a speedy reaction, and that they will have ample cause for rejoicing if they pursue the course we recommend, and avoid the pit dug for their reception. The ancient world signalised its greatness chiefly n monuments of vast size, and sometimes durabi ity. The extent of Nineveh and the colossal structures of Egypt still strike us with wonder ; Grecian civilisation left us models of beauty which are, and ever will be, the adoration of every man of taste ; Rome adorned her naturally utilitarian labours with the elegance of Grecian conceptions ; the Middle Ages gave us ecclesiastical models which, from their own point of view, can hardly be surpassed ; but the present age, which in all these things is little more than a copyist of the past, has at least given the world one thing —it is commonly termed a mechanical age, and one of its chief historical characteristics will assuredly bo an unheard-of development of mechanical power. Its most vast conceptions begin with the steam boiler. To facilitate the creation of steam, to husband its strength, to adapt it to machinery which shall waste as little as may be of its giant power, to level or bore through hills, to fill up valleys, to build monster bridges, all to give free course to this great monarch of the age, is the great task of our day. Almost all our monster works by sea or by land are built in homage to the great moving power. Monster viaducts, mon ster e mbankments, monster iron bridges, monster ships, double the size of a great man-of-war, are all but, im p l ements for the s erv i ce o f t h e monster power, which seems adequate to move the very world itself, if any one would find it the standing place desired by Archimedes. We recorded but the other clay one of its latest triumphs, a monster and a model fa c t ory . A beau- Aire, its romantic scenery corcunences; a building whose area of ground is n o t l ess than six acres, and its arealolw(, )f a f n lo di2 oringj acres, the m ill itself 550 f ee tfeet li high ; loo ms to the number of 1,200. The shafting of the machinery, which moves them, nearly two miles in length , and GOO or 700 tons in weighttiful fabric, or 5,688 miles ; capable of p roducing 18 miles a day of beau of weaving a g i rdle per annum, and, therefore, 'sons engaged in the population of 10, 000 l'° l for the globe in a trifle more than four years ; a , asrent. Such are thevarious processes—servants and handmaids to the requirements of the great almost illimitable power of the steam-engine—a prominent features in this last tribute to the power, 1,200 horses. in this case, estimated as equal to that of Mr. SALT, the spirited and generous proprietor of the whole, gave a splendid dinner at its open ing on the 20th. He was amongst the very first, we believe, to introduce the manufacture of al pachn into Bradford, and realised a splendid for- THIS EVENING, SEPT. 27, And during the week, will be presented (the 14th time) the New Classical Burlesque, entitled JUPITER'S DECREE, AND THE FALL OF PH/ETON; or, THE FIERY COUINERS OF THE SUN, supported by the entire strength of the Company. New and original Scenes in the Circle, introducing Signor CAR LOTTI and Signor FRANCOIS. Concluding with (87th time) THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO. Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W West. LAST NIGHT BUT TWO OF THE SEASON. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. By desire, repetition of the Grand Juvenile Fetes. Re•engagement f Miss Poole. Fireworks at half-past Eight. THIS EVENING, SEPT. 27, CIIUSAN, Splendid MENAGERIE, Promenading Elephants. First Exhibition of the " Hamadryas" Baboon, a very rare species. MARINE AQUARIUM, a Collection of Sea and Fresh Water Fish alive in large Glass Tanks. Vocal and Instrumental CONCERT. Two favourite Songs by Miss Poole. The whole concluding with the wonderful Tableaux of the " FEAST OF LANTERNS," DISPLAY of FIREWORKS and EXPLOSION of CHLNESE JUNKS. Concert at a Quarter to Six. Fireworks at lialf-past Eight. Admission, Is. DAILY WEATHER TABLE. TUESDAY, SEPT. 27, 1853. State of the wind and weather at each of the following places at nine o'clock yesterday morning. The stations are arranged in order of latitude. PORTSMOUTH—N.W. hard wind—partially cloudy. SOUTHAMPTON - N.11;.., hard wind—partially cloudy. FOLKESTONE —W., strong breeze—partially cloudy. TUNBRIDGE —N., strong , breeze—partially cloudy. GREENWICH—N.W. hard wind—pa r ti a lly c l ou d y . STROOD—Hard wind—partially cloudy. SWINDON—N.W.,_ strong breeze—partially cloudy. CAMBRIDGE—N. W., gale—cloudless. . _ The return from the following place indicates the state of the weather on Saturday morning at nine o'clock SOUTHAMPTON—S.W., strong breeze—rain. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tats DAT —Morning 27 min. after 8 I Evening 12 min.aft. 9 ro-Monaow —Morning 57 min. after 9 1 Evening 40 min.aft. 10 THE WEATHER.—BurI OFFICE, Seri. 27. THERIOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 64—highest since noon yesterday. 45—lowest this morning and during the night. 62—this day at noon. BAROMETER, 29.29. WIND, S.W. Light breeze, and cloudy weather. The equinoctial gales, which commenced on Saturday, appear now to have passed away. / .. '4' ~~~~ ..~ rw~ii ~~~~. ~~ JJ~ Alll, LONDON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1853. RUSSIA AND TURKEY. A second edition of the Morning herald con tains the following important announcement : " We are enabled to state, from the best autho rity, that the Government, moved at length by the unanimous voice of the country, and now awake to the insidious designs of Russia, have sent full powers to the British Ambassador at Constantinople to act more energetically in support of the Turks. The Government have also dis patched a messenger to Vice-Admiral Dundas at Besika Bay, via Marseilles and Malta, with dis patches, informing him of the instructions sent to Lord de Redcliffe, and enjoining the gallant admi ral to be in readiness to attend instantly to any requisition that the Ambassador may make to him, to proceed to Constantinople with the entire force under his command. It is expected that by the time the Government messenger reaches Admiral Dundas, the fleet will be under weigh for the Bos phorus, and hostilities will have commenced. "We are further enabled to state that orders have been sent to Admiral Corry to take the whole of the fleet under his command, including the divi sion of powerful screw ships, and proceed to sea to-morrow, the 28th instant. We believe a por tion of this fleet will proceed northward, and perhaps another to Gibraltar or Malta. Other screw line-of-battle ships will be immediately com missioned for active service." The excitement, amounting to a complete 'panic, still prevails on the Stock Exchange. Stocks, and Shares, and Bonds, in short every description of security and investment, public or private, have tumbled, and are tumbling, and as yet there has scarcely been an attempt at a reaction. The fall on Consols, in a single day, wits no less than 2i per cent., while shares in the best established dividend-paying Companies experienced a similar or even greater depreciation. Distrust and alarm were visible on every sid e . I t might have been supposed by the el ongated countenances of the speculators that a monetary crisis had occurred, and that we were on the eve of a National ry bank ruptcy,proba- or that at least the re was eve bility of another financial coup . d'etat, and the promulgation of a Ministerial letter, autho rising the Bank of England to (lisreo. o ard the re strictions imposed by the Bank Charter Act, or possibly to suspend cash payments, and red eem its promises by further issues of paper, the Sixteen Millions of Specie still comfortably re posing in its vaults, being required as a peace offering to alleviate the wrath of the modern " Raw-head and bloody-bones"—the Northern Bear, and to induce him to permit our elderly females—we cannot call them men—to pursue their peaceful avocations in quietness, and produce com fortable broadcloth and fine calicoes for the delectation of the Calmuck and Tartar hordes, to whose tender mercies our Isle was about to be surrendered. Anything or everything disastrous might have been anticipated from the rueful looks of those sagacious ph/motes, who who deemed that the passage of the Dardanelles by a few war steamers, although merely for the purpose of affording protection to the French and English residents in the Turkish metropolis, migh be regarded as the unequivocal signal for the final setting of the sun of England's glory, and the downfall of the once potent British Lion. We should scarcely blame the gentlemen of the Stock Exchange, the ursce minores of Capel-court, for making the most of the opportunity. They are but acting in their vocation and reaping the har vest, and a golden one it has already proved. Th a t they should do everything to increase the alarm, THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 27, 1853. MONEY MARKET AND CITY INTELLIGENCE CITY, TWO O'CLOCK. The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were estimated at 7,000 bales, of which 500 Surat and 500 American were taken for export. The market was not quite so heavy, and closed without altera tion in prices. The sales comprised 5,000 Ameri can, 60 Pernam and Maranham at 60. to 71-d., 30 Bahia at 61d., 100 Egyptian at 01d. to Old., 1,000 Surat at 21d. to 41d., and 50 Sea Island at is. 9d. to 2s. 4d. per lb. The Share Market opened at an improvement on Saturday's rates, but closed weak at 4- to 1 per cent. below the opening prices. The amount of gold brought by the Indiana— the arrival of which from Melbourne we noticed yesterday—is ascertained to be 41,517 ounces ; and the Renown, reported this morning from Geelong, brings 10,353 ounces. The Typhoon has arrived with dates of June 17 from Melbourne, and is sup posed to have a good amount on board. The Al batross, at Liverpool, brought none. It appears, as the result of inquiries made among the discount houses, that there is still a great de mand for accommodation, and the rate is kept up at 4:-1 to 5 per cent. even for the best paper, at comparatively short dates. Under these circum stances much uncertainty prevails as to whether the directors, at their meeting next Thursday, will further enhance their terms. It was supposed that as they decided last week to lend money upon stock, at 4 per cent., they would not interfere with the commercial rate, and we rather expect this course, notwith standing what is now asserted to the contrary ; but no one can tell the extent of the demand since last weekly return was ccmpleted, and this would guide them to a very great extent in the measures they adopted. The Bank under the present restrictive bill of Sir Robert Peel, has nothing to fall back upon beyond its bullion and note reserves, and being compelled to keep these in a certain ratio, it will have to refuse accommodation, however good the paper offered, when once the equilibrium is in danger of being destroyed. At the present moment, not all the bills offered are done, but it is usual to oblige steady customers in preference, and they have to resort partially to the other bankers and discount-houses. The advance in grain, and the occurrences at Constantinople, all have a ten dency to make money artificially scarce, although there is plenty of it offering on " call." The incon venience of taking too much cash, returnable at a moment's notice, is too apparent to need illustration, while the motive for so offering it is, that no one can tell whether he may not be able to get a higher rate ere long. It is precisely this uncertainty which is far more damaging than actual dearness long continued. The imports of bullion from Australia are still coming in steadily. The English Stock market has been very de pressed again. Consols brought 92 and 921 at the commencement of business, but they have gone back since to 914 For Transfer the quotations have been 92, and since 91/ g. The political intel ligence reads as unfavourable as for some time past, and there is no calculating from one hour to another what may arise. Still from a firmer and more truly English policy, most persons be lieve that peace could be preserved, and Russia be taught a wholesome lesson ; and since all classes have so materially suffered from the proceedings of the Autocrat, some national compensation, by the opening of the Dardanelles in perpetuity, is cur rently debated, and begins to be advocated. The hold that would be obtained upon Russia by the constant pressure of British and French ships of war in the Black Sea, would afford a far better guarantee for non-aggression than mere "notes," or even formal treaties. Exchequer Bills have been at 10s. to 165., and India Bonds at 4s discount. Foreign Securities have been rather actively dealt in, but not at improved prices. Russian Five per Cents. have been quoted 111, and the Four-and-a-Half per Cents. 964 to 97. Sardinian Stock has been done at 90i and 91. Mexican stock has realised 23k to 1. Equador 4g, and Grenada Deferred 81. Chilian Six per Cents. are at 101. Spanish New Deferred Bonds have been 24- to I, and the Passive Converted 4f. The Swedish Loan has been at 92. French Four-and- a-Half per Cents are at par, with the exchange at 2'5 10. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. have been at 621. The Railway Share market has been again very weak, and the pressure of sales continues as respects most of the English lines. The decline seems to be about per cent. on the average. French Shares still keep up very fairly, and the banks at Paris are giving great support to prices by acting liberally towards the holders. The Banque Mobili6re, we hear, is lending at 4 per cent., charging a commission of per cent. to keep Strasbourg shares for 12 months. The Gold Mine Shares have been depressed a little, but there are fair sellers. The Land Companies' Shares have been very good. The Australian Banks are better. The railway " calls" for this month are as under: - - Dublin and Drogheda, Pref. £25 I£2 10 £19,500 East Kent 3l 2 10 70,000 *Gt. Luxembourg, Guar. 6 per cen t 3 1 0 51,700 Gt. North of Scotland, Ist Pref. 3 1 0 30,000 *Hamilton and Toronto Shares Lancaster and Carlisle, New Third s 1 2 0 48,000 London, Tilbury, and Southend 15 110 60,000 *Lyons and Mediterranean Midland, new 51. 4 per cent 24 1 10 202,500 *Namur and Leigh, preference Newmarket Extension ll 0 10 13,500 *Royal Danish *Zealand *The proportion called by Foreign Companies is 373,1651., but the holdings of English Proprietors are not known Total called in 1853.. 48,799,501 BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY. (From tite Official List.) Business done. 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 92 la 13 g 90, India Stock udia Bouds, £lOOO Consols for Account Exchequer Bills, ld. £IOOO Ditto Small PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY. Cent THREE O'CLOCK. el a ' i i a s h n Bonds, Bonas, 6 18 p 2 e 5 r , 3 Cent lOl D per Ditto 5 per Cent lOl Equador Bonds Grenada Bonds, Deferred Mexican 3 per Cent. Ditto Account, Sept. 30 23 Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent., Con. 1841 44i Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent. £ St lll Ditto for the Account Ditto 44 per Cent 964 7 6 Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent 9OA 14 Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent 94- 4 Spanish New Deferred, 3 per Cent 214 1 Ditto Passive (Converted) Swedish 4 per Cent........ ......... 92 Dividends on the above payable in London. French Routes, 44 per Cent 100 f. Ex. 25f. 100. Dutch Exchange, 24 per Cent. 12 Gni], THREE O'CLOCK. Consols 904 1 Ditto October Account 904 1 RATE OP DISCOUNT.—In the present disturbed state of affairs the probability or otherwise of the Bank of England raising their rate of discount to 5 per cent. must depend entirely on the extent of the pressure ex perienced by them from day to day. It is believed, however, that the intensity of the existing panic is re garded as being so much beyond what could have been looked for that any step likely to add to it would be re luctantly resorted to.—Tinter. CANADA.—Advises received from Canada state that the news of the advance in the price of wheat on this side had caused much activity in the markets, and that it was expected from 4,000,000 to 5,000,000 bushels would be shipped from the colony via the United States before the closing of the navigation. DUBLIN STOCK EXCHANGE, Monday Evening,— There was a complete panic at the Stock Exchange to day. Consuls, alter several fluctuations, closed finally at 91 ; Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Stocks, which which were done on Saturday at 951 4, fell to-day, at close of the market, to 92i a. Bank Stock has shared in the general depression, having fallen 3/. since Friday last. Very little is doing in the share market. The weather is favourable to-day. Very cold, but dry and bright. The Duke of Newcastle arrived in town yesterday orp Clumber. NEWMARKET RACES (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) HANDICAP, 20 SOVS. T.Y.C. Jack•the•Giant-Killer_ Ephesus Seven ran. Punch Box has arrived. LATEST BETTING. TRIENNIAL. 5 to 4 agst Alembic. 2 to 1 agst King Torn. DERBY. 25 to 1 agst Alembic (taken). SPORTING NOTES. WEDNESDAY'S SPORT AT NEWMARKET. The sport appointed to be decided on Wednesday pre sents no especial "feature" of attraction ; still it will be neither uninteresting nor unimportant, and the only shortcomings will be in the supply, not in the quality. The list contains nine events, including one match and four unclosed stakes. The appearance of West Austra lian among the competitors for the "Triennial" for three. year-olds will exercise a diminishing effect on the field. His starting is probable, and should he go to the post, his success will be certain. His running and the nume rical strength of the field, however, will be mate r i a lly regulated by th e resu l t of the race for the Grand Duke Michael. The 200 Sovs. Produce Sweepstakes will, perhaps, be carried off by Sortie. The St. Leger, although most insignificant in comparison with its Great Northern pro totype, is likely to occasion a somewhat interesting betting race ; yet its intended competitors possess only the slenderest racing pretensions. Lord Exeter has four nominations, including the names o f Fi l b ert, Cobnut, and Nutpecker. His lordship's stable will therefore be fully represented ; probably by two horses. I am, how ever, on this occasi on , i n d uce d to desert his colours and do battle with Rackapelt. Weathercock may have a favourable turn for the 50 Sovs. Sweepstakes, although it is expected that the race will occasion a demonstration of applause. King Pepin is regarded with strong prejudice by the cognoscenti of Newmarket, and his Cesarewitch chance is spoken of with much ridicule. The horse was for some time trained here ; it is, therefore, reasonable to suppose that they had frequent opportunities of forming a pretty accurate estimation of his ability. He is described by all manner of " uproarious epitaphs ;" some persons calling him a pig of a horse, others noisily maintaining that he never went more than four miles an hour, and that was when he travelled in a van. A report is widely circulated to the effect that just prior to the Warwick Meeting King Pepin was tried with Little Harry, who gave him 101bs, and was easily beaten ! !The "man in the street" is very "sweet" on Ner vous and Nutshell for the Cesarewitch ; he is, however, remarkable for the strangeness of his fancies. Seahorse was at exercise this morning in company with another "foreigner." He is a good looking powerfully-made horse, and the style in which he takes his work is sufficient to justify the partiality which cer tain experienced judges have expressed for his Cam bridgeshire chance. Whether he will prove another Turnus, however, yet remains to be seen. P.S.—Newmarket, Monday Night, 11 p.m.—l have just received intelligence that West Australia is "scratched" for the Triennial Stakes, for three-yrs-old. The remarks which I made respecting his chance are, therefore of little worth. Sittingbourne's running will of course depend materially on the result of the Grand Duke Michael. Pelion is the next noteworthy animal, and after him I should "go " for Talfourd. Many visi tors have arrived by the evening train, and there is every indication of a full and successful meeting. A FRESH MAN. Newmarket, Monday Night. NORTHALLERTON RACES. ENTRY for the Two-YEAR-OLD STAKES of 10 sovs. each, h ft, with 50 added, for colts, Bst 71b, and fillies Bst 31b. Penalties and allowances. The second to save his stake, and the winner to pay 10 sovs towards ex penses. Half-a-mile. Tadcaster. Miss Sellon. I f . b y C ow l , out I Diligent. Mrs. liumby. of Palma. ENTRY for the WELTER HANDICAP of 5 sovs. each, 3 ft, with 20 added ; second to save his stake. Gentlemen riders; professionals 51b extra. One mile. Age st lb Maidstone Italian Titterstone Moses Risk 6 10 10 Thirkleby 6 10 8 Surveyor 4 10 4 Lough Bawn 5 10 4 Beau Brummell 4 10 2 Age et lb Slang 1. by Ugly Buck —Helena 3 910 Good Morning 3 910 Patience Trying it on (late Fidelity) 4 9 6 Shamrock 3 812 Criterion MARLBORO UGH-STREET.-(THIS DAY. SERIOUS ACCIDENT, AND NARROW ESCAPE OF THE FRENCH AMBASSADOR.— Win. Ward, ironmonger, Tot tenham, and John Kitchen, licensed victualler, Totten ham-park, were placed at the bar before Mr. Bingham, charged with being drunk, and furious driving, and thereby causing the death of a valuable horse, the pro perty of his Excellency the French Ambassador. Thomas Burton, coachman to his Excellency, stated that, about 20 minutes to nine, last night, he was driv ing a horse and brougham, in which was his Excellency, down Regent-street, on the proper side of the road, when all at once he saw a horse and cart, containing the defendants, coming very fast in a contrary direction to that which he was going. Witness pulled his horse up as soon as he could, and had hardly done so when the shaft of defendant's cart ran into his horse's chest, and killed it on the spot. The value of the horse is 130 guineas. As soon as the occurrence took place, he and the footman got off the box, and the latter let his Ex cellency out of the brougham, while witness ascertained the names and addresses of the defendants. The defend. ant Kitchen, who was driving, was, by the force of the collision, thrown out of the cart, and both of the de- fendants were the worse of liquor. Jonathan Ingram, footman to his Excellency, corro- borated the evidence of last witness, and added that the defendants were driving at the rate of ten miles an hour. The defendants denied being drunk, and Kitchen at tributed the occurrence as the result of an accident. Inspector Monckton proved that both of the defend ants were decidedly drunk. Mr. Bingham said the charge had been completely and satisfactorily proved against Kitchen, the driver of the horse and cart, and he (Mr. Bingham) was sorry the law allowed him to fine him (the defendant) no higher penalty than 405., or seven days, for furious driving, and 101. for the damage. The latter penalty he should not inflict, but leave it to the owner of the horse to bring his action in one of the superior courts. As to the defendant Ward, he should discharge him. RE-OPENING OF OXFORD -STREET.—The relayinc, of granite blocks at th e l ower port i on of Oxford-street,' be tween Tottenham-court-road and Charles-street, Soho square, having been completed, the thoroughfare has re opened for traffic, to the great convenience of the im mense mass of public and other vehicles of all descrip tions traversing this important line of road to and from all parts of the City and west end of the town. The works above the Regent-circus are progressing rapidly. CLOSING OF MORE THOROUGHFARES.—The length of Punter-street and Judd -street is closed for the purpose of paving those thoroughfares with granite. This step has, at the recommendation of Mr. R. Champ, the dis trict surveyor, been adopted, the old M'Adam proving inadequate to the traffic of the heavy goods vans to and from the two railway stations, the Great Northern and North-Western. Hon.—The following letter has been addressed to us by Mr. It. Disher, jun. :—" Borough, Sept. 26.—Sir, — The storm of wind last night has done great injury to the hop plantations. Yearlings have advanced about 10s. per cwt. There are about 1,000 pockets new hops at market. Sussex, Si. Bs, ; Weald s , 91. 10 s . ; Mid . and East gents, 101. to 121. There is a great demand for fine old olds, 1846 and 1847, w hi c h f e t c h f rom 65 5. to 80s. and 845., factors' prices. Duty, 140,0001." LOSS OP THE ENGLISH SHIP CLEOPATRA. —Letters re ceived yesterday from St. John's, New Brunswick, communicate the total loss of the British ship Cleopatra, Captain Levitre master, from Liverpool, abandoned on fire, on the night of the 3rd inst., off the Banks of New foundland, the master , and crew being rescued by the United States war sloop the Dectaur, which fortunately happened to be cruising off the Banks at the time. The Cleopatra was upwards of 1,000 tons burthen. She was bound to Quebec in ballast, and was 24 days out from Liverpool when fallen in with by the American war sloop, the commander of which, on discovering her condition, sent two officers and a number of hands to assist in get ting the ship into the nearest port. She had sprung a leak, and her crew were in a most distressing condition from incessant working at the pumps. At midnight Commander Whitling, observed a great light in the di rection the Cleopatra had steered when she parted com pany the previous evening, he bore down, and shortly came up with a wreck on her beam ends, and on fire. It proved to be the vessel. A gale of wind had thrown the ship over on her beams, and those in charge being unable to right her ; they lighted tar barrels to sig nalise assistance, and in the course of the night the ves sel caught fire from the burning tar barrels. The Decatur came alongside as close as possible, and all hands were taken off in safety. In about two hours afterwards the burning wreck went down in deep water. Her crew saved nothing from the vessel whatever. She was re ported to be amply insured. • RAILWAY A OCIDENT. —COE ONER'S INQUEST. —An in quest was held last night at St. Thomas's Hospital, on the body of Walter Chamberlain, a guard on the North Kent Railway, who, it appeared from the evidence, was found on the top ofthe fifth carriage from the engine of the train on Saturday night last, on its arrival at the Lon don-bridge ticket platform, with his leg broken. He was immediately conveyed to St. Thomas's Hospital, but by the time he arrived there life was extinct, and upon a post mortem examination being made it was dis covered that the liver and kidneys were injured, and that a great quantity of blood had been effused into the cavity of the belly. The immediate cause of this fatal accident is supposed to have arisen from the deceased having missed his carriage, and, while attempting to make his way to it over the tops of the other carriages, came in contact with the bridge which crosses the line at Charlton. The jury returned a verdict of "Acci dental death." LATEST FOREICIN NE \VS. FRANCE. The Emperor and the Empress, after having passed the night at St. Omer, left yesterday morn ing for Dunkirk and Calais. The ball to their Majesties at Lille on Saturday night was got up with great magnificence. The whole of the court-yard of the Hotel de Ville Ras covered ove r an d converted into a ball -roomfor the occasion, and all the rooms of the building were thrown open, so that there was space sufficient for 4,000 persons. The immense temporary room and all the others were dressed out with flowers and tapestry, thousands of wax lights throwing a radi ance of light over the whole. Their Majesties were received with the greatest enthusiasm. The Em peror opened the ball with Mlle. Richebe, daughter of the mayor, their vis d-vis being the Empress,and General Grant, the other persons ih the quadrille being the Prince de Chimay with the Princess d'Essling, the English General Lucas with Mme. Besson, wife of the Prefect, the Prefect with Mine. Lesay Marnesia, and Marshal de St. Arnaud with the Princess de Chimay. Their Majesties after- , wards walked round the ball-room and withdrew at eleven o'clock. Their Majesties quitted Lille the next morning at ten o'clock, after having heard mass celebrated by the Archbishop of Cambray. The imperial train stopped a few minutes at Haze bruck, and arrived at St. Omer at one o'clock. After a short stay there, they proceeded to the camp of Helfaut, where the Emperor passed the troops in review, and was received with great en thusiasm. Unfortunat e ly h eavy ra i n fell during the whole of the manoeuvres. Their Majesties re turned from the camp at seven o'clock. Their health is excellent. The -Emperor, before his departure from Paris, sent the cordon of commander of the Legion of Honour to General de Stuers, who had been sent by the King of Holland to be present at the manoeuvres of Satory. The cross of officer and that of chevalier were sent at the same time to the Dutch officers who accompanied M. de Stuers. Queen Maria Christina breakfasted on Sunday at the palace of Meudon with Prince Jerome Na poleon. A Bayonne journal states that the Duke and Duchess d'Alba have passed through that town on their return to Spain. The Journal des Debats remarks as follows on the entry of the ships of the fleet into the Darda nelles : " We attach a secondary importance to the number of ships which may have passed the Dardanelles. This number will be naturally augmented or diminished ac cording to the necessities of the state of things. The great fact is, that foreign ships of war are in the Bos phorus, and that consequently the order established by treaties has been broken through. The passage of the Dardanelles is an act which corresponds with the crossing of the Pruth. It is stipulated on the one hand in the ex isting treaties, that so long as the Porte should be at peace, no foreign ship of war should enter the Bosphorus; and on the other hand, that the Pruth was the natural frontier of the Turkish territory. It must be borne in mind that in the protests made against the invasion of the Danubian Principalities, it was said that the Western Powers would be entitled to enter the Bosphorus, to respond to th e i nvas i on o f the Principalities. They had up to the present time abstained from every demon stration. But, at present, pressed by the events which are passing, and by the season of the year, they have also taken up their positions. On both sides this ex pectant situation may be prolonged, for the advanced period of the year, which soon will not permit the Rus sians to evacuate the Principalities, will also lead the French and English fleets to winter in the Bosphorus. It is doubtless to these new complications that must be attributed the considerable fall in the English funds. On the, Stock Exchange, on Saturday, there was an absolute panic, similar to what has been seen in times of greatest difficulty. The Three per Cents, fell from 94 to 92, and were a week ago at 95k. We do not, how ever, consider these alarms sufficiently justified. It is to be observed that the entrance of the allied forces is intended not to respond to the Russian invasion, but to keep down an insurrection on the part of the Turks. That intervention has still for object to main tain peace, since it is destined to protect the Sultan against a party which desires to induce him to declare war. The occupation of Constantinople, should events render it necessary, would then have a certain simi liarity with the occupation of Rome. In the two cases, the armed intervention would have been effected to maintain peace and order, and to restore to the esta blished Governments their free decision. Nothing as suredly can better prove the desire of all the Govern ments to remain at peace than this impartial protection which embraces at the same time the Pope and the Sultan. When the Sultan shall be no longer under the pressure and tyranny' of popular passions, the course of the negotiation may be resu me d, an d, i t i s to b e hoped; with btter success." The season of the year has now arrived when the shopkeepers in the provinces of France usually commence the purchase of their winter stock. Few orders, however, have as yet been received in Paris from them. Money is still abundant in the trading circles, but the repeated alarms produced by the Eastern question induce them to limit their transactions and to confine their purchases to what is strictly necessary for present purposes. All trades connected with building are in a state of more than ordinary prosperity. The contractors find some difficulty in procuring sufficient hands, and they have been compelled to submit to a considerable rise in the price of all descriptions of building materials, such as timber, stone, and iron. The ironmasters have such extensive orders on hands that they refuse to accept any new ones, and their prices are generally from 25 to 30 per cent. higher than last year. Fears are consequently en tertained that the new lines of railway lately con ceded cannot be completed within a reasonable time, unless the Government authorise the com panies to import rails andlocomotivesfrom England to France on the payment of a moderate duty. Flour has again risen to the highest price of the month of August, but since Wednesday last it has been difficult to find buyers at those prices. The prevailing opinion at the corn market is, that we have reached the highest prices. Several causes have hitherto contributed to keep up the price of wheat. The shortness of the crop, and the necessity the farmers are under of attending to their labours in the fields preventing them from threshing out their wheat and bringing it to mar ket, have produced a deficiencyin the usual supply, and enabled those who speculate for a rise to force the millers to yield to their demands. The im mense arrival of foreign wheat begin to produce an effect. A telegraphic dispatch from Marseilles announce that 14,000 hectolitres arrived in that port on the 24th inst. On the other hand, a letter from Strasburgh, on the 23d, states that thereare 25,000 hectolitres at Lauterbourg and Neubourg, purchased for Alsace, and coming from the north of Germany and from Holland. The shallowness of the waters in the Rhine between Lauterbourg and Strasbourg had prevented the arrival of the boats. The following are the prices of wheat in the principal markets of France :- Paris, 40f. to 42f. the 100 kilogrammes ; Chartres, 38f. to 41f. ; Etampes, Melun, a n d Rouen, 38f. to 41f. ; Soissons, 40f. to 42f. ; Noyo n , 38f. to 41f. Lille, 39f. to 45f. ; Arras, 38f. to 41f. ; Cambrai 38f. to 41f. ; Amie ns , 37f. t o 4 0f. ; Char]eville, 39f. to 31f. ; Troyes, 36f. to 38f. ; Nancy, 37f. to 39f. ; Metz, 37f. to 40f. ; Strasbourg, 37f. to 40f. • Mul house, 37f. to 40f. ; R aon l'Et ape, 39f. to' 40f ; Dijon, 35f. to 37f. ; Gray, 35f. to 36f. ; Lyons, 34f. to 35f. ; Marseilles, French wheat, 37f., Polish, 28f. ; Toulouse, 33f. to 34f. ; Bordeaux, 36f. to 37f. ; Lucon, 35f. ; Nantes, 35f. ; Tours, 35f. to 37f. ; Saumur, 36f. to 37f. ; Orleans, 37f. to 41E ; Issoudun, 35f. to 38f. ; Bourges, 34f. to 36f. ; Sable 36f. to 37f. ; St. M a l e , 28f to 31f. ; Mor laix, 28f. ; Treguier, 28f. to 29f. ; Caen, 39f. to 40f. ; Lisieux, 39f. to 41f. The lowest prices prevail on the coast of Brittany, from Brest to St. Malo. The wheat crop in that dis trict will afford a considerable quantity for expor tation, a portion of which has already arrived at Havre. The prices of rye, oats, and barley are well maintained with a slight advance. The price of butchers' meat in Paris has not been so well main tained since the publication of the Imperial decree, reducing the duty payable on the im portation of cattle in France. There has not been much business transacted at the wine mar ket of B ercy during the last week. Dealers are waiting the result of the approaching vintage, of which the acounts vary. It is said that the produce in Burgundy will exceed that of an ordinary year. The warm weather for about 12 or 15 days has im proved the grapes wonderfully, and hastened their maturity. The vineyards in the neighbourhood of Paris wear a fine appearance, particularly on the hills of Argenteuil. Coinplaints are heard of the unhealthy state of the vines in the neighbourhood of Saumur, and of the exorbitant prices demanded for wine there. Wines are unusually high through out the south. A considerable fall has taken place in the price of spirits of wine both in Paris and Bordeaux. A greater fall is announced at Beziers, where that article has declined from 190 to 140 f, the hectolitre. The approaching reception of M. Berryer, as member of the French Academy, is creating a cer tain sensation in the Legitimist circles in Paris. The Bourse was more firm yesterday than might have been expected from the depression which pre vailed at the commencement of business, and from the warlike reports which were propagated. The Three per Cents opened at 75f. 15c., rose to 75f. 90c., and closed at 7575 c. for the end of th e E month ; the Four-and-a -Half per Cents. closed at 101 f. 40c. ; Orleans Railway shares, 1 ,220 f. • Rouen, 1,02 . sf. ; H avre, 505 f. ; G reat Northern : 840 f. ; Paris and Strasburg, 933 f. 75c. ; Paris and Lyons, 900 f. ; Western of France, 705 f. ; Bor deaux and Cette, 600 f, ; Great Central, 618 f, )T -04; _ Lyons and Geneva, 510 f. • Shares of the Bask ° Credit Mobilier, 743 f. Me. RUSSIA AND TURKEY. A telegraphic di s p a t c h f rom Marseilles) dated yesterday, yesterday, says :—" By the Nil steamer we rece o l n. the following from Constantinople. The dem . _ etrations of the Ulemas during the fete of the Bairam had caused the ambassadors to fear an and on the 14th they hastened to bring in a part the combined squadrons, consisting of three LIP __o, 4 lish and three French frigates, under the conn . % i " of Rear-Admiral Lebarbier die Tinan. The of Russia was not known to the public on the 15th. explosion, o,f but the diplomatists were informed of it. An t e ,, d plosion was imminent. The Egyptian troops all left for Varna. Enthusiasm and agitation ?, 1 . at their height, an d grea t a l arm preva ils amon i g, t ; European inhabitant s . It was th e F r ench A ° sador who first gave th e or d er f or b r i n ging eP t the vessels of the tw o a lli e d powers . A m ovement expected from one moment to another." Accounts from Consta n ti no pl e , o f Septeraher w l a s ; state that the procession of the Bairam, wh iel L en t to give occasio n t o a popu l ar d emons t ra tion, of off in perfect tranquillity. Extensive ineasar' o d precaution h a d b een t a k en, an d t h e garr isoe the police w ere re i n f orce d by strong detachoures. of troops and pea ce officers. The crews of t bs th e ir sell in the ha r b our were con fi ne d on board dog ships. From 15,000 t o 20,000 mus k e t s ha" taken from th e arsena l o f St . I rene, an d s hipped to Varna. The greatest consternation prevails among the Christian population of the Turkish capital. _„,1 8 On the 15th inst. th e re f usa l o f R uss i a to aZ7 O - 0 to the Tu r ki s h mo difi ca ti ons of t h e Vi en na had not yet become publicly known at Conste nople. M. Titow, who was Russian Ambassador at Cen t ; stantinople, has arrived at Berlin on his we lgo Vienna. It is said that he will be consulted on Eastern question. The Empero r o f R uss i a , accompan i e d by 1 1 Grand Duke, heir presumptive t o th e Crown ,- ,, r , the Grand uke Nikolajewitsch, arrived at "- saw on the 20th inst. gg It is A letter from Berlin of the 23d says believed that the Emperor of Russia, after ha o f been present at the manoeuvres of the earuP Olmutz, will pass some time in our capital." the There are now 25,000 men remaining in,. camp at Olmutz, the rema i n d er o f th e t ro ops ) titularly the cavalry, have entered into Mtge ments. Among the t en t s o f th e o ffi cer s of de d e Court in the camp, th a t o f Li eu t enant -G e neral Grunne attracts great attention. It for ril :,,,d belonged to the G ran d Vi s i r K ara MustaPha,, —rt was taken from the T ur k s a t th e ti me o f the sow siege of Vienna, in 1683. A letter from Bucharest of the 13th, in the Press of Vienna, says :—" Th e t roops are i nsens ibly lea is ing us, and within the last few days detachinen have been continually seen making their Pr__;eltill tions for departu re . Th e camp near Foksefaw be soon broken up and transferred to Quir e "tijr opposite Ruoljuck. Reinforcements are constan arriving from Southe rn R uss i a . M en ' s minds are e , much cast down, and th e s t ranges t rumours are circulation as to what is p ass i ng a t C ons t an tinoPl e, Redschid Pacha, report says, has again given in his resignation. H e i s sa id t o h ave d ec l are d t!' ltl , 3 ! looking at the menacing disposition of the pop er tion at Constantinople, he considered any fur t l ec t concession on the part of th e S u lt an as attell' is with danger. It is said that a number of arm have taken place." A letter from Kalisch, 20th, says :—" The her of officers atta c h e d to th e su i te of the EroPer who have arri ve d a t W arsaw i s very cons iderabl e, The Mussulman caval r y f rom Sechakzow and ho neighbourhood have arrived near Warsaw, in or der to manoeuvre before th e E mperor . Hi s ma iesN after his return from th e camp o f Ol mutz, w ill the fortress of Bresc-Litewski." A letter from Vi enna i n th e G erman Journal of Frankfort says :—" We are assured that the Thiss' s- t. Consul at Buchare s t as k e d t h e Admin i stra ti o n ,e 0 the Steam Boats t o p l ace at the disposal of O f Russian army in th e P r i nc i pa li t i es a great numb,.er, s f steamers. But the di rec t ors a ft er h av i ng doh d. rated have determined not to grant the denial ° They have resolved, on the contrary, that from 14 ', 0 present they will, on account of the state of ~w,, Danube, entirely suspend the voyages to Seron n „,' The Wanderer of Vienna says :—" A letter fr,t ) ' .. " a commercial man at Odessaassures us that comna_,e're is stricken with a co m pl e t e s t agnat i on s i nce t h e en rejection of the modifi ca ti ons o f th e Di van in then; of the note of medi a ti on . C orn h as fallen twenty per cent., because no one has been able to send , off by sea. The re p or t recent l y current o f O a corps d'armee of General Luders, concentrat e at Odessa and in th e env i ron, having marched f o r the Principalities, is not confirmed. It apr: that the troops which are arriving in the Princir, lities belong to the corps d'armee of Otten-Sarken' The New Itamburgh Gazette, under date of St. l Petersburgh, 15th, says—" After the occupation °: the Principalities, 40,000 men of the 4th t. r r, - d'armee were placed en echelon as far as t d r e gAh - e ' whilst 20,000 men of the sth corps, orders of General Paniutine, were stationed e 9 echelon, between Bucharest and Tokschane. T hese troops will be reinforced by 40,000 men forming the corps of Ostensa c k en , w h o h ave a l rea d y pas sed th Pruth. The positi on o f th e 4th corps g i ves reasonbtee believe that, i n case o f war , t h e troops will Pass,_ „ the Danube, near R us tj uc k an d Sili str i a, to ma rch Schumla byßazgran and Basardjuck. In consequence of movements made by the Turks, Prince Gortscha l koff had changed the p os iti on o f th e 40,000 men the 4th corps d'armee. The tro o ps are now sta' tioned between Bucharest and Kalafat, by Ye- I*- jaowa. From these movements, it may be sea , that the Russians propose to pass the Danube net 4 Widdin." SPAIN. It was expected th a t th e M a d r id G aze tt e of the 21st would contain a ser i es o f i mpor t an t nomitlr tions by the new Ministry ; but it gives noli e. o Neither is anything of interest to be found ill other journals. Sveral rumours were current! and amongst them was one that General Lersondpid the ex-Presid en t o f th e C ounc il , i s to be appoill", Governor-Gene ra l o f C u b a; anot h er that a decree., authorising the return of the D u k e d e Valeric n ' (Narvaez) will be promulgated ; a third that the Cortes are to be dissolved ; and a fourth that th i ; Royal Council i s t o b e d one away with. The Igo Cabinet was holding frequent deliberations. opposition had held a sitting at the house of ueri ; Contha, for th e p urpose of deciding on the hoe.i' n s conduct to be adopt e d. A certain num b er of I, principal members, and amongst them M. Noced' M. A. Castro, an d M . Ballesteros, intended, It was said, to resin th e i r seats in the Cortes, i n order to show their decided opposition to the Ministry. The Diario Esponol states that Count de SO Luis had offered General Fernandez de Cordotv: the departm en t s o f Foreign Affairs and War, lx ) of which h e h a d refused. b the The Three p er C ents , were done at 43 g'• st New Thr ee p er C ents. at 23g ; the Debt of the Fir- Class, at 10 3-16 ; and that of the Second, at 6/* ITALY. An a Letters from Ticino, th e G r i sons, St. GA Appenzell, in the Parlamento of Turin, st ate t 'iu the deci s i on o f the Grand Council of Ticino favour of th e L uc k man i er Railway, has been re ceived in those cantons with universal joY• s a The Tuscan Monitors of the 20th pu blic be _ treaty of navigati on an d commerce concluded . to tween Prussia and T uscany. It i s to conic 113 force on Jan. 1. HOLLAND. THE HAGUE, SEPT. 23.—The First Cham ber of the States -General has to-day adopted the address in reply to the speech from the Throne. It is said th a t the Government will pre sent t he budget for 1864 to the Chamber on MondaY nea t. tune thereby ; he abides by the manufacture to which he is so much indebted, and by the work men to whom he has always been one of the most liberal of masters ; and commemorating, at this dinner, his own arrival at his fiftieth year, he commemorates also his son's attai n i ng hi s majority, and pledges, as it were, his family's adherence to their father's course. One of the pleasing arrangements, which we are certain will be carried out to the letter, is that the new town which he will build to accommodate his vast num ber of workmen, will include every possible de vice for cottage cleanliness and comfort, and everything needful for their intellectual and re ligious improvement. Our landed aristocracy may learn something here. At the dinner, to which 3,200 persons sat down, 2,500 of them Mr. SALT'S operatives, we observe that the Earl of HAREwoonand other notables of the West Hiding were present. They will carry home some valuable instruction, as well as a lasting recollection of the noble - mindedness of the lord of the feast. They will meditate plans for improving and ele vating the peasantry on their own estates—they will learn to disbelieve (if they ever believed it) the vulgar rant about the hard-heartedness of manufacturers as a class, and will perceive that the best feelings of feudal generosity are compat ible with manufacturing pursuits, and with the independence enjoyed by manufacturing opera tives. Mr. SALT will at rice create a town far '.arger than half the condemned boroughs which return a member or two to the Imperial Legisla ture, and with ten times the intelligence of a Thetford or an Arundel. It may almost be num bered amongst the triumphs of steam that it can create Parliamentary boroughs in a year or two, or at least towns which consign scores of those boroughs to positive insignificance. If it is pleasant to see that this wonder-working power can bring landlords and mill-owners into social intercourse, honourable to both sides, it is not less remarkable that it bids fair ere long to merge the two great classes in the one class of manufacturers. In one aspect it is exalting the present manufacturers to a level with the lords of the soil—in the other it is converting the landlords themselves into master manufac turers, and their farms into manufactories. The day after Mr. SALT'S princely Idle, Mr. MECHI was the invited guest of the Herts Agricul tural Association. An Earl, and a Baron, and so forth, were assembled, in expectation of the speech of the day from a London tradesman ; one who had made an irruption from the counter (with wealth amassed there) into the broad acres of the territorial aristocracy. Nor did the guest disappoint the nobility and squires who had invited him, and invited him evidently to stimulate their own tenants. He dealt out wholesome suggestions to landlords with large estates complaining of want of capital to improve, honestly advising them to sell part of their land, and improve the rest with the money. He rebuked tenants, who, clinging to the old ways, grudged the landlord a fair inte rest for the money he laid out, but the burden of his speech was Steam. The amount cf steam power in any agricultural district he took as the test of its condition. People thought him crazy when he first put up a steam engine ; but now, two makers in the village had more than they could do to supply the neighbourhood fast enough. Lincolnshire and Norfolk farmers have, some of them one, two, and even three engines on a farm ! Herts had but made a beginning ; he was sure they would soon get deeper into it. But the grand agricultural achievement of steam is yet to come. Its advent is nigh. Mr. MECHI is now building the engine, at a cost of 2001., which is to plough the land, and to do almost everything else besides. A Canadian engineer, neglected in his ! own province, is working at Tiptree, under Mr. MEcui's patronage ; soon the implement is to be ready which is to revolutionise British agri culture, to enable farmers to plough twelve inches deep instead of five inches, and to benefit agri culture to the tune of ten millions of pounds per annum, ! What are all the Budgets of rival Chancellors of the Exchequer to this ? His guests, the gentlemen of the top-boots and gaiters at least, were withheld, either by utter blank astonishment, or by not having heard so much Latin, from ex claiming Credat Judaws A pclla ! However, the sober truth remains, that we have now farms in which steam does all the fixed machinery work, that such farms are increasing in number, and that machinery of every kind is so rapidly ex tending that the farm is fast assimilating to the manufactory ; and that the farmer and his labour ers bid fair in another generation to equal in in telligence their brethren of the towns. DRURY-LANE THEATRE We understand there is a great demand for places and private boxes for the morning performance at Drury lane to-morrow (Wednesday), when Mr. G. V. Brooke will again give his masterly delineation of Othello. COURT CIRCULAR. BALMORAL, SEPT. 25. Her Majesty drove yesterday to the Balloch Bhuie, accompanied by the Princess Royal and Princess Alice. His Royal Highness Prince Albert went out deer stalking. The dinner party yesterday included her Royal High ness the Duchess of Kent, Count Alexander Mensdorf, Lady Frances Bruce, and Sir George Couper. Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governors of the North American pro vinces, and from the Governors of Hong-Kong, Ceylon, Malta, Gibraltar, and the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands. THE REVENUE.-It is understood that the revenue returns for the quarter ending the 10th of October next will show a comparative increase much beyond anything recently attained. ARRIVALS OF GOLD —The Indiana has arrived from Melbourne with 41,517 oz. of gold ; and the Hooghly, from Sydney, with 7,078 oz., making a total of 43,595 oz„ valued at 194,380/. AUSTRALIAN EMIGRATION.—The departures from the port of London for the Australian colonies during the past week, notwithstanding the anxiety felt with regard to the probable results of recent consignments have been unprecedentedly numerous. They have comprised altogether 23 vessels, ten to Port Philip, with an ag gregate burden of 5,096 tons ; four to Sydney, with an aggregate burden of 2,047 tons; three to Adelaide, with an aggregate burden of 1,847 tons ; four to Hobart Town, with an aggregate burden of 1,948 tons ; and two to Launceston, with an aggregate burden of 790 tons. Their total capacity was consequently 12,538 tons. The shipments of manufactures and ordinary merchandise continue large, but the rates of freight show a decline. STEAM BETWEEN LONDON AND MOROCCO. The African Steam Company have resolved to establish a steam line between London and Morocco. The vessels will touch at Gibraltar, Tangiers, Mazagan, and Moga dor, with which ports a profitable trade is anticipated. The Forerunner is intended to be dispatched in the first instance, and on the 15th of March a new ship of 650 tons, now building by Mr. Laird, of Birkenhead, is to be ready for the service. No Government subsidy ap pears to have been sought or deemed requisite. MAILS FOR AUSTRALIA.—The next mails for Australia will be forwarded by the Neleus sailing vessel, the owners of whick have entered into a contract for that purpose with the Postmaster-General. This vessel is appointed to be dispatched from Liverpool on the 4th of October next, after the arrival of the day mail from London, and all letters and newspapers for South Aus tralia, Victoria, New South Wales, and Van Diemen's Land, reaching Liverpool previous to her departure, and not addressed to be sent by any other vessel, will be forwarded by the Neleus. The packet rates of postage will be chargeable on letters transmitted by the Neleus, but no charge will be made upon newspapers. The mails to be conveyed by this packet will be made up in London on the morning of the 4th October, and at Liverpool on the afternoon of that day. Those postmasters whose in structions direct them to send their letters to Liverpool by cross post will, of course, forward the correspondence intended for these mails in the same manner. STRIKE OF THE LONDON POLICEMEN IN MELBOURNR. —The 50 London policemen who arrived here for the gavean d hours, thefNvoor u dc l chief i underteyf purpose of doing duty in Melbourne, were subjected to their first drill, &c., before the Melbourne chief, Cap tain M‘Mahon. On the occasion the rules and regula tions of the force as it exists hero were read to them, as ttf t ohui l ul i see o tei s rilb e oowt w loid i i l t isyl h un which bgamnndei stfset toa t or h tl heedsyeos would fearlessly have to comply in future. ,badßut alas for the certainty of all things human ! the en tire yof 50, headed by their inspector, who spoke yd duty t on the Melbourne according subject, regulations, t o one L 0 London odo allnfar time a e s u.r.!. of doing duty were concerned. They avowed understandwhich very been plai e l engaged, that t, they submitatso were to imposed . time, o f e y a e n u d r s e t o c suchap Capt. M`Mahon could do nothing singly • h with 50 expert Lon don policemen. lie would have to consult the r hours for powers that be on the subject ; and so for the present the mat ter rests,--A tier slims and Ne ,, ,, Zececotc4 Gazette. RAILWAY TRAFFIO RETURNS. LONDON AND SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAL—TraI 6 ° re. 1 3 6 turn for the week ending Sept. 24, 1853 220,137 3 Corresponding week last year 19,236 1 0 £9OO 15 Increase in 1853.. LONDON, BRIGHTON, AN D S OUTH COAST RAILWAY* Traffic return for the week ending Sept. 24, 4 3 1853 £14,823 9 6 Correspondin g wee k l as t year 13,358 a 0 e 4 - Total of the h a lf-y ear t o thi s date, 1853 202,1 6 1 Total of the h a lf-y ear t o t hi s date, 1852 1 81,7 ` ~ " -- - - b e THE LATE FIRE AT B ALMORAL. W e ga ve 3 fhe days sinc e an acc oun t o f a fire which had occurr ed at t , works of the new Palace at Balmoral, and inention!_ci the loss which many of the workmen had sustained olYy their spare clothes and mone being burnt. Ilnraedi„fttl after the fire was got under y the Queen and Prinact-thit bert gave orders for the erection of new cottages own expense, and issued schedules to the workirieflV.st einstructions that each might give a statement of ! a t ofh had lost. The returns showed that the total areoude. loss, including money, clothes, watches, & c., if stro d ye..., was 3181 . lls. d, which sum Nvas generou.s _r paid a to the workmen on *Thursday evening from 11 ' THE WEATHER IN THE HIGHLANDS.-- - In Majesty's privy purse. last ten the ,„ o ds days there has not been a shower of rain in the iligh i n b ie of Scotland. At Balmoral, which is the bighees_tal7ged land., in the north, the temperature at noon h r i:, , ; co urt from 70 degrees to 90 degrees in the sun. should the Royal family has thus enjoyed a delightful season, and? that the present fine weather continue, it is expected .esr- -- did la st 3 will remain as long as they viz., till the second week of Octiber. Bt. St. 12 BO 15 50 St. 16 116 20 20 10 St. St. St. St. Et. St. at. 20 St. St. 16 St. St. 121 121 25 12A 12. 31 St. St. 10 25 10 1.0.6 }10( 10( 1O( 10(