The Sun. — London, England, 1853-09-03 00:00:00

aan uf a cturer: i the best bil e price, ho° were 3•110 ,• i l cheaper arty,. 1 workna an . shlP s the Arn ericil '• to the b id . r t r to forge nd t h e n 11 0 ` ana That vr° kith foreigli that the Whoufacturer " ePta. his own r foci , e r of She The he alth °f aid." the Was" ESE ho b hg " ll Tho have , e cornawn [1 gidshiPl n der Comma goo . enant T. 0,3 , , e nant S Lew is, ant F. to 0. O. )avies, Dsecoo ded 3 • niSti Midsb biPrO a r ? C to ink, S. p a , n ste!' , Pie" • Cler k ',nd Livte s ° C . [. Lam', payto U,lls,s Wright , S. C. t° beadateJ. rope ; g Dt end L iell" :it , 8. , Eev 'clead; Douglas. C. to P ru , li od oder,R ice 'l mot C ° P e l:o A" ti t nant . 3 . !;_f R• ri, 3utenant naflt /I, Lieute dea ; rgau WOllll 0 1 ' ' Cs and *elc h t . e o; °t f o r D ded ; ic O 4 3hubr I)t eti. ; t iltrY'" n d Li e v u o ror: C to ", fie um • 0 1 ' pr. Car n f a ntri" itry.' 6 'i°lll l P ad . •ht, fri 01 / fosie t ndy ll y. pot te s ic Lo dge, oe t; CaP e 'icl; t :ey, Vetthills E°rns kto C. t P . , r as. )o. mat., C. to a 1.0 °l° ol t-C. tr on o d pe _ k 11) , , grl ' l,/e° illed "Ps. 6 - es, Bo tierf !n3lit MONEY MARKET AND CITY INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWO O'CLOCK. The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were andl,soo t . °Peen'on. The m ar k e t was qu i e t. R a il wa y Shares a i es were v ery h eavy, at a decline of 1 per cent. The to return o f th e B ank of England for the wee k h the 27th ult. is precisely what might have been , f 2pected, se e i ng t h e recent advance in discounts. Aot an ounce of silver was left in the Issue de artment ; and although there is no obligation to ti z teeP any there, the fact is significant as to the drain hat has existed for shipment to China. The ligeneral total of the bullion was likewise reduced, withstandi ng th e Austral i an gold i mports. There was a s li g ht reduction in the loans and dis e.. t ints, but thi s , we suspect, w il l b e s h own, w h en .I_ ll e next wee k' s b alance-sheet is published, to have b een merely temporary. The large decrease in de- Posits is an illustration of the greater demand for °Il eY• Compared with the previous week, the changes Were as follows : Active circulation Decrease 226,505 Bullion Decrease 208,875 Rest Decrease 60,408 Public Deposits 4,601,685 Increase Other Deposit s Decrease Seven-day and,other Bills Decrease 1,465,549 16,489 Government Securities no alteration Other Securities 13,830,835 Decrease 46,115 Notes unemployed 7,755,345 Increase 110,465 13 as of Exchange were negotiated yesterday at rather lower rates on Trieste, viz., 10 54 to 58 at at 9 0 days, and at 11 17 to on Amsterdam. araburgh was steady a'.; 51 to 6i, Frankfort at 11T` to g, and Paris at 25 to 20. wit he Barrackpore from Port Philip has arrived 51,000 ozs. of gold. Her dates are May 1. The amount of bullion exported from London lohrect during the week to Thursday last was 30 ozs. in silver, and 45,830 ozs. of gold. English Stocks have been very dull this morning, and there is not the slightest feature in the market. consols have remained at 97g I both for Money , a lld Acco un t. Th e N ew Three-and-a-Quarter per ‘jents. are 100 to 100 i, and the Three per Cents. 98 to 98k. Ex - chequer Bills are par to is. pre- There is still an absence of speculation in the Foreign Stock Market, and prices present very little change. Equador Bonds are firm at 5-4-, and Mexican at 264 to 261. The Peruvian 41 2 per Cents. are q uo t e d, e x-dividend, at 82. S:::;,nish D eferred are supported at 23i, and Russian A per Ndents, are marked 1011. Railway Shares have recovered a little, and there ' 4 rather more business doing in them, but the im trovement is not material, considering the decline. rench Shares have also been a little firmer. Joint St oc k B an k s are ac ti v e again. Australasia, line risen to it., and all the other Australian com- Panies show symptoms of improvement. Land Companies are neglected, and Gold Mines are dull and heavy. t RITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. ( From the Official List. ) Business done 3 Per Cent. Reduced Annuities 9B 4 N~er Cent: Consols Annuities ... 97; g t o 3 4 per Cent. Annuities lOOB 4 ' Ditto Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860 tto 30 years, Fxpli'a sth Jan., 1860 5 9-16 Consol s for Account Bth September 971 4 chequer Bills, id. 21000 2 par 1 p 1 1 500 d Small 2 d ?RICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. tq l lador Bonds .LLex• 245 h lean 3'per Cent. P eruvian Bonds, 41 per Cent. B2 Russian Bonds, 5 per Cent. n Ditto 4i per Cent. 'Vanish New Deferred, 3 per Cent. 23k TWO O'CLOCK. Consols 97 Ditto September Account 97s MINING INTELLIGENCE. (From the Mining Journal of this day.) The market for mining shares has been without much alteration this week, either in dividend or speculative shares, though for the former there have been, numerous i nquiries, without, however, finding sellers, except at a great advance. Transactions have taken place in Con ciu,"°`?", 1321.; North Towy, 15s. to 17s. 6d.; Garreg, i" 8 .; West Frances, 151. ss. ; Bedford, 6/. 15s. to 71.; Xll Pool, 7/. 155.; North Basset, 91. to 101.; East Bas let, 401 .; Alfred, 211.; Chjah, 51. 15s. to 61.; Sidney, in 10s. to 101.; Gonamena, 9/. ss. lls ' the metal market, as we have prepared our readers to ,expect, an a d v ance has taken place in tin, equal to 101, per ton, the present price of English block being "4: 28 . per cwt ~n ; bar, 6/. 3s. Banca has risen to 61. 2s. ; • lan immense business transacting. Tin ° p l ates are ' 2 awl very seriously reduced in stock, and shipping in such large quantities that higher prices are already asking for them, and must be given to obtain ; c Bll l 3 Ply. Copper is in excellent demand, and at or i;: t er Tuesday's sale in Swansea we expect to hear i gher ra t es demanded. Spelter may be take n at lun y 5 t o d s. per ton advance, and a disposit ion -0 orsiness to a considerable extent being apparent, f urther ris e i s no t unlikely. In bar and rail iron, there have been very large lots changing hands at the current Tees, and a vast business done in Scotch pigs. The ek has been lessened during the last month full y xo ' oo o tons, and would have been considerably mo re, but for the defalcation of several Liverpool over-specu ah,°rB, which caused some forced sales as low fie 625. -" 64 5. per ton. DIVIDENDS DECLARED IN AUGUST, 1853. Amount. Mines. Per share. Wh,_ eal Basset £2o 0 0 £5120 0 0 e at p ool .__ at Cftradon 5 0 0 meal l4Zh°t:ilae° S k e w t o le n 5 0 0 4 0 0 ucturr o cv erli - 0 2 6 118 0 37 n t,.. crd United )3, ft ila Mining Company • 010 0 c4 coath Total £13,683 0 0 LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) tirleeze NO and N, cloud Sept 3.—Wind this day at Noon, N., fresh y weath. 1. t AMFAGAT E , Sept. 2.--Wind, N.N.W. Sailed—Loya ist, ..0 , -ucLa. E AL, Sept. 2.—Wind, N.W. by W., cloudy. The tia g Y and Rachel London to Madeira, has received con- S ept. damage 'from contact with a foreign brig. l'a a ,, l3 _,'• 3 (9 a.m )—Wind N.N.W., strong fr o ""`u ---- Adeline, from Shields, to Alexandria a ; nc A l m cl p ou ul d l y a: f r -r 4 London, a R otter to dam, to Londo Port Nat n al. Anchored—Hugo Grotius, v " . Ao Too. 1 11 ,AY, Sept. 2.—Wind, NE. Sailed—Launceston, ;ili Ackers, Australia. '' "ARTMOUTH, Sept. 2.—Barrackpore, Port Philip. ILYttovra, Sept. 2.—Wind, N. A rr i ve d—Matchless, ; there Wa te r lo o, f or S y d ney, N.S . W. Sailed — Cross, ° Hobart Cross ; Canderides, San Fran °-0: V ictoria, Quebec. Off Port—Pelican, Sunderland, Kong. IsiaI t . "CESTER, Sept. 2.—Arrived—Canton, St. Stephen's, do. ; Britannia, Quebec ; Majestic, do. ; Ann M‘Lester, ~_Sailed —Caroline Brown, Melbourne. oe?.?:t.l'amourn, Sept. 2.—Wind, N.E. Arrived—Prince ILl:vales, London to Calcutta. Sailed—Hoophandel, LlCartTOwn ; Christiana, New York. BTRAMPTON, Sept. 2.—Sailed—La Plata (s), West St vi,ToL, Sept. 2.—Wind, N.N.E. Arrived—elenelg, ttev o .,„ 4l cellt- Sail e d—N ora Creina, Melbourne ; Tweed, Se ' 44l ' a nd Wilmington ; Josephine, New York ; Lady t tannr, Quebec. and fi.„ POOL, Sept. 3 (10.30 a.m.)—Wind, N., mod c er t a h t a e,. nna, • A rrived —Concordia, from Marseil les HHalifax a and 1100:0 Bordeaux. Sailed—Niagara (s), for 1 %4 Off. Port—Jacq. Westervelt, from New York, Jess (barque). to c AINV ICR, Sept. 2.—The Dolphin (Swedish brig), Hull over enstantinople, went ashore on the Shipwash ; beat cLa,r"d proceeded, making little water. tatto t til 3N, Sept. E. Arrived—John, Now `4lld- Sai led—Malabar, Bombay. RNI3EEN Sept. W . d variable. sailed—Ber t, Quebec -11. INGaT a Pow", ° N , Sept 2 . — Arrived —Henderson, Quebec.. _ _ StEinALBOT, Sept. 2.—Wind, N.E. Arrived—Richd• a,44:CAlle,eyblEel.A. N.N. Sailed - Rocher de Sept. iSa_ilewd—Paa3as co R a t io BEL , Quebec. LONuuNnERRY, Sept. I . — Arrived—Envoy, Quebec. d ,E. Arrived —Apollo, tery b 1 do. ; Flora, Quebec. Sailed—Mar- Da4P°lrincAltiEs' HALL.LNames of gentlemen who - Bsed their examination in the science and practice of xfiedicine, and received certificates to practise, on Thurs ;al', Sept. 1, 1853 : —Wm. Younge Jeeves, Sharrow c ra'73ge, Y or k shire ; Samuel Thorpe, Manchester ; t harles West Roberts, Bristol ; Fergus ol- ; Georg e Kirk, Middlesborough -on-Tees Ferguson,;n John I_lllikin Farley Dadley, Patrington, Yorkshire ; Wll - Johnson Dawson Hutchinson, Yorkshire. A tfOsT OFFICE BUSINESS. —The mails Icy the steamer tatT3ti. elaide consisted of 15,461 letters, and 40,000 news ,.; those by the Shanghai numbered 13,846 letters, fi . "' I,uoo newspapers. The letters only by the Austra ,34ll's Mails were taken out of the vessel at Plymouth, - 11 11 0 Q Bent overland, to be fJrwarded by the Shanghai ; a 4ewspapers were remo: e 1 from the Australian. On ,ecount of the sudden pressure of delivery business, it 1.8.8 been notified at the General Post Office that parties ae(lll,iring their papers within the next few days must 4 131 3 r at the office, as it has been found utterly impos 1, .e 6) deliver the immense quantity by the recent toards with the presont available force of the department, 1141. el'al days to coma —From the Empire of Sydney, ' , ..., 5. SHARE MARKETS.-(27 . 11S DAY.) BRITISH RAILWAYS. RAILWAY:3 Closing Price► Yesterday. Business done this dzky. 'Aberdeen ..... .. Autbg. Nottng. Bost. & Eastn. June. Birmng. Wolverh. & Stour Va11ey......... Birkenhd. Lancsh. u 1 Cheshire Junct Do. Chesil. & Birk. £5O & £25 COM, Do., £2O Bristol & Exeter Caledonian-- ..... Chester & Holyhead Cork and Bandon.... Cork, Mack. & pass. Dublin&BelfastJunc. Dundee Perth &Aber deen. Junction ....... East Anglian (.f..25 1.. di E. & L. & D.)..... Do., (.ClB E. & H.).. Eastern Counties..... Rastena Union, Class A. late E. U. 5h.... Do., B. & C East Lancashire East & West Ind. Dk. & Binning. June.... Edinburgh & Glasgow Edinb. and Peebles... Edinb.Prth. &Thinde Glasgow & S. Western Great Northern Stk.. Do., A. Stock .. Do., B. Stock Gt. Stb. &West. (Ire ) Great Western Irish Sonth-Easters. Lancaster & Carlisle. • Do., Thirds Lancasb. &Yorkshir, Do., Fifths . ...... Do., Wst. Riding Un. i,eeds Northern Liv. Crsby. & So uth pt. Loudon & Blackwall Lond. Tilb. & Sthend. Lond.Bright.&S.Cst. London Si - N. Western Do. Fifths Do. ,16/.51).,M&8...0 London it S. Westerr Do., £50........ ...... Do., .240 Lncludrry &Coleraine Lndudrry. & Ennisk. Mauch.Shef.&Lineln. Do., 4an. &Lin. Ur!. Midland . Do. Birming.& Derby Midland G. West.(lr. ) Do. z Shares . ..... Newes. - stle & Carlisle INewmarl: et 4:; Do. Bury Extensions 176 Newpt.Aberg &Htfd 72 Newry & Enniskillen all iewry Warrenpoint & Rostrevor 100 Norfolk ......... ....... 'Do., New • Northn. Counties Un North British North Devon, No.l 'Do., No. 2. . . Dc., A Deferred Do., 3 B Guaranteed Nor;;11 Staffordshire North Western N. & S. Westin. June Oxford Worcester Wolverhampton Scottish Central. !Scottish Midland Shrewsbury & Birmg. Do., L. & N. Westn. Guaranteed Stock... Shrewsby. & Herefd. Shrewsby. & Chester (Nor. W. Do. Halves, d 0...... Do. Oswestry Shropshire Union... South Devon South Eastern.- .- South Wa1e5........ Yorksh. River Dun D 0............... ..... Stockton & Hartlei)]. Thames Raven Dock and Railway__ _ Vale of Neath......... Waterfd. & Kilkenny Waterford&Limerick West C0rnwa11....... Winbl e.I on &Croydoi WoOdford ............ York Newctl. (SI Berw Do. Extensions...... Do. G. N. E. Purchase York <St N. Midlan(l.. Pit EFEREN 'Aberdeen Do. No. 2, 7 p. c. Bris. & Ex. 4 p. c. St Do. 4 p. c. Shares Caledonian £lO Chester Holyhead Guar. 51, per cent Cork &Baudousip.e Dundee Perth &Aber deen Junction EastAnglian (i.:310s) 1 6 per cent Do: (£5) 7 per cent. Do. (£7 17s) 7 p. c. Eastern Counties Ex tension, 5 p. c. No. 1 Do. No. 2 . Do. New 6 p. c. St. Eastern Union, Scrip Guar. 6 per cent East Lancash. 6 p. cts Edinb Prth. &Dundee 5i per cent. Glasgow & S. Western Guar. 5 per cent. Great Northn. 5 p. c. Do. 5 p. c. Redeem., at 10 p. c. prem... Do. 4i p. c. Scrip.... Gt, SouL'an.dtWestm. (Ireland) Eighths)... Gt. Westn. (Berke & HauLs Ex. 5 p. c).. Do. cov. red. 414 p.c. Do. con. red. 4 p. c. Do. irred. 4 p. c. Lan. & York. F. £2O Do. 6 p. c. Stock London and Brighton ) Guaranteed 5 p. c Do. ?ref., 5 p. c. St. Do. Converable, 5 p. c., 1852 Do. New Goar.6 p. c. London & S. Wes'orr Con. Thirds Londonden.y& Co Shares Condy. & Ennis. Sh Kan., Shef., & Lin. Shares, No. 1. Do. New, £lO Do. £6. \farypt .&Carl.4 p.c Do. 4i per cent C0n503.6 p.c.St. Do. Consol. Bristol & Birm. 6 per cent Do. Pref. 4A per cent Nor;:olk Extension Do 5 p. c. Ext Do. Guar. 51 per et._ Do. Way. Val. 5 p. c North British 'forth Staffordshire. •)xford, Worcester, & Wolverh.£ls, 6 p.c Do shrews. & Birm N.G, ibrewsby. & Cheste (Nor. W.Min), 8 p.c, Do. 5 per cent South Devon Do. New S. Eastern (Reading Ann.) of Os. 6d. 3. 44 percent. Pre. Yorksh.4p.e.Guar. Waterfd.&Kilk.6p.c. York, Newcastle,and Berwick,4 p.c. Pref Do York&N. Midland H and S. Porch 4i - 4i 9i - 104 9 7d 19 -- 21 3A -- 2A d 99 -- 100 66} 2Ci -- 214 19 -- 194 ii - iip 8A - 9 - 5i k 4 13 - 13& 46 - 48 - 35 70 - 71- 27* = io 80 - 81 51 - 52 1 29 - 130 110 - 112 86 86, 7 7i 105 10' 17 18 p 74 74; 5h Cc . 3i 2h( 15 —15 A 8l - 8i 14 - luo - lul !IC3 -- 109' 1 .4 - - lea 83 21 9 8d 8 7e. 11 13 18 20 23:2 26:2 68 - 68 39 - 40 55 58 30 3 e P si 81 8i 53 55 34 3 d 32 33 8 10 -- 2 7 7i 5 4id 84 9 14 24 474 —48 i 95 97 63 65 62 64 , 69 - 71 lf - 18 - 20 9 - 10 13i - 1411 3 301 18 i 20 68 - 68 36 - 37 12i 14 26 - -7 - 2e 2i 3 5 -15 i 8g - 8 2 - 33 9i - 10 674 -684 - 8 - WI 56 - 57 !E SHAD EI 103 - 105 19i -- P 64- -- 6$ 4 -- 4 5 -- 5A -- 1p la -- 16 1p 14# —I4 125 :- i 27 110 112 sP 8i - 8i 6i - 71 .03 -- 104 99 - 101 .00 - 102 Rd- 4P 150 —152 d, 3 - 3i 10 -- 11 13i -- 141 7i -- 8i 10$ -- 101 1- i P 1.48 350 par 114 116 118 122 115 - 117 24i -25 i 2i -- 11 -- 114 174 -- 18 14 -- 15 p Par -- p 25i - 261 110 - 112 19 - 20 a d 100 112 5 5 'par I p' EIGN Autwrp itotterdam 3 IBelgia.n East. Junet all ; Charleroi & Erquelin 10 Dijon and Besa2on 8 !Dutch Rhenish all 'East Indian 1 Do. Extension all Gt. Indian Peninsula 10 ,Gd. Junct. of France 20A Gt. Westn. of Canada Shares 3 Lucca and Pistoja, 5 per cent. pref. 15 ,Luexembourg 10 Do. (Railway) 'Do (Canal) Do. 6 p. cent. pref. (Lyon s & Mediterran Madras Maria Antonia Do. New Namur & Liege (with interest • Do. (ex interest) Northern of France Do. 201. 3 p. c. Bds [fmy.B. &Ams.Shs ] NorwegianTrnk. :Pre Paris and Lyons Paris and Or7eans Paris and Rouen Paris and Strasbourg Paris Caen& Cherbrg. quebec & Richmond Rouen and Havre Sambre and Men.l3 Do. s t i per cent. p - ..af. 4outhern of France.. Upper India Scrip West Flanders Do. 5i per c. Pref Western of France West. of Switzerland New Zealand.,,.. lid 1 $ _l} 1 - 2 2 2d 4 5p 2 14) 2ip 2 2gp id Id 7 4 4 1 1 1 1 , d 1-p ... - • 6i - 7 :ii - 3i L 4 -14 84 18 18}P 50 5 1 43 4 38 3 8 4i —lid 20 —2 l 8 9 5 - 6 4 - 45 9 ---: Ic 3 2 1184 100 8 i all 100 all a 1 111 1 100 400 100 100 :100 1.00 MO 100 100 10 all 1, all 2 151 15 1091 I 83 1 3 xd xd 68a8ixd 121 x d 68i8, pm 56 i 4 ad 106 A 6 5 103; 3 pm TIRE SUN. LON DON. SAT UR D.A. - Y EVEN LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Shr.l Paid St. St. 25 Leasing Compans. L. diN.W ICaledou., Gt.Northr Gt.Westn Yk. New. dr Berw., Y.drN.Md Do IDo ,I S. Eastern, Do Norfolk Do Ln. &N. W & Midld. Stekton & Darlingt. Midland_ lE. Count 'Do &Ln& Yk Do 100 100 18,1 Gt.Northn Do Lancash.cSz Yorksh.. MrMClear Stockt. Darling Do 13.5 IGt.Westu. MINES. Agua Fria Aoglo Californian Australasian Australian Australian Cordillera Australian Freehold Ave Maria Baden (Gd. Duchy of) Austrin. Gold Brit;sli Iron Brazilianlmp.(issued at £5 pm Do. Cocaes Cuiada Do. St. John Jel Rey Carson's Ci. , 3IE Cobre Co,)per Colonial Gold Copiapo Copper Min. of Eng Do. Pref. 7i p. cent English and Austin Copper Smeltg. Co General Great Nugget Vein Great Polgooth . Lake Bathurst Liberty Loud. &Californ. Gold Quara Crush. Co Mar'quita Mexi ean&S. Amerien. New Granada Nouveau Monde Port Philip Quartz Rock Rhymney Iron Do. New Santiago do Cuba..... South Australian..... Tin Croft ....... ..... United Mexican Wallez West Granada (West Mariposa. Closing Prima I yesterday. 103 - 105 51i - 53 150 - 152 32 - 33 110 —lllxd 55 56xd 27 28xd 141-14! 26 27 97 99xd 3 - itd6 64 —63 ad • ad • ad 148 - 150 148 - 150 i 1 - a! Hili -32 i 102 - 103 BuOness this day. a 1101 14 - d P 4 6 2A a d 4 d d dis— par t 7 9 I 4i 2 3 32 31 d par 44 45 luA 11 iP A 55 65 6A 7.4 p 14 16 d P 2 lid d t d par 6 7 id par 4 - - id Adis— A p LA a ES!' FOREIGN FRANCE. 103} IYuba.. The Comtitutionnel says the commission for the examination of the public accounts, express a con viction that the efforts :of the Government to establish an equilibrium of the budgets of receipts and expenditure will be crowned with success._ 31 41 par 7 8 4i A d a " d A t d 110 xd xd xd The ocean squadron, Which was to sail from Brest on the 28th ult., has received counter orders. It is, however, said th a t or d er s have been trans: mitted to the squadron to be in readiness to sail. Letters from Lot, Garonne, state that the rise in the price of corn, which had become alarming, had ceased, anc: that there is even a slight decline at Villeneuwe, Mar man d e , an d Moissac, owing to the effect which the arrival of foreign corn has on the market. On the 31st ult. the price of corn declined at Lille lf. 50 c . per h ec t o litre. A decline was likewise experienced in Normandy, and at Marseilles there were daily arrivals of vessels laden with grain, from the Levant. The sea of Mar mora is full of such vessels on their way to Europe. The Liberte of Lille says the Mayor of that ton has just received off ic i a l no ti ce th a t their Majesties will not come there before September 15. There was a severe contest engaged at the Bourse yesterday between the speculators for a rise and those for a fall, which terminated in favour of the former. Tie Three per Cents. opened at 78f. 85c., fell to 78f. 65c., but rose subsequently to 79f. 20c., at which they closed for the end of the month. Th e F our - an d a -H a lf per Cents. closed as 105 f. s c . ; Orleans Railway Shares , 1,257 f 50c. ; Roue n , 1 , 032 f. 50 c . ; Havre, 520 f. ; Great Northern, 890 f. ; 2 Paris and Strasburg, 955 f. ; Paris and Lyons, 960 f • Lyons to the Medi terranean, 807 f. 50c. ; W es t ern of France, 750 f. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 635 f. • Great Central, 555 f. ; Lyons and Geneva, Bank of Credit Mobilier, 860 f. 567 f. 50c. ; Shares of the a in BANKS. 75 - 77 d— par It id- iP; RUSSIA AND TURKEY• We learn from Vienna, Aug. 29, that Prince Gortschakoff was inspecting the line of the Danube when he received the dispatches informing him of the Sultan's acceptance of the Vienna Note. He returned immediately to his head-quarters, and sent couriers in various directions. The Russian officers expected the immediate evacuation of the Principalities. A letter from Vienna, of the 29th Ult., in the Nuremberg Correspondent, says •--" According to letters from Belgrade, Count de Nesselrode has com pletely set the mind of Prince Alexander at rest rela tive to the project of occupying Servia by Austrian troops; but they add that, at the same time, he has ap plied tohave the armaments which were commenced suspended, to have certain modifications effected in the administration, and some public function aries, who were displeasing to the protecting power, dismissed. This application applies in particular to the Senate, from which it is desired to exclude the members hostile to Austria. The withdrawal of the Austrian corps from the frontiers is considered as a proof of the intention of the Emperor of Rus sia to call back his troops from the Danubian Principalities. The courier of the Turkish Cabinet, who left Constantinople on the 20th, with the ac ceptance by the Divan of the project of mediation of Austria, arrived here yesterday. He was also the bearer of dispatches from Lord Stratford de Redcliffe to Lord Westmoreland. He made the journey in seven days." Accounts have been received from Malta of the 29th. The mail, with letters from the fleet at Besika Bay, had arrived the day previous, and it was asserted that the fleet would return to Malta in the course of the month of September. All the letters written by the English naval officers to their families were in that sense. Several transport vessels had been dispatched from Malta, with coal and stores required by Admiral Dundas. The Austrian Consul at Malta had returned to that island from Smyrna. PRUSSIA. A letter from Schwerin, of the 27th ult., states that the military convention, which had been in force since 1849, between Prussia and Mecklenburg- Schwerin, has been just put an end to. BELGIUM. The King of the Belgians, the Duke and Duchess de Brabant, the Count de Flandre, and the Princess Charlotte, returned to Bruges on Tuesday evening from Ostend. The illustrious party found the city brilliantly illuminated. The next day there was a grand historical and religious cavalcade, in imitation of those of the olden time. After it was over, the King, the Princes, and Princesses left for Ghent, and on their arrival in that city were received with most hearty enthusi asm. His Majesty and _their Royal Highnesses afterwards attended a grand banquet offered by the city, and visited the theatre, and a grand fete at the Casino. Everywhere they were greeted with acclamations. The Belgian journals state that of the eight muskets which were taken from the manufactory of arms at Liege, in the recent popular movement, seven have been already returned. They add, to show the deplorable influences of disturbances on account of the dearness of corn, that several dealers had arrived at Liege from Prussia to offer grain at lower prices ; but that, on seeing the as semblage of the populace, they returned without effecting any sale. On the 30th ult. the magistrates of Liege ordered that all the public-houses and cafes in that city shall be closed at nine o'clock in the evening until further orders. They have also interdicted all assemblages of persons in the streets beyond four in number. AUSTRIA. The Government h as rece i ve d the Emperor's orders to modify th e s t ate of s i ege a t Milan. The Gazette of th e 28 th u l t. publishes a decree of the Imperial Lieutenant of Lombardy , Count Strassoldo,imposing an additional tax of 6i- kreut- zers per florin (about one-tent h) u pon the province, in order to cover the deficits of 1852 and 1853 in the receipts of that part of the empire. The tax is to be levied in the course of the curre nt y ear, in two instalments, on e payable on the 20 th o f Sep tember, and the oth er on the 10th of October. All payers of direct ta xes, i nc l u di ng the income tax and the tax upon sala r i es, are liable to this addi tional tax. ITALY. Our letters from Turin, of the 3 0 th ult. , s tate that specie is becomin g daily more scarce in that city and at Genoa, the National Bank had thought proper to limit its metallic issue to 1,000,000 per week, and to raise the rate of discount from 5 to 6 per cent. Since then, that alarming situation had ceased ; money had reappeared in abundance, and the National Bank no longer placed restrictions to its operations. This result was ascribed to some measure adopted by M. de Cavour, on his return from the country. The brigades which are to take part in the manoeuvres at the Camp of Marengo were begin ning to occupy the positions assigned to them. Between 17,000 and 18,000 men will be on the ground about the 10th of September, under the command of the Duke of Genoa. The Royal family now residing at La Spezzia, and the King, who stays at the Chateau of Stupinigi, are to meet there, and to return together, after the military opera tions, to their winter residence of Moncalieri. The death of a clergyman, named Barthelmi n had been cen sured,ome. Having Bottaro, had caused a great sensation at Genoa. His funeral was followed by as great a concourse of people as that of the mother of Mazzini. That priest, o p n ol g c a a l t iposn o a 1 m f s refused to retract his opini ons, h e became an idol with the Democratic pa rt y . His body having been b k y n the ow n Holy fr h i Cg s opened exhibited symptoms of poison. The causes of his tragic end were not sufficiently well known to justify a conjecture. A judiciary investigation had commenced. THE PENINSULAR MAIL. ARRIVAL OF THE TAGUS. steam-ship Tagus arr T iv h ed e FateniSnosalutahramCpetmo n p an a t y' 8 midnight yesterday with the usual mails. Her dates are —Gibraltar, Au g. 26 ; Lisbon, 29 ; Oporto, 30 ; and Y itgus brought 6,1801. , b es id es 642 half-chests of lemons and other cargo. I S n he sp h e a c d ie th ti irt ie thirty-Fight p 3 a o s . sengers. The Pope's Nuncio at Lisbon was very ill, and had received the last rites of the Church. The Duke and Duchess of Terceira have arrived by the Tagus, too late to attend the marriage of the Duke of Brabant at Brussels on behalf of the Queen and King of Portugal. The Lisbon exchang es are , quoted this mail 54 ± Paris, 532 ; Amster dam'en place, money o 4 n B t i hs ; ; and. Genoa, 528. Few o n L transactions isb 3 o n , 11 a a t hm t a h bd r u e rt e ga h m k bills being equally scarce. In the new Three per Cent. Stock a fair amount of business had been done, at 42± to 42 ; few operations in Portugal Bank shares, at 137 to 135 milreis per share, those rates being in Lisbon Bank notes at a discount of 2± per cent. The Oporto Bank shares were at 41 to 5 per cent. premium, in metal. The Lisbon letters and papers contain the adver tisement inviting a pplications f or s h a res in the General Peninsular Company of Portugal. RAILWAYS. Buckghamsh. Clydesdale Jc. E. Lincoln. gr. 6 p. cent Glstr.tzDn.Fr Hrtlpl. Dk. & Railway Hull & Selby Do. a Shares Do. # Share: Lon.d..Greenw i Do. Preference Lowestoft gr.? 4 per cent Do. 6 per ct Manch.Bxton and Matlock Midclles bro' & Ref-.7r. IMiefA.l3radfd. !No - 2 . : - .tern and Eastern Do. 6 per et.. Do. Wised sp. Prest. Do. n Shares. Roy: • Do. c):sh.St. o ;h. di Goc - eg.s.p.c S. c a::ordsh Valloygr 6 per cent Do WiltsdrSomrst JOINT-STOC Australasia British Colonial Rank and Loan Company Britisli N. American Chrtd. Bnk.of India, Austral., and China Chrt.cl. _Mk. of Asia. CO:3 . 21 Co _ of Lond. En :s'a Scottish and Australian Cnrtd... London Bnk. of Australia, .. London and Counts London Joint Stock.. Lon nndWestminst. Nat . ' ^lal Provincial o I:u3land v of Ireland... 0: Bank Cor. pon;Uon • • • • °_•avincial of Ireland Do. New, Australis. i3kg. and Gold Imp. Co. 2;*.; ''ouch Australia a Jaion of Australia 2 Do. New 10 Union of Loudon . al Union of Madrid . 41. 65 6 5i MISCELLANEOUS. 5 5 Aubin Coal and Iron ... 54 100 35 Australian Apicult. 33 35 20 8 Australsn.Pcific.Mail 10 6 Australn. Royal Mail 50 386 Brit. American Land 65 68 5 1 Brit. & Colr. Smeltg. and Reduc: on Co 100 32 'Jana& Company 5 5 Crystal Pa race. — 2 p 4 2 Cvsta" o22rance 6 - 1 p 20 1 eas tern Steam 1 1 Electric Tel. of Irel 15 14 Gen. Steam Navigat 20 14 General Screw Steam ... 20 5 Irish Beetroot Sugar 20 4 Aagdalena St. Navig. 1 all Nat. Pt. Steam Fue' 10 3 Netherlands Land --idxir 3c in 1 all V, 3. Australasian id A p 1 20 7!4 Airt'o .of AuropeSteam 5 all Peel Rr. Ld. & Minrl. p 50 all Peninsular & Oriental 50 25 Do. do. 2 all Port and Iron Co 100 60 loyal Mail Steam I all Sco,;. Austral. In vest 1 p 1 6 Jo. New Scrip ••• 25 25 Austral. Law 35 37 all Submarine Telegraph 100 28. Van Diemen's Land 16 17 MARKET NEWS-(THIS DAY.) COVENT GARDEN. No change took place in the value of either fruit or vege tables to-day. The supplies were large, with a good trade. FRUIT.—Pine apples, English, 3s Od to 6s Od each ; ditto colonial, is to is 3d each ; Orleans plums, is to 2s ; green gages, is 6d to 2s Od per punnet ; hot-house grapes, is to 3s 6d ; Hambro ditto, Os to Os per lb ; apples and pears, 3s Od to 5s per bushel ; lemons, is to 2s Od ; oranges, 4s to lOs per 100 ; pomegranates, Od to Od each ; almonds, 5s per peck ; Barcelona nuts, 20s per bushel ; cob-nuts, s per 1001bs. ; chesnuts, 8s to 20s per bushel ; straw berries, is to 2s Od per basket ; peaches, 12s to 203 ; nec tarines, 12s to 20s ; apricots, 4s to 6s per dozen ; melons, 2s to 4s each ; cherries, 6d to 2s Od per lb. ; goosebe :ries, 2s to 3s 6d ; currants, is 9d to 3s Od per half sieve. VEGETA - ' - .3.—Cabbages, 6d to Os 9d ; Brussels sprouts, 2s Od to 31 ner half sieve ; brocoli, Ss to 6s ; peens, 2s 6d to (‘ C,t per dozen bunches; b:aad beans, is 6(1 to 2s Od per i 1,12 sieve ; French bears, 2s Od to 3s Oct pei half sieve ; C 3 Oct t) Os Od ; asparagus, is Oct to 4s per bur..Le ; 3. 1 1 v. .Arb, f 1 to Os 6d per bundle ; cauli flowers, 2d to 4d. each ; pota:oes, 40s to 100 s per ton ; turnips, 33 C I to 43 Od. ; carrots, 63 Od to 8s Od per dozen bunches ;c: abers, Os 2d to Os 8d each ; celery, 9d to is 6d per hr e ; spinach, is Oct to 2s Od per half sieve: old to lOs Od per bushel ; young , do, 4d to 6tl • -s, 3(1. to 4d per bunch • shallots, to 8d , C, 1 per lt) ; endive, 2s 2d lo 3s Od per score sat. • o 3d per punnet; horse-reddish, is Od to 3 s Od . - pa_ • • • ;ii :s is 6cl to 2s Od per poAle ; parsley, •, , i per dozen bancees ; turnip greens, is 3d t 3 / 3 cd per bushel ; beet, is Od to i s 6d per dozen ; cos le: is 6cl i o 26 6d per kk.ore ; radishes, 6d to is per doz. he ; to.nntoes, 6s Od to 8s Od per dozen; mint, 3d to 5(1 per bruch. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. Od to 7s Od ; Turkeys, 3s 6d to 66 each ; Ducks is Gd to 23 61; tame Rabbits, 180 d to is 9d; wild ditto, 7(1 to ls; r.'isreons, 5d to 8d eac - ' ; roasting Pigs, Os Od to Os Od each; S:2 - :ey Fowls, 5s Od to Os Od ; ditto Chickens, 3s 0,1 to 55 0,:.; barn-door Fowls, 3s Od to 5s Oil per couple; Capons, 3s to 45 Od : Chickens, is 6d to 2s Od per couple ; Pheasants, Os Od to Os 0d; Partridges, Os Oct to Os Od; Hares, Os Oct to Os Od; Leverets, 35 Od to 5s Od; Woodcocks, 2s Gd to 3s 6d; Grouse, 2s Od to 4s; Snipes, 9d to is 6d; Teal 6d to 9d; wild Ducks, is 3d to 2s Od • Widgeons, 9d to is Od; and Plovers, 6d to is each. English Eggs, 7s Od to 7s 3d; French ditto, Os Oct to 6s 6d per 120 ; Ostend fresh Butter lls, and English na to 13s per dozen lbs. LILLINGSGATE. Turbots, 2s 6d to 5s Od ' • Brills, is Oct to 5s Oct each; Salmon, 8d to is Od ; Cod Fish, s6dto 4s 6cl; Soles, 21 to is 2d per pair ; Eels, 4d to ild per lb • Lobsters, 6d to 2s 6cl; Crabs, 6d to 2s 6d ; Whitings, is to 3s Od per doz.: Doreys, is to 5s Od; Mullets, 6d to 03 9d each ; Common Oysters, 8s Od to lOs Od; Natives, 36s Oct to 48s Od par bsh.; Mackerel, 30s per 100 ; Smelts, I .s to 5s Od per doz. ; Skat, 64. to 7d per lb; Shrimps, is 6d to 2s 6d per gallon; Bl oa ters, Is 3d to 2s Oct per dozen; Fresh Herrin gs , 3 s Od to 3s 9d per 100 • Haddocks, 3s to 7s per doz. ; Plaice, 4d to Gd each ; Carp, 2s Od per brace ; Tench, 2s Od to Os Od per brace ; Gurnots, 4d to is Od each ; Halibut, 6d per lb. • Salt Fish, 2d to 5d Per lb. ; Prawns, 2s 6d. to 4s Od per 11). ; Flounders, is to Is 6 d per dozen ; Sturgeon, Gd per lb. ; Trout, 6cl per lb.; Pike 6d each. BREAD. The prices of wheaten bread in the metropolis are from 81d to 9d; of household ditto, 6id to 8(1 per 41b loaf. HIDES AND SKINS. Market hides, 561 b to 64M, 3d to Od; 641 b to 721 b, 3d to 34 d; 721 b to 801 b, 34d to : 801 b to 881 b, 3' d to 4(1; 881 b to 961 b, 4d to 44d; 961 b to 1041 b, 44d. to 4 d ; 1041 1 , to 1121 b Oct to Od. Horse hides, 6s 6d to Os Od; cr'f skins, light, is Od to 3s Od; ditto, full, 6s Od to Os Od; polled sheep, 3s 7d to 4s 2d; Kents, 9s Od to lOs 6d; Half-breds, Os Od to Os Od ; Downs, 2s lld to 3s 4d ; Lambs, 2s 10d to 48 2d ; and Shearlings, 2s 7d to 3s 4d. HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD.—OId meadow hay, 4/ Os to Si 58 ; new ditto, 2/ I.os to 4/ Os ; old clover, Si Os to 6/ Os ; new ditto, 3/ lOs to 51 Os ; and straw, 1/ 8s to 1/ 16s per load. A full average supply, and a steady demand. CUMBERLAND.—OId meadow hay, 4/ 4s to Si 8s Od ; new ditto, 21 12s to 414 s • old clov er , 51 O s t o 6/ O s ; new ' ditto 3/ 108 to 5/ Os ; and straw, 1/ 8 s t o 1/ 16 s p er l oa d. Both hay and straw moved off slowly, at our quotatious. WHITECHAPEL.—OId meadow hay, 4/ Os to 11 ss; new ditto, 21 lOs to 4/ Os ; old clover, 5/ Os to 61 Os ; new ditto, 3/ lOs to 5/ Os ; and straw, ii 8s to 1/ 15s per load. rade rather brisk. ... - ... 48 - 50 4 d— par 40 42 64 66 7 8 [N G-. SEPTEMBER 3. 1853. LiTEBAT ÜBE. Charles Auchester. A Memorial. 3 vols. Hurst and Blackett. If it be true, as a poet affirmed, that " next to genius, is the power of feeling where true genius lies," then the author of this work has confessedly at the outset a claim on our attention, for he has thus dedicated it—" To the author of ' Contarini Fleming,' whose perfect genius suggested this im perfect history." The motto on the title-page is one of those " gems.of thought" which Mr. Disraeli has scattered far and wide, as the fabled heroine who never spoke but diamonds and pearls fell in glitteiing showers around her—" Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead." The idea which possessed the mind of him who composed it must have been a grand one, the purpose of his labour partakes of the highest. The reader who enters fully into his subject, shuts out for a time the discords of this jarring world. With the young enthusiast, whose autobiography introduces us to the great and glorious of his worshipped art, he passes into the regions of harmony. The style is simple—that is necessary to the true elucidation of the mysteries described, but there are passages where it rises into the sublime, and instances in which the beautiful irradiates its character and ex pression. - Charles Auchester, the hero, is born of o b scure parents, in a quiet town ; b u t his energies could not be confined in such narrow limits. The wish of his heart was to- become a musician, and it re vealed itself under every obstacle. His first great struggle to enter • the Town Hall, during the cele bration of the Musical Festival there, was the cause of his meeting his first friend, although sub sequently the young aspirant soared so high from his early associate that the one rested on earth, while the other seemed to reach heaven's gate ,• yet Lenhart Davy was the one to whom he owed his first step in the mystic scale. It is not the for tunes of this dreamer in search of realities, this visionary who would behold face to face the mighty ones of his day, that give a charm to the narra tive, or shed a grace over the events. Charles Auchester is left poor ; he never distinguished him self ; and his life contained none of those touching episodes which lend romance to the plain, and make the poor need not wealth. He shines with a reflected light, and interests from his surround ing objects. The dream of his young life was fulfilled in being admitted to the Festival, and there he beheld one who served as his hero of thought and fancy. In the description of this feel ing the author is pre-eminently successful. The fervour with which an imaginative soul would at tach itself to one whose power was manifested in the supreme sway over an act which that soul adored—the excitement which would thrill the frame, the exultation which would arouse the spirit, are apparent to the thoughtful, and these are all sketched with the master hand of genius. 'ln no nobler manner could the mightygenius be introduced to us—by no higher triumph could his advent have been celebrated, than by entrancing the heart of one born to the study of the subjects he created, and in forming the day-spring to a pilgrim bound to the glorious shrine of which he was a ministering spirit. Hero-worship belongs to the imaginative and enthusiastic. Surely, then, it is not out of its sphere among the votaries of music. The events of that day in which he first beheld the Chevalier Seraphael were to Charles Auchester the beginning of a new life ; from then began his happiness. Still it was not all fair and smiling, for be had to leave his family and friends and sojourn among strangers; but, as he owned, it was requisite to shut out all else, if he were ever to L 3 raised " from the valley of material life to the mountain heights of art." Aronach, the master of Charles, is a wonderful character, and some of his sayings are replete with wisdom. The scene is admirably given in which he hears. the " One," as his celebrated pupil the Che valier Seraphael is called. " It was as if a stone had rolled from his heart, and it had begun to beat like a child's ; it was as if his youth were renewed like the eagle's ; it was. as if he were drinking silently but deeply celestial knowledge from those young and heavenly eyes." The culminating point of Seraphael's triumph is at an oratorio in Westminster Abbey. The glory that is rarely gained even by genius was then his own, and high above his celebrated contemporaries was he ranked in the Temple of Fame. To be appreciated, this scene must be studied in the author's language, in which it is depicted con amore. The glowing zeal, the fervid adoration of the young admirer was naturally kindled at this momentous occasion, and most truly is it explained how, when the feel ings are highly strung, and the mind wrapt as it were in the clouds, that most painful was it to the senses to return to earth. Every-day life and com monplace things jarred on the nerves after such a communion with one of the brightest of heaven's messengers, who spoke in language worthy of his home on high. The overture thus began " It opened like the first dawn of lightning, yet scarce yet lightened morning . ; its vast subject introduced with strings alone in that joyous key which so often served him, yet as in the extreme of vaulting distance ; but soon the first trombone blazed out, the second and third responding with their stupendous tones as the amplifi cations of fugue involved and spread themselves more and more ; until, like glory filling up and flooding the height of heaven from the heaven of heavens itself, bloke in the organ, and brimmed the brain with the calm of an utter and forceful expression, realised by tone. In sympathy with each instrument, it was alike with none, even as the white and boundless ray of which all beams, all colour tones, are born. The perfect form, the distinct conception of this unbrothered work, left; our spirits as the sublime fulfilment confronted them ; for once had genius, upon the wings of aspiration that; alone are pure, found all it rose to seek, and mastered without a struggle all that it desired to embrace; for the pervading purpose of that creation was the passioned quie tude with which it wrought its way. The vibrating har monies pulse-like, clung to our pulses then, drew up, drew out each heart deep-beating and undistracted, to adore at the throne above from whence all beauty springs. And opening and spreading thus, too intri cately, too transcendentally for criticism, we do not essay, even feebly, to portray that immortal woak of a music-veiled immortal. "Inextricable holiness, precious as the old Hebrew psalm of all that hath life and breath, exhaled from every modulation, each dropped celestial fragrancies, the fresh- ness of everlasting Spring. Suggestive—our oratorio suggested nothing here, nothing that we find or feel—all that we seek and yearn to clasp, but rest in our restless ness to discover is beyond us ! In nothing that form of music reminded of our forms of worship—in the day of Paradise it might have been dreamed of, an antepast of earth's last night, and of Eternity at hand—or it might be the dream of Heaven that haunts the loving one's last slumber. "During the last reverberations of that unimaginable Alieluiah, I had not looked up at all ; now I forced my self to do so, lest I should lose my sight of him, his seal upon all that glory. As Seraphael had risen to depart, the applause, stifled and trembling, but not the less by heartfuls, rose for him. " He turned his face a moment, the heavenly half smile was there ; then, at that very moment, the sum mer sun, that falling downwards in its piercing glare, glowed gorgeous against the Rower-leaf windows, flung its burning bloom, its flushing gold, upon that counte nance. We all saw it, all felt it, the seraph-strength, the mortal beauty—and that it was pale as the cheek of the quick and living changed in death—that his mien was of no earthly triumph I" The next phase in the life of the genius is more solemn, but equallyglorious. H e is leftinthe realisa tion of his dreams o f thi s world's h greatness, but we next find him sufferingfrom its an The wreath of fame has been put off for the gills "Crown of Mar tyrdom." While his renown had b een s p rea d abroad to all the civilised nations of the earth, the gifted has sunk under the burdens of his gifts. The idolised favourite among true artists was removed from the art he immortalised, as if to teach them that only as a passing guest could such a spirit so journ among men. In a valley by the Rhine, far from the strife of cities, did the faithful adherent to the mighty one last behold him. There, at the midnight hour, Charles Auchester dreamed another dream of Sera phael, as he watched him borne by torchlight to the church to await heaven's rest. " That bier was carried proudly as of a warrior called from deadly strife to death's own sleep." Clara, the beloved of the dead in life, the " companion of his earthly hours," as she called herself, is supposed to perform his last composition as a requiem, while the sad procession moved on. lts thrilling tones spoke comfort to the listener at the grave, and seemed to say that " Music never dies," for he whose memory he mourned lived again in her records, that death coul d not touch. " With all of genius that can perish," passed the beauty of his heart's a ff e ction, and the freshness of his early days, but with the everlasting part of genius " that lights its torch at nature's funereal pile," his spirit rose to hail the glory of its chosen king, with the might and majesty of a devotion that could never pass away. Few out of the many who peruse these pages may really and truly appre but all right-thinking and ciate their purpose ; high-minded will acknowledge the sincerity of ex pression, the consistency of judgment maintained throughout. The love of the art seems to inspire and influence the imagination of the author, and a higher and holier could not be found. " Music is a theme beyond the tongues of men and angels" is declared at the conclusion, which suggests the idea that it is the only one they have in common. Fraser.—A more extravagant c o nt r ibution was perhaps never inserted in any periodical, than one 'which appears this month in Fraser's Magazine. It is entitled the " Toad's Curse," than which no thing sillier possibly was ever penned, printed, and published. From first to last it is what the clockmaker would call one streak of nonsense. A farrago, even to the acknowledgment of its writer, beyond the reach of explanation. It might have been produced, he remarks, " by a madman equally with a scholar"—or rather, as we have heard it suggested, by both, i.e., by a scholar who has be come demented. Seeing the article, here particu larised, in Fraser, as Pope did with regard to the flies in amber— "One wonders how the devil it got there." As an admirer of Regina we .cannot but reg re t the circumstance of this preposterous paper's insertion. Happily, the credit of the ma gazine is redeemed, in the current number, by several other contributions, some of them distinguished by particular excellence. " A Ger man First of September" is a capital piece of plea santry. "Emily Orford." is continued. Dr. Bow ring makes his re-appearance as a poetical transla tor, this time from the Cingalese. Under the title of " By Land and Sea," we have a sort of omnium gatherum review of some works by mo dern travellers. Besides this there is a tragedy, in one act, on the legend of " Madonna Pia," a charming little lyric on the theme " Apres Moi," and an agreeable anecdotal memoir of Mademoiselle Clairon, the Rachel of the reign of Louis XV. The September number of Fraser includes other contributions of a less noteable character, and closes with a resume of the labours of the session highly complimentary to the present Government. EXCLUSION. OF THE TIMES FROM SPAIN. (From the Times.) A telegraphic dispatch was received yesterday in Paris, announcing that the Gazette of Madrid, of the 29th ult., contains a Royal decree prciibiting the introduction and circulation of the iraes in the whole extent of the Spanish territories. We acknowledge that we do not receive with indiffer ence this homage on the part of the Queen of Spain's Government to the truth and the severity of the remarks we have had occasion to make on some of the recent acts of the Spanish authorities • and, as it is not in the power of th e C amar ill o , of iladrid to affect in any perceptible degree the influence or the independence of this journal, the formal proscrip tion which the Royal Gazette of Spain has deigned to confer upon us, is precisely the most flattering distinction it could have bestowed. It has not yet reached us for which of our attempts to expose those base, bigoted, and dishonest actions, which are always so painful to the feelings of a high minded and enlightened Government, this honour has been especially reserved. But several cases have recently occurred which may have been thought to deserve it. One day we had occasion to com ment on a report of the British House of Com mons, containing, in a condensed official statement the sums received by Spain, and the promises she has broken in her zealous and successful pursuit of the slave trade ; and we showed that the largest share of the profit, and the guilt aris ing from these infamous transactions may be distinctly traced to some of the highest persons in the kingdom, who feed their insatiable avarice with the blood-money of kidnapped negroes. Another day u e met the same persons, or their instruments and associates, in another capacity. They arrived cap in hand to practise on the inexhaustible credu lity of our countrymen, who persist in believing mankind, and even Spanish Ministers, to be honest, and are willing, with a little encouragement, to swell the account of Spanish bonds with a few ad ditional millions for Spanish railroads. That im posture, too, we endeavoured to unmask, and we should not wonder if this turns out to be our gravest offence, for the Spanish Government is much more sensitive to our interference with its speculations than to our criticisms on its humanity or its honour. Next came Mr. Soule's mission and the correspondence which has taken place with reference to the threatened annexation of Cuba by the United States ; for we are alternately amazed at the degradation of the Court of Madrid in consenting to receive a Minister who has been selected only to menace and insult it, and at the inconsistency with which Spain still invokes the assistance of England and France to perpetuate her possession of an island which is now the last refuge of the slave trade. Lastly, we learn by Lord Howden's correspondence with the present Spanish Ministers, that when Englishmen have been tempted to Spain to defend her independence by their valour, or to enrich her by their industry, i.;; is her settled policy and determination to deny them Christian burial, and to inflict a last insult on their graves. Practices of intolerant supersti tion have been disclosed by this correspondence which no other Roman Catholic country would now avow, and which even the provincial towns of Spain, appear in many instances, to h 4 7e over come. At Rome, under the direct au' of the Pope, a suitable place of burial has le - 1g since been set apart for Protestants, and the obsequies of the dead may be decently performed. In Spill alone those offices are rigorously denied, and though the Government of Isabella 11. began by plundering the Church of its propel ty, it sanctions the full exercise of the rights of bigotry over the remains of fellow-Christians. It can matter but little to the Spanish Govern ment in what phraseology their conduct has been described by this journal, and it matters not at all to us whether our opinions are circulated in the Spanish territories. But we will undertake to assert that the terms we have applied to these revolting cases are but a weak expression of what is thought of them by the great mass of the English public, or, at least, by such part of the English public as have thought at all on the subject. The generous enthuisiasm, the con fiding delusions, the terrible struggle, the pro longed sacrifices of long-past years, the reviving hopes of another period, and the triumph of the constitutional cause in Spain, are still not entirely forgotten by us, though they are so, apparently, by those who were supposed to be most interested in the events to which we refer. But it is infinitely more grievous that Spain should have betrayed her own cause, and failed in the work of her own regenera tion, than that she should have added the fault of ingratitude to the long catalogue of her errors and her crimes. She has often had violent, arbitrary, and bad GovernmentsAut even their offences we_ e in some degree dignified by the spirit she displayed under adverse fortune; and the pride which still concealed as far as possible the ruin of that old and stately house. The balance of parties, the rise or fall of a st ttesman or a general, and the romantic incidents of the revolution still kept alive for some years the interest so deeply felt. But gradually every light has gone out, every liberty has been extinguished, every man who had served the Crown with honour has been dismissed, and the country remains passive in the hands of a profligate Court and a nameless Government. All national energy, as applied to the political condition of the country, has for a considerable time seemed to be suspended, and the obscure persons who affect to carry on the business of the State are neither respected in their own country nor heard of in any other. The exist ence of such an administration depends on the total absence of discussion, for, if public opinion were either enlightened or consulted as to its merits, the humiliation would be too great to be endured. By one of the abrupt changes which are not un common in Spanish history, and which suit • genius of the people bett er than a tenacious perse verance in the arduous duties of free government, this state of things will be one day followed by the chastisement it deserves, and it is no part of our duty to anticipate that event. Possibly in Spain, as well as in other countries, the revolution has still to run out its long unprofitable course, which has as yet founded nothing stable or dignified in the seat of government, and conferred little free dom or real advancement cn the people. At some future day the elder branch of the Royal family may be found to have gained some experience by its misfortunes, or the exhausted race of Bourbon Kings will be driven from the soil ; but, as long as Spain remains what she is, these questions have a very faint interest for other countries. She has ceased to throw the slightest weight into the balance of power, or to act upon the general politics of the world, either in America or in Europe. The transient energy which Gene ral Narvaez had given to the Administration, and the reforms introduced by Senor Mon into the finances, are at an end ;—a people once the wealthi est in the world have ceased to pay interest on their debts, and an empire once the widest on the globe is reduced to a couple of islands, which will probably one day be wrested from it by a party of bucaniers. It is not because these things may be said of Spain by foreign journals that her credit is extinct, and her last possessions menaced. She suffers not because they are said, but because they are true. It was long the ardent hope of this country, and the constant policy of the British Government, to see the Peninsula reassert all its independence and regain all its power, for no country is better fitted by nature and by position to maintain a close and advantageous connexion with ourselves. But in an age of rapid progress Spain has chosen to remain almost stationary ; in an age of toleration she retains the bigotry of Philip 11. ; in an age when public opinion forces its way through all the barriers of despotic power she does what she can to arrest its progress. We know not how far the attempt may succeed, but the more it succeeds the more it cuts off the Spanish people from the intercourse and sympathy they m i g ht re tain with the rest of Europe ; and we shall not be surprised ere long to see the country in a con dition which may cause it to regret the alienation of its oldest friends. ARTIFICIAL P.RO - P . AGAi".IOi - OF SALMON. (From the Perthshire Courier.) A meeting of the salmon fishing proprietors in the River Tay was held in the County-buildings on 'riday last, for the purpose of considering a letter by Dr. Es daile regarding the artificial propagation of salmon. The Lord Provost was called to the chair. Mr. DICKSON, writer, clerk to the proprietors, stated the object of the meeting, and said that Dr. Esdaile was present and would give such information regard ibny g thethemeeting. artificial p ro pagation of salmon as was desired uopracticaladditional in f. D er r m . e E ti s e n n ar te u e t e h m e na n r n o e s i e e , a ex perience o n th e su bj e ct of propagating salmon. What knowledge h e h a d concern i n g it was chiefly derived from and te, a said a i h d e h h e a had had others, and especially from what had been written by Mr. Thomas Ashworth, of Povnton, Cheshire. That gentleman was present, and fortunately he would be enabled to give much useful and practical information regarding the mode adopted for propagating salmon in the river Galway in Ireland. Dr. Esdaile then intro duced Mr. Ashworth to the meeting. A bottle was then exhibited, in which were preserved young salmon, of from three to six months' growth. It was admitted by all who examined the bottle that the largest fish in it, about five inches in length, was a par. Mr. THOILIS ASHWORTH said, he had come to this part of the country to gather all the information he could obtain, having seen the letter of Dr. Esdaile, ad dressed to salmon-fishing proprietors in the Tay, on the "Artificial Propagation of the Salmon;" and it was at Dr. Esdaile's request that he had consented to stay in Perth another day to attend the present meeting. He (Mr. Ashworth) had entertained the opinion for a long time that it would be as easy artificially to propagate salmon in our rivers as it was to raise silkworms on mulberry leaves, though the former were under water, and the latter in the open air. He said that it was an established fact, that salmon and other fish may be propagated artificially in ponds in millions, at a small cost, and thus be protected from their natural ene mies for the first year of their existence, after which they will be much more capable of protecting themselves than can be the case in the early stages of their existence. His brother and he have at the present time about 20,000 young salmon in ponds, thus produced, which are daily fed with suitable food. In the course of last year Mr. Thomas Garnet and Mr. Peel; of Lancashire, informed his brother and himself that Robert Rams bottom, a fishinktackle-maker at Clitheroe, had about two years ago succeeded in artificially filling a small pond with young salmon. The plan adopted by him salmon from the river into a tub of water, and extracted was a very simple one. He with g re at care lifted the their spawn, which was de p osited in boxes fill ed with with and gravel ; they were p laced in a runnin g stream , and by this means had prod uced the y oun g salmon. His brother, Mr. Edmund Ashworth, and hims e l f in Ireland, they determined to try an experiment propagation of salmon, under the having purchased "the Galway Salmon Fishery " there for the a rtificial superintendence of Mr. Ramsbottom. A suitable place have be en fi xe d upon a t O u t er ard, operations were com ' menced between the 20th December and Ist January last, which was about a month too late, yet boxes were prepared in which the spawn of the salmon were depo sited. These boxes were about eighteen inches square and six f ee t i n l ength, with a zinc grating in the sluice at either end. There were twenty boxes in all, which were filled with gravel or small stones to the depth of six inches. To procure the ova and milt of the female and male salmon, the fish were taken by small nets on put one-fourth ounneh-feorubrathekf,uelnl oefml-antebru.ldiTnghethfeemtaaille, the spawn fords a t n i g h t, and instantly and without in juryfishwpa u s another running his hands down each side from the head, and pressing lightly with his thumbs, the ova was readily discharged into the tub: a similar course readily discharged the milt. About 370 salmon were treat:id in the above man ner and again returned to the river. Mr. Ashworth then ex plained how the ova and milt were mixed in the tub, and then taken out of it with a cup and deposited in the boxes, when it was covered with additional gravel Mr. Ramsbottom supposed that there was put in the boxes spawn sufficient for 40,000 ; however that might be, there are at present about 20,000 young salmon alive and thriving in these ponds, from 2 inches to 3 inches in length. Mr. Ashworth then, in answer to several questions put by Mr. Graham, of Redgorton, stated that the fine zinc gratings were used to prevent both trout and insects from getting into the ponds, as they were very destructive to the salmon /fry. He then detailed, at some length, the mode adopted in France for the artificial propagation of salmon, carp, trout, and other species of fish. The boxes there used were 3 feet in depth, 18 inches in width, and 50 yards in length, and without bottoms, but filled about 6 inches in depth with clean gravel. In answer to other ques tions, Mr. Ashworth said the ponds were about 20 yards in length, and 12 to 13 yards in breadth, and that it was intended to keep the young salmon in them for ten months, when they will have grown to about four inches in length. They would then be able to take care of themselves on their way to the sea. He stated also that it was indispensable the young salmon should be fed daily with chopped flesh meat. In France they were fed on frogs' flesh pounded in a mortar quite small. The current of water running through the boxes must be pure and free from mud, and great care was required to be taken during the periods of incuba:,ion, when the rivers were flooded by heavy rains, to divert the muddy water from the boxes. It took about 100 days until the spawn gave indications _of life. Mr. Ashworth then observed that a great deal had yet to be discovered in the artificial propagation and feeding of salmon. They knew but comparatively little of the habits of salmon, and in order that a greater amount of knowledge might be ob tained he had recommended to the commissioners of fishe ries in Ireland to take a portion of the fish propagated in the way he had mentioned from the ponds and immerse them annually in the sea for a period of three months, and to be again deposited in the ponds for other nine months, to be repeated for several years. The com missioners had taken about a dozen of these young sal mon from the ponds, and had had them many weeks in the Dublin Exhibition, where they were kept in a model of a wear, with a salmon ladder in it, the model being supplied by a pipe, with a constant run of water. These little creatures showed their agility by mounting the ladder, and so passing over the wear, to the amusement of the bystanders ; and he was informed they were alive and thriving, being perfectly healthy in this small run of pure water, and were fed with chopped meat every day. It was only in this way a more accurate history of the ages and habits of the salmon species might be written. The expense of this plan of artificial propaga tion he did not estimate to exceed a pound a thousand, which was at the rate of one farthing for each salmon. At the conclusion of Mr. Ashwo'ith's lucid remarks, Sir PATRICK M. THRIEPLAND moved " That the thanks of the meeting be tendered to that gentleman for the important information which he had communicated." Colonel BELSHES seconded the motion, and which being unanimously agreed to, the CHAIRMAN conveyed the sense of the meeting to Mr. Ashworth. In acknowledging the compliment paid him, Mr. ASHWORTH said he had no pecuniary object in view in addressing the few remarks to the meeting he had made. The great consideration that weighed with him was, that by the artificial propagation of salmon a vast increase to the quantity of human food would be obtained. He then strongly impressed upon the meeting the import. , ante of sending for Mr. Ramsbottom to commence ope rations in the Tay, and instruct others as to the plans to be adopted for increasing the salmon in that river. Mr. CONDIE was of opinion that immediate steps oughtof theh to befistaikng mo en se to n. commence operations before the close The suggestions of Mr. Condie were adopted. Colonel BELSHES moved that the following noblemen and the E gentlemen be appoin t ed of Mansfield, pointedacoini the committee, Lord eev Provost iz.,theDu ke of Athol!, of Perth, Mr. Graham, of Redgorton ; Mr. Condie, Mr. Bell, Dr. Esdaile, and Mr. Robert Buist, with pow er to add tiitheir number ; that they take immediate steps to commence operations ft and report to an early meeting. The motion was immediately agreed to, and Colonel Belshes added to the committee. A vote of thanks was awarded to the Lord Provost for his conduct in the chair, and the meeting then sepa• rated. STORM AT VERSAILLES.—Two nights ago Versailles and neighbourhood w as v i s it e d b y a tremendous hurri cane. More than a thousandtr ibd trees were either torn up by the roots or injured by the wind. CONSUMPTION OF ARDENT SPlRlTS.—Yesterday a parliamentary pap er s t a t e d th at l as t year th e d u t y paid on spirits in England was no less than 3,118,6361. 45., and in Scotland 1,917,3311. PUBLIC-HOUSES.—From a return to parliament which was yesterday published it appears that from 1845 there have been 182 petitions, with 51,567 signatures, pre sented to the House of Commons, praying that a law might be passed to close all public-houses, and to pro hibit the sale of intoxicating drinks, during the whole of Sunday. For the decrease of intemperance 3,063 peti tions had been presented, with 612,802 signature& OPENING OF THE NEWPORT AND HEREFORD RAILWAY. —The day for the opening of the Newport, Aberga. venny, and Hereford Railway has been definitely fixed for the 4th of October, when a single line of rail will be opened for traffic. happy to state that DOWLAIS IRON WORKS.--We are the colliers of this place, after being out six weeks on strike, resumed their work on Wednesday. This result was brought about chiefly through the interference of the shopkeepers, whose interests were materially affected by the strike. A donation was offered to eve y r collier who should return to his employment within a given time, and the expedient had the desired effect.—Times. BATTERSEA-PARK AND IMPROVEMENTS. The Com missioners of Woods and Works h aving settled with all the parties claiming comp e nsation, the area of the pro posed park has been cleared, with the exception of the Bwrililtibshe fFelrtagbwlsr-pshuollpedadndewaef.ewnsmeaelelmteanielemweeantste, whichmn Wright, widow of the late proprietor of the Red House, was 11,000/. The construction of the Suspension-bridge, which bad been stopped for some 'months, has been re sumed. In addition to these important improvements the Commissioners of Works have directed their sur veyor ,to proceed with the Thames embankment, ex tending on the Middlesex side of the river, from Batter sea to Vauxhallhridge, about 400 feet of which has been already formed. The embankment is to be 80 feet wide, and the elevation will be 4 feet above high-water mark. The river wall will be of highly•tempered bricks with granite openings, and an internal shield of iconcrete. The estimated cost of the embankment is 100,0'001., ex clusive of the expense of the northern approac h to the Suspension-bridge. On the Surrey side a vast numb of detached villa residences have already been orl a. _ menced. 41. • , 25 25 St. 50 St. St. St. St. 10 25 10 1.0 ( St. 20 5 St. 65 206 86 6 103 74h i 56i 7 68f 36 i 21l a 1261 1491 5 4i i 9} 91 25 100 100 20 77 6 4i 18 a 236 38 76 ~ w